Microscopical Essays. 



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Order bereft of thought, uncaus'd effe&s, 

 Fate freely acting, and unerring chance. 

 Where meanlefs matter to a chaos finks, 

 Or fomething lower ftill, for without thee 

 It crumbles into atoms void of force, 

 Void of refinance — it eludes our thought. 

 Where laws eternal to the varying code 

 Of felf-love dwindle. Intereft, paffion, whim, 

 Take place of right, and wrong, the golden chain 

 Of beings melts away, and the mind's eye 

 Sees nothing but the prefent. All beyond 

 Is vifionary guefs — is dream — is death.* 



* Still ingfleet's MifCellaneous Tra&s. 



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