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Orphean Verses.
From the Greek.
To well-purg'd Ears, deserving of the Lay,
In Strains Sublime my Song I will display:
Retire, ye Rout prophane, far, far away!
But thou, Musæus, shalt my Pupil be;
Important Truths I will reveal to Thee.
In Strains Sublime my Song I will display:
Retire, ye Rout prophane, far, far away!
But thou, Musæus, shalt my Pupil be;
Important Truths I will reveal to Thee.
Lest impious Error early Entrance find,
And from Life's Noble End divert thy Mind,
Sincerely upright, gratefully adore
The Heav'nly Reason, and confess his Pow'r,
Who Sole produc'd this Universal Frame,
Eternal, Self-sufficient, still the Same!
He fills the Whole; diffus'd thro' ample Space,
His Spirit mingles with the mighty Mass!
Unseen himself, yet seeing all, he reigns,
And Nature's Course immutably maintains!
And from Life's Noble End divert thy Mind,
Sincerely upright, gratefully adore
The Heav'nly Reason, and confess his Pow'r,
Who Sole produc'd this Universal Frame,
Eternal, Self-sufficient, still the Same!
He fills the Whole; diffus'd thro' ample Space,
His Spirit mingles with the mighty Mass!
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And Nature's Course immutably maintains!
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