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On Exodus iii 'I am that I am '	A
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Man foolish man	B
Scarce know'st thou how thyself began	B
Scarce hadst thou thought enough to prove thou art	C
Yet steel'd with studied boldness thou darest try	D
To send thy doubting Reason's dazzled eye	D
Through the mysterious gulf of vast immensity	C
Much thou canst there discern much thence impart	C
Vain wretch suppress thy knowing pride	C
Mortify thy learned lust	C
Vain are thy thoughts while thou thyself art dust	C
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Let wit her sails her oars let wisdom lend	C
The helm let politic experience guide	C
Yet cease to hope thy short lived bark shall ride	C
Down spreading Fate's unnavigable tide	C
What though still it farther tend	C
Still 'tis farther from its end	C
And in the bosom of that boundless sea	E
Still finds its error lengthen with its way	F
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With daring pride and insolent delight	C
Your doubts resolved you boast your labours crown'd	C
And EYPHKA your God forsooth is found	C
Incomprehensible and infinite	C
But is he therefore found vain searcher no	G
Let your imperfect definition show	G
That nothing you the weak definer know	G
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Say why should the collected main	H
Itself within itself contain	H
Why to its caverns should it sometimes creep	I
And with delighted silence sleep	I
On the loved bosom of its parent deep	I
Why should its numerous waters stay	F
In comely discipline and fair array	F
Till winds and tides exert their high commands	J
Then prompt and ready to obey	F
Why do the rising surges spread	C
Their opening ranks o'er earth's submissive head	C
Marching through different paths to different lands	J
	-
Why does the constant sun	K
With measured steps his radiant journeys run	K
Why does he order the diurnal hours	L
To leave earth's other part and rise in ours	L
Why does he wake the correspondent moon	M
And fill her willing lamp with liquid light	C
Commanding her with delegated powers	L
To beautify the world and bless the night	C
Why does each animated star	N
Love the just limits of its proper sphere	O
Why does each consenting sign	P
With prudent harmony combine	P
In turns to move and subsequent appear	O
To gird the globe and regulate the year	O
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Man does with dangerous curiosity	E
These unfathom'd wonders try	D
With fancied rules and arbitrary laws	Q
Matter and motion he restrains	R
And studied lines and fictious circles draws	Q
Then with imagined sovereignty	E
Lord of his new hypothesis he reigns	R
He reigns how long till some usurper rise	S
And he too mighty thoughtful mighty wise	S
Studies new lines and other circles feigns	S
From this last toil again what knowledge flows	S
Just as much perhaps as shows	S
That all his predecessor's rules	S
Were empty cant all jargon of the schools	S
That he on t'other's ruin rears his throne	T
And shows his friend's mistake and thence confirms his own	T
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On earth in air amidst the seas and skies	S
Mountainous heaps of wonders rise	S
Whose towering strength will ne'er submit	C
To Reason's batteries or the mines of Wit	C
Yet still inquiring still mistaking man	B
Each hour repulsed each hour dares onward press	S
And levelling at God his wandering guess	S
That feeble engine of his reasoning war	U
Which guides his doubts and combats his despair	V
Laws to his Maker the learn'd wretch can give	W
Can bound that nature and prescribe that will	X
Whose pregnant Word did either ocean fill	X
Can tell us whence all beings are and how they move and live	Y
Through either ocean foolish man	B
That pregnant Word sent forth again	Z
Might to a world extend each atom there	V
For every drop call forth a sea a heaven for every star	N
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Let cunning earth her fruitful wonders hide	C
And only lift thy staggering reason up	A2
To trembling Calvary's astonish'd top	B2
Then mock thy knowledge and confound thy pride	C
Explaining how Perfection suffer'd pain	H
Almighty languish'd and Eternal died	C
How by her patient victor Death was slain	H
And earth profaned yet bless'd with Deicide	C
Then down with all thy boasted volumes down	C2
Only reserve the sacred one	K
Low reverently low	G
Make thy stubborn knowledge bow	D2
Weep out thy reason's and thy body's eyes	S
Deject thyself that thou may'st rise	S
To look to heaven to blind to all below	G
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Then Faith for Reason's glimmering light shall give	W
Her immortal perspective	W
And Grace's presence Nature's loss retrieve	E2
Then thy enliven'd soul shall see	S
That all the volumes of philosophy	S
With all their comments never could invent	C
So politic an instrument	C
To reach the heaven of heavens the high abode	C
Where Moses places his mysterious God	C
As was the ladder which old Jacob rear'd	C
When light divine had human darkness clear'd	C
And his enlarged ideas found the road	C
Which faith had dictated and angels trod	C

Matthew Prior

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