- Attraction is a curious power,
- That none can understand:
- Its influence is every where-
- In water, air and land;
- It keeps the earth compact and tight,
- As though strong bolts were through it;
- And, what is more mysterious yet,
- It binds us mortals to it.
- You throw a stone up in the air,
- And down it comes-ker-whack!
- The centrifugal casts it up-
- The centripetal-back.
- My eyes! I can't discover how
- One object "tracts another;
- Unless they love each other, like
- A sister and a brother.
- I know the compass always points
- Directly at the pole;
- Some say the north star causes this,
- And some say - Symm's Hole!
- Perhaps it does-perhaps it don't;
- Perhaps some other cause;
- Keep on prehapsing-who can solve
- Attraction's hidden laws?
- As fly lights on a "lasses cup-
- Attraction bids him woo it;
- And, when he's in, attraction keeps
- The chap from paddling through it.
- Attraction lures the sot to drink,
- To all his troubles drown;
- But when his legs give way, he falls,
- And "traction keeps him down.
- Attraction is a curious power,
- That none can understand;
- Its influence is everywhere-
- In water, air and land.
- It operates on every thing--
- The sea, the tides, the weather;
- And sometimes draws the sexes up,
- And binds them fast together.
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