And seen those fragments by the labouring eye,

Unbroken, then, illustrious, and entire, 170

Its ample sphere, its universal frame,

In full dimensions, swells to the survey;

And enters, at one glance, the ravish’d sight.

From some superior point (where, who can tell?

Suffice it, ’tis a point where gods reside)

How shall the stranger man’s illumined eye,

In the vast ocean of unbounded space,

Behold an infinite of floating worlds