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Know Thyself
Suggested by hearing Dr. A. E. Miller's Lectures on the Human Body.
Who, with dull mind, can view man's wondrous frame;And not with deepest reverence and awe?
For from the hand of God at first it came,
And from his breath did life and motion draw.
The bones, which show such marvellous strength and skill,
The blood, which circulates through every vein,
The ever-moving lungs the air doth fill,
The pulsing heart, the all-directing brain.
What higher knowledge than thyself to know?
Though countless objects gain our time, and thought,
On our own frame we scarce a thought bestow,
The body thus so marvellously wrought;
The type of that, which shall immortal be,
From pain, disease, and death forever free.
Poem No. 815; c. 3 May 1878
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