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ON ATTENTION. |
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ON ATTENTION.
Sacred Attention! True effectual Prayer!Thou dost the Soul for Love of Truth prepare.
Blest is the Man who, from Conjecture free,
To future Knowledge shall aspire by thee;
Who in thy Precepts seeks a sure Repose;
Stays till he sees, nor judges till he knows;—
Tho' firm not rash, tho' eager yet sedate,
Intent on Truth can Its Instruction wait;
Aw'd by thy powerful Influence to appeal
To Heaven, Which only can Itself reveal;
The soul in humble Silence to resign,
And human Will unite to the Divine;
Till, fir'd at length by Heaven's Enlivening Beams,
Pure, unconsum'd the faithful Victim flames!
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