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! To the Momary of George Lewis Langton, Elq.

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Sir W. Jones 759

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flain in a Field of Battle

ELEGANT EXTRACTS.

POETICA L.

SUPREME!

BOOK THE FIRST.

SACRED AND MORAL.

Thomson.

1. An Address to the Deity.
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"ATHER of light and life! Thou GOOD
Oteach me what is good. Teach me THYSELF!
Save me from folly, vanity, and vice,
Fra every low purfuit! and feed my foul
W knowledge, confcious peace, and virtue
Sand, substantial, never-fading bliss! [pure;

2. Am and Eve, in a Morning Hymn, call upon the Parts of the Creation to join with them in ng their common Maker.

Milton.

Tetse ar Thy glorious works, Parent of good,
Aighty, thine this univerfal frame,
This wondrous fair, thyfelf how wondrous then!
Espeakable, who fitt it above these Heavens
To invible, or dimly seen
he thy loweft works; yet thefe declare
In goodness beyond thought, and pow'r divine.

ye who beft can tell, ye fons of light,
Angs; for ye behold him, and with fongs
Ancoral fymphonies, day without night,
Czz throne rejoicing; ye in Heaven,
Ch, join all ye creatures to extol

im laft, him midit, and without end.
Fears, last in the train of night,
Be thou belong not to the dawn,
of day, that crown'ft the fimiling morn
Wight circlet, praife him in thy Iphere,
Wanies, that feet hour of prime.
I of this great world both eye and foul,
Ia y al course, both when thou climb'ft,
Age him thy greater, found his praise
And wagh noon haft gain'd, and when thou

And ye
five other wand'ring fires that move
His praife, who out of darkness call'd up light.
In myftic dance, not without fong, refound
Air, and ye elements, the eldest birth

Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run
Perpetual circle, multiform; and mix

And nourish all things; let your ceafelefs change
Ye Mifts and Exhalations that now rife
Vary to our great Maker ftill new praise.
From hill or ftreaming lake, dusky or grey,
Till the fun paint your fleecy skirts with gold,
In honour to the world's great Author rife!
Whether to deck with clouds th' uncolour'd sky,
Rifing or falling ftill advance his praife.
Or wet the thirsty earth with falling fhowers,
Breathe foft or loud; and wave your tops, ye Pines,
His praife,ye Winds,that from four quarters blow,
With every plant in fign of worship wave.
Fountains, and ye that warble as ye flow
Join voices, all ye living Souls; ye Birds,
Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise,
That finging up to Heaven's gate afcend,
Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.
Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk
The earth, and ftately tread, or lowly creep;
Witness if I be filent, morn or even,
To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade
Made vocal by my fong, and taught his praise.
Hail univerfal Lord! be bounteous ftill
To give us only good; and if the night
Have gather'd aught of evil, or conceal'd,
Difperfe it, as now light difpels the dark.

3. On the Deity. Mrs. Barbauld. I READ God's awful name emblazon'd high, With golden letters on th' illumin'd sky; May, that now meet'ft the orient fun, now fly'ft Nor lefs the mystic characters I fee,

Was the fix'd ftars, fix'd in their orb that flies, Wrought in each flower, infcrib'd on ev'ry tree;

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