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not away in the middle of my days ; thy years are throughout all generations * In the beginning , thou Lord , hast founded the earth , and the heavens are the work of thine hands . " Then God answers the Messiah , declaring to him his immortal nature and high destiny , " They shall perish , but thou remainest ; they all shall grow old as doth a garment , and as a vesture shalt
thou change them , and they shall be changed ; but thou art the same , and thy years shall not fail . " AH this might trul y be said of the Messiah , as the great destined agent under God in establishing the new heavens and new earth , wherein dwelleth righteousness . —Having thus propounded this explanation of the . passage , which has not , as far as I am aware , been given before , I request for it a candid consideration . My limits forbid my saying
more at present . T . F . B
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Sir , I am glad to see the recent notices of poetry in the Repository , and trust you will allow me a little space for a few remarks on a poem entitled , " The Course of Time , " by the Rev . Robert Pollok , which is much read in Calvinistic circles , and which I do not hesitate to pronounce to be
a poem which defies forgetfulness . It is elevated , grand , and terrific in its imagery ; the most hacknied themes are touched in such a manner as to give them the appearance of novelties , and it is not too much to say that the author never appears so great as in the management of the most appalling difficulties . Such a description of the destruction of the world and the resurrection of the dead , no poet has , perhaps , ever yet penned .
There are even touches in his description of the regions of the wicked , revolting as is the subject , in which I doubt whether Dante himself has not been surpassed . For instance , the horrible description of " the worm that never dies , " p . 11 ; and , in a more affecting , and , if I mistake not , more original way , the beautiful picture of the form of virtue , which is represented as still an object of admiration to the beholders :
" No being , once created rational , .... Can banish Virtue from its sight , nor once Forget that she is fair . Hides it in night , In central night ; takes it the li g htning ' s wing " , Fl y ing for ever on , beyond the bounds Or all : —drinks it the maddest cup of sin ; Dives it beneath the ocean of despair ; It dives and drinks , it flies , it hides in vain . For still the eternal beauty , image fair ,
Once stamp'd upon the soul , before the eye All lovely stands , nor ^ yvill depart . So God Ordains , and lovely to the worst she seems , And ever seems ; and as they look , and still Must ever look upon her loveliness , Remembrance < Ere of what they were , of what They might have been , and bitter sense of what They are , polluted , ruined , hopeless , lost , With roost repenting torment rends their hearts . '
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380 Pollok s " Course of Time . "
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MR . POLLOK ' S " COURSE OF TIME . " To the Editor .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1828, page 380, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2561/page/20/
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