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The UNIVERSE.
One Moon, on Us, reflects its cheerful Light:
There, five Attendants brighten up the Night.
Here, the blue Firmament bedeck'd with Stars,
There, over-head, a lucid Arch appears.
From hence, how large, how strong the Sun's bright Ball!
But seen from thence, how languid and how small!—
When the keen North with all its Fury blows,
Congeals the Floods, and forms the fleecy Snows,
'Tis Heat intense to what can there be known:
Warmer our Poles than is its burning Zone.
There, five Attendants brighten up the Night.
Here, the blue Firmament bedeck'd with Stars,
There, over-head, a lucid Arch appears.
From hence, how large, how strong the Sun's bright Ball!
But seen from thence, how languid and how small!—
When the keen North with all its Fury blows,
Congeals the Floods, and forms the fleecy Snows,
'Tis Heat intense to what can there be known:
Warmer our Poles than is its burning Zone.
Who, there, inhabit, must have other Pow'rs,
Juices, and Veins, and Sense, and Life than Ours.
One Moment's Cold, like their's, would pierce the Bone,
Freeze the Heart-Blood, and turn Us all to Stone.
Juices, and Veins, and Sense, and Life than Ours.
One Moment's Cold, like their's, would pierce the Bone,
Freeze the Heart-Blood, and turn Us all to Stone.
Strange and amazing must the Diff'rence be,
'Twixt this dull Planet and bright Mercury:
'Twixt this dull Planet and bright Mercury:
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