The Complaint; Or Night Thoughts, And the Force of Religion
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Deatli of that death I fearless once survey 'd !-r- When horror universal shall descend, And Heaven's dark concave urn all human race, 830 On that enormous, unrefunding tomb, How just this verse ; this monumental sigh !' — *' Beneath the lumber of demolish'd worlds, Deep in the rubbish of the general wreck, Swept ignominious to the common mass 835 Of matter, never dignified with life, Here lie proud rationals ; the sons of Heaven ! The lords of Earth ! the property of worms ! Beings of yesterda...y, and no to-rnorrow ! Who lived in terror, and in pangs expired ! 840 All gone to rot in chaos, or to make Their happy transit into blocks or brutes. Nor longer sully their Creator's name." Lorenzo ! hear, pause, ponder, and pronounce. Just is this history ? if such is man, 845 Mankind's historian, though divine, might weep ; And dares Lorenzo smile ? — I know thee proud ! For once let pride befriend thee : Pride looks pale At such a scene, and sighs for something more. Amid thy boasts, presumptions, and displays, 850 And art thou then a shadow ?
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