And, from Philander's Friend the World expects,
A Conduct, no Dishonour to the Dead:
Let Paffion do, what nobler Motive fhould;
Let Love, and Emulation, rife in Aid
To Reafon; and perfuade thee to be-Bleft.
THIS feems not a Request to be deny'd ;
Yet, fuch th' Infatuation of Mankind!
'Tis the most Hopeless, Man can make to Man.
Shall I, then, rife in Argument, and Warmth;
And urge Philander's pofthumous Advice,
From Topics yet unbroach'd ?-

But Oh-I faint!- My Spirits fail-Nor strange;
So long on Wing, and in no middle Clime ;
To which my Great CREATOR's Glory call'd ;
And calls-but, now, in vain: Sleep's dewy Wand
Has ftrok'd my drooping Lids; and promifes
(If my fond Wishes are not Flatterers)
My long Arrear of Reft: The downy God,
Wont to return with our returning Peace,
Will pay, ere long; and bless me with Repose.
Hafte, hafte, fweet Stranger! from the Peafant's Cot;
The Ship-boy's Hammock, or the Soldier's Straw,
Whence Sorrow never chas'd thee: With thee bring
Not hideous Vifions, as of late; but Draughts.
Delicious of well-tafted, cordial, Reft;
Man's Rich Reftorative; his balmy Bath,
That fupples, lubricates, and keeps in Play,
The various Movements of this nice Machine,
Which asks fuch frequent Periods of Repair.
When tir'd with vain Rotations of the Day,
Sheep winds us up for the fucceeding Dawn;
Fresh we fpin on, till Sickness clogs our Wheels,
Or Death quite breaks the Spring, and Motion ends..
When will it end with Me?

“THOU only know'ft,

THOU, whofe broad Eye the Future and the Paft

"Joins to the Prefent; making One of Three "To mortal Thought! THOU know'ft, and THOU

"Near, tho' Remote! and, tho' Unfathom'd, Felt!

"And, tho' Invisible, for-ever Seen!

"And Seen in All! The Great, and the Minute, "Each Globe above, with its Gigantic Race, "Each Flower, each Leaf, with its fmall People “ swarm'd,

"Those puny Vouchers for OMNIPOTENCE,

"To the First Thought, that asks, "From whence ?". "declare

"Their common Source. THOU Fountain running o'er "In Rivers of communicated Joy!

"Who gay'ft us Speech for far, far humbler Themes!
"Say, by what Name fhall I presume to call
"HIM I fee burning in these countless Suns,
"As Mofes, in the Buh? ILLUSTRIOUS MIND!
"The whole Creation, Lefs, far Lefs, to Thee,
"Than That to the Creation's ample Orb :
"How fhall I name THEE?-How my labouring Soul
"Heaves underneath the Thought, too big for Birth!
"GREAT Syftem of Perfections! Mighty Cause
"Of Causes mighty! Cause uncaus'd! Sole Root
"Of Nature, that luxuriant Growth of GOD.
Firft Father of Effects! that Progeny

"Of endless Series; where the Golden Chain's
“ Last Link admits a Period, Who can tell?
"Father of All that is or heard, or hears!
"Father of All that is or feen, or fees!
"Father of All that is, or fhall arise !.
"Father of this immeasurable Mafs

"Of Matter multiform; or dense, or rare
"Opaque, or lucid; rapid, or at Reft;
"Minute, or paffing Bound! In each Extreme

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"Of like Amaze, and Myftery, to Man.

"Father of these bright Millions of the Night

"Of which the Least full Godhead had proclaimed, "And thrown the Gazer on his Knee-Or, fay, "Is Appellation higher ftill, Thy Choice? "Father of Matter's Temporary Lords

Father of Spirits Nobler Offspring! Sparks "Of high Paternal Glory; rich endow'd "With, various Measures, and with various Modes "Of Instinct, Reason, Intuition; Beams "More pale, or bright from Day Divine, to break "The Dark of Matter organiz'd (the Ware "Of all created Spirit); Beams, that rife "Each over other in fuperior Light,

"Till the Laft ripens into Luftre strong

"

(In the Throne's full Effulgence colour'd-high), "Of next Approach to GODHEAD. Father fond

(Far fonder than e'er bore that Name on Earth), “Of Intellectual Beings! Beings bleft

"With Powers to pleafe THEE; not of paffive Ply "To Laws they know not; Beings lodg'd in Seats "Of well-adapted Joys; in different Domes "Of this Imperial Palace for thy Sons;

Of this proud, populous, well-policy'd,

"Tho' boundless, Habitation, plan'd by THEE! "Whofe feveral Clans their feveral Climates fuit ; "And Tranfpofition, doubtless, would destroy. "Or, Oh! indulge, Immortal KING! indulge "A Title, lefs august indeed, but more

Endearing ah! how sweet in human Ears? "Sweet in our Ears! and Triumph in our Hearts "Father of IMMORTALITY to Man!

*

"A Theme that lately fet my Soul on Fire.

"And THOU the NEXT! yet Equal! THOU, by whom "That Bleffing was convey'd; far more! was Bought

* Night the Sixth, and Seventh.

"Ineffable

"Ineffable the Price! By whom all World's "Were made; and One, redeem'd! Illuftrious Light "From Light Illuftrious! THOυ, whofe Regal Power, "Finite in Time, but Infinite in Space,

"On more than adamantine Bafis fix'd,

"O'er more, far more, than Diadems, and Thrones, "Inviolably reigns; the Dread of Gods!

"And Oh! the Friend of Man: Beneath whofe Foot,
"And by the Mandate of whofe awful Nod,
"All Regions, Revolutions, Fortunes, Fates,
"Of High, of Low, of Mind, and Matter, roll
"Thro' the fhort Chanel's of expiring Time,.
"Or fhorelefs Ocean of Eternity,

"Calm, or Tempeftuous (as Thy Spirit breathes)
"In abfolute Subjection! And, O THOU
"The glorious THIRD! Diftinct, not Separate!
"Beaming from Both! with Both Incorporate!
"And (ftrange to tell!) incorporate with Duft!
By Condefcenfion, as Thy Glory, great;
"Enfhrin'd in Man! Of human Hearts, if pure,
"Divine Inhabitant! The Tie Divine

"Of Heaven with diftant Earth! By whom, I truft,
(If not infpir'd) uncenfured this Addrefs
"To THEE; to THEM -

"Power!

To Whom?- Mysterious

“Reveal❜d,—yet Unreveal'd! Darkness in Light!
"Number in Unity! our Joy! our Dread!
"The Triple Bolt that lays all Wrong in Ruin!
"That animates all Right, the Triple Sun !
"Tri-une, Unutterable, Unconceiv'd,

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Abfconding, yet Demonftrable, GREAT GOD! "Greater than Greatest! Better than the Best! "Kinder than Kindeft! with foft Pity's Eye, "Or, ftronger ftill to fpeak it, with Thine Oan, "From Thy bright Home, from That high Firmament, "Where THOU, from all Eternity, haft dwelt; "Beyond

"Beyond Archangels una fifted Ken;

"From far above what Mortals Highest call; "From Elevation's Pinacle; Look down, "Through-What? Confounding Interval! Thro' All, “And more, than lab'ring Fancy can conceive; "Thro' radiant Ranks of Effences unknown "Thro' Hierarchies from Hierarchies detach'd, "Round various Banners of OMNIPOTENCE, "With endless Change of rapturous Duties fir'd ;. "Thro' wondrous Beings interpofing Swarms; "All clustering at the Call, to dwell in THEE ; "Thro' this wide Waste of Worlds; this Vista vast "All fanded o'er with Suns; Suns turn'd to Night "Before Thy feeblest Beam,-Look down-down❝ down,

"On a poor breathing Particle in Duft, "Or, lower,—an Immortal in his Crimes: "His Crimes forgive! Forgive his Virtues, too! "Those Smaller Faults; Half-Converts to the Right: " Nor let me close These Eyes, which never more "May fee the Sun (tho Night's defcending Scale "Now weighs up Morn), Unpity'd, and Unbleft! "In Thy Difpleafare dwells eternal Pain ;

"Pain, our Averfion; Pain, which strikes me now ;, "And, fince all Pain is terrible to Man, "Tho' tranfient, Terrible; at Thy good Hour,. "Gently, ah gently, lay me in my Bed, "My Clay-cold Bed! by Nature, now, fo near; "By Nature, near; ftill nearer by Disease! "Till Then, be This, an Emblem of my Grave: "Let it out-preach the Preacher; Every Night "Let it out-cry the Boy at Philip's Ear;

"That Tongue of Death !That Herald of the Tomb!! "And when (the Shelter of Thy Wing implor'd): "My Senfes, footh'd, shall fink in foft Repofe ;, * O fink this Truth ftill deeper in my Soul,

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