How pleasing the wonders of Nature—how varied and how vast,
And the mystery of all the unknown doth hold me firm and fast;
For so the Creator ordained that men should seek and know;
That the heart of man may ever rise and forever flow,
From pebble small in singing brook to yonder neighboring star;
From star to a wider system and on to worlds afar.
’Tis only infinite mind can bridge the space between,
Our planet and greater sun and constellations seen,
Beyond which are stars yet farther, the living and the dead,
And they tell us there are millions larger in the boundless spread.