...Mei wittenschip , dij folken ien't , naat twist't , Uus all' foarmeitse mei her Ijeacht in ginst ! * Yet gave me in this dark estate To see the good from ill, And, binding nature fust in fate, Left free the human will. • • • • If I am right thy...

...arose a most common variation by insertion of rhymes at the ends of the first and third half-lines:' Thou Great First Cause, least understood: Who all my Sense confin'd To know but this, that Thou are Good, And that myself am blind. — POPE — Universal Prayer. In contrast to the usage of internal...

...by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord! Thou Great First Cause, least understood: Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind; And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. What conscience dictates to be done, Or...

...by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord! Thou Great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that thou art good, And that myself...gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill; And, binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. What conscience dictates to be done,...

...or Ixird ! The Universal Prayer Thou Great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that thou art good, And that myself am blind: 8 Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And binding Nature fast in Fate, Left...

...All ! in every Age, In every Clime ador'd, By Saint, by Savage, and by Sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord! Thou Great First Cause, least understood! Who all...Good from 111; And binding Nature fast in Fate, Left Conscience free, and Will. What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to doe, This, teach...

...First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that thou art good, * nd that myself am blind ; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And, binding nature fast ir fate, Left free the human will : What conscience dictates to be done,...

...Saint, by Savage, and by Sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord! Thou Great First Cause, least Understood! 5 Who all my Sense confin'd To know but this, — that Thou art Good, And that my self am blind : Yet gave me, in this dark Estate, To see the Good from IlI; 10 And binding Nature...

...father dear'. This is the reverse of the God of natural religion, the remote First Cause of Pope's poem: Thou Great First Cause, least Understood, Who all...Sense confin'd To know but this, - that Thou art Good, For Blake's God is not apprehended by the isolated individual reason, but created in relationship:...

...himself recedes into the background, replaced by a remote cosmic principle, disembodied and incalculable. Thou Great First Cause, least Understood! Who all...this, - that Thou art Good, And that myself am blind: ("The Universal Prayer," 5~8)2 The sterile effect and bathetic triviality of Pope's attempt at metrical...