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It shines by day and is obscured at night-- A capital arrangement, such as I Should have suggested if the Infinite Had asked my counsel. If you ask me why, ’Tis clear ’twould not have suited men to lie Abed with sun full-orbed at midnight blaze And work their days by gaslight. We descry Throughout these things the providential ways, And are prepared in all to render them due praise.