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There is a power Unseen, that rules the illimitable world, That guides its motions from the brightest star To the least dust of this sin-tainted mould. While man, who madly deems himself the Lord Of all, is nought but weakness and dependence. This sacred truth, by sure experience taught, They must have learn’d when wand’ring all alone, Each bird, each insect, flitting through the sky, Was more sufficient for itself than thou.
There is a power Unseen, that rules the illimitable world, That guides its motions from the brightest star To the least dust of this sin-tainted mould. While man, who madly deems himself the Lord Of all, is nought but weakness and dependence. This sacred truth, by sure experience taught, They must have learn’d when wand’ring all alone, Each bird, each insect, flitting through the sky, Was more sufficient for itself than thou.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 449 · printed citation: Thomson · subject: POWER
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