The waves with Eastern breezes curl'd,
Had filver'd half the liquid plain ;
The anchors weigh'd, the fails unfurl'd,
Serenely mov'd the wooden world,
And stretch'd along the main.

The fcaly natives of the deep

Prefs to admire the vaft machine, In fporting gambols round it leap, Or fwimming low, due distance keep, In homage to their queen.

Thus, as life glides in gentle gale Pretended friendship waits on pow'r, But early quits the borrow'd veil When adverse Fortune shifts the fail, And haftens to devour.

In vain we fly approaching ill,
Danger can multiply its form;
Expos'd we fly like Jonas ftill,
And heaven, when 'tis heaven's will,
O'ertakes us in a storm.

The diftant furges foamy white

Foretel the furious bla;

Dreadful, tho' diftant was the fight,
Confed'rate winds and waves unite,

And menace ev'ry mast.

Winds whistling thro' the fhrouds, pro
A fatal harveft on the deck,
Quick in purfuit as active flame,
Too foon the rolling ruin came,
And ratify'd the wreck.

Thus, Adam fmil'd with new-born grace,

Life's flame infpir'd by heav'nly breath; Thus the fame breath sweeps off his race, Disorders Nature's beauteous face,

And spreads disease and death.

The faithlefs flood forfook her keel,

And downward launch'd the lab'ring hull,
Stunn'd fhe forgot awhile to reel,

And felt almoft, or feem'd to feel
A momentary lull.

Thus

Thus in the jaws of death we lay,

Nor light, nor comfort found us there,
Loft in the gulph and floods of spray

No fun to chear us, nor a ray
Of hope, but all despair.

The nearer fhore, the more despair,
While certain ruin waits on land;
Should we purfue our wishes there,
Soon we recant the fatal pray'r,
And ftrive to fhun the ftrand.

At length, the Being whose beheft
Reduc'd this Chaos into form,
His goodness and his pow'r exprefs'd,
He spoke and, as a God, fupprefs'd
Our troubles, and the storm.

COM

ISAIA H XXXIV.

NOME near, ye nations! and give ear, O earth!
Ye diftant ifles, and continents remote,

Where-e'er difpers'd beneath the vast expanse

Of heav'n's high roof, attend! Attend, and hear
Your doom tremendous ratify'd above,

Sad retribution of enormous guilt,

VOL.-V.

M

Which

Which calling loud for justice and revenge,
Flew fwift as light up to the throne of God,
And pull'd down dire deftruction on the earth.
The mighty God, with all his thunder arm'd,
Will caft abroad the terrors of his wrath;
And show'r down vengeance on the guilty land.
The Lord of hofts amidst a night of clouds,
And with the majefty of darkness crown'd,
Thunder'd aloft; and from the inmost heav'n
Hurl'd down impetuous fury fwift as thought
Through th' azure void, wide-stretch'd from pole to pole,
Το ravage
all the boundless univerfe.

As when a bluft'ring wind rolls from the north,
And shakes all autumn with the driving blaft;
So fhall the fury of th' Omnipotent

Deftroy the nations, and confound their arms,

Swords, fhields, and fpears, and all the pow'rs of war;
With eager speed rush o'er th' embattled ranks,
And thro' the thick battalions urge its way.
JEHOVAH's arm will shake the vast convex,
And wrap the whole circumference around
In wafting defolation, ruin wide.
Deftructive flaughter, ghaftly to behold,
Dire fpecimen of wrath omnipotent,

Shall march tremendous o'er the burden'd earth,
Opprefs'd, and confcious of unufual weight,
Shrinking beneath the heavy load of death.
The purple piles, and mountains of the flain,

Expiring

Expiring wretches, pouring out their fouls
With burfts of groans, fhall fill the lab'ring world.
Each flaughter'd corps fhall breath a peftilence;
And wide around diffuse the fcents of death.
Th' eternal hills shall float in seas of blood;
And mountains vanifh in the crimson tide.
Nature's huge volume shall be folded up
Like a vast scroll; and all the glittering orbs
Drop from the heavens like autumnal leaves,
Or the ripe fig, when fultry Sirius reigns;
While peals of thunder rattling in the skies,
Shall roll inceffant o'er th' aftonish'd world.
Death and deftruction threat'ning all below,
And in substantial darkness high enthron'd,
Shall draw the curtains of eternal night,
And spread confusion hideous o'er the earth,
As when the embryo world ere time began,
In one rude heap, one undigested mass
Of jarring difcord, and diforder lay.

The fun, amaz'd to fee the wild obfcure,

No more with radiant light shall gild the skies ƒ
No more diffufing his all genial beams
On the high mountains spread the shining morn ;
But downwards flaming thro' the vast immense,
Shall hide his glory in eternal night.
Thus in loud thunder fpeaks th' Almighty Sire-
In copious flaughter will I take my fword,