Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their …

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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies. ✨ John Dryden, George Rapall Noyes (1950). The poetical works of Dryden
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