. Poems upon divine and moral subjects : originals and translations . lone, 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 hea

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. Poems upon divine and moral subjects : originals and translations . lone, 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? How waft thou pleasd the wondrous Theme to try^ And find a humane Mind could foar io high ! Beyond this World the Labour to perfue, And open all Eternity to View] Yet art thou beft delighted to rehearfeHeavns holy Dictates in exalted Verfe :O thou haft Power the hardened Heart to grieve, to raife, to terrify, td charm :To make Mankind on God alone be fixd3And in this Life anticipate the i^xt I. u p 0 Ji ( 42 )

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