349 INNOCENCE - PURITY And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, whatever is, is right One thing is clear POPE'S Essay on Man. For forms of government let fools contest: POPE'S Essay on Man. He's poor, and that's suspicious — he's unknown, He who is only just, is cruel: who BYRON'S Werner. Upon the earth would live, were all judg'd justly? BYRON'S Marino Faliero. All are not just because they do no wrong; But he, who will not wrong me when he may, Who in their petty dealings pilfer not, But him, whose conscience spurns at secret fraud, CUMBERLAND's Philemon INNOCENCE-PURITY. SHAKSPEARE. For unstain'd thoughts do seldom dream on evil. Innocence unmov'd At a false accusation doth the more Confirm itself; and guilt is best discover'd By its own fears. NABB As the stain'd web, that whitens in the sun, CAMPBELL. MOORE. MOORE'S Lalla Rookh. Hope may sustain, and innocence impart CHARLES SPRAGUE INSECT. The careful bee amidst his work I view The spider, of mechanic kind, GAY'S Rural Sport: GAY's Fables. INSECT. I'd be a butterfly born in a bower, Where roses, and lilies, and violets meet, Roving for ever from flower to flower, And kissing all buds that are pretty and sweet. The harmless locust of the western clime, 351 T. H. BAYLY. CARLOS WILCOX. The russet grasshopper at times is heard, CARLOS WILCOX. Beside the stream, collected in a flock, The noiseless butterflies, tho' on the ground, Thou sweet musician, that around my bed Feed'st thou my ear with music till the mor? SIMMS. EDWARD SANFORD, Our veins' pure juices were not made for thee, EDWARD SANFORD 352 INSTINCT-SENSES. INSTINCT-SENSES. The power is Sense, which from abroad doth bring Within earth's centre or earth's circle found. DAVIES' Immortality of the Soul. And though things sensible be numberless, But only five the Senses' organs be, And in these five all things their forms express If we had nought but sense, each living wight, Which we call brute, would be more sharp than we. As having sense's apprehensive might In a more clear and excellent degree. DAVIES' Immortality of the Soul Lastly, nine things to sight requir'd are; The power to see, the light, the visible thing, Clear space, and time, the form distinct to bring. DAVIES' Immortality of the Soul DAVIES' Immortality of the Soul. And yet good sense doth purify the brain, Hence old devotion incense did ordain, To make men's spirits apt for thoughts divine. DAVIES' Immortality of the Soul. INSTINCT-SENSES. By touch the first pure qualities we learn, Which quicken all things-hot, cold, moist and dry; DAVIES' Immortality of the Soul Here streams ascend, That in mix'd fumes the wrinkled nose offend. GAY'S Trivia In the nice bee what sense, so subtly true, 353 POPE'S Essay on Man. Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; POPE'S Essay on Mun. Reason raise o'er instinct as you can, In this 't is God directs, in that 't is man. Tell me why the ant 'Mid summer's plenty, thinks of winter's want? Her full stores, and bring home the corny ear? It might elude the foresight of her care? The marks of thought, contrivance, hope, and fear, POPE Evil like us they shun, and covet good; Abhor the poison, and receive the food ; Like us they love or hate; like us they krow PRIOR PRIOR |