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Poems on several subjects

Nicol, Alexander

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TO THE HONOURABLE JAMES HALYBURTON of Pitcur, Esq; Member of Parliament of Orkney and Shetland, and Colonel of the Third Regiment of Foot-Guards, &c.

To the Author, on his Collection of Miscellany Poems.

I.

NATURE without ART.

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II.

NATURE without ART.

An Invocation to the heavenly Muse.

Forty five Wonders; or, an Imitation of a Pamphlet of moral sayings, called, A Book of Fives, or five and forty Wonders.

Alphabetical Verses on the Life of MAN, being eight Verses annexed to each Letter.

The four Seasons of the Year compared to the four Ages of Man's Life, viz. Infancy, Childhood or Youth, Manhood, and old Age.

A Meditation at the Communion-table.

On the Fall of Man.

To the holy Trinity, on the Redemption of Man.

A Meditation for a Traveller.

Upon the WORLD.

A Meditation for a Fast-day before the Communion.

A Lamentation, &c.

The contented Christian, or the Christian's Content.

A Soliloquy for an unregenerate Sinner.

A BUNDLE OF FLOWERS FOR CHILDREN:

THE CHILD's COMPANION; IN A NATURAL DIALOGUE BETWIXT A Child and One of riper Years: Useful for Young Ones.

KING SOLOMON's BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES, IN METRE.

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On the Fall of Man.

Altho', O Lord, I was design'd,
By thee when I was made,
For services that are divine,
Soon sin me poisoned:

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And now I must be made again,
And born of the Spirit;
Or else, from Scripture it is plain,
I'll never life inherit.