Its | only just pro- | prietor in | Him.

The soul that | sees him, or re- | ceives, sub- | limed, ◄ | or | learns at | least to em- ploy

New faculties,

More | worthily

Dis- cerns in

Of ignorance,

the powers she | owned be- | fore, ▼ |

all things | what with | stupid | gaze

Aray of heavenly | light,

till | then she | over- | looked,|| I gilding | all | forms | Terrestrial in the vast and the mi- | nute; |17| The unambiguous | footsteps of the | God, |

Who gives its | lustre | to an | insect's | wing, ||

And wheels his throne upon the | rolling worlds. 777 Much conversant with | heaven, she | often | holds ▼ | With those fair | ministers of | light to | man, |

That fill the skies| nightly with | silent | pomp, 1| Sweet conference. In- | quires, what | strains

were they

With which heaven | rang, when | every | star, in | haste |

To gratulate the | new-created | earth,

Sent forth a voice, and all the sons of God | Shouted for joy. 1111111"Tell me, ye | shining |

hosts,

That navigate a | sea that | knows no

storms,

Beneath a | vault un- | sullied with a | cloud, | |

If from your ele- | vation, whence ye | view

Distinctly,

And systems,

|

scenes in- | visible to | man,

of whose | birth no | tidings | yet |

Have reached this | nether | world, ye | spy a

race,

Favored as ours;

trans- gressors from the womb,|| yet doomed to | rise,| And to possess a | brighter | heaven than | yours? |

And hastening to a grave,

As one who long de- | tained on | foreign | shores,| Pants to re- | turn, || and when he | sees a- | far |

His country's | weather-bleached and battered

rocks,

|

From the green | wave e- | merging, darts an eye Radiant with joy, towards the | happy | land; |77|

So I with | animated | hopes be- | hold,

And many an | aching | wish,

your beamy | fires,| That show like | beacons in the | blue a- | byss, Ordained to | guide the em- | bodied | spirit | home | From toilsome | life to never-ending | rest. 1771

Love | kindles as I | gaze! | I | feel de- | sires, |

That | give as- |surance of their | own suc- cess,

And that in- | fused from | heaven must ❘ thither | tend."1771

So reads he nature, whom the | lamp of |

truth |

Illuminates. | Thy | lamp, mys- | terious word! [77]

Which whoso | sees no longer | wanders | lost,

With intellects be- | mazed in | endless | doubt, |77| But runs the | road of | wisdom. || Thou hast | built |

With means, that were not | till by | thee em- |

ployed,

Worlds, that had never been hadst | thou in | strength

or less be- | nevolent than strong.

Been less,
They are thy witnesses,

who | speak thy | power |

And goodness | infinite, but | speak in | ears |
That hear not, or re- ceive not | their re- | port.

In vain thy | creatures | testify of | thee, |

Till thou pro- | claim thy- | self. Theirs is,

in- | deed,

A teaching voice;

That whom | it | teaches

learn, |

but 'tis the | praise of | thine, |

And with the boon gives | talents for its | use. 77711

Till thou art | heard, | im- | agi- | nations | vain |

Possess the | heart; |

and | fables | false as | hell, |

Yet deemed o- | racular, | lure | down to | death, |

The unin- formed and heedless | souls of men. uninformed |

We give to chance, | blind | chance, our- | selves

as | blind, |

The glory of thy | work;

which | yet ap- pears

Perfect and unim- | peachable of | blame, 91

Challenging human | scrutiny, and proved |
Then skillful most when

ed. 1771771
|

most se- | verely judg

But | chance is not; | or | is not | where | thou |

To mix her wild va- | garies with thy | laws.

Yet thus we dote, re- | fusing while we can | 1 Instruction, and in- | venting to our- | selves |

Gods such as guilt makes | welcome; gods that | sleep | Or disregard our | follies, or that | sit

|

A-mused spec- | tators of this | bustling | stage. 1171711 | un- | able to a- | bide |

| | |

Thy purity, till | pure as thou art | pure;

which we | shunned and | hated thee | ◄ be- |

Thee | we re-ject,

Made such by thee,

For

fore. 771771 |

Then are we | free.

Breaks on the soul,

Then | liberty, like | day, | | ||

and, by a flash from | heaven,

Fires all the faculties | with | glorious | joy. |

A voice is heard,

Till thou hast touched them: 'tis the voice of song,
Aloud ho- | sanna | sent from | all thy | works; ||

Her | veil o- | paque, dis- closes with a smile | The Author of her | beauties, | who, re- | tired | Be- | hind his | own cre- | ation, | works un- | seen By the im- pure, and hears his power de- nied. Thou art the source | and | centre of | all | minds, | Their only point of | rest,

From thee de- | parting,

At | random,

peace.

E- | ternal | Word!

From thee is all that | soothes the life of man, |

|

His | high en- | deavor,

His strength to suffer,

and his | glad suc- | cess,

and his will to serve. 171

But | oh, thou | bounteous | Giver of | all | good, 1

Thou art of all thy | gifts
Give what thou canst,

And with thee | rich,
way. 1771771

thy- | self the crown! || with-out | thee we are | poor, | take what thou | wilt a

ON THE BEING OF A GOD.

RETIRE; the world shutout; thy

| thoughts | call home: |

Imagi- nation's | airy | wing

re- press; 1971

Lock up thy | senses; || let no | passion | stir;

reign a- | lone: |

silence, and |

Then in thy | soul's | deep

the depth

Of nature's silence, midnight, || thus in- |

quire:

As I have done;

and shall in- | quire no more. 111111

In nature's channel | thus the | questions | run: 77771

and from whence?

| |

"What am I?

| know,

I | nothing

But that I am; and, since I am, con- clude