The science that weighs in her balance the spheres,
And watched them since first the Chaldean began it,
Now and then, as she counts them and measures their years,
Brings into our system and names a new planet.
Yet the old and new stars—Venus, Neptune and Mars,
As they drive round the sun their invisible cars,
Whether faster or slower their races they run,
Are “E Pluribus Unum”—of many made one.
Of that system of spheres, should but one fly the track,
Or with others conspire for a general dispersion,