Without thy aid, in vain the polės, Come, faireft princefs of the throng, While raptur'd bards no more behold A vernal age of purer gold, In Heliconian streams. SWIFT. THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER. I FATHER of all in every age, In ev'ry clime ador'd, By faint, by favage, and by fage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord! Thou great Firft Caufe, leaft understood; Who all my fenfe confin'd To know but this, that thou art good, And that myself am blind; Yet gave me, in this dark eftate, To fee the good from ill; And, binding Nature faft in Fate, Left free the human will. What Confcience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to fhun, That more than heaven purfue. What bleffings thy free bounty gives, For God is paid when man receives- Yet not to earth's contracted fpan Or think thee Lord alone of man, Let not this weak unknowing hand If I am right, thy grace impart, If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way! Save me alike from foolish pride, Or impious difcontent, At aught thy wifdom has deny'd, Teach me to feel another's woe, That mercy I to others fhew, Mean tho' I am, not wholly fo, O, lead me wherefoe'er I go, This day, be bread and peace my lot; All elfe beneath the fun, Thou know'ft if best bestow'd or not, To thee whofe temple is all space, One chorus let all beings raise! POPE.. THE WAY TO HAPPINESS. HOW long, ye miserable blind, No more in paths of error stray, Then run to meet him at your need, Run with boldness, run with speed, For he forfook his own abode To meet thee more than half the road. And love for mankind brought him down And, as the thoughts of parents run So kind a love his mercies fhew, That speaks your blifs with greater graise) Leaving pleafures, leaving all, With heart, with foul, with ftrength incline, Who know thy will, obferve thy ways, PARNELL. RESIGNATION. O GOD, whose thunders shake the sky, To thee, my only rock, I fly, Thy myftic mazes of thy will, The fhadows of celestial light, Are paft the power of human fkill But what th' Eternal acts is right. |