LXXXV. With her then, as in humble duty bound, And all my fancies whirling like a mill; DON JUAN. CANTO THE TENTH. I. WHEN Newton saw an apple fall, he found A mode of proving that the earth turn'd round In a most natural whirl, called "gravitation;" And this is the sole mortal who could grapple, Since Adam, with a fall, or with an apple. (') II. Man fell with apples, and with apples rose, Through the then unpaved stars the turnpike road, A thing to counterbalance human woes: For ever since immortal man hath glow'd With all kinds of mechanics, and full soon Steam-engines will conduct him to the moon. (1) ["The celebrated apple tree, the fall of one of the apples of which is said to have turned the attention of Newton to the subject of gravity, was destroyed by wind about four years ago. The anecdote of the falling |