The universe. A philosophical poem. Intended to restrain the pride of man / By Henry Baker.

  • Henry Baker
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[1746]
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Credit: The universe. A philosophical poem. Intended to restrain the pride of man / By Henry Baker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    More diftant ftill, our ee comes rolling on, And forms a wider Circle round hi Sun : 3 With her the Moon, Companion ever dear! Her courfe attending through the fhining Year. See, Mars, alone, runs his appointed Race, And meafures out, exact, the deftin’d Space: - Nor nearer does he wind, nor farther ftray, But finds the Point whence firft he roll’d away. More yet remote from Day’s all-cheering Source, Vaft JuPprITeER performs his conftant Courfe : , : Four friendly Moons, with borrow’d Luftre, rife, _ Beftow their Beams, benign, and light his Skies. Fartheft and laft, fcarce warm’d by Phebus’ Ray, ' Through his vaft Orbit SaruRN wheels away. _ How great the Change, could we be wafted there! How flow the Seafons! and how long the Year! D One
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