VI ADVERTISEMENT. 



f How wond'rous is this scene ! where all is form'd 



' With number, weight, and measure ! all design'd 



' For some great end ! where not alone the plant 



f Of stately growth ; the herb of glorious hue, 



c Or food-full substance ; not the laboring steed, 



' The herd, and flock that feed us ; not the mine 



f That yields us stores for elegance* and use j 



' The sea that loads our table, and conveys 



' The wanderer man from clime to clime, with all 



c Those rolling spheres, that from on high shed down 



f Their kindly influence ; not these alone, 



f Which strike ev'n eyes incurious, but each moss, 



f Each shell, each crawling insect holds a rank 



1 Important in the plan of Him, who fram'd 



' This scale of beings ; holds, a. rank, which lost 



f Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap ' 



' Which Nature's self vvould rue. Almighty Being, 



' Cause and support of all things, can I view 



f These objects of my wonder ; can I feel 



' These fine sensations, and not think of thee ? 



' Thou who dost thro' th' eternal round of time ; 



' Dost thro' th' immensity of space exist 



' Alone, shalt thou alone excluded be 



' From this thy universe ? Shall feeble man 



' Think it beneath his proud philosophy 



' To call for thy assistance, and pretend 



c To frame a world, who cannot frame a clod ? — — 



' Not to know thee, is not to know ourselves ? 



' Is to know nothing — nothing worth the care 



' Of man's exalted spirit — all becomes 



' Without thy ray divine, one dreary gloom ; 



* Where lurk the monsters of phantastic brains, 



' Order bereft of thought, uncaus'd effects, 



