Classic Poem

The flowers forensic beauties now admire,
The impalement, foliation, down, attire,
Couch'd in the pannicle, or mantling veil,
That intercepts the keen, or drenching gale;
Its infant bud here swathed with fostering care,
Or fledg'd and opening to the ambient air;
Or bloom dilated in the silken rose,
That flush'd mature, with kindling radiance glows;
Or shrunk in covert of its mantling bower,
(Now ushers evening cool, or chilling shower)
And skill'd prophetic, with eluding form,
Anticipates approach of ruffling storm.
Or now we pore with microscopic eye,
And Nature's intimate contextures spy;
Her aeconomics, her implicit laws,
The effects how wondrous deep! — how wondrous High the C AUSE !
Now view the floret's miniature of state,
And scorn the scepter'd mansions of the great;
Not architrave embellish'd so adorn,
Whose fretted gold reflects the beamy morn;
Within, the guests of animalcule race
Luxuriant range at large its ample space;
Or now in elegance the banquet spread,
While millions at the sumptuous feast are fed.
Now see whence various propagations breed,
The sucker, scyon, sprout, and embryon seed
In wall concrete of peachy stone secured,
Or in the bower of wainscot core immured;
Or faetus in the secondine contain'd,
Its juices thro' the umbilic fibres drain'd;
With birth of prosperous generation spring,
And round, and round, hold on the eternal ring.
While Pleasure whispers in the balmy gale,
Or wantons venial in the revell'd dale,
Delight reclined attends the purling rill;
Health bounds luxuriant o'er the topmost hill;
The mount aspiring Contemplation climbs,
And outward forms to Inward Truth sublimes;
Surveys the worlds that deck the azure skies,
Reflects how beauteous earth's productions rise;
The system one, O NE M AKER stands confess'd,
The P RIME , the O NE , the W ONDROUS , and the B LESS'D ;
The O NE in various forms of Unity E XPRESS'D !