Classic Poem

I SAW THE World ; and wondred at the Sight;
(For I was raised above the common Light
Into that Region, where wee eas'lye see
All formes at once, mixed or diverslie)
Hence I look'd downe; and saw the Creatures, All
Fixt in theire Causes; and made Severall
To their distinct, and single Motion,
Which wee distinguish strangely, to our owne
Capacities; and Rationall prefer
Proper, alone to Man; the Beasts (more nere
Then Plants, or Trees,) wee call but Sensitive;
And those, by vegetation, meerly live.
Or wee are blinded; or wee quite mistake
The Square, which wee our selves, our guide would make;
If it be rationall to move, and live
A part, t' assist the whole; and each part give
His proper furtherance; and who most faile
To advance it, are most irrationall.
Man Cannot boast of Reason; (nor dispose
Defects, or Eminencies, unto those
Inferior Creatures), (Lordinge ore the rest)
Forfeit to his prerogative; the least
And most unprofitable member, in
His motion. Oh! how often have I bene
Dasht to the pit of Shame? to thinke man, made
His great Creators Image; and arrayed
With Glorie, next to Angells; and beyond
All other Creatures, both in Face and Mind;
Had Reason then; or what wee would define
By severall notions, to that gen'rall Line:
Made Lord of all the world, to use, and know:
A Thing soe sordid, and ignoble now
Wee cannot speake him; and the Creatur's vye
Forces, and foyle him; they imperfectlye
Move to their End; Hee, from perfection,
To this low step, is fall'n. Oh! haples Son
Of humane frailtye, yet in Time recall
Thy Birthright noble in th' originall;
And tis not lost to thee; leave of to speake
His Ruine; and his Reparation make.