CLIX. Beneath his favoured tree, by whirlwinds reared, And from the severed rock shot bold in air, Eve's toil-relaxing seat still kind appeared; While, storm-refreshed, its umbrage seemed more fair : High o'er the wreck the vigorous boughs presideThey look the Boor, and all his cares deride. CLX. As pines the eagle where his aërie hung But late by night's black tempests flung, Then pensive leads to where the shade allures. CLXI. With day had Virgo fled; but night proclaims O'er light and darkness, hope and guilty fear. A SCRIPTURAL APPENDIX ΤΟ THE BOOR: ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE SPIRITUAL IMPORT OF THE POEM; ARRANGED IN THE ORDER OF THE STANZAS; AND WITH THEM DILIGENTLY TO BE COMPARED. Γράψον ἃ εἶδεις, καὶ ἃ εἰσι, καὶ ἃ μέλλει γίνεσθαι μετὰ ταῦτα· ΑΠΟΚ. Κεφ. α'. ιθ'. APPENDIX. NOTE. THE figurative and scriptural import of The Boor, as well as its permanent application in matters of religious moment, will, it is presumed, be more accurately and more satisfactorily ascertained by the reader after a careful and minute comparison of the lines, often of the single words, in its stanzas, with the appropriate passages from Holy Writ contained in this Appendix, than if he had been left entirely to himself. A cursory attention to the poem must convey an impression arising purely from the imagery and circumstances of the true narrative; while to a close observer, a comparison of the words and clauses of each particular stanza, with the texts as they are applied in the following selection from the Sacred Record, will communicate an impression of a more exalted and spiritual nature. He will thus discern in the four first lines of the first stanza a figure of that state of religion, against which Inspiration has raised the holy voice and denunciations of Prophecy, with whose admonitions every true disciple of Jesus ought faithfully and honestly to be made acquainted; and on whose eagle wing the Israel of God ought to rise above the storms that gather around them. The fifth line, besides its literal and direct effect, is, in like manner, intended to confirm the pious reader in the belief that the Almighty never leaves himself without a witness in the human breast, to testify against error, falsehood, and oppression; while the sixth and last line will be found to bear an allusion to the lofty and commanding elevation to which the eye of the Christian church has been elevated, that she might see and perceive; and that, in the event of her loving darkness and ignorance, rather than light and wisdom, her downfal and condemnation might be the heavier, and without excuse. 1st Stanza. Rev. i. 7.-Behold he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. Joel ii. 1, 2.-Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain : let all the inhabitants of the land tremble for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand; a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains. 4th Stanza. Mark xiv. 72.-And the second time the cock crew. And Peter called to mind the word that Jesus said unto him, Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. And when he thought thereon, he wept. Psalm lxxvii. 14, 15, 17, 18.—Thou art the God that doest wonders; Thou hast declared thy strength among the people. Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people the sons of Jacob and Joseph. The clouds poured out water: the skies *Acts xiv. 17. |