The Works of the Reverend and Learned Isaac Watts, D. D. Containing, besides his Sermons, and Essays on miscellaneous subjects, several additional pieces, Selected from his Manuscripts by the Rev. Dr. Jennings, and the Rev. Dr. Doddridge, in 1753: to which are prefixed, memoirs of the life of the author, compiled by the Rev. George Burder. In six volumes |
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VIII. | VIII.—DR. YOUNG'S ADMIRABLE DESCRIPTION OF THE PEACOCK ENLARGED. |
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VIII.—DR. YOUNG'S ADMIRABLE DESCRIPTION OF THE PEACOCK ENLARGED.
View next the peacock: What bright glories runFrom plume to plume, and vary in the sun?
Proudly he boasts them to the heav'nly ray,
Gives all his colours, and adorns the day.
Was it thy pencil, Job, divinely bold,
Drest his rich form in azure, green and gold?
Thy hand his crest with starry radiance crown'd,
Or spread his sweepy train? His train disdains the ground,
And kindles living lamps thro' all the spacious round.
Mark with what conscious state the bird displays
His native gems, and 'midst the waving blaze
On the slow step of majesty he moves,
Asserts his honours, and demands his loves.
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