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EPITAPH INTENDED FOR SIR ISAAC NEWTON, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY by ALEXANDER POPE

Poet Analysis

First Line: NATURE, AND NATURE'S LAWS LAY HID IN NIGHT
Last Line: GOD SAID, LET NEWTON BE! AND ALL WAS LIGHT.
Subject(s): EPITAPHS; NEWTON, SIR ISAAC (1642-1727);
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.




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