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Shall the great soul of Newton quit this earth	A
To mingle with his stars and every muse	B
Astonish'd into silence shun the weight	C
Of honours due to his illustrious name	D
But what can man Even now the sons of light	E
In strains high warbled to seraphic lyre	F
Hail his arrival on the coast of bliss	G
Yet am not I deterr'd though high the theme	H
And sung to harps of angels for with you	I
Ethereal flames ambitious I aspire	F
In Nature's general symphony to join	J
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And what new wonders can ye show your guest	K
Who while on this dim spot where mortals toil	L
Clouded in dust from motion's simple laws	M
Could trace the secret hand of Providence	N
Wide working through this universal frame	D
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Have ye not listen'd while he bound the suns	O
And planets to their spheres th' unequal task	P
Of humankind till then Oft had they roll'd	Q
O'er erring man the year and oft disgrac'd	R
The pride of schools before their course was known	S
Full in its causes and effects to him	T
All piercing sage who sat not down and dream'd	U
Romantic schemes defended by the din	V
Of specious words and tyranny of names	W
But bidding his amazing mind attend	X
And with heroic patience years on years	Y
Deep searching saw at last the system dawn	Z
And shine of all his race on him alone	S
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What were his raptures then how pure how strong	A2
And what the triumphs of old Greece and Rome	B2
By his diminish'd but the pride of boys	C2
In some small fray victorious when instead	D2
Of shatter'd parcels of this earth usurp'd	E2
By violence unmanly and sore deeds	F2
Of cruelty and blood Nature herself	G2
Stood all subdu'd by him and open laid	H2
Her every latent glory to his view	I
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All intellectual eye our solar round	I2
First gazing through he by the blended power	J2
Of gravitation and projection saw	K2
The whole in silent harmony revolve	L2
From unassisted vision hid the moons	M2
To cheer remoter planets numerous pour'd	N2
By him in all their mingled tracts were seen	O2
He also fix'd the wandering Queen of Night	E
Whether she wanes into a scanty orb	P2
Or waxing broad with her pale shadowy light	E
In a soft deluge overflows the sky	Q2
Her every motion clear discerning he	R2
Adjusted to the mutual main and taught	S2
Why now the mighty mass of water swells	T2
Resistless heaving on the broken rocks	U2
And the full river turning till again	V2
The tide revertive unattracted leaves	W2
A yellow waste of idle sands behind	X2
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Then breaking hence he took his ardent flight	E
Through the blue infinite and every star	Y2
Which the clear concave of a winter's night	E
Pours on the eye or astronomic tube	Z2
Far stretching snatches from the dark abyss	G
Or such as farther in successive skies	A3
To fancy shine alone at his approach	B3
Blaz'd into suns the living centre each	C3
Of an harmonious system all combin'd	X2
And rul'd unerring by that single power	J2
Which draws the stone projected to the ground	I2
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O unprofuse magnificence divine	D3
O wisdom truly perfect thus to call	E3
From a few causes such a scheme of things	F3
Effects so various beautiful and great	C
An universe complete and O belov'd	G3
Of Heaven whose well purg'd penetrative eye	Q2
The mystic veil transpiercing inly scann'd	H3
The rising moving wide establish'd frame	D
	-
He first of men with awful wing pursu'd	I3
The comet through the long elliptic curve	J3
As round innumerous worlds he wound his way	K3
Till to the forehead of our evening sky	Q2
Return'd the blazing wonder glares anew	I
And o'er the trembling nations shakes dismay	K3
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The heavens are all his own from the wild rule	L3
Of whirling vortices and circling spheres	Y
To their first great simplicity restor'd	N2
The schools astonish'd stood but found it vain	M3
To keep at odds with demonstration strong	A2
And unawaken'd dream beneath the blaze	N3
Of truth At once their pleasing visions fled	D2
With the gay shadows of the morning mix'd	O3
When Newton rose our philosophic sun	P3
Th' a rial flow of sound was known to him	T
From whence it first in wavy circles breaks	Q3
Till the touch'd organ takes the message in	V
Nor could the darting beam of speed immense	R3
Escape his swift pursuit and measuring eye	Q2
Ev'n Light itself which every thing displays	N3
Shone undiscover'd till his brighter mind	X2
Untwisted all the shining robe of day	K3
And from the whitening undistinguish'd blaze	N3
Collecting every ray into his kind	X2
To the charm'd eye educ'd the gorgeous train	M3
Of parent colours First the flaming red	D2
Sprung vivid forth the tawny orange next	S3
And next delicious yellow by whose side	T3
Fell the kind beams of all refreshing green	O2
Then the pure blue that swells autumnal skies	A3
Ethereal played and then of sadder hue	I
Emerg'd the deepen'd indigo as when	V2
The heavy skirted evening droops with frost	U3
While the last gleamings of refracted light	E
Died in the fainting violet away	K3
These when the clouds distil the rosy shower	J2
Shine out distinct adown the wat'ry bow	V3
While o'er our heads the dewy vision bends	W3
Delightful melting on the fields beneath	X3
Myriads of mingling dyes from these result	Y3
And myriads still remain infinite source	Z3
Of beauty ever flushing ever new	I
	-
Did ever poet image aught so fair	A4
Dreaming in whisp'ring groves by the hoarse brook	B4
Or prophet to whose rapture heaven descends	W3
Ev'n now the setting sun and shifting clouds	C4
Seen Greenwich from thy lovely heights declare	A4
How just how beauteous the refractive law	K2
	-
The noiseless tide of time all bearing down	D4
To vast eternity's unbounded sea	R2
Where the green islands of the happy shine	D3
He stemm'd alone and to the source involv'd	E4
Deep in primeval gloom ascending rais'd	F4
His lights at equal distances to guide	T3
Historian wilder'd on his darksome way	K3
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But who can number up his labours who	I
His high discoveries sing When but a few	I
Of the deep studying race can stretch their minds	G4
To what he knew in fancy's lighter thought	S2
How shall the muse then grasp the mighty theme	H
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What wonder thence that his devotion swell'd	H4
Responsive to his knowledge For could he	R2
Whose piercing mental eye diffusive saw	K2
The finish'd university of things	F3
In all its order magnitude and parts	I4
Forbear incessant to adore that Power	J2
Who fills sustains and actuates the whole	J4
	-
Say ye who best can tell ye happy few	I
Who saw him in the softest lights of life	K4
All unwithheld indulging to his friends	W3
The vast unborrow'd treasures of his mind	X2
oh speak the wondrous man how mild how calr	J2
How greatly humble how divinely good	L4
How firm establish'd on eternal truth	M4
Fervent in doing well with every nerve	J3
Still pressing on forgetful of the past	N4
And panting for perfection far above	O4
Those little cares and visionary joys	C2
That so perplex the fond impassion'd heart	P4
Of ever cheated ever trusting man	Q4
This Conduitt from thy rural hours we hope	R4
As through the pleasing shade where nature pours	S4
Her every sweet in studious ease you walk	T4
The social passions smiling at thy heart	P4
That glows with all the recollected sage	U4
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And you ye hopeless gloomy minded tribe	V4
You who unconscious of those nobler flights	W4
That reach impatient at immortal life	K4
Against the prime endearing privilege	X4
Of being dare contend say can a soul	J4
Of such extensive deep tremendous powers	Y4
Enlarging still be but a finer breath	Z4
Of spirits dancing through their tubes awhile
And then for ever lost in vacant air	J2
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But hark methinks I hear a warning voice
Solemn as when some awful change is come
Sound through the world 'Tis done the measure's full
And I resign my charge Ye mouldering stones
That build the towering pyramid the proud
Triumphal arch the monument effac'd
By ruthless ruin and whate'er supports
The worship'd name of hoar antiquity
Down to the dust What grandeur can ye boast
While Newton lifts his column to the skies	A3
Beyond the waste of time Let no weak drop
Be shed for him The virgin in her bloom
Cut off the joyous youth and darling child
These are the tombs that claim the tender tear	J2
And elegiac song But Newton calls
For other notes of gratulation high	Q2
That now he wanders through those endless worlds
He here so well descried and wondering talks
And hymns t