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 To lend new fuel to declining suns, To light up worlds, and feed th' ethernal fire.

thee, serene Philosophy! with thee, And thy bright garland, let me crown my song! Effusive source of evidence, and truth! A luster shedding o'er th' ennobled mind, Stronger than summer-noon; and pure as that, Whose mild vibrations sooth the parted soul, 1730 [sic] New to the dawning of celestial day. Hence thro' her nourish'd powers, enlarg'd by thee, She springs aloft, with elevated pride, Above the tangling mass of low desires, That bind the fluttering croud; and angel-wing'd, The heights of science and of virtue gains, Where all is calm and clear; with Nature round, Or in the starry regions, or th' abyss, To Reason's, and to Fancy's eye display'd: The First up-tracing, from the dreary void, The chain of causes and effects to , The world-producing, who alone Possesses being; while the Last receives The whole magnificence of heaven and earth, And every beauty, delicate or bold, Obvious or more remote, with livelier sense, Diffusive painted on the rapid mind.

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