Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go,
And view the ocean leaning on the sky:
From thence our rolling Neighbours we shall know,
And on the Lunar world securely pry.

'Annus Mirabilis The year of Wonders, 1666' (1667), lines 653–6, in James Kinsley (ed.), The Poems and Fables of John Dryden (1962)