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to us some of Nature's most deeply hidden 

 secrets, and anew to proclaim the power and 

 wisdom and goodness of Him " who walketh 

 upon the wings of the wind, and measureth 

 the waters in the hollow of His hand ?" 



" Acquaint thyself with God, if thou would'st taste 

 His works. Admitted once to His embrace, 

 Thou shalt perceive that thou wast blind before ; 

 Thine eye shall be instructed ; and thine heart, 

 Made pure, shall relish with delight divine 

 Till then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought. 



The soul that sees Him, or receives sublimed 

 New faculties, or learns at least to employ 

 More worthily the powers she own'd before, 

 Discerns in all things, what, with stupid gaze 

 Of ignorance, till then she overlook'd, 

 A ray of heavenly light gilding all forms 

 Terrestrial, in the vast and the minute ; 

 The unambiguous footsteps of the God 

 Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, 

 And wheels His throne upon a rolling world.'' 



