POEMAT A. [Jan. 20, 21, 1773. ] ITE qui varias vices. Rerum perpetuus temperat Arbiter, Læto cedere lumini Noctis triftitiam qui gelidæ jubet, Et me, cuncta beans cui nocuit dies, Luci reddidit et mihi. Qua te laude, Deus qua prece profequar? Te femper ftudiis utilibus colam : Grates, fumme Pater, tuis Recte qui fruitur muneribus, dedit. [Dec. 25, 1779. ] NUNC dies Chrifto memoranda nato Gratia Cœli! Christe da tutam trepido quietem, Annue, Chrifte. [ In Lecto, die Paffionis. Apr. 13, 1781. ] SUMME Deus, qui femper amas quodcunque creâsti; [In Lecto. Dec. 25, 1782. 1 PE non inani confugis, SPE Peccator, ad latus meum; Quod pofcis, haud unquam tibi [ Nocte, inter 16 et 17 Junii, 1783 *. ] SUMME Pater, quodcunque tuum† de corpore ‡ Numen Hoc ftatuat, § precibus Chriftus adeffe velit: *The night above referred to by Dr. Johnson was that in which a paralytick ftroke had deprived him of his voice, and, in the anxiety he felt left it fhould likewife have impaired his understanding, he compofed the above Lines, and faid concerning them, that he knew at the time that they were not good, but then that he deemed his difcerning this, to be sufficient for the quicting the anxiety before mentioned, as it fhewed him that his power of judging was not diminished. + Al. tuæ. § Al. votis. Al, leges. || Al. ftatuant. [Cal. SUM [Cal. Jan. in lecto, ante lucem. 1784. ] UMME dator vitæ, naturæ æterne magister, Refpice quem fubigit fenium, morbique feniles, PATER ATER benigne, fumma femper lenitas, Rege, et tuere, quæ nocent pellens procul; SUMMI [ Jan. 18, 1784. ] UMME Pater, puro colluftra lumine pectus, In me fparfa manu virtutum femina larga VOL. XI. Cc Certa Certa vetet dubitare fides, fpes læta timere, Velle vetet cuiquam non bene fanctus amor. Hæc mihi, quo gentes, quo fecula, Chrifte, piâfti, MEN [ Feb. 27, 1784. ] ENS mea quid quereris? veniet tibi mollior hora, In fummo ut videas numine læta patrem ; Divinam in fontes iram placavit Jefus ; Nunc eft pro poena poenituiffe reis. CHRISTIANUS PERFECTUS. U1 cupit in fanctos Chrifto cogente referri, Huic quoque, nec genti nec fectæ noxius ulli, Et fibi, delirans quanquam et peccator in horas Sed timeat femper, caveatque ante omnia, turbæ |