The peripatetic or, Sketches of the heart, of nature and society; In a series of politico-sentimental journals, in verse and prose, of the eccentric excursions of Sylvanus Theophrastus; Supposed to be written by himself [by John Thelwall] |
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[O Reason! “first-created beam!”] |
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[O Reason! “first-created beam!”]
O Reason! “first-created beam!”
That through the night of Chaos broke,
And pour'd the plastic vital stream
Whence form and beauteous order woke!—
That through the night of Chaos broke,
And pour'd the plastic vital stream
Whence form and beauteous order woke!—
O Reason! first-created beam!
Existing Nature's boundless soul!
Dart through this cloud thy cheerful gleam,
And ev'ry gloomy fear controul.
Existing Nature's boundless soul!
Dart through this cloud thy cheerful gleam,
And ev'ry gloomy fear controul.
O! put the shadowy train to flight
That stalk in Terror's dubious night,
And ev'ry wild'ring thought restrain
That racks the Sceptic's throbbing brain!
That stalk in Terror's dubious night,
And ev'ry wild'ring thought restrain
That racks the Sceptic's throbbing brain!
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