Author: P. A. Zaring
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Published: 2015-08-04
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9781332117017
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Excerpt from The Cosmos The Cosmos Part One I O, holy Sisters of the hallowed Mount, Who erst in Helicon's most sacred fount Were wont to lave your bodies, strangely fair, And deck your lovely forms with garlands rare, And pour your carols on the ambient air, And sway your limbs, and flaunt your flowing hair, In measured mazes exquisite-complete, To symphonies your own, divinely sweet, Your nimble fingers strike the heavenly lyre, While gods and mortals wonder and admire. II Come from your ancient pedestals on high. Touch now your harps and rend the veil of sky, Or whatsoever else may intervene (These dreary years) this world and yours between; For ages like eternities have lagged Most tediously, but ultimately dragged Their weary lengths away, since any strain Resembling aught the Parnassian refrain, Hast blest our waiting ears. So hear me now, The humblest of the myriads who bow Before your shrine; and give to me to know How came all things that are just thus and so; The planets, moons, suns, systems, vastly great; Stupendous past the power to contemplate; About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
