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THE MICROCOSM. 
 
ILLUSTRATI ONS. 
 
 I. Andreas Vesalius. Frontispiece. 
 
 He was bom in Brussels in 1514 ; began his studies in Louvain and prose- 
 cuted tbem in Illaly. He made liimself master of Hebrew, Greek and Arabic 
 at the age of 20. When only 28 years old, he published his great work on 
 Anatomy, De Corporis Bumani Fabrica. Senac calls it the discovery of a 
 new world : and Haller speaks of it as " an immortal work by which all that 
 had been written before was almost superseded." In it he exposed the errors 
 of the Galenian school, and broke the spell which for so many ages had held 
 the medical world in thraldom. The work met with the fiercest opposition, 
 but the author's reputation steadily increased. In 1544 he was made chief 
 physician to the Emperor Charles V. and afterwards to Philip II, In 15(i3 or 
 1564 he suddenly left Madrid to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, for reasons 
 not certainly known. The common story is that while he was examining the 
 body of a Spanish nobleman who had died under his charge, as he laid open 
 the chest, the bystanders imagined they saw a tremulous motion of the heart, 
 whereupon he was denounced to the Inquisition as guilty of murder and im- 
 piety. Where superiority of knowledge was esteemed a crime, however in- 
 nocent, he was sure to be condemned, but through the influence of Philip, 
 his punishment was commuted to a pilgrimage. On his voyage back to ac- 
 cept the Paduan professorship of Anatomy, tendered him by the Venetian 
 senate, he was wrecked on the Island of Zante, where, it is said, he died of 
 starvation, Oct. 15, 1564. 
 
 The original painting is the work of a living French artist, F. Hamman, 
 and is on exhibition at Schaus's Gallery in New York city. Its design, as we 
 construe it, is to illustrate the pious spirit in which the great anatomist was 
 accustomed to begin hi s investigations. With eyes turned reverently upward 
 to a crucifix on the wall, he prefaces the work of dissection with devout 
 prayer to the Divine Redeemer, the Incarnate Word, Maker of all things. 
 Lord of life, Lord also of the Sciences, and '• that True Light which lighteth 
 every man that cometh into the world." This view of the design of the 
 
picture makes its accommodation to the purposes of tlie entire poem ob- 
 vious and easy. Possibly, by a stretcli of courtesy, the invocation found on 
 the 26th page may be allowed to stand for the prayer supposed to be offered. 
 "Dear God ! this Body which with wondrous art," &c. 
 
 II. Rembrandt's "Lesson in Anatomy." Prop. Tulp and 
 
 HIS Pupils. All Portraits. 1632. — Page 33. 
 
 The original of this picture is found at the Hague. It formerly stood in the 
 
 Anatomy School of Amsterdam, but was purchased by the King of Holland 
 
 for 33,000 guilders (£2,TO0.) It is described as a " most wonderful painting. 
 
 and one of the artist's finest works." Sir Joshua Eeynolds remarks : "To 
 
 avoid making it an object disagreeable to look at, the figure is but just cut at 
 
 the wrist ; showing fhejlexor nmscles of the fingers. There are seven other 
 
 portraits,, colored like nature itself, fresh and highly finished ; one of the 
 
 figures behind has a paper in his hand on which are written the names of the 
 
 rest, with Rembrandt's own, and the date 1632. The dead body is perfectly 
 
 well drawn (a little foreshortened) and seems to have been just washed. 
 
 Nothing can be more tnily the color of dead flesh. The legs and feet, which 
 
 are nearest the eye, are in shadow ; the principal light which is on the body 
 
 is by that means presei-ved of a compact form." 
 
 " The subject Muscles, girded to fulfil " 
 
 The lightning mandates of the sovereign will, — 
 Th' abounding means of motion, wherein lurk 
 Man's infinite capacity for Vork,^" 
 
 III. Harvey Demonstrating to Charles I. his Theory of 
 
 THE Circulation of the Blood. — Page 75. 
 
 William Harvey was bom in Folkstone, Bng., April 1, 1578, died in Lon- 
 don, June 6, 1657. In 1628, he published his great discovery, made, it is said, 
 but not matured nine years before, in a work entitled Mxereitatio Anatomica 
 de Motu Ocrrdis et SangiuiniB in Animalibus, and dedicated it to Charles I. 
 He lived to be considered as the first anatomist and physician of his time, 
 and to see his discovery universally acknowledged. 
 
 The original of the above picture is by an English Painter (Robert Hannah). 
 
 '•Make room, my Heabt, that pour'st thyself abroad, 
 Deep, central, awful mystery of God 1 
 ***** 
 
 Where Auricle and Ventricle with power 
 Repeat their grasp five thousand times an hour." 
 
THE MICROCOSM 
 
 A POEM 
 
 Bead ekforb the Medical Society of New Jekset at its 
 
 Cbntesaby Annivebsart : with the Addkesb 
 
 Deliteked A3 Pbbsidbnt, Jan. 24, 1866, 
 
 ABRAHAM ^OLES, M.D. 
 
 ''Know Thyself.'" 
 
 NEW YORK; 
 
 D. APPLETON AND COMPANY. 
 
 1866. 
 
' Entered according to Act of Congress, in tlie year 186B, by 
 
 ABRAHAM COLES, M.D., 
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 in the Clerk's Office of the United States District Court for the District of 
 
 New Jersey. 
 
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 Newark Dally AdvertUer Print. 
 
" What a piece of work Is Man I How nolle in reason ! how infinite in 
 faculties ! in form and moving, how express and admirable 1 in action, how 
 lite an angel 1 in apprehension, how like a God !"— Shaksspbakb. 
 
 " I esteem myself as composing a solemn hymn to the Anthor of our 
 bodily irame, and in this I think there is more true piety than in sacrificing 
 to Him hecatombs of oxen, or bnmt offerings of the most costly perfomes, 
 for I Siat endeavor to know Him myself, and afterwards to show Him to 
 others, to inform them how great is His wisdom. His virtue. His good- 
 ness." — GaiiEN. 
 
 " I will praise Thee ; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made."— David. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 HE following Address ajid Poem were delivered 
 before the Medical Society of New Jersey at its 
 recent Centennial Meeting, and published with 
 its Transactions. Prepared amid the hurry and distractions ot 
 other duties, and with special reference to the demands and lim- 
 itations of the occasion, the Poem, as originally delivered, fell 
 short of the author's design, which was to produce, if possi- 
 ble, a tolerably complete compendium of that noblest, more 
 necessary, and yet, strange to say, that most neglected of 
 all the Sciences — Anthropology — relieved of some of the 
 dryness belonging to the ordinary modes of presentation. 
 
 The hope of supplying in some measure existing deficiencies, 
 led the author, after the manuscript had passed into the 
 hands of the printer, to avail himself of the short intervals 
 which transpired between the receiving and returning of the 
 
a PMEFA an. 
 
 proofs, to castigate some parts, and expand others not suffi- 
 ciently developed, so tliat besides alterations there have been 
 additions to the amount of two hundred linos and more since 
 that first reading. He regrets that the hurry of the press 
 joined to the hun-y arising from other causes, afforded so little 
 opportunity for putting in practice the sound inculcation of 
 Horace, concerning the duty of delay and careful finish : limm 
 labor et mora. With more time at his disposal, he thinks he 
 could have done better justice to the fine capabilities of a 
 subject, which the writers of verse, ransacking heaven and 
 earth for a theme, have hitherto for the most part strangely 
 overlooked. This remarkable omission is the more to be won- 
 dered at, because many of our best poets have been physi- 
 cians ; and for some reason or other 
 
 " the wise of ancient days adored 
 One power of Physic, Melody and Song." 
 
 Dr. Armstrong's well-known Poem in four books, written in 
 blank verse, and first published in 1744, entitled, "The Ait 
 of Preserving Health," does, indeed, treat partially and inciden- 
 tally of physiological matters, and may therefore be regarded 
 as forming in some sort an exception to the general rule of 
 neglect affii-med above. It has for its topics — Air, Diet, Exer- 
 cise and the Passions — discussed of course, in conformity with 
 
PMEFA OE. 3 
 
 tlie design of tlie Poem, according to tlieir sanitary bearings, 
 each, forming the subject of a separate book. The work was 
 everywhere read and admired ; and rernains to this day, ac- 
 cording to the poet Campbell, "the most successful attempt 
 in our language to incorporate material science with poetry." 
 While the critic admits that "the practical maxims of science, 
 which the Muse has stamped with imagery, and attuned to 
 harmony, have so far an advantage over those delivered in 
 jjrose, that they become more agreeable and permanent acqui- 
 sitions of the memory," he, in common with others, seems to 
 think, that there inhere in such subjects, nevertheless, difficul- 
 ties of a most formidable kind, a perversity and stubbornness 
 of nature, which are never overcome except by some rare fe- 
 licity of fortune or surprising exertion of genius. Hence he 
 says : " the author's Muse might be said to show a professional 
 intrepidity in choosing her subject ; and, like the physician, 
 to prolong the simile, she escaped on the whole with little 
 injury. * * * "vyhat is explained of the animal economy 
 is obscured by no pedantic jargon, but made distinct and to 
 a certain degree picturesque to the conception." So too in 
 his final summing up of the merits of the Poet, he does not 
 fail to emphasize that special one, due " to the hand which 
 has reared poetical flowers on the dry and difficult ground of 
 philosophy." 
 
i PMEFACJE. 
 
 But there is another and much older example of this mor- 
 ganatic marriage, as 9ome might call it, between poetry and 
 natural science — one antedating the Christian era and the 
 time of Virgil. Lucretius, bom in the year before Christ 95, 
 composed a Latin poem in heroic hexameters, entitled De 
 Berum Natura. It is divided into six books ; and is based on 
 the doctrines of Epicurus, who taught that the world was 
 formed from a fortuitous concourse of atoms. 
 
 The first two books expound the nature and properties of 
 these ultimate atoms or seeds of things, yarying in shape and 
 infinite in number, moving in void space infinite in extent, 
 with great swiftness, some in right lines, others declining there- 
 from, until united to each Other after innumerable tentative 
 contacts, all the objects in the universe are generated— which 
 objects form the subject matter of the remaining four books. 
 
 The third book is taken up with a description of the mind 
 (animus) and soul (anima) maintaining that both are corporeal, 
 actmg on the body by material impact ; that the substance of 
 the mind and soul is not simple, but composed of four subtle 
 elements— heat, vapor, air, and a nameless fourth substance on 
 which sensibility depends, and is, so to speak, the soul of the 
 soul ; that the soul cannot be separated from the body with- 
 out destruction to both, and that death is the end of man. 
 
PMEFA CM. 5 
 
 The fourtli book treats of the senses, averring that images* of 
 exquisite subtlety are constantly emitted (shed, peeled off as 
 it were) fi'om the surface of objects, which flying everywhere 
 and impinging on the organs of sight produce vision ; that 
 voice and sound are corporeal images, (as proved by their 
 abrading the throat after long or loud speaking,) which strike 
 the ear and produce hearing. Taste and odors are ac- 
 counted for; and imagination and thought traced to im- 
 ages which penetrate the body through the senses. Sleep is 
 next spoken of, and the various causes of dreams — the book 
 closing with a discourse on love and matters pertaining 
 thereto. 
 
 The fifth book treats of the origin of the world — land, sea, 
 sky, sun, stars, the movements of the heavens, the changes 
 of the seasons and the progress of man, society, institutions 
 and sciences — while the sixth book, being the last, at- 
 tempts an explanation of the most striking natural ap- 
 pearances, such as lightningj thunder, clouds, rainbow, 
 snow, wind, hail, earthquakes and volcanoes, concluding with 
 
 * Democritns first, Epicnrus afterwards called these el&oka koX Tvnov^, 
 i. e. eidola and types ; Cicero, images ; Quintilian, flgnres ; Catins, spectres ; 
 Lucretius, effigies, images, simulacra, species, figures, exuvise, spoils, quasi 
 membranes, cortices, <!fcc. Epicnrus and Lucretius supposed spectres of tlie 
 dead to te pellicles tliroTVn off from corpses wMch were so tMn as to pass 
 through coffins and all other ohstrnctions. 
 
6 FMEFAGE. 
 
 a discourse on diseases, and a learned and elegant description 
 of a pest which in the time of the Peloponnesian war desolated 
 
 Athens. 
 
 The philosophy of this celebrated Poem is of course false 
 and absurd, but in regard to its poetical merit there can be 
 but one opinion. The poet's mastery over his materials is 
 complete. Under his magic touch, speculations the most ab- 
 struse and technicalities the most refractory, lose their intrac- 
 tablenoss, and are converted into forms of exquisite beauty 
 and grace. Great, undoubtedly, are the attractions of a virgin 
 theme. It added to the raptui-e of Milton, "soaring in the 
 high reason of his fancy with his garland and singing robes 
 about him," the knowledge that he pursued 
 
 " Things imattempted yet in prose or rhyme." 
 So Lucretius, in the opening lines of the fourth book, does 
 not conceal his satisfaction that he is first in the field : 
 
 " Avia Pieridum peragro loca, nullius ante 
 Trita solo : jurat integros adcedere funteis 
 Atqne haurire ; juvatque novos decerpere flores, 
 Insignemque meo capiti petere inde coronam, 
 Unde prius nulli velarint tempora Musse."* 
 
 * The Muses' pathless places I explore 
 Worn by the sole of no one's foot hefore : 
 'Tis sweet to untouched fountains to repair 
 And drink ; 'tis sweet to pluck new flowers ; and there 
 To seek a famous chaplet for my brow 
 Whence have the Muses veiled no head till now. 
 The literalness of this translation must atone for its lack of elegance. 
 
FUEFACE. 7 
 
 The author of the Microcosm, enjoying, in common with 
 these great masters of song, the felicity of a subject unprofaned 
 by preYious handling, regrets that he does not possess their 
 power to do it justice. He thinks it strange — that while 
 amid the ignorances and the vanities of a false philosophy two 
 thousand years ago, the poet's heart, instinctively discerning 
 the excellent beauty there is in God's works, veraa pulchritudi- 
 nes rerum, was stirred to sing, and in such a manner as to 
 charm the ear of the world 
 
 ' Principio coelam ac terras, campos<ine liquentea, 
 Lucentemqne globum lunse, titaniaque aatra 
 Spiritiis inttis alit ; totamque infnsa per artua 
 Mens agitat molem et magno se corpore miscet" — 
 
 no one has been found in these last days, after so long wait- 
 ing, sufiiciently kindled and inspired by the exciting discove- 
 ries and revelations of modem science, to undertake the task 
 of lifting them into the sphere of poetry, and glorifying them 
 with its light. If there is nothing so mean but it has a divine 
 side — if materials for poetry be not wanting in the most com- 
 mon things, a floating cloud, a spear of grass, or a handful of 
 dust even — how much more may this be said of so lofty a 
 subject as Man, "the mirror of the power of God" reflecting 
 His Maker's image in every part, in the minutest blood-disk 
 and elementary cell, no less than in the complex whole of his 
 
8 PJREFA CM. 
 
 most ■woadeiful organism ! In short, if it be the proper busi- 
 ness of Poetry to deal with subjects of human interest, what 
 can be more human than humanity itself? Or if its 
 high aim be to discover throughout creation the dazzling to- 
 kens of the Beautiful, the rh KoKbv, which is only another name 
 for the Divine, where else in all the universe do the shining 
 footprints of the First Good and the First Fair appear so ra- 
 diant or so recent as in His last and crowning work, the Hu- 
 man Form ? The failure of the present attempt to show it, 
 would prove nothing against the grand iDoetic possibilities of 
 such a theme. Still it would be true 
 
 " How charming is divine pMloaopliy ? 
 Not hai'Bli, and crabbed, as dull fools snppose, 
 But musical as is Apollo's lute, 
 And a perpetual feast of nectared Bweeti 
 Where no crude surfeit reigns." 
 
ADDRESS. 
 
 j HE Medical Society of Kew Jersey, hoary with 
 the frosts of a hundred winters, and mindful 
 of its just honors as the oldest organization of 
 the kind on the Continent, has here met in a place not far 
 from the spot where it was first cradled, to celebrate by special 
 and festal observances, this its first Centenary Anniversarj'. 
 
 It certainly aflfords remarkable proof of original vigor, and 
 reflects infinite credit upon its earlier and later membership, 
 that, except for a brief space during the Revolutionary War, 
 the Society has never failed to hold regular meetings. In the 
 midst of a thousand changes, the throes of revolution, and 
 the fall of empires, it has stood unmoved. Nations have been 
 bom since it came into being. It is older than the Republic. 
 At the time of its formation, its founders were living under 
 British rule, not dreaming of revolt. If they shared in the 
 popular ferment caused by the passage of the odious Stamp 
 Act by Parliament a few months before, they probably had no 
 expectation of seeing matters pushed to the point of open 
 rupture, and forcible separation from the mother country. 
 
10 ADDRESS. 
 
 The first stone of the Temple erected to Freedom had not 
 yet been laid. The Society was some years old when the first 
 blow for Independence was struck. Lexington and Concord, 
 
 " Where once the emhattled farmers stood, 
 And fired the shot heard round the world," 
 
 were insignificant villages unknown to fame. The brain that 
 conceived the Declaration of Independence was probably re- 
 volving far other ideas. On the dazzled mind of no seer or 
 statesman had dawned the unparalled splendors of the Nation 
 that was to be — the constellar glories of that Imperial Com- 
 monwealth, composed of a resplendent Sisterhood of States, 
 mighty and populous and ever increasing, joined indissolubly 
 together so as to form one vital organic whole, E phiribus 
 Uniim, such as is witnessed to-day. 
 
 Those fourteen physicians and surgeons, (let their names be 
 always mentioned with honor,) who, foremost in an enlighten- 
 ed appreciation of the advantages accruing to science and 
 humanity from such an organization, on the 23d of July, A.D. 
 1766, laid the foundations of this Society — have long since 
 passed away. " After they had served thcii- own generation 
 by the will of God they fell on sleep, and were laid unto their 
 fathers." How inspiring the vision, could they have been 
 permitted to penetrate the future and foresee all that has since 
 happened ; the mighty changes which have taken place ; the 
 struggles and triumphs by means of which this divinely fa- 
 vored and foreordained Nation has been gloriously earned 
 forward to the culminating felicity of the present time, when 
 
ADDRMSS. 11 
 
 Peace once more smiles through all the land — a glad and 
 righteous Peace — and Slavery, its deadliest foe, the inextin- 
 guishable cause of strife and hatred, ever at work to mar 
 
 " The unity and married calm of States," 
 
 has, albeit at an immense cost of treasure and blood, by a 
 perpetual and unalterable constitutional enactment, been ban- 
 ished and driven out of every part of the national domain. 
 How amazing the contrast between now and then ! Then there 
 were no railroads, no steamships, no telegraphs, no Hoe's 
 lightning printing presses, no photography, no chloroform. 
 In like manner who can tell what new and startling discove- 
 ries will be made in the centuries to come. Methinks 
 
 " it were a pleasant thing 
 
 To fall asleep with all one's friends, 
 To pass with all our social ties. 
 
 To sUence from the paths of men, 
 And every htmdred years to rise 
 
 And learn the world, and sleep again, 
 To sleep through terms of mighty wars. 
 
 And wake on science grown to more, 
 On secrets of the brain, the stars, 
 
 As wild as aught of fairy lore, 
 And all that else the years will show, 
 
 The Poet-forms of stronger hours, 
 The vast Republics that may grow, 
 
 The Federations and the Powers. 
 
 So sleeping, so aroused irom sleep, 
 Through sunny decades new and strange, 
 
 Or gay quinquenniads, would we reap 
 The flower and quintessence of change." 
 
la AODBESS. 
 
 Members of th© Society ! called to address you in the chax- 
 acter of President on an occasion so extraordinary, I can say 
 with all sincerity, that however grateful it may be to my feel- 
 ings to be the recipient of so distinguished an honor, the 
 gratification is largely tempered with the fear that I may not 
 be able to justify the partiality of your selection. My mis- 
 givings, I confess, are greater, because of my having ventured 
 upon untroHd'^n paths, and attempted the novelty of a poetical 
 excursion into the arduous fields of human physiology, where 
 few flowers are supposed to bloom. The poetical form, how- 
 ever, may fairly claim this advantage in justification of its 
 adoption, that it allows a more femd expression of those 
 feelings of devout awe and amazement which the study of the 
 wonders of the human economy is so well fitted to excite. 
 
 I ofier no apology for mixing up my Religion with my 
 Science ; and make no concealment of the fact, but glory in 
 avowing it, that these are Cliristian, both one and the other. 
 Nor do I regard it as a just matter of reproach that I make 
 my creed so dominant and positive. Believing firmly that the 
 Christ that redeemed me is the God that made me ; not know- 
 ing nor desiring to know any other God but Him, I am ac- 
 customed to make Him an essential 2>art of all Imowledge, 
 discover Him in every discovery of Science, and count all 
 truth dead until He vitalizes it. Any Science of Life, which 
 is not based on th« recognition of the fact that "in Him we 
 live and move and have our being," I reckon essentially de- 
 fective. 
 
ADDSES8. 13 
 
 A Physiology which has to do with decomposing corpses, 
 rather than living men and women ; that puts these into re- 
 torts and distils them ; or peeps and peers at the minutest 
 shreds and specks of dead tissue through a microscope, and 
 determines a cell to be the ultimate fact of structure, however 
 true, has no right, I conceive, to be supercilious towards those, 
 who, without rejecting what is thus discovered, find room for 
 other things, things that pertain to the spmtual side of hu- 
 manity, the indubitable facts of consciousness, a soul that soars 
 and delights in fi'eedom, and is not so in love with smallness, 
 as willingly to be cooped up forever into so minute and mi- 
 croscopic a cu'cle, corresponding to a cypher, the symbol of 
 nothingness, to which indeed it closely approximates. So 
 that if it comes to pishing and poohing, others, for aught we 
 can see, have as good a right to pish and pooh as those who 
 arrogate so much, the Sadducees of science, who believe in 
 neither angel nor spirit, and are able to find nowhere any- 
 thing worthy of worship, in this respect showing themselves 
 to be more heathenish than the heathen. 
 
 The great Galen, albeit an unbaptized pagan, ^vho lived 
 and wrote in the second century, after reviewing the structure 
 of the hand and foot, and their adaptation to their respective 
 functions, treats us to the following eloquent outburst of pious 
 feeling, breathing a spirit not unworthy of Christianity itself: 
 "I esteem myself as composing a solemn hymn to the Author 
 of our bodily frame, and in this I think there is more true 
 piety than in sacrificing to Him hecatombs of oxen, or burnt 
 
U ADDBE88. 
 
 offerings of the most costly perfumes, for I first endeavor to 
 Imow Him myself, and afterwards to show Him to others, to 
 inform them how great is His wisdom. His virtue. His good- 
 ness." 
 
 This noble utterance, so honorable to the head and heart of 
 one, who, for 1400 years, ruled from his urn in the great 
 schools of medicine throughout the civilized world with an 
 authority so absolute, that it was reckoned a crime to ques- 
 tion it in the smallest particular — sets forth so truly the design 
 I had in view in the following Poem, that I have chosen it as 
 a motto, in connection with that other apothegm of Greek 
 wisdom, "Know Thyself " I style my Poem, "The Micko- 
 COSM," and in order that I may be more easily followed in the 
 reading of it, I beg to premise an outline of its plan in the 
 following 
 
 ANALYSIS. 
 The Poem begins with speaking of Man as the Archetype 
 or ideal exemplar of all animals, whose coming was foretold 
 in a long series of Geologic prophecies from the creation of the 
 paleozoic fishes ; and then passes to notice a remarkable an- 
 ticipation of this accepted doctrine of modem science in the 
 189th Psalm — Owen, Agassiz and other great lights of Com- 
 parative and Philosophical Anatomy agreeing in this — that 
 while man was the last made he was the first planned of all 
 animals — it being easy to trace even in the fins of the fish, a 
 marked resemblance in structure to the bones composing the 
 human arms of which they are homologues — fins, in other 
 
ADDRESS. 15 
 
 words, being imperfect arms, arms in their most rudimentary 
 condition. 
 
 In speaking of the supreme dignity of the human form, 
 viewed as a whole, and of man existing in God as well as of 
 God, occasion is taken to animadvert upon the atheistic ten- 
 dency of certain materialistic teachings. After which the 
 component parts of the Human Body are taken up in detail, 
 beginning with — I. the Sbxn, as its oufei-most covering and 
 face, (expressing the passions, &c.,) composed of three layers. 
 Below the Skin lie — II. the Muscles, the Organs of 3Io- 
 tion, directed by the Will, acting through nervous chan- 
 nels of communication with — III. the Brain, as the Com- 
 mon Sensory, and seat of this, and the other Faculties of the 
 Mind, such as the Understanding, the Religious Sense, Mem- 
 ory, Imagination and Conscience. A secretory function is 
 attributed to the great Ganglions of the Brain (the Gray 
 Substance) of a hypothetical Nervous Fluid which fills the 
 whole body. 
 
 The Mind being dependent for its perceiving power on the 
 Organs of the Senses, leads to a consideration of — IV. the Ete 
 in its relation to Light, also to Tears and Sleep. After 
 glancing at the analagous relations subsisting between the 
 Soul and Truth, mention is made of the Founders of Asy- 
 lums for the Blind; also of Asylums for the Deaf and 
 Dumb. Kext comes — V. the Ear in its relations to Sound 
 and Music ; and then by a natural transition — VI. the Hu- 
 man Voice, as being the most perfect of musical instni- 
 
16 ADDBESS. 
 
 ments. The Mouth, and Nose, being concerned in Articula- 
 tion, brings up— VII. Taste, and— VIII. Smell. The final 
 cause of Taste being the repair of the Waste the body is 
 constantly undergoing, there follows a description of— IX. In- 
 gestion, Digestion and Assimilation. The Chyle received 
 into the Blood is conveyed to the right side of the Heabt, 
 which, besides being the grand Organ of — X. the Cbrctilation 
 and indirectly of NuytiiTiON, is the reputed seat of— XI. the 
 Affections, and stands in general speech as a synonym of 
 Love under its manifold manifestations. 
 
 Having noticed the coloring or modifying power of the 
 Viscera in giving Love its distinctive character, as exempli- 
 fied in Maternal Love and the Love of the Sexes, occasion 
 is taken to speak of — Xn. Womau, as distinguished jQ:om Man. 
 Of Charity, which is Love in action, or Love viewed in its 
 practical aspect, an apt illustration is found in the devotion 
 and self-denying labors of — SHI. the Conscientious Physician. 
 Reference is made to — ^XTV. Cheist as the Great Physician of 
 Souls; and while contemplating Death in that aspect of 
 brightness which it bears to the beUever, allusion is made to 
 the recent departure of a venerable member of the Society, 
 Dr. L. A. Smith. The Poem concludes with — XV. a triumph- 
 ant anticipation of the Resurrection, when the dead in Christ 
 shall rise with new bodies made like unto His glorious Body. 
 
THE MICEOCOSM. 
 
 V iiuSi oEavTov. 
 
 GBOLOQIO PBOPHEOT OF UAH'S COHDrO. 
 
 OWHAT a solemn and divine delight 
 To pierce the darkness of primeval night — 
 Through countless generations upward elimb 
 To the first epochs of beginning time : 
 Back, thiough the solitude of ages gone, 
 To the dim twilight of Creation's dawn ; 
 To the dread genesis of heaven and earth, 
 When pregnant Deity gave Nature birth ; 
 Borne on swift pinions, till our feet we place 
 Upon the undermost granitic base 
 Of the round world ; and, awe-struck, standing there. 
 
 Where all is lifeless, desolate and bare, 
 3 
 
18 THE MICROCOSM. 
 
 Behold the forming of earth's upper cnist, 
 Built up of atoms of once liviiig dust ; 
 Layer on layer rising, rock on rock, 
 Through lapse of years that numeration mock ; 
 Where lie, in stony sepulchres forgot, 
 Gigantic organisms that now are not ; 
 And all the various forms of life prevail. 
 From low to high, in an ascending scale, 
 MoUusk and fish, then reptile and then bird. 
 So on to mammal, each o'er each interred — 
 All pointing forward, in the eternal plan. 
 To the ideal, archetypal MAN 1 
 
 BOEIPTUEAL ANTIOrPATIOK OP THE DOOTEIHE. 
 
 How oft, what's plain and patent in the Word, 
 Is by slow Science, painfully inferred ! 
 The truth she took long centuries to unfold. 
 Had she but known it, was already told. 
 See, with what ease the Psalmist now unlocks 
 The secret of the paleozoic rocks : 
 
THE MICROCOSM. 19 
 
 Inspiring insight given him, to see 
 
 The drift and meaning of the mystery ; 
 
 His, the discoveries of modem boast, 
 
 By revelation of the Holy Ghost : 
 
 In correspondence, literally exact 
 
 With geologic inference and fact, 
 
 O'erwhelmed with fear and wonder, hear him speak :* 
 
 " O Omnipresent One ! in vain I seek 
 To bound Thy being, get beyond Thee, go 
 Where Thou, the Infinite, art not, Ob, no ! 
 If I ascend to heaven, I find Thee ; or in hell 
 I make my bed, I find Thee there, as -well : 
 There is no hiding place from Thee ; yea, in the dark 
 Thou seest me, nor need'st the sun — that spark 
 Which the insufferable splendor of Thine eye 
 Did kindle — ^to reveal me or descry : 
 Thou hast possessed my reins ; didst give me room. 
 Growth and development in my mother's womb : 
 My substance was not hid from Thee, when I 
 * Psalm CXX2IZ. 
 
20 THE MICROCOSM. 
 
 Was made in secret, and was curiously 
 
 In the earth's lowest parts and strata wrought : 
 
 My perfect whole, was present to Thy thought 
 
 While yet imperfect ; and, in Nature's book, 
 
 My members were prefigured ; each thing took 
 
 My embryonic likeness ; fish's fin. 
 
 By virtue of relationship and kin, 
 
 Predicted me ; ages before I came, 
 
 The Ichthyosaurus prophesied the same ; 
 
 Entrails of beast, and wing of bird, supplied 
 
 Aruspicy and augui-y, nor lied. 
 
 Thy works, how marvellous ! Thy hands began. 
 
 And fashioned me continually, to make me man : 
 
 In all the grand ascent of Nature's stair, 
 
 O unforgetting God ! I've been Thy care : 
 
 How precious are Thy thoughts to me — their count 
 
 Is as the sand, an infinite amount !" 
 
 GEHESAL view— ILU; BUFBEUE. 
 
 O thou, made up of every creature's best ! 
 The summing up and monarch of the rest ! 
 
THE MICnOCOSM. 81 
 
 Thy higli-raised cranium, vaulted to contain 
 
 The big and billowy and powerful brain ; 
 
 While that a scanty thimbleful, no more. 
 
 Belongs to such as swim or creep or soar ; 
 
 Thy form columnar, sky-ward looking face,* 
 
 Majestic mien, intelligence and grace ; 
 
 Thy foot's firm tread, and gesture of thy hand — 
 
 Proclaim thee ruler, destined to command. 
 
 A little lower than the angels made. 
 
 Dominion, glory, worship on thee laid, 
 
 I praise not thee, but honor and applaud 
 
 The handiwork and masterpiece of God : 
 
 Fearful and wonderful, and all divine. 
 
 Where two worlds mingle, and two lives combine, 
 
 A dual body, and a dual soul. 
 
 Touching eternity at either pole : 
 
 The tides of being, circling swift or slow, 
 
 'Tween mystic banks that ever overflow, 
 
 * " Pronaqne cum epectant animalia csetera terrain, 
 Ob homlni Bublime dedit : coelumque videre 
 JuBBit, et erectoB ad Bidera tollere vultus." — Ovid. 
 
as THM MICROCOSM. 
 
 Exist not severed from the Fountain head, 
 But whence they rise, eternally are fed : 
 Our springs are all in God ; from Him we drink, 
 Live, move, and have our being, feel and think. 
 
 OHEISTIAH SOIEHOE. 
 
 I value Science — ^none can prize it more — 
 It gives ten thousand motives to adore : 
 Be it religious, as it ought to be. 
 The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee : 
 What time it lays the breast of Nature bare. 
 Discerns God's fingers working everywhere ; 
 In the vast sweep of all embracing laws. 
 Finds Him the real and the only Cause ; 
 And, in the light of clearest evidence. 
 Perceives Him acting in the present tense ; — 
 Not as some claim, once acting but now not. 
 The glorious product of His hands forgot — 
 Having wound up the grand automaton, 
 Leaving it, henceforth, to itself to run. 
 
TME MICROCOSM. 33 
 
 IKFlBEli S0IE2TCB. 
 
 If I mistake not, 'tis in this consists 
 The common folly of the specialists. 
 Bigots of sense, they, with unwearied pains. 
 Searching for soul, find something they call brains : 
 Happy the mystery of life to tell. 
 By help of glasses, they announce a cell : 
 And thereupon they would the world persuade 
 They know exactly how that man is made : 
 'Tween nought and nought, his origin and end, 
 A cell is all, and all on this depend : 
 They pare his being, make it less and less, 
 Until they reach the goal of nothingness. 
 Their boasted methods failing to find out 
 The soul's high essence, they affect to doubt ; 
 To their own notions obstinately wed, 
 They vainly seek the living 'mong the dead. 
 By learning mad, these noodles of the schools 
 Are but a kind of higher class of fools. 
 
 Who follows matter through its countless shapes, 
 
34 TME MlCROOOam. 
 
 While still it vanishes and still escapes ; 
 O'er eagerly pursues the flying feet 
 Of natural causey farther than is meet, 
 Losing all trace, and drawing thence too near. 
 Into the bottomless obscure falls sheer : 
 With atheistic cant, then God ignores, 
 And turns the Maker fairly out of doors : 
 Deems certainties of consciousness weigh less 
 Than the presumptions of a learned guess. 
 
 COUHON SENBE. 
 
 Presumptuous though it be, I, with a calm 
 Audacity of faith, believe I am : 
 Nor venture with a Maker to dispense, 
 But trust the sanities of Common Sense : 
 Hold life, despite of failure to extract, 
 A thing of firm reality and fact : 
 Accept the truth, engraven on my heart, 
 I have a spiritual and immortal part. 
 If this great universe is a deceit, 
 1 am not able to detect the cheat; 
 
TB.E MICROCOSM. 
 
 Nor dare I tell the Author of the Skies 
 That He has built on rottenness and lies. 
 
 UtTOOATION. 
 
 Dear God ! this Body, which, -with wondrous art, 
 Thou hast contrived, and finished part by part, 
 Itself a universe, a lesser all, 
 The greater cosmos crowded in the small— 
 
 / I kneel before it, as a tiling diviae ; • -- ■ 
 
 ; For such as this, did aetuajly enshrine ^ 
 
 1 Thy gracious Godhead once, when Thoii didat make 
 
 \ Thyself inofimate, for my «iiiful sake. 
 Thou who hast done so very much for ms, 
 
 let me do some humble thing for Thee ! 
 
 1 would to every Organ give a tongue. 
 That Thy high praigeg may be firtly sung ; 
 Approjaaate ministries assiga to ea^h, 
 The least make vocal, eloquent to te^ch. 
 
 FLSSH eABHBHT— «EIK, ITS HOBAI, OHABAOTZB. 
 
 How beautiful, and delicate, and fresh. 
 
 Appear the Soul's Habiliments of Flesh ! 
 4 
 
26 TB.E MICMOCOSM. 
 
 How closely fitting, easy yet, and broad. 
 Each Tissue woven in the loom of God ! 
 Compared with that magnificence of drees. 
 Wherewith is clothed the Spirit's nakedness, 
 O how contemptible and mean a thing, 
 The purple and fine linen of a king ! 
 
 The spotless vesture of the silky Skin, 
 Outside of all, and covering all within, 
 With what a marvellous and matchless grace, 
 Is it disposed and moulded to each place ; 
 Bounding and beautifying brow and breast, 
 A crowning loveliness to all the rest ! 
 Endowed with wondrous properties of soul 
 That inteipenetrate and fill the whole ; 
 A raiment, moral, maidenly and white. 
 Shamed at each breach of decency and right. 
 Where dwells a charm above the charms of sense. 
 Suggestive of the soul's lost innocence. 
 
TSE MIOSOCOSM. 37 
 
 rATHOSKOMT. 
 
 Who lias not seen that Feeling, bom of flame * 
 Crimson the cheek at mention of a name ? 
 The rapturous touch of some divine surprise, 
 Flash deep suffusion of celestial dyes ; 
 When hands clasped hands, and lips to lips were pressed. 
 And the heart's secret was at once confessed ? 
 
 Lo, that young mother, when her infant first 
 Gropes for the fountain whence to q^uench its thirst ; 
 With outstretched tiny hands, to eager lips 
 Conveys the nipple, and the nectar sips ;-^ 
 As on her yearning breast, she feels the warm 
 Delicious clasp of its embracing arm. 
 How thrills the bosom, and how streams the wine ! 
 How her frame trembles with a Joy divine ! 
 
 Not Joy, not Love alone here take their rise, 
 The chosen seat of mighty sympathies — 
 Electric with all life, Religious Awe, 
 Here holds its empire and asserts its law. 
 At dead of night when deep sleep falls on men, 
 * Aristotle calls Love, "n dep/ibv ■Kpayn^'—a certain fiery thing. 
 
38 TME MICROCOSM. 
 
 Terror and trembling came upon me ; — then 
 A spirit passed Taefore my face : the hair 
 Stood up upon my shuddering flesh — and there 
 Was silence — all my bones did shake — 
 A voice the preternatural stillness brake : 
 " Shall mortal man, -whose origin is dust, 
 Arraign his Maker, claim to be more just ?" 
 
 Contending Passions jostle and displace 
 And tilt and toumey mostly in the Face ; 
 Phantasmagoric shapes appear and pass. 
 Distinctly pictured in that magic glass; 
 Their several natures, instantly imbued 
 With the complexion of the changeful mood — 
 Ashes of Grief, and pallor of AflEright, 
 Blackness of Rage, and Hatred's wicked white. 
 The immortal radiance of Faith and Hope, 
 Like that which streamed on Stephen's from the cope- 
 The hidden depths of being, stirred below, 
 Thoughts, passions, feelings, upward mount for show ; 
 Unmatched by Ai't, upon this wondrous scroll 
 
TBS MICSOCOSM. 39 
 
 Portrayed are all the secrets of the Soul ; 
 Upon this palimpsest, writ o'er and o'er, 
 Each passing hour is busy penning more ; 
 Events, that make the history within, 
 There published on the surface of the Skin. 
 
 niTEEIOE TIBW— SKIH DISSECTED. 
 
 What lies below this beautiful outside ? 
 What proofs of power and wisdom does it hide ? 
 To eyes instructed and divinely keen, 
 The Shekinah, the Cherubim between, 
 Was not more visible than the Godhead here, 
 Nor spake more audibly to human ear. 
 For from the centre to this far extreme 
 And corporal shore of being. Love supreme 
 Its miracles magnificent has wrought. 
 Embodying the Maker's perfect thought. 
 
 Would you explore the Mysteries of Life ? 
 Dissect in fear, use reverently the knife — 
 All was made sacred to some holy use, 
 Whate'er the profanations of abuse^ 
 
30 THE MICROCOSM. 
 
 Cut not with blundering and careless hand, 
 If you the fleshly maze would understand ; 
 For that the task is difficult, it needs 
 The skill and knowledge which experience breeds. 
 
 BLENDIHQ OP OOKTBAEIKS— STBUOTtmAL DETAILS. 
 
 Now that the Dermal Covering is cut through. 
 And its interior structure brought to view, 
 Pause, if you vsdll, and let your aided sight 
 Peruse the wonders of Creative Might. 
 Admire the skill that can in one combine 
 A Sensibility and a Touch so fine — 
 Making the Skin throughout the purpose serve 
 Of one ubiquitous great surface nerve, 
 That finest needle, would it entrance gain. 
 Must pierce the sense and stab the soul with pain ; 
 Where camping armies of papillae wait. 
 Manning each fortress, guarding every gate, 
 Armed at all points, and vigilant as fear. 
 To sound th' alarm when danger hovers near— 
 And yet, despite this nicety of sense. 
 
TMS MIOMOCOSM. gl 
 
 Formed for coarse uses, and for rough defense : 
 
 An imbricated Armor, scale on scale,* 
 Twelve thousand millions form a coat of mail 
 Flexile and fine, or homy else and hard. 
 The trembling nakedness of sense to guard : 
 A colored Rete delicately spun, 
 Quenching the fiery arrows of the sun, 
 Spreads soft above, and undulating dips 
 Between the sentient papillary tips, 
 Part of the duplex Cerium, beneath 
 
 * The Skin as here described inclndeB : 1. the Cuticle with its innumera- 
 ble microscopic tiles specially designed for defence ; 2. the Sete Mucosum, 
 the seat of color ; 3. the Corium or True Skin, consisting of two non-sep- 
 arable layers— the upper, papillary and sensitive, the lower firm and 
 fibrous; 4. Perspiraiory ttiiee, convoluted beneath the true sMn, their 
 spiral ducts opening obliquely under the scales of the Cuticle, their office 
 being to purify and cool the body ; 5. Sebaceous FoUides, or OU Glands, 
 seated in the substance of the skin, serving to soften and lubricate the 
 surface, furnishing likewise, perhaps, 6, that Distinctive Odor peculiar to 
 each individual whereby he sows himself on all the winds, and perfumes 
 with every footstep the ground over which he passes ; 7. the Hair, im- 
 planted by a bnlboua root in the fibrous layer of the Corium, which being 
 contractile shrinks under the inflnence of great fear or horror, and as the 
 poet says : 
 
 " Hakes each particular hair to stand on end 
 Like quills upon the fretful porcupine"— 
 quills in the porcupine, feathers in the bird, wool and hair in the quadru- 
 ped all belonging to the same category. Hair in man, not being needed 
 for warmth or covering as in the lower lives, is gathered to the head and 
 appropriately crowns it. 
 
33 TBM MICS0C08M. 
 
 Forming a contiBent elastic sheath, 
 Felted and firm and suitable to bind, 
 Muscle and viscus to the place assigned : 
 Where nine full leagues of Tubing buried lie, 
 All convoluted opening to the sky. 
 Transmitting formed impurities within. 
 Through doors and windows of the porous skin ; 
 Th' exuding moisture tempering inward flame, 
 Cooling the fever of the heated frame : 
 Fountlets and Rivulets of Oil below. 
 Preserving softness, ever spring and flow ; 
 Musk emanations, to the dog defined, 
 Snufiing his master on the scented wind ; 
 Hair, not for warmth or dress, here sparsely spread. 
 Reserved to ornament the regal head, 
 Ai'ound the brow of Eva thickly curled 
 
 And crowning Adam monarch of the world. 
 
 TOLTOTTAET MTTSOLEB— THUIK OPPIOK ASD WOEK. 
 
 Lifting this threefold Veil, we find — beneath 
 A dense, enclosing, universal sheath — * 
 * The enveloping aponenrosis or fascia Mnding down the mnscleB. 
 
TBE MICROCOSM. 33 
 
 The subject Muscles,* girded to fulfil 
 
 The lightning mandates of the sovereign Will, 
 
 Th' abounding means of motion, wherein lurk 
 
 Man's infinite capacity for work ; 
 
 By which, as taste or restless nature bids. 
 
 He reare the Parthenon or Pyramids ; 
 
 In high achievements of the plastic art, 
 
 Fulfils th' ambitious purpose of his heai-t ; 
 
 Creates a grace outrivaling Ms own. 
 
 Charming all eyes — the poetry of stone : 
 
 Symbols his faith, as in Cathedrals — vast 
 
 Religious petrifactions of the Past : 
 
 Covers the land with cities ; makes all seas 
 
 White with the sails of countless argosies : 
 
 Pushes the ocean back with all her waves, 
 
 And from her haughty sway a kingdom saves ; 
 
 * Some antbore reckon the number of Muscles in tbe Human Body aa 
 bigb as 527. Tbey bave been divided into Voluntary (forming tbe red 
 flesh, or tbe main bnJk of tbe body ;) Involuntary, sucb as tbe beart, flesby 
 fibres of tbe stomacb, &C. ; and Mixed, such as tbe muscles of respiration, 
 (fee. !Eacb Muscle is made up of an indefinite number of fibres, wbicb may 
 be considered as so many muscles in miniature, along wbicb stream tbe 
 currents of the Will. Yet with all this complex apparatus eyery thing is in 
 harmony. 
 
 5 
 
34 TSM MICBOCOBM 
 
 Tunnels high mountains, Erebus upbars, 
 And through it rolls the thunder of his cars : 
 With stalwart arm, defends down-trodden right, 
 And, like a whirlwind, sweeps the field of fight ; 
 And when, at last, the war is made to cease. 
 On firm foundations, stablishes a peace ; 
 Then barren wastes with nodding harvests sows. 
 And m^kes the desert blossom as the rose. 
 
 JIUBOUIAB DTKAMIOS— DIEEOTIBG POWBE TVHEBE? 
 
 Bundles of fleshy fibres without end. 
 Along the bony Skeleton extend 
 In thousand fold directions fi'om fixed points 
 To act their several parts upon the Joints ; 
 Adjustments nice of means to ends we trace. 
 With each dynamic filament in place. 
 But Where's the Hand that grasps the million reins, 
 Directs and guides them, quickens or restrains ? 
 
 See the musician, at his fingers' call 
 All sweet sounds scatter, fast as rain-di'ops fall ; 
 With flying touch, he weaves the web of song. 
 
fME MICMOCOSM. 3S 
 
 Ehythmic as rapid, intricate as long. 
 Whence this precision, delicacy and ease ? 
 And Where's the Master that defines the keya? 
 The many jointed Spine, with link and lock 
 To make it flexile while secure from shock. 
 Is pierced throughout, in order to contain 
 The downward prolongation of the brain ; 
 From which, by double roots, the nerves* arise — 
 One Feeling gives, one Motive Power supplies ; 
 In opposite directions, side by side, 
 With mighty swiftness there two currents glide ; — 
 Winged, head and heel, the Mercuries of Senset 
 
 * For the benefit of the general reader, preBnmahly not ftoMhar with 
 anatomical details, we may state that there are 43 pairs of neryes in all, 
 i. e. 12 Cranial or Encephalic and 32 Spinal. The first have only one root 
 in the brain, ■whilst the latter arise hy two roots from the anterior and 
 posterior halves of the spinal marrow, but unite immediately afterwards 
 to form one nerve. Division of the anterior root causes loss of motion — 
 of the posterior the loss of sensation. The first transmit volitions from 
 the brain, the latter sensitive impressions to the brain. 
 
 + Hehnholtz has instituted experiments to determine the rapidity of 
 transmission of the nervous actions. For sensation the rate of movement 
 assigned is one hundred and eigbty to three hundred feet per second. 
 Muscular contraction, or shortening of the muscular fibre takes place, at 
 times, with extreme velocity ; a single thrill, in the letter R., can be pro- 
 notmced in the l-30,000th part of a minute. There are insects whose 
 wings strike the air thousands of times in a second. The force of contrac- 
 tion (MyodyTtamii) is most remarkable in some of these. In- birds, the 
 absolute power in proportion to the weight of the body is as 10,000 to 1. 
 
THE MIOMOCOSM. 
 
 Mount to the regions of Intelligence ; 
 Instant as liglit, the nuncios of the throne 
 Command the Muscles that conjmand the Bone. 
 Each morning after slumber, brave and fresh, 
 The Moving Army of the Crimson Flesh, 
 From fields of former conquests, marching comes 
 To the grand beating of unnumbered drums — * 
 Each martial Fibre pushing to the van 
 To make "I -will" the equal of "I can;" 
 Testing the possibilities of power 
 In deeds of daring suited to the hour ; 
 Doing its utmost to build up the health 
 And glory of the inner Commonwealth. 
 
 Levers and fulcra every where we find. 
 But Where's the great Archimedean Mind, 
 That on some pou ST0,t outside and above. 
 Plants its firm foot this living world to move ? 
 
 * The heart and arteries. 
 
 + Archimedes used to say, " Give a place where I may stand, ((St to" 
 OTu) and I can move the world." 
 
TBE MICROCOSM. 37 
 
 OBASIUU— SOTTL'S FIHMHIHF.'ST— BBAIK. 
 
 Find it we shall, if anywhere we can, 
 Doubtless, in that high Capitol of man, 
 Whose Spheric "Walls, concentric to the cope, 
 Were built to match the nature of his Hope. 
 What seems the low vault of a narrow tomb. 
 Is the Soul's sky, where it has ample room ; 
 As apt through this, its crystalline, to pass. 
 As though it were diaphanous as glass. 
 When Sense is dark, it is not dark, but light. 
 Itself a sun. that banishes the night. 
 Shedding a morning, beauteous to see, 
 On the horizon of Eternity. 
 Strange, a frail link, and manacle of Bbaix 
 So long below suffices to detain 
 A principle, so radiant and high. 
 So restless, strong, and fitted for the sky. 
 
 MUTD'S OBGAN— OITT OP THE DEAD. 
 
 Here mounted, standing on the topmost towers. 
 Up to the roof of this high dome of ours, 
 
THE MICROCOSM. 
 
 With the Mind's Organ in oHr hands, what new 
 
 Secrets of structure strike th' astonished yiew ? 
 
 A weird, and wonderful, and fragile mass 
 
 Of white and gi'ay* — deserted now, alas ! 
 
 All knowledge quite razed out ; no trace 
 
 Of things which were : now mourns each happy place, 
 
 Where frolicked once the Children of the Mind ; — 
 
 Of all the number, not one left behind : 
 
 No vestige of the battle and the strife ; 
 
 None, of the conquests that ennobled life. 
 
 Hid is the maze where Doubt was wont to grope ; 
 
 Hid the starved fibre of a perished Hope ; 
 
 * The Nervous System eyerywliere consists of two kinds of tissue- 
 White and Gray. The White forms the 7i£rv€8y the exterior of the spinal 
 cord, and the central parts of the brain and cerebellum, (where it is soft, 
 like curdled cream, but is firmer in the nerves.) composed everywhere of 
 parallel fibres or threads of extreme flnenesB, which form the CHAmraLS of 
 nervous power and influence to and from the Ganglionic Centres and 
 Sources, both great and small, of this influence, constituting the Gray sub- 
 stance found in the central parts of the spinal cord, at the base of the brain 
 in isolated masses, and the exterior of the cerebrum and cerebellum, where 
 to economize space it lies in folds, dipping down into the interior, and 
 forming the convolutions. It is found also in the ganglia of the Great Sym- 
 pathetic. Condensely stated, the gray ganglia originate nervous power, 
 the white nervous filaments only transmit it. The Hemispherical Ganglia 
 (the plaited or convoluted cortex of the cerebnun) forming about nine- 
 tenths of the whole mass of the brain, although entirely destitute of both 
 sensibility and excitability, are believed to be on good grounds the special 
 
TB.E MICROCOSM. S 
 
 Hid the tongh sinews of a wrestling Faith— 
 
 The Christiaa Athlete matched with Sin and Death : 
 
 Hid all the teeth-prints of the wolves of Grief — 
 
 A savage pack, of which Remorse is chief 
 
 How strange, of all the wounds our comforts mar, 
 
 That of the fellest we should find no scar ! 
 
 None can point out where Understanding dwelt : 
 None, the high places where Religion knelt : 
 The spot where Rbvekencb, with feet unshod, 
 Came to consult the Oracle of God : 
 
 The crypts and catacombs, where Memory cast 
 The bones of all the dead of all the Past ; 
 Shelves, where were stowed all libraries of man, 
 
 seats, 80 far as these can be said to have any, of the intellectual faculties — 
 memory, reason, judgment and the like. ImpresBlons, conveyed to the 
 Spinal Cord, i. e. its ganglionic centre, are there organically, not intellect- 
 ually perceived, and the movements which follow are such as are dicta- 
 ted by supreme organic wisdom, forming indeed an admirable mimicry 
 of conscious sensation and voluntary action, but mimicry only, for both 
 are really absent. This belongs to what is called "reflex action," and 
 explains automatic function and phenomena, of which life is full. It is 
 not, it is believed, until impressions have reached the ganglion of the 
 Tuber Annulare that they are converted into conscious sensations and 
 excite voluntary movements. And only when they have mounted to the 
 Hemispheres, the ganglia of thought and feeling, that they become the 
 property of the intellect and are made the grounds of rational conduct. 
 
40 THE MICROCOSM. 
 
 All grey traditions, since the world began; 
 
 All literatures, religions, kinds and parts 
 
 Of knowledge, laws, philosophies and arts ; 
 
 All actions, all articulated breath — 
 
 The Book of Life, and ah ! the Book of Death, — 
 
 Wherein, whateyer fatal leaf it turned. 
 
 Its former self the guilty soul discerned, 
 
 Mirrored entire — seen outside and within 
 
 In every form and attitude of sin ; 
 
 Th' inevitable reflection, imaged there, 
 
 True to the life, like pictures of Daguerre ; 
 
 The very scene, in which each deed was done. 
 
 Painted in all the colors of the sun ; 
 
 So faithful, fresh, time, circumstance and act. 
 
 The past reality seemed present fact — 
 
 There field, and weapon, and the riven brain 
 
 Of Abel smitten by the hand of Cain, 
 
 And blood, with red moist lips, in Pity's ears 
 
 Crying for vengeance through eternal years, 
 
 Th' unwashed crimson of the guilty sod — 
 
THE MIOSOCOSM. 41 
 
 As in the eye and memory of God. 
 
 litAGiNATlON's skyey seat, where came 
 
 For soaring flight the demigods of fame, 
 
 Home of the Muses, fair and forked Mount 
 
 Of high Parnassus, and Castalian Fount, 
 
 Whence issued streams that watered all the earth. 
 
 Then most, when blind Mceonides'had birth; 
 
 And Zion's holier Hill, and Siloe's Brook, 
 
 Warbling forever, in blind Milton's book ; 
 
 The topmost peak where Shakespeare took his stand. 
 
 And wared his wand of power o'er sea and land. 
 
 Strange, that so sweet and heavenly a hill, 
 
 Should breed fierce dragons, ravenous beasts of ill, 
 
 " Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dii'e," 
 
 Monsters of hideous shapes, with tongues of fire : 
 
 Have rifted rocks whose entrance leads to hell 
 
 And the damned wizard of the mighty spell, — 
 
 Making its precincts all enchanted ground, 
 
 Turning to horror every sight and sound; 
 
 With grisly terrors, straight from Acheron, 
 6 
 
iZ THS MIOBOCOSM. 
 
 Peopling eacli nook, aii4 darkening ^11 tlie sun. 
 
 None can the judgment seat of Cqhsciehce show, 
 That highest Court and Parliament below, 
 "Where, sole and sovereign, seated on her throne, 
 She recognized th' Infallible alone. 
 To her, the keys of heaven and earth were given, 
 And what she bound on earth was bound in heaven. 
 By the clear light, which her decisions shed, 
 Instructed feet in pleasant ways were led. 
 Martyrs were pointed to the neig'tiboring sky, 
 And Patriots taught how sweet it is to die. 
 
 Where these had their high dwelling, we, in vain, 
 Seek in this packed and folded pulp of brain : 
 Judged, by the ignorant regards of sense, 
 How mean ! by heights of function, how immense ! 
 To reason and the vision of shut eyes 
 Its infinite expandings fill the skies. 
 What regions of sublimity once there ! 
 What mountains soaring in the upper air — 
 
TBE MICROCOSM. 43 
 
 Not thunder scarred Acroceraunian* peak 
 Alpine or Himalayan loftier than the Greek 
 So high so hidden^from whose secret tops 
 Keener than needles, trickled the first drops 
 Of rising rivets, flowing silently 
 Into the cerebral deep di'ainless sea. 
 From which, as from a mighty fountain-head, 
 Life's crystal waters everywhere were spread, 
 Coursing in liquid lapse thi'ough Channels White,t 
 Swift as the ligWning, stainless as the light, 
 
 * A range of very high mountains in Greece, (from uKpog, extreme, and 
 Kegawog, thuuderTjolt,) so called because their peaks are often struck by 
 lightning. 
 
 + The Nerves are composed of bundles of minute fibres or filaments, 
 averaging 1-2,000 of an inch in diameter. Each filament consists of a 
 colorless, transparent, tubular membrane, containing a thick, softish, semi- 
 fluid nervous matter 'which is white and glistening by reflected light. Run- 
 ning through the central part is a longitudinal grayish band, called ' the 
 axis of the cyUnder.' Branches of a neiTe are merely separations and 
 new directions of some of the filaments of the bundle, these being always 
 continuous from their origin to their point of distribution, which prevents 
 any confusion arising from a running together of imprfisBions. The ner- 
 vous tree, like that of the blood vessels, is so vast, that in its totality, 
 exhibited separately, it would give almost an outline of the human form. 
 The circulation of a nervous fluid, though not demonstrable, has been 
 hypothetically deduced from the tubular structure of the nerves and other 
 considerations. Assuming the fact, the whole body may be said to swim 
 in this vital sea, having its analogy in that higher or divine animation, 
 described as being " filled with the Spirit." 
 
44 TSE MICBOCOBM. 
 
 Conveying to each, atom of the whole 
 Volitions, animations, power and soul. 
 
 Once beautiful for situation, gem 
 And joy of the whole earth, Jerusalem, 
 How sits she solitary ! she that was great 
 Among the nations, now left desolate ! 
 Th' adversary hath spread out his hand 
 On all her pleasant things and spoiled the land : 
 Her gates are sunk into the ground : the rent 
 And ruined rampart and the wall lament : 
 Her palaces are swallowed up : the Lord 
 His altar hath cast off : He hath abhorred 
 His sanctuary even : hath o'erthrown 
 And pitied not, nor cared to spare his own. 
 
 EYE, AKD ITS COBBELATITE. 
 
 The ways of Zion mourn ; funereal gloom 
 Fills every habitation like a tomb ; 
 Closed is each port, and window of 'the mind ; 
 And there is none to look — the Etb is blind. 
 How different once, when in that little Sphere, 
 
THE MICMOCOSM. 45 
 
 The glorious univeree was pictured clear ! 
 O what an Organ that ! germane to Light, 
 Whose own relations too, are such to sight, 
 'Twere hard to say, the two so nicely fit, 
 Made was the eye for light, or light for it. 
 Ne'er were two lovers, separate by space. 
 More eager, fond, impatient to embrace, 
 Than that sweet splendor — streaming from afai, 
 Traveling for ages from some distant star. 
 Straight as an arrow speeding from the bow — 
 And that dear Eye-ball waiting here below. 
 
 LIGHT HAS SO MiHIPESTrNa POWEE VTITHOtlT THE BTE. 
 
 Prime work of God ! upon the bended knee 
 The whole creation homage pays to thee : 
 From night and chaos countless suns emerge 
 That all their beamings may in thee converge ; 
 Since wholly vain and useless were, they know. 
 Without the Eye to see, their light to show : 
 They roll in darkness, quenched theii- every ray 
 TiU thy lids opening, change the night to day. 
 
i THE MlCMOCOSM. 
 
 Placed, for commaaditig and enjcsying these, 
 In the dread centre of immensities. 
 The depths thou searchest and the heights supreme, 
 Ranging at will from this to that extreme. , 
 Where space is dark to thy Unaided sight, 
 Thither thoil turn'st thy telescope of might, 
 And in the heart of the abysmal gloom 
 Behold'st celestial gardens all abloom — 
 Brave starry blossomings and clusters fine 
 Loading the branches of the heavenly vine : 
 See'st suns, like dust, lie scattered 'long the road 
 That leads to that far Paradise of God. 
 From this to yonder, who the leagues can tell ? 
 One might compute the ocean's drops as well. 
 Turn now : the nether infinite explore : 
 Extend thy vision, as thou didst before :* 
 Pierce downwards, pierde to the concealed mihttte. 
 The ultimates of things, the germ, the root. 
 The atom world, so near— and yet so far 
 * For example, with a Microscope that magnifies a million times. 
 
TBE MICROCOSM. 47 
 
 Not more remote is the remotest star — 
 
 To forms of life to which, O can it be ? 
 
 A drop of water is a shoreless sea. 
 
 So vast thy sweep, it surely were not strange 
 
 If eye angelic had no wider range. 
 
 Even so ! On earth or in the realms of air 
 
 Nothing is fair but as thou mak'st it fair — 
 
 In face or flower or iris braided rain. 
 
 Beauty exists not or exists in vain ; 
 
 Without thy power to paint them or perceive 
 
 There were no gorgeous shows of mom and eve. 
 
 LISHT lOST TS THE EYE EEAPPEAES Df THE COlTSOIOTJSirESS. 
 
 How wonderful, that organs made of clay 
 Should drink so long th' abundance of the day ! 
 Receive the constant unretuming tides 
 Of sun and moon and all the stars besides ! 
 Not lost is all this mighty wealth of beams : 
 Rivers of light, innumerable streams, 
 Flow darkling for a space, then spring again 
 
i8 TSE MICMOCOSM. 
 
 To join the Arethusas* of the brain, 
 In bliss of married consciousness to be 
 Fountains of brightness through eternity. 
 
 TRAES— sleep: ITS EESTTSOITATTNG POWEK— OBGANIO LIFE, 
 
 Since man was born to trouble here below, 
 Tears were proyided for predestined woe ; 
 And tears have fallen in perpetual shower 
 From man's apostasy until this hour ; 
 But there 's the promise of a future day 
 When God's dear hand shall wipe all tears away. 
 
 On eyes that watch as well as eyes that weep 
 Descends the solemn mystery of Sleep. 
 Toiling and climbing to the very close, 
 The weary Body, longing for repose, 
 On the gained level of the day's ascent, 
 Halts for the night and pitches there its tent : 
 Then, sinking down, is 'gulphed in an abyss 
 
 * TUe river Alpheus in Elis is fabled to flow under the earth to Sicily, 
 and to unite with the fountain Aretfausa; hence Arethusa, a nymph, 
 whose loyer was Alphcus, 
 
TME MICMOCOSM. 49 
 
 As deep and dark as the abodes of Dis^* 
 Rather, returns into the peaceful gloom 
 And blank unconsciousness of nature's womb, 
 Where plastic forces work, to be next mom 
 To a new life and mightier vigor bom ; — 
 Prepared to run again Life's upward way 
 Scaling the misty summits of To-Day : 
 Lo ! height o'er height, through all the years, they rise. 
 Supplying steps by which to mount the skies, — 
 Ladder, like Jacob's, heavenly, complete. 
 Whose radiant rounds were tor angelic feet. 
 From night's dark caves spring evermore, in truth. 
 Fountains of freshness and perpetual youth : 
 This seeming death, with consciousness at strife, 
 Is health and happiness and length of life. 
 There is within, that which preserves and keeps — 
 Organic Providence that never sleeps : — 
 When the slack hand of Reason di'ops the rein. 
 This drives the chariots of the heart and brain. 
 * Domos DitiB. 
 
50 TBE MIOMOGOSM. 
 
 "Were life's full goblet trusted to the Will, 
 Its nerveless hand would soon its contents spUl ; 
 The Maker so was careful to provide 
 Another principle and power beside, 
 Ajcheus,* Instinct — any name may serve — 
 Organic Life, Great Sympathetic Nerve,t 
 With Cerebellum,! competent to save. 
 
 * The Arcliseua, according to Van Helmont is an immaterial principle, 
 existing from tlie beginning {a^X'i) and presiding over the development of 
 the hody and over all organic phenomena. Besides this chief one, which 
 he located in the upper orifice of the stomach, he admitted several subordi- 
 nates, one for each organ, each of them being liable to anger, caprice, ter- 
 ror, and every human feeling. 
 
 t The Great Sympathetic lies in front and along the sides of the spine, 
 and supplies the organs over which the will and consciousness have no 
 immediate control, such as the intestines, liver, heart, ifcc. Its numerous 
 ganglia (centres and originators of nervous influence) are the knots of a 
 nervous reticulation which connects not only the organs of organic Ufe one 
 with the other, but these also with the brain and spinal cord. It is due to 
 this— separately or conjointly with the spinal cord in its reflex or excito- 
 motor capacity, derived from its own ganglionic axis or pith, giving it 
 also Independent and automatic powers, powers not sensibly dependent 
 upon the consciousness or will for their exercise— that all the vital func- 
 tions do not come to a stand still in our first slumber. 
 
 X The opinion, which attributes to the Cerebellum the power of asso- 
 ciating or co-ordinating the difl'erent voluntary movements, is the one now 
 most generally received. Destroyed, the gubernatorial faculty is lost and 
 the animal staggers and faBs like a drunken man. In addition to this, it 
 has been supposed, that whatever the cerebrum does rationally and by flts, 
 the cerebellum does unconsciously and permanently— so that in sleep, the 
 motions of thought and will not being organically but only consciously sus- 
 
TSE MICROCOSM. 51 
 
 And rescue fi'om the clutches of the grave, — 
 When Sleep would else have caused immediate death, 
 Stopped the heart's action, and cut short the breath. 
 Drying each source, that fed and kept alive 
 Th' industrious bees in the organic hive.* 
 
 BFIBITXrAI. AITALOSraS. 
 
 As light to Eye, so to the Soul, in sooth, 
 The light of God, the higher light of Truth. 
 How, when man fell, his dark and hungry eyes 
 Looked for the sunrise in the eastern skies ! 
 Filled with all doubt, and wandering forlorn. 
 Watching for signs of the delaying mom ! 
 Ah ! should it never break, the stumbling feet 
 
 pended, need to be maintained and kept up to their proper level, and that 
 this ia the office of the cerebellom, ■which like the chain and springs of 
 a watch, not only regulate its movemeuta, hut prevent it from running 
 suddenly down. 
 
 * While an exaggerated importance may have been given to the doctrine 
 of Cell Formation, the truth of it seems to be well established. The state 
 ment of Virchow that, " Every animal preaents itaelf as a aum of vital 
 unltiea, every one of which manifeats all the characteriatica of life," al- 
 though hypothetical, at least in part, is a convenient formula for explaining 
 many vital phenonmena observed both in health and disease. Keceiving 
 it, it certainly justifies the figure here used— the bee working with a blind 
 instinct, being compared to that organic intelligence, which resident in 
 each cell presides over the functions of nutrition, secretion and elimination. 
 
52 TEE MICROCOSM. 
 
 Go stumbling onward to the Judgment Seat ; 
 
 And toward the guilty, should there be no ruth 
 
 In the just bosom of the God of Truth ; 
 
 Those images of horror and aflWght, 
 
 Projected on the canvass of the night, 
 
 Should aye be present, wheresoe'er he turn. 
 
 And God's fierce anger never cease to bum ! 
 
 Ah ! when the parting heavens some gleam let through. 
 
 Some gleam of promise shining through the blue ; — 
 
 Ah, more ! when that the Dayspring from on high 
 
 Told that the Sun of Kighteousness was nigh ; — 
 
 Waving glad wings of many colored flame. 
 
 Fore-running angels certified He came ; — 
 
 I 
 
 Then most of all, when following full soon, 
 Upon his midnight burst eternal noon ; — 
 How to the heavenly host his pulses beat, 
 Timed to the music of their marching feet ! 
 
 OONOEHITAI, BIiIKDKESS— AWAEDS OP THE LAST BAY. 
 
 Alas, for those, who, haply blind from birth. 
 Have never seen the loveliness of earth : 
 
TME MICMOCOSM. 58 
 
 To whose rapt gaze, the spectacle ne'er given, 
 Of all the dread magnificence of heaven : 
 One mighty blank, one universal black, 
 The moving wonders of the Zodiac : 
 The constellations from their fixed abode, 
 Shed no sweet infiuence on their darkling road : 
 Their rolling eyeballs turn, and find no ray; 
 An rmknown joy, the blessedness of day. 
 
 Between the man, who, in his neighbor's grief, 
 With swiftest pity, flies to his relief; 
 And him, whose cruel and unnatural part 
 It is to plague and wring his brother's heart. 
 How deep the gulf! how different the award. 
 At the great final coming of the Lord I 
 In the Last Judgment, all the world shall hear 
 The silent thunder prisoned in a tear* — 
 
 * Faraday has shown by the most conclnsiye experiments, that the elec- 
 tricity which decomposes, and that which is evolved by the decomposition 
 of a certain quantity of matter are alike. A single drop of water there- 
 fore contains as mnch electricity as eonld be aecnmulated in 800,000 Ley- 
 den jars— a quantity equal to that which is developed &om a chained 
 thunder cloud. 
 
54 THE MICROCOSM. 
 
 The pent up wrath shall strike the tyrant there, 
 Who would not pity, and who would not spare. 
 
 AaTLTJMS FOB THE BLDTD. 
 
 Thou, who wert styled th' Apostle of the Blind, 
 No bays too green, thine honored brows to bind ; 
 Who toiled and sacrificed beyond the sea — 
 'Tis right to name thee, Valentin Hauy !* 
 To render happier a cheerless lot ; 
 Enrich with knowledge those who have it not ; 
 To pour new light into the darkened mind. 
 And force an entrance where it none can find ; 
 By novel methods, and ingenious tools. 
 Imparting all the learning of the -schools ; 
 For loss of one, obtaining recompense, 
 
 * Louis IX., better known as St. Lonig, in 1260 founded the Sospice des 
 qulnze mngts at Paris— designed, as its name impiles, originally for 15 
 score or 300 persons— whicli still exists. This is believed to have been 
 the first public provision ever made for the Blind. It was solely eleemos- 
 ynary. No Instruction was attempted. Although in the 16th century at- 
 tempts were made to print for the Blind in intaglio and afterwards in 
 relief, nothing material was accomplished, till 1784, when Valentin Haiiy, 
 "the apostle of the blind" as the French named him, commenced his 
 arduous, and self-denying labors, and laid the foundations of the modern 
 system. His pupils became eminent as musicians or mathematicians. 
 
THE MICROCOSM. 55 
 
 In th.e perfection of another sense ; 
 Inspiring music, bringing heaven so near, 
 They almost think they see it as they hear ; — 
 Is like that work, in kind if not degree. 
 Done Bartimeus, when Christ made him see. 
 
 ASTLUUS FOB THE DEAF AKS SUUB. 
 
 Not less theu- praise, nor less their high reward, 
 Th' unequaled heroes of a task more hard 
 Enthusiasts, who labored to bridge o'er 
 The gulf of silence, never passed before, 
 To reach the solitaire, who lived apart,* 
 Cut off from commerce with the human heart : 
 To whom had been, all goings on below, 
 A ceremonious and unmeaning show ; 
 
 * The possibility of teaching the Deaf and Duml) was never conceived 
 by the ancients. TIselesa to the State, their destruction in infancy was 
 even connived at ; and they were classed legally with idiots and the insane. 
 Plunged In a night of the profonndest ignorance, sitting apart in ntter 
 loneliness, their state was the saddest possible. ■ Attempts to instruct 
 them belong mostly to modem times. Three systems have been adopted 
 in different conntries. - 1. That of Wallis, Pereira, Heinicke and Braid- 
 wood, which falsely assumed that while signs may give vague ideas there 
 can be no precision without words. Consequently the first years under 
 this system were devoted almost wholly to learning articulation and read- 
 ing on the lip. 2. That of abbfi De TEpfie as improved by Sicard and 
 
56 THE MICB0G08M. 
 
 Men met in council, on occasions proud, 
 Nought but a mouthing and grimacing crowd ; 
 And all the great transactions of the time, 
 An idle scene or puzzling pantomime. 
 Children of silence ! deaf to every sound 
 That trembles in the atmosphere around, 
 Now far more happy — dancing ripples break 
 Upon the marge of that once stagnant lake. 
 Aye by fi'esh breezes oyerewept, and stirred 
 With the vibrations of new thoughts confen-ed. 
 No more your minds are heathenish and dumb. 
 Now that the word of truth and grace has come ; 
 Your silent praise, that penitential tear. 
 Are quite articulate to your Saviour's ear. 
 
 Bebian, -wMcli proceeds on the directly opposite theory that there is no idea 
 which may not be expressed by signs without words. Sign language has 
 the important advantage, besides many others that might be named, of beir g 
 universal. 3. The American system, which is a further modification of 
 De rSp^e's. The number of deaf mutes who have distinguished them- 
 selves in science and art is already quite considerable. My friend, Mr. John 
 R. Burnet, farmer and author, living at Livingston, N. J., is one of the 
 best informed men in the State, 
 
TB3 HICMOOQaif. 57 
 
 Within a bony labyrii|thew cave, 
 
 Eeached by the pulse of the aerial wSfYe, 
 
 This sibyl, sweet, and mystic Sense is feund — 
 
 Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound, 
 
 Viewless apd numherlesa, these eypryvhere 
 
 Wake to the finest tremble of the air : 
 
 Now from some mountEJin height are bea^d to call ; 
 
 Now from the bottom of some TYater-fa,ll ; 
 
 Now faint and far, now louder ^ud more near, 
 
 With varying cadence n^usical au4 cleay ; — 
 
 Heard in the brpofelet murwuriBg p'ey the lea ; 
 
 Heard in the ro^r of the re^puiiding sea; 
 
 Heard iu tlie thunder rallit\g through the sky ; 
 
 Heard iu the little insect chippii^g nigh ; 
 
 The vpinds of winter waiUng through the woods \ 
 
 The mighty laughter of the vqrn^l floods; 
 
 The rain-drops' showery dance and rhythmic beat, 
 
 With tinkling of innumerable feet i 
 
 Pursuing echos calling 'mong the rocis ; 
 8 
 
58 THE MICROCOSM. 
 
 Lowing of herds, and bleating of the flocks ; 
 The tender nightingale's melodious grief; 
 The sky-lark's warbled rapture of belief — 
 Arrow of praise, direct from nature's quiver, 
 Sent duly up to the Almighty Giver. 
 
 HTTSIO OF AET— ntBTBraiEirrAL AND VOOAL. 
 
 If once, ye Powers, with reeds, a rustic Pan, 
 Ye tuned idyllic minstrelsies for man. 
 These thin dilutions of the soul of song, 
 Ye have abandoned, and abandoned long. 
 Sweet as the spheral music of the skies. 
 The thunder of your later harmonies. 
 O fill the void capacious atmosphere 
 With your full sum, and pour it in the ear ; 
 Drown it with melody, nor let it wade 
 Longer in shallows, of the deep afraid. 
 Join to all instruments of vnnd and cords 
 The poetry and excellence of words. 
 If Country calls, put in the Trumpet's throat 
 A loud and stirring and a warlike note ; 
 
THE MICROCOSM. 69 
 
 And let there follow an inspiring blast, 
 
 As the long file of heroes hurry past ; 
 
 Then raise th' exultant clamor to its height, 
 
 "When crowned as victors, they return from fight. 
 
 Because the service God demands of men 
 
 Is not an intermittent thing of now and then, 
 
 Temples of permanence we rightly raise. 
 
 For the perpetual purposes of praise ; 
 
 And build great Organs, in whose tubes of sound, 
 
 Sleeping or waking, ye are always found : 
 
 Awake ! prepare Te Deums ! now awake 1 
 
 "Wave your great wings till all the building shake 1 
 
 Rend the low roof, and rend the vault of heaven, 
 
 Bearing the rapture of a soul forgiven ! 
 
 TOIOa— AIB OP BZFISATIOX, ITS TBANSUTTTATIOZTS, 
 
 "Wonderful instrument, but not so choice 
 As is the Organ of the Human Voice. 
 "What compact proof of Heavenly Power and Skill, 
 "When simplest means sublimest ends fulfill. 
 That two stringed Lyre, quick strung to every note. 
 
tB.1: MiG&OGdSM. 
 
 Placed at tll6 windy entrance Of the throat — 
 
 With a divide ecbllonij- of room, 
 
 So placed it tilight the smallest space consume-, 
 
 There where the aerial currents come and go, 
 
 To feed the vital fires that bum bislow, 
 
 And with a cLuickening purifying force, 
 
 The blood to freshen in its onward course — 
 
 Taking the waste) effete and useless breath, 
 
 Ghai'ged with the yery element of death. 
 
 Converts it into musicj glorious shapes 
 
 Of power and beauty, ere that breath fescfepes. 
 
 A transformation nlarvellous and strangej 
 
 Unequalled, in the Alchemy of change. 
 
 Harmonious forces working to condense 
 
 The blazing jewels of intelligence : 
 
 Diamonds more rich than proudest monarchs wear, 
 
 Formed from the gaseous carbon of the air ; 
 
 Th' imperial currency of human wit, 
 
 Image and superscription stamped on it, 
 
 Coined from the atmosphere, th' exhaustless mine 
 
S'Me micMooosM. ' ei 
 
 Of golden treasures iaiagical and fine ; 
 
 Chief circulatiag medium of thought, 
 
 And common niiiitage by which truth is boilghtj 
 
 And wifedom in its iilfiiiite supply, 
 
 Stored in th' invisible market of the sky ! 
 
 SFKXOH ACCOmlTASLS : BELF-BSOO^niG— uathekaUoai, fboblek. 
 
 O Heart and Mouth — in strictest wfedlock bound — 
 Whence spring th' imihortal births of soul and. soundl 
 Wingea for fat flight, your moM offsprihg sweep 
 The airy fields of the cerulean deep, 
 Up to the awful place, where Judgliieilt waits 
 Within Eternity's tremeiidous gateS. 
 
 Philosophy itself may serre to teach 
 No poWei- so featful as the Power of Speech : 
 The idle Word, wliich nothing ban recall, 
 JBreaks sacred silence thrilling through the All ; 
 Yea, like a pebble dropped into the sea, 
 Eipples the ocean of immensity : 
 An oath profahe, the horrbr of a lie. 
 The shtiddering Ether bears beyond the Sky ; 
 
63 THE MICROCOSM. 
 
 Sounding through height and depth, its way it takes 
 
 To distant spheres, and endless echos wakes: 
 
 After long ages, still can be inferred. 
 
 The sense and nature of each uttered word. 
 
 Declared in postured particles, because 
 
 The dance of atoms is by rhythmic laws : 
 
 For that another cannot be the same, 
 
 God calls each atom by a different name ; 
 
 Makes these an alphabet, by which to spell 
 
 Each sentence spoken, and each syllable ; 
 
 Beyond the power of parchment, or of pen. 
 
 Expounding all the utterances of men.* 
 
 * Mr. Charles Babbage, an EngliBh Mathematician of the first rani:, lor- 
 merly Lncasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, the Chair of New- 
 ton, famons also as the inventor of a Calculating Machine, built at a cost 
 to the English Government of $85,000, followed by another involving 
 a still heavier outlay— in a work styled "The Ninth Bridgewater Trea- 
 tise," published in 1838, filled with much original and quaint speculation, 
 expresses his faith in the startling doctrine that no word or action can 
 ever be eliminated from the records of Nature, but that the air is a " vast 
 library," in whose pages are forever written all that man has ever said or 
 woman whispered, inasmuch as the aerial pulses which seemed to have 
 died out completely might yet be demonstrated by human reason to exist. 
 So of the ocean. A being possessed of unbounded powers of mathematical 
 analysis might trace the results of any impulse on the fluid, or read back 
 the history of the sea in Its own billows. And so too, the solid frame of 
 
THE MICROCOSM. 63 
 
 ITS BOOZAIi rSHB— THE WOBD MA332 FLESH, 
 
 Most genial of the faculties is this, 
 And most subservient to social bliss ; 
 Fulfills the longing as no other can, 
 When man would manifest himself to man ; 
 The isolated soul shut up no more 
 Walks freely forth as through an open door. 
 
 "Vainly in inarticulate dumb show. 
 Had Nature strove to teach man here below ; 
 When finding, that intended to reveal, 
 Served but the more His presence to conceal, 
 God put aside the Vesture of the Skies, 
 And walked and talked with men in Human Guise : 
 Th' apocalyptic Word, made Flesh, made thus 
 Communicated Godhead — God With Us. 
 
 the earth may serve as a stereotyped record both of the trassactions and 
 the proceedings of its inhabitants ; for not only the heavings of the greatest 
 earthquakes, bnt the little local tremors which the stamp of a human foot 
 may produce, may all be said to have left their memorials in the ground. 
 Heaven and earth are therefore prepared to bear witness against the trans- 
 gressor on the Day of Judgment. Terrible thoughts these, bnt what if 
 they are tme ? 
 
64 TBE MICBOCOSM. 
 
 ABTIOTIXAIIOjr— HOSB-MOUTS— glCpLI<-?4|I?- 
 
 Behold liow man, tl^e polyglot, employs 
 Th' uncompoimded elemental iiQise ! 
 Makes endless permutations, mixes bjreatli 
 For nice intonings of each shibboleth ! 
 Up from the Throat, one little step, we reach 
 The cunning moulds and nj%tji?es, of speech ; 
 Formless and void the Tooal ohaoa flows, 
 Shaped intq Language by tiie Moytht ^nd Ifose; 
 Mellifluous nipdu\atipn3 taking place. 
 In scentec( caverns, of ft? hipllpw faiie ; 
 Sweet mobile Lips, Teeth, Psfclate, flayorons Tongns, 
 Making intelligible the speaMhg Lung ; 
 Aiders of Speeph, but then the seats, fts well 
 Of the two senses of the T?*ste and Smell. 
 
 SMBU— ODOBS : THEIB SCBTLETT AlTD lUPOlTDSBABILITT. 
 
 The Nerves of Smell, the flrst the brain to leave. 
 Combed and divided through a bony sieve,* 
 They, from their tresses of disheveled hair 
 
 * The ethmoid bone, (from V^fioc, ' a Bieye,' and et6og, ' form.') 
 
THE MICMOCOSM. 65 
 
 Shake out the tangled fragrance of the aLr. 
 Conversant with all sweetness^lN'atuie bruags 
 Hither the soul and quintessence of things ; 
 Airy solutioES of the finer powers, 
 Imponderable properties of flowers ; 
 Th' aroma of all seasons and aU times, 
 Kingdoms of nature, comtinejits aind climes — 
 Too subtle and too spiritual, I ween, 
 These for analysis however keen — 
 Daintiest of senses, daiatily it feeds 
 On thymy pastures of the -skyey meads, 
 Diinks from etherial fountains, whence are quaffed 
 Delicious lungfuUs at one mighty draught, 
 Cheering the breast, and sweetening all the blood. 
 Like some celestial naioister of good. 
 
 BBXAXH 07 LIKE, SXTUBAL AUD SFIBITUAI,. 
 
 God breathed — O breath with heavenly sweetness rife,- 
 
 Into man's nostrils first the breath of life. 
 
 The blissful aura vivified the whole, 
 
 And straightway man became a living soul. 
 9 
 
THM MICM0C08M. 
 
 Then odorous Eden yet more odorous grew 
 
 As o'er its bowers, th' informing Spirit blew 
 
 Another inner and diviner air, 
 
 Moving vri-thin the proper atmosphere, 
 
 That shook the leaves and made the tree-tops nod, 
 
 A mystic wind immediately from God, — 
 
 Bushing and mighty like the Holy Ghost 
 
 Poured out upon the day of Pentecost. 
 
 Still the same Spirit where it lists it blows. 
 
 We know not whence it comes nor where it goes, 
 
 But souls it quickened on Creation's mom. 
 
 Now dead in sin to a new life are bom : 
 
 One inspiration of immortal breath 
 
 Creates a life beneath the ribs of death. 
 
 TSE0PNBT7BTT. 
 
 O via sacra, O thrice blessed door, 
 Once hallowed with Thy presence, hallow, Lord, once 
 
 more : 
 Inbreathe Thyself, my Maker ! flU each ceU 
 Of my deep breast, and deign with me to dwell. 
 
TSE MICROCOSM. 67 
 
 Come, my Desire ! Thou theme of heavenly tongues, 
 Fulfill the want and hunger of the lungs. 
 Be thou my breath, my laughter, my delight. 
 My song by day, my murmured di'eam by night. 
 When hope dilates, and lore my bosom warms. 
 Be these the product of thy powerful charms. 
 K grief convulses, be it grief for sin, 
 Prompt every sigh and make me pure within. 
 Perfumed by Thee " make every breath a spice 
 And each religious act a sacrifice." 
 
 TASTE— ELmiSATION AST) WASTE— MOTHIKQ LOST. 
 
 We eat to live : the Gustatory Sense 
 (The same as Smell, but with a difference,) 
 At the pleased portal of the hungry throat. 
 From endless sources neighboring and remote. 
 Assembles relishes, and daily feeds 
 On these to satisfy the body's needs. 
 Each moment, lo, we die and are reborn ;* 
 
 * " Occasio enim prseceps est propter artis materiam, dico antem corpus, 
 quod continue flnit et momento temporis transmntatur." — Balen. 
 
68 7EE MICROCOSM. 
 
 The old becomes cadaTerous and outworn ; 
 Beyond the boundary of our every breathy 
 Wide yawns the open sepulchre of death : 
 Parts of our living selves give up the ghost : 
 Corrupt, corrupting, use and function lost, 
 Benignant Nature with victorious force 
 Effects deliverance from the loathed corse 
 And body of this death : in ceaseless flow, 
 Fun'ral processions of dead atoms go, 
 Thronging life's ways and outward opening gates. 
 All unattended, where no mourner waits. 
 Because the quick have duties, let the dead 
 Bury their dead, the Lord of life hath said. 
 No fear that needful ministry or rite 
 Shall then be wanting when they pass from sight ; 
 Sown on the winds or swallowed of the waves 
 They shall not fail of hospitable graves. 
 Dear to terrestial and celestial powers, 
 Through every moment of the flying hours ; 
 Earth, careful mother, to her bosom draws 
 
TBE MICMOGOSM. 89 
 
 Each reverent particle subject to her laws ; 
 Dust welcomes dust, and all the happy ground 
 Rejoices that the lost again is found. 
 Again it forms a portion of the mould 
 To tread the ciicle it fulfilled of old. 
 Again it ministers to the thirsty root, 
 Mounts to the blossom and matures the fruit ; 
 Eaten again, again it makes a part, 
 Or of the thinking brain or feeling heart. 
 
 HUMAH WAST AltD DmSE SUPPLT. 
 
 Because we ne'er continue in one stay — 
 Our flowing Uyes still wash their banks away ; 
 This colliquation of unstable flesh, 
 luTades the old and scarcely spares the fresh j 
 The new farmed soUd, even, oozes tkrongh, 
 " Thaws and resolves itself into a dew ;" 
 And all is flux, and out ten tho^isand doors 
 Our manly strength perpetually pours — 
 We Himger and We Thirst, and all abroad 
 We see spread out the mighty. Feast of God. 
 
TO THE MIOMOCOSM. 
 
 Abounding plenty equal to the waste 
 With luscious adaptations to the taste ; 
 Viands heaped up in such seductive guise, 
 Forestalling pleasure looks with sparkling eyes : 
 The golden produce of the garnered fields, 
 Whate'er the valley or the mountain yields, 
 The juicy tops of Nature, not that found 
 In the dark mineral lumpish underground. 
 By intennediate vegetative toil, 
 And much elaboration of the soil. 
 Lifted in air and- glowing in the sun. 
 We pluck the fruit then when the work is done. 
 In curious quest of every dainty known, 
 We draw from every month arid every zone. 
 To pile our boards, the canvas is imfurled 
 Of more than half the navies of the world. 
 Art intervenes, and as the case requires. 
 Concocts the crude with culinary flres : 
 Goes forth in nature to extend her range, 
 And serve man's love of novelty and change. 
 
IHE UICBOOOSM. 71 
 
 By findings of manipulative skill, 
 
 Testings and tastings, mixing at her will 
 
 Of all the kingdoms, flavorings of the same, 
 
 And seasonings of vegetable flame. 
 
 Imperious Wants ! obedient to whose call. 
 
 Armies capitulate, dynasties fall : 
 
 Howe'er the rulers of the earth combine. 
 
 They may not blink the fact that man must dine. 
 
 It might seem little and beneath God's care — 
 A punctual ordering of man's common fare ; 
 Unwarranted, extravagant, absurd. 
 To think our Pater Nosters could be heard — 
 Did we not know that round our every meal 
 Suns wait and serve and mighty planets wheel. 
 
 LOKD'8 PHATEB— HODIEBNAl BBff. A T>— HYGEEKTO WISDOM. 
 
 Father in heaven, hallowed be Thy name — 
 'Tis on Thy fatherhood we build our claim — 
 Stoop to our needs, we cannot else be fed, 
 Give us this day, as erst, our daily bread. 
 Preserve us from perversion and abuse. 
 
72 TBS MICROCOSM. 
 
 Turning Thy bounties ftoHi their proper use ; 
 From gluttony and criminal excess, 
 Making enough oui' rule, nor more nor legs. 
 Instruct xis how to .choose, lest that we sin 
 Against the body's health, the powers within, 
 Awful economies and sacred laws, 
 Of half our miseries the .dreadful cause. 
 May we live innocent .as at the first, 
 Usiag safe beverages to quench our thirst, 
 Our common drink be water ftom the well, 
 Not brewed enchantments of the fires of heU, 
 Not tasting unbleat cups, by Thee unblest,, 
 But where .Satanic benedictions rest, 
 Cursing and killing, maddening .the brain — 
 Brief joy succeeded by eternal pain. 
 
 nrossisioir— massxii»r-t!i.ssii[a.A.TioN. 
 Be in. our Mouths to sanctify our Food ; 
 Begin the process changing it to Blood. 
 We dare not call that common and unclean 
 Which Thou liast cleansed— nor count that longer mean 
 
THE MICROCOSM. 73 
 
 So honored by assimilations grand, 
 And exaltations of Thine own right hand, 
 As through the channels of the body rolled, 
 Th' ingested Morsel comes to be ensouled. 
 Wherefore be present, every step attend 
 Of its miraculous progress to the end. 
 During the perilous passage of the strait, 
 O keep fast shut the Laryngeal Gate : 
 Adown the Throat while that it gently glides, 
 And in the Stomach's secret chamber hides. 
 Be there to entertain th' expected guest, 
 And to the welcome giye a keener zest. 
 Make the couch ready : and mid veiling gloom. 
 And holy privacy as in a womb, 
 Induct into the mysteries of the place : 
 Bain down celestial influence and grace 
 Upon the nascent neophyte ; prepare 
 The layers of regeneration ; where 
 By wondrous saturations* for a time, 
 
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n TBi! MICBOCOSM. 
 
 And fresh baptisms of tlie new-bom Ohyme, 
 A part all punfted, ifi-om soil purged clear, 
 Made meet and worthy of a higher sphere, 
 Enters the veins and mingles with the blood : 
 The rest a stained probaitionary flood, 
 Passing the G-ate Pyloric waits awhile, 
 Its transformation into purer Chyle. 
 Prosper and bless and let the work proceed, 
 Each faithful function equal to the need : 
 Teach the strict Lacteals, duly this to guide 
 Into the narrow way from out the wide. 
 Where freed from feculence all white and clean. 
 And trained, through mazes of the Glands between. 
 For saintly fellowship and spousals sweet 
 With the deaf Lymph, as they together meet 
 Within the Duct Thoracic, mount to gain 
 
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 ingested food. It is estimated that the average total quantity secreted in a 
 man of medium size in 24 hours is 14 pounds, equal to nearly two gallons. 
 This quantity would be altogether incredible, were it not, that as soon as it 
 has dissolyed its quota of food, it is immediately re-absorbed and again 
 enters into the circulation, together with the alimentary substances which 
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THE MICROCOSM. 78 
 
 The level of the pierced Subelavian Veia — 
 Tempering the mass, to form a fluid part 
 Of that humanity which fills the Heart. 
 
 HEiBT—CrKOTILATIOlf—inJXBITlOH— BLOOD SXHTLXBATIOKB. 
 
 Make room, my Heart!* that pour'st thyself abroad. 
 Deep, central, awful mystery of God ! 
 Lord of my bosom ! wonder of the breast ! 
 " Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest ;" 
 The young white blood, commingled with the old — 
 Purple, impure, effete in part, and cold — 
 Giye needful furtherance through the Lungs, to where 
 It meets the fiery spirits of the air — 
 
 * In the Fish, the Heart is a single organ, having one Auricle and one 
 Ventricle. In Beptiles, it has two Auricles placed side by side, and one 
 Ventricle. In Quadrupeds and Man, it is double, with two Auricles and 
 two Ventricles ; and there are two distinct Circulations— the General or 
 Systemic, and Pulmonary. The Blood on the Bight Side of the Heart, 
 whether found in the Veins or Arteries, is dark or venous ; on the Left, 
 it is ruddy and bright or arterial. The first belongs to the nocturnal side 
 or hemissphere ; the latter to the diumal^-the sun having its rising in 
 the capillaries of the lungs, and its setting in those of the general system 
 — where the blood loses for the time its auroral bloom and splendor, 
 and becomes dark, half devitalized and charged with deadly poison, until 
 having completed its circuit, its pristine glitter and beauty are once more 
 restored, as it reappears on the horizon of the lungs. The rapidity with 
 which the Blood moves Is very great. Even in Arteries of the minutest 
 size it is so rapid that the globules cannot be distinguished in it on micro- 
 
76 THE MICROCOSM. 
 
 In friendly barter with the growing plants 
 Exchanging what they need for what it wants ; 
 Por dingy carbon, refuse of the frame, 
 Eeceiving back the principle of flame ; 
 While mystic cerebrations downward pour. 
 The human flood to humanize yet more, 
 Making it moral, with all passions rife, 
 Instinct with mortal and immortal life. 
 Transfigured thus, thus raised and glorified. 
 Complete the circle on the other side, 
 Where Auricle and Ventricle with power 
 Kepeat their grasp five thousand times an hour ; 
 Closing unresting hands that never tire 
 
 Boopic examination. It is Blower in the Veins tlian the Arteries, in the 
 proportion of two to three, and still slower in the Capillaries. Volbman 
 estimates the velocity m the arteries at 12 inches per second ; in veins at 8 
 inches. Experiments have been made to ascertain the time it takes the 
 blood to pass the entire round of the circulation. Traces of a solution of 
 Ferrocyanide of Potaesium introduced into the right jugular vein of a 
 horse appeared at the left in twenty to twenty-five seconds, but this is 
 not decisive of the rate of the circulation, only of the diffusion. Eesnlts 
 swarm with every heart-beat. Life's innumerable wheels, revolving all at 
 once in every organ, make that beat representative of a life-time— a century 
 of existence being no more than a calculable nnmber of repetitions of that 
 vital second. 
 
TB.B MIGROGOBM. Ti 
 
 On the one passionate object of desire ; 
 And thi-ough. each moment of the night and day 
 A trayelLng joy to every part convey ; 
 Filling each Cell of all the Organs up — 
 As wine is poured into a jeweled cup — 
 With the Falemian of the grapes of Heaven, 
 The Living Blood miraculously given ; 
 Endued with plenteous power by which it can 
 Rebuild the complex of the perfect man ; 
 To every organ like to like impart, 
 Distribute brain to brain and heart to heart ; 
 Conquer the years, the wastes of time repair. 
 Add to the body, make the fau- more fair : 
 Nor potent less to raise to loftiest heights 
 Of sensuous pleasures, and divine delights — 
 Untied to fleshly ministrations — fraught 
 With stimulant to Feeling and to Thought, 
 Our Ganymede, enlivening with full bowl 
 ' The feast of reason and the flow of soul." 
 
I'S TME MICROCOSM. * 
 
 HEABT— SEAT OF THE APFSOTIONS— TtSOEBAI. MODCIOATIOBS 
 
 Undoubted Sovereign, worthiest to reign ! 
 Sharer of empire with the regal Brain ! 
 (Like omnipresent in the realms of sense 
 Found at the centre and circumference, 
 As if by multiplification, every part 
 Possessed a sensory and beating heart) 
 By virtue of thy birthright fi'om above 
 Thine all the high prerogatives of Loyb. 
 One with thyself, Love's ample power displary, 
 Assert its right to universal sway ! 
 As thou, so Love is many and yet one. 
 Its royal robes of soul and body spun — 
 Assorted vestments, filling many a room, 
 The beauteous product of the living loom, 
 By the deft fingers of the feelings wrought 
 Plying the shuttle with the helping thought — 
 The several organs, to their nature true. 
 Giving each tunic its distinctive hue- 
 One of the colors of refracted light, 
 
TME MICSOCOSM. 79 
 
 Or the chaste total of religious white — 
 Defining Lores, all Family Loves that bind 
 The Love of Country, Love of Human Kind, 
 The Love of God, all other Loves above, 
 The Love of Truth and Right, the Love of Love. 
 
 Within, what gracious sympathies appeal ! 
 What visceral yearnings do not mothers feel ! 
 The conscious vitals, full of fond alarms 
 For the sweet infant folded in her arms, 
 And melting tendernesses, that impart 
 Tears to the eyes but laughter to the heart. 
 
 WOHAN— SEX— IIiriTT Uf SnTEBENOE. 
 
 O loving Woman, man's fulfillment sweet, 
 Completing Mm not otherwise complete ! 
 How void and useless the sad remnant left 
 Were he of her, his nobler part bereft ! 
 Of her who bears the sacred name of Wife, 
 The joy and crown and glory of his life, 
 The Mother of his Children, whereby he 
 Shall live in far off epochs yet to be. 
 
80 TRE MICROCOSM. 
 
 Conjoined but not confounded, side by side 
 
 Lying so closely nothing can divide ; 
 
 A dual self, a plural unit, twain, 
 
 Except in sex, to be no more again ; 
 
 Except ia Sex, for sex can naught efface. 
 
 Fixed as the granite mountain on its base. 
 
 But not for this less one, away to take 
 
 This sweet distinction were to mar not make. 
 
 Dearer for difference in this respect, 
 
 As means of rounding mutual defect. 
 
 Woman and Man all social needs include ; 
 
 Earth filled with men were still a solitude : 
 
 In vain the birds would sing, in vain rejoice. 
 
 Without the music of her sweeter voice. 
 
 In vain the stars would shine, 'twere dark the while 
 
 Without the light of her superior smUe. 
 
 To blot from earth's vocabularies one 
 
 Of all her names were to blot out the sun. 
 
 lOTE OP THU SEXES— EITDS AHSWEBED. 
 
 wondrous Hour, supremest hour of fate, 
 
TBE MIGUOCOSM. 81 
 
 When first the Soul discerns its proper Mate — 
 
 By inward voices known as its elect — 
 
 Distanced by. loye; and infinite respect, 
 
 Fairer than fah-est, shining from afar, 
 
 Throned in the heights, a bright particular star 
 
 The glory of the firmament, the evening sky 
 
 Glad with the lustre of her beaming eye. 
 
 Young Love, First Love, Love, haply at first sight. 
 
 Smites like the lightning, dazzles like the light : 
 
 Chance meeting eyes shoot forth contagious flame 
 
 Sending the hot blood wildly through the frame. 
 
 By strange enchantment violently strook. 
 
 The total being rushes with a look : 
 
 A beauty never seen before, except some gleams 
 
 Purpling the atmosphere of blissful dreams, 
 
 Wakens rare raptures and sensations new 
 
 Both soul and body thrilling through and through. 
 
 Says sage Experience — sighing o'er the past — 
 These dear illusions will not always last ? 
 11 
 
TEE M10M0C08M. 
 
 For beauty fades and disappointment clings 
 
 To the reality of human things ? 
 
 It may be so — it may be, lovers' sight 
 
 Surveying all things by love's purple light, 
 
 Sees not the faults possession shall disclose, 
 
 Nor the sharp thorn concealed beneath the rose. 
 
 But if thus Nature her great ends attain 
 
 The pomps of fancy dazzle not in vain : 
 
 The pleasing falsehood of perfection flits. 
 
 But not the Love, that in contentment sits 
 
 Among the Dear Ones of its happy home. 
 
 Blest with sweet foretastes of the heaven to come. 
 
 Deciduous charms of face unmissed depart. 
 
 While bloom the fadeless beauties of the heart : 
 
 Inward conformity, and gradual growth 
 
 Of moral likeness, tightening bonds of both. 
 
 Perfect the marriage, which was but begun 
 
 Upon that day they were pronounced one. 
 
 TEtra lOTE— SPUBIOirS LOVE. 
 
 True Love is humble, thereby is it known 
 
THE MICROCOSM. 83 
 
 Girded for service, seeking not its own ; 
 Exalts its object, timid homage pays, 
 Vaunts not itself, but speaks in self-dispraise : 
 " Look not on me," it says, for " 'I am black,' 
 In thee all fulness is, in me all lack : 
 But what I have and am are wholly thine 
 Vast were the gi-ace wouldst thou give thine for mine." 
 
 Let Love but enter, it converts the churl, 
 And makes the miser lavish as an earl ; 
 The strict walls of his prison, giving way. 
 Fall outward and let in the light of day : 
 Eeleased from base eaptivity to pelf, 
 He upward soars into a nobler self; 
 And hands, that once did nought but clutch and hoard, 
 Now emulate the bounty of the Lord ; 
 Hold up a miiTor that reflects the face 
 Of Him whose heart is love and man- ward grace. 
 
 O how imlike to this, so chaste, refined, 
 Magnanimous, benevolent and kind, 
 Is that base thing defiling and defiled, 
 
84 THE MICROCOBM. 
 
 Bom of unbridled lusts and passions wild, 
 Which soon of all the virtues rings the knell 
 And sends its subjects headlong down to hell. 
 The hidden canker of a vicious heart 
 Spreads mortal sickness to the farthest part : 
 Th' infected body rots from day to day 
 Till death contemptuous calls the soul away, 
 To its own place its sentence to fulfill : 
 " Let him that filthy is be filthy still." 
 
 CHAEITT— PHTSIOIAN— OPrFEEQTJE PEE OBBEM MOOK.* 
 
 O Ye devoted to the Healing Art 
 By solemn consecration, set apart 
 To be the ministers of God above 
 In the sublime Activities of Love ; 
 Whose special function 'tis to give relief 
 In the dark hours of suffering and of grief; 
 Between the living and the dead, to stand 
 Where fall the shafts of death on either hand; 
 Without one thought of flight, to still maintain 
 * Motto of the Society. 
 
THE MIGBOCOSM. 
 
 Perpetual battle with the Powers of Pain ; 
 With a fine arrow from a well bent bow 
 Transfixing fatally the murd'rous foe ; 
 And with an arm made powerful to save, 
 Snatching the destined victims of the grave ;— 
 The lofty nature of your office such, 
 You cannot magnify the same too much. 
 Which Tully even, eloquently lauds, 
 As that which lifts man nearest to the gods. 
 
 NOSOLOGY— AtrSOtrLTATTOH"' OP HEABT ABB LOTrGS. 
 
 How many forms of sickness man befall. 
 Sorrow and pain the common lot of all ! 
 Science enquires, and as its kinship finds 
 Makes classes, orders, families and kinds. 
 Grouping and marshalling diseases so 
 You can them better nominate and know. 
 But no nosology did e'er include 
 The total of the mighty multitude. 
 
 Wise to interpret each prophetic sign, 
 To pierce the veil and hidden fates divine. 
 
TSS MICROCOSM. 
 
 When parents ask, with, grief and terror wild, 
 Canst thou not save my darling, save my child ? 
 You skilled to catch, while listening to the breath. 
 The distant footsteps of approaching death 
 May in the sighing of the suffering lung 
 And in its stillness hear alike a tongue 
 That syllables oracular reply : 
 " Impossible, 'tis fixed, your child must die." 
 Eesponse more dread not Delphic prophetess 
 E'er shuddered from her murmurous recess. 
 
 With rush of countless chariots, palpitates 
 Life's great metropolis through all her gates, 
 Their crimson wheels with a perpetual sound, 
 Coming and going in their endless round, 
 Are heard tumultuous as thy hurrying throng 
 Th' Appian or Flaminian ways along : 
 Tis yours to know next hour all this will fail, 
 And death and silence everywhere prevail. 
 
 PHTSIOIAS*S OHAEAOTEB AlTD AIHG — SCTElfOE PBOGEHSSITE. 
 
 O it is well that ye have hearts to feel 
 
THM MICROCOSM. 87 
 
 And ears not deaf to pity's soft appeal, 
 Putting no diiference 'twixt rich and poor, 
 Plying with equal zeal the means of eure, 
 Not deeming it becoming to regard 
 Color or rank or person or reward. 
 The man of impure life and sordid aims 
 He smuts his office and his calling shames : 
 Him you disown and place him under ban 
 As nothing better than a charlatan. 
 BeKeving needless ignorance a cilme, 
 You strive to reach the summit of your time ; 
 To old age learning up from early youth 
 Tour life one long apprenticeship to truth : 
 Wisely suspicions sometimes of the new, 
 Ye give alert acceptance to the true : 
 Even though it make old scieiace obsolew, 
 It with a thousand welcomes still you greet. 
 " Knowledge is power," and here 'tis power to save, 
 A power like God's to rescue from the grave. 
 Each Year adds something — many things ye know 
 
88 TSE MICMOGOBM. 
 
 Your sires knew not a Hundred Years ago ; 
 
 Art grown to more, your sons will higher clirnb, 
 
 And make the Coming Centuries sublime : 
 
 Till Christ's Millennial Kingdom shall begin, 
 
 And put an end to sickness and to sin. 
 
 Heights of the Future ! breezy with the breath 
 
 Of vernal quickening to the fields of Death, 
 
 In the far distance of the long before, , 
 
 We think we see your misty summits soar : 
 
 Though scarce distinguished from the mingling skies. 
 
 How glad the sight to our believing eyes ! 
 
 SPIBITnAi MAiABIEB— OHBIST THE OBEAT PHTBIOIAIT. 
 
 Ah ! there are maladies beyond your skill : 
 You cannot cure depravity of will : 
 You cannot mend a moral nature flawed. 
 Convert a mind at' enmity with God : 
 You cannot terminate the inward strife, 
 Bestbre the broken harmony of life : 
 With all th' armamentarium of Art 
 Kestraiu the outflow of an evil heart : 
 
TBE MICMOCOSM % 
 
 Cleanse by detergent washings of the skin 
 Th' immedicable leprosy of sin : 
 Remove the Innacy that chooses death, 
 And imprecates destruction with each breath. 
 When came the Great Physician of the Skies, 
 To find a rem-edy that should suffice, 
 Knowing 'twas not in mineral or wood. 
 He sought it in a Pharmacy of Blood ; 
 And since none other but His own was pure. 
 He transfused that to consummate the cure. 
 Man curing when past cure — content to give 
 Himself to die to make His patient live. 
 
 DBATH— mjIOETALITY— BESTTBBEOTION— SPrErnjAL BODY. 
 
 Death spreads, no more — a black and wrathful cloud 
 
 The smiling infinite of heaven to shroud — 
 
 A harmless mist, instead, divinely bright 
 
 With dewy splendors of the morning light. 
 
 That scarcely serves th' eternal world to hide, 
 
 Where loved ones gone before in bliss abide : 
 
 Lo ! what a mighty beckoning of hands, 
 12 
 
90 TBM MICROCOSM. 
 
 And wafted welcomes of angelic bands, 
 As one of Christ's deai- number upward springs, 
 And first essays Ms wondrous gift of wings. 
 Such greetings did your recent coming wait, 
 
 aged pilgrim !* at the heavenly gate, 
 When man's allotted years on earth now spent. 
 You, dying, " to the greater number went."t 
 What though your body moulders 'neath the sod. 
 
 Its untouched life is hid with Christ in God. 
 
 1 heard a yoice proclaiming from the skies : 
 
 " The dead shall live, with my dead body rise." 
 Awake and sing, O ye that dwell in dust, 
 Because He lives, who is your life, ye must. 
 His quickening spirit shall go forth again, 
 His power o'ershadow and His love impregn. 
 The slumbering germs dispersed through land and sea, 
 The buried ovules of identity, 
 
 * Dr. L. A. Smltli. 
 
 + Abiit aa plures. If this phrase was an apt and expressive equiva- 
 lent for death 2,000 years ago, how much more now. 
 
TBE MICROCOSM. 91 
 
 Shall suddenly unfold, and all the Earth 
 Be as a woman in the pangs of birth. 
 The Body born not mortal like that sown, 
 But kindred and resemblant to Christ's Own : 
 Admiring angels shall the sight applaud, 
 Blazing with all the majesty of God.