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And wiSdom *s form ccelestial. From the first
Cif days, on them his love divine he fix'd,
His admiration : till, in time complete,
What he admir'd and lovld, his vital Smile
Unsolded into being. Hence she breath
Of life informing each organic frame ;
Hence the green earth, and wild resounding waves ;
Hence light and shade alternate ; warmth and cold ;
And clear autumnal skies, and vernal show'rs,
And all the fair variety of things.
But not alike tu every mortal eye
Is this great Scene unveil'd. For, since the claims
Of Social life to diSf'rent labours urge
The active pow'rs of man, with wise intent
The hand of nature on peculiar minde
Imprints a diff'rent bials, and to each
Decrees its province in the common toil.
To some she taught the fabric of the fphere, ,
The changeful moon, the circuit of the stats,
The golden zones of heav'n : to Some she gave
To weigh the moment of eternal things,
Of time, and Space, and fate's unbroken chain,
And will's quick impulse : others by the hand
^he led o'er vales and mountains, to explore
What healing virtue Swells the tender veins
^df herbs and flow'rs ; or what the heams of mom
Draw forth, distilling Srom the clefted rind
In balmy tears. But Some to higher hopes
Were destin'd ; Some within a finer mould
She wrought, and tcmper'd with a purer flame.
To thefe the Site ornuigotent unfolds
The world's harmonious volume, there to read
The tranfeript oS himfelf. Ota every part
^ They trace the bright impressions of his hand :
In earth or air. the meadow's purple stores,
The moon's mild radiance, or the virgin's form
Ulroming with rofy Smiles, they fee port ray 'd
That uncreated beauty, which delights
The mind Supreme. They alSo feel her charms,
Enamour'd ; tliey partake th' eternal joy.
- We not only have the power of and of conversing as it were with hecontemplating
all in nature, that is, ings of a superior order, and which
all we can discern of nature, but of mere flash and blond could never at-
Soaring, with the wings of fancy or tain any notion oli
imagination, to the intellectual world,
Tir'd of earth
And this diurnal seene, she fprings aloft
Thro' fields of air ; pursues the flying storm 1
Rides ^n the volley 'd Iigiicn4ag thro' the heav'ns
Ot, yok'd wish whirlwinds and the northern blast
Sweeps