James Thomson (poet) Quote

With what an awful, world-revolving power, Were first the unwieldy planets launched along The illimitable void! There to remain Amidst the flux of many thousand years, That oft has swept the toiling race of men, And all their labored monuments, away.

In: Eli Maor, To Infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infinite (p. 206), Birkhäuser. 1987