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the peasant's cot, The shipboy's hammock, or the soldier's straw, Whence sorrow never chased thee; with thee bring, Not hideous visions, as of late; but draughts Delicious of well-tasted, cordial, rest; Man's rich restorative; his balmy bath, That supples, lubricates, and keeps in play The various movements of this nice machine, Which asks such frequent periods of repair. When tired with vain rotations of the day, 2190 Sleep winds us up for the succeeding dawn; Fresh we spin on, till sickness clogs our wheels, Or death quite breaks the spring, and motion ends. When will it end with me? ----"Thou only know'st, Thou, whose broad eye the future, and the past, Joins to the present; making one of three To moral thought! Thou know'st, and Thou alone, All-knowing!--all unknown!--and yet well known! Near, though remote! and, though unfathom'd, felt! 2200 And, though invisible, for ever seen! And seen in all! the great and the minute: Each globe above, with its gigantic race, Each flower, each leaf, with its small people swarm'd, (Those puny vouchers of Omnipotence!) To the first thought, that asks, 'From whence?' declare Their common source. Thou Fountain, running o'er In rivers of communicated joy! Who gavest us speech for far, far humbler themes! Say, by what name shall I presume to call 2210 Him I see burning in these countless suns, As Moses, in the bush? Illustrious Mind! The whole creation, less, far less, to Thee, Than that to the creation's ample round. 2214 How shall I name Thee?--How my labouring soul Heaves underneath the thought, too big for birth! "Great System of perfections! Mighty Cause Of causes mighty! Cause uncaused! sole Root Of nature, that luxuriant growth of God! First Father of effects! that progeny Of endless series; where the golden chain's Last link admits a period, who can tell? 2222 Father of all that is or heard, or hears! Father of all that is or seen, or sees! Father of all that is, or shall arise! Father of this immeasurable mass Of matter multiform; or dense, or rare; Opaque, or lucid; rapid, or at rest; Minute, or passing bound! in each extreme Of like amaze, and mystery, to man. 2230 Father of these bright millions of th
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