Microscopical Essays. 



For fome great end ! where not alone the plant 

 Of (lately growth ; the herb of glorious hue, 

 Or food-full fubftance 1 not the laboring fteed, 

 The herd, and flock that feed us ; not the mine 

 That yields us ftores for elegance and ufe ; 

 The fea that loads our table, and conveys 

 The wanderer man from clime to clime, with all 

 Thofe rolling fpheres, that from on high flied down 

 Their kindly influence ; not thefe alone, 

 Which ftrike ev'n eyes incurious, but each mofs,, 

 Each fhell, each crawling infeft, holds a rank 

 Important in the plan of Him, who fram'd 

 This fcale of beings ; holds a rank, which loll 

 Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap 

 Which nature's felf would rue. Almighty Beings 

 Caufe and fupport of all things, can I view 

 Thefe objects of my wonder ; can I feel 

 Thefe fine fenfations, and not think of thee ? 

 Thou who doff thro' th' eternal round of time^ 

 Doft thro 5 th' immenflty of fpace exift 

 Alone, fhalt thou alone excluded be 

 From this thy univerfe ? Shall feeble mart 

 Think it beneath his proud philofophy 

 To call for thy affiftanee, and pretend 

 To frame a world, who cannot frame a clod ?~- 

 Not to know thee, is not to know ourfelves — . 

 Is to know nothing — nothing worth the care 

 Of man's exalted fpirit : — all becomes, 

 Without thy ray divine, one dreary gloom, 

 Where lurk the monflers of phantaflic brains* 



