[F] Contemplations on the starry Heavens.
"Could we, says the same Author, wing our Way to the highest apparent Star—we should there see other Skies expanded, other Suns, that distribute their inexhaustible Beams of Day; other Stars, that gild the alternate Night; and other perhaps nobler Systems established; established in unknown Profusion, through the boundless Dimensions of Space. Nor does the Dominion of the great Sovereign end there, even at the End of this vast Tour, we should find ourselves advanced no farther than the Frontiers of Creation; arrived only at the Suburbs of the great Jehovah's Kingdom."
O for a Telescope his Throne to reach!
Tell me ye Learn'd on Earth! or Blest above!
Ye searching, ye Newtonian Angels! tell,
Where your great Masters Orb? His Planets where?
Those conscious Satellites, those Morning Stars,
First-born of Deity from central Love.
Many other Authorities might be produced from Writers of great Repute, were it necessary to trouble you with them[G]; but I believe those above will be abundantly sufficient for the present Purpose, if even an Apology were wanting for my own Conjectures. I shall therefore conclude this Letter with the following Passage out of Pope's Universal Prayer, and in my next shall proceed in the Work I have undertaken.
Yet not to Earth's contracted Span,