Зображення сторінки
PDF
ePub

Blefa'd in himself, had from his forming hand
No creatures fprung to hail his wide command;
Blefs'd, had the facred fountain ne'er run o'er,
A boundless fea of blifs that knows no fhore!
Nor fenfe can two prime origins conceive,
Nor reason two eternal Gods believe!
Could the wild Manichæan own that guide,
The good would triumph, and the ill fubfide!
Again would vanquish'd Aramanius bleed,
And darkness from prevailing light recede!
In diff'rent individuals we find
An evident difparity of mind;
Hence ductile thought a thousand changes gains,
And actions vary as the will ordains;
But fhould two Beings, equally fupreme,
Divided pow'r and parted empire claim;
How foon would univerfal order cease!
How foon would difcord harmony displace!
Eternal schemes maintain eternal fight,
Nor yield, fupported by eternal might;
Where each would uncontroul'd his aim purfue,
The links diffever, or the chain renew!
Matter from motion crofs impreffions take,
As ferv'd each pow'r his rival's pow'r to break,
While neutral Chaos from his deep recefs,
Would view the never-ending ftrife increase,
And blefs the conteft that fecur'd his peace!
While new creations would oppofing rife,
And elemental war deform the skies!
Around wild uproar and confufion hurl'd,
Eclipse the heav`ns, and waste the ruin'd world.
Two independant caufes to admit,
Destroys religion, and debafes wit;
The first by fuch an anarchy undone,
The last acknowledges its fource but one.
As from the main the mountain rills are drawa,
That wind irriguous thro' the flow'ry lawn;
So, mindful of their spring, one courfe they
keep,

Exploring, till they find their native deep!
Exalted Power, invifible, fupreme,
Thou fov'reign, fole unutterable Name!
As round thy throne thy flaming feraphs ftand,
And touch the golden lyre with trembling hand;
Too weak thy pure effulgence to behold,
With their rich plumes their dazzled eyesinfold;
Tranfported with the ardors of thy praife,
The holy! holy! holy! anthem raife!
To them refponfive, let creation fing,
Thee, indivifible eternal King!

III. SPIRITUALITY.

O fay, celeftial Mufe! whofe purer birth Difdains the low material ties of earth; By what bright images fhall be defin'd The myftic nature of th' eternal Mind! Orhow thall thought the dazzling height explore, Where all that reafon can-is to adore!

That God's an immaterial effence pure, Whom figure can't describe, nor parts immure; Incapable of paffions, impulfe, fear, In good pre-eminent, in truth fevere: Unmix'd his nature, and fublim'd his pow'rs From all the grofs allay that tempers ours;

In whofe clear eye the bright angelic train,
Appear fuffus'd with imperfection's stain !
Impervious to the man's or feraph's eye,
Beyond the ken of each exalted high.
Him would in vain material femblance feign,
Or figur'd thrines the boundless God contain
Object of faith! he thuns the view of fenfe,
Loit in the blaze of fightless excellence!
Most perfect, moft intelligent, most wife,
In whom the fanctity of purenefs lies;
In whofe adjufting mind the whole is wrough
Whofe form is fpirit, and whofe effence though
Are truths infcrib'd by Wifdom's brightest ra
In characters that gild the face of day!

Reafon confefs'd (howe'er we may difpute
Fix'd boundary! difcovers man froin brute;
But, dim to us, exerts its fainter ray,
Deprefs'd in matter, and allied to clay!
In forms fuperior kindles lefs confin'd,
Whofe drefs is æther, and whofe substance min
Yet all from Him, fupree of caufes flow,
To Him their pow'rs and their existence owe
From the bright cherub of the noblest birth,
To thepoor reafoningglow-wormplac'd on eart
From matter then to spirit ftill afcend,
Thro' fpirit ftill refining, higher tend;
Purfue, on knowledge bent, the pathlefs roa
Pierce thro' infinitude in queft of God!
Still from thy fearch, the center ftill shall fly,
Approaching ftill-thou never fhalt cone nig
So its bright orb th' afpiring flame would joi
But the vaft diftance mocks the fond defign.
If he, Almighty! whofe decree is fate,
Could, to display his pow'r, fubvert his state
Bid from his plaftic hand, a greater rife,
Produce a maiter, and refign his skies;
Impart his incommunicable flame,
The mystic number of th' Eternal Name ;
Then might revolting reafon's feeble ray
Afpire to question God's all-perfect day!
Vain talk the clay in the directing hand,
The reason of its form might fo demand,
As man prefume to question his difpofe
From whom the power he thus abufes flows.
Here point, fair Mufe! the worship God r

quires,

The foul inflam'd with chafte and holy fires
Where love celestial warms the happy breaft,
And from fincerity the thought's exprefs'd;
Where genuine piety, and truth refin'd,
Re-confecrate the temple of the mind;
With grateful flames the living altars glow,
And God defcends to vifit man below!

[blocks in formation]

This brighterpre fence fhine confeft.
The mighty arm thy course arrest!
Cuff to the thickeft veil of night affume,
to hide thee in the central gloom!
Ye there, all patent to his piercing light,
Danes tiel would kindle into light:
Aut the black manfions of the filent grave,
Mr darker hell, from his perception fave;
What pow'r, alas! thy footsteps can convey
Brycat each of omniprefent day?

I Ls wat grafp, and comprehenfive eye,
Inette words on worlds unnumber'd lie:
Sencios'd in his perception roll,
Wata-forming mind directs the whole:
Log grafp,theircertain ways they know;
Fathight from whence can nothing go.
Carta tootitool fix'd, in heav'n his feat;
Estare te dictates, and his word is fate.

this thining images below,

Is that murmur, or in winds that blow;
Hods along the boundless flood,
tepin, and whispers in the wood;
Wat genial fun's enliv'ning ray,'

en the air, and beautifies the day!
Sts great immensity deny,
Magell ufurp the vacant sky:
For are tented in date, or view,

[ocr errors]

His all-enlight'ning Omniprefenceown,[known;
Whence firit thou feel'ft thy dwindling presence
His wide Omnifcience, juftly, grateful, fing,
Whence thyweak science prunes its callowwing!
And blefs th' Eternal, All-informing Soul,
Whofe fight pervades, whose knowledge fills the
whole.

is attributes imperfect too; power, his goodness all confin'd, A of a ruling Mind! Fere the trait, and comfortless the fense

defective partial Providence! Mythen his arm injustice brave,

cine in vain his mercy crave;
De vinue lift its hopeless eye:
Arrow vent the heartless sigh!
Art God no abler to defend,

h, than an absent friend; Dear wants or griefs to know, Te teguish, or prevent the blow,

the Director, were not near,
cur hope, and empty were our fear;
dvice would o'er the world prevail,

Arewarded virtue toil-to fail!

v. IMMUTABILITY.

As the Eternal and Omniscient Mind,
By laws not limited, nor bounds confin'd,
Is always independant, always free,
Hence fhines confefs'd Immutability!
Change, whether the fpontaneous child of will
Or birth of force-is imperfection ftill.
But he, all-perfect, in himself contains
Pow'r felf-deriv'd, and from himself he reigns!
If, alter'd by constraint, we could fuppofe,
That God his fix'd stability should lofe;
How startles reason at a thought so strange!
What pow'r can force Omnipotence to change?
If from his own divine productive thought,
Were the yet stranger alteration wrought;
Could excellence fupreme new rays acquire?
Or strong perfection raise its glories higher?
Abfurd his high meridian brightnefs glows,
Never decreases, never over flows!
Knows no addition, yields to no decay,
The blaze of incommunicable day!

world a fecond chaos lie, Azure icken to the thoughful eye! weak embryo, ere to life it breaks, Figh pow'r its flender texture takes; aas book the various parts inroll'd,

[ocr errors]

own eternal Wisdom's mould. as he only the material whole, Bees thought, and penetrates the foul ! the lips the vocal accents part, purpose dawns within the heart, tye the mental birth perceives, Is the new idea lives!

Below through different forms does matter
And life fubfift from elemental change; [range,
Liquids condenfing fhapes terreftrial wear,
Earth mounts in fire, and fire diffolves in air;
While we, enquiring phantoms of a day,
Inconftant as the fhadows we furvey !
With them, along time's rapid current pass,
And hafte to mingle with the parent mafs;
But Thou, Eternal Lord of life divine!
In youth immortal fhalt for evcr fhine!
No change fhall darken thy exalted name;
From everlafting ages ftill the fame!

at we fay, ere yet the words proceed, A form the intention, marks the deed! A Author, and reftores the scenel Bcience, fair vicegerent-light within,

the beauty of the govern'd plan, And radicates the ways of God to man.”

If God, like man, his purpose could renew,
His laws could vary, or his plans undo;
Defponding Faithwould droop itscheerlefs wing,
Religion deaden to a lifeless thing!
Where could we, rational, repose our trust,
But in a Pow'r immutable as juft?
How judge of revelation's force divine,
If truth unerring gave not the defign?
Where, as in nature's fair according plan,
All fmiles benevolent and good to man.

Plac'd in this narrow clouded spot below,
We darkly fee around and darkly know!
Religion lends the falutary beam,

That guides our reafon thro'the dubious gleam
Till founds the hour, when he who rules thefkies
Shall bid the curtain of Omniscience rife!

Shall diffipate the mifts that veil our fight,
And fhew his creatures--all bis ways are right!

Then, when aftonish'd nature feels its fate,
And fetter'd time fhall know his latest date;
When earth shall in the mighty blaze expire,
Heav'n melt withheat, andworlds diffolve infire!

Fa beav'n defcended, as by heav'n inspir'd; And ceasing orbs confess th' almighty_fway! Then, cred Mufe, by the vaft profpect fir'd, The univerfal fyftem fhrink away,

Immortal

Immortal He, amidst the wreck fecure,
Shall fit exalted, permanently pure!
As in the Sacred Buth, thall thine the fame,
And from the ruin raise a fairer frame!

VI. OMNIPOTENCE.

Then at our intermediate globe repose,
And view yon lunar fatellite that glows!
Or caft along the azure vault thy eye,
When golden day enlightens all the fky;
Around, behold earth's variegated fcene,
The mingling profpects, and th' flow`ry gree
The mountain brow, the long-extended woo
And fay, are thefe the wild effects of chance
Or the rude rock that threatens o'er the flood
Oh, ftrange effect of reas'ning ignorance!

Nor pow'r alone confefs'd in grandeur lies
Equal, the elephant's or emmet's drefs
The glittering planet or the painted skies!
The wifdom of Omnipotence confess;
Equal, the cumbrous whale's enormous mass,
With the small infects in the crouded grass;

Far hence, ye vifionary charming maids, Ye fanciednymphsthat haunt the Grecianfhades! Your birth who from conceiving fiction drew, Yourselves producing phantoms as untrue: But come, fuperior Mufe! divinely bright, Daughter of heav'n,whofe offspring ftill is light; Oh condefcend celeftial facred guest! To purge my fight, and animate my breaft, While I prefume Omnipotence to trace, And fing that Pow'r who peopled boundlefs The mite that gambels in its acid fea, fpace! Thou prefent wert, when forth th' Almighty Ev'n the blue down the purple plum furround [rode, In fhape a porpus, though a fpeck to thee! WhileChaostrembledat the voiceof God! [drew, A living world, thy failing fight confounds, Thou faw'ft, when o'er th' immenfe his line he To him a peopled habitation shows, When Nothing from his Word existence knew! Where millions tafte the bounty God beftows His Word, that wak'd to life the vaft profound, Great Lordof life,whofe all-controuling mig While confcious light was kindled at the found! Thro' wide creation beams divinely bright, Creation fair furpriz'd the angelic eyes, And fov'reign Wisdom faw that all was wife! But to annihilate, dread King! is thine Nor only does thy pow'r in forming fhine, Him, fole Almighty, nature's book difplays, Shouldft thou withdraw thy ftill-fupportin Diftin&t the page, and legible the rays! Let the wild sceptic his attention throw hand, To the broad horizon, or earth below; He finds thy foft impreffion touch his breast, He feels the God, and owns him unconfeft: Should the ftray pilgrim, tir'd of fands and ikies, In Lybia's waite behold a palace rise, Would he believe the charmiromatoms wrought? Go, atheift, hence, and mend thy jufterthought! What hand, Almighty Architect! but thine, Could give the model of this vaft defign? What hand but thine adjust th' amazing whole And bid confenting fyftems beauteous roll! What hand but thine fupply the folar light! Ever bettowing, yet for ever bright! What hard but thine the ftarry train array, Or give the Moon to fhed her borrow'd ray? What hand but thine the azure convex (pread? What hand but thine compofe the ocean's bed? To the vast main the fandy barrier throw, And with the feeble curb reftrain the foe! What hand but thine the wint'ry flood affuage, Or ftop the tempeft in its wildest rage!

Thee infinite! what finite can explore?
Inngination finks beneath thy pow'r;
Thee could the ableft of thy creatures know,
Loft were thy Unity, for he were Thou!
Yet prefent to all fenfe thy pow'r remains,
Reveal'd in nature, nature's Author reigns!
In vain would error from conviction fly,
Thou ev'ry where art present to the eye!
The fenfe how ftupid, and the fight how blind,
That fails this univerfal truth to find!

Go! all the fightless realms of space furvey,
Returning trace the Planetary Way!
The fun that in his central glory fhines,
While ev'ry planet round his orb inclines;

How languid nature would astonish'd stand!
Thy frown the ancient realm of night reitore
And raifea blank-where fyftems mil'd befor
How ftruggling life eludes the ftroke of fate;
See in corruption, all-furprising ftate,
Nor ftops the wond'rous procefs to defcry;
Shock'd at the fcene, tho' fenfe averts its eye,
Yet julter thought the mystic change pursues
And with delight Almighty Wisdom views!
Sces life fubfitting ev'n from life's decays!
The brute, the vegetable world furveys,
Mark there,felf-taught, the penfive reptile come
Spin his thin fhroud, and living build his tomb
With confcious care his former pleasures leave
And drefs him for th' bus'nefs of the grave!
Thence, pafs'd the short-liv'd change, renew'
Admires the fkies, and tries his filken wings!
he fprings,
With airy flight the infect roves abroad,
And fcorns the meaner earth he lately trod!

Thee, potent, let deliver'd Ifrael praise,
And to thy name their grateful homage raife!
Thee, potent God! let Egypt's land declare,
That felt thy juftice awfully fevere !

How did thy frown benight the shadow'd land!
Nature revers'd, how own thy high command!
When jarring elements their use forgot,
And the fun felt thy overcafting blot!
When earth produc'd the peftilential brood,
How deep the horrors of that awful night,
And the foul ftream was crimson'd into blood!
When o'er the land thy fword vindictive pals`d,
How ftrong the terror, and how wild the fright!
And men and infants breath'd at once their laft,
How did thy arm thy favour'd tribes convey i
Thy light conducting point the patent way!

Obedient

[ocr errors]

Chcean to their march divide
The wall diftinct on either fide;
the deep the long proceffion led,
As the wonders of the cozy bed!
theymarch'd,till,black'ninginthe rear,
The tyrant and his host appear!
Pdown the teep, the waves thy nod obey,
An he threat ning stormbeneath the fea!
Noret thy pow'r thy chofen train forfook,
When the Abia's fands their way they took;
Bethcond was prefent to the fight,
The par led the inarch by night;
Teddit the waste their table (pread,
Water'd viands, and with heav'nly bread:
When the dry wilderness no ftreams fupplied,
Gad from the yielding rock the vital tide!
Wits can Omnipotence confine?
Wint esticles oppose thy arm divine?
Sabes and waves their settled laws forego,
as can harden, and fince rocks can flow!
a's top. the Mufe with ardent wing
Thanks of Omnipotence would fing!
We its airy brow thy cloud display'd,

the nations in its awful shade;
War for the earth from thy approaching
And the rock trembled to its rooted bafe: [face,
Yet where the majefty divine appear'd,
Ware both glory,and thy voice was heard,
E the ze of that tremendous day,
Its impious rites could pay! [vade,
Ostame to thought!-thy facred throne in-
Aad save the bolt that linger'd round its head!

VII. WISDOM.

Ohohenth'Almightyform'dthisAll, the and weigh'd each balanc'd ball; As a bed completed each defign, Nerd the work, and fix'd the feal divine; 0 White! creation's foul, Waczy diffufe new luftre o'er the whole, What gue hall make thy charms celestial [own? Wat bind, fair God defs! paint thee but thy Whetho' in nature's universal store

koown?

the wonders of almighty pow'r;
attended, terror would infpire,
And we gaze, and comfortless admire.
bfair Wifdom joins in the defign,
Tex
arty of the whole result 's divine!

He acknowledges its glorious caufe,
Ander owns its great Diipofer's laws;
He a thousand different models wrought,
Sd to quiet, now allied to thought;
Be the forms and properties of things,
harmony, and order fprings;
the mafs a fhapelefs chaos lay,
A felt the dawn of Wifdom's day!
Saffociate round their central fun,
Theraful rings the circling planets run;
Stillega aftant, never yet too near,
Exay racing their appointed sphere.
Mart how the moon our flying orb pursues,

Breathes her wide influence on the world below,
And bids the tides alternate ebb and flow.
View how in course the constant seasons rife,
Deform the earth, or beautify the skies:
Firft, Spring advancing, with her flow'ry train;
Next, Summer's hand, that spreads the fylvan
fcene;

Then, Autumn,with heryellowharvestscrown'd,
And trembling Winter clofe the annual round.
The vegetable tribes obfervant trace,
From the tall cedar to the creeping grafs :
The chain of animated beings fcale,
From the fmall reptile to the enormous whale;
From the ftrong eagle ftooping thro' the fkies,
To the low infect that efcapes thy eyes!
And fee, if fee thou canft, in ev'ry frame,
Eternal Wisdom fhine confefs'd the fame:
As proper organs to the least affign'd,
As proper means to propagate the kind,
As juft the structure, and as wife the plan,
As in this lord of all-debating man!

Hence, reas'ning creature,thydiftinctionfind,
Nor longer to the ways of Heav'n be blind.
Wisdom in outward beauty strikes the mind,
But outward beauty points a charm behind.
What gives the earth, the ambient air, or feas,
The plain, the river, or the wood to please?
Oh fay, in whom does beauty's felf refide,
The Beautifier, or the beautified?
There dwells the Godhead in the bright disguise,
Beyond the ken of all created eyes;
His works our love and our attention steal;
His works (furpriting thought) the Maker veil;
Too weak our fight to pierce the radiant cloud,
Where Wisdom fhines,in all her charins avow'd.
Unerring Lord, and Ruler of the ikies!
O gracious God, omnipotent and wife,
All-condefcending, to my feeble heart
One beam of thy celeftial light impart;
grant me Wisdom-and I ask no more!
I feek not fordid wealth, or glitt'ring pow'r;

VIII. PROVIDENCE.

As fromfome level country'sfhelter'dground,
Withtowns replete,withgreen enclosuresbound,
Where the eye kept within the verdant maze,
But gets a tranfient vifta as it strays;
The pilgrim to fome rifing fummit tends,
Whence opens all the scene as he afcends;
So Providence the friendly heights supplies,
Where all the charms of Deity furprise;
Here Goodness, Power, and Wisdom, all unite,
And dazzling glories whelm the ravish'd fight I

Almighty Caufe! 'tis thy preferving care,
That keeps thy works for ever fresh and fair;
The fun, from thy fuperior radiance bright,
Eternal fheds his delegated light;
Lends to his fifter orb inferior day,
And paints the filver moon's alternate ray:
Thy hand the waste of eating Time renews:
Thou fhedd'it the tepid morning's balmy dews:
When raging winds the blacken'd deep deform,

What Thy spirit rides commiffion'd in the storm;

[ocr errors]

Bids at thy will the flack'ning tempest cease,
While the calm ocean fmooths its ruffled face;
When lightnings thro' the air tremendous fly,
Or the blue plague is loofen'd to destroy,
Thy hand directs, or turns aside the stroke;
Thy word the fiend's commiffion can revoke;
When fubterraneous fires the furface heave,
And towns are buried in the yawning grave;
Thou suffer'ft not the mischief to prevail;
Thy fov'reign touch the recent wound can heal.
ToZembla's rock thou fend'ft thecheerfulgleam;
O'erLybia's fandsthoupour'ft the coolingftream;
Thy watchful providence o'er all intends;
Thy works obey their great Creator's ends.
When man too long the paths of vice purfued,
Thy hand prepar'd the univerfal flood;
Gracious, to Noah gave the timely fign,
To fave a remnant from the wrath divine!
One thining wafte the globe terrestrial lay,
And the ark heav'd along the troubled fea;
Thou bad'it the deep his ancient bed explore,On violence oft retorts the cruel spear,
The clouds their wat❜ry deluge pour'd no more!
The skies were clear'd-the mountain tops were
The dove pacific brought the olive green [feen,
On Arrarat the happy Patriarch toft,
Found the recover'd world his hopes had loft;
There his fond eyes review'd the pleafing scene,
The earth all verdant, and the air ferene!
Its precious freight the guardian ark display'd,
While Noah grateful adoration paid!
Beholding in the many-tinctur'd bow
The promife of a fafer world below.

Why faints and fages, mark'd in every age
Perish the victims of tyrannic rage;
Why Socrates for truth and freedom fell,
Or Nero reign'd the delegate of hell?
In vain by reafon is the maze pursued,
Of ill triumphant, and afflicted good,
Fix'd to the hold, fo might the failor aim
To judge the pilot, and the fteerage blame,
As we direct to God what should belong,
Or fay, that fov'reign wifdom governs wrong
Nor always vice does uncorrected go,
Nor virtue unrewarded pafs below!
Oft facred Juftice lifts her awful head,
And dooms the tyrant and th' ufurper dead;
Oft Providence, more friendly than severe,
Arrefts the hero in his wild career;
Directs the fever, poniard, or the ball,
By which an Ammon, Charles, or Cæfar fall;
Or, when the curfed Borgias brew the cup
For merit, bids the moniters drink it up;

When wild ambition rear'd its impious head,
And rifing Babel Heav'n with pride furvey'd;
Thy word the mighty labour could confound,
And leave the mafs to moulder with the ground,
From Thee all humanactions taketheir prings,
The rife of empires, and the fall of kings!
See the vast theatre of time difplay'd,
While o'er the fcene fucceeding heroes tread!
With pomp the fhining images fucceed,
Whatleaders triumph! andwhatmonarchsbleed!
Perform the parts thy providence affign'd,
Their pride, their paffions, to thy ends inclin'd:
A while they glitter in the face of day,
Then at thy nod the phantoms pafs away;
No traces left of all the buty fcene,
But that remembrance fays-The thing sbavebeen!
"But(questions Doubt) whenceficklynaturefeels
"The ague-fits her face fo oft reveals? [breaft?
"Whence earthquakesheave the earth'saftonifh'd
"Whence tempeits rage? or yellow plaguesinfeft?
"Whence draws rank Afric her empoifon'd
"Or liquid fires explosive Ætna pour?" [ftore?
Go, fceptic mole! demand th' eternal caufe,
The fecret of his all-preferving laws;
The depths of wildom infinite explore,
And ask thy Maker-why he knows no more?
Thy error ftill in moral things as great,
As vain to cavil at the ways of fate,
To atk why profp'rous vice fo oft fucceeds,
Why fuffers innocence, or virtue bleeds?
Why monsters, nature muft with bluthes own,
By crimes grow pow`rful,and difgrace a throne?

Or fetters cunning in its crafty fnare;
Relieves the innocent, exalts the juft,
And lays the proud oppreffor in the duft!

But, faft as Time's fwift pinions can convey
Haftens the pomp of that tremendous day,
When to the view of all created eyes
God's high tribunal fhall majettic rife,
When the loud trumpet fhall assemble round
The dead, reviving at the piercing found!
Where men and angels shall to audit come,
And millions yet unborn receive their doom!
Then fhall fir Providence, to all difplay'd,
Appear divinely bright without a fhade;
In light triumphant all her acts be shown,
And blushing Doubt eternal Wisdom own!

Mean while, thou great Intelligence fupreme,
Sov'reign Director of this mighty frame,
Whofe watchful hand, and all-obferving ken,
Fashions the hearts, and views the ways of men;
Whether thy hand the plenteous table spread,
Or measure fparingly the daily bread;
Whether or wealth or honours gild the fcene,
Or wants deform, and wasting anguish flain;
On thee let truth and virtue firm rely,
Biefs'd in the care of thy approving eye!
Know that thy providence,their conftant friend
Thro' life thall guard them,and in death attend
With everlasting arms their caufe embrace,
And crown the paths of piety with peace.

IX. GOODNESS.

Ye feraphs, who God's throne encircling fti
With holy zeal your golden cenfers fill;
Ye flaming minifters, to diftant lands
Who bear, obfequious, his div ne commands
Ye cherubs, who compose the facred choir,
Attuning to the voice th' angelic lyre!
Or ye, fair natives of the heav'nly plain,
Who once were mortal-now a happier train
Who spend in peaceful love your joyful hour
In blifsful meads, and amaranthine bow'rs,
Oh lend one spark of your celestial fire,
Oh deign my glowing bofom to infpire,

An

« НазадПродовжити »