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'Tis the gay month of all the youthful year, 

 When nature fmiies ferene, and calm the air; 

 In the tail grafs the foft Favom'us plays, 

 And nightingales repeat their tuneful' lays ; 

 The flocks too frifking o'er the flowery vale, 

 With eager joy the cheerful feafon hail. 



Rapin, 



In confidering the works of nature, it is hardly 

 poffible but to reel both concern and indignation at 

 the folly of Atheifm, and the abfurdity of the Atomic 

 philofophy. Both have been well expofed by many 

 writers, and completely fo by Sir Richard B/ackmore, 

 in his Poem on the Creation; from which though fome 

 cxtrafts have been already made, let the following be 

 added, 



-How dark is human re a/on found, 



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

 How feeble all his flrengthwhen lie e flays 

 To trace dark nature , and detect her ways, 

 Unlefshe calls its author to his aid 

 Who ev'ry fecret fpring of motion laid ; 

 Who over all his wond'rous works preiid«, 

 And to their ufeful ends their caufes guides i 

 Thefe paths in vain are by inquirers trod, 

 There's no philofophy without a GOD. 

 Th' eternal mind's exigence we fuftain, 

 By proofs fo full, by evidence fo plain, 

 That none of all the fciences have (hewn 

 Such demonftration of the truths they own. 



Good heaven ! that men who vaunt difcerning fight, 

 And arrogant from wifdom's diftant height,, 

 Look down on vulgar mortals who revere 

 A cause supreme, fhould their proud building 

 rear, 



Without one prop the pond'rous pile to bear ! j 



Ye friends of Epicurus look around, 



All nature view with marks of prudence crown'd. 



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