An Elegy written in a Country Church-Yard 142 To the Right Honourable the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Mr. Addison................. Reflections by a Clergyman in Virginia, return- The Shepherd and the Philosopher A Description of a Man perishing in the Snow; THE BEAUTIES OF THE POETS. ON CREATION. MILTON. THE Son On His great expedition now appear'd, Celestial equipage: and now came forth Far into Chaos, and the world unborn; For Chaos heard His voice: Him all His train Creation, and the wonders of His might 5 And said, Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds, This be thy just circumference, O world! Thus GOD the heaven created, thus the earth, Matter unform'd and void: darkness profound Cover'd th' abyss; but on the wať'ry calm, His brooding wings the Spirit of GoD outspread, And vital virtue infus'd, and vital warmth Throughout the fluid mass, but downward purg'd The black, tartareous, cold, infernal dregs, Adverse to life: then founded, then conglob'd Like things to like, the rest to several place Disparted, and between spun out the air, And earth, self-balanc'd, on her centre hung. Let there be light, said GoD, and forthwith light By the celestial quoirs, when orient light, Birth-day of heaven and earth: with joy and shout |