 | 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 |  |
What mean these questions?—Trembling I retract;
My prostrate soul adores the present God.
Praise I a distant Deity? He tunes
My voice (if tuned); the nerve that writes, sustains:
Wrapt in His being, I resound His praise:
But though past all diffused, without a shore,
His essence; local is His throne (as meet)
To gather the dispersed (as standards call
The listed from afar); to fix a point,
A central point, collective of his sons,
Since finite every nature but his own.
My prostrate soul adores the present God.
Praise I a distant Deity? He tunes
My voice (if tuned); the nerve that writes, sustains:
Wrapt in His being, I resound His praise:
But though past all diffused, without a shore,
His essence; local is His throne (as meet)
To gather the dispersed (as standards call
The listed from afar); to fix a point,
A central point, collective of his sons,
Since finite every nature but his own.
| 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 | |