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- Or as the bale-fires play Among the waves' sepulchral buoys , So wouidst thou shed thy ray O ' er this our wreck of buried jays ? . .
For shame ! on this cold damp , Inch hi g h the human grave above , To light thy magic lamp Of hymeneal hope and love I To flaunt that tell-tale beam Where not a sigh may draw its breath ; To wake to golden dream Amid the iron sleep of death !
Intruder , hence—away ! The . very genius of the place Loathes at thy longer stay . — And yet , methiuks , a moment ' s space
Thou mightest linger still ; What , if to thee this scene unblest Seem'd , in a world of ill , The first that thou hadst paced of rest I
And spirits lone , like thine , Have often feignM the fant a sy true : Nay , unmolested shine , — I more than once have thought so too . Tb Tace .
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SCRIPTURE CRITICISM .
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Matt . iv . 24 . On the subject of the diseases , really or apparently ascribed by the writers of the New Testament to demoniacal possessions , there are some judicious observations in Mead ' s Medica Sacra . Wetstein ' s elaborate and learned note on this passage is also worthy of-being consulted . But no one , who is desirous to
obtain a satisfactory solution of the various difficulties which present themselves on this subject , will neglect to examine the admirable treatise of Mr . Farmer . Little can be added to this work , nor I think can any objection be made to his leading conclusions by any candid and reflecting reader . It may be worth while to observe , that although to any
objections founded on the use of such language as this by our Lord and the evangelists , it should be thought sufficient to reply wi ^ h some , that it was no business of theirs to alter the received forms of speech , which , they were at liberty to use , without being supposed to assent to the absurd notions and prejudices on which
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On seeing a Glow worm in a Church yard . 571
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1832, page 571, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1818/page/67/
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