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The UNIVERSE.
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Each Seed includes a Plant: that Plant, again,Has other Seeds, which other Plants contain:Those other Plants have all their Seeds, and ThoseMore Plants again, successively, inclose.
Thus, ev'ry single Berry that we find,Has, really, in itself large Forests of its Kind.Empire and Wealth one Acorn may dispense,By Fleets to sail a thousand Ages hence.Each Myrtle Seed includes a thousand Groves,Where future Bards may warble forth their Loves.Thus Adam's Loins contain'd his large Posterity,All People that have been, and all that e'er shall be.
Amazing Thought! what Mortal can conceiveSuch wond'rous Smallness?———Yet, we must believeWhat Reason tells: for Reason's piercing EyeDiscerns those Truths our Senses can't descry.

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