The fmiling infant in his hand fhall take The crefted bafilifk and speckled fnake, Pleas'd the green luftre of the fcales survey, And with their forky tongue shall innocently play. Rife, crown'd with light, imperial Salem, rise! Exalt thy tow'ry head, and lift thy eyes! See a long race thy fpacious courts adorn ; See future fons, and daughters yet unborn, In crowding ranks on ev'ry fide arise, Demanding life, impatient for the skies! See barb'rous nations at thy gates attend, Walk in thy light, and in thy temple bend; See thy bright altars throng'd with proftrate kings,. And heap'd with products of Sabæan fprings ! For thee Idume's fpicy forefts blow, And feeds of gold in Ophir's mountains glow. See heav'n its fparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee in a flood of day! No more the rifing fun fhall gild the morn, Nor ev'ning Cynthia fill her filver horn; But loft, diffolv'd in thy fuperior rays, One tide of glory, one unclouded blaze O'erflow thy courts: the light himself shall shine Reveal'd, and God's eternal day be thine! The feas fhall wafte, the skies in smoke decay, Rocks fall to duft, and mountains melt away; But fix'd his word, his faving pow'r remains ; Thy realm for ever lafts, thy own Meffiah reigns! The The UNIVERSAL PRAYER. By the Same. F ATHER of all! in ev'ry age, In ev'ry clime ador'd, By faint, by favage, and by fage, Thou great firft caufe, leaft understood: To know but this, that thou art good, Yet gave me, in this dark eftate, Left free the human will. What confcience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to fhun, What bleffings thy free bounty gives, 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 round: Let not this weak, unknowing hand If I am right, thy grace impart, Save me alike from foolish pride, At aught thy wisdom has deny'd, Mean tho' I am, not wholly fo, Since quick'ned by thy breath; O lead me wherefoe'er I go, Thro' this day's life or death. |