How various all, how variously endow'd,

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How great their number, and each part how good!

How perfect then must the great Parent shine,
Who, with one act of energy divine,

Laid the vast plan, and finish'd the defign!"

WHERE-E'ER the pleafing fearch my thoughts

pursue,

Unbounded goodness rises to my view;

Nor does our world alone its influence share
Exhaustless bounty, and unwearied care,
Extends thro' all th' infinitude of space,
And circles nature with a kind embrace.

THE azure kingdoms of the deep below,

Thy pow'r, thy wisdom, and thy goodness show: Here multitudes of various beings stray,

Croud the profound, or on the furface play:

Tall navies here their doubtful way explore, 115
And ev'ry product waft from fhore to shore;
Hence meagre want expell'd, and fanguine ftrife,
For the mild charms of cultivated life;
Hence focial union spreads from foul to soul,
And India joins in friendship with the pole.

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Here

Here the huge potent of the scaly train
Enormous fails incumbent o'er the main,

An animated isle, and in his way,

Dashes to heav'n's blue arch the foamy fea:

When skies and ocean mingle ftorm and flame, 125 Portending inftant wreck to nature's frame,

Pleas'd in the scene, he mocks, with conscious pride,

The volley'd lightning, and the furging tide;

And, while the wrathful elements engage,

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All these thy watchful providence supplies,
To thee alone they turn their waiting eyes;
For them thou op'neft thy exhaustless store,

Till the capacious wish can grasp no more.
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Thy glory clouded, or thy smiles deny'd,
Then widow'd nature veils her mournful eyes,
And vents her grief in univerfal cries':

Then gloomy death, with all his meagre train,
Wide o'er the nations spreads his dismal reign; 140
Sea, earth, and air the boundless ravage mourn,

And all their hofts to native duft return.

BUT

BUT when again thy glory is difplay'd,
Reviv'd creation lifts her chearful head ;
New rifing forms thy potent fmiles obey,

And life rekindles at the genial ray:
United thanks replenish'd nature pays,

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And heav'n and earth refound their Maker's praise.
WHEN time fhall in eternity be loft,
And hoary nature languish into duft;
For ever young thy glory fhall remain,
Vaft as thy being, endlefs as thy reign."
Thou, from the regions of eternal day,
View'ft all thy works at one immense survey:
Pleas'd, thou behold'ft the whole propensely tend 155
To perfect happiness, its glorious end.

If thou to earth but turn thy wrathful eyes,
Her bafis trembles, and her offspring dies:
Thou fmit'ft the hills, and, at th' Almighty blow,
Their fummits kindle, and their inwards glow. 160"
WHILE this immortal spark of heav'nly flame
Diftends my breast, and animates my frame;
To thee my ardent praises fhall be borne

On the first breeze that wakes the blushing morn :

The

The latest star shall hear the pleafing found,
And nature in full choir fhall join around.

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When full of thee my foul excurfive flies

Thro' earth, air, ocean, or thy regal skies;

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From world to world, new wonders ftill I find,
And all the Godhead flashes on my mind.
When, wing'd with whirlwhinds, vice shall take its
flight

To the deep bofom of eternal night,

To thee my foul fhall endless praises pay:

Join, men and angels, join th' exalted lay!

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E, O my God! thy piercing eye,

In motion, or at reft, furveys;

If to the lonely couch I fly,

Or travel through frequented ways: Where-e'er I move, thy boundless reign, Thy mighty presence, circles all the scene.

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Where shall my thoughts from thee retire,

Whose view pervades my inmoft heart!
The latent, kindling, young defire,

The word, ere from my lips it part,
To thee their various forms difplay,
And shine reveal'd in thy unclouded day.
Behind me if I turn my eyes,

Or forward bend my wand'ring fight,
Whatever objects round me rife

Through the wide fields of air and light;
With thee impress'd, each various frame
The forming, moving, present God proclaim.

Father of all, omnifcient mind,

Thy wisdom who can comprehend?

Its highest point what eye can find,
Or to its lowest depths descend?
That wisdom, which, ere things began,
Saw full expreft th' all-comprehending plan!
What cavern.deep, what hill fublime,
Beyond thy reach, fhall I purfue?

V hat dark recefs, what diftant clime,
Shall hide me from thy boundless view?

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