Revolving periods | past, may oft look |

back,

With recollected | tenderness, | on | all |

The various busy | scenes she | left be- | low, 1 Its deep-laid | projects, and its strange e- | vents,

As on some fond and | doting | tale that sooth'd | Her infant hours. 10 | be it | lawful | now | To tread the hallow'd | circle of your courts, (with mute | wonder | and de- | lighted |

And

awe,)

Approach your | burning | confines! | Seized in |
thought, |

On fancy's | wild and | roving | wing I | sail, ||
From the green | borders of the

earth,

peopled |

And the | pale moon her | duteous | fair at- |

tendant;

From solitary Mars;

from the | vast | orb | Of Jupiter, | whose | huge gi- | gantic | bulk | Dances in ether | like the | lightest | leaf;|| To the dim | verge, the suburbs of the | sys

tem

Where cheerless | Saturn, | midst his watery |
moons, ។

Girt with a lurid | zone,in | gloomy | pomp,|
Sits like an exiled | monarch. Fearless thence
I launch | into the | trackless | deeps of | space, |
Where burning | round, ten thousand | suns |
appear I

Of elder | beam

which | ask | no | leave to | shine. | Of our terrestrial | star || nor | borrow | light|

From the proud | regent of our scanty

day: 11111

Sons of the | morning, | first born

And only less than | He who | marks

of cre- ation,

their | track, And guides their | fiery | wheels. || Here must

I stop,

Or is there aught be- | yond? | What | hand un

seen

Im- pels me | onward, through the glowing

orbs 1

Of habitable nature

To the dread | confines

| far re- | mote,

of e- | ternal | night, To solitudes of | vast un- | peopled | space, The deserts of cre- | ation, | wide | and | wild, | Where embryo | systems and un-kindled

suns

Sleep in the womb of | chaos? | Fancy droops, And Thought|as| tonished | stops her | bold career. T ។ |

But oh thou | mighty | Mind! | whose pow erful word |

Said Thus let all things | be and thus they

were,

Where shall I seek thy presence? how unblamed

In-voke thy dread per- | fection. |19|19| Have the broad eyelids of the morn be- held thee? 1771

Or does the beamy | shoulder of O- | rion |

Support thy | throne? ||0| look with pity down

Onering guilty | Man! uot in thy names

Of terror clad; not with those | thunders | arm'd

That conscious | Sinai | felt when fear ap- | pall'd

The scatter'd | tribes: thou hast a | gentler |

voice,

That whispers comfort

A-bash'd

to the swelling | heart,| yet | longing to be- | hold her¡ Ma

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But now my soul un- | used to stretch her powers 1

Inflight so daring | drops her | weary | wing,| And seeks a gain the | known ac- | custom'd | spot,

Drest up with sun and shade and lawns, and |

And full re- | plete with | wonders. 111

Let me here |

Con- tent and grateful | wait the ap- pointed | time |

And ripen for the skies the hour will come | When all these splendors, | bursting | on my |

sight

Shall stand un- veil'd, and to my ravish'd |

sanse

| |

Un- | lock the | glories of the | world un- | known.

SPEECH OF MR PLUNKET,

On the competency of the Irish Parliament to
Measure of Union.

cumstanced as you

are you | pass this | act,

|

and that | no | man in | Ireland

|

it will be a nullity, will be bound to o- | bey it. |19|99|41| make 1 the assertionde- | liberately. I repeat it, | and | call on | any | man who | hears me, to take down my words;|11|1 you have not been elected for this purpose, you are ap- pointed to | make | laws, not legislatures; you are ap- ❘ pointed to | the functions of | legis- | lators,

fer them;

exercise |

and

not to trans

and

if you | do so

your act

is a disso- | lution

of the | government;

you re-solve so- | ciety | into its o- | riginal | elements, and no man in the land is bound to obey you.

trines which are

im- | mutable | laws

I state not

merely | founded in the of justice and of | truth; | | merely the o- | pinions of the

ablest men who have written on the | science of

government;

our constitution

but I state the | practice

of

as settled | at the æra of the |

which the house of | Hanover title to the throne.

a | right to trans- | fer his | crown?

de- | rives its |

Has

petent to an- | nex it to the | crown of Spain, | |◄ or of any | other | country? || No, || but he mayabdicate it; | and | every | man who | knows the consti- | tution, | knows the consequence, | the right re- | verts to the next in suc- | cession; if they | all | abdicate, it re- | verts to the people. 1111The man who | questions

this doctrine, in the

same | breath,

as a

to

must arraign the | sovereign on the throne u- · surper. |1|| Are you | competent transfer your | legislative | rights to the | French | council of five hundred? Are you | competent | 1 | | ||

fer

to transfer them to the | British | parliament? | 9 I answer, | No. |11|11| When you trans- | you | abdicate, | and the great | 70

hearts of the people;

the sanctuary im-mortal

Your selves you may

but | parliament you canit is en- | throned | in the |

it is en- | shrined

of the

consti- tution;

in

it is

as the island which it pro- | tects; | 1

as well

hope that the

might the frantic | suicide 71 act which de- | stroys his | mis

erable | body, | | should ex- | tingnish | his e

ternal | soul. |1|11|1 A- | gain I