The pleasures of imagination. A poem / In three books.

  • Mark Akenside
Date:
1754
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The pleasures of imagination. A poem / In three books. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 read his office high and facred name. Genius of human kind. Appall’d I gaz’d The godlike prefence; for athwart his brow Difpleafure temper’d with a mild concern. Look’d down reludlant on me, and his words 240 Like diftant thunders broke the murm’ring air* Vain are thy thoughts, O child of mortal birth, And impotent thy tongue. Is thy fhort fpan Capacious of this univerfal frame ? Thy wifdom all-fufficient ? Thou, alas 1 245 Doll thou afpire to judge between the, lord Of nature and his works ? to lift thy voice Againft the fov’reign order he decreed All good and lovely ? to blafpheme the bands Of tendernefs innate and focial love, 2 50 Holieft of things! by which the general orb Of being, as by adamantine links. Was drawn to perfect union and fuftain’d f rom everlafting ? Haft thou felt the pangs Of foft’ning forrow, of indignant zeal E 255 So