Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fal…

Alexander Pope
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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world. ✨ 'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 87
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