CANTO I.PRODUCTION OF LIFE.
I. By firm immutable immortal lawsImpress'd on Nature by the Great First Cause,Say, Muse! how rose from elemental strifeOrganic forms, and kindled into life;How Love and Sympathy with potent charmWarm the cold heart, the lifted hand disarm;Allure with pleasures, and alarm with pains,And bind Society in golden chains.
Four past eventful Ages then recite,And give the fifth, new-born of Time, to light; 10The silken...
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