The hoary trees reflect a filver fhow,

And groves beneath the lovely burden bow.

He from loofe vapours with an icy chain

Binds the round hail, and moulds the harden'd rain:
The ftony tempeft with a rushing found

Beats the firin glebe, refulting from the ground;
Swiftly it falls, and as it falls invades

The rifing herb, or breaks the spreading blades :
While infant flowers that rais'd their bloomy heads,
Crufh'd by its fury, fink into their beds.

When ftormy Winter from the frozen North,

Borne on his icy chariot iffues forth;

The blasted groves their verdant pride resign,
And billows harden'd into cryftal fhine:
Sharp blows the rigour of the piercing winds,
And the proud floods as with a breaft-plate binds :
Ev'n the proud feas forget in tides to roll
Beneath the freezings of the Northern pole;
There waves on waves in folid mountains rise,
And alps of ice invade the wond'ring skies;
While gulphs below, and flippery vallies lie,
And with a dreadful brightness pain the eye;
But if warm winds a warmer air restore,
And fofter breezes bring a genial fhower,
The genial fhower revives the cheerful plain,
And the huge hills flow down into the main.

When the feas rage, and the loud Ocean rpars,
When foaming billows lafh the founding fhores;
If he in thunder bid the waves fubfide,
The waves obedient fink upon the tide,
A fudden peace controuls the limpid deep,
And the ftill waters in foft filence fleep.
Then heaven lets down a golden-ftreaming ray,
And all the broad expanfion flames with day!
In the clear glass the Mariners defcry
A fun inverted, and a downward sky,

They

They who adventurous plow the watery way,
The dreadful wonders of the deep furvey;
Familiar with the ftorms, their fails unbind,

Tempt the rough blaft, and bound before the wind:
Now high they mount, now fhoot into a vale,
Now smooth their courfe, and feud before the gale;
There rolling monfters, arm'd in fcaly pride,
Flounce in the billows, and dafh round the tide;
There huge Leviathan unwieldy moves,
And through the waves, a living ifland, roves;
In dreadful paftime terribly he fports,
And the vast Ocean fcarce his weight fupports;
Where'er he turns, the hoary deeps divide,
He breathes a tempeft, and he spouts a tide.

Thus, Lord, the wonders of earth, sea, and air,
Thy boundlefs wifdom, and thy power declare;
Thou high in glory, and in might serene,
See'ft and mov'ft all, thyself unmov'd, unseen:
Should men and angels join in fongs to raise
A grateful tribute equal to thy praise,
Yet far thy glory would their praise outshine,
Though men and angels in the song should join ;
For though this earth with skill divine is wrought,
Above the guefs of man, or angel's thought,
Yet in the fpacious regions of the fkies

New fcenes unfold, and worlds on worlds arife;
There other orbs round other funs advance,
Float on the air, and run their mystic dance:
And yet the power of thy Almighty hand
Can build another world from every fand.

JOHN POOLE.

4163.

THE

Arminian Magazine,

For FEBRUARY 1792.

DIALOGUES on PREDESTINATION.

[By Dr. WOBACK, fometime BISHO of WORCESTER.] DIALOGUE II.

DIOTRE PHES and CARNALIS.

Calvinifm a cloak for the Carnal, and an obftacle to Converfion.

ELL. met, neighbour Carnalis.

DIO. WE
WELL

fo early?

What earncft

business makes you poft fo faft this way, and

CAR. Sir, I am going to my counfellor, for his advice. about a purchase. We live in an age fo full of hypocrify and fraud, we had need take all the care we can to make things fure, and prevent the machinations of deceivers.

Dio. I cannot blame you, that you are fo cautious in your transactions for the world; for by this prudent course you may VOL. XV.

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prevent