Original - Duke Divinity School

Mark, on the Right, how amiable a Grace!
Their Maker’s Image fresh in every Face!
What purple Bloom a Virtuous Soul inspires, 263
How their eyes sparkle with immortal fires! 264
Triumphant Beauty! Charms that rise above
This World, and even in Angels kindle love!
Submissive, yet fearless to the Judge they turn, 265
And dare behold th’ Almighty’s Anger burn;
Its flash sustain, against its Terror rise,
And on the Dread Tribunal fix their Eyes. …
Since Adam’s Family, from first to last,
Now into one distinct Survey is cast; …
Look round, and view the Lights of Human Race,
Whose shining Acts Time’s brightest Annals grace;
Who founded Sects; cCowns conquered, or resigned;
Gave names to Nations, or spacious 266 Eempires joine’d;
Who raised the Vale, and laid the Mountain low,
And taught obedient Rivers where to Flow; …
All lost! All undistinguisht! Nowhere found!
How will this Truth in Bourbon’s Palace sound?
Round guilded Roofs how gloomy will it fly?
With what a weight on Crowns and Scepters lie?
E’en Great and Good Augustus is not seen,
Nor haughty Babylon’s Victorious Queen.
What then is He, in midst the radiant Bands
of spotless Saints, and laureled Martyrs stands,
Conspicuous from afar? Whose Rays so bright
With sweet attractions fix the ravisht Sight? 267
In whom shine forth two distant Virtues joined, 268
A Royal Greatness, and a Humble Mind:
His lifted Hands, his lofty Neck surround
To hide the Scarlet of a circling Wound
263Ori.: “What purple Bloom my ravish’d soul admires.”
264Ori.: “And their eyes sparkling with immortal fires!”
265Ori.: “To the great Judge with holy pride they turn.”
266Ori.: “famed.”
267Ori.: “sollicit and attract the ravisht Sight?”
268Ori.: “In whome I see two distant Virtues joyn’d.”
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