. Poems . veyThe subtle, quick vibrations as they play;Mans little universe at once once illumined when the cloud is past. Survey the globe, each ruder realm explore;From Reasons faintest ray to Newton different spheres to human bliss assigned!What slow gradations in the scale of mind!Yet mark in each these mystic wonders wrought;Oh mark the sleepless energies of thought! * Niimque illic posuit solium, et sua templa sacravit]\Iens aniiiii: hanc circum colnnit, deiisocjue feruiiturAgmiue notitia., simulacia(iue teiiuia rerum. 16 The adventurous boy, that asks his Httle shar


. Poems . veyThe subtle, quick vibrations as they play;Mans little universe at once once illumined when the cloud is past. Survey the globe, each ruder realm explore;From Reasons faintest ray to Newton different spheres to human bliss assigned!What slow gradations in the scale of mind!Yet mark in each these mystic wonders wrought;Oh mark the sleepless energies of thought! * Niimque illic posuit solium, et sua templa sacravit]\Iens aniiiii: hanc circum colnnit, deiisocjue feruiiturAgmiue notitia., simulacia(iue teiiuia rerum. 16 The adventurous boy, that asks his Httle share,And hies from home with many a gossips prayer,Turns on the neighbouring hill, once more to seeThe dear abode of peace and privacy;And as he tuins, the thatch among the trees,The smokes blue \\Teaths ascending with the breeze,The village-common spotted white with sheep,The church-yard yews round which his fathers sleep;All rouse Reflections sadly-pleasing oft he looks and weeps, and looks 17 So, wIkmi the mild Tupia dared exploreArts yet untaught, and worlds unknown before,And, with the sons of Science, wooed the galeThat, rising, swelled their strange expanse of sail;So, when he breathed his firm yet fond adieu,Borne from his leafy hut, his carved all his soul best loved—such tears he each soft scene of summer-beauty oer the wave a wistful look he cast,Long watched the streaming signal from the mast;Till twilights dewy tints deceived his eye,And fairy-forests fringed the evening-sky. So Scotias Queen, as slowly dawned the on her couch, and gazed her soul eyes had blessed the beacons glimmering height,That faintly tipt the feathery surge with light;But now the morn with orient hues pourtrayedEach castled cliff, and brown monastic shade:All touched the talismans resistless spring,And lo, what busy tribes were instant on the wing! Thus kindred objects kindred thoughts summer-clouds flash forth electr


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