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tion-to the abilities and ufefulnefs of thofe 

 >vho vanifh at once from fociety. We 

 feel the folemn leflbn fink deep into our 

 hearts \vhen minds, fo largely endowed- and 

 adorned, evince, in their fate, the truths 

 uttered by that fublime Poet *, who made 

 the threats and the promifes of the Gofpel 

 the theme of his midnight itrains ; and 

 thus they admonifh, 



By nature's law, what muft be, may be nova -, 

 There's no prerogative in human hours. 

 In human hearts what bolder tboughtican rife 

 Than man's prefnmption on to-morrow's dawn ? 

 Where is to-morrow ? In another world ! 

 For numbers this is certain, the reverfe 

 Is fare to none ; and yet, on this perhaps, 

 This peradventure, infamous for lies, 

 As on a rock of adamant, we build; 

 Though every dial warns us as we pafs, 

 Portentous as the written wall, that turn'd, 

 O'er midnight bowls, the proud Afiyrian pale! 



Another, and x the laft poetic work of 

 Dr. Darwin, is now in the prefs. The 

 * Dr. Young. 



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