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O'er Nature's laws, God cast the veil of night,
Out blaz'd a Newton's soul — and all was light.

— Aaron Hill Preserved in Hill's Works (1753)

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Preserved in Hill's Works (1753), Vol. IV, p. 92, and mentioned as probably derived from Alexander Pope's "Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! — and all was light" in The Epigrammatists: A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient, Mediæval, and Modern Times (1875) by Henry Philip Dodd, p. 329.

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