Dissolution of all Things.
See Death.
So shall one Hour, at last, this Globe controul,
Break up the vast Machine, dissolve the Whole,
And Time no more thro’ measur’d Ages roll.
Then Chaos hoar shall seize his former Right,
And reign with Anarchy and endless Night:
The starry Lamps shall combat in the Sky,
And lost, and blended in each other, die:
Quench’d in the Deep the heavenly Fires shall fall,
And Ocean, cast abroad, o’er spread the Ball.
The Moon no more her well known Course shall run,
But rise from Western Waves, and meet the Sun:
Ungovern’d, shall she quit her ancient Way,
Herself ambitious to supply the Day:
Confusion wild shall all around be hurl’d,
And Discord and Disorder tear the World.–
Jove too remember’d that a Time shall come,
For such is Fate’s irrevocable Doom,
When Sea, and Earth, and Sky, shall glow with Fire,
And all this vast Machine in Flames expire.–
Disswasion.
See Intreaty.
My Son, says he, some other Proof require,
Rash was my Promise, rash is thy Desire.
I’d fain deny this Wish, which Thou hast made,
Or what I can’t deny, wou’d fain disswade.
Too vast and hazardous the Task appears,
Not suited to thy Strength, nor to thy Years.
Thy Lot is mortal, but thy Wishes fly
Beyond the Province of Mortality.
Oh! don’t, my Son, this fatal Gift require,
But, while Thou canst, recall thy rash Desire.
Chuse what Thou wilt from Seas, or Earth, or Skies,
For open to thy Wish all Nature lies:
Only decline this one unequal Task,
A Mischief not an Honour ’tis you ask.
You ask a real Mischief, Pha
(Henry Baker)
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