Excerpt from Curiosity: A Poem, Delivered at Cambridge, Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, August 27, 1829 IT came from Heaven - its power archangels knew, When this fair globe first rounded to their View; When the young sun revealed the glorious scene Where oceans gathered and where lands grew green When the dead dust in joyful myriads swarmed, And man, the clod, with God's own breath was warmed It reigned in Eden - when that man first woke, Its kindling influence from his eyeballs spoke; N o roving childhood, no exploring youth Led him along, till wonder chilled to truth Full-formed at once, his subject world he trod, And gazed upon the labours of his God; On all by turns his chartered glance was cast, While each pleased best as each appeared the last; But when She came, in nature's blameless pride, Bone of his bone, his heaven-anointed bride, All meaner objects faded from his sight, And sense turned giddy with the new delight Those charmed his eye, but this entranced his soul. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.