The Sun revolving on his axis turns,  
 And with creative fire intensely burns;  
 Impell’d the forcive air, our Earth supreme, 
 Rolls with the planets round the solar gleam; 
 First Mercury completes his transient year,  
 Glowing, refulgent, with reflected glare;  
 Bright Venus occupies a wider way,  
 The early harbinger of night and day; 
 More distant still our globe terraqueous turns, 
 Nor chills intense, nor fiercely heated burns;  
 Around her rolls the lunar orb of light,