The UNIVERSE.
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Each Seed includes a Plant: that Plant, again,
Has other Seeds, which other Plants contain:
Those other Plants have all their Seeds, and Those
More Plants again, successively, inclose.
Has other Seeds, which other Plants contain:
Those other Plants have all their Seeds, and Those
More Plants again, successively, inclose.
Thus, ev'ry single Berry that we find,
Has, really, in itself large Forests of its Kind.
Empire and Wealth one Acorn may dispense,
By Fleets to sail a thousand Ages hence.
Each Myrtle Seed includes a thousand Groves,
Where future Bards may warble forth their Loves.
Thus Adam's Loins contain'd his large Posterity,
All People that have been, and all that e'er shall be.
Has, really, in itself large Forests of its Kind.
Empire and Wealth one Acorn may dispense,
By Fleets to sail a thousand Ages hence.
Each Myrtle Seed includes a thousand Groves,
Where future Bards may warble forth their Loves.
Thus Adam's Loins contain'd his large Posterity,
All People that have been, and all that e'er shall be.
Amazing Thought! what Mortal can conceive
Such wond'rous Smallness?———Yet, we must believe
What Reason tells: for Reason's piercing Eye
Discerns those Truths our Senses can't descry.
Such wond'rous Smallness?———Yet, we must believe
What Reason tells: for Reason's piercing Eye
Discerns those Truths our Senses can't descry.
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