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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 |  |
To lift us from this abject to sublime;
This flux to permanent; this dark to day;
This foul to pure; this turbid to serene;
This mean to mighty!—for this glorious end
The' Almighty, rising, His long sabbath broke:
The world was made; was ruin'd; was restored;
Laws from the Skies were publish'd; were repeal'd;
On earth kings, kingdoms rose; kings, kingdoms fell;
Famed sages lighted up the Pagan world;
Prophets from Sion darted a keen glance
Through distant age; saints travell'd; martyrs bled;
By wonders sacred Nature stood controll'd;
The living were translated; dead were raised;
Angels, and more than angels, came from heaven;
And, O! for this, descended lower still;
Gilt was hell's gloom: astonish'd at his Guest,
For one short moment Lucifer adored:
Lorenzo! and wilt thou do less?—For this
That hallow'd page fools scoff at, was inspired,
Of all these truths thrice-venerable code!
Deists, perform your quarantine; and then
Fall prostrate ere you touch it, lest you die.
This flux to permanent; this dark to day;
This foul to pure; this turbid to serene;
This mean to mighty!—for this glorious end
The' Almighty, rising, His long sabbath broke:
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Laws from the Skies were publish'd; were repeal'd;
On earth kings, kingdoms rose; kings, kingdoms fell;
Famed sages lighted up the Pagan world;
Prophets from Sion darted a keen glance
Through distant age; saints travell'd; martyrs bled;
By wonders sacred Nature stood controll'd;
The living were translated; dead were raised;
Angels, and more than angels, came from heaven;
And, O! for this, descended lower still;
Gilt was hell's gloom: astonish'd at his Guest,
For one short moment Lucifer adored:
Lorenzo! and wilt thou do less?—For this
That hallow'd page fools scoff at, was inspired,
Of all these truths thrice-venerable code!
Deists, perform your quarantine; and then
Fall prostrate ere you touch it, lest you die.
| 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 | |