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 | The complete works, poetry and prose, of the Rev. Edward Young prefixed, a life of the author, by John Doran ... With eight illustrations on steel, and a portrait. In two volumes |  |
Nature, Thy daughter, ever-changing birth
Of Thee the great Immutable, to man
Speaks wisdom; is his oracle supreme;
And he who most consults her is most wise.
Lorenzo, to this heavenly Delphos haste;
And come back all-immortal, all-Divine:
Look Nature through, 'tis revolution all;
All change, no death. Day follows night; and night,
The dying day; stars rise, and set, and rise;
Earth takes the' example. See, the Summer gay,
With her green chaplet and ambrosial flowers,
Droops into pallid Autumn: Winter grey,
Horrid with frost, and turbulent with storm,
Blows Autumn and his golden fruits away;
Then melts into the Spring: soft Spring, with breath
Favonian, from warm chambers of the south
Recalls the first. All, to re-flourish, fades;
As in a wheel, all sinks, to re-ascend:
Emblems of man, who passes, not expires.
Of Thee the great Immutable, to man
Speaks wisdom; is his oracle supreme;
And he who most consults her is most wise.
Lorenzo, to this heavenly Delphos haste;
And come back all-immortal, all-Divine:
Look Nature through, 'tis revolution all;
All change, no death. Day follows night; and night,
The dying day; stars rise, and set, and rise;
Earth takes the' example. See, the Summer gay,
With her green chaplet and ambrosial flowers,
Droops into pallid Autumn: Winter grey,
Horrid with frost, and turbulent with storm,
Blows Autumn and his golden fruits away;
Then melts into the Spring: soft Spring, with breath
Favonian, from warm chambers of the south
Recalls the first. All, to re-flourish, fades;
As in a wheel, all sinks, to re-ascend:
Emblems of man, who passes, not expires.
| The complete works, poetry and prose, of the Rev. Edward Young prefixed, a life of the author, by John Doran ... With eight illustrations on steel, and a portrait. In two volumes | |