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Rh Nor les the mytic characters I ee Wrought in each flower, incrib'd on every tree; In every leaf that trembles to the breeze I hear the voice of among the trees; With thee in hady olitudes I walk, With thee in buy crowded cities talk, In every creature own thy forming power, In each event thy providence adore. Thy hopes hall animate my drooping oul, Thy precepts guide me, and thy fear controul. Thus hall I ret, unmov'd by all alarms, Secure within the temple of thine arms, From anxious cares, from gloomy terrors free, And feel myelf omnipotent in thee.

Then when the lat, the cloing hour draws nigh, And earth recedes before my wimming eye; When trembling on the doubtful edge of fate I tand