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Grigimi Poetry. 
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The scourge of scofFefS-*=Qf whoe’er mis¬ 
rules, 
Or tyrantklngs, or vile Oppression’s tools 5 
This long pre-doomed of heaven, shall 
through the land 
Difiuse, at length, all power with even 
hand 5 
Teach rival nations all the arts of peace, 
And war and discord dire, at last, shall cease. 
Knowledge is omnipotent her sway. 
When truth and justice lead heronward way. 
Printing shall pour her streams of light 
around, 
And earth Hosannah’s hymns of praise re¬ 
sound. 
See Galileo shape the wondrous tube, 
And of the planets tell the massive cube j 
Bring to our view, clear as the noon of day, 
I'he dazzling numbers of the milky way} 
Fix in wide space the distance of the sun. 
And tell when moons shall through eclipses 
run } 
Or yet, niore wondrous, through the starry 
dome 
Go- and with Heuschel bring new science 
home} 
Learn from his lens the amazing power of 
God, 
ihen live content beneath his chastening 
rod. 
Now mortal! rr ark the magnet's steady iaw> 
And from its power how much may wisdom 
draw ; 
O’er seas the ancients rov’d with wild af- 
frlght. 
Should clouds or tempests mar the face of 
night} 
T hey voyag’d slowly, dubious of their way, 
And sail’d, even fearful, in the face of day 5 
Behold the magnet points the steady pole, 
Should tempests, tumult, or should thunders, 
roll} 
%cure the sailor o’er the weltering main, 
D. rects his bark right on in proud disdain. 
Knowledge is Pccuer—the southern cape* 
around 
De G AMA sail’d, in magnet lore profound, 
His ship to see the w’ondering Indian star’d, 
Whilst Asia’s ports her spicy treasures 
shar’d. 
And who Is he of bold port, plumy crest. 
Whose sails, white swelling, waft him fur a- 
west} 
What time his men in mutinous array, 
V/atch’d wearily of heart each coming day. 
Till round his ship the welcome sea-weed 
flung, 
Hope, joy, and greeting, lerpt from every 
tunguc ? 
*Tis Col ON,f he whose strong minddar’d to 
brave 
The threats of sailors and the western wave 5 
The Cape of Good Hope. 
Columbus. 
Behold the land, an empire ! half a world ! 
By Colon’s courage to the East unfurl’d. 
Now o’er the world observe how science 
soar'd, 
How Drake and Cabot various climes ex¬ 
plor’d } 
Around the globe sail’d many a seaman 
bold. 
In quest of knowledge some”*-and some of 
gold} 
And last, though greatest, to whom Britons 
look. 
With pride and glory is immortal Cooke, 
Of Australasia fix’d the wide extent. 
Through Polynesia’s groups of islands went; 
Of North Columbia cruis’d the western 
shore, 
Its creeks, its islands, and its capes, to ex¬ 
plore } 
And eager still the northern pole to brave. 
Mid fields of ice he stemm’d the arctic wave- 
Kn:zvledge is Power-~-ot still, in night_ 
profound, 
Had man remain’d nor known the world wa* 
round. 
Another Bacon now, a mightier mind. 
Rose to eclipse the monk afar behind; 
Ke gave tiie laws of matter : Newton came 
And fann’d the sparks with fuel to a flams , 
The radjant blaze illumin’d ail the West, 
And order, system, shone, in truth, con'- 
fess’d. 
See now the chemist, following Nature’s 
laws. 
Fling off his trammels and his occult cause ; 
In Boyle behold the steady, patient, niTud„ 
By facts determin’d and to facts confin’d } 
The elastic force of common air be taught. 
And how a vacuum in the pump is wrought i ' 
Whilst Tor rice lli gave the weight or air. 
With nice exactness in his balance rare. 
Knowledge is Pi'zocr.-“The subtile Locks 
peruse! 
By deep induction thou shall learn t« 
choose } 
See how ideas o’er the sentient brain 
Fix their impressions and the will restrain ; 
Thou too,, from him, raay’st learn to goverri 
w'eli. 
And how thy actions may in worth excel} 
To Locke w'e o'vve that free, unletrei’i 
thought. 
Which he, the foremost in the va.n, has 
Caught, 
Hence to resist oppression ws may learn* 
And from its fetters base indignant spurn. 
W’ild Terror's ]\''iast£r^j lo, hovv late wff 
pass’d ! 
Whose howling witches ride the stormy 
blast; 
Ke, to the sounds of tumult or of strife, 
Pourtrsys the strong-mark’d iinsamsuts of 
life ; 
^ hhake-'peare, 
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