,,young',s                              
,,night ,,thoughts4                     
,,young',s                              
,,night ,,thoughts4                     
,with ,life1 ,critical ,dissertation1   
and                                     
,explanatory ,notes1                    
,,by ,,the                              
,,rev4 ,,george ,,gilfillan4            
,,edinburgh3                    ,,james 
,,nichol1 #i ,,north ,,bank ,,street4   
,,london3 ,,james ,,nisbet ,,and ,,co4  
,,dublin3 ,w4 ,,robertson4              
,m4,,dccc4,,liii4                  ,,on 
,,the ,,life ,,and ,,poetic ,,genius    
,,of ,,edward ,,young4   ,between the   
period of ,george ,herbert1 and that of 
,edward ,young1 some singular changes   
had taken place in ,british poetry as   
well as in ,british manners1 politics1  
and religion4 ,there had passed over the
 land the thunderstorm of the ,puritanic
 ,revolt1 which had first clouded and   
then cleared1 for a season1 the         
intellectual and moral horizon4 ,the    

effect of this on poetry was1 for such  
fugitive though felicitous hymns as     
those of ,herbert1 to substitute the    
epic unities and grand choral harmonies 
of ,milton4 ,then came the              
,restoration--the ,apotheosis of        
falsehood2 including in that term false 
principles1 false politics1 and false   
taste4 ,britain became the degraded     
slave of ,france1 at once in laws and in
 literature4 ,dryden1 indeed1           
maintained1 in some measure1 the        
character and the taste of his nation1  
but he stood almost alone4 ,to him      
succeeded ,addison and ,pope1 both      
gifted but both timid men1 whose genius1
 great as it was1 never1 or rarely1     
ventured on original and daring flights1
 and who seemed always to be haunted by 
the fear of ,french criticism4 ,pope1   
especially1 lent all his influence to   
confirm and seal the power of a foreign 
code of literary laws2 and so general   
and so deep was the submission1 that it 
is to us one of the strongest proofs of 

,edward ,young's genius1 that he        
ventured1 in that polished but powerless
 era1 to uplift a native voice of song1 
and not to uplift it in vain2 for1 if he
 did not absolutely make a revolution1  
or found a school1 he yet established   
himself1 and left his poetry as a       
glorious precedent to all who should    
afterwards be so hardy as to go and do  
likewise4  ,edward ,young was born in   
,june #afha 7according to some1 two     
years earlier71 in the village of       
,upham1 ,hampshire4 ,his father was     
rector of the parish1 and is represented
 as a man of great learning and         
abilities4 ,he was the author of some   
volumes of sermons1 and1 on account of  
their merit1 and through the patronage  
of ,lord ,bradford1 he was appointed    
chaplain to ,king ,william1 and ,dean of
 ,salisbury4 ,he died in #agje1 in the  
sixty-third year of his age1 and ,bishop
 ,burnet1 the ,sunday after his decease1
 pronounced a glowing panegyric on his  
character1 in a funeral sermon delivered

 in the ,cathedral4  ,edward was sent to
 ,winchester ,school1 and thence to     
,oxford1 where he obtained a law        
fellowship in ,all-,souls ,college1 and 
afterwards took successively the degrees
 of ,bachelor and ,doctor of ,civil     
,law1 besides obtaining a fellowship in 
#agjf4 ,when the ,codrington ,library   
was founded1 he was appointed to deliver
 the ,latin oration4 ,it was published1 
but met with a frigid reception1 being  
full of conceits and puerilities1 and   
the author wisely omitted it from his   
collected works4 ,little else is known  
of his career at ,college4 ,he is said  
to have blended fits of study with      
frequent dissipation4 ,when he relaxed1 
it was in the company of the infamous   
,duke of ,wharton1 who patronised1      
corrupted1 and laughed at him4 ,when he 
studied1 he would shut his windows1     
create around him an artificial night1  
and make it more hideous by piling up   
skulls1 cross-bones1 and instruments of 
death in his room4 ,his talent was then 

as well known as his eccentricity4      
,tindal the sceptic bore a striking     
testimony to this when he said1 ,the    
other boys ,i can always answer1 because
 ,i always know where they have their   
arguments1 which ,i have read a hundred 
times2 but that fellow ,young is        
continually pestering me with something 
of his own4  ,he seems to have been     
nearly thirty ere he began to tune that 
lyre which was afterwards to thrill with
 vibrations of song so powerful and     
melodious4 ,his first choice of a       
subject was characteristic of the lofty 
and ambitious tone of his genius3 it    
was1 ,the ,last ,day4 ,this poem was    
written in #agaj1 although not given to 
the world till #agac4 ,he had           
previously1 in #agab1 published an      
epistle to ,lord ,lansdown1 which       
displayed little of his peculiar power1 
but was at once feeble and pretentious4 
,young became afterwards heartily       
ashamed of it4 ,in the same year that   
,the ,last ,day appeared1 he prefixed to

 ,addison's ,cato a copy of verses of no
 great merit4 ,shortly after1 he issued 
a poem entitled1 ,the ,force of         
,religion2 or1 ,vanquished ,love3 it was
 founded on the story of ,lady ,jane    
,grey and her husband1 and was ushered  
in by a flaming dedication to the       
,countess of ,salisbury4 ,on the death  
of the ,queen1 in #agad1 he published a 
panegyric in verse on her memory1 and   
inscribed it to ,addison4 ,in these days
 flattery to princes and nobles was a   
commodity almost essential to poetry--a 
tawdry court dress which every poet was 
obliged to put on for the nonce2 and not
 even ,dryden has excelled ,young in the
 violent unlikeness and unsparing       
incense of his adulations4 ,it is       
satisfactory to remember that1 on cool  
reflection1 he cancelled the most of    
those unworthy effusions2 although he   
continued to the last very much of a    
courtier1 as the dedications to the     
,night ,thoughts sufficiently prove4 ,he
 is supposed about the year #agag to    

have visited ,ireland in company with   
,wharton4  ,in #agai his tragedy of     
,busiris appeared on the stage1 and had 
considerable success4 ,he sold the      
copyright afterwards to ,b4 ,lintot1 for
 ,l#hd1 which1 for a first play by an   
author previously unknown1 was thought a
 large sum4 ,busiris is a play of that  
solemnly pompous and intensely          
artificial school1 the race of which has
 been long since gathered to its        
fathers4 ,it is conceived and written in
 ,ercles' vein2#a and ,nat ,lee himself1
 in his wild ranting plays1 has scarcely
 surpassed the torrents of bombastic    
nonsense which issue from the lips of   
,myron4 ,immediately after ,busiris he  
published his ,paraphrase on part of the
 ,book of ,job1 a production scarcely   
worthy either of ,young or of the       
sublime original4 ,the descriptions in  
that grandest of all poems1 which are so
 rich and massive as to press almost on 
the sense1 are more fairly represented  
in our common prose translation than in 

the poetical paraphrase of ,young4 ,we  
are far1 however1 from being opposed1   
with some critics1 to the principle of  
paraphrasing ,scripture4 ,we admire to  
enthusiasm many of the ,scottish        
paraphrases1 some of ,byron's and       
,moore's ,hebrew ,melodies1 and ,croly's
 ,scenes from ,scripture2 and should    
like to see all the poetry of the ,bible
 versified by some competent hand4  ,in 
#agba appeared ,the ,revenge1 by far the
 most powerful of his tragedies4 ,its   
great fault lies in its likeness to     
,othello3 its great praise is1 that1    
though it imitates and challenges       
comparison with that ,shakspearean      
masterpiece1 it has not been utterly    
sunk and eclipsed before it4 ,as a play1
 we think it decidedly second-rate2 the 
plot is not artistically managed1 and   
the means by which jealousy is excited  
in the mind of ,alonzo1 are a very poor 
and shabby copy of those in ,shakspeare4
 ,zanga has been called a vulgar        
caricature of ,iago2 he is so in part1  

perhaps1 but ,young has abated the      
vulgarity of the imitation by endowing  
his hero with a wild and native vein of 
poetry4 ,iago is a subtler1 colder fiend
 than ,zanga1 and indulges more in      
sneers and in smut than in declamation4 
,zanga's speeches exhaust the rhetoric  
of revenge4 ,iago has nothing but       
intellect1 wit1 and malignity4 ,zanga   
has an imagination worthy of the hot and
 lion-peopled land of his birth4 ,iago1 
after his detection1 sinks into         
obstinate silence2 he stiffens into the 
statue of a demon4 ,zanga dies1 using   
lofty imagery4  ,indeed1 ,the ,revenge  
owes all its interest to the flames of  
poetic genius which burst out at every  
pore of its otherwise coarse and copied 
structure4 ,it was dedicated to         
,wharton1 with whom ,young continued to 
be intimate2 whom he taught to speak    
good ,latin in the space of six weeks2  
and who lent him money to reimburse him 
for the expenses of an unsuccessful     
attempt to get into ,parliament4 ,this  

was in #agba2 the place was             
,cirencester4 ,the election1 however1   
was contested1 and fortunately1 perhaps1
 both for ,young and the world1 he was  
unsuccessful4 ,had he gained the seat1  
he had very probably1    ,though born   
for the universe1 narrow'd his mind1    
,and to party given up what was meant   
for mankind2  and what comparison       
between a series of eloquent1 forgotten 
speeches1 and the starry1 ever-burning  
splendours of the ,night ,thoughts8     
,his disappointment in this attempt1    
coupled1 probably1 with remorse for the 
follies and vices of a misspent youth1  
seems to have soured ,young1 and ripened
 him to the point when satire becomes   
the unavoidable expression of the       
irritated yet unsubdued spirit4 ,in     
#agbe appeared the first part of his    
,universal ,passion2 the rest came out  
in successive satires between that and  
#agbh1 when they were collected and     
published1 along with a somewhat        
querulous preface1 in which he hints    

that he had not found poetry very       
favourable to preferment4 ,he gained1   
however1 ,l#cjjj by these poems1 of     
which1 according to ,spence1 ,l#bjjj was
 contributed by the ,duke of ,grafton1  
who did not1 however1 regret the price4 
,his inscriptions of the several satires
 were1 as usual at the time1 stuffed    
with fulsome praise of such men as      
,dorset1 ,dodington1 ,campton1 and ,sir 
,robert ,walpole1 all of whom           
appreciated and rewarded the            
compliments4 ,we reserve our criticism  
on these remarkable productions till    
afterwards1 noticing only at present1   
that they were published before the     
satires of ,pope1 and that they became  
instantly popular4  ,as if to propitiate
 the ,nemesis1 who always stands behind 
the chariot of the popular writer1      
,young next issued two of the poorest of
 all his unequal productions4 ,the first
 of these1 entitled ,the ,instalment1   
was addressed to ,sir ,robert ,walpole1 
and is1 perhaps1 although the word be a 

wide one1 the most nonsensical and      
trashy lie in verse ever addressed to a 
prime minister4 ,the second is an ,ode  
to ,ocean1 a compound of doggrel and    
stilted dulness--which1 indeed1 any     
sailor of education might have composed1
 if half-seas-over4  ,at length1 sick of
 dissipation1 of the stage1 of bad odes1
 and good satires1 ,young determined to 
become wise1 and enter into orders4 ,an 
irresistible current had long been      
carrying him on1 with many a convulsive 
recalcitration on his part1 to this     
determination4 ,that great intellect and
 heart1 over which1 already1 the shadow 
of the ,night ,thoughts was beginning to
 gather1 could not be satisfied with the
 society of peers1 poets1 and demireps2 
with the applause of sweltering crowds  
collected in theatres2 or with the      
ebullitions of its own giant spleen1 in 
the shape of epigrammatic satires4 ,the 
world1 which once seemed to his eye so  
fresh and fair1 had withered gradually  
to a skeleton1 with sockets for eyes1   

with eternal baldness for hair1 with a  
stench instead of a sweet savour1 and   
burning instead of beauty4 ,he resolved 
to proclaim the particulars of this     
painful yet blessed disenchantment to   
the ends of the earth1 and to all       
classes of mankind4 ,and for this       
purpose1 he first of all mounted the    
pulpit1 and then began to wield what was
 even then the mightier engine of the   
press4 ,he was no novice when he entered
 the ministry4 ,would that we had more  
who1 like ,young1 do not go up by a     
mechanical ladder1 and the mere force of
 custom1 to the pulpit1 but who come    
down upon it from long and vain         
wanderings elsewhere1 and with a        
conviction1 as the result of mature     
experience1 that ,god there still       
desires to dwell1 and that it           
constitutes even yet a pinnacle of      
prospect1 and power1 and promise6 ,thus 
came ,herbert1 and ,chalmers1 and       
,foster1 to their real work as ministers
 of the gospel4 ,it is not a boy1 but a 

,boanerges-ministry that introduces the 
,word with most effect to a gainsaying  
world4 ,young was full                  
forty-seven--mature in years1 in        
acquirements1 in experience1 and in     
reputation--when he began to publish the
 ,news that it is well4 ,like the       
eminent men we have just mentioned1 and 
like others whom we might mention1 his  
motives in entering the ,church have    
been calumniated4 ,he has been compared 
to a lady disappointed in love1 taking  
the veil2 and1 rather inconsistently    
with this figure1 to a sated sensualist 
becoming an anchorite4 ,how can both be 
true8 ,if ,young was disappointed1 how  
could he be sated8 and if sated1 how    
could he be chagrined by the want of    
satisfaction8 ,the fact is1 that such   
men as ,young1 ,chalmers1 ,herbert1 and 
,foster1 are altogether superior to     
common standards of judgment1 and must  
be tried by their peers4 ,all had their 
own share of the disgusts and           
dissatisfactions connected with life1   

and all felt them keenly4 ,but all had a
 deeper reason still--a reason1 we      
grant1 probably stirred by circumstances
 into action1 for renouncing the empty  
arena of this world's honours and       
wealth1 and devoting themselves to a    
higher and nobler purpose4 ,they all saw
 into the hollowness of society1 into   
the misery of the human heart2 and felt 
that the gospel alone could fill that   
aching void1 and satisfy those dreary   
cravings4 ,hence1 ,herbert quitted the  
pleasures of a court2 ,chalmers dropped 
his air-pump and his telescope2 ,foster 
resigned his philosophic speculations2  
and ,young shook off the blandishments  
of peers1 and forgot the claps of       
multitudes1 to proclaim the glad tidings
 to perishing sinners2 and verily all1  
in different measures1 had their reward4
  ,in ,april #agbh he was appointed     
chaplain to ,george ,,ii4 ,his tragedy1 
,the ,brothers1 which had been in       
rehearsal1 was prudently withdrawn4 ,it 
is a play superior to ,busiris1 but very

 much inferior to ,the ,revenge4 ,full  
of passion and poetry1 of startling     
scenes1 and vivid images1 its subject is
 unpleasing1 and the various            
perplexities of the plot are not        
skilfully disentangled4  ,in the same   
year he published ,a ,true ,estimate of 
,human ,life1 written with force and    
ingenuity2 and a long and very loyal    
sermon1 preached before the ,house of   
,commons1 on the ,martyrdom of ,charles 
,i4 ,it was entitled1 ,an ,apology for  
,princes2 or1 the ,reverence due to     
,governments4  ,hitherto ,young had     
lived on the proceeds of his fellowship1
 and on presents from ,wharton1 who1 at 
his death1 too1 left him a pension4 ,he 
became now1 however1 very naturally     
anxious for promotion in that new sphere
 on which he had entered1 and was       
compelled1 proh pudor6 to lay his case  
before ,mrs ,howard1 the favourite      
mistress of ,george ,,ii4--that         
identical good ,howard1 who figures so  
curiously in the famous scene between   

,jeanie ,deans and ,queen ,caroline4    
,the fact of the application1 as well as
 the terms of the letter he wrote her1  
renders this the most humiliating       
incident in all ,young's history4 ,in   
#agcj1 he published ,imperium ,pelagi1  
another naval lyric1 as bad and much    
longer than his ,ode to ,ocean4 ,in the 
same year he wrote an epistle to ,pope1 
which resembles a coarser and more      
careless production of the little man of
 ,twickenham4  ,in ,july #agcj1 ,young  
was presented by his college to the     
rectory of ,welwyn in ,hertfordshire4   
,we refer our readers1 for various      
delightful speculations and anecdotes   
about his residence and labours there1  
to ,bulwer's ,student4 ,he was a        
powerful preacher4 ,his sermons seem to 
have been striking in thought1 rich in  
image1 intensely practical in tendency1 
and were delivered with great animation 
and effect4 ,it is told1 that on one    
occasion1 while preaching at ,st        
,james's before the ,court and ,his     

,majesty1 on some subject of            
transcendent importance1 and not being  
able to command the attention or awaken 
the feelings of his audience1 he at     
length threw himself back into the      
pulpit1 and burst into tears4 ,that was 
itself a sermon6 ,the figure of this    
weeping ,titan1 who could have rent     
rocks and severed mountains1 but who had
 failed in breaking the hearts of any of
 his courtly hearers1 is one of the most
 affecting in the annals of pulpit      
oratory4 ,alas6 what preacher who has   
ever aimed at ,young's object1 has not  
been at times tempted to assume ,young's
 attitude1 and to shed ,young's bitter  
and burning tears8 ,who hath believed   
our report1 and to whom is the arm of   
the ,lord revealed8  ,in #agca1 ,young1 
at the mature age of fifty1 married the 
,lady ,elizabeth ,lee1 daughter of the  
,earl of ,lichfield1 and widow of       
,colonel ,lee4 ,this marriage sprung out
 of his father's acquaintance with ,lady
 ,ann ,wharton1 who was co-heiress of   

,sir ,henry ,lee of ,ditchley in        
,oxfordshire1 and seems to have been    
very happy4 ,he next published another  
of those stupid odes by which he seemed 
predestined to disgrace his genius1     
entitled ,a ,sea ,piece4 ,it was as     
though ,milton had tried to write       
,anacreontics4 ,a few years afterwards  
appeared ,the ,foreign ,address1 or the 
,best ,argument for ,peace1 occasioned  
by the posture of affairs in which the  
,british fleet was then placed1 and     
written in the character of a sailor4   
,it is a mere tissue of sounding        
verbiage--or1 as ,hamlet hath it1       
,words1 words1 words4 ,about this time  
,young met with ,voltaire1 who1         
according to the story1 was ridiculing  
,milton's allegory of ,death and ,sin1  
when our hero struck in with the        
extempore epigram3--    ,thou art so    
witty1 profligate1 and thin1   ,that    
thou thyself art ,milton1 ,death1 and   
,sin4  ,we cannot see very much wit in  
this epigram1 even in that best shape   

which we have now given it2 but it was  
not inappropriate to the lean denier1   
who sought to empty everything of the   
important element--its ,god2 to leave   
the universe1 like himself1 a grinning  
skeleton1 and to smile in ghastly       
sympathy over the completed ruin4 ,we   
fancy we see the two gifted men1 the one
 the representative of the scepticism of
 ,france1 the other1 of the belief of   
,england1 meeting and conversing        
together4 ,voltaire is not much in      
advance of thirty2 ,young is fifty1 and 
more4 ,voltaire's face is worn with     
premature thought and inordinate        
laughter2 ,young's1 though older1 bears 
a warmer and more sanguine flush4       
,voltaire has the insincerest of smiles 
playing constantly over his face like   
the light of an aurora borealis2        
,young's countenance is grave1 settled1 
open1 and serene1 as the radiance of an 
autumn sunset4 ,in ,voltaire's eye you  
see the future ,candide laughing down in
 its depths1 while on ,young's brow lies

 the dim and magnificent promise of the 
,night ,thoughts4 ,after meeting1       
talking1 bowing1 wondering1 and         
recoiling1 they part for ever2 ,voltaire
 sighing through smiles as he thinks of 
the misled giant of ,religion2 and      
,young smiling through sighs as he      
thinks of the wondrous and well-nigh    
human ape of ,infidelity4  ,by his wife 
,young had one son1 ,frederick4 ,he does
 not seem to have been a particularly   
well-behaved youth2 indeed1 his father  
for some time before his death refused  
to see him1 although he ultimately sent 
him his forgiveness1 and made him his   
heir4 ,but no son of illustrious father 
has ever had harder measure dealt him4  
,it has been generally supposed that he 
was the ,lorenzo of the ,night          
,thoughts1 a poem published when        
,frederick was only eight years of age1 
and when he could scarcely have even    
thought of committing those crimes of   
scepticism and reckless                 
self-gratification with which ,young    

charges his imaginary or half-real hero4
  ,the ,poet's life1 during the first   
ten years of his rectorship at ,welwyn1 
flowed on in an even tenor4 ,he was     
regular in his conduct1 happy in his    
family1 diligent in his pastoral duties1
 and easy in his fortune4 ,his preaching
 was popular and useful4 ,his studies   
were principally connected with his own 
profession1 and yielded him a growing   
satisfaction4 ,an anonymous writer in   
the ,gentleman's ,magazine for #aghb1   
who seems to have been intimate with    
him1 thus describes him3--,the dignity  
of a great and good mind appeared in all
 his actions1 and in all his words4 ,he 
conversed on religious subjects with the
 cheerfulness of virtue2 his piety was  
undebased by gloom or enthusiasm2 he was
 regular in the performance of all its  
duties1 both in public and in private4  
,in his domestic character he was       
amiable as he was venerable in the      
,christian4 ,his politeness was such as 
,i never saw equalled3 it was invariable

 to his superiors in rank2 to his equals
 and to his inferiors it differed only  
in degrees of elegance4 ,i never heard  
him speak with roughness to the meanest 
servant4 ,in conversation upon lively   
subjects he had a brilliancy of wit     
which was peculiar to himself2 ,i know  
not how to describe it but by saying    
that it was both heightened and softened
 by the amiable qualities of his soul4  
,i have seen him ill and in pain1 yet   
the serenity of his mind remained       
unruffled4 ,i never heard a peevish     
expression fall from his lips4 ,few of  
his brilliancies are preserved1 since1  
unfortunately1 he had no ,boswell       
attached to his heels4 ,but one or two  
of the sayings that have floated down to
 us are singularly characteristic4 ,on  
one very stormy night ,young went out to
 his garden1 and remained some time4    
,when he returned1 one expressed wonder 
why he had stayed so long in such an    
evening4 ,oh1 he replied1 it is a very  
fine night2 the ,lord is abroad4 ,he was

 very fond of a garden1 and inscribed on
 the wall of his summer-house the words1
 ,ambulantes in horto audiebant vocem   
,dei 7,walking in the garden1 they heard
 the voice of ,god74 ,he had also       
erected a dial with the inscription1    
,eheu fugaces6 which1 he said with a    
smile to ,mr ,langton1 was sadly        
verified1 for by the next morning my    
dial had been carried off4 ,though      
sometimes melancholy1 he was disposed to
 encourage mirth in others1 and         
established an assembly and             
bowling-green in his parish4  ,and had  
this been all--had ,young continued to  
pursue such an even1 equable course--he 
had been by this time well-nigh         
forgotten2 for we do not think that     
either his satires or plays would of    
themselves have preserved his name4 ,but
 it was decreed that grief should       
co-operate with disappointment in       
unfolding the full riches of his mind4  
,antaeus was strongest when he touched  
the ground4 ,job was never so eloquent  

till he was prostrated on his dunghill4 
,and1 in order to be able to write the  
,night ,thoughts1 ,young must be plunged
 in the deepest gloom of                
affliction--,thrice flew the shaft1 and 
thrice his peace was slain4 ,in #agcf1 a
 daughter of his wife1 by a former      
husband1 died4 ,this was ,mrs           
,temple--the ,narcissa of his great     
poem4 ,her disease was a lingering one4 
,young accompanied her to ,lyons1 where 
she died1 and where her remains were    
brutally denied sepulture1 as the dust  
of a ,protestant4 ,her husband1 ,mr     
,temple1 or ,philander1 died four years 
later2 and in #agda1 ,young's wife1 or  
,lucia1 also expired4 ,he now felt      
himself alone1 and blasted in his       
solitude4 ,but his grief did not sink   
into sullen inactivity4 ,he made it     
oracular1 and distilled his tears into  
song4 ,the ,night ,thoughts were        
immediately commenced1 and published    
between #agdb and #agdd4 ,this          
marvellous poem was all composed either 

at night1 or when riding on             
horseback--an exercise1 by the way1     
which gives a sense of mastery and      
confidence1 stirs the blood1 elevates   
the animal spirits1 and has been felt by
 many to be eminently favourable to     
thought and mental composition4 ,it     
inspired1 we know1 such men as ,burns1  
,byron1 ,shelley1 and ,delta4 ,we love  
to think of ,young riding through the   
green lanes of his parish1 and cooing   
out to himself his plaintive            
minstrelsies4 ,we love better still to  
watch his lonely lamp shining at        
midnight1 like a star1 through the      
darkness1 and seeming to answer the far 
signal of those mightier luminaries     
which are burning above in the ,great   
,bear and ,orion--the poet the while now
 dipping his pen to indite his ardent   
immortalities--now leaning his head on  
his widowed arm1 and surrendering       
himself to paroxysms of uncontrollable  
anguish--and now looking out upon the   
,night as the ,lord is abroad on the    

wings of the tempest1 or as ,he is      
silently shining out his name in suns   
and galaxies--those unwearied ,watchers 
and unbaptized ,holy ,ones4  ,in #agde1 
,young wrote ,reflections on the ,public
 ,situation of the ,kingdom--a          
production which made no impression at  
the time1 and is now entirely forgotten4
 ,he did not include it in the          
collection of his works4 ,in #agec1 the 
tragedy of ,the ,brothers1 which had    
lain past for thirty years1 was produced
 on the stage4 ,young gave the profits  
of the play1 and several hundreds from  
his own pocket1 amounting to a thousand 
pounds in all1 to the ,society for the  
,propagation of the ,gospel--an act     
which surely balances the stories       
usually told of his love of money and   
thirst for preferment4  ,his next work  
was1 ,the ,centaur not ,fabulous1 in    
,six ,letters to a ,friend4 ,its        
subjects were1 the infidelity and       
licentiousness of that age4 ,it is a    
pity that this book has fallen into     

oblivion1 as it is a very rich and      
powerful piece of writing4 ,it is full  
of clear1 sharp1 sententious truth4 ,its
 style palpitates with energy1 and      
glitters with poetic image4 ,we wish we 
saw it reprinted in a cheap form2 for1  
although infidelity and pleasure have   
both materially changed their phases1   
there is much in ,young's little work   
that has an imperishable application1   
and that would be even yet eminently    
useful4 ,the character of ,altamont is  
supposed to represent ,lord ,euston--a  
nobleman notorious for his vices4 ,the  
age in which ,young's lot was cast was  
characterised by a low1 sneering        
scepticism1 and his earnest and awful   
letters were treated with ridicule4     
,many pronounced him mad1 others        
whispered about dotage4 ,now1 the book  
seems replete with wisdom1 and burning  
almost with prophetic fire4  ,young1 in 
fact1 was not generally appreciated     
during his lifetime4 ,tried by the      
,boileau and ,pope standard1 his        

writings were pronounced turgid1        
strained1 and extravagant4 ,even        
,warburton1 who should have known       
better1 passed a severe judgment on the 
,night ,thoughts4 ,he had1 however1 his 
warm admirers1 prominent among whom was 
the amiable and learned ,joseph ,warton4
 ,he dedicated to ,young his ,essay on  
,pope--an essay containing the first    
sober and discriminating estimate of    
that most artificial of true poets1 and 
with the opinions expressed in which    
,young is supposed to have coincided2   
for1 although he admired1 and too often 
imitated1 ,pope's brilliant point and   
antithesis1 he was aware of far higher  
models1 and found ,homer1 ,milton1 and  
,job far more congenial companions in   
his studious midnights4 ,in #ageh1 he   
published a short and in nowise         
remarkable sermon1 preached before the  
,king at ,kensington4  ,richardson1 the 
novelist1 was one of ,young's greatest  
friends4 ,their views on moral and      
religious subjects were identical2 and  

in gravity of tone1 and severity of     
genius1 they resembled each             
other--,richardson being a duller       
,young1 and ,young a more elastic and   
brilliant ,richardson4 ,although both   
lived in a most depraved age1 neither   
catered to its tastes4 ,to ,richardson1 
,young addressed1 in #agei1 a letter on 
,original ,composition1 which betrays no
 symptoms of senility1 but is full of   
vigorous and striking remark4 ,in #agfb1
 when upwards of eighty1 he wrote his   
last and worst poem4 ,it is entitled    
,resignation1 and requires1 on the part 
of the reader1 considerable exercise of 
that grace4 ,it has very little of      
,young's peculiar power1 and is chiefly 
filled with weak and toothless abuse of 
his old acquaintance ,voltaire4 ,it was 
written1 it appears1 at the instance of 
,mrs ,boscawen--the widow of the        
,admiral--who1 having found consolation 
from the ,night ,thoughts1 visited      
,young1 and was still more captivated by
 his conversation4  ,during the latter  

years of his life1 he is said to have   
fallen too much under the dominion of   
his housekeeper1 ,mrs ,hallowes1 the    
widow of a clergyman1 who is reported to
 have ruled him with a rod of iron4 ,ere
 his death he revised his printed works1
 and gave charges in his will that all  
his ,,mss4 should be burned4 ,he        
applied1 when past eighty1 to           
,archbishop ,secker for promotion1 and  
was appointed ,clerk of the ,closet to  
the ,princess-,dowager of ,wales4 ,in   
,april #agfe1 at the age of eighty-four1
 he breathed his last4 ,he had been     
previously unable to perform duty for   
three or four years1 but retained his   
faculties to the last4 ,he left his     
property principally to his son1 who was
 found by ,johnson and ,boswell1 in     
#agha1 residing at ,welwyn1 and         
cherishing the memory of his father4    
,young was unquestionably a neglected   
man4 ,out of all sight the greatest     
genius then connected with the ministry 
of the ,church of ,england1 he never    

mounted one step higher than the        
rectorship his own college had conferred
 on him4 ,many reasons have been        
assigned for this4 ,some say that it was
 because he had attached himself to the 
side of ,frederick1 ,prince of ,wales1  
and had preached an obnoxious sermon at 
,st ,james's2 others1 that it was       
because he had received a pension       
through ,sir ,robert ,walpole4 ,we think
 that the real cause lay in the vulgar  
and senseless prejudice which prevailed 
then1 and in some measure prevails      
still1 against a literary divine1 as if 
he were a hybrid1 or centaur1 not       
fabulous4 ,let us not blame that age so 
long as we remember the burning shame   
reflected on ours by the fact that the  
gifted and high-charactered author of   
,salathiel1 and ,paris in #ahae1 is     
still only the rector of ,st ,stephen's1
 ,walbrook1 while many younger men1 who 
in comparison with him are of little    
mark1 have reached the episcopal bench4 
,probably ,young felt himself consoled  

for his bad success1 by the knowledge   
that his name and great poem had        
travelled to foreign lands1 and that    
,madame ,klopstock was wondering--good1 
simple soul6--that her husband's idol   
and her own1 had not been made          
,archbishop of ,canterbury4  ,very      
little beyond what we have mentioned has
 been left on record about his private  
habits and manners4 ,it was his custom1 
when well pleased with a passage in the 
course of his reading1 to double down   
the leaf--when particularly gratified1  
to mark it by two folds2 and some       
favourite works1 such as ,the ,rambler1 
had so many of these marks of           
approbation that they would not shut4   
,on one occasion1 in replying to ,tonson
 and ,lintot1 who were both candidates  
for printing one of his works1 he       
misdirected the letters2 and when       
,lintot opened his1 he found it         
begun--,bernard ,lintot is so great a   
scoundrel1 c4 ,young was proverbial for 
absence of mind1 and sometimes forgot   

whether he had dined or not4 ,yet in    
,welwyn his mode of life was rather     
systematic4 ,he rose early1 made his    
domestics join him in morning prayer1   
read little1 ate and drank moderately1  
walked much in his churchyard1 and1 in  
general1 retired to rest punctually at  
eight evening4 ,his son told ,dr        
,johnson that he was cheerful in        
company1 but gloomy when alone1 and that
 he never fully recovered his spirits   
after his wife's death4 ,mr ,jones1 his 
curate1 has confirmed this statement1   
although the gossipping and heartless   
tone of his letters about such a man    
cannot be too strongly condemned4 ,young
 was subject to fits of inspiration1    
which stupid people confounded with     
madness4 ,at times his poetry rushed    
upon him like a whirlwind1 and caught   
him up    ,like swift ,ezekiel1 by his  
lock of hair--  and when he came down he
 seemed weak1 panting1 and powerless4   
,mrs ,boscawen and others describe his  
conversation as still more remarkable   

than his writings1 although occasionally
 disfigured by conceits and bad puns4   
,we come now to speak of his genius1    
especially as manifested in the ,night  
,thoughts4 ,the subject of this         
wonderful strain was one which1 in its  
novelty1 dignity1 and depth1 challenged 
the very highest exercise of the very   
highest faculties2 and had ,young risen 
to the full height of his great         
argument1 he had become the greatest of 
all poets4 ,this we by no means affirm  
he did2 but we do assert1 that many of  
the aspects of his magnificent theme    
have been fully and eloquently expressed
 by him1 and that some of his passages  
are unsurpassed in the language of men4 
,the poem demands a brief critical      
consideration as to its season1 its     
argument1 its imagery1 its style1 its   
versification1 its comparative place and
 merit1 and1 lastly1 the genius of its  
author4 ,first1 of its season--the      
,night--and the use to which he turns   
it4 ,night had never before found a     

worthy laureate4 ,its profound silence1 
as if it were listening to catch the    
accents of some supernal voice--the     
shadowy grandeur and mysterious newness 
it gives to objects on the earth--the   
divine hues into which its moon         
discolours all things--the deep sleep   
which then falleth upon men1 and changes
 the world into one hushed grave--the   
supernatural shapes and mystic sounds   
which have been supposed to walk in its 
darkness1 or to echo through its        
depths--the voices scarce less solemn1  
which often break its silence1 of       
howling winds1 and wailing rivers1 and  
shrieking tempests1 and groaning        
thunders1 and the wild cries of human   
misery and despair--and last and        
highest1 its withdrawal of the bright   
mist and mantle of day from the starry  
universe1 and the pomp with which it    
unrols and exhibits its great map of    
suns and systems--its silvery           
satellites--its meek planets1 each      
shining in its own degree of reflected  

splendour--its oceans of original and   
ever-burning fire called suns--its      
comets1 those serpents of the sky1      
trailing their vast volumes of deadly   
glory through the shuddering system--its
 fantastic and magnificent shapes and   
collocations of stars1 the              
constellations--its firmaments rising   
above firmaments1 like rounds in a      
ladder1 at the top of which is the      
throne of ,god--and those two awful arms
 into which its ,milky ,way diverges1   
and which seem uplifted to heaven in    
silent prayer1 or in some deep and dread
 protest1--all these elements of        
interest and grandeur had existed from  
the beginning of the world in ,night1   
and yet had never1 till ,young arose1   
awakened any consecutive and lofty      
strain of poetic adoration4 ,many       
beautiful and many sublime sentiments   
had been uttered by poets about         
particular features of ,night1 but there
 had been no attempt to represent it as 
a whole4 ,there were many single        

thoughts1 but no large and sounding     
,hymn4 ,the views of the ,pagan poets   
about astronomy were1 of course1 warped 
by the absurd systems of their day2 and 
this served to damp their fire1 and to  
render their poetic tributes rather     
fantastic than truly powerful4 ,even    
,dante and ,milton are somewhat         
embarrassed by the ,ptolemaic system1   
although it proves the strength of their
 genius that they have extracted so much
 poetry from it4 ,but before ,young     
arose1    ,nature and nature's laws lay 
hid in night2   ,god said1 ,let ,newton 
be1 and all was light2  and he has set  
the ,newtonian system to his own martial
 music4  ,we are far from contending    
that ,young has exhausted the poetry of 
the theme4 ,since his time the          
telescopes of ,herschell and ,lord      
,rosse have been turned to the skies1   
and have greatly extended the size and  
splendour of that vast midnight         
,apparition--the starry scheme4 ,our    
recent poets have availed themselves of 

these discoveries1 as witness the       
eloquent rhapsodies about the stars by  
,bailey1 ,a4 ,smith1 and ,bigg4 ,and    
there is even yet room for another great
 poem on the subject1 entitled ,night1  
were the author come4 ,but ,young       
deserves praise for the following       
things3--  #ast1 ,he has nobly sung the 
magnitude and unutterable glory of the  
starry hosts4 ,his soul kindles1        
triumphs1 exults under the midnight     
canopy4 ,as the ,tartar horse when led  
forth from his stable to the free       
steppes and free firmament of the       
desert1 bounds1 prances1 and caracoles  
for joy1 so does ,young1 in the last    
part of his poem4 ,escaped from dark and
 mournful contemplations on ,man1       
,death1 ,infidelity1 and ,earth's       
melancholy map1 he sees the stars like  
bright milestones on the way to heaven1 
and his spirit is glad within him1 and  
tumultuous is the grandeur1 and fierce  
and rapid the torrent1 of his song4     
#b;dly1 ,he has brought out1 better than

 any other poet1 the religion of the    
stars4 ,night1 says ,isaac ,taylor1 has 
three daughters1 ,atheism1              
,superstition1 and ,religion4 ,following
 out this fine thought1 we see ,atheism 
looking up with impudent eye1 brazen    
brow1 and naked figure1 to the midnight 
sky1 as if it were only a huge toy-shop 
of glittering gew-gaws2 ,superstition   
shrouding herself in a black mantle1 and
 falling down prostrate and trembling   
before these innumerable fires1 as if   
they were the eyes of an infinite enemy2
 while ,religion turns aloft her humble1
 yet fearless form1 her tear-trembling  
yet radiant visage1 and murmurs1 ,my    
,father made them all4 ,young1 we need  
scarcely say1 finds in the nocturnal    
heavens lessons neither of ,atheism nor 
of ,superstition1 but of ,religion1 and 
reads in the face of ,old ,night her    
divine origin1 the witness she bears to 
the existence of ,god1 her dependence   
upon her ,author1 and her subordination 
to ,his purposes4 ,he had magnified1 as 

,newton himself could not so eloquently 
have done1 the extent of the universe2  
and yet his loyalty to ,scripture       
compels him to intimate that this       
system1 so far from being ,god1 or      
infinite1 or1 strictly speaking1        
,divine1 is to perish and pass away4    
,one look from the angry ,judge1 one    
uplifting of ,his rod1 and its          
voluminous waves of glory1 like another 
,red ,sea1 are to be dried up1 that the 
people of ,god may pass through and     
enter on the land of the real           
,immortality1 the inheritance           
incorruptible1 undefiled1 and that shall
 never fade away4 ,we refer our readers 
to that most eloquent picture1 near the 
beginning of the ,ninth ,night1 of the  
,last ,day4 ,we once heard a lecturer on
 chemistry close a superb description of
 the material universe1 with the words1 
,and it is to shine on for ever4 ,we    
thought of the words of ,peter1 ,all    
these things shall be dissolved4 ,and   
then we fancied an invisible animalcule 

inhabiting one of the mountain peaks of 
a furnace1 looking abroad from one of   
its surging spires1 and saying1 ,this   
wondrous blaze is to burn for ever1 and 
yet1 ere a few hours have passed1 the   
flame is sunk in ashes1 and the         
animalcule is gone4 ,so the ,heavens    
shall pass away with a great noise4     
,they shall perish1 but ,thou ,god      
remainest2 nay1 thou ,man1 too1 art     
destined to survive this splendid       
nursery1 and to enter on new ,heavens   
and a new ,earth6  ,the argument of the 
,night ,thoughts may be stated in       
general to be as follows3--,it is to    
shew the vanity of man as mortal2 to    
inculcate the lowness1 misery1 and      
madness of the sensual life2 to prove   
the superiority of the ,christian to the
 man of the world1 both in life and in  
death1 and the worthlessness of merely  
human friendship2 to argue1 from nature 
and reason1 the truth of man's          
immortality2 to shew the reasonableness 
of religion1 and to inculcate the       

necessity of a divine revelation1 and of
 a propitiatory sacrifice4 ,that this   
argument is always steadily pursued1 or 
logically pled1 we do not pretend4 ,it  
has its flaws2--we particularly demur to
 many of its proofs of the immortality  
of the soul1 which seem to us very      
feeble and unsatisfactory2 but1 taking  
it as a whole1 it is unanswerable and   
overwhelming4 ,its links are of red-hot 
iron2 its appeals to the conscience are 
irresistible2 and he who can read it    
with indifference1 or rise from it      
unimpressed and unawed1 must be either  
something worse or something less than  
man4 ,it needs not to be surrounded by  
panegyrics4 ,convinced1 purified1       
elevated1 saved ,souls1 are the gems in 
its crown4 ,we are inclined to believe  
that1 in this aspect1 the ,night        
,thoughts has effected more practical   
good than the ,paradise ,lost4 ,the     
latter is a splendid picture2 the former
 a searching1 powerful sermon4 ,now1    
although pictures with a strong moral   

contained in them have often done much  
good1 they want the point1 emphasis1 and
 effect of great sermons4 ,you may gaze 
long enough at ,milton with no feeling  
besides admiration of his genius2 but in
 every page ,young is grappling with    
your conscience1 and saying1 ,don't look
 at me1 but look to yourself4 ,foster1  
one of the greatest of our practical    
reasoners on religion1 has been much    
indebted to ,young1 whom he resembled   
also in the sombre grandeur of his      
genius4  ,young's imagery is            
distinguished by its richness1          
originality1 and exceeding boldness4 ,it
 was verily a new thing in that timid   
and conventional age4 ,like the imagery 
of all highest poets1 it is selected    
alike from low and from lofty objects1  
from the gay and the gloomy1 from stars 
and dunghills4 ,his mind moves along    
through the poem like a great wheel1 now
 descending and now ascending1 easy to  
criticise1 but impossible to resist4    
,you may question the taste of many of  

his figures1 such as that of the ,sun-- 
,rude drunkard1 rising rosy from the    
main2  or when he speaks of ,god as the 
,great ,philanthropist2 or calls the    
moon the ,portland of the skies2 but you
 always feel yourself in contact with a 
new1 native1 overflowing mind--with a   
mind which has read nature through man1 
and man through nature4 ,there is to    
,young's genius nothing common or       
unclean in the material universe4 ,all  
points up to ,god1 and looks round      
significantly to man4 ,his imagination  
has no limits1 and1 when he is          
thoroughly roused1 like the war-horse of
 ,job1 the glory of his nostrils is     
terrible2 it is the fury of power1 the  
revel of conscious wealth1 the prancing 
of a mighty one2 not the dance of mere  
fancy1 but the earnestness and energy of
 one treading a winepress alone4 ,in    
proof of this1 we appeal to his splendid
 passages on the miserable state of     
,man1 on ,dreams1 on ,procrastination1  
to one half of his defence of           

,immortality1 and to the whole of his   
descant on the ,stars4 ,this every one  
feels is power--barbarous power1 if you 
will--savage1 mismanaged power1 if you  
please to call it so2 but power that    
moves1 agitates1 overwhelms1 hurries you
 away like an infant on the stream of a 
cataract4  ,his diction is1 on the      
whole1 a worthy medium to his thought4  
,it has been somewhat spoiled by        
intimacy with ,pope's writings1 and is  
often vitiated with antithesis1 an      
excess in which was the mode of the day4
 ,now and then1 too1 he is coarse and   
violent1 to vulgarity1 in his           
expressions4 ,but whenever he forgets   
,pope1 and remembers ,milton--or1 still 
more1 when he becomes swallowed up in   
the magnitude of his theme--his language
 is easy1 powerful1 and magnificent4 ,it
 never1 as ,mitford asserts1 is         
unsupported by a corresponding grandeur 
of thought4 ,there is more thought in   
,young's poem--more sharp1 clear1       
original reflection--more of that matter

 which leaves stings behind it--more    
moral sublimity--than in any poem which 
has appeared since in ,britain4 ,mitford
 says1 that every image is amplified to 
the utmost4 ,some images unquestionably 
are2 but amplification is not a         
prevailing vice of ,young's style--it   
is1 indeed1 inconsistent with that      
pointed intensity which is his general  
manner2 and how comes it1 if he be a    
diffuse and wordy writer1 that his pages
 literally sparkle with maxims1 and     
that1 next perhaps to ,shakspeare1 no   
poet has been so often quoted8 ,what the
 same writer means by ,young fatiguing  
the reader's mind1 we can understand2   
since it is fatiguing to look long at   
the sun1 or to follow the grand parabola
 of the eagle's flight2 but how he      
should dissatisfy the mind of any       
intelligent and candid reader1 is to us 
extraordinary4 ,it is not true that the 
work has a uniformity of subject4 ,its  
tone is rather uniform1 but its subjects
 are as varied as they are important4   

,they are--,man--the ,world--,ambition--
                                        
,pleasure--,infidelity--,immortality--,d
eath--,judgment--,heaven--,hell--the    
,stars--,eternity4 ,mr ,mitford compares
 ,young to ,seneca2 as if a cold        
collector of stiff maxims1 and a poet   
whose wisdom was set in enthusiasm as in
 a ring of fire1 were proper subjects of
 comparison4 ,and it is strange how he  
should introduce the name of ,cicero1 as
 if he were not that very master of     
amplification1 and of over-copiousness  
of expression1 which ,mitford imagines  
,young to be6 ,no selection--no discreet
 and graceful reservation--no           
experienced taste6--in other words1 he  
was not ,pope or ,campbell1 but ,edward 
,young--not a middle-sized1 neat1 and   
well-dressed citizen1 but a hirsute     
giant--not an elegant parterre1 but an  
,american forest1 bowing only to the old
 ,tempests1 and offering up a holocaust 
of native wealth and glory1 not to ,man1
 but to ,god4  ,his versification is a  

more vulnerable point4 ,we grant at once
 that it is1 as a whole1 rugged and     
imperfect1 and that1 while his single   
lines are often exceedingly melodious1  
he rarely reaches1 any more than ,pope  
or ,johnson1 those long and linked      
swells of sound--    ,floating1         
mingling1 interweaving1   ,rising1      
sinking1 and receiving   ,each from     
each1 while each is giving   ,on to     
each1 and each relieving   ,each1 the   
pails of gold1 the living   ,current    
through the air is heaving--  which     
,goethe has so beautifully1 although    
unintentionally1 described in these     
words1 applied by him to the elements of
 ,nature2 and which he and ,milton1 and 
,spenser1 and ,coleridge1 and ,shelley1 
have so admirably exemplified in their  
verse4 ,young's style is too broken and 
sententious to permit the miracles of   
melody which are found in some of our   
poets4 ,yet he has a few passages which 
approach even to this high standard4    
,take the following3--    ,look nature  

through1 'tis revolution all2   ,all    
change1 no death4 ,day follows night1   
and night   ,the dying day2 stars rise  
and set and rise2   ,earth takes th'    
example4 ,see the summer gay1   ,with   
her green chaplet1 and ambrosial        
flowers1   ,droops into pallid autumn2  
winter gray1   ,horrid with frost1 and  
turbulent with storm1   ,blows autumn1  
and his golden fruits away2   ,then     
melts into the spring4 ,soft spring1    
with breath   ,favonian1 from warm      
chambers of the south1   ,recalls the   
first4  ,or take the well-known burst   
which closes the ,first ,night3--       
,the sprightly lark's shrill matin wakes
 the morn2   ,grief's sharpest thorn    
hard pressing on my breast1   ,i strive1
 with wakeful melody1 to cheer   ,the   
sullen gloom1 sweet ,philomel6 like     
thee1   ,and call the stars to listen3  
every star   ,is deaf to mine1 enamour'd
 of thy lay4   ,yet be not vain2 there  
are1 who thine excel1   ,and charm      
through distant ages3 wrapt in shade1   

,prisoner of darkness6 to the silent    
hours   ,how often ,i repeat their rage 
divine1   ,to lull my griefs1 and steal 
my heart from woe6   ,i roll their      
raptures1 but not catch their fire1     
,dark1 though not blind1 like thee1     
,maeonides6   ,or his1 who made         
,maeonides our own4   ,man1 too1 he     
sung2 immortal man ,i sing2   ,oft      
bursts my song beyond the bounds of     
life2   ,what1 now1 but immortality1 can
 please8   ,o had he press'd his theme1 
pursued the track   ,which opens out of 
darkness into day6   ,o had he1 mounted 
on his wing of fire1   ,soar'd where ,i 
sink1 and sung immortal man6   ,how had 
it bless'd mankind1 and rescued me6     
,the reader will notice how1 in this    
noble passage1 the individual sentences 
and points are all subordinated to the  
main purpose of the poet1 and being     
subjected to the general stress of the  
strain1 do not detract from1 but add to1
 its musical unity4  ,the comparative   
place of the poem1 and the genius of the

 writer1 are two subjects which are     
closely connected1 and indeed slide into
 each other4 ,the ,night ,thoughts must 
not be named1 in interest1 finish1      
sustained sublimity1 and artistic       
completeness1 with the ,iliad1 the      
,divina ,commedia1 or the ,paradise     
,lost4 ,it ranks1 however1 at the top of
 such a high class of poems as ,cowper's
 ,poems1 ,thomson's ,seasons1 ,byron's  
,poems1 ,blair's ,grave1 ,pollock's     
,course of ,time1 and a few others not  
very often criticised now-a-days4       
,young1 however1 seems to us to have    
been capable of even higher things than 
he has effected in his works4 ,he was   
one of those prolific1 fiery1           
inexhaustible souls1 who never seem     
nearing a limit1 or dreaming of a       
shallow in their genius2 who1 often     
stumbling over precipices or            
precipitated into pools1 rise stronger1 
and rush on faster1 from their          
misadventures2 who1 sometimes stopping  
too long to moralise on fungi and       

ant-hillocks1 are all the better        
breathed to career through endless      
forests1 and to take ,alps and ,andes at
 a flying leap2 and who are    ,ne'er so
 sure our pleasure to create1   ,as when
 they tread the brink of all we hate4   
,his taste was not equal certainly to   
his other faculties1 and he was guilty  
of occasional extravagances1 and        
stumbled not unfrequently over the brink
 of the bathos2 but his genius possessed
 the following qualities3--,it was      
original4 ,he had read much1 but he     
copies little1 and never slavishly4 ,his
 mind looks at everything--at skulls and
 stars--through a medium of its own4 ,it
 was subtle as well as native and       
strong1 and in its movements it is      
broadly based on a vigorous intellect4  
,it was progressive and prophetic in its
 spirit1 and many of our recent         
speculations or semi-speculations on the
 relations of man and nature1 are to be 
found in ,young--ay1 in the mere spray  
his mind threw off on its way to an     

ulterior result4 ,think of this1 for    
instance1 and then remember a similar   
expression in ,carlyle3--        ,man's 
grief is but his grandeur in disguise2  
,and discontent is immortality4         
,finally1 his genius1 with all its      
compass and daring1 was reverent and    
religious4 ,he gloried in the universe2 
he swam1 as it were1 and circled like a 
strong swimmer1 in that starry sea2 but 
he bent before the ,cross1 and1 instead 
of looking up1 looked down1 and cried   
out1 ,god be merciful to me a sinner4   
,we commend his masterpiece to readers1 
partly1 indeed1 for its power1--a power 
that has hitherto rather been felt than 
acknowledged1 rather admired in silence 
than analysed2 but principally because1 
like ,the ,temple of ,herbert1 it is    
holy ground4 ,the author1 amid his      
elaborate ingenuities1 and wilful though
 minor perversities1 never ceases to    
love and to honour truth2 in pursuit of 
renown1 he is never afraid to glory in  
the ,cross of our ,lord ,jesus ,christ2 

and if his flights of fancy be at times 
too wild1 and if his thoughts be often  
set to the tune of the tempest1 it is a 
tempest on whose wings1 to use his own  
simple but immortal words1 ,the ,lord is
 abroad4                                
,,the ,,complaint3                      
,,or1                                   
,,night ,,thoughts4                     
,,preface4   ,as the occasion of this   
,poem was real1 not fictitious2 so the  
method pursued in it was rather imposed 
by what spontaneously arose in the      
,author's mind on that occasion1 than   
meditated or designed4 ,which will      
appear very probable from the nature of 
it4 ,for it differs from the common mode
 of poetry1 which is1 from long         
narrations to draw short morals4 ,here1 
on the contrary1 the narrative is short1
 and the morality arising from it makes 
the bulk of the ,poem4 ,the reason of it
 is1 that the facts mentioned did       
naturally pour these moral reflections  
on the thought of the ,writer4          

,,night ,,first4                        
,,on ,,life1 ,,death1 ,,and             
,,immortality4                          
,,to ,,the ,,right ,,honourable         
,,arthur ,,onslow1 ,,esq41              
,,speaker ,,of ,,the ,,house ,,of       
,,commons4    ,tired ,nature's sweet    
restorer1 balmy ,sleep6   ,he1 like the 
world1 his ready visit pays   ,where    
,fortune smiles2 the wretched he        
forsakes2   ,swift on his downy pinion  
flies from woe1   ,and lights on lids   
unsullied with a tear4     ,from short  
7as usual7 and disturb'd repose1   ,i   
wake3 how happy they1 who wake no more6 
,yet that were vain1 if dreams infest   
the grave4   ,i wake1 emerging from a   
sea of dreams   ,tumultuous2 where my   
wreck'd desponding thought              
#aj   ,from wave to wave of fancied     
misery   ,at random drove1 her helm of  
reason lost4   ,though now restored1    
'tis only change of pain1   7,a bitter  
change67 severer for severe3   ,the day 
too short for my distress2 and night1   

#ae   ,even in the zenith of her dark   
domain1   ,is sunshine to the colour of 
my fate4     ,night1 sable goddess6 from
 her ebon throne1   ,in rayless majesty1
 now stretches forth   ,her leaden      
sceptre o'er a slumbering world4        
,silence1 how dead6 and darkness1 how   
profound6   ,nor eye1 nor listening ear1
 an object finds2   ,creation sleeps4   
',tis as the general pulse              
#bc   ,of life stood still1 and nature  
made a pause2   ,an awful pause6        
prophetic of her end4   ,and let her    
prophecy be soon fulfill'd2   ,fate6    
drop the curtain2 ,i can lose no more4  
,silence and darkness3 solemn sisters6  
twins   ,from ancient ,night1 who nurse 
the tender thought   ,to reason1 and on 
reason build resolve                    
#cj   7,that column of true majesty in  
man71   ,assist me3 ,i will thank you in
 the grave2   ,the grave1 your kingdom3 
there this frame shall fall   ,a victim 
sacred to your dreary shrine4   ,but    
what are ye8--     ,thou1 who didst put 

to flight   ,primeval ,silence1 when the
 morning stars1   ,exulting1 shouted    
o'er the rising ball2   ,o ,thou1 whose 
word from solid darkness struck   ,that 
spark1 the sun2 strike wisdom from my   
soul2                    #dj   ,my soul1
 which flies to thee1 her trust1 her    
treasure1   ,as misers to their gold1   
while others rest4   ,through this      
opaque of nature1 and of soul1   ,this  
double night1 transmit one pitying ray1 
,to lighten1 and to cheer4 ,o lead my   
mind1   7,a mind that fain would wander 
from its woe71   ,lead it through       
various scenes of life and death2   ,and
 from each scene the noblest truths     
inspire4   ,nor less inspire my conduct1
 than my song2                          
#di   ,teach my best reason1 reason2 my 
best will   ,teach rectitude2 and fix my
 firm resolve   ,wisdom to wed1 and pay 
her long arrear3   ,nor let the phial of
 thy vengeance1 pour'd   ,on this       
devoted head1 be pour'd in vain4        
,the bell strikes one4 ,we take no note 

of time   ,but from its loss4 ,to give  
it then a tongue   ,is wise in man4 ,as 
if an angel spoke1   ,i feel the solemn 
sound4 ,if heard aright1   ,it is the   
knell of my departed hours3   ,where are
 they8 ,with the years beyond the flood4
                    #fj   ,it is the    
signal that demands despatch3   ,how    
much is to be done8 ,my hopes and fears 
,start up alarm'd1 and o'er life's      
narrow verge   ,look down--on what8 a   
fathomless abyss2   ,a dread eternity6  
how surely mine6   ,and can eternity    
belong to me1   ,poor pensioner on the  
bounties of an hour8     ,how poor1 how 
rich1 how abject1 how august1   ,how    
complicate1 how wonderful1 is man6      
,how passing wonder ,he who made him    
such6                            #gj    
,who centred in our make such strange   
extremes6   ,from different natures     
marvellously mix'd1   ,connexion        
exquisite of distant worlds6            
,distinguish'd link in being's endless  
chain6   ,midway from nothing to the    

,deity6   ,a beam ethereal1 sullied and 
absorb'd6   ,though sullied and         
dishonour'd1 still divine6   ,dim       
miniature of greatness absolute6   ,an  
heir of glory6 a frail child of dust6   
,helpless immortal6 insect infinite6    
#hj   ,a worm6 a god6--,i tremble at    
myself1   ,and in myself am lost6 ,at   
home a stranger1   ,thought wanders up  
and down1 surprised1 aghast1            
#hc   ,and wondering at her own3 how    
reason reels6   ,o what a miracle to man
 is man1   ,triumphantly distress'd6    
what joy1 what dread6   ,alternately    
transported and alarm'd6   ,what can    
preserve my life1 or what destroy8   ,an
 angel's arm can't snatch me from the   
grave2   ,legions of angels can't       
confine me there4                       
#ij     ',tis past conjecture2 all      
things rise in proof3   ,while o'er my  
limbs sleep's soft dominion spread1     
,what though my soul fantastic measures 
trod   ,o'er fairy fields2 or mourn'd   
along the gloom   ,of pathless woods2 or

 down the craggy steep   ,hurl'd        
headlong1 swam with pain the mantled    
pool2   ,or scaled the cliff2 or danced 
on hollow winds1   ,with antic shapes1  
wild natives of the brain8   ,her       
ceaseless flight1 though devious1 speaks
 her nature   ,of subtler essence than  
the trodden clod2                       
#ajj   ,active1 aerial1 towering1       
unconfined1   ,unfetter'd with her gross
 companion's fall4   ,even silent night 
proclaims my soul immortal3   ,even     
silent night proclaims eternal day4     
,for human weal1 ,heaven husbands all   
events2   ,dull sleep instructs1 nor    
sport vain dreams in vain4     ,why then
 their loss deplore that are not lost8  
,why wanders wretched thought their     
tombs around1   ,in infidel distress8   
,are angels there8   ,slumbers1 raked up
 in dust1 ethereal fire8                
#aaj     ,they live6 they greatly live a
 life on earth   ,unkindled1            
unconceived2 and from an eye   ,of      
tenderness let heavenly pity fall   ,on 

me1 more justly number'd with the dead4 
,this is the desert1 this the solitude3 
,how populous1 how vital1 is the grave6 
,this is creation's melancholy vault1   
#aag   ,the vale funereal1 the sad      
cypress gloom2   ,the land of           
apparitions1 empty shades6   ,all1 all  
on earth1 is shadow1 all beyond   ,is   
substance2 the reverse is ,folly's      
creed3   ,how solid all1 where change   
shall be no more6     ,this is the bud  
of being1 the dim dawn1                 
#abc   ,the twilight of our day1 the    
vestibule2   ,life's theatre as yet is  
shut1 and death1   ,strong death1 alone 
can heave the massy bar1   ,this gross  
impediment of clay remove1   ,and make  
us embryos of existence free4   ,from   
real life1 but little more remote   ,is 
he1 not yet a candidate for light1      
#acj   ,the future embryo1 slumbering in
 his sire4   ,embryos we must be1 till  
we burst the shell1   ,yon ambient azure
 shell1 and spring to life1   ,the life 
of gods1 ,o transport6 and of man4      

,yet man1 fool man6 here buries all his 
thoughts2   ,inters celestial hopes     
without one sigh4   ,prisoner of earth1 
and pent beneath the moon1   ,here      
pinions all his wishes2 wing'd by heaven
   ,to fly at infinite2 and reach it    
there1   ,where seraphs gather          
immortality1                            
#adj   ,on life's fair tree1 fast by the
 throne of ,god4   ,what golden joys    
ambrosial clustering glow   ,in ,his    
full beam1 and ripen for the just1      
,where momentary ages are no more6      
,where time1 and pain1 and chance1 and  
death1 expire6   ,and is it in the      
flight of threescore years   ,to push   
eternity from human thought1   ,and     
smother souls immortal in the dust8   ,a
 soul immortal1 spending all her fires1 
,wasting her strength in strenuous      
idleness                         #aej   
,thrown into tumult1 raptured1 or       
alarm'd1                          #aea  
,at aught this scene can threaten or    
indulge1   ,resembles ocean into tempest

 wrought1   ,to waft a feather1 or to   
drown a fly4     ,where falls this      
censure8 ,it o'erwhelms myself2   ,how  
was my heart encrusted by the world6    
,o how self-fetter'd was my grovelling  
soul6   ,how1 like a worm1 was ,i wrapt 
round and round   ,in silken thought1   
which reptile fancy spun1   ,till       
darken'd reason lay quite clouded o'er  
#afj   ,with soft conceit of endless    
comfort here1   ,nor yet put forth her  
wings to reach the skies6               
,night-visions may befriend 7as sung    
above73   ,our waking dreams are fatal4 
,how ,i dream'd   ,of things impossible6
 7could sleep do more87   ,of joys      
perpetual in perpetual change6   ,of    
stable pleasures on the tossing wave6   
,eternal sunshine in the storms of life6
   ,how richly were my noontide trances 
hung   ,with gorgeous tapestries of     
pictured joys6                          
#agj   ,joy behind joy1 in endless      
perspective6   ,till at death's toll1   
whose restless iron tongue   ,calls     

daily for his millions at a meal1       
,starting ,i woke1 and found myself     
undone4   ,where now my phrensy's       
pompous furniture8   ,the cobwebb'd     
cottage1 with its ragged wall   ,of     
mouldering mud1 is royalty to me6   ,the
 spider's most attenuated thread   ,is  
cord1 is cable1 to man's tender tie     
,on earthly bliss2 it breaks at every   
breeze4                       #ahj      
,o ye blest scenes of permanent delight6
   ,full above measure6 lasting beyond  
bound6   ,a perpetuity of bliss is      
bliss4   ,could you1 so rich in rapture1
 fear an end1   ,that ghastly thought   
would drink up all your joy1            
#ahe   ,and quite unparadise the realms 
of light4   ,safe are you lodged above  
these rolling spheres2   ,the baleful   
influence of whose giddy dance   ,sheds 
sad vicissitude on all beneath4   ,here 
teems with revolutions every hour2      
,and rarely for the better2 or the best1
   ,more mortal than the common births  
of fate4   ,each moment has its sickle1 

emulous                                 
#aic   ,of ,time's enormous scythe1     
whose ample sweep   ,strikes empires    
from the root2 each moment plays   ,his 
little weapon in the narrower sphere    
,of sweet domestic comfort1 and cuts    
down   ,the fairest bloom of sublunary  
bliss4     ,bliss6 sublunary            
bliss6--proud words1 and vain6          
,implicit treason to divine decree6     
#bjj   ,a bold invasion of the rights of
 ,heaven6   ,i clasp'd the phantoms1 and
 ,i found them air4   ,oh6 had ,i       
weigh'd it ere my fond embrace1   ,what 
darts of agony had miss'd my heart6     
,death6 great proprietor of all6 'tis   
thine   ,to tread out empire1 and to    
quench the stars4   ,the sun himself by 
thy permission shines2   ,and1 one day1 
thou shalt pluck him from his sphere4   
,amid such mighty plunder1 why exhaust  
,thy partial quiver on a mark so mean8  
#baj   ,why thy peculiar rancour wreak'd
 on me8   ,insatiate archer6 could not  
one suffice8   ,thy shaft flew thrice2#b

 and thrice my peace was slain2   ,and  
thrice1 ere thrice yon moon had fill'd  
her horn4   ,o ,cynthia6 why so pale8   
dost thou lament   ,thy wretched        
neighbour8 grieve to see thy wheel   ,of
 ceaseless change outwhirl'd in human   
life8                      #bag   ,how  
wanes my borrow'd bliss6 from fortune's 
smile1   ,precarious courtesy6 not      
virtue's sure1   ,self-given1 solar ray 
of sound delight4     ,in every varied  
posture1 place1 and hour1   ,how widow'd
 every thought of every joy6   ,thought1
 busy thought6 too busy for my peace6   
,through the dark postern of time long  
lapsed1                      #bbd   ,led
 softly1 by the stillness of the night1 
,led1 like a murderer1 7and such it     
proves67   ,strays 7wretched rover67    
o'er the pleasing past2   ,in quest of  
wretchedness perversely strays2   ,and  
finds all desert now2 and meets the     
ghosts   ,of my departed joys2 a        
numerous train6                         
#bcj   ,i rue the riches of my former   

fate2   ,sweet comfort's blasted        
clusters ,i lament2   ,i tremble at the 
blessings once so dear2   ,and every    
pleasure pains me to the heart4     ,yet
 why complain8 or why complain for one8 
,hangs out the sun his lustre but for   
me1   ,the single man8 ,are angels all  
beside8   ,i mourn for millions3 'tis   
the common lot2   ,in this shape1 or in 
that1 has fate entail'd   ,the mother's 
throes on all of woman born1            
#bdj   ,not more the children1 than sure
 heirs1 of pain4     ,war1 famine1 pest1
 volcano1 storm1 and fire1   ,intestine 
broils1 oppression1 with her heart      
,wrapt up in triple brass1 besiege      
mankind4   ,god's image disinherited of 
day1   ,here1 plunged in mines1 forgets 
a sun was made4   ,there1 beings        
deathless as their haughty lord1   ,are 
hammer'd to the galling oar for life2   
,and plough the winter's wave1 and reap 
despair4   ,some1 for hard masters1     
broken under arms1                      
#bej   ,in battle lopp'd away1 with half

 their limbs1                      #bea 
,beg bitter bread through realms their  
valour saved1   ,if so the tyrant1 or   
his minion1 doom4   ,want and incurable 
disease 7fell pair67   ,on hopeless     
multitudes remorseless seize   ,at once2
 and make a refuge of the grave4   ,how 
groaning hospitals eject their dead6    
,what numbers groan for sad admission   
there6   ,what numbers1 once in         
fortune's lap high-fed1   ,solicit the  
cold hand of charity6                   
#bfj   ,to shock us more1 solicit it in 
vain6   ,ye silken sons of pleasure6    
since in pains   ,ye rue more modish    
visits1 visit here1   ,and breathe from 
your debauch3 give1 and reduce          
,surfeit's dominion o'er you3 but so    
great   ,your impudence1 you blush at   
what is right4   ,happy1 did sorrow     
seize on such alone6   ,not prudence can
 defend1 or virtue save2   ,disease     
invades the chastest temperance2   ,and 
punishment the guiltless2 and alarm1    
#bgj   ,through thickest shades pursues 

the fond of peace4   ,man's caution     
often into danger turns1   ,and his     
guard falling1 crushes him to death4    
,not happiness itself makes good her    
name6   ,our very wishes give us not our
 wish4   ,how distant oft the thing we  
doat on most1   ,from that for which we 
doat1 felicity6   ,the smoothest course 
of nature has its pains2   ,and truest  
friends1 through error1 wound our rest4 
,without misfortune1 what calamities6   
#bhj   ,and what hostilities1 without a 
foe6   ,nor are foes wanting to the best
 on earth4   ,but endless is the list of
 human ills1   ,and sighs might sooner  
fail1 than cause to sigh4     ,a part   
how small of the terraqueous globe      
#bhe   ,is tenanted by man6 the rest a  
waste1   ,rocks1 deserts1 frozen seas1  
and burning sands3   ,wild haunts of    
monsters1 poisons1 stings1 and death4   
,such is earth's melancholy map6 ,but1  
far   ,more sad6 this earth is a true   
map of man4   ,so bounded are its       
haughty lord's delights   ,to woe's wide

 empire2 where deep troubles toss1      
,loud sorrows howl1 envenom'd passions  
bite1                        #bic       
,ravenous calamities our vitals seize1  
,and threatening fate wide opens to     
devour4     ,what then am ,i1 who sorrow
 for myself8   ,in age1 in infancy1 from
 others' aid   ,is all our hope2 to     
teach us to be kind4   ,that1 nature's  
first1 last lesson to mankind2   ,the   
selfish heart deserves the pain it      
feels2                      #cjj   ,more
 generous sorrow1 while it sinks1       
exalts2   ,and conscious virtue         
mitigates the pang4   ,nor virtue1 more 
than prudence1 bids me give   ,swoln    
thought a second channel2 who divide1   
,they weaken1 too1 the torrent of their 
grief4   ,take then1 ,o world6 thy      
much-indebted tear3   ,how sad a sight  
is human happiness1   ,to those whose   
thought can pierce beyond an hour6   ,o 
thou6 whate'er thou art1 whose heart    
exults6   ,would'st thou ,i should      
congratulate thy fate8                  

#caj   ,i know thou would'st2 thy pride 
demands it from me4   ,let thy pride    
pardon1 what thy nature needs1   ,the   
salutary censure of a friend4   ,thou   
happy wretch6 by blindness thou art     
blest2   ,by dotage dandled to perpetual
 smiles4   ,know1 smiler6 at thy peril  
art thou pleased2   ,thy pleasure is the
 promise of thy pain4   ,misfortune1    
like a creditor severe1   ,but rises in 
demand for her delay2                   
#cai   ,she makes a scourge of past     
prosperity1   ,to sting thee more1 and  
double thy distress4     ,lorenzo1      
,fortune makes her court to thee1   ,thy
 fond heart dances1 while the syren     
sings4   ,dear is thy welfare2 think me 
not unkind2   ,i would not damp1 but to 
secure thy joys4   ,think not that fear 
is sacred to the storm3   ,stand on thy 
guard against the smiles of fate4   ,is 
,heaven tremendous in its frowns8 ,most 
sure2   ,and in its favours formidable  
too3   ,its favours here are trials1 not
 rewards2                          #ccj 

,a call to duty1 not discharge from     
care2   ,and should alarm us1 full as   
much as woes2   ,awake us to their      
cause1 and consequence2   ,o'er our     
scann'd conduct give a jealous eye1     
,and make us tremble1 weigh'd with our  
desert2   ,awe nature's tumult1 and     
chastise her joys1   ,lest1 while we    
clasp1 we kill them2 nay1 invert   ,to  
worse than simple misery1 their charms4 
,revolted joys1 like foes in civil war1 
,like bosom friendships to resentment   
sour'd1                       #cdj      
,with rage envenom'd rise against our   
peace4   ,beware what earth calls       
happiness2 beware   ,all joys1 but joys 
that never can expire4   ,who builds on 
less than an immortal base1   ,fond as  
he seems1 condemns his joys to death4   
,mine died with thee1 ,philander6#c thy 
last sigh   ,dissolved the charm2 the   
disenchanted earth   ,lost all her      
lustre4 ,where her glittering towers8   
,her golden mountains1 where8 all       
darken'd down   ,to naked waste2 a      

dreary vale of tears3                   
#cej   ,the great magician's dead6 ,thou
 poor1 pale piece   ,of outcast earth1  
in darkness6 what a change              
#ceb   ,from yesterday6 ,thy darling    
hope so near   7,long-labour'd prize671 
,o how ambition flush'd   ,thy glowing  
cheek6 ambition truly great1   ,of      
virtuous praise4 ,death's subtle seed   
within   7,sly1 treacherous miner671    
working in the dark1   ,smiled at thy   
well-concerted scheme1 and beckon'd     
,the worm to riot on that rose so red1  
,unfaded ere it fell2 one moment's prey6
                            #cfj        
,man's foresight is conditionally wise2 
,lorenzo6#d wisdom into folly turns     
,oft1 the first instant1 its idea fair  
,to labouring thought is born4 ,how dim 
our eye6   ,the present moment          
terminates our sight2   ,clouds thick as
 those on doomsday1 drown the next2     
,we penetrate1 we prophesy in vain4     
,time is dealt out by particles2 and    
each1   ,ere mingled with the streaming 

sands of life1   ,by fate's inviolable  
oath is sworn                           
#cgj   ,deep silence1 where eternity    
begins4     ,by nature's law1 what may  
be1 may be now2   ,there's no           
prerogative in human hours4   ,in human 
hearts what bolder thought can rise1    
,than man's presumption on to-morrow's  
dawn6   ,where is to-morrow8 ,in another
 world4   ,for numbers this is certain2 
the reverse   ,is sure to none2 and yet 
on this perhaps1   ,this peradventure1  
infamous for lies1   ,as on a rock of   
adamant1 we build                       
#chj   ,our mountain hopes2 spin out    
eternal schemes1   ,as we the fatal     
sisters could out-spin1   ,and1 big with
 life's futurities1 expire4     ,not    
even ,philander had bespoke his shroud2 
,nor had he cause2 a warning was denied4
                            #che   ,how 
many fall as sudden1 not as safe6   ,as 
sudden1 though for years admonish'd     
home4   ,of human ills the last extreme 
beware1   ,beware1 ,lorenzo6 a slow     

sudden death4   ,how dreadful that      
deliberate surprise6   ,be wise to-day2 
'tis madness to defer2   ,next day the  
fatal precedent will plead2             
#cib   ,thus on1 till wisdom is push'd  
out of life4   ,procrastination is the  
thief of time2   ,year after year it    
steals1 till all are fled1   ,and to the
 mercies of a moment leaves   ,the vast 
concerns of an eternal scene4   ,if not 
so frequent1 would not this be strange8 
,that 'tis so frequent1 this is stranger
 still4     ,of man's miraculous        
mistakes1 this bears                    
#djj   ,the palm1 ,that all men are     
about to live1   ,for ever on the brink 
of being born4   ,all pay themselves the
 compliment to think   ,they one day    
shall not drivel3 and their pride   ,on 
this reversion takes up ready praise2   
,at least1 their own2 their future      
selves applaud2   ,how excellent that   
life they ne'er will lead6   ,time      
lodged in their own hands is folly's    
vails2#e   ,that lodged in fate's1 to   

wisdom they consign2   ,the thing they  
can't but purpose1 they postpone2       
#daj   ',tis not in folly1 not to scorn 
a fool2   ,and scarce in human wisdom to
 do more4   ,all promise is poor        
dilatory man1   ,and that through every 
stage3 when young1 indeed1   ,in full   
content we1 sometimes1 nobly rest1      
,unanxious for ourselves2 and only wish1
   ,as duteous sons1 our fathers were   
more wise4   ,at thirty1 man suspects   
himself a fool2   ,knows it at forty1   
and reforms his plan2                   
#dai   ,at fifty1 chides his infamous   
delay1   ,pushes his prudent purpose to 
resolve2   ,in all the magnanimity of   
thought   ,resolves2 and re-resolves2   
then dies the same4     ,and why8       
,because he thinks himself immortal4    
,all men think all men mortal1 but      
themselves3   ,themselves1 when some    
alarming shock of fate   ,strikes       
through their wounded hearts the sudden 
dread2   ,but their hearts wounded1 like
 the wounded air1   ,soon close2 where  

pass'd the shaft1 no trace is found4    
,as from the wing no scar the sky       
retains2                          #dcj  
,the parted wave no furrow from the     
keel2   ,so dies in human hearts the    
thought of death4   ,even with the      
tender tear which nature sheds   ,o'er  
those we love1 we drop it in their      
grave4   ,can ,i forget ,philander8     
,that were strange6   ,o my full        
heart6----,but should ,i give it vent1  
,the longest night1 though longer far1  
would fail1   ,and the lark listen to my
 midnight song4     ,the sprightly      
lark's shrill matin wakes the morn2     
,grief's sharpest thorn hard pressing on
 my breast1                 #ddj   ,i   
strive1 with wakeful melody1 to cheer   
,the sullen gloom1 sweet ,philomel6 like
 thee1   ,and call the stars to listen3 
every star   ,is deaf to mine1 enamour'd
 of thy lay4   ,yet be not vain2 there  
are1 who thine excel1   ,and charm      
through distant ages3 wrapt in shade1   
,prisoner of darkness6 to the silent    

hours1   ,how often ,i repeat their rage
 divine1   ,to lull my griefs1 and steal
 my heart from woe6   ,i roll their     
raptures1 but not catch their fire4     
#dej   ,dark1 though not blind1 like    
thee1 ,maeonides6#f   ,or1 ,milton6     
thee2 ah1 could ,i reach your strain6   
#deb   ,or his1 who made ,maeonides our 
own4#g   ,man too he sung3 immortal man 
,i sing2   ,oft bursts my song beyond   
the bounds of life2   ,what1 now1 but   
immortality1 can please8   ,o had he    
press'd his theme1 pursued the track1   
,which opens out of darkness into day6  
,o had he1 mounted on his wing of fire1 
,soar'd where ,i sink1 and sung immortal
 man6                        #dfj   ,how
 had it bless'd mankind1 and rescued me6
                                        
,,on                       ,,time1      
,,death1 ,,and ,,friendship4            
,,to ,,the ,,right ,,honourable         
,,the ,,earl ,,of ,,wilmington4         
,,night ,,second4                       
,,on ,,time1 ,,death1 ,,and             

,,friendship4     ,when the cock crew1  
he wept--smote by that eye   ,which     
looks on me1 on all3 that ,power1 who   
bids   ,this midnight sentinel1 with    
clarion shrill   7,emblem of that which 
shall awake the dead71   ,rouse souls   
from slumber1 into thoughts of heaven4  
,shall ,i too weep8 ,where then is      
fortitude8   ,and1 fortitude abandon'd1 
where is man8   ,i know the terms on    
which he sees the light2   ,he that is  
born1 is listed2 life is war2   ,eternal
 war with woe4 ,who bears it best1      
#aj   ,deserves it least4--,on other    
themes ,i'll dwell4   ,lorenzo6 let me  
turn my thoughts on thee1   ,and thine1 
on themes may profit2 profit there1     
,where most thy need2 themes1 too1 the  
genuine growth   ,of dear ,philander's  
dust4 ,he thus1 though dead1   ,may     
still befriend--what themes8 ,time's    
wondrous price1   ,death1 friendship1   
and ,philander's final scene4   ,so     
could ,i touch these themes1 as might   
obtain   ,thine ear1 nor leave thy heart

 quite disengaged1   ,the good deed     
would delight me2 half impress          
#bj   ,on my dark cloud an ,iris2 and   
from grief   ,call glory4--,dost thou   
mourn ,philander's fate8   ,i know thou 
say'st it3 says thy life the same8   ,he
 mourns the dead1 who lives as they     
desire4   ,where is that thrift1 that   
avarice of time1   7,o glorious         
avarice67 thought of death inspires1    
,as rumour'd robberies endear our gold8 
,o time6 than gold more sacred2 more a  
load   ,than lead to fools2 and fools   
reputed wise4   ,what moment granted man
 without account8                       
#cj   ,what years are squander'd1       
wisdom's debt unpaid6   ,our wealth in  
days1 all due to that discharge4        
,haste1 haste1 he lies in wait1 he's at 
the door1   ,insidious ,death6 should   
his strong hand arrest1   ,no           
composition sets the prisoner free4     
,eternity's inexorable chain   ,fast    
binds2 and vengeance claims the full    
arrear4     ,how late ,i shudder'd on   

the brink6 how late   ,life call'd for  
her last refuge in despair6   ,that time
 is mine1 ,o ,mead6 to thee ,i owe2     
#dj   ,fain would ,i pay thee with      
eternity4   ,but ill my genius answers  
my desire2   ,my sickly song is mortal1 
past thy cure4   ,accept the will2--that
 dies not with my strain4     ,for what 
calls thy disease1 ,lorenzo8 not   ,for 
,esculapian1 but for moral aid4   ,thou 
think'st it folly to be wise too soon4  
,youth is not rich in time1 it may be   
poor2   ,part with it as with money1    
sparing2 pay   ,no moment1 but in       
purchase of its worth2                  
#ej   ,and what its worth1 ask          
death-beds2 they can tell4   ,part with 
it as with life1 reluctant2 big   ,with 
holy hope of nobler time to come2       
,time higher aim'd1 still nearer the    
great mark                      #ed     
,of men and angels2 virtue more divine4 
,is this our duty1 wisdom1 glory1 gain8 
7,these ,heaven benign in vital union   
binds7   ,and sport we like the natives 

of the bough1   ,when vernal suns       
inspire8 ,amusement reigns   ,man's     
great demand3 to trifle1 is to live3    
,and is it then a trifle1 too1 to die8  
,thou say'st ,i preach1 ,lorenzo6 'tis  
confess'd4                    #fb       
,what1 if for once1 ,i preach thee quite
 awake8   ,who wants amusement in the   
flame of battle8   ,is it not treason to
 the soul immortal1   ,her foes in arms1
 eternity the prize8   ,will toys amuse1
 when medicines cannot cure8   ,when    
spirits ebb1 when life's enchanting     
scenes   ,their lustre lose1 and lessen 
in our sight1   ,as lands1 and cities   
with their glittering spires1           
#gj   ,to the poor shatter'd bark1 by   
sudden storm   ,thrown off to sea1 and  
soon to perish there8   ,will toys      
amuse8 ,no3 thrones will then be toys1  
,and earth and skies seem dust upon the 
scale4     ,redeem we time8--its loss we
 dearly buy4   ,what pleads ,lorenzo for
 his high-prized sports8   ,he pleads   
time's numerous blanks2 he loudly pleads

   ,the straw-like trifles on life's    
common stream4   ,from whom those blanks
 and trifles1 but from thee8   ,no      
blank1 no trifle1 nature made1 or meant4
                         #hj   ,virtue1 
or purposed virtue1 still be thine2     
,this cancels thy complaint at once1    
this leaves   ,in act no trifle1 and no 
blank in time4   ,this greatens1 fills1 
immortalizes all2   ,this1 the bless'd  
art of turning all to gold2   ,this1 the
 good heart's prerogative to raise   ,a 
royal tribute from the poorest hours2   
,immense revenue6 every moment pays4    
#hh   ,if nothing more than purpose in  
thy power2   ,thy purpose firm1 is equal
 to the deed3   ,who does the best his  
circumstance allows1   ,does well1 acts 
nobly2 angels could no more4   ,our     
outward act1 indeed1 admits restraint2  
',tis not in things o'er thought to     
domineer2   ,guard well thy thought2 our
 thoughts are heard in heaven4     ,on  
all-important time1 through every age1  
,though much1 and warm1 the wise have   

urged2 the man   ,is yet unborn1 who    
duly weighs an hour4   ,i've lost a     
day--the prince who nobly cried   ,had  
been an emperor without his crown2      
#ajj   ,of ,rome8 say1 rather1 lord of  
human race3   ,he spoke1 as if deputed  
by mankind4   ,so should all speak2 so  
reason speaks in all3   ,from the soft  
whispers of that ,god in man1   ,why fly
 to folly1 why to phrensy fly1   ,for   
rescue from the blessing we possess8    
,time the supreme6--,time is eternity2  
,pregnant with all eternity can give2   
,pregnant with all that makes archangels
 smile4   ,who murders time1 he crushes 
in the birth                            
#aaj   ,a power ethereal1 only not      
adored4     ,ah6 how unjust to ,nature1 
and himself1   ,is thoughtless1         
thankless1 inconsistent man6   ,like    
children babbling nonsense in their     
sports1   ,we censure ,nature for a span
 too short2   ,that span too short1 we  
tax as tedious too2   ,torture          
invention1 all expedients tire1   ,to   

lash the lingering moments into speed1  
,and whirl us 7happy riddance67 from    
ourselves4   ,art1 brainless ,art6 our  
furious charioteer                      
#abj   7,for ,nature's voice unstifled  
would recall71   ,drives headlong       
towards the precipice of death2         
#abb   ,death1 most our dread2 death    
thus more dreadful made3   ,oh1 what a  
riddle of absurdity6   ,leisure is pain2
 takes off our chariot wheels2   ,how   
heavily we drag the load of life6       
,blest leisure is our curse2 like that  
of ,cain1   ,it makes us wander2 wander 
earth around1   ,to fly that tyrant1    
thought4 ,as ,atlas groan'd   ,the world
 beneath1 we groan beneath an hour4     
#acj   ,we cry for mercy to the next    
amusement2   ,the next amusement        
mortgages our fields2   ,slight         
inconvenience6 prisons hardly frown1    
,from hateful time if prisons set us    
free4   ,yet when ,death kindly tenders 
us relief1   ,we call him cruel2 years  
to moments shrink1   ,ages to years4    

,the telescope is turn'd4   ,to man's   
false optics 7from his folly false71    
,time1 in advance1 behind him hides his 
wings1   ,and seems to creep1 decrepit  
with his age2                           
#adj   ,behold him1 when pass'd by2 what
 then is seen1   ,but his broad pinions 
swifter than the winds8   ,and all      
mankind1 in contradiction strong1       
,rueful1 aghast6 cry out on his career4 
,leave to thy foes these errors and     
these ills2   ,to ,nature just1 their   
cause and cure explore4   ,not short    
,heaven's bounty1 boundless our expence2
   ,no niggard1 ,nature2 men are        
prodigals4   ,we waste1 not use our     
time2 we breathe1 not live4   ,time     
wasted is existence1 used is life4      
#aej   ,and bare existence1 man1 to live
 ordain'd1   ,wrings1 and oppresses with
 enormous weight4   ,and why8 since time
 was given for use1 not waste1          
,enjoin'd to fly2 with tempest1 tide1   
and stars1   ,to keep his speed1 nor    
ever wait for man2   ,time's use was    

doom'd a pleasure3 waste1 a pain2       
#aef   ,that man might feel his error1  
if unseen3   ,and1 feeling1 fly to      
labour for his cure2   ,not1 blundering1
 split on idleness for ease4   ,life's  
cares are comforts2 such by ,heaven     
design'd2   ,he that has none1 must make
 them1 or be wretched4   ,cares are     
employments2 and without employ   ,the  
soul is on a rack2 the rack of rest1    
#afc   ,to souls most adverse2 action   
all their joy4     ,here then1 the      
riddle1 mark'd above1 unfolds2   ,then  
time turns torment1 when man turns a    
fool4   ,we rave1 we wrestle1 with great
 ,nature's plan2   ,we thwart the       
,deity2 and 'tis decreed1   ,who thwart 
his will shall contradict their own4    
,hence our unnatural quarrels with      
ourselves2                       #agj   
,our thoughts at enmity2 our            
bosom-broils2   ,we push ,time from us1 
and we wish him back2   ,lavish of      
lustrums1 and yet fond of life2   ,life 
we think long1 and short2 death seek1   

and shun2   ,body and soul1 like peevish
 man and wife1   ,united jar1 and yet   
are loth to part4     ,oh the dark days 
of vanity6 while here1   ,how tasteless6
 and how terrible1 when gone6   ,gone6  
they ne'er go2 when past1 they haunt us 
still2   ,the spirit walks of every day 
deceased2                               
#ahj   ,and smiles an angel1 or a fury  
frowns4   ,nor death1 nor life delight  
us4 ,if time past1   ,and time          
possess'd1 both pain us1 what can       
please8   ,that which the ,deity to     
please ordain'd1   ,time used4 ,the man 
who consecrates his hours   ,by vigorous
 effort1 and an honest aim1   ,at once  
he draws the sting of life and death2   
,he walks with ,nature2 and her paths   
are peace4     ,our error's cause and   
cure are seen3 see next   ,time's       
nature1 origin1 importance1 speed2      
#aij   ,and thy great gain from urging  
his career4--   ,all-sensual man1       
because untouch'd1 unseen1   ,he looks  
on time as nothing4 ,nothing else   ,is 

truly man's2 'tis fortune's4--,time's a 
god4   ,hast thou ne'er heard of ,time's
 omnipotence8   ,for1 or against1 what  
wonders he can do1   ,and will8 ,to     
stand blank neuter he disdains4   ,not  
on those terms was ,time 7,heaven's     
stranger67 sent   ,on his important     
embassy to man4   ,lorenzo6 no3 on the  
long-destined hour1                     
#bjj   ,from everlasting ages growing   
ripe1   ,that memorable hour of wondrous
 birth1   ,when the ,dread ,sire1 on    
emanation bent1   ,and big with ,nature1
 rising in his might1   ,call'd forth   
creation 7for then ,time was born71     
,by ,godhead streaming through a        
thousand worlds2   ,not on those terms1 
from the great days of heaven1   ,from  
old ,eternity's mysterious orb1   ,was  
,time cut off1 and cast beneath the     
skies2   ,the skies1 which watch him in 
his new abode1                          
#baj   ,measuring his motions by        
revolving spheres2   ,that horologe     
machinery divine4   ,hours1 days1 and   

months1 and years1 his children play1   
,like numerous wings around him1 as he  
flies3   ,or1 rather1 as unequal plumes1
 they shape   ,his ample pinions1 swift 
as darted flame1   ,to gain his goal1 to
 reach his ancient rest1   ,and join    
anew ,eternity his sire2   ,in his      
immutability to nest1   ,when worlds1   
that count his circles now1 unhinged    
#bbj   7,fate the loud signal sounding71
 headlong rush   ,to timeless night and 
chaos1 whence they rose4     ,why spur  
the speedy8 why with levities   ,new    
wing thy short1 short day's too rapid   
flight8                  #bbd   ,know'st
 thou1 or what thou dost1 or what is    
done8   ,man flies from time1 and time  
from man2 too soon   ,in sad divorce    
this double flight must end3   ,and then
 where are we8 where1 ,lorenzo6 then    
,thy sports8 thy pomps8--,i grant thee1 
in a state   ,not unambitious2 in the   
ruffled shroud1   ,thy ,parian tomb's   
triumphant arch beneath4   ,has ,death  
his fopperies8 ,then well may life      

#bcb   ,put on her plume1 and in her    
rainbow shine4   ,ye well-array'd6 ye   
lilies of our land6   ,ye lilies male6  
who neither toil nor spin   7,as sister 
lilies might71 if not so wise   ,as     
,solomon1 more sumptuous to the sight6  
,ye delicate6 who nothing can support1  
,yourselves most insupportable6 for whom
   ,the winter rose must blow1 the sun  
put on                          #bdj    
,a brighter beam in ,leo2 silky-soft    
,favonius breathe still softer1 or be   
chid2   ,and other worlds send odours1  
sauce1 and song1   ,and robes1 and      
notions1 framed in foreign looms6   ,o  
ye ,lorenzos of our age6 who deem   ,one
 moment unamused1 a misery   ,not made  
for feeble man6 who call aloud   ,for   
every bauble drivell'd o'er by sense2   
,for rattles1 and conceits of every     
cast1   ,for change of follies1 and     
relays of joy1                          
#bej   ,to drag your patient through the
 tedious length   ,of a short winter's  
day--say1 sages6 say1   ,wit's oracles6 

say1 dreamers of gay dreams6   ,how will
 you weather an eternal night1   ,where 
such expedients fail8     ,o treacherous
 ,conscience6 while she seems to sleep  
,on rose and myrtle1 lull'd with syren  
song2   ,while she seems1 nodding o'er  
her charge1 to drop                     
#beh   ,on headlong appetite the        
slacken'd rein1   ,and give us up to    
licence1 unrecall'd1   ,unmark'd2--see1 
from behind her secret stand1   ,the sly
 informer minutes every fault1   ,and   
her dread diary with horror fills4      
,not the gross act alone employs her    
pen2   ,she reconnoitres fancy's airy   
band1   ,a watchful foe6 the formidable 
spy1   ,listening1 o'erhears the        
whispers of our camp3   ,our dawning    
purposes of heart explores1   ,and      
steals our embryos of iniquity4   ,as   
all-rapacious usurers conceal           
#bgj   ,their doomsday-book from        
all-consuming heirs2   ,thus1 with      
indulgence most severe1 she treats   ,us
 spendthrifts of inestimable time2      

,unnoted1 notes each moment misapplied2 
,in leaves more durable than leaves of  
brass1   ,writes our whole history2     
which ,death shall read   ,in every pale
 delinquent's private ear2   ,and       
,judgment publish2 publish to more      
worlds   ,than this2 and endless age in 
groans resound4   ,lorenzo1 such that   
sleeper in thy breast6                  
#bhj   ,such is her slumber2 and her    
vengeance such   ,for slighted counsel2 
such thy future peace6   ,and think'st  
thou still thou canst be wise too soon8 
,but why on ,time so lavish is my song8 
,on this great theme kind ,nature keeps 
a school1   ,to teach her sons herself4 
,each night we die1   ,each morn are    
born anew3 each day1 a life6   ,and     
shall we kill each day8 ,if trifling    
kills2   ,sure vice must butcher4 ,oh1  
what heaps of slain   ,cry out for      
vengeance on us6 ,time destroy'd        
#bij   ,is suicide1 where more than     
blood is spilt4   ,time flies1 ,death   
urges1 knells call1 ,heaven invites1    

#bib   ,hell threatens3 all exerts2 in  
effort1 all2   ,more than creation      
labours6--labours more8   ,and is there 
in creation what1 amidst   ,this tumult 
universal1 wing'd despatch1   ,and      
ardent energy1 supinely yawns8--   ,man 
sleeps2 and man alone2 and man1 whose   
fate1   ,fate irreversible1 entire1     
extreme1   ,endless1 hair-hung1         
breeze-shaken1 o'er the gulf            
#cjj   ,a moment trembles2 drops6 and   
man1 for whom   ,all else is in alarm6  
man1 the sole cause   ,of this          
surrounding storm6 and yet he sleeps1   
,as the storm rock'd to rest4--,throw   
years away8   ,throw empires1 and be    
blameless4 ,moments seize2   ,heaven's  
on their wing3 a moment we may wish1    
,when worlds want wealth to buy4 ,bid   
,day stand still1   ,bid him drive back 
his car1 and re-import   ,the period    
past1 re-give the given hour4           
,lorenzo1 more than miracles we want2   
#caj   ,lorenzo--,o for yesterdays to   
come6     ,such is the language of the  

man awake2   ,his ardour such1 for what 
oppresses thee4   ,and is his ardour    
vain1 ,lorenzo8 ,no2   ,that more than  
miracle the gods indulge2   ,to-day is  
yesterday return'd2 return'd   ,full    
power'd to cancel1 expiate1 raise1      
adorn1   ,and reinstate us on the rock  
of peace4   ,let it not share its       
predecessor's fate2   ,nor1 like its    
elder sisters1 die a fool4              
#cbj   ,shall it evaporate in fume8 fly 
off   ,fuliginous1 and stain us deeper  
still8   ,shall we be poorer for the    
plenty pour'd8   ,more wretched for the 
clemencies of ,heaven8     ,where shall 
,i find him8 ,angels6 tell me where4    
,you know him3 he is near you3 point him
 out3                       #cbf        
,shall ,i see glories beaming from his  
brow8   ,or trace his footsteps by the  
rising flowers8   ,your golden wings1   
now hovering o'er him1 shed             
,protection2 now1 are waving in applause
   ,to that bless'd son of foresight6   
lord of fate6   ,that awful independent 

on to-morrow6   ,whose work is done2 who
 triumphs in the past2                  
#ccc   ,whose yesterdays look backwards 
with a smile2   ,nor1 like the          
,parthian1 wound him as they fly2       
,that common but opprobrious lot6 past  
hours1   ,if not by guilt1 yet wound us 
by their flight1   ,if folly bounds our 
prospect by the grave1   ,all feeling of
 futurity benumb'd2   ,all god-like     
passion for eternals quench'd2          
#cdj   ,all relish of realities expired2
   ,renounced all correspondence with   
the skies2   ,our freedom chain'd2 quite
 wingless our desire2   ,in sense       
dark-prison'd all that ought to soar2   
,prone to the centre2 crawling in the   
dust2   ,dismounted every great and     
glorious aim2   ,embruted every faculty 
divine2   ,heart-buried in the rubbish  
of the world4   ,the world1 that gulf of
 souls1 immortal souls1   ,souls        
elevate1 angelic1 wing'd with fire      
#cej   ,to reach the distant skies1 and 
triumph there   ,on thrones1 which shall

 not mourn their masters changed1       
,though we from earth2 ethereal1 they   
that fell4   ,such veneration due1 ,o   
man1 to man4     ,who venerate          
themselves1 the world despise4   ,for   
what1 gay friend6 is this escutcheon'd  
world1   ,which hangs out death in one  
eternal night8   ,a night1 that glooms  
us in the noontide ray1   ,and wraps our
 thought1 at banquets1 in the shroud4   
,life's little stage is a small         
eminence1                           #cfj
   ,inch-high the grave above2 that home
 of man1   ,where dwells the multitude3 
we gaze around2   ,we read their        
monuments2 we sigh2 and while   ,we     
sigh1 we sink2 and are what we deplored2
   ,lamenting1 or lamented1 all our lot6
     ,is ,death at distance8 ,no3 he has
 been on thee2   ,and given sure earnest
 of his final blow4   ,these hours that 
lately smiled1 where are they now8      
,pallid to thought1 and ghastly6        
drown'd1 all drown'd   ,in that great   
deep1 which nothing disembogues6        

#cgj   ,and1 dying1 they bequeathed thee
 small renown4   ,the rest are on the   
wing3 how fleet their flight6   ,already
 has the fatal train took fire2   ,a    
moment1 and the world's blown up to     
thee2   ,the sun is darkness1 and the   
stars are dust4     ',tis greatly wise  
to talk with our past hours2   ,and ask 
them1 what report they bore to heaven2  
,and how they might have borne more     
welcome news4   ,their answers form what
 men experience call2   ,if ,wisdom's   
friend1 her best2 if not1 worst foe4    
#chj   ,oh1 reconcile them6 kind        
,experience cries2   ,there's nothing   
here1 but what as nothing weighs2   ,the
 more our joy1 the more we know it vain2
   ,and by success are tutor'd to       
despair4   ,nor is it only thus1 but    
must be so4   ,who knows not this1      
though grey1 is still a child4   ,loose 
then from earth the grasp of fond       
desire1   ,weigh anchor1 and some       
happier clime explore4     ,art thou so 
moor'd thou canst not disengage1   ,nor 

give thy thoughts a ply to future       
scenes8                      #cij       
,since1 by life's passing breath1 blown 
up from earth1   ,light as the summer's 
dust1 we take in air   ,a moment's giddy
 flight1 and fall again2   ,join the    
dull mass1 increase the trodden soil1   
#cid   ,and sleep1 till earth herself   
shall be no more2   ,since then 7as     
emmets1 their small world o'erthrown7   
,we1 sore-amazed1 from out earth's ruins
 crawl1   ,and rise to fate extreme of  
foul or fair1   ,as man's own choice    
7controller of the skies67   ,as man's  
despotic will1 perhaps one hour   7,o   
how omnipotent is time67 decrees2       
,should not each warning give a strong  
alarm8   ,warning1 far less than that of
 bosom torn                             
#djc   ,from bosom1 bleeding o'er the   
sacred dead6   ,should not each dial    
strike us as we pass1   ,portentous1 as 
the written wall1 which struck1   ,o'er 
midnight bowls1 the proud ,assyrian     
pale1   ,erewhile high-flush'd1 with    

insolence1 and wine8   ,like that1 the  
dial speaks2 and points to thee1        
,lorenzo6 loth to break thy banquet up3 
#daj   ,o man1 thy kingdom is departing 
from thee2   ,and1 while it lasts1 is   
emptier than my shade4   ,its silent    
language such3 nor need'st thou call    
,thy ,magi1 to decipher what it means4  
,know1 like the ,median1 fate is in thy 
walls3   ,dost ask1 ,how8 ,whence8      
,belshazzar-like1 amazed8   ,man's make 
encloses the sure seeds of death2       
,life feeds the murderer3 ingrate6 he   
thrives   ,on her own meal1 and then his
 nurse devours4     ,but1 here1         
,lorenzo1 the delusion lies2            
#dbj   ,that solar shadow1 as it        
measures life1   ,it life resembles too3
 life speeds away   ,from point to      
point1 though seeming to stand still4   
,the cunning fugitive is swift by       
stealth3   ,too subtle is the movement  
to be seen2   ,yet soon man's hour is   
up1 and we are gone4   ,warnings point  
out our danger2 gnomons1 time3   ,as    

these are useless when the sun is set3  
#dbc   ,so those1 but when more glorious
 reason shines4   ,reason should judge  
in all2 in reason's eye1   ,that        
sedentary shadow travels hard4   ,but   
such our gravitation to the wrong1   ,so
 prone our hearts to whisper what we    
wish1   ',tis later with the wise than  
he's aware3   ,a ,wilmington goes slower
 than the sun3   ,and all mankind       
mistake their time of day2   ,even age  
itself4 ,fresh hopes are hourly sown    
,in furrow'd brows4 ,to gentle life's   
descent   ,we shut our eyes1 and think  
it is a plain4   ,we take fair days in  
winter1 for the spring2                 
#ddj   ,and turn our blessings into     
bane4 ,since oft   ,man must compute    
that age he cannot feel1   ,he scarce   
believes he's older for his years4      
,thus1 at life's latest eve1 we keep in 
store   ,one disappointment sure1 to    
crown the rest2   ,the disappointment of
 a promised hour4     ,on this1 or      
similar1 ,philander6 thou1   ,whose mind

 was moral1 as the preacher's tongue2   
,and strong1 to wield all science1 worth
 the name2   ,how often we talk'd down  
the summer's sun1                       
#dej   ,and cool'd our passions by the  
breezy stream6   ,how often thaw'd and  
shorten'd winter's eve1   ,by conflict  
kind1 that struck out latent truth1     
,best found1 so sought2 to the recluse  
more coy6   ,thoughts disentangle       
passing o'er the lip2   ,clean runs the 
thread2 if not1 'tis thrown away1   ,or 
kept to tie up nonsense for a song2     
,song1 fashionably fruitless2 such as   
stains   ,the fancy1 and unhallow'd     
passion fires2   ,chiming her saints to 
,cytherea's#h fane4                     
#dfj     ,know'st thou1 ,lorenzo6 what a
 friend contains8                   #dfa
   ,as bees mix'd nectar draw from      
fragrant flowers1   ,so men from        
friendship1 wisdom and delight2   ,twins
 tied by ,nature1 if they part1 they    
die4   ,hast thou no friend to set thy  
mind abroach8   ,good sense will        

stagnate4 ,thoughts shut up1 want air1  
,and spoil1 like bales unopen'd to the  
sun4   ,had thought been all1 sweet     
speech had been denied2   ,speech1      
thought's canal6 speech1 thought's      
criterion too6   ,thought in the mine1  
may come forth gold1 or dross2   ,when  
coin'd in words1 we know its real worth4
                      #dga   ,if        
sterling1 store it for thy future use2  
',twill buy thee benefit2 perhaps1      
renown4   ,thought1 too1 deliver'd1 is  
the more possess'd2   ,teaching1 we     
learn2 and1 giving1 we retain   ,the    
births of intellect2 when dumb1 forgot4 
,speech ventilates our intellectual     
fire2   ,speech burnishes our mental    
magazine2   ,brightens1 for ornament2   
and whets1 for use4   ,what numbers1    
sheathed in erudition1 lie1             
#dhj   ,plunged to the hilts in         
venerable tomes1   ,and rusted in2 who  
might have borne an edge1   ,and play'd 
a sprightly beam1 if born to speech2    
,if born bless'd heirs of half their    

mother's tongue6   ',tis thought's      
exchange1 which1 like th' alternate push
   ,of waves conflicting1 breaks the    
learned scum1   ,and defecates the      
student's standing pool4     ,in        
contemplation is his proud resource8    
',tis poor1 as proud1 by converse       
unsustain'd4   ,rude thought runs wild  
in contemplation's field2               
#dij   ,converse1 the menage1 breaks it 
to the bit   ,of due restraint2 and     
emulation's spur   ,gives graceful      
energy1 by rivals awed4   ',tis converse
 qualifies for solitude2   ,as exercise1
 for salutary rest4                     
#die   ,by that untutor'd1 contemplation
 raves2   ,and ,nature's fool1 by wisdom
 is undone4     ,wisdom1 though richer  
than ,peruvian mines1   ,and sweeter    
than the sweet ambrosial hive1   ,what  
is she1 but the means of happiness8     
,that unobtain'd1 than folly more a     
fool2   ,a melancholy fool1 without her 
bells4   ,friendship1 the means of      
wisdom1 richly gives                    

#ejc   ,the precious end1 which makes   
our wisdom wise4   ,nature1 in zeal for 
human amity1   ,denies1 or damps1 an    
undivided joy4   ,joy is an import2 joy 
is an exchange2   ,joy flies            
monopolists3 it calls for two2   ,rich  
fruit6 heaven-planted6 never pluck'd by 
one4   ,needful auxiliars are our       
friends1 to give                        
#eaj   ,to social man true relish of    
himself4   ,full on ourselves1          
descending in a line1   ,pleasure's     
bright beam is feeble in delight3       
,delight intense1 is taken by rebound2  
,reverberated pleasures fire the breast4
     ,celestial happiness1 whene'er she 
stoops   ,to visit earth1 one shrine the
 goddess finds1   ,and one alone1 to    
make her sweet amends   ,for absent     
heaven--the bosom of a friend2   ,where 
heart meets heart1 reciprocally soft1   
#ebj   ,each other's pillow to repose   
divine4   ,beware the counterfeit3 in   
passion's flame   ,hearts melt1 but melt
 like ice1 soon harder froze4   ,true   

love strikes root in reason2 passion's  
foe3   ,virtue alone entenders us for   
life3   ,i wrong her much--entenders us 
for ever3   ,of friendship's fairest    
fruits1 the fruit most fair   ,is virtue
 kindling at a rival fire1   ,and1      
emulously1 rapid in her race4           
#ebi   ,o the soft enmity6 endearing    
strife6   ,this carries friendship to   
her noontide point1   ,and gives the    
rivet of eternity4     ,from friendship1
 which outlives my former themes1       
,glorious survivor of old time and      
death2   ,from friendship1 thus1 that   
flower of heavenly seed1   ,the wise    
extract earth's most ,hyblean bliss1    
,superior wisdom1 crown'd with smiling  
joy4     ,but for whom blossoms this    
,elysian flower8   ,abroad they find1   
who cherish it at home4   ,lorenzo6     
pardon what my love extorts1            
#edj   ,an honest love1 and not afraid  
to frown4   ,though choice of follies   
fasten on the great1   ,none clings more
 obstinate1 than fancy1 fond   ,that    

sacred friendship is their easy prey2   
,caught by the wafture of a golden lure1
   ,or fascination of a high-born smile4
   ,their smiles1 the great1 and the    
coquette1 throw out   ,for others'      
hearts1 tenacious of their own2   ,and  
we no less of ours1 when such the bait4 
,ye fortune's cofferers6 ye powers of   
wealth6                       #eej      
,can gold gain friendship8 ,impudence of
 hope6   ,as well mere man an angel     
might beget4   ,love1 and love only1 is 
the loan for love4   ,lorenzo6 pride    
repress2 nor hope to find   ,a friend1  
but what has found a friend in thee4    
,all like the purchase2 few the price   
will pay2   ,and this makes friends such
 miracles below4     ,what if 7since    
daring on so nice a theme7   ,i show    
thee friendship delicate1 as dear1   ,of
 tender violations apt to die8          
#efj   ,reserve will wound it2 and      
distrust1 destroy4   ,deliberate on all 
things with thy friend4   ,but since    
friends grow not thick on every bough1  

#efc   ,nor every friend unrotten at the
 core2   ,first1 on thy friend1         
deliberate with thyself2   ,pause1      
ponder1 sift2 not eager in the choice1  
,nor jealous of the chosen2 fixing1 fix2
   ,judge before friendship1 then       
confide till death4   ,well1 for thy    
friend2 but nobler far for thee2   ,how 
gallant danger for earth's highest      
prize6                      #egj   ,a   
friend is worth all hazards we can run4 
,poor is the friendless master of a     
world3   ,a world in purchase for a     
friend is gain4     ,so sung he 7angels 
hear that angel sing6   ,angels from    
friendship gather half their joy71   ,so
 sung ,philander1 as his friend went    
round   ,in the rich ichor1 in the      
generous blood   ,of ,bacchus1 purple   
god of joyous wit1   ,a brow solute1 and
 ever-laughing eye4   ,he drank long    
health1 and virtue1 to his friend2      
#ehj   ,his friend1 who warm'd him more1
 who more inspired4   ,friendship's the 
wine of life2 but friendship new   7,not

 such was his7 is neither strong1 nor   
pure4   ,o for the bright complexion1   
cordial warmth1   ,and elevating spirit1
 of a friend1   ,for twenty summers     
ripening by my side2   ,all feculence of
 falsehood long thrown down2   ,all     
social virtues rising in his soul2   ,as
 crystal clear2 and smiling1 as they    
rise6   ,here nectar flows2 it sparkles 
in our sight2                       #eij
   ,rich to the taste1 and genuine from 
the heart4   ,high-flavour'd bliss for  
gods6 on earth how rare6   ,on earth how
 lost6--,philander is no more4          
,think'st thou the theme intoxicates my 
song8   ,am ,i too warm8--,too warm ,i  
cannot be4   ,i loved him much2 but now 
,i love him more4   ,like birds1 whose  
beauties languish1 half-conceal'd1      
#eig   ,till1 mounted on the wing1 their
 glossy plumes   ,expanded shine with   
azure1 green1 and gold2   ,how blessings
 brighten as they take their flight6    
,his flight ,philander took2 his upward 
flight1   ,if ever soul ascended4 ,had  

he dropp'd   7,that eagle genius671 oh6 
had he let fall   ,one feather as he    
flew2 ,i1 then1 had wrote1              
#fjd   ,what friends might flatter2     
prudent foes forbear2   ,rivals scarce  
damn2 and ,zoilus reprieve4   ,yet what 
,i can1 ,i must3 it were profane   ,to  
quench a glory lighted at the skies1    
,and cast in shadows his illustrious    
close4   ,strange6 the theme most       
affecting1 most sublime1                
#faj   ,momentous most to man1 should   
sleep unsung6   ,and yet it sleeps1 by  
genius unawaked1   ,paynim or           
,christian2 to the blush of wit4        
,man's highest triumph6 man's           
profoundest fall6   ,the death-bed of   
the just6 is yet undrawn   ,by mortal   
hand2 it merits a divine3   ,angels     
should paint it1 angels ever there2     
,there1 on a post of honour1 and of joy4
     ,dare ,i presume1 then8 ,but       
,philander bids2   ,and glory tempts1   
and inclination calls--                 
#fbj   ,yet am ,i struck2 as struck the 

soul1 beneath   ,aerial groves'         
impenetrable gloom2   ,or1 in some      
mighty ruin's solemn shade2   ,or1      
gazing by pale lamps on high-born dust1 
,in vaults2 thin courts of poor         
unflatter'd kings2   ,or1 at the        
midnight altar's hallow'd flame4   ,is  
it religion to proceed8 ,i pause--      
,and enter1 awed1 the temple of my      
theme4   ,is it his death-bed8 ,no3 it  
is his shrine3   ,behold him1 there1    
just rising to a god4                   
#fcj     ,the chamber where the good man
 meets his fate1                   #fca 
,is privileged beyond the common walk   
,of virtuous life1 quite in the verge of
 heaven4   ,fly1 ye profane6 if not1    
draw near with awe1   ,receive the      
blessing1 and adore the chance1   ,that 
threw in this ,bethesda your disease2   
,if unrestored by this1 despair your    
cure4   ,for here1 resistless           
demonstration dwells2   ,a death-bed's a
 detector of the heart4   ,here tired   
,dissimulation drops her mask1          

#fdj   ,through life's grimace1 that    
mistress of the scene6   ,here real and 
apparent are the same4   ,you see the   
man2 you see his hold on heaven2   ,if  
sound his virtue2 as ,philander's1      
sound4   ,heaven waits not the last     
moment2 owns her friends   ,on this side
 death2 and points them out to men1   ,a
 lecture1 silent1 but of sovereign      
power6   ,to vice1 confusion2 and to    
virtue1 peace4     ,whatever farce the  
boastful hero plays1   ,virtue alone has
 majesty in death2                      
#fej   ,and greater still1 the more the 
tyrant frowns4   ,philander6 he severely
 frown'd on thee4   ,no warning given6  
,unceremonious fate6   ,a sudden rush   
from life's meridian joy6   ,a wrench   
from all we love6 from all we are6   ,a 
restless bed of pain6 a plunge opaque   
,beyond conjecture6 feeble ,nature's    
dread6   ,strong reason's shudder at the
 dark unknown6   ,a sun extinguish'd6 a 
just opening grave6   ,and1 oh6 the     
last1 last1 what8 7can words express8   

#ffj   ,thought reach it87--the         
last--silence of a friend6   ,where are 
those horrors1 that amazement1 where1   
,this hideous group of ills1 which      
singly shock1   ,demand from man8--,i   
thought him man till now4     ,through  
nature's wreck1 through vanquish'd      
agonies   7,like the stars struggling   
through this midnight gloom71   ,what   
gleams of joy6 what more than human     
peace6   ,where1 the frail mortal8 the  
poor abject worm8   ,no1 not in death1  
the mortal to be found4   ,his conduct  
is a legacy for all2                    
#fgj   ,richer than ,mammon's for his   
single heir4   ,his comforters he       
comforts2 great in ruin1   ,with        
unreluctant grandeur1 gives1 not yields1
   ,his soul sublime2 and closes with   
his fate4     ,how our hearts burn'd    
within us at the scene6   ,whence this  
brave bound o'er limits fix'd to man8   
,his ,god sustains him in his final     
hour6   ,his final hour brings glory to 
his ,god6   ,man's glory ,heaven        

vouchsafes to call her own4   ,we gaze1 
we weep2 mix'd tears of grief and joy6  
#fhj   ,amazement strikes6 devotion     
bursts to flame6   ,christians adore6   
and infidels believe6     ,as some tall 
tower1#i or lofty mountain's brow1      
,detains the sun1 illustrious1 from its 
height2   ,while rising vapours1 and    
descending shades1   ,with damps1 and   
darkness1 drown the spacious vale2      
,undamp'd by doubt1 undarken'd by       
despair1   ,philander1 thus1 augustly   
rears his head1   ,at that black hour1  
which general horror sheds   ,on the low
 level of th' inglorious throng3        
#fij   ,sweet peace1 and heavenly hope1 
and humble joy1   ,divinely beam on his 
exalted soul2   ,destruction gild1 and  
crown him for the skies1   ,with        
incommunicable lustre1 bright4          
,,narcissa4                             
,,to ,,her ,,grace                      
,,the ,,duchess ,,of ,p----4#aj         
,ignoscenda quidem1 scirent si ignoscere
 manes4--,virg4                         

,,night ,,third4                        
,,narcissa4     ,from dreams1 where     
thought in fancy's maze runs mad1   ,to 
reason1 that heaven-lighted lamp in man1
   ,once more ,i wake2 and at the       
destined hour1   ,punctual as lovers to 
the moment sworn1   ,i keep my          
assignation with my woe4     ,oh6 lost  
to virtue1 lost to manly thought1       
,lost to the noble sallies of the soul6 
,who think it solitude to be alone4     
,communion sweet6 communion large and   
high6   ,our reason1 guardian angel1 and
 our ,god6                              
#aj   ,then nearest these1 when others  
most remote2   ,and all1 ere long1 shall
 be remote1 but these4   ,how dreadful1 
then1 to meet them all alone1   ,a      
stranger6 unacknowledged1 unapproved6   
,now woo them1 wed them1 bind them to   
thy breast2   ,to win thy wish1 creation
 has no more4   ,or if we wish a fourth1
 it is a friend--   ,but friends1 how   
mortal6 dangerous the desire4     ,take 
,phoebus to yourselves1 ye basking      

bards6                     #ai          
,inebriate at fair fortune's            
fountain-head2   ,and reeling through   
the wilderness of joy2   ,where sense   
runs savage1 broke from reason's chain1 
,and sings false peace1 till smother'd  
by the pall4   ,my fortune is unlike2   
unlike my song2   ,unlike the deity my  
song invokes4   ,i to ,day's soft-eyed  
sister pay my court   7,endymion's      
rival671 and her aid implore2   ,now    
first implored in succour to the ,muse4 
,thou1 who didst lately borrow#aa       
,cynthia's form1   ,and modestly forego 
thine own6 ,o thou1                     
#cj   ,who didst thyself at midnight    
hours inspire6   ,say1 why not ,cynthia 
patroness of song8   ,as thou her       
crescent1 she thy character   ,assumes2 
still more a goddess by the change4     
,are there demurring wits1 who dare     
dispute   ,this revolution in the world 
inspired8   ,ye train ,pierian6 to the  
lunar sphere1   ,in silent hour address 
your ardent call   ,for aid immortal2   

less her brother's right4   ,she1 with  
the spheres harmonious1 nightly leads   
#dj   ,the mazy dance1 and hears their  
matchless strain2   ,a strain for gods1 
denied to mortal ear4   ,transmit it    
heard1 thou silver ,queen of ,heaven6   
,what title1 or what name1 endears thee 
most8   ,cynthia6 ,cyllene6 ,phoebe6--or
 dost hear   ,with higher gust1 fair    
,p----d of the skies8   ,is that the    
soft enchantment calls thee down1       
,more powerful than of old ,circean     
charm8   ,come2 but from heavenly       
banquets with thee bring   ,the soul of 
song1 and whisper in my ear             
#ej   ,the theft divine2 or in          
propitious dreams   7,for dreams are    
thine7 transfuse it through the breast  
#eb   ,of thy first votary--but not thy 
last2   ,if1 like thy namesake1 thou art
 ever kind4     ,and kind thou wilt be2 
kind on such a theme2   ,a theme so like
 thee1 a quite lunar theme1   ,soft1    
modest1 melancholy1 female1 fair6   ,a  
theme that rose all pale1 and told my   

soul1   ',twas ,night2 on her fond hopes
 perpetual night2   ,a night which      
struck a damp1 a deadlier damp1         
#fj   ,than that which smote me from    
,philander's tomb4   ,narcissa#ab       
follows1 ere his tomb is closed4   ,woes
 cluster2 rare are solitary woes2       
,they love a train1 they tread each     
other's heel2   ,her death invades his  
mournful right1 and claims   ,the grief 
that started from my lids for him3      
,seizes the faithless1 alienated tear1  
,or shares it1 ere it falls4 ,so        
frequent ,death1   ,sorrow he more than 
causes1 he confounds2   ,for human sighs
 his rival strokes contend1             
#gj   ,and make distress1 distraction4  
,oh1 ,philander6   ,what was thy fate8  
,a double fate to me2   ,portent1 and   
pain6 a menace1 and a blow6   ,like the 
black raven hovering o'er my peace1     
,not less a bird of omen1 than of prey4 
,it call'd ,narcissa long before her    
hour2   ,it call'd her tender soul1 by  
break of bliss1   ,from the first       

blossom1 from the buds of joy2   ,those 
few our noxious fate unblasted leaves   
,in this inclement clime of human life4 
#hj     ,sweet harmonist6 and beautiful 
as sweet6   ,and young as beautiful6 and
 soft as young6   ,and gay as soft6 and 
innocent as gay6   ,and happy 7if aught 
happy here7 as good6   ,for fortune fond
 had built her nest on high4            
#he   ,like birds quite exquisite of    
note and plume1   ,transfix'd by fate   
7who loves a lofty mark71   ,how from   
the summit of the grove she fell1   ,and
 left it unharmonious6 all its charms   
,extinguish'd in the wonders of her     
song6   ,her song still vibrates in my  
ravish'd ear1   ,still melting there1   
and with voluptuous pain   7,o to forget
 her67 thrilling through my heart6      
#ic     ,song1 beauty1 youth1 love1     
virtue1 joy6 this group   ,of bright    
ideas1 flowers of paradise1   ,as yet   
unforfeit6 in one blaze we bind1        
,kneel1 and present it to the skies2 as 
all   ,we guess of heaven3 and these    

were all her own4   ,and she was mine2  
and ,i was--was6--most blest6--   ,gay  
title of the deepest misery6            
#ajj   ,as bodies grow more ponderous1  
robb'd of life2   ,good lost weighs more
 in grief1 than gain'd1 in joy4   ,like 
blossom'd trees o'erturn'd by vernal    
storm1   ,lovely in death the beauteous 
ruin lay2   ,and if in death still      
lovely1 lovelier there2   ,far lovelier6
 pity swells the tide of love4   ,and   
will not the severe excuse a sigh8      
,scorn the proud man that is ashamed to 
weep2   ,our tears indulged1 indeed     
deserve our shame4   ,ye that e'er lost 
an angel6 pity me4                      
#aaj     ,soon as the lustre languish'd 
in her eye1   ,dawning a dimmer day on  
human sight2   ,and on her cheek1 the   
residence of spring1   ,pale omen sat2  
and scatter'd fears around   ,on all    
that saw2 7and who would cease to gaze1 
,that once had seen87 with haste1       
parental haste1   ,i flew1 ,i snatch'd  
her from the rigid north1   ,her native 

bed1 on which bleak ,boreas blew1   ,and
 bore her nearer to the sun2#ac the sun 
#aai   7,as if the sun could envy7      
check'd his beam1   ,denied his wonted  
succour2 nor with more   ,regret beheld 
her drooping1 than the bells   ,of      
lilies2 fairest lilies1 not so fair6    
,queen lilies6 and ye painted populace6 
,who dwell in fields1 and lead ambrosial
 lives2   ,in morn and evening dew your 
beauties bathe1   ,and drink the sun2   
which gives your cheeks to glow1   ,and 
out-blush 7mine excepted7 every fair2   
,you gladlier grew1 ambitious of her    
hand1   ,which often cropp'd your       
odours1 incense meet                    
#acj   ,to thought so pure6 ,ye lovely  
fugitives6   ,coeval race with man6 for 
man you smile2   ,why not smile at him  
too8 ,you share indeed   ,his sudden    
pass2 but not his constant pain4     ,so
 man is made1 nought ministers delight1 
,by what his glowing passions can       
engage2   ,and glowing passions1 bent on
 aught below1   ,must1 soon or late1    

with anguish turn the scale2   ,and     
anguish1 after rapture1 how severe6     
,rapture8 ,bold man6 who tempts the     
wrath divine1                    #adj   
,by plucking fruit denied to mortal     
taste1   ,while here1 presuming on the  
rights of heaven4   ,for transport dost 
thou call on every hour1   ,lorenzo8 ,at
 thy friend's expense be wise2   ,lean  
not on earth2 'twill pierce thee to the 
heart2   ,a broken reed1 at best2 but1  
oft1 a spear2   ,on its sharp point     
peace bleeds1 and hope expires4         
,turn1 hopeless thought6 turn from      
her3--thought repell'd   ,resenting     
rallies1 and wakes every woe4           
,snatch'd ere thy prime6 and in thy     
bridal hour6                    #aej    
,and when kind fortune1 with thy lover1 
smiled6                     #aea   ,and 
when high flavour'd thy fresh opening   
joys6   ,and when blind man pronounced  
thy bliss complete6   ,and on a foreign 
shore2 where strangers wept6            
,strangers to thee2 and1 more surprising

 still1   ,strangers to kindness1 wept3 
their eyes let fall   ,inhuman tears3   
strange tears6 that trickled down       
,from marble hearts6 obdurate           
tenderness6   ,a tenderness that call'd 
them more severe2   ,in spite of        
nature's soft persuasion1 steel'd2      
#afj   ,while nature melted1            
superstition raved2   ,that mourn'd the 
dead2 and this denied a grave4          
,their sighs incensed2 sighs foreign to 
the will6   ,their will the tiger       
suck'd1 outraged the storm4   ,for oh6  
the cursed ungodliness of zeal6   ,while
 sinful flesh relented1 spirit nursed   
,in blind infallibility's embrace1      
,the sainted spirit petrified the       
breast2   ,denied the charity of dust1  
to spread   ,o'er dust6 a charity their 
dogs enjoy4                             
#agj   ,what could ,i do8 what succour8 
what resource8   ,with pious sacrilege1 
a grave ,i stole2   ,with impious piety1
 that grave ,i wrong'd2   ,short in my  
duty2 coward in my grief6   ,more like  

her murderer1 than friend1 ,i crept1    
,with soft-suspended step1 and muffled  
deep   ,in midnight darkness1 whisper'd 
my last sigh4   ,i whisper'd what should
 echo through their realms2   ,nor writ 
her name1 whose tomb should pierce the  
skies4   ,presumptuous fear6 ,how durst 
,i dread her foes1                      
#ahj   ,while nature's loudest dictates 
,i obey'd8   ,pardon necessity1 bless'd 
shade6 of grief   ,and indignation rival
 bursts ,i pour'd2   ,half execration   
mingled with my prayer2   ,kindled at   
man1 while ,i his ,god adored2          
#ahe   ,sore grudged the savage land her
 sacred dust2   ,stamp'd the cursed     
soil2 and with humanity   7,denied      
,narcissa7 wish'd them all a grave4     
,glows my resentment into guilt8 ,what  
guilt   ,can equal violations of the    
dead8   ,the dead how sacred6 ,sacred is
 the dust   ,of this heaven-labour'd    
form1 erect1 divine6                    
#aib   ,this heaven-assumed majestic    
robe of earth1   ,he deign'd to wear1   

who hung the vast expanse   ,with azure 
bright1 and clothed the sun in gold4    
,when every passion sleeps that can     
offend2   ,when strikes us every motive 
that can melt2   ,when man can wreak his
 rancour uncontroll'd1   ,that strongest
 curb on insult and ill-will2   ,then1  
spleen to dust8 the dust of innocence8  
#bjj   ,an angel's dust8--,this ,lucifer
 transcends2   ,when he contended for   
the patriarch's bones1   ',twas not the 
strife of malice1 but of pride2   ,the  
strife of pontiff pride1 not pontiff    
gall4     ,far less than this is        
shocking in a race   ,most wretched1 but
 from streams of mutual love2   ,and    
uncreated1 but for love divine2   ,and1 
but for love divine1 this moment1 lost1 
,by fate resorb'd1 and sunk in endless  
night4   ,man hard of heart to man6 of  
horrid things                           
#baj   ,most horrid6 'mid stupendous1   
highly strange6   ,yet oft his          
courtesies are smoother wrongs2   ,pride
 brandishes the favours ,he confers1    

,and contumelious his humanity3   ,what 
then his vengeance8 ,hear it not1 ye    
stars6   ,and thou1 pale moon6 turn     
paler at the sound2   ,man is to man the
 sorest1 surest ill4   ,a previous blast
 foretells the rising storm2            
,o'erwhelming turrets threaten ere they 
fall2                       #bai        
,volcanos bellow ere they disembogue2   
,earth trembles ere her yawning jaws    
devour2   ,and smoke betrays the        
wide-consuming fire3   ,ruin from man is
 most conceal'd when near1   ,and sends 
the dreadful tidings in the blow4   ,is 
this the flight of fancy8 ,would it     
were6   ,heaven's ,sovereign saves all  
beings1 but himself1   ,that hideous    
sight1 a naked human heart4     ,fired  
is the ,muse8 ,and let the ,muse be     
fired3   ,who not inflamed1 when what he
 speaks1 he feels1   ,and in the nerve  
most tender1 in his friends8            
#bcj   ,shame to mankind6 ,philander had
 his foes2   ,he felt the truths ,i     
sing1 and ,i in him4   ,but he1 nor ,i1 

feel more3 past ills1 ,narcissa6   ,are 
sunk in thee1 thou recent wound of      
heart6   ,which bleeds with other cares1
 with other pangs2   ,pangs numerous1 as
 the numerous ills that swarm'd   ,o'er 
thy distinguish'd fate1 and1 clustering 
there   ,thick as the locusts on the    
land of ,nile1   ,made death more       
deadly1 and more dark the grave4        
,reflect 7if not forgot my touching     
tale7                           #bdj    
,how was each circumstance with aspics  
arm'd8   ,an aspic1 each6 and all1 a    
hydra woe3   ,what strong ,herculean    
virtue could suffice8--   ,or is it     
virtue to be conquer'd here8   ,this    
hoary cheek a train of tears bedews2    
,and each tear mourns its own distinct  
distress2   ,and each distress1         
distinctly mourn'd1 demands   ,of grief 
still more1 as heighten'd by the whole4 
,a grief like this proprietors excludes3
   ,not friends alone such obsequies    
deplore2                          #bej  
,they make mankind the mourner2 carry   

sighs   ,far as the fatal fame can wing 
her way2   ,and turn the gayest thought 
of gayest age1                          
#bec   ,down their right channel1       
through the vale of death4     ,the vale
 of death6 that hush'd ,cimmerian vale1 
,where darkness1 brooding o'er          
unfinish'd fates   ,with raven wing     
incumbent1 waits the day   7,dread day67
 that interdicts all future change6     
,that subterranean world1 that land of  
ruin6   ,fit walk1 ,lorenzo1 for proud  
human thought6   ,there let my thought  
expatiate1 and explore                  
#bfa   ,balsamic truths1 and healing    
sentiments1   ,of all most wanted1 and  
most welcome1 here4   ,for gay          
,lorenzo's sake1 and for thy own1   ,my 
soul6 the fruits of dying friends       
survey2   ,expose the vain of life2     
weigh life and death2   ,give death his 
eulogy2 thy fear subdue2   ,and labour  
that first palm of noble minds1   ,a    
manly scorn of terror from the tomb4    
,this harvest reap from thy ,narcissa's 

grave4                     #bgj   ,as   
poets feign'd from ,ajax' streaming     
blood   ,arose1 with grief inscribed1 a 
mournful flower2   ,let wisdom blossom  
from my mortal wound4   ,and first1 of  
dying friends2 what fruit from these8   
,it brings us more than triple aid2 an  
aid   ,to chase our thoughtlessness1    
fear1 pride1 and guilt4     ,our dying  
friends come o'er us like a cloud1   ,to
 damp our brainless ardours2 and abate  
,that glare of life1 which often blinds 
the wise4   ,our dying friends are      
pioneers1 to smooth                     
#bhj   ,our rugged pass to death2 to    
break those bars   ,of terror1 and      
abhorrence1 nature throws   ,cross our  
obstructed way2 and1 thus to make       
,welcome1 as safe1 our port from every  
storm4   ,each friend by fate snatch'd  
from us1 is a plume   ,pluck'd from the 
wing of human vanity1   ,which makes us 
stoop from our aerial heights1          
#bhg   ,and1 damp'd with omen of our own
 decease1   ,on drooping pinions of     

ambition lower'd1   ,just skim earth's  
surface1 ere we break it up1   ,o'er    
putrid earth to scratch a little dust1  
,and save the world a nuisance4 ,smitten
 friends   ,are angels sent on errands  
full of love2   ,for us they languish1  
and for us they die3   ,and shall they  
languish1 shall they die1 in vain8      
,ungrateful1 shall we grieve their      
hovering shades1   ,which wait the      
revolution in our hearts8   ,shall we   
disdain their silent soft address2      
,their posthumous advice1 and pious     
prayer8   ,senseless1 as herds that     
graze their hallow'd graves1            
#cjj   ,tread under foot their agonies  
and groans2   ,frustrate their anguish1 
and destroy their deaths8     ,lorenzo6 
no2 the thought of death indulge2       
,give it its wholesome empire6 let it   
reign1   ,that kind chastiser of thy    
soul in joy6   ,its reign will spread   
thy glorious conquests far1   ,and still
 the tumults of thy ruffled breast3     
,auspicious era6 golden days1 begin6    

,the thought of death shall1 like a god1
 inspire4   ,and why not think on death8
 ,is life the theme                     
#caj   ,of every thought8 and wish of   
every hour8   ,and song of every joy8   
,surprising truth6   ,the beaten        
spaniel's fondness not so strange4   ,to
 wave the numerous ills that seize on   
life   ,as their own property1 their    
lawful prey2   ,ere man has measured    
half his weary stage1   ,his luxuries   
have left him no reserve1   ,no maiden  
relishes1 unbroach'd delights2   ,on    
cold served repetitions he subsists1    
,and in the tasteless present chews the 
past2                       #cbj        
,disgusted chews1 and scarce can swallow
 down4                      #cba   ,like
 lavish ancestors1 his earlier years    
,have disinherited his future hours1    
,which starve on orts1 and glean their  
former field4     ,live ever here1      
,lorenzo8--shocking thought6   ,so      
shocking1 they who wish1 disown it too2 
,disown from shame what they from folly 

crave4   ,live ever in the womb1 nor see
 the light8   ,for what live ever       
here8--,with labouring step   ,to tread 
our former footsteps8 pace the round    
#ccj   ,eternal8 to climb life's worn1  
heavy wheel1   ,which draws up nothing  
new8 to beat1 and beat   ,the beaten    
track8 to bid each wretched day   ,the  
former mock8 to surfeit on the same1    
,and yawn our joys8 or thank a misery   
,for change1 though sad8 to see what we 
have seen8   ,hear1 till unheard1 the   
same old slabber'd tale8   ,to taste the
 tasted1 and at each return   ,less     
tasteful8 o'er our palates to decant    
,another vintage8 strain a flatter year1
                            #cdj        
,through loaded vessels1 and a laxer    
tone8   ,crazy machines to grind earth's
 wasted fruits6   ,ill-ground1 and worse
 concocted6 load1 not life6   ,the      
rational foul kennels of excess6        
,still-streaming thoroughfares of dull  
debauch6   ,trembling each gulp1 lest   
death should snatch the bowl4     ,such 

of our fine ones is the wish refined6   
,so would they have it3 elegant desire6 
,why not invite the bellowing stalls1   
and wilds8   ,but such examples might   
their riot awe4                         
#cej   ,through want of virtue1 that is1
 want of thought   7,though on bright   
thought they father all their flights71 
,to what are they reduced8 ,to love1 and
 hate1   ,the same vain world2 to       
censure1 and espouse1   ,this painted   
shrew of life1 who calls them fool      
#cee   ,each moment of each day2 to     
flatter bad   ,through dread of worse2  
to cling to this rude rock1   ,barren1  
to them1 of good1 and sharp with ills1  
,and hourly blacken'd with impending    
storms1   ,and infamous for wrecks of   
human hope--   ,scared at the gloomy    
gulf1 that yawns beneath1   ,such are   
their triumphs6 such their pangs of joy6
                  #cfb     ',tis time1  
high time1 to shift this dismal scene4  
,this hugg'd1 this hideous state1 what  
art can cure8   ,one only2 but that one1

 what all may reach2   ,virtue--she1    
wonder-working goddess6 charms   ,that  
rock to bloom2 and tames the painted    
shrew2   ,and what will more surprise1  
,lorenzo6 gives   ,to life's sick1      
nauseous iteration1 change2   ,and      
straightens nature's circle to a line4  
#cgj   ,believest thou this1 ,lorenzo8  
lend an ear1   ,a patient ear1 thou'lt  
blush to disbelieve4     ,a languid1    
leaden iteration reigns1   ,and ever    
must1 o'er those1 whose joys are joys   
,of sight1 smell1 taste3 the            
cuckoo-seasons sing   ,the same dull    
note to such as nothing prize1   ,but   
what those seasons1 from the teeming    
earth1   ,to doating sense indulge4 ,but
 nobler minds1   ,which relish fruits   
unripen'd by the sun1   ,make their days
 various2 various as the dyes           
#chj   ,on the dove's neck1 which wanton
 in his rays4   ,on minds of dove-like  
innocence possess'd1   ,on lighten'd    
minds1 that bask in virtue's beams1     
,nothing hangs tedious1 nothing old     

revolves   ,in that for which they long1
 for which they live4   ,their glorious 
efforts1 wing'd with heavenly hope1     
,each rising morning sees still higher  
rise2   ,each bounteous dawn its novelty
 presents   ,to worth maturing1 new     
strength1 lustre1 fame2                 
#chi   ,while nature's circle1 like a   
chariot-wheel   ,rolling beneath their  
elevated aims1   ,makes their fair      
prospect fairer every hour2   ,advancing
 virtue1 in a line to bliss2   ,virtue1 
which ,christian motives best inspire6  
,and bliss1 which ,christian schemes    
alone ensure6   ,and shall we then1 for 
virtue's sake1 commence   ,apostates1   
and turn infidels for joy8   ,a truth it
 is1 few doubt1 but fewer trust1   ,he  
sins against this life1 who slights the 
next4   ,what is this life8 ,how few    
their favourite know6                   
#djj   ,fond in the dark1 and blind in  
our embrace1   ,by passionately loving  
life1 we make   ,loved life unlovely2   
hugging her to death4   ,we give to time

 eternity's regard2   ,and1 dreaming1   
take our passage for our port4   ,life  
has no value as an end1 but means2   ,an
 end deplorable6 a means divine6   ,when
 'tis our all1 'tis nothing2 worse than 
nought2   ,a nest of pains3 when held as
 nothing1 much3   ,like some fair       
humorists1 life is most enjoy'd1        
#daj   ,when courted least2 most worth1 
when disesteem'd2   ,then 'tis the seat 
of comfort1 rich in peace2   ,in        
prospect richer far2 important6 awful6  
,not to be mention'd1 but with shouts of
 praise6   ,not to be thought on1 but   
with tides of joy6   ,the mighty basis  
of eternal bliss6   ,where now the      
barren rock8 the painted shrew8   ,where
 now1 ,lorenzo6 life's eternal round8   
,have ,i not made my triple promise     
good8   ,vain is the world2 but only to 
the vain4                           #dbj
   ,to what compare we then this varying
 scene1   ,whose worth ambiguous rises1 
and declines8   ,waxes1 and wanes8 7,in 
all propitious1 night                   

#dbc   ,assists me here7 compare it to  
the moon2   ,dark in herself1 and       
indigent2 but rich   ,in borrow'd lustre
 from a higher sphere4   ,when gross    
guilt interposes1 labouring earth1      
,o'ershadow'd1 mourns a deep eclipse of 
joy2   ,her joys1 at brightest1 pallid1 
to that font   ,of full effulgent glory1
 whence they flow4                      
#dcj     ,nor is that glory distant3    
,oh1 ,lorenzo6   ,a good man1 and an    
angel6 these between   ,how thin the    
barrier6 ,what divides their fate8      
,perhaps a moment1 or perhaps a year3   
,or1 if an age1 it is a moment still2   
,a moment1 or eternity's forgot4   ,then
 be1 what once they were1 who now are   
gods2   ,be what ,philander was1 and    
claim the skies4   ,starts timid nature 
at the gloomy pass8   ,the soft         
transition call it2 and be cheer'd3     
#ddj   ,such it is often1 and why not to
 thee8   ,to hope the best1 is pious1   
brave1 and wise2   ,and may itself      
procure1 what it presumes4   ,life is   

much flatter'd1 death is much traduced2 
,compare the rivals1 and the kinder     
crown4   ,strange competition6--,true1  
,lorenzo6 strange6   ,so little life can
 cast into the scale4     ,life makes   
the soul dependent on the dust2   ,death
 gives her wings to mount above the     
spheres4   ,through chinks1 styled      
organs1 dim life peeps at light2        
,death bursts th' involving cloud1 and  
all is day2                  #dea   ,all
 eye1 all ear1 the disembodied power4   
,death has feign'd evils1 nature shall  
not feel2   ,life1 ills substantial1    
wisdom cannot shun4   ,is not the mighty
 mind1 that son of heaven6   ,by tyrant 
life dethroned1 imprison'd1 pain'd8     
,by death enlarged1 ennobled1 deified8  
#deg   ,death but entombs the body2 life
 the soul4   ,is ,death then guiltless8 
,how he marks his way   ,with dreadful  
waste of what deserves to shine6   ,art1
 genius1 fortune1 elevated power6       
,with various lustres these light up the
 world1   ,which ,death puts out1 and   

darkens human race4                     
#dfc   ,i grant1 ,lorenzo6 this         
indictment just3   ,the sage1 peer1     
potentate1 king1 conqueror6   ,death    
humbles these2 more barbarous life1 the 
man4   ,life is the triumph of our      
mouldering clay2   ,death1 of the spirit
 infinite6 divine6   ,death has no      
dread1 but what frail life imparts2     
,nor life true joy1 but what kind death 
improves4                   #dgj   ,no  
bliss has life to boast1 till death can 
give   ,far greater2 life's a debtor to 
the grave1   ,dark lattice6 letting in  
eternal day4     ,lorenzo6 blush at     
fondness for a life1   ,which sends     
celestial souls on errands vile1   ,to  
cater for the sense2 and serve at       
boards1   ,where every ranger of the    
wilds1 perhaps   ,each reptile1 justly  
claims our upper hand4   ,luxurious     
feast6 a soul1 a soul immortal1   ,in   
all the dainties of a brute bemired6    
#dhj   ,lorenzo6 blush at terror for a  
death1   ,which gives thee to repose in 

festive bowers1   ,where nectars        
sparkle1 angels minister1   ,and more   
than angels share1 and raise1 and crown1
   ,and eternize1 the birth1 bloom1     
bursts of bliss4   ,what need ,i more8  
,o ,death1 the palm is thine4     ,then 
welcome1 ,death6 thy dreaded harbingers1
   ,age and disease2 disease1 though    
long my guest2   ,that plucks my nerves1
 those tender strings of life2   ,which1
 pluck'd a little more1 will toll the   
bell1                  #dij   ,that     
calls my few friends to my funeral2     
#dia   ,where feeble nature drops1      
perhaps1 a tear1   ,while reason and    
religion1 better taught1   ,congratulate
 the dead1 and crown his tomb   ,with   
wreath triumphant4 ,death is victory2   
,it binds in chains the raging ills of  
life3   ,lust and ambition1 wrath and   
avarice1   ,dragg'd at his              
chariot-wheel1 applaud his power4       
,that ills corrosive1 cares importunate1
   ,are not immortal too1 ,o ,death6 is 
thine4                           #ejj   

,our day of dissolution6--name it right2
   ',tis our great pay-day2 'tis our    
harvest1 rich   ,and ripe3 what though  
the sickle1 sometimes keen1   ,just     
scars us as we reap the golden grain8   
,more than thy balm1 ,o ,gilead6 heals  
the wound4   ,birth's feeble cry1 and   
death's deep dismal groan1   ,are       
slender tributes low-tax'd nature pays  
,for mighty gain3 the gain of each1 a   
life6   ,but ,o6 the last the former so 
transcends1   ,life dies1 compared2 life
 lives beyond the grave4                
#eaj     ,and feel ,i1 ,death6 no joy   
from thought of thee8   ,death1 the     
great counsellor1 who man inspires      
,with every nobler thought1 and fairer  
deed6   ,death1 the deliverer1 who      
rescues man6   ,death1 the rewarder1 who
 the rescued crowns6   ,death1 that     
absolves my birth2 a curse without it6  
,rich death1 that realises all my cares1
   ,toils1 virtues1 hopes2 without it a 
chimera6   ,death1 of all pain the      
period1 not of joy2   ,joy's source1 and

 subject1 still subsist unhurt2         
#ebj   ,one1 in my soul2 and one1 in her
 great ,sire2   ,though the four winds  
were warring for my dust4   ,yes1 and   
from winds1 and waves1 and central      
night1   ,though prison'd there1 my dust
 too ,i reclaim   7,to dust when drop   
proud nature's proudest spheres71   ,and
 live entire4 ,death is the crown of    
life3                       #ebf   ,were
 death denied1 poor man would live in   
vain2   ,were death denied1 to live     
would not be life2   ,were death denied1
 even fools would wish to die4   ,death 
wounds to cure3 we fall2 we rise2 we    
reign6   ,spring from our fetters2      
fasten in the skies2   ,where blooming  
,eden withers in our sight3   ,death    
gives us more than was in ,eden lost4   
,this king of terrors is the prince of  
peace4   ,when shall ,i die to vanity1  
pain1 death8   ,when shall ,i           
die8--,when shall ,i live for ever8     
#ecf                                    
,,the                                   

,,christian ,,triumph3                  
,,containing                   ,,our    
,,only ,,cure ,,for ,,the ,,fear ,,of   
,,death2                                
,,and                    ,,proper       
,,sentiments ,,of ,,heart ,,on ,,that   
,,inestimable ,,blessing4               
,,to ,,the                              
,,honourable ,,mr ,,yorke4              
,,night ,,fourth4                       
,,the ,,christian ,,triumph4     ,a     
much-indebted muse1 ,o ,yorke6 intrudes4
   ,amid the smiles of fortune1 and of  
youth1   ,thine ear is patient of a     
serious song4   ,how deep implanted in  
the breast of man   ,the dread of death6
 ,i sing its sovereign cure4     ,why   
start at ,death8 ,where is he8 ,death   
arrived1   ,is past2 not come1 or gone1 
he's never here4   ,ere hope1 sensation 
fails2 black-boding man   ,receives1 not
 suffers1 ,death's tremendous blow4     
,the knell1 the shroud1 the mattock1 and
 the grave2                  #aj   ,the 
deep damp vault1 the darkness1 and the  

worm2   ,these are the bugbears of a    
winter's eve1   ,the terrors of the     
living1 not the dead4   ,imagination's  
fool1 and error's wretch1   ,man makes a
 death1 which nature never made2   ,then
 on the point of his own fancy falls2   
,and feels a thousand deaths1 in fearing
 one4     ,but were death frightful1    
what has age to fear8   ,if prudent1 age
 should meet the friendly foe1   ,and   
shelter in his hospitable gloom4        
#bj   ,i scarce can meet a monument1 but
 holds   ,my younger2 every date        
cries--,come away4   ,and what recalls  
me8 ,look the world around1   ,and tell 
me what3 the wisest cannot tell4        
,should any born of woman give his      
thought   ,full range1 on just dislike's
 unbounded field2   ,of things1 the     
vanity2 of men1 the flaws2   ,flaws in  
the best2 the many1 flaw all o'er2   ,as
 leopards1 spotted1 or1 as ,ethiops1    
dark2   ,vivacious ill2 good dying      
immature2                               
#cj   7,how immature1 ,narcissa's marble

 tells67   ,and at his death bequeathing
 endless pain2   ,his heart1 though     
bold1 would sicken at the sight1   ,and 
spend itself in sighs1 for future       
scenes4     ,but grant to life 7and just
 it is to grant   ,to lucky life7 some  
perquisites of joy2   ,a time there is1 
when1 like a thrice-told tale1          
,long-rifled life of sweet can yield no 
more1   ,but from our comment on the    
comedy1   ,pleasing reflections on parts
 well sustain'd1                        
#dj   ,or purposed emendations where we 
fail'd1   ,or hopes of plaudits from our
 candid ,judge1   ,when1 on their exit1 
souls are bid unrobe1   ,toss fortune   
back her tinsel1 and her plume1   ,and  
drop this mask of flesh behind the      
scene4     ,with me1 that time is come2 
my world is dead2   ,a new world rises1 
and new manners reign3   ,foreign       
comedians1 a spruce band6 arrive1   ,to 
push me from the scene1 or hiss me      
there4   ,what a pert race starts up6   
the strangers gaze1                     

#ej   ,and ,i at them2 my neighbour is  
unknown2   ,nor that the worst3 ah me6  
the dire effect   ,of loitering here1 of
 ,death defrauded long2   ,of old so    
gracious 7and let that suffice71        
#ed   ,my very master knows me not4--   
,shall ,i dare say1 peculiar is the     
fate8   ,i've been so long remember'd1  
,i'm forgot4   ,an object ever pressing 
dims the sight1   ,and hides behind its 
ardour to be seen4   ,when in his       
courtiers' ears ,i pour my plaint1      
#fj   ,they drink it as the nectar of   
the great2   ,and squeeze my hand1 and  
beg me come to-morrow4   ,refusal6 canst
 thou wear a smoother form8     ,indulge
 me1 nor conceive ,i drop my theme3     
,who cheapens life1 abates the fear of  
death3   ,twice told the period spent on
 stubborn ,troy1   ,court favour1 yet   
untaken1 ,i besiege2   ,ambition's      
ill-judged effort to be rich4   ,alas6  
ambition makes my little less2          
,embittering the possess'd3 ,why wish   
for more8                       #gj     

,wishing1 of all employments1 is the    
worst2   ,philosophy's reverse2 and     
health's decay6   ,were ,i as plump as  
stall'd theology1   ,wishing would waste
 me to this shade again4   ,were ,i as  
wealthy as a ,south ,sea dream1         
,wishing is an expedient to be poor4    
,wishing1 that constant hectic of a     
fool2   ,caught at a court2 purged off  
by purer air1   ,and simpler diet2 gifts
 of rural life6     ,bless'd be that    
hand divine1 which gently laid          
#hj   ,my heart at rest1 beneath this   
humble shed4   ,the world's a stately   
bark1 on dangerous seas1   ,with        
pleasure seen1 but boarded at our peril2
   ,here1 on a single plank1 thrown safe
 ashore1   ,i hear the tumult of the    
distant throng1   ,as that of seas      
remote1 or dying storms3   ,and meditate
 on scenes1 more silent still2   ,pursue
 my theme1 and fight the fear of death4 
#hh   ,here1 like a shepherd gazing from
 his hut1   ,touching his reed1 or      
leaning on his staff1   ,eager          

ambition's fiery chace ,i see2   ,i see 
the circling hunt1 of noisy men1        
,burst law's enclosure1 leap the mounds 
of right1   ,pursuing1 and pursued1 each
 other's prey2   ,as wolves1 for rapine2
 as the fox1 for wiles2   ,till ,death1 
that mighty hunter1 earths them all4    
,why all this toil for triumphs of an   
hour8   ,what though we wade in wealth1 
or soar in fame8   ,earth's highest     
station ends in ,here he lies3   ,and   
,dust to dust concludes her noblest     
song4                     #ajj   ,if    
this song lives1 posterity shall know   
,one1 though in ,britain born1 with     
courtiers bred1   ,who thought even gold
 might come a day too late2   ,nor on   
his subtle death-bed plann'd his scheme 
,for future vacancies in ,church or     
,state2   ,some avocation deeming it--to
 die1   ,unbit by rage canine of dying  
rich2   ,guilt's blunder6 and the       
loudest laugh of hell4     ,o my        
coevals6 remnants of yourselves6   ,poor
 human ruins1 tottering o'er the grave6 

#aaj   ,shall we1 shall aged men1 like  
aged trees1   ,strike deeper their vile 
root1 and closer cling1   ,still more   
enamour'd of this wretched soil8        
,shall our pale1 wither'd hands1 be     
still stretch'd out1   ,trembling1 at   
once1 with eagerness and age8   ,with   
avarice1 and convulsions1 grasping hard8
   ,grasping at air6 for what has earth 
beside8   ,man wants but little2 nor    
that little1 long2   ,how soon must he  
resign his very dust1   ,which frugal   
nature lent him for an hour6            
#abj   ,years unexperienced rush on     
numerous ills2   ,and soon as man1      
expert from time1 has found             
#abb   ,the key of life1 it opes the    
gates of death4     ,when in this vale  
of years ,i backward look1   ,and miss  
such numbers1 numbers too of such1      
,firmer in health1 and greener in their 
age1   ,and stricter on their guard1 and
 fitter far   ,to play life's subtle    
game1 ,i scarce believe   ,i still      
survive3 and am ,i fond of life1   ,who 

scarce can think it possible1 ,i live8  
#acj   ,alive by miracle6 or1 what is   
next1   ,alive by ,mead6 if ,i am still 
alive1   ,who long have buried what     
gives life to live1   ,firmness of      
nerve1 and energy of thought4   ,life's 
lee is not more shallow1 than impure1   
,and vapid2 sense and reason show the   
door1   ,call for my bier1 and point me 
to the dust4     ,o thou great arbiter  
of life and death6   ,nature's immortal1
 immaterial ,sun6   ,whose all-prolific 
beam late call'd me forth               
#adj   ,from darkness1 teeming darkness1
 where ,i lay   ,the worm's inferior1   
and1 in rank1 beneath   ,the dust ,i    
tread on1 high to bear my brow1   ,to   
drink the spirit of the golden day1     
,and triumph in existence2 and could    
know   ,no motive1 but my bliss2 and    
hast ordain'd   ,a rise in blessing6    
with the patriarch's joy1   ,thy call ,i
 follow to the land unknown2   ,i trust 
in thee1 and know in whom ,i trust2     
,or life1 or death1 is equal2 neither   

weighs3                       #aej      
,all weight in this--,o let me live to  
thee6     ,though nature's terrors thus 
may be repress'd2   ,still frowns grim  
,death2 guilt points the tyrant's spear4
   ,and whence all human guilt8 ,from   
death forgot4   ,ah me6 too long ,i set 
at nought the swarm   ,of friendly      
warnings1 which around me flew2         
#aef   ,and smiled1 unsmitten3 small my 
cause to smile6   ,death's admonitions1 
like shafts upwards shot1   ,more       
dreadful by delay1 the longer ere       
,they strike our hearts1 the deeper is  
their wound2   ,o think how deep1       
,lorenzo6 here it stings3   ,who can    
appease its anguish8 ,how it burns6     
#afb   ,what hand the barb'd1 envenom'd 
thought can draw8   ,what healing hand  
can pour the balm of peace8   ,and turn 
my sight undaunted on the tomb8         
,with joy1--with grief1 that healing    
hand ,i see2   ,ah6 too conspicuous6 it 
is fix'd on high4   ,on high8--,what    
means my phrensy8 ,i blaspheme2   ,alas6

 how low6 how far beneath the skies6    
,the skies it form'd2 and now it bleeds 
for me--                    #agj   ,but 
bleeds the balm ,i want--yet still it   
bleeds2   ,draw the dire steel--ah1 no6 
the dreadful blessing   ,what heart or  
can sustain1 or dares forego8   ,there  
hangs all human hope3 that nail supports
   ,the falling universe3 that gone1 we 
drop2   ,horror receives us1 and the    
dismal wish   ,creation had been        
smother'd in her birth--   ,darkness his
 curtain1 and his bed the dust2   ,when 
stars and sun are dust beneath his      
throne6   ,in heaven itself can such    
indulgence dwell8                       
#ahj   ,oh1 what a groan was there6 a   
groan not his4   ,he seized our dreadful
 right2 the load sustained2   ,and      
heaved the mountain from a guilty world4
   ,a thousand worlds1 so bought1 were  
bought too dear2   ,sensations new in   
angels' bosoms rise2   ,suspend their   
song2 and make a pause in bliss4     ,o 
for their song1 to reach my lofty theme6

   ,inspire me1 ,night6 with all thy    
tuneful spheres2   ,whilst ,i with      
seraphs share seraphic themes1   ,and   
show to men the dignity of man2         
#aij   ,lest ,i blaspheme my subject    
with my song4   ,shall ,pagan pages glow
 celestial flame1   ,and ,christian     
languish8 ,on our hearts1 not heads1    
,falls the foul infamy3 my heart6 awake4
   ,what can awake thee1 unawaked by    
this1   ,expended deity on human weal8  
,feel the great truths1 which burst the 
tenfold night   ,of heathen error1 with 
a golden flood   ,of endless day3 to    
feel1 is to be fired2   ,and to believe1
 ,lorenzo6 is to feel4                  
#bjj     ,thou most indulgent1 most     
tremendous ,power6   ,still more        
tremendous1 for thy wondrous love6      
,that arms1 with awe more awful1 thy    
commands2   ,and foul transgression dips
 in sevenfold night2   ,how our hearts  
tremble at thy love immense6   ,in love 
immense1 inviolably just6   ,thou1      
rather than thy justice should be       

stain'd1   ,didst stain the cross2 and  
work of wonders far   ,the greatest1    
that thy dearest far might bleed4       
,bold thought6 shall ,i dare speak it1  
or repress8                 #baj        
,should man more execrate1 or boast1 the
 guilt   ,which roused such vengeance8  
which such love inflamed8   ,o'er guilt 
7how mountainous671 with outstretch'd   
arms1   ,stern justice1 and soft-smiling
 love embrace1   ,supporting1 in full   
majesty1 thy throne1   ,when seem'd its 
majesty to need support1   ,or that1 or 
man1 inevitably lost3   ,what1 but the  
fathomless of thought divine1   ,could  
labour such expedient from despair1     
,and rescue both8 ,both rescue6 both    
exalt6                          #bbj    
,oh1 how are both exalted by the deed6  
,the wondrous deed6 or shall ,i call it 
more8   ,a wonder in omnipotence itself6
                                    #bbc
   ,a mystery no less to gods than men6 
,not1 thus1 our infidels th' ,eternal   
draw1   ,a ,god all o'er1 consummate1   

absolute1   ,full-orb'd1 in his whole   
round of rays complete3   ,they set at  
odds ,heaven's jarring attributes2      
,and1 with one excellence1 another      
wound2   ,maim ,heaven's perfection1    
break its equal beams1   ,bid mercy     
triumph over--,god himself1             
#bca   ,undeified by their opprobrious  
praise3   ,a ,god all mercy1 is a ,god  
unjust4     ,ye brainless wits6 ye      
baptized infidels6   ,ye worse for      
mending6 wash'd to fouler stains6   ,the
 ransom was paid down2 the fund of      
heaven1   ,heaven's inexhaustible1      
exhausted fund1   ,amazing1 and amazed1 
pour'd forth the price1   ,all price    
beyond3 though curious to compute1      
,archangels fail'd to cast the mighty   
sum3                          #bdj      
,its value vast1 ungrasp'd by minds     
create1   ,for ever hides1 and glows1 in
 the ,supreme4     ,and was the ransom  
paid8 ,it was3 and paid   7,what can    
exalt the bounty more87 for you4   ,the 
sun beheld it--,no6 the shocking scene1 

,drove back his chariot3 midnight veil'd
 his face2   ,not such as this2 not such
 as nature makes2   ,a midnight nature  
shudder'd to behold2   ,a midnight new6 
a dread eclipse 7without   ,opposing    
spheres7 from her ,creator's frown6     
#bej   ,sun6 didst thou fly thy ,maker's
 pain8 or start   ,at that enormous load
 of human guilt1   ,which bow'd ,his    
blessed head2 o'erwhelm'd ,his cross2   
,made groan the centre2 burst earth's   
marble womb1   ,with pangs1 strange     
pangs6 deliver'd of her dead8   ,hell   
howl'd2 and heaven that hour let fall a 
tear2   ,heaven wept1 that men might    
smile6 ,heaven bled1 that man   ,might  
never die6----     ,and is devotion     
virtue8 ',tis compell'd4                
#bei   ,what heart of stone but glows at
 thoughts like these8   ,such           
contemplations mount us2 and should     
mount   ,the mind still higher2 nor ever
 glance on man1   ,unraptured1          
uninflamed4--,where roll my thoughts    
,to rest from wonders8 ,other wonders   

rise2   ,and strike where'er they roll3 
my soul is caught3   ,heaven's sovereign
 blessings1 clustering from the cross1  
,rush on her1 in a throng1 and close her
 round1   ,the prisoner of amaze6--,in  
his bless'd life1   ,i see the path1    
and1 in his death1 the price1   ,and in 
his great ascent1 the proof supreme     
#bgj   ,of immortality4--,and did he    
rise8#ad   ,hear1 ,o ye nations6 hear   
it1 ,o ye dead6   ,he rose6 he rose6 he 
burst the bars of death4   ,lift up your
 heads1 ye everlasting gates6   ,and    
give the ,king of glory to come in4     
,who is the ,king of glory8 ,he who left
   ,his throne of glory1 for the pang of
 death3   ,lift up your heads1 ye       
everlasting gates6   ,and give the ,king
 of glory to come in4   ,who is the     
,king of glory8 ,he who slew            
#bhj   ,the ravenous foe1 that gorged   
all human race6   ,the ,king of glory1  
he whose glory fill'd   ,heaven with    
amazement at his love to man2   ,and    
with divine complacency beheld   ,powers

 most illumined1 wilder'd in the theme4 
,the theme1 the joy1 how then shall man 
sustain8   ,o the burst gates6 crush'd  
sting6 demolish'd throne6   ,last gasp  
of vanquish'd ,death6 ,shout earth and  
heaven6   ,this sum of good to man4     
,whose nature then   ,took wing1 and    
mounted with him from the tomb6         
#bij   ,then1 then1 ,i rose2 then first 
humanity                            #bia
   ,triumphant pass'd the crystal ports 
of light   7,stupendous guest671 and    
seized eternal youth1   ,seized in our  
name4 ,e'er since1 'tis blasphemous     
,to call man mortal4 ,man's mortality   
,was then transferr'd to death2 and     
heaven's duration   ,unalienably seal'd 
to this frail frame1   ,this child of   
dust--,man1 all-immortal6 hail2   ,hail1
 ,heaven6 all lavish of strange gifts to
 man6   ,thine all the glory2 man's the 
boundless bliss4                    #cjj
     ,where am ,i rapt by this          
triumphant theme8   ,on ,christian joy's
 exulting wing1 above   ,th' ,aonian    

mount8--,alas6 small cause for joy6     
,what if to pain immortal8 if extent    
,of being1 to preclude a close of woe8  
,where1 then1 my boast of immortality8  
,i boast it still1 though cover'd o'er  
with guilt2   ,for guilt1 not innocence1
 his life he pour'd2   ',tis guilt alone
 can justify his death2   ,nor that1    
unless his death can justify            
#caj   ,relenting guilt in ,heaven's    
indulgent sight4   ,if1 sick of folly1  
,i relent2 he writes   ,my name in      
heaven with that inverted spear   7,a   
spear deep-dipp'd in blood67 which      
pierced his side1   ,and open'd there a 
font for all mankind1   ,who strive1 who
 combat crimes1 to drink1 and live3     
,this1 only this1 subdues the fear of   
death4     ,and what is this8--,survey  
the wondrous cure3   ,and at each step1 
let higher wonder rise6   ,pardon for   
infinite offence6 and pardon            
#cbj   ,through means that speak its    
value infinite6   ,a pardon bought with 
blood6 with blood divine6   ,with blood 

divine of ,him ,i made my foe6          
,persisted to provoke6 though woo'd and 
awed1   ,bless'd and chastised1 a       
flagrant rebel still6                   
#cbe   ,a rebel1 'midst the thunders of 
his throne6   ,nor ,i alone6 a rebel    
universe6   ,my species up in arms6 not 
one exempt6   ,yet for the foulest of   
the foul1 he dies1   ,most joy'd1 for   
the redeem'd from deepest guilt6   ,as  
if our race were held of highest rank2  
,and ,godhead dearer1 as more kind to   
man6                          #ccb      
,bound1 every heart6 and every bosom1   
burn6   ,o what a scale of miracles is  
here6   ,its lowest round1 high planted 
on the skies2   ,its towering summit    
lost beyond the thought   ,of man or    
angel6 ,o that ,i could climb   ,the    
wonderful ascent1 with equal praise6    
,praise6 flow for ever 7if astonishment 
,will give thee leave7 my praise6 for   
ever flow2                    #cdj      
,praise ardent1 cordial1 constant1 to   
high ,heaven   ,more fragrant1 than     

,arabia sacrificed1   ,and all her spicy
 mountains in a flame4     ,so dear1 so 
due to ,heaven1 shall praise descend1   
,with her soft plume 7from plausive     
angel's wing   ,first pluck'd by man7 to
 tickle mortal ears1   ,thus diving in  
the pockets of the great8   ,is praise  
the perquisite of every paw1   ,though  
black as hell1 that grapples well for   
gold8   ,o love of gold6 thou meanest of
 amours6                            #cej
   ,shall praise her odours waste on    
,virtue's dead1   ,embalm the base1     
perfume the stench of guilt1   ,earn    
dirty bread by washing ,a,ethiops fair1 
,removing filth1 or sinking it from     
sight1   ,a scavenger in scenes1 where  
vacant posts1   ,like gibbets yet       
untenanted1 expect   ,their future      
ornaments8 ,from courts and thrones1    
,return1 apostate praise6 thou vagabond6
   ,thou prostitute6 to thy first love  
return1                         #cie    
,thy first1 thy greatest1 once          
unrivall'd theme4     ,there flow       

redundant2 like ,meander flow1   ,back  
to thy fountain2 to that parent ,power1 
,who gives the tongue to sound1 the     
thought to soar1   ,the soul to be4 ,men
 homage pay to men1   ,thoughtless      
beneath whose dreadful eye they bow     
,in mutual awe profound1 of clay to     
clay1   ,of guilt to guilt2 and turn    
their back on thee1   ,great ,sire6 whom
 thrones celestial ceaseless sing2   ,to
 prostrate angels1 an amazing scene6    
,o the presumption of man's awe for     
man6--                          #cgj    
,man's author6 end6 restorer6 law6 and  
judge6   ,thine1 all2 day thine1 and    
thine this gloom of night1   ,with all  
her wealth1 with all her radiant worlds3
   ,what1 night eternal1 but a frown    
from thee8   ,what1 heaven's meridian   
glory1 but thy smile8   ,and shall not  
praise be thine8 not human praise8      
,while heaven's high host on hallelujahs
 live8     ,o may ,i breathe no longer1 
than ,i breathe   ,my soul in praise to 
,him1 who gave my soul1   ,and all her  

infinite of prospect fair1              
#chj   ,cut through the shades of hell  
great ,love6 by thee   ,o most adorable6
 most unadored6   ,where shall that     
praise begin1 which ne'er should end8   
,where'er ,i turn1 what claim on all    
applause6   ,how is night's sable mantle
 labour'd o'er1   ,how richly wrought   
with attributes divine6   ,what wisdom  
shines6 what love6 ,this midnight pomp1 
,this gorgeous arch1 with golden worlds 
inlaid6   ,built with divine ambition6  
nought to thee2   ,for others this      
profusion3 ,thou1 apart1                
#cij   ,above6 beyond6 ,o tell me1      
mighty ,mind6   ,where art thou8 ,shall 
,i dive into the deep1   ,call to the   
sun1 or ask the roaring winds1          
#cic   ,for their ,creator8 ,shall ,i   
question loud   ,the thunder1 if in that
 th' ,almighty dwells8   ,or holds ,he  
furious storms in straiten'd reins1     
,and bids fierce whirlwinds wheel his   
rapid car8     ,what mean these         
questions8--,trembling ,i retract2   ,my

 prostrate soul adores the present ,god3
   ,praise ,i a distant deity8 ,he tunes
                                 #djj   
,my voice 7if tuned72 the nerve1 that   
writes1 sustains3   ,wrapp'd in his     
being1 ,i resound his praise3   ,but    
though past all diffused1 without a     
shore1   ,his essence2 local is his     
throne 7as meet71   ,to gather the      
dispersed 7as standards call   ,the     
listed from afar73 to fix a point1   ,a 
central point1 collective of his sons1  
,since finite every nature but his own4 
,the nameless ,he1 whose nod is nature's
 birth2   ,and nature's shield1 the     
shadow of his hand2                     
#daj   ,her dissolution1 his suspended  
smile6   ,the great ,first-,last6       
pavilion'd high he sits1   ,in darkness 
from excessive splendour borne1   ,by   
gods unseen1 unless through lustre lost4
   ,his glory1 to created glory1 bright1
   ,as that to central horrors2 he looks
 down   ,on all that soars2 and spans   
immensity4     ,though night unnumber'd 

worlds unfolds to view1   ,boundless    
creation6 what art thou8 ,a beam1   ,a  
mere effluvium of his majesty3          
#dbj   ,and shall an atom of this       
atom-world   ,mutter1 in dust and sin1  
the theme of heaven8   ,down to the     
centre should ,i send my thought        
,through beds of glittering ore1 and    
glowing gems1   ,their beggar'd blaze   
wants lustre for my lay2   ,goes out in 
darkness3 if1 on towering wing1   ,i    
send it through the boundless vault of  
stars6                    #dbg   ,the   
stars1 though rich1 what dross their    
gold to thee1   ,great1 good1 wise1     
wonderful1 eternal ,king6   ,if to those
 conscious stars thy throne around1     
,praise ever-pouring1 and imbibing      
bliss2   ,and ask their strain2 they    
want it1 more they want1   ,poor their  
abundance1 humble their sublime1        
#dcc   ,languid their energy1 their     
ardour cold1   ,indebted still1 their   
highest rapture burns2   ,short of its  
mark1 defective1 though divine4         

,still more--this theme is man's1 and   
man's alone2   ,their vast appointments 
reach it not3 they see   ,on earth a    
bounty not indulged on high2   ,and     
downward look for heaven's superior     
praise6                    #ddj         
,first-born of ether6 high in fields of 
light6   ,view man1 to see the glory of 
your ,god6   ,could angels envy1 they   
had envied here2   ,and some did envy2  
and the rest1 though gods1   ,yet still 
gods unredeem'd 7their triumphs man1    
,tempted to weigh the dust against the  
skies71   ,they less would feel1 though 
more adorn1 my theme4   ,they sung      
creation 7for in that they shared72     
,how rose in melody1 that child of love6
   ,creation's great superior1 man6 is  
thine2                          #dej    
,thine is redemption2 they just gave the
 key3   ',tis thine to raise1 and       
eternize1 the song2   ,though human1 yet
 divine2 for should not this   ,raise   
man o'er man1 and kindle seraphs here8  
,redemption6 'twas creation more        

sublime2   ,redemption6 'twas the labour
 of the skies2   ,far more than         
labour--it was death in heaven4   ,a    
truth so strange6 'twere bold to think  
it true2   ,if not far bolder still to  
disbelieve4                             
#dei     ,here pause1 and ponder--,was  
there death in heaven8   ,what then on  
earth8 on earth1 which struck the blow8 
,who struck it8 ,who8--,o how is man    
enlarged1                        #dfb   
,seen through this medium6 ,how the     
pigmy towers6   ,how counterpoised his  
origin from dust6   ,how counterpoised  
to dust his sad return6   ,how voided   
his vast distance from the skies6   ,how
 near he presses on the seraph's wing6  
,which is the seraph8 ,which the born of
 clay8   ,how this demonstrates1 through
 the thickest cloud   ,of guilt1 and    
clay condensed1 the son of heaven6      
#dgj   ,the double son2 the made1 and   
the re-made6   ,and shall heaven's      
double property be lost8   ,man's double
 madness only can destroy4   ,to man the

 bleeding cross has promised all2   ,the
 bleeding cross has sworn eternal grace2
   ,who gave his life1 what grace shall 
he deny8   ,o ye who1 from this ,rock of
 ,ages1 leap1   ,apostates1 plunging    
headlong in the deep6   ,what cordial   
joy1 what consolation strong1           
,whatever winds arise1 or billows roll1 
#dhj   ,our interest in the ,master of  
the storm6   ,cling there1 and in       
wreck'd nature's ruins smile2   ,while  
vile apostates tremble in a calm4       
,man6 know thyself4 ,all wisdom centres 
there2   ,to none man seems ignoble1 but
 to man2   ,angels that grandeur1 men   
o'erlook1 admire3   ,how long shall     
human nature be their book1             
,degenerate mortal6 and unread by thee8 
,the beam dim reason sheds shows wonders
 there2   ,what high contents6          
illustrious faculties6                  
#dij   ,but the grand comment1 which    
displays at full   ,our human height1   
scarce sever'd from divine1   ,by heaven
 composed1 was publish'd on the ,cross4 

,who looks on that1 and sees not in     
himself   ,an awful stranger1 a         
terrestrial god8                        
#die   ,a glorious partner with the     
,deity   ,in that high attribute1       
immortal life8   ,if a god bleeds1 he   
bleeds not for a worm3   ,i gaze1 and1  
as ,i gaze1 my mounting soul   ,catches 
strange fire1 eternity6 at thee2   ,and 
drops the world--or rather1 more enjoys3
   ,how changed the face of nature6 how 
improved6                      #ejb     
,what seem'd a chaos1 shines a glorious 
world1   ,or1 what a world1 an ,eden2   
heighten'd all6   ,it is another scene6 
another self6   ,and still another1 as  
time rolls along2   ,and that a self far
 more illustrious still4   ,beyond long 
ages1 yet roll'd up in shades           
,unpierced by bold conjecture's keenest 
ray1   ,what evolutions of surprising   
fate6                                   
#eaj   ,how nature opens1 and receives  
my soul   ,in boundless walks of        
raptured thought6 where gods            

,encounter and embrace me6 ,what new    
births   ,of strange adventure1 foreign 
to the sun1   ,where what now charms1   
perhaps1 whate'er exists1   ,old time1  
and fair creation1 are forgot6     ,is  
this extravagant8 ,of man we form       
,extravagant conception1 to be just3    
,conception unconfined wants wings to   
reach him3   ,beyond its reach1 the     
,godhead only1 more4                    
#ebj   ,he1 the great ,father6 kindled  
at one flame   ,the world of rationals2 
one spirit pour'd   ,from spirit's awful
 fountain2 pour'd himself   ,through all
 their souls2 but not in equal stream1  
,profuse1 or frugal1 of th' inspiring   
,god1   ,as his wise plan demanded2 and 
when past   ,their various trials1 in   
their various spheres1   ,if they       
continue rational1 as made1   ,resorbs  
them all into himself again2            
#ebi   ,his throne their centre1 and his
 smile their crown4     ,why doubt we1  
then1 the glorious truth to sing1       
,though yet unsung1 as deem'd1 perhaps1 

too bold8   ,angels are men of a        
superior kind2   ,angels are men in     
lighter habit clad1   ,high o'er        
celestial mountains wing'd in flight2   
,and men are angels1 loaded for an hour1
   ,who wade this miry vale1 and climb  
with pain1   ,and slippery step1 the    
bottom of the steep4   ,angels their    
failings1 mortals have their praise2    
,while here1 of corps ethereal1 such    
enroll'd1                      #edj     
,and summon'd to the glorious standard  
soon1   ,which flames eternal crimson   
through the skies4   ,nor are our       
brothers thoughtless of their kin1      
,yet absent2 but not absent from their  
love4   ,michael has fought our battles2
 ,raphael sung   ,our triumphs2 ,gabriel
 on our errands flown1   ,sent by the   
,sovereign3 and are these1 ,o ,man6     
,thy friends1 thy warm allies8 and thou 
7shame burn   ,the cheek to cinder67    
rival to the brute8     ,religion's all4
 ,descending from the skies             
#eej   ,to wretched man1 the goddess1 in

 her left1   ,holds out this world1 and1
 in her right1 the next2   ,religion6   
the sole voucher man is man2            
,supporter sole of man above himself2   
,even in this night of frailty1 change1 
and death1   ,she gives the soul a soul 
that acts a god4   ,religion6           
,providence6 an ,after-state6   ,here is
 firm footing2 here is solid rock6      
,this can support us2 all is sea        
besides2   ,sinks under us2 bestorms1   
and then devours4                       
#efj   ,his hand the good man fastens on
 the skies1   ,and bids earth roll1 nor 
feels her idle whirl4     ,as when a    
wretch1 from thick polluted air1        
#efc   ,darkness1 and stench1 and       
suffocating damps1   ,and dungeon       
horrors1 by kind fate1 discharged1      
,climbs some fair eminence1 where ether 
pure   ,surrounds him1 and ,elysian     
prospects rise1   ,his heart exults1 his
 spirits cast their load2   ,as if      
new-born1 he triumphs in the change2    
,so joys the soul1 when1 from inglorious

 aims1   ,and sordid sweets1 from       
feculence and froth                     
#ega   ,of ties terrestrial1 set at     
large1 she mounts   ,to reason's region1
 her own element1   ,breathes hopes     
immortal1 and affects the skies4        
,religion6 thou the soul of happiness2  
,and1 groaning ,calvary1 of thee6 there 
shine   ,the noblest truths2 there      
strongest motives sting2   ,there sacred
 violence assaults the soul2   ,there1  
nothing but compulsion is forborne4     
,can love allure us8 or can terror awe8 
#ehj   ,he weeps6--the falling drop puts
 out the sun2   ,he sighs--the sigh     
earth's deep foundation shakes4   ,if in
 his love so terrible1 what then   ,his 
wrath inflamed8 his tenderness on fire8 
,like soft1 smooth oil1 outblazing other
 fires8   ,can prayer1 can praise avert 
it8--,thou1 my all6   ,my theme6 my     
inspiration6 and my crown6   ,my        
strength in age6 my rise in low estate6 
,my soul's ambition1 pleasure1          
wealth6--my world6   ,my light in       

darkness6 and my life in death6         
#eij   ,my boast through time6 bliss    
through eternity6   ,eternity1 too short
 to speak thy praise6   ,or fathom thy  
profound of love to man6   ,to man of   
men the meanest1 even to me2   ,my      
sacrifice6 my ,god6--what things are    
these6     ,what then art ,thou8 by what
 name shall ,i call thee8--   ,knew ,i  
the name devout archangels use1         
#eig   ,devout archangels should the    
name enjoy1   ,by me unrivall'd2        
thousands more sublime1   ,none half so 
dear as that which1 though unspoke1     
,still glows at heart3 ,o how           
omnipotence   ,is lost in love6 ,thou   
great ,philanthropist6   ,father of     
angels6 but the friend of man6          
#fjc   ,like ,jacob1 fondest of the     
younger born6   ,thou1 who didst save   
him1 snatch the smoking brand   ,from   
out the flames1 and quench it in thy    
blood6   ,how art thou pleased1 by      
bounty to distress6   ,to make us groan 
beneath our gratitude1   ,too big for   

birth6 to favour1 and confound2   ,to   
challenge1 and to distance all return6  
#faj   ,of lavish love stupendous       
heights to soar1   ,and leave praise    
panting in the distant vale6   ,thy     
right1 too great1 defrauds thee of thy  
due2   ,and sacrilegious our sublimest  
song4   ,but since the naked will       
obtains thy smile1   ,beneath this      
monument of praise unpaid1   ,and future
 life symphonious to my strain1   7,that
 noblest hymn to heaven67 for ever lie  
,entomb'd my fear of death6 and every   
fear1   ,the dread of every evil1 but   
thy frown4                              
#fbj     ,whom see ,i yonder1 so        
demurely smile8   ,laughter a labour1   
and might break their rest4   ,ye       
quietists1 in homage to the skies6      
,serene6 of soft address6 who mildly    
make   ,an unobtrusive tender of your   
hearts1   ,abhorring violence6 who halt 
indeed2   ,but1 for the blessing1       
wrestle not with ,heaven6   ,think you  
my song too turbulent8 too warm8   ,are 

passions1 then1 the ,pagans of the soul8
   ,reason alone baptized8 alone        
ordain'd                                
#fcj   ,to touch things sacred8 ,oh for 
warmer still6                       #fca
   ,guilt chills my zeal1 and age       
benumbs my powers2   ,oh for an humbler 
heart1 and prouder song6   ,thou1 my    
much-injured theme6 with that soft eye1 
,which melted o'er doom'd ,salem1 deign 
to look   ,compassion to the coldness of
 my breast2   ,and pardon to the winter 
in my strain4     ,o ye cold-hearted1   
frozen1 formalists6   ,on such a theme1 
'tis impious to be calm2   ,passion is  
reason1 transport temper1 here4         
#fdj   ,shall ,heaven1 which gave us    
ardour1 and has shown   ,her own for man
 so strongly1 not disdain   ,what smooth
 emollients in theology1   ,recumbent   
virtue's downy doctors preach1   ,that  
prose of piety1 a lukewarm praise8      
,rise odours sweet from incense         
uninflamed8   ,devotion1 when lukewarm1 
is undevout2   ,but when it glows1 its  

heat is struck to heaven2   ,to human   
hearts her golden harps are strung2     
,high heaven's orchestra chants amen to 
man4                        #fej        
,hear ,i1 or dream ,i hear1 their       
distant strain1   ,sweet to the soul1   
and tasting strong of heaven1           
,soft-wafted on celestial pity's plume1 
,through the vast spaces of the         
universe1   ,to cheer me in this        
melancholy gloom8   ,oh1 when will death
 7now stingless71 like a friend1        
,admit me of their choir8 ,oh1 when will
 death   ,this mouldering1 old1         
partition-wall throw down8   ,give      
beings1 one in nature1 one abode8   ,o  
,death divine6 that givest us to the    
skies6                       #ffj       
,great future6 glorious patron of the   
past1   ,and present6 when shall ,i thy 
shrine adore8   ,from nature's          
continent1 immensely wide1   ,immensely 
bless'd1 this little isle of life1      
,this dark1 incarcerating colony1       
#ffe   ,divides us4 ,happy day6 that    

breaks our chain2   ,that manumits2#ae  
that calls from exile home2   ,that     
leads to nature's great metropolis1     
,and re-admits us1 through the guardian 
hand   ,of elder brothers1 to our       
,father's throne2   ,who hears our      
,advocate1 and1 through his wounds      
,beholding man1 allows that tender name4
                            #fgb   ',tis
 this makes ,christian triumph a        
command3   ',tis this makes joy a duty  
to the wise2   ',tis impious in a good  
man to be sad4     ,see thou1 ,lorenzo6 
where hangs all our hope8   ,touch'd by 
the ,cross1 we live2 or1 more than die2 
,that touch which touch'd not angels2   
more divine   ,than that which touch'd  
confusion into form1   ,and darkness    
into glory2 partial touch6              
#fhj   ,ineffably pre-eminent regard6   
,sacred to man1 and sovereign through   
the whole   ,long golden chain of       
miracles1 which hangs   ,from heaven    
through all duration1 and supports   ,in
 one illustrious and amazing plan1      

,thy welfare1 nature6 and thy ,god's    
renown4   ,that touch1 with charm       
celestial1 heals the soul   ,diseased1  
drives pain from guilt1 lights life in  
death1   ,turns earth to heaven1 to     
heavenly thrones transforms   ,the      
ghastly ruins of the mouldering tomb4   
#fij     ,dost ask me when8 ,when ,he   
who died returns2   ,returns1 how       
changed6 ,where then the man of woe8    
,in glory's terrors all the ,godhead    
burns2   ,and all his courts1 exhausted 
by the tide   ,of deities triumphant in 
his train1   ,leave a stupendous        
solitude in heaven2   ,replenish'd soon1
 replenish'd with increase   ,of pomp1  
and multitude2 a radiant band           
#fih   ,of angels new2 of angels from   
the tomb4     ,is this by fancy thrown  
remote8 and rise   ,dark doubts between 
the promise and event8   ,i send thee   
not to volumes for thy cure2   ,read    
nature2 nature is a friend to truth2    
,nature is ,christian2 preaches to      
mankind2   ,and bids dead matter aid us 

in our creed4   ,hast thou ne'er seen   
the comet's flaming flight8   ,th'      
illustrious stranger passing1 terror    
sheds   ,on gazing nations2 from his    
fiery train   ,of length enormous1 takes
 his ample round                        
#gji   ,through depths of ether2 coasts 
unnumber'd worlds1   ,of more than solar
 glory2 doubles wide   ,heaven's mighty 
cape2 and then revisits earth1   ,from  
the long travel of a thousand years4    
,thus1 at the destined period1 shall    
return   ,he1 once on earth1 who bids   
the comet blaze3   ,and1 with him1 all  
our triumph o'er the tomb4     ,nature  
is dumb on this important point2   ,or  
hope precarious in low whisper breathes2
   ,faith speaks aloud1 distinct2 even  
adders hear2   ,but turn1 and dart into 
the dark again4                         
#gbj   ,faith builds a bridge across the
 gulf of death1   ,to break the shock   
blind nature cannot shun1   ,and lands  
thought smoothly on the farther shore4  
,death's terror is the mountain faith   

removes2   ,that mountain barrier       
between man and peace4   ',tis faith    
disarms destruction2 and absolves       
,from every clamorous charge1 the       
guiltless tomb4     ,why disbelieve8    
,lorenzo6--,reason bids1   ,all-sacred  
reason4--,hold her sacred still2   ,nor 
shalt thou want a rival in thy flame3   
#gcj   ,all-sacred reason6 source1 and  
soul1 of all   ,demanding praise1 on    
earth1 or earth above6                  
#gcb   ,my heart is thine3 deep in its  
inmost folds1   ,live thou with life2   
live dearer of the two4   ,wear ,i the  
blessed cross1 by fortune stamp'd   ,on 
passive nature1 before thought was born8
   ,my birth's blind bigot6 fired with  
local zeal6   ,no2 reason re-baptized me
 when adult2   ,weigh'd true1 and false1
 in her impartial scale2   ,my heart    
became the convert of my head2          
#gdj   ,and made that choice1 which once
 was but my fate4   ,on argument alone  
my faith is built3   ,reason pursued is 
faith2 and1 unpursued   ,where proof    

invites1 'tis reason1 then1 no more3    
,and such our proof1 that1 or our faith 
is right1   ,or reason lies1 and ,heaven
 design'd it wrong3   ,absolve we this8 
,what1 then1 is blasphemy8     ,fond as 
we are1 and justly fond1 of faith1      
,reason1 we grant1 demands our first    
regard2   ,the mother honour'd1 as the  
daughter dear4                          
#gej   ,reason the root1 fair faith is  
but the flower2   ,the fading flower    
shall die2 but reason lives   ,immortal1
 as her ,father in the skies4   ,when   
faith is virtue1 reason makes it so4    
,wrong not the ,christian2 think not    
reason yours3   ',tis reason our great  
,master holds so dear2   ',tis reason's 
injured rights his wrath resents2       
',tis reason's voice obey'd his glories 
crown2   ,to give lost reason life1 he  
pour'd his own3   ,believe1 and show the
 reason of a man2                       
#gfj   ,believe1 and taste the pleasure 
of a ,god2   ,believe1 and look with    
triumph on the tomb3   ,through reason's

 wounds alone thy faith can die2        
,which dying1 tenfold terror gives to   
death1   ,and dips in venom his         
twice-mortal sting4     ,learn hence    
what honours1 what loud paeans#af1 due  
#gff   ,to those1 who push our antidote 
aside2   ,those boasted friends to      
reason1 and to man1   ,whose fatal love 
stabs every joy1 and leaves   ,death's  
terror heighten'd1 gnawing on his heart4
   ,those pompous sons of reason        
idolized   ,and vilified at once2 of    
reason dead1   ,then deified1 as        
monarchs were of old2                   
#ggc   ,what conduct plants proud       
laurels on their brow8   ,while love of 
truth through all their camp resounds1  
,they draw pride's curtain o'er the     
noontide ray1   ,spike up their inch of 
reason1 on the point   ,of philosophic  
wit1 call'd argument2   ,and then1      
exulting in their taper1 cry1   ,behold 
the sun6 and1 ,indian-like1 adore4      
#ghj     ,talk they of morals8 ,o thou  
bleeding ,love6   ,thou maker of new    

morals to mankind6   ,the grand morality
 is love of thee4   ,as wise as         
,socrates1 if such they were   7,nor    
will they bate of that sublime renown71 
,as wise as ,socrates1 might justly     
stand   ,the definition of a modern     
fool4     ,a ,christian is the highest  
style of man3   ,and is there1 who the  
blessed cross wipes off1   ,as a foul   
blot from his dishonour'd brow8         
#gij   ,if angels tremble1 'tis at such 
a sight3   ,the wretch they quit1       
desponding of their charge1   ,more     
struck with grief or wonder1 who can    
tell8     ,ye sold to sense6 ye citizens
 of earth6   7,for such alone the       
,christian banner fly7   ,know ye how   
wise your choice1 how great your gain8  
,behold the picture of earth's happiest 
man3   ,he calls his wish1 it comes2 he 
sends it back1   ,and says1 he call'd   
another2 that arrives1   ,meets the same
 welcome2 yet he still calls on2        
#hjj   ,till one calls him1 who varies  
not his call1   ,but holds him fast1 in 

chains of darkness bound1   ,till nature
 dies1 and judgment sets him free2   ,a 
freedom far less welcome than his chain4
     ,but grant man happy2 grant him    
happy long2   ,add to life's highest    
prize her latest hour2   ,that hour1 so 
late1 is nimble in approach1   ,that1   
like a post1 comes on in full career3   
,how swift the shuttle flies that weaves
 thy shroud6   ,where is the fable of   
thy former years8                       
#haj   ,thrown down the gulf of time2 as
 far from thee   ,as they had ne'er been
 thine2 the day in hand1   ,like a bird 
struggling to get loose1 is going2      
,scarce now possess'd1 so suddenly 'tis 
gone2   ,and each swift moment fled1 is 
death advanced   ,by strides as swift4  
,eternity is all2   ,and whose eternity8
 ,who triumphs there8   ,bathing for    
ever in the font of bliss6   ,for ever  
basking in the ,deity6   ,lorenzo6      
who8--,thy conscience shall reply4      
#hbj     ,o give it leave to speak6     
'twill speak ere long1   ,thy leave     

unask'd2 ,lorenzo6 hear it now1   ,while
 useful its advice1 its accents mild4   
,by the great edict1 the divine decree1 
,truth is deposited with man's last     
hour2   ,an honest hour1 and faithful to
 her trust2   ,truth1 eldest daughter of
 the ,deity2   ,truth1 of his council1  
when he made the worlds2   ,nor less1   
when he shall judge the worlds he made2 
,though silent long1 and sleeping ne'er 
so sound1                   #hcj        
,smother'd with errors1 and oppress'd   
with toys1   ,that heaven-commission'd  
hour no sooner calls1   ,but from her   
cavern in the soul's abyss1   ,like him 
they fable under ,a,etna whelm'd1       
#hcd   ,the goddess bursts in thunder1  
and in flame2   ,loudly convinces1 and  
severely pains4   ,dark demons ,i       
discharge1 and hydra-stings2   ,the keen
 vibration of bright truth--is hell3    
,just definition6 though by schools     
untaught4   ,ye deaf to truth6 peruse   
this parson'd page1                     
#hdj   ,and trust1 for once1 a prophet1 

and a priest2   ,men may live fools1 but
 fools they cannot die4                 
,,the ,,relapse4                        
,,to ,,the ,,right ,,honourable         
,,the ,,earl ,,of ,,lichfield4          
,,night ,,fifth4                        
,,the ,,relapse4     ,lorenzo6 to       
recriminate is just4   ,fondness for    
fame is avarice of air4   ,i grant the  
man is vain who writes for praise4      
,praise no man e'er deserved1 who sought
 no more4     ,as just thy second       
charge4 ,i grant the ,muse   ,has often 
blush'd at her degenerate sons1         
,retain'd by sense to plead her filthy  
cause2   ,to raise the low1 to magnify  
the mean1   ,and subtilize the gross    
into refined3   ,as if to magic numbers'
 powerful charm                         
#aj   ',twas given1 to make a civet of  
their song   ,obscene1 and sweeten      
ordure to perfume4   ,wit1 a true       
,pagan1 deifies the brute1   ,and lifts 
our swine-enjoyments from the mire4     
,the fact notorious1 nor obscure the    

cause4   ,we wear the chains of pleasure
 and of pride4   ,these share the man2  
and these distract him too2   ,draw     
different ways1 and clash in their      
commands4   ,pride1 like an eagle1      
builds among the stars2   ,but pleasure1
 lark-like1 nests upon the ground4      
#bj   ,joys shared by brute creation1   
pride resents2                       #ba
   ,pleasure embraces3 man would both   
enjoy1   ,and both at once3 a point so  
hard1 how gain6   ,but1 what can't wit1 
when stung by strong desire8     ,wit   
dares attempt this arduous enterprise4  
,since joys of sense can't rise to      
reason's taste2   ,in subtle sophistry's
 laborious forge1   ,wit hammers out a  
reason new1 that stoops   ,to sordid    
scenes1 and meets them with applause4   
,wit calls the graces the chaste zone to
 loose2                      #cj   ,nor 
less than a plump god to fill the bowl3 
,a thousand phantoms1 and a thousand    
spells1   ,a thousand opiates scatters1 
to delude1   ,to fascinate1 inebriate1  

lay asleep1   ,and the fool'd mind      
delightfully confound4   ,thus that     
which shock'd the judgment1 shocks no   
more2   ,that which gave ,pride offence1
 no more offends4   ,pleasure and       
,pride1 by nature mortal foes1   ,at war
 eternal1 which in man shall reign1     
,by ,wit's address1 patch up a fatal    
peace1                           #dj    
,and hand in hand lead on the rank      
debauch1   ,from rank refined to        
delicate and gay4   ,art1 cursed ,art6  
wipes off th' indebted blush   ,from    
,nature's cheek1 and bronzes every      
shame4   ,man smiles in ruin1 glories in
 his guilt1   ,and infamy stands        
candidate for praise4     ,all writ by  
man in favour of the soul1   ,these     
sensual ethics far1 in bulk1 transcend4 
,the flowers of eloquence1 profusely    
pour'd   ,o'er spotted vice1 fill half  
the letter'd world4                     
#ej   ,can powers of genius exorcise    
their page1   ,and consecrate enormities
 with song8     ,but let not these      

inexpiable strains   ,condemn the ,muse 
that knows her dignity2   ,nor meanly   
stops at time1 but holds the world      
#ee   ,as 'tis1 in nature's ample field1
 a point1   ,a point in her esteem2 from
 whence to start1   ,and run the round  
of universal space1   ,to visit being   
universal there1   ,and being's source1 
that utmost flight of mind6   ,yet1     
spite of this so vast circumference1    
,well knows1 but what is moral1 nought  
is great4                     #fb       
,sing syrens only8 ,do not angels sing8 
,there is in ,poesy a decent pride1     
,which well becomes her when she speaks 
to ,prose1   ,her younger sister2 haply1
 not more wise4     ,think'st thou1     
,lorenzo6 to find pastimes here8   ,no  
guilty passion blown into a flame1   ,no
 foible flatter'd1 dignity disgraced1   
,no fairy field of fiction1 all on      
flower1                           #gj   
,no rainbow colours here1 or silken     
tale3   ,but solemn counsels1 images of 
awe1   ,truths1 which eternity lets fall

 on man   ,with double weight1 through  
these revolving spheres1   ,this        
death-deep silence1 and incumbent shade3
   ,thoughts1 such as shall revisit your
 last hour2   ,visit uncall'd1 and live 
when life expires2   ,and thy dark      
pencil1 ,midnight6 darker still   ,in   
melancholy dipp'd1 embrowns the whole4  
,yet this1 even this1 my laughter-loving
 friends6                  #hj          
,lorenzo6 and thy brothers of the smile6
   ,if1 what imports you most1 can most 
engage1   ,shall steal your ear1 and    
chain you to my song4   ,or if you fail 
me1 know1 the wise shall taste   ,the   
truths ,i sing2 the truths ,i sing shall
 feel2   ,and1 feeling1 give assent2 and
 their assent   ,is ample recompence2 is
 more than praise4   ,but chiefly thine1
 ,o ,lichfield6 nor mistake2   ,think   
not unintroduced ,i force my way2       
#hi   ,narcissa1 not unknown1 not       
unallied1   ,by virtue1 or by blood1    
illustrious youth6   ,to thee1 from     
blooming amaranthine bowers1   ,where   

all the language harmony1 descends      
,uncall'd1 and asks admittance for the  
,muse3   ,a ,muse that will not pain    
thee with thy praise2   ,thy praise she 
drops1 by nobler still inspired4     ,o 
,thou6 ,blest ,spirit6 whether the      
supreme1   ,great antemundane ,father6  
in whose breast   ,embryo creation1     
unborn being1 dwelt1   ,and all its     
various revolutions roll'd              
#ajj   ,present1 though future2 prior to
 themselves2   ,whose breath can blow it
 into nought again2   ,or1 from his     
throne some delegated power1   ,who1    
studious of our peace1 dost turn the    
thought   ,from vain and vile1 to solid 
and sublime6   ,unseen thou lead'st me  
to delicious draughts   ,of inspiration1
 from a purer stream1   ,and fuller of  
the god1 than that which burst   ,from  
famed ,castalia3 nor is yet allay'd     
,my sacred thirst2 though long my soul  
has ranged                   #aaj       
,through pleasing paths of moral1 and   
divine1   ,by ,thee sustain'd1 and      

lighted by the stars4     ,by them best 
lighted are the paths of thought3       
,nights are their days1 their most      
illumined hours4   ,by day1 the soul1   
o'erborne by life's career1   ,stunn'd  
by the din1 and giddy with the glare1   
,reels far from reason1 jostled by the  
throng4   ,by day the soul is passive1  
all her thoughts   ,imposed1 precarious1
 broken ere mature4   ,by night1 from   
objects free1 from passion cool1        
#abj   ,thoughts uncontroll'd1 and      
unimpress'd1 the births   ,of pure      
election1 arbitrary range1   ,not to the
 limits of one world confined2          
#abc   ,but from ethereal travels light 
on earth1   ,as voyagers drop anchor1   
for repose4     ,let ,indians1 and the  
gay1 like ,indians1 fond   ,of feather'd
 fopperies1 the sun adore3   ,darkness  
has more divinity for me2   ,it strikes 
thought inward2 it drives back the soul 
,to settle on herself1 our point        
supreme6                           #acj 
,there lies our theatre2 there sits our 

judge4   ,darkness the curtain drops    
o'er life's dull scene2   ',tis the kind
 hand of ,providence stretch'd out      
',twixt man and vanity2 'tis reason's   
reign1   ,and virtue's too2 these       
tutelary shades   ,are man's asylum from
 the tainted throng4   ,night is the    
good man's friend1 and guardian too2    
,it no less rescues virtue1 than        
inspires4     ,virtue1 for ever frail1  
as fair1 below1   ,her tender nature    
suffers in the crowd1                   
#adj   ,nor touches on the world1       
without a stain3   ,the world's         
infectious2 few bring back at eve4      
,immaculate1 the manners of the morn4   
,something we thought1 is blotted2 we   
resolved1   ,is shaken2 we renounced1   
returns again4   ,each salutation may   
slide in a sin   ,unthought before1 or  
fix a former flaw4   ,nor is it strange3
 light1 motion1 concourse1 noise1       
,all1 scatter us abroad2 thought        
outward-bound1   ,neglectful of our home
 affairs1 flies off                     

#aej   ,in fume and dissipation1 quits  
her charge1   ,and leaves the breast    
unguarded to the foe4     ,present      
example gets within our guard1   ,and   
acts with double force1 by few repell'd4
   ,ambition fires ambition2 love of    
gain   ,strikes1 like a pestilence1 from
 breast to breast2   ,riot1 pride1      
perfidy1 blue vapours breathe2          
#aeg   ,and inhumanity is caught from   
man1   ,from smiling man4 ,a slight1 a  
single glance1   ,and shot at random1   
often has brought home   ,a sudden      
fever1 to the throbbing heart1   ,of    
envy1 rancour1 or impure desire4   ,we  
see1 we hear1 with peril2 safety dwells 
#afc   ,remote from multitude2 the      
world's a school   ,of wrong1 and what  
proficients swarm around6   ,we must1 or
 imitate1 or disapprove2   ,must list as
 their accomplices1 or foes2   ,that    
stains our innocence2 this wounds our   
peace4   ,from nature's birth1 hence1   
wisdom has been smit   ,with sweet      
recess1 and languish'd for the shade4   

#agj     ,this sacred shade1 and        
solitude1 what is it8   ',tis the felt  
presence of the ,deity4   ,few are the  
faults we flatter when alone4   ,vice   
sinks in her allurements1 is ungilt1    
,and looks1 like other objects1 black by
 night4   ,by night an atheist half     
believes a ,god4     ,night is fair     
virtue's immemorial friend2   ,the      
conscious moon1 through every distant   
age1   ,has held a lamp to wisdom1 and  
let fall1   ,on contemplation's eye1 her
 purging ray4                           
#ahj   ,the famed ,athenian1#ag he who  
woo'd from heaven   ,philosophy the     
fair1 to dwell with men1   ,and form    
their manners1 not inflame their pride1 
,while o'er his head1 as fearful to     
molest   ,his labouring mind1 the stars 
in silence slide1   ,and seem all gazing
 on their future guest1   ,see him      
soliciting his ardent suit   ,in private
 audience3 all the live-long night1     
,rigid in thought1 and motionless1 he   
stands2   ,nor quits his theme1 or      

posture1 till the sun                   
#aij   7,rude drunkard rising rosy from 
the main67   ,disturbs his nobler       
intellectual beam1   ,and gives him to  
the tumult of the world4   ,hail1       
precious moments6 stolen from the black 
waste   ,of murder'd time6 ,auspicious  
midnight6 hail6   ,the world excluded1  
every passion hush'd1   ,and open'd a   
calm intercourse with ,heaven1   ,here  
the soul sits in council2 ponders past1 
,predestines future1 action2 sees1 not  
feels1   ,tumultuous life1 and reasons  
with the storm2                         
#bjj   ,all her lies answers1 and thinks
 down her charms4     ,what awful joy6  
what mental liberty6   ,i am not pent in
 darkness2 rather say   7,if not too    
bold7 in darkness ,i'm embower'd4       
,delightful gloom6 the clustering       
thoughts around   ,spontaneous rise1 and
 blossom in the shade2   ,but droop by  
day1 and sicken in the sun4   ,thought  
borrows light elsewhere2 from that first
 fire1   ,fountain of animation6 whence 

descends   ,urania1 my celestial guest6 
who deigns                              
#baj   ,nightly to visit me1 so mean2   
and now1   ,conscious how needful       
discipline to man1   ,from pleasing     
dalliance with the charms of ,night     
,my wandering thought recalls1 to what  
excites   ,far other beat of heart6     
,narcissa's tomb6   ,or is it feeble    
nature calls me back1   ,and breaks my  
spirit into grief again8   ,is it a     
,stygian vapour in my blood8   ,a cold1 
slow puddle1 creeping through my veins8 
,or is it thus with all men8--,thus with
 all4                        #bbj       
,what are we8 how unequal6 ,now we soar1
   ,and now we sink2 to be the same1    
transcends   ,our present prowess4      
,dearly pays the soul   ,for lodging    
ill2 too dearly rents her clay4         
#bbd   ,reason1 a baffled counsellor6   
but adds   ,the blush of weakness to the
 bane of woe4   ,the noblest spirit     
fighting her hard fate1   ,in this damp1
 dusky region1 charged with storms1     

,but feebly flutters1 yet untaught to   
fly2   ,or1 flying1 short her flight1   
and sure her fall4   ,our utmost        
strength1 when down1 to rise again2     
,and not to yield1 though beaten1 all   
our praise4                   #bcb      
',tis vain to seek in men for more than 
man4   ,though proud in promise1 big in 
previous thought1   ,experience damps   
our triumph4 ,i1 who late1   ,emerging  
from the shadows of the grave1   ,where 
grief detain'd me prisoner1 mounting    
high1   ,threw wide the gates of        
everlasting day1   ,and call'd mankind  
to glory1 shook off pain1   ,mortality  
shook off1 in ether pure1               
#bdj   ,and struck the stars2 now feel  
my spirits fail2   ,they drop me from   
the zenith2 down ,i rush1   ,like him   
whom fable fledged#ah with waxen wings1 
,in sorrow drown'd--but not in sorrow   
lost4   ,how wretched is the man who    
never mourn'd6   ,i dive for precious   
pearl in sorrow's stream3   ,not so the 
thoughtless man that only grieves2      

,takes all the torment1 and rejects the 
gain2   7,inestimable gain67 and gives  
,heaven leave   ,to make him but more   
wretched1 not more wise4                
#bej     ,if wisdom is our lesson 7and  
what else   ,ennobles man8 what else    
have angels learn'd871   ,grief6 more   
proficients in thy school are made1     
,than genius1 or proud learning1 e'er   
could boast4   ,voracious learning1     
often over-fed1   ,digests not into     
sense her motley meal4   ,this          
book-case1 which dark booty almost      
burst1                     #beg   ,this 
forager on others' wisdom1 leaves   ,her
 native farm1 her reason1 quite         
untill'd4   ,with mix'd manure she      
surfeits the rank soil1   ,dung'd1 but  
not dress'd2 and rich to beggary4   ,a  
pomp untameable of weeds prevails4      
,her servant's wealth1 encumber'd wisdom
 mourns4                    #bfc        
,and what says ,genius8 ,let the dull be
 wise4   ,genius1 too hard for right1   
can prove it wrong2   ,and loves to     

boast1 where blush men less inspired4   
,it pleads exemption from the laws of   
sense2   ,considers reason as a         
leveller2   ,and scorns to share a      
blessing with the crowd4   ,that wise it
 could be1 thinks an ample claim        
#bgj   ,to glory1 and to pleasure gives 
the rest4   ,crassus but sleeps1        
,ardelio is undone4   ,wisdom less      
shudders at a fool1 than wit4     ,but  
,wisdom smiles1 when humbled mortals    
weep4   ,when sorrow wounds the breast1 
as ploughs the glebe1#ai   ,and hearts  
obdurate feel her softening shower2     
,her seed celestial1 then1 glad wisdom  
sows2   ,her golden harvest triumphs in 
the soil4   ,if so1 ,narcissa#bj1       
welcome my ,relapse2   ,i'll raise a tax
 on my calamity1                        
#bhj   ,and reap rich compensation from 
my pain4   ,i'll range the plenteous    
intellectual field2   ,and gather every 
thought of sovereign power   ,to chase  
the moral maladies of man2   ,thoughts1 
which may bear transplanting to the     

skies1   ,though natives of this coarse 
penurious soil2   ,nor wholly wither    
there1 where seraphs sing1   ,refined1  
exalted1 not annull'd1 in heaven4       
,reason1 the sun that gives them birth1 
the same   ,in either clime1 though more
 illustrious there4                     
#bij   ,these choicely cull'd1 and      
elegantly ranged1                       
#bia   ,shall form a garland for        
,narcissa's tomb2   ,and1 peradventure1 
of no fading flowers4     ,say on what  
themes shall puzzled choice descend8    
,th' importance of contemplating the    
tomb2   ,why men decline it2 suicide's  
foul birth2   ,the various kind of      
grief2 the faults of age2   ,and        
,death's dread character--invite my     
song4     ,and1 first th' importance of 
our end survey'd4   ,friends counsel    
quick dismission of our grief3          
#cjj   ,mistaken kindness6 our hearts   
heal too soon4   ,are they more kind    
than ,he1 who struck the blow8   ,who   
bid it do his errand in our hearts1     

,and banish peace1 till nobler guests   
arrive1   ,and bring it back1 a true and
 endless peace8   ,calamities are       
friends3 as glaring day   ,of these     
unnumber'd lustres robs our sight2      
,prosperity puts out unnumber'd thoughts
   ,of import high1 and light divine1 to
 man4     ,the man how blest1 who1 sick 
of gaudy scenes1                    #caj
   7,scenes apt to thrust between us and
 ourselves67   ,is led by choice to take
 his favourite walk1   ,beneath death's 
gloomy1 silent1 cypress shades1         
,unpierced by vanity's fantastic ray2   
,to read his monuments1 to weigh his    
dust1   ,visit his vaults1 and dwell    
among the tombs6   ,lorenzo#ba read with
 me ,narcissa's stone2   7,narcissa was 
thy favourite7 let us read   ,her moral 
stone2 few doctors preach so well2      
,few orators so tenderly can touch      
#cbj   ,the feeling heart4 ,what pathos 
in the date6   ,apt words can strike3   
and yet in them we see   ,faint images  
of what we here enjoy4   ,what cause    

have we to build on length of life8     
,temptations seize1 when fear is laid   
asleep2                       #cbe      
,and ill foreboded is our strongest     
guard4     ,see from her tomb1 as from  
an humble shrine1   ,truth1 radiant     
goddess6 sallies on my soul1   ,and puts
 delusion's dusky train to flight2      
,dispels the mists our sultry passions  
raise1   ,from objects low1 terrestrial1
 and obscene2   ,and shows the real     
estimate of things2                     
#ccb   ,which no man1 unafflicted1 ever 
saw2   ,pulls off the veil from virtue's
 rising charms2   ,detects temptation in
 a thousand lies4   ,truth bids me look 
on men1 as autumn leaves1   ,and all    
they bleed for1 as the summer's dust1   
,driven by the whirlwind3 lighted by her
 beams1   ,i widen my horizon1 gain new 
powers1   ,see things invisible1 feel   
things remote1                          
#cdj   ,am present with futurities2     
think nought   ,to man so foreign1 as   
the joys possess'd2   ,nought so much   

his1 as those beyond the grave4     ,no 
folly keeps its colour in her sight2    
,pale worldly wisdom loses all her      
charms2   ,in pompous promise1 from her 
schemes profound1   ,if future fate she 
plans1 'tis all in leaves1   ,like      
,sibyl1 unsubstantial1 fleeting bliss6  
,at the first blast it vanishes in air4 
,not so1 celestial3 would'st thou know1 
,lorenzo6                    #cej   ,how
 differ worldly wisdom1 and divine8     
,just as the waning and the waxing moon4
   ,more empty worldly wisdom every day2
   ,and every day more fair her rival   
shines4   ,when later1 there's less time
 to play the fool4   ,soon our whole    
term for wisdom is expired   7,thou     
know'st she calls no council in the     
grave73   ,and everlasting fool is writ 
in fire1                                
#ceh   ,or real wisdom wafts us to the  
skies4     ,as worldly schemes resemble 
,sibyl's leaves1   ,the good man's days 
to ,sibyl's books compare1   7,in       
ancient story read1 thou know'st the    

tale71   ,in price still rising1 as in  
number less1   ,inestimable quite his   
final hour4                             
#cfd   ,for that who thrones can offer1 
offer thrones2   ,insolvent worlds the  
purchase cannot pay4   ,o let me die his
 death6 all nature cries4   ,then live  
his life--all nature falters there2     
,our great physician daily to consult1  
,to commune with the grave1 our only    
cure4                          #cgj     
,what grave prescribes the best8--,a    
friend's2 and yet1   ,from a friend's   
grave1 how soon we disengage6   ,even to
 the dearest1 as his marble1 cold4      
,why are friends ravish'd from us8 ',tis
 to bind1   ,by soft affection's ties1  
on human hearts1   ,the thought of      
death1 which reason1 too supine1   ,or  
misemploy'd1 so rarely fastens there4   
,nor reason1 nor affection1 no1 nor both
   ,combined1 can break the witchcrafts 
of the world4   ,behold1 th' inexorable 
hour at hand6                           
#chj   ,behold1 th' inexorable hour     

forgot6   ,and to forget it1 the chief  
aim of life1   ,though well to ponder   
it1 is life's chief end4     ,is ,death1
 that ever threatening1 ne'er remote1   
,that all-important1 and that only sure 
7,come when he will71 an unexpected     
guest8   ,nay1 though invited by the    
loudest calls   ,of blind imprudence1   
unexpected still2   ,though numerous    
messengers are sent before1   ,to warn  
his great arrival4 ,what the cause1     
#cij   ,the wondrous cause1 of this     
mysterious ill8                         
#cia   ,all heaven looks down astonish'd
 at the sight4     ,is it1 that life has
 sown her joys so thick1   ,we can't    
thrust in a single care between8   ,is  
it1 that life has such a swarm of cares1
   ,the thought of death can't enter for
 the throng8   ,is it1 that time steals 
on with downy feet1   ,nor wakes        
indulgence from her golden dream8       
,to-day is so like yesterday1 it cheats2
   ,we take the lying sister for the    
same4                             #djj  

,life glides away1 ,lorenzo1 like a     
brook2   ,for ever changing1 unperceived
 the change4   ,in the same brook none  
ever bathed him twice3   ,to the same   
life none ever twice awoke4   ,we call  
the brook the same2 the same we think   
,our life1 though still more rapid in   
its flow2   ,nor mark the much1         
irrevocably lapsed1   ,and mingled with 
the sea4 ,or shall we say   7,retaining 
still the brook to bear us on7   ,that  
life is like a vessel on the stream8    
#daj   ,in life embark'd1 we smoothly   
down the tide   ,of time descend1 but   
not on time intent2   ,amused1          
unconscious of the gliding wave2   ,till
 on a sudden we perceive a shock2   ,we 
start1 awake1 look out2 what see we     
there8   ,our brittle bark is burst on  
,charon's shore4     ,is this the cause 
death flies all human thought8   ,or is 
it judgment1 by the will struck blind1  
,that domineering mistress of the soul6 
,like him so strong1 by ,dalilah the    
fair8                           #dbj    

,or is it fear turns startled reason    
back1   ,from looking down a precipice  
so steep8   ',tis dreadful2 and the     
dread is wisely placed1   ,by nature1   
conscious of the make of man4   ,a      
dreadful friend it is1 a terror kind1   
#dbe   ,a flaming sword to guard the    
tree of life4   ,by that unawed1 in     
life's most smiling hour1   ,the good   
man would repine2 would suffer joys1    
,and burn impatient for his promised    
skies4   ,the bad1 on each punctilious  
pique of pride1   ,or gloom of humour1  
would give rage the rein2   ,bound o'er 
the barrier1 rush into the dark1        
#dcb   ,and mar the schemes of          
,providence below4     ,what groan was  
that1 ,lorenzo8--,furies6 rise1   ,and  
drown in your less execrable yell       
,britannia's shame4 ,there took her     
gloomy flight1   ,on wing impetuous1 a  
black sullen soul1   ,blasted from hell1
 with horrid lust of death2   ,thy      
friend1 the brave1 the gallant          
,altamont1   ,so call'd1 so thought--and

 then he fled the field4                
#ddj   ,less base the fear of death1    
than fear of life4   ,o ,britain1       
infamous for suicide6   ,an island in   
thy manners6 far disjoin'd   ,from the  
whole world of rationals beside6   ,in  
ambient waves plunge thy polluted head1 
,wash the dire stain1 nor shock the     
,continent4     ,but thou be shock'd1   
while ,i detect the cause   ,of         
self-assault1 expose the monster's      
birth1   ,and bid abhorrence hiss it    
round the world4   ,blame not thy clime1
 nor chide the distant sun2             
#dej   ,the sun is innocent1 thy clime  
absolved3   ,immoral climes kind nature 
never made4   ,the cause ,i sing1 in    
,eden might prevail1   ,and proves1 it  
is thy folly1 not thy fate4     ,the    
soul of man 7let man in homage bow1     
,who names his soul71 a native of the   
skies6   ,high-born1 and free1 her      
freedom should maintain1   ,unsold1     
unmortgaged for earth's little bribes4  
,th' illustrious stranger1 in this      

foreign land1                    #dei   
,like strangers1 jealous of her dignity1
   ,studious of home1 and ardent to     
return1   ,of earth suspicious1 earth's 
enchanted cup   ,with cool reserve light
 touching1 should indulge   ,on         
immortality her godlike taste2   ,there 
take large draughts1 make her chief     
banquet there4     ,but some reject this
 sustenance divine2   ,to beggarly vile 
appetites descend2   ,ask alms of earth1
 for guests that came from heaven6      
,sink into slaves2 and sell1 for present
 hire1   ,their rich reversion1 and     
7what shares its fate7                  
#dgj   ,their native freedom1 to the    
prince who sways   ,this nether world4  
,and when his payments fail1   ,when his
 foul basket gorges them no more1   ,or 
their pall'd palates loathe the basket  
full2   ,are instantly1 with wild       
demoniac rage1   ,for breaking all the  
chains of ,providence1   ,and bursting  
their confinement2 though fast barr'd   
,by laws divine and human2 guarded      

strong   ,with horrors doubled to defend
 the pass1   ,the blackest1 nature1 or  
dire guilt1 can raise2                  
#dhj   ,and moated round with fathomless
 destruction1   ,sure to receive1 and   
whelm them in their fall4     ,such1    
,britons6 is the cause1 to you unknown1 
,or worse1 o'erlook'd2 o'erlook'd by    
magistrates1   ,thus criminals          
themselves4 ,i grant the deed   ,is     
madness1 but the madness of the heart4  
,and what is that8 ,our utmost bound of 
guilt4   ,a sensual1 unreflecting life1 
is big   ,with monstrous births1 and    
suicide1 to crown   ,the black infernal 
brood4 ,the bold to break               
#dij   ,heaven's law supreme1 and       
desperately rush1   ,through sacred     
,nature's murder1 on their own1         
,because they never think of death1 they
 die4                       #dic   ',tis
 equally man's duty1 glory1 gain1   ,at 
once to shun1 and meditate1 his end4    
,when by the bed of languishment we sit 
7,the seat of wisdom6 if our choice1 not

 fate71   ,or1 o'er our dying friends1  
in anguish hang1   ,wipe the cold dew1  
or stay the sinking head1   ,number     
their moments1 and1 in every clock1     
#ejj   ,start at the voice of an        
eternity2   ,see the dim lamp of life   
just feebly lift   ,an agonizing beam1  
at us to gaze1   ,then sink again1 and  
quiver into death1   ,that most pathetic
 herald of our own2   ,how read we such 
sad scenes8 ,as sent to man   ,in       
perfect vengeance8 ,no2 in pity sent1   
,to melt him down1 like wax1 and then   
impress1   ,indelible1 ,death's image on
 his heart2   ,bleeding for others1     
trembling for himself4                  
#eaj   ,we bleed1 we tremble1 we forget1
 we smile4   ,the mind turns fool1      
before the cheek is dry4   ,our         
quick-returning folly cancels all2   ,as
 the tide rushing razes what is writ    
,in yielding sands1 and smooths the     
letter'd shore4     ,lorenzo6 hast thou 
ever weigh'd a sigh8   ,or studied the  
philosophy of tears8   7,a science1 yet 

unlectured in our schools67   ,hast thou
 descended deep into the breast1   ,and 
seen their source8 ,if not1 descend with
 me1                    #ebj   ,and     
trace these briny rivulets to their     
springs4     ,our funeral tears from    
different causes rise1   ,as if from    
separate cisterns in the soul1   ,of    
various kinds1 they flow4 ,from tender  
hearts1   ,by soft contagion call'd1    
some burst at once1   ,and stream       
obsequious to the leading eye4   ,some  
ask more time1 by curious art distill'd4
                      #ebg   ,some      
hearts1 in secret hard1 unapt to melt1  
,struck by the magic of the public eye1 
,like ,moses' smitten rock1 gush out    
amain4   ,some weep to share the fame of
 the deceased1   ,so high in merit1 and 
to them so dear4   ,they dwell on       
praises1 which they think they share2   
#ecc   ,and thus1 without a blush1      
commend themselves4   ,some mourn1 in   
proof that something they could love3   
,they weep not to relieve their grief1  

but show4   ,some weep in perfect       
justice to the dead1   ,as conscious all
 their love is in arrear4   ,some       
mischievously weep1 not unapprised      
,tears1 sometimes1 aid the conquest of  
an eye4                      #edj       
,with what address the soft ,ephesians  
draw   ,their sable network o'er        
entangled hearts6   ,as seen through    
crystal1 how their roses glow1   ,while 
liquid pearl runs trickling down their  
cheek6   ,of hers not prouder ,egypt's  
wanton queen1   ,carousing gems1 herself
 dissolved in love4   ,some weep at     
death1 abstracted from the dead1   ,and 
celebrate1 like ,charles1#bb their own  
decease4   ,by kind construction some   
are deem'd to weep1   ,because a decent 
veil conceals their joy4                
#eej     ,some weep in earnest1 and yet 
weep in vain2   ,as deep in             
indiscretion1 as in woe4   ,passion1    
blind ,passion6 impotently pours        
,tears1 that deserve more tears2 while  
,reason sleeps2   ,or gazes like an     

idiot1 unconcern'd2   ,nor comprehends  
the meaning of the storm2   ,knows not  
it speaks to her1 and her alone4        
,irrationals all sorrow are beneath1    
,that noble gift6 that privilege of man6
   ,from sorrow's pang1 the birth of    
endless joy4                      #efj  
,but these are barren of that birth     
divine3   ,they weep impetuous1 as the  
summer storm1   ,and full as short6 ,the
 cruel grief soon tamed1   ,they make a 
pastime of the stingless tale2   ,far as
 the deep resounding knell1 they spread 
,the dreadful news1 and hardly feel it  
more4   ,no grain of wisdom pays them   
for their woe4     ,half-round the      
globe1 the tears pump'd up by ,death    
,are spent in watering vanities of life2
   ,in making folly flourish still more 
fair1                          #egj     
,when the sick soul1 her wonted stay    
withdrawn1   ,reclines on earth1 and    
sorrows in the dust2   ,instead of      
learning1 there1 her true support1      
,though there thrown down her true      

support to learn4   ,without ,heaven's  
aid1 impatient to be bless'd1   ,she    
crawls to the next shrub1 or bramble    
vile1   ,though from the stately cedar's
 arms she fell2   ,with stale1 forsworn 
embraces1 clings anew1   ,the stranger  
weds1 and blossoms1 as before1   ,in all
 the fruitless fopperies of life3       
#ehj   ,presents her weed1 well-fancied1
 at the ball1   ,and raffles for the    
,death's-head on the ring4     ,so wept 
,aurelia1 till the destined youth       
,stepp'd in1 with his receipt for making
 smiles1   ,and blanching sables into   
bridal bloom4   ,so wept ,lorenzo fair  
,clarissa's fate2   ,who gave that angel
 boy1 on whom he doats2   ,and died to  
give him1 orphan'd in his birth6   ,not 
such1 ,narcissa1 my distress for thee4  
,i'll make an altar of thy sacred tomb1 
#eij   ,to sacrifice to wisdom4--,what  
wast thou8   ,young1 gay1 and fortunate6
 ,each yields a theme4   ,i'll dwell on 
each1 to shun thought more severe2      
7,heaven knows ,i labour with severer   

still67                        #eid     
,i'll dwell on each1 and quite exhaust  
thy death4   ,a soul without reflection1
 like a pile   ,without inhabitant1 to  
ruin runs4     ,and1 first1 thy youth4  
,what says it to grey hairs8            
,narcissa1 ,i'm become thy pupil now--  
,early1 bright1 transient1 chaste1 as   
morning dew1   ,she sparkled1 was       
exhaled1 and went to heaven4   ,time on 
this head has snow'd2 yet still 'tis    
borne                 #fjb   ,aloft2 nor
 thinks but on another's grave4         
,cover'd with shame ,i speak it1 age    
severe   ,old worn-out vice sets down   
for virtue fair2   ,with graceless      
gravity1 chastising youth1   ,that youth
 chastised surpassing in a fault1       
,father of all1 forgetfulness of death3 
,as if1 like objects pressing on the    
sight1   ,death had advanced too near us
 to be seen3                            
#faj   ,or1 that life's loan ,time      
ripen'd into right2   ,and men might    
plead prescription from the grave2      

,deathless1 from repetition of reprieve4
   ,deathless8 far from it6 such are    
dead already2   ,their hearts are       
buried1 and the world their grave4      
,tell me1 some god6 my guardian angel6  
tell1   ,what thus infatuates8 what     
enchantment plants   ,the phantom of an 
age 'twixt us1 and ,death   ,already at 
the door8 ,he knocks1 we hear1   ,and   
yet we will not hear4 ,what mail defends
                        #fbj   ,our     
untouch'd hearts8 what miracle turns off
   ,the pointed thought1 which from a   
thousand quivers   ,is daily darted1 and
 is daily shunn'd8   ,we stand1 as in a 
battle1 throngs on throngs   ,around us 
falling2 wounded oft ourselves2         
,though bleeding with our wounds1       
immortal still6   ,we see ,time's       
furrows on another's brow1   ,and ,death
 intrench'd1 preparing his assault2     
#fbh   ,how few themselves1 in that just
 mirror1 see1   ,or1 seeing1 draw their 
inference as strong6   ,there1 death is 
certain2 doubtful here3 he must1   ,and 

soon2 we may1 within an age1 expire4    
,though grey our heads1 our thoughts and
 aims are green2   ,like damaged clocks1
 whose hand and bell dissent2   ,folly  
sings six1 while ,nature points at      
twelve4     ,absurd longevity6 ,more1   
more6 it cries3   ,more life1 more      
wealth1 more trash of every kind4   ,and
 wherefore mad for more1 when relish    
fails8   ,object1 and appetite1 must    
club for joy2   ,shall ,folly labour    
hard to mend the bow1                   
#fdj   ,baubles1 ,i mean1 that strike us
 from without1   ,while ,nature is      
relaxing every string8   ,ask thought   
for joy2 grow rich1 and hoard within4   
,think you the soul1 when this life's   
rattles cease1   ,has nothing of more   
manly to succeed8   ,contract the taste 
immortal2 learn even now   ,to relish   
what alone subsists hereafter4          
,divine1 or none1 henceforth your joys  
for ever4   ,of age the glory is1 to    
wish to die4   ,that wish is praise1 and
 promise2 it applauds                   

#fej   ,past life1 and promises our     
future bliss4   ,what weakness see not  
children in their sires8                
,grand-climacterical absurdities6       
,grey-hair'd authority1 to faults of    
youth1   ,how shocking6 it makes folly  
thrice a fool2   ,and our first         
childhood might our last despise4       
,peace and esteem is all that age can   
hope4   ,nothing but wisdom gives the   
first2 the last1   ,nothing1 but the    
repute of being wise4   ,folly bars     
both2 our age is quite undone4          
#ffj     ,what folly can be ranker8     
,like our shadows1   ,our wishes        
lengthen1 as our sun declines4          
#ffb   ,no wish should loiter1 then1    
this side the grave4   ,our hearts      
should leave the world1 before the knell
   ,calls for our carcases to mend the  
soil4   ,enough to live in tempest1 die 
in port2   ,age should fly concourse1   
cover in retreat   ,defects of judgment2
 and the will subdue2   ,walk thoughtful
 on the silent1 solemn shore   ,of that 

vast ocean it must sail so soon2        
#fgj   ,and put good works on board2 and
 wait the wind   ,that shortly blows us 
into worlds unknown3   ,if unconsider'd 
too1 a dreadful scene6     ,all should  
be prophets to themselves2 foresee      
,their future fate2 their future fate   
foretaste2   ,this art would waste the  
bitterness of death4   ,the thought of  
death alone1 the fear destroys4   ,a    
disaffection to that precious thought   
,is more than midnight darkness on the  
soul1   ,which sleeps beneath it1 on a  
precipice1                              
#fhj   ,puff'd off by the first blast1  
and lost for ever4     ,dost ask1       
,lorenzo1 why so warmly press'd1   ,by  
repetition hammer'd on thine ear1   ,the
 thought of death8 ,that thought is the 
machine1   ,the grand machine1 that     
heaves us from the dust1   ,and rears us
 into men4 ,that thought1 plied home1   
,will soon reduce the ghastly precipice 
,o'er-hanging hell1 will soften the     
descent1   ,and gently slope our passage

 to the grave2   ,how warmly to be      
wish'd6 ,what heart of flesh            
#fij   ,would trifle with tremendous8   
dare extremes8   ,yawn o'er the fate of 
infinite8 ,what hand1   ,beyond the     
blackest brand of censure bold1   7,to  
speak a language too well known to      
thee71   ,would at a moment give its all
 to chance1                             
#fie   ,and stamp the die for an        
eternity8     ,aid me1 ,narcissa6 aid me
 to keep pace   ,with ,destiny2 and ere 
her scissors cut   ,my thread of life1  
to break this tougher thread   ,of moral
 death1 that ties me to the world4      
,sting thou my slumbering reason to send
 forth   ,a thought of observation on   
the foe2                                
#gjb   ,to sally2 and survey the rapid  
march   ,of his ten thousand messengers 
to man2   ,who1 ,jehu-like1 behind him  
turns them all4   ,all accident apart1  
by ,nature sign'd1   ,my warrant is gone
 out1 though dormant yet2   ,perhaps    
behind one moment lurks my fate4        

,must ,i then forward only look for     
,death8   ,backward ,i turn mine eye1   
and find him there4                     
#gaj   ,man is a self-survivor every    
year4   ,man1 like a stream1 is in      
perpetual flow4   ,death's a destroyer  
of quotidian#bc prey4   ,my youth1 my   
noontide1 his2 my yesterday2   ,the bold
 invader shares the present hour4       
,each moment on the former shuts the    
grave4   ,while man is growing1 life is 
in decrease2   ,and cradles rock us     
nearer to the tomb4   ,our birth is     
nothing but our death begun2   ,as      
tapers waste1 that instant they take    
fire4                      #gbj         
,shall we then fear1 lest that should   
come to pass1   ,which comes to pass    
each moment of our lives8   ,if fear we 
must1 let that ,death turn us pale1     
,which murders strength and ardour2 what
 remains   ,should rather call on       
,death1 than dread his call4   ,ye      
partners of my fault1 and my decline6   
,thoughtless of death1 but when your    

neighbour's knell   7,rude visitant67   
knocks hard at your dull sense1   ,and  
with its thunder scarce obtains your    
ear6                      #gbi   ,be    
death your theme1 in every place and    
hour2   ,nor longer want1 ye monumental 
sires6   ,a brother tomb to tell you ye 
shall die4   ,that death you dread 7so  
great is ,nature's skill7   ,know1 you  
shall court before you shall enjoy4     
,but you are learn'd2 in volumes deep1  
you sit2   ,in wisdom1 shallow3 pompous 
ignorance6   ,would you be still more   
learned than the learn'd8   ,learn well 
to know how much need not be known1     
,and what that knowledge1 which impairs 
your sense4   ,our needful knowledge1   
like our needful food1                  
#gdj   ,unhedged1 lies open in life's   
common field2   ,and bids all welcome to
 the vital feast4   ,you scorn what lies
 before you in the page   ,of ,nature1  
and ,experience1 moral truth2   ,of     
indispensable1 eternal fruit2   ,fruit1 
on which mortals feeding1 turn to gods3 

,and dive in science for distinguish'd  
names1   ,dishonest fomentation of your 
pride6   ,sinking in virtue1 as you rise
 in fame4   ,your learning1 like the    
lunar beam1 affords                     
#gej   ,light1 but not heat2 it leaves  
you indevout1   ,frozen at heart1 while 
speculation shines4   ,awake1 ye curious
 indagators6 fond   ,of knowing all1 but
 what avails you known4   ,if you would 
learn ,death's character1 attend4   ,all
 casts of conduct1 all degrees of       
health1   ,all dies of fortune1 and all 
dates of age1   ,together shook in his  
impartial urn1   ,come forth at random3 
or1 if choice is made1   ,the choice is 
quite sarcastic1 and insults            
#gfj   ,all bold conjecture1 and fond   
hopes of man4   ,what countless         
multitudes not only leave1   ,but deeply
 disappoint us1 by their deaths6        
#gfc   ,though great our sorrow1 greater
 our surprise4     ,like other tyrants1 
,death delights to smite1   ,what1      
smitten1 most proclaims the pride of    

power1   ,and arbitrary nod4 ,his joy   
supreme1   ,to bid the wretch survive   
the fortunate2   ,the feeble wrap th'   
athletic in his shroud2   ,and weeping  
fathers build their children's tomb3    
#ggj   ,me thine1 ,narcissa6--,what     
though short thy date8   ,virtue1 not   
rolling suns1 the mind matures4   ,that 
life is long1 which answers life's great
 end4   ,the time that bears no fruit1  
deserves no name2   ,the man of wisdom  
is the man of years4   ,in hoary youth  
,methusalems may die2   ,o how misdated 
on their flattering tombs6              
,narcissa's youth has lectured me thus  
far4   ,and can her gaiety give counsel 
too8   ,that1 like the ,jews' famed     
oracle of gems1#bd                      
#ghj   ,sparkles instruction2 such as   
throws new light1   ,and opens more the 
character of ,death2   ,ill known to    
thee1 ,lorenzo6 ,this thy vaunt3   ,give
 ,death his due1 the wretched1 and the  
old2   ,even let him sweep his rubbish  
to the grave2   ,let him not violate    

kind ,nature's laws1   ,but own man born
 to live as well as die4   ,wretched and
 old thou givest him2 young and gay     
,he takes2 and plunder is a tyrant's    
joy4   ,what if ,i prove1 ,the farthest 
from the fear1                      #gij
   ,are often nearest to the stroke of  
,fate8     ,all1 more than common1      
menaces an end4   ,a blaze betokens     
brevity of life3   ,as if bright embers 
should emit a flame1   ,glad spirits    
sparkled from ,narcissa's eye1   ,and   
made youth younger1 and taught life to  
live1                   #gif   ,as      
,nature's opposites wage endless war1   
,for this offence1 as treason to the    
deep   ,inviolable stupor of his reign1 
,where ,lust1 and turbulent ,ambition1  
sleep1   ,death took swift vengeance4   
,as he life detests1   ,more life is    
still more odious2 and1 reduced   ,by   
conquest1 aggrandizes more his power4   
#hjc   ,but wherefore aggrandized8 ,by  
,heaven's decree1   ,to plant the soul  
on her eternal guard1   ,in awful       

expectation of our end4   ,thus runs    
,death's dread commission3 ,strike1 but 
so   ,as most alarms the living by the  
dead4   ,hence stratagem delights him1  
and surprise1   ,and cruel sport with   
man's securities4                       
#haj   ,not simple conquest1 triumph is 
his aim2   ,and1 where least fear'd1    
there conquest triumphs most4   ,this   
proves my bold assertion not too bold4  
,what are his arts to lay our fears     
asleep8   ,tiberian arts his purposes   
wrap up   ,in deep dissimulation's      
darkest night4   ,like princes          
unconfess'd in foreign courts1   ,who   
travel under cover1 ,death assumes      
,the name and look of life1 and dwells  
among us4   ,he takes all shapes that   
serve his black designs3                
#hbj   ,though master of a wider empire 
far   ,than that o'er which the ,roman  
eagle flew4   ,like ,nero1 he's a       
fiddler1 charioteer1   ,or drives his   
phaeton1 in female guise2   ,quite      
unsuspected1 till1 the wheel beneath1   

,his disarray'd oblation he devours4    
,he most affects the forms least like   
himself1   ,his slender self4 ,hence    
burly corpulence   ,is his familiar     
wear1 and sleek disguise4   ,behind the 
rosy bloom he loves to lurk1            
#hcj   ,or ambush in a smile2 or wanton 
dive   ,in dimples deep2 love's eddies1 
which draw in   ,unwary hearts1 and sink
 them in despair4   ,such1 on           
,narcissa's couch he loiter'd long      
,unknown2 and1 when detected1 still was 
seen   ,to smile2 such peace has        
innocence in death6   ,most happy they6 
whom least his arts deceive4   ,one eye 
on ,death1 and one full fix'd on heaven1
   ,becomes a mortal1 and immortal man4 
,long on his wiles a piqued and jealous 
spy1                        #hdj   ,i've
 seen1 or dreamt ,i saw1 the tyrant     
dress2   ,lay by his horrors1 and put on
 his smiles4   ,say1 ,muse1 for thou    
remember'st1 call it back1   ,and show  
,lorenzo the surprising scene2   ,if    
'twas a dream1 his genius can explain4  

',twas in a circle of the gay ,i stood4 
,death would have enter'd2 ,nature      
push'd him back2   ,supported by a      
doctor of renown1   ,his point he       
gain'd4 ,then artfully dismiss'd   ,the 
sage2 for ,death design'd to be         
conceal'd4                      #hej    
,he gave an old vivacious usurer   ,his 
meagre aspect1 and his naked bones2     
,in gratitude for plumping up his prey1 
,a pamper'd spendthrift2 whose fantastic
 air1   ,well-fashion'd figure1 and     
cockaded#be brow1   ,he took in change1 
and underneath the pride   ,of costly   
linen1 tuck'd his filthy shroud4   ,his 
crooked bow he straighten'd to a cane2  
,and hid his deadly shafts in ,myra's   
eye4     ,the dreadful masquerader1 thus
 equipp'd1                         #hfj 
,out sallies on adventures4 ,ask you    
where8   ,where is he not8 ,for his     
peculiar haunts1   ,let this suffice2   
sure as night follows day1   ,death     
treads in pleasure's footsteps round the
 world1              #hfd   ,when       

pleasure treads the paths1 which reason 
shuns4   ,when1 against reason1 riot    
shuts the door1   ,and gaiety supplies  
the place of sense1   ,then1 foremost at
 the banquet1 and the ball1   ,death    
leads the dance1 or stamps the deadly   
die2   ,nor ever fails the midnight bowl
 to crown4                         #hgj 
,gaily carousing to his gay compeers1   
,inly he laughs1 to see them laugh at   
him1   ,as absent far3 and when the     
revel burns1   ,when fear is banish'd1  
and triumphant thought1   ,calling for  
all the joys beneath the moon1          
,against him turns the key2 and bids him
 sup   ,with their progenitors--,he     
drops his mask2   ,frowns out at full2  
they start1 despair1 expire4     ,scarce
 with more sudden terror and surprise1  
,from his black mask of nitre1 touch'd  
by fire1                     #hhj   ,he 
bursts1 expands1 roars1 blazes1 and     
devours4   ,and is not this triumphant  
treachery1   ,and more than simple      
conquest1 in the fiend8     ,and now1   

,lorenzo1 dost thou wrap thy soul   ,in 
soft security1 because unknown   ,which 
moment is commission'd to destroy8   ,in
 death's uncertainty thy danger lies4   
,is death uncertain8 ,therefore thou be 
fix'd2   ,fix'd as a sentinel1 all eye1 
all ear1   ,all expectation of the      
coming foe4                             
#hij   ,rouse1 stand in arms1 nor lean  
against thy spear2   ,lest slumber steal
 one moment o'er thy soul1   ,and ,fate 
surprise thee nodding4 ,watch1 be       
strong3   ,thus give each day the merit1
 and renown1   ,of dying well2 though   
doom'd but once to die4   ,nor let      
life's period hidden 7as from most7     
,hide too from thee the precious use of 
life4     ,early1 not sudden1 was       
,narcissa's fate4                       
#hih   ,soon1 not surprising1 ,death his
 visit paid4   ,her thought went forth  
to meet him on his way1   ,nor gaiety   
forgot it was to die3   ,though ,fortune
 too 7our third and final theme71   ,as 
an accomplice1 play'd her gaudy plumes1 

,and every glittering gewgaw1 on her    
sight1                         #ijd     
,to dazzle1 and debauch it from its     
mark4   ,death's dreadful advent is the 
mark of man2   ,and every thought that  
misses it1 is blind4   ,fortune1 with   
youth and gaiety1 conspired   ,to weave 
a triple wreath of happiness   7,if     
happiness on earth7 to crown her brow4  
#iaj   ,and could ,death charge through 
such a shining shield8     ,that shining
 shield invites the tyrant's spear4     
,as if to damp our elevated aims1   ,and
 strongly preach humility to man4   ,o  
how portentous is prosperity6   ,how1   
comet-like1 it threatens1 while it      
shines6   ,few years but yield us proof 
of ,death's ambition1   ,to cull his    
victims from the fairest fold1   ,and   
sheath his shafts in all the pride of   
life4   ,when flooded with abundance1   
purpled o'er                            
#ibj   ,with recent honours1 bloom'd    
with every bliss1   ,set up in          
ostentation1 made the gaze1   ,the gaudy

 centre1 of the public eye1   ,when     
,fortune thus has toss'd her child in   
air1   ,snatch'd from the covert of an  
humble state1   ,how often have ,i seen 
him dropp'd at once1   ,our morning's   
envy6 and our evening's sigh6   ,as if  
her bounties were the signal given1     
,the flowery wreath to mark the         
sacrifice1   ,and call ,death's arrows  
on the destined prey4                   
#icj     ,high ,fortune seems in cruel  
league with ,fate4   ,ask you for what8 
,to give his war on man                 
#icb   ,the deeper dread1 and more      
illustrious spoil2   ,thus to keep      
daring mortals more in awe4   ,and burns
 ,lorenzo still for the sublime   ,of   
life8 to hang his airy nest on high1    
,on the slight timber of the topmost    
bough1   ,rock'd at each breeze1 and    
menacing a fall8   ,granting grim ,death
 at equal distance there2   ,yet peace  
begins just where ambition ends4        
#idj   ,what makes man wretched8        
,happiness denied8   ,lorenzo6 no3 'tis 

happiness disdain'd4   ,she comes too   
meanly dress'd to win our smile2   ,and 
calls herself ,content1 a homely name6  
,our flame is transport1 and ,content   
our scorn4   ,ambition turns1 and shuts 
the door against her1   ,and weds a     
toil1 a tempest1 in her stead2   ,a     
tempest to warm transport near of kin4  
,unknowing what our mortal state admits1
   ,life's modest joys we ruin1 while we
 raise2                        #iej     
,and all our ecstasies are wounds to    
peace2   ,peace1 the full portion of    
mankind below4     ,and since thy peace 
is dear1 ambitious youth6   ,of fortune 
fond6 as thoughtless of thy fate6   ,as 
late ,i drew ,death's picture1 to stir  
up   ,thy wholesome fears2 now1 drawn in
 contrast1 see   ,gay ,fortune's1 thy   
vain hopes to reprimand4   ,see1 high in
 air1 the sportive goddess hangs1       
,unlocks her casket1 spreads her        
glittering ware1   ,and calls the giddy 
winds to puff abroad                    
#ifj   ,her random bounties o'er the    

gaping throng4   ,all rush rapacious2   
friends o'er trodden friends2   ,sons   
o'er their fathers1 subjects o'er their 
kings1   ,priests o'er their gods1 and  
lovers o'er the fair   7,still more     
adored71 to snatch the golden shower4   
,gold glitters most1 where virtue shines
 no more2   ,as stars from absent suns  
have leave to shine4                    
#ifg   ,o what a precious pack of       
votaries#bf   ,unkennell'd from the     
prisons1 and the stews1   ,pour in1 all 
opening in their idol's praise2   ,all1 
ardent1 eye each wafture of her hand1   
,and1 wide-expanding their voracious    
jaws1   ,morsel on morsel swallow down  
unchew'd1                               
#igc   ,untasted1 through mad appetite  
for more2   ,gorged to the throat1 yet  
lean and ravenous still4   ,sagacious   
all1 to trace the smallest game1   ,and 
bold to seize the greatest4 ,if 7bless'd
 chance67   ,court-zephyrs sweetly      
breathe1 they launch1 they fly1   ,o'er 
just1 o'er sacred1 all-forbidden ground1

   ,drunk with the burning scent of     
place or power1                    #ihj 
,staunch to the foot of lucre1 till they
 die4     ,or1 if for men you take them1
 as ,i mark   ,their manners1 thou their
 various fates survey4   ,with aim      
mismeasured1 and impetuous speed1       
,some darting1 strike their ardent wish 
far off1   ,through fury to possess it3 
some succeed1   ,but stumble1 and let   
fall the taken prize4   ,from some1 by  
sudden blasts1 'tis whirl'd away1   ,and
 lodged in bosoms that ne'er dreamt of  
gain4   ,to some it sticks so close1    
that1 when torn off1                    
#iij   ,torn is the man1 and mortal is  
the wound4   ,some1 o'er-enamour'd of   
their bags1 run mad1   ,groan under     
gold1 yet weep for want of bread4       
,together some 7unhappy rivals67 seize1 
,and rend abundance into poverty2       
,loud croaks the raven of the law1 and  
smiles3   ,smiles too the goddess2 but  
smiles most at those   7,just victims of
 exorbitant desire67   ,who perish at   

their own request1 and1 whelm'd         
,beneath her load of lavish grants1     
expire4                        #ajjj    
,fortune is famous for her numbers      
slain1   ,the number small1 which       
happiness can bear4                     
#ajjb   ,though various for a while     
their fates2 at last   ,one curse       
involves them all3 at ,death's approach1
   ,all read their riches backward into 
loss1   ,and mourn1 in just proportion  
to their store4     ,and ,death's       
approach 7if orthodox my song7   ,is    
hasten'd by the lure of ,fortune's      
smiles4   ,and art thou still a glutton 
of bright gold8   ,and art thou still   
rapacious of thy ruin8                  
#ajaj   ,death loves a shining mark1 a  
signal blow2   ,a blow1 which1 while it 
executes1 alarms2   ,and startles       
thousands with a single fall4   ,as when
 some stately growth of oak1 or pine1   
,which nods aloft1 and proudly spreads  
her shade1   ,the sun's defiance1 and   
the flock's defence2   ,by the strong   

strokes of labouring hinds subdued1     
,loud groans her last1 and1 rushing from
 her height1   ,in cumbrous ruin1       
thunders to the ground3   ,the conscious
 forest trembles at the shock1          
#ajbj   ,and hill1 and stream1 and      
distant dale1 resound4     ,these       
high-aim'd darts of ,death1 and these   
alone1   ,should ,i collect1 my quiver  
would be full4   ,a quiver1 which1      
suspended in mid-air1   ,or near        
heaven's archer1 in the zodiac1 hung1   
7,so could it be7 should draw the public
 eye1   ,the gaze and contemplation of  
mankind6   ,a constellation awful1 yet  
benign1   ,to guide the gay through     
life's tempestuous wave2   ,nor suffer  
them to strike the common rock1         
#ajcj   ,from greater danger to grow    
more secure1   ,and1 wrapt in happiness1
 forget their fate4     ,lysander1 happy
 past the common lot1   ,was warn'd of  
danger1 but too gay to fear4   ,he woo'd
 the fair ,aspasia3 she was kind3   ,in 
youth1 form1 fortune1 fame1 they both   

were bless'd3   ,all who knew1 envied2  
yet in envy loved3                      
#ajcg   ,can fancy form more finish'd   
happiness8   ,fix'd was the nuptial     
hour4 ,her stately dome   ,rose on the  
sounding beach4 ,the glittering spires  
,float in the wave1 and break against   
the shore3   ,so break those glittering 
shadows1 human joys4   ,the faithless   
morning smiled3 he takes his leave1     
#ajdc   ,to re-embrace1 in ecstasies1 at
 eve4   ,the rising storm forbids4 ,the 
news arrives3   ,untold1 she saw it in  
her servant's eye4   ,she felt it seen  
7her heart was apt to feel72   ,and1    
drown'd1 without the furious ocean's    
aid1   ,in suffocating sorrows1 shares  
his tomb4   ,now1 round the sumptuous   
bridal monument1                        
#ajej   ,the guilty billows innocently  
roar2   ,and the rough sailor passing1  
drops a tear4   ,a tear8--can tears     
suffice8--,but not for me4   ,how vain  
our efforts6 and our arts1 how vain6    
,the distant train of thought ,i took1  

to shun1   ,has thrown me on my         
fate--these died together2   ,happy in  
ruin6 undivorced by death6   ,or ne'er  
to meet1 or ne'er to part1#bg is peace--
   ,narcissa6 pity bleeds at thought of 
thee4   ,yet thou wast only near me2 not
 myself4                           #ajfj
   ,survive myself8--,that cures all    
other woe4   ,narcissa lives2 ,philander
 is forgot4   ,o the soft commerce6 ,o  
the tender ties1   ,close twisted with  
the fibres of the heart6   ,which1      
broken1 break them2 and drain off the   
soul   ,of human joy2 and make it pain  
to live--   ,and is it then to live8    
,when such friends part1   ',tis the    
survivor dies--,my heart6 no more4      
#ajfh                                   
,,the                                   
,,infidel ,,reclaimed1                  
,,in ,,two ,,parts2                     
,,containing                    ,,the   
,,nature1 ,,proof1 ,,and ,,importance   
,,of ,,immortality4                     
,,part ,i4                 ,,where1     

,,among ,,other ,,things1 ,,glory ,,and 
,,riches                       ,,are    
,,particularly ,,considered4            
,,to ,,the                              
,,right ,,hon4 ,,henry ,,pelham1        
,,first ,,lord ,,commissioner ,,of ,,the
 ,,treasury1 ,,and ,,chancellor ,,of    
,,the                                   
,,exchequer4                            
,,preface4   ,few ages have been deeper 
in dispute about religion than this4    
,the dispute about religion1 and the    
practice of it1 seldom go together4 ,the
 shorter1 therefore1 the dispute1 the   
better4 ,i think it may be reduced to   
this single question1 ,is man immortal1 
or is he not8 ,if he is not1 all our    
disputes are mere amusements1 or trials 
of skill4 ,in this case1 truth1 reason1 
religion1 which give our discourses such
 pomp and solemnity1 are 7as will be    
shown7 mere empty sound1 without any    
meaning in them4 ,but if man is         
immortal1 it will behove him to be very 
serious about eternal consequences2 or1 

in other words1 to be truly religious4  
,and this great fundamental truth1      
unestablished1 or unawakened in the     
minds of men1 is1 ,i conceive1 the real 
source and support of all our           
infidelity2 how remote soever the       
particular objections advanced may seem 
to be from it4  ,sensible appearances   
affect most men much more than abstract 
reasonings2 and we daily see bodies drop
 around us1 but the soul is invisible4  
,the power which inclination has over   
the judgment1 is greater than can be    
well conceived by those that have not   
had an experience of it2 and of what    
numbers is it the sad interest that     
souls should not survive6 ,the heathen  
world confessed1 that they rather hoped1
 than firmly believed1 immortality2 and 
how many heathens have we still amongst 
us6 ,the sacred page assures us1 that   
life and immortality are brought to     
light by the ,gospel3 but by how many is
 the ,gospel rejected or overlooked8    
,from these considerations1 and from my 

being accidentally privy to the         
sentiments of some particular persons1  
,i have been long persuaded that most1  
if not all1 our infidels 7whatever name 
they take1 and whatever scheme1 for     
argument's sake1 and to keep themselves 
in countenance1 they patronise71 are    
supported in their deplorable error1 by 
some doubt of their immortality1 at the 
bottom4 ,and ,i am satisfied1 that men  
once thoroughly convinced of their      
immortality1 are not far from being     
,christians4 ,for it is hard to         
conceive1 that a man fully conscious    
eternal pain or happiness will certainly
 be his lot1 should not earnestly and   
impartially inquire after the surest    
means of escaping the one1 and securing 
the other4 ,and of such an earnest and  
impartial inquiry ,i well know the      
consequence4  ,here1 therefore1 in proof
 of this most fundamental truth1 some   
plain arguments are offered2 arguments  
derived from principles which infidels  
admit in common with believers2         

arguments which appear to me altogether 
irresistible2 and such as1 ,i am        
satisfied1 will have great weight with  
all who give themselves the small       
trouble of looking seriously into their 
own bosoms1 and of observing1 with any  
tolerable degree of attention1 what     
daily passes round about them in the    
world4 ,if some arguments shall here    
occur1 which others have declined1 they 
are submitted1 with all deference1 to   
better judgments in this1 of all points 
the most important4 ,for1 as to the     
being of a ,god1 that is no longer      
disputed2 but it is undisputed for this 
reason only1 viz41 because1 where the   
least pretence to reason is admitted1 it
 must for ever be indisputable4 ,and of 
consequence no man can be betrayed into 
a dispute of that nature by vanity2     
which has a principal share in animating
 our modern combatants against other    
articles of our belief4                 
,,night ,,sixth4                        
,,the ,,infidel ,,reclaimed4            

,,part ,i4     ,she#bh 7for ,i know not 
yet her name in heaven71   ,not early1  
like ,narcissa1 left the scene2   ,nor  
sudden1 like ,philander4 ,what avail8   
,this seeming mitigation but inflames2  
,this fancied medicine heightens the    
disease4   ,the longer known1 the closer
 still she grew2   ,and gradual parting 
is a gradual death4   ',tis the grim    
tyrant's engine1 which extorts1   ,by   
tardy pressure's still-increasing       
weight1   ,from hardest hearts1         
confession of distress4                 
#aj     ,oh1 the long1 dark approach    
through years of pain1   ,death's       
gallery6 7might ,i dare to call it so7  
,with dismal doubt1 and sable terror1   
hung2   ,sick hope's pale lamp its only 
glimmering ray3   ,there1 fate my       
melancholy walk ordain'd1   ,forbid     
self-love itself to flatter1 there4     
,how oft ,i gazed1 prophetically sad6   
,how oft ,i saw her dead1 while yet in  
smiles6                        #ah   ,in
 smiles she sunk her grief to lessen    

mine4   ,she spoke me comfort1 and      
increased my pain4   ,like powerful     
armies trenching at a town1   ,by slow1 
and silent1 but resistless sap1   ,in   
his pale progress gently gaining ground1
   ,death urged his deadly siege2 in    
spite of art1   ,of all the balmy       
blessings nature lends   ,to succour    
frail humanity4 ,ye stars6   7,not now  
first made familiar to my sight7   ,and 
thou1 ,o moon6 bear witness1 many a     
night   ,he tore the pillow from beneath
 my head1   ,tied down my sore attention
 to the shock1                          
#cj   ,by ceaseless depredations on a   
life   ,dearer than that he left me4    
,dreadful post   ,of observation6 darker
 every hour6   ,less dread the day that 
drove me to the brink1   ,and pointed at
 eternity below2   ,when my soul        
shudder'd at futurity2   ,when1 on a    
moment's point1 th' important die   ,of 
life and death spun doubtful1 ere it    
fell1   ,and turn'd up life2 my title to
 more woe4     ,but why more woe8 ,more 

comfort let it be4                      
#dj   ,nothing is dead1 but that which  
wish'd to die2   ,nothing is dead1 but  
wretchedness and pain2   ,nothing is    
dead1 but what encumber'd1 gall'd1      
,block'd up the pass1 and barr'd from   
real life4   ,where dwells that wish    
most ardent of the wise8   ,too dark the
 sun to see it2 highest stars   ,too low
 to reach it2 ,death1 great ,death      
alone1   ,o'er stars and sun1           
triumphant1 lands us there4     ,nor    
dreadful our transition2 though the     
mind1   ,an artist at creating          
self-alarms1                            
#ej   ,rich in expedients for           
inquietude1   ,is prone to paint it     
dreadful4 ,who can take                 
#eb   ,death's portrait true8 ,the      
tyrant never sat4   ,our sketch all     
random strokes1 conjecture all2   ,close
 shuts the grave1 nor tells one single  
tale4   ,death1 and his image rising in 
the brain1   ,bear faint resemblance2   
never are alike2   ,fear shakes the     

pencil2 ,fancy loves excess2   ,dark    
,ignorance is lavish of her shades3     
,and these the formidable picture draw4 
#fj     ,but grant the worst2 'tis past2
 new prospects rise2   ,and drop a veil 
eternal o'er her tomb4   ,far other     
views our contemplation claim1   ,views 
that o'erpay the rigours of our life2   
,views that suspend our agonies in      
death4   ,wrapt in the thought of       
immortality1   ,wrapt in the single1 the
 triumphant thought6   ,long life might 
lapse1 age unperceived come on2   ,and  
find the soul unsated with her theme4   
,its nature1 proof1 importance1 fire my 
song4                        #gj   ,o   
that my song could emulate my soul6     
,like her1 immortal4 ,no6--the soul     
disdains   ,a mark so mean2 far nobler  
hope inflames2   ,if endless ages can   
outweigh an hour1   ,let not the laurel1
 but the palm1 inspire4     ,thy nature1
 ,immortality6 who knows8   ,and yet who
 knows it not8 ,it is but life   ,in    
stronger thread of brighter colour spun1

   ,and spun for ever2 dipp'd by cruel  
,fate   ,in ,stygian dye1 how black1 how
 brittle here6                          
#hj   ,how short our correspondence with
 the sun6   ,and while it lasts1        
inglorious6 ,our best deeds1   ,how     
wanting in their weight6 our highest    
joys   ,small cordials to support us in 
our pain1   ,and give us strength to    
suffer4 ,but how great   ,to mingle     
interests1 converse1 amities1           
#hf   ,with all the sons of ,reason1    
scatter'd wide   ,through habitable     
space1 wherever born1   ,howe'er        
endow'd6 to live free citizens   ,of    
universal nature6 to lay hold   ,by more
 than feeble faith on the ,supreme6     
,to call heaven's rich unfathomable     
mines   7,mines1 which support          
archangels in their state7              
#ic   ,our own6 ,to rise in science1 as 
in bliss1   ,initiate in the secrets of 
the skies6   ,to read creation2 read its
 mighty plan   ,in the bare bosom of the
 ,deity6   ,the plan1 and execution1 to 

collate6   ,to see1 before each glance  
of piercing thought1   ,all cloud1 all  
shadow1 blown remote2 and leave         
#ajj   ,no mystery--but that of ,love   
,divine1   ,which lifts us on the       
seraph's flaming wing1   ,from earth's  
,aceldama1 this field of blood1   ,of   
inward anguish1 and of outward ill1     
,from darkness1 and from dust1 to such a
 scene6   ,love's element6 true joy's   
illustrious home6   ,from earth's sad   
contrast 7now deplored7 more fair6      
,what exquisite vicissitude of fate6    
,bless'd absolution of our blackest     
hour6     ,lorenzo1 these are thoughts  
that make man ,man1                     
#aaj   ,the wise illumine1 aggrandize   
the great4   ,how great 7while yet we   
tread the kindred clod1   ,and every    
moment fear to sink beneath   ,the clod 
we tread2 soon trodden by our sons72    
,how great1 in the wild whirl of ,time's
 pursuits1   ,to stop1 and pause1       
involved in high presage1   ,through the
 long vista of a thousand years1   ,to  

stand contemplating our distant selves1 
,as in a magnifying mirror seen1        
,enlarged1 ennobled1 elevate1 divine6   
#abj   ,to prophesy our own futurities2 
,to gaze in thought on what all thought 
transcends6   ,to talk1 with            
fellow-candidates1 of joys   ,as far    
beyond conception as desert1            
,ourselves th' astonish'd talkers1 and  
the tale6     ,lorenzo1 swells thy bosom
 at the thought8   ,the swell becomes   
thee3 'tis an honest pride4   ,revere   
thyself2--and yet thyself despise4      
,his nature no man can o'er-rate2 and   
none   ,can under-rate his merit4 ,take 
good heed1                          #acj
   ,nor there be modest1 where thou     
should'st be proud2   ,that almost      
universal error shun4   ,how just our   
pride1 when we behold those heights6    
,not those ,ambition paints in air1 but 
those   ,reason points out1 and ardent  
,virtue gains1   ,and angels emulate2   
our pride how just6   ,when mount we8   
when these shackles cast8 when quit     

,this cell of the creation8 this small  
nest1   ,stuck in a corner of the       
universe1   ,wrapt up in fleecy cloud1  
and fine-spun air8                      
#adj   ,fine-spun to sense2 but gross   
and feculent   ,to souls celestial2     
souls ordain'd to breathe   ,ambrosial  
gales1 and drink a purer sky2   ,greatly
 triumphant on ,time's farther shore1   
,where ,virtue reigns1 enrich'd with    
full arrears2   ,while ,pomp imperial   
begs an alms of peace4     ,in empire   
high1 or in proud science deep1   ,ye   
born of earth6 on what can you confer1  
,with half the dignity1 with half the   
gain1   ,the gust1 the glow of rational 
delight1                            #aej
   ,as on this theme1 which angels      
praise and share8   ,man's fates and    
favours are a theme in heaven4     ,what
 wretched repetition cloys us here6     
,what periodic potions for the sick6    
#aed   ,distemper'd bodies6 and         
distemper'd minds6   ,in an eternity1   
what scenes shall strike6   ,adventures 

thicken6 novelties surprise6   ,what    
webs of wonder shall unravel1 there6    
,what full day pour on all the paths of 
heaven1   ,and light th' ,almighty's    
footsteps in the deep6   ,how shall the 
blessed day of our discharge   ,unwind1 
at once1 the labyrinths of fate1        
#afb   ,and straighten its inextricable 
maze6     ,if inextinguishable thirst in
 man   ,to know2 how rich1 how full1 our
 banquet there6   ,there1 not the moral 
world alone unfolds2   ,the world       
material1 lately seen in shades1   ,and1
 in those shades1 by fragments only     
seen1   ,and seen those fragments by the
 labouring eye1   ,unbroken1 then1      
illustrious1 and entire1                
#agj   ,its ample sphere1 its universal 
frame1   ,in full dimensions1 swells to 
the survey2   ,and enters1 at one       
glance1 the ravish'd sight4   ,from some
 superior point 7where1 who can tell8   
,suffice it1 'tis a point where gods    
reside7   ,how shall the stranger man's 
illumined eye1   ,in the vast ocean of  

unbounded space1   ,behold an infinite  
of floating worlds   ,divide the crystal
 waves of ether pure1   ,in endless     
voyage1 without port8 ,the least        
#ahj   ,of these disseminated orbs1 how 
great6   ,great as they are1 what       
numbers these surpass1   ,huge1 as      
,leviathan1 to that small race1   ,those
 twinkling multitudes of little life1   
,he swallows unperceived6 ,stupendous   
these6   ,yet what are these stupendous 
to the whole8   ,as particles1 as atoms 
ill perceived2   ,as circulating        
globules in our veins2                  
#ahh   ,so vast the plan4 ,fecundity    
divine6   ,exuberant ,source6 perhaps1  
,i wrong thee still4     ,if admiration 
is a source of joy1   ,what transport   
hence6 ,yet this the least in heaven4   
,what this to that illustrious robe ,he 
wears1   ,who toss'd this mass of       
wonders from his hand1   ,a specimen1 an
 earnest of his power8   ',tis to that  
glory1 whence all glory flows1   ,as the
 mead's meanest floweret to the sun1    

,which gave it birth4 ,but what1 this   
sun of heaven8   ,this bliss supreme of 
the supremely blest8   ,death1 only     
death1 the question can resolve4        
#bjj   ,by death1 cheap bought th' ideas
 of our joy2   ,the bare ideas6 solid   
happiness   ,so distant from its shadow 
chased below4     ,and chase we still   
the phantom through the fire1   ,o'er   
bog1 and brake1 and precipice1 till     
death8   ,and toil we still for         
sublunary pay8   ,defy the dangers of   
the field and flood1   ,or1 spider-like1
 spin out our precious all1   ,our more 
than vitals spin 7if no regard   ,to    
great futurity7 in curious webs         
#baj   ,of subtle thought1 and exquisite
 design2   7,fine network of the brain67
 to catch a fly6   ,the momentary buzz  
of vain renown6   ,a name6 a mortal     
immortality6     ,or 7meaner still67    
instead of grasping air1   ,for sordid  
lucre plunge we in the mire8   ,drudge1 
sweat1 through every shame1 for every   
gain1   ,for vile contaminating trash2  

throw up   ,our hope in heaven1 our     
dignity with man8   ,and deify the dirt1
 matured to gold8                       
#bbj   ,ambition1 ,avarice2 the two     
demons these1   ,which goad through     
every slough our human herd1            
#bbb   ,hard-travell'd from the cradle  
to the grave4   ,how low the wretches   
stoop6 how steep they climb6   ,these   
demons burn mankind2 but most possess   
,lorenzo's bosom1 and turn out the      
skies4     ,is it in time to hide       
eternity8   ,and why not in an atom on  
the shore   ,to cover ocean8 or a mote1 
the sun8   ,glory and wealth6 have they 
this blinding power8                    
#bcj   ,what if to them ,i prove        
,lorenzo blind8   ,would it surprise    
thee8 ,be thou then surprised2   ,thou  
neither know'st3 their nature learn from
 me4     ,mark well1 as foreign as these
 subjects seem1   ,what close connexion 
ties them to my theme4   ,first1 what is
 true ambition8 ,the pursuit   ,of      
glory1 nothing less than man can share4 

,were they as vain1 as gaudy-minded man1
   ,as flatulent with fumes of          
self-applause1   ,their arts and        
conquests animals might boast1          
#bdj   ,and claim their laurel crowns1  
as well as we2   ,but not celestial4    
,here we stand alone2   ,as in our form1
 distinct1 pre-eminent2   ,if prone in  
thought1 our stature is our shame2      
,and man should blush1 his forehead     
meets the skies4   ,the visible and     
present are for brutes1   ,a slender    
portion1 and a narrow bound6   ,these   
,reason1 with an energy divine1         
,o'erleaps2 and claims the future and   
unseen2   ,the vast unseen6 the future  
fathomless6                             
#bej   ,when the great soul buoys up to 
this high point1   ,leaving gross       
nature's sediments below1   ,then1 and  
then only1 ,adam's offspring quits      
,the sage and hero of the fields and    
woods1   ,asserts his rank1 and rises   
into man4                               
#bee   ,this is ambition3 this is human 

fire4     ,can ,parts or ,place 7two    
bold pretenders67 make   ,lorenzo great1
 and pluck him from the throng8         
,genius and ,art1 ambition's boasted    
wings1   ,our boast but ill deserve4 ,a 
feeble aid6   ,dedalian enginery6 ,if   
these alone   ,assist our flight1       
,fame's flight is ,glory's fall4        
,heart merit wanting1 mount we ne'er so 
high1                       #bfc   ,our 
height is but the gibbet of our name4   
,a celebrated wretch1 when ,i behold1   
,when ,i behold a genius bright1 and    
base1   ,of towering talents1 and       
terrestrial aims2   ,methinks ,i see1 as
 thrown from her high sphere1   ,the    
glorious fragments of a soul immortal1  
,with rubbish mix'd1 and glittering in  
the dust4                    #bgj       
,struck at the splendid1 melancholy     
sight1   ,at once compassion soft1 and  
envy1 rise--   ,but wherefore envy8     
,talents angel-bright1   ,if wanting    
worth1 are shining instruments   ,in    
false ambition's hand1 to finish faults 

,illustrious1 and give infamy renown4   
,great ill is an achievement of great   
powers4   ,plain sense but rarely leads 
us far astray4   ,reason the means1     
affections choose our end2   ,means have
 no merit1 if our end amiss4            
#bhj   ,if wrong our hearts1 our heads  
are right in vain3   ,what is a         
,pelham's head1 to ,pelham's heart8     
,hearts are proprietors of all applause4
   ,right ends1 and means1 make wisdom3 
worldly-wise   ,is but half-witted1 at  
its highest praise4     ,let ,genius    
then despair to make thee great2   ,nor 
flatter ,station3 what is station high8 
',tis a proud mendicant2 it boasts1 and 
begs2   ,it begs an alms of homage from 
the throng1                         #bhi
   ,and oft the throng denies its       
charity4   ,monarchs and ministers1 are 
awful names2   ,whoever wear them1      
challenge our devoir4   ,religion1      
public order1 both exact   ,external    
homage1 and a supple knee1   ,to beings 
pompously set up1 to serve   ,the       

meanest slave3 all more is merit's due1 
,her sacred and inviolable right2   ,nor
 ever paid the monarch1 but the man4    
,our hearts ne'er bow but to superior   
worth2   ,nor ever fail of their        
allegiance there4                       
#cjj   ,fools1 indeed1 drop the man in  
their account1   ,and vote the mantle   
into majesty4   ,let the small savage   
boast his silver fur2   ,his royal robe 
unborrow'd1 and unbought1   ,his own1   
descending fairly from his sires4       
,shall man be proud to wear his livery1 
,and souls in ermine scorn a soul       
without8   ,can place or lessen us1 or  
aggrandize8   ,pigmies are pigmies      
still1 though perch'd on ,alps2   ,and  
pyramids are pyramids in vales4         
#caj   ,each man makes his own stature1 
builds himself3   ,virtue alone         
outbuilds the pyramids3   ,her monuments
 shall last1 when ,egypt's fall4     ,of
 these sure truths dost thou demand the 
cause8   ,the cause is lodged in        
immortality4   ,hear1 and assent4 ,thy  

bosom burns for power2   ,what station  
charms thee8 ,i'll install thee there2  
',tis thine4 ,and art thou greater than 
before8   ,then thou before wast        
something less than man4   ,has thy new 
post betray'd thee into pride8          
#cbj   ,that treacherous pride betrays  
thy dignity2   ,that pride defames      
humanity1 and calls   ,the being mean1  
which staffs or strings can raise4      
#cbc   ,that pride1 like hooded hawks1  
in darkness soars1   ,from blindness    
bold1 and towering to the skies4   ',tis
 born of ignorance1 which knows not man3
   ,an angel's second2 nor his second1  
long4   ,a ,nero quitting his imperial  
throne1   ,and courting glory from the  
tinkling string1   ,but faintly shadows 
an immortal soul1                       
#ccj   ,with empire's self1 to pride1 or
 rapture1 fired4   ,if nobler motives   
minister no cure1   ,even vanity forbids
 thee to be vain4     ,high worth is    
elevated place3 'tis more2   ,it makes  
the post stand candidate for thee2      

,makes more than monarchs1 makes an     
honest man2   ,though no exchequer it   
commands1 'tis wealth2   ,and though it 
wears no riband1 'tis renown2   ,renown1
 that would not quit thee1 though       
disgraced1   ,nor leave thee pendent on 
a master's smile4                       
#cdj   ,other ambition ,nature          
interdicts2   ,nature proclaims it most 
absurd in man1   ,by pointing at his    
origin1 and end2   ,milk1 and a swathe1 
at first1 his whole demand2   ,his whole
 domain1 at last1 a turf1 or stone2     
,to whom1 between1 a world may seem too 
small4     ,souls truly great dart      
forward on the wing   ,of just ambition1
 to the grand result1   ,the curtain's  
fall2 there1 see the buskin'd chief     
,unshod behind this momentary scene2    
#cej   ,reduced to his own stature1 low 
or high1   ,as vice1 or virtue1 sinks   
him1 or sublimes2   ,and laugh at this  
fantastic mummery1   ,this antic prelude
 of grotesque events1   ,where dwarfs   
are often stilted1 and betray   ,a      

littleness of soul by worlds o'errun1   
,and nations laid in blood4 ,dread      
sacrifice                         #ceg  
,to ,christian pride6 which had with    
horror shock'd   ,the darkest ,pagans1  
offer'd to their gods4     ,o thou most 
,christian#bi enemy to peace6   ,again  
in arms8 ,again provoking fate8   ,that 
prince1 and that alone1 is truly great1 
,who draws the sword reluctant1 gladly  
sheathes2                    #cfc   ,on 
empire builds what empire far outweighs1
   ,and makes his throne a scaffold to  
the skies4     ,why this so rare8       
,because forgot of all   ,the day of    
death2 that venerable day1   ,which sits
 as judge2 that day1 which shall        
pronounce   ,on all our days1 absolve   
them1 or condemn4   ,lorenzo1 never shut
 thy thought against it2                
#cgj   ,be levees ne'er so full1 afford 
it room1   ,and give it audience in the 
cabinet4   ,that friend consulted1      
flatteries apart1   ,will tell thee     
fair1 if thou art great1 or mean4       

,to doat on aught may leave us1 or be   
left1   ,is that ambition8 ,then let    
flames descend1   ,point to the centre  
their inverted spires1   ,and learn     
humiliation from a soul1   ,which boasts
 her lineage from celestial fire4   ,yet
 these are they1 the world pronounces   
wise2                     #chj   ,the   
world1 which cancels nature's right and 
wrong1   ,and casts new wisdom3 even the
 grave man lends   ,his solemn face1 to 
countenance the coin4   ,wisdom for     
parts is madness for the whole4   ,this 
stamps the paradox1 and gives us leave  
,to call the wisest weak1 the richest   
poor1   ,the most ambitious1            
unambitious1 mean2   ,in triumph1 mean2 
and abject1 on a throne4   ,nothing can 
make it less than mad in man1   ,to put 
forth all his ardour1 all his art1      
#cij   ,and give his soul her full      
unbounded flight1   ,but reaching ,him1 
who gave her wings to fly4   ,when blind
 ,ambition quite mistakes her road1     
,and downwards pores1 for that which    

shines above1   ,substantial happiness1 
and true renown2   ,then1 like an idiot1
 gazing on the brook1   ,we leap at     
stars1 and fasten in the mud2   ,at     
glory grasp1 and sink in infamy4        
,ambition6 powerful source of good and  
ill6   ,thy strength in man1 like length
 of wing in birds1                 #djj 
,when disengaged from earth1 with       
greater ease1   ,and swifter flight1    
transports us to the skies2   ,by toys  
entangled1 or in guilt bemired1   ,it   
turns a curse2 it is our chain1 and     
scourge1   ,in this dark dungeon1 where 
confined we lie1   ,close grated by the 
sordid bars of ,sense2   ,all prospect  
of eternity shut out2   ,and1 but for   
execution1 ne'er set free4     ,with    
error in ambition justly charged1       
,find we ,lorenzo wiser in his wealth8  
#daj   ,what if thy rental ,i reform8   
and draw   ,an inventory new1 to set    
thee right8   ,where thy true treasure8 
,gold says1 ,not in me3   ,and1 ,not in 
me1 the diamond4 ,gold is poor2         

,india's insolvent3 seek it in thyself1 
,seek in thy naked self1 and find it    
there2   ,in being1 so descended1       
form'd1 endow'd2   ,sky-born1           
sky-guided1 sky-returning race6         
,erect1 immortal1 rational1 divine6     
,in senses1 which inherit earth1 and    
heavens2                       #dbj     
,enjoy the various riches ,nature       
yields2   ,far nobler6 give the riches  
they enjoy2   ,give taste to fruits2 and
 harmony to groves2   ,their radiant    
beams to gold1 and gold's bright fire2  
#dbd   ,take in1 at once1 the landscape 
of the world1   ,at a small inlet1 which
 a grain might close1   ,and half create
 the wondrous world they see4   ,our    
senses1 as our reason1 are divine4      
,but for the magic organ's powerful     
charm1   ,earth were a rude1 uncolour'd 
chaos still4   ,objects are but th'     
occasion2 ours th' exploit2   ,ours is  
the cloth1#cj the pencil1 and the paint1
                  #dcb   ,which nature's
 admirable picture draws2   ,and        

beautifies creation's ample dome4       
,like ,milton's ,eve1 when gazing on the
 lake1   ,man makes the matchless image 
man admires4   ,say then1 shall man1 his
 thoughts all sent abroad1   ,superior  
wonders in himself forgot1   ,his       
admiration waste on objects round1      
,when ,heaven makes him the soul of all 
he sees8                     #ddj       
,absurd6 not rare6 so great1 so mean1 is
 man4     ,what wealth in senses such as
 these6 ,what wealth   ,in ,fancy1 fired
 to form a fairer scene   ,than ,sense  
surveys6 ,in memory's firm record1      
,which1 should it perish1 could this    
world recall   ,from the dark shadows of
 o'erwhelming years6   ,in colours      
fresh1 originally bright1   ,preserve   
its portrait1 and report its fate6      
,what wealth in ,intellect1 that        
sovereign power6   ,which ,sense and    
,fancy summons to the bar2              
#dej   ,interrogates1 approves1 or      
reprehends2   ,and from the mass those  
underlings import1   ,from their        

materials sifted1 and refined1   ,and in
 ,truth's balance accurately weigh'd1   
,forms art1 and science1 government1 and
 law2   ,the solid basis1 and the       
beauteous frame1                        
#def   ,the vitals1 and the grace of    
civil life6   ,and manners 7sad         
exception67 set aside1   ,strikes out1  
with master hand1 a copy fair   ,of ,his
 idea1 whose indulgent thought   ,long1 
long1 ere chaos teem'd1 plann'd human   
bliss4     ,what wealth in souls that   
soar1 dive1 range around1   ,disdaining 
limit1 or from place1 or time2          
#dfc   ,and hear at once1 in thought    
extensive1 hear   ,th' ,almighty fiat1  
and the trumpet's sound6   ,bold1 on    
creation's outside walk1 and view       
,what was1 and is1 and more than e'er   
shall be2   ,commanding1 with           
omnipotence of thought1   ,creations new
 in fancy's field to rise6   ,souls1    
that can grasp whate'er th' ,almighty   
made1                  #dgj   ,and      
wander wild through things impossible6  

,what wealth1 in faculties of endless   
growth1   ,in quenchless passions       
violent to crave1   ,in liberty to      
choose1 in power to reach1   ,and in    
duration 7how thy riches rise67         
,duration to perpetuate--boundless      
bliss6     ,ask you1 what power resides 
in feeble man   ,that bliss to gain8 ,is
 ,virtue's1 then1 unknown8   ,virtue1   
our present peace1 our future prize4    
,man's unprecarious1 natural estate1    
#dhj   ,improveable at will1 in virtue  
lies2   ,its tenure sure2 its income is 
divine4     ,high-built abundance1 heap 
on heap6 for what8   ,to breed new      
wants1 and beggar us the more2   ,then  
make a richer scramble for the throng8  
,soon as this feeble pulse1 which leaps 
so long   ,almost by miracle1 is tired  
with play1   ,like rubbish from         
disploding engines thrown1   ,our       
magazines of hoarded trifles fly2   ,fly
 diverse2 fly to foreigners1 to foes2   
#dij   ,new masters court1 and call the 
former fools   7,how justly671 for      

dependence on their stay4   ,wide       
scatter1 first1 our playthings2 then1   
our dust4     ,dost court abundance for 
the sake of peace8   ,learn1 and lament 
thy self-defeated scheme3   ,riches     
enable to be richer still2   ,and1      
richer still1 what mortal can resist8   
,thus wealth 7a cruel taskmaster67      
enjoins   ,new toils1 succeeding toils1 
an endless train6   ,and murders peace1 
which taught it first to shine4         
#ejj   ,the poor are half as wretched as
 the rich2   ,whose proud and painful   
privilege it is   ,at once1 to bear a   
double load of woe2   ,to feel the      
stings of envy1 and of want1            
,outrageous want6 both ,indies cannot   
cure4     ,a competence is vital to     
content4   ,much wealth is corpulence1  
if not disease2   ,sick1 or encumber'd1 
is our happiness1   ,a competence is all
 we can enjoy4   ,oh1 be content1 where 
,heaven can give no more6               
#eaj   ,more1 like a flash of water from
 a lock1   ,quickens our spirits'       

movement for an hour2   ,but soon its   
force is spent1 nor rise our joys       
,above our native temper's common       
stream4   ,hence disappointment lurks in
 every prize1   ,as bees in flowers2 and
 stings us with success4     ,the rich  
man1 who denies it1 proudly feigns2     
,nor knows the wise are privy to the    
lie4   ,much learning shows how little  
mortals know2   ,much wealth1 how little
 worldlings can enjoy3                  
#ebj   ,at best1 it babies us with      
endless toys1   ,and keeps us children  
till we drop to dust4   ,as monkeys at a
 mirror stand amazed1   ,they fail to   
find what they so plainly see2          
#ebd   ,thus men1 in shining riches1 see
 the face   ,of happiness1 nor know it  
is a shade2   ,but gaze1 and touch1 and 
peep1 and peep again1   ,and wish1 and  
wonder it is absent still4     ,how few 
can rescue opulence from want6   ,who   
lives to ,nature1 rarely can be poor2   
,who lives to ,fancy1 never can be rich4
   ,poor is the man in debt2 the man of 

gold1                          #ecb     
,in debt to ,fortune1 trembles at her   
power4   ,the man of reason smiles at   
her1 and ,death4   ,oh6 what a patrimony
 this6 a being   ,of such inherent      
strength and majesty1   ,not worlds     
possess'd can raise it2 worlds destroy'd
   ,can't injure2 which holds on its    
glorious course1   ,when thine1 ,o      
,nature6 ends2 too blest to mourn       
,creation's obsequies4 ,what treasure1  
this6                         #edj      
,the monarch is a beggar to the man4    
,immortal6 ,ages past1 yet nothing gone6
   ,morn without eve6 a race without a  
goal6   ,unshorten'd by progression     
infinite6   ,futurity for ever future6  
,life   ,beginning still where          
computation ends6   ',tis the           
description of a deity6   ',tis the     
description of the meanest slave3   ,the
 meanest slave dares then ,lorenzo      
scorn8   ,the meanest slave thy         
sovereign glory shares4                 
#eej   ,proud youth6 fastidious of the  

lower world6   ,man's lawful pride      
includes humility2   ,stoops to the     
lowest2 is too great to find            
,inferiors2 all immortal6 brothers all6 
,proprietors eternal of thy love4       
,immortal6 ,what can strike the sense so
 strong1   ,as this the soul8 ,it       
thunders to the thought2   ,reason      
amazes2 gratitude o'erwhelms2           
#eeh   ,no more we slumber on the brink 
of fate2   ,roused at the sound1 th'    
exulting soul ascends1   ,and breathes  
her native air2 an air that feeds       
,ambitions high1 and fans ethereal      
fires2   ,quick kindles all that is     
divine within us2   ,nor leaves one     
loitering thought beneath the stars4    
,has not ,lorenzo's bosom caught the    
flame8   ,immortal6 ,were but one       
immortal1 how   ,would others envy6 how 
would thrones adore6   ,because 'tis    
common1 is the blessing lost8   ,how    
this ties up the bounteous hand of      
,heaven6                     #efi   ,oh1
 vain1 vain1 vain1 all else6 ,eternity6 

,a glorious and a needful refuge1 that1 
,from vile imprisonment1 in abject      
views4   ',tis immortality1 'tis that   
alone1   ,amid life's pains1 abasements1
 emptiness1   ,the soul can comfort1    
elevate1 and fill4   ,that only1 and    
that amply1 this performs2   ,lifts us  
above life's pains1 her joys above2     
,their terror those1 and these their    
lustre lose2   ,eternity depending      
covers all2   ,eternity depending all   
achieves2                               
#ehj   ,sets earth at distance2 casts   
her into shades2   ,blends her          
distinctions2 abrogates her powers2     
,the low1 the lofty1 joyous1 and severe1
   ,fortune's dread frowns1 and         
fascinating smiles1   ,make one         
promiscuous and neglected heap1   ,the  
man beneath2 if ,i may call him man1    
,whom immortality's full force inspires4
   ,nothing terrestrial touches his high
 thought2   ,suns shine unseen1 and     
thunders roll unheard1   ,by minds quite
 conscious of their high descent1       

#eij   ,their present province1 and     
their future prize2   ,divinely darting 
upward every wish1                      
#eib   ,warm on the wing1 in glorious   
absence lost6     ,doubt you this truth8
 ,why labours your belief8   ,if earth's
 whole orb by some due distanced eye    
,were seen at once1 her towering ,alps  
would sink1   ,and levell'd ,atlas leave
 an even sphere4   ,thus earth1 and all 
that earthly minds admire1   ,is        
swallow'd in eternity's vast round4     
,to that stupendous view1 when souls    
awake1                         #fjj     
,so large of late1 so mountainous to    
man1   ,time's toys subside2 and equal  
all below4     ,enthusiastic1 this8     
,then all are weak1   ,but rank         
enthusiasts4 ,to this godlike height    
,some souls have soar'd2 or martyrs     
ne'er had bled1   ,and all may do1 what 
has by man been done4   ,who1 beaten by 
these sublunary storms1   ,boundless1   
interminable joys can weigh1            
,unraptured1 unexalted1 uninflamed8     

,what slave unblest1 who from           
to-morrow's dawn                        
#faj   ,expects an empire8 ,he forgets  
his chain1   ,and1 throned in thought1  
his absent sceptre waves4     ,and what 
a sceptre waits us6 what a throne6      
,her own immense appointments to        
compute1   ,or comprehend her high      
prerogatives1   ,in this her dark       
minority1 how toils1   ,how vainly      
pants1 the human soul divine6   ,too    
great the bounty seems for earthly joy2 
,what heart but trembles at so strange a
 bliss8     ,in spite of all the truths 
the ,muse has sung1                     
#fbj   ,ne'er to be prized enough6      
enough revolved6   ,are there who wrap  
the world so close about them1   ,they  
see no farther than the clouds2 and     
dance   ,on heedless vanity's fantastic 
toe1   ,till1 stumbling at a straw1 in  
their career1   ,headlong they plunge1  
where end both dance and song8   ,are   
there1 ,lorenzo8 is it possible8        
#fbg   ,are there on earth 7let me not  

call them men7   ,who lodge a soul      
immortal in their breasts2              
,unconscious as the mountain of its ore2
   ,or rock of its inestimable gem8     
,when rocks shall melt1 and mountains   
vanish1 these   ,shall know their       
treasure2 treasure1 then1 no more4      
#fcc     ,are there 7still more         
amazing67 who resist   ,the rising      
thought8 who smother1 in its birth1     
,the glorious truth8 who struggle to be 
brutes8   ,who through this             
bosom-barrier burst their way1   ,and1  
with reversed ambition1 strive to sink8 
,who labour downwards through th'       
opposing powers   ,of instinct1 reason1 
and the world against them1             
#fdj   ,to dismal hopes1 and shelter in 
the shock   ,of endless night2 night    
darker than the grave's8   ,who fight   
the proofs of immortality8   ,with      
horrid zeal1 and execrable arts1   ,work
 all their engines1 level their black   
fires1   ,to blot from man this         
attribute divine   7,than vital blood   

far dearer to the wise71   ,blasphemers1
 and rank atheists to themselves8       
,to contradict them1 see all nature     
rise6   ,what object1 what event1 the   
moon beneath1                           
#fej   ,but argues1 or endears1 an      
after-scene8   ,to reason proves1 or    
weds it to desire8   ,all things        
proclaim it needful2 some advance   ,one
 precious step beyond1 and prove it     
sure4   ,a thousand arguments swarm     
round my pen1   ,from heaven1 and earth1
 and man4 ,indulge a few1   ,by ,nature1
 as her common habit1 worn2   ,so       
pressing ,providence a truth to teach1  
,which truth untaught1 all other truths 
were vain4     ,thou6 whose             
all-providential eye surveys1           
#ffj   ,whose hand directs1 whose       
,spirit fills and warms   ,creation1 and
 holds empire far beyond6   ,eternity's 
inhabitant august6   ,of two eternities 
amazing ,lord6   ,one past1 ere man's1  
or angel's1 had begun   ,aid6 while ,i  
rescue from the foe's assault   ,thy    

glorious immortality in man3   ,a theme 
for ever1 and for all1 of weight1   ,of 
moment infinite6 but relish'd most   ,by
 those who love ,thee most1 who most    
adore4                       #fgj       
,nature1 thy daughter1 ever-changing    
birth   ,of ,thee the ,great ,immutable1
 to man   ,speaks wisdom1 is his oracle 
supreme2   ,and he who most consults    
her1 is most wise4   ,lorenzo1 to this  
heavenly ,delphos haste2   ,and come    
back all-immortal1 all-divine3   ,look  
nature through1 'tis revolution all2    
,all change2 no death4 ,day follows     
night2 and night   ,the dying day2 stars
 rise1 and set1 and rise2   ,earth takes
 th' example4 ,see1 the summer gay1     
#fhj   ,with her green chaplet1 and     
ambrosial flowers1   ,droops into pallid
 autumn3 winter grey1   ,horrid with    
frost1 and turbulent with storm1        
,blows autumn1 and his golden fruits1   
away3   ,then melts into the spring3    
soft spring1 with breath   ,favonian1   
from warm chambers of the south1        

,recalls the first4 ,all1 to            
re-flourish1 fades2   ,as in a wheel1   
all sinks1 to re-ascend4   ,emblems of  
man1 who passes1 not expires4     ,with 
this minute distinction1 emblems just1  
#fij   ,nature revolves1 but man        
advances2 both   ,eternal1 that a       
circle1 this a line4   ,that gravitates1
 this soars4 ,th' aspiring soul1        
,ardent1 and tremulous1 like flame1     
ascends1                        #fid    
,zeal and humility her wings1 to heaven4
   ,the world of matter1 with its       
various forms1   ,all dies into new     
life4 ,life born from death   ,rolls the
 vast mass1 and shall for ever roll4    
,no single atom1 once in being1 lost1   
,with change of counsel charges the     
,most ,high4     ,what hence infers     
,lorenzo8 ,can it be8   ,matter         
immortal8 ,and shall ,spirit die8       
#gjb   ,above the nobler1 shall less    
noble rise8   ,shall ,man alone1 for    
whom all else revives1   ,no            
resurrection know8 ,shall ,man alone1   

,imperial ,man6 be sown in barren       
ground1   ,less privileged than grain1  
on which he feeds8   ,is ,man1 in whom  
alone is power to prize   ,the bliss of 
being1 or with previous pain   ,deplore 
its period1 by the spleen of fate1      
#gaj   ,severely doom'd ,death's single 
unredeem'd8     ,if ,nature's revolution
 speaks aloud1   ,in her gradation1 hear
 her louder still4   ,look nature       
through1 'tis neat gradation all4   ,by 
what minute degrees her scale ascends6  
,each middle nature join'd at each      
extreme1   ,to that above it join'd1 to 
that beneath4   ,parts1 into parts      
reciprocally shot1   ,abhor divorce3    
what love of union reigns6   ,here1     
dormant matter waits a call to life2    
#gbj   ,half life1 half death1 join     
there2 here1 life and sense2   ,there1  
sense from reason steals a glimmering   
ray2   ,reason shines out in man4 ,but  
how preserved   ,the chain unbroken     
upward1 to the realms   ,of incorporeal 
life8 those realms of bliss1   ,where   

,death hath no dominion8 ,grant a make  
,half mortal1 half immortal2 earthy1    
part1   ,and part ethereal2 grant the   
soul of man                             
#gbh   ,eternal2 or in man the series   
ends4   ,wide yawns the gap2 connexion  
is no more2   ,check'd ,reason halts2   
her next step wants support2   ,striving
 to climb1 she tumbles from her scheme2 
,a scheme1 analogy pronounced so true2  
,analogy1 man's surest guide below4     
#gcd     ,thus far1 all nature calls on 
thy belief4   ,and will ,lorenzo1       
careless of the call1   ,false          
attestation on all nature charge1       
,rather than violate his league with    
,death8   ,renounce his reason1 rather  
than renounce   ,the dust beloved1 and  
run the risk of heaven8                 
#gdj   ,oh1 what indignity to deathless 
souls6   ,what treason to the majesty of
 man6   ,of man immortal6 ,hear the     
lofty style3   ,if so decreed1 th'      
,almighty ,will be done4   ,let earth   
dissolve1 yon ponderous orbs descend1   

,and grind us into dust4 ,the soul is   
safe2   ,the man emerges2 mounts above  
the wreck1   ,as towering flame#ca from 
,nature's funeral pyre2   ,o'er         
devastation1 as a gainer1 smiles2   ,his
 charter1 his inviolable rights1        
#gej   ,well pleased to learn from      
thunder's impotence1   ,death's         
pointless darts1 and hell's defeated    
storms4     ,but these chimeras touch   
not thee1 ,lorenzo6   ,the glories of   
the world thy sevenfold shield4   ,other
 ambition than of crowns in air1   ,and 
superlunary felicities1   ,thy bosom    
warm4 ,i'll cool it1 if ,i can2   ,and  
turn those glories that enchant1 against
 thee4   ,what ties thee to this life1  
proclaims the next4                     
#gei   ,if wise1 the cause that wounds  
thee is thy cure4     ,come1 my         
ambitious6 let us mount together   7,to 
mount1 ,lorenzo never can refuse72      
,and from the clouds1 where pride       
delights to dwell1   ,look down on      
earth4--,what seest thou8 ,wondrous     

things6   ,terrestrial wonders1 that    
eclipse the skies4   ,what lengths of   
labour'd lands6 what loaded seas6       
,loaded by man1 for pleasure1 wealth1 or
 war6   ,seas1 winds1 and planets1 into 
service brought1   ,his art acknowledge1
 and promote his ends4   ,nor can th'   
eternal rocks his will withstand2       
#ggj   ,what levell'd mountains6 and    
what lifted vales6   ,o'er vales and    
mountains sumptuous cities swell4   ,and
 gild our landscape with their          
glittering spires4   ,some mid the      
wondering waves majestic rise2   ,and   
,neptune holds a mirror to their charms4
   ,far greater still6 7what cannot     
mortal might87   ,see1 wide dominions   
ravish'd from the deep6   ,the narrow'd 
deep with indignation foams4   ,or      
southward turn2 to delicate and grand1  
,the finer arts there ripen in the sun4 
#ghj   ,how the tall temples1 as to meet
 their gods1   ,ascend the skies6 the   
proud triumphal arch   ,shows us half   
heaven beneath its ample bend4   ,high  

through mid-air1 here1 streams are      
taught to flow2   ,whole rivers1 there1 
laid by in basins1 sleep4   ,here1      
plains turn oceans2 there1 vast oceans  
join   ,through kingdoms channell'd deep
 from shore to shore2   ,and changed    
creation takes its face from man4       
,beats thy brave breast for formidable  
scenes1   ,where fame and empire wait   
upon the sword8                         
#gij   ,see fields in blood2 hear naval 
thunders rise2   ,britannia's voice6    
that awes the world to peace4   ,how yon
 enormous mole projecting breaks        
#gic   ,the mid-sea1 furious waves6     
,their roar amidst1   ,out-speaks the   
,deity1 and says1 ,o main6   ,thus far1 
nor farther2 new restraints obey4       
,earth's disembowell'd6 measured are the
 skies6   ,stars are detected in their  
deep recess6   ,creation widens6        
vanquish'd ,nature yields6   ,her       
secrets are extorted6 ,art prevails6    
#hjj   ,what monument of genius1 spirit1
 power6     ,and now1 ,lorenzo6 raptured

 at this scene1   ,whose glories render 
heaven superfluous6 say1   ,whose       
footsteps these8--,immortals have been  
here4   ,could less than souls immortal 
this have done8   ,earth's cover'd o'er 
with proofs of souls immortal2   ,and   
proofs of immortality forgot4     ,to   
flatter thy grand foible1 ,i confess1   
,these are ,ambition's works3 and these 
are great3   ,but this1 the least       
immortal souls can do2                  
#haj   ,transcend them all--but what can
 these transcend8   ,dost ask me        
what8--,one sigh for the distress'd4    
,what then for infidels8 ,a deeper sigh4
   ',tis moral grandeur makes the mighty
 man3   ,how little they1 who think     
aught great below6   ,all our ambitions 
death defeats1 but one2   ,and that it  
crowns4--,here cease we3 but1 ere long1 
,more powerful proof shall take the     
field against thee1   ,stronger than    
death1 and smiling at the tomb4         
#hai                                    
,,the                                   

,,infidel ,,reclaimed4                  
,,part ,,ii4                            
,,containing                    ,,the   
,,nature1 ,,proof1 ,,and ,,importance   
,,of ,,immortality4                     
,,preface4   ,as we are at war with the 
power1 it were well if we were at war   
with the manners1 of ,france4 ,a land of
 levity is a land of guilt4 ,a serious  
mind is the native soil of every virtue2
 and the single character that does true
 honour to mankind4 ,the soul's         
immortality has been the favourite theme
 with the serious of all ages4 ,nor is  
it strange3 it is a subject by far the  
most interesting and important that can 
enter the mind of man4 ,of highest      
moment this subject always was1 and     
always will be4 ,yet this its highest   
moment seems to admit of increase1 at   
this day2 a sort of occasional          
importance is superadded to the natural 
weight of it2 if that opinion which is  
advanced in the ,preface to the         
preceding ,night be just4 ,it is there  

supposed1 that all our infidels1        
whatever scheme1 for argument's sake1   
and to keep themselves in countenance1  
they patronise1 are betrayed into their 
deplorable error1 by some doubts of     
their immortality1 at the bottom4 ,and  
the more ,i consider this point1 the    
more ,i am persuaded of the truth of    
that opinion4 ,though the distrust of a 
futurity is a strange error2 yet it is  
an error into which bad men may         
naturally be distressed4 ,for it is     
impossible to bid defiance to final     
ruin1 without some refuge in            
imagination1 some presumption of escape4
 ,and what presumption is there8 ,there 
are but two in nature2 but two1 within  
the compass of human thought4 ,and these
 are1--,that either ,god will not1 or   
can not1 punish4 ,considering the divine
 attributes1 the first is too gross to  
be digested by our strongest wishes4    
,and since omnipotence is as much a     
divine attribute as holiness1 that ,god 
cannot punish1 is as absurd a           

supposition as the former4 ,god         
certainly can punish as long as wicked  
men exist4 ,in non-existence1 therefore1
 is their only refuge2 and1             
consequently1 non-existence is their    
strongest wish4 ,and strong wishes have 
a strange influence on our opinions2    
they bias the judgment in a manner      
almost incredible4 ,and since on this   
member of their alternative1 there are  
some very small appearances in their    
favour1 and none at all on the other1   
they catch at this reed1 they lay hold  
on this chimera1 to save themselves from
 the shock and horror of an immediate   
and absolute despair4  ,on reviewing my 
subject1 by the light which this        
argument1 and others of like tendency1  
threw upon it1 ,i was more inclined than
 ever to pursue it1 as it appeared to me
 to strike directly at the main root of 
all our infidelity4 ,in the following   
pages it is1 accordingly1 pursued at    
large2 and some arguments for           
immortality1 new at least to me1 are    

ventured on in them4 ,there also the    
writer has made an attempt to set the   
gross absurdities and horrors of        
annihilation in a fuller and more       
affecting view than is 7,i think7 to be 
met with elsewhere4  ,the gentlemen1 for
 whose sake this attempt was chiefly    
made1 profess great admiration for the  
wisdom of heathen antiquity3 what pity  
it is they are not sincere6 ,if they    
were sincere1 how would it mortify them 
to consider1 with what contempt and     
abhorrence their notions would have been
 received by those whom they so much    
admire6 ,what degree of contempt and    
abhorrence would fall to their share1   
may be conjectured by the following     
matter of fact 7in my opinion7 extremely
 memorable4 ,of all their heathen       
worthies1 ,socrates 7it is well known7  
was the most guarded1 dispassionate1 and
 composed3 yet this great master of     
temper was angry2 and angry at his last 
hour2 and angry with his friend2 and    
angry for what deserved acknowledgment2 

angry for a right and tender instance of
 true friendship towards him4 ,is not   
this surprising8 ,what could be the     
cause8 ,the cause was for his honour2 it
 was a truly noble1 though1 perhaps1 a  
too punctilious1 regard for immortality4
 ,for his friend asking him1 with such  
an affectionate concern as became a     
friend1 where he should deposit his     
remains1 it was resented by ,socrates1  
as implying a dishonourable supposition1
 that he could be so mean1 as to have a 
regard for anything1 even in himself1   
that was not immortal4  ,this fact well 
considered1 would make our infidels     
withdraw their admiration from          
,socrates2 or make them endeavour1 by   
their imitation of this illustrious     
example1 to share his glory3 and1       
consequently1 it would incline them to  
peruse the following pages with candour 
and impartiality2 which is all ,i       
desire2 and that1 for their sakes3 for  
,i am persuaded1 that an unprejudiced   
infidel must1 necessarily1 receive some 

advantageous impressions from them4     
,july #g1 #agdd4                        
,,night ,,seventh4                      
,,the ,,infidel ,,reclaimed4            
,,part ,,ii4                            
,,contents4  ,in the ,sixth ,night      
arguments were drawn1 from ,nature1 in  
proof of ,immortality3 here1 others are 
drawn from ,man3 from his ,discontent1  
ver4 #bi2 from his ,passions and        
,powers1 #fc2 from the gradual growth of
 ,reason1 #ha2 from his fear of ,death1 
#hf2 from the nature of ,hope1 #ajd2 and
 of ,virtue1 #aei1 c42 from ,knowledge  
and ,love1 as being the most essential  
properties of the soul1 #bec2 from the  
order of ,creation1 #bij1 c42 from the  
nature of ,ambition1 #ccg1 c42 ,avarice1
 #dfj2 ,pleasure1 #dgg4 ,a digression on
 the grandeur of the ,passions1 #eba4   
,immortality alone renders our present  
state intelligible1 #ede4 ,an objection 
from the ,stoics' disbelief of          
immortality answered1 #ehe4 ,endless    
questions unresolvable1 but on the      

supposition of our immortality1 #fjf4   
,the natural1 most melancholy1 and      
pathetic complaint of a worthy man1     
under the persuasion of no ,futurity1   
#fec1 c4 ,the gross absurdities and     
horrors of annihilation urged home on   
,lorenzo1 #hdc1 c4 ,the soul's vast     
importance1 #iib1 c42 from whence it    
arises1 #ajhj4 ,the ,difficulty of being
 an ,infidel1 #aacc2 the ,infamy1 #aadh2
 the ,cause1 #aahh2 and the ,character1 
#abjc1 of an ,infidel state4 ,what true 
free-thinking is1 #abah4 ,the necessary 
punishment of the false1 #abgc4 ,man's  
ruin is from himself1 #acjc4 ,an        
,infidel accuses himself with guilt and 
hypocrisy1 and that of the worst sort1  
#acai4 ,his obligation to ,christians1  
#accg4 ,what danger he incurs by        
,virtue1 #acde4 ,vice recommended to    
him1 #acfd4 ,his high pretences to      
,virtue and ,benevolence exploded1      
#acgc4 ,the ,conclusion1 on the nature  
of ,faith1 #adjf2 ,reason1 #addj2 and   
,hope1 #adde2 with an apology for this  

attempt1 #adgb4    ,heaven gives the    
needful1 but neglected1 call4   ,what   
day1 what hour1 but knocks at human     
hearts1   ,to wake the soul to sense of 
future scenes8                          
#c   ,deaths stand1 like ,mercuries1 in 
every way1   ,and kindly point us to our
 journey's end4   ,pope1 who could'st   
make immortals6 art thou dead8   ,i give
 thee joy3 nor will ,i take my leave2   
,so soon to follow4 ,man but dives in   
death2   ,dives from the sun1 in fairer 
day to rise2   ,the grave1 his          
subterranean road to bliss4             
#aj   ,yes1 infinite indulgence plann'd 
it so2   ,through various parts our     
glorious story runs2   ,time gives the  
preface1 endless age unrolls   ,the     
volume 7ne'er unroll'd67 of human fate4 
,this1 earth and skies already#cb have  
proclaim'd4   ,the world's a prophecy of
 worlds to come2   ,and who1 what ,god  
foretells 7who speaks in things1        
,still louder than in words7 shall dare 
deny8   ,if ,nature's arguments appear  

too weak1   ,turn a new leaf1 and       
stronger read in ,man4                  
#bj   ,if man sleeps on1 untaught by    
what he sees1   ,can he prove infidel to
 what he feels8   ,he1 whose blind      
thought futurity denies1   ,unconscious 
bears1 ,bellerophon6#cc like thee1      
,his own indictment2 he condemns        
himself2   ,who reads his bosom1 reads  
immortal life2   ,or1 ,nature1 there1   
imposing on her sons1   ,has written    
fables2 man was made a lie4     ,why    
,discontent for ever harbour'd there8   
,incurable consumption of our peace6    
#cj   ,resolve me1 why1 the cottager1   
and king1   ,he1 whom sea-sever'd realms
 obey1 and he   ,who steals his whole   
dominion from the waste1   ,repelling   
winter blasts with mud and straw        
#cd   ,disquieted alike1 draw sigh for  
sigh1   ,in fate so distant1 in         
complaint so near8     ,is it1 that     
things terrestrial can't content8       
,deep in rich pasture will thy flocks   
complain8   ,not so2 but to their master

 is denied   ,to share their sweet      
serene4 ,man1 ill at ease1   ,in this1  
not his own place1 this foreign field1  
,where ,nature fodders him with other   
food1                           #db     
,than was ordain'd his cravings to      
suffice1   ,poor in abundance1 famish'd 
at a feast1   ,sighs on for something   
more1 when most enjoy'd4     ,is        
,heaven1 then1 kinder to thy flocks than
 thee8   ,not so2 thy pasture richer1   
but remote2   ,in part1 remote2 for that
 remoter part   ,man bleats from        
instinct1 though perhaps1 debauch'd     
,by sense1 his reason sleeps1 nor dreams
 the cause4                  #ej   ,the 
cause how obvious1 when his reason      
wakes6   ,his grief is but his grandeur 
in disguise2   ,and discontent is       
immortality4     ,shall sons of ether1  
shall the blood of heaven1   ,set up    
their hopes on earth1 and stable here1  
,with brutal acquiescence in the mire8  
,lorenzo1 no6 they shall be nobly       
pain'd2   ,the glorious foreigners1     

distress'd1 shall sigh   ,on thrones2   
and thou congratulate the sigh3   ,man's
 misery declares him born for bliss2    
#fj   ,his anxious heart asserts the    
truth ,i sing1   ,and gives the sceptic 
in his head the lie4     ,our heads1 our
 hearts1 our passions1 and our powers1  
,speak the same language2 call us to the
 skies3   ,unripen'd these in this      
inclement clime1   ,scarce rise above   
conjecture1 and mistake2   ,and for this
 land of trifles those too strong       
,tumultuous rise1 and tempest human     
life3                            #fh    
,what prize on earth can pay us for the 
storm8   ,meet objects for our passions 
,heaven ordain'd1   ,objects that       
challenge all their fire1 and leave     
,no fault1 but in defect3 bless'd       
,heaven6 avert   ,a bounded ardour for  
unbounded bliss6   ,o for a bliss       
unbounded6 ,far beneath   ,a soul       
immortal1 is a mortal joy4   ,nor are   
our powers to perish immature2   ,but1  
after feeble effort here1 beneath   ,a  

brighter sun1 and in a nobler soil1     
,transplanted from this sublunary bed1  
,shall flourish fair1 and put forth all 
their bloom4                 #hj        
,reason progressive1 ,instinct is       
complete2   ,swift ,instinct leaps2 slow
 ,reason feebly climbs4   ,brutes soon  
their zenith reach2 their little all    
,flows in at once2 in ages they no more 
,could know1 or do1 or covet1 or enjoy4 
,were man to live coeval with the sun1  
,the patriarch-pupil would be learning  
still2   ,yet1 dying1 leave his lesson  
half unlearn'd4   ,men perish in        
advance1 as if the sun   ,should set ere
 noon1 in eastern oceans drown'd2       
#ij   ,if fit1 with dim1 illustrious to 
compare1   ,the sun's meridian with the 
soul of man4   ,to man1 why1 stepdame   
,nature6 so severe8   ,why thrown aside 
thy masterpiece half wrought1   ,while  
meaner efforts thy last hand enjoy8     
,or1 if abortively1 poor man must die1  
,nor reach1 what reach he might1 why die
 in dread8   ,why cursed with foresight8

 wise to misery8   ,why of his proud    
prerogative the prey8   ,why less       
pre-eminent in rank than pain8          
#ajj   ,his immortality alone can tell2 
,full ample fund to balance all amiss1  
#ajb   ,and turn the scale in favour of 
the just6     ,his immortality alone can
 solve   ,the darkest of enigmas1 human 
hope2   ,of all the darkest1 if at death
 we die4   ,hope1 eager ,hope1 th'      
assassin of our joy1   ,all present     
blessings treading under foot1   ,is    
scarce a milder tyrant than ,despair4   
,with no past toils content1 still      
planting new1                    #aaj   
,hope turns us o'er to death alone for  
ease4   ,possession1 why more tasteless 
than pursuit8   ,why is a wish far      
dearer than a crown8   ,that wish       
accomplish'd1 why the grave of bliss8   
,because1 in the great future buried    
deep1   ,beyond our plans of empire and 
renown1   ,lies all that man with ardour
 should pursue2   ,and ,he who made him1
 bent him to the right4     ,man's heart

 th' ,almighty to the future sets1   ,by
 secret and inviolable springs2         
#abj   ,and makes his hope his sublunary
 joy4   ,man's heart eats all things1   
and is hungry still2   ,more1 more6 the 
glutton cries3 for something new   ,so  
rages appetite1 if man can't mount1     
,he will descend4 ,he starves on the    
possess'd4   ,hence1 the world's master1
 from ambition's spire1   ,in ,caprea   
plunged2 and dived beneath the brute4   
,in that rank sty why wallow'd empire's 
son   ,supreme8 ,because he could no    
higher fly2   ,his riot was ambition in 
despair4                                
#acj     ,old ,rome consulted birds2    
,lorenzo6 thou   ,with more success1 the
 flight of ,hope survey2   ,of restless 
,hope1 for ever on the wing4   ,high    
perch'd o'er every thought that falcon  
sits1   ,to fly at all that rises in her
 sight2   ,and never stooping1 but to   
mount again                             
#acf   ,next moment1 she betrays her    
aim's mistake1   ,and owns her quarry   

lodged beyond the grave4     ,there     
should it fail us 7it must fail us      
there1   ,if being fails71 more mournful
 riddles rise1   ,and ,virtue vies with 
,hope in mystery4   ,why ,virtue8 where 
its praise1 its being1 fled8   ,virtue  
is true self-interest pursued3          
#adc   ,what true self-interest of      
quite-mortal man8   ,to close with all  
that makes him happy here4   ,if vice   
7as sometimes7 is our friend on earth1  
,then vice is virtue2 'tis our sovereign
 good4   ,in self-applause is virtue's  
golden prize2   ,no self-applause       
attends it on thy scheme3   ,whence     
self-applause8 ,from conscience of the  
right4   ,and what is right1 but means  
of happiness8                           
#aea   ,no means of happiness when      
virtue yields2   ,that basis failing1   
falls the building too1   ,and lays in  
ruin every virtuous joy4     ,the rigid 
guardian of a blameless heart1   ,so    
long revered1 so long reputed wise1     
,is weak2 with rank knight-errantries   

o'errun4   ,why beats thy bosom with    
illustrious dreams   ,of self-exposure1 
laudable1 and great8   ,of gallant      
enterprise1 and glorious death8         
#afj   ,die for thy country6--,thou     
romantic fool6   ,seize1 seize the plank
 thyself1 and let her sink3   ,thy      
country6 what to thee8--the ,godhead1   
what8   7,i speak with awe67 though ,he 
should bid thee bleed8   ,if1 with thy  
blood1 thy final hope is spilt1   ,nor  
can ,omnipotence reward the blow1   ,be 
deaf2 preserve thy being2 disobey4      
,nor is it disobedience3 know1 ,lorenzo6
   ,whate'er th' ,almighty's subsequent 
command1   ,his first command is        
this3--,man1 love thyself4              
#agj   ,in this alone1 free agents are  
not free4   ,existence is the basis1    
bliss the prize2   ,if virtue costs     
existence1 'tis a crime2   ,bold        
violation of our law supreme1   ,black  
suicide2 though nations1 which consult  
,their gain1 at thy expence1 resound    
applause4     ,since ,virtue's          

recompence is doubtful1 here1   ,if man 
dies wholly1 well may we demand1   ,why 
is man suffer'd to be good in vain8     
,why to be good in vain1 is man         
enjoin'd8                           #ahj
   ,why to be good in vain1 is man      
betray'd8   ,betray'd by traitors lodged
 in his own breast1   ,by sweet         
complacencies from virtue felt8   ,why  
whispers ,nature lies on ,virtue's part8
   ,or if blind ,instinct 7which assumes
 the name   ,of sacred conscience7 plays
 the fool in man1   ,why ,reason made   
accomplice in the cheat8   ,why are the 
wisest loudest in her praise8   ,can man
 by ,reason's beam be led astray8   ,or1
 at his peril1 imitate his ,god8        
#aij   ,since virtue sometimes ruins us 
on earth1   ,or both are true1 or man   
survives the grave4     ,or man survives
 the grave1 or own1 ,lorenzo1   ,thy    
boast supreme1 a wild absurdity4        
,dauntless thy spirit2 cowards are thy  
scorn4   ,grant man immortal1 and thy   
scorn is just4   ,the man immortal1     

rationally brave1   ,dares rush on      
death--because he cannot die4   ,but if 
man loses all1 when life is lost1   ,he 
lives a coward1 or a fool expires4      
#bjj   ,a daring infidel 7and such there
 are1   ,from pride1 example1 lucre1    
rage1 revenge1   ,or pure heroical      
defect of thought71                     
#bjc   ,of all earth's madmen1 most     
deserves a chain4     ,when to the grave
 we follow the renown'd   ,for valour1  
virtue1 science1 all we love1   ,and all
 we praise2 for worth1 whose noontide   
beam1   ,enabling us to think in higher 
style1   ,mends our ideas of ethereal   
powers2   ,dream we1 that lustre of the 
moral world                             
#baj   ,goes out in stench1 and         
rottenness the close8   ,why was he wise
 to know1 and warm to praise1   ,and    
strenuous to transcribe1 in human life1 
,the ,mind ,almighty8 ,could it be1 that
 ,fate1   ,just when the lineaments     
began to shine1   ,and dawn the ,deity1 
should snatch the draught1   ,with night

 eternal blot it out1 and give   ,the   
skies alarm1 lest angels too might die8 
,if human souls1 why not angelic too    
,extinguish'd8 and a solitary ,god1     
#bbj   ,o'er ghastly ruin1 frowning from
 his throne8   ,shall we this moment    
gaze on ,god in man8   ,the next1 lose  
man for ever in the dust8   ,from dust  
we disengage1 or man mistakes2   ,and   
there1 where least his judgment fears a 
flaw4   ,wisdom and worth1 how boldly he
 commends6   ,wisdom and worth1 are     
sacred names2 revered1   ,where not     
embraced2 applauded2 deified2   ,why not
 compassion'd too8 ,if spirits die1     
,both are calamities1 inflicted both1   
#bcj   ,to make us but more wretched3   
,wisdom's eye   ,acute1 for what8 to spy
 more miseries2   ,and worth1 so        
recompensed1 new-points their stings4   
,or man surmounts the grave1 or gain is 
loss1   ,and worth exalted humbles us   
the more4   ,thou wilt not patronise a  
scheme that makes                       
#bcf   ,weakness and vice the refuge of 

mankind4     ,has virtue1 then1 no      
joys8--,yes1 joys dear-bought4   ,talk  
ne'er so long1 in this imperfect state1 
,virtue and vice are at eternal war1    
,virtue's a combat2 and who fights for  
nought8   ,or for precarious1 or for    
small reward8   ,who virtue's           
self-reward so loud resound1            
#bdc   ,would take degrees angelic here 
below1   ,and virtue1 while they        
compliment1 betray1   ,by feeble        
motives1 and unfaithful guards4   ,the  
crown1 th' unfading crown1 her soul     
inspires3   ',tis that1 and that alone1 
can countervail   ,the body's           
treacheries1 and the world's assaults3  
,on earth's poor pay our famish'd virtue
 dies4                      #bej        
,truth incontestible6 in spite of all   
,a ,bayle has preach'd1 or a ,voltaire  
believed4     ,in man the more we dive1 
the more we see   ,heaven's signet      
stamping an immortal make4   ,dive to   
the bottom of his soul1 the base        
,sustaining all2 what find we8          

knowledge1 love4   ,as light and heat1  
essential to the sun1   ,these to the   
soul4 ,and why1 if souls expire8   ,how 
little lovely here8 how little known8   
,small knowledge we dig up with endless 
toil2                       #bfj   ,and 
love unfeign'd may purchase perfect     
hate4   ,why starved1 on earth1 our     
angel appetites2   ,while brutal are    
indulged their fulsome fill8   ,were    
then capacities divine conferr'd1   ,as 
a mock-diadem1 in savage sport1   ,rank 
insult of our pompous poverty1   ,which 
reaps but pain1 from seeming claims so  
fair8   ,in future age lies no redress8 
and shuts   ,eternity the door on our   
complaint8   ,if so1 for what strange   
ends were mortals made6                 
#bgj   ,the worst to wallow1 and the    
best to weep2   ,the man who merits     
most1 must most complain3   ,can we     
conceive a disregard in heaven1   ,what 
the worst perpetrate1 or best endure8   
,this cannot be4 ,to love1 and know1 in 
man   ,is boundless appetite1 and       

boundless power2   ,and these           
demonstrate boundless objects too4      
,objects1 powers1 appetites1 ,heaven    
suits in all2   ,nor1 nature through1   
e'er violates this sweet1   ,eternal    
concord1 on her tuneful string4         
#bhj   ,is ,man the sole exception from 
her laws8   ,eternity struck off from   
human hope   7,i speak with truth1 but  
veneration too71   ,man is a monster1   
the reproach of ,heaven1   ,a stain1 a  
dark impenetrable cloud   ,on ,nature's 
beauteous aspect2 and deforms           
7,amazing blot671 deforms her with her  
lord4   ,if such is man's allotment1    
what is heaven8   ,or own the soul      
immortal1 or blaspheme4     ,or own the 
soul immortal1 or invert                
#bij   ,all order4 ,go1 mock-majesty6   
go1 man6   ,and bow to thy superiors of 
the stall2   ,through every scene of    
sense superior far3   ,they graze the   
turf untill'd2 they drink the stream    
,unbrew'd1 and ever full1 and           
unembitter'd   ,with doubts1 fears1     

fruitless hopes1 regrets1 despairs2     
,mankind's peculiar6 reason's precious  
dower6   ,no foreign clime they ransack 
for their robes2   ,nor brothers cite to
 the litigious bar2   ,their good is    
good entire1 unmix'd1 unmarr'd2         
#cjj   ,they find a paradise in every   
field1   ,on boughs forbidden where no  
curses hang3   ,their ill no more than  
strikes the sense2 unstretch'd   ,by    
previous dread1 or murmur in the rear3  
#cjd   ,when the worst comes1 it comes  
unfear'd2 one stroke   ,begins1 and     
ends1 their woe3 they die but once2     
,bless'd1 incommunicable privilege6 for 
which   ,proud man1 who rules the globe1
 and reads the stars1   ,philosopher1 or
 hero1 sighs in vain4     ,account for  
this prerogative in brutes4   ,no day1  
no glimpse of day1 to solve the knot1   
,but what beams on it from eternity4    
#cab   ,o sole and sweet solution6 that 
unties   ,the difficult1 and softens the
 severe2   ,the cloud on nature's       
beauteous face dispels2   ,restores     

bright order2 casts the brute beneath2  
,and re-enthrones us in supremacy   ,of 
joy1 even here3 admit immortal life1    
,and virtue is knight-errantry no more2 
,each virtue brings in hand a golden    
dower1                         #cbj     
,far richer in reversion3 ,hope exults2 
,and though much bitter in our cup is   
thrown1   ,predominates1 and gives the  
taste of heaven4   ,o wherefore is the  
,deity so kind8   ,astonishing beyond   
astonishment6   ,heaven our reward--for 
heaven enjoy'd below4     ,still        
unsubdued thy stubborn heart8--for there
   ,the traitor lurks who doubts the    
truth ,i sing4   ,reason is guiltless2  
will alone rebels4   ,what1 in that     
stubborn heart1 if ,i should find       
#ccj   ,new1 unexpected witnesses       
against thee8   ,ambition1 pleasure1 and
 the love of gain6   ,canst thou suspect
 that these1 which make the soul   ,the 
slave of earth1 should own her heir of  
heaven8   ,canst thou suspect what makes
 us disbelieve   ,our immortality1      

should prove it sure8     ,first1 then1 
,ambition summon to the bar4            
,ambition's shame1 extravagance1 disgust
                            #cch   ,and 
inextinguishable nature1 speak4   ,each 
much deposes2 hear them in their turn4  
,thy soul1 how passionately fond of     
fame6   ,how anxious1 that fond passion 
to conceal6   ,we blush1 detected in    
designs on praise1   ,though for best   
deeds1 and from the best of men3   ,and 
why8 ,because immortal4 ,art divine     
,has made the body tutor to the soul2   
,heaven kindly gives our blood a moral  
flow2   ,bids it ascend the glowing     
cheek1 and there   ,upbraid that little 
heart's inglorious aim1   ,which stoops 
to court a character from man2          
#cej   ,while o'er us1 in tremendous    
judgment sit   ,far more than man1 with 
endless praise1 and blame4              
,ambition's boundless appetite outspeaks
   ,the verdict of its shame4 ,when     
souls take fire   ,at high presumptions 
of their own desert1   ,one age is poor 

applause2 the mighty shout1   ,the      
thunder by the living few begun1   ,late
 time must echo2 worlds unborn resound4 
,we wish our names eternally to live3   
,wild dream6 which ne'er had haunted    
human thought1   ,had not our natures   
been eternal too4                       
#cfa   ,instinct points out an interest 
in hereafter2   ,but our blind reason   
sees not where it lies2   ,or1 seeing1  
gives the substance for the shade4      
,fame is the shade of immortality1      
,and in itself a shadow4 ,soon as       
caught1   ,contemn'd2 it shrinks to     
nothing in the grasp4   ,consult th'    
ambitious1 'tis ambition's cure4   ,and 
is this all8 cried ,caesar at his       
height1   ,disgusted4 ,this third proof 
,ambition brings                        
#cgj   ,of immortality4 ,the first in   
fame4   ,observe him near1 your envy    
will abate3                             
#cgb   ,shamed at the disproportion     
vast1 between   ,the passion and the    
purchase1 he will sigh   ,at such       

success1 and blush at his renown4   ,and
 why8 ,because far richer prize invites 
,his heart2 far more illustrious glory  
calls3   ,it calls in whispers1 yet the 
deafest hear4     ,and can ,ambition a  
fourth proof supply8   ,it can1 and     
stronger than the former three2         
#chj   ,yet quite o'erlook'd by some    
reputed wise4   ,though disappointments 
in ambition pain1   ,and though success 
disgusts2 yet still1 ,lorenzo6   ,in    
vain we strive to pluck it from our     
hearts2   ,by ,nature planted for the   
noblest ends4   ,absurd the famed advice
 to ,pyrrhus#cd given1   ,more praised1 
than ponder'd2 specious1 but unsound2   
,sooner that hero's sword the world had 
quell'd1   ,than ,reason1 his ambition4 
,man must soar4   ,an obstinate activity
 within1                                
#cij   ,an insuppressive spring1 will   
toss him up   ,in spite of ,fortune's   
load4 ,not kings alone1   ,each villager
 has his ambition too2   ,no ,sultan    
prouder than his fetter'd slave3        

,slaves build their little ,babylons of 
straw1   ,echo the proud ,assyrian1 in  
their hearts1   ,and cry1--,behold the  
wonders of my might6   ,and why8        
,because immortal as their lord2   ,and 
souls immortal must for ever heave   ,at
 something great2 the glitter1 or the   
gold2                      #djj   ,the  
praise of mortals1 or the praise of     
,heaven4     ,nor absolutely vain is    
human praise1   ,when human is supported
 by divine4   ,i'll introduce ,lorenzo  
to himself2                             
#djd   ,pleasure and ,pride 7bad        
masters67 share our hearts4   ,as love  
of pleasure is ordain'd to guard   ,and 
feed our bodies1 and extend our race2   
,the love of praise is planted to       
protect1   ,and propagate the glories of
 the mind4   ,what is it1 but the love  
of praise1 inspires1   ,matures1        
refines1 embellishes1 exalts1   ,earth's
 happiness8 ,from that1 the delicate1   
#dab   ,the grand1 the marvellous1 of   
civil life1   ,want and convenience1    

underworkers1 lay   ,the basis1 on which
 love of glory builds4   ,nor is thy    
life1 ,o ,virtue6 less in debt   ,to    
praise1 thy secret stimulating friend4  
,were men not proud1 what merit should  
we miss6   ,pride made the virtues of   
the ,pagan world4   ,praise is the salt 
that seasons right to man1              
#dbj   ,and whets his appetite for moral
 good4   ,thirst of applause is         
,virtue's second guard2   ,reason1 her  
first2 but reason wants an aid2   ,our  
private reason is a flatterer2   ,thirst
 of applause calls public judgment in1  
,to poise our own1 to keep an even      
scale1   ,and give endanger'd ,virtue   
fairer play4     ,here a fifth proof    
arises1 stronger still3   ,why this so  
nice construction of our hearts8        
,these delicate moralities of sense2    
#dcj   ,this constitutional reserve of  
aid   ,to succour virtue1 when our      
reason fails2   ,if virtue1 kept alive  
by care and toil1   ,and oft1 the mark  
of injuries on earth1   ,when labour'd  

to maturity 7its bill   ,of disciplines1
 and pains1 unpaid71 must die8   ,why   
freighted rich1 to dash against a rock8 
,were man to perish when most fit to    
live1                          #dch   ,o
 how misspent were all these stratagems1
   ,by skill divine inwoven in our      
frame6   ,where are ,heaven's holiness  
and mercy fled8   ,laughs ,heaven1 at   
once1 at ,virtue1 and at ,man8   ,if    
not1 why that discouraged1 this         
destroy'd8     ,thus far ,ambition4     
,what says ,avarice8   ,this her chief  
maxim1 which has long been thine3   ,the
 wise and wealthy are the same1--,i     
grant it4   ,to store up treasure with  
incessant toil1   ,this is man's        
province1 this his highest praise4   ,to
 this great end keen ,instinct stings   
him on4   ,to guide that instinct1      
,reason6 is thy charge2                 
#dej   ',tis thine to tell us where true
 treasure lies3   ,but1 ,reason failing 
to discharge her trust1   ,or to the    
deaf discharging it in vain1   ,a       

blunder follows2 and blind ,industry1   
,gall'd by the spur1 but stranger to the
 course   7,the course where stakes of  
more than gold are won71   ,o'erloading1
 with the cares of distant age1   ,the  
jaded spirits of the present hour1      
,provides for an eternity below4        
,thou shalt not covet1 is a wise        
command2                       #dfj     
,but bounded to the wealth the sun      
surveys3   ,look farther1 the command   
stands quite reversed1   ,and avarice is
 a virtue most divine4   ,is faith a    
refuge for our happiness8   ,most sure3 
and is it not for reason too8   ,nothing
 this world unriddles1 but the next4    
,whence inextinguishable thirst of gain8
   ,from inextinguishable life in man4  
,man1 if not meant1 by worth1 to reach  
the skies1   ,had wanted wing to fly so 
far in guilt4                           
#dgj   ,sour grapes1 ,i grant1 ambition1
 avarice1   ,yet still their root is    
immortality3                            
#dgb   ,these its wild growths so       

bitter1 and so base1   7,pain and       
reproach67 ,religion can reclaim1       
,refine1 exalt1 throw down their        
poisonous lee1   ,and make them sparkle 
in the bowl of bliss4     ,see1 the     
third witness laughs at bliss remote1   
,and falsely promises an ,eden here3    
,truth she shall speak for once1 though 
prone to lie1   ,a common cheat1 and    
,pleasure is her name4                  
#dhj   ,to ,pleasure never was ,lorenzo 
deaf2   ,then hear her now1 now first   
thy real friend4     ,since ,nature made
 us not more fond than proud   ,of      
happiness 7whence hypocrites in joy6    
,makers of mirth6 artificers of         
smiles671   ,why should the joy most    
poignant sense affords1   ,burn us with 
blushes1 and rebuke our pride8--        
,those heaven-born blushes tell us man  
descends1   ,even in the zenith of his  
earthly bliss3   ,should ,reason take   
her infidel repose1                     
#dij   ,this honest instinct speaks our 
lineage high2   ,this instinct calls on 

darkness to conceal   ,our rapturous    
relation to the stalls4   ,our glory    
covers us with noble shame1   ,and he   
that's unconfounded1 is unmann'd4   ,the
 man that blushes1 is not quite a brute4
   ,thus far with thee1 ,lorenzo1 will  
,i close3   ,pleasure is good1 and man  
for pleasure made2   ,but pleasure full 
of glory1 as of joy2   ,pleasure1 which 
neither blushes1 nor expires4           
#ejj     ,the witnesses are heard2 the  
cause is o'er2   ,let ,conscience file  
the sentence in her court1   ,dearer    
than deeds that half a realm convey2    
,thus seal'd by ,truth1 th' authentic   
record runs3     ,know all2 know1       
infidels1--unapt to know6   ',tis       
immortality your nature solves2         
#ejf   ',tis immortality deciphers man1 
,and opens all the mysteries of his     
make4   ,without it1 half his instincts 
are a riddle2   ,without it1 all his    
virtues are a dream4   ,his very crimes 
attest his dignity2   ,his sateless     
thirst of pleasure1 gold1 and fame1     

,declares him born for blessings        
infinite3                          #eac 
,what less than infinite makes unabsurd 
,passions1 which all on earth but more  
inflames8   ,fierce passions1 so        
mismeasured to this scene1   ,stretch'd 
out1 like eagles' wings1 beyond our     
nest1   ,far1 far beyond the worth of   
all below1   ,for earth too large1      
presage a nobler flight1   ,and evidence
 our title to the skies4                
#ebj     ,ye gentle theologues1 of      
calmer kind6   ,whose constitution      
dictates to your pen1   ,who1 cold      
yourselves1 think ardour comes from     
hell6   ,think not our passions from    
,corruption sprung1   ,though to        
,corruption now they lend their wings2  
,that is their mistress1 not their      
mother4 ,all   7,and justly7 ,reason    
deem divine3 ,i see1   ,i feel a        
grandeur in the passions too1   ,which  
speaks their high descent1 and glorious 
end2   ,which speaks them rays of an    
eternal fire4                           

#ecj   ,in ,paradise itself they burn'd 
as strong1   ,ere ,adam fell2 though    
wiser in their aim4   ,like the proud   
,eastern1#ce struck by ,providence1     
,what though our passions are run mad1  
and stoop   ,with low1 terrestrial      
appetite1 to graze   ,on trash1 on toys1
 dethroned from high desire8   ,yet     
still1 through their disgrace1 no feeble
 ray   ,of greatness shines1 and tells  
us whence they fell3   ,but these 7like 
that fallen monarch when reclaim'd71    
#eci   ,when ,reason moderates the rein 
aright1   ,shall reascend1 remount their
 former sphere1   ,where once they      
soar'd illustrious2 ere seduced   ,by   
wanton ,eve's debauch1 to stroll on     
earth1   ,and set the sublunary world on
 fire4     ,but grant their phrensy     
lasts2 their phrensy fails   ,to        
disappoint one providential end1   ,for 
which ,heaven blew up ardour in our     
hearts3   ,were ,reason silent1         
boundless ,passion speaks   ,a future   
scene of boundless objects too1   ,and  

brings glad tidings of eternal day4     
#eej   ,eternal day6 'tis that          
enlightens all2   ,and all1 by that     
enlighten'd1 proves it sure4   ,consider
 man as an immortal being1              
,intelligible all2 and all is great2    
,a crystalline transparency prevails1   
,and strikes full lustre through the    
human sphere3   ,consider man as mortal1
 all is dark1   ,and wretched2 ,reason  
weeps at the survey4     ,the learn'd   
,lorenzo cries1 ,and let her weep1      
,weak1 modern ,reason3 ancient times    
were wise4                      #efj    
,authority1 that venerable guide1       
,stands on my part2 the famed ,athenian 
porch   7,and who for wisdom so renown'd
 as they87   ,denied this immortality to
 man4   ,i grant it2 but affirm1 they   
proved it too4   ,a riddle this6--have  
patience2 ,i'll explain4     ,what noble
 vanities1 what moral flights1          
,glittering through their romantic      
wisdom's page1   ,make us at once       
despise them1 and admire8   ,fable is   

flat to these high-season'd sires2      
#egj   ,they leave th' extravagance of  
song below4   ,flesh shall not feel2 or1
 feeling1 shall enjoy   ,the dagger1 or 
the rack2 to them1 alike                
#egc   ,a bed of roses1 or the burning  
bull4   ,in men exploding all beyond the
 grave1   ,strange doctrine1 this6 ,as  
doctrine1 it was strange2   ,but not1 as
 prophecy2 for such it proved1   ,and1  
to their own amazement1 was fulfill'd3  
,they feign'd a firmness ,christians    
need not feign4   ,the ,christian truly 
triumph'd in the flame3                 
#ehj   ,the ,stoic saw1 in double wonder
 lost1   ,wonder at them1 and wonder at 
himself1   ,to find the bold adventures 
of his thought   ,not bold1 and that he 
strove to lie in vain4     ,whence1     
then1 those thoughts8 those towering    
thoughts1 that flew   ,such monstrous   
heights8--,from instinct1 and from      
pride4   ,the glorious instinct of a    
deathless soul1   ,confusedly conscious 
of her dignity1   ,suggested truths they

 could not understand4   ,in ,lust's    
dominion1 and in ,passion's storm1      
#eij   ,truth's system broken1 scatter'd
 fragments lay1   ,as light in chaos1   
glimmering through the gloom3   ,smit   
with the pomp of lofty sentiments1      
,pleased ,pride proclaim'd1 what ,reason
 disbelieved4   ,pride1 like the        
,delphic priestess1 with a swell1       
,raved nonsense1 destined to be future  
sense1   ,when life immortal1 in full   
day1 shall shine2   ,and death's dark   
shadows fly the ,gospel sun4   ,they    
spoke1 what nothing but immortal souls  
,could speak2 and thus the truth they   
question'd1 proved4     ,can then       
absurdities1 as well as crimes1         
#fja   ,speak man immortal8 ,all things 
speak him so4   ,much has been urged2   
and dost thou call for more8   ,call2   
and with endless questions be           
distress'd1   ,all unresolvable1 if     
earth is all4     ,why life1 a moment2  
infinite1 desire8                       
#fjf   ,our wish1 eternity8 ,our home1  

the grave8   ,heaven's promise dormant  
lies in human hope2   ,who wishes life  
immortal1 proves it too4   ,why         
happiness pursued1 though never found8  
,man's thirst of happiness declares it  
is1   7,for nature never gravitates to  
nought72   ,that thirst unquench'd      
declares it is not here4                
#fac   ,my ,lucia1 thy ,clarissa call to
 thought2   ,why cordial friendship     
riveted so deep1   ,as hearts to pierce 
at first1 at parting1 rend1   ,if       
friend1 and friendship1 vanish in an    
hour8   ,is not this torment in the mask
 of joy8   ,why by reflection marr'd the
 joys of sense8   ,why past1 and future1
 preying on our hearts1                 
#fbj   ,and putting all our present joys
 to death8   ,why labours ,reason8      
,instinct were as well2   ,instinct far 
better2 what can choose1 can err3   ,o  
how infallible the thoughtless brute6   
',twere well his ,holiness were half as 
sure4   ,reason with inclination1 why at
 war8   ,why sense of guilt8 why        

,conscience up in arms8     ,conscience 
of guilt1 is prophecy of pain1   ,and   
bosom-council to decline the blow4      
,reason with inclination ne'er had      
jarr'd1                          #fcj   
,if nothing future paid forbearance     
here3   ,thus on--these1 and a thousand 
pleas uncall'd1   ,all promise1 some    
insure1 a second scene2   ,which1 were  
it doubtful1 would be dearer far   ,than
 all things else most certain2 were it  
false1   ,what truth on earth so        
precious as the lie8   ,this world it   
gives us1 let what will ensue2   ,this  
world it gives1 in that high cordial1   
hope3   ,the future of the present is   
the soul4   ,how this life groans1 when 
sever'd from the next6                  
#fdj   ,poor mutilated wretch1 that     
disbelieves6   ,by dark distrust his    
being cut in two1   ,in both parts      
perishes2 life void of joy1   ,sad      
prelude of eternity in pain6            
,couldst thou persuade me1 the next life
 could fail   ,our ardent wishes2 how   

should ,i pour out   ,my bleeding heart 
in anguish1 new1 as deep6   ,oh6 with   
what thoughts1 thy hope1 and my despair1
   ,abhorr'd annihilation6 blasts the   
soul1   ,and wide extends the bounds of 
human woe6                          #fej
   ,could ,i believe ,lorenzo's system  
true1   ,in this black channel would my 
ravings run3   ,grief from the future   
borrow'd peace1 erewhile4   ,the future 
vanish'd6 and the present pain'd6       
,strange import of unprecedented ill6   
,fall1 how profound6 ,like ,lucifer's1  
the fall6   ,unequal fate6 his fall1    
without his guilt6   ,from where fond   
,hope built her pavilion high1   ,the   
gods among1 hurl'd headlong1 hurl'd at  
once   ,to night6 to nothing6 darker    
still than night4                       
#ffj   ,if 'twas a dream1 why wake me1  
my worst foe1   ,lorenzo6 boastful of   
the name of friend8   ,o for delusion6  
,o for error still6   ,could vengeance  
strike much stronger than to plant   ,a 
thinking being in a world like this1    

,not over-rich before1 now beggar'd     
quite2   ,more cursed than at the       
fall8--,the sun goes out6   ,the thorns 
shoot up6 ,what thorns in every thought6
   ,why sense of better8 ,it embitters  
worse4   ,why sense8 why life8 ,if but  
to sigh1 then sink                      
#fgj   ,to what ,i was6 twice nothing6  
and much woe6   ,woe1 from ,heaven's    
bounties6 woe from what was wont   ,to  
flatter most1 high intellectual powers4 
,thought1 virtue1 knowledge6--blessings1
 by thy scheme1   ,all poison'd into    
pains4 ,first1 knowledge1 once          
#fge   ,my soul's ambition1 now her     
greatest dread4   ,to know myself1 true 
wisdom8--,no1 to shun   ,that shocking  
science1 parent of despair6   ,avert thy
 mirror3 if ,i see1 ,i die4     ,know my
 ,creator6 climb his bless'd abode   ,by
 painful speculation1 pierce the veil1  
,dive in his nature1 read his           
attributes1   ,and gaze in              
admiration--on a foe1                   
#fhc   ,obtruding life1 withholding     

happiness6   ,from the full rivers that 
surround his throne1   ,not letting fall
 one drop of joy on man2   ,man gasping 
for one drop1 that he might cease   ,to 
curse his birth1 nor envy reptiles more6
   ,ye sable clouds6 ye darkest shades  
of night6   ,hide him1 for ever hide    
him1 from my thought1                   
#fij   ,once all my comfort2 source1 and
 soul of joy6   ,now leagued with       
furies1 and with thee1#cf against me4   
,know his achievements8 study his       
renown8   ,contemplate this amazing     
universe1   ,dropp'd from his hand1 with
 miracles replete6   ,for what8 ',mid   
miracles of nobler name1   ,to find one 
miracle of misery8   ,to find the being1
 which alone can know   ,and praise his 
works1 a blemish on his praise8         
,through nature's ample range1 in       
thought1 to stroll1               #gjj  
,and start at man1 the single mourner   
there1   ,breathing high hope1 chain'd  
down to pangs1 and death8   ,knowing is 
suffering3 and shall ,virtue share      

,the sigh of knowledge8--,virtue shares 
the sigh4   ,by straining up the steep  
of excellent1   ,by battles fought1 and1
 from temptation won1   ,what gains she1
 but the pang of seeing worth1          
#gjg   ,angelic worth1 soon shuffled in 
the dark   ,with every vice1 and swept  
to brutal dust8   ,merit is madness2    
virtue is a crime2   ,a crime to reason1
 if it costs us pain   ,unpaid3 what    
pain1 amidst a thousand more1   ,to     
think the most abandon'd1 after days    
#gac   ,of triumph o'er their betters1  
find in death   ,as soft a pillow1 nor  
make fouler clay6     ,duty6            
,religion6--these1 our duty done1       
,imply reward4 ,religion is mistake4    
,duty6--there's none1 but to repel the  
cheat4   ,ye cheats1 away6 ye daughters 
of my pride6   ,who feign yourselves the
 favourites of the skies3               
#gbj   ,ye towering hopes6 abortive     
energies6   ,that toss1 and struggle1 in
 my lying breast1   ,to scale the skies1
 and build presumptions there1   ,as ,i 

were heir of an eternity4   ,vain1 vain 
ambitions6 trouble me no more4   ,why   
travel far in quest of sure defeat8     
,as bounded as my being1 be my wish4    
,all is inverted2 wisdom is a fool4     
,sense6 take the rein2 blind ,passion6  
drive us on2   ,and1 ,ignorance6        
befriend us on our way2                 
#gcj   ,ye new1 but truest patrons of   
our peace6   ,yes2 give the pulse full  
empire2 live the brute1   ,since1 as the
 brute1 we die4 ,the sum of man1   ,of  
godlike man6 to revel1 and to rot4      
,but not on equal terms with other      
brutes3   ,their revels a more poignant 
relish yield1   ,and safer too2 they    
never poisons choose4   ,instinct1 than 
reason1 makes more wholesome meals1     
,and sends all-marring murmur far away4 
,for sensual life they best             
philosophize2                           
#gdj   ,theirs1 that serene1 the sages  
sought in vain3                     #gda
   ',tis man alone expostulates with    
,heaven2   ,his all the power1 and all  

the cause1 to mourn4   ,shall human eyes
 alone dissolve in tears8   ,and bleed1 
in anguish1 none but human hearts8      
,the wide-stretch'd realm of            
intellectual woe1   ,surpassing sensual 
far1 is all our own4   ,in life so      
fatally distinguish'd1 why   ,cast in   
one lot1 confounded1 lump'd1 in death8  
,ere yet in being1 was mankind in guilt8
                         #gej   ,why    
thunder'd this peculiar clause against  
us1   ,all-mortal1 and                  
all-wretched6--,have the skies          
,reasons of state1 their subjects may   
not scan1   ,nor humbly reason1 when    
they sorely sigh8   ,all-mortal1 and    
all-wretched6--',tis too much3          
,unparallell'd in nature3 'tis too much 
,on being unrequested at thy hands1     
,omnipotent6 for ,i see nought but      
power4     ,and why see that8 ,why      
thought8 ,to toil1 and eat1   ,then make
 our bed in darkness1 needs no thought4 
#gfj   ,what superfluities are reasoning
 souls6   ,oh give eternity6 or thought 

destroy4   ,but without thought our     
curse were half unfelt2   ,its blunted  
edge would spare the throbbing heart2   
,and1 therefore1 'tis bestow'd1 ,i thank
 thee1 ,reason6   ,for aiding life's too
 small calamities1   ,and giving being  
to the dread of ,death4   ,such are thy 
bounties6--was it then too much   ,for  
me1 to trespass on the brutal rights8   
,too much for ,heaven to make one emmet 
more8                        #ggj   ,too
 much for chaos to permit my mass   ,a  
longer stay with essences unwrought1    
,unfashion'd1 untormented into man8     
,wretched preferment to this round of   
pains6   ,wretched capacity of phrensy1 
thought6                                
#gge   ,wretched capacity of dying1     
life6   ,life1 thought1 worth1 wisdom1  
all 7,o foul revolt67   ,once friends to
 peace1 gone over to the foe4           
,death1 then1 has changed his nature    
too3 ,o ,death6   ,come to my bosom1    
thou best gift of ,heaven6   ,best      
friend of man6 since man is man no more4

   ,why in this thorny wilderness so    
long1   ,since there's no promised      
land's ambrosial bower1                 
#ghc   ,to pay me with its honey for my 
stings8   ,if needful to the selfish    
schemes of ,heaven   ,to sting us sore1 
why mock'd our misery8   ,why this so   
sumptuous insult o'er our heads8   ,why 
this illustrious canopy display'd8      
,why so magnificently lodged ,despair8  
,at stated periods1 sure returning1 roll
                            #gij        
,these glorious orbs1 that mortals may  
compute   ,their length of labours1 and 
of pains2 nor lose   ,their misery's    
full measure8--,smiles with flowers1    
,and fruits1 promiscuous1 ever-teeming  
earth1   ,that man may languish in      
luxurious scenes1   ,and in an ,eden    
mourn his wither'd joys8   ,claim earth 
and skies man's admiration1 due   ,for  
such delights6 ,blest animals6 too wise 
,to wonder1 and too happy to complain6  
,our doom decreed demands a mournful    
scene3                      #hjj   ,why 

not a dungeon dark1 for the condemn'd8  
,why not the dragon's subterranean den1 
,for man to howl in8 ,why not his abode 
,of the same dismal colour with his     
fate8   ,a ,thebes1 a ,babylon1 at vast 
expence   ,of time1 toil1 treasure1 art1
 for owls and adders1   ,as congruous   
as1 for man1 this lofty dome1   ,which  
prompts proud thought1 and kindles high 
desire2   ,if1 from her humble chamber  
in the dust1                            
#hji   ,while proud thought swells1 and 
high desire inflames1   ,the poor worm  
calls us for her inmates there2   ,and1 
round us1 ,death's inexorable hand      
,draws the dark curtain close2 undrawn  
no more4     ,undrawn no more6--,behind 
the cloud of death1   ,once ,i beheld a 
sun2 a sun which gilt   ,that sable     
cloud1 and turn'd it all to gold3   ,how
 the grave's alter'd6 fathomless1 as    
hell6   ,a real hell to those who dreamt
 of heaven4   ,annihilation6 how it     
yawns before me6   ,next moment ,i may  
drop from thought1 from sense1          

#hbj   ,the privilege of angels1 and of 
worms1   ,an outcast from existence6 and
 this spirit1   ,this all-pervading1    
this all-conscious soul1   ,this        
particle of energy divine1   ,which     
travels nature1 flies from star to star1
   ,and visits gods1 and emulates their 
powers1   ,for ever is extinguish'd4    
,horror6 death6   ,death of that death  
,i fearless once survey'd6--   ,when    
horror universal shall descend1   ,and  
heaven's dark concave urn all human     
race1                      #hcj   ,on   
that enormous1 unrefunding tomb1   ,how 
just this verse6 this monumental sigh6  
,beneath the lumber of demolish'd       
worlds1     ,deep in the rubbish of the 
general wreck1     ,swept ignominious to
 the common mass     ,of matter1 never  
dignified with life1     ,here lie proud
 rationals2 the sons of heaven6     ,the
 lords of earth6 the property of worms6 
,beings of yesterday1 and no to-morrow6 
,who lived in terror1 and in pangs      
expired6                       #hdj     

,all gone to rot in chaos2 or to make   
,their happy transit into blocks or     
brutes1                       #hdb      
,nor longer sully their ,creator's name4
      ,lorenzo6 hear1 pause1 ponder1 and
 pronounce4   ,just is this history8 ,if
 such is man1   ,mankind's historian1   
though divine1 might weep4   ,and dares 
,lorenzo smile6--,i know thee proud2    
,for once let ,pride befriend thee2     
,pride looks pale   ,at such a scene1   
and sighs for something more4   ,amid   
thy boasts1 presumptions1 and displays1 
#hej   ,and art thou then a shadow8 less
 than shade8   ,a nothing8 less than    
nothing8 ,to have been1   ,and not to   
be1 is lower than unborn4   ,art thou   
ambitious8 ,why then make the worm      
,thine equal8 ,runs thy taste of        
pleasure high8   ,why patronise sure    
death of every joy8   ,charm riches8    
,why choose beggary in the grave1   ,of 
every hope a bankrupt6 and for ever8    
,ambition1 pleasure1 avarice1 persuade  
thee   ,to make that world of glory1    

rapture1 wealth1                        
#hfj   ,they lately proved1#cg the      
soul's supreme desire4     ,what art    
thou made of8 ,rather1 how unmade8      
,great ,nature's master-appetite        
destroy'd6   ,is endless life1 and      
happiness1 despised8   ,or both wish'd1 
here1 where neither can be found8       
,such man's perverse1 eternal war with  
,heaven6   ,darest thou persist8 ,and is
 there nought on earth   ,but a long    
train of transitory forms1   ,rising1   
and breaking1 millions in an hour8      
,bubbles of a fantastic deity1 blown up 
#hgj   ,in sport1 and then in cruelty   
destroy'd8   ,oh6 for what crime1       
unmerciful ,lorenzo6   ,destroys thy    
scheme the whole of human race8   ,kind 
is fell ,lucifer1 compared to thee3     
#hgd   ,oh6 spare this waste of being   
half divine2   ,and vindicate th'       
economy of ,heaven4     ,heaven is all  
love2 all joy in giving joy3   ,it never
 had created1 but to bless3   ,and shall
 it1 then1 strike off the list of life1 

,a being bless'd1 or worthy so to be8   
,heaven starts at an annihilating ,god4 
,is that1 all ,nature starts at1 thy    
desire8                       #hhb      
,art such a clod to wish thyself all    
clay8   ,what is that dreadful          
wish8--,the dying groan   ,of ,nature1  
murder'd by the blackest guilt4   ,what 
deadly poison has thy nature drank8     
,to ,nature undebauch'd no shock so     
great2   ,nature's first wish is endless
 happiness2   ,annihilation is an       
after-thought1   ,a monstrous wish1     
unborn till virtue dies4                
#hij   ,and1 oh6 what depth of horror   
lies enclosed6   ,for non-existence no  
man ever wish'd1   ,but1 first1 he      
wish'd the ,deity destroy'd4     ,if so2
 what words are dark enough to draw     
,thy picture true8 ,the darkest are too 
fair4   ,beneath what baleful planet1 in
 what hour   ,of desperation1 by what   
fury's aid1   ,in what infernal posture 
of the soul1   ,all hell invited1 and   
all hell in joy   ,at such a birth1 a   

birth so near of kin1                   
#ijj   ,did thy foul fancy whelp so     
black a scheme   ,of hopes abortive1    
faculties half-blown1   ,and deities    
begun1 reduced to dust8     ,there's    
nought 7thou say'st7 but one eternal    
flux   ,of feeble essences1 tumultuous  
driven   ,through ,time's rough billows 
into ,night's abyss4   ,say1 in this    
rapid tide of human ruin1   ,is there no
 rock1 on which man's tossing thought   
#ijh   ,can rest from terror1 dare his  
fate survey1   ,and boldly think it     
something to be born8   ,amid such      
hourly wrecks of being fair1   ,is there
 no central1 all-sustaining base1       
,all-realising1 all-connecting power1   
,which1 as it call'd forth all things1  
can recall1   ,and force ,destruction to
 refund her spoil8   ,command the grave 
restore her taken prey8   ,bid death's  
dark vale its human harvest yield1      
,and earth1 and ocean1 pay their debt of
 man1   ,true to the grand deposit      
trusted there8   ,is there no potentate1

 whose outstretch'd arm1                
#ibj   ,when ripening time calls forth  
th' appointed hour1   ,pluck'd from foul
 ,devastation's famish'd maw1   ,binds  
present1 past1 and future1 to his       
throne8   ,his throne1 how glorious1    
thus divinely graced1   ,by germinating 
beings clustering round6   ,a garland   
worthy the divinity6   ,a throne1 by    
,heaven's omnipotence in smiles1        
,built 7like a ,pharos towering in the  
waves7   ,amidst immense effusions of   
his love6   ,an ocean of communicated   
bliss6                                  
#icj     ,an all-prolific1              
all-preserving ,god6   ,this were a ,god
 indeed4--,and such is man1   ,as here  
presumed3 he rises from his fall4       
,think'st thou ,omnipotence a naked     
root1   ,each blossom fair of ,deity    
destroy'd8   ,nothing is dead2 nay1     
nothing sleeps2 each soul1   ,that ever 
animated human clay1   ,now wakes2 is on
 the wing3 and where1 oh6 where1   ,will
 the swarm settle8--,when the trumpet's 

call1   ,as sounding brass1 collects us1
 round ,heaven's throne   ,conglobed1 we
 bask in everlasting day1               
#ida   7,paternal splendour67 and adhere
 for ever4                         #idb 
,had not the soul this outlet to the    
skies1   ,in this vast vessel of the    
universe1   ,how should we gasp1 as in  
an empty void6   ,how in the pangs of   
famish'd hope expire8     ,how bright my
 prospect shines6 how gloomy1 thine6    
,a trembling world6 and a devouring     
,god6   ,earth1 but the shambles of     
,omnipotence6   ,heaven's face all      
stain'd with causeless massacres        
#iej   ,of countless millions1 born to  
feel the pang   ,of being lost4         
,lorenzo6 can it be8   ,this bids us    
shudder at the thoughts of life4   ,who 
would be born to such a phantom world1  
,where nought substantial but our       
misery8   ,where joy 7if joy7 but       
heightens our distress1   ,so soon to   
perish1 and revive no more8   ,the      
greater such a joy1 the more it pains4  

,a world1 so far from great1 7and yet   
how great   ,it shines to thee67 there's
 nothing real in it2                    
#ifj   ,being1 a shadow2 consciousness1 
a dream6   ,a dream1 how dreadful6      
universal blank   ,before it1 and       
behind6 ,poor man1 a spark   ,from      
non-existence struck by wrath divine1   
,glittering a moment1 nor that moment   
sure1   ',midst upper1 nether1 and      
surrounding night1   ,his sad1 sure1    
sudden1 and eternal tomb6     ,lorenzo6 
dost thou feel these arguments8   ,or is
 there nought but vengeance can be felt8
   ,how hast thou dared the ,deity      
dethrone8                               
#igj   ,how dared indict ,him of a world
 like this8   ,if such the world1       
creation was a crime2   ,for what is    
crime1 but cause of misery8   ,retract1 
blasphemer6 and unriddle this1   ,of    
endless arguments above1 below1         
,without us1 and within1 the short      
result--                         #igf   
,if man's immortal1 there's a ,god in   

heaven4     ,but wherefore such         
redundancy8 such waste   ,of argument8  
,one sets my soul at rest6   ,one       
obvious1 and at hand1 and1 oh6--at      
heart4   ,so just the skies1            
,philander's life so pain'd1   ,his     
heart so pure2 that1 or succeeding      
scenes   ,have palms to give1 or ne'er  
had he been born4                       
#ihc     ,what an old tale is this6     
,lorenzo cries4--   ,i grant this       
argument is old2 but truth   ,no years  
impair2 and had not this been true1     
,thou never hadst despised it for its   
age4   ,truth is immortal as thy soul2  
and fable   ,as fleeting as thy joys3 be
 wise1 nor make   ,heaven's highest     
blessing1 vengeance2 oh1 be wise6       
#iij   ,nor make a curse of immortality4
     ,say1 know'st thou what it is1 or  
what thou art8   ,know'st thou th'      
importance of a soul immortal8   ,behold
 this midnight glory3 worlds on worlds6 
,amazing pomp6 redouble this amaze2     
,ten thousand add2 add twice ten        

thousand more2   ,then weigh the whole2 
one soul outweighs them all2   ,and     
calls th' astonishing magnificence   ,of
 unintelligent creation1 poor4     ,for 
this1 believe not me2 no man believe3   
#ajjj   ,trust not in words1 but deeds2 
and deeds no less   ,than those of the  
,supreme2 nor ,his1 a few2   ,consult   
them all2 consulted1 all proclaim   ,thy
 soul's importance3 tremble at thyself2 
,for whom ,omnipotence has waked so     
long3   ,has waked1 and work'd1 for     
ages2 from the birth   ,of ,nature to   
this unbelieving hour4     ,in this     
small province of ,his vast domain      
7,all nature bow1 while ,i pronounce    
,his ,name67   ,what has ,god done1 and 
not for this sole end1                  
#ajaj   ,to rescue souls from death8    
,the soul's high price   ,is writ in all
 the conduct of the skies4   ,the soul's
 high price is the creation's key1      
,unlocks its mysteries1 and naked lays  
,the genuine cause of every deed divine3
   ,that is the chain of ages1 which    

maintains   ,their obvious              
correspondence1 and unites   ,most      
distant periods in one bless'd design3  
,that is the mighty hinge1 on which have
 turn'd   ,all revolutions1 whether we  
regard                                  
#ajbj   ,the natural1 civil1 or         
religious1 world2   ,the former two but 
servants to the third3   ,to that their 
duty done1 they both expire1   ,their   
mass new-cast1 forgot their deeds       
renown'd2   ,and angels ask1 ,where once
 they shone so fair8     ,to lift us    
from this abject1 to sublime2   ,this   
flux1 to permanent2 this dark1 to day2  
,this foul1 to pure2 this turbid1 to    
serene2   ,this mean1 to mighty6--for   
this glorious end   ,th' ,almighty1     
rising1 his long ,sabbath broke6        
#ajcj   ,the world was made2 was ruin'd2
 was restored2   ,laws from the skies   
were publish'd2 were repeal'd2   ,on    
earth1 kings1 kingdoms1 rose2 kings1    
kingdoms1 fell2   ,famed sages lighted  
up the ,pagan world2   ,prophets from   

,sion darted a keen glance   ,through   
distant age2 saints travell'd2 martyrs  
bled2   ,by wonders sacred nature stood 
controll'd2   ,the living were          
translated2 dead were raised2   ,angels1
 and more than angels1 came from heaven2
   ,and1 oh6 for this1 descended lower  
still2                         #ajdj    
,guilt was hell's gloom2 astonish'd at  
his guest1   ,for one short moment      
,lucifer adored3   ,lorenzo6 and wilt   
thou do less8--,for this1   ,that       
hallow'd page1 fools scoff at1 was      
inspired1                 #ajdd   ,of   
all these truths thrice venerable code6 
,deists6 perform your quarantine2 and   
then   ,fall prostrate1 ere you touch   
it1 lest you die4     ,nor less         
intensely bent infernal powers   ,to    
mar1 than those of light1 this end to   
gain4   ,oh1 what a scene is            
here6--,lorenzo1 wake6   ,rise to the   
thought2 exert1 expand thy soul   ,to   
take the vast idea3 it denies           
#ajeb   ,all else the name of great4    

,two warring worlds6   ,not ,europe     
against ,afric2 warring worlds6   ,of   
more than mortal6 mounted on the wing6  
,on ardent wings of energy1 and zeal1   
,high hovering o'er this little brand of
 strife6   ,this sublunary ball--but    
strife1 for what8   ,in their own cause 
conflicting8 ,no2 in thine1   ,in       
,man's4 ,his single interest blows the  
flame2                    #ajfj   ,his  
the sole stake2 his fate the trumpet    
sounds1   ,which kindles war immortal4  
,how it burns6   ,tumultuous swarms of  
deities in arms6   ,force1 force        
opposing1 till the waves run high1      
,and tempest nature's universal sphere4 
,such opposites eternal1 steadfast1     
stern1   ,such foes implacable1 are     
,good1 and ,ill2   ,yet man1 vain man1  
would mediate peace between them4       
,think not this fiction1 ,there was war 
in heaven4   ,from heaven's high crystal
 mountain1 where it hung1   ,th'        
,almighty's outstretch'd arm took down  
his bow1                #ajga   ,and    

shot his indignation at the deep3       
,re-thunder'd hell1 and darted all her  
fires4--   ,and seems the stake of      
little moment still8   ,and slumbers    
man1 who singly caused the storm8   ,he 
sleeps4--,and art thou shock'd at       
mysteries8   ,the greatest1 thou4 ,how  
dreadful to reflect1   ,what ardour1    
care1 and counsel1 mortals cause        
#ajgh   ,in breasts divine6 how little  
in their own6     ,where'er ,i turn1 how
 new proofs pour upon me6   ,how happily
 this wondrous view supports   ,my      
former argument6 ,how strongly strikes  
,immortal life's full demonstration1    
here6   ,why this exertion8 ,why this   
strange regard   ,from heaven's         
,omnipotent indulged to man8--          
,because1 in man1 the glorious dreadful 
power1   ,extremely to be pain'd1 or    
bless'd1 for ever4   ,duration gives    
importance2 swells the price   ,an      
angel1 if a creature of a day1   ,what  
would he be8 a trifle of no weight2     
#ajij   ,or stand1 or fall2 no matter   

which2 he's gone4   ,because immortal1  
therefore is indulged   ,this strange   
regard of deities to dust4   ,hence1    
,heaven looks down on earth with all her
 eyes2   ,hence1 the soul's mighty      
moment in her sight3   ,hence1 every    
soul has partisans above1   ,and every  
thought a critic in the skies3   ,hence1
 clay1 vile clay6 has angels for its    
guard1   ,and every guard a passion for 
his charge3   ,hence1 from all age1 the 
cabinet divine                          
#aajj   ,has held high counsel o'er the 
fate of man4     ,nor have the clouds   
those gracious counsels hid1   ,angels  
undrew the curtain of the throne1   ,and
 ,providence came forth to meet mankind3
   ,in various modes of emphasis and    
awe1   ,he spoke his will1 and trembling
 ,nature heard2   ,he spoke it loud1 in 
thunder and in storm4   ,witness1 thou  
,sinai6 whose cloud-cover'd height1     
,and shaken basis1 own'd the present    
,god3   ,witness1 ye billows6 whose     
returning tide1                         

#aaaj   ,breaking the chain that        
fasten'd it in air1   ,swept ,egypt1 and
 her menaces1 to hell3                  
#aaab   ,witness1 ye flames6 th'        
,assyrian tyrant blew   ,to sevenfold   
rage1 as impotent1 as strong3   ,and    
thou1 earth6 witness1 whose expanding   
jaws   ,closed o'er ,presumption's      
sacrilegious sons3#ch   ,has not each   
element1 in turn1 subscribed   ,the     
soul's high price1 and sworn it to the  
wise8   ,has not flame1 ocean1 ether1   
earthquake1 strove   ,to strike this    
truth1 through adamantine man8          
#aabj   ,if not all-adamant1 ,lorenzo6  
hear2   ,all is delusion2 ,nature is    
wrapt up1   ,in tenfold night1 from     
,reason's keenest eye2   ,there's no    
consistence1 meaning1 plan1 or end1     
,in all beneath the sun1 in all above   
7,as far as man can penetrate71 or      
heaven   ,is an immense1 inestimable    
prize2   ,or all is nothing1 or that    
prize is all4--   ,and shall each toy be
 still a match for ,heaven1   ,and full 

equivalent for groans below8            
#aacj   ,who would not give a trifle to 
prevent   ,what he would give a thousand
 worlds to cure8     ,lorenzo6 thou hast
 seen 7if thine to see7   ,all nature1  
and her ,god 7by nature's course1   ,and
 nature's course controll'd71 declare   
for me3   ,the skies above proclaim1    
,immortal man6   ,and1 ,man immortal6   
all below resounds4   ,the world's a    
system of theology1   ,read by the      
greatest strangers to the schools3   ,if
 honest1 learn'd2 and sages o'er a      
plough4                      #aadj   ,is
 not1 ,lorenzo1 then1 imposed on thee   
,this hard alternative2 or1 to renounce 
,thy reason1 or thy sense2 or1 to       
believe8   ,what then is unbelief8 ',tis
 an exploit2   ,a strenuous enterprise3 
to gain it1 man                         
#aade   ,must burst through every bar of
 common sense1   ,of common shame1      
magnanimously wrong3   ,and what rewards
 the sturdy combatant8   ,his prize1    
repentance2 infamy1 his crown4     ,but 

wherefore infamy8--,for want of faith1  
,down the steep precipice of wrong he   
slides2   ,there's nothing to support   
him in the right4                       
#aaeb   ,faith in the future wanting1   
is1 at least   ,in embryo1 every        
weakness1 every guilt2   ,and strong    
temptation ripens it to birth4   ,if    
this life's gain invites him to the     
deed1   ,why not his country sold1 his  
father slain8   ',tis virtue to pursue  
our good supreme2   ,and his supreme1   
his only good1 is here4   ,ambition1    
avarice1 by the wise disdain'd1         
#aafj   ,is perfect wisdom1 while       
mankind are fools1   ,and think a turf1 
or tombstone1 covers all3   ,these find 
employment1 and provide for ,sense   ,a 
richer pasture1 and a larger range2     
,and ,sense by right divine ascends the 
throne1   ,when ,virtue's prize and     
prospect are no more2   ,virtue no more 
we think the will of ,heaven4   ,would  
,heaven quite beggar ,virtue1 if        
beloved8     ,has ,virtue charms8--,i   

grant her heavenly fair2   ,but if      
unportion'd1 all will ,interest wed2    
#aagj   ,though that our admiration1    
this our choice4   ,the virtues grow on 
immortality2   ,that root destroy'd1    
they wither and expire4   ,a ,deity     
believed1 will nought avail2   ,rewards 
and punishments make ,god adored2   ,and
 hopes and fears give ,conscience all   
her power4     ,as in the dying parent  
dies the child1   ,virtue1 with         
immortality1 expires4   ,who tells me he
 denies his soul immortal1              
#aagi   ,whate'er his boast1 has told   
me1 he's a knave4   ,his duty 'tis1 to  
love himself alone2   ,nor care though  
mankind perish1 if he smiles4   ,who    
thinks ere long the man shall wholly    
die1   ,is dead already2 nought but     
brute survives4     ,and are there      
such8--,such candidates there are   ,for
 more than death2 for utter loss of     
being1   ,being1 the basis of the       
,deity6   ,ask you the cause8--,the     
cause they will not tell3   ,nor need   

they3 oh the sorceries of ,sense6       
,they work this transformation on the   
soul2                        #aaij      
,dismount her1 like the serpent at the  
fall1   ,dismount her from her native   
wing 7which soar'd   ,erewhile ethereal 
heights71 and throw her down1   ,to lick
 the dust1 and crawl in such a thought4 
,is it in words to paint you8 ,o ye     
fallen6   ,fallen from the wings of     
,reason1 and of ,hope6   ,erect in      
stature1 prone in appetite6   ,patrons  
of pleasure1 posting into pain6         
,lovers of argument1 averse to sense6   
,boasters of liberty1 fast bound in     
chains6                        #abjj    
,lords of the wide creation1 and the    
shame6   ,more senseless than th'       
irrationals you scorn6   ,more base than
 those you rule6 than those you pity1   
,far more undone6 ,o ye most infamous   
,of beings1 from superior dignity6      
,deepest in woe1 from means of boundless
 bliss6   ,ye cursed by blessings       
infinite6 because   ,most highly        

favour'd1 most profoundly lost6   ,ye   
motley mass of contradiction strong6    
,and are you1 too1 convinced1 your souls
 fly off                   #abaj   ,in  
exhalation soft1 and die in air1   ,from
 the full flood of evidence against you8
   ,in the coarse drudgeries1 and sinks 
of ,sense1                     #abac    
,your souls have quite worn out the make
 of ,heaven1   ,by vice new-cast1 and   
creatures of your own3   ,but though you
 can deform1 you can't destroy2   ,to   
curse1 not uncreate1 is all your power4 
,lorenzo6 this black brotherhood        
renounce2   ,renounce ,st ,evremont1 and
 read ,st ,paul4   ,ere rapt by miracle1
 by ,reason wing'd1                     
#abbj   ,his mounting mind made long    
abode in heaven4   ,this is             
freethinking1 unconfined to parts1   ,to
 send the soul1 on curious travel bent1 
,through all the provinces of human     
thought2   ,to dart her flight1 through 
the whole sphere of man2   ,of this vast
 universe to make the tour2   ,in each  

recess of space1 and time1 at home2     
,familiar with their wonders2 diving    
deep2   ,and1 like a prince of boundless
 interests there1   ,still most         
ambitious of the most remote2           
#abcj   ,to look on truth unbroken1 and 
entire2   ,truth in the system1 the full
 orb2 where truths   ,by truths         
enlighten'd1 and sustain'd1 afford   ,an
 arch-like1 strong foundation1 to       
support   ,th' incumbent weight of      
absolute1 complete   ,conviction2 here1 
the more we press1 we stand   ,more     
firm2 who most examine1 most believe4   
,parts1 like half sentences1 confound2  
the whole   ,conveys the sense1 and ,god
 is understood2   ,who not in fragments 
writes to human race3                   
#abdj   ,read his whole volume1 sceptic6
 then reply4     ,this1 this1 is        
thinking free1 a thought that grasps    
,beyond a grain1 and looks beyond an    
hour4   ,turn up thine eye1 survey this 
midnight scene2   ,what are earth's     
kingdoms1 to yon boundless orbs1   ,of  

human souls1 one day1 the destined      
range8   ,and what yon boundless orbs1  
to godlike man8                         
#abdg   ,those numerous worlds that     
throng the firmament1   ,and ask more   
space in heaven1 can roll at large   ,in
 man's capacious thought1 and still     
leave room   ,for ampler orbs1 for new  
creations1 there4   ,can such a soul    
contract itself1 to gripe   ,a point of 
no dimension1 of no weight8             
#abec   ,it can2 it does3 the world is  
such a point2   ,and1 of that point1 how
 small a part enslaves6     ,how small a
 part--of nothing1 shall ,i say8   ,why 
not8--,friends1 our chief treasure6 how 
they drop6   ,lucia1#ci ,narcissa fair1 
,philander1 gone6   ,the grave1 like    
fabled ,cerberus1 has oped   ,a triple  
mouth2 and1 in an awful voice1          
#abfj   ,loud calls my soul1 and utters 
all ,i sing4   ,how the world falls to  
pieces round about us1   ,and leaves us 
in a ruin of our joy6   ,what says this 
transportation of my friends8   ,it bids

 me love the place where now they dwell1
   ,and scorn this wretched spot1 they  
leave so poor4   ,eternity's vast ocean 
lies before thee2   ,there1 there1      
,lorenzo6 thy ,clarissa sails4   ,give  
thy mind sea-room2 keep it wide of      
earth1   ,that rock of souls immortal2  
cut thy cord2                           
#abgj   ,weigh anchor2 spread thy sails2
 call every wind2   ,eye thy great      
,pole-star2 make the land of life4      
,two kinds of life has double-natured   
man1   ,and two of death2 the last far  
more severe4   ,life animal is nurtured 
by the sun2   ,thrives on his bounties1 
triumphs in his beams4   ,life rational 
subsists on higher food1   ,triumphant  
in ,his beams1 who made the day4   ,when
 we leave that sun1 and are left by this
   7,the fate of all who die in stubborn
 guilt71                      #abhj     
',tis utter darkness2 strictly double   
death4   ,we sink by no judicial stroke 
of ,heaven1   ,but nature's course2 as  
sure as plummets fall4   ,since ,god1 or

 man1 must alter1 ere they meet         
7,since light and darkness blend not in 
one sphere71   ',tis manifest1 ,lorenzo6
 who must change4     ,if1 then1 that   
double death should prove thy lot1      
,blame not the bowels of the ,deity2    
,man shall be blest1 as far as man      
permits4   ,not man alone1 all          
rationals1 ,heaven arms                 
#abij   ,with an illustrious1 but       
tremendous1 power   ,to counteract its  
own most gracious ends2   ,and this1 of 
strict necessity1 not choice2   ,that   
power denied1 men1 angels1 were no more 
,but passive engines1 void of praise1 or
 blame4   ,a nature rational implies the
 power   ,of being blest1 or wretched1  
as we please2   ,else idle ,reason would
 have nought to do2   ,and he that would
 be barr'd capacity   ,of pain1 courts  
incapacity of bliss4                    
#acjj   ,heaven wills our happiness1    
allows our doom2   ,invites us ardently1
 but not compels4   ,heaven but         
persuades1 almighty man decrees2   ,man 

is the maker of immortal fates4   ,man  
falls by man1 if finally he falls2      
,and fall he must1 who learns from      
,death alone1   ,the dreadful           
secret1--that he lives for ever4        
,why this to thee8--thee yet1 perhaps1  
in doubt   ,of second life8 ,but        
wherefore doubtful still8   ,eternal    
life is nature's ardent wish3           
#acaj   ,what ardently we wish1 we soon 
believe3   ,thy tardy faith declares    
that wish destroy'd3   ,what has        
destroy'd it8--,shall ,i tell thee what8
   ,when fear'd the future1 'tis no     
longer wish'd2                    #acad 
,and1 when unwish'd1 we strive to       
disbelieve4   ,thus infidelity our guilt
 betrays4   ,nor that the sole          
detection6 blush1 ,lorenzo6   ,blush for
 hypocrisy1 if not for guilt4   ,the    
future fear'd8--an infidel1 and fear8   
,fear what8 a dream8 a fable8--,how thy 
dread1   ,unwilling evidence1 and       
therefore strong1   ,affords my cause an
 undesign'd support6                    

#acbb   ,how disbelief affirms1 what it 
denies6   ,it1 unawares1 asserts        
immortal life4--   ,surprising6         
infidelity turns out   ,a creed1 and a  
confession of our sins3   ,apostates1   
thus1 are orthodox divines4             
,lorenzo6 with ,lorenzo clash no more2  
,nor longer a transparent visor wear4   
,think'st thou1 ,religion only has her  
mask8                        #accj      
,our infidels are ,satan's hypocrites1  
,pretend the worst1 and1 at the bottom1 
fail4   ,when visited by thought        
7thought will intrude71   ,like him they
 serve1 they tremble1 and believe4   ,is
 there hypocrisy so foul as this8   ,so 
fatal to the welfare of the world8      
,what detestation1 what contempt1 their 
due6   ,and1 if unpaid1 be thank'd for  
their escape   ,that ,christian candour 
they strive hard to scorn4   ,if not for
 that asylum1 they might find           
#acdj   ,a hell on earth2 nor 'scape a  
worse below4     ,with insolence1 and   
impotence of thought1   ,instead of     

racking fancy1 to refute1   ,reform thy 
manners1 and the truth enjoy4--   ,but  
shall ,i dare confess the dire result8  
,can thy proud reason brook so black a  
brand8   ,from purer manners1 to        
sublimer faith1   ,is nature's          
unavoidable ascent2                     
#acdh   ,an honest deist1 where the     
,gospel shines1   ,matured to nobler1 in
 the ,christian ends4   ,when that      
bless'd change arrives1 even cast aside 
,this song superfluous2 life immortal   
strikes   ,conviction1 in a flood of    
light divine4   ,a ,christian dwells1   
like ,uriel1#dj in the sun2   ,meridian 
evidence puts doubt to flight2   ,and   
ardent ,hope anticipates the skies4     
,of that bright sun1 ,lorenzo6 scale the
 sphere2   ',tis easy6 it invites thee2 
it descends   ,from heaven to woo1 and  
waft thee whence it came3   ,read and   
revere the sacred page2 a page          
#acfj   ,where triumphs immortality2 a  
page   ,which not the whole creation    
could produce2   ,which not the         

conflagration shall destroy2   ',tis    
printed in the mind of gods for ever1   
,in nature's ruins not one letter lost4 
,in proud disdain of what even gods     
adore1   ,dost smile8--,poor wretch6 thy
 guardian angel weeps4   ,angels1 and   
men1 assent to what ,i sing2   ,wits    
smile1 and thank me for my midnight     
dream4   ,how vicious hearts fume       
phrensy to the brain6                   
#acgj   ,parts push us on to pride1 and 
pride to shame2   ,pert infidelity is   
,wit's cockade1   ,to grace the brazen  
brow that braves the skies1   ,by loss  
of being1 dreadfully secure4   ,lorenzo6
 if thy doctrine wins the day1   ,and   
drives my dreams1 defeated1 from the    
field2   ,if this is all1 if earth a    
final scene1   ,take heed2 stand fast2  
be sure to be a knave2   ,a knave in    
grain6 ne'er deviate to the right3      
,should'st thou be good--how infinite   
thy loss6                    #achj      
,guilt only makes annihilation gain4    
#acha   ,bless'd scheme6 which life     

deprives of comfort1 death   ,of hope2  
and which ,vice only recommends4   ,if  
so1 where1 infidels6 your bait thrown   
out   ,to catch weak converts8 where    
your lofty boast   ,of zeal for virtue1 
and of love to man8   ,annihilation6 ,i 
confess1 in these4     ,what can reclaim
 you8 ,dare ,i hope profound            
,philosophers the converts of a song8   
,yet know1 its title#da flatters you1   
not me2                     #acij       
,yours be the praise to make my title   
good2   ,mine1 to bless ,heaven1 and    
triumph in your praise4   ,but since so 
pestilential your disease1   ,though    
sovereign is the medicine ,i prescribe1 
,as yet1 ,i'll neither triumph1 nor     
despair3   ,but hope1 ere long1 my      
midnight dream will wake   ,your hearts1
 and teach your wisdom--to be wise3     
,for why should souls immortal1 made for
 bliss1   ,e'er wish 7and wish in vain67
 that souls could die8   ,what ne'er can
 die1 oh6 grant to live2 and crown      
#adjj   ,the wish1 and aim1 and labour  

of the skies2   ,increase1 and enter on 
the joys of heaven3   ,thus shall my    
title pass a sacred seal1   ,receive an 
imprimatur from above1   ,while angels  
shout--,an ,infidel ,reclaimed6     ,to 
close1 ,lorenzo6 spite of all my pains1 
,still seems it strange1 that thou      
should'st live for ever8   ,is it less  
strange1 that thou should'st live at    
all8   ,this is a miracle2 and that no  
more4   ,who gave beginning1 can exclude
 an end4                           #adaj
   ,deny thou art3 then1 doubt if thou  
shalt be4   ,a miracle with miracles    
enclosed1   ,is man2 and starts his     
faith at what is strange8   ,what less  
than wonders1 from the ,wonderful2      
#adad   ,what less than miracles1 from  
,god1 can flow8   ,admit a ,god--that   
mystery supreme6   ,that ,cause         
uncaused6 all other wonders cease2      
,nothing is marvellous for ,him to do3  
,deny ,him--all is mystery besides2     
,millions of mysteries6 each darker far1
   ,than that thy wisdom would1         

unwisely1 shun4   ,if weak thy faith1   
why choose the harder side8             
#adbb   ,we nothing know1 but what is   
marvellous2   ,yet what is marvellous1  
we can't believe4   ,so weak our reason1
 and so great our ,god1   ,what most    
surprises in the sacred page1   ,or full
 as strange1 or stranger1 must be true4 
,faith is not reason's labour1 but      
repose4     ,to faith1 and virtue1 why  
so backward1 man8   ,from hence3--the   
present strongly strikes us all2        
#adcj   ,the future1 faintly3 can we1   
then1 be men8   ,if men1 ,lorenzo6 the  
reverse is right4   ,reason is man's    
peculiar3 ,sense1 the brute's4   ,the   
present is the scanty realm of ,sense2  
,the future1 ,reason's empire           
unconfined3   ,on that expending all her
 godlike power1   ,she plans1 provides1 
expatiates1 triumphs1 there2   ,there1  
builds her blessings2 there1 expects her
 praise2   ,and nothing asks of         
,fortune1 or of men4   ,and what is     
,reason8 ,be she thus defined2          

#addj   ,reason is upright stature in   
the soul4   ,oh6 be a man2--and strive  
to be a god4     ,for what8 7thou       
say'st7--to damp the joys of life8      
,no2 to give heart and substance to thy 
joys4   ,that tyrant1 ,hope2 mark how   
she domineers2   ,she bids us quit      
realities1 for dreams2   ,safety and    
peace1 for hazard and alarm2   ,that    
tyrant o'er the tyrants of the soul1    
#addh   ,she bids ,ambition quit its    
taken prize1   ,spurn the luxuriant     
branch on which it sits1   ,though      
bearing crowns1 to spring at distant    
game2   ,and plunge in toils and        
dangers--for repose4   ,if hope         
precarious1 and of things1 when gain'd1 
,of little moment1 and as little stay1  
,can sweeten toils and dangers into     
joys2   ,what then1 that hope1 which    
nothing can defeat1   ,our leave        
unask'd8 rich hope of boundless bliss6  
,bliss1 past ,man's power to paint it2  
,time's1 to close6     ,this hope is    
earth's most estimable prize3   ,this is

 man's portion1 while no more than man3 
#adfj   ,hope1 of all passions1 most    
befriends us here2   ,passions of       
prouder name befriend us less4   ,joy   
has her tears2 and ,transport has her   
death2   ,hope1 like a cordial1         
innocent1 though strong1   ,man's heart1
 at once1 inspirits1 and serenes2   ,nor
 makes him pay his wisdom for his joys2 
',tis all our present state can safely  
bear1   ,health to the frame6 and vigour
 to the mind6   ,a joy attemper'd6 a    
chastised delight6   ,like the fair     
summer evening1 mild1 and sweet6        
#adgj   ',tis man's full cup2 his       
paradise below6     ,a blest hereafter1 
then1 or hoped1 or gain'd1   ,is        
all2--our whole of happiness3 full      
proof1   ,i chose no trivial or         
inglorious theme4   ,and know1 ye foes  
to song6 7well-meaning men1   ,though   
quite forgotten half your ,bible's#db   
praise67   ,important truths1 in spite  
of verse1 may please3   ,grave minds you
 praise2 nor can you praise too much3   

,if there is weight in an eternity1     
,let the grave listen2--and be graver   
still4                       #adhj      
,,virtue',s ,,apology2                  
,,or1                      ,,the ,,man  
,,of ,,the ,,world ,,answered4          
,,in ,,which ,,are ,,considered1        
,,the ,,love ,,of ,,this ,,life2 ,,the  
,,ambition ,,and ,,pleasure1            
,,with ,,the ,,wit ,,and ,,wisdom1 ,,of 
,,the ,,world4                          
,,night ,,eighth                        
,,virtue',s ,,apology4     ,and has all 
nature1 then1 espoused my part8   ,have 
,i bribed heaven1 and earth1 to plead   
against thee8   ,and is thy soul        
immortal8--,what remains8   ,all1 all1  
,lorenzo6--,make immortal blest4        
,unblest immortals6--,what can shock us 
more8   ,and yet ,lorenzo still affects 
the world2   ,there stows his treasure2 
thence his title draws1   ,man of the   
world 7for such would'st thou be        
call'd71   ,and art thou proud of that  
inglorious style8   ,proud of reproach8 

for a reproach it was1                  
#aj   ,in ancient days2 and             
,christian1--in an age1   ,when men were
 men1 and not ashamed of heaven1        
,fired their ambition1 as it crown'd    
their joy4   ,sprinkled with dews from  
the ,castalian font1   ,fain would ,i   
re-baptize thee1 and confer   ,a purer  
spirit1 and a nobler name4     ,thy fond
 attachments1 fatal1 and inflamed1      
,point out my path1 and dictate to my   
song3   ,to thee1 the world how fair6   
how strongly strikes   ,ambition6 and   
gay pleasure stronger still6            
#bj   ,thy triple bane6 the triple bolt 
that lays                          #ba  
,thy virtue dead6 ,be these my triple   
theme2   ,nor shall thy wit1 or wisdom1 
be forgot4     ,common the theme2 not so
 the song2 if she   ,my song invokes1   
,urania deigns to smile4   ,the charm   
that chains us to the world1 her foe1   
,if she dissolves1 the man of earth1 at 
once1   ,starts from his trance1 and    
sighs for other scenes2   ,scenes1 where

 these sparks of night1 these stars     
shall shine   ,unnumber'd suns 7for all 
things1 as they are1                    
#cj   ,the blest behold72 and1 in one   
glory1 pour   ,their blended blaze on   
man's astonish'd sight2   ,a blaze--the 
least illustrious object there4         
,lorenzo6 since eternal is at hand1     
,to swallow ,time's ambitions2 as the   
vast   ,leviathan1 the bubbles vain1    
that ride   ,high on the foaming billow2
 what avail   ,high titles1 high        
descent1 attainments high1   ,if        
unattain'd our highest8 ,o ,lorenzo6    
,what lofty thoughts1 these elements    
above1                          #dj     
,what towering hopes1 what sallies from 
the sun1   ,what grand surveys of       
destiny divine1   ,and pompous presage  
of unfathom'd fate1   ,should roll in   
bosoms1 where a spirit burns1   ,bound  
for eternity6 in bosoms read   ,by ,him1
 who foibles in archangels sees6   ,on  
human hearts ,he bends a jealous eye1   
,and marks1 and in heaven's register    

enrols1   ,the rise1 and progress1 of   
each option there2   ,sacred to         
doomsday6 ,that the page unfolds1       
#ej   ,and spreads us to the gaze of    
gods and men4     ,and what an option1  
,o ,lorenzo1 thine6   ,this world6 and  
this1 unrivall'd by the skies6   ,a     
world1 where lust of pleasure1 grandeur1
 gold1   ,three demons that divide its  
realms between them1                    
#ee   ,with strokes alternate buffet to 
and fro   ,man's restless heart1 their  
sport1 their flying ball2   ,till1 with 
the giddy circle sick1 and tired1   ,it 
pants for peace1 and drops into despair4
   ,such is the world ,lorenzo sets     
above   ,that glorious promise angels   
were esteem'd   ,too mean to bring2 a   
promise1 their ,adored                  
#fb   ,descended to communicate1 and    
press1   ,by counsel1 miracle1 life1    
death1 on man4   ,such is the world     
,lorenzo's wisdom woos1   ,and on its   
thorny pillow seeks repose2   ,a pillow1
 which1 like opiates ill prepared1      

,intoxicates1 but not composes2 fills   
,the visionary mind with gay chimeras1  
,all the wild trash of sleep1 without   
the rest2                      #gj      
,what unfeign'd travel1 and what dreams 
of joy6     ,how frail1 men1 things6 how
 momentary1 both6   ,fantastic chase of 
shadows hunting shades6   ,the gay1 the 
busy1 equal though unlike2   ,equal in  
wisdom1 differently wise6   ,through    
flowery meadows1 and through dreary     
wastes1   ,one bustling1 and one        
dancing1 into death4   ,there's not a   
day1 but1 to the man of thought1        
,betrays some secret1 that throws new   
reproach   ,on life1 and makes him sick 
of seeing more4                         
#hj   ,the scenes of business tell      
us--,what are men2   ,the scenes of     
pleasure--,what is all beside2   ,there1
 others we despise2 and here1 ourselves3
   ,amid disgust eternal1 dwells        
delight8   ',tis approbation strikes the
 string of joy4     ,what wondrous prize
 has kindled this career1   ,stuns with 

the din1 and chokes us with the dust1   
,on life's gay stage1 one inch above the
 grave8   ,the proud run up and down in 
quest of eyes2                          
#hi   ,the sensual1 in pursuit of       
something worse2   ,the grave1 of gold2 
the politic1 of power2   ,and all1 of   
other butterflies1 as vain6   ,as eddies
 draw things frivolous1 and light1      
,how is man's heart by vanity drawn in2 
,on the swift circle of returning toys1 
,whirl'd1 straw-like1 round and round1  
and then engulf'd1   ,where gay delusion
 darkens to despair6     ,this is a     
beaten track4--,is this a track         
,should not be beaten8 ,never beat      
enough1   ,till enough learn'd the      
truths it would inspire4                
#ajj   ,shall ,truth be silent1 because 
,folly frowns8   ,turn the world's      
history2 what find we there1   ,but     
,fortune's sports1 or ,nature's cruel   
claims1   ,or ,woman's artifice1 or     
,man's revenge1   ,and endless          
inhumanities on man8   ,fame's trumpet  

seldom sounds1 but1 like the knell1     
,it brings bad tidings3 how it hourly   
blows   ,man's misadventures round the  
listening world6   ,man is the tale of  
narrative old time2   ,sad tale2 which  
high as ,paradise begins2               
#aaj   ,as if1 the toil of travel to    
delude1   ,from stage to stage1 in his  
eternal round1   ,the ,days1 his        
daughters1 as they spin our hours   ,on 
,fortune's wheel1 where accident        
unthought   ,oft1 in a moment1 snaps    
life's strongest thread1   ,each1 in her
 turn1 some tragic story tells1   ,with1
 now and then1 a wretched farce between2
   ,and fills his chronicle with human  
woes4     ,time's daughters1 true as    
those of men1 deceive us2   ,not one1   
but puts some cheat on all mankind3     
#abj   ,while in their father's bosom1  
not yet ours1   ,they flatter our fond  
hopes1 and promise much   ,of amiable2  
but hold him not o'er-wise1             
#abc   ,who dares to trust them2 and    
laugh round the year   ,at              

still-confiding1 still-confounded1 man1 
,confiding1 though confounded2 hoping   
on1   ,untaught by trial1 unconvinced by
 proof1   ,and ever looking for the     
never seen4   ,life to the last1 like   
harden'd felons1 lies2   ,nor owns      
itself a cheat1 till it expires4        
#acj   ,its little joys go out by one   
and one1   ,and leave poor man1 at      
length1 in perfect night2   ,night      
darker1 than what1 now1 involves the    
pole4     ,o ,thou1 who dost permit     
these ills to fall1   ,for gracious     
ends1 and would'st that man should      
mourn6   ,o ,thou1 whose hands this     
goodly fabric framed1   ,who know'st it 
best1 and would'st that man should know6
   ,what is this sublunary world8 ,a    
vapour2   ,a vapour all it holds2       
itself1 a vapour2   ,from the damp bed  
of chaos1 by ,thy beam                  
#adj   ,exhaled1 ordain'd to swim its   
destined hour   ,in ambient air1 then   
melt1 and disappear4   ,earth's days are
 number'd1 nor remote her doom2   ,as   

mortal1 though less transient1 than her 
sons2   ,yet they doat on her1 as the   
world and they   ,were both eternal1    
solid2 ,thou1 a dream4     ,they        
doat6--on what8 ,immortal views apart1  
,a region of outsides6 a land of        
shadows6   ,a fruitful field of flowery 
promises6   ,a wilderness of joys6      
perplex'd with doubts1                  
#aej   ,and sharp with thorns6 a        
troubled ocean1 spread   ,with bold     
adventurers1 their all on board6   ,no  
second hope1 if here their fortune      
frowns2   ,frown soon it must4 ,of      
various rates they sail1   ,of ensigns  
various2 all alike in this1   ,all      
restless1 anxious2 toss'd with hopes1   
and fears1   ,in calmest skies2         
obnoxious all to storm2                 
#aeg   ,and stormy the most general     
blast of life3   ,all bound for         
happiness2 yet few provide   ,the chart 
of knowledge1 pointing where it lies2   
,or ,virtue's helm1 to shape the course 
design'd3   ,all1 more or less1         

capricious fate lament1   ,now lifted by
 the tide1 and now resorb'd1            
#afc   ,and farther from their wishes   
than before3   ,all1 more or less1      
against each other dash4   ,to mutual   
hurt1 by gusts of passion driven1   ,and
 suffering more from folly1 than from   
fate4     ,ocean6 thou dreadful and     
tumultuous home   ,of dangers1 at       
eternal war with man6   ,death's        
capital1 where most he domineers1       
#agj   ,with all his chosen terrors     
frowning round1   7,though lately       
feasted high at ,albion's cost17#dc     
,wide-opening1 and loud roaring still   
for more6   ,too faithful mirror6 how   
dost thou reflect   ,the melancholy face
 of human life6   ,the strong           
resemblance tempts me farther still3    
,and1 haply1 ,britain may be deeper     
struck   ,by moral truth1 in such a     
mirror seen1   ,which ,nature holds for 
ever at her eye4     ,self-flatter'd1   
unexperienced1 high in hope1            
#ahj   ,when young1 with sanguine cheer1

 and streamers gay1   ,we cut our cable1
 launch into the world1   ,and fondly   
dream each wind and star our friend2    
,all1 in some darling enterprise        
embark'd3   ,but where is he can fathom 
its extent8   ,amid a multitude of      
artless hands1   ,ruin's sure           
perquisite6 her lawful prize6   ,some   
steer aright2 but the black blast blows 
hard1   ,and puffs them wide of hope3   
with hearts of proof1   ,full against   
wind and tide1 some win their way2      
#aij   ,and when strong effort has      
deserved the port1   ,and tugg'd it into
 view1 'tis won6 'tis lost6   ,though   
strong their oar1 still stronger is     
their fate3   ,they strike2 and1 while  
they triumph1 they expire4   ,in stress 
of weather1 most2 some sink outright2   
,o'er them1 and o'er their names1 the   
billows close2   ,to-morrow knows not   
they were ever born4   ,others a short  
memorial leave behind1   ,like a flag   
floating1#dd when the bark's engulf'd2  
,it floats a moment1 and is seen no     

more3                           #bjj    
,one ,caesar lives2 a thousand are      
forgot4   ,how few1 beneath auspicious  
planets born   7,darlings of            
,providence6 fond ,fate's elect671      
,with swelling sails make good the      
promised port1   ,with all their wishes 
freighted6 ,yet even these1   ,freighted
 with all their wishes1 soon complain2  
,free from misfortune1 not from nature  
free1   ,they still are men2 and when is
 man secure8   ,as fatal time1 as storm6
 the rush of years   ,beats down their  
strength2 their numberless escapes      
#baj   ,in ruin end3 and1 now1 their    
proud success   ,but plants new terrors 
on the victor's brow3   ,what pain to   
quit the world1 just made their own1    
,their nest so deeply down'd1 and built 
so high6   ,too low they build1 who     
build beneath the stars4     ,woe then  
apart 7if woe apart can be   ,from      
mortal man71 and fortune at our nod1    
,the gay1 rich1 great1 triumphant1 and  
august6   ,what are they8--,the most    

happy 7strange to say67   ,convince me  
most of human misery2                   
#bbj   ,what are they8 ,smiling wretches
 of to-morrow6                      #bba
   ,more wretched1 then1 than e'er their
 slave can be2   ,their treacherous     
blessings1 at the day of need1   ,like  
other faithless friends1 unmask1 and    
sting3   ,then1 what provoking indigence
 in wealth6   ,what aggravated impotence
 in power6   ,high titles1 then1 what   
insult of their pain6   ,if that sole   
anchor1 equal to the waves1   ,immortal 
,hope6 defies not the rude storm1       
,takes comfort from the foaming billow's
 rage1                      #bcj   ,and 
makes a welcome harbour of the tomb4    
,is this a sketch of what thy soul      
admires8   ,but here 7thou say'st7 the  
miseries of life   ,are huddled in a    
group4 ,a more distinct   ,survey1      
perhaps1 might bring thee better news4  
,look on life's stages3 they speak      
plainer still2   ,the plainer they1 the 
deeper wilt thou sigh4   ,look on thy   

lovely boy2 in him behold   ,the best   
that can befall the best on earth2      
,the boy has virtue by his mother's     
side3                           #bdj    
,yes1 on ,florello look3 a father's     
heart   ,is tender1 though the man's is 
made of stone2   ,the truth1 through    
such a medium seen1 may make            
,impression deep1 and fondness prove thy
 friend4     ,florello lately cast on   
this rude coast   ,a helpless infant2   
now a heedless child2   ,to poor        
,clarissa's throes1 thy care succeeds2  
,care full of love1 and yet severe as   
hate6   ,o'er thy soul's joy how oft thy
 fondness frowns6   ,needful austerities
 his will restrain2                     
#bej   ,as thorns fence in the tender   
plant from harm4   ,as yet1 his reason  
cannot go alone2   ,but asks a sterner  
nurse to lead it on4   ,his little heart
 is often terrified2   ,the blush of    
morning1 in his cheek1 turns pale2      
#bee   ,its pearly dewdrop trembles in  
his eye2   ,his harmless eye6 and drowns

 an angel there4   ,ah6 what avails his 
innocence8 ,the task   ,enjoin'd must   
discipline his early powers2   ,he      
learns to sigh1 ere he is known to sin2 
,guiltless1 and sad6 a wretch before the
 fall6   ,how cruel this6 more cruel to 
forbear4                                
#bfb   ,our nature such1 with necessary 
pains1   ,we purchase prospects of      
precarious peace3   ,though not a       
father1 this might steal a sigh4        
,suppose him disciplined aright 7if not1
   ',twill sink our poor account to     
poorer still72   ,ripe from the tutor1  
proud of liberty1   ,he leaps enclosure1
 bounds into the world6   ,the world is 
taken1 after ten years' toil1           
#bgj   ,like ancient ,troy2 and all its 
joys his own4   ,alas6 the world's a    
tutor more severe2   ,its lessons hard1 
and ill deserve his pains2   ,unteaching
 all his virtuous nature taught1   ,or  
books 7fair ,virtue's advocates67       
inspired4     ,for who receives him into
 public life8   ,men of the world1 the  

terrae-filial breed1   ,welcome the     
modest stranger to their sphere         
7,which glitter'd long1 at distance1 in 
his sight71   ,and1 in their hospitable 
arms1 enclose3                          
#bhj   ,men1 who think nought so strong 
of the romance1   ,so rank              
knight-errant1 as a real friend3   ,men1
 that act up to ,reason's golden rule1  
,all weakness of affection quite        
subdued3   ,men1 that would blush at    
being thought sincere1   ,and feign1 for
 glory1 the few faults they want2       
,that love a lie1 where truth would pay 
as well2   ,as if to them1 ,vice shone  
her own reward4     ,lorenzo6 canst thou
 bear a shocking sight8                 
#bhi   ,such1 for ,florello's sake1     
'twill now appear3   ,see1 the steel'd  
files of season'd veterans1   ,train'd  
to the world1 in burnish'd falsehood    
bright2   ,deep in the fatal stratagems 
of peace2   ,all soft sensation1 in the 
throng1 rubb'd off2   ,all their keen   
purpose1 in politeness1 sheath'd2   ,his

 friends eternal--during interest2      
,his foes implacable--when worth their  
while2   ,at war with every welfare1 but
 their own2   ,as wise as ,lucifer2 and 
half as good2   ,and by whom none1 but  
,lucifer1 can gain--                    
#cjj   ,naked1 through these 7so common 
fate ordains71   ,naked of heart1 his   
cruel course he runs1   ,stung out of   
all1 most amiable in life1   ,prompt    
truth1 and open thought1 and smiles     
unfeign'd2   ,affection1 as his species1
 wide diffused2   ,noble presumptions to
 mankind's renown2   ,ingenuous trust1  
and confidence of love4     ,these      
claims to joy 7if mortals joy might     
claim7   ,will cost him many a sigh2    
till time1 and pains1   ,from the slow  
mistress of this school1 ,experience1   
#caj   ,and her assistant1 pausing1     
pale1 ,distrust1   ,purchase a          
dear-bought clue to lead his youth      
,through serpentine obliquities of life1
   ,and the dark labyrinth of human     
hearts4   ,and happy6 if the clue shall 

come so cheap3   ,for1 while we learn to
 fence with public guilt1   ,full oft we
 feel its foul contagion too1   ,if less
 than heavenly virtue is our guard4     
,thus1 a strange kind of cursed         
necessity   ,brings down the sterling   
temper of his soul1                     
#cbj   ,by base alloy1 to bear the      
current stamp1   ,below call'd wisdom2  
sinks him into safety2   ,and brands him
 into credit with the world2            
#cbc   ,where specious titles dignify   
disgrace1   ,and nature's injuries are  
arts of life2   ,where brighter reason  
prompts to bolder crimes2   ,and        
heavenly talents make infernal hearts2  
,that unsurmountable extreme of guilt6  
,poor ,machiavel6 who labour'd hard his 
plan1   ,forgot1 that genius need not go
 to school2   ,forgot1 that man1 without
 a tutor wise1   ,his plan had          
practised1 long before 'twas writ4      
#ccb   ,the world's all title-page2     
there's no contents2   ,the world's all 
face2 the man who shows his heart1   ,is

 hooted for his nudities1 and scorn'd4  
,a man ,i knew1 who lived upon a smile2 
,and well it fed him2 he look'd plump   
and fair2   ,while rankest venom foam'd 
through every vein4   ,lorenzo6 what ,i 
tell thee1 take not ill6   ,living1 he  
fawn'd on every fool alive2             
#cdj   ,and1 dying1 cursed the friend on
 whom he lived4   ,to such proficients  
thou art half a saint4   ,in foreign    
realms 7for thou hast travell'd far7    
,how curious to contemplate two         
state-rooks1   ,studious their nests to 
feather in a trice1   ,with all the     
necromantics of their art1   ,playing   
the game of faces on each other1        
,making court sweetmeats of their latent
 gall1   ,in foolish hope1 to steal each
 other's trust2   ,both cheating1 both  
exulting1 both deceived2                
#cej   ,and1 sometimes1 both 7let earth 
rejoice7 undone6   ,their parts we doubt
 not2 but be that their shame2   ,shall 
men of talents1 fit to rule mankind1    
,stoop to mean wiles1 that would        

disgrace a fool2   ,and lose the thanks 
of those few friends they serve8   ,for 
who can thank the man1 he cannot see8   
,why so much cover8 ,it defeats itself4 
#ceg   ,ye1 that know all things6 know  
ye not1 men's hearts   ,are therefore   
known1 because they are conceal'd8      
,for why conceal'd8--,the cause they    
need not tell4   ,i give him joy1 that's
 awkward at a lie2   ,whose feeble      
nature ,truth keeps still in awe2   ,his
 incapacity is his renown4              
#cfc   ',tis great1 'tis manly1 to      
disdain disguise2   ,it shows our       
spirit1 or it proves our strength4      
,thou say'st1 'tis needful3 is it       
therefore right8   ,howe'er1 ,i grant it
 some small sign of grace1   ,to strain 
at an excuse3 ,and would'st thou then   
,escape that cruel need8 ,thou may'st1  
with ease2   ,think no post needful that
 demands a knave4                       
#cgj   ,when late our civil helm was    
shifting hands1   ,so ,pulteney thought3
 think better1 if you can4     ,but     

this1 how rare6 the public path of life 
,is dirty2--yet1 allow that dirt its    
due1   ,it makes the noble mind more    
noble still3   ,the world's no neuter2  
it will wound1 or save2   ,or virtue    
quench1 or indignation fire4   ,you say1
 the world1 well known1 will make a man3
   ,the world1 well known1 will give our
 hearts to ,heaven1   ,or make us       
demons1 long before we die4             
#chj     ,to show how fair the world1   
thy mistress1 shines1   ,take either    
part1 sure ills attend the choice2      
,sure1 though not equal1 detriment      
ensues4   ,not ,virtue's self is deified
 on earth2   ,virtue has her relapses1  
conflicts1 foes2   ,foes1 that ne'er    
fail to make her feel their hate4       
,virtue has her peculiar set of pains4  
,true friends to virtue1 last1 and      
least1 complain2   ,but if they sigh1   
can others hope to smile8   ,if ,wisdom 
has her miseries to mourn1              
#cij   ,how can poor ,folly lead a happy
 life8                              #cia

   ,and if both suffer1 what has earth  
to boast1   ,where he most happy1 who   
the least laments8   ,where much1 much  
patience1 the most envied state1   ,and 
some forgiveness1 needs1 the best of    
friends8   ,for friend1 or happy life1  
who looks not higher1   ,of neither     
shall he find the shadow here4     ,the 
world's sworn advocate1 without a fee1  
,lorenzo smartly1 with a smile1 replies3
   ,thus far thy song is right2 and all 
must own1                     #djj      
,virtue has her peculiar set of pains4--
   ,and joys peculiar who to ,vice      
denies8   ,if vice it is1 with nature to
 comply3   ,if ,pride1 and ,sense1 are  
so predominant1   ,to check1 not        
overcome1 them1 makes a saint4   ,can   
,nature in a plainer voice proclaim     
,pleasure1 and glory1 the chief good of 
man8     ,can ,pride1 and ,sensuality1  
rejoice8   ,from purity of thought1 all 
pleasure springs2   ,and1 from an humble
 spirit1 all our peace4                 
#daj   ,ambition1 pleasure6 let us talk 

of these3   ,of these1 the ,porch1 and  
,academy1 talk'd2   ,of these1 each     
following age had much to say3   ,yet1  
unexhausted1 still1 the needful theme4  
,who talks of these1 to mankind all at  
once   ,he talks2 for where the saint   
from either free8   ,are these thy      
refuge8--,no3 these rush upon thee2     
,thy vitals seize1 and1 vulture-like1   
devour2   ,i'll try1 if ,i can pluck    
thee from thy rock1   ,prometheus6 from 
this barren ball of earth2              
#dbj   ,if ,reason can unchain thee1    
thou art free4     ,and1 first1 thy     
,caucasus1 ,ambition1 calls2   ,mountain
 of torments6 eminence of woes6   ,of   
courted woes6 and courted through       
mistake6   ',tis not ambition charms    
thee2 'tis a cheat                      
#dbe   ,will make thee start1 as ,h---- 
at his moor4   ,dost grasp at greatness8
 ,first1 know what it is3   ,think'st   
thou thy greatness in distinction lies8 
,not in the feather1 wave it e'er so    
high1   ,by ,fortune stuck1 to mark us  

from the throng1   ,is glory lodged3    
'tis lodged in the reverse2   ,in that  
which joins1 in that which equals1 all1 
#dcb   ,the monarch and his slave2--,a  
deathless soul1   ,unbounded prospect1  
and immortal kin1   ,a ,father ,god1 and
 brothers in the skies2   ,elder1       
indeed1 in time2 but less remote   ,in  
excellence1 perhaps1 than thought by    
man2   ,why greater what can fall1 than 
what can rise8     ,if still delirious1 
now1 ,lorenzo6 go2   ,and with thy      
full-blown brothers of the world1       
#ddj   ,throw scorn around thee2 cast it
 on thy slaves2   ,thy slaves1 and      
equals3 how scorn cast on them          
,rebounds on thee6 ,if man is mean1 as  
man1   ,art thou a god8 ,if ,fortune    
makes him so1   ,beware the consequence3
 a maxim that1   ,which draws a         
monstrous picture of mankind1   ,where1 
in the drapery1 the man is lost2        
,externals fluttering1 and the soul     
forgot4   ,thy greatest glory1 when     
disposed to boast1   ,boast that aloud1 

in which thy servants share4            
#dej     ,we wisely strip the steed we  
mean to buy3   ,judge we1 in their      
caparisons1 of men8   ,it nought avails 
thee1 where1 but what1 thou art2   ,all 
the distinctions of this little life    
,are quite cutaneous1 foreign to the    
man1   ,when1 through death's straits1  
earth's subtle serpents creep1   ,which 
wriggle into wealth1 or climb renown4   
,as crooked ,satan the forbidden tree1  
#deh   ,they leave their party-colour'd 
robe behind1   ,all that now glitters1  
while they rear aloft   ,their brazen   
crests1 and hiss at us below4   ,of     
fortune's fucus#de strip them1 yet      
alive2   ,strip them of body1 too2 nay1 
closer still1   ,away with all1 but     
moral1 in their minds2   ,and let what  
then remains1 impose their name1        
,pronounce them weak1 or worthy2 great1 
or mean4   ,how mean that snuff#df of   
glory ,fortune lights1   ,and ,death    
puts out6 ,dost thou demand a test1   ,a
 test1 at once1 infallible1 and short1  

,of real greatness8 ,that man greatly   
lives1                         #dgj     
,whate'er his fate1 or fame1 who greatly
 dies2   ,high-flush'd with hope1 where 
heroes shall despair4   ,if this a true 
criterion1 many courts1   ,illustrious1 
might afford but few grandees4     ,th' 
,almighty1 from his throne1 on earth    
surveys   ,nought greater1 than an      
honest1 humble heart2   ,an humble      
heart1 ,his residence6 pronounced   ,his
 second seat2 and rival to the skies4   
,the private path1 the secret acts of   
men1   ,if noble1 far the noblest of our
 lives6                            #dhj 
,how far above ,lorenzo's glory sits    
,th' illustrious master of a name       
unknown2   ,whose worth unrivall'd1 and 
unwitness'd1 loves   ,life's sacred     
shades1 where gods converse with men2   
,and ,peace1 beyond the world's         
conceptions1 smiles6   ,as thou 7now    
dark71 before we part1 shalt see4       
,but thy great soul this skulking glory 
scorns4   ,lorenzo's sick1 but when     

,lorenzo's seen2   ,and1 when he shrugs 
at public business1 lies4   ,denied the 
public eye1 the public voice1           
#dij   ,as if he lived on others'       
breath1 he dies4   ,fain would he make  
the world his pedestal2                 
#dib   ,mankind the gazers1 the sole    
figure1 he4   ,knows he1 that mankind   
praise against their will1   ,and mix as
 much detraction as they can8   ,knows  
he1 that faithless ,fame her whisper    
has1   ,as well as trumpet8 that his    
vanity   ,is so much tickled from not   
hearing all8   ,knows this all-knower1  
that from itch of praise1   ,or1 from an
 itch more sordid1 when he shines1      
#ejj   ,taking his country by five      
hundred ears1   ,senates at once admire 
him1 and despise1   ,with modest        
laughter lining loud applause1   ,which 
makes the smile more mortal to his fame8
   ,his fame1 which 7like the mighty    
,caesar71 crown'd   ,with laurels1 in   
full senate1 greatly falls1   ,by       
seeming friends1 that honour1 and       

destroy4   ,we rise in glory1 as we sink
 in pride3   ,where boasting ends1 there
 dignity begins3   ,and yet1 mistaken   
beyond all mistake1                     
#eaj   ,the blind ,lorenzo's proud--of  
being proud2   ,and dreams himself      
ascending in his fall4     ,an eminence1
 though fancied1 turns the brain3   ,all
 vice wants hellebore2 but of all vice1 
,pride loudest calls1 and for the       
largest bowl2   ,because1 unlike all    
other vice1 it flies1   ,in fact1 the   
point1 in fancy most pursued4   ,who    
court applause1 oblige the world in     
this2   ,they gratify man's passion to  
refuse4   ,superior honour1 when        
assumed1 is lost2                       
#ebj   ,even good men turn banditti1 and
 rejoice1   ,like ,kouli-,kan1 in       
plunder of the proud4     ,though       
somewhat disconcerted1 steady still     
,to the world's cause1 with half a face 
of joy1   ,lorenzo cries--,be1 then1    
,ambition cast2   ,ambition's dearer far
 stands unimpeach'd1                    

#ebf   ,gay ,pleasure6 proud ,ambition  
is her slave2   ,for her1 he soars at   
great1 and hazards ill2   ,for her1 he  
fights1 and bleeds1 or overcomes2   ,and
 paves his way1 with crowns1 to reach   
her smile3   ,who can resist her        
charms8--or1 should8 ,lorenzo6   ,what  
mortal shall resist1 where angels yield8
   ,pleasure's the mistress of ethereal 
powers2                        #ecc     
,for her contend the rival gods above2  
,pleasure's the mistress of the world   
below2   ,and well it was for man1 that 
,pleasure charms3   ,how would all      
stagnate1 but for ,pleasure's ray6      
,how would the frozen stream of action  
cease6   ,what is the pulse of this so  
busy world8   ,the love of pleasure3    
that1 through every vein1               
#edj   ,throws motion1 warmth2 and shuts
 out death from life4     ,though       
various are the tempers of mankind1     
,pleasure's gay family hold all in      
chains3   ,some most affect the black2  
and some1 the fair2   ,some honest      

pleasure court2 and some1 obscene4      
,pleasures obscene are various1 as the  
throng   ,of passions1 that can err in  
human hearts2   ,mistake their objects1 
or transgress their bounds4   ,think you
 there's but one whoredom8 ,whoredom1   
all1   ,but when our reason licenses    
delight4                                
#eej   ,dost doubt1 ,lorenzo8 thou shalt
 doubt no more4   ,thy father chides thy
 gallantries2 yet hugs   ,an ugly1      
common harlot1 in the dark2   ,a rank   
adulterer with others' gold6   ,and that
 hag1 ,vengeance1 in a corner1 charms4  
,hatred her brothel has1 as well as     
,love1   ,where horrid epicures debauch 
in blood4   ,whate'er the motive1       
pleasure is the mark3   ,for her1 the   
black assassin draws his sword2   ,for  
her1 dark statesmen trim their midnight 
lamp1                  #efj   ,to which 
no single sacrifice may fall2   ,for    
her1 the saint abstains2 the miser      
starves2   ,the ,stoic proud1 for       
,pleasure1 pleasure scorn'd2   ,for her1

 ,affliction's daughters grief indulge1 
,and find1 or hope1 a luxury in tears2  
,for her1 guilt1 shame1 toil1 danger1 we
 defy2   ,and1 with an aim voluptuous1  
rush on death4   ,thus universal her    
despotic power6     ,and as her empire  
wide1 her praise is just4   ,patron of  
pleasure6 doater on delight6            
#egj   ,i am thy rival2 pleasure ,i     
profess2   ,pleasure the purpose of my  
gloomy song4   ,pleasure is nought but  
virtue's gayer name2   ,i wrong her     
still1 ,i rate her worth too low2       
,virtue the root1 and pleasure is the   
flower2   ,and honest ,epicurus' foes   
were fools4     ,but this sounds harsh1 
and gives the wise offence2   ,if       
o'erstrain'd wisdom still retains the   
name4   ,how knits ,austerity her cloudy
 brow1   ,and blames1 as bold1 and      
hazardous1 the praise                   
#ehj   ,of ,pleasure1 to mankind1       
unpraised1 too dear6   ,ye modern       
,stoics6 hear my soft reply2   ,their   
senses men will trust3 we can't impose2 

,or1 if we could1 is imposition right8  
,own honey sweet2 but1 owning1 add this 
sting2   ,when mix'd with poison1 it is 
deadly too4   ,truth never was indebted 
to a lie4   ,is nought but virtue to be 
praised1 as good8   ,why then is health 
preferr'd before disease8   ,what nature
 loves is good1 without our leave4      
#eij   ,and where no future drawback    
cries1 ,beware6   ,pleasure1 though not 
from virtue1 should prevail4   ',tis    
balm to life1 and gratitude to ,heaven2 
,how cold our thanks for bounties       
unenjoy'd6                        #eid  
,the love of pleasure is man's          
eldest-born1   ,born in his cradle1     
living to his tomb2   ,wisdom1 her      
younger sister1 though more grave1      
,was meant to minister1 and not to mar1 
,imperial ,pleasure1 queen of human     
hearts4     ,lorenzo6 thou1 her         
majesty's renown'd1   ,though uncoift1  
counsel1 learned in the world6   ,who   
think'st thyself a ,murray1#dg with     
disdain                    #fjb         

,may'st look on me4 ,yet1 my            
,demosthenes6   ,canst thou plead       
,pleasure's cause as well as ,i8        
,know'st thou her nature1 purpose1      
parentage8   ,attend my song1 and thou  
shalt know them all2   ,and know        
thyself2 and know thyself to be         
7,strange truth67 the most abstemious   
man alive4   ,tell not ,calista2 she    
will laugh thee dead2   ,or send thee to
 her hermitage with ,l----4             
#faj   ,absurd presumption6 ,thou who   
never knew'st   ,a serious thought6     
shalt thou dare dream of joy8   ,no man 
e'er found a happy life by chance2   ,or
 yawn'd it into being with a wish2      
,or1 with the snout of grovelling       
appetite1   ,e'er smelt it out1 and     
grubb'd it from the dirt4   ,an art it  
is1 and must be learn'd2 and learn'd    
,with unremitting effort1 or be lost2   
,and leaves us perfect blockheads1 in   
our bliss4   ,the clouds may drop down  
titles and estates2                     
#fbj   ,wealth may seek us2 but ,wisdom 

must be sought2   ,sought before all2   
but 7how unlike all else   ,we seek on  
earth67 'tis never sought in vain4      
,first1 ,pleasure's birth1 rise1        
strength1 and grandeur1 see4   ,brought 
forth by ,wisdom1 nursed by ,discipline1
   ,by ,patience taught1 by             
,perseverance crown'd1   ,she rears her 
head majestic2 round her throne1        
#fbg   ,erected in the bosom of the     
just1   ,each virtue1 listed1 forms her 
manly guard4   ,for what are virtues8   
7formidable name67   ,what1 but the     
fountain1 or defence1 of joy8   ,why1   
then1 commanded8 ,need mankind commands1
   ,at once to merit1 and to make1 their
 bliss8--   ,great ,legislator6 scarce  
so great1 as kind6                      
#fcd   ,if men are rational1 and love   
delight1   ,thy gracious law but        
flatters human choice2   ,in the        
transgression lies the penalty2   ,and  
they the most indulge1 who most obey4   
,of ,pleasure1 next1 the final cause    
explore2   ,its mighty purpose1 its     

important end4                          
#fdj   ,not to turn human brutal1 but to
 build   ,divine on human1 ,pleasure    
came from heaven4   ,in aid to ,reason  
was the goddess sent2   ,to call up all 
its strength by such a charm4           
,pleasure1 first1 succours ,virtue2 in  
return1   ,virtue gives ,pleasure an    
eternal reign4   ,what1 but the pleasure
 of food1 friendship1 faith1   ,supports
 life natural1 civil1 and divine8       
',tis from the pleasure of repast1 we   
live2   ',tis from the pleasure of      
applause1 we please2                    
#fej   ',tis from the pleasure of       
belief1 we pray   7,all prayer would    
cease1 if unbelieved the prize73   ,it  
serves ourselves1 our species1 and our  
,god2   ,and to serve more1 is past the 
sphere of man4   ,glide1 then1 for ever1
 pleasure's sacred stream6   ,through   
,eden1 as ,euphrates ran1 it runs1      
,and fosters every growth of happy life2
   ,makes a new ,eden where it          
flows2--but such   ,as must be lost1    

,lorenzo6 by thy fall4     ,what mean ,i
 by thy fall8--,thou'lt shortly see1    
,while ,pleasure's nature is at large   
display'd2                     #ffa     
,already sung her origin1 and ends4     
,those glorious ends1 by kind1 or by    
degree1   ,when ,pleasure violates1 'tis
 then a vice1   ,a vengeance too2 it    
hastens into pain4   ,from due          
refreshment1 life1 health1 reason1 joy2 
,from wild excess1 pain1 grief1         
distraction1 death2   ,heaven's justice 
this proclaims1 and that her love4      
,what greater evil can ,i wish my foe1  
,than his full draught of pleasure1 from
 a cask                     #fgj        
,unbroach'd by just authority1 ungauged 
,by temperance1 by reason unrefined8    
,a thousand demons lurk within the lee4 
,heaven1 others1 and ourselves6         
uninjured these1   ,drink deep2 the     
deeper1 then1 the more divine2   ,angels
 are angels1 from indulgence there2     
',tis unrepenting pleasure makes a god4 
,dost think thyself a god from other    

joys8   ,a victim rather6 shortly sure  
to bleed4   ,the wrong must mourn3 can  
,heaven's appointments fail8   ,can man 
outwit ,omnipotence8 strike out         
#fha   ,a self-wrought happiness unmeant
 by ,him   ,who made us1 and the world  
we would enjoy8   ,who forms an         
instrument1 ordains from whence   ,its  
dissonance1 or harmony1 shall rise4     
,heaven bid the soul this mortal frame  
inspire6   ,bid virtue's ray divine     
inspire the soul   ,with unprecarious   
flows of vital joy2   ,and1 without     
breathing1 man as well might hope   ,for
 life1 as1 without piety1 for peace4    
#fij     ,is virtue1 then1 and piety the
 same8--   ,no2 piety is more2 'tis     
virtue's source2   ,mother of every     
worth1 as that of joy4   ,men of the    
world this doctrine ill digest2   ,they 
smile at piety2 yet boast aloud         
#fie   ,good will to men2 nor know they 
strive to part   ,what ,nature joins2   
and thus confute themselves4   ,with    
piety begins all good on earth2   ',tis 

the first-born of rationality4          
,conscience1 her first law broken1      
wounded lies2   ,enfeebled1 lifeless1   
impotent to good2   ,a feign'd affection
 bounds her utmost power4               
#gjb   ,some we can't love1 but for th' 
,almighty's sake2   ,a foe to ,god was  
ne'er true friend to man2   ,some       
sinister intent taints all he does2     
,and1 in his kindest actions1 he's      
unkind4     ,on piety1 humanity is      
built2   ,and1 on humanity1 much        
happiness2   ,and yet still more on     
piety itself4   ,a soul in commerce with
 her ,god1 is heaven2                   
#gaj   ,feels not the tumults and the   
shocks of life2   ,the whirls of        
passions1 and the strokes of heart4   ,a
 ,deity believed1 is joy begun2   ,a    
,deity adored1 is joy advanced2   ,a    
,deity beloved1 is joy matured4   ,each 
branch of piety delight inspires2       
,faith builds a bridge from this world  
to the next1   ,o'er death's dark gulf1 
and all its horror hides2   ,praise1 the

 sweet exhalation of our joy1   ,that   
joy exalts1 and makes it sweeter still2 
#gbj   ,prayer ardent opens heaven1 lets
 down a stream   ,of glory on the       
consecrated hour   ,of man1 in audience 
with the ,deity4   ,who worships the    
great ,god1 that instant joins   ,the   
first in heaven1 and sets his foot on   
hell4     ,lorenzo6 when wast thou at   
church before8   ,thou think'st the     
service long3 but is it just8   ,though 
just1 unwelcome3 thou hadst rather tread
   ,unhallow'd ground2 the ,muse1 to win
 thine ear1                     #gbi    
,must take an air less solemn4 ,she     
complies4   ,good conscience6 at the    
sound the world retires2   ,verse       
disaffects it1 and ,lorenzo smiles3     
,yet has she her seraglio full of       
charms2   ,and such as age shall        
heighten1 not impair4   ,art thou       
dejected8 ,is thy mind o'ercast8   ,amid
 her fair ones1 thou the fairest choose1
   ,to chase thy gloom4--,go1 fix some  
weighty truth2   ,chain down some       

passion2 do some generous good2   ,teach
 ignorance to see1 or grief to smile2   
,correct thy friend2 befriend thy       
greatest foe2                     #gdj  
,or with warm heart1 and confidence     
divine1   ,spring up1 and lay strong    
hold on ,him who made thee4   ,thy gloom
 is scatter'd1 sprightly spirits flow2  
,though wither'd is thy vine1 and harp  
unstrung4     ,dost call the bowl1 the  
viol1 and the dance1   ,loud mirth1 mad 
laughter8 ,wretched comforters6         
,physicians6 more than half of thy      
disease4   ,laughter1 though never      
censured yet as sin   7,pardon a thought
 that only seems severe71   ,is half    
immoral3 ,is it much indulged8          
#gej   ,by venting spleen1 or           
dissipating thought1   ,it shows a      
scorner1 or it makes a fool2   ,and     
sins1 as hurting others1 or ourselves4  
',tis pride1 or emptiness1 applies the  
straw1   ,that tickles little minds to  
mirth effuse2   ,of grief approaching1  
the portentous sign6   ,the house of    

laughter makes a house of woe4   ,a man 
triumphant is a monstrous sight2   ,a   
man dejected is a sight as mean4   ,what
 cause for triumph1 where such ills     
abound8                    #gfj   ,what 
for dejection1 where presides a ,power1 
,who call'd us into being to be bless'd8
   ,so grieve1 as conscious1 grief may  
rise to joy2                    #gfc    
,so joy1 as conscious1 joy to grief may 
fall4   ,most true1 a wise man never    
will be sad2   ,but neither will        
sonorous1 bubbling mirth1   ,a shallow  
stream of happiness betray3   ,too happy
 to be sportive1 he's serene4     ,yet  
would'st thou laugh 7but at thy own     
expense71   ,this counsel strange should
 ,i presume to give--                   
#ggj   ,retire1 and read thy ,bible1 to 
be gay4   ,there truths abound of       
sovereign aid to peace2   ,ah6 do not   
prize them less1 because inspired1   ,as
 thou1 and thine1 are apt and proud to  
do4   ,if not inspired1 that pregnant   
page had stood1   ,time's treasure1 and 

the wonder of the wise6   ,thou         
think'st1 perhaps1 thy soul alone at    
stake2   ,alas6--should men mistake thee
 for a fool2--   ,what man of taste for 
genius1 wisdom1 truth1   ,though tender 
of thy fame1 could interpose8           
#ghj   ,believe me1 sense here acts a   
double part1   ,and the true critic is a
 ,christian too4     ,but these1 thou   
think'st1 are gloomy paths to joy4--    
,true joy in sunshine ne'er was found at
 first2   ,they1 first1 themselves      
offend1 who greatly please2   ,and      
travel only gives us sound repose4      
,heaven sells all pleasure2 effort is   
the price2   ,the joys of conquest1 are 
the joys of man2   ,and glory the       
victorious laurel spreads   ,o'er       
pleasure's pure1 perpetual1 placid      
stream4                    #gij         
,there is a time1 when toil must be     
preferr'd1   ,or joy1 by mistimed       
fondness1 is undone4   ,a man of        
pleasure1 is a man of pains4   ,thou    
wilt not take the trouble to be blest4  

,false joys1 indeed1 are born from want 
of thought2   ,from thoughts full bent1 
and energy1 the true2   ,and that       
demands a mind in equal poise1          
#gig   ,remote from gloomy grief1 and   
glaring joy4   ,much joy not only speaks
 small happiness1   ,but happiness that 
shortly must expire4   ,can joy1        
unbottom'd in reflection1 stand8   ,and1
 in a tempest1 can reflection live8     
,can joy1 like thine1 secure itself an  
hour8   ,can joy1 like thine1 meet      
accident unshock'd8                     
#hjd   ,or ope the door to honest       
poverty8   ,or talk with threatening    
death1 and not turn pale8   ,in such a  
world1 and such a nature1 these   ,are  
needful fundamentals of delight3        
,these fundamentals give delight indeed2
   ,delight1 pure1 delicate1 and        
durable2                                
#haj   ,delight1 unshaken1 masculine1   
divine2   ,a constant1 and a sound1 but 
serious joy4     ,is joy the daughter of
 severity8   ,it is3--yet far my        

doctrine from severe4   ,rejoice for    
ever3 it becomes a man2   ,exalts1 and  
sets him nearer to the gods4   ,rejoice 
for ever6 ,nature cries1 ,rejoice6      
,and drinks to man1 in her nectareous   
cup1   ,mix'd up of delicates for every 
sense2   ,to the great ,founder of the  
bounteous feast1                        
#hbj   ,drinks glory1 gratitude1 eternal
 praise2   ,and he that will not pledge 
her1 is a churl4   ,ill firmly to       
support1 good fully taste1   ,is the    
whole science of felicity3   ,yet       
sparing pledge3 her bowl is not the best
   ,mankind can boast4--,a rational     
repast2   ,exertion1 vigilance1 a mind  
in arms1   ,a military discipline of    
thought1   ,to foil temptation in the   
doubtful field2   ,and ever-waking      
ardour for the right4                   
#hcj   ',tis these1 first give1 then    
guard1 a cheerful heart4                
#hca   ,nought that is right1 think     
little2 well aware1   ,what reason bids1
 ,god bids2 by ,his command   ,how      

aggrandized1 the smallest thing we do6  
,thus1 nothing is insipid to the wise2  
,to thee1 insipid all1 but what is mad2 
,joys season'd high1 and tasting strong 
of guilt4   ,mad6 7thou reply'st1 with  
indignation fired72   ,of ancient sages 
proud to tread the steps1   ,i follow   
,nature4--,follow ,nature still1        
#hdj   ,but look it be thine own3 is    
,conscience1 then1   ,no part of nature8
 ,is she not supreme8   ,thou regicide6 
,oh1 raise her from the dead6   ,then1  
follow ,nature2 and resemble ,god4      
,when1 spite of ,conscience1 pleasure is
 pursued1   ,man's nature is unnaturally
 pleased3   ,and what's unnatural1 is   
painful too   ,at intervals1 and must   
disgust even thee6   ,the fact thou     
know'st2 but not1 perhaps1 the cause4   
,virtue's foundations with the world's  
were laid2                   #hej       
,heaven mix'd her with our make1 and    
twisted close   ,her sacred interests   
with the strings of life4   ,who breaks 
her awful mandate1 shocks himself1      

,his better self3 and is it greater     
pain1   ,our soul should murmur1 or our 
dust repine8   ,and one1 in their       
eternal war1 must bleed4     ,if one    
must suffer1 which should least be      
spared8   ,the pains of mind surpass the
 pains of sense3   ,ask1 then1 the gout1
 what torment is in guilt4   ,the joys  
of sense to mental joys are mean3       
#hfj   ,sense on the present only feeds2
 the soul   ,on past1 and future1       
forages for joy4   ',tis hers1 by       
retrospect1 through time to range2      
,and forward time's great sequel to     
survey4   ,could human courts take      
vengeance on the mind1                  
#hfe   ,axes might rust1 and racks and  
gibbets fall3   ,guard1 then1 thy mind1 
and leave the rest to fate4             
,lorenzo6 wilt thou never be a man8     
,the man is dead1 who for the body      
lives1   ,lured1 by the beating of his  
pulse1 to list   ,with every lust1 that 
wars against his peace2   ,and sets him 
quite at variance with himself4         

#hgb   ,thyself1 first1 know2 then love3
 a self there is   ,of ,virtue fond1    
that kindles at her charms4   ,a self   
there is1 as fond of every vice1        
,while every virtue wounds it to the    
heart3   ,humility degrades it1 ,justice
 robs1   ,bless'd ,bounty beggars it1   
fair ,truth betrays1   ,and godlike     
,magnanimity destroys4   ,this self1    
when rival to the former1 scorn2        
#hhj   ,when not in competition1 kindly 
treat1   ,defend it1 feed it3--but when 
,virtue bids1   ,toss it1 or to the     
fowls1 or to the flames4   ,and why8    
',tis love of pleasure bids thee bleed2 
,comply1 or own self-love extinct1 or   
blind4     ,for what is vice8 self-love 
in a mistake3   ,a poor blind merchant  
buying joys too dear4   ,and virtue1    
what8 'tis self-love in her wits1       
,quite skilful in the market of delight4
   ,self-love's good sense is love of   
that dread ,power1                #hij  
,from whom herself1 and all she can     
enjoy4   ,other self-love is but        

disguised self-hate2   ,more mortal than
 the malice of our foes2   ,a self-hate1
 now1 scarce felt2 then felt full sore1 
,when being1 cursed2 extinction1 loud   
implored2   ,and every thing preferr'd  
to what we are4     ,yet this self-love 
,lorenzo makes his choice2   ,and1 in   
this choice triumphant1 boasts of joy4  
,how is his want of happiness betray'd1 
#hii   ,by disaffection to the present  
hour6   ,imagination wanders far afield3
   ,the future pleases3 why8 the present
 pains4--   ,but that's a secret4 ,yes1 
which all men know2   ,and know from    
thee1 discover'd unawares4   ,thy       
ceaseless agitation1 restless roll      
,from cheat to cheat1 impatient of a    
pause2   ,what is it8--'tis the cradle  
of the soul1   ,from ,instinct sent1 to 
rock her in disease1   ,which her       
physician1 ,reason1 will not cure4   ,a 
poor expedient6 yet thy best2 and while 
#iaj   ,it mitigates thy pain1 it owns  
it too4     ,such are ,lorenzo's        
wretched remedies6   ,the weak have     

remedies2 the wise have joys4           
,superior wisdom is superior bliss4     
,and what sure mark distinguishes the   
wise8   ,consistent wisdom ever wills   
the same2   ,thy fickle wish is ever on 
the wing4   ,sick of herself1 is        
,folly's character1   ,as ,wisdom's is1 
a modest self-applause4   ,a change of  
evils is thy good supreme2              
#ibj   ,nor1 but in motion1 canst thou  
find thy rest4   ,man's greatest        
strength is shown in standing still4    
,the first sure symptom of a mind in    
health1   ,is rest of heart1 and        
pleasure felt at home4   ,false pleasure
 from abroad her joys imports2   ,rich  
from within1 and self-sustain'd1 the    
true4   ,the true is fix'd1 and solid as
 a rock2   ,slippery the false1 and     
tossing1 as the wave4   ,this1 a wild   
wanderer on earth1 like ,cain2   ,that1 
like the fabled1 self-enamour'd boy1#dh 
#icj   ,home-contemplation her supreme  
delight2   ,she dreads an interruption  
from without1                           

#icb   ,smit with her own condition2 and
 the more   ,intense she gazes1 still it
 charms the more4     ,no man is happy1 
till he thinks1 on earth   ,there       
breathes not a more happy than himself3 
,then envy dies1 and love o'erflows on  
all2   ,and love o'erflowing makes an   
angel here4   ,such angels1 all1        
entitled to repose   ,on ,him who       
governs fate4 ,though tempest frowns1   
#idj   ,though nature shakes1 how soft  
to lean on ,heaven6   ,to lean on ,him1 
on whom archangels lean6   ,with inward 
eyes1 and silent as the grave1   ,they  
stand1 collecting every beam of thought1
   ,till their hearts kindle with divine
 delight3   ,for all their thoughts1    
like angels1 seen of old   ,in ,israel's
 dream1 come from1 and go to1 heaven4   
,hence are they studious of sequester'd 
scenes2   ,while noise1 and dissipation1
 comfort thee4     ,were all men happy1 
revellings would cease1                 
#iej   ,that opiate for inquietude      
within4   ,lorenzo6 never man was truly 

blest1   ,but it composed1 and gave him 
such a cast1   ,as folly might mistake  
for want of joy4   ,a cast1 unlike the  
triumph of the proud2   ,a modest       
aspect1 and a smile at heart4   ,o for a
 joy from thy ,philander's spring6   ,a 
spring perennial1 rising in the breast1 
,and permanent1 as pure6 no turbid      
stream   ,of rapturous exultation1      
swelling high2                          
#ifj   ,which1 like land floods1        
impetuous pour a while1   ,then sink at 
once1 and leave us in the mire4   ,what 
does the man1 who transient joy prefers8
   ,what1 but prefer the bubbles to the 
stream8     ,vain are all sudden sallies
 of delight2   ,convulsions of a weak1  
distemper'd joy4                        
#iff   ,joy's a fix'd state2 a tenure1  
not a start4   ,bliss there is none1 but
 unprecarious bliss3   ,that is the gem3
 sell all1 and purchase that4   ,why go 
a-begging to contingencies1   ,not      
gain'd with ease1 nor safely loved1 if  
gain'd8   ,at good fortuitous1 draw     

back1 and pause2   ,suspect it2 what    
thou canst insure1 enjoy2               
#igc   ,and nought but what thou givest 
thyself1 is sure4   ,reason perpetuates 
joy that ,reason gives1   ,and makes it 
as immortal as herself3   ,to mortals1  
nought immortal1 but their worth4       
,worth1 conscious worth6 should         
absolutely reign2   ,and other joys ask 
leave for their approach2   ,nor1       
unexamined1 ever leave obtain4          
#ihj   ,thou art all anarchy2 a mob of  
joys   ,wage war1 and perish in         
intestine broils2   ,not the least      
promise of internal peace6   ,no        
bosom-comfort1 or unborrow'd bliss6     
,thy thoughts are vagabonds2 all        
outward-bound1   ',mid sands1 and rocks1
 and storms1 to cruise for pleasure2    
,if gain'd1 dear-bought2 and better     
miss'd than gain'd4   ,much pain must   
expiate1 what much pain procured4       
,fancy1 and ,sense1 from an infected    
shore1   ,thy cargo bring2 and          
pestilence the prize4                   

#iij   ,then1 such thy thirst           
7insatiable thirst6   ,by fond          
indulgence but inflamed the more671     
,fancy still cruises1 when poor ,sense  
is tired4     ,imagination is the       
,paphian shop1   ,where feeble          
happiness1 like ,vulcan1 lame1   ,bids  
foul ideas1 in their dark recess1   ,and
 hot as hell 7which kindled the black   
fires71   ,with wanton art1 those fatal 
arrows form1   ,which murder all thy    
time1 health1 wealth1 and fame4         
,would'st thou receive them1 other      
thoughts there are1   ,on angel-wing1   
descending from above1                  
#ajja   ,which these1 with art divine1  
would counterwork1   ,and form celestial
 armour for thy peace4     ,in this is  
seen ,imagination's guilt2   ,but who   
can count her follies8 ,she betrays     
thee1   ,to think in grandeur there is  
something great4   ,for works of curious
 art1 and ancient fame1   ,thy genius   
hungers1 elegantly pain'd2   ,and       
foreign climes must cater for thy taste4

   ,hence1 what disaster6--,though the  
price was paid1                 #ajaj   
,that persecuting priest1 the ,turk of  
,rome1   ,whose foot 7ye gods67 though  
cloven1 must be kiss'd1   ,detain'd thy 
dinner on the ,latian shore2   7,such is
 the fate of honest ,protestants67      
,and poor ,magnificence is starved to   
death4   ,hence just resentment1        
indignation1 ire6--   ,be pacified3 if  
outward things are great1   ',tis       
magnanimity great things to scorn2      
,pompous expenses1 and parades august1  
,and courts1 that insalubrious soil to  
peace4                      #ajbj       
,true happiness ne'er enter'd at an eye2
   ,true happiness resides in things    
unseen4   ,no smiles of ,fortune ever   
bless'd the bad1   ,nor can her frowns  
rob ,innocence of joys2   ,that jewel   
wanting1 triple crowns are poor3   ,so  
tell his ,holiness1 and be revenged4    
,pleasure1 we both agree1 is man's chief
 good2   ,our only contest1 what        
deserves the name4   ,give ,pleasure's  

name to nought1 but what has pass'd     
,th' authentic seal of ,reason 7which   
like ,yorke1#di               #ajcj     
,demurs on what it passes71 and defies  
,the tooth of time2 when past1 a        
pleasure still2   ,dearer on trial1     
lovelier for its age1                   
#ajcc   ,and doubly to be prized1 as it 
promotes   ,our future1 while it forms  
our present1 joy4   ,some joys the      
future overcast2 and some   ,throw all  
their beams that way1 and gild the tomb4
   ,some joys endear eternity2 some give
   ,abhorr'd annihilation dreadful      
charms4   ,are rival joys contending for
 thy choice8                            
#ajdj   ,consult thy whole existence1   
and be safe2   ,that oracle will put all
 doubt to flight4   ,short is the       
lesson1 though my lecture long2   ,be   
good--and let ,heaven answer for the    
rest4     ,yet1 with a sigh o'er all    
mankind1 ,i grant   ,in this our day of 
proof1 our land of hope1   ,the good man
 has his clouds that intervene2         

,clouds1 that obscure his sublunary day1
   ,but never conquer3 even the best    
must own1   ,patience1 and resignation1 
are the pillars                         
#ajej   ,of human peace on earth4 ,the  
pillars1 these3   ,but those of ,seth   
not more remote from thee1   ,till this 
heroic lesson thou hast learn'd2   ,to  
frown at pleasure1 and to smile in pain4
   ,fired at the prospect of unclouded  
bliss1   ,heaven in reversion1 like the 
sun1 as yet   ,beneath th' horizon1     
cheers us in this world2   ,it sheds1 on
 souls susceptible of light1   ,the     
glorious dawn of our eternal day4       
,this 7says ,lorenzo7 is a fair         
harangue3                        #ajfj  
,but can harangues blow back strong     
nature's stream2   ,or stem the tide    
,heaven pushes through our veins1       
,which sweeps away man's impotent       
resolves1   ,and lays his labour level  
with the world8     ,themselves men make
 their comment on mankind2   ,and think 
nought is1 but what they find at home3  

,thus1 weakness to chimera turns the    
truth4                        #ajfg     
,nothing romantic has the ,muse         
prescribed4   ,above1#ej ,lorenzo saw   
the man of earth1   ,the mortal man2 and
 wretched was the sight4   ,to balance  
that1 to comfort1 and exalt1   ,now see 
the man immortal3 him1 ,i mean1   ,who  
lives as such2 whose heart1 full bent on
 heaven1   ,leans all that way1 his bias
 to the stars4   ,the world's dark      
shades1 in contrast set1 shall raise    
,his lustre more2 though bright1 without
 a foil3   ,observe his awful portrait1 
and admire2   ,nor stop at wonder2      
imitate1 and live4     ,some angel guide
 my pencil1 while ,i draw1   ,what      
nothing less than angel can exceed6     
#ajhj   ,a man on earth devoted to the  
skies2   ,like ships in sea1 while in1  
above the world4     ,with aspect mild1 
and elevated eye1   ,behold him seated  
on a mount serene1   ,above the fogs of 
sense1 and passion's storm2   ,all the  
black cares1 and tumults1 of this life1 

,like harmless thunders1 breaking at his
 feet1   ,excite his pity1 not impair   
his peace4   ,earth's genuine sons1 the 
sceptred1 and the slave1   ,a mingled   
mob6 a wandering herd6 he sees1         
#ajij   ,bewilder'd in the vale2 in all 
unlike6   ,his full reverse in all6     
,what higher praise8   ,what stronger   
demonstration of the right8     ,the    
present all their care2 the future1 his4
   ,when public welfare calls1 or       
private want1   ,they give to fame2 his 
bounty he conceals4   ,their virtues    
varnish nature2 his exalt4   ,mankind's 
esteem they court2 and he1 his own4     
,theirs1 the wild chase of false        
felicities2   ,his1 the composed        
possession of the true4                 
#aajj   ,alike throughout is his        
consistent peace1   ,all of one colour1 
and an even thread2   ,while            
party-colour'd shreds of happiness1     
,with hideous gaps between1 patch up for
 them   ,a madman's robe2 each puff of  
,fortune blows   ,the tatters by1 and   

shows their nakedness4     ,he sees with
 other eyes than theirs3 where they     
,behold a sun1 he spies a ,deity2       
,what makes them only smile1 makes him  
adore4   ,where they see mountains1 he  
but atoms sees2                         
#aaaj   ,an empire1 in his balance1     
weighs a grain4   ,they things          
terrestrial worship1 as divine3   ,his  
hopes immortal blow them by1 as dust1   
,that dims his sight1 and shortens his  
survey1   ,which longs1 in infinite1 to 
lose all bound4   ,titles and honours   
7if they prove his fate7   ,he lays     
aside to find his dignity2   ,no dignity
 they find in aught besides4   ,they    
triumph in externals 7which conceal     
,man's real glory71 proud of an eclipse4
                           #aabj        
,himself too much he prizes to be proud1
   ,and nothing thinks so great in man1 
as man4   ,too dear he holds his        
interest1 to neglect   ,another's       
welfare1 or his right invade2   ,their  
interest1 like a lion1 lives on prey4   

,they kindle at the shadow of a wrong3  
,wrong he sustains with temper1 looks on
 heaven1   ,nor stoops to think his     
injurer his foe2   ,nought1 but what    
wounds his virtue1 wounds his peace4    
,a cover'd heart their character        
defends2                          #aacj 
,a cover'd heart denies him half his    
praise4   ,with nakedness his innocence 
agrees2   ,while their broad foliage    
testifies their fall3   ,their no joys  
end1 where his full feast begins2       
#aacd   ,his joys create1 theirs murder1
 future bliss4   ,to triumph in         
existence1 his alone2   ,and his alone1 
triumphantly to think   ,his true       
existence is not yet begun4   ,his      
glorious course was1 yesterday1         
complete2   ,death1 then1 was welcome2  
yet life still is sweet4     ,but       
nothing charms ,lorenzo1 like the firm1 
,undaunted breast--and whose is that    
high praise8                  #aadb     
,they yield to pleasure1 though they    
danger brave1   ,and show no fortitude1 

but in the field2   ,if there they show 
it1 'tis for glory shown2   ,nor will   
that cordial always man their hearts4   
,a cordial his sustains1 that cannot    
fail2   ,by pleasure unsubdued1 unbroke 
by pain1   ,he shares in that           
,omnipotence he trusts4   ,all-bearing1 
all-attempting1 till he falls2          
#aaej   ,and when he falls1 writes      
,,vici on his shield4   ,from           
magnanimity1 all fear above2   ,from    
nobler recompence1 above applause2      
,which owes to man's short outlook all  
its charms4     ,backward to credit what
 he never felt1   ,lorenzo              
cries1--,where shines this miracle8     
,from what root rises this immortal man8
   ,a root that grows not in ,lorenzo's 
ground2   ,the root dissect1 nor wonder 
at the flower4   ,he follows nature 7not
 like thee7 and shows us                
#aafj   ,an uninverted system of a man4 
,his appetite wears ,reason's golden    
chain1   ,and finds1 in due restraint1  
its luxury4   ,his passion1 like an     

eagle well reclaim'd1   ,is taught to   
fly at nought1 but infinite4   ,patient 
his hope1 unanxious is his care1   ,his 
caution fearless1 and his grief 7if     
grief   ,the gods ordain7 a stranger to 
despair4                           #aafh
   ,and why8--because affection1 more   
than meet1   ,his wisdom leaves not     
disengaged from heaven4   ,those        
secondary goods that smile on earth1    
,he1 loving in proportion1 loves in     
peace4   ,they most the world enjoy1 who
 least admire4   ,his understanding     
'scapes the common cloud   ,of fumes1   
arising from a boiling breast4   ,his   
head is clear1 because his heart is     
cool1   ,by worldly competitions        
uninflamed4   ,the moderate movements of
 his soul admit   ,distinct ideas1 and  
matured debate1   ,an eye impartial1 and
 an even scale2                         
#aahj   ,whence judgment sound1 and     
unrepenting choice4   ,thus1 in a double
 sense1 the good are wise2   ,on its own
 dunghill1 wiser than the world4        

,what1 then1 the world8 ,it must be     
doubly weak2   ,strange truth6 as soon  
would they believe their creed4     ,yet
 thus it is2 nor otherwise can be2   ,so
 far from aught romantic1 what ,i sing4 
,bliss has no being1 virtue has no      
strength1   ,but from the prospect of   
immortal life4   ,who think earth all1  
or 7what weighs just the same7          
#aaij   ,who care no farther1 must prize
 what it yields2   ,fond of its fancies1
 proud of its parades4   ,who thinks    
earth nothing1 can't its charms admire2 
,he can't a foe1 though most malignant1 
hate1   ,because that hate would prove  
his greater foe4   ',tis hard for them  
7yet who so loudly boast   ,good-will to
 men87 to love their dearest friend2    
,for may not he invade their good       
supreme1   ,where the least jealousy    
turns love to gall8   ,all shines to    
them1 that for a season shines4         
#abjj   ,each act1 each thought1 he     
questions1 ,what its weight1   ,its     
colour what1 a thousand ages hence8--   

#abjb   ,and what it there appears1 he  
deems it now4   ,hence1 pure are the    
recesses of his soul4   ,the godlike man
 has nothing to conceal4   ,his virtue1 
constitutionally deep1   ,has habit's   
firmness1 and affection's flame2        
,angels1 allied1 descend to feed the    
fire2   ,and ,death1 which others slays1
 makes him a god4     ,and now1         
,lorenzo6 bigot of this world6          
#abaj   ,wont to disdain poor bigots    
caught by ,heaven6   ,stand by thy      
scorn1 and be reduced to nought3   ,for 
what art thou8--,thou boaster6 while thy
 glare1   ,thy gaudy grandeur1 and mere 
worldly worth1   ,like a broad mist1 at 
distance1 strikes us most2   ,and1 like 
a mist1 is nothing when at hand2   ,his 
merit1 like a mountain1 on approach1    
,swells more1 and rises nearer to the   
skies1   ,by promise now1 and1 by       
possession1 soon1   7,too soon1 too     
much1 it cannot be7 his own4            
#abbj     ,from this thy just           
annihilation rise1   ,lorenzo6 rise to  

something1 by reply4   ,the world1 thy  
client1 listens1 and expects2   ,and    
longs to crown thee with immortal       
praise4   ,canst thou be silent8 ,no2   
for ,wit is thine2   ,and ,wit talks    
most1 when least she has to say1   ,and 
,reason interrupts not her career4      
,she'll say--that mists above the       
mountains rise2   ,and1 with a thousand 
pleasantries1 amuse2   ,she'll sparkle1 
puzzle1 flutter1 raise a dust1          
#abcj   ,and fly conviction1 in the dust
 she raised4     ,wit1 how delicious to 
man's dainty taste6   ',tis precious1 as
 the vehicle of sense2   ,but1 as its   
substitute1 a dire disease4             
,pernicious talent6 flatter'd by the    
world1   ,by the blind world1 which     
thinks the talent rare4                 
#abcf   ,wisdom is rare1 ,lorenzo6 wit  
abounds2   ,passion can give it2        
sometimes wine inspires   ,the lucky    
flash2 and madness rarely fails4        
,whatever cause the spirit strongly     
stirs1   ,confers the bays1 and rivals  

thy renown4   ,for thy renown1 'twere   
well was this the worst2   ,chance often
 hits it2 and1 to pique thee more1      
#abdc   ,see ,dulness1 blundering on    
vivacities1   ,shakes her sage head at  
the calamity1   ,which has exposed1 and 
let her down to thee4   ,but ,wisdom1   
awful ,wisdom6 which inspects1          
,discerns1 compares1 weighs1 separates1 
infers1   ,seizes the right1 and holds  
it to the last2   ,how rare6 ,in        
senates1 synods1 sought in vain2        
#abej   ,or if there found1 'tis sacred 
to the few2   ,while a lewd prostitute  
to multitudes1   ,frequent1 as fatal1   
,wit3 in civil life1   ,wit makes an    
enterpriser2 ,sense1 a man4   ,wit hates
 authority2 commotion loves1   ,and     
thinks herself the lightning of the     
storm4   ,in states1 'tis dangerous2 in 
religion1 death3   ,shall ,wit turn     
,christian1 when the dull believe8      
,sense is our helmet1 wit is but the    
plume2   ,the plume exposes1 'tis our   
helmet saves4                           

#abfj   ,sense is the diamond1 weighty1 
solid1 sound2   ,when cut by wit1 it    
casts a brighter beam2   ,yet1 wit      
apart1 it is a diamond still4   ,wit1   
widow'd of good sense1 is worse than    
nought2   ,it hoists more sail to run   
against a rock4   ,thus1 a              
half-,chesterfield is quite a fool2     
,whom dull fools scorn1 and bless their 
want of wit4     ,how ruinous the rock  
,i warn thee shun1   ,where syrens sit1 
to sing thee to thy fate6   ,a joy1 in  
which our reason bears no part1         
#abgj   ,is but a sorrow1 tickling1 ere 
it stings4   ,let not the cooings of the
 world allure thee2   ,which of her     
lovers ever found her true8   ,happy6 of
 this bad world who little know8--      
,and yet1 we much must know her1 to be  
safe2   ,to know the world1 not love    
her1 is thy point2   ,she gives but     
little1 nor that little1 long4   ,there 
is1 ,i grant1 a triumph of the pulse2   
,a dance of spirits1 a mere froth of    
joy1   ,our thoughtless agitation's idle

 child1                           #abhj 
,that mantles high1 that sparkles1 and  
expires1   ,leaving the soul more vapid 
than before4   ,an animal ovation6 such 
as holds   ,no commerce with our reason1
 but subsists   ,on juices1 through the 
well-toned tubes1 well strain'd2   ,a   
nice machine6 scarce ever tuned aright2 
,and when it jars--thy syrens sing no   
more1   ,thy dance is done2 the demi-god
 is thrown   7,short apotheosis67       
beneath the man1   ,in coward gloom     
immersed1 or fell despair4              
#abij     ,art thou yet dull enough     
despair to dread1   ,and startle at     
destruction8 ,if thou art1   ,accept a  
buckler1 take it to the field2   7,a    
field of battle is this mortal life67   
,when danger threatens1 lay it on thy   
heart2   ,a single sentence1 proof      
against the world3   ,soul1 body1       
fortune6--every good pertains   ,to one 
of these2 but prize not all alike2      
,the goods of fortune to thy body's     
health1   ,body to soul1 and soul submit

 to ,god4                               
#acjj   ,would'st thou build lasting    
happiness8 do this2   ,th' inverted     
pyramid can never stand4     ,is this   
truth doubtful8 ,it outshines the sun2  
,nay1 the sun shines not1 but to show us
 this1                     #acjd   ,the 
single lesson of mankind on earth4      
,and yet--yet1 what8 ,no news6 ,mankind 
is mad2   ,such mighty numbers list     
against the right1   7,and what can't   
numbers1 when bewitch'd1 achieve67      
,they talk themselves to something like 
belief1   ,that all earth's joys are    
theirs3 as ,athens' fool   ,grinn'd from
 the port1 on every sail his own4       
,they grin2 but wherefore8 and how long 
the laugh8   ,half ignorance1 their     
mirth2 and half1 a lie2                 
#acac   ,to cheat the world1 and cheat  
themselves1 they smile4   ,hard either  
task6 ,the most abandon'd own1   ,that  
others1 if abandon'd1 are undone3       
,then1 for themselves1 the moment       
,reason wakes   7,and ,providence denies

 it long repose71   ,o how laborious is 
their gaiety6   ,they scarce can swallow
 their ebullient spleen1                
#acbj   ,scarce muster patience to      
support the farce1   ,and pump sad      
laughter till the curtain falls4        
,scarce1 did ,i say8 ,some cannot sit it
 out2   ,oft their own daring hands the 
curtain draw1   ,and show us what their 
joy1 by their despair4     ,the clotted 
hair6 gored breast6 blaspheming eye6    
,its impious fury still alive in death6 
,shut1 shut the shocking scene4--,but   
,heaven denies   ,a cover to such guilt2
 and so should man4   ,look round1      
,lorenzo6 see the reeking blade1        
#accj   ,th' envenom'd phial1 and the   
fatal ball2   ,the strangling cord1 and 
suffocating stream2   ,the loathsome    
rottenness1 and foul decays   ,from     
raging riot 7slower suicides67   ,and   
pride in these1 more execrable still6   
,how horrid all to thought6--but        
horrors1 these1   ,that vouch the truth2
 and aid my feeble song4     ,from vice1

 sense1 fancy1 no man can be blest3     
#acch   ,bliss is too great1 to lodge   
within an hour3   ,when an immortal     
being aims at bliss1   ,duration is     
essential to the name4   ,o for a joy   
from reason6 joy from that1   ,which    
makes man ,man2 and1 exercised aright1  
,will make him more3 a bounteous joy6   
that gives   ,and promises2 that weaves1
 with art divine1   ,the richest        
prospect into present peace3   ,a joy   
ambitious6 joy in common held   ,with   
thrones ethereal1 and their greater far2
   ,a joy high privileged from chance1  
time1 death6   ,a joy1 which death shall
 double1 judgment crown6                
#acej   ,crown'd higher1 and still      
higher1 at each stage1   ,through       
bless'd eternity's long day2 yet still1 
,not more remote from sorrow1 than from 
,him1   ,whose lavish hand1 whose love  
stupendous1 pours   ,so much of ,deity  
on guilty dust4   ,there1 ,o my ,lucia6 
may ,i meet thee there1   ,where not thy
 presence can improve my bliss6         

,affects not this the sages of the      
world8   ,can nought affect them1 but   
what fools them too8   ,eternity1       
depending on an hour1                   
#acfj   ,makes serious thought man's    
wisdom1 joy1 and praise1   ,nor need you
 blush 7though sometimes your designs   
,may shun the light7 at your designs on 
heaven3   ,sole point6 where            
over-bashful is your blame4   ,are you  
not wise8--,you know you are3 yet hear  
,one truth1 amid your numerous schemes1 
mislaid1   ,or overlook'd1 or thrown    
aside1 if seen2   ,our schemes to plan  
by this world1 or the next1   ,is the   
sole difference between wise and fool4  
,all worthy men will weigh you in this  
scale2                      #acgj       
,what wonder then1 if they pronounce you
 light8                    #acga   ,is  
their esteem alone not worth your care8 
,accept my simple scheme of common      
sense3   ,thus1 save your fame1 and make
 two worlds your own4     ,the world    
replies not2--but the world persists2   

,and puts the cause off to the longest  
day1   ,planning evasions for the day of
 doom4   ,so far1 at that re-hearing1   
from redress1   ,they then turn         
witnesses against themselves2   ,hear   
that1 ,lorenzo6 nor be wise to-morrow4  
#achj   ,haste1 haste6 a man1 by nature1
 is in haste2   ,for who shall answer   
for another hour8   ',tis highly        
prudent1 to make one sure friend2   ,and
 that thou canst not do1 this side the  
skies4     ,ye sons of earth6 7nor      
willing to be more67   ,since verse you 
think from priestcraft somewhat free1   
,thus1 in an age so gay1 the ,muse plain
 truths   7,truths1 which1 at church1   
you might have heard in prose7   ,has   
ventured into light2 well pleased the   
verse   ,should be forgot1 if you the   
truths retain2                          
#acij   ,and crown her with your        
welfare1 not your praise4   ,but praise 
she need not fear3 ,i see my fate2      
,and headlong leap1 like ,curtius1 down 
the gulf4   ,since many an ample volume1

 mighty tome1   ,must die2 and die      
unwept2 ,o thou minute   ,devoted page6 
go forth among thy foes2   ,go1 nobly   
proud of martyrdom for truth1   ,and die
 a double death3 mankind incensed1      
,denies thee long to live3 nor shalt    
thou rest1   ,when thou art dead2 in    
,stygian shades arraign'd               
#adjj   ,by ,lucifer1 as traitor to his 
throne2   ,and bold blasphemer of his   
friend1--the ,world2   ,the ,world1     
whose legions cost him slender pay1     
,and volunteers around his banner swarm2
                           #adjd        
,prudent1 as ,prussia1#ea in her zeal   
for ,gaul4     ,are all1 then1 fools8   
,lorenzo cries4--,yes1 all1   ,but such 
as hold this doctrine 7new to thee72    
,the mother of true wisdom is the will2 
,the noblest intellect1 a fool without  
it4   ,world-wisdom much has done1 and  
more may do1                      #adaj 
,in arts and sciences1 in wars1 and     
peace3   ,but art and science1 like thy 
wealth1 will leave thee1   ,and make    

thee twice a beggar at thy death4       
,this is the most indulgence can        
afford2--   ,thy wisdom all can do1     
but--make thee wise4   ,nor think this  
censure is severe on thee2   ,satan1 thy
 master1 ,i dare call a dunce4          
#adag                                   
,,the ,,consolation3                    
,,containing1 ,,among ,,other ,,things1 
,i4 ,a ,,moral ,,survey ,,of ,,the      
,,nocturnal ,,heavens4                  
,,ii4 ,a ,,night ,,address ,,to ,,the   
,,deity4                        ,,humbly
 ,,inscribed ,,to ,,his ,,grace         
,,the ,,duke ,,of ,,newcastle1          
,,one ,,of ,,his ,,majesty',s           
,,principal ,,secretaries ,,of ,,state4 
,fatis contraria fata rependens4--,virg4
                                        
,,night ,,ninth4                        
,,the ,,consolation4     ,as when a     
traveller1 a long day past   ,in painful
 search of what he cannot find1   ,at   
night's approach1 content with the next 
cot1   ,there ruminates1 a while1 his   

labour lost2   ,then cheers his heart   
with what his fate affords1   ,and      
chants his sonnet to deceive the time1  
,till the due season calls him to       
repose3   ,thus ,i1 long-travell'd in   
the ways of men1   ,and dancing1 with   
the rest1 the giddy maze1   ,where      
,disappointment smiles at ,hope's       
career2                       #aj       
,warn'd by the languor of life's evening
 ray1   ,at length have housed me in an 
humble shed2   ,where1 future wandering 
banish'd from my thought1   ,and        
waiting1 patient1 the sweet hour of     
rest1   ,i chase the moments with a     
serious song4   ,song soothes our pains2
 and age has pains to soothe4     ,when 
age1 care1 crime1 and friends embraced  
at heart1   ,torn from my bleeding      
breast1 and death's dark shade1   ,which
 hovers o'er me1 quench th' ethereal    
fire2   ,canst thou1 ,o ,night6 indulge 
one labour more8                        
#bj   ,one labour more indulge6 then    
sleep1 my strain6                       

#ba   ,till1 haply1 waked by ,raphael's 
golden lyre1   ,where night1 death1 age1
 care1 crime1 and sorrow1 cease2   ,to  
bear a part in everlasting lays2        
,though far1 far higher set1 in aim1 ,i 
trust1   ,symphonious to this humble    
prelude here4     ,has not the ,muse    
asserted pleasures pure1   ,like those  
above2 exploding other joys8   ,weigh   
what was urged1 ,lorenzo6 fairly weigh2 
,and tell me1 hast thou cause to triumph
 still8                      #cj   ,i   
think1 thou wilt forbear a boast so     
bold4   ,but if1 beneath the favour of  
mistake1   ,thy smile's sincere2 not    
more sincere can be   ,lorenzo's smile1 
than my compassion for him4   ,the sick 
in body call for aid2 the sick   ,in    
mind are covetous of more disease2      
,and when at worst1 they dream          
themselves quite well4   ,to know       
ourselves diseased1 is half our cure4   
,when ,nature's blush by ,custom is     
wiped off1   ,and ,conscience1 deaden'd 
by repeated strokes1                    

#dj   ,has into manners naturalized our 
crimes2   ,the curse of curses is1 our  
curse to love2   ,to triumph in the     
blackness of our guilt   7,as ,indians  
glory in the deepest jet71   ,and throw 
aside our senses with our peace4        
,but grant no guilt1 no shame1 no least 
alloy2   ,grant joy and glory quite     
unsullied shone2   ,yet1 still1 it ill  
deserves ,lorenzo's heart4   ,no joy1 no
 glory1 glitters in thy sight1   ,but1  
through the thin partition of an hour1  
#ej   ,i see its sables wove by destiny2
   ,and that in sorrow buried2 this1 in 
shame2   ,while howling furies wring the
 doleful knell2   ,and ,conscience1 now 
so soft thou scarce canst hear          
#ed   ,her whisper1 echoes her eternal  
peal4     ,where1 the prime actors of   
the last year's scene2   ,their port so 
proud1 their buskin1 and their plume8   
,how many sleep1 who kept the world     
awake   ,with lustre1 and with noise6   
has ,death proclaim'd   ,a truce1 and   
hung his sated lance on high8   ',tis   

brandish'd still2 nor shall the present 
year   ,be more tenacious of her human  
leaf1                                #fb
   ,or spread of feeble life a thinner  
fall4     ,but needless monuments to    
wake the thought2   ,life's gayest      
scenes speak man's mortality2   ,though 
in a style more florid1 full as plain1  
,as mausoleums1 pyramids1 and tombs4    
,what are our noblest ornaments1 but    
deaths   ,turn'd flatterers of life1 in 
paint1 or marble1   ,the well-stain'd   
canvas1 or the featured stone8          
#gj   ,our fathers grace1 or rather     
haunt1 the scene4   ,joy peoples her    
pavilion from the dead4     ,profess'd  
diversions6 cannot these escape8   ,far 
from it3 these present us with a shroud2
   ,and talk of death1 like garlands    
o'er a grave4   ,as some bold           
plunderers1 for buried wealth1   ,we    
ransack tombs for pastime2 from the dust
   ,call up the sleeping hero2 bid him  
tread   ,the scene for our amusement3   
how like gods   ,we sit2 and1 wrapt in  

immortality1                            
#hj   ,shed generous tears on wretches  
born to die2   ,their fate deploring1 to
 forget our own6     ,what all the pomps
 and triumphs of our lives1   ,but      
legacies in blossom8 ,our lean soil1    
,luxuriant grown1 and rank in vanities1 
,from friends interr'd beneath2 a rich  
manure6   ,like other worms1 we banquet 
on the dead2   ,like other worms1 shall 
we crawl on1 nor know                   
#hh   ,our present frailties1 or        
approaching fate8     ,lorenzo6 such the
 glories of the world6   ,what is the   
world itself8 thy world--a grave4       
,where is the dust that has not been    
alive8   ,the spade1 the plough1 disturb
 our ancestors2   ,from human mould we  
reap our daily bread4   ,the globe      
around earth's hollow surface shakes1   
,and is the ceiling of her sleeping     
sons4   ,o'er devastation we blind      
revels keep2   ,whole buried towns      
support the dancer's heel4   ,the moist 
of human frame the sun exhales2   ,winds

 scatter through the mighty void the    
dry2                     #ajj   ,earth  
repossesses part of what she gave1      
,and the freed spirit mounts on wings of
 fire2   ,each element partakes our     
scatter'd spoils2   ,as nature1 wide1   
our ruins spread3 man's death           
,inhabits all things1 but the thought of
 man4     ,nor man alone2 his breathing 
bust expires1   ,his tomb is mortal2    
empires die3 where1 now1   ,the ,roman8 
,greek8 ,they stalk1 an empty name6     
,yet few regard them in this useful     
light2   ,though half our learning is   
their epitaph4                          
#aaj   ,when down thy vale1 unlock'd by 
midnight thought1   ,that loves to      
wander in thy sunless realms1   ,o      
,death6 ,i stretch my view3 what visions
 rise6   ,what triumphs6 toils imperial6
 arts divine6   ,in wither'd laurels    
glide before my sight6   ,what lengths  
of far-famed ages1 billow'd high   ,with
 human agitation1 roll along   ,in      
unsubstantial images of air6   ,the     

melancholy ghosts of dead renown1       
,whispering faint echoes of the world's 
applause1                   #abj   ,with
 penitential aspect1 as they pass1      
,all point at earth1 and hiss at human  
pride1                       #abb   ,the
 wisdom of the wise1 and prancings of   
the great4     ,but1 ,o ,lorenzo6 far   
the rest above1   ,of ghastly nature1   
and enormous size1   ,one form assaults 
my sight1 and chills my blood1   ,and   
shakes my frame4 ,of one departed       
world#eb   ,i see the mighty shadow3    
oozy wreath   ,and dismal seaweed crown 
her2 o'er her urn   ,reclined1 she weeps
 her desolated realms1                  
#acj   ,and bloated sons2 and1 weeping1 
prophesies   ,another's dissolution1    
soon1 in flames4   ,but1 like           
,cassandra1 prophesies in vain2   ,in   
vain1 to many2 not1 ,i trust1 to thee4  
,for1 know'st thou not1 or art thou     
loath to know1   ,the great decree1 the 
counsel of the skies8   ,deluge and     
conflagration1 dreadful powers6   ,prime

 ministers of vengeance6 chain'd in     
caves   ,distinct1 apart the giant      
furies roar2   ,apart2 or1 such their   
horrid rage for ruin1                   
#adj   ,in mutual conflict would they   
rise1 and wage   ,eternal war1 till one 
was quite devour'd4   ,but not for this1
 ordain'd their boundless rage2   ,when 
,heaven's inferior instruments of wrath1
   ,war1 famine1 pestilence1 are found  
too weak   ,to scourge a world for her  
enormous crimes1   ,these are let loose1
 alternate3 down they rush1   ,swift and
 tempestuous1 from th' eternal throne1  
,with irresistible commission arm'd1    
,the world1 in vain corrected1 to       
destroy1                          #aej  
,and ease creation of the shocking      
scene4     ,seest thou1 ,lorenzo6 what  
depends on man8   ,the fate of ,nature2 
as for man1 her birth4   ,earth's actors
 change earth's transitory scenes1      
,and make creation groan with human     
guilt4                          #aee    
,how must it groan1 in a new deluge     

whelm'd1   ,but not of waters6 ,at the  
destined hour1   ,by the loud trumpet   
summon'd to the charge1   ,see1 all the 
formidable sons of fire1   ,eruptions1  
earthquakes1 comets1 lightnings1 play   
,their various engines2 all at once     
disgorge   ,their blazing magazines2 and
 take1 by storm1                        
#afb   ,this poor terrestrial citadel of
 man4     ,amazing period6 when each    
mountain-height   ,outburns ,vesuvius2  
rocks eternal pour   ,their melted mass1
 as rivers once they pour'd2   ,stars   
rush2 and final ,ruin fiercely drives   
,her ploughshare o'er creation6--while  
aloft1   ,more than astonishment6 if    
more can be6   ,far other firmament than
 e'er was seen1                         
#agj   ,than e'er was thought by man6   
far other stars6   ,stars animate1 that 
govern these of fire2   ,far other      
sun6--,a sun1 ,o how unlike   ,the ,babe
 at ,bethlehem6 how unlike the ,man1    
,that groan'd on ,calvary6--,yet ,he it 
is2   ,that ,man of ,sorrows6 ,o how    

changed6 what pomp6   ,in grandeur      
terrible1 all heaven descends6   ,and   
gods1 ambitious1 triumph in his train4  
,a swift archangel1 with his golden     
wing1   ,as blots and clouds1 that      
darken and disgrace                     
#ahj   ,the scene divine1 sweeps stars  
and suns aside4   ,and now1 all dross   
removed1 heaven's own pure day1   ,full 
on the confines of our ether1 flames3   
,while 7dreadful contrast67 far1 how far
 beneath6   ,hell1 bursting1 belches    
forth her blazing seas1   ,and storms   
sulphureous2 her voracious jaws         
,expanding wide1 and roaring for her    
prey4     ,lorenzo6 welcome to this     
scene2 the last   ,in nature's course2  
the first in wisdom's thought4          
#ahi   ,this strikes1 if aught can      
strike thee2 this awakes   ,the most    
supine2 this snatches man from death4   
,rouse1 rouse1 ,lorenzo1 then1 and      
follow me1   ,where truth1 the most     
momentous man can hear1   ,loud calls my
 soul1 and ardour wings her flight4   ,i

 find my inspiration in my theme3   ,the
 grandeur of my subject is my ,muse4    
,at midnight1 when mankind is wrapt in  
peace1   ,and worldly fancy feeds on    
golden dreams2   ,to give more dread to 
man's most dreadful hour4   ,at         
midnight1 'tis presumed1 this pomp will 
burst                   #bjj   ,from    
tenfold darkness2 sudden as the spark   
,from smitten steel2 from nitrous grain1
 the blaze4   ,man1 starting from his   
couch1 shall sleep no more6   ,the day  
is broke1 which never more shall close6 
,above1 around1 beneath1 amazement all6 
,terror and glory join'd in their       
extremes6   ,our ,god in grandeur1 and  
our world on fire6   ,all nature        
struggling in the pangs of death6       
,dost thou not hear her8 ,dost thou not 
deplore   ,her strong convulsions1 and  
her final groan8                        
#baj   ,where are we now8 ,ah me6 the   
ground is gone1   ,on which we stood2   
,lorenzo6 while thou may'st1   ,provide 
more firm support1 or sink for ever6    

,where8 how8 from whence8 ,vain hope6 it
 is too late6   ,where1 where1 for      
shelter1 shall the guilty fly1   ,when  
consternation turns the good man pale8  
,great day6 for which all other days    
were made2   ,for which earth rose from 
chaos1 man from earth2   ,and an        
eternity1 the date of gods1   ,descended
 on poor earth-created man6             
#bbj   ,great day of dread1 decision1   
and despair6   ,at thought of thee1 each
 sublunary wish   ,lets go its eager    
grasp1 and drops the world2             
#bbc   ,and catches at each reed of hope
 in heaven4   ,at thought of thee6--,and
 art thou absent then8   ,lorenzo6 no2  
'tis here2 it is begun2--   ,already is 
begun the grand assize1   ,in thee1 in  
all3 deputed ,conscience scales   ,the  
dread tribunal1 and forestalls our doom2
   ,forestalls2 and1 by forestalling1   
proves it sure4                  #bcj   
,why on himself should man void judgment
 pass8   ,is idle ,nature laughing at   
her sons8   ,who ,conscience sent1 her  

sentence will support1   ,and ,god above
 assert that ,god in man4     ,thrice   
happy they that enter now the court     
,heaven opens in their bosoms6 but1 how 
rare1   ,ah me6 that magnanimity1 how   
rare6   ,what hero1 like the man who    
stands himself2   ,who dares to meet his
 naked heart alone2   ,who bears1       
intrepid1 the full charge it brings1    
#bdj   ,resolved to silence future      
murmurs there8   ,the coward flies2 and1
 flying1 is undone4   7,art thou a      
coward8 ,no47 ,the coward flies2        
,thinks1 but thinks slightly2 asks1 but 
fears to know2   ,asks1 ,what is truth8 
with ,pilate2 and retires2   ,dissolves 
the court1 and mingles with the throng2 
,asylum sad6 from reason1 hope1 and     
heaven6     ,shall all1 but man look out
 with ardent eye1   ,for that great day1
 which was ordain'd for man8   ,o day of
 consummation6 mark supreme             
#bej   7,if men are wise7 of human      
thought6 nor least1   ,or in the sight  
of angels1 or their ,king6   ,angels1   

whose radiant circles1 height o'er      
height1   ,order o'er order1 rising1    
blaze o'er blaze1   ,as in a theatre1   
surround this scene1   ,intent on man1  
and anxious for his fate4   ,angels look
 out for thee2 for thee1 their ,lord1   
#beg   ,to vindicate his glory2 and for 
thee1   ,creation universal calls aloud1
   ,to disinvolve the moral world1 and  
give   ,to ,nature's renovation brighter
 charms4     ,shall man alone1 whose    
fate1 whose final fate   ,hangs on that 
hour1 exclude it from his thought8   ,i 
think of nothing else2 ,i see6 ,i feel  
it6   ,all nature1 like an earthquake1  
trembling round6   ,all deities1 like   
summer's swarms1 on wing6   ,all basking
 in the full meridian blaze6   ,i see   
the ,judge enthroned6 the flaming guard6
   ,the volume open'd6 open'd every     
heart6   ,a sunbeam pointing out each   
secret thought6                         
#bgj   ,no patron6 intercessor none6 now
 past   ,the sweet1 the clement1        
mediatorial hour6   ,for guilt no plea6 

to pain1 no pause6 no bound6            
,inexorable1 all6 and all1 extreme6     
,nor man alone2 the ,foe of ,god and    
man1   ,from his dark den1 blaspheming1 
drags his chain1   ,and rears his brazen
 front1 with thunder scarr'd3           
,receives his sentence1 and begins his  
hell4   ,all vengeance past1 now1 seems 
abundant grace3   ,like meteors in a    
stormy sky1 how roll                    
#bhj   ,his baleful eyes6 he curses whom
 he dreads2   ,and deems it the first   
moment of his fall4   ',tis present to  
my thought6--and yet where is it8       
,angels can't tell me2 angels cannot    
guess   ,the period2 from created beings
 lock'd   ,in darkness4 ,but the        
process1 and the place1   ,are less     
obscure2 for these may man inquire4     
,say1 thou great close of human hopes   
and fears6   ,great key of hearts6 great
 finisher of fates6   ,great end6 and   
great beginning6 say1 ,where art thou8  
,art thou in time1 or in eternity8      
#bia   ,nor in eternity1 nor time1 ,i   

find thee4   ,these1 as two monarchs1 on
 their borders meet1   7,monarchs of all
 elapsed1 or unarrived67   ,as in       
debate1 how best their powers allied1   
,may swell the grandeur1 or discharge   
the wrath1   ,of ,him1 whom both their  
monarchies obey4     ,time1 this vast   
fabric for him built 7and doom'd   ,with
 him to fall71 now bursting o'er his    
head2   ,his lamp1 the sun1             
extinguish'd2 from beneath              
#cjj   ,the frown of hideous darkness1  
calls his sons   ,from their long       
slumber2 from earth's heaving womb1     
,to second birth6 contemporary throng6  
,roused at one call1 upstarted from one 
bed1   ,press'd in one crowd1 appall'd  
with one amaze1   ,he turns them o'er1  
,eternity6 to thee4   ,then 7as a king  
deposed disdains to live7   ,he falls on
 his own scythe2 nor falls alone3   ,his
 greatest foe falls with him2 ,time1 and
 he   ,who murder'd all ,time's         
offspring1 ,death1 expire4              
#caj     ,time was6 ,eternity now reigns

 alone3   ,awful eternity6 offended     
queen6   ,and her resentment to mankind1
 how just6   ,with kind intent1         
soliciting access1   ,how often has she 
knock'd at human hearts6   ,rich to     
repay their hospitality2   ,how often   
call'd6 and with the voice of ,god6     
,yet bore repulse1 excluded as a cheat6 
,a dream6 while foulest foes found      
welcome there6   ,a dream1 a cheat1 now1
 all things1 but her smile4             
#cbj     ,for1 lo6 her twice ten        
thousand gates thrown wide1   ,as thrice
 from ,indus to the frozen pole1   ,with
 banners streaming as the comet's blaze1
   ,and clarions1 louder than the deep  
in storms1   ,sonorous as immortal      
breath can blow1                        
#cbe   ,pour forth their myriads1       
potentates1 and powers1   ,of light1 of 
darkness2 in a middle field1   ,wide1 as
 creation6 populous1 as wide6   ,a      
neutral region6 there to mark th' event 
,of that great drama1 whose preceding   
scenes   ,detain'd them close           

spectators1 through a length   ,of ages1
 ripening to this grand result2         
#ccb   ,ages1 as yet unnumber'd1 but by 
,god2   ,who now1 pronouncing sentence1 
vindicates   ,the rights of ,virtue1 and
 his own renown4     ,eternity1 the     
various sentence past1   ,assigns the   
sever'd throng distinct abodes1         
,sulphureous1 or ambrosial4 ,what       
ensues8   ,the deed predominant6 the    
deed of deeds6   ,which makes a hell of 
hell1 a heaven of heaven4               
#cdj   ,the goddess1 with determined    
aspect1 turns   ,her adamantine key's   
enormous size   ,through destiny's      
inextricable wards1   ,deep driving     
every bolt1 on both their fates4        
,then1 from the crystal battlements of  
heaven1   ,down1 down1 she hurls it     
through the dark profound1   ,ten       
thousand thousand fathom2 there to rust1
   ,and ne'er unlock her resolution     
more4   ,the deep resounds2 and hell1   
through all her glooms1   ,returns1 in  
groans1 the melancholy roar4            

#cej     ,o how unlike the chorus of the
 skies6   ,o how unlike those shouts of 
joy1 that shake   ,the whole ethereal6  
how the concave rings6   ,nor strange6  
when deities their voice exalt2   ,and  
louder far1 than when creation rose1    
,to see creation's godlike aim1 and end1
   ,so well accomplish'd6 so divinely   
closed6   ,to see the mighty dramatist's
 last act1   7,as meet71 in glory rising
 o'er the rest4                         
#cei   ,no fancied god1 a ,god indeed1  
descends1   ,to solve all knots2 to     
strike the moral home2   ,to throw full 
day on darkest scenes of time2   ,to    
clear1 commend1 exalt1 and crown the    
whole4   ,hence1 in one peal of loud1   
eternal praise1   ,the charm'd          
spectators thunder their applause2      
,and the vast void beyond1 applause     
resounds4     ,what then am ,i8--       
,amidst applauding worlds1   ,and worlds
 celestial1 is there found on earth1    
,a peevish1 dissonant1 rebellious       
string1                           #cgj  

,which jars in the grand chorus1 and    
complains8   ,censure on thee1 ,lorenzo6
 ,i suspend1   ,and turn it on myself2  
how greatly due6   ,all1 all is right2  
by ,god ordain'd or done2   ,and who1   
but ,god1 resumed the friends ,he gave8 
,and have ,i been complaining1 then1 so 
long8   ,complaining of his favours2    
pain1 and death8   ,who1 without ,pain's
 advice1 would e'er be good8   ,who1    
without ,death1 but would be good in    
vain8   ,pain is to save from pain2 all 
punishment1                         #chj
   ,to make for peace2 and death1 to    
save from ,death2   ,and second death1  
to guard immortal life2   ,to rouse the 
careless1 the presumptuous awe1   ,and  
turn the tide of souls another way2     
,by the same tenderness divine ordain'd1
   ,that planted ,eden1 and high bloom'd
 for man1   ,a fairer ,eden1 endless1 in
 the skies4     ,heaven gives us friends
 to bless the present scene2   ,resumes 
them1 to prepare us for the next4   ,all
 evils natural are moral goods2         

#cij   ,all discipline1 indulgence1 on  
the whole4   ,none are unhappy3 all have
 cause to smile1   ,but such as to      
themselves that cause deny4             
#cic   ,our faults are at the bottom of 
our pains2   ,error1 in act1 or         
judgment1 is the source   ,of endless   
sighs3 we sin1 or we mistake2   ,and    
,nature tax1 when false opinion stings4 
,let impious grief be banish'd1 joy     
indulged2   ,but chiefly then1 when     
,grief puts in her claim4   ,joy from   
the joyous1 frequently betrays1         
#djj   ,oft lives in vanity1 and dies in
 woe4   ,joy1 amidst ills1 corroborates1
 exalts2   ',tis joy and conquest2 joy1 
and virtue too4   ,a noble fortitude in 
ills1 delights   ,heaven1 earth1        
ourselves2 'tis duty1 glory1 peace4     
,affliction is the good man's shining   
scene2   ,prosperity conceals his       
brightest ray2   ,as night to stars1 woe
 lustre gives to man4   ,heroes in      
battle1 pilots in the storm1   ,and     
virtue in calamities1 admire4           

#daj   ,the crown of manhood is a       
winter-joy2   ,an evergreen1 that stands
 the northern blast1   ,and blossoms in 
the rigour of our fate4     ',tis a     
prime part of happiness1 to know   ,how 
much unhappiness must prove our lot2    
,a part which few possess6 ,i'll pay    
life's tax1   ,without one rebel murmur1
 from this hour1   ,nor think it misery 
to be a man2   ,who thinks it is1 shall 
never be a god4   ,some ills we wish    
for1 when we wish to live4              
#dbj     ,what spoke proud              
,passion8--,wish my being lost8#ec      
,presumptuous6 blasphemous6 absurd6 and 
false6   ,the triumph of my soul        
is1--that ,i am2   ,and therefore that  
,i may be--what8 ,lorenzo6   ,look      
inward1 and look deep2 and deeper still2
   ,unfathomably deep our treasure runs 
#dbf   ,in golden veins1 through all    
eternity6   ,ages1 and ages1 and        
succeeding still   ,new ages1 where the 
phantom of an hour1   ,which courts each
 night1 dull slumber1 for repair1       

,shall wake1 and wonder1 and exult1 and 
praise1   ,and fly through infinite1 and
 all unlock2   ,and 7if deserved7 by    
,heaven's redundant love1               
#dcc   ,made half adorable itself1      
adore2   ,and find1 in adoration1       
endless joy6   ,where thou1 not master  
of a moment here1   ,frail as the       
flower1 and fleeting as the gale1       
,may'st boast a whole eternity1 enrich'd
   ,with all a kind ,omnipotence can    
pour4   ,since ,adam fell1 no mortal1   
uninspired1                             
#ddj   ,has ever yet conceived1 or ever 
shall1   ,how kind is ,god1 how great   
7if good7 is ,man4   ,no man too largely
 from ,heaven's love can hope1   ,if    
what is hoped he labours to secure4     
,ills8--there are none3 ,all-gracious6  
none from thee2   ,from man full many6  
numerous is the race   ,of blackest     
ills1 and those immortal too1   ,begot  
by ,madness1 on fair ,liberty2          
,heaven's daughter1 hell-debauch'd6 her 
hand alone   ,unlocks destruction to the

 sons of men1                           
#dej   ,first barr'd by thine3          
high-wall'd with adamant1   ,guarded    
with terrors reaching to this world1    
,and cover'd with the thunders of thy   
law2   ,whose threats are mercies1 whose
 injunctions1 guides1   ,assisting1 not 
restraining1 ,reason's choice2   ,whose 
sanctions1 unavoidable results   ,from  
nature's course1 indulgently reveal'd2  
,if unreveal'd1 more dangerous1 nor less
 sure4   ,thus1 an indulgent father     
warns his sons1   ,do this2 fly         
that--nor always tells the cause2       
#dfj   ,pleased to reward1 as duty to   
his will1   ,a conduct needful to their 
own repose4     ,great ,god of wonders6 
7if1 thy love survey'd1   ,aught else   
the name of wonderful retains71   ,what 
rocks are these1 on which to build our  
trust6   ,thy ways admit no blemish2    
none ,i find2   ,or this alone--,that   
none is to be found4   ,not one1 to     
soften ,censure's hardy crime2   ,not   
one1 to palliate peevish ,grief's       

,complaint1   ,who1 like a demon1       
murmuring from the dust1                
#dgj   ,dares into judgment call her    
,judge4--,supreme6   ,for all ,i bless  
thee2 most1 for the severe2   ,her#ed   
death--my own at hand--the fiery gulf1  
,that flaming bound of wrath omnipotent6
   ,it thunders2--but it thunders to    
preserve2   ,it strengthens what it     
strikes2 its wholesome dread   ,averts  
the dreaded pain2 its hideous groans    
,join heaven's sweet hallelujahs in thy 
praise1   ,great ,source of good alone6 
how kind in all6   ,in vengeance kind6  
,pain1 ,death1 ,gehenna1 save4          
#dhj     ,thus1 in thy world material1  
,mighty ,mind6   ,not that alone which  
solaces1 and shines1   ,the rough and   
gloomy1 challenges our praise4   ,the   
winter is as needful as the spring2     
,the thunder1 as the sun2 a stagnate    
mass   ,of vapours breeds a pestilential
 air3   ,nor more propitious the        
,favonian#ee breeze   ,to nature's      
health1 than purifying storms2   ,the   

dread volcano ministers to good4   ,its 
smother'd flames might undermine the    
world4                    #dij   ,loud  
,etnas fulminate in love to man2        
,comets good omens are1 when duly       
scann'd2                          #dib  
,and1 in their use1 eclipses learn to   
shine4     ,man is responsible for ills 
received2   ,those we call wretched are 
a chosen band1   ,compell'd to refuge in
 the right1 for peace4   ,amid my list  
of blessings infinite1   ,stands this   
the foremost1 ,that my heart has bled4  
',tis ,heaven's last effort of good-will
 to man2   ,when ,pain can't bless1     
,heaven quits us in despair4            
#ejj   ,who fails to grieve1 when just  
occasion calls1   ,or grieves too much1 
deserves not to be blest2   ,inhuman1 or
 effeminate1 his heart2   ,reason       
absolves the grief1 which reason ends4  
,may ,heaven ne'er trust my friend with 
happiness1   ,till it has taught him how
 to bear it well1   ,by previous pain2  
and made it safe to smile6   ,such      

smiles are mine1 and such may they      
remain2   ,nor hazard their extinction1 
from excess4   ,my change of heart a    
change of style demands2                
#eaj   ,the ,consolation cancels the    
,complaint1   ,and makes a convert of my
 guilty song4     ,as when              
o'er-labour'd1 and inclined to breathe1 
,a panting traveller1 some rising       
ground1   ,some small ascent1 has       
gain'd1 he turns him round1   ,and      
measures with his eye the various vales1
   ,the fields1 woods1 meads1 and       
rivers1 he has pass'd2   ,and1 satiate  
of his journey1 thinks of home1         
,endear'd by distance1 nor affects more 
toil2   ,thus ,i1 though small1 indeed1 
is that ascent                          
#ebj   ,the ,muse has gain'd1 review the
 paths she trod2   ,various1 extensive1 
beaten but by view2   ,and1 conscious of
 her prudence in repose1   ,pause2 and  
with pleasure meditate an end1   ,though
 still remote2 so fruitful is my theme4 
,through many a field of moral1 and     

divine1                         #ebf    
,the ,muse has stray'd2 and much of     
sorrow seen   ,in human ways2 and much  
of false and vain2   ,which none1 who   
travel this bad road1 can miss4   ,o'er 
friends deceased full heartily she wept2
   ,of love divine the wonders she      
display'd2   ,proved man immortal2      
show'd the source of joy   ,the grand   
tribunal raised2 assign'd the bounds    
,of human grief3 in few1 to close the   
whole1   ,the moral ,muse has shadow'd  
out a sketch1   ,though not in form1 nor
 with a ,raphael-stroke1   ,of most our 
weakness needs believe1 or do1   ,in    
this our land of travel1 and of hope1   
,for peace on earth1 or prospect of the 
skies4                      #eci        
,what then remains8 much6 much6 a mighty
 debt   ,to be discharged3 these        
thoughts1 ,o ,night6 are thine2   ,from 
thee they came1 like lovers' secret     
sighs1   ,while others slept4 ,so1      
,cynthia 7poets feign71   ,in shadows   
veil'd1 soft-sliding from her sphere1   

,her shepherd cheer'd2 of her enamour'd 
less1   ,than ,i of thee4--,and art thou
 still unsung1   ,beneath whose brow1   
and by whose aid1 ,i sing8   ,immortal  
silence6 where shall ,i begin8   ,where 
end8 or how steal music from the        
spheres1   ,to soothe their goddess8    
#eej                       ,o majestic  
,night6   ,nature's great ancestor6     
,day's elder-born6   ,and fated to      
survive the transient sun6   ,by        
mortals1 and immortals1 seen with awe6  
,a starry crown thy raven brow adorns1  
,an azure zone thy waist2 clouds1 in    
heaven's loom   ,wrought through        
varieties of shape and shade1   ,in     
ample folds of drapery divine1   ,thy   
flowing mantle form2 and1 heaven        
throughout1   ,voluminously pour thy    
pompous train4                          
#efj   ,thy gloomy grandeurs 7nature's  
most august1   ,inspiring aspect67 claim
 a grateful verse2   ,and1 like a sable 
curtain starr'd with gold1   ,drawn o'er
 my labours past1 shall close the scene4

     ,and what1 ,o man6 so worthy to be 
sung8   ,what more prepares us for the  
songs of heaven8   ,creation1 of        
archangels is the theme6   ,what1 to be 
sung1 so needful8 ,what so well         
,celestial joys prepare us to sustain8  
,the soul of man1 ,his face design'd to 
see1                         #egj   ,who
 gave these wonders to be seen by man1  
,has here a previous scene of objects   
great1   ,on which to dwell2 to stretch 
to that expanse   ,of thought1 to rise  
to that exalted height   ,of admiration1
 to contract that awe1   ,and give her  
whole capacities that strength1   ,which
 best may qualify for final joy4   ,the 
more our spirits are enlarged on earth1 
,the deeper draught shall they receive  
of heaven4     ,heaven's ,king6 whose   
face unveil'd consummates bliss2        
,redundant bliss6 which fills that      
mighty void1                     #eha   
,the whole creation leaves in human     
hearts6   ,thou1 who didst touch the lip
 of ,jesse's son1   ,rapt in sweet      

contemplation of these fires1   ,and set
 his harp in concert with the spheres2  
,while of thy works material the supreme
   ,i dare attempt1 assist my daring    
song4   ,loose me from earth's          
enclosure1 from the sun's   ,contracted 
circle set my heart at large2           
,eliminate my spirit1 give it range     
#eij   ,through provinces of thought yet
 unexplored2   ,teach me1 by this       
stupendous scaffolding1   ,creation's   
golden steps1 to climb to ,thee4        
,teach me with ,art great ,nature to    
control1                         #eid   
,and spread a lustre o'er the shades of 
,night4   ,feel ,i thy kind assent8 and 
shall the sun   ,be seen at midnight1   
rising in my song8     ,lorenzo6 come1  
and warm thee3 thou1 whose heart1       
,whose little heart1 is moor'd within a 
nook   ,of this obscure terrestrial1    
anchor weigh4   ,another ocean calls1 a 
nobler port2   ,i am thy pilot1 ,i thy  
prosperous gale4                        
#fjb   ,gainful thy voyage through yon  

azure main2   ,main1 without tempest1   
pirate1 rock1 or shore2   ,and whence   
thou may'st import eternal wealth2      
,and leave to beggar'd minds the pearl  
and gold4   ,thy travels dost thou boast
 o'er foreign realms8   ,thou stranger  
to the world6 thy tour begin2   ,thy    
tour through ,nature's universal orb4   
,nature delineates her whole chart at   
large1                        #faj   ,on
 soaring souls1 that sail among the     
spheres2   ,and man how purblind1 if    
unknown the whole6   ,who circles       
spacious earth1 then travels here1      
,shall own1 he never was from home      
before6   ,come1 my ,prometheus1#ef from
 thy pointed rock   ,of false ambition2 
if unchain'd1 we'll mount2   ,we'll1    
innocently1 steal celestial fire1   ,and
 kindle our devotion at the stars2   ,a 
theft1 that shall not chain1 but set    
thee free4     ,above our atmosphere's  
intestine#eg wars1                      
#fbj   ,rain's fountain-head1 the       
magazine of hail2   ,above the northern 

nests of feather'd snows1   ,the brew of
 thunders1 and the flaming forge   ,that
 forms the crooked lightning2 'bove the 
caves   ,where infant tempests wait     
their growing wings1   ,and tune their  
tender voices to that roar1   ,which    
soon1 perhaps1 shall shake a guilty     
world2                   #fbg   ,above  
misconstrued omens of the sky1          
,far-travell'd comets' calculated blaze2
   ,elance#eh thy thought1 and think of 
more than man4   ,thy soul1 till now1   
contracted1 wither'd1 shrunk1           
,blighted by blasts of earth's          
unwholesome air1   ,will blossom here2  
spread all her faculties   ,to these    
bright ardours2 every power unfold1     
,and rise into sublimities of thought4  
,stars teach1 as well as shine4 ,at     
,nature's birth1   ,thus their          
commission ran--,be kind to ,man4       
,where art thou1 poor benighted         
traveller8   ,the stars will light thee1
 though the moon should fail4   ,where  
art thou1 more benighted6 more astray6  

#fdj   ,in ways immoral8 ,the stars call
 thee back2   ,and1 if obey'd their     
counsel1 set thee right4     ,this      
prospect vast1 what is it8--,weigh'd    
aright1   ',tis ,nature's system of     
divinity1   ,and every student of the   
,night inspires4   ',tis elder          
,scripture1 writ by ,god's own hand3    
,scripture authentic6 uncorrupt by man4 
,lorenzo6 with my radius 7the rich gift 
,of thought nocturnal67 ,i'll point out 
to thee   ,its various lessons2 some    
that may surprise                       
#fej   ,an un-adept in mysteries of     
,night2   ,little1 perhaps1 expected in 
her school1   ,nor thought to grow on   
planet1 or on star4   ,bulls1 lions1    
scorpions1 monsters here we feign2      
,ourselves more monstrous1 not to see   
what here   ,exists indeed2--a lecture  
to mankind4     ,what read we           
here8--,th' existence of a ,god8   ,yes2
 and of other beings1 man above2        
,natives of ether6 sons of higher       
climes6   ,and1 what may move ,lorenzo's

 wonder more1                           
#ffj   ,eternity is written in the      
skies4                                  
#ffa   ,and whose eternity8--,lorenzo6  
thine   ,mankind's eternity4 ,nor ,faith
 alone1   ,virtue grows here2 here      
springs the sovereign cure   ,of almost 
every vice2 but chiefly thine2   ,wrath1
 ,pride1 ,ambition1 and impure ,desire4 
,lorenzo6 thou canst wake at midnight   
too1   ,though not on morals bent3      
,ambition1 ,pleasure6   ,those tyrants  
,i for thee so lately fought1#ei        
,afford their harass'd slaves but       
slender rest4                     #fgj  
,thou1 to whom midnight is immoral noon1
   ,and the sun's noontide blaze1 prime 
dawn of day2   ,not by thy climate1 but 
capricious crime1   ,commencing one of  
our antipodes6   ,in thy nocturnal rove1
 one moment halt1   ',twixt stage and   
stage1 of riot1 and cabal2   ,and lift  
thine eye 7if bold an eye to lift1   ,if
 bold to meet the face of injured       
,heaven7   ,to yonder stars3 for other  

ends they shine1   ,than to light       
revellers from shame to shame1          
#fhj   ,and1 thus1 be made accomplices  
in guilt4     ,why from yon arch1 that  
infinite of space1   ,with infinite of  
lucid orbs replete1   ,which set the    
living firmament on fire1   ,at the     
first glance1 in such an overwhelm   ,of
 wonderful1 on man's astonish'd sight1  
,rushes ,omnipotence--,to curb our      
pride2   ,our reason rouse1 and lead it 
to that ,power1   ,whose love lets down 
these silver chains of light2   ,to draw
 up man's ambition to ,himself1         
#fij   ,and bind our chaste affections  
to ,his throne4   ,thus the three       
virtues1 least alive on earth1   ,and   
welcomed on heaven's coast with most    
applause1   ,an humble1 pure1 and       
heavenly-minded heart1                  
#fid   ,are here inspired3--and canst   
thou gaze too long8     ,nor stands thy 
wrath deprived of its reproof1   ,or    
un-upbraided by this radiant choir4     
,the planets of each system represent   

,kind neighbours2 mutual amity prevails2
   ,sweet interchange of rays1 received1
 return'd2   ,enlightening1 and         
enlighten'd6 all1 at once1              
,attracting1 and attracted6 ,patriot    
like1                           #gjb    
,none sins against the welfare of the   
whole2   ,but their reciprocal1         
unselfish aid1   ,affords an emblem of  
millennial love4   ,nothing in nature1  
much less conscious being1   ,was e'er  
created solely for itself3   ,thus man  
his sovereign duty learns in this       
,material picture of benevolence4       
,and know1 of all our supercilious race1
                          #gaj   ,thou  
most inflammable6 thou wasp of men6     
,man's angry heart1 inspected1 would be 
found   ,as rightly set1 as are the     
starry spheres2   ',tis ,nature's       
structure1 broke by stubborn will1      
,breeds all that uncelestial discord    
there4   ,wilt thou not feel the bias   
,nature gave8   ,canst thou descend from
 converse with the skies1   ,and seize  

thy brother's throat8--,for what--a     
clod1   ,an inch of earth8 ,the planets 
cry1 ,forbear6   ,they chase our double 
darkness2 ,nature's gloom1              
#gbj   ,and 7kinder still67 our         
intellectual night4     ,and see1 ,day's
 amiable sister sends   ,her invitation1
 in the softest rays   ,of mitigated    
lustre2 courts thy sight1   ,which      
suffers from her tyrant brother's blaze4
   ,night grants thee the full freedom  
of the skies1   ,nor rudely reprimands  
thy lifted eye2   ,with gain1 and joy1  
she bribes thee to be wise4             
#gbh   ,night opes the noblest scenes1  
and sheds an awe1   ,which gives those  
venerable scenes full weight1   ,and    
deep reception1 in th' intender'd heart2
   ,while light peeps through the       
darkness1 like a spy2   ,and darkness   
shows its grandeur by the light4   ,nor 
is the profit greater than the joy1     
,if human hearts at glorious objects    
glow1   ,and admiration can inspire     
delight4     ,what speak ,i more1 than  

,i1 this moment1 feel8   ,with pleasing 
stupor first the soul is struck         
7,stupor ordain'd to make her truly     
wise673   ,then into transport starting 
from her trance1                        
#gdj   ,with love1 and admiration1 how  
she glows6   ,this gorgeous apparatus6  
this display6   ,this ostentation of    
creative power6   ,this theatre6--what  
eye can take it in8   ,by what divine   
enchantment was it raised1   ,for minds 
of the first magnitude to launch   ,in  
endless speculation1 and adore8   ,one  
sun by day1 by night ten thousand shine2
   ,and light us deep into the ,deity2  
,how boundless in magnificence and      
might6                           #gej   
,o what a confluence of ethereal fires1 
,form urns unnumber'd1 down the steep of
 heaven1   ,streams to a point1 and     
centres in my sight6   ,nor tarries     
there2 ,i feel it at my heart4   ,my    
heart1 at once1 it humbles1 and exalts2 
,lays it in dust1 and calls it to the   
skies4   ,who sees it unexalted8 or     

unawed8   ,who sees it1 and can stop at 
what is seen8   ,material offspring of  
,omnipotence6   ,inanimate1             
all-animating birth6                    
#gfj   ,work worthy ,him who made it6   
worthy praise6   ,all praise6 praise    
more than human6 nor denied             
#gfb   ,thy praise divine6--,but though 
man1 drown'd in sleep1   ,withholds his 
homage1 not alone ,i wake2   ,bright    
legions swarm unseen1 and sing1 unheard 
,by mortal ear1 the glorious ,architect1
   ,in this ,his universal temple hung  
,with lustres1 with innumerable lights1 
,that shed religion on the soul2 at     
once1   ,the temple1 and the preacher6  
,o how loud                             
#ggj   ,it calls devotion6 genuine      
growth of ,night6     ,devotion6        
daughter of ,astronomy6   ,an undevout  
astronomer is mad4   ,true2 all things  
speak a ,god2 but in the small1   ,men  
trace out ,him2 in great1 ,he seizes    
man2   ,seizes1 and elevates1 and wraps1
 and fills   ,with new inquiries1 'mid  

associates new4   ,tell me1 ye stars6 ye
 planets6 tell me1 all   ,ye starr'd1   
and planeted1 inhabitants6 what is it8  
,what are these sons of wonder8 say1    
proud arch                     #ghj     
7,within those azure palaces they       
dwell71   ,built with divine ambition6  
in disdain   ,of limit built6 built in  
the taste of heaven6   ,vast concave6   
ample dome6 wast thou design'd   ,a meet
 apartment for the ,deity8--   ,not so2 
that thought alone thy state impairs1   
,thy lofty sinks1 and shallows thy      
profound1   ,and straitens thy          
diffusive2 dwarfs the whole1   ,and     
makes a universe an orrery#fj4     ,but 
when ,i drop mine eye1 and look on man1 
#gij   ,thy right regain'd1 thy grandeur
 is restored1   ,o ,nature6 wide flies  
off th' expanding round4   ,as when     
whole magazines1 at once1 are fired1    
,the smitten air is hollow'd by the     
blow2   ,the vast displosion dissipates 
the clouds2   ,shock'd ether's billows  
dash the distant skies2                 

#gif   ,thus 7but far more7 th'         
expanding round flies off1   ,and leaves
 a mighty void1 a spacious womb1        
,might teem with new creation2          
reinflamed   ,thy luminaries triumph1   
and assume   ,divinity themselves4 ,nor 
was it strange1   ,matter high-wrought  
to such surprising pomp1   ,such godlike
 glory1 stole the style of gods1        
#hjc   ,from ages dark1 obtuse1 and     
steep'd in sense2   ,for1 sure1 to      
sense1 they truly are divine1   ,and    
half absolved idolatry from guilt2      
,nay1 turn'd it into virtue4 ,such it   
was   ,in those1 who put forth all they 
had of man   ,unlost1 to lift their     
thought1 nor mounted higher2   ,but1    
weak of wing1 on planets perch'd2 and   
thought                 #haj   ,what was
 their highest1 must be their adored4   
,but they how weak1 who could no higher 
mount8   ,and are there1 then1 ,lorenzo6
 those1 to whom   ,unseen1 and          
unexistent1 are the same8   ,and if     
incomprehensible is join'd1   ,who dare 

pronounce it madness1 to believe8   ,why
 has the mighty ,builder thrown aside   
,all measure in ,his work2 stretch'd out
 ,his line   ,so far1 and spread        
amazement o'er the whole8   ,then 7as he
 took delight in wide extremes71        
#hbj   ,deep in the bosom of ,his       
universe1   ,dropp'd down that reasoning
 mite1 that insect1 ,man1   ,to crawl1  
and gaze1 and wonder at the scene8--    
,that man might ne'er presume to plead  
amazement   ,for disbelief of wonders in
 himself4   ,shall ,god be less         
miraculous1 than what   ,his hand has   
form'd8 ,shall mysteries descend   ,from
 unmysterious8 things more elevate1     
,be more familiar8 uncreated lie   ,more
 obvious than created1 to the grasp     
#hcj   ,of human thought8 ,the more of  
wonderful   ,is heard in ,him1 the more 
we should assent4   ,could we conceive  
,him1 ,god ,he could not be2   ,or ,he  
not ,god1 or we could not be men4   ,a  
,god alone can comprehend a ,god2       
,man's distance how immense6 ,on such a 

theme1   ,know this1 ,lorenzo6 7seem it 
ne'er so strange7   ,nothing can        
satisfy1 but what confounds2   ,nothing1
 but what astonishes1 is true4   ,the   
scene thou seest1 attests the truth ,i  
sing1                    #hdj   ,and    
every star sheds light upon thy creed4  
,these stars1 this furniture1 this cost 
of heaven1   ,if but reported1 thou     
hadst ne'er believed2   ,but thine eye  
tells thee1 the romance is true4   ,the 
grand of nature is th' ,almighty's oath1
   ,in ,reason's court1 to silence      
,unbelief4     ,how my mind1 opening at 
this scene1 imbibes   ,the moral        
emanations of the skies1   ,while       
nought1 perhaps1 ,lorenzo less admires6 
,has the ,great ,sovereign sent ten     
thousand worlds                   #hej  
,to tells us1 ,he resides above them    
all1   ,in glory's unapproachable       
recess8   ,and dare earth's bold        
inhabitants deny   ,the sumptuous1 the  
magnific embassy   ,a moment's audience8
 ,turn we1 nor will hear   ,from whom   

they come1 or what they would impart    
,for man's emolument2 sole cause that   
stoops   ,their grandeur to man's eye8  
,lorenzo6 rouse2   ,let thought1        
awaken'd1 take the lightning's wing1    
,and glance from east to west1 from pole
 to pole4                   #hfj   ,who 
sees1 but is confounded1 or convinced8  
,renounces reason1 or a ,god adores8    
,mankind was sent into the world to see3
   ,sight gives the science needful to  
their peace2                    #hfd    
,that obvious science asks small        
learning's aid4   ,would'st thou on     
metaphysic pinions soar8   ,or wound thy
 patience amid logic thorns8   ,or      
travel history's enormous round8        
,nature no such hard task enjoins3 she  
gave   ,a make to man directive of his  
thought2   ,a make set upright1 pointing
 to the stars1   ,as who shall say1     
,read thy chief lesson there4           
#hgb   ,too late to read this manuscript
 of heaven1   ,when1 like a parchment   
scroll1 shrunk up by flames1   ,it folds

 ,lorenzo's lesson from his sight4      
,lesson how various6 ,not the ,god      
alone1   ,i see ,his ministers2 ,i see1 
diffused   ,in radiant orders1 essences 
sublime1   ,of various offices1 of      
various plume1   ,in heavenly liveries1 
distinctly clad1                        
#hhj   ,azure1 green1 purple1 pearl1 or 
downy gold1   ,or all commix'd2 they    
stand1 with wings outspread1            
,listening to catch the ,master's least 
command1   ,and fly through nature1 ere 
the moment ends2   ,numbers             
innumerable6--well conceived   ,by      
,pagan1 and by ,christian6 ,o'er each   
sphere   ,presides an angel1 to direct  
its course1   ,and feed1 or fan1 its    
flames2 or to discharge   ,other high   
trusts unknown4 ,for who can see   ,such
 pomp of matter1 and imagine1 ,mind1    
#hij   ,for which alone ,inanimate was  
made1   ,more sparingly dispensed8 that 
nobler son1   ,far liker the great      
,sire6--',tis thus the skies   ,inform  
us of superiors numberless1   ,as much1 

in excellence1 above mankind1   ,as     
above earth1 in magnitude1 the spheres4 
,these1 as a cloud of witnesses1 hang   
o'er us2   ,in a throng'd theatre are   
all our deeds2                          
#hih   ,perhaps1 a thousand demigods    
descend   ,on every beam we see1 to walk
 with men4   ,awful reflection6 ,strong 
restraint from ill6     ,yet1 here1 our 
virtue finds still stronger aid   ,from 
these ethereal glories sense surveys4   
,something1 like magic1 strikes from    
this blue vault2   ,with just attention 
is it view'd8 ,we feel   ,a sudden      
succour1 unimplored1 unthought2         
,nature herself does half the work of   
,man4   ,seas1 rivers1 mountains1       
forests1 deserts1 rocks1   ,the         
promontory's height1 the depth profound 
,of subterranean1 excavated grots#fa1   
#iaj   ,black brow'd1 and vaulted high1 
and yawning wide   ,from ,nature's      
structure1 or the scoop of ,time2   ,if 
ample of dimension1 vast of size1       
,even these an aggrandizing impulse     

give2   ,of solemn thought enthusiastic 
heights   ,even these infuse4--,but what
 of vast in these8   ,nothing2--or we   
must own the skies forgot4   ,much less 
in art4--,vain art6 ,thou pigmy power6  
,how dost thou swell and strut1 with    
human pride1   ,to show thy littleness6 
,what childish toys1                    
#ibj   ,thy watery columns squirted to  
the clouds6   ,thy basin'd rivers1 and  
imprison'd seas6   ,thy mountains       
moulded into forms of men6   ,thy       
hundred-gated capitals6 or those        
,where three days' travel left us much  
to ride2   ,gazing on miracles by       
mortals wrought1   ,arches triumphal1   
theatres immense1   ,or nodding gardens 
pendent in mid-air6   ,or temples proud 
to meet their gods half-way6   ,yet     
these affect us in no common kind4      
#icj   ,what then the force of such     
superior scenes8   ,enter a temple1 it  
will strike an awe3                     
#icb   ,what awe from this the ,deity   
has built6   ,a good man seen1 though   

silent1 counsel gives3   ,the touch'd   
spectator wishes to be wise3   ,in a    
bright mirror ,his own hands have made1 
,here we see something like the face of 
,god4   ,seems it not then enough1 to   
say1 ,lorenzo6   ,to man abandon'd1     
,hast thou seen the skies8     ,and yet1
 so thwarted ,nature's kind design      
#idj   ,by daring man1 he makes her     
sacred awe   7,that guard from ill7 his 
shelter1 his temptation   ,to more than 
common guilt1 and quite inverts         
,celestial art's intent4 ,the trembling 
stars   ,see crimes gigantic1 stalking  
through the gloom   ,with front erect1  
that hide their head by day1   ,and     
making night still darker by their      
deeds4   ,slumbering in covert1 till the
 shades descend1   ,rapine and ,murder1 
link'd1 now prowl for prey4   ,the miser
 earths his treasure2 and the thief1    
#iej   ,watching the mole1 half beggars 
him ere morn4   ,now plots1 and foul    
conspiracies1 awake2   ,and1 muffling up
 their horrors from the moon1   ,havoc  

and devastation they prepare1   ,and    
kingdoms tottering in the field of      
blood4   ,now sons of riot in mid-revel 
rage4   ,what shall ,i do8--suppress it8
 or proclaim8--   ,why sleeps the       
thunder8 ,now1 ,lorenzo6 now1   ,his    
best friend's couch the rank adulterer  
,ascends secure2 and laughs at gods and 
men4                        #ifj        
,preposterous madmen1 void of fear or   
shame1   ,lay their crimes bare to these
 chaste eyes of ,heaven2   ,yet shrink1 
and shudder1 at a mortal's sight4       
,were moon1 and stars1 for villains only
 made8   ,to guide1 yet screen them1    
with tenebrious#fb light8   ,no2 they   
were made to fashion the sublime        
#iff   ,of human hearts1 and wiser make 
the wise4     ,those ends were answer'd 
once2 when mortals lived   ,of stronger 
wing1 of aquiline ascent   ,in theory   
sublime4 ,o how unlike   ,those vermin  
of the night1 this moment sung1   ,who  
crawl on earth1 and on her venom feed6  
#igb   ,those ancient sages1 human      

stars6 ,they met   ,their brothers of   
the skies1 at midnight hour2   ,their   
counsel ask'd2 and1 what they ask'd1    
obey'd4   ,the ,stagirite1 and ,plato1  
he who drank#fc   ,the poison'd bowl1   
and he of ,tusculum1#fd   ,with him of  
,corduba1#fe 7immortal names67   ,in    
these unbounded1 and ,elysian1 walks1   
,an area fit for gods1 and godlike men1 
#ihj   ,they took their nightly round1  
through radiant paths   ,by seraphs     
trod2 instructed1 chiefly1 thus1   ,to  
tread in their bright footsteps here    
below2   ,to walk in worth still        
brighter than the skies4   ,there they  
contracted their contempt of earth2     
,of hopes eternal kindled1 there1 the   
fire2   ,there1 as in near approach1    
they glow'd1 and grew   7,great         
visitants67 more intimate with ,god1    
,more worth to men1 more joyous to      
themselves4   ,through various virtues1 
they1 with ardour1 ran                  
#iij   ,the zodiac of their learn'd1    
illustrious lives4     ,in ,christian   

hearts1 ,o for a ,pagan zeal6   ,a      
needful1 but opprobrious prayer6 ,as    
much   ,our ardour less1 as greater is  
our light4   ,how monstrous this in     
morals6 ,scarce more strange   ,would   
this phenomenon in nature strike1   ,a  
sun1 that froze her1 or a star1 that    
warm'd4   ,what taught these heroes of  
the moral world8                        
#iih   ,to these thou givest thy praise1
 give credit too4   ,these doctors ne'er
 were pension'd to deceive thee2   ,and 
,pagan tutors are thy taste4--,they     
taught1   ,that1 narrow views betray to 
misery3   ,that1 wise it is to          
comprehend the whole3   ,that1 virtue1  
rose from nature1 ponder'd well1   ,the 
single base of virtue built to heaven3  
,that ,god1 and nature1 our attention   
claim3   ,that nature is the glass      
reflecting ,god1   ,as1 by the sea1     
reflected is the sun1   ,too glorious to
 be gazed on in his sphere3   ,that1    
mind immortal loves immortal aims3      
#ajaj   ,that1 boundless mind affects a 

boundless space3   ,that vast surveys1  
and the sublime of things1   ,the soul  
assimilate1 and make her great3   ,that1
 therefore1 heaven her glories1 as a    
fund   ,of inspiration1 thus spreads out
 to man4   ,such are their doctrines2   
such the ,night inspired4     ,and what 
more true8 what truth of greater weight8
   ,the soul of man was made to walk the
 skies2   ,delightful outlet of her     
prison here6   ,there1 disencumber'd    
from her chains1 the ties               
#ajbj   ,of toys terrestrial1 she can   
rove at large2   ,there1 freely can     
respire1 dilate1 extend1   ,in full     
proportion let loose all her powers2    
,and1 undeluded1 grasp at something     
great4   ,nor1 as a stranger1 does she  
wander there2   ,but1 wonderful herself1
 through wonder strays2   ,contemplating
 their grandeur1 finds her own2   ,dives
 deep in their economy divine1   ,sits  
high in judgment on their various laws1 
,and1 like a master1 judges not amiss4  
#ajcj   ,hence greatly pleased1 and     

justly proud1 the soul   ,grows         
conscious of her birth celestial2       
breathes                  #ajcb   ,more 
life1 more vigour1 in her native air2   
,and feels herself at home amongst the  
stars2   ,and1 feeling1 emulates her    
country's praise4     ,what call we1    
then1 the firmament1 ,lorenzo8--   ,as  
earth the body1 since the skies sustain 
,the soul with food1 that gives immortal
 life1   ,call it1 the noble pasture of 
the mind2   ,which there expatiates1    
strengthens1 and exults1                
#ajdj   ,and riots through the luxuries 
of thought4   ,call it1 the garden of   
the ,deity1   ,blossom'd with stars1    
redundant in the growth   ,of fruit     
ambrosial2 moral fruit to man4   ,call  
it1 the breastplate of the true ,high   
,priest1   ,ardent with gems oracular1  
that give1   ,in points of highest      
moment1 right response2   ,and ill      
neglected1 if we prize our peace4       
,thus1 have we found a true astrology2  
,thus1 have we found a new1 and noble   

sense1                       #ajej   ,in
 which alone stars govern human fates4  
,o that the stars 7as some have feign'd7
 let fall   ,bloodshed1 and havoc1 on   
embattled realms1   ,and rescued        
monarchs from so black a guilt6         
,bourbon6 this wish how generous in a   
foe6   ,would'st thou be great1 would'st
 thou become a god1   ,and stick thy    
deathless name among the stars1   ,for  
mighty conquests on a needle's point8   
,instead of forging chains for          
foreigners1   ,bastile thy tutor3       
grandeur all thy aim8                   
#ajfj   ,as yet thou know'st not what it
 is3 how great1   ,how glorious1 then1  
appears the mind of man1   ,when in it  
all the stars1 and planets1 roll6   ,and
 what it seems1 it is3 great objects    
make   ,great minds1 enlarging as their 
views enlarge2                    #ajfe 
,those still more godlike1 as these more
 divine4     ,and more divine than      
these1 thou canst not see4   ,dazzled1  
o'erpower'd1 with the delicious draught 

,of miscellaneous splendours1 how ,i    
reel   ,from thought to thought1        
inebriate1 without end6   ,an ,eden1    
this6 a ,paradise unlost6   ,i meet the 
,deity in every view1                   
#ajgb   ,and tremble at my nakedness    
before him6   ,o that ,i could but reach
 the tree of life6   ,for here it grows1
 unguarded from our taste2   ,no flaming
 sword denies our entrance here2        
,would man but gather1 he might live for
 ever4     ,lorenzo6 much of moral hast 
thou seen4   ,of curious arts art thou  
more fond8 ,then mark   ,the mathematic 
glories of the skies1                   
#ajhj   ,in number1 weight1 and measure1
 all ordain'd4   ,lorenzo's boasted     
builders1 ,chance1 and ,fate1   ,are    
left to finish his aerial towers2       
,wisdom and choice1 their well-known    
characters   ,here deep impress2 and    
claim it for their own4   ,though       
splendid all1 no splendour void of use2 
,use rivals beauty2 art contends with   
power2   ,no wanton waste1 amid effuse  

expense2   ,the great ,economist        
adjusting all   ,to prudent pomp1       
magnificently wise4                     
#ajij   ,how rich the prospect6 and for 
ever new6   ,and newest to the man that 
views it most2   ,for newer still in    
infinite succeeds4   ,then1 these aerial
 racers1 ,o how swift6   ,how the shaft 
loiters from the strongest string6      
,spirit alone can distance the career4  
,orb above orb ascending without end6   
,circle in circle1 without end1         
enclosed6   ,wheel1 within wheel2       
,ezekiel6 like to thine6                
#ajii   ,like thine1 it seems a vision  
or a dream2   ,though seen1 we labour to
 believe it true6   ,what involution6   
what extent6 what swarms   ,of worlds1  
that laugh at earth6 immensely great6   
,immensely distant from each other's    
spheres6   ,what1 then1 the wondrous    
space through which they roll8   ,at    
once it quite engulfs all human thought2
   ',tis comprehension's absolute       
defeat4     ,nor think thou seest a wild

 disorder here2   ,through this         
illustrious chaos to the sight1         
,arrangement neat1 and chastest order1  
reign4                      #aaaj   ,the
 path prescribed1 inviolably kept1      
,upbraids the lawless sallies of        
mankind4   ,worlds1 ever thwarting1     
never interfere2   ,what knots are tied6
 how soon are they dissolved1   ,and set
 the seeming married planets free6      
,they rove for ever1 without error rove2
   ,confusion unconfused6 nor less      
admire   ,this tumult untumultuous2 all 
on wing6   ,in motion1 all6 yet what    
profound repose6   ,what fervid action1 
yet no noise6 as awed                   
#aabj   ,to silence1 by the presence of 
their ,lord2   ,or hush'd by ,his       
command1 in love to man1   ,and bid let 
fall soft beams on human rest1          
,restless themselves4 ,on yon cerulean  
plain1   ,in exultation to their ,god1  
and thine1   ,they dance1 they sing     
eternal jubilee1   ,eternal celebration 
of ,his praise4   ,but1 since their song

 arrives not at our ear1   ,their dance 
perplex'd exhibits to the sight   ,fair 
hieroglyphic of ,his peerless power4    
#aacj   ,mark how the labyrinthian turns
 they take1   ,the circles intricate1   
and mystic maze1   ,weave the grand     
cipher of ,omnipotence2                 
#aacc   ,to gods1 how great6 how legible
 to man6     ,leaves so much wonder     
greater wonder still8   ,where are the  
pillars that support the skies8   ,what 
more than ,atlantean shoulder props     
,th' incumbent load8 ,what magic1 what  
strange art1   ,in fluid air these      
ponderous orbs sustains8   ,who would   
not think them hung in golden chains8-- 
#aadj   ,and so they are2 in the high   
will of heaven1   ,which fixes all2     
makes adamant of air1   ,or air of      
adamant2 makes all of nought1   ,or     
nought of all2 if such the dread decree4
     ,imagine from their deep           
foundations torn   ,the most gigantic   
sons of earth1 the broad   ,and towering
 ,alps1 all toss'd into the sea2   ,and1

 light as down1 or volatile as air1     
,their bulks enormous1 dancing on the   
waves1   ,in time1 and measure1         
exquisite2 while all                    
#aaej   ,the winds1 in emulation of the 
spheres1   ,tune their sonorous         
instruments aloft2   ,the concert swell1
 and animate the ball4   ,would this    
appear amazing8 ,what1 then1 worlds1    
,in a far thinner element sustain'd1    
,and acting the same part1 with greater 
skill1   ,more rapid movement1 and for  
noblest ends8     ,more obvious ends to 
pass1 are not these stars   ,the seats  
majestic1 proud imperial thrones1   ,on 
which angelic delegates of heaven1      
#aafj   ,at certain periods1 as the     
,sovereign nods1   ,discharge high      
trusts of vengeance1 or of love2   ,to  
clothe1 in outward grandeur1 grand      
design1   ,and acts most solemn still   
more solemnize8   ,ye citizens of air6  
what ardent thanks1   ,what full        
effusion of the grateful heart1   ,is   
due from man indulged in such a sight6  

#aafg   ,a sight so noble6 and a sight  
so kind6   ,it drops new truths at every
 new survey6   ,feels not ,lorenzo      
something stir within1   ,that sweeps   
away all period8 ,as these spheres      
,measure duration1 they no less inspire 
,the godlike hope of ages without end4  
,the boundless space1 through which     
these rovers take   ,their restless     
roam1 suggests the sister thought   ,of 
boundless time4 ,thus1 by kind ,nature's
 skill1   ,to man unlabour'd1 that      
important guest1   ,eternity1 finds     
entrance at the sight3   ,and an        
eternity1 for man ordain'd1   ,or these 
his destined midnight counsellors1      
#aahj   ,the stars1 had never whisper'd 
it to man4   ,nature informs1 but ne'er 
insults1 her sons4   ,could she then    
kindle the most ardent wish   ,to       
disappoint it8--,that is blasphemy4     
,thus1 of thy creed a second article1   
,momentous1 as th' existence of a ,god1 
,is found 7as ,i conceive7 where rarely 
sought2   ,and thou may'st read thy soul

 immortal1 here4     ,here1 then1       
,lorenzo6 on these glories dwell2   ,nor
 want the gilt1 illuminated1 roof1      
#aaij   ,that calls the wretched gay to 
dark delights4   ,assemblies8--,this is 
one divinely bright2   ,here1           
unendanger'd in health1 wealth1 or fame1
   ,range through the fairest1 and the  
,sultan scorn2   ,he1 wise as thou1 no  
crescent holds so fair1   ,as that1     
which on his turban awes a world2   ,and
 thinks the moon is proud to copy him4  
,look on her1 and gain more than worlds 
can give1   ,a mind superior to the     
charms of power4   ,thou muffled in     
delusions of this life6                 
#abjj   ,can yonder moon turn ocean in  
his bed1                                
#abja   ,from side to side1 in constant 
ebb1 and flow1   ,and purify from stench
 his watery realms8   ,and fails her    
moral influence8 wants she power   ,to  
turn ,lorenzo's stubborn tide of thought
   ,from stagnating on earth's infected 
shore1   ,and purge from nuisance his   

corrupted heart8   ,fails her attraction
 when it draws to heaven8   ,nay1 and to
 what thou valuest more1 earth's joy8   
,minds elevate1 and panting for unseen1 
#abaj   ,and defecate#ff from sense1    
alone obtain   ,full relish of existence
 undeflower'd1   ,the life of life1 the 
zest of worldly bliss3   ,all else on   
earth amounts--to what8 to this3   ,bad 
to be suffer'd2 blessings to be left3   
,earth's richest inventory boasts no    
more4     ,of higher scenes be1 then1   
the call obey'd4   ,o let me gaze6--,of 
gazing there's no end4   ,o let me      
think6--,thought too is wilder'd here2  
,in midway flight imagination tires2    
#abbj   ,yet soon reprunes her wing to  
soar anew1   ,her point unable to       
forbear1 or gain2   ,so great the       
pleasure1 so profound the plan6   ,a    
banquet1 this1 where men1 and angels1   
meet1   ,eat the same manna1 mingle     
earth and heaven4   ,how distant some of
 these nocturnal suns6   ,so distant    
7says the sage71 'twere not absurd   ,to

 doubt1 if beams1 set out at ,nature's  
birth1   ,are yet arrived at this so    
foreign world2   ,though nothing half so
 rapid as their flight4                 
#abcj   ,an eye of awe and wonder let me
 roll1   ,and roll for ever3 who can    
satiate sight   ,in such a scene8 in    
such an ocean wide   ,of deep           
astonishment8 where depth1 height1      
breadth1   ,are lost in their extremes2 
and where to count                      
#abce   ,the thick-sown glories in this 
field of fire1   ,perhaps a seraph's    
computation fails4   ,now1 go1          
,ambition6 boast thy boundless might    
,in conquest1 o'er the tenth part of a  
grain4     ,and yet ,lorenzo calls for  
miracles1   ,to give his tottering faith
 a solid base4   ,why call for less than
 is already thine8                      
#abdb   ,thou art no novice in theology2
   ,what is a miracle8--',tis a         
reproach1   ',tis an implicit satire1 on
 mankind2   ,and while it satisfies1 it 
censures too4   ,to common sense1 great 

,nature's course proclaims   ,a ,deity3 
when mankind falls asleep1   ,a miracle 
is sent1 as an alarm2   ,to wake the    
world1 and prove ,him o'er again1       
#abej   ,by recent argument1 but not    
more strong4   ,say1 which imports more 
plenitude of power1   ,or nature's laws 
to fix1 or to repeal8   ,to make a sun1 
or stop his mid career8   ,to           
countermand his orders1 and send back   
,the flaming courier to the frighted    
east1   ,warm'd1 and astonish'd1 at his 
evening ray8   ,or bid the moon1 as with
 her journey tired1   ,in ,ajalon's#fg  
soft1 flowery vale repose8   ,great     
things are these2 still greater1 to     
create4                 #abfj   ,from   
,adam's bower look down through the     
whole train   ,of miracles2--resistless 
is their power8   ,they do not1 can not1
 more amaze the mind1   ,than this1     
call'd unmiraculous survey1   ,if duly  
weigh'd1 if rationally seen1   ,if seen 
with human eyes4 ,the brute1 indeed1    
,sees nought but spangles here2 the     

fool1 no more4   ,say'st thou1 ,the     
course of nature governs all8   ,the    
course of ,nature is the art of ,god4   
#abfi   ,the miracles thou call'st for1 
this attest2   ,for say1 could ,nature  
,nature's course control8     ,but1     
miracles apart1 who sees ,him not1      
,nature's controller1 author1 guide1 and
 end8   ,who turns his eye on ,nature's 
midnight face1   ,but must              
inquire--,what hand behind the scene1   
,what arm almighty1 put these wheeling  
globes   ,in motion1 and wound up the   
vast machine8   ,who rounded in his palm
 these spacious orbs8   ,who bowl'd them
 flaming through the dark profound1     
,numerous as glittering gems of morning 
dew1                       #abhj   ,or  
sparks from populous cities in a blaze1 
,and set the bosom of old ,night on     
fire8   ,peopled her desert1 and made   
horror smile8   ,or1 if the military    
style delights thee   7,for stars have  
fought their battles1 leagued with man71
   ,who marshals this bright host8      

enrols their names8   ,appoints their   
posts1 their marches1 and returns1      
,punctual1 at stated periods8 who       
disbands   ,these veteran troops1 their 
final duty done1   ,if e'er             
disbanded8--,he1 whose potent word1     
#abij   ,like the loud trumpet1 levied  
first their powers   ,in ,night's       
inglorious empire1 where they slept     
,in beds of darkness3 arm'd them with   
fierce flames1   ,arranged1 and         
disciplined1 and clothed in gold2   ,and
 call'd them out of chaos to the field1 
,where now they war with vice and       
unbelief4   ,o let us join this army6   
joining these1   ,will give us hearts   
intrepid1 at that hour1   ,when brighter
 flames shall cut a darker night2       
,when these strong demonstrations of a  
,god                         #acjj      
,shall hide their heads1 or tumble from 
their spheres1   ,and one eternal       
curtain cover all6     ,struck at that  
thought1 as new awaked1 ,i lift         
#acjc   ,a more enlighten'd eye1 and    

read the stars   ,to man still more     
propitious2 and their aid   7,though    
guiltless of idolatry7 implore2   ,nor  
longer rob them of their noblest name4  
,o ye dividers of my time6 ye bright    
,accountants of my days1 and months1 and
 years1   ,in your fair calendar        
distinctly mark'd6                      
#acaj   ,since that authentic1 radiant  
register1   ,though man inspects it not1
 stands good against him2   ,since you1 
and years1 roll on1 though man stands   
still2   ,teach me my days to number1   
and apply   ,my trembling heart to      
wisdom2 now beyond   ,all shadow of     
excuse for fooling on4   ,age smooths   
our path to prudence2 sweeps aside      
,the snares keen appetite and passion   
spread   ,to catch stray souls2 and woe 
to that grey head1   ,whose folly would 
undo1 what age has done6                
#acbj   ,aid then1 aid1 all ye          
stars6--,much rather1 ,thou1   ,great   
,artist6 ,thou1 whose finger set aright 
,this exquisite machine1 with all its   

wheels1   ,though intervolved1 exact2   
and pointing out   ,life's rapid1 and   
irrevocable flight1   ,with such an     
index fair1 as none can miss1   ,who    
lifts an eye1 nor sleeps till it is     
closed4   ,open mine eye1 dread ,deity6 
to read   ,the tacit doctrine of thy    
works2 to see   ,things as they are1    
unalter'd through the glass             
#accj   ,of worldly wishes4 ,time1      
eternity6   7',tis these1 mismeasured1  
ruin all mankind7   ,set them before me2
 let me lay them both   ,in equal scale1
 and learn their various weight4   ,let 
time appear a moment1 as it is2   ,and  
let eternity's full orb1 at once1       
,turn on my soul1 and strike it into    
heaven4                       #accg     
,when shall ,i see far more than charms 
me now8   ,gaze on creation's model in  
thy breast   ,unveil'd1 nor wonder at   
the transcript more8   ,when this vile1 
foreign1 dust1 which smothers all       
,that travel earth's deep vale1 shall ,i
 shake off8   ,when shall my soul her   

incarnation quit1   ,and1 readopted to  
thy bless'd embrace1   ,obtain her      
apotheosis in ,thee8     ,dost think1   
,lorenzo1 this is wandering wide8       
,no1'tis directly striking at the mark2 
,to wake thy dead devotion was my point2
   ,and how ,i bless ,night's           
consecrating shades1   ,which to a      
temple turn an universe2                
#acej   ,fill us with great ideas1 full 
of heaven1   ,and antidote the          
pestilential earth6   ,in every storm1  
that either frowns1 or falls1   ,what an
 asylum has the soul in prayer6   ,and  
what a fane#fh is this1 in which to     
pray6   ,and what a ,god must dwell in  
such a fane6   ,oh1 what a genius must  
inform the skies6   ,and is ,lorenzo's  
salamander heart   ,cold1 and untouch'd1
 amid these sacred fires8   ,o ye       
nocturnal sparks6 ye glowing embers1    
#acfj   ,on heaven's broad hearth6 who  
burn1 or burn no more1   ,who blaze1 or 
die1 as ,great ,jehovah's breath   ,or  
blows you1 or forbears2 assist my song2 

,pour your whole influence2 exorcise his
 heart1   ,so long possess'd2 and bring 
him back to man4     ,and is ,lorenzo a 
demurrer still8   ,pride in thy parts   
provokes thee to contest   ,truths1     
which1 contested1 put thy parts to      
shame4   ,nor shame they more ,lorenzo's
 head than heart1   ,a faithless heart1 
how despicably small6                   
#acgj   ,too strait1 aught great or     
generous to receive6                    
#acga   ,fill'd with an atom6 fill'd1   
and foul'd1 with self6   ,and self      
mistaken6 self1 that lasts an hour6     
,instincts and passions1 of the nobler  
kind1   ,lie suffocated there2 or they  
alone1   ,reason apart1 would wake high 
hope2 and open1   ,to ravish'd thought1 
that intellectual sphere1   ,where      
order1 wisdom1 goodness1 providence1    
,their endless miracles of love display1
   ,and promise all the truly great     
desire4                           #achj 
,the mind that would be happy1 must be  
great2   ,great1 in its wishes2 great1  

in its surveys4   ,extended views a     
narrow mind extend2   ,push out its     
corrugate1 expansive make1   ,which1 ere
 long1 more than planets shall embrace4 
,a man of compass makes a man of worth2 
,divine contemplate1 and become divine4 
,as man was made for glory1 and for     
bliss1   ,all littleness is in approach 
to woe2   ,open thy bosom1 set thy      
wishes wide1                            
#acij   ,and let in manhood2 let in     
happiness2   ,admit the boundless       
theatre of thought   ,from nothing1 up  
to ,god2 which makes a man4   ,take ,god
 from nature1 nothing great is left2    
,man's mind is in a pit1 and nothing    
sees2   ,man's heart is in a jakes#fi1  
and loves the mire4   ,emerge from thy  
profound2 erect thine eye2   ,see thy   
distress6 how close art thou besieged6  
,besieged by ,nature1 the proud         
sceptic's foe6   ,enclosed by these     
innumerable worlds1                     
#adjj   ,sparkling conviction on the    
darkest mind1   ,as in a golden net of  

,providence4   ,how art thou caught1    
sure captive of belief6   ,from this thy
 bless'd captivity1 what art1   ,what   
blasphemy to reason1 sets thee free6    
#adje   ,this scene is heaven's         
indulgent violence3   ,canst thou bear  
up against this tide of glory8   ,what  
is earth bosom'd in these ambient orbs1 
,but1 faith in ,god imposed1 and press'd
 on man8   ,darest thou still litigate  
thy desperate cause1   ,spite of these  
numerous1 awful1 witnesses1   ,and doubt
 the deposition of the skies8           
#adab   ,o how laborious is thy way to  
ruin6     ,laborious6 'tis impracticable
 quite2   ,to sink beyond a doubt1 in   
this debate1   ,with all his weight of  
wisdom and of will1   ,and crime        
flagitious1 ,i defy a fool4   ,some wish
 they did2 but no man disbelieves4      
,god is a spirit2 spirit cannot strike  
,these gross1 material organs2 ,god by  
man                          #adbj   ,as
 much is seen1 as man a ,god can see1   
,in these astonishing exploits of power4

   ,what order1 beauty1 motion1         
distance1 size6   ,concertion of design1
 how exquisite6   ,how complicate1 in   
their divine police6   ,apt means6 great
 ends6 consent to general good6--       
,each attribute of these material gods1 
,so long 7and that with specious pleas7 
adored1   ,a separate conquest gains    
o'er rebel thought2   ,and leads in     
triumph the whole mind of man4          
#adcj     ,lorenzo6 this may seem       
harangue to thee2   ,such all is apt to 
seem1 that thwarts our will4   ,and dost
 thou1 then1 demand a simple proof   ,of
 this great master moral of the skies1  
,unskill'd1 or disinclined1 to read it  
there8   ,since 'tis the basis1 and all 
drops without it1   ,take it1 in one    
compact1 unbroken chain4   ,such proof  
insists on an attentive ear2   ',twill  
not make one amid a mob of thoughts1    
#adci   ,and1 for thy notice1 struggle  
with the world4   ,retire2--the world   
shut out2--thy thoughts call home2--    
,imagination's airy wing repress2--     

,lock up thy senses2--let no passion    
stir2--   ,wake all to ,reason2--let her
 reign alone2--   ,then1 in thy soul's  
deep silence1 and the depth   ,of       
,nature's silence1 midnight1 thus       
inquire1   ,as ,i have done2 and shall  
inquire no more4   ,in nature's channel1
 thus the questions run3     ,what am   
,i8 and from whence8--,i nothing know1  
,but that ,i am2 and1 since ,i am1      
conclude                          #adej 
,something eternal3 had there e'er been 
nought1   ,nought still had been3       
eternal there must be4--   ,but what    
eternal8--,why not human race8   ,and   
,adam's ancestors without an end8--     
,that's hard to be conceived2 since     
every link   ,of that long-chain'd      
succession is so frail2   ,can every    
part depend1 and not the whole8   ,yet  
grant it true2 new difficulties rise2   
,i'm still quite out at sea2 nor see the
 shore4   ,whence earth1 and these      
bright orbs8--eternal too8   ,grant     
matter was eternal2 still these orbs    

#adfa   ,would want some other          
father2--much design   ,is seen in all  
their motions1 all their makes2         
,design implies intelligence1 and art2  
,that can't be from themselves--or man2 
that art   ,man scarce can comprehend1  
could man bestow8   ,and nothing greater
 yet allow'd than man4--   ,who1 motion1
 foreign to the smallest grain1   ,shot 
through vast masses of enormous weight8 
,who bid brute matter's restive lump    
assume                        #adgj     
,such various forms1 and gave it wings  
to fly8   ,has matter innate motion8    
then each atom1   ,asserting its        
indisputable right                      
#adgc   ,to dance1 would form an        
universe of dust3   ,has matter none8   
,then whence these glorious forms   ,and
 boundless flights1 from shapeless1 and 
reposed8   ,has matter more than motion8
 ,has it thought1   ,judgment1 and      
genius8 ,is it deeply learn'd   ,in     
mathematics8 ,has it framed such laws1  
,which but to guess1 a ,newton made     

immortal8--                     #adhj   
,if so1 how each sage atom laughs at me1
   ,who think a clod inferior to a man6 
,if art1 to form2 and counsel1 to       
conduct2   ,and that with greater far   
than human skill2   ,resides not in each
 block2--a ,godhead reigns4--   ,grant1 
then1 invisible1 eternal1 ,mind2   ,that
 granted1 all is solved4--,but1 granting
 that1   ,draw ,i not o'er me a still   
darker cloud8   ,grant ,i not that which
 ,i can ne'er conceive8   ,a being      
without origin1 or end6--               
#adij   ,hail1 human liberty6 ,there is 
no ,god--   ,yet1 why8 ,on either scheme
 that knot subsists2   ,subsist it must1
 in ,god1 or human race2   ,if in the   
last1 how many knots beside1            
,indissoluble all8--,why choose it      
there1   ,where1 chosen1 still subsist  
ten thousand more8   ,reject it1 where1 
that chosen1 all the rest   ,dispersed1 
leave reason's whole horizon clear8     
,this is not reason's dictate2 ,reason  
says1   ,close with the side where one  

grain turns the scale2--                
#aejj   ,what vast preponderance is     
here6 can reason   ,with louder voice   
exclaim--,believe a ,god8   ,and reason 
heard1 is the sole mark of man4   ,what 
things impossible must man think true1  
,on any other system6 and how strange   
,to disbelieve1 through mere credulity6 
,if1 in this chain1 ,lorenzo finds no   
flaw1                       #aejg   ,let
 it for ever bind him to belief4   ,and 
where the link1 in which a flaw he      
finds8   ,and1 if a ,god there is1 that 
,god how great6   ,how great that       
,power1 whose providential care         
,through these bright orbs' dark centres
 darts a ray6   ,of nature universal    
threads the whole6   ,and hangs         
creation1 like a precious gem1   ,though
 little1 on the footstool of his throne6
     ,that little gem1 how large6 ,a    
weight let fall   ,from a fix'd star1 in
 ages can it reach   ,this distant      
earth6 ,say1 then1 ,lorenzo6 where1     
,where1 ends this mighty building8      

where1 begin   ,the suburbs of creation8
 where1 the wall                        
#aebj   ,whose battlements look o'er    
into the vale   ,of non-existence6      
,nothing's strange abode6   ,say1 at    
what point of space ,jehovah dropp'd    
,his slacken'd line1 and laid his       
balance by2   ,weigh'd worlds1 and      
measured infinite1 no more8   ,where1   
rears ,his terminating pillar high      
,its extra-mundane head8 and says1 to   
gods1   ,in characters illustrious as   
the sun1--      ,i stand1 the plan's    
proud period2 ,i pronounce     ,the work
 accomplish'd2 the creation closed3     
#aecj     ,shout1 all ye gods6 nor shout
 ye gods alone2     ,of all that lives1 
or1 if devoid of life1     ,that rests1 
or rolls1 ye heights1 and depths1       
resound6     ,resound6 resound6 ye      
depths1 and heights1 resound6      ,hard
 are those questions6--answer harder    
still4   ,is this the sole exploit1 the 
single birth1   ,the solitary son of    
power divine8   ,or has th' ,almighty   

,father1 with a breath1   ,impregnated  
the womb of distant space8              
#aeci   ,has ,he not bid1 in various    
provinces1   ,brother-creations the dark
 bowels burst   ,of night primeval2     
barren1 now1 no more8   ,and ,he the    
central sun1 transpiercing all   ,those 
giant generations1 which disport   ,and 
dance1 as motes1 in his meridian ray2   
,that ray withdrawn1 benighted1 or      
absorb'd1   ,in that abyss of horror1   
whence they sprung2   ,while ,chaos     
triumphs1 repossess'd of all   ,rival   
,creation ravish'd from his throne8     
,chaos6 of ,nature both the womb1 and   
grave6                        #aeej     
,think'st thou my scheme1 ,lorenzo1     
spreads too wide8   ,is this            
extravagant8--,no2 this is just2        
,just1 in conjecture1 though 'twere     
false in fact4   ,if 'tis an error1 'tis
 an error sprung   ,from noble root1    
high thought of the ,most ,high4   ,but 
wherefore error8 who can prove it       
such8--   ,he that can set ,omnipotence 

a bound4   ,can man conceive beyond what
 ,god can do8   ,nothing1 but quite     
impossible is hard4   ,he summons into  
being1 with like ease1                  
#aefj   ,a whole creation1 and a single 
grain4   ,speaks he the word8 a thousand
 worlds are born6   ,a thousand worlds8 
there's space for millions more3   ,and 
in what space can his great fiat fail8  
,condemn me not1 cold critic6 but       
indulge   ,the warm imagination3 why    
condemn8   ,why not indulge such        
thoughts1 as swell our hearts   ,with   
fuller admiration of that ,power1   ,who
 gives our hearts with such high        
thoughts to swell8   ,why not indulge in
 ,his augmented praise8                 
#aegj   ,darts not ,his glory a still   
brighter ray1   ,the less is left to    
,chaos1 and the realms   ,of hideous    
,night1 where ,fancy strays aghast2     
#aegc   ,and1 though most talkative1    
makes no report8     ,still seems my    
thought enormous8 ,think again2--       
,experience' self shall aid thy lame    

belief4   ,glasses 7that revelation to  
the sight67   ,have they not led us in  
the deep disclose   ,of fine-spun       
nature1 exquisitely small1   ,and1      
though demonstrated1 still              
ill-conceived8                    #aehj 
,if1 then1 on the reverse1 the mind     
would mount   ,in magnitude1 what mind  
can mount too far1   ,to keep the       
balance1 and creation poise8   ,defect  
alone can err on such a theme2   ,what  
is too great1 if we the cause survey8   
,stupendous ,architect6 ,thou1 ,thou art
 all6   ,my soul flies up and down in   
thoughts of ,thee1   ,and finds herself 
but at the centre still6   ,i ,,am1 thy 
name6 ,existence1 all thine own6        
,creation's nothing2 flatter'd much1 if 
styled                     #aeij   ,the 
thin1 the fleeting atmosphere of ,god4  
,o for the voice--of what8 of           
whom8--,what voice   ,can answer to my  
wants1 in such ascent1   ,as dares to   
deem one universe too small8   ,tell me1
 ,lorenzo6 7for now fancy glows2        

,fired in the vortex of almighty power7 
,is not this home creation1 in the map  
,of universal nature1 as a speck1       
,like fair ,britannia in our little     
ball2   ,exceeding fair1 and glorious1  
for its size1                           
#afjj   ,but1 elsewhere1 far            
outmeasured1 far outshone8   ,in fancy  
7for the fact beyond us lies7   ,canst  
thou not figure it1 an isle1 almost     
,too small for notice1 in the vast of   
being2   ,sever'd by mighty seas of     
unbuilt space   ,from other realms2 from
 ample continents   ,of higher life1    
where nobler natives dwell2             
#afjg   ,less northern1 less remote from
 ,deity1   ,glowing beneath the line of 
the ,supreme2   ,where souls in         
excellence make haste1 put forth        
,luxuriant growths2 nor the late autumn 
wait   ,of human worth1 but ripen soon  
to gods8     ,yet why drown fancy in    
such depths as these8   ,return1        
presumptuous rover6 and confess   ,the  
bounds of man2 nor blame them1 as too   

small4   ,enjoy we not full scope in    
what is seen8   ,pull ample the         
dominions of the sun6   ,full glorious  
to behold6 ,how far1 how wide1   ,the   
matchless monarch1 from his flaming     
throne1                   #afai         
,lavish of lustre1 throws his beams     
about him1   ,farther1 and faster1 than 
a thought can fly1   ,and feeds his     
planets with eternal fires6   ,this     
,heliopolis1#gj by greater far1   ,than 
the proud tyrant of the ,nile1 was      
built2   ,and ,he alone1 who built it1  
can destroy4   ,beyond this city1 why   
strays human thought8   ,one wonderful1 
enough for man to know6   ,one infinite6
 enough for man to range6   ,one        
firmament1 enough for man to read6   ,o 
what voluminous instruction here6       
#afcj   ,what page of wisdom is denied  
him8 ,none2   ,if learning his chief    
lesson makes him wise4   ,nor is        
instruction1 here1 our only gain2       
,there dwells a noble pathos in the     
skies1   ,which warms our passions1     

proselytes our hearts4   ,how eloquently
 shines the glowing pole6   ,with what  
authority it gives its charge1          
,remonstrating great truths in style    
sublime1   ,though silent1 loud6 heard  
earth around2 above   ,the planets      
heard2 and not unheard in hell2         
#afdj   ,hell has her wonder1 though too
 proud to praise4   ,is earth1 then1    
more infernal8 ,has she those1   ,who   
neither praise 7,lorenzo67 nor admire8  
,lorenzo's admiration1 pre-engaged1     
,ne'er ask'd the moon one question2     
never held   ,least correspondence with 
a single star2   ,ne'er rear'd an altar 
to the ,queen of ,heaven   ,walking in  
brightness2 or her train adored4        
,their sublunary rivals have long since 
,engross'd his whole devotion2 stars    
malign1                       #afej     
,which made the fond astronomer run mad2
   ,darken his intellect1 corrupt his   
heart2   ,cause him to sacrifice his    
fame and peace   ,to momentary madness1 
call'd delight4   ,idolater1 more gross 

than ever kiss'd   ,the lifted hand to  
,luna1 or pour'd out   ,the blood to    
,jove6--,o ,thou1 to whom belongs   ,all
 sacrifice6 ,o ,thou ,great ,jove       
unfeign'd6   ,divine ,instructor6 ,thy  
first volume1 this1   ,for man's        
perusal2 all in capitals6               
#affj   ,in moon1 and stars 7heaven's   
golden alphabet67   ,emblazed to seize  
the sight2 who runs1 may read2   ,who   
reads1 can understand4 ',tis unconfined 
,to ,christian land1 or ,jewry2 fairly  
writ1   ,in language universal1 to      
mankind3   ,a language1 lofty to the    
learn'd3 yet plain   ,to those that feed
 the flock1 or guide the plough1   ,or1 
from his husk1 strike out the bounding  
grain4   ,a language1 worthy the ,great 
,mind1 that speaks6   ,preface1 and     
comment1 to the sacred page6            
#afgj   ,which oft refers its reader to 
the skies1   ,as presupposing his first 
lesson there1   ,and ,scripture self a  
fragment1 that unread4   ,stupendous    
book of wisdom1 to the wise6            

#afgd   ,stupendous book6 and open'd1   
,night6 by thee4     ,by thee much      
open'd1 ,i confess1 ,o ,night6   ,yet   
more ,i wish2 but how shall ,i prevail8 
,say1 gentle ,night6 whose modest1      
maiden beams   ,give us a new creation1 
and present   ,the world's great picture
 soften'd to the sight2   ,nay1 kinder  
far1 far more indulgent still1   ,say1  
thou1 whose mild dominion's silver key  
#afhb   ,unlocks our hemisphere1 and    
sets to view   ,worlds beyond number2   
worlds conceal'd by day   ,behind the   
proud and envious star of noon6   ,canst
 thou not draw a deeper scene8--and show
   ,the mighty ,potentate1 to whom      
belong   ,these rich regalia pompously  
display'd   ,to kindle that high hope8  
,like him of ,uz1#ga   ,i gaze around2  
,i search on every side--               
#afij   ,o for a glimpse of ,him my soul
 adores6   ,as the chased hart1 amid the
 desert waste1   ,pants for the living  
stream2 for ,him who made her1   ,so    
pants the thirsty soul1 amid the blank  

,of sublunary joys4 ,say1 goddess6      
where8   ,where blazes ,his bright      
court8 where burns ,his throne8   ,thou 
know'st2 for thou art near ,him2 by     
thee1 round   ,his grand pavilion1      
sacred fame reports   ,the sable curtain
 drawn4 ,if not1 can none   ,of thy fair
 daughter train1 so swift of wing1      
#agjj   ,who travel far1 discover where 
,he dwells8   ,a star ,his dwelling     
pointed out below4   ,ye ,pleiades6     
,arcturus6 ,mazaroth6   ,and thou1      
,orion6 of still keener eye6   ,say ye1 
who guide the wilder'd in the waves1    
,and bring them out of tempest into     
port6                          #agjf    
,on which hand must ,i bend my course to
 find ,him8   ,these courtiers keep the 
secret of their ,king2   ,i wake whole  
nights1 in vain1 to steal it from them4 
,i wake2 and1 waking1 climb ,night's    
radiant scale1   ,from sphere to sphere2
 the steps by nature set   ,for man's   
ascent2 at once to tempt and aid2   ,to 
tempt his eye1 and aid his towering     

thought2                   #agac   ,till
 it arrives at the great goal of all4   
,in ardent ,contemplation's rapid car1  
,from earth1 as from my barrier1 ,i set 
out4   ,how swift ,i mount6 ,diminish'd 
earth recedes2   ,i pass the moon2 and1 
from her farther side1   ,pierce        
heaven's blue curtain2 strike into      
remote2   ,where1 with his lifted tube1 
the subtle sage                         
#agbj   ,his artificial1 airy journey   
takes1   ,and to celestial lengthens    
human sight4   ,i pause at every planet 
on my road1   ,and ask for ,him who     
gives their orbs to roll1   ,their      
foreheads fair to shine4 ,from ,saturn's
 ring1   ,in which1 of earths an army   
might be lost1   ,with the bold comet1  
take my bolder flight1   ,amid those    
sovereign glories of the skies1   ,of   
independent1 native lustre1 proud2      
,the souls of systems6 and the lords of 
life1                      #agcj        
,through their wide empires6--,what     
behold ,i now8   ,a wilderness of wonder

 burning round2   ,where larger suns    
inhabit higher spheres2   ,perhaps the  
villas of descending gods2   ,nor halt  
,i here2 my toil is but begun2   ',tis  
but the threshold of the ,deity2   ,or1 
far beneath it1 ,i am grovelling still4 
,nor is it strange2 ,i built on a       
mistake2   ,the grandeur of his works1  
whence folly sought   ,for aid1 to      
reason sets his glory higher2           
#agdj   ,who built thus high for worms  
7mere worms to ,him71   ,oh1 where1     
,lorenzo6 must the ,builder dwell8      
,pause1 then2 and1 for a moment1 here   
respire--   ,if human thought can keep  
its station here4   ,where am           
,i8--,where is earth8--,nay1 where art  
thou1   ,o sun8--,is the sun turn'd     
recluse8--and are   ,his boasted        
expeditions short to mine8--   ,to mine1
 how short6 ,on nature's ,alps ,i stand1
   ,and see a thousand firmaments       
beneath6   ,a thousand systems6 as a    
thousand grains6                        
#agej   ,so much a stranger1 and so late

 arrived1   ,how can man's curious      
spirit not inquire1   ,what are the     
natives of this world sublime1   ,of    
this so foreign1 unterrestrial sphere1  
,where mortal1 untranslated1 never      
stray'd8     ,o ye1 as distant from my  
little home1   ,as swiftest sunbeams in 
an age can fly6   ,far from my native   
element ,i roam1   ,in quest of new1 and
 wonderful1 to man4   ,what province    
this1 of ,his immense domain1           
#agfj   ,whom all obeys8 ,or mortals    
here1 or gods8   ,ye borderers on the   
coasts of bliss6 what are you8   ,a     
colony from heaven8 or1 only raised1    
,by frequent visit from heaven's        
neighbouring realms1   ,to secondary    
gods1 and half divine8--   ,whate'er    
your nature1 this is past dispute1      
,far other life you live1 far other     
tongue   ,you talk1 far other thought1  
perhaps1 you think1   ,than man4 ,how   
various are the works of ,god8   ,but   
say1 what thought8 ,is ,reason here     
enthroned1                  #aggj   ,and

 absolute8 or ,sense in arms against    
her8   ,have you two lights8 ,or need   
you no reveal'd8   ,enjoy your happy    
realms their golden age8   ,and had your
 ,eden an abstemious ,eve8              
#aggd   ,our ,eve's fair daughters prove
 their pedigree1   ,and ask their       
,adams--',who would not be wise8'   ,or1
 if your mother fell1 are you redeem'd8 
,and if redeem'd--is your ,redeemer     
scorn'd8   ,is this your final          
residence8 ,if not1   ,change you your  
scene1 translated8 or by death8   ,and  
if by death2 what death8--,know you     
disease8   ,or horrid war8--,with war1  
this fatal hour1                        
#aghb   ,europa groans 7so call we a    
small field1   ,where kings run mad74   
,in our world1 ,death deputes           
,intemperance to do the work of ,age2   
,and hanging up the quiver ,nature gave 
him1   ,as slow of execution1 for       
despatch   ,sends forth imperial        
butchers2 bids them slay   ,their sheep 
7the silly sheep they fleeced before71  

,and toss him twice ten thousand at a   
meal4                        #agij      
,sit all your executioners on thrones8  
,with you1 can rage for plunder make a  
god8   ,and bloodshed wash out every    
other stain8--   ,but you1 perhaps1     
can't bleed3 from matter gross   ,your  
spirits clean1 are delicately clad   ,in
 fine-spun ether1 privileged to soar1   
,unloaded1 uninfected2 how unlike   ,the
 lot of man6 how few of human race   ,by
 their own mud unmurder'd6 how we wage  
,self-war eternal6--,is your painful day
                            #ahjj   ,of 
hardy conflict o'er8 or1 are you still  
,raw candidates at school8 and have you 
those   ,who disaffect reversions1 as   
with us8--   ,but what are we8 ,you     
never heard of man2   ,or earth1 the    
bedlam of the universe6   ,where ,reason
 7undiseased with you7 runs mad1   ,and 
nurses ,folly's children as her own2    
,fond of the foulest4 ,in the sacred    
mount                          #ahjh    
,of holiness1 where ,reason is          

pronounced   ,infallible2 and thunders1 
like a god2   ,even there1 by saints1   
the demons are outdone2   ,what these   
think wrong1 our saints refine to right2
   ,and kindly teach dull hell her own  
black arts2   ,satan1 instructed1 o'er  
their morals smiles4--   ,but this1 how 
strange to you1 who know not man6   ,has
 the least rumour of our race arrived8  
,call'd here ,elijah in his flaming car8
   ,pass'd by you the good ,enoch1 on   
his road   ,to those fair fields1 whence
 ,lucifer was hurl'd2   ,who brush'd1   
perhaps1 your sphere in his descent1    
#ahbj   ,stain'd your pure crystal      
ether1 or let fall   ,a short eclipse   
from his portentous shade8   ,o that the
 fiend had lodged on some broad orb     
,athwart his way2 nor reach'd his       
present home1   ,then blacken'd earth   
with footsteps foul'd in hell1   ,nor   
wash'd in ocean1 as from ,rome he pass'd
   ,to ,britain's isle2 too1 too1       
conspicuous there6     ,but this is all 
digression3 where is ,he1   ,that o'er  

heaven's battlements the felon hurl'd   
,to groans1 and chains1 and darkness8   
,where is ,he1                 #ahcj    
,who sees creation's summit in a vale8  
,he1 whom1 while man is man1 he can't   
but seek2   ,and if he finds1 commences 
more than man8   ,o for a telescope ,his
 throne to reach6   ,tell me1 ye learn'd
 on earth6 or blest above6   ,ye        
searching1 ye ,newtonian angels6 tell4  
,where1 your ,great ,master's orb8 ,his 
planets1 where8   ,those conscious      
satellites1 those morning stars1        
,first-born of ,deity6 from central     
love1   ,by veneration most profound1   
thrown off2                             
#ahdj   ,by sweet attraction1 no less   
strongly drawn2   ,awed1 and yet        
raptured2 raptured1 yet serene2         
#ahdb   ,past thought illustrious1 but  
with borrow'd beams2   ,in still        
approaching circles1 still remote1      
,revolving round the sun's eternal      
,sire8   ,or sent1 in lines direct1 on  
embassies   ,to nations--in what        

latitude8--,beyond   ,terrestrial       
thought's horizon6--,and on what   ,high
 errands sent8--,here human effort ends2
   ,and leaves me still a stranger to   
,his throne4                     #ahej  
,full well it might6 ,i quite mistook my
 road4   ,born in an age more curious   
than devout2   ,more fond to fix the    
place of heaven1 or hell1   ,than       
studious this to shun1 or that secure4  
',tis not the curious1 but the pious    
path1   ,that leads me to my point3     
,lorenzo6 know1   ,without or star1 or  
angel1 for their guide1   ,who worship  
,god1 shall find him4 ,humble ,love1    
,and not proud ,reason1 keeps the door  
of heaven2   ,love finds admission1     
where proud ,science fails4             
#ahfj   ,man's science is the culture of
 his heart2   ,and not to lose his      
plummet in the depths   ,of nature1 or  
the more profound of ,god4   ,either to 
know1 is an attempt that sets   ,the    
wisest on a level with the fool4   ,to  
fathom nature 7ill attempted here67     

,past doubt is deep philosophy above2   
,higher degrees in bliss archangels     
take1   ,as deeper learn'd2 the deepest1
 learning still4   ,for1 what a thunder 
of omnipotence                          
#ahgj   7,so might ,i dare to speak7 is 
seen in all6   ,in man6 in earth6 in    
more amazing skies6   ,teaching this    
lesson1 ,pride is loath to learn--      
,not deeply to discern1 not much to     
know1   ,mankind was born to wonder1 and
 adore4     ,and is there cause for     
higher wonder still1                    
#ahgf   ,than that which struck us from 
our past surveys8   ,yes2 and for deeper
 adoration too4   ,from my late airy    
travel unconfined1   ,have ,i learn'd   
nothing8--,yes1 ,lorenzo6 this3   ,each 
of these stars is a religious house2    
,i saw their altars smoke1 their incense
 rise2   ,and heard hosannas ring       
through every sphere1                   
#ahhc   ,a seminary fraught with future 
gods4   ,nature all o'er is consecrated 
ground1   ,teeming with growths         

immortal1 and divine4   ,the ,great     
,proprietor's all-bounteous hand        
,leaves nothing waste2 but sows these   
fiery fields   ,with seeds of reason1   
which to virtues rise   ,beneath ,his   
genial ray2 and1 if escaped             
#ahij   ,the pestilential blasts of     
stubborn will1   ,when grown mature1 are
 gather'd for the skies4   ,and is      
devotion thought too much on earth1     
,when beings1 so superior1 homage boast1
   ,and triumph in prostrations to the  
,throne8     ,but wherefore more of     
planets1 or of stars8   ,ethereal       
journeys1 and1 discover'd there1   ,ten 
thousand worlds1 ten thousand ways      
devout1   ,all nature sending incense to
 the ,throne1   ,except the bold        
,lorenzos of our sphere8                
#aijj   ,opening the solemn sources of  
my soul1   ,since ,i have pour'd1 like  
feign'd ,eridanus1#gb   ,my flowing     
numbers o'er the flaming skies1   ,nor  
see1 of fancy1 or of fact1 what more    
,invites the ,muse4--,here turn we1 and 

review   ,our past nocturnal landscape  
wide3--then say1   ,say1 then1 ,lorenzo6
 with what burst of heart1   ,the whole1
 at once1 revolving in his thought1     
,must man exclaim1 adoring1 and aghast8 
#aiji   ,oh1 what a root6 ,oh1 what a   
branch1 is here6   ,oh1 what a ,father6 
what a family6   ,worlds6 systems6 and  
creations6--and creations1   ,in one    
agglomerated cluster1 hung1   ,great    
,vine6#gc on ,thee1 on ,thee the cluster
 hangs2   ,the filial cluster6          
infinitely spread   ,in glowing globes1 
with various being fraught2   ,and      
drinks 7nectareous draught67 immortal   
life4   ,or1 shall ,i say 7for who can  
say enough87   ,a constellation of ten  
thousand gems1   7,and1 oh6 of what     
dimension6 of what weight67             
#aibj   ,set in one signet1 flames on   
the right hand   ,of ,majesty ,divine6  
,the blazing seal1   ,that deeply       
stamps1 on all created mind1            
,indelible1 ,his sovereign attributes1  
,omnipotence1 and love6 that1 passing   

bound3   ,and this1 surpassing that4    
,nor stop we here1   ,for want of power 
in ,god1 but thought in man4   ,even    
this acknowledged1 leaves us still in   
debt3   ,if greater aught1 that greater 
all is ,thine1   ,dread ,sire6--,accept 
this miniature of ,thee2                
#aicj   ,and pardon an attempt from     
mortal thought1   ,in which archangels  
might have fail'd1 unblamed4     ,how   
such ideas of th' ,almighty's power1    
,and such ideas of th' ,almighty's plan 
7,ideas not absurd71 distend the thought
   ,of feeble mortals6 ,nor of them     
alone6   ,the fulness of the ,deity     
breaks forth   ,in inconceivables to    
men1 and gods4   ,think1 then1 oh1      
think2 nor ever drop the thought2   ,how
 low must man descend1 when gods adore6 
#aidj   ,have ,i not1 then1 accomplish'd
 my proud boast8   ,did ,i not tell     
thee1 ,we would mount1 ,lorenzo6        
#aidb   ,and kindle our devotion at the 
stars8     ,and have ,i fail'd8 and did 
,i flatter thee8   ,and art all adamant8

 and dost confute   ,all urged1 with one
 irrefragable smile8   ,lorenzo6 mirth  
how miserable here6   ,swear by the     
stars1 by ,him who made them1 swear1    
,thy heart1 henceforth1 shall be as pure
 as they3   ,then thou1 like them1 shalt
 shine2 like them1 shalt rise   ,from   
low to lofty2 from obscure to bright2   
#aiea   ,by due gradation1 ,nature's    
sacred law4   ,the stars1 from          
whence8--,ask ,chaos--he can tell4      
,these bright temptations to idolatry1  
,from darkness1 and confusion1 took     
their birth2   ,sons of deformity6 from 
fluid dregs   ,tartarean1 first they    
rose to masses rude2   ,and then1 to    
spheres opaque2 then dimly shone2       
,then brighten'd2 then blazed out in    
perfect day4   ,nature delights in      
progress2 in advance                    
#aifj   ,from worse to better3 but1 when
 minds ascend1   ,progress1 in part1    
depends upon themselves4   ,heaven aids 
exertion2 greater makes the great2      
,the voluntary little lessens more4     

,oh1 be a man6 and thou shalt be a god6 
,and half self-made6--,ambition how     
divine6     ,o thou1 ambitious of       
disgrace alone6   ,still undevout8      
unkindled8--,though high-taught1        
,school'd by the skies1 and pupil of the
 stars2   ,rank coward to the           
fashionable world6                      
#aigj   ,art thou ashamed to bend thy   
knee to heaven8   ,cursed fume of pride1
 exhaled from deepest hell6   ,pride in 
religion is man's highest praise4       
,bent on destruction6 and in love with  
death6   ,not all these luminaries1     
quench'd at once1   ,were half so sad1  
as one benighted mind1                  
#aigf   ,which gropes for happiness1 and
 meets despair4   ,how1 like a widow in 
her weeds1 the ,night1   ,amid her      
glimmering tapers1 silent sits6   ,how  
sorrowful1 how desolate1 she weeps      
,perpetual dews1 and saddens nature's   
scene6   ,a scene more sad sin makes the
 darken'd soul1   ,all comfort kills1   
nor leaves one spark alive4             

#aihc     ,though blind of heart1 still 
open is thine eye3   ,why such          
magnificence in all thou seest8   ,of   
matter's grandeur1 know1 one end is     
this1   ,to tell the rational1 who gazes
 on it--   ,though that immensely great1
 still greater ,he1   ,whose breast1    
capacious1 can embrace1 and lodge1      
,unburden'd1 nature's universal scheme2 
#aiij   ,can grasp creation with a      
single thought2   ,creation grasp2 and  
not exclude its ,sire--   ,to tell him  
farther--,it behoves him much   ,to     
guard th' important1 yet depending1 fate
   ,of being1 brighter than a thousand  
suns3   ,one single ray of thought      
outshines them all4--   ,and if man     
hears obedient1 soon he'll soar         
,superior heights1 and on his purple    
wing1   ,his purple wing bedropp'd with 
eyes of gold1   ,rising1 where thought  
is now denied to rise1                  
#bjjj   ,look down triumphant on these  
dazzling spheres4     ,why then         
persist8--,no mortal ever lived   ,but1 

dying1 he pronounced 7when words are    
true7   ,the whole that charms thee1    
absolutely vain2   ,vain1 and far       
worse6--,think thou1 with dying men2    
,oh1 condescend to think as angels      
think6   ,oh1 tolerate a chance for     
happiness6   ,our nature such1 ill      
choice ensures ill fate2   ,and hell had
 been1 though there had been no ,god4   
,dost thou not know1 my new astronomer6 
#bjaj   ,earth1 turning from the sun1   
brings night to man8   ,man1 turning    
from his ,god1 brings endless night2    
,where thou canst read no morals1 find  
no friend1   ,amend no manners1 and     
expect no peace4   ,how deep the        
darkness6 and the groan1 how loud6      
,and far1 how far1 from lambent are the 
flames6--   ,such is ,lorenzo's         
purchase6 such his praise6   ,the proud1
 the politic1 ,lorenzo's praise6        
,though in his ear1 and levell'd at his 
heart1   ,i've half read o'er the volume
 of the skies4                          
#bjbj     ,for think not thou hast heard

 all this from me2   ,my song but echoes
 what great ,nature speaks4   ,what has 
she spoken8 ,thus the goddess spoke1    
,thus speaks for ever3--,place1 at      
nature's head1   ,a sovereign1 which    
o'er all things rolls his eye1          
,extends his wing1 promulgates his      
commands1   ,but1 above all1 diffuses   
endless good2   ,to whom1 for sure      
redress1 the wrong'd may fly2   ,the    
vile1 for mercy2 and the pain'd1 for    
peace2   ,by whom1 the various tenants  
of these spheres1                       
#bjcj   ,diversified in fortunes1 place1
 and powers1   ,raised in enjoyment1 as 
in worth they rise1   ,arrive at length 
7if worthy such approach7   ,at that    
bless'd fountain-head1 from which they  
stream2   ,where conflict past redoubles
 present joy2   ,and present joy looks  
forward on increase2   ,and that1 on    
more2 no period6 every step   ,a double 
boon6 a promise1 and a bliss4   ,how    
easy sits this scheme on human hearts6  
,it suits their make2 it soothes their  

vast desires2               #bjdj       
,passion is pleased2 and ,reason asks no
 more2   ',tis rational6 'tis           
great6--,but what is thine8   ,it       
darkens6 shocks6 excruciates6 and       
confounds6   ,leaves us quite naked1    
both of help1 and hope1                 
#bjdd   ,sinking from bad to worse2 few 
years1 the sport   ,of ,fortune2 then   
the morsel of ,despair4     ,say1 then1 
,lorenzo6 7for thou know'st it well7    
,what's vice8--,mere want of compass in 
our thought4   ,religion1 what8--,the   
proof of common sense4   ,how art thou  
hooted1 where the least prevails6   ,is 
it my fault1 if these truths call thee  
fool8   ,and thou shalt never be        
miscall'd by me4                        
#bjeb   ,can neither shame1 nor terror1 
stand thy friend2   ,and art thou still 
an insect in the mire8   ,how1 like thy 
guardian angel1 have ,i flown2          
,snatch'd thee from earth2 escorted thee
 through all   ,th' ethereal armies2    
walk'd thee1 like a god1   ,through     

splendours of first magnitude1 arranged 
,on either hand2 clouds thrown beneath  
thy feet2   ,close cruised on the bright
 paradise of ,god2                      
#bjfj   ,and almost introduced thee to  
the ,throne6   ,and art thou still      
carousing1 for delight1   ,rank poison2 
first1 fermenting to mere froth1   ,and 
then subsiding into final gall8   ,to   
beings of sublime1 immortal make1   ,how
 shocking is all joy1 whose end is sure6
   ,such joy1 more shocking still1 the  
more it charms6   ,and dost thou choose 
what ends ere well begun2   ,and        
infamous1 as short8 ,and dost thou      
choose   7,thou1 to whose palate glory  
is so sweet7                            
#bjgj   ,to wade into perdition1 through
 contempt1   ,not of poor bigots only1  
but thy own8   ,for ,i have peep'd into 
thy cover'd heart1   ,and seen it blush 
beneath a boastful brow2   ,for1 by     
strong guilt's most violent assault1    
,conscience is but disabled1 not        
destroy'd4     ,o thou most awful being1

 and most vain6   ,thy will1 how frail6 
how glorious is thy power6              
#bjgh   ,though dread eternity has sown 
her seeds   ,of bliss1 and woe1 in thy  
despotic breast2   ,though heaven1 and  
hell1 depend upon thy choice2   ,a      
butterfly comes cross1 and both are     
fled4   ,is this the picture of a       
rational8   ,this horrid image1 shall it
 be most just8   ,lorenzo6 no3 it       
cannot1--shall not1 be1   ,if there is  
force in reason2 or1 in sounds          
,chanted beneath the glimpses of the    
moon1   ,a magic1 at this planetary     
hour1   ,when slumber locks the general 
lip1 and dreams   ,through senseless    
mazes hunt souls uninspired4            
#bjij   ,attend--the sacred mysteries   
begin--   ,my solemn night-born         
adjuration hear2   ,hear1 and ,i'll     
raise thy spirit from the dust2   ,while
 the stars gaze on this enchantment new2
   ,enchantment1 not infernal1 but      
divine6     ,by silence1 ,death's       
peculiar attribute2   ,by darkness1     

,guilt's inevitable doom2   ,by         
,darkness1 and by ,silence1 sisters     
dread6   ,that draw the curtain round   
,night's ebon throne1   ,and raise      
ideas1 solemn as the scene6             
#bajj   ,by ,night1 and all of awful1   
,night presents   ,to thought1 or sense 
7of awful much1 to both1   ,the goddess 
brings76 ,by these her trembling fires1 
,like ,vesta's1 ever burning2 and1 like 
hers1   ,sacred to thoughts immaculate1 
and pure6   ,by these bright orators1   
that prove1 and praise1   ,and press    
thee to revere1 the ,deity2   ,perhaps1 
too1 aid thee1 when revered a while1    
,to reach his throne2 as stages of the  
soul1   ,through which1 at different    
periods1 she shall pass1                
#baaj   ,refining gradual1 for her final
 height1   ,and purging off some dross  
at every sphere6                        
#baab   ,by this dark pall thrown o'er  
the silent world6   ,by the world's     
kings1 and kingdoms1 most renown'd1     
,from short ambition's zenith set for   

ever2   ,sad presage to vain boasters1  
now in bloom6   ,by the long list of    
swift mortality1   ,from ,adam downward 
to this evening knell1   ,which midnight
 waves in ,fancy's startled eye2   ,and 
shocks her with an hundred centuries1   
#babj   ,round ,death's black banner    
throng'd1 in human thought6   ,by       
thousands1 now1 resigning their last    
breath1   ,and calling thee--wert thou  
so wise to hear6   ,by tombs o'er tombs 
arising2 human earth   ,ejected1 to make
 room for--human earth2   ,the monarch's
 terror6 and the sexton's trade6   ,by  
pompous obsequies that shun the day1    
,the torch funereal1 and the nodding    
plume1   ,which makes poor man's        
humiliation proud2   ,boast of our ruin6
 triumph of our dust6                   
#bacj   ,by the damp vault that weeps   
o'er royal bones2   ,and the pale lamp  
that shows the ghastly dead1   ,more    
ghastly1 through the thick incumbent    
gloom6   ,by visits 7if there are7 from 
darker scenes1   ,the gliding spectre6  

and the groaning grave6   ,by groans1   
and graves1 and miseries that groan     
,for the grave's shelter6 ,by desponding
 men1   ,senseless to pains of death1   
from pangs of guilt6   ,by guilt's last 
audit6 ,by yon moon in blood1   ,the    
rocking firmament1 the falling stars1   
#badj   ,and thunder's last discharge1  
great nature's knell6   ,by second      
chaos2 and eternal night--   ,be        
wise--nor let ,philander blame my charm2
   ,but own not ill discharged my double
 debt1   ,love to the living2 duty to   
the dead4     ,for know ,i'm but        
executor2 he left                       
#badf   ,this moral legacy2 ,i make it  
o'er   ,by his command2 ,philander hear 
in me2   ,and ,heaven in both4--,if deaf
 to these1 oh6 hear   ,florello's tender
 voice2 his weal depends   ,on thy      
resolve2 it trembles at thy choice2     
,for his sake--love thyself4 ,example   
strikes   ,all human hearts2 a bad      
example more2                           
#baec   ,more still a father's2 that    

ensures his ruin4   ,as parent of his   
being1 would'st thou prove   ,th'       
unnatural parent of his miseries1   ,and
 make him curse the being which thou    
gavest8   ,is this the blessing of so   
fond a father8   ,if careless of        
,lorenzo6 spare1 oh6 spare   ,florello's
 father1 and ,philander's friend6       
#bafj   ,florello's father ruin'd1 ruins
 him2   ,and from ,philander's friend   
the world expects   ,a conduct1 no      
dishonour to the dead4   ,let passion   
do1 what nobler motive should2   ,let   
love1 and emulation1 rise in aid   ,to  
reason2 and persuade thee to be--blest4 
,this seems not a request to be denied2 
,yet 7such th' infatuation of mankind67 
',tis the most hopeless1 man can make to
 man4   ,shall ,i then rise1 in         
argument1 and warmth8                   
#bagj   ,and urge ,philander's          
posthumous advice1   ,from topics yet   
unbroach'd8----   ,but1 oh6 ,i faint6 my
 spirits fail6--,nor strange6   ,so long
 on wing1 and in no middle clime6   ,to 

which my great ,creator's glory call'd3 
,and calls--but1 now1 in vain4 ,sleep's 
dewy wand   ,has stroked my drooping    
lips1 and promises   ,my long arrear of 
rest2 the downy god   7,wont to return  
with our returning peace7   ,will pay1  
ere long1 and bless me with repose4     
#bahj   ,haste1 haste1 sweet stranger6  
from the peasant's cot1   ,the shipboy's
 hammock1 or the soldier's straw1       
,whence sorrow never chased thee2 with  
thee bring1   ,not hideous visions1 as  
of late2 but draughts   ,delicious of   
well-tasted1 cordial1 rest2   ,man's    
rich restorative2 his balmy bath1       
,that supples1 lubricates1 and keeps in 
play   ,the various movements of this   
nice machine1   ,which asks such        
frequent periods of repair4   ,when     
tired with vain rotations of the day1   
#baij   ,sleep winds us up for the      
succeeding dawn2   ,fresh we spin on1   
till sickness clogs our wheels1   ,or   
death quite breaks the spring1 and      
motion ends4   ,when will it end with   

me8                       ----,thou only
 know'st1   ,thou1 whose broad eye the  
future1 and the past1   ,joins to the   
present2 making one of three   ,to moral
 thought6 ,thou know'st1 and ,thou      
alone1   ,all-knowing6--all             
unknown6--and yet well known6   ,near1  
though remote6 and1 though unfathom'd1  
felt6                #bbjj   ,and1      
though invisible1 for ever seen6   ,and 
seen in all6 the great and the minute3  
,each globe above1 with its gigantic    
race1   ,each flower1 each leaf1 with   
its small people swarm'd1   7,those puny
 vouchers of ,omnipotence67   ,to the   
first thought1 that asks1 ',from        
whence8' declare   ,their common source4
 ,thou ,fountain1 running o'er   ,in    
rivers of communicated joy6   ,who      
gavest us speech for far1 far humbler   
themes6   ,say1 by what name shall ,i   
presume to call                         
#bbaj   ,him ,i see burning in these    
countless suns1   ,as ,moses1 in the    
bush8 ,illustrious ,mind6   ,the whole  

creation1 less1 far less1 to ,thee1     
,than that to the creation's ample      
round4                          #bbad   
,how shall ,i name ,thee8--,how my      
labouring soul   ,heaves underneath the 
thought1 too big for birth6     ,great  
,system of perfections6 ,mighty ,cause  
,of causes mighty6 ,cause uncaused6 sole
 ,root   ,of nature1 that luxuriant     
growth of ,god6   ,first ,father of     
effects6 that progeny   ,of endless     
series2 where the golden chain's   ,last
 link admits a period1 who can tell8    
#bbbb   ,father of all that is or heard1
 or hears6   ,father of all that is or  
seen1 or sees6   ,father of all that is1
 or shall arise6   ,father of this      
immeasurable mass   ,of matter          
multiform2 or dense1 or rare2   ,opaque1
 or lucid2 rapid1 or at rest2   ,minute1
 or passing bound6 in each extreme   ,of
 like amaze1 and mystery1 to man4       
#bbcj   ,father of these bright millions
 of the night6   ,of which the least    
full godhead had proclaim'd1   ,and     

thrown the gazer on his knee--or1 say1  
,is appellation higher still1 ,thy      
choice8   ,father of matter's temporary 
lords6   ,father of spirits6 nobler     
offspring6 sparks   ,of high paternal   
glory2 rich endow'd   ,with various     
measures1 and with various modes   ,of  
instinct1 reason1 intuition2 beams      
,more pale1 or bright from day divine1  
to break                    #bbdj   ,the
 dark of matter organized 7the ware     
,of all created spirit72 beams1 that    
rise   ,each over other in superior     
light1   ,till the last ripens into     
lustre strong1   ,of next approach to   
,godhead4 ,father fond   7,far fonder   
than e'er bore that name on earth7   ,of
 intellectual beings6 beings bless'd    
,with powers to please ,thee2 not of    
passive ply                    #bbdh    
,to laws they know not2 beings lodged in
 seats   ,of well-adapted joys1 in      
different domes   ,of this imperial     
palace for thy sons2   ,of this proud1  
populous1 well policied1   ,though      

boundless habitation1 plann'd by ,thee3 
,whose several clans their several      
climates suit2   ,and transposition1    
doubtless1 would destroy4   ,or1 oh6    
indulge1 immortal ,king1 indulge   ,a   
title1 less august indeed1 but more     
,endearing2 ah6 how sweet in human ears6
   ,sweet in our ears1 and triumph in   
our hearts6   ,father of immortality to 
man6                                    
#bbfj   ,a theme that lately#gd set my  
soul on fire4--   ,and ,thou the next6  
yet equal6 ,thou1 by whom   ,that       
blessing was convey'd2 far more6 was    
bought2   ,ineffable the price6 by whom 
all worlds   ,were made2 and one        
redeem'd6 illustrious ,light   ,from    
,light illustrious6 ,thou1 whose regal  
power1   ,finite in time1 but infinite  
in space1   ,on more than adamantine    
basis fix'd1   ,o'er more1 far more1    
than diadems1 and thrones1   ,inviolably
 reigns2 the dread of gods6             
#bbgj   ,and oh6 the friend of man6     
beneath whose foot1   ,and by the       

mandate of whose awful nod1   ,all      
regions1 revolutions1 fortunes1 fates1  
,of high1 of low1 of mind1 and matter1  
roll   ,through the short channels of   
expiring time1   ,or shoreless ocean of 
eternity1   ,calm1 or tempestuous 7as   
thy ,spirit breathes71   ,in absolute   
subjection6--,and1 ,o ,thou   ,the      
glorious ,third6 distinct1 not separate6
   ,beaming from both6 with both        
incorporate2                            
#bbhj   ,and 7strange to tell67         
incorporate with dust6                  
#bbha   ,by condescension1 as ,thy      
glory1 great1   ,enshrined in man6 ,of  
human hearts1 if pure1   ,divine        
inhabitant6 ,the tie divine   ,of heaven
 with distant earth6 by whom1 ,i trust  
7,if not inspired71 uncensured this     
address   ,to ,thee1 to ,them--to       
whom8--,mysterious ,power6              
,reveal'd--yet unreveal'd6 darkness in  
light2   ,number in unity6 our joy6 our 
dread6   ,the triple bolt that lays all 
wrong in ruin6                          

#bbij   ,that animates all right1 the   
triple sun6   ,sun of the soul6 her     
never-setting sun6   ,triune1           
unutterable1 unconceived1   ,absconding1
 yet demonstrable1 ,great ,god6         
,greater than greatest6 better than the 
best6   ,kinder than kindest6 with soft 
pity's eye1   ,or 7stronger still to    
speak it7 with ,thine own1   ,from ,thy 
bright home1 from that high firmament1  
,where ,thou1 from all eternity1 hast   
dwelt2   ,beyond archangels' unassisted 
ken2                                    
#bcjj   ,from far above what mortals    
highest call2   ,from elevation's       
pinnacle2 look down1   ,through--what8  
,confounding interval6 through all      
,and more than labouring ,fancy can     
conceive2   ,through radiant ranks of   
essences unknown2   ,through hierarchies
 from hierarchies detach'd   ,round     
various banners of ,omnipotence1   ,with
 endless change of rapturous duties     
fired2   ,through wondrous being's      
interposing swarms1   ,all clustering at

 the call1 to dwell in ,thee2           
#bcaj   ,through this wide waste of     
worlds6 this vista vast1   ,all sanded  
o'er with suns2 suns turn'd to night    
,before thy feeblest beam--,look        
down--down--down1   ,on a poor breathing
 particle in dust1   ,or1 lower1 an     
immortal in his crimes4                 
#bcae   ,his crimes forgive6 forgive his
 virtues1 too6   ,those smaller faults1 
half converts to the right4   ,nor let  
me close these eyes1 which never more   
,may see the sun 7though night's        
descending scale   ,now weighs up morn71
 unpitied1 and unblest6   ,in ,thy      
displeasure dwells eternal pain2        
,pain1 our aversion2 pain1 which strikes
 me now2   ,and1 since all pain is      
terrible to man1                        
#bcbc   ,though transient1 terrible2 at 
,thy good hour1   ,gently1 ah1 gently1  
lay me in my bed1   ,my clay-cold bed6  
by nature1 now1 so near2   ,by nature1  
near2 still nearer by disease6   ,till  
then1 be this an emblem of my grave3    

,let it out-preach the preacher2 every  
night   ,let it out-cry the boy at      
,philip's ear2#ge                       
#bccj   ,that tongue of death6 that     
herald of the tomb6   ,and when 7the    
shelter of ,thy wing implored7   ,my    
senses1 soothed1 shall sink in soft     
repose1   ,oh1 sink this truth still    
deeper in my soul1   ,suggested by my   
pillow1 sign'd by fate1   ,first1 in    
,fate's volume1 at the page of man--    
,man's sickly soul1 though turn'd and   
toss'd for ever1   ,from side to side1  
can rest on nought but ,thee3   ,here1  
in full trust1 hereafter1 in full joy2  
,on ,thee1 the promised1 sure1 eternal  
down                         #bcdj   ,of
 spirits1 toil'd in travel through this 
vale4   ,nor of that pillow shall my    
soul despond2   ,for--,love almighty6   
,love almighty6 7sing1   ,exult1        
creation67 ,love almighty1 reigns6      
,that death of ,death6 that cordial of  
despair6   ,and loud ,eternity's        
triumphant song6     ,of whom1 no       

more3--,for1 ,o thou ,patron-,god6      
,thou ,god and mortal6 thence more ,god 
to man6                      #bcdh      
,man's theme eternal6 man's eternal     
theme6   ,thou canst not 'scape         
uninjured from our praise4   ,uninjured 
from our praise can ,he escape1   ,who1 
disembosom'd from the ,father1 bows     
,the heaven of heavens1 to kiss the     
distant earth6   ,breathes out in       
agonies a sinless soul6   ,against the  
cross1 ,death's iron sceptre breaks6    
,from famish'd ,ruin plucks her human   
prey6   ,throws wide the gates celestial
 to his foes6   ,their gratitude1 for   
such a boundless debt1   ,deputes their 
suffering brothers to receive6   ,and1  
if deep human guilt in payment fails2   
#bcfj   ,as deeper guilt prohibits our  
despair6   ,enjoins it1 as our duty1 to 
rejoice6   ,and 7to close all7          
omnipotently kind1   ,takes his delights
 among the sons of men4#gf     ,what    
words are these--and did they come from 
heaven8   ,and were they spoke to man8  

to guilty man8   ,what are all mysteries
 to love like this8   ,the songs of     
angels1 all the melodies   ,of choral   
gods1 are wafted in the sound2   ,heal  
and exhilarate the broken heart2        
#bcgj   ,though plunged1 before1 in     
horrors dark as night4   ,rich          
prelibation of consummate joy6   ,nor   
wait we dissolution to be blest4        
,this final effort of the moral ,muse1  
,how justly titled6#gg ,nor for me      
alone3   ,for all that read2 what spirit
 of support1   ,what heights of         
,consolation1 crown my song6     ,then1 
farewell ,night6 of darkness1 now1 no   
more3   ,joy breaks1 shines1 triumphs2  
'tis eternal day4   ,shall that which   
rises out of nought complain            
#bchj   ,of a few evils1 paid with      
endless joys8                           
#bcha   ,my soul6 henceforth1 in        
sweetest union join   ,the two supports 
of human happiness1   ,which some1      
erroneous1 think can never meet2   ,true
 taste of life1 and constant thought of 

death6   ,the thought of death1 sole    
victor of its dread6   ,hope1 be thy    
joy2 and probity thy skill2   ,thy      
patron ,he1 whose diadem has dropp'd    
,yon gems of heaven2 eternity1 thy      
prize3   ,and leave the racers of the   
world their own1                        
#bcij   ,their feather1 and their froth1
 for endless toils3   ,they part with   
all for that which is not bread2   ,they
 mortify1 they starve1 on wealth1 fame1 
power2   ,and laugh to scorn the fools  
that aim at more4   ,how must a spirit1 
late escaped from earth1--   ,suppose   
,philander's1 ,lucia's1 or              
,narcissa's1--   ,the truth of things   
new-blazing in its eye1   ,look back1   
astonish'd1 on the ways of men1   ,whose
 lives' whole drift is to forget their  
graves6   ,and when our present         
privilege is past1                      
#bdjj   ,to scourge us with due sense of
 its abuse1   ,the same astonishment    
will seize us all4   ,what then must    
pain us1 would preserve us now4         

,lorenzo6 'tis not yet too late2        
,lorenzo6   ,seize ,wisdom1 ere 'tis    
torment to be wise2   ,that is1 seize   
,wisdom1 ere she seizes thee4   ,for    
what1 my small philosopher6 is hell8    
',tis nothing but full knowledge of the 
truth1   ,when ,truth1 resisted long1 is
 sworn our foe2   ,and calls ,eternity  
to do her right4                        
#bdaj     ,thus1 darkness aiding        
intellectual light1   ,and sacred       
silence whispering truths divine1   ,and
 truths divine converting pain to peace1
   ,my song the midnight raven has      
outwing'd1   ,and shot1 ambitious of    
unbounded scenes1                       
#bdae   ,beyond the flaming limits of   
the world1   ,her gloomy flight4 ,but   
what avails the flight   ,of fancy1 when
 our hearts remain below8   ,virtue     
abounds in flatterers1 and foes2   ',tis
 pride1 to praise her2 penance1 to      
perform4   ,to more than words1 to more 
than worth of tongue1   ,lorenzo6 rise1 
at this auspicious hour2   ,an hour1    

when ,heaven's most intimate with man2  
,when1 like a fallen star1 the ray      
divine   ,glides swift into the bosom of
 the just2                              
#bdbe   ,and just are all1 determined to
 reclaim2   ,which sets that title high 
within thy reach4   ,awake1 then2 thy   
,philander calls3 awake6   ,thou1 who   
shalt wake1 when the creation sleeps2   
,when1 like a taper1 all these suns     
expire2   ,when ,time1 like him of      
,gaza#gh in his wrath1   ,plucking the  
pillars that support the world1   ,in   
,nature's ample ruins lies entomb'd2    
,and ,midnight1 universal ,midnight6    
reigns4                         #bdcd   
#a';,ercles' vein3' a rousing1 somewhat 
bombastic manner of public    speaking  
or writing4--ee  #b',thrice3' alluding  
to the death of his wife1 his daughter  
,mrs ,temple1    and ,mr ,temple4--,see 
,life4  #c',philander3' ,mr ,temple1 his
 son-in-law4  #d',lorenzo3' not ,young's
 son1 but probably the ,earl of         
,wharton4  #e',veils3' a gain1          

profit4--ee  #f',maeonides3' ,homer4    
#g';,his1 who made3' ,pope4             
#h';,cytherea3' ,venus1 from ,cythera1  
one of the ,ionian ,islands1 where she  
was worshipped4  #i';,as some tall      
tower3' ,goldsmith has borrowed this    
fine image in his    description of the 
good pastor's death1 in the ',deserted  
,village4'  #aj',p----3' ,portland4     
#aa';,didst lately borrow3' at the ,duke
 of ,norfolk's masquerade4              
#ab',narcissa3' ,mrs ,temple4           
#ac',nearer to the sun3' ,mrs ,temple   
died at ,lyons1 on her way to ,nice1    
accompanied by her father4  #ad,lines   
#bgj-bhi paraphrase ,psalms #bd4 ,lines 
#bgj-cjj provided an ',easter    ,ode'  
popular in early #aith-,century         
,american musical settings4-ee          
#ae',manumit3' to free from slavery or  
bondage2 emancipate4  #af',paean3'      
healing song2 hymn4--ee                 
#ag';,athenian3' ,socrates4  #ah';,fable
 fledged3' ,icarus4  #ai';,glebe3' ,the 
soil or earth2 land4 7,archaic47--ee    

#bj',narcissa3' ,elizabeth ,lee1 ,dr4   
,young's step-daughter4--ee             
#ba',lorenzo' was modelled on ,philip   
,wharton1 #ast ,duke of ,wharton 7b4 #ba
    ,december #afih2 d4 ,poblet1 ,spain1
 #ca ,may #agca1 aged #cb71 powerful    
,jacobite politician1 notorious         
libertine and rake1 profligate1 and     
alcoholic4--ee  #bb';,charles3' ,charles
 ,v4  #bc',quotidian3' everyday2        
commonplace4--ee  #bd',oracle of gems3' 
the ,urim and ,thummim4  #be';,cockade3'
 an ornament1 such as a rosette or knot 
of ribbon1 usually    worn on the hat as
 a badge4--ee  #bf',votary3' person     
bound by vows to a life of religious    
worship or    service4--ee  #bg',ne'er  
to meet1 or ne'er to part3' hence       
,burns's famous line in his    verses to
 ,clarinda3--   ',never met1 or never   
parted1   ,we had ne'er been            
broken-hearted4'  #bh',she3' his wife1  
it is supposed4  #bi',most ,christian3' 
,louis ,,xiv41 ,king of ,france4        
#cj',ours is the cloth1' c43 how like   

the lines of ,coleridge6--   ',o ,lady1 
we receive but what we give1' c4        
#ca',towering flame1' c43 these lines   
are reproduced in the close of          
,campbell's ',pleasures of ,hope4'      
#cb';,already3' ,night ,sixth4          
#cc';,bellerophon3' who carried letters 
from ,proctus to ,jobates1 ,king of     
,lycia1 which contained an order in     
cipher for his execution after nine     
days4 ,he contrived1 however1 to escape4
  #cd',to ,pyrrhus3' by a philosopher   
who told him he would have been as      
happy had he stayed at home1 instead of 
pursuing a career of conquest4          
#ce',proud ,eastern3' ,nebuchadnezzar4  
#cf',thee3' ,lorenzo4  #cg',lately      
proved3' in the ,sixth ,night4          
#ch',presumption's sacrilegious sons3'  
,korah1 c4  #ci',lucia3' probably his   
wife4  #dj',uriel3' see ,milton4        
#da',title3' ,the ,infidel ,reclaimed4  
#db';,bible3' the poetical parts of it4 
#dc';,albion's cost3' ,admiral ,balchen1
 c4  #dd',like a flag floating1' c43    

hence ,wilson's line in his ',address to
 a    ,wild-,deer3'--   ',like a flag   
burning bright when the vessel is gone4'
  #de';,fucus3' an old type of          
makeup4--ee  #df',snuff3' a candle-end  
or wick4--ee  #dg',murray3' ,lord       
,mansfield4  #dh';,fabled boy3'         
,narcissus4  #di',yorke3' ,lord         
,chancellor ,hardwick4  #ej';,above3' in
 a former ,night4  #ea',prussia3' under 
,frederick the ,great4  #eb',one        
departed world3' the world before the   
flood4  #ec';,being lost3' referring to 
the ,first ,night4  #ed';,her3' ,lucia4 
#ee';,favonian3' of or relating to the  
west wind4 ,mild2 benign4--ee           
#ef',prometheus3' ,night ,eighth4       
#eg';,intestine3' adj41 internal2       
civil4--ee  #eh';,elance3' to throw as a
 lance2 to hurl2 to dart4--ee           
#ei',lately fought3' ,night ,eighth4    
#fj',orrery3' a mechanical model of the 
solar system4--ee  #fa';,grots3'        
grottos4--ee  #fb',tenebrious3' ,dark   
and gloomy2 ominous4--ee  #fc';,he who  

drank3' ,socrates4  #fd';,he of         
,tusculum3' ,cicero4  #fe';,him of      
,corduba3' ,seneca4  #ff';,defecate3' to
 remove 7impurities1 as in a chemical   
solution72    clarify4--ee              
#fg';,ajalon's3' ,sun1 stand thou still 
on ,gibeon2 and thou1 ,moon1 in the     
valley of ,ajalon 7,josh4 #aj3ab74--;ee 
#fh';,fane3' place dedicated to some    
deity1 a sanctuary1 fr4 fari to         
speak4--ed4  #fi';,jakes3' latrine or   
privy4--ee  #gj';,heliopolis3' meaning  
the ,city of the ,sun4  #ga';,him of    
,uz3' referring to ,job's language1 ',oh
 that ,i knew where ,i    might find    
him6' c4  #gb';,eridanus1' or ,phaeton3 
famous for his fall from the chariot of 
the    sun4  #gc';,great ,vine3' ,john  
xv4 #a4  #gd',lately3' ,nights ,sixth   
and ,seventh4  #ge',philip's ear3'      
',remember1 ,philip1 thou art mortal4'  
#gf,prov4 viii4 #ca4  #gg',titled3' ,the
 ,consolation4  #gh';,him of ,gaza3'    
,samson4                                
,,the ,,end4                            

,,ballantyne1 ,,printer1 ,,edinburgh4   
,,library ,,edition ,,of ,,the ,,british
 ,,poets4                               
,,issue ,,for ,,the ,,second ,,year4    
,the ,publisher begs to announce that   
the ,issue for the ,second ,year        
will consist of the ,poetical ,works of 
,,butler1 #b vols42 ,,cowper1 #c vols42 
,,blair1 ,,bruce1 ,,logan1              
,,beattie1 and ,,falconer1 #a vol4      
,these will immediately be followed by  
the publication of the                  
,poetical ,works of                     
,,dryden1 ,,pope1 ,,burns1 c4 c4  ,the  
,publisher has much gratification in    
referring to the reception which this   
,series of the ,british ,poets has met  
with1 and he begs to assure the         
,subscribers that every exertion will be
 made to insure this ,edition being     
distinguished by the specific features  
proposed1 namely1 accuracy in the text1 
elegance of appearance1 and extreme     
cheapness4 ,the arrangements which now  
exist for collating the text1 and       

securing accuracy in this important     
feature1 are such as warrant the        
assertion that this ,edition will be    
found to stand a favourable comparison  
with any hitherto published1 or any that
 may hereafter be issued4  ,the         
,publisher and ,editor have peculiar    
pleasure in acknowledging the ready and 
hearty approval of their efforts by the 
press4 ,it is seldom that any           
undertaking has been so warmly received1
 or the manner in which it has been     
executed so generally approved4 ,this   
appreciation of their purpose will      
stimulate them to still greater         
exertions in the prosecution of their   
design--to produce this portion of the  
standard literature of our country in a 
style more befitting the merits of the  
authors than any hitherto attempted1 and
 to secure for this series that it shall
 be worthy of recognition as            
,,the ,,library ,,edition ,,of ,,the    
,,british ,,poets4  ,edinburgh1         
,november #ahec4                        

,,library ,,edition ,,of ,,the ,,british
 ,,poets1                ,in ,demy #hvo1
 ,pica ,type1 ,extra ,cloth ,boards4    
,,edited ,,by ,,rev4 ,g4 ,,gilfillan4   
,now ready1 ,vols4 #a  #b4 ,milton's    
,poetical ,works4                       
#c4 ,thomson's ,poetical ,works4        
#d4 ,herbert's ,poetical ,works4        
#e4 ,young's ,night ,thoughts4   ,and on
 #ast ,feb4 #ahed1 the ,poetical ,works 
of ,goldsmith1 ,collins1 and ,t4        
,warton4  ,,forming ,,the ,,first       
,,yearly ,,issue ,,to ,,subscribers ,,of
 ,,six ,,volumes ,,for ,,one ,,guinea4  
,,issue ,,for ,,the ,,second ,,year--   
,,the ,,poetical ,,works ,,of           
,,butler--,,cowper--,,blair--,,bruce--,,
logan--,,beattie1 and ,,falconer4       
,prospectuses containing full details of
 the ,scheme may be obtained from most  
,booksellers1 or from the ,publisher1 on
 application4 ,non-,subscribers can     
obtain the ,volumes separately at #ds4  
#f;d4 each4   ,subscribers' ,names      
received by all ,booksellers for the    

,yearly ,issue of                       
,six ,vols4 for ,l#a1 #as4   ,the       
,publisher has pleasure in submitting   
the following ,extracts from recent     
,notices which have appeared of the     
,vols4 already issued3--                
,literary ,gazette4  ,coleridge said1   
that for a man fully to appreciate      
,george ,herbert1 he must be an         
affectionate and dutiful son of the     
,church1 and from habit1 conviction1 and
 a constitutional predisposition to     
ceremoniousness in piety as in manners1 
find her forms and ordinances aids of   
religion1 not sources of formality4 ,mr 
,gilfillan has none of the              
qualifications here described1 yet never
 was the character of ,herbert more     
highly appreciated1 nor his poetry more 
unreservedly admired1 than by this      
,presbyterian editor4 ,the editorial    
work is done with true ,christian       
liberality1 and with the sympathy of a  
man of genius4 ,the present volume forms
 one of the new series of the ,english  

,poetical ,classics1 published by ,mr   
,nichol of ,edinburgh4 ,in typography   
and appearance they are very superior1  
and they are issued at a price of       
unusual cheapness4 ,the series will form
 a beautiful and valuable library       
edition of the ,english ,classic ,poets4
                              ,scottish 
,review4  ,in this age of puffs and     
puffing1 it is really pleasing to find  
pretensions at first somewhat startling1
 though modestly enough proclaimed1 so  
well sustained4 ,six such volumes for   
twenty-one shillings6 ,we are not       
surprised that they are said to be      
offered at about one-third of the usual 
selling price4 ,independently altogether
 of the original matter furnished by ,mr
 ,gilfillan1 the poetical works of ,john
 ,milton1 produced in such a style1 are 
certainly worthy of a place in the best 
libraries4 ,we know of no issue from the
 press which1 as to paper1 type1 and    
general getting up1 commends itself to  
public favour at so small a charge4     

,eclectic ,review4  ,the proposal issued
 by ,mr ,nichol is remarkable even in   
this age of cheap literature1 and will  
go far to supply what has been long     
needed1--an accurate1 elegant1 and cheap
 edition of our ,poets4 ,such a guinea's
 worth was never issued before1 and we  
are much mistaken if the series does not
 obtain a large circulation4 ,the       
volumes are issued in handsome style1   
and every care will be taken to secure  
the accuracy of the editions4 ,mr       
,gilfillan's temperament involves some  
of the choicest elements of poetic      
impressions1 while his critical canons  
are for the most part sound and         
trustworthy4                            
,perthshire ,courier4  ,it is almost    
unnecessary for us to say more than what
 is now universally admitted1 that this 
is the best and cheapest edition of the 
,british ,poets ever offered to the     
public4 ,setting aside their            
acknowledged and standard elegance1 they
 are the cheapest books we have ever    

seen1 and their being indispensable to  
the literary man1 as well as the        
educated gentleman or well-read artisan1
 makes them doubly so4                  
,tait's ,magazine4  ,these volumes form 
part of a new series of the ,british    
,poets1 published by ,mr ,nichol1 in the
 form of substantial and elegant library
 volumes1 at a price less than one third
 of that which the public have been     
accustomed to pay for tomes of such     
goodly parts and quality4 ,paper1 print1
 and binding1 are all excellent1 the    
type large and clear4444 ,the above     
extracts1 more than anything we could   
say1 will commend these volumes1 and the
 series of which they form a part1 to   
the good opinion of the reader4 ,as a   
cheap and excellent library edition of  
the ,british ,poets1 they will prove    
acceptable to a very numerous class2 and
 under the management of their present  
able editor1 we cannot harbour a doubt  
of their success with the public4       
,the ,monitor4  ,when it was proposed   

that1 at so low a price as a            
subscription of a guinea in the year1   
six volumes1 in a superior style of     
execution1 would be issued1 we could not
 but admire the enterprise of the       
publisher1 and heartily wish all success
 to the undertaking4  ,these volumes1   
the first in the series1 fully justified
 our fondest anticipations1 and give    
large promise that this admirable       
publication will secure1 as it certainly
 deserves1 extensive patronage4 ,they   
are issued in a very attractive         
style--in a large bold type1 paper of   
the best quality1 and in neat and       
substantial binding4 ,the editorial part
 of the undertaking is carefully and    
ably executed4 ,indeed1 we know no      
living person who is better qualified to
 edit a uniform edition of the ,british 
,poets than the ,rev4 ,george           
,gilfillan4 ,we tender to both the      
publisher and editor of this beautiful  
superior edition of the ,british ,poets 
our grateful acknowledgments for        

commencing so important and valuable an 
undertaking4                            
,clydesdale ,journal4  ,this series has 
now reached the fourth volume1 and is   
fully sustaining the very favourable    
opinion expressed by the press in all   
parts of the country4 ,never was a work 
issued combining elegance and cheapness 
in so remarkable a degree4              
,bell's ,weekly ,messenger4  ,this      
volume is an additional proof of the    
excellency of the selection1 the ability
 of the gifted editor1 and the elegance 
of the publication4                     
,cumberland ,pacquet4  ,this is the     
fourth volume of the library edition of 
the ,british ,poets1 projected by ,mr   
,nichol1 the enterprising ,edinburgh    
publisher1 one or two of the former     
volumes of which we have already had the
 pleasure of noticing4 ,the design1 and 
the style in which it was proposed to   
carry it out1 as indicated by the first 
volume of the series1 elicited the      
expression of our special admiration    

several months ago1 and we have pleasure
 in stating that the volume now before  
us is in every respect a worthy         
successor to those which have preceded  
it4 ,we may observe that the critical   
dissertation prefixed1 from the pen of  
,mr ,gilfillan1 is worth the price of   
the entire volume4                      
,aberdeen ,journal4  444 ,a few words   
respecting the series of publications of
 which this volume forms a part4 ,they  
are issued1 as our readers are aware1   
under the very efficient superintendence
 of ,george ,gilfillan2 and we cannot   
speak of them but in terms of the       
warmest approval2 for1 in point of form 
and elegance1 and correctness of        
typography1 they are on a level with the
 high-priced editions2 and in point of  
price1 they are on a level with the most
 ordinary publications of popular works 
that have been got up for the popular   
market4 ,the enterprise is indeed a     
noble one1 and we wish it all manner of 
success4                                

,dumfriesshire and ,galloway ,herald4   
,this is the fourth volume of the new   
,edinburgh edition of the ,poets--an    
edition1 we must say1 alike honourable  
to the publisher and editor4 ,mr        
,nichol's undertaking is a noble one4   
,we wish him all success in it4         
,glasgow ,citizen4  ,the edition before 
us1 with its ample page and masculine   
type--very suitable for feeble          
eyes--forms part of ,nichol's fine and  
wonderfully cheap issue of the ,british 
,poets1 under the able editorship of ,mr
 ,gilfillan4 ,four volumes are now out1 
comprising the works of ,milton1        
,thomson1 and ,herbert4                 
,newcastle ,chronicle4  ,the paper and  
printing of this volume1 as of the      
others1 are1 however1 beyond all praise1
 when compared with other people's      
editions4                  ,montrose1   
,arbroath1 and ,brechin ,review4  ,the  
editorial part is admirably performed by
 ,mr ,gilfillan2 the getting up quite   
the ne plus ultra of elegance and       

correctness2 and the price 7six volumes 
for a guinea7 is perhaps the very       
greatest marvel of this marvellous age  
of cheap publications4                  
,commonwealth4  ,regarded as specimens  
of typography--as books1 in short1 in   
the mere sense of what is mechanical1   
they are among the most perfect we have 
seen4 ,this new edition of the ,british 
,poets is an undertaking which is worthy
 of commendation and encouragement1 even
 apart from the considerations to which 
we have alluded4                        
,the ,national ,miscellany4  ,it is a   
bold speculation on the part of a       
publisher to offer six handsome and well
 printed volumes for a guinea4444 ,the  
printing1 binding1 and general          
appearance is far superior to what we   
could have at all expected for the      
price2 and the series being issued under
 the superintendence of a careful       
editor1 entirely fulfils the import of  
the title1 a ,library ,edition4 ,the    
works which have already appeared1 are  

those of ,milton1 ,herbert1 and         
,thomson4                               
,transcriber's ,notes to this           
,electronic ,edition   --,several       
palpable typos in the original were     
silently corrected1 after   consulting  
other printed editions4  --,in the      
,distributed ,proofreaders community1 it
 is customary to flag any   aspect of   
the text that seems wrong1 for the final
 editor to   double-check4 ,it's also   
customary for later proofreaders to     
provide   their own analysis4 ,on this  
project1 those proofers' notes--as      
explanations of why the printed text was
 correct--so often proved   enlightening
 as to its meaning1 that the            
postprocessor retained them as          
footnotes4 ,they are distinguished from 
the original editor's notes by a        
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