SECT. II. EXAMPLES IN POETRY. Key, p. 105. Where thy true treasure Gold says not in me The scenes of business tell us what are men Wo then apart if wo apart can be From mortal man and fortune at our nod All this dread order break for whom for thee Man like the generous vine supported lives Know nature s children all divide her care The Almighty from his throne on earth surveys Bliss there is none but unprecarious bliss Not gain d with ease nor safely lov d if gain d There is a time when toil must be preferr d Thus nature gives us let it check our pride See the sole bliss Heav n could on all bestow Whatever is is right This world tis true Was made for Cæsar but for Titus too And which more blest who chain d his country say Or he whose virtue sigh d to loose a day The first sure symptom of a mind in health True happiness resides in things unseen Oh the dark days of vanity while here Father of light and life Thou good supreme From ev ry low pursuit and feed my soul With knowledge conscious peace and virtue pure Sacred substantial never fading bliss If I am right thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong O teach my heart To find that better way Save me alike from foolish pride At aught thy wisdom has denied O lost to virtue lost to manly thought Communion sweet communion large and high Benevolence. God loves from whole to parts but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake Friend parent neighbour first it will embrace Earth smiles around with boundless bounty blest Happiness. Know then this truth enough for man to know The only point where human bliss stands still And but more relish d as the more distress d The broadest mirth unfeeling folly wears And where no wants no wishes can remain Gratitude. When all thy mercies O my God Oh how shall words with equal warmth 'That glows within my ravish d heart Thy providence my life sustain d To all my weak complaints and cries Ere yet my feeble thoughts had learnt Unnumber d comforts to my soul From whom those comforts flow d When in the slipp ry paths of youth Thine arm unseen convey d me safe Through hidden dangers toils and death And through the pleasing snares of vice When worn with sickness oft hast thou Thy bounteous hand with worldly bliss Ten thousand thousand precious gifts Through ev ry period of my life When nature fails and day and night My ever grateful heart O Lord Through all eternity to thee For O eternity s too short To utter all thy praise The voyage of Life. Self flatter d unexperienc d high in hope When young with sanguine cheer and streamers gay We cut our cable launch into the world And fondly dream each wind and star our friend |