• That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,- That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.

    Samuel Rogers: That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,- That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
    Samuel Rogers (1793). “The Pleasures of Memory”, p.118