Streams to a point, and centres in my sight!

Nor tarries there, I feel it at my heart.

My heart, at once, it humbles, and exalts;

Lays it in dust, and calls it to the skies.

Who sees it unexalted? or unaw’d?

Who sees it, and can stop at what is seen?

Material offspring of Omnipotence!

Inanimate, all animating birth!

Work worthy Him who made it! worthy praise!

All praise! praise more than human! nor denied