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Forward Confusion shall provoke the fray , And Nature from her ancient order
stray ; Black tempests , gath'ring from the seas around , In horrid ranges shall
advance , And , as they march , in thickest sables drown'd , The rival thunder from
the ...
Forward Confusion shall provoke the fray , And Nature from her ancient order
stray ; Black tempests , gath'ring from the seas around , In horrid ranges shall
advance , And , as they march , in thickest sables drown'd , The rival thunder from
the ...
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Nature made ole a man , and gave me sense Changing of nature is a vain
pretence : It taught me to love women , honour , ease , And every thing that doth
my senses please . Spirit . Nature bath made thee rational ; and reason Must rule
the ...
Nature made ole a man , and gave me sense Changing of nature is a vain
pretence : It taught me to love women , honour , ease , And every thing that doth
my senses please . Spirit . Nature bath made thee rational ; and reason Must rule
the ...
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Attentive truth and nature to descry , And pierce each scene with philosophic eye
, To thee were solemn toys or empty show , The robes of pleasure , and the veils
of woe : All aid the farce , and all thy mirth maintain , Whose joys are causeless ...
Attentive truth and nature to descry , And pierce each scene with philosophic eye
, To thee were solemn toys or empty show , The robes of pleasure , and the veils
of woe : All aid the farce , and all thy mirth maintain , Whose joys are causeless ...
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Around Thee thrown , tempest o'er tempest roll'd , Majestic darkness ! on the
whirlwind's wing , Riding sublime , Thou bid'st the world adore , And humblest
nature with Thy northern blast . Mysterious round ! what skill , what force divine
Deep ...
Around Thee thrown , tempest o'er tempest roll'd , Majestic darkness ! on the
whirlwind's wing , Riding sublime , Thou bid'st the world adore , And humblest
nature with Thy northern blast . Mysterious round ! what skill , what force divine
Deep ...
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Great source of day ! best image here below Of thy Creator , ever pouring wide ,
From world to world the vital ocean round ; On nature write with every beam his
praise . The thunder rolls : be hush'd the prostrate world , While cloud to cloud ...
Great source of day ! best image here below Of thy Creator , ever pouring wide ,
From world to world the vital ocean round ; On nature write with every beam his
praise . The thunder rolls : be hush'd the prostrate world , While cloud to cloud ...
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Page 455 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Page 103 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour, Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy!
Page 340 - STERN Daughter of the Voice of God ! O Duty ! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove ; Thou, who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe, From vain temptations dost set free, And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity!
Page 99 - The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose; The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath past away a glory from the earth.
Page 454 - WHEN all Thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise. O, how shall words with equal warmth The gratitude declare, That glows within my ravish'd heart ! But Thou canst read it there.
Page 81 - That thus they all shall meet in future days; There, ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Page 341 - Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The confidence of reason give ; And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live ! 1805.
Page 190 - The impetuous song, and say from whom you rage. His praise, ye brooks, attune, ye trembling rills ; And let me catch it as I muse along. Ye headlong torrents, rapid and profound; Ye softer floods, that lead the humid maze Along the vale ; and thou, majestic main, A secret world of wonders in thyself, Sound his stupendous praise whose greater voice Or bids you roar, or bids your roarings fall.
Page 100 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.