A counterfeited Key to open and to shut all Heaven! The faith of millions he assumed to guard, By darkening light, Precious and pure; An insect with its tiny wing, shutting out sunbeams! As fain it would, And with its impious hum Silence the mighty voice of God, Unto His creatures speaking Loud and plain. -Preserving, by corrupting Faith! Sealing the written Will of God from eye of man; And having falsely read it to himself, To his eyes, inverted, darkened, And sense in strong delusion steeped, A LIE believing, The Sun, stupendous, all magnificent, Rolled round its Planet earth the centre of the Universe; And he dared, distantly, to look, With bleared eye, Upon the dazzling one, Holding the Key divine, Him to chains and dungeon dooming, Had that False and Foul one but the power, as will, Till the Great One threw away his Key, And falsified, as one before, the Truth by God vouchsafed. But NEWTON* strode majestically past, In the life and writings of Newton, the Philosopher will learn the art by which alone he can acquire an immortal name. The Moralist will trace the lineaments of a character adjusted to all the symmetry of which our imperfect nature is susceptible and the O, hark, the Harmony! All of the wondrous Mind, of Mystery, Truth, Immortality, And Deity: And as the Pagan to the Christian listened, Christian will contemplate with delight the high priest of Science, quitting the study of the material universe, the scenes of His intellectual triumphs, to investigate, with humility and patience, the mysteries of his Faith. Sir DAVID BREWSTER. ** See NOTE, No. XV. Constellation." "An extinguished With a thought brightening countenance, me I faintly heard, in loving sound, Thou wast not Far away, On the awful threshold standing! Have ye now seen HIM The INVISIBLE, Jehovah in the central glory beaming, Effulgence all ineffable Whom mortal hath not seen at any time, Or seeing, dies * Transporting rapturous vision! O, art thou gone, for ever gone? Where are ye, Spirits! Great and good ones, O, let me see you once again! And hear that converse ravishing the soul! Opening the inner Universe! O, heavenly melodies Only for immortal ears, And in this home Eternity seen! Whither wouldst thou lead me, Thou Un Where am I now? far, far below, As out of Heaven, Fallen suddenly. * feet Alas there again, great ESCHYLUS! In thy grandeur all forlorn Thy lyre with broken strings Gazing on undying Agony, Fearfully imaged there, 'all at thy |