Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1828-07-17
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GENERAL SPECTACLE OF TIE UNI.
VERSE.

VERSE.
"Chere is a God. The grass of the
valley and the cedars of the mountain
bless him. The insect huns his pral
ses. The elephant saiuies h'm at the
dawn of day. The bird sings for him
under the foliage Thunder displays
his power, and the ocean declares hls
luminosity
1t may he said, that man is the man
lies, thought of God, aud that the ant
verse is his Imagination rendered sensl
bic Those who have admitted The
beauty of nature as a proof OF superior
intelligence, should have remarked
circumstance, which prodigiously ag
grandizes the sphere OF miracles. Il
il is that movement and repose. dark
ness and light, the seasons, the march
OF the stars, with diverse decorations
OF the world. are successive only IN ap
pearance and in reality are permanent
The scene, which is effaced for US, IS
reprinted for another people. Ii Is noi
the spectacle, bot oniv the spectator,
who haih changed. God hath known
way, in winch to unite absolute and
progressive duration IN his work. - The
fr,t is placed in time; the second IN
space. BY the former, the beauties OF
the universe are one, Infinite, always
the same. BY the other, they are maj
tialied finished and renewed Withoui
The one there would have been no gran
dcur in the creation. Without the other,
it would have been all meDo'ony -
In TINS way, time appears 10 Us Ia a
new relation
the Ieas, of its fractions becomes a
complete whole, which compartments
every thing, and in which all things
are modified, from the death of an IN
sect 10 the birth OF world. Every
minute is 10 itselfa little eternity. Bring
together then in thought the most beau
tiful acccidents of nature. Suppose
that VOC see at the same time the hours
of The day and all the seasons; morn
ing of spring and morning of autumn;
q night bespang|ed with stars, and
night covered with clouds; meadows
enameled with flowers, and forests
robbed of their foliage by storms,
plains covered with sprnglng corn and
guided with harvest. You will then
have Just idea Of the universe.
Is it not astonishing, that While you
admire The sun sinking under the arches
of the west, another behOlder observes
him springing from the regions OF the
morning? By what uncomfortable ma
gic is ii. that this ancient luminary that
reposes, burning and fatigued in The
dust of the evening, is the same yceth
fol plane that awakens, humid with
dew. under the whitening curtains Of
the dawn? At every moment in the
day he sun is rising in the zenith, or
setting in some portion OF the world; OF
rather, our senses mock us; and there
is truly, neither east, nor meridian
nor west.
Can we conceive what would be thu
spectacle of nature If it were abandon
cd to simple movements Of matterf-
The clouds obeying The laws of gravl
iy, would fall perpend.cularly on tht
earth, or would mount in pyramids in
to the upper regions of the air The
moment after, the air would become
too gross, or too much rarified for the
organs of respiration The moon, lot
near, or distant from US, would be a
one time invisible, and at another woOlt
show herself all bloody, covered witt
enormous spots, OF filling with her ex
tended orb all the celestial dome. A
If possessed with some wild vagary
she would either move upon the line 0
the ecliptic, or changing her side
would al length discover to Us face
which .he earth has not set seen. The
stars would show themselves stricken
with the same vertigo, and woult
hencelorward become collection o
terrific conjuDcliOns. On q sudden
the constellation of summer would b.
Destroyed by that of winter Boot
would lead the Pleiades: and the LloI
would roar in AGuarius There, Ia
stars would fleet away with the rapid
ty OF lightning Here they would han}
mOtionless. Sometimes crowdlng ni'
groups, they would loIma new milky