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A starry crown thy raven brow adorns

An azure zone thy waift: clouds in heavens loom
Wrought through varieties of fhape and fhade,
In ample folds of drapery divine,

Thy flowing mantle form, and heaven throughout
oluminously pour thy pompous train

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THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF THE

REV. DR. E. YOUNG.

WITH

THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

Cooke's Edition.

When flatter'd crimes of a licentious age
Reproach our filence, and demand our rage;
When purchas'd follies, from each diftant land,
Like arts, improve in Britain's fkilful hand;
When the law fhews her teeth, but dares not bite,
And South Sea treasures are not brought to light;
When Churchmen Scripture for the Claffics quit,
Polite apoftates from God's grace to wit;
When men grow great from their revenue fpent,
And fly from bailiffs into parliament:

When dying finners, to blot out their fcore,
Bequeath the church the leavings of a whore;

To chafe our fpleen, when themes like thefe increafe,
Shall panegyric reign, and cenfure ceafe?------
Shall authors fmile on fuch illuftrious days,
And fatirize with nothing---but their praife?

VOL. I.

Sat. I.

EMBELLISHED WITH SUPERB ENGRAVINGS.

London:

Printed for C. COOKE, No. 17, Paternofter-Row;
and fold by all the Bookfellers in

Great Britain and

Ireland.

BODLEIAT

- 7 APR 1930

LIBRAR

THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF THE

REV. DR. E. YOUNG.

CONTAINING

THE COMPLAINT:

OR,

NIGHT THOUGHTS

On Life, Death, and Immortality,

THE

FORCE OF RELIGION,

&c. &c. &c.

Sunt lacrymæ rerum, et mentem mortalia tangunt, Virg.

Thro' many a field of moral and divine

The Mufe has ftray'd, and much of forrow feen,----
O'er friends deceas'd full heartily the wept;

Of love divine the wonders the difplay'd;

Prov'd man immortal; fhew'd the fource of joy;
The grand tribunal rais'd; affign'd the bounds
Of human gr ef. In few, to cloie the whole,
The moral Mufe has fhadow'd out a sketch,
Tho' not in form, nor with a Raphael ftroke,
Of moft our weakness needs believe or do,
In this our land of travail and of hope,
For peace on earth, or profpect of the skies.

London:

PRINTED AND EMBELLISHED

Under the Direction of

C. COOKE.

Night IX.

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