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Rh From him its portion of the vital flame, In measure such, that from the wide complex Of coexistent orders, one might rise, One order, all-involving and intire. He too beholding in the sacred light Of his essential reason, all the shapes Of swift contingence, all successive ties Of action propagated thro' the sum Of possible existence, he at once, Down the long series of eventful time, So fix'd the dates of being, so dispos'd, To every living soul of every kind, The field of motion and the hour of rest, That all conspir'd to his supreme design, To universal good; with full accord, Answ'ring the mighty model he had chose, The best and fairest of unnumber'd worlds That