. Poems upon divine and moral subjects : originals and translations . To Mr. Written on a Leaf of his P O E MOn the Lafi Day. By T. WaPvTon,M. A. 0/Magd. Ere let the Atheift tremble • thou alone CaiVft bid his confcious Heart the Godhead ( wilt thou not reform ? O ! thou haft (feeil How God defcends to judge the Souls of Men. Thou heardft the Sentence ! how the Guilty mourn, Driv n from their God, and never to return. Yet more : ( For oh ! not impious Man alone, But Earth next brings Almighty Vengeance down.) Sudden, alas! ttn thoufand Thunders fall, And lo ! Caelefti
. Poems upon divine and moral subjects : originals and translations . To Mr. Written on a Leaf of his P O E MOn the Lafi Day. By T. WaPvTon,M. A. 0/Magd. Ere let the Atheift tremble • thou alone CaiVft bid his confcious Heart the Godhead ( wilt thou not reform ? O ! thou haft (feeil How God defcends to judge the Souls of Men. Thou heardft the Sentence ! how the Guilty mourn, Driv n from their God, and never to return. Yet more : ( For oh ! not impious Man alone, But Earth next brings Almighty Vengeance down.) Sudden, alas! ttn thoufand Thunders fall, And lo ! Caeleftial Fire confumes the Ball. But as All links when evry Bolt is hurld, Thouviewft theboundlefs Ruins of the World. So fell the Sulphur on the deftind Plain, When guilty Sodom felt the burning Rain : So the Great Patriarch, when the Storm was pafsd, With pious Horrour viewd the mighty Waftc : The C4* ) The Smoke ftill rolfd its reftlefs Clouds around^ For ever rifing from the glowing Ground. But tell me (O ! what heavnly Pleafure!) tell, To think fo greatly^ and defcribe fo well?
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