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A CONTEMPLATION

ON NIGHT.

BY GAY.

WHETHER amid the gloom of Night I stray,

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Or my glad eyes enjoy revolving day,

Still Nature's various face informs my fenfe
Of an all-wife, all-powerful Providence.

When the pay fun first breaks the shades of Night,
And strikes the diftant eastern hills with light,
Colour returns, the plains their livery wear,
And a bright verdure clothes the finiling year;

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And grazing flocks their milky fleeces fhow;
The barren cliffs with chalky fronts arise,
And a pure azure arches o'er the skies.
But when the gloomy reign of Night returns
Stript of her fading pride, all Nature mourns:

The trees no more their wonted verdure boast,
But weep, in dewy tears, their beauty lost: Y
No diftant landfcapes draw our curious eyes,ser
Wrapt in Night's robe the whole creation lies: {
Yet ftill, even now, while darkness clothes the land,
We view the traces of th' Almighty hand;
Millions of ftars in Heav'n's wide vault appear,
And with new glories hang the boundlefs fphere:
The filver Moon her weftern couch forfakes,
And o'er the fkies her nightly circle makes;
Her folid globe beats back the funny rays,
And to the world her borrow'd light repays.

Whether those stars that twinkling luftre fend
Are funs, and rolling worlds thofe funs attend,
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Yet all his fyftems but conjectures are;

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Who bid this univerfe from nothing spring, iw-en
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And rifing worlds th' all-powerful word shall hear.!

When to the western main the fun defcends,
To other lands a rifing day he lends

The fpreading dawn another shepherd fpies,
The wakeful; flocks from their warm folds arise;
Refrefl'd the peafant feeks his early toil,

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And when thofe lands the bufy fun forfakes,
With us again the rofy morning wakes;
In lazy fleep the night rolls fwift away,on
And neither clime laments his abfent ray

When the pure foul is from the body flown,
No more fhall Night's alternate reign be known;
The fun no more shall rolling light bestow,

But from th' Almighty ftreams of glory flow.
Oh! may fome nobler thought my foul employ,"
Than empty, tranfient, fublunary joy.

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perfection dawning on her mind,
All beauty's treasure op'ning on her cheek,

Each flatt'ring hope fubdu'd, each with refign'd,
Does gay Ophelia this lone mansion feek,

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Does fome angelic lonely-whifp'ring voice,

Some facred impulfe, or fome dream divine, Approve the dictates of thy early choice? Approach with confidence the aweful shrine.

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.Pronounce the vow thou never canft repeal.

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Who fay--"That Peace, with all her comely train, "From starry regions to his clime defcends "Smooths ev'ry frown, and foftens every pain:

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"Celestial Hope fits fmiling at their breast;"

Sufpect their fyren fong and artful style,

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