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SCIENCE.

SCIENCE.


Darkness sat brooding o’er the infant world,
That in chaotic gloom and silence lay,
Till from the throne of Light the sun was hurled;
Then that eternal night was changed to day,
And his effulgent, life-imparting ray,
O’er the wide waste of waters moved along:
The land and sea divided, and away
From out their depths young Nature startled sprung,
And in the light rejoiced till the blue heavens rung.

Even thus, oh! Science, hath thy glorious light
Rolled the dark clouds of Ignorance away,
Dispelled the darkness of a deeper night,
Than that which once o’er chaos thickly lay—
The darkness of the mind; and thy mid-day
Is still far distant—yet nor time nor space
Is unillumined with thy heavenly ray:
The clouds are rent that shrouded Nature’s face,
And now she stands unveiled in all her loveliness.