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POET R Y.

To SILVIA.

[By Mifs Steele.]

MY lovely Silvia, while in blooming youth
Your mental powers are active all and gay,

Attend the voice (the voice of Love and Truth)
That courts your notice in the moral lay.

Those active
the Lord of nature gave,
powers
To Reafon's rule by Choice alone confined:
For Reason's empire never knew a slave;
Her fway is gentle, and her laws are kind.
Her fubjects take their orders from her eye,
While the to each their various task afligns &
And now o'er Nature's ample field they fly,
A field far richer than Peruvian-mines.
Here with unwearied diligence they rove,
Collecting treasures to enrich the mind;
And many a plant (through nature's fragrant grove
Of virtues rare, and fadeless bloom, they find.
And now with treasures fraught returning home,
Before their Queen difplay the facred spoil:
And while arranged in order round her dome,
Her approbation crowns the pleafing toil.

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When chilled by Time's cold hand, thofe fprightly powers
Inclined to reft, no longer chufe to roam,

Thofe mental ftores fhall cheer the wintry hours,
And flowers unfading breathe their fweets at home.
Extracting food amid the vernal bloom,

So flies the industrious bee around the vale,
With native skill the forms the waxen-comb,

To keep for wintry-days the rich regale.

Defiring

Defiring a Cheerful RESIGNATION to the DIVINE WILL

W

[By the fame.]

HY breathes my anxious heart the frequent figh?
Why from my eye-balls drops the ready tear?

Is it to mark how prefent bleffings fly?

Is it that griefs to come awake my fear?

O may I fill with thankful heart enjoy

The various gifts indulgent heaven bestows! Nor let ungrateful diffidence deftroy

The prefent good, with fears of future woes,

Nor let me curious afk if dark or fair

My future hours; but in the hand divine, With full affiance, leave my every care;

Be humble hope and refignation mine.

Celeftial guests! your fmile can cheer the heart,
When melancholy spreads her deepening gloom *
O come! your animating power impart,

And bid fweet flowers amid the defart bloom

Yes, bere and there, amid the dreary wild
A spot of verdure cheers the languid eye
And now and then a fun-beam, warm and mild,
Sheds its kind influence from a clement sky.

My God, my guide, be thou for ever near!
Support my steps, point out my devious way;
Preferve my heart from every anxious fear;

Gild each dark scene with thy enlivening ray

Be earth's quick changing feenes, or dark, or fair,
On thy kind arm, O bid my foul recline:
Be heaven-born hope (kind antidote of care)
And humble, cheerful refignation mine,

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MR WILL DUTTON

Etatis 36.

THE

Arminian Magazine,

For OCTOBER 1786.

An EXTRACT from Dr. WHITBY'S DISCOURSES on the

FIVE

POINTS.

CHAP. VI. Arguments from Reafon for Univerfal Redemption.

V.WE

[Continued from page 469.]

7E find our Saviour marvelling at the unbelief of his own people. Now could he who knew they could not believe, wonder that they did not? Again, When he heard the answer of the Centurion, He marvelled, faying, Verily I have not found so great faith, no not in Ifrael; but if this faith is the effect of an Almighty power, what reafon could he have to marvel, that it was found where that Almighty power was exerted? or that it was not found where the fame power was with-held? To clear this by fome few inflances from fcripture.

1ft. St. Matthew informs us that Chrift upbraided the cities in which most of his mighty works were done, because they VOL. IX.

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repented

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