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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115255" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Science</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Darkness sat brooding o'er the infant world,<br>  That in chaotic gloom and silence lay,<br>  Till from the throne of Light the sun was hurled;<br>  Then that eternal night was changed to day,<br>  And his effulgent, life-imparting ray,<br>  O'er the wide waste of waters moved along:<br>  The land and sea divided, and away<br>  From out their depths young Nature startled sprung,<br> And in the light rejoiced till the blue heavens rung.<br> <br>  Even thus, oh! Science, hath thy glorious light<br>  Rolled the dark clouds of Ignorance away,<br>  Dispelled the darkness of a deeper night,<br>  Than that which once o'er chaos thickly lay --<br>  The darkness of the mind; and thy mid-day<br>  Is still far distant -- yet nor time nor space<br>  Is unillumined with thy heavenly ray:<br>  The clouds are rent that shrouded Nature's face,<br> And now she stands unveiled in all her loveliness.<br> <br>  Onward thou movest on thy tireless wing,<br>  Through air and sea to Earth's remotest shore,<br>  And givest a name to every living thing,<br>  The beast, the bird, the insect or the flower,<br>  The jewel of the mine, the sparkling ore.<br>  Thou knowest the mysteries of the unseen air;<br>  Thou lightest the caverns of the deep, whose floor<br>  Yields to thy hand its pearls and treasures rare,<br> And every tinted shell that breathes its music there.<br> <br>  Now on the bosom of the swelling flood<br>  That clasps the earth, and by whose wave-worn side<br>  In ages past our trembling fathers stood,<br>  Nor dared to breast the deep and trackless tide,<br>  Our floating palaces majestic ride,<br>  Their canvas whitening every foreign strand;<br>  For thou, oh Science, thou art there our guide --<br>  Like that bright pillar reared at God's command,<br> To light his wandering sons through Egypt's desert land.<br> <br>  And by the radiance of that heavenly light<br>  Now man may mark the wandering comet's way.<br>  Measure the swiftness of the sunbeam's flight,<br>  Command the elements and they obey.<br>  O'er the whole earth he holds his godlike sway;<br>  He bids the river from its course be driven,<br>  And lo! it flows where'er he points the way;<br>  And from the skies the lightning he has riven,<br> As erst Prometheus stole the sacred fire from heaven.<br> <br>  Science! illumined by thy living rays,<br>  A brighter glory lights the dome of night;<br>  There thou dost open to our wondering gaze<br>  System on System round those worlds of light,<br>  In silence winging their harmonious flight.<br>  And when weak sense returns to earth again,<br>  There we behold, when thou dost guide our sight,<br>  Above, around, where'er our gaze hath been,<br> "Infinity without, Infinity within."<br> <br>  Here hath thy sister, Art, upreared for thee<br>  A stainless shrine where fair young spirits led<br>  To seek thy smile, shall bow the willing knee:<br>  They would not ask the radiance thou didst shed<br>  Around a Newton's or a Franklin's head;<br>  Albeit a milder and a gentler ray,<br>  That through this world with loveliness o'erspread,<br>  They may not roam along the sunny way<br> In dark and dreary night while all around is day.<br> <br>  May time tread lightly through these classic halls;<br>  Long may their columns stand through coming years,<br>  When we who kneel within these snowy walls<br>  Have passed away to yonder blessed spheres,<br>  Secure from change, from parting, and from tears,<br>  Where our enfranchised spirits shall explore<br>  Those boundless realms beyond the tide of years,<br>  Rapt, at the shrine of all creating power,<br> Through endless time to learn, and wonder, and adore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Lynch+Botta">Anne Lynch Botta</a> from <i>Poems</i><div class=q>
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