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All is of God! If he but wave his hand

PRUDENCE.

Prudence, when rebellious appetites
Have raised temptations, with their batteries
Assaulting reason, then doth interpose
And keep it safe.

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;
A splendid source of ill ten thousand ways,

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
In every change, both mine and yours.
COWPER.

Unheard, no burdened heart's appeal
Moans up to God's inclining ear;

Unheeded by his tender eye,

Falls to the earth no sufferer's tear.
WHITTIER.

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
right,

Either denies because 'twould have us ask,
Or seems but to deny, or in denying grants.
From the Italian of FILLCAIA.

A gay prerogative from common sense,
Unless strong judgment that wild thing can

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And wants the staff of wisdom him to stay, And vilified at once; of reason dead,

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'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,
By glittering shows of pomp and wealth be-
guiled.

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
To cancel theirs;

The future will but imitate the past,
And instability alone will last.

Whate'er she learns, learns nothing as she ought. COWPER.

With scanty line shall reason dare to mete
Th' immeasurable depths of Providence?
Shall man, here stationed to revere that God
Who called him into being from the dust,
His moral scheme implead, and, impious, cite
Th' almighty Legislator to the bar
Of erring intellect?

HORACE SMITH,

BALLY.

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Redemption! O thou beauteous, mystic plan! REIGN OF CHRIST―(See MILLEN

Thou salutary source of life to man!

What tongue can speak thy comprehensive

grace?

What thought thy depths unfathomable trace?

BOYSE.

NIUM.)

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