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Mysterious power! which guides by night Through darkest wood the illumined sight; Which prompts them, by the unerring smell, The appointed prey’s abode to tell; Bore with long bill the investing mould, And feel, and from the secret hold Dislodge the reptile spoil! But who Can look Creation’s volume through, And not fresh proofs, at every turn, Of the Creator’s mind discern: The end to which his actions tend, The means adapted to the end, The reasoning thought, the effective skill, And, ruling all, the Almighty will.
Mysterious power! which guides by night Through darkest wood the illumined sight; Which prompts them, by the unerring smell, The appointed prey’s abode to tell; Bore with long bill the investing mould, And feel, and from the secret hold Dislodge the reptile spoil! But who Can look Creation’s volume through, And not fresh proofs, at every turn, Of the Creator’s mind discern: The end to which his actions tend, The means adapted to the end, The reasoning thought, the effective skill, And, ruling all, the Almighty will.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Bishop Mant (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 155 · printed citation: Bishop Mant · subject: CREATION
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