He, who through vast immensity can pierce, Observe how system into system runs, thor What other planets, while other suns, that which 25 What varied being peoples every star, May tell why Heaven has made us as we are. 30 Looked through? or can a part contain the whole? Is the great chain, that draws all to agree, when it is And drawn supports, upheld by God, or thee? II. Presumptuous man! the reason wouldst thou find, 35 Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind? Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks were made 40 23-28. He, who can pierce, see, and observe, may tell, &c. When a nom case is immediately followed by a relative, you must look for its verb beyond the relative sentence and its connections. 29-32. Has thy pervading soul looked through the bear ings, ties, &c., of this frame? 37. If thou canst guess, then guess the harder reason. Guess in the end of the line is in the imp. mode. 40. Then the weeds, which they shade, are made. 42. Why Jupiter's moons or satellites, are less than the planet itself? Of systems possible, if 'tis confest, That wisdom infinite must form the best, Then, in the scale of reasoning life, 'tis plain, Is only this, if God has placed him wrong? In human works, though labor'd on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain; •hurpose" In God's, one single can its end produce, Yet serves to second too some other use. So man, who here seems principal alone, for a Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown, man Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal; 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole. 45 50 55 60 When the proud steed shall know why man restrains His fiery course, or drives him o'er the plains; 43. If 'tis confest, that infinite Wisdom must form the best of possible systems. 45. Where all must fall, or not be coherent. 49. Wrangle may be, by hypothesis, put in the imp. m. or in the subj. m.if we or you wrangle. 50. The phrase, if God has placed him wrong, is in oposition with question. 51. Respecting, by some, is called a prep. and it may be a part. That, respecting man, which we call wrong 55. In God's works one single purpose, can, &c When the dull ox, why now he breaks the clod, Then shall man's pride and dullness comprehend His actions', passions', being's, use and end; 66 Why doing, suff'ring, check'd, impell'd; and why This hour a slave, the next a deity. Then say not, man's imperfect, Heaven in fault; What matter, soon or late, or here, or there? As who began a thousand years ago. 75 III. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know : Or who could suffer being here below? 80 63. Oxen were offered in sacrifice by most of the ancients, as well as the Jews. With the Egyptians, the speties ox, was sacred, and an object of worship. When heir god, the bull Apis, died, in the reign of Ptolemy Lagas, the expenses of his funeral pomp exceeded 50,000 French crowns. 75. Blest, a part. used for its s. or, the man, who is (or who began to be) blest to-day, &c. 76. Years-Nouns of time and distance, and manner, with the noun, home, are put in the obj. case, without any word expressed to govern them -a prep. being understood. 80. Being is a noun- - Who could suffer (i. e. bear the ourden of) existence here below. which The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, And now a bubble burst, and now a world. .90 Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; 95 Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind 81. If the lamb, which thy riot dooms, &c. (if he) had thy reason, would he skip and play? He is only a repetition of the subject, and in app. with lamb. 85. Interjections govern both the nom. and obj. of pronouns, but the nom. only of nouns. 87. Who relates to Heaven, which is here used for God, and God, in the end of the line, is connected with who, by the conj. as-or, those nouns which follow the conj. as, and have a like meaning with those to which they are connected, may be considered in apposition with the same. 32. Wait for the great teacher. By a particular usage of language, the obj. case is put after many verbs which do not pass over to them, as the real objects of an action. His soul proud science never taught to stray 106 Yet simple nature to his hope has given, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire; 110 But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, 115 IV. Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense, In pride, in reasoning pride our error lies; 120 125 102. To the solar walk, that is, the circuit of the sun. 113. Go, thou, who art wiser than the poor Indian. 115. Call that, imperfection, which thou fanciest to be such. 120. If he be not alone made, &c. then snatch |