move And Mercy doth her miracles renew 17. Soon after up and down such Symptoms flie As too too well thy fury testifie The Spring-tide there-of rises high God fights against me with varietie 18. Was it for this that I was born Was it for this my mothers womb was torn Was it for this she underwent such pain And groan'd some hours and then rejoyc'd again That I my self all my life long might mourn Oh that I but once had cry'd Oh that I in my Nurses arms had dy'd 19. Oh that I had ne'r been seen Then I had been and yet not been I h'd found a bur'al in my mother Earth As soon as t'other e'r had gi'n me birth 20. The days which I have yet to see How scarcely worth the numbering they be Then give me room to draw my breath And sing a little just before my death 21 22. Before I go unto that boundless shade Where there 's no Mot'on Retrograde Before I go into that darksom dale Before I sink into that deadly vale Where Order is Confusion And Night eternal muffles up the Sun XI 1 2. THen up stood the Naamathite And Sha'nt we all these words with words requite Sha'nt we quoth he this prating fool indite 3. What shall your Auditors dispence With Falshood back't by Impudence Shan't we take notice of your Pride Which makes you others so deride And with a Medium from thence Make you those scornful looks in blushes hide 4. For you appear secure Both that your Doctrine's pure And that your life will Heavens test endure 5. Now oh that God his lips and heav'n would move And thee in these thy Reasonings disprove 6. Oh that he would his Wisdom show In its ev'ry mystery Whereof thou only half dost see In the mean time I 'd have you know His wrath is short of thy Impiety 7. Canst thou the full Dimensions take Of the Great All in all Canst thou of him a Definition make Which shall be Essential 8. His works as high as heaven swell What there-of canst thou tell They reach below the lowest hell What there-of canst thou spell 9. The Length thereof is more Than by Earths Axis can be measured The Breadth thereof exceeds the space that 's spread 'Twixt Ez'on-gaber and the Ophir shore 10. If he by sword or sickness Thousands slay If Myr'ads in fast hold he lay Bundles of life suppose he throw away Who can him in his fury stay 11. He knows he knows our vanity He sees how impious we be And w'ont he make use of what he doth see 12. A whimsy 't is possesses some That they will needs be thought Prudential Although into the world they come As silly Colts from the wild Asses fall 13. If thy heart upward rise Thy Index-hand still pointing to the skies 14. If what was faulty yester-night This morning's Reformat'on right And no uncleanness in thy lodging lies 15. Thou shalt shew thy honest face And challenge Physiognomy Any thing there-in to descry Which she can construe unto thy disgrace Thou shalt be nobly bold And shalt not fear to be controul'd 16. For thou shalt former miserie forget In new Joys Oc'an that absorp't shall be As any petty Rivulet Is in th'adjoyning vast Arab'an Sea 17. The glor'ous Sun when Culminant Shall much of thy splendor want And when he rises and first visits us Himself shall look like thy Parelius 18. Confidence alwaies is secure And thou shalt on just grounds be confident Walls thou shalt build but not thy self immure Building them not for Strength but Ornament They 'l onely serve thy Art or State to show For when thou go'st to sleep Providence the Guard shall keep And Safeties-self shall be thy bed-fellow Thou shalt no Alarum hear Thou shalt no Scalado fear Nothing shall disturb thy rest But some unseasonably-made request 20. While the great Patrons of Impiety They shall be blind as to prosperity That they never shall espie But Ruine they shall see too nigh And have this onely comfort left They can but dye 12 13 14. 1. YEs by all means Job replies 2. Take you away and where 's the Wise When you die Art and Knowledge dies 3. But stay I have my understanding too I have as well indu'd a soul as you Who could not tell all this you 've said was true 4. Just persons have Heav'n open to their crie Yet their bold neighbours at their prayer mock You 're some of these and one of those am I You make a holy Saint your laughing-stock 5. A man that 's under God's afflicting hand People will sleight As Seamen do th' Directing Light When in a dark tempest'ous night They find themselves arrived safe on Land 6. Thieves live in stately Palaces And those which heaven seem'd to scale God cannot chuse but bless And see that their provis'on never fail Ask now the Oxen in the stall Inquire of the inhab'tants of the Air Consult with this gross earthy Ball On the Sea 's scaly people call Beasts birds earth fishes will these things declare 9. Who of all these doth not well understand The World was made by that Almighty hand 10. Which the Repository is of Souls And all our breaths within its hollow holds 11. Han't words their Judge as well as meat Doth not the ear Try what we hear As well as th' Palate what we eat 12. In failing bodies thriving souls are found The hoary head is with Pan-laurels crown d 13. God is the Strong the Knowing one What 's to be done can best by him be shown 14. None can rebuild that Citadel Which once at his commandment fell Whom he confines unto their Cell The wall 's so high they can't get o'r So thick they cannot through it bore But must therein for ever dwell 15. He bids the waters cease to roar And they away in silence dry Out at his signe again they fly And bear along with them the shore 16. To be Wise and to be Strong Unto his nature do belong Legerdemain's chief Masters he commands And likewise those who lose by theft The gull'd the guller both are in his hands That in his right this in his left 17. He takes and rifles Counsellors of State Judges he doth infatuate 18. The reins he wresteth from the Magistrate And makes them draw who in the Royal char'ot sate 19. He seiseth on and plunders mighty Kings And o'r great Princes Epinic'ons sings 20. He strikes the confident Declamers dumb That they can't finish their Exordium Those that are wise men by their age He turns their Understanding into Rage 21. Princes into contempt he brings And makes puissant Warr'ours puny things 22. He through the Ocean of Darkness wades And fetches thence what lay hid there Thither he sends inlightned aire Where Death sits Queen in her eternal shades 23. His blessing makes the Nat'ons multiply Anon he cuts 'um off as fast He gives 'um room wherein at ease to lie And recontracts that room at last 24. That unto
absolute is God's command Yet is it not attended with disdain Notice by him of ev'ry one is ta ne Who ha's both a strong head and hand 6. He 'll have no Malefactors death deferr'd He 'll have all honest men be fully heard 7. The righteous by him are own'd and own'd They are the Nobles they 're the onely Peers So setled in the State they have no fears Of being e'r dethron'd 8. But then again when once his favor fails And they prove only fit to people Jails When they are laid in hold Shackled with pains As common pris'ners are with chains 9. Then of their former deeds they 're told And shewn where-in they 've been too free Where-in they 've taken too much liberty 10. Their lately Adder-ear Quickly wide open doth appear Unto Afflict'ons charm By which when once admonish'd they begin To leave their heav'n-provoking sin And cease to do their neighbours harm 11. If they obey And mind what Miseries sharp voice doth say Obed'ence sure Felicity shall bring Their days shall all Be Festival And all the Quarters of their year be Spring 12. If otherwise unhappy they The Sword shall send 'um e'n like brutes away 13. But they that so demurely act their part As to be rotten in their heart And yet in appearance sound Do but for themselves invent New Degrees of punishment While far enough from to Relent Though in Adversities strong fetters bound 14. In their Prime they 're snatcht away As the unclean die so die they 15. He saves the poor in their distress 'T is in designe he doth oppress That so his Counsel they may heed And follow'ng it be freed 16. He has help't thousands at their need And would be sure have helped thee no less He would have brought thee out of all thy straits Thy Sitnah Rehcboth had been Thy Zoar a whole Palestine And he that at thy table waits Nothing but marrow should have served in 17. But now what plagues to them are due Which from Right'ousness do swerve All those your Actions deserve And Justice now doth justly seise on you 18. He hath an Attribute Which we his Justice call 'T will be your wisdom to look to 't Lest under that you fall For then whole worlds paid down upon the nail To ransom your lost soul cannot prevail 19. He will with scorn behold Thy bags of Gold And slight thy sword and shield and coat of mail â—â— Wish not among those Millions to lie who 're sent by night to endless woe or rest 21. Such imp'ous thoughts detest Which to thy breast Some evil sp'rits suggest Making thee wish rather out-right to dye Than live and suffer farther misery 22. Be 't known unt ' ye Th' Almighty one alone is he Who places men in high degree And he best teaches peasants Emperors to be 23. Who is' t can order him what way to take Or say he doth the Righteous path forsake 24. Forget not Sir to have a rev'rend thought Of him who this rare frame hath wrought 25. This Frame which men are born to look upon And which they see Though ne'r so far they be For still they 're near to some part of th'Creation 26. He 's so transcendentally great That Metaphysick's but a cheat Which doth so vainly of his Essence treat And such is his Eternity That we no shore can ever see 'Twixt which the Ocean thereof should beat 27. Humid Molecula's which we call Rain Upon the parched Earth he pour's Vapors drawn up drop down again And turn to showr's 28. Show'rs which down from th' hollow heaven drill As from the head of some vast Still And mans beloved Earth with moisture fill 29. I wonder who 'll declare Whence 't is the clouds so great a breadth should bear Whence 't is they make such noises in the aire 30. Through these His light on us doth glance Who hides with waves the bottom of the sea 31. These testifie how Just is He How well he deals with him and thee and me These help the Earth to yield us sustenance 32. These he is us'd to interpose 'twixt us And yonder Sun the source of Light So that the Sun 's no longer bright By these Opacities eclipsed thus 33. As with a less or greater noise they move The tempest doth or less or greater prove The Signe doth with the Signify'd agree Quick-sighted beasts th' ascending Vapor see And thence fore-tell what kind of show'r 't is like to be 1. HEreat my heart within me strangely stirr'd With trembling struck A leap it took Down from the Second Ventr'cle to the Third 2. Hark hark The Thund'rer speaks Mark how he rattles mark When his mouth opens what a noise he makes 3. A noise which under the whole heav'n he sends His Light'ning sees where Nature ends 4. That goes before his Thunder follows His Excellency loudly hollows Then weep the clouds and hardly cease When once he has discharg'd the warning piece 5. You hear the Thunders rumbling noise That Thunder 's but his ordinary voice His Atchievements are so great Our Fancy to them is not adequate 6. Sometimes he gives command unto the Snow Go thou harmless Met'or go Take up thy quarters now below Thy myr'ads of pure flakes display Which rather Whitenesses appear than White Those Ends of Light Those minutes of a super-added day Particles of that wooll whose greater flocks Silver the Summer-Equinox There six stupendous branches show Which in such equal Length and Number grow That they who into Natures works inquire Their var'ous figure may admire And wonder more at me who made them so Sometimes again He gives command unto the Rain Go Drops ye gentle ones and small On such and such sown Acres fall And with your moisture feed The usefully corrupting seed And help it to grow tall Sometimes he gives the mighty Show'rs a call Go Drops of great bulk and strength Dark such a peoples aire and then at length Beat down their standing Corn and spoil it all 7. When Artists go to work he makes 'um stay At his command Numness attacques their active hand That so while they Keeping a ted'ous Holy-day Of their Act'ons cannot vaunt His Actions alone may be predominant 8. He sends Brute-animals home to their cell Thither they go and there they idly dwell 9. From his South point the Whirl-wind rowls His freezing Guards send cold 10. He breaths forth frost And then the Waters former breadth is lost 11. He uses swelling Clouds to drain By squeezing out their rain Smooth-painted ones he scatters all about And so the cur'ous Bow goes out 12. Round go they at his decree And so fulfill Th' Eternal will And order things as he would have 'um be 13. As 't pleases him about they 're hurl'd Either his people to annoy Or to increase their joy Or else in common Love to all the world 14. You Job attend sit to 't and ruminate Upon Gods wondrous works which I relate 15. Canst thou the time
Cannot the force thereof endure 'T is come and brought along with 't thy distress 6. This 't is to be so safe so sure So confident and so secure This 't is to fancy a fine Right'ousness 7. Go ask the Sun if he did ever see Goodness co-subjected with misery Or if the Sun When such a thing begun May be suspected to have hid his face Time in anc'ent records trace And see if ever an unhappy end Did on a holy life attend 8. I in my time have seen They that plow vice they that sow sin The fruits there-of at harvest gather'd in And answerable to the seed the crop has been 9. But breath'd upon They 're gone and gone God blasteth them and that they sow That neither doth to full perfect'on grow 10. The fiercest Lions roaring voice Iâ— proveth but an empty noise The lusty Lion in his vig'rous youth Has much ado His meat to chew With scarcely half a tooth 11. While the decrepit one Oft pines away For want of prey His kind provider being gone And the stout old ones whelps about are thrown 12. Now I 'le communicate what I have found I found it though I know not where It gently brusht my ear Like to some Eccho's just expiring sound 13. About the time when Mortals on their beds Strange apparitions spy And their affrighted eye Awakes their heads When fancy's high thoughts are as deep And thereunto proport'on keep When sense is fast lock't up by sleep 14. A Vis'on made me fear it made me shake It made my dislocated bones to quake 15. A thing did pass Before my face Some Incorpor'al Substance 't was At the unus'al fight My hair grew stiff and stood upright 16. It s mot'on seem'd to gull my eye Afterwards it fixed stood But that would do no good I could not yet its shape descry Something indeed I saw confusedly Heaven and Earth and all in them was still At last these words my ears did fill Words formed in the aire And to my apprehension these they were 17. What will the stream Absurdly dream Of being purer than the Fountain is Will frail mortality More just than the Creator be Will miserable man contend with bliss 18. The Officers which in his Court did move Some were unwise some did unfaithful prove And basely from their station fell They had no arts They had no parts Or if they had they us'd 'um to rebell God would not trust them who he knew Would much weakness shew And be to him and to themselves untrue 19. Much less can he put any trust In men who live in kindred dust Whose houses rot and slide away Being founded but on clay And whom moths animated feathers slay 20. On those that rose in health and ease Noon-tide distempers seise O'r whom the midday dangers pass A sure destruction at night doth fall And like white-powder in the hollow brass They 're light go out and make no noise at all 21. Their glorious youth must yield to age Their noble souls like those which we Brand with Irrationality Must one day take their leave of their spruce earthly cage 1. GO make a noise unto the rising Sun Let th' hereabout so Sacred Fire First hear and then accomplish thy desire To Angels or men now Immortal run Which of 'um all When thou dost call Will free thee from the tort'ring gout Which save thy tooth from being taken out Which will the stone within thee break Which cause thy head no more to ake Which cause thy Palsie-arm no more to shake 2. Their healing pow'r can't be so strong But men more pow'rful are themselves to wrong Anger 's flame burns up their hearts And Envy's canker eats away their inward parts 3. My self a fool have often seen By fool a wicked man I mean I 've seen him surely fixt at rest Friends wife children meat Cattel goods estate and seat He had of ev'ry thing the best And him that heaven blest I also blest But soon that best was turn'd to worst His sap soon dry'd His root soon dy'd And him that heaven curst I also curst 4. As for his luckless progeny Where Safety is I cannot tell But where 't is not know very well 'T is far far enough off when they are nigh They 're mis'rably prest out of breâ—th In the gates built to keep out death Their ruine they receive While no man brings or pardon or reprieve 5. All that the field At reaping time doth yield Is made a prey to puny-starv'ling-thieves And then for their houshold-stuff In comes a vilain bold and strong enough And the poor orphans of their goods bereaves 6. Thistles I know not look't to sprout Briers from untill'd earth spring out But sorrows pricks and cares black thorns Soul-wounding crosses Undoing losses Biting mocks and cutting scorns None of these can ever grow But what an unseen hand doth sow 7. That fire which the Creator blends With water air and chiefly earth To give the sons of Adam birth It hath no weight and so ascends But that wherewith he 's pleas'd to try mankind 'T is very ponderous we find And unto us as to its center tends 8. You cannot know By weal or woe Whether a man be just or no Therefore unto a higher Court I flie His Verdict shall be past on me HE shall be my Referree 9. Into whose works we cannot see Nor comprehend how many or how great they be 10. Who doth proportionately pour On every bow'r It s proper show'r And doth his universal dew Over the universal Earth renew 11. Look any wheel upon Observe it and its motion The fortune of the World is such His finger gives the World a touch And there-with-all the lowest spoke ascends And there-with-all the highest downward tends 12. He gulls State-Artists in such sort That they of their designs come short 13. The cur'ous threds of Policy they spin Prove halters for to hang them in The wisest plot of every peevish soul Sent out from Reasons Capitol From thence as from a precipice doth headlong roll 14. Twelve at Mid-day and twelve at Night Is all alike to their dull sight And they at both those hours are blind Nor can they soon At very Noon What 's just before 'um find 15. 'T was their intent To seise upon the innocent Who by the help of God escape Their grasping claws Their gaping jaws 16. And so those claws now no more grasp jaws no more gape 17. Ah! happy man who is by God chastis'd Such chastisements are not to to be despis'd 18. For where he causes it he lays the pain He wounds and cures that wound again 19. If trouble chance six times to rise Six times he will deliver thee If thou' rt assail'd by seven miseries Sev'n times invulnerable thou shalt be 20. Thou shalt not food for famine be The sword when drawn shall not be sheath'd in thee 21. No thou shalt be secure And ne'r endure The lashes of a cruel jeer Nor shall
fall 25. Who can disprove me now in what I say And shew in hearing me they have but lost a day XXV 1. THe Prince of Shua made reply 2. HE lives and reigns above the sky Empire sure fixt and shaking Fear stand by There War ne'r yielded yet to Peace For what begins not cannot cease 3. Can any Numerat'on tell The Myr'ads which his colours bear Or can Geometry declare Where his enliv'ning beams ne ' r fell 4. How then can Man that heap of dust When God makes trial of him scape as just At lights tribunal how shall he be freed Whose generat'on was so dark a deed 5. The very Moon why in his sight It is eclipsed ev'ry night The Stars as out of credit quite Seem to borrow no more light 6. Much less can heated clay his sight endure Much less can Earth-worm Man be pure Or his dim glow-worm race be counted bright 26 27 28 29 30 31. 1. THen up stood Job and answered 2. T is a good Lecture you ha' read I like your words but fain would see your deeds Who e'r relies on you and speeds How have you e'r the helpless sav'd from harm How have you strengthened the strengthless arm 3. How have you ever gi'n advice To him who could not his adviser fee How hav ' you patronized Verity Biass'd by Consc'ence not by Avarice 4. What kind of words do you let fly What spirit are you acted by 5. He whom you lately spoke of he Doth influence the deepest Sea And in the bottom of it doth create Things animate and things inanimate 6. He doth the Center of the world espy The place where sinful mortals fry Where souls still dying never dye He reaches with his All-beholding eye 7. The Frozen Oc'an he doth glaze The snowy mountains he doth raise Those unknown reg'ons he stretcheth forth Making that place Which was but space And filling it with that thou call'st the North He bids the Earth thou tread'st upon Be its own building and foundation 8. Those vapours which from hence the Sun exhales With knobs of clotted water he ingrails Let subtle Physiologists declare How that weak Element the Aire Bodies more heavy than it self should bear 9. Bold Artists with their Optick tubes alone Intend to see their Makers very throne But then in steps a ragged cloud or two And their short sight through that can nothing view 10. He gives command Unto the sand The overflowing waters to withstand As long as an ensuing night Shall bound the overflowing light 11. If the stars twinkle 't is this causes it They 're taken with a trembling fit Heav'ns Arch Pylasters Pedestal All totters shakes and slides All 's ready down to fall Astonished as often as he chides 12. When the Sea too high doth flow Too mad too boisterous doth grow And of its limits too forgetful seems His hand divides it into divers streams And so â—bates the fury of the flood Proud Man is far more fur'ous than the Main He has his storms too which are laid again While God lets out and cools his heated blood 13. He by his wisdom did the Heavens frame And by his wisdom he adorn'd the same He rounded and he gilded every Sphere There he fixt Stars Planets he placed here He bid the Snake in such bright curls to flow As here with us Meander doth below 14. But all the Stars which shine in that Are but dim lamps to see our Maker at Some of his works we have look't ore But that which is unseen is more That must have end which terminates our sight But what of him 's unseen is infinite That power which makes the thunder rore We cannot comprehend and therefore must adore 1. HEre having stopt a while As sure quoth he As the Immortal God is God Whose dealings with me are so odd That though I am not void of piety He by his Act'ons so interprets me 2. As sure as he has any might Who is so mighty to oppress And my so well known Rightâ—ousness With such a desolat'on to requite 3. While that my mouth above and lungs beneath Their correspondence as they use to do Through the Rough Artery renew While God is pleas'd in me to breathe 4. That Aire which I so pure into me draw Shan't doubly whilst returned be defil'd By immixt Fumes and naughty Phrases too My Auditors shan't be beguil'd By my relating any thing untrue 5. Far be 't from me I should you justifie Who to unjustifie me strive No as long as I 'm alive I 'll still be I On my own merits I will still rely 6. With my Sincerity I will not part But am resolv'd to stick unto 't Lest my Consc'ence me confute And ring Memento's in my beating heart 7. To my Oppressor I can wish no worse Than that the Sinners fortunes may be his When for my Foe I would invent a Curse The cruell'st I can think upon is this May he obtain the Swearers heav'n the Drunkards bliss 8. For what delight can the dissembler have In his purchased Estate When God calls in the breath he gave And which when 't is call'd in he must repay 't 9. Then when he s just in sight of 's grave He ll seek commerce with Heav'n but shall he ha ' t 10. Is God his Joy his Sweet his Dear At present he may chance to pray But will he so the next and follow'ng day Will he in his Devot'on persevere 11. That strength which Heaven doth me spare I 'll spend in teaching yoâ— I will abundantly declare What God is wont to do 12. Though having seen 't as well as I Why don't you leave these follies why 13. This port'on God affords the unjust wretch And this is all he lets the mighty Hunter catch 14. The only reason why His Children multiply Is ' cause the Sword with them is to be fed But they themselves in vain shall cry Their crying shall procure but little bread 15. His for ever-cursed seed Shall die indeed be buried indeed And when he to his grave is born His widow shall not mourn She to his death shall take so little heed 16. He hoards up Silver as 't were dust And lays up Cloaths as if as cheap as clay 17. Silver and Cloaths prepare he may But one shall prove the Right'ous peoples prey The other be of use unto the Just 18. Observe the Pallace which he rears A Moth 's as good an Architect That trifling Booth the weather better bears Which th' Keeper doth ex tempore erect 19. The rich man shall into the ground be put But not into the Vault off's Family His eye shall give one glance to see If there be hopes of a recovery And then ne'r to re-open close and shut 20. Terrors about him make a tempest round But one shall prove the Right'ous peoples prey Wherein he 's overwhelm'd he sinks he 's drown'd See his frail vessel on a Dead Sea ride Hurry'd away by th' fury of the tide
21. While he on his Death-bed lies Horrible winds arise And bear away this loathsom prize Massie trees dance about and point at him When he begins to die Oaks Elms and Pines had learnt before to swim Now they attempt the air and flie As if they did officiously desire To be fuel for his urn But they alas when kindled can expire And therefore they are useless to that fire Where-in such Malefactors burn Thus to the shades the Tyrant goes A Hurricano fetches him away Whence all see whither no man knows And his last puff makes a tempestuous day 22. For God doth lay upon him and not spare Till the wretch be quite destroy'd Fain he would but can 't avoid That mighty Arm which reaches every where 23. At him shall all 's Spectators clap their hands Not in kind applause but scoff Though now upon the Royal Stage he stands Hisses shall quickly send him off 1. THere 's in the Macro-cosme a Mine Which with its rivulets of Silver seems To ape the Micro-cosmes purple streams And somewhere Artists Gold refine 2. These force Iron from the place Where it ingend ' red was And others out of melted Oar make Brass 3. God doth the finite Darkness bound He vieweth all things that perfect on have Black Rocks and light-less quarries under ground And sees into Deaths shady cave 4. Those Miners when their Mine is made And they go down into 't Their passage by a flood is staid Through which for m'ny an age no foot Had been observ'd to wade And which dries by and by away And doth them or their work no longer stay 5. Earths surface doth recruit our Butt'ry-store Her bowels send our Chimneys coals 6. There lurk Saphyres in their holes There grows the yellow oar 7. There is a path which scapes the Vulturs eyes Which never any fowl yet saw 8. Which has no print of any Lions paw Or of a bigger or a lesser size 9. He but his hand thereto applies And up by th' roots the mountain flies 10. Among the Rocks he makes streams run And sees whatever rareness maketh good 11. He bridles up the swelling flood And things that never saw 't before he shews the Sun 12. But where is Wisdom who can tell And where does Understanding dwell 13. Men know not what its price may be ' Tent above ground 'T ent among Mortals to be found 14. 'T is not in me Cries the vast Sea I have it not answers Profundity 15. It can't be purchased for Gold Talents of Silver will in vain be told 16. Ophire ingots will not do 't Onyx and Saphyre's nothing to 't 17. Low will be Golds and Chrystals rate Chrystal will be but common glass Gold but for common dirt will pass Nay you sha'nt ha 't Though you would give for 't houses full of plate 18. Coral may blush and pearls look pale This may be vexed that asham'd Because with her not to be nam'd Rubies as worthless must to Wisdom vail 19. Th' Ethiop'an Topaz to her doth not shine Nor will she be compar'd to th' Golden mine 20. Come then Philosopher and shew me this Whence Wisdom comes and where it is 21. Alas there 's none alive can tell When she 's the thing they 'd find Eagles are blind And Vultur's know not how to smell 22. Death and Destruct'on know all things too well Yet even these declare How ignorant of her they are Only her Fame they say hath reach't their cell 23. God fully knows Whither she goes And where she grows 24. For Earth to him its secrets shows And all things under Heav'n themselves to him disclose 25. He looks about The World throughout To poise the rudely rumbling wind The Ocean in unseen scales to lay And there the Waters weigh And see 'um keep the measure he assign'd 26. And when h' ordain'd how Rain the Earth should wash How Thunder crack how Light'ning flash When he did her and all things frame 27. He looked through and through the same He pleas'd to study that which he had made And gave report there-of and said 28. Here-in Vnderstanding lies To fear thy God is to be wise And Practical Theology alone Is all the Arts and Sciences in one 1. JOb farther yet replyd 2. Oh that Times tide Might backward flow And I might no more sorrow know Than I did twelve and twelvescore moons ago When God still interpos'd 'twixt me and woe 3. When of his servant careful he Held out of heav'n a candle unto me With whose fair beams my face was ray'd And with whose aid I fear'd no shade But could through Oceans of Darkness wade 4. When yet no doun upon my chin did rise When Gods more gen'ral Providence To guard my house did not suffice But I felt too his secret Influence 5. When he brought with him Heav'n into my tent When my children round me went I being Center they Circumference 6. When I had so rich a soil I trod on butter as I went it round And as if ev'ry day I had been crown'd The very rocks were found To run continually with oil 7. When I went through the town to th' Judgment-seat And rode in state along the street 8. For then the young that did me meet Stole privately away Up also rose the gray And would not see me but upon their feet 9. To talk the Princes were afraid Upon their mouths their hands they laid 10. And men of noble blood Quite speechless stood Their tongue now fail'd As if within their mouths 't were nail'd 11. Who e'r my story heard applauded me Passengers seeing me cry'd This is he 12. For I holpe Innocency against might And righted Orphans whom none else would right 13. They whom I sav'd in their extremity Thank't God first for the life He gave And then they thank't him for creating me That their expiring life to save I taught their Widows too their melody 14. Holiness was my Royal gown I put on Justice for a crown 15. Sight to the sightless I became And Loco-mot'on to the lame 16. I study'd Father-like the poor mans cause To find what I for him might say 17. I broke the persecutors cruel jaws And snatch't from thence the bleeding prey 18. Then thus my self I blest Here in my nest Here I until my glass be done shall rest Which glass of mine will not be done Till Natures stock of sand be through it run 19. My root as by the water-side I grew I did far and wide diffuse The breath of Heav'n condensed into dew Did it self ' mongst my branches lose 20. I found my blooming Glory still renew My hand was fertile earth to th' growing crooked yew 21. All men my discourse approv'd All heard with silence whatso-e'r I mov'd 22. My words once spoke were ne'r oppos'd by theirs They dropt so sweetly from my mouth into their ears 23. They long'd for them as earnestly As the parch't fields do for rain And as when they 're again adry They long in