Human Knowledge
Just because thou readest in Nature what thou hast written,
Just because thine eye all her phenomena marks,
Reckoning on the bonds which man upon Nature imposes,
Does thy mind presume infinite Nature to know?
So the Astronomer's art lays out the chart of the heavens
Better his way to steer through inaccessible space;
Suns in a focus he brings though by infinity parted,
Mates the distant swan with the redoubtable bull.
But can he comprehend the spheres' mysterious orbit
Merely because on a globe planets in order appear?
Just because thine eye all her phenomena marks,
Reckoning on the bonds which man upon Nature imposes,
Does thy mind presume infinite Nature to know?
So the Astronomer's art lays out the chart of the heavens
Better his way to steer through inaccessible space;
Suns in a focus he brings though by infinity parted,
Mates the distant swan with the redoubtable bull.
But can he comprehend the spheres' mysterious orbit
Merely because on a globe planets in order appear?
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