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NINETEENTH PSALM.

HE spacious firmament on high,
With all the blue ethereal sky,
The spangled heavens, a shining frame,
Their great Original proclaim.

Th' unwearied sun, from day to day,
Does his Creator's power display,
And publishes to every land
The work of an Almighty hand.

Soon as the evening shades prevail,
The moon takes up the wondrous tale,
And nightly, to the listening earth,
Repeats the story of her birth:

Whilst all the stars that round her burn,
And all the planets in their turn,

Confirm the tidings as they roll,

And spread the truth from pole to pole.

+ This Ode first appeared in ed. 3. 1743, p. 170. See Spectator, No. 465.

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XPANSA cælorum, profunda cærula,

Et arcuati quà patet spatium ætheris,
Convexa stellis plena, splendens fabrica,
Sui decoris indicant originem.
Lætus diurnum Sol iter decurrere,
Quis ille fons declarat et lucis parens,
Et cuique terræ, quam revisit, nunciat
Quàm sancta se potensque formârit manus.

Absente sole, cùm statim vesper suas
Reducit umbras, Luna carmen excipit,
Et singulis, ut eunt, renarrat noctibus,
Sui quis ille magnus author luminis.
Quod et planetæ per vices, quod ignium
Pro se minorum totus affirmat chorus,
Et dum movetur quisque certis legibus,
Utrumque veritate pervadit polum.

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What though, in solemn silence, all
Move round this dark terrestrial ball?
What though nor real voice nor sound
Amidst their radiant orbs be found?
In reason's ear they all rejoice,
And utter forth a glorious voice,
For ever singing as they shine,

"The hand that made us is Divine.”

ODE.

Solenniore quamlibet silentio

Circum hunc opacum orbem feruntur omnia,
Nec ulla clarè vox ab extrà nec sonus
Tot lucidos auditur inter ordines;
Auditur intus, quàm canoris vocibus,
Quibusque cælum ferveat concentibus,
Ut hunc in hymnum concinat frequentia,
"Divinus est, qui nos creavit, artifex."

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PREFIXED TO TABLES OF ANCIENT COINS, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES, IN THE YEAR 1727, BY MR.

CHARLES ARBUTH NOT, STUDENT OF

CHRIST-CHURCH, OXFORD.

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REAT

TO THE KING.

name, which in our rolls recorded stands,

Leads, honours, and protects the learned bands,
Accept this offering, to thy bounty due,
And Roman wealth in English sterling view.
Read here, how Britain, once despised, can raise
As ample sums as Rome in Cæsar's days;
Pour forth as numerous legions on the plain,

And with more dreadful navies awe the main.
Though shorter lines her fix'd dominions bind,
Her floating empire stretches unconfined.

+ The King's name stands first in the buttery-book of Christ-Church College.

This Poem first appeared in ed. 3, 1741,

P. 174.

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