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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 |  |
If human souls, why not angelic too
Extinguish'd? and a solitary God,
O'er ghastly ruin, frowning from His throne?
Shall we this moment gaze on God in man?
The next, lose man for ever in the dust?
From dust we disengage, or man mistakes;
And there, where least his judgment fears a flaw.
Wisdom and Worth how boldly he commends!
Wisdom and Worth are sacred names; revered,
Where not embraced; applauded, deified!
Why not compassion'd too? If spirits die,
Both are calamities; inflicted both
To make us but more wretched: Wisdom's eye
Acute, for what? To spy more miseries;
And Worth, so recompensed, new-points their stings.
Or man surmounts the grave, or gain is loss,
And Worth exalted humbles us the more.
Thou wilt not patronize a scheme that makes
Weakness and Vice the refuge of mankind.
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O'er ghastly ruin, frowning from His throne?
Shall we this moment gaze on God in man?
The next, lose man for ever in the dust?
From dust we disengage, or man mistakes;
And there, where least his judgment fears a flaw.
Wisdom and Worth how boldly he commends!
Wisdom and Worth are sacred names; revered,
Where not embraced; applauded, deified!
Why not compassion'd too? If spirits die,
Both are calamities; inflicted both
To make us but more wretched: Wisdom's eye
Acute, for what? To spy more miseries;
And Worth, so recompensed, new-points their stings.
Or man surmounts the grave, or gain is loss,
And Worth exalted humbles us the more.
Thou wilt not patronize a scheme that makes
Weakness and Vice the refuge of mankind.
| 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 | |