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Thou fill'd'ft the waste of ocean, earth, and air, 15
With multitudes that swim, or walk, or fly:
From rolling worlds defcends thy gen'rous care,
To infect crouds that 'fcape the nicest eye :
For each a sphere was circumfcrib'd by thee.

To blefs, and to be blefs'd, their nobleft end; 20

To which, with speedy course, they all unerring

tend.

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Conscious of thee, with nobler pow'rs endu'd,
Next man, thy darling, into being rose,
Immortal, form'd for high beatitude,
Which neither end nor interruption knows,
Till evil couch'd in fraud began his woes:
Then to thy aid was boundless wisdom join'd,
And for apoftate man redemption thus defign'd.

V.

By thee, his glories veil'd in mortal shroud,
God's darling offspring left his feat on high; 30
And heav'n and earth, amaz'd and trembling, view'd
Their wounded Sov'reign groan, and bleed, and die.
By thee, in triumph to his native fky,

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To thee, munific, ever-flaming LOVE!
One endless hymn united nature fings :
To thee the bright inhabitants above

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Tune the glad voice, and sweep the warbling strings.
From pole to pole, on ever-waving wings,
Winds waft thy praise, by rolling planets tun'd;
Aid then, O LOVE! my voice to emulate the sound.

VII.

It comes! it comes! I feel internal day;

Transfufive warmth through all my

bofom glows;

My foul expanding gives the torrent way;
Thro' all
my veins it kindles as it flows.

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Thus, ravish'd from the scene of night and woes, Oh! fnatch me, bear me to thy happy reign; There teach my tongue thy praife in more ex

alted ftrain.

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An HYMN to BENEVOLENCE.

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AIL! fource of tranfport ever new;

Whilft thy kind dictates I purfue,

I taste a joy fincere;

Too vaft for little minds to know,

Who on themselves alone beftow

Their wifhes and their care.

Daughter of God! delight of man!

From thee felicity began;

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Which still thy hand sustains :

By thee fweet Peace her empire fpread,

Fair Science rais'd her laurel'd head,

And Difcord gnash'd in chains.

Far as the pointed fun-beam flies,

Through peopled earth and starry skies,

All nature owns thy nod:

We fee thy energy prevail

Through Being's ever-rifing scale,

From nothing ev'n to God.

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Envy, that tortures her own heart

With plagues and ever-burning fmart,

Thy charms divine expel:

Aghast she shuts her livid eyes,

And, wing'd with tenfold fury, flies
To native night and hell.

By thee infpir'd, the gen'rous breast,
In bleffing others only blest,

With goodness large and free,

Delights the widow's tears to ftay,

To teach the blind their smoothest way,

And aid the feeble knee.

O come! and o'er my bofom reign,
Expand my heart, inflame each vein,
Thro' ev'ry action fhine;

Each low, each felfifh with controul,
With all thy effence warm my foul,

And make me wholly thine.

Nor let fair Virtue's mortal bane,

The foul-contracting thirst of gain,

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My

My faintest wishes sway;

By her poffefs'd, ere hearts refine,

In hell's dark depth fhall mercy fhine,
And kindle endless day.

If from thy facred paths I turn,

Nor feel their griefs, while others mourn,
Nor with their pleasures glow:

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Banifh'd from God, from blifs, and thee,

My own tormentor let me be,

And groan in hopeless woe.

An HYMN to FORTITUDE.

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IGHT, brooding o'er her mute domain,
In awful filence wraps her reign;

Clouds prefs on clouds, and, as they rife,
Condense to folid gloom the fkies.

PORTENTOUS, through the foggy air,

To wake the Daemon of despair,
The raven hoarse, and boding owl,

TO HECATE Curft anthems howl.

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