| Samuel Waddington, comp. The Sonnets of Europe. 1888. | | | | The Book of Nature | | By Tommaso Campanella (1568–1639) |
| | Translated by John Addington Symonds
THE WORLD’S the book where the eternal Sense | |
| Wrote his own thoughts; the living temple where, | |
| Painting his very self, with figures fair | |
| He filled the whole immense circumference. | |
| Here then should each man read, and gazing find | 5 |
| Both how to live and govern, and beware | |
| Of godlessness; and, seeing God all-where, | |
| Be bold to grasp the universal mind. | |
| But we tied down to books and temples dead,— | |
| Copied with countless errors from the life,— | 10 |
| These nobler than that school sublime we call. | |
| O may our senseless souls at length be led | |
| To truth by pain, grief, anguish, trouble, strife! | |
| Turn we to read the one original! | | | | |
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