70 THE MICEOSCOPE. 



Full nature swarms with life ; one wondrous mass 

 Of animals, or atoms organized. 



And lives the man, whose universal eye 

 Has swept the unbounded scheme of things, 

 Mark'd their dependence so, and firm accord, 

 As with unfaltering accent to conclude 

 That this availeth nought ? Has any seen 

 The mighty chain of beings, lessening down 

 From Infinite Perfection to the brink 

 Of dreary nothing, desolate abyss ! 

 From which astonish'd thought, recoiling, turns ? 

 Till then, alone let zealous praise ascend, 

 And hymns of holy wonder to that Power 

 Whose wisdom shines as lovely on our minds, 

 As on our smiling eyes his servant Sun." 



