...following:62 Oh blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heav'n; Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish,...ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world. (Essay on Man 1.85-90; Pope 1950: 24-5) Pope told Joseph Spence that he had originally intended to...