Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?
Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state