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c < Midst storms and fires I sit and sing , cc Most pleas'd where least I see of form ; 41 I sail upon the whirlwind ' s vring , " And guide the storm .
cC When iEtna belches flame around , " I gaze and gaze with greedy eye , ** Where cites , late with plenty crown'd , * ' In ruins lie .
< Does ocean rave ? I look and think 46 Unruffled on the sounding shore , * And rise with joy , as thousands sink , * To rise no more * < c Do earthquakes growl beneath the land ? * I wait expectant of the sight ; * ' And grow , as earth ' s wide jaws expand , ' 44 Wild with delight .
** Of life their babes when Hindoos spoil , 44 The pious deed I loud proclaim , * And of their widows' funeral pile , 44 I light the flame . « Tis mine— -all mine—I boast the deeds—44 And call myself the friend of man—4 C 'Tis mine—and see ! the work proceeds" ' Tis Nature ' s pla < n .
* ' On man , what crowding ills attend ! 44 See how creation pants for room ! * Ah ! wretch —I haste , that wretch ' s friend , " To build tiis tomb . *
* The Persian Magi held two principles , one the author of good , the other of evil ; the latter was called Arimanes . This personage is called in the Chaldaic oracles by different names , Hecate , fAa ^ r ^ jxa ytaxrj f v \ rj $ y D « mon ; other barbarous names ., as it is there expressed , are given it by God . The Indian mythology paints it und ^ r different forms , more particularly as Seeva . By the northern nations it was called Surtur , who is described in the Edda , as making war upom Odin . In the funeral song of Hacon , it appears as the wolf Fenris , chained now , but who will break loose hereafter , and destroy the world . In the Greek and If oman poets particularly Ovid and Claudian , ft is conspicuous in the Battle of the Giants against Jupiter , and has thence passed into the poetry of Milton . Pindar , after -describing ( She confinement of these giants in iEtna , represents
them as belching out streams of fire , ( Pyth ) i . anrXoitOL itvpog ayvorocraci itocyai Mars is made by Homer a fierce malicious jbejng , destructive to men and delighting ; in blood , ~ Apsf AfBf , tgotoXoiye , jjuiqupove . , W . JiV V -VIn the sacred writings of the Jews , also , this principle appears , and is called Kukasy a serpent , ( Gen . iii ^ j , ) and on this , the Christian ddttrinc is founded . It * e «* ns to lie , and thus tt * s cxfOaincd by many critics , the principle of evil , as per . aoeijfial in < bc p ^ loBoph j 4 > fxhc , catit .. And it ^ i ^ mai * aWfc . ^ t in Persia , both
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1812, page 332, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1748/page/52/
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