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PREFACE. 
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 9KATENS AND THK KAR1H. Gen. Ch. T. ▼ 1 
 IN SIX PAY^ JFHOVAII^ MADE HEAYKN 
 AND EARTH Fxodus xx Chap 11 v 
 
 When GOD created Adam, his physique and 
 Ibfictions were complete and mature. Superseding 
 •tid'beinfc independert of thelatvs of preneration. 
 
 If'judj?ed by established laws of procreation ; if de- 
 bated upon by a board of Physiques. What ivould 
 their decision be ? Could ih« y belif^ve ? Would 
 they admit even the remotest possibility of a fact 
 |yin^ quite beyond their comprehension ? 
 
 When OOD Created this stupendous Xebula of 
 the Milky Way. When, on that Evening, which 
 be^an the First D^v of thos'* Six Days of Creati- 
 on — GOD commandod — Instancy came forth thii 
 immense Starry System. Created, with it» laws* 
 magnitudes, positions, orhifa. velocities, — in that 
 moment of liirtV. Those multitudinous globes, al* 
 or many of them, like the Earth, enclosed in wa- 
 ter. '•THE SPIRIT OF OOD hovering upon 
 the face of the waters.*' Creation of Light 
 cosmical, completed the First Day, 
 
 On the Fourth Day GOD constituted the centra 
 Orbs Suns. Permanently fitted to be conservators 
 And distributers of light and heat. On the Sixtb 
 Daj' ^jODmade Adam in HU own image, _C#» 
 ^ktiog the £^e>t work. 
 
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HeaTcn and Karth were now notfrnifScent tn4 
 perfect, Tl e sl?y, sparkling with «.tar», Vncwn to 
 be so distant that hundreds of years fi-ould be re. 
 quired for the tranFroission of their light to earth 
 if hrcnght forward by the laws of difiiision. Yet 
 all in action pli rors. rs if Irrg ecTrplrtf d. 
 
 On the Seventh Day GOD rested— and was 
 refreshed, 
 
 Adan>, vho was created iYc F''*>:th Pay — Days 
 of tw< nt> foiu 1 ours each, j rppf f! tVr Day of Rest 
 and died at the age of nine hrrc^rrd thirty year«. 
 
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 The lalorrs of science f i <' nJl its skeletons of 
 creation, as in the case of A(^vTn, are nugatory. 
 
 Nothing of all those inpfrrtrhlr picrirs existed 
 previous tothrt evening en wY'-d those Six Daya 
 began. No chaos. No star dust. Nil. 
 
 As Heaven and Farth shall pass away, and 
 GOD will make all things new. It seems proba- 
 We that the great work of Redemption is not coa* 
 fined to this globe alone. But extends throughout 
 the immense Nebula. 
 
 Our Starry Clustre is but a link continuing a rast, 
 perhaps an uncountable number. 
 
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 TOE INDIAN GIBL. MONCACHTAPB. THE TRTFFIQUEB, 
 THE HARP. THE LAKE OF TEARS. ON THR STRAND. 
 QUEEN VICTORIA'S OLIVE TREE, AND Ol BR POEMS, 
 THE STORK FLYING EASTWARD. 
 THREE VOLUMES IN MINIATURE. 
 A SERENADE. THE TWO OFFERINGS. 
 THE BBCLUSE : A CANZONET. 
 THE PHANTOM BOAT : AN ICON. FOSTER MOTHRR'g STORT. 
 JASSOKBT AND ANEMON: A PHILOSOPHIC RAHBWI, 
 RATON : AN IDYLLIC VAGART. 
 NEVADA'S PETRIFIED TREE. 
 PUiLAR OF WITNESS. 
 
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 ON that Evening, tho Beginnin^j of the Pirak 
 Ta} of Creation, at the Cam;nani of GOD, th© 
 Heavens and the Earih, the great Nabula of the 
 Milky Way, with all ita myriads in place and in 
 
 motion Spheres monstrous and lesser—each 
 
 M jthits impetug — instantly were CREATED. 
 
 The work of furnishing and completing, in Djtily 
 Scenes were carried forward. On the Fourth 
 Day, the Stars throughout the Clustre were ligh- 
 ted. On the Sixth, the stupendous Work was 
 Finished. And GOD rested the Seventh Day. 
 
 When the ALMIGHTY amidst the terrors of 
 Sinai proclaimed, that in Six Days HE made He- 
 avcn and Earth, and Rested the Seventh Day. 
 Ard wrote it with His own Finger on Stone Tab- 
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 "What manner of Man it this, that even 
 the windt and the tea obey HimT* 
 **aE commanded and they were created » 
 
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 ARMED with the sVielding: shadow 
 «f tbe Ages, 
 Exultant in the phreniy of proud 
 dreams, 
 Behold Conjectare, as the kiiigh^ of Reason, 
 Propounding grave d dwons and <4ecrees, 
 
 -And is there no ulterior authority, 
 Midst the impenitrable shadows, nothing? 
 No stream of light from the far vanished times ? 
 No record? Is there nothing— nothing— nothing 
 To lay the Phantom of philosophy ? 
 
 The spirit of a false Philoiophy, 
 
 The arrogance of limited enquiry. 
 
 The luxury of guessing and world-building. 
 
 The insolence of bloated emptiness. 
 
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 The prid3 of blindness inexcusable, 
 
 Tho romiac3 of creative fantasies. 
 
 Solve, no thou canst not, the grave thene of origins 
 
 Sources an I ultim^tes alike defy us, 
 
 The secretg of Creation are reserved. 
 
 And is there nothing ? Yes, a light far shining. 
 An ancient Roll the sacred Word of God. 
 This wondrous Book — the sole authority — 
 Shines through thegclosed recesses of the past. 
 Reveals the genesis, supplies the date. 
 Of heaven and earth and all that they contain. 
 Heaven which includes the countless starry hosts 
 Of our jjreat Nebula the Milky Way. 
 
 But Reason with Conjecture as its Staff. 
 
 Dares to annul the history Supreme, 
 
 By sophistries, evasions, blank denials. 
 
 By mystery of figurative expression. 
 
 By making it entirely visionary : 
 
 A picture which the great Lawgiver saw. 
 
 It stood before him, a grand panorama. 
 
 Condensing myriads of snllen ages. 
 
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 Is then the sacred Roll not history ? 
 
 Are those Seven days not days at all bat perioda ? 
 
 And metaphorical the whole account ? 
 
 The entire history then must be allusive. 
 
 Prophetic symbols — and not of the future. 
 
 Mere aymbolismsr^not plainly written fact ? 
 
 Is not the charge dishonoring and perverse ? 
 
 Although a day prophetical be used 
 For periods of short or varied length, 
 For simply an estate or destiny, 
 For future time indefinite. Not here 
 Has prophecy a place, but facts, facts only* 
 The record is historic, not prophetic. 
 No epic of creation, vague, heroic. 
 With condensation of vast periods 
 In terms that specify a literal day. 
 The records of geology, are simply 
 Records not understood — and signify not, 
 
 "WHAT ? Shall that plain historic pointed theme 
 The emphatic tablet of the Great Creator, 
 The sacred record of His six days work, 
 Be relegated to the cave of phantoms. 
 
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 Be falsely metepliorically treat* d. 
 
 "With visionary basis superadded. 
 
 A meaning just ? No ! false and variant. 
 
 By every test and principle of logie. 
 
 Yes a dire contradiction, dread denial. 
 
 Approved, alas without a twinge or scrwple. 
 
 By men who should denounce the wicked foiat. 
 
 Talse— futile all solutions scientific, 
 
 Utopian fumes that blind aesthetic pride. 
 
 Announcing potent systems of foin ation. 
 
 Arguing self-eficient nature's plan, 
 
 In the round phase of her analogies. 
 
 In schemes progressive through the sullen agesw 
 
 t is not proved that this fair world of ours 
 Was myriad* of ages in formation. 
 Much kss, that it was made of dust impalpabl» 
 By mere activity of laws innate. 
 Yes processes absurd impossible. 
 It is not proved that geologia ages 
 Can be compnted by the dip or structure* 
 Of strata ptjme or sedemeatary. 
 
 JFisno t proved by all the mines of boiiet 
 ^SKonstrous broods, reptiliaa and herbivorous. 
 
 
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 Dig from the aan !s ani clays of Wyoming^, 
 Midst wjshed out startUns; ro^ky skeletons, 
 Marking the vanished old Jurassic sea, 
 That millions of ag 23 have elapsed since when 
 Those wondrous creatures cropt the luciaus eycadl. 
 Or fed on other forms reptilian. 
 
 For scape of ages or of epocha, 
 
 There is but one authority — one only : 
 
 The Maker and Creator of the earth, 
 
 Barth and the heavens, and all which they contaiD» 
 
 And in the Booli of Moses they are written. 
 
 Not six mellineums yet have rolled their toife. 
 Since yonder glorious sun first lit the skies ; 
 Since the magnifig canopy of heaven, 
 Clustering with stars and sands of the Pale Patb» 
 Blazing with glories inconceivable, 
 Inscrutably to human wisdom rose. 
 Formed by a sovereign mandate from on high,. 
 Simply commanded by che mouth of God, 
 
 No myriad years, no dust of nebulae, 
 No forms contrived from rudimental chaos, 
 Furnished material for the hand of God. 
 HE SPOKE — at ouce in glorious perfectioDj 
 Nature arose with all its atributes* 
 
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 In Six Days only, six true days of ours, 
 
 (Six revolutions of this little globe : 
 
 Twenty four hours each day — no fraction over : 
 
 In those Six Days was built by God Almighty, 
 
 Our Starry Universe, the Milky Way. 
 
 Ihis wondrous Nebula of scope immense. 
 
 What inconceivable spaces. What vast orbs. 
 Midst them our sun is one of the small sands. 
 Work worthy of THE KING the INFINITE. 
 Who faints not, nor is weary. But then rested. 
 God rested at its close and was refreshed. 
 
 Great Volume— Book of God, the God of truth. 
 Go Savants, build a world, it will be easier 
 Than to annul that Book. O mar vellous Book. 
 True light of Heaven, God's greater Luminary, 
 Thrown in the midnight of this fallen world. 
 There all was dark, dread and inveterate. 
 The witness of this Roll is in itself. 
 
 Eager to di&sipate and waive the facts, 
 Narated by the King of Kings, and mould them 
 In forms absurd.. Alas for human reason. 
 God*s dazzling acts it doubts and falsifies. 
 
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 Or supplements it all unwaranted. 
 With systems monstrous and u.itenable. 
 
 Acknowbdj^e, yes they mast that heaven and earth 
 
 Glorious and unmistakably exist. 
 
 Bat how from old vacuity they rose. 
 
 Simply by self-emited energies — 
 
 This is the problem that demands some study, 
 
 Comprisins^ facts to beprovided for. 
 
 Andlo ! a marshalinor of absurdities. 
 
 But any scheme to set aside the Bible. 
 
 A^as, that sensible and cultured men 
 
 Sit tamely and permit such stuff to be, 
 
 What ? Did God merely will His vast creations. 
 
 Just simply formulate stupendous schemes, 
 
 Sitting quiescent on His secret Throne, 
 
 And patiently expect the lagging effort 
 
 Of blind conglomerating agencies. 
 
 To furnish forth the work with all its lustra ? 
 
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 Y:rGoaU.ia.<.speaV. but never .peaks. 
 
 He, silent King of Kiups, He wills but speake 
 Infinitesimally divided matter, ^ 
 
 1, what He builds great .vorlds of, and disposes 
 By laws, in silence slowly operating 1 
 
 n wretched nonsense, stupid »«f P^f^" . 
 What grave dishonor done the Word of Truth. 
 Yes by expounders who bai.ve m God. 
 But el'se can not interpret those ^^^^J^; 
 And hope for countenance from th^ infidels. 
 
 Alas ' how difficult for human reason, 
 l-o credit or accept the single fact. 
 
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 The glory of His power in the Creating 
 Of the great Clustre of the Milky Way. 
 And to distinguish with surpassing favour. 
 This little Globe. Which in comparison-^ — 
 It with its Sun are lost amidst the splendor 
 Of mightier orbs in the deep Nebula. 
 
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 On that First Day the inconceivable Clastre 
 Of the great Nebula, the Milky W.iy, 
 In all its m-iltimyriads came forth. 
 Balks great and small. Velocities that mark 
 
 Time and duration. Severally distinct. 
 
 Each with its special mould and destiny. 
 
 Its stores of wealth. Its hidden energies. 
 
 Each in true orbit and computed place. 
 
 In the great scheme of the vast mja3ured heavens. 
 
 Thus W3re the worlds in rayless gloom created. 
 Suns, to be crowned with glory, yet unlighted. 
 Great orbs, and primaries and secondariefc— 
 
 No glimmer rested on them. 
 
 Then God said : 
 
 Let there be Light. At once transcendent light 
 
 Illumined every sphere, and lit the spaces. 
 
 Varied in tone and power. Bat unalloted 
 
 To the great central orbs for distribution. 
 
 With myriads of others, on that morn 
 Gur globe rolled waste and empty and submerged 
 In swathing waters. But enlocked within it 
 Lay the rich stores provided for our use. 
 Oold, sUver, copper, other metals many, 
 
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 And Iron, the Anak God bestowed on man. 
 And gems. And mvrHy ener^i.s deep hidd m, 
 To be brought iorth at their appointed timoa. 
 And for the occasions God provided them. 
 And there, vast stores of co d aad lakes of oil, 
 The precious gifts of The Most High to men. 
 Ana the first day of miracles was closed. 
 
 The Second day, the Day of Atmospheres. 
 The glorious firmament's suprema expansion. 
 
 God built the lucid circumambient air. 
 
 The arched and lofty Skies, composed and 
 changeless. 
 
 Lifted them from the waters of each globe. 
 
 Those exquisite expansions of the heavens^ 
 
 For mellow sunsets and for golden dawns. 
 
 The field of nimble lightnings rains and clouds . 
 
 Of beauty and of mercy and of terror. 
 
 Softly the waves of a bland zephyr beat, 
 Redolent grateful, charged with precious odors, 
 From healthful blossoms prodigal and lovely. 
 Under the joyous flights of radiant wings, 
 Refrains and tropes and carols of gay birds : 
 
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 But what is that which more than song delights ns? 
 'Tis the swet voice of a beloved one talking ! 
 That speech is^^sic full of song and pathos, 
 Each tone all rapturous melody excelling. 
 And God thus formed on that high Second Day, 
 This marvellous v^lement for many uses, 
 Hooding the new born sphere. 6 priceless boon. 
 
 Smoothely rotating Earth brought Day the Thiad. 
 Wasteland undimpled, naked of all loima, 
 A globe enwrapped in the remaining waters. 
 And now archaic sages, kings profound, 
 Seraphic escorts and angelic legions, 
 In countless groups and cortages of splendor. 
 Ihroughoutthe spacious Nebula were th lied. 
 All hieraichs of Heaven : 
 
 Seel at God's word. 
 Proud mountains rise broad valleys low descend,, 
 And the'great watess gather in deep seas. 
 The dripping cliffs, the mountain chasms agape, 
 Ponred forth their salt libations to the flood. 
 As the bare surface, of the globe oblate, 
 Was broken, and its strata set aslant, 
 In mountains huge and banks, and rocky deHs. 
 Sparkling with gems and many metals preciou*. 
 
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 Aj^niM God f-pcke. No {-ooiur from His lips 
 ¥Ai tho command, than, lo the transformation ! 
 Upon that tj.J:ut ho liltlcbs vatstc and tmpty, 
 llauk forcKts rise in rich divursiiry. 
 On hill tops, tuft8 aid single trees, and ranks 
 Vjfgin^sLN.vr rivjrs aal choicj rid;^e locked valleys 
 But lo what wondrous trees whatr.drooping boughs 
 Laden with mellow and invitiu«» liuits ! 
 W at hills, what fields, what valleys redolent, 
 I'llicd m a moment with ail precious thinj^^s. 
 ^, i.'i )<♦ ;^iMiiei , herb.*, and ilowers mjst exq^uisite 
 Laidiag the air with delicate perfumes, 
 Tne aroma of mingled multitudes. 
 A ravishing amaziMg spectacle. 
 . God's crown of ve|.^etalion- Earth's Regalia. 
 
 "Were not those acts Fepeated in the compass 
 Of the ;. eat Nebula tiiroughout, as well, 
 With infinite diversity and form, 
 in every several sphere ; 'midst the delight 
 Of the admiring sons of God, who witnessed? 
 And the Day closed amidst ecstatic soenes. 
 
 Now the Fourth Day. Se?ene ?he recent Skies 
 In all their myriad orbs basked in the light, 
 The exquisite golden radiance, which pervaded 
 
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 Imperial Clustre of the Milky Way. 
 
 As yet no central points distributed 
 The blissful radiance, noting periods. 
 
 God— has He spaken ? Lo ! behold ! behold ! 
 The Heavens are kindled— bursting into flame. 
 Thousands on thousand vasty beyond count: 
 Sua^, satellites and wandering wisps, array 
 In light exultant, light the myriad toned. 
 The inconceivable the wondrous light. 
 From centre to circumference the Clustre 
 
 Burst forth with dazzling glory in a moment. 
 Yea, on that day, the sun the moon the stars. 
 
 The centrals of this mighty Nebula, 
 
 Burst forth with dazzling splendor. Myriad sunt. 
 
 Fountains of light and heat, distributed 
 
 The various tinted^tides empyrcEl. 
 
 Midst the adoring armies who beheld 
 
 The King of Glory at His wondrous toUs. 
 
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 With moons and fluns and comets devious. 
 Myriads of stars, as if arrived from jourixeys 
 
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 Diy cbsal upm the wMi spread eTi:!raM verdure 
 Clot'iin-? the samptiim valleys a 1 1 the hilU. 
 Lavish ia bloom and fruits in every stage. 
 
 Looked the Great Kinj?, the Lord of Life, and saw 
 How good, how bounteous But with none to feed 
 At the delicious tables of Ilia love^ 
 
 The Fifth great Day of days, with set of sun 
 Thr ^ughout the starry canopy led forth 
 Exultantly a new emphatic joy. 
 Moon and the stars, the ordinances of heaven, 
 Entranced the gloom contemplative and jeweled. 
 
 Till rose the sun in overwhelming splendor. 
 In myriad worlds by myriad suns repeated; 
 But with the glory of variety. 
 Each in its grade to its design conjoined. 
 
 Amidst the streams of the rotating heavens, 
 Diversity of periodic motions, 
 Earth was the honored indeJt, and earth*s days 
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 At th2 c'jnniul of Tho Almij^hty KTujjf, 
 Camo forth the multiplicity of ^dobes 
 Which fill the spaces inconceivable, 
 Of the grand^Cliistre of the Galaxy. 
 
 Each in position, eachfpotential. perfect, 
 Kach with its strict appeals of place and motion. 
 All in conformity with the laws established, 
 In the design of the Great Architect. 
 Each several globe containing nil supplies. 
 Apportioned, closed and hidden in its volume, 
 R^-agents latent, energies unique. 
 Suiting the varied purposes decreed. 
 
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 Gigantic energies — jvt uncortipleted — 
 Launched forth amidst stupendous monuments, 
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 At God's command, lo, in a twinkling seel 
 Swarms fill the seas with all varieties, 
 v'lreat whales are spouting in the briny deep. 
 Monsters terrific, and flecked serpents lithe. 
 Proud lift their heads and lash the foamy floods. 
 What puzzling life ! Some with electric powers, 
 Woadrously furnished to condense and store. 
 And use at will the marvallous element. 
 Some luminous in ths sea beds miles below, 
 Baaring mysterious lamps unfed with oil, 
 To guide their pathway in the gloom profound. 
 Pressed by a weight immense. Recumbent floods 
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 Bivalves and wuve born creatures armed with 
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 ri dainty painted shells, such chis-dcd grace. 
 Exquisite forms in vast variety. 
 Oiafts h w minute, and beauty microscopic. 
 Toilers that build the sedementary beds, 
 Exquisite atoms, which disordered Physics 
 K iS made heraldic in its futile raids. 
 
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 la fascination strong and mar/ellous,. 
 
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 God's Feathered fowl — lo, rich varieties! 
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 Even though uncou«-'^^ terrific or grotesque, 
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 And skill tb'*,t tosses incompatibles. 
 As with abandon of high merriment. 
 
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 With wings that aid it in its rapid course^ 
 But lift not into the cloud bearing air. 
 Storks and the Ibis in their varied species: 
 The Eagle and the Vulture with their class. 
 The Falcon. Raven and the boding Owl 
 Each with its^roll >f numerous relatives. 
 
 The Nightingale, the Whippoorwill, night singers 
 With — O what flights of rapturous tiny Birds, 
 Such flute notes clear, such chants, such -o/e 
 
 songs mellow I 
 Charming — amazing, with surpassing beauty, 
 A glorious retinue, God's dappled flock s. 
 Peeked with imperial distinguished favour. 
 In all varieties, howe'er equipped. 
 
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 Each class exultant in full plume and glory. 
 None left to flutter, none must learn to fl)r. 
 All faculties are perfect and attired ; 
 FuU graduated — not a whit to learn. 
 
 How glwious is our Father in the Heaven9> 
 Send up che loftiiest thought of God — It falls !— 
 JDead as an arrow shot to reach the sun.. 
 
 After the softened splendors of the night. 
 Now nudst the vaulted sapphire sky superb, 
 Lo ! Morn, dew spxinked. Princess fair, regaled 
 Withfl.ights of lovely birds and carols charming. 
 Crowned by the Sun, trips laughing o'er the hiU. 
 
 Tis the Sixth D^y, most glorious and final. 
 Of those most wonderful and thrilling days . 
 
 Thus far God's instituted works proceede(\ 
 Hen dub them, natural — as if that nature, 
 By some innate peculiar evolution, 
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 The mysteries nd metamorphoses, 
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 'i'hus far in our fair ^lobe — And none the less 
 The Nebula throughout, like preparation. 
 In many portious and in many forms. 
 Proceeded, w tncs e 1 by admiring hosts. 
 Tne princely retinu'3, the strong, the exalted 
 In light and wisdom. And the honored ancient> 
 Who may have wilnessed similar creations, 
 Amidst the mighty wonders of the past. 
 
 Thus far had God ahe Almighty Son replenished 
 
 Waters with life. K irth with all precious fruits. 
 
 Trees shi.ubs herbs flowers, multitudinous. 
 
 But something still seemed lacking. Lonely yet 
 
 As it in exp c ation, were the glades. 
 
 And grateful glooms that whispered in the groves.. 
 
 io at JEHOVAH'S VOICE, aa in a vision. 
 
 Out of the eai'th all marvellous creatures riso 1 
 
 T le f >rmidable, terrible, the tame. 
 
 Tiie mcnstrou&the minite, the swift the slow. 
 
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 Munificanily answering its ilcvsign. 
 
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 Lion, Hiena, Tiger, Leopard, Bear: 
 
 To such 0:)d gave the juicy herb. Though after, 
 
 Mide to partake the Alien's bitter doom. 
 
 Lut there is promise of a thousand years 
 
 Of restoration, and creation's rest. 
 
 There were the ox the kid the trophied lamb. 
 Cam : prophetic of the desert sands, 
 Provided for a coming time of toil. 
 The Horse, the bra :ing Ass, the mute Giraff. 
 S rpents and Worms in all their varied forms. 
 
 Aad Insects wonderful, God's m r ; el ous creatures 
 
 (jTwhat epuipments, what queer forms and makes. ^ 
 
 Dragons and monsters terrible — but caged 
 
 In the strong fosse of stern delimitation. 
 
 A modicum of thought, a soul of life. 
 
 Informs and actuates each aicisan, 
 
 And sets each liviag atom on its tr'ain. 
 
 And with electric vigor spu^.- the wings. 
 
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 Each class and grour, ^ith tireless iadustry. 
 
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 The Umf and the tremmdons, jjient and small. 
 "Wisdom and mit^ht and grace unsearchable, 
 Are sijnttt — seal*- on f\(j\ vcik ol Cod. 
 
 Bit row the r rown'rp act t^ e ir arvcllous sequel I 
 Let Us Make Man, GOD Said, IN OUH 
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 And then—not Ky command, as God before 
 Built Nebulx' and instituted Hanks. 
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 The kingly ima^e of Himself. Completed 
 In beauty and mysterious qualiiies. 
 And breathed into his nostrils Li'e O rare 
 Amazing dignity, unbounded love. 
 And Man became, in body soul and spirit, 
 The image of his Maker, and a god. 
 
 Through the completed Clustre rolled the shouts 
 Of ad niration, and exultant joy. 
 Adoring Dignitaries, Kings and Rulers 
 Mighty Ones of the Royal House of Heaven. 
 And suns and moons and wandering wi.^ps of light 
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 Throughout their spheres, in all their offices, 
 Attest and glorify the King, who there, 
 An evanescent soul besto.ved on all 
 The many Orders. Bnt in Man completed, 
 With reason, wisdom and enquiry regal. 
 With impulse to divihe and to ac-complish, 
 Fnstooned with romance and imagination. . 
 His spirit not a vapour but a povtr, 
 With gift supreme of immortality-. 
 
 Deep thro' the mighty Clustre swelle I th? thfills 
 Of admiration and exultant praise. 
 With peals of trumpets and of cornets swelling, 
 Pipes, harps and all melodeous instruments. 
 The lofty symphonies of heavenly choirs. 
 
 Great are Thy works, they sung, King, Excellent, 
 Creator. Wonderful. Almighty. Highest. 
 In wisdom hast Thou made them all. Thy giory 
 Shines in the least aud greatest. We adore Thee. 
 
 O Father infinite High Holy One. 
 
 O Son of God— the AVord High Holy One. 
 
 O Spirit of Truth and Light— High Holy One. 
 THREE—yet but ONE. Omnipotent Creator. 
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 L^ ! WITH excessive glory tremulous, 
 Night, cloudless — almost — grandly 
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 Leads its stardusted ^thways marveJIous 
 Through the deep spaces of the soft blue heavens. 
 There, thrilled with salient points of isuing flame,' 
 Numerous groups, disposed in antique figures. 
 With Oriental meanings, blaze as signals. 
 On the near verge of measureless spaces planted. 
 
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 And possibly conjecture may have climbed 
 Into the vast consistory, aloft 
 The stars of the dim pathway of the heavens. 
 But now we know not. For research can never 
 Fathom the science of those ancient Men . 
 
 Or guess or estimate the ripened wisdom, 
 Fostered and garlanded with centuries. 
 
 "With all our boast and nice appliances, 
 JEven yet our skill may be inferior, 
 To that of some great Master of those days. 
 Yes, if a Newton or a Herschel modern, 
 Can learn, contrive and actuate results. 
 And theories surprising, in brief span. 
 Think you the Searcher of long centuries. 
 The mighty genius by deep toils equipped. 
 Empowered to choose his aids and to construct 
 Deft and discreet and ruler of his toil. 
 Fertile in theories, open to conviction. 
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 And the great perio Ji>nd procpssiona hidden. 
 Computed, and notations handed down. 
 Thejaplenior of thosj aiijjs and th^ir lore, 
 Wjre'swept by the great D jlugo from the earth. 
 
 Deluge ?— Our sapient scientists have brushed 
 With their great rational besom the great Flood 
 From the unerring archives of the past. 
 Filling in ages and catastrophies, 
 Of which they dream. With wild absurdities 
 Of ice clad epochs. To make void The Record, 
 Or blur the enclitics by the hills engrailed. 
 
 But that dim Double Cone, quite unobtrusive. 
 Which, as if fallen from unmeasured heic^hts 
 Glows in the girdle of Andromeda, "" ' 
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 Alone and only. As a Mentor silent, 
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 Inspiring rjuestions and research inviting. 
 Midst atealthy ages from the birth of time,. 
 While indetecfeible to open vision, 
 Others may hide in the immergent scopo» 
 
 That opaleseent Oval dimly set 
 In the rich gwdle of Andromeda, 
 Stands singly ia the gateway of the van^ 
 Inscrutible, but there a lasting chaJlengO' 
 Of toil, an impulse for the later ages. 
 To penetrate the boundless fi-elds of space* 
 Seeking a vista ta its hidden hoards* 
 
 Though viewless ta the unas8:isted stght, 
 Tubes of most patient searchers now descry,, 
 And chronicle vast archives of the heavens. 
 And who shall number them., or limit them^ 
 Those Universes of The Lord Most High I 
 
 From unimaginable distances. 
 
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 In spectrums thrown upon an optic shield. 
 
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 As soft baloous of sumrftcr bloasoiiw, drifting 
 In 4oa"^i>^J< shadows. As some lingering wisp 
 Of W4Hte:i clo I'i. As spots dim ani diUutod. 
 As specks just visibLs or scaice defio^d, 
 I> solrei and lost in the iranoeusity. . 
 
 What myriads ? And every augmentation 
 Of telescopic power adfls to» the issue. 
 Resolves them into Clustres of immense 
 Splendor and magnitude. The works o-f God 
 Midst the infinities that have goBe by : 
 Eternity af t le past Haw dver whelming, 
 Inscratible and inconceivable, • 
 Stupendous — woaider folding upo« wonder ! 
 Our apprehensions in their pride are fallen, 
 Crushed by its glory, blown away in dust. 
 
 Then can we grapple with the master tho«ght> 
 That, Gad the sole Creator of all wcwrlds. 
 Father aud Author of all saids, all life, 
 From the rapt seraph to the moikeron. 
 Eternal source of wisdon troth and might r 
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 Of the vast numbers of those starry Heavens, 
 Nothing we know, nor dates of their creation. 
 But of our own, it pleased The Almighty Father 
 To set the date before us and the time 
 Wherein lie founded this vast Universe. 
 Yes, in SIX glorious Earth Marked Solar Days. 
 The first six days of this sublime Star Clustre. 
 And shown by scenes to the higb hosts of God. 
 Magnificent with stupendous suns and systems. 
 Prodigeous impulses of power and speed. 
 Nor even less marvellous in the expuisite finish 
 Of plant, of life, of objects microscopic. 
 
 Completed were those glorious Six Days, 
 Closed the exhibits of stupendous power. 
 And then God memorized it by a Seventh 
 Of signal Rest. Benign memorial. 
 And gave that Day to Men — most precious gift. 
 
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 R I h cut of s ) n3thin^ t > be fon lly ^ucBiod : 
 
 what a prize ! It norves Antiquity 
 
 To spreaj its wino^s ani s.veop the mythic pist 
 Far ploi to traat with scorn thi On grcit Book. 
 Yea earth and sea are ransacked and convulsed. 
 In quest of something to impugn G j I's word 
 In the rich Book of Truth of His ^estowment. 
 
 Geology ! arouse and scrape Earth's surface. 
 Probe the low valleys. Hive tho rock ribbed hills 
 Dredge the salt oceans. Climb the molten crests, 
 Of fiery mountains. Count the traveled boulders, 
 And deep ^rosions. Phantom the Ice ages. 
 Evoke the train led by the deaf Azoic, 
 Profoundly positive but trudging lamely. 
 Adduce the proofs of the stone age. And man 
 
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 Through drag;in? agjs. Plough the djal old Seas 
 The dried up lakes. Secure all vestiges, 
 
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 Which swept the enormous gasses « f creation, 
 With the first tremor of incipient life. 
 Then, in the ardor of exultant prido, 
 Into God's Diamond Crucible cast^all. 
 •There, tested by the fires intense of truth.. 
 Wait for the nugget. — Ah ! your gold is dross. 
 
 Amidst such wonders, glorious beyond thought, 
 
 Those starry systems, vast and numberless, 
 
 Sailing sublime in the outpoured abyss, 
 
 In space profound and shoreless. Can it be. 
 
 Nothing drops out of sight — no — not the least ? 
 
 The fickle hairs that crown our brows — not even ! 
 
 O marvel amidst marvels. Ought we uot 
 
 Unload ourselves of all anxiety, 
 
 Sitting with joy at the Great Father's feet. 
 
 God who created us, the King Almighty, 
 
 Whom with veiled faces heavenly hosts adore, 
 
 Prostrate before Him falling — Holy One. 
 
 His justice stern no error can allow ; 
 
 Yet, awful Judge, behold I in pity and love, 
 
 He sent His Son to take our fateful bowl. 
 
 To lift it to His lips — He drank it dry. 
 
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