Microscopical Essays. 



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Gradual from thefe what num'rous kinds defcend, 



Evading even the microfcopic eye ! 



Full nature fwarms with life ; one wondrous mafs 



Of animals, or atoms organized, 



Waiting the vital breath, when parent heaven. 



Shall bid his fpirit blow. The hoary fen, 



In putrid fleams, emits the living cloud 



Of peftilence ; thro' fubterranean cells, 



Where fearching fun-beams fcarce can find a way, 



Earth animated heaves. The flowery leaf 



Wants not it's foft inhabitants. Secure, 



Within it's winding citadel, the ftone 



Holds multitudes. But chief the foreft boughs, 



That dance unnumber'd to the playful breeze, 



The downy orchard, and the melting pulp 



Of mellow fruit, the namelefs nations feed 



Of evanefcent infects. Where the pool 



Stands mantled o'er with green, invifible, 



Amid the floating verdure, millions flray. 



Each liquid too, whether it pierces, foothes, 



Inflames, refrefhes, or exalts the tafte, 



With various forms abounds. Nor is the ftream 



Of pureft cryftal, nor the lucid air, 



Tho' one tranfparent vacancy it feems, 



Void of their unfeen people. Thefe, conceal'd 



By the kind art of forming heaven, efcape 



The groffer eye of man : 



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