NOTICE

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REFLECTIONS

ON THE

WORKS OF GOD,

IN THE VARIOUS KINGDOMS OF

NATURE,

AND ON

THE WAYS OF PROVIDENCE,

DISPLAYED IN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNIVERSE.

Translated from the German

OF

CHRISTOPHER CHRISTIAN STURM,

Minister of the Church of St. Peter, and Director of
the Public School at Hamburg.

BY FREDERIC SHOBERL.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. IV.

ALBION PRESS:

PRINTED FOR JAMES CUNDEE,
Ivy Lane, Paternoster-Row.

1808.

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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REFLECTIONS

ON THE

WORKS OF GOD,

&c. &c.

OCTOBER 1.

HYMN OF PRAISE TO THE DEITY.

Being an Imitation of the 104th Psalm.*

ARISE, my soul, on wings seraphic rise!
And praise th' Almighty Sov'reign of the skies;
In whom alone essential glory shines,

Which not the heav'n of heav'ns, nor boundless space

confines.

When darkness rul'd with universal sway,

He spoke, and kindled up the blaze of day;

First, fairest offspring of th' omnific word,"

Which, like a garment, cloth'd its sovereign lord.
On liquid air he bade the columns rise,
That prop the starry concave of the skies;
Diffus'd the blue expanse from pole to pole,
And spread circumfluent æther round the whole.

It is scarcely necessary to observe that this paraphrase is by Blacklock; and though it is considerably more diffuse than the corresponding article in the original, I am confident that the performance of the blind Scottish bard will not be thought too long by any real lover of poetry. T. VOL. IV.No. 21.

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