Carmen Seculare, for the Year 1700. To the King. The firft Hymn of Callimachus. To Jupiter. p. 167 Prologue, Spoken at Court before the Queen, On An Ode. Infcribed to the Memory of the Ho- nourable Col. George Villiers, Drowned in the River Piava, in the Country of Friuli. In Imi- tation of Horace, Ode 28. Lib. 1. Henry and Emma, a Poem upon the Model of the An Ode, humbly infcrib'd to the Queen. On PO. POEMS ON Several Occafions. ON EXODUS III. 14. I am that I am... An O D E. Written in 1688, as an Exercife at St. John's College, Cambridge. M AN! foolish Man! Ebegan, Scarce know'st thou how thy felf Scarce haft thou Thought enough to prove Thou art, Yet fleel'd with ftudy'd Boldness, thou dar'ft try To fend thy doubting Reafon's dazled Eye Through the mysterious Gulph of vaft Immenfity. Much thou canft there difcern, much thence impart. Vain Wretch fupprefs thy knowing Pride, Mortifie thy learned Luft; Vain are thy Thoughts, while thou thy felfart Duft. Let Wit her Sails, her Oars let Wisdom lend, Yet cease to hope thy fhort-liv'd Bark shall ride Still 'tis farther from its End; And in the Bofom of that boundless Sea Still finds its Error lengthen with its Way, III. With daring Pride and infolent Delight Your Doubts refolv'd you boaft, your Labours crown'd, And, "Eugnna! your God, forfooth, is found Incomprehenfible and Infinite. But is he therefore found? Vain Searcher! no: That nothing you, the weak Definer, know. IV. Say, IV. Say, why fhou'd the collected Main It felf within it felf contain? Why to its Caverns fhou'd it fometimes creep, On the lov'd Bofom of its Parent Deep? 'Till Winds and Tides exert their high Command? Then prompt and ready to obey, Why do the rifing Surges Spread Their op'ning Ranks o'er Earth's fubmiffive Head, Marching through different Paths to different Lands? V. Why does the constant Sun With meafur'd Steps his radiant Journeys run? To leave Earth's other Part, and rise in ours ? |