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22 :::Is an unbounded world;
 * I tell thee that those viewless beings,

Whose mansion is the smallest particle
 * Of the impassive atmosphere,
 * Think, feel, and live like man;

That their affections and antipathies,
 * Like his, produce the laws
 * Ruling their moral state;
 * And the minutest throb
 * That through their frame diffuses
 * The slightest, faintest motion,
 * Is fixed and indispensable
 * As the majestic laws
 * That rule yon rolling orbs.


 * The Fairy paused. The Spirit,

In extacy of admiration, felt All knowledge of the past revived; the events
 * Of old and wondrous times,

Which dim tradition interruptedly Teaches the credulous vulgar, were unfolded
 * In just perspective to the view;
 * Yet dim from their infinitude.
 * The Spirit seemed to stand

High on an isolated pinnacle; The flood of ages combating below, The depth of the unbounded universe
 * Above, and all around
 * Nature's unchanging harmony.