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An ODE to the Supreme Being.
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An ODE to the Supreme Being.
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Hail Nature's Lord! from Thee their Source,Brute Matter flows, and Thinking Mind,
Blest Center, whose attractive Force,
Enlighten'd Souls resistless find.
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Mine, while it here an Exile lives,Detain'd in Clay, with Night opprest,
Feels she's misplac'd, and upward strives
To Thee, and Heav'n its Seat of Rest.
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See, as the Hart in Syria's Sand,Gasping with Heat, with Labour spent,
Viewing with eager Eyes the Land,
Pants for the cooling Element.
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My Soul, great Power, her Way would wingWith like Desire, and swifter Speed,
To Thee, O unexhausted Spring!
Whence living Streams of Joy proceed.
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Which cheer the Gardens of the Blest,And all the Heav'nly Walks revive,
Which Saints almost with Bliss oprest
Do ever Drink, and ever Live.
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Freely the Miser may for me,Amass-vast Heaps of Guinea's Oar,
Lord of the Indies let him be,
So Thou art Mine, whom I adore.
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With Science let the Scholar's Brain,And pure Ideas overflow,
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So I the Lord of Nature know.
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While of my Wish I am secure,The Soveraign Good at which I aim,
I'm blest with Pleasure, Wealth and Pow'r,
And envy not the Hero's Fame.
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