The Flat Earth Society
Flat Earth Discussion Boards => Flat Earth Believers => Topic started by: James on October 02, 2009, 08:24:20 PM
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Thanks to Daniel for retrieving scans of this from the British Library. Having a spare moment this evening, I felt compelled to provide a textual transcription of this pleasant verse, which I think reminds us all of some simple but important facts about one aspect of Natural Perspective, and offers perhaps the most ear-pleasing response to questions from globularist enquirers about the nature of the horizon. Soon I will also transcribe the prose which accompanies the poem, and prepare image copies of the PDF diagrams which come with it too.
In the mean time as a valuable part of our historical heritage as the purveyors of the truth, I invite Flat Earthers everywhere to recite it in public, teach it to their children, &c., and always be mindful that it imparts valuable knowledge about the phenomenon of horizons, and a humbling moral message about knowing our own limitations besides.
Wher'er a man's horizon be,
Not one yard further can he see.
Man's eye-formed tent is God's provision
To frame and encircle all his vision,
In all directions he can see,
His eye-line's length the same will be.
His horizontal line of sight
Is equal to its length upright:
That is, straight on before his eye
Is just the same up vertically.
Controlled by certain limits too,
The telescope extends his view:
But its extended line of gaze
Is also equal in all ways,
All mortal things have limit scopes,
Including man-made telescopes.
But globites think their eyes can trace
A hundred million miles in "space":
That is, when looking towards the sun
They say the stars are further on--
Some stars-they-see-are--so they say--
Five hundred million miles away !
But the Creator of the sky
Created too the human eye:
So doubtless, 'tis a wise decision
That man is limited in vision,
And each man's dome, formed by his eye
(i.e., the limitation of his Sight-Sense)
Holds all he sees of earth or sky
(i.e., simultaneously).