POEM ATA. [Jan. 20, 21, 1773. ] VITA qui varias vices Rerum perpetuus temperat Arbiter, Læto cedere lumini Noctis triftitiam qui gelidæ jubet, Acri fanguine turgidos, Obductofque oculos nubibus humidis Sanari voluit meos. Et me, cuncta beans cui nocuit dies, Luci reddidit et mihi. Qua te laude, Deus qua prece profequar? Sacri difcipulus libri Te femper ftudiis utilibus colam: Grates, fumme Pater, tuis Recte qui fruitur muneribus, dedit. [Dec. 25, 1779. ] NUNC dies Chrifto memoranda nato Fulfit, in pectus mihi fonte purum Gaudium facro fluat, et benigni Gratia Cœli! Christe Christe da tutam trepido quietem, Annue, Chrifte. [In Lecto, die Paffionis. Apr. 13, 1781, ] UMME Deus, qui femper amas quodcunque creâfti; Judice quo, fcelerum eft pænituiffe falus : Da veteres noxas animo fic flere novato, Per Chriftum ut veniam fit reperire mihi. [In Lecto. Dec. 25, 1782. ] PE non inani confugis, SPE Peccator, ad latus meum; Quod pofcis, haud unquam tibi [Nocte, [ Nocte, inter 16 et 17 Junii, 1783 *. ] SUMM UMME Pater, quodcunque tuum † de corpore + Numen Hoc ftatuat, § precibus Chriftus adeffe velit: Ingenio parcas, nec fit mihi culpa ¶ rogâffe, Qua folum potero parte, ** placere tibi. [Cal. Jan. in lecto, ante lucem. 1784. ] SUM UM ME dator vitæ, naturæ æterne magister, * The night above referred to by Dr. Johnson was that in which a paralytick stroke 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 said concerning them, that he knew at the time that they were not good, but then he deemed his difcerning this, to be fufficient for the quieting the anxiety before mentioned, as it fhewed him that his power of judging was not dimi P ATER benigne, fumma femper lenitas, Rege, et tuere, quæ nocent pellens procul ; SUMM [Jan. 18, 1784. ] MME Pater, puro colluftra lumine pectus, Sic ale, proveniat meffis ut ampla boni. Velle vetet cuiquam non bene fanctus amor. Da, ne fint permiffa, pater, mihi præmia fruftra, Hæc mihi, quo gentes, quo fecula, Christe, piâsti, [Feb. [ Feb. 27, 1784. ] MENS mea quid quereris ? veniet tibi mollior hora, In fummo ut videas numine læta patrem ; CHRISTIANUS PERFECTUS. Q UI cupit in fanctos Chrifto cogente referri, Huic quoque, nec genti nec fectæ noxius ulli, Cura placere Deo fit prima, fit ultima, fanctæ Nec |