. The book of similitudes: . say should be rendered I was not sensible of next clause should be, They have mockedme, and I knew it not. How striking and in-structive a portrait is this of the stupid insensibilityof a drunkard! Mr. Prior in his Solomon, haswell expressed it in the following lines. Thereare, says he, yet unnumbered ills that lie unseen In the pernicious draught: the word obscene Or harsh, (which once elanced must ever fly Irrevocable ;) the too prompt reply, Seed of severe distrust and fierce debate, What we would shun, and what we ought to hate. Add too, the blood impove
. The book of similitudes: . say should be rendered I was not sensible of next clause should be, They have mockedme, and I knew it not. How striking and in-structive a portrait is this of the stupid insensibilityof a drunkard! Mr. Prior in his Solomon, haswell expressed it in the following lines. Thereare, says he, yet unnumbered ills that lie unseen In the pernicious draught: the word obscene Or harsh, (which once elanced must ever fly Irrevocable ;) the too prompt reply, Seed of severe distrust and fierce debate, What we would shun, and what we ought to hate. Add too, the blood impoverished, and the course Of health suppressed by wines continued force. Unhappy man! whom sorrow thus and rage, To different ills alternately engage ! Who drinks, alas! but to forget, nor sees That melancholy sloth, severe disease, Memory confused and interrupted thought, Deaths harbingers, lie latent in the draught, And in the flowers that wreathe the sparkling bowl Fell adders hiss and poisonous serpents roll. 94 THE BOOK OF. [The sinner convicted of breaking Gods law, is alarm-ed : he casts off his sins and endeavors to flee from thewrath to come.] THE AWAKENED SINNER. The sinner wakened to his state of sin,With penitence another life would now lowers her plumage and would fain depart,Deceit and Anger leave the contrite heart,Licentiousness and all its kindred train,Now oer his nature may no longer reign ;Satan himself must now his sceptre yield,And vanquished and reluctant leaves the field,While the pure Spirit, bringing heavenly love,Broods oer the penitent, a spotless dove. SIMILITUDES. 95 The sinner, by the light of the Divine Spiritsees that he has broken all the commandments ofGod: the angel of justice lifts the sword againsthim: alarmed, he leaves off his connection withvarious sins, and they are departing from lowers her plumage, Deceit and Anger he nolonger harbors, Licentiousness, Intemperance, andother vices he casts off. While thus exercising
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