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POETRY.
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* Peb . 21 , 1815 . THK 3 Essays on iTitne 9 though without the recommendation of novelty , you may judffc worthy of a place in your poeti-«»! department , for its merit , and as it has tee * seldom printed . I first read it in a Collection by LetoiSy published about 1719 * The 4 ioth «> r isI believe , unknown .
, ~ . R . B . An Essay on Ti ? ne > Tfao" time in haste for ever glides along-, Etor heeds in y subject , nor attends my song- ; Incessatft still Wneathmy searches floats , Wastes in my hands , and fades upon my thoughts ; Yet would I , muse , the wondrous theme
« fsay , - And to the fleeting phantom lend my lay . 1 W all the rerolutiojw , pains , and strife , That or befal , <* r busylniman life , Whether we chase our joys , or tempt our Pursue our toil , or deviate to repose , To manhood rise , or verge beyond our
prime , One tide transports u $ , and that tide is TttlB . * Of this consists our dates , in this commence , Tig what admits us here , what hears us hence :
"WU ^ W « Involves us in an imrelax ing course \ And what ' s exempt from time ' s imperial force ? Wide as th * extent of nature ' s fair array , Th unweary'd traveller spreads his airy
way ; By nought controlled , one rig-id motion f keeps , And matter moulders where his pinion sweeps . For him fierce lightnings cleave the sultry
any For him the total band of meteors war ; For him successive seasons , as they stray , w scatter genial life , or reap decay . And as in forests we promiscuous see * lie shooting- scvon , and the shiver ed tree ;
ur midst a silent shower , as rise and break The . bubbles various on the level lake ; So birth * and deaths , an intermingled train , For ever swell the records of his reign . j « nong $ t jhe stars , or underneath the sun , jyimte ' cr is suffer ed or whate ' eris done or
, ; ^ v eat 8 actions , all the vast ainouut ^ stretch his scroll , and add to his ac count . ct while his stern vicissitudes advance t ^ ev ' ry orb , thro' all the vast expanse ,
n »» e scenes succeed to scenes , and forms to fonns > £ *<* % t » er thunders roll , and other storms , ^«* te h ^ triamphs o ' er the general fra ^ e , * > eh ingiagr all things , is himself the samev c
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Fain would { be learn'd th * ideal power define , And on the mig-hty measurer cust their line . With emulous ardor on the task they wait , Contrive their circles , and their ocrasstate ; From these comp ute by those the tale devise , And vaunt to match our annals witn th ©
skies : Tet ever devious , miss the promis ed end , Tho' Meto plan , and tho * Caijppus luend ; The ancient periods be reformM by new , And Gregory polish , what Hippakchcs drew . Schemes rais'd on schemes , see endless ¦
„ error start , And regular nature mocks the boast of art ; In what regard the works of mortals stand To this great fabric of the Almighty ' s hand , Is bis to view \ and sure to him alone His world , and all its relatives , are known ;
And acts and things distant before him lie , And time itself retires not from his eye . But whence , oh tnuse , celestial voice ! rehearse , That speak st the theme , and aid ' st the sacred verse , Whence this progressive now , untaught \ sr
stay , This glimmering shadow of eternal day ? When first th' Almighty from the womb of night , Bade infant-nature Hear , and spring to lisrht , '*¦¦"' ¦
Her place be severM from the boundless waste , And , from eternity , her time to last ; ^ Twas then it Issu ed on the new-form'd stage , _ ...
With her co-eval , and itself her age 5 OrdainM o ^ er ether , air and earth to range ^ The scope of evVy life , and ev ' ry change . Its progress note ; th' illustrious globes above , Shine in its shade , and in its shadow
move ; With stated pace around their orbits play , And waste th' impatient moments on their way y While to a new eternity consign'd , They haste from , that before , to that behind . So where some straight its every channel draws , From main to main th * impetuous waters
pass ; Yet rush but to return from whence they came , The mighty ocean's different , and the
same . See time launch'd forth in solemn pomp proceed , . < And man on man advance , and < teed on deed I < .
Poetry.
POETRY .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1815, page 251, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1759/page/51/
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