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Philip Freneau(菲利浦·弗瑞诺) On the Religion of Nature The power, that gives with liberal hand The blessings man enjoys, while here, And scatters through a smiling land Abundant products of the year; That power of nature, ever blessed, Bestowed religion with the rest. Born with ourselves, her early sway Inclines the tender mind to take The path of right, fair virtues way ts own felicity to make. This universally extends And leads to no mysterious ends. Religion, such as nature taught, With all divine perfection suits; Had all mankind this system sought Sophists would cease their vain disputes, And from this source would nations know All that can make their heaven below. This deals not curses on mankind, Or dooms them to perpetual grief, If from its aid-no joys they find, It damns them not for unbelief; Upon a more exalted plan Creatress nature dealt with man- Joy to the day, when all agree on such grand systems to proceed, From fraud, design, and error free, And which to truth and goodness lead: Then persecution will retreat And mans religion be complete. On the Emigration to America and Peopling the Western Country To western woods, and lonely plains, Palemon from the crowd departs, Where Natures wildest genius reigns, To tame the soil, and plant the arts-- What wonders there shall freedom show, What might states successive grow! From Europes proud, despotic shores Hither the stranger takes his way, And in our new found world explores A happier soil, a milder sway, Where no proud despot holds him down, No slaves insult him with a crown. What charming scenes attract the eye, On wild Ohios savage stream! There Nature reigns, whose works outvie The boldest pattern art can frame; There ages past have rolled away, And forests bloomed but to decay. From these fair plains, these rural seats, So long concealed, so lately known, The unsocial Indian far retreats, To make some other clime his own, When other streams, less pleasing flow, And darker forests round him grow.