The Poetical Works of The Rev. Samuel Bishop ... To Which are Prefixed, Memoirs of the Life of the Author By the Rev. Thomas Clare |
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EPIGRAM CCLIV.
[The modern philosophy makes a great clatter]
Καλα πεφανται.
The modern philosophy makes a great clatter,
About matter, and motion; and motion, and matter:
In presumption's poor pride, and with reason's short sight,
Helps omnipotence out; and sets providence right:
Yet amidst this extravagant vanity's round,
It's systems so fair, and it's plans so profound,
It's research so minute, it's immense comprehension,
It's detail of discovery, it's pomp of pretension,
All it's “Whys,” and it's “Wherefores,” would little avail,
Were it bound to account—“why a toad has no tail!”
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