<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=114997" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On the immensity of creation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! could I borrow some celestial plume,<br>This narrow globe should not confine me long<br>In its contracted sphere---the vast expanse,<br>Beyond where thought can reach, or eye can glance,<br>My curious spirit, charm'd should traverse o'er,<br>New worlds to find, new systems to explore:<br>When these appear'd, again I'd urge my flight<br>Till all creation open'd to my sight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah! unavailing wish, absurd and vain,<br>Fancy return and drop thy wing again;<br>Could'st thou more swift than light move steady on,<br>Thy sight as broad, and piercing as the sun,<br>And Gabriel's years too added to thy own;<br>Nor Gabriel's sight, nor thought, nor rapid wing,<br>Can pass the immense domains of th' eternal King;<br>The greatest seraph in his bright abode<br>Can't comprehend the labours of a God.<br>Proud reason fails, and is confounded here;<br>---Man how contemptible thou dost appear!<br>What art thou in this scene?---Alas! no more<br>Than a small atom to the sandy shore,<br>A drop of water to a boundless sea,<br>A single moment to eternity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ann+Eliza+Bleecker">Ann Eliza Bleecker</a> from <i>The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=114997" data-title="On the immensity of creation de Ann Eliza Bleecker" data-description="Oh! could I borrow some celestial plume,/This narrow globe should not confine me long/In its contracted sphere---the vast expanse,/Beyond where thought can reach, or eye can glance,/My curious spirit, charm'd should traverse o'er,/New worlds to fi..."></div> </div> </div>

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