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[Oct. I, 
Original Poetry^ 
He quickly shot the awful gulph, 
Nor fear’d the tlireat’ning king: 
His sojil to Heaven wassatel-y borne^ 
By cherubs on the wing. 
Patience, and Faith, and you, e’er long, 
Shall reach that blest abode, 
Where your sweet child now sits enthron’d 
With his creator, God. 
Blest babe ! we would not wish thee back. 
To share our sorrows here j 
Now Satan ne’er shall stain thy soul. 
Nor tempting world ensnare. 
Its mother still, pray God may live. 
Your happ’ness to restore ; 
Her health, I pray, may now revive. 
That both may God adore. 
ADDRESS TO THE COMET. 
By the Rev. John Black, TVoodbndge. 
Composed heHoeen the Hours of three and ji-ve 
tCiockf on the Morning of the 20th Sept, 
1811, while the Author was walking in his 
Gar den j contemplating the Heaojens. 
XT AIL beauteous Stranger! glory-beam¬ 
ing light! 
Adding fresh splendour to the brow of night. 
Am I deceiv’d or tremulous^ is thy hair, 
Like flame diffus’d beneath the Greater Bear, 
Thro’ which the stars, with twinkling lustre 
glow, 
As thro’ the ghosts of warriors,* long ago. 
Tho’ more enlighten’d than some ages past. 
On thee oiir gaze, with solemn awe, is cast. 
No falling empires now we seem to dread. 
Or pestilence shock, from thy blazing head ; 
Tho’ kingdoms many we have seen o’er- 
turn’d. 
And by the foot of proud ambition spurn’d : 
But these sad scenes, no Comet came to tell j- 
Nor canst thou now the trass of miseries 
swell. 
Yet fear and superstition still enquire. 
If thou’rt not come to set the world on Are ? 
Yet well it were, if Fear, however blind, 
Could check the crimes committed by mankind. 
Fresh favours from the sun, dost thou not 
bring. 
Recruiting planets, from thy.flaming wing? 
From thy effulgence do I livelier feel ? 
Or is it all a wild, fantastic zeal ? 
A messenger of good, thou doubtless art. 
And of our system a component part.— 
How clear the sky ■ How bright Orion shines ! 
How white the Galaxy its river twines ! 
Fair 'Jupiter exalts his forehead high j 
And short-liv’d meteors,! shooting, glance, 
and die. 
As infants sweet—ope’ eye-lids on the light. 
Then, instant, close them In oeath’s gloomy 
night. 
’Tis silence ail—save that the lonely owl, 
Jusc breaks his stillness with his soiem.n howl. 
^ bee Ossian. 
4 T. t A..:hor saw several this morning. 
But now the dawn, uprising faintly gleams. 
Tinging the skirting cloud, with saffron 
beams. 
The cock now crows—the heron opes his 
throat, 
And from the pool sends forth a shrilling note. 
The red-breast v/akes his soft autumnal strain. 
And pours his melody around the plain. 
The lazy vapours o’er the river glide. 
And with their w'ings lair Debin's'^ bosom hide. 
The volum’d smoke from kindling fires de¬ 
scends,'!' 
And, creeping downwards, to the valley bends. 
Refreshing dews fall on the silent green. 
And cherish plants, that long have parched 
been. 
Farewsl, sweet orb ! for now a greater light. 
By slow degrees, puts thy soft rays to flight. 
Thy nature tho’ I cannot well explore— 
The GOD of N.ature, trembling, I adore ! 
LINES, 
Descriptioje of the Science of Chemistry j extracted 
from a philosophical Worky shortly to be pub~ 
lished Zy Mr . R. Tucker, Master of Tils^ 
head Academ'^, Wilts. 
J^CIENCE divine 1 of modern times the 
pride. 
Of arts at once the glory and the guide. 
Bright cherub, hail! who from thy star- 
crown’d height, 
Pour’sta new stream of philosophic light, 
-And with refulgent beam illumes the road. 
That leads to wisdom’s new explor’d abode. 
Thy praise I sing j which, erst by bards un¬ 
sung. 
Glows in my heart, and vibrates on my 
tongue. 
Philosophy, that heav’nly art, unfolds 
What force sublime this globe in air upholds; 
Tells o’er the deep what viewless power pre¬ 
sides. 
And rules the motions of the changing tides ; 
The lamps of heav’n, with all its golden 
spheres, 
Contemplates, nor an occultation fears; 
Sublimely treads the palace of the stars, 
Or northern lights, to her no type of wars; 
But could she yet, fair handmaid ! e’er display. 
Without the light of thy disclosing ray. 
Earth’s varied species, and their different 
shares 
In the vast globe, whose motions she declares 
No—’tis to thee th’ exalted province falls, 
To lead through nature’s unfrequented nails. 
To pierce her veil, and name the source below 
Whence caloric’s blue undulations flow ; 
The substance of the limpid stream enquire. 
Possess’d, and plunder’d of essential fire; 
Wlien heav’ns blue arch aerial currents lave, 
Seize the pure gale, and decompose its wave, 
* J he river that flows past Woodbridge, 
•j- This, with all other circumstances, is 
an exact picture of what the author ob¬ 
served. 
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