The Life of the Universe as Conceived by Man from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time, Volumen1Harper & brothers, 1909 - 267 páginas |
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Página 36 - A creature of a more exalted kind Was wanting yet, and then was Man design'd : Conscious of thought, of more capacious breast, For empire form'd, and fit to rule the rest: Whether with particles of heav'nly fire The God of Nature did his soul inspire, Or Earth, but new divided from the sky, And, pliant, still retain'd th' aetherial energy : Which wise Prometheus temper'd into paste, And, mixt with living streams, the godlike image cast.
Página 5 - Gloom hid in gloom existed first — one sea, eluding view. That One, a void in chaos wrapt, by inward fervour grew. Within it first arose desire, the primal germ of mind, Which nothing with existence links, as sages searching find. The kindling ray that shot across the dark and drear abyss — Was it beneath ? or high aloft ? What bard can answer this ? There fecundating powers were found, and mighty forces strove — A self-supporting mass beneath, and energy above. Who knows...
Página 37 - And, pliant, still retain'd th' aetherial energy: Which wise Prometheus temper'd into paste, And, mixt with living streams, the godlike image cast. Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother tend, Man looks aloft ; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
Página 34 - Nor, poised, did on her own foundations lie ; Nor seas about the shores their arms had thrown; But earth, and air, and water, were in one.
Página 34 - Before the seas and this terrestrial ball, And heaven's high canopy that covers all, One was the face of nature; if a face; Rather a rude and indigested mass : A lifeless lump, unfashion'd and unframed, Of jarring seeds, and justly Chaos named.
Página 35 - But God, or Nature, while they thus contend, To these intestine discords put an end. Then earth from air, and seas from earth were driven, And grosser air sunk from ethereal heaven: Thus disembroil'd they take their proper place ; The next of kin contiguously embrace ; And foes are sundered by a larger space.
Página 38 - The guest, by him who harbour'd him, is slain ; The son-in-law pursues the father's life ; The wife her husband murders, he the wife ; The step-dame poison for the son prepares ; The son inquires into his father's years ; Faith flies, and piety in exile mourns ; And justice, here oppress'd, to heaven returns. THE GIANTS WAR.
Página 36 - The sun with rays, directly darting down, Fires all beneath, and fries the middle zone: The two beneath the distant poles, complain Of endless winter, and perpetual rain. Betwixt th' extremes, two happier climates hold The temper that partakes of hot, and cold.
Página 38 - Thus cursed steel, and more accursed gold, Gave mischief birth, and made that mischief bold : And double death did wretched man invade, By steel assaulted, and by gold betray'd.
Página 37 - Nor drum was heard, nor trumpet's angry sound; Nor swords were forged ; but void of care and crime. The soft creation slept away their time. The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, And unprovoked, did fruitful stores allow : Content with food which nature freely bred, On wildings and on strawberries they fed; Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest, And falling acorns furnished out a feast The flowers, unsown, in fields and meadows reigned ; And western winds immortal spring maintained.