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The Second Part of Original Poems

Serious and Humorous. By Mr. Henry Baker
Baker, Henry (1698-1774)
 
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EJACULATION.

What is, my Soul! this empty World to thee?
Its Riches? Dross! its Pleasures? Vanity!
Stretch forth thy Wings, and soar away,
Far hence, to Realms of blissful Day,
Where Pleasures wait Thee worthy of thy Stay.
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