POETICAL WORKS OF THE REV. DR. EDWARD YOUNG. WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR. In 4 Valenes, VOL. III. PHILADELPHIA. PRINTED FOR BENJAMIN JOHNSON, JACOB JOHNSON, & ROBERT JOHNSON. THE LAST DAY. A POEM. IN THREE BOOKS. Venit summa dies...................Virg. BOOK I. Ipse pater, media mimborum in nocte corusca Fulmina molitur dextra. Quo maxima motu Terra tremit: fugere feræ; et mortalia corda Per gentes humilis stravit pavor.................Virg. WHILE others sing the fortune of the great Empire and arms, and all the pomp of state, With Britain's hero* set their souls on fire, And grow immortal as his deeds inspire, I draw a deeper scene; a scene that yields A louder trumpet, and more dreadful fields; The world alarm'd, both earth and heaven o'erthrown, And gasping Nature's last tremendous groan; Death's ancient sceptre broke, the teeming tomb, The righteous Judge, and man's eternal doom. * The duke of Marlborough. 'Twixt joy and pain I view the bold design, But chiefly thou, great Ruler! Lord of all! Man bear thy brow aloft, view ev'ry grace In God's great offspring, beauteous Nature's face; See Spring's gay bloom, see golden Autumn's store, See how Earth smiles, and hear old Ocean roar, Leviathans but heave their cumbrous mail, It makes a tide, and wind-bound navies sail, |