MAN BY WISDOM CANNOT FIND OUT GOD
Ye who ascend to the celestial heavens
To study planets, stars and asteroids
And view the wonders of the stellar worlds,
Countless in number, hurrying through space,
Planned in such perfect mechanism, that not one
Swerves from the course, in which some all-wise power
Has destined it to move, setting a bound
Over which all the powers and arguments of man
Cannot compel it to revolve.
To study planets, stars and asteroids
And view the wonders of the stellar worlds,
Countless in number, hurrying through space,
Planned in such perfect mechanism, that not one
Swerves from the course, in which some all-wise power
Has destined it to move, setting a bound
Over which all the powers and arguments of man
Cannot compel it to revolve.
And ye who delve
After the hidden treasures of the earth
To resurrect from stores of ages dead
And bring to light the history of the past,
The strange formation of the solid rock,
Vegetation submerged long centuries ago,
Metals and gems, sands and the compact clay,
All furnishing new scope for thought,
New truths for science to delineate
And new surmises, questionings and doubts;
Astronomers, geologists and all who explore
The vast cathedral of this universe,
Whose vaulted roof, far as the eye can reach,
Clear azure, spangled o'er with gold by night
$And oft diversified with clouds by day,
Spreads out a beauteous covering for earth
Whose corridors and galleries and aisles
With emerald carpetings, broidered with flowers
And leafy draperies with silvery ribbons
Winding in and out;
After the hidden treasures of the earth
To resurrect from stores of ages dead
And bring to light the history of the past,
The strange formation of the solid rock,
Vegetation submerged long centuries ago,
Metals and gems, sands and the compact clay,
All furnishing new scope for thought,
New truths for science to delineate
And new surmises, questionings and doubts;
Astronomers, geologists and all who explore
The vast cathedral of this universe,
Whose vaulted roof, far as the eye can reach,
Clear azure, spangled o'er with gold by night
$And oft diversified with clouds by day,
Spreads out a beauteous covering for earth
Whose corridors and galleries and aisles
With emerald carpetings, broidered with flowers
And leafy draperies with silvery ribbons
Winding in and out;
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