Thou illumest the solemn moon to guide us amid darkness; thou dost lend wings to the unseen wind, and by night thou dost enrich the earth with fruitful dews. From the dust thou hast formed yon proud-topt mountain; from sand hast thou produced metals; thou hast spread yon firmament, and thou hast clothed it with clouds, that it may remain unpolluted by the exploring eye of man. Thou hast wonderfully formed the veins of that fish which causes rivers to overflow, and which makes whirlpools, and spreads devastation with the flappings of his tail. Thou hast built the elephant, and thou hast animated its enormous bulk, that it resembles a moving mountain. Thou supportest yon splendid arches of the heavens upon the vast void; and with thy word thou hast produced from chaos this wondrous universe, filling it with order, and giving it no other limit than its grandeur. Great God! created spirits are too insignificant to raise the glory of thy works! We lose ourselves in their immensity. To tell them one must resemble thyself on infinity. Humbly contented, I remain in my own prescribed circle. Incomprehensible Being! thy resplendent glories blind the presuming eye of man! and He from whom the earth receives its being, needs not the praises of a worm! _N. Y. Mag. or Lit. Repos._, IV-720, Dec. 1793, N. Y. [Albrecht von Haller, _Morgen-Gedanken_, Den. 25, Merz, 1725.] MORNING. From Haller. _Phila. Minerva_, I, May 30, 1795, Phila. [Also in _N. Y. Mag. or Lit. Repos._, IV-720, Dec. 1793, N. Y.] TRANSLATED POETRY. For the New-York Magazine. THE ZEPHYRS, AN IDYL. [a]. (Translated from the German of Gesner, by W. Dunlap.) [Prose translation.] _N. Y. Mag. or Lit. Repos._, VI-760, Dec. 1795, N. Y. [S. Gessner, _Die Zephyre_.] TRANSLATED POETRY. For the New-York Magazine. FIRST IDYL OF GESNER. (Translated from the German by Wm. Dunlap.) DAPHNE--CHLOE. [Prose translation.] _N. Y. Mag. or Lit. Repos._, n. s., p. 49, Jan. 1796, N. Y. [S. Gessner, _Daphne. Chloe._ "Sieh, schon steigt der Mond hinter dem schwarzen Berg...." First idyl--Zweite Folge, 1772.] THE OLD MAN. Translated from the German of Gessner. _Phila. Minerva_, I, Jan. 16, 1796, Phila. [Also in _The Royal Amer. Mag._, p. 14, Jan. 1774, Boston.] FABLE Imitated from the German of Gellert.