A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
Mark what unvaried laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
Yet mark the fate of a whole Sex of Queens!
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
Yet gave me, in this dark estate,
To see the good from ill;
And, binding Nature fast in Fate,
Left free the human Will.
Unlucky, as Fungoso in the Play,
These Sparks with aukward Vanity display
What the Fine Gentleman wore Yesterday!
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate.
But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college, or a cat; To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, T'enrich a bastard, or a son they hate.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories