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Excerpt from Horae Lyricae: Poems Chiefly of the Lyric Kind; In Three Books, Sacred; I. To Devotion and Piety, II. To Virtue, Honour, and Friendship, III. To the Memory of the Dead
The vallies, in caves of the earth, and in rocks: among the biz/hes they brayed, under the nettles they were ga thered together they were children of fools, yea, chil dren of ba/z' men they were viler than the earth (and. Now I am theirfong, yea, I am their by-word, &c How mourn ful and dejeé'ted is the language' of his own forrows! Terrors are turned upon him, they pur jue hisjoul as the wind, and his welfare pa?es away. As a cloud his bones are pierced within him; and his' {oul'is poured out he goes mourning without the'fun, a rother to dragons, and a companion to owls while his harp and organ, are turned into the voice of them that weep.' I mull tranfcribe one half of this book, if I would thew the grandeur, the variety, and the juli nefs of his ideas, or the pomp and beauty of his ex pre?ion: I mull copy'out a good part of the writ ings of david and isaiah, if I would reprefent the poetical excellencies of their thoughts and fiileg-nor is the language of the le?'er prophets. Efpecially in fome paragraphs, much inferior to thefe. Nomwhile they paint human nature in its various forms and circum?ances, if their defignin'g be (0 jail and noble, their difpofition {o artful, and their co louring fo bright beyl nd the molt famed human writers, how much more mull their defcriptions of' God'and heaven exceed all that is pofiible to be {aid by a meaner tongue? When they {peak of the dwel ling-place of God, He inhabits eternity, and fits upon the throne of his holinefs, in the midil of light inacce?ible. When his holinefs is mentioned, The heavens are not clean in his fight, he charges his angels with folly: he looks to the moon and it (hin eth not, and the flats are not pure before his eyes he is a jealous God, and a confirming fire. If we fpeak of firength, Behold he is firon'g, he removes.
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