The UNIVERSE.
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With Beams, unborrow'd, brightens other Skies,
And Worlds, to Thee unknown, with Heat and Life supplies.
And Worlds, to Thee unknown, with Heat and Life supplies.
Heed well this Orb, where Fate has fix'd thy Lot:
Seest Thou one useless or one empty Spot?
Observe, the Air, the Waters, and the Earth,
Each Moment give ten thousand Creatures birth.
Here, ev'ry Place, so far from lying waste,
With Life is crouded, and with Beauty grac'd:
Nor can those other Worlds, Unknown by Thee,
Less stor'd, with Creatures, or with Beauty, be.
For God is uniform in all his Ways,
And every where his boundless Pow'r displays:
His Goodness fills immensurable Space,
Restrain'd by Time nor limited to Place:
Seest Thou one useless or one empty Spot?
Observe, the Air, the Waters, and the Earth,
Each Moment give ten thousand Creatures birth.
Here, ev'ry Place, so far from lying waste,
With Life is crouded, and with Beauty grac'd:
Nor can those other Worlds, Unknown by Thee,
Less stor'd, with Creatures, or with Beauty, be.
For God is uniform in all his Ways,
And every where his boundless Pow'r displays:
His Goodness fills immensurable Space,
Restrain'd by Time nor limited to Place:
His
one another as this Sun of Our's is from the nearest of them. Were we removed from the Sun as we are from the fixed Stars, the Sun and Stars would seem alike: Our Planets would not be seen at all, their Light being much too weak to affect Us at such a Distance, and all their Orbits would be united in one single Point. Hence a Spectator who is near any one Sun, will only look upon that as a real Sun, and the rest but as so many glittering Stars fixed in his own Heaven or Firmament.
