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Rise, ye thoughts, to nobler ends! 
Melancholy, heav’n offends. 
Atheist, if there lives the name. 
Come inspect the human frame! 
Here thou’lt own th* Almighty's pow’r. 
Wonder first, and then adore. 
Oh eternal! all divine! 
God! this glorious work is thine!— 
If the body thus is made. 
Which in earth must soon be laid, 
Can we doubt a pow’r above ? 
Can we doubt a God of love! 
We will wait the promis’d day, 
Mind outlives the earthly clay; 
Those whom death hath overcome. 
Taken to his silent dome, 
These shall see th’ expected ray, 
Turning darkness into day. 
Lift their eyes, and from afar 
Hail the light of Jacob’s star! 
See the beams intensely shed. 
Spread o’er Sion’s favour’d head! 
Never may we hence remove, 
GOD of Truth! and GOD of Love ! 
The belief of the soul’s immortality has prevailed amongst the wise*" 
in every age. Pythagoras delivered to the Greeks the Metemsychosis^ 
or transmigration of the soul. This doctrine is yet prevalent throughout the 
Eastern world, f It supposes, that the soul, like matter., does never perish, 
* Vide some elaborate notes on the different religions which have prevailed in the world, in our 
New Illustration of the Sexual System, when treating on the Indian Canna, and Sacred Egyptian 
Bean. 
f Yide Maurice’s learned work on “ Indian Antiquities.” In the Ode to Mitra, he describes 
the order of the Deity respecting one of these incarcerated souls. 
With fearful prodigies appal his soul; 
Around him let terrific lightnings glare. 
And the loud thunders of the tropic roll: 
While winds impetuous rush, and waves resound. 
And rending earthquakes rock the lab’ring ground. 
Through the deep windings of the mystic cave. 
While midnight darkness hovers o’er, 
Let the blind wretch his toilsome way explore! 
Now plunge him headlong in the solar snow. 
Whelm him in Capricorn’s solstitial wave, 
Round him let Cancer’s burning deluge flow! 
Through all the elements that wrap the globe, 
The soul that dares to heav’nly birth aspire. 
Must strenuous toil,—earth, ocean, air, and fire; 
Then, purg’d of all the sordid dross below, 
The daring spirit shall with angels glow. 
And change its earthly for a heav’nly robe. 
