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Those verdant hills now bathed in morning dews, Whose every drop outvies Golconda’s gem. Lo! one hangs glittering on yon blade of grass: Spurn not that lucid trembler, but admire Its glorious hues, and trace them to their source; The nice arrangement of its particles. Draw nigh;—through microscopic lens inspect That single drop’s profound elaborateness— Most delicate, and wonderfully wrought. Is it a work of chance? It is a world Replete with life, and love, and feud. Its crowds Dart swift from verge to verge (their ocean depths.) How nervous and minute each supple fin! What made that film-like hinge on which it plays? What hand, what eye, save God’s could fashion it?
Those verdant hills now bathed in morning dews, Whose every drop outvies Golconda’s gem. Lo! one hangs glittering on yon blade of grass: Spurn not that lucid trembler, but admire Its glorious hues, and trace them to their source; The nice arrangement of its particles. Draw nigh;—through microscopic lens inspect That single drop’s profound elaborateness— Most delicate, and wonderfully wrought. Is it a work of chance? It is a world Replete with life, and love, and feud. Its crowds Dart swift from verge to verge (their ocean depths.) How nervous and minute each supple fin! What made that film-like hinge on which it plays? What hand, what eye, save God’s could fashion it?
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- T. L. Merritt (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 185 · printed citation: T. L. Merritt · subject: DEW
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