 | 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 |  |
The theme, the joy, how then shall man sustain?
O the burst gates, crush'd sting, demolish'd throne,
Last gasp, of vanquish'd Death! Shout, Earth and Heaven,
This sum of good to man! whose nature then
Took wing, and mounted with Him from the tomb.
Then, then I rose; then first humanity
Triumphant pass'd the crystal ports of light,
(Stupendous guest!) and seized eternal youth,
Seized in our name. E'er since, 'tis blasphemous
To call man mortal. Man's mortality
Was then transferr'd to Death; and Heaven's duration
Unalienably seal'd to this frail frame,
This child of dust.—Man, all immortal, hail!
Hail, Heaven, all lavish of strange gifts to man!
Thine all the glory; man's the boundless bliss.
O the burst gates, crush'd sting, demolish'd throne,
Last gasp, of vanquish'd Death! Shout, Earth and Heaven,
This sum of good to man! whose nature then
Took wing, and mounted with Him from the tomb.
Then, then I rose; then first humanity
Triumphant pass'd the crystal ports of light,
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Seized in our name. E'er since, 'tis blasphemous
To call man mortal. Man's mortality
Was then transferr'd to Death; and Heaven's duration
Unalienably seal'd to this frail frame,
This child of dust.—Man, all immortal, hail!
Hail, Heaven, all lavish of strange gifts to man!
Thine all the glory; man's the boundless bliss.
| 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 | |