"E'en Light itself, which every thing displays, / Shone undiscover'd, till [Newton's] brighter mind / Untwisted all the shining robe of day."
A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton
Thomson, James (1700-1748). <u>Liberty, The Castle of Indolence, and other Poems</u>. Ed. James Sambrook. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986.

<p>RPO takes its text of the poem from a 3rd edition dated 1727. See Thomson, James. <u>A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton</u>. London: J. Millan, 1727. 3rd edn. &lt;<a href="http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2208.html">http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2208.html</a>&gt;.</p>