Heav'n, gracious ftill, our real Blifs befriends,
Is kind alike in what, he takes, or lends ;
To Him indulgent, fnatch'd the Saint on high,
Approv'd mature for Glory and the Sky;
To Thee indulgent, gave to tafte of Woe,
And copious bid the Streams of Sorrow flow,
To make the gen'rous Seeds of Virtue shoot,
And feed and ripen her immortal Fruit.

Thus rushing down the Skies, the kindly Rains
Give Beauty to the Groves and Plenty to the Plains.

Death, not to him a Meffenger of Woe,

Shook his grim Horrors from his gloomy Brow;
And thro' his mournful Vales and Caves of Night
Attendant Faith diffus'd a heav'nly Light;

She bid in Vifion to his ravish'd Eyes
A thousand shining Scenes of Glory rife;
The flaming Guards, refulgent from afar;
The fiery Courfers, and the golden Car.
Think, that you fee the radiant Prophet foar
To thofe bleft Regions, where he fighs no more;
Where led in Triumph to the Star-crown'd Throne,
Religion fmiling hails her fav'rite Son;

Bids the victorious Garland grace his Brows,
While Heav'n re-ecchos round the loud Applaufe.
Then ftop the Tear, nor forrow for the Bleft,
But with his fair Example fire thy Breast:
His Worth ftill lives; that living Worth regard,
And with like Virtue feek the fame Reward.

Thrice happy Spirit! while you praise above
A fmiling GOD, and fing a Saviour's Love,
Before the Throne with bending Cherubs ftand,
Or burn a Seraph 'midft the flame-rob'd Band;
Or the great Parent tracing thro' the Sky
From World to World, from Sphere to Sphere you fly,

And

And with exalted Thoughts and Pow'rs refin'd;
Swell the wide Circuit of th' expanding Mind;
O, if ftill conscious of our Bliss or Woe,

You look with kind Regard on ought below,
Be thou my Genius! Thy propitious Aid
Spread, Guardian-Angel, round my favour'd Head.
May the great Purpose, may the Glow divine,
That warm'd thy Bofom, now inspirit mine!
To imitate my GoD, to blefs Mankind
The fweet and fov'reign Paffion of my Mind!
Be fuch thy Praife! Be fuch my glorious Aim!
Till my Soul, kindled at so fair a Flame,

And wing'd for Blifs and Heav'n, like thine fhall rife
To join her Kindred-Angels in the Skies.

Dr. PHILIP DODDRIDGE.

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