The day of judgment: a poetical essay / [Robert Glynn].

  • Glynn, Robert, 1719-1800
Date:
1757
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Credit: The day of judgment: a poetical essay / [Robert Glynn]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Yet will I ftrive to ling, albeit unus’d ■To tread Poetic Soil. What tlio’ the wiles Of Fancy me enchanted ne’er could lure To rove o’er Fairy lands j to fwim the ftreams That thro’ her vallies weave their mazy way, Or climb her mountain tops j yet will I raife My feeble voice, to tell what Harmony ( Sweet as the mufic of the rolling Spheres) Attunes the moral world: That Virtue ftill May hope her promis’d crown j that Vice may dread Vengeance, tho’ late; that reas’ning pride may own Juft tho’ unfearchable the ways of Heaven. Sceptic! who e’er thou art, who fay ft the foul. That divine particle which God’s own breath Infpir’d into the mortal mafs, fhall reft Annihilate, ’till duration has unroll’d Her never-ending line j tell, if thou knowft. Why every nation, every clime, tho’ all In Laws, in Rites, in Manners difagree. With one confent expert another world. Where wickednefs lhall weep Why Paynim Bards Fabled Elyfian plains ; Tartarean Lakes, Styx and Cocytus tell, why Hali’s fons. Have