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OMNISCIENCE.
1 PURE Source! existing every where;
2 From whom life flows, an endless stream;
3 Bright knowledge! unsuspended, clear!
4 With all, and over all, supreme.
5 Plain to thy comprehensive view,
6 Thy whole creation stands display'd;
7 No thought the human heart e'er knew,
8 But he who made the heart survey'd.
9 Tho' human powers may feel decay,
10 And memory's records be erased;
11 God's knowledge ever can survey,
12 What his minute research has traced.
13 And with the past and present seen,
14 To him is every future age,
[Page 228]15 Before him as they now had been,
16 Still busy on life's active stage.
17 His plans are undisturb'd and clear,
18 His wise designs shall still prevail,
19 For he, great God, is every where;
20 Nor can his knowledge ever fail.
21 Not bound to temples made with hands,
22 Each heart its altar can prepare:
23 The universe his temple stands;
24 And universal rise the prayer.
25 Eternal judge, from whose survey,
26 No colouring, no art can screen;
27 To thee display'd, as light in day,
28 Hypocrisy is ever seen.
29 Then may I pray, and may I fear,
30 Nor circumspection e'er depart;
31 But let me think how I appear,
32 To God, the searcher of the heart.
33 If he's my comfort and support,
34 The world may slander or despise;
35 I'll patient bear each false report,
36 If clear'd to his allseeing eyes.
37 For what I only can propose,
38 He'll honour and reward impart:
39 He all its generous purpose knows,
40 He knows the meaning of my heart.
41 If grief for sins my spirit feel,
42 And sinks abash'd into despair,
43 He separates the good from ill,
44 And marks my leading character.
Source edition
Daye, Eliza, b. ca. 1734. Poems, on Various Subjects. Liverpool: Printed by J. M'Creery, 1798, pp. [227]-229. [2],x,[4],258p.; 8° (ESTC T132359) (Page images digitized by University of California Libraries.)
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Other works by Eliza Day
- APPEARANCE AND REALITY. ()
- AT THE SAME PLACE. ()
- ATTENDANCE UPON RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS. ()
- THE BIRTH OF GENIUS. ()
- THE BIRTH-DAY ORNAMENTS. ()
- CHLOE. ()
- AN EVENING HYMN, IN SICKNESS. ()
- EVENING HYMN. ()
- EXTEMPORE LINES, To a Young Lady with an Anemone. ()
- THE FAMILY OF ADVERSITY. ()
- FOR EASTER SUNDAY. ()
- FOR SUNDAY. ()
- THE GOODNESS OF GOD. ()
- HIS IMMENSITY. ()
- A HYMN FOR NEW YEAR'S DAY. ()
- HYMN FOR SUNDAY EVENING. ()
- HYMN FOR SUNDAY. ()
- A HYMN IN SICKNESS. ()
- HYMN Sung at a Charity Sermon, in Lancaster, on the 22d of January, 1797, for the Blind Asylum, Liverpool. ()
- LANCASTER CASTLE, BY MOONLIGHT. ()
- THE LAUREL. ()
- LEGEND. ()
- LINES Occasioned by my putting a Bee out of my Window one cold Morning in February, at the request of a Child. ()
- MERCY. ()
- MORNING HYMN. ()
- MORNING HYMN. ()
- MY LAST VISIT TO W — Y C — G, ON THE SICKNESS OF MRS. W — Y. ()
- [THE MYRTLE] Upon a lady losing a sprig of Myrtle, presented to her by her husband, on the morning of their marriage. ()
- OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF GEORGE KENDAL, Who was drowned upon his birth-day, and the day he had been bound apprentice. ()
- OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF MRS. MIRIAM GILLISON. ()
- ODE TO HEALTH. ()
- ODE TO HOPE. ()
- ON FINDING A STRAYED CHILD. ()
- ON FRIENDSHIP. ()
- ON THE BIRTH DAY OF THREE YOUNG LADIES. ()
- ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND. ()
- ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN. ()
- ON THE DEATH OF MRS. ANNE GILLISON. ()
- ON THE OMNIPRESENCE OF GOD. ()
- POWER AND PROVIDENCE. ()
- THE QUESTION. ()
- RESIGNATION. ()
- SOLILOQUY. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONNET TO CELIA. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- A SUNDAY EVENING's HYMN, IN SICKNESS. ()
- THOUGHTS BEFORE THE INTERMENT OF A FRIEND. ()
- THOUGHTS OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF AN AMIABLE YOUTH, WHILE HIS FRIENDS WERE MET TO CELEBRATE HIS BIRTH-DAY. ()
- THOUGHTS OCCURRING IN THE THEATRE, ON SEEING MRS. SIDDONS IN THE CHARACTER OF BELVIDERA. ()
- THE THREE LAMPS; OR, THE HERMIT OF THE WOOD. ()
- TO A SICK FRIEND. ()
- TO AMANDA, On her recovery from sickness. ()
- TO ANNA. ()
- TO BELINDA. ()
- TO DELIA. ()
- TO ELIZA S — —. ()
- TO THE MEMORY OF A LADY, Whom the Author much esteemed when very young. ()
- TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE REV. C — — R — —. ()
- TO THE SAME. ()
- TO THE SAME. ()
- TO — — — ()
- TO — — —. ()
- UPON FINDING THE INSCRIPTION ON MY MOTHER'S MONUMENT DEFACED. ()
- WILLIAM AND ELLEN. ()
- WISDOM. ()
- WIT AND JUDGMENT. ()
- WRITTEN AT W. C. IN OCTOBER, AT SUN-SET ()