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THE NEW PLANET, by                    
First Line: Twas there before man learned to watch the skies
Last Line: And our new neighbor's staggering distance span.
Subject(s): Cosmology; Planets; Soul; Spiritual Life


'Twas there before man learned to watch the skies.
With baffled wonder we scan heaven's face,
And marvel how each orb swings in its place.
Vast systematic voids rouse rapt surmise.
What ecstasy in hearts exultant rise
When some new planet swims to view in space!
Triumphant spirits that new worlds thus trace;
Far reaches conquered by keen, hungry eyes.

Yet are we not to endless reaches kin?
The power that breathed life in the soul of man
Hung spheres aloft, which through the ether roll—
Kin elements used for the cosmic plan.
'Tis not with utter strangeness, awed we stand
And our new neighbor's staggering distance span.





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