 | 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
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Where'er I turn, how new proofs pour upon me!
How happily this wondrous view supports
My former argument! How strongly strikes
Immortal life's full demonstration here!
Why this exertion? Why this strange regard
From Heaven's Omnipotent indulged to man?
Because in man the glorious dreadful power,
Extremely to be pain'd, or bless'd, for ever.
Duration gives importance; swells the price.
An angel, if a creature of a day,
What would he be? A trifle of no weight;
Or stand or fall,—no matter which,—he's gone.
Because IMMORTAL, therefore is indulged
This strange regard of deities to dust.
Hence Heaven looks down on earth with all her eyes;
Hence the soul's mighty moment in her sight;
Hence every soul has partisans above,
And every thought a critic in the skies:
Hence clay, vile clay, has angels for its guard,
And every guard a passion for his charge:
Hence, from all age, the Cabinet Divine
Has held high counsel o'er the fate of man.
| 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
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