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242 The round-fac'd prodigy t' avert From doing town or country hurt. And if an owl have so much pow'r, Why should not planets have much more, That in a region far above Inferior fowls of the air move, And should see further, and foreknow More than their augury below? Tho' that once serv'd the polity Of mighty states to govern by; And this is what we take in hand, By pow'rful art, to understand; Which, how we have perform'd, all ages Can speak th' events of our presages. Have we not lately in the moon Found a new world, to th' old unknown? Discover'd sea and land, Columbus And Magellan could never compass? Made mountains with our tubes appear, And cattle grazing on them, there? Quoth Hudibras, You lie so ope, That I, without a telescope, Can find your tricks out, and descry Where you tell truth and where you lie: For Anaxagoras, long agone, Saw hills, as well as you, i' th' moon,