The grand effect; acknowledges with joy His manner, and with rapture tastes his style. That brings the planets home into the eye Of observation, and discovers, else Not vifible, his family of worlds, Discover him that rules them; fuch a veil Hangs over mortal eyes, blind from the birth, But, if his word once teach us, fhoot a ray In the pure fountain of eternal love, Has eyes indeed; and, viewing all fhe fees As meant to indicate a God to man, Gives him his praife, and forfeits not her own. Learning has born fuch fruit in other days Friends in the friends of fcience, and true pray'r And in his word fagacious. Such too thine, And fed on manna! And fuch thine, in whom All flesh is grafs, and all its glory fades Like the fair flow'r difhevell'd in the wind; Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream: The man we celebrate muft find a tomb, And we that worship him ignoble graves. Nothing is proof against the gen'ral curfe Of vanity, that feizes all below. The only amaranthine flow'r on earth Is virtue; th' only lasting treasure, truth. Or negligent, inquirer not a spark. What's that which brings contempt upon a book, And him who writes it; though the ftyle be neat, The method clear, and argument exact? That makes a minifter in holy things The joy of many, and the dread of more, His name a theme for praise and for reproach ?That, while it gives us worth in God's account, Depreciates and undoes us in our own? What pearl is it that rich men cannot buy, That learning is too proud to gather up; O, friendly to the best pursuits of man, Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace, Domestic life in rural leifure pafs'd! Few know thy value, and few tafte thy fweets; Though many boaft thy favours, and affect To understand and choose thee for their own, But foolish man foregoes his proper blifs, Ev'n as his first progenitor, and quits, Though placed in paradife, (for earth has ftill Some traces of her youthful beauty left) Substantial happiness for tranfient joy. Scenes form'd for contemplation, and to nurfe The growing feeds of wifdom; that fuggeft, By ev'ry pleafing image they prefent, Reflections fuch as meliorate the heart, Compose the paffions, and exalt the mind; Should fome contagion, kind to the poor brutes That draw the sportsman over hill and dale, Delights which who would leave, that has a heart Cultur'd and capable of fober thought, |