Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1813-04-03
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GOD IN ALL.
! The thoughtless, weak, and guiisy lea'.
When sudden bursts the thunoer
5, round;
Awe.struck, an angry Cop they hear,
when rumbling earthquakes rack ms
& ground.
Then, with religious fear impressd,
Aad trembling heart to Him thsy
pray, ;,
Whom they behold in terror dress,d'
His out-stretch'd venyeful aSn 10
stay.
But the rejecting mind serene
The great ErERNAL doth adore,
IL natures mild and tranquil scene,
AS in the elemental roar.
Il views him in the brightest day
Guide tbro' the Heaysns the source
of light;
It views him when with silver ray
The varying moon doth deck the
night:
1t views him in the SUNNY shower,
As in stern winters bowling storm,
It views him in the smallest tl,wer,
AS the huge rocks tremendous Torn:
II views him in the breeze OF spting,
AS when the fierce tornadoes blow:
1t views him in the beetles wing,
And views him in the heavenly bow ::
It views him in the riv'let's bed,
Alike as in the biIlo~y main !:
And a, an Etna's burning head,
It views him on the verdant plain.
Through animated nature views
With every various form combiu'd,
But chief, where man superior shews,
1t vie W. him in the reasoning mind.
Il views, encompass and pervade
All nature, MS eternal powers
Til! incomprehensible display'd!
And Con unseen IN all adsrcs.
IX Medifase on HesUen--enongh 81
earth / know."
In she gay season Of youth, wnen the
passions are ardent and the brilliant visi-
ons of fancy bewilder HE mind, we sell
dom attend to the grave admonitlons ct
Prudence, or profit by the lessons of
Experience. Intent on future prospects
only, we design not to take arernosPec-
tive viewsof life, and enquire how this
error or that folly might have been "a
yoided, To awaken reflection. the mo-
nitor must be ever present. Happy Tor
US if we all had the wisdom to discern
and profit by the daily mcus,ians which
God himself hath diffased through the
universe.
Behold then, young man, the symbols
of transitory time, obviously drawn BY
the finger of Omnipotence
Cast thine eye over the now Y!eaf1ess
forest, which ere while ,eened with the
blooming verdure of spring and the To-
liage of summer.-Seest thou not the
trunks and branches bNed by the hoary
frost and the rude November blast 3
But a few weeks since, and the woods
began to assume the varied sickly hue of
Autumn. A dreadful melancholy ST.
lence peryaded the forest; the feathered
.songsters bad retired to its recesses, or /.
taken their flight to milder chimes. Dost
thou NOT here recognize resemblance
OF thy own life
The blooming spring and the fevcrish
summer of thy existence, hasten away
with accelerated pace-AutumD rapidly
succeeds; and the cold icy winter of
age and death must close the year of thy
life. Be prepared then, young man, for
each successive change :--Re1act often
on thy past life LET the errors and
vices of others serve as Beacons to di-
rect thee in the paths of virtua--So
shalt thou reap rich harvest in autumn,
and like yon tall stately evergreen, thou
shalt Withstand the bowling storm Of
winter, and flourish in immortal verdare
beyond the Grave. YORICK.