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To an astrologer who fell	B
Plump to the bottom of a well	B
'Poor blockhead ' cried a passer by	C
'Not see your feet and read the sky '	-
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This upshot of a story will suffice	D
To give a useful hint to most	E
For few there are in this our world so wise	F
As not to trust in star or ghost	E
Or cherish secretly the creed	G
That men the book of destiny may read	H
This book by Homer and his pupils sung	I
What is it in plain common sense	J
But what was chance those ancient folks among	I
And with ourselves God's providence	K
Now chance doth bid defiance	K
To every thing like science	K
'Twere wrong if not	L
To call it hazard fortune lot	L
Things palpably uncertain	M
But from the purposes divine	N
The deep of infinite design	N
Who boasts to lift the curtain	M
Whom but himself doth God allow	O
To read his bosom thoughts and how	O
Would he imprint upon the stars sublime	P
The shrouded secrets of the night of time	P
And all for what To exercise the wit	Q
Of those who on astrology have writ	Q
To help us shun inevitable ills	R
To poison for us even pleasure's rills	R
The choicest blessings to destroy	S
Exhausting ere they come their joy	S
Such faith is worse than error 'tis a crime	P
The sky host moves and marks the course of time	P
The sun sheds on our nicely measured days	R
The glory of his night dispelling rays	R
And all from this we can divine	N
Is that they need to rise and shine	N
To roll the seasons ripen fruits	R
And cheer the hearts of men and brutes	R
How tallies this revolving universe	R
With human things eternally diverse	R
Ye horoscopers waning quacks	R
Please turn on Europe's courts your backs	R
And taking on your travelling lists	R
The bellows blowing alchemists	R
Budge off together to the land of mists	R
But I've digress'd Return we now bethinking	I
Of our poor star man whom we left a drinking	I
Besides the folly of his lying trade	T
This man the type may well be made	T
Of those who at chimeras stare	U
When they should mind the things that are	V

Jean De La Fontaine

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