All is of God! If he but wave his hand PRUDENCE. Prudence, when rebellious appetites NABB. Prudence, thou virtue of the mind, by which The mists collect, the rain falls thick and We do consult of all that's good or evil, loud, Till with a smile of light on sea and land, Lo! he looks back from the departing cloud. Angels of life and death alike are his; Without his leave they pass no threshold o'er; Conducting to felicity; direct My thoughts and actions by the rules of reason. NABB. Prudence protects and guides us; wit betrays; Who then would wish or dare, believing A certain snare to miseries immense, this, Against his messengers to shut the door? LOWELL. "Tis Providence alone secures Unheard, no burdened heart's appeal Unheeded by his tender eye, Falls to the earth no sufferer's tear. So Providence for us, high, infinite, Makes our necessities its watchful task, Hearkens to all our prayers, helps all our wants, And even if it denies what seems our Either denies because 'twould have us ask, A gay prerogative from common sense, And wants the staff of wisdom him to stay, And vilified at once; of reason dead, 'Tis reason our great Master holds so dear; But what is reason? Be she thus defined: 'Tis reason's injured rights his wrath resents; Reason is upright stature in the soul. 'Tis reason's voice obeyed, his glories crown; To give lost reason life he poured his own. YOUNG. Reason, the power To guess at right and wrong, the twinkling lamp YOUNG. Perverted reason revels and runs wild, COWPER. Of wand'ring life, that winks and wakes by But Reason still, unless divinely taught, turns, Fooling the follower betwixt shade and shining. CONGREVE. Alas for human reason! all is change, Ceaseless and strange; All ages form new systems, leaving heirs The future will but imitate the past, Whate'er she learns, learns nothing as she ought. COWPER. With scanty line shall reason dare to mete HORACE SMITH, BALLY. |