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UNITY.

BOYSE.

IN different individuals we find
An evident disparity of mind;

Hence ductile thought a thousand changes gains,
And actions vary as the will ordains;
But should two beings equally supreme,
Divided power and parted empire claim;
How soon would universal order cease!
How soon would discord harmony displace!
Eternal schemes maintain eternal fight,
Nor yield, supported by eternal might;
Where each would uncontroll'd his aim pursue,
The links dissever, or the chain renew!
Matter from motion cross impressions take,
As served each power his rival's power to break,
While neutral Chaos, from his deep recess,
Would view the never-ending strife increase,
And bless the contest that secured his peace!
While new creations would opposing rise,
And elemental war deform the skies;
Around wild uproar and confusion hurl'd,
Eclipse the heavens, and waste the ruin'd world.

SPIRITUALITY.

BOYSE.

THAT God's an immaterial essence pure,
Whom figure can't describe, nor parts immure;
Incapable of passions, impulse, fear,

In good pre-eminent, in truth severe;

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Unmix'd his nature, and sublimed his powers
From all the gross alloy that tempers ours:
In whose clear eye the bright angelic train
Appear suffused with imperfection's stain;
Impervious to the man's or seraph's eye,
Beyond the ken of each exalted high,

Him would in vain material semblance feign,
Or figured shrines the boundless God contain;
Object of faith! he shuns the view of sense,
Lost in the blaze of sightless excellence!
Most perfect, most intelligent, most wise,
In whom the sanctity of pureness lies;
In whose adjusting mind the whole is wrought,
Whose form is spirit, and whose essence thought!
As truths inscribed by wisdom's brightest ray,
In characters that gild the face of day!

OMNIPRESENCE.

BOYSE.

THROUGH th' unmeasurable tracks of space Go, Muse divine! and present Godhead trace! See where, by place uncircumscribed as time, He reigns extended, and he shines sublime! Shouldst thou above the heaven of heavens ascend, Couldst thou below the depth of depths descend, Could thy fond flight beyond the starry sphere The radiant morning's lucid pinions bear, There should his brighter presence shine confess'd, There his almighty arm thy course arrest! Couldst thou the thickest veil of Night assume, Or think to hide thee in the central gloom,

Yet there, all patient to his piercing sight, Darkness itself would kindle into light: Not the black mansions of the silent grave, Nor darker hell, from his perception save; What power, alas! thy footsteps can convey Beyond the reach of omnipresent day!

OMNIPOTENCE.

BOYSE.

WHAT hand, Almighty Architect! but thine Could give the model of this vast design? What hand but thine adjust the amazing whole, And bid consenting systems beauteous roll? What hand but thine supply the solar light? Ever bestowing, yet for ever bright!

What hand but thine the starry train array, Or give the moon to shed her borrow'd ray? What hand but thine the azure convex spread? What hand but thine compose the ocean's bed? To the vast main the sandy barrier throw, And with the feeble curb restrain the foe? What hand but thine the wintry flood assuage, Or stop the tempest in its wildest rage?

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the silent grave, erception save; Isteps can convey resent day!

ENCE.

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r borrow'd ray?
are convex spread?
se the ocean's bed?
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train the foe?
try flood assuage,
dest rage?

OD.

oveliness, -r similitudes

Of perfect beauty, innocence, and bliss;
And fairest imagery round me throng'd:
Dew-drops at day spring on a seraph's locks,
Roses that bathe about the well of life,

Young loves, young hopes, dancing on morning's cheek,

Gems leaping in the coronet of love!
So beautiful, so full of life, they seem'd
As made entire of beams of angels' eyes.
Gay, guileless, sportive, lovely little things!
Playing around the den of sorrow, clad
In smiles, believing in their fairy hopes,
And thinking man and woman true! all joy,
Happy all day, and happy all the night.

Why, on the brink of Orellana's stream, Where never science rear'd her sacred torch, The untutor'd Indian dreams of happier worlds Behind the cloud-topp'd hill? Why, in each breast Is placed a friendly monitor, that prompts, Informs, directs, encourages, forbids? Tell, why on unknown evil grief attends? Or joy, on secret good? Why conscience acts With tenfold force, when sickness, age, or pain, Stands tottering on the precipice of death? Or why such horror gnaws the guilty soul Of dying sinners: while the good man sleeps Peaceful and calm, and with a smile expires?

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JUDGMENT.

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his early light,

m. At once shall rise

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