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The grand effect: acknowledges with joy

His manner, and with rapture taftes his style.
But never yet did philofophic tube,

That brings the planets home into the eye

Of observation, and discovers, elfe

Not visible, his family of worlds,

Discover him that rules them; fuch a veil
Hangs over mortal eyes, blind from the birth,
And dark in things divine. Full often too
Our wayward intellect, the more we learn
Of nature, overlooks her author more,
From inftrumental caufes proud to draw
Conclufions retrograde, and mad mistake.
But if his word once teach us, fhoot a ray
Through all the heart's dark chambers, and reveal
Truths undifcern'd, but by that holy light,

Then all is plain. Philofophy baptiz'd

In the

Has

pure fountain of eternal love

eyes indeed; and viewing all the fees,

As meant to indicate a God to man,

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Gives him his praise, and forfeits not her own.
Learning has borne fuch fruit in other days
On all her branches: piety has found

Friends in the friends of fcience, and true pray'r

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Has flow'd from lips wet with Caftalian dews.
Such was thy wisdom, Newton, childlike fage!
Sagacious reader of the works of God,

And in his word fagacious. Such too thine,
Milton, whofe genius had angelic wings,
And fed on marna. And fuch thine, in whom
Our British Themis gloried with just cause,
Immortal Hale! for deep difcernment prais'd,
And found integrity not more, than fam'd
For fanctity of manners undefil'd.

All flesh is grafs, and all its glory fades Like the fair flow'r difhevell'd in the wind; Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream: The man we celebrate must find a tomb, And we that worship him, ignoble graves.

Nothing

Nothing is proof against the general curfe
Of vanity, that feizes all below.

The only amaranthine flow'r on earth

Is virtue; th' only lafting treasure, truth.
But what is truth? 'twas Pilate's question put
To Truth itself, that deign'd him no reply.
And wherefore? will not God impart his light
To them that ask it ?-Freely-'tis his joy,
His glory, and his nature to impart.
But to the proud, uncandid, infincere,

Or negligent enquirer, not a spark.

What's that which brings contempt upon a book,
And him who writes it, though the style be neat,
The method clear, and argument exact?
That makes a minifter in holy things

The joy of many, and the dread of more,

His name a theme for praise and for reproach?—
That while it gives us worth in God's account,
Depreciates and undoes us in our own?

What pearl is it that rich men cannot buy,

That

That learning is too proud to gather up,
But which the poor, and the defpis'd of all,
Seek and obtain, and often find unfought?
Tell me, and I will tell thee, what is truth.

O friendly to the beft purfuits of man, Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace, Domestic life in rural leifure pass'd!

Few know thy value, and few taste thy sweets,
Though many boaft thy favours, and affect
To understand and chufe thee for their own.
But foolish man foregoes his proper blifs,
Ev'n as his firft progenitor, and quits,
Though placed in paradife (for earth has still
Some traces of her youthful beauty left)
Subftantial happiness for tranfient joy.

Scenes form'd for contemplation, and to nurse
The growing feeds of wisdom; that fuggeft,
By ev'ry pleafing image they prefent,

Reflections fuch as meliorate the heart,

Compofe

Compofe the paffions, and exalt the mind;
Scenes fuch as thefe, 'tis his fupreme delight
To fill with riot, and defile with blood.
Should fome contagion, kind to the poor brutes
We perfecute, annihilate the tribes

That draw the sportsman over hill and dale
Fearless, and rapt away from all his cares;
Should never game-fowl hatch her eggs again,
Nor baited hook deceive the fishes eye;
Could pageantry and dance, and feast and song,
Be quell'd in all our fummer-months retreat;
How many felf-deluded nymphs and fwains,
Who dream they have a tafte for fields and groves,
Would find them hideous nurs'ries of the fpleen,
And crowd the roads, impatient for the town!
They love the country, and none elfe, who feek
For their own fake its filence and its fhade.

Delights which who would leave, that has a heart
Sufceptible of pity, or a mind

Cultur'd and capable of fober thought,

For

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