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For ever stars are winging / Their swift and endless race; / For ever suns are swinging / Their mighty globes through space. / Since by his law required / To join God's spheres inspired, / The earth has never tired, / But whirled and whirled and whirled. / For ever streams are flowing, / For ever seeds are growing, / Alway is Nature showing / That Action rules the world.
And since by God requested / To _be_, the glorious light / Has never paused or rested, / But travelled day and night. / Yet pigmy man, unseeing / The purpose of his being, / Demands escape and freeing / From universal force. / But law is law for ever, / And like a mighty lever / It thrusts him tow'rd endeavour, / And speeds him on his course.