| Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903. | | | | The Spacious Firmament | | By John Milton (1608–1674) |
| | | AND 1 for the heaven’s wide circuit, let it speak | |
| The Maker’s high magnificence, who built | |
| So spacious, and His line stretched out so far, | |
| That man may know he dwells not in his own: | |
| An edifice too large for him to fill, | 5 |
| Lodged in a small partition, and the rest | |
| Ordained for uses to his Lord best known. | |
| Nor think, though men were none, | |
| That heaven would want spectators, God want praise; | |
| Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth | 10 |
| Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep; | |
| All these with ceaseless praise His works behold | |
| Both day and night. | |
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