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Let us, then, say with Cowper — 



" How sweet to muse upon His skill displayed, 

 (Infinite skill !) in all that He has made ; 

 To trace in Nature's most minute design 

 The signature and stamp of Power Divine 5 

 Contrivance exquisite expressed with ease, 

 Where unassisted sight no beauty sees ; 

 The shapely limb and lubricated joint, 

 Within the small dimensions of a point : 

 Muscle and nerve miraculously spun ; 

 His mighty work who speaks, and it is done : 

 The invisible in things scarce seen revealed ; 

 To whom an atom is an ample field/ ' 



