Look round our world; behold the chain of
love
Combining all below and all
above.
See Nature working to this end,
The single atoms each to other
tend,
Attract, attracted to, the next in
place,
Form'd and impell'd its neighbour to
embrace.
See matter next, with various life
endued,
Press to one centre still, the gen'ral
good;
See dying vegetables life
sustain,
See life dissolving vegetate
again.
All forms that perish other forms
supply
(By turns we catch the vital breath, and
die),
Like bubbles on the sea of Matter
borne,
They rise, they break, and to that sea
return.
Nothing is foreign; parts relate to
whole;
One all-extending, all-preserving,
soul
Connects each being, greatest with the
least;
Made beast in aid of man, and man of
beast;
All serv'd all serving: nothing stands
alone;
The chain holds on, and where it ends
unknown
