Heav'ns whole foundations to the centre nod,
And nature tremble to the throne of God.
All this dread order break--for whom? for thee
Vile worm! Oh madness! pride! impiety!
3. What if the foot, ordain'd the dust to tread,
Or hand to toil, aspir'd to be the head?
What if the head, the eye, or ear repin'd
To serve mere engines to the ruling mind
Just as absurd for any part to claim
To be another, in this gen'ral frame;
Just as absurd, to mourn the tasks or pains,
The great directing mind of all ordains.
4. All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body nature is, and God the soul;
That chang'd thro' all, and yet in all the same
Great in the earth, as in th' ethereal frame :
Warms in the sun refreshes in the breeze,
Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees;
Lives thro' all life, extends thro' all extent,
Spreads undivided, operates unspent;
Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part
As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart:
As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns,
As the rapt seraph that adores and burns;
To him no high, no low, no great, no small;
He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
5. Cease then, nor ORDER imperfection name:
Our proper bliss depends on what we blame
Know thy own point: this kind, this due degree
Of blindness, weakness, heav'n bestows on thee..
Submit.--In this or any other sphere,

Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear:
Safe in the hand of one disposing Pow'r,
Or in the natal, or in the mortal hour,
All nature is but art, unknown to thee;
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
All discord, barmony not understood;
All partial evil, universal goed

And, spite of Pride, in erring Reason's spite,
One truth is clear--WHATEVER IS, IS RIGHT.

Pope

SECTION XXI,

Confidence in Divine Protection.

1. How are thy servants blest, O Lord?

How sure is their defence!
Eternal wisdom is their guide,
Their help Omnipotence.

2. In foreign realms, and lands remote,
Supported by thy care,

Through burning climes I pass'd unhurt,
And breath'd the tainted air.
Thy mercy sweeten'd every soil,
Made every region please :
The hoary Alpine hills it warm'd,
And smooth'd the Tyrrhene seast
4. Think, O my soul, devoutly think,
How with affrighted eyes,

Thou saw'st the wide extended deep
In all its horrors rise

3. Confusion dwelt in ev'ry face,
And fear in ev'ry heart,

When waves on waves, and gulfs in gulfs,
O'ercame the pilot's art.

.. Yt then, from all my griefs, O Lord,
Thy mercy set me free;

While in the confidence of pray'r
My soul took hold on thee.

7. For tho' In dreadful whirls we hung
High on the broken wave,

I knew thou wert not slow to hear,
Nor impotent to save.

8. The storm was laid, the winds retir'd,
Obedient to thy will;

The sea that roar'd at thy command,
At thy command was still.

9. In midst of dangers, fears, and deaths,
Thy goodness I'll adore :

And praise thee for thy mercies past,
And humbly hope for more.

10. My lite, if thou preserv'st my life,
Thy sacrifice shall be;

And death, if death must be my doom,

Shall join my soul to thee.

Addison.

SECTION XXII.

Hymn on a Review of the Seasons.

1: THESE, as they change, Almighty Father, these-
Are but the varied God. The rolling year
Is full of thee, Forth in the pleasing Spring
Thy beauty walks, thy tenderness and love.
Wide flush the fields; the softening air is balm;
Echo the mountains round; the forest smiles,
And every sense, and every heart is joy.
2. Then comes thy glory in the summer months,
With light and heat refulgent. Then thy sun
Shoots full perfection thro' the swelling year;
And oft thy voice in dreadful thunder speaks;
And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve,
By brooks and groves, in hollow-whisp'ring gales
3. Thy bounty shines in autumn unconfin'd,

And spreads a common feast for all that lives..
In winter, awful Thou! with clouds and storms
Around thee thrown, tempest o'er tempest roli'd
Majestic darkness! On the whirlwind's wing,
Riding sublime, thou bid'at the world adore ;
And humblest nature with thy northern blast.
4. Mysterious round! what skill, what force divine,
Deep felt, in these appear! a simple train,
Yet so delightful mix'd with such kind art,
Such beauty and beneficence combin'd;
Shade, unperceiv'd so soft'ning into shade,
And also forming an harmonious whole,
That as they still succeed, they ravish still.
5. But wand'ring oft, with brute unconscious gaze,
Man marks not thee, marks not the mighty hands.
That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres ;
Works in the secret deep; shoots steaming thence
The fair profusion that o'erspreads the spring;
Flings from the sun direct the flaming day;
Feeds every creature; hurls the tempest forth
And, as on earth this grateful change revolves,

With transport touches all the springs of life.
6. Nature, attend! join every living soul,
Beneath the spacious temple of the sky,
In adoration join! and, ardent, raise
One general song!-

Ye chief, for whom the whole creation smiles,
At once the head, the heart, and tongue of all—
Crown the great hymn!

7. For me, when I forget the darling theme,
Whether the blossom blows, the summer ray
Russets the plain; inspiring autumn gleams;
Or winter rises in the black'ning east;

Be my tongue mute, may fancy paint no more,
And dead to joy, forget my heart to beat !
8. Should fate command me to the farthest verge
Of the green earth, to distant barb'rous climes,
Rivers unknown to song; where first the sun
Gilds Indian mountains, or his setting beam
Flames on th' Atlantic isles; 'tis nought to me;
Since God is ever presen1, ever felt,

In the void waste as in the city full;

And where HE vital breathes, there must be joy. 9. When e'en at last the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds,

I cheerful will obey there, with new pow'rs,
Will rising wonders sing; I cannot go
Where UNIVERSAL LOVE. Not smiles around,
Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns,
From seeming evil still educing good,
And better thence again, and better still,
In infinite progression. But I lose
Myself in HIM, in light ineffable !

Come thou, expressive silence, muse his praise.

SECTION XXIIL

On Solitude.

1. O SOLITUDE, romantic maid!

Whether by nodding tow'rs you tread
Or haunt the desert's trackless gloom,
Or hover o'er the yawning tomb,

Thomson.

Or climb the Andes' clifted side,
Or by the Nile's coy source abide,
Or starting from your half-year's sleep
From Hecla view the thawing deep,
Or, at the purple dawn of day,
Tadmor's marble wastes survey;
You recluse, again I woo,

And again your steps pursue.
2. Plum'd conceit himself surveying
Folly with her shadow playing,
Purse-proud elbowing insolence,
Bloated empiric puff'd pretence,
Noise that through a trompet speaks
Laughter in loud peals that breaks,
Intrusion, with a fopling's face,
(Ignorant of time and place,)
Sparks of fire dissension blowing,
Ductile, court-bred dattery box ing,
Restrain!'s stiff neck, grimace's leer,
Squint-ey'd censure's artful sneer,
Ambition's buskins steep'd in blood,
Fly thy presence Solitude!

-3. Sage reflection, bent with years,
Conscious virtue void of fears,
Mad silence, wood nymph shy,
Meditation's piercing eye,

Halcyon peace of moss reclin❜d,
Retrospect that scans the mind,
Rapt earth-gazing revery,
Blushing artless modesty,

Health that snuffs the morning air,
Fall ey'd truth with bosom bare,
Inspiration, nature's child,

Seek the solitary wild.

4 When all nature's hush'd asleep,

Nor love, nor guilt, their vigils keep,"
Soft you leave your cavern'd den,
And wander o'er the works of men--
But when Phosphor brings the dawn,.
By her dappled coursers drawn,
Again you to the wild retreat
And the early huntsman meet,
Where, as you pensive pass along,