'Twas thus, as under shade I stood, It seem'd, as all the quiet place The Fountain of eternal day, That as the light serenely fair Illustrates all the tracts of air, The sacred Spirit so may rest With quickening beams upon thy breast, And kindly clean it all within 40 From darker blemishes of sin, 20 And shine with grace, until we view The realm it gilds with glory too. See the day that dawns in air, Heavenly Father! grant me this, 60 All whose hearts are fix'd on Thee, Who revere'thy Son above, Who thy sacred Spirit love. How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, From diff'rent natures marvellously mix'd, 60 65 A worm! a god!—I tremble at myself, And wond'ring at her own: how reason reels! dread! Not ev'n Philander had bespoke his shroud. Nor had he cause; a warning was deny'd, How many fall as sudden, not as safe! 120 As sudden, though for years admonish'd, home. Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, "That all men are about to live," For ever on the brink of being born. 125 All pay themselves the compliment to think 135 They, one day, shall not drivel; and their pride On this reversion takes up ready praise; At least, their own, their future selves applauds. How excellent that life they ne'er will lead! Time lodg'd in their own hands is Folly's vails; 140 That lodg'd in Fate's, to wisdom they consign; The thing they can't but purpose, they post But their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, 160 Soon close; where pass'd the shaft, no trace is found. As from the wing no scar the sky retains; George Berkeley 1685-1753 Westward the course of empire takes its way; A fifth shall close the drama with the day; Allan Kamsay 1686-1758 AN ODE TO PH-1 Look up to Pentland's tow'ring top, 20 (From The Gentle Shepherd, 1725) Fair as the day and sweet as May, My Peggy speaks sae sweetly, My Peggy smiles sae kindly, Whene'er I whisper love, That I look down on a' the town,That I look down upon a crown. My Peggy smiles sae kindly, It makes me blithe and bauld, My Peggy sings sae saftly, By a' the rest it is confest,- 6 Balls. 5 10 15 20 25 30 9 More sober or sedate folk, directing or sending to one side. 10 The bowls or balls, used in the game of bowling. 11 Poke the grate. 12 Warm the house, both outer and inner room. 13 Pint. 16 Sagacious. 14 Drops. 17 Quit. 1 Watching of the fold. 3 Makes. 15 Quart measure. 18 Doubled over a staff. 2 The rest, the others. 4 Pick, i. e. the best. William Somerville 1692-1742 Thy velvet robe, which pleas'd my sires of yore! I knew thy worth; my friend in rags I lov'd; 20 26 30 2 The Olympic games were held on a site which had belonged to the Eleans, the inhabitants of Elis, Greece. The old name for Salisbury; its "spire" is one of the beauties of Salisbury Cathedral. With my hand beneath my head, While stray'd my eyes o'er Towy's flood, Over mead and over wood, 20 From house to house, from hill to hill, Till Contemplation had her fill. 25 About his chequer'd sides I wind, And leave his brooks and meads behind, And groves and grottoes where I lay, And vistoes shooting beams of day. Wide and wider spreads the vale, As circles on a smooth canal: 30 |