fcf CONCERN i sre* SECT, nl 



'Tis the gay month of all the youthful year. 

 When nature smiles serene, and calm the air ; 

 In the tall grass the soft Favonius plays, 

 And nightingales repeat their tuneful lays ; 

 The flocks too frisking o'er the flowery vale. 

 With eager joy the cheerful season hail. 



RAPJfT. 



Thus considering the works of nature, is it pos- 

 sible not to feel both concern and indignation at the 

 folly of Atheism, and the absurdity of the Atomic 

 philosophy ? Both have been well exposed by many 

 writers, arid completely so by Sir Richard Black- 

 more, in his poem on the Creation, from which though 

 some extracts have been already made, let the fol- 

 lowing be added, 



-How dark is human reason found, 



How vain the man with wit and learning crown'd; 

 How feeble all his strength when he essays 

 To trace dark nature, and detect her ways. 

 Unless he calls its AUTHOR to his aid, 

 Who ev'ry secret spring of motion laid, 

 Who over all his wond'rous works presides, 

 And to their useful ends their causes guides? 

 These paths in vain are by inquirers trod, 

 There's no philosophy without a GOD. 

 Th' ETERNAL MIND'S existence we sustain, 

 By proofs so full, by evidence so plain, 

 That none of all the sciences have shewn 

 Such demonstration of the truths they own. 



Good heaven 1 that men who vaunt discerning sighfj, 

 And arrogant from wisdom's distant height, 

 Look down on vulgar mortals who revere "\ 



A CAUSE SUPREME, should their proud building f 

 rear, f 



Without one prop the ponderous pile to bear! j* 



Ye friends of Epicurus look around, 



11 nature view with marks of prudence crown'd, 



