"THOU only know'ft, "Thou, whofe broad eye the future, and the past, Joins to the prefent; making one of three 2195 "To moral thought! Thou know'st, and Thou alone, All-knowing--! all-unknown!--and yet well-known! "Near, though remote! and, though unfathom'd, felt! "And, though invisible, for ever seen! “And seen in all! the great and the minute : "Each globe above, with its gigantic race, “Each flower, each leaf, with its small people swarm'd, (Those puny vouchers of Omnipotence!) 2205 "To the first thought, that asks, "From whence?" "declare "Their common fource. Thou Fountain, running o'er "In rivers of communicated joy! "Who gav'ft us speech for far, far humbler themes! 2210 Say, by what name fhall I presume to call "Him I see burning in these countless funs, "As Moses, in the bush? Illuftrious Mind! "The whole creation, lefs, far lefs, to Thee, "Than that to the creation's ample round. "How shall I name Thee?-How my labouring foul "Heaves underneath the thought, too big for birth! "Great fyftem of perfections! mighty cause "Of caufes mighty! caufe uncaus'd! fole root "Of nature, that luxuriant growth of God! "First Father of effects! that progeny "Of endless series; where the golden chain's "Last link admits a period, who can tell? Father of all that is or heard, or hears ! 2220 "Father "Father of all that is or feen, or fees! "Father of all that is, or fall arife! "Father of fpirits! nobler offspring! fparks "With various measures, and with various modes "Of inftinct, reafon, intuition; beams 2225 2230 2235 "More pale, or bright from day divine, to break 2240 “The dark of matter organiz'd (the ware "Of all created fpirit); beams, that rise "Each over other in fuperior light, "Till the last ripens into luftre strong, "Of next approach to Godhead. Father fond 2245 "(Far fonder than e'er bore that name on earth) "Of intellectual beings! beings bleit "With powers to please Thee; not of paffive ply "To laws they know not; beings lodg'd in feats "Of well-adapted joys, in different domes "Of this imperial palace for thy fons; "Of this proud, populous, well-policy'd, 2250 "Though boundless habitation, plann'd by Thee : "Whose "Whose several clans their several climates fuit; "And transposition, doubtless, would destroy. 2255 "Or, Oh! indulge, immortal King, indulge “A title, less august indeed, but more "Endearing; ah! how sweet in human ears! "Sweet in our ears, and triumph in our hearts! "Father of immortality to man! * "A theme that lately fet my foul on fire 2260 "And Thou the Next! yet equal! Thou, by whom "That bleffing was convey'd; far more! was bought; “ Ineffable the price! by whom all worlds "Were made; and one, redeem'd! illuftrious Light "From Light illuftrious! Thou, whofe regal power, “Finite in time, but infinite in space, "On more than adamantine basis fix'd, "O'er more, far more, than diadems and thrones, "And Oh! the Friend of man! beneath whofe foot, “And by the mandate of whose aweful nod, "All regions, revolutions, fortunes, fates, "Of high, of low, of mind, and matter, roll "Through the short channels of expiring time, 2275 "Or fhoreless ocean of eternity, "Calm, or tempeftuous (as thy Spirit breathes), "In absolute fubje&tion !---And, O Thou "The glorious Third! distinct, not separate ! "Beaming from Both! with Both incorporate; 2280 "And (strange to tell!) incorporate with dust! "By condefcenfion, as Thy glory, great, * Nights the Sixth and Seventh. "Enfhrin'd "Enfhrin'd in man! of human hearts, if pure, "Divine inhabitant! the tie divine "Of heaven with distant earth! by whom I trust, 2285 (If not infpir'd) uncenfur'd this address "To Thee, to Them-To whom ?--Mysterious Power! "Reveal'd---yet unreveal'd! darkness in light; "Number in unity! our Joy! our Dread! "The Triple Bolt that lays all wrong in ruin! 2290 "That animates all right, the Triple Sun! "Sun of the foul! her never-setting Sun ! "Triune, Unutterable, Unconceiv'd, "Abfconding, yet Demonftrable, Great God! "Greater than Greatest! Better than the Best! 2295 "Kinder than kindeft! with foft pity's eye, "Or (ftronger still to speak it) with Thine Own, "From Thy bright home, from that high Firmament, "Where Thou, from all eternity, haft dwelt; ·Beyond archangels unassisted ken; "From far above what mortals highest call; "From elevation's pinnacle; look down, 2300 "Through--What? confounding interval! through all And more than labouring fancy can conceive; "Through radiant ranks of effences unknown; 2305 "Through hierarchies from hierarchies detach'd "Round various banners of Omnipotence, "With endless change of rapturous duties fir'd; "Through wondrous beings interpofing fwarms, "All clustering at the call, to dwell in Thee; 2310 Through this wide waste of worlds! this vifta vast, All fanded o'er with funs; funs turn'd to night "Before "Before thy feeblest beam--Look down--down--down, "On a poor breathing particle in dust, "Or, lower, an immortal in his crimes. 2315 "His crimes forgive! forgive his virtues, too! "Those smaller faults, half-converts to the right. "Nor let me close these eyes, which never more "May fee the fun (though night's descending scale "Now weighs up morn), unpity'd, and unblest! 2320 "In Thy displeasure dwells eternal pain ; "Pain, our averfion; pain, which strikes me now; "And, fince all pain is terrible to man, " "Though tranfient, terrible; at Thy good hour, 2325 2330 "That tongue of death! that herald of the tomb ! 2335 Suggested by my pillow, fign'd by fate, "First, in fate's volume, at the page of man--"Man's fickly foul, though turn'd and tofs'd for ever, "From fide to fide, can reft on nought but Thee: "Here, in full truft; hereafter, in full joy ; "On Thee, the promis'd, fure, eternal down "Of fpirits, toil'd in travel through this vale. Nor of that pillow fhall my foul despond ; 2340 "For |