<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416304" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Nothing Formed In Vain</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let no presuming impious railer tax <br>Creative wisdom, as if aught was form'd<br>In vain, or not for admirable ends.<br>Shall little haughty ignorance pronounce <br>His works unwise, of which the smallest part<br>Excceeds the narrow vision of her mind? <br>As if, upon a full-proportion'd dome,<br>On swelling columns heav'd, the pride of art!<br>A critic-fly, whose feeble ray scarce spreads<br>An inch around, with blind presumption bold,<br>Should dare to tax the structure of the whole.<br>And lives the man, whose universal eye<br>Has swept at once th' unbounded scheme of things;<br>Mark'd their dependence so, and firm accord,<br>As with unfalt'ring accent to conclude,<br>That this availeth nought? Has any seen<br>The mighty chain of beings, less'ning down<br>From infinite perfection, to the brink<br>Of dreary nothing, desolate abyss!<br>From which astonish'd thought, recoiling, turns?<br>Till then alone let zealous praise ascend,<br>And hymns of holy wonder, to that Power,<br>Whose wisdom shines as lovely in our minds,<br>As on our smiling eyes his servant-sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Thomson">James Thomson</a><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=416304" data-title="Nothing Formed In Vain de James Thomson" data-description="Let no presuming impious railer tax Creative wisdom, as if aught was form'd In vain, or not for admirable ends. Shall little haughty ignorance pronounce His works unwise, of which the smallest part Excceeds the narrow vision of her mind? As if,..."></div> </div> </div>

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