Genre:

Poetry

Subjects:

Wonder, Creation, Piety

    The first four stanzas ask: 'Is there a man' who has seen the various aspects of the created order, who has not 'ask'd, nor sought to know' whose wisdom, power, and goodness it was 'that made them so?' The final stanza reads: 'If such a thoughtless wretch there be, / How sunk and how debas'd is he! / Consign him with the beastial [sic] train, / To feed on husks, or graze the plain; / And never let his careless eye / The wonders view of earth and sky, / Till he has known, or sought to know, / The Almighty power that made them so!' This poem was reprinted in a subsequent issue of the magazine.

See also:

YM3/8/6a/2