Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GRACE COMPARED TO THE SUN, by WILLIAM HAMMOND


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First Line: Grace, as the sun, incessantly its light
Last Line: Then blame thyself, if not regenerate!
Subject(s): Sun


GRACE, as the Sun, incessantly its light
Dilates upon the universal face.
Pagans, that sit in Antipodian night,
Taste, by reflex of reason, beams of grace:
Their sickly planet, queen of night not sleep,
Her wakeful eye in the Sun's beams may steep.

Grace is the soul's soul; the informing part
Reason, like Phosper, ushers in the day;
But the terrene affections of the heart
Repel which Pharean clouds this sacred ray.
Internal, as external, night alone
Springs from the Earth's interposition.

Goodness is priz'd by her own latitude:
The Persian, wisest of idolaters,
Adores the Sun, as the most common good,
From whose balm Nature's hand nothing inters
Worse than the Caliph is that votary,
Who worships a less loving deity.

The Sun would raise this Globe to nobler birth
Transforming into gold each mineral;
But, in disposure of the stubborn earth,
Renders his virtue ineffectual.
Thus Grace endeavours all to sublimate:
Then blame thyself, if not regenerate!





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