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I / When Newton saw an apple fall, he found / In that slight startle from his contemplation- / 'T is said (for I'll not answer above ground / For any sage's creed or calculation)- / A mode of proving that the earth turn'd round / In a most natural whirl, called "gravitation; " / And this is the sole mortal who could grapple, / Since Adam, with a fall or with an apple.
II / Man fell with apples, and with apples rose, / If this be true; for we must deem the mode / In which Sir Isaac Newton could disclose / Through the then unpaved stars the turnpike road, / A thing to counterbalance human woes: / For ever since immortal man hath glow'd / With all kinds of mechanics, and full soon / Steam-engines will conduct him to the moon.