Man scarce can comprehend, could man bestow?

Who motion, foreign to the smallest grain,

Shot through vast masses of enormous weight?

Who bade brute matter’s restive lump assume

Such various forms, and gave it wings to fly?

Has matter innate motion? then each atom,

Asserting its indisputable right

To dance, would form an universe of dust:

Has matter none? Then whence these glorious forms

And boundless flights, from shapeless, and repos’d?