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Excerpt from The Poetical and Prose Writings of Charles Sprague
Curiosity.
It came from Heaven - its power archangels knew,
When this fair globe first rounded to their view;
When the young sun revealed each glorious scene
Where oceans gathered and where lands grew green;
When earth's dead dust in joyful myriads swarmed,
And the first man with God's own breath was warmed
It reigned in Eden - when that man first woke,
Its kindling influence from his eye-balls spoke;
No roving childhood, no exploring youth,
Lured him along, till wonder chilled to truth;
Full-formed at once, his subject world he trod,
And gazed upon the labors 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,
Another self, queen-wonder of the whole!
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