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Heav'n ftill with laughter the vain toil surveys,
And buries madmen in the heaps they raise;
Know, all the good that individuals find,
Or God and nature meant to mere mankind,
Reason's whole pleasure, all the the joys of fenfe,
Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence.

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Thou Great First Caufe, leaft understood,

Who all my fenfe confin'd

To know but this, that thou art good,
And that myfelf am blind;

Yet gave me, in this dark eftate,
To fee the good from ill;
And binding nature fast in fate,
Left free the human will;

What confcience dictates to be done,

Or warns me not to do,

This teach me more than hell to shun, That more than heav'n pursue.

What bleffings thy free bounty gives
Let me not caft away;

For God is paid when man receives,
T' enjoy is to obey

Yet not to earth's contracted span
Thy goodness let me bound,
Or think Thee Lord alone of man,
When thousand worlds are around:

Let not this weak, unknowing hand
Perfume thy bolts to throw,

And deal damnation round the land
On each I judge thy foe,

If I am right, thy grace impart
Still in the right to stay;

If I am wrong, oh teach my heart
To find that better way.

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Save me alike from foolish pride,
Or impious discontent;

At aught thy wisdom has denied

Or aught thy goodness lent.

Teach me to feel anothers woe,

To hide the fault I fee:

That mercy I to others show,
That mercy fhew to me,

Mean though I am, not wholly fa,
Since quicken'd by thy breath;
O lead me wherefo'er I go,

Through this day's life or death.

This day, be bread and peace my lot:
All elfe beneath the fun

Thou know'ft if beft beftow'd or pot,
And let thy will be done.

To Thee, whofe temple is all space,
Whose altar, earth, fea, skies!
One chorus let all beings raife!
All nature's incense rife?

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UNIVERSAL ORDER.

BY THE SAME.

LL are but parts of one ftupend us whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the foul: That chang'd thro' all, and yet in the all fame, Great in the earth, as in the etherial frame

Warms in the fun, refreshes in the breeze,

Glows in the ftars, and bloffoms in the trees;
Lives through all life extends through all extent;
Spreads undivided, operates unfpent

Breathes in our foul, informs our mortal part,
As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart;

As full, as perfect, in vile man man that mourns,
As the rapt feraph that adores and burns:
To him no high, no low, no great, no small;
He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.

Ceafe then, nor Order imperfection name:
Our proper blifs depends on what we blame.
Know thy own point: This kind, this due degree.
Of blindness, weakness Heav'n bestows on thee.
Submit. In this, or any other fphere,

Secure to be as bleft as thou canft bear:
Safe in the hand of one difpofing pow'r.
Or in the natal, or the mortal hour,

All nature is but art, unknown to thee;

All chance, direction, which thou canst not see;
All difcord, harmony not understood;
All partial evil, univerfal good:

And, fpite of pride, in erring reason's spite,
One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.

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PITY.

AIL, lovely Power! whose bosom heaves a figh, When Fancy paints the fcene of deep diftrefs; Whofe tears fpontaneous chryftalize the eye, When rigid Fate denies the power to bless.

Not all the fweets Arabia's gales convey

From flowery meads can with that figh compare: Not dew drops glittering in the morning ray, Seem near fo beauteous as that falling tear.

Devoid of fear the fawns around thee play;
Emblem of peace the dove before thee flies;
No blood-ftain'd traces mark thy blameless way,
Beneath thy feet no hapless infect dies,

Come, lovely nymph' and range the mead with me,
To fpring the partridge from the guileful foe;"
From fecret fnares the struggling bird to free,
And stop the hand uprais'd to give the blow.
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