In moon, and stars (heaven’s golden alphabet!)
Emblazed to seize the sight; who runs, may read;
Who reads, can understand. ’Tis unconfined
To Christian land, or Jewry; fairly writ,
In language universal, to mankind:
A language, lofty to the learn’d: yet plain
To those that feed the flock, or guide the plough,
Or, from his husk, strike out the bounding grain.
A language, worthy the Great Mind, that speaks!
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