. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . Embi ( so ). Emblem NATURE. LIFT up thy Eyes, fond Youth, and feeThe Evning Bird as blind as thee :Ceafe to idolife the Fair;Love with Reafon, not Charms with flrongell Luftre flow refplcndent from the Mind :Where Virtue claims an honcfl Praile,The Heart a prudent Homage pays. Beauty! no more with Tranfport gazeOn the falfe Copy of thy Face; Thy ( 51 ) Thy Pride has veild thy Reafon o*er. While painted Nature you adore. When once the intcllcdlual Part Is captive led by fenfual A
. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . Embi ( so ). Emblem NATURE. LIFT up thy Eyes, fond Youth, and feeThe Evning Bird as blind as thee :Ceafe to idolife the Fair;Love with Reafon, not Charms with flrongell Luftre flow refplcndent from the Mind :Where Virtue claims an honcfl Praile,The Heart a prudent Homage pays. Beauty! no more with Tranfport gazeOn the falfe Copy of thy Face; Thy ( 51 ) Thy Pride has veild thy Reafon o*er. While painted Nature you adore. When once the intcllcdlual Part Is captive led by fenfual Art, When Paffion lords it in the Soul, And confcious Follys all in all. In vain the firongell Reafon pleads. Not facred Eloquence fucceeds; The blinded Soul no Charm can fee In Wifdom or Humility. As well Minervas Birdwc drefs In the grave Pomp of optic Glafs: The Taper and the flaming Wax Serve but to dazzle and perplex: In vain we add the Glow-worms Light, Not the Suns Beams can mend her Sight, But, blind amidft the ftrongeft Ray, She Ihuns thunlovd Approach of Day. So Pur blind Nat
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