Excerpt from Cosmos: A Poem Its actions, passions, with a lyric cry, Its little manners, large machinery Must subject to your song our conquests won, Our lights and cross-lights drawn from every. Sun, Our triumphs that link time from van to rear, That sweep through space as their own thoroughfare, Making the unseen as a ghost appear And whisper secrets from beyond our sphere, That, stopping still at death, are everywhere Within the subtlest, finest-reasoned air; Conquests that ever grew, that you will find Affect your own more even than our mind, Become the common thought-food of mankind. Lost in the landscape, man's thought first appeared Viewing its varied presence as his lord, The sun or earth, what most he liked or feared Seemed to him living gods to be adored. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.