Fugitive poems connected with natural history and physical science / collected by the late C.G.B. Daubeny.

Date:
1869
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Fugitive poems connected with natural history and physical science / collected by the late C.G.B. Daubeny. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The silent globe is struck with awful fear, When thy majestic shades appear: Thou dost compose the air and sea, And earth a Sabbath keeps, sacred to rest and thee. In thy serener shades our ghosts delight, And court the umbrage of the night: In vaults and gloomy caves they stray, But fly the morning’s beams, and sicken at the day. Tho’ solid bodies dare exclude the light, Nor will the brightest ray admit: No substance can thy force repel, Thou reign’st in depths below, dost at the centre dwell. The sparkling gems, and ore in mines below, To thee thc-ir beauteous lustre owe: Tho’ form’d within the womb of night, Bright as their sire they shine, with native rays of light. When thou dost raise thy venerable head, And art in genuirfe night array’d: Thy Negro beauties then delight, Beauties like polish’d jet, with their own darkness bright*