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 | On fancy's | wild and | roving | wing I | sail, || 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 | Girt with a lurid | zone,in | gloomy | pomp,| 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 ker. 77771 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 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 |