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$63. Deity. BOYSE.

Unde nil majus generatur Ipfo,

Nec viget quidquam fimilé aut fecundum. HoR. ROM earth's low profpects and deceitful aims, From wealth's allurements, and ambition's dreams,

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The lover's raptures, and the hero's views,
All the falfe joys mistaken man purfues;
The schemes of science, the delights of wine,
Or the more pleafing follies of the Nine!
Recall, fond Bard, thy long-enchanted fight,
Deluded with the visionary light!
A nobler theme demands thy facred fong,
A theme beyond or man's or angel's tongue!
But oh alas! unhallow'd and prophanc,
How fhalt thou dare to raise the heav'nly ftrain?
Do thou, who from the altar's living fire
Ifaiah's tuneful lips did once infpire,
Come to my aid, celeftial Wifdom, come;
From my dark mind difpel the doubtful gloom:
My paffions ftill, my purer breaft inflame,
To fing that God, from whom exiftence came;
Till heav'n and nature in the concert join,
And own the Author of their birth divine.

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Whence fprung this glorious frame! or whence The various forms the univerfe compofe? [arole From what Almighty Caufe, what myftic fprings Shall we derive the origin of things?

Sing, heav'nly Guide! whofe all-efficient light
Drew dawning planets from the womb of night!
Since reafon, by thy facred dictates taught,
Adores a Pow'r beyond the reach of thought.
First Cause of caufes! Sire fupreme of birth!
Sole light of heav'n! acknowledg'd life of earth!
Whofe Word from nothing call'd this beauteous
whole,

This wide expanded All from pole to pole!
Who fhall prescribe the boundary to Thee?
Or fix the æra of Eternity!

Should we, deceiv'd by error's fceptic glafs, Admit the thought abfurd-that Nothing was! Thence would this wild, this falfe conclufion flow,

That Nothing rais'd this beauteous All below!
When from difclofing darkness fplendor breaks,
Affociate atoms move, and matter fpeaks!
When non-existence burfts its clofe difguife,
How blind are mortals -not to own the fkies !
If one vaft void eternal held its place,
Whence started time? or whence expanded space!
What gave the flumb'ring mafs to feel a change?
Or bid confenting worlds harinenious range!
Could nothing link the univerfal chain?
No, 'tis impoffible, abfurd, and vain!
Here reafon its eternal Author finds,
The whole who regulates, unites, and binds,
Enlivens matter, and produces minds!
Inactive Chaos fleeps in dull repofe,

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Nor knowledge thence, nor free volition flows!
A nobler source those pow'rs ethereal show,
By which we think, defign, reflect, and know;

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These from a caufe fuperior date their rife,
"Abstract in effence from material tyes."
An origin immortal, as fupreme,
From whofe pure day, celeftial rays! they came:
In whom all poffible perfections thine
Eternal, felf-exiftent, and divine !

From this Great Spring of uncreated might !
This all-refplendant Orb of vital light:
Whence all created beings take their rife,
Which beautify the earth, or paint the skies !
Profufely wide the boundless bleffings flow,
Which heav'n enrich, and gladden worlds below!
Which are no lefs, when properly defin'd,
Than emanations of th'Eternal Mind!
Hence triumphs truth beyond objection clear
(Let unbelief attend, and fhrink with fear !)
That what for ever was-muft furely be
Beyond commencement, and from period free;
Drawn from himself his native excellence,
His date eternal, and his space immenfe !
And all of whom that man can comprehend,
Is, that he ne'er begun, nor ne'er fhall end.

In Him, from whom existence boundless flows, Let humble faith its facred truft repose; Affur'd, on his eternity depend, "Eternal Father! and eternal Friend !" Within that myftic circle fafety feck, No time can leffen, and no force can break; And, loft in adoration, breathe his praffe, High Rock of ages, ancient Sire of days!

II. UNITY.

Thus recogniz'd, the fpring of life and thought! Eternal, felf-deriv'd, and unbegot! Approach, celeftial Mufe, th'empyreal throne, And awfully adore th'exalted One! In nature pure, in place fupremely free, And happy in effential unity! Blefs'd in himself, had from his forming hand No creatures fprung to hail his wide coinmand; 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 reafon two eternal Gods believe! Could the wild Manichæan own that guide, The good would triumph, and the ill fubfide! Again would vanquifh'd Arimanius bleed, And darknefs from prevailing light recede !

In diffrent individuals we find An evident difparity of mind; Hence ductile thought a thoufand 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 fchemes maintain eternal fight, Nor yield, fupported by eternal might; Where cach would uncontroul'd his aim purfue, The links diffever, or the chain renew! Matter from motion crofs impreffions take, As ferv' 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!

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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 causes to admit,
Destroys religion, and debafes wit;
The firft by fuch an anarchy undone,
The last acknowledges its fource but one.
As from the main the mountain rills are drawn,
That wind irriguous thro' the flow'ry lawn;
So, mindful of their spring, one course they keep,
Exploring, till they find their native deep!
Exalted Pow'r invisible, 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 eyes infold;
Transported with the ardors of thy praife,
The holy holy! holy! anthem raise !
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?

Or how fhall thought the dazzling height explore,
Where all that reafon can-is to adore.

That God's an immaterial effence pure, Whom figure can't defcribe, nor parts immure; Incapable of pathons, impulfe, fear, In good pre-eminent, in truth fevere; Unmix'd his nature, and sublim'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; Hin would in vain material femblance feign, Or figur'd fhrines the boundless God contain; Object of faith!--he fhuns the view of fenfe, Loft in the blaze of fightless excellence! Moft perfect, moft intelligent, most wife, In whom the fanctity of purenefs lies;

In whose adjusting mind the whole is wrought, Whole form is fpirit! and whofe effence, thought! Are truths infcrib'd by Wifdom's brightest ray, In characters that gild the face of day!

Reafon confefs'd (howe'er we may dispute) Fix'd boundary! difcovers man from brute; But dim to us, exerts its fainter ray, Deprefs'd in matter, and ally'd to clay! In forms fuperior kindles-lefs confin'd, Whofe drefs is æther, and whose substance mind; Yet all from Him, Supreme of Causes, flow, To him their pow'rs and their existence owe; From the bright cherub of the nobleft birth, To the poor reafoning glow-worm plac'd on earth; From matter then to spirit still ascend, Thro' fpirit ftill refining, higher tend; Purfue, on knowledge bent the pathlefs road, Pierce thro' infinitude in quest of God!

Still from thy fearch, the centre ftill fhall fly, Approaching ftill thou never fhall come nigh! So its bright orb, th’aspiring flame would join, But the vaft diftance mocks the fond defign.

If He, Almighty! whofe decree is fate, Could, to difplay his pow'r, fubvert his ftate; Bid from his plaftic hand a greater rife, Produce a master! and refign his skies! Impart his incommunicable flame, The myftic number of th'Eternal Name! Then might revolting reafon's feeble ray, Afpire to question God's all-perfect day! Vain tafk! the clay in the directing hand, The reason of its form might fo demand, As man prefume to question his difpofe, From whom the pow'r, he thus abuses, flows. Here point, fair Mufe! the worship God re

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Thro' the unmeasurable tracts of space,
Go,-Mufe divine! and prefent Godhead trace!
See where by place, uncircumfcrib'd as time,
He reigns extended, and he fhines fublime!
Should'st thou above the heav'n of heav'ns af-
cend,

Couldst thou below the depth of depths defcend;
Could thy fond flight beyond the starry sphere,
The radiant morning's lucid pinions bear!
There should his brighter prefence shine confeft,
There his almighty arm thy courfe arrest!
Couldst thou the thickeft veil of night affume,
Or think to hide thee in the central gloom!
Yet there, all patent to his piercing fight,
Darkness itself would kindle into light:
Not the black mansions of the filent grave;
Nor darker hell from her perception fave;
What pow'r, alas! thy footsteps can convey
Beyond the reach of omniprefent day!

In his wide grafp and comprehenfive eye,
Immediate, worlds on worlds unnumber'd lie:
Syftems inclos'd in his perception roll,
Whofe all-informing mind directs the whole :
Lodg'd in his grafp, their certain ways they know;
Plac'd in that fight from whence can nothing go.
On earth his footstool fix'd, in heav'n his feat;
Enthron'd he dictates, and his word is fate.

Nor want his fhining images below, In ftreams that murmur, or in winds that blow; His fpirit broods along the boundless flood, Smiles in the plain, and whifpers in the wood; Warns in the genial fun's enliv'ning ray, Breathes in the air, and beautifies the day!

Should man his great immenfity deny, Man might as well ufurp the vacant sky: For were he limited in date, or view, Thence were his attributes imperfect too;

His knowledge, pow'r, his goodness all confin'd,
And loft th'idea of a ruling Mind!
Feeble the truft, and comfortless the sense,
Of a defective partial Providence!
Boldly might then his arm injuftice brave,
Or innocence in vain his mercy crave;
Dejected virtue lift its hopeless eye;
And heavy forrow vent the heartless figh!
An abfent God no abler to defend,
Protect, or punish, than an abfent friend;
Diftant alike, our wants or griefs to know,
To cafe the anguish, or prevent the blow!
If he, Supreme Director, were not near,
Vain were our hope, and empty were our fear;
Unpunish'd vice would o'er the world prevail,
And unrewarded virtue toil-to fail!
The moral world a second chaos lie,
And nature ficken to the thoughtful eye!

Even the weak embryo, ere to life it breaks,
From his high pow'r its flender texture takes;
While in his book the various parts inroll'd,
Increasing, own eternal Wisdom's mould.

Nor views he only the material whole,
But pierces thought, and penetrates the foul!
Ere from the lips the vocal accents part,
Or the faint purpose dawns within the heart!
His steady eye the mental birth perceives,
Ere yet to us the new idca lives!

Knows what we fay, ere yet the words proceed,
And ere we form th'intention, marks the deed!

But Confcience, fair vicegerent-light within,
Afferts its Author, and restores the scene!
Points out the beauty of the govern'd plan,
"And vindicates the ways of God to man."
Then facred Mufe, by the vaft profpect fir'd,
From heav'n defcended, as by heav'n infpir'd,
His all-enlight'ning Omniprefence own, [known;
Whence first thou feelft thy dwindling prefence
His wide Omniscience, justly grateful fing,
Whence thy weak science prunes its callow wing!
And blefs th'eternal-all-informing foul,
Whofe fight pervades, whose knowledge fills the
whole!

V. IMMUTABILITY.

As the Eternal and Omnifcient Mind, By laws not limited, nor bounds confin'd, Is always independent, always free, Hence thines confefs'd Immutability!

Below, through different forms doth matter
And life fubfifts 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, a long 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 ever shine!
No change fhall darken thy exalted name;
From everlasting ages ftill the fame

If God, like man, his purpose could renew,
His laws could vary, or his plans undo,
Defponding faith would droop its cheeriefs wing,
Religion deaden to a lifelefs 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 fimiles benevolent and good to man.

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

That guides our reafon thro' the dubious gleam;
Till founds the hour, when he who rules the fkies
Shall bid the curtain of Omniscience rife!
Shall diffipate the mifts that veil our fight,
And fhew his creatures-all his ways are right!

Then when aftonish'd nature feels its fate,
And fetter'd time fhall know his latest date!
When earth fhall in the mighty blaze expire,
Heav'n melt with heat, and worlds diffolve in fire!
The univerfal fyftem fhrink away,
And ceafing orbs confefs th'alınighty fway!
Immortal He, amidst the wreck fecure,
Shall fit exalted, permanently pure!
As in the Sacred Bufh, fhall fhine the fame,
And from the ruin raise a fairer frame !
VI. OMNIPOTENCE.

Far hence, ye vifionary charming maids,
Ye fancy'd nymphs that haunt the Grecian fhades!
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 are light;
Oh condefcend, celestial facred guest!

Change, whether the fpontaneous child of will, To purge my fight, and animate my breast,

Or birth of force,is imperfection still.
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 ftability fhould lofe,
How ftartles reafon 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 ftrong perfection raife its glories higher ?
Abfurd!his high meridian brightness glows,
Never decreases, never overflows!
Knows no addition, yields to no decay,
The blaze of incommunicable day!

While I prefume Omnipotence to trace,
And fing that Pow'r who peopl'd boundless space!
Thou prefent wert when forth th' Almighty

rode,

While Chaos trembl'd at the voice of God!
Thou faw, when o'er th'inmenfe his line he drew,
When Nothing from his Word exiftence knew!
His Word, that wak'd to life the vast profound,
While confcious light was kindl'd at the found!
Creation fair! furpriz'd th'angelic eyes,
And fov'reign Wisdom faw that all was wife!
Him, fole almighty nature's book displays,
Distinct the page, and legible the rays!
Let the wild fceptic his attention throw
To the broad horizon, or carth below;

He

He finds thy foft impreffion touch his breaft;
He feels the God, and owns him unconfeft!
Should the ftray pilgrim, tir'd of fands and tkies,
In Libya's wafte behold a palace rife,
Would he believe the charm from atoms wrought?
Go, atheist, hence, and mend thy jufter thought!
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 beftowing, yet for ever bright!

What hand but thine the ftarry train array,
Or give the moon to fhed her borrow'd ray?
What hand but thine the azure convex fpread
What hand but thine compofe the ocean's bed?
To the vaft main the fandy barrier throw,
And with the feeble curb reftrain the foe!
What hand but thine the wint'ry flood affwage,
Or ftop the tempeft in its wildeft rage!

The infinite what finite can explore?
Imagination 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 faints thy pow'r remains,
Reveal'd in nature, Nature's Author reigns !
In vain would error from conviction fly,
Thou ev'rywhere art prefent to the eye!
The fenfe how ftupid, and the fight how blind,
That fails this univerfal truth to find!

Go, all the fightlets realms of space furvey,
Returning trace the Planetary Way!
The fun, that in his central glory thines,
White ev'ry planet round his orb inclines;
Then at our intermediate globe repose,
And view yon lunar Satellite that glows!
Or caft along the azure vault thy eye,
When golden day enlightens all the fky;
Around, behold earth's variegated scene,
The mingling profpects, and the flow'ry green;
The mountain brow, the long-extended wood,
Or the rude rock that threatens o'er the flood!
And fav, are thefe the wild effects of chance?
Oh, ftrange effect of reas ning ignorance!

Nor pow'r alone confefs'd in grandeur lies,
The glittering planet or the painted skies!
Equal, the elephant's or emmet's dress,
The witdon of Omnipotence confefs;
Equal, the cubrous whale's enormous mafs
With the finall infect in the crouded grafs,
The mite that gambols in its acid fea,
In fhape a porpus, though a fpeck to thee!
Ev'n the blue down the purple plumb furrounds,
A living world, thy failing fight confounds,
To him a peopled habitation fhows,
Where millions tafte the bounty God beftows!
Great Lord of life, whofe all-controuling might,
Thro' wide creation beams divinely bright,
Nor only does thy pow'r in forming thine,
But to annihilate, dread King! is thine.
Shouldft thon withdraw the ftill-fupporting hand,
How languid nature would attonith'd ftand!
Thy frown the ancient realm of night reftore,
And raise a blank -- where fyftems (mil'd before

See in corruption, all furprizing state,
How ftruggling life eludes the ftroke of fate ;
Shock'd at the scene, tho' fenfe averts its eye,
Nor ftops the wond'rous procefs to defcry;
Yet jufter thought the myftic change pursues,
And with delight Almighty Wifdom views!
The brute, the vegetable world furveys,
Sees life fubfifting ev'n from life's decays!
Mark there, felf taught, the penfive reptile come,
Spins his thin fhroud, and living builds his tombi
With confcious care his former pleafures leave,
And drefs him for the bus'nefs of the grave!
Thence, pafs'd the fhort-liv'd change, renew'd
he fprings,

Admires the fkies, and tries his filken wings!
With airy flight the infect roves abroad,
And scorns the meaner earth he lately trod !

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

How did thy frown benight the fhadow'd land?
Nature revers'd, how own thy high command?
When jarring elements their ufe forgot,
And the fun felt thy overcafting blot!
When earth produc'd the peftilential brood;
And the foul ftream was crimfon'd into blood!
How deep the horrors of that awful night,
How ftrong the terror, and how wild the fright!
When o'er the land thy fword vindictive paft,
And men and infants breath'd at once their laft,
How did thy arm thy favour'd tribes convey !
Thy light conducting point the patent way!
Obedient ocean to their march divide
The wat'ry wall diftinct on either fide;
While thro' the deep the long proceffion led,
And faw the wonders of the oozy bed!
Nor long they march'd till blackʼning in the rear,
The vengeful tyrant and his hoft appear!
Plunge down the fteep, the waves thy nod obey,
And whelm the threat'ning ftorm beneath the fea!

Nor yet thy pow'r thy chofen train forfook,"
When thro' Arabia's fands their way they took;
By day thy cloud was prefent to the fight,
Thy fiery pillar led the march by night;
Thy hand amidst the wafte their table spread,
With feather'd viands, and with heav'nly bread:
When the dry wilderness no ftreams fupply'd
Gufh'd from the yielding rock the vital tide!
What limits can Omnipotence confine ?
What obftacles oppofe thy arm divine?
Since ftones and waves their fettled laws forego,
Since feas can harden, and since rocks can flow!

On Sinai's top, the more with ardent wing
The triumphs of Omnipotence would fing!
When o'er its airy brow thy cloud difplay'd,
Involv'd the nations in its awful shade!
When shrunk the earth from thy approaching
And the rock trembled to its rooted bafe; [face,
Yet where thy Majefty divine appear'd,
Where thone thy glory, and thy voice was
heard ;

Ev'n in the blaze of that tremendous day,
Idolatry its impious rites could pay !

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And brave the bolt that linger'd round its head!

VII. WISDOM.

Othou, who when th' Almighty form'd this All,
Upheld the fcale, and weigh'd each balanc'd ball;
And as his hand completed cach defign,
Number'd the work, and fix'd the feal divine;
O Wisdom infinite; creation's foul,
Whofe rays diffuse new luftre o'er the whole,
What tongue fhall make thy charms celeftial
known?

What hand, fair Goddefs! paint thee but thy own?

What tho' in nature's univerfal ftore
Appear the wonders of Almighty pow'r !
Pow'r unattended terror would infpire;
Aw'd muft we gaze, and comfortlefs admire.
But when fair wifdom joins in the defign,
The beauty of the whole refult's divine!

Hence life acknowledges its glorious caufe,
And matter owns its great Difpofer's laws;
Hence in a thousand different models wrought,
Now fix'd to quiet, now ally'd to thought;
Hence flow the forms and properties of things,
Hence rifes harmony, and order fprings;
Elfe had the mafs a fhapelefs chaos lay,
Nor ever felt the dawn of Wisdom's day!

See, how affociate round their central fun,
Their faithful rings the circling planets run;
Still equi-diftant, never yet too near,
Exactly tracing their appointed fphere.
Mark how the moon our flying orb pursues,
While from the fun her monthly light renews;
Breathes her wide influence on the world below,
And bids the tides alternate ebb and flow.
View how in courfe the conftant seasons rise,
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 her yellow harvefts crown'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 th'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 Wildom fhine confefs'd the fame :

As proper organs to the leaft affign'd,
As proper means to propagate the kind,
As just the structure, and as wife the plan,
As in this lord of all-debating man!
Hence, reas'ning creature, thy diftinction find,
Nor longer to the ways of Heav'n be blind.
Wifdom 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 pleafe?
Oh fay, in whom does beauty's felf refide,
The Beautifyer, or the beautify'd?

| There dwells the Godhead in the bright difguife,
Beyond the ken of all created eyes;

His works our love and our attention ftcal;
His works (furprizing thought!) the Maker veil;
Too weak our fight to pierce the radiant cloud
Where wildom fhines, in all her charins avow'd.
O gracious God, omnipotent and wife,
Unerring Lord, and Ruler of the fkies;
All condefcending to my feeble heart,
One beam of thy celeftial light impart,
I feek not fordid wealth, or glitt'ring pow'r;
O grant me wifdom-and I afk no more!
VIII. PROVIDENCE.

As from fome level country's fhelter'd ground,
With towns replete, with green inclofures bound,
Where the eye kept within the verdant maze,
But gets a tranfient vista as it strays,
The pilgrim to fome rifing fummit tends,
Whence opens all the fcene as he afcends:
So Providence the friendly height supplies,
Where all the charms of Deity furprize;
Here Goodness, Power, and Wiidoin all unite,
And dazzling Glories whelm the ravith'd fight!

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 wafte of eating time renews,
Thou fhedd'it the tepid morning's balmy dews;
When raging winds the blacken'd deep deform,
Thy fpirit rides commiffion'd in the ftorm;
Bids at thy will the flack'ning tempeft ceale,
While the calm ocean fimooths its rufted face;
When lightnings thro' the air tremendous fly,,
Or the blue plague is loofen'd to deftroy,
Thy hand directs, or turns afide the ftroke;
Thy word the fiend's commiffion can revoke;
When fubterraneous fires the furface heave,
And towns are bury'd in the yawning grave,
Thou fuffer'ft not the mitchief to prevail;
Thy fov'reign touch the recent wound can heal.
ToZembla's rocks thou fend'it the cheerfulgleam;
O'er Lybia's fands thou pour'ft the cooling itream;
Thy watchful Providence o'er all intends;
Thy works obey their great Creator's ends.

When man too long the paths of vice purfu'd,
Thy hand prepar'd the univerfal food;
Gracious to Noah gave the timely fign,
To fave a remnant from the wrath divine!
One thining wafte the globe terreftrial lay,
And the ark heav'd along the troubled fea;
Thou badft the deep his ancient bed explore.
The clouds their wat'cy deluge pour'd no nove!
The fkies were clear'd-- the mountain tops were
The dove pacific brought the olive green.[feen;
On Ararat the happy Patriarch toft,

Found the recover'd world his hopes had loft;
There his fond eyes review'd the pleafing (cene,
The earth all verdant, and the air ferene!
Its precious freight the guardian ark display'd,
While Noah grateful adoration paid !

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Beholding

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