diff --git "a/ecep_ip_score_data.csv" "b/ecep_ip_score_data.csv" new file mode 100644--- /dev/null +++ "b/ecep_ip_score_data.csv" @@ -0,0 +1,108138 @@ +line_txt,score +NO Ill on Earth we timorous Mortals fly,3.0 +"With so much Dread, as abject Poverty:",2.0 +"OH despicable Name! We, thee to shun,",3.0 +On every other Evil blindly run.,0.0 +"In tattered Rags, and starve their Bodies too,",0.0 +"And still are poor, for fear of being so.",1.0 +"For fear of thee, the cheating Trader vows,",1.0 +"His Wares are good, although his Conscience knows,",1.0 +"He has employed his utmost Skill and Care,",1.0 +"To hide their Faults, and make their Beauties glare.",0.0 +"The Sailor, terrified with Thoughts of thee,",0.0 +Boldly attempts the Dangers of the Sea;,3.0 +"From East to West, over Rocks and Quicksands steers;",4.0 +"It's Poverty, and that alone, he fears;",1.0 +"In Hopes of Plunder, bravely meets the War;",0.0 +"To fly from Poverty, he runs on Death,",1.0 +"Strange Terror of Mankind! By thee misled,",4.0 +"Not Conscience, Quicksands, Rocks, or Death they dread!",1.0 +"And yet thou art no formidable Foe,",2.0 +"Except to little Souls, who think thee so:",0.0 +Who through the Glass of Prejudice survey,1.0 +"Thy Face, a thousand frightful Forms display.",0.0 +"THUS Men, at Night, in foolish Fears grown old,",2.0 +"Who mind the Fairy Tales their Nurses told,",0.0 +"Start at a Goblin, which their Fancy made,",0.0 +"And, for a Spectre, often take a Shade.",1.0 +Free from the Cares unwieldy Riches bring:,0.0 +At Distance both alike deceive our View;,0.0 +"Nearer approached, they take another Hue.",2.0 +The poor Man's Labour relishes his Meat;,2.0 +"His Morsel's pleasant, and his Rest is sweet:",1.0 +"Not so the Rich, who find their wearied Taste",0.0 +"For what they have more than they can enjoy,",1.0 +"Instead of satisfying, does but cloy.",0.0 +BUT let us state the Case another way:,0.0 +"Were Poverty so hideous as they say,",2.0 +"It's nobler cheerfully to bear our Fate,",3.0 +"That Man deserves the Praise of human Kind,",0.0 +Who bears ill Fortune with a Christian Mind:,2.0 +How does his great heroic Soul aspire,0.0 +Above that sordid Wealth the rest admire!,0.0 +His faithful Eyes survey the GOD of Love,0.0 +"Not all the Snares a crafty Devil can lay,",2.0 +"Can intercept, or daunt him in his Way.",0.0 +"Not all the scornful Insults of the Proud,",2.0 +"Not Poverty, in all her Terrors dressed,",1.0 +Can shake the solid Quiet of his Breast:,1.0 +"Unmoved he stands against the worst of Foes,",0.0 +"And mocks the Darts, which adverse Fortune throws,",1.0 +"Calm and composed, amid or Ease or Pain;",2.0 +"And finds Content, which others seek in vain.",0.0 +"Lashed by the foaming Surge on every Side,",0.0 +Yet can't be shaken by the furious Tide.,3.0 +"Since Wealth can never make the Vicious blessed,",0.0 +Nor Poverty subdue the virtuous Breast;,3.0 +"LORD, give me either; give me but CONTENT.",1.0 +"Go, first, sweet hope! to thine own Heaven succeed,",3.0 +"While here thy mother's heart must ever bleed,",0.0 +"Must ever mourn, till that auspicious day",0.0 +"This lonely hour my sorrows reach no ear,",1.0 +My angel! thou from thy resplendent throne,2.0 +"O! take this moment, it is all thine own;",1.0 +"Spite of religious aid my wishes rise,",2.0 +Ah! me! how weak to wish thee from the skies!,1.0 +"Sometime delusion strong I see thee smile,",1.0 +And fancy wandering how remote from truth,3.0 +Surveys thee blooming in the pride of youth;,0.0 +"Reason returns, and says, thou art no more!",2.0 +"Ah! sad remembrance, why exert thy power,",0.0 +"Why, why recall the past endearing hour,",0.0 +And opening beauty every look disclosed?,2.0 +"Each happier mother, vain of her delight,",3.0 +"Still, still obtrudes her darling on my sight;",2.0 +"Then in the harmless smile, the feeble cry,",0.0 +"I hear the voice, I see thy languid eye:",0.0 +"O! still my child, if in thy perfect state,",1.0 +"Thou hast a knowledge of my suffering fate,",1.0 +And bring me tidings from the realms of day;,1.0 +"Tell thy sad mother when the hour draws near,",3.0 +"That we shall meet, nor other parting fear;",0.0 +"And Heaven, still gracious to the mourning kind,",4.0 +"O! deign to send me peace, a will resigned;",1.0 +"Save me from murmurs at thy high decree,",0.0 +I see a distant Fleet whose towering Masts,0.0 +Bold was the Man who felled the leavy Trees,0.0 +"To seek for distant Isles, and Lands unknown;",0.0 +"Content with Sea, and careless of the Shore.",1.0 +Has told the Customs of those Sons of Earth:,1.0 +Yet envious think their own too mean a Share:,3.0 +"For foreign Toys they roam to every Shore,",0.0 +And bring Diseases home unknown before.,0.0 +And what they scorned before they now commend.,0.0 +But things their Value raise by being new.,0.0 +I late unseen saw from a distant Rock,2.0 +Two vast Machines engage in Clouds of Smoke;,1.0 +"The Winds were high, and ruffled all the Main:",0.0 +"But when the Fight with louder Noise began,",0.0 +The Gods afraid with drooping Wings retired;,0.0 +"The Sea grew calm, and all the Sky was fair.",1.0 +Oft have I punished that ambitious Wight,0.0 +"Who born on Earth, yet leaves his native Glades,",0.0 +And to his own prefers the watery Meads;,3.0 +"Oft have I strove to burst the yielding Planks,",0.0 +And force the leaky Ship on sandy Banks:,0.0 +What happy Chance has pleased the smiling Boy?,0.0 +The Nymph he loves is sure no longer coy.,1.0 +With fiercest Rage I'd seize the trembling Fair;,0.0 +"Neither her Anger nor her Tears should move,",3.0 +"My Blood's on fire, and I am full of Love.",1.0 +"My Head's so wondrous light, I scarcely find",0.0 +Whether I move on Waves or dance on Wind.,2.0 +"So altered, Triton! whence proceeds this Change,",0.0 +"So unexpected, sudden, and so strange?",1.0 +"A settled melancholy Gloom, but now",0.0 +"Seemed, like a Storm, to hang upon your Brow;",0.0 +No Herb was found to cure the fond Disease.,1.0 +"If I can use my Tongue, I'll tell thee, Love,",1.0 +What does my Soul to sudden Transports move:,0.0 +"Meeting the scattered Ruins of a Wreck,",3.0 +"As shivered Masts, Planks, and a broken Deck,",2.0 +Amid the rest a floating Cask I found,0.0 +"Stopped up with artful Care, and strongly bound,",0.0 +"Curious to know what was within contained,",2.0 +With cautious Fear I searched; my Fingers stained,0.0 +Came forth all moistened with a juicy Red;,2.0 +But o! the Gods never on such Nectar fed.,6.0 +"Pleased with the heavenly Taste, and spicy Smell,",2.0 +I quaffed full Bowls in a capacious Shell.,2.0 +"You Gods! if earthy Men thus live, and drink,",1.0 +"Give me the Land, the Sea's a worthless Sink.",0.0 +The precious Draughts my fainting Spirits cheer;,0.0 +I thus inspired no mortal Mer-man fear.,4.0 +"I rule the boundless Seas, and now I reign",0.0 +"Sole Lord, and mighty Monarch of the Main.",2.0 +"This Oil has so inflamed my secret Fire,",1.0 +I burn impatient with the fierce Desire.,1.0 +"No Nymph, or old, or ugly, now I scorn;",1.0 +Which feeds the happy Youth with fancied Bliss?,0.0 +I long to taste the Juice that thus inspires,0.0 +"AH Thou! whom Nature and thy Stars designed,",1.0 +"At once the Joy and Envy of Mankind,",2.0 +To thy loved Memory this Sigh I send;,3.0 +"To thee a Stranger, to thy Lines a Friend:",2.0 +"How blessed the Muse could she like thine aspire,",2.0 +"So smooth her Accent, and sublime her Fire;",2.0 +"With bright Description make the Bosom glow,",0.0 +"Charm like thy Sense, and like thy Numbers flow:",0.0 +"OH teach my Soul to reach the Seats divine,",1.0 +And praise her Maker in a Strain like thine.,0.0 +"You careless Ones, who never thought before,",0.0 +"Read this grand Verse, then tremble and adore:",4.0 +"Let stern Enthusiasts here be taught to know,",1.0 +It's from the Heart true Piety must flow:,3.0 +"Here Hope, Content, and smiling Mercy shine;",0.0 +And breathe celestial through the speaking Line:,1.0 +"From the still Mind its guilty Passions roll,",2.0 +"Let angry Zealots quarrel for a Name,",2.0 +"The good, the just, the virtuous are the same:",1.0 +"Grace to no Sect, nor Virtue is confined;",4.0 +"They blend with all, and spread amongst the kind;",0.0 +And the pure Flame that warms the pious Breast:,2.0 +Those cannot merit who condemn the rest.,0.0 +"To the dark Nations when Religion came,",2.0 +"All dressed in Smiles; they saw the heavenly Dame,",2.0 +"Till some stern Teachers of their Office proud,",2.0 +And veiled her Beauties in the mask of Rage:,0.0 +Black Cruelty with fierce and flaming Eyes;,2.0 +And Persecution wore the Robe of Zeal:,0.0 +"Deluded Faith espoused the stronger Side,",0.0 +And conquered Justice gave her Sword to Pride.,0.0 +"This saw the surly discontented Mind,",0.0 +By Nature haughty and to Vice inclined:,1.0 +"And thence concluded all their Systems vain,",0.0 +The Cant of Schools and Frenzy of the Brain:,1.0 +"From hence the Sect of Libertines arose,",0.0 +Who scorn what Reason or the Priests impose:,1.0 +"Who give to Chance the World's that round us roll,",0.0 +But thou whose Name immortal as thy Rhymes,2.0 +Shall live and brighten through succeeding Times:,1.0 +"Whose Lines can Wit and Virtue both inspire,",0.0 +Whom future Ages shall like me admire,1.0 +"Teach me between the two Extremes to glide,",2.0 +Not brave the Stream nor swim with every Tide:,0.0 +"But more with Charity than Zeal possessed,",1.0 +"Keep my own Faith, yet not condemn the rest.",0.0 +OUR Scottish dames for virtue still be famed;,0.0 +"With Trojan, or with Roman matrons named.",1.0 +Still to despise ' -- the man who can betray;,3.0 +"And, masked in friendship, leads our minds astray!",0.0 +Still to admire the brother's braver arms;,2.0 +Still to despise a Paris' meaner charms.,2.0 +Behold great Hector ' -- issue from the walls.,2.0 +"As each bold Briton who aspires to fame,",3.0 +"Still in his eye, some brave some honoured name,",1.0 +But if great Hector on that fatal day,3.0 +"Though in his breast his brother's deeds despise,",0.0 +Behold for him a sacrifice he lies;,1.0 +"Behold him stretched ' -- dragged at Achilles' car,",1.0 +"Who strays from virtue, ever sure to find",0.0 +Some dire disaster lags not far behind.,0.0 +OH nymph divine! as opening morning fair!,3.0 +Bright as the sun! yet lighter than the air!,1.0 +Yet more uncertain than the whistling winds!,1.0 +"Where shall we find, or fix your resting place?",0.0 +"Now here, now there, eluding still the chase.",2.0 +"OH it's in vain, as ancient proverbs say,",0.0 +To seek a needle in a load of hay;,0.0 +As vain it is to fix your certain bound:,1.0 +"And yet I sought you where soft pleasure dwells,",1.0 +"Pleasure, thou soft retreat! but hard to find,",2.0 +And opening only to the patient mind.,3.0 +"Through various alleys, perilous and dark,",3.0 +"My way I shape, and every footstep mark;",1.0 +"Lest through some passage, elbowed to and fro,",3.0 +"Like a small skiff my little bark was hurled,",3.0 +Tossed to and fro amid a laughing world;,0.0 +"Yet, spite of these, I boldly ventured forth,",1.0 +And bid defiance to the surly North.,1.0 +"By You, my Polar Star, awhile I steer,",1.0 +"There, there I land, no more of winds the sport,",2.0 +And found the gallant Lovelace safe in port.,1.0 +"His reckoning failing, and his compass lost,",1.0 +"Some hospitable shore at length in view,",3.0 +"Pushes to land, with all his jovial crew:",4.0 +"What Charms You have, from what high Race You sprung,",1.0 +Have been the pleasing Subjects of my Song:,1.0 +"Unskilled and young, yet something still I writ,",0.0 +What greater Theme Your Music can produce;,1.0 +My babbling Praises I repeat no more;,2.0 +"But hear, rejoice, stand silent, and adore.",2.0 +"The Persians thus, first gazing on the Sun,",2.0 +"But, as his Power was known, their Thoughts were raised;",3.0 +"And soon They worshipped, what at first They praised.",0.0 +"That as in Birth, in Beauty You excel,",1.0 +"The Muse might dictate, and the Poet tell:",2.0 +"Your Art no other Art can speak; and You,",1.0 +"To show how well You play, must play anew:",0.0 +Your Music's Power Your Music must disclose;,2.0 +"For what Light is, it's only Light that shows.",0.0 +"Strange Force of Harmony, that thus controls",2.0 +While with it's utmost Art Your Sex could move,1.0 +"Our Wonder only, or at best our Love:",1.0 +You far above Both these Your GOD did place;,2.0 +That Your high Power might worldly Thoughts destroy;,5.0 +"That with Your Numbers You our Zeal might raise,",1.0 +"And, like Himself, communicate Your Joy.",0.0 +"When to Your Native Heaven You shall repair,",0.0 +And with Your Presence crown the Blessings there;,2.0 +"Your Lute may wind it's Strings but little higher,",0.0 +To tune their Notes to that immortal Quire.,0.0 +"Your Art is perfect here: Your Numbers do,",1.0 +"More than our Books, make the rude Atheist know,",5.0 +"As in some Piece, while Luke his Skill expressed,",0.0 +"A cunning Angel came, and drew the rest:",0.0 +"So, when You play, some Godhead does impart",1.0 +Harmonious Aid; Divinity helps Art:,4.0 +"Some Cherub finishes what You begun,",1.0 +And to a Miracle improves a Tune.,2.0 +"To burning Rome when frantic Nero played,",0.0 +"Viewing that Face, no more He had surveyed",1.0 +"The raging Flames; but struck with strange Surprise,",0.0 +Confessed them less than Those of Anna's Eyes:,1.0 +"But had He heard Thy Lute, He soon had found",0.0 +And from Destruction called the rising Town:,1.0 +Malice to Music had been forced to yield;,2.0 +"With the united Glories of his Line,",2.0 +"Not only Royal Tears adorn his Urn,",0.0 +But you have taught the Subjects all to mourn:,1.0 +"Your melting Lines, make conscious Passion vent",1.0 +"Soft are thy strains as his once moving Tongue,",2.0 +Fond Venus lose was less divinely Sung;,1.0 +"The weeping Nymphs, all throw their Cypress down,",1.0 +"You from whom Kings such Glories do receive,",1.0 +"Dismissed at length, they break through all delay",0.0 +To tempt the dangers of the doubtful way;,1.0 +Whose walls along the neighbouring sea extend.,2.0 +"Nor yet in prospect rose the distant shore,",0.0 +"Scarce the hoarse waves from far were heard to roar,",3.0 +When thwart the road a river rolled its flood,0.0 +"Tempestuous, and all further course withstood:",2.0 +"The wondrous sage: vigorous he seemed in years,",4.0 +Awful his mien; low as his feet there flows,2.0 +"Against the stream the waves secure he trod,",0.0 +"And winter binds the floods in icy chains,",0.0 +"Fearless in long excursion loves to glide,",2.0 +"So moved the seer, but on no hardened plain:",2.0 +The river boiled beneath and rushed towards the main.,0.0 +Where fixed in wonder stood the warlike pair,1.0 +His course he turned and thus relieved their care:,0.0 +"' Vast, OH my friends, and difficult the toil",2.0 +To seek your hero in a distant soil!,0.0 +"No common helps, no common guide, you need,",2.0 +Art it requires and more than winged speed.,2.0 +"What length of sea remains, what various lands,",2.0 +"Oceans unknown, inhospitable sands!",3.0 +For adverse fate the captive chief has hurled,1.0 +Beyond the confines of our narrow world.,2.0 +Great things and full of wonder in your ears,1.0 +"I shall unfold; but first dismiss your fears,",0.0 +Nor doubt with me to tread the downward road,1.0 +"That to the grotto leads, my dark abode.'",1.0 +"Scarce had he said, before the warriors' eyes",0.0 +"The flood on either hand its billows rears,",0.0 +And in the mid a spacious arch appears.,0.0 +"Their hands he seized and down the steep he led,",1.0 +"Discovered half, and half concealed, their way,",0.0 +The uncertain crescent gleams a sickly light.,1.0 +"Of many a flood they viewed the secret source,",2.0 +"The birth of rivers, rising to their course;",1.0 +"Whatever with copious train its channel fills,",5.0 +"Further they pass, where ripening minerals flow,",2.0 +"Which soon the parent sun's warm powers refine,",3.0 +"In one rich mass unite the precious store,",4.0 +The parts combine and harden into over.,0.0 +"Here gems break through the night with glittering beam,",3.0 +And paint the margin of the costly stream.,1.0 +"All stones of lustre shoot their vivid ray,",0.0 +"Here the soft emerald smiles, of verdant hue,",2.0 +"And rubies flame, with sapphires heavenly blue;",2.0 +"The diamond there attracts the wondering sight,",3.0 +Proud of its thousand dies and luxury of light.,1.0 +"WHere gild my thoughts, rash inclinations stay,",1.0 +"And let me think what it's you fool away,",1.0 +"Stay ere it be to late, yet stay and take,",1.0 +"O! stupid folly it's eternal Joy,",1.0 +That I'm about to barter for a toy;,2.0 +"It is my God o dreadful hazard where,",1.0 +Shall I again the boundless loss repair!,1.0 +"It is my Soul a Soul that cost the blood,",1.0 +"And painful agonies of an humbled God,",1.0 +"O blessed occasion made me stay to think,",0.0 +"Ere I was hurried off the dangerous brink,",3.0 +"Should I have took the charming venom in,",0.0 +"And coped with all these terrors for a sin,",1.0 +How equal had my condemnation been?,0.0 +With fond regret; while in this last adieu,0.0 +A silent tear those brilliant hours shall mourn,0.0 +"For ever past. So from the pleasant shore,",1.0 +"Born with the struggling bark against the wind,",0.0 +The trembling pennant fluttering looks behind,2.0 +With vain reluctance! Amid those woods no more,3.0 +"For me the voice of pleasure shall resound,",2.0 +Nor soft flutes warbling over the placid lake,3.0 +"Aerial music shall for me awake,",3.0 +And wrap my charmed soul in peace profound!,3.0 +"Though lost to me, here still may Taste delight",1.0 +"IN ancient times, some hundred winters past,",0.0 +"When British dames, for conscience sake, were chaste,",0.0 +"If some frail nymph, by youthful passion swayed,",1.0 +From virtue's paths unhappily had strayed:,1.0 +"When banished reason reassumed her place,",1.0 +In decent solitude and pious tears;,0.0 +"Veiled in some convent made her peace with heaven,",0.0 +"Grown old in sin, and dead to amorous joy,",3.0 +No acts of penance their great souls employ.,3.0 +"Without a blush behold each nymph advance,",0.0 +The luscious Heroine of her own romance.,1.0 +"Each harlot triumphs in her loss of fame,",0.0 +And boldly prints and publishes her shame.,1.0 +"YOU noble few, firm fixed in virtue's cause,",1.0 +"You just protectors of our sacred laws,",1.0 +"Whose hearts stern avarice strove in vain to steel,",3.0 +And blessed with souls disdaining not to feel;,0.0 +"Let not the genial warmth, the latent fire,",0.0 +"That glows in Britain's valiant sons, expire;",0.0 +"But in your breasts let justice still prevail,",1.0 +"Angelic maid, thy melting eye may boast",1.0 +"Unhappy land, where hostile avarice reigns,",2.0 +And rears her bloodstained banners over thy plains;,3.0 +To burst each tender tie of social love;,0.0 +Spread wide destruction over the bleeding land;,3.0 +And banished far the healing balm of peace.,0.0 +"Yet once on them fair Peace propitious smiled,",2.0 +And social joy the tedious hour beguiled;,2.0 +"On them bright Pleasure cast her fairest ray,",2.0 +Soft as the rosy beam of opening day;,2.0 +"Love, health, and innocence, they still possessed,",2.0 +Contested tenants of the peaceful breast;,1.0 +"Vindictive fate ruled over thy dreadful hour,",3.0 +"Deaf to the mourning parents plaintive cry,",0.0 +"The widow's fondness or the lover's sigh,",1.0 +"From each fond breast the hapless victims tore,",1.0 +Far from the prospect of their native shore.,1.0 +"Think not, you slaves in pleasure's venal train,",3.0 +The weeping orphan's tears are poured in vain;,0.0 +"Awhile in soft repose you calmly rest,",0.0 +Nor heed the pangs that tear each bleeding breast;,0.0 +And fair the fading flowers of fortune spring;,2.0 +"Yet heaven, indignant, views the impious deed",3.0 +"Soon shall the voice of angry Justice call,",0.0 +And bid the pointed sword of vengeance fall;,0.0 +"Shall pleasure then avert the dreadful nod,",0.0 +Or calm the vengeance of an angry God?,1.0 +"No, in that hour reflection wakes anew,",0.0 +"And calls each crime, each folly, to the view;",1.0 +"Bids the lost thoughts eternity explore,",4.0 +Or pause over scenes we can recall no more.,3.0 +"To man superior reason's light was given,",2.0 +"Unfailing beam, bright intellectual ray",3.0 +Thou steady guide through errors devious way;,2.0 +"Say, wert thou first by gracious heaven designed,",0.0 +To stamp injustice on the human kind;,1.0 +"Forbid it truth, forbid it every breast",0.0 +That heaves in pity for the wretch oppressed;,1.0 +Still the sad victim drags his galling chain;,3.0 +"Still bows submissive to the tyrant hand,",2.0 +That tore the sufferer from his native land;,1.0 +"Yet, ever the arts of luxury began,",3.0 +"They boasted liberty, the right of man;",1.0 +"Serene, they saw each peaceful morning smile,",0.0 +Joy led their hours and plenty blessed their toil;,1.0 +"Daughter of Virtue! Royal Charlotte, hear!",2.0 +"Sovereign, yet parent, of this happy isle,",3.0 +Over whose gay plains fair Plenty deigns to smile;,2.0 +"Where spotless peace extends her azure wing,",0.0 +Hears not distressed misfortune plead in vain;,1.0 +"Be't thine to heal pale sorrow's wounded breast,",1.0 +And lull each raging passion into rest;,0.0 +Let not the wretched slave in vain deplore,0.0 +"Then, while Britannia hails thy sacred name,",2.0 +A deed like this shall swell the trump of fame;,1.0 +"Virtues like thine shall wake the sounding lyre,",0.0 +"And, swelled with themes like this, the poet's page",1.0 +Remain admired through each succeeding age.,0.0 +"When Superstition raised her threatening hand,",0.0 +Drenched in one fatal stream of martyred blood;,0.0 +"Over every scene, with fell delight, she flew,",0.0 +"And smiled, exulting, at the dreadful view;",0.0 +"Religion's sacred truths, though once designed",0.0 +"To banish error from the darkened mind,",1.0 +"Availed not here; her pure celestial light,",0.0 +"Drooping, beheld the fatal torrent roll",2.0 +Called forth the dawn of fair religion's day;,1.0 +"Cherished the genial influence as it rose,",3.0 +Dispelled their errors and relieved their woes.,1.0 +"Relentless, see the guiltless victim bleed;",0.0 +Amid the horrors of tormenting pain,2.0 +"He seeks for mercy, but he seeks in vain;",1.0 +Where grim Oppression waves her tyrant hand;,0.0 +"Where, to the savage herd, a harmless prey,",0.0 +Sinks faint beneath the fervid beam of day;,1.0 +Sunk in the deepest gloom of low despair;,0.0 +"Or burning thirst and furious want, combined,",2.0 +"With wild distraction fire his glowing mind,",0.0 +"Till death restores to him eternal rest,",1.0 +"Over foreign seas and foreign coasts to roam,",0.0 +"Amid the fury of the piercing blast,",1.0 +"The swelled wave circling round the shivered mast,",1.0 +"And over the deck the foaming billows rise,",2.0 +"Awhile in terror views the lightning glare,",0.0 +"With streaming horror, through the midnight air;",2.0 +"The storm once past, he gains the friendly ray",1.0 +"Of hope, to guide him through the dangerous way;",3.0 +"Smiling, she bids each future prospect rise,",2.0 +"Not so the slave; oppressed with secret care,",0.0 +He sinks the hapless victim of despair;,1.0 +"Or, doomed to torments that might even move",1.0 +"The steely heart, and melt it into love;",0.0 +"Till worn with anguish, withering in his bloom,",1.0 +He falls an early tenant of the tomb!,1.0 +Deluged so oft in streams of purple gore!,2.0 +"Britain, where science, peace, and plenty, smile,",2.0 +"The scourge of tyrants, and the boast of time;",1.0 +"Of every virtue, every worth possessed",0.0 +That fires the hero's or the patriot's breast;,3.0 +"There, nobly warmed with animating fire,",0.0 +"There scenes of bliss immortal Milton sung,",0.0 +And notes harmonious issued from his tongue;,3.0 +"While genius bids, to our enchanted eyes,",1.0 +"In Swift's own strains, a second Pope arise.",0.0 +"When truth, perplexed in error's thorny maze,",3.0 +"Threw over the world obscure and darkened rays,",3.0 +"He spoke, and nature stood at once displayed.",0.0 +"These were the souls that Britain once possessed,",1.0 +When genuine virtue fired the patriot's breast;,6.0 +"And still shall she protect fair freedom's cause,",2.0 +And vindicate her violated laws;,2.0 +"Waft peace and freedom to a wretched land,",2.0 +And scatter blessings with a liberal hand.,1.0 +"In Britain's paradise, by freedom made,",0.0 +The tree of commerce spread's its ample shade;,0.0 +"Unsparing plenty bends the lofty brow,",0.0 +And wealth bright glitters on each golden bough;,2.0 +"On some the richest gems of India shone,",2.0 +And added lustre to the British throne;,1.0 +The melting lustre of the sparkling eye;,1.0 +Such as in gay variety might grace,2.0 +The native beauties of the lovely face:,1.0 +"On some the bud of health, in rosy bloom,",0.0 +Called languid sickness from an early tomb;,2.0 +Or bade contented labour calmly smile,0.0 +Over the rich prospect of his native soil.,3.0 +"One ample branch, superior to the rest,",1.0 +"Rose to the view, in splendid radiance dressed;",0.0 +"On every leaf the tempting manna hung,",0.0 +"The flowers of brightest hue oppression named,",2.0 +Yet from the tree the rank of commerce claimed;,0.0 +With eager eye the slaves of avarice strayed;,2.0 +That on the spreading tree of commerce grew;,0.0 +"Lost in the pleasing dream, awhile the soul,",0.0 +"Where avarice reigned secure from all control,",2.0 +Struck deep conviction through the guilty heart;,2.0 +"And bade reflection wake the feeling mind,",0.0 +That turned to every scene it left behind:,0.0 +There might they see the tortured wretch implore,0.0 +"In silent grief, amid distraction wild,",0.0 +"These scenes appear when death, in terror dressed,",0.0 +Bids sharp repentance wound the shuddering breast;,3.0 +And quick destruction seems to snatch the soul;,0.0 +"When fast around the dreadful lightnings fall,",0.0 +"Then will his wrath destroy the life he gave,",0.0 +And justice snatch the soul that mercy could not save.,0.0 +"Britain, be thine the glorious task to heal",2.0 +The bleeding wounds thy wretched sons shall feel;,0.0 +Extend thy every noble power to save,2.0 +The wretch just tottering over an early grave;,4.0 +"For, noble were the deed that could impart",1.0 +"For, then no more the fatal branch shall bind,",0.0 +"In golden ties, the lost enchanted mind;",0.0 +"Tear every fibre from the verdant root,",2.0 +And blast each dangerous blossom ere it shoot;,2.0 +"In grateful incense, to the echoing skies;",4.0 +"Thee, first in every virtue, every worth,",0.0 +That gives to glory or to genius birth;,1.0 +Give peace and freedom to an injured land!,2.0 +"Glory be thine; and, let pale misery prove",3.0 +The joys of friendship and the bliss of love;,1.0 +Beam over the world one pure eternal day!,3.0 +"SUre of Success, to You I boldly write,",3.0 +"Love, who is justly President of Verse,",0.0 +"Which all his Servants write, or else rehearse.",0.0 +Phoebus however mistaken Poets dream,5.0 +"Never used a Verse, till Love became his Theme.",0.0 +"To his strayed Son, still as his Passion rose,",1.0 +"But when in Daphne he would Love inspire,",1.0 +"He wooed in Verse, set to his silver Lyre.",2.0 +The Trojan Prince did powerful Numbers join,2.0 +To sing of War; but Love was the Design:,1.0 +"And sleeping Troy again in Flames was dressed,",0.0 +"Nor ever could Poetry successful prove,",3.0 +"Or touch the Soul, but when the Sense was Love.",0.0 +O! could they both in Absence now impart,0.0 +"Skill to my Hand, but to describe my Heart;",1.0 +Then should you see impatient of your Stay,1.0 +Soft Hopes contend with Fears of sad Delay;,1.0 +And lively Images of You appear.,2.0 +But since the Thoughts of a Poetic Mind,1.0 +Will never be to Syllables confined;,1.0 +"And while to fix what is conceived, we try,",1.0 +The purer Parts evaporate and die:,0.0 +"You must perform what they want force to do,",2.0 +And think what your ARDELIA thinks of you.,3.0 +"His honour posts over ITALY and FRANCE,",2.0 +"Measures St. PETER'S dome, and learns to dance.",3.0 +"Thence having quick through various countries flown,",3.0 +"Gleaned all their follies, and exposed his own,",1.0 +"He back returns, a thing so strange all over,",0.0 +As never ages past produced before:,0.0 +"A monster of such complicated worth,",1.0 +"Half fiddler, coachman, dancer, groom, and cook.",1.0 +"Next, because business now is all the vogue,",6.0 +"In parliament he purchases a seat,",2.0 +To make the accomplished Gentleman complete.,3.0 +"Without experience, honesty, or sense,",3.0 +"Unknowing in her interest, trade, or laws,",0.0 +"Forth from his lips, prepared at all to rail,",0.0 +"Torrents of nonsense burst; like bottled ale,",2.0 +"Though shallow, muddy; brisk, though mighty dull;",0.0 +"Fierce without strength; overflowing, though not full.",2.0 +"Now quite a Frenchman in his garb and air,",1.0 +"His neck yoked down with bag and solitaire,",2.0 +"The liberty of BRITAIN he supports,",2.0 +"Now in cropped greasy hair, and leather breeches,",2.0 +He loudly bellows out his patriot speeches;,3.0 +"King, lords, and commons ventures to abuse,",2.0 +Yet dares to show those ears he ought to lose.,0.0 +"From hence to WHITE'S our virtuous CATO flies,",2.0 +"There sits with countenance erect, and wise,",1.0 +"Plays all the night, nor doubts each law to break,",0.0 +Himself unknowingly has helped to make;,1.0 +"Trembling and anxious, stakes his utmost groat,",2.0 +"Peeps over his cards, and looks as if he thought:",4.0 +Because the fool would fain be thought a bite.,0.0 +"Devoted thus to politics, and cards,",0.0 +"Nor mirth, nor wine, nor women he regards;",1.0 +"So far is every virtue from his heart,",1.0 +That not a generous vice can claim a part;,2.0 +"Nay, lest one human passion ever should move",1.0 +"His soul to friendship, tenderness, or love,",1.0 +"To FIGG and BROUGHTON he commits his breast,",1.0 +To steel it to the fashionable test.,2.0 +"Wretched alone, in crowds without a friend;",2.0 +"Deaf to all merit, to all beauty blind;",1.0 +"For love too busy, and for wit too grave,",3.0 +"A hardened, sober, proud, luxurious knave,",2.0 +"By little actions striving to be great,",1.0 +"And proud to be, and to be thought a cheat.",1.0 +"And yet in this so bad is his success,",1.0 +"That as his fame improves, his rents grow less;",1.0 +"On parchment wings his acres take their flight,",0.0 +"With his estate his interest too is done,",1.0 +His honest borough seeks a warmer sun.,1.0 +His independent voters cease to roar:,0.0 +And BRITAIN soon must want the great defence,0.0 +"Of all his honesty, and eloquence,",2.0 +But that the generous youth more anxious grown,2.0 +"For public liberty, than for his own,",2.0 +"And boldly, when his country is at stake,",1.0 +"Quickly again distressed for want of coin,",2.0 +"He digs no longer in the exhausted mine,",4.0 +"Cringes each morn at levees, bows at court,",2.0 +"And, from the hand he hates, implores support:",1.0 +"The minister, well pleased at small expense",2.0 +"With squeeze and whisper yields to his demands,",1.0 +And on the venal list enrolled he stands;,1.0 +"A ribbon and a pension buy the slave,",1.0 +"This bribes the fool about him, that the knave.",0.0 +"And now arrived at his meridian glory,",3.0 +"He sinks apace, despised by Whig and Tory;",0.0 +"Of independence now he talks no more,",1.0 +Nor shakes the senate with his patriot roar;,3.0 +"But silent votes, and with court trappings hung,",2.0 +"Eyes his own glittering star, and holds his tongue.",2.0 +"In craft political a bankrupt made,",1.0 +"He sticks to gaming, as the surer trade;",1.0 +"Turns downright sharper, lives by sucking blood,",2.0 +"And grows, in short, the very thing he would:",0.0 +"Hunts out young heirs, who have their fortunes spent,",1.0 +"And lends them ready cash at cent per cent,",0.0 +"Lays wagers on his own, and others lives,",2.0 +"Fights uncles, fathers, grandmothers and wives,",6.0 +"Till death at length, indignant to be made",1.0 +"The daily subject of his sport and trade,",1.0 +"His choicest blessings to mankind hath given,",2.0 +The rich profusion that salutes their eyes.,0.0 +But wise was he who studied every use,1.0 +Of common weeds which common fields produce.,0.0 +"The dock, the nettle, in each swelling vein,",0.0 +A healing balm for many an ill contain:,2.0 +At length is found a salutary draught.,0.0 +The same creative power that first displayed,2.0 +His wondrous works for our delight and aid;,1.0 +"His love to mortal man still gracious shows,",1.0 +"In every stream that glides, and herb that grows.",0.0 +"At his command, Malvern, thy mountains rise,",6.0 +And catch their dewy nectar from the skies;,1.0 +"On all alike their influence freely shed,",2.0 +"The wealthy squire, whose gouty limbs are laid",0.0 +"On beds of down, almost of down afraid,",3.0 +At this balsamic spring may soon regain,1.0 +"His lavished health, and over the spacious plain",2.0 +"Pursue the hare, or chase the miscreant fox",2.0 +With winged speed over hills or craggy rocks.,1.0 +"Here to his comfort the poor helpless swain,",2.0 +"Racked with the torture of rheumatic pain,",1.0 +"Obtains relief without the nauseous pill,",0.0 +Or that more shocking sight the doctor's bill.,0.0 +"When cloudy mists obscure the visual ray,",2.0 +The mournful wretch with pleasure here may find,0.0 +"A stream that heals the lame, and cures the blind.",0.0 +"The pampered cit, whose high luxurious food",2.0 +"With acrimonious poison loads his blood,",2.0 +"Who undeserved his father's spots must wear,",0.0 +As the white Syrian rose from Jordan's wave.,4.0 +"The latent ulcer, and the cancer dire,",1.0 +"That waste our flesh with slow consuming fire,",0.0 +"Whose subtle flames still spread from part to part,",1.0 +"Here checked submit, their raging fury laid,",0.0 +By streams from Nature's mystic engine played.,0.0 +"The stubborn evil, for whose flux impure",1.0 +"Blind bigotry at first devised a cure,",2.0 +Healed by these waters needs no more demand,1.0 +The foolish witchcraft of a Stuart's hand;,2.0 +"To reason, justice, liberty, and laws.",1.0 +"Should all the virtues of this spa be told,",1.0 +Its praises might be wrote in lines of gold.,0.0 +But Malvern spa in loftier numbers sing;,2.0 +"No more Parnassus, but the Malvern climb,",3.0 +"To make their diction pure, their thoughts sublime.",0.0 +"Even I at these fair fountains eased of pain,",3.0 +Reveals the wonders of her secret cell:,1.0 +"To you transfers the lay, whose active mind,",1.0 +Explores a panacea for mankind.,2.0 +"Amid the smiles of Fortune, and of youth,",1.0 +Thine ear is patient of a serious song.,3.0 +How deep implanted in the breast of man,0.0 +The Dread of Death! I sing its sovereign cure.,0.0 +Why start at Death? Where is he? Death arrived,1.0 +"Receives, not suffers, Death's tremendous blow.",0.0 +"The deep, damp vault, the darkness, and the worm: ' --",2.0 +"The terrors of the living, not the dead.",1.0 +Man makes a Death which Nature never made;,1.0 +"Then on the point of his own fancy falls,",1.0 +And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.,1.0 +"But were Death frightful, what has Age to fear?",2.0 +"If prudent, Age should meet the friendly foe,",0.0 +And shelter in his hospitable gloom.,5.0 +I scarce can meet a monument but holds,1.0 +"My younger: every date cries, Come away.",1.0 +And what recalls me? Look the world around,0.0 +And tell me what: the wisest cannot tell.,0.0 +Should any born of woman give his thought,0.0 +Full range on just dislike's unbounded field; ' --,1.0 +"Of things, the vanity; of men, the flaws;",1.0 +"Flaws in the best; the many, flaw all over;",0.0 +Vivacious ill; good dying immature;,0.0 +"His heart, though bold, would sicken at the sight,",0.0 +And spend itself in sighs for future scenes.,0.0 +But grant to Life and just it is to grant,1.0 +To lucky life some perquisites of joy;,1.0 +"But from our comment on the comedy,",3.0 +"Or hopes of plaudits from our candid Judge,",1.0 +"Toss Fortune back her tinsel, and her plume,",2.0 +And drop this mask of flesh behind the scene.,0.0 +"With me, that time is come! my world is dead;",1.0 +"A new world rises, and new manners reign:",3.0 +"Foreign comedians, a spruce band, arrive,",6.0 +"To push me from the scene, or hiss me there.",1.0 +"What a pert race starts up! The strangers gaze,",1.0 +And I at them: my neighbour is unknown;,2.0 +Nor that the worst: ah me! the dire effect,1.0 +"Of loitering here, of Death defrauded long!",1.0 +"Of old so gracious, and let that suffice,",2.0 +"Shall I dare say, peculiar is the fate?",4.0 +"An object ever pressing dims the sight,",0.0 +They drink it as the nectar of the great;,2.0 +"And squeeze my hand, and beg me come tomorrow!",1.0 +"Indulge me, nor conceive I drop my theme:",1.0 +"Who cheapens life, abates the fear of death.",0.0 +Ambition's ill judged effort to be rich.,2.0 +Alas! Ambition makes my little less;,0.0 +Wishing of all employments is the worst;,3.0 +"Were I as plump as stalled Theology,",2.0 +Wishing would waste me to this shade again.,2.0 +Wishing is an expedient to be poor.,4.0 +"Wishing, that constant hectic of a fool,",3.0 +"Caught at a court; purged off by purer air,",2.0 +And simpler diet; gifts of rural life!,0.0 +"Blessed be the Hand Divine, which gently kid",0.0 +"My heart at rest, beneath this humble shed.",0.0 +"The world's a stately bark, on dangerous seas,",2.0 +"With pleasure seen, but boarded at our peril.",0.0 +"Here, on a single plank, thrown safe ashore,",1.0 +"I hear the tumult of the distant throng,",1.0 +"As that of seas remote, or dying storms;",0.0 +And meditate on scenes more silent still;,0.0 +"Pursue my theme, and fight the fear of Death.",0.0 +"Here, like a shepherd gazing from his hut,",1.0 +"Touching his reed, or leaning on his staff,",3.0 +Eager Ambition's fiery chase I see;,4.0 +"I see the circling hunt, of noisy men,",0.0 +"Burst Law's enclosure, leap the mounds of Right,",1.0 +"Pursuing, and pursued, each other's prey;",1.0 +"Till Death, that mighty hunter, earth's them all.",0.0 +Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour?,1.0 +"What, though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame?",0.0 +"Earth's highest station ends in, Here he lies:",1.0 +And Dust to dust concludes her noblest song.,0.0 +"If this song lives, posterity shall know",3.0 +"One, though in Britain born, with courtiers bred,",3.0 +Who thought even gold might come a day too late;,2.0 +Nor on his subtle deathbed planned his scheme,2.0 +For future vacancies in Church or State;,1.0 +"Poor human ruins, tottering over the grave!",5.0 +"Strike deeper their vile root, and closer cling,",3.0 +"Shall our pale, withered hands be still stretched out,",4.0 +"Trembling at once with eagerness and age,",2.0 +With avarice and convulsions grasping hard?,3.0 +Grasping at air! for what has earth beside?,2.0 +Man wants but little; nor that little long:,2.0 +"How soon must he resign his very dust,",1.0 +Which frugal Nature lent him for an hour!,1.0 +"And soon as man, expert from time, has found",5.0 +"The key of life, it opens the gates of Death.",2.0 +"When in this vale of years I backward look,",0.0 +"And miss such numbers, numbers too of such,",0.0 +"Firmer in health, and greener in their age,",2.0 +"And stricter on their guard, and fitter far",1.0 +"To play life's subtle game, I scarce believe",1.0 +"I still survive. And am I fond of life,",1.0 +Who scarce can think it possible I live?,1.0 +"Alive by miracle; or, what is next,",1.0 +"Alive by Mead! if I am still alive,",1.0 +"Who long have buried what gives life to live, ' --",1.0 +"Firmness of nerve, and energy of thought.",3.0 +Life's lee is not more shallow than impure,2.0 +"And vapid: Sense and Reason show the door,",0.0 +"Call for my bier, and point me to the dust.",1.0 +OH Thou great Arbiter of Life and Death!,4.0 +"Nature's immortal, immaterial Sun!",4.0 +"From darkness, teeming darkness, where I lay",0.0 +"The worm's inferior, and, in rank, beneath",1.0 +"The dust I tread on; high to bear my brow,",0.0 +"To drink the spirit of the golden day,",1.0 +No motive but my bliss; and hast ordained,2.0 +"A rise in blessing! ' -- with the patriarch's joy,",2.0 +Thy call I follow to the land unknown;,1.0 +"I trust in Thee, and know in whom I trust:",1.0 +"Or life, or death, is equal; neither weighs;",0.0 +All weight in this ' -- OH let me live to Thee!,3.0 +"Though Nature's terrors thus may be repressed,",0.0 +Still frowns grim Death; guilt points the tyrant's spear.,7.0 +And whence all human guilt? From Death forgot.,0.0 +Of friendly warnings which around me flew;,0.0 +"Death's admonitions, like shafts upwards shot,",2.0 +"More dreadful by delay, ' -- the longer ere",1.0 +"They strike our hearts, the deeper is their wound.",1.0 +"OH think how deep, Lorenzo! here it stings:",1.0 +Who can appease its anguish? How it burns!,2.0 +"What healing hand can pour the balm of peace,",0.0 +And turn my sight undaunted on the tomb?,1.0 +"With joy, ' -- with grief, that healing hand I see;",0.0 +Ah! too conspicuous! it is fixed on high.,1.0 +Alas! how low! how far beneath the skies!,0.0 +The skies it formed; and now it bleeds for me ' --,0.0 +"But bleeds the balm I want, ' -- yet still it bleeds;",0.0 +Draw the dire steel ' -- ah no! ' -- the dreadful blessing,0.0 +"What heart or can sustain, or dares forego?",1.0 +There hangs all human hope; that nail supports,0.0 +"The falling universe: that gone, we drop;",0.0 +"Horror receives us, and the dismal wish",3.0 +Creation had been smothered in her birth ' --,0.0 +"Darkness his curtain, and his bed the dust;",3.0 +When stars and sun are dust beneath his throne!,0.0 +In heaven itself can such indulgence dwell?,1.0 +OH what a groan was there! a groan not His.,1.0 +He seized our dreadful right; the load sustained;,0.0 +And heaved the mountain from a guilty world.,1.0 +"A thousand worlds, so bought, were bought too dear:",1.0 +"Suspend their song, and make a pause in bliss.",0.0 +"OH for their song, to reach my lofty theme!",0.0 +"Inspire me, Night! with all thy tuneful spheres;",0.0 +And show to men the dignity of man;,1.0 +"Shall Pagan pages glow celestial flame,",0.0 +"And Christian languish? On our hearts, not heads,",1.0 +"Falls the foul infamy. My heart, awake!",4.0 +"Feel the great truths, which burst the tenfold night",4.0 +"Of Heathen error, with a golden flood",1.0 +"Of endless day. To feel, is to be fired;",1.0 +"And to believe, Lorenzo, is to feel.",2.0 +"Thou most indulgent, most tremendous Power!",0.0 +"Still more tremendous, for Thy wondrous love,",2.0 +"That arms, with awe more awful, Thy commands;",1.0 +And foul transgression dips in sevenfold guilt:,1.0 +How our hearts tremble at Thy love immense!,2.0 +"Thou, rather than Thy justice should be stained,",1.0 +"The greatest, that Thy Dearest far might bleed.",0.0 +"Bold thought! shall I dare speak it, or repress?",5.0 +"Which roused such vengeance, which such love inflamed?",0.0 +"Over guilt how mountainous! with outstretched arms,",4.0 +"Supporting, in full majesty, thy throne,",2.0 +"When seemed its majesty to need support,",1.0 +"Or that, or man, inevitably lost:",1.0 +"Could labour such expedient from despair,",4.0 +And rescue both? Both rescue! both exalt!,1.0 +OH how are both exalted by the deed!,1.0 +The wondrous deed! or shall I call it more?,0.0 +A wonder in Omnipotence itself!,1.0 +A mystery no less to gods than men!,2.0 +"Not thus our infidels the Eternal draw, ' --",3.0 +"A God all over, consummate, absolute,",2.0 +"They set at odds Heaven's jarring attributes,",3.0 +And with one excellence another wound;,2.0 +"Maim Heaven's perfection, break its equal beams,",3.0 +"Bid Mercy triumph over ' -- God himself,",1.0 +"A God all mercy, is a God unjust.",1.0 +"The ransom was paid down; the fund of Heaven,",2.0 +"Heaven's inexhaustible, exhausted fund,",2.0 +"Amazing and amazed, poured forth the price,",2.0 +"All price beyond: though, curious to compute,",3.0 +Archangels failed to cast the mighty sum:,1.0 +For ever hides and glows in the Supreme.,1.0 +And was the ransom paid? It was: and paid,2.0 +What can exalt the bounty more? for you.,1.0 +"The Sun beheld it ' -- No, the shocking scene",0.0 +Drove back his chariot: midnight veiled his face;,4.0 +"Not such as this, not such as Nature makes;",1.0 +A midnight Nature shuddered to behold;,2.0 +"A midnight new! a dread eclipse, without",1.0 +At that enormous load of human guilt,0.0 +"Which bowed His blessed head, overwhelmed His cross,",1.0 +"Made groan the centre, burst earth's marble womb",2.0 +"With pangs, strange pangs! delivered of her dead?",2.0 +Hell howled; and Heaven that hour let fall a tear;,4.0 +"Heaven wept, that men might smile! Heaven bled, that man",1.0 +And is devotion virtue? IT is compelled:,4.0 +What heart of stone but glows at thoughts like these?,0.0 +The mind still higher; nor ever glance on man,3.0 +To rest from wonders? Other wonders rise;,0.0 +And strike wherever they roll: my soul is caught;,2.0 +"Heaven's sovereign blessings, clustering from the cross,",1.0 +"Rush on her in a throng, and close her round,",0.0 +The prisoner of amaze! In His blessed life,2.0 +"I see the path, and in His death the price,",0.0 +"And in His great ascent the proof supreme,",0.0 +Of immortality. ' -- And did He rise?,1.0 +"Hear, OH you nations! Hear it, OH you dead!",1.0 +He rose! He rose! He burst the bars of death.,0.0 +"Lift up your heads, you everlasting gates,",0.0 +And give the King of Glory to come in!,2.0 +Who is the King of glory? He who left,1.0 +His throne of glory for the pang of death.,1.0 +And give the King of glory to come in!,2.0 +Who is the King of Glory? He who slew,1.0 +"The King of Glory, He whose glory filled",1.0 +Heaven with amazement at His love to man;,1.0 +And with Divine complacency beheld,2.0 +"The theme, the joy, how then shall man sustain?",0.0 +"OH the burst gates, crushed sting, demolished throne,",4.0 +"Last gasp, of vanquished Death! Shout, Earth and Heaven,",2.0 +This sum of good to man! whose nature then,0.0 +"Took wing, and mounted with Him from the tomb.",3.0 +"Then, then I rose; then first humanity",1.0 +"Triumphant passed the crystal ports of light,",0.0 +"Stupendous guest! and seized eternal youth,",0.0 +"Seized in our name. Ever since, iT is blasphemous",5.0 +To call man mortal. Man's mortality,2.0 +Was then transferred to Death; and Heaven's duration,3.0 +"This child of dust. ' -- Man, all immortal, hail!",1.0 +"Hail, Heaven, all lavish of strange gifts to man!",3.0 +Thine all the glory; man's the boundless bliss.,0.0 +"Where am I rapt by this triumphant theme,",1.0 +"On Christian joy's exulting wing, above",0.0 +"What, if to pain immortal? if extent",1.0 +"Of being, to preclude a close of woe?",1.0 +"Where, then, my boast of immortality?",1.0 +"I boast it still, though covered over with guilt:",2.0 +"For guilt, not innocence, His life He poured;",1.0 +Tis guilt alone can justify His death;,1.0 +"Nor that, unless His death can justify",0.0 +Relenting guilt in Heaven's indulgent sight.,2.0 +"If, sick of folly, I relent, He writes",1.0 +My name in heaven with that inverted spear,0.0 +"A spear deep dipped in blood! which pierced His side,",1.0 +And opened there a font for all mankind,2.0 +"Who strive, who combat crimes, to drink and live",0.0 +And what is this? ' -- Survey the wondrous cure:,1.0 +And at each step let higher wonder rise!,1.0 +Through means that speak its value infinite!,1.0 +A pardon bought with blood; with blood Divine!,0.0 +With blood Divine of Him I made my foe!,1.0 +"Persisted to provoke! though wooed and awed,",1.0 +"Blessed and chastised, a flagrant rebel still!",2.0 +"A rebel, mid the thunders of His throne!",1.0 +Nor I alone; a rebel universe!,1.0 +My species up in arms; not one exempt!,2.0 +As if our race were held of highest rank;,1.0 +"And Godhead dearer, as more kind to man!",1.0 +"Bound, every heart! and every bosom, burn!",1.0 +OH what a scale of miracles is here!,1.0 +Its towering summit lost beyond the thought,0.0 +Of man or angel! OH that I could climb,1.0 +"The wonderful ascent, with equal praise!",1.0 +"Praise! flow for ever, if astonishment",3.0 +"Will give thee leave, my praise! for ever flow;",0.0 +"Praise ardent, cordial, constant, to high Heaven",3.0 +"More fragrant than Arabia sacrificed,",3.0 +And all her spicy mountains in a flame.,0.0 +"So dear, so due to Heaven, shall Praise descend,",0.0 +"First plucked by man to tickle mortal ears,",1.0 +Thus diving in the pockets of the great?,2.0 +"Is Praise the perquisite of every paw,",1.0 +"Though black as hell, that grapples well for gold?",0.0 +"Shall Praise her odours waste on Virtue's dead,",3.0 +"Embalm the base, perfume the stench of guilt,",0.0 +"Removing filth, or sinking it from sight,",1.0 +"A scavenger in scenes where vacant posts,",1.0 +"Return, apostate Praise! thou vagabond!",1.0 +"There flow redundant; like Meander, flow",0.0 +Back to thy fountain; to that parent Power,1.0 +"Who gives the tongue to sound, the thought to soar,",0.0 +The soul to be. Men homage pay to men;,1.0 +Thoughtless beneath whose dreadful eye they bow,2.0 +"In mutual awe profound, of clay to clay,",2.0 +"Of guilt to guilt; and turn their backs on Thee,",0.0 +To prostrate angels an amazing scene!,1.0 +OH the presumption of man's awe for man! ' --,4.0 +"Man's Author, End, Restorer, Law, and Judge!",1.0 +"Thine, all; Day thine, and thine this gloom of Night,",1.0 +"With all her wealth, with all her radiant worlds.",0.0 +"What night eternal, but a frown from Thee?",1.0 +"What heaven's meridian glory, but Thy smile?",5.0 +"And shall not praise be Thine? not human praise,",1.0 +OH may I breathe no longer than I breathe,2.0 +"My soul in praise to Him who gave my soul,",1.0 +"And all her infinite of prospect fair,",1.0 +"Cut through the shades of hell, great Love, by thee,",1.0 +Where shall that praise begin which never should end?,1.0 +"Wherever I turn, what claim on all applause!",2.0 +How richly wrought with attributes divine!,0.0 +"What wisdom shines, what love! This midnight pomp,",1.0 +This gorgeous arch with golden worlds inlaid!,1.0 +"For others this profusion. Thou, apart,",2.0 +"Above, beyond! OH tell me, mighty Mind,",1.0 +Where art thou? Shall I dive into the deep?,0.0 +"Call to the sun, or ask the roaring winds,",0.0 +For their Creator? Shall I question loud,1.0 +"The thunder, if in that the Almighty dwells?",2.0 +"Or holds HE furious storms in straightened reins,",2.0 +What mean these questions? ' -- Trembling I retract;,1.0 +My prostrate soul adores the present God.,0.0 +Praise I a distant Deity? He tunes,1.0 +"My voice if tuned; the nerve that writes, sustains:",0.0 +"Wrapped in His being, I resound His praise:",2.0 +"But though past all diffused, without a shore,",2.0 +His essence; local is His throne as meet,1.0 +To gather the dispersed as standards call,1.0 +"The listed from afar; to fix a point,",1.0 +"A central point, collective of his sons,",1.0 +Since finite every nature but his own.,2.0 +"The nameless He, whose nod is Nature's birth;",1.0 +"And Nature's shield, the shadow of His hand;",1.0 +"Her dissolution, His suspended smile!",1.0 +"By gods unseen, unless through lustre lost.",0.0 +"His glory, to created glory, bright",1.0 +As that to central horrors; He looks down,2.0 +"Boundless Creation! what art thou? A beam,",3.0 +"Mutter, in dust and sin, the theme of Heaven?",2.0 +Down to the centre should I send my thought,1.0 +"Through beds of glittering over, and glowing gems,",4.0 +"Goes out in darkness. If, on towering wing,",1.0 +I send it through the boundless vault of stars;,1.0 +"The stars, though rich, what dross their gold to Thee,",0.0 +"Great, good, wise, wonderful, eternal King!",3.0 +"If to those conscious stars thy throne around,",1.0 +"And ask their strain; they want it, more they want,",0.0 +"Poor their abundance, humble their sublime,",3.0 +"Indebted still, their highest rapture burns,",0.0 +"Short of its mark, defective, though Divine.",1.0 +"Still more, ' -- this theme is man's, and man's alone;",0.0 +Their vast appointments reach it not: they see,0.0 +"On earth a bounty not indulged on high,",0.0 +And downward look for Heaven's superior praise!,4.0 +"Firstborn of either, high in fields of light,",1.0 +"View man, to see the glory of your God!",2.0 +"Could angels envy, they had envied here;",1.0 +"And some did envy: and the rest, though gods,",1.0 +"Yet still gods unredeemed, there triumphs man,",1.0 +"Tempted to weigh the dust against the skies,",2.0 +"They less would feel, though more adorn, my theme.",0.0 +They sung Creation for in that they shared;,1.0 +How rose in melody that child of love!,1.0 +"Creation's great superior, man! is thine;",2.0 +Thine is Redemption. They just gave the key;,2.0 +"Though human, yet Divine; for should not this",0.0 +"Far more than labour, ' -- it was Death in heaven.",1.0 +If not far bolder still to disbelieve.,2.0 +"Here pause, and ponder. Was there death in heaven?",1.0 +"What then on earth? on earth, which struck the blow?",0.0 +"Who struck it? Who? ' -- OH how is man enlarged,",0.0 +Seen through this medium! How the pigmy towers!,1.0 +How voided his vast distance from the skies!,3.0 +"How this demonstrates, through the thickest cloud",0.0 +"Of guilt and clay condensed, the son of Heaven;",0.0 +"The double son; the made, and the remade!",1.0 +And shall Heaven's double property be lost?,1.0 +Man's double madness only can destroy.,2.0 +To man the bleeding Cross has promised all;,0.0 +The bleeding Cross has sworn eternal grace;,0.0 +"Who gave his life, what grace shall He deny?",1.0 +"OH you, who from this Rock of Ages leap,",0.0 +"Disdainful, plunging headlong in the deep!",1.0 +"What cordial joy, what consolation strong,",0.0 +"Whatever winds arise, or billows roll,",1.0 +Our interest in the Master of the storm!,1.0 +"Cling there, and in wrecked Nature's ruins smile,",1.0 +"Man, know thyself! All wisdom centres there;",2.0 +To none man seems ignoble but to man.,2.0 +Angels that grandeur men overlook admire;,1.0 +"How long shall human nature be their book,",0.0 +"Degenerate mortal, and unread by thee?",3.0 +The beam dim Reason sheds shows wonders there;,3.0 +"What high contents, illustrious faculties!",3.0 +"But the grand comment, which displays at full",2.0 +"Our human height, scarce severed from Divine,",2.0 +"By Heaven composed, was published on the cross.",1.0 +"Who looks on that, and sees not in himself",0.0 +"An awful stranger, a terrestrial god?",3.0 +A glorious partner with the Deity,4.0 +"In that high attribute, immortal life?",3.0 +"If a God bleeds, he bleeds not for a worm:",3.0 +"I gaze, and, as I gaze, my mounting soul",1.0 +"Catches strange fire, Eternity! at thee;",4.0 +"And drops the world, ' -- or rather, more enjoys.",0.0 +How changed the face of Nature! how improved!,1.0 +"What seemed a chaos, shines a glorious world;",2.0 +"Or what a world, an Eden; heightened all!",0.0 +"It is another scene, another self;",1.0 +"And still another, as time rolls along;",2.0 +And that a self far more illustrious still.,3.0 +"Beyond long ages, yet rolled up in shades",3.0 +"How Nature opens, and receives my soul",1.0 +Encounter and embrace me! What new births,2.0 +"Of strange adventure, foreign to the sun;",1.0 +"Where what now charms, perhaps whatever exists,",4.0 +"Old Time and fair Creation, are forgot!",2.0 +Is this extravagant? Of man we form,2.0 +"Extravagant conception, to be just:",2.0 +Conception unconfined wants wings to reach him:,1.0 +Beyond its reach the Godhead only more.,1.0 +"He, the great Father, kindled at one flame",2.0 +From Spirit's awful fountain; poured Himself,0.0 +Through all their souls; but not in equal stream;,0.0 +"Profuse or frugal of the inspiring God,",3.0 +"As His wise plan demanded; and, when past",3.0 +"Their various trials in their various spheres,",4.0 +"If they continue rational, as made,",2.0 +"His throne their centre, and His smile their crown.",1.0 +"Why doubt we, then, the glorious truth to sing,",2.0 +"Though yet unsung, as deemed, perhaps, too bold?",1.0 +Angels are men of a superior kind;,5.0 +"Angels are men in lighter habit clad,",2.0 +High over celestial mountains winged in flight;,3.0 +"And men are angels loaded for an hour,",1.0 +"And slippery step, the bottom of the steep.",1.0 +"Angels their failings, mortals have their praise;",2.0 +"While here, of corps ethereal, such enrolled,",3.0 +"And summoned to the glorious standard soon,",3.0 +Which flames eternal crimson through the skies.,1.0 +"Nor are our brothers thoughtless of their kin,",2.0 +Yet absent; but not absent from their love.,2.0 +Michael has fought our battles; Raphael sung,3.0 +"Our triumphs; Gabriel on our errands flown,",1.0 +"Sent by the SOVEREIGN: and are these, OH man,",2.0 +"Thy friends, thy warm allies? and thou shame burn",1.0 +The cheek to cinder! rival to the brute?,1.0 +Religion's all. Descending from the skies,1.0 +"To wretched man, the goddess in her left",0.0 +"Holds out this world, and in her right the next.",0.0 +Religion! the sole voucher man is man;,2.0 +Supporter sole of man above himself;,0.0 +"Even in this night of frailty, change, and death,",0.0 +She gives the soul a soul that acts a god.,0.0 +Here is firm footing; here is solid rock;,2.0 +This can support us: all is sea besides;,1.0 +"And bids earth roll, nor feels her idle whirl.",1.0 +"As when a wretch, from thick, polluted air,",0.0 +"Darkness, and stench, and suffocating damps,",2.0 +"Climbs some fair eminence, where either pure",3.0 +"His heart exults, his spirits cast their load;",0.0 +"As if newborn, he triumphs in the change;",2.0 +"So joys the soul, when, from inglorious aims,",3.0 +"Of ties terrestrial, set at large, she mounts",2.0 +"To Reason's region, her own element,",2.0 +"Breathes hopes immortal, and affects the skies.",2.0 +"Religion! thou the soul of happiness,",2.0 +"And, groaning Calvary, of thee! There shine",2.0 +The noblest truths; there strongest motives sting;,0.0 +There sacred violence assaults the soul;,1.0 +"Can love allure us, or can terror awe?",1.0 +He weeps! ' -- the falling drop puts out the sun;,2.0 +He sighs! ' -- the sigh earth's deep foundation shakes.,1.0 +"If in His love so terrible, what then",1.0 +"His wrath inflamed, His tenderness on fire?",1.0 +"Can prayer, can praise avert it? ' -- Thou, my all!",1.0 +"My theme, my inspiration, and my crown!",1.0 +"My strength in age, my rise in low estate!",0.0 +"My soul's ambition, pleasure, wealth, my world!",0.0 +"My light in darkness, and my life in death!",1.0 +"My boast through time, bliss through eternity!",3.0 +"Eternity, too short to speak Thy praise,",2.0 +Or fathom Thy profound of love to man!,1.0 +"To man of men the meanest, even to me;",1.0 +"My Sacrifice, my God! ' -- what things are these?",0.0 +What then art THOU? By what name shall I call Thee?,1.0 +"Knew I the name devout archangels use,",1.0 +"Devout archangels should the name enjoy,",1.0 +"None half so dear as that which, though unspoken,",2.0 +Still glows at heart. OH how Omnipotence,4.0 +Is lost in Love! Thou great PHILANTHROPIST!,1.0 +"Father of angels, but the friend of man!",3.0 +"Like Jacob, fondest of the younger born!",1.0 +"From out the flames, and quench it in Thy blood!",1.0 +"How art Thou pleased, by bounty to distress,",1.0 +"To make us groan beneath our gratitude,",0.0 +"Too big for birth! to favour, and confound!",2.0 +To challenge and to distance all return!,1.0 +"Of lavish love stupendous heights to soar,",0.0 +And leave Praise panting in the distant vale!,1.0 +"But since the naked will obtains Thy smile,",1.0 +"Beneath this monument of praise unpaid,",1.0 +"That noblest hymn to Heaven, for ever lie",0.0 +"Entombed my Fear of Death! and every fear,",0.0 +"The dread of every evil, but Thy frown.",1.0 +Whom see I yonder so demurely smile?,1.0 +"Laughter a labour, and might break their rest.",2.0 +"Serene, of soft address! who mildly make",0.0 +"An unobtrusive tender of your hearts,",1.0 +But for the blessing wrestle not with Heaven!,1.0 +"Think you my song too turbulent, too warm?",3.0 +To touch things sacred? OH for warmer still!,1.0 +"OH for an humbler heart, and prouder song!",0.0 +"Which melted over doomed Salem, deign to look",3.0 +"Compassion to the coldness of my breast,",2.0 +And pardon to the winter in my strain.,1.0 +"On such a theme, iT is impious to be calm;",3.0 +"Passion is reason, transport temper, here.",2.0 +"Her own for man so strongly, not disdain",0.0 +"That prose of piety, a lukewarm praise?",2.0 +"But when it glows, its heat is struck to heaven;",0.0 +To human hearts her golden harps are strung;,0.0 +High heaven's orchestra chants Amen to man.,3.0 +"Hear I, or dream I hear, their distant strain,",0.0 +"Sweet to the soul, and tasting strong of heaven,",0.0 +"Through the vast spaces of the universe,",3.0 +To cheer me in this melancholy gloom?,0.0 +Admit me of their choir? OH when will Death,1.0 +"Give beings, one in nature, one abode?",3.0 +Great Future! glorious Patron of the Past,4.0 +And Present! when shall I thy shrine adore?,1.0 +"From Nature's continent, immensely wide,",1.0 +"Immensely blessed, this little isle of life,",0.0 +"This dark, incarcerating colony,",1.0 +Divides us. Happy day that breaks our chain!,0.0 +"That leads to Nature's great metropolis,",1.0 +"Of elder brothers, to our Father's throne,",1.0 +"Who hears our Advocate, and, through his wounds",1.0 +"Beholding man, allows that tender name.",0.0 +IT is this makes Christian triumph a command;,8.0 +IT is this makes joy a duty to the wise:,5.0 +IT is impious in a good man to be sad.,2.0 +"Touched by the Cross, we live, or more than die;",0.0 +That touch which touched not angels; more Divine,0.0 +"Than that which touched confusion into form,",0.0 +And darkness into glory: partial touch!,0.0 +"Sacred to man, and sovereign through the whole",3.0 +"Long golden chain of miracles, which hangs",2.0 +"From heaven through all duration, and supports,",2.0 +"In one illustrious and amazing plan,",4.0 +"Thy welfare, Nature, and thy God's renown;",2.0 +"That touch, with charm celestial, heals the soul",0.0 +"Diseased, drives pain from guilt, lights life in death,",2.0 +Dost ask me when? When HE who died returns!,0.0 +"Returns, how changed! Where then the Man of Woe?",0.0 +"And all His courts, exhausted by the tide",1.0 +"Of deities triumphant in His train,",1.0 +Leave a stupendous solitude in heaven;,2.0 +"Replenished soon, replenished with increase",1.0 +Of pomp and multitude; a radiant band,0.0 +"Of angels new, of angels from the tomb.",1.0 +Is this by Fancy thrown remote? and rise,1.0 +Dark doubts between the promise and event?,2.0 +I send thee not to volumes for thy cure;,1.0 +Read Nature; Nature is a friend to truth;,2.0 +"Nature is Christian; preaches to mankind,",4.0 +And bids dead matter aid us in our creed.,1.0 +Hast thou never seen the comet's flaming flight?,0.0 +"The illustrious stranger, passing, terror sheds",3.0 +"On gazing nations, from his fiery train",3.0 +Of length enormous; takes his ample round,0.0 +Of more than solar glory; doubles wide,0.0 +"Heaven's mighty cape; and then revisits earth,",0.0 +From the long travel of a thousand years.,3.0 +"Thus, at the destined period, shall return",2.0 +"HE, once on earth, who bids the comet blaze;",0.0 +"And, with Him, all our triumph over the tomb.",3.0 +"Nature is dumb on this important point,",3.0 +Or Hope precarious in low whisper breathes:,3.0 +"But turn, and dart into the dark again.",0.0 +"Faith builds a bridge across the gulf of Death,",1.0 +"To break the shock blind Nature cannot shun,",1.0 +And lands Thought smoothly on the farther shore.,2.0 +"Death's terror is the mountain Faith removes,",2.0 +"Why disbelieve, Lorenzo? ' -- Reason bids,",1.0 +Nor shalt thou want a rival in thy flame.,0.0 +"Demanding praise, on earth, or earth above!",0.0 +On passive Nature before Thought was born?,1.0 +My birth's blind bigot! fired with local zeal!,3.0 +Weighed true and false in her impartial scale;,2.0 +"My heart became the convert of my head,",1.0 +And made that choice which once was but my fate.,1.0 +On argument alone my faith is built:,1.0 +"Where proof invites, iT is Reason then no more;",1.0 +"And such our proof, that or our Faith is right,",2.0 +"Or Reason lies, and Heaven designed it wrong.",0.0 +Absolve we this? what then is blasphemy?,1.0 +"Fond as we are, and justly fond, of Faith,",1.0 +"Reason, we grant, demands our first regard;",2.0 +"Reason the root, fair Faith is but the flower:",4.0 +"The fading flower shall die, but Reason lives",2.0 +Immortal as her Father in the skies.,1.0 +"When Faith is virtue, Reason makes it so.",0.0 +Wrong not the Christian: think not Reason yours;,1.0 +IT is Reason our great Master holds so dear;,2.0 +IT is Reason's injured rights His wrath resents;,0.0 +IT is Reason's voice obeyed His glories crown:,0.0 +"To give lost Reason life, He poured His own.",1.0 +"Believe, and show the reason of a man;",1.0 +"Believe, and taste the pleasure of a God;",1.0 +"Believe, and look with triumph on the tomb.",1.0 +Through Reason's wounds alone thy Faith can die;,0.0 +"Which, dying, tenfold terror gives to Death,",1.0 +To those who push our antidote aside;,1.0 +"Those boasted friends to Reason and to man,",1.0 +"Whose fatal love stabs every joy, and leaves",1.0 +"Death's terror heightened, gnawing on his heart.",2.0 +"And vilified at once; of Reason dead,",1.0 +"Then deified, as monarchs were of old;",2.0 +What conduct plants proud laurels on their brow?,2.0 +Spike up their inch of reason on the point,1.0 +"Of philosophic wit, called Argument,",2.0 +"And then, exulting in their taper, cry,",0.0 +Talk they of morals? OH Thou bleeding Love!,0.0 +Thou Maker of new morals to mankind!,4.0 +The grand morality is love of Thee.,1.0 +"As wise as Socrates, if such they were,",1.0 +"Nor will they abate of that sublime renown,",1.0 +"As wise as Socrates, might justly stand",0.0 +The definition of a modern fool.,1.0 +A CHRISTIAN is the highest style of man.,1.0 +"And is there who the blessed cross wipes off,",2.0 +"If angels tremble, iT is at such a sight;",1.0 +More struck with grief or wonder who can tell?,0.0 +You sold to sense! you citizens of earth!,1.0 +"For such alone the Christian banner fly,",1.0 +"Know you how wise your choice, how great your gain?",0.0 +Behold the picture of earth's happiest man:,4.0 +"He calls his wish, it comes; he sends it back,",0.0 +"And says he called another; that arrives,",0.0 +Meets the same welcome; yet he still calls on;,5.0 +"Till One calls him, who varies not his call,",0.0 +"But holds him fast in chains of darkness bound,",0.0 +"Till Nature dies, and Judgement sets him free;",0.0 +A freedom far less welcome than his chain.,2.0 +But grant man happy; grant him happy long;,1.0 +"That hour, so late, is nimble in approach,",0.0 +"That, like a post, comes on in full career.",2.0 +How swift the shuttle flies that weaves thy shroud!,0.0 +Where is the fable of thy former years?,1.0 +Thrown down the gulf of time; as far from thee,0.0 +"As they had never been thine; the day in hand,",1.0 +"Like a bird struggling to get loose, is going;",6.0 +"Scarce now possessed, so suddenly iT is gone;",2.0 +"And each swift moment, fled, is death advanced",1.0 +By strides as swift. Eternity is all;,1.0 +And whose eternity? who triumphs there?,2.0 +Bathing for ever in the font of bliss!,2.0 +For ever basking in the Deity!,1.0 +"Lorenzo, who? ' -- Thy conscience shall reply.",0.0 +"While useful its advice, its accent mild.",2.0 +"By the great edict, the divine decree,",3.0 +Truth is deposited with man's last hour;,4.0 +"An honest hour, and faithful to her trust.",1.0 +"Truth, eldest daughter of the Deity!",3.0 +"Truth, of his council when he made the worlds;",0.0 +"Nor less, when he shall judge the worlds he made!",1.0 +"Though silent long, and sleeping never so sound,",2.0 +"Smothered with errors, and oppressed with toys,",3.0 +"But from her cavern in the soul's abyss,",1.0 +"The goddess bursts in thunder and in flame,",1.0 +"Loudly convinces, and severely pains.",3.0 +The keen vibration of bright Truth ' -- is hell:,2.0 +"And trust, for once, a prophet and a priest:",1.0 +"Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.",3.0 +"Some Guardian Powers, in Pity to our Land,",5.0 +Heaven will by other Means convert the West;,0.0 +And you must make your native Country blessed:,1.0 +Your Business there was but to serve Mankind;,3.0 +"To Virtue, here, may thoughtless Souls persuade,",0.0 +"Of these no Realm, from Lapland to Japan,",4.0 +"Displays such Numbers, as Hibernia can.",3.0 +"Haste then, OH haste! return, and bless our Eyes,",3.0 +Nor more the Call of Providence despise:,1.0 +"Who sacrifice their Country to their Pride,",1.0 +"And squander vast Estates at Balls and Play,",0.0 +"While public Debts increase, and Funds decay;",0.0 +"While the starved Hind with Want distracted lives,",3.0 +"Nor tastes that Plenty, which his Labour gives.",0.0 +"Let those alone to foreign Countries stray,",2.0 +"Who, with their Wealth, their Follies take away.",0.0 +"Whatever such may act, wherever they go,",4.0 +"Do thou return, to mitigate our Woe.",1.0 +Our Gold may flow to Albion with each Tide;,1.0 +But let them with that Gold be satisfied:,1.0 +"The Want of that, we long have learnt to bear;",0.0 +"But Souls like thine accomplished, cannot spate.",1.0 +"And that I set no Idol up above thee,",2.0 +"I Love thee more then Life or Interest,",0.0 +Nor hast thou any Rival in my Breast;,0.0 +"I Love thee so, that I would calmly bear;",0.0 +"The Mocks of Fools, and bless my happy Ear",0.0 +Let me from thee but one kind whisper hear;,3.0 +"I Love thee so, that for a smile of thine,",0.0 +"Might this, and all the brighter Worlds be mine,",0.0 +"I would not pause, but with a noble Scorn,",1.0 +At the unequal slighted offer spurn;,1.0 +"Yes, I to Fools these trifles can resign,",1.0 +"Nor envy them the World, while thou art mine;",1.0 +"I love thee as my Centre, and can find",2.0 +No Point but thee to stay my doubtful mind;,2.0 +"Potent and uncontrolled its Motions were,",3.0 +"Urged with a thousand specious Baits, I stood,",0.0 +"Displeased, and sighing for some distant good,",1.0 +To calm its genuine Dictates ' -- but betwixt,3.0 +"Them all, remained suspended and unfit.",1.0 +"I love thee so, it's more than Death to be,",1.0 +"My Life, my Love, my all, deprived of thee;",0.0 +"It's Hell, it's Horror, shades and darkness then,",0.0 +"I Love thee so, I'de kiss the Dart should free",4.0 +"My flattering Soul, and send her up to thee;",3.0 +"She'd spread her Wings, and bid the world goodnight.",1.0 +"Scarce for my bright conductors would I stay,",0.0 +"But lead thy flaming Ministers the way,",1.0 +In their known passage to eternal day.,3.0 +"And yet the Climes of Light would not seem fair,",1.0 +And coped all Heaven in his sweet embrace.,0.0 +"JOIN now Apollo the harmonious strain,",4.0 +"OH Muses, Graces, all you gentle train;",1.0 +"Once more conspire to aid my humble lays,",3.0 +"A comedy youth, young Cupid's favourite care,",3.0 +"Handsome in shape, and graceful in his air:",2.0 +"Can sigh, and talk, and laugh, and love with ease.",0.0 +"But OH what words, what numbers can express,",1.0 +"This I'll essay, although the task's severe,",2.0 +While Delia drops a sympathetic tear.,0.0 +"And thus it happened, on a fatal morn,",1.0 +"Roused with the sound of hound and echoing horn,",2.0 +"This charming youth, on rural sports intent,",0.0 +With some companions to the field he went:,1.0 +"Each hound he summons, they attend him there,",1.0 +With eager steps pursue the timid hare.,0.0 +"Pleased with their toil, over various heights they went,",4.0 +Nor did the craggy cliffs their speed prevent.,0.0 +"The chase now past, their late inspiring toil,",1.0 +Our jovial sportsman led to rest a while.,2.0 +"To the next inn with hasty steps they pass,",1.0 +And quaff with social hearts the cheerful glass.,0.0 +Once more he tries for pleasure on the plain.,1.0 +"The scene is changed, his pleasure now is gone,",0.0 +Lost and forlorn he wanders all alone.,2.0 +"And in Bane's moss, alas! he lands at last.",1.0 +"His trembling hand, which held the lifeless hare,",0.0 +Now casts it from him as not worth his care.,2.0 +"Three times he drops, three times he lifts his plaid,",2.0 +Hope and despair by turns his breast invade:,2.0 +"He looked for help, alas! no help was nigh,",1.0 +"Am I to Death become an easy prey,",1.0 +"With quivering lips methought he thus did say,",4.0 +"Now farewell hope, my much loved friends, adieu;",3.0 +"My dear companions, charming Delia too,",0.0 +"OH wert thou near to heave a tender sigh,",0.0 +Upon thy breast I would contented die:,0.0 +"My race is run, life's fleeting vision over.",1.0 +Till balmy sleep bestowed a short relief.,0.0 +"On mossy pillows rests his drooping head,",0.0 +"While azure curtains hang around his bed,",0.0 +"All night extended on the turf he lay,",1.0 +Nor opened his eyes till dawning of the day:,3.0 +"The chilling frost his tender form had seized,",0.0 +"But Phoebus' beams the captive swain released,",0.0 +"Abashed, confounded, being thus confined,",0.0 +To free himself part of his coat resigned;,2.0 +"With tardy pace the plains he wandered over,",0.0 +Some cot or village wished to see once more.,1.0 +"Kind fortune now did her assistance lend,",2.0 +And led him safely to a generous friend.,3.0 +And at the door he knocked with all his might.,0.0 +"Impatience, by repeated strokes, confessed,",1.0 +"Till they with joy received the welcome guest,",1.0 +"Who seemed as one from mortals long estranged,",1.0 +His lost address and comely visage changed:,0.0 +"Struck with amaze, they viewed his dismal case,",2.0 +"Nor were they slow in rendering him solace,",2.0 +"Unto the parlour fire he first is led,",2.0 +"And cheer the lonely, wandering, helpless youth.",2.0 +"Each friendly aid conspired to ease his pain,",2.0 +"You lovely nymphs, now sing in softest strains",1.0 +"You charming youths, blessed with his company,",3.0 +Pray that Bane Moss he never more may see.,3.0 +That Autumn brings commands thee to retreat;,1.0 +"It fades the roses which thy temples bind,",0.0 +And the green sandals which adorn thy feet.,2.0 +"When most they love to seek the mountain side,",0.0 +And mark the pomp of twilight hastening near.,1.0 +"Then fairy forms around the poet throng,",0.0 +On every cloud a glowing charm he sees....,0.0 +"Sweet Evening, these delights to thee belong:....",3.0 +"And early Night, attendant on its sway,",1.0 +"You look surprised, in this deriding Age,",1.0 +To find that Love dares venture on the Stage;,2.0 +"Where you, of late seem nothing to approve,",2.0 +"But what, in Men of Sense, Contempt must move;",0.0 +You must attend a dying Lover's Woes.,0.0 +In all my Height of Fortune to complain:,1.0 +Alike unknowing in its Pain and Joy:,0.0 +"When you despise its Happiness or Woe,",2.0 +"You but your Want of Sense, or Virtue, show:",1.0 +"Be humane then; be touched with Scenes refined,",0.0 +"Which, while they raise the Passions, mend the Mind:",0.0 +"And, by your Pity of my Woes To night,",2.0 +"Or, if you scorn to hear what I advise,",2.0 +Let great Examples teach you to be wise.,2.0 +"Lovers are not so out of Fashion here,",2.0 +As ever could each other's Heart engage;,0.0 +"Endowed with every Grace of Form and Mind,",0.0 +To raise the Love and Wonder of Mankind:,2.0 +"Though blessed with every Gift to merit Fame,",0.0 +Their highest Glory is their mutual Flame:,3.0 +"A Flame, like that my tender Bosom fired;",0.0 +"But ruled by Reason, and by Heaven inspired:",1.0 +"Their Love like mine, but different far their Fate;",1.0 +"As happy they, as I unfortunate.",3.0 +"But my Distress had never reached the Stage,",1.0 +Had Heaven reserved me to the present Age:,1.0 +"None would have dared my Fondness to abuse,",1.0 +"Had I, like her, but known a Carteret.",1.0 +THE Tree of Knowledge we in Eden proved;,1.0 +The Tree of Life was thence to Heaven removed:,0.0 +"Hope is the growth of Earth, the only Plant,",0.0 +"Which either Heaven, or Paradise could want.",0.0 +"Hell knows it not, to Us alone confined,",2.0 +And Cordial only to the Human Mind.,1.0 +"Nor wave a Medicine, which thy God prepares.",1.0 +"TO you who never the willing Verse refuse,",3.0 +Thus sings an humble but a grateful Muse:,2.0 +"Our Theme is Hope ' -- but of a different kind,",1.0 +The Bane or Blessing of the subject Mind;,1.0 +"This dawning Joy that to the Soul was given,",1.0 +As a short Earnest of its future Heaven:,3.0 +"To blame is not the Purpose of my Song,",1.0 +But warn our Sisters not to place it wrong.,0.0 +"Shun trifling Hope, that bids your Fancy roll,",1.0 +The constant Torment of a restless Soul:,2.0 +Sick Disappointment and the secret Tear:,2.0 +Beneath the Treasures of an Indian Mine,2.0 +"Much Fortune gives ' -- Yet, Give us more, they cry,",0.0 +And some new Prospect lures the dazzled Eye:,1.0 +"Like wanton Babes they reach at something more,",0.0 +Whose Birth was humble and whose Fortune poor;,1.0 +Yet you may see his roving Thoughts depend,0.0 +"On some bold Venture or some wealthy Friend,",2.0 +Till the lost Bankrupt drops into the Jaw,2.0 +Of pale Discredit and voracious Law.,1.0 +"With Store of Logic in his aching Head,",0.0 +"Sees pleasing Pictures in his Bosom drawn,",1.0 +The Dean's soft Cushion and the Bishop's Lawn:,2.0 +"He dines with Lords and takes the highest Place,",0.0 +But soon his Heart the lost Delusion mourns:,0.0 +And the proud Prelate to a Curate turns,1.0 +"Who talks of Men and Books he never saw,",0.0 +"Now struts a Counsellor, a Sergeant now,",2.0 +While the quick Turns elate his scornful Brow.,3.0 +Behold the Judge in that commanding Frown:,0.0 +"Cecilia soft, whose pleasing Features shine",0.0 +"Still to her eyes recalls the scattered Darts,",0.0 +Still hopes the Conquest of a thousand Hearts.,2.0 +Wrapped in soft Visions on her Couch she lies;,3.0 +"Knights, Peers, and Garters swim before her Eyes.",1.0 +"She rides in triumph through her Husband's Fields,",1.0 +"And hears the rattling of her Chariot Wheels,",3.0 +Till her charmed Senses will contain no more;,4.0 +"Then flies the Vision through its Ivory Door,",1.0 +Guilt in his Breast and Wrinkles on his Brow;,1.0 +"Yet points out Cloe for his charming Bride,",0.0 +And fain would tempt her to his frozen Side:,1.0 +"At Chapel where soft Grace and Virtue calls,",1.0 +"Where Conscience warns the guilty Wretch to pray,",0.0 +And beg a Blessing on his closing Day.,1.0 +Grins at his Cloe with a ghastly Smile.,0.0 +Some other Lesson in his gloomy School.,0.0 +Blank Disappointment with its Train attends,2.0 +Tinged with false Lustre by Reflection glow:,4.0 +"Like its faint Rays they hardly last an Hour,",3.0 +Lost in a Cloud or melted in a Shower.,0.0 +"If trifling Hope has any room to plead,",0.0 +It's that where Nature's simple Dictates lead:,1.0 +"So the wet Hind, who travels over the Plain",4.0 +Through the cold Mire and afflicting Rain;,2.0 +"Though his low Roofs with trickling Showers run,",2.0 +May hope next Morn to see the cheerful Sun:,0.0 +Or when keen Hunger at the evening Tide,1.0 +"Drives home the Shepherd to his rustic Bride,",2.0 +Though he should dream of Dumpling all the way.,1.0 +"To the harsh Usage of a Tyrant Spouse,",3.0 +"To see his Mistress in her Woes rejoice,",0.0 +"Her Fortune wasted on his guilty Choice,",1.0 +Yet only answer with a silent Tear.,1.0 +Though patient Wives must wait the Fate's good time;,0.0 +"Yet she, I think, may hope without a Crime.",0.0 +"But the grand Hope that yields perpetual Joy,",4.0 +"No trifles gave, no trifles can destroy;",3.0 +"With Mercy from the blessed Abode it came,",1.0 +Its Birth Celestial and its End the same;,1.0 +"That bids our Days in one smooth Tenor roll,",2.0 +"On smarting Want it pours a healing Balm,",0.0 +Makes Toil seem pleasant and Affliction calm.,3.0 +"No harmony reigns here, it's discord all:",3.0 +"Then why thus swell your liquid throats, to cheer",1.0 +"A wretch undone, for ever lost to joy,",0.0 +"And marked for ruin? Seek yonder leafy grove,",3.0 +Indulgent bliss there waits you; shun this spot,0.0 +"Here sigh thy woes away; unheard the groan,",0.0 +Unseen the falling tear; in this lone wild,1.0 +And smiles in ignorance at what he feels not.,1.0 +"Yet, yet indulge not, listening winds may catch",0.0 +"Coherent sighs, and waft them far away,",0.0 +Where levity holds high the senseless roar,2.0 +"Of laughter, and pale woe, abashed, retires.",2.0 +"Or, should my woes be to the winds diffused,",1.0 +"No longer mine, once past the quivering lip;",5.0 +"Some might descend on the gay, grinning herd;",2.0 +"But few, how few, would reach the feeling mind!",0.0 +"Yet I will own thee, and bid Hope good night,",2.0 +Since first I listened to her pleasing lore;,1.0 +"Ah, me! how bright she painted future scenes,",0.0 +And sweetly spoke of blessings yet unborn!,1.0 +"Or hate thee, though we never meet again.",1.0 +"With thee, Despair, must I then tread the path",2.0 +"Of tedious life, nor cast one look behind,",2.0 +On all the piles of bliss gay Hope had raised?,1.0 +"But Heaven thought otherwise ' -- OH, generous world!",6.0 +"Accept my surly thanks, and few are due",0.0 +"Where little is bestowed. The reasoner raves,",3.0 +"My mind, thus straying from the trodden path:",2.0 +"I heed you not, nor have I time to spin",0.0 +The thread of argument; yet fain would know,1.0 +"The ready road to rest. Teach me, you wise,",2.0 +"You who have trod the endless, endless whirl",0.0 +"To find the realms of rest, for such there are,",1.0 +To prove a home when the sad soul shall need it.,1.0 +"Imagination wanders, while the eye",0.0 +"Seems far extended, though the senseless balls",2.0 +Of meditation. What's the grand result?,0.0 +Unwilling to be nothing; are not you?,2.0 +"Say, have you found it? can you teach the road",1.0 +"Differ so far, millions of Heavens are formed;",6.0 +"Each vain philosopher, by pride misled,",1.0 +"Indifferent, views the group of anxious souls",0.0 +"Searching the path to rest; if his they miss,",3.0 +"He swears no other way can ever be found,",2.0 +O! narrow notion of a God supreme!,1.0 +O! barbarous portrait of a God all love!,3.0 +"Bewilder not my soul; for see, the page",0.0 +"Of boundless Mercy, and of Christian Faith,",1.0 +"Clears up the doubtful future; all is peace,",0.0 +"Hope dawns, an earnest of the perfect day.",3.0 +"CELIA and I, to share the vernal Gales,",1.0 +One Evening wandered over the dewy Vales;,2.0 +"Still was the Soul, and every Sense was pleased,",0.0 +And the cool Heart from Care and Business eased:,2.0 +Round the fair Borders of a blooming Grove;,3.0 +"Reclined at ease within the secret Shades,",0.0 +"A lovely Bower held two fairer Maids,",1.0 +"Soft Flavia one, with Cheeks of rosy Die,",2.0 +And Sylvia famous for her starlike Eye.,4.0 +"Sylvia, whose Wit was versed in charming Wiles,",1.0 +Who often varied her Discourse with Smiles:,4.0 +"Of Innocence oppressed by mightier Wrong,",3.0 +And many Proofs she drew from sacred Song:,0.0 +When Flavia thus ' -- behold the lingering Day,2.0 +Still paints you Heavens with a silver Grey;,2.0 +As if she listened to thy charming Tongue:,2.0 +"The Rival Brothers, let my Sylvia tell,",2.0 +"How cross they loved, and who untimely fell:",0.0 +"Her Friend replied, You shall not ask in vain,",0.0 +Although the Storey gives thy Sylvia Pain:,3.0 +"Then on her Cheek her ivory Hand she laid,",0.0 +And with a Sigh began the lovely Maid.,1.0 +"Long time before our Fathers Lives began,",1.0 +"There lived an ancient and a worthy Man,",1.0 +Was long the Favourite of indulgent Fame;,1.0 +"Just without Pride, without Reluctance kind;",3.0 +"For inborn Goodness with soft Pity joined,",3.0 +"His temperate Soul was never disturbed with Rage,",2.0 +But graceful bore the reverend Weight of Age:,0.0 +A moderate Fortune with a peaceful Mind:,3.0 +"His Dwelling seated on a rising Hill,",1.0 +Was watered round with many a crystal Rill:,2.0 +"Gardens and Groves the smothered Buildings screen,",2.0 +Which looked the Seat of some retired Queen.,0.0 +"The fairest Virgin of the shining Band,",1.0 +And gave her Beauties to his faithful Arms:,1.0 +And left her Spouse to wail his constant Bride:,0.0 +"Heaven spared one Child to crown his feeble Age,",0.0 +To cheer his Spirits and his Grief assuage:,1.0 +To her alone was every Wish confined:,1.0 +"Nor did the Virgin less deserve his Care,",0.0 +Her guiltless Soul was like her Person fair;,0.0 +Her Mother's Features to her Father's Mind;,1.0 +"Not opening Roses nor the bashful Day,",3.0 +"Her Eyes were dazzling and her Temples fair,",1.0 +And every Feature wore a smiling Air;,0.0 +"For Wit and Learning she outstripped her Kind,",1.0 +Nor could her Sex debase her noble Mind;,0.0 +"In search of Knowledge she would spend the Day,",1.0 +And Judgement walked before her guiltless Way.,0.0 +"There lived a wealthy and a worthy Peer,",1.0 +Loved by his Friends and to his Country dear;,1.0 +"Both noble Youths and by their Friends admired,",2.0 +And Thirst of Glory both their Hearts inspired:,0.0 +And his bright Eyes were like a Morning Sun:,2.0 +"Rays quick and fierce their subtle Lightnings fling,",1.0 +His Cheeks were fresher than the dawning Spring;,1.0 +Continual Passion tore his boiling Soul;,2.0 +"Disdainful, proud, with an imperious Will,",2.0 +Headlong he rushed on unsuspected Ill:,1.0 +"Reason in vain opposed her sacred Shield,",2.0 +And Virtue's self must to the Whirlwind yield:,2.0 +"No rugged Storms could shake his easy Mind,",1.0 +Still calm and pleasant as the Evening Skies:,2.0 +"When not a Breeze through the still Region flies,",2.0 +"No gloomy Frowns a sullen Heart betray,",1.0 +His Brow was thoughtless and his Air was gay:,1.0 +"The pleasing Mansion of their Father's Friend,",1.0 +"As with her Years her rising Beauty grew,",1.0 +"With airy Hopes they nursed the rival Flame,",0.0 +And sought with Gifts to win the smiling Dame;,0.0 +"But she too cautious to be soon betrayed,",3.0 +"Their Merit balanced, and their Tempers weighed:",1.0 +"His Power, Titles and his rising Fame;",1.0 +"And the gay Maid beheld with early Pride,",2.0 +"That way would oft her Vanity incline,",1.0 +But then her Reason feared his base Design:,0.0 +"Still at her Heart the sullen Doubt remains,",0.0 +And put a Period to the golden Dreams:,1.0 +Clear as his Face and sprightly as his Mien;,1.0 +"Soft as his Voice, and like his Brow serene.",0.0 +"Nor thinks of Castles, Towns, and shining Spires;",0.0 +"Her changing Thoughts prefer an easy Home,",0.0 +And dwell with Patience on a younger Son.,1.0 +He meets Resentment and a frozen Brow:,1.0 +"In vain to move the scornful Nymph he tries,",0.0 +"Without Concern he met the Fair's Disdain,",0.0 +Nor could her Frown disturb the haughty Swain:,0.0 +"Conscious of Merit he pursued her still,",3.0 +And only thought her Tongue belied her Will:,0.0 +"Who bears her Arms and fans her purple Fire,",0.0 +Are not regarded in the Realms above;,0.0 +And Vows to Virgins but the Sport of Air;,1.0 +"That Maids are Merchandise, and may be sold",1.0 +For charming Eloquence and mighty Gold.,1.0 +"A Grove there was, a venerable Shade,",2.0 +"No hostile Iron durst her Boughs invade,",1.0 +"Whose lofty Pines for several Ages grew,",0.0 +And reverend Oaks a hundred Winters knew:,0.0 +"A crystal River wandered halfway round,",1.0 +When Sol departed to the western Sky;,1.0 +"While the proud Youth who found himself despised,",3.0 +"Grew wild with Love and desperate with Despair,",2.0 +And vowed Destruction to the gentle Pair:,1.0 +"No quiet Hour his surly Spirit knows,",1.0 +Nor Rest by Daylight or at Night Repose:,2.0 +"Cold to his Friends, and if they ask his Care,",1.0 +He only answers with a fullen Glare.,1.0 +"One Evening when the sparkling Sun withdrew,",0.0 +And thirsty Flowers sipped the grateful Dew;,0.0 +"When this fair Grove had put on all her Charms,",3.0 +And Zephyrs played amid her curling Arms;,0.0 +"To the cool Forest took her lonely Way,",2.0 +"No ill she thought of, and she feared no Wrong:",3.0 +"Pleased with the Glories of the smiling Year,",1.0 +For guilty Minds are only taught to fear.,0.0 +"Through the brown Shade, where in the Centre grew",1.0 +"A Row of Laurels crowned with lasting Green,",0.0 +And softer Beech and flowering Rose between:,2.0 +Revenge and Love at once his Bosom fire;,0.0 +His broad Eyes flash with more than mortal Fire:,1.0 +"Then to his Friends the raging Hero flew,",0.0 +"His Friends a thoughtless and a wanton Crew,",1.0 +"In Virtue's Cause, but resolute in Ill:",0.0 +"To these the Youth disclosed his rash Design,",1.0 +"His glad Companions in the Adventure join,",2.0 +"The Mischief pleased, yet none proposed the Way,",0.0 +Though short the Time and dangerous the Delay:,3.0 +"In still suspense the listening Heroes stand,",0.0 +"' Within the Confines of the neighbouring Wood,",4.0 +' Whose gloomy Arches seem disposed to hide,0.0 +' Offended Subjects from a Tyrant's Pride.,3.0 +"' And often she has lent her hostile Towers,",1.0 +' The guilty Refuge of rebellious Powers:,1.0 +"' Here let your Friends this peevish Girl convey,",0.0 +' And keep her secret from the Face of Day.,1.0 +' Those Doors with iron Eloquence shall plead,1.0 +' Your mighty Passion to the scornful Maid:,1.0 +"' The hasty Dictates of a rustic Mind,",2.0 +"' A Mind inured to Wars and rude Alarms,",0.0 +"He ceased ' -- Applause was seen in every Eye,",0.0 +"Two favourite Heroes singled from the Crew,",2.0 +With hostile Feet that sacred Path pursue;,0.0 +"Whose winding Maze betrayed the smiling Bower,",0.0 +"Where the faint Primrose spreads her Odours round,",4.0 +And nodding Poppies seemed to kiss the Ground.,0.0 +Their surly Figures through the parting Trees;,1.0 +"But yet she rose collected in her Fear,",0.0 +'Twas vain to call and no Assistance near:,1.0 +And weeping turned them on the pitying Skies:,3.0 +"Assist me Heaven and heavenly Power, she cries.",4.0 +You Saints that hover round celestial Springs:,0.0 +"OH take and wrap me in your sacred Wings,",1.0 +I see black Violence come frowning on;,4.0 +"And save, OH save me from a Villain's Power.",2.0 +"But now a Slave whom Beauty never could charm,",1.0 +Drew nigh and seized her by the ivory Arm:,2.0 +A dismal Dwelling hid by waving Trees;,0.0 +"So thick they scarce admit the healthy Breeze,",0.0 +Whose lofty Spires hardly knew the Sun:,3.0 +"His Beams never entered here, but in the Room",2.0 +Perpetual Coldness and eternal Gloom:,3.0 +"Here the pleased Youth his charming Prey secures,",3.0 +And round his Prisoner shut the plated Doors;,0.0 +"Then left the Virgin to herself, nor stayed",1.0 +"Fierce as he was he, like a Coward, flies",1.0 +The Rage that sparkled in her glowing Eyes;,0.0 +"But when he thought the dangerous Storm was over,",2.0 +"Again he sought those Eyes he fled before,",0.0 +"Like some pale Wretch impatient for his Doom,",2.0 +His fearful Steps approached the hallowed Room:,0.0 +"For rising Conscience now her Task began,",0.0 +And guilty Blushes through his Features ran:,1.0 +"Unusual Horrors over his Passage hung,",2.0 +At every Step the sounding Portals rung:,0.0 +"Before the Door he took a silent Stand,",0.0 +And the pale Taper trembled in his Hand:,2.0 +And Shadows danced along the gloomy Wall:,1.0 +"His haughty Spirit was at this dismayed,",2.0 +"Why beats my Heart, my coward Heart, he cries;",0.0 +And why this Mist before my dazzled Eyes?,0.0 +"Then rushing in, the lovely Dame he found",0.0 +In fullen Posture and in Thought profound;,1.0 +"With Flattery first he tipped his artful Tongue,",2.0 +Love was the Aggressor and be his the blame:,3.0 +"Trust not thy Reason to a haughty Guide,",1.0 +Nor call that Honour which is only Pride:,0.0 +The Virgin's Tyrant and the Hero's Chain;,1.0 +"If sparkling Wealth can please thy brighter Eyes,",0.0 +The Mines of Persia at thy Feet shall rise;,0.0 +"And when thy Chariot marks the dusty Fields,",2.0 +Full thirty Slaves shall grace the shining Wheels:,1.0 +"For thee the East shall yield her spicy Bowers,",1.0 +And sweeter Baths distil from weeping Flowers;,0.0 +Then smile my fair One and be timely wise;,1.0 +"The Maid replied, and rolled her scornful Eyes.",0.0 +How much I hate thy Person and thy Gold?,1.0 +"Mistaken Nature with too nice a Care,",2.0 +In vain has shaped thee in a Mould so fair:,0.0 +"Vice will be Vice however it's polished over,",3.0 +"Thou Villain, dare to meet my Eyes no more.",1.0 +"Those gloomy Birds that love the midnight Air,",1.0 +And hover round the Mansions of Despair;,1.0 +"When to their Shrieks the hollow Roofs rebound,",0.0 +And the hoarse Raven aids the dreadful Sound;,2.0 +"Though howling Wolves should with their Voices join,",1.0 +"Beyond my Hate, if yet a Thought remain,",0.0 +To make thy Spirit curse the galling Chain;,0.0 +"If with those Thorns that Love's soft Empire bounds,",2.0 +Successful Rivals give the deepest Wounds:,0.0 +"I love thy Brother, and, if that can be,",1.0 +With Passion equal to my Hate for thee.,1.0 +His pale Lips tremble and his Eyeballs roll:,3.0 +"Three times he raised a Dagger to her Breast,",2.0 +But mighty Love his daring Hand suppressed;,0.0 +"And now shrill Cries invade his wondering Ears,",3.0 +The noise of Battle and the clash of Spears;,1.0 +"Starting he turned, nor stayed to make reply,",2.0 +Though Fury sparkled in his threatening Eye:,0.0 +"To Arms his Friends in mingled Voices call,",0.0 +And Danger hovered over the frowning Wall.,2.0 +"Was drawn by Villains from the mourning Shade,",1.0 +"He reached the Bower, but he missed the Dame;",1.0 +"Through balmy Paths with infant Roses bound,",0.0 +Where blushing Daisies strew the painted Ground;,0.0 +And often doubted to return or stay:,1.0 +"By chance he turned his mournful Eye, and sees",0.0 +The Youth drew nearer with an eager Pace,2.0 +"This Evening restless, though I know not why,",1.0 +When setting Phoebus stained the western Sky:,0.0 +To share the Fragrance of declining Day:,1.0 +"Alone and pensive as I wandered here,",1.0 +"To yonder rude Towers I traced the sinking Sound,",5.0 +Till the stilled Outcries were in distance drowned:,1.0 +What think you now? I fear some threatening Ill,0.0 +From headstrong Passion and imperious Will:,3.0 +"Then hear my Vow, the frantic Lover cries,",0.0 +And turned his Eyeballs on the glimmering Skies:,4.0 +"Hear me, you Powers whose sacred Hands sustain",2.0 +These Worlds of Nature in a mighty Chain;,0.0 +"If my fierce Brother has presumed to bear,",2.0 +"And from her Bowers force my injured Fair,",1.0 +"This vengeful Rapier shall be sheathed no more,",2.0 +"He said, and raging left the gloomy Shade,",0.0 +Full of Resentment for his injured Maid:,3.0 +"Their Friends a little, but a martial Train:",1.0 +"Twice twenty Youths their General's Voice attend,",1.0 +And share the Quarrel of their injured Friend.,1.0 +Led his small Squadron to the hostile Towers:,4.0 +"The frowning Portals well secured they found,",0.0 +Were drawn to combat in a guilty Cause:,0.0 +"Whose curling Locks below his Shoulders hung,",0.0 +"His very Cheeks are washed with deeper Dies,",0.0 +And lasting Slumber seals his swimming Eyes:,0.0 +"It hissed along, but missed the Hero's Heart,",0.0 +"Despairing, raging, on the Youth he flew,",1.0 +While down his Forehead rolled the sultry Dew:,0.0 +"Blows answer Blows, and round their Temples sing",1.0 +"Aloof they fight, or now in Circles wheeled,",0.0 +"Each thought to conquer; both disdain to yield,",0.0 +"He drew the Weapon from his tortured Side,",1.0 +The gaping Wound disgorged a purple Tide:,0.0 +"His Eyes turned upward with a ghastly Roll,",2.0 +Headlong he fell and sobbed away his Soul:,1.0 +"Now Joy transported the victorious Throng,",4.0 +"Applause and Clamour shook the trembling Ground,",3.0 +"Grieved for his Friend he with the foremost pressed,",2.0 +"But the strong Shield their Points at distance holds,",2.0 +Where two fair Eagles spread their Wings in Gold;,1.0 +"A weighty Spear his better Hand supplies,",0.0 +And livid Lightnings sparkle in his Eyes.,0.0 +"His tender Arm the deadly Spear arrests,",0.0 +And tore his Shoulder from his ivory Breast:,1.0 +"Too late his Friends to his Assistance run,",2.0 +For his black Eyes no more behold the Sun.,3.0 +"Now born untimely from his Father's Side,",2.0 +His smiling Fortunes and his lovely Bride:,1.0 +"Just at his Hip the Steel an Entrance found,",0.0 +And tore his Bowels with a ghastly Wound:,0.0 +"Back fell the Youth, his tinkling Arms reply;",1.0 +The erring Weapon with a whistling Sound,1.0 +"Flew over his Head, and ploughed the distant Ground:",3.0 +"Enraged to see the bloodless Point descend,",0.0 +And miss the Vengeance for his bleeding Friend;,1.0 +"His shining Eyes that did with Fury glow,",0.0 +"He turned, and thus defied the stronger Foe:",0.0 +"Hope not for Conquest, mighty Clown, he cries,",0.0 +From thy stern Visage and gigantic Size:,3.0 +"A little Arm, if Heaven direct the Blow,",0.0 +May send thee howling to the Shades below:,1.0 +"Go, wash thy Face, and curl thy waving Hair,",1.0 +Thy coward Heart belies thy daring Tongue;,0.0 +"He spoke and drove his weighty Spear along,",0.0 +The failing Mischief on the Buckler sung:,1.0 +The speedy Vengeance reached the Hero's Heart;,0.0 +"Down fell the Knight, his clanging Arms rebound,",0.0 +And his proud Soul came rushing through the Wound.,5.0 +Where in the Dust the mighty Soldier lay;,0.0 +"Then like a Whirlwind rushed the Youth along,",1.0 +And sought his Brother in the hostile Throng:,0.0 +And hurled the Weapon at its Owner's Breast;,0.0 +"The missive Death deceived his bloody Hand,",0.0 +Its thirsty Point lay shivered in the Sand:,1.0 +"Suspense and Horror held the martial Crew,",0.0 +"The Stars retired from the hated Sight,",0.0 +And wrapped their Glories in the Clouds of Night.,0.0 +The Name of Brother wears a potent Charm:,0.0 +"Our Mother did in Youth's fair Bloom expire,",1.0 +And left us Infants to our tender Sire;,1.0 +Our Fears were equal and our Hopes the same;,1.0 +The same our Pleasures and the like our Woes;,1.0 +"We slept together and as fondly rose,",1.0 +"Then let, OH let not murderous Rage divide",3.0 +"Our Hearts, but lay those threatening Arms aside:",0.0 +"Let rancorous Hate possess our Souls no more,",4.0 +"Then let her Voice our rival Cause decide,",0.0 +"Base Slave, he cried, thou Child of puny Fears,",1.0 +"My Mother never produced a Thing so base,",2.0 +Some fairy Elf or treacherous Nurse beguiled,2.0 +My sleeping Parents of their lawful Child:,1.0 +And my young Brother to her Hut conveyed:,3.0 +"This was thy Mother coarser than her Fate,",2.0 +And thou the Son of her plebeian Mate:,2.0 +"Here ceased the Youth; ' -- for Actions spoke the rest,",0.0 +"His Shield received it with a smart Rebound,",1.0 +The missive Weapon trembled on the Ground;,1.0 +"Now hand to hand the rival Youths engage,",1.0 +"Black Fury rolled in each relentless Eye,",1.0 +Both fought to conquer or resolved to die;,2.0 +Beneath his Arm a deep and ghastly Wound;,0.0 +Staggering he dropped and grasped the bloody Ground.,1.0 +"Yet as he lived, without a Groan he fell,",0.0 +"Nor drew a Sigh, but only cried, It's well;",0.0 +"It's well, my Fury with my Life shall end:",1.0 +"Farewell, my Brother and at last my Friend;",2.0 +"By our dear Parent see me quickly laid,",2.0 +"My Friends, Farewell, and closed his swimming Eyes:",1.0 +"The mourning Victor bending over the slain,",2.0 +"His failing Arms resigned their feeble Hold,",0.0 +And Drops of Horror from his Temples rolled:,1.0 +"From each cold Cheek the blushing Beauty flies,",1.0 +And the Ground danced before his dazzled Eyes;,2.0 +"The weeping Youth, with friendly Force, divide",0.0 +The gentle Mourner from his Brother's Side;,1.0 +"Then Friends and Foes united gather round,",0.0 +And lift the bleeding Body from the Ground;,1.0 +"Some raise the drooping Head, and others pressed",0.0 +Their careful Arms around his manly Breast;,0.0 +"Though with black Dust and hostile Crimson stained,",2.0 +"Back on his Shoulders fell his graceful Hair,",0.0 +And the grand Features wore a scornful Air.,2.0 +"Now all too late the rash Adventure blame,",3.0 +Pale Conquest sighed and loathed her hated Name;,1.0 +"From the black Towers their solemn Steps return,",4.0 +And both the Victors and the Vanquished mourn.,1.0 +WHY weeps the muse for England? What appears,0.0 +In England's case to move the muse to tears?,0.0 +"From side to side of her delightful isle,",1.0 +Is she not clothed with a perpetual smile?,4.0 +"Can nature add a charm, or art confer",0.0 +A new found luxury not seen in her?,2.0 +"Where under heaven is pleasure more pursued,",0.0 +Or where does cold reflection less intrude?,0.0 +Her fields a rich expanse of wavy corn,0.0 +Ambrosial gardens in which art supplies,0.0 +"Her peaceful shores, where busy commerce waits",0.0 +"To pour his golden tide through all her gates,",0.0 +Whom fiery suns that scorch the russet spice,2.0 +"Of eastern groves, and oceans floored with ice;",0.0 +Forbid in vain to push his daring way,0.0 +"To darker climes, or climes of brighter day,",0.0 +"Whom the winds waft wherever the billows roll,",5.0 +From the world's girdle to the frozen pole;,3.0 +"Her vaults below where every vintage meets,",0.0 +"Her theatres, her revels, and her sports,",2.0 +"The scenes to which not youth alone resorts,",0.0 +But age in spite of weakness and of pain,1.0 +"Still haunts, in hope to dream of youth again,",1.0 +All speak her happy ' -- let the muse look round,1.0 +"From East to West, no sorrow can be found,",2.0 +"Or only what in cottages confined,",1.0 +"Then wherefore weep for England, what appears",0.0 +"The prophet wept for Israel, wished his eyes",0.0 +Were fountains fed with infinite supplies;,1.0 +"For Israel dealt in robbery and wrong,",1.0 +"Oaths used as playthings or convenient tools,",3.0 +"As Interest biased knaves, or fashion fools,",0.0 +"The treacherous smile, a mask for secret hate,",2.0 +"Hypocrisy, formality in prayer,",2.0 +And the dull service of the lip were there.,3.0 +Forgot the blush that virgin fears impart,0.0 +"To modest cheeks, and borrowed one from art;",2.0 +"Were just such trifles without worth or use,",5.0 +"As silly pride and idleness produce,",1.0 +"With feet too delicate to touch the ground,",2.0 +"They stretched the neck, and rolled the wanton eye,",0.0 +And sighed for every fool that fluttered by.,1.0 +"He saw his people slaves to every lust,",0.0 +He heard the wheels of an avenging God,1.0 +Groan heavily along the distant road;,2.0 +To let the military deluge pass;,0.0 +"Jerusalem a prey, her glory soiled,",1.0 +"Wept till all Israel heard his bitter cry,",0.0 +"Pleasure is deaf when told of future pain,",2.0 +And sounds prophetic are too rough to suit,2.0 +Ears long accustomed to the pleasing lute;,2.0 +"They scorned his inspiration and his theme,",1.0 +"Pronounced him frantic and his fears a dream,",1.0 +"Till the foe found them, and down fell the towers.",2.0 +"Long time Assyria bound them in her chain,",3.0 +"And Cyrus, with relenting pity moved,",1.0 +Returned them happy to the land they loved:,1.0 +"There, proof against prosperity, awhile",1.0 +And had the grace in scenes of peace to show,0.0 +The virtue they had learnt in scenes of woe.,1.0 +But man is frail and can but ill sustain,1.0 +"A long immunity from grief and pain,",1.0 +"And after all the joys that plenty leads,",0.0 +With tiptoe step vice silently succeeds.,3.0 +"When he that ruled them with a shepherd's rod,",1.0 +"In form a man, in dignity a God,",1.0 +"Came not expected in that humble guise,",1.0 +"He found concealed beneath a fair outside,",1.0 +"Their piety a system of deceit,",2.0 +"Scripture employed to sanctify the cheat,",3.0 +"The pharisee the dupe of his own art,",0.0 +"When nations are to perish in their sins,",1.0 +It's in the church the leprosy begins:,1.0 +"The priest whose office is, with zeal sincere",1.0 +"To watch the fountain, and preserve it clear,",1.0 +"Carelessly nods and sleeps upon the brink,",2.0 +While others poison what the flock must drink;,0.0 +"Or waking at the call of lust alone,",0.0 +Infuses lies and errors of his own:,1.0 +"His unsuspecting sheep believe it pure,",0.0 +"And tainted by the very means of cure,",1.0 +"Catch from each other a contagious spot,",1.0 +The foul forerunner of a general rot:,2.0 +"Then truth is hushed that heresy may preach,",1.0 +And all is trash that reason cannot reach;,0.0 +"Then God's own image on the soul impressed,",1.0 +"Becomes a mockery and a standing jest,",1.0 +"And faith, the root whence only can arise",1.0 +"The graces of a life that wins the skies,",1.0 +"Loses at once all value and esteem,",3.0 +Pronounced by grey beards a pernicious dream:,2.0 +"Then ceremony leads her bigots forth,",0.0 +"Prepared to fight for shadows of no worth,",3.0 +"While truths on which eternal things depend,",0.0 +"Find not, or hardly find a single friend:",0.0 +"As soldiers watch the signal of command,",1.0 +"They learn to bow, to kneel, to sit, to stand,",0.0 +Happy to fill religion's vacant place,2.0 +With hollow form and gesture and grimace.,2.0 +"Such when the teacher of his church was there,",1.0 +"People and priest, the sons of Israel were,",3.0 +"Stiff in the letter, lax in the design",1.0 +"And import of their oracles divine,",2.0 +"Their learning legendary, false, absurd,",0.0 +"And yet exalted above God's own word,",4.0 +"They drew a curse from an intended good,",1.0 +Puffed up with gifts they never understood.,0.0 +"He judged them with as terrible a frown,",2.0 +"As if, not love, but wrath had brought him down,",1.0 +"Yet he was gentle as soft summer airs,",2.0 +"Had grace for other sins, but none for theirs.",0.0 +"Rhetoric is artifice, the work of man,",2.0 +"And tricks and turns that fancy may devise,",1.0 +Are far too mean for him that rules the skies.,2.0 +The astonished vulgar trembled while he tore,1.0 +The mask from faces never seen before;,0.0 +"Showed that they followed all they seemed to shun,",0.0 +"Their prayers made public, their excesses kept",4.0 +As private as the chambers where they slept.,1.0 +Uplifted hands that at convenient times,2.0 +"Could act extortion and the worst of crimes,",1.0 +"Washed with a neatness scrupulously nice,",1.0 +And free from every taint but that of vice.,0.0 +When obstinacy once has conquered grace.,1.0 +"They saw distemper healed, and life restored",0.0 +"In answer to the fiat of his word,",2.0 +"Confessed the wonder, and with daring tongue,",1.0 +"The future tone and temper of the sky,",1.0 +That sin let loose speaks punishment at hand.,3.0 +"And call up evidence from every age,",1.0 +Display with busy and laborious hand,3.0 +"The blessings of the most indebted land,",1.0 +"What nation will you find, whose annals prove",1.0 +So rich an interest in almighty love?,0.0 +"Where dwell they now, where dwelled in ancient day",0.0 +"A people planted, watered, blessed as they?",0.0 +"Their freedom purchased for them, at the cost",1.0 +"Of all their hard oppressors' valued most,",5.0 +"Their title to a country not their own,",1.0 +"Made sure by prodigies till then unknown,",2.0 +"For them, the state they left made waste and void,",2.0 +"For them, the states to which they went, destroyed;",1.0 +"A cloud to measure out their march by day,",1.0 +"By night a fire to cheer the gloomy way,",0.0 +"That moving signal summoning, when best",1.0 +"Their host to move, and when it stayed, to rest.",0.0 +"For them the rocks dissolved into a flood,",1.0 +"The dews condensed into angelic food,",1.0 +"Their very garments sacred, old yet new,",0.0 +"And time forbid to touch them as he flew,",1.0 +"Streams swelled above the bank, enjoined to stand,",1.0 +"While they passed through to their appointed land,",1.0 +"And graced with clear credentials from above,",1.0 +"Themselves secured beneath the Almighty wing,",2.0 +"Crowned with a thousand victories, and at last",1.0 +"Lords of the conquered soil, there rooted fast,",0.0 +"In peace possessing what they won by war,",0.0 +Their name far published and revered as far;,2.0 +"Where will you find a race like theirs, endowed",1.0 +"With all that man ever wished, or Heaven bestowed?",1.0 +They and they only amongst all mankind,4.0 +"Received the transcript of the eternal mind,",4.0 +"And constituted guardians of his cause,",1.0 +"Theirs were the prophets, theirs the priestly call,",2.0 +"In vain the nations that had seen them rise,",0.0 +"With fierce and envious yet admiring eyes,",2.0 +"Had sought to crush them, guarded as they were",1.0 +"By power divine, and skill that could not err,",2.0 +"Had they maintained allegiance firm and sure,",1.0 +"And kept the faith immaculate and pure,",1.0 +"Had found one city not to be overcome,",0.0 +And the twelve standards of the tribes unfurled:,3.0 +Had bid defiance to the warring world.,1.0 +As richest soil the most luxuriant weeds;,2.0 +"Cured of the golden calves their fathers sin,",0.0 +"They set up self, that idol god within,",0.0 +"Viewed a Deliverer with disdain and hate,",5.0 +"Who left them still a tributary state,",0.0 +"Seized fast his hand, held out to set them free",3.0 +"From a worse yoke, and nailed it to the tree;",3.0 +"There was the consummation and the crown,",2.0 +"Their woes not yet repealed, thence date them all.",1.0 +"Thus fell the best instructed in her day,",1.0 +"Had poured the day, and cleared the Roman skies;",0.0 +"In other climes perhaps creative art,",0.0 +"With power surpassing theirs performed her part,",3.0 +"Might give more life to marble, or might fill",1.0 +"The glowing tablets with a juster skill,",1.0 +"Might shine in fable, and grace idle themes",2.0 +With all the embroidery of poetic dreams;,4.0 +'Twas theirs alone to dive into the plan,2.0 +"That truth and mercy had revealed to man,",0.0 +"And while the world beside, that plan unknown,",0.0 +"And the true God, the God of truth was theirs.",2.0 +"Their glory faded, and their race dispersed,",1.0 +"The last of nations now, though once the first;",0.0 +"They warn and teach the proudest, would they learn,",0.0 +Keep wisdom or meet vengeance in your turn:,3.0 +"If we escaped not, if Heaven spared not us,",1.0 +"Peeled, scattered, and exterminated thus;",2.0 +If vice received her retribution due,0.0 +"When we were visited, what hope for you?",1.0 +"When God arises with an awful frown,",1.0 +"To punish lust, or pluck presumption down;",1.0 +Provoke the vengeance of his righteous hand,1.0 +"To pour down wrath upon a thankless land,",0.0 +"He will be found impartially severe,",2.0 +"Too just to wink, or speak the guilty clear.",0.0 +"O Israel, of all nations most undone!",1.0 +"Thy diadem displaced, thy sceptre gone;",0.0 +"Thy services once holy without spot,",5.0 +"Mere shadows now, their ancient pomp forgot;",2.0 +"And thou thyself over every country sown,",5.0 +"Cry to the proud, the cruel and unjust,",1.0 +"Knock at the gates of nations, rouse their fears,",0.0 +"Say wrath is coming and the storm appears,",2.0 +"What ails thee, restless as the waves that roar,",1.0 +"Mistress, at least while Providence shall please,",3.0 +"Why, having kept good faith, and often shown",0.0 +"Thou that hast set the persecuted free,",0.0 +"Countries indebted to thy power, that shine",4.0 +"With light derived from thee, would smother thine;",2.0 +"Thy very children watch for thy disgrace,",1.0 +"A lawless brood, and curse thee to thy face:",1.0 +Thy rulers load thy credit year by year,0.0 +"With sums Peruvian mines could never clear,",2.0 +"The cry in all thy ships is still the same,",0.0 +"Speed us away to battle and to fame,",3.0 +"Thy mariners explore the wild expanse,",1.0 +"Impatient to descry the flags of France,",1.0 +"But though they fight as thine have ever fought,",2.0 +Return ashamed without the wreaths they sought:,0.0 +"Thy senate is a scene of civil jar,",1.0 +"Where sharp and solid, phlegmatic and light,",4.0 +"Discordant atoms meet, ferment and fight,",0.0 +"Where obstinacy takes his sturdy stand,",1.0 +"To disconcert what policy has planned,",1.0 +Where policy is busied all night long,2.0 +"In setting right what faction has set wrong,",1.0 +"That yields them chaff and dust, and nothing more.",0.0 +"Taxed till the brow of labour sweats in vain,",0.0 +"War lays a burden on the reeling state,",2.0 +"And peace does nothing to relieve the weight,",1.0 +And sighing millions prophecy the close.,1.0 +"Is adverse providence when pondered well,",2.0 +"So dimly writ or difficult to spell,",1.0 +Providence adverse in events like these?,3.0 +"Know then, that heavenly wisdom on this ball",3.0 +"Creates, gives birth to, guides, consummates all:",4.0 +Snuffs up the praise of what he seems to plan;,0.0 +As a mere instrument in hands divine:,3.0 +Blind to the working of that secret power,1.0 +"That balances the wings of every hour,",1.0 +"Frames many a purpose, and God works his own.",5.0 +"States thrive or wither as moons wax and wane,",3.0 +Even as his will and his decrees ordain;,3.0 +"While honour, virtue, piety bear sway,",3.0 +"They flourish, and as these decline, decay.",2.0 +"In just resentment of his injured laws,",1.0 +"He pours contempt on them and on their cause,",1.0 +Strikes the rough thread of error right athwart,3.0 +"The web of every scheme they have at heart,",0.0 +"The pillars of support in which they trust,",1.0 +And do his errand of disgrace and shame,1.0 +On the chief strength and glory of the frame.,3.0 +"None ever yet impeded what he wrought,",1.0 +None bars him out from his most secret thought;,2.0 +"Darkness itself before his eye is light,",2.0 +Stand now and judge thyself ' -- hast thou incurred,2.0 +"His anger who can waste thee with a word,",1.0 +"Weighing them in the hollow of his hand,",2.0 +And in whose awful sight all nations seem,0.0 +"As grasshoppers, as dust, a drop, a dream?",4.0 +Hast thou a sacrilege his soul abhors,1.0 +"Claimed all the glory of thy prosperous wars,",3.0 +"Proud of thy fleets and armies, stolen the gem",2.0 +Of his just praise to lavish it on them?,2.0 +"Hast thou not learnt what thou art often told,",1.0 +"A truth still sacred, and believed of old,",2.0 +That no success attends on spears and swords,0.0 +"That courage is his creature, and dismay",2.0 +"The post that at his bidding speeds away,",0.0 +"With doleful rumour and sad presage hung,",2.0 +"That he bids thousands fly when none pursue,",2.0 +"Saves as he will by many or by few,",2.0 +And claims for ever as his royal right,1.0 +The event and sure decision of the fight.,2.0 +"Exported slavery to the conquered East,",1.0 +"Pulled down the tyrants India served with dread,",2.0 +"And raised thyself, a greater, in their stead,",0.0 +"Fed from the richest veins of the Mogul,",0.0 +"A despot big with power obtained by wealth,",2.0 +"With Asiatic vices stored thy mind,",0.0 +"But left their virtues and thine own behind,",1.0 +"And having trucked thy soul, brought home the fee,",1.0 +To tempt the poor to sell himself to thee?,0.0 +Hast thou by statute shoved from its design,1.0 +That infidels may prove their title good,1.0 +By an oath dipped in sacramental blood?,2.0 +"A blot that will be still a blot, in spite",1.0 +"Of all that grave apologists may write,",1.0 +"And though a Bishop toil to cleanse the stain,",1.0 +He wipes and scours the silver cup in vain.,2.0 +"While thousands, careless of the damning sin,",1.0 +Kiss the book's outside who never look within?,1.0 +"Hast thou, when heaven has clothed thee with disgrace,",1.0 +"And long provoked, repaid thee to thy face,",1.0 +"For thou hast known eclipses, and endured",2.0 +"Hast thou with heart perverse and conscience seared,",0.0 +"Despising all rebuke, still persevered,",1.0 +"And having chosen evil, scorned the voice",0.0 +"Suggests the expedient of an yearly fast,",3.0 +"In lighter diet at a later hour,",0.0 +"The fast that wins deliverance, and suspends",1.0 +"The stroke that a vindictive God intends,",1.0 +"Is to renounce hypocrisy, to draw",2.0 +"Thy life upon the pattern of the law,",1.0 +"To vanquish lust, and wear its yoke no more.",1.0 +Hast thou within thee sin that in old time,2.0 +"Baboons are free from, upon human race?",5.0 +"That fed the flocks and herds of wealthy Lot,",0.0 +"Burning and scorched into perpetual dearth,",4.0 +"Or in his words who damned the base desire,",0.0 +Suffering the vengeance of eternal fire:,2.0 +"Unveiled her blushing cheek, looked on and smiled,",2.0 +"Beheld with joy the lovely scene defaced,",0.0 +And praised the wrath that laid her beauties waste.,0.0 +"Far be the thought from any verse of mine,",0.0 +"And farther still the formed and fixed design,",0.0 +"To thrust the charge of deeds that I detest,",1.0 +Against an innocent unconscious breast:,2.0 +"With safety to himself, is not a man:",1.0 +"An individual is a sacred mark,",1.0 +"Not to be pierced in play or in the dark,",0.0 +"But public censure speaks a public foe,",0.0 +Unless a zeal for virtue guide the blow.,0.0 +"The priestly brotherhood, devout, sincere,",0.0 +"Their hope in Heaven, servility their scorn,",1.0 +"Their wisdom pure, and given them from above,",3.0 +"Their usefulness insured by zeal and love,",1.0 +Should fly the world's contaminating touch,0.0 +"Where shall a teacher look in days like these,",0.0 +For ears and hearts that he can hope to please?,1.0 +Look to the poor ' -- the simple and the plain,1.0 +Will hear perhaps thy salutary strain;,0.0 +"Humility is gentle, apt to learn,",1.0 +"Speak but the word, will listen and return:",1.0 +"Alas, not so! the poorest of the flock",2.0 +"Are proud, and set their faces as a rock,",1.0 +"Denied that earthly opulence they choose,",1.0 +God's better gift they scoff at and refuse.,2.0 +"The rich, the produce of a nobler stem,",2.0 +"Are more intelligent at least, try them:",3.0 +O vain enquiry! they without remorse,3.0 +"Are altogether gone a devious course,",2.0 +"Where beckoning pleasure leads them, wildly stray,",2.0 +Have burst the bands and cast the yoke away.,0.0 +"Now born upon the wings of truth, sublime,",1.0 +Review thy dim original and prime;,2.0 +"The cradle that received thee at thy birth,",0.0 +"Was rocked by many a rough Norwegian blast,",3.0 +And sucked a breast that panted with alarms.,1.0 +"Thy bones not fashioned and thy joints not knit,",1.0 +"The Roman taught thy stubborn knee to bow,",0.0 +Though twice a Caesar could not bend thee now:,0.0 +"His victory was that of orient light,",2.0 +When the sun's shafts disperse the gloom of night:,3.0 +Thy language at this distant moment shows,0.0 +"How much the country to the conqueror owes,",3.0 +"Expressive, energetic and refined,",1.0 +It sparkles with the gems he left behind:,1.0 +"He brought thy land a blessing when he came,",0.0 +"He found thee savage, and he left thee tame,",1.0 +"And grace thy figure with a soldier's pride,",1.0 +"He sowed the seeds of order where he went,",0.0 +"Improved thee far beyond his own intent,",0.0 +"And while he ruled thee by the sword alone,",1.0 +Made thee at last a warrior like his own.,0.0 +"Religion if in heavenly truths attired,",3.0 +"Needs only to be seen to be admired,",2.0 +Was formed to harden hearts and shock the sight:,0.0 +"With fingers deeply died in human gore,",0.0 +"And while the victim slowly bled to death,",0.0 +Upon the tolling chords rung out his dying breath.,2.0 +Who brought the lamp that with awakening beams,3.0 +"Dispelled thy gloom and broke away thy dreams,",0.0 +"Babbler of ancient fables, leaves a doubt:",2.0 +But still light reached thee; and those gods of thine,2.0 +"Fell broken and defaced at his own door,",3.0 +As Dagon in Philistia long before.,2.0 +"Soon raised a cloud that darkened every land,",1.0 +And thine was smothered in the stench and fog,1.0 +"Then priests with bulls and briefs and shaven crowns,",0.0 +"And gripping fists and unrelenting frowns,",0.0 +"Legates and delegates with powers from hell,",4.0 +"And to this hour to keep it fresh in mind,",1.0 +Some twigs of that old scourge are left behind.,1.0 +"Were trained beneath his lash and knew the smack,",0.0 +And when he laid them on the scent of blood:,1.0 +"Lavish of life to win an empty tomb,",2.0 +"That proved a mint of wealth, a mine to Rome,",1.0 +"They left their bones beneath unfriendly skies,",0.0 +That ever dragged a chain or tugged an oar;,0.0 +"Thy monarchs arbitrary, fierce, unjust,",1.0 +"Themselves the slaves of bigotry or lust,",1.0 +"Disdained thy counsels, only in distress",0.0 +Found thee a goodly sponge for power to press.,2.0 +"Thy chiefs, the lords of many a petty fee,",2.0 +"Called thee away from peaceable employ,",3.0 +"Domestic happiness and rural joy,",1.0 +"To waste thy life in arms, or lay it down",0.0 +The sovereignty they were convened to please;,2.0 +"Whatever was asked, too timid to resist,",5.0 +"Complied with, and were graciously dismissed:",2.0 +And if some Spartan soul a doubt expressed,1.0 +"Dared to suppose the subject had a choice,",2.0 +He was a traitor by the general voice.,2.0 +"Verse cannot stoop so low as thy desert,",1.0 +To trace thee to the date when yonder fair sea,2.0 +"That clips thy shores, had no such charms for thee,",0.0 +"When other nations flew from coast to coast,",0.0 +"Kneel now, and lay thy forehead in the dust,",1.0 +"Act but an honest and a faithful part,",1.0 +"And God's disposing providence confessed,",1.0 +"Then thou art bound to serve him, and to prove",1.0 +Hour after hour thy gratitude and love.,0.0 +"For ages safe beneath his sheltering hand,",2.0 +"Given thee his blessing on the clearest proof,",2.0 +And charged hostility and hate to roar,1.0 +"Where else they would, but not upon thy shore?",0.0 +His power secured thee when presumptuous Spain,4.0 +"Her gloomy monarch, doubtful, and resigned",1.0 +"To every pang that racks an anxious mind,",0.0 +"Asked of the waves that broke upon his coast,",0.0 +What tidings? and the surge replied ' -- all lost ' --,1.0 +"And when the Stuart leaning on the Scot,",1.0 +"Then too much feared and now too much forgot,",1.0 +"Pierced to the very centre of thy realm,",1.0 +"And hoped to seize his abdicated helm,",0.0 +"'Twas but to prove how quickly with a frown,",1.0 +He that had raised thee could have plucked thee down.,0.0 +"Peculiar is the grace by thee possessed,",2.0 +"Thy foes implacable, thy land at rest;",1.0 +"Thy thunders travel over earth and seas,",0.0 +"And all at home is pleasure, wealth and ease.",0.0 +"It's thus, extending his tempestuous arm,",4.0 +"Thy Maker fills the nations with alarm,",1.0 +"While his own Heaven surveys the troubled scene,",0.0 +"And feels no change, unshaken and serene.",2.0 +"Freedom, in other lands scarce known to shine,",3.0 +"Thou hast as bright an interest in her rays,",0.0 +As ever Roman had in Rome's best days.,1.0 +"True freedom is, where no restraint is known",2.0 +"That scripture, justice, and good sense disown,",1.0 +"Where only vice and injury are tied,",1.0 +"And all from shore to shore is free beside,",0.0 +Such freedom is ' -- and Windsor's hoary towers,1.0 +"Stood trembling at the boldness of thy powers,",2.0 +"That won a nymph on that immortal plain,",0.0 +Like her the fabled Phoebus wooed in vain;,0.0 +"He found the laurel only ' -- happier you,",1.0 +"Now think, if pleasure have a thought to spare,",1.0 +If God himself be not beneath her care;,0.0 +"If business, constant as the wheels of time,",1.0 +"If the new mail thy merchant's now receive,",2.0 +"Or expectation of the next give leave,",2.0 +"O think, if chargeable with deep arrears",1.0 +"For such indulgence gilding all thy years,",1.0 +"How much though long neglected, shining yet,",0.0 +The beams of heavenly truth have swelled the debt.,2.0 +When persecuting zeal made royal sport,1.0 +"And Bonner, blithe as shepherd at a wake,",0.0 +"Enjoyed the show, and danced about the stake;",0.0 +"The sacred book, its value understood,",0.0 +Received the seal of martyrdom in blood.,1.0 +"Those holy men, so full of truth and grace,",0.0 +"Seem to reflection of a different race,",3.0 +"Meek, modest, venerable, wise, sincere,",2.0 +"In such a cause they could not dare to fear,",0.0 +Nor spare a life too short to reach the skies.,1.0 +"From them to thee conveyed along the tide,",2.0 +"Their streaming hearts poured freely when they died,",1.0 +"Those truths which neither use nor years impair,",0.0 +"Invite thee, woo thee, to the bliss they share.",1.0 +What web too weak to catch a modern brain?,1.0 +The moles and bats in full assembly find,0.0 +"And did they dream, and art thou wiser now?",0.0 +"Prove it ' -- if better, I submit and bow.",1.0 +"Must hold both sisters, never seen apart.",1.0 +"Before nature rose from her eternal sleep,",2.0 +And this delightful earth and that fair sky,2.0 +"Leaped out of nothing, called by the Most High,",1.0 +"By such a change thy darkness is made light,",3.0 +"Thy chaos order, and thy weakness, might,",1.0 +"Who found thee nothing, formed thee for his praise.",1.0 +"To praise him is to serve him, and fulfil,",2.0 +"Doing and suffering, his unquestioned will,",4.0 +"It's to believe what men inspired of old,",3.0 +"Faithful and faithfully informed, unfold;",3.0 +"Candid and just, with no false aim in view,",2.0 +"To take for truth what cannot but be true,",1.0 +"To learn in God's own school the Christian part,",0.0 +And bind the task assigned thee to thine heart:,1.0 +"Happy the man there seeking and there found,",3.0 +Happy the nation where such men abound.,2.0 +How shall a verse impress thee? by what name,1.0 +"Directs thee to that eminence they reached,",2.0 +"Heroes and worthies of days past, thy sires?",4.0 +"Or his, who touched their hearts with hallowed fires?",1.0 +"Their names, alas! in vain reproach an age",0.0 +"Whom all the vanities they scorned, engage,",1.0 +"Or serves the champion in forensic war,",2.0 +To flourish and parade with at the bar.,1.0 +"Pleasure herself perhaps suggests a plea,",2.0 +"If interest move thee, to persuade even thee:",6.0 +"By every charm that smiles upon her face,",0.0 +"By joys possessed, and joys still held in chase,",1.0 +"If dear society be worth a thought,",1.0 +"And if the feast of freedom cloy thee not,",1.0 +"Reflect that these and all that seems thine own,",1.0 +"Held by the tenure of his will alone,",2.0 +"Like angels in the service of their Lord,",1.0 +"Remain with thee, or leave thee at his word;",1.0 +That gratitude and temperance in our use,0.0 +"Of what he gives, unsparing and profuse,",1.0 +That thankless waste and wild abuse destroy.,0.0 +"Those rights that millions envy thee, appear,",1.0 +"And though resolved to risk them, and swim down",1.0 +"That blessings truly sacred, and when given",1.0 +"Marked with the signature and stamp of Heaven,",1.0 +"The word of prophecy, those truths divine",1.0 +"Which make that Heaven, if thou desire it, thine;",1.0 +"Awful alternative! believed, beloved,",3.0 +"Thy glory, and thy shame if unimproved,",1.0 +"With cold disgust or philosophic pride,",0.0 +"And that judicially withdrawn, disgrace,",1.0 +Error and darkness occupy their place.,2.0 +"A world is up in arms, and thou, a spot",2.0 +"Not quickly found if negligently sought,",1.0 +"Thy soul as ample as thy bounds are small,",1.0 +And wilt thou join to this bold enterprise,2.0 +"A bolder still, a contest with the skies?",1.0 +"Remember, if he guard thee and secure,",2.0 +"Whoever assails thee, thy success is sure;",3.0 +"But if he leave thee, though the skill and power",2.0 +"Of nations sworn to spoil thee and devour,",1.0 +"Were all collected in thy single arm,",0.0 +"That strength would fail, opposed against the push",0.0 +And feeble onset of a pigmy rush.,2.0 +Say not and if the thought of such defence,2.0 +"Should spring within thy bosom, drive it thence",0.0 +What nation amongst all my foes is free,2.0 +From crimes as base as any charged on me?,0.0 +Their measure filled ' -- they too shall pay the debt.,0.0 +"But know, that wrath divine, when most severe,",0.0 +"Makes justice still the guide of his career,",2.0 +"And will not punish in one mingled crowd,",1.0 +"Them without light, and thee without a cloud.",5.0 +"Muse, hang this harp upon yonder aged beech,",7.0 +"Still murmuring with the solemn truths I teach,",2.0 +"And while, at intervals, a cold blast sings",2.0 +"Through the dry leaves, and pants upon the strings,",2.0 +"My soul shall sigh in secret, and lament",1.0 +"A nation scourged, yet tardy to repent.",1.0 +"I know the warning song is sung in vain,",0.0 +"That few will hear, and fewer heed the strain:",0.0 +"A blessing to my country and mankind,",3.0 +"Reclaim the wandering thousands, and bring home",4.0 +"A flock so scattered and so wont to roam,",1.0 +"Then place it once again between my knees,",0.0 +"The sound of truth will then be sure to please,",0.0 +"And truth alone, wherever my life be cast,",2.0 +"In scenes of plenty or the pining waste,",1.0 +"Shall be my chosen theme, my glory to the last.",1.0 +"HAIL, wondrous Being, who in power supreme",3.0 +"Exists from everlasting, whose great name",1.0 +"Deep in the human heart, and every atom",0.0 +"The Air, the Earth, or azure Main contains",0.0 +"IN COMPREHENSIBLE! ' -- OH what can words,",2.0 +"The weak interpreters of mortal thoughts,",1.0 +Or what can thoughts though wild of wing they rove,0.0 +And deluged in the flood of dazzling day. ' --,0.0 +"May then the youthful, uninspired Bard",0.0 +Presume to hymn the Eternal; may he soar,3.0 +"Resound the unceasing plaudits, and with them",3.0 +In the grand Chorus mix his feeble voice?,2.0 +"He may ' -- if Thou, who from the witless babe",1.0 +"GREAT POET OF THE UNIVERSE, his song.",2.0 +Before this earthly Planet wound her course,0.0 +"Round Light's perennial fountain, before Light",3.0 +"Herself began shine, and at the inspiring word",3.0 +"Shot to existence in a blaze of day,",2.0 +And hailed Thee Architect of countless worlds,0.0 +All Wisdom and Omnipotence thou art.,2.0 +At when these worlds began? Could ought retard,0.0 +"Goodness, that knows no bounds, from blessing ever,",3.0 +"And Bounty inconceivable, could rest",1.0 +"Content, exhausted with one week of action ' --",1.0 +"Ten thousand times more active than the Sun,",2.0 +"Thou reigned, and with a mighty hand composed",1.0 +But yet if still to more stupendous heights,0.0 +"Perhaps wrapped up in contemplation deep,",2.0 +The best of Beings on the noble theme,1.0 +"Might ruminate at leisure, Scope immense",0.0 +"The eternal Power and Godhead to explore,",5.0 +And with itself the omniscient mind replete.,3.0 +"This were enough to fill the boundless All,",1.0 +This were a Sabbath worthy the Supreme!,2.0 +"Of Spirits inferior, he might greatly plan",3.0 +"The two prime Pillars of the Universe,",2.0 +Creation and Redemption ' -- and a while,2.0 +"Perhaps ' -- but all's conjecture here below,",0.0 +Whom to describe's presumption all we can ' --,1.0 +"And all we may ' -- be glorified, be praised.",1.0 +"A Day shall come, when all this Earth shall perish,",0.0 +Nor leave behind even Chaos; it shall come,5.0 +When all the armies of the elements,2.0 +"Shall war against themselves, and mutual rage,",2.0 +When the capacious atmosphere above,1.0 +And vanish into void; the earth beneath,0.0 +"Shall sever to the centre, and devour",2.0 +The enormous blaze of the destructive flames.,2.0 +"You rocks, that mock the raving of the floods.",1.0 +"And proudly frown upon the impatient deep,",2.0 +"Where is your grandeur now? You foaming waves,",4.0 +"That all along the immense Atlantic roar,",2.0 +In vain you swell; will a few drops suffice,1.0 +"That prop the painted chambers of the heavens,",1.0 +"What, Aetna, are thy flames to these? ' -- No more",1.0 +Nor shall the verdant valleys then remain,0.0 +Safe in their meek submission; they the debt,1.0 +Of nature and of justice too must pay.,1.0 +"Yet I must weep for you, you rival fair,",1.0 +Arno and Andalusia; but for thee,3.0 +"More largely and with filial tears must weep,",3.0 +"OH Albion, OH my country! Thou must join,",4.0 +The terrors of the inevitable ruin.,4.0 +"Nor thou, illustrious monarch of the day;",3.0 +"Nor thou, fair queen of night; nor you, you stars,",3.0 +"Though million leagues and million still remote,",0.0 +"Shall yet survive that day; You must submit,",0.0 +"But though the earth shall to the centre perish,",2.0 +Nor leave behind even Chaos; though the air,5.0 +"With all the elements must pass away,",1.0 +"Vain as an idiot's dream; though the huge rocks,",3.0 +"That brandish the tall cedars on their tops,",3.0 +"With all her bright retinue, must be lost;",3.0 +"Eternal, as thou wert: Yet still survives",2.0 +"The soul of man immortal, perfect now,",1.0 +He comes! He comes! the awful trump I hear;,0.0 +The flaming sword's intolerable blaze,1.0 +I see; He comes! the Archangel from above.,4.0 +"Arise, you tenants of the silent grave,",1.0 +"From east to west, from the antarctic pole",1.0 +"To regions hyperborean, all you sons,",1.0 +"You sons of Adam, and you heirs of Heaven ' --",1.0 +"It's then, nor sooner, that the restless mind",0.0 +"Shall find itself at home; and like the ark,",0.0 +"Fixed on the mountain-top, shall look aloft",0.0 +Over the vague passage of precarious life;,5.0 +Enjoy the everlasting calm of Heaven:,0.0 +Shall justly know its nature and its rise:,1.0 +Praises more worthy the eternal ear.,3.0 +"Yet what we can, we ought; ' -- and therefore, Thou,",3.0 +"Purge Thou my heart, Omnipotent and Good!",1.0 +"Purge Thou my heart with hyssop, lest like Cain",1.0 +"I offer fruitless sacrifice, and with gifts",0.0 +Though Gratitude were blessed with all the powers,0.0 +"Her bursting heart could long for, though the swift,",1.0 +Beyond Ambition's wish ' -- yet all were vain,0.0 +"To speak Him as he is, who is INEFFABLE.",3.0 +Yet still let reason through the eye of faith,2.0 +"View Him with fearful love; let truth pronounce,",1.0 +"With all the Hosts of Heaven, Cherubic forms,",0.0 +"For Thou art One, the Eternal, who alone",1.0 +"Exerts all goodness, and transcends all praise.",1.0 +Some Cursed or Banished Fiend usurped the way,1.0 +"Without which Attributes he could not be,",0.0 +"Nor can Heaven sleep, though it may mourn to see",1.0 +Degenerate Man utter Blasphemy.,2.0 +"When from dark Chaos Heaven the World did make,",2.0 +Made all things glorious it did undertake;,3.0 +Then it in Eden's Garden freely placed,0.0 +"All things pleasant to the Sight or Taste,",2.0 +That might with Man's Celestial Nature suit:,0.0 +"The World being made thus spacious and complete,",4.0 +"Then Man was formed, who seemed nobly great.",3.0 +"Saw Male and Female, but found Man alone,",4.0 +"A barren Sex, and insignificant;",1.0 +"So Heaven made Woman to supply the want,",4.0 +And to make perfect what before was scant:,2.0 +"Then surely she a Noble Creature is,",2.0 +Whom Heaven thus made to consummate all Bliss.,3.0 +In Nature should have the Supremacy;,2.0 +For Man was formed out of dull senseless Earth;,2.0 +But Woman she had a far nobler Birth:,2.0 +"For when the Dust was purified by Heaven,",0.0 +"Made into Man, and Life unto it given,",6.0 +That Woman of that Species should be made:,1.0 +"Which was no sooner said, but it was done,",3.0 +"And not inferior, when right understood:",3.0 +"To that of Man's; for both one Maker had,",0.0 +Which made all good; then how could Eve be bad?,0.0 +Yet in that State she did not long endure.,0.0 +"It's true; but if her Fall's examined right,",1.0 +We find most Men have banished Truth for spite:,0.0 +Nor is she quite so guilty as some make;,2.0 +For Adam did most of the Guilt partake:,1.0 +For he from God's own Mouth had the Command;,2.0 +But Woman she had it at second hand:,2.0 +"The Devil's Strength weak Woman might deceive,",1.0 +But Adam tempted only was by Eve.,1.0 +"Man's knowing most, does his Sin make most large.",3.0 +But though Woman Man to Sin did lead?,0.0 +Yet since her Seed hath bruised the Serpent's Head:,0.0 +"Why should she be made a public scorn,",0.0 +Of whom the great Almighty God was born?,0.0 +"Surely to speak one slighting Word, must be",2.0 +But still their greatest haters do prove such,2.0 +Who formerly have loved them too much:,1.0 +And from the Proverb they are not exempt;,2.0 +Too much Familiarity has bred Contempt;,8.0 +"For they associate themselves with none,",1.0 +"But such whose Virtues like their own, are gone;",1.0 +"And with all those, and only those who be",1.0 +Most boldly versed in their Debauchery:,2.0 +"And as in Adam all Mankind did die,",2.0 +"Nay, make the Name a kind of Magic Spell,",1.0 +"Woman, you Powers! the very Name's a Charm,",4.0 +And will my Verse against all Critics arm.,1.0 +The Muses or Apollo does inspire,1.0 +"Heroic Poets; but your's is a Fire,",2.0 +Because we make their Hell less populous;,2.0 +Or else you never had damned the Females thus:,3.0 +But if so universally they are,2.0 +"Disposed to Mischief, what need you declare",1.0 +"Peculiar Faults, when all the World might see",0.0 +With each approaching Morn a Prodigy:,1.0 +Man curse dead woman; I could hear as well,3.0 +The black infernal Devils curse their Hell:,0.0 +"When there had been no such place we know,",0.0 +If they themselves had not first made it so.,2.0 +"In Lust perhaps you others have excelled,",0.0 +And made all Whores that possibly would yield;,1.0 +"And courted all the Females in your way,",1.0 +Then did design at last to make a Prey,0.0 +"Of some pure Virgins; or what's almost worse,",3.0 +Make some chaste Wives to merit a Divorce.,4.0 +"Therefore you call what's Virtuous, Unkind:",2.0 +And Disappointments did your Soul perplex;,1.0 +So in mere spite you curse the Female Sex.,2.0 +"I would not judge you thus, only I find",5.0 +Not only with your Pen; you higher soar;,1.0 +But if all Men should of your Humour be,1.0 +"And should rob Hymen of his Deity,",3.0 +"Then hostile Spirits would be forced to Peace,",0.0 +Because the World so slowly would increase.,0.0 +"They would be glad to keep their Men at home,",0.0 +And each want more to attend his Throne:,1.0 +"Nay, should an English Prince resolve that he",0.0 +"And this dull custom some few years maintained,",2.0 +To see a Kingdom crammed into a Court.,0.0 +"Sure a strange world, when one should nothing see,",1.0 +"Or should this Act ere pass, woman would fly",5.0 +And in dark Caves secure her Chastity.,2.0 +Woman I am sure will choose to live alone.,1.0 +Which chose cold death before their lovers flames.,1.0 +Since we have got examples nearer home.,0.0 +Witness those Saxon Ladies who did fear,2.0 +The loss of Honour when the Danes were here:,0.0 +And cut their Lips and Noses that they might,0.0 +"Not pleasing seem, or give the Danes delight.",0.0 +"Thus having done what they could justly do,",2.0 +At last they fell their sacrifices too.,0.0 +She him refused with hazard of her life.,2.0 +"And some which I do know but will not name,",1.0 +"I could say more, but History will tell",1.0 +Many more things that do these excel.,2.0 +In Constancy they men excel as far,1.0 +A heavens bright lamp does a dull twinkling star.,4.0 +"Though man is always altering of his mind,",1.0 +The men have had the power of making Laws;,2.0 +"For where is there that man that ever died,",1.0 +But numerous trains of chaste wives expire,4.0 +"With their dear Husbands, though in flames of fire:",3.0 +"But this is done by Indian women, who",3.0 +"Do make their Constancy immortal too,",1.0 +As is their Fame: We find India yields,6.0 +More glorious Phoenix than the Arabian fields.,7.0 +The Germane women Constancy did show,6.0 +"When Wensberg was besieged, begged they might go",3.0 +"Out of the City, with no bigger Packs",3.0 +Than each of them could carry on their Backs.,2.0 +"Jaded with treasures from their native home,",3.0 +But crossing expectation each did take,0.0 +Her Husband as her burden on her back.,2.0 +"So saved him from intended death, and she",1.0 +At once gave him both life and liberty.,5.0 +How many loving wives have often died:,0.0 +Drowned in tears by their cold husbands side.,2.0 +"And when a Sword was Executioner,",1.0 +"the very same hath executed her,",1.0 +"With her own hands; eagerly meeting death,",3.0 +And scorned to live when he was void of breath.,1.0 +Woman is always Constant in chaste Love.,3.0 +"She well may change, I think the reason's just.",0.0 +"No, she bright Star wont wander from her sphere",5.0 +Of Virtue in which Female Souls do move,1.0 +For she whose first espoused to virtue must,1.0 +"But now the scene is altered, and those who",1.0 +"were esteemed modest by a blush or two,",6.0 +"Are represented quite another way,",0.0 +"She that takes pious Precepts for her Rule,",3.0 +They would have all bred up in Venus School.,0.0 +"And when that by her speech or carriage, she",1.0 +"Does seem to have sense of a Deity,",1.0 +"Unless it be the little blinded Boy,",0.0 +"That Childish god, Cupid, that trifling toy,",5.0 +"That certain nothing, whom they feign to be",0.0 +The Son of Venus daughter to the Sea.,1.0 +"But were he true, none serve him as they should,",3.0 +"For commonly those who adore this god,",1.0 +Do't only in a melancholy mood;,1.0 +"Or else a sort of hypocrites they are,",0.0 +"And by him they do sacred love pretend,",1.0 +"When as heaven knows, they have a baser end.",1.0 +Nor is he god of love; but if I must,2.0 +"Give him a title, then he is god of lust.",0.0 +And surely Woman impious must be,2.0 +"Unless she will believe without control,",1.0 +Those that did hold a Woman had no Soul:,1.0 +And then does think no obligation lies,1.0 +On her to act what may be just or wise.,1.0 +"And only strive to please her Appetite,",0.0 +And to embrace that which does most delight.,1.0 +"And when she does this paradox believe,",0.0 +Whatever faith does please she may receive.,2.0 +"She may be Turk, Jew, Atheist, Infidel,",4.0 +"Or any thing, cause she need never fear Hell,",3.0 +For if she hath no Soul what need she fear,2.0 +Something she knows not what or when or where.,2.0 +"But hold I think I should be silent now,",0.0 +Could never damn us at the rate you do.,0.0 +"What dost thou think thou hast privilege given,",0.0 +"That those whom thou dost bless shall mount to heaven,",0.0 +And so dost think to fill the Abyss below,3.0 +"Quite full of Females, hoping there may be",3.0 +"Or enter into heaven, thy weight of Sin",0.0 +"It would at best but mitigate thy pain,",0.0 +"Because thou hast been vile to that degree,",0.0 +That thy repentance must eternal be.,1.0 +For wert thou guilty of no other crime,3.0 +Were enough to shut the gate of Heaven.,1.0 +"But when together's put all thou do,",1.0 +It will not only shut but bar it too.,1.0 +For when Heaven made woman it designed,4.0 +Her for the charming object of Mankind.,3.0 +Nor is altered only with those who,1.0 +And then what they must be we make no doubt.,1.0 +It's to make heaven mistaken when you say,2.0 +It meant one and it proves another way.,1.0 +"For when heaven with its last and greatest care,",0.0 +"Had formed a female charming bright and fair,",1.0 +"Why then immediately it did decree,",3.0 +"That unto man she should a blessing be,",0.0 +And so should prove to all posterity.,2.0 +And surely there is nothing can be worse,2.0 +Than for to turn a blessing to a curse.,2.0 +"And when the greatest blessing heaven ere gave,",1.0 +And certainly the best that man could have.,1.0 +A great affront unto heaven's Majesty.,7.0 +"I must confess there are some bad, and they",1.0 +All are not forced to wander in false way.,1.0 +"Only some few whose dark benighted sense,",0.0 +"Against those many tempting pleasures, which",0.0 +Not only theirs but Masculine Souls bewitch.,3.0 +"Are guilty of all crimes and you have none,",2.0 +"Unless some few, which you call fools, who be",1.0 +"Espoused to wives, and live in chastity.",1.0 +"But the most rational, without which we",2.0 +Doubtless should question your Humanity.,4.0 +And I would praise them more only I fear,3.0 +If I should do't it would make me appear,3.0 +Unto the World much fonder than I be,3.0 +"Of that same State, for I love Liberty,",4.0 +Into his Ark; I would have some released,0.0 +From the dear cares of that lawful State:,2.0 +"Hold I'll not dictate, I'll leave all Fate.",0.0 +Nor would I have the World to think that I,0.0 +Through a despair do Nuptial Joys defy.,1.0 +For in the World so little I have been,1.0 +"Of Saturn, only I do think it best",1.0 +"For those who love to contemplate at rest,",1.0 +"For to live single too, and then they may",2.0 +"Uninterrupted, Natures Work survey.",2.0 +And had my Antagonist spent his time,3.0 +"As a Female Poet, he had gained some praise,",2.0 +But now his malice blasts his twig of Bays.,0.0 +"I do not wish you had, for I believe",1.0 +It is impossible for to deceive,3.0 +"Any with what you write, because that you",1.0 +"And if by supposition I may go,",2.0 +"Then I'll suppose all men are wicked too,",1.0 +"And because you have made Whores of all you could,",2.0 +Which words do only argue guilt and spite:,0.0 +All makes you cheap in every mortals sight.,0.0 +And it does show that you have always been,1.0 +Only with Women guilty of that Sin.,3.0 +You never desired nor were you fit for those,3.0 +Whose modest carriage does their minds disclose.,0.0 +"The way and manner Bewley entered Hell,",0.0 +As if your love for her had made you go,2.0 +Down to the black infernal shades below.,1.0 +"But I suppose you never was so near,",2.0 +"For if you had, you scarce would have been here,",1.0 +"Unless they thought when ere it was you came,",1.0 +Your hot entrance might increase the flame.,2.0 +"If burning Hell add to their extreme pain,",5.0 +And so were glad to turn you off again.,2.0 +"And likewise, also I believe beside,",2.0 +That one thing more might be their haughty pride.,0.0 +"And as fond mortals hate a rival, they",3.0 +"Loving through Pride, were loath to let you stay,",2.0 +"For fear that you might their black deeds excel,",3.0 +Usurp their Seat and be the Prince of Hell.,1.0 +But I believe that you will let your hate,2.0 +Persuades your Subjects will be Women kind.,1.0 +"But I believe when it comes the trial,",1.0 +Were you but half so sure of heaven as we.,1.0 +But when you are in hell if you should find,2.0 +"More then I speak of, think heaven designed",3.0 +"Them for a part of your Eternal Fate,",2.0 +"But why you should do so I cannot tell,",0.0 +Unless it's what makes you in love with hell:,0.0 +Must have Antipathy against Woman too.,7.0 +For virtue and they are so near allied,2.0 +That none can their mutual ties divide.,2.0 +"Like Light and Heat, incorporate they are,",0.0 +"But I'm too dull to give my Sex due praise,",3.0 +The task befits a Laureate Crowned with Bays:,2.0 +"And yet all he can say, will be but small,",0.0 +A Copy differs from the original.,4.0 +"For should he sleep under Parnassus Hill,",6.0 +Implore the Muses for to guide his Quill.,1.0 +"And should they help him, yet his praise would seem",0.0 +For he would come so short of what they are,1.0 +His lines won't with one single Act compare.,1.0 +"But to say truest, is to say that she",3.0 +Is Good and Virtuous unto that degree,2.0 +"Imagination, because you set no bound,",3.0 +And then one certain definition is,1.0 +To say that she does comprehend all Bliss.,1.0 +"Heroic, constant, nay, and modest too:",0.0 +"The later Virtue is a thing you doubt,",1.0 +But it's because you never sought to find it out.,1.0 +"A hated object, yet a stranger too.",0.0 +"I'll speak like you, if such a thing there be,",1.0 +I'm certain that she does not dwell with thee.,0.0 +Thou art Antipodes to that and unto all,0.0 +"Turned Bully Hector, and a humane Beast.",5.0 +"That Beasts do speak it rarely comes to pass,",0.0 +You do describe a woman so that one,1.0 +Would almost think she had the Fiends outdone:,2.0 +"As if at her strange birth did shine no star,",3.0 +"And did conspire what mischief they should do,",3.0 +"Each act his part and her with plagues pursue,",1.0 +"It's false in her, yet it's summed up in you.",0.0 +You almost would persuade one that you thought,1.0 +That providence to a low ebb was brought;,3.0 +Souls of so great extent that heaven was driven,0.0 +"Into a Straight, and liberality",1.0 +"Had made her void of wanting, to supply",1.0 +"These later bodies, she was forced to take",1.0 +"Their souls asunder, and so numbers make,",1.0 +Still shift them as she finds the matters stand.,2.0 +It's because they are the worst makes me believe,4.0 +But I'm no Pythagorean to conclude,3.0 +"Or think that heaven so bankrupt or so poor,",1.0 +But that each body has one soul or more.,0.0 +"I do not find our Sex so near allied,",0.0 +"Either in disobedience or in pride,",3.0 +"They are refined, or else were always pure",1.0 +"That I must needs conceit their souls the same,",0.0 +"But yet their faults only thus much infer,",5.0 +That we're not made so perfect but may err;,2.0 +"Which adds much lustre to a virtuous mind,",3.0 +And it's her prudence makes her soul confined,1.0 +"Within the bounds of Goodness, for if she",1.0 +"Was all perfection, unto that degree",0.0 +Why heaven not she must have the praise of this.,0.0 +And without care her freedom may enthral.,5.0 +"But to keep pure and free in such a case,",3.0 +Argues each virtue with its proper grace.,3.0 +"Most soft and gentle, she has happiness",2.0 +"In that her soul is of that nature too,",1.0 +"And yields to any thing that heaven will do,",0.0 +"Takes an impression when it's sealed in heaven,",2.0 +"Turns to a cold refusal, when it's given",0.0 +And by a splendid lustre does outshine,2.0 +"All masculine souls, who only seem to be",2.0 +Made up of pride and their loved luxury.,3.0 +So great's men ambition that he would,2.0 +"Have all the wealth and power if he could,",1.0 +"Of the worlds Monarchs, covets all their Crowns.",2.0 +And by experience it hath been found,2.0 +The word Ambition's not an empty sound.,0.0 +"Man's pride, ambition and his falsehood too.",3.0 +For if at any time ambitious have,1.0 +"Least show of honour, then their souls grow brave,",2.0 +"Grow big and restless, they are not at ease,",2.0 +"Till they have a more fatal way to please,",0.0 +"Look fair and true, when falsely they intend;",2.0 +"So from low Subject, grow a Monarch's Friend.",4.0 +"And by grave Counsels they their good pretend,",3.0 +When it's guilt poison and oft works their end.,4.0 +"The Son who must succeed, is too much loved,",0.0 +Must be pulled down his Council is approved,1.0 +"For fear he willingly should grow too great,",2.0 +"Desire to rule, should mount his father's Seat.",0.0 +"And then the better to secure the State,",1.0 +It is but just they should receive his fate.,1.0 +"So by degrees he for himself makes room,",3.0 +Or would do so at least but commonly,1.0 +For the known crimes makes a wise Prince take care.,3.0 +Men more impious than a woman far.,2.0 +So those who by their abject fortune are,1.0 +"Remote from Courts no less their pride declare,",1.0 +"Above them, in State, or Priority.",3.0 +But it's impossible for to relate,3.0 +"Their boundless Pride, or their prodigious hate,",1.0 +"To all that fortune hath but smiled upon,",0.0 +In a degree that is above their own.,2.0 +"Which does betray a base ignoble mind,",0.0 +Speaks thee nothing but a blustering wind.,3.0 +"I should not enter, nor won't be implied,",1.0 +"For to search out their strange and unknown crimes,",3.0 +That my dull Arithmetic cannot tell,1.0 +Half the sins that commonly do dwell,1.0 +"In one sordid Rustic, then how can I",1.0 +Define the Courts or Towns Debauchery.,1.0 +Their pride in some small measure I have shown.,2.0 +But theirs is running over and pressed down;,3.0 +And it's impossible I should repeat,2.0 +"The Crimes of men extravagantly great,",2.0 +"I would not name them, but to let them see",1.0 +"It's true, pride makes men great in their own eyes,",3.0 +"And though Ambition still aims to be high,",3.0 +Yet Lust at best is but bestiality;,2.0 +"Not Pride nor Envy, etc. for this does ensnare,",4.0 +"Not only those whom it at first inflamed,",2.0 +"This Sin must have a partner to be shamed,",1.0 +"And punished like himself. Hold, one wont do,",3.0 +"He must have more, for he does still pursue",1.0 +"The Agents of his Passion; it's not Wife,",2.0 +That Mutual Name can regulate his Life:,2.0 +"And though he for his Lust might have a shroud,",1.0 +"And there might be Polygamy allowed,",2.0 +"Yet all his Wives would surely be abhorred,",0.0 +"Most mortally the Name of Wife they hate,",1.0 +"Yet they will take one as their proper fate,",1.0 +"That they may have a Child legitimate,",1.0 +"To be their Heir, if they have an Estate,",2.0 +"Or else to bear their Names: So, for by ends,",1.0 +"They take a Wife, and satisfy their friends,",0.0 +"Who are desirous that it should be so,",1.0 +"And for that end, perhaps, Estates bestow;",1.0 +"Which, when possessed, is spent another way;",0.0 +"The Spurious Issue do the right betray,",2.0 +"The Wife and Children by neglect disdained,",1.0 +"Wretched and poor unto their Friends return,",4.0 +"Having got nothing, unless cause to mourn.",8.0 +"The Dire Effects of Lust I cannot tell,",0.0 +For I suppose its Catalogue's in Hell;,1.0 +"And he perhaps at last may read it there,",1.0 +"Written in flames, fierce as his own while here.",1.0 +"By these strange Creatures, nor is there scarce one",3.0 +Of these inhumane Beasts that do not die,2.0 +And Men do catch it by mere fantasy.,3.0 +"Though they are chaste and honest, yet it does",1.0 +"Pursue them, and some company on oath",2.0 +"They have been in, and their infected breath",1.0 +"As the base wretch or vain Physician please,",2.0 +And then a sum of Money must be gave,0.0 +"And then it's doubled, for to hide the cheat:",1.0 +The Body and Estate together go.,1.0 +"And then the only Objects here below,",0.0 +"On which he does his charity bestow,",1.0 +"Are Whores and Quacks, and perhaps Pages too",5.0 +"Must have a share, or else they will reveal",1.0 +That which Money does make them conceal.,2.0 +"Sure trusty Stewards of extensive heaven,",2.0 +When what's for common good is only given,0.0 +"Unto peculiar friends of theirs, who be",2.0 +"As those whose boldness turns them reprobate,",2.0 +And though a Hypocrite does seem to be,1.0 +"A greater sharer of Morality,",2.0 +"One hides, and other tells what he hath done;",0.0 +"But if one Devil's better than another,",2.0 +Than one of these is better than the other:,2.0 +"Hypocrisy pre-eminence should have,",3.0 +"By open Custom, make the rugged way",0.0 +"More take example, it's he strives to win.",1.0 +"Mad Souls, to fill up Hell! But should there be",1.0 +"Nothing before acted but Hypocrisy,",3.0 +"Yet Man would be as wicked as he is,",1.0 +And be no nearer to eternal bliss;,2.0 +"Example by such Men, should never make",1.0 +"Me to believe, that he was really chaste,",2.0 +"And, without pattern, never had embraced:",5.0 +"Such kind of sins at best such virtues weak,",0.0 +"That with such a slender stress will break,",1.0 +A slight temptation at the second hand:,0.0 +But I believe one might as narrowly pry,3.0 +And yet find none; and then if Women be,1.0 +"Averse to't too, sure all's iniquity",3.0 +"On this side Heaven, and it with Justice went",2.0 +"Up thither, because here is found no content,",1.0 +"But did regardless and neglected lie,",1.0 +And with an awful distance was past by.,3.0 +"Instead of hiding their prodigious Acts,",1.0 +"They do reveal, brag of their horrid Facts;",2.0 +"Unless it be some few who hide them, because",2.0 +They would not seem to violate those laws,1.0 +"Or else the Wives Relations are alive,",1.0 +"Their golden wheels, that way does seem uneven,",0.0 +Then the Estate most certainly is given,2.0 +"Some other way, or else it's settled so",1.0 +"As he may never have it to bestow,",2.0 +For to have a very great esteem,0.0 +For his pretended Joy; but when her friends,1.0 +"Are dead, then he his cursed life defends,",2.0 +"With what they leave; then the unhappy wife,",1.0 +"With her dear children, lead an horrid life,",2.0 +"And the Estate's put to another use,",3.0 +"And should I strive their falsehood to relate,",2.0 +An Instance too of Infidelity,1.0 +"Who, though he under obligations were,",1.0 +"The same at first, so altered words not mind,",0.0 +"Which is much worse, for when that one does speak",0.0 +"With a full resolution, for to break",3.0 +"One's word and oath, surely it must be",4.0 +"A greater crime than an inconstancy,",2.0 +Which is as great failing in the soul,5.0 +"As any sin that reason does control,",0.0 +"But I designed for to be short, so must",2.0 +Be sure for to keep firm unto the first,3.0 +These faults which first I ought for to remove;,1.0 +"Therefore, with Brutus, I this point will end,",2.0 +"Who, though he ought to have been Caesar's friend,",0.0 +"By being declared his Heir, yet it was he",3.0 +Was the first actor in his tragedy:,3.0 +"He was at once, nay and disloyal too:",3.0 +"A thousand Instances there might be brought,",1.0 +"Not far fetched, though they were dearly bought",2.0 +"To prove that Man more false than Woman is,",1.0 +"But these are Crimes which hell, I'm sure not heaven",1.0 +"As they pretend, hath peculiar given",3.0 +"Unto our Sex, but it's as false as they,",3.0 +"All Pride and Lust too to our charge they lay,",2.0 +As if in sin we all were so sublime,2.0 +"Nay, Woman now is made the Scapegoat, and",3.0 +It's she must bear sins of all the land:,1.0 +"Make an atonement for one single man,",3.0 +"Nay, it is well if he himself can bring",1.0 +"An humble, pious heart for the offering;",0.0 +A thing which ought to be inseparable,1.0 +"Yet it is sometime wanting, and they be",2.0 +"I must not look in my Teachers lives,",0.0 +"Each Man's so eager of each fatal sin,",1.0 +As if he feared he should not do't again;,1.0 +"Yet still his soul is black, he is the same",1.0 +"At all times, though he does not act all flame,",0.0 +"Because he opportunity does want,",1.0 +"Of Objects for to exercise his will,",1.0 +And for to show his great and mighty skill,1.0 +"In all Sciences diabolical,",3.0 +But when he meets with those which we do call,0.0 +"Base and unjust, why then his part he acts",2.0 +"Most willingly, and then with hell contracts",1.0 +"And being thus inflamed with hellish fire,",0.0 +"He does to any thing it does desire,",0.0 +"I am not sorry you do Females hate,",3.0 +"But rather reckon we're more fortunate,",2.0 +"And should you love them, I should think they were",1.0 +"A growing bad, but still keep as you are:",2.0 +"I need not bid you, for you must I'm sure,",1.0 +And in your present wretched state endure;,0.0 +"It's an impossible you should be true,",2.0 +"As for a Woman to act like to you,",3.0 +"Which I am sure will not accomplished be,",0.0 +And when vice is virtue you shall have,1.0 +"A share of that which makes most Females brave,",1.0 +"So thou must lie in vast eternity,",2.0 +"With prospect of thy endless misery,",2.0 +"When Woman, your imagined Fiend, shall live",1.0 +Blessed with the Joys that Heaven can always give.,0.0 +"Schooled in the discipline of black despair,",1.0 +Dares the vast treasure of her woes commend;,4.0 +"Now fear forbids ' -- then hope persuades again,",1.0 +"Both love and horror guide my trembling pen,",1.0 +"Horror ' -- that knows not where it should begin,",1.0 +"To wail the lover lost, or weep the sin;",0.0 +"While love presents his beauties to my eyes,",1.0 +"A dire report has lately reached my ears,",0.0 +The source of these complaints and falling tears,1.0 +"'Twas said ' -- I heard and fainted at the sound,",1.0 +"Hoping it's false ' -- yet dreading more it's true,",2.0 +A certain answer I request from you;,1.0 +I'd fain believe some busy meddling friend,0.0 +"May, through kind policy, his death pretend,",3.0 +"Thinking how vain when I believed him lost,",3.0 +"My heart would then by care no more be tossed,",1.0 +"And when his death had well possessed my mind,",0.0 +"Alas! how weak such artifice must prove,",1.0 +How little do they know the force of love;,0.0 +"Were he but living, my poor heart no more",4.0 +The loss of friends or fortune would deplore;,0.0 +Perhaps in time too I'd contented been,2.0 +"But, o! his death is agony to bear,",2.0 +"Then truly tell me, nor with flattering gloss,",3.0 +"Varnish or hide the greatness of my loss,",3.0 +"Tell the sad truth, by doubts I'm doubly cursed,",3.0 +To doubt is ever to believe the worst.,1.0 +"Art thou then gone, my daily, nightly care,",0.0 +"My ALL that parents, friends or husband were,",1.0 +Still must I kiss his dear unhappy name.,0.0 +"Join not the world, OH be not you severe;",2.0 +With Heaven's permission to some worthy lord:,3.0 +"Mock not, o blame not my unhappy love,",1.0 +Pity that weakness which you can't approve.,2.0 +"Was there no cliff, no rock, no island near,",5.0 +Did no kind plank his fainting body bear?,1.0 +"Thus do I strive, thus arguments invent,",2.0 +Thus are my days in fruitless wishes spent:,0.0 +"Por ever gone ' -- the sea, with sullen roar,",1.0 +"Denies my treasure ' -- to the friendly shore,",1.0 +Or clasp his body in a last embrace.,0.0 +"To seize my soul's delight, my heart's sole joy;",1.0 +Ah cruel parents! but more cruel they,1.0 +"To tear him from his native home away,",1.0 +"Far, far away ' -- to join a horrid crew,",1.0 +"And, dying, pay the debt to vengeance due.",0.0 +"Dear hapless youth, beloved, bemoaned in vain,",1.0 +"There ends thy hope, there ends thy every pain,",0.0 +"An end to every grief, and every care,",0.0 +"In youth neglected, or despised in age,",1.0 +"No change of place to me brings change of mind,",3.0 +No joy in sweet variety I find;,2.0 +"To me all light or darkness is the same,",2.0 +"My nights are horror, and my days all shame.",1.0 +"Say, sister, must my tears for ever flow,",1.0 +"While Heaven forgives, yet unforgiven below.",2.0 +"Young as I was, ever reason taught to tame",1.0 +The unruly passion that destroyed my fame;,1.0 +"By slow degrees I drew the spreading fire,",0.0 +"I saw the youth, and seeing must admire,",0.0 +"In his sad eye the languid tale he bore,",3.0 +He asked my pity ' -- then he hoped no more:,1.0 +O little did I think how soon to prove,0.0 +How near akin compassion is to love;,1.0 +"I loved him, sister, what could weakness do?",0.0 +"Though mean his state, though humble his degree,",1.0 +"His soul was noble, and his heart was free,",1.0 +"Fond foolish heart, by ME to ruin led,",2.0 +"O, Caroline! if the kind tender name",2.0 +"Teach my poor suffering heart its woes to bear,",3.0 +"Teach me, though humbled, to look up to Heaven,",2.0 +"To sue for grace, and hope to be forgiven,",0.0 +"And injured Heaven of me requires no more,",1.0 +"When every grief sinks with me to the grave,",3.0 +From blasting tongues my hapless memory save;,2.0 +"But ah! be careful, let there not be known",0.0 +A name so wretched on the wounded stone.,1.0 +"How very rare my generous friend we find,",2.0 +"A woman blessed with such a virtuous mind,",3.0 +"A heart which nobly dares to be sincere,",0.0 +"A soul without ambition, truly great,",0.0 +"Sprightly, yet wise, and witty, though sedate.",3.0 +"By prudence, piety, and reason taught;",1.0 +"A bosom, awed by chastity and love,",1.0 +"A tongue, ordained, the hardest heart to move;",0.0 +"An ear, for ever open to the poor,",1.0 +"A form as spotless as her heavenly mind,",3.0 +"In temper affable, polite, and kind.",1.0 +"IN Gothic times, when feudal laws obtained,",0.0 +"And tyranny with superstition reigned,",1.0 +Mysterious rites with dazzling shows confined,2.0 +To narrow bounds the darkened human mind;,0.0 +And wrapped the world in shades of mental night;,0.0 +"Where genius dawned it shot forth sanguine gleams,",1.0 +Its fires infused ambition's frantic dreams;,0.0 +"Scared by the sword, fair Freedom distant flew,",1.0 +And men machines to guilty conquerors grew;,2.0 +"While gloomy ignorance the earth pervades,",1.0 +And science flies to deep romantic shades:,0.0 +"Yet still the active mind retained some power,",0.0 +"The fruit was lost, but stronger bloomed the flower;",0.0 +"Poetic thoughts and deeds the brave combined,",0.0 +And strong imagination seized the blind.,0.0 +But when amid those superstitious days,0.0 +"Some potent mind shed truth's obtrusive rays,",1.0 +"The fair IANTHE, bright as rising day,",0.0 +"Or the wild blossoms which unfold in May,",2.0 +"Accused by priests of supernatural crimes,",2.0 +"Because some rays, with native genius fired,",0.0 +"Shot through her graceful eyes, and love inspired;",0.0 +"While still she dared be innocent and free,",1.0 +"By virtuous precepts formed, this lovely maid",3.0 +"But thither chased, fled with her aged sire",1.0 +"From civil feuds, and persecutions dire.",0.0 +"They sought some spot where they might freely live,",1.0 +And undisturbed fair Nature's gifts receive.,1.0 +"OH, wanderers vain! to seek for certain good,",3.0 +Though kings and priests had stained the earth with blood;,0.0 +No feeling for men's miseries retain;,4.0 +"Hunting for fame, they idly sport with life,",2.0 +While clashing interests urge perpetual strife.,2.0 +With genuine force through light on all around;,2.0 +"Through her clear eyes the fires of fancy glow,",2.0 +"Her nerves, with force and quick sensations strung,",0.0 +"Deepened her rosy lips, and fired her trembling tongue.",4.0 +"A glimpse of truth her native genius caught,",0.0 +"She saw, abhorrent, persecution's rod,",0.0 +And in her heart she sought the unknown GOD;,3.0 +"The GOD who lights the heavens, and rules the storm,",2.0 +"Mixed the pure elements, and gave them form!",4.0 +"Europe was in destructive wars engaged,",2.0 +The Imperial Eagle and the Pontiff raged;,4.0 +"The sword vast desolation spread around,",1.0 +Felt his blood freeze through his enfeebled frame;,4.0 +He made the sorrows of mankind his own.,2.0 +"Seeking for peace, through various realms they sped,",4.0 +Still hopes of bliss like airy visions fled;,1.0 +"IANTHE saw with grief her father's mind,",0.0 +"While shunning ills, to Nature's blessings blind:",0.0 +"Her youthful senses oft with pleasures glow,",0.0 +She feels some good still mixed with human woe.,1.0 +"The earth with flowers, and all creation glows,",2.0 +Till vernal showers were chased by warmer gales;,2.0 +Though placid peace here breathed a transient calm;,0.0 +"For still he saw, with acrimonious eye,",2.0 +With indignation heard the uplifted rod,2.0 +"His fixed design when fair IANTHE found,",0.0 +"Suffused with tears, her eyes the fields survey,",0.0 +"She pressed his hand, and warmly urged his stay.",0.0 +"Look round, she cried; here smiling plenty blooms,",0.0 +The ambient air breathes Nature's rich perfumes.,3.0 +"Stay, OH my father! at my urgent prayer,",1.0 +These vales obscure our Maker's bounties share;,0.0 +"The bliss we seek the world may not contain,",0.0 +"We rove romantic, and our toils are vain;",1.0 +Though transient joys are scattered all around.,0.0 +"Ardent she spoke, while hope a ray diffused,",2.0 +"But, still resolved, the restless sire refused;",2.0 +"Long on life's troubled ocean he had tossed,",4.0 +And now his relish of the calm was lost:,1.0 +Of all the world this spot alone seemed sweet;,1.0 +"Her heaving breast unusual anguish wrung,",0.0 +And never so persuasive was her tongue.,2.0 +Whence in her bosom did those cares arise?,0.0 +Or did the heavenly music of his song,3.0 +Infuse its warmth to urge her glowing tongue?,0.0 +"Frequent their bland society he sought,",2.0 +His genuine converse woke expanding thought;,2.0 +Oft mingling lays with such transcendent art,2.0 +As fired her fancy while they reached her heart.,2.0 +Her bosom heaving with the parting sigh;,1.0 +"With quickest sympathy he caught her smart,",1.0 +While mixed emotions vibrate in his heart:,0.0 +"Pervade his soul; her graceful hand he pressed,",0.0 +"And, with consent, the feeble sire addressed,",3.0 +"Urging their stay: with fear he rapid speaks,",2.0 +While anxious feelings tinged his ardent cheeks;,0.0 +"Both plead at once, strong arguments they pour,",3.0 +"With anxious tears, and each persuasive power;",0.0 +"His first resolves before their wishes melt,",0.0 +For latent motives in their force he felt:,0.0 +"He yields; ' -- young RAPHAEL points his piercing eyes,",4.0 +"A sudden shower fell over her blushing cheeks,",5.0 +And her delight too eloquently speaks.,3.0 +"To build a humble mansion, plainly neat,",0.0 +"Distant from where the feudal lords reside,",1.0 +"Amid a wood, and on a hill's warm side;",2.0 +"To Nature true, by purest thought refined,",0.0 +No idle scorn of toil debased his mind.,1.0 +"IANTHE with fine taste the flowers combines,",4.0 +And round their mansion spreads the swelling vines.,0.0 +"Oft RAPHAEL works beside the inspiring maid,",6.0 +And tender passions all his powers invade;,2.0 +"Celestial was the music of her tongue,",2.0 +"He added force, and wrote the ecstatic song;",2.0 +"His tuneful lays fair Nature's works disclose,",1.0 +And latent truth drawn forth reflected glows;,1.0 +"Mute on his burning lips love trembling hung,",1.0 +While strong expression marked each feeling song;,0.0 +And tremulous her warbling measures flow.,1.0 +Their mutual passions as they strengthening rise;,5.0 +"A parent's care hung heavy at his breast,",1.0 +"Then late he felt fresh happiness to dawn,",2.0 +And mid life's winter viewed one glowing morn.,1.0 +"The eyes of RAPHAEL, piercing as the light,",5.0 +"Spoke his whole soul, and sparkled with delight.",4.0 +"IANTHE strives her transports to conceal,",1.0 +"Flowed from his eyes, and mingled with the prayer.",1.0 +"One eve the kindling heavens resplendent shone,",2.0 +"While sinking Phoebus girds his crimson zone,",0.0 +"Whose glorious beams through tracts immense were shed,",2.0 +And not one cloud over heaven's vast arch was spread:,6.0 +"Amongst the woods IANTHE strayed afar,",0.0 +Marking the lustre of the evening star;,3.0 +To Nature's God her songs enraptured flow:,0.0 +"As on she wandered, fearless of alarms,",2.0 +ARNO from far beheld her graceless charms:,2.0 +"ARNO, the child of fortune and of fame,",3.0 +Whose nervous manhood early deeds proclaim;,1.0 +"A noble strength of thought his soul inspires,",0.0 +But fostered passion fed vindictive fires;,0.0 +"In his large eyes strong sense and feeling glow,",4.0 +But anger rose like thunder on his brow:,1.0 +"Vast his designs, with rising pride he strode,",2.0 +And wild ambition taints his youthful blood;,0.0 +"Lawless he tramples over the peasant's corn,",4.0 +"At night he walks the woods, stole hours from sleep,",1.0 +To give his thoughts a large unbounded sweep;,0.0 +And caught their fire from his inspired tongue;,1.0 +"Strong to endure, he nursed an ardent flame,",2.0 +"Mistaking virtue, called it thirst of fame;",0.0 +"Each generous thought his ample heart could move,",2.0 +"Though violent in hate, yet boundless in his love.",2.0 +"While over the fields his rolling eyes he threw,",2.0 +Almost a vision of his brain she seemed,2.0 +"Uncertain what she was, her path he crossed,",1.0 +"He stopped, he gazed, in admiration lost.",0.0 +"The fires of love seemed glancing from her eyes,",2.0 +Her glowing cheeks were tinged with heavenly dies;,2.0 +And mid her smiles a thousand charms portrayed.,0.0 +"Entranced he gazed ' -- at once her power confessed,",2.0 +And youthful transports fired his manly breast.,2.0 +"The blind restored scarce feel more strong delight,",1.0 +When heaven's vast orb first strikes the astonished sight.,3.0 +"He caught her hand, and breathed impassioned sighs,",0.0 +While fear and anger flushed her cheeks and eyes;,0.0 +"Quick from his grasp her hand she trembling drew,",0.0 +"And, winged with terror, swift as light she flew.",0.0 +"Awed by the virtue sacred on her brow,",1.0 +Unusual feelings through his bosom glow;,1.0 +He saw her shoot before him as a star,1.0 +"Her magic limbs he viewed, while on the wind",1.0 +Her long luxuriant tresses streamed behind:,2.0 +"Ardent he gazed, lost in romantic bliss,",3.0 +And doomed with strong resolve IANTHE his.,1.0 +"To boundless passion all his heart resigned,",0.0 +"He shook each shackle from his haughty mind,",1.0 +"And following quick, stung at his own delay,",2.0 +Bounds over each barrier which obstructs his way:,5.0 +"The woods awhile conceal the flying fair,",0.0 +"Tortured he flew, more rapid from despair;",3.0 +One glance he caught ' -- to sight her mansion rose;,0.0 +"He saw her enter, and the portal close.",1.0 +"Rash in resolve, and conscious of his power,",2.0 +In fiercely rushed; ' -- but started as he viewed,1.0 +"RAPHAEL, who by his loved IANTHE stood.",1.0 +"Spent with her flight, she on his arm reclined,",1.0 +"Smiled in his eyes, and calmed her fluttering mind.",2.0 +"The tyrant saw, but scarcely stopped to look,",0.0 +"Raised him from want, and crowned with living bays;",0.0 +"Dare he, the admitted partner of his board,",2.0 +Triumphant thwart the affections of his lord?,3.0 +A threatening vengeance in his eyeballs glows;,1.0 +"Flashing with its ungovernable sway,",4.0 +He like an angry tempest burst away.,0.0 +"IANTHE, conscious, trembled as he gazed;",1.0 +"Whatever had passed with faltering lips declares,",5.0 +"Spent with fatigue, and shook with rising fears.",2.0 +"As RAPHAEL heard, a secret pang possessed",3.0 +"But this repressing, her loved hand he took,",3.0 +"Their nuptial day he urged, while inward smart",0.0 +"Toned each persuasive word, and fired her heart.",3.0 +"And soldiers entering, round young RAPHAEL pour;",4.0 +"From ARNO sent, his stern commands they brought,",0.0 +Quick to convey him where his armies fought ' --,2.0 +"To distant regions, scenes to him unknown,",1.0 +"Thus forced along, resistance were as vain",2.0 +As if a pebble strove to stem the main.,1.0 +"By early thought with fortitude endowed,",0.0 +"Too deeply pierced, no longer could control",2.0 +The desperate sorrow which overwhelmed his soul;,2.0 +"While raving, thus with agony he spoke:",1.0 +"Alas! each promised blessing torn away,",0.0 +IANTHE falls the mighty victor's prey!,0.0 +O! dire effect of arbitrary power!,0.0 +In vain their bitter tears the wretched pour!,0.0 +Thy RAPHAEL only guesses at thy sighs!,6.0 +"Yet, struggling with her pangs, she powerful strove",3.0 +"To calm his fears, and prove her steadfast love;",1.0 +"Infused fair hope, to snatch him from despair,",2.0 +And claimed protection of their Maker's care;,1.0 +"Vows of eternal constancy she paid,",3.0 +"He saw her virtue with such strength combined,",1.0 +"That, trusting in the God who armed her mind,",0.0 +He strove sublime to meet his fate resigned.,0.0 +Far from his reach had born the unhappy maid;,2.0 +But ruin threats him if he flies the abode,3.0 +Where all his little wealth was now bestowed.,0.0 +Fearless decides her father's wavering state:,4.0 +"Secure within, though stung with deepest smart,",0.0 +She feels resentment fire her daring heart;,0.0 +"She longs the tyrant's spirit to control,",3.0 +"To probe his vice, and humble his high soul;",2.0 +"Secure in them, no more the despot feared.",0.0 +"Impassioned ARNO, anxious to remove,",1.0 +"Skilled in the world, and each seducing art,",0.0 +Studies to wind around her widowed heart;,2.0 +"All means he tries ' -- too well his ardent mind,",1.0 +"Fertile in thought, could varying pleasures find:",2.0 +"He forced a charm through every sense to steal,",0.0 +And strove each baser motive to conceal;,4.0 +"Yet vain his powers, no passion they impart,",4.0 +Her mind despises and pervades his art.,1.0 +"Till now his spirit never had born control,",2.0 +"She kerbs his fires, but captivates his soul;",3.0 +"Still from her rosy lips sweet music flies,",1.0 +And radiant glances still escape her eyes.,0.0 +"Seeking revenge, she triumphed in her power,",2.0 +And taught the haughty tyrant to adore:,1.0 +"Wild satire vibrates from her scornful tongue,",2.0 +And pointed truths each conscious passion stung;,0.0 +"The flash of wit, inspiring and severe,",1.0 +"Displayed her hate, and filled him with despair.",1.0 +"Baffled and angered now, he sues no more,",3.0 +But asks advice of saintly THEODORE.,0.0 +"Alas! replied the priest, why should my son",0.0 +"Consult with me, since power is all his own?",2.0 +"Nature to adorn thy name with Fortune vies,",1.0 +At thy command the unyielding rebel dies;,3.0 +"If such thy wishes, say what power restrains?",3.0 +O! force the bliss which ignorance disdains;,1.0 +"For must thy youth be blasted mid its bloom,",0.0 +And all thy glories wither in the tomb? ' --,0.0 +"Thus spoke the priest; impetuous he complies,",2.0 +And rushing joys burst from his large black eyes.,3.0 +"Vile THEODORE was early trained in sin,",1.0 +"Religion's cloak close veiled an atheist breast,",3.0 +"Soon a dire scheme his brain inventive laid,",0.0 +"And prompt to execute, he seeks the maid;",0.0 +"But soon as he beheld her glowing charms,",1.0 +His own frail breast a guilty passion warms;,1.0 +"Her graceful eyes, which glowed with innate fire,",3.0 +Her mental powers his wondering soul inspire.,4.0 +"To ARNO soon he showed an altered mind,",0.0 +"And, pleading conscience, the base act resigned.",2.0 +"The impassioned Baron saw the vile intent,",1.0 +"Quick to perceive, and ardent to resent.",3.0 +"And whence, with burning rage, aloud he cries,",0.0 +This newborn conscience? whence so lately wise?,0.0 +"OH, fool! to trust my secrets to a breast",2.0 +"By falsehood, craft, and selfishness possessed.",2.0 +"Yet guard thy actions, lest my wrath be hurled,",1.0 +And all thy crimes blaze forth before the world.,1.0 +"He spoke abrupt, and from his presence broke,",1.0 +But stung with deep remorse in secret shook;,0.0 +"Paints his own crimes, and glows throughout his frame.",0.0 +"With purer thoughts again he seeks the maid,",0.0 +"Passion and grief his noble breast pervade,",2.0 +"Not more by beauty than her virtues fired,",1.0 +And by her force and harmony inspired.,2.0 +His manly bosom heaved with potent sighs;,0.0 +"Spite of herself, such force his flames impart,",2.0 +That all her constancy scarce saved her heart.,2.0 +"Unknown of ARNO, THEODORE meanwhile",1.0 +And charges him with crimes himself designed.,1.0 +"IANTHE caught the alarm, with deepest smart",2.0 +Trembling perceives his power pervade her heart;,3.0 +"Stung to the quick, repentance wrung her breast,",0.0 +"Humbled, her mind its impotence confessed;",3.0 +"Blushing within, each though inflicts a wound,",3.0 +And refuge oft near THEODORE she found;,0.0 +"To him she flies, as an instructive friend,",2.0 +In whose sage converse all her powers extend.,2.0 +"ARNO repulsed, with wounded pride retires,",2.0 +And sought with nobler thoughts to quench his fires;,3.0 +"Too long to idle grief a willing prey,",1.0 +Sought for instruction from his well stored mind:,4.0 +"Her heart, for pure affections finely framed,",0.0 +Seemed torpid when its tributes were unclaimed;,2.0 +"Unconscious of the flame which burned his heart,",2.0 +"With him she strays, her opening thoughts to impart:",4.0 +"And as he hears, beneath his shadowy brow",3.0 +"His eyes drank love, and swelling features glow.",1.0 +"Once, in the bosom of a silent grove,",1.0 +"Shocked and astonished, while she calls for aid,",2.0 +With lawless force he seized the struggling maid;,0.0 +In vain he strove to suffocated the sound;,2.0 +Advancing feet of men and horse he hears ' --,0.0 +"He starts confused, and flies, overwhelmed with fears:",3.0 +"Scarcely she breathes, her cheeks with anger flush,",2.0 +Over her whole frame deep spreads the crimson blush;,3.0 +"From those who proffered aid, with flashing eyes,",1.0 +"Confused, enraged, the trembling virgin flies.",0.0 +"Of royal hunters, bounding over the plain.",2.0 +"The prince commands to stop her as she flies,",1.0 +And asks from whence arose those piercing cries?,0.0 +"Panting and spent, the wretched nymph they caught,",2.0 +And fainting to the prince and nobles brought:,1.0 +"By men surrounded, pierced by curious eyes,",2.0 +Her heart within her fluttering bosom dies;,2.0 +"The wretch she names, his vile intention speaks,",0.0 +"Her quickening pulses throb, shame dies her burning cheeks.",3.0 +"Each youthful bosom, by her beauty fired,",1.0 +"Touched by her wrongs, was with revenge inspired;",1.0 +"But most the prince, enraged, and threatening loud,",0.0 +Destruction to the wretched miscreant vowed;,3.0 +"Charmed with her youth, he bade her not to fear;",0.0 +Himself conducts her to her father's care:,1.0 +"Her eyes beamed thanks, her cheeks spoke modesty;",3.0 +"He gazed, and left her with an ardent sigh.",1.0 +"By fair IANTHE into fury wrought,",0.0 +The prince with eager haste the culprit sought;,0.0 +"The soldiers seize him, at their lord's commands;",0.0 +Humbly before the assembled court he stands.,2.0 +"The priests surrounding cast a lowering eye,",2.0 +Aloud the youthful lords for justice cry;,0.0 +"The prince, inflamed, a faithful witness bears,",0.0 +"And menacing, the vile attempt declares;",1.0 +For well he knew the weakness of the throne.,1.0 +"Thy will, OH GOD! be done, he cried aloud,",1.0 +Then to the court with low submission bowed;,0.0 +"But hear, just powers, a guiltless wretch resigned,",2.0 +And guard from witchcraft the king's sacred mind;,3.0 +And fierce on me the infernal poison preys.,1.0 +"He said no more, but firmly raised his eyes,",1.0 +And with mock prayers insults the the awful skies.,2.0 +"Then amid the priests rose up a reverend sire,",2.0 +"Whose rolling eyeballs flashed romantic fire,",1.0 +"The visionary ROBERT, friend of song,",0.0 +"Rapt in wild dreams, fanatic, rash, and strong;",3.0 +"Those powers which might have formed him wise and good,",0.0 +"Lost in the bigot, made him thirst for blood;",0.0 +"His brother he commands to speak more plain,",1.0 +And fully his mysterious words explain.,3.0 +Then THEODORE his crafty bosom barred: ' --,0.0 +"This heart, he cried, by innocence prepared,",1.0 +"Can firmly stand the test, or bravely bleed,",0.0 +Should the base arts of hell over truth succeed;,3.0 +"Yet here I vow, by all my hopes in heaven,",0.0 +"That by her spells to desperation driven,",0.0 +"I fled before her, scorched by mad desire,",0.0 +Burned by the flames of an internal fire;,1.0 +"Writhed to the soul, I smart with secret pains,",0.0 +For still her magic arts infest my veins.,0.0 +"With trembling heart the bigot monarch hears,",0.0 +"In him the slave and tyrant were combined,",1.0 +"Through his own veins he felt unusual heat,",1.0 +"And, as possessed, his nerves and pulses beat;",1.0 +"Fearful he sat, and dared not give command.",2.0 +"When ROBERT rose, to stretch a saving hand",0.0 +"Over the vile priest, and bade him not to fear,",2.0 +"Truth's sacred rays, he cried, shall falsehood clear;",2.0 +And the just ordeal on her crimes decide.,0.0 +"And quickly, with her aged father, brought;",1.0 +Dawned not a ray to chase his daughter's fears;,0.0 +"Over her fair breast, by many sorrows wrung,",2.0 +Her long light hair in waving tresses hung;,1.0 +And every action spoke superior grace.,2.0 +"An universal horror fills each breast,",0.0 +"Who claims the sacred ordeal to decide,",4.0 +And chides their zeal with priestly art and pride:,0.0 +"That pity which you feel her spells inspire,",0.0 +Her eyes will pierce you with their magic fire.,1.0 +Her voice was silenced when she strove to speak;,0.0 +The guiltless blood ran warmly through her cheek;,2.0 +"Devout, on high she raised her lucid eyes,",0.0 +"Resigned, on conscious innocence relies,",1.0 +For well she knew the Author of her breath,1.0 +"With lengthened life might curse, or bless with death.",0.0 +"Vile THEODORE each crafty engine plies,",1.0 +Virtue no justice on this earth commands;,4.0 +"Convicted by each trial now she stands,",1.0 +"Past all dispute ' -- though grief assails each eye,",1.0 +The prince condemns her as a witch to die.,1.0 +"No strength from calm philosophy possessed,",2.0 +"Nor from religion resignation drew,",1.0 +"The hoary sire beheld her dragged along,",2.0 +His rolling eyes departing sense expressed;,0.0 +"Aghast he stood, his feeble brain turned round,",1.0 +"High swelled his heart, his thoughts no utterance found; ' --",4.0 +"Then sudden flew, like one possessed and blind,",1.0 +Or withered leaves of aspen driven by wind;,2.0 +"Felt not his age, with transient fury strong;",0.0 +"Loud cries broke forth, with which the mountains rung:",2.0 +"He climbs a clift, on his IANTHE calls,",1.0 +"And, starting backward, from its summit falls.",1.0 +"Confined, to solitude a lonely prey,",0.0 +By ardent prayer and deep reflection strove,0.0 +"From her warm heart to shake the ties of love,",2.0 +"Which to the earth her sweet affections bind,",0.0 +And raise in hope towards Heaven her pious mind,3.0 +"Yet her young breast oft pants with inward fears,",4.0 +While love and nature force impassioned tears.,0.0 +All pleasures and the pomp of courts resigned;,1.0 +"Strong disappointments noble lessons taught,",2.0 +"His heart he learnt, and purified each thought:",0.0 +"To him when rumour those dire tidings bears,",3.0 +His rage relapses while aghast he hears;,0.0 +"With passion fired, and wild resentment wrought,",2.0 +"Through his swollen veins the blood in torrents flies,",0.0 +While fury blazes from his threatening eyes;,1.0 +"Convulsive passion half suppressed his breath,",0.0 +Burning he rushes on to snatch the maid from death.,3.0 +"Summoned, his vassals all unite around,",3.0 +"Then flew impetuous, menacing from far.",1.0 +He seemed struck off the chain of human kind;,2.0 +"Lost in a dreary retrospect of woes,",0.0 +"Of all unconscious, to the field he goes.",2.0 +"ARNO impatient rushes over the plain,",4.0 +And fires with fierce revenge the hostile train.,0.0 +This day was fair IANTHE doomed to bleed;,0.0 +The long procession to the pile proceed;,1.0 +With elevated soul the maid appeared;,0.0 +Amid her fears one beam of ecstasy,1.0 +"Shot over her face, and lightened in her eye;",3.0 +"Fired by immortal hopes, each ardent thought",1.0 +"Her soul resigned, trusts that each earthly tie",1.0 +Will there unite in blessed eternity.,3.0 +"The prince with terror heard loud shouts from far,",1.0 +And the dire sounds of unexpected war;,0.0 +"Soon selfish fears his coward heart dismayed,",1.0 +"With voice confused, unknowing what he said,",0.0 +He bade the kindling flames to be allayed.,0.0 +"ARNO rushed on to snatch her from her fate,",1.0 +"When THEODORE, with quickness all his own,",0.0 +"Apart to ROBERT cries, To thee alone",1.0 +And see a sacrilegious foe command?,0.0 +"Short is his date, austere the priest replied;",0.0 +Soon shall the haughty rebel rue his pride.,0.0 +"A ponderous crucifix his right hand held,",3.0 +The left a sacred pompous relic filled;,0.0 +"Reverend his form, mysterious his attire,",4.0 +"As one inspired he rushes on the plain,",4.0 +And spreads his robes before the royal train;,0.0 +"Then rearing high the cross and holy band,",0.0 +He hurled defiance with a fierce command.,1.0 +"Foes to your mother church, ah! whither driven,",0.0 +Like fallen angels would you war with Heaven?,0.0 +"Tis Satan leads you on, thus proudly great;",3.0 +"Death is your portion, hell your lasting fate,",0.0 +"Unless you timely bow to Heaven's commands,",2.0 +"Nor his high laws, nor burning vengeance feared.",2.0 +"Heavens! while I speak convulsive pants my breath,",0.0 +Lest GOD in wrath denounce some awful death!,0.0 +Judgements await each sacrilegious foe.,2.0 +"He spoke; ' -- amazed, they fling their arms away,",0.0 +"Some cross their breasts, while ardently they pray;",1.0 +"Some seize their chief, but, brooking no control,",0.0 +He felt despair's sharp sting inflict his soul.,1.0 +"Can he mid flames behold the maid expire,",2.0 +And want the power to quench the hellish fire?,2.0 +Wildly he raved; the priestly train advance,2.0 +"To lead him captive, and to seize his lance;",1.0 +"Sullen he turned, while rage and deadly smart",2.0 +"Swelled his proud breast, and almost burst his heart;",4.0 +"His powers, his spirit, can no aid afford,",4.0 +Sudden he rushes on his desperate sword.,3.0 +"Hold his rash hand! commanding ROBERT cries,",3.0 +"But vain, for as he spoke the hero dies.",1.0 +"A mingled murmur ran, some shout aloud,",0.0 +The distant troops around their leader crowd;,0.0 +"RAPHAEL indignant, amongst the rest drew nigh,",3.0 +"Far in the rear, unconscious he had been,",2.0 +Till now too distant to survey the scene;,2.0 +"But as he looked around with dumb surprise,",1.0 +"Confused, a distant spectre seemed to rise,",0.0 +Wildly he flew towards the horrid shade. ' --,2.0 +"By priests withheld, he rages like the wind",0.0 +Within the hollow of a rock confined;,1.0 +"But strong as winds, with unremitting force",0.0 +"He breaks their hold, and wings his active course;",0.0 +"He ran, disarmed and wounded in the fray,",0.0 +And to the pile forced his intrepid way; ' --,3.0 +"No spectre mocks, no empty shade descends,",2.0 +In horrid certainty the vision ends.,1.0 +"Bleeding and pale he gazed, with horror filled,",2.0 +"His soul was shook, and every nerve was thrilled;",0.0 +"Ere he can speak they tear him from the maid,",1.0 +While round the pile the crackling flames invade.,0.0 +She caught his eyes; ' -- her resignation shook: ' --,0.0 +"She struck her breast, but the voluminous smoke",3.0 +"Wild rising to the winds obscured her view,",2.0 +"Bloodthirsty bigotry exulting glows,",2.0 +And ROBERT shouted as the flames arose.,1.0 +"Wild raged the fires, the crackling pile gives way,",2.0 +"The involving smoke obscures the face of day,",1.0 +And flames upon the crumbling ruins prey.,0.0 +"The priests triumphant hail the Heavenly King,",2.0 +"And even mid murder, songs of worship sing.",3.0 +"RAPHAEL, whom virtue snatched from rash despair,",0.0 +Now seemed the test of what the heart can bear:,1.0 +"As he beheld the barbarous flames ascend,",3.0 +"And over the pile the circling smoke extend,",2.0 +All that was human in his bosom shook;,0.0 +A frantic wish of death alone inspires,0.0 +"To mingle souls, and rush amid the fires;",0.0 +"But, ere he plunged, from pious habit raised",0.0 +His heart to GOD; that sacred name impressed,0.0 +The sense of duty on his rebel breast;,1.0 +"He felt a power divine his rage control,",2.0 +An inward voice restrain his daring soul;,0.0 +Trembling he stopped; his heart with horror froze:,1.0 +Can the rash suicide ever hope to join,6.0 +"And as a Christian bore the deadly blow,",1.0 +"Mingles amid a dreary world again,",2.0 +Suffering a life of labour and of pain;,2.0 +"From sorrow more sublime, more firm from thought,",0.0 +And from reflection and the Gospel drew,2.0 +"Strength, which on faith and hope's firm basis grew,",1.0 +"And virtues pure, unmixed with bigotry,",1.0 +"Which breathed forbearance, justice, charity!",1.0 +"He saw their sway dissolve all human ties,",0.0 +"And darkness veil the laws, and Truth's fair eyes,",1.0 +Yet could impart no ray of sacred light:,1.0 +So thick the mists which clouded human sight.,0.0 +"Thus dark, in error wrapped, long groaned mankind,",3.0 +"Pleased with vain shows, and to oppression blind;",4.0 +"Till Freedom, dawning over the injured earth,",2.0 +"Cleared some rank weeds, and gave true knowledge birth.",4.0 +O! may we ever sanctify her fane!,2.0 +And never her hallowed paths with slaughter stain;,2.0 +"Love of mankind, not novelty, be ours;",4.0 +For general good may man exert his powers!,0.0 +"The last, CADOGAN to the grave descends:",2.0 +"From his cold corpse though every friend be fled,",2.0 +"Lo! Envy waits, that lover of the dead.",2.0 +"Thus wept insidious, Churchill, over thy urn;",5.0 +"To blast the living, give the dead their due,",0.0 +"And wreaths, herself had tainted, trimmed anew.",0.0 +"Thou yet unnamed to fill his empty place,",0.0 +"Take every wish a British heart can frame,",1.0 +"Add palm to palm, and rise from fame to fame.",1.0 +"An hour must come, when thou shalt hear with rage",2.0 +"Nor yet for this decline the generous strife,",3.0 +"These ill, brave man, shall quit thee with thy life;",2.0 +"Alive though stained by every abject slave,",0.0 +"Secure of fame, and justice in the grave.",0.0 +"Ah! no ' -- when once the mortal yields to fate,",0.0 +"Too late to stay the spirit on its flight,",2.0 +"Who hears regardless, while fond man, distressed,",1.0 +"Hangs on the absent, and laments the blessed.",1.0 +"Farewell then fame, ill sought through fields of blood,",2.0 +Thou incense wasted on the funeral bier!,4.0 +"Through life pursued in vain, by death obtained,",0.0 +"When asked, denied us, and when given, disdained.",3.0 +"THE Queen of Love, and PALLAS once, it's said,",0.0 +Had both agreed to form a finished Maid:,0.0 +"Upon a noted Day they flew to Earth,",0.0 +"Both Deities employed their utmost Care,",3.0 +To make their darling Lady wise and fair:,0.0 +"This gave her Beauty, that a sprightly Wit,",0.0 +Which rendered Soul and Body justly fit:,0.0 +"Who loves his Joke, as dearly as his Life,",1.0 +"Down from Olympus to his Sisters flew,",2.0 +When just to Life their little Embryo grew;,1.0 +And poured a little Folly in her Breast;,0.0 +A little Folly leavened all the rest:,0.0 +"And sometime witty, sometime quite a Fool;",2.0 +"Scarce foolish now, nor witty, sprightly neither;",1.0 +"But sprightly, witty, foolish, all together.",0.0 +"To thee, with love! I dedicate my art;",1.0 +That high respect ' -- thy virtuous mind demands.,2.0 +"'TWAS under sail ' -- the barge ' -- to row them over,",1.0 +There had the Muse with pleasure led the way;,0.0 +"For there, in Autumn, now she loves to stray:",1.0 +"There on the shore ' -- where oft the Queen at night,",1.0 +Had lonely walked ' -- revolving her sad fate;,2.0 +"The trees ' -- the walls ' -- the ruin, all conspire ' --",0.0 +The dome sequestered ' -- wakes poetic fire:,0.0 +"There oft the Queen, as the chaste dame Penelope., had wove",3.0 +Her fatal storey and their fatal love;,1.0 +"From cruel subjects turns her thoughts away,",0.0 +"To milder scenes her fancy steals astray,",0.0 +"His dog, his sheep, his crook, may there be seen,",1.0 +"In well chose colours, ' -- worked each scene with ease,",4.0 +As Nature taught her all the arts to please.,0.0 +"Kind Nature's gifts ' -- her unmatched charms to prove,",6.0 +"Tuned to the harp, the Muses oft had sung,",0.0 +"In mournful strains, her storey thus begun:",0.0 +The many troubles prelude to her fate;,2.0 +"A fate uncommon ' -- a beheaded Queen,",1.0 +And all the various scenes that intervene.,2.0 +"Each pleasure wait her, with politeness crowned;",1.0 +"Beloved, adored, her dawning charms expand,",0.0 +And Taste and Genius lead her hand in hand.,0.0 +"OH heavenly Muse! her early sorrows tell,",3.0 +"Let Truth and Pity clear her injured fame,",1.0 +"Which long concealed, the brighter now to shine,",0.0 +To share the pleasure ' -- and the praise be thine.,1.0 +"No father's care her infant years to guide,",1.0 +She sought a refuge in more temperate climes.,0.0 +Till Time and Wisdom civil discord lays.,0.0 +"No easy task ' -- where blind mistaken zeal,",1.0 +"And different tenets but increase the flame,",1.0 +While mortals weak but prostitute thy name.,0.0 +"And Henry, faithful, used his utmost care",1.0 +"To form her mind ' -- each science to impart,",1.0 +While thus our Beauty gains each youthful heart;,0.0 +"Well pleased both nations mutual to entwine,",5.0 +What does ambition? and aspiring Pride?,1.0 +"Could not suffice ' -- assumes fair England's name,",1.0 +Could never forget ' -- whose firm and cautious reign,2.0 +Made it unsafe for Mary then to claim,2.0 +"Her natural right, nor the young Queen be blamed,",2.0 +"Must still your Queen Elisabeth. Queen ' -- resentful thus to me,",2.0 +To bar my passage through the British sea.,1.0 +"Unkind condolence! in a perplexing time,",2.0 +Scarce had I mourned my much loved mother's death,1.0 +When Henry too ' -- resigned his dying breath.,0.0 +"More than a parent! I his greatest care,",1.0 +"And parting sighed, for me preferred his prayer,",1.0 +"AH! how unfeeling, he demands her crown,",2.0 +"Her country to resign. Relentless Lindsay,",1.0 +Did ever real beauty touch a heart like thine?,3.0 +"Impossible ' -- to thus insult ' -- while spirit,",1.0 +All fluttering round the imprisoned Queen,2.0 +Yet weeping for her son! for him she dreads.,2.0 +"And Winter snows, the emblem of her fate,",1.0 +Which all extremes have known ' -- nor Hope ' -- nor Spring,0.0 +Nor Summer Sun return. ' -- But I will plant,1.0 +"A thousand shrubs and trees to shade her injured name,",0.0 +"Invite the Muse! to wander with me there,",1.0 +And opening gayer fields of new ideas.,2.0 +"Power of the mind! Sovereign of the Soul,",5.0 +OH! why denied that wondrous art to me?,1.0 +"Titian ' -- Rubens ' -- Raphael ' -- finished hands,",4.0 +"Over all her dying frame, as life just fled;",0.0 +"From Brutus arm! behold the fate of Rome,",0.0 +What differed fates! while all the world admire,0.0 +"Rome by one's death ' -- from tyranny was freed,",1.0 +"Of all my former ills, the Queen might say,",0.0 +And soon to Nature I that debt shall pay.,1.0 +My injured shade! shall mourn my blasted fame:,0.0 +My son perhaps shall curse his mother's name;,0.0 +"Avenge the deed ' -- if ever that name was dear,",2.0 +"By these bleak mountains, and this lonely isle,",3.0 +"The troubled waters, and the winds that blow,",1.0 +"Or by that power superior to the storm,",4.0 +Attest my innocence. Too soon the seeds,2.0 +Of jealousy were sown ' -- that fatal bond;,1.0 +Associate of their guilt ' -- to be deceived,0.0 +"To wed his murderer! ah! had I died,",1.0 +"OH! all you faithful dames for truth renowned,",0.0 +Am I unworthy to be named with them?,2.0 +"But here the soul! superior by her faith,",1.0 +"Triumphed ' -- and for her country and her son,",2.0 +"Endured, in misery, all her cruel fate,",1.0 +Accursed marriage! ' -- deep laid malice. OH Mary!,8.0 +And stabbed thy fame! But time shall bring to light,0.0 +Their darkest deeds ' -- and heal thy wounded name.,0.0 +"And thou Elisabeth, great as a Queen,",3.0 +But deadly in thy hate ' -- as desperate by thy love.,1.0 +"Mary and Essex, victims of thy ire,",3.0 +"Bright stars that fell by thy malignant breath,",2.0 +"OH they were punishment enough ' -- forgive,",1.0 +Or gained so dear ' -- by those who court thee,1.0 +"Only for a name, ' -- and in fair show",2.0 +"Appear what they art not. Fair Rectitude,",2.0 +Be thou alone my wish ' -- retired and silent.,1.0 +And leave to others ' -- what? as they deserve,1.0 +"A name! Shall I ever gain thee by one restless thought,",1.0 +Or minded only when again to take,0.0 +The little I have got. Whence is that envy,2.0 +And that jealous eye? To be what? yes.,0.0 +"And virtue fair, ' -- with kind benevolence,",1.0 +And humblest mind reflect how poor and weak,2.0 +"Come, quiet thought, and leave the giddy restless",1.0 +And by yonder brook where dancing sun beams,1.0 +Or catch yonder awful arch ' -- from rock to rock,2.0 +"Where dashing waters burst in broken falls,",0.0 +"In wild meanders stray from wood to wood,",0.0 +Or listening to the evening song retired,1.0 +Where scarce a breeze is whispered through the scene.,1.0 +"And not adore the hand, Author of Nature,",5.0 +Who in his works sublime paints out his power;,2.0 +"In Wisdom all expressed, at awful distance, view",0.0 +"And the powerful word ' -- And as the sun goes down,",4.0 +"Come, evening mild ' -- and with thy softening dews",2.0 +Mother of all the sustenance to man.,2.0 +"IN vain, dear Madam, yes in vain you strive;",1.0 +Alas! to make your luckless Mira thrive.,0.0 +No golden Planet bent its Rays on me.,1.0 +"It's twenty Winters, if it is no more;",1.0 +To speak the Truth it may be Twenty four.,1.0 +"As many Springs their appointed Space have run,",2.0 +And the cold Fish rule the watery Sky:,3.0 +"And turn the ponderous Volumes over and over,",4.0 +"I find no Comfort from their Systems flow,",2.0 +But am dejected more as more I know.,1.0 +The Fate of all the Curious and the Wise,1.0 +"For, Ah! cold Saturn triumphed on that Day,",2.0 +And frowning Sol denied his golden Ray.,0.0 +"You see I'm learnt, and I showed the more,",0.0 +That none may wonder when they find me poor.,0.0 +"Yet Mira dreams, as slumbering Poets may,",3.0 +And rolls in Treasures till the breaking Day:,1.0 +"While Books and Pictures in bright Order rise,",1.0 +And the soft Visions move their shining Wings:,2.0 +"Then Mira wakes, ' -- her Pictures are no more,",2.0 +And through her Fingers slides the vanished Over.,1.0 +"Convinced too soon, her Eye unwilling falls",1.0 +On the blue Curtains and the dusty Walls:,3.0 +"She wakes, alas! to Business and to Woes,",1.0 +"To sweep her Kitchen, and to mend her Clothes.",1.0 +"But see pale Sickness with her languid Eyes,",2.0 +At whose Appearance all Delusion flies:,0.0 +"The World recedes, its Vanities decline,",1.0 +"Gay Robes no more the aching Sight admires,",1.0 +"Wit grates the Ear, and melting Music tyres:",1.0 +"Books please no more, and Paintings fade away:",1.0 +"Yet let me still, Ah! let me grasp a Friend:",0.0 +"And when each Joy, when each loved Object flies,",1.0 +Be you the last that leaves my closing Eyes.,0.0 +"But how will this dismantled Soul appear,",2.0 +"When stripped of all it lately held so dear,",0.0 +"Forced from its Prison of expiring Clay,",1.0 +Afraid and shivering at the doubtful Way.,1.0 +"Yet did these Eyes a dying Parent see,",0.0 +"Loosed from all Cares except a Thought for me,",0.0 +"Without a Tear resign her shortening Breath,",0.0 +"Of Dust thou art, to Dust shalt thou return.",2.0 +"Or shall I wish to stretch the Line of Fate,",0.0 +"That the dull Years may bear a longer Date,",0.0 +To share the Follies of succeeding Times,1.0 +"Ah no ' -- though Heaven brings near the final Day,",0.0 +"For such a Life I will not, dare not pray;",2.0 +"But let the Tear for future Mercy flow,",0.0 +And fall resigned beneath the mighty Blow.,0.0 +"Nor I alone ' -- for through the spacious Ball,",2.0 +With me will Numbers of all Ages fall:,2.0 +"And the same Day that Mira yields her Breath,",2.0 +Thousands may enter through the Gates of Death.,3.0 +"YOU sister Queens, who early learnt to weep,",0.0 +Though now entombed in peace your ashes sleep;,0.0 +"Though now, sad pair, your gentle spirits stray,",1.0 +Through the bright regions of eternal day;,3.0 +"Though now your tortured souls are hushed to peace,",0.0 +And gracious Heaven has bid your sorrows cease;,0.0 +"Pity shall call the tear from every eye,",2.0 +From every heart the sympathetic sigh:,0.0 +"While they with sorrow tune the warbling lyre,",0.0 +"And pour their curses on the bloody pair,",1.0 +Who gave to early fate the regal fair.,0.0 +"When tender virgins shall your page peruse,",0.0 +"Full many a willing tear they will pensive shed,",3.0 +And pay that mournful tribute to the dead.,1.0 +"While truth shall boast to many a future age,",2.0 +"There, injured pair, your worth shall stand confessed,",0.0 +"Your fate lamented, and your memory blessed.",3.0 +"WHEN flourished with their state the ATHENIAN name,",5.0 +"And Learning and Politeness were the same,",2.0 +Philosophy with gentle art refined,1.0 +"She called the latent beams of Nature forth,",0.0 +"She poised the impetuous Warrior's vengeful steel,",2.0 +"Marked true Ambition from destructive Zeal,",2.0 +"Pointed what lustre on that laurel blows,",3.0 +Which Virtue only on her sons bestows.,1.0 +"Heroes, who knew to wield the righteous spear,",2.0 +And guard their native towers from foreign fear;,2.0 +Or in firm bands of social Peace to bind,1.0 +"Confirmed his mind beneath an empire's toil,",0.0 +"Or with him to his silent villa stole,",1.0 +"To woods and caves she never bade retreat,",0.0 +"No lonely precepts to her sons enjoined,",3.0 +"Nor taught them to be men, to shun mankind.",2.0 +"CYNICS there were, an uncouth selfish race,",2.0 +"Of manners foul, and boastful of disgrace:",1.0 +"Whose Ignominy is their only fame,",1.0 +"No hostile Trophies grace their honoured urn,",2.0 +Around their tomb no sculptured Virtues mourn;,1.0 +"An Art discovered, or a City saved.",1.0 +"Exalt his hope, and press his young career!",0.0 +"Be this the goal to which, my Friend, may you",0.0 +With gentle skill direct his early view!,0.0 +"Artful the various studies to dispense,",5.0 +"See the pedantic Teacher, winking dull,",2.0 +The lettered Tyrant of a trembling school;,1.0 +"Teaching by force, and proving by a frown,",3.0 +From tortured strains of eloquence he draws,1.0 +And a new VANDAL tramples classic ground.,2.0 +No modern custom can his thoughts engage;,2.0 +"And prunes by metre the luxuriant boughs,",4.0 +What scanty precepts! studies how confined!,2.0 +Too mean to fill your comprehensive mind:,1.0 +Unsatisfied with knowing when or where,0.0 +Some Roman Bigot raised a Fane to FEAR;,0.0 +"On what green medal VIRTUE stands expressed,",1.0 +"Or with wise KEN judiciously define,",3.0 +When Pius marks the honorary coin,0.0 +"Thirsting for knowledge, but to know the right,",3.0 +"Through judgement's optic guide the illusive sight,",2.0 +"For this you turn the Greek and Roman page,",1.0 +"Weigh the contemplative and active Sage,",3.0 +And cull some useful flower from each heroic Age.,2.0 +"Thence teach the Youth the necessary art,",1.0 +To know the Judge's from the Critic's part;,1.0 +"Show how ignoble is the passion, FEAR,",3.0 +And place some patriot Roman's model near;,2.0 +"Who knew no Fear, but that of doing ill.",1.0 +"Tell him, it's all a cant, a trifle all,",0.0 +"To know the folds that from the TOGA fall,",1.0 +And every leaf that every VIRTUE crowned;,0.0 +But show how brighter in each honest breast,0.0 +"Than in her shrine, the Goddess stood confessed.",0.0 +"Tell him, it is not the fantastic Boy,",2.0 +"Elate with power and swelled with frantic joy,",2.0 +"It's not a slavish Senate, fawning, base,",0.0 +Can stamp with honest fame a worthless race;,0.0 +"Though the false Coin proclaim him great and wise,",2.0 +"The tyrant's life shall tell that Coin, it lies.",2.0 +But when your early Care shall have designed,0.0 +When you shall pour upon his tender Breast,0.0 +"Ideas that must stand an Age's test,",0.0 +O! there imprint with strongest deepest die,1.0 +The lovely form of Goddess LIBERTY!,1.0 +For her in Battles be he taught to bleed.,1.0 +"With dashing seas, fair Freedom's honest bounds,",1.0 +"And fondly triumphs over the prostrate scene,",2.0 +"Cry, That is Empire! shun her baleful path,",0.0 +"Her Words are Slavery, and her Touch is Death!",1.0 +"Through wounds and blood the Fury drives her way,",0.0 +"And murders half, to make the rest her prey.",0.0 +"Thus spoke each Spartan matron, as she dressed",2.0 +"Steeled with such precepts, for a cause so good,",2.0 +What scanty bands the Persian host withstood!,0.0 +Before the sons of Greece let Asia tell,1.0 +"How fled her Xerxes. Monarch, how her Millions fell!",1.0 +"When armed for LIBERTY, a Few how brave!",1.0 +"How weak a Multitude, where each a Slave!",0.0 +No Voice inspired of favourite Command:,5.0 +"No Peasant fought for wealthy lands possessed,",1.0 +No fond remembrance warmed the Parent's breast:,1.0 +"They saw their lands for royal riot groan,",0.0 +"And toil in vain for banquets, not their own;",0.0 +"They saw their infant Race to bondage rise,",0.0 +"The greatest curses any Age has known,",0.0 +Have issued from the Temple or the Throne;,2.0 +"Extent of ill from Kings at first begins,",0.0 +"But Priests must aid, and consecrate their sins.",0.0 +"The tortured Subject might be heard complain,",0.0 +"When sinking under a new weight of chain,",2.0 +"When taxed to dower a titled Concubine,",0.0 +What conjured awe upon the people steals!,0.0 +"The chosen HE adores the precious oil,",1.0 +"Meekly receives the solemn charm, and while",2.0 +"The Priest some blessed nothings mutters over,",3.0 +Sucks in the sacred grease at every poor:,0.0 +"He seems at once to shed his mortal skin,",0.0 +And feels Divinity transfused within.,1.0 +"The trembling Vulgar dread the royal Nod,",0.0 +And worship God's anointed more than God.,0.0 +Such Sanction gives the Prelate to such Kings!,1.0 +So Mischief from those hallowed fountains springs.,1.0 +Where King and Priest in one united reigns;,1.0 +"See fair Italia mourn her holy state,",1.0 +And droop oppressed beneath a papal weight:,0.0 +"Where fat Celibacy usurps the soil,",5.0 +And sacred Sloth consumes the peasant's toil:,0.0 +And plunder by a vow of Poverty.,2.0 +"The Christian Cause their lewd profession taints,",0.0 +"Oppression takes Religion's hallowed name,",0.0 +Behold how each enthusiastic fool,0.0 +"Of ductile piety, becomes their tool:",1.0 +"Some hoary Hypocrite, grown old in sin,",1.0 +"Whose thoughts of heaven with his last hours begin,",3.0 +"And mumbling somewhat betwixt a charm and prayer,",3.0 +"Hugs a daubed image of his injured Lord,",4.0 +"With cunning joy the fond repentance view,",0.0 +"Pronounce Him blessed, his miracles proclaim,",1.0 +"Teach the slight crowed to adore his hallowed name,",2.0 +"Exalt his praise above the Saints of old,",0.0 +And coin his sinking conscience into Gold.,0.0 +Or when some Pontiff with imperious hand,3.0 +"Sends forth his edict to excise the land,",2.0 +"The tortured Hind unwillingly obeys,",1.0 +And mutters curses as his mite he pays!,1.0 +Asks it for holy use or venal prayers;,0.0 +"A bone, a mouldy morsel, or a nail:",1.0 +And in full streams the melted offerings flow.,1.0 +"No pagan object, nothing too profane,",1.0 +"Each Temple with new weight of idols nods,",2.0 +And borrowed Altars smoke to other Gods.,1.0 +And heavenly Cherubs sprout from heathen Loves;,2.0 +"By holy LUKE, and dictates God's commands:",1.0 +"Rewarded with a Sainthood, and an S.",3.0 +"Still Queen of heaven, another and the same.",2.0 +While the proud Priest the sacred Tyrant reigns,3.0 +Where fettered Nature is forbid to rove,1.0 +In the free commerce of productive Love:,3.0 +"Behold imprisoned with her barren kind,",1.0 +"Faint streams of blood, by long stagnation weak,",1.0 +Scarce tinge the fading damask of her cheek;,2.0 +"In vain she pines, the holy Faith withstands,",0.0 +What Nature dictates and what God commands:,2.0 +"But if some sanguine He, some lusty Priest",2.0 +"Of jollier morals taste the tempting feast,",0.0 +"From the strong grasp if some poor babe arise,",3.0 +"Or poisons blasting soon the hasty joy,",0.0 +"The imperfect seeds of infant life destroy,",1.0 +"From thee the Muse the grosser acts must hide,",1.0 +"BRITANNIA smiling, views her golding plains",2.0 +"Securely quiet, innocently gay:",1.0 +Each of his little tenement the King.,1.0 +"Twice did usurping Rome extend her hand,",2.0 +"Twice were her sable bands to battle warmed,",0.0 +"With pardons, bulls, and texts, and murders armed;",0.0 +Twice did the gallant Albion race repel,2.0 +The Jesuit legions to the gates of hell;,3.0 +"Or whatever Angel, friend to Britain, took",2.0 +"Arise, young Peer! shine forth in such a cause!",3.0 +"Who draws the sword for Freedom, justly draws.",0.0 +Reflect how dearly was that Freedom bought;,1.0 +"For that, how oft your ancestors have fought;",4.0 +"Through the long series of our princes down,",4.0 +How wrenched some right from each too potent Crown.,1.0 +"Bow down the royal neck, and crouch the supple knee!",0.0 +O! prostitution of imperial State!,3.0 +And be the subjects of a subject sway;,1.0 +"Heroes whose names to latest fame shall shine,",2.0 +"Awed by no visions of a Right Divine,",4.0 +"That bond by eastern Politicians wrought,",0.0 +"Which ours have learnt, and Rabbi Doctors taught,",1.0 +That great prerogative of doing ill.,1.0 +"To late example and experience dead,",3.0 +"Too young to govern, immature to power,",1.0 +His early follies haunt his latest hour.,0.0 +"His nobles injured, and his realms oppressed,",1.0 +His hoary age sinks in the feeble wane,1.0 +"Of an inglorious, slighted, tedious reign.",5.0 +"The Muse too long with idle glories fed,",1.0 +"And trained to trumpet over the warlike dead,",3.0 +"The wanton fain on giddy plumes would soar,",0.0 +To Gallic Loire and Jordan's humbled shore;,0.0 +Romantic heroes! prodigal of blood;,1.0 +Tools to a Clergy! warring but to feast,1.0 +With spoils of provinces each pampered Priest.,1.0 +"Be dumb, fond Maid; thy sacred ink nor spill",1.0 +"On specious Tyrants, popularly ill;",1.0 +"Peace lights again on the forsaken strand,",2.0 +No clarion rudely breaks the bride's delights;,3.0 +"The wearied arms grotesquely deck the wall,",0.0 +From her exuberant horn her treasures rains:,3.0 +"She deals her gifts; but in an useless hour,",0.0 +To glut the iron hand of gripping Power:,0.0 +Masked in the garb of antiquated Law:,0.0 +"More politic than wise, more wise than great:",0.0 +A legislator to enslave the state;,1.0 +Coolly malicious; by design a knave;,3.0 +"More mean than false, ambitious more than brave;",0.0 +His contrast course of tyranny begun;,1.0 +"Robust of limb, and flushed with florid grace,",0.0 +In either field the vigorous monarch shone:,2.0 +Marked out for riot each luxurious day,2.0 +In tournaments and banquets danced away.,1.0 +"But shift the scene, and view what slaughters stain",0.0 +Each frantic period of his barbarous reign:,3.0 +"A Tyrant to the people whom he ruled,",1.0 +"Sold by one Cardinal Woolsey, minister, to all unjust;",3.0 +Changing each worship that controlled the bent,2.0 +"Of his adulterous will, and lewd intent;",2.0 +"Big in unwieldy majesty and pride,",2.0 +"And smeared with Queens and Martyrs blood, He died.",0.0 +Pass we the pious Edward VI. Youth too slightly seen;,2.0 +To catalogue with all those Royal bad.,0.0 +"Arise, great JAMES! thy course of wisdom run!",1.0 +Image of David's philosophic Son!,2.0 +"Of quibbling cant and grace fanatic full,",0.0 +These for six hours each weighty morning hung;,2.0 +"For these each string of royal power he strained,",3.0 +For these he sold whatever ELIZA gained;,4.0 +For these he squandered every prudent store,1.0 +"The frugal Princess had reserved before,",0.0 +"Tools of his will, and minions of his joys.",2.0 +"Bubbled, for these, by Spanish art at home;",1.0 +"For these, to sum the blessings of his reign,",2.0 +"Retire, strict Muse, and thy impartial verse",2.0 +Or all his faults in blackest notes translate,0.0 +To tombs where rot the authors of his fate;,1.0 +Let all his acts of lawless power be laid;,1.0 +And whoever made his gentle virtues err.,1.0 +In vain Affliction laid her iron hand;,0.0 +"Fortune, or fair or frowning, on his soul",3.0 +"Could stamp no virtue, and no vice control:",3.0 +"Nor learnt his ripened age, nor knew his youth;",0.0 +"The care of Nations left to whores or chance,",0.0 +"He lived an atheist, and a bigot died.",1.0 +"The reins of Empire, or resigned or stole,",1.0 +"Him, meditating to subvert the laws,",1.0 +Posterity the gallant action bear.,1.0 +"Thus have I tried of Kings and Priests to sing,",0.0 +And all the ills that from their vices spring;,1.0 +"While victor GEORGE thunders over either Spain,",3.0 +"Free from the din of war and battle's roar,",0.0 +Modelling precepts that may serve and please;,2.0 +"Yours is the task ' -- and glorious is the plan,",2.0 +"To build the Free, the Sensible, Good Man.",1.0 +"WHILE over the plains stern winter bore the sway,",3.0 +"And Sol from Capricorn diffused his ray,",1.0 +"Nigh Bolton Gate, beneath a hawthorn shade,",2.0 +"Each for an absent damsel seemed to mourn,",0.0 +While throbbing breasts did sigh for sigh return.,0.0 +That D ' -- h TO ' -- r was the maid beloved.,1.0 +"Says D – k, OH had I these sweet hours again,",4.0 +"Nor heeds my sighs, nor yet regards my moan:",0.0 +"Her cruel aunts did contribute their aid,",4.0 +To banish from my sight the lovely maid.,1.0 +"OH little Cupid, choose two fatal darts,",2.0 +"And with a vengeance, send them to their hearts;",2.0 +Then let their task be leading apes below.,0.0 +"Young D ' -- h was the fairest on the plain,",2.0 +Admired and loved by every wondering swain.,2.0 +Her charms exterior might a hero bind;,1.0 +"But ah! the beauty that adorns her mind,",0.0 +To paint does far exceed my Muse's skill.,0.0 +"To you, dear TO – I'll now resign the quill.",0.0 +"Says TO –, On her the Graces seem to wait;",1.0 +"Her form, how fair! enchanting is her gait.",1.0 +"Her youthful charms, no tongue could ever express;",3.0 +Nor does her absence render them the less.,1.0 +The soft impression with me still remains;,1.0 +"I'm captive, yet I glory in my chains.",0.0 +"With fond delight I retrospect the day,",0.0 +"With hearts elate, to view the Scottish fair,",0.0 +Loved D ' -- h sweetened all the pleasures there.,3.0 +"Blessed with her company upon the road,",1.0 +How charming seemed each rugged path we trodden?,0.0 +Nor could the Scottish fair such charms display;,0.0 +My darling reigned the empress of the day.,1.0 +"But ah! reflection animates my pain,",0.0 +Such happy days I'll never behold again.,2.0 +Alas! I languish now in deep despair;,0.0 +OH that I could forget my absent fair!,0.0 +"While these two youths rehearsed their plaintive tale,",3.0 +A third came stalking over a distant dale:,3.0 +"R ' -- n his name, whose anxious looks did show,",1.0 +His beating bosom much oppressed with woe.,0.0 +"She who of late, with parson F ' -- r stayed,",1.0 +Till these two charming maids return again?,2.0 +Is there none else can ease your tortured mind?,2.0 +"None else so fair, so virtuous and so kind?",2.0 +"So may you think, and thus in sighs lament,",1.0 +Than be tormented by a fractious wife.,2.0 +"All Men have Follies, which they blindly trace",0.0 +"But happy those, who by a prudent Care,",2.0 +The eldest Sons of Wisdom were not free,1.0 +From the same Failure you condemn in me;,3.0 +"They loved, and by that glorious Passion led,",3.0 +"Forgot what Plato, and themselves had said.",1.0 +"Love triumphed over those dull pedantic Rules,",3.0 +They had collected from the wrangling Schools;,1.0 +"In spite of all their Learning, Art, and Wit:",0.0 +Those dusty Characters he soon removed;,1.0 +"For when his shining Squadrons came in view,",0.0 +"Their boasted Reason murmured, and withdrew:",1.0 +Unable to oppose their mighty Force,1.0 +"With phlegmatic Resolves, and dry Discourse.",7.0 +"If, as the wisest of the Wise, have erred,",2.0 +"I go astray, and am condemned unheard;",1.0 +"More like a rigid Censor, than a Friend.",1.0 +"Love is the Monarch Passion of the Mind,",1.0 +"Knows no Superior, by no Laws confined;",5.0 +"But triumphs still, impatient of Control,",1.0 +Over all the proud Endowments of the Soul.,1.0 +"You owned my Delia Friend, divinely fair,",0.0 +When in the Bud her native Beauties were:,1.0 +"Your Praise did then her early Charms confess,",0.0 +But might from thence sublime Ideas draw;,0.0 +"And what she is, by what she was, conclude,",2.0 +"For now she governs those, she then subdued.",1.0 +"Her Aspect noble, and mature is grown,",2.0 +"There we may wondering View, distinctly writ,",3.0 +"The Lines of Goodness, and the Marks of Wit:",1.0 +"Does justly, some peculiar Sweetness boast:",0.0 +"Pride cannot hope to mend, nor envy blame.",1.0 +When the immortal Beauties of the Skies,2.0 +"The Apple had not fallen to Venus share,",2.0 +"Had I been Paris, and my Delia there:",2.0 +"In whom alone we all their Graces find,",0.0 +"Cloe has Wit, but noisy, vain, and loud:",0.0 +"But in my Delia all Endowments meet,",0.0 +"All that is just, agreeable, or sweet;",1.0 +"All that can Praise, and Admiration move;",0.0 +"All that the Wisest, and the Bravest love.",1.0 +And never wants something pertinent to say:,4.0 +"For if the Subject's of a serious kind,",4.0 +"Her Thoughts are manly, and her Sense refined,",1.0 +"Good Language, joined with inoffensive Wit",1.0 +"So cautious always, that she never affords",2.0 +An idle Thought the Charity of Words.,1.0 +"The Vices common to her Sex, can find",1.0 +"No room, even in the Suburbs of her Mind.",2.0 +From the mere Neighbourhood of industrious Ill;,5.0 +"Therefore at distance keep the subtle Foe,",1.0 +Whose near approach would formidable grow.,1.0 +"While the unwary Virgin is undone,",2.0 +And meets the Misery which she ought to shun.,1.0 +"He Wit is penetrating, clear, and gay,",0.0 +"Modestly bold, and quick to apprehend,",2.0 +"Prompt in Replies, but cautious to offend.",2.0 +"Her Darts are keen, but levelled with such Care,",1.0 +"They never fall short, and seldom fly too far:",4.0 +"For when she rallies, it's with so much Art,",1.0 +"We blush with Pleasure, and with Rapture smart.",1.0 +OH Celadon! you would my Flame approve,1.0 +"Did you but hear her talk, and talk of Love;",0.0 +That tender Passion to her Fancy brings,1.0 +"The prettiest Notions, and the softest Things:",3.0 +"Which are by her so movingly expressed,",2.0 +They fill with Ecstasy my throbbing Breast.,1.0 +It's then the Charms of Eloquence impart,1.0 +"Their native Glories, unimproved by Art:",0.0 +"By what she says, I measure things above,",0.0 +"To the cool Bosom of a peaceful Shade,",3.0 +"By some wild Beech, or lofty Poplar made,",1.0 +"When Evening comes, we secretly repair,",1.0 +"To breath in private, and unbend our Care:",2.0 +"And, while our Flocks in fruitful Pastures feed,",0.0 +"Where useful Morals, with soft Numbers joined,",2.0 +"At once delight, and cultivate the Mind:",0.0 +"Which are by her to more Perfection brought,",1.0 +By wise Remarks upon the Poet's Thought.,0.0 +"So well she knows the Stamp of Eloquence,",1.0 +The empty Sound of Words from solid Sense;,0.0 +"The florid Fustian of a Rhyming Spark,",1.0 +"Whose random Arrow never comes never the Mark,",5.0 +"Can't on her Judgement be imposed, and pass",0.0 +"For Standard Gold, when it's but gilded Brass,",1.0 +"Oft in the Walks of an adjacent Grove,",1.0 +Where first we mutually engaged to love;,3.0 +"She'd smiling ask me, whether I'd prefer,",1.0 +"An humble Cottage on the Plains with her,",1.0 +"Before the pompous Building of the Great,",1.0 +"And find Content, in that inferior State?",2.0 +"Said I, the Question you propose to me,",1.0 +Perhaps a matter of Debate might be;,1.0 +"Were the Degrees of my Affection less,",2.0 +Than burning Martyrs to the Gods express.,1.0 +"That Earth can give me, or the Gods bestow;",1.0 +"And blessed with you, I know not where to find",1.0 +A second Choice; you take up all my Mind.,0.0 +"I'd not forsake that dear delightful Plain,",0.0 +"Where charming Delia, Love and Delia reign;",0.0 +"Where gaudy Fools, and busy Statesmen live.",0.0 +"Though youthful Paris, when his Birth was known,",0.0 +"Too fatally related to a Throne,",3.0 +"For dangerous Greatness, and tumultuous Courts,",6.0 +"Yet Fate should still offer its Power in vain,",6.0 +For what is Power to such an humble Swain?,1.0 +"I would not leave my Delia, leave my Fair,",0.0 +Though half the Globe should be assigned my Share.,0.0 +"And would you have me Friend, reflect again,",0.0 +"Should I your Counsel in this case pursue,",0.0 +You might suspect me for a Villain too:,1.0 +For sure that perjured Wretch can never prove,0.0 +THESE tender records of thy worth are gone;,1.0 +From them thy merit shall no more be known.,2.0 +"But cease my tears, thy dust regrets it not,",0.0 +"Forgetting all, as all shall be forgot;",0.0 +"And he alas! whose power no more could give,",1.0 +Than by this marble wish thy name to live;,1.0 +"Here often caused my thoughtless youth to come,",0.0 +And learn a lovely pattern from thy tomb;,1.0 +"He, now with thee, is here in silence laid,",1.0 +Unconscious of the wrecks which Time has made.,2.0 +"Let Time proceed to that important hour,",1.0 +When its last victory shall conclude its power.,2.0 +The doubtful plaudit of a human praise;,1.0 +Though Taste and Learning here have not availed;,0.0 +And even the records that they were have failed;,2.0 +"If pure Devotion, and if steady Truth,",1.0 +Were unremitted from thy early youth;,2.0 +Then take thy mansion in yonder upper skies:,2.0 +The God of truth accepts the sacrifice.,0.0 +"If mindful to increase thy mental stores,",1.0 +Thou diligently caught the flying hours;,1.0 +"As then no stranger to the work of Heaven,",2.0 +Of shining merits thou wert never vain;,1.0 +"Though in thy prime cut off from earthly praise,",2.0 +Wisdom has been to thee as length of days.,1.0 +"If here the allotted duties of thy sphere,",2.0 +"Thou deemed thy fairest praise, and dearest care;",0.0 +Thou shalt arise accepted and approved:,1.0 +"Though lost to earth, in Heaven thou shalt be found,",0.0 +And glories visible shall thee surround.,2.0 +"YOU dear associates of my gayer hours,",0.0 +Ah! whither are you gone? on what light wing,2.0 +Is Fancy fled? Mute is the dulcet string,2.0 +As she was wont with glowing hand to fling,1.0 +"Loading with fragrance the soft gales of Spring,",4.0 +"While fondly pointing to fresh blooming bowers,",2.0 +"Now faded, with each dazzling view of bright,",2.0 +For in your absence I have learnt to mourn;,1.0 +"To bear the torch of Truth with steady sight,",0.0 +And weave the cypress for my future urn.,1.0 +"A rustic lay, presented by the Muse.",1.0 +And gladly would to arduous feats aspire.,2.0 +"On the smooth margin of the stream reclined,",3.0 +She fondly hopes to please a taste refined.,0.0 +"What though she boast of no peculiar charm,",0.0 +That would the critic of his force disarm?,1.0 +"She humbly deprecates your doom severe,",0.0 +And fain would wish to find you partial here.,0.0 +"The Muse alone does this indulgence claim,",1.0 +Else it were impious such a thought to frame.,2.0 +"And the recesses of our castle spy,",1.0 +"With aspect mild, explore the sacred page,",1.0 +"Guide of her youth, and comfort of her age;",1.0 +"In conduct prudent, and in counsel wise;",1.0 +"Then view the pair, in bonds of Hymen blessed,",0.0 +With little Cupids fluttering round their breast.,1.0 +Whose social hearts partake no selfish joy.,1.0 +"To please each other proves their constant aim,",0.0 +"Matilda too, your notice must demand;",0.0 +"To trace the radiant beauties of her mind,",1.0 +Shall be a task for nobler pens assigned.,3.0 +"I'd rather far her little foibles scan,",0.0 +Though strict inspection finds no more than one.,1.0 +"Such anxious care on others she bestows,",1.0 +She quite forgets what to herself she owes.,1.0 +"Her mind serene, and in her hand a book:",0.0 +"Eyes, which at will, can pleasure give or pain,",0.0 +"As through the hall and kitchen now you pass,",1.0 +Pray deign to peep among the lower class:,1.0 +"The cook's at work; but, madam, who can know",0.0 +Whether her hands or tongue more swiftly go?,2.0 +"One merits praise, the other disrespect.",0.0 +"Poor Mary sighs beneath a load of woes,",1.0 +Hard and uneasy every turn she does:,2.0 +Ah! Is there not a lion in the way?,0.0 +"Will seems in haste his master's boots to clean,",0.0 +"Old James is driving Turkeys over the green,",3.0 +Is scribbling over these senseless lines to you.,2.0 +NO: I'm unmoved: nor can thy charming Muse,3.0 +One tender Thought into my Breast Infuse.,0.0 +I am from all those sensual motions Free;,3.0 +"And you, in vain, speak pretty things to Me:",2.0 +"Untouched, and careless, now I wildly rove,",0.0 +"From all the Attacks of those proud Darts secure,",3.0 +"Nor ought, on Earth's so delicate to move",1.0 +"My Nicer Spirit, and exact my Love:",1.0 +"Though armed with flames, I can at last despise;",1.0 +"With all the Genuine charms and Courtly Arts,",2.0 +By which your Treacherous Sex invade our Hearts:,2.0 +No more those little Things contract my breast,0.0 +"And, should I yield again, it dear must cost",0.0 +My Victor before he shall the Conquest Boast;,2.0 +And calmer Reason now Triumphant Reigns:,0.0 +No more the dearest object of my sight,1.0 +"Or force my lingering Blood a swifter pace,",0.0 +Or Paint new Smiles and Blushes on my Face.,2.0 +And banished all from thence that took his part.,0.0 +No more the Smiling Beaux shall tempt me on,0.0 +"To Gaze, and Sigh, and think my self undone;",0.0 +"While Love, like some Fierce Torrent unconfined,",1.0 +And with its black ungrateful streams control,1.0 +"No, No: I will, I will no more admire,",4.0 +And urge the Sparks of the now dormant Fire:,2.0 +"Nor for a wild Fantastic Ecstasy,",2.0 +Change the Dear Joys of this blessed Liberty;,6.0 +"I meet the Noblest Forms, yet scorn to pay",0.0 +Nor would I even for my late splendid Chain,4.0 +Forgo this Charming Liberty again;,1.0 +Which with so sweet a Calmness fill my Breast,0.0 +That midnight music of the honest heart;,2.0 +"These silent joys the illustrious youth possessed,",4.0 +This cloudless sunshine of the unsullied breast:,4.0 +"From pride of peerage, and from folly free;",1.0 +Life's early morn fair Virtue gave to thee.,2.0 +"The tear no longer stole from Sorrow's eye,",1.0 +"And Poverty rejoiced, when he was nigh;",2.0 +"Like Titus, knew the value of a day,",1.0 +And Want went smiling from his gates away.,2.0 +Titles and rank are borrowed from the throne:,4.0 +"The warmth of gratitude that fires my heart,",0.0 +"To thee, my friend, who taught the easy way",1.0 +To see my destiny as clear as day!,1.0 +"Nor need I now, with trembling steps and slow,",0.0 +"Or hail pale Cynthia in the coming year,",2.0 +"Each love petition, when the kneeling maid",0.0 +"Cold ashes pours on her fantastic head,",2.0 +And there invokes the goddess to unfold,2.0 +"Some scroll of Destiny, by Fates enrolled,",1.0 +"To be her lover, husband, fool, or lord;",0.0 +"Nor need the Cake of Silence now be made,",0.0 +"Saint Agnes, why such cruel fasts impose!",1.0 +I ask thee not one secret to disclose;,1.0 +Nor shall the apples ever be pared again,2.0 +To form a letter in my lover's name.,0.0 +It's done! it's done! the Bridal Cake declares,0.0 +The fixed prediction of my happy stars!,1.0 +"Fate lightened Fancy with her lucid beams,",2.0 +"And, lo! her shadows glided over my dreams, ' --",3.0 +"Sweet dreams inspired by tender nuptial ties,",3.0 +How shall I paint them in their lovely dies!,0.0 +And all the secrets of my dreams reveal!,1.0 +"Yet shall my pen the arduous task essay,",2.0 +And some faint image to thy mind convey.,2.0 +"When Night's dark curtain closed Day's gilded scene,",2.0 +Wrapped up in gloom and silently serene;,1.0 +To Contemplation gives the silent call;,0.0 +"Calm as that heart devoid of lovers' cares,",0.0 +That plagues not Hymen with incessant prayers;,1.0 +"Thus closed the eve, in which the Fates were kind,",1.0 +And showed a presage to my wondering mind.,3.0 +"When every thought of busy day was fled,",0.0 +And the Ringed Cake lay beneath my dreaming head;,1.0 +"Sweet sleep exerted all her magic power,",1.0 +"Which when I saw, my heart with pleasure thrilled,",0.0 +For there sweet Damon oft my eyes beheld.,2.0 +"With joy I started, nor approached too near,",2.0 +"For Love, I find, is close allied to Fear;",0.0 +Then viewed the beauties of the lovely scene,1.0 +"Where Nature blooms, though far across the Tweed,",0.0 +"Wrapped up in reveries of my lovely youth,",1.0 +"Whose heart's all softness, emblem fair of Truth;",0.0 +"Whose mind's as fertile as the teeming Spring, ' --",1.0 +Like Autumn rich in every virtuous thing;,2.0 +"Humane as Mercy, kind as treasured Love;",0.0 +"While thus enraptured, see, the youth appears,",0.0 +Scarce can my telltale eyes withhold from tears!,1.0 +"Strange, yet a truth, and gains upon belief,",0.0 +That joy excessive hurts as much as grief.,0.0 +"See, see, he comes with eager haste to meet,",1.0 +And cast his heart and fortune at my feet!,0.0 +"Hear me, he cried, Belinda, deign to hear",0.0 +For love alone directs my captive breast;,0.0 +"No rhetoric sets your happiness to view,",4.0 +Or draws each prospect in chameleon hue;,2.0 +"Plain is the tale, nor varnished over by art,",1.0 +For I'd not steal but have thee give thy heart;,1.0 +"Nor do I fancy, even if blessed with thee,",2.0 +My life thus guarded should from woes be free;,1.0 +"While misery clings to every mortal here,",2.0 +A chain of grief the happiest man must wear:,2.0 +"The gay, enchanted by romantic scenes,",1.0 +"Plan out life's building in their golden dreams,",3.0 +And vainly think the edifice shall stand,1.0 +Firm as if reared by an immortal hand;,1.0 +"But, ah! when sorrows blow, and woes descend,",0.0 +He rails at Fate ' -- nor thinks his idly dreamt.,0.0 +But let us not by folly still the voice,0.0 +Which Reason whispers and directs the choice;,1.0 +"Be not deceived by shadows of a shade,",2.0 +"Through all the mazes of my changing life,",1.0 +Be thou my fond companion and my wife;,1.0 +"In grief, thy sympathy will ease my heart,",1.0 +"In joy, new pleasure to my soul impart;",2.0 +"So shall my dear, my loved Belinda find",0.0 +"Dispose of me, and over my will command;",4.0 +And here methought he seized my willing hand;,2.0 +"Around thy finger, and become my bride,",1.0 +"In holy bonds: ' -- but here away I broke,",0.0 +"Ah! foolish I, and trembling thus awoke;",1.0 +"OH Theron, say what means that downcast eye,",2.0 +What new found grief has taught thy breast to sigh?,1.0 +Has some intruding swain thy purpose crossed?,0.0 +"Fresh as the spring, and fair as opening day,",2.0 +"My Jessy smiled, and stole my heart away;",0.0 +"But when of love I did to her complain,",1.0 +"She scarcely smiled, nor answered me again:",1.0 +"None ever could think, but those that feel the smart,",3.0 +So fair a form could hide so hard a heart.,0.0 +"Ah, silly swain! and was thy beauty made,",1.0 +For the cool frowns of one false nymph to fade?,4.0 +"OH Theron, Theron, scorn the power of love,",3.0 +Forbid the tender impulses to move:,1.0 +And leaves it for the next that comes this way.,1.0 +"Must I, like fickle Jessy, learn to slight?",0.0 +"Yes, ' -- what my Damon says is always right.",0.0 +She looks this way; I wish she looked at me:,0.0 +If ever thy Theron should his heart transfer,2.0 +"From his lost Jessy, it must go to her.",3.0 +"OH say no more ' -- no more of her, my friend;",2.0 +For she is mine ' -- my Doris! ' -- OH suspend ' --,1.0 +"Suspend thy choice, my swain, till thou hast seen",1.0 +The village maids assemble on the green;,1.0 +"And if you would your fickle heart transfer,",1.0 +Then take your choice of all the rest but her.,0.0 +"Why are you angry now, my friend, my swain!",0.0 +Your own advice I'll give you back again:,0.0 +"OH Damon, Damon, scorn the power of love;",3.0 +And I will be the next that comes this way.,1.0 +"YES, you condemn those sages too refined,",2.0 +That gravely lecture ere they know mankind;,1.0 +"Who while ambition's fiercer fires they blame,",0.0 +It's in false estimates the folly lies;,1.0 +"The passion's blameless, when the judgement's wise.",0.0 +"In vain philosophers with warmth contest,",1.0 +"Life's secret shade, or open walk is best:",1.0 +"This calls the patriot forth, and that the muse.",2.0 +"Hence not alike to all the species, heaven",1.0 +An equal thirst of public fame has given:,0.0 +"The haunts of silence, and the peaceful cell,",1.0 +Could listening crowds now hang upon his voice?,1.0 +"The distant glories of a second reign,",1.0 +In exile doomed yet ages to complain.,2.0 +Were high ambition still the power confessed,2.0 +"That ruled with equal sway in every breast,",0.0 +Say where the glories of the sacred nine?,1.0 +"Where Homer's verse sublime, or, Milton, thine?",1.0 +"Nor thou, sweet bard! who turned the tuneful art,",2.0 +"From sound to sense, from fancy to the heart.",1.0 +Nor greatly justified the laws of heaven.,0.0 +"Let satire blast with every mark of hate,",1.0 +"Whom love of wealth, or wild ambition's sway",0.0 +"Push forward, still regardless of the way;",2.0 +"High and more high who aim with restless pride,",0.0 +"Where neither reason, nor fair virtue guide:",2.0 +"Wise but to get, and active but to save",1.0 +May scorn deserved still follow to the grave.,2.0 +"But he who fond to raise a splendid name,",1.0 +"On life's ambitious height would fix his fame,",0.0 +Yet shuns the paths which virtue bids decline;,0.0 +"To raise the oppressed, or merit to produce ' --",3.0 +Shall reason's voice impartial ever condemn,2.0 +The glorious purpose of so wise an aim?,3.0 +"Where virtue regulates this just desire,",0.0 +"Say, whence could fame supply, its force unknown",0.0 +Her roll illustrious of fair renown?,1.0 +What laurels prompt the hero's useful rage?,0.0 +"Each public passion bound to endless frost,",0.0 +Each deed of social worth for ever lost.,0.0 +"OH! may the Muse inspire the love of praise,",0.0 +"Raise the bright passion, but with judgement raise!",4.0 +"For this she oft has tuned her sacred voice,",1.0 +"Called forth the patriot, and approved his choice;",4.0 +"Nor till the summit gained, her paths forsake.",1.0 +Yet not success alone true fame attends;,1.0 +He too shall reach it who but well intends.,0.0 +"His generous efforts vain, and vain his sighs;",2.0 +"Yet true to merit faithful records tell,",0.0 +To distant ages how the patriot fell:,3.0 +"Blessed youth! insured the sweetest voice of praise,",1.0 +"Grave precepts fleeting notions may impart,",3.0 +But bright example best instructs the heart:,0.0 +From active life what various blessings flow.,2.0 +In him a just ambition stands confessed;,0.0 +"It warms, but not inflames, his equal breast.",0.0 +"Truth on his lips, the public at his heart;",0.0 +"There neither fears can awe, nor hopes control,",0.0 +The honest purpose of his steady soul.,1.0 +No mean attachments ever seduced his tongue,3.0 +To gild the cause his heart suspected wrong;,0.0 +"But deaf to envy, faction, spleen, his voice",0.0 +"Joins here or there, as reason guides his choice.",1.0 +And all his toils in Britain's interest end.,0.0 +"To him each neighbour safe refers his claim,",1.0 +"The right he settles, and abates the flame.",1.0 +Nor unrelieved the injured ever complain.,2.0 +"For him the hand unseen, are prayers preferred,",1.0 +And grateful vows in distant temples heard;,0.0 +"Like nature's blessings to no part confined,",2.0 +"That insolence of wealth, the pomp of state",1.0 +"Which crowds the mansions of the vainly great,",1.0 +Flies far the limits of his modest gate.,2.0 +Of aught beyond he scorns the unworthy care;,2.0 +"Nor would, for all the trim that pride can show,",0.0 +One single act of social aid forego;,0.0 +For this he wishes to enlarge his power;,2.0 +"This is his life's great purpose, end, and aim:",2.0 +"Such true ambition is, and worthy fame.",1.0 +"With treasure indigent, a slave with power:",1.0 +"Large sums overlooking, still intent on more,",1.0 +"He wasted, not enjoyed, his tasteless store.",0.0 +His growing greatness raised his hopes the higher.,0.0 +'Twas thus amid prosperity he pined;,2.0 +"With all the wealth his avarice could receive,",2.0 +"' Mid outward opulence, but inward care,",2.0 +Reproach and want was all he left his heir.,0.0 +"It's true, the patriot well deserves his fame,",2.0 +And from his country just applause may claim.,1.0 +Diffuses blessings down through all our race;,1.0 +And Rome's great moralist even now shall teach.,3.0 +"Averse to public noise, ambition's strife,",0.0 +"And all the splendid ills of busy life,",0.0 +"Through latent paths, unmarked by vulgar eye,",0.0 +Are there who wish to pass unheeded by?,2.0 +"Whom calm retirement's sacred pleasures move,",0.0 +"The hour contemplative, or friend they love;",1.0 +"Yet not by spleen, or superstition led,",0.0 +"Who not inglorious spend their peaceful day,",2.0 +"While science, lovely star! directs their way?",0.0 +Flows there not something good from such as these?,1.0 +No useful product from the men of ease?,2.0 +And shall the Muse no social merit boast?,1.0 +Are all her vigils to the public lost?,1.0 +"Though noisy pride may scorn her silent toil,",0.0 +Fair are the fruits which bless her happy soil:,0.0 +"There every plant of useful produce grows,",0.0 +"There science sprang, and thence instruction flows;",0.0 +"There true philosophy erects her school,",1.0 +"There plans her problem, and there forms her rule;",1.0 +"There every seed of every art began,",0.0 +"And all that eases life, and brightens man.",0.0 +"'Twas hence great Newton, mighty genius! soared,",2.0 +And all creation's wondrous range explored.,0.0 +"Far as the Almighty stretched his utmost line,",2.0 +"He pierced in thought, and viewed the vast design.",0.0 +Too long had darker ages sought in vain,1.0 +The secret scheme of nature to explain;,1.0 +"Too long had truth escaped each sage's eye,",1.0 +Or faintly shone through vain philosophy.,1.0 +"Each shapely offspring of her feeble thought,",2.0 +A darker veil over genuine science brought;,5.0 +Still stubborn facts overthrew their fruitless toil;,4.0 +For truth and fiction who shall reconcile?,0.0 +But Britain's sons a surer guide pursue;,0.0 +"Tread safe the maze, since Newton gave the clue.",1.0 +"Wherever he turned true Science reared her head,",3.0 +While far before her puzzled Ignorance fled:,2.0 +"From each blessed truth these noble ends he draws,",1.0 +"Use to mankind, and to their God applause.",2.0 +"Taught by his rules secure the merchant rides,",0.0 +When threatening seas roll high their dreadful tides;,1.0 +"And either India speeds her precious stores,",2.0 +' Mid various dangers safe to Britain's shores.,3.0 +"His truth shall guide us, and shall last his praise.",1.0 +"Yet if so just the fame, the use so great,",0.0 +"Systems to poise, and spheres to regulate;",2.0 +"To balance manners, and conduct the heart.",1.0 +"Order without us, what imports it seen,",2.0 +If all is restless anarchy within?,1.0 +"Fired by this thought great Ashley, generous sage,",4.0 +The scope of actions and the poise of will:,1.0 +In fair proportion here described we trace,0.0 +"Each mental beauty, and each moral grace;",1.0 +"Each useful passion taught, its tone designed",0.0 +Here public transports shall thy soul inflame.,0.0 +"Virtue and Deity supremely fair,",5.0 +"Too oft delineated with looks severe,",3.0 +Resume their native smiles and graces here:,0.0 +"Soothed into love relenting foes admire,",1.0 +Such are the fruits which from retirement spring;,3.0 +"Yet of the various tasks mankind employ,",3.0 +"It's sure the hardest, leisure to enjoy.",1.0 +What countless swarms of vain pretenders miss?,0.0 +"Though each dull plodding thing, to ape the wise,",1.0 +"Ridiculously grave, for leisure sighs,",1.0 +His boasted wish from busy scenes to run,0.0 +"Grant him that leisure, and the fool's undone.",1.0 +And business now no more contracts his brow:,1.0 +But thousand fancied ills his peace molest:,0.0 +"The slightest trifles solid sorrows prove,",0.0 +And the long lingering wheel of life scarce seems to move.,3.0 +"Useless in business, yet unfit for ease,",2.0 +"Nor skilled to mend mankind, nor formed to please,",1.0 +Such spurious animals of worthless race,3.0 +Live but the public burden and disgrace:,1.0 +"Like mean attendants on life's stage are seen,",2.0 +"Drawn forth to fill, but not conduct the scene.",1.0 +"The mind not taught to think, no useful store",1.0 +"To fix reflection, dreads the vacant hour.",0.0 +"Turned on its self its numerous wants are seen,",2.0 +And all the mighty void that lies within,0.0 +Yet cannot wisdom stamp our joys complete;,0.0 +It's conscious virtue crowns the blessed retreat.,0.0 +"Who feels not that, the private path must shun.",0.0 +And fly to public view to escape his own;,2.0 +"In life's gay scenes uneasy thoughts suppress,",1.0 +And lull each anxious care in dreams of peace.,0.0 +"' Mid foreign objects not employed to roam,",1.0 +"Thought, sadly active, still corrodes at home:",1.0 +"A serious moment breaks the false repose,",2.0 +And guilt in all its naked horror shows.,0.0 +He who would know retirement's joy refined,0.0 +The fair recess must seek with cheerful mind:,0.0 +"No Cynic's pride, no bigot's heated brain,",2.0 +"No frustrate hope, nor love's fantastic pain,",2.0 +"With him must enter the sequestered cell,",2.0 +Who means with pleasing solitude to dwell;,0.0 +"But equal passions let his bosom rule,",0.0 +"A judgement candid, and a temper cool,",1.0 +"Enlarged with knowledge, and in conscience clear,",1.0 +"Above life's empty hopes, and death's vain fear.",2.0 +Such he must be who greatly lives alone;,0.0 +"For public life with every talent born,",0.0 +"Though without business never unemployed,",5.0 +"And life, as more at leisure, more enjoyed:",0.0 +"For who like him can various science taste,",2.0 +"His mind shall never want an endless feast,",0.0 +Oft friendly join in sweet society;,2.0 +"Our lives like his in one smooth current flow,",1.0 +"Nor swelled with tempest, nor too calmly slow,",2.0 +"While he like some great sage of Rome or Greece,",3.0 +"Shall calm each rising doubt and speak us peace,",0.0 +"Correct each thought, each wayward wish control,",0.0 +And stamp with every virtue all the soul.,0.0 +Estranged from all the cheerful ways of men!,0.0 +With all that whim or ignorance can suggest.,3.0 +In vain for him kind nature pours her sweets;,2.0 +"The visionary saint no joy admits,",1.0 +"But seeks with pious spleen fantastic woes,",0.0 +"And all who deviate, vainly think must err:",6.0 +"And boldly drive before the flattering gale,",2.0 +"Forward her dangerous ocean to explore,",5.0 +Condemns as cowards those who make the shore.,1.0 +"Not so my friend impartial, ' -- man he views",0.0 +Useful in what he shuns as what pursues;,0.0 +The hero's passion and the poet's fire;,1.0 +"Each figure placed in nature's wise design,",0.0 +"Sees lights and shades unite in due degree,",2.0 +And form the whole with fairest symmetry.,1.0 +"HEAR heaven's pure dictates, you presumptuous crowd,",5.0 +"Be kind you selfish, and abashed you proud!",1.0 +"Nor think the ostentatious act, which draws",0.0 +"The incense of ill judging man's applause,",5.0 +"Outweighs in virtue's scale, the widow's mite;",1.0 +"Claim not in His divine rewards, a part,",1.0 +"Who knows the motive, and who views the heart;",1.0 +Be yours to hear the empty accents roll,0.0 +"Of praise, rejected by the conscious soul.",1.0 +"Have never paused to wish a witness nigh,",0.0 +"Have mingled with your alms, the unseen tear,",4.0 +The secret sigh which heaven alone could hear;,0.0 +"Be yours, when life shall reach the closing scene,",0.0 +To read its record with a hope serene;,1.0 +"And yours to listen, while a voice of love",1.0 +Proclaims your bright inheritance above.,1.0 +"Since all their flight to other climes must wing,",0.0 +Grieve not your Bird: for though no more his throat,0.0 +"Improperly we measure life by breath,",1.0 +"He ceases not to be, who tastes of death.",0.0 +We only change our tenement of clay.,1.0 +"The Quack, once famed for curing every ill,",1.0 +"Lurks in a bolus, or informs a pill.",1.0 +Hums through his next dull stage a bagpipe's drone;,1.0 +"While Wits, more pert, the livelier notes become,",2.0 +"The wretch, who fattened on his neighbour's spoil,",2.0 +"Now crawls a spider, swollen with fraud and guile:",3.0 +"A softer form the gentle mind puts on,",2.0 +While hardened hearts are petrified to stone.,0.0 +"Perhaps your Captive now, on wings sublime,",0.0 +"Sees all his little race about him throng,",0.0 +And crowded theatres confess his charms;,1.0 +All but his Mistress' favours quite forgot.,3.0 +"So some poor Exile, long in bondage kept,",2.0 +"Dead to his friends, and even by strangers wept,",2.0 +"Disdaining bondage, though in chains of gold,",1.0 +"Breaks through his prison, by resentment bold:",1.0 +"Yet if some generous friend, of soul sincere,",2.0 +"Softened his fate, or smoothed his bed of care,",2.0 +"Deep in his heart the grateful sense remains,",0.0 +"And when he thinks on him, forgets his chains.",1.0 +"Thy music murdered, and thy spirit gone!",1.0 +"By thy false guardian left to foes at large,",4.0 +OH most unworthy the important charge! ' --,2.0 +"What though no solemn mutes, of ghastly shape,",2.0 +"Yet shall thy Mistress' tear adorn thy hearse,",0.0 +"And all the Muse can offer, Fame and Verse:",0.0 +"Fresh flowers shall deck thee with their earliest bloom,",5.0 +And yearly roses blossom on thy tomb.,1.0 +And on thy stone these lasting notes remain;,1.0 +"Beneath in silence sleeps, and ceased his song,",0.0 +"A friend to harmony, a foe to strife.",1.0 +"This turf his Mistress to his memory owed,",3.0 +And for his songs the generous tear bestowed.,3.0 +"His sole distinction money, not his wit,",0.0 +And borrowed plumes to dignify the man.,1.0 +"Dogs, hounds, and horses, thunder in the list;",1.0 +"Averted eyes scarce see the silent youth,",1.0 +And want of spirit deems his modest truth.,0.0 +"Let not neglect or distance ever oppress,",3.0 +Why should not fools the foolish thus caress;,0.0 +"Congenial souls, attention silent pay,",0.0 +Let thus your merit dignify my lay.,1.0 +"Or let the Muse ' -- attend you to your home,",1.0 +"Mark every deed, or every generous part,",3.0 +"But hark ' -- to war the trumpet sound alarms,",0.0 +"His breast to glory warms, to arms, to arms,",0.0 +"Rush into life, ambition in his view,",1.0 +"Thus fortune blind to merit oft we call,",1.0 +"But providence, not chance, that rules the ball.",1.0 +"As various minds in various paths pursue,",4.0 +"With happiness ' -- fair phantom, in their view;",2.0 +"Yet rather peaceful than supremely blessed,",3.0 +Thames shall be equal to them all in Fame.,1.0 +Hail blessed retirement! to this calm retreat,2.0 +"Here hopes, and fears, and wishes, sink to rest,",0.0 +"And, here, serene becomes the tortured breast;",0.0 +"No anxious cares can here the mind alarm,",1.0 +"No hope for pleasure, nor no dread of harm;",3.0 +"Far from temptation's wiles these saints reside,",2.0 +"Heaven their pursuit, and innocence their guide;",2.0 +"And think these walls conceal despairing gloom,",0.0 +"Approach and view the inmates of this place,",2.0 +"Their peaceful manner, tranquil, smiling face;",0.0 +"Approach, and learn from these so truly good,",1.0 +"Where Heaven resides, nor discontents intrude,",0.0 +"Where true religion, unaffected truth,",0.0 +At length shall lead them to the blessed abode,1.0 +"IT is a goodly sight through the clear air,",2.0 +"England's vast capital in fair expanse,",4.0 +St. Paul's high dome amid the vassal bands,2.0 +"Of neighbouring spires, a regal chieftain stands,",2.0 +"With distance softly tinted, side by side,",0.0 +"In kindred grace, like twain of sisters dear,",0.0 +"While, far beyond, the hills of Surrey shine",0.0 +"Through thin soft haze, and show their wavy line.",1.0 +"Viewed thus, a goodly sight! but when surveyed",1.0 +"Through denser air when moistened winds prevail,",0.0 +"In her grand panoply of smoke arrayed,",3.0 +"While clouds aloft in heavy volumes sail,",0.0 +"Connecting heaven and earth, ' -- a threatening sign of doom.",0.0 +"With more than natural height, reared in the sky",1.0 +It's then St. Paul's arrests the wondering eye;,3.0 +"So far from earth removed, that well, I trow,",0.0 +"Did not its form man's artful structure show,",1.0 +"It might some lofty alpine peak be deemed,",1.0 +"Like shoreward billows of a troubled main,",1.0 +"Arrested in their rage. Through drizzly rain,",0.0 +"Cataracts of tawny sheen pour from the skies,",2.0 +Over the wide draping of that pictured mass.,3.0 +"So shows by day this grand imperial town,",2.0 +"And, when over all the night's black stole is thrown,",1.0 +The distant traveller does with wonder mark,1.0 +"Her luminous canopy athwart the dark,",3.0 +Along her streets in many a starry line: ' --,2.0 +"He wondering looks from his yet distant road,",3.0 +And thinks the northern streamers are abroad.,1.0 +"What hollow sound is that? approaching near,",0.0 +The roar of many wheels breaks on his ear.,2.0 +It is the flood of human life in motion!,1.0 +It is the voice of a tempestuous ocean!,5.0 +"With sad but pleasing awe his soul is filled,",0.0 +"Scarce heaves his breast, and all within is stilled,",1.0 +"As many thoughts and feelings cross his mind, ' --",0.0 +"Thoughts, mingled, melancholy, undefined,",1.0 +"Of restless, reckless man, and years gone by,",0.0 +And Time fast wending to Eternity.,3.0 +"And Foot to Foot, and Point to Point was set:",0.0 +"An ancient Quarrel had such Hatred wrought,",0.0 +"That for Revenge, as for Renown, they fought.",2.0 +"Now bloody was the Day, and hard the Strife,",2.0 +Wherein bold Warriors lost neglected Life:,1.0 +"But as, some Errors still we must commit,",1.0 +"Among the Rats some Officers appeared,",1.0 +"With lofty Plumage on their Foreheads reared,",2.0 +"Unthinking they, and ruined by their Pride:",2.0 +"A general Rout befell, and a Retreat,",1.0 +Was by the Vanquished now implored of Fate;,1.0 +"To slender Crannies all repaired in haste,",0.0 +Where easily the undressed Vulgar past:,6.0 +"But when the Rats of Figure would have fled,",0.0 +The Feather in the Cap was fatal to the Head.,1.0 +"HAIL, soft Philanthropy, to thee I sing",3.0 +"Blessed source, whence all our social pleasures spring;",1.0 +"When every Muse bends prostrate at thy shrine,",1.0 +And tunes her lyre to harmony divine;,1.0 +"Bright as the beams of glory round you shine,",0.0 +"Glance not contempt, you minions of the nine;",2.0 +"Bold as I soar, yet never think I came,",0.0 +Though oft a wanderer through the lone retreats,1.0 +"Of your Parnassus, stored with balmy sweets;",2.0 +In lively bloom and varied fragrance grew;,0.0 +"Their winning beauties gave but short delight,",0.0 +Born by superior genius from my sight;,5.0 +Yet may my humble blossom find a place,0.0 +"The brow of sympathy, for, oft there grows,",1.0 +"On the same spot, the daisy and the rose.",3.0 +Nor may the rose disdain the modest flower,1.0 +That gives her beauties more distinguished power.,0.0 +"What though no hand, in honour of my lay,",3.0 +Or fancy raise no bright poetic dream;,1.0 +Yet soft humanity inspires my theme.,1.0 +"Gave me a heart, too oft indeed to blame,",1.0 +Yet fraught with feelings none should blush to name.,0.0 +"Long in that heart may mild compassion reign,",0.0 +"Compassion, formed to weep for others pain;",0.0 +"The throb of anguish ever swell my breast,",0.0 +"When misery sinks, by tyranny oppressed.",3.0 +"May one dire fiend far from my wishes stray,",2.0 +"That vile assassin, stained with numerous crimes,",2.0 +Who bears the shaft of death to distant climes;,0.0 +"Whose flinty breast, unknown to social love,",0.0 +"No tears, no prayers, no sufferings, ever can move.",8.0 +"When he appears, behold affection bleed!",1.0 +Joy flies the scene and lasting pangs succeed.,1.0 +"And shall Britannia, whose maternal arms",2.0 +"Clasp every virtue, dressed in heavenly charms;",3.0 +"Shall she, when rival realms revere her name,",0.0 +"She, pride of nations and the boast of fame,",1.0 +"Welcome a guest so vile, and seek to gain",2.0 +New treasures from the guiltless sufferers pain?,4.0 +"When justice, fired by distant scenes explored,",2.0 +High over the foes of Asia waves her sword?,3.0 +No power the violated rights restore?,4.0 +"To weep a child, a parent, or a friend;",1.0 +"For, all that Britons feel, their souls inspire,",0.0 +The same affection and the same desire;,1.0 +"The mournful dame, with equal frenzy, wild,",0.0 +"Laments the hapless fortune of her child,",1.0 +"Torn from her arms, snatched from his native soil,",2.0 +To sad captivity and painful toil!,1.0 +"In vain she weeps, in vain she swells to rage,",0.0 +The wretch still suffers what her fears presage.,4.0 +"These scenes of woe, you son's of avarice, view,",2.0 +These sorrows fill the cup of mirth for you;,0.0 +"Ah! think, for you, what blessings nature pours,",1.0 +While art and luxury their charms employ,1.0 +To dress your hours in fascinating joy;,0.0 +"While round your steps seducing sirens sing,",0.0 +"Ah! think, whence do these fatal pleasures spring!",0.0 +"Survey the wretch whose toil creates your joy,",0.0 +No cheerful hopes his gloomy mind employ;,1.0 +"If he reflects what hours in sadness flew,",1.0 +The next as sadly opens to his view;,1.0 +"Each sun, that rises, rises but to shed",1.0 +Fresh streams of sorrow on his hapless head;,2.0 +"In vain over him revolving seasons roll,",2.0 +They bring no peace to his afflicted soul!,2.0 +"Say, does the gallant soldier waste his breath",0.0 +Amid the horrors of triumphant death?,1.0 +"Deep pierced with wounds, does he the martial band",2.0 +"Fearless of perils, that around him wait,",2.0 +He braves the dangers of impending fate;,1.0 +"Millions to him their grateful thanks avow,",1.0 +Ambition unrestrained that noble flame,0.0 +"That guides the hero to the heights of fame,",1.0 +"Of all that record boasts, or poets sing;",0.0 +"Ambition, ever anxious to aspire,",1.0 +"Burns in his breast a fierce, but hopeless, fire;",0.0 +"With fainting heart he sees the morning smile,",0.0 +"His weakened spirits still invite repose,",0.0 +And gloomy apathy his mind overflows.,4.0 +"You foes of heaven, and Britain's dire disgrace,",0.0 +"Unjust oppressors of an injured race,",1.0 +"Tell us, who formed the slave you thus deride,",0.0 +"Adore your smile, and tremble when you frown;",0.0 +"At your command with servile swiftness fly,",1.0 +And mark with dread the language of your eye?,1.0 +"Tell, why such baleful tyranny should reign,",1.0 +"Yet, you will say, surrounding foes combine",0.0 +To catch advantages that we decline;,2.0 +"But, sure, that impious land must deeply bleed,",3.0 +"Then let them hence the guilty commerce bear,",0.0 +"Once Superstition, in a fatal hour,",1.0 +Over Europe raised the sceptre of her power;,1.0 +"She reigned triumphant minister of death,",1.0 +And peace and pleasure faded in her breath;,0.0 +"Deep in monastic solitude entombed,",1.0 +The bud of beauty withered ere it bloomed;,0.0 +"The brilliant eye, where love had fought to dwell,",0.0 +Shed all its lustre over the cloistered cell;,2.0 +"The smiling lip, of bright vermilion die,",0.0 +"The music floating from each tuneful tongue,",1.0 +With midnight hymns the Gothic arches rung.,1.0 +"Here, through reflection's eye, the pensive mind",1.0 +Sought with regret for objects far behind;,2.0 +"And fond remembrance, as she heaved a sigh,",1.0 +Drew back the soul just soaring to the sky;,2.0 +"Save where misguided zeal in peace withdrew,",1.0 +"From each bright pleasure, each enchanting view.",1.0 +"The still retreat pale Melancholy sought,",1.0 +And found each object suited to her thought;,1.0 +"Soft Sensibility might here deplore,",2.0 +And feel the shaft of falsehood wound no more;,2.0 +"The sport of fortune, long to comfort lost,",0.0 +"With hope far banished, expectation crossed;",1.0 +"Explored these scenes to weep for anguish past,",0.0 +Where the swelled throbbing heart has burst at last.,2.0 +"With eye averse, the sacrifice they made;",0.0 +"No forced devotion found acceptance there,",2.0 +No grateful incense issued from her prayer.,3.0 +Thus Superstition could not fix her sway,1.0 +"In heaven, but looked on earth to seize her prey;",0.0 +Sought to extend the terrors of her reign.,3.0 +"She saw, as on the fatal heights she stood,",1.0 +Her impious altars drenched in guiltless blood;,2.0 +"Where fortitude with candid virtue joined,",0.0 +And sought by sacred truths to save mankind;,1.0 +"There she bestowed her persecutions dire,",1.0 +And close pursued with unrelenting ire;,0.0 +"Nor ceased to scourge them with her vengeful rod,",1.0 +"Till each, a martyred saint, embraced his God.",0.0 +"But when, to grace the world, Religion shone,",0.0 +In Britain first she deigned to fix her throne;,0.0 +"Freedom and Charity, at her command,",4.0 +Chased Superstition from the drooping land;,2.0 +Beat the retiring gloom with raven wing;,2.0 +"In vain Enthusiasm disdained to fly,",2.0 +And rolled the livid lightning of her eye;,1.0 +"In vain with frenzy wild her fetters broke,",0.0 +And threatened horrid vengeance as she spoke;,1.0 +"Religion bound her with her magic chain,",1.0 +And fixed a period to the monster's reign;,2.0 +"Yet, last of all, withdrew a blacker foe",0.0 +Than ever issued from the realms below;,1.0 +An aspect ever gentle and serene;,2.0 +"Her tongue was fraught with many an artful lie,",2.0 +"She wore the spotless robe of heavenly truth,",2.0 +"Soft on her smiling lip dire falsehood hung,",2.0 +And music graced the poison of her tongue.,1.0 +"But soon the fell contention raged no more,",1.0 +And liberty the victors garland wore:,1.0 +"Yet, as the conquering goddess soared to life,",2.0 +She mourned the ravage of internal strife.,1.0 +"So when some furious tempest racks the night,",2.0 +"To break her solemn gloom with horrid light,",0.0 +"Morn smiles to show the blasted plants and flowers,",1.0 +Or torn trees mingling with the shattered towers.,2.0 +The dread and envy of insulting foes;,1.0 +There hoary time on rapid wing might view,0.0 +Immortal glories ripen as he flew;,1.0 +"The gems of genius there adorn the mind,",1.0 +"By science polished, and by taste refined;",1.0 +"There in the beams of liberty alone,",1.0 +"Nor could my Muse, did she to rapture spring,",1.0 +The bright succession of those glories sing.,1.0 +"In other lands if public virtue glows,",0.0 +From Britain first the great example flows;,0.0 +"There springs the plant, there blooms, through endless time,",0.0 +To gain a conquest with oppressions fraught;,1.0 +The power to conquer and the will to save;,4.0 +"They boast the sympathy to soften woe,",1.0 +To form the faithful friend and generous foe.,2.0 +"View from that happy shore a nymph arise,",0.0 +Bright as the blushes of autumnal skies;,1.0 +"She comes, angelic Freedom, with her train,",2.0 +Each views your injuries and your anguish feels;,1.0 +"Neglect long shown, your sufferings seeks to blame,",1.0 +"Amid the glories of an age refined,",1.0 +"With fond attention over your sorrows pause,",2.0 +"Friends of philanthropy, to you be given",4.0 +The greatest bounties of indulgent heaven;,1.0 +And beneath your feet eternal blessings spring;,1.0 +"For, angels teach celestial joys to flow",0.0 +On hearts where sympathy delights to glow;,1.0 +"That peace divine, that can the soul sustain,",1.0 +"When keen affliction aims the shaft of pain,",0.0 +"That Power from life's dark danger formed to save,",3.0 +And lift the eye of hope beyond the grave.,0.0 +And haste to snatch the captive from despair;,1.0 +"Before his lightened steps thy pleasures strew,",0.0 +And place thy train of virtues in his view;,0.0 +"Bid his unfettered inclination stray,",2.0 +Where blooming industry extends her sway;,1.0 +"By promised gain, to tread the rugged wild;",0.0 +"Rouse every passion, wake each fond desire,",1.0 +And teach his wishes greatly to aspire;,1.0 +"Instruct him, goddess, on his native plain,",1.0 +To sing the glories of a George's reign;,1.0 +"Tell him, at his command you sought their shore,",1.0 +"Their wrongs to pity, and their rights restore;",1.0 +"Through the blue concave thy white flag unfurled,",3.0 +And arm thy bands to prop a sinking world.,0.0 +"THE Happy Muse to this high Scene preferred,",2.0 +Hereafter shall in Loftier Strains be heard;,2.0 +"And, soaring to transcend her usual Theme,",3.0 +Shall Sing of Virtue and Heroic Fame.,1.0 +"No longer shall she Toil upon the Stage,",1.0 +And fruitless War with Vice and Folly wage;,0.0 +"No more in mean Disguise she shall appear,",0.0 +And Shapes she would reform be forced to wear:,0.0 +"While Ignorance and Malice join to blame,",1.0 +And break the Mirror that reflects their Shame.,0.0 +"Henceforth she shall pursue a Nobler Task,",2.0 +Happy her future Days! which are designed,3.0 +Alone to Paint the Beauties of the Mind.,1.0 +"By Just Originals to draw with Care,",1.0 +And shame to Manners an incorrigible Town.,2.0 +"While this Design her eager Thought pursues,",1.0 +"Such various Virtues all around she views,",2.0 +"She knows not where to fix, or which to choose.",0.0 +"Yet still ambitious of the daring Flight,",1.0 +"From that Attempt the Conscious Muse retires,",0.0 +Nor to Inimitable Worth aspires;,2.0 +"But secretly Applauds, and silently Admires.",2.0 +Hence she reflects upon the genial Ray,2.0 +That first enlivened this Auspicious Day:,1.0 +"On that Bright Star, to whose Indulgent Power",1.0 +We owe the Blessings of the Present Hour.,1.0 +Concurring Omens of propitious Fate,1.0 +"Bore, with One Sacred Birth, an equal Date;",0.0 +"Whence we derive whatever we possess,",3.0 +"By Foreign Conquest, or Domestic Peace.",1.0 +"Then, Britain, then thy Dawn of Bliss begun!",0.0 +Then broke the Morn that lighted up this Sun!,1.0 +Then was it doomed whose Councils should succeed;,0.0 +And by whose Arm the Christian World be freed;,1.0 +"Then the fierce Foe was preordained to yield,",3.0 +"Winged with diversions all her moments flew,",2.0 +"Each, as it passed, presenting something new;",0.0 +"Breakfasts and auctions wear the morn away,",2.0 +"Each evening gives an opera, or a play;",1.0 +"Then Brag's eternal joys all night remain,",0.0 +And kindly usher in the morn again.,0.0 +"For love no time has she, or inclination,",2.0 +And the cropped ensign nuzzles in her ear.,2.0 +But with most warmth her dress and airs inspire,1.0 +"He bows with reverence at her sacred shrine,",1.0 +"And treats her as if sprung from race divine,",1.0 +"Which she returns with insolence and scorn,",2.0 +Nor deigns to smile on a plebeian born.,1.0 +"Ere long by friends, by cards, and lovers crossed,",1.0 +"Her fortune, health, and reputation lost;",0.0 +"Her fame, yet she still damned to be a maid,",2.0 +"She weeps, if but a handsome thief is hung:",1.0 +"But most for ready cash for play distressed,",0.0 +And marries him at length in mere despair.,1.0 +"Her soul, her frame incapable of joy:",1.0 +"She feels no transports in the bridal bed,",1.0 +"Of which so oft she has heard, so much has read;",0.0 +"Then vexed, that she should be condemned alone",1.0 +"To seek in vain this philosophic stone,",0.0 +"To abler tutors she resolves apply,",1.0 +A prostitute from curiosity:,1.0 +"Hence men of every sort, and every size,",1.0 +"Impatient for heaven's cordial drop, she tries;",2.0 +"The ruddy templar newly on the town,",1.0 +"But still malignant Fate her wish denies,",0.0 +"Cards yield superior joys, to cards she flies;",3.0 +"All night from rout to rout her chairmen run,",0.0 +"Again she plays, and is again undone.",1.0 +Behold her now in Ruin's frightful jaws!,0.0 +"Bonds, judgements, executions, open their paws;",3.0 +"Seize jewels, furniture, and plate, nor spare",2.0 +And Tubbs conveys the wretched exile down.,2.0 +"Never pressed with a more grieved or guilty load,",1.0 +"And now the dreaded country first appears,",0.0 +"Of distant coaches fainter by degrees,",1.0 +"Silent and sullen, like some captive queen,",2.0 +Until at length appears the ruined hall,0.0 +"The doleful prison where for ever she,",1.0 +"Her coach the curate and the tradesmen meet,",1.0 +"And boys with stubble bonfires light the street,",3.0 +"While bells her ears with tongues discordant grate,",0.0 +Types of the nuptial ties they celebrate:,0.0 +"Nor deigns she to return one awkward bow,",1.0 +"But bounces in disdaining once to speak,",0.0 +And wipes the trickling tear from off her cheek.,1.0 +"Now see her in the sad decline of life,",1.0 +"With many a real, many a fancied ail;",4.0 +"Her insolence, and title only left;",1.0 +And the low pastimes of a country fair:,1.0 +"Too wretched to endure one lonely day,",2.0 +"Too proud one friendly visit to repay,",2.0 +"Too indolent to read, too criminal to pray.",4.0 +"At length half dead, half mad, and quite confined,",2.0 +"Shunning, and shunned by all of human kind,",2.0 +"Even robbed of the last comfort of her life,",3.0 +"Pride, disappointed pride, now stops her breath,",2.0 +And with true scorpion rage she stings herself to death.,4.0 +"Heaven gives the needful, but neglected, call.",1.0 +"What day, what hour, but knocks at human hearts,",0.0 +To wake the soul to sense of future scenes?,0.0 +And kindly point us to our journey's end.,1.0 +"I give thee joy: nor will I take my leave,",1.0 +So soon to follow. Man but dives in death;,0.0 +"Dives from the sun, in fairer day to rise:",0.0 +The grave his subterranean road to bliss.,3.0 +"Yes, infinite Indulgence planned it so:",2.0 +Through various parts our glorious storey runs;,4.0 +"Time gives the preface, endless Age unrolls",1.0 +The volume never unrolled of human fate.,2.0 +"This, Earth and Skies already have proclaimed.",0.0 +The world's a prophecy of worlds to come;,1.0 +Still louder than in words shall dare deny?,2.0 +"If Nature's arguments appear too weak,",2.0 +"Turn a new leaf, and stronger read in man.",3.0 +Can he prove infidel to what he feels?,2.0 +His own indictment; he condemns himself:,1.0 +"Who reads his bosom, reads immortal life;",0.0 +"Or Nature, there, imposing on her sons,",2.0 +Has written fables; man was made a lie.,0.0 +Incurable consumption of our peace!,2.0 +"Who steals his whole dominion from the waste,",1.0 +"Repelling winter blasts with mud and straw, ' --",0.0 +"In fate so distant, in complaint so near.",0.0 +Is it that things terrestrial can't content?,3.0 +Deep in rich pasture will thy flocks complain?,3.0 +Not so; but to their master is denied,2.0 +"To share their sweet serene. Man, ill at ease",1.0 +"In this, not his own place, this foreign field,",0.0 +"Than was ordained his cravings to suffice,",2.0 +"Poor in abundance, famished at a feast,",1.0 +"Sighs on for something more, when most enjoyed.",0.0 +Is Heaven then kinder to thy flocks than thee?,1.0 +"Not so: thy pasture richer, but remote;",1.0 +"By Sense, his Reason sleeps, nor dreams the cause.",0.0 +"The cause how obvious, when his Reason wakes!",1.0 +His grief is but his grandeur in disguise;,3.0 +And discontent is immortality.,2.0 +"Shall sons of Either, shall the blood of Heaven,",0.0 +"Set up their hopes on earth, and stable here,",0.0 +With brutal acquiescence in the mire?,0.0 +"Lorenzo, no! They shall be nobly pained;",0.0 +"The glorious foreigners, distressed, shall sigh",3.0 +Man's misery declares him born for bliss:,2.0 +"His anxious heart asserts the truth I sing,",0.0 +And gives the sceptic in his head the lie.,0.0 +"Our heads, our hearts, our passions, and our powers,",1.0 +Speak the same language; call us to the skies.,4.0 +Scarce rise above conjecture and mistake;,2.0 +And for this land of trifles those too strong,3.0 +"Tumultuous rise, and tempest human life:",3.0 +"Meet objects for our passions Heaven ordained,",0.0 +"Objects that challenge all their fire, and leave",0.0 +No fault but in defect. Blessed Heaven! avert,2.0 +OH for a bliss unbounded! Far beneath,0.0 +A soul immortal is a mortal joy.,1.0 +Nor are our powers to perish immature;,3.0 +"But, after feeble effort here, beneath",0.0 +"A brighter sun, and in a nobler soil,",1.0 +"Shall flourish fair, and put forth all their bloom.",1.0 +"Reason progressive, Instinct is complete:",3.0 +Swift Instinct leaps; slow Reason feebly climbs.,2.0 +Flows in at once; in ages they no more,2.0 +"Could know, or do, or covet, or enjoy.",1.0 +The patriarch pupil would be learning still;,5.0 +"Men perish in advance, as if the sun",2.0 +"Should set ere noon, in eastern oceans drowned;",1.0 +"If fit, with dim illustrious to compare,",3.0 +The sun's meridian with the soul of man.,1.0 +While meaner efforts thy last hand enjoy?,2.0 +"Nor reach what reach he might, why die in dread?",0.0 +"Why cursed with foresight, wise to misery?",2.0 +Why of his proud prerogative the prey?,1.0 +Why less preeminent in rank than pain?,1.0 +His immortality alone can tell;,1.0 +"Full ample fund to balance all amiss,",1.0 +And turn the scale in favour of the just!,0.0 +His immortality alone can solve,1.0 +"Of all the darkest, if at death we die.",1.0 +"Hope, eager Hope, the assassin of our joy,",4.0 +"All present blessings treading under foot,",0.0 +Is scarce a milder tyrant than Despair.,1.0 +"With no past toils content, still planning new,",2.0 +Hope turns us over to Death alone for ease.,3.0 +"Possession, why more tasteless than pursuit?",1.0 +Why is a wish far dearer than a crown?,1.0 +"That wish accomplished, why the grave of bliss?",0.0 +"Because, in the great future buried deep,",2.0 +"Beyond our plans of empire and renown,",1.0 +"And HE who made him, bent him to the right.",2.0 +"Man's heart the Almighty to the future sets,",3.0 +By secret and inviolable springs;,2.0 +"Man's heart eats all things, and is hungry still:",1.0 +"So rages Appetite, if man can't mount,",1.0 +He will descend. He starves on the possessed.,2.0 +"Hence, the world's master, from Ambition's spire,",4.0 +In that rank sty why wallowed Empire's son,1.0 +Supreme? Because he could no higher fly;,1.0 +His riot was Ambition in despair.,1.0 +"Old Rome consulted birds; Lorenzo! thou,",2.0 +"With more success, the flight of Hope survey;",0.0 +"Of restless Hope, for ever on the wing.",1.0 +To fly at all that rises in her sight;,0.0 +"And, never stooping but to mount again",1.0 +"Next moment, she betrays her aim's mistake,",1.0 +And owns her quarry lodged beyond the grave.,0.0 +"There should it fail us, it must fail us there,",1.0 +"If being fails, more mournful riddles rise,",0.0 +And Virtue vies with Hope in mystery.,1.0 +"Why Virtue? where its praise, its being fled?",0.0 +To close with all that makes him happy here.,0.0 +"If Vice as sometime is our friend on earth,",2.0 +Then Vice is Virtue; iT is our sovereign good.,1.0 +"And what is right, but means of happiness?",1.0 +No means of happiness when Virtue yields:,2.0 +"That basis failing, falls the building too,",0.0 +And lays in ruin every virtuous joy.,2.0 +"The rigid guardian of a blameless heart,",1.0 +"So long revered, so long reputed wise,",0.0 +Why beats thy bosom with illustrious dreams,3.0 +"Of gallant enterprise, and glorious death?",2.0 +Die for thy country? ' -- Thou romantic fool!,1.0 +"Seize, seize the plank thyself, and let her sink.",1.0 +I speak with awe! though He should bid thee bleed?,1.0 +"If, with thy blood, thy final hope is spilt,",1.0 +"Nor can Omnipotence reward the blow,",2.0 +Be deaf; preserve thy being; disobey.,0.0 +"Nor is it disobedience: know, Lorenzo!",3.0 +"His first command is this: ' -- Man, love thyself.",2.0 +"If Virtue costs existence, iT is a crime,",1.0 +"Bold violation of our law supreme,",3.0 +"Black suicide; though nations, which consult",1.0 +"Their gain at thy expense, resound applause.",2.0 +"Since Virtue's recompense is doubtful here,",0.0 +"If man dies wholly, well may we demand,",2.0 +Why is man suffered to be good in vain?,3.0 +"Why, to be good in vain, is man enjoined?",0.0 +"Why, to be good in vain, is man betrayed?",0.0 +"Betrayed by traitors lodged in his own breast,",1.0 +Why whispers Nature lies on Virtue's part?,0.0 +Or if blind Instinct which assumes the name,2.0 +"Of sacred Conscience plays the fool in man,",0.0 +Why Reason made accomplice in the cheat?,0.0 +Why are the wisest loudest in her praise?,0.0 +Can man by Reason's beam be led astray?,0.0 +"Or, at his peril, imitate his God?",0.0 +"Since Virtue sometime ruins us on earth,",2.0 +"Or both are true, or man survives the grave.",0.0 +"Or man survives the grave, or own, Lorenzo,",0.0 +Thy boast supreme a wild absurdity.,1.0 +"Grant man immortal, and thy scorn is just.",2.0 +"The man immortal, rationally brave,",1.0 +Dares rush on death ' -- because he cannot die.,1.0 +"But if man loses all when life is lost,",2.0 +"He lives a coward, or a fool expires.",1.0 +"A daring infidel, and such there are,",1.0 +"Of all Earth's madmen, most deserves a chain.",1.0 +When to the grave we follow the renowned,1.0 +"Enabling us to think in higher style,",1.0 +Dream we that lustre of the moral world,1.0 +"Why was he wise to know, and warm to praise,",0.0 +"And strenuous to transcribe in human life,",3.0 +"The Mind Almighty? Could it be, that Fate,",0.0 +"And dawn the Deity, should snatch the draught,",1.0 +"With night eternal blot it out, and give",1.0 +"The Skies alarm, lest angels too might die?",0.0 +"If human souls, why not angelic too",1.0 +"Extinguished? and a solitary God,",1.0 +"Over ghastly ruin, frowning from His throne?",1.0 +Shall we this moment gaze on God in man?,0.0 +"The next, lose man for ever in the dust?",1.0 +"From dust we disengage, or man mistakes;",1.0 +"And there, where least his judgement fears a flaw.",1.0 +Wisdom and Worth how boldly he commends!,3.0 +"Wisdom and Worth are sacred names; revered,",2.0 +"Where not embraced; applauded, deified!",0.0 +Both are calamities; inflicted both,3.0 +"Acute, for what? To spy more miseries;",1.0 +And Worth exalted humbles us the more.,1.0 +Weakness and Vice the refuge of mankind.,4.0 +"Talk never so long, in this imperfect state,",4.0 +Virtue and Vice are at eternal war.,2.0 +Or for precarious or for small reward?,2.0 +"Would take degrees angelic here below,",1.0 +"And Virtue, while they compliment, betray,",1.0 +By feeble motives and unfaithful guards.,1.0 +"IT is that, and that alone, can countervail",1.0 +On Earth's poor pay our famished Virtue dies.,1.0 +"A Bayle has preached, or a Voltaire believed!",1.0 +"In man, the more we dive, the more we see",0.0 +Heaven's signet stamping an immortal make.,1.0 +"Dive to the bottom of his soul, the base",1.0 +"Sustaining all, what find we? Knowledge, love.",0.0 +"As light and heat essential to the sun,",1.0 +"These to the soul. And why, if souls expire?",1.0 +How little lovely here! How little known!,0.0 +Small knowledge we dig up with endless toil;,3.0 +While brutal are indulged their fulsome fill?,1.0 +"Were then capacities Divine conferred,",1.0 +"As a mock diadem, in savage sport,",2.0 +"Rank insult of our pompous poverty,",1.0 +Which reaps but pain from seeming claims so fair?,0.0 +In future age lies no redress? and shuts,1.0 +Eternity the door on our complaint?,2.0 +"If so, for what strange ends were mortals made!",2.0 +"The worst to wallow, and the best to weep;",1.0 +"The man who merits most, must most complain.",0.0 +"Can we conceive a disregard in Heaven,",1.0 +"What the worst perpetrate, or best endure?",2.0 +"This cannot be. To love, and know, in man",0.0 +"Is boundless appetite, and boundless power:",0.0 +And these demonstrate boundless objects too.,6.0 +"Objects, powers, appetites, Heaven suits in all;",1.0 +"Nor, Nature through, ever violates this sweet,",3.0 +Eternal concord on her tuneful string.,1.0 +Is man the sole exception from her laws?,1.0 +"Eternity struck off from human hope,",2.0 +"I speak with truth, but veneration too,",0.0 +"Man is a monster, the reproach of Heaven,",1.0 +"A stain, a dark impenetrable cloud",1.0 +"If such is man's allotment, what is Heaven?",1.0 +"Or own the soul immortal, or invert",1.0 +And bow to thy superiors of the stall;,2.0 +Through every scene of sense superior far:,2.0 +"With doubts, fears, fruitless hopes, regrets, despairs;",1.0 +Mankind's peculiar! Reason's precious dower!,1.0 +Nor brothers cite to the litigious bar.,1.0 +"They find a paradise in every field,",0.0 +"On boughs forbidden, where no curses hang:",1.0 +"By previous dread, or murmur in the rear:",2.0 +Begins and ends their woe: they die but once;,0.0 +"Proud man, who rules the globe, and reads the stars,",1.0 +"Philosopher or hero, sighs in vain.",1.0 +"No day, no glimpse of day, to solve the knot,",2.0 +But what beams on it from eternity.,2.0 +"The difficult, and softens the severe;",2.0 +Restores bright order; casts the brute beneath;,1.0 +"Of joy, even here. Admit immortal life,",2.0 +"Each Virtue brings in hand a golden dower,",0.0 +"Far richer in reversion; Hope exults,",1.0 +"And, though much bitter in our cup is thrown,",1.0 +"Predominates, and gives the taste of heaven.",0.0 +OH wherefore is the Deity so kind?,3.0 +Astonishing beyond astonishment!,2.0 +Heaven our reward ' -- for heaven enjoyed below.,1.0 +"The traitor lurks, who doubts the truth I sing.",0.0 +Reason is guiltless! Will alone rebels.,3.0 +"What, in that stubborn heart if I should find",1.0 +"New, unexpected witnesses against thee?",2.0 +"Ambition, Pleasure, and the Love of Gain!",1.0 +"The slave of earth, should own her heir of heaven?",0.0 +"Our immortality, should prove it sure?",1.0 +"First, then, Ambition summon to the bar.",2.0 +"Ambition's shame, extravagance, disgust,",1.0 +"Thy soul, how passionately fond of Fame!",1.0 +How anxious that fond passion to conceal!,2.0 +"We blush, detected in designs on praise,",0.0 +"Though for best deeds, and from the best of men;",2.0 +And why? Because immortal. Art Divine,0.0 +Has made the body tutor to the soul;,1.0 +Heaven kindly gives our blood a moral flow;,0.0 +"Bids it ascend the glowing cheek, and there",2.0 +"Upbraid that little heart's inglorious aim,",3.0 +Which stoops to court a character from man;,1.0 +While over us in tremendous judgement sit,2.0 +"Far more than man, with endless praise and blame.",0.0 +The verdict of its shame. When souls take fire,2.0 +"At high presumptions of their own desert,",1.0 +"One age is poor applause; the mighty shout,",0.0 +"The thunder by the living few begun,",1.0 +"Late time must echo; worlds unborn, resound.",3.0 +We wish our names eternally to live:,1.0 +Wild dream! which never had haunted human thought,3.0 +Had not our natures been eternal too.,0.0 +Instinct points out an interest in hereafter;,0.0 +But our blind Reason sees not where it lies;,2.0 +"Or, seeing, gives the substance for the shade.",1.0 +"Fame is the shade of immortality,",1.0 +"And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught,",0.0 +"Consult the ambitious, ' -- iT is ambition's cure.",5.0 +"And is this all? cried Caesar, at his height,",2.0 +Disgusted. This third proof Ambition brings,2.0 +"Of immortality: The first in fame,",1.0 +"Observe him near, your envy will abate:",1.0 +"The passion and the purchase, he will sigh",2.0 +"At such success, and blush at his renown.",2.0 +His heart; far more illustrious glory calls;,3.0 +And can Ambition a fourth proof supply?,3.0 +"It can, and stronger than the former three;",2.0 +Yet quite overlooked by some reputed wise.,1.0 +"Though disappointments in ambition pain,",1.0 +In vain we strive to pluck it from our hearts;,1.0 +By Nature planted for the noblest ends.,1.0 +"More praised than pondered; specious, but unsound:",1.0 +"Sooner that hero's sword the world had quelled,",2.0 +Than Reason his ambition. Man must soar.,1.0 +"An obstinate activity within,",2.0 +"In spite of Fortune's load. Not kings alone,",0.0 +Each villager has his ambition too;,2.0 +No sultan prouder than his fettered slave.,2.0 +"Echo the proud Assyrian in their hearts,",3.0 +"And cry, Behold the wonders of my might!",1.0 +And why? Because immortal as their lord:,1.0 +And souls immortal must for ever heave,0.0 +"At something great; the glitter, or the gold;",1.0 +"The praise of mortals, or the praise of Heaven.",1.0 +"Nor absolutely vain is human praise,",0.0 +When human is supported by Divine.,2.0 +I'll introduce Lorenzo to himself:,1.0 +Pleasure and Pride bad masters share our hearts.,3.0 +As Love of Pleasure is ordained to guard,1.0 +"And feed our bodies, and extend our race;",1.0 +The Love of Praise is planted to protect,1.0 +And propagate the glories of the mind.,1.0 +"What is it but the Love of Praise inspires,",1.0 +"Earth's happiness? From that the delicate,",3.0 +"The grand, the marvellous, of civil life.",1.0 +"The basis, on which Love of Glory builds.",1.0 +"Nor is thy life, OH Virtue! less in debt",2.0 +"To Praise, thy secret stimulating friend.",0.0 +"Were men not proud, what merit should we miss!",0.0 +Pride made the virtues of the Pagan world.,2.0 +"Praise is the salt that seasons right to man,",0.0 +Thirst of Applause is Virtue's second guard;,2.0 +Reason her first; but Reason wants an aid;,2.0 +"Thirst of Applause calls Public Judgement in,",3.0 +"To poise our own, to keep an even scale,",0.0 +And give endangered Virtue fairer play.,0.0 +"Here a fifth proof arises, stronger still:",3.0 +Why this so nice construction of our hearts;,1.0 +This constitutional reserve of aid,1.0 +"If Virtue ' -- kept alive by care and toil,",0.0 +"And oft the mark of injuries on earth,",1.0 +"Of disciplines and pains unpaid, ' -- must die?",1.0 +"Were man to perish when most fit to live,",0.0 +"OH how misspent were all these stratagems,",3.0 +Where are Heaven's holiness and mercy fled?,1.0 +Laughs Heaven at once at Virtue and at man?,2.0 +"If not, why that discouraged, this destroyed?",1.0 +Thus far Ambition. What says Avarice?,3.0 +"This her chief maxim, which has long been thine:",2.0 +The wise and wealthy are the same. I grant it.,1.0 +"To store up treasure with incessant toil, ' --",1.0 +"This is man's province, this his highest praise,",3.0 +To this great end keen Instinct stings him on.,4.0 +"To guide that Instinct, Reason! is thy charge;",1.0 +Tis thine to tell us where true treasure lies:,1.0 +"But, Reason failing to discharge her trust,",1.0 +"Or to the deaf discharging it in vain,",2.0 +"A blunder follows; and blind Industry,",3.0 +"The course where stakes of more than gold are won,",0.0 +"The jaded spirits of the present hour,",1.0 +Provides for an eternity below.,2.0 +"Thou shalt not covet, is a wise command;",1.0 +But bounded to the wealth the sun surveys:,1.0 +"Look farther, the command stands quite reversed,",3.0 +And avarice is a virtue most Divine.,1.0 +Is faith a refuge for our happiness?,2.0 +Most sure. And is it not for reason too?,1.0 +"Man, if not meant, by worth, to reach the skies,",0.0 +Had wanted wing to fly so far in guilt.,0.0 +"Sour grapes, I grant, ambition, avarice;",1.0 +Yet still their root is immortality.,1.0 +"These its wild growths so bitter, and so base,",3.0 +"Pain and reproach! Religion can reclaim,",3.0 +"Refine, exalt, throw down their poisonous lee,",4.0 +And make them sparkle in the bowl of bliss.,0.0 +"See, the third witness laughs at bliss remote,",3.0 +And falsely promises an Eden here:,1.0 +"Truth she shall speak for once, though prone to lie,",0.0 +"A common cheat, and Pleasure is her name.",1.0 +To Pleasure never was Lorenzo deaf;,1.0 +"Then hear her now, now first thy real friend.",2.0 +Since Nature made us not more fond than proud,0.0 +"Of happiness, whence hypocrites in joy,",1.0 +Why should the joy most poignant Sense affords,0.0 +"Burn us with blushes, and rebuke our pride? ' --",1.0 +Even in the zenith of his earthly bliss.,1.0 +"Should Reason take her infidel repose,",0.0 +This honest instinct speaks our lineage high:,2.0 +This instinct calls on darkness to conceal,1.0 +Our rapturous relation to the stalls.,2.0 +"Our glory covers us with noble shame,",1.0 +The man that blushes is not quite a brute.,1.0 +"Thus far with thee, Lorenzo, will I close: ' --",3.0 +"Pleasure is good, and man for pleasure made;",1.0 +But pleasure full of glory as of joy;,1.0 +"Pleasure, which neither blushes nor expires.",3.0 +The witnesses are heard; the cause is over;,1.0 +"Let Conscience file the sentence in her court,",1.0 +Dearer than deeds that half a realm convey:,0.0 +"Thus, sealed by Truth, the authentic record runs: ' --",3.0 +IT is immortality your nature solves;,1.0 +And opens all the mysteries of his make.,1.0 +"Without it, half his instincts are a riddle;",1.0 +"Without it, all his virtues are a dream.",1.0 +His very crimes attest his dignity.,1.0 +Declares him born for blessings infinite:,1.0 +"Passions, which all on earth but more inflames?",0.0 +"Stretched out, like eagles' wings, beyond our nest,",0.0 +"Far, far beyond the worth of all below,",1.0 +And evidence our title to the skies.,2.0 +"Whose constitution dictates to your pen,",2.0 +"Think not our passions from Corruption sprung,",1.0 +Though to Corruption now they lend their wings;,1.0 +"That is their mistress, not their mother. All",0.0 +"And justly Reason deem Divine: I see,",0.0 +"I feel a grandeur in the Passions too,",2.0 +"Which speaks their high descent, and glorious end;",2.0 +Which speaks them rays of an eternal fire.,1.0 +"In Paradise itself they burned as strong,",0.0 +"Ere Adam fell, though wiser in their aim.",1.0 +"Like the proud Eastern, struck by Providence,",3.0 +"What, though our passions are run mad, and stoop,",2.0 +"With low terrestrial appetite, to graze",2.0 +"On trash, on toys, dethroned from high desire?",0.0 +"Yet still, through their disgrace, no feeble ray",2.0 +"Of greatness shines, and tells us whence they fell:",0.0 +But these like that fallen monarch when reclaimed,0.0 +"Where once they soared illustrious; ere seduced,",2.0 +But grant their frenzy lasts: their frenzy fails,0.0 +"To disappoint one providential end,",0.0 +"Were Reason silent, boundless Passion speaks",0.0 +"A future scene of boundless objects too,",0.0 +And brings glad tidings of eternal day.,2.0 +Eternal day! IT is that enlightens all;,0.0 +"And all, by that enlightened, proves it sure.",0.0 +"Consider man as an immortal being,",1.0 +Intelligible all; and all is great;,1.0 +"A crystalline transparency prevails,",1.0 +And strikes full lustre through the human sphere:,2.0 +"Consider man as mortal, all is dark,",0.0 +And wretched; Reason weeps at the survey.,1.0 +"The learnt Lorenzo cries, And let her weep, ' --",0.0 +"Weak, modern Reason! Ancient times were wise.",1.0 +"Authority, that venerable guide,",2.0 +Stands on my part: the famed Athenian Porch,2.0 +And who for wisdom so renowned as they?,1.0 +Denied this immortality to man.,1.0 +"I grant it; but affirm, they proved it too.",1.0 +A riddle this! ' -- Have patience; I'll explain.,2.0 +"What noble vanities, what moral flights,",1.0 +"Make us, at once, despise them, and admire!",1.0 +They leave the extravagance of song below.,3.0 +"Flesh shall not feel; or, feeling, shall enjoy",0.0 +The dagger or the rack; to them alike,2.0 +"A bed of roses, or the burning bull.",1.0 +"In men exploding all beyond the grave,",0.0 +"Strange doctrine, this! ' -- As doctrine it was strange;",3.0 +"But not, as prophecy; for such it proved,",2.0 +"And, to their own amazement, was fulfilled:",2.0 +They feigned a firmness Christians need not feign.,0.0 +The Christian truly triumphed in the flame;,0.0 +"The Stoic saw, in double wonder lost,",0.0 +"Wonder at them, and wonder at himself,",0.0 +To find the bold adventures of his thought,1.0 +"Not bold, and that he strove to lie in vain.",0.0 +"Whence, then, those thoughts? those towering thoughts that flew",0.0 +Such monstrous heights? ' -- From instinct and from pride.,1.0 +Suggested truths they could not understand.,0.0 +"Truth's system broken, scattered fragments lay:",1.0 +"As light in chaos, glimmering through the gloom:",1.0 +"Smit with the pomp of lofty sentiments,",1.0 +"Pride, like the Delphic priestess, with a swell,",1.0 +"Raved nonsense, destined to be future sense,",2.0 +"When life immortal in full day should shine,",1.0 +And death's dark shadows fly the gospel sun.,2.0 +They spoke what nothing but immortal souls,1.0 +"Could speak; and thus the truth they questioned, proved.",0.0 +"Can then absurdities, as well as crimes,",1.0 +Speak man immortal? All things speak him so.,2.0 +Much has been urged; and dost thou call for more?,0.0 +"Call; and with endless questions be distressed,",0.0 +"Why life, a moment? infinite, desire?",1.0 +"Our wish, eternity? our home, the grave?",1.0 +Heaven's promise dormant lies in human hope;,0.0 +"Who wishes life immortal, proves it too.",0.0 +"Why happiness pursued, though never found?",1.0 +Man's thirst of happiness declares It is;,2.0 +"My Lucia, thy Clarissa, call to thought.",1.0 +"Why cordial friendship riveted so deep,",1.0 +If friend and friendship vanish in an hour?,0.0 +Is not this Torment in the mask of Joy?,1.0 +Why by Reflection marred the joys of Sense?,1.0 +"Why Past and Future preying on our hearts,",1.0 +And putting all our present joys to death?,0.0 +"Instinct, far better; what can choose, can err:",3.0 +OH how infallible the thoughtless brute!,3.0 +Reason with Inclination why at war?,2.0 +Why sense of guilt? Why Conscience up in arms?,1.0 +"Conscience of guilt is prophecy of pain,",3.0 +"Reason with Inclination never had jarred,",3.0 +If nothing future paid forbearance here.,0.0 +"Thus on: ' -- these, and a thousand please uncalled,",1.0 +"All promise, some insure, a second scene;",0.0 +"Which, were it doubtful, would be dearer far",1.0 +"Than all things else most certain; were it false,",2.0 +What truth on earth so precious as the lie?,1.0 +"This world it gives us, let what will ensue;",1.0 +"This world it gives, in that high cordial, hope;",1.0 +The future of the present is the soul:,2.0 +How this life groans when severed from the next!,3.0 +"By dark distrust, his being, cut in two,",0.0 +Sad prelude of eternity in pain!,4.0 +"Our ardent wishes, how should I pour out",1.0 +"My bleeding heart in anguish, new as deep!",0.0 +"OH with what thoughts thy hope, and my despair,",1.0 +"Abhorred Annihilation, blasts the soul,",0.0 +And wide extends the bounds of human woe!,0.0 +"The future vanished, and the present pained!",1.0 +Strange import of unprecedented ill!,2.0 +"Unequal fate: his fall, without his guilt!",0.0 +"From where fond Hope built her pavilion high,",3.0 +"The gods among, hurled headlong, hurled at once",2.0 +"To night, to nothing! darker still than night.",0.0 +Lorenzo! boastful of the name of friend!,1.0 +OH for delusion! OH for error still!,2.0 +Could vengeance strike much stronger than to plant,1.0 +"A thinking being in a world like this,",0.0 +More cursed than at the fall? ' -- The sun goes out!,2.0 +The thorns shoot up! What thorns in every thought!,2.0 +"Why sense? why life, if but to sigh, then sink",1.0 +To what I was? Twice nothing! and much woe!,3.0 +Woe from Heaven's bounties! woe from what was wont,0.0 +"To flatter most, ' -- high intellectual powers.",3.0 +"Thought, virtue, knowledge! blessings, by thy scheme",2.0 +"All poisoned into pains. First, knowledge, once",1.0 +"My soul's ambition, now her greatest dread.",0.0 +"To know myself, true wisdom? No, to shun",2.0 +"That shocking science. Parent of despair,",1.0 +"Avert thy mirror! if I see, I die.",1.0 +Know my Creator? Climb His blessed abode,2.0 +"By painful speculation, pierce the veil,",0.0 +"Dive in His nature, read His attributes,",0.0 +"And gaze in admiration ' -- on a foe,",1.0 +"From the full rivers that surround His throne,",2.0 +Not letting fall one drop of joy on man:,0.0 +"Man gasping for one drop, that he might cease",3.0 +"To curse his birth, nor envy reptiles more!",0.0 +"You sable clouds, you darkest shades of night!",0.0 +"Hide Him, for ever hide Him, from my thought,",1.0 +"Once all my comfort, source and soul of joy!",0.0 +Know His achievements? Study His renown?,3.0 +"Contemplate this amazing universe,",2.0 +"Dropped from His hand, with miracles replete? ' --",1.0 +"For what? Amid miracles of nobler name,",6.0 +To find one miracle of misery?,2.0 +"To find the being, which alone can know",0.0 +"And praise His works, a blemish on His praise?",1.0 +"Through Nature's ample range, in thought, to stroll,",0.0 +"And start at man, the single mourner there,",1.0 +"Breathing high hope, chained down to pangs and death?",1.0 +Knowing is suffering: and shall Virtue share,3.0 +The sigh of Knowledge? ' -- Virtue shares the sigh.,0.0 +"By straining up the steep of excellent,",2.0 +"By battles fought, and from Temptation won,",1.0 +"What gains she, but the pang of seeing worth,",1.0 +"Angelic worth, soon shuffled in the dark",2.0 +"With every vice, and swept to brutal dust?",0.0 +Merit is madness; virtue is a crime;,3.0 +"A crime to Reason, if it costs us pain",1.0 +"Unpaid: what pain, amid a thousand more,",0.0 +"To think the most abandoned, after days",0.0 +"Of triumph over their betters, find in death",2.0 +"Duty! Religion! ' -- These, our duty done,",3.0 +Imply reward. Religion is mistake.,1.0 +"You cheats, away! you daughters of my Pride!",1.0 +"You towering hopes, abortive energies!",1.0 +"That toss and struggle in my lying breast,",0.0 +"To scale the skies, and build presumptions there,",1.0 +As I were heir of an eternity.,3.0 +"Vain, vain ambitions! trouble me no more.",3.0 +Why travel far in quest of sure defeat?,0.0 +"As bounded as my being, be my wish.",1.0 +"All is inverted, Wisdom is a fool.",2.0 +Sense! take the rein; blind Passion! drive us on;,2.0 +"And, Ignorance! befriend us on our way;",2.0 +"You new, but truest patrons of our peace!",1.0 +"Yes; give the Pulse full empire; live the Brute,",2.0 +"Since as the Brute we die. The sum of man,",0.0 +"Their revels a more poignant relish yield,",1.0 +And safer too; they never poisons choose.,0.0 +"Instinct, than Reason, makes more wholesome meals,",2.0 +Theirs that serene the sages sought in vain:,0.0 +"His all the power, and all the cause, to mourn.",1.0 +Shall human eyes alone dissolve in tears?,0.0 +And bleed in anguish none but human hearts?,0.0 +"Surpassing sensual far, is all our own.",2.0 +"In life so fatally distinguished, why",1.0 +"Cast in one lot, confounded, lumped in death?",0.0 +"Ere yet in being, was mankind in guilt?",2.0 +"Why thundered this peculiar clause against us,",1.0 +"Reasons of state, their subjects may not scan,",3.0 +Nor humbly reason when they sorely sigh?,0.0 +"And why see that? Why Thought? To toil and eat,",0.0 +"Then make our bed in darkness, needs no thought.",1.0 +"OH give eternity, or thought destroy! ' --",2.0 +Its blunted edge would spare the throbbing heart;,0.0 +"And therefore iT is bestowed. I thank thee, Reason,",4.0 +"For aiding Life's too small calamities,",2.0 +And giving being to the dread of Death!,1.0 +Such are thy bounties! ' -- Was it then too much,2.0 +For me to trespass on the brutal rights?,2.0 +Too much for Heaven to make one emmet more?,0.0 +Too much for Chaos to permit my mass,1.0 +"Wretched capacity of frenzy, Though!",4.0 +"Wretched capacity of dying, Life!",3.0 +"Life, Thought, Worth, Wisdom, all OH foul revolt!",3.0 +"Once friends to peace, gone over to the foe.",3.0 +"Death, then, has changed its nature too. OH Death,",1.0 +"Come to my bosom, thou best gift of Heaven!",2.0 +Best friend of man! since man is Man no more.,2.0 +"Why in this thorny wilderness so long,",1.0 +To pay me with its honey for my stings?,2.0 +If needful to the selfish schemes of Heaven,1.0 +"To sting us sore, why mocked our misery?",1.0 +Why this so sumptuous insult over our heads?,5.0 +Why this illustrious canopy displayed?,4.0 +Why so magnificently lodged Despair?,2.0 +"That man may languish in luxurious scenes,",2.0 +And in an Eden mourn his withered joys?,0.0 +"Claim Earth and Skies man's admiration, due",2.0 +For such delights? Blessed animals! too wise,4.0 +"To wonder, and too happy to complain!",3.0 +Our doom decreed demands a mournful scene:,0.0 +Why not a dungeon dark for the condemned?,1.0 +"Why not the dragon's subterranean den,",3.0 +For man to howl in? Why not his abode,1.0 +"A Thebes, a Babylon, at vast expense",0.0 +"If, from her humble chamber in the dust,",1.0 +"While proud Thought swells, and high Desire inflames,",1.0 +The poor worm calls us for her inmates there;,3.0 +"And, round us, Death's inexorable hand",2.0 +"Once, I beheld a sun; a sun which gilded",2.0 +"That sable cloud, and turned it all to gold:",0.0 +A real hell to those who dreamt of heaven!,2.0 +Annihilation! how it yawns before me!,1.0 +"Next moment I may drop from thought, from sense,",1.0 +"The privilege of angels and of worms,",2.0 +"An outcast from existence! and this spirit,",3.0 +"This particle of energy Divine,",2.0 +"Which travels Nature, flies from star to star,",0.0 +"And visits gods, and emulates their powers,",0.0 +For ever is extinguished. Horror! Death!,1.0 +Death of that death I fearless once surveyed!,0.0 +"When horror universal shall descend,",0.0 +"And Heaven's dark concave urn all human race,",3.0 +"How just this verse, this monumental sigh!",0.0 +"Beneath the lumber of demolished worlds,",1.0 +"Deep in the rubbish of the general wreck,",1.0 +Swept ignominious to the common mass,2.0 +"Of matter never dignified with life,",0.0 +"Here lie proud Nationals, the sons of Heaven!",2.0 +"The lords of Earth, the property of worms!",1.0 +"Beings of yesterday, and no tomorrow!",3.0 +"Who lived in terror, and in pangs expired!",1.0 +All gone to rot in chaos; or to make,1.0 +"Lorenzo! hear, pause, ponder, and pronounce.",2.0 +"Just is this history? If such is man,",1.0 +"Mankind's historian, though Divine, might weep:",4.0 +And dares Lorenzo smile? ' -- I know thee proud:,0.0 +For once let Pride befriend thee: Pride looks pale,2.0 +"At such a scene, and sighs for something more.",0.0 +"Amid thy boasts, presumptions, and displays,",1.0 +And art thou then a shadow? less than shade?,0.0 +"A nothing? less than nothing? To have been,",1.0 +"And not to be, is lower than unborn.",2.0 +Art thou ambitious? Why then make the worm,1.0 +Thine equal? Runs thy taste of pleasure high?,0.0 +"Of every hope a bankrupt, and for ever?",1.0 +"Ambition, Pleasure, Avarice, persuade thee",1.0 +"To make that world of glory, rapture, wealth,",0.0 +"They lately proved, thy soul's supreme desire.",0.0 +"What art thou made of? Rather, how unmade?",1.0 +"Is endless life, and happiness, despised?",1.0 +"Or both wished here, where neither can be found?",2.0 +"Such man's perverse, eternal war with Heaven!",0.0 +"But a long train of transitory forms,",2.0 +"Rising, and breaking, millions in an hour?",2.0 +"Bubbles of a fantastic deity, blown up",5.0 +"In sport, and then in cruelty destroyed?",1.0 +"OH! for what crime, unmerciful Lorenzo,",1.0 +Destroys thy scheme the whole of human race?,0.0 +"Kind is fell Lucifer, compared to thee:",4.0 +And vindicate the economy of Heaven.,4.0 +Heaven is all love; all joy in giving joy:,0.0 +It never had created but to bless:,1.0 +"And shall it, then, strike off the list of life",0.0 +"A being blessed, or worthy so to be?",1.0 +Heaven starts at an annihilating God.,1.0 +"Is that all Nature starts at, thy desire?",1.0 +What is that dreadful wish? ' -- The dying groan,0.0 +"Of Nature, murdered by the blackest guilt.",1.0 +What deadly poison has thy nature drunk?,0.0 +Nature's first wish is endless happiness;,4.0 +"Annihilation is an afterthought,",1.0 +"A monstrous wish, unborn till Virtue dies.",1.0 +"And, OH! what depth of horror lies enclosed!",0.0 +But first he wished the Deity destroyed.,1.0 +"If so, what words are dark enough to draw",1.0 +Thy picture true? The darkest are too fair.,2.0 +"Beneath what baleful planet, in what hour",0.0 +"In what infernal posture of the soul,",1.0 +"All hell invited, and all hell in joy",1.0 +"At such a birth, a birth so near of kin,",0.0 +"And deities begun, reduced to dust?",1.0 +Through Time's rough billows into Night's abyss.,1.0 +"Say, in this rapid tide of human ruin,",0.0 +Is there no rock on which man's tossing thought,3.0 +"Can rest from terror, dare his fate survey,",0.0 +And boldly think it something to be born?,1.0 +"Amid such hourly wrecks of being fair,",0.0 +"Which, as it called forth all things, can recall,",3.0 +And force Destruction to refund her spoil?,1.0 +Command the Grave restore her taken prey?,0.0 +"Bid Death's dark vale its human harvest yield,",2.0 +"And Earth, and Ocean, pay their debt of man,",0.0 +True to the grand deposit trusted there?,1.0 +"Is there no Potentate, whose outstretched arm,",5.0 +"When ripening Time calls forth the appointed hour,",3.0 +"Binds Present, Past, and Future to his throne?",2.0 +"His throne, how glorious, thus divinely graced,",2.0 +A garland worthy the Divinity!,2.0 +"A throne, by Heaven's omnipotence in smiles,",3.0 +Built like a Pharos towering in the waves,1.0 +An ocean of communicated bliss!,1.0 +"This were a God indeed. ' -- And such is man,",2.0 +As here presumed: he rises from his fall.,1.0 +Each blossom fair of Deity destroyed?,1.0 +"Nothing is dead; nay, nothing sleeps; each soul",3.0 +That ever animated human clay,0.0 +"Now wakes, is on the wing; and where, OH where,",2.0 +"Will the swarm settle? ' -- When the trumpet's call,",2.0 +"As sounding brass, collects us round Heaven's throne,",0.0 +"Had not the soul this outlet to the skies,",2.0 +"In this vast vessel of the universe,",3.0 +"How should we gasp, as in an empty void!",0.0 +How in the pangs of famished Hope expire!,0.0 +How bright my prospect shines! How gloomy thine!,1.0 +A trembling world! and a devouring God!,3.0 +Earth but the shambles of Omnipotence!,2.0 +"Of countless millions, born to feel the pang",0.0 +"Of being lost. Lorenzo, can it be?",1.0 +This bids us shudder at the thoughts of life.,0.0 +"Who would be born to such a phantom world,",1.0 +"Where joy if joy but heightens our distress,",1.0 +"So soon to perish, and revive no more?",2.0 +"The greater such a joy, the more it pains.",1.0 +"A world so far from great, and yet how great",0.0 +"Being a shadow, consciousness a dream!",3.0 +A dream how dreadful! Universal blank,0.0 +"Before it and behind! Poor man, a spark",2.0 +"Glittering a moment, nor that moment sure,",2.0 +"Midst upper, neither, and surrounding night,",2.0 +"His sad, sure, sudden, and eternal tomb!",2.0 +"Lorenzo, dost thou feel these arguments?",1.0 +How hast thou dared the Deity dethrone?,1.0 +How dared indict Him of a world like this?,1.0 +"If such the world, creation was a crime;",2.0 +"For what is crime, but cause of misery?",1.0 +"Of endless arguments, above, below,",1.0 +"Without us, and within, the short result, ' --",1.0 +"But wherefore such redundancy, such waste",2.0 +Of argument? One sets my soul at rest;,1.0 +"One obvious, and at hand, and OH! ' -- at heart.",1.0 +His heart so pure; that or succeeding scenes,1.0 +"Have palms to give, or never had he been born.",0.0 +What an old tale is this! Lorenzo cries.,4.0 +I grant this argument is old; but truth,1.0 +"No years impair; and had not this been true,",1.0 +Truth is immortal as thy soul; and fable,3.0 +"As fleeting as thy joys. Be wise, nor make",1.0 +Heaven's highest blessing vengeance: OH be wise!,0.0 +Nor make a curse of immortality.,1.0 +Behold this midnight glory: worlds on worlds!,1.0 +Amazing pomp! Redouble this amaze!,1.0 +"Ten thousand add, add twice ten thousand more;",3.0 +Then weigh the whole: one soul outweighs them all;,1.0 +"For this, believe not me; no man believe;",3.0 +"Trust not in words, but deeds; and deeds no less",1.0 +"Than those of the Supreme; nor His, a few;",3.0 +"Consult them all. Consulted, all proclaim",0.0 +Thy soul's importance: tremble at thyself;,0.0 +Of Nature to this unbelieving hour.,1.0 +"In this small province of His vast domain,",3.0 +"All Nature bow, while I pronounce His name!",1.0 +"What has God done, and not for this sole end, ' --",1.0 +To rescue souls from death? The soul's high price,1.0 +Is writ in all the conduct of the Skies.,1.0 +"The soul's high price is the Creation's key,",2.0 +The genuine cause of every deed Divine:,2.0 +That is the chain of ages which maintains,0.0 +"Their obvious correspondence, and unites",3.0 +Most distant periods in one blessed design:,1.0 +That is the mighty hinge on which have turned,0.0 +"All revolutions, whether we regard",1.0 +"The natural, civil, or religious world;",1.0 +The former two but servants to the third;,1.0 +"To that their duty done, they both expire,",0.0 +"And angels ask, where once they shone so fair!",0.0 +To lift us from this abject to sublime;,2.0 +This flux to permanent; this dark to day;,1.0 +This foul to pure; this turbid to serene;,1.0 +This mean to mighty! ' -- for this glorious end,3.0 +"The Almighty, rising, His long sabbath broke:",3.0 +The world was made; was ruined; was restored;,1.0 +Laws from the Skies were published; were repealed;,1.0 +"On earth kings, kingdoms rose; kings, kingdoms fell;",2.0 +Famed sages lighted up the Pagan world;,2.0 +Through distant age; saints travelled; martyrs bled;,1.0 +By wonders sacred Nature stood controlled;,0.0 +The living were translated; dead were raised;,1.0 +"Angels, and more than angels, came from heaven;",1.0 +"And, OH! for this, descended lower still;",1.0 +For one short moment Lucifer adored:,3.0 +Lorenzo! and wilt thou do less? ' -- For this,2.0 +"That hallowed page fools scoff at, was inspired,",2.0 +"Fall prostrate ere you touch it, lest you die.",2.0 +Nor less intensely bent infernal powers,0.0 +"To mar, than those of light this end to gain.",1.0 +"OH what a scene is here! ' -- Lorenzo, wake,",0.0 +"Rise to the thought: exert, expand thy soul",0.0 +To take the vast idea: it denies,1.0 +All else the name of great. Two warring worlds!,1.0 +"Of more than mortal, mounted on the wing!",1.0 +"On ardent wings of energy and zeal,",1.0 +"In their own cause conflicting? No; in thine,",0.0 +In man's. His single interest blows the flame;,0.0 +"His the sole stake; his fate the trumpet sounds,",2.0 +Tumultuous swarms of deities in arms!,4.0 +"Force, force opposing, till the waves run high,",3.0 +And tempest Nature's universal sphere.,0.0 +"Such opposites eternal, steadfast, stern,",2.0 +"Such foes implacable, are Good and Ill;",1.0 +"Yet man, vain man, would mediate peace between them.",4.0 +Think not this fiction. There was war in heaven.,1.0 +"From heaven's high crystal mountain, where it hung,",3.0 +And shot His indignation at the deep:,0.0 +And seems the stake of little moment still?,0.0 +He sleeps. ' -- And art thou shocked at mysteries?,1.0 +"The greatest, thou! How dreadful to reflect,",2.0 +In breasts Divine! how little in their own!,0.0 +"Wherever I turn, how new proofs pour upon me!",3.0 +How happily this wondrous view supports,1.0 +My former argument! How strongly strikes,1.0 +Immortal life's full demonstration here!,1.0 +Why this exertion? Why this strange regard,1.0 +From Heaven's Omnipotent indulged to man?,3.0 +"Because in man the glorious dreadful power,",2.0 +"Extremely to be pained, or blessed, for ever.",1.0 +Duration gives importance; swells the price.,1.0 +"An angel, if a creature of a day,",2.0 +What would he be? A trifle of no weight;,2.0 +"Because IMMORTAL, therefore is indulged",2.0 +This strange regard of deities to dust.,1.0 +Hence Heaven looks down on earth with all her eyes;,1.0 +Hence the soul's mighty moment in her sight;,3.0 +"Hence every soul has partisans above,",2.0 +And every thought a critic in the skies:,0.0 +"Hence clay, vile clay, has angels for its guard,",3.0 +And every guard a passion for his charge:,1.0 +"Hence, from all age, the Cabinet Divine",1.0 +Has held high counsel over the fate of man.,3.0 +Nor have the clouds those gracious counsels hid.,0.0 +And Providence came forth to meet mankind.,3.0 +"In various modes of emphasis and awe,",3.0 +"He spoke His will, and trembling Nature heard:",1.0 +"He spoke it loud, in thunder and in storm.",1.0 +"And shaken basis, owned the present God:",0.0 +"Witness, you billows! whose returning tide,",2.0 +"Breaking the chain that fastened it in air,",3.0 +"Witness, you flames the Assyrian tyrant blew",5.0 +"To sevenfold rage, as impotent as strong:",4.0 +"And thou, Earth! witness, whose expanding jaws",2.0 +"Has not each element, in turn, subscribed",1.0 +"The soul's high price, and sworn it to the wise?",2.0 +"Has not flame, ocean, either, earthquake, strove",2.0 +"All is delusion; Nature is wrapped up,",3.0 +"In tenfold night, from Reason's keenest eye;",1.0 +"In all beneath the sun, in all above,",0.0 +"As far as man can penetrate, or heaven",0.0 +And shall each toy be still a match for heaven?,0.0 +And full equivalent for groans below?,1.0 +Who would not give a trifle to prevent,1.0 +What he would give a thousand worlds to cure?,0.0 +"Lorenzo, thou hast seen if thine to see",2.0 +"All Nature, and her God, by Nature's course,",1.0 +"And Nature's course controlled, declare for me:",0.0 +The Skies above proclaim Immortal man!,0.0 +"The world's a system of theology,",2.0 +Read by the greatest strangers to the schools;,1.0 +"If honest, learnt; and sages over a plough.",2.0 +"Is not, Lorenzo, then, imposed on thee",0.0 +"This hard alternative, ' -- or to renounce",2.0 +"Thy reason and thy sense, or to believe?",2.0 +"A strenuous enterprise: to gain it, man",2.0 +"Must burst through every bar of common sense,",0.0 +And what rewards the sturdy combatant?,2.0 +"But wherefore infamy? ' -- For want of faith,",1.0 +Down the steep precipice of wrong he slides;,3.0 +"Faith in the future wanting, is, at least",1.0 +"If this life's gain invites him to the deed,",3.0 +"Why not his country sold, his father slain?",0.0 +IT is virtue to pursue our good supreme;,1.0 +"And his supreme, his only good is here.",1.0 +"Ambition, Avarice, by the wise disdained,",1.0 +"Is perfect wisdom, while mankind are fools,",2.0 +And think a turf or tombstone covers all:,1.0 +"These find employment, and provide for Sense",1.0 +"A richer pasture, and a larger range;",1.0 +"And Sense by right Divine ascends the throne,",0.0 +Virtue no more we think the will of Heaven.,1.0 +"Would Heaven quite beggar Virtue, if beloved?",4.0 +Has Virtue charms? ' -- I grant her heavenly fair;,2.0 +"Though that our admiration, this our choice.",1.0 +The virtues grow on immortality;,1.0 +"That root destroyed, they wither and expire.",1.0 +Rewards and punishments make God adored;,2.0 +And hopes and fears give Conscience all her power.,1.0 +"As in the dying parent dies the child,",0.0 +Virtue with Immortality expires.,3.0 +"Who tells me he denies his soul immortal,",1.0 +His duty iT is to love himself alone;,1.0 +"Nor care, though mankind perish, if he smiles.",2.0 +"Who thinks ere long the man shall wholly die,",1.0 +And are there such? ' -- Such candidates there are,2.0 +For more than death; for utter loss of being;,0.0 +"Being, the basis of the Deity!",4.0 +Ask you the cause? ' -- The cause they will not tell:,1.0 +"They work this transformation on the soul,",1.0 +"To lick the dust, and crawl in such a thought.",1.0 +Is it in words to paint you? OH you fallen!,1.0 +"Fallen from the wings of Reason, and of Hope!",2.0 +"Erect in stature, prone in appetite!",0.0 +"Patrons of pleasure, posting into pain!",2.0 +"Lovers of argument, averse to sense!",3.0 +"Lords of the wide creation, and the shame!",1.0 +"More base than those you rule! than those you pity,",2.0 +Far more undone! OH you most infamous,4.0 +"Of beings, from superior dignity!",4.0 +"Deepest in woe, from means of boundless bliss!",2.0 +You cursed by blessings infinite! because,1.0 +You motley mass of contradictions strong!,0.0 +"And are you, too, convinced your souls fly off",3.0 +"In exhalation soft, and die in air,",0.0 +From the full flood of evidence against you?,3.0 +"Your souls have quite worn out the make of Heaven,",2.0 +"But though you can deform, you can't destroy;",4.0 +"Lorenzo, this black brotherhood renounce:",2.0 +"Ere rapt by miracle, by reason winged,",2.0 +His mounting mind made long abode in heaven.,1.0 +"To send the soul, on curious travel bent,",2.0 +Through all the provinces of human thought;,1.0 +To dart her flight through the whole sphere of man;,2.0 +Of this vast universe to make the tour;,2.0 +In each recess of space and time at home;,0.0 +"Familiar with their wonders; diving deep,",1.0 +"And, like a prince of boundless interests there,",1.0 +Still most ambitious of the most remote;,2.0 +To look on truth unbroken and entire;,1.0 +"Truth in the system, the full orb; where truths,",2.0 +"By truths enlightened and sustained, afford",1.0 +"The incumbent weight of absolute, complete",1.0 +"Conviction: Here the more we press, we stand",0.0 +"More firm; who most examine, most believe.",0.0 +"Conveys the sense, and God is understood;",0.0 +Who not in fragments writes to human race:,0.0 +"Read His whole volume, sceptic! then reply.",3.0 +"This, this is thinking free, ' -- a thought that grasps",1.0 +"Beyond a grain, and looks beyond an hour.",0.0 +"Turn up thine eye, survey this midnight scene;",1.0 +Of human souls one day the destined range?,0.0 +"And ask more space in heaven, can roll at large",0.0 +"In man's capacious thought, and still leave room",1.0 +"Can such a soul contract itself, to gripe",1.0 +"A point of no dimension, of no weight?",2.0 +It can: it does: the world is such a point;,2.0 +"How small a part ' -- of nothing, shall I say?",0.0 +"Why not? ' -- Friends, our chief treasure! How they drop!",4.0 +"A triple mouth; and, in an awful voice,",0.0 +"Loud calls my soul, and utters all I sing.",1.0 +"How the world falls to pieces round about us,",2.0 +And leaves us in a ruin of our joy!,1.0 +What says this transportation of my friends?,1.0 +"It bids me love the place where now they dwell,",0.0 +And scorn this wretched spot they leave so poor.,0.0 +"There, there, Lorenzo, thy Clarissa sails.",2.0 +That rock of souls immortal; cut thy cord;,0.0 +Weigh anchor; spread thy sails; call every wind;,2.0 +And two of death: the last far more severe.,1.0 +Life animal is nurtured by the sun;,3.0 +"Thrives on his bounties, triumphs in his beams,",0.0 +Triumphant in His beams who made the day.,0.0 +"When we leave that sun, and are left by this,",0.0 +"The fate of all who die in stubborn guilt,",0.0 +IT is utter darkness; strictly double death.,0.0 +"We sink by no judicial stroke of Heaven,",0.0 +But Nature's course; as sure as plummets fall.,0.0 +"Since God or man must alter ere they meet,",0.0 +"For light and darkness blend not in one sphere,",0.0 +"IT is manifest, Lorenzo! who must change.",0.0 +"If then that double death should prove thy lot,",0.0 +Blame not the bowels of the Deity:,1.0 +Man shall be blessed as far as man permits.,0.0 +With an illustrious but tremendous power,4.0 +To counteract its own most gracious ends;,0.0 +"And this of strict necessity, not choice:",2.0 +"That power denied, men, angels, were no more",5.0 +"But passive engines, void of praise or blame.",0.0 +A nature rational implies the power,1.0 +"Of being blessed, or wretched, as we please;",1.0 +And he that would be barred capacity,1.0 +"Of pain, courts incapacity of bliss.",3.0 +"Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom;",1.0 +"Invites us ardently, but not compels;",1.0 +"Heaven but persuades, almighty man decrees;",1.0 +Man is the maker of immortal fates.,1.0 +"Man falls by man, if finally he falls;",2.0 +"And fall he must, who learns from Death alone",0.0 +The dreadful secret ' -- that he lives for ever.,0.0 +Why this to thee? ' -- thee yet perhaps in doubt,1.0 +Of second life? But wherefore doubtful still?,0.0 +Eternal life is Nature's ardent wish:,0.0 +"What ardently we wish, we soon believe:",1.0 +Thy tardy faith declares that wish destroyed:,0.0 +What has destroyed it? ' -- Shall I tell thee what?,0.0 +"When feared the future, iT is no longer wished;",4.0 +Thus infidelity our guilt betrays.,2.0 +"Nor that the sole detection! Blush, Lorenzo",0.0 +"Blush for hypocrisy, if not for guilt.",3.0 +"The future feared? ' -- An infidel, and fear!",0.0 +"Fear what? a dream? a fable? How thy dread,",1.0 +"Unwilling evidence, and therefore strong,",2.0 +How disbelief affirms what it denies!,1.0 +"It, unawares, asserts immortal life. ' --",0.0 +Surprising! Infidelity turns out,2.0 +"A creed, and a confession of our sins:",2.0 +"Lorenzo, with Lorenzo clash no more:",2.0 +"Our infidels are Satan's hypocrites,",1.0 +"Pretend the worst, and at the bottom fail.",0.0 +"When visited by Thought, Thought will intrude,",3.0 +"Like him they serve, they tremble, and believe.",1.0 +Is their hypocrisy so foul as this?,2.0 +So fatal to the welfare of the world?,3.0 +"And, if unpaid, be thanked for their escape",2.0 +"If not for that asylum, they might find",1.0 +A hell on earth; nor escape a worse below.,2.0 +"With insolence and impotence of thought,",2.0 +"Instead of racking fancy to refute,",1.0 +"Reform thy manners, and the truth enjoy. ' --",1.0 +But shall I dare confess the dire result?,0.0 +Can thy proud reason brook so black a brand?,2.0 +Is Nature's unavoidable ascent:,1.0 +"An honest deist, where the gospel shines,",0.0 +"Matured to nobler, in the Christian ends.",0.0 +"When that blessed change arrives, even cast aside",5.0 +This song superfluous: life immortal strikes,2.0 +"Conviction, in a flood of light Divine.",0.0 +Meridian Evidence puts Doubt to flight;,4.0 +And ardent Hope anticipates the skies.,0.0 +"Of that bright sun, Lorenzo! scale the sphere:",1.0 +IT is easy; it invites thee; it descends,2.0 +"From heaven to woo, and waft thee whence it came:",0.0 +Read and revere the sacred page; a page,2.0 +Where triumphs Immortality; a page,1.0 +Which not the whole creation could produce;,0.0 +Which not the conflagration shall destroy;,0.0 +In Nature's ruins not one letter lost:,0.0 +IT is printed in the minds of gods for ever.,0.0 +"In proud disdain of what even gods adore,",0.0 +Angels and men assent to what I sing;,2.0 +"Wits smile, and thank me for my midnight dream.",3.0 +How vicious hearts fume frenzy to the brain!.,2.0 +"Parts push us on to Pride, and Pride to Shame;",2.0 +To grace the brazen brow that braves the Skies;,0.0 +By loss of being dreadfully secure.,1.0 +"Lorenzo! if thy doctrine wins the day,",1.0 +"And drives my dreams, defeated, from the field;",1.0 +"If this is all, if earth a final scene,",1.0 +Take heed: stand fast; be sure to be a knave;,2.0 +A knave in grain; never deviate to the right:,3.0 +Guilt only makes annihilation gain.,1.0 +"Blessed scheme! which life deprives of comfort, Death",1.0 +Of hope; and which Vice only recommends!,1.0 +"If so, where, infidels, your bait thrown out",4.0 +To catch weak converts? Where your lofty boast,1.0 +"Of zeal for virtue, and of love to man?",1.0 +"Annihilation, I confess, in these.",1.0 +What can reclaim you? Dare I hope profound,1.0 +Philosophers the converts of a song?,2.0 +Yours be the praise to make my title good:,0.0 +"Mine to bless Heaven, and triumph in your praise.",2.0 +"Though sovereign is the medicine I prescribe,",4.0 +As yet I'll neither triumph nor despair:,1.0 +"But hope, ere long, my midnight dream will wake",2.0 +"Your hearts, and teach your wisdom ' -- to be wise:",1.0 +"For why should souls immortal, made for bliss,",0.0 +Ever wish and wish in vain! that souls could die?,0.0 +"What never can die, OH! grant to live; and crown",3.0 +"The wish, and aim, and labour of the Skies;",1.0 +"Increase, and enter on, the joys of heaven:",1.0 +"Thus shall my title pass a sacred seal,",0.0 +"Receive an imprimatur from above,",1.0 +While angels shout ' -- An Infidel Reclaimed!,0.0 +"To close, Lorenzo! Spite of all my pains,",0.0 +This is a miracle; and that no more.,2.0 +Who gave beginning can exclude an end.,1.0 +Deny thou art: then doubt if thou shalt be.,0.0 +A miracle with miracles enclosed,2.0 +Is man: and starts his faith at what is strange?,0.0 +What less than wonders from the Wonderful?,2.0 +What less than miracles from God can flow?,1.0 +"Admit a GOD, that mystery supreme,",1.0 +Nothing is marvellous for Him to do:,4.0 +Deny Him ' -- all is mystery besides;,1.0 +Millions of mysteries! each darker far,3.0 +Than that thy wisdom would unwisely shun.,0.0 +"If weak thy faith, why choose the harder side?",0.0 +We nothing know but what is marvellous;,1.0 +Yet what is marvellous we can't believe.,1.0 +"So weak our reason, and so great our God,",1.0 +"What most surprises in the sacred page,",0.0 +"Or full as strange, or stranger, must be true.",0.0 +"Faith is not Reason's labour, but repose.",1.0 +To Faith and Virtue why so backward man?,0.0 +From hence: ' -- The Present strongly strikes us all;,0.0 +"The Future, faintly: can we, then, be men?",1.0 +"If men, Lorenzo! the reverse is right.",1.0 +The Present is the scanty realm of Sense;,1.0 +"The Future, Reason's empire unconfined:",0.0 +There builds her blessings; there expects her praise;,1.0 +And nothing asks of Fortune or of men.,1.0 +And what is Reason? Be she thus defined:,0.0 +Reason is upright stature in the soul.,3.0 +OH! be a man; ' -- and strive to be a god.,0.0 +No; to give heart and substance to thy joys.,4.0 +She bids us quit realities for dreams;,1.0 +"Safety and peace, for hazard and alarm:",3.0 +"That tyrant over the tyrants of the soul, ' --",3.0 +"Spurn the luxuriant branch on which it sits,",4.0 +"Though bearing crowns, to spring at distant game,",0.0 +And plunge in toils and dangers ' -- for repose.,1.0 +"If hope precarious, and of things, when gained,",1.0 +"Of little moment, and as little stay,",1.0 +Can sweeten toils and dangers into joys;,0.0 +"What, then, that hope, which nothing can defeat,",1.0 +"Bliss past man's power to paint it; Time's, to close!",4.0 +"This is man's portion, while no more than man:",3.0 +"Hope, of all passions, most befriends us here;",0.0 +Passions of prouder name befriend us less.,2.0 +Joy has her tears; and Transport has her death:,0.0 +"Hope, like a cordial, innocent, though strong,",1.0 +Nor makes him pay his wisdom for his joys.,1.0 +"IT is all our present state can safely bear, ' --",0.0 +"Like the fair summer evening, mild and sweet!",2.0 +"IT is man's full cup, his Paradise below!",1.0 +"A blessed hereafter, then, or hoped, or gained,",0.0 +Is all; ' -- our whole of happiness: full proof,2.0 +I chose no trivial or inglorious theme.,6.0 +Though quite forgotten half your Bible's praise!,0.0 +"Important truths, in spite of verse, may please:",0.0 +Grave minds you praise; nor can you praise too much:,3.0 +"If there is weight in an Eternity,",3.0 +Let the grave listen; ' -- and be graver still.,4.0 +"TO sing of beauty and its power divine,",3.0 +"Another theme demands my humble lays,",0.0 +"To no fictitious scenes the Muse shall rove,",0.0 +"Nor seek, by frenzy led, the Delphic grove;",0.0 +"Alas! the mournful scenes we mean to show,",0.0 +"In real, not in fancied life we know:",0.0 +"The ills from Genius' source that daily spring,",0.0 +My pensive Muse in plaintive strains shall sing.,0.0 +All hail! you brothers of the tuneful art;,1.0 +"Whether you lull the ear, or charm the heart;",2.0 +Proclaim some titled Patron's fulsome praise;,0.0 +And bless those numbers which to you belong.,1.0 +"In early youth, when all our joys are pure,",0.0 +"When, blessed, and thoughtless of our future fate,",1.0 +"While tales of goblins stern, and fairies kind,",0.0 +Impress with pleasing awe the infant mind;,0.0 +"Even then, the hapless breast that Genius lights",0.0 +With double rapture hails these first delights;,0.0 +With brighter glow appears the blushing rose;,0.0 +"By Nature formed to relish all her sweets,",0.0 +"At length to school removed, the happy boy,",0.0 +The mother's earnest of much future joy;,1.0 +"The father's smile, the mother's ardent kiss;",0.0 +Nor quits he yet without some falling tear,0.0 +Those fields his infant joys have rendered dear.,0.0 +"At first, the clamour of the buzzing schools,",0.0 +And present fears his pristine joys recall;,0.0 +"With kindred flame his ardent bosom glows,",0.0 +His version pure the rising genius shows;,0.0 +"And the pleased master sees, with flattering hope,",4.0 +The early efforts of a future Pope.,1.0 +"Now partial friends predict his rising fame,",1.0 +At length some guardian care removes the youth,2.0 +"To those blessed scenes of wisdom, and of truth,",3.0 +"Where holy Science holds her peaceful reign,",0.0 +Where Genius wanders over the classic plain;,2.0 +"On Isis' verdant bank he shapes his way,",0.0 +He pants while she unfolds her mental store;,1.0 +"Ambition prompts him, and his prospects rise:",1.0 +"Beside the stream, or through the nodding groves;",1.0 +Each lively thought the hallowed Muse inspires;,0.0 +"Big with idea, glowing with her fires,",3.0 +"He gazes round. Genius adores the youth,",4.0 +And leads him smiling to the shrine of Truth.,1.0 +"Perchance, loved Isis, by thy gentle stream",4.0 +"And as thy waves in slow succession glide,",1.0 +"To mix with Ocean's undistinguished tide,",0.0 +"With hopes of fame his hapless bosom glows,",0.0 +"Nor more, Content, thy peaceful empire knows.",0.0 +"Now glittering visions in his sleep appear,",3.0 +"The splendid premium, and the patron Peer;",1.0 +"By Hope deluded, and Ambition led,",1.0 +The willing Muse he vows for life to wed.,0.0 +"With her he seeks that splendid sink of vice,",1.0 +"Where Peers, instead of Poets, have their price.",0.0 +"The Drama now his constant thoughts engage,",0.0 +"And hopes, like Murphy, to adorn the stage.",1.0 +Though Phoebus' self the fond attempt should bless;,0.0 +Yet ere his numbers meet the public eye,0.0 +A thousand deaths the hapless Bard must die;,0.0 +"Who cuts by patent, and may come again;",1.0 +Lo! Genius struggles in his torpid chain.,1.0 +"Near him Apollo veils his heavenly fires,",3.0 +"At length arrives the dread, the awful night,",0.0 +When the maimed infant sees the burst of light.,2.0 +The boxes filled with noisy froth ' -- the pit,0.0 +Replete alone with malice and with wit.,1.0 +"With vulgar dissonance the galleries armed,",3.0 +"In senseless clamour their huge prowess show,",3.0 +And fright with noise alone the Ton below;,0.0 +"Yielding rich harvest to the critic flail,",4.0 +"At length to every gazing eye appears,",0.0 +Who opens with Nature's key the source of tears.,2.0 +"Critics, though stern, awhile their voice suspend,",2.0 +"Till, charmed by Siddons, at her shrine they bend;",0.0 +The sons of sordid wealth and splendid power,0.0 +Feel but the sorrows of the passing hour:,1.0 +Where Misery scowled not on the aspiring soul.,3.0 +Know those who wept over woes his fancy framed,1.0 +Triumphant marked his last expiring hour.,0.0 +"Ah! who, by Genius blessed, yet cursed by Fate,",0.0 +Can for his sorrow hope a shorter date?,1.0 +"Yet list, you hapless sons of magic verse,",0.0 +"While your deep woe my humble lays rehearse,",3.0 +A shrine to which the fool shall never bend;,0.0 +"Or, offering there, the god shall never befriend.",3.0 +"The time may come, when England's rocky shore",0.0 +When some proud victor over this happy land,3.0 +"Shall impious stretch the tyrant's fated wand,",3.0 +"Whenever, over Britain doomed to reign no more,",1.0 +"Her shrine removing to the Western shore,",1.0 +"Sweet Freedom, heavenly maid, shall wing her way,",3.0 +And to new worlds disclose her lustrous day;,2.0 +"The Nine loved partners of each former flight,",2.0 +"Disdaining still to own a tyrant's right,",2.0 +Where each shall wait the awful close of Time.,0.0 +Shall to the tawny tribes your worth proclaim.,0.0 +"And, while around new empires rise to view,",1.0 +Their mingled praise shall still belong to you.,0.0 +"By Hope inspired, nay, more, by Reason taught;",0.0 +"Since, ere her pillar Fame begins to raise,",0.0 +"The fated Bard thy debt, OH Nature, pays?",1.0 +"When all the varied ills of life are over,",0.0 +"And slighted worth is doomed to feel no more,",1.0 +"Then over his grave a grateful country weeps,",2.0 +"And loads with costly pile the hallowed spot,",0.0 +Where all that Famine spared is doomed to rot.,0.0 +"I Have, before the Time prescribed by you,",0.0 +"Exposed my weak Production to your View,",1.0 +"Which may, I hope, have Pardon at your Hand,",0.0 +Because produced to Light by your Command,1.0 +"Perhaps you might expect some finished Ode,",0.0 +"Or sacred Song, to sound the Praise of God;",0.0 +"A glorious Thought, and laudable! But then",3.0 +Think what illiterate Poet guides the Pen:,3.0 +"Ill suit such Tasks with one who holds the Plough,",2.0 +Such lofty Subjects with a Fate so low.,1.0 +"SIR, were your Eloquence and Learning mine,",2.0 +"And I, like you, a Favourite of the Nine;",1.0 +"I quickly would Parnassus' Summit climb,",4.0 +And find a Hero worthy of my Rhyme:,1.0 +Nor would I celebrate the Trojan Race;,0.0 +"Nor any of those martial Sons of Fame,",1.0 +"Far nobler Thoughts my grateful Voice should raise,",1.0 +"In lofty Strains, to great MESSIAH's Praise:",1.0 +"I'd joyfully resound his wondrous Birth,",2.0 +"Then, with Reluctance, Horror, and Surprise,",2.0 +"I'd trace the heavenly Hero to the Tree,",3.0 +Sing what he suffered there for you and me;,2.0 +"Next, in heroic Numbers, would I tell,",0.0 +"How soon he baffled Death, and vanquished Hell,",0.0 +"Subdued the Grave, and showed the glorious Way,",2.0 +"From Realms of Darkness, to eternal Day.",1.0 +Such noble Subjects should my Lays excite;,0.0 +"And you, my Patron, would in such delight;",2.0 +"BUT now I must omit MESSIAH's Praise,",1.0 +Lest I degrade him with unworthy Lays;,2.0 +"My Fate compels me silent to remain,",1.0 +For want of Learning to improve my Strain:,1.0 +"By which no Thought, though well conceived, can rise",1.0 +"To full Perfection, but in Embryo dies:",2.0 +"And bring forth something, though of little Use.",2.0 +"THUS, in the Country, often have I found,",0.0 +"Producing nothing, but some trifling Weeds.",1.0 +BUT why stand I my Fate accusing so?,1.0 +The Field calls me to Labour; I must go:,3.0 +"Then, Sir, adieu: Accept what you did crave,",1.0 +And be propitious to your humble Slave.,1.0 +"And furthest send its weight athwart the field,",0.0 +Let him stand forth his brawny arm to boast.',3.0 +"Swift at the word, from out the gazing host",1.0 +"The band around admire the mighty mass,",0.0 +A slippery weight and formed of polished brass.,0.0 +"And batter Cadmus' walls with stony showers,",0.0 +Receive a worthier load; yonder puny ball,2.0 +"He said, and scornful flung the unheeded weight",2.0 +Aloof: the champions trembling at the sight,2.0 +"Prevent disgrace, the palm despaired resign.",0.0 +All but two youths the enormous orb decline:,2.0 +These conscious shame withheld and pride of noble line.,0.0 +"As bright and huge the spacious circle lay,",0.0 +With doubled light it beamed against the day:,0.0 +"When blazing against the sun it shines from far,",2.0 +Summoned his strength and called forth all the man.,3.0 +"All eyes were bent on his experienced hand,",3.0 +The ponderous brass in exercise he bore:,2.0 +Where flowed the widest stream he took his stand;,0.0 +Nor stopped till it had cut the further strand.,1.0 +"And now in dust the polished ball he rolled,",0.0 +"Then grasped its weight, elusive of his hold;",1.0 +"Now fitting to his grip and nervous arm,",2.0 +"Suspends the crowd with animation warm,",0.0 +"Nor tempts he yet the plain but, hurled upright,",0.0 +"Emits the mass, a prelude of his might.",2.0 +"Firmly he plants each knee and over his head,",4.0 +"Collecting all his force, the circle sped.",0.0 +It towers to cut the clouds; now through the skies,4.0 +Sings in its rapid way and strengthens as it flies;,1.0 +"Anon with slackened rage comes quivering down,",2.0 +"Heavy and huge, and cleaves the solid ground.",2.0 +"So from the astonished stars, her nightly train,",1.0 +"The sun's pale sister, drawn by magic strain,",1.0 +Their cymbals toss and sounding brass explore:,0.0 +That to avoid and this to emulate.,2.0 +"His vigorous arm he tried before he flung,",2.0 +Pursued his cast and hurled the orb on high;,0.0 +"The orb on high tenacious of its course,",1.0 +"True to the mighty arm that gave it force,",0.0 +Its ancient lord secure of victory.,0.0 +The theatre's green height and woody wall,2.0 +While vales and woods and echoing hills rebound.,2.0 +The eyeless Cyclops heaved the craggy rock:,1.0 +"Where ocean frets beneath the dashing oar,",0.0 +"And parting surges round the vessel roar,",0.0 +And scarce Ulysses escaped his giant arm.,2.0 +"A tiger's pride the victor bore away,",0.0 +With native spots and artful labour gay:,0.0 +"A shining border round the margin rolled,",0.0 +And calmed the terrors of his claws in gold.,1.0 +"And tuned to pleasing Sounds the trembling Air,",0.0 +And slowly drove unwilling Herd to feed.,0.0 +"Attend, you Fish, and all around me throng,",0.0 +While I repeat the Nymph's alternate Song.,6.0 +"Think, how to day a gentle western Breeze",0.0 +"With pleasing Gales danced on the circling Seas,",2.0 +"It swept the calmer Surface of the Main,",1.0 +And smoothed the Waters to a smiling Plain;,1.0 +"Are born on Eastern Winds, and waft their blended Smells.",0.0 +"The Dolphins lash the Waves with bending Tails,",0.0 +And every Ship with speedy Current sails.,0.0 +"Since nothing here we fixed or constant find,",0.0 +"The restless Fish who left the open Sea,",0.0 +"And swam to every Creek, and winding Bay,",0.0 +While empty Nets deceive the fishing Swain.,0.0 +"Now shortening Days are grieved by Northern Isles,",1.0 +"While from increasing Cold, and snowy Wilds",1.0 +The starving Birds in numerous Flocks repair,2.0 +"To happier Climates, and to warmer Air.",3.0 +"Though late the Tides have threatened all the Coast,",0.0 +"Now, since the waning Moon her Strength has lost,",0.0 +"They own their Weakness, and are heard no more,",2.0 +But creeping hardly cover half the Shore:,0.0 +"When she directs, the swelling Floods increase,",1.0 +And sounding Waters raise the troubled Seas;,0.0 +"The Waves are still, and hushed in sullen Peace.",0.0 +"The conscious Fish the heavenly Motions feel,",2.0 +"And thus confined within his native Shell,",0.0 +"All dry and lean the mournful Oyster lies,",0.0 +And Fishers then the tasteless Prey despise,0.0 +"But when the Moon looks down all over bright,",2.0 +"They juicy grow, nourished with heavenly Light.",7.0 +Her Heart thus fixed by him should rove no more,2.0 +"But when repeated Loves began to cloy,",0.0 +The wiser Nymph embraced a kinder Boy.,0.0 +While angry Winds opposed the rising Tide.,0.0 +But spotless Virtue has a nobler Grace.,1.0 +"Or break repeated Vows, or change his Love.",0.0 +Where altering Scenes the fickle Mer-man please.,3.0 +"For all is restless, and unsettled there;",2.0 +And always smiling with an easy Calm.,1.0 +"The Waters here a constant Peace maintain,",0.0 +And in soft Murmurs lovingly complain.,2.0 +"The Winds themselves are not uncertain here,",0.0 +"But their fixed Seasons know, each circling Year.",2.0 +To sweep the Ocean with a fresher Gale.,1.0 +"Such is his Love; no Change it undergoes,",2.0 +"By Reason fixed, and no Repentance knows.",0.0 +"Thus said the Nymph; and now the Day retires,",1.0 +While sparkling Waves appear like kindled Fires.,0.0 +"The distant Rocks shine with deceitful Light,",2.0 +And thus increase the Terrors of the Night.,1.0 +Than thy rash Hand which robs this Face of Smiles;,2.0 +"And does that sweet and pleasing Air control,",0.0 +"I miss the Look that captivates my Heart,",3.0 +"Attracts my Love, and tender Thoughts inspires;",0.0 +Nor can my Breast be warmed by common Fires;,1.0 +Nor can ARDELIA love but where she first admires.,3.0 +When this Virago struggled in thy Brain;,2.0 +"And strange it is, thou hast not made her wield",1.0 +"A mortal Dart, or penetrating Shield,",0.0 +"The Power, of which thou hast disarmed her Eyes:",1.0 +"As if, like Amazons, she must oppose,",1.0 +And into Lovers force her vanquished Foes.,0.0 +"To gain her Heart, he had not lost his own;",0.0 +"Nor, by the gentlest Bands of Human Life,",3.0 +At once secured the Mistress and the Wife.,1.0 +"And what first lightened, still upholds his Flame.",1.0 +"Fain his Compassion would thy Works approve,",2.0 +"Were pitying thee consistent with his Love,",4.0 +Or with the Taste which Italy has wrought,2.0 +"In his refined and daily heightened Thought,",1.0 +"Where Poetry, or Painting find no place,",2.0 +Unless performed with a superior Grace.,3.0 +"Could but my Wish some Influence infuse,",1.0 +Be tried by those who easily excuse:,2.0 +"But strictest Censors should of either judge,",0.0 +"Applaud the Artist, and despise the Drudge.",1.0 +Then never would thy Colours have debased,2.0 +Nor had my Pen more subject to their Laws,1.0 +"A rigid Fear had kept us both in Awe,",0.0 +"Nor I composed, nor thou presumed to draw;",2.0 +"That Excellence, to which we never could rise,",2.0 +By less Attempts we safely might have gained,0.0 +"That humble Praise which neither has obtained,",0.0 +"It is not given to show, or to rehearse",4.0 +"A soft Endearment, and a cheerful Wit,",1.0 +"O, you! whose sympathetic hearts are formed",1.0 +"To woe responsive, and whose tremulous nerves",3.0 +Vibrate to Sorrow's mournful airs ' -- attend!,2.0 +"Who labour through the pleasures of the world,",2.0 +Nor feel existence when they cease impel;,0.0 +"Fell Dissipation steels, and robs your minds",1.0 +Of the sweet energies bestowed by Heaven:,3.0 +"But, come, you few! who love the lonely hour;",0.0 +"Who know the sense refined, the charming agony,",1.0 +Which Pity gives the hallowed hearts she fills;,0.0 +"To you I call! o, come, and trace with me",1.0 +"Behold the lawn, which opens on the left,",1.0 +"With crocus bordered, aromatic thyme,",0.0 +And every fragrant shrub that tempts the bee,0.0 +"Down from the liquid air, to bathe in sweets.",1.0 +"The opening wicket of that humble cot,",3.0 +"By slow degrees, moves gently on its hinge:",2.0 +"Looking a blessing on her slumbering Sire,",5.0 +"The threshold quits; when, from his short repose,",2.0 +"Why wilt thou wander in Night's chilly air,",1.0 +And trust thy bosom to its piercing dews?,1.0 +Scarcely a zephyr moves the restless aspen;,2.0 +"And the clear moon, with soft inviting beam,",2.0 +Looks through the foliage of the lofty pines.,1.0 +A moment let me breathe the balmy air!,0.0 +"Confined beneath the cottage roof by fear,",0.0 +Taste Nature's blessings ' -- exercise and air.,1.0 +Towards the margin of a neighbouring lake:,3.0 +"But not its lucid bosom tempts her steps,",0.0 +"Nor moon inviting through the lofty pines,",1.0 +"Nor balmy air, nor healthful exercise;",0.0 +"Where Grief, though audible, wastes her sad voice",3.0 +In ambient air ' -- not torturing the ear,3.0 +"Bending to earth, with eyes that penetrate",2.0 +The glowing canopy of heaven; in sounds,1.0 +"' -- Tender as youthful mother's lulling song,",2.0 +She thus addressed Omnipotence divine:,1.0 +"O, Thou! in whose eternal, boundless sight,",1.0 +"The woes, or happiness, that overpower",1.0 +"The mind of finite man, seem but as drops,",3.0 +To form one mighty whole ' -- to Thee I pray!,1.0 +"Not for myself I pray, but for my Father;",4.0 +"He falls from thee; he leans not on the rock,",2.0 +"The sacred rock, by which alone he stands",0.0 +"O, Thou, accept my humble heart for his!",1.0 +"Next for my Country, Heaven, o, hear my prayer!",0.0 +Behold her struggles with a pitying eye!,3.0 +"The pious Virgin's voice, with terror choked,",0.0 +"Unfinished left her prayer. Forth, from the shade",0.0 +"Of the surrounding thicket, rushed a Knight,",1.0 +"In shining armour clad, born on a steed",2.0 +"Who seemed to scorn the earth, his light heel passed,",1.0 +As though his element had been the air:,2.0 +"He bore his master to the spangled lake,",1.0 +"In thousand glowing colours bloomed around her,",3.0 +In thousand scents perfumed the tranquil air.,0.0 +"Light vaulting on the ground, the Knight approached,",2.0 +"And in such courteous phrase addressed the Maid,",2.0 +That half her terrors ended with his words.,1.0 +"Leave me, Sir Knight! with firmness she replied;",4.0 +"And as she spoke, her voice, though sweet, expressed",1.0 +"A custom to command. Leave me, Sir Knight!",4.0 +This solitude is to Misfortune sacred;,1.0 +"But those to whom the door of sweet Society,",2.0 +"And Friendship's holy gate, are shut forever.",0.0 +"And can the social door, and Friendship's gate,",1.0 +To thee oppose their brazen locks? OH Heaven!,2.0 +"The peopled world thy angels have forsook,",0.0 +"And here in deserts dwell ' -- in human form,",0.0 +"But in celestial beauty! Tell me, Virgin!",0.0 +"' -- For sure the awe, with which thy eye inspires,",0.0 +"Bespeaks thy vestal state ' -- tell me, fair Maid!",3.0 +"What ills, what sore affliction, thee have driven",1.0 +"To seek, in these sequestered shades, felicity",2.0 +I dare not whisper to the speechless air,1.0 +"Yet, from your courtesy, I must demand",1.0 +"My solitude again; and, as you hope",1.0 +"For blessing from the Power who hears my voice,",3.0 +"Swear never to divulge, that in these glades",2.0 +"A Maid you found ' -- by outward beauty graced,",0.0 +"But whose sad heart, Sorrow hath called her own,",3.0 +And stern Affliction long enrolled a sister!,0.0 +"The Stranger paused: and then, as if to win",1.0 +"Her confidence, and woo her from reserve",2.0 +"By frank example, thus the Nymph addressed:",0.0 +To whom should I reveal this blessed abode?,1.0 +Whose feet conduct to violate your haunts?,1.0 +"I, who, like you, by keen misfortunes pressed,",0.0 +Seek shelter from the world; and even now,2.0 +"Her purple vineyards leave, her fertile meads,",0.0 +Her ever blooming fields ' -- all these I quit ' --,1.0 +"And is Affliction's appetite so vast,",1.0 +That daily victims can't allay her rage?,0.0 +"But, gentle Knight! where will your journey end?",1.0 +"What Porter waits to hear your bugle sound,",0.0 +"And open the gates, with welcome in his face",2.0 +Alas! sweet Maid! no hospitable gate,7.0 +To Eastern climes I bend my weary course;,0.0 +' -- Jerusalem the home which ends my progress.,2.0 +"There let me bear your woes. Instruct me, Lady!",0.0 +"And, in their stead, soft peace, and blooming joy,",1.0 +"Return into your breast. That duty passed,",0.0 +"' -- The sacred cause, which arms our Christian legions,",0.0 +' -- In breath more fragrant than an Eastern morn:,1.0 +Wilt thou remember me at Zion's gate?,3.0 +"And shall my sorrows from the holy cave,",1.0 +"The Stranger saw instinctive prudence rise,",0.0 +And feared to give the virtue time to act.,0.0 +"Yes, he rejoined, with zeal more pure and ardent",2.0 +"Than converts feel, who, at the holy altar,",0.0 +"Will I your sorrows pour, in that blessed spot",2.0 +Where Sorrow surely cannot plead in vain.,0.0 +"Struck with the piety which decked his words,",1.0 +"Yet doubting still, the timid, trusting Virgin,",0.0 +"A Christian Knight he is, and with his life",1.0 +Now hastening to support the Christian cause.,2.0 +Oceans and continents will soon divide us:,3.0 +"Why then the knowledge of my woes withhold,",1.0 +When blessed Benevolence demands the tale?,1.0 +"Then, turning to the Stranger, meekly said",1.0 +' -- Such kind persuasion confidence demands;,1.0 +"Yet patience will you need, while I relate",2.0 +"Events so strong, they fitter would become",0.0 +"A manly tongue. Of battles I must speak,",1.0 +"Of falling kingdoms, and victorious arms.",3.0 +These strains accord not with a female voice;,2.0 +"Yet will I strive to nerve my thoughts and language,",0.0 +And raise my fancy to the lofty theme.,1.0 +"But not alone of war shall I discourse,",0.0 +"Of meeting armies, or contending states.",1.0 +"' -- Here on this sloping bank, Sir Knight, repose;",1.0 +"And I a tale ' -- for Pity ' -- will unfold,",2.0 +"The Knight, with token of respect, obeyed.",1.0 +' -- A woodland goddess! and her grassy seat,1.0 +On her sweet features spread an air composed;,2.0 +"While in Night's zenith ' -- mid her radiant court,",1.0 +The crystal Moon seemed fixed in still attention:,1.0 +The silent waters of the lake more silent flowed:,1.0 +"The Zephyrs, drawing close their silken wings,",0.0 +The wheeling bat far off her circles draws;,2.0 +"While the Night's sweet musician stilled her song,",3.0 +"All thus in silence wrapped, the thoughtful Maid,",0.0 +"With tone sedate, begins the promised tale.",0.0 +"Had late a Monarch, whom her Sons revered;",0.0 +"' -- As King revered him, as a Father loved:",1.0 +"He loved his People, knew no care but theirs;",1.0 +"And the fond blessings, which they gave his name,",2.0 +Blunted the thorns a diadem conceals.,2.0 +"Peace, in this happy reign, her throne established,",0.0 +And brought her proper blessings in her train;,0.0 +The fertile plough subdued our sterile fields;,0.0 +"From neighbouring countries, riches and renown.",3.0 +Saw thankful faces and contented hearts:,2.0 +"No iron taxes griped his pallid frame,",1.0 +Nor tore the morsel from his children's mouths:,1.0 +"Blithe as the morn he rose to healthful labour,",0.0 +"Her fame, her riches, spreading to the East,",1.0 +Enticed the Moors from their polluted home:,1.0 +Sudden their prows invade our peaceful seas;,2.0 +' -- Sudden the bold Barbarians crowd our shores;,4.0 +Deep consternation spreads through every street;,1.0 +"The mother grasps her child, and shrieking flies;",0.0 +"While husbands, fathers, brothers, all in arms,",0.0 +"Chide the dear mourners who retard their speed,",3.0 +"But from the walls, what image strikes the view!",1.0 +Rapid descending to the plain below.,3.0 +"Upon the right advanced a mighty column,",0.0 +Of armed chariots formed ' -- so thickly set,4.0 +"Catching the rays of the meridian sun,",5.0 +"Upon the left hand moved the tawny marksmen,",1.0 +"The dreadful pomp descended to the plain,",1.0 +"' -- While our scared citizens observed their works,",3.0 +"Like trembling birds, who, looking from their nests",1.0 +"Inevitable fate. But black despair,",1.0 +Lead us! they cried ' -- lead to the Moorish camp!,2.0 +"What are their numbers, single as they come?",1.0 +"With us, our parents, children, lovers, laws,",1.0 +"Religion, liberty ' -- all join the battle,",1.0 +"' -- Brace our firm arms, and give ten thousand points,",4.0 +"Ten thousand deaths, to every Christian sword.",1.0 +"This holy rage, like sparks electric, flew",0.0 +"From man to man. Each urged his valiant friend,",0.0 +"To save their city, matrons, daughters, wives,",0.0 +' -- As if on each their preservation hung.,1.0 +So sure they seemed of conquest and revenge.,1.0 +"Their foes' destruction only could proceed,",0.0 +"The gates of every temple open threw,",0.0 +"And, with humiliation deep, repaired",1.0 +Before the sacred altar of our God.,1.0 +"The soldiers, citizens, the nobles crowd,",1.0 +And every holy roof grew instant vocal.,1.0 +"Prostrate and weeping, they implored the High",3.0 +"Shield us! they cried ' -- O, save thy faithful people!",0.0 +Omnipotence! preserve us from the yoke,2.0 +The foe prepares for our devoted necks!,1.0 +"Not on thy arm, but in their own frail numbers!",1.0 +To Thee! OH God of Battles! we appeal.,3.0 +"Hear, hear our voice! ' -- When lo! from Heaven's bright concave,",1.0 +"In gracious intimation, that their prayers,",0.0 +"Wafted by guardian spirits, reached the throne,",4.0 +"A mighty peal of thunder rapt their ears,",0.0 +And purple lightnings quiver in the sky.,0.0 +"Rushed from the temples, like impetuous flames;",0.0 +"' -- Or like fierce tigers, who their destined prey",1.0 +"At distance see; and pant, and foam, and rage,",0.0 +With pride of certain conquest. But their prince,1.0 +"Decides the fate of armies, and of kings.",1.0 +"Let prudent foresight, then, direct your aims,",2.0 +"The haughty Moors, contemptuous of our strength,",1.0 +Doubtless expect to see our opening gates,4.0 +"Receive them, masters, at the trumpet's signal:",0.0 +"To aid their blindness, we will offers make,",1.0 +"Of terms too humble for a state in freedom,",2.0 +And yet too high for Conquerors to accept.,4.0 +"Then, in the night's meridian, when no star,",2.0 +"With telltale beams upon our polished mail,",1.0 +"' -- Then will we rouse the lion from his den,",1.0 +And prove our courage worthy of our cause.,1.0 +"Like distant thunder, gaining on the ear,",1.0 +"The heralds sent, and their misleading terms,",1.0 +"All now prepare, for the wished hour of onset.",3.0 +"The nervous archer tries his idle bow,",0.0 +And gives new plumage to his missile darts.,2.0 +"The matrons, virgins, catch the martial fire:",0.0 +"To greet, on their return, the conquering heroes.",3.0 +"Yet, amongst the virgins, one sad heart was found;",2.0 +'Twas in the bosom of the royal Princess.,1.0 +"He, only he, could melt her icy breast;",1.0 +' -- None could so well deserve an untouched heart.,3.0 +"His mind, more noble than his princely birth,",1.0 +"As poets feign celestial Virtue wears,",0.0 +"When visible to man. O! wonder not,",1.0 +The Princess loved with strength no common flame,1.0 +Could have inspired! Her soul was full of love:,2.0 +Ten thousand terrors now besieged her soul;,1.0 +"Ten thousand nothings, which her fancy dressed",1.0 +"In colour, substance, circumstance, and form.",1.0 +The tender weakness which her heart confessed.,0.0 +"Shall I, she cried, a mighty kingdom's heir,",0.0 +Show terrors that the humbler maids despise?,1.0 +My Country rocks upon a precipice.,1.0 +And amongst her dear preservers be thou Chief!,1.0 +"The shades of eve advance, and from the camp",1.0 +The subtle messengers return ' -- return,1.0 +"With insult loaded, and contemptuous threats.",4.0 +"Should yield them homage, and perpetual tribute.",3.0 +"A day they grant us to resolve on slavery,",2.0 +Or see our towers extended in the dust.,2.0 +No terms or messengers they will receive;,3.0 +"But opened gates, and crescents on our spires,",1.0 +The answer they expect. This lofty menace,1.0 +Less with surprise than anger was received;,3.0 +' -- It spoke the spirit of the fierce invaders.,1.0 +Some hours ' -- tremendous pause! were yet to pass,0.0 +"Between this period, and that meant for action:",1.0 +"Gloomy suspense sat brooding over the army,",5.0 +And the full mind had rendered language mute.,2.0 +"At this grand moment, when no thought of aid,",3.0 +"' -- Of human aid, had glanced across the soul,",0.0 +In from the Western gate ' -- like bees returning,0.0 +"Ten thousand sons of war. At this blessed sight,",2.0 +"Such transport seized the citizens, and troops,",1.0 +"It seemed triumphant holiday, and joy",0.0 +Would even in frolic sport ' -- so sudden the effect.,3.0 +"He heard the Moors were hovering on our coasts,",1.0 +"And, as a Christian king, the cause adopted.",1.0 +Pour back their warriors through the Western portal:,2.0 +"There, in the marshy vale, that to the North",1.0 +"Extends its rich campaign, the army grew",0.0 +"In form. Pardon if I, a simple Maid,",2.0 +"Cannot relate, Sir Knight! in artful terms,",1.0 +"How, in what order grew. I have not skill",0.0 +To use the phrases chance hath given mine ear.,2.0 +"Were I to speak of flank, and rear, and van,",1.0 +' -- Learn then but this: the King the centre kept;,1.0 +"The Stranger bowed reply, in mute respect.",0.0 +"The tender Twilight, which till now had looked",1.0 +"With timid eye upon the martial plain,",0.0 +"Withdrew her beam, to follow distant day:",0.0 +"But iron War, scornful of Nature's laws,",5.0 +"Makes Rest his captive, and the ear of Silence",2.0 +"Frequent invades, while from the throne of Night,",2.0 +In awful pomp he takes. Balconies crowded,5.0 +"Shower down their blessings as the soldiers pass,",2.0 +"While thousand voices spend themselves in prayer,",0.0 +And thousand ardent eyes appeal to Heaven.,0.0 +"At length arrived towards the Eastern towers,",0.0 +The army made a momentary halt.,0.0 +"When, lo! the holy Prelate, with a train",1.0 +"And holding each a crucifix, advanced.",0.0 +"You more than warriors, said the Man of God,",0.0 +"You Christian soldiers, think whose sword you bear!",0.0 +"The barbarous nations of the earth, whose ears",3.0 +"Were never blessed with sounds of Gospel Truths,",0.0 +"Have yet achieved such wondrous deeds in arms,",0.0 +"As will convey their names, with glory decked,",1.0 +To the remotest age in Time's dark womb.,2.0 +"A thousand nations have for freedom fought,",0.0 +"A thousand others for revenge have armed,",1.0 +And given destruction to offending foe:,3.0 +"To save their matrons from the brutal rape,",1.0 +All these you fight for; but you fight for MORE ' --,1.0 +Torn on the racking cross! These wounds for you,0.0 +Were given. This blood ' -- this sacred blood! for you,2.0 +"Gushed forth, and mingled with corruption. Go then!",2.0 +Are now preparing your celestial crowns:,1.0 +' -- Go and achieve them! Choirs of holy angels,2.0 +"Now tune their golden harps, and hymns prepare",1.0 +To greet you conquerors in the gates of Heaven:,1.0 +"From every mouth burst forth ' -- as if one soul,",2.0 +"One voice, through all the army reigned ' -- We go!",0.0 +"Inspired thus by the Priest's heroic charge,",0.0 +Each seemed to press to be the earliest victim;,2.0 +"Their souls on fire, were eager to depart",1.0 +"The earthly sphere, and seize on their immortal crowns.",1.0 +"Thus rapt, the soldiers pass; and through the gates,",2.0 +Spread on the surface of the hostile plain.,1.0 +"' -- Shut close for ever, on the valiant youths,",2.0 +Whose feet now leave them ' -- to return no more:,3.0 +"But they, by other hopes than life inspired,",1.0 +March on; while Night her curtain closer draws,0.0 +To hide their progress from the watchful foe.,2.0 +"In vain the night her sable curtain draws,",0.0 +And bids the stars keep hoodwinked in their course;,2.0 +Betrayed the distant sound of pacing steps.,0.0 +"From guard to guard the hasty signals fly,",0.0 +And shoot like meteors through the dark expanse.,1.0 +"The Infidels, alarmed, seem all in motion,",2.0 +"While the faint quivering lights, that lately served",4.0 +"To guide the hunters in their dangerous chase,",2.0 +"Now blaze and multiply, till all the camp",1.0 +"Our troops, undaunted, quicken as they tread,",1.0 +And hasty marching grows to eager speed.,0.0 +' -- Thirsting to drench their swords in Moorish blood!,2.0 +"Silence, no longer useful, now gives way",4.0 +To all the dreadful din that battle loves.,0.0 +"The haughty trumpet, and the vigorous drum,",3.0 +"The Moors rush forth, impetuous and confused.",2.0 +"No orders thought on, and no orders heard:",3.0 +"Some to the trench, some to the chariots fly",3.0 +"' -- The restive steeds reject accustomed yoke,",0.0 +"Dash their fierce leaders wildly to the earth,",4.0 +"Our troops had gained the ditch, and to the beards",1.0 +Ere the first panic left their courage calm,3.0 +And all its horrors rage mature at once.,0.0 +The bows are useless; throat to throat they fight;,0.0 +"' -- Foes mix with foes, ranks press on hostile ranks,",2.0 +"Till each are lost, and form one dreadful whole.",0.0 +Death never triumphed as he triumphed now;,2.0 +The fate he gives. Scarce had the armies joined,1.0 +' -- Torrents of reeking gore. The blood of Moors,2.0 +"And Christians forms one common flood, and rolls",0.0 +Its heavy tide in stagnant streams along.,0.0 +"Say, Stranger, hast thou seen the warlike sports.",2.0 +"Superior to the rest, the Bull-fight claims",2.0 +Glorious preeminence. Forth from their dens,3.0 +"The bellowing monsters rush, and the earth rings",3.0 +Runs from their churning jaws; their burnished horns,0.0 +"Now raze the earth, now proudly tossed in air,",2.0 +Challenge the waiting warriors to the combat:,3.0 +"The waiting warriors, ardent for the sign,",1.0 +Dart on their foes: the lordly beasts evade,0.0 +"They gore the generous steeds, their riders crush,",2.0 +Or send them clashing through the dusty air.,1.0 +"Throughout the concave, sound the eager plaudits,",0.0 +And boisterous admiration speaks the joy:,0.0 +"At length the favourite bull ' -- he whom the keepers,",0.0 +"For fire and strength, superior to the rest,",1.0 +"Had long marked out, is loosed upon the plain:",1.0 +All marvels cease the instant he appears;,1.0 +"And what seemed wondrous but a moment since,",2.0 +Has now no tongue to speak the mighty act,1.0 +' -- So much beyond all thought his deeds excel,0.0 +The glorious devastation of his peers.,3.0 +"Wherever he moved, destruction marked his progress,",3.0 +"The Night, so dreadful! lengthened out her hours,",1.0 +"As though she stayed to view the battle's conflict,",1.0 +Or hide its horrors from the springing day.,1.0 +At length the glowing portals of the East,1.0 +"Her face in humid clouds she instant wrapped,",0.0 +And seemed to weep in drops of sacred pity.,0.0 +"Yet Conquest ceased not, with her vigorous arm,",3.0 +To plant her banners over the reeking field:,2.0 +"' -- For us her banners waved ' -- for us she triumphed,",2.0 +"The Moor, now seeing that his scattered host",1.0 +"Had their chief leaders lost ' -- their numbers wasted,",2.0 +"Like sifted corn before the driving tempest,",0.0 +"For quarter calls. His troops, upon their knees,",0.0 +To screen his worshippers from dreaded vengeance;,1.0 +"But Christian soldiers war not for revenge,",1.0 +Nor know to trample on a vanquished foe.,1.0 +"Their homage is accepted, and their chiefs,",2.0 +"With lowering fronts, and hearts by malice gnawed,",2.0 +Follow the victors in their march triumphant.,2.0 +Where from the walls the holy priests had watched,0.0 +"The issue of the fight. There too, the Princess",1.0 +' -- In horrors exquisite! had passed the night.,1.0 +"Judge then her rapture, her exalted joy,",1.0 +"When she beheld, on their victorious march,",4.0 +"Her Virgins followed, and the reverend Priests,",1.0 +"Led by the holy Bishop, formed her train.",0.0 +The day ' -- as if she bore an active part,1.0 +And gave new glories to the scene she viewed.,2.0 +"The King approached ' -- the Princess, at his feet,",0.0 +"Adored the mighty arm which thus restored him,",0.0 +"Her valiant Lover, leading in his hand",0.0 +"The Moorish Prince, with eager pace advanced,",0.0 +To claim his share of her enraptured welcome.,1.0 +"Receive, he cried, a conquest which your eyes,",0.0 +"And not my sword, achieved. Inspired by you,",1.0 +"Who could resist my arm? This princely foe,",0.0 +"Who wonders acted, and whose arm deserved",1.0 +"A righteous cause; by you, bright maid, subdued,",2.0 +Your victim I present. The sullen Prince,1.0 +"Scarce deigned to lift his eye; when, with a grace",2.0 +"No fancy can portray, the gallant youth",2.0 +Made to his mistress this heroic gift.,1.0 +O fatal present! gift replete with woes!,0.0 +Why did not heaven in its mercy send,0.0 +"Its winged shafts, and at that instant strike",2.0 +"The royal Maid, where, fixed with joy, she stood!",0.0 +"Let me, in order, lead you to the sequel.",1.0 +It needless were my storey to prolong,2.0 +In painting scenes your fancy will supply:,1.0 +"The joyful entry, and triumphant feasts,",1.0 +"Devout procession, and heroic sports,",1.0 +"All these are fruitful themes, and would demand",0.0 +"A time the waning night denies. In brief,",0.0 +"The captive Prince a mighty ransom offered,",0.0 +With league of amity and lasting peace.,1.0 +"The terms accepted, galleys were dispatched",1.0 +To bring the bartered price of his redemption.,1.0 +"Mean while he joined the games, and seemed to lose",0.0 +His barbarous roughness in the toils of pleasure.,2.0 +Alas! in other toils his mind was caught;,0.0 +Whose sensual soul she touched with fiercest passion.,2.0 +"He dared to speak of love, and to herself",1.0 +"The day, which was to join in nuptial bands",1.0 +"The marriage sports already were prepared,",1.0 +"And yet the Moor, audacious! talked of love.",0.0 +"' -- Repulsed with just disdain, he to the King",1.0 +"I am not used, he cried, to offer crowns,",1.0 +"And have them spurned, like vulgar lovers' toys.",0.0 +Give me your Daughter! I'll give her a throne:,2.0 +"With all its boasted fields, and blushing vineyards,",0.0 +Seems but a fertile spot; so vast the country,0.0 +Whose sceptre I command! The King's firm answer,2.0 +"Showed the proud Infidel, his suit was vain;",3.0 +"And, that a Christian Princess, to a subject",1.0 +Were taught to scorn the doctrines of a CHRIST.,1.0 +"At this destruction of his hopes, he seemed",2.0 +No longer man ' -- His eyeballs glared with madness;,2.0 +His foamy rage ' -- like a tempestuous sea,4.0 +Lashing her shores in vain ' -- spared not himself:,3.0 +"While his inflated bosom racked within,",1.0 +"Had seized his faculties, and numbed the fire",1.0 +"Which filled his torrid veins. His slaves, who oft",0.0 +"Beheld their lord a victim to himself,",1.0 +Bore to his couch the prostrate harmless tyrant;,0.0 +"And there, with tremulous lutes and vocal harmony,",4.0 +In sweet enchantment woke him from his trance.,1.0 +"His haughty soul, that scorns all other laws,",0.0 +Will yield to music all her boisterous passions,0.0 +"' -- Hang on each strain, melt at each magic note,",1.0 +And transient virtues catch from trilling airs.,0.0 +"Composed, at length, or masking what he felt,",0.0 +"Pardon, he cried, O Prince! a wretch undone!",2.0 +"By disappointment's shocks. Nursed by prosperity,",3.0 +"By fortune followed, I had learnt ' -- fond man!",2.0 +"That fate, that earth, that heaven, for me combined,",1.0 +And from misfortune hallowed my encircled head.,2.0 +And now your Daughter's still more powerful eyes,2.0 +"Master and tyrant of a thousand beauties,",3.0 +"Who court my passions, live for my delight,",1.0 +"I breathed, unknowing that I had a heart,",0.0 +"Till cruel love, wrapped in Despair's wild torments,",3.0 +Gave all its nerves a sense of cursed existence!,0.0 +"I love ' -- with agony ' -- with madness, love!",1.0 +"O, spare me then the horror of a sight",1.0 +"My fiery brain splits but to think on! Save,",2.0 +"' -- Father of her whose charms thus abject make me,",2.0 +"Save from the tortures of her marriage rites,",1.0 +The lingering moon has numbered all the hours,0.0 +That I allotted for my fleet's return:,2.0 +"Soon as the eastern wind invades their canvas,",0.0 +And their red streamers blush along your shores.,2.0 +"My ransom paid, I quit these hostile walls,",0.0 +"Then, while I bear my woes to distant seas,",0.0 +And not one wretch remain to curse the sound.,0.0 +"Unable to withstand a claim so urged,",1.0 +Granted his royal suitor all he asked.,2.0 +"The Moor, impressed with thankfulness, retired,",1.0 +"Command to kerb his warm, impetuous wishes,",0.0 +Until his rival sought his native skies.,0.0 +The shifting winds soon wafted to our ports,2.0 +The Moorish squadron. To the capital,2.0 +Meant for redemption of their captive Prince.,3.0 +"Stuffs, ingots, ivory, formed their precious burden;",1.0 +"Carpets of Persia, hangings wrought with gold,",2.0 +"In flowers of vivid tints, and buds so prompt,",2.0 +"Sabres with glittering hilts of curious art,",5.0 +And sanguine rubies died; all these were born,1.0 +"' -- Or bearing Turkish tents of gaudy drapery,",1.0 +Whose breath upon our happy plains the Moors,0.0 +"He left the city with a train of slaves,",1.0 +"Shedding profusely, as they passed along,",3.0 +"Rich showers of gold upon the gaping rabble,",3.0 +Soon as the tidings of the Moors' departure,1.0 +"Our speedy couriers brought, the word was given",2.0 +To make all ready for the royal marriage.,1.0 +Could scarce support the intermediate hours,2.0 +"That led, with lagging steps, the nuptial morn.",0.0 +"Forth from the palace to the church, through streets",1.0 +The glad procession led its lengthening train.,2.0 +"The King, beneath his canopy of state,",1.0 +"Preceded by his guards, first object moved:",2.0 +"Next to his suit the Princess, blushing, followed;",0.0 +"Her train upheld by twenty noble maids,",0.0 +"Whose beauty, in their snowy robes, seemed chastity",2.0 +"Incarnate. Next, at distance ' -- as of rank",1.0 +"That yet allowed not of a royal state,",1.0 +"The King had almost reached the holy portals,",1.0 +"When from the crowd a youth advanced, who caught",0.0 +"Each wondering eye. His face, a mask ' -- designed",2.0 +"For youthful beauty, hid. His airy form",0.0 +"Seemed worthy such a face. His habit tissue,",2.0 +Embossed with purple studs. His flowing hair,0.0 +"With knots of pearl was tied, and on his head",1.0 +"A garland bloomed. An ivory flute he held,",0.0 +"Through which he breathed such melting, touching, strains,",0.0 +That Harmony herself had stayed to listen.,1.0 +"As he approached, the soldiers cleared his way,",1.0 +Till in the front before the guards he stood.,0.0 +"The Princess came, while he, with reverence low,",3.0 +She passed; the Bridegroom came ' -- in quicker notes,1.0 +"He bad his music flow; and, forward stepping,",0.0 +"Offered, with courteous air, the tuneful pipe.",4.0 +"' -- A second blow, ere thought could be recalled;",1.0 +"The third, the murderer on himself bestowed,",3.0 +"Astonishment usurped each vital faculty,",3.0 +And rooted all who saw the bloody deed.,0.0 +"The Bridegroom, sinking on assassin's corps,",2.0 +Fled to the wretched Maid ' -- almost a wife.,1.0 +"Not daring to demand the cause; her pulse,",1.0 +And a kind stupor hid her from her woes.,3.0 +"Back to the palace, now, the dying Bridegroom,",1.0 +"By Knights in hymeneal robes was born,",3.0 +To search for motives to the cruel deed.,1.0 +"These were its words: It's not the slave, but I,",1.0 +"Who give the blow. Vengeance, if not my love,",4.0 +Such were the lines which bore the stamp of fate.,1.0 +"The lovely victim of the Moor's revenge,",1.0 +To find the object that his heart's last pulse,1.0 +"Adored ' -- not seeing her, they seemed to shut",1.0 +"All others out ' -- and Death, with hasty seal,",1.0 +Closed their dim lids in everlasting sleep.,3.0 +"Here paused the Virgin, as immersed in thought;",1.0 +"The storey, fraught with woe, had cast a shade",0.0 +Of deeper sorrow over her pensive brow:,2.0 +And her sad mind seemed lost in one idea.,4.0 +"The Knight, who eager grew to know the tale",0.0 +"She promised of herself, presumed at length",1.0 +To bring her recollection to the point;,1.0 +"At which her rosy lips their portal closed,",0.0 +And ceased to charm him with their touching accents.,1.0 +"I will not, Stranger! said the fair narrator,",5.0 +"The Court's distress, the sorrow of the King,",1.0 +Ere comfort beamed upon her widowed heart;,1.0 +"Nor then, till, at the tomb of her lost Lord,",1.0 +"Her solemn vows she made, never to hear",5.0 +"A lover's soothing tale; but, in virginity",1.0 +"Perpetual, wait the hour that should unite",3.0 +Her faithful spirit with her murdered Lord's.,1.0 +"This duty paid, a dawn, like that of peace,",0.0 +"Misfortune of her stings, ransacked all pleasures,",2.0 +"Invented fresh delights, new joys invoked,",1.0 +Brought to the great account; when from the east,1.0 +Was sent to scourge the earth ' -- not glutted yet,0.0 +"With all the horrid joys that wait on vengeance,",0.0 +"Not yet forgiving our triumphant arms,",1.0 +"Which sheared the laurels his whole life had reaped,",2.0 +"' -- Again came pouring, like a mighty deluge,",1.0 +To overwhelm the land in lasting ruin.,0.0 +He came. ' -- Why should I lengthen out my tale?,1.0 +"Our nation's force, opposed to the Moor's army,",2.0 +Was kindling torches to obscure the sun.,1.0 +Again we saw them hover on the hill:,1.0 +"Their hosts descend, and spread upon the plain.",0.0 +"No parley, as at first, they would allow:",2.0 +"' -- Arrows and catapults, their killing words.",3.0 +"A dreadful day our troops sustained the siege,",0.0 +And filled the breaches with their slaughtered foes.,1.0 +If stubbornly our citizens delayed,2.0 +"The threat effected all the Moor had hoped,",0.0 +"Rushed, in distraction, to his Daughter's chamber:",2.0 +Fly! let us instant fly! he gasping said;,1.0 +"The Moors have vanquished, and my Child's a slave.",1.0 +"Their standards now insult our conquered streets,",0.0 +And kill they parent with a thousand deaths!,1.0 +"The Princess, whom affliction had subdued,",0.0 +"And taught a firmness stranger to her years,",1.0 +"Grasped her loved Father's hand ' -- Lead me, she cried,",5.0 +"Shall ever follow yours, soften your path,",4.0 +"And cheer, to life's last sigh, your rugged journey.",1.0 +"A golden casket, as she spoke, she seized,",1.0 +"That held, till now, a hoarded useless treasure;",0.0 +"And through the galleries, with breathless haste,",2.0 +"And step precipitate, followed the King,",5.0 +' -- Unknowing to what corner of the earth,2.0 +"With their adventurous flight. A faithful Lord,",3.0 +The royal fugitives thus met and cheered.,2.0 +That stormy fate now suffers him to pay:,2.0 +"My horses wait, close to the garden walls,",2.0 +With trusty knights to guide you to my castle.,1.0 +"Dreading the worst, I had prepared this refuge,",2.0 +When the fell Moor began his fierce assault.,3.0 +"For me, I'll stay and greet, with smiles deceitful,",1.0 +What further ills his malice may devise.,1.0 +The noble youth ' -- and followed where he led.,0.0 +"There a close chariot, harnessed and attended,",5.0 +Waited to bear them from the dangerous spot.,5.0 +"The flying steeds seemed conscious of their office,",2.0 +And instant cleft the air with eagle swiftness.,0.0 +"Mean while the Moorish troops rushed through the gates,",2.0 +"No terms the citizens obtained, but those",2.0 +While their chief officers were instant sworn,3.0 +"Mean time, with speed, towards the royal palace,",1.0 +Ask him to wed the Daughter whom he wooed,0.0 +"But, when he found no Sovereign to insult,",2.0 +"No Princess to affront with odious passion,",4.0 +His furious transports made a thousand victims.,2.0 +"Three days the search continued, when the Moor,",1.0 +"Foaming with disappointed pride, made oath,",3.0 +"That, if the Princess in eight days appeared not,",1.0 +These dreadful tidings to the King and Princess,1.0 +"He said, no longer will protect my Sovereign.",2.0 +"The church itself will aid the keen pursuit,",0.0 +"Should feed the lust of a detested tyrant,",1.0 +Than that their holy virgins should become,0.0 +"Fly then, my Prince! The loyal Knight, whose hand",0.0 +"Presents this testimony of my faith,",1.0 +Will to a secret spot where he himself,2.0 +Asylum found attend your wandering steps;,2.0 +"' -- Not wandering long! for surely Heaven, that tries",2.0 +"To your lost people's arms, and rightful throne.",2.0 +When at the castle GONZALES arrived.,4.0 +"The royal pair, in humble weeds disguised,",0.0 +"Instant forsook the hospitable roof,",7.0 +"The spirits of the King, weighed down with sorrow,",3.0 +"Had sunk beneath accumulated ills,",0.0 +Had not wise Heaven endued his Daughter's mind,1.0 +With tender talk the tedious way she shortened;,2.0 +"And, when exhausted Nature asked recruit,",0.0 +"The moon arose, and still they journeyed on;",1.0 +"But the succeeding sun, with earliest beam,",3.0 +Guided the travellers to a forest's verge.,3.0 +"In envied freedom, to a neighbouring mountain,",3.0 +Lest their betraying hoofs should guide pursuers,1.0 +To the asylum of the hunted King.,2.0 +"In the wood's centre they a cottage found,",3.0 +"Two rooms it had, in each a rustic bed;",1.0 +Than labour culled from the surrounding herbs;,1.0 +"Or from the vines ' -- that in the desert air,",1.0 +"With their delicious burdens long had swelled,",1.0 +Nor found one tempted hand to ease the load.,0.0 +Such the retreat the fugitives had found.,2.0 +"Adieu to greatness, and unhealthful pomp!",1.0 +"Since GONZALES the cottage left, and since",2.0 +"No human sound, but their own pensive tones,",2.0 +Have reached the Princess and her Father's ears.,1.0 +What can I more? If my eventful tale,1.0 +"Hath touched the chords of pity in your heart,",0.0 +And swelled the sympathetic tear ' -- soft tribute!,1.0 +"By gentle minds, to sorrow ever paid,",0.0 +"' -- Know, it's no stranger's woes I have related;",3.0 +I am the object of my own sad storey ' --,2.0 +"Thus speaking, to his lips he fixed a bugle,",2.0 +Whose piercing sounds ten thousand echoes bore,1.0 +"On airy wings, through the surrounding woods.",1.0 +"The signal heard, six Moors obeyed its voice,",1.0 +And spurred their horses headlong through the glades.,2.0 +"No sooner spoke his joy, than, like a fawn",1.0 +Who from the neighbouring thicket hears the voice.,2.0 +"Of the fierce wolf ' -- she bounding left her seat,",2.0 +And fled to safer shades. A starting star,0.0 +Shows on her wanton breast his lucid trail.,0.0 +"Spite of his cares, had wooed to her embrace,",1.0 +"Listening in vain, to hear her cheering voice,",1.0 +"He started from his couch, and, robbed in haste,",1.0 +Rushed forth to seek her in her favourite haunts:,1.0 +Darting his fearful eye across the lawn,2.0 +"On which their cottage stood, close on its edge,",2.0 +' -- Panting and breathless he beheld his darling.,3.0 +"With all the little strength that age had left,",0.0 +He hastened to receive her. What his dread!,1.0 +"When at his feet he saw the Princess drop,",0.0 +"Exclaiming, as she fell, in fainting voice,",1.0 +Unable from the mossy grass to raise,1.0 +"Its lovely burden, sinking by her side,",1.0 +"Strove by his tears, and fond paternal voice,",0.0 +"To rouse her torpid sense, and wake her soul.",0.0 +"Not guessing at extremity of woe,",1.0 +"Which soon must burst upon his hoary head,",0.0 +"He thought some frightful reptile had surprised,",0.0 +"And chilled, with female fears, her timorous mind.",3.0 +"But, o! how short a while his fate allowed",1.0 +This soft delusion! Through the night's still air,2.0 +"The sound of human voices, and the clank",1.0 +"Of iron hoofs, revealed a scene at once,",0.0 +That almost shook his soul from her frail tenement.,4.0 +"The Gallic leader of the Moorish band,",1.0 +"A Knight thus treacherous, thus completely formed",3.0 +To guide a project hatched in neither hell!,0.0 +Courage! he cried ' -- as the base slaves advanced:,4.0 +"All our past trouble, and our long fatigues,",3.0 +Found at the instant that my famished hopes,0.0 +Scarce lent a ray to guide me in the chase.,1.0 +"The friendly moon revealed her, hope prophetic",0.0 +Should draw her veil upon the dangerous truth.,2.0 +In prayer she was employed; which instant taught me,1.0 +"That piety must be the bait to snare her,",1.0 +"' -- So won her confidence, and read her heart.",1.0 +"Allah be praised! rejoined a bearded Infidel,",2.0 +"But, Christian, art thou sure thou hast beheld",0.0 +We have already to our master born,1.0 +"For her he sought, and scarce with life escaped,",1.0 +"Fled from this spot, scared at my bugle's sound.",1.0 +"I marked the road she took, and now will guide you",0.0 +To those who will not hail us ' -- welcome guests.,0.0 +"Thus speaking, he pushed onwards through the wood,",4.0 +"In which, for seven long months, the exiled King",4.0 +Had sighed his anguish to the passing winds.,1.0 +"Upon the earth they saw the hoary Monarch,",0.0 +Supporting on his knee the drooping head,1.0 +"Of his unhappy child: his hands were clasped,",1.0 +And raised towards that Heaven which now allowed,0.0 +Sorrow to drain her vial on his brow.,3.0 +"Skilled in deceit, and hiding a bad heart",3.0 +The sad events that shut him from the world.,1.0 +"The King, perhaps, had yielded for a moment",1.0 +"Had not the group of Moors ' -- who yet approached not,",0.0 +Explained the dreadful purport of the visit.,2.0 +"Much it afflicts me that my barbarous fortune,",3.0 +Had not the tyrant at his hateful nod,0.0 +"Devoted Moors enough, and callous slaves,",0.0 +"Used to the work of infamy and guilt,",1.0 +"But I, a Christian knight, must be selected,",1.0 +To guide an enterprise so cursed? ' -- O Fate!,0.0 +"The King, experienced in mankind, saw through",2.0 +The thin disguise of this most florid speech:,1.0 +He saw the serpent in the spicy shrub;,0.0 +' -- He saw the villain in the gentle eye.,0.0 +"Not deigning a reply, he bent his head",1.0 +"Exclaimed afflicted Prince, thy beating pulse,",0.0 +Thy dear returning breath is now unwelcome.,0.0 +"Rather I'd see those eyes for ever closed,",2.0 +"This fluttering heart fixed by Death's potent voice,",5.0 +Than thus receive thee back again to life.,0.0 +"Announced themselves in fears: O! let us fly,",0.0 +My Father! ' -- let us fly! she murmured forth:,0.0 +We are pursued ' -- the Knight! the wiley Knight!,1.0 +"Pursued, indeed! replied the weeping King;",0.0 +They have us in their toils ' -- we're lost! we're lost!,0.0 +"Scarce gives such horror to the shrinking sinner,",2.0 +"Speechless, she hid her face, and clasped her father;",2.0 +"The polished villain, who the blackest crimes",0.0 +Might pour their anguish in each other's breast.,0.0 +"' -- Vain were the task, to paint impassioned scene",0.0 +"Which grief, and fear, and thousand racking thoughts,",0.0 +"With glowing horrors, all conspired to fill.",2.0 +"The courteous Knight, observing where he stood,",2.0 +"That the first torrent of their grief was spent,",3.0 +"Pardon, illustrious Prince! he cried, the slave,",4.0 +"Whom harsh necessity, alas! compels",1.0 +"The smallest breach of whose commands, the rack,",0.0 +Or more inevitable death awaits ' --,1.0 +"' -- Ordained, that soon as your retreat was found,",1.0 +A moment to delay should not be given;,1.0 +That we should bear to their forsaken home,1.0 +"Unwilling Princess, and her royal Sire.",1.0 +"Now, if it please you, we must leave this desert,",1.0 +For haunts more fitted to your royal rank.,1.0 +"This mockery of respect, returned the King,",3.0 +"To those whom you command, adds points to insult.",4.0 +Our masters you; then treat us as your slaves!,2.0 +"The only boon I can descend to ask,",1.0 +"Is, that my Daughter, in this fatal journey,",0.0 +"May not be torn from me. From thee! ah, no,",1.0 +"Together let us go, whatever our fate!",3.0 +"Still let my filial voice my Father cheer,",3.0 +And pierce the night of his collected sorrows!,1.0 +"Of port superior to the rest, thus answered ' --",2.0 +"It is our Sovereign's will, that you, fair Lady!",5.0 +"Should hold no converse with your princely Sire,",1.0 +Till your arrival in your native city.,1.0 +"Doubt not, but then, each boon you ask, and all",0.0 +"Your fruitful fancy can devise, our master,",1.0 +"Gracious to charms like yours, will grant with rapture.",2.0 +"When Beauty sues, he knows not to deny.",1.0 +"The King, impatient and enraged, broke in",2.0 +Nor dare thus violate my Daughter's ears!,2.0 +"Or thou shalt find, that in a desert, old,",1.0 +"Should hold the balance of our fate, obey",1.0 +His harsh command! tear us asunder! yes!,2.0 +"Drag from the old man's heart, the last sole joy",2.0 +His woes had left to save him from despair.,1.0 +Plunge me at once in horror's deep abyss.,2.0 +"Not long ' -- not long, my friends, will you afflict me.",1.0 +"A shower of tears, that down his furrowed cheeks",2.0 +Ended a speech ' -- which men steeled by long use,4.0 +"Sprightly Aurora looking through the clouds,",3.0 +"Which blushed with pleasure at her near approach,",0.0 +"' -- Who had so sweetly shone, she seemed till now",0.0 +The morning's counterfeit. But O! to misery,2.0 +"All, all alike, they undistinguished roll,",0.0 +"When brightening day disclosed her to their view,",1.0 +"One blaze of charms ' -- charms of that tender cast,",2.0 +"Which sorrow did not sully, but become!",1.0 +"Her air majestic, as the sailing eagle's ' --",1.0 +"When amongst the fleecy clouds he gently waves,",0.0 +"Her face a Raphael would have caught, to form",0.0 +"A young Madonna, bending over her Child",2.0 +Her locks ' -- such locks as Nature only gives,0.0 +"Once in an age, to perfect some rare beauty,",2.0 +"Seemed like a golden veil ' -- part hung before,",1.0 +"Shading a polished neck; which looked, between",2.0 +"The burnished threads, like purest ivory",0.0 +"Through gilded network: part the Zephyrs snatched,",1.0 +"Such was the Princess; whom a Moor now seized,",2.0 +"A silken sash, held by the treacherous Knight,",4.0 +"The mourning Virgin, and her deadliest foe.",3.0 +Behind a guiding Moor. This was the state,1.0 +"The kingdom's Monarch, and the kingdom's Heir,",1.0 +"Were now constrained to use. No pompous guards,",1.0 +"Their steps attend; ' -- but o! how small that grief,",1.0 +"Weighed with the horrid fears, the torturing doubts,",2.0 +The leafy desert ' -- which so long had seemed,0.0 +"' -- They quit, with aching hearts, and heavy sighs.",0.0 +"Its solitary shades ' -- how welcome, now!",0.0 +"Its choral groves, they would with rapture greet,",0.0 +But these they have for ever ' -- ever left;,1.0 +And soon the forest's verdant roof grows dun,1.0 +"Upon the distant eye. The eager Moors,",0.0 +"With spur and slackened reins, kept pouring on,",2.0 +Leaving whole leagues obscured with floating dust.,3.0 +"The royal Prisoners, scarcely with a glance,",1.0 +"Can speak a thought, much less converse, and share,",0.0 +Whose savage echoes never yet had learnt,0.0 +To imitate the cordial voice of man:,0.0 +"' -- The churning boar, and howling midnight wolves,",1.0 +Had taught them all the language that they knew.,0.0 +"At length the Sun, behind the western mountains,",0.0 +Hid his pervading eye: the humid Eve,2.0 +"Led on her deepening shades, to quench the thirst,",0.0 +"The feverish orb had left, on plants and flowers.",2.0 +"To meet some woodland, or some sheltering cave,",3.0 +Of some sequestered hermit; for its floor,1.0 +"The chisel edge had smoothed, and its low roof",1.0 +Here the sad travellers were allowed the rest,5.0 +"The Princess, whose soft limbs were not inured",1.0 +"To such extreme fatigue, sunk lifeless down,",3.0 +Soon as her feet had touched the solid earth.,0.0 +"The aged King, with scarce more strength, approached",0.0 +To catch his falling Child ' -- The flinty floor,0.0 +The duties of humanity performed.,2.0 +"The Princess they recovered; and a spot,",2.0 +"With their own garments, spread, to form a seat",1.0 +"Less rigorous than the rock, for its high inmates.",3.0 +"They placed, respectfully, before the King:",1.0 +Exhausted Nature craved the cordial draught;,0.0 +"Their heavy lids to sleep, but in rotation.",0.0 +"Two, the cave's entrance guarded; and the third,",4.0 +Whenever the royal Parent and his Child,3.0 +Strove to beguile the melancholy hours,2.0 +Should from her Father catch more fortitude,0.0 +A female could possess. Celestial chastity,2.0 +"He held a phantom bred from Custom's laws,",0.0 +And that the magic of licentious love,1.0 +Could melt its airy form ' -- for now he meant,0.0 +"' -- Not on a Throne, but amongst his favourite slaves,",2.0 +Constrained to silence; Sorrow's blessed physician,0.0 +Stole by degrees upon their aching eyes.,2.0 +"Never build thee temples? Thee, whose sweet dominion",1.0 +"Boundless extends, wherever Nature breathes!",2.0 +"Chill Want, the nipping blast; and wild Despair",1.0 +"Finds gleams of comfort ' -- I sing Paeans to thee, Sleep!",4.0 +"Brought her gay chariot to horizon's edge,",6.0 +"Returning quick, they roused their torpid fellows,",0.0 +"What an awakening! Touch not, OH my pen!",3.0 +' -- Events more active ask thy little skill.,0.0 +"Some hours they had pursued their steady course,",0.0 +"An armed troop rushed forth. So quick their motion,",4.0 +"Were in a circle drawn ' -- more dreadfully portentous,",1.0 +Than wand of witch or wizard ever formed.,0.0 +"The gallant Knight, who at his girdle wore",0.0 +"Unwilling beauty, seemed at once the object.",0.0 +"Destroyed the magic zone which held the Princess,",0.0 +"With such dispatch was this achievement made,",2.0 +' -- And at a distance from astonished troop.,1.0 +"Turning, with fury, on his foes ' -- who thus",3.0 +"He raised his arm, and aimed a ponderous sword,",2.0 +Where guiltless it could not have fallen; when instant,3.0 +"Was to the earth propelled: breathless he lay,",6.0 +"And trampling steeds soon fixed him to the spot,",2.0 +From whence unhappy youth never rose again.,3.0 +"The Moors, undaunted at their leader's fate,",0.0 +"Their prisoners and their lives should both be lost,",1.0 +Or undivided kept. Two forced their way,1.0 +"Towards the spot where, guarded by her Knight,",1.0 +"The Princess stood; three of the foe pursued,",2.0 +"And made the path which led to her, the road",1.0 +To death inglorious. The remaining Saracens,4.0 +"Fought as those fight, who, knowing they must die,",1.0 +Resolve the victors shall buy conquest dearly.,1.0 +More fiercely than the rest ' -- more madly fought.,1.0 +His fellows too hemmed in the struggling Monarch;,1.0 +Formed with their spears a threatening glory round him.,0.0 +"When he who held him ' -- watching for the moment,",1.0 +"Broke from the rest, and on the distant winds",1.0 +Seemed born away. The demon who presides,1.0 +"Over evil acts, and aids the deeds that most",0.0 +"Partake of Hell ' -- surely his steed impelled,",5.0 +"His fiery eye, darting over hills and plains,",2.0 +"Scarcely outstripped his hoofs; the vales, the woods,",2.0 +"His glance devoured, were in an instant left",1.0 +"Behind his feathery heels, that onward pressed ' --",2.0 +"While the pursuing, stretching, maddening foe,",1.0 +"Beheld new hills, new plains, new woods, arise",3.0 +"Those who had held her prisoner, she saw slain;",2.0 +"But who are these, who risk, thus gallantly,",3.0 +"Scarce had this question, in her whirl of thought,",0.0 +"Had time to firm itself, ere at her side",1.0 +"The magic touch of hope her bosom swelled,",0.0 +"Raising the snowy veil which hid her face,",2.0 +"She beamed a smile upon the loyal Knight,",0.0 +That in his mind overpaid ten thousand dangers.,7.0 +As at her feet he knelt and save the King!,0.0 +"See where he sits, unarmed, amid his foes!",0.0 +"Were he in safety, all my thoughts were peace.",1.0 +"But instant horsed, spurred onward to his troop:",2.0 +"Three of the band he instantly dispatched,",1.0 +"The few remaining Moors, urged by despair,",2.0 +"Still madly fought, preferring present death",1.0 +"To the slow tortures, which they knew their Tyrant",2.0 +"Would fail not to inflict, on those who lost",2.0 +"Their wish they soon received, and their freed spirits",2.0 +Sought the eternal shores. The Princess now,2.0 +"With eager speed he sought the trembling maid,",0.0 +"Who saw her Parent born over distant wilds,",3.0 +And in that sight lost every newborn comfort.,1.0 +"Rent Heaven, and her unconscious feet moved quick",6.0 +"Towards the course, in which she saw her Father.",0.0 +"To moderate her grief. Doubtless, he cried,",5.0 +"The gallant youths, who now pursue the Moor,",0.0 +Will not pursue the flying slave in vain.,0.0 +Each secret turning ' -- and will meet the villain,1.0 +"When least he can suspect his danger. Now,",1.0 +Sweet Princess! to my castle let me lead you.,2.0 +"There, if not happier, yet at least securely",2.0 +"Your tears you may indulge, and feed your sorrows.",1.0 +Allowed herself once more upon a steed,1.0 +"Who through morasses, underwoods, and roads",1.0 +"Almost impervious, brought his royal ward",3.0 +In safety to his mansion. O! how blessed,2.0 +"This moment had appeared, had the same roof",1.0 +"That sheltered her, been shelter to her Father!",2.0 +"That solace wanting, others lost their taste.",0.0 +Events that yet could not have reached her ear.,0.0 +"The faithful GONZALES, he told the Princess,",4.0 +"With undiminished courage, nor confessed,",1.0 +"' -- Though life was promised, and immense rewards,",1.0 +"By wiles and arts, the jealous Tyrant blinded,",0.0 +Who held him truest servant of the Christians.,1.0 +"Thus, unsuspected, he had watched the roads",2.0 +Which led towards her forest; with his life,1.0 +"To rescue from the Moors the royal fugitives,",2.0 +If fate malevolent should ever betray them.,3.0 +Another tale in pity he withheld:,1.0 +That he had formed a plot to wrest the crown.,0.0 +"His family he banished, their rich lands",3.0 +Confiscate made ' -- and yet the Tyrant lived!,2.0 +"As the sad Princess heard, with growing horror,",2.0 +Repeated acts of cruelty scarce human;,3.0 +The Knights returned who had pursued her Father.,0.0 +"It was enough: she saw them pass the gates,",1.0 +Without the King; no circumstance was needful;,1.0 +None could her anguish lessen ' -- none her woe increase.,0.0 +Their tale scarce won attention. Much they talked,1.0 +"Of hot pursuit, and of the villain's speed;",1.0 +"' -- That once his flagging courser raised their hopes,",0.0 +When sudden on a neighbouring plain appeared,3.0 +"While those who followed, measured back their road,",0.0 +"Knowing the ruin of their Lord inevitable,",4.0 +"Should they, his faithful vassals, be discovered.",0.0 +"The sweetest words, ever framed by consolation,",3.0 +"Were spent upon the air. The young ELVERA,",0.0 +"To cheer the royal guest; and with soft prattle,",2.0 +"' -- Kissing the drowning roses on her cheek,",3.0 +"But, o! her Father was a wretched captive:",2.0 +What could abate the anguish of that thought?,1.0 +In vain surrounding slaves watched every motion;,1.0 +"In vain the ceilings rose on stately columns,",0.0 +Forcing their grandeur on the awe-struck eye;,2.0 +"In vain the downy beds invited rest,",0.0 +"Dearer the russet pillars of the forest,",1.0 +Where stood her lonely cot. O! dearer far,1.0 +The humble couch on which her Father's head,0.0 +Securely rested; where her ready hand,0.0 +"His pillow smoothed, and filial cares excited",2.0 +"To cheer, with tender voice, the lengthened day?",0.0 +So spoke the heart of the unhappy Princess. ' --,1.0 +"Now to the hospitable cares, her fate affords,",4.0 +"We leave the Mourner, and pursue the King.",1.0 +"OH Wing my shafts to reach that fair one's heart,",1.0 +My fondest wishes to her soul impart.,1.0 +"Where thousands miss, successful let me be,",0.0 +And learn each virtue thus in loving thee.,1.0 +"In thee alone, that elegance and ease,",2.0 +With native sweetness joined with life to please.,0.0 +"Propitious! ' -- The gods have heard my prayer,",2.0 +And eager fly to catch my wounded fair.,0.0 +Accept this effort of the Painter's Art.,1.0 +"Such is thy Hannah's form, but who shall find",1.0 +"To show Thee all her love, her anxious care,",0.0 +Her fond solicitude for Thee declare?,1.0 +"Those ties, which are ordained by Nature's laws,",1.0 +The willing hand of Friendship closer draws;,0.0 +"My Friend selected, partner of my breast,",1.0 +"Thy Worth esteemed, thy Merit all confessed:",0.0 +"Thy Heart in which the Virtues all are joined,",0.0 +"Thy polished Manners, and thy candid mind,",1.0 +"Had won my Soul to court the Worth it loves,",0.0 +To seek the modest Merit it approves.,1.0 +"Nor stung by Envy, nor annoyed by Strife;",1.0 +"May Health still blooming on thy brow be seen,",2.0 +"Nor Care, nor Sorrow make it less serene.",0.0 +"Thou, Fortune! who so oft hast been the Slave,",0.0 +"For once be just, ' -- endow one generous Mind,",2.0 +"To grace my Sister, Friend, and Valentine!",0.0 +"To you, Athenians, we again submit;",4.0 +"Reward, or punish us, as you think fit.",2.0 +"For Idleness, this Year, is doubly base.",1.0 +For Arts and Sciences to flourish here.,1.0 +"The Muses, exiled long, to Court repair;",1.0 +And ' -- strange to think! are all the Fashion there.,1.0 +"Who feels not now a generous Emulation,",2.0 +When Merit raises to the highest Station?,1.0 +"Scholars may surely hope a better Fate,",2.0 +While Carteret directs the Helm of State.,1.0 +"And choose a Senate, to preside over Schools;",7.0 +"Honour, alone, to pay the glorious Task,",2.0 +A Recompense no Foreigner would ask!,2.0 +"Then kind Britannia, doubtless, would consent,",2.0 +Hibernia should supply a President.,3.0 +"Too oft, alas! are Talents misapplied,",1.0 +"By Parents Fondness, Ignorance, and Pride.",1.0 +"This Grievance then would cease, and we should be",0.0 +"Regarded, as the Public's Property:",2.0 +"Genius alone would be consulted then,",2.0 +The only Way to make us useful Men,0.0 +"And each would have his several Task assigned,",0.0 +As Nature gave the Bias to his Mind.,1.0 +"Boys of a brutal, cruel Disposition,",0.0 +"Should go to Spain, to serve the Inquisition.",0.0 +OH what a Change in Landlords would appear!,1.0 +"Next Age, not one would rack his Tenants here.",1.0 +"The Lads, who study but to dress and dance,",1.0 +"Those who love Liberty, to Albion roam;",4.0 +"But, could they bear Oppression, ' -- stay at home.",0.0 +Then glorious Ancestors would cease to be,4.0 +Degraded by a worthless Progeny.,2.0 +"None should from noble Blood their Lineage trace,",2.0 +Unless they added Lustre to their Race.,1.0 +That the degenerate Offspring of the Great,2.0 +Might be no more a Burden to the State;,1.0 +"The Sons of Peers, with mean, ignoble Hearts,",0.0 +In Holland should be taught mechanic Arts;,0.0 +"See Nature, thus, the generous Juice divide;",3.0 +"The Spirit rises, and the Dregs subside.",1.0 +Our Isle will be revered by distant Climes:,0.0 +"And, lest Posterity should think us rude,",2.0 +"And lost, at once, to Shame and Gratitude;",0.0 +And civic Crowns shall mingle with His Bays:,1.0 +"Nor shall His Works alone His Worth proclaim,",0.0 +"His Statue shall be raised in every Street,",1.0 +"With proud Oppression, writhing at His Feet;",0.0 +"At his Right-hand fair Liberty shall smile,",5.0 +Protected by the Guardian of our Isle;,2.0 +"On other Side, the Goddess Fame shall stand,",0.0 +"Then shall each generous Youth, who passes by,",3.0 +"And sees the Patriot's Image, placed on high,",2.0 +"With Emulation feel his Bosom fired,",0.0 +"And thus break forth, by Gratitude inspired.",1.0 +"OH Thou, whose Genius rose, to save the State,",0.0 +And snatch Thy Country from the Brink of Fate!,1.0 +"When for Thy Life Hibernia sues in vain,",3.0 +And Heaven no longer will Thy Crown detain;,4.0 +"Her grateful Sons, already robbed in White,",0.0 +"Shall hail Thee, glorious, in the Realms of Light.",1.0 +"MEEK Twilight! soften the declining day,",3.0 +And bring the hour my pensive spirit loves;,0.0 +When over the mountain slow descends the ray,2.0 +That gives to silence and to night the groves.,1.0 +"Ah, let the happy court the morning still,",0.0 +"She bids fresh beauty light the vale or hill,",1.0 +And rapture warble in the vocal shade.,0.0 +"Sweet is the odour of the morning's flower,",0.0 +And rich in melody her accents rise;,1.0 +Yet dearer to my soul the shadowy hour,2.0 +"At which her blossoms close, her music dies:",0.0 +She wakes the tear it's luxury to shed.,1.0 +"Rejoice, dear nymph! enjoy your happy grove,",1.0 +"Where birds and shepherd's warble strains of love,",0.0 +"While banished I, alas! can nothing hear,",1.0 +"Here gilded beaux fine painted belles pursue,",1.0 +"And, seeing daylight, from their pillows rise;",2.0 +"Then order John the chariot to prepare,",3.0 +"And drive to the Park, to take the morning air.",0.0 +"Then coaches rattle to the ladies rout,",1.0 +"With belles within, and mimic beaux without;",0.0 +"The vulgar way of counting time they scorn,",0.0 +"Their noon is evening, and their evening morn.",1.0 +"But what is yet more wonderful than all,",1.0 +These strange disorders they do pleasures call:,1.0 +"Such tinsel joys shall never my heart obtain,",2.0 +"Where unmoved constancy has fixed her seat,",7.0 +"And love, and friendship, make their sweet retreat.",0.0 +"There lives my friend, my dear Belinda gay,",0.0 +Could I with her the freshening vales survey;,1.0 +"If I should see a blackbird, or a thrush,",2.0 +"Sit on her nest within the hawthorn bush,",1.0 +She undisturbed should hatch her little brood;,0.0 +"It surely is a pity to molest,",2.0 +"A little bird, when sitting on her nest.",1.0 +"Should love by chance invite your friend to rove,",0.0 +I'd take a trip into the silent grove;,0.0 +"There if my swain should pipe, then I would sing,",2.0 +And be as happy as the birds in spring;,1.0 +"No title but a nymph I'd wish to know,",2.0 +"Nor ever commence a belle, to win a beau.",2.0 +"Just as the Gods were listening to my Strains,",1.0 +"With my own radiant Hair my Harp I strung,",1.0 +And in glad Consort all my Sisters Sung;,0.0 +"An universal Harmony above,",1.0 +"A horrid Sound dashed our immortal Mirth,",2.0 +"Wafted by Sighs, from the unlucky Earth.",3.0 +But by our great immortal Selves we do.,1.0 +"For when the loud unwelcome Message spread,",0.0 +"A sullen Gloom seized all the Gods around,",1.0 +My feeble Hand no more the Lyre could sound:,1.0 +"And all the soft young Loves with drooping Wings,",1.0 +"Trembled themselves into a mournful Air,",2.0 +Then Sight and Hushed into a sad Despair.,0.0 +"He with us sacred Nymphs profusely Mourns,",1.0 +With us the least desire of Respite scorns;,1.0 +Entire eternal Grief our Beings seize,2.0 +For him who best could us and Mankind please.,2.0 +"Great Dryden, in whose vast capacious Mind,",1.0 +Our utmost Power did fit Reception find;,3.0 +"Which Favours he did generously dispense,",3.0 +And like us too diffused his Influence;,1.0 +"His Genius would such Inspiration bear,",0.0 +That his Illustrious Lines did not appear,3.0 +"As if our Product, but our Selves were there.",2.0 +"Be blessed with so Divine, so great a Swain.",1.0 +"In you no more let tuneful Mirth be found,",3.0 +And every Orb stop its harmonious round:,3.0 +"All Nature hush as if entranced she lay,",1.0 +"With such still Horror let's our sorrows bear,",2.0 +"Lest Sighs in time, harmonious should appear.",2.0 +"If ever to write again is Man's intent,",2.0 +"Uncalled on let us silently lament,",1.0 +"And take his Works, for an Eternal President,",1.0 +IS Mirth a Crime? Instruct me you that know;,1.0 +Or should these Eyes with Tears eternal flow:,0.0 +"No let you Powers let this Bosom find,",1.0 +Life's one grand Comfort a contented Mind:,4.0 +"Preserve this Heart, and may it find no room",2.0 +Too well the Mischief and the Pangs we know,2.0 +Of doubtful Musing and prophetic Woe.,1.0 +"But now these Evils for a Moment rest,",1.0 +"And brighter Visions please the quiet Breast,",0.0 +"Where sprightly Health its blessed Cordial pours,",3.0 +"Then let me smile, and trifle while I may,",0.0 +Yet not from Virtue nor from Reason stray:,1.0 +From hated Slander I would keep my Tongue;,1.0 +"My Heart from Envy, and from Guilt my Song:",1.0 +"Nature's large Volume with Attention read,",4.0 +"Its God acknowledge, and believe my Creed:",1.0 +"But love my Parent, and esteem my Friend.",1.0 +If like the most my undistinguished Days,0.0 +Deserve not much of Censure or of Praise:,1.0 +"Nor dreadful Crime has stained its early Page,",0.0 +To hoard up Terrors for reflecting Age;,1.0 +"Let me enjoy the sweet Suspense of Woe,",2.0 +"When Heaven strikes me, I shall own the Blow:",0.0 +"Till then let me indulge one simple Hour,",2.0 +Like the pleased Infant over a painted Flower:,4.0 +Is spent in trifling with a harmless Rhyme.,1.0 +"Heroic Virtue asks a noble Mind,",0.0 +"A Judgement strong, and Passions well refined:",0.0 +"But if that Virtue's measured by the Will,",2.0 +It's surely something to abstain from Ill.,1.0 +"SOothing his Passions with a warb'ling Sound,",3.0 +"While all were moved, who their Attention lent,",1.0 +"Or with the Harmony in Chorus went,",2.0 +"To something less than Joy, yet more than dull Content.",0.0 +"Between which two Extremes true Pleasure lies,",1.0 +"But yet, a fatal Prospect to the Sea",1.0 +Would often draw his greedy Sight away.,0.0 +"And guessed their Wealth, then scorned his little Store,",0.0 +"Then would that Little lose, or else would make it more",0.0 +"To Merchandise converted is the Fold,",1.0 +"The Bag, the Bottle, and the Hurdles sold;",1.0 +"Whom he had fed, and taught, and loved so well.",0.0 +"In vain the Phillis wept, which heretofore",0.0 +"Nor courts her Smiles, nor fears the Ocean's Frown",0.0 +"For smooth it lay, as if one single Wave",1.0 +"Made all the Sea, nor Winds that Sea could heave;",0.0 +Which blew no more than might his Sails supply,1.0 +"Clear was the Air below, and Phoebus laughed on high.",0.0 +"With this Adventurer every thing combines,",3.0 +And Gold to Gold his happy Voyage joins;,0.0 +"But not so prosperous was the next Essay,",1.0 +"For rugged Blasts encountered on the way,",1.0 +"Scarce could the Men escape, the Deep had all their Prey.",0.0 +Our broken Merchant in the Wreck was throw,0.0 +"Upon those Lands, which once had been his own",0.0 +"A Servant, for small Profits, there he turns,",3.0 +"Yet thrives again, and less and less he mourns;",0.0 +Which sad Experience taught him now to keep.,2.0 +"When from that very Bank, one Halcyon Day,",2.0 +"On which he leaned, when tempted to the Sea,",1.0 +"He notes a Calm; the Winds and Waves were still,",0.0 +"And promised what the Winds nor Waves fulfil,",0.0 +"A settled Quiet, and Conveyance sure,",1.0 +"To him that Wealth, by Traffic, would procure.",1.0 +"But the rough part the Shepherd now performs,",2.0 +"Even thus quoth he you seemed all Rest and Ease,",2.0 +"That never to be forgot, that luckless Hour,",2.0 +In which I put my Fortunes in your Power;,0.0 +"Quitting my slender, but secure Estate,",3.0 +"My undisturbed Repose, my sweet Retreat,",0.0 +"But swept my Folly, with my Goods, away.",1.0 +"Then smile no more, nor these false Shows employ,",3.0 +"Thou momentary Calm, thou fleeting Joy;",0.0 +"No more on me shall these fair Signs prevail,",4.0 +"Some other Novice may be won to Sail,",1.0 +O! have I left you friendship's holy hours?,0.0 +"Why are you vanished, dear inviting shades?",0.0 +"Why ceased, the cheering music of your glades?",1.0 +"Her sense reflective, and her taste refined;",1.0 +When mid their haunts they see her graceful move;,0.0 +"That which adorns the clearest, strongest sense,",0.0 +"And clothes in lightest dress, the thought intense.",0.0 +"THOUGH nature weigh our talents, and dispense",1.0 +"To every man his modicum of sense,",1.0 +"And Conversation in its better part,",0.0 +"May be esteemed a gift and not an art,",0.0 +"On culture, and the sowing of the soil.",2.0 +"Words learnt by rote, a parrot may rehearse,",2.0 +"But talking is not always to converse,",2.0 +Not more distinct from harmony divine,1.0 +The constant creaking of a country sign.,1.0 +Sorting and puzzling with a deal of glee,3.0 +"Those seeds of science called his ABC,",1.0 +"So language in the mouths of the adult,",0.0 +"Witness its insignificant result,",3.0 +"Too often proves an implement of play,",2.0 +"A toy to sport with, and pass time away.",2.0 +"Collect at evening what the day brought forth,",1.0 +"Compress the sum into its solid worth,",0.0 +"And if it weigh the importance of a fly,",4.0 +The scales are false or Algebra a lie.,1.0 +"Sacred interpreter of human thought,",3.0 +How few respect or use thee as they ought!,1.0 +But all shall give account of every wrong,0.0 +"Who prostitute it in the cause of vice,",0.0 +"Who vote for hire, or point it with lampoon,",1.0 +"Wrath stays him, or else God would strike them dumb;",4.0 +"His wise forbearance has their end in view,",0.0 +They fill their measure and receive their due.,1.0 +"Names almost worthy of a Christian praise,",3.0 +"Would drive them forth from the resort of men,",1.0 +"O come not you near innocence and truth,",2.0 +You worms that eat into the bud of youth!,0.0 +"Taints in its rudiments the promised flower,",1.0 +Thenceforth it's hateful for it smells of you.,2.0 +Not even the vigorous and headlong rage,4.0 +"Of adolescence or a firmer age,",1.0 +"Affords a plea allowable or just,",1.0 +"But when the breath of age commits the fault,",0.0 +"So withered stumps disgrace the sylvan scene,",0.0 +"No longer fruitful and no longer green,",3.0 +"Oaths terminate, as Paul observes, all strife ' --",1.0 +"Some men have surely then a peaceful life,",0.0 +"Whatever subject occupy discourse,",5.0 +Makes contradiction such an hopeless case;,2.0 +"In every tale they tell, or false or true,",0.0 +"Well known, or such as no man ever knew,",3.0 +"With oaths like rivets forced into the brain,",0.0 +"And even when sober truth prevails throughout,",2.0 +"A Persian, humble servant of the sun,",1.0 +"Who though devout yet bigotry had none,",2.0 +"Hearing a lawyer, grave in his address,",3.0 +"Supposed the man a bishop, or at least,",1.0 +"God's name so much upon his lips, a priest,",1.0 +"Bowed at the close with all his graceful airs,",0.0 +"Go quit the rank to which you stood preferred,",1.0 +"Henceforth associate in one common herd,",1.0 +"Religion, virtue, reason, common sense",0.0 +"A mere disguise in which a devil lurks,",0.0 +Who yet betrays his secret by his works.,1.0 +"You powers who rule the tongue, if such there are,",3.0 +"And make colloquial happiness your care,",3.0 +"Preserve me from the thing I dread and hate,",1.0 +A duel in the form of a debate:,1.0 +The clash of arguments and jar of words,1.0 +"Worse than the mortal brunt of rival swords,",0.0 +"Decide no question with their tedious length,",4.0 +"For opposition gives opinion strength,",0.0 +"Divert the champions prodigal of breath,",3.0 +"Nor carp at every flaw you may discern,",1.0 +I am not surely always in the wrong;,1.0 +"It's hard if all is false that I advance,",1.0 +"A fool must now and then be right, by chance.",0.0 +"Not that all freedom of dissent I blame,",1.0 +No ' -- there I grant the privilege I claim.,1.0 +"A disputable point is no man's ground,",4.0 +"Rove where you please, it's common all around,",0.0 +Discourse may want an animated ' -- No ' --,2.0 +"To brush the surface and to make it flow,",1.0 +"But still remember if you mean to please,",1.0 +To press your point with modesty and ease.,1.0 +"The mark at which my juster aim I take,",0.0 +Is contradiction for its own dear sake;,2.0 +"Set your opinion at whatever pitch,",3.0 +"Knots and impediments make something hitch,",4.0 +"Adopt his own, it's equally in vain,",1.0 +Your thread of argument is snapped again;,1.0 +"The wrangler, rather than accord with you,",1.0 +"Will judge himself deceived, and prove it too.",0.0 +"A noisy man is always in the right,",0.0 +"I twirl my thumbs, fall back into my chair,",1.0 +"And when I hope his blunders are all out,",1.0 +Reply discreetly ' -- to be sure ' -- no doubt.,2.0 +Yes ' -- you may catch him tripping if you can.,1.0 +He would not with a peremptory tone,3.0 +Assert the nose upon his face his own;,0.0 +"With hesitation admirably slow,",1.0 +"His evidence, if he were called by law,",2.0 +"To swear to some enormity he saw,",1.0 +"For want of prominence and just relief,",1.0 +Would hang an honest man and save a thief.,0.0 +"He ties up all his hearers in suspense,",0.0 +"Knows what he knows as if he knew it not,",1.0 +"What he remembers seems to have forgot,",1.0 +"His sole opinion, whatsoever befall,",2.0 +"Yet though he tease and balk your listening ear,",0.0 +He makes one useful point exceeding clear;,0.0 +"However ingenious on his darling theme,",4.0 +"A sceptic in philosophy may seem,",1.0 +"Reduced to practise, his beloved rule,",1.0 +"Would only prove him a consummate fool,",1.0 +"Useless in him alike both brain and speech,",3.0 +Fate having placed all truth above his reach;,1.0 +"His ambiguities his total sum,",2.0 +He might as well be blind and deaf and dumb.,0.0 +"Where men of judgement creep and feel their way,",0.0 +"The Positive pronounce without dismay,",1.0 +Their want of light and intellect supplied,0.0 +By sparks absurdity strikes out of pride:,2.0 +"Without the means of knowing right from wrong,",0.0 +"They always are decisive, clear and strong;",1.0 +"Where others toil with philosophic force,",0.0 +"Their nimble nonsense takes a shorter course,",0.0 +"Flings at your head conviction in the lump,",0.0 +And gains remote conclusions at a jump:,0.0 +"Their own defect invisible to them,",1.0 +"Seen in another they at once condemn,",2.0 +Hate their own likeness in a brother's face.,0.0 +"The cause is plain and not to be denied,",0.0 +"The proud are always most provoked by pride,",0.0 +"Few competitions but engender spite,",1.0 +"And those the most, where neither has a right.",1.0 +"The point of honour has been deemed of use,",0.0 +To teach good manners and to kerb abuse;,1.0 +"Admit it true, the consequence is clear,",1.0 +"Our polished manners are a mask we wear,",1.0 +"And at the bottom, barbarous still and rude,",2.0 +"We are restrained indeed, but not subdued;",1.0 +"The very remedy, however sure,",2.0 +"Springs from the mischief it intends to cure,",1.0 +"And savage in its principle appears,",1.0 +"Tried, as it should be, by the fruit it bears.",1.0 +It's hard indeed if nothing will defend,1.0 +"Mankind from quarrels but their fatal end,",2.0 +"That now and then an hero must decease,",0.0 +That the surviving world may live in peace.,1.0 +"Perhaps at last, close scrutiny may show",2.0 +"The practise dastardly and mean and low,",1.0 +"That men engage in it compelled by force,",1.0 +"And fear not courage is its proper source,",1.0 +"The fear of tyrant custom, and the fear",1.0 +"At least to trample on our Maker's laws,",1.0 +"And hazard life, for any or no cause,",2.0 +"To rush into a fixed eternal state,",0.0 +"Out of the very flames of rage and hate,",1.0 +Or send another shivering to the bar,1.0 +"With all the guilt of such unnatural war,",3.0 +Am I to set my life upon a throw,1.0 +Because a bear is rude and surly? No ' --,0.0 +"Will not affront me, and no other can.",3.0 +"A Trojan combat would be something new,",0.0 +Then each might show to his admiring friends,1.0 +"In honourable bumps his rich amends,",2.0 +"And carry in contusions of his scull,",1.0 +A satisfactory receipt in full.,1.0 +A storey in which native humour reigns,1.0 +"Is often useful, always entertains,",0.0 +"A graver fact enlisted on your side,",1.0 +"May furnish illustration, well applied;",0.0 +"But sedentary weavers of long tales,",2.0 +"It's the most asinine employ on earth,",1.0 +"To hear them tell of parentage and birth,",1.0 +"And echo conversations dull and dry,",0.0 +"Embellished with, he said, and so said I.",1.0 +"At every interview their rout the same,",0.0 +"The repetition makes attention lame,",0.0 +"We bustle up with unsuccessful speed,",1.0 +And in the saddest part cry ' -- droll indeed!,1.0 +"The path of narrative with care pursue,",1.0 +"Still making probability your clue,",2.0 +"On all the vestiges of truth attend,",1.0 +And let them guide you to a decent end.,1.0 +"Of all ambitions man may entertain,",0.0 +"The worst that can invade a sickly brain,",1.0 +"Is that which angles hourly for surprise,",1.0 +And baits its hook with prodigies and lies.,1.0 +Credulous infancy or age as weak,3.0 +"Are fittest auditors for such to seek,",2.0 +"Who to please others will themselves disgrace,",3.0 +"Yet please not, but affront you to your face.",2.0 +"A great retailer of this curious ware,",4.0 +"Having unloaded and made many stare,",4.0 +Can this be true? an arch observer cries ' --,1.0 +"Yes, rather moved, I saw it with these eyes.",2.0 +"Sir! I believe it on that ground alone,",3.0 +"I could not, had I seen it with my own.",1.0 +"A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct,",0.0 +"Tell not as new what every body knows,",0.0 +"And new or old, still hasten to a close,",2.0 +Let all your rays of information meet:,0.0 +"What neither yields us profit or delight,",1.0 +"Is like a nurse's lullaby at night,",0.0 +"Guy Earl of Warwick and fair Eleanore,",4.0 +Makes half a sentence at a time enough;,1.0 +"The dozing sages drop the drowsy strain,",0.0 +"Then pause, and puff ' -- and speak, and pause again.",0.0 +"Such often like the tube they so admire,",1.0 +Important trifles! have more smoke than fire.,0.0 +Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys,0.0 +Thy worst effect is banishing for hours,1.0 +"Thou art indeed the drug a gardener wants,",2.0 +"To poison vermin that infest his plants,",0.0 +"But are we so to wit and beauty blind,",1.0 +"As to despise the glory of our kind,",2.0 +And show the softest minds and fairest forms,0.0 +"As little mercy, as he, grubs and worms?",1.0 +"They dare not wait the riotous abuse,",1.0 +"When wine has given indecent language birth,",2.0 +And forced the floodgates of licentious mirth;,2.0 +For sea-born Venus her attachment shows,2.0 +"Still to that element from which she rose,",1.0 +"And with a quiet which no fumes disturb,",2.0 +Sips meek infusions of a milder herb.,2.0 +The emphatic speaker dearly loves to oppose,3.0 +"In contact inconvenient, nose to nose,",1.0 +Touched with a magnet had attracted his.,1.0 +"His whispered theme, dilated and at large,",1.0 +"An extract of his diary ' -- no more,",1.0 +A tasteless journal of the day before.,1.0 +"He walked abroad, overtaken in the rain",6.0 +"Called on a friend, drank tea, stepped home again,",2.0 +"Resumed his purpose, had a world of talk",0.0 +"With one he stumbled on, and lost his walk.",2.0 +"I interrupt him with a sudden bow,",1.0 +Adieu dear Sir! lest you should lose it now.,2.0 +"I cannot talk with civet in the room,",0.0 +The sight's enough ' -- no need to smell a beau ' --,1.0 +"Perhaps might prosper with a swarm of bees,",1.0 +"But we that make no honey though we sting,",3.0 +"It's wrong to bring into a mixed resort,",0.0 +Why such an one should keep himself away.,1.0 +Quite as absurd though not so light as he:,2.0 +"A shallow brain behind a serious mask,",2.0 +"An oracle within an empty cask,",1.0 +The solemn fop; significant and budge;,1.0 +"A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge.",5.0 +"He says but little, and that little said",1.0 +"Owes all its weight, like loaded dice, to lead.",0.0 +"His wit invites you by his looks to come,",1.0 +But when you knock it never is at home:,1.0 +"It's like a parcel sent you by the stage,",1.0 +"Some handsome present, as your hopes presage,",4.0 +"It's heavy, bulky, and bids fair to prove",2.0 +"An absent friend's fidelity and love,",1.0 +But when unpacked your disappointment groans,0.0 +"To find it stuffed with brickbats, earth and stones.",1.0 +"Some men employ their health, an ugly trick,",0.0 +"In making known how oft they have been sick,",0.0 +And give us in recitals of disease,1.0 +"A doctor's trouble, but without the fees:",1.0 +"Relate how many weeks they kept their bed,",0.0 +"How an emetic or cathartic sped,",2.0 +"Nothing is slightly touched, much less forgot,",2.0 +"Nose, ears, and eyes seem present on the spot.",3.0 +Now the distemper spite of draught or pill,2.0 +"Victorious seemed, and now the doctor's skill;",2.0 +And now ' -- alas for unforeseen mishaps!,1.0 +"They thought they must have died they were so bad,",1.0 +Their peevish hearers almost wish they had.,1.0 +"Some fretful tempers wince at every touch,",0.0 +You always do too little or too much:,3.0 +"You speak with life in hopes to entertain,",0.0 +Your elevated voice goes through the brain;,2.0 +"You fall at once into a lower key,",0.0 +"The southern sash admits too strong a light,",1.0 +You rise and drop the curtain ' -- now its night.,0.0 +He shakes with cold ' -- you stir the fire and strive,0.0 +"Serve him with ven'son and he chooses fish,",1.0 +"He takes what he at first professed to loath,",1.0 +And in due time feeds heartily on both;,3.0 +He does not swallow but he gulps it down.,1.0 +"Your hope to please him, vain on every plan,",0.0 +Himself should work that wonder if he can ' --,1.0 +"He likes yours little and his own still less,",2.0 +"Thus always teasing others, always teased,",1.0 +His only pleasure is ' -- to be displeased.,1.0 +"I pity bashful men, who feel the pain",0.0 +"Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain,",0.0 +And bear the marks upon a blushing face,0.0 +"Our sensibilities are so acute,",2.0 +The fear of being silent makes us mute.,0.0 +We sometime think we could a speech produce,1.0 +"Much to the purpose, if our tongues were loose,",1.0 +"But being tied, it dies upon the lip,",0.0 +Faint as a chicken's note that has the pip:,0.0 +"Few Frenchmen of this evil have complained,",1.0 +It seems as if we Britons were ordained,2.0 +"By way of wholesome kerb upon our pride,",0.0 +"To fear each other, fearing none beside.",0.0 +"The cause perhaps enquiry may descry,",3.0 +"Concealed within an unsuspected part,",0.0 +"For ever aiming at the world's esteem,",0.0 +"In other eyes our talents rarely shown,",0.0 +"Become at length so splendid in our own,",0.0 +"We dare not risque them into public view,",3.0 +"True modesty is a discerning grace,",3.0 +"And only blushes in the proper place,",0.0 +"But counterfeit is blind, and skulks through fear,",0.0 +Where it's a shame to be ashamed to appear;,2.0 +"Humility the parent of the first,",2.0 +The last by vanity produced and nursed.,1.0 +"The circle formed we sit in silent state,",0.0 +"Yes ma'am, and no ma'am, uttered softly, show",2.0 +Every five minutes how the minutes go;,3.0 +Each individual suffering a constraint,3.0 +"Poetry may, but colours cannot paint,",2.0 +"As if in close committee on the sky,",2.0 +"Reports it hot or cold, or wet or dry;",0.0 +"We next enquire, but softly and by stealth,",3.0 +"Like conservators of the public health,",1.0 +"Of epidemic throats if such there are,",1.0 +"That theme exhausted, a wide chasm ensues,",4.0 +"Filled up at last with interesting news,",1.0 +"Who danced with whom, and who are like to wed,",0.0 +"And who is hanged, and who is brought to bed,",0.0 +"But fear to call a more important cause,",0.0 +"The visit paid, with ecstasy we come",1.0 +"As from a seven years transportation, home,",3.0 +"Recovering what we lost we know not how,",1.0 +Expression and the privilege of thought.,2.0 +"The reeking roaring hero of the chase,",1.0 +I give him over as a desperate case.,1.0 +"Physicians write in hopes to work a cure,",0.0 +"Never, if honest ones, when death is sure;",2.0 +"And though the fox he follows may be tamed,",2.0 +"Some farrier should prescribe his proper course,",2.0 +"Whose only fit companion is his horse,",1.0 +Or if deserving of a better doom,2.0 +"The noble beast judge otherwise, his groom.",1.0 +"Yet even the rogue that serves him, though he stand",3.0 +"If neither horse nor groom affect the squire,",0.0 +"O to the club, the scene of savage joys,",1.0 +The school of coarse good fellowship and noise;,0.0 +There in the sweet society of those,1.0 +"Whose friendship from his boyish years he chose,",1.0 +"Let him improve his talent if he can,",3.0 +Till none but beasts acknowledge him a man.,1.0 +"Like theirs that cleave the flood or graze the field,",0.0 +Given him a soul and bade him understand.,1.0 +"The power to cloth that reason with his word,",3.0 +"For all is perfect that God works on earth,",2.0 +"And he that gives conception, adds the birth.",1.0 +"If this be plain, it's plainly understood",1.0 +What uses of his boon the Giver would.,1.0 +The mind dispatched upon her busy toil,0.0 +"Should range where Providence has blessed the soil,",1.0 +"Visiting every flower with labour meet,",4.0 +"And gathering all her treasures sweet by sweet,",1.0 +"She should imbue the tongue with what she sips,",0.0 +"And shed the balmy blessing on the lips,",1.0 +"That good diffused may more abundant grow,",0.0 +And speech may praise the power that bids it flow.,2.0 +"That fills the listening lover with delight,",1.0 +"Forget his harmony with rapture heard,",1.0 +"Or make the parrot's mimicry his choice,",1.0 +That odious libel on an human voice?,3.0 +"Starts not aside from her Creator's plan,",3.0 +The melody that was at first designed,2.0 +"To cheer the rude forefathers of mankind,",3.0 +"Is note for note delivered in our ears,",0.0 +In the last scene of her six thousand years:,5.0 +"Yet Fashion, leader of a chattering train,",3.0 +"Whom man for his own hurt permits to reign,",1.0 +"Who shifts and changes all things but his shape,",2.0 +"The fruitful parent of abuse and wrong,",1.0 +Holds an usurped dominion over his tongue:,5.0 +"There sits and prompts him with his own disgrace,",1.0 +"Prescribes the theme, the tone and the grimace,",0.0 +"And when accomplished in her wayward school,",0.0 +Calls gentleman whom she has made a fool.,3.0 +It's an unalterable fixed decree,2.0 +"That none could frame or ratify but she,",0.0 +"That heaven and hell and righteousness and sin,",1.0 +"Snares in his path and foes that lurk within,",0.0 +God and his attributes a field of day,0.0 +Where it's an angel's happiness to stray,1.0 +"Fruits of his love and wonders of his might,",1.0 +Be never named in ears esteemed polite.,0.0 +"That he who dares, when she forbids, be grave,",1.0 +"Shall stand proscribed, a madman or a knave,",2.0 +"A close designer not to be believed,",0.0 +"Or if excused that charge, at least deceived.",1.0 +"O folly worthy of the nurse's lap,",1.0 +Give it the breast or stop its mouth with pap!,0.0 +"Is it incredible, or can it seem",3.0 +"A dream to any except those that dream,",2.0 +"That man should love his Maker, and that fire",1.0 +Warming his heart should at his lips transpire?,2.0 +"Know then, and modestly let fall your eyes,",2.0 +"And vail your daring crest that braves the skies,",0.0 +"That air of insolence affronts your God,",1.0 +"You need his pardon, and provoke his rod,",1.0 +"Now, in a posture that becomes you more",0.0 +"Than that heroic strut assumed before,",0.0 +"Know, your arrears with every hour accrue,",2.0 +For mercy shown while wrath is justly due.,0.0 +"The time is short, and there are souls on earth,",1.0 +"Though future pain may serve for present mirth,",0.0 +Acquainted with the woes that fear or shame,1.0 +"By fashion taught, forbade them once to name,",0.0 +"And having felt the pangs you deem a jest,",0.0 +Have proved them truths too big to be expressed:,1.0 +"Go seek on revelation's hallowed ground,",1.0 +"Sure to succeed, the remedy they found,",3.0 +"Touched by that power that you have dared to mock,",0.0 +"That makes seas stable and dissolves the rock,",2.0 +"That fools, as you have done, shall call a dream.",0.0 +"Soon after He that was our surety died,",5.0 +"The scene of all those sorrows left behind,",0.0 +"Sought their own village, busied as they went",1.0 +In musings worthy of the great event:,1.0 +"They spoke of him they loved, of him whose life",2.0 +"Though blameless, had incurred perpetual strife,",2.0 +"Whose deeds had left, in spite of hostile arts,",0.0 +"The recollection like a vein of over,",0.0 +"The farther traced enriched them still the more,",0.0 +"They thought him, and they justly thought him one",1.0 +"Sent to do more than he appeared to have done,",1.0 +"TO exalt a people, and to place them high",2.0 +"Above all else, and wondered he should die.",1.0 +"Before yet they brought their journey to an end,",1.0 +"A stranger joined them, courteous as a friend,",1.0 +"And asked them with a kind engaging air,",1.0 +"What their affliction was, and begged a share.",2.0 +"Informed, he gathered up the broken thread,",1.0 +"And truth and wisdom gracing all he said,",0.0 +"Explained, illustrated and searched so well",6.0 +"The tender theme on which they chose to dwell,",0.0 +"That reaching home, the night, they said, is near,",0.0 +"We must not now be parted, sojourn here ' --",0.0 +"The new acquaintance soon became a guest,",0.0 +"And made so welcome at their simple feast,",0.0 +"He blessed the bread, but vanished at the word,",0.0 +"Did not our hearts feel all he deigned to say,",1.0 +Did they not burn within us by the way?,1.0 +"Man to maintain, and such as God approves;",3.0 +"Their views indeed were indistinct and dim,",1.0 +But yet successful being aimed at him.,0.0 +"Christ and his character their only scope,",1.0 +"Their object and their subject and their hope,",2.0 +"They felt what it became them much to feel,",1.0 +"And wanting him to loose the sacred seal,",1.0 +"Found him as prompt as their desire was true,",1.0 +To spread the newborn glories in their view.,0.0 +Well ' -- what are ages and the lapse of time,1.0 +Matched against truths as lasting as sublime?,4.0 +"Can length of years on God himself exact,",0.0 +Or make that fiction which was once a fact?,0.0 +"No ' -- marble and recording brass decay,",2.0 +"The works of man inherit, as is just,",1.0 +Their authors frailty and return to dust;,1.0 +"But truth divine for ever stands secure,",0.0 +"Its head as guarded as its base is sure,",1.0 +Fixed in the rolling flood of endless years,0.0 +"The pillar of the eternal plan appears,",3.0 +"The raving storm and dashing wave defies,",0.0 +Built by that architect who built the skies.,0.0 +"Hearts may be found that harbour at this hour,",0.0 +"That love of Christ in all its quickening power,",2.0 +"And lips unstained by folly or by strife,",1.0 +"Whose wisdom drawn from the deep well of life,",2.0 +"Tastes of its healthful origin, and flows",1.0 +A Jordan for the ablution of our woes.,4.0 +"O days of heaven and nights of equal praise,",0.0 +"Serene and peaceful as those heavenly days,",3.0 +"When souls drawn upward in communion sweet,",1.0 +"Enjoy the stillness of some close retreat,",1.0 +"Discourse as if released and safe at home,",3.0 +"Of dangers past and wonders yet to come,",0.0 +And spread the sacred treasures of the breast,1.0 +"What always dreaming over heavenly things,",2.0 +And half the night? fanatic and absurd!,1.0 +"Mine be the friend less frequent in his prayers,",1.0 +"Who makes no bustle with his soul's affairs,",2.0 +"Content on earth in earthly things to shine,",0.0 +"Who waits for heaven ever he becomes divine,",1.0 +"Leaves saints to enjoy those altitudes they teach,",2.0 +And plucks the fruit placed more within his reach.,1.0 +"Well spoken, Advocate of sin and shame,",1.0 +"Is sparkling wit the world's exclusive right,",0.0 +"Can hopes of heaven, bright prospects of an hour",4.0 +"That comes to waft us out of sorrow's power,",1.0 +Obscure or quench a faculty that finds,1.0 +"Religion kerbs indeed its wanton play,",0.0 +"But gives it usefulness unknown before,",1.0 +And purifying makes it shine the more.,0.0 +"A Christian's wit is inoffensive light,",1.0 +"A beam that aids but never grieves the sight,",0.0 +"Vigorous in age as in the flush of youth,",1.0 +"It's always active on the side of truth,",1.0 +"Temperance and peace insure its healthful state,",1.0 +And make it brightest at its latest date.,0.0 +O I have seen nor hope perhaps in vain,1.0 +Ever life go down to see such sights again,2.0 +"A veteran warrior in the Christian field,",0.0 +Who never saw the sword he could not wield;,0.0 +"A man that would have foiled at their own play,",1.0 +"Who when occasion justified its use,",0.0 +"Had wit as bright as ready, to produce,",1.0 +"Could fetch from records of an earlier age,",3.0 +"His rich materials, and regale your ear",3.0 +With strains it was a privilege to hear;,2.0 +"Yet above all his luxury supreme,",1.0 +And his chief glory was the gospel theme;,3.0 +"There he was copious as old Greece or Rome,",5.0 +"His happy eloquence seemed there at home,",2.0 +"Ambitious, not to shine or to excel,",1.0 +But to treat justly what he loved so well.,2.0 +"It moves me more perhaps than folly ought,",0.0 +"When some green heads as void of wit as thought,",1.0 +"Though time will wear us, and we must grow old,",2.0 +"Such men are not forgot as soon as cold,",0.0 +"Their fragrant memory will out last their tomb,",1.0 +Embalmed for ever in its own perfume:,0.0 +"And to say truth, though in its early prime,",2.0 +"And when unstained with any grosser crime,",0.0 +"That in the valley of decline are lost,",1.0 +And virtue with peculiar charms appears,1.0 +Crowned with the garland of life's blooming years;,2.0 +"Yet age by long experience well informed,",2.0 +"Well read, well tempered, with religion warmed,",3.0 +"Proud of his speed to overshoot the truth,",0.0 +"As time improves the grape's authentic juice,",0.0 +"And claims a reverence in its shortening day,",1.0 +That it's an honour and a joy to pay.,0.0 +"The fruits of age, less fair, are yet more sound,",1.0 +"Than those a brighter season pours around,",1.0 +"And like the stores autumnal suns mature,",0.0 +"What is fanatic frenzy, scorned so much,",1.0 +And dreaded more than a contagious touch?,1.0 +"I grant it dangerous, and approve your fear,",3.0 +"That fire is catching if you draw too near,",2.0 +"But sage observers oft mistake the flame,",0.0 +And give true piety that odious name.,4.0 +To tremble as the creature of an hour,2.0 +Ought at the view of an almighty power,1.0 +"Before his presence, at whose awful throne",0.0 +"All tremble in all worlds, except our own,",0.0 +"Though common sense allowed a casting voice,",0.0 +"And free from bias, must approve the choice,",0.0 +"Convicts a man fanatic in the extreme,",2.0 +And wild as madness in the world's esteem.,0.0 +But that disease when soberly defined,1.0 +"Is the false fire of an overheated mind,",2.0 +"It views the truth with a distorted eye,",1.0 +"And either warps or lays it useless by,",1.0 +"It's narrow, selfish, arrogant, and draws",1.0 +"Its sordid nourishment from man's applause,",1.0 +"Shines in the dark, but ushered into day,",0.0 +"The stench remains, the lustre dies away.",0.0 +"True bliss, if man may reach it, is composed",2.0 +Of hearts in union mutually disclosed:,3.0 +"And, farewell else all hope of pure delight,",1.0 +"Those hearts should be reclaimed, renewed, upright.",0.0 +"Form, in its stead, a covenant of shame,",1.0 +A dark confederacy against the laws,1.0 +"Of virtue, and religion's glorious cause.",3.0 +"They build each other up with dreadful skill,",1.0 +"Enlarge and fortify the dread redoubt,",0.0 +"Call legions up from hell to back the deed,",2.0 +"And cursed with conquest, finally succeed:",1.0 +But souls that carry on a blessed exchange,1.0 +"Of joys they meet with in their heavenly range,",2.0 +And with a fearless confidence make known,3.0 +Daily derive increasing light and force,2.0 +"From such communion in their pleasant course,",1.0 +"Feel less the journey's roughness and its length,",2.0 +"And one in heart, in interest and design,",2.0 +Gird up each other to the race divine.,1.0 +"But Conversation, choose what theme we may,",0.0 +"And chiefly when religion leads the way,",0.0 +"Should flow like waters after summer showers,",0.0 +Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.,0.0 +"The Christian in whose soul, though now distressed,",0.0 +"Lives the dear thought of joys he once possessed,",3.0 +When all his glowing language issued forth,0.0 +"With God's deep stamp upon its current worth,",1.0 +"Will speak without disguise, and must impart",0.0 +"Abhors constraint, and dares not feign a zeal,",0.0 +Or seem to boast a fire he does not feel.,0.0 +Unless when rising on a joyful wing,1.0 +"The soul can mix with the celestial bands,",1.0 +And give the strain the compass it demands.,1.0 +Strange tidings these to tell a world who treat,2.0 +All but their own experience as deceit!,3.0 +"Will they believe, though credulous enough",2.0 +"To swallow much upon much weaker proof,",0.0 +"That there are blessed inhabitants of earth,",1.0 +"Their hopes, desires and purposes estranged",1.0 +"From things terrestrial, and divinely changed,",3.0 +Their very language of a kind that speaks,1.0 +"The soul's sure interest in the good she seeks,",1.0 +"Who deal with scripture, its importance felt,",1.0 +"As Tully with philosophy once dealt,",3.0 +"And in the silent watches of the night,",1.0 +"The social walk, or solitary ride,",0.0 +Keep still the dear companion at their side?,1.0 +"God's work may serve an ape upon a stage,",1.0 +With such a jest as filled with hellish glee,1.0 +"Certain invisibles as shrewd as he,",4.0 +"But veneration or respect finds none,",2.0 +Save from the subjects of that work alone.,1.0 +"The world grown old, her deep discernment shows,",1.0 +"And finds it a mere mask of sly grimace,",3.0 +"Usurps God's office, lays his bosom bare,",2.0 +"And serving God herself through mere constraint,",0.0 +"And yet God knows, look human nature through,",3.0 +And in due time the world shall know it too,1.0 +"That after man's defection laid all waste,",0.0 +"Has made the newborn creature her abode,",1.0 +Till the last fire burn all between the poles.,3.0 +"Sincerity! Why it's his only pride,",2.0 +"Weak and imperfect in all grace beside,",2.0 +"He knows that God demands his heart entire,",0.0 +"As having it, he deems the world's disdain;",1.0 +That great defect would cost him not alone,0.0 +"His birthright shaken and no longer clear,",3.0 +Than while his conduct proves his heart sincere.,0.0 +"Retort the charge, and let the world be told",1.0 +"She boasts a confidence she does not hold,",1.0 +"That conscious of her crimes, she feels instead,",1.0 +"A cold misgiving, and a killing dread:",1.0 +"That while in health, the ground of her support",1.0 +"Is madly to forget that life is short,",1.0 +"Her hope presumption, and her faith a lie.",1.0 +"Her utmost reach, historical assent,",2.0 +The doctrines warped to what they never meant.,0.0 +That truth itself is in her head as dull,0.0 +"And useless as a candle in a scull,",1.0 +"And all her love of God a groundless claim,",0.0 +"A trick upon the canvas, painted flame.",0.0 +"Tell her again, the sneer upon her face,",2.0 +"Are insincere, meant only to conceal",2.0 +"A dread she would not, yet is forced to feel,",0.0 +"That in her heart the Christian she reveres,",1.0 +"And while she seems to scorn him, only fears.",0.0 +"A poet does not work by square or line,",0.0 +"At least we moderns, our attention less,",1.0 +"Beyond the example of our sires, digress,",3.0 +"And claim a right to scamper and run wide,",2.0 +"Wherever chance, caprice, or fancy guide.",0.0 +"I owed a trifle and have paid the debt,",1.0 +"Perhaps, however, as some years have passed",2.0 +"Since she and I conversed together last,",1.0 +"And I have lived recluse in rural shades,",1.0 +"Which seldom a distinct report pervades,",1.0 +"Great changes and new manners have occurred,",3.0 +"And blessed reforms that I have never heard,",1.0 +"And she may now be as discreet and wise,",2.0 +As once absurd in all discerning eyes.,0.0 +"Sobriety perhaps may now be found,",1.0 +"Where once intoxication pressed the ground,",0.0 +"The subtle and injurious may be just,",2.0 +And he grown chaste that was the slave of lust;,1.0 +"Arts once esteemed may be with shame dismissed,",1.0 +Forgot to curse and only kneel to pray.,0.0 +"It has indeed been told me with what weight,",1.0 +"How credibly, it's hard for me to state",2.0 +"That fable's old that seemed for ever mute,",0.0 +"Revived, are hastening into fresh repute,",0.0 +"And gods and goddesses discarded long,",1.0 +"Like useless lumber or a stroller's fong,",2.0 +"Are bringing into vogue their heathen train,",0.0 +And Jupiter bids fair to rule again.,2.0 +"That certain feasts are instituted now,",0.0 +"Where Venus hears the lover's tender vow,",0.0 +"To consecrate our few remaining groves,",0.0 +"And echo learns politely to repeat,",1.0 +"The praise of names for ages obsolete,",0.0 +"That having proved the weakness, it should seem,",1.0 +"Of revelation's ineffectual beam,",2.0 +"To bring the passions under sober sway,",0.0 +"And give the moral springs their proper play,",0.0 +They mean to try what may at last be done,1.0 +"By stout substantial gods of wood and stone,",0.0 +And whether Roman rites may not produce,0.0 +The virtues of old Rome for English use.,2.0 +"May much success attend the pious plan,",0.0 +"May Mercury once more embellish man,",2.0 +"Grace him again with long forgotten arts,",2.0 +"Reclaim his taste and brighten up his parts,",1.0 +"Make him athletic as in days of old,",3.0 +"Divest the rougher sex of female airs,",1.0 +And teach the softer not to copy theirs.,1.0 +"The change shall please, nor shall it matter aught",0.0 +Who works the wonder if it be but wrought.,1.0 +"For us plain folks and all who side with us,",2.0 +"To build our altar, confident and bold,",1.0 +"And say as stern Elijah said of old,",0.0 +"The strife now stands upon a fair award,",1.0 +"If he be silent, faith is all a whim,",1.0 +"Digression is so much in modern use,",1.0 +"Thought is so rare, and fancy so profuse,",1.0 +"Some never seem so wide of their intent,",1.0 +As when returning to the theme they meant.,1.0 +"Make every parish but their own, their home",2.0 +"Though such continual zigzags in a book,",3.0 +"And I had rather creep to what is true,",1.0 +"Than rove and stagger with no mark in view,",2.0 +"Yet to consult a little, seemed no crime,",2.0 +"But now, to gather up what seems dispersed,",1.0 +"And touch the subject I designed at first,",1.0 +"May prove, though much beside the rules of art,",0.0 +"Best for the public, and my wisest part.",1.0 +And first let no man charge me that I mean,2.0 +"To cloth in sables every social scene,",0.0 +And give good company a face severe,1.0 +As if they met around a father's bier;,1.0 +"For tell some men that pleasure all their bent,",0.0 +"Their wisdom bursts into this sage reply,",0.0 +"Then mirth is sin, and we should always cry.",1.0 +"To find the medium asks some share of wit,",2.0 +And therefore it's a mark fools never hit.,3.0 +"But though life's valley be a vale of tears,",2.0 +"A brighter scene beyond that vale appears,",0.0 +"Whose glory with a light that never fades,",1.0 +"Shoots between scattered rocks and opening shades,",6.0 +"And while it shows the land the soul desires,",0.0 +"The language of the land she seeks, inspires.",1.0 +"Thus touched, the tongue receives a sacred cure",1.0 +"Of all that was absurd, profane, impure,",1.0 +Held within modest bounds the tide of speech,4.0 +"Pursues the course that truth and nature teach,",0.0 +"The pomp of sound, or tinkle without use,",3.0 +"Wherever it winds, the salutary stream",2.0 +"Sprightly and fresh, enriches every theme,",2.0 +"While all the happy man possessed before,",0.0 +"The gift of nature or the classic store,",1.0 +Is made subservient to the grand design,1.0 +For which heaven formed the faculty divine.,1.0 +"So should an idiot while at large he strays,",1.0 +"Find the sweet lyre on which an artist plays,",2.0 +"With rash and awkward force the chords he shakes,",0.0 +And grins with wonder at the jar he makes;,0.0 +"Once take the shell beneath his just command,",1.0 +In gentle sounds it seems as it complained,1.0 +"Of the rude injuries it late sustained,",3.0 +"Till tuned at length to some immortal song,",0.0 +"TREMBLE, thou Earth! the anointed poet said,",3.0 +"At God's bright presence, tremble, all you mountains,",1.0 +"Then once again, you glorious thunders roll,",2.0 +"The Muse with transport hears you, once again",0.0 +"Grand music of Omnipotence, the isles.",3.0 +"It's thy terrific voice, thou God of Power,",1.0 +It's thy terrific voice; all Nature hears it,1.0 +"Awakened and alarmed; she feels its force,",1.0 +And every movement of her vast machine.,1.0 +"Behold! quakes Apennine, behold! recoils",1.0 +"But what is this, celestial though the note,",2.0 +"And proclamation of the reign supreme,",1.0 +"Compared with such as, for a mortal ear",1.0 +Should ocean to his congregated waves,1.0 +"Call in each river, cataract, and lake,",1.0 +And with the watery world down an huge rock,4.0 +"Fall headlong in one horrible cascade,",2.0 +"Dies on the doubting ear, if named with sounds",0.0 +So mighty! so stupendous! so divine!,2.0 +But not alone in the aerial vault,2.0 +Does he the dread theocracy maintain;,1.0 +"For oft, enraged with his intestine thunders,",1.0 +And shocks the central magnet ' -- Cities then,0.0 +"Totter on their foundations, stately columns,",3.0 +What though in haughty eminence erect,1.0 +"Stands the strong citadel, and frowns defiance",3.0 +"On adverse hosts, though many a bastion jut",3.0 +"Forth from the ramparts elevated mound,",1.0 +"Vain the poor providence of human art,",4.0 +And mortal strength how vain! while underneath,0.0 +Triumphs his mining vengeance in the uproar,3.0 +"Of shattered towers, riven rocks, and mountains,",0.0 +"Bursting abrupt from darkness into day,",2.0 +With din outrageous and destructive ire,1.0 +"Augment the hideous tumult, while it wounds",2.0 +"The afflicted ear, and terrifies the eye,",1.0 +"Thy threatened indignation, but even Thou,",3.0 +"Incensed Omnipotent, art gracious ever,",2.0 +Thy goodness infinite but mildly warned us,1.0 +Nor send more dire conviction! we confess,1.0 +"That thou art He, the Almighty: we believe.",2.0 +"For at thy righteous power whole systems quake,",3.0 +For at thy nod tremble ten thousand worlds.,6.0 +Which is and is not in a moment ' -- hark!,1.0 +On the hurricane's tempestuous sweep he rides,3.0 +"Invincible, and oaks and pines and cedars",1.0 +And forests are no more. For conflict dreadful!,2.0 +In his career the Hyperborean blast.,3.0 +"The lordly lions shuddering seek their dens,",2.0 +"And fly like timorous deer; the king of birds,",2.0 +"Who dared the solar ray, is weak of wing,",0.0 +Stands steadfast in the centre of the storm.,2.0 +"Wherefore, you objects terrible and great,",3.0 +"And boiling billows, hail! in chorus join",0.0 +"To celebrate and magnify your Maker,",0.0 +"Is not less manifest, is not less mighty.",2.0 +"Survey the magnet's sympathetic love,",0.0 +"The attractive amber's power, invisible",4.0 +Even to the mental eye; or when the blow,1.0 +"Sent from the electric sphere assaults thy frame,",1.0 +Show me the hand that dealt it! ' -- baffled here,0.0 +"By his Omnipotence, Philosophy",3.0 +"Slowly her thoughts inadequate revolves,",2.0 +"And stands, with all his circling wonders round her,",0.0 +"If such the operations of his power,",2.0 +Which at all seasons and in every place,1.0 +Ruled by established laws and current nature,2.0 +Arrest the attention; Who! OH Who shall tell,3.0 +His acts miraculous? when his own decrees,1.0 +"Repeals he, or suspends, when by the hand",2.0 +"Of Moses or of Joshua, or the mouths",2.0 +"Of his prophetic seers, such deeds he wrought,",1.0 +That Faith was scarce a virtue. Need I sing,0.0 +The fate of Pharaoh and his numerous band,3.0 +"Lost in the reflux of the watery walls,",3.0 +That melted to their fluid state again?,1.0 +With more than mortal nerves was strung to overthrow,0.0 +Idolatrous Philistia? shall I tell,2.0 +"How David triumphed, and what Job sustained?",1.0 +Which angels long to unfold! it's man's redemption,2.0 +"That crowns thy glory, and thy power confirms,",3.0 +"Shone forth the Sun of Righteousness revealed,",2.0 +And on benighted reason poured the day;,1.0 +Let there be peace he said and all was calm,0.0 +"Amongst the warring world ' -- calm as the sea,",2.0 +"When OH be still, you boisterous Winds, he cried,",0.0 +"And not a breath was blown, nor murmur heard.",0.0 +"His was a life of miracles and might,",2.0 +"And charity and love, ever yet he taste",4.0 +"The bitter draught of death, ever yet he rise",3.0 +"Victorious over the universal foe,",4.0 +And Death and Sin and Hell in triumph lead.,0.0 +"His by the right of conquest is mankind,",3.0 +And in sweet servitude and golden bonds,1.0 +Were tied to him for ever. ' -- OH how easy,1.0 +"It's ecstasy to bear! Him, blessed Shepherd,",4.0 +His flocks shall follow through the maze of life,1.0 +And as the radiant roses after fading,1.0 +In fuller foliage and more fragrant breath,1.0 +"Revive in smiling spring, so shall it fare",0.0 +"With those that love him ' -- for sweet is their favour,",1.0 +And all eternity shall be their spring.,1.0 +"Then shall the gates and everlasting doors,",0.0 +"At which the KING OF GLORY enters in,",0.0 +"Boasts an undying bloom, where dubious hope",4.0 +"Is freed from passion ' -- there we'll celebrate,",1.0 +"With worthier numbers, Him, who is, and was,",4.0 +"And in immortal prowess King of Kings,",0.0 +Shall be the Monarch of all worlds for ever.,1.0 +S' -- y thou dearest soft Retreat adieu,1.0 +"You, whose safe Harbour kindly did receive,",1.0 +"With Gilded Stern and Gaudy Sails I moved,",0.0 +"Fraught with this Wish, be Great and be Beloved.",0.0 +"No Rocks nor Wind, nor Enemies I feared:",2.0 +"Young and unskilled in this unlucky Sea,",3.0 +"For want of Ballast, Storms did ruin me.",1.0 +Tore all my Sails and threatened sudden Death;,0.0 +"There was no casting Anchor in this Storm,",2.0 +That was but Ruin in another Form:,0.0 +"For hope was all the lading I could boast,",1.0 +Thus was I most inevitably lost.,1.0 +My tattered Bark no friendly shelter finds;,1.0 +"Till some kind Star dear S' -- y marked out thee,",3.0 +With Masts and Tackling for the mighty Main;,1.0 +"Happy defect that keeps from such extremes,",3.0 +"Where no rough Winds but a safe Oar commands,",3.0 +And if I please at each blessed Shade she Lands.,2.0 +"There on a verdant Bank I set me down,",1.0 +"At all my former daring Follies smile,",0.0 +And bless the Storms that blowed me to this Isle;,1.0 +"The Fortunate to me, and does contain,",2.0 +"Those solid Joys, I elsewhere sought in vain.",1.0 +"But ah! the Fates again do summon me,",1.0 +To the loathed Ocean Popularity;,3.0 +"Guard me you Gods with this one Bliss alone,",1.0 +"Though I am seen, yet let me not be known.",1.0 +The Picture strikes ' -- it's drawn with wondrous Art;,0.0 +Well has the Poet played the Painter's Part.,0.0 +"Though it's your Glory, yet, my Lord, I own,",1.0 +I grieve the Features fit yourself alone.,0.0 +"But know, though All agree the Picture's yours,",1.0 +It's Steadiness alone your Claim secures.,1.0 +"But should you from the Rules of Virtue stray,",1.0 +"Should ever degrading Vice deform your Frame,",3.0 +"She sighs, to think how Time will soon devour",0.0 +"The lovely Bloom, which gives her now such Power:",0.0 +"Be it your Glory to surpass the Paint,",1.0 +And make the finished Picture look too faint.,1.0 +Calls forth the Graces that adorn your Heart?,1.0 +And share that Immortality they give.,1.0 +"O! How his Pointed Language, like a Dart,",1.0 +"Quite through my Soul the charming Accents slide,",0.0 +That from his Life inspiring Portals glide;,0.0 +"And while I the enchanting sound admire,",1.0 +"O Son of Venus, Mourn thy baffled Arts,",0.0 +For I defy the proudest of thy Darts:,2.0 +And find no fatal influence accrue;,2.0 +Should my bright Sun deign to approach more near;,3.0 +"Thou a false Idol, he the God of Love;",3.0 +"Lovely beyond Conception, he is all",3.0 +"Reason, or Fancy amiable call,",3.0 +"All that the most exerted thoughts can reach,",0.0 +"O! altogether Charming, why in thee",0.0 +Do the vain World no Form or Beauty see?,4.0 +And yet refuse their Homage to a God?,1.0 +For the Dead Puddle of a narrow Urn?,3.0 +O Carnal Madness! sure we falsely call,0.0 +"So dull a thing as man is, rational;",0.0 +"Alas, my shining Love, what can there be",1.0 +"In whom the brightness of a Godhead Shines,",2.0 +With all its lovely and endearing Lines;,1.0 +"Thee with whose light Mortality once blessed,",3.0 +Would throw off its dark Veil to be possessed;,2.0 +"Then altogether Lovely, why in thee",0.0 +Do the vain World no Form or Beauty see.,4.0 +"Hast thou so oft the heavenly Circle run,",2.0 +When scarce I thought thy radiant Course begun?,0.0 +Never shall I my fleeting Time renew?,0.0 +Must it all perish in one transient View?,0.0 +I wish ' -- Alas! my Wishes are in vain:,1.0 +Those flying Years they never can regain:,1.0 +With rapid Haste Old Time the Moments drives;,1.0 +And scarce a Trace of Youth in Age survives:,0.0 +"So, when the wearied Mortal sinks to Rest,",0.0 +And every Tumult ceases in his Breast;,0.0 +Anew Creation feeds his wondering Eyes;,2.0 +"Till Phoebus, rising over the spangled Plain,",2.0 +"With Grief he then perceives the enchanting Sight,",2.0 +The fleeting Creature of oblivious Night.,3.0 +"By Nature pleasing, yet improved by Art;",0.0 +And with melodious Cadence melt away;,3.0 +"The faithful Echo still revives the Strain,",0.0 +And sweetly charms the listening Ear again:,0.0 +"But Life, once vanished, will return no more;",3.0 +No mimic Thought its Presence can restore.,2.0 +"Say then, my Soul, how must I now survey",0.0 +"So many Years, so quickly snatched away?",0.0 +What Theme shall now employ my youthful Lays?,0.0 +"Say! Next to Heaven, what Subject claims my Praise?",0.0 +"OH impious Question! Dare I ask the Theme,",1.0 +When a loved Parent does that Duty claim?,2.0 +"The Infant Tree, that, with judicious Care,",1.0 +"Some Hand defended from the piercing Air,",1.0 +"With cooling Streams relieved the burning Root,",0.0 +"Or lopped, with tender Skill, each sickly Shoot,",0.0 +"Soon as it learns the Tempest to despise,",1.0 +"Gladly rewards the wearied Peasant's Pains,",2.0 +And loads the Parent Hand with annual Gains.,2.0 +"OH strive, though vainly, to enhance her Fame:",2.0 +Those sure Attendants of an Infant Age!,1.0 +"By her conducted to the Light of Truth,",2.0 +The heavenly Influence of her sage Advice,3.0 +Points from afar the dangerous Rocks of Vice;,4.0 +"Shows, with discerning Eye, the blissful Plains,",2.0 +"Where Peace, eternal, with fair Virtue reigns.",2.0 +"OH Thou, whom every Grace and Worth attends,",0.0 +"Thou best of Mothers, and thou best of Friends,",1.0 +"May Heaven restore thee to these Eyes again,",1.0 +"OH quickly to my longing Eyes repair,",2.0 +And ever bless me with thy Guardian Care!,3.0 +"NATURE! in all correct, thy hand we trace,",2.0 +"Each have their station, all their native home,",0.0 +In adverse soils and climes they find a tomb:,1.0 +"Some in the open lawn, delighted seem",0.0 +"While some retiring, hide the modest head,",0.0 +And screen their beauties in the sheltering shade:,2.0 +"Some dare the summit of the mountain's brow,",1.0 +And others humbly seek the vale below:,0.0 +"Some over the parched heath minutely spread,",5.0 +"While some, best flourish in the watery mead;",3.0 +"Deep in the soil others are firmly struck,",5.0 +"Others on rocks can independent thrive,",2.0 +And in rich soil alone can others live.,1.0 +The gardener marks the stations they demand:,3.0 +"Which marks their graces with a clearer line,",1.0 +And draws each forth more pointedly to shine.,1.0 +"By Providence to different lots assigned,",1.0 +"A bent so various takes the human mind,",2.0 +"And education marks the native worth,",0.0 +"And boldly calls the leading feature forth,",0.0 +"It fires the hero, or instructs the sage,",1.0 +"To save his country, or reform the age;",1.0 +"It leads the ambitious to the public eye,",3.0 +Or fits the humble for retirement's joy;,1.0 +"Refines the pleasures of the social scene,",1.0 +Or teaches industry the art of gain;,1.0 +"Opens the depth of science unconfined,",2.0 +Researches for the philosophic mind;,1.0 +"It gives the gay, more graceful to be seen,",1.0 +Swim on the surface of each trifling scene;,1.0 +"It can its proper views to fancy give,",1.0 +And by the applause of ages bid it live.,1.0 +"O happy they! whose lot through life's designed,",1.0 +"To suit what nature gave, and art refined,",0.0 +And courage lead him to the hostile field;,1.0 +"Give sensibility its social joy,",2.0 +And for life's trials arm cold apathy.,3.0 +All feel the native powers of fancy free;,2.0 +"This were a world of joy, scarce mixed with woe;",2.0 +"But ah! full oft we see the tortured mind,",1.0 +"Where without arms to oppose, stern foes invade,",3.0 +And all its native virtues seem to fade;,0.0 +"The feeling shed not still the tear of joy,",0.0 +Nor cold disdain meets careless apathy;,2.0 +Nor always free his favourite scenes to paint;,0.0 +"But evils cheque the wing he lightly spread,",0.0 +Then warm imagination too must fade.,0.0 +"Reflection in this solitary scene,",0.0 +Pained memory finds the source of many a tear.,5.0 +"These banners marked with boasted feats of old,",0.0 +And streamers waving with distinguished gold.,1.0 +Proud hieroglyphics! where are darkly shown,1.0 +"Thy brave forefathers merits, not thy own.",1.0 +To names that only in thy paint can live.,0.0 +"Thy colours fade near this illustrious clay,",5.0 +And claims the province thy bold hand invades;,2.0 +"Untimely darkness gathering round the skies,",1.0 +"The sickening sun shines dim, and in the sight",1.0 +"Of gazing crowds, resigns his waning light;",0.0 +"How his diminished face a crescent seems,",1.0 +"But as in full eclipse his light expires,",1.0 +And pale confusion sits on every face.,0.0 +Stray from those folds to which they would repair.,0.0 +"Home to his young the raven wings his way,",0.0 +"While towering larks their rival notes prolong,",0.0 +They drop benighted in their morning song.,0.0 +"Darkness and horror reign over earth and skies,",5.0 +And nature for awhile with WHARTON dies.,1.0 +Thou truest judge of what thou dost inspire!,0.0 +"Since thy bright race began to measure time,",3.0 +So great a genius rise? in every part,0.0 +"So formed by nature, finished so by art?",1.0 +"Such manly sense, with so much fire of mind?",1.0 +"Judgement so strong, to wit so lively joined?",2.0 +Steady to truth she pointed as her pole:,3.0 +"Convinced of varying in the least degrees,",1.0 +Her pliant index she reclaimed with ease.,1.0 +"Early through custom's and prescription's yoke,",3.0 +"Tyrants of weaker souls, his reason broke.",2.0 +"Good sense revering from the meanest hand,",1.0 +He durst authority in robes withstand.,1.0 +"Still by new reasons, to new measures brought;",5.0 +"Firm, but not stubborn; thoughtful, not involved;",0.0 +Swift to perform what slowly he resolved.,3.0 +Where kindling passion reason soon suppressed.,0.0 +"' Mid all events his firmness he maintained,",2.0 +"Thus what philosophers could only preach,",2.0 +His inborn virtue did in practise reach.,1.0 +Nature designed him master of address;,3.0 +"None knew it more, nor seemed to know it less.",1.0 +"It worked like magic on your yielding heart,",1.0 +"Sure was the charm, but secret was the art.",1.0 +"In human nature most exactly learnt,",0.0 +"With chosen baits that every temper take,",0.0 +He knew of knave or fool good use to make.,0.0 +"His easy breeding free from form and rules,",0.0 +"That stiffen the civility of fools,",2.0 +"Of various turn, for all occasions fit,",2.0 +"Was squared with judgement, and well touched with wit.",2.0 +"Free of access, from affectation clean,",3.0 +"Great without pride, nor when familiar, mean.",3.0 +"Nor fond when kind, nor harsh when most severe,",0.0 +Betwixt extremes he justly knew to steer.,0.0 +In conversation wondrous was his art,1.0 +"To mirth and wit he led the cheerful way,",0.0 +Nor could the softest hour his secret soul betray.,0.0 +"Bright as the youngest, as the oldest wise,",1.0 +"In both extremes, alike he gave surprise.",0.0 +"In body active, yet his sprightly mind",0.0 +Within that body felt herself confined. ' --,0.0 +"When thoughts important claimed no longer place,",1.0 +"Then building, planting, and the speedy race,",1.0 +"Paintings, and books successive took their round,",2.0 +No blanks of time were in his journal sound.,1.0 +"Skilled in the ends of his existence, he",2.0 +"Polite his taste of arts, but vain was art",0.0 +Where nature had so greatly done her part.,0.0 +Through tiresome mediums we at truth arrive;,3.0 +His easy knowledge seemed intuitive.,1.0 +By heaven a great original designed.,1.0 +"The seeds of science in his blood were sown,",0.0 +"To serve his country, and avert her fate.",1.0 +"Firm to her laws and liberties he stood,",1.0 +Submitting private views to public good.,0.0 +"Who could obsequious with the current swim,",1.0 +"Whigs might be called, but tories were to him.",1.0 +"Persons or parties he no longer knew,",4.0 +"Oft has he stemmed the rage of impious times,",3.0 +When patriot virtues bore the brand of crimes.,2.0 +"To cheque proud tyrants born, and factions awe,",1.0 +But most devoted to good kings and law.,1.0 +"Twice his dear country was on ruin's brink,",4.0 +"Resolved to save her, or with her to sink,",1.0 +"His brave attempts successful twice he saw,",0.0 +"Once in wise BRUNSWICK, once in great NASSAU.",6.0 +No bolder champion in religion's cause;,3.0 +"None fought more battles, nor with more applause.",2.0 +"To arms he flew as danger pressed her home,",0.0 +And snatched the hopeless prey from France and Rome.,0.0 +"But as from conscience pure, religion springs,",1.0 +"Coercive laws, he rightly understood,",0.0 +"Might make men hypocrites, but never good.",1.0 +All genuine virtue is by nature free;,3.0 +"And will, when forced, no longer virtue be.",2.0 +"Who justly would his eloquence declare,",1.0 +Would you conceive it? see how over the sands,3.0 +Fair Thames advances where Augusta stands.,1.0 +"Though deep, so clear are his transparent streams,",1.0 +His bottom rising to his surface seems.,1.0 +"Full is his spreading current, but restrained.",1.0 +And still within its flowery banks contained.,2.0 +"Alternate wealth his two extremes unfold,",2.0 +"Downwards he sends us bread, and upwards gold.",2.0 +"Flow, sweetest river! still thy course prolong!",1.0 +"Thus deep and clear, thus gentle, full and strong,",2.0 +That distant ages may the image see,1.0 +"So shall no torrents soil thy crystal stream,",1.0 +"Thou patriot's emblem, and thou poet's theme!",3.0 +"You nobles who surround the British throne,",0.0 +"Reflect its lustre, and improve your own;",1.0 +"You who resemble, in rich robes of state,",1.0 +"That majesty august on which you wait,",3.0 +"Witness how often his decisive sense,",3.0 +"His wit, his art, and copious eloquence,",3.0 +"Have singly won the question to his side,",1.0 +"Made Oxford blush, and St. John drop his pride;",2.0 +"While every ear was with his accents charmed,",1.0 +"Faction was touched and felt the secret force,",2.0 +"Dumb, and convicted, but without remorse,",3.0 +"Envy with rage contending in her face,",2.0 +To see his triumph and her just disgrace.,1.0 +"Nor less in council did his weight appear,",0.0 +"The ablest statesman, as the brightest peer.",1.0 +"To grace our court, and raise our martial vein;",0.0 +"Whose rising beams made drooping Credit thrive,",1.0 +"Religion spring, fair Liberty revive:",2.0 +"Say, if thy chosen ministers, who sat",1.0 +"With thee to guide the great machine of state,",1.0 +"A more consummate character could boast,",3.0 +Than that which Britain in her WHARTON lost.,0.0 +O! had kind heaven if prayers were not too late,2.0 +"How would his head, his heart, his hand conspire,",0.0 +To punish traitors as their crimes require!,1.0 +And quell the monsters of an impious age!,4.0 +"How would his bosom beat with joy to see,",0.0 +Great GEORGE! the British legend true in thee!,1.0 +"To see thee over the vanquished dragon ride,",2.0 +And free thy kingdoms from his rage and pride!,1.0 +While peace and plenty spread their golden wings,0.0 +"Around the best of men, the best of kings,",0.0 +"Wealth from all lands, and homage from all courts.",1.0 +"But sovereign heaven, whose ways are ever wise,",0.0 +I Just drew the glorious dawn before his eyes;,2.0 +And for his happier son reserved the sight,3.0 +"GEORGE shall in him prove honour, courage, truth,",1.0 +And find the father in the pregnant youth.,0.0 +"Thus the great leader of the Hebrew bands,",4.0 +"Through opening billows and over burning sands,",4.0 +"More was forbid; he saw, rejoiced, and died.",1.0 +"By wondering shepherd's seen, to forests brown,",2.0 +"Of high relief; can the long, spreading lake,",2.0 +"Or vista lessening to the sight; can Stow,",1.0 +"The fearful fawn the rustling leaves along,",0.0 +"And the brisk squirrel sports from bough to bough,",2.0 +"While from an hollow oak, whose naked roots",0.0 +"Overhang a pensive rill, the busy bees",0.0 +"Fair Nature's friends, sought such retreats, to charm",3.0 +Sweet Echo with their songs; oft too they met,3.0 +"In summer evenings, near sequestered bowers,",0.0 +The moral strains she taught to mend mankind.,1.0 +"Whispered him sacred laws, he listening sat",2.0 +"Attentive on his urn, and hushed his waves.",1.0 +"May boast a thousand fountains, that can cast",0.0 +The tortured waters to the distant heavens;,1.0 +"Abrupt and shaggy, whence a foamy stream,",0.0 +"From the grove's bosom spires emerge, and smoke",2.0 +"In bluish wreaths ascends, ripe harvests wave,",1.0 +"Low, lonely cottages, and ruined tops",2.0 +"Of Gothic battlements appear, and streams",1.0 +"That wakes the woodman to his early task,",1.0 +When first they hail the approach of laughing May.,3.0 +Can Kent design like Nature? Mark where Thames,0.0 +"Can the great artist, though with taste supreme",3.0 +"Endued, one beauty to this Eden add?",1.0 +"Though he, by rules unfettered, boldly scorns",1.0 +"Formality and Method, round and square",1.0 +"Disdaining, plans irregularly great.",1.0 +"Creative Titian, can thy vivid strokes,",1.0 +"Or thine, OH graceful Raphael, dare to vie",5.0 +With the rich tints that paint the breathing mead?,2.0 +"And golden crocus? ' -- Yet with these the maid,",1.0 +"Phillis or Phoebe at a feast or wake,",2.0 +"Her jetty locks enamels; fairer she,",1.0 +"In innocence and homespun vestments dressed,",2.0 +Heaved gently on her panting bosom white.,2.0 +"Yonder shepherd idly stretched on the rude rock,",1.0 +"The dolphin dancing over the level brine,",2.0 +Amid his vessels bright with burnished gold,0.0 +"And silken streamers, though his lordly nod",1.0 +Than if he entered the high Capitol,4.0 +"On golden columns reared, a conquered world",0.0 +"Exhausted, to enrich its stately head.",1.0 +"Than if a Nero, in an age refined,",1.0 +Beneath a gorgeous canopy had placed,1.0 +"His royal guest, and bade his minstrels sound",0.0 +"To smoky cities; who in sheltering groves,",2.0 +"They gathered grateful, or the acorn brown,",1.0 +Or blushing berry; by the liquid lapse,1.0 +"With nymphs who fondly clasped their favourite youths,",0.0 +Then doors and walls were not; the melting maid,0.0 +"Nor frowns of parents feared, nor husband's threats;",0.0 +Nor had cursed gold their tender hearts allured:,1.0 +"Then beauty was not venal. Injured love,",1.0 +"While Avarice waves his golden wand around,",2.0 +"Abhorred magician, and his costly cup",1.0 +Who strongly painted what he boldly thought,0.0 +"Or hungry lion awoke them with their howls,",3.0 +"Swept off at once, nor had the raging seas",0.0 +Overwhelmed the foundering bark and shrieking crew;,2.0 +In vain the glassy ocean smiled to tempt,0.0 +"The jolly sailor unsuspecting harm,",0.0 +"For commerce never had spread her swelling sails,",2.0 +"The dashing oar: then famine, want, and pine,",0.0 +"Sunk to the grave their fainting limbs; but us,",0.0 +"And feverish luxury destroy. In brakes,",3.0 +Or marshes wild unknowingly they cropped,1.0 +Herbs of malignant juice; to realms remote,2.0 +"While we for powerful poisons madly roam,",2.0 +From every noxious herb collecting death.,0.0 +"The shapely column, and the crumbling busts",1.0 +Of awful ancestors in long descent?,5.0 +Yet why should man mistaken deem it nobler,0.0 +"Than in God's forests, architect supreme!",1.0 +"Say, is the Persian carpet, than the field's",1.0 +"Or meadow's mantle gay, more richly woven;",0.0 +"OH taste corrupt! that luxury and pomp,",2.0 +"In specious names of polished manners veiled,",0.0 +Should proudly banish Nature's simple charms!,0.0 +"Oppressed, OH where shall I begin thy praise,",2.0 +"Where turn the ecstatic eye, how ease my breast",2.0 +That pants with wild astonishment and love!,1.0 +"Dark forests, and the opening lawn, refreshed",4.0 +"The playful lamb, the distant waterfall",0.0 +"Now faintly heard, now swelling with the breeze,",3.0 +"Betwixt the green leaves blush, the azure skies,",1.0 +"Delight and health and heat; all, all conspire,",0.0 +"To lift on wings of praise, to the great Sire",2.0 +"Of being and of beauty, at whose nod",1.0 +Creation started from the gloomy vault,1.0 +"Of dreary Chaos, while the grisly king",0.0 +Murmured to feel his boisterous power confined.,4.0 +"What are the lays of artful Addison,",1.0 +"Fair Fancy found, and bore the smiling babe",1.0 +To a close cavern: still the shepherd's show,2.0 +"The sacred place, whence with religious awe",1.0 +"They hear, returning from the field at eve,",1.0 +"Here, as with honey gathered from the rock,",1.0 +"Oft soothed his wandering ears, with deep delight",3.0 +"On her soft lap he sat, and caught the sounds.",2.0 +"Oft near some crowded city would I walk,",0.0 +"Full slowly tolling, instruments of trade,",2.0 +"Or wandering near the sea, attend the sounds",1.0 +"To shake the groves and mountains, would I sit,",0.0 +"That wake heaven's vengeance: at such solemn hours,",1.0 +"Then too, they say, in dear Egyptian wilds",0.0 +The lion and the tiger prowl for prey,1.0 +"But let me never fail in cloudless nights,",0.0 +When silent Cynthia in her silver car,1.0 +"Through the blue concave slides, when shine the hills,",3.0 +"Twinkle the streams, and woods look tipped with gold,",3.0 +"To seek some level mead, and there invoke",1.0 +"To lift my soul above this little earth,",0.0 +"That I may hear the rolling planet's song,",0.0 +Shall charm me with aerial notes. ' -- As thus,2.0 +"I wander musing, lo, what awful forms",0.0 +"Clad in dun robes, an eagle on his wrist,",4.0 +"First meets my eye; next, virgin Solitude",1.0 +"Trembling, and bent with age; last Virtue's self",2.0 +"Smiling, in white arrayed, who with her leads",3.0 +"Sweet Innocence, that prattles by her side,",3.0 +"I gaze, when Virtue thus ' -- ' Whoever thou art,",1.0 +"' Mortal, by whom I deign to be beheld",1.0 +' That henceforth I and my immortal train,2.0 +"And as she turned, her round and rosy neck,",1.0 +"Her flowing train, and long ambrosial hair,",0.0 +"OH who will bear me then to western climes,",0.0 +Since Virtue leaves our wretched land to fields,0.0 +"The isles of innocence, from mortal view",1.0 +"There fed on dates and herbs, would I despise",1.0 +"The farfetched cates of Luxury, and hoards",2.0 +The distant din of the tumultuous world.,4.0 +"Beneath fair Thetis sits, in choral caves,",1.0 +"Serenely gay, nor sinking sailors' cries",0.0 +"The light fantastic dance, or for her hair",1.0 +"Weave rosy crowns, or with according lutes",2.0 +"None lives in this tumultuous State of things,",6.0 +Where every Morning some new Trouble brings;,1.0 +And gloomy Thoughts disturb his anxious Breast.,0.0 +"Angelic Forms, and happy Spirits are",2.0 +Above the Malice of perplexing Care:,1.0 +For those who bend beneath Mortality.,2.0 +If in the Body there was but one part,2.0 +"Subject to Pain, and sensible of Smart,",1.0 +"And but one Passion could torment the Mind,",1.0 +"That Part, that Passion busy Fate would find,",0.0 +"But since Infirmities in both abound,",1.0 +"Since Sorrow both so many ways can wound,",0.0 +It's not so great a wonder that we grieve,0.0 +"Sometime, as it's a miracle we live.",3.0 +"The happiest Man that ever breathed on Earth,",2.0 +"With all the Glories of Estate and Birth,",1.0 +Had yet some anxious Care to make him know,0.0 +No Grandeur was above the reach of Woe.,2.0 +"To be from all things that disquiet, free,",1.0 +Is not consistent with Humanity.,2.0 +"Youth, Wit, and Beauty, are such charming things,",2.0 +"Over which, if Affluence spreads her gaudy Wings,",2.0 +"We think the person, who enjoys so much,",0.0 +"No Care can move, and no Affliction touch.",1.0 +Yet could we but some secret Method find,1.0 +"To view the dark Recesses of the Mind,",4.0 +"We there might see the hidden Seeds of Strife,",1.0 +"How some fierce Lust, or boisterous Passion, fills",1.0 +"Pride, Envy, or Revenge, distract his Soul,",2.0 +But if she must not be allowed to sway,1.0 +"Though all without, appears serene and gay,",0.0 +And poisons all the Comforts of his Days.,1.0 +"External Pomp, and visible Success,",1.0 +Sometime contribute to our Happiness;,3.0 +"But that, which makes it genuine, refined,",1.0 +"Is a good Conscience, and a Soul resigned:",2.0 +"Then, to whatever End Affliction's sent,",2.0 +"To try our Virtues, or for Punishment,",2.0 +"We bear it calmly, though a ponderous Woe,",3.0 +And still adore the Hand that gives the Blow.,0.0 +"For in Misfortunes this Advantage lies,",1.0 +"They make us humble, and they make us wise.",1.0 +"And he that can acquire such Virtues, gains",4.0 +An ample Recompense for all his Pains.,0.0 +"Tempt to luxurious Ease our careless Days,",4.0 +"Thus lulled into a Sleep, we dosing lie,",1.0 +And find our Ruin in Security;,1.0 +"Unless some Sorrow comes to our Relief,",1.0 +And breaks the Enchantment by a timely Grief.,3.0 +"But as we are allowed, to cheer our sight,",2.0 +"So in the most dejected Hours we may,",0.0 +"The secret Pleasure have, to weep and pray.",0.0 +"To Heaven, which flow from an afflicted Mind:",1.0 +"And while to him we open our Distress,",2.0 +"Our Pains grow lighter, and our Sorrows less.",2.0 +"The finest Music of the Grove, we owe",1.0 +A thorny Bramble pricks her tender Breast:,0.0 +"In warbling Melody she spends the Night,",1.0 +And moves at once Compassion and Delight.,1.0 +"No Choice had ever so happy an Event,",4.0 +"But he that made it, did that Choice repent.",1.0 +"So weak's our Judgement, and so short's our Sight,",1.0 +We cannot level our own Wishes right:,1.0 +"And if sometime we make a wise advance,",2.0 +"T'our selves we little owe, but much to chance,",1.0 +"So that when Providence, for secret Ends,",1.0 +"We must conclude it best it should be so,",0.0 +"For he that will his confidence remove,",1.0 +"From boundless Wisdom, and eternal Love,",1.0 +"To place it on himself, or human Aid,",1.0 +"But in the keenest Agonies of Grief,",1.0 +Content's a Cordial that still gives Relief.,3.0 +"Heaven is not always angry when he strikes,",0.0 +"But most Chastises those, whom most he likes,",1.0 +"And if with humble Spirits they complain,",2.0 +"Relieves the Anguish, or rewards the Pain.",1.0 +"Shall so much worth in silence pass away,",0.0 +And no recording muse that worth display?,0.0 +"Shall public spirit like the private die,",0.0 +The coward with the brave promiscuous lie?,3.0 +"The hero's toils should be the muses care,",0.0 +"In peace their guardian, and their shield in war:",1.0 +"The Muses His, and He the Muses friend.",2.0 +"To me the solemn lyre you reach in vain,",1.0 +The simple warbler of some idle strain.,1.0 +"What though the hero's fate the lay demands,",0.0 +What though impelled and urged by your commands;,2.0 +"Yet, weak of flight, in vain I prune the wing,",0.0 +What dreadful slaughter on the western coast!,1.0 +"How many gallant warriors Britain lost,",0.0 +A British muse would willingly conceal;,1.0 +"But what the muse would hide, our tears reveal.",0.0 +"Pensive, we oft recall those fatal shores,",2.0 +High over the deep the embattled fortress heaves,4.0 +"Its awful front, its basis in the waves;",0.0 +"Without impregnable by nature's care,",1.0 +And armed within with all the rage of war.,0.0 +"Where death, in all her horrid pomp arrayed,",0.0 +All act subservient to the rage of death.,1.0 +"Those whom the wave, or fiercer war would spare,",0.0 +"No friend to close their eyes, no pitying guest",4.0 +"To drop the silent tear, or strike the pensive breast.",0.0 +"Here Douglas fell, the gallant and the brave!",1.0 +"Here, early tried, and acting but too well,",2.0 +"Just as the spring of life began to bloom,",0.0 +When every grace grew softer on the tomb;,2.0 +"In all that health and energy of youth,",1.0 +"When round his head the warrior laurel sprung,",0.0 +"When his full heart expanded to the goal,",4.0 +"And promised victory had flushed his soul,",2.0 +He fell! ' -- His country lost her earliest boast;,2.0 +His family a faithful guardian lost;,3.0 +"His friend a safe companion; and his wife,",1.0 +"Her last resource, her happiness in life.",5.0 +How well hast thou thy debt to virtue paid!,1.0 +"Composed, intrepid, steady to the last.",1.0 +"When half thy limbs, and more than half was lost",0.0 +"And, dying, sealed it with thy purest blood.",1.0 +"Say, what is Life? and wherefore was it given?",1.0 +"What the design, the purpose marked by Heaven?",1.0 +"Was it in luxury to dissolve the span,",4.0 +"To raise the animal, and sink the man?",1.0 +"In the soft bands of pleasure, idly gay,",3.0 +To frolic the immortal gift away?,1.0 +"Then shoot away, and leave no track behind?",1.0 +Arise no duties from the social tie?,2.0 +No kindred virtues from our native sky?,2.0 +"No truths from reason, and the thought intense?",2.0 +"Nothing result from soul, but all from sense?",2.0 +"OH thoughtless reptile, Man! ' -- Born! yet ask why?",3.0 +"Truly, for something serious ' -- Born to die.",4.0 +"Knowing this truth, can we be wife too soon?",4.0 +"And this once known, sure something's to be done ' --",5.0 +"To live's to suffer; act, is to exist;",1.0 +"And life, at best, a trial, not a feast:",0.0 +"Our business virtue; and when that is done,",1.0 +"We cannot sit too late, or rise too soon.",2.0 +Virtue! ' -- What is it? ' -- Whence does it arise!,1.0 +"Ask of the brave, the social, and the wife;",1.0 +"Of those who studied for the general good,",2.0 +"Of those who sought, and purchased it with blood;",2.0 +"Of those who build, or plant, or who design,",1.0 +"Even those who dig the soil, or work the mine.",1.0 +"If yet not clearly seen, or understood;",0.0 +"Ask the humane, the pious, and the good.",3.0 +"To no one station, stage, or part confined,",0.0 +"No single act of body, or of mind;",2.0 +"But whatever lovely, just, or fit we call,",2.0 +"The fair result, the congregate of all.",0.0 +"The active mind, ascending by degrees,",1.0 +"Its various ties, relations, duties sees:",2.0 +"Examines parts, thence rising to the whole,",2.0 +"Sees the connexion, chain, and spring of soul;",2.0 +The eternal source! from whose pervading ray,1.0 +"We caught the flame, and kindled into day.",0.0 +"Hence the collected truths coercive rise,",2.0 +"Oblige as natural, or as moral ties.",1.0 +"Son, brother, country, friend demand our care;",1.0 +"The common bounty all partake, must share.",0.0 +"Hence virtue in its source, and in its end,",1.0 +"To God as relative, to Man as friend.",1.0 +OH friend to truth! to virtue! to thy kind!,2.0 +OH early called to leave these ties behind!,1.0 +"How shall the muse her varied tribute pay,",0.0 +"Indulge the tear, and not debase the lay!",0.0 +"Come, fair example of heroic truth!",2.0 +"Descend, and animate the British youth:",0.0 +"Now, while the trumpet sounds her shrill alarms,",0.0 +And calls forth all her generous sons to arms;,3.0 +"Pour all thy genius, all thy martial fire",0.0 +"Over the brave youth, and every breast inspire.",2.0 +"To rise from sloth, and catch the martial flame.",0.0 +"To meet the call, and vindicate its worth:",1.0 +"To rouse, to kindle, animate, combine,",0.0 +"Go, happy shade! to where the good, and blessed",1.0 +Enjoy eternal scenes of bliss and rest:,0.0 +"While we below thy sudden farewell mourn,",2.0 +"Collect thy virtues, weeping over the urn;",2.0 +"Recall their scattered lustre as they past,",1.0 +And see them all united in the last.,0.0 +"And Thou! late partner of his softer hour,",3.0 +"Ordained but just to meet, and meet no more;",1.0 +"Say, with the virtues how each grace combined!",1.0 +"How brave, yet social! how resolved, yet kind!",1.0 +With manners how sincere! polite with ease!,1.0 +Was he of ought but infamy afraid?,2.0 +Was he not modest as the blushing maid?,2.0 +"Ashamed to flatter, eager to commend;",1.0 +"A generous master, and a steady friend.",3.0 +"Humane to all, but warmed when virtuous grief,",2.0 +"Or silent modesty, implied relief.",1.0 +"Pure in his principles, unshaken, just;",1.0 +"True to his God, and faithful to his trust.",1.0 +"I strive the tributary dirge to pay,",0.0 +And form the pinion to the hasty lay;,1.0 +"Perhaps hereafter some more generous muse,",2.0 +"Touched with thy fate, with genius at command,",0.0 +May snatch the pencil from the female hand;,2.0 +"And give the perfect portrait, bold and free,",1.0 +"In numbers such as Young's, and worthy Thee.",2.0 +WHAT sudden Damp has seized upon my Soul?,0.0 +"Why am I sad, as is the mournful Grave?",1.0 +As if I never should know Comfort more.,2.0 +Sure conscious Nature gives Presage that Death.,5.0 +"The Tyrant whom she most abhors, draws near.",1.0 +Ah woe! it's now too plain; for a worse Death,2.0 +"A Death in which the ruined World's concerned,",0.0 +A Death attended with the Fate of Nations.,1.0 +"Too plain, alas, I hear the doleful Sound,",1.0 +"Gone is his mighty Mind, for ever flown,",0.0 +"Gone the Great Soul that watched the Christian World,",3.0 +As the good faithful Shepherd does his Sheep,1.0 +Who shall now guard us from the bloody Foe?,2.0 +"Mourn then, my Soul, the irreparable Loss,",3.0 +"And with thee summon Human Kind to mourn,",1.0 +With them too summon even the Immortal Powers.,3.0 +"Thou first and chief, forlorn Britannia, mourn,",2.0 +And with thee let thy faithful Sons keep time;,2.0 +"For thou and they, and all have lost in him",1.0 +"A Champion, Benefactor, Father, Friend.",2.0 +"THOU next, Batavia, fallen Batavia, mourn,",6.0 +"OH let thy Eyes dissolve into a Stream,",1.0 +For thou hast lost ' -- OH what hast thou not lost?,1.0 +"Thy Bulwark, thy Defence, thy lofty Mound",1.0 +"That kept out lawless Arbitrary Power,",0.0 +"Which, like the Ocean, now surrounds thy Towers,",0.0 +"Thy Father, thy Defender's from thee torn,",2.0 +And now the Lustful Bestial God once more,1.0 +Has loudly threatened thee with shameful Rape.,1.0 +"With thee let all thy Royal Sons lament,",0.0 +Those martial Sons that were with WILLIAM joined,1.0 +"AND thou, Celestial Charmer, LIBERTY,",2.0 +"Sister of Reason, and of Sovereign Law;",3.0 +To mourn thy Mighty Benefactor's Fate;,0.0 +"For WILLIAM's Fate, OH Liberty, was thine:",2.0 +Thou and Religion here have room no more.,2.0 +"AND thou the darling Daughter of the Skies,",2.0 +"Divine RELIGION, thou whose melting Eyes",1.0 +Have always like perpetual Fountains streamed,2.0 +OH let them pour a Deluge now of Tears,1.0 +"To wail the dismal Consequence of Sin,",1.0 +To mourn Great WILLIAM's and thy Flight to Heaven.,2.0 +"He was thy Lover, and thy best beloved,",2.0 +"He was thy Champion, and thy sole Defence",2.0 +Against the Tyrants both of Earth and Hell.,0.0 +"His flaming Zeal, OH Goddess, roused thy Friends,",1.0 +His charming Accents gained thy very Foes,0.0 +"To fight, OH Goddess, and to die for thee,",2.0 +"AND you, OH ANGELS and ARCHANGELS all,",4.0 +"Guardians of mighty Kingdoms, and of Kings,",2.0 +"Who could your Cares on WILLIAM's Breast repose,",0.0 +Who could your several Charges all to him,0.0 +"Resign, while happily aloft you towered,",1.0 +And cut with golden Wings your blissful Heaven;,0.0 +"Now mourn his Flight to the pure Realms of Day,",3.0 +And mourn your own Return to a bad World;,1.0 +"For he is to your upper Regions flown,",1.0 +Who equal to your selves your Cares below supplied.,1.0 +"THEN mourn, OH EARTH, and mourn, you HEAVENS your Spheres",3.0 +"Whose Zeal could the divided Earth unite,",2.0 +"Whose wondrous Zeal united Earth and Heaven,",0.0 +"As never was known for any Fate before,",2.0 +"And let the Grief be general, as the Loss;",1.0 +"For Human Kind has lost by WILLIAM's Death,",0.0 +"He was the tender Father to his People,",2.0 +A Friend and Brother to the rest of Kings;,1.0 +"Alas, few Kings are Friends, or meet with Friends",0.0 +A Benefactor to the Race of Men.,1.0 +And out of wondrous Love to wretched Men,1.0 +"For all his Lifetime, he from Place to Place",2.0 +"Removed, dispensing Benefits to all;",1.0 +And from their Gates the grand Destroyer drove.,1.0 +"For that alone he moved, he spoke, he thought.",0.0 +As if the important Business of his Life,2.0 +Had been to sacrifice his own Felicity,1.0 +"To that of wretched Men, his Great Design",0.0 +Extended to his most inveterate Foes:,3.0 +"He blessed even them, and would have done them good,",3.0 +"Because his Foes were still his Fellow Creatures,",0.0 +From one Divine Original derived.,2.0 +His Foes his Justice and his Mercy knew;,1.0 +And his inviolable Faith as firm,2.0 +For though the wondrous Goodness of his Soul,2.0 +And mourn and suffer in the Woes we feel;,0.0 +"That answered to the Cries of the Distressed,",2.0 +"And gave him Anguish, till they found Relief,",1.0 +"Which was the Source of all his wondrous Deeds,",0.0 +"And which distinguished his Heroic Life,",1.0 +And set him far above all vulgar Heroes;,0.0 +"Yet was his Word so sacred and so sure,",1.0 +He would not break it to preserve a World.,1.0 +"BUT when your vulgar Heroes we survey,",1.0 +We find them the abhorred Reverse of this.,1.0 +"They, by the Fever of Ambition fired,",2.0 +"While Horror marches in their dreadful Van,",0.0 +And Death and Slaughter in their bloody Rear.,0.0 +"Whole Towns they plunder, lay whole Countries waste,",2.0 +"With grinding Want they make vast Kingdoms pine,",1.0 +"But their own Kingdoms into Deserts turn,",1.0 +Where Famine lords it in its wild Domain:,0.0 +"For their own Kingdoms loudest cry to Heaven,",1.0 +And loudest under their Oppression groan.,1.0 +"If they make doubtful Peace or hollow Truce,",2.0 +"It's but for time to wage more dangerous War,",3.0 +"To weaken and divide their thoughtless Foes,",1.0 +And lull them by Security to Fate.,2.0 +"A Sea of guiltless Blood they spill, a Sea",0.0 +"Of helpless Widows and of Orphans Tears,",1.0 +"Destroy their Enemies, their Subjects more:",1.0 +Their Subjects chiefly feel their barbarous Hands;,2.0 +"For mad with Rage, their Enemies they tear,",1.0 +But their poor Subjects coolly they destroy.,5.0 +OH fruitless Labour of fantastic Pride!,2.0 +"For while they thus would more than Men appear,",0.0 +"Their Breach of Faith, the Wrongs they do each Hour,",0.0 +"Only by Fools and Impious Men admired,",4.0 +"Abhorred by God, by all good Men despised.",0.0 +"Too faithful Copies of their proud Original,",3.0 +"The great Destroyer, and the Foe of Men,",1.0 +The powerful Prince of all the infernal Powers;,3.0 +Who with capacious comprehensive thought,1.0 +Sits brooding over his dark and damned Design,3.0 +"Of captivating all the Race of Men,",0.0 +"And fixing Universal Monarchy,",1.0 +"Which he sometime with Violence and Rage,",4.0 +"His Foes sometime with open Force invades,",1.0 +"But most with secret Practise undermines,",0.0 +A dreadful and a dangerous Foe to all;,3.0 +"And his Allies are lost, as are his Slaves;",2.0 +Who in Infernal Pains for ever howl.,0.0 +"THUS earthly Heroes copy him of Hell,",2.0 +Those Tyrants whom the thoughtless World calls Heroes:,1.0 +"Such was not happy WILLIAM, but a Friend",2.0 +"To Men, and Servant of the most Supreme.",1.0 +"Was the restoring Quiet, Order, Peace,",1.0 +And Universal Happiness to Men;,1.0 +And like a faithful Servant to advance,1.0 +His Master's universal great Design.,0.0 +"His Master would have all his Creatures blessed,",0.0 +He loves the miserable Sons of Men;,1.0 +"And with a Love so ardent and so high,",2.0 +As never can be thought be finite Man.,2.0 +"Next his was WILLIAM's Love to all his Kind,",0.0 +For Fiends and Tyrants only were his Foes;,1.0 +"And Tyrants he esteemed no longer Men,",2.0 +"As cursed Fiends are Angels now no more,",3.0 +Fallen from their Natures and their Names by Pride.,2.0 +"He hated both, to both a mortal Foe,",0.0 +For they make wretched all whom they make Slaves;,3.0 +For what can be so dismal as to see.,1.0 +"Our Lives, our Fortunes, nay our every Action,",0.0 +"Nay even our Virtue and Divine Religion,",4.0 +"All in a feverish frantic Tyrant's power,",4.0 +And to his boundless Passions all exposed.,1.0 +He looked with Indignation and Disdain,1.0 +"Upon the aspiring, vain, presumptuous Wretch,",4.0 +Dogs were not made to be controlled by Dogs.,0.0 +"Nor Horses over Horses to insult,",1.0 +They rule not one another; nor ought Man,2.0 +"To control Man; but God is to command,",5.0 +Who governs still by Reason and by Law.,1.0 +"He loves the Sons of Men, and leaves them free,",0.0 +As free as is his own Almighty Power.,1.0 +"For he himself makes Reason still his Guide,",2.0 +"Since our Great Maker then has left us free,",2.0 +"On whom we so immediately depend,",4.0 +"In whom we live, and move, and even exist,",2.0 +And govern them by Reason and by Law.,2.0 +"And they must die like Men: So WILLIAM ruled,",1.0 +And looked with Anger and with just Disdain,1.0 +"Upon the vain, the mortal, dying Wretch,",0.0 +Who dares to make them Slaves whom God makes free;,1.0 +"Who by his lawless boundless Passions sways,",0.0 +And sacrifices to his Lust of Power,1.0 +A thousand greater worthier than Himself.,3.0 +For such are all the Good and truly Wise,1.0 +"Which is renouncing Reason's sacred Rule,",1.0 +"Subverting the Awful Government of God,",3.0 +"As far as lies within a Mortal's Power,",0.0 +A Christian's bound by his Baptismal Vow,1.0 +Against him to denounce perpetual War.,3.0 +"So WILLIAM did, and seemed designed by Fate",0.0 +"TO assert the awful Government of God,",2.0 +And Liberty of Man; and never did Heaven,2.0 +"Nor Fate do more for mortal Man than Him,",0.0 +"In giving him the Will to undertake,",2.0 +And Power to execute the vast Design.,2.0 +AND never was it known that mortal Man,1.0 +"More Noble, more Heroic Deeds performed,",0.0 +Than WILLIAM in the Cause of God and Liberty.,1.0 +"The glaring Actions which the World calls Great,",1.0 +"From Passion chiefly, not from Virtue flow;",0.0 +And of all Passions from Ambition most.,2.0 +Pride which such dangerous Ravage wrought in Heaven,2.0 +"Among the Immortal Spirits of the Blessed,",3.0 +"May well destroy our frail Felicity,",1.0 +May well cause dreadful Revolutions here.,1.0 +"To Pride the Illustrious Romans owed their Fame,",4.0 +"Their Quarrels still were specious, seldom just;",0.0 +"Yet not the greatest, first of Romans, Caesar,",0.0 +To satisfy Ambition before performed,2.0 +"Deeds which displayed such Greatness in the Man,",1.0 +As what Great WILLIAM did for Liberty.,2.0 +At this great Paradox I see you smile;,2.0 +"But hear, you wretched Slaves to Opinion, hear,",2.0 +And then determine this important Cause.,1.0 +CAESAR acquired his greatest Share of Fame,4.0 +"Against the Gauls, who were our WILLIAM's Foes:",1.0 +"But Caesar fought with them divided, weak,",1.0 +"Doubtful in Counsel, and in Action slow,",3.0 +"False to each other, Traitors to themselves,",1.0 +And the great Cause of dying Liberty.,3.0 +"Versed in the Noble Science of the Field,",1.0 +Or Ranging numerous Armies in Array;,2.0 +No brave experienced Officers to form,4.0 +"Their Troops, undisciplined and rude to War;",1.0 +"Their Soldiers and Commanders all grown faint,",2.0 +All dead and senseless to that Noble Fire,1.0 +That to Illustrious Acts inflames the Brave.,3.0 +"UNDER these Disadvantages lay France,",3.0 +In what Condition was great Caesar then?,2.0 +"Mature in Years, by long Experience Wise,",2.0 +Awful for Eloquence and Martial Deeds;,3.0 +"Leading the Flower of Rome's Victorious Legions,",6.0 +Backed and supported by the Conquered World;,3.0 +"Experienced their Commanders, Wise and Brave;",3.0 +"And Soldiers and Commanders, Romans all:",1.0 +"Inured to Dangers, made by Custom bold,",0.0 +"Exalted, spirited with long Success,",1.0 +"All eager in the burning Chase of Fame,",0.0 +"All faithful and united under Caesar,",1.0 +And He Supreme and Absolute over all.,6.0 +Yet with all these Advantages Great Caesar,4.0 +Ten tedious Years consumed in Conquering France;,5.0 +"And now the Glory of his Conquest shares,",1.0 +"If the Distributors of Fame are just,",2.0 +"With his Wise, Valiant, his Victorious Friends,",5.0 +"Nay and with Fortune, with his very Foes.",1.0 +"For False and Traitors to the Common Cause,",1.0 +"WE have shown what Caesar did for Pride, behold",0.0 +"What WILLIAM for Fair Liberty performed,",3.0 +And the Actions in an equal Balance lay.,0.0 +"'TWAS in the fatal and recorded Year,",1.0 +"In which Batavia, the Defence and Mound,",3.0 +"Of Faith, of Right, of sinking Liberty;",1.0 +"Proud of a hundred Formidable Towns,",1.0 +"Are to the Storms of Arbitrary Power,",1.0 +"For the wild roaring Torrent they restrain,",3.0 +"Which else would deluge all the Christian World,",0.0 +And leave the Earth depopulate and bare:,0.0 +'Twas in the Year in which forlorn Batavia,1.0 +"And by two potent Enemies attacked,",3.0 +"Britannia thundering on them from the Main,",4.0 +"While at the Horror of the Noise and Sight,",1.0 +"Flew for Protection to the stormy Main,",3.0 +Whose unrelenting Rage he most abhors:,0.0 +'Twas in that fatal Year in which the States,0.0 +"Their Country lost to the insulting French,",1.0 +"Astonished and amazed, and stupid grown,",1.0 +In dreadful expectation of their Fate.,1.0 +"'Twas at this fatal Juncture that the Prince,",0.0 +"Like the Offspring of the Gods, a Hero born,",2.0 +"Without the advantage of a long Experience,",4.0 +"Without the influence of an awful Fame,",1.0 +Without courageous or instructed Troops;,1.0 +His sinking Country and expiring Liberty.,2.0 +HERE I'm in Rapture and Amazement lost!,1.0 +"In that amazing Hurricane of Fate,",0.0 +"Ever scarce the Bloom of Youth proclaimed him Man,",0.0 +"When all the Heavens looked black, and all the Main",2.0 +"Looked dismal, when the frantic Billows raged,",1.0 +And loudly bellowed over the dreadful Deep;,2.0 +"The boldest trembling, dying with the Fright;",1.0 +"The sinking Vessel motionless and dead,",1.0 +Abandoning to Winds and Waves their Care;,1.0 +He who had never ploughed the Deep before,0.0 +As is a God by destiny secured;,2.0 +"As is the God of the tempestuous Deep,",5.0 +When in some Storm that threatens general Wrack;,0.0 +He lifts above the Waves his sacred Head,0.0 +"To calm his troubled Empire of the Main,",1.0 +"OR his great Conduct shall I first admire,",0.0 +"Without the advantage of Experience, wise,",5.0 +"Without extolling to the Stars his Fame,",1.0 +"When you discern him in that dreadful Hour,",1.0 +"Appearing at the Head of shameful Troops,",0.0 +"A wretched Handful, antiquated most,",1.0 +"Rusty with Peace, and listless with Disuse,",3.0 +"The rest a vile tumultuous Crowd, in haste,",3.0 +"By sad Necessity, not Choice, enrolled,",1.0 +"Unfit by Nature, and untrained by Art;",1.0 +"By numerous ill Successes abject made,",2.0 +"Their Leaders the base Scum of all the rest,",2.0 +And for that only reason uppermost;,1.0 +"Raised by the boiling Ferment of the State,",1.0 +And inbred Hatred to their Great Defender?,2.0 +"Can you behold him at the Head of these,",1.0 +"Informing, moving, animating all,",0.0 +Changing their very Natures like a God;,2.0 +"His Bravery kindling thousands with its Fire,",3.0 +"His Spirit working like the World's Great Soul,",1.0 +"Trouble, Confusion, Chaos reigned before?",2.0 +"Can you see this, and not be wrapped with Wonder?",0.0 +Can you behold the conquering Gauls at Bay,3.0 +Already on his first Appearance stopped,1.0 +"In their precipitated wild Career,",1.0 +Already meditating their Retreat?,1.0 +"Can even his most inveterate Foes see this,",4.0 +And not exalt such wondrous Worth to Heaven?,0.0 +"WHAT a Man is to hearten fainting Hounds,",0.0 +"And guide them through the Mazes of the Field,",2.0 +That to his drooping Countrymen was He;,1.0 +Something between Divinity and them;,3.0 +"A more Exalted, a Superior Being;",3.0 +"Their Guardian Genius, and their God of War.",3.0 +"His vast Capacity supplied their Heads,",1.0 +"His martial Bravery inflamed their Hearts,",1.0 +"To Noble Thoughts, and to Immortal Deeds,",1.0 +"Above the Fear of Death, or foul Retreat.",0.0 +"So Pallas to the fainting Greeks appeared,",1.0 +"Shook her invincible, her dreadful Shield,",3.0 +"BEHOLD him by a Conduct, which surprised",1.0 +"The most Illustrious and the Oldest Chiefs,",1.0 +The most experienced in the Art of War;,1.0 +"Like the young Roman Hero so renowned,",3.0 +"Forsaking his poor Country to preserve it,",3.0 +And save the sinking Freedom of the World.,1.0 +"The Guardian Angels of a hundred Forts,",3.0 +"A hundred Towns, sit gazing to receive,",2.0 +And with loud Welcomes hail their Great Defender:,2.0 +"For Bona taken set Batavia free,",2.0 +"To bind the Christian World; yet, under Heaven,",0.0 +"Their Bravery was his, for he inspired it,",4.0 +"And his their Conduct, which from him they drew:",2.0 +"Or their Divisions, or their Want of Skill;",2.0 +And his High Courage raised above Compare.,2.0 +THE Gauls had all the advantage over Nassau,1.0 +That Caesar manifestly had over Gaul.,3.0 +Their warlike Chiefs experienced and renowned;,4.0 +"All flushed and spirited with long Success,",1.0 +All eager in the burning Chase of Glory.,0.0 +"Yet WILLIAM at the Head of wretched Troops,",0.0 +"Wretched at least, till raised and fired by Him,",3.0 +In little more than one revolving Year,1.0 +Forced his dread Foes to leave his Country free:,3.0 +"When Caesar with the Flower of Roman Legions,",3.0 +"In the large Compass of Ten rolling Years,",4.0 +Scarce conquered barbarous divided Gaul.,2.0 +"EVEN Fortune claims no share in his Renown,",2.0 +Fortune that bears so visible a part,3.0 +"In Human Actions, ruling all below,",0.0 +"Which Providence has wisely ordered, lest",2.0 +"Frail Dust should grow intolerably vain,",2.0 +"And cry, upon Success, It's due to me.",0.0 +"That still He brought about his vast Designs,",0.0 +While she was known to assist his mortal Foes.,2.0 +"Knew that his Noble Soul was truly Great,",0.0 +As far above presumptuous Pride as Fear;,2.0 +"So conscious of its Origin Divine,",2.0 +"It never could ought but its Great Maker fear,",2.0 +Never own a Man superior to it self.,1.0 +"But then so mindful of its frail Condition,",1.0 +"That its Dependence it could never forget,",4.0 +"That him it would with trembling still approach,",0.0 +"And with profound Humility adore,",2.0 +"THUS Fortune and the Gauls were WILLIAM's Foes,",2.0 +"Both He resisted, and He conquered both,",3.0 +And brought about his great and just Designs;,0.0 +"But cruel was the Conflict first, and long,",0.0 +"And oft the Goddess seemingly prevailed,",1.0 +"And oft at once collecting her whole Might,",2.0 +"Took all Advantages of Time and Place,",2.0 +"Prepared to crush him at a blow, when He",0.0 +"With wondrous Art eludes that dreadful Blow,",0.0 +And with fresh Force disputes the doubtful Day:,2.0 +"While Heaven serene looked down with all its Eyes,",2.0 +"Charmed with the greatest, noblest Sight that Earth",0.0 +"A mortal Man, a Match for Fortune's Power.",0.0 +"Till his Invincible, unshaken Soul,",2.0 +"With Wisdom, Patience, Resignation armed,",0.0 +And with a thousand Virtues that have Force,1.0 +"To conquer Gods, compelled her to submit,",1.0 +And own her glorious Conqueror at the last.,3.0 +NOR were her Smiles more powerful over his Soul:,5.0 +"Even in the worst of Times, that dreadful Hour,",0.0 +"When raving as a Bacchanal, and wild,",2.0 +"She to new Slaughter lashed on limping Fate,",2.0 +And led the Gauls to extirpate lost Batavia.,4.0 +"She offered him a Kingdom for a Bribe,",2.0 +"A Kingdom with a hundred powerful Towns,",3.0 +"Which he rejected with a Brave Disdain,",2.0 +"And chose to perish with his Country free,",1.0 +Rather than found an Empire on its Bonds.,3.0 +"OH Greatness, to be found on Earth no more!",3.0 +"Exalted far above all Royalty,",1.0 +And far above the Rule of Fortune's Power.,0.0 +"For when long after he embraced a Crown,",2.0 +Justly conferred by free Consent of those,2.0 +Over whom He was to reign; the Acceptance them,4.0 +"Was necessary for the World, not Him,",1.0 +"And for the World HE embraced it, not himself.",3.0 +He wanted not a Crown to make him Great;,0.0 +"His Soul possessed a Greatness of its own,",1.0 +"Not like the short-lived Pomp of Fortunes Power,",1.0 +"But durable, Immortal as it self;",2.0 +Placed like it self above the Force of Fate.,0.0 +"His Towering Soul it self was Greatness all,",0.0 +"All vast Intelligence and solid Virtue,",1.0 +The things which make even God and Angels Great.,3.0 +"A FALSE and borrowed Lustre He despised,",2.0 +"His Soul with native Lustre, native Flame",0.0 +"Shone out, as glorious as the Eternal Fire,",2.0 +"Which rolls his Sovereign Globe along the Sphere,",0.0 +"That the Great Mover taught him at the first,",2.0 +Thus while vain Pomp and tinsel Glory serve,3.0 +"He charmed the bravest, wisest Men on Earth;",0.0 +"Angels looked wondering on his Virtue down,",5.0 +"And the Great Maker pleased, his Master-Piece surveyed.",2.0 +"THUS He, despising Royalty, acquired",3.0 +A more extended and a Nobler Power.,4.0 +"Imperial Crowns, who saw to what a Height",2.0 +"Above all Human Greatness He was raised,",1.0 +"How far above all little selfish Thoughts,",0.0 +Acting as if he thought he had been born,1.0 +For all the World except himself alone;,0.0 +"Anxious about the Safety of the World,",3.0 +But utterly regardless of his own;,2.0 +"Imperial Crowns convinced of this, confessed",3.0 +An Excellence superior to their own;,2.0 +And Kings themselves grew subject to his Sway.,2.0 +"Him with Esteem and Wonder they beheld,",2.0 +"Champion of God and his most Sacred Truth,",2.0 +"Defender of the Liberties of Men,",2.0 +And Great Protector of the Rights of Kings:,1.0 +"And they who gave to mighty Nations Laws,",1.0 +"Received them first from him, and justly thought",1.0 +"That only He who of Mankind took care,",3.0 +By Nature was designed the Lord of All.,1.0 +What but the Head takes care of every Part?,1.0 +"What but the Soul? What but the informing Soul,",1.0 +"What runs through all, that animates them all,",0.0 +And in continuous Union all maintains;,2.0 +"Union, their Cause of Spirit, Health, and Force,",2.0 +"And which dissolved, to all brings Fate or Woe?",1.0 +"NOW He the Councils of those Kings collects,",1.0 +And all their different Interests reconciles;,0.0 +"Of all their thwarting, selfish, low Designs,",0.0 +"One Common, Noble, Vast Design he makes,",0.0 +That seemed impossible to all but Him.,1.0 +"And all at least are satisfied in him,",0.0 +The Tie and Bond of Union to them all.,1.0 +And now behold him marching at the Head,0.0 +"Of all their Squadrons, Germane, Spanish, Dutch;",5.0 +"Now see them filing through thy narrow Ways,",2.0 +"Now shining in the bright Records of Fame,",1.0 +Among the Glories of the Eternal Roll:,3.0 +"And lo the Germans and the Dutch have passed,",1.0 +"And the Proud Spaniard now prepares to pass,",2.0 +When lo Great Conde with his headlong Troops,2.0 +"Comes pouring on them like a sounding Flood,",2.0 +That by Destruction makes its noisy Way.,1.0 +"Upon the Wings of Fear the Spaniards fly,",0.0 +And many a Furlong leave their Pride behind;,3.0 +"His awful Form still urging on their Speed,",2.0 +More dreadful to them than his Numerous Host;,4.0 +"His awful Form presented to their View,",1.0 +"To their Remembrance calls his glorious Acts,",3.0 +"Their Friends defeated, and Themselves overthrown.",7.0 +The bloody Plains of Lens are in their View;,0.0 +A thousand Victories and High Exploits,2.0 +Encompass him with dreadful Glory round;,1.0 +"About him like a Guard of Terrors march,",0.0 +And arm him with Eternal Majesty.,2.0 +And now the Fury of that shameful Flight,1.0 +"Proves fatal to the Forces of their Friends,",3.0 +And the Battalions breaks and overwhelms.,1.0 +"That WILLIAM swiftly sends to their Relief,",1.0 +"The French drive on and no Resistance find,",2.0 +Or else Triumphant force their way through all:,0.0 +"And fiercer, stronger by Obstruction grown.",1.0 +But now Heroic WILLIAM thundering comes,2.0 +To turn the Fortune of the bloody Day;,1.0 +TO arrest his Squadrons in their headlong Flight:,2.0 +Routed Battalions panting over the Plain!,4.0 +Then with his flaming Sword in their Career,1.0 +"He stands, his Person to them all exposed,",1.0 +His Thundering Arm opposing to them all.,3.0 +"The Base with Blows corrects, with Words the Brave;",0.0 +"And some the sparkling Glories of his Eye,",1.0 +"And some his Looks, and some his Voice inflames;",0.0 +"OH whither run you? OH return, return!",1.0 +"OH you who had the Looks of Soldiers once,",0.0 +"I see you always had the Hearts of Slaves,",0.0 +"The worst of Slaves, from Slaves themselves you run;",0.0 +"You Cowards in defending Liberty,",1.0 +"For me my own right Hand, or else my Foes,",2.0 +My Freedom and my Glory shall secure;,1.0 +For Death or Victory bring both alike.,3.0 +"You few Great Souls, who Liberty and Fame",2.0 +"Prefer to wretched, shameful, slavish Life.",0.0 +"Come on, be Death or Victory the Word.",1.0 +"THIS said, he breathing an Heroic Air,",1.0 +"As great as if Eternal Fame appeared,",1.0 +And to High Actions called her darling Sons.,2.0 +"And now their Shame prevails upon their Fear,",0.0 +"And now he leads them furious to the Charge,",1.0 +"Firmly resolved to die a thousand Deaths,",2.0 +And to forsake the World ever such a Leader.,6.0 +"He through the firmest French Battalions breaks,",1.0 +"And charging through and through their Squadrons mows,",2.0 +"Their Squadrons now concealed in smoky Clouds,",0.0 +"And now revealed in blazing Sheets of Fire,",0.0 +And now the French grow fiercer by Despair:,2.0 +"Death's Bugles in the dismal Chase of Blood,",1.0 +"The Trumpets kindle Mars with fiercer Sounds,",0.0 +And the tempestuous Drums with thicker Strokes,4.0 +"Alarm the Foe of Nature. All the Heavens,",0.0 +"And all the Air appears conflicting Fire,",0.0 +"And riding at full Stretch upon the Plain,",1.0 +"With hideous Outcries on each other rush,",2.0 +"The rattling Plain with murdering Volleys rings,",2.0 +"And to the thundering Cannons mortal roar,",3.0 +That the dire Consort seems to deaf the World.,3.0 +"WILLIAM, the glorious Spirit of the War,",5.0 +"Is every where where Danger most prevails,",0.0 +"Correcting Fortune, and confronting Fate.",1.0 +"Like Mars himself, Fierce, Valiant, Raging, Young,",1.0 +Among the thickest Foes his thundering Steed,2.0 +"He spurs, then brandishes his fatal Sword;",1.0 +"Terror severely sparkling in his Eyes,",2.0 +"Death like a Falcon perched upon his Arm,",0.0 +"Watching the certain Signal of his Blow,",3.0 +And then like Lightning darting at his Prey.,0.0 +"In Feats of Arms and mortal Rage excels,",0.0 +Surpassing in amazing Actions all,0.0 +"Whom Glory urges, or whom dire Despair,",1.0 +The meanest Sentry less exposed than he.,0.0 +"Frequent amid the hottest of the Fire,",2.0 +"And oft surrounded, covered over with Flames;",2.0 +"And yet in Conduct oldest Chiefs excels,",0.0 +"To best Advantage every Motion makes,",0.0 +"Always exactly present to himself,",2.0 +"Spite of his furious executing Arm,",2.0 +"Spite of the Smoke, the Tumult, and the Noise:",1.0 +"The raging Trumpet and the storming Drum,",1.0 +"Nay spite of Death, whom all his dreadful Guard",1.0 +"Of purple Terrors through the Field attends,",1.0 +"With Dust and Blood, and leaping his pale Steed",2.0 +"Over slaughtered Heaps, rides dismal through the Plain.",2.0 +THUS all the Day the God of Battle raged;,0.0 +And the Sun sat in Horror and in Blood;,3.0 +And made old Night look hideous to her View.,3.0 +"NOW in their turns the mangled French recoil,",0.0 +And doubt the Fortune of the dreadful Day;,1.0 +"And well they may recoil, and well may doubt;",1.0 +When their Great Chief the Heroic Conde doubts.,3.0 +"Now Rage, Disdain, and Grief to Madness wrought,",1.0 +"And the tormenting Conscience of his Worth,",3.0 +"Disturb his Generous Breast, and wrack his Soul:",2.0 +"He raves, He cannot bear the stabbing Thought",0.0 +"But this is what torments and stings him most,",2.0 +"That He, who now for thirty Glorious Years",1.0 +"Has with successive Victories been crowned,",2.0 +Been used to all the Wonders of the Field;,1.0 +"Himself the Noblest Wonder of them all,",1.0 +As force even him to admire; OH mortal Shame!,6.0 +"He cries aloud, OH Death to my Renown!",2.0 +That turned the Fortune of the Wondrous Day.,1.0 +"Thou my Divinity, Eternal Fame,",2.0 +"And Victory, thou Darling of my Soul:",2.0 +"My Mistress, that for Thirty Glorious Years",1.0 +Hast still been constant to my Noble Fire!,1.0 +Will you desert me for a Boy at last?,1.0 +Is not my Great Aspiring Soul the same?,0.0 +"The same my Conduct, and my Nervous Arm?",1.0 +Have I for Nassau courted you thus long?,2.0 +"For him were all the desperate Fields I fought,",1.0 +For him my accumulated Triumphs all;,1.0 +"Which with my Loss of Quiet, and of Blood,",1.0 +"With Restless Days, and Sleepless Nights I won?",0.0 +"OH never, never let it be pronounced!",1.0 +"First let me perish, let me perish all!",1.0 +The very Name of Conde be forgot;,2.0 +Be the cursed Syllables never mentioned more;,4.0 +"And you vain Monuments of my Renown,",4.0 +"Or may you all neglected be by Fame,",1.0 +And never shine in her Eternal Roll!,1.0 +"THIS said, He leads the French to certain Fate,",0.0 +"For now the Allies Invincible are grown,",3.0 +Such is their Hero's Conduct and his Fire:,2.0 +"And now they pour a Storm of Iron Hail,",0.0 +"Whose Fury makes whole Squadrons fall, while they",1.0 +"Covered with Dust, and horrid all with Blood;",2.0 +And take new Spirit from that dismal Sight.,2.0 +"Conde resolves his Men shall perish all,",0.0 +Resolves himself to perish at their Head;,0.0 +"And all had fallen a Victim to Despair,",3.0 +If the descending Goddess of the Night,2.0 +"Had not just then withdrawn her Sickly Beams,",0.0 +And Night her blackest Mantle over them thrown.,2.0 +"And now the Rage and Din of Battle cease,",0.0 +"Nor Noise nor Silence in the Field prevails,",0.0 +"But a low, hoarse and undistinguished Sound,",2.0 +A sullen hollow grumbling strikes their Ears;,0.0 +"The dreadful Murmurs of declining Rage,",1.0 +And the last doleful Accents of Despair.,3.0 +"And now the French concealed in Night retire,",0.0 +And to Victorious WILLIAM leave the Field;,3.0 +And in the Height of Anguish and Despair,1.0 +"What if they were not? they deserved it all,",3.0 +And that was more than Victory to him:,1.0 +"He nobly chose to merit Victory,",0.0 +Rather than have it poorly undeserved:,1.0 +And from the Height of his exalted Soul.,2.0 +Descend to Triumph by inglorious Ways:,3.0 +Greater and more exalted in Distress,2.0 +"Than the great Monarch in his happier Hours,",3.0 +"Looking with Scorn on Fortune and his Foes,",3.0 +And all who prospered by ignoble Arts.,1.0 +"His Conquests all were Glorious, all were Just,",2.0 +"All fairly gained in the broad Eye of Heaven,",2.0 +And gained while Heaven and Earth looked wondering on.,2.0 +"Conquests indeed, not Robberies nor Fraud,",2.0 +"Nor Purchases nor Thefts, a Conqueror he!",2.0 +"No Trafficker for Countries and for Towns,",3.0 +"Nor double Dealer in the Trade of War,",0.0 +Nor sordid Turner of his Gold for Gain.,1.0 +"A Chief with such Experience, such Renown,",4.0 +And so much Conduct joined with so much Fire;,2.0 +So wondrous when the God of Battle raged?,0.0 +"He who against great Conde found Success,",4.0 +Could never have missed it against meaner Chiefs;,6.0 +"Had he not by their Numbers been oppressed,",0.0 +"For to himself he always owed Success,",1.0 +"To his high Conduct, and his great Example,",0.0 +"His Losses to the Falsehood, or the Sloth,",3.0 +"Or Impotence, or Factions of his Friends.",2.0 +"He lost but what was Fortune's, not his own.",0.0 +"The towering Greatness of his Soul was His,",1.0 +"And that he never lost, that was Himself;",1.0 +"His very self; his Troops have been subdued,",0.0 +"But never He, He gained by their Defeat.",2.0 +Since adverse Fortune showed him more himself,1.0 +"Of deeper Conduct, and more towering Mind,",1.0 +"Of Resolution never to be broke,",1.0 +"Of Constancy that triumphed over Fate,",1.0 +And kept Proud Fortune in severest Awe.,1.0 +"'Twas this that terrified his happier Foes,",2.0 +"Poorly the Glorious proffered Fight refuse,",4.0 +"Afraid to trust his far more numerous Troops,",2.0 +Doubting if they with Fortune's stronger Power,1.0 +Could guard him all from WILLIAM's great Revenge.,0.0 +"This made the Proud and Haughty Monarch stoop,",0.0 +"And after all the Advantages he gained,",3.0 +"With Prudence doubt the last Event of War,",0.0 +And in our Hero's Country sue for Peace.,0.0 +Which more than War advances boundless Sway;,0.0 +"Fair Liberty sleeps on, and never dreams",3.0 +"That to her Heart her Murderer's Hand's so near,",2.0 +"Till it's too late to fear, too late to dream:",3.0 +"For now they seize and bind Her strongest Friend,",0.0 +That they may surely give the fatal Blow.,0.0 +"Now the Crowns totter on a hundred Heads,",4.0 +"For lo where bound forlorn Britannia lies,",2.0 +And in due Poise sustained the ponderous World.,3.0 +Fair Liberty shrieks out aloud for Aid;,4.0 +"When WILLIAM on the Wings of all the Winds,",1.0 +"Like Perseus, nobly to their Rescue flies;",3.0 +"While the admiring World attentive stands,",1.0 +"Trembling in Expectation of the Event,",4.0 +For WILLIAM's Fate the General Fate decides:,0.0 +"When with Success above what Caesar found,",1.0 +"But Caesar came to enslave, and He to free",3.0 +"The Happy Hero came, and conquered before he saw.",2.0 +OH CONQUEST worthy Men and Angels praise!,1.0 +"How poor's the Triumph for extended Sway,",1.0 +"Compared to this? This Conquest over Hearts,",1.0 +"This Triumph over Souls, which leaves them free,",0.0 +And makes the Vanquished happier than the Victors.,1.0 +"The Britons who were wretched Slaves before,",0.0 +"But Life in Miseries, or Death in Flames,",1.0 +"When he approached grew Happy, Free, Secure:",2.0 +For hark how their tumultuous Joy grows loud!,5.0 +Hark how their stormy Shouts ascend the Skies,0.0 +"To unknown Worlds, transporting WILLIAM's Fame!",4.0 +"Renowned Restorer of lost Freedom, hail!",2.0 +"Great Patron of the Christian World, all hail!",2.0 +"At thy Approach fierce Arbitrary Power,",2.0 +And bloody Superstition disappear.,0.0 +"At thy Approach fair Liberty returns,",3.0 +"And smiling darts a lovely Glance so sweet,",0.0 +As charms at once the Hearts of Gods and Men:,0.0 +"While Piety looks modestly assured,",3.0 +And lifts its moving melting Eyes to Heaven;,0.0 +"OH Happy, Happy above Millions, Thou,",7.0 +"Who hast made Millions blessed; Thee Times to come,",1.0 +Thee Nations yet unborn shall Happy call:,1.0 +To every Age and Nation must extend.,0.0 +"Should we ever cease to celebrate thy Praise,",0.0 +Should we forget the boundless Debt we owe.,1.0 +"Then raise thy Voice, OH Happy Island, raise,",1.0 +Till Angels catch our Great Deliverer's Praise;,0.0 +"And let all Heaven attend the enchanting Song,",2.0 +For you have Voices for the lofty Theme.,2.0 +"You Angels, an Immortal Glorious Crown",3.0 +"To recompense the Immortal Act, prepare!",2.0 +"But may he wear it late, and long be ours,",1.0 +"May you impatiently expect him long,",2.0 +"Long may he deign to wear this earthly Crown,",0.0 +"Which now we place upon his Sacred Head,",0.0 +A poor and mean Return for what we owe.,0.0 +"THIS was the assembled Nation's general Sense,",1.0 +"OH may it never mentioned be by Fame,",0.0 +Or never be believed by Times to come!,0.0 +And murmured at their Great Deliverer.,1.0 +"Some envied even the Crown they had bestowed,",2.0 +"Others would be preserved, but not by Him;",2.0 +"Alas unfortunate, mistaken Men!",1.0 +Who could preserve you possibly but He?,1.0 +And to Britannia cries aloud for Help.,3.0 +"In vain Great Schomberg marches to her Aid,",2.0 +With his own wondrous Skill in Feats of Arms;,1.0 +"For Superstition and wild lawless Power,",2.0 +"Stood both insulting by, and saw those Troops",2.0 +"Made his Foes tremble, cheered his fainting Friends,",3.0 +"Revived them like their Universal Soul,",0.0 +And quickly changed that hapless Island's Fate;,0.0 +"As when the Sun above the Horizon mounts,",2.0 +And with his Blaze of Glory fills the World:,1.0 +"Goblins, and Ghosts obscene, and Spirits damned,",2.0 +That revealed by the Stars uncertain Light;,0.0 +"Or the pale Glimpses of the Silver Moon,",3.0 +"And disappearing take their Flight to Hell,",0.0 +So when the Light of all the Christian World,0.0 +"Unbounded Power soon took its headlong Flight,",4.0 +Its hated Head within its gloomy Cell.,0.0 +"Hibernia rescued by her Martial King,",4.0 +"Made thee, Britannia, more securely free.",4.0 +"Why dost thou murmur then, ungrateful Isle?",0.0 +"What, dost thou envy to the Best of Kings",1.0 +That Happiness which waits upon a Crown,1.0 +"That thou thy self so freely hast bestowed,",0.0 +So justly fixed upon his Sacred Head?,0.0 +Is that thy Cause of envious Discontent?,3.0 +"Alas, the Happiness is all for Thee,",1.0 +And all the Toil and Misery for him!,1.0 +"For thee, and not Himself He wears that Crown.",1.0 +The very best of Fathers and of Kings,1.0 +"Contentedly supports a wretched Life,",1.0 +For William in his Kingdoms is Himself,1.0 +The only Man whom his Auspicious Reign,1.0 +Constrains to bear intolerable Care.,1.0 +Not all the Rolls of Fame can show a King,0.0 +Abroad behold a formidable Foe!,1.0 +Surpassing in his Numbers and his Strength,1.0 +The whole Alliance which our Hero formed;,0.0 +"Then that Alliance difficult to form,",1.0 +And wondrous difficult to be maintained;,1.0 +And thwarting in their contrary Designs.,1.0 +He was the only Man upon the Globe,1.0 +"Who could at once resist the Common Foe,",0.0 +"And could enforce the Weakness of his Friends,",1.0 +"Quicken their Sloth, enrich their Poverty,",3.0 +"Cool their Mistrusts, their Factions reconcile.",2.0 +"At the same time at home, amongst his own",3.0 +"Lurked his most mortal and most dangerous Foes,",3.0 +"Those Sons of Darkness, who concealed in Night,",0.0 +To take away the very Life of Liberty.,1.0 +"More eager most each other to destroy,",1.0 +Than Him their common Safety to defend.,2.0 +"How few, alas, he found entirely true!",2.0 +"How few in whom he could entirely trust,",2.0 +Upon whose faithful Breasts he could discharge,0.0 +Some part of his intolerable Load!,2.0 +"For some had groundless Jealousies conceived,",1.0 +And others of themselves had too much care,1.0 +To be solicitous about their King.,1.0 +Never had Prince such Hardships to surpass;,3.0 +"For in eternal Toil He past his Hours,",0.0 +"Wasted with Action, or consumed with Thought,",3.0 +"And twenty times He past the Stormy Main,",0.0 +While We in Peace securely slept at home;,0.0 +"Past it against his Health, against his Life,",2.0 +Past it for Us against his very Self:,1.0 +It's what his tender Body never could bear;,1.0 +"In every Passage he almost expired,",2.0 +To save and to defend ungrateful Men.,1.0 +"Were overcome, alas He came not home,",0.0 +"Like other Conquerors, to indulge Himself",3.0 +"In soft repose, or to enjoy the Fame,",1.0 +Or the fair Conscience of his Noble Acts.,3.0 +"For always He returned to endure new Toils,",4.0 +And bear almost insufferable Pains;,2.0 +"Contending with the envious Rage of some,",3.0 +And with the fierce Divisions of us all.,2.0 +"Beyond what Nature suffered him to bear,",1.0 +"The weary Marches, and the hard Fatigues",1.0 +At his return he always something found,1.0 +"More difficult and grievous to be born,",2.0 +"From those whom with the hazard of his Life,",1.0 +Whom with the loss of Rest and Health he served;,0.0 +"And yet with Patience He supported all,",1.0 +Because He knew his Just Resentment shown,0.0 +Would have confounded all his Great Designs.,0.0 +"Therefore that just Resentment penned within,",1.0 +"Like a devouring Flame that wants a Vent,",3.0 +"Consumed and preyed upon his Noble Heart,",0.0 +"Exhausting the best Spirits of his Blood,",3.0 +And richest Purple of the Royal Flood.,1.0 +Which his frail Body could endure no more:,3.0 +For the Felicity of wretched Men;,2.0 +"Firmly resolved, as far as fleeting Life",2.0 +"Would give him leave, in spite of even our selves",2.0 +To finish the great Work He had begun.,2.0 +But what they did was probably the effect,1.0 +"Of wild Enthusiasm and of frantic Rage,",1.0 +"And sudden the Resolve, and short the Pain.",1.0 +"But WILLIAM's Action was the effect of Thought,",3.0 +Of a deliberate and long Design;,1.0 +"For sensibly his Life consumed away,",1.0 +And sunk beneath the Pressure of Affairs;,1.0 +"Yet He with indefatigable Soul,",1.0 +"And with almost Divine Resolve, went on,",4.0 +"And knowing He or Liberty must die,",2.0 +"By his eternal Care, eternal Toil,",1.0 +"To support that exhausted his Best Blood,",5.0 +And saved it at the expense of even his Life.,3.0 +"AND if Success OH fond mistaken Men,",2.0 +That judge of Human Actions by Success!,1.0 +Was sometime wanting to his Great Designs;,2.0 +"And greatest, when he missed it, still was found;",0.0 +For then his firm and comprehensive Soul,0.0 +In all the Lustre of its Virtue shone.,1.0 +And near Perfection brought his own Designs;,0.0 +"In spite of Losses made his Kingdom thrive,",0.0 +While France with all its Fortune was undone:,1.0 +"For by Himself, and not by Fortune Great,",1.0 +"Great WILLIAM found us wretched, left us blessed",1.0 +"In spite of all her Malice, all her Rage:",0.0 +"But ill that King deserves the Name of Great,",0.0 +"Who found his Subjects wealthy, easy, blessed,",0.0 +"And will be sure to leave them poor, starved, cursed,",2.0 +In spite of false Success and false Renown.,0.0 +"AND thus to bless Mankind our Hero lived,",1.0 +And great Employment of his dying Hours.,1.0 +He knew he never could better die employed,2.0 +"Than He had lived; he knew the very Best,",1.0 +"The Greatest, Holiest of Mankind were they",3.0 +Who of their Maker most resemblance bear;,0.0 +"And that they best resemble the most High,",1.0 +And who for future Ages best provide.,0.0 +Nor could the King of Terror's awful Face,3.0 +Turn his Attention from his Grand Design:,3.0 +The grizzly King no Terrors had for Him;,1.0 +"Calmly they met, and kindly they embraced,",3.0 +As friendly Monarchs on their Frontiers meet.,5.0 +"His mighty Soul was so remote from Fear,",1.0 +"That He showed nothing like what's falsely Brave,",2.0 +"And nothing like what's falsely Good He showed,",0.0 +"No earnest vehement Devotion paid,",2.0 +The effect of Terror and Astonishment;,3.0 +"But calm, resigned, and charitably meek,",1.0 +Briefly and mildly offered up that Soul,3.0 +"To the Great Judge of Kings who knew his Heart,",2.0 +And the main Spring of all his Actions saw.,0.0 +"That done, again he of the World took care;",2.0 +"For his Religion in his Actions lay,",1.0 +And not in fruitless Words and empty Sounds:,0.0 +He looked upon himself as sent by God,0.0 +TO advance the Happiness of Human Kind;,2.0 +"And as He past his whole Heroic Life,",1.0 +He died performing his Great Master's Will;,3.0 +"And as He knew no Fear, so Pain it self",2.0 +Could not divert him from his Great Design.,1.0 +"If we give Credit to the Sons of Art,",3.0 +"His latest Hours in sharpest Pains were spent,",0.0 +"And yet he showed no smallest Sign of Pain,",1.0 +"Uttered no loud Complaint, nor piercing Groan;",3.0 +"No Mark of Torment on his Face appeared,",3.0 +"For his loved People whom he left behind,",2.0 +"The best of Fathers for his Children felt,",1.0 +But for himself appeared insensible.,2.0 +"Yet his no fruitless vain Compassion was,",3.0 +But made him eager to complete those Acts,1.0 +And might our future Happiness secure.,1.0 +"OH GREATNESS, never known to Man before!",1.0 +Too great to be conceived by Human Thought!,1.0 +"Behold a Man, who dies in sharpest Pain,",0.0 +In his own Height of Misery intent,1.0 +"Upon providing Happiness for all,",1.0 +"Which makes the sole Employment of a God,",1.0 +In perfect Ease and full Felicity:,2.0 +"As much concerned for the World's Liberty,",3.0 +"As if his Business ceased not with his Life,",2.0 +As if our Guardian Angel had assumed,3.0 +"That Royal Shape, and would not leave his Charge,",0.0 +But only disappear to Mortal Eyes.,0.0 +"NOT the least Trouble or Concern He showed,",3.0 +"That his Great Maker called him at a Time,",2.0 +When the expecting World had all its Eyes,1.0 +"Intent on Him, the Darling Theme of Fame;",1.0 +When all his vast Designs were just reduced,0.0 +Within a certain Prospect of Success;,1.0 +"When humbled Gaul, and the delivered World",1.0 +"Had all advanced his Fame to such a height,",1.0 +As never Human Glory rose before.,0.0 +Not in the least concerned at being snatched,0.0 +"From the transporting Joy, the vast Applause,",1.0 +Of all the Nations happy made by Him.,0.0 +"The Hero meekly bore it, though He knew",1.0 +That the World judges by the last Event;,3.0 +But the World's Praise was what he could contemn.,2.0 +He like a faithful Servant had performed,0.0 +What his Great Master destined him to do;,3.0 +"And so died, pleased with this Heroic Thought,",3.0 +That had that Master's absolute Decree,0.0 +"Allotted him a thousand times as much,",1.0 +He would with Cheerfulness have done it all.,0.0 +OF all about him in that dreadful Hour,0.0 +"He was alone serene, the mournful rest",1.0 +"Felt all the fiercest Pangs of Grief and Fear,",0.0 +Declared the inward Torments of their Souls;,2.0 +Like the compassionate Spectator He.,4.0 +"At last one hearty Sigh he gives for all,",0.0 +"A Sigh that ended his Heroic Toils,",1.0 +And brought that Rest which Virtue could not bring.,0.0 +And now in loud and lamentable Wails,4.0 +They vent their lawless Grief that knows no Bounds:,1.0 +"Some for their Royal Patron wring their Hands,",0.0 +Their Benefactor some aloud deplore;,0.0 +"Some their Wise, Brave, Undaunted General;",3.0 +Their Great Deliverer and Defender some;,3.0 +"Their Father, like poor helpless Orphans, all.",1.0 +"But turn thy View, my Soul, from that vast Grief,",1.0 +Whose mortal Prospect is enough to blast,1.0 +Thy strongest and thy noblest Faculties.,2.0 +Yet whither must I fly to avoid that Grief?,2.0 +All Europe catches the contagious Woe:,1.0 +"The Greatest Men on Earth his Fate deplore,",0.0 +"Kings for that Loss not only grieve, but die.",0.0 +"Your loud Laments, you afflicted Nations cease;",2.0 +"It's for your selves this vast Excess of Woe,",1.0 +"And not for Him, for He is surely blessed.",1.0 +Never a greater Subject was of Woe;,3.0 +"But still excessive Grief some Weakness shows,",0.0 +"But lofty Praise declares a Noble Mind,",0.0 +"The best Return for mighty Benefits,",1.0 +"And worthy to be offered up to Gods,",2.0 +"And to good Kings, who most resemble Gods.",1.0 +"Then change your Voices all with one accord,",1.0 +"YOU afflicted Nations, change your mournful Notes,",1.0 +And praise your mighty Benefactor's Name;,0.0 +"Lift up your Voices all with one accord,",1.0 +For the Great Theme requires your noblest Flights.,2.0 +"WILLIAM the Great, the Good, the Just is gone;",2.0 +"Yet never, never shall He die entire,",0.0 +But his Immortal Memory shall last,2.0 +"As long as Gratitude remains in Men,",0.0 +As long as lovely Liberty remains.,1.0 +"For WILLIAM was the Greatest, Best of Kings,",1.0 +"That ever was sent from Heaven to rule the Earth,",2.0 +Or will be sent when Golden Times return:,1.0 +"Who, persecuted and oppressed by Fate,",1.0 +"Deserted by some Friends, betrayed by some,",1.0 +"Ill seconded by more, almost alone,",3.0 +"Britannia he restored, Hibernia He reduced;",7.0 +"He Superstition's bloody Progress stopped,",2.0 +And checked the Rage of Arbitrary Sway;,0.0 +"Religion reestablished, Right maintained,",0.0 +"Supported Freedom, Property secured,",1.0 +And made Oppression tremble when he frowned;,0.0 +Was born and lived for the World's Happiness:,3.0 +"A Hero still confessed to all the World,",0.0 +And died at last as greatly as he lived;,1.0 +Whose dying Arm for Liberty did more,1.0 +Than if the noblest Conquest he had gained:,2.0 +"And who, to sum all Praises up in one,",1.0 +"Maintains even dead the Freedom of the World,",5.0 +"By Him combined in mutual League, pursue;",3.0 +"And by the Wisdom of that Mighty Queen,",2.0 +Who now adds Lustre to the Imperial Crown:,6.0 +"Her Wisdom and her Virtues are the Gifts,",2.0 +Which He upon these Happy Realms bestowed.,1.0 +"Had it not been for his Heroic Toils,",1.0 +"The Golden Sceptre She so mildly sways,",1.0 +Had been in bloody Hands an Iron Rod.,0.0 +"And can we owe this Happiness to Him,",2.0 +And yet refuse our Benefactor's Praise?,0.0 +Where is our Honour? Where our Gratitude?,0.0 +And where our boasted Loyalty to Her?,1.0 +"Can we be Foes to his Immortal Name,",2.0 +"Who gave us Her, who all his wondrous Steps",0.0 +"Pursues, and seconds all his vast Designs?",0.0 +"And may she second all, till she attains",2.0 +The Happy Glorious End which He proposed.,3.0 +In vain thy wish gives all thy rural hours,1.0 +"To court thy pencil early at thy gates,",0.0 +"Ambition knocks, and fleeting Beauty waits;",0.0 +"The boastful Muse, of others fame so sure,",0.0 +Implores thy aid to make her own secure;,0.0 +"The great, the fair, and if ought nobler be,",1.0 +Ought more beloved the Arts solicit thee.,1.0 +From Europe severed by the circling main:,1.0 +"Sought by the kings of every distant land,",0.0 +And every hero worthy of thy hand.,1.0 +Hast thou forgot that mighty Bourbon feared,1.0 +"He still was mortal, till thy draught appeared;",1.0 +That Cosmo chose thy glowing form to place,0.0 +Amid her masters of the Lombard race?,1.0 +"While Britain wins each garland from her brow,",1.0 +"Her wit and freedom first, her painting now.",0.0 +"Nor mean the task each breathing bust explore,",0.0 +"Line after line with painful patience trace,",1.0 +"This Roman grandeur, that Athenian grace;",6.0 +"Vain care of parts; if, impotent of soul,",2.0 +The industrious workman fails to warm the whole!,3.0 +"Each theft betrays the marble whence it came,",0.0 +And a cold statue stiffen in the frame.,2.0 +"Thee Nature taught, nor Art her aid denied,",0.0 +The kindest mistress and the surest guide,1.0 +"To catch a likeness at one piercing fight,",0.0 +And place the fairest in the fairest light.,0.0 +"Ere yet the pencil tries her nicer toils,",0.0 +"Thy careless chalk has half achieved thy art,",0.0 +"A mind that grasps the whole is rarely found,",0.0 +"Half learnt, half painters, and half wits abound:",4.0 +"Few, like thy genius, at proportion aim,",0.0 +"All great, all graceful, and throughout the same.",1.0 +Such be thy life. OH since the glorious rage,3.0 +"Though wealth nor fame now touch thy sated mind,",1.0 +"Since after thee may rise an impious line,",4.0 +"Paint on, till fate dissolve thy mortal part,",0.0 +And live and die the monarch of thy art.,1.0 +"It's not enough, that Wit and Beauty join;",0.0 +"But, in her Face, let Sense and Judgement shine;",1.0 +And solid Wisdom dignify the Whole:,0.0 +"So, in thy Piece, shall each Beholder see",0.0 +"A finished CELIA Her, a KNELLER Thee.",2.0 +"AS once grave Pluto drove his royal Wheels,",1.0 +Over the large Confines of the Stygian Fields:,2.0 +"With kingly Port he sat, and by his Side,",1.0 +"Rode his fair Captive, now his awful Bride;",3.0 +And strikes the fainting Empress of the Shades.,1.0 +"The trembling Queen is seized with sickly Yawns,",0.0 +"Back to the Palace was the general Cry,",1.0 +"There rests the Dame, and sought her Royal Bed,",0.0 +Where the soft Pillows raised her drooping Head:,2.0 +On nothing would the peevish Matron feed;,0.0 +"Then useful Mercury was called with speed,",1.0 +"And sent on Earth some curious Dish to frame,",2.0 +Of light Digestion for the sickly Dame.,1.0 +"To Earth he posted where he quickly found,",0.0 +Proper Ingredients on our fertile Ground;,3.0 +"The Sighs of Widowers, and blends with those",1.0 +The Vows of Lovers and the Brains of Beaux;,1.0 +"The Wealth of Poets, and the Tears of Heirs;",1.0 +"The Frowns of Celia, when her Heart complies:",0.0 +Then with a Breath along the Air he drives,0.0 +"The Love of Husbands, and the Charms of Wives;",1.0 +"From thence Debates and long Harangues to cull,",0.0 +"And now the frothy Dish began to seem,",0.0 +"To crown the rest, he met by lucky Chance",0.0 +"The Wit of England, and the Truth of France.",1.0 +"A Peaceful morn the sweets of spring convey,",0.0 +A radiant beam to usher in the day;,0.0 +"Soft as the breeze in whisper seemed to say,",0.0 +"Thus raised to hope; but glides my dream away,",1.0 +"Her form transparent, brighter than the day.",1.0 +"What joy sublime, what innocence around,",1.0 +With kind benevolence and myrtle crowned;,1.0 +"Still in my ear melodious sounds I hear,",2.0 +Ecstatic themes of her eternal year.,1.0 +"Of all your friends, when at your last resource,",2.0 +Avoid the man that deals in words of course.,0.0 +"Damon's in love, he swears, with you alone;",3.0 +"Another comes, his heart's not all your own.",0.0 +"Yet still he swears, and still he keeps his word,",0.0 +"Nor ever breaks it, till appears a third.",1.0 +Alexis now was kneeling at my feet;,0.0 +"It's strange, he cannot see me on the street.",1.0 +"I started other day, when Willie said",0.0 +"She smiled, he sneered, I stared him in the face;",0.0 +"He whispered me, These words are common place.",1.0 +"Curse on your folly, and your words of course!",1.0 +Pushed all his interest for the vacant chair.,1.0 +"No longer whine in love, and rant in rage;",1.0 +"And their applause to gain, recounts his claps.",1.0 +"Thus the victorious chiefs of ancient Rome,",4.0 +"In pompous strain fight over the extinguished war,",2.0 +And show where honour bled in every scar,3.0 +BUT though bear merit might in Rome appear,2.0 +"It's not the strongest plea for favour, it's not here;",0.0 +We form our judgement in another way;,0.0 +"And they will best succeed, who best can pay:",1.0 +"Those who would gain the votes of British tribes,",0.0 +"Must add to force of merit, force of bribes.",0.0 +WHAT can an actor give? in every age,0.0 +Cash hath been rudely banished from the stage;,1.0 +"Monarchs themselves to grief of every player,",1.0 +Appear as often as their image there:,2.0 +"They can't, like candidate for other seat,",1.0 +"Pour seas of wine, and mountains raise of meat.",1.0 +Wine! they could bribe you with the world as soon;,1.0 +"And of roast beef, they only know the tune.",2.0 +"But what they have they give; could CLIVE do more,",0.0 +Though for one million he had brought home four?,3.0 +And hopes the friends of humour will be there.,0.0 +For those who laughter love instead of meat.,1.0 +And at the New pours water on the leaves.,2.0 +"THE Town divided, each runs several ways,",1.0 +"As passion, humour, interest, party sways.",3.0 +"Shape of a leg, complexion brown or fair;",0.0 +"A dress well chosen, or a patch misplaced,",2.0 +"Seated in pit, the dwarf with aching eyes",2.0 +"While to six feet the stripling vigorous grown,",5.0 +Declares that GARRICK is another COAN.,1.0 +"WHEN place of judgement is by whim supplied,",1.0 +And our opinions have their rise in pride;,1.0 +We praise and censure with an eye to self;,1.0 +"In such a court, as GARRICK for the chair.",1.0 +"At length agreed all squabbles to decide,",1.0 +By some one judge the cause was to be tried;,1.0 +"But this their squabbles did afresh renew,",1.0 +Who should be judge in such a trial: ' -- Who?,1.0 +"Some called for M' -- Y, but that sound soon died,",3.0 +And Desert Island rang on every side:,0.0 +He sickened at all triumphs but his own:,1.0 +"For COLMAN many, but the peevish tongue",1.0 +Of prudent age found out that he was young.,3.0 +"WITH sleek appearance, and with ambling pace,",1.0 +"And, type of vacant head, with vacant face,",0.0 +For who like him his various powers could call,3.0 +"Into so many shapes, and shine in all?",0.0 +"Who could so nobly grace the motley list,",0.0 +"Actor, Inspector, Doctor, Botanist.",3.0 +"Knows any one so well, sure no one knows,",3.0 +"At once to play, prescribe, compound, compose?",0.0 +Melting like ghosts before the rising day.,2.0 +"Scarce hammered out, when Nature's feeble fires",2.0 +Who in mere want of fault all merit place;,1.0 +"Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools,",2.0 +"Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules;",2.0 +With solemn consequence declared that none,1.0 +Could judge that cause but SOPHOCLES alone.,1.0 +"Dupes to their fancied excellence, the crowd",1.0 +Obsequious to the sacred dictate bowed.,2.0 +"WHEN, from amid the throng a youth stood forth,",2.0 +"Unknown his person, not unknown his worth;",0.0 +"His looks bespoke applause; alone he stood,",0.0 +Alone he stemmed the mighty critic flood.,0.0 +He talked of ancients as the man became,1.0 +"With noble reverence spoke of Greece and Rome,",2.0 +And scorned to tear the laurel from the tomb.,1.0 +"BUT more than just to other countries grown,",0.0 +"Where do these words of Greece and Rome excel,",0.0 +That England may not please the ear as well?,1.0 +That all perfection needs must centre there?,1.0 +"In states, let strangers blindly be preferred;",1.0 +"In state of letters, merit should be heard.",0.0 +"Genius is of no country, her pure ray",6.0 +Spreads all abroad as general as the day.,2.0 +"Foe to restraint, from place to place she flies,",2.0 +And may hereafter even in Holland rise.,3.0 +"May not, to give a pleasing fancy scope,",0.0 +And cheer a patriot heart with patriot hope;,4.0 +May not some great extensive genius raise,0.0 +The name of Britain above Athenian praise;,4.0 +"And, while brave thirst of fame his bosom warms,",1.0 +Make England great in letters as in arms?,2.0 +"Beyond the reach of Greece; with native fires,",0.0 +While SOPHOCLES below stands trembling at his height.,2.0 +"WHY should we then abroad for judges roam,",0.0 +When abler judges we may find at home?,1.0 +"Happy in tragic and in comic powers,",3.0 +"For them, your natural judges, Britons vote;",1.0 +"HE said, and conquered. ' -- Sense resumed her sway,",0.0 +And disappointed pedants stalked away.,0.0 +"Meantime the stranger every voice employed,",1.0 +To ask or tell his name. ' -- Who is it? ' -- LLOYD.,1.0 +"THUS, when the aged friends of JOB stood mute,",1.0 +"ELIHU, with the decent warmth of youth,",1.0 +"Boldly stood forth, the advocate of Truth;",3.0 +While baffled Age stood snarling at his side.,1.0 +"THE day of trial's fixed, nor any fear",0.0 +Lest day of trial should be put off here.,0.0 +Causes but seldom for delay can call,3.0 +"In courts where forms are few, fees none at all.",1.0 +"THE morning came, nor find I that the sun,",0.0 +"As he on other great events hath done,",1.0 +Put on a brighter robe than what he wore,0.0 +To go his journey in the day before.,0.0 +"FULL in the centre of a spacious plain,",1.0 +"On plan entirely new, where nothing vain,",2.0 +"Nothing magnificent appeared, but Art,",3.0 +"With decent modesty, performed her part,",1.0 +Rose a tribunal: from no other court,4.0 +"It borrowed ornament, or sought support:",2.0 +"No juries here were packed to kill or clear,",1.0 +"No bribes were taken, nor oaths broken here:",3.0 +To their own purpose tuned the pliant laws.,1.0 +"Each judge was true and steady to his trust,",1.0 +"As MANSFIELD wise, and as old FOSTER just.",3.0 +"IN the first seat, in robe of various dies,",5.0 +"A noble wildness flashing from his eyes,",1.0 +For mighty wonders famed in days of yore;,0.0 +"The other held a globe, which to his will",1.0 +"Obedient turned, and owned the master's skill:",2.0 +"Things of the noblest kind his genius drew,",0.0 +And looked through Nature at a single view:,0.0 +"A loose he gave to his unbounded soul,",1.0 +"And taught new lands to rise, new seas to roll;",2.0 +"Called into being scenes unknown before,",1.0 +"And, passing Nature's bounds, was something more.",0.0 +"NEXT JOHNSON sat, ' -- in ancient learning trained,",0.0 +"Correctly pruned each wild luxuriant thought,",2.0 +"Marked out her course, nor spared a glorious fault.",2.0 +"The Book of Man he read with nicest art,",0.0 +And ransacked all the secrets of the heart;,2.0 +And traced each passion to its proper source.,1.0 +"Then, strongly marked, in liveliest colours drew,",4.0 +And fools hung out their brother fools deterred.,2.0 +"His comic humour kept the world in awe,",3.0 +And Laughter frightened Folly more than Law.,0.0 +"BUT, hark! ' -- The trumpet sounds, the crowd gives way,",1.0 +And the procession comes in just array.,1.0 +"Now should I, in some sweet poetic line,",0.0 +"Invoke the Muse to quit her calm abode,",0.0 +And waken Memory with a sleeping ode.,1.0 +"For how should mortal man, in mortal verse,",1.0 +"Their titles, merits, or their names rehearse?",1.0 +We'll put off Genius till another time.,1.0 +"FIRST, Order came, ' -- with solemn step, and slow,",1.0 +In measured time his feet were taught to go.,0.0 +"Behind, from time to time, he cast his eye,",0.0 +"Lest This should quit his place, That step awry.",1.0 +"Appearances to save, his only care;",1.0 +"So things seem right, no matter what they are.",2.0 +"In him his parents saw themselves renewed,",0.0 +Begotten by Sir Critic on Saint Prude.,4.0 +"Next, snuffer, sweeper, shifter, soldier, mute:",0.0 +Legions of angels all in white advance;,2.0 +"Fools, hand in hand with fools, go two by two.",2.0 +Next came the treasurer of either house;,1.0 +"One with full purse, other with not a sous.",2.0 +"BEHIND a group of figures awe create,",0.0 +"By lace and feather consecrate to fame,",0.0 +Expletive kings and queens without a name.,2.0 +"Loves, hates, and rages, triumphs and complains;",2.0 +His easy vacant face proclaimed an heart,0.0 +"Which could not feel emotions, nor impart.",1.0 +Statesman all over! ' -- In plots famous grown! ' --,3.0 +"He mouths a sentence, as ' -- ours mouth a bone.",2.0 +"He creeps, he flies. ' -- An hero should not walk.",0.0 +Planted their batteries against the skies:,3.0 +"He borrowed, and made use of as his own.",4.0 +"By Fortune thrown on any other stage,",0.0 +"He might, perhaps, have pleased an easy age;",0.0 +"But now appears a copy, and no more,",2.0 +Of something better we have seen before.,1.0 +"The actor who would build a solid fame,",0.0 +Must Imitation's servile arts disclaim;,0.0 +"Act from himself, on his own bottom stand. ' --",3.0 +I hate even GARRICK thus at second hand.,2.0 +"Hibernia, famed, above every other grace,",8.0 +"From her his features caught the generous flame,",3.0 +And bid defiance to all sense of shame:,1.0 +"Tutored by all her rivals to surpass,",2.0 +"When hot impatience is in full career,",1.0 +"When active Fancy from the brain is sent,",1.0 +"And stands on tiptoe for some wished event,",2.0 +I hate those careless blunders which recall,0.0 +"Suspended sense, and prove it fiction all.",0.0 +"Great master in the science of Grimace,",3.0 +"From Ireland ventures, favourite of the Town,",1.0 +Lured by the pleasing prospect of Renown.,1.0 +"His wit and humour in Distortion lie,",2.0 +And all his merit enters at the eye.,0.0 +"We laugh, we clap, ' -- but, on Reflection's birth,",1.0 +"We wonder at ourselves, and curse our mirth.",0.0 +"His walk of parts he fatally misplaced,",1.0 +And Inclination fondly took for Taste.,0.0 +Hence hath the Town so often seen displayed,0.0 +"Merit he had, some merit in his way,",1.0 +But seldom found out in what part it lay.,0.0 +"BY turns transformed into all kinds of shapes,",0.0 +"Now in the centre, now in van or rear,",0.0 +"Are all contained in this one word, Distorted.",1.0 +"With personal defects their mirth adorn,",1.0 +And hang misfortunes out to public scorn.,1.0 +"Even I, whom Nature cast in hideous mould,",3.0 +"Whom having made, she trembled to behold,",1.0 +"Beneath the load of mimicry may groan,",1.0 +And find that Nature's errors are my own.,1.0 +"Strange to relate, but wonderfully true,",3.0 +That even shadows have their shadows too!,2.0 +"With not a single comic power endued,",2.0 +"The first, a mere mere mimic's mimic stood.",1.0 +"The last, by Nature formed to please, who shows,",0.0 +"In JOHNSON'S Stephen, which way Genius grows;",1.0 +"Self quite put off, affects, with too much art,",3.0 +To put on WOODWARD in each mangled part;,0.0 +"Adopts his shrug, his wink, his stare; nay more,",1.0 +And rests his Imitation in ' -- Defects.,0.0 +"ARMS crossed, brows bent, eyes fixed, feet marching slow,",6.0 +A band of malcontents with spleen overflow;,3.0 +"Which Pride, like Phoebus, draws from every bog;",0.0 +"They curse the Managers, and curse the Town,",1.0 +Whose partial favour keeps such merit down.,4.0 +"BUT if some man, more hardy than the rest,",2.0 +"At once they rise with impotence of rage,",1.0 +"Whet their small stings, and buzz about the stage.",3.0 +It's breach of privilege! ' -- Shall any dare,2.0 +"WHAT! shall Opinion then, of Nature free",0.0 +"And liberal as the vagrant air, agree",1.0 +"To rust in chains like these, imposed by Things",1.0 +"Which, less than nothing, ape the pride of kings?",0.0 +"To curse the freedom of each honest line,",1.0 +"Though rage and malice dim their faded cheek,",0.0 +"What the Muse freely thinks, she'll freely speak.",2.0 +"With just disdain of every paltry sneer,",0.0 +"Stranger alike to Flattery and Fear,",3.0 +"In purpose fixed, and to herself a rule,",1.0 +Public Contempt shall wait the Public Fool.,2.0 +Ludicrous Nature! which at once could show,2.0 +"A man so very High, so very Low.",0.0 +"Ought hurtful, may I never see thee play.",1.0 +"Let critics, with a supercilious air,",4.0 +"Decry thy various merit, and declare,",3.0 +Frenchman is still at top; ' -- but scorn that rage,2.0 +"Which, in attacking thee, attacks the age.",1.0 +"French follies, universally embraced,",2.0 +"At once provoke our mirth, and form our taste.",0.0 +"LONG from a nation, ever hardly used,",0.0 +"At random censured, wantonly abused,",1.0 +Have Britons drawn their sport; with partial view,0.0 +Formed general notions from the rascal few;,2.0 +"Condemned a people, as for vices known,",1.0 +Which from their country banished seek our own.,0.0 +"At length, however, the slavish chain is broke,",3.0 +"And Sense, awakened, scorns her ancient yoke:",0.0 +"Taught by thee, MOODY, we now learn to raise",2.0 +"Mirth from their foibles; from their virtues, praise.",1.0 +"Whom the Muse knows not, nor desires to know.",3.0 +"Than if, till that time, arms they never bore.",2.0 +"Like Westminster militia, trained to fight,",3.0 +They scarcely knew the left hand from the right.,2.0 +"Ashamed among such troops to show the head,",0.0 +"Their chiefs were scattered, and their heroes fled.",1.0 +"To separate frown from smile, and smile from frown.",0.0 +Stood on her feet as fast asleep as he.,0.0 +"Who wantonly transgresses Nature's bounds,",7.0 +"Eager to touch up some new comic scene,",3.0 +Lay happily concealed behind a screen.,2.0 +"Whether he left out nonsense or put in,",4.0 +"Who aimed at wit, though, levelled in the dark,",0.0 +"The random arrow seldom hit the mark,",0.0 +"Where, quiet as her strains, their strains do flow,",1.0 +"The plan of future operations laid,",0.0 +And spin out happy Folly through the year.,1.0 +"Harlequin comes their chief! ' -- See, from afar,",4.0 +The hero seated in fantastic car!,0.0 +"Wedded to Novelty, his only arms",3.0 +"On one side Folly sits, by some called Fun,",3.0 +"Sense, helpless captive, drags the galling chain.",1.0 +"Monsters, with tails of ice, and heads of fire;",2.0 +"Each was bestrode by full as monstrous wight,",1.0 +"Giant, Dwarf, Genius, Elf, Hermaphrodite.",3.0 +"The Town, as usual, met him in full cry:",3.0 +"The Town, as usual, knew no reason why.",3.0 +"But Fashion so directs, and Moderns raise,",1.0 +"NEXT, to the field a band of females draw",1.0 +"Just to their worth, we female rights admit,",1.0 +Nor bar their claim to Empire or to Wit.,1.0 +In spite of outward blemishes she shone,1.0 +"For Humour famed, and Humour all her own.",2.0 +"Easy, as if at home, the stage she trod,",1.0 +"Nor sought the Critic's praise, nor feared his rod.",0.0 +"Original in spirit and in ease,",2.0 +She pleased by hiding all attempts to please.,0.0 +"No comic actress ever yet could raise,",1.0 +"Among the merry troop conspicuous seen,",2.0 +"See lively POPE advance in jig and trip,",1.0 +"Corinna, Cherry, Honeycomb, and Snip.",1.0 +"Not without Art, but yet to Nature true,",0.0 +"She charms the Town with Humour just, yet new.",0.0 +"Cheered by her promise, we the less deplore",1.0 +The fatal time when CLIVE shall be no more.,0.0 +"MIGHT Figure give a title unto Fame,",0.0 +"But Justice may not partial trophies raise,",1.0 +"Still, hand in hand, her words and actions go,",1.0 +And the heart feels more than the features show;,1.0 +We no variety of passions trace;,1.0 +"Dead to the soft emotions of the heart,",1.0 +No kindred softness can those eyes impart;,2.0 +"The brow, still fixed in Sorrow's gloomy frame,",1.0 +"Void of distinction, marks all parts the same.",2.0 +Unless Deportment gives it decent grace?,0.0 +"Blessed with all other requisites to please,",1.0 +Some want the striking elegance of Ease;,1.0 +The curious eye their awkward movement tyres;,2.0 +They seem like puppets led about by wires.,0.0 +"Others, like statues, in one posture still,",1.0 +"Wondering, his art we praise the more we view,",1.0 +And only grieve he gave not motion too.,0.0 +"Weak of themselves are what we beauties call,",2.0 +It is the Manner which gives strength to all.,2.0 +"This teaches every beauty to unite,",2.0 +And brings them forward in the noblest light.,0.0 +"Happy in this, behold, amid the throng,",2.0 +"FORMED for the tragic scene, to grace the stage,",0.0 +"With rival excellence of Love and Rage,",1.0 +To turn and wind the passions as she will;,1.0 +"To melt the heart with sympathetic woe,",0.0 +"Awake the sigh, and teach the tear to flow;",0.0 +And freeze the soul with horror and despair;,1.0 +"With just desert enrolled in endless fame,",0.0 +"Struck with her grief, I catch the madness too!",0.0 +My brain turns round! The headless trunk I view!,1.0 +"The roof cracks, shakes, and falls! ' -- New horrors rise,",2.0 +And Reason buried in the ruin lies.,0.0 +"NOBLY disdainful of each slavish art,",3.0 +She makes her first attack upon the heart:,0.0 +"Pleased with the summons, it receives her laws;",1.0 +"And all is, silence, sympathy, applause.",1.0 +"BUT when, by fond Ambition drawn aside,",0.0 +"Giddy with praise, and puffed with female pride,",3.0 +"To comic merit, breaks down Nature's fence;",0.0 +"I scarcely can believe my ears and eyes,",1.0 +"PRITCHARD, by Nature for the stage designed,",3.0 +"In person graceful, and in sense refined;",1.0 +"Her Art as much as Nature's friend became,",0.0 +Her voice as free from blemish as her fame.,1.0 +"Who knows so well in majesty to please,",1.0 +She comes a captive queen of Moorish race;,0.0 +"When Love, Hate, Jealousy, Despair, and Rage,",2.0 +Still equal to herself is Zara seen:,2.0 +Her passions are the passions of a queen.,2.0 +I feel Ambition rush through every vein;,0.0 +"Persuasion hangs upon her daring tongue,",0.0 +"My heart grows flint, and every nerve's new strung.",2.0 +"IN comedy ' -- Nay, there, cries critic, hold.",4.0 +"Her speech, look, action, humour, all are just;",1.0 +"But then, her age and figure give disgust.",0.0 +"ARE foibles then, and graces of the mind,",1.0 +"In real life, to size or age confined?",1.0 +In any set circumference of waist?,2.0 +"As we grow old, does affectation cease,",2.0 +"If in originals these things appear,",1.0 +Why should we bar them in the copy here?,0.0 +"The grand minute reformers of the stage,",1.0 +"Slaves to propriety of every kind,",3.0 +"Which, when the best of actors shall exceed,",0.0 +Let it devolve to one of smaller breed.,3.0 +ALL actors too upon the back should bear,0.0 +"Certificate of birth; ' -- time, when; ' -- place, where.",3.0 +"For how can critics rightly fix their worth,",1.0 +Unless they know the minute of their birth?,1.0 +"An audience too, deceived, may find, too late,",3.0 +That they have clapped an actor out of date.,1.0 +And harshly strike the eye's too curious sense:,3.0 +"When the pure genuine flame, by Nature taught,",2.0 +"Before such merit, all objections fly;",0.0 +"OFT have I, PRITCHARD, seen thy wondrous skill,",0.0 +"Confessed thee great, but find thee greater still.",0.0 +"That worth, which shone in scattered rays before,",0.0 +"Collected now, breaks forth with double power.",1.0 +"The Jealous Wife! ' -- On that thy trophies raise,",0.0 +Inferior only to the Author's praise.,3.0 +"For mighty magic of enchanted lance,",1.0 +"With which her heroes armed victorious prove,",2.0 +"And, like a flood, rush over the land of Love;",3.0 +By Fate in the same sentence to be joined.,3.0 +"RAISED by the breath of popular acclaim,",1.0 +They mounted to the pinnacle of Fame:,2.0 +"There the weak brain, made giddy with the height,",5.0 +Spurred on the rival chiefs to mortal fight.,0.0 +"But if, from lungs more potent, there arise",2.0 +"Two bubbles of a more than common size,",2.0 +"Bubble meets bubble, and both sink to air.",5.0 +Still kept his eye fixed on his right-hand man:,4.0 +"While the mouth measures words with seeming skill,",2.0 +"What the right does, the left hand shall not know.",1.0 +"With studied impropriety of speech,",1.0 +He soars beyond the hackney critic's reach;,0.0 +"To epithets allots emphatic state,",0.0 +"In ways first trodden by himself excels,",2.0 +"He, she, it, and, we, you, they fright the soul.",2.0 +"IN person taller than the common size,",1.0 +Behold where B' -- Y draws admiring eyes!,1.0 +"Convulsive rage, and struggling heave for vent;",0.0 +"Spectators, with imagined terrors warm,",3.0 +Anxious expect the bursting of the storm:,3.0 +"But all unfit in such a pile to dwell,",1.0 +His voice comes forth like Echo from her cell;,2.0 +"To swell the tempest needful aid denies,",0.0 +And all down the stage in feeble murmurs dies.,0.0 +"WHAT man, like B' -- Y, with such pains can err",2.0 +"In elocution, action, character?",1.0 +"What man could give, if B' -- Y was not here,",2.0 +"Who else can speak so very, very fine,",0.0 +That Sense may kindly end with every line?,0.0 +"SOME dozen lines before the ghost is there,",0.0 +Behold him for the solemn scene prepare.,1.0 +"Puts the whole body into proper trim, ' --",3.0 +"From whence we learn, with no great stretch of art,",1.0 +"Five lines hence comes a ghost, and, have! a start.",2.0 +"WHEN he appears most perfect, still we find",2.0 +"Something which jars upon, and hurts the mind.",2.0 +"Whatever lights upon a part are thrown,",1.0 +We see too plainly they are not his own.,2.0 +"No flame from Nature ever yet he caught,",1.0 +Nor knew a feeling which he was not taught:,1.0 +"He raised his trophies on the base of art,",1.0 +And conned his passions as he conned his part.,1.0 +"Pupil of BETTERTON and BOOTH. Alone,",3.0 +"Sullen he walked, and deemed the chair his own.",2.0 +"For how should moderns, mushrooms of the day,",2.0 +"Who never those masters knew, know how to play?",4.0 +Extol the times when they themselves were young;,1.0 +"Who, having lost all relish for the stage,",1.0 +"See not their own defects, but lash the age,",0.0 +"Received, with joyful murmurs of applause,",1.0 +"Their darling chief, and lined his favourite cause.",0.0 +FAR be it from the candid Muse to tread,1.0 +Insulting over the ashes of the dead.,3.0 +"But just to living merit, she maintains,",1.0 +"Ancients, in vain, endeavour to excel,",3.0 +Happily praised if they could act as well.,3.0 +"BUT, though Prescription's force we disallow,",1.0 +Nor to Antiquity submissive bow;,2.0 +"Though we deny imaginary grace,",1.0 +Founded on accidents of time and place;,3.0 +"Yet real worth of every growth shall bear,",1.0 +"His words bore sterling weight, nervous and strong,",6.0 +In manly tides of sense they rolled along.,0.0 +"To keep up Numbers, yet not forfeit Sense,",0.0 +No actor ever greater heights could reach,1.0 +"SPEECH! Is that all? And, shall an actor found,",0.0 +An universal fame on partial ground?,0.0 +"Parrots themselves speak properly by rote,",4.0 +"And, in six months, my dog shall howl by note.",1.0 +"I laugh at those who, when the Stage they tread,",0.0 +Neglect the heart to compliment the head;,1.0 +"With strict propriety, their care's confined",1.0 +"To weigh out words, while Passion halts behind.",0.0 +"Allow them accent, cadence, ' -- Fools may feel;",1.0 +"Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.",0.0 +"His eyes, in gloomy socket taught to roll,",0.0 +Proclaimed the sullen habit of his soul.,1.0 +"Heavy and phlegmatic he trod the Stage,",3.0 +"Too proud for tenderness, too dull for rage.",3.0 +With the same cast of features he is seen,3.0 +"To chide the Libertine, and court the Queen.",0.0 +"FROM the tame scene which without passion flows,",5.0 +With just desert his reputation rose.,0.0 +"Nor less he pleased, when, on some surly plan,",1.0 +"He was, at once, the Actor and the Man.",2.0 +Small difference betwixt the Stoic and the Brute.,3.0 +"IN fancied scenes, as in life's real plan,",1.0 +"He could not, for a moment, sink the Man.",0.0 +"In whatever cast his character was laid,",2.0 +"Self still, like oil, upon the surface played.",1.0 +"Nature, in spite of all his skill, crept in:",3.0 +As yet unsettled in the rank of Fame.,0.0 +"This, fondly lavish in his praises grown,",0.0 +"Gives him all merit; That, allows him none.",0.0 +"Between them both, we'll steer the middle course,",0.0 +"Nor, loving Praise, rob Judgement of her force.",2.0 +"JUST his conceptions, natural and great:",2.0 +"His feelings strong, his words enforced with weight.",0.0 +Envy would drive the colour from his cheek:,2.0 +Denied the social powers of voice and face.,2.0 +"Fixed in one frame of features, glare of eye,",0.0 +"Passions, like Chaos, in confusion lie:",2.0 +In vain the wonders of his skill are tried,1.0 +To form Distinction Nature hath denied.,0.0 +"His voice no touch of harmony admits,",2.0 +Irregularly deep and shrill by fits:,1.0 +"The two extremes appear, like man and wife,",0.0 +Coupled together for the sake of strife.,3.0 +"His Action's always strong, but sometime such",2.0 +Why must Impatience fall three paces back?,1.0 +Why paces three return to the attack?,1.0 +"Why is the right leg too forbid to stir,",1.0 +Unless in motion semicircular?,1.0 +"Why must the Hero with the Nailor vie,",1.0 +"IN Royal John, with Philip angry grown,",0.0 +Inhuman tyrant! was it not a shame,1.0 +To fright a king so harmless and so tame?,1.0 +"BUT, spite of all defects, his glories rise;",0.0 +"And Art, by Judgement formed, with Nature vies.",0.0 +While in his own contending passions roll.,0.0 +"View the whole scene, with critic judgement scan,",3.0 +And then ' -- deny him Merit if you can.,1.0 +"Where he falls short, it's Nature's fault alone;",3.0 +"Where he succeeds, the Merit's all his own.",1.0 +"LAST, GARRICK came. ' -- Behind him throng a train",1.0 +"Of snarling critics, ignorant as vain.",1.0 +Your Hero always should be tall you know. ' --,0.0 +True natural greatness all consists in height. ' --,1.0 +"Produce your voucher, Critic. ' -- Sergeant KYTE.",0.0 +ANOTHER can't forgive the paltry arts,0.0 +By which he makes his way to shallow hearts;,0.0 +"Mere pieces of finesse, traps for applause. ' --",4.0 +"Avant unnatural start, affected pause.",2.0 +"FOR me, by Nature formed to judge with phlegm,",1.0 +I can't acquit by wholesale nor condemn.,2.0 +The best things carried to excess are wrong;,2.0 +"The start may be too frequent, pause too long.",2.0 +"But only used in proper time and place,",0.0 +Severest judgement must allow them Grace.,0.0 +"IF Bunglers, formed on Imitation's plan,",0.0 +Just in the way that Monkeys mimic Man;,0.0 +"Their copied scene with mangled arts disgrace,",0.0 +And pause and start with the same vacant face;,2.0 +"We join the critic laugh; those tricks we scorn,",0.0 +Which spoil the scenes they mean them to adorn.,1.0 +"BUT when, from Nature's pure and genuine source,",2.0 +These strokes of acting flow with generous force;,2.0 +"When in the features all the soul's portrayed,",0.0 +To me they seem from quickest feelings caught:,1.0 +"Each start, is Nature; and each pause, is Thought.",1.0 +"WHEN Reason yields to Passion's wild alarms,",0.0 +And the whole state of Man is up in arms;,3.0 +"What, but a Critic, could condemn the Player",0.0 +"For pausing here, when Cool Sense pauses there?",2.0 +"While, working from the heart, the fire I trace,",1.0 +And mark it strongly flaming to the face;,1.0 +"While, in each sound, I hear the very man;",0.0 +"I can't catch words, and pity those who can.",2.0 +"LET Wits, like Spiders, from the tortured brain",2.0 +"The Gods, ' -- a kindness I with thanks must pay, ' --",1.0 +Have formed me of a coarser kind of clay;,1.0 +"Nor stung with Envy, nor with Spleen diseased,",1.0 +"A poor dull creature, still with Nature pleased:",1.0 +"Hence to thy praises, GARRICK, I agree,",1.0 +"And, pleased with Nature, must be pleased with Thee.",0.0 +"Now might I tell how silence reigned throughout,",0.0 +And deep attention hushed the rabble rout;,0.0 +"How every claimant, tortured with desire,",1.0 +"Was pale as ashes, or as red as fire:",1.0 +"But, loose to Fame, the Muse more simply acts,",0.0 +"Rejects all flourish, and relates mere facts.",2.0 +"THE judges, as the several parties came,",1.0 +"With Temper heard, with Judgement weighed each claim,",0.0 +"And in their sentence happily agreed,",1.0 +"IF Manly Sense; if Nature, linked with Art;",0.0 +If thorough Knowledge of the Human Heart;,1.0 +"If Powers of Acting, vast and unconfined;",2.0 +"If fewest Faults, with greatest Beauties joined;",0.0 +"If strong Expression, and strange Powers, which lie",3.0 +Within the magic circle of the eye;,1.0 +"If Feelings which few hearts, like His, can know,",1.0 +And which no Face so well as His can show;,2.0 +Deserve the Preference; ' -- GARRICK take the Chair;,0.0 +Nor quit it ' -- till Thou place an Equal There.,2.0 +"HAIL, Phillis, brighter than a Morning Sky,",2.0 +"Joy of my Heart, and Darling of my Eye;",1.0 +"See the kind Year her grateful Tribute yields,",3.0 +"But to yonder Gardens let me lead thy Charms,",0.0 +Where the curled Vine extends her willing Arms:,3.0 +"Whose purple Clusters lure the longing Eye,",0.0 +And the ripe Cherries show their scarlet Die.,2.0 +"Not all the Sights your boasted Gardens yield,",0.0 +"Are half so lovely as my Father's Field,",1.0 +"Where large Increase has blessed the fruitful Plain,",0.0 +"And we with Joy behold the swelling Grain,",1.0 +"Whose heavy Ears towards the Earth reclined,",0.0 +"But see, to emulate those Cheeks of thine,",0.0 +"Beneath their Leaves the ruddy Peaches glow,",0.0 +And the plump Figs compose a gallant Show.,2.0 +And ruddy Pears in you Espalier twine.,1.0 +"There humble Dwarfs in pleasing Order stand,",0.0 +Whose golden Product seems to court thy Hand.,0.0 +In vain you tempt me while our Orchard bears,0.0 +While yours must grow but as their Masters please.,1.0 +"The grateful Trees our Mercy well repay,",0.0 +And rain us Bushels at the rising Day.,0.0 +"Fair are my Gardens, yet you slight them all;",0.0 +"Then let us haste to you majestic Hall,",1.0 +"Where the glad Roofs shall to thy Voice resound,",2.0 +Thy Voice more sweet than Music's melting Sound:,0.0 +"But Art shall teach us to evade his Ray,",1.0 +And the forced Fountains near the Windows play;,2.0 +"There choice Perfumes shall give a pleasing Gale,",0.0 +And dazzling Carpets deck the Floors below:,0.0 +"OH tell me, Thou whose careless Beauties charm,",2.0 +"Believe me, I can find no Charms at all",2.0 +In your fine Carpets and your painted Hall.,3.0 +"It's true our Parlour has an earthen Floor,",0.0 +The Sides of Plaster and of Elm the Door:,1.0 +"Yet the rubbed Chest and Table sweetly shines,",3.0 +And the spread Mint along the Window climbs:,2.0 +"An aged Laurel keeps away the Sun,",0.0 +And two cool Streams across the Garden run.,1.0 +Can Feasts or Music win my lovely Maid?,0.0 +In both those Pleasures be her Taste obeyed.,0.0 +"Then to the Roofs the swelling Notes shall rise,",0.0 +"Pierce the glad Air and gain upon the Skies,",3.0 +"While Ease and Rapture spreads itself around,",0.0 +And distant Hills roll back the charming Sound.,1.0 +"Not this will lure me, for I'd have you know",1.0 +"Home to his Barns, and leave the naked Plain:",0.0 +Deck the brown Board; who can desire more?,3.0 +And while he plays soft Amaryllis sings.,1.0 +"Then strive no more to win a simple Maid,",1.0 +From her loved Cottage and her silent Shade.,3.0 +"Let Phillis never, ah never let her rove",3.0 +From her first Virtue and her humble Grove.,3.0 +"Go seek some Nymph that equals your Degree,",2.0 +WHEN CUPID first instructs his darts to fly,0.0 +"The stripling raw, just entered in his teens,",0.0 +"Receives the wound, and wonders what it means;",0.0 +"His heart, like dripping, melts, and new desire",0.0 +"Within him stirs, each time she stirs the fire;",0.0 +"Trembling and blushing he the fair one views,",2.0 +"And fain would speak, but can't ' -- without a MUSE.",0.0 +"So, to the sacred mount he takes his way,",1.0 +"Prunes his young wings, and tunes his infant lay,",3.0 +"Clad, as your nymphs were always clad of yore,",0.0 +"Green moss, her couch; her canopy, the skies.",2.0 +"The youth, turned swain, and skilled in rustic lays,",1.0 +"Waves his light wings, and serves her for a fan.",4.0 +"These childish toys on Reason's altar bleed,",0.0 +"Formed after some great man, whose name breeds awe,",3.0 +"Whose every sentence Fashion makes a law,",0.0 +"Who on mere credit his vain trophies rears,",4.0 +"Then we discard the workings of the heart,",2.0 +And nature's banished by mechanic art.,1.0 +"Then, deeply read, our reading must be shown;",0.0 +Vain is that knowledge which remains unknown.,0.0 +"Then OSTENTATION marches to our aid,",1.0 +"And lettered PRIDE stalks forth in full parade,",1.0 +"Beneath their care behold the work refine,",0.0 +"Pointed each sentence, polished every line.",2.0 +"Trifles are dignified, and taught to wear",2.0 +"The robes of Ancients with a Modern air,",1.0 +"NONSENSE with Classic ornaments is graced,",3.0 +And passes current with the stamp of TASTE.,0.0 +"Sicilian muses on our mountains roam,",3.0 +Easy and free as if they were at home;,3.0 +"Sport in our floods, and trip it over our lawns;",2.0 +"Flowers which once flourished fair in GREECE and ROME,",1.0 +More fair revive in ENGLAND's meads to bloom;,0.0 +Skies without cloud exotic suns adorn;,3.0 +"And roses blush, but blush without a thorn;",0.0 +"Landscapes, unknown to dowdy Nature, rise,",1.0 +And new creations strike our wondering eyes.,2.0 +"Grave without thought, and without feeling gay,",6.0 +"Whose numbers in one even tenor flow,",0.0 +"Attuned to pleasure, and attuned to woe,",1.0 +"Who, if plain COMMON-SENSE her visit pays,",2.0 +And ask the meaning of her coming there;,2.0 +"In LOVE's PAGODA, shall they ever doze,",0.0 +"My lord, ' -- to letters as to faith most true ' --",1.0 +At once their patron and example too ' --,1.0 +"Sigh with sad winds, and weep with weeping streams,",3.0 +"Curious in grief, for real grief we know",4.0 +Is curious to dress up the tale of woe,1.0 +"From the green umbrage of some DRUID's seat,",3.0 +Shall his own works in his own way repeat.,1.0 +"Me, whom no muse of heavenly birth inspires,",3.0 +"No judgement tempers when rash genius fires,",2.0 +"Short gleams of sense, and satire out of time,",3.0 +Who cannot follow where trim fancy leads,1.0 +"Who often, but without success, have prayed",1.0 +"Who would, but cannot, with a master's skill",1.0 +"Coin fine new epithets, which mean no ill,",3.0 +"Me, thus uncouth, thus every way unfit",2.0 +"Thou NATURE, art my goddess ' -- to thy law",1.0 +Myself I dedicate ' -- hence slavish awe,2.0 +"Which bends to fashion, and obeys the rules",1.0 +"Imposed at first, and since observed by fools.",0.0 +"Hence those vile tricks which mar fair NATURE's hue,",4.0 +"And bring the sober matron forth to view,",0.0 +"With all that artificial tawdry glare,",0.0 +"Of toil, which critics now mistake for taste,",0.0 +"Which Art, too thinly veiled, forbids to please,",1.0 +"By Nature's charms inglorious truth! subdued,",2.0 +"However plain her dress, and behaviour rude,",3.0 +"To northern climes my happier course I steer,",2.0 +"Climes where the Goddess reigns throughout the year,",0.0 +"Where, undisturbed by Art's rebellious plan,",0.0 +"She rules the loyal Laird, and faithful clan.",0.0 +"To that rare soil, where virtues clustering grow,",3.0 +"What mighty blessings does not ENGLAND owe,",0.0 +Does each revolving day import from thence?,0.0 +Faith without fraud and STUARTS without end.,6.0 +"Come not her generous sons, and take a share,",2.0 +"And if, by some disastrous turn of fate,",1.0 +"Change should ensue, and ruin seize our state,",1.0 +"Shall we not find, safe in that hallowed ground,",1.0 +"Such refuge, as the HOLY MARTYR found?",1.0 +"Nor less our debt in SCIENCE, though denied",1.0 +By the weak slaves of prejudice and pride.,3.0 +"Of whom one paints, as well as other wrote;",0.0 +"Thence HOME, disbanded from the sons of prayer,",2.0 +"For loving plays, though no dull DEAN was there;",1.0 +"To this wise town by simple patrons brought,",2.0 +"In simple manner utter simple lays,",0.0 +"And take, with simple pensions, simple praise.",0.0 +"Where all the little loves and graces dream,",0.0 +"Where slowly winding the dull waters creep,",2.0 +"And seem themselves to own the power of sleep,",2.0 +"Where on the surface Lead, like feathers, swims;",0.0 +"As once a SYRIAN bathed in JORDAN's flood,",2.0 +"Wash off my native stains, correct that blood",0.0 +"Which mutinies at call of English pride,",1.0 +"And, deaf to prudence, rolls a patriot tide.",2.0 +"From solemn thought, which overhangs the brow",0.0 +"Of patriot care, when things are ' -- God knows how;",4.0 +"From nice trim points, where HONOUR, slave to rule,",4.0 +"In compliment to folly, plays the fool;",1.0 +"From those gay scenes, where mirth exalts his power,",2.0 +And easy Humour wings the laughing hour;,3.0 +"From those soft better moments, when desire",2.0 +"Beats high, and all the world of man's on fire,",1.0 +"More than repay us for whole years of care,",1.0 +"At Friendship's summons will my WILKES retreat,",1.0 +"And see, once seen before, that ancient seat,",1.0 +"That ancient seat, where majesty displayed",1.0 +"Mean narrow maxims, which enslave mankind,",2.0 +Never from its bias warp thy settled mind.,1.0 +"Not duped by party, nor opinion's slave,",1.0 +"Thy honest spirit into practise brings,",0.0 +"Nor courts the smile, nor dreads the frown of Kings.",0.0 +Let rude licentious Englishmen comply,6.0 +"Unwilling to condemn, thy soul disdains,",1.0 +"To wear vile faction's arbitrary chains,",1.0 +"And strictly weighs, in apprehension clear,",0.0 +"Things as they are, and not as they appear.",2.0 +"And Nature gave thee, open to distress,",1.0 +"A heart to pity, and a hand to bless.",1.0 +Oft have I heard thee mourn the wretched lot,0.0 +"Of the poor, mean, despised, insulted Scot,",2.0 +"Who, might calm reason credit idle tales,",1.0 +"Or starves at home, or practises, through fear",2.0 +"Of starving, arts which damn all conscience here.",0.0 +"When Scribblers, to the charge by interest led,",1.0 +"And, injured by one alien, rail at all;",3.0 +"To mark the weakness of that Holy Land,",1.0 +"And hang a nation up to public scorn,",1.0 +"Thy generous soul condemns the frantic rage,",2.0 +"The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride;",1.0 +"True is the charge, nor by themselves denied.",1.0 +"Are they not then in strictest reason clear,",0.0 +Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here?,0.0 +"If by low supple arts successful grown,",2.0 +"If, mean in want, and insolent in power,",1.0 +"Roused by such wrongs should REASON take alarm,",0.0 +And even the MUSE for public safety arm;,2.0 +"But if they own, ingenuous, virtue's sway,",3.0 +"And follow where true honour points the way,",3.0 +"And bless the donors for their daily bread,",1.0 +"Or by vast debts of higher import bound,",2.0 +"Are always humble, always grateful found,",0.0 +"If they, directed by PAUL's holy pen,",3.0 +"Become discreetly all things to all men,",2.0 +"That all men may become all things to them,",2.0 +"Envy may hate, but justice can't condemn.",2.0 +"Into our places, states, and beds they creep:",0.0 +"Once, be the hour accursed, accursed the place,",0.0 +"Into those traps, which men, called PATRIOTS, laid,",3.0 +When heavenly TRUTH presents her friendly clue?,2.0 +"Once plunged in ill, shall I go farther in?",3.0 +"To make the oath, was rash; to keep it, sin.",0.0 +"Backward I tread the paths I trod before,",2.0 +And calm reflection hates what passion swore.,0.0 +"Converted, blessed are the souls which know",0.0 +"Those pleasures which from true conversion flow,",0.0 +"Whether to reason, who now rules my breast,",3.0 +"Past crimes to expiate be my present aim,",1.0 +"To raise new trophies to the SCOTTISH name,",2.0 +To make what can the proudest Muse do more,1.0 +"Even faction's sons her brighter worth adore,",0.0 +In fullest tide roll down to latest times.,2.0 +"Presumptuous wretch! and shall a Muse like thine,",2.0 +"An English Muse, the meanest of the nine,",1.0 +Attempt a theme like this? Can her weak strain,2.0 +Expect indulgence from the mighty THANE?,1.0 +"Should he from toils of government retire,",1.0 +"And for a moment fan the poet's fire,",1.0 +"Should he, of sciences the moral friend,",1.0 +"Each curious, each important search suspend,",2.0 +"Leave unassisted HILL of herbs to tell,",1.0 +"Having the Lord's good grace before his eyes,",2.0 +"The humble brows of one in England born,",1.0 +Presumptuous still thy daring must appear;,2.0 +"Vain all thy towering hopes, while I am here.",1.0 +"Thus spoke a form, by silken smile, and tone",1.0 +"In every party found, and yet of none.",0.0 +"This airy substance, this substantial shade",1.0 +"Abashed I heard, and with respect obeyed.",1.0 +From themes too lofty for a bard so mean,2.0 +Discretion beckons to an humbler scene.,1.0 +"The restless fever of ambition laid,",1.0 +"Calm I retire, and seek the sylvan shade.",2.0 +"Be all the glare of verse by Truth supplied,",0.0 +"And if plain nature pours a simple strain,",2.0 +"Whom English Infidels, MACPHERSON call,",1.0 +And pensions mark me for a willing slave.,1.0 +"Two boys, whose birth beyond all question springs",1.0 +"From great and glorious, though forgotten, kings,",3.0 +"Shepherd's of Scottish lineage, born and bred",4.0 +"On the same bleak and barren mountain's head,",2.0 +"To spin out life, and starve themselves and flocks,",0.0 +"The mountain top with usual dullness kissed,",2.0 +Dress and her vain refinements they despise.,1.0 +"With freckles spotted flamed the golden down,",1.0 +"With much art, could on the bagpipes play,",1.0 +Even from the rising to the setting day;,2.0 +"Oft at his strains, all natural though rude,",1.0 +"The Highland Lass forgot her want of food,",0.0 +"And, while she scratched her lover into rest,",0.0 +"Far as the eye could reach, no tree was seen,",1.0 +"Earth, clad in russet, scorned the lively green.",1.0 +"The plague of Locusts they secure defy,",1.0 +For in three hours a grasshopper must die.,4.0 +"No living thing, whatever its food, feasts there,",4.0 +"No birds, except as birds of passage flew,",1.0 +"No bee was known to hum, no dove to coo.",2.0 +"No streams as amber smooth, as amber clear,",1.0 +"Were seen to glide, or heard to warble here,",0.0 +"Rebellion's spring, which through the country ran,",1.0 +"Furnished, with bitter draughts, the steady clan.",2.0 +"No flowers embalmed the air, but one white rose,",4.0 +"Which, on the tenth of June, by instinct blows,",0.0 +"By instinct blows at morn, and, when the shades",0.0 +"Of drizzly eve prevail, by instinct fades.",0.0 +"One, and but one poor solitary cave,",4.0 +That one alone hard tax on Scottish pride,2.0 +Shelter at once for man and beast supplied.,2.0 +"And thistles, armed against the invader's head,",3.0 +"Stood in close ranks all entrance to oppose,",4.0 +Thistles now held more precious than the rose.,4.0 +"All Creatures, which, on nature's earliest plan,",2.0 +"Were formed to loath, and to be loathed by man,",1.0 +"Which owed their birth to nastiness and spite,",1.0 +"Deadly to touch, and hateful to the sight,",3.0 +"Creatures, which, when admitted in the ark,",2.0 +"With poison's trail, here crawled the bloated Toad;",0.0 +"There webs were spread of more than common size,",0.0 +"Slugs, pinched with hunger, smeared the slimy wall;",1.0 +The cave around with hissing serpents rung;,0.0 +"And FAMINE, by her children always known,",1.0 +"As proud as poor, here fixed her native throne.",0.0 +"Here, for the sullen sky was overcast,",0.0 +"A native blast, which armed with hail and rain",0.0 +"Beat unrelenting on the naked swain,",2.0 +"The boys for shelter made; behind the sheep,",0.0 +"Of which those shepherd's every day take keep,",1.0 +"And within ken our flocks, under the wind,",6.0 +"Safe from the pelting of this perilous storm,",3.0 +"Are laid among yonder thistles, dry and warm,",6.0 +"Well dost thou sing, nor ill does Jockey play.",0.0 +To think of songs at such a time as this.,1.0 +"Sooner shall fleeces cloth these ragged flocks,",1.0 +"Sooner shall want seize shepherd's of the south,",4.0 +"And we forget to live from hand to mouth,",1.0 +Still have I known thee for a silly swain;,1.0 +"Of things past help, what boots it to complain?",2.0 +Nothing but mirth can conquer fortune's spite;,2.0 +"No sky is heavy, if the heart be light:",2.0 +"Patience is sorrow's salve; what can't be cured,",2.0 +"When with a foreign loon she stole away,",0.0 +"Where was thy boasted wisdom then, when I",0.0 +"Applied those proverbs, which you now apply?",0.0 +OH she was bonny! all the Highlands round,0.0 +More precious though that precious is to all,2.0 +"Than the rare medicine, which we Brimstone call,",3.0 +"Or that choice plant, so grateful to the nose,",2.0 +"Which in, I know not what, far country grows,",1.0 +A lass so fair should ever prove untrue.,0.0 +"Whether with pipe or song to charm the ear,",2.0 +Through all the land did JAMIE find a peer?,0.0 +"Cursed be that year by every honest Scot,",0.0 +"And in the shepherd's calendar forgot,",1.0 +"That fatal year, when JAMIE, hapless swain,",0.0 +"In evil hour forsook the peaceful plain,",0.0 +"JAMIE, when our young Laird discreetly fled,",3.0 +"Was seized, and hanged till he was dead, dead, dead.",2.0 +Full sorely may we all lament that day:,2.0 +For all were losers in the deadly fray.,0.0 +"Five brothers had I, on the Scottish plains,",2.0 +Ah! what hath shepherd's life to do with arms?,0.0 +Mention it not ' -- there saw I strangers clad,1.0 +"Saw the FERRARA too, our nation's pride,",2.0 +Unwilling grace the awkward victor's side.,0.0 +"There fell our choicest youth, and from that day",1.0 +"Blessed those which fell! cursed those which still survive,",1.0 +"Mixed at the birth, not abstinence could quell,",1.0 +"Pale FAMINE reared the head; her eager eyes,",1.0 +"Where hunger even to madness seemed to rise,",2.0 +"Speaking aloud her throes and pangs of heart,",2.0 +"With double rows of useless teeth supplied,",0.0 +"Her mouth, from ear to ear, extended wide,",0.0 +"Which, when for want of food her entrails pined,",0.0 +"Making their way by force, her bones lay bare;",3.0 +"Such filthy sight to hide from human view,",0.0 +Over her foul limbs a tattered Plaid she threw.,2.0 +"Penned in this barren corner of the isle,",1.0 +Where partial fortune never deigned to smile;,0.0 +"Like nature's bastards, reaping for our share",1.0 +What was rejected by the lawful heir;,2.0 +"Unknown amongst the nations of the earth,",1.0 +Or only known to raise contempt and mirth;,0.0 +"Long free, because the race of Roman braves",1.0 +Thought it not worth their while to make us slaves;,0.0 +"Then into bondage by that nation brought,",1.0 +"Whose ruin we for ages vainly sought,",1.0 +"The power of mischief lost, retain the will;",2.0 +"Considered as the refuse of mankind,",4.0 +"A mass till the last moment left behind,",2.0 +"Which frugal nature doubted, as it lay,",1.0 +"Whether to stamp with life, or throw away;",2.0 +"Which, formed in haste, was planted in this nook,",0.0 +But never entered in Creation's book;,0.0 +"Branded as traitors, who, for love of gold,",2.0 +"Would sell their God, as once their King they sold;",0.0 +"Long have we born this mighty weight of ill,",0.0 +"These vile injurious taunts, and bear them still,",2.0 +"But times of happier note are now at hand,",2.0 +And the full promise of a better land:,3.0 +"There, like the Sons of Israel, having trod,",0.0 +"For the fixed term of years ordained by God,",2.0 +"A barren desert, we shall seize rich plains",2.0 +"Where milk with honey flows, and plenty reigns.",0.0 +"With some few natives joined, some pliant few,",0.0 +"Who worship interest, and our track pursue,",1.0 +"There shall we, though the wretched people grieve,",1.0 +"Ravage at large, nor ask the owner's leave.",2.0 +"For us, the earth shall bring forth her increase;",3.0 +"For us, the flocks shall wear a golden fleece;",1.0 +And the grape bleed a nectar yet unknown;,2.0 +"For our advantage shall their harvests grow,",1.0 +"For us, the sun shall climb the eastern hill;",1.0 +"For us, the rain shall fall, the dew distil;",1.0 +"When to our wishes NATURE cannot rise,",0.0 +ART shall be tasked to grant us fresh supplies.,0.0 +And for our pleasure suffer daily pain;,1.0 +"TRADE shall for us exert her utmost powers,",2.0 +"Hers, all the toil; and all the profit, our's;",0.0 +"For us, the oak shall from his native steep",2.0 +"Descend, and fearless travel through the deep,",1.0 +"The sail of COMMERCE for our use unfurled,",1.0 +Shall waft the treasures of each distant world;,1.0 +"For us, their Statesmen plot, their Churchmen preach;",1.0 +"And, mocking, new ones of our own appoint;",2.0 +"Devouring WAR, imprisoned in the north,",2.0 +"Shall, at our call, in horrid pomp, break forth,",1.0 +"And, when, his chariot wheels with thunder hung,",2.0 +"Death in the van, with Anger, Hate, and Fear,",0.0 +"And Desolation stalking in the rear,",0.0 +"Revenge, by Justice guided, in his train,",0.0 +"He drives impetuous over the trembling plain,",2.0 +"Shall, at our bidding, quit his lawful prey,",0.0 +"And to meek, gentle, generous Peace give way.",5.0 +"Think not, my sons, that this so blessed estate",1.0 +Stands at a distance on the roll of fate;,1.0 +"Already big with hopes of future sway,",0.0 +Even from this cave I scent my destined prey.,1.0 +"Think not, that this dominion over a race",3.0 +"Whose former deeds shall time's last annals grace,",1.0 +"In the rough face of peril must be sought,",3.0 +And with the lives of thousands dearly bought;,1.0 +"No ' -- fooled by cunning, by that happy art",2.0 +"Which laughs to scorn the blundering hero's heart,",2.0 +Into the snare shall our kind neighbours fall,1.0 +"With open eyes, and fondly give us all.",0.0 +"When ROME, to prop her sinking empire, bore",0.0 +"Their choicest levies to a foreign shore,",1.0 +"What if we seized, like a destroying flood,",1.0 +"Their widowed plains, and filled the realm with blood,",0.0 +"Gave an unbounded loose to manly rage,",2.0 +"When, for our interest too mighty grown,",3.0 +"Monarchs of warlike bent possessed the throne,",2.0 +"What if we strove divisions to foment,",2.0 +"And spread the flames of civil discontent,",1.0 +"Assisted those who against their king made head,",3.0 +And gave the traitors refuge when they fled;,0.0 +"When restless GLORY bad her sons advance,",0.0 +"And pitched her standard in the fields of France,",0.0 +"What if disdaining oaths, an empty sound,",1.0 +"By which our nation never shall be bound,",0.0 +"Through the weak land, and brought cheap laurels home;",3.0 +When the bold traitors league for the defence,3.0 +"Of Law, Religion, Liberty, and Sense,",1.0 +"When they against their lawful Monarch rose,",1.0 +"And dared the Lord's Anointed to oppose,",1.0 +"What if we still revered the banished race,",0.0 +And strove the Royal Vagrants to replace?,1.0 +"With fierce rebellions shook the unsettled state,",2.0 +"And greatly dared, though crossed by partial fate;",0.0 +"These facts, which might, where Wisdom held the sway,",0.0 +"Awake the very stones to bar our way,",0.0 +"There shall be nothing, nor one trace remain",1.0 +"In the dull region of an English brain,",3.0 +"Blessed with that Faith, which mountains can remove,",1.0 +"First they shall Dupes, next Saints, last Martyrs prove.",1.0 +Already is this game of fate begun,1.0 +"Under the sanction of my Darling Son,",3.0 +"That Son, whose nature royal as his name,",1.0 +Is destined to redeem our race from shame.,1.0 +"His boundless power, beyond example great,",2.0 +"Shall make the rough way smooth, the crooked straight,",1.0 +"Shall for our ease the raging floods restrain,",0.0 +And sink the mountain level to the plain.,1.0 +"DISCORD, whom in a cavern under ground",0.0 +"Where her own flesh the furious Hag might tear,",2.0 +"And vent her curses to the vacant air,",1.0 +"Where, that she never might be heard of more,",0.0 +"For better purpose shall Our Chief release,",0.0 +"Disguise her for a time, and call her PEACE.",1.0 +"Lured by that name, fine engine of deceit,",2.0 +Shall the weak ENGLISH help themselves to cheat;,2.0 +"The old adherents of the STUART race,",1.0 +"For pointed out, no matter by what name,",3.0 +TORIES or JACOBITES are still the same;,2.0 +"Shall break the ties of truth and gratitude,",0.0 +And brand with calumny their WILLIAM's name;,1.0 +"To win our grace, rare argument of wit",2.0 +"To our untainted faith shall they commit,",2.0 +"Disdained, and still disdains, to change her side,",0.0 +"That Sacred Majesty they all approve,",1.0 +"Who most enjoys, and best deserves their Love.",0.0 +"High from the ground the youthful warriors sprung,",0.0 +"In all the mystic mazes of the dance,",1.0 +"While the soft virgin panting looks behind,",2.0 +"Ascends the mountains brow, and measures round",0.0 +Through the dark covering of the midnight sky.,4.0 +Bends with the nectar of the opening morn:,3.0 +"Creep through the mead, and up the mountains shoot.",1.0 +"Three times the virgin, swimming on the breeze,",2.0 +Danced in the shadow of the mystic trees:,1.0 +"When, like a dark cloud spreading to the view,",2.0 +The firstborn sons of war and blood pursue;,1.0 +Swift as the elk they pour along the plain;,0.0 +Swift as the flying clouds distilling rain.,0.0 +"They course around, and lengthen as they go.",1.0 +"Like the long chain of rocks, whose summits rise,",3.0 +Far in the sacred regions of the skies;,1.0 +"While down its side the gushing torrent pours,",0.0 +"Which sink in darkness, thickening and obscure,",1.0 +"Impenetrable, mystic and impure;",2.0 +"The flying terrors of the war advance,",1.0 +"And round the sacred oak, repeat the dance.",0.0 +"Furious they twist around the gloomy trees,",1.0 +"Like leaves in autumn, twirling with the breeze.",1.0 +Darts the red lustre of the watery way;,6.0 +"The circling billows in wild eddies sink,",1.0 +"Whirl furious round, and the loud bursting wave",4.0 +Or makes the teeth of elephants divine.,1.0 +"Where the pale children of the feeble sun,",3.0 +"In search of gold, through every climate run:",0.0 +"From burning heat to freezing torments go,",1.0 +And live in all vicissitudes of woe.,1.0 +The warriors circle the mysterious tree:,3.0 +Till spent with exercise they spread around,0.0 +Upon the opening blossoms of the ground.,3.0 +"The priestess rising, sings the sacred tale,",0.0 +And the loud chorus echoes through the dale.,3.0 +Far from the lustre of the morning star;,1.0 +Far from the pleasure of the holy morn;,1.0 +"Laid in the dust, and numbered with the dead.",1.0 +"Dear are their memories to us, and long,",2.0 +"Long, shall their attributes be known in song.",0.0 +Their lives were transient as the meadow flower,2.0 +"Ripened in ages, withered in an hour.",2.0 +And open all the prisons of the grave.,1.0 +"And living but to serve his God alone,",1.0 +"As to the sacred court she brought a fawn,",1.0 +His sacred vestment and his mystic lot.,1.0 +"Long had the mutual sigh, the mutual tear,",4.0 +"Burst from the breast and scorned confinement there,",1.0 +Existence was a torment! OH my breast!,2.0 +Can I find accents to unfold the rest!,3.0 +They plunged relentless to a watery grave;,3.0 +"And falling murmured to the powers above,",3.0 +"Gods! Take our lives, unless we live to love.",1.0 +"Where he, poor shepherd, with his Daphne strayed;",3.0 +"On Dunsmore waste, there stands a shady grove,",0.0 +The sweet recess of solitude and love;,0.0 +To shade the verdant path that leads between.,0.0 +"The way that does with various flowers abound,",4.0 +The gentle shepherd cast his eyes around;,0.0 +"He sought a flower with Daphne to compare,",3.0 +And thought the drooping lily seemed less fair:,1.0 +"A flame as pure as that fair sacred light,",1.0 +"That shines between the hazel boughs at night,",0.0 +"Which, by that light, has often been confessed:",0.0 +"Soft was his speech, and languishing his eye,",1.0 +When he approached his Daphne with a sigh;,2.0 +"No dark deceit did to his heart belong,",2.0 +And flattery was as foreign to his tongue;,2.0 +"I love, says he, and took her by the hand",3.0 +And my poor wounded heart's at your command;,3.0 +For you I'm doomed in love's fierce flames to burn;,2.0 +"Thus said the swain, and paused a little while;",1.0 +The fair one's answer was a silent smile:,1.0 +"To see her smile, he smiled amid his pain,",0.0 +And thus pursued his gentle suit again.,0.0 +"How long must I be tossed betwixt hope and fear,",4.0 +And tell my pain to your regardless ear?,1.0 +"No more in silence hear me thus complain,",0.0 +"Nor force those flattering smiles, to hide disdain;",2.0 +"But say you love, and end my anxious care,",0.0 +"Or frown, and let me die in sad despair.",0.0 +"To hear him thus his ardent flame express,",0.0 +Poor swain! she pitied him; what could she less?,3.0 +"Her love, perhaps, at length may be attained,",0.0 +By the dear swain that has her pity gained.,1.0 +THE rising Year beheld the Imperious Gaul,4.0 +"Stretch his Dominion, while a hundred Towns",2.0 +Crouched to the Victor: But a steady Soul,1.0 +"Stands firm on its own Base, and reigns as wide,",2.0 +"As Absolute; and sways ten thousand Slaves,",1.0 +We are a little Kingdom: But the Man,2.0 +That chains his Rebel Will to Reasons Throne,1.0 +"Forms it a large one, ATWOOD, while his Mind",1.0 +"Makes Heaven its Council, from the Rolls above",2.0 +"Draws his own Statutes, and with Joy obeys.",1.0 +"Create a Monarch, not a Purple Robe",0.0 +"Died in the Peoples Blood, not all the Crowns",0.0 +A Monarch He that Conquers all his Fears,1.0 +"And treads upon them; when he stands alone,",0.0 +Makes his own Camp; four Guardian Virtues wait,3.0 +Now dawns the Light; He ranges all his Thoughts,1.0 +"In square Battalions, bold to meet the Attacks",2.0 +"Of Time and Chance, himself a numerous Host,",2.0 +In vain the Harlot Pleasure spreads her Charms,0.0 +To lull his Thoughts in Luxuries fair Lap,2.0 +"To sensual Ease, the Bane of little Kings,",2.0 +"Wears its own Shape, nor can the Heavenly Form",3.0 +"Of the mad Vulgar, that unthinking Herd.",2.0 +"He lives above the Crowd, nor hears the Noise",0.0 +"Of Wars and Triumphs, nor regards the Shouts",1.0 +"Of Popular Applause, that empty Sound,",1.0 +"Nor feels the flying Arrow of Reproach,",1.0 +"Or Spite, or Envy. In himself secure,",0.0 +"Wisdom his Tower, and Conscience is his Shield,",5.0 +"His Peace all Inward, and his Joys his Own.",1.0 +"Now my Ambition swells, my Wishes soar,",2.0 +This be my Kingdom; sit above the Globe,0.0 +And shine in Virtues Armour; Climb the height,0.0 +Safe from the Smiling and the Frowning World.,1.0 +Yet once a Day drop down a gentle Look,2.0 +"On the great Molehill, and with pitying Eye",3.0 +Crowding and Bustling in a Thousand Forms,2.0 +"Of Strife and Toil, to purchase Wealth and Fame,",0.0 +A Bubble or a Dust: Then call thy Thoughts,1.0 +"Up to thy self to feed on Joys unknown,",1.0 +"Rich without Gold, and Great without Renown.",3.0 +"My Generous Muse, and sit amongst the Stars;",2.0 +"There sing the Soul, that Conscious of her Birth",1.0 +Lives like a Native of the Vital World,1.0 +Just to her self: How nobly she maintains,1.0 +"Her Character, Superior to the Flesh,",2.0 +"She wields her Passions like her Limbs, and knows",0.0 +The Brutal Powers were only born obey.,2.0 +This is the Man whom Storms could never make,1.0 +Make him talk proudly: He hath no Desire,4.0 +To read his Secret Fate; yet unconcerned,0.0 +And calm could meet his unborn Destiny,2.0 +In all its Charming or its Frightful Shapes.,1.0 +Bears the first Wound may finish all the War,3.0 +"With mere Courageous Silence, and come off",2.0 +Conqueror: For the Man that well conceals,1.0 +The heavy Strokes of Fate he bears them well.,0.0 +"He, though the Atlantic and the Midland Seas",3.0 +"With adverse Surges meet, and rise on high",1.0 +Mingled with Flames upon his Single Head,2.0 +"And Clouds and Stars and Thunder, he would stand,",1.0 +And from the lofty Castle of his Mind,2.0 +Sublime look down and Joyfully Survey,3.0 +The Ruins of Creation; he alone,2.0 +Heir of the Dying World: A piercing Glance,0.0 +Shoots upwards from between his closing Lids,2.0 +"To reach his Birthplace, then without a Sigh",1.0 +He bids his battered Flesh lie gently down,2.0 +Amongst its Native Rubbish; while his Soul,0.0 +"Breathes and flies upward, an undoubted Guest",4.0 +"Thither when Fate has brought Our willing Souls,",0.0 +"Or a sharp Sword that helped the Travellers on,",3.0 +"And pushed us to our Home. Bear up my Friend,",2.0 +"My ATWOOD, and break through the Surging Brine",2.0 +"With steady Prow; Know, we shall once arrive",2.0 +At the fair Haven of Eternal Bliss,3.0 +To which we ever steer; whether as Kings,5.0 +"With a broad Painted Fleet, or Rowed along",2.0 +There let my narrow Plank shift me to Land,2.0 +"And I'll be happy, thus I'll leap Ashore",1.0 +"Joyful and fearless on the Immortal Coast,",5.0 +"Since all I leave is Mortal, and it must be lost.",1.0 +The Trojan Swain had judged the great Dispute;,0.0 +"When Venus, loose in all Her naked Charms,",0.0 +The wanton Goddess viewed the Warlike Maid,1.0 +"Yield, Sister; Rival, yield; Naked, You see,",6.0 +I vanquish: Guess how Potent I should be;,1.0 +If to the Field I came in Armour dressed;,1.0 +"Dreadful, like Thine, my Shield, and terrible my Crest.",1.0 +The Warrior Goddess with Disdain replied;,1.0 +"Thy Folly, Child, is equal to thy Pride:",1.0 +"Let a brave Enemy for once advise,",4.0 +And Venus if it's possible be Wise.,2.0 +Thou to be strong must put off every Dress:,1.0 +"And more than once, or Thou art much belied",1.0 +By Mars himself That Armour has been tried.,0.0 +"Go perjured Youth and court what Nymph you please,",1.0 +"Your Passion now is but a dull Disease,",1.0 +"Who longs to know how it's and what Men swear,",2.0 +"Poor cousin Fool, she never can know the Charms",3.0 +Of being first encircled in thy Arms.,0.0 +"When all Love's Joys were innocent and gay,",2.0 +As fresh and blooming as the newborn day.,1.0 +"Your Charms did then with native Sweetness flow,",0.0 +"Is but a false agreeable Design,",2.0 +"But you had Innocence when you were mine,",3.0 +"And all your Words, and Smiles, and Looks divine.",0.0 +"In sullied Clothes, which I'd no longer wear;",2.0 +"Her Bosom too with withered Flowers dressed,",0.0 +Which lost their Sweets in my first chosen Breast;,2.0 +"Perjured imposing Youth, cheat who you will,",3.0 +Supply defect of Truth with amorous Skill;,2.0 +"Yet thy Address must needs insipid be,",1.0 +WHERE aged elms in many a goodly row,2.0 +"Give yearly shelter to the constant crow,",2.0 +"A mansion stands: ' -- long since the pile was raised,",1.0 +Whose Gothic grandeur the rude hind amazed.,5.0 +"For the rich ornament on every part,",3.0 +"Though as the range of the wide court we tread,",3.0 +"And where of old rose high the social smoke,",1.0 +"Now swallows build, and lonely ravens croak.",1.0 +"Though Time, whose touch each beauty can deface,",1.0 +Has torn from every tower the sculptured grace;,2.0 +Yet ancient state sits hovering on the walls.,2.0 +"Now Silence spreads around her gloomy reign,",1.0 +"Save when his hoarse bark echoes dire alarm,",1.0 +"Fierce to protect the place from midnight harm,",3.0 +Its only guard; no revel sounding late,1.0 +Drives the night villain from the lonely gate.,4.0 +An hallowed matron and her simple train,1.0 +These solemn battlements alone contain;,1.0 +"An hoary dowager, whose placid face",1.0 +Old age has decked with lovely awful grace;,1.0 +As beauty lingering left her loved abode;,0.0 +"That loved abode, where joined with truth and sense",0.0 +"She formed the features to mute eloquence,",3.0 +"And bade them charm the still attentive throng,",0.0 +Who watched the sacred lessons of her tongue.,1.0 +"For not through life the dame had lived retired,",0.0 +"But once had shone, even mid a court admired:",3.0 +What time the loved possessor of her charms,1.0 +"Returning from the war in victor arms,",1.0 +"She, happy partner of each joyful hour,",1.0 +Then walked serene amid the pomp of power:,0.0 +While all confessed no warrior's wish could move,1.0 +"Nor to that love could aught more transport yield,",1.0 +But mortal bliss meets still the untimely grave:,3.0 +"Over his loved ashes frequent flowed sincere,",2.0 +"Each decent rite with due observance paid,",0.0 +"Each solemn requiem offered to his shade,",3.0 +"Placed amid the brave his urn in holy ground,",0.0 +And bade his hallowed banners wave around.,0.0 +"Then left the gaudy scenes of pomp and power,",0.0 +"While prudence beckoned to that ancient bower,",1.0 +"And those paternal fields, the sole remains",1.0 +Which tyrant custom rudely tore away,0.0 +"Once the blessed mansion of her happy love,",4.0 +"Pleased with the thought, that memory oft would raise",2.0 +A solemn prospect of those blooming days,1.0 +To keep still constant to her sacred vow;,2.0 +"In lonely luxury her sorrows feed,",1.0 +And pass her life in widow's decent weed.,0.0 +"One pledge of love her comfort still remained,",0.0 +Whom in this solitude she careful trained,0.0 +To virtuous lore; and while as year by year,2.0 +Full many an hour unheeded she would trace,4.0 +The father's semblance in the daughter's face;,0.0 +"While tender sighs oft heaved her faithful breast,",1.0 +And sudden tears her lasting love expressed.,0.0 +"Thus long she dwelled in innate virtues great,",6.0 +Amid the villagers in sacred state:,1.0 +"For every grace to which submission bows,",0.0 +"The power which conscious dignity bestows,",3.0 +She felt superior; for from ancient race,1.0 +"To every grace, each ray of sacred fire,",0.0 +The mortal breast which ardent virtue warms;,0.0 +Then led her to the venerable hall,2.0 +"Where her successive sires adorned the wall,",1.0 +Shed through the herald glow a solemn light:,0.0 +Full many a hero bore a glorious scar;,5.0 +"There in the civic fur the sons of peace,",0.0 +"While by their side, gracing the ancient scene,",5.0 +Hung gentle ladies of most comely mien.,2.0 +"In what fair cause each honour had been won,",1.0 +What female grace each virgin had possessed,1.0 +To charm to gentle love the manly breast;,0.0 +Pleased to observe how long her generous blood,4.0 +Through fair and brave had passed a spotless flood.,0.0 +"With emulation by each tale inspired,",1.0 +In eager transport frequent breathed her prayer,0.0 +The graces of her ancestry to share:,2.0 +"Nor breathed in vain, her fond maternal guide",0.0 +Cherished with care each spark of virtuous pride;,4.0 +"And ever as she gave a lesson new,",1.0 +Would point some old example to her view:,1.0 +"Inflamed by this, her mind was quickly fraught",1.0 +"With each sage precept, that her mother taught.",1.0 +"The goodly dame thus blessed in her employ,",2.0 +"Felt each soft transport of parental joy,",2.0 +"And lived content, her utmost wish fulfilled",1.0 +In the fair prospect of a virtuous child:,5.0 +Resigned she waited now the awful hour,0.0 +"Then death should raise her to that heavenly bower,",3.0 +"The pleasing task, to watch with guardian care",2.0 +The gracious dew of heavenly peace to shed;,2.0 +Nor feared her decency of life would prove,1.0 +An added bliss to all the joys above.,0.0 +"Ties down each sense, and lulls to balmy rest;",0.0 +"The internal power, creative Fancy oft",3.0 +"Thus when no longer daily cares engage,",2.0 +The busy mind pursues the darling theme;,0.0 +"Hence angels whispered to the slumbering sage,",4.0 +And gods of old inspired the hero's dream;,2.0 +"Hence as I slept, these images arose,",1.0 +"As when fair morning dries her pearly tears,",1.0 +The mountain lifts over mists its lofty head;,3.0 +Thus new to sight a gothic dome appears,1.0 +"Here Superstition holds her dreary reign,",0.0 +Or evening skirts with gold the western skies;,0.0 +"To the dumb stock she bends, or sculptured wall,",2.0 +"And many a cross she makes, and many a bead lets fall.",5.0 +Near to the dome a magic pair reside,0.0 +"Prompt to deceive, and practised to confound;",3.0 +Here hoodwinked Ignorance is seen to bide,2.0 +"Nor voice articulate arrests his ears,",0.0 +And haunt his soul with visionary fears:,0.0 +"There Error sits in borrowed white arrayed,",1.0 +"A thousand glories wait her opening day,",2.0 +Her beaming lustre when fair Truth imparts;,1.0 +"Thus Error would pour forth a spurious ray,",4.0 +"She cleaves with magic wand the liquid skies,",0.0 +"Bids airy forms appear, and scenes fantastic rise.",1.0 +"Sits at the gate, and lifts a liberal bowl",0.0 +"With wine of wondrous power to lull the mind,",2.0 +And cheque each vigorous effort of the soul:,3.0 +"Whoever unawares shall ply his thirsty lip,",0.0 +"Shall hapless from the cup delusion sip,",1.0 +And objects see in features not their own;,0.0 +"Within a various race are seen to won,",2.0 +"Props of her age, and pillars of her state,",1.0 +"And born to Tyranny, her grisly mate:",1.0 +"The first appeared in pomp of purple pride,",0.0 +Two golden keys hang dangling by his side,3.0 +To lock or open the portals of the sky;,3.0 +"The crowned head would bow, and lick his dusty feet.",3.0 +"Heaven's gracious gift to light the wandering mind,",2.0 +"To lift fallen man, and guide him to the skies!",3.0 +"A man no more, a god he would be thought,",1.0 +And amazed mortals blindly must obey:,5.0 +"With slight of hand he lying wonders wrought,",0.0 +"Strange legends would he read, and figments dire",1.0 +"And to his breast close hugged the viper, Sin,",2.0 +"Yet oft with brandished whip would gaul, as mad,",0.0 +"With gentler aspect there Indulgence stood,",2.0 +And to the needy culprit would retail;,2.0 +"There too, strange merchandise! he pardons sold,",1.0 +"And treason would absolve, and murder purge with gold.",0.0 +With shaven crown in a sequestered cell,1.0 +"No work had he, save some few beads to tell,",1.0 +And indolent snore the hours away.,2.0 +"The nameless joys that bless the nuptial bed,",0.0 +"Impure he deems, and from them starts with dread,",1.0 +"No social hopes hath he, no social fears,",3.0 +But spends in lethargy devout the lingering years.,1.0 +Gnashing his teeth in mood of furious ire,4.0 +"Fierce Persecution sat, and with strong breath",2.0 +"Wakes into living flame large heaps of fire,",2.0 +"And feasts on murders, massacres, and death.",1.0 +To stretch or mangle to a certain size;,1.0 +"To see their writhing pains each heart must bleed,",0.0 +To hear their doleful shrieks and piercing cries;,0.0 +"Their writhing pains his sport, their moans his melody.",1.0 +"A gradual light diffusing over the gloom,",4.0 +And slow approaching with majestic pace;,1.0 +"With native charms, and unaffected grace:",0.0 +"Her hand a clear reflecting mirror shows,",0.0 +"In which all objects their true features wear,",4.0 +And on her cheek a blush indignant glows,1.0 +"She snatched the volume from the tyrant's rage,",3.0 +"My name is Truth, and you, each holy seer,",1.0 +"That all my steps with ardent gaze pursue,",0.0 +"Unveil, she said, the sacred mysteries here,",1.0 +Give the celestial boon to public view.,2.0 +"Shall blot your fame, and blast the generous deed,",2.0 +Yet in revolving years some liberal youth,0.0 +"With each historic grace, shall shine through every age.",0.0 +With furious hate though fierce relentless power,2.0 +Exert of torment all her horrid skill;,1.0 +Though your lives meet too soon the fatal hour,4.0 +"Scorching in flames, or writhing on the wheel;",3.0 +"You with the Lamb shall rise to ceaseless bliss,",1.0 +Then shall repay the momentary tear,0.0 +"THOUGH each theatric wight, in prose or rhyme,",0.0 +Condemns of course the drama of his time;,1.0 +"It's better sure than when, in tilted cart",0.0 +Each tragic hero mouthed his thundering part.,2.0 +"The Muses then ' -- their brains a little cracked,",0.0 +Were fairly subject to the Vagrant Act.,1.0 +"But, mark! how greatly changed their present state!",0.0 +"Victims no more of law, caprice, or fate;",0.0 +Where Genius hails them with a fostering smile:,3.0 +"While Spenser's princely race erect their shrine,",0.0 +'Midst scenes for ever sacred to the Nine.,2.0 +And Blenheim now the palm of beauty claims.,1.0 +"Within this shade, as say the tales of old,",0.0 +"As Hull in pensive verse hath sweetly told,",0.0 +"HERE Nature's fairest rose was seen to bloom,",0.0 +Till jealous rage decreed an early tomb.,0.0 +"Where her cold ashes rest, let no stern prude,",4.0 +"In all the pomp of vestal pride, intrude.",0.0 +By mercy screened from infamy and shame.,1.0 +"His lyre to strains uncouth HERE Chaucer strung,",1.0 +And over THESE plains his Gothic stanzas sung.,2.0 +The stern Eliza dwelled ' -- a captive maid.,0.0 +"Then free from murderous deeds and crimes of state,",2.0 +"Here Wilmot too, the witty and the gay,",1.0 +Repentant ' -- saw the close of mortal day.,0.0 +"Oft over his urn shall British Genius weep,",3.0 +Nor rest on GENIUS all her hopes of fame.,0.0 +Great Edward's soul the flame of glory caught.,1.0 +"And HERE, when peace returned to Britain's shore,",0.0 +'Twas HERE her guardian hero sought repose.,2.0 +A grateful country gave THIS classic soil.,0.0 +"She bade yonder dome arise, and by its name",3.0 +Prolonged her mighty warrior's lasting fame;,0.0 +"Bade all her brightest, greenest, laurels twine.",0.0 +"And HERE, through countless ages shall they bloom,",0.0 +And shed around a consecrated gloom:,0.0 +"For still to Britain shall THESE scenes be dear,",0.0 +Since all the milder virtues flourish HERE.,0.0 +"Like vernal suns, with genial warmth they glow,",0.0 +"But, sick of worthies and their fame, you fair,",1.0 +Perhaps you wish to know our bill of fare.,0.0 +"Who worships scholars, and who laughs at beaux!",1.0 +Which of the bucks that shine in Pleasure's round,0.0 +Was ever a scholar or a critic found?,3.0 +"By Fashion's rule the sweets of life they cull,",0.0 +They never over Homer's thundering verses poor;,2.0 +"When such the charming youths our isle can boast,",0.0 +What chance has Learning with a reigning toast?,1.0 +"For both our sakes, you Fair, I hope our Bard",0.0 +Has on the softer sex been somewhat hard:,1.0 +"For, if the picture she presents be just,",2.0 +"For, who the toils of Learning will pursue,",1.0 +This night our laughing Muse will paint a youth,0.0 +Nor kill with frown severe one harmless Liar.,0.0 +"In murmuring Strains, I lately heard it Said,",2.0 +"The Muse's Darling, Reverend Duck is dead.",0.0 +Impartial Death by one untimely blow,1.0 +"Has snatched away from Mortals here below,",0.0 +"That wondrous Man, in whom alone did join",0.0 +"A Thresher, Poet, Courtier, and Divine.",3.0 +"The Ornament, and Grace of Poverty",2.0 +Removed from his lowly Cot and called to Court.,0.0 +"A Gracious Queen being charmed with the Lyre,",3.0 +While Noble Peers his Natural parts Admire;,0.0 +Nor ceased till the Reverend Gown he wore.,0.0 +Beloved by Lords Respected by a Queen?,1.0 +The sweet companion of thy Poverty?,2.0 +"That true content and inward peace of mind,",0.0 +Which oft does to the poor and mean retreat,1.0 +"But seldom dwells among the Rich, or Great.",0.0 +"The want of wit thy pleasure turned to pain,",0.0 +"Thy Life a Burden, and thy Death a Stain:",1.0 +"So have I Seen in a fair Summers Morn,",2.0 +"With Flowers and Shrubs their fragrant Sweets display,",2.0 +And Warbling Birds foretell a Cheerful Day:,0.0 +"When on a Sudden some dark Clouds arise,",1.0 +"The Birds are Silent, plants contract their bloom,",0.0 +The Glorious Day ends in a dismal gloom.,2.0 +And heaven and you alike deny relief;,1.0 +"It's hard to feel the smart, and not lament the wound.",0.0 +"Permit me then to sigh one last adieu,",0.0 +Nor scorn a sorrow friendship owes to you:,0.0 +A friendship modesty might well return;,1.0 +"A sorrow, cruelty itself might mourn.",1.0 +"Think how the miser, pierced with inward pain,",0.0 +"Looks down with horror on the troubled main,",1.0 +"Or wildly roams along the rocky coast,",0.0 +TO explore his treasures in the tempest lost;,1.0 +"Hates his own safety, chides the waves that rolled",0.0 +"Like him afflicted, pensive, and forlorn,",2.0 +I look on life and all its pomp with scorn.,0.0 +You was the sweetener of each busy scene;,2.0 +"You gave the joy without, the pain within.",0.0 +"Pleasure and you were both so near allied,",1.0 +"That when I lost the one, the other died;",1.0 +Pain too has lavished all her killing store;,1.0 +"Nor can she add, nor can I suffer more.",2.0 +"In vain I viewed you with as chaste a fire,",1.0 +"As angels mingle, or as saints admire;",1.0 +"By reason prompted, passion had no part,",1.0 +"In vain I sought a friendship free from fault,",0.0 +Where sex and beauty were alike forgot:,1.0 +"A friendship by the noblest union joined,",1.0 +"The female softness, and the manly mind.",2.0 +"Courage to conquer evils, or endure:",3.0 +"Scandal, a busy fiend, in Truth's disguise,",2.0 +"Like Fame all covered over with ears and eyes,",2.0 +"Learns the fond tale, and spreads it as she flies;",4.0 +"Affects to pity, though her duty blames;",1.0 +But hopes the evil only in her fears;,0.0 +"Pretends to weigh the fact in even scale,",0.0 +"And wish, at least, that justice may prevail;",1.0 +"Plays the whole hypocrite such various ways,",5.0 +"That Innocence itself must suffer wrong,",1.0 +"Such is my fate, so grievous my distress,",2.0 +"Condemned to suffer, but denied redress:",1.0 +"Too fond of joy, too sensible of pain,",3.0 +"Too delicate to injure what I love,",2.0 +To ask the pity fame will never approve.,2.0 +"What more remains, then, but to drop my claim,",1.0 +And by my conduct justify my flame?,1.0 +And sacrifice my peace to purchase thine?,1.0 +"As the fond mother, who delirious eyes",4.0 +"Her dying babe, will scarce believe it dies;",0.0 +"But strains it still with transport in her arms,",0.0 +Dwells on its lips and numbers over its charms;,2.0 +To see the little cherub live again:,0.0 +So my torn heart must all the sorrows prove,1.0 +"That torture constancy, or sadden love:",1.0 +"Yet fondly follow your dear image still,",2.0 +"Fancy I hear you speak, I see you smile:",2.0 +And wish the shade and substance were the same.,1.0 +Alas! how fruitless is the idle prayer!,1.0 +"Like Adam forced his Eden to forego,",1.0 +"I lose my only paradise below,",0.0 +And dread the prospect of succeeding woe.,1.0 +"FULL many a tedious hour, with care oppressed,",5.0 +And brushed the dews of balmy sleep away.,0.0 +"By Virtue's steadfast star the bark to guide,",1.0 +Where ease and pleasure the frail heart divide;,2.0 +If Life's short voyage undistinguished tends,1.0 +"To darkness, and the land where all forgotten ends?",1.0 +Shall Worth lie hid in Sorrow's baleful shade?,1.0 +"And no reward shall suffering Goodness find,",0.0 +"While Vice triumphant lifts her pampered head,",0.0 +"Then take me, Power of Beauty, to thy arms,",3.0 +"And lull, ah lull to peace my troubled soul!",0.0 +"Disclose, OH God of Wine, thy purple charms,",1.0 +"Against wind, and tide, let Stoic dullness sail,",4.0 +"Pensive I mused, till rose the blushing Morn,",2.0 +And spread her saffron mantle over the skies;,2.0 +"When pitying Morpheus shook his opiate horn,",4.0 +Sweet scenes of joy in liveliest hue portrayed;,5.0 +"She called forth all her bright ideal train,",2.0 +And pleasing truths in mystic dreams conveyed:,0.0 +"O fail me not, thou fair enchanting Power,",0.0 +"Born through the yielding air, methought I flew",5.0 +"From this frail world, that just appeared to view,",2.0 +Like the faint glimmering of a distant star.,3.0 +"As gems in silver; hoary Ocean smiled,",0.0 +Cheered with the pleasing sight;. Pined. and from his breast,2.0 +"Sent his sweet children, breezes fresh and mild:",3.0 +"No clouds nor darkness veiled the cheerful scene,",1.0 +"Lo to the West a large and spacious plain,",0.0 +"Where meet in concert, wood, and hill, and dale;",0.0 +"Still trembling lest the sun's prolific beam,",2.0 +"Too fiercely wanton, blast her virgin charms:",1.0 +"Go choose some worse retreat, some less luxurious shade!",3.0 +"There blooming groves, gay smiling with delight,",2.0 +From her fair womb spontaneous Nature brings;,4.0 +And on his musky wings the sound conveys;,1.0 +"While trickling soft, each varying pause between,",2.0 +And amorous Echo blends the liquid melody.,3.0 +Nor there alone was charmed one scanty sense:,1.0 +"Thousands of flowers their silken webs unfold,",4.0 +"These beaming bright with. Pined. vegetable gold,",5.0 +"There laughing sweetly red the roses glow,",0.0 +While from their breathing souls celestial odours flow.,1.0 +"Mould not, ah mould not then in idle cell,",0.0 +But strive these rapturous mansions to attain;,3.0 +"Here all the wise, the brave, the virtuous dwell,",2.0 +Eternal. Ibid. ages free from care and pain;,3.0 +"Live in communion blessed. Ibid., with heroes and with gods!",5.0 +Eastward to this methought a different scene,3.0 +"Wide spacious lawns with swelling hills between,",1.0 +"And groves of bliss, and gardens of delight.",1.0 +And over-arching form delicious bowers;,0.0 +"Fresh bleeding myrrh and cassia shed perfume,",3.0 +"In amorous mazes, on the velvet ground,",3.0 +A smiling troop of virgins dance around;,0.0 +"And fairer, Cypris, than thy wanton quire,",1.0 +"That melt the soul to love, and kindle fierce desire.",0.0 +The while some one this lovely ditty sings!,0.0 +Through all my veins what thrilling transport flew,0.0 +"Haste, gentle youth, for lo, the way is plain!",1.0 +"Haste, gentle youth, and hear the Prophet's call!",1.0 +"These are the joys that true believers gain,",1.0 +Immortal joys that never know to pall.,0.0 +"Come then, ah come thy weary limbs recline",0.0 +"Where to thy touch compliant bows the vine,",0.0 +"Where Nymphs of Paradise their charms reveal,",0.0 +And with their amorous spoils thy greedy eyes regale!,3.0 +"She ceased ' -- and melted with excess of joy,",1.0 +Voluptuous Hope was busy in my breast:,2.0 +"A pure immortal crown adorned her head,",0.0 +"The book of life, and mercy was displayed,",1.0 +With ruddy drops of dying martyrs stained;,0.0 +"Yet beamed serene, and mild, with heaven's celestial light.",2.0 +The fleeting coinage of a frenzied brain? ' --,1.0 +"Some faint, some glimmering view the eye may gain",2.0 +Whatever of bliss the wit of man can feign;,3.0 +"Those pure delights, that flow in streams divine,",0.0 +"Where thy imperial towers, OH heavenly Salem, shine!",8.0 +"For know, my son, that they whose worth is tried,",1.0 +"As gold by fire, by great and virtuous deeds,",2.0 +"Soon as the carnal fetters are untied,",1.0 +"That chain the soul, and stripped these mortal weeds;",0.0 +Or the firm pillars of the earth were reared;,3.0 +"There shall they live, OH happy, happy spirits!",1.0 +"There shall they live removed from all the cares,",0.0 +"And thousand ills, that feeble flesh inherits:",0.0 +"Their undisturbed lays of pure content,",3.0 +The smiling hours immortal shall employ,0.0 +"In trance of holy ease, or ecstasy of joy.",1.0 +"Then shall their eyes, from cloudy films secure,",0.0 +"And all the thousand stars, that pave the floor",0.0 +"Of heaven, with orient pearl, or living gold;",3.0 +"Then floating through the boundless deep of air,",1.0 +"An azure sea, like gems of richest hue,",0.0 +With all their bright inhabitants to view:,1.0 +"Their active minds shall traverse, quick as thought,",0.0 +"And o what streams of music sweet, and clear,",1.0 +Their heavenly notes each tuneful planet rolls!,2.0 +"OH Lord, Almighty God, the saints' eternal king!",1.0 +But not in vain the tuneful planets raise,0.0 +To pure ethereal souls their voice divine;,2.0 +Nor yet in vain their great Creator's praise,1.0 +"No blessed spirit but hears the sacred song,",3.0 +And wakes his lyre melodious part to bear,2.0 +In the sweet symphony; while all the throng,3.0 +"Of angels, and archangels, nay, the ear",2.0 +Of God delighted listens to the strains. ' --,1.0 +"But where, ah where can glowing tints be found",0.0 +"Brought life, and peace, and mercy from afar!",2.0 +"From thee the light, thou beaming fountain, springs,",1.0 +"That guides poor mortals in their weary way,",1.0 +"Through black Affliction's night, to Pleasure's endless day!",3.0 +"For man's forlorn, rebellious, sinful race?",0.0 +What bliss to hear the high mysterious storey;,2.0 +"By all the prophets, all the apostles sung,",2.0 +"And noble army of martyrs, crowned with glory;",2.0 +"They drink immortal, from thy rapturous sight,",3.0 +Hail saints of light! who once the patient train,1.0 +"Of silent Sorrow, through the thorny road",1.0 +"OH taught by them, thou man of earth, sustain",2.0 +And heaven's eternal joys and transports all be thine.,2.0 +Appeared: ' -- my breast the rushing impulse feels!,0.0 +"I see, I see thy glittering turrets rise,",2.0 +"Inlaid with gems of thousand, thousand dies!",1.0 +"And lo, the everlasting gates unfold",0.0 +"Full tides of glory flow, and streams of living light!",1.0 +"Of light surpassing far thy glimmering ray,",2.0 +"More bright, more clear, more glorious, more divine",2.0 +In gaudy robes the sparkling diamonds shine;,0.0 +"Though yonder fair moon to thee her lustre owes,",2.0 +Gilding with borrowed light the mountain's brow;,3.0 +And Iris steals from thee each tint that glows,1.0 +Such peerless beams appear from Truth's eternal throne.,0.0 +"Through the bright Ibid. crystal sands of gold appear,",1.0 +"And heaps of pearly grain; while blooming grows,",0.0 +"On either bank of dainty flowers profuse,",2.0 +"The tree of life superior over the rest,",4.0 +"Lo there, diffused along the sacred brink,",2.0 +"Angelic choirs replete with love and joy,",1.0 +"Conceive their God, and from his presence drink",1.0 +"On flowering beds of balsam, cassia, nard,",4.0 +"And myrrh, a wilderness of rich perfumes;",1.0 +"Embalmed they lie, like that Arabian bird,",2.0 +While clouds of spicy smoke in bluish wreaths aspire.,0.0 +"But spare, OH spare me, heaven! ' -- My fainting soul",1.0 +"Come, over my limbs thy quickening waters roll,",5.0 +"And thou, fair tree, the source of all our woes,",2.0 +Transplanted since to heaven thy friendly boughs,0.0 +"Extend, and wrap me in the brownest shade!",0.0 +"OH veil me from the Lamb's too glorious sight,",5.0 +"And on the wings of sleep, more swift than wind,",1.0 +"Away the fickle, fond delusions fly;",0.0 +"To joys sublime, and Virtue's glorious crown!",2.0 +"To reach, the heaven of heavens, where reigns the eternal God!",2.0 +Being well informed we have incurred Disgrace,0.0 +A Sect that have No Tails; These Presents are,2.0 +"TO enjoin such Miscreants, All and singular,",3.0 +"Strait to depart our Land, or on Demur,",3.0 +Bon jour Monsieur! You pass for a prime Witt;,2.0 +But in this Project give small Proof of it.,1.0 +Of our great Cham prepare to quit the Land;,2.0 +"Had Nature lent me but an Inch of Dock,",1.0 +I should Presume I had no Obligation,1.0 +"Thus charged, should I attempt my own Defence,",3.0 +And then for want of Tail poor Reynard goes to Pot.,1.0 +"YES, gentle Time, thy gradual, healing hand",3.0 +"Submitting to thy skill, my passive heart",1.0 +Feels that no grief can thy soft power withstand;,7.0 +"And though my aching breast still heaves the sigh,",2.0 +Though oft the tear swells silent in mine eye;,1.0 +"Yet the keen pang, the agony is gone;",4.0 +Sorrow and I shall part; and these faint throes,2.0 +"As when the furious tempest is overblown,",4.0 +"And when the sky has wept its violence,",1.0 +"The opening heavens will oft let fall a shower,",5.0 +"The poor overcharged boughs still drops dispense,",6.0 +And still the loaded streams in torrents pour.,0.0 +"SHall lordly man, the theme of every lay,",0.0 +Usurp the Muse's tributary bay?,1.0 +"Tyrant of verse, and arbiter of wit?",3.0 +And view their genius with regardless eye?,1.0 +Justice forbid! and every muse inspire,2.0 +"Rise, rise, bold swain; and to the listening grove",3.0 +Resound the praises of the sex you love;,2.0 +"Tell how, adorned with every charm, they shine,",2.0 +"In mind and person equally divine,",1.0 +"Till man, no more to female merit blind,",2.0 +"Admire the person, but adore the mind.",1.0 +"Thou, who so oft with pleased, but anxious care,",0.0 +"Hast watched the dawning genius of the fair,",1.0 +The various graces of the female lay;,4.0 +And aid the generous cause espoused by thee.,2.0 +"Long over the world did Prejudice maintain,",4.0 +"By sounds like these, her undisputed reign:",1.0 +"Woman! she cried, to thee, indulgent Heaven",3.0 +Has all the charms of outward beauty given:,0.0 +"The great, the wise, the witty, and the brave;",1.0 +"Be thine, to move majestic in the dance,",0.0 +"To roll the eye, and aim the tender glance,",0.0 +"Or touch the strings, and breathe the melting song,",0.0 +"Content to emulate that airy throng,",0.0 +"Who to the sun their painted plumes display,",0.0 +"And gaily glitter on the hawthorn spray,",2.0 +"Careless of aught but music, joy, and love.",2.0 +"Heavens! could such artful, slavish sounds beguile",0.0 +The freeborn sons of Britain's polished isle?,0.0 +"In loathsome pomp, where eastern tyrants reign;",0.0 +"Where each fair neck the yoke of slavery galls,",3.0 +"And taught, that levelled with the brutal kind,",1.0 +"Nor sense, nor souls to women are assigned.",1.0 +"Our British nymphs with happier omens rove,",2.0 +"And, as with lavish hand each sister grace",1.0 +"Shapes the fair form, and regulates the face,",3.0 +"Each sister muse, in blissful union joined,",0.0 +Even now fond Fancy in our polished land,1.0 +"Assembled shows a blooming, studious band:",2.0 +"With various arts our reverence they engage,",5.0 +"Some turn the tuneful, some the moral page;",0.0 +"These, led by Contemplation, soar on high,",0.0 +And range the Heavens with philosophic eye;,2.0 +"While those, surrounded by a vocal choir,",2.0 +"The canvas tinge, or touch the warbling lyre.",0.0 +To dazzle and perplex our wandering sight:,3.0 +"The muse each charmer singly shall survey,",0.0 +And tune to each her tributary lay.,0.0 +"So when, in blended tints, with sweet surprise",0.0 +"Or spring, great Kneller! from a hand like thine,",2.0 +"On all with pleasing awe at once we gaze,",0.0 +"And, lost in wonder, know not which to praise,",0.0 +"But, singly viewed, each nymph delights us more,",0.0 +To chase the missed from dark opinion's eye:,0.0 +"Nor mean we here to blame that father's care,",0.0 +"Who guards from learnt wives his booby heir,",3.0 +Since oft that heir with prudence has been known,0.0 +To dread a genius that transcends his own:,0.0 +"The wise themselves should with discretion choose,",1.0 +"Since lettered nymphs their knowledge may abuse,",1.0 +And husbands oft experience to their cost,1.0 +The prudent housewife in the scholar lost:,1.0 +"Their own high talents, and their sex despise,",2.0 +"With haughty mien each social bliss defeat,",0.0 +And sully all their learning with conceit:,1.0 +"Of such the parent justly warns his son,",1.0 +And such the muse herself will bid him shun.,1.0 +"But lives there one, whose unassuming mind,",1.0 +"Though graced by nature, and by art refined,",1.0 +"Pleased with domestic excellence, can spare",3.0 +"Some hours from studious ease to social care,",2.0 +And with her pen that time alone employs,1.0 +"Which others waste in visits, cards, and noise;",0.0 +"From affectation free, though deeply read,",0.0 +"With wit well natured, and with books well bred?",3.0 +With such and such there are each happy day,2.0 +"Must fly improving, and improved away;",1.0 +"Inconstancy might fix and settle there,",2.0 +"Nor need we now from our own Britain rove,",1.0 +"In search of Genius, to the Lesbian grove,",3.0 +"Like modest Cynthia, beaming through the night:",3.0 +"Fair Friendship's lustre, undisguised by art,",1.0 +"Glows in her lines, and animates her heart;",0.0 +"Friendship, that jewel, which, though all confess",1.0 +"Its peerless value, yet how few possess!",0.0 +"Immortal fame, her praise shall ever live.",0.0 +"Thy horrors, Spleen! which all, who paint, must feel?",0.0 +"My praises would but wrong her sterling wit,",0.0 +Since Pope himself applauds what she has writ.,1.0 +"But say, what matron now walks musing forth",1.0 +From the bleak mountains of her native North?,3.0 +While round her brows two sisters of the Nine,2.0 +Poetic wreaths with philosophic twine!,0.0 +"To deck his great, successful champion's head,",2.0 +And Clarke expects thee in the laurel shade.,0.0 +"Though long to dark, oblivious want a prey,",2.0 +"Yet Scotland now shall ever boast thy fame,",0.0 +"While England mourns thy undistinguished name,",0.0 +"And views with wonder, in a female mind,",1.0 +"Philosopher, divine, and poet joined!",1.0 +The modest muse a veil with pity throws,0.0 +"Over vice's friends, and virtue's female foes;",4.0 +And grieves to see one nobly born disgrace,0.0 +"Her modest sex, and her illustrious race.",3.0 +"Though harmony through all their numbers flowed,",1.0 +"And genuine wit its every grace bestowed,",2.0 +"Nor genuine wit, nor harmony, excuse",3.0 +The dangerous sallies of a wanton muse:,3.0 +"Nor can such tuneful, but immoral, lays",2.0 +Expect the tribute of impartial praise:,1.0 +Deserved applause for spotless virtue gain.,0.0 +With what sweet sounds the bordering forest rings?,3.0 +"Each falling accent, studious to prolong",4.0 +The warbled notes of Rowe's ecstatic song.,0.0 +"Old Avon pleased his reedy forehead rears,",1.0 +And polished Orrery delighted hears.,1.0 +"See with what transport she resigns her breath,",1.0 +"Released from earth, with smiles she soars on high",0.0 +"Amid her kindred spirits of the sky,",1.0 +"Where faith and love those endless joys bestow,",0.0 +"That warmed her lays, and filled her hopes below.",0.0 +Or from the muse her modest virtues screen;,1.0 +"Here, sweetly blended, to our wondering eyes,",3.0 +"And though the Nine her tuneful strains inspire,",1.0 +"We less her genius, than her heart, admire,",1.0 +"Pleased, mid the great, one truly good to see,",1.0 +And proud to tell that Somerset is she.,0.0 +A grateful tribute from all female hands;,2.0 +"One, who to shield them from the worst of foes,",1.0 +In their just cause dared Pope himself oppose.,1.0 +"Their own dark forms deceit and envy wear,",1.0 +"Your empty sneers, and shock the sex no more.",1.0 +"Thus bold Camilla, when the Trojan chief",1.0 +"Attacked her country, flew to its relief;",1.0 +"Beneath her lance the bravest warriors bled,",0.0 +And fear dismayed the host which great Aeneas led.,5.0 +But ah! why heaves my breast this pensive sigh?,0.0 +"What breast from sighs, what eye from tears refrains,",0.0 +"And who but grieves to see her generous mind,",2.0 +"For nobler views and worthier guests designed,",4.0 +"Admit the hateful form of black despair,",0.0 +Won with the gloom of superstitious care?,0.0 +"She called on Heaven to close her weary eyes,",0.0 +"And, long on earth by heart-felt woes oppressed,",1.0 +Was born by friendly death to welcome rest.,0.0 +"From ancient Greece, where first she fixed her reign,",0.0 +"To Italy, and Britain's happier plain.",3.0 +And manly strength with female softness joins.,1.0 +"So female charms and manly virtues grace,",1.0 +"By her example formed, her blooming race,",1.0 +"And, framed alike to please our ears and eyes,",0.0 +"OH that you now, with genius at command,",0.0 +In colours worthy of themselves and you!,2.0 +"Now in ecstatic visions let me rove,",1.0 +"Where still each night, by startled shepherd's seen,",0.0 +Now on her darling Mira she bestows;,1.0 +"The choicest fragrance of the breathing spring,",1.0 +And bids each year her favourite linnet sing.,0.0 +"Let cloistered pedants, in an endless round,",1.0 +Tread the dull mazes of scholastic ground;,4.0 +We to the natives of the sultry line,2.0 +Their boasted race of parrots pleased resign:,0.0 +For though on citron boughs they proudly glow,1.0 +"With all the colours of the watery bow,",2.0 +"Yet through the grove harsh discord they prolong,",2.0 +"Though rich in gaudy plumage, poor in song.",0.0 +Whose rude overhanging cliffs and barren sand,1.0 +"Hail, Carter, hail! your favourite name inspires",1.0 +"With you I pierce through academic shades,",1.0 +"Beneath the spreading plane with Plato rove,",0.0 +And hear his morals echo through the grove.,1.0 +"Joy sparkles in the sage's looks, to find",1.0 +His genius glowing in a female mind;,1.0 +Newton admiring sees your searching eye,2.0 +"Dart through his mystic page, and range the sky;",0.0 +"While, undisturbed by pride, you calmly tread",0.0 +"Through life's perplexing paths, by wisdom led;",0.0 +"And, taught by her, your grateful muse repays",2.0 +Her heavenly teacher in nocturnal lays.,2.0 +"So when Prometheus from the Almighty Sire,",3.0 +"As sings the fable, stole celestial fire,",0.0 +"Swift through the clay the vital current ran,",0.0 +"In look, in form, in speech resembling man;",0.0 +"But in each eye a living lustre glowed,",0.0 +That spoke the heavenly source from whence it flowed.,2.0 +"To emulate her praise, and tune that lyre",0.0 +Which yet no bard was able to inspire!,2.0 +"With tears her suffering Virgin we attend,",1.0 +"What sacred rapture in our bosom glows,",0.0 +When at the shrine she offers up her vows!,1.0 +Mild majesty and virtue's awful power,2.0 +"Adorn her fall, and grace her latest hour.",0.0 +"Transport me now to those embroidered meads,",1.0 +"Haste, haste, you Nine, and hear a sister sing",1.0 +"The charms of Cynthia, and the joys of spring:",1.0 +See! night's pale goddess with a grateful beam,3.0 +"Paints her loved image in the shadowy stream,",5.0 +"A snow of blossoms, and a wild of flowers.",1.0 +"OH happy nymph, though winter over thy head,",3.0 +"Blind to that form, the snow of age shall shed;",0.0 +"Time, though he steals the roseate bloom of youth,",0.0 +"Shall spare the charms of virtue and of truth,",1.0 +"And on thy mind new charms, new bloom bestow,",3.0 +"The fairy ground that Philips trod before,",0.0 +"Beneath her magic touch, with wondering eye,",2.0 +We view vile copper with pure sterling vie;,3.0 +To claim the praises of the smiling fair;,1.0 +Till chuck and marble shall no more employ,1.0 +The thoughtless leisure of the truant boy.,1.0 +See how his waves in still attention glide!,0.0 +"The balmy zephyrs, hovering over the fair,",2.0 +On their soft wings the vocal accents bear;,2.0 +Transported listen to the tuneful maid.,1.0 +"OH may those nymphs, whose pleasing power she sings,",2.0 +"Bloom to her cheek, and rapture to her heart!",1.0 +"Sing on, sweet maid! thy Spenser smiles to see",3.0 +"Kind Fancy shed her choicest gifts on thee,",1.0 +"And bids his Edwards, on the laurel spray",1.0 +"That shades his tomb, inscribe thy rural lay.",0.0 +"Improving tasks her peaceful hours beguile,",0.0 +"One dips the pencil, and one strings the lyre.",1.0 +"OH may her life's clear current smoothly glide,",1.0 +Unruffled by misfortune's boisterous tide!,6.0 +So while the charmer leads her blameless days,0.0 +"With that content which she so well displays,",0.0 +"Her own Honoria we in her shall view,",1.0 +Thus wandering wild among the golden grain,3.0 +"Careless I sung, while summer's western gale",2.0 +"When from a neighbouring hawthorn, in whose shade",2.0 +"Pleased had she listened; and, with smiles, she cried,",1.0 +"Cease, friendly swain! be this thy praise and pride,",2.0 +"That thou, of all the numerous tuneful throng,",2.0 +First in our cause hast framed thy generous song.,2.0 +"And you, our sister choir! proceed to tread",3.0 +"The flowery paths of fame, by science led!",2.0 +"Employ by turns the needle and the pen,",1.0 +And in their favourite studies rival men!,0.0 +"May all our sex your glorious track pursue,",2.0 +And keep your bright example still in view!,0.0 +"These lasting beauties will in youth engage,",1.0 +"Secure to bloom, unconscious of decay,",2.0 +"For even when love's short triumph shall be over,",3.0 +"When youth shall please, and beauty charm no more,",1.0 +When man shall cease to slatter; when the eye,0.0 +"Shall cease to sparkle, and the heart to sigh,",1.0 +"In that dread hour, when parent dust shall claim",1.0 +"The lifeless tribute of each kindred frame,",1.0 +Even then shall wisdom for her chosen fair,1.0 +The fragrant wreaths of virtuous fame prepare;,2.0 +Beyond the reach of envy and of time;,1.0 +Those names the praise and wonder shall engage,0.0 +"Of every polished, wise, and virtuous age;",2.0 +"To latest times our annals shall adorn,",0.0 +And save from folly thousands yet unborn.,1.0 +"Believe me, Rose, however this Con. may please,",3.0 +"With flowing Numbers, and an easy Phrase;",1.0 +"With Wit, with Humour, and with every Art,",0.0 +"However his Verses are with Rapture read,",4.0 +They never could spring from his poor Baby Head.,2.0 +"No, no, dear Rose, his Tricks are too well known;",3.0 +"They are his Mother's Verses, not his own.",1.0 +Nor tempt a Character beyond thy Sphere.,1.0 +Let meaner Flames thy tender Breast inspire;,1.0 +Touch not a Beam of hers ' -- It's sacred Fire!,1.0 +Phoebus might trust thy Mother with his Sun;,3.0 +"The kindred arts to please thee shall conspire,",0.0 +"One dip the pencil, and one string the lyre.",1.0 +AMANDA bids; at her command again,1.0 +"I seize the pencil, or resume the pen;",1.0 +"No other call my willing hand requires,",1.0 +"And friendship, better than a Muse inspires.",1.0 +Painting and poetry are near allied;,3.0 +The kindred arts two sister Muses guide;,1.0 +"This charms the eye, that steals upon the ear;",0.0 +There sounds are tuned; and colours blended here:,3.0 +And bids a gayer brighter world arise:,0.0 +"That, less allied to sense, with deeper art",0.0 +Can pierce the close recesses of the heart;,4.0 +"By well set syllables, and potent sound,",2.0 +"To life adds motion, and to beauty soul,",2.0 +And breathes a spirit through the finished whole:,1.0 +"This gives Amanda's form, and that her mind.",0.0 +Nor higher than the feathered tribe aspires.,1.0 +Yet who the various nations can declare,3.0 +That plough with busy wing the peopled air?,0.0 +These cleave the crumbling bark for insect food;,1.0 +Those dip their crooked beak in kindred blood:,0.0 +Some bathe their silver plumage in the floods;,0.0 +"Some fly to man; his household gods implore,",1.0 +And gather round his hospitable door;,5.0 +"Wait the known call, and find protection there",4.0 +From all the lesser tyrants of the air.,1.0 +The tawny EAGLE seats his callow brood,0.0 +"High on the cliff, and feasts his young with blood.",0.0 +The royal bird his lonely kingdom forms,0.0 +"Amid the gathering clouds, and sullen storms;",2.0 +Through the wide waste of air he darts his sight,2.0 +And marks his destined victim from afar:,1.0 +"Descending in a whirlwind to the ground,",2.0 +"The fairest of the fold he bears away,",1.0 +And to his nest compels the struggling prey;,1.0 +"He scorns the game by meaner hunters tore,",0.0 +And dips his talons in no vulgar gore.,1.0 +The silver PHEASANT draws his shining train;,0.0 +He spreads his plumage to the sunny gleam:,1.0 +"But when the wiry net his flight confines,",0.0 +"Oppressed by bondage, and our chilly spring.",1.0 +That swell the music of the vernal year:,1.0 +Seized with the spirit of the kindly spring,1.0 +"They tune the voice, and sleek the glossy wing:",0.0 +And pour out all their little souls in song.,0.0 +"When winter bites upon the naked plain,",0.0 +"Nor food nor shelter in the groves remain,",0.0 +"By instinct led, a firm united band,",0.0 +The congregated nations wing their way,0.0 +"Thence spread their sails to meet the southern wind,",1.0 +And leave the gathering tempest far behind;,2.0 +"Pursue the circling sun's indulgent ray,",0.0 +"Course the swift seasons, and overtake the day.",5.0 +"Not so the Insect race, ordained to keep",1.0 +And wait the influence of a kinder sky;,1.0 +"Start from their trance, and burst their silken shell;",0.0 +"Trembling awhile they stand, and scarcely dare",1.0 +To launch at once upon the untried air:,3.0 +"And leave their sordid spoils, and high in Either sail.",0.0 +"So when Rinaldo struck the conscious rind,",0.0 +He found a nymph in every trunk confined;,0.0 +"The bursting trees the lovely births disclose,",0.0 +Where late was rugged bark and lifeless wood.,0.0 +"Lo! the bright train their radiant wings unfold,",3.0 +On the gay bosom of some fragrant flower,3.0 +They idly fluttering live their little hour;,2.0 +"Their life all pleasure, and their task all play,",1.0 +"All spring their age, and sunshine all their day.",1.0 +"Not so the child of sorrow, wretched man,",0.0 +"His course with toil concludes, with pain began:",0.0 +Pleasure's the portion of the inferior kind;,5.0 +"But glory, virtue, Heaven for Man designed.",0.0 +What atom forms of insect life appear!,1.0 +And who can follow nature's pencil here?,0.0 +"Their wings with azure, green, and purple glossed,",0.0 +"Studded with coloured eyes, with gems embossed,",2.0 +"Inlaid with pearl, and marked with various stains",3.0 +"Some shoot like living stars, athwart the night,",0.0 +"And scatter from their wings a vivid light,",1.0 +"To guide the Indian to his tawny loves,",1.0 +As through the woods with cautious step he moves.,1.0 +See the proud giant of the beetle race;,4.0 +Like some stern warrior formidably bright,2.0 +His steely sides reflect a gleaming light;,0.0 +"On his large forehead spreading horns he wears,",2.0 +And high in air the branching antlers bears;,0.0 +"Over many an inch extends his wide domain,",2.0 +And his rich treasury swells with hoarded grain.,4.0 +"Thy friend thus strives to cheat the lonely hour,",1.0 +"With song, or paint, an insect, or a flower:",2.0 +"Yet if Amanda praise the flowing line,",1.0 +"And bend delighted over the gay design,",2.0 +"I envy not, nor emulate the fame",0.0 +"Or of the painter's, or the poet's name:",2.0 +"Could I to both with equal claim pretend,",0.0 +"Yet far, far dearer were the name of FRIEND.",1.0 +"When the pale Queen of Night exerts her Power,",3.0 +To paint the Glories of thy future State;,1.0 +"To show what Mansions, in the Realms divine,",0.0 +"Are set apart for Souls, refined as thine?",0.0 +Adas! I left thee sick: OH Shame to tell!,3.0 +"But dire Necessity, relentless, swayed;",1.0 +"She, stern, enjoined, unwilling I obeyed.",1.0 +"Torn from thy Sight, how have I dragged the Day,",0.0 +"Which, in thy Presence, flew too swift away!",1.0 +How shall I pass the melancholy Night?,0.0 +"When will the Post arrive, and give Delight?",0.0 +Of thy returning Health when shall I hear?,1.0 +"Fain would I hope, though quite depressed with Fear.",0.0 +"The Stranger, and the Wretched, are her Care:",2.0 +Snatch her not hence; we cannot let her go;,0.0 +"Still let her be thy Substitute below,",1.0 +"To raise the sinking Heart, to heal Distress;",0.0 +To Her was given the Will and Power to bless.,4.0 +"OH would Heaven grant me, ere I cross the Main,",0.0 +"And never, never, shall behold thee more.",0.0 +OF Belgian Provinces by Unions Power,1.0 +"I sing the Triumph of that wondrous Field,",1.0 +Which raised the Fame of pious Anna's Reign,0.0 +In Natures Youth and happier Climates born.,2.0 +Has brought to light this wondrous Birth of,0.0 +"Celestial Guardian of this Sacred Isle,",1.0 +"Genius of Warlike Britain, who awhile",3.0 +"Hast, left eternal Glory and the Sway",1.0 +"Of some Triumphant Hierarchy of Heaven,",5.0 +To shelter and protect these happy Realms;,1.0 +"Thou who with blissful Charity inspired,",1.0 +"And every Soul subjected to Thy Sway,",1.0 +Teaching Thy much loud Britons to subdue,4.0 +The Rage of France and Hell by Love Divine;,0.0 +"May with immortal Charity be fired,",2.0 +"That raised to Heaven by that Celestial Fire,",0.0 +"It may attain a Song of wondrous Height,",1.0 +And may proclaim thy Wisdom and thy Power,2.0 +And their Heroic Deeds in such a strain,2.0 +As no fictitious Muse can ere inspire.,0.0 +"Now was the Sun in Taurus mounted high,",0.0 +And darting down his Genial Rays from Heaven,1.0 +"Directly to the Bosom of the Earth,",2.0 +Called forth each Plant and every tender Flower,1.0 +And restored Nature and renewed the World;,6.0 +"When the Confederate Troops called out by Fate,",2.0 +And by their great Commanders awful Voice,1.0 +"Full of that conquering Spirit they appeared,",3.0 +And in their Eyes a penetrating View,0.0 +"Might easily discern their Triumphs past,",1.0 +And their amazing Victory to come.,2.0 +"All Nature seem transported at that Sight,",0.0 +"For Tyranny, Oppression, Discord, Fraud,",1.0 +"Injustice, Violence, and Barbarous Rage",3.0 +"Are all about to be expelled the Earth,",0.0 +"And in their room Simplicity and Truth,",1.0 +"Justice, Security and gentle Ease,",3.0 +"And Peace and spotless Innocence, shall reign;",1.0 +Therefore all Nature smiled upon that Sight,1.0 +"And Gods, and Men, and Earth, and Heaven rejoiced.",0.0 +"Which to infernal Torments added Stings,",2.0 +"And to infernal Fury fiercer Flames,",1.0 +And doubled the Damnation in his Breast.,1.0 +Up through the Ocean of the Air he sails;,2.0 +In the midway he stopped between the Moon's,3.0 +At his great Palace there by Magic hung.,3.0 +"Of Friends who now were roaming round the Earth,",0.0 +In order to subject it to his Sway.,2.0 +Up strait upon the Wing the Spirits sprung,0.0 +"And high above the Atmosphere they flew,",0.0 +"The World was in Convulsions at the Flight,",0.0 +"Earth trembled, sighed the Air, the Ocean groaned,",1.0 +Which barely seen had Power to look Despair,2.0 +"And Death into the Hearts of wretched Men,",0.0 +And wither in one moment all their strength.,0.0 +"As soon as the Infernal Crew were sat,",1.0 +"Up from his Throne outrageous Tyrant rose,",1.0 +"That darkened all the Sky, in fixing Plagues,",0.0 +"With sable Wings their flaming Eyes they veiled,",0.0 +"They who eternal Torments could endure,",1.0 +They could not bear their raging Tyrants Wrath,0.0 +But shook like Men who frightful Fiends behold.,0.0 +"Collected in himself a while he stood,",0.0 +But when the horrid Silence had prepared,0.0 +Thus from his Breast his Rage in Thunder broke.,0.0 +Are you assembled then at my dread Call?,2.0 +"So light, so despicable in your Ears",3.0 +Has been of late the Tempest of my Voice.,1.0 +"But you not only are assembled here,",2.0 +"But what is stranger, with those cruel Looks",1.0 +"And that relentless Air, with which when last",0.0 +"I met you here, you vainly made your Boast",0.0 +"You would subdue the World to my Fell Sway,",1.0 +"Would constitute me Universal King,",0.0 +"But OH dire Shame, to Hell, to me, to all!",2.0 +"Your Deeds are so unworthy the great Name,",3.0 +"That one would swear you were grown Friends to Men,",3.0 +And Servants to my Rival of the Sky;,2.0 +"That ever yonder Planet turned about the Sun,",0.0 +With that he pointed to Resplendent Earth,1.0 +As towards the East her Magnitude she rolled,0.0 +"It a subjected Province should become,",1.0 +"Like these bright Tracts of all surrounding Air,",3.0 +To our black Empire of the boundless Deep?,3.0 +"The Kingdom there established by Heaven's King,",3.0 +Who there bears Sway wherever Reason rules?,3.0 +Whose Empire is where ever Law commands?,1.0 +"For Reason is his secret whispering Voice,",3.0 +Can it be you who promised to extend,1.0 +My Empire over all yonder spotty Globe?,2.0 +"An Empire ruled by Men instead of Laws,",0.0 +Where human Passion sways and human Will;,1.0 +"Passion infused by us, and Will by us",4.0 +"No, though your Interest and your Glory both",1.0 +"Demanded it: for know Aerial Gods,",6.0 +"Where humane Passion reigns, and human Will,",5.0 +There we not only Reign but are Adored.,2.0 +"Of this be sure Religion come from Heaven,",1.0 +Will never support an Empire raised by Hell;,2.0 +"Nor can the dreadful Empire raised by us,",1.0 +"Where Tyrant Man instead of Law controls,",0.0 +"Endure Religion that from Heaven descends,",0.0 +Cast but your Eyes wherever we command;,1.0 +And Man our Proxy reigns instead of Law;,0.0 +"There Men adore some vegetable Power,",2.0 +Or their old crazy Priest they make their God,2.0 +Or madly to Fanatic Prophets fall.,1.0 +There they bow down to Stocks and senseless Stones;,0.0 +"That is, to Us and our Delusions bow,",2.0 +And Tremble at the Gods they could create,0.0 +Regardless of the grand Concern of Hell?,1.0 +Or are your old seducing Arts forgot?,1.0 +Or know you not my Interests or your own?,1.0 +"Cast but your Eyes upon her Silver Globe,",0.0 +See that peculiar People chose by Heaven,1.0 +"To propagate its Empire upon Earth,",2.0 +"Which they, it seems, call Liberty, call Law",3.0 +See how with Hearts too large to be confined,1.0 +"They pass the Limits of the boundless Deep,",1.0 +And every where my Rivals Rule extend!,0.0 +Survey Earth's shining Ball with sharpest Ken.,1.0 +"What Portion of her Planet can you find,",2.0 +"But where the Glory of the British Name,",1.0 +Look what even now the Britons boldly Act,0.0 +Behold the conquering Spirit in their Eyes!,2.0 +"Hell! you have suffered it to rise so high,",1.0 +It's irresistible by human Powers,1.0 +"See yonder their accursed Commander comes,",2.0 +"And yonder Conquest towering over him flies,",2.0 +"Whose well known Voice, the Goddess strait obey",1.0 +"As at his Master's call the Falcon stoops,",0.0 +And his August Appearance is the Lure,3.0 +That brings her swiftly rushing from the Skies.,1.0 +"If once he joins those Squadrons we are lost,",1.0 +"His high Appearance, when they once behold,",0.0 +As can dismay the greatness of their Souls.,2.0 +"You Hosts of Terrors, you remember well,",1.0 +"The Britons, though to every human Power,",1.0 +"Invincible, were forced to yield to Ours;",1.0 +"But when great Marlborough came impetuous on,",4.0 +And rallied them with that Heroic Air,1.0 +With which he fires the Warlike Squadrons Souls:,1.0 +"You Stygian Gods, what Miracles we saw,",1.0 +"How they who Trembled but the Moment past,",2.0 +"Before the King of Terror's awful view,",3.0 +Now fought like Gods above the reach of Fate!,1.0 +Their sinking Spirits and dispelled their Fears;,1.0 +"His Voice, his sole Appearance made them bold.",0.0 +"Though I looked on, and though I menaced high,",1.0 +"But all my clamour was in Thunder drowned,",0.0 +"Till French and Fiends together vanished all,",0.0 +Down to our Empire of the Neither Deep.,2.0 +"You know, you Stygian Gods, and oft have read,",0.0 +That more amazing Wonders are reserved,1.0 +Unless with all our Power we interpose.,2.0 +"Lewis by me, and Destiny designed,",2.0 +Above all Names that are adored on Earth;,1.0 +"Lewis, the Great, the Wise, the second Hope of Hell,",2.0 +"The Man, the Monarch after my own Heart;",1.0 +"But makes them his Employment all the Day,",1.0 +And Meditation all the watchful Night;,0.0 +"He, the great Image of my self express,",3.0 +"Implacable, Inexorable, False,",3.0 +Even greatly and heroically False:,4.0 +Who watchful as a roaring Lion roams,1.0 +"With Jaws expanded to devour his Prey,",3.0 +"For Cruelty, for dire Revenge, for Murder,",1.0 +OH way to banish Virtue from the World!,2.0 +OH great Invention envied even by me!,2.0 +"And unless we support him, he must fall:",4.0 +Ah no! such Merit claims that at his Need,0.0 +"To guard him from our fierce insulting Foes,",1.0 +"If Lewis falls, our Empire with him sinks,",1.0 +"For even from Earth, for even from Dust we fall.",4.0 +"OH shameful Fall for us who aspired to Heaven,",1.0 +For us who made Divinity our Aim!,2.0 +"Then Law and Reason will victorious reign,",3.0 +Then Liberty eternal will become.,2.0 +"Then odious Virtue will possess the Earth,",3.0 +And every glorious Vice be driven to Hell.,4.0 +Deeds worthy the Antagonists of Heaven.,3.0 +Can you forget? what? utterly forget,2.0 +"What once we acted, and what once we were?",1.0 +"Ah no! you never can, for in your Breasts",1.0 +"Our Angel minds in that Eternal Field,",0.0 +Against the Empire of great Heaven we fought.,4.0 +"But yet, we fought, you Stygian Gods, we fought",0.0 +With Spirit equal to the vast Design.,1.0 +"Fate gave our Enemy the Field, but Ours,",2.0 +"Ours was the Triumph, and the Glory Ours",1.0 +Who dared against the Omnipotent to War.,3.0 +Can you remember this? Can you reflect,3.0 +"That you for Angels were an equal Match,",1.0 +"And yield at last to Man, to Woman yield?",0.0 +"For it's a Woman, OH you Powers, destroys",3.0 +This mighty Champion of our Cause and Us;,1.0 +"For she directs, she animates, she fires",1.0 +Those who over Earth the Rule of Heaven extend.,0.0 +"It's she who out of pure Despite to me,",0.0 +"Upon my Rival poorly to depend,",1.0 +"Poorly to wear a Crown that Law may Rule,",2.0 +Than be her self a Sovereign Goddess owned,0.0 +And by the Kingdoms of the Earth adored.,2.0 +"Had you the Spirit with which once you flamed,",1.0 +There needed not this long and powerful Speech,2.0 +"The Cause of Empire and Eternal Fame,",1.0 +"And urge you to great Acts, though I were Mute,",2.0 +"Behold yonder World, that fluctuates in the void",5.0 +"Now see your Female Adversary there,",3.0 +"Behold her Prostrate, Abject on her Knees,",1.0 +And Trembling at that Monarch of the Sky,1.0 +"No, you can never see this and not disdain",0.0 +"That she should make that floating World a Heaven,",0.0 +Which we so greatly strive to make a Hell.,0.0 +"Now pleased, now sad, now trembling, now enraged",5.0 +"With Envy wracked, or burning with disdain,",1.0 +Or with desire of fierce Revenge inflamed.,1.0 +"When he had done, unanimous they rent",1.0 +"And to the Heaven of Heavens defiance hurled,",3.0 +When suddenly a burst of Thunder broke,1.0 +"Through thousands drives, and thousands lightning Blasts;",0.0 +"Then as a flock of timorous Fowl takes Wing,",3.0 +And the black Hemisphere and Realms of Night,2.0 +"But soon their impious daring they resumed,",4.0 +"Of all that fell from Heaven the fiercest Fiend,",0.0 +"The fiercest and most cruel Fiend that fell,",1.0 +"Discord, the Daughter of dire Lucifer,",5.0 +Begot when his prodigious Lust ran high,2.0 +"On Pride, when with her hottest Flames she burned;",1.0 +Gigantic was her Stature and her Looks,2.0 +"Her Native Country was the Heaven of Heavens,",1.0 +"But Heaven, as soon as born, disclaimed the Fiend,",0.0 +"With Lightnings and with Thunders drove her out,",1.0 +"For Happiness still flies the raving Fiend,",2.0 +And Peace and Joy with her can never dwell.,1.0 +As from her Birth she was expelled from Heaven,2.0 +"So by her cruel Father's dire Decree,",1.0 +"She banished was from all the Bounds of Hell,",1.0 +"As one who might elsewhere far better serve,",4.0 +"The growing Empire of her dreadful Sire,",1.0 +"But at her parting, half her Serpent Brood",0.0 +"She left behind, and to the very Heart",1.0 +"Her own inexorable Father stung,",2.0 +That with the Torment ever since he roars.,1.0 +"Thus banished from high Heaven, and driven from Hell,",5.0 +"She among miserable Mortals dwells,",6.0 +"A false and most inhospitable Guest,",1.0 +Who all her warmest Friends torments the most:,1.0 +"Though banished from her Father's Realms below,",1.0 +"To others, or her self, no Rest she allows,",4.0 +"Of burning Fury, and tormenting Fear,",2.0 +"And sharp Remorse, with all her deadliest Stings,",2.0 +To this infernal Council she was called:,2.0 +"And when the Whirlwind of Applause was over,",2.0 +Up rose the Subtle and the Cruel Fiend.,1.0 +"As rising, her Gorgonian Head she shook,",3.0 +"With all its Snakes, that from their livid Eyes,",1.0 +"As a poor Swain that underneath his Feet,",2.0 +Spies a fell Adder bloated with his Rage;,4.0 +"And lifting up his angry Crest on high,",1.0 +"Springs back, while to his Heart his Blood retires",1.0 +"And none but Lucifer himself had Power,",1.0 +"And he himself grew Stupid at the sight,",2.0 +"That seems not fashioned by the Sculptor's Art,",1.0 +"But shows a Wretch with Horror stupid grown,",0.0 +"And petrified with Woe and with Despair,",1.0 +"And as the hideous Hag began to Scream,",3.0 +"And equal Horror hear at the last Day,",1.0 +"And the bad Angels roaring drive to Hell,",2.0 +Which then shall to Eternity be closed.,3.0 +"And such her hideous Voice, and thus she spoke.",3.0 +"Have we the Patience then of stupid Saints,",0.0 +"You Gods, to hear all this without Reply?",1.0 +"Nay, our insulting Tyrant to applaud,",3.0 +For his unjust and barbarous Reproach?,2.0 +"But this, though spoke to all, is meant to me;",1.0 +"For without me, not all the Host of Hell",1.0 +"Am I of want of Knowledge then accused,",1.0 +OH burning Indignation! OH Disdain!,1.0 +"OH slander, worthy of dire Lucifer;",4.0 +"Upon this Throne of thy Imperial Power,",3.0 +"Encompassed with ten Thousand Spirits round,",2.0 +"By mighty Angels served, and even by me?",1.0 +"From whence is all this Pomp, this Power derived?",2.0 +"Before I knew thee, what wert thou in Heaven?",1.0 +And flatter thy proud Arbitrary Lord.,2.0 +But I an Emperor made thee of a Slave;,4.0 +"The Rival and the Antagonist of him,",4.0 +"Millions of Angels to thy side I drew,",3.0 +I gave them Spirit to assert thy Cause,1.0 +Against thy thundering Rival and his Slaves;,3.0 +"In that eternal Day, which though we lost,",1.0 +"For we dissolved his universal Sway,",1.0 +An Empire by our overthrow we gained:,1.0 +And thou a poor precarious Lord before,3.0 +"I founded thy Dominion upon Earth,",4.0 +I propagate in humane Hearts thy Sway:,5.0 +"No, there dull Union dwells, there lazy Peace",3.0 +"And Reason, and thy hated Rivals Law.",1.0 +Have I not Lewis now for fifty Years,0.0 +"Inspired, possessing all his mighty Soul?",2.0 +I fired that Soul to all those vast Designs,2.0 +"That made it worthy thee, and worthy me.",2.0 +"And then performed them with this Bloody hand,",1.0 +And all the European World laid bare.,1.0 +In Fathers and in Brothers guiltless Blood:,1.0 +A Sea of guiltless Blood this Hand has spilt:,0.0 +Thy Rival's Images by Millions I,2.0 +"If now he flies before victorious Anne,",2.0 +Can I with Justice be condemned or blamed?,1.0 +"With this Assembly here of potent Gods,",1.0 +"And all the great, united Host of Hell.",0.0 +"It's to that Wisdom, and that Power Divine,",4.0 +"Which Day and Night on that victorious Queen,",2.0 +As on the conquering Hierarchies attends;,5.0 +"Is it my Fault if that Religious Queen,",1.0 +"By every Action and by every Voice,",1.0 +Inspires her Britons with Celestial Love?,1.0 +"Great Souls by him and Destiny designed,",3.0 +"Unite her Subjects first, and then Mankind?",2.0 +"Am I to be condemned, if while Abroad",1.0 +The thwarting Interests of the Nations joins?,1.0 +"Of Factions, which for Mastery contend,",1.0 +"And makes Confusion, which is weakness, yield",0.0 +"To Order, which is Strength, as he Above",1.0 +The Rage of warring Atoms reconciled;,0.0 +"Yet Strife, where that prevails, which most agrees",0.0 +"With those eternal Laws that Rule the Whole,",1.0 +"Mingled the Elements, and made the World.",3.0 +"I freely own, that those our Mortal Foes",1.0 +Grow more pernicious to us every Hour.,2.0 +"William, whose Name we Fiends with Horror hear;",2.0 +"Who never shrunk from his detested side,",1.0 +"To set up Liberty and pull down us,",1.0 +"When France and Hell reigned Paramount on Earth,",1.0 +"With these they now consult, in these confide,",2.0 +And Montague himself to Germane Plains,3.0 +"Is hurried, in extreme despite to me,",0.0 +Where his wise Councils and his powerful Voice,5.0 +"Threaten my very Being to destroy,",3.0 +And menace all this dreadful Host in me.,0.0 +"Therefore unless we make one last Effort,",5.0 +"Britain Farewell, and Tyranny Adieu,",4.0 +"Britain Unanimous as well as Free,",3.0 +"Will soon Enfranchise and Unite the World,",3.0 +"From Heaven, of all that own thy boundless Sway,",0.0 +Dares make that horrible Attempt but I.,2.0 +"And now, even now, I form the glorious Plan,",4.0 +"As the Confederates by uniting Thrive,",2.0 +Success continuing will Cement them more:,3.0 +"But their Felicity to come, depends",2.0 +Upon yonder Squadrons in the Belgian Plains;,5.0 +"Should they adverse Event of Battle feel,",1.0 +"All that Great Anne has done unite Mankind,",3.0 +I can with Ease in one Campaign overthrow.,6.0 +Yonder Squadrons I have viewed and have reviewed,1.0 +With all the Inquisition of my Eyes.,1.0 +"I viewed them, and I sighed, to find their Heads",1.0 +Which makes them the just Terror of us all.,2.0 +"Hear it you God's, who rule the unbounded Air,",2.0 +You black Attendants on Eternal Night!,1.0 +"Hear it you Deities, assembled here",1.0 +"And thou whom all these dreadful Powers obey,",2.0 +"Whose Frown makes Gods above, and God below,",1.0 +"Hear me great Lucifer, while by thy self,",5.0 +Thy dire inviolable self I swear,1.0 +"That I with Spirit great as the Design,",1.0 +"Great as the glorious Cause, and worthy me,",3.0 +"I that audacious General will destroy,",1.0 +"I those victorious Squadrons will overthrow,",5.0 +"And still in spite of Earth, in spite of Heaven,",0.0 +"Discord, and Lucifer, and Hell shall reign.",3.0 +"She said, and not expecting a Reply,",1.0 +Down towards the Earth she wheeled her airy Flight;,0.0 +"As Westward she her Sable Chariot drives,",3.0 +"Old Night the Fury places by her side,",2.0 +And her black shaggy Mantle over her throws.,4.0 +"As Discord sat by the dark grizzly Hag,",2.0 +"Discord more hideous seemed, and Night more foul.",4.0 +"As they were hurried by their coal black Steeds,",3.0 +"And the soft Chariot slid through Midnight Air,",5.0 +"For there flew Treason with her looks askew,",3.0 +And Stygian Envy of a livid Hue;,1.0 +"And yellow Jealousy with Eyes suffused,",1.0 +"And ugly Slander speckled like a Toad,",0.0 +With livid Spots upon a saffron Hue,0.0 +"Over her Arms, her Belly, and her Thighs;",3.0 +"But Serpentine her Head and deadly Eyes,",0.0 +"And hideous was her Hiss, and mortal was her Sting.",2.0 +"Then lame Adultery, and Incest blind,",2.0 +"Came lagging in the Rear with Reverend Gown,",1.0 +"And darting many a sour Grimace he flew,",4.0 +"And sighed profoundly with inverted Eyes,",1.0 +"But all affected was, and all was false;",1.0 +"For nervous were his Limbs, and bold his Brow;",1.0 +His dimpled Cheek was of Vermilion Die;,1.0 +His wanton Eyeballs sparkled as they rolled;,2.0 +"His pampered side was with a sevenfold Shield,",2.0 +Defended of impenetrable Brawn;,2.0 +"The conscious Stars withdrew their sickening fires,",0.0 +"And Nature that abhorred the dismal sight,",0.0 +Redoubled all the Terrors of the Dark.,1.0 +"The watchful Dogs in every Village bayed,",0.0 +"And hungry Wolves forsook their Prey to Howl,",0.0 +"And the winged Prophets of Nocturnal Sky,",3.0 +"When to the glittering Palace they approached,",3.0 +Where Lewis in a restless slumber lay,0.0 +"The Doors flew open with a hollow Groan,",2.0 +And the Fiend entered where the Tyrant lay.,2.0 +"Then throws off her immense Gigantic Form,",1.0 +"And the Gorgonian Terrors of her Front,",4.0 +"And she, who a fallen Angel was before,",1.0 +Is a decayed affected Beauty now.,1.0 +"When she the Royal Curtains drew, she saw",0.0 +The Tyrant tossing on the restless Plume;,1.0 +"Haughty and Stern, and thoughtful even in Sleep;",3.0 +"His Forehead furrowed by an angry Frown,",1.0 +And on his clouded Brow sat cruel Care.,2.0 +"And now and then he gave a fearful Start,",0.0 +And from his Heart drew many a guilty Groan.,4.0 +"Even Discord gazed with Pleasure at that sight,",0.0 +And the Fiend smiled that never smiled before.,2.0 +"In which the gazing World admired thee once,",0.0 +"When thou wert grown the Terror even of Kings,",2.0 +And dreadful Scourge of the Worlds potent Lords!,2.0 +"That Victory came panting in thy Rear,",3.0 +As he sole Tyrant of the desert Sky.,3.0 +"Yet in those Happy, in those glorious Days,",2.0 +"No profound Sleep could ever lull thy Soul,",3.0 +"And rarely, rarely Slumber closed thy Eyes.",0.0 +"But all the Day, and all the live long Night,",1.0 +"Care kept thee watching, to inflame the World,",2.0 +And to divide and to destroy Mankind.,3.0 +"Now by victorious Marlborough brought low,",6.0 +"That is about to part with hideous Roar,",3.0 +And all thy trembling Provinces amaze;,1.0 +"Strike forty Thousand of thy Veterans dead,",2.0 +"Strike even thee dead their Arbitrary Lord,",3.0 +"And with thy Person kill thy very Fame,",1.0 +What fatal Hour is lost in soft Repose?,0.0 +"Has adverse Fortune cooled thy towering Pride,",1.0 +And that aspiring Flame that raised thy Thoughts,0.0 +To Affectation even of Godhead once?,3.0 +"Than reigning King of Kings and Lord of Lords,",0.0 +Can he a Rival bear in Empire now?,1.0 +Unless thou art eternally Intent,1.0 +"The few Gigantic Hunters of Mankind,",2.0 +"Who universal Empire here acquired,",0.0 +"All of them vast Advantages enjoyed,",1.0 +Which Heaven and Nature have denied to thee.,0.0 +"Young Hammon, led their conquering Troops themselves,",3.0 +"And the undaunted Squadrons which they led,",1.0 +"When they were Conquerors, were always free,",1.0 +And could a more exalted Virtue boast,0.0 +Than those who yielded to their conquering Arms.,4.0 +To do thy Work by Journey men of War;,0.0 +"To conquer Heroes fighting for their own,",1.0 +Freeborn magnanimous Nations to overthrow;,6.0 +"But Freemen never were vanquished yet by Slaves,",2.0 +Nor Warlike Nations by a wanton Crew.,2.0 +"Divide those Foes, and fight them with themselves,",1.0 +"Then by each others Arms enslave them all,",0.0 +Supply by Fraud and old notorious Arts.,2.0 +"And let no Minute pass, no Moment slip,",2.0 +And by dividing to confound their Power.,2.0 +"Such an important Moment is This now,",2.0 +"The Reins of Empire yielding up to Chance,",1.0 +And dead and stupid to the Charms of Fame.,1.0 +And Day and Night over thy dear Interest brood,5.0 +To cherish it like tender Birds their Young.,1.0 +"And now am come, thou dearest of Mankind,",2.0 +"Am come to rouse Thee from thy inglorious Ease,",3.0 +And my own Empire to advance in Thine.,2.0 +"True, said the Tyrant, who had all this while",1.0 +"Been shaking off the Downey Bands of Sleep,",1.0 +"If that a strong Desire to Rule the World,",0.0 +And that the Ruler of the Land and Main,1.0 +May be a happier Slave and worthier Thee.,3.0 +"And let the boundless Liberty you take,",1.0 +"Which had been Death to any one but Thee,",1.0 +Declare the Boundless Power thy wondrous Charms,2.0 +Have given Thee over even my ambitious Soul.,3.0 +"But why dost Thou, who hast the Power to pierce",2.0 +"As I my self would all the World control,",1.0 +My great Design of Universal Sway?,0.0 +Can seize a towering fiery Soul like mine?,2.0 +"No, never shall my Soul Abatement feel",1.0 +"Of its high Passion for eternal Fame,",3.0 +But as I Thee adore with fiercer Flame,2.0 +"Than all that in my warmest Youth I felt,",0.0 +"Even for the brightest of Thy charming Sex,",2.0 +Does but augment my noble Lust of Fame;,1.0 +"It's my first Principle of Life, by which",3.0 +"I speak, and move, and act, and think, and am,",0.0 +"And Lewis, when that fails, must be no more.",0.0 +OH could I but the Weaknesses suppress,2.0 +"Of this frail Flesh, and conquer the Desire",3.0 +"Of my great Mind, extinguishing Remorse,",3.0 +"Driving Compassion out, and stifling Shame,",3.0 +Then without Interval the glorious Cares,9.0 +"Of Empire should employ my Aspiring Soul,",2.0 +"Under which now sometime my Nature sinks,",3.0 +And I by sordid Elements are forced,2.0 +"To feed the thinking Parts expiring Flame,",0.0 +And seek new Life within the Arms of Death.,1.0 +"But soon I shake off his dull Chains, and then",2.0 +At once to Life and Glory I return.,1.0 +That gave Victorious Marlborough the Day,3.0 +"OH fatal Field to all my Aspiring Thoughts,",2.0 +"I will forget that ever Thou hast been,",2.0 +And think of Universal Sway again,0.0 +"Yet to the Terror of my wondering Foes,",3.0 +"I still recovered that amazing Blow,",0.0 +My Loss recruited and retrieved my Power.,1.0 +The Dilatory Germans on the Rhine;,1.0 +"And obliged Fortune, in her own Despite,",5.0 +"OH I had laid a Scheme which would have sunk,",0.0 +"And utterly confounded all my Foes,",1.0 +"Only with Men, and there I found Success,",3.0 +"In Spain I was constrained to yield to Heaven,",1.0 +And baffled my whole Providence at once;,3.0 +"But whence can this transporting Fury Spring,",1.0 +Or what makes this the great deciding Hour?,0.0 +To whom the Fury eagerly replied:,1.0 +"By that disastrous Disappointment Spain,",0.0 +"The Pride for which contending Nations fight,",0.0 +"Depends upon this very fatal Hour,",0.0 +"Spain is in utmost Danger to be lost,",2.0 +Unless Thou rousing wilt prevent the Blow.,0.0 +"And Spain in Danger will deject our Friends,",1.0 +And give more daring Spirit to our Foes;,1.0 +"Consider how they all prepare unite,",2.0 +"Both eager in a strict Embrace to meet,",1.0 +And for the future like two Sisters live;,2.0 +Faction has lost its Ferment and grows mild;,3.0 +The Listless Germans whom thy wondrous Arts,0.0 +"So nobly have divided and brought low,",2.0 +"Some lucid Intervals of Concord find,",1.0 +"And public Spirit and Will surely leave,",1.0 +"If Spain should from thy baffled Arms be torn,",1.0 +"That Loss will calm the fierce Hungarian's Rage,",0.0 +And Spirit jealous Venice to declare,1.0 +"No Stratagem, nor Violence, nor Art,",3.0 +Can thy exhausted Treasury Supply.,2.0 +"And then thy numerous Armies vanish all,",2.0 +"And leave Thee to the Scorn of thy proud Foes,",2.0 +Even thy own vile obsequious Slaves will rise,3.0 +And take rebellious Arms against their King:,0.0 +"Adieu Thy Conquests, and perhaps Thy Crown,",2.0 +But a surprising and stupendous Blow,2.0 +"A sudden and surprising Blow struck there,",3.0 +While this the great Campaign of Fate be ¦ begins,2.0 +Will give thee sure occasion to detach,1.0 +"Part of thy conquering Troops to Philip's Aid,",2.0 +"To push thy Advantage on astonished Rhine,",3.0 +That will constrain the Empire to recall,2.0 +"The new Supplies to Illustrious Eugene sent,",4.0 +That fatal Blow will once again divide,0.0 +"Amaze the Germans, and the Dutch confound,",1.0 +Prevent that Union now designed between,0.0 +"The English and the Caledonian States,",3.0 +"Rouse up thy sleeping Arbitrary Friends,",0.0 +"Ferment them still with more fanatic Rage,",0.0 +"That our declining Empire will sustain,",2.0 +"And will advance through all the Christian World,",1.0 +To whom the grizzly Tyrant thus replied:,0.0 +"The Serpent slumbering in my wounded Breast,",1.0 +"Which when awake still gnaws my mangled Hear,",1.0 +And greedily devours my vital Blood.,3.0 +My Fancy rides and drives soft Sleep away;,1.0 +"The very Tyrant of my ambitious Soul,",3.0 +"Blast to my Hopes of Universal Sway,",0.0 +And only by forgetting thee Revive.,2.0 +"'Twas there by such a rash presumptuous Fight,",3.0 +"That forty Thousand of my conquering Troops,",3.0 +"That always conquered till that cursed Hour,",2.0 +"Were, like ripe Corn in Autumn, mowed in Heaps;",1.0 +"Those Heaps in Ranks extended on the Plain,",1.0 +"Which broke the Hearts and Spirits of the rest,",1.0 +"And interrupted all my vast Designs,",0.0 +And laid my Weakness open to the World:,1.0 +"For as my greatness, and my awful Power,",2.0 +"Lay in Opinion more than real Strength,",2.0 +"Fortune was grown Immutable as Fate,",3.0 +"And always would attend my conquering Arms,",2.0 +"That fatal Days Calamitous Event,",1.0 +And made me grow the very Scorn of those,0.0 +To whom I was most Terrible before.,2.0 +"Of Battle, when thou hast thy self observed,",0.0 +"That to subdue, I must divide my Foes,",1.0 +"And then enslave them by each others Arms,",1.0 +That warlike Nations never were Vanquished yet,3.0 +"By softer Ones, nor Free born Souls by Slaves;",1.0 +"I must remain, not only without Fight,",3.0 +"But without War, OH Gods, for that blessed Hour!",5.0 +"One short lived Truce would more advance my Fame,",1.0 +"And spread my Empire, than ten Victories.",4.0 +"He said, and thus the subtle Fiend replied:",0.0 +I before Victory would Truce advise;,3.0 +"But since thy Foes have been so oft betrayed,",0.0 +"Therefore the Mischief ill Success has done,",1.0 +Must be by sudden Victory repaired.,1.0 +"What but Presumption grown from long Success,",1.0 +"Which caused thee to abandon thy old Arts,",3.0 +And vainly to rely on fancied Power;,1.0 +"Perched on thy waving Streamers, when thy Troops,",0.0 +"By odds of Numbers overwhelmed their Foes,",0.0 +Hence the Disaster of that Fatal Day;,3.0 +"But when to your old Methods you returned,",3.0 +With them Success and Victory returned.,2.0 +For the prevented Germans you surprised,2.0 +"And both their Armies easily overthrew,",2.0 +"Both by superior Numbers overwhelmed,",4.0 +And in their Leaders Absence both oppressed.,0.0 +"Oppressed by the same Odds, before their Chiefs",2.0 +"Arrive, before their various Powers are joined.",4.0 +"Then with Success return to thy old Arts,",2.0 +"And by Division break their potent League,",1.0 +Thy Orders strait to the Bavarian send,3.0 +"Then as a Torrent to a Deluge swelled,",1.0 +"Disdains its Banks, and makes its roaring way",0.0 +"With dreadful Devastation, so may they,",1.0 +"While Desolation marks their hideous Course,",2.0 +And the surprised Confederate Forces leave,3.0 +"The same eternal Monument of Power,",1.0 +Think that the very next may be too late:,1.0 +"This Hour great Marlborough for his Camp sets forth,",5.0 +"Avoiding Marlborough, Lewis may be Great;",3.0 +"Thou hast already felt his nervous Arm,",0.0 +"Of thy weak Marshals, which before it Cower;",2.0 +"He the great Qualities alone enjoys,",3.0 +"Of all thy Chiefs who are, and who have been.",1.0 +"Joined with that Presence of commanding Soul,",1.0 +"That keeps entirely Master of it self,",3.0 +And Master of the furious God of War;,3.0 +"When with dire Looks, and with a dreadful Roar,",1.0 +"He Foams, and all the God runs mad with Rage.",1.0 +"And vast Capacity, and all that Skill,",1.0 +"So admirable in the Art of Death,",1.0 +"Which fixed inconstancy of Fortunes Will,",2.0 +"Issue thy dread Commands this Moment out,",3.0 +"And let the great deciding Blow be given,",0.0 +E'r Destiny and Marlborough arrive.,3.0 +"The Fury said, the Tyrant gave Consent,",0.0 +"To the Bavarian strait his Orders sends,",3.0 +"Which to the Army, through the dreary Shades,",1.0 +Thence to the various Towns the impetuous Daemon bore.,3.0 +"AURORA had not painted yet the World,",0.0 +"With various Dies, restoring every Hue,",2.0 +That Night had with her miscreant Hand expunged;,3.0 +"The starry Host of Heaven, and Host of Hell;",0.0 +"No Shepherd's Pipe was on the Mountains heard,",2.0 +Nor Hunters Bugle in the Echoing Vales;,2.0 +"When the shrill Trumpet roused up drowsy Mars,",2.0 +"Death's Bugle in the Chase of Humane Blood,",4.0 +"The Beasts of Nature to their Dens retired,",1.0 +And the whole Forrest trembled at the sound:,2.0 +"The Beasts of Nature feared, alas, in vain,",0.0 +"Though Fate a solemn Hunting had prepared,",0.0 +"For Man the Huntsman was, and Man the Prey.",1.0 +"Before the Dawn, throughout the Belgian Plains,",0.0 +"Forth from their several Fortresses they march,",1.0 +"For Help, her Eyes, for Chains her Arms restrained;",0.0 +"Now Beautiful, and Rich, and Great, and Gay,",2.0 +"Once more with secret Pride her Sons surveys,",0.0 +And once more boasts of her Immortal Race;,1.0 +"That joyous lift their towry Fronts on high,",0.0 +"As when kind Nature by the help of Art,",2.0 +"And secret Influence of indulgent Heaven,",3.0 +Throws off a long and dangerous Disease;,1.0 +"Once more she to her self delightful grows,",1.0 +"And once more Beauty and long absent Grace,",2.0 +"And Strength and Joy, unspeakable return;",1.0 +"From which the Squadrons march by several Ways,",0.0 +"To reach the Camp by false Bavaria formed,",2.0 +And there like Torrents in the Ocean join:,1.0 +"Now a more potent numerous Host they seemed,",2.0 +Or mightier Julius overcame the West.,2.0 +"Confiding in their Numbers they grow Fierce,",2.0 +"And their dilated Hearts distend with Pride,",1.0 +"Their Lines disdaining with a Roar they pass,",1.0 +Before their various Nations all are joined;,2.0 +Before victorious Marlborough arrives.,3.0 +"With hideous Air, and with Gigantic Stalk,",3.0 +Before them the infernal Goddess strides.,1.0 +"Arrived, and curses the provoking sight,",1.0 +She finds that from His Presence all the Troops,1.0 +"Assume Immortal Spirit, and an Air",1.0 +Even her the fiercest Fiend of all the Damned.,1.0 +Now Discord to the Gallic Camp returned,2.0 +"Hast thou observed, how yonder Confederate Troops",4.0 +"Inferior in their Numbers far to ours,",1.0 +Yet carry Conquest in their flaming Eyes;,0.0 +And yet their Veteran and their Boldest Troops,1.0 +"Have often fled before the Gallic Power,",0.0 +"Whence now this Spirit, this Superior Fire?",3.0 +"From Liberty the Marshal strait replies,",1.0 +"It's from the Bravery of the English Troops,",2.0 +"Who with Immortal Liberty inspired,",2.0 +"And with the Love of Glory all inflamed,",1.0 +"Infect the Nations with Their noble Fire,",1.0 +As Man was formed to Lord it over Beasts,0.0 +"Freemen were preordained to vanquish Slaves,",2.0 +Had but His honest Mind suspected Thee.,1.0 +"To whom the Fury instantly replied,",1.0 +"It's true, the English merit all our Praise,",0.0 +"A Nation Fierce, Magnanimous and Free,",1.0 +"Valiant from Freedom, from their Climate Brave,",3.0 +"Who in their fierce Attacks with Fury made,",0.0 +And in their firmness to sustain the Efforts,1.0 +"Of their outrageous and their pressing Foes,",2.0 +But in their Rallying Rage surpass them all.,2.0 +But never yet endured the fierce Attacks,0.0 +Our Germans with much Constancy sustain,2.0 +The English Rally still with greater Rage,0.0 +"Than they at first attack astonished Foe,",1.0 +As a fierce Bull who furiously contends,5.0 +"For the fair She that has his Heart subdued,",0.0 +"And for the Empire of the Flowery Meads,",4.0 +Recedes from his proud Rival to return,3.0 +"With more impetuous Shock, more dreadful Rage",0.0 +So when the Britons from the Field retreat,1.0 +They rally with no less amazing Fire.,2.0 +But the great Changes of the World below,3.0 +Are brought about by Heaven and not by Man;,0.0 +"For it's a Jealous God who rules the Sky,",1.0 +Jealous of Glory and in Love with Praise.,3.0 +And when the Wonders of his Might He shows,1.0 +"And brings to pass astonishing Events,",1.0 +"Events which all the under World amaze,",0.0 +It's not by Strength of Nations that He works,0.0 +For that would look mere Human Might to all;,1.0 +But by select Celestial Spirits sent,1.0 +For that Design from His own Heaven and formed,1.0 +"Of finer Clay, and in a nobler Mould",1.0 +"Than are the vulgar Race of Mortal Men,",1.0 +That when to all astonished World they appear,2.0 +"With more than Human Qualities endued,",1.0 +"Astonished World may be constrained to own,",0.0 +"And they themselves confess, that what they do",1.0 +"The noblest Nations have derived their Fame,",0.0 +"And when These fail them, they are lost, undone,",1.0 +"And grow the Scorn of their Insulting Foes,",1.0 +"Marshal, reflect on Ancient Days, and say,",2.0 +What wondrous Acts did Persians before perform,2.0 +Before or after their great Cyrus reigned?,2.0 +"Obscure, unworthy of the Voice of Fame?",1.0 +"And when victorious Alexander died,",2.0 +"The Romans owed the Glories of their State,",1.0 +And vast extent of Empire to a few.,1.0 +As by their noblest Writers is confessed.,2.0 +"As far as now fair England's Glory flies,",1.0 +What had it done before great Edward reigned?,1.0 +Where was its Glory till Eliza came?,1.0 +And by Her Wisdom and Heroic Mind,2.0 +"With Hers even England's Life and Soul expired,",0.0 +"Or turned upon it self its own inglorious Arms,",2.0 +"He came, and their declining Spirits raised,",1.0 +"He gave them their Religion, and their Anne,",2.0 +She Freedom and the Might of Malb'rough gave.,1.0 +"As William was betrayed, undone by me,",1.0 +For from His Presence yonder audacious Troops,3.0 +From which they flash intolerable Fire.,1.0 +"Even thou thy self, for I remarked it well;",2.0 +"Commanding as the Form of the first Man,",2.0 +"While His great Maker's Image He retained,",3.0 +"And Empire sat upon his Lordly Brow,",0.0 +"The World's Imperial Ruler and his own,",3.0 +Before Celestial Reason had been taught,0.0 +"Her Subject Passion poorly to obey,",1.0 +And the degenerating Mind debased,1.0 +"When before His Troops behold that noble Form,",0.0 +"All His great Actions, all His high Exploits,",3.0 +"Present themselves before their wondering Minds,",2.0 +"And to their view present their stately Towers,",1.0 +"Carried against the Choice of all our Powers,",2.0 +"And then they charge, and once again they fight",0.0 +"Their Battles over, and triumph once again,",2.0 +For firmly yonder audacious Troops believe,2.0 +"It's not from Fortune these Successes flow,",1.0 +"But from the Wisdom of their wondrous Chief,",2.0 +"His vast Capacity, his flaming Zeal,",1.0 +"His restless Labour and perpetual Thought,",3.0 +"Indeed so just have been His great Designs,",0.0 +"So exquisite His Conduct, so profound,",2.0 +"Not one false step in Four renowned Campaigns,",3.0 +So bright His humble Modesty has shone,1.0 +"In still consulting His Illustrious Friends,",3.0 +"His Counsellors so few, so justly chose,",1.0 +"His Secrets kept from the most piercing Eyes,",1.0 +His Constancy in executing all,1.0 +"That has so well consulted been, so firm,",0.0 +His Spirit as a Captain so sublime,2.0 +"And as a Soldier so Invincible,",3.0 +That Marshal to remove Him we must Hire,2.0 +"The fiercest and most desperate of thy Men,",2.0 +Or Twenty Thousand of yonder bravest Troops,2.0 +Will less obstruct our great Success than He.,0.0 +"In the Distress of the stupend'ous Day,",3.0 +"And a most daring Combatant, supply",5.0 +Each brave Battalion of His fainting Host;,1.0 +"Till He brought Conquest back and won the Day,",2.0 +Or else conclude this fatal Man must die.,0.0 +"What Apprehension then would pierce thy Breast,",0.0 +Then what Astonishment would strike thy Mind?,1.0 +"For, OH the jarring Talents which appear,",0.0 +Uniting all their Factions in His Soul!,0.0 +"The Heat, the Cold, the Liveliness, the Weight,",1.0 +"The Gravity, astonishing Dispatch,",2.0 +"The Providence, the Intrepidity,",3.0 +"Discharged without a Tempest on His Breast,",1.0 +Or a black lowering Cloud upon His Brow!,4.0 +But His great Mind immovable remains.,3.0 +"And these great Qualities by turns He shows,",3.0 +"Not as His Fancy, Humour, Passion call,",3.0 +"As he who made this all the Seasons guides,",1.0 +"And alters Hot and Dry, and Moist and Cold,",0.0 +By what the changing Universe requires.,0.0 +"If we this dangerous General shall destroy,",3.0 +Who having these repugnant Talents joined,1.0 +Talents which none besides of Human kind,2.0 +Surpassing all the rest of Mortal Race.,0.0 +Who the great Qualities of twenty Chiefs,3.0 +"Possessing still achieves the Exploits of more,",2.0 +Whose Passion for his own accursed Cause,2.0 +"So flaming is, so deadly is His Hate,",2.0 +"And so invincible to us and ours,",3.0 +"That not content to act in His own Sphere,",1.0 +"And every Hour new Wonders to perform,",4.0 +"Of Foreign Generals, which with all their Thought,",0.0 +They were unable to perform themselves.,2.0 +Wherever the Allies appear in Arms,1.0 +"With Him their noblest Actions they concert,",2.0 +"He furnishes their bravest Chiefs with Troops,",1.0 +Yet while to others He gives Power to act,4.0 +"His Care, His Labour, His eternal Thought,",1.0 +"As if all others had refused to act,",1.0 +The more than Mortal Burden of the War.,1.0 +Indeed whatever has been greatly done,1.0 +"In Germany, or in the Belgian Plains,",1.0 +Has under his Auspicious Power been done:,1.0 +"For He observing with Judicious Thought,",2.0 +That through a tedious War your Gallic Powers,2.0 +Or owed Their Conquests to My secret Arts.,2.0 +"Or by their Numbers gained their great Success,",1.0 +That They the Field eternally declined,1.0 +"Unless by vast Advantages sustained,",1.0 +"As conscious of the Weakness of their Cause,",2.0 +The Weakness of their boldest Veteran Troops,1.0 +Which Two set Battles fought on equal Terms,1.0 +"Would soon demonstrate to the Christian World,",1.0 +That even in Fight they close Engagement shunned,2.0 +Till they had tamed their most intrepid Foes,1.0 +"By odds of Numbers wearied and oppressed,",1.0 +"His Conduct in each Point to theirs opposed,",1.0 +And changed the Form and Fortune of the War.,1.0 +By His eternal Vigilance His Troops,2.0 +Are still too numerous to be flanked by ours;,2.0 +"His secret, His impenetrable Heart",2.0 +"Defended stands from Treason's piercing Eye,",0.0 +That Caution from great William's Fate he drew,2.0 +Then He the fatal Hour of Combat seeks,0.0 +"And finds with penetrating Thought, or makes",0.0 +"Either halfway, he Bald Occasion meets,",3.0 +"Or like a Hunter He pursues her Flight,",1.0 +"Then in the dreadful Field assails your Powers,",0.0 +Nor suffers you with Fury to assault;,2.0 +For which you by the Christian World are famed.,1.0 +"Nor wages then a cool and distant War,",0.0 +But presses on you with redoubled Might;,2.0 +And in upon your firmest Squadrons breaks,0.0 +"Till with his Horse their shattered Ranks he tears,",1.0 +"Nor made by Nature, nor by Climate formed",1.0 +The Thunder of such Fury to sustain;,2.0 +"And chiefly, which has rendered Him to us",1.0 +"A dangerous and a formidable Foe,",2.0 +That no Divisions fraudulently sown,1.0 +So careful to augment or to maintain,2.0 +Among the various Potentates abroad;,2.0 +That Union which with a Celestial Voice,1.0 +"He reconciles, the Interests He adjusts,",1.0 +"As Streams from East and West, and North and South,",0.0 +"Are mixed in Ocean's vast Abyss, and lost.",0.0 +"He Nations, and their Kings, with Thoughts inspires,",1.0 +"Above all little, selfish, low Designs,",0.0 +And fills them with a public glorious Fire.,3.0 +"In all these things the wondrous Man's concerned,",0.0 +Which so destructive are to us and ours;,3.0 +"With so much Zeal, with such Assiduous Thought,",2.0 +"Nor any Distance of Remotest Place,",1.0 +"Nor Pleasures specious and alluring Bait,",1.0 +"The God like Man, alas, no Pleasure knows,",1.0 +"But what the Ruler of yonder Heaven pursues,",2.0 +To do great Good and Glory to acquire,1.0 +"Whom Day and Night He watches to preserve,",1.0 +"Nor ought that Earth, nor ought that Hell invents;",0.0 +"Is able to obstruct His generous Course,",3.0 +Is able to retard His noble Speed,1.0 +In the Carrier of everlasting Fame.,1.0 +"But with Himself He high Designs revolves,",1.0 +Or those who execute those high Designs,1.0 +"With that familiar Greatness He receives,",1.0 +"Which makes Him the Delight of all the Good,",1.0 +And the Felicity of all the Brave.,2.0 +As from these wondrous Talents in Him joined,1.0 +All that astonishing Success proceeds,1.0 +"Which is become the Darling Theme of Fame,",1.0 +So by that high Success is Malbrough grown,1.0 +"The Joy of all the Happy Nations round,",0.0 +"The Hope and Consolation of the Rest,",1.0 +"The Confident of the most Jealous States,",2.0 +And the just wonder of the Christian World.,2.0 +But with the Squadrons who his Voice obey,1.0 +"So sacred His Authority is grown,",2.0 +"By the brave Soldier His adopted Care,",3.0 +"He guards from Danger and from Want He shields,",1.0 +"That when, nor Interests loud and powerful Voice,",2.0 +Nor love of Glory longer can prevail,1.0 +Upon their fainting Spirits to sustain,1.0 +"The fierce Attacks of our Assaulting Bands,",1.0 +"His potent Voice the Squadrons new creates,",0.0 +"Gives them new Life, new Spirit and new Hope,",6.0 +"Nay, certainty of Conquest and of Fame,",3.0 +But Marshal for some Time I have observed,1.0 +"Surprise, and Joy, and Wonder in thy Eyes.",0.0 +"Tis true, with Joy and Wonder I have heard",2.0 +Thy generous Praise of such a deadly Foe:,3.0 +For when so many English have been found,0.0 +His mighty Benefits as great and strong,1.0 +"As ever Hero on his Country laid,",1.0 +"Thou, who by force of His victorious Arm",3.0 +"Art fallen from such a Height, OH whither fallen!",2.0 +"Fallen from thy Empire, from thy Glory fallen,",2.0 +"Of Those at which Thy vast Ambition aimed,",0.0 +"And place the noble Piece in its true Light,",1.0 +"As all the generous English would extol,",2.0 +"The Praise I merit not, I must refuse,",0.0 +"It's not a generous Frailty in my Mind,",2.0 +"But great Revenge, the Attribute of Gods,",0.0 +"A Merit which by all the World's extolled,",0.0 +For it's with bitterest Gall that I extol,4.0 +"The Hero, whom to crush I must commend.",0.0 +And Slanders of the blackest hue been tried,0.0 +"At once his Fame and Person to destroy,",1.0 +And against Both have signified no more,6.0 +"Than Morning Mists against the Julian Sun,",0.0 +His rising Glory has dispelled them all;,0.0 +"It's time to try what Truth may effect at last,",1.0 +And on her own loud Champion turn her Arms.,4.0 +"This Hero I in just proportions drew,",1.0 +"Is this pernicious General to destroy,",2.0 +That whole Brigades less Dangerous are than He.,3.0 +"That while yonder Troops His noble Form inspires,",0.0 +"They will Impenetrable still remain,",2.0 +"If then our Interest's precious in our Eyes,",0.0 +"If Victory has Charms for our great Minds,",3.0 +"For which great Lewis steels our nervous Arms,",1.0 +"Which is the Empire of the Universe,",1.0 +"Can thaw our Blood, our drooping Spirits raise,",0.0 +"This Formidable Hero to destroy,",2.0 +Thou wilt in shameful Bonds once more be led,1.0 +"As thou by Conquering Eugene wert before,",3.0 +Or grow the Object of the Peoples Scorn,1.0 +"And I shall from my Government be chased,",1.0 +As from Bavaria I before was driven.,4.0 +"And looked with Eyes unwilling to consent,",1.0 +Yet fearful to deny; which when the Fiend,1.0 +"Observed, she with Imperious Tone rejoined,",3.0 +"Think it's thy Absolute, thy Awful Lord,",0.0 +"Tis Lewis who commands thee to obey,",2.0 +"To make His boundless Will His only Law,",1.0 +And then examine if that Will be just?,1.0 +"She said, when with prevailing Shades the Night",1.0 +To execute their dire Design retired.,0.0 +"The World's Almighty Ruler with that Eye,",1.0 +"Are hushed, attentive to the Voice Divine,",1.0 +"To which their Sounds are Discord, all the Globes",0.0 +"That roll through Space Immense a Moment rest,",0.0 +"A Moment their Eternal Course suspend,",1.0 +And tremble while their great Creator speaks.,0.0 +"Behold, he to the Filial Godhead says,",4.0 +With how much Fury our outrageous Foe,2.0 +"Proceeds His impious Vice-Roy to maintain,",5.0 +Let us against the Raging Fiend oppose,2.0 +"One of our Angels burning most with Zeal,",1.0 +"And most with blissful Charity inspired,",1.0 +Let Him descend and with Celestial Might,3.0 +"Resist the Malice of Infernal Rage,",1.0 +"That he may Conquer and that we may Reign,",2.0 +"And all the Nations join in Bonds of Love,",0.0 +And Quiet to the weary World return.,1.0 +"And their transporting Symphonies renew,",2.0 +"Immortal Transport runs through every Mind,",0.0 +"Immortal Pleasure brightens every Face,",0.0 +"In Circles the Angelic Bands embrace,",2.0 +And rush into each others Arms with Joy,0.0 +"Which Tongues of Angels never can express,",1.0 +"And never can the Heart of Man conceive,",1.0 +"The God of Union sings, the God of Peace.",0.0 +Next to the Deity there stood an Orb,1.0 +"Of glorious Seraphim, a wondrous Orb,",4.0 +"Who had the Wings, the Brightness and the Power",1.0 +"Of all the bright Inhabitants of Heaven,",1.0 +"None burned with blissful Charity like them,",2.0 +"Like Him in Human Shape they appeared in Heaven,",2.0 +"Like Him they once had Bodies of frail Flesh,",2.0 +"And long with Death and Dangers here they shone,",0.0 +And Mortal Misery and Mortal Care,1.0 +"The Nations to unite in Bonds of Peace,",2.0 +And vindicate the warring Saints below,1.0 +"From the abhorred usurping Reign of Hell,",2.0 +"From foul Idolatry and lawless Power,",1.0 +And spread Messiah's Righteous Kingdom here,6.0 +"Of Sacred Liberty and Sacred Law,",1.0 +"And here, when they had suffered much and long,",0.0 +And swift ascended to the Heaven of Heavens,1.0 +"Triumphant, there in Human likeness sat",1.0 +That Human likeness which on Earth they graced,0.0 +And some Resemblance of His Glory bore,1.0 +As of His Sufferings they before had born.,2.0 +"The Filial Godhead thus himself addressed,",3.0 +You Host of Seraphim who once were Men,2.0 +Who bore the Misery of Mortal Life,1.0 +"Like me, and bore the cruel Pains of Death",0.0 +"Unite Mankind among themselves in Love,",2.0 +And spread my Father's Kingdom over Earth;,0.0 +Which of you freely will descend to save,1.0 +"The British Hero from impending Fate,",1.0 +Him who in Charity the Nations binds,1.0 +"And Pious Anna's Conquering Host commands,",2.0 +"That we may triumph, and that we may reign,",2.0 +Him Lucifer and Discord raging Fiends,1.0 +Contrive with Hellish Fury to destroy.,1.0 +Forth from the Spirits of that shining Orb,1.0 +"A glorious Spirit shoots on gorgeous Wings,",2.0 +"Wings with bright Purple and with Gold arrayed,",4.0 +And down before the Sovereign Throne he lights.,1.0 +Of what He acted and He suffered here,1.0 +"Like Him, no Angel of all Heaven like Him",3.0 +Breathed forth Immortal Love to Mortal Men.,1.0 +"A Crown of Radiant Beams adorned His Head,",0.0 +"And winged His Shoulders were, and winged His Feet,",1.0 +"Lightning serene flew darting from His Eyes,",4.0 +And Lightning round his radiant Temples plaid.,0.0 +And in his Face there much Resemblance shone,0.0 +Of Him who once this happy Island swayed.,1.0 +Who moved by Charity for wretched Men,1.0 +"Came flying on the Wings of all the Winds,",2.0 +And rescued sinking Brittain from Her Fate.,1.0 +"His Face much likeness of His Earthly Bloom,",1.0 +"For now instead of Misery and Care,",1.0 +"And fatal Disappointment, fatal Woe,",0.0 +"And all the Frailties that on Dust attend,",0.0 +"Upon His Countenance perpetual Youth,",3.0 +"And Immortality appeared, and Joy",1.0 +"With tuneful Shouts of Acclamation rung,",1.0 +"When every Angel clapped His Golden Wings,",0.0 +"And every Angel struck His wondrous Lyre,",0.0 +"And could to Earth the Seat of Woe descend,",0.0 +"Where he had born what never Mortal bore,",0.0 +To rescue Malb'rough His adopted Care.,1.0 +"It's like thy self, like thy own fervent Zeal,",1.0 +"Thou good and faithful Servant, said the Son.",0.0 +"With speed then to the rolling Earth descend,",1.0 +"The Day for Vengeance preordained by us,",0.0 +And He the Christian World will there defend.,2.0 +"But before the Sun dispels the Shades of Night,",1.0 +"Present thy self in Vision to His Eyes,",1.0 +And with Celestial Hope His Soul inspire,1.0 +"Of present Conquest, and of future Fame",1.0 +"On Earth, and of Eternal Glory here.",1.0 +Tell Him of Provinces by Union's Power,1.0 +Lay His own Danger too before His Eyes,0.0 +And may to Earth and Heaven more glorious shine.,3.0 +"On it, a wondrous Birth of Fate attends,",1.0 +"A wondrous change in Europe shall be wrought,",0.0 +Ten thousand Terrors shall attend thy flight,1.0 +And Vengeance to amaze the Impious World.,4.0 +"At last is come when Satan shall no more,",1.0 +But Lewis was permitted to attain,2.0 +"To such uncommon Height of Lawless Power,",1.0 +"To grasp the Indies in his Threatening Hand,",0.0 +"And in his Thought the Empire of the Earth,",1.0 +That Vengeance sent from us might pierce him more,1.0 +And the Example strike the Impious World,4.0 +"With greater Terror, and our Hand appear.",1.0 +When He who has been fifty rolling Years,0.0 +Raising the Fabric of his Power to Heaven,5.0 +Shall find it in a Moment dashed to Hell,0.0 +"Shall hear their Western Brother's fall, shall hear",0.0 +And tremble at his Ruins hideous Sound:,2.0 +When Men turned Atheists by his long Success,2.0 +"Shall be confounded and turn pale and shake,",2.0 +And an amazing Providence beyond,2.0 +What their weak Minds have power to comprehend;,5.0 +"Then Impious War shall vex the Earth no more,",2.0 +"But Love Divine shall Human Hearts unite,",1.0 +And Peace shall to the wearied World return.,1.0 +"He ended, and the Angel bowing low",1.0 +"And solemn Organs change their melting Strains,",0.0 +And with fierce Warlike Symphony resound;,6.0 +And when the Instruments Divine repose,1.0 +Again the Thunder bellows through the Sky;,1.0 +"To that the Instruments again Respond,",1.0 +Alternate dreadful Sounds throughout the Sky.,2.0 +Tremendous Signal of Revenge Divine,1.0 +"Of Vengeance to be executed now,",1.0 +And after the descending Angel fly.,1.0 +"As through the Atmosphere He wheels His flight,",1.0 +"And cleaves with His Eternal Plumes the Air,",1.0 +"Of golden Light He draws a glorious Trail,",2.0 +And all the Illustrious Horrors of the Night.,4.0 +And all the winged ill Omens of the Air;,2.0 +"And Care, and Pain, and Sorrow, and Despair",1.0 +Fly from His Sacred Presence far away.,0.0 +"Before him Peace, Tranquillity and Joy,",1.0 +"Immortal Pleasures march before, behind",0.0 +Like a descending Star direct He shoots,1.0 +"Into the Tent where Mighty Malb'rough lay,",0.0 +But even in Sleep his Passions he controls,3.0 +"With Independent and with Lordly Sway,",1.0 +"His very Dream was regular, serene,",1.0 +Hail Champion of the Sacred Cause of Heaven!,2.0 +Hail Ornament of Earth! hail Dread of Hell!,3.0 +Illustrious Soul called out by me and Fate,3.0 +To turn the Fortune of the Western World.,1.0 +From the bright Realms of Everlasting Joy,2.0 +"With Pleasure I am sent to visit Thee,",2.0 +OH worthy Successor to me in Arms!,4.0 +OH Care of Heaven! OH Delegate of Fate!,5.0 +How have I been solicitous beyond,1.0 +What is allowed to blissful Minds above,1.0 +"For Anna, for Britannia, and for Thee!",3.0 +And yet when I ascended up to Heaven,2.0 +I neither Her nor thee entirely left;,4.0 +For at my parting I left Friends below ' --,2.0 +"OH Men, with whom even Angels may consult,",2.0 +"And on the Firmness of their faithful Zeal,",2.0 +And on their vast Capacity depend!,2.0 +"For all my Friends are Anna's Friends and Thine,",0.0 +"With Rage implacable thy Life pursue,",1.0 +"Wounds which no length of Days can cure, but Time",3.0 +No less than Ruin of their Empire here;,2.0 +Therefore to Morrow all their Mortal Darts,1.0 +"Will levelled be at thy Illustrious Head,",3.0 +And imminent the Danger is and great.,2.0 +But Danger will but raise the noble Fire,1.0 +Of Thy exalted Soul intent on things,1.0 +And bitterly Thy Foes lament Thy Fate;,1.0 +Yet Heaven its Champion never will permit,3.0 +"A wondrous Victory attends thy Arms,",1.0 +"Great in it self and in its Sequel vast,",0.0 +Whose echoing Sound through all the West shall run.,2.0 +"Transporting the glad Nations all around,",2.0 +"Who oft shall doubt, and oft suspend their Joy,",0.0 +And oft imagine all an empty Dream;,0.0 +"The Conqueror himself shall cry amazed,",1.0 +"It's not our Work, alas we did it not,",0.0 +"The Hand of God, the Hand of God is here",0.0 +"For Thee, so great shall be thy high Renown,",1.0 +That Fame shall think no Music like thy Name:,1.0 +"Around the circling Globe it shall be spread,",0.0 +And to the World's last Ages shall endure.,2.0 +"Heroes of Ancient Times Thou shalt eclipse,",2.0 +"And the most lofty most aspiring Man,",1.0 +To ask such high Felicity and Fame,1.0 +"As Heaven has freely granted Thee, yet this",1.0 +"That seems so great, so glorious to Thee now",1.0 +"Would look how low, how vile to Thy great Mind,",1.0 +If I could set before thy astonished Eyes,3.0 +That is prepared for Thy aspiring Soul,2.0 +OH could embodied Mind but comprehend,1.0 +"The Glories of the Intellectual World,",3.0 +Or I the blissful Secret were allowed;,2.0 +"But Fate forbids, to Mortals to reveal,",1.0 +OH I could lay a Scene before thy Eyes,0.0 +Which would distract Thee with transporting Joy;,1.0 +"Fire the rich Blood in thy Illustrious Veins,",5.0 +"Make every Nerve with fierce Convulsions start,",1.0 +"Blast all thy Spirits and thy Life destroy,",1.0 +"As one who has lived thirty tedious Years,",3.0 +"And ever since his wretched Birth been Dark,",0.0 +And in the Dungeon of the Body dwelled,1.0 +In utter Ignorance of Nature's Works,1.0 +"And Wonders of this vast material World,",3.0 +"And has no Notion before conceived of Light,",3.0 +"Or Colours, or the verdant Flowery Earth,",2.0 +Or the stupendous prospect of the Sky;,2.0 +If then he finds some Artist whose nice Hand,1.0 +"Couches the Cataracts and clears his Eyes,",2.0 +"And all at once a Flood of glorious Light,",2.0 +"And this bright Temple of the Universe,",3.0 +"Come rushing through His Eyes upon His Soul,",2.0 +"He cannot bear astonishing Delight,",1.0 +"But starts, exclaims, and stamps, and raves, and dies:",0.0 +"So the vast Glories of the upper World,",3.0 +If they were set before embodied Mind,1.0 +Would oppress Nature and extinguish Life.,7.0 +As glorious as they look to Human Eyes,1.0 +"Are little, are contemptible to them,",2.0 +Like glimmering Starlight to the Blaze of Day.,2.0 +For Thee let this suffice the Share of Bliss,2.0 +Is such as shall distinguish Thee from most:,2.0 +For since the Glory of the Just in Heaven,1.0 +"Is equal to their Charity on Earth,",2.0 +I say not this to fortify thy Mind,1.0 +"Against the Fear of Death, Thou hast no Fear,",1.0 +"For Thou hast been familiar with Him long,",2.0 +"And calmly looked upon His Gorgon Eye,",0.0 +"That conscious is of Glory, Bliss and Life,",1.0 +Unbounded all as vast Eternity.,1.0 +Even I not more intrepid was on Earth,2.0 +"Than Thou, nor am not more undaunted now:",1.0 +"But this is said, that on this dreadful Day",2.0 +And surpass Him who all the World transcends.,1.0 +Thou shalt have Millions of Immortal Minds,1.0 +"Glorious Spectators of thy Immortal Acts,",4.0 +And towering over Thee still Thou shalt behold,2.0 +"Bright Victory and me, he said, and now",2.0 +"And now the Angel disappears from sight,",0.0 +And His Bright Shape dissolves into the Morn.,2.0 +"For when the Angel vanished from His Eyes,",1.0 +"He shot half Heaven into the Heroes Mind,",1.0 +"His Mind was with Immortal Hope inspired,",1.0 +"Celestial Confidence, Celestial Fire,",1.0 +A Flame that in his noble Breast aspired,0.0 +"To things above the Greatness of this World,",1.0 +"And Joy which Human Hearts can never conceive,",2.0 +"Unspeakable, Transporting, yet Serene,",1.0 +Prophetic of Felicity and Fame.,2.0 +"And after Him in hast the Sun arose,",1.0 +Impatient to behold his wondrous Deeds.,1.0 +Exalted with a Dreadful Majesty;,2.0 +"All but His great Contempt of Death increased,",0.0 +"For that was Sovereign in His Soul before,",0.0 +Ten thousand brighter Glories from the Skies,2.0 +"Descended to behold, or to assist",2.0 +For the Immortal Day was to decide,2.0 +"No trifling small Affairs, no mean Dispute,",2.0 +"The Limits of small Kingdoms, or the Bounds",3.0 +"Of poor Provincial Tributary Lords,",0.0 +"If God should reign over His own Works below,",4.0 +"And now the dreadful Trumpet sounds to Arms,",0.0 +Which to Immortal Deeds excites their Souls.,1.0 +"And now in terrible Array appear,",1.0 +"Awaiting their Commanders Awful Voice,",1.0 +That blackening all the Sky in silence stand,0.0 +"Before outrageous Wrack of Heaven begins,",0.0 +Who musters sounding Storms and rules their Rage.,0.0 +With pleasure He their Martial Eyes surveys,1.0 +"And finds them with Heroic Rage inspired,",1.0 +He finds they want no Speech to raise their Souls,1.0 +"To mightiest Deeds, for in their Eyes He sees",2.0 +They have already gained the glorious Day.,2.0 +"Up to the Heavens His Eyes the Hero casts,",3.0 +And there the Angel with His flaming Sword,2.0 +And Victory with Eagles Wings He spies,1.0 +And now a glorious Flame from Heaven descends,2.0 +And this is the first Hour that before He found,2.0 +"Its Movements difficult to be restrained,",1.0 +"And now the Trumpet sounds the dreadful Charge,",0.0 +"And like the last Eternal Trump it sounds,",0.0 +"For now at hand the End of Time appears,",0.0 +"For Hideous is the Face of Nature now,",1.0 +"The warring Elements, Earth, Air and Fire",2.0 +"Are raging in stupend'ous motion all,",4.0 +"And Earth with Air confounded, and with Fire.",1.0 +And seem to be expiring Natures Groans;,0.0 +"But no swift Motion, no Impetuous Rage",1.0 +"Of missive Earth, or of exploded Air,",1.0 +Or of expanded Fire can equal half,1.0 +Outrageous Motions of undaunted Minds,1.0 +Divinely swift in Tenements of Clay.,1.0 +"And clashing with amazing Fury join,",1.0 +Their mighty Movements for a while suspend,1.0 +"The Motions of frail Mortals to behold,",3.0 +Who Transports of Immortal Fury show,2.0 +Above the weak Condition of poor Dust,2.0 +Above the frail Concerns of wretched Men.,0.0 +While wondering they behold with all their Eyes,3.0 +The whole Confederate and the Gallic Powers,0.0 +Raging and working like divided Seas,2.0 +"Which Adverse Storms against each other drive,",1.0 +All their admiring Eyes are chiefly bent,1.0 +"Next Him Argyle drew all their wondering Eyes,",3.0 +"Argyle the Young, the Beautiful, the Brave,",2.0 +"Fit for deep Counsels even in early Bloom,",5.0 +"Of Thought profound, without Experience Wise,",2.0 +Without the Ruinous Expense of Years;,1.0 +"But in the Bloody Field all Rage, all Fire;",0.0 +"Champion of Union in the Bloody Field,",1.0 +"In Cabinets He Union too advised,",1.0 +The jarring Nations to unite in Love.,2.0 +"And like the fancied God of War He looked,",0.0 +"And Terrors march before His Iron Carr,",0.0 +And sounding Devastation comes behind.,0.0 +Argyle was like the fancied God of Love,1.0 +"When He contracts His Brow and bends His Bow,",1.0 +And drawing his Inevitable Shafts,2.0 +Wounds deeply Human Breasts unite their Hearts.,2.0 +"Without their furious Britons both appear,",2.0 +And Foreign Squadrons to the Charge they lead.,1.0 +"But Germans, Danes and Dutch turn Britons all",1.0 +"Shines out, and fires them to Immortal Deeds,",1.0 +"And leads them to the Charge, unknowing to retire.",2.0 +OH would some Angel give me force to paint,0.0 +"Between conflicting Hosts, before her marched",0.0 +"Ten thousand Terrors, Natives all of Hell,",1.0 +Commanded by their grizzly Monarch Death.,1.0 +"Each stride entrenched the Earth on which she strode,",0.0 +"Red Lightning Dart, and Thunder was her Voice.",2.0 +"As sternly she the Field of Death surveys,",1.0 +And finds that Fate in every other part,0.0 +"Was doubtful, but where mighty Malb'rough shined,",1.0 +"There Victory, there Destiny declared;",2.0 +The utmost Fortresses of Belgian Land;,2.0 +"The Mountains tremble at the horrid Din,",0.0 +When thus the Terrors and their grizzly King,1.0 +Have you then found an overmatch at last?,0.0 +To the Efforts of yonder Confederate Powers?,6.0 +Over which till Malb'rough at their Head appeared,0.0 +"You always have prevailed, nay now prevail",1.0 +"Over Squadrons which remote from Him engage,",1.0 +"But see He comes, this Thunderbolt of War!",0.0 +Look how against the Storm He Headlong drives!,3.0 +He unconcerned and only we amazed!,1.0 +Is it then possible that one frail Man,3.0 +"Can thus resist the Force of all your Powers,",0.0 +And can you poorly bear extreme Affront?,1.0 +"You Host of Terrors and thou grizzly Death,",1.0 +"If you are Terrors armed with deadly Stings,",1.0 +"If thou art Death, my cruel Offspring Death,",2.0 +"O pierce Him, stab Him in the vital st Part!",1.0 +To see this Briton amid all thy Powers,2.0 +"This is no God, but a mere Mortal Man,",4.0 +As subject to Thy Arm as the vile Slave.,2.0 +Muster Thy Terrors then in dire Array!,2.0 +"And scare this hitherto undaunted Brave,",1.0 +"Then, then be ready with thy Fatal Dart,",1.0 +Let me alone to give Thee certain aim,2.0 +And so dispatching one we conquer all.,2.0 +"But who, though Master of an Angel's Force,",1.0 +"An Angel's Genius, and an Angel's Voice,",1.0 +"Of Song Celestial, Eloquence Divine,",1.0 +The fearful March of the Infernal Powers,1.0 +"Into a Form Immense, then musters all",0.0 +"His Terrors in astonishing Array,",1.0 +"His Terrors put on their most hideous Forms,",3.0 +"Forms which with Horror Nature sees and shakes,",0.0 +And to the Heart its Citadel retires.,1.0 +"In Phalanx then the Hero they assail,",1.0 +"Considers them, disdains them and repels:",2.0 +But into Madness starts the generous Steed,2.0 +"At the dire sight, he flies, he bounds, he foams,",0.0 +"Flashes of Lightning from his Eye-Balls fly,",4.0 +And from his Nostrils curling Clouds of Smoke;,1.0 +"Then groans, and floundering with his Rider falls.",1.0 +"Discord returns the Roar of vast Applause,",2.0 +"And all their Spirit's with their Hero fallen,",1.0 +And Victory has Charms for them no more;,2.0 +"The Heavenly Spirits are themselves concerned,",3.0 +"And for a Moment wonder what this means,",1.0 +And doubt least they mistook the Voice of Fate.,2.0 +"At once an Hundred Fiery Globes discharge,",2.0 +But a strong unseen Hand diverts them all.,3.0 +"Then lifting brandishes His fatal Dart,",1.0 +"Yet wants the power to strike but looks askew,",2.0 +"When Discord cries aloud, OH strike my Son!",1.0 +"Is not our dreadful Adversary fallen,",0.0 +"Yes from the Pinnacle of Glory fallen,",1.0 +OH foolish Sentence! Judgement falsely past!,1.0 +"OH greatest Thou, he cries, of Mortal Men,",2.0 +As we whom Heaven has placed above His reach!,1.0 +"Then Conquest saw Thee Humble and Serene,",1.0 +Which nothing can depress and nothing raise!,1.0 +"Never was Mortal more severely tried,",2.0 +"But now it's past, and perfect art Thou found,",1.0 +For since within the very Arms of Death,0.0 +Thou hast the high Security enjoyed,1.0 +"Of Blissful Beings who can die no more,",1.0 +"Thou shalt their high Felicity enjoy,",1.0 +For thy unshaken Mind can bear it all.,1.0 +"What Angels dictate, and what Angels do",2.0 +Whose Words and Acts are swifter than our Thoughts,1.0 +"In Moments, Mortals cannot speak in Hours.",0.0 +"Down He comes shooting on His Golden Wings,",3.0 +And on the Spot in all His Glory lights,1.0 +Where in the Arms of Death His Malb'rough lay.,0.0 +As swift as are the Wings of Lightning Bounds.,1.0 +Sent down from Heaven now gives it Him once more.,2.0 +The Troops are wild with ecstasy of Joy,1.0 +To see their General from the Bonds of Death,1.0 +And yelling Discord flies from Love Divine.,0.0 +"Now the Brave Squadrons to His Aid arrive,",4.0 +"And now another fiery Steed present,",2.0 +And with their cries the eager Hero urge,1.0 +"To lead them on to everlasting Fame,",1.0 +Mounting with Him to Heaven their Spirits soar.,1.0 +"The Hero mounts, but Discord while He mounts",0.0 +And Death outrageous to be thus repulsed,1.0 +"Level a Canon at His Sacred Head,",2.0 +But from His Sacred Head the ponderous Ball,3.0 +Who dies for such a Chief in such a Cause.,2.0 +Through the Confederate Troops the Angel now,3.0 +"The Spirit of Celestial Union spreads,",1.0 +First bound the Nations in the Bonds of Love,1.0 +Is sent from Heaven that Union to confirm,1.0 +The Wisdom and the Force of Gods He feels.,1.0 +And now He leads the shouting Squadrons on,1.0 +Daring as if they were Immortal all;,2.0 +"With Hearts and Souls unanimous they advance,",3.0 +"United as they were one Nation all,",2.0 +"One Family, Relations all, and Friends.",1.0 +"One Interest have They all, one Noble Cause,",0.0 +And greatly each resolves to Die for all.,0.0 +"The French who brave Resistance made till now,",0.0 +Now can Their fierce Attacks no longer bear.,1.0 +They can no longer bear their very Eyes,2.0 +"Headlong upon their Gallic Friends are diven,",1.0 +"The routed Gauls Divide, Disband, Disperse,",0.0 +"They fly, the Angel waves His Flaming Sword,",0.0 +At which expected Signal on the Wing,1.0 +And persecute and plague their broken Rear;,0.0 +"Make some precipitate their shameful Flight,",1.0 +"And others Trembling Faint, and Sink, and Die",0.0 +Thus Discord and the Gaul were forced to yield,2.0 +To Malb'rough and to Union's Sacred Power.,1.0 +"A Greedy Heir long waited to fulfil,",2.0 +"And to himself his Age repeated over,",1.0 +To his Infirmities still adding more;,3.0 +And nicely kept the Account of the expected Store:,3.0 +"When Death, at last, to either gave Release,",0.0 +"Making One's Pains, the Other's Longings cease;",2.0 +"Who to the Grave must decently convey,",1.0 +"Ere he Possession takes the kindred Clay,",2.0 +"Which in a Coach was placed, wherein he rides,",0.0 +"And so no Hearse, or following Train provides;",4.0 +"Rejecting Russel, who would make the Charge",0.0 +"Of one dull tedious Day, so vastly Large.",4.0 +"When, at his Death, the humble Man declared,",0.0 +He wished thus privately to be Interred.,3.0 +"And now, the Luggage moves in solemn State,",0.0 +"And what it wants in Number, gains in Weight.",0.0 +"The happy Heir can scarce contain his Joy,",0.0 +"While sundry Musings do his Thoughts employ,",0.0 +"How he shall act, now Every thing's his Own,",2.0 +"Where his Revenge, or Favour shall be shown;",1.0 +"Then recollecting, draws a counterfeited Groan.",0.0 +"The A venues, and Gardens shall be changed,",2.0 +"Already he the Furniture has ranged,",2.0 +"To ransack secret Drawers his Fancy flies,",1.0 +Nor can the appearing Wealth his Mind suffice.,1.0 +Thus he an Age runs over betwixt the Porch,3.0 +"Of his Friend's House, and the adjacent Church",3.0 +"While the slow Driver, who no reckoning kept",3.0 +"Of what was left, indulging Nature, slept;",0.0 +"Till on a Bank, so high, the Wheel was born",1.0 +That in a Moment All must overturn:,0.0 +While the rich Heir now finds the giving Dead,4.0 +"Less weighty in his Gold, than in his Lead;",1.0 +"Expelled the Soul, leaving the Corpse to rest",5.0 +"In the same Grave, intended for his Friend.",4.0 +Then why should We our Days in Wishes spend,0.0 +"Which, ere we see fulfilled, are often at an End",0.0 +HUSH! let me search before I speak aloud ' --,1.0 +Is no informer skulking in the crowd!,0.0 +"Malice at heart, indictments in his head,",2.0 +"Prepared to levy all the legal war,",0.0 +"I will a tale unfold, though strange, yet true;",1.0 +The application must be made by you.,0.0 +"At Athens once, fair queen of arms and arts,",1.0 +There dwelled a citizen of moderate parts!,2.0 +"Precise his manner, and demure his looks,",1.0 +"Amorous, though old; though dull, loved repartee;",2.0 +And penned a paragraph most daintily:,1.0 +"He aimed at purity in all he said,",1.0 +"It hath, and does, was rarely known to fail,",0.0 +Himself the hero of each little tale:,1.0 +"With wits and lords this man was much delighted,",0.0 +And once it has been said was near being knighted.,0.0 +Who never heeded grace in what he writ,0.0 +"And thinking him a subject for the stage,",2.0 +"Had, from the lumber, culled with curious care,",2.0 +"His voice, his looks, his gesture, gait and air,",0.0 +"His affectation, consequence, and mien,",1.0 +And boldly launched him on the comic scene;,1.0 +"All felt the satire, for all knew the man.",2.0 +"Then Peter ' -- Petros was his classic name,",1.0 +"Fearing the loss of dignity and fame,",3.0 +"To a grave lawyer in a hurry flies,",2.0 +"Opens his purse, and begs his best advice.",2.0 +"The fee secured, the lawyer strokes his band,",0.0 +"The case you put, I fully understand;",0.0 +For rules of poetry an't rules of courts:,2.0 +A libel this ' -- I'll make the mummer know it.,3.0 +"Restrained the sallies of his laughing muse,",1.0 +The bard appealed from this severe decree:,1.0 +The indulgent public set the prisoner free;,1.0 +"Greece was to him, what Dublin is to me.",2.0 +"TELL me what Genius did the art invent,",0.0 +The lively image of the voice to paint;,1.0 +"Who first the secret how to colour sound,",2.0 +"And to give shape to reason, wisely found;",2.0 +"With bodies how to cloth ideas, taught;",1.0 +And how to draw the picture of a thought:,2.0 +"Who taught the hand to speak, the eye to hear",0.0 +A silent language roving far and near;,0.0 +"Whose softest noise outstrips loud thunder's sound,",2.0 +And spreads her accents through the world's vast round:,2.0 +"A voice heard by the deaf, spoke by the dumb,",4.0 +"Whose echo reaches long, long time to come;",1.0 +Which dead men speak as well as those alive ' --,2.0 +Tell me what Genius did this art contrive.,0.0 +"Pardon, fair Nymph, I durst exert my Power,",3.0 +Invade your Rights in a facetious Hour;,1.0 +"My Strength had failed had not your Forces joined,",0.0 +And your own conquering Charms first struck him blind;,4.0 +Or I in vain should to the Sense advance.,1.0 +"All the Mysterious One I did not seize,",2.0 +But spared that part which was most like to please;,0.0 +"She whose diverting Tongue could entertain,",0.0 +With choice Collections from each Poet's Brain:,1.0 +"But see my Fetters could not bind him long,",0.0 +"He humbly sues for Pardon and a Song,",1.0 +"From your soft Voice which turns the Soul to Ear,",2.0 +"And drowsy as I am, I'll stay to hear:",2.0 +"If I with Nods should to the Tune keep time,",3.0 +"It is at worst, but a complaisant Crime:",2.0 +"O with what Joy! my Godhead I'd forsake,",3.0 +"Might you for ever Sing, and I for ever Wake.",1.0 +PALE disappointment! at thy freezing name,1.0 +Chill fears in every shivering vein I prove;,3.0 +"My sinking pulse almost forgets to move,",1.0 +"Yet thee, relentless nymph! no more I blame:",2.0 +Why do my thoughts mid vain illusions rove?,1.0 +Why gild the charms of friendship and of love,1.0 +"When ruffling winds have some bright fane overthrown,",1.0 +"Which shone on painted clouds, or seemed to shine,",0.0 +"I feel, alas! the fault is all my own,",0.0 +"And ah, the cruel punishment is mine!",1.0 +With luscious grapes yonder hill's romantic side;,3.0 +"Vain glows this sun in cloudless glory dressed,",1.0 +"My soul's best, only pleasure, LIBERTY!",2.0 +When the red papal tyrant cried out ' -- Blood!,2.0 +That dashed thy infants against the stones of yore.,2.0 +Be warned you nations round; and trembling see,0.0 +Dire superstition quench humanity!,1.0 +By all the chiefs in Freedom's battles lost;,0.0 +"That swiftly whirling through the walks of war,",1.0 +"Dashed Roman blood, and crushed the foreign throngs:",1.0 +"OH LIBERTY, my warm petition hear;",2.0 +"Be ALBION still thy joy! with her remain,",3.0 +And Asian youths for Scots Maria dies.,0.0 +"Yes! they may die ' -- and die ' -- and die again,",0.0 +"But ye's return and wed a Scottish swain,",0.0 +"WHAT Ills from Want of Education flow,",0.0 +From Avarice what cruel Scenes of Woe;,1.0 +"I mean to sing, except the tuneful Maid",0.0 +"Neglect my Numbers, and refuse her Aid.",1.0 +"Say, Goddess, first, what made the Youth explore",1.0 +"Say too, how on the barbarous Isle he came;",4.0 +What moved the Kindness of the Negro Dame?,1.0 +"A Friend, whose only Crime was loving well?",0.0 +His blooming Features every Beauty graced;,0.0 +"In silver Rings, his loosely flowing Hair",0.0 +"Hung over his Shoulders, with a comely Air;",4.0 +"Robust his Limbs, and daring was his Soul,",1.0 +"His graceful Charms the Ladies oft surveyed,",0.0 +And oft their Eyes an amorous Signal made;,2.0 +"But never could the tender Passion move,",0.0 +The stubborn Youth was still averse to Love;,0.0 +"Yet, though his Breast was Proof to CUPID's Dart,",0.0 +A more ignoble God enslaved his Heart.,0.0 +NO Mysteries of Faith disturbed his Head;,2.0 +For Mysteries of Faith he seldom read;,1.0 +"That moral Law, which Nature had impressed,",0.0 +"Yet in his Mind his Father's Precepts bears,",1.0 +Who often rung this Lesson in his Ears:,0.0 +"Would you, my Son, to Happiness aspire,",1.0 +"Know, Gold alone can Happiness acquire;",2.0 +"He that has Gold, is powerful as a King,",1.0 +"This to obtain, your utmost Skill bestow;",2.0 +"And if you gain it, be not careful how:",2.0 +"If in the Court, or Camp, you take Delight,",0.0 +"Then dare to flatter there, or here to fight:",1.0 +"Or, should the Merchant's Life your Fancy please,",0.0 +"Be bold, and bravely venture on the Seas;",1.0 +"Many by Merchandise have gained Renown,",2.0 +And made the Indies Wealth become their own.,0.0 +"The Youth imbibed the Precepts of his Tongue,",2.0 +Neglecting every Law of Right and Wrong;,0.0 +"Taught by his Sire to court destructive Gain,",2.0 +He burns to try his Fortune on the Main.,1.0 +"WHILE other Youths, by Wit or Pleasure swayed,",0.0 +"Frequent the Play, the Ball, or Masquerade;",1.0 +"Learns all the Rules of Interest, Loss and Gain.",0.0 +"NEXT, from an old Astronomer, he tries",1.0 +To learn the Planets Journey through the Skies;,1.0 +"With him, at Night, when Heaven serene appears,",1.0 +He points the Quadrant at the shining Spheres;,0.0 +"The HYADES, and frozen Pole surveys,",0.0 +Which guide the Sailor over the distant Seas;,2.0 +"Then Maps and Models of our Globe prepares,",1.0 +"From East to West he views the spacious Round,",0.0 +Pleased with the modern World COLUMBUS found:,0.0 +"In Hope elate, the Youth impatient stands,",0.0 +And seems to grasp both Indies in his Hands.,1.0 +"This sees the Sire, and hastily provides",3.0 +"A Vessel, proof against the Wind and Tides.",0.0 +"The Youth embarks, the soft propitious Gales",0.0 +"Arise, and soon expand the swelling Sails;",0.0 +"The Ship glides swiftly over the liquid Plain,",3.0 +"And NEPTUNE smiles, and courts him on the Main.",1.0 +"BUT see, how Mortals are the Sport of Fate!",1.0 +"How oft unhappy, striving to be great!",1.0 +"Ere CYNTHIA twice her monthly Race had run,",3.0 +An Omen of the fatal Storm begun:,1.0 +"The murmuring Wind arises by degrees,",3.0 +"And rocks the Ship, and sweeps the curling Seas;",0.0 +"Now louder, with impetuous Force, it roars,",2.0 +And shoves the swelling Surges to the Shores;,1.0 +"Till rapid Rain, and Flakes of bickering Flame,",2.0 +"Struck with Surprise, the timorous Merchant stands,",4.0 +"Nor knows what he forbids, or what commands:",1.0 +"Nor safely back, nor can he forwards go;",1.0 +"But trembling waits, and fears the fatal Blow.",0.0 +"LONG time the Sailors work against the Wind,",1.0 +"With fruitless Toil, to gain the Port assigned;",0.0 +"Till Courage, Hope, and all Provisions failed,",0.0 +"And Fear, Despair, and Want their Souls assailed.",0.0 +"Forced by the Storm into a winding Bay,",0.0 +Their joyful Eyes an Indian Isle survey;,2.0 +"When straight they quit their Ship, and gain the Shore,",0.0 +And for Recruits the Savage Land explore.,1.0 +"ADJOINING to the dreary Beach, there stood",1.0 +"Wild Shrubs and Trees, that formed a gloomy Wood;",1.0 +"Where, close obscured, the crafty Natives lay,",0.0 +"And watched the wandering Crew, remote from Sea:",2.0 +"Then forth they rush, and strait their Bows prepare;",0.0 +"In vain the Brave engage, or Timorous fly;",2.0 +"The Timorous, and the Brave, promiscuous die;",3.0 +The barbarous Fields are stained with purple Gore.,2.0 +"Our youthful Merchant escape, and flies alone;",2.0 +"Till in the devious Wilds, remote from Foes,",2.0 +"Then, on the Ground, he weeping vents his Woes,",0.0 +"Oft cursed his hapless Fate, and often thought",1.0 +"How, at our Birth, as different Planets rule,",0.0 +"They form a Wit, or constitute a Fool;",0.0 +"How, in the Maze of Life, we act as they",0.0 +"Attract, retard, or force us in the Way.",0.0 +Against the Stars he thus exclaiming said:,0.0 +"THE Planets sure some noxious Power display,",2.0 +And rule my Life with arbitrary Sway;,0.0 +"Else had I never forsook my native Home,",2.0 +Nor in this baleful Desert met my Doom ' --,0.0 +"And yet, when I reflect, I cannot see,",1.0 +How Globes insensible should influence me!,2.0 +I choose my Actions; when the Choice is made.,0.0 +"I nor invoke, nor yet consult their Aid.",1.0 +"When Mortals act according to their Will,",1.0 +Can Heaven be called the Author of their Ill?,1.0 +"Too late I find, the Stars are not in Fault;",1.0 +But it's that golden Wish my Sire has taught:,2.0 +"Enticing Gold, that damned deceiving Guide,",0.0 +Induced me first to stem the foaming Tide;,0.0 +"Fallacious Charm, that led me from Repose,",1.0 +Now leaves me in a Labyrinth of Woes.,1.0 +The injudicious Traveller surveys,6.0 +"Till, tempted over a Rock's impending Brow,",2.0 +He falls to some tremendous Gulf below.,0.0 +"THUS the unhappy Youth laments his Fate,",2.0 +"Conscious of all the Ills, that round him wait;",1.0 +"Till setting PHOEBUS leaves the blushing Sky,",0.0 +And glimmering Stars a feeble Light supply:,2.0 +"The Shades of Night increase his anxious Care,",0.0 +And add a greater Horror to Despair.,1.0 +"ALL Night in Tears the pensive Merchant lay,",0.0 +"And often wished, and feared the coming Day;",0.0 +"Till, on the Hills, the rising Sun displayed",1.0 +"His golden Beams, and chased away the Shade:",0.0 +"Harmonious Birds salute his cheerful Rays,",2.0 +And hail the rosy Morn with joyful Lays;,0.0 +Answering their tuneful Songs with piercing Groans.,1.0 +"NOT distant far from where the Youth was laid,",0.0 +"And, by the Margin of the crystal Flood,",2.0 +"An Indian Princess hither daily came,",2.0 +"Pleased with the grateful Shade, and cooling Stream:",0.0 +"She now was walking to her loved Retreat,",1.0 +And heard the mourning Youth lament his Fate:,0.0 +"Fixed in Amaze, awhile she listening stood;",1.0 +"Then swift approached him, rushing through the Wood.",1.0 +"And timorous Looks, that testified Surprise:",2.0 +"Backward he starts; the Dame, with equal Fears,",2.0 +"Recedes as fast, and wonders what appears:",0.0 +"Yet, bolder grown, she soon advanced again,",0.0 +"His Dress, and fair Complexion, charmed her Sight;",0.0 +Each glowing Feature gave her new Delight;,0.0 +"While Love and Pity both arose within,",0.0 +And kindled in her Soul a Flame unseen.,0.0 +The native Graces of the Negro Maid:,1.0 +"He viewed her Arms, with various Ribbons bound;",2.0 +"Her downy Head, with painted Feathers crowned;",0.0 +"AS when, in splendid Robes, a courtly Maid",0.0 +Begins the Dance at Ball or Masquerade;,0.0 +"The Pearls and Diamonds shine with mingled Light,",0.0 +"And sparkling Gems, that decked her jetty Breast;",0.0 +"Charmed with her lovely Shape, disclosed to View:",0.0 +"Each Limb appears in just Proportion made,",0.0 +With Elegance through every Part displayed:,1.0 +"And now his Cares dissolve, new Passions move;",1.0 +"And Nature intimates, the Change is LOVE.",1.0 +In which the Virgin often sought a Shade:,0.0 +"Thick Shrubs, and fruitful Vines, around it grew;",1.0 +"And none, except herself, the Mansion knew.",0.0 +"To this obscure Recess the Royal Dame,",1.0 +"Rejoicing, with her lovely Captive came:",1.0 +"That done, she, with her Bow, explores the Wood;",1.0 +"Pierced with her Shaft, the Fowl resigns his Blood.",0.0 +"Then back she hastens to her cool Retreat,",1.0 +Where crystal Streams in wild Meanders stray:,0.0 +"Nor lets him there, exposed to Foes, remain;",1.0 +But to the Cave conducts him safe again.,1.0 +She scorns the Lovers of her native Isle:,1.0 +"For all the Heroes of her Country strove,",1.0 +"With Emulation, to attract her Love;",1.0 +"Or pierce the savage Beast in sylvan War,",0.0 +"The Skins and Feathers, Trophies of their Fame,",1.0 +They gave for Presents to the Royal Dame;,1.0 +"The spotted Panther here she hung; and there,",0.0 +"With Paws extended, frowned the shaggy Bear;",0.0 +"Here gaudy Plumes appear, in Lustre bright;",0.0 +There Shells and Pearls diffuse a sparkling Light.,0.0 +"AS when, to grace some Royal Prince's Hall,",0.0 +"Here warlike Heroes frown in Martial Arms,",1.0 +There a soft Nymph displays her blushing Charms,2.0 +"A pleasing Landscape next invites our Eye,",1.0 +And the Room glows with sweet Variety.,3.0 +"YET, still to give her Lover more Delight,",0.0 +"Lest what he daily saw, should pall the Sight",0.0 +"When SOL with Purple clothed the Western Sky,",0.0 +"And Shades extended showed the Evening nigh,",0.0 +"She to some verdant Grove the Youth conveyed,",1.0 +"There oft she would his snowy Bosom bare,",0.0 +Oft round her Fingers wind his silver Hair;,0.0 +"Charmed with the Contrast, which their Colours made,",1.0 +More pleasing than the Tulip's Light and Shade.,1.0 +Nor was the Youth insensible; but soon,2.0 +"Repaid her Love, by showing of his own:",1.0 +Oft would his Bosom heave with speaking Sighs;,0.0 +"Oft would he gaze, and languish with his Eyes:",1.0 +"Now on her panting Breast his Head repose,",0.0 +To meet his Head her panting Breast arose;,0.0 +And her fond Arms believed they clasped a God.,2.0 +"SO lived the happy Pair, observed by none,",0.0 +Till both had learnt a Language of their own;,1.0 +"In which the Youth, one Evening, in the Shade,",0.0 +"Leans on her Breast, and, with a Kiss, betrays;",1.0 +Then vents his specious Fraud in Words like these;,0.0 +"WITNESS, you Gods, and all you Blessed above,",2.0 +"For You can witness best, how well I love",1.0 +"If ever, among our blooming Nymphs, I knew",2.0 +"Such Pleasures, as my Soul receives from you!",1.0 +"OH dear AMANDA! could I but, with thee,",2.0 +"Once more my happy native Country see,",0.0 +"You should not there in lonely Caves retreat,",0.0 +Nor trace the burning Sands with naked Feet;,0.0 +"Your Limbs, which now the Sun and Wind invade,",0.0 +Should neatly be in softest Silks arrayed;,0.0 +"In gilded Houses gaily should you ride,",0.0 +"By Horses drawn, which prancing Side by Side,",0.0 +"Neigh, foam, and champ the Bit with graceful Pride;",1.0 +"Our Time, in Pomp and Peace, should slide away,",0.0 +And blooming Pleasures crown the smiling Day;,0.0 +"And, when the setting Sun forsook the Skies,",0.0 +Approaching Night should but increase our Joys:,1.0 +"We would not on the chilling Ground embrace,",0.0 +"Nor Foes, as now, should interrupt our Peace;",0.0 +"Soft, as the fleecy Down, that decks thy Head,",1.0 +"Then let us carefully, my Dear, explore",1.0 +"The Haven, where I first approached the Shore.",0.0 +"Perhaps we shall some floating Ship survey,",0.0 +Safe to conduct us over the watery Way:,6.0 +Nor let the foaming Waves your Steps retard;,0.0 +"I'll guard you over, and be a faithful Guard.",1.0 +"How oft, alas! is Innocence betrayed,",1.0 +"How could the Dame, a Stranger to Deceit,",1.0 +Imagine such a heavenly Form a Cheat?,3.0 +"She paused, she sighed; then, with a pensive Look,",1.0 +"Half loath, and half consenting, thus she spoke:",1.0 +Why would you tempt the fickle Seas again?,0.0 +"To seek new Dangers, when in Safety here,",1.0 +Would but provoke the Deities you fear ' --,2.0 +"Yet still I guard your sacred Life secure,",0.0 +And always will ' -- What can AMANDA more?,2.0 +"THUS said, she clasped him in her loving Arms,",1.0 +"And now both show their Passions in their Look,",1.0 +While PHILOMELA sung the Nuptial Lay;,0.0 +"Till soon the Youth reclined upon her Breast,",0.0 +"SOON as the Sun began to gild the Day,",0.0 +And on the Hills emit a trembling Ray;,1.0 +"AMANDA, from her flowery Bed, awoke;",3.0 +"OH Thou, on whom my Life and Love depend,",0.0 +If ever AMANDA claimed the Name of Friend;,2.0 +"If ever I gave thy troubled Mind Repose,",2.0 +"Or hid thee, when pursued with furious Foes;",2.0 +"Explain this Dream, that terrifies my Breast;",0.0 +"The strangest, Fear, or Fancy, ever impressed!",2.0 +METHOUGHT a God descended from the Skies;,3.0 +Celestial Beauty sparkled in his Eyes;,0.0 +"Like Rays of PHOEBUS shone his radiant Hair,",0.0 +"His Shape like thine, like thine his graceful Air;",0.0 +"His shining Lips upon my Breast he laid,",0.0 +"And softly pressed my Hand, and smiling said:",0.0 +"ARISE, my Dear, my loved AMANDA, rise;",0.0 +An easier Lodging waits thee in the Skies:,2.0 +To bear thee hence to Heaven among the Gods:,0.0 +No Enemies shall there disturb thy Rest;,3.0 +"There, with thy Lover, live for ever blessed.",1.0 +"THUS said, he raised me from the dewy Plain,",2.0 +"And bore, or seemed to bear me, over the Main:",2.0 +"But soon he led me to a distant Isle,",1.0 +"Where Horrors reign, and Comforts never smile:",0.0 +"Thick Brakes and Brambles choked the dreary Coast,",1.0 +"The only Product, which the Land could boast;",0.0 +"Till a dejected, servile Race arose,",1.0 +With gloomy Sadness brooding on their Brows:,1.0 +"This Crowd, promiscuous, with incessant Toil,",3.0 +"Or rooted up the Wood, or ploughed the Soil:",1.0 +"How each performed his Task, a Tyrant viewed;",0.0 +"And sternly shook his Whip, and menaced, as he stood.",1.0 +"Sure not so fearful fly the trembling Bears,",0.0 +"To shun our Hunters Darts, and missive Spears;",0.0 +Sure not so swift our Hunters ever pursued,2.0 +"The trembling Bears, when flying through the Wood;",1.0 +"As from the Tyrant's Wrath they swiftly run,",3.0 +"Or, as the Tyrant, swifter, urged them on.",1.0 +And made me mix among the servile Train;,0.0 +"Doomed with the rest to groan beneath the Yoke,",0.0 +Alike I felt the dire correcting Stroke.,0.0 +"But, OH! what added most to my Despair,",1.0 +"As thus she spoke, confused her Looks appeared;",0.0 +For still her Soul the dreadful Vision feared:,0.0 +"Deciding Reason from her Seat withdrew,",1.0 +And Fancy painted all the Scene anew.,0.0 +When straight a Boar came rushing through the Shade;,2.0 +"The crashing Woods proclaimed his rapid Force,",0.0 +While two fleet Youths pursued the sylvan Course:,1.0 +"The Lovers started from their flowery Seats,",3.0 +"Surprised, and each a different Way retreats.",0.0 +Two loving Turtles from the verdant Field;,2.0 +"Both, diverse, through the wide ethereal Plain",2.0 +"Fly swift; and flying, fear their Mate is slain.",1.0 +"The foaming Boar between them swiftly past,",0.0 +Till soon they pierce him with a mortal Wound;,1.0 +"Then, from the savage War, they take their Way;",0.0 +"And to their Cave, triumphant, bear the Prey.",1.0 +The loving Pair concealed no longer stood;,1.0 +Both trembling met upon the opening Glade:,3.0 +Mute with Surprise awhile they stood; the Man,2.0 +"Broke Silence first, and thus his Tale began:",1.0 +OH dear AMANDA! soon we have surveyed,1.0 +This mystic Vision of the Night displayed:,1.0 +"These are the frowning Tyrants in thy Dream,",1.0 +"That chased the Slaves, and we their flying Game.",1.0 +"SOME Part, said she, resembled this, I own;",4.0 +And some remains a Riddle yet unknown:,0.0 +That radiant Deity! so much like You!,1.0 +"And what the Fields above, which he proposed?",1.0 +"Say, if the Mystery can be disclosed.",1.0 +To whom the Youth: Our active Fancy seems,0.0 +"For ever roving, roving most in Dreams:",0.0 +"Soars high, and grows prophetic, like a God;",1.0 +"Minds Things when past, as present to our View;",2.0 +"And, by Allusion, knows the future too.",1.0 +"Thus, when to Sleep your musing Head reclined,",0.0 +She kept our Evening Converse in her Mind;,0.0 +"Reflected on the Joys my Country yields,",1.0 +"Joys, sweet as those in yonder azure Fields;",2.0 +"Till, soaring higher, striving to discern",1.0 +"Her hidden Fate, and future Fortune learn,",0.0 +"Heaven showed her something like this Morning Chase,",0.0 +"By trembling Slaves, who fled their Tyrant's Face;",2.0 +"Perhaps, to warn us timely from our Bed;",1.0 +"For, OH my dear AMANDA! had we stayed,",0.0 +"I had not lived to tell this mystic Tale,",0.0 +"Nor you, to hear the Secrets I reveal ' --",2.0 +"But let us to my happy Country steer,",1.0 +Nor longer wait impending Ruin here.,0.0 +"So spoke the Youth; and, with a gracious Look,",1.0 +He seemed to sanctify the Words he spoke.,1.0 +"Go, she replied; go where you are inclined;",4.0 +Your faithful Lover will not stay behind.,1.0 +"If over the Seas you shall attempt your Way,",2.0 +The Seas shall not compel me here to stay;,0.0 +Nor will I fear the Surges of the Deep;,2.0 +"For Surges oft, you say, assail the Ship",0.0 +"Calm and composed, intrepid, will I stand,",3.0 +Till you conduct me to your native Land.,1.0 +Then shall some other Climate please me too.,0.0 +"And when the happy destined Land we meet,",0.0 +Where Providence shall fix our wandering Feet;,3.0 +"With joyful Servitude, I'll still attend",0.0 +"On you, my nuptial Lord, and dearest Friend.",1.0 +"Soon as AURORA spreads her purple Ray,",2.0 +"When you awake, to chase the nimble Prey,",1.0 +"I'll also rise; and, with an equal Art,",1.0 +"Display the Net, or speed the pointed Dart;",0.0 +"Or search the Plains, and tasteful Herbs provide;",0.0 +"Or strip the Vines, and press their juicy Pride:",0.0 +Each Evening will I fondly deck your Bed,1.0 +"And when, dissolved in downy Sleep, you lie,",0.0 +"I'll wake, and watch if Foes approach too nigh:",1.0 +"To guard your Life, all Hazards will I run;",1.0 +"And, for your Safety, sacrifice my own.",1.0 +TO whom the Youth: No Hazards shall you run;,1.0 +"Nor, for my Safety, sacrifice your own;",1.0 +Nor yet at Evening fondly deck my Bed,0.0 +Nor shall AMANDA tasteful Herbs explore;,0.0 +"A softer Bed, than Flowers, shall give you Rest;",2.0 +"A choicer Meat, than Fruits, indulge your Taste.",0.0 +"Ten thousand Things my grateful Soul shall find,",1.0 +"To charm your Fancy, and delight your Mind;",1.0 +"I'll vary Love a hundred different Ways,",0.0 +And institute new Arts to make it please:,1.0 +So shall our future Race of Children see,0.0 +A constant Proverb made of you and me:,1.0 +"When British Youths shall court the doubting Dame,",0.0 +And want Expressions equal to their Flame;,1.0 +"Then, strongly to attest it, shall be said,",1.0 +"To whom AMANDA, pausing at the Name",0.0 +"Has ever Youth committed such a Crime,",1.0 +"Deluded first, and then forsook, the Fair?",0.0 +"I cannot think, your Love will ever decline,",2.0 +Nor can my radiant Angel question mine.,2.0 +"By yonder bright Beams, which paint the rising Day;",3.0 +"By thy bright Charms, as beautiful as they;",3.0 +"By all our pleasing Hours of Love, I vow",0.0 +To share your Fate through every Scene of Woe;,0.0 +"Content, with you, to yield my vital Breath;",1.0 +"For Life, without you, would but lengthen Death.",0.0 +WITH such sweet Talk their Moments they beguile;,3.0 +Both seem impatient for the destined Isle:,2.0 +"He daily vows, and daily is believed;",1.0 +"She daily hears, and daily is deceived.",1.0 +No longer I your pleasing Joys rehearse;,2.0 +A rougher Theme demands my pensive Verse;,0.0 +"A Scene of Woes remains to be displayed,",0.0 +Indulgent Love with Slavery repaid:,1.0 +"The mighty Ills, that spring from Avarice,",1.0 +"Provoke my Lays: Your Aid, you Muses, bring;",0.0 +"Assist my Tragic Numbers, while I sing.",0.0 +The watchful Dame beheld a floating Ship?,0.0 +"She called, and beckoned to it from the Shore;",2.0 +Then to the Youth the grateful Tidings bore;,0.0 +"And said, I something see, like winged Trees,",1.0 +Strange to behold! fly swiftly over the Seas;,5.0 +Their bulky Roots upon the Billows float:,0.0 +"Say, is not this the Ship, you long have sought?",0.0 +"Or I mistake, or, by the Gods Command,",2.0 +This comes to bear us to your native Land:,1.0 +"Then hasten, see the Partner of your Heart,",1.0 +"With You, her Guide, is ready to depart;",2.0 +"My Father, Mother, Friends, I bid Adieu,",0.0 +"Friends, Father, Mother, not so dear as You.",1.0 +"To whom the Youth, with smiling Brow, replied:",0.0 +OH thou true Pattern of a faithful Bride!,4.0 +"And risque thy own dear Life, to rescue mine! ' --",5.0 +"If I forget the Debt I owe to Thee,",1.0 +May all the Gods forget their Care of Me!,0.0 +In more wild Deserts let me rove again;,3.0 +"Nor find a Friend, like Thee, to ease my Pain!",1.0 +"There let the Vultures, Wolves, and Tigers tear",0.0 +"This Body, Thou hast kindly nourished here!",1.0 +"So saying, to the Beach he straight descends;",1.0 +"And, by the Flag, discerns the Crew his Friends:",1.0 +And now his Heart exults within his Breast;,0.0 +His loving Mate an equal Joy confessed;,0.0 +"She, with him, gladly ventures on the Main,",2.0 +Unthinking of her future Toil and Pain.,1.0 +"Till, in the Fields, urged with the piercing Goad,",2.0 +THE British Bark was to Barbados bound:,1.0 +"Where, safe from Danger, now the perjured Youth,",0.0 +"False to his former Vows of sacred Truth,",0.0 +"Reflecting, counts the Interest he had lost,",1.0 +While Fate detained him on the Indian Coast:,3.0 +"The frugal Thoughts suppress his amorous Flame,",2.0 +And prompt him to betray the faithful Dame.,1.0 +Yet scarce he can the cursed Fact pursue;,2.0 +But hesitates at what he fain would do:,0.0 +"For, though his Avarice moves him to the Ill,",4.0 +His Gratitude within him struggles still;,0.0 +"And, betwixt two Passions, neither guides his Will.",2.0 +"AS when two Scales, which equal Loads suspend,",1.0 +"Sway to and fro; alternate both descend,",4.0 +"Nor this, nor that, the doubtful Weight decides.",1.0 +SO stood the doubtful Youth awhile; nor would,0.0 +"Forsake the Evil, nor pursue the Good;",1.0 +"Till, as the Sailors in the Haven stay,",1.0 +"To purchase Slaves, the Planters crowd the Key:",0.0 +"One asks, for what the Negro may be sold;",1.0 +"Then bids a Price, and shows the tempting Gold:",0.0 +"Nor Oaths, nor Gratitude, can longer bind;",0.0 +Her Fate he thus determines in his Mind:,0.0 +SUPPOSE I should conduct this Indian over;,2.0 +"And thus, instead of Gold, import a Moor ' --",0.0 +"Would not my Sire, with stern contracted Brows,",2.0 +"Condemn my Choice, and curse my nuptial Vows?",0.0 +Was it for this I learnt the Merchant's Art?,1.0 +Only to gain a doting Negro's Heart!,2.0 +Was it for this the raging Seas I crossed?,1.0 +No; Gold induced me to the Indian Coast;,4.0 +And Gold is offered for this simple Dame;,1.0 +"Shall I refuse it, or renounce my Flame? ' --",2.0 +"Let amorous Fools their tiresome Joys renew,",5.0 +"And dote on Love, while Interest I pursue.",1.0 +"He added not; for now, intent on Gold,",0.0 +"And dead to all Remorse, the Dame he sold.",0.0 +"AMANDA stood confounded with Surprise,",1.0 +"She often tried to speak; but when she tried,",0.0 +"Her Heart swelled full, her Voice its Aid denied;",1.0 +"And, when she made her faltering Tongue obey,",2.0 +WHO can the mystic Ways of Fate explain?,0.0 +"Am I awake, or do I dream again?",1.0 +Is this the sad Reward of all my Care?,1.0 +Was it for this I cheered thee in Despair?,1.0 +The Gods above if any Gods there be,0.0 +"Yet, if my Kindness can't thy Pity move,",0.0 +Pity the Fruits of our unhappy Love:,3.0 +"OH let the Infant, in my pregnant Womb,",1.0 +Excite thee to revoke my threatened Doom;,1.0 +"Think how the future Slave, in Climes remote,",0.0 +"Shall curse the treacherous Sire, that him begot.",4.0 +"SO spoke the mourning Dame, but spoke in vain;",0.0 +"Not all her Kindness could his Pity move,",0.0 +Nor yet the Fruits of their unhappy Love.,1.0 +"But, as the Flames, which soften Wax, display",1.0 +The same warm Force to harden sordid Clay;,1.0 +"That Motive, which would melt another Heart,",0.0 +"More hardened his, and made him act a double Villain's Part.",1.0 +"He, for the Child, demands a larger Sum;",1.0 +"And sells it, while an Embryo in the Womb.",0.0 +"AND now he sternly takes her by the Hand,",1.0 +"Then drags her on, reluctant, to the Land;",2.0 +"While, as she walks, her dismal Fate she moans,",0.0 +The Rocks around her echo to her Groans:,1.0 +"OH base, ungrateful Youth! she loudly cries;",1.0 +"OH base, ungrateful Youth! the Shore replies:",1.0 +"Thy tender Infant too, an abject Slave,",0.0 +"To toil, and groan, and bleed beneath the Rod?",0.0 +"Fool that I was, to think thou wert a God!",2.0 +Sure from some savage Tiger art thou sprung ' --,0.0 +"No: Tigers feed, and fawn upon their Young:",1.0 +"The Fate of Infants, and their Mother's Prayers.",1.0 +IN vain she does her wretched State deplore;,0.0 +"Pleased with the Gold, he gladly quits the Shore;",0.0 +"The ruffling Winds dilate the Sails, the Ship",0.0 +"Clear shines the Sun, and friendly blow the Gales;",1.0 +"Then frowning Clouds invest the vaulted Sky,",0.0 +And hollow Winds proclaim a Tempest nigh:,0.0 +"Smoke the white Waves, and sound the adverse Shores;",4.0 +"While, to increase the Horrors of the Main,",2.0 +Descends a Deluge of impetuous Rain.,1.0 +"The giddy Ship on circling Eddies rides,",0.0 +"And Flames, conflicting, flash from Pole to Pole,",0.0 +"Of Life despairing, though afraid to die,",1.0 +One fatal Effort yet he means to try:,0.0 +"While all the busy Crew, with panting Breath,",0.0 +And yields up to the Fury of the Tides:,2.0 +"Tossed on the boisterous Wave, the Vessel flies,",0.0 +"Now sinking low, now mounting to the Skies;",3.0 +"Till soon the Storm decreased, and, by degrees,",1.0 +"Hushed were the Winds, and calm the ruffled Seas;",0.0 +"The Sailors safely steer their Course again,",0.0 +"Who landed quickly on a lonely Isle,",1.0 +Where human Feet never print the baleful Soil;,3.0 +"A dreary Wilderness was all appeared,",1.0 +And howling Wolves the only Sound he heard;,0.0 +"A thousand Deaths he views before his Eyes,",0.0 +"A conscious Hell within his Bosom burns,",0.0 +"And racks his tortured Soul, while thus he mourns:",0.0 +"CURSED be the Precepts of my selfish Sire,",2.0 +Who bad me after fatal Gold aspire!,0.0 +"Cursed be myself, and doubly cursed, who sold",3.0 +"A faithful Friend, to gain that fatal Gold! ' --",0.0 +"OH! could these gloomy Woods my Sin conceal,",0.0 +"Here would I pine my wretched Life away,",0.0 +Or to the hungry Savage fall a Prey ' --,1.0 +"But can the gloomy Woods conceal my Sin,",1.0 +Or cooling Shadows quench the Hell within?,1.0 +"No; like some Spirit banished Heaven, I find",0.0 +"Terrors in every Place, to rack my Mind;",2.0 +"Tormenting conscious Plagues increase my Care,",1.0 +And guilty Thoughts indulge my just Despair ' --,0.0 +"OH! where shall I that piercing Eye evade,",0.0 +"SO saying, straight he gave a hideous Glare,",2.0 +"With rolling Eyes, that witnessed strong Despair:",0.0 +"Then drew his pointed Weapon from the Sheath,",1.0 +And thrice his coward Arm denied its Aid:,0.0 +"Meanwhile a howling Wolf, with Hunger pressed,",1.0 +"Leaped on the Wretch, and seized him by the Breast;",1.0 +"Tore out his Heart, and licked the purple Flood;",0.0 +For Earth refused to drink the Villain's Blood.,0.0 +"I sung inglorious. Now the love of arts,",2.0 +And what in metal or in stone remains,1.0 +"Of proud antiquity, through various realms",3.0 +"And various languages and ages famed,",3.0 +Where yellow Tiber his neglected wave,1.0 +"Yet once again, and soar a loftier flight;",2.0 +"Fallen, fallen, a silent heap; her heroes all",2.0 +The throne of nations fallen; obscure in dust;,2.0 +"Elates the soul, while now the rising sun",0.0 +Flames on the ruins in the purer air,0.0 +"Towering aloft, upon the glittering plain,",3.0 +"Like broken rocks, a vast circumference;",0.0 +Overwhelming; as the immense LEVIATHAN,4.0 +Tremble to every wind. The pilgrim oft,2.0 +"Rattling around, loud thundering to the moon:",3.0 +Yet here adventurous in the sacred search,1.0 +"Of ancient arts, the delicate of mind,",1.0 +"Curious and modest, from all climes resort,",2.0 +Grateful society! with these I raise,4.0 +"Waving aloft over the big ruins brows,",7.0 +"On numerous arches reared: and frequent stopped,",2.0 +"The sunk ground startles me with dreadful chasm,",2.0 +Breathing forth darkness from the vast profound,4.0 +"Of isles and halls, within the mountain's womb.",0.0 +"Nor these the neither works; all these beneath,",2.0 +"And all beneath the vales and hills around,",0.0 +"Each wave impure; and proud with added rains,",0.0 +"Hark how the mighty billows lash their vaults,",0.0 +And thunder; how they heave their rocks in vain!,1.0 +Though now incessant Time has rolled around,0.0 +"And yet a thousand since, the indignant floods",2.0 +"Roar loud in their firm bounds, and dash and swell,",4.0 +"That weave their glittering waves with tuneful lapse,",2.0 +"Of orient jasper, pleased I move along,",4.0 +"And intermingling vines; and figured nymphs,",0.0 +"Cheering the darkness; and deep empty tombs,",4.0 +"A solemn wilderness! With error sweet,",1.0 +"I wind the lingering step, wherever the path",2.0 +"Over sculptures maimed has made; Anubis, Sphinx,",4.0 +"Of Fear and Ignorance, by the sculptor's hand",2.0 +"Hewn into form, and worshipped; as even now",3.0 +Blindly they worship at their breathless mouths,2.0 +In varied appellations: men to these,0.0 +From depth to depth in darkening error fallen,0.0 +At length ascribed the INAPPLICABLE NAME.,3.0 +How does it please and fill the memory,1.0 +"With deeds of brave renown, while on each hand",1.0 +"And speaking busts! Sweet Scipio, Marius stern,",5.0 +"And boundless fame; impatient for exploits,",2.0 +"Above all height: and his own Brutus see,",1.0 +Solicitous and sad. Thy next regard,1.0 +"His outstretched arm he waves, in act to speak",4.0 +"Before the silent masters of the world,",1.0 +And eloquence arrays him. There behold,2.0 +Prepared for combat in the front of war,0.0 +The pious brothers; jealous Alba stands,0.0 +"In fearful expectation of the strife,",1.0 +And youthful Rome intent: the kindred foes,0.0 +Fall on each other's neck in silent tears;,0.0 +In sorrowful benevolence embrace ' --,2.0 +"Their country calls to arms, now all in vain",1.0 +Now weeps in vain; their country calls to arms.,1.0 +"So rose the Roman state. Me now, of these",0.0 +"Greatly to serve my country, distant land,",2.0 +And build me virtuous fame; nor shall the dust,2.0 +Of these fallen piles with show of sad decay,0.0 +"Avert the good resolve, mean argument,",2.0 +The fate alone of matter. ' -- Now the brow,0.0 +"And pine, and fir, and oak: so fair a scene",0.0 +"Though graceful Athens, in the vale beneath.",0.0 +"Amid the towery ruins, huge, supreme,",2.0 +"The enormous amphitheatre behold,",2.0 +Mountainous pile! over whose capacious womb,2.0 +While from the central floor the seats ascend,0.0 +A circuit vast and high; nor less had held,0.0 +"Imperial Rome, and her attendant realms,",3.0 +"When drunk with rule she willed the fierce delight,",0.0 +Before the innumerable shouting crowd,3.0 +"Lions and tigers, wolves and elephants,",3.0 +"And desperate men, more fell. Abhorred intent!",0.0 +"By frequent converse with familiar death,",1.0 +To kindle brutal daring apt for war;,0.0 +"To lock the breast, and steel the obdurate heart,",0.0 +Amid the piercing cries of sore distress,0.0 +Impenetrable. ' -- But away thine eye;,2.0 +"Perchance may now delight, while that revered The Capitol.",3.0 +"In ancient days, the page alone declares,",0.0 +"Appeared, as when above the morning hills",0.0 +"Half the round sun ascends; and towered aloft,",2.0 +Too prosperous Israel from his living strength.,4.0 +"And next regard yonder venerable dome,",6.0 +"Raised to her various deities, and named",3.0 +Pantheon; plain and round; of this our world,3.0 +"Majestic emblem; with peculiar grace,",1.0 +"Before its ample orb, projected stands",0.0 +"Of human skill, here, curious architect,",2.0 +"On these fair walls extend the certain scale,",2.0 +And turn the instructive compass: careful mark,2.0 +"How far in hidden art, the noble plain",0.0 +"Extends, and where the lovely forms commence",0.0 +Of flowing sculpture: nor neglect to note,1.0 +"How range the taper columns, and what weight",1.0 +Their leafy brows sustain: fair Corinth first,1.0 +Beneath an urn of some lamented nymph,0.0 +"One stone enormous each, or Thebes conveyed;",0.0 +The vehement orator in rent attire,2.0 +"Persuasion pours, ambition sinks her crest;",0.0 +"And lo the villain, like a troubled sea,",0.0 +"That tosses up her mire! Ever disguised,",3.0 +Shall treason walk? shall proud oppression yoke,0.0 +The neck of virtue? Lo the wretch abashed;,0.0 +"Parent of happiness, celestial born;",3.0 +"When the first man became a living soul,",3.0 +His sacred genius thou; be Britain's care;,1.0 +"With her secure, prolong thy loved retreat;",1.0 +"Thence bless mankind; while yet among her sons,",2.0 +"Even yet there are, to shield thine equal laws,",1.0 +May others more delight in tuneful airs;,0.0 +Give with superior skill the living look;,4.0 +"More pompous piles erect, or pencil soft",0.0 +With warmer touch the visionary board:,0.0 +"Be thou, thy nobler Britons teach to rule;",4.0 +To quell the proud; to spread the joys of peace,0.0 +And various blessings of ingenious trade.,3.0 +"Be these our arts; and ever may we guard,",1.0 +"Ever defend thee with undaunted heart,",3.0 +Arrayed in every charm: whose hand benign,0.0 +And on his various fruits inscribes the name,3.0 +Of Property: OH nobly hailed of old,2.0 +"By thy majestic daughters, Judah fair,",1.0 +"Whose numerous towns and isles, and peopled seas,",2.0 +Rejoiced around her lyre; the heroic note,2.0 +And planned imperial Rome. Thy hand benign,2.0 +Reared up her towery battlements in strength;,2.0 +Bent her wide bridges over the swelling stream,5.0 +Of Tuscan Tiber; thine those solemn domes,1.0 +Devoted to the voice of humble prayer;,1.0 +"In days of dearth, where tender Charity",1.0 +Musical ever; while from yonder blue hills,3.0 +"Dim in the clouds, the radiant aqueducts",0.0 +Turn their innumerable arches over,3.0 +"The spacious desert, brightening in the sun,",0.0 +"Proud and more proud, in their august approach:",2.0 +"Glide the soft whispering waters in the wind,",5.0 +And here united pour their silver streams,0.0 +"Among the figured rocks, in murmuring falls,",2.0 +And what beside felicity could tell,1.0 +Of human benefit: more late the rest;,1.0 +"At various times their turrets chanced to rise,",2.0 +Couches beneath the ruins: there of old,3.0 +With arms and trophies gleamed the field of Mars:,0.0 +There to their daily sports the noble youth,1.0 +To vault the steed; or with the kindling wheel,1.0 +"Or wrestling, cope with adverse swelling breasts,",1.0 +"Strong, grappling arms, closed heads, and distant feet;",2.0 +"Their ardent virtues: lo the bossy piles,",0.0 +"The proud triumphal arches; all their wars,",0.0 +"And see from every gate those ancient roads,",0.0 +Deserve they not regard? Over whose broad flints,6.0 +"Such crowds have rolled, so many storms of war;",0.0 +"Yet still through mountains pierced, over valleys raised,",3.0 +"In even state, to distant seas around,",0.0 +"They stretch their pavements. Lo the fane of Peace,",0.0 +"Was honest, the delight of human kind.",1.0 +Three nodding isles remain; the rest an heap,1.0 +"Of sand and weeds; her shrines, her radiant roofs",0.0 +"And columns proud, that from her spacious floor,",1.0 +"As from a shining sea, majestic rose",1.0 +"An hundred foot aloft, like stately beech",0.0 +Charming the mimic painter: on the walls,3.0 +"And golden trumpets, now concealed, entombed",0.0 +By the sunk roof. ' -- Over which in distant view,1.0 +"The Etruscan mountains swell, with ruins crowned",1.0 +"And thence in broken sculptures cast abroad,",0.0 +"Rejoiced, and the green medals frequent found",2.0 +"The stately pines, that spread their branches wide",0.0 +Appear but tufts; as may whatever is high,4.0 +"Sink in comparison, minute and vile.",2.0 +"Stand in the clouds, their branches scattered round,",0.0 +"From whose low base the sculptures wind aloft,",1.0 +"And lead through various toils, up the rough steep,",3.0 +"Whose execrable hand the city fired,",3.0 +"And while the dreadful conflagration blazed,",0.0 +Where now the shepherd to his nibbling sheep,1.0 +"There piped the shepherd to his nibbling sheep,",1.0 +Amid the thickets: so revolves the scene;,1.0 +From dust again to dust. Behold that heap,0.0 +Dust of the mighty the same storey tell;,2.0 +"And at its base, from whence the serpent glides",0.0 +"Down the green desert street, yonder hoary monk",1.0 +"Laments the same, the vision as he views,",1.0 +"The solitary, silent, solemn scene,",0.0 +"Where Caesars, heroes, peasants, hermits lie,",0.0 +Blended in dust together; where the slave,2.0 +Resigns his power; the miser drops his hoard;,2.0 +"Where human folly sleeps. ' -- There is a mood,",1.0 +I sing not to the vacant and the young,2.0 +"There is a kindly mood of melancholy,",1.0 +"That wings the soul, and points her to the skies;",1.0 +"When tribulation clothes the child of man,",0.0 +"When age descends with sorrow to the grave,",1.0 +"Here sitting on his throne of ruins hoar,",1.0 +Cool evening comes; the setting sun displays,1.0 +"His visible great round between yonder towers,",7.0 +"As through two shady cliffs; away, my Muse,",2.0 +"Though yet the prospect pleases, ever new",0.0 +"In vast variety, and yet delight",1.0 +Such antique marbles to his native land,6.0 +Oft hence conveys; and every realm and state,1.0 +"With Rome's august remains, heroes and gods,",9.0 +Deck their long galleries and winding groves;,4.0 +"Yet miss we not the innumerable thefts,",2.0 +Yet still profuse of graces teems the waste.,0.0 +"With weary wing, and seek the sacred rests",0.0 +Grotesque and wild; the gourd and olive brown,0.0 +Weave the light roof; the gourd and olive fan,3.0 +"Their amorous foliage, mingling with the vine,",3.0 +Who drops her purple clusters through the green.,1.0 +"Here let me lie, with pleasing fancy soothed:",0.0 +Here flowed his fountain; here his laurels grew;,0.0 +"Here oft the meek good man, the lofty bard",0.0 +"Framed the celestial song, or social walked",2.0 +With Horace and the ruler of the world;,2.0 +Happy Augustus! who so well inspired,2.0 +"Attentive to the wise, the great of soul,",1.0 +"And dignify thy mind. Thrice glorious days,",3.0 +"Auspicious to the Muses! then revered,",1.0 +"Or open mountain, or whatever scene",2.0 +"Melodious; even the rugged sons of war,",4.0 +Even the rude hinds revered the Poet's name:,2.0 +"But now ' -- another age, alas! is ours ' --",0.0 +"Yet will the Muse a little longer soar,",0.0 +"Unless the clouds of care weigh down her wing,",2.0 +"Since nature's stores are shut with cruel hand,",0.0 +The thirsty pilgrim at the fountain asks,0.0 +"And Phoebus' temple, nodding with its woods",1.0 +Threatens huge ruin over the small rotund.,5.0 +Turned her stretched neck and formed your tender limbs:,3.0 +"Wrapped in their secret seeds. Each kindred soul,",0.0 +"Robust and stout, you grapple to your hearts,",1.0 +"And little Rome appears. Her cots arise,",0.0 +Green rushes spread the roofs; and here and there,1.0 +Opens beneath the rock the gloomy cave.,2.0 +Elate with joy Etruscan Tiber views,0.0 +Her speedy growth alarmed the states around,0.0 +"Jealous, yet soon by wondrous virtue won,",2.0 +They sink into her bosom. From the plough,1.0 +"Rose her dictators; fought, overcame, returned,",2.0 +"Yes, to the plough returned, and hailed their peers;",0.0 +"For then no private pomp, no household state,",3.0 +The public only swelled the generous breast.,2.0 +Who has not heard the Fabian heroes sung?,2.0 +Simple of life; as yet seducing wealth,2.0 +"Was unexplored, and shame of poverty",1.0 +Yet unimagined ' -- Shine not all the fields,0.0 +"Along the flowery valleys? They, content,",3.0 +"Feasted at nature's hand, indelicate,",3.0 +"Blithe, in their easy taste; and only sought",0.0 +"To know their duties; that their only strife,",0.0 +"Their generous strife, and greatly to perform.",3.0 +"They through all shapes of peril and of pain,",2.0 +"Intent on honour, dared in thickest death",3.0 +"In vain the thunder of the battle rolled,",1.0 +The thunder of the battle they returned,2.0 +"Back on his Punic shores; till Carthage fell,",0.0 +And danger fled afar. The city gleamed,0.0 +With precious spoils: alas prosperity!,1.0 +In soft luxurious pleasures; proud desire,2.0 +"Of boundless sway, and feverish thirst of gold,",2.0 +"Torn from her joys, in vain with languid arm",0.0 +Half raised her rusty shield; nor could avail,1.0 +"The sword of Dacia, nor the Parthian dart;",3.0 +"Nor yet the car of that famed British chief,",1.0 +Which seven brave years beneath the doubtful wing,2.0 +Over the bloody war: the Roman arms,2.0 +"Triumphed, till Fame was silent of their foes.",3.0 +"In proud security: the crested helm,",1.0 +But on the glittering trophy to the wind.,4.0 +"Dissolved in ease and soft delights they lie,",0.0 +"Till every sun annoys, and every wind",0.0 +"Has chilling force, and every rain offends:",0.0 +"Laughs at the winter storm, and summer beam,",0.0 +"Withers each nerve, and opens every poor",2.0 +To painful feeling: flowery bowers they seek,4.0 +Pile in the roseate air with fond expense:,0.0 +"Through silver channels glide the vagrant waves,",0.0 +"And fall on silver beds crystalline down,",3.0 +Melodious murmuring; while luxury,4.0 +"Over their naked limbs, with wanton hand,",2.0 +"Necessity, and seek the splendid bribe.",1.0 +"The citron board, the bowl embossed with gems,",0.0 +"Of seeming ivy, by that artful hand,",1.0 +"To shake Patrician thirst: for these, their rights",1.0 +In the vile streets they prostitute to sale;,3.0 +"Their native glorious freedom. Is there none,",3.0 +"Is there no villain, that will bind the neck",2.0 +Stretched to the yoke? they come; the market throngs.,0.0 +But who has most by fraud or force amassed?,0.0 +Who most can charm corruption with his doles?,1.0 +He be the monarch of the state; and lo!,1.0 +And the red arrows fill his grasp uncouth.,3.0 +"OH Britons, OH my countrymen, beware,",2.0 +"Gird, gird your hearts; the Romans once were free,",1.0 +"Were brave, were virtuous. ' -- Tyranny however",4.0 +"Deigned to walk forth awhile in pageant state,",3.0 +"And with licentious pleasures fed the rout,",1.0 +The thoughtless many: to the wanton sound,1.0 +"Sung Caesar, great and terrible in war,",2.0 +"Immortal Caesar! lo, a God, a God,",0.0 +He cleaves the yielding skies! Caesar mean while,3.0 +Gathers the ocean pebbles; or the gnat,3.0 +Enraged pursues; or at his lonely meal,0.0 +"Starves a wide province; tastes, dislikes, and flings",3.0 +The flowery shades and shrines obscene return.,2.0 +But see along the north the tempest swell,0.0 +"Over the rough Alps, and darken all their snows!",2.0 +"Sudden the Goth and Vandal, dreaded names,",2.0 +"Their domes, their villa's; down the festive piles,",1.0 +And roll before the storm in clouds of dust.,0.0 +"Vain end of human strength, of human skill,",1.0 +"Conquest, and triumph, and domain, and pomp,",3.0 +"And ease and luxury! OH luxury,",3.0 +"Bane of elated life, of affluent states,",4.0 +"What dreary change, what ruin is not thine?",1.0 +How does thy bowl intoxicate the mind!,0.0 +To the soft entrance of thy rosy cave,3.0 +How dost thou lure the fortunate and great!,1.0 +The unfathomable gulf where Ashur lies,2.0 +"And the great queen of earth, imperial ROME.",4.0 +"As lately musing in a lonely shade,",0.0 +"For meditation and contentment made,",1.0 +"All dwelled serene within my tranquil breast,",0.0 +"And sweet retirement, lulled my soul to rest:",2.0 +"Delightful fancy lent her potent aid,",0.0 +"And scenes of wonder, to my sense conveyed.",1.0 +"Transported to a verdant blooming green,",1.0 +"Where all was calm, and nature shone serene:",0.0 +"The daisy painted ground, perfumed the air,",0.0 +"And sweet contentment, seemed to banish care,",0.0 +And each in youth and beauty strove to vie;,0.0 +"Yet two shone more resplendent than the rest,",2.0 +"One in a purple, airy, flowing vest;",0.0 +"Her temples bound with flowers of different hue,",2.0 +"The lily white, the violet azure blue,",0.0 +"Her tender feet with glittering sandals bound,",2.0 +Tripped lightly over the flowery painted ground.,5.0 +Her golden locks flowed careless in the wind.,1.0 +And her whole dress was loose and unconfined.,2.0 +"The other, clad in purity, and truth,",1.0 +"With all the blooming, radiant charms of youth,",0.0 +"Meek her deportment, and serene her air;",3.0 +"And wreaths of laurel, bound her sacred brow,",0.0 +"Her friend was wisdom, who with heavenly song,",2.0 +With caution lead her mistress through the throng.,1.0 +"Her breath with ambient sweets perfumed the ground,",2.0 +And calm serenity shone all around;,2.0 +"Courted the humble, and implored the proud.",3.0 +"The first was pleasure soft alluring name,",0.0 +"The other virtue, surest guide to fame.",0.0 +"Struck with astonishment I gazed around,",3.0 +"When suddenly I heard a heavenly sound,",3.0 +"A sound more sweet than the soft breath of love,",2.0 +"Melodious as the pipe upon the plains,",1.0 +In tender numbers these soft accents said.,2.0 +"Ah! follow me, fair nymph, to my pure cell,",3.0 +"It's there content, and peace alone can dwell;",1.0 +"A homely fair, but a reception kind:",1.0 +"Where innocence and love, delight to reign,",1.0 +"There pity dwells, the muses there resort.",1.0 +"Beware of vice, her pleasures soon will cloy,",0.0 +"And keen repentance, follow guilty joy.",0.0 +"Forsake the giddy, gay, unthinking crowd,",0.0 +"By me be guided, I will lead the way,",2.0 +To blissful paths of everlasting day.,0.0 +"In this precarious life i'll be thy friend,",3.0 +"And celebrate thy name, even to time's end;",5.0 +"Take my advice, it's I alone can prove,",3.0 +The heart-felt happiness of virtuous love:,4.0 +In all my footsteps you will surely find.,2.0 +"Thus spoke the nymph, ' -- to heaven the music floats,",1.0 +And angels echo back the tuneful notes.,0.0 +"Transported, and amazed, I trembling cried,",1.0 +In thee alone I trust to be my guide!,1.0 +"The goddess smiled, and kindly pressed my hand,",0.0 +When I obedient to her wise command,2.0 +"Followed her footsteps, to that blissful seat,",2.0 +"Where peace, humility, and love do meet:",1.0 +"To that pure cell where every earthly joy,",1.0 +"Reigns uncontrolled, unmixed, without a cloy.",1.0 +"The journey long, the fare was mean and coarse,",0.0 +"The road was rugged, and the task was worse;",1.0 +"Our gentle guides were Patience, Hope, and Truth,",0.0 +The best supporters of each virtuous youth,3.0 +"Each friend, by turns, soothed my adventurous heart,",4.0 +"And tales of truth, and honour did impart.",2.0 +"When, on a sudden, horrors spread around,",0.0 +And echoed through the grove an hollow sound;,1.0 +"The clouds grew black, all nature seemed to fade,",1.0 +And sicken over the solemn lonely glade;,2.0 +And woe fraught murmurs reigned throughout the woods.,1.0 +"Confusion struck my frame, when Patience cried,",0.0 +"Fear not, fair nymph, in me alone confide;",3.0 +"In a short time these dreadful storms shall cease,",3.0 +"And I will crown your toil, with joy, and peace.",1.0 +"Ever you arrive where bliss eternal reigns,",1.0 +You first must learn to scorn such trifling pains;,0.0 +Must bare serenely these tempestuous storms;,6.0 +"The feeling heart must many crosses know,",0.0 +"In virtue's cause, ' -- where fortune proves a foe:",0.0 +"Let not these trifles your soft breast alarm,",2.0 +Patience will guide you free from every harm.,2.0 +"Here ceased the virgin, the prophetic sound,",1.0 +And gleams of heavenly light shone all around;,3.0 +"The clouds dispersed, the storm and tempest ceased,",0.0 +And every visionary care decreased.,0.0 +"The flowers recovered their delightful hue,",3.0 +And nature shone in all her bloom anew;,0.0 +"No scent more fragrant does the rose exhale,",1.0 +"At a small distance stood the peaceful cell,",2.0 +Where innocence and harmony do dwell;,2.0 +"No pompous grandeur there adorns the grove,",5.0 +"No gilded columns, no gay temples rise,",2.0 +There no luxurious dome invades the skies;,2.0 +"Alone for peace the humble cell was made,",0.0 +"And sweet contentment, reigns within the shade:",0.0 +"The violet sweet, and daisy blooms beside:",0.0 +Each heavenly blessing does inhabit there.,3.0 +"With meek humility, with truth divine,",1.0 +And every virtue bows before the shrine.,0.0 +"Love, the soft moulder of the pliant soul,",4.0 +Whose power our wishes and our minds control;,3.0 +"Within these sacred shades serenely moved,",0.0 +"By virtue guided, and by heaven approved.",1.0 +"Enraptured I beheld those regions bright,",1.0 +And scenes of wonder beamed upon the sight;,0.0 +And soft musicians in the grove appeared:,0.0 +"While thus I stood intent to see and hear,",0.0 +"Like you a stranger to distress and woe,",1.0 +"Possessed of all the gifts the gods bestow,",0.0 +"Of all the real blessings heaven can give,",3.0 +Still my fond soul for other joys did grieve.,3.0 +"Once on a time by giddy fancy taught,",0.0 +For idle pleasures earnestly I sought;,1.0 +But pleasures lured me to the flowery plain;,3.0 +"That sure destruction to the youthful mind,",1.0 +"To her my frail, my willing heart inclined.",1.0 +"Long time I revealed in luxurious joys,",6.0 +Which every generous sentiment destroys.,3.0 +"But ah! fair nymph, each pleasure quickly dies,",1.0 +"Where blackened vice, fair virtue's place supplies.",1.0 +"Such idle joys last but a fleeting day,",2.0 +Where vice triumphant reigns with potent sway;,0.0 +"Short was the time these scenes my soul possessed,",0.0 +But endless are the pangs within my breast.,1.0 +"No time the stings of conscience can subdue,",2.0 +Wherever I fly fresh grief my steps pursue;,3.0 +"Is torn with sad remorse, and robbed of rest,",0.0 +"I feel, I feel, the heaving sigh renewed,",0.0 +And sad remembrance on my soul intrude;,1.0 +"Still must my mind with heart felt grief abound,",1.0 +Till virtue's hand shall heal reflection's wound.,0.0 +"Too late my blinded eyes perceived the road,",1.0 +"Which lead to this celestial, blessed abode;",1.0 +"Happy are you, whose youthful breast aspires,",1.0 +"With genial warmth, to burn with purer fires.",0.0 +"Who in the tender, early days of youth,",0.0 +Trod the unsullied paths of sacred truth.,2.0 +"Then hail, fair nymph, hail sweet humility,",3.0 +"Enjoy, henceforth, each blessing of the blessed,",2.0 +May all thy future days be crowned with rest.,0.0 +"Farewell, she cried, ' -- then joined the happy throng,",1.0 +Who to my listening ear addressed their song.,0.0 +"Here ceased the tender, soft, alluring throng,",0.0 +"And I awoke, alas! too soon to find,",2.0 +'Twas only fancy that deceived my mind;,1.0 +"But what a change from scenes of tranquil joy,",0.0 +To momentary pleasures born to cloy.,0.0 +"What cross impetuous Planets govern me,",1.0 +That I'm thus hurried on to Misery;,4.0 +"I thought I had been blessed, a while ago,",0.0 +"But one quick push, plunged me all over in Woe.",2.0 +"My cruel Fate, does act the Tyrant's part,",2.0 +"And does Torment me, with a lingering smart;",1.0 +"To make me sensible of greater Pain,",1.0 +"Lets me take Breath, then screws the Rack again:",3.0 +That for one smiling short Parenthesis;,1.0 +"I must such tedious horrid Pangs endure,",2.0 +"And neither State, will either kill or cure.",0.0 +"With all Submission, I my Fate implore,",1.0 +"Destroy me quite, or else Torment no more;",1.0 +"At least let not one glimpse of Joy appear,",1.0 +It only makes my Sufferings more severe.,0.0 +"No, here I'll Rule, not sue to you for this,",1.0 +"For when you took, my Father's love away,",0.0 +"Perverse as you, I'd not let others stay:",2.0 +"To hoard up Counters, when my Gold was gone.",0.0 +"Plundered of all, I now forsake the Place,",1.0 +"Where all my Joys, and all my Treasure was,",1.0 +"Ah do not now, my wandering Footsteps Trace;",3.0 +And in a lonely Village am content.,1.0 +"Nor do I ask to be removed from hence,",0.0 +"Though Man and Beast, are both of equal Sense:",0.0 +"I had not fled, but strongly forced by you,",0.0 +"In hast bid Mother, Sisters sad adieu.",1.0 +"I saw them last of all I knew in Town,",0.0 +Yet all alike to me are Strangers grown;,1.0 +"I almost have forgot I ever was there,",2.0 +And the sad Accidents that brought me here.,3.0 +"Ah Fate! pursue me not in this Retreat,",1.0 +Let me be quiet in this humble Seat:,0.0 +"Let not my Friends know where to send to me,",1.0 +Lest I grow pleased with their Civility.,4.0 +"I'd fain live unconcerned, not pleased nor crossed,",1.0 +And be to all the busy World as lost.,0.0 +"SINCE short the busy scene of life will prove,",0.0 +"To love, with passions pure as morning light,",0.0 +Whose saffron beams unsullied by the night,1.0 +"With rosy mantles do the Heavens streak,",0.0 +The joys of Nature in her ruined state,0.0 +"Have little pleasure, though the pains are great.",1.0 +"Virtue and Love, when sacred bands unite,",3.0 +It's then that Nature leads to true delight.,0.0 +"Oft as I wander through the myrtle grove,",1.0 +"A secret terror, lest I should offend",1.0 +"The charming Maid on whom my joys depend,",0.0 +"Informs my soul, that virtuous minds alone",2.0 +"Can give a pleasure, to the vile unknown.",1.0 +"But when the body charming, and the mind,",1.0 +"To every virtuous christian act inclined,",2.0 +"Meet in one person, Maid and Angel join;",0.0 +"What worth intrinsic will that man possess,",1.0 +"Swift will the minutes roll, the flying hours,",0.0 +And blessings overtake the pair by showers.,0.0 +"Each moment will improve upon the past,",1.0 +And every day be better than the last.,1.0 +"Love, means an unadulterated flame,",1.0 +Though lust too oft usurps the sacred name;,2.0 +It's that alone deserves the name of Love.,0.0 +O was my merit great enough to find,1.0 +"Then would my happiness be quite complete,",1.0 +And all revolving joys as in a centre meet.,0.0 +"FALLEN are thy towers, Byzantium! towers that stood",6.0 +"Before the Turk's dread fury, when he came,",1.0 +"The crescent sparkling amid Christian blood,",7.0 +"Imperial city, the late proud remains",4.0 +"Of thy brave founder's greatness, when he clothed",2.0 +In worldly grandeur pure Religion's form;,5.0 +"Then placed beside him, placed upon a throne,",0.0 +"He, wandering then upon a Christian land,",2.0 +"Stranger at home had been, nor known again",1.0 +And pomp of earthly greatness........ But not long,1.0 +"Lived there his name.... Science and art, farewell!",4.0 +"The foe of light and love, Mohammed, comes,",0.0 +"Though by your anger spared, have fallen now,",1.0 +And crushed your bloody race! A mightier arm,2.0 +"Than his who raised, or spared, yonder domes came forth;",8.0 +"From the hot sable rolling cloud it came,",2.0 +"And crumbled them to dust!.... The wind, the air,",1.0 +"Seem in strict silence bound, but smiling still",2.0 +"Smiling, though conscious of intended death.",3.0 +While man alone is bold..... But see where now,0.0 +"And sudden swells, her heaving bosom rears;",0.0 +"Like the mad Pythia, when the Delphian god",3.0 +A real God that world of waters moves,3.0 +The Mighty One is near.... But o! when past,2.0 +"His power, and those he spared raised up their heads,",3.0 +Where was the eye could bear upon the waste,0.0 +"To gaze, and mark the ruin stretching wide!",0.0 +"O! you were blessed, you victims, you who fell",2.0 +"Deep in the yawning chasm!.... Where are now,",0.0 +"The sad survivor cries, my peaceful home,",0.0 +"The sacred mosque I loved, the child, the wife",0.0 +"I clasped but now; the city towering high,",0.0 +"Proud in its strength?.... Disperse, thou gloomy cloud,",0.0 +And let me gaze on them! The cloud's dispersed;,1.0 +No vestige of his home: a putrid lake,2.0 +"Or barren ground replace them, and proclaim,",1.0 +"ENGLAND! blessed country, from such woes as these",4.0 +"And.... thou hast cause to lift thy voice most high,",1.0 +"But you, who wander from your native shores,",2.0 +"As sunk Byzantium; you, whose eager hearts",1.0 +Anticipate a glad return to scenes,0.0 +"You shall behold no more, for ever swept",1.0 +"From off the earth, unconscious heirs of woe;",2.0 +When your own land approaches.... See the eye,0.0 +Misty with tears open wide its eager lid,2.0 +"Fear pales that glowing cheek, and dries that eye,",1.0 +"It is our native shore,.... but where are gone",1.0 +"I hear you cry. The pilot is deceived,",1.0 +And hope deceived us too.... It's not our land!,0.0 +"But soon the mournful certainty you guess,",1.0 +And leap to shore; and there you call in vain,1.0 +On all you loved.... Throughout the silent streets,0.0 +"May trembling steal along, and tell the tale;",0.0 +"While on the ruins some lone maniac sits,",2.0 +"And, as he points to where the chasm yawned,",1.0 +Boasts of the treasures earth preserves for him;,0.0 +"Or, while a sudden beam of reason darts,",0.0 +"Screams his discordant anguish, and commands",3.0 +"Angel of woe, that from the eternal hand",3.0 +"Concealed in evil's garb;.... angel of woe,",5.0 +The horrid path where Madness stalks along,0.0 +"In fancied majesty, or from his cell",2.0 +"Sends the loud shriek, or more afflicting laugh;",3.0 +"And, as I hurried from the overwhelming scene,",2.0 +"Have shuddering owned thy awful presence there,....",3.0 +"The silent corpse to speak again, and urge",0.0 +The eyes for ever closed to open once more,0.0 +And beam as they were wont:.... and I have walked,2.0 +"In slow procession to the opening grave,",3.0 +And seen thee triumph when the earth received,0.0 +"The form beloved, and the deep bursting groan",4.0 +"Bespoke affliction's forced composure over,",0.0 +And agony victorious! I have gazed,2.0 +"Upon the guilty wretch, when, doomed to die,",0.0 +"Terror has vanquished him, and his pale cheek",4.0 +"While, to his startled fancy, in the rear",0.0 +"Of Death came judgement, and the world to come",2.0 +"Unfolded all its horrors! There, OH there,",2.0 +How on the sultry suffocating breath,1.0 +"Of livid pestilence, thou, floating wide,",1.0 +Hast done thy master's bidding! Vain were then,0.0 +The ties of nature! from the parent's grasp,1.0 +"The child has forced its once sustaining hand,",0.0 +"While the fond parent, from his dying child",3.0 +"But when the earthquake's varied horrors come,",1.0 +"All, all thy ministers are waiting round,",1.0 +"Fear, Madness, Pestilence, Pain, Famine, Death,",3.0 +And all the AGONIES COMBINED are there!,1.0 +"The ancient pile, and circling scenes display,",0.0 +"Enthusiastic rapture fires my soul,",0.0 +And admiration reigns without control.,0.0 +"I see, or is it fancy that portrays?",1.0 +The prospect stand before my ardent gaze:,0.0 +"Surprised I see a new Elysium rise,",2.0 +"In pomp august, before my wondering eyes.",5.0 +"With joy I view the sweetly, varied scene,",0.0 +"The winding vale, and groves of vernal green.",0.0 +"The garden will my fancy long detain,",1.0 +And there fair fields that wave with yellow grain.,2.0 +"The blooming trees that form a sylvan shade,",0.0 +And those sweet bowers for contemplation made.,4.0 +"Would some propitious power but grant my boon,",2.0 +"Take me aloft, and safe convey with care,",2.0 +Straight to the bonny blooming banks of Air;,0.0 +And all its beauties joyfully survey.,1.0 +"The gothic structure, and its fair domains,",1.0 +Most amply would compensate all my pains.,2.0 +"With you, dear Jenny, I would pass some hours,",3.0 +Amongst its shady walks and fragrant bowers.,0.0 +"Of poetry and poets talk by turns,",1.0 +"While Gay's unhappy Fate thy Ear attends,",0.0 +"Thy generous Heart, which never learnt the Way,",2.0 +"A Friend or to deceive, or to betray:",2.0 +"Not Law, infectious, can pollute thy Breast:",1.0 +"With Justice and Humanity endowed,",2.0 +"You shine, distinguished, mid a venal Crowd.",0.0 +"WEll, since in spite of all that Love can do,",0.0 +I'll just grow Wise and Philosophic too:,1.0 +I'll bid these tender silly things Farewell;,1.0 +"And Love, with thy great Antidote, expel:",2.0 +"I'll tread the same Ambitious Paths with thee,",0.0 +And Glory too shall be my Deity.,1.0 +"And now I'll once release my Train of Fools,",0.0 +In Sheer good Nature to the Loving Souls;,1.0 +Is all that ever deserved a Smile from me.,2.0 +"Would not accept, though of a MONARCH's heart.",2.0 +"And therefore flattering hopes, and wishes too,",3.0 +No more to its Imperious Yoke I'll bow;,3.0 +Pride and Resentment fortify me now.,2.0 +My Inclinations are reversed; nor can,1.0 +"I but abhor the Slavery of Man,",2.0 +How ever the empty Lords of Nature boast,2.0 +"Over me, their Fond Prerogative is lost:",2.0 +"For, Uncontrolled, I thus resolve to rove,",0.0 +"And hear no more of Hymen, or of Love:",2.0 +No more such Wild Fantastic things shall Charm:,0.0 +"No more for Farce; I'll make a Lover Creep,",0.0 +In pure Revenge to their Audacious hopes;,1.0 +"Though at my Feet a thousand Victims lay,",0.0 +I'd proudly spurn the Whining Slaves away.,0.0 +"Deaf, as the Winds, or Theron, would I prove,",0.0 +"And hear no more of Hymen, or of Love.",2.0 +"Like bright Diana now I'll range the Woods,",0.0 +And haunt the silent Shades and silver Floods,0.0 +"I'll find out the Remotest Paths I can,",1.0 +"Where I'll Indulge my Liberty and Bliss,",2.0 +"Now, Cupid, Mourn; the enlargement of my fate",4.0 +"I could have made thy Taper burn more bright,",0.0 +"'Twas I directed that successful dart,",2.0 +"Yet think no more my freedom to surprise,",2.0 +"And every flattering Smile, and every Grace,",2.0 +My Pride and Resolutions may deface:,1.0 +"For from those eyes for ever I'll remove,",2.0 +To shun the Sight of what I would not love:,0.0 +"To form the little angry God a dart,",0.0 +I'll yet defy his rage to touch my Heart:,0.0 +"For though my years compel me to disdain,",2.0 +"It's yet some satisfaction to my Mind,",1.0 +I for his sake abandon all Mankind.,2.0 +"My Prouder Muse, to love no more a slave,",1.0 +"Shall Sing the Gust, the Fortunate and Brave,",1.0 +And urge my Breast with a more active fire.,1.0 +"May New Successes wait upon thy Sword,",0.0 +May all thou dost thy Character complete;,1.0 +"And, like thy self, be loyal still and great:",0.0 +"While in an equal Orb as free I move,",0.0 +"And think no more of Hymen, or of Love.",2.0 +"Pollio, by nature formed in courts to shine,",1.0 +Wilt thou once more a kind attention lend,0.0 +To thy long absent and forgotten friend;,3.0 +"Who after seas and mountains wandered over,",0.0 +"Returned at length to his own native shore,",1.0 +Beneath the shades of his paternal seat,1.0 +Has found that Happiness he sought in vain,1.0 +At soft Italian sounds to melt away;,0.0 +Or in the fragrant groves of myrtle stray;,0.0 +Or makes the fond possessor truly blessed.,0.0 +In our own breasts the source of Pleasure lies,0.0 +"Still open, and still flowing to the wise;",4.0 +"Beyond the bounds of nature to aspire,",1.0 +But in its proper channels gliding fair;,0.0 +"A common benefit, which all may share,",1.0 +"Yet half mankind this easy Good disdain,",1.0 +"False is their taste of bliss, and thence their search is vain.",0.0 +"So idle, yet so restless are our minds,",1.0 +"We climb the Alps, and brave the raging winds,",0.0 +"Through various toils to seek Content we roam,",2.0 +Which but with thinking right were our's at home.,0.0 +For not the ceaseless change of shifted place,0.0 +Can from the heart a settled grief erase;,1.0 +Nor can the purer balm of foreign air,1.0 +"The wretch by wild impatience driven to rove,",2.0 +"From pole to pole the fatal arrow bears,",0.0 +"Whose rooted point his bleeding bosom tears,",0.0 +And is himself that torment which he flies.,2.0 +"For how should ills, that from our passions flow,",1.0 +"Or how can aught but powerful Reason cure,",3.0 +What from unthinking Folly we endure?,2.0 +"Happy is He, and He alone, who knows",2.0 +His heart's uneasy discord to compose;,1.0 +In generous love of others' good to find,2.0 +The sweetest pleasures of the social mind;,1.0 +To bound his wishes in their proper sphere;,0.0 +"To nourish pleasing hope, and conquer anxious fear,",0.0 +"This was the wisdom ancient Sages taught,",1.0 +This was the sovereign good they justly sought;,1.0 +"This to no place or climate is confined,",3.0 +But the free native produce of the mind.,3.0 +"Nor think, my Lord, that Courts to you deny",1.0 +The useful practise of Philosophy:,2.0 +"Horace, the wisest of the tuneful choir,",3.0 +"Not always chose from Greatness to retire,",1.0 +But in the palace of Augustus knew,1.0 +His study and his happiness he made.,2.0 +"May you, my friend, by his example taught,",2.0 +View all the giddy scene with sober thought;,0.0 +And in the mid of slavish forms be free;,0.0 +In its own centre keep your steady mind;,0.0 +"In show, in manners, act the Courtier's part,",0.0 +"WHEN urged by Honour, from thy Sight I flew,",0.0 +"And scarce would breath one tender soft adieu,",0.0 +"From thy dear Face I turned my gazing Eyes,",2.0 +"Suppressed the Tears, and checked the rising Sighs.",0.0 +"I fled from you, but could not fly from Love.",1.0 +"O do not then, my lovely Swain, accuse",0.0 +"My Want of Truth, nor charge on me thy Woes:",1.0 +"For every Pain which racks thy faithful Breast,",0.0 +A thousand more my anxious Soul oppressed;,0.0 +"Sorrows for which Description's all too faint,",3.0 +And equal Misery alone can paint.,1.0 +"My first, my last, and still my only Care.",0.0 +"My hapless Flame nor Time nor Absence cures,",0.0 +Still constant to the Vows which made me yours.,2.0 +"Each Wish, and every fond Desire the same.",0.0 +"Nor can thy Pen one piercing Woe reveal,",1.0 +Which thy Ardelia does not equal feel.,2.0 +"Ah, dear Idea of my lovely Swain!",1.0 +"Ah, soft Remembrance of my former Pain!",1.0 +Why to my anxious Breast do you return?,1.0 +Why wake a Flame which must for ever burn?,0.0 +"Still shall that lovely Image charm my View,",0.0 +And those dear Accents all my Grief renew:,2.0 +"Still must I love, though Honour Love deny,",3.0 +And bids me from the dangerous Charmer fly.,3.0 +"Ah then how vain, how fruitless all my Care?",0.0 +"This welcome Absence, this confirmed Despair?",1.0 +This cruel Contest between Love and Fame?,3.0 +These endless Pangs for which I want a Name?,0.0 +In all those Sorrows I alone should bear?,1.0 +"All tender as thou wert, all soft and kind,",2.0 +"I flew, and with thee left my Soul behind;",1.0 +"Just to myself, but more unjust to you.",3.0 +Why then my Image dost thou still retain?,0.0 +Why for a Wretch unworthy thee complain?,1.0 +"OH rather hate me, drive me from your Breast,",2.0 +By Scorn and Hate be all thy Soul possessed:,0.0 +"Complete thy Cure, and OH assist in mine.",0.0 +Why did I love? Why did my easy Heart,0.0 +"Admit the dear, but ah too dangerous Dart?",3.0 +Why did I not the pleasing Torment shun?,1.0 +Why fondly listen to thy soothing Tongue?,1.0 +"Quick to my Heart the subtle Poison stole,",0.0 +"Charmed all my Senses, and enslaved my Soul;",1.0 +Then thy prevailing Eloquence could charm.,2.0 +"Those tender Vows, and I'll believe them true:",1.0 +"Let me once more behold those melting Eyes,",2.0 +Where Love a thousand nameless Charms supplies:,0.0 +"The soft Enchantment shall my Fears control,",0.0 +And Love claim all his Empire in my Soul.,1.0 +Ah! whether would my boundless Wishes rove?,0.0 +"Still, still am I enslaved by guilty Love!",2.0 +"Still shall its lawless Fires my Soul profane,",0.0 +And is my boasted Virtue but a Name?,2.0 +"No; I'll forget thee, drive thee from my Breast,",3.0 +"Yet how forget, when every Thought is thine?",1.0 +Even Life itself were easier to resign.,3.0 +"To lonely Shades in vain I fly for Ease,",0.0 +"There secret sigh, and feed the sweet Disease.",0.0 +"On thy dear Name I call, and all around",2.0 +The whispering Winds repeat the charming Sound.,2.0 +"It's thus I wear the anxious Hours away,",0.0 +Till Night restores the Sorrows of the Day.,1.0 +Then does thy Image to my Eyes appear;,1.0 +"But ah! with Looks averse, and Frowns severe;",0.0 +"Still as you seem to chide me with your Eyes,",1.0 +"My own in streaming Tears to yours replies,",1.0 +"O stay, I cry, thou charming Phantom stay,",0.0 +Or with thee take my fleeting Soul away!,1.0 +And waking find the dear Delusion gone.,0.0 +Does she like thee all cold and cruel seem?,0.0 +"Or does the pensive Shade soft Sorrows wear,",1.0 +"Heave the faint Sigh, and shed the mimic Tear?",3.0 +"On thy loved Breast her painful Head recline,",2.0 +And tell thee that her Torments equal thine.,2.0 +Why can I not this fatal Flame remove?,0.0 +"Or why, OH why is it a Crime to love?",1.0 +"By Turns my Reason and my Passion sway,",1.0 +"My tortured Breast conflicting Passions tear,",0.0 +And Love and Virtue wage unequal War:,0.0 +"Now all its sacred Precepts I pursue,",2.0 +Lost for a while is every Thought of you.,0.0 +"But o! again the guilty Lover burns,",1.0 +And all the Woman in my Soul returns;,0.0 +"Again my Bosom glows with soft Desire,",0.0 +And hope returning fans the fatal Fire.,0.0 +"Seas rolls between us, but the active Mind",2.0 +"Still springs to thee, and leaves its load behind.",1.0 +"O should some happy Chance to us unknown,",1.0 +Without a Crime confirm me all thy own.,0.0 +"O! let my Soul the pleasing Hope retain,",0.0 +One Hour of Joy repays whole Years of Pain!,2.0 +To suffering Martyrs thus such Hopes are given;,0.0 +Such Views of promised Joys and future Heaven.,0.0 +"For this resigned they calmly meet their Fate,",1.0 +Conscious of Blessings in a happier State.,4.0 +"STILL was the night, and gently rolled the wave,",0.0 +"When Almond's banks a pensive poet sought,",0.0 +"And free from care his rustic lay attuned,",0.0 +"When, lo! by some superior power compelled,",4.0 +"The silver waves in equal parts divide,",0.0 +"And thence two lovely virgin forms arise,",1.0 +Who thus with accent soft the bard bespeak:,1.0 +"Be thine the task our hapless fate to sing,",0.0 +"While we, OH Bard, thy rustic verse inspire,",3.0 +"Still on these banks our pensive spirits stray,",0.0 +In ages past we were for friendship famed;,1.0 +"Nor love, nor death, our friendship could destroy.",0.0 +"One happy youth, by both alike beloved,",0.0 +While he for each with equal passion burned.,0.0 +"For us, on yonder hill, a bower he built,",3.0 +To meet the willing partners of his love;,1.0 +"But when at once the azure skies we sought,",0.0 +"Over our remains a simple tomb he reared,",1.0 +"Then died, and joined us in the realms of light.",0.0 +"Oh! from our tender tale this moral learn,",0.0 +That real friendship lives beyond the grave;,1.0 +"And when from earth removed it seeks the skies,",0.0 +"It then for ever burns a flame serene,",0.0 +"The Almond's willing waves again divide,",0.0 +And from his sight the lovely phantoms sink.,1.0 +"AS those we dearly love resign their breath,",1.0 +"Living we taste the bitterness of death,",3.0 +"And while life hovers over the languid frame,",3.0 +Plead the strong tie to fan the expiring flame;,4.0 +"Reluctant to the tomb their clay we trust,",1.0 +And moisten with our tears the silent dust;,1.0 +"Chained to this earth our weak ideas lie,",0.0 +Nor trace the spirit to its native sky.,1.0 +"Much honoured shade forgive this falling tear,",1.0 +"The selfish sorrow that could wish thee here,",0.0 +"From every mortal care securely free,",0.0 +Thou never shalt feel what now is felt for thee.,3.0 +"Death fixed his seal and stamped thy virtues true,",1.0 +"Thy life's fair page the faithful Muse would view,",1.0 +And there religion spread a pleasing charm;,1.0 +Pure as its precepts as its prospects warm;,2.0 +"There soft compassion met the tale of grief,",0.0 +"How loved how valued in each social tie,",0.0 +"Witness the falling tear, the heart-felt sigh:",3.0 +"Thus loved, thus mourned, our comforts pass away,",2.0 +Till death discloses a celestial day.,1.0 +"Below the Majesty of British Verse,",1.0 +"TO assist them in their great Designs, to paint",1.0 +"What mortal Painter can suffice? Descend,",1.0 +"OH Goddess of Celestial Imagery,",3.0 +And Graces that can charm the rudest Minds.,0.0 +Thy Influence makes the Pen's immortal Draught,2.0 +Victorious over the Pencil's dying Toil.,4.0 +"Goddess, descend then, and inspire my Song,",3.0 +That it with native Majesty may rise,1.0 +"High, as the sacred Spring from which it flows,",0.0 +"In such a moving, such a melting Strain,",1.0 +"That with Concern the listening World may hear,",1.0 +"And for the greater Pomp of piercing Woe,",1.0 +"Muse, show Britannia to her mournful Lyre,",2.0 +"Lamenting all the Virtues of her QUEEN,",1.0 +"All the great Actions of her wondrous Reign,",3.0 +In which the Terror of the British Arms,1.0 +Their Fame beyond the Ocean's farthest Waves.,0.0 +"Then let her wring her late victorious Arms,",2.0 +"Muse, paint her Woe, accompanied with Care,",2.0 +"And black Mistrust, and with tormenting Fear,",2.0 +"Of vile and murderous Idolatry,",2.0 +Of shameful Slavery and endless Woe.,1.0 +"But short, OH Goddess, be the mournful Draught,",1.0 +For lo! the wondrous Hand of God appears.,0.0 +"Draw what no mortal Painter ever could draw,",3.0 +"And show Britannia passing in an Hour,",2.0 +"From Fear to Hope, to Joy, to Ecstasy,",1.0 +"TO immortal Ecstasy, from killing Woe.",2.0 +"For lo! the wondrous Hand of God appears,",0.0 +"Been for whole Ages into Factions rent,",2.0 +"All in a Moment, by a secret Force,",1.0 +"Unanimously Hearts and Hands they join,",1.0 +"Unanimously, with a noble Fire",2.0 +"Their rightful King, the Royal GEORGE, proclaim.",0.0 +"Hark how aloud with one Accord they cry,",3.0 +"Long live the Royal GEORGE, long may he live,",3.0 +"And happy may he reign! Bless him, you Powers,",3.0 +"Shower down your choicest Blessings on his Head,",2.0 +"To happy Britain's Isle! Waft him, you Winds;",2.0 +"You Billows, gently in his Passage rise,",0.0 +"And gently, in Obeisance to him, fall.",3.0 +"Let the calm Ocean recognise it's Lord,",3.0 +And land him safely on the longing Shore.,1.0 +But who can ever the impatient Longings paint,1.0 +"Of Britons, all on Fire to see their King!",0.0 +"See how, at his Approach, their Eyes, Voice, Hands,",2.0 +The unruly Transport of their Joy declare!,2.0 +"An Entertainment worthier Majesty,",3.0 +"And far more pleasing to the Monarch's Soul,",2.0 +"Than all the pompous Pageantry of State,",1.0 +"The low Obeisance, and the prostrate Bows,",3.0 +"But these the Loyal Subjects humble Love,",1.0 +"And cordial Joy declare. And, lo! he comes,",0.0 +"After three Centuries, return from Heaven,",4.0 +To execute the vast Designs of Fate.,0.0 +"Hark how the Air sounds with redoubled Shouts,",2.0 +"While the shrill Trumpets, with their Silver Sounds,",3.0 +Inspire a martial and heroic Joy;,1.0 +"And our deep Cannons formidable Roar,",3.0 +"Bears the transporting Tidings to the Skies,",3.0 +And all the Spirits of the blessed rejoice;,1.0 +"Chiefly the Souls of the triumphant Slain,",3.0 +"Who died to compass this Auspicious Day,",1.0 +"He Men and Angels in transporting Joy,",0.0 +"Surpasses to behold this sacred Day,",1.0 +"William's each Action, and his every Thought.",3.0 +"Were destined to secure this Sacred Day,",1.0 +"His daily Image, and his nightly Dream:",1.0 +"For this Great William lived, and reigned, and died.",2.0 +"But whither, Muse, dost thou transported rove?",1.0 +"And to the King thy Eyes and Thoughts confine,",1.0 +On whom the Eyes of Gods and Men are fixed:,0.0 +"Behold him well with thy immortal Eyes,",1.0 +"Paint him with native Majesty adorned,",1.0 +"But heightened with a thousand great Exploits,",2.0 +Where he for twenty Years victorious fought,2.0 +Against the Foe of all the Christian World:,0.0 +"Even then the Great Defender of the Faith,",1.0 +"And Champion of the Almighty, under him",3.0 +"Spotless Religion will be still secure,",3.0 +In Spite of all the Attacks of Rome and Hell.,1.0 +"Muse, Paint no Terror on his Regal Brow;",3.0 +But Love and Majesty together blend;,1.0 +And let him look a King resolved to rule,0.0 +"Over his Subject's Hearts: Even God himself,",5.0 +"The Almighty Ruler of the Universe,",2.0 +"Remains unsatisfied with all his Power,",0.0 +Unless he has the Hearts of those he rules.,1.0 +"If they over senseless Matter only reign,",0.0 +"Are but Dramatic Kings; to rule over Souls,",6.0 +"Over intelligent, immortal Beings,",3.0 +"Is true Dominion, true Imperial Sway.",2.0 +"Muse, paint the King, a Monarch, not by Halves,",1.0 +But let him reign over all his Subjects Hearts.,3.0 +"A King who reigns by Parties, is a King",1.0 +"Only of half his Subjects; and the Lord,",3.0 +"Who has the Affections of the other half,",2.0 +Is truly King of that. Let Royal GEORGE,1.0 +Possess them all; let him deserve them all,2.0 +"By his just, gentle, and impartial Sway.",2.0 +"And that the King may rule over all our Hearts,",3.0 +"Grant him, Thou God of Concord and of Love,",1.0 +"Grant him the Glory to unite those Hearts,",2.0 +"Heal our Divisions, and our Factions calm.",3.0 +"And as thy great creating Power at first,",2.0 +From warring Elements composed the World;,1.0 +"So from our jarring Factions, may the King",2.0 +"Form an harmonious and a glorious State,",5.0 +"That Britain, like thy Heaven, serene within,",0.0 +"May send its Lightning and its Thunder forth,",1.0 +Exhort thy Britains to fraternal Love;,1.0 +"It's our Divisions that have made us weak,",1.0 +"But mutual Love will make us once more strong,",2.0 +"With neighbouring Nations will retrieve our Fame,",3.0 +And place the Ballance of the Christian Power,1.0 +In Royal GEORGE's formidable Arm.,1.0 +"Unite then, Britains, join both Hearts and Hands;",2.0 +The barbarous Distinction of vile Names,3.0 +"For ever be removed; be Britons all,",0.0 +And look with Indignation and Disdain,1.0 +"To divide those whom Heaven and Nature meant,",1.0 +Should be within our selves for ever one.,1.0 +"Names that debase the Majesty of Verse,",2.0 +"Odious Distinctions, mean but the same Thing.",2.0 +"A King by Law from doing Harm restrained,",0.0 +But boundless in his Power of doing Good;,2.0 +"Over all Persons, over all Things supreme,",4.0 +Except Superior and Imperial Law.,5.0 +"A People free, and ruled by Laws they make,",0.0 +"A Church in its own Excellence secure,",2.0 +"And mean Mistrusts, and vain fantastic Fears,",0.0 +"Relying firmly on established Law,",1.0 +"And Promises Divine, which have decreed,",1.0 +"That all the Rage of Earth, and Rage of Hell,",0.0 +Against its Sacred Power shall never prevail.,4.0 +"And the Dissenter from established Rites,",2.0 +"The sober, scrupulous, conscientious Man,",2.0 +"With both the other, since they then all three",0.0 +"In Interest and Principle are one,",2.0 +"Let them be three by barbarous Terms no more,",2.0 +"Let them all three be to each other true,",1.0 +"As to the original Compact they are just,",2.0 +"Let the Dissenter venerate the Church,",2.0 +"Towards those who differ from her Sacred Rites,",1.0 +As surely knowing nothing can create,1.0 +"Danger to her, but Want of Love Divine.",1.0 +And with our Frame of Government; for those,2.0 +"Who would be too much bound, or too much free;",0.0 +"Those let us now endeavour to reclaim,",1.0 +Since they were born our Brothers and our Friends.,1.0 +"Then let the few, of old Republics fond,",0.0 +Can never consist with Democratic Sway;,2.0 +"Would you be governed well, or governed ill?",0.0 +"What Fool, what Brute, would not be governed well?",0.0 +One active and beneficent required;,4.0 +"And all the sounding Bog, whom Instinct taught",0.0 +"The Right which Nature gave, with one Accord",1.0 +"Now view the Earth from London to Japan,",2.0 +"Take a Survey of its most boundless Lords,",2.0 +"Let it be Sultan, Sophy, Tsar, Mogul:",3.0 +"Whoever governs well, he rules by Law,",0.0 +By written or eternal Law he rules;,1.0 +The Law promulgated in human Hearts.,5.0 +"Even the great Ruler of the Universe,",3.0 +Governs by written or eternal Law;,3.0 +But for observing or transgressing Law;,2.0 +"But in hereditary Realms, how few",0.0 +Are qualified to rule by Reason's Law?,0.0 +"Perhaps not four in ten successive Kings,",0.0 +"The rest must govern then by stated Rule,",0.0 +"Whoever in Realms hereditary then,",2.0 +"Declare for boundless Power and boundless Kings,",2.0 +"They for ill Government in Terms declare,",3.0 +"And are to all their Fellow Subjects Foes,",1.0 +"And Traitors to their Kings; for stated Law,",1.0 +"Which alone makes the Safety of the Ruled,",4.0 +Makes the sole firm Security of Kings;,4.0 +"And never Prince, in Kingdoms ruled by Law,",0.0 +"While Law prevailed, by freeborn Subjects fell.",0.0 +"But thousands, where unbounded Power prevailed,",2.0 +"While feeble Principle, to Nature's Power",1.0 +As Roman and as Turkish Records tell;,1.0 +"Where Slaves upon unbounded Lords depend,",0.0 +"Upon those Slaves the unbounded Lords depend,",2.0 +"Let him then, who for boundless Power declares,",2.0 +"Either recant, or own himself a Foe",2.0 +"To Prince, to People, and to human Kind;",1.0 +"And if he dares to own himself that Foe,",1.0 +"Let him by Prince, by People, and Mankind,",2.0 +"An universal Outlaw be proclaimed,",1.0 +And like devoted noxious Creatures used.,0.0 +"But if, repenting, he desires a King,",2.0 +"A King the just Executor of Law,",1.0 +"Instead of an unjust and baleful Tyrant,",1.0 +The bloody Executioner of Will;,1.0 +By that Desire he Royal GEORGE demands:,0.0 +"For none of all our Regal Race, but he,",0.0 +"Dares rule by written or eternal Law,",2.0 +"And disciplined to barbarous Tyranny,",4.0 +"Will scorn all Bounds, and make his Power his Law.",2.0 +"But Royal GEORGE, even in his native Realm,",3.0 +Where he was less restrained by written Law;,0.0 +Yet there with Justice and with Mercy ruled;,1.0 +His comprehensive Reason was his Law.,1.0 +"To his hereditary Subjects dear,",1.0 +"The common tender Father of them all,",1.0 +"Who his Departure for Britannia saw,",4.0 +"With the same Grief, and the same Horror struck,",4.0 +"See the Departure of the Lord of Day,",3.0 +"With Joy, you Britons, under such a King.",1.0 +To the two ancient Kingdoms of our Isle.,3.0 +"James I James gave one Monarch, Anna gave one Law;",3.0 +"For GEORGE the happier Union is reserved,",3.0 +The Union of Affections and of Hearts;,2.0 +"That Union makes both King and People blessed,",1.0 +"Makes him the greatest, most renowned of Kings,",0.0 +And us a People worthy such a King.,2.0 +"To bring back what is past, the present to record,",2.0 +"The future to foresee, and to unite",2.0 +"Whatever has been, and is, and what shall be.",2.0 +"What wondrous Blessings will on Britain flow,",1.0 +"Under the King united to itself,",3.0 +"While he with Justice and with Mercy rules,",1.0 +With Plenty we and Liberty obey.,2.0 +"That Union in the King will place a Power,",0.0 +"A formidable but a legal Power,",2.0 +"On which our Western Tyrants will look pale,",2.0 +And all his Subjects look with cheerful Hue:,0.0 +"With which he sets, to each proud Tyrant, Bars,",1.0 +"And says, as God does to the Ocean's Waves,",1.0 +"Here fix thy Bounds, here stop thy aspiring Course;",2.0 +"Will make fair Liberty immortal here,",2.0 +"Will make his Subjects blessed, secure, renowned.",0.0 +"Woe to that guilty Tyrant, who shall then",0.0 +"Provoke him to resume the dreadful Sword,",0.0 +To lead his Britons and his Germans forth,1.0 +"To meet bright Victory on Belgian Plains,",2.0 +"Where they have oft the radiant Goddess met,",0.0 +Where oft the radiant Goddess has been pleased,0.0 +To bless and crown the Union of their Arms.,1.0 +What Vengeance will that impious Tyrant urge?,3.0 +What hideous and amazing Ruin draw,3.0 +"In vain he shall new Fortresses erect,",2.0 +As Giants Mountains upon Mountains hurled,5.0 +To threat Religion and assail the Skies:,1.0 +"With his avenging Thunder; and his Son,",2.0 +"Shall, like the God of War, among them rush,",0.0 +"While Dread before him and Amazement march,",1.0 +And Slaughter and Destruction stalk behind.,1.0 +What numerous Triumphs shall we then behold,2.0 +"Upon the Land, upon the astonished Main?",2.0 +"Again Great Marlborough to the Germane Alps,",4.0 +With old victorious Squadrons shall be sent;,2.0 +"The Germane Alps shall tremble at his March,",5.0 +And from their Summits shake the eternal Snow.,3.0 +And in its Field another Emperor saved;,2.0 +"And fifty Forts and Provinces entire,",1.0 +"Which Perfidy, and Fraud, and impious Gold,",4.0 +"Could scarce in fifty guilty Years acquire,",0.0 +Shall in one Hour before the Conqueror fall.,2.0 +"And make him apprehend, as at La Hogue,",1.0 +TO exhaust and to devour his watery Realm.,6.0 +Our impious Foes shall from all Seas be driven;,3.0 +"Nor shall the Ocean, which confines the World,",0.0 +"Both shall to new astonished Worlds extend,",0.0 +Where on the Skies the ambitious Earth confines;,2.0 +"Shall reach the Stars, and terminate in Heaven.",0.0 +"Our Ships shall over the Atlantic Ocean range,",1.0 +"From Florida to the far Southern Cape,",3.0 +Where the two Seas their Names and Waves confound,3.0 +"In Triumph the pacific Billows plough,",1.0 +From California to rich Chili's Shore;,2.0 +"Shall captivate the Vessels of both Floods,",2.0 +"Their Forts demolish, and their Towns destroy,",1.0 +"And Panama, and Royal Lima spoil;",0.0 +"Confound the Hope of the aspiring Gaul,",1.0 +"Return with the vast Treasure of the West,",3.0 +And bring home Riches to amaze the World.,2.0 +"Dreadful, alas! shall spread that War, and wide,",2.0 +Infecting Sea and Land with Purple Die.,0.0 +"But short shall be its transitory Rage,",0.0 +"And it shall end in Victory and Fame,",2.0 +Eternal Fame to Britain and her King.,1.0 +"And then a glorious everlasting Peace,",2.0 +"Crowned with domestic Quiet shall succeed,",2.0 +"And brood over Britain with her downy Wings,",3.0 +To hatch Felicity and Plenty here.,1.0 +Then the wise Conduct of the best of Kings,0.0 +"The Rich with flowing Plenty will overwhelm,",2.0 +Employ and nourish our yet numerous Poor;,3.0 +Our Manufactures will increase and raise;,1.0 +"Our Commerce will improve, and will extend,",2.0 +And to our Side incline the ponderous Scale;,3.0 +"While he, the Ocean's undisputed Lord,",0.0 +"As strictly on the rude, tempestuous Main,",4.0 +"The Numbers of his Subjects he'll augment,",2.0 +Diminished much by three devouring Wars;,2.0 +"Extend our Culture, and improve our Soil;",1.0 +"While his bold Britons plough the furrowed Deep,",2.0 +And reap a plentiful and living Harvest.,1.0 +"In the cool Shade of his own branching Vine,",2.0 +And with its Juice make his poor Brothers glad.,4.0 +But when this glorious long continued Peace,2.0 +"Shall advance Commerce to its utmost Height,",6.0 +"Base Poverty, and baser Passions then",5.0 +For ever shall be banished from our Isle.,1.0 +"The Riches of the Earth, the Joys of Heaven",1.0 +The Eastern and the Western World shall vie,1.0 +Which shall add most to our increasing Store.,1.0 +"The Merchant shall in sparkling Ruby drink,",0.0 +"The happy Shepherd, with his rural Crook,",1.0 +"Shall the dumb Kingdom under him survey,",3.0 +"Shall see his wanton and his fattening Flock,",1.0 +"Under their ponderous Fleeces proudly pant,",4.0 +And hourly multiply. The whistling Hind,0.0 +"Large Interest to extort for what he lends,",2.0 +"And for mild Seasons and a gentle Reign,",3.0 +"Shall praise aloud the Goodness of the King,",1.0 +And the indulgent Clemency of Heaven.,2.0 +"Fair Liberty shall, like the British Oak,",2.0 +"The long lived Oak, grow tall, and branching spread,",2.0 +And Virtue under Liberty grow strong.,2.0 +"For ever Property shall be secure,",1.0 +The Public Credit be forever fixed.,0.0 +"The busy Britons, like industrious Bees,",2.0 +"Shall drive the idle Drones from forth their Hives,",0.0 +And Idleness be deemed the Source of every Vice.,1.0 +Pernicious Luxury shall be restrained,1.0 +"That none his Patrimonial Lands may waste,",0.0 +And so by dire Necessity be urged,2.0 +"To sell his Country, and his King betray.",1.0 +And Fraud beyond the Ocean shall be driven;,0.0 +"And Faith, and every Virtue dwell secure.",0.0 +Devotion to the Heaven of Heavens shall soar,2.0 +"Upon the flaming Wings of Charity,",1.0 +And fall again in Blessings on Mankind.,2.0 +"While vile Mistrust, and vain fantastic Fear,",0.0 +"And Envy, Hatred, Malice, Rage, Revenge,",0.0 +"Shall take their Flight to Tyrants Courts Abroad,",0.0 +"Or take their Flight to Hell, and plague the Damned.",0.0 +"No Passion here but Love shall reign and Joy,",1.0 +The lawful and the charming Child of Love.,1.0 +"Each noble Art shall flourish, as in Days",1.0 +"Of Great Augustus, or Great Alexander.",2.0 +"Goddess, to Thee a Temple we'll erect,",2.0 +Peace owes its noblest Ornaments: To thee,2.0 +"Distinguished Merit owes its chief Reward,",0.0 +And Virtues self its Immortality.,1.0 +"To celebrate the Blessings, and the Joys,",1.0 +Of this renowned and everlasting Peace.,1.0 +"Thy noblest Sons their Transports shall employ,",0.0 +Virtue and public Spirit to advance;,3.0 +"And great and public Actions to record,",1.0 +And to reward with everlasting Fame;,1.0 +To fix on Traitors an eternal Brand;,1.0 +"That with their Lies intoxicate the Crowd,",0.0 +And make the Beasts run dangerously mad;,2.0 +While from immortal Merit they detract,2.0 +"Heroic Victories, heroic Deeds,",1.0 +"To which its Happiness, their Country owes",1.0 +"Its Safety, Spirit, Strength, and high Renown.",0.0 +"On these a Brand eternal shall be fixed,",1.0 +Eternal Laurels on our Heroes Heads.,1.0 +And a peculiar Province shall be given;,1.0 +"But their heroic Transports all shall join,",1.0 +"To celebrate the King's auspicious Reign,",0.0 +"And his immortal Name to extend as far,",3.0 +"As his high Conduct brave, and just, and wise,",2.0 +"GRACE said in form, which Sceptics must agree,",1.0 +When they are told that Grace was said by Me;,0.0 +"On the proud Landlord, and his threadbare guest;",2.0 +"The King gone round, my Lady too withdrawn,",1.0 +"My Lord, in usual taste, began to yawn,",2.0 +"With an insipid kind of stupid stare,",1.0 +"Picking his teeth, twirling his seals about ' --",4.0 +"CHURCHILL, You have a Poem coming out.",2.0 +"Your Muse in general is too severe,",1.0 +"Her Spirit seems her interest to oppose,",1.0 +"And, where She makes one friend, makes twenty foes.",1.0 +But only feel it as a thing of course.,1.0 +"The Man, whose hardy Spirit shall engage",0.0 +"To lash the vices of a guilty age,",1.0 +"At his first setting forward ought to know,",2.0 +"That every rogue he meets must be his foe,",0.0 +That the rude breath of Satire will provoke,4.0 +"Many who feel, and more who fear the stroke.",2.0 +But shall the partial rage of selfish men,0.0 +"From stubborn Justice wrench the righteous pen,",0.0 +"Or shall I not my settled course pursue,",0.0 +"Because my foes, are foes to Virtue too?",0.0 +"What is this boasted Virtue, taught in Schools,",0.0 +And idly drawn from antiquated rules?,0.0 +What is her Use? point out one wholesome end?,2.0 +"Will She hurt foes, or can She make a Friend?",2.0 +"When from long fasts fierce appetites arise,",4.0 +Can this same Virtue stifle Nature's cries?,2.0 +"Can She the pittance of a meal afford,",2.0 +Or bid thee welcome to one great Man's board?,2.0 +When Northern winds the rough December arm,0.0 +"With frost and snow, can Virtue keep thee warm?",0.0 +"Barely by saying, Thou art Virtue's Son?",3.0 +"Or by base blundering Statesmen sent to jail,",4.0 +Will MANSFIELD take this Virtue for thy bail?,2.0 +"Believe it not, the Name is in disgrace,",0.0 +Virtue and TEMPLE now are out of place.,3.0 +"True Virtue means, let Reason use her eyes,",2.0 +"Nothing with Fools, and Interest with the Wise.",3.0 +Nor madly triumph in so mean a name:,0.0 +And leave to Virtue poverty and scorn.,1.0 +Let Prudence be thy guide; who does not know,1.0 +How seldom Prudence can with Virtue go?,1.0 +"To be Successful try thy utmost force,",1.0 +And Virtue follows as a thing of course.,1.0 +"Of that kind Master who first gave him bread,",2.0 +"Breaks every public, every private band,",1.0 +"Betrays a Brother, and would cheat a Son:",1.0 +What mortal in his senses can endure,1.0 +"By all detested live, and die forgot;",0.0 +"Let him, a poor return, in every breath",0.0 +"Feel all death's pains, yet be whole years in death,",1.0 +Is now the general cry we all pursue;,0.0 +"Let FORTUNE change, and PRUDENCE changes too,",1.0 +"Supple and pliant a new system feels,",4.0 +"Peace to such Men, if such Men can have peace,",0.0 +"Let their Possessions, let their State increase,",2.0 +"Let their base services in Courts strike root,",5.0 +"And in the season bring forth golden fruit,",1.0 +"I envy not; let those who have the will,",2.0 +"And, with so little Spirit, so much skill,",2.0 +With such vile instruments their fortunes carve;,3.0 +"Rogues may grow fat, an Honest man dares starve.",4.0 +"For once to real life, and quit Romance.",3.0 +Starve! pretty talking! but I fain would view,2.0 +"That man, that honest man would do it too.",0.0 +"And dart from pole to pole thy strengthened eye,",0.0 +"Through all that space You shall not view one man,",0.0 +"Not one, who dares to act on such a plan.",1.0 +"Cowards in calms will say, what in a storm",2.0 +"The Brave will tremble at, and not perform.",0.0 +"What Proof might do, what Hunger might effect,",0.0 +"What famished Nature, looking with neglect",1.0 +"On all She once held dear, what Fear, at strife",1.0 +"With fainting Virtue for the means of life,",1.0 +"Might make this coward flesh, in love with breath,",0.0 +"Shuddering at pain, and shrinking back from death,",1.0 +"In treason to my soul, descend to bear,",1.0 +"Trusting to Fate, I neither know, nor care,",2.0 +"Once, at this hour those wounds afresh I feel,",0.0 +"Which nor Prosperity nor Time can heal,",2.0 +"Those wounds, which Fate severely hath decreed,",0.0 +"Mentioned or thought of, must for ever bleed,",2.0 +"Those wounds, which humbled all that pride of Man,",0.0 +Which brings such mighty aid to Virtue's plan;,0.0 +"Once, awed by Fortune's most oppressive frown,",1.0 +"My Credit at last gasp, my State undone,",1.0 +"Trembling to meet the shock I could not shun,",1.0 +"Virtue gave ground, and blank despair prevailed;",3.0 +"Sinking beneath the storm, my Spirits failed,",2.0 +"Like PETER's Faith, till One, a Friend indeed,",1.0 +"May all distress find such in time of need,",2.0 +"One kind good Man, in act, in word, in thought,",0.0 +"By Virtue guided, and by Wisdom taught,",1.0 +"Image of him whom Christians should adore,",1.0 +"Stretched forth his hand, and brought me safe to shore.",1.0 +"Since, by good fortune into notice raised,",0.0 +"And for some little merit largely praised,",1.0 +"Hated by Rogues, and not beloved by Fools,",2.0 +"Placed above want, shall abject thirst of wealth",3.0 +"So fiercely war against my Soul's dearest health,",3.0 +"That, as a boon, I should base shackles crave,",1.0 +"And, born to Freedom, make myself a slave;",1.0 +"That I should in the train of those appear,",1.0 +"Whom Honour cannot love, nor Manhood fear?",4.0 +"That I no longer skulk from street to street,",2.0 +"Afraid least Duns assail, and Bailiffs meet;",1.0 +"Walk forth at large, and wander free as air;",1.0 +"That I no longer dread the awkward friend,",2.0 +"Whose very obligations must offend,",0.0 +At suffering favours which I can't return;,0.0 +"That, from dependence and from pride secure,",2.0 +"I am not placed so high to scorn the poor,",1.0 +"Nor yet so low, that I my Lord should fear,",1.0 +Or hesitate to give him sneer for sneer;,0.0 +"That, while sage Prudence my pursuits confirms,",2.0 +I can enjoy the world on equal terms;,1.0 +"That, kind to others, to myself most true,",2.0 +"Feeling no want, I comfort those who do,",4.0 +And with the will have power to aid distress;,3.0 +"These, and what other blessings I possess,",2.0 +From the indulgence of the PUBLIC rise;,2.0 +All private Patronage my Soul defies.,1.0 +A generous PUBLIC made me what I Am.,2.0 +"All that I have, They gave; just Memory bears,",2.0 +"The grateful stamp, and what I am is Theirs.",1.0 +"To mouth aloud for liberties and laws,",1.0 +"For Public good to bellow all abroad,",0.0 +Serves well the purposes of private fraud.,2.0 +"Prudence, by Public good intends her own;",2.0 +"If You mean otherwise, You stand alone.",2.0 +"What do we mean by Country and by Court,",1.0 +"What is it to Oppose, what to Support?",2.0 +"Mere words of course, and what is more absurd",1.0 +Than to pay homage to an empty word!,3.0 +"MAJORS and MINORS differ but in name,",3.0 +Patriots and Ministers are much the same;,2.0 +"The only difference, after all their rout,",0.0 +"Is that the One is in, the Other out.",2.0 +"Explore the dark recesses of the mind,",4.0 +"In the Soul's honest volume read mankind,",3.0 +"And own, in wise and simple, great and small,",0.0 +The same grand leading Principle in All.,2.0 +"Whatever we talk of wisdom to the wise,",4.0 +"Of goodness to the good, of public ties",1.0 +"Which to our country link, of private bands",0.0 +"Which claim most dear attention at our hands,",0.0 +"For Parent and for Child, for Wife and Friend,",1.0 +"Our first great Mover, and our last great End,",3.0 +"Is One, and, by whatever name we call",4.0 +"The ruling Tyrant, SELF is All in All.",0.0 +"This, which unwilling Faction shall admit,",0.0 +"Guided in different ways a BUTE and PITT,",2.0 +"Made Tyrants break, made Kings observe the law,",2.0 +And gave the world a STUART and NASSAU.,0.0 +Hath Nature strange and wild conceit of Pride,0.0 +Distinguished thee from all her sons beside?,1.0 +"Does Virtue in thy bosom brighter glow,",0.0 +Or from a Spring more pure does Action flow?,1.0 +Is not thy Soul bound with those very chains,2.0 +"Which shackle us, or is that SELF, which reigns",2.0 +"Over Kings and Beggars, which in all we see",0.0 +"Most strong and sovereign, only weak in Thee?",0.0 +"Fond man, believe it not; Experience tells",3.0 +"It's not thy Virtue, but thy Pride rebels.",1.0 +"Think, and for once lay by thy lawless pen;",2.0 +"Think, and confess thyself like other men;",2.0 +"Think but one hour, and, to thy Conscience led",1.0 +"By Reason's hand, bow down and hang thy head;",2.0 +"Think on thy private life, recall thy Youth,",0.0 +"View thyself now, and own with strictest truth,",2.0 +That SELF hath drawn Thee from fair Virtue's way,2.0 +"Farther than Folly would have dared to stray,",2.0 +And that the talents liberal Nature gave,0.0 +"To make thee free, have made thee more a slave.",0.0 +"Quit then, in prudence quit, that idle train",0.0 +"Of toys, which have so long abused thy brain,",0.0 +And captive led thy powers; with boundless will,3.0 +"Let SELF maintain her state and empire still,",1.0 +"But let her, with more worthy objects caught,",1.0 +Strain all the faculties and force of thought,1.0 +To things of higher daring; let her range,0.0 +"Through better pastures, and learn how to change;",2.0 +"Let her, no longer to weak faction tied,",5.0 +"Wisely revolt, and join our stronger side.",2.0 +"Ah! what, my Lord, hath private life to do",0.0 +With things of public Nature? why to view,0.0 +"Would You thus cruelly those scenes unfold,",4.0 +"Which, without pain and horror to behold,",4.0 +"Must speak me something more, or less than man;",0.0 +"Which Friends may pardon, but I never can?",2.0 +"Look back! a Thought which borders on despair,",2.0 +"Which human Nature must, yet cannot bear.",0.0 +"It's not the babbling of a busy world,",1.0 +"Where Praise and Censure are at random hurled,",1.0 +"Which can the meanest of my thoughts control,",1.0 +Or shake one settled purpose of my Soul.,1.0 +"Free and at large might their wild curses roam,",2.0 +"If All, if All alas! were well at home.",0.0 +"No ' -- it's the tale which angry Conscience tells,",0.0 +When She with more than tragic horror swells,0.0 +"Each circumstance of guilt; when stern, but true,",0.0 +She brings bad actions forth into review;,2.0 +"And, like the dread handwriting on the wall,",2.0 +"Bids late Remorse awake at Reason's call,",1.0 +"Armed at all points bids Scorpion Vengeance pass,",3.0 +"And to the mind holds up Reflection's glass,",3.0 +"The mind, which starting, heaves the heart-felt groan,",1.0 +And hates that form She knows to be her own.,0.0 +Enough of this ' -- let private sorrows rest ' --,2.0 +As to the Public I dare stand the test;,3.0 +"Dare proudly boast, I feel no wish above",2.0 +"Not all the tyrant powers of earth combined,",2.0 +"No, nor of hell, shall make me change my mind.",0.0 +"What! herd with men my honest soul disdains,",0.0 +"Men who, with servile zeal, are forging chains",0.0 +"For Freedom's neck, and lend a helping hand,",0.0 +To spread destruction over my native land.,2.0 +"What! shall I not, even to my latest breath,",1.0 +"In the full face of danger and of death,",4.0 +"Exert that little strength which Nature gave,",0.0 +"When I look backward for some fifty years,",3.0 +And see Protesting Patriots turned to Peers;,2.0 +"Hear men, most loose, for decency declaim,",2.0 +"And talk of Character, without a name;",1.0 +"See Infidels assert the cause of God,",2.0 +"See WHITEHEAD take a place, RALPH change his pen,",3.0 +"I mock the zeal, and deem the Men in sport,",0.0 +"Who rail at Ministers, and curse a Court.",1.0 +"Thee, haughty as Thou art, and proud in rhyme,",1.0 +"When Virtue sleeps, some Sacrifice to Pride,",0.0 +"Or some fair Victim, move to change thy side.",1.0 +"Thee shall these eyes behold, to health restored,",0.0 +"Using, as Prudence bids, bold Satire's sword,",3.0 +"Galling thy present friends, and praising those,",3.0 +Whom now thy frenzy holds thy greatest foes.,0.0 +"May I, can worse disgrace on manhood fall?",2.0 +May I though to his service deeply tied,1.0 +"By sacred oaths, and now by will allied",1.0 +"With false feigned zeal an injured God defend,",1.0 +And use his name for some base private end;,1.0 +May I that thought bids double horrors roll,2.0 +"Ruin the Virtue which I held most dear,",2.0 +"And still must hold; may I, through abject fear,",1.0 +"Betray my Friend; may to succeeding times,",1.0 +"Engraved on plates of Adamant, my crimes",1.0 +"Stand blazing forth, while marked with envious blot,",3.0 +Each little act of Virtue is forgot;,1.0 +"Of all those evils which, to stamp men cursed,",1.0 +"Hell keeps in store for vengeance, may the worst",2.0 +"Light on my head, and in my day of woe,",0.0 +"To make the cup of bitterness overflow,",2.0 +"May I be scorned by every man of worth,",1.0 +"Wander, like Cain, a vagabond on earth,",3.0 +"Bearing about a Hell in my own mind,",3.0 +"Or be to SCOTLAND for my life confined,",1.0 +"If I am one amongst the many known,",2.0 +Do you reflect what men you make your foes?,1.0 +"Friends I have made, whom Envy must commend,",0.0 +"But not one foe, whom I would wish a friend.",1.0 +One WILKES hath made a large amends for all.,0.0 +"It's not the Title, whether handed down",1.0 +"From age to age, or flowing from the crown",1.0 +"In copious streams on recent men, who came",2.0 +"From stems unknown, and sires without a name;",0.0 +"It's not the STAR, which our great EDWARD gave",2.0 +"To mark the virtuous, and reward the brave,",3.0 +"Blazing without, while a base heart within",4.0 +Is rotten to the core with filth and sin;,1.0 +"It's not the tinsel grandeur, taught to wait,",5.0 +"At custom's call, to mark a fool of State",0.0 +"From fools of lesser note, that Soul can awe",0.0 +"Whose Pride is Reason, whose Defence is Law.",0.0 +"Suppose a Thing scarce possible in Art,",2.0 +Were it thy Cue to play a common Part;,1.0 +"Suppose thy Writings so well fenced in Law,",2.0 +"That N' -- ' -- cannot find, nor make a Flaw,",3.0 +"Hast thou not heard, that amongst our ancient Tribes",1.0 +"By Party warped, or lulled asleep by Bribes,",0.0 +"Law hath suspended stood, or changed its Course?",1.0 +"Art Thou assured, that, for Destruction ripe,",2.0 +"What Sanction hast Thou, frantic in thy Rhymes,",0.0 +"It's not on Law, a System great and good,",0.0 +"By Wisdom penned, and bought by noblest Blood,",0.0 +"My Faith relies: By wicked Men and vain,",0.0 +"Law, once abused, may be abused again. ' --",1.0 +Who knows and guides them to their proper End;,1.0 +Whose Royalty of Nature blazes out,2.0 +Did Tyrant STUARTS now the Laws dispense,0.0 +Blessed be the hour and hand which sent them hence,0.0 +"For something, or for nothing, for a Word,",2.0 +"Or Thought, I might be doomed to Death, unheard.",0.0 +"Life we might all resign to lawless Power,",0.0 +Nor think it worth the purchase of an hour;,1.0 +But Envy never shall fix so foul a stain,2.0 +"If, Slave to Party, to Revenge, or Pride,",1.0 +"If, by frail human Error drawn aside,",2.0 +"It's Hers to punish, and it's mine to bear,",3.0 +"Nor, by the voice of Justice doomed to death,",1.0 +Would I ask mercy with my latest breath.,3.0 +"In which my King's, of course, is understood;",0.0 +"Formed on a plan with some few Patriot friends,",2.0 +"While by just means I aim at noblest ends,",0.0 +My Spirits cannot sink; though from the tomb,1.0 +"Though he should bring, his base designs to aid,",1.0 +"Some black Attorney, for his purpose made,",1.0 +"And shove, while Decency and Law retreat,",1.0 +"The modest NORTON from his Maiden seat,",1.0 +"Though Both, in ill Confederates, should agree,",0.0 +"In damned league, to torture Law and Me,",1.0 +"While GEORGE is King, I cannot fear endure;",0.0 +"Not to be guilty, is to be secure.",1.0 +"That day our Monarch, glorious and beloved,",3.0 +"Sleeps with his Fathers, should imperious Fate",2.0 +In vengeance with fresh STUARTS curse our state;,2.0 +Butcher the brave to keep tame fools in awe;,3.0 +"Should They, by brutal and oppressive force,",1.0 +Divert sweet Justice from her even course;,2.0 +"Should They, of every other means bereft,",0.0 +Make my right-hand a witness against my left;,5.0 +"Search out my Soul, and damn me for a thought,",1.0 +"Still would I keep my course, still speak, still write,",2.0 +Till Death had plunged me in the shades of Night.,0.0 +"To whom our Thoughts, our Spirits open lie,",0.0 +"Grant me thy strength, and in that needful hour,",0.0 +"Should it ever come when Law submits to Power,",1.0 +"With firm resolves my steady bosom steel,",0.0 +"Bravely to suffer, though I deeply feel.",3.0 +"Let Me, as hitherto, still draw my breath,",2.0 +"In love with life, but not in fear of death,",0.0 +"And, if Oppression brings me to the grave,",2.0 +"And marks him dead, She never shall mark a slave,",2.0 +"Let no unworthy marks of grief be heard,",1.0 +"No wild laments, not one unseemly word;",2.0 +"Let sober triumphs wait upon my bier,",1.0 +I won't forgive that Friend who drops one tear.,0.0 +"Or, in old age, drops like an ear of corn,",1.0 +"Full ripe He falls, on Nature's noblest plan,",1.0 +"Who lives to Reason, and who dies a Man.",1.0 +"KIND heaven at length, successfully implored,",2.0 +To Britain's arms her hero had restored:,0.0 +"And now our fears removed, with loud applause",0.0 +"Jointly we crowned his conduct, and his cause.",3.0 +"Transporting pleasure raised each drooping tongue,",0.0 +"The peasants shouted, and the poets sung.",1.0 +"The poets sung, though Addison alone",1.0 +"Adorns thy laurels, and maintains his own;",1.0 +"In him alone, great MARLBOROUGH, is seen,",3.0 +"Each action he exalts with rage divine,",1.0 +And the full Danube flows in every line.,2.0 +But we in vain to that sublime aspire;,1.0 +"Shine without warmth: another song prepare,",3.0 +My Muse; the country is the Muse's care;,1.0 +"With eager verse, and keep thy theme in view.",0.0 +But o! what joyful numbers can disclose,2.0 +"How vales resound, how crowds collected share",1.0 +"Surveying here the favourite of Fame,",2.0 +"Conceive new hopes, and nurse the growing flame:",1.0 +"While softer maids confess a pleasing pain,",0.0 +And sighing wish he had been born a swain.,0.0 +"So when the powers appeased bade discord cease,",3.0 +"And Greece obtained from jarring gods a peace,",0.0 +To Cyprian shades their peaceful chariot drove:,4.0 +"Shepherd's and nymphs attending formed the train,",2.0 +And mirth unusual revealed on the plain.,1.0 +"And should the gods once more their heaven forego,",1.0 +"To range on earth, and bless mankind below,",1.0 +"Over all the globe no region would be found,",1.0 +"Phoebus for this would change his Delphic grove,",1.0 +"Olympic games no longer should delight,",1.0 +But neighbouring plains afford a nobler sight.,3.0 +"Where England's great Aeneas standing by,",6.0 +Urged by his presence they outstrip the wind,1.0 +"Involved in smoke, and leave the Muse behind.",0.0 +"But see! once more returns the rival train,",1.0 +"And now they stretch, now bending loose the rein,",1.0 +"And fears and hopes beat high in every vein,",1.0 +Till one long since successful in the field,2.0 +Exerts that strength he first with art concealed;,0.0 +"Then swift as lightning darted through the skies,",1.0 +"By arts like these all other palms are won,",1.0 +"They end with glory, who with caution run.",0.0 +"We neither write, nor act, what long can last,",0.0 +"But, jaded, both their short-lived mettle lose,",1.0 +"The furious statesman, and the fiery Muse.",5.0 +"The contest ended, night with gloomy face",0.0 +"The victor, and the vanquished, quit the place:",1.0 +"Sleep's friendly office is to all the same,",2.0 +"His conquest he forgets, and they their shame.",2.0 +"Next morning, ere the sun with sickly ray",0.0 +"Over doubtful shades maintains the dawning day,",0.0 +"The sprightly horn proclaims some danger near,",0.0 +"Startled he leaps aside, and listening round,",2.0 +"This way and that explores the hostile sound,",0.0 +"Armed for that fight, which he declines with shame,",1.0 +"Too fond of life, too negligent of fame;",3.0 +"For Nature, to display her various art,",2.0 +"Had fortified his head, but not his heart:",0.0 +"Those spears, which useless on his front appeared,",1.0 +On any else had been adored and feared.,0.0 +"Grandeur a specious curse, when ill bestowed.",0.0 +"Thus void of hope, and panting with surprise,",2.0 +Of paths mysterious whether to pursue,3.0 +"With speed redoubled, they the hint embrace,",1.0 +While animating music warms the chase:,0.0 +"Flushed are their hopes, and with one general cry",1.0 +"They echo through the woods, and sound their conquest nigh.",1.0 +Not so the prey; he now for safety bends,0.0 +"Who to the wretched own no shelter due,",1.0 +But fly more swiftly than his foes pursue.,1.0 +This last disgrace with indignation fires,0.0 +"His drooping soul, and generous rage inspires;",2.0 +"By all forsaken, he resolves at length",1.0 +To try the poor remains of wasted strength;,0.0 +"With looks and mien majestic stands at bay,",0.0 +"Too late alas! for, the first charge begun,",2.0 +"Soon he repents what cowardice had done,",3.0 +And awkwardly maintains a languid fight;,1.0 +And only seems to nod upon the foe.,0.0 +"So coward princes, who at war's alarm",0.0 +"Start from their greatness, and themselves disarm,",1.0 +With recollected forces strive in vain,0.0 +"Their empire, or their honour, to regain,",3.0 +"And turn to rally on some distant plain,",1.0 +"While the fierce conqueror bravely urges on,",5.0 +"Improves the advantage, and ascends the throne.",3.0 +"Forgive, great Denham, that in abject verse,",1.0 +"Thy noble chase all others does exceed,",0.0 +"We read with pleasure, imitate with pain,",0.0 +"Goddess, proceed; and as to relics found",3.0 +"Altars we raise, and consecrate the ground,",2.0 +"Pay thou thy homage to an aged seat,",1.0 +"Small in itself, but in its owner great;",1.0 +"Where Chaucer sacred name! whole years employed,",1.0 +"Coy Nature courted, and at length enjoyed;",2.0 +"Moved at his suit, the naked goddess came,",0.0 +"Rome's pious king with like success, retired,",1.0 +"And taught his people, what his Nymph inspired.",0.0 +"Hence flow descriptions regularly fine,",2.0 +And beauties such as never can decline:,2.0 +"Each lively image makes the reader start,",0.0 +And poetry invades the painter's art.,1.0 +"Took wondrous pains to do the author wrong,",1.0 +And set to modern tune his ancient song.,0.0 +"His language only can his thoughts express,",1.0 +"And on the inspiring theme for ever dwell,",1.0 +"Did not the maid, whose wondrous beauty seen,",0.0 +"Inflamed great Henry, and incensed his queen,",3.0 +With pleasing sorrow move me to survey,1.0 +"A neighbouring structure, awful in decay,",2.0 +"For ever sacred, and in ruin blessed,",1.0 +Which heretofore contained that lovely guest.,0.0 +"Admiring strangers, who attentive come",0.0 +"To learn the tale of this romantic dome,",1.0 +"By faithful monuments instructed, view",1.0 +Though time should spare what civil rage can do.,0.0 +"Where landscapes once, in rich apartments high,",1.0 +Through various prospects led the wandering eye:,4.0 +"Where painted rivers flowed through flowery meads,",2.0 +And hoary mountains reared their awful heads:,0.0 +"Or where by hands of curious virgins wrought,",2.0 +In rich array embroidered heroes fought:,0.0 +Over ragged walls extend their baleful arms.,0.0 +"Monsters obscene their poisonous roots invade,",4.0 +And bloated pant beneath the gloomy shade.,0.0 +"And what's well wrote alone, will always last.",1.0 +"In rules exact, and greatness of design,",1.0 +"Would fall a victim to devouring age,",3.0 +"Had not that hand, which built, adorned the stage.",0.0 +"Wit so refined without the poet's pain,",2.0 +"Such artful scenes in such a flowing vein,",1.0 +When Doric and Corinthian orders fail;,3.0 +And sinks beneath the base on which it rose.,0.0 +"You British fair, whose names but mentioned, give",0.0 +"Worth to the tale, and make the poem live;",0.0 +"Now big with hopes, now tortured with despair,",3.0 +"Nor toils, nor pleasures, can divert his care.",1.0 +"Her voice, her look, ten thousand wounds impart,",1.0 +And fix the pleasing image in his heart;,0.0 +"Such as if Fame has drawn the picture true,",1.0 +"Her native lustre sung, nor added new",0.0 +To court that beauty which himself bestowed.,0.0 +"Features so wrought not Venus' self displays,",2.0 +When dressed by youthful pens in vocal lays;,0.0 +"Not equal charms in all the Graces join,",0.0 +And only Sunderland is more divine.,1.0 +"Thus fatally adorned, the hapless fair",2.0 +"Receives his suit, and listens to his prayer;",1.0 +"Fond of her ruin, pleased to be undone,",0.0 +She reaps the conquest that her eyes had won.,0.0 +"Though tongues obscure, at humble distance placed,",0.0 +May censure joys which they despair to taste;,1.0 +"Whenever the attack is made, all jointly own",1.0 +What bright temptations sparkle from a throne:,1.0 +"Could love no entrance find, ambition can,",2.0 +They clasp the monarch who despise the man;,0.0 +"Beyond his boldest wish the hero blessed,",0.0 +Riots in joys too great to be expressed;,3.0 +"And now, with caution, does the means pursue,",0.0 +"As they are great, to make them lasting too.",1.0 +"' Mid shades obscure, remote from vulgar eye,",1.0 +"An artful edifice is reared on high,",1.0 +"Lost in themselves, and end where they begun.",1.0 +In curling channels wandered over the plain;,2.0 +"Oft by himself overtook, himself surveyed,",8.0 +"And backward turning, to his fountain strayed.",1.0 +"Nor much unlike to these are mazes found,",1.0 +By loitering hinds imprinted on the ground;,3.0 +"Who, when released by some distinguished day,",0.0 +"And on the flowery vale, or mountain's brow,",3.0 +"You Sylvan Nymphs, who with a pleasing pride,",1.0 +"Over shady groves, and secret vows preside,",0.0 +"On this mysterious pile with care attend,",3.0 +"Protect the mistress, and the prince befriend:",1.0 +"With both conspire to blind the wary dame,",2.0 +"We feast your altars, and your aid invoke;",1.0 +"When nuptial debt's are now no longer paid,",1.0 +More ways than one the rover is betrayed:,2.0 +"Affected passion does no more suffice,",1.0 +And awkward kindness proves a weak disguise.,0.0 +"Woman, by nature armed against deceit,",2.0 +With indignation smiles upon the cheat;,0.0 +"Looks down with scorn, and only burns to know",0.0 +The uncertain author of her certain woe.,2.0 +"Struck by the hunter's hand, with furious pace",2.0 +"Strides over the sands, and red with recent gore",3.0 +"Yells out her pain, and makes the forest roar:",0.0 +So raves the queen incensed; and loudly tells,1.0 +"The restless grief that in her bosom dwells,",0.0 +"For her loved lord from her embraces fled,",3.0 +"Her slighted beauty, and her widowed bed.",1.0 +"What dire effects her kindled fury wrought,",0.0 +"Whether by pointed steel, or poisoned draught,",2.0 +"The unwilling Muse declines the mournful task,",1.0 +"Recoils with anguish, wounded to the soul,",1.0 +"By hate implacable to shades confined,",1.0 +Where still the native grandeur of her mind,2.0 +"Clear and unsullied shone, with radiant grace",2.0 +"No nobler gifts can heaven itself pour down,",3.0 +"Than to deserve, and to despise a crown.",2.0 +"In some dark room, for pompous sorrow made,",1.0 +"With anxious thoughts employed on former times,",0.0 +"Their various fate, their glory, and their crimes;",3.0 +"Maria ' -- but forgotten be her name,",1.0 +"In long oblivion lost, overlooked by fame.",2.0 +"Do thou, OH Albion, from remembrance chase",5.0 +"Thy persecuted sons, thy martyred race:",0.0 +"And freed at length by ANNA'S milder ray,",0.0 +"From furious zeal, and arbitrary sway,",2.0 +"Enjoy the present, or the future scene,",1.0 +"With promised blessings fraught, without one cloud serene.",0.0 +"Stop, goddess, stop, recall thy daring flight,",1.0 +"I cannot, must not tempt the wondrous height.",0.0 +"Themes so exalted, with proportioned wing,",3.0 +"While listening nations crowd the vocal lyre,",0.0 +"Foretaste their bliss, and languish with desire.",1.0 +"To thee thy song, thy province is assigned,",2.0 +"And what should foremost stand, is yet behind.",1.0 +"Silenced be all antiquity could boast,",3.0 +And let old Woodstock in the new be lost.,2.0 +"Their spoils of war, or monuments of peace:",1.0 +"What either prince has built, and both have won.",0.0 +"With admiration struck, we gaze around,",0.0 +"The fancy entertain, the sense confound:",0.0 +"And while our eyes over the foundation roam,",4.0 +Presage the wonders of the finished dome.,3.0 +Thus did our hero's early dawn display,0.0 +The auspicious beams of his advancing day.,2.0 +"We, who in humble cells, and learnt retreat,",0.0 +"On barren cliffs of speculation thrown,",0.0 +"Of all besides unknowing, and unknown,",1.0 +"Pronounce our fabrics just in every part,",0.0 +And scorn the poor attempts of modern art;,0.0 +"Proud of his cottage so exults the swain,",1.0 +"Who loves the forest, and admires the plain,",1.0 +"Till here convinced, unwillingly we find",1.0 +"Far as the molehill by the mountain's brow,",2.0 +"Or shrubs by cedars, in whose shade they grow.",0.0 +"Rise, glorious pile, the princess bids thee rise,",3.0 +And claim thy title to her kindred skies:,1.0 +"Where she presides all must be nobly great,",1.0 +"All must be regular, and all complete;",1.0 +"No other hand the mighty work requires,",1.0 +"Art may inform, but she alone inspires.",2.0 +"Advanced their Carthage on the destined soil,",1.0 +"So sat their queen, and looked auspicious down,",1.0 +Herself the Genius of the rising town.,1.0 +"Thrice happy he, to whom the task shall fall,",2.0 +To grace with shining images the wall;,1.0 +"And in bold colours silently rehearse,",2.0 +What soars above the reach of humble verse.,0.0 +"No famed exploits, from musty annals brought,",2.0 +"Shall share his art, or furnish out the draught;",1.0 +"No foreign heroes in triumphant cars,",1.0 +"Work for the pencil, harvest for the sword.",1.0 +And clouds of smoke upon the canvas rise;,0.0 +And wind in crimson waves the plunging host;,0.0 +And Death look grim in all the pomp of woe.,1.0 +"But far, o far distinguished from the rest!",1.0 +"By youth, by beauty, and a waving crest,",1.0 +And great Achilles' soul be shocked again.,0.0 +"Successful Kneller, whose improving air",0.0 +"Adds light to light, and graces to the fair,",2.0 +"Thus may complete the glories of his age,",3.0 +And in one piece the whole soft sex engage;,1.0 +"Who shall in crowds the lovely dead surround,",0.0 +And weep rich gems upon his streaming wound;,1.0 +"By sad remembrance urged to fruitless moan,",0.0 +"Yet artist stop not here, but boldly dare",0.0 +"Next to design, what next deserves thy care.",1.0 +"' Mid British squadrons awfully serene,",2.0 +"On rising ground let MARLBOROUGH be seen,",2.0 +Prepared to strike the great decisive blow;,0.0 +"While phlegmatic allies his vengeance stay,",2.0 +"By absence these, and by their presence they.",3.0 +"When they in arms again the combat try,",0.0 +"Again their troops in wild disorder fly,",0.0 +"No usual ties of clemency shall bind,",4.0 +No temper shall assuage the victor's mind:,1.0 +"But heaps on heaps atone the fatal wrong,",0.0 +And rage unbounded drive the storm along.,0.0 +"Over prostrate mounds, to shock the power of France,",2.0 +And rouse the inglorious tyrant from his cell.,5.0 +"Then provinces released shall break their chain,",1.0 +"Forego their bondage, and forget their pain.",1.0 +"Iberia, with extended arms, shall run",3.0 +"And by mild councils generously swayed,",3.0 +"Own thy example, ANNA! and thy aid;",2.0 +"Whole kingdoms shall be blessed, all Europe free,",1.0 +"KNOW, Traveller, in this sweet, sequestered cell,",2.0 +"No weeping maids, no slighted virgins dwell;",2.0 +"Within these walls are found a vestal train,",0.0 +"Nor yet esteem this pile a specious tomb,",0.0 +"Along these walls no gloomy torches burn,",1.0 +"Before no sculptured saints they prostrate weep,",1.0 +Nor at their shrines the midnight vigil keep;,1.0 +"Here dwell the Graces three, the Sisters nine,",0.0 +And them alone these maidens deem divine;,1.0 +"By fancy led, they sought these pleasing shades,",0.0 +And are what vulgar mortals call Old Maids;,2.0 +"Yet many a native charm they still possess,",2.0 +"Still on each cheek the bloom of youth appears,",0.0 +And prudence is their only proof of years.,1.0 +"COME then at last, while anxious Nations weep,",0.0 +Three Kingdoms staked! too precious for the deep.,3.0 +"Too precious sure, for when the Trump of fame",1.0 +"Your danger and your doubtful safety shown,",1.0 +"Your Helm may now the Sea-born Goddess take,",1.0 +"Strong, and auspicious, bee the Stars that reign,",2.0 +"While on the Beach, like Billows of the Land,",1.0 +In bending Crowds the Loyal English stand:,0.0 +"Come then, though late, your right receive at last;",0.0 +"Which Heaven preserved, in spite of Fortunes blast,",0.0 +"Accept those hearts, that Offer on the Strand;",1.0 +The better half of this divided Land.,1.0 +"Venting their honest Souls in tears of Joy,",2.0 +"They rave, and beg you would their lives employ,",0.0 +"Shouting your sacred name, they drive the air,",2.0 +And fill your Canvas Wings with gales of prayer.,0.0 +"Come then I hear three Nations shout again,",1.0 +"And, next our Charles, in every bosom reign;",0.0 +"Heaven's darling Charge, the care of regal stars,",0.0 +"Pledge of our Peace, and Triumph of our Wars.",1.0 +"Heaven echo's Come, but come not Sir alone,",0.0 +Bring the bright pregnant Blessing of the Throne.,4.0 +"And if in Poets charms be force or skill,",1.0 +"We charge you, OH you Waves, and Winds be still,",0.0 +"Soft as a sailing Goddess bring her home,",0.0 +With the expected Prince that loads her Womb;,1.0 +Joy of this Age and Heir of that to come.,0.0 +"Next her the Virgin Princess shines from far,",0.0 +"Aurora that, and this the Morning Star.",1.0 +"Hail then, all hail, They land in Charle's Armes,",1.0 +"While his large Breast, the Nation's Angel warms.",3.0 +Then dearly grasps the treasure of his Soul:,1.0 +"Hangs on his Neck, and feeds upon his form,",0.0 +"Calls him his Calm, after a tedious Storm.",6.0 +"OH Brother! He could say no more, and then,",3.0 +With heaving Passion clasped him close again.,0.0 +"How oft he cried have I thy absence mourned,",1.0 +But it's enough Thou art at last returned:,1.0 +"Said I returned! OH never more to part,",3.0 +Nor draw the vital warmth from Charles his heart.,0.0 +"Once more, OH Heaven, I shall his Virtue prove,",2.0 +"His Council, Conduct, and unshaken Love.",1.0 +"My People too at last their Error see,",0.0 +And make their Sovereign blessed in loving Thee.,1.0 +"That give not Caesar, no nor God his due.",0.0 +"Reprobate Traitors, Tyrants of their Own,",3.0 +Yet Grudge to see their Monarch in his Throne.,0.0 +"Their stubborn Souls with brass Rebellion barred,",0.0 +"Desert the Laws, and Crimes with Treason guard.",0.0 +"Whom I ' -- but there he stopped, and cried it's past,",1.0 +"Then sighing said, my Soul's dear purchased rest,",1.0 +"Welcome, O welcome, to my longing Brest:",3.0 +"Why should I waste a tear while thou art by,",0.0 +"To all extremes of Friendship let us fly,",0.0 +"And mourn the Men that durst in death excel,",0.0 +Their Fates were Glorious since for thee they fell.,2.0 +When stubborn Rebels force him to the Field:,1.0 +"So for the Loyal, who their Lives lay down,",3.0 +He dares to Hazard both his Life and Crown.,0.0 +Throughout the finished piece we see displayed,0.0 +"Such is her wit, and such her form divine,",2.0 +"This pure, as flows the style through every line,",0.0 +"That, like each letter, exquisitely fine.",5.0 +See with what art the sable currents stain,0.0 +Thus over the meadows wrapped in silver snow,4.0 +Unfrozen brooks in dark meanders flow;,0.0 +"Receive new lustre from a lover's arms,",2.0 +"The yielding paper's pure, but vacant breast,",0.0 +"By her fair hand and flowing pen impressed,",2.0 +"At every touch more animated grows,",0.0 +And with new life and new ideas glows;,2.0 +And shines each moment brighter from its stains.,1.0 +"Let mighty love no longer boast his darts,",2.0 +"CHLOE, your quill can equal wonders do,",2.0 +"Wound full as sure, and at a distance too:",1.0 +"Armed with your feathered weapons in your hands,",0.0 +From pole to pole you send your great commands;,0.0 +"To distant climes in vain the lover flies,",0.0 +"Your pen overtakes him, if he escape your eyes;",2.0 +"So those, who from the sword in battle run,",0.0 +But perish victims to the distant gun.,1.0 +But these are charms no ages can devour;,3.0 +"These, far superior to the brightest face;",1.0 +"Triumph alike over time, as well as space,",5.0 +"When that fair form, which thousands now adore,",1.0 +"These lovely lines shall future ages view,",0.0 +"And eyes unborn, like ours, be charmed by you.",1.0 +How oft do I admire with fond delight,1.0 +"The curious piece, and wish like you to write!",3.0 +"Alas, vain hope! that might as well aspire",1.0 +"Even now your splendid lines before me lie,",0.0 +And I in vain to imitate them try;,1.0 +"To steel your hand, in hopes to steal your heart.",0.0 +"Where deep despair and sad reflection reigns,",0.0 +"Woes which no language ever can reveal,",3.0 +"Let the distresses of a hapless maid,",3.0 +Be to thy silent gloomy cell conveyed.,0.0 +"Life left my heart, I felt my blood run cold,",2.0 +When the sad tidings of thy fate were told:,3.0 +"Then keenest anguish wrung my tortured frame,",0.0 +Distraction seemed to seize my maddening brain.,0.0 +"Deprived of thee, who could all pain remove,",0.0 +"My heaven on earth, my happiness, my love;",1.0 +"Did softest scenes of happiness, portray:",1.0 +"Scenes now for ever fled! the poignant dart,",1.0 +"Deep wounds my soul, and tears my bleeding heart.",1.0 +"For thee, no more, I'll wait the appointed hour,",2.0 +No more I'll meet thee in the peaceful bower;,0.0 +"No more, enraptured, hang upon thy smile,",1.0 +No more thy presence every care beguile.,0.0 +Was it for me? grant support gracious heaven!,7.0 +Was it for me the fatal bond was given?,1.0 +Is it for me stern Justice must arise?,4.0 +Is it for me he now a victim lies?,1.0 +Distracting thoughts still crowd upon my mind!,1.0 +OH were my restless soul to heaven resigned!,0.0 +Nor add fresh anguish to the wounds you feel!,2.0 +"It's vain, alas! my bursting heart overflows,",3.0 +And death I feel will terminate my woes!,0.0 +It was for thee alone I wished to live;,2.0 +The world without thee can no pleasure give.,2.0 +Now law for one rash act thy life demands,4.0 +"Though pure till then thy thoughts, unstained thy hands:",0.0 +"While villains hourly practised in deceit,",0.0 +"At freedom range, nor dread impending fate.",0.0 +"Ah! now I see thee to the scaffold walk,",1.0 +I hear the gazing crowd unthinking talk.,0.0 +"Farewell, my love! OH still on heaven rely,",2.0 +"I can no more, I tremble, faint and die!",0.0 +"OFt had I formed Ideas of Content,",1.0 +But by Experience knew not what it meant.,3.0 +And free my Soul by Stratagem from Cares.,1.0 +"The grateful Sounds composed my Cares to sleep,",0.0 +Which over me now no Watch appeared to keep.,3.0 +"Thrice blessed said I this long expected Hour,",1.0 +I fled; but soon was by my jealous Guard,1.0 +"Pursued, overtaken, and laid again in Ward.",7.0 +"Yet even this Disappointment I could bear,",3.0 +Had Fate set bounds to my Misfortunes Here;,2.0 +"But since my Attempt escape I suffer more,",1.0 +Than in my Hardest Bondage heretofore!,0.0 +"Like a Designing Captive now I'm used,",1.0 +A Prisoners Common Courtesies refused;,1.0 +"Pressed with more Chains, awed by a stricter Guard,",1.0 +And will your Goodness never have an End?,1.0 +And will you still persist to be my Friend?,1.0 +"To meet me still with that engaging Air,",0.0 +"Still open, ardent, generous, and sincere;",4.0 +"Still to advise, to aid, to cheer, to bless;",2.0 +"Still to prevent, or to dispel, Distress;",3.0 +"Pleased to succeed, nor slackened when you fail;",2.0 +Point out each Path to good Success from far;,0.0 +"And guide me by thy Light, my happier Star!",3.0 +"And sink, oppressed beneath the grievous Task;",0.0 +"Hear the false Promise, or the feigned Excuse,",4.0 +In Words that mean but more refined Abuse;,0.0 +"Full in my View thy nobler Soul appears,",3.0 +"And swells my Heart, and fills my Eyes with Tears;",0.0 +"While, to prevent my Wish, your Goodness flies,",1.0 +"Then let good Heaven withhold, or grant Success,",0.0 +"Add to a Weight of Cares, or make it less;",0.0 +How few can boast an Happiness like mine!,1.0 +"A Bliss so great can Wealth, or Power, impart,",2.0 +"As one fixed Friend, with such a Head, and Heart?",2.0 +"In awful Pomp, and Melancholy State,",0.0 +See settled Reason on the Judgement Seat:,2.0 +"Around Her crowd Distrust, and Doubt, and Fear,",0.0 +"And thoughtful Foresight, and tormenting Care:",3.0 +"Far from the Throne, the trembling Pleasures stand,",0.0 +"Chained up, or Exiled by her stern Command.",2.0 +"Wretched her Subjects, gloomy sits the Queen;",2.0 +Till happy Chance reverts the cruel Scene:,0.0 +Of Wit and Jest disturbs the solemn Court.,0.0 +"To breathe the Song, and animate the Dance.",0.0 +Her Mimic Postures catch our eager Eyes:,0.0 +"And in the Sights We see, and Sounds We hear.",0.0 +Against our Judgement She our Sense employs:,1.0 +The Laws of troubled Reason She destroys:,1.0 +"Wild Schemes of Mirth, and Plans of loose Delight.",1.0 +"OH Charlotte, truly pious, early wise!",1.0 +"The Pleasures sought by others, you despise:",1.0 +"Unmoved, you quit them to the Gay and Vain.",1.0 +"But though nor Health, nor Pleasure will prevail;",2.0 +"The Happiness you give, should turn the Scale.",1.0 +"OH stay, and teach the Virtues of thy Breast:",2.0 +Thousands by thy Example may be blessed:,4.0 +"A Mind so humble, and so truly great,",1.0 +So fitted to oblige in every State;,1.0 +"A Manner, so engaging and discrete,",2.0 +"These, and thy thousand Charms, who can express?",2.0 +"Seymour, how vast a Treasure you possess!",3.0 +"' -- FRench power, and weak allies, and war, and want ' --",3.0 +"No more of that, my friend; you touch a string",0.0 +"That hurts my ear. All politics apart,",0.0 +"Except a generous wish, a glowing prayer",2.0 +"For British welfare, commerce, glory, peace.",1.0 +"Give party to the winds: it is a word,",3.0 +"A phantom sound, by which the cunning great",0.0 +"To gull the unwary, where the master stands",2.0 +"Encouraging his minions, his trained birds,",3.0 +See with what hollow blandishment and art,1.0 +"Dined with the Thames, or bathed in crystal lakes.",0.0 +"We wear no badges, no dependence own:",1.0 +"Who truly loves thee, dearest Liberty,",1.0 +A silken fetter will uneasy sit.,1.0 +Heaven knows it is not Insolence that speaks!,2.0 +The tribute of respect to greatness due,1.0 +"Still, still as much of party be retained,",1.0 +"As principle requires, and sense directs:",1.0 +"Else our vain bark, without a rudder, floats",3.0 +The scorn and pastime of each veering gale.,2.0 +This gentle evening let the sun descend,0.0 +"Untroubled, while it paints your ambient hills",2.0 +"With faded lustre, and a sweet farewell.",2.0 +"Here is our seat: that castle opposite,",0.0 +"Proud of its woody brow, adorns the scene,",0.0 +"Dictate, OH versed in books, and just of taste,",1.0 +Dictate the pleasing theme of our discourse.,0.0 +Shall we trace Science from her Eastern home,3.0 +"Nursing her daughter arts, majestic stood,",2.0 +And poured forth knowledge from an hundred gates?,2.0 +"There first the marble learnt to mimic life,",0.0 +"The pillared temple rose, and pyramids,",1.0 +"Birthplace of letters, where the sun was shown",1.0 +"His radiant way, and heavens were taught to roll.",2.0 +"There too the Muses tuned their earliest lyre,",2.0 +"Inviting, they removed with pilgrim harps,",1.0 +And all their band of harmony to Greece.,1.0 +"Delivered from the falcon's talon, fly",1.0 +"With trembling wing to cover, and renew",1.0 +"Their notes; tell every bush of their escape,",2.0 +And thrill their merry thanks to Liberty.,1.0 +"The tuneful tribe, pleased with their new abode,",2.0 +"Polished the rude inhabitants, whence tales",3.0 +"Of listening woods, and rocks that danced to sound.",0.0 +"Linus and Orpheus catch the strain, and all",4.0 +"A song, believe me, was no trifle then:",2.0 +"Weighty the Muse's task, and wide her sway:",1.0 +"Echoed her language; polity was hers,",3.0 +And the world bowed to legislative verse.,2.0 +"As states increased, and governments were formed,",1.0 +"And shady bowers, content to teach and please.",2.0 +"And Homer's epic trumpet. Happy Greece,",0.0 +"Blessed in her offspring! Seat of eloquence,",2.0 +Did the sun thither dart uncommon rays!,1.0 +Did some presiding genius hover over,0.0 +That animated soil with brooding wings!,0.0 +The sad reverse might start a gentle tear ' --,0.0 +"Go, search in Athens for herself, enquire",2.0 +"Where are her orators, her sages now:",1.0 +"Her arsenal overturned, her walls in dust,",2.0 +But far less ruined than her soul decayed.,2.0 +"The stone inscribed to Socrates, debased",0.0 +Possessed by those who never heard her name.,1.0 +Harsh tribute; on the spot where Plato taught,2.0 +"His heavenly strains sublime, a stupid Turk",2.0 +"Where once, as Fame reports, Augustus lived?",0.0 +"What magic has transformed her, shrunk her nerves?",0.0 +"Could the pure crimson tide, the noblest blood",2.0 +"That ever flowed, to such a puddle turn?",1.0 +"She ends, like her long Appian, in a marsh;",3.0 +Or Jordan's river pouring his clear urn,2.0 +"Patrons of wit, and victors of mankind,",4.0 +The lazy drones are buzzing or asleep.,1.0 +But we forgive the living for the dead;,2.0 +Indebted more to Rome than we can pay.,1.0 +"Of a long dearth prophetic, she laid in",4.0 +"A feast for ages. ' -- OH thou banquet nice,",0.0 +Where the soul riots with secure excess!,3.0 +What felt delight! what pleasing useful hours,0.0 +Repeated owe we to her lettered sons!,1.0 +"Their temples trace, and share their noble games;",0.0 +"Enter the crowded theatre at will,",3.0 +"Go to the forum, hear the consul plead,",0.0 +Are present in the thundering Capitol,3.0 +When Tully speaks; at softer hours attend,0.0 +"Hail, precious pages! that amuse and teach,",1.0 +"Exalt the genius, and improve the breast.",1.0 +"You sage historians all your stores unfold,",1.0 +Reach your clear steady mirror ' -- in that glass,3.0 +The forms of good and ill are well portrayed.,0.0 +"But chiefly thou, divine Philosophy,",2.0 +Shed thy blessed influence; with thy train appear,4.0 +"Of graces mild, far be the Stoic boast,",1.0 +"The Cynic's snarl, and churlish pedantry.",1.0 +"Come in the lovely dress you wore, a guest",0.0 +The Roman feasting his selected friends.,1.0 +Tamer of pride! at thy serene rebuke,3.0 +"See crouching insolence, spleen, and revenge",4.0 +Before thy shining taper disappear.,0.0 +"Tutor of human life, auspicious guide,",2.0 +"Whose faithful clue unravels every Muse,",0.0 +Whose conduct smooths the roughest paths; whose voice,0.0 +"Controls each storm, and bids the roar be still:",0.0 +Let me know thee ' -- the Delphic oracle,1.0 +Is then obeyed ' -- and I shall know myself.,2.0 +"I sing the Natives of the boundless Main,",1.0 +And tell what Kinds the watery Depths contain.,2.0 +"Thou, Mighty Prince, whom farthest Shores obey,",0.0 +"While the Muse shows the liquid Worlds below,",3.0 +Where thronged with busy Shoals the Waters flow;,0.0 +Their differing Forms and Ways of Life relates;,0.0 +"And sings their constant Loves, and constant Hates;",0.0 +And each cold Secret of the Fishers Toil.,2.0 +"Intrepid Souls! who pleasing Rest despise,",0.0 +"To whirl in Eddies, and on Floods to rise;",1.0 +"Who scorn the Safety of the calmer Shore,",1.0 +"The Abyss they fathom, search the doubtful Way,",1.0 +And through obscuring Depths pursue the Prey.,1.0 +"And distant darts, or strikes the nearer Blow.",0.0 +But on himself he not depends alone;,1.0 +Assisting Dogs first run the Monster down.,2.0 +"On the firm Continent the Assailants meet,",5.0 +And unmoved Earth supports their steady Feet.,4.0 +"From Winter's Snow, and from Autumnal Heat",1.0 +The wearied Hunter has a kind Retreat.,0.0 +"He mocks the coming Storm, and sits at ease.",0.0 +"Fresh Fountains here with silver Current glide,",1.0 +"Rush from the Hills, and murmur at his Side.",0.0 +"Or acts his Pleasures over in painted Dreams,",2.0 +"Bend from the Trees, or flourish from the Fields.",1.0 +"While Fruits the Woods, and Herbs enrich the Soil,",0.0 +"And Those, whose Arts the feathered World ensnare,",1.0 +"Nor mighty Pain endure, nor pensive Care.",0.0 +"The Birds, when out of Reach, are yet in Sight,",1.0 +And hope in vain their Safety from their Flight.,1.0 +Oft they are seized unthinking as they rest,1.0 +"In harmless Dreams, and Slumber in their Nest.",0.0 +"Oft make a treacherous Twig their fatal Seat,",3.0 +While viscous Lime retains the captive Feet.,0.0 +"To the drawn Net they hast, and court their Fate,",2.0 +Till in the Snare enclosed they fluttering grieve too late.,3.0 +"But ah! continued Doubts, returning Pains,",0.0 +"Fond Hope with Dreams of fancied Gain delights,",1.0 +And to new Toils their restless Minds invites.,2.0 +"The Fishers labour not on certain Ground,",0.0 +But in a leaky Boat are tossed around.,0.0 +"Here fierce succeeding Waves tumultuous beat,",3.0 +"Roar by their Sides, and swift Destruction threat.",0.0 +"Now murmuring Winds disturb the careful Wight,",3.0 +"They tremble, who secure from Land behold",0.0 +Contending Waves in angry Conflict rolled.,0.0 +When Clouds condensed in noisy Streams descend.,0.0 +"No Tree from cold bleak Winds, or falling Sleet,",2.0 +Here to the scented Game no Dog can guide;,1.0 +"Their native Fish the circling Eddies hide,",0.0 +"Besides loud threatening Storms, and sudden Winds,",1.0 +"He meets vast Whales, and monstrous nameless Kinds.",1.0 +Are all the Tools his constant Toil employs;,0.0 +On Arms like these the Fishing Swain relies.,1.0 +"But Fishers live although exposed to Harms,",1.0 +"They have their Pleasures, and the Sea it's Charms.",1.0 +"Long will the Princely Entertainment please,",0.0 +"When on smooth Ponds, and artificial Seas",3.0 +"While she her Streamers spreads, and in her Owner prides.",0.0 +"Here various Kinds of dainty Fish are bred,",2.0 +With constant Meals in generous Plenty fed.,2.0 +Such as the Royal Pair may deign to taste.,1.0 +"Here you, Dread Prince, the Waters most approve",3.0 +"That bear a sullen Gloom, and slowly move.",0.0 +You in the central Depth the Plummet cast.,0.0 +"The willing Fish around ambitious wait,",0.0 +"Fly to the Line, and fasten on the Bait.",1.0 +"While You with Joy the grateful Prey receive,",0.0 +And from the wounding Steel his Jaw relieve.,1.0 +"Great Neptune, whose Commands control the Seas,",1.0 +"Permit the Muse to tell, what Kinds obey",0.0 +"Your watery Powers, and cut the liquid Way.",4.0 +"May the calm Sea smile on the distant Shore,",1.0 +While I discover all the hidden Store.,1.0 +"To please the Sovereign Pair, and form the grateful Song.",0.0 +But ah! how great the Task! for who can know,0.0 +What Creatures swim in secret Depths below?,0.0 +"For who with all his Skill can certain teach,",0.0 +"How deep the Sea, how far the Waters reach?",0.0 +"Foolish the Attempt; none can the Space define,",3.0 +"The Depth retires beneath, and mocks the sinking Line.",0.0 +Three hundred Fathoms sounded are the most;,2.0 +To comprehend the Whole we fruitless seek;,0.0 +"Our Souls are finite, and our Reason weak.",2.0 +And yet we guess the Watery World exceeds,2.0 +"In numerous Offspring, and in various Breeds.",4.0 +"Than graze the verdant Fields, or range the Woods.",0.0 +"But whether Earth or Seas in Kinds excel,",0.0 +"The Gods, and sure the Gods alone, can tell.",0.0 +For human Reach has certain Limits set;,0.0 +"Men, who too curious search, themselves forget.",4.0 +"We ought to know our Bounds, nor grasp at All,",0.0 +"But kerb the Wish, and the mad Thought recall.",2.0 +"Fish have no common Rule of Life assigned,",2.0 +"Not to one Place, or to one Choice confined.",1.0 +"The several Kinds pursue their proper Good,",0.0 +"Different their Dwellings, and unlike their Food.",2.0 +Some near the Shore in humble Pleasures blessed,0.0 +"Approve the Sands, and on their Product feast.",1.0 +And Soles on Sands their softer Bellies lay.,0.0 +And with their speckled Train the Beach surround.,1.0 +"Frisk on the Sands, or batten on the Weed.",1.0 +But what these love the slimy Offspring hate:,1.0 +"The Cod, and Whiting Kinds, the prickly Skate,",0.0 +And on the yielding Bed reclines her Sides.,1.0 +"In grosser Filth they pass their wanton Days,",0.0 +"Close to green Shores the watery Natives feed,",5.0 +Where silent Waters wash the growing Plant.,0.0 +"Barbels to fresher Channels are inclined,",3.0 +"Near Rivers stay, and shun the distant Seas;",0.0 +The brackish Taste and pungent Salts displease.,0.0 +"Mean are his Pleasures, and unclean his Food.",1.0 +And to the Deep prefer the mingled Wave.,1.0 +And their full Tribute to the Ocean pay;,3.0 +"Here with sweet Draughts the joyful Tribes are blessed,",3.0 +Washed from each Bank rich Spoils are born away;,1.0 +"Sea Wolves within the River's Channels keep,",1.0 +"Affect no Change, nor venture on the Deep.",2.0 +"Or if they chance to roam, return again",1.0 +Different the Conduct of the restless Eel;,1.0 +"The fresher Streams, his native Home, forsake,",0.0 +"Despise the little Brook, or standing Lake.",0.0 +"Curious to sport in Depths unknown before,",1.0 +"And search the Hollows of the crooked shore,",1.0 +"Through secret Tracks he glides, and slimy Ways,",0.0 +"Those dreadful Rocks, that rising Tides restrain,",0.0 +"And mock the foamy Anger of the Main,",1.0 +"Nor of one Form, nor equal Height appear;",1.0 +Some to the Clouds their darkening Summits rear.,0.0 +"Overlook the Seas, and distant Views command.",0.0 +And form a floating Nest of slimy Weed.,0.0 +"And He, unhappy in his hated Name",1.0 +"Near sandy rising Shelves, at ebbing Tides",0.0 +"Where moistened Cliffs are all with Herbs overgrown,",2.0 +And here the Dory spends his easy Days.,0.0 +"To form shrill Sounds, and strike the trembling Air.",1.0 +To pensive Silence doomed no other Fish,1.0 +"Can speak his Wants, or tell his secret Wish.",0.0 +With Pleasure the luxurious Toil repeat.,3.0 +"Within those Rocks, where clinging Oysters dwell,",0.0 +And all the Natives of the wrinkled Shell;,1.0 +"Vast hollow Caves their vaulted Roofs extend,",1.0 +Whose Bodies long will stubborn Life retain.,0.0 +"Yet dare the cruel Hand, and cutting Steel.",0.0 +"Still pant, and move, and will at leisure die.",2.0 +"Some scorn the Rocks, no shallow Waters please,",1.0 +"They fly the Shore, and sound the lowest Seas.",0.0 +While far above the troubled Surges flow.,0.0 +"Fixed to their Choice, the dull unwieldy Race",0.0 +"Lie in the Depths, and keep one constant Place.",0.0 +"Unmoved they stretch themselves, and longing wait,",0.0 +Too near approaching takes his luckless way;,1.0 +They without Labour seize the weaker Prey.,5.0 +"Who prudent know what Dangers to decline,",1.0 +"The sickly Autumn dread, and sultry Days,",0.0 +"Soon as the Fever taints the blasted Air,",0.0 +They to some gloomy Covert all repair;,1.0 +"Till the Brooks fill, and all the Heats assuage.",2.0 +"A ruddy Fish, of kin to Barbel Kinds,",0.0 +On Island Rocks uncommon Pleasure finds;,0.0 +Adonis called by those who would express,1.0 +The various Beauties of his painted Dress.,3.0 +Who his fond Choice and fickle Temper know,3.0 +"Loves the hard Earth, and courts forbidden Sleep.",3.0 +No other Kind of those whose gasping Gills,2.0 +"With humid Breath repeated Suction fills,",0.0 +"Can bear the sultry Heat, and Summer Sky,",0.0 +"Bask in the Sun, and wanton in the Dry.",0.0 +"When Calms invite, and angry Storms are ceased,",0.0 +"He drives the Stream, and hastens to his Rest.",1.0 +Stretched on a rising Rock he sunning lies,0.0 +Though cautious Fear a sounder Sleep denies;,0.0 +"Lest hostile Birds should, as they distant fly,",1.0 +"Observing stoop, and bear the Prey on high.",0.0 +When feathered Pillagers intent on Food,1.0 +"Skim by the Rocks, or over the Waters brood;",2.0 +Clear Skies in vain their pleasing Warmth impart;,1.0 +"Twining they leap, and antic Postures show,",2.0 +"Bound from the Rock, and hast to dive below.",0.0 +"To shun the Danger will forgo their Ease,",1.0 +And seek the Shelter of the kinder Seas.,1.0 +Food and Content from either Place receive.,2.0 +To either Choice indifferent alike,1.0 +"Both Kinds of Scorpions, and the slender Pike,",2.0 +And unconfined approve the alternate Change.,1.0 +"But on sharp Teeth, and horny Snout relies.",2.0 +"No Fear the furious little Monster knows,",3.0 +"With innate Courage fired, and martial Rage",7.0 +The puny Warrior dares with Man engage.,0.0 +"With mighty Soul in narrow Breast confined,",0.0 +"Some scorn the weedy Rocks, and sandy Coast,",0.0 +"Less Danger know, and greater Freedom boast;",1.0 +The peaceful Waters of the Ocean seek,1.0 +Where is the man not sensible of pain?,1.0 +"All find, all feel it too in some degree;",0.0 +It makes old Zeno fret as well as me.,1.0 +"Else why not choose, for contemplation sake,",0.0 +"The burning ploughshare, or the torturing rack?",3.0 +"If pain's no ill, why not prefer the stone",1.0 +"To velvet cushions, and to beds of down? ' --",1.0 +"I grant he reasoned calmly in the gout,",0.0 +"Touch but his pride, at once you make him smart:",0.0 +"A stoic only, just in such a part;",1.0 +"In all the rest susceptible of pain,",1.0 +And feels and reasons much like other men.,0.0 +"Among the intrepid breed I know there are,",2.0 +"Who any hardship, any pains can bear.",0.0 +"To whom less shocking is the impending sword,",4.0 +"Than to the meek of soul, a slighting word.",1.0 +"What hardy' squires, what soldiers daily feel,",2.0 +"Yet whence is this? ' -- From reason, sir, no doubt.",2.0 +"But pray, will abstract reason cure the gout?",1.0 +"Too much, I fear, of reason's aid we boast,",0.0 +"Where most it's wanted, there it fails us most.",1.0 +It's not the soldier's reason makes him bear,0.0 +"It's not the nice deduction of the' squire,",1.0 +That keeps him well and warm without a fire:,0.0 +"The mind does little; it's the body here,",1.0 +"Those only then are truly said to bear,",0.0 +"Who feel the pain, no matter what, or where.",1.0 +"Suppose it of the acute, or lingering kind,",1.0 +"Suppose it of the body, or the mind;",2.0 +"Suppose it touch the welfare of a friend,",2.0 +Suppose it only at the finger's end;,1.0 +"Yet, if you feel the stroke, it's pain to you,",0.0 +"For pain, as such, is neither more or less,",1.0 +"From those nice touches which from sense arise,",2.0 +"Or which when past, reflection oft supplies.",0.0 +"In this, I grant, are infinite degrees,",1.0 +But hence results our misery or ease:,1.0 +"Not from the stroke, so much as from the smart,",1.0 +"Not from the wound, but from the head or heart.",1.0 +"But shall we flatter one, the other blame,",1.0 +Because their feelings are not just the same?,1.0 +"Yet quite a Wretch who feels and frets we call,",0.0 +And quite a Saint who nothing feels at all.,0.0 +"This too, perchance, may serve to reconcile",4.0 +"The virgin's panics, and the stoic's smile.",1.0 +It's this makes Charlot at a spider scream ' --,2.0 +"This spite of reason, resolution, fame,",0.0 +"This to a medium every station brings,",3.0 +"This levels with their slaves the proudest kings,",1.0 +And reconciles the unequal face of things.,2.0 +"This inward sense, the feeling of the soul,",1.0 +Of pain and pleasure comprehends the whole.,0.0 +"In vain soft Conti warbles in my ear,",1.0 +If the lax nerve convey no pleasure there.,4.0 +"In vain the picture, and the splendid feast,",1.0 +"If this not strike the eye, nor that the taste.",1.0 +Than the rude Cobbler in his merry throat:,2.0 +"He, who beneath some shattered bulk reclined,",0.0 +"Smiles at the tempest, and derides the wind.",1.0 +"Who hunger, dirt, and all but thirst can bear,",0.0 +"To spleen a stranger, and a foe to fear.",1.0 +"Nor high debates, nor falling stocks he minds,",0.0 +"His awful temples, lo! a fillet binds;",3.0 +"Patient he eyes the future and the past,",3.0 +"And, as a king, is happy to the last.",2.0 +"To me it seems, however our lot may fall,",4.0 +That pain and pleasure's dealt alike to all;,3.0 +"That every station has its proper ill,",0.0 +"In what we fancy, or in what we feel;",1.0 +"That every worldly pleasure we may gain,",1.0 +Is dropped again in some attendant pain.,0.0 +"Thus wisely deals the impartial hand of Heaven,",3.0 +"To cheque our pride, and keep the balance even.",0.0 +"Tell me, you Proud ones! who this world possess,",1.0 +"Are not the high and low, the great and less,",0.0 +Born with an equal plea to happiness?,1.0 +"True, in your wants and wishes you succeed;",1.0 +But are you better than the slaves you feed?,2.0 +"Have you more virtue who of ven'son eat,",0.0 +"Alas! with plenty, peace is seldom given,",0.0 +"Tell me, you Poor ones! and your state explain,",2.0 +"Whose patience Heaven proportions to your pain,",1.0 +"To whom is wanting every earthly good,",0.0 +"But quiet sleeps, and appetites subdued;",0.0 +"Whose hopes to no wild summit ever pressed,",1.0 +No keen sensations to disturb your breast:,2.0 +"Say, why were all these wondrous blessings given,",0.0 +But to convince you of the care of Heaven?,2.0 +"To show how equally its gifts are lent,",1.0 +"To some in Gold, to others in Content.",0.0 +"Still those are restless, discontented these,",1.0 +"The poor for riches sigh, the rich for ease.",0.0 +"Thus Curio pines with envy at the great,",4.0 +"While you, my Lord, are sick of pomp and state.",0.0 +"My fate is hard, cries one overlooked! forgot!",3.0 +Yet all life's comforts are my neighbour's lot.,3.0 +"But I, unhappy! every blessing want;",1.0 +"His life, though vile, is one luxurious treat,",3.0 +"While I have virtue, but not bread to eat.",1.0 +Still you have ' -- What! no reason to complain?,2.0 +"Perhaps not much. However, think again.",1.0 +"The outside's fair indeed, but look within;",4.0 +"That cruel something, common to the rest:",1.0 +"Some favourite wish too wild, or weak to own,",1.0 +"Some secret pang, to all besides unknown.",0.0 +"Or with his blessings, count his want of health,",1.0 +"And to the pleasures, add the plagues of wealth:",1.0 +"On every side the envied creature view,",0.0 +"Then tell me which is happiest, He or You?",2.0 +"Possessing all things, could we all enjoy,",1.0 +"Would neither appetites, nor objects cloy,",0.0 +"Were every sense, each pleasing passion keen,",0.0 +How blessed the rich! how cursed indeed the poor!,0.0 +"One to enjoy, the other to endure.",2.0 +Behold the man of luxury and wine!,1.0 +"His station too, it seems, is hard as thine.",0.0 +And France her vines luxuriant prunes for him;,2.0 +"Of loss of appetite, and want of taste;",0.0 +Who hardly knows the luxury to eat.,1.0 +"But what? your barns are full, your rents increase;",0.0 +Sir Robert too has promised you a Place.,2.0 +"Have comfort, man! let not your spirits fail!",1.0 +Perhaps to morrow you may relish quail.,1.0 +"Think rather of the pleasures which you share,",2.0 +And learn their inconveniences to bear.,1.0 +Rejoice in crayfish soup! be glad in trout!,0.0 +"But pray have patience, when you feel the gout;",0.0 +"Or rise, like Bethel, from the intemperate feast.",5.0 +"Thus each has something to enjoy, and bear;",1.0 +And none may envy much his neighbour's share.,1.0 +"Envy! the source of half the wretched feel,",2.0 +"And where it strikes, the hardest wound to heal.",0.0 +Since I in something else am just as blessed.,0.0 +To me perhaps kind heaven indulgent grants,2.0 +"To me has given a quicker sense of shame,",3.0 +While he feels nothing of contempt or blame:,3.0 +"To me no acres of paternal ground,",3.0 +To him the spleen and fifty thousand pound.,1.0 +Some secret power may blunt the edge of pain:,2.0 +"The keen sensation use may reconcile,",0.0 +And added Hope affliction's sting beguile.,0.0 +"Would you enquire, why man's to suffering born;",4.0 +"To feel his frailties, and his nature mourn?",1.0 +"Why each has his peculiar ill assigned,",2.0 +"Some pain of body, or some plague of mind;",1.0 +"Some lingering malady for years endured,",1.0 +"Some hopeless passion, never to be cured:",1.0 +"And why not rather temperate, wise, serene,",0.0 +"Without all healthful, and all peace within?",1.0 +"Know, thankless man! that He, who rules the ball,",2.0 +In goodness infinite permits it all.,1.0 +"For natural Evil, rightly understood,",0.0 +"Works but the grand design, our moral Good;",0.0 +"And he unjustly of his lot complains,",2.0 +Who finds his strength proportioned to his pains.,1.0 +"This life, with pain and pleasure intermixed,",0.0 +Is but a state of trial for the next;,1.0 +"A stage, on which amid' the varied scenes,",0.0 +"May choose his part, or strut his hour again:",0.0 +"Our business only through the measured span,",1.0 +"To act it well, and wisely as we can.",1.0 +"Pain was permitted in the various part,",4.0 +"To cheque the manners, and chastise the heart;",1.0 +To blunt the appetite to moral ill;,0.0 +"To kerb, restrain, and rectify the will;",0.0 +To call us back from every wild pursuit;,0.0 +To clear the soil for virtue's plants to shoot;,0.0 +"And teach us where to weep, from what we feel:",0.0 +"To fix, to urge the business of our span;",1.0 +"To raise the hero, and to mend the man.",1.0 +"Strong trials must the headstrong temper break,",2.0 +As gentler methods oft reclaim the meek.,0.0 +"When lightnings flash, the most obdurate mind",0.0 +And owns the terrors of a world to come.,1.0 +"These are the ends for which afflictions came,",1.0 +"To rouse our reason, and our passions tame;",1.0 +"To set fair Virtue in her proper light,",1.0 +And fix the wavering attention right.,1.0 +"What though your part amid' the general scene,",0.0 +"Too high or hard appear, too low or mean;",2.0 +"Beset with wants, with cares and fears oppressed,",0.0 +"The sport of fortune, and of men the jest:",1.0 +"Yet wait awhile, whatever chance befall,",1.0 +"Heaven's ways are equal, thine unequal all.",1.0 +"Here but as strangers journeying for a space,",1.0 +"Some perils by the way we must endure,",1.0 +"The cruel robber, and the night obscure.",1.0 +"Yet, armed with Patience, let us boldly dare,",0.0 +"The end is certain, and the prospect fair.",1.0 +"He, who proportions largely all our gain,",0.0 +"Weighs every loss, and counts out every pain;",1.0 +"Sees all our frailties, measures dust by dust,",0.0 +"In all he gives and takes, supremely just:",1.0 +"That power eternal will our steps befriend,",3.0 +And guide us safely to our journey's end;,1.0 +And each immortal guest subside to peace.,0.0 +"To him who suffered well, will much be given,",1.0 +"For you, my Lord, in various conflicts seen,",3.0 +"The best of tempers, and the best of men:",1.0 +"For you, alas! one trial yet remains;",1.0 +OH suffer righteously these proving strains!,2.0 +"And if unmoved, unruffled you can hear,",2.0 +What Patience' self perchance could hardly bear;,5.0 +"How ardently devout affections rise,",1.0 +"Crowd on the expanding heart, and speak of thee!",1.0 +"All mingling, soaring, brightening, how they shine",1.0 +"In truth's strong light, and say that we are thine!",2.0 +"Signs visible, wherever he turns his eyes,",4.0 +That thou art good as wise and mighty; love,0.0 +The active power that does through all things move.,1.0 +"Adorned with forests, hills and mountains grand,",0.0 +"And coped aloft with beauty, ever changing",0.0 +"At day's glad waking, or at day's decline;",2.0 +As full or crescent moons shine softly bright,1.0 +"As stars from deepened darkness, fiercely burning",0.0 +"Keep round their northern guide, for ever turning!",0.0 +"Such thoughts do visit us like friends indeed,",1.0 +Who help and comfort in the hour of need;,0.0 +"And sacred lore repeat, even that blessed line,",5.0 +"The dying soldier stretched on battle ground,",0.0 +"Thinks of his home, the distant and the dear,",1.0 +Then in his heart repeats these words of cheer.,0.0 +"She, too, whose little flock of love are led",0.0 +"To stand once more around her dying bed,",1.0 +"Blesses them one by one, and when the last",2.0 +"Hath from her fondly lingering vision past,",0.0 +"Raises her eyes, to worship and adore,",3.0 +And feels the bitterness of death is over;,1.0 +"Casting behind her mortal love and fear,",2.0 +"She feels that she is Thine, and thou art near.",2.0 +"The man who in this mingled world of woe,",0.0 +Dire warfare holds with many a galling foe;,3.0 +"With poverty, disgrace, disease, and pain,",1.0 +"And bravely fronting all, can still maintain,",0.0 +"Let all these foes to work my woe combine,",0.0 +"Living and dying, Father, I am thine.",3.0 +But o! to trace what forms of mortal ill,1.0 +"This thought hath conquered, baffles human skill",0.0 +"Yes, we are thine, Almighty Lord and Sire,",1.0 +With souls endowed to reason and aspire.,1.0 +"Reason, thy gifted spark of heavenly flame,",4.0 +The noblest inmate of the human frame;,2.0 +"By which, in all thy works, thyself we see,",0.0 +"And love, obey, adore, and worship Thee.",1.0 +"WHere the fair streams of famed Euphrates stray,",3.0 +"On the green borders of the silver flood,",3.0 +"A pensive band, oppressed with grief severe,",0.0 +For Zion's fate they shed the frequent tear;,2.0 +High on the branches of the willows hung;,2.0 +When lo! their enemies demand the strains,1.0 +"How shall these songs, Jehovah, Sovereign King!",0.0 +"Let my right hand forget the note to play,",3.0 +"Let my mute tongue forget to tune the lay,",3.0 +"From thee, OH Salem! and thy sacred groves:",3.0 +"But, mighty Lord! remember thou their seed,",1.0 +"Who bade thy city mourn, thy people bleed!",0.0 +"Her haughty warriors pale and breathless lie,",0.0 +"Dashed on the stones her helpless infants die,",0.0 +"The woes we suffer be to her repaid,",1.0 +And all her glory sunk in everlasting shade?,0.0 +"FOrgo the charming Muses! No, in spite",0.0 +"And for the future paint my thoughts at large,",1.0 +For a collection to the Church for ink:,2.0 +Besides my Muse is the most gentle thing,1.0 +That ever yet made an attempt to sing:,2.0 +Nor set the married world an edge for Ropes;,0.0 +"My active Genius will by no means sleep,",2.0 +And let it then its proper channel keep.,0.0 +"That I must this, or greater mischief do;",0.0 +"And let the world think me inspired, or mad,",4.0 +I'll surely write while paper's to be had;,1.0 +"Since Heaven to me has a Retreat assigned,",2.0 +That would inspire a less harmonious mind.,2.0 +"All that a Poet loves I have in view,",0.0 +"Delight some Hills, refreshing Shades, and pleasant Valleys too,",0.0 +"Fair spreading Valleys clothed with lasting green,",1.0 +"And Sunny Banks with gilded streams between,",0.0 +"Where free from sullen cares I live at case,",0.0 +"Indulge my Muse, and wishes, as I please,",1.0 +"Exempt from all that looks like want or strife,",0.0 +"I smoothly glide along the Plains of Life,",0.0 +"Besides, I'm vehemently in love to boot,",3.0 +"But why for these dull Reasons do I pause,",2.0 +"And that my Muse may take no counter Spell,",1.0 +I fairly bid the Boarding Schools farewell:,1.0 +"No Young Impertinent, shall here intrude,",2.0 +And vex me from this blissful solitude.,1.0 +"Spite of her heart, Old Puss shall damn no more",2.0 +"While all the rest of the melodious crew,",3.0 +"With the whole System of Athenians too,",5.0 +"But I'to Church, shall fill her Train no more,",5.0 +"Thy self for me, my dancing days are over;",1.0 +"Eight Notes must for another Treble look,",3.0 +In Burlesque to make Faces by the book.,5.0 +"And pretty Cupid, in the Glass adieu,",0.0 +"And since the dearest friends that be must part,",0.0 +Old Governess farewell with all my heart.,3.0 +"Now welcome all you peaceful Shades and Springs,",1.0 +And welcome all the inspiring tender things;,2.0 +"That please my genius, suit my make and years,",0.0 +Unburdened yet with all but lovers cares.,0.0 +"UNSTABLE Goddess! why, with care severe,",0.0 +Still dost thou strew with thorns my rugged path?,0.0 +Will crouch submissive to avert thy wrath?,1.0 +"Preserve thy threats for thine unhappy slaves,",1.0 +The shuddering victims of thy treacherous power;,5.0 +Shall smile superior in the roughest hour.,1.0 +"The combat urged by thy malicious ire,",1.0 +So the bright steel beneath the hammer's blows,2.0 +"More polished, more refined, and keener grows.",0.0 +Since the first Man by Disobedience fell,5.0 +"An easy Conquest to the Powers of Hell,",3.0 +From the Insults of bold Affliction free.,1.0 +"If a short respite gives us some Relief,",2.0 +"And interrupts the Series of our Grief,",1.0 +"So quick the Pangs of Misery return,",1.0 +"We Joy by Minutes, but by Years we Mourn.",1.0 +"Reason refined and to perfection brought,",3.0 +"By wise Philosophy, and serious Thought,",3.0 +Supports the Soul beneath the ponderous Weight,2.0 +"Then is the time she should exert her Power,",0.0 +And make us practise what she taught before.,0.0 +"For why are such Voluminous Authors read,",3.0 +"But to prepare the Mind for its defence,",2.0 +That when the Storm of Misery appears,1.0 +"With all its real, or fantastic Fears,",2.0 +"We either may the rolling danger fly,",1.0 +Or stem the Tide before it swells too high.,1.0 +"With ease, what should, and what should not be done:",0.0 +"Yet all the labour in the Practise lies,",0.0 +"To be in more than Words, and Notion wise,",0.0 +The sacred Truths of sound Philosophy,1.0 +"We study early, but we late apply.",1.0 +"When stubborn Anguish seizes on the Soul,",1.0 +"The Pain is just, when we reject the Cure.",1.0 +"For many Men, close observation finds,",1.0 +"Of copious Learning, and exalted Minds;",3.0 +"Who tremble at the sight of daring Woes,",0.0 +As if they understood not how to be,2.0 +"Or wise, or brave, but in Felicity;",1.0 +"And by some Action, servile, or unjust,",2.0 +Lay all their former Glories in the Dust.,0.0 +"For Wisdom first the wretched Mortal flies,",0.0 +And leaves him naked to his Enemies.,2.0 +"So that when most his Prudence should be shown,",0.0 +The most imprudent giddy things are done:,0.0 +"For when the Mind's surrounded with Distress,",1.0 +"Fear, or Inconstancy, the Judgement press,",3.0 +And render it incapable to make,2.0 +"Wise Resolutions, or good Counsels take.",2.0 +"By Reason bred, and by Religion taught,",1.0 +"Which, like a Rock amid the stormy Waves,",0.0 +"Unmoved remains, and all Affliction braves.",0.0 +"In sharp Misfortunes some will search too deep,",1.0 +"What Heaven prohibits, and would secret keep:",1.0 +"But those Events it's better not to know,",1.0 +"Which known, serve only to increase our Woe.",2.0 +"Knowledge forbid, it's dangerous to pursue,",5.0 +"With Guilt begins, and ends with Ruin too.",0.0 +For had our earliest Parents been content,2.0 +"Not to know more, than to be innocent:",2.0 +Their Ignorance of Evil had preserved,1.0 +Their Joys entire; for then they had not swerved.,1.0 +"But they imagined, their Desires were such,",2.0 +"They knew too little, till they knew too much.",3.0 +"Ever since by Folly most to Wisdom rise,",0.0 +"And few are, but by sad Experience, Wise.",3.0 +"Consider, Friend! who all your Blessings gave,",0.0 +"What are recalled again, and what you have;",1.0 +"And do not murmur, when you are bereft",1.0 +"Of little, if you have abundance left.",1.0 +"Consider too, how many Thousands are",1.0 +"Under the worst of Miseries, Despair:",3.0 +"Custom will give you Ease, or Time will cure.",2.0 +"Once more consider, that the present Ill,",1.0 +"Though it be great, may yet be greater still;",1.0 +And be not anxious; for to undergo,1.0 +"One Grief, is nothing to a numerous Woe.",3.0 +But since it is impossible to be,2.0 +"Human, and not exposed to Misery,",3.0 +"Bear it, my Friend, as bravely as you can;",1.0 +"You are not more, and be not less than Man!",0.0 +"Afflictions past, can no Existence find,",0.0 +But in the wild Ideas of the Mind:,1.0 +"And why should we for those Misfortunes mourn,",1.0 +"Which have been suffered, and can never return?",3.0 +"Those that have weathered a tempestuous Night,",4.0 +"And find a Calm approaching with the Light,",1.0 +"Will not, unless their Reason they disown,",1.0 +"Still make those Dangers present, that are gone.",1.0 +"What is behind the Curtain, none can see;",1.0 +"It may be Joy, suppose it Misery.",2.0 +"It's future still, and that, which is not here,",0.0 +"May never come, or we may never bare.",1.0 +"Therefore the present Ill, alone we ought",1.0 +"To view, in reason, with a troubled Thought:",1.0 +"But, if we may the sacred Pages trust,",1.0 +"Tell me, you daring Atheist, what's your End,",1.0 +"You would be happy and secure it here,",1.0 +"Your Minds scarce doubt, but Crimes Reversion fear.",1.0 +Whoever knew a sober Atheist yet?,1.0 +"Tis the Extravagance of floating Wit,",3.0 +Buoyed up with Wine and sensual Appetite.,3.0 +For they with Doubts do all their Crimes pursue;,1.0 +"They are more plagued to kerb the Thoughts of Hell,",1.0 +"No Man at first to Atheism inclined,",3.0 +He takes that Refuge after he has sinned;,1.0 +"Bold in his Crimes until he can't repent,",0.0 +Then strives to think there is no Punishment:,3.0 +"Lulled in lewd Pleasures from Devotion free,",3.0 +"Where is the Happiness they so much boast,",2.0 +Their Joys are in their Consequences lost?,0.0 +"Women and Wine their greatest dear Concern,",2.0 +But cheat their Hopes and make an ill Return;,0.0 +O! the Delights and Bliss he centres there;,2.0 +"And in carousing with lascivious Songs,",3.0 +"Their Disappointments Pride and Jealousy,",2.0 +Are more severe than Fast and Mortify;,0.0 +"A hectoring Rival or Decease at last,",3.0 +"The Pains and Qualms that wait a drunken Fit,",0.0 +Severely scourge the Gust of Appetite;,0.0 +As they would fain believe but cannot tell.,1.0 +Our Joys no torturing Excess allow;,2.0 +"Pleased and secure amid our Bliss we move,",2.0 +And with just Transports hope for more above;,1.0 +"In this we're blessed, and since it lasts as long",0.0 +"If we mistake, whether we did or no;",6.0 +"QUEEN of the Northern World, whose gentle Sway",0.0 +"Invites our Love, and binds our Hearts to Obey:",2.0 +Forgive the Nation's Groan when William died;,0.0 +"Lo, at thy Feet in all the Loyal Pride",0.0 +"Of rising Joy Three Happy Realms appear,",1.0 +And William's Urn almost without a Tear,1.0 +Stands; nor Complains: While from thy Gracious Tongue,3.0 +Peace flows in Silver Streams amid the Throng.,1.0 +"Amazing Balm, that on those Lips was found",1.0 +"Transfer their Souls, and live; secure they Play",0.0 +"In thy Mild Rays, and feel a growing Day.",3.0 +Fainting Devotion; while in various Forms,4.0 +Fair Piety shines through the British Isles:,3.0 +"Here at thy Side, and in thy kindest Smiles",0.0 +"Blazing in Ornamental Gold she stands,",2.0 +"To Bless thy Councils, and Assist thy Hands,",1.0 +And Crowds wait round her to receive Commands.,2.0 +There at a Humble distance from the Throne,1.0 +"Nor knows Suspicion, nor affects the Shade.",1.0 +"In Words of Solemn Form, or with a freer Cry",1.0 +"Warm as our Zeal for Thee, We Both address the Sky,",1.0 +"Vow for thy Safety Both, and live beneath thine Eye.",0.0 +"PRINCESS, the World already owns thy Name;",2.0 +"Go, mount the Chariot of Immortal Fame,",4.0 +Too dear is purchased by an Angels Death.,2.0 +The Thunder of thy Hand with general Joy,1.0 +Shall crush Rebellion and the Rival Boy:,1.0 +"Thy Sounding Arms his Gallic Patron hears,",0.0 +Till hard Despair wring from the Tyrant's Soul,4.0 +The Iron Tears out. Let thy Frown control,0.0 +"Our Angry Jars at Home, till Wrath submit",0.0 +Her Bloody Banners to thine Awful Feet.,1.0 +Mad Zeal and Frenzy with their Murderous Train,4.0 +"Flee these Blessed Realms in thine Auspicious Reign,",3.0 +"Envy expire in Rage, and Treason bite the Chain.",2.0 +"Thy Thread of Life prolong our Golden Age,",0.0 +Long bless the Earth: Then rise and shine on high,1.0 +The fairest Glory of the Western Sky;,1.0 +"There cheque the Rays of each Malignant Star,",0.0 +"Heal the dire Pestilence, forbid the War,",1.0 +And stretch thy Peaceful Influence to the Southern Spheres.,1.0 +"SING muse if such a theme, so dark, so long,",2.0 +May find a muse to grace it with a song,1.0 +By what unseen and unsuspected arts,0.0 +"Tell where she lurks, beneath what flowery shades,",2.0 +"That not a glimpse of genuine light pervades,",2.0 +"The poisonous, black, insinuating worm,",3.0 +Successfully conceals her loathsome form.,1.0 +"Take, if you can, you careless and supine!",2.0 +Counsel and caution from a voice like mine;,3.0 +"Truths that the theorist could never reach,",1.0 +"And observation taught me, I would teach.",1.0 +"Not all whose eloquence the fancy fills,",1.0 +"Weak to perform, though mighty to pretend,",3.0 +"Discern the fraud beneath the specious lure,",0.0 +"Prevent the danger, or prescribe the cure.",1.0 +"The clear harangue, and cold as it is clear,",1.0 +"Like quicksilver, the rhetoric they display,",6.0 +"Shines as it runs, but grasped at slips away.",0.0 +"Placed for his trial on this bustling stage,",0.0 +"Free in his will to choose or to refuse,",2.0 +"Man may improve the crisis, or abuse.",3.0 +"Say, to what bar amenable were man?",1.0 +"And if he fell, would fall because he must;",1.0 +"If love reward him, or if vengeance strike,",1.0 +"His recompense in both, unjust alike.",0.0 +Divine authority within his breast,1.0 +"Brings every thought, word, action to the test,",3.0 +"Warns him or prompts, approves him or restrains,",1.0 +"As reason, or as passion, takes the reins.",1.0 +"Heaven from above, and conscience from within,",2.0 +"Cry in his startled ear, abstain from sin.",0.0 +"The world around solicits his desire,",1.0 +"While all his purposes and steps to guard,",1.0 +"Peace follows virtue as its sure reward,",2.0 +"And pleasure brings as surely in her train,",0.0 +Remorse and sorrow and vindictive pain.,1.0 +"Man thus endued with an elective voice,",2.0 +Must be supplied with objects of his choice.,1.0 +"Wherever he turns, enjoyment and delight,",3.0 +"Or present, or in prospect, meet his sight;",1.0 +Those call him loudly to pursuit of more.,1.0 +"Avarice shows, and virtue is the price.",3.0 +"Here, various motives his ambition raise,",3.0 +"There beauty woes him with expanded arms,",1.0 +"Nor these alone, whose pleasures less refined,",1.0 +"Might well alarm the most unguarded mind,",0.0 +"Or lead him devious from the path of truth,",1.0 +"Safe in themselves, but dangerous in the excess.",3.0 +"Hark! how it floats upon the dewy air,",0.0 +"OH what a dying, dying close was there!",0.0 +"It's harmony from yonder sequestered bower,",3.0 +"His morning course, the enchantment was begun,",3.0 +"And he shall gild yonder mountains height again,",1.0 +Ever yet the pleasing toil becomes a pain.,0.0 +"Is this the rugged path, the steep ascent",1.0 +That virtue points to? Can a life thus spent,2.0 +"Lead to the bliss she promises the wise,",1.0 +"Detach the soul from earth, and speed her to the skies?",1.0 +"You devotees to your adored employ,",1.0 +"Enthusiasts, drunk with an unreal joy,",5.0 +"Love makes the music of the blessed above,",2.0 +Heavens harmony is universal love;,1.0 +"And earthly sounds, though sweet and well combined,",0.0 +"And lenient as soft opiates to the mind,",5.0 +"Grey dawn appears, the sportsman and his train",2.0 +"Speckle the bosom of the distant plain,",3.0 +"Save that his scent is less acute than their's,",0.0 +"For persevering chase, and headlong leaps,",1.0 +True beagle as the staunchest hound he keeps.,2.0 +"Charged with the folly of his life's mad scene,",2.0 +"It's exercise, and health and length of days,",0.0 +"Again impetuous to the field he flies,",1.0 +"Leaps every fence but one, there falls and dies;",2.0 +"You clergy, while your orbit is your place,",1.0 +"Lights of the world, and stars of human race ' --",0.0 +"But if eccentric the forsake your sphere,",2.0 +"Prodigious, ominous, and viewed with fear.",1.0 +"Your's real, and pernicious in the extreme.",4.0 +With the same ease the man puts on his gown?,3.0 +"Charmed by the sounds, your reverence, or your grace?",1.0 +"No. But his own engagement binds him fast,",0.0 +"Or if it does not, brands him to the last",2.0 +"What atheists call him, a designing knave,",3.0 +"A mere church juggler, hypocrite and slave.",1.0 +"O laugh, or mourn with me, the rueful jest,",1.0 +"Set Paul to music, he shall quote him too.",2.0 +"He takes the field, the master of the pack",1.0 +"Cries, well done Saint ' -- and claps him on the back.",2.0 +Is this the path of sanctity? Is this,2.0 +"Himself a wanderer from the narrow way,",1.0 +"His silly sheep, what wonder if they stray?",1.0 +"Go, cast your orders at your Bishop's feet,",1.0 +"The sacred function, in your hands is made,",0.0 +Sad sacrilege! No function but a trade.,4.0 +"When he has prayed and preached the sabbath down,",1.0 +The full concerto swells upon your ear;,0.0 +"All elbows shake. Look in, and you would swear",3.0 +The Babylonian tyrant with a nod,3.0 +Had summoned them to serve his golden God.,1.0 +"So well that thought the employment seems to suit,",2.0 +"O fie! It's evangelical and pure,",1.0 +"Observe each face, how sober and demure,",1.0 +"Ecstasy sets her stamp on every mien,",2.0 +"Still I insist, though music heretofore",2.0 +"Love, joy and peace make harmony, more meet",3.0 +"For sabbath evenings, and perhaps as sweet.",1.0 +"Resort to this example as a rock,",2.0 +There stand and justify the foul abuse,0.0 +"Of sabbath hours, with plausible excuse?",1.0 +If apostolic gravity be free,2.0 +"To play the fool on Sundays, why not we?",1.0 +"If he, the tinkling harpsichord regards",1.0 +"Strike up the fiddles, let us all be gay,",0.0 +"Laymen have leave to dance, if parsons play.",2.0 +O Italy! Thy sabbaths will be soon,2.0 +"Preaching and pranks will share the motley scene,",2.0 +What says the prophet? Let that day be blessed,0.0 +With holiness and consecrated rest.,1.0 +"Pastime and business both it should exclude,",1.0 +"And bar the door the moment they intrude,",1.0 +"Nobly distinguished above all the six,",4.0 +By deeds in which the world must never mix.,0.0 +"Hear him again. He calls it a delight,",3.0 +"When the glad soul is made heavens welcome guest,",3.0 +Their answer to the call is ' -- Not at home.,1.0 +"O the dear pleasures of the velvet plain,",3.0 +"The painted tablets, dealt and dealt again.",0.0 +"Cards with what rapture, and the polished die,",1.0 +"Then to the dance, and make the sober moon",0.0 +Witness of joys that shun the sight of noon.,2.0 +"The snug close party, or the splendid hall,",2.0 +Views constellations brighter than her own.,2.0 +"It's innocent, and harmless and refined,",2.0 +"The balm of care, elysium of the mind.",1.0 +Innocent! O if venerable time,2.0 +"Slain at the foot of pleasure, be no crime,",1.0 +"Then with his silver beard and magic wand,",0.0 +"Let him your rubric and your feasts prescribe,",1.0 +Grand metropolitan of all the tribe.,2.0 +"Of manners rough, and coarse athletic cast,",0.0 +"Not of the moral, but the dancing school,",1.0 +"He cannot drink five bottles, bilk the score,",1.0 +"Then kill a constable, and drink five more;",2.0 +"But he can draw a pattern, make a tart,",1.0 +And has the ladies etiquette by heart.,1.0 +"Your cause, before a bar you little dread;",0.0 +"But know, the law that bids the drunkard die,",0.0 +"Both baby featured and of infant size,",2.0 +"Folly and innocence are so alike,",4.0 +"The difference, though essential, fails to strike.",1.0 +"Yet folly ever has a vacant stare,",0.0 +"But innocence, sedate, serene, erect,",1.0 +"Delights us, by engaging our respect.",2.0 +"Man, nature's guest by invitation sweet,",1.0 +"Receives from her, both appetite and treat,",2.0 +"For nature, nice, as liberal to dispense,",1.0 +Made nothing but a brute the slave of sense.,2.0 +"Daniel ate pulse by choice, example rare!",3.0 +"Heaven blessed the youth, and made him fresh and fair.",0.0 +"He snuffs far off the anticipated joy,",4.0 +"Turtle and ven'son all his thoughts employ,",2.0 +"Prepares for meals, as jockeys take a sweat,",0.0 +O nauseous! an emetic for a whet ' --,2.0 +Will providence overlook the wasted good?,2.0 +Temperance were no virtue if he could.,5.0 +"That pleasures, therefore, or what such we call,",3.0 +"Are hurtful, is a truth confessed by all.",1.0 +"And some that seem to threaten virtue less,",0.0 +"Still hurtful, in the abuse, or by the excess.",4.0 +"Is man then only for his torment placed,",2.0 +The centre of delights he may not taste?,2.0 +Like fabled Tantalus condemned to hear,1.0 +With prohibition and perpetual thirst?,3.0 +"No, wrangler ' -- destitute of shame and sense,",1.0 +"Forbids him none but the licentious joy,",1.0 +"Whose fruit, though fair, tempts only to destroy.",2.0 +"Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid",0.0 +"In every bosom where her nest is made,",0.0 +"Hatched by the beams of truth denies him rest,",0.0 +And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.,1.0 +No pleasure? Are domestic comforts dead?,2.0 +Are all the nameless sweets of friendship fled?,0.0 +"Has time worn out, or fashion put to shame",1.0 +"Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame?",1.0 +"All these belong to virtue, and all prove",2.0 +That virtue has a title to your love.,1.0 +"Have you no touch of pity, that the poor",3.0 +Stand starved at your inhospitable door?,4.0 +Or if yourself too scantily supplied,4.0 +"Need help, let honest industry provide.",2.0 +"Earn, if you want, if you abound, impart,",1.0 +These both are pleasures to the feeling heart.,1.0 +No pleasure? Has some sickly eastern waste,1.0 +Sent us a wind to parch us at a blast?,0.0 +Can British paradise no scenes afford,1.0 +To please her sated and indifferent lord?,1.0 +Quite to the lees? And has religion none?,0.0 +And judge you from the kennel and the sty.,2.0 +"Delights like these, you sensual and profane,",4.0 +"Called to these crystal streams, do you turn off",0.0 +"Obscene, to swill and swallow at a trough?",0.0 +"Envy the beast then, on whom heaven bestows",2.0 +"Your pleasures, with no curses in the close.",2.0 +"Pleasure admitted in undue degree,",2.0 +"It's not alone the grapes enticing juice,",0.0 +"Ambition, avarice, and the lust of fame,",1.0 +"And woman, lovely woman, does the same.",0.0 +"The heart, surrendered to the ruling power",1.0 +"Finds by degrees, the truths that once bore sway,",3.0 +And all their deep impression wear away.,0.0 +"So coin grows smooth, in traffic current passed,",1.0 +"The breach, though small at first, soon opening wide,",3.0 +In rushes folly with a full moon tide.,2.0 +"Then welcome errors of whatever size,",2.0 +To justify it by a thousand lies.,1.0 +"As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone,",0.0 +"And hides the ruin that it feeds upon,",0.0 +"So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects",3.0 +"Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects.",2.0 +"Mortals whose pleasures are their only care,",3.0 +"First wish to be imposed on, and then are.",1.0 +"And lest the fulsome artifice should fail,",2.0 +Not more industrious are the just and true,1.0 +"To give to virtue what is virtue's due,",0.0 +"And call her charms to public notice forth,",0.0 +"Than vice's mean and disingenuous race,",6.0 +To hide the shocking features of her face.,1.0 +"Her form with dress and lotion they repair,",1.0 +Then kiss their idol and pronounce her fair.,1.0 +The sacred implement I now employ,1.0 +"Might prove a mischief or at best a toy,",1.0 +"A trifle if it move but to amuse,",2.0 +"But if to wrong the judgement and abuse,",2.0 +It stabs at once the morals of a land.,1.0 +"You writers of what none with safety reads,",1.0 +"Footing it in the dance that fancy leads,",1.0 +"You novelists who mar what you would mend,",2.0 +Whose corresponding misses fill the ream,0.0 +Caught in a delicate soft silken net,2.0 +"Steal to the closet of young innocence,",3.0 +To scribble as you scribble at fifteen;,1.0 +"Who kindling a combustion of desire,",2.0 +"With some cold moral think to quench the fire,",1.0 +"Though all your engineering proves in vain,",0.0 +The dribbling stream never puts it out again;,4.0 +"O that a verse had power, and could command",2.0 +"Who fasten without mercy on the fair,",6.0 +"And suck, and leave a craving maggot there.",1.0 +"However disguised the inflammatory tale,",5.0 +Such writers and such readers owe the gust,1.0 +And relish of their pleasure all to lust.,1.0 +"A quarry more important still than you,",0.0 +"Down down the wind she swims and sails away,",1.0 +Now stoops upon it and now grasps the prey.,3.0 +But every tear shall scald thy memory.,1.0 +"The graces too, while virtue at their shrine",0.0 +"Lay bleeding under that soft hand of thine,",2.0 +"Felt each a mortal stab in her own breast,",1.0 +"Abhorred the sacrifice, and cursed the priest.",0.0 +"Thou polished and high finished foe to truth,",2.0 +"To purge and skim away the filth of vice,",0.0 +"That so refined it might the more entice,",1.0 +Then pour it on the morals of thy son,2.0 +"To taint his heart, was worthy of thine own.",1.0 +"Now while the poison all high life pervades,",1.0 +"One, and one only, charged with deep regret,",1.0 +"That thy worst part, thy principles live yet;",5.0 +"One sad epistle thence, may cure mankind,",1.0 +Of the plague spread by bundles left behind.,2.0 +"It's granted, and no plainer truth appears,",2.0 +"Our most important are our earliest years,",2.0 +And through life's labyrinth holds fast the clue,3.0 +"That education gives her, false or true.",0.0 +"Plants raised with tenderness are seldom strong,",2.0 +"And without discipline the favourite child,",6.0 +Like a neglected forester runs wild.,3.0 +"But we, as if good qualities would grow",2.0 +"Spontaneous, take but little pains to sow,",2.0 +"Teach him to fence and figure twice a week,",0.0 +"And having done we think, the best we can,",0.0 +Praise his proficiency and dub him man.,3.0 +"From school to Cam or Isis, and thence home,",2.0 +"And thence with all convenient speed to Rome,",0.0 +"With reverend tutor clad in habit lay,",0.0 +"To tease for cash and quarrel with all day,",1.0 +"And every post, and where the chaise broke down:",2.0 +"His stock, a few French phrases got by heart,",1.0 +"With much to learn, but nothing to impart,",1.0 +"The youth obedient to his sire's commands,",1.0 +Sets off a wanderer into foreign lands:,2.0 +"Surprised at all they meet, the goslin pair",0.0 +"With awkward gait, stretched neck, and silly stare,",1.0 +"Discover huge cathedrals built with stone,",0.0 +"And steeples towering high much like our own,",0.0 +But show peculiar light by many a grin,2.0 +"For men of their appearance and andress,",3.0 +"With much compassion undertakes the task,",0.0 +To tell them more than they have wit to ask.,1.0 +"Such as when legible were never read,",2.0 +"Some headless hero or some Caesar shows,",1.0 +Defective only in his Roman nose;,0.0 +"Exhibits elevations, drawings, plans,",0.0 +"And sells them medals, which if neither rare",0.0 +"Nor ancient, will be so, preserved with care.",2.0 +Strange the recital! from whatever cause,4.0 +"His great improvement and new lights he draws,",2.0 +But teems with powers he never felt before:,2.0 +"Whether increased momentum, and the force",3.0 +"As axles sometime kindle as they go,",2.0 +Chafed him and brought dull nature to a glow;,2.0 +Or whether clearer skies and softer air,0.0 +"That make Italian flowers so sweet and fair,",2.0 +"Freshening his lazy spirits as he ran,",2.0 +"Returning he proclaims by many a grace,",3.0 +"By shrugs and strange contortions of his face,",1.0 +"Accomplishments have taken virtue's place,",1.0 +And wisdom falls before exterior grace;,2.0 +"We slight the precious kernel of the stone,",1.0 +And toil to polish its rough coat alone.,2.0 +"A just deportment, manners graced with ease",0.0 +"Elegant phrase, and figure formed to please,",2.0 +Are qualities that seem to comprehend,1.0 +"Whatever parents, guardians, schools intend;",3.0 +"Though busy, trifling; empty, though refined,",1.0 +"Hence all that interferes, and dares to clash",0.0 +"While learning, once the man's exclusive pride,",0.0 +Seems verging fast towards the female side.,2.0 +Learning itself received into a mind,2.0 +"By nature weak, or viciously inclined,",1.0 +Serves but to lead philosophers astray,1.0 +Where children would with ease discern the way.,0.0 +To cheat themselves and gain the world's assent,0.0 +The worst is scripture warped from it's intent.,1.0 +The carriage bowls along and all are pleased,0.0 +"If Tom be sober, and the wheels well greased,",2.0 +"But if the rogue have gone a cup too far,",2.0 +"Left out his linchpin or forgot his tar,",2.0 +"It suffers interruption and delay,",1.0 +And meets with hindrance in the smoothest way.,0.0 +When some hypothesis absurd and vain,1.0 +"Has filled with all its fumes a critic's brain,",0.0 +"The text that sorts not with his darling whim,",1.0 +"Though plain to others, is obscure to him.",1.0 +"The will made subject to a lawless force,",0.0 +"All is irregular, and out of course,",3.0 +"And judgement drunk, and bribed to lose his way,",0.0 +"Winks hard, and talks of darkness at noon day.",2.0 +"A critic on the sacred book, should be",1.0 +"Candid and learnt, dispassionate and free;",3.0 +"Free from the wayward bias bigots feel,",0.0 +"But above all or let the wretch refrain,",1.0 +Nor touch the page he cannot but profane,1.0 +"Free from the domineering power of lust,",2.0 +A lewd interpreter is never just.,1.0 +"How shall I speak thee, or thy power address,",2.0 +"Thou God of our idolatry, the press?",2.0 +"By thee, religion, liberty and laws",2.0 +"Exert their influence, and advance their cause,",3.0 +"By thee, worse plagues than Pharaoh's land befell,",2.0 +"Diffused, make earth the vestibule of hell:",1.0 +"Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise,",0.0 +"Like Eden's dread probationary tree,",0.0 +Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.,2.0 +"No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest,",5.0 +Till half mankind were like himself possessed.,1.0 +"Philosophers, who darken and put out",3.0 +"Eternal truth by everlasting doubt,",0.0 +"Church quacks, with passions under no command,",1.0 +"Who fill the world with doctrines contraband,",0.0 +"Within no bounds, the blind that lead the blind,",1.0 +"To streams of popular opinion drawn,",1.0 +Poisoning the waters where their swarms abound;,1.0 +"Employed to calculate the enormous sum,",2.0 +"Is this Hyperbole? The world well known,",2.0 +Your sober thoughts will hardly find it one.,0.0 +Till others have the soothing tale believed.,0.0 +"Hence comment after comment, spun as fine",1.0 +As bloated spiders draw the flimsy line.,0.0 +Is misapplied to sanctify their sway.,1.0 +"If stubborn Greek refuse to be his friend,",0.0 +"If languages and copies all cry, No ' --",2.0 +Somebody proved it centuries ago.,2.0 +"Like trout pursued, the critic in despair",0.0 +Darts to the mud and finds his safety there.,1.0 +"Women, whom custom has forbid to fly",2.0 +The scholar's pitch the scholar best knows why,1.0 +"Admire his learning, and almost adore.",2.0 +"Whoever errs, the priest can never be wrong,",1.0 +With such fine words familiar to his tongue.,3.0 +"You ladies! for, indifferent in your cause,",1.0 +I should deserve to forfeit all applause,0.0 +"To virtue, delicacy, truth or sense,",1.0 +"Try the criterion, it's a faithful guide",3.0 +"Nor has, nor can have scripture on its side.",2.0 +"None but an author knows an author's cares,",0.0 +"Committed once into the public arms,",0.0 +The baby seems to smile with added charms.,0.0 +"Like something precious ventured far from shore,",0.0 +It's valued for the dangers sake the more.,1.0 +"He views it with complacency supreme,",2.0 +"Solicits kind attention to his dream,",1.0 +"So one, whose storey serves at least to show",1.0 +"Men loved their own productions long ago,",1.0 +"Wooed an unfeeling statue for his wife,",4.0 +Nor rested till the Gods had given it life.,3.0 +"One that still needs his leading string and bib,",1.0 +"And praise his genius, he is soon repaid",1.0 +"In praise applied to the same part, his head.",2.0 +"For it's a rule that holds for ever true,",1.0 +"Grant me discernment, and I grant it you.",3.0 +"Patient of contradiction as a child,",3.0 +"Such was Sir Isaac, and such Boyle and Locke,",3.0 +"The creature is so sure to kick and bite,",1.0 +"First appetite enlists him truth's sworn foe,",2.0 +"Tell him he wanders, that his error leads",0.0 +"To fatal ills, that though the path he treads",1.0 +"Be flowery, and he see no cause of fear,",2.0 +Death and the pains of hell attend him there;,0.0 +"In vain; the slave of arrogance and pride,",1.0 +He has no hearing on the prudent side.,2.0 +"His still refuted quirks he still repeats,",0.0 +"New raised objections with new quibbles meets,",3.0 +"Till sinking in the quicksand he defends,",2.0 +"He dies disputing, and the contest ends;",1.0 +"Thus men go wrong with an ingenious skill,",3.0 +"Bend the strait rule to their own crooked will,",3.0 +"And with a clear and shining lamp supplied,",1.0 +"First put it out, then take it for a guide.",3.0 +"Halting on crutches of unequal size,",3.0 +"One leg by truth supported, one by lies,",1.0 +"They sidle to the goal with awkward pace,",1.0 +"Secure of nothing, but to lose the race.",1.0 +"Faults in the life breed errors in the brain,",1.0 +The mind and conduct mutually imprint,1.0 +And stamp their image in each other's mint.,0.0 +"Each, sire and dam, of an infernal race,",3.0 +"None sends his arrow to the mark in view,",2.0 +"Whose hand is feeble, or his aim untrue.",1.0 +"For though ever yet the shaft is on the wing,",1.0 +"It err but little from the intended line,",3.0 +"It falls at last, far wide of his design.",2.0 +"So he that seeks a mansion in the sky,",1.0 +"Must watch his purpose with a steadfast eye,",2.0 +"He that sips often, at last drinks it up.",2.0 +"Habits are soon assumed, but when we strive",2.0 +"To strip them off, it's being flayed alive.",1.0 +"Called to the temple of impure delight,",1.0 +"If a wish wander that way, call it home,",3.0 +"He cannot long be safe, whose wishes roam.",0.0 +"But if you pass the threshold, you are caught,",3.0 +"Die then, if power Almighty save you not.",2.0 +"There hardening by degrees, till double steeled,",1.0 +"Take leave of nature's God, and God revealed,",1.0 +"Then laugh at all you trembled at before,",0.0 +"And joining the freethinkers brutal roar,",2.0 +"Swallow the two grand nostrums they dispense,",4.0 +"That scripture lies, and blasphemy is sense:",1.0 +If clemency revolted by abuse,2.0 +Some dream that they can silence when they will,1.0 +"The storm of passion, and say, Peace, be still;",2.0 +"But Thus far and no farther, when addressed",6.0 +"To the wild wave, or wilder human breast,",2.0 +"Implies authority that never can,",2.0 +That never ought to be the lot of man.,0.0 +"Hear the just law, the judgement of the skies!",1.0 +He that hates truth shall be the dupe of lies.,1.0 +"And he that will be cheated to the last,",1.0 +"Delusions, strong as hell, shall bind him fast.",0.0 +"But if the wanderer his mistake discern,",4.0 +"Judge his own ways, and sigh for a return,",1.0 +For ever and for ever? No ' -- the cross.,1.0 +"There and there only though the deist rave,",2.0 +"And atheist, if earth bear so base a slave",4.0 +"There and there only, is the power to save.",4.0 +"No mockery meets you, no deception there.",4.0 +"The spells and charms that blinded you before,",1.0 +"All vanish there, and fascinate no more.",2.0 +"I am no preacher, let this hint suffice,",2.0 +"The cross once seen, is death to every vice:",1.0 +"Else he that hung there, suffered all his pain,",0.0 +"By thy averted course, that shuns the ray",1.0 +"Oft on yonder cliff thy folded plumes recline,",0.0 +"And drop those snowy feathers Indians twine,",2.0 +Does no soft instinct in thy soul prevail?,1.0 +"No sweet affection to thy bosom cling,",2.0 +"OH King of Terrors, whose unbounded Sway",1.0 +"All that have Life, must certainly Obey",1.0 +"The King, the Priest, the Prophet, all are Thine,",0.0 +Nor would even God in Flesh thy Stroke decline.,0.0 +"My Name is on thy Roll, and sure I must",1.0 +Increase thy gloomy Kingdom in the Dust.,0.0 +"My Soul at this no Apprehension feels,",2.0 +"Thy scorching Fevers, which distract the Sense",0.0 +"And snatch us raving, unprepared from hence;",0.0 +"At thy contagious Darts, that wound the Heads",1.0 +"Of weeping Friends, who wait at dying Beds.",0.0 +"Spare these, and let thy Time be when it will;",0.0 +"My Business is to Die, and Thine to Kill.",2.0 +"Gently thy fatal Sceptre on me lay,",3.0 +"HOW fares my Son? the trembling Monarch cried,",0.0 +"A Fate like his may all that hate thee feel,",1.0 +"Whose Blood, alas! has stained the guilty Steel.",0.0 +"He fell beneath the Hand of David's Friend,",0.0 +But to my Storey let my Lord attend.,1.0 +"When the pale Morning showed her languid Face,",2.0 +And the dim Sun began his usual Race;,4.0 +"Whose sullen Orb received a crimson Die,",0.0 +"As though the Heavens wept a Mortal's Fate,",1.0 +And Nature trembled at domestic Hate;,0.0 +In just Array the meeting Armies stood;,0.0 +"The frowning Hosts with equal Fury glow,",0.0 +And each to Death defied his meeting Foe;,0.0 +"All tender Thoughts were lost in horrid Rage,",0.0 +And with a Shout the charging Hosts engage:,1.0 +"Then Clouds of Arrows hide the darkened Sky,",0.0 +Dreadful the Sight and horrid was the Cry.,3.0 +"Here groaned a Steed that felt its smarting Wound,",0.0 +"At length, proud Israel began to fail,",2.0 +Our juster Cause could over their Strength prevail;,2.0 +"The vanquished Army raised a fearful Cry,",0.0 +And through the Wood their mighty Numbers fly;,1.0 +"There horrid Brambles tore their Wounds anew,",0.0 +And thousand Deaths their flying Heels pursue:,0.0 +"Then raged our General through the dreadful Gloom,",1.0 +Pale Terror hovered on his waving Plume;,2.0 +"From his known Spear the shrieking Numbers run,",2.0 +And from his Fury fled your conquered Son;,1.0 +"Grim Danger urged him on with fatal Speed,",2.0 +And through black Shades he lashed the weary Steed:,2.0 +In the dark Centre of this Forest stood,3.0 +"A lofty Oak, which overlooked the Wood.",0.0 +"Through its thick Arms he ventured careless in,",2.0 +His curling Locks among the Branches flew;,0.0 +"His Spirit fails him, and his Foes pursue;",1.0 +"Around in vain he cast a mournful Eye,",0.0 +"And wished a Friend; for none, alas! was nigh:",0.0 +And soon beneath him shone a Grove of Spears:,0.0 +"Now, Traitor, fall ' -- our mighty Leader cries:",1.0 +While glowing Vengeance sparkled in his Eyes,0.0 +"Then stepped a Captain of the loyal Band,",1.0 +And vainly strove to stay his fatal Hand.,0.0 +"That cruel Arm impelled the flying Dart,",0.0 +And the keen Weapon sunk within his Heart:,2.0 +"Then those fair Cheeks resigned their rosy Die,",3.0 +Yet Life a Moment struggled in his Eye;,0.0 +"As from so fair a Mansion loath to fly,",1.0 +Till the red Torrent stained his throbbing Tide;,2.0 +"Hold, ' -- stop thy Storey, ' -- cries the weeping King,",1.0 +Thy horrid Tale has left a mortal Sting;,0.0 +"My Soul though practised in the Paths of Woe,",0.0 +Grows sick and staggers at this mighty Blow:,1.0 +From its cold Fountain Life forgets to run;,2.0 +"O Absalom ' -- O Absalom, my Son,",2.0 +Eternal Shade has sealed thy cheerful Eyes;,0.0 +And on the Ground thy breathless Beauty lies:,1.0 +"Cursed be the Hand that all my Hopes beguiled,",0.0 +And left a Parent to lament his Child:,1.0 +"Without a Tear let none his Storey tell,",1.0 +But curse the Forest where my Darling fell:,0.0 +"While these won Eyes with lasting Sorrows run,",3.0 +"Lost to the World, and Strangers to the Sun;",1.0 +"For mine will best become the closing Day,",1.0 +"While round my Lyre afflicted Fathers throng,",0.0 +And Orphans listen to the mournful Song.,1.0 +"Farewell, my friend, good angels waft thee over,",1.0 +"Propitious powers on all thy steps await,",1.0 +Mild as thy gentle bosom ' -- be thy fate.,0.0 +"Serene and calm be every moment past,",0.0 +May each revolving day approve the last;,0.0 +Pure as thyself may all thy friendships prove.,2.0 +To fickle man ' -- for few alas are just.,0.0 +"If at love's altar you resign your heart,",2.0 +Let well tried constancy direct the dart.,3.0 +"May sweet contentment crown the fleeting hours,",0.0 +And strew thy paths with ever blooming flowers.,0.0 +"May no unwelcome pain disturb thy rest,",0.0 +No anxious cares invade thy generous breast;,3.0 +"But every earthly bliss on thee attend,",1.0 +And keep from insult my much honoured friend.,3.0 +"When thou art landed on the distant isle,",1.0 +"Think of our friendship past, and deign to smile:",0.0 +"The laws of sacred virtue still protect,",0.0 +Nor let my friendship meet a cold neglect.,0.0 +"Let not sad absence banish from thy mind,",3.0 +Those faithful vows which once our hearts did bind.,0.0 +"Those generous ties of truth, ah! never resign,",4.0 +For seldom love is more sincere than mine;,0.0 +"Seek not the splendid cares of shining courts,",0.0 +For hidden sorrow with the great resorts.,1.0 +"Sweet mediocrity to thee alone,",3.0 +Superior joys are most distinctly known.,2.0 +"Bestow your choicest gifts you sacred nine,",0.0 +On greater souls ' -- simplicity be mine.,1.0 +"Hail mighty Poet, mighty Painter too,",1.0 +"Since to thy strokes, his equal Lines we owe;",0.0 +"The sister Arts, are now a Mystery",1.0 +"The inspiring Shade, seems life itself refined,",2.0 +And all Heavens goodness copy in her Mind;,0.0 +"So justly each performs his nicer Part,",0.0 +"As speaks their Skill, yet Beauties without Art:",2.0 +This shows the Queen and that describes the Saint.,0.0 +Whether the Pencil or the Pen excel.,3.0 +My Muse no longer will their worth contest:,2.0 +"But must to Tate yield the superior Crown,",4.0 +And in his Praise reverberates his own.,0.0 +"But o! what Trophies of immortal Fame,",2.0 +Are justly raised to sacred Anna's Name.,0.0 +"Britannia knew not she was half so blessed,",2.0 +Declared what else could never have been expressed.,2.0 +"Her Glory shines in thy Pathetic Lays,",1.0 +While she the Crown may you the Laurel wear.,1.0 +"And circling all the horrid mountain round,",0.0 +Rushes impetuous to the deep profound;,3.0 +Rolls over the ragged rocks with hideous yell;,5.0 +Collects its waves beneath the earth's vast shell:,1.0 +"There for a while in loud confusion hurled,",1.0 +It crumbles mountains down and shakes the world.,1.0 +Through the rent earth the bursting waves appear;,2.0 +Break from the cavern and ascend the skies:,1.0 +"Then lost and conquered by superior force,",3.0 +Through hot Arabia holds its rapid course.,2.0 +"Where, when the sun is melting in his heat,",0.0 +The reeking tigers find a cool retreat;,0.0 +"And wanton with their shadows in the stream,",2.0 +Where in the days of old a god appeared:,0.0 +"He spoke; as evening thunders bursting near,",0.0 +His horrid accents broke upon the ear;,0.0 +This day the sun is rising in the east;,0.0 +And sunk away in a faint blaze of light.,2.0 +"Swift from the branches of the holy oak,",1.0 +"Horror, confusion, fear, and torment broke:",3.0 +We view the wide expansion of the deep;,1.0 +"See in the gilding of her watery robe,",3.0 +The quick declension of the circling globe;,3.0 +"From the blue sea a chain of mountains rise,",2.0 +"Beyond our sight in vast extension curled,",0.0 +"The cheque of waves, the guardians of the world.",1.0 +When the soft earth at his appearance fled;,3.0 +And rising billows played around his head:,0.0 +"When a strong tempest rising from the main,",3.0 +"Dashed the full clouds, unbroken on the plain.",4.0 +"Held the red sword of war, and led the strong;",3.0 +"From his own tribe the sable warriors came,",1.0 +"Well tried in battle, and well known in fame.",3.0 +"The warrior dared him, ridiculed his might,",0.0 +"Bent his white bow, and summoned him to fight.",4.0 +And scattered burning arrows in the sky;,0.0 +"Threw down a star the armour of his feet,",1.0 +To burn the air with supernatural heat;,2.0 +Bid a loud tempest roar beneath the ground;,3.0 +"Lifted the sea, and all the earth was drowned.",2.0 +"Lifted him up, and bore him through the sea.",2.0 +"The waters still ascending fierce and high,",0.0 +He towered into the chambers of the sky:,3.0 +"Before his seat the heavenly warrior stands,",2.0 +The lightning quivering in his yellow hands.,1.0 +"The god astonished dropped; hurled from the shore,",2.0 +"He dropped to torments, and to rise no more.",3.0 +"Headlong he falls; it's his own arms compel,",2.0 +"Who led th'em battled archers to the field,",2.0 +And bore a thunderbolt upon his shield:,0.0 +"That shield his glorious father died to gain,",2.0 +When the white warriors fled along the plain:,2.0 +"When the full sails could not provoke the flood,",3.0 +"Slow at the end of his robust array,",1.0 +The mighty warrior pensive took his way:,0.0 +Once the companion of his youthful breast.,3.0 +"Strong were the passions of the son of Nair,",1.0 +"Strong, as the tempest of the evening air.",1.0 +"Never in feats of wickedness outdone,",4.0 +"Dressed beautiful, with all the flowers of spring:",3.0 +He saw and scattered poison in her eyes;,0.0 +"From limb to limb, in varied forms he flies;",0.0 +"Dwelled on her crimson lip, and added grace",0.0 +To every glossy feature of her face.,1.0 +"He saw, he loved, and burning with desire,",1.0 +"Bore the soft maid from brother, sister, sire.",3.0 +Like a fair aloe in its morning pride.,1.0 +"This brought the warrior to the bloody mead,",1.0 +He drew his army forth: O! Need I tell!,0.0 +And Death sat smiling on the heaps of slain.,2.0 +"The battle ended, with his reeking dart,",1.0 +"And to his mourning valiant warriors cried,",1.0 +"I, and my sister's ghost are satisfied.",1.0 +"OLD CHIRON to his pupil thus began,",2.0 +"Accomplished youth! well worthy of my pains,",2.0 +"You now are free, and guide yourself the reins:",0.0 +"Yet hear, Achilles, hear, before we part,",0.0 +A few short precepts from a faithful heart.,1.0 +"Let management a longer life supply,",2.0 +"And learn, at least, to live, before you die.",0.0 +"It's not from length of years our pleasures flow,",0.0 +Nor to the gods alone our bliss we owe.,1.0 +"Our happiness, and pain depend on us:",1.0 +"Man's his own good, or evil genius.",0.0 +"Great ills by art we lighten, or remove,",2.0 +And art our meanest pleasures may improve:,1.0 +"Think not, young prince, your elevated state,",3.0 +"You know yourself to form your happiness,",1.0 +"Which in the shepherd's humble hut is found,",0.0 +While palaces with discord still resound.,2.0 +"Fortune to industry is ever kind,",3.0 +"And, though by the blind vulgar painted blind,",4.0 +"Is still more equal than the crowd suppose,",1.0 +Who judge of happiness by outward shows;,1.0 +"She smiles on all conditions, each may be",0.0 +A man of pleasure in his own degree.,0.0 +"Yet few with art their happiness pursue,",1.0 +"Though all mankind have happiness in view,",2.0 +And every sense seems made by nature's skill,1.0 +For giving pleasure and avoiding ill.,1.0 +"Nature our common mother has been kind,",2.0 +"And for a race of joy her sons designed,",1.0 +"Who long to reach the goal, yet lazy, lag behind,",0.0 +"Or wholly blind, or doubtful how to advance,",3.0 +They leave the work of industry to chance.,1.0 +And of those few who with more active strife,1.0 +"Pursue this great, important end of life,",0.0 +"Some, too impatient, know not how to wait;",1.0 +Or aim at things beyond their human state:,0.0 +"These last through too much delicacy fall,",1.0 +And by refining rob themselves of all.,1.0 +"Shun then, Achilles, shun the faults of such,",1.0 +"Who still propose too little, or too much.",3.0 +"Stretch not your hopes too far, nor yet despair,",1.0 +"Attend to what you do, or life will seem",0.0 +"But a mere vision, or fantastic dream,",3.0 +"Passed in ideas of delight, at best:",2.0 +While real pleasure's lost in doubtful rest.,1.0 +"In short, learn when, and how to bear; in vain",2.0 +"He pleasure seeks, who is afraid of pain;",1.0 +"Pleasure's a serious thing, and cheaply bought",2.0 +"By labour, patience, management, and thought.",1.0 +"But you, aspiring youth, by nature seem",1.0 +Addicted to an opposite extreme;,2.0 +"And, like a generous courser, hardly tamed;",2.0 +"In all things violent: but, OH! disdain,",2.0 +"Brave prince, to let usurping passion reign,",2.0 +In one rash moment sacrificing more,2.0 +Than years of sad repentance may restore.,1.0 +"So wrath, and envy, from an human breast",1.0 +"Drive Halcyon peace, and banish kindly rest.",3.0 +"And no security for joy is found,",1.0 +"Suppress the first emotions of your ire,",1.0 +And smother in its birth the kindling fire.,0.0 +"Ere anger yet possesses all your soul,",1.0 +"Ere yet your bosom heaves, and eyeballs roll,",1.0 +"Think on the useful precepts, I have taught,",2.0 +And meet the rising heat with wholesome thought.,0.0 +"Or seek the sacred Muses with your lyre,",1.0 +Who with sweet peace to lonely shades retire;,3.0 +"Gods, and the sons of gods, the heroes, sing,",0.0 +While hills and valleys with their praises ring;,1.0 +"These learn to imitate, and those adore,",1.0 +"And sweetly to yourself, yourself restore;",1.0 +"Music, and verse, and solitude control",2.0 +"Impetuous fury, and compose the soul.",1.0 +"For this, I early taught you how to sing,",2.0 +And formed your fingers to the trembling string;,1.0 +For it's not all sweet pleasure's path to show:,1.0 +The art of consolation man should know:,0.0 +"Our joys are short, and broken; and in vain",1.0 +To constant bliss would human race attain:,0.0 +Be oft contented to be free from pain.,1.0 +"There is a deity ordained by fate,",2.0 +"That none on earth from sorrow should be free,",0.0 +But even our blessings taste of misery.,3.0 +"If fortune gives, what rarely we obtain,",1.0 +"An equal share of pleasure, and of pain,",1.0 +But fond ideas of the wanton mind;,1.0 +And now creates imaginary woes.,0.0 +"When sad, your ills examine and compare,",1.0 +"Of mighty heroes, and of mighty states:",1.0 +Thus real evils in their proper light,1.0 +"Appear, the false thus vanish out of sight.",2.0 +"Nor aim at pleasures difficult to gain,",1.0 +Choose rather what you may with ease obtain.,2.0 +"Who scorns to trifle, is by pride abused:",1.0 +I pity him who never can be amused;,3.0 +"But slighting pleasures moderate and small,",0.0 +"Must live in rapture, or not live at all,",1.0 +Great pleasures still are near allied to pain:,1.0 +"Who quits the peaceful shore, and ploughs the main,",0.0 +"Let not such fond ambition to be blessed,",1.0 +The humbler pleasures in your power molest;,2.0 +Taste hope; but be not fed with that alone.,1.0 +"Some their whole lives in expectation spend,",3.0 +"As life were not begun, or never would end;",1.0 +"Fondly from day to day themselves deceive,",2.0 +"Not living, but intending still to live;",1.0 +"While they neglect the joys they might possess,",1.0 +For empty dreams of future happiness.,1.0 +"Let nature in your pleasures be your guide,",1.0 +Nor suffer art her genuine charms to hide:,2.0 +The truth of beauty is simplicity.,2.0 +"Live not by imitation, servile state!",0.0 +Nor on the fashion for your pleasures wait.,2.0 +"Man, otherwise so selfish, or so proud,",2.0 +"Submits his taste to the fantastic crowd,",2.0 +And lives not for himself; do you pursue,2.0 +"Your own desires, and to yourself be true.",1.0 +"As bees extract their sweets from every flower,",0.0 +"So you your joys from all things in your power,",1.0 +With industry and management produce;,2.0 +The meanest trifles are sometime of use.,2.0 +"Yet know well what you do, and when it's done,",1.0 +Nor at all hours to every pleasure run;,0.0 +"But mix with art your pleasures, and your toils;",1.0 +"For pleasures have their seasons, and their soils.",1.0 +Thus when the earliest dawn of eastern light,2.0 +"Proclaims the finished empire of the night,",1.0 +"Haste to the field, Achilles, nor disdain",1.0 +"To chase the foaming monster over the plain,",2.0 +"Or let your car and arms your nerves prepare,",0.0 +"Then, whether arts or glory fire your mind,",0.0 +"Will thoughts more generous rise, or more refined;",2.0 +Aurora to the Muses still is kind.,1.0 +A shorter slumber in the cooling shade;,0.0 +"Or sports, or past delights, or future joys.",0.0 +"When Phoebus' fainting steeds forsake the skies,",0.0 +"While wine, and Thais with her voice and lyre,",0.0 +"Banish old sorrows, and new joys inspire.",5.0 +"Thus when from toils of empire you are free,",1.0 +"Nor camp, nor council claim your liberty,",1.0 +The morn to labour and the Muses give;,1.0 +At noon with temperance and quiet live;,1.0 +Ceres' and Bacchus' gifts at evening prove;,1.0 +"Nor fear the evil, till the evil day.",1.0 +Far off from home the Greeks your death deplore?,0.0 +"No matter where, or when; it once must be,",1.0 +And nothing can revoke the firm decree.,1.0 +"Eternal monarch of the realms above,",1.0 +Or for an hour defer you destined fall.,1.0 +Mean while a looser rein to pleasure give:,0.0 +"Time flies in haste, be you in haste to live:",2.0 +"Seize on the precious minutes, as they fleet;",1.0 +"Your life, however short, will be complete,",1.0 +"If at the fatal moment you can say,",1.0 +"One precept more I fain would recommend,",1.0 +"Learn, generous prince, what's little understood,",3.0 +"How glorious to defend, and to bestow!",4.0 +From nobler springs can human pleasure flow?,0.0 +"A solid good which nothing can destroy,",1.0 +The best prerogative the great enjoy.,1.0 +"For this, remember, monarchs first were made,",2.0 +"For this, young prince, be loved, and be obeyed,",2.0 +"At once your self, and mighty nations bless,",0.0 +And make humanity your happiness.,2.0 +"But now Aurora ushers in the day,",0.0 +"Go then, brave youth, wherever the Fates may call;",5.0 +"Live with design, and fearless wait thy fall,",2.0 +"Whatever space of life the gods decree,",1.0 +Thy name is still immortal; for I see,1.0 +"SINCE we can die but once, what matters it,",1.0 +"If rope or garter, poison, pistol, sword,",0.0 +"Of valve arterial in the noble parts,",1.0 +Curtail the miseries of human life?,1.0 +"Though varied is the Cause, the Effect's the same;",3.0 +All to one common Dissolution tends.,0.0 +"ACCEPT, dear Parent! from a filial pen,",4.0 +The humble offering of my pensive Muse:,1.0 +"She painted on my mind a Daughter's woes,",1.0 +Nor could my heart the tender theme refuse.,0.0 +"The rightful Patron of eventful tale,",1.0 +To you I dedicate the scenes she drew;,1.0 +And coloured her from what I feel for you.,1.0 +The tale to you ' -- to you the bays belong;,1.0 +You gave my youthful fancy wings to soar;,0.0 +Its music in your ear will sweetly sound;,0.0 +With half your pleasure may the world peruse!,1.0 +"My muse, my vanity can ask no more.",2.0 +"Dear other Parent! guiltless hold my heart,",1.0 +Though unadorned my numbers with your name;,1.0 +"Your worth, your goodness, in its centre lives,",0.0 +And there shall perish only with my frame.,2.0 +"So soon to take, what had so late been given;",0.0 +"And thus our Expectations to destroy,",1.0 +"Raising a Grief, where we had formed a Joy;",2.0 +"Who once believed, it was the Fates Design",1.0 +"In Him to double an Illustrious Line,",3.0 +And in a second Channel spread that Race,0.0 +"Where every Virtue shines, with every Grace.",0.0 +"The Seats above required him, that each Sphere",0.0 +Might soon the Offspring of such Parents share,2.0 +"Resign him then to the supreme Intent,",1.0 +"You, who but Flesh to that blessed Spirit lent.",1.0 +"And only bear from you, amid that Choir,",1.0 +"What, Precept or Example did inspire,",3.0 +"A Title to Rewards, from that rich store",2.0 +"Of Pious Works, which you have sent before.",1.0 +"Then lay the fading Relics, which remain,",0.0 +In the still Vault excluding farther Pain;,3.0 +"Where Kings and Counsellors their Progress close,",2.0 +Leaving the World his Benefits and Fame;,3.0 +"Where his Paternal Predecessor lies,",1.0 +"Once large of Thought, and ranked among the Wise;",1.0 +"By WEYMOUTH, it should be in time possessed,",1.0 +And strove to suit the Mansion to the Guest.,1.0 +"Nor SOMERSET his Master's Sorrows weeps,",0.0 +"Conveyed the Monarch, whom he could not save;",0.0 +He proffered in that injured Martyr's stead.,0.0 +"Who their Whole Duty taught to weaker Men,",2.0 +"And of each Sex the Two best Gifts enjoyed,",2.0 +"The Skill to write, the Modesty to hide;",1.0 +"While none should that Performance disbelieve,",1.0 +"Who led the Life, might the Directions give.",1.0 +"With such as These, whence He derived his Blood,",2.0 +"Great on Record, or eminently Good,",3.0 +"Let Him be laid, till Death's long Night shall cease,",1.0 +And breaking Glory interrupt the Peace.,0.0 +"Meanwhile, you living Parents, ease your Grief",1.0 +"By Tears, allowed as Nature's due Relief.",0.0 +"For when we offer to the Powers above,",3.0 +"Like You, the dearest Objects of our Love;",1.0 +"When, with that patient Saint in Holy Writ,",0.0 +"When contrite Sighs, like hallowed Incense, rise",4.0 +Bearing our Anguish to the appeased Skies;,6.0 +"Then may those Showers, which take from Sorrow birth,",2.0 +"And still are tending towered this baleful Earth,",2.0 +"For as the Wound, the Balsam too is Yours.",1.0 +"In vain are Numbers, or persuasive Speech,",1.0 +"What Poets write, or what the Pastors teach,",0.0 +"Till You, who make, again repair the Breach.",1.0 +"For when to Shades of Death our Joys are fled,",0.0 +"When for a Loss, like This, our Tears are shed",1.0 +"None can revive the Heart, but who can raise the Dead.",2.0 +Inherent to the Solitary Tomb;,1.0 +To rescue thence the Memory and Air,1.0 +"Of what we lately saw so Fresh, so Fair;",0.0 +Then should this Noble Youth thy Art engage,0.0 +"To show the Beauties of his blooming Age,",1.0 +"The pleasing Light, that from his Eyes was cast,",1.0 +"Like hasty Beams, too Vigorous to last;",2.0 +"Where the warm Soul, as one the Confines, lay",3.0 +"Ready for Flight, and for Eternal Day.",3.0 +"Gently disposed his Nature should be shown,",2.0 +And all the Mother's Sweetness made his Own.,0.0 +"The Father's Likeness was but faintly seen,",1.0 +As ripened Fruits are figured by the Green.,1.0 +"Nor could we hope, had he fulfilled his Days,",1.0 +"Still One distinguished Plant each Lineage shows,",4.0 +And all the rest beneath it's Stature grows.,0.0 +And none like Julius from the Caesars sprung.,1.0 +"Next, in his harmless Sports he should be drawn",0.0 +"Urging his Courser, over the flowery Lawn;",6.0 +"Sprightly Himself, as the enlivened Game,",3.0 +"Bold in the Chase, and full of generous Flame;",2.0 +"Yet in the Palace, Tractable and Mild,",1.0 +Perfect in all the Duties of a Child;,1.0 +"Which fond Reflection pleases, while it pains,",0.0 +Like penetrating Notes of sad Harmonious Strains.,2.0 +"Selected Friendships timely he began,",1.0 +And seized in Youth that best Delight of Man.,0.0 +"Leaving a growing Race to mourn his End,",2.0 +Their earliest and their Ages promised Friend.,1.0 +"But far away alas! that Prospect moves,",0.0 +"Lost in the Clouds, like distant Hills and Groves,",0.0 +While with increasing Steps we all pursue,1.0 +"What Time alone can bring to nearer View,",0.0 +"That Future State, which Darkness yet involves,",0.0 +"Known but by Death, which every Doubt resolves.",0.0 +Till urged by potent Herbs you left the Plain;,0.0 +"That you were bred on Earth, you fully prove,",0.0 +And thence you know to feign deceitful Love.,0.0 +"How strange you looked, how awkwardly you swam.",1.0 +I taught you how to plough the liquid way;,1.0 +"I showed you all the Secrets of the Deep,",1.0 +"I showed you Islands yet unknown to Men,",0.0 +"Oft have I wound in Plaits the yielding Reed,",0.0 +"Oft have I choicest Fish with Labour caught,",0.0 +And the sweet Prey to you a Present brought.,2.0 +While I regardless past with sullen Pride;,1.0 +"And fondly ask, if I would bath with him.",1.0 +"Though flat her Nose, and thin her falling Hair;",0.0 +"The Nymph, whom most despise, and none admire,",0.0 +"Since then I am too credulous betrayed,",5.0 +I'll live no more a wretched worthless Maid;,1.0 +"Since you are false, I'll leave the hated Sea,",0.0 +And yield my self to Fishermen a Prey.,1.0 +"I shall on Shore be as a Monster shown,",1.0 +"And trumpeted for Pence through every Town,",1.0 +The wanton Nymph indeed has often strove,0.0 +"To bribe my Service, and engage my Love,",1.0 +"With Gifts of shining Pearls, and thought to please",0.0 +But still I sought the trifling Maid to shun;,0.0 +Your Love preserves what first your Beauty won,0.0 +"Nor shall I ever that happy Time forget,",2.0 +"And how you taught me artfully to swim,",2.0 +"You taught to hunt the Shark, and boldly stride",0.0 +"Believe not, Fair, that I can prove untrue,",1.0 +"No, first the Waves shall lose their biting Salts,",1.0 +"The Winds shall cease to sound in hollow Vaults,",0.0 +"And wanton Fish shall leave their native Seas,",0.0 +"Let us review those Scenes of former Love,",3.0 +"The Ocean has its Groves, and gloomy Shades,",0.0 +"And crystal Springs below, and cooling Glades.",0.0 +"Fond you once thought that nothing here could please,",3.0 +"But we have fairer Meads, and taller Trees",1.0 +Whose fading Beauties are too quickly lost.,2.0 +The Glories of their Spring are soon defaced,1.0 +"But see, the Birds in noisy Troops are joined,",0.0 +I hear the distant Murmurs of the Wind.,1.0 +And will ever long in sudden Spouts descend.,0.0 +"The angry Waves begin their uncouth Noise,",1.0 +And teeming Clouds bring down the falling Skies.,2.0 +His numerous Herds; where neither Storms nor Rain,2.0 +"Where unmixed Waters are as Crystal clear,",5.0 +"And lets us see enough, but ' -- not be seen,",0.0 +The spangled Glories of the Plain reveals,1.0 +"Down to the Centre of the World, and ' -- Love.",2.0 +"WHen Poets gave their God in Crete a Birth,",0.0 +"Then Jupiter held Traffic with the Earth,",3.0 +"And had a Farm to Let: the Fine was high,",0.0 +"For much the Treasury wanted a Supply,",3.0 +"But Mercury, who as Steward kept the Court,",1.0 +"So racked the Rent, that all who made Resort",0.0 +"Unsatisfied returned, nor could agree",0.0 +"To use the Lands, or pay his secret Fee;",0.0 +Through various Projects rolling in his Breast,2.0 +"Consents to take it, if at his Desire",2.0 +All Weathers towards his Harvest may conspire;,1.0 +"The Frost to kill the Worm, the brooding Snow,",0.0 +"The filling Rains may come, and Phoebus glow.",0.0 +"The Terms accepted, signed and sealed the Lease,",0.0 +His Neighbours Grounds afford their due Increase,2.0 +The Care of Heaven; the Owner's Cares may cease.,0.0 +"While the new Tenant, anxious in his Mind,",2.0 +"Now asks a Shower, now craves a rustling Wind",4.0 +"To raise what That had lodged, that he the Sheaves may bind.",1.0 +"So often and so oddly shifts the Scene,",1.0 +"While others Load, he scarce has what to Glean.",0.0 +"OH Jupiter! with Famine pinched he cries,",2.0 +"No more my Substance on a Project lay,",1.0 +"No more a sullen Doubt I will betray,",1.0 +"Let me but live to Reap, do Thou appoint the way.",1.0 +"DEIGN, heavenly Muses, to assist my Song:",4.0 +To heavenly Muses heavenly Themes belong.,4.0 +"But chiefly Thou, OH GOD, my Soul inspire,",2.0 +And touch my Lips with thy celestial Fire:,1.0 +Or Jordan's Stream; from thence I crave thy Aid:,0.0 +"Instruct my Tongue, and my low Accents raise,",2.0 +"To sing thy Wonders, and display thy Praise:",1.0 +"Thy Praise let all the Sons of Judah hear,",1.0 +And to my Song the distant Tribes repair.,1.0 +"The distant Tribes around her listening came,",0.0 +"Moved by some heavenly Power, began the Song.",4.0 +"ATTEND, you Seed of ABRAM, and give Ear,",3.0 +"How Life from Death, and Joy from Sadness spring,",0.0 +"If He assist the Muse, the Muse shall sing.",1.0 +"His Blessings with no sparing Hand had given,",2.0 +"Like faithful Stewards of our wealthy Store,",1.0 +"Still lodged the Stranger, and relieved the Poor.",2.0 +"And as ELISHA, by divine Command,",3.0 +Came preaching Virtue to a sinful Land;,2.0 +"He often deigned to lodge within our Gate,",0.0 +And oft received an hospitable Treat:,5.0 +A decent Chamber for him we prepared;,2.0 +"And he, the generous Labour to reward,",4.0 +"Which I refused, and thus my Mind disclosed:",1.0 +Where he showers down his Gifts with copious Hand:,3.0 +Already we enjoy an affluent Store;,3.0 +Why should we be solicitous for more?,1.0 +"Give Martial Camps, and Kingly Courts to them,",1.0 +Who place their only Bliss in fleeting Fame:,0.0 +There let them live in golden Chains of State;,0.0 +"And be unhappy, only to be great.",1.0 +"But let us in our native Soil remain,",0.0 +Nor barter Happiness for sordid Gain.,1.0 +"Here may we feed the Indigent in Peace,",1.0 +"Or cloth the Bare with the superfluous Fleece,",3.0 +And give the weary fainting Pilgrim Ease.,0.0 +"This we prefer to Pomp, and formal Show,",1.0 +Which only serve to varnish over our Woe;,2.0 +Objects of Wonder to the gazing Crowd;,1.0 +"Yet seldom give Content, or solid Rest,",0.0 +"To the vain Man, by whom they are possessed.",3.0 +"ALL Blessings, but a Child, had Heaven supplied;",1.0 +"Which when the holy prescient Sage had heard,",2.0 +"He said, and I before him strait appeared:",1.0 +"And, as my Feet approached his awful Room,",1.0 +"Not such a Wildness, and fanatic Mien,",1.0 +"With which, some say, the Delphic Priests are seen;",0.0 +"When they, for Mysteries of Fate, explain",1.0 +"But with a grave majestic Air he stood,",1.0 +While more than human in his Aspect glowed;,1.0 +"Celestial Grace sat on his radiant Look,",2.0 +"Then thus: Hail, generous Soul! Thy pious Cares",3.0 +"Are not forgot, nor fruitless are thy Prayers:",1.0 +"Propitious Heaven, thy virtuous Deeds to crown,",2.0 +Shall make thy barren Womb conceive a Son.,0.0 +"So spoke the Seer; and, to complete my Joy,",1.0 +"As he had spoke, I bore the promised Boy.",1.0 +"SOON to my Friends the welcome News was known,",0.0 +"Who crowded in apace to see my Son,",0.0 +"Hailing, with kind Salutes, the recent Child;",2.0 +"And, with their pious Hymns, my Pain beguiled.",1.0 +"When all had said, I moved my joyful Tongue;",0.0 +And thus to Heaven addressed my grateful Song:,0.0 +"OH GOD, what Eloquence can sing thy Praise?",2.0 +Or who can fathom thy stupendous Ways?,1.0 +All Things obey at thy divine Command;,1.0 +"And bring forth copious Crops, if bid by Thee;",3.0 +"Arabian Deserts shall with Plenty smile,",1.0 +And curling Vines adorn the sterile Soil.,0.0 +"As thus she spoke, her Audience raise their Voice;",2.0 +"And interrupt her Song, as they rejoice:",1.0 +"OH GOD, we gladly hear thy mighty Power,",1.0 +With joyful Heart thy gracious Name adore:,0.0 +All Nature is subservient to thy Word;,2.0 +"We, for thy Servant's Joy, our Thanks express;",1.0 +"As grows the Child, so may her Bliss increase:",1.0 +"And may the Guardian Angels, who preside",3.0 +"Over the Blessed, his future Actions guide;",2.0 +"Make spotless Virtue crown his vital Date,",1.0 +Then safely bear ' -- The Dame here waved her Hand;,0.0 +The People straight obey her mute Command:,0.0 +"All silent stand, and all attentive look,",0.0 +"Waiting her Words, while thus she, mournful, spoke:",2.0 +ALL Pleasures are imperfect here below;,1.0 +Our sweetest Joys are mixed with bitter Woe:,0.0 +"The Draught of Bliss, when in our Goblet cast,",0.0 +"Is dashed with Grief; or spilt, before we taste.",0.0 +"Ere twice four Years were measured by my Son,",2.0 +"So soon, alas! the greatest Blessing's gone",0.0 +"To view the bearded Sheaves, erect in Rows,",0.0 +Like an embattled Army in the Field;,1.0 +A new delightful Prospect to the Child!,1.0 +But either there the scorching Sun displayed,1.0 +"Or else some sudden apoplectic Pain,",0.0 +"With racking Torture, seized his tender Brain;",0.0 +"His Spirits failed, he straight began to faint,",0.0 +And to his Father vainly made Complaint:,1.0 +The glowing Rose was quickly seen to fade;,0.0 +"At once his Beauty, and his Life, decayed.",1.0 +"SOON, at my House, the dismal News I heard;",0.0 +"Soon, at my House, the dying Child appeared:",0.0 +"Embrace him I, with fond Affection, run;",1.0 +"And, OH! said I, what Pain afflicts my Son?",2.0 +"He tried to speak; but, faltering, gave a Groan;",2.0 +No perfect Word proceeded from his Tongue;,3.0 +But on his Lips the broken Accents hung.,1.0 +"All Means I used, that might allay his Pain;",0.0 +"All Means I used, but used them all in vain.",0.0 +"Yet, while he lived, my Soul would not despair;",0.0 +"Nor, till he ceased to breathe, I ceased my Prayer:",1.0 +Deluding Hope now stopped the falling Tears;,1.0 +Now his increasing Pains increased my Fears:,2.0 +"By Hope and Fear alternate was I tossed,",3.0 +"Till Hope, in a sad Certainty, was lost:",3.0 +"Short, and more short, he drew his panting Breath,",0.0 +Too sure Presage of his approaching Death!,4.0 +He dropped his Head with a declining Bow:,1.0 +"Thrice, from my Breast, to raise himself he tried,",0.0 +"And thrice sunk down again; then, groaning, died.",2.0 +And taught the docile Branches where to twine;,0.0 +"An Eastern Gale, or some pernicious Frost,",0.0 +"WITH Horror chilled, awhile I speechless stood,",0.0 +"Viewing the Child, and trembling as I viewed:",3.0 +"My Eyes discharged their humid Store apace,",0.0 +Scarcely my Heart the Load of Grief sustained;,2.0 +"At length, recovering Speech, I thus complained:",2.0 +Which only for a Moment please the Mind;,1.0 +"Then fly, and leave a Weight of Woes behind!",0.0 +But yet in vain I thus lament and mourn;,0.0 +"The Soul, once fled, shall never more return;",1.0 +And the fair Body now must be conveyed,2.0 +"To Earth's dark Bosom, and eternal Shade ' --",2.0 +Yet let me not prescribe a Bound to Heaven;,0.0 +'Twas by a Miracle the Child was given;,1.0 +"Nor can I think the Wonder is more great,",2.0 +Should the departed Soul resume her Seat.,1.0 +"What if I to Mount Carmel haste away,",4.0 +To him who did his mystic Birth display?,0.0 +His powerful Word the barren fruitful made;,2.0 +"His powerful Word, perhaps, may raise the Dead.",2.0 +ELISHA has as wondrous Actions done.,1.0 +When he to Jordan's rapid Torrent came;,0.0 +"Obsequious to the Stroke, the Waves divide;",1.0 +And raise a liquid Wall on either Side!,0.0 +At Jericho long had the barren Soil,1.0 +"Yet, at his Word, it grew a fertile Field,",0.0 +And poisonous Springs did wholesome Waters yield.,1.0 +Nor can he only such great Blessings send;,3.0 +"But Curses, if invoked, his Call attend:",1.0 +"Else how at Bethel brought he Vengeance down,",1.0 +"Again, when Moab Peace with Israel broke,",0.0 +And vainly strove to quit the servile Yoke;,0.0 +Our powerful Kings led forth embattled Host,3.0 +"Where the confederate Troops no Water found,",4.0 +"Dry were the Springs, and sterile was the Ground;",1.0 +When Thirst and Foes at once their Host assailed:,0.0 +"The Kings to him their joint Petitions made,",1.0 +And fainting Soldiers craved his timely Aid;,0.0 +"Nor craved in vain: The powerful Word he spoke,",2.0 +And flowing Waters formed a spacious Lake;,0.0 +"The shining Streams advanced their humid Train,",0.0 +Not in more Plenty did the Waters run,0.0 +"And who can that amazing Deed forget,",0.0 +Which he performed to pay the Widow's Debt?,1.0 +Whose Quantity of Oil one Pot contained;,1.0 +"Sure he, who such stupendous Acts has done,",1.0 +"If GOD propitious prove, can raise my Son.",0.0 +"So saying, up I caught the Child with Speed;",1.0 +And laid him on the sacred Prophet's Bed;,1.0 +Then called my Servant to prepare the Steed.,1.0 +"Pensive and sad, my mourning Husband said,",2.0 +No God Today the Prophet does inspire;,1.0 +"RATHER than sink, said I, attempt to raise",4.0 +"My Hopes, nor talk of Ceremonial Days;",2.0 +"His God is present still, and hears him when he prays.",0.0 +"Thus said, urging my Steed with eager Haste,",3.0 +"Swift as a Mountain Roe, the Plains I passed;",0.0 +Over Hills and Dales my Journey I pursued;,1.0 +"On whose delightful Brow, in cool Retreat,",0.0 +"Among the curling Vines, the Prophet sat;",0.0 +Whose twining Arms a verdant Arbour made;,0.0 +The verdant Arbour formed a grateful Shade;,0.0 +"The fanning Zephyrs gently played around,",0.0 +"And shook the trembling Leaves, and swept the Ground;",0.0 +"Down humbly at his Feet I prostrate fell,",0.0 +"STRIVE to compose thy anxious Soul, said he;",4.0 +"We live and die, and both, as He thinks fit,",1.0 +Who may command; but Mortals must submit.,1.0 +"This Fate the King, as well as Peasant, finds;",0.0 +"Nor is it evil, but to evil Minds ' --",2.0 +"Yet if from Heaven I can my Suit obtain,",1.0 +Thy lifeless Son shall yet revive again.,0.0 +"THUS said, with Looks divine, his Staff he views,",1.0 +As if some powerful Charm he would infuse:,3.0 +"Then calls his Servant hastily, and said,",1.0 +On the Child's Face let this be quickly laid.,1.0 +"OH Thou, said I, on whom my Hopes depend,",0.0 +Do not this Work to Servants Care commend:,0.0 +"If Thou thyself with me refuse to go,",2.0 +"Here, to the listening Vines, I'll vent my Woe;",0.0 +"Still prostrate lie, lamenting for my Son,",2.0 +Till every Hill prove vocal to my Moan.,2.0 +"More had I said, but Grief the Words suppressed;",0.0 +"Yet Sighs, and silent Tears, explained the rest.",0.0 +"At length he from his verdant Seat arose,",1.0 +The City soon appears within our View;,0.0 +"And the obedient Servant, at the Gate,",3.0 +"Returning sad, without Success, we met:",0.0 +"Till to the House the sacred Seer was come,",1.0 +"BY the dead Child, awhile, he pensive stood;",2.0 +Then from the Chamber put the mourning Crowd:,0.0 +"That done, to GOD he made his ardent Prayer,",0.0 +And breathed upon the Child with vital Air:,0.0 +And now the Soul resumes her pristine Seat;,0.0 +And now the Heart again begins to beat;,0.0 +"Life's purple Current over the Body spreads,",3.0 +"THUS, when a prowling Wolf has stolen a Lamb,",2.0 +"But if the Keeper comes, he quits his Prey,",1.0 +"And lowering, with Reluctance, makes away.",3.0 +"AND now the Prophet, to my longing Arms,",1.0 +"The blushing Rose shone fresher in his Face,",1.0 +And Beauty smiled with a superior Grace.,3.0 +"SO, when Heaven's Lamp, that rules the genial Day,",0.0 +Behind the sable Moon pursues his Way;,0.0 +Believe him more illustrious than before.,2.0 +"HERE ends the Dame; and the promiscuous Throng,",2.0 +"Holy and good art Thou, Lord God of Host,",3.0 +And all thy Works are wonderful and just:,1.0 +Both Life and Death are in thy powerful Hand;,3.0 +Both Life and Death obey thy great Command:,1.0 +By thy great Power the Heavens and Earth are awed;,6.0 +Then let the Heavens and Earth adore their GOD.,2.0 +"Rising and setting, still advance his Praise:",2.0 +"Round this terrestrial Globe, his Praise advance:",3.0 +"You Seas, for ever waving to and fro,",1.0 +"Praise, when you ebb, and praise him, when you flow:",0.0 +"As you pursue your Course, his Praise proclaim:",1.0 +"Praise, when you rise; and praise him, when you fall:",0.0 +"But chiefly Israel, who dost daily view",0.0 +"His powerful Works, his daily Praise renew.",2.0 +"Which looks on me, on all: that Power who bids",2.0 +"This midnight sentinel, with clarion shrill,",4.0 +"Emblem of that which shall awake the dead,",1.0 +"Rouse souls from slumber, into thoughts of heaven.",1.0 +Shall I too weep? Where then is fortitude?,1.0 +"And, fortitude abandoned, where is man?",0.0 +I know the terms on which he sees the light:,0.0 +"He that is born is listed; life is war,",0.0 +"Eternal war with woe. Who bears it best,",0.0 +Deserves it least. ' -- On other themes I'll dwell.,0.0 +"Lorenzo! let me turn my thoughts on thee,",0.0 +And thine on themes may profit; profit there,2.0 +"Where most thy need: themes, too, the genuine growth",3.0 +"May still befriend. ' -- What themes? Time's wondrous price,",1.0 +So could I touch these themes as might obtain,0.0 +"Thine ear, nor leave thy heart quite disengaged,",2.0 +On my dark cloud an Iris; and from grief,3.0 +' -- He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.,1.0 +"Where is that thrift, that avarice of TIME,",1.0 +"OH glorious avarice! thought of death inspires,",5.0 +OH Time! than gold more sacred; more a load,1.0 +Than lead to fools; and fools reputed wise.,0.0 +What moment granted man without account?,0.0 +Our wealth in days all due to that discharge.,0.0 +"Insidious Death! should his strong hand arrest,",4.0 +No composition sets the prisoner free.,1.0 +How late I shuddered on the brink! how late,1.0 +Life called for her last refuge in despair!,5.0 +"That time is mine, OH Mead, to thee I owe;",2.0 +Fain would I pay thee with eternity.,2.0 +But ill my genius answers my desire;,1.0 +"My sickly song is mortal, past thy cure.",0.0 +Accept the will; ' -- it dies not with my strain.,2.0 +"For what calls thy disease, Lorenzo? Not",2.0 +"Youth is not rich in time, it may be poor;",1.0 +"Part with it as with money, sparing; pay",1.0 +No moment but in purchase of its worth;,3.0 +"Part with it as with life, reluctant; big",1.0 +"Of men and angels, virtue more divine.",0.0 +"Is this our duty, wisdom, glory, gain?",1.0 +These Heaven benign in vital union binds:,0.0 +"And sport we like the natives of the bough,",1.0 +When vernal suns inspire? Amusement reigns,0.0 +Man's great demand: to trifle is to live:,2.0 +"And is it then a trifle, too, to die?",1.0 +"What, if, for once, I preach thee quite awake?",0.0 +Who wants amusement in the flame of battle?,0.0 +"Is it not treason to the soul immortal,",2.0 +Will toys amuse when medicines cannot cure?,2.0 +"When spirits ebb, when life's enchanting scenes",0.0 +"Their lustre lose, and lessen in our sight,",0.0 +"As lands and cities with their glittering spires,",3.0 +"To the poor shattered bark, by sudden storm",2.0 +"' -- Thrown off to sea, and soon to perish there,",1.0 +And earth and skies seem dust upon the scale.,1.0 +Redeem we time? ' -- Its loss we dearly buy.,0.0 +He pleads time's numerous blanks; he loudly pleads,3.0 +From whom those blanks and trifles but from thee?,1.0 +"No blank, no trifle, Nature made, or meant.",2.0 +This cancels thy complaint at once; this leaves,1.0 +"In act no trifle, and no blank in time.",3.0 +This the blessed art of turning all to gold;,0.0 +This the good heart's prerogative to raise,2.0 +A royal tribute from the poorest hours;,1.0 +Immense revenue! every moment pays.,9.0 +"If nothing more than purpose in thy power,",0.0 +Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed:,1.0 +"Who does the best his circumstance allows,",0.0 +"Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more.",2.0 +"Our outward act, indeed, admits restraint;",0.0 +IT is not in things over thought to domineer.,3.0 +Guard well thy thought; our thoughts are heard in heaven.,1.0 +"Though much, and warm, the wise have urged, the man",0.0 +Is yet unborn who duly weighs an hour.,1.0 +Had been an emperor without his crown;,1.0 +"Of Rome? say, rather, lord of human race:",1.0 +So should all speak: so Reason speaks in all.,0.0 +"From the soft whispers of that god in man,",3.0 +"Why fly to Folly, why to Frenzy fly,",0.0 +For rescue from the blessing we possess?,2.0 +"Time, the supreme! ' -- time is eternity;",5.0 +Pregnant with all eternity can give;,3.0 +Pregnant with all that makes archangels smile.,2.0 +"Who murders time, he crushes in the birth",0.0 +"A power ethereal, only not adored.",4.0 +Ah! how unjust to Nature and himself,2.0 +"Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!",0.0 +"Like children babbling nonsense in their sports,",0.0 +We censure Nature for a span too short;,2.0 +That span too short we tax as tedious too;,3.0 +"To lash the lingering moments into speed,",0.0 +And whirl us happy riddance! from ourselves.,1.0 +Drives headlong towards the precipice of death;,2.0 +"Death, most our dread; death thus more dreadful made.",1.0 +OH what a riddle of absurdity!,2.0 +How heavily we drag the load of life!,1.0 +"Blessed leisure is our curse; like that of Cain,",2.0 +It makes us wander; wander earth around,0.0 +"To fly that tyrant, Thought. As Atlas groaned",0.0 +"The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour.",0.0 +We cry for mercy to the next amusement;,1.0 +The next amusement mortgages our fields;,1.0 +"Slight inconvenience! Prisons hardly frown,",1.0 +From hateful time if prisons set us free.,0.0 +"Yet when Death kindly tenders us relief,",2.0 +"We call him cruel: years to moments shrink,",0.0 +Ages to years. The telescope is turned.,1.0 +To man's false optics from his folly false,2.0 +"Time, in advance, behind him hides his wings,",1.0 +"And seems to creep, decrepit with his age.",1.0 +"Behold him, when passed by; what then is seen",0.0 +"And all mankind, in contradiction strong,",1.0 +"Rueful, aghast, cry out on his career.",5.0 +"Leave to thy foes these errors, and these ills;",1.0 +"To Nature just, their cause and cure explore.",0.0 +"Not short Heaven's bounty, boundless our expense;",2.0 +"We waste, not use, our time; we breathe, not live.",0.0 +"Time wasted is existence, used is life.",2.0 +"And bare existence man, to live ordained,",0.0 +"And why? Since time was given for use, not waste,",2.0 +"Enjoined to fly, with tempest, tide, and stars,",0.0 +"To keep his speed, nor ever wait for man;",0.0 +"Time's use was doomed a pleasure; waste, a pain;",1.0 +"That man might feel his error, if unseen;",1.0 +"And, feeling, fly to labour for his cure;",1.0 +"Not, blundering, split on idleness for ease.",3.0 +Life's cares are comforts; such by Heaven designed;,2.0 +"He that has none, must make them, or be wretched.",1.0 +Cares are employments; and without employ,3.0 +"The soul is on a rack; the rack of rest,",1.0 +To souls most adverse; action all their joy.,1.0 +"Here, then, the riddle, marked above, unfolds:",0.0 +"Then time turns torment, when man turns a fool.",4.0 +"We rave, we wrestle with great Nature's plan;",2.0 +"We thwart the Deity; and iT is decreed,",2.0 +Who thwart His will shall contradict their own.,1.0 +Hence our unnatural quarrel with ourselves;,5.0 +"We push Time from us, and we wish him back;",3.0 +Life we think long and short; Death seek and shun;,4.0 +"Body and soul, like peevish man and wife,",2.0 +"United jar, and yet are loath to part.",0.0 +OH the dark days of vanity! while here,4.0 +"How tasteless, and how terrible when gone!",2.0 +"Gone! they never go; when past, they haunt us still;",0.0 +"The spirit walks of every day deceased,",0.0 +"And smiles an angel, or a fury frowns.",1.0 +"Nor death nor life delight us. If time past,",1.0 +"And time possessed, both pain us, what can please?",1.0 +"That which the Deity to please ordained, ' --",1.0 +"By vigorous effort, and an honest aim,",3.0 +At once he draws the sting of life and death;,0.0 +"He walks with Nature, and her paths are peace.",1.0 +Our error's cause and cure are seen: see next,3.0 +"Time's nature, origin, importance, speed;",2.0 +And thy great gain from urging his career. ' --,3.0 +He looks on time as nothing. Nothing else,0.0 +Is truly man's: iT is Fortune's. ' -- Time's a god.,0.0 +Hast thou never heard of Time's omnipotence?,1.0 +"For, or against, what wonders can he do!",2.0 +And will: to stand blank neuter he disdains.,3.0 +Not on those terms was Time Heaven's stranger! sent,3.0 +On his important embassy to man.,2.0 +"From everlasting ages growing ripe,",0.0 +"That memorable hour of wondrous birth,",1.0 +"When the dread Sire, on emanation bent,",4.0 +"And big with Nature, rising in his might,",0.0 +"Called forth Creation, for then Time was born,",2.0 +By Godhead streaming through a thousand worlds:,2.0 +"Not on those terms, from the great days of heaven,",3.0 +"Was Time cut off, and cast beneath the skies;",2.0 +"The Skies, which watch him in his new abode,",0.0 +Measuring his motions by revolving spheres;,2.0 +"Hours, Days, and Months, and Years, his children, play",0.0 +"Like numerous wings around him, as he flies:",3.0 +"Or, rather, as unequal plumes, they shape",1.0 +"To gain his goal, to reach his ancient rest,",0.0 +And join anew Eternity his sire;,1.0 +"When worlds, that count his circles now, unhinged,",0.0 +"Fate the loud signal sounding, headlong rush",4.0 +"To timeless Night and Chaos, whence they rose.",0.0 +"Man flies from time, and time from man; too soon",2.0 +In sad divorce this double flight must end;,0.0 +"And then, where are we? where, Lorenzo, then",0.0 +"Put on her plume, and in her rainbow shine.",1.0 +"You lilies male, who neither toil, nor spin,",0.0 +"As sister lilies might, if not so wise",0.0 +"As Solomon, more sumptuous to the sight!",2.0 +"You delicate! who nothing can support,",2.0 +Yourselves most insupportable! for whom,3.0 +"The winter rose must blow, the Sun put on",2.0 +"And robes, and notions, framed in foreign looms!",0.0 +Not made for feeble man; who call aloud,0.0 +"For change of follies, and relays of joy,",2.0 +To drag your patient through the tedious length,3.0 +"Of a short winter's day; ' -- say, sages; say,",3.0 +"Wit's oracles; say, dreamers of gay dreams!",5.0 +"How will you weather an eternal night,",2.0 +OH treacherous Conscience! while she seems to sleep,3.0 +"On rose and myrtle, lulled with siren song;",0.0 +"While she seems, nodding over her charge, to drop",4.0 +"On headlong appetite the slackened rein,",1.0 +"Unmarked, ' -- see, from behind her secret stand,",2.0 +"The sly informer minutes every fault,",0.0 +And her dread diary with horror fills.,3.0 +Not the gross act alone employs her pen;,3.0 +"A watchful foe! the formidable spy,",1.0 +"Our dawning purposes of heart explores,",1.0 +And steals our embryos of iniquity.,3.0 +"Thus, with indulgence most severe, she treats",2.0 +"In leaves more durable than leaves of brass,",1.0 +Writes our whole history; which Death shall read,5.0 +In every pale delinquent's private ear;,0.0 +And Judgement publish; publish to more worlds,1.0 +Than this; and endless Age in groans resound.,2.0 +"Lorenzo, such that sleeper in thy breast!",1.0 +Such is her slumber; and her vengeance such,3.0 +For slighted counsel; such thy future peace!,1.0 +But why on Time so lavish is my song?,1.0 +"On this great theme kind Nature keeps a school,",4.0 +To teach her sons herself. Each night we die;,0.0 +Each morn are born anew: each day a life!,0.0 +"And shall we kill each day? If trifling kills,",0.0 +Sure vice must butcher. OH what heaps of slain,1.0 +Cry out for vengeance on us! Time destroyed,1.0 +"Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.",0.0 +"Hell threatens: all exerts; in effort, all;",1.0 +"And is there in creation what, amid",1.0 +"This tumult universal, winged dispatch,",0.0 +"Man sleeps, and man alone; and man, whose fate,",1.0 +"Fate irreversible, entire, extreme,",4.0 +"All else is in alarm; man, the sole cause",3.0 +"Of this surrounding storm! ' -- and yet he sleeps,",1.0 +As the storm rocked to rest. Throw years away?,3.0 +"Throw empires, and be blameless. Moments seize;",2.0 +Heaven's on their wing: a moment we may wish,2.0 +"When worlds want wealth to buy. Bid Day stand still,",3.0 +"Lorenzo, more than miracles we want:",1.0 +Lorenzo ' -- OH for yesterdays to come!,0.0 +Such is the language of the man awake;,2.0 +That more than miracle the gods indulge:,1.0 +Today is yesterday returned; returned,0.0 +And reinstate us on the rock of peace.,1.0 +Let it not share its predecessor's fate;,0.0 +"Nor, like its elder sisters, die a fool.",0.0 +Shall it evaporate in fume? fly off,3.0 +Shall we be poorer for the plenty poured?,1.0 +Where shall I find him? Angels! tell me where.,0.0 +You know him: he is near you: point him out:,1.0 +"Shall I see glories beaming from his brow,",3.0 +Or trace his footsteps by the rising flowers?,2.0 +"Your golden wings, now hovering over him, shed",3.0 +Protection; now are waving in applause,0.0 +To that blessed Son of Foresight! Lord of Fate!,2.0 +That awful Independent on Tomorrow!,2.0 +Whose work is done; who triumphs in the past;,0.0 +Whose yesterdays look backward with a smile;,2.0 +"Nor, like the Parthian, wound him as they fly;",3.0 +"If not by guilt, yet wound us by their flight,",1.0 +"If folly bounds our prospect by the grave,",1.0 +All relish of realities expired;,2.0 +Renounced all correspondence with the skies;,1.0 +Prone to the centre; crawling in the dust;,0.0 +"The world, that gulf of souls, immortal souls,",0.0 +"Souls elevate, angelic, winged with fire",2.0 +"To reach the distant skies, and triumph there",1.0 +"Though we from earth, ethereal they that fell.",2.0 +"Such veneration due, OH man, to man.",1.0 +"Who venerate themselves, the world despise.",0.0 +Which hangs out DEATH in one eternal night?,1.0 +"And wraps our thought, at banquets, in the shroud.",0.0 +"Life's little stage is a small eminence,",4.0 +Where dwells the multitude: we gaze around;,0.0 +We read their monuments; we sigh; and while,1.0 +"We sigh, we sink, and are what we deplored:",2.0 +"Lamenting, or lamented, all our lot!",1.0 +Is Death at distance? No: he has been on thee;,0.0 +And given sure earnest of his final blow.,4.0 +"Those hours that lately smiled, where are they now?",1.0 +"Pallid to thought, and ghastly! drowned, all drowned",2.0 +"And, dying, they bequeathed thee small renown.",1.0 +The rest are on the wing: how fleet their flight!,1.0 +Already has the fatal train took fire;,1.0 +"A moment, and the world's blown up to thee,",3.0 +"The sun is darkness, and the stars are dust.",1.0 +IT is greatly wise to talk with our past hours;,1.0 +"And ask them, what report they bore to Heaven;",0.0 +And how they might have born more welcome news.,1.0 +Their answers form what men Experience call;,2.0 +"OH reconcile them! Kind Experience cries,",3.0 +"The more our joy, the more we know it vain,",0.0 +And by success are tutored to despair.,2.0 +"Nor is it only thus, but must be so.",1.0 +"Who knows not this, though grey, is still a child.",1.0 +"Loose then from earth the grasp of fond desire,",0.0 +Nor give thy thoughts a ply to future scenes?,0.0 +"Since, by life's passing breath, blown up from earth",4.0 +"Light, as the summer's dust, we take in air",0.0 +"A moment's giddy flight, and fall again;",0.0 +"Join the dull mass, increase the trodden soil,",3.0 +And sleep till Earth herself shall be no more;,0.0 +"We, sore amazed, from out earth's ruins crawl,",2.0 +"And rise to fate extreme of foul or fair,",0.0 +"As man's own choice, controller of the skies!",1.0 +"As man's despotic will, perhaps one hour,",1.0 +OH how omnipotent is time! decrees;,3.0 +Should not each warning give a strong alarm?,0.0 +"Warning, far less than that of bosom torn",2.0 +"From bosom, bleeding over the sacred dead!",2.0 +"Should not each dial strike us as we pass,",1.0 +"Portentous, as the written wall, which struck,",1.0 +"Over midnight bowls, the proud Assyrian pale,",3.0 +"Like that the dial speaks; and points to thee,",0.0 +Lorenzo! loath to break thy banquet up:,1.0 +"OH man, thy kingdom is departing from thee;",3.0 +"And, while it lasts, is emptier than my shade.",1.0 +Thy Magi to decipher what it means.,1.0 +"Know, like the Median, Fate is in thy walls:",2.0 +"On her own meal, and then his nurse devours.",1.0 +"But here, Lorenzo, the delusion lies;",1.0 +"That solar shadow, as it measures life,",1.0 +It life resembles too: life speeds away,1.0 +"From point to point, though seeming to stand still.",2.0 +The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth:,1.0 +Too subtle is the movement to be seen;,3.0 +"Yet soon man's hour is up, and we are gone.",2.0 +As these are useless when the sun is set;,1.0 +"So those, but when more glorious Reason shines.",3.0 +"Reason should judge in all; in Reason's eye,",1.0 +That sedentary shadow travels hard.,0.0 +"But such our gravitation to the wrong,",2.0 +"So prone our hearts to whisper what we wish,",0.0 +A Wilmington goes slower than the sun:,3.0 +And all mankind mistake their time of day;,1.0 +Even age itself. Fresh hopes are hourly sown,1.0 +"In furrowed brows. So gentle life's descent,",0.0 +"We shut our eyes, and think it is a plain.",1.0 +We take fair days in Winter for the Spring;,2.0 +And turn our blessings into bane. Since oft,0.0 +"Man must compute that age he cannot feel,",1.0 +"Thus, at life's latest eve, we keep in store",2.0 +"One disappointment sure, to crown the rest, ' --",0.0 +The disappointment of a promised hour.,1.0 +"Whose mind was moral as the Preacher's tongue,",1.0 +And strong to wield all science worth the name; ' --,0.0 +"How often we talked down the summer's sun,",2.0 +And cooled our passions by the breezy stream!,1.0 +"How often thawed and shortened winter's eve,",0.0 +"By conflict kind, that struck out latent truth,",0.0 +"Best found, so sought; to the recluse more coy!",2.0 +"Thoughts disentangle, passing over the lip;",3.0 +"Clean runs the thread; if not, iT is thrown away",1.0 +Or kept to tie up nonsense for a song;,1.0 +"Song, fashionably fruitless; such as stains",3.0 +"As bees mixed nectar draw from fragrant flowers,",1.0 +"So men, from FRIENDSHIP, wisdom and delight;",1.0 +"Twins tied by Nature, if they part, they die.",2.0 +"Good sense will stagnate. Thoughts shut up want air,",4.0 +"And spoil, like bales unopened to the sun.",1.0 +"Had thought been all, sweet speech had been denied;",1.0 +"Speech, thought's canal! speech, thought's criterion too!",4.0 +Thought in the mine may come forth gold or dross;,2.0 +"When coined in word, we know its real worth.",1.0 +"If sterling, store it for thy future use;",1.0 +"IT will buy thee benefit; perhaps, renown.",1.0 +"Thought, too, delivered, is the more possessed:",2.0 +Teaching we learn; and giving we retain,3.0 +"The births of intellect; when dumb, forgot.",0.0 +"What numbers, sheathed in erudition, lie,",0.0 +"Plunged to the hilts in venerable tomes,",1.0 +"And rusted in; who might have born an edge,",0.0 +"And played a sprightly beam, if born to speech;",0.0 +If born blessed heirs of half their mother's tongue!,1.0 +"IT is thought's exchange which, like the alternate push",1.0 +In contemplation is his proud resource?,4.0 +"Gives graceful energy, by rivals awed.",2.0 +"IT is converse qualifies for solitude,",0.0 +As exercise for salutary rest.,0.0 +"Wisdom, though richer than Peruvian mines,",5.0 +"And sweeter than the sweet ambrosial hive, ' --",1.0 +What is she but the means of happiness?,2.0 +"A melancholy fool, without her bells.",0.0 +"Friendship, the means of wisdom, richly gives",2.0 +The precious end which makes our wisdom wise.,0.0 +"Nature, in zeal for human amity,",3.0 +Denies or damps an undivided joy.,0.0 +Joy is an import; joy is an exchange;,1.0 +To social man true relish of himself.,2.0 +"Full on ourselves descending in a line,",1.0 +Pleasure's bright beam is feeble in delight:,1.0 +Delight intense is taken by rebound;,1.0 +Reverberated pleasures fire the breast.,0.0 +"Celestial Happiness, whenever she stoops",3.0 +"To visit earth, one shrine the goddess finds,",0.0 +"And one alone, to make her sweet amends",1.0 +"For absent heaven, ' -- the bosom of a friend;",1.0 +Each other's pillow to repose divine.,1.0 +Beware the counterfeit: in Passion's flame,0.0 +"Hearts melt; but melt like ice, soon harder froze.",2.0 +"True love strikes root in Reason, Passion's foe:",2.0 +"Of Friendship's fairest fruits, the fruit most fair",0.0 +"Is Virtue kindling at a rival fire,",0.0 +OH the soft enmity! endearing strife!,4.0 +And gives the rivet of eternity.,2.0 +"From Friendship, which outlives my former themes,",0.0 +Glorious survivor of old Time and Death!,3.0 +"From Friendship, thus, that flower of heavenly seed,",4.0 +"Superior wisdom, crowned with smiling joy.",2.0 +"Abroad they find, who cherish it at home.",1.0 +"Lorenzo, pardon what my love extorts,",0.0 +"An honest love, and not afraid to frown.",0.0 +"Though choice of follies fasten on the great,",1.0 +"None clings more obstinate, than fancy fond",2.0 +That sacred Friendship is their easy prey;,1.0 +"For others' hearts, tenacious of their own;",1.0 +"And we no less of ours, when such the bait.",2.0 +As well mere man an angel might beget.,1.0 +"Love, and love only, is the loan for love.",4.0 +Lorenzo! pride repress; nor hope to find,0.0 +"A friend, but what has found a friend in thee.",0.0 +All like the purchase; few the price will pay;,0.0 +And this makes friends such miracles below.,3.0 +"What, if since daring on so nice a theme",1.0 +"I show thee Friendship delicate as dear,",1.0 +Of tender violations apt to die?,1.0 +"Reserve will wound it, and Distrust destroy.",1.0 +"But since friends grow not thick on every bough,",1.0 +"Pause, ponder, sift; not eager in the choice,",1.0 +"Nor jealous of the chosen: fixing, fix;",1.0 +Judge before friendship; then confide till death.,2.0 +A friend is worth all hazards we can run.,1.0 +A world in purchase for a friend is gain.,1.0 +So sung he: angels hear that angel sing!,0.0 +Angels from friendship gather half their joy:,2.0 +"So sung Philander, as his friend went round",1.0 +"Of Bacchus, purple god of joyous wit,",0.0 +He drank long health and virtue to his friend;,2.0 +"His friend, who warmed him more, who more inspired.",0.0 +Friendship's the wine of life; but friendship new,2.0 +Not such was his is neither strong nor pure.,1.0 +"OH for the bright complexion, cordial warmth,",0.0 +"And elevating spirit of a friend,",1.0 +For twenty summers ripening by my side;,1.0 +"All social virtues rising in his soul,",0.0 +"As crystal clear, and smiling as they rise!",1.0 +Here nectar flows; it sparkles in our sight;,0.0 +"Rich to the taste, and genuine from the heart.",1.0 +On earth how lost! ' -- Philander is no more.,0.0 +Am I too warm? ' -- Too warm I cannot be.,3.0 +I loved him much; but now I love him more.,0.0 +"Like birds, whose beauties languish, half concealed,",0.0 +"Till, mounted on the wing, their glossy plumes",1.0 +"Expanded shine with azure, green, and gold;",0.0 +How blessings brighten as they take their flight!,1.0 +"If ever soul ascended. Had he dropped,",0.0 +"That eagle genius! OH, had he let fall",1.0 +"One feather as he flew, I then had wrote",1.0 +"Yet what I can, I must: it were profane",2.0 +"To quench a glory lighted at the skies,",0.0 +And cast in shadows his illustrious close.,4.0 +"Strange, the theme most affecting, most sublime,",2.0 +"Momentous most to man, should sleep unsung!",0.0 +By mortal hand; it merits a Divine!,1.0 +"Angels should paint it, angels ever there;",3.0 +"Dare I presume, then? But Philander bids;",4.0 +"And glory tempts, and inclination calls.",0.0 +Yet am I struck; as struck the soul beneath,0.0 +Aerial groves' impenetrable gloom;,3.0 +Or in some mighty ruin's solemn shade;,0.0 +Or at the midnight altar's hallowed flame.,4.0 +It is religion to proceed: I pause ' --,2.0 +"And enter, awed, the temple of my theme.",1.0 +Is it his deathbed? No: it is his shrine:,3.0 +Behold him there just rising to a god.,2.0 +The chamber where the good man meets his fate,1.0 +Is privileged beyond the common walk,2.0 +"Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.",2.0 +"Fly, you profane! if not, draw near with awe,",2.0 +"Receive the blessing, and adore the chance",1.0 +That threw in this Bethesda your disease:,2.0 +"Through Life's grimace, that mistress of the scene!",6.0 +Here real and apparent are the same.,3.0 +"You see the man; you see his hold on heaven,",0.0 +Heaven waits not the last moment; owns her friends,2.0 +"On this side death; and points them out to men,",3.0 +"A lecture, silent, but of sovereign power!",1.0 +"To vice, confusion; and to virtue, peace.",1.0 +"Whatever farce the boastful hero plays,",1.0 +Virtue alone has majesty in death;,3.0 +"And greater still, the more the tyrant frowns.",0.0 +No warning given! unceremonious fate!,6.0 +A sudden rush from life's meridian joys!,2.0 +"A wrench from all we love, from all we are!",0.0 +A restless bed of pain! a plunge opaque,0.0 +"Beyond conjecture, feeble Nature's dread!",0.0 +Strong Reason's shudder at the dark unknown!,1.0 +"A sun extinguished, a just opening grave!",3.0 +"And, OH! the last, last ' -- what? can words express,",1.0 +Thought reach it? the last ' -- silence of a friend!,6.0 +"Where are those horrors, that amazement where,",0.0 +"This hideous group of ills, which singly shock,",2.0 +Demand from man? ' -- I thought him man till now.,0.0 +"Through Nature's wreck, through vanquished agonies,",1.0 +"Like the stars struggling through this midnight gloom,",4.0 +"What gleams of joy, what more than human peace!",0.0 +"Where the frail mortal, the poor abject worm?",4.0 +"No, not in death the mortal to be found.",1.0 +His conduct is a legacy for all;,2.0 +"His comforters he comforts; great in ruin,",1.0 +His soul sublime; and closes with his fate.,1.0 +How our hearts burned within us at the scene!,2.0 +Whence this brave bound over limits fixed to man?,1.0 +His God sustains him in his final hour!,0.0 +His final hour brings glory to his God!,4.0 +"We gaze, we weep mixed tears of grief and joy!",1.0 +"Amazement strikes, devotion bursts to flame!",0.0 +"Christians adore, and infidels believe!",3.0 +"As some tall tower, or lofty mountain's brow,",3.0 +"With damps, and darkness, drown the spacious vale;",0.0 +On the low level of the inglorious throng:,7.0 +"Sweet Peace, and heavenly Hope, and humble Joy,",3.0 +"Divinely beam on his exalted soul,",1.0 +"Destruction gild, and crown him for the skies,",1.0 +"From Scenes of Woe and dismal Shades of grief,",0.0 +The pensive Muse at length attempts relief;,0.0 +From Sorrow's boundless Abyss would arise,4.0 +"Did not the cry of those he left behind,",1.0 +To mournful Accents her Sad thoughts confine;,2.0 +"To all both rich and Poor his worth was known,",1.0 +"Whose heavy hearts the Public loss bemoan,",0.0 +To Serve his Country and relieve the Poor:,1.0 +"His noble Soul designed for liberty,",1.0 +He thirty Years together bravely Stood,0.0 +"When he to be elected Burgess came,",0.0 +But nobly lost what others got with Shame:,0.0 +In great designs his useful life did end;,0.0 +While here we mourn the Patriot and the Friend;,1.0 +"Whose liberal hand Supplied the Poor with bread,",0.0 +Widows and Orphans on his bounty fed.,3.0 +Nor mourning Elegy to speak his praise;,1.0 +"Nor lofty Monument nor flattering Art,",2.0 +"His Memory lives in every honest heart,",2.0 +"Although his body in the Tomb must lie,",1.0 +But live with Fame to late Posterity:,1.0 +"While men of Virtue here his Death deplore,",0.0 +To Celebrate with joy his glorious reign;,2.0 +"Where he, in Consort, shall for ever Sing,",0.0 +"Forever fixed in blissful realms of light,",0.0 +Beyond the reach of Perjured Villains Spite:,0.0 +Then let us cease our tears and bravely try,0.0 +Once more to gain our Ancient liberty;,1.0 +To save our freedom ended with his life.,1.0 +"If ever to Friendship's call you lent an ear,",2.0 +"O, Sensibility, receive my prayer!",1.0 +"Attend, and pardon that I seek to know,",0.0 +"If in a world so fraught with various woe,",2.0 +Then fairly ask thee if thy joys repay,1.0 +"Where thou art nourished as the gentlest friend,",3.0 +Tears from that heart what most it loves away;,0.0 +Through thee it tastes each sorrow over again;,3.0 +"Thus, crushed beneath Affliction's heaviest blow,",3.0 +It bears a double weight of human woe:,0.0 +"Ah cruel, thus to steal into the heart,",0.0 +"Come then, Indifference, thou easy guest,",2.0 +"Assume the empire over my tortured breast,",2.0 +"And by thy trifling, pleasing, giddy sway,",1.0 +And guard my eye against the falling tear;,0.0 +Nor let my heart with agitation beat;,0.0 +"Be thou my champion through life's varying round,",5.0 +And shield my bosom from the slightest wound.,1.0 +"Yet pause awhile! and let me take a view,",0.0 +Lest with the pains I lose life's pleasures too.,2.0 +"Say, does not duty, love, and friendship give,",0.0 +The greatest pleasures we can here receive;,1.0 +"And can a heart untouched by others woe,",1.0 +"The joys of friendship, love, and duty know?",0.0 +"If such the purchase to be freed from pain,",2.0 +"O, Sensibility, to thee again",2.0 +"I turn ' -- do thou my every thought control,",1.0 +"It's thine alone those feelings to bestow,",2.0 +From which the source of every good does flow;,0.0 +And humbly take of each the allotted share;,1.0 +"To Friendship's shrine the ready tribute bring,",0.0 +"Enjoy the good, against the worst provide,",0.0 +"By taking Resignation for my guide,",1.0 +In her safe conduct patiently submit,7.0 +"To every pain, which Providence thinks fit.",2.0 +"IN such a Night, when every louder Wind",0.0 +Is to its distant Cavern safe confined;,1.0 +"And only gentle Zephyr fans his Wings,",0.0 +"Or from some Tree, famed for the Owl's delight,",1.0 +"She, hollowing clear, directs the Wanderer right:",4.0 +"In such a Night, when passing Clouds give place,",1.0 +Or thinly vail the Heavens mysterious Face;,4.0 +"When in some River, overhung with Green,",3.0 +The waving Moon and trembling Leaves are seen;,0.0 +"When freshened Grass now bears it self upright,",1.0 +"And makes cool Banks to pleasing Rest invite,",1.0 +And where the sleepy Cowslip sheltered grows;,0.0 +Show trivial Beauties watch their Hour to shine;,3.0 +"In perfect Charms, and perfect Virtue bright:",2.0 +"When Odours, which declined repelling Day,",1.0 +Through temperate Air uninterrupted stray;,5.0 +"When darkened Groves their softest Shadows wear,",1.0 +And falling Waters we distinctly hear;,1.0 +When through the Gloom more venerable shows,1.0 +"Some ancient Fabric, awful in Repose,",0.0 +"When the loosed Horse now, as his Pasture leads,",1.0 +"Comes slowly grazing through the adjoining Meads,",4.0 +"Whose stealing Pace, and lengthened Shade we fear",0.0 +Till torn up Forage in his Teeth we hear:,0.0 +"When nibbling Sheep at large pursue their Food,",0.0 +"Their shortlived Jubilee the Creatures keep,",1.0 +"When a sedate Content the Spirit feels,",1.0 +"And no fierce Light disturbs, while it reveals;",2.0 +But silent Musings urge the Mind to seek,0.0 +"Something, too high for Syllables to speak;",4.0 +"Finding the Elements of Rage disarmed,",3.0 +"Over all below a solemn Quiet grown,",0.0 +"Joys in inferior World, and thinks it like her Own",3.0 +"In such a Night let Me abroad remain,",2.0 +"Till Morning breaks, and All's confused again;",0.0 +"Or Pleasures, seldom reached, again pursued.",0.0 +"TO praise, yet still with due Respect to praise,",0.0 +"A Bard triumphant in immortal Bays,",0.0 +"The Learnt to show, the Sensible commend,",1.0 +"Yet still preserve the Province of the Friend,",1.0 +What Music tune them? what Affection fire?,0.0 +OH might thy Genius in my Bosom shine!,0.0 +The brightest Ancients might at once agree,0.0 +"To sing within my Lays, and sing of thee.",0.0 +Horace himself would own thou dost excel,2.0 +In candid Arts to play the Critic well.,0.0 +"Whom Windsor Forest sees a gliding Stream,",0.0 +She runs for ever through Poetic Ground.,1.0 +Made by thy Muse the Envy of the Fair;,1.0 +"Here courtly Trifles set the World at odds,",0.0 +"The new Machines in Names of Ridicule,",0.0 +"But know, you Fair, a Point concealed with Art,",0.0 +"Peep over their Heads, and laugh behind the Scene.",3.0 +"Enshrined on high the sacred Virgil sits,",0.0 +To place thee near him might be fond to choose.,0.0 +"How might he tune the alternate Reed with thee,",2.0 +While some old Damon over the Vulgar wise,3.0 +"Rapt with the Thought my Fancy seeks the Plains,",0.0 +And turns me Shepherd while I hear the Strains.,0.0 +"Indulgent Nurse of every tender Gale,",0.0 +"Here in the cool my Limbs at ease I spread,",0.0 +"Still slide thy Waters soft among the Trees,",1.0 +"Smile all thy Valleys in eternal Spring,",0.0 +"Be hushed, you Winds! while Pope and Virgil sing.",0.0 +"Thy Homer warms with all his ancient Heat,",0.0 +"He shines in Council, thunders in the Fight,",0.0 +And flames with every Sense of great Delight.,0.0 +"Long has that Poet reigned, and long unknown,",0.0 +Like Monarchs sparkling on a distant Throne;,2.0 +"In all the Majesty of Greek retired,",1.0 +"Himself unknown, his mighty Name admired,",0.0 +"His Language failing, wrapped him round with Night,",0.0 +"Thine raised by thee, recalls the Work to light.",1.0 +"So wealthy Mines, that Ages long before",0.0 +"Fed the large Realms around with Golden Oar,",3.0 +"When choked by sinking Banks, no more appear,",1.0 +"And Shepherd's only say, The Mines were here:",0.0 +"Should some rich Youth if Nature warm his Heart,",1.0 +And all his Projects stand informed with Art,0.0 +"Here clear the Caves, there open the leading Vein;",2.0 +The Mines detected flame with Gold again.,0.0 +"How vast, how copious are thy new Designs!",1.0 +How every Music varies in thy Lines!,0.0 +"Still as I read, I feel my Bosom beat,",0.0 +"Thus in the Wood, when Summer dressed the Days,",0.0 +"When Windsor lent us tuneful Hours of Ease,",0.0 +"Our Ears the Lark, the Thrush, the Turtle blessed,",0.0 +And Philomela sweetest over the rest:,2.0 +The Shades resound with Song ' -- OH softly tread!,2.0 +While a whole Season warbles round my Head.,2.0 +This to my Friend ' -- and when a Friend inspires,1.0 +"My silent Harp its Masters Hand requires,",0.0 +"Shakes off the Dust, and makes these Rocks resound,",1.0 +"Far from the Joys that with my Soul agree,",1.0 +"From Wit, from Learning, ' -- far, o far from thee!",0.0 +"Here half an Acre's Corn is half a Sheaf,",3.0 +"Here Hills with naked Heads the Tempest meet,",0.0 +"Rocks at their Side, and Torrents at their Feet,",0.0 +"Or lazy Lakes unconscious of a Flood,",2.0 +"Yet here Content can dwell, and Learnt Ease,",1.0 +"A Friend delight me, and an Author please,",1.0 +"Even here I sing, while Pope supplies the Theme,",0.0 +"Show my own Love, though not increase his Fame.",0.0 +On Acts of Mercy sound thy rising Fame.,0.0 +Let others from frail Beauty hope Applause:,3.0 +"Plead thou the Fatherless, and Widow's Cause.",1.0 +Fly to your Mother; let each winning Grace,0.0 +Engage Compassion for my helpless Race.,1.0 +"So shall the wondering World be taught from thence,",2.0 +Beauty is but your second Excellence.,2.0 +"SHOULD I the language of my heart conceal,",1.0 +Nor warmly paint the passion that I feel;,0.0 +"My rising wish should groundless fears confine,",0.0 +"Would not my prince, with nobler warmth, disdain",3.0 +"That love, as languid, which could stoop to feign?",0.0 +Let guilt dissemble ' -- in my faithful breast,1.0 +"I give my bosom naked to thy view,",1.0 +"For, what has shame with innocence to do?",1.0 +"In fancy, now, I clasp thee to my heart,",1.0 +"Exchange my vows, and all my joys impart.",0.0 +I catch new transport from thy speaking eye; ' --,2.0 +But whence this sad involuntary sigh?,0.0 +Why pants my bosom with intruding fears?,1.0 +Why do my hands thus tremble as I write?,2.0 +Why fades thy loved idea from my sight?,1.0 +"OH! art thou safe on Britain's happy shore,",0.0 +"From winds that bellow, and from seas that roar?",1.0 +"And has my prince ' -- O, more than mortal pain!",0.0 +"Bound were those limbs, ordained alone to prove",0.0 +"The toils of empire, and the sweets of love?",1.0 +"Hold, hold! Barbarians of the fiercest kind!",2.0 +Fear Heaven's red lightning ' -- it's a prince you bind;,5.0 +"A prince, whom no indignities could hide,",1.0 +"They knew, presumptuous! and the gods defied.",1.0 +"Thy breast alone, when bounding over the waves",2.0 +"To Freedom's climes, from slavery and slaves;",1.0 +Thy breast alone the pleasing thought could frame,0.0 +"Of what I felt, when thy dear letters came:",2.0 +"A thousand times I held them to my breast,",1.0 +A thousand times my lips the paper pressed:,0.0 +"My full heart panted with a joy too strong,",3.0 +"And O, my prince! died faltering on my tongue:",3.0 +"Fainting I sunk, unequal to the strife,",3.0 +And milder joys sustained returning life.,0.0 +Delightful scenes of blessed delusion spread.,0.0 +"Come, come, my prince! my charmer! haste away;",1.0 +"Come, come, I cried, thy Zara blames thy stay.",1.0 +"For thee, the shrubs their richest sweets retain;",1.0 +"For thee, cool breezes linger in the grove,",2.0 +The birds expect thee in the green alcove;,1.0 +"Till thy return, the sun, the soul of all! ' --",1.0 +"He comes, my maids, in his meridian charms,",3.0 +"Bright as the sun, yet gentle as the dove,",1.0 +"He comes, uniting majesty and love. ' --",1.0 +"Too soon, alas! the blessed delusion flies;",1.0 +"Care swells my breast, and sorrow fills my eyes.",1.0 +Ah! why do thy fond words suggest a fear ' --,3.0 +"Too vast, too numerous, those already here!",5.0 +"Ah! why with doubts torment my bleeding breast,",0.0 +"My heart, in all this tedious absence, knows",2.0 +"No thoughts but those of seas, and storms, and foes.",2.0 +Quick to the strand my feet spontaneous run:,2.0 +"Of each I met, with pleading tears I sought.",0.0 +"In vain I sought, some, conscious of my pain,",1.0 +With horrid silence pointed to the main.,1.0 +"Some with a sneer the brutal thought expressed,",0.0 +And plunged the dagger of a barbarous jest.,3.0 +"Day followed day, and still I wished the next,",1.0 +"New hopes still flattered, and new doubts perplexed;",4.0 +"Day followed day, the wished tomorrow came,",2.0 +"My hopes, doubts, fears, anxieties the same.",2.0 +"At length ' -- OH Power Supreme! whoever thou art,",4.0 +"Thy shrine the sky, the sea, the earth, or heart;",0.0 +"And hostile barks, and storms, are thy domain,",1.0 +"If faithful passion can thy bounty move,",1.0 +"And goodness sure must be the friend of love,",0.0 +"Safe to these arms my lovely prince restore,",0.0 +"OH! grant to virtue thy protecting care,",2.0 +A flowery altar to thy name we'll raise;,3.0 +"There, first and last, on each returning day,",0.0 +To thee our vows of gratitude we'll pay.,1.0 +"Fool that I was, to all my comfort blind,",1.0 +"How could I fondly hope one joy to prove,",0.0 +Midst all the wild anxieties of love?,1.0 +"Had fate in other mould, thy Zara formed,",0.0 +"And my bold breast in manly friendship warmed,",2.0 +How had I glowed exulting at thy side!,0.0 +How all the shafts of adverse fate defied!,1.0 +"With thee, OH! had I turned a burning soil!",0.0 +"In the cold prison had I lain with thee,",2.0 +"In love still happy, we had still been free;",2.0 +"Then fortune braved, had owned superior might,",1.0 +"And pined with envy, while we forced delight.",0.0 +"Thine all my thoughts have been, and still shall be.",0.0 +"The curling breezes murmured as I sighed,",1.0 +"And hoarse, at distance, roared my so the tide:",1.0 +"Now doubts, now hopes prevailed, now joy, now pain,",4.0 +"Now fixed I stand, my spirit fled to thine,",1.0 +"Nor note the time, nor see the sun decline;",0.0 +"Now roused I start, and winged with fear I run,",1.0 +"In vain, alas! for it's myself I shun.",2.0 +"When kindly sleep its lenient balm supplied,",0.0 +And gave that comfort waking thought denied.,0.0 +"Last night ' -- but why, ah Zara! why impart,",1.0 +Heaven's awful concave round thy Zara bow;,0.0 +"When sudden thence a flaming chariot flew,",2.0 +"Then ' -- quick transition ' -- did thy Zara ride,",0.0 +Born to the chariot ' -- wondrous ' -- by thy side:,3.0 +A thousand voices sung ' -- All bliss betide,0.0 +And quick aloft the car began to rise;,0.0 +"Ten thousand beauties crowded on my sight,",2.0 +Ten thousand glories beamed a dazzling light.,1.0 +"My thoughts could bear no more, the vision fled,",1.0 +And wretched Zara viewed her lonely bed. ' --,0.0 +"Come, sweet interpreter, and ease my soul;",2.0 +"Come to my bosom, and explain the whole.",1.0 +"Alas! my prince ' -- yet hold, my struggling breast!",0.0 +"Sure we shall meet again, again be blessed.",0.0 +"OH! then prevent those hopes, and haste to me.",1.0 +And kindly stop the torrent of her woes.,1.0 +"But, that I know too well thy generous heart,",3.0 +"One doubt, than all, more torment would impart:",1.0 +"It's this, in Britain's happy courts to shine,",1.0 +"Amid a thousand blooming maids, is thine ' --",0.0 +"But thou, a thousand blooming maids among,",1.0 +"Art still thyself, incapable of wrong;",1.0 +"No outward charm can captivate thy mind,",1.0 +Thy love is friendship heightened and refined;,1.0 +"It's what my soul, and not my form inspires,",0.0 +And burns with spotless and immortal fires.,1.0 +"Thy joys, like mine, from conscious truth arise,",1.0 +Be jealous doubts the curse of sordid minds;,0.0 +"Hence, jealous doubts, I give you to the winds. ' --",2.0 +"Once more, OH come! and snatch me to thy arms!",4.0 +"Come, shield my beating heart from vain alarms!",1.0 +"Weep pleasing tears, and be with joy distressed!",1.0 +"Let me still hear, and still demand thy tale,",3.0 +"And, oft renewed, still let my suit prevail!",1.0 +"Much still remains to tell and to enquire,",1.0 +"My hand still writes, and writing prompts desire;",1.0 +"My pen denies my last farewell to write,",1.0 +"Still, still, return, my wishful thoughts indite:",1.0 +"OH! hear, my prince, thy love, thy mistress call,",1.0 +"Think over each tender name, and hear by all.",3.0 +"OH! pleasing intercourse of soul with soul,",1.0 +"Thus, while I write, I see, I clasp thee whole;",0.0 +"And these kind letters trembling Zara drew,",2.0 +In every line shall bring her to thy view.,1.0 +"Return, return, in love and truth excel;",0.0 +"Return, I write; I cannot add ' -- Farewell.",1.0 +"When Athens was for Arts and Arms renowned,",1.0 +Olympic Wreaths uncommon Merit crowned.,0.0 +"These slight Distinctions from the Learnt and Wise,",1.0 +"'Twas this, the generous Love of Fame inspired,",2.0 +For like Rewards like Judges we implore:,1.0 +Our growing Merit with Indulgence view;,1.0 +Leave Ignorance and Sloth to Scorn and Shame;,2.0 +But crown the Worthy with immortal Fame;,1.0 +"And Fame, conferred by you, can never fail:",1.0 +"What Men have purchased, they of Right entail.",1.0 +"O, my rash hand! what hast thou idly done?",1.0 +Torn from its humble bank the last poor flower,1.0 +"It flourished yet, and yet it might have blown,",0.0 +Destroyed what many a storm and angry shower,2.0 +"Had pitying spared. The pride of summer gone,",2.0 +Cherish what yet in faded life can bloom;,0.0 +"And if domestic love still sweetly smiles,",2.0 +"Thy winter's prospect of its dreary gloom,",1.0 +"WITH pleasure I your welcome letter read,",1.0 +While Cupid for a little from me fled.,2.0 +"With freedom write, dispel your trivial fears;",2.0 +"Though strange the ideas which you now convey,",2.0 +While you our lovely females thus portray.,1.0 +"No doubt, there are, in the promiscuous crowd,",3.0 +"The worthless fair, the virtuous and the good;",1.0 +"The haughty nymph, the maid of humble mind;",0.0 +"The imperious, yea, the gentle and the kind;",4.0 +And furious tigers of their rage disarm.,3.0 +"In all vicissitudes of human life,",1.0 +Man's greatest blessing is a virtuous wife:,4.0 +"Diffusing joy, while various cares molest:",2.0 +"Her prudent counsel swift relief can bring,",0.0 +"Nor need I thus the sacred annals trace,",0.0 +In Britain's Isle they claim the highest place;,0.0 +"When dire oppression, with uplifted hand,",4.0 +"His yoke extended over our native land,",2.0 +"Our sires to abject slavery were doomed,",1.0 +Our mothers all their ancient claims resumed:,0.0 +And so ascribe the cruel cause to love.,1.0 +Are you alone exempt from such a guest?,2.0 +Are you of every antidote possessed,1.0 +"TO effect a cure, or mitigate the pain?",1.0 +Then may the archer cast his shafts in vain.,0.0 +But by one fatal glance the field was lost.,1.0 +"While you are free of dangers, still beware;",0.0 +"Be warned by me, and shun the alluring snare.",3.0 +"It is by some deemed cowardice to fly,",3.0 +But sure it more ignoble is to die:,1.0 +"To die, I'm frantic, sir; what did I say?",0.0 +Kind heaven defend us from such dire alarms;,2.0 +Who would a victim fall to female charms?,1.0 +"I find I'm better while your lines I read,",0.0 +I'm almost from my Gallic fetters freed.,2.0 +"As you alone were partner of my grief,",2.0 +Pray now congratulate my quick relief.,1.0 +"Thus twice detected, Con. thy Pride give over,",2.0 +And hope to triumph in our School no more.,1.0 +Though you speak English Verse with graceful Ease;,2.0 +"Though every Motion, Air, and Accent, please;",1.0 +Though every Speech a crowded Audience draws;,2.0 +And every Line be echoed with Applause;,1.0 +"The Muse, thy Mother, only speaks in thee.",0.0 +"We knew long since, your Verse, so much admired,",1.0 +By her superior Genius was inspired;,4.0 +Your graceful Action too was hers alone.,1.0 +"In learnt Languages had she been skilled,",3.0 +Still with your Praises had our School been filled.,0.0 +"Nor mourn those Ills, that must attend the Great.",0.0 +For had she been with meaner Talents born;,0.0 +Did no uncommon Gifts her Mind adorn;,0.0 +"Whom Culture can't exalt, nor Science grace;",0.0 +Phoebus had then not studied to control,1.0 +The future Grandeur of her soaring Soul.,2.0 +"But, when he saw each Muse, with endless Pains,",0.0 +Forming the curious Texture of her Brains;,5.0 +When he beheld them anxious to inspire,2.0 +A double Portion of celestial Fire;,1.0 +"He thus, in Anger, to the Virgins said:",1.0 +To grace the Breast of this accomplished Fair:,1.0 +In vain you labour to adorn her Mind,1.0 +"With tuneful Numbers, and with Sense refined;",1.0 +With every Elegance of Thought and Phrase:,1.0 +Though she with them in all their Graces vie;,1.0 +Yet I'll their universal Tongue deny.,0.0 +"For if, like them, she could unfold her Mind",0.0 +In Language understood by all Mankind;,1.0 +Her Sex might boast would be in one outdone.,1.0 +In gentle Numbers fain my Muse would sing,0.0 +"That potent Monarch, whose imperial Sway",2.0 +So many mighty Kingdoms did obey;,0.0 +All people did submit to his Command.,1.0 +"The King with Feasting, in most noble Sort",0.0 +"Did entertain the Princes of his Court,",1.0 +"Till Night came on, and all retired were,",2.0 +Then to his Chamber did to Rest repair;,0.0 +To guard his sacred Person in his Sleep:,0.0 +"Among them three young Men of virtuous Mind,",3.0 +"Whose Hearts to study Wisdom were inclined,",1.0 +"Had privately, between themselves, agreed",1.0 +"To leave in Writing, for the King to read,",1.0 +"What, in their Judgements, did in Strength excel",0.0 +"All other Things, for they discerned well",2.0 +"What they could wish, he would on them bestow.",1.0 +"The first of them, in Writing did declare,",1.0 +That nothing could for Strength with Wine compare;,0.0 +"The second then his Sentence in did bring,",0.0 +"Nothing for might, is equal with the King;",2.0 +With like Assurance did the third decree,0.0 +Women do bear away the Victory,2.0 +From all on Earth; but yet he knew full well,1.0 +Great was the Truth that did in Heaven dwell.,0.0 +"These Papers sealed, where secretly conveyed",1.0 +"Beneath the Pillow where Darius laid,",0.0 +"Until Aurora did her Light display,",0.0 +"And Phoebus rising, ushered in the Day;",0.0 +"Then they withdrew, and when the King did rise,",1.0 +"His Servants on the Writings cast their Eyes,",1.0 +And to his sacred Majesty made known,3.0 +What in the Night had by his Guards been done.,1.0 +The King was pleased on hearing the Report,1.0 +How the brave Youths had acted in his Court;,2.0 +Commanding all his Princes to attend;,1.0 +"All his wise Men, and Captains, he did call",4.0 +"The King himself in Judgement takes his Place,",0.0 +And with his Presence will the Senate grace;,2.0 +"His Resolution does to them declare,",1.0 +Impartially to end this nice Affair.,1.0 +"And now the several Writings being read,",0.0 +"That with the greater Force they may proceed,",1.0 +"The King commands the young Men in with Speed,",1.0 +"And bids them freely speak their whole Intent,",0.0 +What either of them by his Sentence meant:,2.0 +"Then having Leave, the first did Silence break,",0.0 +And to this Purpose he before them spoke.,2.0 +Most mighty Powers! does not Wine exceed,0.0 +By freely drinking many are misled;,1.0 +By Wine the strongest have been conquered:,0.0 +The needy Orphan it will quickly bring,1.0 +To be as gay and pleasant as the King;,1.0 +Makes Servants think they have their Liberty:,2.0 +"The poor Man and the rich alike are found,",2.0 +"Remembrance of all Evils, past and gone,",1.0 +"Sorrows and Debts, no more are thought upon",2.0 +"When sparkling Wine their Heart begins to cheer,",0.0 +"Nor King, nor Governor they seem to fear;",1.0 +"They speak at large, each would be Chief of all,",0.0 +Till Friends and Brothers at Variance fall:,4.0 +"Drawn Swords sometime the Power of Wine attend,",4.0 +"But when it's gone, the Quarrel's at an End;",0.0 +"Their Wrath forgot, their Mirth thought on no more,",3.0 +Each Man is in the State he was before.,1.0 +"The Force and Power of Wine, considered well,",2.0 +"Must needs in Strength all other Things excel,",0.0 +"He having spoke, the second did begin",0.0 +Thus to declare the Power of the King.,3.0 +"Most noble Lords! Of all Things that were made,",0.0 +"Or ever on the Earth a Being had,",1.0 +Men do excel in Strength: To their Command,2.0 +"All Things are subject, both by Sea and Land:",0.0 +"How strong then is the King, whose regal Sway",1.0 +"They yield Obedience to his princely Will,",2.0 +And ready are his Pleasure to fulfil;,2.0 +"To his Dominion, High and Low submit,",1.0 +He over them bears Rule as he thinks fit.,3.0 +"If he in hostile Manner draws his Sword,",1.0 +"Whatever he bids, they do with Heart and Hand,",3.0 +"When into foreign Lands he does them send,",0.0 +"They, in his Quarrel, even their Blood do spend,",2.0 +And fight till Victory does on them attend;,1.0 +The choicest Spoils with Homage to the King:,1.0 +"While those whose Business is to till the Ground,",2.0 +"With whom a Sword or Spear is seldom found,",0.0 +"Manure their Land, their fruitful Vineyards dress;",0.0 +"They reap their Corn, and luscious Clusters press:",0.0 +"And when the Harvest does their Toil reward,",0.0 +They bring their Tribute to their Sovereign Lord.,1.0 +"If any hapless Wretch the King displease,",0.0 +"His Neighbours never dispute, but on him seize;",5.0 +"If he bid spare, they spare; if he bid kill,",3.0 +They ready are his Pleasure to fulfil;,2.0 +"If Cities to destroy, or Buildings burn,",1.0 +They into Heaps of Ruin Kingdoms turn:,0.0 +"If Clemency within his Breast take Place,",2.0 +"His People all adore his princely Grace,",0.0 +"And build, and plant, what late they did deface.",0.0 +"Whenever he please he lays him down to sleep,",3.0 +While armed Bands strict Watch do round him keep;,2.0 +"Nor dare depart, nor their own Business mind,",1.0 +"But serve the King, as Duty does them bind.",0.0 +"Then what can equal him for Strength, I pray,",1.0 +Whom in such Sort all Men on Earth obey?,0.0 +"A royal Youth of David's kingly Race,",0.0 +"Much nobler he than those that spoke before,",1.0 +Because he did the living GOD adore,0.0 +And thus his Mind and Writing did declare,0.0 +"Before them all, that fate in Judgement there,",1.0 +Most worthy Princes! I do freely own,1.0 +The Strength of Kings throughout the World is known;,0.0 +The Force of Wine all Mortals know full well;,1.0 +Yet neither of them does in Might excel:,1.0 +Whom all Mankind do honour and obey.,3.0 +"And well they may, because from them do spring",1.0 +"The Poor and Rich, the Peasant and the King;",1.0 +"The greatest Heroes that the World can know,",0.0 +To Women their Original must owe;,2.0 +"They nourish those that plant the fruitful Vine,",1.0 +From whence you vainly boast the Power of Wine:,2.0 +"The Glory and the Praise of Men they are,",1.0 +And make the Garment which they daily wear:,0.0 +"Nay, without Women, Men can't be at all,",6.0 +But soon the Species would to Ruin fall.,0.0 +"When Men have gathered Gold, and Treasures great",0.0 +"Of precious Things, and live in Pomp and State,",0.0 +"No true Content their captive Hearts attain,",1.0 +"Her Beauty to adore they are inclined,",2.0 +"Her noble Virtue does attract the Mind,",0.0 +"With Gold and Silver they will freely part,",1.0 +To gain admission to a Female's Heart;,2.0 +"For if his native Country lay at Stake,",1.0 +The Husband quits it for his Spouse's Sake;,1.0 +"His Parents, Friends, and Kindred he does leave;",1.0 +Unto his Wife alone his Heart does cleave:,2.0 +"A Consort virtuous, loving, fair, and kind;",7.0 +A willing Homage he to her does pay;,2.0 +"In Toil and Labour hard he spends the Day,",0.0 +"To gather Wealth, that so he may provide",2.0 +Treasure to bring unto his dearest Bride:,4.0 +"Another boldly, with a Sword in Hand,",1.0 +"Will cross the Seas, and wander on the Land;",1.0 +"No horrid Dangers can procure his Stay,",2.0 +He bravely dares a Lion in the Way;,0.0 +"Laden with Booty to his Mistress flies,",3.0 +"Some Men, for love of Women, oft we see",0.0 +"Have been reduced to utmost Misery,",2.0 +"And lost their Senses, if they chanced to find",1.0 +"How oft have wretched Mortals been misled,",0.0 +With murderous Hands their Rival's Blood to shed?,2.0 +"While some as desperately have sought for Death,",1.0 +"The King is strong, no People can deny",2.0 +"All stand in fear of him; his Power is such,",2.0 +"It's Death to strike, no less than Death to touch.",1.0 +This mighty Monarch I did lately spy,1.0 +"At his Right Hand this youthful Beauty bright,",3.0 +"Although he did the Persian Sceptre sway,",1.0 +This blooming Lady took his Crown away;,0.0 +"The Diadem that on his Head was worn,",1.0 +Her lovely Brows and Temples did adorn;,0.0 +"Nay furthermore, when she had done this Thing,",1.0 +"Yet no Displeasure did in him arise,",1.0 +Who was Captive to her conquering Eyes:,3.0 +"Her radiant Beauty did such Beams display,",0.0 +From her he could not turn his Eyes away:,1.0 +"If this illustrious Lady deigned to smile,",3.0 +"If ought displeased her, then the King would try",0.0 +With gentle Words the Dame to pacify.,0.0 +"What mortal Strength with Women can compare,",1.0 +Since crowned Heads to them obedient are?,3.0 +"The King and Princes then began to gaze,",0.0 +And look upon each other with Amaze;,1.0 +For now they very plainly did descry,0.0 +This noble Prince would have the Victory,0.0 +"Who, having paused, began to speak again,",0.0 +Not doubting but he should Acceptance gain.,1.0 +"Women are strong, as I have made appear;",3.0 +"The Earth is large, wherein all Creatures dwell;",0.0 +"The glorious Sun does Heat and Light display,",2.0 +And with his Beams gives every Region Day:,2.0 +"How great then He, by whose divine Command,",1.0 +"All Things at first were made, Earth, Sea, and Land!",1.0 +"Strong is the Truth, who did create all Things;",0.0 +From that blessed Fountain all Perfection springs:,1.0 +"The heavenly Host with Reverence all adore,",4.0 +While Men on Earth with trembling Fear implore,0.0 +"Almighty Truth, which ever shall endure,",0.0 +"That Kings are wicked, all wise Men agree;",1.0 +Women are so we know assuredly;,2.0 +"When to excessive Drinking Men incline,",1.0 +The worst of Evils has been caused by Wine:,0.0 +"All Men on Earth of high and low Degree,",0.0 +Are subject unto Sin and Vanity;,1.0 +"Destruction does on Wickedness attend,",1.0 +But mighty Truth shall never know an End;,0.0 +"Not only strong, but good beyond compare;",0.0 +No wicked Men with Him accepted are:,3.0 +"No rich Reward, no golden Bribe can buy",2.0 +Fraud or Deceit in Truth we never find;,2.0 +Good Men embrace it with a ready Mind:,1.0 +"Whatever Thing is virtuous, good, and great,",2.0 +In Truth we find it perfect and complete:,2.0 +"Then praised be Truth to all Eternity,",1.0 +In whom alone is Strength and Majesty!,1.0 +"He having finished, the attentive Crowd,",1.0 +"The Truth applauding, they, as one, agree",2.0 +This brave young Prince should have the Victory:,1.0 +"The King and Council did his Wisdom praise,",0.0 +Affirming he had doubly won the Bays.,1.0 +That Purple and fine Linen he should wear;,3.0 +"That all his royal Bounty might behold,",0.0 +Commanded he should eat and drink in Gold;,1.0 +"A regal Chariot too he did decree,",2.0 +"Adorned with Gold, at his Command should be;",1.0 +And next unto himself assigns his Place:,2.0 +"And to increase his Honour, after all,",3.0 +Commands that they his Cousin should him call;,1.0 +"And of his royal Grace he does decree,",1.0 +"What he would ask, performed it should be:",0.0 +"Speak what thou wilt, it shall be done for thee.",0.0 +"He was not long to seek what Choice to make,",1.0 +But to the King with low Submission spoke.,1.0 +Behold Jerusalem in Ruins laid!,1.0 +"Perform the Vow which thou thyself hast made,",1.0 +"That glorious Temple, which was once the praise",2.0 +"Each goodly Building now in Ashes laid,",0.0 +"And all the holy Vessels to restore,",1.0 +As Cyrus did design long time before;,1.0 +No other Thing great Prince! do I require;,3.0 +No earthly Pomp or Grandeur I desire:,5.0 +"But if this one Request thou grant to me,",2.0 +Immortal Honour thy Reward will be.,2.0 +"The King observing how he stood inclined,",1.0 +"To serve his Country with a willing Mind,",1.0 +"Rose from his Seat, and in that very Place,",0.0 +"Before the Council, does the Prince embrace;",0.0 +"Grants his Request, and does his Letters send,",2.0 +"Commanding all his Captains to attend,",1.0 +"Both him and his, that so they might convey",1.0 +Them to their ancient Land without Delay:,1.0 +"Not only from all Tribute set them free,",1.0 +But gave much Treasure to them liberally;,2.0 +"The City built, the Temple up did raise,",1.0 +"For solemn Worship, as in former Days.",1.0 +"This brave young Man having his End obtained,",6.0 +"And Liberty, beyond his Wishes gained;",1.0 +"With thankful Heart, and joyful Lips, did raise",0.0 +"To Thee, great God! I render Praises due,",2.0 +"From whom comes Victory, and Wisdom too:",2.0 +"Thy worthless Servant I myself do own,",2.0 +Yet thou to me thy Strength and Might hast shown,1.0 +"Thine be the Glory, now and evermore!",0.0 +I thankfully thy gracious Name adore;,1.0 +"Prostrate before Thee would I gladly lie,",2.0 +And praise thy Name to all Eternity.,1.0 +"And has all Nature, then, espoused my part?",0.0 +Have I bribed Heaven and Earth to plead against thee?,3.0 +And is thy soul immortal? ' -- What remains?,1.0 +"All, all, Lorenzo! ' -- Make immortal blessed.",0.0 +And yet Lorenzo still affects the world;,0.0 +And art thou proud of that inglorious style?,2.0 +"Proud of reproach? for a reproach it was,",3.0 +"In ancient days; and Christian ' -- in an age,",0.0 +"When men were men, and not ashamed of Heaven ' --",0.0 +"Fired their ambition, as it crowned their joy.",2.0 +"Thy fond attachments, fatal and inflamed,",1.0 +"Point out my path, and dictate to my song:",2.0 +To thee the World how fair! how strongly strikes,1.0 +Ambition! and gay Pleasure stronger still!,2.0 +"Thy triple bane! the triple bolt, that lays",0.0 +Thy Virtue dead! Be these my triple theme;,1.0 +Nor shall thy wit or wisdom be forgot.,0.0 +Common the theme; not so the song; if she,2.0 +"The charm that chains us to the World, her foe,",1.0 +"If she dissolves, the man of earth, at once,",1.0 +"Starts from his trance, and sighs for other scenes;",0.0 +"Scenes, where these sparks of night, these stars, shall shine",0.0 +"The blessed behold; and, in one glory, pour",0.0 +Their blended blaze on man's astonished sight;,0.0 +"A blaze, ' -- the least illustrious object there.",1.0 +"Lorenzo! since Eternal is at hand,",1.0 +To swallow Time's ambitions; as the vast,1.0 +"Leviathan, the bubbles vain that ride",1.0 +High on the foaming billow; what avail,0.0 +"What lofty thoughts, these elements above,",1.0 +"What towering hopes, what sallies from the sun,",1.0 +"What grand surveys of destiny Divine,",1.0 +By Him who foibles in archangels sees!,2.0 +"On human hearts He bends a jealous eye,",0.0 +The rise and progress of each option there;,3.0 +"Sacred to doomsday! That the page unfolds,",2.0 +And spreads us to the gaze of gods and men.,1.0 +"And what an option, OH Lorenzo, thine!",1.0 +"A world, where Lust of Pleasure, Grandeur, Gold,",3.0 +"Three demons that divide its realms between them,",1.0 +With strokes alternate buffet to and fro,2.0 +"Man's restless heart, their sport, their flying ball;",1.0 +"It pants for peace, and drops into despair.",0.0 +Such is the world Lorenzo sets above,1.0 +That glorious promise angels were esteemed,3.0 +"Too mean to bring: a promise, their Adored",2.0 +"Descended to communicate, and press,",1.0 +"By counsel, miracle, life, death, on man.",2.0 +And on its thorny pillow seeks repose;,1.0 +"Intoxicate, but not composes; fills",0.0 +"All the wild trash of sleep, without the rest;",3.0 +"How frail men, things! how momentary both!",1.0 +"Fantastic chase, of shadows hunting shades!",1.0 +"The gay, the busy, equal, though unlike;",1.0 +"Equal in wisdom, differently wise!",2.0 +"Through flowery meadows, and through dreary wastes,",2.0 +"One bustling, and one dancing, into death.",1.0 +"Betrays some secret, that throws new reproach",1.0 +"On life, and makes him sick of seeing more.",0.0 +The scenes of business tell us ' -- what are men;,0.0 +The scenes of pleasure ' -- what is all beside:,0.0 +"There, others we despise; and here, ourselves.",1.0 +"Amid disgust eternal, dwells delight?",0.0 +IT is approbation strikes the string of joy.,0.0 +"Stuns with the din, and chokes us with the dust,",1.0 +"On Life's gay stage, one inch above the grave?",1.0 +The proud run up and down in quest of eyes;,3.0 +"The sensual, in pursuit of something worse;",2.0 +"The grave, of gold; the politic, of power;",0.0 +"And all, of other butterflies, as vain!",0.0 +"As eddies draw things frivolous and light,",2.0 +How is man's heart by vanity drawn in;,4.0 +"On the swift circle of returning toys,",3.0 +This is a beaten track. ' -- Is this a track,2.0 +"Should not be beaten? Never beat enough,",0.0 +Till enough learnt the truths it would inspire.,4.0 +Shall Truth be silent because Folly frowns?,5.0 +"Turn the world's history; what find we there,",5.0 +"But Fortune's sports, or Nature's cruel claims,",0.0 +It brings bad tidings! How it hourly blows,2.0 +Man's misadventures round the listening world!,2.0 +Man is the tale of narrative Old Time;,2.0 +Sad tale! which high as Paradise begins.,1.0 +"As if the toil of travel to delude,",2.0 +"From stage to stage, in his eternal round,",1.0 +"The Days, his daughters, ' -- as they spin our hours",1.0 +"Oft, in a moment, snaps life's strongest thread, ' --",1.0 +"Each, in her turn, some tragic storey tells,",0.0 +And fills his chronicle with human woes.,1.0 +"Time's daughters, true as those of men, deceive us;",2.0 +Not one but puts some cheat on all mankind:,1.0 +"While in their father's bosom, not yet ours,",0.0 +They flatter our fond hopes; and promise much,2.0 +Who dares to trust them; and laugh round the year,0.0 +"At still confiding, still confounded man,",0.0 +"Confiding, though confounded; hoping on,",2.0 +"Life to the last, like hardened felons, lies;",0.0 +"Nor owns itself a cheat, till it expires.",1.0 +"Its little joys go out by one and one,",3.0 +"And leave poor man, at length, in perfect night;",2.0 +Night darker than what now involves the pole.,2.0 +"OH THOU, who dost permit these ills to fall",0.0 +"OH THOU, whose hand this goodly fabric framed,",0.0 +"From the damp bed of Chaos, by Thy beam",3.0 +"Exhaled, ordained to swim its destined hour",0.0 +"In ambient air, then melt, and disappear!",2.0 +"Earth's days are numbered, nor remote her doom;",2.0 +"As mortal, though less transient than her sons:",3.0 +"Yet they dote on her, as the world and they",1.0 +"Were both eternal, solid; THOU, a dream.",1.0 +"They dote! on what? Immortal views apart,",0.0 +"A region of outsides, a land of shadows!",3.0 +A fruitful field of flowery promises!,3.0 +"A wilderness for joys, perplexed with doubts,",1.0 +"And sharp with thorns! a troubled ocean, spread",0.0 +"With bold adventurers, their all on board;",1.0 +No second hope if here their fortune frowns:,1.0 +"Frown soon it must. Of various rates they sail,",3.0 +"All restless, anxious; tossed with hopes and fears",0.0 +In calmest skies: obnoxious all to storm;,0.0 +And stormy the most general blast of life:,1.0 +All bound for happiness; yet few provide,1.0 +"The chart of Knowledge, pointing where it lies;",0.0 +"Or Virtue's helm, to shape the course designed.",0.0 +"All, more or less, capricious Fate lament,",0.0 +And farther from their wishes than before:,2.0 +"All, more or less, against each other dash,",0.0 +"To mutual hurt by gusts of passion driven,",2.0 +And suffering more from Folly than from Fate.,1.0 +"Ocean, thou dreadful and tumultuous home",6.0 +"Of dangers, at eternal war with man!",0.0 +"With all his chosen terrors frowning round,",0.0 +Wide opening and loud roaring still for more!,5.0 +Too faithful mirror! how dost thou reflect,3.0 +The melancholy face of human life!,0.0 +The strong resemblance tempts me farther still;,0.0 +"By moral truth, in such a mirror seen,",1.0 +Which Nature holds for ever at her eye.,0.0 +"When young, with sanguine cheer, and streamers gay,",0.0 +"We cut our cable, launch into the world,",0.0 +And fondly dream each wind and star our friend;,0.0 +"All, in some darling enterprise embarked:",0.0 +But where is he can fathom its event?,2.0 +"And puffs them wide of hope: with hearts of proof,",0.0 +"Full against wind and tide, some win their way;",3.0 +"And when strong Effort has deserved the port,",1.0 +"And tugged it into view, iT is won! iT is lost!",0.0 +"Though strong their oar, still stronger is their fate:",2.0 +"They strike; and while they triumph, they expire.",1.0 +"In stress of weather, most; some sink outright;",1.0 +"Over them, and over their names, the billows close;",3.0 +Tomorrow knows not they were ever born.,2.0 +"Others a short memorial leave behind,",4.0 +"It floats a moment, and is seen no more:",2.0 +One Caesar lives; a thousand are forgot.,1.0 +"How few, beneath auspicious planets born,",0.0 +"Darlings of Providence, fond Fate's elect!",4.0 +"With swelling sails make good the promised port,",1.0 +"Free from misfortune, not from Nature free,",2.0 +They still are men; and when is man secure?,0.0 +As fatal Time as Storm! The rush of years,0.0 +In ruin end: and now their proud success,0.0 +But plants new terrors on the victor's brow:,2.0 +"What pain to quit the world just made their own,",0.0 +"Their nest so deeply downed, and built so high!",0.0 +Too low they build who build beneath the stars.,1.0 +"Woe then apart, if woe apart can be",1.0 +"From mortal man, and Fortune at our nod,",0.0 +"The gay, rich, great, triumphant, and august!",3.0 +What are they? ' -- The most happy strange to say!,1.0 +Convince me most of human misery:,1.0 +More wretched then than ever their slave can be;,2.0 +"Their treacherous blessings, at the day of need,",2.0 +What aggravated impotence in power!,1.0 +"High titles, then, what insult of their pain!",3.0 +"If that sole anchor, equal to the waves,",2.0 +"Immortal Hope! defies not the rude storm,",1.0 +"Takes comfort from the foaming billow's rage,",2.0 +And makes a welcome harbour of the tomb.,1.0 +Is this a sketch of what thy soul admires?,1.0 +Are huddled in a group. A more distinct,0.0 +"Survey, perhaps, might bring thee better news.",0.0 +Look on life's stages: they speak plainer still;,5.0 +"The plainer they, the deeper wilt thou sigh.",1.0 +Look on thy lovely boy; in him behold,1.0 +The best that can befall the best on earth;,1.0 +The boy has virtue by his mother's side:,1.0 +"Is tender, though the man's is made of stone:",1.0 +"The truth, through such a medium seen, may make",3.0 +"Impression deep, and Fondness prove thy friend.",0.0 +"Care full of love, and yet severe as hate!",1.0 +Over thy soul's joy how oft thy fondness frowns!,2.0 +"As yet, his reason cannot go alone;",0.0 +But asks a sterner nurse to lead it on.,0.0 +His little heart is often terrified;,0.0 +The blush of morning in his cheek turns pale;,1.0 +His harmless eye! and drowns an angel there.,1.0 +Enjoined must discipline his early powers;,1.0 +He learns to sigh ere he has known to sin;,2.0 +"Guiltless, and sad! a wretch before the fall!",2.0 +"Our nature such, with necessary pains",1.0 +We purchase prospects of precarious peace:,3.0 +"Though not a father, this might steal a sigh.",1.0 +IT will sink our poor account to poorer still;,0.0 +"Ripe from the tutor, proud of liberty,",1.0 +"He leaps enclosure, bounds into the world:",0.0 +"The world is taken, after ten years' toil,",1.0 +Like ancient Troy; and all its joys his own,0.0 +Alas! the world's a tutor more severe;,0.0 +"Its lessons hard, and ill deserve his pains;",0.0 +Or books fair Virtue's advocates! inspired.,1.0 +For who receives him into public life?,0.0 +"Welcome the modest stranger to their sphere,",3.0 +"Which glittered long, at distance, in his sight,",0.0 +And in their hospitable arms enclose:,5.0 +"Men that act up to Reason's golden rule,",0.0 +All weakness of affection quite subdued:,1.0 +"Men that would blush at being thought sincere,",0.0 +"And feign, for glory, the few faults they want;",1.0 +"That love a lie, where Truth would pay as well;",0.0 +"As if, to them, Vice shone her own reward.",4.0 +"See the steeled files of seasoned veterans,",3.0 +"Trained to the world, in burnished falsehood bright;",1.0 +Deep in the fatal stratagems of peace;,1.0 +All soft sensation in the throng rubbed off;,2.0 +All their keen purpose in politeness sheathed;,2.0 +His friends eternal ' -- during interest;,0.0 +His foes implacable ' -- when worth their while;,1.0 +At war with every welfare but their own;,2.0 +"As wise as Lucifer, and half as good;",1.0 +And by whom none but Lucifer can gain: ' --,2.0 +"Naked of heart, his cruel course he runs,",2.0 +"Stung out of all most amiable in life,",2.0 +"Affection, as his species, wide diffused;",1.0 +Noble presumptions to mankind's renown;,4.0 +"Ingenuous trust, and confidence of love.",3.0 +These claims to joy if mortals joy might claim,0.0 +"Will cost him many a sigh, till time, and pains,",2.0 +"From the slow mistress of this school, Experience,",4.0 +"And her assistant, pausing, pale Distrust,",1.0 +And the dark labyrinth of human hearts.,2.0 +And happy if the clue shall come so cheap!,1.0 +"For while we learn to fence with public guilt,",0.0 +"Full oft we feel its foul contagion too,",1.0 +If less than heavenly Virtue is our guard.,3.0 +"Thus, a strange kind of cursed necessity",4.0 +"Brings down the sterling temper of his soul,",1.0 +"By base alloy, to bear the current stamp,",1.0 +Below called Wisdom; sinks him into safety;,1.0 +And brands him into credit with the world;,1.0 +"Where specious titles dignify disgrace,",0.0 +And Nature's injuries are arts of life;,1.0 +"Where brighter Reason prompts to bolder crimes,",0.0 +"And heavenly talents make infernal hearts, ' --",2.0 +Forgot that Genius needs not go to school;,0.0 +"Forgot that man, without a tutor wise,",0.0 +The world's all face; the man who shows his heart,0.0 +A man I knew who lived upon a smile;,0.0 +"And well it fed him; he looked plump and fair,",2.0 +"Lorenzo! what I tell thee, take not ill.",0.0 +"And, dying, cursed the friend on whom he lived.",0.0 +"In foreign realms, for thou hast travelled far,",1.0 +"Studious their nests to feather in a trice,",1.0 +"Playing the game of faces on each other,",3.0 +In foolish hope to steal each other's trust;,0.0 +"Both cheating, both exulting, both deceived;",1.0 +"And, sometime, both let earth rejoice undone!",2.0 +Their parts we doubt not; but be that their shame.,0.0 +"Shall men of talents, fit to rule mankind,",1.0 +"Stoop to mean wiles, that would disgrace a fool?",3.0 +And lose the thanks of those few friends they serve?,1.0 +For who can thank the man he cannot see?,0.0 +Why so much cover? It defeats itself.,1.0 +You that know all things! know you not men's hearts,3.0 +"Are therefore known, because they are concealed?",2.0 +For why concealed? ' -- The cause they need not tell.,0.0 +Whose feeble nature Truth keeps still in awe:,1.0 +His incapacity is his renown.,3.0 +"IT is great, iT is manly, to disdain disguise;",1.0 +"It shows our spirit, or it proves our strength.",1.0 +"However, I grant it some small sign of grace,",4.0 +Think no post needful that demands a knave.,2.0 +"When late our civil helm was shifting hands,",0.0 +"But this, how rare! The public path of life",1.0 +Is dirty. Yet allow that dirt its due;,0.0 +It makes the noble mind more noble still.,0.0 +The world's no neuter; it will wound or save;,2.0 +"Our virtue quench, or indignation fire.",0.0 +Or make us demons long before we die.,0.0 +"To show how fair the world, thy mistress, shines,",0.0 +"Take either part, sure ills attend the choice:",2.0 +"Sure, though not equal, detriment ensues.",1.0 +Not Virtue's self is deified on earth:,2.0 +"Virtue has her relapses, conflicts, foes;",2.0 +Foes that never fail to make her feel their hate.,0.0 +Virtue has her peculiar set of pains.,2.0 +"True, friends to virtue last and least complain:",1.0 +"But if they sigh, can others hope to smile?",1.0 +"If Wisdom has her miseries to mourn,",1.0 +How can poor Folly lead a happy life?,2.0 +"And if both suffer, what has Earth to boast,",2.0 +Where he most happy who the least laments?,0.0 +"Where much, much patience, the most envied state;",1.0 +And some forgiveness needs the best of friends?,0.0 +"For friend or happy life who looks not higher,",0.0 +Of neither shall he find the shadow here.,0.0 +"The world's sworn advocate, without a fee,",1.0 +"Lorenzo smartly, with a smile, replies:",1.0 +"Thus far thy song is right; and all must own,",1.0 +Virtue has her peculiar set of pains. ' --,2.0 +"And joys peculiar who to Vice denies,",0.0 +If Vice it is with Nature to comply?,2.0 +"If Pride and Sense are so predominant,",2.0 +"To cheque, not overcome, them makes a saint:",0.0 +Can Nature in a plainer voice proclaim,0.0 +Pleasure and glory the chief good of man?,4.0 +Can Pride and Sensuality rejoice?,1.0 +From purity of thought all pleasure springs;,1.0 +"And from an humble spirit, all our peace.",1.0 +"Ambition, pleasure! let us talk of these:",0.0 +Of these the Porch and Academy talked;,5.0 +"Of these, each following age had much to say:",3.0 +"Who talks of these, to mankind all at once",2.0 +He talks; for where the saint from either free?,0.0 +"Are these thy refuge? ' -- No; these rush upon thee,",1.0 +"I'll try if I can pluck thee from thy rock,",2.0 +Prometheus! from this barren ball of earth:,1.0 +"And first, thy Caucasus, Ambition, calls:",1.0 +Mountain of torments! eminence of woes!,4.0 +Of courted woes! and courted through mistake!,1.0 +IT is not Ambition charms thee: iT is a cheat,1.0 +"Will make thee start, as H' -- ' -- at his Moor.",0.0 +"Dost grasp at greatness? First, know what it is:",1.0 +"Not in the feather, wave it ever so high,",2.0 +"By Fortune stuck, to mark us from the throng,",1.0 +Is glory lodged: iT is lodged in the reverse;,1.0 +"In that which joins, in that which equals, all,",0.0 +"Unbounded prospect, and immortal kin,",1.0 +"A Father God, and brothers in the skies;",0.0 +"Elder, indeed, in time; but less remote",2.0 +"In excellence, perhaps, than thought by man.",1.0 +"Why greater what can fall, than what can rise?",0.0 +"If still delirious now, Lorenzo! go;",2.0 +Throw scorn around thee; cast it on thy slaves;,2.0 +"Thy slaves, and equals: how scorn cast on them",2.0 +"Rebounds on thee! If man is mean, as man,",2.0 +"Art thou a god? If Fortune makes him so,",0.0 +"Beware the consequence: a maxim that,",1.0 +"Which draws a monstrous picture of mankind,",2.0 +"Where, in the drapery, the man is lost;",1.0 +"Thy greatest glory when disposed to boast,",0.0 +Boast that aloud in which thy servants share.,1.0 +We wisely strip the steed we mean to buy:,0.0 +All the distinctions of this little life,2.0 +"Are quite cutaneous, foreign to the man!",1.0 +"When through Death's straits Earth's subtle serpents creep,",4.0 +"Which wriggle into wealth, or climb renown,",0.0 +"As crooked Satan the forbidden tree,",1.0 +"All that now glitters, while they rear aloft",1.0 +"Their brazen crests, and hiss at us below.",1.0 +"Strip them of body, too; nay, closer still,",1.0 +"Away with all, but moral, in their minds;",0.0 +"And let what then remains impose their name,",0.0 +"Pronounce them weak, or worthy! great, or mean!",0.0 +"How mean that snuff of glory Fortune lights,",0.0 +And Death puts out! Dost thou demand a test,4.0 +A test at once infallible and short,1.0 +"Of real greatness? That man greatly lives,",3.0 +"Whatever his fate or fame, who greatly dies;",3.0 +"If this a true criterion, many courts,",3.0 +"The Almighty, from His throne, on earth surveys",2.0 +"An humble heart, His residence! pronounced",1.0 +His second seat; and rival to the skies.,1.0 +"The private path, the secret acts of men,",0.0 +"If noble, far the noblest of our lives!",1.0 +The illustrious master of a name unknown;,4.0 +"Life's sacred shades, where gods converse with men;",1.0 +"And Peace, beyond the world's conceptions, smiles!",0.0 +As thou now dark before we part shalt see.,3.0 +But thy great soul this skulking glory scorns.,2.0 +"And, when he shrugs at public business, lies.",0.0 +"Denied the public eye, the public voice,",0.0 +"As if he lived on others' breath, he dies.",1.0 +Fain would he make the world his pedestal;,1.0 +"Knows he that mankind praise against their will,",1.0 +As well as trumpet? that his vanity,1.0 +Is so much tickled from not hearing all?,2.0 +"Or from an itch more sordid, when he shines,",1.0 +"Taking his country by five hundred ears,",4.0 +"With modest laughter lining loud applause,",0.0 +Which makes the smile more mortal to his fame?,1.0 +"His fame, which, like the mighty Caesar, crowned",0.0 +"With laurels, in full senate, greatly falls,",1.0 +"By seeming friends that honour, and destroy.",2.0 +We rise in glory as we sink in pride;,1.0 +"Where boasting ends, there dignity begins;",1.0 +"And yet, mistaken beyond all mistake,",1.0 +And dreams himself ascending in his fall.,0.0 +"An eminence, though fancied, turns the brain;",1.0 +"Pride loudest calls, and for the largest bowl;",2.0 +"Because, all other vice unlike, it flies,",0.0 +"In fact, the point in fancy most pursued.",0.0 +"Who court applause, oblige the world in this:",0.0 +They gratify man's passion to refuse.,2.0 +"Superior honour, when assumed, is lost;",2.0 +"To the world's cause, with half a face of joy,",2.0 +"Lorenzo cries, ' -- Be, then, Ambition cast;",0.0 +Gay Pleasure! Proud Ambition is her slave;,2.0 +"For her he soars at great, and hazards ill;",1.0 +"For her he fights, and bleeds or overcomes;",1.0 +And paves his way with crowns to reach her smile:,0.0 +"Who can resist her charms? ' -- Or, should? Lorenzo!",1.0 +"What mortal shall resist, where angels yield?",0.0 +Pleasure's the mistress of ethereal powers;,3.0 +For her contend the rival gods above;,1.0 +And well it is for man that Pleasure charms:,1.0 +"How would all stagnate, but for Pleasure's ray!",2.0 +How would the frozen stream of action cease!,0.0 +What is the pulse of this so busy world?,1.0 +"The love of Pleasure: that, through every vein,",0.0 +"Throws motion, warmth; and shuts out death from life.",1.0 +"Though various are the tempers of mankind,",3.0 +Pleasure's gay family hold all in chains:,1.0 +"Some most affect the black, and some the fair:",0.0 +"Some honest pleasure court, and some obscene.",0.0 +"Pleasures obscene are various, as the throng",3.0 +Of passions that can err in human hearts;,0.0 +"Mistake their objects, or transgress their bounds.",1.0 +But when our Reason licences delight.,1.0 +"Dost doubt, Lorenzo? Thou shalt doubt no more.",3.0 +An ugly common harlot in the dark;,0.0 +A rank adulterer with others' gold:,1.0 +"And that hag, Vengeance, in a corner, charms.",1.0 +"Hatred her brothel has, as well as Love,",2.0 +"Whatever the motive, Pleasure is the mark!",4.0 +For her the black assassin draws his sword;,1.0 +"For her dark statesmen trim their midnight lamp,",3.0 +To which no single sacrifice may fall;,1.0 +"The Stoic proud, for pleasure, pleasure scorned;",0.0 +"For her Affliction's daughters grief indulge,",1.0 +"And find, or hope, a luxury in tears;",1.0 +"For her, guilt, shame, toil, danger we defy;",5.0 +"And, with an aim voluptuous, rush on death.",3.0 +Thus universal her despotic power.,2.0 +"And as her empire wide, her praise is just.",1.0 +I am thy rival; pleasure I profess;,2.0 +Pleasure the purpose of my gloomy song.,3.0 +"I wrong her still, I rate her worth too low:",1.0 +"Virtue the root, and Pleasure is the flower;",3.0 +"How knits Austerity her cloudy brow,",2.0 +"And blames, as bold and hazardous, the praise",1.0 +You modern Stoics! hear my soft reply: ' --,0.0 +Their senses men will trust; we can't impose;,0.0 +"Or if we could, is imposition right?",1.0 +"Own honey sweet, but, owning, add this sting, ' --",0.0 +"When mixed with poison, it is deadly too.",1.0 +Truth never was indebted to a lie.,3.0 +Why then is health preferred before disease?,0.0 +"What Nature loves is good, without our leave.",0.0 +"And where no future drawback cries, Beware!",2.0 +"Pleasure, though not from Virtue, should prevail.",1.0 +"IT is balm to life, and gratitude to Heaven:",0.0 +"Born in his cradle, living to his tomb.",1.0 +"Wisdom, her younger sister, though more grave,",3.0 +"Was meant to minister, and not to mar",1.0 +"Imperial Pleasure, queen of human hearts.",2.0 +"Attend my song, and thou shalt know them all;",2.0 +And know thyself; and know thyself to be,0.0 +Tell not Calista! she will laugh thee dead;,2.0 +Or send thee to her hermitage with L ' -- ' -- .,2.0 +"A serious thought, shalt thou dare dream of joy?",5.0 +"No man ever found a happy life by chance,",1.0 +Or yawned it into being with a wish;,1.0 +"An art it is, and must be learnt; and learnt",1.0 +"With unremitting effort, or be lost,",1.0 +And leave us perfect blockheads in our bliss.,1.0 +The clouds may drop down titles and estates;,1.0 +Wealth may seek us; but Wisdom must be sought;,0.0 +Sought before all; but how unlike all else,1.0 +We seek on earth! iT is never sought in vain.,0.0 +"Brought forth by Wisdom, nursed by Discipline,",2.0 +"By Patience taught, by Perseverance crowned,",0.0 +"She rears her head majestic; round her throne,",0.0 +"Erected in the bosom of the just,",1.0 +"Each Virtue, listed, forms her manly guard.",0.0 +For what are Virtues? formidable name!,1.0 +What but the fountain or defence of joy?,1.0 +Why then commanded? Need mankind commands,1.0 +At once to merit and to make their bliss? ' --,1.0 +"Great Legislator, scarce so great as kind!",1.0 +"If men are rational, and love delight,",1.0 +In the transgression lies the penalty;,2.0 +And they the most indulge who most obey.,1.0 +Of Pleasure next the final cause explore;,0.0 +"Its mighty purpose, its important end.",1.0 +"Not to turn human brutal, but to build",3.0 +"Divine on human, Pleasure came from heaven.",0.0 +In aid to Reason was the goddess sent;,1.0 +To call up all its strength by such a charm.,1.0 +Virtue gives Pleasure an eternal reign.,4.0 +"What but the pleasure of food, friendship, faith,",2.0 +"Supports life natural, civil, and Divine?",2.0 +IT is from the pleasure of applause we please;,2.0 +IT is from the pleasure of belief we pray:,2.0 +"It serves ourselves, our species, and our God;",1.0 +"And to serve more, is past the sphere of man.",0.0 +"Glide, then, for ever, Pleasure's sacred stream!",3.0 +"Through Eden, as Euphrates ran, it runs,",1.0 +And fosters every growth of happy life;,0.0 +Makes a new Eden where it flows; ' -- but such,3.0 +"As must be lost, Lorenzo, by thy fall.",1.0 +While Pleasure's nature is at large displayed;,2.0 +Already sung her origin and ends.,1.0 +"Those glorious ends, by kind, or by degree,",3.0 +"When Pleasure violates, iT is then a vice,",1.0 +And vengeance too; it hastens into pain.,0.0 +"From due refreshment, life, health, reason, joy;",1.0 +"From wild excess, pain, grief, distraction, death:",1.0 +"Heaven's justice this proclaims, and that her love.",1.0 +"What greater evil can I wish my foe,",1.0 +"Than his full draught of pleasure, from a cask",3.0 +"By Temperance, by Reason unrefined?",1.0 +A thousand demons lurk within the lee.,0.0 +"Heaven, others, and ourselves! uninjured these,",2.0 +"Drink deep; the deeper, then, the more Divine;",1.0 +Angels are angels from indulgence there;,4.0 +Dost think thyself a god from other joys?,0.0 +A victim rather! shortly sure to bleed.,0.0 +The wrong must mourn: can Heaven's appointments fail?,2.0 +Can man outwit Omnipotence? strike out,3.0 +"Who made us, and the world we would enjoy?",1.0 +Its dissonance or harmony shall rise.,2.0 +Heaven bade the soul this mortal frame inspire;,0.0 +Bade Virtue's ray Divine inspire the soul,1.0 +"And, without breathing, man as well might hope",5.0 +"For life, as, without piety, for peace.",6.0 +"Is Virtue, then, and Piety the same?",1.0 +No; Piety is more; iT is Virtue's source;,2.0 +"Mother of every worth, as that of joy.",2.0 +Men of the world this doctrine ill digest;,0.0 +They smile at Piety; yet boast aloud,1.0 +Goodwill to men; nor know they strive to part,1.0 +With Piety begins all good on earth:,1.0 +IT is the firstborn of Rationality.,5.0 +"Conscience, her first law broken, wounded lies;",3.0 +"Enfeebled, lifeless, impotent to good;",1.0 +A feigned affection bounds her utmost power.,1.0 +A foe to God was never true friend to man;,3.0 +Some sinister intent taints all he does;,2.0 +On piety humanity is built;,2.0 +And on humanity much happiness:,3.0 +And yet still more on piety itself.,1.0 +A soul in commerce with her God is heaven;,1.0 +"A Deity believed, is joy begun;",1.0 +"A Deity adored, is joy advanced;",1.0 +"A Deity beloved, is joy matured.",1.0 +Each branch of piety delight inspires;,1.0 +"Faith builds a bridge from this world to the next,",1.0 +"Over Death's dark gulf, and all its horror hides;",1.0 +"Praise, the sweet exhalation of our joy,",4.0 +"That joy exalts, and makes it sweeter still;",0.0 +"Prayer ardent opens heaven, lets down a stream",0.0 +Of glory on the consecrated hour,1.0 +"Of man, in audience with the Deity.",2.0 +"Who worships the great God, that instant joins",2.0 +"The first in heaven, and sets his foot on hell.",0.0 +Must take an air less solemn. She complies.,2.0 +Good conscience! ' -- at the sound the world retires:,0.0 +"And such as age shall heighten, not impair.",1.0 +Art thou dejected? Is thy mind overcast?,6.0 +"Amid her fair ones, thou the fairest choose,",2.0 +"Thy gloom to chase. ' -- Go, fix some weighty truth;",1.0 +Chain down some passion; do some generous good;,1.0 +"Teach Ignorance to see, or Grief to smile;",2.0 +Correct thy friend; befriend thy greatest foe;,0.0 +"Or, with warm heart, and confidence Divine,",3.0 +"Spring up, and lay strong hold on Him who made thee.",2.0 +"Thy gloom is scattered, sprightly spirits flow,",0.0 +"Loud mirth, mad laughter? Wretched comforters!",3.0 +"Physicians, more than half of thy disease!",1.0 +"Laughter, though never censured yet as sin,",2.0 +"Pardon a thought that only seems severe,",2.0 +"By venting spleen, or dissipating thought,",0.0 +"And sins, as hurting others or ourselves.",1.0 +"IT is Pride, or Emptiness, applies the straw",1.0 +"Of grief approaching, the portentous sign!",1.0 +The house of laughter makes a house of woe.,0.0 +A man triumphant is a monstrous sight;,1.0 +A man dejected is a sight as mean.,1.0 +What cause for triumph where such ills abound?,0.0 +Who called us into being to be blessed?,1.0 +"So grieve, as conscious grief may rise to joy;",0.0 +"So joy, as conscious joy to grief may fall.",0.0 +"Most true, a wise man never will be sad:",2.0 +"But neither will sonorous, bubbling mirth",4.0 +A shallow stream of happiness betray:,1.0 +This counsel strange should I presume to give: ' --,1.0 +"Retire, and read thy Bible, to be gay.",1.0 +There truths abound of sovereign aid to peace;,0.0 +As thou and thine are apt and proud to do.,1.0 +"If not inspired, that pregnant page had stood",2.0 +"Time's treasure, and the wonder of the wise!",3.0 +"Alas! should men mistake thee for a fool,",1.0 +"What man of taste for genius, wisdom, truth,",0.0 +"Though tender of thy fame, could interpose?",1.0 +"Believe me, Sense here acts a double part,",0.0 +And the true critic is a Christian too.,3.0 +True joy in sunshine never was found at first.,4.0 +"They first themselves offend, who greatly please;",0.0 +And travail only gives us sound repose.,5.0 +Heaven sells all pleasure; effort is the price;,1.0 +The joys of conquest are the joys of man;,1.0 +And Glory the victorious laurel spreads,3.0 +"Over Pleasure's pure, perpetual, placid stream.",5.0 +"There is a time when toil must be preferred,",1.0 +A man of pleasure is a man of pains.,1.0 +Thou wilt not take the trouble to be blessed.,1.0 +"False joys, indeed, are born from want of thought;",1.0 +"From thought's full bent and energy, the true;",2.0 +"And that demands a mind in equal poise,",0.0 +Remote from gloomy grief and glaring joy.,0.0 +"Much joy not only speaks small happiness,",2.0 +But happiness that shortly must expire.,1.0 +And in a tempest can reflection live?,1.0 +Can joy like thine secure itself an hour?,1.0 +Or open the door to honest Poverty?,3.0 +"Or talk with threatening Death, and not turn pale?",1.0 +"In such a world, and such a nature, these",2.0 +Are needful fundamentals of delight:,1.0 +These fundamentals give delight indeed;,0.0 +"Delight, pure, delicate, and durable;",3.0 +"Delight, unshaken, masculine, Divine;",1.0 +"A constant and a sound, but serious, joy.",3.0 +Is Joy the daughter of Severity?,2.0 +It is: ' -- yet far my doctrine from severe.,2.0 +Rejoice for ever! it becomes a man;,1.0 +"Exalts, and sets him nearer to the gods.",1.0 +"Rejoice for ever, Nature cries, rejoice!",0.0 +"Drinks glory, gratitude, eternal praise;",1.0 +"Ill firmly to support, good fully taste,",2.0 +Is the whole science of felicity.,4.0 +Yet sparing pledge: her bowl is not the best,0.0 +"Exertion, vigilance, a mind in arms,",1.0 +"A military discipline of thought,",1.0 +To foil Temptation in the doubtful field;,0.0 +"IT is these first give, then guard, a cheerful heart.",4.0 +"What Reason bids, God bids; by His command",2.0 +Thus nothing is insipid to the wise:,3.0 +To thee insipid all but what is mad;,1.0 +"Joys seasoned high, and tasting strong of guilt.",1.0 +"Of ancient sages proud to tread the steps,",0.0 +"I follow Nature. ' -- Follow Nature still,",0.0 +But look it be thine own: is Conscience then,0.0 +No part of Nature? Is she not supreme?,2.0 +"Then follow Nature, and resemble God.",1.0 +"When, spite of Conscience, Pleasure is pursued,",1.0 +Man's nature is unnaturally pleased:,3.0 +And what's unnatural is painful too,1.0 +"At intervals, and must disgust even thee!",6.0 +Virtue's foundations with the world's were laid;,3.0 +"Heaven mixed her with our make, and twisted close",1.0 +Her sacred interests with the strings of life.,1.0 +"Who breaks her awful mandate, shocks himself,",1.0 +"His better self: and is it greater pain,",1.0 +"And one, in their eternal war, must bleed.",2.0 +"If one must suffer, which should least be spared?",1.0 +The pains of mind surpass the pains of sense:,0.0 +"Ask, then, the Gout, what torment is in guilt.",2.0 +The joys of sense to mental joys are mean:,0.0 +Sense on the present only feeds; the soul,0.0 +On past and future forages for joy.,1.0 +"IT is hers, by retrospect, through time to range;",1.0 +"And, forward, Time's great sequel to survey.",2.0 +"Could human courts take vengeance on the mind,",2.0 +"Guard then thy mind, and leave the rest to fate.",0.0 +"Lorenzo, wilt thou never be a man?",0.0 +"The man is dead, who for the body lives,",1.0 +"Lured, by the beating of his pulse, to list",1.0 +With every lust that wars against his peace;,0.0 +And sets him quite at variance with himself.,3.0 +"Thyself first know, then love: a self there is",1.0 +"A self there is, as fond of every vice,",1.0 +While every virtue wounds it to the heart!,1.0 +"Humility degrades it, Justice robs,",1.0 +"Blessed Bounty beggars it, fair Truth betrays,",3.0 +"This self, when rival to the former, scorn;",1.0 +"When not in competition, kindly treat,",0.0 +"Defend it, feed it: ' -- but when Virtue bids,",1.0 +And why? IT is Love of Pleasure bids thee bleed;,0.0 +A poor blind merchant buying joys too dear.,2.0 +"From whom herself, and all she can enjoy.",1.0 +More mortal than the malice of our foes;,2.0 +"When Being cursed, Extinction loud implored,",0.0 +And every thing preferred to what we are.,0.0 +"And, in this choice triumphant, boasts of joy.",0.0 +"How is his want of happiness betrayed,",2.0 +By disaffection to the present hour!,1.0 +Imagination wanders far afield:,0.0 +The future pleases: why? The present pains. ' --,0.0 +"And know from thee, discovered unawares.",1.0 +"Thy ceaseless agitation, restless roll",0.0 +"From cheat to cheat, impatient of a pause;",1.0 +"What is it? ' -- Tis the cradle of the Soul,",1.0 +"From Instinct sent, to rock her in disease,",0.0 +"Which her physician, Reason, will not cure.",2.0 +A poor expedient! yet thy best; and while,1.0 +"It mitigates thy pain, it owns it too.",0.0 +The weak have remedies; the wise have joys.,1.0 +Superior wisdom is superior bliss.,5.0 +And what sure mark distinguishes the wise?,2.0 +Consistent Wisdom ever wills the same;,0.0 +Thy fickle wish is ever on the wing.,1.0 +A change of evils is thy good supreme;,1.0 +Man's greatest strength is shown in standing still.,1.0 +The first sure symptom of a mind in health,2.0 +"Is rest of heart, and pleasure felt at home.",0.0 +False Pleasure from abroad her joys imports;,2.0 +"The true is fixed, and solid as a rock;",1.0 +"Slippery the false, and tossing as the wave.",2.0 +"This, a wild wanderer on earth, like Cain:",3.0 +"She dreads an interruption from without,",1.0 +Smit with her own condition; and the more,1.0 +"Intense she gazes, still it charms the more.",0.0 +No man is happy till he thinks on earth,2.0 +There breathes not a more happy than himself:,2.0 +"Then Envy dies, and Love overflows on all;",3.0 +And Love overflowing makes an angel here.,2.0 +"Such angels all, entitled to repose",1.0 +"On Him who governs fate: though Tempest frowns,",1.0 +"Though Nature shakes, how soft to lean on Heaven!",0.0 +To lean on Him on whom archangels lean!,2.0 +"With inward eyes, and silent as the grave,",1.0 +"They stand collecting every beam of thought,",0.0 +Till their hearts kindle with Divine delight;,3.0 +"For all their thoughts, like angels seen of old",0.0 +Hence are they studious of sequestered scenes;,3.0 +While noise and dissipation comfort thee.,1.0 +"Lorenzo! never man was truly blessed,",0.0 +"But it composed, and gave him such a cast,",2.0 +As Folly might mistake for want of joy:,0.0 +A cast unlike the triumph of the proud;,1.0 +"A modest aspect, and a smile at heart.",2.0 +"A spring perennial, rising in the breast,",2.0 +And permanent as pure! no turbid stream,2.0 +"Then sink at once, and leave us in the mire.",0.0 +What does the man who transient joy prefers?,0.0 +"What, but prefer the bubbles to the stream?",2.0 +Vain are all sudden sallies of delight;,1.0 +"Joy's a fixed state; a tenure, not a start.",3.0 +"That is the gem: sell all, and purchase that.",1.0 +"Not gained with ease, nor safely loved, if gained?",0.0 +"At good fortuitous, draw back, and pause;",2.0 +"Reason perpetuates joy that Reason gives,",5.0 +And makes it as immortal as herself:,2.0 +"Worth, conscious Worth, should absolutely reign,",1.0 +And other Joys ask leave for their approach;,2.0 +Thou art all anarchy; a mob of Joys,1.0 +Not the least promise of internal peace!,3.0 +"Mid sands, and rocks, and storms, to cruise for pleasure;",1.0 +Much pain must expiate what much pain procured.,0.0 +"Fancy and Sense from an infected shore,",3.0 +"Then, such thy thirst, insatiable thirst!",2.0 +By fond indulgence but inflamed the more!,1.0 +"Where feeble Happiness, like Vulcan, lame,",1.0 +"Bids foul Ideas, in their dark recess,",1.0 +"And hot as hell, which kindled the black fires,",2.0 +"With wanton art, those fatal arrows form",0.0 +"Which murder all thy time, health, wealth, and fame.",1.0 +And form celestial armour for thy peace.,1.0 +In this is seen Imagination's guilt;,6.0 +But who can count her follies? She betrays thee,1.0 +To think in grandeur there is something great.,2.0 +"For works of curious art, and ancient fame,",1.0 +And foreign climes must cater for thy taste.,1.0 +"Hence, what disaster! ' -- Though the price was paid,",2.0 +"That persecuting priest, the Turk of Rome,",0.0 +Such is the fate of honest Protestants!,2.0 +"Hence just resentment, indignation, ire! ' --",1.0 +"Be pacified: if outward things are great,",0.0 +"Pompous expenses, and parades august,",7.0 +True happiness never entered at an eye;,3.0 +True happiness resides in things unseen.,2.0 +"No smiles of Fortune ever blessed the bad,",1.0 +Nor can her frowns rob Innocence of joys;,3.0 +"That jewel wanting, triple crowns are poor:",0.0 +"Pleasure, we both agree, is man's chief good;",3.0 +"Our only contest, what deserves the name.",0.0 +"The authentic seal of Reason, which, like Yorke,",1.0 +"Demurs on what it passes, and defies",1.0 +"The tooth of Time; when passed, a pleasure still;",0.0 +"Our future, while it forms our present, joy.",0.0 +Some joys the future overcast; and some,0.0 +"Throw all their beams that way, and gild the tomb.",0.0 +Some joys endear eternity; some give,1.0 +Abhorred annihilation dreadful charms.,0.0 +Are rival joys contending for thy choice?,1.0 +"Consult thy whole existence, and be safe;",1.0 +That oracle will put all doubt to flight.,1.0 +"Short is the lesson, though my lecture long:",1.0 +Be good ' -- and let Heaven answer for the rest.,2.0 +"Yet, with a sigh over all mankind, I grant,",7.0 +"In this our day of proof, our land of hope,",0.0 +The good man has his clouds that intervene;,0.0 +"But never conquer: even the best must own,",2.0 +Patience and Resignation are the pillars,3.0 +"Of human Peace on earth. The pillars, these:",1.0 +"But those of Seth not more remote from thee,",1.0 +"Till this heroic lesson thou hast learnt,",2.0 +"To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain.",1.0 +"Heaven in reversion, like the sun, as yet",0.0 +"Beneath the horizon, cheers us in this world;",2.0 +"It sheds, on souls susceptible of light,",1.0 +The glorious dawn of our eternal day.,3.0 +"This, says Lorenzo, is a fair harangue:",1.0 +But can harangues blow back strong Nature's stream;,3.0 +"Or stem the tide Heaven pushes through our veins,",2.0 +"Which sweeps away man's impotent resolves,",2.0 +And lays his labour level with the world?,1.0 +Themselves men make their comment on mankind;,3.0 +Thus weakness to chimera turns the truth.,2.0 +Nothing romantic has the Muse prescribed.,2.0 +"Above, Lorenzo saw the man of earth,",0.0 +The mortal man; and wretched was the sight.,1.0 +"To balance that, to comfort and exalt,",1.0 +"Now see the man immortal: him, I mean,",2.0 +"Leans all that way, his bias to the stars.",1.0 +"The world's dark shades, in contrast set, shall raise",1.0 +"His lustre more, though bright without a foil.",0.0 +"Observe his awful portrait, and admire;",1.0 +"Nor stop at wonder; imitate, and live.",0.0 +"Some angel guide my pencil, while I draw,",0.0 +"What nothing less than angel can exceed,",1.0 +"A man on earth devoted to the Skies,",1.0 +"Like ships in seas, while in, above, the world!",0.0 +"With aspect mild, and elevated eye,",1.0 +"Behold him seated on a mount serene,",1.0 +"Above the fogs of Sense, and Passion's storm:",0.0 +"Like harmless thunders breaking at his feet,",0.0 +"Excite his pity, not impair his peace.",0.0 +"A mingled mob, a wandering herd, he sees,",2.0 +Bewildered in the vale; in all unlike!,0.0 +His full reverse in all! What higher praise?,0.0 +What stronger demonstration of the right?,1.0 +The present all their care; the future his.,1.0 +"When public welfare calls, or private want,",1.0 +They give to fame; his bounty he conceals.,1.0 +Their virtues varnish nature; his exalt.,1.0 +Mankind's esteem they court; and he his own.,2.0 +His the composed possession of the true.,2.0 +"Alike throughout is his consistent peace,",1.0 +"All of one colour, and an even thread;",0.0 +"With hideous gaps between, patch up for them",4.0 +He sees with other eyes than theirs: where they,0.0 +"Behold a sun, he spies a Deity;",1.0 +"What makes them only smile, makes him adore;",2.0 +"Where they see mountains, he but atoms sees;",3.0 +"An empire, in his balance, weighs a grain.",0.0 +They things terrestrial worship as Divine;,3.0 +"His hopes immortal blow them by as dust,",1.0 +"That dims his sight, and shortens his survey,",1.0 +"Which longs, in infinite, to lose all bound.",1.0 +He lays aside to find his dignity;,1.0 +No dignity they find in aught besides.,2.0 +And nothing thinks so great in man as MAN.,0.0 +"Too dear he holds his interest, to neglect",2.0 +"Their interest, like a lion, lives on prey.",0.0 +They kindle at the shadow of a wrong:,1.0 +"Wrong he sustains with temper, looks on Heaven,",2.0 +A covered heart their character defends;,1.0 +A covered heart denies him half his praise.,0.0 +While their broad foliage testifies their fall.,2.0 +"His joys create, theirs murder, future bliss.",0.0 +"To triumph in existence, his alone;",1.0 +"And his alone, triumphantly to think",2.0 +His true existence is not yet begun.,1.0 +"His glorious course was, yesterday, complete:",2.0 +Death then was welcome; yet life still is sweet.,1.0 +"But nothing charms Lorenzo like the firm,",0.0 +Undaunted breast. ' -- And whose is that high praise?,1.0 +"They yield to pleasure, though they danger brave,",1.0 +And show no fortitude but in the field;,1.0 +"If there they show it, iT is for glory shown:",2.0 +Nor will that cordial always man their hearts.,1.0 +A cordial his sustains that cannot fail:,1.0 +He shares in that Omnipotence he trusts;,1.0 +Which owes to man's short outlook all its charms.,2.0 +"Backward to credit what he never felt,",2.0 +"Lorenzo cries, ' -- Where shines this miracle?",1.0 +From what root rises this immortal man?,2.0 +"The root dissect, nor wonder at the flower.",0.0 +"He follows nature, not like thee! and shows us",1.0 +"His appetite wears Reason's golden chain,",1.0 +And finds in due restraint its luxury.,1.0 +"His passion, like an eagle well reclaimed,",0.0 +"His caution fearless, and his grief if grief",1.0 +The gods ordain a stranger to despair.,1.0 +"And why? ' -- Because affection, more than meet,",0.0 +His wisdom leaves not disengaged from Heaven.,1.0 +"Those secondary goods that smile on earth,",0.0 +"He, loving in proportion, loves in peace.",0.0 +"They most the world enjoy, who least admire.",0.0 +His understanding escape the common cloud,2.0 +Of fumes arising from a boiling breast.,1.0 +"His head is clear, because his heart is cool,",0.0 +The moderate movements of his soul admit,3.0 +"Distinct ideas, and matured debate,",1.0 +"An eye impartial, and an even scale:",1.0 +"Thus, in a double sense, the good are wise;",0.0 +What then the world? It must be doubly weak;,0.0 +Strange truth! as soon would they believe the Creed.,2.0 +Yet thus it is; nor otherwise can be;,1.0 +So far from aught romantic what I sing.,0.0 +"Bliss has no being, Virtue has no strength,",3.0 +But from the prospect of immortal life.,2.0 +"Who think earth all, or what weighs just the same",1.0 +"Fond of its fancies, proud of its parades.",1.0 +"Who thinks earth nothing, can't its charms admire;",1.0 +"He can't a foe, though most malignant, hate,",0.0 +Because that hate would prove his greater foe.,0.0 +IT is hard for them yet who so loudly boast,0.0 +Goodwill to men? to love their dearest friend;,1.0 +"For may not he invade their good supreme,",2.0 +Where the least jealousy turns love to gall?,4.0 +"All shines to them, that for a season shines.",0.0 +"Each act, each thought, he questions, What its weight,",0.0 +"Its colour what, a thousand ages hence?",0.0 +"And what it there appears, he deems it now.",1.0 +"Hence, pure are the recesses of his soul;",2.0 +"His virtue, constitutionally deep,",1.0 +"Has Habit's firmness, and Affection's flame;",1.0 +"Angels, allied, descend to feed the fire;",2.0 +"And now, Lorenzo, bigot of this world,",1.0 +Wont to disdain poor bigots caught by Heaven!,3.0 +"Thy gaudy grandeur, and mere worldly worth,",5.0 +"Like a broad missed, at distance strikes us most;",3.0 +"And, like a missed, is nothing when at hand;",0.0 +"His merit, like a mountain, on approach,",1.0 +"Swells more, and rises nearer to the skies,",1.0 +"By promise now, and by possession soon,",1.0 +"Too soon, too much, it cannot be, his own.",1.0 +"From this thy just annihilation rise,",1.0 +"Lorenzo! rise to something, by reply.",1.0 +"The World, thy client, listens and expects;",1.0 +And longs to crown thee with immortal praise.,1.0 +"And Wit talks most when least she has to say,",1.0 +And Reason interrupts not her career.,1.0 +"She'll say, that mists above the mountains rise;",0.0 +And with a thousand pleasantries amuse.,2.0 +"She'll sparkle, puzzle, flutter, raise a dust,",0.0 +And fly conviction in the dust she raised.,0.0 +"Wit, how delicious to man's dainty taste!",4.0 +"IT is precious, as the vehicle of sense;",2.0 +"But, as its substitute, a dire disease.",1.0 +"Pernicious talent! flattered by the world,",1.0 +"By the blind world, which thinks the talent rare.",2.0 +"Wisdom is rare, Lorenzo! wit abounds;",2.0 +Passion can give it; sometime wine inspires,3.0 +The lucky flash; and madness rarely fails.,0.0 +"Whatever cause the spirit strongly stirs,",1.0 +"Confers the bays, and rivals thy renown.",1.0 +"Chance often hits it; and, to pique thee more,",2.0 +Shakes her sage head at the calamity,4.0 +Which has exposed and let her down to thee.,1.0 +"But Wisdom, awful Wisdom, which inspects,",0.0 +"Discerns, compares, weighs, separates, infers,",1.0 +"Seizes the right, and holds it to the last;",3.0 +"Or if there found, iT is sacred to the few;",2.0 +"While a lewd prostitute to multitudes,",2.0 +"Frequent, as fatal, Wit: in civil life,",1.0 +"Wit hates authority, commotion loves,",2.0 +And thinks herself the lightning of the storm.,1.0 +"In states, iT is dangerous; in religion, death:",2.0 +"Shall Wit turn Christian, when the dull believe?",1.0 +"Sense is our helmet, Wit is but the plume;",1.0 +"The plume exposes, iT is our helmet saves.",1.0 +"Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound;",0.0 +"When cut by Wit, it casts a brighter beam;",0.0 +"Yet, Wit apart, it is a diamond still.",1.0 +It hoists more sail to run against a rock.,0.0 +"Whom dull fools scorn, and bless their want of wit.",1.0 +"How ruinous the rock I warn thee shun,",1.0 +Where Sirens sit to sing thee to thy fate!,1.0 +A joy in which our reason bears no part,1.0 +Which of her lovers ever found her true?,0.0 +"Happy, of this bad World who little know! ' --",4.0 +And yet we much must know her to be safe.,1.0 +"To know the World, not love her, is thy point;",1.0 +"She gives but little, nor that little long.",1.0 +"There is, I grant, a triumph of the pulse,",2.0 +"A dance of spirits, a mere froth of joy,",2.0 +"That mantles high, that sparkles, and expires,",1.0 +Leaving the soul more vapid than before;,3.0 +An animal ovation! such as holds,2.0 +"And when it jars ' -- thy Sirens sing no more,",1.0 +"Short apotheosis! beneath the man,",2.0 +"In coward gloom immersed, or fell despair.",0.0 +"Art thou yet dull enough, despair to dread,",0.0 +"And startle at destruction? If thou art,",1.0 +"Accept a buckler, take it to the field;",1.0 +A field of battle is this mortal life!,1.0 +"When danger threatens, lay it on thy heart;",1.0 +A single sentence proof against the world: ' --,0.0 +"Soul, body, fortune! every good pertains",1.0 +"Body to soul, and soul submit to God.",2.0 +The inverted pyramid can never stand.,2.0 +Is this truth doubtful? It outshines the sun;,3.0 +"Nay, the sun shines not but to show us this,",1.0 +The single lesson of mankind on earth.,2.0 +"And yet ' -- Yet, what? No news! Mankind is mad!",2.0 +"Such mighty numbers list against the right,",0.0 +"And what can't numbers, when bewitched, achieve?",1.0 +"They talk themselves to something like belief,",0.0 +That all earth's joys are theirs: as Athens' fool,2.0 +Grinned from the port on every sail his own.,0.0 +They grin; but wherefore? and how long the laugh?,1.0 +"Half ignorance their mirth, and half a lie;",2.0 +"To cheat the world, and cheat themselves, they smile.",0.0 +"Hard either task! The most abandoned own,",1.0 +"That others, if abandoned, are undone:",2.0 +"Then, for themselves, the moment Reason wakes,",1.0 +"And Providence denies it long repose,",1.0 +"They scarce can swallow their ebullient spleen,",1.0 +"Scarce muster patience to support the farce,",2.0 +And pump sad laughter till the curtain falls.,2.0 +"Scarce, did I say? some cannot sit it out;",0.0 +"Oft their own daring hands the curtain draw,",0.0 +And show us what their joy by their despair.,1.0 +Its impious fury still alive in death!,2.0 +"Shut, shut the shocking scene! ' -- But Heaven denies",1.0 +A cover to such guilt; and so should man.,2.0 +"Look round, Lorenzo! see the reeking blade,",1.0 +"The strangling cord, and suffocating stream;",0.0 +From raging riot; slower suicides!,0.0 +"And pride in these, more execrable still! ' --",3.0 +How horrid all to thought! ' -- But horrors these,1.0 +"That vouch the truth, and aid my feeble song.",0.0 +"From Vice, Sense, Fancy, no man can be blessed:",3.0 +Bliss is too great to lodge within an hour:,3.0 +"When an immortal being aims at bliss,",1.0 +Duration is essential to the name.,3.0 +OH for a joy from Reason! joy from that,0.0 +"And promises; that weaves, with art Divine,",1.0 +The richest prospect into present peace:,0.0 +A joy ambitious! joy in common held,0.0 +"A joy which Death shall double, Judgement crown;",0.0 +"Crowned higher, and still higher, at each stage,",3.0 +Not more remote from sorrow than from Him,1.0 +"Whose lavish hand, whose love stupendous, pours",0.0 +So much of Deity on guilty dust!,1.0 +"There, OH my Lucia! may I meet thee there,",1.0 +Where not thy presence can improve my bliss!,1.0 +Affects not this the sages of the world?,2.0 +"Eternity depending on an hour,",2.0 +"Makes serious thought man's wisdom, joy, and praise.",4.0 +Nor need you blush though sometime your designs,2.0 +May shun the light at your designs on heaven:,1.0 +Are you not wise? ' -- You know you are: yet hear,2.0 +"One truth, amid your numerous schemes, mislaid,",2.0 +"Or overlooked, or thrown aside, if seen: ' --",0.0 +"Our schemes to plan by this world, or the next,",0.0 +Is the sole difference between wise and fool.,6.0 +All worthy men will weigh you in this scale;,0.0 +"What wonder, then, if they pronounce you light?",1.0 +Is their esteem alone not worth your care?,1.0 +Accept my simple scheme of common sense:,0.0 +"Thus save your fame, and make two worlds your own.",2.0 +The World replies not; ' -- but the World persists;,1.0 +"And puts the cause off to the longest day,",1.0 +Planning evasions for the day of doom:,3.0 +"So far, at that rehearing, from redress,",1.0 +They then turn witnesses against themselves.,2.0 +"Hear that, Lorenzo! nor be wise tomorrow.",3.0 +"Haste, haste! a man, by nature, is in haste:",2.0 +For who shall answer for another hour?,1.0 +IT is highly prudent to make one sure friend;,3.0 +You sons of earth! nor willing to be more!,1.0 +"Thus, in an age so gay, the Muse plain truths",1.0 +"Truths which, at church, you might have heard in prose",0.0 +"Should be forgot, if you the truths retain,",1.0 +"And crown her with your welfare, not your praise.",2.0 +"But praise she need not fear: I see my fate,",0.0 +"Since many an ample volume, mighty tome,",2.0 +Devoted page! go forth among thy foes;,1.0 +"Go, nobly proud of martyrdom for truth,",2.0 +"And die a double death. Mankind, incensed,",2.0 +Denies thee long to live: nor shalt thou rest,0.0 +When thou art dead; in Stygian shades arraigned,0.0 +"By Lucifer, as traitor to his throne,",2.0 +"The World, whose legions cost him slender pay,",0.0 +"And, volunteers, around his banner swarm;",0.0 +Prudent as Prussia in her zeal for Gaul.,2.0 +"Are all, then, fools? Lorenzo cries. ' -- Yes, all,",1.0 +But such as hold this doctrine new to thee:,1.0 +The mother of true Wisdom is the Will;,3.0 +The noblest intellect a fool without it.,0.0 +"In arts and sciences, in wars and peace;",1.0 +"But art and science, like thy wealth, will leave thee,",0.0 +And make thee twice a beggar at thy death.,0.0 +This is the most Indulgence can afford: ' --,2.0 +Thy wisdom all can do but ' -- make thee wise.,0.0 +Nor think this censure is severe on thee;,1.0 +Smiles on the murmuring Sea with joyous Light.,2.0 +"Begin the Song, while wanton Dolphins play,",0.0 +"And the bright Sun, and pleasing Calms invite.",2.0 +"No Nymph so nimbly swims, so graceful moves.",1.0 +"When to soft Words she tunes her artful Tongue,",3.0 +The Winds themselves will listen to her Song.,1.0 +"Anthis I saw, and to my envied Eyes",3.0 +"When Anthis smiles Joy fills the swelling Veins,",1.0 +"Her rising Breasts are white as polished Shells,",0.0 +And in each part a different Beauty dwells.,0.0 +"When Myra frowns, though all the Sky was fair,",0.0 +"The Clouds return, and thick the moistened Air;",0.0 +"The smiling Heaven, when ever she looks serene,",2.0 +"Puts on its Azure, and the Sea its Green.",1.0 +"Pierced through my Heart, and did my Soul surprise,",0.0 +"No Lightning moves so swift, or shines so bright.",1.0 +And shivering Horror strikes through every Vein.,2.0 +But by one distant Look from her I loved,2.0 +"My Blood grew stagnate, and I stood unmoved.",3.0 +"We curse the Dog, and loath the shapeless Bat",0.0 +As sad Forerunners of unlucky Fate,2.0 +"These, we deformed, and frightful Monsters call,",1.0 +"Fondly we love, and without Reason hate,",7.0 +"And worship Idols, which our selves create.",0.0 +It draws with pleasing Force the willing Mind;,0.0 +Beauty divine like this we seldom find:,3.0 +"Few things are truly fair, though perfect in their kind.",1.0 +"Who Myra loves, when Clytie appears,",2.0 +"I her pale Cheeks, and languid Looks despise;",2.0 +Well may she kill; for Death is in her Eyes.,0.0 +Whose angry Red makes every Youth afraid:,1.0 +"Such flaming Nymphs want every real Grace,",2.0 +"They cool our Passion, while they burn our Face.",0.0 +"Envy is pale, and pale is sad Despair.",2.0 +"Can Myra then be pale, and yet be fair?",0.0 +"Would Myra yield to love, would she comply,",1.0 +Her Cheeks would colour with a fresher Die.,0.0 +"But though even now she wants no graceful Charm,",1.0 +Her Voice kills farther than her Eyes can harm.,2.0 +"She sung ' -- and he with secret Pleasure heard,",1.0 +"And listening smiled, and stroked his hoary Beard.",0.0 +"While Doris stood afar, and jealous grew,",0.0 +"With watchful Eyes she looked, and feared what might ensue.",0.0 +"So have I heard one praise the chattering Pie,",2.0 +And swear the Coots with artful Music cry:,0.0 +But hark ' -- even now I hear some distant Song.,2.0 +And in her wanton Song the easy Nymph surprise.,0.0 +"Say, lovely Youth, why all this niceness shown,",1.0 +"I'll not oblige too far, nor force my Charms,",1.0 +"Give me but leave, with secret sighs to Gaze,",0.0 +"And silent Joys, view that dear fatal Face.",2.0 +"I never dressed, nor smiled, used no soft Art,",2.0 +"No little Amorous cheat to win your Heart,",3.0 +Nor knew in mine you had so great a Part;,1.0 +"Till from my Sight you cautiously removed,",2.0 +"Then, not till then, I knew how well I loved:",0.0 +"'Twas my Advice, you should awhile absent,",7.0 +I never designed it for a Banishment.,4.0 +"But wisely you, as if you feared your Fate,",2.0 +"Shun what you would not Love, and cannot hate;",0.0 +"Yet spite of all your Vanity and Care,",1.0 +"Know my Alexis, that I have you here:",2.0 +"Here in my Breast, your dearest Image glows,",0.0 +"Warms every Wish, and softens all my Vows.",1.0 +"Inspires my Muse, to wanton in your Charms,",0.0 +"And feast on Joys, which are denied my Arms:",1.0 +"In melting strains, she shall my Passion tell,",0.0 +"Describe those lovely Eyes, and Smiles so well;",0.0 +"Till every Nymph who my soft Lines shall see,",2.0 +"Sighs and Adores, and owns she loves like me.",2.0 +"That Shape, that Mein, that dear undoing Tongue,",0.0 +"With thousand unknown Charms shall fill my Song,",5.0 +To glad the listening World and make it last as long.,0.0 +"With an Eternal blast the trump of Fame,",1.0 +"You shall this fondness of my Muse forgive,",1.0 +"And though not in my Arms, in my soft numbers live:",3.0 +"While warlike Heroes who are half Divine,",1.0 +"Shall have their Glories sung, in meaner Lays than thine.",0.0 +"The message needs no comment. Tell your master,",1.0 +His mother shall obey him. Say you saw her,0.0 +Yielding due reverence to his high command:,4.0 +"What if you add, how she turned pale and trembled:",3.0 +"You think, you spied a tear stand in her eye,",1.0 +"And would have dropped, but that her pride restrained it?",0.0 +Yet walks on earth: at least there are who know,1.0 +"Without a spell to raise, and bid it fire",0.0 +"A thousand haughty hearts, unused to shake",0.0 +"When a boy frowns, nor to be lured with smiles",2.0 +"To taste of hollow kindness, or partake",1.0 +His hospitable board: they are aware,5.0 +And the mute air are privy to your passion.,3.0 +"Forgive your servant's fears, who sees the danger",0.0 +Which fierce resentment cannot fail to raise,0.0 +In haughty youth and irritated power.,0.0 +"And dost thou talk to me, to me, of danger,",1.0 +"Of haughty youth and irritated power,",0.0 +"To her that gave it being, her that armed",2.0 +"To aim the forked bolt; while he stood trembling,",4.0 +Scared at the sound and dazzled with its brightness?,1.0 +"It's like, thou hast forgot, when yet a stranger",0.0 +"To adoration, to the grateful steam",1.0 +"From voluntary realms, a puny boy,",1.0 +Decked with no other lustre than the blood,4.0 +To judge of weights and measures; scarcely dared,0.0 +On expectation's strongest wing to soar,1.0 +"High as the consulate, that empty shade",1.0 +Opened his young eye to bear the blaze of greatness;,2.0 +"Showed him where empire towered, and bade him strike",2.0 +The noble quarry. Gods! then was the time,1.0 +To shrink from danger; fear might then have worn,0.0 +"The mask of prudence; but a heart like mine,",1.0 +"A heart that glows with the pure Julian fire,",2.0 +If bright ambition from her craggy seat,1.0 +"Gain the rough heights, and grasp the dangerous honour.",5.0 +"Through various life I have pursued your steps,",2.0 +"Have seen your soul, and wondered at its daring:",0.0 +Hence rise my fears. Nor am I yet to learn,2.0 +How vast the debt of gratitude which Nero,0.0 +To such a mother owes; the world you gave him,1.0 +Suffices not to pay the obligation.,0.0 +I well remember too for I was present,1.0 +"When in a secret and dead hour of night,",2.0 +Due sacrifice performed with barbarous rites,3.0 +"Of muttered charms and solemn invocation,",0.0 +You bade the Magi call the dreadful powers,0.0 +"Impending over your son: their answer was,",3.0 +Perish you cried the mother! reign the son!,2.0 +"He reigns, the rest is heaven's; who oft has bade,",2.0 +"Even when its will seemed wrote in lines of blood,",2.0 +Think too how oft in weak and sickly minds,1.0 +The sweets of kindness lavishly indulged,1.0 +Rankle to gall; and benefits too great,4.0 +"To be repaid, sit heavy on the soul,",2.0 +As unrequited wrongs. The willing homage,0.0 +"The riches of the earth, the train of pleasures",1.0 +That wait on youth and arbitrary sway:,0.0 +"These were your gift, and with them you bestowed",3.0 +The very power he has to be ungrateful.,1.0 +Thus ever grave and undisturbed reflection,1.0 +Pours its cool dictates in the madding ear,0.0 +"Of rage, and thinks to quench the fire it feels not.",0.0 +And tremble at the phantom I have raised?,1.0 +Carry to him thy timid counsels. He,2.0 +"Perchance may heed them: tell him too, that one",2.0 +"Who had such liberal power to give, may still",2.0 +"With equal power resume that gift, and raise",0.0 +A tempest that shall shake her own creation,0.0 +"To its original atoms ' -- tell me! say,",3.0 +"This mighty emperor, this dreaded hero,",1.0 +Has he beheld the glittering front of war?,3.0 +"Knows his soft ear the trumpet's thrilling voice,",3.0 +And outcry of the battle? Have his limbs,2.0 +Sweat under iron harness? Is he not,2.0 +"The silken son of dalliance, nursed in ease",2.0 +"And Sylla has his friends, though schooled by fear",0.0 +"To bow the supple knee, and court the times",0.0 +With shows of fair obeisance; and a call,4.0 +Of our imperial house. Cannot my nod,3.0 +"Rouse up eight hardy legions, wont to stem",3.0 +That in Armenia quell the Parthian force,4.0 +"Marked for their leader: these, by ties confirmed",1.0 +"Of old respect and gratitude, are mine.",0.0 +Have not forgot my sire: the eye of Rome,2.0 +"And the Praetorian camp have long revered,",3.0 +"And mother of their Caesars. Have! by Juno,",1.0 +It bears a noble semblance. On this base,1.0 +My great revenge shall rise; or say we sound,0.0 +"The trump of liberty; there will not want,",2.0 +"Even in the servile senate, ears to own",0.0 +"Minds of the antique cast, rough, stubborn souls,",5.0 +That struggle with the yoke. How shall the spark,1.0 +"Blaze into freedom, when the idle herd",1.0 +"Slaves from the womb, created but to stare",1.0 +"And bellow in the Circus yet will start,",0.0 +"And shake them at the name of liberty,",1.0 +"Stung by a senseless word, a vain tradition,",0.0 +"Teach it their grandchildren, as somewhat rare",5.0 +Beyond their chronicle ' -- o! it's a cause,2.0 +"Yes, we may meet, ungrateful boy, we may!",0.0 +Again the buried Genius of old Rome,2.0 +Roused by the shout of millions: there before,1.0 +His high tribunal thou and I appear.,2.0 +Let majesty sit on thy awful brow,3.0 +And lighten from thy eye: around thee call,1.0 +Of thy full favour; Seneca be there,2.0 +With his plain soldier's oath and honest seeming.,2.0 +But soft! why do I waste the fruitless hours,0.0 +"These hated walls that seem to mock my shame,",0.0 +And cast me forth in duty to their lord.,1.0 +More deadly to the sight than is to me,2.0 +The cool injurious eye of frozen kindness.,2.0 +I will not meet its poison. Let him feel,1.0 +"Before he sees me. Yes, I will be gone,",1.0 +Whatever the frivolous tongue of giddy fame,5.0 +Has spread among the crowd; things that but whispered,1.0 +Have arched the hearer's brow and riveted,4.0 +His eyes in fearful ecstasy: no matter,2.0 +"Assassinations, poisonings; the deeper",1.0 +"And you, you manes of ambition's victims,",3.0 +"Enshrined Claudius, with the pitied ghosts",6.0 +"You unavailing horrors, fruitless crimes!,",0.0 +"If from the realms of night my voice you hear,",1.0 +"Accept my vengeance. Though by me you bled,",2.0 +"He was the cause. My love, my fears for him,",1.0 +"Dried the soft springs of pity in my heart,",0.0 +And froze them up with deadly cruelty.,1.0 +"Yet if your injured shades demand my fate,",0.0 +"If murder cries for murder, blood for blood,",0.0 +"Let me not fall alone; but crush his pride,",0.0 +And sink the traitor in his mother's ruin.,0.0 +Thus far we're safe. Thanks to the rosy queen,3.0 +Of amorous thefts: and had her wanton son,2.0 +"Lent us his wings, we could not have beguiled",0.0 +With more elusive speed the dazzled sight,0.0 +"Dispel, my fair, with smiles, the timorous cloud",2.0 +"That hangs on thy clear brow. So Helen looked,",2.0 +"So her white neck reclined, so was she born",3.0 +By the young Trojan to his gilded bark,3.0 +"With fond reluctance, yielding modesty,",1.0 +"And oft reverted eye, as if she knew not",1.0 +Whether she feared or wished to be pursued.,2.0 +"LUCIA was fair and bright as rising Day,",2.0 +"Sweet as Arabia, or the Buds of May;",3.0 +"Fresh as the Winds that sweep the dewy Hills,",0.0 +"Whose Soul was softer than a trembling Dove,",1.0 +Nor knew a Failing till she learnt to love.,1.0 +"Nor Fraud nor Scandal to her Lips were known,",1.0 +And thought each Bosom guiltless as her own.,1.0 +"Thus only armed with Innocence and Smiles,",2.0 +She fell the Victim of a Tyrant's Wiles.,3.0 +"So lost from Shepherd and its mourning Dam,",1.0 +"No Danger fears, but as he idly strays",2.0 +"Then from his Heart the guiltless Purple flows,",0.0 +A grateful Morsel to his hungry Foes:,1.0 +"Thus wrapped in Sorrows wretched Lucia lies,",1.0 +Whose Sighs still answer to her streaming Eyes.,2.0 +No more those Lips like dewy Roses glow;,0.0 +"But left to strike her pensive Breast in vain,",0.0 +And curse the Author of her lasting Pain.,1.0 +Her Soul of Ease has took its long Adieu:,0.0 +"Hear this, you Nymphs; but hear and tremble too,",0.0 +"You Fair that launch in Pleasure's tempting Sea,",3.0 +"Though Fortune crowns you with a calmer Day,",1.0 +And Joy's soft Gale salutes your nimble Oar:,1.0 +"Yet let Reflection mark your gliding Days,",0.0 +Nor drink too deeply in the Draught of Praise:,1.0 +"For Flattery is ' -- So say the learnt Schools,",2.0 +The Bane of Virgins and the Bait of Fools.,1.0 +"How happy she whose purer Spirit knows,",1.0 +"No Thought less harmless than a Saint's Repose,",3.0 +"Whose guiltless Charms pursue no greater End,",1.0 +But to rejoice a Parent or a Friend:,2.0 +"Whose Care it is her Passions to control,",2.0 +"Then this shall grace her monumental Page,",0.0 +"In Youth admired, and beloved in Age.",1.0 +"In the calm hour, when pleasure most prevails,",3.0 +"And smooth prosperity has swelled your sails,",1.0 +To join the triumph with some idle song:,1.0 +"And shall she now, when nature smiles no more,",1.0 +"Sit doubtful, and the serious lay refuse?",4.0 +"In life's mixed scene, where various parts agree",3.0 +"How few, alas! in either part can shine?",0.0 +"But both to grace, what forces must combine!",0.0 +"In mimic state, and proud fantastic power,",0.0 +Is Fulvia crowned the Queen of half an hour?,2.0 +The Queen of half an island if she please;,1.0 +The wise have no debates with such as these.,1.0 +"But when the rising scenes with anguish swell,",0.0 +"It's Yours the higher, harder part to tell,",1.0 +And dignify distress by suffering well.,0.0 +"Whether the Stoic's, or the Christian's part,",3.0 +"Found in the head, or working at the heart;",0.0 +"Here all the kind affections, touched, comply;",0.0 +There roused again to studied apathy.,1.0 +"Come, false Philosophy! as proud as vain,",2.0 +"Talk well of virtue, talk it over again;",3.0 +And needs no eloquence to be revealed.,2.0 +Yet speak! OH tell me! whence this clam of mind?,1.0 +"The will obedient, and the wish resigned;",2.0 +"The steady temper, and the look serene,",1.0 +And all a Sister's woe in silence seen?,0.0 +"That I may learn, when by misfortune pressed,",1.0 +"Brave Youth! with every virtue crowned, farewell!",2.0 +"He to the Tomb has led the weeping Nine,",1.0 +Attend the shade of gentle Buckingham.,0.0 +"Here the pale Loves, and sickening Graces mourn,",3.0 +And there the Sister weeping over the Urn:,3.0 +"Like some fair pillar nodding over it's base,",3.0 +The last remaining ruin of her race;,1.0 +"Left but to make their milder virtues known,",0.0 +And fill the radiant circle with her own.,1.0 +"Useless the marble, and the mournful crest,",3.0 +No tomb so lovely as a sister's breast;,2.0 +"There shall thy memory live, by time improved,",2.0 +"And she for virtues, once thy own, be loved:",1.0 +"Not such as make of Kings and Queens a Friend,",0.0 +"But such as graced thy life, and blessed thy end;",1.0 +"Truth unaffected, Manners void of art,",1.0 +"Plain Sense, and strong Benevolence of heart.",2.0 +"And burns to follow Thee, and mix again;",1.0 +"Some tender friendships, some endearing ties,",0.0 +"Cling round her heart, and hold her from the skies.",1.0 +"A little while, and these shall all decay,",1.0 +And the free soul emerge to endless day:,2.0 +"Where, having long sustained the faithful part,",0.0 +"The strong attraction seizing all her heart,",0.0 +"Her gentler orb shall round it's centre move,",0.0 +Rekindled into Harmony and Love.,1.0 +"HACKNEYED in business, wearied at that oar",2.0 +"Which thousands once fast chained to, quit no more,",2.0 +"But which when life at ebb runs weak and low,",1.0 +"All wish, or seem to wish they could forego,",0.0 +"The statesman, lawyer, merchant, man of trade,",0.0 +"Pants for the refuge of some rural shade,",1.0 +Where all his long anxieties forgot,1.0 +"Amid the charms of a sequestered spot,",1.0 +Or recollected only to gild over,2.0 +"And add a smile to what was sweet before,",0.0 +"He may possess the joys he thinks he sees,",1.0 +"Lay his old age upon the lap of ease,",3.0 +"Improve the remnant of his wasted span,",1.0 +"Thus conscience pleads her cause within the breast,",1.0 +"Though long rebelled against, not yet suppressed,",0.0 +"And calls a creature formed for God alone,",0.0 +"For heaven's high purposes and not his own,",4.0 +"Calls him away from selfish ends and aims,",2.0 +"From cities humming with a restless crowd,",1.0 +"Sordid as active, ignorant as loud,",3.0 +"Whose highest praise is that they live in vain,",0.0 +"The dupes of pleasure, or the slaves of gain,",1.0 +"Where works of man are clustered close around,",0.0 +"And works of God are hardly to be found,",1.0 +"To regions where in spite of sin and woe,",0.0 +"Traces of Eden are still seen below,",4.0 +"Where mountain, river, forest, field and grove,",0.0 +Remind him of his Maker's power and love.,3.0 +"It's well if looked for at so late a day,",0.0 +"In the last scene of such a senseless play,",2.0 +"True wisdom will attend his feeble call,",2.0 +And grace his action ever the curtain fall.,2.0 +"Souls that have long despised their heavenly birth,",2.0 +"Their wishes all impregnated with earth,",5.0 +"In catching smoke and feeding upon air,",3.0 +"Conversant only with the ways of men,",1.0 +Rarely redeem the short remaining ten.,2.0 +And draining its nutritious powers to feed,3.0 +"Their noxious growth, starve every better seed.",1.0 +Happy if full of days ' -- but happier far,4.0 +"If ever we yet discern life's evening star,",3.0 +Sick of the service of a world that feeds,1.0 +"We can escape from custom's idiot sway,",3.0 +To serve the sovereign we were born to obey.,3.0 +Then sweet to muse upon his skill displayed,0.0 +Infinite skill in all that he has made!,2.0 +"To trace in nature's most minute design,",0.0 +"The signature and stamp of power divine,",3.0 +Contrivance intricate expressed with ease,1.0 +"Where unassisted sight no beauty sees,",1.0 +"The shapely limb and lubricated joint,",0.0 +"Within the small dimensions of a point,",1.0 +"Muscle and nerve miraculously spun,",3.0 +"His mighty work who speaks and it is done,",1.0 +"The invisible in things scarce seen revealed,",3.0 +To whom an atom is an ample field.,1.0 +"To wonder at a thousand insect forms,",1.0 +"These hatched, and those resuscitated worms,",1.0 +"New life ordained and brighter scenes to share,",1.0 +"Once prone on earth, now buoyant upon air,",5.0 +"Whose shape would make them, had they bulk and size,",0.0 +"More hideous foes than fancy can devise,",3.0 +"Would mock the majesty of man's high birth,",2.0 +"Then with a glance of fancy to survey,",1.0 +"Far as the faculty can stretch away,",1.0 +Ten thousand rivers poured at his command,2.0 +"These like a deluge with impetuous force,",1.0 +"Those winding modestly a silent course,",1.0 +"Seas on which every nation spreads her sails,",0.0 +"The sun, a world whence other worlds drink light,",1.0 +"The crescent moon, the diadem of night,",0.0 +"Stars countless, each in his appointed place,",2.0 +"At such a sight to catch the poet's flame,",0.0 +"And with a rapture like his own exclaim,",1.0 +"These are thy glorious works, thou source of good,",3.0 +"How dimly seen, how faintly understood! ' --",0.0 +"Thine, and upheld by thy paternal care,",2.0 +"This universal frame, thus wondrous fair;",1.0 +"Thy power divine and bounty beyond thought,",3.0 +Adored and praised in all that thou hast wrought.,0.0 +"Instruct me, guide me to that heavenly day,",3.0 +"Thy words, more clearly than thy works display,",1.0 +"That while thy truths my grosser thoughts refine,",0.0 +I may resemble thee and call thee mine.,2.0 +O blessed proficiency! surpassing all,1.0 +"That men erroneously their glory call,",3.0 +"The recompense that arts or arms can yield,",0.0 +You kings and rulers what have courts to show?,0.0 +"Thus studied, used and consecrated thus,",1.0 +"Whatever is, seems formed indeed for us,",3.0 +"Fretful unless diverted and beguiled,",3.0 +Much less to feed and fan the fatal fires,0.0 +"Of pride, ambition or impure desires,",1.0 +But as a scale by which the soul ascends,1.0 +"From mighty means to more important ends,",0.0 +"Securely, though by steps but rarely trod,",1.0 +"Mounts from inferior beings up to God,",5.0 +"And sees by no fallacious light or dim,",0.0 +"Earth made for man, and man himself for him.",1.0 +"Not that I mean to approve, or would enforce",2.0 +A superstitious and monastic course:,1.0 +"Truth is not local, God alike pervades",0.0 +"And fills the world of traffic and the shades,",1.0 +"And may be feared amid the busiest scenes,",3.0 +Or scorned where business never intervenes.,0.0 +"But it's not easy with a mind like ours,",2.0 +"Conscious of weakness in its noblest powers,",2.0 +And in a world where other ills apart,0.0 +"The roving eye misleads the careless heart,",0.0 +"To limit thought, by nature prone to stray",0.0 +"Resign our own and seek our maker's will,",1.0 +"To spread the page of scripture, and compare",1.0 +"To measure all that passes in the breast,",0.0 +"Faithfully, fairly, by that sacred test,",3.0 +"To spare no passion and no favourite sin,",3.0 +"And search the themes important above all,",2.0 +Ourselves and our recovery from our fall.,2.0 +"But leisure, silence, and a mind released",1.0 +"From anxious thoughts how wealth may be increased,",0.0 +"How to secure in some propitious hour,",1.0 +"The point of interest or the post of power,",1.0 +"A soul serene, and equally retired,",1.0 +"From objects too much dreaded or desired,",1.0 +At least are friendly to the great pursuit.,1.0 +"Opening the map of God's extensive plan,",1.0 +"We find a little isle, this life of man,",0.0 +Circling around and limiting his years;,2.0 +The busy race examine and explore,1.0 +"Each creek and cavern of the dangerous shore,",3.0 +"With care collect what in their eyes excels,",0.0 +"Some, shining pebbles, and some, weeds and shells,",1.0 +"Thus laden dream that they are rich and great,",2.0 +And happiest he that groans beneath his weight;,1.0 +"The waves overtake them in their serious play,",4.0 +"And every hour sweep multitudes away,",3.0 +"They shriek and sink, survivors start and weep,",0.0 +"Pursue their sport, and follow to the deep;",1.0 +"A few forsake the throng, with lifted eyes",0.0 +"Truth, wisdom, grace, and peace like that above,",1.0 +Sealed with his signet whom they serve and love;,0.0 +"Scorned by the rest, with patient hope they wait",0.0 +"A kind release from their imperfect state,",1.0 +From scenes of sorrow into glorious day.,2.0 +"Nor these alone prefer a life recluse,",1.0 +"Who seek retirement for its proper use,",1.0 +"The love of change that lives in every breast,",0.0 +"Genius, and temper, and desire of rest,",3.0 +"Discordant motives in one centre meet,",0.0 +Some minds by nature are averse to noise.,1.0 +"And hate the tumult half the world enjoys,",0.0 +"That courts display before ambitious eyes,",0.0 +"The fruits that hang on pleasure's flowery stem,",5.0 +"The fall of waters and the song of birds,",1.0 +"And hills that echo to the distant herds,",1.0 +Are luxuries excelling all the glare,1.0 +"With eager step and carelessly arrayed,",1.0 +"For such a cause the poet seeks the shade,",1.0 +"From all he sees he catches new delight,",0.0 +"The rising or the setting orb of day,",1.0 +"The clouds that flit, or slowly float away,",0.0 +"Nature in all the various shapes she wears,",2.0 +"Frowning in storms, or breathing gentle airs,",2.0 +"Her summer heats, her fruits, and her perfumes,",1.0 +"All, all alike transport the glowing bard,",0.0 +"Next to that power who formed thee and sustains,",3.0 +"Still as I touch the lyre, do thou expand",1.0 +"That I may catch a fire but rarely known,",0.0 +"Give useful light though I should miss renown,",2.0 +"And poring on thy page, whose every line",1.0 +"Bears proof of an intelligence divine,",3.0 +"May feel an heart enriched by what it pays,",0.0 +That builds its glory on its Maker's praise.,1.0 +"Woe to the man whose wit disclaims its use,",0.0 +"Glittering in vain, or only to seduce,",2.0 +"Who studies nature with a wanton eye,",1.0 +"Admires the work, but slips the lesson by,",1.0 +"His hours of leisure and recess employs,",1.0 +"In drawing pictures of forbidden joys,",1.0 +Or shoot the careless with a surer aim.,1.0 +"The lover too shuns business and alarms,",2.0 +"Saints offer nothing in their warmest prayers,",1.0 +That he devotes not with a zeal like theirs;,2.0 +"It's consecration of his heart, soul, time,",2.0 +And every thought that wanders is a crime.,1.0 +"In sighs he worships his supremely fair,",3.0 +"Adores a creature, and devout in vain,",1.0 +Wins in return an answer of disdain.,2.0 +"In spiral rings ascends the trunk, and lays",0.0 +"But does a mischief while she lends a grace,",0.0 +"So love that clings around the noblest minds,",0.0 +"Forbids the advancement of the soul he binds,",3.0 +"The suitor's air indeed he soon improves,",0.0 +"And forms it to the taste of her he loves,",2.0 +"Teaches his eyes a language, and no less",4.0 +Refines his speech and fashions his address;,1.0 +"But farewell promises of happier fruits,",4.0 +"Who will may pant for glory and excel,",1.0 +"Her smile his aim, all higher aims farewell!",1.0 +"May least offend against so pure a flame,",0.0 +"Though sage advice of friends the most sincere,",0.0 +"Sounds harshly in so delicate an ear,",2.0 +"And lovers of all creatures, tame or wild,",1.0 +"Can least brook management, however mild,",3.0 +The fiercest animals with magic charms,1.0 +"Risque an intrusion on thy pensive mood,",3.0 +And woo and win thee to thy proper good.,1.0 +"Pastoral images and still retreats,",3.0 +"Sweet birds in concert with harmonious streams,",5.0 +"Soft airs, nocturnal vigils, and day-dreams,",3.0 +"Conspire against thy peace with one design,",3.0 +And feed the fire that wastes thy powers away.,2.0 +"Up ' -- God has formed thee with a wiser view,",1.0 +"Not to be led in chains, but to subdue,",1.0 +"Calls thee to cope with enemies, and first",1.0 +"Points out a conflict with thyself, the worst.",1.0 +"Woman indeed, a gift he would bestow",2.0 +"When he designed a paradise below,",1.0 +"The richest earthly boon his hands afford,",0.0 +"Deserves to be beloved, but not adored.",0.0 +"Post away swiftly to more active scenes,",5.0 +"Mix with the world, but with its wiser part,",1.0 +"No longer give an image all thine heart,",1.0 +"Its empire is not hers, nor is it thine,",2.0 +"It's God's just claim, prerogative divine.",1.0 +"Attempts no task it cannot well fulfil,",1.0 +"Gives melancholy up to nature's care,",2.0 +And sends the patient into purer air.,0.0 +"Stand close concealed, and see a statue move:",2.0 +"Lips busy, and eyes fixed, foot falling slow,",4.0 +"Arms hanging idly down, hands clasped below,",3.0 +"Interpret to the marking eye, distress,",1.0 +Such as its symptoms can alone express.,2.0 +"That tongue is silent now, that silent tongue",0.0 +"Could argue once, could jest or joint the song,",0.0 +"Could give advice, could censure or commend,",1.0 +Or charm the sorrows of a drooping friend.,1.0 +"Renounced alike its office and its sport,",1.0 +"Its brisker and its graver strains fall short,",2.0 +This is a sight for pity to peruse,2.0 +"Till she resemble faintly what she views,",1.0 +"Till sympathy contract a kindred pain,",1.0 +Pierced with the woes that she laments in vain.,1.0 +"This of all maladies that man infest,",2.0 +"Claims most compassion and receives the least,",2.0 +"Job felt it when he groaned beneath the rod,",1.0 +"And the barbed arrows of a frowning God,",3.0 +Friends such as his for modern Jobs prepare.,1.0 +"Blessed, rather cursed with hearts that never feel,",1.0 +"With mouths made only to grin wide and eat,",3.0 +"And minds that deem derided pain, a treat,",0.0 +"With limbs of British oak and nerves of wire,",0.0 +On pangs enforced with God's severest stroke.,0.0 +But with a soul that ever felt the sting,1.0 +"Of sorrow, sorrow is a sacred thing,",1.0 +"Not to molest, or irritate, or raise",1.0 +"A laugh at its expense, is slender praise;",1.0 +He that has not usurped the name of man.,1.0 +"Does all, and deems too little, all he can,",1.0 +"It's not as heads that never ach suppose,",1.0 +"Man is an harp whose chords elude the sight,",0.0 +The screws reversed a task which if he please,1.0 +God in a moment executes with ease,0.0 +"Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loose,",2.0 +"Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use.",2.0 +"Nor view of waters turning busy mills,",0.0 +"Nor gardens interspersed with flowery beds,",2.0 +"Nor gales that catch the scent of blooming groves,",0.0 +"Can call up life into his faded eye,",0.0 +That passes all he sees unheeded by:,1.0 +"No wounds like those a wounded spirit feels,",1.0 +"No cure for such, till God who makes them, heals.",2.0 +"And thou sad sufferer under nameless ill,",4.0 +"That yields not to the touch of human skill,",1.0 +"Improve the kind occasion, understand",0.0 +"The purple evening and resplendent moon,",1.0 +The stars that sprinkled over the vault of night,2.0 +"Seem drops descending in a shower of light,",3.0 +Seen through the medium of a cloud like thine:,1.0 +"Yet seek him, in his favour life is found,",2.0 +"All bliss beside, a shadow or a sound:",1.0 +"Then heaven eclipsed so long, and this dull earth",1.0 +"Shall seem to start into a second birth,",0.0 +"Nature assuming a more lovely face,",3.0 +"Borrowing a beauty from the works of grace,",2.0 +"Shall be despised and overlooked no more,",1.0 +"Impart to things inanimate a voice,",1.0 +"And bid her mountains and her hills rejoice,",1.0 +"The sound shall run along the winding vales,",0.0 +And thou enjoy an Eden ever it fails.,3.0 +You groves the statesman at his desk exclaims,0.0 +Sick of a thousand disappointed aims,0.0 +"My patrimonial treasure and my pride,",1.0 +"Beneath your shades your grey possessor hide,",0.0 +Receive me languishing for that repose,1.0 +The servant of the public never knows.,1.0 +You saw me once ah those regretted days,1.0 +When boyish innocence was all my praise,1.0 +Hour after hour delightfully allot,1.0 +"To studies then familiar, since forgot,",0.0 +"And cultivate a taste for ancient song,",0.0 +"Nor seldom, as propitious heaven might send,",1.0 +"What once I valued and could boast, a friend,",1.0 +Were witnesses how cordially I pressed,2.0 +"Nor guiltless of corrupting other men,",1.0 +But versed in arts that while they seem to stay,0.0 +"A falling empire, hasten its decay.",1.0 +"To the fair haven of my native home,",3.0 +"The wreck of what I was, fatigued I come,",1.0 +"For once I can approve the patriot's voice,",3.0 +"And make the course he recommends, my choice,",0.0 +"We meet at last in one sincere desire,",1.0 +His wish and mine both prompt me to retire.,3.0 +"It's done ' -- he steps into the welcome chaise,",0.0 +"That whirl away from business and debate,",1.0 +"Ask not the boy, who when the breeze of morn",0.0 +"First shakes the glittering drops from every thorn,",3.0 +"Unfolds his flock, then under bank or bush",0.0 +How fair is freedom? ' -- he was always free ' --,1.0 +"To carve his rustic name upon a tree,",0.0 +"Are life's prime pleasures in his simple view,",1.0 +His flock the chief concern he ever knew:,0.0 +"Escaped from office and its constant cares,",1.0 +"What charms he sees in freedom's smile expressed,",0.0 +"In freedom lost so long, now repossessed,",1.0 +"The tongue whose strains were cogent as commands,",1.0 +"Revered at home, and felt in foreign lands,",0.0 +Or plead its silence as its best applause.,1.0 +"He knows indeed that whether dressed or rude,",0.0 +"Wild without art, or artfully subdued,",1.0 +"Nature in every form inspires delight,",2.0 +But never marked her with so just a sight.,1.0 +"Green balks and furrowed lands, the stream that spreads",1.0 +"Beauties he lately slighted as he passed,",3.0 +Seem all created since he travelled last.,1.0 +"Master of all the enjoyments he designed,",3.0 +"No rough annoyance rankling in his mind,",1.0 +"What early philosophic hours he keeps,",0.0 +"How regular his meals, how sound he sleeps!",1.0 +"Begins a long lookout for distant land,",1.0 +"Then swift descending with a seaman's haste,",1.0 +"Slips to his hammock, and forgets the blast.",1.0 +"He chooses company, but not the squire's,",1.0 +"Whose wit is rudeness, whose good breeding tyres;",0.0 +"Nor yet the parson's, who would gladly come,",0.0 +"Obsequious when abroad, though proud at home,",2.0 +"Nor can he much affect the neighbouring peer,",3.0 +"Whose toe of emulation treads too near,",1.0 +"But wisely seeks a more convenient friend,",0.0 +"With whom, dismissing forms, he may unbend,",1.0 +A man whom marks of condescending grace,0.0 +"Teach, while they flatter him, his proper place,",1.0 +"Who comes when called, and at a word withdraws,",0.0 +"Speaks with reserve, and listens with applause,",3.0 +"On whom he rests well pleased his weary powers,",1.0 +And talks and laughs away his vacant hours.,0.0 +"The tide of life, swift always in its course,",1.0 +"May run in cities with a brisker force,",1.0 +"But no where with a current so serene,",2.0 +Or half so clear as in the rural scene.,0.0 +"Yet how fallacious is all earthly bliss,",2.0 +What obvious truths the wisest heads may miss;,2.0 +"Some pleasures live a month, and some a year,",0.0 +"But short the date of all we gather here,",0.0 +"Nor happiness is felt, except the true,",1.0 +That does not charm the more for being new.,0.0 +"This observation, as it chanced, not made,",1.0 +"Or if the thought occurred, not duly weighed,",1.0 +"He sighs ' -- for after all, by slow degrees,",0.0 +The spot he loved has lost the power to please;,2.0 +"Seems at the best, but dreaming life away,",0.0 +"The prospect, such as might enchant despair,",1.0 +"He views it not, or sees no beauty there,",2.0 +"With aching heart and discontented looks,",0.0 +"Returns at noon, to billiards or to books,",1.0 +"But feels while grasping at his faded joys,",0.0 +"A secret thirst of his renounced employs,",1.0 +"He chides the tardiness of every post,",1.0 +"Pants to be told of battles won or lost,",0.0 +"It's criminal to leave a sinking state,",1.0 +"Flies to the levee, and received with grace,",1.0 +"That dread the encroachment of our growing streets,",3.0 +"With all a July sun's collected rays,",1.0 +"Delight the citizen, who gasping there",2.0 +Breathes clouds of dust and calls it country air.,1.0 +"O sweet retirement, who would balk the thought,",1.0 +"That could afford retirement, or could not?",1.0 +"It's such an easy walk, so smooth and strait,",1.0 +"The second milestone fronts the garden gate,",1.0 +"A step if fair, and if a shower approach,",3.0 +You find safe shelter in the next stage-coach.,2.0 +"There prisoned in a parlour snug and small,",0.0 +"Like bottled wasps upon a southern wall,",0.0 +"The man of business and his friends compressed,",1.0 +But still it's rural ' -- trees are to be seen,1.0 +"From every window, and the fields are green,",1.0 +"Ducks paddle in the pond before the door,",1.0 +A sense of elegance we rarely find,1.0 +"The portion of a mean or vulgar mind,",1.0 +"And ignorance of better things, makes man",2.0 +"Who cannot much, rejoice in what he can;",0.0 +And he that deems his leisure well bestowed,1.0 +"Is occupied as well, employs his hours",0.0 +"As wisely, and as much improves his powers,",1.0 +With all the charms of an accomplished taste.,1.0 +"Yet hence alas! Insolvencies, and hence",1.0 +"From all his wearisome engagements freed,",1.0 +"Shakes hands with business, and retires indeed.",2.0 +"When health required it would consent to roam,",0.0 +Else more attached to pleasures found at home.,1.0 +"But now alike, gay widow, virgin, wife,",1.0 +"Ingenious to diversify dull life,",2.0 +"Fly to the coast for daily, nightly joys,",0.0 +"And all impatient of dry land, agree",2.0 +With one consent to rush into the sea. ' --,1.0 +Much of the power and majesty of God.,3.0 +"That shines and rests, as infants smile and sleep,",0.0 +"Vast as it is, it answers as it flows",2.0 +"Curling and whitening over all the waste,",2.0 +"The rising waves obey the increasing blast,",2.0 +"Abrupt and horrid as the tempest roars,",1.0 +"Thunder and flash upon the steadfast shores,",3.0 +"Till he that rides the whirlwind, cheques the rein,",2.0 +"Then, all the world of waters sleeps again. ' --",0.0 +"Now in the floods, now panting in the meads,",1.0 +"Near barren rocks, in palaces or cells,",1.0 +"O grant a poet leave to recommend,",0.0 +A poet fond of nature and your friend,1.0 +"Her slighted works to your admiring view,",1.0 +"Her works must needs excel, who fashioned you.",1.0 +"Would you, when rambling in your morning ride,",0.0 +"To waste unheard the music of his strains,",1.0 +"That while it courts, affronts and does you wrong.",0.0 +"Mark well the finished plan without a fault,",1.0 +"Earth's millions daily fed, a world employed",1.0 +"In gathering plenty yet to be enjoyed,",2.0 +Till gratitude grew vocal in the praise,1.0 +"Of God, beneficent in all his ways,",2.0 +Graced with such wisdom how would beauty shine?,1.0 +You want but that to seem indeed divine.,0.0 +"Anticipated rents and bills unpaid,",0.0 +"Force many a shining youth into the shade,",3.0 +"Not to redeem his time but his estate,",2.0 +"And play the fool, but at a cheaper rate.",0.0 +"There hid in loathed obscurity, removed",1.0 +"From pleasures left, but never more beloved,",0.0 +"He just endures, and with a sickly spleen",1.0 +Sighs over the beauties of the charming scene.,4.0 +"Streams tinkle sweetly in poetic chime,",1.0 +"When Pope describes them, have a thousand sweets,",0.0 +"He likes the country, but in truth must own,",1.0 +"Most likes it, when he studies it in town.",1.0 +Poor Jack ' -- no matter who ' -- for when I blame,2.0 +"I pity, and must therefore sink the name,",2.0 +"Lived in his saddle, loved the chase, the course,",0.0 +"And always, ever he mounted, kissed his horse.",2.0 +"The estate his sires had owned in ancient years,",1.0 +"Was quickly distanced, matched against a peer's.",0.0 +"Jack vanished, was regretted and forgot,",3.0 +"At length, when all had long supposed him dead,",0.0 +"By cold submersion, razor, rope or lead,",0.0 +"Jack knew his friend, but hoped in that disguise",1.0 +"He might escape the most observing eyes,",0.0 +"And whistling as if unconcerned and gay,",1.0 +Curried his nag and looked another way.,2.0 +"Convinced at last upon a nearer view,",0.0 +"'Twas he, the same, the very Jack he knew,",0.0 +"Overwhelmed at once with wonder, grief and joy,",0.0 +"He pressed him much to quit his base employ,",0.0 +"His countenance, his purse, his heart, his hand,",1.0 +"That so retired he should not wish a change,",1.0 +"But knew no medium between guzzling beer,",7.0 +"And his old stint, three thousand pounds a year.",4.0 +"Thus some retire to nourish hopeless woe,",1.0 +"Some seeking happiness not found below,",1.0 +"Some to comply with humour, and a mind",1.0 +"To social scenes by nature disinclined,",0.0 +"Some swayed by fashion, some by deep disgust,",0.0 +"But few that court Retirement, are aware",3.0 +Of half the toils they must encounter there.,1.0 +Lucrative offices are seldom lost,3.0 +For want of powers proportioned to the post:,3.0 +And he soon finds the talents it requires;,3.0 +"A business with an income at its heels,",2.0 +Furnishes always oil for its own wheels.,3.0 +But in his arduous enterprise to close,2.0 +"His active years with indolent repose,",1.0 +"His utmost faculties, severe indeed.",2.0 +"But not to manage leisure with a grace,",1.0 +"Absence of occupation is not rest,",3.0 +A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.,2.0 +"The veteran steed excused his task at length,",0.0 +"In kind compassion of his failing strength,",1.0 +"And turned into the park or mead to graze,",0.0 +"Exempt from future service all his days,",0.0 +"There feels a pleasure perfect in its kind,",1.0 +"Ranges at liberty, and snuffs the wind.",3.0 +"But when his lord would quit the busy road,",0.0 +"To taste a joy like that he has bestowed,",0.0 +A life of ease a difficult pursuit.,1.0 +"Thought, to the man that never thinks, may seem",0.0 +"As natural, as when asleep, to dream,",1.0 +But reveries for human minds will act,1.0 +"Specious in show, impossible in fact,",3.0 +"Those flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought,",0.0 +Attain not to the dignity of thought.,2.0 +Nor yet the swarms that occupy the brain,0.0 +"Where dreams of dress, intrigue, and pleasure reign,",0.0 +"Nor such as useless conversation breeds,",1.0 +"Or lust engenders, and indulgence feeds.",5.0 +"Whence, and what are we? to what end ordained?",1.0 +What means the drama by the world sustained?,1.0 +"Business or vain amusement, care or mirth,",2.0 +"Divide the frail inhabitants of earth,",1.0 +"Is duty a mere sport, or an employ?",3.0 +"Life an entrusted talent, or a toy?",3.0 +"Is there as reason, conscience, scripture say,",1.0 +"Cause to provide for a great future day,",4.0 +"When earth's assigned duration at an end,",1.0 +Man shall be summoned and the dead attend?,1.0 +The trumpet ' -- will it sound? the curtain rise?,1.0 +"And show the august tribunal of the skies,",3.0 +"Where no prevarication shall avail,",0.0 +"Where eloquence and artifice shall fail,",2.0 +"The pride of arrogant distinctions fall,",1.0 +And conscience and our conduct judge us all?,1.0 +"Pardon me, you that give the midnight oil,",2.0 +"And hold the world indebted to your aid,",1.0 +"Enriched with the discoveries you have made,",2.0 +"Yet let me stand excused, if I esteem",1.0 +"A mind employed on so sublime a theme,",1.0 +Pushing her bold enquiry to the date,3.0 +"And outline of the present transient state,",2.0 +"Settling at last upon eternal things,",1.0 +"Far more intelligent, and better taught",2.0 +"The strenuous use of profitable thought,",3.0 +"Than you when happiest, and enlightened most,",4.0 +"And highest in renown, can justly boast.",0.0 +"The weight of subjects worthiest of her care,",1.0 +"Whatever hopes a change of scene inspires,",1.0 +"Must change her nature, or in vain retires.",1.0 +"An idler is a watch that wants both hands,",2.0 +As useless if it goes as when it stands.,1.0 +"Books therefore, not the scandal of the shelves,",2.0 +"Nor those in which the stage gives vice a blow,",1.0 +"With what success, let modern manners show,",1.0 +"Nor his, who for the bane of thousands born,",0.0 +"Built God a church and laughed his word to scorn,",1.0 +"A panting syllable through time and space,",1.0 +"Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark,",0.0 +"The friend of truth, the associate of sound sense,",3.0 +"And such as in the zeal of good design,",1.0 +"All such as manly and great souls produce,",2.0 +"Worthy to live, and of eternal use;",3.0 +"Behold in these what leisure hours demand,",1.0 +Amusement and true knowledge hand in hand.,2.0 +"Luxury gives the mind a childish cast,",2.0 +"Habits of close attention, thinking heads,",2.0 +"Become more rare as dissipation spreads,",0.0 +"Till authors hear at length, one general cry,",0.0 +"Tickle and entertain us, or we die.",3.0 +"The loud demand from year to year the same,",0.0 +"Beggars invention and makes fancy lame,",4.0 +"Calls for the kind assistance of a tune,",1.0 +And novels witness every month's review,1.0 +Belie their name and offer nothing new.,0.0 +"The mind relaxing into needful sport,",0.0 +"Should turn to writers of an abler sort,",1.0 +"Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,",2.0 +"Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.",3.0 +Friends for I cannot stint as some have done,0.0 +"Too rigid in my view, that name to one,",1.0 +"Though one, I grant it in the generous breast",3.0 +"Will stand advanced a step above the rest,",0.0 +"But one, the rose, the regent of them all",2.0 +"Friends, not adopted with a schoolboy's haste,",2.0 +"But chosen with a nice discerning taste,",1.0 +"From vulgar minds, have honour much at heart,",0.0 +And though the world may think the ingredients odd,5.0 +"The love of virtue, and the fear of God!",1.0 +"Such friends prevent what else would soon succeed,",0.0 +"A temper rustic as the life we lead,",1.0 +"And keep the polish of the manners clean,",1.0 +As their's who bustle in the busiest scene;,3.0 +"For solitude, however some may rave,",1.0 +"Seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave,",2.0 +Where all good qualities grow sick and die.,2.0 +"How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude!",0.0 +"But grant me still a friend in my retreat,",1.0 +"Whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.",0.0 +"Yet neither these delights, nor aught beside",1.0 +"That appetite can ask, or wealth provide,",0.0 +"Can save us always from a tedious day,",3.0 +Or shine the dullness of still life away;,2.0 +"Divine communion carefully enjoyed,",1.0 +"Or sought with energy, must fill the void.",1.0 +"O sacred art, to which alone life owes",1.0 +"Its happiest seasons, and a peaceful close,",3.0 +"Scorned in a world, indebted to that scorn",1.0 +"For evils daily felt and hardly born,",0.0 +"Not knowing thee, we reap with bleeding hands,",1.0 +"Flowers of rank odour upon thorny lands,",8.0 +"And while experience cautions us in vain,",3.0 +"Grasp seeming happiness, and find it pain.",2.0 +"Lost by abandoning her own relief,",3.0 +"Murmuring and ungrateful discontent,",4.0 +"That scorns afflictions mercifully meant,",1.0 +"Which idleness and weariness beget,",2.0 +These and a thousand plagues that haunt the breast,1.0 +"Fond of the phantom of an earthly rest,",1.0 +Divine communion chases as the day,1.0 +Drives to their dens the obedient beasts of prey.,4.0 +"Driven out an exile from the face of Saul,",3.0 +"To distant caves the lonely wanderer flies,",2.0 +To seek that peace a tyrant's frown denies.,2.0 +"Hear the sweet accents of his tuneful voice,",4.0 +"Hear him overwhelmed with sorrow, yet rejoice,",0.0 +"No, not a moment, in his royal heart,",0.0 +"Tis manly music, such as martyrs make,",2.0 +"His soul exults, hope animates his lays,",1.0 +"And wilds familiar with the lion's roar,",1.0 +Ring with ecstatic sounds unheard before;,2.0 +It's love like his that can alone defeat,2.0 +"The foes of man, or make a desert sweet.",0.0 +Religion does not censure or exclude,1.0 +"To study culture, and with artful toil",1.0 +To give dissimilar yet fruitful lands,1.0 +"The grain or herb or plant that each demands,",0.0 +"To cherish virtue in an humble state,",0.0 +"And share the joys your bounty may create,",1.0 +"That shuts within its seed the future flower,",0.0 +"Bids these in elegance of form excel,",1.0 +"In colour these, and those delight the smell,",1.0 +"Sends nature forth, the daughter of the skies,",2.0 +"To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes;",0.0 +"To teach the canvas innocent deceit,",1.0 +"Or lay the landscape on the snowy sheet,",2.0 +"These, these are arts pursued without a crime,",1.0 +That leave no stain upon the wing of time.,1.0 +Me poetry or rather notes that aim,1.0 +Feebly and vainly at poetic fame,2.0 +"Employs, shut out from more important views,",2.0 +"Content, if thus sequestered I may raise",1.0 +"A monitor's, though not a poet's praise,",1.0 +"And while I teach an art too little known,",1.0 +"To close life wisely, may not waste my own.",2.0 +"And yet how few, how very few can think!",0.0 +The knack of writing is an easy trade;,1.0 +But to think well requires ' -- at least a Head.,2.0 +"Once in an age, one Genius may arise,",1.0 +"Like some tall oak, behold his branches shoot!",1.0 +"No lays, like mine, can live beneath his shade.",1.0 +"Nothing but weeds, and moss, and shrubs are found.",2.0 +"Cut, cut them down, why cumber they the ground?",3.0 +To mend a candle when the snuff's too short?,1.0 +Glorious ambition! noble thirst of same! ' --,1.0 +"It's more than Pope, with all his wit can do.",0.0 +"It's more than You, with wit and beauty joined,",1.0 +"A pleasing from, and a discerning mind.",2.0 +The world and I are no such cordial friends;,1.0 +"I have my purpose, they their various ends.",3.0 +"I say my prayers, and lead a sober life,",0.0 +"What's fame to me, who pray, and pay my rent?",1.0 +"I my friends know me honest, I'm content.",3.0 +"Well, but the joy to see my works in print!",0.0 +"The Preface done, the Dedication framed,",0.0 +With lies enough to make a Lord ashamed!,0.0 +My Patron's name? OH choose some Lord at Court.,1.0 +"One that has money which he does not use,",0.0 +"One you may flatter much, that is, abuse.",2.0 +"Well then, to cut this mighty matter short,",0.0 +"I hardly know a creature, great or small,",0.0 +"Except one Maid of Honour, Honourable Miss Lovelace. worth them all.",6.0 +I have no business there. Let those attend,4.0 +"The courtly Levee, or the courtly Friend,",1.0 +"Who more than fate allows them, dare to spend.",0.0 +"Or those whose avarice, with much, craves more,",2.0 +"These are the thriving Breed, the tiny Great!",1.0 +"Philosophers! who calmly bear disgrace,",1.0 +Patriots! who sell their country for a place.,2.0 +Shall I for these disturb my brains with rhyme?,1.0 +"Shall I go late to rest, and early rise,",3.0 +To be the very creature I despise?,1.0 +"With face unmoved, my poem in my hand,",0.0 +"Cringe to the porter, with the footman stand?",1.0 +"With what my lady eats, and how she rests:",1.0 +"How much she gave for such a birthday gown,",2.0 +"Sick at the news, impatient for my lord,",1.0 +"I'm forced to hear, nay smile at every word.",1.0 +"Tom raps at last, ' -- His lordship begs to know",1.0 +"Your name? your business? ' -- Sir, I'm not a foe.",0.0 +"With verses, soft as music of the spheres.",1.0 +Verses! ' -- Alas! his lordship seldom reads:,2.0 +Pedants indeed with learning stuff their heads;,2.0 +"But my good lord, as all the world can tell,",1.0 +"Was born a poet, though no poet bred:",2.0 +I'll recommend your poetry ' -- and you.,1.0 +"Pocket my poem, and in haste depart;",3.0 +"Resolved no more to offer up my wit,",2.0 +"Not places, pensions, ribbons can control;",1.0 +"Eats not on silver, while his train are starved;",0.0 +"Who though to nobles, or to kings allied,",1.0 +"Dares walk on foot, while slaves in coaches ride;",1.0 +"With merit humble, and with greatness free,",1.0 +"Has bowed to Freeman, and has dined with Me;",1.0 +"Who bred in foreign courts, and early known,",0.0 +Has yet to learn the cunning of his own;,1.0 +"To titles born, yet heir to no estate,",0.0 +"And, harder still, to honest to be great;",1.0 +"To Him I'll dedicate, for Him I'll write.",2.0 +Peace to the rest. I can be no man's slave;,2.0 +"I ask for nothing, though I nothing have.",1.0 +"By Fortune humbled, yet not sunk so low",0.0 +"To shame a friend, or fear to meet a foe.",0.0 +"Meanness, in ribbons or in rags, I hate;",3.0 +"And have not learnt to flatter, even the Great.",2.0 +"Few friends I ask, and those who love me well;",1.0 +"Of honest parents, not of great, I came;",0.0 +"Not known to fortune, quite unknown to fame.",0.0 +"Frugal and plain, at no man's cost they eat,",3.0 +"Nor knew a baker's, or a butcher's debt.",1.0 +OH be their precepts ever in my eye!,1.0 +"For one has learnt to live, and one to die.",2.0 +Long may her widowed age by heaven be lent,0.0 +Among my blessings! and I'm well content.,1.0 +"I ask no more, but in some calm retreat,",1.0 +"To sleep in quiet, and in quiet eat.",1.0 +No noisy slaves attending round my room;,1.0 +"No orphans cheated, and no widow's curse,",3.0 +"No household lord, for better or for worse.",3.0 +"No monstrous sums to tempt my soul to sin,",1.0 +"But just enough to keep me plain, and clean.",0.0 +"And if sometime, to smooth the rugged way,",2.0 +"Charlot should smile, or You approve my lay,",3.0 +Enough for me. I cannot put my trust,1.0 +"In lords; smile lies, eat toads, or lick the dust.",2.0 +Fortune her favours much too dear may hold:,3.0 +An honest heart is worth its weight in gold.,0.0 +Your Doctrine to the Height I will allow:,2.0 +"I who with utmost Force resist my Fate,",1.0 +"In vain I strive the immutable Decree,",3.0 +Has passed on my unlucky Destiny.,2.0 +"With Sighs and Tears I did at first begin,",0.0 +To conquer Fate as others would their Sin;,0.0 +"Each Path I trod I went with Caution on,",1.0 +But every Step does lead to be undone:,0.0 +"And when a threatening Storm was in my View,",0.0 +I from it wisely as I thought withdrew;,2.0 +"But while the approaching Ills with Fear I shun,",1.0 +Into some other certain Harms I run;,0.0 +"So when some mighty Grief did press my Soul,",0.0 +I would the uneasy Tyranny control;,2.0 +"Like a distracted Man that will not bear,",2.0 +Those Fetters which Discretion makes him wear;,0.0 +"But frets and raves, and breaks the friendly Chain,",0.0 +Which did from greater Injuries restrain;,1.0 +"He'll not be barred a dangerous Liberty,",3.0 +Though he to Outrages and Mischief fly.,6.0 +"Thus I from one Misfortune force my Way,",1.0 +By Means that does to greater still betray;,0.0 +"One Sorrow seldom attends long on me,",4.0 +"I have a torturing Variety,",2.0 +"I change and change, yet still it's Misery.",1.0 +"A Hydra Fate my Ruin does pursue,",0.0 +"Cut off one ill, strait, there springs up a new,",2.0 +"Nor shun the Ills by mighty Powers decreed,",2.0 +"Hoodwinked by them, just as they guide we tread.",1.0 +"In vain we say we this or that will do,",1.0 +"The only Way to ease our Discontents,",0.0 +Is to conclude they must be such Events;,2.0 +"Such as the mighty hidden source of Things,",1.0 +Bubbles from it's inevitable Springs.,4.0 +"When conscious of no danger from below,",3.0 +No thunders shook with deep intestine sound,1.0 +"Her unctuous olives and her purple vines,",2.0 +"The peasant's hopes, and not in vain, assured,",0.0 +In peace upon her sloping sides matured.,0.0 +"When on a day, like that of the last doom,",1.0 +That shook the circling seas and solid earth.,0.0 +"And hang their horrors in the neighbouring skies,",2.0 +"While through the stygian veil that blots the day,",0.0 +In dazzling streaks the vivid lightnings play.,0.0 +"But o! what muse, and in what powers of song,",3.0 +Can trace the torrent as it burns along?,1.0 +"Havoc and devastation in the van,",2.0 +"It marches over the prostrate works of man,",2.0 +And all the charms of a Sicilian year.,3.0 +"Revolving seasons, fruitless as they pass,",1.0 +"See it an uninformed and idle mass,",0.0 +Or blade that might redeem it from despair.,1.0 +Yet time at length what will not time achieve?,1.0 +"Clothes it with earth, and bids the produce live,",0.0 +"O bliss precarious, and unsafe retreats,",3.0 +O charming paradise of short lived sweets!,1.0 +"Brings to the distant ear a sullen sound,",0.0 +"Again the mountain feels the imprisoned foe,",2.0 +"Again pours ruin on the vale below,",2.0 +That only future ages can restore.,1.0 +"You monarchs, whom the lure of honour draws,",2.0 +"Who write in blood the merits of your cause,",1.0 +"Who strike the blow, then plead your own defence,",0.0 +"Fast by the stream that bounds your just domain,",0.0 +"And tells you where you have a right to reign,",0.0 +"A nation dwells, not envious of your throne,",1.0 +"Studious of peace, their neighbours and their own.",1.0 +"Their only crime, vicinity to you!",1.0 +"The trumpet sounds, your legions swarm abroad,",0.0 +"Through the ripe harvest lies their destined road,",2.0 +At every step beneath their feet they tread,0.0 +"The life of multitudes, a nation's bread;",0.0 +"Before them, and behind a wilderness;",2.0 +"Famine and pestilence, her firstborn son,",4.0 +"Attend to finish what the sword begun,",0.0 +"And echoing praises such as fiends might earn,",3.0 +"And folly pays, resound at your return.",2.0 +A calm succeeds ' -- but plenty with her train,1.0 +"Of heart-felt joys, succeeds not soon again,",1.0 +What scourges are the gods that rule below.,1.0 +"Yet man, laborious man, by slow degrees,",2.0 +Such is his thirst of opulence and ease,2.0 +Increasing commerce and reviving art,1.0 +"Renew the quarrel on the conquerors part,",3.0 +And the sad lesson must be learnt once more;,3.0 +That wealth within is ruin at the door.,0.0 +"Sweet nature stripped of her embroidered robe,",2.0 +"Deplores the wasted regions of her globe,",1.0 +"And stands a witness at truth's awful bar,",1.0 +"To prove you there, destroyers as you are.",2.0 +"Where peace and equity and freedom smile,",1.0 +"Where no Volcano pours his fiery flood,",2.0 +"No crested warrior dips his plume in blood,",1.0 +"Where power secures what industry has won,",3.0 +"Where to succeed is not to be undone,",1.0 +"A land that distant tyrants hate in vain,",0.0 +"In Britain's isle, beneath a George's reign.",0.0 +"THE land that answers best the farmer's care,",0.0 +And silvers to maturity the Hop:,2.0 +"Under what sign to pluck the crop, and how",2.0 +"To cure, and in capacious sacks enfold,",0.0 +And meditate an honour to that land,0.0 +"Where first I breathed, and struggled into life",0.0 +"While ever near him, goddess of the green,",1.0 +With vocal fascination charmed the ' -- HOM. E. Hours,1.0 +"Had I such power, no peasants toil, no hops",4.0 +"Should ever debase my lay: far nobler themes,",4.0 +The high achievements of thy warrior kings,1.0 +"Should raise my thoughts, and dignify my song.",0.0 +"But I, young rustic, dare not leave my cot,",2.0 +"For so enlarged a sphere ' -- ah! muse beware,",1.0 +"Lest the deep drum should drown thy tender reed,",2.0 +"And mar its puny joints: me, lowly swain,",0.0 +"Whose fleeces, poisoned into purple, deck",1.0 +"The muse demands your presence, ere she tune",0.0 +And catch the wholesome dictates as they fall.,2.0 +"'Midst thy paternal acres, Farmer, say",2.0 +"Has gracious heaven bestowed one field, that basks",0.0 +"Its loamy bosom in the midday sun,",1.0 +"Emerging gently from the abject vale,",1.0 +"Nor yet obnoxious to the wind, secure",1.0 +"There shall thou plant thy hop. This soil, perhaps,",0.0 +"But Crees, rural goddess, at the best",2.0 +"And keep the soul from fainting: to enlarge,",1.0 +"And wing the flagging spirits to the sky,",1.0 +Require the united influence and aid,2.0 +"Then on one pedestal, and hand in hand,",1.0 +Stands eastward in thy field a wood? it's well.,1.0 +"Esteem it as a bulwark of thy wealth,",2.0 +"And cherish all its branches; though we'll grant,",1.0 +"The morning rays, and envy some small share",1.0 +With all his worlds of insects in thy lands,1.0 +"Thy vegetable riches, then thy wood",2.0 +"Shall open it's arms expansive, and embrace",3.0 +"The storm reluctant, and divert its rage.",1.0 +In vain: the ventilating trees oppose,0.0 +Their airy march. They blacken distant plains.,0.0 +"This site for thy young nursery obtained,",3.0 +"Thou hast begun auspicious, if the soil",1.0 +As sung before be loamy; this the hop,1.0 +"Loves above others, this is rich, is deep,",5.0 +"Is viscous, and tenacious of the pole.",2.0 +"Still captivate the eye, while at his feet",1.0 +And murmurs louder ecstasy below.,1.0 +"Here let us rest awhile, pleased to behold",2.0 +Far as the eagle's ken. Here towering spires,0.0 +"First catch the eye, and turn the thoughts to heaven.",1.0 +The lofty elms in humble majesty,1.0 +"Bend with the breeze to shade the solemn groves,",0.0 +Pomona absent; you mid the hoary leaves,2.0 +Swell the vermilion cherry; and on you trees,3.0 +"Wonder at silver bleak, and prickly perch,",2.0 +That swiftly through their floating forests glide.,1.0 +Of wealth and pleasure can engage my eyes,1.0 +"TO overlook the lowly hawthorn, if from thence",2.0 +Which Phoebus' self vaulting from yonder cloud,5.0 +"But neither towering spires, nor lofty elms,",0.0 +"Nor sweetly warbling thrush, with half those charms",0.0 +"The muse, and to her theme the wanderer calls.",3.0 +Here then with ponderous vehicles and teams,3.0 +Command them bring the chalk: thence to the kiln,2.0 +Over all thy lands disseminate; thy lands,0.0 +"Which first have felt the softening spade, and drank",0.0 +"This done, select the choicest hop, to insert",1.0 +"Its various kinds, and from the effete and vile,",3.0 +The eligible separate with care.,1.0 +"Or Phoebus even in youth, his verdant blood",2.0 +Significantly styled the Fryar: the last,3.0 +"Is called the Savage, who in every wood,",0.0 +"When such the merit of the candidates,",2.0 +"Easy is the election; but, my friend",4.0 +Where no one shall be frustrated that seeks,2.0 +"Illustrious parent of the finest fruits,",3.0 +Illustrious parent of the best of men!,3.0 +"Placidly stagnant at their fountain head,",2.0 +"Splendidly rough within your native mines,",2.0 +"To luxury unrefined, better far",6.0 +"Than dwell a slave to passion and to wealth,",1.0 +Politely paralytic in the town!,0.0 +"Is all remitted, who alone possess",0.0 +"Of Adam's sons fair Eden ' -- rest you here,",1.0 +Nor seek an earthly good above the hop;,0.0 +And almost to your very sires unknown.,2.0 +In those blessed days when great Eliza reigned,3.0 +"Over the adoring nation, when fair peace",2.0 +"Or spread an unstained olive round the land,",5.0 +"To lord it over the world, when our brave sires",3.0 +"Then the hop before an interdicted plant,",0.0 +"Emasculate and wine, the toils of war,",0.0 +"Neglected, and to dalliance vile and sloth",3.0 +"Emancipated, saw the encroaching Saxons",2.0 +With unaffected eyes; his hand which ought,0.0 +"TO have shook the spear of justice, soft and smooth,",0.0 +Played ravishing divisions on the lyre:,3.0 +Nor stopped he here; but to immense attempts,1.0 +"Adventurous. He an only daughter reared,",1.0 +"And fairy fiction raised above her sex,",0.0 +And furnished her with thousand various wiles,3.0 +"Preposterous, more than female; wondrous fair",1.0 +"She was, and docile, which her pious nurse",1.0 +"Observed, and early in each female fraud",1.0 +"Her began initiate: well she knew to smile,",4.0 +"'Twas not sincere, the fountains of her eyes",2.0 +"Played artificial streams, yet so well forced",2.0 +They looked like nature; for even art to her,2.0 +"Soon she perceived her conquest; soon she told,",2.0 +"With hasty joy transported, her old sire.",2.0 +"The willing prince invited, but first bad",2.0 +The nymph prepare the potions; such as fire,1.0 +To love the soul. Lo! at the noon of night,1.0 +The goddess stooped assent; forth from a cloud,2.0 +These in a splendid cup of burnished gold,0.0 +"Muttered dire exorcisms, and wished effect",3.0 +"Fawning insinuation bland, that might",2.0 +Shed copiously the oblique rays; her face,7.0 +And with no borrowed lustre; on her brow,3.0 +"Smiled Fallacy, while summoning each grace,",3.0 +Kneeling she gave the cup. The prince for who!,2.0 +"Drank eager, and in ecstasy devoured",3.0 +The ambrosial perturbation; mad with love,1.0 +"He clasped her, and in Hymeneal bands",2.0 +At once the nymph demanded and obtained.,1.0 +"Exterminated, and usurped his seat.",2.0 +Has razed his palace walls ' -- Perchance on them,4.0 +"Grows the green hop, and over his crumbled bust",5.0 +"But now to plant, to dig, to dung, to weed;",0.0 +Tasks how indelicate? demand the muse.,3.0 +"With thy unbounded imagery; child of thought,",3.0 +"The active spirits ideal, towering flights,",5.0 +"Thou too be here, Experience, so shall I",1.0 +Nor in smooth numbers musically err;,3.0 +"But vain is Fancy and Experience vain,",3.0 +"If thou, OH Hesiod! Virgil of our land,",5.0 +"Whose greatness who shall imitate, save thee?",2.0 +"Of that immeasurable mount, that far",0.0 +With Phoebus' self thy lyre. Give me to turn,2.0 +"When Phoebus looks through Aries on the spring,",1.0 +"And vernal flowers promise the dulcet fruit,",2.0 +Autumnal pride! delay not then thy sets,0.0 +"To every root three joints indulge, and form",1.0 +"Thy young plants will uplift, their virgin arms",4.0 +"Expect an hopeful issue, jolly Mirth,",0.0 +And tenderness of youth suffice small shoots,2.0 +"Cut from the widowed willow, nor provide",2.0 +Poles insurmountable as yet. It's then,2.0 +"Twice the cold touch of winter's icy hand,",3.0 +"Down tumble the big trees, and rushing roll",2.0 +"Over the crushed crackling brake, while in his cave",2.0 +Laments Sylvanus for his verdant care.,6.0 +"The ash, or willow for thy use select,",2.0 +"Reserve untouched; she when by time matured,",0.0 +"Vernon, or Warren, shall with rapid wing",2.0 +"Fly on thy foes; They, like the parted waves,",0.0 +Which to the brazen beak murmuring give way,5.0 +"Amazed, and roaring from the fight recede. ' --",1.0 +"Averse the lordly prop. Thus, have I heard",1.0 +While the infatuated lord admires,1.0 +"Long days and happy hours, from every vine",1.0 +"Dock the redundant branches, and once more",4.0 +With the sharp spade thy numerous acres till.,5.0 +"The shovel next must lend its aid, enlarge",0.0 +This in that month its title which derives,0.0 +From great Augustus' ever sacred name!,4.0 +Sovereign of Science! master of the Muse!,3.0 +Neglected Genius' firm ally! Of worth,0.0 +"Well did you too in this, all glorious heroes!",3.0 +And time shall bear it to eternity.,2.0 +"Now bloom the florid hops, and in the stream",1.0 +"Shine in their floating silver, while above",0.0 +A walk impervious to the sun; the poles,1.0 +In comely order stand; and while you cleave,0.0 +"In comely order still their ranks preserve,",0.0 +And seem to march along the extensive plain.,2.0 +"In neat arrangement thus the men of Kent,",0.0 +"With native oak at once adorned and armed,",0.0 +Intrepid marched; for well they knew the cries,0.0 +"Who as she fled, to echoing woods complained.",2.0 +"Of tyranny, and William; like a god,",1.0 +"He sent his looks enlivening as the sun's,",1.0 +"But on his foes frowned agony, frowned death.",4.0 +Wore clouds of fury! ' -- on that with plumage crowned,2.0 +Of various hue sat a tremendous cone:,4.0 +"Terrific beauty of nocturnal skies,",1.0 +"Shoots, shoots her tremulous rays in painted streaks",3.0 +"Continual, while waving to the wind",2.0 +Over Night's dark veil her lucid tresses flow.,1.0 +"Astounded, the proud bend lowly to the earth,",4.0 +The pious matrons tremble for the world.,1.0 +All innocent of fear; each face expressed,1.0 +"Contemptuous admiration, while they viewed",2.0 +"That drew the sword for gain. First of the van,",2.0 +"With an enormous bough, a shepherd swain",1.0 +Whistled with rustic notes; but such as showed,3.0 +A heart magnanimous: The men of Kent,1.0 +"Follow the tuneful swain, while over their heads",4.0 +"The green leaves whisper, and the big boughs bend.",3.0 +"The floods inspired, and taught the rocks to feel,",2.0 +"The lute's soft tune! The fluttering branches wave,",3.0 +And all the mighty mountain nods applause.,0.0 +"The conqueror viewed them, and as one that sees",3.0 +"The vast abrupt of Scylla, or as one",1.0 +"Has drank eternal apathy, he stood.",1.0 +His host an universal panic seized,0.0 +Some to the walking wilderness gan run,2.0 +"Confused, and in the inhospitable shade",2.0 +Eternal shelter in the arms of death!,0.0 +Thus when Aquarius pours out all his urn.,3.0 +"Down on some lonesome heath, the traveller",2.0 +The invitation of some spreading beech,1.0 +Joyous; but soon the treacherous gloom betrays,4.0 +"The unwary visitor, while on his head",3.0 +The enlarging drops in double showers descend.,3.0 +And now no longer in disguise the men,1.0 +"Of Kent appear; down they all drop their boughs,",1.0 +And shine in brazen panoply divine.,1.0 +Enough ' -- Great William for full well he knew,3.0 +How vain would be the contest to the sons,1.0 +"And liberties secure, and to the prowess",2.0 +"Caesar and William! Hail immortal worthies,",2.0 +"Posterity with all her chiefs unborn,",2.0 +"Ought similar, ought second has to boast,",1.0 +Once more so prophecies the Muse thy sons,1.0 +"Over all thy land reign Plenty, reign fair Peace.",2.0 +AT length the Muse her destined task resumes,0.0 +"Hush then, effeminate sobs; and thou, my heart,",4.0 +"Rebel to grief no more ' -- And yet a while,",1.0 +"A little while, indulge the friendly tears.",0.0 +"I seek the olive peace, around me wide",0.0 +"See! see! the watery waste ' -- In vain, forlorn",3.0 +I call the Phoenix fair Sincerity;,1.0 +"Alas! ' -- extinguished to the skies she fled,",1.0 +And left no heir behind her. Where is now,1.0 +The eternal smile of goodness? Where is now,1.0 +"So rich in sweetness, that the classic sounds",0.0 +"That flowed perennial, hardly were observed,",3.0 +"Or, if observed, set off a brighter gem.",3.0 +"How oft, and yet how seldom did it seem!",0.0 +"Have I enjoyed his converse? ' -- When we met,",1.0 +"The hours how swift they sweetly fled, and till",0.0 +"Fame has not for me, though she prove most kind.",1.0 +"However this verse be sacred to thy name,",4.0 +"These tears, the last sad duty of a friend.",2.0 +Oft i'll indulge the pleasurable pain,3.0 +I'll muse on thee full pensive; while her streams,2.0 +"My loud laments, shall ever and anon",1.0 +"Make melancholy music to the shades,",2.0 +Serpentine vines and flowing locks of gold.,3.0 +"You smiling nymphs, the inseparable train",3.0 +"And sing to jolly Autumn, while he stands",0.0 +"And leave a while the sickle; yonder hill,",0.0 +"There mighty Bacchus straddling cross the bin,",0.0 +Waits your attendance ' -- There he glad reviews,3.0 +"Still nearer, and with pride of heart surveys",2.0 +"Obedient mortals, and the world his own.",3.0 +"See! from the great metropolis they rush,",1.0 +"The industrious vulgar. They, like prudent bees,",4.0 +"The flowery hop, and provident to work,",3.0 +"From these, such as appear the rest to excel",4.0 +"In strength and young agility, select.",1.0 +"Over twice three pickers, and no more, extend",3.0 +"The crack of poles continual, and thine eyes",1.0 +Behold unmoved the hurrying peasant tear,2.0 +"Thy wealth, and throw it on the thankless ground.",1.0 +But first the careful planter will consult,1.0 +"His quantity of acres, and his crop,",2.0 +How many and how large his kilns; and then,1.0 +Proportioned to his wants the hands provide.,1.0 +"But yet, of greater consequence and cost,",1.0 +"One thing remains unsung, a man of faith",0.0 +"And long experience, in whose thundering voice",3.0 +"Lives hoarse authority, potent to quell",5.0 +"Shall to the brink the measure fill, and fair",0.0 +On the twin registers the work record.,3.0 +To the wild brutal crew. Oft her command,4.0 +"The lofty poles from ruin, and sustained,",1.0 +"Like ANNA, or ELIZA, her domain,",2.0 +"Even at her frown the boisterous uproar cease,",1.0 +"And the mad pickers, tamed to diligence,",3.0 +"That stain the sample, and its worth debase.",1.0 +"All things thus settled and prepared, what now",2.0 +Can let the planters purposes? Unless,1.0 +"The Heavens frown dissent, and ominous winds",2.0 +Howl through the concave of the troubled sky.,1.0 +O! could they too prevent them storms foresee.,0.0 +"The heifer towards the zenith rears her head,",0.0 +And with expanded nostrils snuffs the air:,1.0 +"The swallows too their airy circuits weave,",0.0 +Heaves her huge eggs along the narrow way:,3.0 +Athwart the cope of heaven: or sable crows,0.0 +Repulsive baffle their efforts: Next hark,3.0 +"How the cursed raven, with her harmful voice,",3.0 +"Invokes the rain, and croaking to herself,",1.0 +Struts on some spacious solitary shore.,0.0 +Nor want thy servants and thy wife at home,1.0 +Signs to presage the shower; for in the hall,3.0 +"Beneath thy leaden tubes to fix the vase,",0.0 +"To soak thy hops, and brew thy generous beer.",2.0 +"But though bright Phoebus smile, and in the skies",2.0 +"Though every cloud be fled, yet if the rage",1.0 +"The planter has enough to cheque his hopes,",0.0 +And in due bounds confine his joy; for see,1.0 +"Leave not a hop behind, or at the best",0.0 +"Mangle the circling vine, and intercept",2.0 +"The juice nutritious: Fatal means, alas!",0.0 +"Haste then, you peasants; pull the poles, the hops;",0.0 +"Where are the bins? Run, run, you nimble maids,",1.0 +"Move every muscle, every nerve extend,",1.0 +"To save our crop from ruin, and ourselves.",1.0 +"With fluttering wings, and hymns the newborn day,",2.0 +"Shall rouse from sleep the rebel rout, and tune",0.0 +Wisely the several stations of the bins,3.0 +"By lot determine. Justice this, and this",1.0 +Fair Prudence does demand; for not without,1.0 +"Irrational, nor every where alike",1.0 +Fair hangs the hop to tempt the picker hand.,1.0 +Now see the crew mechanic might and main,1.0 +"Labour with lively diligence, inspired",2.0 +By appetite of gain and lust of praise:,0.0 +"What mind so petty, servile, and debased,",1.0 +As not to know ambition? Her great sway,2.0 +From Colin Clout to Emperors she exerts.,3.0 +"To err is human, human to be vain.",1.0 +"It's vanity, and mock desire of fame,",1.0 +"That prompts the rustic, on the steeple top",1.0 +"Sublime, to mark the outlines of his shoe,",2.0 +And in the area to engrave his name.,3.0 +That bought the font; and I repaired the pews.,1.0 +With pride like this the emulating mob,1.0 +Strive for the mastery ' -- who first may fill,1.0 +"Nor ought retards, unless invited out",1.0 +Of shade and fragrance ' -- Then the exulting band,2.0 +"Of pickers male and female, seize the fair",1.0 +"Reluctant, and with boisterous force and brute,",1.0 +"By cries unmoved, they bury her in the bin.",1.0 +"Nor does the youth escape ' -- him too they seize,",0.0 +And in such posture place as best may serve,0.0 +To hide his charmer's blushes. Then with shouts,3.0 +So custom has ordained a largess claim.,0.0 +Thus much be sung of picking ' -- next succeeds,0.0 +"The important care of curing ' -- Quit the field,",1.0 +And at the kiln the instructive muse attend.,2.0 +Let the green hops lie lightly; next expand,4.0 +The smoothest surface with the toothy rake.,1.0 +Thus far is just above; but more it boots,1.0 +"The charcoal flames, which from thy corded wood,",2.0 +"Or antiquated poles, with wondrous skill,",0.0 +The sable priests of Vulcan shall prepare.,0.0 +Constant and moderate let the heat ascend;,4.0 +"Which to effect, there are, who with success",2.0 +Place in the kiln the ventilating fan.,0.0 +"Hail, learnt, useful Dr. Hales. man! whose head and heart",4.0 +"Conspire to make us happy, deign to accept",4.0 +One honest verse; and if thy industry,2.0 +"This sole invention, both in use and fame,",0.0 +"When the fourth hour expires, with careful hand",5.0 +"Has well exhausted twice two glasses more,",1.0 +"For use domestic, or for sale mature.",1.0 +"There are, who in the choice of cloth t'enfold",1.0 +With prodigal economy prefer:,2.0 +"Besides, the planter should a bait prepare,",0.0 +Shrewd Observation from her busy pry.,2.0 +"When in the bag thy hops the rustic treads,",0.0 +Such filthy ways for slaves in Malaga,1.0 +"As the dried foreign fruit, with piercing eye,",2.0 +"She culled suspicious ' -- lo! she starts, she frowns",0.0 +With indignation at a negro's nail.,0.0 +Be thine own factor; nor employ those drones,1.0 +That thrive and fatten on the planter's toil.,2.0 +What then remains unsung? unless the care,0.0 +"To stack thy poles oblique in comely cones,",0.0 +Lest rot or rain destroy them ' -- It's a sight,1.0 +How great amid such rivals to excel!,1.0 +"The birth of great Eliza. ' -- Hail, my queen!",0.0 +"And yet I'll call thee by a dearer name,",2.0 +"Gives fame to worlds, and makes whole ages glorious!",3.0 +"These social scenes of grandeur and delight,",4.0 +"Of love and veneration, let me tread.",0.0 +How oft beneath you oak has amorous Prior,2.0 +"While noble Sackville heard, hearing approved,",6.0 +"Alas! has numbered with the illustrious dead,",5.0 +And orphan merit has no guardian now!,3.0 +"To narrow limits, yet can show a train",0.0 +Opens her delightful prospects: Dear Fairlawn,2.0 +"There, where at once at variance and agreed,",3.0 +"Who fosters all their foliage ' -- These are thine,",1.0 +"And if ' -- But o! ' -- and if it's no disgrace,",2.0 +The birth of him who now records thy praise.,1.0 +"Bids British greatness love the silent shade,",1.0 +"Where piles superb, in classic elegance,",1.0 +"Arise, and all is Roman, like his heart.",0.0 +"Nor Chatham, though it is not thine to show",1.0 +"The lofty forest or the verdant lawns,",1.0 +The lofty forests by thy sons prepared,1.0 +"Becomes the warlike navy, braves the floods,",1.0 +And gives Sylvanus empire in the main.,4.0 +"O that Britannia, in the day of war,",1.0 +But also hear her wisdom! Then her oaks,0.0 +"Shaped by her own mechanics, would alone",0.0 +"Her island fortify, and fix her fame;",0.0 +"Nor would she weep, like Rachael, for her sons,",1.0 +"Whose glorious blood, in mad profusion,",2.0 +In foreign lands is shed ' -- and shed in vain.,0.0 +And look with scorn and triumph on proud France.,2.0 +"Of yore an isthmus jutting from this coast,",2.0 +"But Neptune on a day, with fury fired,",1.0 +And broke the unnatural union at a blow. ' --,4.0 +"Betwixt you and you, my servants and my sons,",2.0 +Be there he cried eternal discord ' -- France,0.0 +"And as the oak reigns lordly over the shrub,",4.0 +So shall the hop have homage from the vine.,1.0 +"Though gloomy Thoughts disturbed my anxious Breast,",0.0 +"All the long Night, and drove away my Rest.",3.0 +"Just as the dawning Day began to rise,",0.0 +A grateful Slumber closed my waking Eyes:,0.0 +"But active Fancy to strange Regions flew,",2.0 +And brought surprising Objects to my View.,1.0 +"Methought I walked in a delightful Grove,",3.0 +"The soft Retreat of Gods, when Gods make Love.",1.0 +And I on each with equal Wonder gazed;,1.0 +"Nor knew which most delighted, all was fine,",0.0 +The noble Product of some Power Divine.,3.0 +"But as I traversed the obliging Shade,",2.0 +I saw a person whose Celestial Face,0.0 +"At first declared her, Goddess of the Place;",1.0 +"But I discovered, when approaching near,",1.0 +"An Aspect full of Beauty, but severe:",2.0 +"Bold, and Majestic, every awful Look",2.0 +Into my Soul a secret Terror struck.,0.0 +"Advancing farther on, she made a stand,",1.0 +"And beckoned me, I kneeling, kissed her Hand:",1.0 +Then thus began ' -- bright Deity! for so,2.0 +"I may intrude, but how I was conveyed",3.0 +"To this strange place, or by what powerful Aid,",4.0 +"I'm wholly ignorant, nor know I more,",1.0 +"Or where I am, or whom I do adore,",1.0 +"Instruct me then, that I no longer may",3.0 +In Darkness serve the Goddess I obey.,1.0 +"Youth, she replied, this place belongs to one,",2.0 +"These pleasant Walks, and all these shady Bowers",0.0 +Are in the Government of dangerous Powers.,3.0 +"Love's the capricious Master of this Coast,",3.0 +This fatal Labyrinth where Fools are lost.,0.0 +"I dwell not here amid these gaudy Things,",0.0 +Whose short Enjoyment no true Pleasure brings.,1.0 +"But have an Empire of a nobler kind,",2.0 +My regal Seat's in the celestial Mind;,1.0 +"I Rule, and make those Happy, I Command.",1.0 +No Stormy Passion Revels in the Breast:,1.0 +"But when my Power is Despicable grown,",3.0 +"And Rebel Appetites Usurp my Throne,",1.0 +The Soul no longer quiet Thoughts enjoys;,1.0 +"But all is Tumult, and Eternal Noise.",1.0 +"Yet I'll not see my Charge, for all Mankind",1.0 +Are to my Guardianship by Heaven assigned,4.0 +"Into the Grasp of any Ruin run,",0.0 +"That I can warn them of, and they may shun.",1.0 +"Fly Youth these Guilty Shades, retreat in time",1.0 +Ever your Mistake's converted to a Crime;,2.0 +"For Ignorance no longer can atone,",3.0 +"When once the Error, and the Fault is known.",1.0 +"You thought perhaps, as Giddy Youth inclines,",0.0 +"Imprudently to value all that Shines,",1.0 +In these Retirements freely to possess,2.0 +"True Joy, and strong substantial Happiness.",2.0 +"But here Gay Folly keeps her Court, and here",1.0 +"Who blindly Lavish of their Golden Days,",1.0 +Consume them all in her Fallacious Ways.,1.0 +"Pert Love with her, by joint Commission Rules",2.0 +In this Capacious Realm of Idle Fools;,1.0 +"Who by false Arts, and Popular Deceits,",4.0 +"The Careless, Fond, Unthinking Mortal Cheats.",0.0 +"It's easy to descend into the Snare,",1.0 +By the pernicious Conduct of the Fair;,2.0 +But Safely to return from this Abode,2.0 +"Requires the Wit, the Prudence of a God;",1.0 +"Though you, who have not tasted that Delight,",0.0 +Which only at a Distance charms your Sight;,0.0 +"Which lost, is subject to Eternal Smart.",1.0 +"Is truly Great, nor would I make it less:",0.0 +"That were to wrong Her, where she Merits most,",0.0 +"But Dragons guard the Fruit, and Rocks the Coast.",0.0 +"Delia has Charms I own, such Charms would move,",2.0 +"Old Age, and frozen Impotence to Love;",2.0 +"But do not Venture where such Danger lies,",0.0 +"Avoid the Sight of those Victorious Eyes,",3.0 +Whose poisonous Rays do to the Soul impart,2.0 +"Delicious Ruin, and a pleasing Smart.",1.0 +"And Love the Danger, which you ought to fear.",0.0 +"If the light Pains, you labour under Now",2.0 +"Destroy your Ease, and make your Spirits Bow?",0.0 +When heavier made by an imperious Scorn.,5.0 +"Nor can you hope, she will your Passion hear",2.0 +"With softer Notions, or a kinder Ear,",1.0 +"She rather widened, than closed up the Wound.",2.0 +"But grant she should indulge your Flame, and give",0.0 +"The short lived Pleasure would so quickly cloy,",1.0 +"Bring such a weak, and such a feeble Joy,",1.0 +The Tinsel Rapture worth the Pains it cost.,0.0 +"The foolish Fears, vain Hopes, and Jealousies,",2.0 +Which still attend upon this fond Disease:,0.0 +"How you must cringe and bow, submit and whine,",1.0 +"Call every Feature, every Look, Divine;",1.0 +"Commend each Sentence with an humble Smile,",1.0 +"Though Nonsense, swear it is a heavenly Style.",3.0 +"Renounce your very Sense, and silent sit,",0.0 +You must be made by due Correction tame,0.0 +But if you can endure the nauseous Rule,2.0 +"Of Woman, do, love on, and be a Fool.",2.0 +"You know the Danger, your own Methods use,",1.0 +"The Good, or Evil's in your power to choose;",2.0 +On the declining of a Precipice:,3.0 +"Where if he slips, not Fate it self can save",0.0 +The falling Wretch from an untimely Grave.,1.0 +We safely on your Dictates may rely.,3.0 +And that which you have now so kindly pressed,0.0 +"Is true, and without Contradiction best;",5.0 +But with a steady Sentence to control,2.0 +"While gay Temptations hover in our Sight,",0.0 +"And daily bring new Objects of Delight,",2.0 +"Which on us with surprising Beauty smile,",1.0 +"Is difficult, but it's a noble Toil.",2.0 +"The best may slip, and the most cautious fall,",1.0 +"And, though fair Delia has my Soul possessed,",2.0 +I'll chase her bright Idea from my Breast.,1.0 +"At least I'll make one Essay, if I fail,",2.0 +"Love was my Foe, and Love's a Deity.",1.0 +"Then she rejoined, may you successful prove,",2.0 +"In your Attempt to kerb imperious Love,",3.0 +"Then will proud Passion own her rightful Lord,",2.0 +"You to your self, I to my Throne restored;",2.0 +"But to confirm your Courage, and inspire",2.0 +"Your Resolution with a bolder Fire,",1.0 +Follow me Youth! I'll show you that shall move,2.0 +Your Soul to Curse the Tyranny of Love.,1.0 +"Then she conveyed me to a Dismal Shade,",2.0 +"Which Melancholy Yew, and Cypress made;",0.0 +Where I beheld an Antiquated Pile,1.0 +Of rugged Building in a Narrow Isle;,0.0 +"The Water round it gave a Nauseous Smell,",0.0 +"The Ruined Wall composed of Stinking Mud,",0.0 +"Overgrown with Hemlock, on Supporters Stood;",2.0 +As did the Roof ungrateful to the View,1.0 +"'Twas both an Hospital, and Bedlam too.",6.0 +"Some Skeletons entire, some lately Dead,",3.0 +A little Rubbish loosely Scattered over,0.0 +"No Funeral Rites, to any here, were paid,",3.0 +But Dead like Dogs into the Dust conveyed.,0.0 +"From Hence, by Reason's Conduct, I was brought",1.0 +"But What a few dim Lamps expiring had,",1.0 +Which made the Prospect more amazing Sad;,0.0 +"Some Wept, Some Raved, Some Musically Mad.",2.0 +"Some Swearing Loud, and Others Laughing; Some",0.0 +"Were always Talking, Others always Dumb.",0.0 +"Here One, a Dagger in his Breast, expires,",0.0 +And quenches with his Blood his Amorous Fires;,2.0 +"There Hangs a Second, and not far Removed,",1.0 +"A Third lies poisoned, who false Celia Loved.",2.0 +"All Sorts of Madness, every Kind of Death,",0.0 +"By which Unhappy Mortals lose their Breath,",0.0 +"Was there exposed before my Wondering Eyes,",3.0 +"Others I saw, which were not quite bereft",2.0 +"Of Sense, though very Small Remains were left,",0.0 +"Cursing the fatal Folly of their Youth,",3.0 +These on the Left. Upon the Right a View,1.0 +"Of equal Horror, equal Misery too,",2.0 +"Amazing, all employed my troubled thought,",0.0 +"And with New Wonder, New Aversion brought.",2.0 +There I beheld a Wretched numerous Throng,3.0 +"Of Pale Lean Mortals, some lay stretched along",2.0 +Others extended Naked on the Floor:,3.0 +"Exiled from Human Pity, here they lie",1.0 +And know no End of Misery till they Die:,2.0 +But Death which comes in Gay and Prosperous Days,2.0 +Too Soon; in time of Misery Delays.,2.0 +"These Dreadful Spectacles had so much Power,",2.0 +"I Vowed, and Solemnly, to Love no more:",2.0 +"For sure that Flame is Kindled from Below,",1.0 +Which breeds such Sad variety of Woe.,1.0 +Then we descending by some few Degrees,2.0 +From this Stupendous Scene of Miseries;,2.0 +Bold Reason brought me to another Cave,2.0 +"Those Villains lie, who have their Fathers slain.",0.0 +"Stabbed their own Brothers, nay their Friends, to please",0.0 +"Who after all their Services, preferred",1.0 +"Some rugged Fellow of the brawny Herd,",1.0 +In Agonies no Human Tongue can tell.,2.0 +"Darkness prevents the too amazing Sight,",2.0 +And you may bless the happy Want of Light.,1.0 +"But my tormented Ears were filled with Sighs,",2.0 +"Expiring Groans, and lamentable Cries,",4.0 +"So very sad I could endure no more,",1.0 +Methought I felt the Miseries they bore.,3.0 +"Then to my Guide said I, for pity now",2.0 +"Conduct me back, here I confirm my Vow;",1.0 +"Which if I dare infringe, be this my Fate,",1.0 +"To die thus wretched, and repent too late.",3.0 +The Charms of Beauty I'll no more pursue;,2.0 +"Delia farewell, farewell for ever too.",4.0 +"Then we returned to the delightful Grove,",2.0 +Where Reason still dissuaded me from Love.,1.0 +"You see, she cried, what Misery attends",1.0 +"On Love, and where too frequently it ends;",2.0 +And let not that unwieldy Passion sway,0.0 +"Your Soul, which none but whining Fools obey.",0.0 +"The Masculine, brave Spirit, scorns to own",2.0 +Nor with idolatrous Devotion pays,2.0 +"To the false God, or Sacrifice, or Praise.",2.0 +But he is ruined if he stops to hear;,2.0 +"And if you listen, Love's harmonious Voice,",3.0 +"As much delights, as certainly destroys.",1.0 +A pleasant Taste but sends you to the Grave;,1.0 +For though the Latent Poison may be still,2.0 +"A while, it very seldom fails to kill.",0.0 +"Within a Day, or live in Misery,",1.0 +"Love's Banquets are extravagantly sweet,",4.0 +"And either kill, or surfeit all that eat;",0.0 +Even loath the Thoughts of what they once admired.,0.0 +"Of Delia, though she courts you to her Arms;",2.0 +"And sure I may your Resolution trust,",1.0 +"Vows of this Nature, Youth, must not be broke,",0.0 +"Would Men be Wise, and my Advice pursue;",1.0 +"Love's Conquest would be small, his Triumphs few.",1.0 +"For Nothing can oppose his Tyranny,",2.0 +With such a Prospect of Success as I:,2.0 +"Who know his Arts, and Stratagems despise;",1.0 +To make himself the Deity of Fools:,1.0 +"For those, who under his Wild Conduct go,",3.0 +"His Charms deprive, by their strange Influence,",3.0 +"The Brave of Courage, and the Wise of Sense;",1.0 +In Vain Philosophy would set the Mind,1.0 +"At Liberty, if once by him Confined;",2.0 +"The Scholar's Learning, and the Poet's Wit",1.0 +"A while may Struggle, but at last Submit:",1.0 +"Well weighed Results, and Wise Conclusions seem",1.0 +"His Opiates seize so strongly on the Brain,",3.0 +They make all Prudent Application Vain.,0.0 +"If therefore you resolve to Live at Ease,",2.0 +To taste the Sweetness of Internal Peace:,1.0 +"Would not for Safety to a Battle fly,",1.0 +"Or choose a Shipwreck, if afraid to Die,",1.0 +"Far from these pleasurable Shades remove,",1.0 +And leave the Fond Inglorious Toil of Love,2.0 +"This said, She Vanished, and Methought I found",4.0 +"My self Transported to a Rising Ground,",1.0 +From whence I did a pleasant Vale Survey;,0.0 +"Large was the Prospect, Beautiful, and Gay.",1.0 +"There I beheld the Apartments of Delight,",4.0 +Whose curious Forms obliged the Wondering Sight.,4.0 +"Some in full View upon the Champion placed,",3.0 +"With lofty Walls, and cooling Streams embraced:",0.0 +"Others, in Shady Groves, retired from Noise,",2.0 +The Seats of Private and Exalted Joys.,1.0 +At a great Distance I perceived there stood,3.0 +"A Stately Building in a Spacious Wood,",0.0 +"High in the Air to View the Neighbouring Meads,",2.0 +Where Vulgar Lovers spent their Happy Days,0.0 +In Rustic Dancing and delightful Plays.,1.0 +"But while I gazed with Admiration round,",0.0 +"I heard from far, Celestial Music sound,",0.0 +"So Soft, so Moving; so Harmonious all,",2.0 +"The Artful Charming Notes did rise and fall,",0.0 +"My Soul, transported with the Grateful Airs,",1.0 +"Shook off, the Pressures of its former Fears.",1.0 +I felt afresh the little God begin,0.0 +"To stir himself, and gently move within:",0.0 +Then I repented I had vowed no more,3.0 +"Why am I now condemned to Banishment,",1.0 +And made an Exile by my Own Consent.,2.0 +I sighing cried; why should I live in Pain,0.0 +"Those fleeting Hours, which never return again?",2.0 +"Inhuman to himself, and false to you.",1.0 +But is not Reason partially unkind?,2.0 +"Must none, that under her Dominion live,",1.0 +"To Love, and Beauty, Veneration give?",0.0 +Why then did Nature youthful Delia grace,0.0 +"With a majestic Mien, and charming Face?",1.0 +"Why did she give her that surprising Air,",0.0 +"Make her so gay, so witty, and so fair?",1.0 +"Mistress of all, that can Affection move;",2.0 +If Reason will not suffer us to Love?,2.0 +"But since it must be so, I'll haste away,",0.0 +"It's Fatal to return, and Death to stay.",1.0 +"From you, blessed Shades, if I may call you so",2.0 +"Compelled from hence, I leave my Quiet here",0.0 +"I may find Safety, but I buy it dear.",3.0 +Such as of old were Messengers of Joy:,2.0 +"Who art thou, or from whence? if sent, said I,",3.0 +"To me, my Haste requires a quick Reply.",1.0 +"I come, he cried, from yonder Celestial Grove,",2.0 +Where stands the Temple of the God of Love:,1.0 +"With whose important Favour you are graced,",0.0 +"And, justly in his high Protection placed.",0.0 +"Whose Sceptre never is changed into a Rod,",2.0 +"That God to whom the haughty, and the proud,",1.0 +"The bold, the bravest, nay the best have bowed:",0.0 +"That God, whom all the lesser Gods adore;",0.0 +"First in Existence, and the first in Power.",2.0 +"From him I come on Embassy divine,",2.0 +"To tell thee, Delia, Delia may be thine.",1.0 +"To whom all Beauties rightful Tribute pay,",0.0 +"Delia the young, the lovely, and the gay.",3.0 +"If you dare push your Fortune, if you dare",3.0 +"But be resolved, and press the yielding Fair.",0.0 +For Fate does rarely on the Valiant frown.,1.0 +"He greater Glory, and more Fame obtains,",1.0 +"Who looses Delia, than who Phillis gains.",1.0 +"But to prevent all Fears that may arise,",2.0 +Though Fears never move the Daring and the Wise,3.0 +"In the dark Volumes of eternal Doom,",3.0 +"Where all things past, and present, and to come",2.0 +"Are writ, I saw these Words; ' -- It is Decreed",1.0 +"Love, and be happy, they decline too fast:",2.0 +The mighty Transports of a generous Love.,3.0 +"Before the Bliss, or gives but withered Joys;",0.0 +"Youth's the best time for Action Mortals have,",3.0 +"That Past, they touch the Confines of the Grave.",2.0 +"Quick to the Blissful happy Mansion fly,",0.0 +Where all is one continued Ecstasy.,2.0 +"Delia Impatiently expects you there,",3.0 +And sure you will not disappoint the Fair.,1.0 +"None but the Impotent, or Old, would stay,",1.0 +"When Love Invites, and Beauty calls away.",0.0 +"OH, you convey, said I, dear charming Boy:",5.0 +Into my Soul a Strange Disordered Joy.,0.0 +"I would, but dare not your Advice pursue;",1.0 +"Reason's the Rightful Empress of the Soul,",3.0 +Does all Exorbitant Desires control;,1.0 +"Cheques every Wild Excursion of the Mind,",2.0 +"By her Wise Dictates, Happily confined.",5.0 +"And he that will not her Command Obey,",1.0 +Leaves a safe Convoy in a Dangerous Sea.,3.0 +"True, I Love Delia to a vast Excess,",4.0 +But I must try to make my Passion Less:,1.0 +"Try, if I can, if Possible, I Will;",2.0 +"For I have Vowed, and must that Vow fulfil.",1.0 +"OH! had I not, with what a Vigorous Flight",2.0 +Could I pursue the Quarries of Delight?,2.0 +"How could I press Fair Delia in these Arms,",1.0 +"Till I dissolved in Love, and she in Charms.",2.0 +"But now no more must I her Beauties View,",2.0 +Yet Tremble at the Thoughts to leave her too.,0.0 +"What would I give, I might my Flame allow?",0.0 +"But it's forbid by Reason, and a Vow;",2.0 +Two mighty Obstacles; though Love of Old,2.0 +"Has broke through greater, stronger Powers controlled,",2.0 +"Should I offend, by high Example taught,",1.0 +"The Crimes of Malice have found Grace above,",1.0 +"And sure kind Heaven will spare the Crimes of Love,",1.0 +"I might be Happy, and not break my Vow,",1.0 +Or by some Subtle Art dissolve the Chain;,1.0 +"Reason and Love, I know, could never Agree,",4.0 +"Both would command, and both Superior be.",2.0 +Reason's supported by the Sinewy Force,5.0 +"Of Solid Argument, and Wise Discourse;",4.0 +But Love pretends to use no other Arms,1.0 +"Than Soft Impressions, and Persuasive Charms.",1.0 +"One must be Disobeyed, and shall I prove",0.0 +A Rebel to my Reason or to Love?,2.0 +"But then suppose I should my Flame pursue,",0.0 +"Reject my Passion with a Proud Disdain,",1.0 +And Scorn the Love of such an Humble Swain,1.0 +"Then should I labour under Mighty Grief,",0.0 +"Beyond all Hopes, or Prospect of Relief:",1.0 +"Right Reason, though she bears a rugged Sway,",2.0 +"Than Love's soft Rule, whose Subjects undergo",1.0 +"Early or late too sad a share of Woe,",3.0 +"Can I so soon forget that wretched Crew,",1.0 +Reason just now exposed before my View;,2.0 +"If Delia should be cruel, I must be",0.0 +I'm almost tempted to pursue my Love:,2.0 +"For sure, no treacherous Designs should dwell",2.0 +"In one that argues, and persuades so well,",1.0 +For what could Love by my Destruction gain?,1.0 +"Love's an immortal God, and I a Swain:",3.0 +"And sure I may, without Suspicion, trust",1.0 +"A God, for Gods can never be unjust.",0.0 +"Right you conclude, replied the smiling Boy",2.0 +"Love ruins none, it's Men themselves destroy;",1.0 +"Transgressed his Rules, as well as Reason's Law.",0.0 +"Nor is their Punishment so great, as just.",2.0 +"For Love and Lust essentially divide,",1.0 +"Like Day and Night, Humility and Pride;",1.0 +"One Darkness hides, other does always shine,",5.0 +"This of infernal Make, and that divine.",1.0 +Reason no generous Passion does oppose;,5.0 +"It's Lust, not Love and Reason, that are Foes.",0.0 +"She bids you scorn a base inglorious Flame,",2.0 +"Black as the gloomy Shade, from whence it came,",0.0 +"In this, her Precepts should Obedience find,",3.0 +But yours is not of that ignoble kind.,1.0 +"You Err, in thinking she would disapprove",1.0 +"Invert her Meaning, and mistake her Sense.",1.0 +"She could not such insipid Counsel give,",1.0 +"As not to love at all, it's not to live,",0.0 +"But where bright Virtue, and true Beauty lies,",3.0 +"Could you, contented, see the Angelic Maid",5.0 +In old Alexis' dull Embraces laid?,0.0 +"Consider, Youth, what Transports you forego,",1.0 +The most entire Felicity below;,3.0 +Which is by Fate alone reserved for you;,0.0 +"Monarchs have been denied, for Monarchs sue.",2.0 +"But there is one soft Minute, when the Mind",1.0 +"Is left unguarded, waiting to be kind,",1.0 +"Which the wise Lover understanding right,",2.0 +Steals in like Day upon the Wings of Light.,0.0 +"You urge your Vow, but can those Vows prevail",1.0 +"Whose first Foundation, and whose Reason fail?",1.0 +"You vowed to leave fair Delia, but you thought",2.0 +"Your Passion was a Crime, your Flame a Fault;",1.0 +"But since your Judgement erred, it has no Force",1.0 +"To bind at all, but is dissolved of Course.",1.0 +"And therefore hesitate no longer here,",2.0 +But banish all the dull Remains of Fear.,0.0 +"Dare you be happy Youth, but dare, and be;",0.0 +I'll be your Convoy to the charming she.,3.0 +"View her, and then forsake her if you will.",1.0 +"I'll go, said I, once more I'll venture all,",2.0 +It's brave to perish by a noble Fall.,1.0 +"Laid by his Grandeur, to indulge his Love.",3.0 +"Reason, if I do Err, my Crime forgive?",1.0 +"Angels alone, without offending live,",2.0 +"I go astray, but as the Wise have done,",1.0 +"And act a Folly, which they did not shun.",0.0 +"Then we, descending to a spacious Plain,",2.0 +Were soon saluted by a numerous Train,3.0 +"Of happy Lovers, who consumed their Hours,",0.0 +There I beheld the blessed Variety,2.0 +Each followed his own Fancy to Delight;,2.0 +"Though all went different Ways, yet all went right,",2.0 +"None erred, or missed the Happiness he sought",2.0 +Love to one Centre every Twining brought.,0.0 +"We past through numerous pleasant Fields, and Glades,",2.0 +"By murmuring Fountains, and by peaceful Shades,",3.0 +"Till we approached the Confines of the Wood,",3.0 +"Where mighty Love's immortal Temple stood,",0.0 +"Round the Celestial Fane in goodly Rows,",1.0 +"Beneath whose Shade, expecting Lovers wait",0.0 +For the kind Minute of indulgent Fate:,2.0 +"Each had his Guardian Cupid, whose chief Care,",3.0 +"By secret Motions was to warm the Fair,",1.0 +"To kindle eager Longings for the Joy,",1.0 +"To move the Slow, and to incline the Coy.",1.0 +"The glorious Fabric charmed my wondering Sight,",4.0 +"Of vast Extent, and of prodigious Height;",1.0 +"The Case was Marble, but the polished Stone",1.0 +"With such an admirable Lustre shone,",2.0 +As if some Architect Divine had strove,1.0 +With Diamonds of a mighty Size inlaid.,2.0 +"Here stood the winged Guards in order placed,",3.0 +"As we approached, they clapped their joyful Wings;",1.0 +"And cried aloud, tune, tune the warbling Strings;",1.0 +The grateful Youth is come to sacrifice,0.0 +"With Harmony Divine his Soul inspire,",1.0 +That he may boldly touch the sacred Fire.,0.0 +Celestial Incense and Perfumes prepare;,2.0 +"While our great God her panting Bosom warms,",3.0 +Refines her Beauties and improves her Charms.,1.0 +A wondrous Scene of Glory did surprise.,0.0 +"The Riches, Symmetry, and Brightness, all",1.0 +Did equally for Admiration call:,1.0 +But the Description is a Labour fit,2.0 +For none beneath a Laureate Angel's Wit.,2.0 +Amid the Temple was an Altar made,1.0 +"Here I performed the usual Rites with Fear,",3.0 +Not daring boldly to approach too near;,2.0 +Till from the God a smiling Cupid came,1.0 +And bid me touch the consecrated Flame;,0.0 +"Which done, my Guide my eager Steps conveyed",0.0 +"Before the Entrance was her Altar raised,",1.0 +On Pedestals of polished Marble placed.,1.0 +"By it, her Guardian Cupid always stands,",3.0 +Who Troops of missionary Loves commands.,0.0 +To him with soft Addresses all repair;,1.0 +Each for his Captive humbly begs the Fair;,0.0 +"Would give Encouragement to none, but me.",1.0 +"There stands the Youth, he cried, must taste the Bliss,",0.0 +"The lovely Delia can be none, but his,",1.0 +"Fate has selected him, and mighty Love",2.0 +"Confirms below, what that decrees above.",0.0 +"Kneel Youth, and with a grateful Mind renew",2.0 +"But if you dare be false, dare perjured prove,",2.0 +"Hear me, you Gods, said I, now hear me swear",3.0 +"If I prove false to Delia, let me fall",2.0 +"The common Obloquy, condemned by all.",1.0 +"Let me the utmost of your Vengeance try,",2.0 +"Then he exposed the lovely, sleeping Maid",1.0 +"The blushing Colour in her Cheeks expressed,",0.0 +What tender Thoughts inspired her heaving Breast.,2.0 +"Sometime a Sigh half smothered stole away,",2.0 +"Sometime she smiling cried, you love, it's true;",1.0 +"But will you always, and be faithful too?",2.0 +"Ten Thousand Graces played about her Face,",1.0 +Ten Thousand Charms attended every Grace,1.0 +Each admirable Feature did impart,1.0 +A secret Rapture to my throbbing Heart.,1.0 +"Less beautiful appeared, and yet her Eyes",2.0 +Brought down that God from the neglected Skies.,1.0 +"So moving, so transporting was the Sight,",2.0 +"So much a Goddess Delia seemed, so bright,",0.0 +Lay all dissolved in Ecstasy of Thought.,2.0 +"Long time I gazed, but as I trembling drew",2.0 +"Nearer, to take a more obliging View:",2.0 +"It thundered loud, and the ungrateful Noise",1.0 +Wear faintly morning purple on their skirts.,2.0 +"The stars that full and bright shone in the west,",1.0 +"But dimly twinkle to the steadfast eye,",2.0 +"And seen and vanishing and seen again,",1.0 +"Like dying tapers winking in the socket,",0.0 +Are by degrees shut from the face of heaven;,3.0 +"The fitful lightning of the summer cloud,",1.0 +And every lesser flame that shone by night;,0.0 +"The wandering fire that seems, across the marsh,",2.0 +"A beaming candle in a lonely cot,",0.0 +"Cheering the hopes of the benighted hind,",3.0 +"Till, swifter than the very change of thought,",1.0 +"It shifts from place to place, eludes his sight,",0.0 +"That cast a doubtful glimmering over the green, ' --",4.0 +"For now the sun, slow moving in his glory,",1.0 +Above the eastern mountains lifts his head;,0.0 +"The webs of dew spread over the hoary lawn,",3.0 +"The smooth, clear bosom of the settled pool,",2.0 +"The polished ploughshare on the distant field,",1.0 +Catch fire from him and dart their new got beams,3.0 +"Peck their soft down, and bristle out their feathers,",1.0 +"Then stretch their throats and trill their morning song,",0.0 +"Till in a gathered band of close array,",0.0 +They take their flight to seek their daily food.,0.0 +"The villager wakes with the early light,",2.0 +"That through the window of his cot appears,",1.0 +And quits his easy bed; then over the fields,2.0 +"Bearing his spade or hoe across his shoulder,",2.0 +"Seen glancing as he moves, and with good will",2.0 +"With stern authority, who fain would stop",1.0 +To crop the tempting bushes as they pass.,1.0 +"At every open door, in lawn or lane,",0.0 +"Half naked children, half awake are seen",1.0 +"Scratching their heads and blinking to the light,",3.0 +"Till, rousing by degrees, they run about,",1.0 +Roll on the sward and in some sandy nook,0.0 +"Dig caves, and houses build, full oft defaced",2.0 +"And oft begun again, a daily pastime.",1.0 +"The housewife, up by times, her morning cares",2.0 +"From the pressed bosom of the snowy curd,",3.0 +"And swelling arm, assists her. Work proceeds,",0.0 +"Pots smoke, pails rattle, and the warm confusion",3.0 +"Still more confused becomes, till in the mould",1.0 +"So goes the morning till the powerful sun,",3.0 +"High in the heavens, sends down his strengthened beams,",0.0 +And all the freshness of the morn is fled.,1.0 +The idle horse upon the grassy field,0.0 +"Rolls on his back; the swain leaves off his toil,",2.0 +"And to his house with heavy steps returns,",1.0 +Where on the board his ready breakfast placed,0.0 +Upon the grass no longer hangs the dew;,1.0 +The rousing voice of industry is heard;,1.0 +The haycock rises and the frequent rake,2.0 +Sweeps on the fragrant hay in heavy wreaths.,0.0 +"The old and young, the weak and strong are there,",0.0 +"And, as they can, help on the cheerful work.",1.0 +Nor does he fear the jeering to repay.,1.0 +The village oracle and simple maid,1.0 +Jest in their turns and raise the ready laugh;,0.0 +All are companions in the general glee;,1.0 +"Some, more advanced, raise up the lofty rick,",2.0 +While on its top does stand the parish toast,0.0 +In loose attire and swelling ruddy cheek.,2.0 +With taunts and harmless mockery she receives,3.0 +"Who, staring on her, takes his aim awry,",1.0 +While half the load falls back upon himself.,1.0 +"Loud is her laugh, her voice is heard afar;",0.0 +"The mower busied on the distant lawn,",1.0 +"The carter trudging on his dusty way,",1.0 +And roar across the field to catch her notice:,0.0 +"She waves her arm to them, and shakes her head,",1.0 +And then renews her work with double spirit.,0.0 +Thus do they jest and laugh away their toil,0.0 +"Till the bright sun, now past his middle course,",4.0 +Shoots down his fiercest beams which none may brave.,0.0 +"But to the weary, lo ' -- there comes relief!",1.0 +A troop of welcome children over the lawn,2.0 +"With slow and wary steps approach, some bear",0.0 +"Beneath the branches of a spreading tree,",1.0 +"Or by the shady side of the tall rick,",2.0 +"They spread their homely fare, and seated round,",0.0 +Taste every pleasure that a feast can give.,1.0 +"Each creature seeks some place of rest, some shelter",0.0 +From the oppressive heat; silence prevails;,6.0 +Nor low nor bark nor chirping bird are heard.,0.0 +Within the narrow shadow of the cot,1.0 +"The sleepy dog lies stretched upon his side,",1.0 +"Nor heeds the footsteps of the passer by,",3.0 +"Or at the sound but raises half an eyelid,",1.0 +Then gives a feeble growl and sleeps again;,0.0 +While puss composed and grave on threshold stone,1.0 +"No sound is heard but humming of the bee,",2.0 +"For she alone retires not from her labour,",1.0 +"Heavy and slow, so pass the sultry hours,",2.0 +Till gently bending on the ridge's top,1.0 +"The drooping seedy grass begins to wave,",0.0 +And the high branches of the aspen tree,3.0 +Shiver the leaves and gentle rustling make.,2.0 +"Cool breathes the rising breeze, and with it wakes",2.0 +The languid spirit from its state of stupor.,1.0 +The lazy boy springs from his mossy lair,0.0 +"To chase the gaudy butterfly, who oft",0.0 +"Lights at his feet as if within his reach,",1.0 +"Spreading upon the ground its mealy wings,",2.0 +"Yet still eludes his grasp, and high in air",0.0 +"Takes many a circling flight, tempting his eye",8.0 +"The drowsy dog, who feels the kindly air",0.0 +"That passing over him lifts his shaggy ear,",2.0 +He makes the village echo to his bark.,1.0 +"But let us not forget the busy maid,",0.0 +"Spreads out her snowy linens to the sun,",1.0 +And sheds with liberal hand the crystal shower,0.0 +"Over many a favourite piece of fair attire,",2.0 +"Revolving in her mind her gay appearance,",0.0 +"So nicely tricked, at some approaching fair.",0.0 +"Her secret thoughts betray. With shiny feet,",0.0 +"There, little active bands of truant boys",0.0 +"Sport in the stream and dash the water round,",0.0 +"Or try with wily art to catch the trout,",0.0 +Or with their fingers grasp the slippery eel.,1.0 +"To while away the weary lonely hours,",0.0 +"Weaving with art his pointed crown of rushes,",1.0 +"A guiltless easy crown, which, having made,",0.0 +"He places on his head, and skips about,",1.0 +"A chanted rhyme repeats, or calls full loud",1.0 +"To some companion lonely as himself,",1.0 +Far on the distant bank; or else delighted,0.0 +"To hear the echoed sound of his own voice,",1.0 +"Returning answer from some neighbouring rock,",3.0 +"The shadows lengthen, and the oppressive day",4.0 +With all its toil fast wearing to an end.,2.0 +"The sun, far in the west, with level beam",1.0 +"Gleams on the cocks of hay, on bush or ridge,",0.0 +"Or tree or shrub or gate or human form,",0.0 +"Upon the darkened ground. Their task is finished,",0.0 +"Their rakes and scattered garments gathered up,",1.0 +And all right gladly to their homes return.,2.0 +"The village, lone and silent through the day,",1.0 +"Receiving from the fields its merry bands,",1.0 +"Sends forth its evening sound, confused but cheerful;",1.0 +"And truelove ballads in no plaintive strain,",2.0 +By household maid at open window sung;,1.0 +"And herd's dull droning trump and tinkling bell,",1.0 +Make no contemptible variety,3.0 +"Upon his sweetheart's open window leans,",0.0 +Diverting her with joke and harmless taunt.,1.0 +"Close by the cottage door with placid mien,",0.0 +The old man sits upon his seat of turf.,1.0 +"His staff with crooked head laid by his side,",2.0 +"And straddling over it, shows his horsemanship",3.0 +"His silver locks upon his shoulders fall,",0.0 +"No stranger passes him without regard,",2.0 +"And neighbours stop to wish him a good even,",3.0 +And ask him his opinion of the weather.,2.0 +They fret not at the length of his remarks,1.0 +Upon the various seasons he remembers;,3.0 +For well he knows the many diverse signs,3.0 +"That do foretell high winds, or rain, or drought,",1.0 +Or aught that may affect the rising crops.,1.0 +"Their own discourse still sweetest to their ear,",4.0 +"May at the old man's lengthened storey fret,",1.0 +"Impatiently, but here it is not so.",1.0 +"From every chimney mounts the curling smoke,",0.0 +"Muddy and grey, of the new evening fire;",4.0 +"On every window smokes the family supper,",0.0 +"Set out to cool by the attentive housewife,",2.0 +"While cheerful groups, at every door convened,",0.0 +"Bawl across the narrow lane the parish news,",0.0 +And oft the bursting laugh disturbs the air.,0.0 +But see who comes to set them all agape;,0.0 +"Stiffly he bends beneath his bulky load,",2.0 +"Covered with dust, slipshod and out at elbows;",4.0 +His greasy hat set backwards on his head;,2.0 +"His thin straight hair, divided on his brow,",2.0 +"Hangs lank on either side his glistening cheeks,",1.0 +And woe-begone yet vacant is his face.,1.0 +His box he opens and displays his ware.,1.0 +Full many a varied row of precious stones,3.0 +"Cast forth their dazzling lustre to the light,",2.0 +"And ruby rings and china buttons, stamped",0.0 +"With love devices, the desiring maid",3.0 +"And simple youth attract; while streaming garters,",0.0 +"Aloft in air their gaudy stripes display,",0.0 +And from afar the distant stragglers lure.,1.0 +The children leave their play and round him flock;,0.0 +Then joins with step sedate the curious throng.,2.0 +"She praises much the fashions of her youth,",1.0 +And scorns each useless nonsense of the day;,1.0 +"Unrolled and changing hues with every fold,",0.0 +Now red but languid the last beams appear,3.0 +"Of the departed sun, across the lawn,",1.0 +And from the openings of the distant hills,2.0 +"A level brightness pouring, sad though bright;",0.0 +"Like farewell smiles from some dear friend they seem,",2.0 +"And only serve to deepen the low vale,",2.0 +And make the shadows of the night more gloomy.,2.0 +The varied noises of the cheerful village,1.0 +"By slow degrees now faintly die away,",1.0 +And more distinctly distant sounds are heard,0.0 +"That gently steal down the river's bed,",0.0 +Or through the wood come on the ruffling breeze.,3.0 +"The white missed rises from the meads, and from",2.0 +Looks out with steady gleam the evening star.,0.0 +"Large and majestic, makes the traveller start,",4.0 +"And spreads the storey of a haunted grove,",1.0 +With ceaseless spite takes from his listening ear,2.0 +"That, buzzing round his head, does often skim",0.0 +With fluttering wings across his glowing cheek;,2.0 +For all but him in quiet balmy sleep,1.0 +Forget the toils of the oppressive day;,1.0 +"Shut is the door of every scattered cot,",0.0 +"YES, DELIA loves! My fondest vows are blessed;",1.0 +Farewell the memory of her past disdain;,2.0 +"One kind relenting glance has healed my breast,",0.0 +And balanced in a moment years of pain.,0.0 +"Over her soft cheek consenting blushes move,",2.0 +And with kind stealth her secret soul betray;,2.0 +"Blushes, which usher in the morn of love,",2.0 +Her tender smiles shall pay me with delight,1.0 +For many a bitter pang of jealous fear;,2.0 +"For many an anxious day, and sleepless night,",2.0 +"For many a stifled sigh, and silent tear.",2.0 +"DELIA shall come, and bless my lone retreat;",2.0 +She does not scorn the shepherd's lowly life;,0.0 +"She will not blush to leave the splendid seat,",1.0 +And own the title of a poor man's wife.,2.0 +"The simple knot shall bind her gathered hair,",0.0 +The russet garment clasp her lovely breast:,0.0 +"DELIA shall mix amongst the rural fair,",2.0 +By charms alone distinguished from the rest.,1.0 +"And meek Simplicity, neglected maid,",1.0 +Shall bid my fair in native graces shine:,0.0 +"She, only she, shall lend her modest aid,",1.0 +How sweet to muse by murmuring springs reclined;,1.0 +"Or loitering careless in the shady grove,",2.0 +"Indulge the gentlest feelings of the mind,",3.0 +And pity those who live to aught but love!,1.0 +"And over her shoulder spreads the flowing gold,",2.0 +Base were the man who one bright tress would spare,2.0 +"By her dear side with what content I'd toil,",2.0 +Patient of any labour in her sight;,2.0 +"Guide the slow plough, or turn the stubborn soil,",3.0 +"Till the last, lingering beam of doubtful light.",2.0 +"With welcome shade to screen the languid flowers,",0.0 +"Oft will she stoop amid her evening walk,",0.0 +With tender hand each bruised plant to rear;,3.0 +And nurse the blossoms of the infant year.,1.0 +"When beating rains forbid our feet to roam,",0.0 +"We'll sheltered sit, and turn the storied page;",0.0 +There see what passions shake the lofty dome,0.0 +What headlong ruin oft involves the great;,1.0 +What strange and sudden turns of adverse fate,1.0 +"DELIA shall read, and drop a gentle tear;",2.0 +"And own the fates have dealt more kindly here,",0.0 +That blessed with only love our little lot.,0.0 +For love has sworn I heard the awful vow,0.0 +"The wavering heart shall never be his care,",2.0 +That stoops at any baser shrine to bow:,3.0 +"And what he cannot rule, he scorns to share.",0.0 +"My heart in DELIA is so fully blessed,",1.0 +It has not room to lodge another joy;,0.0 +"My peace all leans upon that gentle breast,",0.0 +And only there misfortune can annoy.,2.0 +Our silent hours shall steal unmarked away,0.0 +In one long tender calm of rural peace;,2.0 +And measure many a fair unblemished day,2.0 +Of cheerful leisure and poetic ease.,1.0 +The proud unfeeling world their lot shall scorn,0.0 +Who mid inglorious shades can poorly dwell:,2.0 +"Yet if some youth, for gentler passions born,",0.0 +"Shall chance to wander near our lowly cell,",0.0 +His feeling breast with purer flames shall glow;,0.0 +"And leaving pomp, and state, and cares behind,",0.0 +Shall own the world has little to bestow,1.0 +Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined.,1.0 +DUll Mortals with the same preposterous breath,2.0 +"We bless Love's Darts, and Curse the shafts of Death.",1.0 +"The Author of our Ills, a God we style;",1.0 +Yet gentle Death though rudely treated still,0.0 +Persists in generous Charity to Kill,3.0 +Ah should he once in just Resentment give,0.0 +"Our Wishes, and permit us ever Live,",1.0 +What should we do when Soul and Body jar,0.0 +Can envious Fiends a Penalty invent,3.0 +That shall than Loathed Embraces more Torment?,0.0 +"But friendly Death absolves us from this Curse,",1.0 +"And when the Parties clash, makes a Divorce.",2.0 +"NO single rule's more frequently enjoined,",2.0 +Than this; Observe the bias of your mind.,2.0 +"However just by every one confessed,",2.0 +"For mortals, to their interest blind, pursue",1.0 +"'Twas long unknown, and might have been so yet:",1.0 +That only thing heaven meant he never should;,1.0 +"And thus his proper road to fame neglected,",0.0 +"Would men but act from nature's secret call,",0.0 +"Or only, where that fails, not act at all:",0.0 +"Not that where some one merit is denied,",1.0 +Men must be every way unqualified;,0.0 +A man can't fish ' -- because he could not write.,1.0 +View all the world around: each man designed,0.0 +And furnished for some favourite part you find.,1.0 +"That, sometime low: yet this, so small a gift,",2.0 +Proves nature did not turn him quite adrift.,1.0 +"'Twas never known, in men a perfect void,",2.0 +Even I and Led might be well employed;,1.0 +"Would we our poverty of parts survey,",1.0 +And follow as our genius led the way.,1.0 +What then? obedient to that turn of mind,1.0 +Should men jog on to one dull path confined;,3.0 +"From that small circle never dare depart,",1.0 +"To strike at large, and snatch a grace from art?",0.0 +At least with care forbidden paths pursue?,0.0 +"Who quits the road, should keep it still in view:",0.0 +From genius some few escape may be allowed;,2.0 +"Still fond where he should not, he blunders on",2.0 +With all that haste fools make to be undone:,1.0 +"Amongst all the instances of genius crossed,",1.0 +The rhyming tribe are those who err the most.,1.0 +"Each piddling wretch who hath but common sense,",0.0 +Thus wealth with them gives every thing beside;,6.0 +As people worth so much are qualified:,0.0 +All but that one ' -- some little share of wit.,0.0 +"Give way, you friends, nor with fond prayers proceed",3.0 +To stop the progress of a pen full speed.,3.0 +"Tis heaven, incensed by some prodigious crime,",4.0 +Thus for men's sins determines them to rhyme.,4.0 +"Bad men, no doubt; perhaps it's vengeance due",2.0 +And grievous is heaven knows! its recompense.,2.0 +"At once in want of rhyme, and want of rest;",0.0 +"Plagues to themselves, and to mankind a jest:",4.0 +Seduced by empty forms of false delight ' --,0.0 +"Such, in some men, their deadly lust to write!",0.0 +"Even I, whose genius seems as much forgot,",1.0 +"Mine when I write, as your's when you do not;",0.0 +"Who gravely thus can others' faults condemn,",0.0 +"My self allowing, what I blame in them;",0.0 +"Nor the least interest in the tuneful Nine,",2.0 +"With all the guilt of impotence in view,",1.0 +"Grieved for past sins, but yet committing new;",3.0 +"Whatever the wits may say, or wise may think,",3.0 +Am fooling every way with pen and ink.,0.0 +"When all who wish me best, begin to advise,",2.0 +"' That being witty, is not being wise;",1.0 +"' That if the voice of interest might be heard,",0.0 +"' For one who wears a gown, ' -- would be preferred ' --",1.0 +"If to my practise, they opposed my theme;",2.0 +"And pointed, how I swam against the stream:",1.0 +I'd quote them half the writers of the age;,1.0 +"Who in a wrath of verse, with all their might",0.0 +"Write on, however unqualified to write,",5.0 +"With fairy footsteps print your grassy rings,",1.0 +"Gay hopes, and amorous sorrows of the mead. ' --",4.0 +"From giant Oaks, that wave their branches dark,",0.0 +"To the dwarf Moss, that clings upon their bark,",2.0 +"What Beaux and Beauties crowd the gaudy groves,",0.0 +"Their tender tears, as over the stream they bend;",2.0 +"Bow their sweet heads, and whisper to the gale;",4.0 +Drinks the warm blushes of his bashful bride;,4.0 +"Clasp with fond arms, and mix their kisses sweet. ' --",3.0 +"Hush, whispering Winds, you rustling Leaves, be still;",3.0 +"Rest, silver Butterflies, your quivering wings;",3.0 +"Alight, you Beetles, from your airy rings;",1.0 +"Descend, you Spiders, on your lengthened threads;",1.0 +"Slide here, you horned Snails, with varnished shells;",3.0 +BOTANIC MUSE! who in this latter age,0.0 +"Led by your airy hand the Swedish sage,",0.0 +Bad his keen eye your secret haunts explore,3.0 +"On dewy dell, high wood, and winding shore;",1.0 +Say on each leaf how tiny Graces dwell;,0.0 +How laugh the Pleasures in a blossom's bell;,0.0 +"How insect Loves arise on cobweb wings,",2.0 +"Aim their light shafts, and point their little stings.",3.0 +"The virtuous pair, in milder regions born,",2.0 +"Round the chill fair he folds his crimson vest,",3.0 +Smit with thy starry eye and radiant hair; ' --,0.0 +His floating train of tresses in the waves;,0.0 +"Sees his fair features paint the streams that pass,",3.0 +And bends for ever over the watery glass.,4.0 +"The same their features, and their forms the same,",1.0 +"Knit the dark brow, and roll the unsteady eye.",4.0 +"With sweet concern the pitying beauty mourns,",2.0 +And ten fond brothers woo the haughty maid.,1.0 +"Two knights before thy fragrant altar bend,",1.0 +And hand in hand the laughing belle address;,0.0 +"Alike to all, she bows with wanton air,",0.0 +"Rolls her dark eye, and waves her golden hair.",3.0 +Meets her fond husband with averted eye:,4.0 +With soft attentions of Platonic love.,1.0 +"And, like sad ELOISA, loves and mourns.",0.0 +"One dome contains them, but two beds divide.",2.0 +Two houses hold the fashionable pair.,2.0 +"Yet with soft love a gentle belle he charms,",3.0 +"Where the wide heath in purple pride extends,",3.0 +"Eye the warm sun, or drink the silver rain.",3.0 +"The ivy canopy, and dripping cell;",1.0 +"There hid in shades clandestine rites approves,",0.0 +Till the green progeny betrays her loves.,3.0 +Sounds in sweet symphony thy kindred wire;,3.0 +"Now, gently swept by Zephyr's vernal wings,",1.0 +"And now with mingling chords, and voices higher,",0.0 +Peal the full anthems of the aerial choir.,6.0 +"Beneath one roof resides the virgin band,",0.0 +"Flies the fond swain, and scorns his offered hand;",3.0 +"Each wanton beauty, tricked in all her grace,",0.0 +"In gay undress displays her rival charms,",0.0 +And calls her wondering lovers to her arms.,3.0 +When the young Hours amid her tangled hair,3.0 +"Wove the fresh rose-bud, and the lily fair,",1.0 +The blushing captives of her virgin chains. ' --,1.0 +' -- When Time's rude hand a bark of wrinkles spread,1.0 +The flattered victims of her wily age.,1.0 +"So, in her wane of beauty, NINON WON",0.0 +With fatal smiles her gay unconscious son. ' --,1.0 +"Clasped in his arms she owned a mother's name, ' --",0.0 +"Desist, rash youth! restrain your impious flame,",4.0 +"Born by my throes, and nurtured at my breast. ' --",0.0 +"Back as from death he sprung, with wild amaze",0.0 +Fierce on the fair he fixed his ardent gaze;,0.0 +And stole a guilty glance towards the bed;,0.0 +"Then breathed from quivering lips a whispered vow,",2.0 +And bent on heaven his pale repentant brow;,0.0 +"Thus, thus! he cried, and plunged the furious dart,",3.0 +And life and love gushed mingled from his heart.,2.0 +"Skilled in destruction, spread the viscous snare.",1.0 +And frowning guard the magic nets unseen. ' --,0.0 +"Haste, glittering nations, tenants of the air,",4.0 +"If with soft words, sweet blushes, nods, and smiles,",4.0 +"The three dread Sirens lure you to their toils,",2.0 +In vain the efforts of your whirring wings! ' --,1.0 +"Go, seek your gilded mates and infant hives,",1.0 +Nor taste the honey purchased with your lives!,1.0 +"When heaven's high vault condensing clouds deform,",4.0 +"Seeks with unsteady step the sheltered vale,",2.0 +And turns her blushing beauties from the gale. ' --,1.0 +"Six rival youths, with soft concern impressed,",1.0 +"Calm all her fears, and charm her cares to rest. ' --",0.0 +"Lifts its bright cross, and waves its golden vane;",3.0 +"From every breeze the polished axle turns,",0.0 +And high in air the dancing meteor burns.,2.0 +Each grasps a thousand arrows in his hand;,0.0 +A thousand steely points on every scale,0.0 +And slew the wily dragon of the well. ' --,1.0 +"Retort the insult, or the wound return;",3.0 +Or guide in leafy wilds the wandering maid.,2.0 +"Skies burst in flames, and blazing oceans dash; ' --",1.0 +"Or bids in sweet repose his shades recede,",0.0 +"Winds the still vale, and slopes the velvet mead;",3.0 +"On the pale stream expiring Zephyrs sink,",2.0 +And Moonlight sleeps upon its hoary brink.,1.0 +"Over her warm cheek the blush of beauty swims,",2.0 +And nerves Herculean bend her sinewy limbs;,4.0 +"And shakes the meadows, as she towers along,",4.0 +"With playful violence displays her charms,",1.0 +And bears her trembling lovers in her arms.,0.0 +And bound in rigid mail her jutting breast;,0.0 +"Poised her long lance amid the walks of war,",3.0 +"Greece armed in vain, her captive heroes wove",1.0 +The chains of conquest with the wreaths of love.,1.0 +When over the cultured lawns and dreary wastes,2.0 +"Retiring Autumn flings her howling blasts,",0.0 +"Bends in tumultuous waves the struggling woods,",4.0 +"In withering heaps collects the flowery spoil,",4.0 +And each chill insect sinks beneath the soil;,2.0 +And folds her infant closer in her arms;,0.0 +"In some lone cave, secure pavilion, lies,",1.0 +"So, six cold moons, the Dormouse charmed to rest,",2.0 +"In fields of Fancy climbs the kernel groves,",0.0 +Or shares the golden harvest with his loves. ' --,1.0 +But bright from earth amid the troubled air,0.0 +"Warms the cold bosom of the hoary year,",4.0 +"Three blushing Maids the intrepid Nymph attend,",3.0 +"So shines with silver guards the Georgian star,",0.0 +And drives on Night's blue arch his glittering car;,3.0 +"Wades through the missed, and dances in the storm.",0.0 +"Marshaled in fives each gaudy band proceeds,",2.0 +"With zealous step he climbs the upland lawn,",0.0 +And bows in homage to the rising dawn;,1.0 +"And watches, as it moves, the orb of day.",1.0 +Redundant folds of glossy silk surround,0.0 +"Her slender waist, and trail upon the ground;",0.0 +Or spread the floating purple to the breeze;,1.0 +With each soft mandate of her moving eye.,1.0 +"As with sweet grace her snowy neck she bows,",2.0 +"Bright shines the silver halo, as she turns;",2.0 +"And, as she steps, the living lustre burns.",1.0 +And bears the Horn of Plenty in her arms.,0.0 +And watch with eye askance the treasured gold.,0.0 +Pleased round the Fair four rival Lords ascend,1.0 +"High in the setting ray the beauty stands,",0.0 +And her tall shadow waves on distant lands.,2.0 +"Stay, bright inhabitant of air, alight,",2.0 +"Shakes her white plume, and claps her golden wings;",3.0 +And seeks amid the clouds her soaring loves!,0.0 +And distant surges murmuring over her head. ' --,4.0 +"High in the flood her azure dome ascends,",0.0 +The crystal arch on crystal columns bends;,0.0 +"Roofed with translucent shell the turrets blaze,",2.0 +And far in ocean dart their coloured rays;,0.0 +"Over the white floor successive shadows move,",3.0 +As rise and break the ruffled waves above. ' --,0.0 +And weave with orient pearl her radiant hair;,3.0 +"With rapid fins she cleaves the watery way,",2.0 +Shoots like a silver meteor up to day;,1.0 +"Her sea-born lovers, and ascends the strand.",2.0 +"Even round the pole the flames of Love aspire,",0.0 +"Crops the grey coral moss, and hoary thyme,",3.0 +Or laps with rosy tongue the melting rhyme;,0.0 +"Eyes with mute tenderness her distant dam,",4.0 +"' -- So, warm and buoyant in his oily mail,",0.0 +His bulk gigantic through the troubled surge;,1.0 +"With hideous yawn the flying shoals He seeks,",2.0 +"Lifts over the tossing wave his nostrils bare,",3.0 +"The silvery arches catch the setting beams,",2.0 +And transient rainbows tremble over the streams.,3.0 +From each rude touch withdraws her timid hands;,1.0 +"And feels, alive through all her tender form,",0.0 +The whispered murmurs of the gathering storm;,3.0 +Shuts her sweet eyelids to approaching night;,3.0 +And hails with freshened charms the rising light.,0.0 +"Veiled, with gay decency and modest pride,",4.0 +"Slow to the mosque she moves, an eastern bride;",0.0 +"There her soft vows unceasing love record,",2.0 +The liquid silver in its glassy tower.,0.0 +"So turns the needle to the pole it loves,",1.0 +All won and shivering in the leafless glade,1.0 +"Grief on her cheeks had paled the roseate hue,",0.0 +And her sweet eyelids dropped with pearly dew.,4.0 +"' -- See, from bright regions, born on odorous gales",5.0 +Thy balmy influence to my anguished heart;,1.0 +"Thou, whose soft voice calls forth the tender blooms,",2.0 +"Whose pencil paints them, and whose breath perfumes;",1.0 +"OH chase the Fiend of Frost, with leaden mace",1.0 +"Melt his hard heart, release his iron hand,",3.0 +And give my ivory petals to expand.,1.0 +"So may each bud, that decks the brow of spring,",1.0 +Shed all its incense on thy wafting wing! ' --,1.0 +"To her fond prayer propitious Zephyr yields,",2.0 +"Sweeps on his sliding shell through azure fields,",0.0 +"Over her fair mansion waves his whispering wand,",4.0 +And gives her ivory petals to expand;,1.0 +"Gives with new life her filial train to rise,",5.0 +And hail with kindling smiles the genial skies.,0.0 +And flings the fluttering kerchief to the gale.,3.0 +"Glides the gilded Landau over the velvet lawn,",3.0 +Of beaux and belles displays the glittering throng;,2.0 +"And soft airs fan them, as they roll along.",2.0 +Where frowning Snowden bends his dizzy brow,0.0 +"Over Conway, listening to the surge below;",2.0 +And' mid the airy ocean dwells alone. ' --,0.0 +And dark with thunder sail the clouds beneath. ' --,0.0 +"And tracks her light step over the imprinted dews,",2.0 +"Delighted Hymen gives his torch to blaze,",0.0 +"Sheds over their secret vows his influence chaste,",5.0 +And decks with roses the admiring waste.,1.0 +"High in the front of heaven when Sirius glares,",2.0 +And over Britannia shakes his fiery hairs;,6.0 +Fall gentle dews! the fainting nymph repeats;,1.0 +"Seeks the low dell, and in the sultry shade",2.0 +"Pleased from their hands with modest grace she sips,",0.0 +And the cool wave reflects her coral lips.,2.0 +"Warm' mid the rising steam the Beauty glows,",1.0 +As blushes in a missed the dewy rose.,0.0 +"Stain the white fleece, or stretch the tinted woof;",3.0 +"Over Age's cheek the warmth of youth diffuse,",0.0 +So when MEDEA to exulting Greece,1.0 +"On the loud shore a magic pile she raised,",2.0 +And warmer eddies circle round his heart;,0.0 +"With softer fires his kindling eyeballs glow,",1.0 +And darker tresses wanton round his brow.,0.0 +"Her flushed cheek pressed upon her lily hand,",1.0 +"For him she breathes the silent sight, forlorn,",1.0 +Or bathe your radiant tresses in the main;,0.0 +For you were witness to his parting vow! ' --,2.0 +"You shelving rocks, dark waves, and sounding shore, ' --",1.0 +You echoed sweet the tender words he swore! ' --,0.0 +Can stars or seas the sails of love retain?,0.0 +OH guide my wanderer to my arms again! ' --,2.0 +"Her secret vows the Cyprian Queen approves,",2.0 +"Each in his floating cradle round they throng,",0.0 +"Thus over the waves, which gently bend and swell,",3.0 +Fair GALATEA steers her silver shell;,1.0 +"Her playful Dolphins stretch the silken rein,",0.0 +"Hear her sweet voice, and glide along the main.",3.0 +As round the wild meandering coast she moves,2.0 +"Pleased trains of Mermaids rise from coral cells,",2.0 +"Charmed over the car pursuing Cupids sweep,",3.0 +"And, as the lustre of her eye she turns,",2.0 +"Soft sighs the Gale, and amorous Ocean burns.",3.0 +And viewed her playful image in the flood;,0.0 +"To each rude rock, lone dell, and echoing grove",4.0 +Sung the sweet sorrows of her secret love.,4.0 +"O, stay! ' -- return! ' -- along the sounding shore",0.0 +And sunk with Hesper in the skirt of night;,0.0 +"No dim electric streams, the northern dawn,",1.0 +To guide or light the wanderer on her way.,1.0 +"Woods groan above, and waters roar below;",1.0 +"She flies, ' -- she stops, ' -- she pants ' -- she looks behind,",0.0 +And hears a demon howl in every wind.,0.0 +Cold beats the snow upon her shuddering breast;,3.0 +"Through her numbed limbs the chill sensations dart,",2.0 +"I sink, I fall! o, help me, help! she cries,",0.0 +Her stiffening tongue the unfinished sound denies;,2.0 +"Arrest her flight, and root her to the ground;",1.0 +"Seal her mute lips, and silver over her head,",5.0 +"Veil her pale bosom, glaze her lifted hands,",3.0 +' -- DOVE'S azure nymphs on each revolving year,1.0 +"Here paused the MUSE, ' -- across the darkened pole",0.0 +"Sail the dim clouds, the echoing thunders roll;",5.0 +"Hang the mute lyre the laurel shade beneath,",3.0 +' -- Now the light swallow with her airy brood,4.0 +"Loud shrieks the lone thrush from his leafless thorn,",3.0 +The alarmed beetle sounds his bugle horn;,5.0 +Each pendant spider winds with singers sine,0.0 +Gay Gnomes in glittering circles stand aloof,3.0 +Beneath a spreading mushroom's fretted roof;,0.0 +And pearly rain-drops deck the laughing flowers.,1.0 +"But let Concealment, like a worm in the bud,",0.0 +"Who paused on my case, and each circumstance weighed;",1.0 +"Then gravely replied in return to my prayer,",4.0 +That Hebe was fairest of all that were fair.,1.0 +"I came to you, Reason, to find out a fault.",2.0 +To find fault with Hebe would forfeit my name.,4.0 +"AGAIN the Goddess strikes the golden lyre,",0.0 +And tunes to wilder notes the warbling wire;,0.0 +"With soft suspended step Attention moves,",0.0 +And Silence hovers over the listening groves;,2.0 +"Orb within orb the charmed audience throng,",5.0 +And the green vault reverberates the song.,2.0 +"How sweetly mutable yonder orient hues,",3.0 +"How bright, when Iris blending many a ray",2.0 +While from the north long threads of silver light,1.0 +"Breathe soft, you Zephyrs! hear my fervent sighs,",1.0 +' -- Plume over plume in long divergent lines,1.0 +"Journeying on high, the silken castle glides",1.0 +Bright as a meteor through the azure tides;,1.0 +"Over towns and towers and temples wins its way,",2.0 +Pursue the floating wonder to the clouds;,1.0 +"Watch, as it rises, the diminished sphere.",1.0 +' -- Now less and less! ' -- and now a speck is seen! ' --,1.0 +And now the fleeting rack obtrudes between! ' --,0.0 +To every shrine with mingled cries they vow. ' --,0.0 +"Save Him, you Saints! who over the good preside;",2.0 +"' -- The calm Philosopher in either sails,",1.0 +"Views broader stars, and breathes in purer gales;",1.0 +"Sees, like a map, in many a waving line",2.0 +Round Earth's blue plains her lucid waters shine;,1.0 +And hears innocuous thunders roar below.,2.0 +"Hangs in the east, gay harbinger of morn;",2.0 +"Leave the red eye of Mars on rapid wing,",3.0 +"Leave the fair beams, which, issuing from afar,",6.0 +"Shun with strong oars the Sun's attractive throne,",3.0 +"The sparkling zodiac, and the milky zone;",0.0 +Where headlong Comets with increasing force,2.0 +"Through other systems bend their blazing course, ' --",0.0 +"High over the North thy golden orb shall roll,",3.0 +And blaze eternal round the wondering pole.,2.0 +"So Argo, rising from the southern main,",1.0 +"And the bold course, which first it steered, directs.",2.0 +The flying shuttle through the dancing strings;,1.0 +"Quick beat the reeds, the pedals fall and rise;",1.0 +"Slow from the beam the lengths of warp unwind,",0.0 +Immortal ISIS clothed the banks of Nile;,0.0 +Found undeserved a melancholy doom. ' --,1.0 +Or whirl with beaten foot the dizzy wheel.,0.0 +"' -- Charmed round the busy Fair five shepherd's press,",1.0 +"Praise the nice texture of their snowy dress,",4.0 +"Admire the Artists, and the art approve,",1.0 +"Through vaulted mountains, and a night of woods,",1.0 +And warms with rosy smiles the watery God;,2.0 +"With playful charms her hoary lover wins,",0.0 +"And wields his trident, ' -- while the Monarch spins.",0.0 +From leathery pods the vegetable wool;,4.0 +"Combs the wide card, and forms the eternal line;",4.0 +"Slow, with soft lips, the whirling Can acquires",4.0 +"The tender skeins, and wraps in rising spires;",0.0 +"With quickened pace successive rollers move,",0.0 +"And these retain, and those extend the rove;",2.0 +"Spread her smooth leaf, and waved her silver style.",3.0 +"The sacred symbol, and the epic song,",1.0 +"Unknown the character, forgot the tongue,",1.0 +And infant Arts but learnt to lisp and died.,0.0 +To paint in mystic colours Sound and Thought.,3.0 +And mark in adamant the steps of Time.,1.0 +"The fond disciples of the studious fair,",3.0 +"Hear her sweet voice, the golden process prove;",4.0 +"Gaze, as they learn; and, as they listen, love.",1.0 +The first from Alpha to Omega joins,1.0 +The lettered tribes along the level lines;,0.0 +"And counts, as wheel the decimating bands,",0.0 +"Marks the gay trill, the solemn pause inscribes,",3.0 +And parts with bars the undulating tribes.,0.0 +"Clapped their rude hands, their swarthy foreheads bowed;",4.0 +"With loud acclaim a present God! they cried,",0.0 +"The echoing harp, shill clarion, horn, and shell;",5.0 +"Struck deeper chords, and winged the song with fire,",1.0 +Then marked Astronomers with keener eyes,1.0 +"Watched the swift Comets urge their blazing cars,",3.0 +And weighed the Sun with his revolving Stars.,1.0 +"And changing forms obeyed their waving hands,",0.0 +"Her treasured gold from Earth's deep chambers tore,",1.0 +"' -- Exulting Genius crowned his darling child,",0.0 +"The young Arts clasped her knees, and Virtue smiled.",1.0 +"Vein the green leaf, the purple petal die:",3.0 +Cold Winter views amid his realms of snow,1.0 +"Smooths his stern brow, delays his hoary wing,",3.0 +And eyes with wonder all the blooms of spring.,0.0 +"And bright CALENDULA with golden hair,",4.0 +"Watch with nice eye the Earth's diurnal way,",3.0 +And trace with mimic art the march of Time;,0.0 +"Round his light foot a magic chain they fling,",3.0 +And count the quick vibrations of his wing. ' --,1.0 +First in its brazen cell reluctant rolled,0.0 +Bends the dark spring in many a steely fold;,2.0 +"On spiral brass is stretched the wiry thong,",0.0 +"Tooth urges tooth, and wheel drives wheel along;",2.0 +"In diamond eyes the polished axles flow,",0.0 +"Smooth slides the hand, the balance pants below.",1.0 +Live the fair trophies of the passing year.,4.0 +"And dash proud Superstition from her base,",2.0 +The crumbling fragments round her guilty head.,0.0 +"There the gay Hours, whom wreaths of roses deck,",2.0 +Plant the fair growths of Science and of Taste.,4.0 +"While each light Moment, as it dances by",3.0 +The callow nestlings of domestic Bliss.,1.0 +"As yonder gay clouds, which canopy the skies,",4.0 +"Change their thin forms, and lose their lucid dies;",3.0 +"Fades in our eyes, and withers in our arms.",0.0 +"' -- Bright as the silvery plume, or pearly shell,",2.0 +"Warmed every Sage, and every Shepherd won. ' --",1.0 +And seek with soft solicitude their hands.,0.0 +"The glance divine, that lightened in their eyes;",0.0 +"Cold are those lips, where smiles seductive hung,",0.0 +And the weak accents linger on their tongue;,3.0 +"Each roseate feature fades to livid green, ' --",0.0 +' -- Disgust with face averted shuts the scene.,0.0 +"So from his gorgeous throne, which awed the world,",1.0 +"The mighty Monarch of the east was hurled,",1.0 +By Heaven's just vengeance changed in mind and form.,2.0 +"' -- Prone to the earth He bends his brow superb,",0.0 +Of slow Euphrates laps the muddy tide.,0.0 +"Long eagle plumes his arching neck invest,",1.0 +"Steal round his arms, and clasp his sharpened breast;",0.0 +"Rise over his back, and rustle in the wind,",3.0 +And human hands with talons print the ground.,0.0 +Pursue their monarch as he crawls along;,1.0 +"Even Beauty pleads in vain with smiles and tears,",0.0 +"Bend their light steps, the lucid water drink,",3.0 +"Wind through the dewy rice, and nodding canes,",0.0 +And shower the inebriate berries on the flood. ' --,6.0 +"Stay in your crystal chambers, silver tribes!",0.0 +"Turn your bright eyes, and shun the dangerous bribes;",5.0 +"With less deceit, the gilded fly beneath,",0.0 +"Lurks the fell hook unseen, ' -- to taste is death! ' --",3.0 +"' -- Dim your slow eyes, and dull your pearly coat,",3.0 +"Drunk on the waves your languid forms shall float,",0.0 +"On useless fins in giddy circles play,",0.0 +And Herons and Otters seize you for their prey. ' --,3.0 +"In silent anguish sought the barren strand,",0.0 +"High on the shattered beech sublime He stood,",0.0 +Stilled with his waving arm the babbling flood;,0.0 +"To Man's dull ear, He cried, I call in vain,",1.0 +"Misshapen Seals approach in circling flocks,",0.0 +"Torpedoes, Sharks, Rays, Porpoise, Dolphins, pour",1.0 +Their twinkling squadrons round the glittering shore;,2.0 +"Bless you the Lord! with thundering voice he cried,",2.0 +Bless you the Lord! the bending shores replied;,0.0 +"The winds and waters caught the sacred word,",0.0 +And mingling echoes shouted Bless the Lord!,0.0 +The listening shoals the quick contagion feel.,0.0 +"Pant on the floods, inebriate with their zeal,",0.0 +"Open their wide jaws, and bow their slimy heads,",2.0 +And dash with frantic sins their foamy beds.,0.0 +Pass the thin forms of Fancy and of Dreams;,4.0 +Froze by enchantment on the velvet ground,3.0 +"On crystal pedestals they seem to sigh,",1.0 +"Bend the meek knee, and lift the imploring eye.",4.0 +"Flushed with new life descending statues talk,",4.0 +The pliant marble softening as they walk;,1.0 +"With deeper sobs reviving lovers breathe,",0.0 +And hovering Loves are heard on rustling wing.,0.0 +' -- She waves her wand again! ' -- fresh horrors seize,1.0 +"Their stiffening limbs, their vital currents freeze;",0.0 +"By each cold nymph her marble lover lies,",1.0 +"From the dark regions of the imprisoned dead,",5.0 +Or drove in silent shoals the lingering train,0.0 +"Calls up with magic voice the shapes, that sleep",0.0 +Or blazing bathe in elemental fire.,0.0 +"Rise the fine forms of Beauties, Graces, Loves;",3.0 +"And fade or flourish, as she turns her eye.",1.0 +"Called her light choir, and trod the dewy lawn;",5.0 +"Hailed with rude melody the newborn May,",5.0 +"Born in yonder blaze of orient sky,",1.0 +Sweet MAY! thy radiant form unfold;,0.0 +Light Graces dressed in flowery wreaths,3.0 +"I faint, I fall! ' -- at noon the Beauty cried,",0.0 +"Weep over my tomb, you Nymphs! ' -- and sunk and died.",3.0 +"Drives the still snow, or showers the silver rhyme;",5.0 +As the lone shepherd over the dazzling rocks,4.0 +"Prints his steep step, and guides his vagrant flocks;",3.0 +"Views the green holly veiled in network nice,",4.0 +"Admires the lucid vales, and slumbering floods,",2.0 +"Fantastic cataracts, and crystal woods,",0.0 +"Transparent towns, with seas of milk between,",0.0 +"If breaks the sunshine over the spangled trees,",3.0 +"In liquid dews descends the transient glare,",0.0 +And all the glittering pageant melts in air.,2.0 +And roots his base on burning sands below;,0.0 +And hung with fragrant wreaths the sacred bower;,0.0 +"Each pearly sea the searched, and sparkling mine,",1.0 +And piled their treasures on the gorgeous shrine;,1.0 +"Sweet breathed the gale, and bright the censor blazed.",1.0 +While streaming over the night with baleful glare,2.0 +The star of Autumn rays his misty hair;,0.0 +And wrapped in fogs descends on vampire wings;,0.0 +"Before, with shuddering limbs cold Tremor reels,",3.0 +"Loud claps the grinning Fiend his iron hands,",1.0 +"Stamps with his marble feet, and shouts along the lands;",0.0 +"The crystal mansions of the immortal gods,",3.0 +"Saw the fad Nymph uplift her dewy eyes,",3.0 +"Spread her white arms, and breathe her fervid sighs;",3.0 +"Called to her fair associates, Youth, and Joy,",2.0 +"Loose waved behind her golden train of hair,",1.0 +Her sapphire mantle swam diffused in air. ' --,2.0 +"With step sublime the glowing Goddess trod,",0.0 +And with her smile celestial blessed the maid.,1.0 +"Their mingled roots, and drink the rill beneath,",0.0 +"Yield to the biting axe thy sacred wood,",0.0 +And strew the bitter foliage on the flood.,1.0 +"In silent homage bowed the blushing maid, ' --",0.0 +"Five youths athletic hasten to her aid,",2.0 +And headlong forests thunder on the ground.,2.0 +"Round the dark roots, rent bark, and shattered boughs,",4.0 +"' -- As the pale squadrons, bending over the brink,",4.0 +"View with a sigh their altered forms, and drink;",0.0 +"Over their won lips, and paints their haggard cheeks;",2.0 +"Through each fine nerve rekindling transports dart,",1.0 +"Light the quick eye, and swell the exulting heart.",4.0 +Led to the sultry rock his murmuring bands.,2.0 +And high in air the rod divine He raised. ' --,0.0 +Wide yawns the cliff! ' -- amid the thirsty throng,1.0 +"Rush the redundant waves, and shine along;",2.0 +"With gourds and shells and helmets press the bands,",0.0 +"Open their parched lips, and spread their eager hands,",2.0 +"Snatch their pale infants to the exuberant shower,",8.0 +"Kneel on the shattered rock, and bless the Almighty Power,",2.0 +"Bolstered with down, amid a thousand wants,",3.0 +"Pale Dropsy rears his bloated form, and pants;",1.0 +"So bends tormented TANTALUS to drink,",2.0 +"' -- Divine HYGEIA, from the bending sky",2.0 +"Descending, listens to his piercing cry;",1.0 +"Her ruby cheek, white neck, and raven hair;",1.0 +"Four youths protect her from the circling throng,",2.0 +And like the Nymph the Goddess steps along. ' --,0.0 +"Cheers with her voice, and raises with her hand,",1.0 +"Warms with rekindling bloom his visage won,",2.0 +And charms the shapeless monster into man.,0.0 +And withered Famine urged the work of death;,0.0 +"With food and faith, with medicine and with prayer,",1.0 +"Raised the weak head and stayed the parting sigh,",3.0 +"' -- And now, PHILANTHROPY! thy rays divine",1.0 +"Over each dark prison plays the cheering light,",1.0 +"From realm to realm, with cross or crescent crowned,",0.0 +"Wherever Mankind and Misery are found,",4.0 +"Over burning sands, deep waves, or wilds of snow,",1.0 +Thy HOWARD journeying seeks the house of woe.,2.0 +"Down many a winding step to dungeons dank,",2.0 +"Where anguish wails aloud, and fetters clank;",0.0 +"And cells, whose echoes only learn to groan;",0.0 +"Where no kind bars a whispering friend disclose,",3.0 +"No sunbeam enters, and no zephyr blows,",4.0 +"Profuse of toil, and prodigal of health;",1.0 +"If not to sever, to relax the chains;",1.0 +"Or guides awakened Mercy through the gloom,",1.0 +"And shows the prison, sister to the tomb! ' --",1.0 +To her fond husband liberty and life! ' --,3.0 +"' -- The Spirits of the Good, who bend from high",1.0 +"Wide over these earthly scenes their partial eye,",3.0 +"When first, arrayed in VIRTUE's purest robe,",0.0 +They saw her HOWARD traversing the globe;,4.0 +"' -- Onward he moves! ' -- Disease and Death retire,",2.0 +"And murmuring Demons hate him, and admire.",3.0 +Obsequious Gnomes repose the lyre divine;,2.0 +And catch the rain-drops on their shadowy wings.,4.0 +"Piles the dry cedar round her silver urn,",3.0 +In gaudy cups the steamy treasure pours;,0.0 +Presents the fragrant quintessence of Tea.,4.0 +"AND now the Goddess sounds her silver shell,",0.0 +And shakes with deeper tones the enchanted dell;,2.0 +"Flit the thin forms of Sorrows, and of Fears;",4.0 +"Soft Sighs responsive whisper to the chords,",2.0 +"And chants the numbers, which disturb the dead;",0.0 +"Shakes over the holy earth her sable plume,",3.0 +"Waves her dread wand, and strikes the echoing tomb!",5.0 +"' -- Pale shoot the stars across the troubled night,",1.0 +The timorous moon withholds her conscious light;,3.0 +"Shrill scream the famished bats, and shivering owls,",3.0 +And loud and long the dog of midnight howls! ' --,1.0 +"Rise on broad wings, and hail the baleful queen;",3.0 +"Each with dire grin salutes the potent wand,",0.0 +"Onward they glide, where sheds the sickly yew",2.0 +Hoarse on their hinge the ponderous portals jar;,2.0 +"As through the coloured glass the moon-beam falls,",2.0 +"Low murmurs creep along the hollow ground,",1.0 +"By glimmering lamps, protecting saints among,",2.0 +"The shrines all tremble as they pass along,",1.0 +"Over the still choir with hideous laugh they move,",6.0 +"Fiends yell below, and angels weep above!",1.0 +"Their impious march to God's high altar bend,",3.0 +With feet impure the sacred steps ascend;,0.0 +"Assume the mitre, and the cope profane;",1.0 +"To heaven their eyes in mock devotion throw,",0.0 +"Foam on her lips, and fury in her eyes,",0.0 +While twenty Priests the gorgeous shrine surround,0.0 +Contending hosts and trembling nations wait,0.0 +' -- She speaks in thunder from her golden throne,1.0 +So on his NIGHTMARE through the evening fog,3.0 +' -- Such as of late amid the murky sky,1.0 +Gave to the airy phantom form and place ' --,0.0 +"Back over her pillow sinks her blushing head,",3.0 +"' -- Then shrieks of captured towns, and widows' tears,",0.0 +"Pale lovers stretched upon their bloodstained biers,",2.0 +"The headlong precipice that thwarts her flight,",2.0 +"Over her fair limbs convulsive tremors fleet,",2.0 +"Start in her hands, and struggle in her feet;",0.0 +"In vain to scream with quivering lips she tries,",2.0 +"In vain she wills to run, fly, swim, walk, creep;",2.0 +"Erect, and balances his bloated shape;",1.0 +Chambered in earth with cold oblivion lies;,4.0 +"Mounts into air, and moves her leafy plumes.",1.0 +Each in his flinty channel winds along;,0.0 +Hurrying to intermix their sister tides.,1.0 +Rocks reared on rocks in huge disjointed piles,1.0 +"Form the tall turrets, and the lengthened ails;",4.0 +"Broad ponderous piers sustain the roof, and wide",3.0 +Branch the vast rainbow ribs from side to side.,4.0 +While from above descends in milky streams,1.0 +"One scanty pencil of illusive beams,",1.0 +Saw from red altars streams of guiltless blood,3.0 +"Heard dying babes in wicker prisons wail,",1.0 +"While from dark caves infernal Echoes mock,",3.0 +And Fiends triumphant shout from every rock!,0.0 +' -- So still the Nymphs emerging lift in air,0.0 +Listening the Shepherd's or the Miner's song;,2.0 +"On timorous fins they circle on the wave,",3.0 +"With streaming eyes and throbbing hearts recoil,",0.0 +"Plunge their fair forms, and dive beneath the soil. ' --",3.0 +"Closed round their heads reluctant eddies sink,",0.0 +And wider rings successive dash the brink. ' --,0.0 +Or seek through sullen mines their gloomy way;,0.0 +"On beds of Lava sleep in coral cells,",0.0 +"Or sigh over jasper fish, and agate shells.",2.0 +"Through flowery meadows and impending woods,",4.0 +"Pleased with light spring they leave the dreary night,",0.0 +"Shake their bright locks, the widening vale pursue,",5.0 +"In playful groups by towering THORP they move,",0.0 +"Bound over the foaming wears, and rush into the Dove.",3.0 +"Swells her pale cheeks, and brandishes her hands,",4.0 +"With rage and hate the astonished groves alarms,",2.0 +"Her weeping sire and beckoning friends withstood,",4.0 +"While high in air the golden treasure burns,",0.0 +And Love and Glory guide the prow by turns.,0.0 +"While horns of triumph found, and altars burn,",0.0 +And shouting nations hail their Chief's return;,0.0 +"Aghast, She saw new decked the nuptial bed,",1.0 +"Deride her virtues, and insult her charms;",1.0 +"Saw her dear babes from fame and empire torn,",3.0 +In foreign realms deserted and forlorn;,1.0 +"Her love rejected, and her vengeance braved,",1.0 +"By Him her beauties won, her virtues saved. ' --",1.0 +"Nor Heaven, She cried, nor Earth, nor Hell can hold",0.0 +A Heart abandoned to the thirst of Gold!,1.0 +"' -- Slow out of earth, before the festive crowds,",0.0 +"On wheels of fire, amid a night of clouds,",0.0 +"Drawn by fierce fiends arose a magic car,",3.0 +"Received the Queen, and hovering flamed in air. ' --",0.0 +"And fear the vengeance they deserve to feel,",1.0 +And thrice she clasped them to her tortured breast;,1.0 +"Awhile with white uplifted eyes she stood,",5.0 +"Go, kiss your sire! go, share the bridal mirth!",4.0 +"She cried, and hurled their quivering limbs on earth.",2.0 +Earth yawns! ' -- the crashing ruin sinks! ' -- over all,6.0 +Death with black hands extends his mighty Pall;,3.0 +"Their mingling gore the Fiends of Vengeance quaff,",0.0 +And Hell receives them with convulsive laugh.,1.0 +"Round the vexed isles where fierce tornados roar,",4.0 +"Over the dim flowers, and veils the misty meads;",4.0 +"Slow, over the twilight sands or leafy walks,",4.0 +"If rests the traveller his weary head,",1.0 +Pours the cursed venom in his tortured ear. ' --,3.0 +Loads the dank pinion of the gale with death.,4.0 +Yet own with tender care their kindred Loves! ' --,0.0 +As the bright orb of breezy midnight pours,3.0 +"Long threads of silver through her gaping towers,",2.0 +"Sad over the mighty wreck in silence bends,",3.0 +"Lifts her wet eyes, her tremulous hands extends. ' --",5.0 +If from lone cliffs a bursting rill expands,2.0 +"Its transient course, and sinks into the sands;",0.0 +"The Leopard hisses, and the Panther growls;",1.0 +"On quivering wing the famished Vulture screams,",2.0 +"Dips his dry beak, and sweeps the gushing streams;",3.0 +"With foamy jaws, beneath, and sanguine tongue,",0.0 +"Laps the lean Wolf, and pants, and runs along;",3.0 +"Stern stalks the Lion, on the rustling brinks",2.0 +"Fold after fold, his undulating train;",1.0 +"And, bending over the lake his crested brow,",2.0 +Where seas of glass with gay reflections smile,0.0 +"A spacious plain extends its upland scene,",0.0 +"Rocks rise on rocks, and fountains gush between;",1.0 +"Soft zephyrs blow, eternal summers reign,",1.0 +"And showers prolific bless the soil, ' -- in vain!",2.0 +"' -- No spicy nutmeg scents the vernal gales,",2.0 +"No grassy mantle hides the fable hills,",1.0 +"Nor tufted moss, nor leathery lichen creeps",2.0 +"' -- No step retreating, on the sand impressed,",2.0 +Invites the visit of a second guest;,1.0 +Fierce in dread silence on the blasted heath,3.0 +A thousand vegetative serpents grow;,0.0 +"Looks over the clouds, and hisses in the storm.",3.0 +"Steeped in fell poison, as his sharp teeth part,",4.0 +A thousand tongues in quick vibration dart;,0.0 +"Snatch the proud Eagle towering over the heath,",5.0 +"Or pounce the Lion, as he stalks beneath;",1.0 +"Or strew, as marshaled hosts contend in vain,",0.0 +"Rise, fluttering in the air on callow wings,",2.0 +So Time's strong arms with sweeping scythe erase,1.0 +"While each young Hour its sickle fine employs,",1.0 +And crops the sweet buds of domestic joys!,2.0 +And lulls her infant in her fondling arms;,0.0 +"And guards his life, forgetful of her own.",1.0 +"So wings the wounded Deer her headlong flight,",1.0 +"Pierced by some ambushed archer of the night,",2.0 +"Shoots to the woodlands with her bounding fawn,",1.0 +"There hid in shades she shuns the cheerful day,",0.0 +"Hangs over her young, and weeps her life away.",3.0 +Sought with bold eye amid the bloody strife,3.0 +"From hill to hill the rushing host pursued,",0.0 +"And viewed his banner, or believed she viewed.",1.0 +"Pleased with the distant roar, with quicker tread",0.0 +And one fair girl amid the loud alarm,2.0 +"While round her brows bright beams of Honour dart,",2.0 +And Love's warm eddies circle round her heart.,1.0 +"' -- Near and more near the intrepid Beauty pressed,",1.0 +"Saw through the driving smoke his dancing crest,",0.0 +"Heard the exulting shout, they run! they run!",2.0 +"' -- A ball now hisses through the airy tides,",2.0 +"Some Fury winged it, and some Demon guides!",1.0 +"Parts the fine locks, her graceful head that deck,",3.0 +"Wounds her fair ear, and sinks into her neck;",3.0 +"The red stream, issuing from her azure veins,",2.0 +"Dies her white veil, her ivory bosom stains. ' --",3.0 +"' -- Ah me! she cried, and, sinking on the ground,",1.0 +"Kissed her dear babes, regardless of the wound;",4.0 +"O, cease not yet to beat, thou Vital Urn!",0.0 +"Wait, gushing Life, o, wait my Love's return! ' --",1.0 +"Hoarse barks the wolf, the vulture screams from far! ' --",1.0 +"The angel, Pity, shuns the walks of war! ' --",0.0 +"On me, on me, she cried, exhaust your rage! ' --",1.0 +"Then with weak arms her weeping babes caressed,",4.0 +And sighing bid them in her bloodstained vest.,1.0 +"From tent to tent the impatient warrior flies,",2.0 +"Fear in his heart, and frenzy in his eyes;",0.0 +Eliza echoes through the canvas walls;,1.0 +"Quick through the murmuring gloom his footsteps tread,",3.0 +"Over groaning heaps, the dying and the dead,",1.0 +"Vault over the plain, and in the tangled wood,",3.0 +"' -- Soon hears his listening son the welcome sounds,",1.0 +With open arms and sparkling eyes he bounds: ' --,0.0 +"Speak low, he cries, and gives his little hand,",1.0 +"Poor weeping Babe with bloody fingers pressed,",1.0 +Alas! we both with cold and hunger quake ' --,0.0 +Why do you weep? ' -- Mama will soon awake.,5.0 +"' -- She'll wake no more! the hopeless mourner cried,",1.0 +"Stretched on the ground awhile entranced he lay,",0.0 +And pressed warm kisses on the lifeless clay;,2.0 +And all the Father kindled in his heart;,0.0 +"O, Heavens! he cried, my first rash vow forgive!",3.0 +"These bind to earth, for these I pray to live! ' --",1.0 +"Round his chill babes he wrapped his crimson vest,",3.0 +And clasped them sobbing to his aching breast.,1.0 +"In the meek garb of modest worth disguised,",3.0 +"The eye averted, and the smile chastised,",1.0 +"With sly approach they spread their dangerous charms,",2.0 +And round their victim wind their wiry arms.,0.0 +"Raised high his arm, and with prophetic call",2.0 +To shrinking realms announced her fatal fall;,0.0 +"Whirled his fierce spear with more than mortal force,",2.0 +And pierced the thick ribs of the echoing horse;,4.0 +"Lashing the white waves with redundant train,",4.0 +"Arched their blue necks, and shook their towering crests,",3.0 +And ploughed their foamy way with speckled breasts;,0.0 +' -- Two daring Youths to guard the hoary sire,1.0 +"Thwart their dread progress, and provoke their ire.",2.0 +"Ring above ring, in many a tangled fold,",5.0 +"Close and more close their writhing limbs surround,",0.0 +In silent agony sustains their rage;,1.0 +"While each fond Youth, in vain, with piercing cries",1.0 +Bends on the tortured Sire his dying eyes.,2.0 +"Green leaves and purple clusters crown her head,",1.0 +"Drink deep, she carols, as she waves in air",2.0 +"Fell Gout peeps grinning through the flimsy scene,",3.0 +And bloated Dropsy pants behind unseen;,0.0 +And silent Frenzy writhing bites his chains.,0.0 +Bore the bright treasure to his Man of clay; ' --,4.0 +"High on cold Caucasus by VULCAN bound,",4.0 +"The lean impatient Vulture fluttering round,",1.0 +His writhing limbs in vain he twists and strains,0.0 +"The gluttonous bird, exulting in his pangs,",2.0 +Tears his swollen liver with remorseless fangs.,1.0 +Breathes over her lifeless babe the parting sigh;,3.0 +"And, bending low to earth, with pious hands",0.0 +"O, sleep, She cries, and rise a fairer flower!",0.0 +"Shook her dank wing, and steered her murky clouds;",3.0 +"While Death and Night piled up the naked throng,",2.0 +"Six lovely daughters, and their father, swept",2.0 +"Her tender mind, with meek Religion fraught,",0.0 +Alive and listening to the whispered groan,1.0 +"Of others' woes, unconscious of her own! ' --",2.0 +"One smiling boy, her last sweet hope, she warms",1.0 +"Hushed on her bosom, circled in her arms, ' --",0.0 +"Daughter of woe! ere morn, in vain caressed,",4.0 +"With feeble cries thy last sad aid required,",1.0 +"Stretched its stiff limbs, and on thy lap expired! ' --",2.0 +"' -- Long with wide eyelids on her Child she gazed,",1.0 +Then with quick foot and throbbing heart she found,3.0 +"Bore her last treasure through the midnight gloom,",5.0 +And kneeling dropped it in the mighty tomb;,0.0 +"I follow next! the frantic mourner said,",0.0 +And living plunged amid the festering dead.,2.0 +And trusts her tawny children to the floods. ' --,1.0 +"And guard the beauty on her native land,",1.0 +"Soft breathes the gale, the current gently moves,",1.0 +' -- So the sad mother at the noon of night,2.0 +From bloody Memphis stole her silent flight;,0.0 +"Wrapped her dear babe beneath her folded vest,",3.0 +"And clasped the treasure to her throbbing breast,",1.0 +"With soothing whispers hushed its feeble cry,",0.0 +"Pressed the soft kiss, and breathed the secret sigh. ' --",3.0 +"Gives her white bosom to his eager lips,",4.0 +The salt tears mingling with the milk he sips;,2.0 +"Ambassador of Heaven, the Prophet trod;",1.0 +"Wrenched the red Scourge from proud Oppression's hands,",3.0 +"And broke, cursed Slavery! thy iron bands.",2.0 +"Even now, even now, on yonder Western shores",3.0 +"Weeps pale Despair, and writhing Anguish roars:",1.0 +"Fierce SLAVERY stalks, and slips the dogs of hell;",3.0 +"From vale to vale the gathering cries rebound,",2.0 +And sable nations tremble at the sound! ' --,0.0 +' -- YOU BANDS OF SENATORS! whose suffrage sways,1.0 +"Who right the injured, and reward the brave,",1.0 +"Stretch your strong arm, for you have power to save!",4.0 +Inexorable CONSCIENCE holds his court.,2.0 +"With still small voice the plots of Guilt alarms,",1.0 +"But, wrapped in night with terrors all his own,",0.0 +"He speaks in thunder, when the deed is done.",0.0 +"HE, WHO ALLOWS OPPRESSION, SHARES THE CRIME.",0.0 +"No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears,",1.0 +"Not the bright stars, which Night's blue arch adorn,",4.0 +"Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn,",0.0 +"Shine with such lustre as the tear, that breaks",1.0 +For other's woe down Virtue's manly cheeks.,0.0 +"Here ceased the MUSE, and dropped her tuneful shell,",0.0 +"Tumultuous woes her panting bosom swell,",3.0 +"For human guilt awhile the Goddess sighs,",0.0 +And human sorrows dim celestial eyes.,0.0 +"When we have laughed to see the sails conceive,",0.0 +"Which she with pretty and with swimming gate,",1.0 +"Following her womb, then rich with my young squire,",2.0 +"Would imitate, and sail upon the land.",0.0 +"And the | vast surface kind | les, as it rolls. |",4.0 +For it | took up the barber a | whole afternoon.,2.0 +"Pale Melancholy sits, and round her throws",1.0 +"Rolls the white surf, and SHIPWRECK guards the land.",3.0 +"Flames in the west, and paints the parted clouds;",0.0 +' -- The tuneful Goddess on the glowing sky,1.0 +Fixed in mute ecstasy her glistening eye;,3.0 +"And then her lute to sweeter tones she strung,",0.0 +"Long ails of Oaks returned the silver sound,",1.0 +And amorous Echoes talked along the ground;,2.0 +"Nymph! not for thee the radiant day returns,",1.0 +"Nymph! not for thee the golden solstice burns,",1.0 +"Bright as the blush of rising morn, and warms",0.0 +The dull cold eye of Midnight with her charms.,3.0 +"Opens her fair lips, and breathes her virgin vows;",2.0 +"Their distant fires, and blaze around the Pole;",0.0 +"Over Heaven's blue vault, ' -- Herself a brighter star.",3.0 +' -- There as soft Zephyrs sweep with pausing airs,2.0 +"Thy snowy neck, and part thy shadowy hairs,",2.0 +"Glows thy warm cheek, thy polished bosom gleams.",3.0 +And guard in silence the enchanted plains;,1.0 +"Drop the still tear, or breathe the impassioned sigh,",4.0 +And drink inebriate rapture from thine eye.,5.0 +"Paints with blue shadow, and with milky light;",1.0 +Loud to the echoing vales his parting song;,2.0 +"With measured step the Fairy Sovereign treads,",0.0 +"Shakes her high plume, and glitters over the meads;",5.0 +And little footsteps mark the circled plain;,1.0 +"Each haunted rill with silver voices rings,",0.0 +And Night's sweet bird in livelier accents sings.,3.0 +"Ere the bright star, which leads the morning sky,",3.0 +"Hangs over the blushing east his diamond eye,",3.0 +With amorous steps pursue the virgin light;,2.0 +"Over her fair form the electric lustre plays,",4.0 +"Thus over the marsh aerial lights betray,",5.0 +And charm the unwary wanderer from his way.,3.0 +"So when thy King, Assyria, fierce and proud,",2.0 +Three human victims to his idol vowed;,2.0 +Reared a vast pyre before the golden shrine,3.0 +"' -- Loud roar the flames, the iron nostrils breathe,",1.0 +And the huge bellows pant and heave beneath;,2.0 +"Bright and more bright the blazing deluge flows,",0.0 +And white with sevenfold heat the furnace glows.,3.0 +And now the Monarch fixed with dread surprise,0.0 +Deep in the burning vault his dazzled eyes.,0.0 +"Lo! Three unbound amid the frightful glare,",1.0 +"Fierce flames innocuous, as they step, retire!",2.0 +And slow they move amid a world of fire!,0.0 +"He spoke, ' -- to Heaven his arms repentant spread,",0.0 +Their fleecy squadrons on the lawns of Tweed;,1.0 +And wake his Echoes with their silver tongue;,1.0 +"Or touch the reed, as gentle Love inspires,",0.0 +Where this high arch overhangs the dell;,1.0 +"While Night's sweet bird, from yonder high spray",2.0 +"The Swans pursuing cleave the glassy deep,",0.0 +From Time's remotest dawn where China brings,0.0 +"Her silken palaces, and porcelain towers;",3.0 +"Plants all her wilds, and peoples all her waves;",0.0 +"Now to the left her ivory neck inclines,",0.0 +And the fair ear the parting locks disclose;,2.0 +"Now to the right with airy sweep she bends,",0.0 +"Hour after hour the growing line extends,",0.0 +The cradle and the coffin bound its ends;,1.0 +If smiling Fortune turn the giddy wheel;,0.0 +"Skein after skein celestial tints unfold,",1.0 +And all the silken tissue shines with gold.,0.0 +And prints with frolic step the melting snows;,0.0 +"Over silent floods, white hills, and glittering meads",3.0 +"Chides with her dulcet voice the tardy Spring,",0.0 +"Bids slumbering Zephyr stretch his folded wing,",3.0 +"Wakes the hoarse Cuckoo in his gloomy cave,",1.0 +"And calls the wondering Dormouse from his grave,",2.0 +"Watch her kind looks, and circle over the plain;",5.0 +"Now with young wonder touch the sliding snail,",3.0 +The pausing Butterfly from mead to mead;,0.0 +"Join hand in hand, and in procession gay",1.0 +"These, from the flaming furnace, strong and bold",1.0 +Pour the red steel into the sandy mould;,3.0 +"Turn with hot tongue's, and forge the dreadful dart;",3.0 +And dip the point in poison for the mind;,1.0 +Or strain the bow reluctant to its string.,1.0 +"Those on light pinion twine with busy hands,",2.0 +Or stretch from bough to bough the flowery bands;,2.0 +"Scare the dark beetle, as he wheels on high,",4.0 +Or catch in silken nets the gilded fly;,0.0 +"Call the young Zephyrs to their fragrant bowers,",4.0 +And stay with kisses sweet the Vernal Hours.,0.0 +"Where, as proud Masson rises rude and bleak,",2.0 +Impetuous steams in spiral columns rise,0.0 +"From cliff to cliff, the liquid treasure falls;",0.0 +"Over corals, shells, and crystals, winds along;",0.0 +"Crusts the green mosses, and the tangled wood,",4.0 +And sparkling plunges to its parent flood.,1.0 +"' -- Over the warm wave a smiling youth presides,",2.0 +"To amorous Echo sings his secret loves,",2.0 +"Bathes his fair forehead in the misty stream,",3.0 +"And with sweet breath perfumes the rising steam,",2.0 +"Each morn descending, shook his dewy wings;",0.0 +"Amphibious Nymph, from Nile's prolific bed",2.0 +"Fair glows her virgin cheek and modest breast,",1.0 +"Her quivering fins and panting gills she hides,",2.0 +But spreads her silver arms upon the tides;,0.0 +And shakes her golden tresses over the waves.,2.0 +"Now all as one they rise with frolic spring,",1.0 +And beat the wondering air on humid wing;,2.0 +"Now all descending plunge beneath the main,",1.0 +And lash the foam with undulating train;,0.0 +"Above, below, they wheel, retreat, advance,",0.0 +"Bow their quick heads, and point their diamond eyes,",3.0 +"Where Andes, crested with volcanic beams,",1.0 +"Calls her light car, and leaves the sultry bowers; ' --",3.0 +"Love's rising ray, and Youth's seductive die,",1.0 +"Bloomed on her cheek, and brightened in her eye;",0.0 +"Chaste, pure, and white, a zone of silver graced",1.0 +"Her tender breast, as white, as pure, as chaste; ' --",0.0 +"Mounts the rude cliff, unveils her blushing charms,",3.0 +And calls the panting zephyrs to her arms.,1.0 +And Beauty blazes through the crystal shrine. ' --,1.0 +"So from his glassy horns, and pearly eyes,",1.0 +"Thus when loud thunders over Gomorrah burst,",4.0 +"And heaving earthquakes shook his realms accursed,",1.0 +"With shadowy hand, and warned the guiltless pair;",2.0 +"Haste from these lands of sin, you Righteous! fly,",0.0 +"Speed the quick step, nor turn the lingering eye! ' --",3.0 +When Orpheus charmed the grisly King of Night;,2.0 +"Soothed the pale phantoms with his plaintive lay,",4.0 +"Wide yawned the earth, the fiery tempest flashed,",3.0 +And towns and towers in one vast ruin crashed; ' --,3.0 +"Onward they move, ' -- loud horror roars behind,",3.0 +And shrieks of Anguish bellow in the wind.,0.0 +"With many a sob, amid a thousand fears,",2.0 +"' -- She turns, unconscious of the stern behest! ' --",2.0 +"I faint! ' -- I fall! ' -- ah, me! ' -- sensations chill",1.0 +"Shoot through my bones, my shuddering bosom thrill!",2.0 +"I freeze! I freeze! just Heaven regards my fault,",0.0 +"Not yet, not yet, your dying Love resign! ' --",0.0 +"This last, last kiss receive! ' -- no longer thine! ' --",3.0 +"She said, and ceased, ' -- her stiffened form He pressed,",0.0 +"Printed with quivering lips the lifeless snow,",4.0 +"And wept, and gazed the monument of woe. ' --",1.0 +So when Aeneas through the flames of Troy,1.0 +"Bore his pale fire, and led his lovely boy;",3.0 +And Death involved her in eternal shade. ' --,0.0 +"Recalls the unhappy Pair with lifted eye,",2.0 +"Leans on the crystal tomb, and breathes the silent sigh.",0.0 +"Trails her long lance, and nods her shadowy plumes;",5.0 +And Beauty lightens through the thin disguise.,1.0 +And binds the gaping whiskers on her brows;,1.0 +"Plaits round her slender waist the shaggy vest,",0.0 +"Next with soft hands the knotted club she rears,",3.0 +"Heaves up from earth, and on her shoulder bears.",1.0 +"Onward with loftier step the Beauty treads,",4.0 +"With sighs and sorrows her compassion moves,",1.0 +And wins the damsel to illicit loves.,1.0 +Masked in the damask beauties of the bride.,1.0 +"So, when the Nightingale in eastern bowers",1.0 +On quivering pinion woos the Queen of flowers;,2.0 +And melts with melody the blushing fair;,1.0 +"Waves his thin leaves, and claps his glossy wings;",3.0 +When from his golden urn the Solstice pours,0.0 +"When stretched in dust her gasping panthers lie,",0.0 +And writhed in foamy folds her serpents die;,0.0 +"Indignant Atlas mourns his leafless woods,",0.0 +Or fan with busy hands the panting maid;,0.0 +"Loose wave her locks, disclosing, as they break,",2.0 +The rising bosom and averted cheek;,1.0 +Clasped round her ivory neck with studs of gold,0.0 +"And the fair form, it seems to hide, betrays.",2.0 +Where leads the northern Star his lucid train,0.0 +"With milky light the white horizon streams,",0.0 +And to the moon each sparkling mountain gleams. ' --,1.0 +Slow over the printed snows with silent walk,3.0 +Huge shaggy forms across the twilight stalk;,2.0 +And ever and anon with hideous sound,3.0 +"There, as old Winter flaps his hoary wing,",2.0 +"Open thy sweet eyelids to the rising ray,",3.0 +And hail with ruby lips returning day.,0.0 +"Down the white hills dissolving torrents pour,",2.0 +"Green springs the turf, and purple blows the flower;",0.0 +"His torpid wing the Rail exulting tries,",0.0 +"Rise, let us mark how bloom the awakened groves,",3.0 +And' mid the banks of roses hide our loves.,0.0 +"In vain her eyes the passing floods explore,",0.0 +' -- Now dim amid the distant foam she spies,1.0 +"A rising speck, ' -- it's he! it's he! she cries;",1.0 +"As with firm arms he beats the streams aside,",2.0 +"And cleaves with rising chest the tossing tide,",0.0 +"Up-turns her glistening eyes, and spreads her hands;",0.0 +"' -- It's he, it's he! ' -- My Lord, my life, my love! ' --",1.0 +"Slumber, you winds; you billows, cease to move!",2.0 +"Beneath his arms your buoyant plumage spread,",0.0 +"' -- With eager step the boiling surf she braves,",0.0 +"Loose over the flood her azure mantle swims,",3.0 +And the clear stream betrays her snowy limbs.,2.0 +"At parting day, and marked the dashing flood;",0.0 +"While high in air, the glimmering rocks above,",2.0 +"Breathes to her Goddess all her vows, and guides",0.0 +"Deep, in wide caverns and their shadowy ails,",5.0 +"' -- High over her couch impending diamonds blaze,",3.0 +"With verdant light the modest emeralds glow,",0.0 +"Blue sapphires glare, and rubies blush, below;",1.0 +"Light piers of lazuli the dome surround,",4.0 +In glittering threads along reflective walls,2.0 +"The warm rill murmuring twinkles, as it falls;",4.0 +And Echoes woo in every vaulted cell;,0.0 +"While on white wings delighted Cupids play,",3.0 +"Shake their bright lamps, and shed celestial day.",3.0 +"Closed in an azure fig by fairy spells,",0.0 +"Erodes with ivory beak the vaulted shell,",0.0 +"Shakes its new plumes, and tries its tender song. ' --",3.0 +"' -- And now the talisman she strikes, that charms",1.0 +"With cobweb reins the flying courser guides,",1.0 +Cleaves the soft air on still expanded wings;,3.0 +"Darts like a sunbeam over the boundless wave,",3.0 +And seeks the beauty in her secret cave.,0.0 +So with quick impulse through all nature's frame,0.0 +Shoots the electric air its subtle flame.,2.0 +"So turns the impatient needle to the pole,",3.0 +"Though mountains rise between, and oceans roll.",0.0 +"Scooping with ceaseless rage the incumbent shore,",4.0 +"Round the dim walls, and through the whispering ails",4.0 +"Hoarse breathes the wind, the glittering water boils.",3.0 +"Spreads his green sails, and braves the foaming tide;",3.0 +"Light Cupids flutter round the nuptial bed,",1.0 +"To win the fair he tries a thousand forms,",0.0 +"She strikes the cymbal as he moves along,",1.0 +And wondering Ocean listens to the song.,3.0 +"And lays his velvet paw upon her breast,",0.0 +Over his round face her snowy fingers strain,1.0 +And proudly glides before the fanning gales;,0.0 +Pleased on the flowery brink with graceful hand,2.0 +She waves her floating lover to the land;,1.0 +"Bright shines his sinuous neck, with crimson beak",1.0 +"He prints fond kisses on her glowing cheek,",2.0 +"Pair after pair, along his sacred groves",1.0 +"Each smiling youth a myrtle garland shades,",0.0 +And wreaths of roses veil the blushing maids;,0.0 +"Light joys on twinkling feet attend the throng,",1.0 +"Weave the gay dance, or raise the frolic song;",3.0 +"' -- Thick, as they pass, exulting Cupids fling",0.0 +Promiscuous arrows from the sounding string;,3.0 +"On wings of gossamer soft Whispers fly,",2.0 +"' -- As round his shrine the gaudy circles bow,",0.0 +"Licentious Hymen joins their mingled hands,",0.0 +"Thus where pleased VENUS, in the southern main,",2.0 +"Wide over the isle her silken net she draws,",3.0 +"And the Loves laugh at all, but Nature's laws.",1.0 +Applauding Zephyrs swept their fluttering wings;,2.0 +"Each Gnome reluctant sought his earthy cell,",0.0 +"Then, on soft tiptoe, NIGHT approaching near",4.0 +AWAKE! my ST. JOHN! leave all meaner things,1.0 +To low Ambition and the Pride of Kings.,1.0 +Let Us since Life can little more supply,0.0 +"Than just to look about us, and to die",1.0 +A mighty Maze! but not without a Plan;,0.0 +"A Wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot,",2.0 +"Or Garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.",1.0 +"Together let us beat this ample field,",0.0 +"Try what the open, what the covert yield;",0.0 +"The latent tracts or giddy heights explore,",0.0 +"Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies,",3.0 +And catch the manners living as they rise;,1.0 +"Laugh where we must, be candid where we can,",0.0 +But vindicate the Ways of GOD to Man.,1.0 +"Say first, of God above, or Man below,",1.0 +"What can we reason, but from what we know?",1.0 +"Of Man, what see we but his Station here,",1.0 +"From which to reason, or to which refer?",1.0 +"It's ours to trace him, only in our own.",0.0 +"See worlds on worlds compose one Universe,",1.0 +"Observe how System into System runs,",0.0 +"What other Planets, and what other Suns?",1.0 +What varied Being peoples every Star?,0.0 +"May tell, why Heaven has made us as we are.",1.0 +"But of this frame the bearings, and the Ties,",2.0 +"The strong connections, nice dependencies,",1.0 +"Gradations just, has thy pervading soul",1.0 +Looked through? or can a Part contain the Whole?,1.0 +"Is the great Chain that draws all to agree,",3.0 +"And drawn supports, upheld by God, or thee?",0.0 +"Why formed so weak, so little, and so blind?",1.0 +"Why formed no weaker, blinder, and no less?",3.0 +"Ask of thy mother Earth, why oaks are made",0.0 +Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade?,3.0 +"Or ask of yonder argent fields above,",0.0 +"Of Systems possible, if it's confessed",2.0 +"That Wisdom infinite must form the best,",1.0 +"Where all must full, or not coherent be,",0.0 +"And all that rises, rise in due degree;",0.0 +"Then, in the scale of life and sense, it's plain",0.0 +"There must be, some where, such a rank as Man;",0.0 +And all the question wrangle before so long,2.0 +"Is only this, if God has placed him wrong?",1.0 +"Respecting Man whatever wrong we call,",1.0 +"May, must be right, as relative to All.",1.0 +A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain;,0.0 +"In God's, one single can its End produce,",1.0 +Yet serves to second too some other Use.,0.0 +"So Man, who here seems principal alone,",2.0 +"Perhaps acts second to a Sphere unknown,",2.0 +"Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal;",3.0 +"It's but a part we see, and not a whole.",1.0 +"When the proud Steed shall know, why Man restrains",3.0 +"His fiery course, or drives him over the plains;",4.0 +"Now wears a Garland, an Egyptian God;",2.0 +Then shall Man's pride and dullness comprehend,1.0 +"His action's, passion's, being's, Use and End;",0.0 +"Why doing, suffering, checked, impelled; and why",0.0 +"This hour a Slave, the next a Deity?",1.0 +"Then say not Man's imperfect, Heaven in fault;",0.0 +"Say rather, Man's as perfect as he ought;",3.0 +"His being measured to his State, and Place,",1.0 +"His time a moment, and a point his space.",1.0 +"Heaven from all Creatures hides the book of Fate,",0.0 +"All but the page prescribed, their present state,",0.0 +Or who could suffer Being here below?,0.0 +"The Lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to day,",0.0 +"Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play?",0.0 +"Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food,",2.0 +And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.,0.0 +"O blindness to the future! kindly given,",1.0 +"That each may fill the Circle marked by Heaven,",0.0 +"Who sees with equal eye, as God of All,",0.0 +"A Hero perish, or a Sparrow fall,",1.0 +"Atoms, or Systems, into ruin hurled,",2.0 +"And now a Bubble burst, and now a World!",0.0 +"Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore!",3.0 +"What future bliss, he gives not thee to know,",1.0 +But gives that Hope to be thy blessing now.,0.0 +Hope springs eternal in the human breast;,0.0 +"Man never is, but always to be blessed;",3.0 +"The soul uneasy, and confined at home,",1.0 +"Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind;",1.0 +"His soul, proud Science never taught to stray",1.0 +"Far as the Solar walk, or Milky way;",0.0 +Yet simple Nature to his Hope has given,1.0 +"Some safer world in depth of woods embraced,",0.0 +"Some happier Island in the watery waste,",4.0 +"Where Slaves once more their native land behold,",1.0 +"No Fiends torment, no Christians thirst for Gold.",2.0 +"But thinks, admitted to that equal sky,",1.0 +This faithful Dog shall bear him company.,1.0 +"Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense",2.0 +Weigh thy Opinion against Providence:,8.0 +Call Imperfection what thou fanciest such;,2.0 +"Say, here he gives too little, there too much;",3.0 +"Destroy all Creatures for thy sport or gust,",1.0 +"Yet cry, if Man's unhappy, God's unjust,",0.0 +"If Man, alone, engross not Heavens high care,",1.0 +"Alone, made perfect here, immortal there;",3.0 +"Snatch from his hand the Balance and the Rod,",1.0 +In reasoning Pride my Friend our error lies;,2.0 +"All quit their sphere, and rush into the Skies.",0.0 +"Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods.",0.0 +"Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell,",1.0 +"Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel:",1.0 +And who but wishes to invert the Laws,1.0 +"Of ORDER, sins against the Eternal Cause.",2.0 +Ask for what end the heavenly Bodies shine?,2.0 +"Earth for whose use? Pride answers, It's for mine:",2.0 +"For me kind Nature wakes her genial power,",2.0 +"Annual for me the grape, the rose renew",2.0 +"For me the mine a thousand treasures brings,",1.0 +For me health gushes from a thousand springs;,3.0 +"Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise,",1.0 +"But errs not Nature from this gracious end,",1.0 +"From burning Suns when livid deaths descend,",0.0 +"Towns to one grave, and Nations to the Deep?",1.0 +No it's replied the first Almighty Cause,2.0 +"Acts not by partial, but by general Laws;",1.0 +The Exceptions few; some Change since all began;,1.0 +"And what created, perfect? ' -- Why then Man?",1.0 +"If the great End be human Happiness,",3.0 +"And Nature deviates, how can Man do less?",0.0 +As much that End a constant course requires,0.0 +"Of showers and sunshine, as of Man's Desires,",2.0 +"As much eternal springs and cloudless skies,",0.0 +"As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise.",0.0 +"If Plagues or Earthquakes break not heavens design,",3.0 +"From Pride, from Pride, our very reasoning springs;",1.0 +"Account for moral, as for natural things:",1.0 +"Why charge we heaven in those, in these acquit?",1.0 +"In both, to reason right, is to submit.",1.0 +"Better for us, perhaps, it might appear,",3.0 +"Were there all harmony, all virtue here;",2.0 +That never air or ocean felt the wind;,0.0 +And Passions are the Elements of life.,2.0 +"The general Order, since the whole began,",0.0 +"Is kept in Nature, and is kept in Man.",1.0 +"What would this Man? now upward will he soar,",2.0 +"And little less than Angel, would be more;",0.0 +"Now looking downward, just as grieved appears",1.0 +"To want the strength of Bulls, the fur of Bears.",0.0 +"Made for his use all Creatures if he call,",1.0 +"Say what their use, had he the powers of all?",2.0 +"Nature to these without profusion kind,",3.0 +"The proper organs, proper powers assigned,",2.0 +"Each seeming want compensated of course,",5.0 +"All in exact proportion to the state,",1.0 +"Nothing to add, and nothing to abate.",3.0 +"Each Beast, each Insect, happy in its own,",1.0 +"Is Heaven unkind to Man, and Man alone?",0.0 +"Shall he alone, whom rational we call,",2.0 +"Be pleased with nothing, if not blessed with all?",1.0 +The bliss of Man could Pride that blessing find,0.0 +"Is, not to think, or act, beyond Mankind;",1.0 +"No powers of Body or of Soul to share,",4.0 +But what his Nature and his State can bear.,1.0 +Why has not Man a microscopic eye?,0.0 +"For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly.",2.0 +"Say what the use, were finer optics given,",0.0 +"TO inspect a Mite, not comprehend the Heaven?",1.0 +"Die of a Rose, in aromatic pain?",0.0 +"If Nature thundered in his opening ears,",2.0 +"And stunned him with the music of the Spheres,",2.0 +How would he wish that Heaven had left him still,0.0 +"Who finds not Providence allgood and wise,",2.0 +"Alike in what it gives, and what denies?",0.0 +"Far as Creation's ample range extends,",2.0 +"The scale of sensual, mental powers ascends;",4.0 +"Mark how it mounts to Man's imperial race,",2.0 +"What modes of Sight, betwixt each wide extreme,",0.0 +"Of hearing, from the Life that fills the flood,",1.0 +To that which warbles through the vernal wood:,1.0 +"Feels at each thread, and lives along the line:",0.0 +"In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true",5.0 +From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew.,2.0 +"Betwixt that, and Reason, what a nice Barrier,",4.0 +"Remembrance, and Reflection, how allied;",2.0 +What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide:,0.0 +"And middle natures, how they long to join,",1.0 +"Without this just Gradation, could they be",0.0 +"Subjected these to those, or all to thee?",2.0 +"The powers of all subdued by thee alone,",3.0 +Is not thy Reason all those powers in one?,0.0 +"See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth,",1.0 +"All Matter quick, and bursting into birth.",0.0 +"Above, how high progressive life may go?",0.0 +Around how wide? how deep extend below?,0.0 +"Vast Chain of Being! which from God began,",1.0 +"Natures Ethereal, human, Angel, Man,",4.0 +"Beast, bird, fish, insect; what no Eye can see,",5.0 +"No Glass can reach: from Infinite to thee,",2.0 +From thee to Nothing! ' -- On superior powers,4.0 +"Were we to press, inferior might on ours;",2.0 +"Or in the full Creation leave a Void,",0.0 +"Where, one step broken, the great Scale's destroyed:",4.0 +"From Nature's Chain whatever link you strike,",1.0 +"Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.",3.0 +"And if each System in gradation roll,",1.0 +Alike essential to the amazing Whole;,3.0 +"The least confusion but in one, not all",1.0 +"That System only, but the whole must fall.",1.0 +"Let Earth unbalanced from her Orbit fly,",2.0 +"Planets and Suns rush lawless through the sky,",4.0 +"Let ruling Angels from their spheres be hurled,",2.0 +"Being on Being wrecked, and World on World,",2.0 +"Heavens whole foundations to their Centre nod,",1.0 +"And Nature tremble, to the Throne of God.",1.0 +"All this dread ORDER break ' -- For whom? for thee,",2.0 +"What if the foot ordained the dust to tread,",0.0 +"Or hand to toil, aspired to be the Head?",0.0 +To serve mere Engines to the ruling Mind?,2.0 +"Just as absurd, for any Part to claim",1.0 +"To be Another, in this general Frame:",0.0 +"Just as absurd, to mourn the tasks, or pains,",1.0 +"All are but parts of one stupendous Whole,",1.0 +"Whose Body Nature is, and God the Soul;",1.0 +"That, changed through all, and yet in all the same,",0.0 +"Warms in the Sun, refreshes in the Breeze,",0.0 +"Glows in the Stars, and blossoms in the Trees,",0.0 +"Lives through all Life, extends through all Extent,",0.0 +"Spreads undivided, operates unspent,",1.0 +"Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part,",0.0 +"As full, as perfect, in a hair, as heart,",1.0 +"As full, as perfect, in vile Man that mourns,",2.0 +As the rapt Seraphim that sings and burns;,4.0 +"To Him no high, no low, no great, no small;",4.0 +"He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.",0.0 +"Cease then, nor ORDER Imperfection name:",0.0 +Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.,0.0 +"Know thy own Point: This kind, this due degree",0.0 +"Of blindness, weakness, Heaven bestows on thee.",0.0 +"Submit ' -- in this, or any other Sphere,",1.0 +"Safe in the hand of one disposing Power,",1.0 +"Or in the natal, or the mortal Hour.",1.0 +"All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee;",1.0 +"All Discord, Harmony not understood;",1.0 +"All partial Evil, universal Good:",0.0 +"And spite of Pride, in erring Reason's spite,",0.0 +"One truth is clear; Whatever Is, is RIGHT.",2.0 +"KNow then thyself, presume not God to scan;",1.0 +The proper study of mankind is Man.,2.0 +"Placed on this Isthmus of a middle state,",1.0 +"A Being darkly wise, and rudely great;",0.0 +"With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side,",1.0 +"With too much weakness for a Stoic's pride,",1.0 +"He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest,",0.0 +"In doubt his mind or body to prefer,",1.0 +"Born but to die, and reasoning but to err;",1.0 +"Alike in ignorance, his Reason such,",2.0 +"Whether he thinks too little, or too much.",5.0 +"Chaos of Thought and Passion, all confused;",2.0 +"Still by himself abused, or disabused;",3.0 +"Created half to rise, and half to fall;",0.0 +"Great Lord of all things, yet a Prey to all;",1.0 +"Sole Judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled;",1.0 +"The Glory, Jest, and Riddle of the world!",1.0 +"Go, wondrous Creature! mount where Science guides,",1.0 +"Go measure Earth, weigh Air, and state the Tides,",2.0 +"Correct old Time, and regulate the Sun.",1.0 +"To the first Good, first Perfect, and first Fair;",1.0 +"And quitting Sense call Imitating God,",1.0 +"As Eastern Priests in giddy circles run,",0.0 +"And turn their heads, to imitate the Sun.",0.0 +"Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule;",2.0 +"Then drop into thyself, and be a Fool!",0.0 +"Superior Beings, when of late they saw",2.0 +"A mortal Man unfold all Nature's Law,",0.0 +"Admired such Wisdom in an earthly shape,",0.0 +"And showed a NEWTON, as we show an Ape.",1.0 +"Could He who taught each Planet where to roll,",0.0 +"Describe, or fix, one Movement of the Soul?",1.0 +"Who marked their points, to rise and to descend,",1.0 +"Explain, or his Beginning, or his End?",2.0 +Alas what wonder! Man's superior part,2.0 +"Unchecked may rise, and climb from Art to Art;",0.0 +"But when his own great work is but begun,",1.0 +"What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.",1.0 +Two Principles in human Nature reign;,2.0 +"Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call,",1.0 +"Each works its end, to move, or govern all:",0.0 +And to their proper operation still,1.0 +"Ascribe all Good; to their improper, Ill.",1.0 +Reason's comparing Balance rules the whole;,2.0 +"Man, but for that, no Action could attend,",1.0 +"And but for this, were active to no End.",3.0 +"Fixed like a Plant, on his peculiar spot,",1.0 +"To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot;",0.0 +"Destroying others, by himself destroyed.",1.0 +"Most strength the moving Principle requires,",1.0 +"Sedate and quiet the comparing lies,",1.0 +Reason's at distance and in prospect lie;,3.0 +"That sees immediate Good, by present sense,",1.0 +"Reason the future, and the consequence;",4.0 +"Thicker than Arguments, Temptations throng,",3.0 +"At best more watchful this, but that more strong.",1.0 +"The action of the stronger to suspend,",2.0 +"Reason still use, to Reason still attend:",3.0 +"Attention, Habit and Experience gains,",3.0 +"More studious to divide, than to unite,",4.0 +"And Grace and Virtue, Sense and Reason split,",0.0 +With all the rash dexterity of Wit.,1.0 +"Wits, just like fools, at war about a Name,",0.0 +"Have full as oft, no meaning, or the same.",2.0 +"Pain their aversion, Pleasure their desire;",3.0 +"But greedy that its object would devour,",0.0 +"This taste the honey, and not wound the flower.",1.0 +"Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood,",2.0 +"Our greatest Evil, or our greatest Good.",1.0 +"It's real Good, or seeming, moves them all:",0.0 +"But since not every Good we can divide,",1.0 +"And Reason bids us for our own provide,",1.0 +"Passions though selfish, if their Means be fair,",3.0 +"List under Reason, and deserve her care:",2.0 +"Those that imparted, court a nobler aim,",1.0 +"Exalt their kind, and take some Virtue's name.",0.0 +In lazy Apathy let Stoics boast,2.0 +Their Virtue fixed; it's fixed as in a Frost:,0.0 +"But Strength of Mind is Exercise, not Rest:",0.0 +"The rising tempest puts in act the soul,",0.0 +"Parts it may ravage, but preserves the whole.",1.0 +"Reason the Card, but Passion is the Gale:",3.0 +"Nor GOD alone in the still Calm we find,",2.0 +"He mounts the Storm, and walks upon the Wind.",0.0 +"Passions, like Elements, though born to fight,",3.0 +"Yet mixed and softened, in his work unite:",1.0 +"These, it's enough to temper and employ;",2.0 +"But what composes Man, can Man destroy?",0.0 +"Suffice that Reason keep to Nature's road,",0.0 +"Subject, compound them, follow her, and God.",1.0 +"Hate, Fear, and Grief, the Family of Pain;",2.0 +"These mixed with art, and to due bounds confined,",2.0 +"Make, and maintain, the Balance of the Mind:",3.0 +Gives all the Strength and Colour of our life.,0.0 +"Pleasures are ever in our hands, or eyes,",2.0 +"And when in Act they cease, in Prospect rise;",0.0 +"Present to grasp, and future still to find,",0.0 +The whole employ of Body and of Mind.,1.0 +"All spread their charms, but charm not all alike;",0.0 +"Hence different Passions more or less inflame,",1.0 +"As strong, or weak, the Organs of the Frame;",1.0 +"And hence one Master Passion in the breast,",0.0 +"Like Aaron's Serpent, swallows up the rest.",1.0 +"As Man perhaps, the moment of his breath,",1.0 +"Receives the lurking Principle of death,",1.0 +"The young Disease that must subdue at length,",0.0 +"Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength:",1.0 +"So, cast and mingled with his very Frame,",1.0 +"The Mind's disease, its ruling Passion came:",0.0 +"Each vital humour which should feed the whole,",0.0 +"Soon flows to this, in Body and in Soul.",3.0 +"Whatever warms the heart, or fills the head,",1.0 +"As the mind opens, and its functions spread;",3.0 +"Imagination plies her dangerous art,",1.0 +"Nature its Mother, Habit is its Nurse;",3.0 +"Wit, Spirit, Faculties, but make it worse;",2.0 +"Reason itself but gives it edge and power,",2.0 +As Heaven's blessed Beam turns Vinegar more sour.,5.0 +"The ruling Passion, be it what it will,",0.0 +The ruling Passion conquers Reason still.,0.0 +"We, wretched subjects though to lawful sway,",1.0 +"In this weak Queen, some Favourite still obey.",3.0 +"Ah! if she lend not Arms as well as Rules,",0.0 +"What can she more, than tell us we are Fools?",1.0 +"Teach us to mourn our nature, not to mend,",0.0 +"A sharp Accuser, but a helpless Friend?",1.0 +"The choice we make, or justify it made?",0.0 +"Proud of imagined Conquests all along,",3.0 +She but removes weak Passions for the strong;,3.0 +The Doctor fancies he has driven them out.,2.0 +Yes; Nature's Road must ever be preferred;,1.0 +"Reason is here no Guide, but still a Guard;",3.0 +"It's hers to rectify, not overthrow,",1.0 +And treat this Passion more as Friend than Foe:,0.0 +"Like varying Winds, by other passions tossed,",2.0 +This drives them constant to a certain Coast.,1.0 +"Let Power or Knowledge, Gold, or Glory please,",3.0 +"Or oft more strong than all the Love of ease,",0.0 +"Through life it's followed, even at life's expense;",2.0 +"The Monk's humility, the Hero's pride,",1.0 +"All, all alike find Reason on their side.",2.0 +Grafts on this Passion our best Principle:,3.0 +"It's thus, the Mercury of Man is fixed,",1.0 +Strong grows the Virtue with his Nature mixed;,2.0 +And in one interest Body acts with Mind.,0.0 +"On savage stocks inserted, learn to bear,",0.0 +"The surest Virtues thus from Passions shoot,",0.0 +"What Crops of Wit and Honesty appear,",1.0 +"From Spleen, from Obstinacy, Hate or Fear!",1.0 +"See Anger, Zeal and Fortitude supply;",1.0 +Even Avarice Prudence; Sloth Philosophy;,3.0 +"Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave,",2.0 +Is Emulation in the Learnt and Brave:,0.0 +"Nor Virtue, male or female, can we name,",2.0 +"But what will grow on Pride, or grow on Shame.",0.0 +Thus Nature gives us let it cheque our pride,1.0 +The Virtue nearest to our Vice allied;,1.0 +"Reason the Byas turns to Good from Ill,",2.0 +"And Nero reigns a Titus, if he will.",1.0 +"The same Ambition can destroy or save,",1.0 +"And makes a Patriot, as it makes a Knave.",1.0 +"This Light and Darkness, in our Chaos joined,",0.0 +What shall divide? The God within the Mind.,0.0 +"Extremes in nature equal ends produce,",0.0 +"In man, they join to some mysterious use;",2.0 +"Though oft so mixed, the difference is too nice",2.0 +"Where ends the virtue, or begins the vice,",1.0 +"Now this, now that the other's bound invades,",0.0 +"Fools! who from hence into the notion fall,",0.0 +That Vice or Virtue there is none at all.,1.0 +"If white and black, blend, soften, and unite",3.0 +"A thousand ways, is there no black or white?",2.0 +"Ask your own Heart, and nothing is so plain;",1.0 +"It's to mistake them, costs the time and pain.",1.0 +"Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,",1.0 +"As, to be hated, needs but to be seen;",2.0 +"Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,",2.0 +"We first endure, then pity, then embrace.",0.0 +"But where the Extreme of Vice, was never agreed;",3.0 +"No creature owns it, in the first degree,",1.0 +"Even those who dwell beneath her very Zone,",1.0 +"Or never feel the rage, or never own;",0.0 +The hard Inhabitant contends is right.,1.0 +"Virtuous and vicious every man must be,",1.0 +"Few in the Extreme, but all in the Degree:",2.0 +"The Rogue and Fool by fits is fair and wise,",0.0 +"And even the best by fits what they despise,",3.0 +"It's but by Parts we follow Good or Ill,",1.0 +"For, Vice or Virtue, Self directs it still;",0.0 +Each Individual seeks a several goal:,2.0 +That disappoints the Effect of every Vice:,2.0 +"That, happy Frailties to all ranks applied,",1.0 +"Shame to the Virgin, to the Matron Pride,",1.0 +"To Kings Presumption, and to Crowds Belief.",1.0 +"That, Virtue's Ends from Vanity can raise,",1.0 +"Which seeks no interest, no reward but Praise;",1.0 +"And build on Wants, and on Defects of mind,",1.0 +"The Joy, the Peace, the Glory of Mankind.",2.0 +"Heaven forming each on other to depend,",1.0 +"A Master, or a Servant, or a Friend,",2.0 +"Bids each on other for assistance call,",1.0 +Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.,2.0 +"Wants, Frailties, Passions, closer still ally",1.0 +"The common interest, or endear the tie:",1.0 +"To these we owe true Friendship, Love sincere,",2.0 +"Yet from the same we learn, in its decline,",1.0 +"Those joys, those loves, those interests to resign;",1.0 +"Taught half by reason, half by mere decay,",1.0 +"To welcome Death, and calmly pass away.",0.0 +Not one will change his Neighbour with himself.,2.0 +"The learnt are happy, Nature to explore;",1.0 +"The fool is happy, that he knows no more;",1.0 +The rich are happy in the plenty given;,0.0 +The poor contents him with the care of Heaven.,1.0 +"See the blind Beggar dance, the Cripple sing,",3.0 +"The Sot a Hero, Lunatic a King,",0.0 +The starving Chemist in his golden Views,0.0 +"Supremely blessed, the Poet in his Muse.",2.0 +"See! some strange Comfort every State attend,",2.0 +"And Pride bestowed on all, a common Friend;",0.0 +"See! some fit Passion every Age supply,",2.0 +"Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.",2.0 +Those painted clouds that beautify our days;,0.0 +"Each want of Happiness by Hope supplied,",1.0 +These build up all that Knowledge can destroy;,1.0 +"One Prospect lost, another still we gain,",0.0 +And not a Vanity is given in vain:,2.0 +The Scale to measure others wants by thine.,0.0 +"See! and confess, one comfort still must rise,",2.0 +"It's this, though Man's a Fool, yet GOD IS WISE.",1.0 +"LEarn Dullness, learn! The Universal Cause",1.0 +"Acts to one End, but acts by various Laws.",2.0 +"In all the Madness of superfluous Health,",3.0 +Let that great Truth be present night and day;,3.0 +"But most be present, if thou preach, or pray.",0.0 +View thy own World: behold the Chain of Love,0.0 +"Combining all below, and all above.",0.0 +"See, plastic Nature working to this End,",2.0 +"The single Atoms each to other tend,",0.0 +"Attract, attracted to, the next in place,",1.0 +"See Matter next, with various life endued,",3.0 +"Press to one Centre still, the General Good.",0.0 +See Life dissolving vegetate again.,1.0 +"All Forms that perish other forms supply,",0.0 +"By turns they catch the vital breath, and die;",0.0 +"Like Bubbles on the Sea of Matter born,",1.0 +"They rise, they break, and to that Sea return.",1.0 +Nothing is foreign: Parts relate to Whole:,2.0 +"Connects each Being, greatest with the least?",1.0 +"Made Beast in aid of Man, and Man of Beast;",1.0 +"All served, and serving, nothing stands alone;",0.0 +"The Chain holds on, and where it ends, unknown!",2.0 +"Has GOD, thou Fool! worked solely for thy good,",2.0 +"Thy joy, thy pastime, thy attire, thy food?",4.0 +"Who for thy Table feeds the wanton Fawn,",0.0 +For him as kindly spreads the flowery Lawn.,3.0 +Is it for thee the Lark ascends and sings?,1.0 +"Joy tunes his voice, Joy elevates his wings:",2.0 +Is it for thee the Linnet pours his throat?,1.0 +Shares with his Lord the pleasure and the pride.,1.0 +The Birds of heaven shall vindicate their grain:,1.0 +Thine the full Harvest of the golden year?,3.0 +"Part pays, and justly, the deserving Steer.",2.0 +"The Hog that ploughs not, nor obeys thy call,",1.0 +"Know, Nature's Children all divide her care;",1.0 +"The Furr that warms a Monarch, warmed a Bear.",0.0 +"While Man exclaims, see all things for my use!",3.0 +"See Man for mine, replies a pampered Goose:",2.0 +"What care to tend, to lodge, to cram, to treat him,",0.0 +"As far as Goose could judge, he reasoned right,",0.0 +"But as to Man, mistook the matter quite:",1.0 +"And just as short of Reason, Man will fall,",0.0 +"Who thinks All made for One, not One for All.",0.0 +"Grant, that the powerful still the weak control,",2.0 +Be Man the Wit and Tyrant of the whole.,1.0 +Nature that Tyrant cheques; He only knows,2.0 +"Say will the falcon, stooping from above,",1.0 +"Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove?",2.0 +"Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings,",1.0 +"Or hears the hawk, when Philomela sings?",0.0 +"Man cares for All: to birds he gives his woods,",1.0 +"To beasts his pastures, and to fish his floods;",1.0 +"For some his Interest prompts him to provide,",1.0 +"For more his Pleasure, yet for more his Pride:",0.0 +"All feed on one vain Patron, and enjoy",3.0 +The extensive blessing of his Luxury.,3.0 +"That very life his learnt hunger craves,",3.0 +"He saves from famine, from the savage saves;",1.0 +"Nay, feasts the Animal he dooms his feast,",2.0 +"And till he ends the Being, makes it blessed:",1.0 +"Which sees no more the stroke, or feels the pain,",1.0 +The Creature had his feast of life before;,0.0 +"Thou too must perish, when thy feast is over!",0.0 +"To each unthinking being Heaven a friend,",0.0 +Gives not the useless knowledge of its End;,1.0 +"To Man imparts it; but with such a View,",1.0 +"As while he dreads it, makes him hope it too:",0.0 +"The hour concealed, and so remote the fear,",1.0 +"Death still draws nearer, never seeming near.",2.0 +Great standing Miracle! that Heaven assigned,2.0 +"Its only thinking thing, this turn of mind.",0.0 +"Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blessed,",3.0 +"Know, all enjoy that power which suits them best,",4.0 +"To Bliss, alike, by that direction tend,",0.0 +And find the means proportioned to their end.,1.0 +What Pope or Council can they need beside?,1.0 +"Reason, however able, cool at best,",3.0 +"Cares not for service, or but serves when pressed,",1.0 +"Stays till we call, and then not often near;",0.0 +But honest Instinct comes a Volunteer.,0.0 +"This too serves always, Reason never long;",1.0 +"One must go right, the other may go wrong.",3.0 +See then the acting and comparing powers,1.0 +"One in their nature, which are two in ours,",0.0 +"And Reason raise over Instinct, as you can;",4.0 +"In this it's God directs, in that it's Man.",0.0 +"Who taught the Nations of the field and wood,",1.0 +"To shun their Poison, and to choose their Food?",1.0 +"Build on the Wave, or arch beneath the Sand?",0.0 +"Who made the Spider Parallels design,",0.0 +"Heavens not his own, and worlds unknown before?",0.0 +"Who calls the Council, states the certain day,",0.0 +"Who forms the Phalanx, and who points the way?",1.0 +"Its proper bliss, and sets its proper bounds:",0.0 +"But as he framed a Whole, the whole to bless",1.0 +On mutual Wants built mutual Happiness:,6.0 +"So from the first Eternal ORDER ran,",1.0 +"And Creature linked to Creature, Man to Man.",0.0 +Or pours profuse on Earth; one Nature feeds,0.0 +"The vital flame, and swells the genial seeds.",0.0 +"Not Man alone, but all that roam the wood,",0.0 +"Or wing the sky, or roll along the flood,",0.0 +"Each loves Itself, but not itself alone,",0.0 +"Each Sex desires alike, till two are one:",0.0 +Nor ends the pleasure with the fierce embrace;,1.0 +"They love themselves, a third time, in their Race.",1.0 +"Thus beast and bird their common charge attend,",1.0 +"The mothers nurse it, and the sires defend;",1.0 +"The young dismissed to wander earth or air,",0.0 +"There stops the Instinct, and there ends the care,",1.0 +"The link dissolves, each seeks a fresh embrace,",0.0 +"Another love succeeds, another race.",0.0 +A longer care Man's helpless kind demands;,1.0 +That longer care contracts more lasting bands:,0.0 +"Reflection, Reason, still the ties improve,",0.0 +"At once extend the Interest, and the Love:",1.0 +"With Choice we fix, with Sympathy we burn,",1.0 +Each Virtue in each Passion takes its turn;,0.0 +"And still new Needs, new Helps, new Habits rise,",3.0 +That grafted Benevolence on Charities.,4.0 +"Still as one brood, and as another rose,",1.0 +"These natural Love maintained, habitual those;",1.0 +"The last scarce ripened into perfect Man,",2.0 +Saw helpless Him from whom their life began:,2.0 +"Memory, and Forecast, just returns engage,",2.0 +"That pointed back to Youth, this on to Age;",1.0 +"While Pleasure, Gratitude, and Hope combined,",0.0 +"Still spread the Interest, and preserved the Kind.",2.0 +"Nor think, in Nature's State they blindly trod;",0.0 +The State of NATURE was the Reign of GOD:,1.0 +"UNION the Bond of all things, and of Man.",2.0 +"Pride then was not; nor Arts, that Pride to aid;",0.0 +"Man walked with Beast, joint Tenant of the Shade;",3.0 +"The same his Table, and the same his Bed;",1.0 +"No murder clothed him, and no murder fed.",3.0 +"In the same Temple, the resounding Wood,",3.0 +"Heavens Attribute was Universal Care,",0.0 +"And Man's Prerogative to rule, but spare.",1.0 +Ah how unlike the man of times to come!,1.0 +"Of half that live, the Butcher, and the Tomb;",1.0 +"Who, foe to Nature, hears the general groan,",0.0 +"Murders their species, and betrays his own.",3.0 +"But just disease to luxury succeeds,",1.0 +And every death its own Avenger breeds;,0.0 +"And turned on Man a fiercer savage, Man.",0.0 +See him from Nature rising slow to Art!,0.0 +To copy Instinct then was Reason's part;,0.0 +Thus then to Man the Voice of Nature spoke ' --,0.0 +Go! from the Creatures thy instructions take;,1.0 +"Learn from the Birds, what food the thickets yield;",0.0 +Thy Arts of building from the Bee receive;,1.0 +"Learn of the Mole to plough, the Worm to weave;",0.0 +"Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.",3.0 +"Here too all Forms of social Union find,",0.0 +"And hence let Reason, late, instruct mankind:",2.0 +"Here subterranean Works and Cities see,",3.0 +There Towns aerial on the waving Tree.,3.0 +"Learn each small people's Genius, Policies;",3.0 +"The Ants Republic, and the Realm of Bees;",1.0 +"How those in common all their stores bestow,",1.0 +"And Anarchy without confusion know,",1.0 +"And these for ever, though a Monarch reign,",2.0 +Their separate Cells and Properties maintain.,1.0 +"Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.",2.0 +"In vain thy Reason finer webs shall draw,",0.0 +"Entangle Justice in her Net of Law,",0.0 +"And Right too rigid harden into Wrong,",1.0 +"Still for the strong too weak, the weak too strong.",2.0 +"Yet go! and thus over all the Creatures sway,",3.0 +"Thus let the wiser make the rest obey,",1.0 +"As Kings shall crown them, or as Gods adore.",1.0 +Great Nature spoke; observant Men obeyed;,1.0 +"Cities were built, Societies were made:",3.0 +Here rose one little State; another near,0.0 +"Grew by like means, and joined through Love, or Fear.",0.0 +"And he returned a friend, who came a foe.",1.0 +"Converse and Love mankind might strongly draw,",1.0 +"When Love was Liberty, and Nature Law.",1.0 +"Thus States were formed; the name of King unknown,",1.0 +Till common Interest placed the sway in One.,0.0 +"Then VIRTUE ONLY or in Arts, or Arms,",1.0 +"Diffusing blessings, or averting harms",1.0 +"The same which in a Sire the Sons obeyed,",2.0 +A Prince the Father of a People made.,1.0 +"Till then, by Nature crowned, each Patriarch sat,",1.0 +"King, Priest, and Parent of his growing State:",2.0 +"On him, their second Providence, they hung,",2.0 +"Their Law, his Eye; their Oracle, his Tongue.",1.0 +"He, from the wondering furrow called their food,",3.0 +"Taught to command the Fire, control the Flood,",2.0 +"Draw forth the Monsters of the Abyss profound,",4.0 +Or fetch the aerial Eagle to the ground.,3.0 +"Till drooping, sickening, dying, they began",1.0 +"Whom they revered as God, to mourn as Man.",1.0 +"Then, looking up from Sire to Sire, explored",5.0 +"One great, first Father, and that first adored.",2.0 +"Or plain Tradition that this All begun,",0.0 +"Conveyed unbroken Faith from Sire to Son,",2.0 +"The Workman from the Work distinct was known,",1.0 +And simple Reason never sought but One:,0.0 +"Before Wit oblique had broke that steady light,",1.0 +"Man, like his Maker, saw, that all was right,",0.0 +"To Virtue in the paths of Pleasure trod,",0.0 +And owned a Father when he owned a God.,0.0 +"LOVE all the Faith, and all the Allegiance then;",1.0 +"For Nature knew no Right Divine in Men,",1.0 +No Ill could fear in God; and understood,1.0 +A Sovereign Being but a Sovereign Good.,1.0 +"True Faith, true Policy, united ran,",3.0 +"That was but Love of God, and this of Man.",1.0 +"Who first taught souls enslaved, and realms undone,",1.0 +The enormous Faith of Many made for One?,1.0 +"That proud Exception to all Nature's laws,",1.0 +"Force first made Conquest, and that Conquest, Law;",3.0 +"Till Superstition taught the Tyrant Awe,",0.0 +"Then shared the Tyranny, and lent it aid,",1.0 +"And Gods of Conquerors, Slaves of Subjects made:",2.0 +"When rocked the Mountains, and when groaned the ground,",1.0 +"She taught the weak to bend, the proud to pray",0.0 +"To Power unseen, and mightier far than they.",4.0 +"She, from the rending earth, and bursting skies,",1.0 +"Saw Gods descend, and Fiends infernal rise;",1.0 +"Fear made her Devils, and weak Hope her Gods:",3.0 +"Whose Attributes were Rage, Revenge, or Lust:",0.0 +"Such as the souls of Cowards might conceive,",1.0 +"And formed like Tyrants, Tyrants would believe.",0.0 +"Zeal then, not Charity, became the guide,",1.0 +"And Hell was built on Spite, and Heaven on Pride.",0.0 +Next his grim Idol smeared with human blood;,2.0 +"With Heavens own Thunders shook the world below,",2.0 +And played the God an Engine on his foe.,1.0 +"Of what restrains him, Government and Laws.",1.0 +"For what one likes if others like as well,",0.0 +What serves one Will when many Wills rebel?,1.0 +"How shall he keep, what sleeping or awake",1.0 +"A weaker may surprise, a stronger take?",1.0 +His Safety must his Liberty restrain;,1.0 +All join to guard what each desires to gain.,0.0 +Even Kings learnt Justice and Benevolence:,3.0 +And found the private in the public Good.,0.0 +"'Twas then, the studious Head, or generous Mind,",4.0 +"Follo'wer of God, or Friend of Humankind,",2.0 +"Poet or Patriot rose, but to restore",5.0 +"The Faith and Moral, Nature gave before;",0.0 +"If not God's Image, yet his Shadow drew;",1.0 +"Taught Powers due use to People and to Kings,",5.0 +"Taught, not to slack nor strain its tender strings;",0.0 +"The Less, and Greater, set so justly true,",0.0 +"That touching one must strike the other too,",1.0 +And jarring Interests of themselves create,1.0 +"Such is the WORLD'S great Harmony, that springs",3.0 +"From Union, Order, full Consent of things!",0.0 +"Where small and great, where weak and mighty made",0.0 +"To serve, not suffer, strengthen, not invade,",0.0 +"More powerful each as needful to the rest,",2.0 +"And in proportion as it blesses, blessed,",1.0 +"Draw to one point, and to one Centre bring",1.0 +"Beast, Man, or Angel, Servant, Lord, or King.",1.0 +"For Forms of Government let fools contest,",2.0 +"Whatever is best administered, is best:",4.0 +"For Modes of Faith let graceless Zealots fight,",1.0 +His can't be wrong whose Life is in the right:,0.0 +"All must be false, that thwart this One, great End,",1.0 +"And all of God, that bless Mankind, or mend,",1.0 +"Man, like the generous Vine, supported lives,",2.0 +The Strength he gains is from the Embrace he gives.,1.0 +"On their own Axis as the Planets run,",2.0 +Yet make at once their Circle round the Sun;,0.0 +"So two consistent Motions act the soul,",0.0 +"And one regards Itself, and one the Whole.",2.0 +"Thus God and Nature linked the general Frame,",1.0 +OH HAPPINESS! our Being's End and Aim!,2.0 +"Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content! whatever thy name:",3.0 +"For which we bear to live, nor fear to die;",0.0 +"Which still so near us, yet beyond us lies,",0.0 +"Overlooked, seen double, by the fool ' -- and wise.",2.0 +"Plant of Celestial seed! if dropped below,",2.0 +"Or deep with diamonds in the flaming Mine,",1.0 +Or reaped in Iron Harvests of the Field?,1.0 +"Where grows ' -- where grows it not? ' -- If vain our toil,",0.0 +"We ought to blame the Culture, not the Soil:",0.0 +Fixed to no spot is Happiness sincere;,4.0 +"It's no where to be found, or every where;",1.0 +"It's never to be bought, but always free,",1.0 +"And fled from Monarchs, ST. JOHN! dwells with thee.",2.0 +"Ask of the Learnt the way, the Learnt are blind,",0.0 +"This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind:",1.0 +"Some place the bliss in Action, some in Ease,",0.0 +"Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these:",2.0 +"Who thus define it, say they more or less",0.0 +"Than this, that Happiness is Happiness?",3.0 +"One grants his Pleasure is but Rest from pain,",1.0 +"One doubts of All, one owns even Virtue vain.",2.0 +"Take Nature's path, and mad Opinion's leave,",1.0 +"All States can reach it, and all Heads conceive;",1.0 +"Obvious her goods, in no Extreme they dwell,",1.0 +"There needs but thinking right, and meaning well;",0.0 +"And mourn our various portions as we please,",3.0 +"Equal is common Sense, and common Ease.",2.0 +Remember Man! the Universal Cause,0.0 +"And makes what Happiness we justly call,",1.0 +"Subsist not in the Good of one, but all.",1.0 +But some way leans and hearkens to the Kind.,2.0 +"No Bandit fierce, no Tyrant mad with pride,",2.0 +"Who most to shun or hate mankind pretend,",1.0 +"Seek an Admirer, or would fix a Friend.",3.0 +"Abstract what others feel, what others think,",0.0 +"All Pleasures sicken, and all Glories sink;",1.0 +"Each has his share, and who would more obtain",0.0 +"Shall find, the pleasure pays not half the pain.",0.0 +"ORDER is Heaven's first Law; and this confessed,",6.0 +"Some are, and must be, greater than the rest,",1.0 +"More rich, more wise: but who infers from hence",0.0 +"That such are happier, shocks all common sense.",2.0 +Heaven to mankind impartial we confess,4.0 +If all are equal in their happiness:,1.0 +"But mutual wants this happiness increase,",3.0 +All Nature's difference keeps all Nature's peace.,0.0 +"Condition, Circumstance is not the thing:",0.0 +"Bliss is the same, in Subject or in King;",1.0 +"In who obtain defence, or who defend;",0.0 +"In him who is, or him who finds, a friend.",1.0 +Heaven breathes through every member of the whole,1.0 +"One common Blessing, as one common Soul:",1.0 +"But Fortune's gifts if each alike possessed,",0.0 +"And each were equal, must not all contest?",0.0 +"If then to all men Happiness was meant,",2.0 +"Fortune her gifts may variously dispose,",5.0 +"And these be called unhappy, happy those;",2.0 +"But Heaven's just balance equal will appear,",3.0 +"While those are placed in Hope, and these in Fear:",1.0 +"Not present Good or Ill, the joy or curse,",0.0 +"But future views, of Better, or of Worse.",1.0 +O Sons of Earth! attempt you still to rise,0.0 +"By mountains piled on mountains, to the Skies?",1.0 +"Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys,",2.0 +And buries Madmen in the Heaps they raise.,0.0 +"Know, all the Good that Individuals find,",2.0 +"Or God and Nature meant to mere mankind,",1.0 +"Reason's whole pleasures, all the joys of Sense,",3.0 +"Lie in three words, Health, Peace, and Competence.",5.0 +"But Health consists with Temperance alone,",1.0 +"And Peace, fair Virtue! Peace is all thy own;",1.0 +The gifts of Fortune good or bad may gain;,0.0 +"But these less taste them, as they worse obtain.",2.0 +"Say, in pursuit of Profit or Delight,",2.0 +"Who risque the most, that take wrong means, or right?",2.0 +"Of Vice or Virtue, whether blessed or cursed,",0.0 +"Which meets Contempt, or which Compassion first?",0.0 +"Count all the advantage prosperous Vice attains,",3.0 +"It's but what Virtue flies from, and disdains;",2.0 +"And grant the bad what happiness they would,",1.0 +"One they must want, which is, to pass for good.",1.0 +"O blind to Truth, and God's whole Scheme below!",1.0 +"Who fancy Bliss to Vice, to Virtue Woe:",0.0 +"Who sees and follows that great Scheme the best,",1.0 +"Best knows his blessing, and will most be blessed.",2.0 +"But Fools the Good alone unhappy call,",0.0 +For Ills or Accidents that chance to All.,1.0 +"See FALKLAND falls, the virtuous and the just!",2.0 +See SIDNEY bleeds amid the martial strife!,1.0 +"Was this their Virtue, or Contempt of life?",2.0 +"Say was it Virtue, more though Heaven never gave,",0.0 +Lamented DIGBY! sunk thee to the Grave?,1.0 +"Tell me, if Virtue made the Son expire,",0.0 +"Why, full of Days and Honour, lives the Sire?",3.0 +"Why drew Marseilles good Bishop purer breath,",0.0 +"When Nature sickened, and each gale was death?",1.0 +Or why so long in Life if long can be,0.0 +Lent Heaven a Parent to the Poor and Me?,2.0 +What makes all Physical or Moral Ill?,1.0 +"There deviates Nature, and here wanders Will.",6.0 +"God sends not Ill, it's Nature lets it fall",1.0 +"Or Chance escape, and Man improves it all.",0.0 +"We just as wisely might of Heaven complain,",0.0 +"That righteous Abel was destroyed by Cain,",1.0 +"As that the virtuous Son is ill at ease,",2.0 +When his lewd Father gave the dire disease.,2.0 +"Think we like some weak Prince the Eternal Cause,",2.0 +"Shall burning Aetna, if a Sage requires,",1.0 +"Forget to thunder, and recall her fires?",1.0 +"On Air or Sea new motions be impressed,",1.0 +OH blameless Bethel! to relieve thy breast?,2.0 +"Shall Gravitation cease, if you go by?",0.0 +"Or some old Temple nodding to its fall,",2.0 +For Chartres head reserve the hanging Wall?,0.0 +But still this World so fitted for the Knave,1.0 +Contents us not. A better shall we have?,0.0 +A Kingdom of the Just then let it be:,1.0 +But first consider how those Just agree?,1.0 +The Good must merit God's peculiar care;,0.0 +"But who but God can tell us, who they are?",0.0 +"One thinks on Calvin Heaven's own spirit fell,",2.0 +Another deems him Instrument of Hell;,1.0 +"If Calvin feel Heaven's Blessing, or its Rod,",4.0 +"This cries there is, and that, there is no God.",2.0 +"What shocks one part will edify the rest,",0.0 +Nor with one System can they all be blessed.,2.0 +"Give each a System, all must be at strife;",0.0 +What different Systems for a man and wife?,1.0 +"The very best will variously incline,",1.0 +"And what rewards your Virtue, punish mine.",1.0 +"Whatever is, is right. ' -- This world, it's true,",2.0 +Was made for Caesar ' -- but for Titus too:,1.0 +"And which more blessed? who chained his Country, say,",0.0 +"Or he, whose Virtue sighed to lose a day?",1.0 +But sometime Virtue starves while Vice is fed.,1.0 +"What then? is the reward of Virtue, Bread?",1.0 +"That, Vice may merit; it's the price of Toil:",1.0 +"The Knave deserves it when he tempts the Main,",0.0 +"Where Madness fights, for Tyrants, or for Gain.",1.0 +"The good man may be weak, be indolent,",1.0 +"Nor is his claim to Plenty, but Content.",2.0 +"But grant him Riches, your demand is over?",1.0 +"No ' -- shall the good want health, the good want Power?",2.0 +"Add health and power, and every earthly thing:",3.0 +Why bounded power? why private? why no King?,3.0 +"Nay, why external for internal given,",2.0 +"Why is not Man a God, and Earth a Heaven?",0.0 +"Who ask and reason thus, will scarce conceive",0.0 +God gives enough while he has more to give:,1.0 +"Immense the Power, immense were the demand;",3.0 +"Say, at what part of Nature will they stand?",1.0 +"What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy,",1.0 +"The Soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy,",4.0 +And give Humility a Coach and six?,1.0 +"Justice a Conqueror's sword, or Truth a Gown,",4.0 +"Or Public Spirit, its great cure, a Crown?",2.0 +Rewards that either would to Virtue bring,0.0 +"No joy, or be destructive of the thing.",2.0 +How oft by these at sixty are undone,2.0 +"For Riches, can they give but to the Just,",2.0 +Esteem and Love were never to be sold.,1.0 +"OH Fool! to think, God hates the worthy Mind,",2.0 +"The Lover, and the Love, of Human kind,",1.0 +"Whose Life is healthful, and whose Conscience clear;",1.0 +Because he wants a thousand pounds a year!,0.0 +"Act well your part, there all the Honour lies.",2.0 +"Fortune in men has some small difference made,",3.0 +"One flaunts in Rags, one flutters in Brocade,",0.0 +"The Fryar hooded, and the Monarch crowned.",1.0 +What differ more you cry than Crown and Cowl?,0.0 +"I'll tell you, friend: a Wise man and a Fool.",2.0 +"Worth makes the Man, and want of it the Fellow;",2.0 +"The rest, is all but Leather or Prunella.",1.0 +"Stuck over with Titles, and hung round with Strings,",5.0 +"Thy boasted Blood, a thousand years or so,",0.0 +May from Lucretia to Lucretia flow;,2.0 +"But by your Father's worth if yours you rate,",2.0 +Count me those only who were good and great.,0.0 +Go! if your ancient but ignoble blood,1.0 +"Has crept through Scoundrels ever since the Flood,",0.0 +Go! and pretend your Family is young;,3.0 +Not own your Fathers have been fools so long.,0.0 +"Look next on Greatness, say where Greatness lies?",0.0 +"Where, but among the Heroes, and the Wise?",2.0 +"Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed,",1.0 +"The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find",2.0 +"Or make, an Enemy of all Mankind:",2.0 +"Not one looks backward, onward still he goes,",2.0 +"Yet never looks forward, further than his nose.",4.0 +"No less alike the Politic and wise,",1.0 +"Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take,",0.0 +"Nor that themselves are wise, but others weak.",0.0 +"But grant that those can conquer, these can cheat,",2.0 +It's phrase absurd to call a Villain great.,0.0 +"Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave,",1.0 +"Is but the more a fool, the more a knave.",1.0 +"Who noble ends by noble means obtains,",0.0 +"Or failing, smiles in Exile or in Chains,",2.0 +"Like Socrates, that Man is great indeed.",0.0 +What's Fame? that fancied Life in others breath!,0.0 +A thing beyond us even before our death.,2.0 +"Just what you hear you have, and what's unknown",0.0 +All that we feel of it begins and ends,1.0 +In the small circle of our foes or friends;,3.0 +To all beside as much an empty Shade,0.0 +"An Eugene living, as a Caesar dead,",6.0 +"Alike or when or where, they shone or shine,",0.0 +"Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine.",3.0 +"A Wit's a Feather, and a Chief a Rod;",1.0 +An honest man's the noblest Work of God:,0.0 +"Fame but from death a Villain's name can save,",0.0 +As Justice tears his body from the grave;,1.0 +"When what to oblivion better were resigned,",4.0 +"Is hung on high, to poison half mankind.",1.0 +"All Fame is foreign, but of true desert,",1.0 +"Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart.",1.0 +And more true joy Marcellus exiled feels,2.0 +Than Caesar with a Senate at his heels.,1.0 +In Parts superior what advantage lies!,2.0 +Tell for You can what is it to be wise?,2.0 +"It's but to know, how little can be known;",2.0 +"To see all others faults, and feel our own;",0.0 +Condemned in Business or in Arts to drudge,1.0 +"Without a Second, or without a Judge:",1.0 +"Truths would you teach, or save a sinking Land?",0.0 +"All fear, none aid you, and few understand.",2.0 +Painful Pre-eminence! yourself to view,4.0 +"Above Life's Weakness, and its Comforts too.",2.0 +"Bring then these Blessings to a strict account,",1.0 +"Make fair deductions, see to what they mount?",1.0 +How much of other each is sure to cost?,0.0 +How each for other oft is wholly lost?,0.0 +How inconsistent greater Goods with these?,0.0 +"How sometime Life is risked, and always Ease?",1.0 +"Think, and if still the Things thy envy call,",0.0 +"To sigh for Ribbons if thou art so silly,",1.0 +"Mark how they grace Lord Umbra, or Sir Billy.",3.0 +Is yellow Dirt the passion of thy life?,1.0 +"If Parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined,",0.0 +"The wisest, brightest, meanest of Mankind:",2.0 +"See Cromwell, damned to everlasting Fame!",1.0 +"If all, united, thy ambition call,",1.0 +From ancient Storey learn to scorn them all.,0.0 +"There, in the rich, the honoured, famed, and great,",3.0 +See the false Scale of Happiness complete!,4.0 +"In hearts of Kings or arms of Queens who lay,",0.0 +"How happy! those to ruin, these betray,",2.0 +"Mark by what wretched steps their Glory grows,",0.0 +From dirt and seaweed as proud Venice rose;,3.0 +"In each, how Guilt and Greatness equal ran,",0.0 +And all that raised the Hero sunk the Man.,0.0 +"But stained with Blood, or ill exchanged for Gold:",0.0 +"Then see them broke with Toils, or lost in Ease,",0.0 +Or infamous for plundered Provinces.,2.0 +What greater bliss attends their close of life?,0.0 +"Some greedy Minion, or imperious Wife,",3.0 +Compute the Morn and Evening to the Day:,1.0 +The whole amount of that enormous Fame,0.0 +A Tale! that blends their Glory with their Shame!,1.0 +Know then this Truth enough for man to know,0.0 +VIRTUE alone is Happiness below.,3.0 +"The only point where human bliss stands still,",1.0 +And tastes the Good without the fall to Ill:,0.0 +"Where only, Merit constant pay receives,",0.0 +Is blessed in what it takes and what it gives:,0.0 +"And if it lose, attended with no pain:",3.0 +"Without satiety, though ever so blessed,",4.0 +And but more relished as the more distressed:,2.0 +"The broadest Mirth unfeeling Folly wears,",0.0 +Less pleasing far than Virtue's very Tears:,1.0 +"Good, from each object, from each place acquired,",0.0 +"Never elated, while one Man's oppressed;",2.0 +"And where no wants, no wishes can remain,",3.0 +"Since but to wish more Virtue, is to gain.",1.0 +"See! the sole Bliss Heaven could on all bestow,",1.0 +"Which who but feels, can taste, but thinks, can know:",0.0 +"Yet, poor with Fortune and with Learning blind,",1.0 +"Slave to no Sect, who takes no private road,",4.0 +"But looks through Nature up to Nature's GOD,",1.0 +"Pursues that Chain which links the immense Design,",2.0 +"Joins Heaven, and Earth, and mortal, and divine;",2.0 +"Sees, that no Being any Bliss can know",2.0 +"But touches some above, and some below;",0.0 +"Learns, from this Union of the rising Whole,",1.0 +"The first, last Purpose of the human Soul;",2.0 +"And knows, where Faith, Law, Morals all began,",1.0 +"All end, in LOVE of GOD and LOVE of MAN.",0.0 +"For him alone, Hope leads from goal to goal,",2.0 +"And opens still, and opens, on his Soul,",1.0 +"Till lengthened on to Faith, and unconfined,",1.0 +It pours the bliss that fills up all the mind.,0.0 +"He sees, why Nature plants in Man alone",0.0 +"Hope of known bliss, and Faith in bliss unknown?",3.0 +"Nature, whose dictates to no other Kind",3.0 +"Are given in vain, but what they seek they find",2.0 +Wise is the Present: she connects in this,1.0 +"His greatest Virtue with his greatest Bliss,",1.0 +"At once his own bright Prospect to be blessed,",2.0 +And strongest Motive to assist the rest.,1.0 +Is this too little for the boundless heart?,3.0 +"Extend it, let thy Enemies have part!",1.0 +"Grasp the whole Worlds, of Reason, Life, and Sense,",3.0 +In one close System of Benevolence!,4.0 +"Happier, as kinder! in whatever degree;",4.0 +And height of Bliss but height of CHARITY.,1.0 +GOD loves from whole to parts: but human Soul,1.0 +Must rise from individual to the whole.,1.0 +As the small pebble stirs the peaceful Lake;,2.0 +"The Centre moved, a Circle strait succeeds,",0.0 +"Another still, and still another spreads;",0.0 +"Take every Creature in, of every kind;",1.0 +"Earth smiles around, with boundless bounty blessed,",1.0 +"Come then, my Friend! my Genius come along,",0.0 +"O Master of the Poet, and the Song!",2.0 +"And while the Muse now stoops, or now ascends,",1.0 +"To Man's low Passions or their glorious Ends,",4.0 +"Teach me like thee, in various Nature wise,",2.0 +"To fall with Dignity, with Temper rise,",1.0 +"Formed by thy Converse, happily to steer",1.0 +"From grave to gay, from lively to severe,",1.0 +"Correct with spirit, eloquent with ease,",1.0 +"Intent to reason, or polite to please.",1.0 +"OH! while along the stream of Time, thy Name",1.0 +"Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame,",0.0 +"Say, shall my little Bark attendant sail,",0.0 +"Pursue the Triumph, and partake the Gale?",1.0 +"When Statesmen, Heroes, Kings, in dust repose,",0.0 +"Whose Sons shall blush their Fathers were thy foes,",1.0 +Shall then this Verse to future age pretend,0.0 +"Thou wert my Guide, Philosopher, and Friend?",2.0 +"That urged by thee, I turned the tuneful Art",1.0 +"From Sounds to Things, from Fancy to the Heart;",1.0 +For Wit's false Mirror held up Nature's Light;,1.0 +"Showed erring Pride, Whatever Is, is Right;",3.0 +"That Reason, Passion, answer one great Aim;",2.0 +That Virtue only makes our Bliss below;,0.0 +"And all our Knowledge is, Ourselves to know.",1.0 +"The Village Life, and every care that reigns",0.0 +"What labour yields, and what, that labour past,",0.0 +"What form the real Picture of the Poor,",4.0 +Demand a song ' -- the Muse can give no more.,1.0 +"Fled are those times, when, in harmonious strains,",2.0 +The rustic poet praised his native plains:,0.0 +"No shepherd's now, in smooth alternate verse,",5.0 +"Yet still for these we frame the tender strain,",1.0 +"And shepherd's' boys their amorous pains reveal,",4.0 +"The only pains, alas! they never feel.",0.0 +"From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray,",0.0 +"Where Virgil, not where Fancy, leads the way?",0.0 +Because the Muses never knew their pains:,0.0 +They boast their peasants' pipes; but peasants now,0.0 +Resign their pipes and plod behind the plough;,0.0 +"To number syllables, and play with rhyme;",1.0 +"Save honest Duck, what son of verse could share",1.0 +The poet's rapture and the peasant's care?,1.0 +With the new peril of a poorer trade?,3.0 +"From this chief cause these idle praises spring,",2.0 +For no deep thought the trifling subjects ask;,1.0 +To sing of shepherd's is an easy task:,1.0 +"The happy youth assumes the common strain,",0.0 +"A nymph his mistress, and himself a swain;",1.0 +"With no sad scenes he clouds his tuneful prayer,",1.0 +"But all, to look like her, is painted fair.",1.0 +I grant indeed that fields and flocks have charms,0.0 +But when amid such pleasing scenes I trace,0.0 +"The poor laborious natives of the place,",3.0 +"And see the midday sun, with fervid ray,",1.0 +On their bare heads and dewy temples play;,2.0 +"Deplore their fortune, yet sustain their parts ' --",0.0 +Then shall I dare these real ills to hide,3.0 +In tinsel trappings of poetic pride?,1.0 +"No; cast by Fortune on a frowning coast,",2.0 +Which neither groves nor happy valleys boast;,0.0 +"Where other cares than those the Muse relates,",1.0 +And other shepherd's dwell with other mates;,0.0 +"By such examples taught, I paint the Cot,",1.0 +"Nor you, you Poor, of lettered scorn complain,",1.0 +To you the smoothest song is smooth in vain;,1.0 +"Overcome by labour, and bowed down by time,",2.0 +Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme?,1.0 +By winding myrtles round your ruined shed?,0.0 +"Lo! where the heath, with withering brake grown over,",3.0 +Lends the light turf that warms the neighbouring poor;,5.0 +"From thence a length of burning sand appears,",0.0 +Where the thin harvest waves its withered ears;,2.0 +"Rank weeds, that every art and care defy,",1.0 +"Reign over the land, and rob the blighted rye:",3.0 +"There thistles stretch their prickly arms afar,",0.0 +And to the ragged infant threaten war;,1.0 +"There poppies nodding, mock the hope of toil;",0.0 +"Hardy and high, above the slender sheaf,",2.0 +The slimy mallow waves her silky leaf;,0.0 +"With mingled tints the rocky coasts abound,",0.0 +"So looks the nymph whom wretched arts adorn,",0.0 +"Betrayed by man, then left for man to scorn;",0.0 +"Whose cheek in vain assumes the mimic rose,",0.0 +While her sad eyes the troubled breast disclose;,3.0 +With sullen woe displayed in every face;,0.0 +"Who, far from civil arts and social fly,",0.0 +And scowl at strangers with suspicious eye.,1.0 +Here too the lawless merchant of the main,1.0 +Draws from his plough the intoxicated swain;,2.0 +"Want only claimed the labour of the day,",2.0 +But vice now steals his nightly rest away.,1.0 +With rural games played down the setting sun;,2.0 +"While some huge Ajax, terrible and strong,",5.0 +"Engaged some artful stripling of the throng,",1.0 +"And fell beneath him, foiled, while far around",0.0 +"Hoarse triumph rose, and rocks returned the sound?",1.0 +"Where now are these? ' -- Beneath yonder cliff they stand,",5.0 +"To load the ready steed with guilty haste,",0.0 +To foil their foes by cunning or by force;,1.0 +"Or, yielding part which equal knaves demand,",0.0 +To gain a lawless passport through the land.,2.0 +"Here, wandering long, amid these frowning fields,",2.0 +I sought the simple life that Nature yields;,0.0 +"And a bold, artful, surly, savage race;",2.0 +"Wait on the shore, and, as the waves run high,",2.0 +"On the tossed vessel bend their eager eye,",2.0 +"Theirs, or the ocean's, miserable prey.",2.0 +"As on their neighbouring beach yonder swallows stand,",3.0 +While still for flight the ready wing is spread:,0.0 +"Fled from these shores where guilt and famine reign,",0.0 +"And cried, Ah! hapless they who still remain;",1.0 +"Who still remain to hear the ocean roar,",0.0 +Whose greedy waves devour the lessening shore;,4.0 +"Till some fierce tide, with more imperious sway,",3.0 +Sweeps the low hut and all it holds away;,2.0 +When the sad tenant weeps from door to door;,2.0 +And begs a poor protection from the poor!,1.0 +But these are scenes where Nature's niggard hand,2.0 +Gave a spare portion to the famished land;,4.0 +"Hers is the fault, if here mankind complain",2.0 +Of fruitless toil and labour spent in vain;,0.0 +"But yet in other scenes more fair in view,",0.0 +When Plenty smiles ' -- alas! she smiles for few ' --,0.0 +"And those who taste not, yet behold her store,",1.0 +Are as the slaves that dig the golden over ' --,1.0 +The wealth around them makes them doubly poor.,0.0 +"Or will you deem them amply paid in health,",1.0 +"Go then! and see them rising with the sun,",1.0 +Through a long course of daily toil to run;,2.0 +When the knees tremble and the temples beat;,3.0 +"The labour past, and toils to come explore;",0.0 +"See them alternate suns and showers engage,",4.0 +And hoard up aches and anguish for their age;,1.0 +When their warm pores imbibe the evening dew;,3.0 +Then own that labour may as fatal be,1.0 +"To these thy slaves, as thine excess to thee.",2.0 +Amid this tribe too oft a manly pride,1.0 +Strives in strong toil the fainting heart to hide;,3.0 +There may you see the youth of slender frame,1.0 +"Contend with weakness, weariness, and shame;",1.0 +"Yet, urged along, and proudly loath to yield,",0.0 +He strives to join his fellows of the field:,1.0 +And mutual murmurs urge the slow disease.,2.0 +"Yet grant them health, it's not for us to tell,",1.0 +"Or will you praise that homely, healthy fare,",1.0 +"Oh! trifle not with wants you cannot feel,",1.0 +As you who praise would never deign to touch.,1.0 +"You gentle souls, who dream of rural ease,",0.0 +Whom the smooth stream and smoother sonnet please;,3.0 +"Go! if the peaceful cot your praises share,",0.0 +"Go look within, and ask if peace be there;",1.0 +"If peace be his ' -- that drooping weary sire,",1.0 +"Or theirs, that offspring round their feeble fire;",1.0 +"Or hers, that matron pale, whose trembling hand",1.0 +Turns on the wretched hearth the expiring brand!,2.0 +Nor yet can Time itself obtain for these,0.0 +"Life's latest comforts, due respect and ease;",1.0 +"For yonder see that hoary swain, whose age",0.0 +Can with no cares except its own engage;,2.0 +"Who, propped on that rude staff, looks up to see",1.0 +"The bare arms broken from the withering tree,",4.0 +"Then his first joy, but his sad emblem now.",5.0 +He once was chief in all the rustic trade;,0.0 +To find the triumphs of his youth allowed;,1.0 +"A transient pleasure sparkles in his eyes,",0.0 +"He hears and smiles, then thinks again and sighs:",0.0 +For now he journeys to his grave in pain;,1.0 +"The rich disdain him; nay, the poor disdain:",0.0 +"Alternate masters now their slave command,",2.0 +"Urge the weak efforts of his feeble hand,",4.0 +"And, when his age attempts its task in vain,",0.0 +"With ruthless taunts, of lazy poor complain.",0.0 +"Oft may you see him, when he tends the sheep,",0.0 +"His winter charge, beneath the hillock weep;",0.0 +Oft hear him murmur to the winds that blow,2.0 +"Over his white locks and bury them in snow,",3.0 +"When, roused by rage and muttering in the morn,",1.0 +"Why do I live, when I desire to be",1.0 +At once from life and life's long labour free?,1.0 +"Like leaves in spring, the young are blown away,",0.0 +Without the sorrows of a slow decay;,1.0 +"I, like yonder withered leaf, remain behind,",0.0 +"Nipped by the frost, and shivering in the wind;",1.0 +"There it abides till younger buds come on,",3.0 +"Then, from the rising generation thrust,",0.0 +"It falls, like me, unnoticed to the dust.",2.0 +"These fruitful fields, these numerous flocks I see,",2.0 +"Are others' gain, but killing cares to me;",0.0 +"To me the children of my youth are lords,",2.0 +"Cool in their looks, but hasty in their words:",0.0 +Wants of their own demand their care; and who,0.0 +"A lonely, wretched man, in pain I go,",0.0 +"None need my help, and none relieve my woe;",0.0 +"Then let my bones beneath the turf be laid,",0.0 +And men forget the wretch they would not aid.,0.0 +"Thus, groan the old, till, by disease oppressed,",2.0 +"They taste a final woe, and then they rest.",0.0 +"Theirs is yonder House that holds the parish poor,",0.0 +Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door;,1.0 +And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day; ' --,5.0 +There children dwell who know no parents' care;,1.0 +"Parents, who know no children's love, dwell there!",5.0 +"Forsaken wives, and mothers never wed;",0.0 +"Dejected widows with unheeded tears,",1.0 +And crippled age with more than childhood fears;,1.0 +"The lame, the blind, and, far the happiest they!",1.0 +"The moping idiot, and the madman gay.",2.0 +"Here too the sick their final doom receive,",0.0 +"Here brought, amid the scenes of grief, to grieve,",0.0 +"Where the loud groans from some sad chamber flow,",4.0 +And the cold charities of man to man:,3.0 +"Whose laws indeed for ruined age provide,",0.0 +And strong compulsion plucks the scrap from pride;,0.0 +"But still that scrap is bought with many a sigh,",2.0 +"Say, you, oppressed by some fantastic woes,",2.0 +Some jarring nerve that baffles your repose;,1.0 +"Who press the downy couch, while slaves advance",0.0 +With timid eye to read the distant glance;,0.0 +"Who with sad prayers the weary doctor tease,",3.0 +"Who with mock patience dire complaints endure,",2.0 +Which real pain and that alone can cure;,1.0 +"How would you bear in real pain to lie,",3.0 +"Despised, neglected, left alone to die?",0.0 +"How would you bear to draw your latest breath,",0.0 +"Such is that room which one rude beam divides,",3.0 +And naked rafters form the sloping sides;,0.0 +"Where the vile bands that bind the thatch are seen,",3.0 +And lath and mud are all that lie between;,0.0 +"To the rude tempest, yet excludes the day:",2.0 +The drooping wretch reclines his languid head;,0.0 +"For him no hand the cordial cup applies,",2.0 +"No friends with soft discourse his pain beguile,",6.0 +"Or promise hope, till sickness wears a smile.",0.0 +"But soon a loud and hasty summons calls,",0.0 +"Shakes the thin roof, and echoes round the walls;",3.0 +"Anon, a figure enters, quaintly neat,",0.0 +"All pride and business, bustle and conceit;",1.0 +"With looks unaltered by these scenes of woe,",1.0 +"With speed that, entering, speaks his haste to go,",2.0 +"He bids the gazing throng around him fly,",0.0 +"A potent quack, long versed in human ills,",1.0 +Who first insults the victim whom he kills;,0.0 +"Whose murderous hand a drowsy Bench protect,",2.0 +And whose most tender mercy is neglect.,1.0 +"Paid by the parish for attendance here,",1.0 +"In haste he seeks the bed where Misery lies,",2.0 +Impatience marked in his averted eyes;,1.0 +"And, some habitual queries hurried over,",2.0 +"Without reply, he rushes on the door:",1.0 +"His drooping patient, long inured to pain,",0.0 +He ceases now the feeble help to crave,0.0 +Of man; and silent sinks into the grave.,0.0 +"But ere his death some pious doubts arise,",0.0 +"Some simple fears, which bold bad men despise;",1.0 +Fain would he ask the parish priest to prove,0.0 +His title certain to the joys above:,1.0 +"For this he sends the murmuring nurse, who calls",3.0 +The holy stranger to these dismal walls:,1.0 +"And does not he, the pious man, appear,",0.0 +"He, passing rich with forty pounds a year?",0.0 +"Ah! no; a shepherd of a different stock,",1.0 +"And far unlike him, feeds this little flock:",0.0 +"A jovial youth, who thinks his Sunday's task",3.0 +As much as God or man can fairly ask;,0.0 +"To fields the morning, and to feasts the night;",1.0 +"None better skilled the noisy pack to guide,",1.0 +"To urge their chase, to cheer them or to chide;",1.0 +"A sportsman keen, he shoots through half the day,",0.0 +"Shall he sit sadly by the sick man's bed,",4.0 +"To raise the hope he feels not, or with zeal",1.0 +To combat fears that even the pious feel?,2.0 +"Now once again the gloomy scene explore,",1.0 +"Less gloomy now; the bitter hour is over,",1.0 +The man of many sorrows sighs no more. ' --,1.0 +"Up yonder hill, behold how sadly slow",0.0 +The bier moves winding from the vale below:,2.0 +"There lie the happy dead, from trouble free,",0.0 +And the glad parish pays the frugal fee:,2.0 +"No more, OH Death! thy victim starts to hear",3.0 +"No more the farmer claims his humble bow,",0.0 +"Thou art his lord, the best of tyrants thou!",1.0 +"Now to the church behold the mourners come,",0.0 +Sedately torpid and devoutly dumb;,1.0 +"The village children now their games suspend,",0.0 +To see the bier that bears their ancient friend:,0.0 +"For he was one in all their idle sport,",1.0 +And like a monarch ruled their little court;,0.0 +"The pliant bow he formed, the flying ball,",0.0 +"Him now they follow to his grave, and stand,",1.0 +"Silent and sad, and gazing, hand in hand;",2.0 +"While bending low, their eager eyes explore",0.0 +The mingled relics of the parish poor.,1.0 +"The bell tolls late, the moping owl flies round,",2.0 +Fear marks the flight and magnifies the sound;,1.0 +Defers his duty till the day of prayer;,1.0 +"And, waiting long, the crowd retire distressed,",0.0 +"No longer truth, though shown in verse, disdain,",1.0 +But own the Village Life a life of pain:,0.0 +"I too must yield, that oft amid these woes",0.0 +"Are gleams of transient mirth and hours of sweet repose,",0.0 +"Where loitering stray a little tribe of friends,",2.0 +On a fair Sunday when the sermon ends:,1.0 +"Then rural beaux their best attire put on,",0.0 +"To win their nymphs, as other nymphs are won;",0.0 +"While those long wed go plain, and by degrees,",5.0 +"Like other husbands, quit their care to please.",0.0 +"Some of the sermon talk, a sober crowd,",0.0 +"And loudly praise, if it were preached aloud;",1.0 +"Feel their own worth, and think their toil renowned;",0.0 +"While some, whose hopes to no renown extend,",0.0 +"Thus, as their hours glide on, with pleasure fraught",0.0 +Their careful masters brood the painful thought;,0.0 +"Much in their mind they murmur and lament,",1.0 +That one fair day should be so idly spent;,1.0 +"And think that Heaven deals hard, to tithe their store",3.0 +And tax their time for preachers and the poor.,1.0 +"Yet still, you humbler friends, enjoy your hour,",0.0 +"This is your portion, yet unclaimed of power;",1.0 +"This is Heaven's gift to weary men oppressed,",0.0 +And seems the type of their expected rest:,1.0 +"But yours, alas! are joys that soon decay;",1.0 +"Frail joys, begun and ended with the day;",2.0 +"Or yet, while day permits those joys to reign,",0.0 +The village vices drive them from the plain.,1.0 +Strike the bare bosom of his teeming mate!,4.0 +"His naked vices, rude and unrefined,",0.0 +Exert their open empire over the mind;,2.0 +"But can we less the senseless rage despise,",1.0 +Because the savage acts without disguise?,0.0 +And Slander steals along and taints the Green:,0.0 +"At her approach domestic peace is gone,",1.0 +"She to the wife the husband's crime conveys,",1.0 +She tells the husband when his consort strays;,3.0 +"Her busy tongue, through all the little state,",0.0 +"Diffuses doubt, suspicion, and debate;",1.0 +"Peace, timorous goddess! quits her old domain,",3.0 +In sentiment and song content to reign.,1.0 +Nor are the nymphs that breathe the rural air,1.0 +"These to the town afford each fresher face,",1.0 +And the clown's trull receives the peer's embrace;,2.0 +"From whom, should chance again convey her down,",0.0 +The peer's disease in turn attacks the clown.,0.0 +"How from their ponds the fish are born, and all",1.0 +The ripening treasures from their lofty wall;,1.0 +"How meaner rivals in their sports delight,",0.0 +Just right enough to claim a doubtful right;,0.0 +"Who take a licence round their fields to stray,",0.0 +"And hark! the riots of the Green begin,",1.0 +That sprang at first from yonder noisy inn;,0.0 +"What time the weekly pay was vanished all,",0.0 +And the slow hostess scored the threatening wall;,2.0 +"What time they asked, their friendly feast to close,",0.0 +"A final cup, and that will make them foes;",0.0 +"When blows ensue that break the arm of toil,",0.0 +"Save when to yonder Hall they bend their way,",0.0 +Where the grave Justice ends the grievous fray;,2.0 +"He who recites, to keep the poor in awe,",0.0 +The law's vast volume ' -- for he knows the law: ' --,2.0 +To him with anger or with shame repair,2.0 +The injured peasant and deluded fair.,1.0 +"Lo! at his throne the silent nymph appears,",0.0 +"Frail by her shape, but modest in her tears;",0.0 +"And while she stands abashed, with conscious eye,",0.0 +"Some favourite female of her judge glides by,",4.0 +And thanks the stars that made her keeper great:,0.0 +"Near her the swain, about to bear for life",0.0 +"One certain evil, doubts betwixt war and wife;",3.0 +"But, while the faltering damsel takes her oath,",2.0 +"Consents to wed, and so secures them both.",1.0 +"Yet why, you ask, these humble crimes relate,",0.0 +Why make the Poor as guilty as the Great?,1.0 +"To show the great, those mightier sons of pride,",2.0 +How near in vice the lowest are allied;,1.0 +"Such are their natures and their passions such,",3.0 +"But these disguise too little, those too much:",4.0 +So shall the man of power and pleasure see,2.0 +In his own slave as vile a wretch as he;,0.0 +In his luxurious lord the servant find,3.0 +His own low pleasures and degenerate mind:,3.0 +"And each in all the kindred vices trace,",0.0 +"Of a poor, blind, bewildered, erring race,",2.0 +"Who, a short time in varied fortune past,",3.0 +"Die, and are equal in the dust at last.",0.0 +"And you, you Poor, who still lament your fate,",1.0 +"And know, amid those blessings they possess,",1.0 +"They are, like you, the victims of distress;",1.0 +"While Sloth with many a pang torments her slave,",3.0 +"Fear waits on guilt, and Danger shakes the brave.",1.0 +"Oh! if in life one noble chief appears,",0.0 +"Great in his name, while blooming in his years;",0.0 +"Born to enjoy whatever delights mankind,",6.0 +And yet to all you feel or fear resigned;,0.0 +"Who gave up joys and hopes to you unknown,",1.0 +For pains and dangers greater than your own:,1.0 +"If such there be, then let your murmurs cease,",1.0 +"Think, think of him, and take your lot in peace.",2.0 +"And such there was: ' -- Oh! grief, that cheeks our pride,",4.0 +"Weeping we say there was, ' -- for Manners died:",3.0 +"Beloved of Heaven, these humble lines forgive,",0.0 +"That sing of Thee, and thus aspire to live.",1.0 +"As the tall oak, whose vigorous branches form",4.0 +"An ample shade and brave the wildest storm,",0.0 +"High over the subject wood is seen to grow,",3.0 +The guard and glory of the trees below;,1.0 +"Till on its head the fiery bolt descends,",3.0 +And over the plain the shattered trunk extends;,2.0 +"Yet then it lies, all wondrous as before,",1.0 +"And still the glory, though the guard no more:",2.0 +"So thou, when every virtue, every grace,",1.0 +"Rose in thy soul, or shone within thy face;",0.0 +Less by thy father's glory than thy own;,1.0 +"When Honour loved and gave thee every charm,",1.0 +"Then from our lofty hopes and longing eyes,",0.0 +Fate and thy virtues called thee to the skies;,1.0 +"Yet still we wonder at thy towering fame,",0.0 +"And, losing thee, still dwell upon thy name.",2.0 +"What verse can praise thee, or what work repay?",1.0 +"Yet verse in all we can thy worth repays,",2.0 +Nor trusts the tardy zeal of future days; ' --,0.0 +"Thee in their hearts, the good, the brave shall bear;",0.0 +"To deeds like thine shall noblest chiefs aspire,",1.0 +"The Muse shall mourn thee, and the world admire.",1.0 +The untried youth first quits a father's arms; ' --,5.0 +"Oh! be like him, the weeping sire shall say;",1.0 +"In danger foremost, yet in death sedate,",1.0 +"Oh! be like him in all things, but his fate!",0.0 +"If for that fate such public tears be shed,",1.0 +That Victory seems to die now thou art dead;,2.0 +"How shall a friend his nearer hope resign,",0.0 +"That friend a brother, and whose soul was thine?",1.0 +"By what bold lines shall we his grief express,",1.0 +Or by what soothing numbers make it less?,1.0 +"Nor all the powers that to the Muse belong,",0.0 +"Words aptly culled, and meanings well expressed,",1.0 +Can calm the sorrows of a wounded breast;,1.0 +"Shall heal that bosom, Rutland, where she reigns.",0.0 +"Yet hard the task to heal the bleeding heart,",0.0 +"Tame the fierce grief and stem the rising sigh,",3.0 +"And kerb rebellious passion, with reply;",1.0 +"Calmly to dwell on all that pleased before,",2.0 +And yet to know that all shall please no more; ' --,1.0 +"Oh! glorious labour of the soul, to save",3.0 +"Her captive powers, and bravely mourn the brave",2.0 +To such these thoughts will lasting comfort give ' --,1.0 +Life is not measured by the time we live:,1.0 +"A life of narrow views and paltry fears,",0.0 +"Grey hairs and wrinkles and the cares they bring,",2.0 +That take from Death the terrors or the sting;,1.0 +"But it's the generous spirit, mounting high",3.0 +"Above the world, that native of the sky;",1.0 +"The noble spirit, that, in dangers brave,",0.0 +"Calmly looks on, or looks beyond the grave: ' --",0.0 +"Such Manners was, so he resigned his breath,",2.0 +"If in a glorious, then a timely death.",1.0 +"Cease then that grief, and let those tears subside;",0.0 +"If Passion rule us, be that passion pride;",0.0 +"If Reason, reason bids us strive to raise",0.0 +"Our fallen hearts, and be like him we praise;",0.0 +"Or if Affection still the soul subdue,",1.0 +"Bring all his virtues, all his worth in view,",0.0 +And let Affection find its comfort too:,0.0 +"For how can Grief so deeply wound the heart,",1.0 +When Admiration claims so large a part?,0.0 +Grief is a foe ' -- expel him then thy soul;,0.0 +"Oh! make the age to come thy better care,",1.0 +"And, as thy thoughts through streaming ages glide,",1.0 +See other heroes die as Manners died:,1.0 +"And from their fate, thy race shall nobler grow",2.0 +As trees shoot upwards that are pruned below;,1.0 +"Or as old Thames, born down with decent pride,",1.0 +Sees his young streams run warbling at his side;,4.0 +"Though some, by art cut off, no longer run,",3.0 +And some are lost beneath the summer sun ' --,0.0 +"Yet the pure stream moves on, and, as it moves,",2.0 +Its power increases and its use improves;,1.0 +"While plenty round its spacious waves bestow,",0.0 +"Still it flows on, and shall for ever flow.",0.0 +IT'S morning; and the sun with ruddy orb,1.0 +Ascending fires the horizon. While the clouds,1.0 +"That crowd away before the driving wind,",0.0 +"More ardent as the disk emerges more,",1.0 +"Resemble most some city in a blaze,",0.0 +Seen through the leafless wood. His slanting ray,0.0 +"Slides ineffectual down the snowy vale,",2.0 +Stretches a length of shadow over the field.,4.0 +In spite of gravity and sage remark,1.0 +"That I myself am but a fleeting shade,",2.0 +Provokes me to a smile. With eye askance,1.0 +I view the muscular proportioned limb,1.0 +Transformed to a lean shank. The shapeless pair,2.0 +"As they designed to mock me, at my side",1.0 +"Take step for step, and as I near approach",2.0 +"The cottage, walk along the plastered wall",0.0 +Preposterous sight! the legs without the man.,0.0 +"Of late unsightly and unseen, now shine",2.0 +"Conspicuous, and in bright apparel clad",1.0 +"And fledged with icy feathers, nod superb.",0.0 +The cattle mourn in corners where the fence,0.0 +"Screens them, and seem half petrified to sleep",1.0 +"He from the stack carves out the accustomed load,",5.0 +His broad keen knife into the solid mass.,1.0 +"Smooth as a wall the upright remnant stands,",1.0 +"He severs it away. No needless care,",2.0 +"Deciduous, or its own unbalanced weight.",1.0 +Forth goes the woodman leaving unconcerned,1.0 +"The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the axe",0.0 +From morn to eve his solitary task.,0.0 +His dog attends him. Close behind his heel,0.0 +"Now creeps he slow, and now with many a frisk",3.0 +"With ivory teeth, or ploughs it with his snout;",1.0 +Then shakes his powdered coat and barks for joy.,0.0 +Moves right towards the mark. Nor stops for aught.,1.0 +But now and then with pressure of his thumb,1.0 +TO adjust the fragrant charge of a short tube,2.0 +That fumes beneath his nose. The trailing cloud,0.0 +"Now from the roost or from the neighbouring pale,",3.0 +Where diligent to catch the first faint gleam,2.0 +The feathered tribes domestic. Half on wing,0.0 +"And half on foot, they brush the fleecy flood",0.0 +"Conscious, and fearful of too deep a plunge.",4.0 +"The sparrows peep, and quit the sheltering eaves",2.0 +To seize the fair occasion. Well they eye,0.0 +"TO escape the impending famine, often scared",3.0 +"As oft return, a pert voracious kind.",0.0 +"Clean riddance quickly made, one only care",1.0 +"Remains to each, the search of sunny nook,",0.0 +Or shed impervious to the blast. Resigned,1.0 +The hills and valleys with their ceaseless songs,1.0 +"Due sustenance, or where subsist they now?",2.0 +That feed the thrush whatever some suppose,1.0 +Afford the smaller minstrels no supply.,0.0 +Thins all their numerous flocks. In chinks and holes,2.0 +Ten thousand seek an unmolested end,1.0 +"As instinct prompts, self buried before they die.",3.0 +"The very rooks and daws forsake the fields,",0.0 +Repays their labour more; and perched aloft,1.0 +"By the wayside, or stalking in the path,",2.0 +"Lean pensioners upon the travellers track,",4.0 +Of voided pulse or half digested grain.,1.0 +The streams are lost amid the splendid blank,0.0 +Overwhelming all distinction. On the flood,1.0 +"Not so, where scornful of a cheque it leaps",1.0 +No frost can bind it there. Its utmost force,3.0 +Can but arrest the light and smoky missed,1.0 +That in its fall the liquid sheet throws wide.,1.0 +And see where it has hung the embroidered banks,2.0 +"With forms so various, that no powers of art,",4.0 +"The pencil or the pen, may trace the scene!",1.0 +Large growth of what may seem the sparkling trees,1.0 +And shrubs of fairy land. The crystal drops,0.0 +"That trickle down the branches, fast congealed",1.0 +And prop the pile they but adorned before.,1.0 +Here grotto within grotto safe defies,3.0 +The sunbeam. There embossed and fretted wild,2.0 +The growing wonder takes a thousand shapes,0.0 +"Capricious, in which fancy seeks in vain",0.0 +The likeness of some object seen before.,1.0 +"Thus nature works as if to mock at art,",2.0 +And in defiance of her rival powers;,1.0 +By these fortuitous and random strokes,2.0 +Performing such inimitable feats,2.0 +As she with all her rules can never reach.,1.0 +"Less worthy of applause though more admired,",2.0 +"Because a novelty, the work of man,",1.0 +"Thy most magnificent and mighty freak,",1.0 +The wonder of the North. No forest fell,2.0 +And make thy marble of the glassy wave.,1.0 +Of his lost bees to her maternal ear.,3.0 +In such a palace poetry might place,1.0 +"And snow that often blinds the traveller's course,",0.0 +And wraps him in an unexpected tomb.,0.0 +Silently as a dream the fabric rose.,1.0 +No sound of hammer or of saw was there.,2.0 +"Were soon conjoined, nor other cement asked",4.0 +Lamps gracefully disposed and of all hues,3.0 +Illumined every side. A watery light,2.0 +"Gleamed through the clear transparency, that seemed",1.0 +"So stood the brittle prodigy, though smooth",1.0 +Firm as a rock. Nor wanted aught within,0.0 +"That royal residence might well befit,",1.0 +For grandeur or for use. Long wavy wreaths,2.0 +"Of flowers that feared no enemy but warmth,",4.0 +Blushed on the panels. Mirror needed none,0.0 +"Where all was vitreous, but in order due",1.0 +Convivial table and commodious seat,5.0 +"What seemed at least commodious seat were there,",2.0 +"The same lubricity was found in all,",1.0 +"And all was moist to the warm touch, a scene",2.0 +"Of evanescent glory, once a stream,",0.0 +And soon to slide into a stream again.,0.0 +"Made by a monarch on her own estate,",1.0 +On human grandeur and the courts of kings.,2.0 +"'Twas transient in its nature, as in show",2.0 +'Twas durable. As worthless as it seemed,3.0 +Intrinsically precious. To the foot,2.0 +"Treacherous and false, it smiled and it was cold.",2.0 +Great princes have great playthings. Some have played,3.0 +"At hewing mountains into men, and some",0.0 +"Some have amused the dull sad years of life,",1.0 +"With schemes of monumental fame, and sought",0.0 +And make the sorrows of mankind their sport.,2.0 +"But war's a game, which were their subjects wise,",1.0 +King's should not play at. Nations would do well,0.0 +TO extort their truncheons from the puny hands,2.0 +"Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds",0.0 +"Are gratified with mischief, and who spoil",1.0 +"Because men suffer it, their toy the world.",2.0 +"When Babel was confounded, and the great",2.0 +Confederacy of projectors wild and vain,2.0 +"Was split into diversity of tongues,",1.0 +"These to the upland, to the valley those,",3.0 +To all the nations. Ample was the boon,1.0 +"He gave them, in its distribution fair",0.0 +"And equal, and he bade them dwell in peace.",1.0 +Peace was awhile their care. They ploughed and sowed,2.0 +And reaped their plenty without grudge or strife.,5.0 +But violence can never longer sleep,1.0 +Than human passions please. In every heart,0.0 +"Are sown the sparks that kindle fiery war,",2.0 +"Occasion needs but fan them, and they blaze.",1.0 +Cain had already shed a brother's blood;,1.0 +The seeds of murder in the breast of man.,0.0 +"Soon, by a righteous judgement, in the line",0.0 +Of his descending progeny was found,2.0 +"To a keen edge, and made it bright for war.",2.0 +"Him Tubal named, the Vulcan of old times,",2.0 +His art survived the waters; and before long,2.0 +When man was multiplied and spread abroad,0.0 +"In tribes and clans, and had begun to call",0.0 +"These meadows and that range of hills his own,",2.0 +The tasted sweets of property begat,1.0 +Desire of more; and industry in some,1.0 +"To improve and cultivate their just demesne,",2.0 +Made others covet what they saw so fair.,1.0 +"Thus wars began on earth. These fought for spoil,",1.0 +"The onset, and irregular. At length",3.0 +"One eminent above the rest, for strength,",1.0 +"For stratagem or courage, or for all,",2.0 +"Was chosen leader. Him they served in war,",1.0 +And him in peace for sake of warlike deeds,2.0 +Or who so worthy to control themselves,1.0 +As he whose prowess had subdued their foes?,1.0 +Thus war affording field for the display,2.0 +"Of virtue, made one chief, whom times of peace,",0.0 +"Which have their exigencies too, and call",5.0 +"For skill in government, at length made king.",2.0 +King was a name too proud for man to wear,1.0 +"So dazzling in their eyes who set it on,",0.0 +Was sure to intoxicate the brows it bound.,2.0 +"It is the abject property of most,",2.0 +"That being parcel of the common mass,",1.0 +"And destitute of means to raise themselves,",0.0 +They sink and settle lower than they need.,1.0 +They know not what it is to feel within,1.0 +A comprehensive faculty that grasps,1.0 +"Great purposes with ease, that turns and wields",2.0 +"Almost without an effort, plans too vast",2.0 +"For their conception, which they cannot move.",1.0 +Conscious of impotence they soon grow drunk,4.0 +"With gazing, when they see an able man",0.0 +"Build him a pedestal and say, stand there,",3.0 +And be our admiration and our praise.,1.0 +"They roll themselves before him in the dust,",0.0 +Then most deserving in their own account,0.0 +"When most extravagant in his applause,",2.0 +As if exalting him they raised themselves.,2.0 +"And sober judgement that he is but man,",1.0 +That in due season he forgets it too.,2.0 +"He gulps the windy diet, and before long",2.0 +"Adopting their mistake, profoundly thinks",1.0 +The world was made in vain if not for him.,0.0 +"To bear his burdens, drawing in his gears",0.0 +And sweating in his service. His caprice,1.0 +Becomes the soul that animates them all.,0.0 +He deems a thousand or ten thousand lives,2.0 +Spent in the purchase of renown for him,1.0 +"An easy reckoning, and they think the same.",1.0 +"Thus kings were first invented, and thus kings",3.0 +"Were burnished into heroes, and became",1.0 +Strange that such folly as lifts bloated man,2.0 +"To eminence fit only for a God,",3.0 +Should ever drivel out of human lips,1.0 +"Still stranger much, that when at length mankind",2.0 +"Had reached the sinewy firmness of their youth,",3.0 +And could discriminate and argue well,0.0 +"On subjects more mysterious, they were yet",1.0 +"Babes in the cause of freedom, and should fear",1.0 +And quake before the Gods themselves had made.,0.0 +"But above measure strange, that neither proof",5.0 +"Of sad experience, nor examples set",3.0 +"By some whose patriot virtue has prevailed,",2.0 +"Familiar, serve to emancipate the rest!",2.0 +"Such dupes are men to custom, and so prone",1.0 +To reverence what is ancient and can plead,2.0 +"A course of long observance for its use,",1.0 +"That even servitude the worst of ills,",0.0 +"Because delivered down from sire to son,",3.0 +Is kept and guarded as a sacred thing.,1.0 +"But is it fit, or can it bear the shock",2.0 +"Of rational discussion, that a man",1.0 +Compounded and made up like other men,2.0 +"Of elements tumultuous, in whom lust",3.0 +And folly in as ample measure meet,0.0 +"Should be a despot absolute, and boast",0.0 +Himself the only freeman of his land?,1.0 +"Should when he pleases, and on whom he will",1.0 +"Of provocation given or wrong sustained,",2.0 +"That his own humour dictates, from the clutch",0.0 +"Of poverty, that thus he may procure",2.0 +His thousands weary of penurious life,4.0 +A splendid opportunity to die?,1.0 +"Say you, who with less prudence than of old",3.0 +In politic convention put your trust,0.0 +"IN the shadow of a bramble, and reclined",2.0 +"In fancied peace beneath his dangerous branch,",2.0 +"Rejoice in him and celebrate his sway,",1.0 +Where find you passive fortitude? Whence springs,0.0 +"To stroke the prickly grievance, and to hang",1.0 +His thorns with streamers of continual praise?,3.0 +We too are friends to loyalty. We love,1.0 +The king who loves the law; respects his bounds,0.0 +And reigns content within them. Him we serve,1.0 +"Freely and with delight, who leaves us free.",3.0 +"But recollecting still that he is man,",1.0 +"We trust him not too far. King, though he be,",1.0 +"And king in England too, he may be weak",1.0 +"And vain enough to be ambitious still,",0.0 +"May exercise amiss his proper powers,",0.0 +Or covet more than freemen choose to grant:,0.0 +"Beyond that mark is treason. He is ours,",1.0 +"TO administer, to guard, to adorn the state,",4.0 +"But not to warp or change it. We are his,",1.0 +To serve him nobly in the common cause,0.0 +"True to the death, but not to be his slaves.",0.0 +"Mark now the difference, you that boast your love",2.0 +"Of kings, between your loyalty and ours.",1.0 +We love the man. The paltry pageant you.,1.0 +We the chief patron of the Commonwealth;,3.0 +You the regardless author of its woes.,2.0 +"We for the sake of liberty, a king;",2.0 +You chains and bondage for a tyrant's sake.,3.0 +"Our love is principle, and has its root",1.0 +"In reason, is judicious, manly, free.",1.0 +And licks the foot that treads it in the dust.,0.0 +"Were kingship as true treasure as it seems,",3.0 +"Sterling, and worthy of a wise man's wish,",4.0 +I would not be a king to be beloved,0.0 +"Where love is mere attachment to the throne,",1.0 +Not to the man who fills it as he ought.,1.0 +"Of a superior, he is never free.",2.0 +Who lives and is not weary of a life.,2.0 +"The state that strives for liberty, though foiled",1.0 +"And forced to abandon what she bravely sought,",2.0 +"Deserves at least applause for her attempt,",1.0 +Not often unsuccessful; power usurped,1.0 +Is weakness when opposed; conscious of wrong,5.0 +It's pusillanimous and prone to flight.,1.0 +But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought,0.0 +"Of freedom, in that hope itself possess",0.0 +"All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength,",0.0 +"The scorn of danger, and united hearts",1.0 +"To France, than all her losses and defeats",1.0 +"Old or of later date, by sea or land,",0.0 +Her house of bondage worse than that of old,0.0 +"You horrid towers, the abode of broken hearts,",1.0 +"You dungeons and you cages of despair,",2.0 +That monarchs have supplied from age to age,1.0 +"With music such as suits their sovereign ears,",1.0 +The sighs and groans of miserable men!,1.0 +"To hear that you were fallen at last, to know",3.0 +"That even our enemies, so oft employed",3.0 +"In forging chains for us, themselves were free.",1.0 +"For he that values liberty, confines",2.0 +His zeal for her predominance within,2.0 +No narrow bounds; her cause engages him,2.0 +Wherever pleaded. It's the cause of man.,1.0 +There dwell the most forlorn of human kind,0.0 +There like the visionary emblem seen,0.0 +"By him of Babylon, life stands a stump,",2.0 +"Still lives, though all its pleasant boughs are gone,",1.0 +"And ever as the sullen sound is heard,",1.0 +"To him whose moments all have one dull pace,",2.0 +Ten thousand rovers in the world at large,1.0 +Account it music; that it summons some,0.0 +"Its long delay, feels every welcome stroke",1.0 +To fly for refuge from distracting thought,1.0 +To such amusements as ingenious woe,2.0 +"In staggering types, his predecessors tale,",2.0 +"And bloated spider, till the pampered pest",1.0 +"Is made familiar, watches his approach,",1.0 +Comes at his call and serves him for a friend ' --,1.0 +To wear out time in numbering to and fro,1.0 +"The studs that thick emboss his iron door,",0.0 +"And then alternate, with a sickly hope",0.0 +By dint of change to give his tasteless task,0.0 +"Some relish, till the sum exactly found",1.0 +"In all directions, he begins again ' --",1.0 +"With woes, which who that suffers, would not kneel",0.0 +"And beg for exile, or the pangs of death?",2.0 +"That man should thus encroach on fellow man,",0.0 +"Abridge him of his just and native rights,",1.0 +"Eradicate him, tear him from his hold",1.0 +"Moves indignation. Makes the name of king,",1.0 +Of king whom such prerogative can please,2.0 +"Adored through fear, strong only to destroy.",2.0 +It's liberty alone that gives the flower,1.0 +"Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume,",1.0 +"And we are weeds without it. All constraint,",1.0 +"Except what wisdom lays on evil men,",0.0 +"Is evil; hurts the faculties, impedes",1.0 +Their progress in the road of science; blinds,1.0 +"The eye sight of discovery, and begets",3.0 +"In those that suffer it, a sordid mind",1.0 +To to be the tenant of man's noble form.,2.0 +"With all thy lose of empire, and though squeezed",1.0 +"Fails for the craving hunger of the state,",1.0 +"Thee I account still happy, and the chief",3.0 +"Among the nations, seeing thou art free!",1.0 +"All hearts to sadness, and none more than mine;",2.0 +"And plausible than social life requires,",1.0 +And thou hast need of discipline and art,1.0 +From Nature's bounty ' -- that humane address,0.0 +"And sweetness, without which no pleasure is",6.0 +"In converse, either starved by cold reserve,",0.0 +"Or flushed with fierce dispute, a senseless brawl;",0.0 +"Yet being free, I love thee. For the sake",1.0 +"Of that one feature, can be well content,",1.0 +"Disgraced as thou hast been, poor as thou art,",0.0 +"But once enslaved, farewell! I could endure",1.0 +"Chains no where patiently, and chains at home",2.0 +"Where I am free by birthright, not at all.",1.0 +Then what were left of roughness in the grain,0.0 +"Of British natures, wanting its excuse",1.0 +"That it belongs to freemen, would disgust",1.0 +And shock me. I should then with double pain,0.0 +"Milder, among a people less austere,",2.0 +In scenes which having never known me free,0.0 +Would not reproach me with the loss I felt.,1.0 +"Do I forebode impossible events,",2.0 +And tremble at vain dreams? Heaven grant I may!,2.0 +"But the age of virtuous politics is past,",2.0 +"Patriots are grown too shrewd to be sincere,",2.0 +And we too wise to trust them. He that takes,3.0 +Deep in his soft credulity the stamp,1.0 +"Of liberty, themselves the slaves of lust,",1.0 +Incurs derision for his easy faith,1.0 +"And lack of knowledge, and with cause enough.",1.0 +For when was public virtue to be found,1.0 +Where private was not? can he love the whole,2.0 +Who loves no part? He be a nation's friend,1.0 +"Who is, in truth, the friend of no man there?",2.0 +Who slights the charities for whose dear sake,2.0 +"It's therefore, sober and good men are sad",2.0 +"For England's glory, seeing it wax pale",2.0 +"And sickly, while her champions wear their hearts",2.0 +"So loose to private duty, that no brain",1.0 +"Such were not they of old, whose tempered blades",0.0 +"Dispersed the shackles of usurped control,",2.0 +Were sons indeed. They felt a filial heart,2.0 +"Beat high within them at a mother's wrongs,",1.0 +"And shining each in his domestic sphere,",1.0 +Shone brighter still once called to public view.,2.0 +"It's therefore, many whose sequestered lot",1.0 +"Forbids their interference, looking on",1.0 +Anticipate perforce some dire event;,0.0 +And seeing the old castle of the state,3.0 +"That promised once more firmness, so assailed",1.0 +All has its date below. The fatal hour,0.0 +Was registered in heaven before time began.,2.0 +"We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works",2.0 +"Die too. The deep foundations that we lay,",1.0 +"Time ploughs them up, and not a trace remains,",2.0 +"We build with what we deem eternal rock,",0.0 +"A distant age asks where the fabric stood,",1.0 +"And in the dust sifted and searched in vain,",5.0 +But there is yet a liberty unsung,2.0 +"Which monarchs cannot grant, nor all the powers",1.0 +Of earth and hell confederate take away.,2.0 +"A liberty, which persecution, fraud,",1.0 +"Oppression, prisons, have no power to bind,",3.0 +"It's liberty of heart, derived from heaven,",1.0 +"Bought with HIS blood who gave it to mankind,",1.0 +And sealed with the same token. It is held,3.0 +"By charter, and that charter sanctioned sure",1.0 +By the unimpeachable and awful oath,1.0 +And promise of a God. His other gifts,1.0 +"All bear the royal stamp that speaks them his,",0.0 +"And are august, but this transcends them all,",3.0 +"His other works, this visible display",1.0 +"Are grand no doubt, and worthy of the word",2.0 +That finding an interminable space,2.0 +"Unoccupied, has filled the void so well,",0.0 +And made so sparkling what was dark before.,0.0 +"But these are not his glory. Man, it's true,",1.0 +"Smit with the beauty of so fair a scene,",1.0 +"Meant it eternal, had he not himself",2.0 +"Pronounced it transient glorious as it is,",2.0 +"And still designing a more glorious far,",3.0 +"Doomed it, as insufficient for his praise.",2.0 +These therefore are occasional and pass.,3.0 +"Whose lying heart disputes against a God,",0.0 +"That office served, they must be swept away.",0.0 +"In other heavens than these that we behold,",2.0 +And fade not. There is paradise that fears,1.0 +"No forfeiture, and of its fruits he sends",3.0 +"Of these the first in order, and the pledge",2.0 +And confident assurance of the rest,2.0 +Is liberty. A flight into his arms,1.0 +And full immunity from penal woe.,1.0 +"Chains are the portion of revolted man,",1.0 +Stripes and a dungeon; and his body serves,1.0 +"The triple purpose. In that sickly, foul,",0.0 +Careless of their Creator. And that low,4.0 +And sordid gravitation of his powers,1.0 +That he at last forgets it. All his hopes,0.0 +"Tend downward, his ambition is to sink,",3.0 +"Of folly, plunging in pursuit of death.",0.0 +"He seeks, an acquiescence of his soul",1.0 +"The fatal issue to his health, fame, peace,",2.0 +Fortune and dignity; the loss of all,3.0 +"That can ennoble man, and make frail life",2.0 +"Short as it is, supportable. Still worse,",3.0 +Far worse than all the plagues with which his sins,1.0 +"Ages of hopeless misery. Future death,",4.0 +And death still future. Not an hasty stroke,1.0 +"Like that which sends him to the dusty grave,",1.0 +Scripture is still a trumpet to his fears;,3.0 +"What none but bad men wish exploded, must.",1.0 +That scruple cheques him. Riot is not loud,1.0 +Nor drunk enough to drown it. In the mid,0.0 +And he abhors the jest by which he shines.,1.0 +"Falls first before his resolute rebuke,",1.0 +"And seems dethroned and vanquished. Peace ensues,",0.0 +"But spurious and short-lived, the puny child",4.0 +"On fancied Innocence. Again he falls,",1.0 +And fights again; but finds his best essay,0.0 +"A presage ominous, portending still",1.0 +"Till Nature, unavailing Nature foiled",0.0 +"So oft, and wearied in the vain attempt,",0.0 +Scoffs at her own performance. Reason now,0.0 +"Takes part with appetite, and pleads the cause,",1.0 +"Perversely, which of late she so condemned;",1.0 +"With shallow shifts and old devices, worn",0.0 +Covering his shame from his offended sight.,2.0 +"Hath God indeed given appetites to man,",4.0 +"To gratify the hunger of his wish,",1.0 +And does he reprobate and will he damn,2.0 +The use of his own bounty? making first,1.0 +"So frail a kind, and then enacting laws",0.0 +"So strict, that less than perfect must despair?",1.0 +"Do they themselves, who undertake for hire",1.0 +"The teacher's office, and dispense at large",1.0 +"Their weekly dole of edifying strains,",0.0 +Attend to their own music? have they faith,1.0 +In what with such solemnity of tone,2.0 +And gesture they propound to our belief?,2.0 +Nay ' -- conduct hath the loudest tongue. The voice,0.0 +Is but an instrument on which the priest,2.0 +"May play what tune he pleases. In the deed,",0.0 +The unequivocal authentic deed,1.0 +"We find sound argument, we read the heart.",2.0 +TO excuses in which reason has no part,2.0 +Serve to compose a spirit well inclined,2.0 +"To live on terms of amity with vice,",1.0 +And sin without disturbance. Often urged,0.0 +"Exhausted, he resorts to solemn themes",1.0 +Of theological and grave import,1.0 +Till hardened his heart's temper in the forge,2.0 +"Of lust, and on the anvil of despair,",2.0 +"He slights the strokes of conscience. Nothing moves,",0.0 +"Or nothing much, his constancy in ill,",1.0 +"Vain tampering has but fostered his disease,",3.0 +"It's desperate, and he sleeps the sleep of death.",1.0 +"Haste now, philosopher, and set him free.",2.0 +Charm the deaf serpent wisely. Make him hear,3.0 +Of rectitude and fitness; moral truth,0.0 +"Consulted and obeyed, to guide his steps",1.0 +Directly to the FIRST AND ONLY FAIR.,1.0 +Spare not in such a cause. Spend all the powers,1.0 +"Of rant and rhapsody in virtue's praise,",1.0 +And with poetic trappings grace thy prose,1.0 +Smitten in vain! such music cannot charm,2.0 +"The eclipse that intercepts truth's heavenly beam,",4.0 +The still small voice is wanted. He must speak,2.0 +"Whose word leaps forth at once to its effect,",1.0 +"Who calls for things that are not, and they come.",0.0 +Grace makes the slave a freeman. It's a change,2.0 +That turns to ridicule the turgid speech,0.0 +"And stately tone of moralists, who boast,",1.0 +As if like him of fabulous renown,1.0 +They had indeed ability to smooth,1.0 +"The shag of savage nature, and were each",1.0 +An Orpheus and omnipotent in song.,4.0 +But transformation of apostate man,1.0 +"From fool to wise, from earthly to divine,",1.0 +"Is work for Him that made him. He alone,",2.0 +And he by means in philosophic eyes,1.0 +"Trivial and worthy of disdain, achieves",2.0 +"In the lost kind, extracting from the lips",4.0 +"By weakness, and hostility by love.",2.0 +"Bled nobly, and their deeds, as they deserve,",3.0 +Receive proud recompense. We give in charge,1.0 +"Their names to the sweet lyre. The historic muse,",2.0 +"Proud of the treasure, marches with it down",1.0 +"To latest times; and sculpture in her turn,",0.0 +"But fairer wreaths are due, though never paid,",0.0 +"To those who posted at the shrine of truth,",1.0 +Have fallen in her defence. A patriot's blood,4.0 +Well spent in such a strife may earn indeed,1.0 +And for a time insure to his loved land,2.0 +The sweets of liberty and equal laws;,1.0 +And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed,1.0 +"In confirmation of the noblest claim,",1.0 +"Our claim to feed upon immortal truth,",0.0 +"To walk with God, to be divinely free,",0.0 +"To soar, and to anticipate the skies.",1.0 +Yet few remember them. They lived unknown,1.0 +Till persecution dragged them into fame,0.0 +And chased them up to heaven. Their ashes flew,1.0 +' -- No marble tells us whither. With their names,2.0 +"And History, so warm on meaner themes,",1.0 +"The tyranny that doomed them to the fire,",2.0 +But gives the glorious sufferers little praise. See Hume.,5.0 +"He is the freeman whom the truth makes free,",2.0 +That hellish foes confederate for his harm,0.0 +"Can wind around him, but he casts it off",1.0 +He looks abroad into the varied field,0.0 +"Of Nature, and though poor perhaps, compared",1.0 +"With those whose mansions glitter in his sight,",1.0 +"His are the mountains, and the valleys his,",3.0 +And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy,4.0 +"With a propriety that none can feel,",2.0 +But who with filial confidence inspired,3.0 +And smiling say ' -- my father made them all.,0.0 +"Are they not his by a peculiar right,",1.0 +"And by an emphasis of interest his,",3.0 +"Whose eye they fill with tears of holy joy,",0.0 +"Whose heart with praise, and whose exalted mind",0.0 +"That planned, and built, and still upholds a world",0.0 +"So clothed with beauty, for rebellious man?",1.0 +"Yes ' -- you may fill your garners, you that reap",1.0 +"The loaded soil, and you may waste much good",1.0 +In senseless riot; but you will not find,2.0 +"In feast or in the chase, in song or dance",0.0 +"Of usurpation and to no man's wrong,",2.0 +"Appropriates nature as his father's work,",5.0 +"And has a richer use of yours, than you.",1.0 +He is indeed a freeman. Free by birth,1.0 +"Of no mean city, planned or before the hills",3.0 +"Were built, the fountains opened, or the sea,",1.0 +With all his roaring multitude of waves.,0.0 +"His freedom is the same in every state,",1.0 +"So manifold in cares, whose every day",0.0 +"Brings its own evil with it, makes it less.",1.0 +"For he has wings that neither sickness, pain,",1.0 +"Nor penury, can cripple or confine.",2.0 +No nook so narrow but he spreads them there,2.0 +"With ease, and is at large. The oppressor holds",2.0 +"His body bound, but knows not what a range",0.0 +"His spirit takes unconscious of a chain,",2.0 +And that to bind him is a vain attempt,1.0 +"Whom God delights in, and in whom he dwells.",0.0 +"His works. Admitted once to his embrace,",1.0 +"Thine eye shall be instructed, and thine heart",1.0 +"Made pure, shall relish with divine delight",2.0 +And eyes intent upon the scanty herb,0.0 +"Beneath, beyond, and stretching far away",0.0 +From inland regions to the distant main.,2.0 +"Man views it and admires, but rests content",2.0 +"With what he views. The landscape has his praise,",1.0 +But not its author. Unconcerned who formed,0.0 +"The paradise he sees, he finds it such,",0.0 +"Not so the mind that has been touched from heaven,",0.0 +And in the school of sacred wisdom taught,0.0 +"To read his wonders, in whose thought the world,",0.0 +"Fair as it is, existed before it was.",3.0 +"Not for its own sake merely, but for his",2.0 +"Much more who fashioned it, he gives it praise;",1.0 +Praise that from earth resulting as it ought,1.0 +"To earth's acknowledged sovereign, finds at once",0.0 +Its only just proprietor in Him.,1.0 +"New faculties, or learns at least to employ",4.0 +"Discerns in all things, what with stupid gaze",0.0 +"Of ignorance till then she overlooked,",1.0 +A ray of heavenly light gilding all forms,3.0 +"Terrestrial, in the vast and the minute",1.0 +"Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing,",2.0 +And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds.,0.0 +"Much conversant with heaven, she often holds",2.0 +With those fair ministers of light to man,3.0 +"That fill the skies nightly with silent pomp,",5.0 +"Sent forth a voice, and all the sons of God",1.0 +"Shouted for joy. ' -- Tell me, you shining hosts",2.0 +That navigate a sea that knows no storms,1.0 +"Beneath a vault unsullied with a cloud,",1.0 +"If from your elevation, whence you view",1.0 +"Distinctly scenes invisible to man,",1.0 +And systems of whose birth no tidings yet,2.0 +"Have reached this neither world, you spy a race",0.0 +"And hasting to a grave, yet doomed to rise,",1.0 +As one who long detained on foreign shores,1.0 +"Pants to return, and when he sees afar",2.0 +"From the green wave emerging, darts an eye",2.0 +Radiant with joy towards the happy land;,1.0 +So I with animated hopes behold,1.0 +That show like beacons in the blue abyss,0.0 +Ordained to guide the embodied spirit home,2.0 +"That give assurance of their own success,",1.0 +"And that infused from heaven, must thither tend.",1.0 +So reads he nature whom the lamp of truth,0.0 +"Illuminates. Thy lamp, mysterious word!",2.0 +But runs the road of wisdom. Thou hast built,1.0 +"With means that were not till by thee employed,",1.0 +"Been less, or less benevolent than strong.",1.0 +"They are thy witnesses, who speak thy power",2.0 +"And goodness infinite, but speak in ears",1.0 +"That hear not, or receive not their report.",2.0 +In vain thy creatures testify of thee,0.0 +Till thou proclaim thyself. Their's is indeed,2.0 +A teaching voice; but it's the praise of thine,1.0 +"That whom it teaches it makes prompt to learn,",2.0 +And with the boon gives talents for its use.,3.0 +"Till thou art heard, imaginations vain",1.0 +"Possess the heart, and fables false as hell",0.0 +"We give to chance, blind chance, ourselves as blind,",1.0 +"The glory of thy work, which yet appears",1.0 +"Perfect and unimpeachable of blame,",1.0 +"Challenging human scrutiny, and proved",3.0 +Thy providence forbids that fickle power,1.0 +If power she be that works but to confound,2.0 +To mix her wild vagaries with thy laws.,4.0 +"Yet thus we dote, refusing while we can",0.0 +"Instruction, and inventing to ourselves",2.0 +"Gods such as guilt makes welcome, Gods that sleep,",1.0 +"Or disregard our follies, or that sit",1.0 +Amused spectators of this bustling stage.,6.0 +"Thee we reject, unable to abide",2.0 +"Thy purity, till pure as thou art pure,",2.0 +"Made such by thee, we love thee for that cause",2.0 +For which we shunned and hated thee before.,1.0 +Then we are free. Then liberty like day,1.0 +"Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from heaven",1.0 +Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.,3.0 +A voice is heard that mortal ears hear not,1.0 +"Till thou hast touched them; it's the voice of song,",2.0 +"Which he that hears it with a shout repeats,",1.0 +And adds his rapture to the general praise.,1.0 +"In that blessed moment, nature throwing wide",1.0 +"Her veil opaque, discloses with a smile",1.0 +"The author of her beauties, who retired",1.0 +"Behind his own creation, works unseen",0.0 +"By the impure, and hears his power denied.",3.0 +"Thou art the source and centre of all minds,",1.0 +"Their only point of rest, eternal word!",0.0 +"From thee departing, they are lost and rove",2.0 +"At random, without honour, hope, or peace.",3.0 +"His high endeavour, and his glad success,",1.0 +His strength to suffer and his will to serve.,2.0 +Thou art of all thy gifts thyself the crown!,0.0 +"And with thee rich, take what thou wilt away.",2.0 +"Who justly set a Value on your Charms,",1.0 +"Power all your Wish, but Beauty all your Arms:",0.0 +"Who over Mankind would fain exert your Sway,",3.0 +And teach the lordly Tyrant to obey.,1.0 +"Attend my Rules to you alone addressed,",1.0 +Deep let them sink in every female Breast.,2.0 +"The Queen of Love herself my Bosom fires,",0.0 +"Assists my Numbers, and my Thoughts inspires.",1.0 +"Me she instructed in each secret Art,",1.0 +"How to enslave, and keep the vanquished Heart;",1.0 +"When the stolen Sigh to heave, or drop the Tear,",0.0 +"The melting Languish, the obliging Fear;",1.0 +And all the various Motions of the Eyes.,3.0 +To teach the Fair by different Ways to move,0.0 +"The softened Soul, and bend the Heart to Love.",0.0 +"Proud of her Charms, and conscious of her Face,",1.0 +The haughty Beauty calls forth every Grace;,1.0 +"With fierce Defiance throws the killing Dart,",0.0 +"By Force she wins, by Force she keeps the Heart.",0.0 +With sweet Neglect she steals into the Heart;,0.0 +"Slowly she moves her swimming Eyes around,",2.0 +"Her Voice is Music, and her Looks are Love.",1.0 +"Though not to all Heaven does these Gifts impart,",0.0 +What's theirs by Nature may be yours by Art.,2.0 +"But let your Airs be suited to your Face,",1.0 +Nor to a Languish tack a sprightly Grace.,1.0 +"The short round Face, brisk Eyes, and auburn Hair,",1.0 +Must smiling Joy in every Motion wear;,0.0 +"Her quick unsettled Glances deal around,",0.0 +"Hide her Design, and seem by Chance to wound.",2.0 +"Dark rolling Eyes a Languish may assume,",2.0 +And tender Looks and melting Airs become:,0.0 +"The pensive Head upon the Hand reclined,",0.0 +As if some sweet Disorder filled the Mind.,1.0 +"Let the heaved Breast a struggling Sigh restrain,",3.0 +And seem to stop the falling Tear with Pain.,0.0 +"The Youth, who all the soft Distress believes,",0.0 +Soon wants the kind Compassion which he gives.,1.0 +"But Beauty, Wit, and Youth may sometime fail,",1.0 +Nor always over the stubborn Soul prevail.,2.0 +"Then let the fair One have recourse to Art,",1.0 +"And, if not vanquish, undermine the Heart.",1.0 +"First form your artful Looks with studious Care,",3.0 +"From mild to grave, from tender to severe.",1.0 +"Oft on the careless Youth your Glances dart,",0.0 +A tender Meaning let each Look impart.,0.0 +"Whenever he meets your Looks with modest Pride,",2.0 +"And soft Confusion turn your Eyes aside,",0.0 +"Let a soft Sigh steal out, as if by Chance,",2.0 +"Then cautious turn, and steal another Glance.",0.0 +"Caught by these Arts, with Pride and Hope elate,",0.0 +The destined Victim rushes on his Fate:,1.0 +"Pleased, his imagined Victory pursues,",3.0 +And the kind Maid with softened Glances views;,2.0 +"Contemplates now her Shape, her Air, her Face,",3.0 +And thinks each Feature wears an added Grace;,0.0 +"Till Gratitude, which first his Bosom proves,",0.0 +By slow Degrees is ripened into Love.,0.0 +It's harder still to fix than gain a Heart;,0.0 +"What's won by Beauty, must be kept by Art.",0.0 +And oft Despair the growing Flame destroys:,0.0 +"Sometime with Smiles receive him, sometime Tears,",2.0 +And wisely balance both his Hopes and Fears.,0.0 +"Condemns your Sway, and strives to break his Chains;",0.0 +"Behaves as if he now your Scorn defied,",1.0 +And thinks at least he shall alarm your Pride:,0.0 +"But with Indifference view the seeming Change,",1.0 +And let your Eyes after new Conquests range;,5.0 +"While his torn Breast with jealous Fury burns,",3.0 +"He hopes, despairs, hates, and adores by Turns;",2.0 +"With Anguish now repents the weak Deceit,",0.0 +And powerful Passion bears him to your Feet.,3.0 +"Strive not the jealous Lover to perplex,",1.0 +Ill suits Suspicion with that haughty Sex;,2.0 +And Love is often banished by Distrust.,1.0 +"To these an open free Behaviour wear,",1.0 +"Avoid Disguise, and seem at least sincere.",0.0 +"Whenever you meet affect a glad Surprise,",2.0 +"By some unguarded Word your Love reveal,",0.0 +And anxiously the rising Blush conceal.,1.0 +"By Arts like these the Jealous you deceive,",2.0 +Then most deluded when they most believe.,0.0 +"But while in all you seek to raise Desire,",0.0 +Beware the fatal Passion you inspire:,1.0 +"Not for the tender were these Rules designed,",1.0 +Who in their Faces show their yielding Mind:,0.0 +And vindicate the Triumph of her Eyes:,2.0 +"Who over Mankind a haughty Rule maintains,",3.0 +Whose Wit can manage what her Beauty gains:,0.0 +"Such by these Arts their Empire may improve,",2.0 +And what they lost by Nature gain by Love.,0.0 +"Of Liberty, Reform, and Rights I sing,",1.0 +"Freedom I mean, without or Church or King;",2.0 +"Freedom to seize and keep whatever I can,",4.0 +And boldly claim my right ' -- The Rights of Man,0.0 +"Such is the blessed liberty in vogue,",6.0 +The envied liberty to be a rogue;,1.0 +The liberty to do whatever I choose;,4.0 +The right to take by violence and strife,1.0 +"The liberty to raise a mob or riot,",1.0 +For spoil and plunder never were got by quiet;,2.0 +The right to level and reform the great;,1.0 +The liberty to overturn the state;,1.0 +"The right to break through all the nation's laws,",0.0 +And boldly dare to take rebellion's cause:,0.0 +"Let all be equal, every man my brother;",0.0 +"Why one have property, and not another?",1.0 +Why suffer titles to give awe and fear?,2.0 +There shall not long remain one British peer;,0.0 +Nor shall the criminal appalled stand,2.0 +Before the mighty judges of the land;,1.0 +"Nor judge, nor jury shall there longer be,",0.0 +"Nor any jail, but every prisoner free;",0.0 +"All law abolished, and with sword in hand",1.0 +We'll seize the property of all the land.,1.0 +"Then hail to Liberty, Reform, and Riot!",1.0 +"Adieu Contentment, Safety, Peace, and Quiet!",0.0 +"SO may you Spring, and so Heavens choicest Dew,",1.0 +Whilst at Your Feet I make My grassy Bed.,0.0 +And Thou OH Goddess whose Obliging Womb,2.0 +"Affords the Living Food, the Dead a Tomb",0.0 +"Permit Me ere I die, to dig my Grave;",0.0 +It's all My starved Ambition now will crave!,0.0 +"I Rob Thee not; for, though My delving Spade",1.0 +"For I the petty Damage shall Repay,",1.0 +Filling the Vacant Ground with My own Clay.,3.0 +WHAT ancient Times those Times we fancy wise,0.0 +"What Morals teach it, and what Fables hide,",1.0 +"What Author wrote it, how that Author died,",1.0 +All these I sing. In Greece they framed the Tale,0.0 +You modern Beauties! where the Poet drew,0.0 +"His softest Pencil, think he dreamt of you;",0.0 +"And warned by him, you wanton Pens, beware",1.0 +How Heaven's concerned to vindicate the Fair.,3.0 +"Some think with Meaning, some with idle Wit:",0.0 +"Perhaps it's either, as the Ladies please;",1.0 +"I wave the Contest, and commence the Lays.",1.0 +"In days of yore, no matter where or when,",2.0 +'Twas before the low Creation swarmed with Men,0.0 +"That one Prometheus, sprung of heavenly Birth,",3.0 +Our Author's Song can witness lived on Earth.,0.0 +"He carved the Turf to mould a manly Frame,",0.0 +"The sly Contrivance over Olympus ran,",2.0 +When thus the Monarch of the Stars began.,1.0 +O versed in Arts! whose daring Thoughts aspire,0.0 +"Enjoy thy Glory past, That Gift was thine;",0.0 +"The next thy Creature meets, be fairly mine:",1.0 +"And such a Gift, a Vengeance so designed,",2.0 +As suits the Counsel of a God to find;,1.0 +"Which felt they curse, yet covet still to feel.",0.0 +"He said, and Vulcan strait the Sire commands,",2.0 +"In such a Shape to mould a rising Fair,",0.0 +And form her Organs for a Voice divine.,1.0 +'Twas thus the Sire ordained; the Power obeyed;,5.0 +"And worked, and wondered at the Work he made;",0.0 +"The fairest, softest, sweetest Frame beneath,",0.0 +"Now made to seem, now more than seem, to breathe.",2.0 +"As Vulcan ends, the cheerful Queen of Charms",0.0 +"From that Embrace a fine Complexion spread,",0.0 +Where mingled Whiteness glowed with softer red.,0.0 +"Then in a Kiss she breathed her various Arts,",2.0 +"A Mind for Love, but still a changing Mind;",0.0 +"The Lisp affected, and the Glance designed;",1.0 +"The sweet confusing Blush, the secret Wink,",0.0 +"The Stare for Strangeness fit, for Scorn the Frown,",0.0 +"For decent yielding Looks declining down,",1.0 +Would own its melting in a mutual Fire;,2.0 +Gay Smiles to comfort; April Showers to move;,3.0 +"And all the Nature, all the Art, of Love.",0.0 +"Her Touch endows her with imperious Air,",3.0 +"Strong sovereign Will, and some Desire to chide:",2.0 +"For which, an Eloquence, that aims to vex,",1.0 +"To twirl the Spindle by the twisting Thread,",1.0 +"To fix the Loom, instruct the Reeds to part,",0.0 +"Cross the long Wove, and close the Web with Art,",3.0 +"An useful Gift; but what profuse Expense,",0.0 +"What world of Fashions, took its Rise from hence!",0.0 +Her Brows encircled with his Serpent Rod:,1.0 +"Then Plots and fair Excuses, filled her Brain,",0.0 +"The Views of breaking amorous Vows for Gain,",2.0 +That aim at Riches in Contempt of Hearts;,0.0 +"And for a Comfort in the Marriage Life,",1.0 +"The little, pilfering Temper of a Wife.",3.0 +"Full on the Fair his Beams Apollo flung,",0.0 +And fond Persuasion tipped her easy Tongue;,0.0 +"He gave her Words, where oily Flattery lays",2.0 +The pleasing Colours of the Art of Praise;,0.0 +"And Wit, to Scandal exquisitely prone,",5.0 +"Tuned all her Voice, and shed a Sweetness there,",1.0 +"To make her Sense with double Charms abound,",0.0 +Or make her lively Nonsense please by Sound.,0.0 +"To dress the Maid, the decent Graces brought",0.0 +"A Robe in all the Dies of Beauty wrought,",0.0 +And placed their Boxes over a rich Brocade,2.0 +Where pictured Loves on every cover plaid;,0.0 +Then spread those Implements that Vulcan's Art,1.0 +"To call the Locks that lightly wander, home;",0.0 +"Back rolled her azure Veil with Serpent fold,",1.0 +Her Robe which closely by the Girdle braced,1.0 +Revealed the Beauties of a slender Waste,1.0 +"Flowed to the Feet; to copy Venus Air,",0.0 +"The new sprung Creature finished thus for Harms,",1.0 +"With Blushes glows, or shines with lively Smiles,",0.0 +"Confirms her Will, or recollects her Wiles:",1.0 +"Then conscious of her Worth, with easy Pace",1.0 +"Glides by the Glass, and turning views her Face.",0.0 +"A finer Flax than what they wrought before,",0.0 +"Through Time's deep Cave the Sister Fates explore,",1.0 +"Then fix the Loom, their Fingers nimbly weave,",0.0 +And thus their Toil prophetic Songs deceive.,0.0 +"Flow from the Rock my Flax! and swiftly flow,",0.0 +Pursue thy Thread; the Spindle runs below.,0.0 +"A Creature fond and changing, fair and vain,",0.0 +"The Creature Woman, rises now to reign.",0.0 +"New Beauty blooms, a Beauty formed to fly;",1.0 +"New Love begins, a Love produced to die;",1.0 +"New Parts distress the troubled Scenes of Life,",1.0 +"The fondling Mistress, and the ruling Wife.",1.0 +"Men, born to Labour, all with Pains provide;",1.0 +"Women have Time, to sacrifice to Pride:",2.0 +"They want the Care of Man, their Want they know,",0.0 +"The Show prevailing, for the Sway contend,",1.0 +And make a Servant where they meet a Friend.,0.0 +"A loitering Race the painful Bee supports,",2.0 +"From Sun to Sun, from Bank to Bank he flies,",0.0 +"With Honey loads his Bag, with Wax his Thighs,",0.0 +"Fly where he will, at home the Race remain,",1.0 +"Prune the silk Dress, and murmuring eat the Gain.",5.0 +"Yet here and there we grant a gentle Bride,",1.0 +Whose Temper betters by the Father's side;,1.0 +"Unlike the rest that double humane Care,",3.0 +"Fond to relieve, or resolute to share:",2.0 +Happy the Man whom thus his Stars advance!,2.0 +"The Curse is general, but the Blessing Chance.",1.0 +"Thus sung the Sisters, while the Gods admire",1.0 +To make too perfect not to gain her End:,2.0 +"Then bid the Winds that fly to breath the Spring,",0.0 +Return to bear her on a gentle Wing;,1.0 +"With wafting Airs the Winds obsequious blow,",2.0 +And land the shining Vengeance safe below.,0.0 +"A golden Coffer in her Hand she bore,",0.0 +"The Present treacherous, but the Bearer more",1.0 +"That Gold should aid, and Pangs attend on Love.",0.0 +"Her gay Descent the Man perceived afar,",0.0 +Wondering he run to catch the falling Star;,1.0 +"But so surprised, as none but he can tell,",2.0 +"Who loved so quickly, and who loved so well.",1.0 +"Over all his Veins the wandering Passion burns,",2.0 +"He calls her Nymph, and every Nymph by turns.",0.0 +"Her Form to lovely Venus he prefers,",1.0 +Or swears that Venus must be such as hers.,1.0 +"She, proud to rule, yet strangely framed to tease,",0.0 +"Neglects his Offers while her Airs she plays,",0.0 +"In brisk Disorder trips it up and down,",1.0 +"Then hums a careless Tune to lay the Storm,",0.0 +"And sits, and blushes, smiles, and yields, in Form.",0.0 +"This box thy Portion, and my self thy Bride:",1.0 +"Fired with the Prospect of the double Charms,",2.0 +"He snatched the Box, and Bride, with eager Arms.",0.0 +"Unhappy Man! to whom so bright she shone,",0.0 +"The fatal Gift, her tempting self, unknown!",0.0 +"The Winds were silent, all the Waves asleep,",0.0 +And Heaven was traced upon the flattering Deep;,2.0 +"And thinks the Water wears a stable Form,",0.0 +What dreadful Din around his Ears shall rise!,0.0 +What Frowns confuse his Picture of the Skies!,1.0 +"At first the Creature Man was framed alone,",0.0 +"Lord of himself, and all the World his own.",2.0 +"For him the Nymphs in green forsook the Woods,",1.0 +"For him the Nymphs in blue forsook the Floods,",1.0 +They bore him Heroes in the secret Cave.,0.0 +"No Care destroyed, no sick Disorder preyed,",2.0 +"No bending Age his sprightly Form decayed,",1.0 +"No Wars were known, no Females heard to rage,",3.0 +"When Woman came, those Ills the Box confined",0.0 +"Burst furious out, and poisoned all the Wind,",2.0 +"From Point to Point, from Pole to Pole they flew,",0.0 +"Spread as they went, and in the Progress grew:",1.0 +"The Nymphs regretting left the mortal Race,",0.0 +And altering Nature wore a sickly Face:,2.0 +"New Terms of Folly rose, new States of Care;",2.0 +"New Plagues, to suffer, and to please, the Fair!",2.0 +"The Days of whining, and of wild Intrigues,",1.0 +"Commenced, or finished, with the Breach of Leagues;",1.0 +The sordid Matches never joined above;,0.0 +"Abroad, the Labour, and at home the Noise,",1.0 +Man's double Sufferings for domestic Joys,2.0 +"The Curse of Jealousy; Expense, and Strife;",1.0 +"Divorce, the public Brand of shameful Life;",0.0 +"Disdain for Passion, Passion in Despair ' --",0.0 +"These, and a thousand, yet unnamed, we find;",1.0 +"Ah fear the thousand, yet unnamed behind!",0.0 +"THUS on Parnassus tuneful Hesiod sung,",5.0 +"The Mountain echoed, and the Valley rung,",1.0 +"The sacred Groves a fixed Attention show,",0.0 +"The Sky grew bright, and if his Verse be true",2.0 +The Muses came to give the Laurel too.,0.0 +If Love swore Vengeance for the Tales he writ?,2.0 +"You fair offended, hear your Friend relate",0.0 +"What heavy Judgement proved the Writer's Fate,",0.0 +"Though when it happened, no Relation clears,",0.0 +"It's thought in five, or five and twenty Years.",0.0 +"Where, dark and silent, with a twisted Shade",1.0 +"The neighbouring Woods a native Arbour made,",2.0 +There oft a tender Pair for amorous Play,2.0 +But swelling Nature in a fatal Hour,0.0 +Betrayed the Secrets of the conscious Bower;,1.0 +"The dire Disgrace her Brothers count their own,",0.0 +"And track her Steps, to make its Author known.",0.0 +"It chanced one Evening, 'twas the Lover's Day",0.0 +Concealed in Brakes the jealous Kindred lay;,0.0 +"When Hesiod wandering, mused along the Plain,",4.0 +And fixed his Seat where Love had fixed the Scene:,0.0 +"A strong Suspicion strait possessed their Mind,",0.0 +For Poets ever were a gentle kind.,1.0 +"Flung back a doubtful Look, and shot the Wood,",1.0 +"Now take, at once they cry thy due Reward,",1.0 +"And urged with erring Rage, assault the Bard.",0.0 +His Corpse the Sea received. The Dolphins bore,0.0 +'Twas all the Gods would do the Corpse to Shore.,0.0 +And see the Dreams of ancient Wisdom rise;,0.0 +"I see the Muses round the Body cry,",0.0 +But hear a Cupid loudly laughing by;,1.0 +"He wheels his Arrow with insulting Hand,",1.0 +And thus inscribes the Moral on the Sand.,1.0 +How far your Moral Tales incense the Fair:,0.0 +Without his Quiver Cupid caused the Deed:,0.0 +"He judged this Turn of Malice justly due,",0.0 +And Hesiod died for Joys he never knew.,2.0 +What shall I find to make the Genius smile?,0.0 +"The bubbling fountains lose the power to please,",2.0 +"The rocky cataracts, the shady trees,",0.0 +Whose luscious virtues England never knew;,0.0 +"All the rich pleasures Nature's storehouse yields,",3.0 +Her name can quicken and awake the Lay;,1.0 +"To live, to love, and rouse her powers to please.",2.0 +It's she alone deprives us of the light;,2.0 +To tell the separate beauties of her' face,1.0 +"And want a more than man, to pen the line;",0.0 +While from the Skies the ruddy Sun descends;,0.0 +And rising Night the Evening Shade extends:,0.0 +And closing Flowers reviving Odours yield;,3.0 +"Let Us, beneath these spreading Trees, recite",2.0 +What from our Hearts our Muses may indite.,1.0 +"Nor need We, in this close Retirement, fear,",2.0 +Lest any Swain our amorous Secrets hear.,2.0 +To every Shepherd I would Mine proclaim;,2.0 +Since fair Aminta is my softest Theme:,1.0 +"A Stranger to the loose Delights of Love,",1.0 +And while it's pure and sacred Fire I sing;,0.0 +"Propitious God of Love, my Breast inspire",0.0 +"With all Thy Charms, with all Thy pleasing Fire:",0.0 +"While I Thy Darling, Thy Alexis sing;",1.0 +"Alexis, as the ope'ning Blossoms fair,",1.0 +"Lovely as Light, and soft as yielding Air.",2.0 +For Him each Virgin sighs; and on the Plains,2.0 +The happy Youth above each Rival reigns.,0.0 +"Nor to the Echoing Groves, and whispering Spring,",4.0 +And Phoebus the superior Song approves.,3.0 +Breaking the melancholy Shades of Night.,2.0 +"When She is near, all anxious Trouble flies;",0.0 +And our reviving Hearts confess her Eyes.,1.0 +"Young Love, and blooming Joy, and gay Desires,",1.0 +And on the Plain when She no more appears;,3.0 +The Plain a dark and gloomy Prospect wears.,0.0 +In vain the Streams roll on: the Eastern Breeze,2.0 +Dances in vain among the trembling Trees.,2.0 +"In vain the Birds begin their Evening Song,",0.0 +And to the silent Night their Notes prolong:,1.0 +"Nor Groves, nor crystal Streams, nor verdant Field",0.0 +"And in His Absence, all the pensive Day,",0.0 +In some obscure Retreat I lonely stray;,0.0 +"All Day to the repeating Caves complain,",1.0 +"In mournful Accents, and a dying Strain.",1.0 +Dear lovely Youth! I cry to all around:,1.0 +Dear lovely Youth! the flattering Vales resound.,4.0 +"On flowery Banks, by every murmuring Stream,",4.0 +Aminta is my Muse's softest Theme:,1.0 +It's She that does my artful Notes refine:,0.0 +And consecrate to Him eternal Vows:,1.0 +The charming Youth shall my Apollo prove:,1.0 +"He shall adorn my Songs, and tune my Voice to Love.",0.0 +"The curious noble Present which you make,",2.0 +I with surprise and conscious Blushes take.,1.0 +"Why was the gay Alexis made your choice,",0.0 +Has he my private or my public Voice?,1.0 +"My nicer Temper cannot that allow,",0.0 +Though you have gone the way to make him so;,1.0 +"Some other Friend would equal Thanks command,",0.0 +To let you see him though he never sat;,1.0 +"A fair Idea formed in your great Mind,",1.0 +"'Twas the gay Youth in all his conquering Charms,",3.0 +As might seduce a Daphne to his Arms.,1.0 +"His Smiles, his Eyes, his Air each lovely Grace,",0.0 +All that our Sex can wish in any Face;,0.0 +An Art which none did ever express before:,2.0 +"Should Nature strive for Ostentation sake,",0.0 +"And would another bright Alexis make,",0.0 +She'd blushing throw her long used Pencil see;,1.0 +"Nay, you blessed Painters this advantage give,",4.0 +Beyond what is allowed to those that live.,2.0 +Draw Charms to'th' Life and make them lasting too.,2.0 +And see a female Hand outdo thy own.,2.0 +"The just Despair of long Posterity,",1.0 +By her may with advantage finished be.,2.0 +"The mighty Task can only be her Right,",0.0 +Who so exactly draws at casual sight:,1.0 +"I with proud Joy the lovely Present take,",2.0 +"My two best Friends, Illustrious now appear,",3.0 +A pleasing Form drawn by a Hand so fair;,2.0 +"Charmed by your Art, I generously consent,",3.0 +To own it's my Delight as well as Ornament.,2.0 +A new creation blooms at her command.,1.0 +"Touched into life the vivid colours glow,",2.0 +"Catch the warm stream, and quicken as they flow.",4.0 +"Here sink the valleys, and there rise the hills.",1.0 +Than here the pictured rock astounds the sight.,0.0 +Than here the wandering rivers shape their course.,2.0 +"Still murmuring runs, or seems to murmur still.",3.0 +Here lifts aloft its venerable head;,1.0 +"There overshadowing hangs a sacred wood,",2.0 +And nods inverted in the neighbouring flood.,2.0 +"Each tree as in its native forest shoots,",0.0 +And gives the lily fairer to our view.,1.0 +"Here fruits and flowers adorn the varied year,",2.0 +And paradise with all its sweets is here.,0.0 +"There stooping to its fall a tower appears,",3.0 +"In order rise, and fill the various scene.",2.0 +"Some parts, in light magnificently dressed,",1.0 +"Obtrusive enter, and stand all confessed;",2.0 +"While others decently in shades are thrown,",1.0 +And by concealing make their beauties known.,1.0 +"Alternate thus, and mutual is their aid,",3.0 +The lights owe half their lustre to the shade.,2.0 +"So the bright fires that light the milky way,",2.0 +Lost and extinguished in the solar ray;,2.0 +"In the sun's absence pour a flood of light,",2.0 +And borrow all their brightness from the night.,2.0 +To cheat our eyes how well dost thou contrive!,1.0 +Each object here seems real and alive.,2.0 +"Not more resembling life the figures stand,",0.0 +"Rush on the eye, and crowd upon the sight.",0.0 +"At once our wonder and delight you raise,",1.0 +"We view with pleasure, and with rapture praise.",1.0 +"Whoever he be that to a Taste aspires,",1.0 +"Let him read this, and be what he desires.",1.0 +"In men and manners versed from life I write,",0.0 +"Not what was once, but what is now polite.",0.0 +"Those who of courtly France have made the tour,",0.0 +Can scarce our English awkwardness endure.,1.0 +"But honest men who never were abroad,",1.0 +"Like England only, and its Taste applaud.",1.0 +"Books or the world, the many or the few.",1.0 +"True Taste to me is by this touchstone known,",3.0 +"He a dramatic poet, she a scold.",2.0 +His wit in boxes was my lord's delight.,1.0 +"No mercenary priest ever joined their hands,",4.0 +"Laws my Pindaric parents mattered not,",2.0 +"My infant tears a sort of measure kept,",0.0 +"No youth did I in education waste,",1.0 +Happy in an hereditary Taste.,2.0 +Nor barbarous birch ever brushed my tender bum.,2.0 +"My guts never suffered from a college cook,",3.0 +Good parts are better than eight parts of speech:,2.0 +"I thank my stars, that I declined them all.",1.0 +I trust to mother wit and father sense.,0.0 +"Nature's my guide, all sciences I scorn,",3.0 +"Pains I abhor, I was a poet born.",3.0 +Notes upon books outdo the books themselves.,4.0 +"To ease the body, and improve the mind.",1.0 +"Swift's whims and jokes for my resentment call,",2.0 +"Verse without rhyme I never could endure,",3.0 +"Uncouth in numbers, and in sense obscure.",2.0 +"To him as nature, when he ceased to see,",1.0 +"Confirmed and settled by the nation's voice,",1.0 +"Rhyme is the poet's pride, and people's choice.",0.0 +"Always upheld by national support,",2.0 +"Of market, university, and court:",1.0 +"Thomson, write blank; but know that for that reason,",3.0 +These lines shall live when thine are out of season.,1.0 +As London ladies owe their shape to stays.,0.0 +He for the laurel never had had my vote:,1.0 +He thoroughly deserves the modern bays.,1.0 +"So Britain's monarch once uncovered sat,",0.0 +Long live old Curl! he never to publish fears,4.0 +"The speeches, verses, and last will of peers.",2.0 +"How oft has he a public spirit shown,",1.0 +"And pleased our ears, regardless of his own?",1.0 +"But to give merit due, though Curl's the fame,",2.0 +Are not his brother booksellers the same?,5.0 +"Can statutes keep the British press in awe,",0.0 +"Lives of dead players my leisure hours beguile,",5.0 +"So oft a mother, and not once a wife:",1.0 +"She could with just propriety behave,",1.0 +"Alive with peers, with monarchs in her grave:",1.0 +"I travelled early, and I soon saw through",3.0 +"Shame, pain, or poverty shall I endure,",3.0 +When ropes or opium can my ease procure?,1.0 +"When money's gone, and I no debts can pay,",2.0 +"And kill myself, my daughter, and my wife.",2.0 +"Burn but that Bible which the parson quotes,",0.0 +And men of spirit all shall cut their throats.,0.0 +"But not to writings I confine my pen,",1.0 +"I have a Taste for buildings, music, men.",0.0 +With superficial smattering at most.,1.0 +"Not so my mind, unsatisfied with hints,",0.0 +"I know the town, all houses I have seen,",1.0 +"Sure wretched Wren was taught by bungling Jones,",1.0 +"To murder mortar, and disfigure stones!",1.0 +Who in Whitehall can symmetry discern?,2.0 +"Substantial walls and heavy roofs I like,",0.0 +"Such noble ruins every pile would make,",0.0 +"To lofty Chelsea, or to Greenwich dome,",1.0 +Soldiers and sailors all are welcomed home.,2.0 +"Her poor to palaces Britannia brings,",3.0 +"Buildings so happily I understand,",3.0 +That for one house I'd mortgage all my land.,0.0 +"From out my honest workmen, I'll select",2.0 +"First bid him build me a stupendous dome,",2.0 +"Which having finished, we set out for Rome;",2.0 +"Take a week's view of Venice and the Brent,",4.0 +"Stare round, see nothing, and come home content.",4.0 +"I'll have my Villa too, a sweet abode,",0.0 +Its situation shall be London road:,0.0 +"I'll have my gardens in the fashion too,",0.0 +For what is beautiful that is not new?,2.0 +What's high to sink? and what is low to raise?,0.0 +"Slopes shall ascend where once a greenhouse stood,",2.0 +Expense and alteration shows a Taste.,0.0 +"In curious paintings I'm exceeding nice,",3.0 +And know their several beauties by their price.,1.0 +"Auctions and sales I constantly attend,",3.0 +Originals and copies much the same.,1.0 +The picture's value is the painter's name.,1.0 +"My Taste in sculpture from my choice is seen,",1.0 +I buy no statues that are not obscene.,2.0 +"In spite of Addison and ancient Rome,",1.0 +"How oft have I with admiration stood,",1.0 +Cast with propriety in gilded lead.,3.0 +"O could I view through London as I pass,",1.0 +"High on a pedestal, you freemen, place",1.0 +"Old coins and medals I collect, it's true,",2.0 +"Sir Andrew has them, and I'll have them too.",2.0 +"But among friends if I the truth might speak,",3.0 +"I like the modern, and despise the antique.",3.0 +"Though in the drawers of my japan bureau,",5.0 +"Without Italian, or without an ear,",1.0 +And therefore proper at a sheriff's feast.,1.0 +"My soul has oft a secret pleasure found,",0.0 +In the harmonious bagpipe's lofty sound.,3.0 +"I'm English born, and love a grumbling noise.",0.0 +"The stage should yield the solemn organ's note,",0.0 +"Eager in throngs the town to Hester came,",2.0 +And Oratorio was a lucky name.,1.0 +"Thou, Heidegger! the English Taste hast found,",2.0 +Call thy next Masquerade a Convocation.,0.0 +"Bears, lions, wolves, and elephants I breed,",2.0 +And Philosophical Transactions read.,1.0 +"Next lodge I'll be Freemason, nothing less,",1.0 +Unless I happen to be F. R. S.,2.0 +"I have a palate, and as yet two ears,",2.0 +Fit company for porters or for peers.,3.0 +But my top talent is a bill of fare.,3.0 +"Dishes I choose though little, yet genteel,",2.0 +"Pigs heads with hair on, much my fancy please,",1.0 +And give ten guineas for a pint of peas.,2.0 +"My grace is silence, and my waiter dumb,",1.0 +And of lost hospitality complain.,3.0 +"Say thou that dost thy father's table praise,",0.0 +I would bright honour buy with dazzling gold.,1.0 +"Could I the privilege of peer procure,",1.0 +"The rich I'd bully, and oppress the poor.",1.0 +"I'd make the insolent mechanics stay,",1.0 +And keep my ready money all for play.,0.0 +"I'd try if any pleasure could be found,",0.0 +"Had I whole counties, I to White's would go,",3.0 +"And set land, woods, and rivers, at a throw.",1.0 +"But should I meet with an unlucky run,",1.0 +And at a throw be gloriously undone;,3.0 +"My debts of honour I'd discharge the first,",2.0 +Let all my lawful creditors be cursed:,1.0 +"My title would preserve me from arrest,",1.0 +And seizing hired horses is a jest.,1.0 +"With gloves and hat, like my own footman, Dick.",1.0 +"A footman I would be, in outward show,",1.0 +"In sense, and education, truly so.",1.0 +As for my head it should ambiguous wear,3.0 +And dress and talk of dressing more than they.,0.0 +"Without black velvet breeches, what is man?",1.0 +"I will my skill in buttonholes display,",1.0 +And brag how oft I shift me every day.,0.0 +Shall I wear clothes in awkward England made?,3.0 +"And sweat in cloth, to help the woollen trade?",0.0 +In French embroidery and in Flanders lace,1.0 +I'll spend the income of a treasurer's place.,4.0 +I would convince the world by tawdry clothes,0.0 +"That belles are less effeminate than beaux,",1.0 +"To boon companions I my time would give,",1.0 +"With players, pimps, and parasites I'd live.",0.0 +"I would with jockeys from Newmarket dine,",2.0 +And imitate his language and his coat.,1.0 +"Should I perchance be fashionably ill,",3.0 +"I should abhor, though in the utmost need,",1.0 +"But if I found that I grew worse and worse,",3.0 +"How oft when eminent physicians fail,",1.0 +"Eyes she can touch, or she can syringe ears.",1.0 +"Of graduates I dislike the learnt rout,",3.0 +And choose a female doctor for the gout.,2.0 +"Thus would I live, with no dull pedants cursed,",1.0 +"Sure, of all blockheads, scholars are the worst.",1.0 +"Back to your universities, you fools,",1.0 +And dangle arguments on strings in schools:,1.0 +"Those schools which Universities they call,",1.0 +"With ease that loss the nation might sustain,",0.0 +"Oxford and Cambridge are not worth one farthing,",3.0 +"Quit those, you British youth, and follow these,",1.0 +"Turn players all, and take your squires degrees.",3.0 +"Boast not your incomes now, as heretofore,",1.0 +A single Eunuch gets a larger sum.,0.0 +Have some of you three hundred by the year;,5.0 +Should Oxford to her sister Cambridge join,1.0 +"For playhouse, opera, ball, and masquerade.",1.0 +"Glad I congratulate the judging age,",2.0 +"The players are the world, the world the stage.",1.0 +"I am a politician too, and hate",1.0 +"Of any party, ministers of state:",1.0 +"Has served his king and country, lose his ears.",0.0 +"Thus from my birth I'm qualified you find,",0.0 +To give the laws of Taste to human kind.,0.0 +"For books, and buildings, politics, and dress.",0.0 +"His circling March, and human Actions viewed;",0.0 +"But grieved that Virtue drooped her languid Head,",0.0 +"Back, to his native Seat, he sternly flies;",0.0 +"And sends an Edict through the spacious Skies,",1.0 +"Upon Olympus' Top the Synod met,",0.0 +"And, with a Nod, that shook the Spheres, he swore,",1.0 +The Minor Gods should visit Earth no more.,1.0 +"What, must your earthly Sons, MINERVA cried,",0.0 +Explore their doubtful Way without a Guide?,0.0 +"If PALLAS must no more to Mortals go,",1.0 +"Let PALLAS beg a Substitute below,",1.0 +"Worthy to rule the World, whose noble Mind",2.0 +May copy out the Gods to human Kind.,1.0 +"Collect the best Materials, where you will;",2.0 +Selecting each Perfection of the Gods:,1.0 +From MARS she warlike Strength and Courage took;,1.0 +But softened them with VENUS' graceful Look:,1.0 +"To these she added HERMES' Eloquence,",2.0 +And crowned it with her own superior Sense:,3.0 +"And, while the MUSES played, she formed a Soul.",0.0 +"When thus composed the bright Ingredients lay,",2.0 +She nobly dressed them in Ethereal Clay;,2.0 +And vital Warmth inspired a CUMBERLAND.,3.0 +THE shrinking brooks and russet meads complained,0.0 +"That Summer's tyrant, fervid Sirius, reigned;",2.0 +"Full west the sun from heaven descending rode,",1.0 +And six the shadow on the dial showed.,1.0 +"Philo, though young, to musing much inclined,",2.0 +"From table sneaking with a sheepish face,",1.0 +"Before the circle was dismissed with grace,",1.0 +Thick clouds of incense roll around his head:,2.0 +"His head, which save a quarter's growth of hair,",0.0 +"His woollen cap long since scratched off, was bare:",3.0 +"His beard three days had grown, of golden hue,",1.0 +"Of each lean limb half hide, and half expose;",2.0 +His cheek he leaned upon his hand; below,0.0 +"Now with abstracted flight he climbs apace,",3.0 +"High and more high, through pure unbounded space;",0.0 +"Now mere privation fails the wings of thought,",1.0 +Born on the surging smoke he joys to rise;,0.0 +"Matter through modes and qualities pursues,",3.0 +"Now caught, entranced its naked essence views;",1.0 +Now wakes; the vision fading from his sight,2.0 +"Leaves doubts behind, the mists of mental night:",1.0 +"Existing not, but possible alone,",1.0 +"He deems all substance, and suspects his own;",1.0 +"Like wave by wave impelled, now questions roll ' --",1.0 +"Does soul in ought subsist, or all in soul?",0.0 +"Is space, extension, nothing but a name,",1.0 +And mere idea Nature's mighty frame?,0.0 +"All power, all forms, to intellect confined:",2.0 +"Place, agent, subject, instrument combined?",2.0 +"Is spirit diverse, yet from number free,",2.0 +Conjoined by harmony in unity? ' --,3.0 +When the ray broken takes Opinion's dies! ' --,2.0 +"In vain now Philo seeks the sacred light,",1.0 +"In Chaos plunged, where embryo systems fight.",4.0 +"In this dark hour, unnoticed, Cloe came,",4.0 +"With Nature's charms she joined the charms of art,",0.0 +"Wife of his choice, and mistress of his heart;",1.0 +"What on her head she wore, erect and high,",0.0 +"Unnamed above, is called on earth a fly;",0.0 +Her breasts beneath transparent muslin swell;,0.0 +Studded with flaming gems a buckle bound,2.0 +The embroidered zone her slender waist around;,1.0 +Thence to her feet a vast rotund displayed,0.0 +The mingling colours of the rich brocade;,0.0 +"This aiding fancy, blending shame and pride,",0.0 +Inflames with beauties it was meant to hide:,1.0 +"With careless ease the Nymph first snapped her fan,",1.0 +"Rolled round her radiant eyes, and thus began;",0.0 +"Immersed in learning, nastiness, and wit?",1.0 +"Clean from the chest, where various odours breathe,",2.0 +"A shirt for thee, by my command, the maid",2.0 +Three hours ago before the fire displayed;,1.0 +"The barber, waiting to renew thy face,",1.0 +"Renounce that odious pipe, this filthy cell,",2.0 +"Where silence, dust, and pagan authors dwell:",0.0 +Come! shall the ladies wait in vain for thee?,0.0 +"Come! taste with us the charms of mirth and tea,",2.0 +"As Philo heard confused the silver sound,",0.0 +"His soul emerges from the dark profound,",1.0 +On the bright vision full he turned his eyes;,2.0 +"Touched, as he gazed, with pleasure and surprise,",1.0 +"And now in act to speak, he stroked his beard,",0.0 +"When from a shelf just over the fair one's head,",2.0 +"Back starts the Nymph, with terror and dismay,",2.0 +The Spider! o! ' -- was all that she could say.,1.0 +"At this the Sage resumed the look severe,",0.0 +"He said, and careful to the shelf conveyed",1.0 +The hapless rival of the blue-eyed maid.,2.0 +And rage the crimson on her cheek renewed.,1.0 +"Must then, said she, such hideous vermin crawl",2.0 +"Destroy her quickly ' -- here her life I claim,",0.0 +"If not for love or decency, for shame.",1.0 +"Shame be to guilt, replies the man of thought,",0.0 +"To slaves of custom, never by reason taught,",2.0 +"Who spare no life that touches not their own,",1.0 +By fear their cruelty restrained alone.,1.0 +"No blameless insect lives its destined hour,",2.0 +Caught in the murdering vortex of their power.,3.0 +"For me, the virtues of the mind I learn",2.0 +"From her, when busy all the summer's day",1.0 +"She weaves the curious woof that snares her prey,",2.0 +Not daily bread on idleness bestows.,1.0 +"Restores with art what accidents impair,",1.0 +"The thousandth time the broken thread renews,",0.0 +And one great end with fortitude pursues;,2.0 +"To me her toil is never renewed in vain,",3.0 +"Taught what the wise by perseverance gain,",0.0 +"Warmed by example to the glorious strife,",5.0 +And taught to conquer in the fight of life.,0.0 +"She watchful, patient, eyes the circle round,",0.0 +"I learn, when toil has well deserved success,",0.0 +"With care to watch, with patience still to wait",0.0 +"The golden moment, though delayed by Fate.",1.0 +"Still boasting Reason's power, how weak are we!",3.0 +"How blind, alas! to all we would not see!",0.0 +"Else how could Philo, in a Spider's cause,",1.0 +Talk thus of mercy with deserved applause?,2.0 +"Or call aught virtuous industry and skill,",4.0 +Exerted only to surprise and kill?,1.0 +"The blameless insect, whom no murder feeds,",2.0 +"For her, the victim of her cunning, bleeds;",2.0 +"Cunning! which when to wisdom we compare,",1.0 +"Is but to her, to men what monkeys are.",2.0 +"Hold! Philo cries, and know, the same decree",1.0 +"Gave her the fly, which gives the lamb to thee;",0.0 +"Or why those wings adapted to the snare,",1.0 +"As plain in these the precept, kill and eat,",2.0 +As in thy skill to carve the living treat.,0.0 +"To this, she cries, Persuade me, if you can,",2.0 +"Man's lord of all, and all was made for man.",1.0 +Vain thought! the child of ignorance and pride!,2.0 +"Disdainful smiling, quickly he replied;",1.0 +"To man, vain reptile! tell me of what use",2.0 +"The nameless monsters of the swarming seas,",1.0 +The pigmy nations wafted on the breeze?,1.0 +"That bask in flowers, and quicken all the green?",2.0 +Why live these numbers blessed in Nature's state?,0.0 +Why lives this spider object of thy hate?,1.0 +"Why man? but life in common to possess,",1.0 +Wide to diffuse the stream of happiness;,3.0 +"Blessed stream! the overflowing of the parent mind,",2.0 +"Great without pride, and without weakness kind.",8.0 +"With downcast eyes, and sighs, and modest air,",1.0 +Thus in soft sounds replied the wily fair:,3.0 +This fatal subtlety thy books impart,1.0 +"For this, when Cloe goes at twelve to bed,",1.0 +Till three you sit in converse with the dead:,1.0 +"No wonder then, in vain my skill's employed",1.0 +To prove it best that vermin be destroyed ' --,0.0 +"But though you proudly triumph over my sex,",3.0 +"Yet, if you loved me, to oblige your wife,",1.0 +"Once to prevent my wishes Philo flew,",2.0 +"But Time that alters all, has altered you.",1.0 +"These tears my witness, which your pride disdains;",0.0 +"These tears, at once my witness and relief.",1.0 +"Here paused the fair, all eloquent in grief.",1.0 +"He, who had often, and alone, overturned",7.0 +Now yields to love the fortress of his soul:,2.0 +"Cursed wretch, thou poisonous quintessence of ill,",4.0 +"Those precious drops, unpunished, shalt thou spill?",0.0 +"He said, and stooping, from his foot he drew,",1.0 +"Black as his purpose, what was once a shoe;",0.0 +"Now, high in air the fatal heel ascends,",1.0 +Reason's last effort now the stroke suspends;,3.0 +A struggling sigh her inward grief expressed.,0.0 +And to his arm his utmost strength applied:,2.0 +"Crushed falls the foe, one complicated wound,",1.0 +"Thus to like arts a prey, as poets tell,",0.0 +"By Juno loved in vain, great Dido fell.",1.0 +And thus for ever Beauty shall control,0.0 +"The saint's, the sage's, and the hero's soul.",1.0 +And Vengeance follows with tremendous speed;,1.0 +"With love of science, and with verse inspired,",1.0 +"Expunged at once the philosophic theme,",0.0 +All sages think and all that poets dream;,0.0 +Yields him thus changed a vassal to the fair;,4.0 +And forth she leads him with a victor's air:,1.0 +"Dressed to her wish, he mixes with the gay,",1.0 +"As much a trifle, and as vain as they;",1.0 +"To fix their power, and rivet fast the chain,",2.0 +They lead where Pleasure spreads her soft domain;,0.0 +"Love smiles triumphant in thy groves, Vaux-hall.",2.0 +"'TWAS when the Sun had his swift Progress made,",1.0 +And left his Empire to the Queen of Shade;,1.0 +Shot their pale Lustre over the dewy Plain:,5.0 +"Sat lonely Mira with her Head reclined,",2.0 +And mourned the Sorrows of her helpless Kind:,1.0 +"The Nymph, whose Tale deserves a pitying Tear;",2.0 +Whose early Beauties met a swift Decay;,0.0 +"A Rose that faded at the rising Day,",0.0 +"While Grief and Shame oppressed her tender Age,",0.0 +Pursued by Famine and a Father's Rage;,1.0 +Till too much Thought the aching Heart oppressed.,0.0 +"Then active Fancy, with her airy Train,",1.0 +Composed the Substance of the ensuing Dream.,3.0 +"In a black Shade my wandering Self I found,",5.0 +A Wood encircled by a thorny Bound;,1.0 +"There lofty Elms the wondering Skies invade,",2.0 +And the dark Cypress cast a browner Shade:,2.0 +Grave Laurels there the humbler Shrubs overlook;,5.0 +"There the pale Ash, and there the Poplar shook;",2.0 +"Here pliant Elder whom her Fruits adorn,",0.0 +Whose rugged Arms with useless Roses shine.,0.0 +"A Plain was bounded with a putrid Lake,",1.0 +"Formed a weak Passage over the standing Streams,",5.0 +"Whose slimy Waters to its Arches clung,",1.0 +"On this brown Plain surrounded by the Wood,",3.0 +And the green Lake ' -- an aged Castle stood;,2.0 +"Whose iron Gates were strictly shut to all,",0.0 +And frowning Roofs hung over the crumbling Wall:,3.0 +"Before the Portals wait a grisly Band,",0.0 +Fraud with a Pencil in her shaking Hand:,0.0 +"Long Scrolls of Parchment at her Feet were laid,",1.0 +Behind her Shoulder stood her ghastly Maid:,0.0 +"Grimly he stands, and by his Side appears",3.0 +"Fierce Cruelty, all drenched in Orphans Tears;",3.0 +Within attended by relentless Hate,1.0 +"To these rude Doors approached with bashful Mien,",2.0 +"Soft Celia once the brightest of the Plain,",2.0 +"But now the Roses from her Cheeks were flown,",1.0 +Nor could the Fair One by her Charms be known;,1.0 +"Those Charms are now in sable Weeds arrayed,",0.0 +Her Arm supported by a mournful Maid:,1.0 +"From her won Eyes the Tears incessant flow,",2.0 +Whose Eyeballs sparkled with disdainful Ire;,2.0 +"His potent Hand the sounding Locks obey,",0.0 +With grating Noise the horrid Gates gave way:,1.0 +Then prostrate at his Feet the Damsel lay.,0.0 +Three times to speak the lovely Mourner tried;,1.0 +Thrice on her Lips the fainting Murmurs died;,0.0 +"Sigh follows Sigh, and Tear succeeds to Tear:",1.0 +Ah! let my Sorrows find Relief from you;,0.0 +The rising Sun is Witness to my Woe:,1.0 +"But who shall paint what wretched Celia feels,",0.0 +While Shame and Famine hunt her flying Heels:,0.0 +"The Fools deride me, and the virtuous shun,",3.0 +Then to the Fields and lonely Shades I run;,0.0 +"Yet find no Comfort from the lonely Shade,",2.0 +At my Approach the Blossoms seem to fade:,1.0 +"I fly to Wilds unknown to human Kind,",0.0 +But cannot leave my hated Self behind;,0.0 +And am ' -- O am I ' -- by my Parent cursed;,2.0 +Of all my Woes the deepest and the worst:,1.0 +"Think not by Tears this stubborn Heart to win,",0.0 +Nor jar my Senses with thy hateful Din:,1.0 +"Go learn of Vagrants fit Companions go,",1.0 +Their Arts of Stealing and their Whine of Woe.,1.0 +"Yet when before the Gate of Pride you stand,",0.0 +And crave your Morsel at the Porter's Hand;,0.0 +Thrown to the Dogs before thy longing Eyes:,0.0 +"He ceased ' -- but Celia views no more the Sun,",1.0 +For now her Sorrow with her Life was done:,1.0 +"Her Eyes no more afford their lucid Streams,",1.0 +Nor the Pulse struggles in her quiet Veins.,2.0 +"The Tyrant viewed her with a ghastly Look,",1.0 +"When lo a Spectre horrible to view,",1.0 +"Strange Forms were painted on his sable Robe,",2.0 +One Hand extended bore a crystal Globe;,0.0 +"Where the pale Sinner might his Picture find,",2.0 +"Yet not his Features, but his darker Mind:",1.0 +"In vain to shun the faithful Glass he tries,",0.0 +"His quick left Hand with this performed its Part,",2.0 +His Right was dreadful with a poisoned Dart:,1.0 +"Then with a loud and horrid Voice he cried,",0.0 +"From the fair Court of Equity I came,",3.0 +"Called by thy Sins, and Conscience is my Name:",1.0 +And teach thy Eyes to know the melting Tear:,0.0 +"Prepare thy Spirits for their Weight of Woe,",1.0 +He said and struck ' -- the visionary Dart,0.0 +He fell ' -- and falling raised a fearful Cry;,0.0 +"Then Mira awoke, and found the Morning Sky.",2.0 +"Her fool's cap wear, spite of the shaking head",3.0 +"To frolic be disposed, no song she chants",1.0 +"Immoral; nor one picture will she hold,",2.0 +But Virtue may approve it with a smile.,2.0 +You sylvan deities! awhile adieu!,1.0 +Farewell! for I must leave your rich perfumes,2.0 +To sing the Pin in ever sounding lays:,0.0 +"But not that Pin, at whose circumference",0.0 +Ponderous and vast: nor that which window bars,1.0 +From thief nocturnal: nor that other called,1.0 +A skittle; chiefly found where alehouse snug,1.0 +Invites mechanic to the flowing cup,1.0 +No ' -- it's the Pin so much by ladies used;,0.0 +"Without whose aid the nymph of nicest taste,",0.0 +"Hail then, thou little useful instrument!",1.0 +"Though small, yet consequential. For by thee",1.0 +"Beauty sets off her charms, as at the glass",0.0 +"Lucy, or Phillis, best adapts thy point.",2.0 +Without thy service would the ribbon flaunt,0.0 +"Loose to the fanning gale, nor on the head",1.0 +Of belle would stand her whimsical attire.,1.0 +The kerchief from her neck of snow would fall,1.0 +"With freedom bold, and leave her bosom bare.",0.0 +As she her apron forms! And how the man,2.0 +On nose reverted! frequent does he want,0.0 +"Thy prompt assistance, to connect his scraps",1.0 +And notes obliterated over. Thee oft,2.0 +"In alley, path, wide square, and open street,",1.0 +"The miser picks, as conscious of thy use;",1.0 +"With frugal hand, accompanied with brow",1.0 +"Of corrugated bent, he sticks thee safe,",0.0 +"Interior on his coat; then creeps along,",1.0 +Well judging thy proportion to a groat.,3.0 +Through all thy different storehouses to trace,5.0 +"Thy presence, either in the sculptured dome,",0.0 +With points almost as various as thy heads.,2.0 +"Wherever thou art, or in whatever form,",2.0 +"Magnificent in silver, or in brass,",2.0 +"Safe on thy cushioned bed, or kiss the locks",0.0 +"Of Chloe, sleeping on the pillow's down.",2.0 +"Thou whom the wise revere, the worthy praise;",0.0 +"Just guardian of those laws thy voice explained,",1.0 +And meriting all titles thou hast gained ' --,2.0 +Though still the fairest from heaven's bounty flow;,2.0 +For good and great no monarch can bestow:,2.0 +"Yet thus, of health, of fame, of friends possessed,",0.0 +"No fortune, Hardwicke, is sincerely blessed.",2.0 +All humankind are sons of sorrow born:,0.0 +"The great must suffer, and the good must mourn.",1.0 +"Can Fortitude, without a sigh, resign?",0.0 +"Ah no! when Love, when Reason, hand in hand,",0.0 +"Over the cold urn consenting Mourners stand,",2.0 +The firmest heart dissolves to softness here;,0.0 +And Piety applauds the falling tear.,1.0 +"Those sacred drops, by virtuous weakness shed,",2.0 +"Adorn the living, while they grace the dead:",0.0 +"By Heaven approved, and true to Nature's law.",0.0 +"When his loved Child the Roman could not save,",3.0 +"The sage, the patriot, in the parent, wept.",1.0 +"And OH! by grief allied, as joined in fame,",0.0 +"The same thy loss, thy sorrows are the same.",1.0 +"She whom the Muses, whom the Loves deplore,",0.0 +"Even she, thy pride and pleasure, is no more:",3.0 +"In bloom of years, in all her virtue's bloom,",0.0 +"Lost to thy hopes, and silent in the tomb.",0.0 +OH Season marked by mourning and despair!,2.0 +Thy blasts how fatal to the young and fair?,1.0 +"For vernal freshness, for the balmy breeze,",1.0 +Thy tainted winds came pregnant with disease:,2.0 +"Sick Nature sunk before the mortal breath,",1.0 +"That scattered fever, agony, and death!",1.0 +What funerals has thy cruel ravage spread!,1.0 +Here let Reflection fix her sober view:,0.0 +"OH think, who suffer, and who sigh with you.",2.0 +"See, rudely snatched, in all her pride of charms,",1.0 +"In climes far distant, see that husband mourn;",1.0 +"His arms reversed, his recent laurel torn!",0.0 +"Behold again, at Fate's imperious call,",2.0 +In one dread instant blooming Lincoln fall!,2.0 +See her loved Lord with speechless anguish bend!,3.0 +"And, mixing tears with his, thy noblest friend,",1.0 +Thy Pelham turn on heaven his streaming eye:,0.0 +"Again in Her, he sees a Brother die.",1.0 +"And He, who long, unshaken and serene,",2.0 +"Had Death, in each dire form of terror, seen,",0.0 +"Through worlds unknown, over unknown oceans tossed,",11.0 +"By Love subdued, now weeps a Consort lost:",4.0 +"Now, sunk to fondness, all the man appears,",1.0 +"His front dejected, and his soul in tears!",1.0 +"Yet more: nor thou the muse's voice disdain,",1.0 +Let thy calm eye survey the suffering ball:,3.0 +See kingdoms round thee verging to their fall!,2.0 +"What spring had promised, and what autumn yields,",1.0 +"Swept to one grave, in one promiscuous fate!",2.0 +Hear Europe groan! hear all her nations mourn!,2.0 +And be a private wound with patience born.,0.0 +Think too: and Reason will confirm the thought:,2.0 +"Thy cares, for Her, are to their period brought.",3.0 +"Yes, She, fair pattern to a failing age,",4.0 +"With wit, chastised, with sprightly temper, sage;",0.0 +"Whom each endearing name could recommend,",0.0 +"Whom all became, wife, sister, daughter, friend,",1.0 +"From life escaped, and safe on that calm shore",1.0 +"Where sin, and pain, and error are no more,",2.0 +"She now no change, nor you a fear can feel:",2.0 +"Death, to her fame, has fixed the eternal seal!",2.0 +"And all my senses were by Sleep possessed,",1.0 +"Sweet Sleep, that soft and balmy comfort brings",1.0 +"Alike to Beggars and despotic Kings,",1.0 +"I dreamt of peace I never felt before,",0.0 +I dreamt my Heart was lying on the floor.,1.0 +"Observed it, strange to tell! with joyful eyes.",0.0 +And stranger still without the least surprise.,0.0 +"Elated with the sight, I smiling sat",1.0 +Exulting over the victim at my feet;,2.0 +But soon with words of anguish thus addressed,0.0 +"Say busy, lively, trembling, hopping thing,",1.0 +"What new disaster hast thou now to bring,",0.0 +"To torture with thy fears my tender frame,",1.0 +Who must for all her ills thee only blame?,0.0 +"Speak now, and tell me why, ungrateful guest",1.0 +For ten years past hast thou denied me rest?,1.0 +And with my Life and with my Stature grew.,2.0 +"At first so small were all thy wants, that I",0.0 +Vainly imagined I could never deny,5.0 +Whatever thy fancy asked ' -- Alas! but now,3.0 +I find thy wants my every sense outgrow;,1.0 +"And ever having, ever wanting more,",0.0 +"A power to please, to give, or to adore.",3.0 +"Say, why like other Hearts dost thou not bear",1.0 +With callous apathy each worldly care?,1.0 +"In thee Compassion, Hatred's place supplies,",1.0 +Why not with malice treat malicious Men?,0.0 +"Why, at the hearing of a dismal tale,",1.0 +Dost thou with sorrow turn my Beauty pale?,0.0 +"Why, when distress in any shape appears,",0.0 +Dost thou dissolve my very soul in Tears?,1.0 +Why in thy secret folds is Friendship bred?,0.0 +In other hearts its very name is dead.,0.0 +"Why, if keen Wit and learnt Sense draw nigh",4.0 +Dost thou with emulation beat so high?,0.0 +"And while approving, wish to be approved?",0.0 +"And when you love, wish more to be beloved?",1.0 +"Why not, in cold indifference ever clad,",0.0 +"Alike, unmoved, regard the good and bad?",0.0 +"Why dost thou waste my youthful bloom with care,",0.0 +"And sacrifice myself, that I may share",2.0 +Distress in others? why wilt thou adorn,1.0 +Their days with roses and leave me a thorn?,2.0 +But here I saw it heave an heavy sigh,0.0 +And thus in sweetest sounds it did reply:,0.0 +"Ah! cease, Eliza! cease thy speech unjust.",0.0 +Thy heart has ever fulfilled its sacred trust;,2.0 +"And ever will its tender mansion serve,",1.0 +Nor can it from thee this reproach deserve,2.0 +Against my dictates murmuring have I found,2.0 +"Which thus has laid me bleeding on the Ground,",1.0 +Compare thyself in this same hour deprived,2.0 +"Of this soft Heart, from whence all are derived",3.0 +"With me its brilliant ornaments are fled,",2.0 +"And all thy features, like thy Soul, are dead.",0.0 +"It's I that make thee others' pleasures share,",1.0 +And in a Sister's joy forget thy care.,0.0 +"It's by my dictates thou art taught to find,",1.0 +"That makes thee oft relieve a Stranger's woes,",0.0 +"And often fix those friends, that would be foes,",0.0 +To cherish Music; and it's I appear,2.0 +"In all its softest dress, when to the Hearts,",1.0 +"Harmonic strains; it's not because it's fine,",0.0 +"In smoothest numbers all that I indite,",1.0 +"For it's I taught thy fearful hand to write,",1.0 +My genius has with watchful care supplied.,0.0 +What Education to thy sex denied;,1.0 +"Made Sentiment and Nature all combine,",2.0 +"To melt the Reader in each flowing line,",0.0 +"Till they in words this feeling truth impart,",1.0 +She needs no more who will consult the Heart;,2.0 +"And own in reading what is writ by thee,",0.0 +No study ever could improve like me.,1.0 +"And when thy bloom is gone, thy beauty flown,",0.0 +"And laughing Youth to wrinkled Age is grown,",0.0 +"Thy actions, writings, friendship, which I gave,",0.0 +Still shall remain an Age beyond the Grave.,1.0 +Then do not thus displaced let me remain,2.0 +But take me to thy tender breast again.,1.0 +"And if I am deceived, deceive me still.",2.0 +"Seduced I was in haste, then stooping low,",1.0 +"Soon reinstated my sweet, pleasing foe;",3.0 +"And waking, found it had nor less nor more",0.0 +"Than all the Joys, the pangs it had before!",0.0 +The Sea has scarce a Depth to bear the pressing Weight.,0.0 +"These every Shore has seen; all Climates know,",0.0 +"As far as Lands extend, or Waters flow.",0.0 +"As late I heard, when near the British Coast,",0.0 +"Unseen I stood, while thus a fishing Swain",0.0 +"Pity, you Gods, and thaw the rigid Frost,",2.0 +"My Hands are stiff, and all my Feeling lost.",0.0 +"The Moon with sharpened Horns looks coldly bright,",1.0 +"How cursed the Fate! How hard the Fisher's Lot,",0.0 +"Mid all the Gloom, and Horrors of the Night,",1.0 +"To catch the falling Ice, and hoary Frost;",0.0 +While the soft Dames of the luxurious Town,6.0 +"On yielding Beds are laid, and every Clown",0.0 +"Then eats his fill; and thus by Heaven blessed,",0.0 +"With waking Care, when we at length have caught",1.0 +"The squeamish Town rejects it all with Scorn,",0.0 +And empty we with fruitless Pain return.,1.0 +"OH! might I live content a Shepherd Swain,",0.0 +"And sit on grassy Vales, and view the circling Plain:",0.0 +"How blessed were I, would me the Gods allow",0.0 +"To goad the Ox, and hold the bending Plough,",0.0 +Or on the rising Ridge with equal Hand,1.0 +"To strow the scattered Seeds, and stock the furrowed Land.",0.0 +"Thus he; But aged Sire, whose hoary Head",2.0 +"Had seen more Years, with calm Experience said,",2.0 +All their Fortune is of all the worst;,1.0 +Each Man himself a Judge is truly cursed.,0.0 +"Through Ignorance we commend a Life unknown,",3.0 +"While he as much complains; is pined with Care,",0.0 +And gladly would exchange his envied Share.,0.0 +"The Gods on us a daily Feast bestow,",1.0 +"For which no Price we pay, no Thanks we owe.",2.0 +"Even when they stink, long kept and we despise.",2.0 +"While on sour Herbs the Shepherd's poorly feed,",0.0 +With Sighs he eats what he with Sorrow found:,1.0 +"He grieves his Loss, and ever is in pain",1.0 +"By snowy Winters, or by Summer's Rain.",1.0 +"All do not love in clotting Fields to sweat,",0.0 +"While waving Heaps are by the Zephyrs fanned,",1.0 +"And wanton Gales, that whistle in the Weeds,",0.0 +"Who will not gather the deserted Shells,",1.0 +"Or climb steep Rocks, and search the hollow Cells",1.0 +"For hidden Eggs, while all the Birds in vain",0.0 +"No earthy Fumes, or noisy Insect here",2.0 +"Disturb, or taint the unmolested Air.",0.0 +"Venus protects the Sea, from whence she came,",2.0 +And Love in Water can preserve his Flame.,1.0 +"The Nymph to leavy Woods, and shady Groves",0.0 +The Sea prefers; the Sea the Triton loves;,0.0 +"While he defends our Isle from hostile Fleets,",1.0 +The Fisher undisturbed at leisure sits;,0.0 +"Or boisterous Fish, who will not be confined.",1.0 +"But pleasing looks, and often hails our Boat.",0.0 +"If ever he comes again, he has from me",2.0 +"The choicest Spoils of all the rifled Sea,",0.0 +"He said, and from him shook the falling Ice,",1.0 +When to him thus enlivened Youth replies.,0.0 +"No Midnight Chills can harm, nor falling Sleet;",2.0 +"Though the bright Moon, and every shining Star",2.0 +"Increase the Cold, and whet the piercing Air:",0.0 +"And from the Shelves, and Rocks unseen defend.",1.0 +Dashed in rough Storms sink down to Fish a grateful Prey.,1.0 +"Would he permit, I'd leave my fishing Oars,",1.0 +And venture on the Main to distant Shores.,1.0 +"I am no Stranger to the Seas, and know",3.0 +"What it's to dance on Waves, when Winds too rudely blow.",1.0 +Fond Youth returns the Sire wilt thou compare,3.0 +These rotten Boats to mighty Ships of War?,0.0 +And with their Masts over-lock the flitting Clouds;,7.0 +"Would loose thy Hold, and turn thy swimming Eyes.",0.0 +"Ambition suits not him, whose Birth is mean;",1.0 +"The Gods despise the proud, and love the humble Swain.",0.0 +"I drove the Fish, and the unthinking Throng",1.0 +"Press to their Boat, and fill the swelling Net;",0.0 +"They joyous seize the Prey, and all their Pain forget.",0.0 +"THESE, as they change, Almighty Father! these,",2.0 +Are but the varied God. The rolling Year,1.0 +Is full of Thee. Forth in the pleasing Spring,0.0 +"Thy Beauty walks, Thy Tenderness and Love.",1.0 +Echo the mountains round; the forests live;,2.0 +"And every sense, and every heart is joy.",0.0 +"With light, and heat, severe. Prone, then thy Sun",1.0 +Shoots full perfection through the swelling year.,2.0 +And oft thy voice in awful thunder speaks;,0.0 +"And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve,",1.0 +"In Autumn unconfined. Thrown from thy lap,",2.0 +"Profuse over nature, falls the lucid shower",5.0 +Into the stores of sterile Winter pours.,0.0 +In Winter dreadful Thou! with clouds and storms,1.0 +"Around Thee thrown, tempest over tempest rolled,",3.0 +And humblest nature with thy northern blast.,3.0 +"Mysterious round! what skill, what force divine,",1.0 +"One following one in such enchanting sort,",2.0 +"And all so forming such a perfect whole,",2.0 +"But wondering oft, with brute unconscious gaze,",3.0 +"Man marks Thee not, marks not the mighty hand,",1.0 +"Works in the secret deep; shoots, steaming, thence",1.0 +Flings from the sun direct the flaming Day;,0.0 +"And, as on earth this grateful change revolves,",1.0 +With transport touches all the springs of life.,0.0 +"Nature, attend; join every living soul,",3.0 +"Beneath the spacious temple of the sky,",1.0 +"In adoration join; and, ardent, raise",0.0 +"An universal Hymn! to Him, you gales,",1.0 +Breathe soft; whose spirit teaches you to breathe.,2.0 +Fills the brown void with a religious awe.,4.0 +"And you, whose bolder note is heard afar,",1.0 +"Who shake the astonished world, lift high to heaven",3.0 +"The impetuous song, and say from whom you rage.",1.0 +And let me catch it as I muse along.,1.0 +"You headlong torrents, rapid, and profound;",2.0 +"You softer floods, that lead the humid maze",0.0 +"Along the vale; and thou, majestic main,",1.0 +"A secret world of wonders in thyself,",0.0 +Sound His tremendous praise; whose greater voice,2.0 +"Roll up your incense, herbs, and fruits, and flowers,",1.0 +"In mingled clouds to Him; whose sun elates,",1.0 +"Whose hand perfumes you, and whose pencil paints",1.0 +"You forests, bend; you harvests, wave to Him:",0.0 +"Homeward, rejoicing with the joyous moon.",3.0 +"You that keep watch in heaven, as earth asleep",1.0 +"You constellations, while your angles strike,",0.0 +"Amid the spangled sky, the silver lyre.",0.0 +Great source of day! best image here below,2.0 +"Of thy creator, ever darting wide,",1.0 +"From world to world, the vital ocean round,",0.0 +On nature write with every beam his praise.,0.0 +The thunder rolls: be hushed the prostrate world;,0.0 +While cloud to cloud returns the dreadful hymn.,0.0 +"Retain the sound: the broad responsive low,",0.0 +"You valleys, raise; for the great Shepherd reigns;",2.0 +And yet again the golden age returns.,0.0 +"Wildest of creatures, be not silent here;",2.0 +"You woodlands all, awake: a general song",0.0 +"Burst from the groves; and when the restless day,",0.0 +"Expiring, lays the warbling world asleep,",0.0 +"Sweetest of birds! sweet Philomela, charm",3.0 +The listening shades; and through the midnight hour;,2.0 +"That night, as well as day, may vouch His praise.",0.0 +"You chief, for whom the whole creation smiles;",0.0 +"At once the head, the heart, and mouth of all,",0.0 +"Crown the great Hymn! in swarming cities vast,",3.0 +"Concourse of men, to the deep organ join",3.0 +"At solemn pauses, through the swelling base;",1.0 +"Or if you rather choose the rural shade,",1.0 +To find a fane in every sacred grove;,0.0 +"There let the shepherd's flute, the virgin's chant,",0.0 +"Still sing the God of Seasons, as they roll.",2.0 +"For me, when I forget the darling theme,",2.0 +"Russets the plain, delicious Autumn gleams;",2.0 +"Be my tongue mute, may fancy paint no more,",4.0 +"And, dead to joy, forget my heart to beat.",0.0 +Should fate command me to the farthest verge,1.0 +"Of the green earth, to hostile barbarous climes,",4.0 +Rivers unknown to song; where first the sun,2.0 +"Since God is ever present, ever felt,",0.0 +"In the void waste, as in the city full;",2.0 +"Rolls the same kindred Seasons round the world,",3.0 +"In all apparent, wise, and good in all;",0.0 +"Since He sustains, and animates the whole;",1.0 +"And better thence again, and better still,",0.0 +In infinite progression. ' -- But I lose,2.0 +"Myself in Him, in light ineffable!",2.0 +"Come then, expressive Silence, muse his praise.",1.0 +"The God for ever Great, for ever King;",0.0 +Arcadian therefore be Thy Birth: Great Rhea,4.0 +"Holy Retreat! Since no Female hither,",4.0 +"Conscious of Social Love and Nature's Rites,",2.0 +"Must dare approach, from the inferior Reptile",3.0 +"To Woman, Form Divine. There the blessed Parent",2.0 +"The ponderous Birth: She sought a neighbouring Spring,",3.0 +"To wash the recent Babe: In vain: Arcadia,",1.0 +Obscure with rising Dust: the thirsty Traveller,1.0 +"In vain required the Current, then imprisoned",0.0 +In subterranean Caverns: Forests grew,3.0 +"Thou too, OH Earth, great Rhea said, bring forth;",3.0 +And short shall be thy Pangs: She said; and high,0.0 +"She reared her Arm, and with her Sceptre struck",1.0 +And cheered the Valleys: There the Heavenly Mother,3.0 +"Bathed, mighty King, Thy tender Limbs: She wrapped them",1.0 +In purple Bands: She gave the precious Pledge,0.0 +"To prudent Neda, charging her to guard Thee,",1.0 +Careful and secret: Neda of the Nymphs,3.0 +"And Styx, the eldest. Smiling She received Thee,",1.0 +"And conscious of the Grace, absolved her Trust:",1.0 +Their fleecy Charge; and joyous drink her Wave.,0.0 +Distilled her Honey on Thy purple Lips.,1.0 +Industrious with the warlike Din to quell,2.0 +"Waited Thy blooming Years: Inventive Wit,",2.0 +And perfect Judgement crowned Thy youthful Act.,1.0 +That Saturn's Sons received the threefold Empire,1.0 +"Of Heaven, of Ocean, and deep Hell beneath,",2.0 +"As the dark Urn and Chance of Lot determined,",2.0 +Well nigh equivalent and neighbouring Value,4.0 +"By Lot are parted: But high Heaven, Thy Share,",2.0 +"In equal Balance laid against Sea or Hell,",3.0 +"Flings up the adverse Scale, and shuns Proportion.",1.0 +"Wherefore not Chance, but Power, above Thy Brothers",4.0 +"Exalted Thee, their King. When Thy great Will",1.0 +"Commands Thy Chariot forth; impetuous Strength,",2.0 +"And fiery Swiftness wing the rapid Wheels,",2.0 +Incessant; high the Eagle flies before Thee.,0.0 +"And o! as I and mine consult Thy Augur,",2.0 +Grant the glad Omen; let Thy Favourite rise,3.0 +"Propitious, ever soaring from the Right.",1.0 +Thou to the lesser Gods hast well assigned,1.0 +Boundless and universal. Those who labour,3.0 +"The sweaty Forge, who edge the crooked Scythe,",0.0 +Acknowledge Vulcan's Aid. The early Hunter,0.0 +"Over hanging Cliffs; who spreads his Net successful,",0.0 +And guides the Arrow through the Panther's Heart.,1.0 +"The Soldier from successful Camps returning,",1.0 +To make his Hero and Himself Immortal.,1.0 +"Who model Nations, publish Laws, announce",0.0 +"Or Life or Death, and found or change the Empire.",0.0 +And as their Actions tend subordinate,1.0 +How They those Means employ. Each Monarch rules,1.0 +"His different Realm, accountable to Thee,",1.0 +Great Ruler of the World: These only have,2.0 +To speak and be obeyed; to Those are given,1.0 +Assistant Days to ripen the Design;,1.0 +To some whole Months; revolving Years to some:,1.0 +"Others, ill fated, are condemned to toil",4.0 +"Their tedious Life, and mourn their Purpose blasted",2.0 +"With fruitless Act, and Impotence of Council.",1.0 +"Hail! greatest Son of Saturn, wise Disposer",1.0 +Of every Good: Thy Praise what Man yet born,0.0 +Has sung? or who that may be born shall sing?,0.0 +"Again, and often hail! indulge our Prayer,",0.0 +"Great Father! grant us Virtue, grant us Wealth:",1.0 +"And Virtue without Wealth exerts less Power,",6.0 +"And less diffuses Good. Then grant us, Gracious,",0.0 +"Virtue, and Wealth; for both are of Thy Gift.",3.0 +Or all the envied Gifts the Gods bestow?,0.0 +"His Wisdom Folly, Length of Time a Span,",0.0 +"His Life is Vanity, his Death is Woe!",1.0 +"Could Wit protect, had Genius power to save,",2.0 +"Did they immortal Life with Fame impart,",1.0 +"Alexis never had known a dreary Grave,",2.0 +Death never had drenched an Arrow in his Heart.,3.0 +"Mourn, mourn, you Spirits, who delight in Mirth;",1.0 +In yonder Tomb Alexis breathless lies;,0.0 +"The Soul of Wit, that gave your Laughter Birth,",0.0 +"Inhabits, once again, her native Skies.",0.0 +How fixed those Features which so well portrayed,0.0 +"How dull those Eyes that could so well upbraid,",1.0 +"Weep, you who bend beneath the savage Rod",0.0 +"Of stern Oppression, spurning human Laws,",0.0 +"Your Champion, covered by yonder senseless Sod,",4.0 +"Who dragged your dark Misdeeds to public Shame,",0.0 +"Your scourge is fled, no longer shall you know",1.0 +"The Eye that filled with Laughter every Face,",0.0 +How ghastly now his Grin! No latent Spark,1.0 +Of newfound Wit sheds Dimples over his Cheek;,4.0 +No heavy Blockhead dreads himself the Mark,1.0 +On whom the biting Gibe shall shortly break.,0.0 +"Where now the Shouts that Theatres have rent,",1.0 +While Laughter roared and begged to be relieved?,0.0 +"Ah! where the Plaudits every Hand has sent,",0.0 +When Humour brought forth all that Wit conceived?,1.0 +In Metre melancholic let if flow;,1.0 +"In Wails, and Sighs, and Tears, shrill sad and slow.",1.0 +"But o! THALIA, be thy Sorrows loud,",0.0 +"Ah! shed the Drop most precious over his Shroud,",2.0 +For sure a Son like him deserves a Tear.,1.0 +Full well he once was known thy dear Delight;,1.0 +"Quit every pointed Weapon of Redress,",2.0 +"No more we catch your Meaning from his Eye,",1.0 +"Or guides your galling Arrows as they fly,",1.0 +To strike the guilty Sinner through the Heart.,1.0 +"With Freaks and Bounds in antic Circles play,",0.0 +"Attend your kindred Genius to his Home,",1.0 +Proclaim him welcome to the Realms of Day.,1.0 +"And round the Poet's Temples Laurel twine,",0.0 +"Forsake your Sports; and, if you know to weep,",1.0 +"If ever your silken Lids sustain such Dew,",2.0 +"Here pour your Tears, ' -- behold, in endless Sleep,",0.0 +"Over Hill, over Dale, or mid the Virgin Throng;",3.0 +Who sing so sweet in many a witching Song;,2.0 +"And as you pass the Mountain, Mead, or Dell,",1.0 +Collect the Sweets that most delight the Muse.,0.0 +"Bring every Spell and Charm, each Fruit and Flower,",1.0 +"Each Herb, each Plant to Poet fragrant found;",0.0 +"With all due Rites erect the Cypress Bower,",1.0 +"And bless the Turf, and consecrate the Ground.",0.0 +"Then while coy Phoebe grants her glimmering Beam,",3.0 +"And flitting Ghosts entrance the fearful Eye,",5.0 +"On broken Vows while Maids, forsaken, dream,",0.0 +And start and weep with many a mournful Sigh;,2.0 +Your Vigils keep ' -- with shrill and sudden Shout,0.0 +"Enough, fair FANCY, lightly bound away; ' --",1.0 +"Advance PHILOSOPHY. Lo! TRUTH appears,",2.0 +"Who, with her sober Mien, and moral Lay,",0.0 +"Grasped half the Globe, and daft the Hours away;",1.0 +"Crowns gave for Playthings, Slaves of Monarchs made,",3.0 +Then dropped a little Lump of lifeless Clay.,0.0 +"Had he not better far, in peaceful Lore,",0.0 +"Turned over the moral Page, and smiled serene,",3.0 +"Than, thus delighting in the Battle's Roar,",0.0 +"He heeds not, hears not, RUMOUR'S fickle Blast;",3.0 +And all who live to hear and read his Name,0.0 +"With fancied Dignity important grown,",1.0 +Man acts as though his Follies were to last;,3.0 +"What melancholy Scenes salute his Eyes,",0.0 +Prophetic Lessons of approaching Fate;,1.0 +"Still he pursues each Phantom as it flies,",3.0 +And loses Happiness in finding State.,1.0 +"Blessed be the Sons of Science, Nymph sublime!",0.0 +"She lures her Children to the calm Retreat,",1.0 +"And solves the Problem, and suggests the Rhyme,",1.0 +And to the dulcet Sound directs the Feet.,1.0 +"She prompts the Song to Love, to Peace, and Joy;",0.0 +"She knows no Sorrows, for she feels no Wants.",3.0 +"She philosophic Temperance loves to cheer,",0.0 +"And bids to shun, like Death, imagined Ills;",0.0 +Who know no Medium to their wayward Wills.,2.0 +Blessed be Alexis! Science loves the Name;,1.0 +He well approved him of her darling Race;,1.0 +"And be that Wretch accursed who damns his Fame,",0.0 +Or would his little Follies backward trace!,0.0 +"SWEET Peace! ah, lead me from the thorny dale,",2.0 +Where desolate my wandering steps have fled;,2.0 +"Far from the sunny paths which others tread,",0.0 +"While youth enlivens, and while joys prevail.",1.0 +"No more the fruitless tear shall love to shed,",0.0 +"When pensive eve her cherished gloom has spread,",0.0 +"And day's bright tints, like my short pleasures, fail!",3.0 +"Yet lead me not where blooms the glowing rose,",0.0 +But lead me where the cypress branches wave;,0.0 +"There would my weary heart in youth repose,",0.0 +Beneath the turf that shrouds an early grave.,0.0 +"Hence you profane Intruders, what d'e mean,",3.0 +"Your Pastor wonders at your Insolence,",1.0 +It's Treason against your Ecclesiastic Prince.,4.0 +"And if possessed, not questioned how obtained:",2.0 +"The mighty Mysteries he so long concealed,",1.0 +"Sure, the last Trumpet can't amaze him more,",3.0 +For he till then had set it on the Score;,2.0 +"In vain he'll to the Horns of the Altar fly,",1.0 +Alias his Patron for Security:,3.0 +"Had they been guided by the Patroness,",2.0 +She kindly had contrived the Danger less:,0.0 +For she was nobly guided by her Love:,2.0 +"Thought Youth and Wit sufficient to prefer,",2.0 +They were more tempting Things than Gold with her.,1.0 +"But now the Favourite must his Purchase quit,",0.0 +"And live, not by his Learning, but his Wit.",2.0 +"IN that remote and solitary place,",0.0 +"Which the seas wash, and circling hills embrace,",3.0 +"Where those lone walls amid the groves arise,",3.0 +"All that remains of thee, famed Williams, lies.",2.0 +"The wandering Muse her pensive journey took,",2.0 +"Curious to trace the statesman to his home,",2.0 +"She came not, with the pilgrim, tears to shed,",1.0 +"Mutter a vow, or trifle with a bead,",3.0 +"But such a sadness did her thoughts employ,",1.0 +"Reflecting much upon the mighty shade,",0.0 +"His glories, and his miseries, she said:",2.0 +"Perhaps the dust is Williams, that we tread.",0.0 +"The learnt, ambitious, politic, and great,",0.0 +"Statesman, and prelate, this alas! thy fate.",3.0 +"Could not thy Lincoln yield her pastor room,",0.0 +Could not thy York supply thee with a tomb?,1.0 +"For this, thy hand over rivals could prevail,",7.0 +And on aspiring Buckingham look down.,3.0 +"This thy gay morn, ' -- but ere the day decline",2.0 +"Clouds gather, and adversity is thine.",3.0 +What had thy trembling age to do with arms?,0.0 +Why was thy life protracted to be cursed?,1.0 +"Thy king in chains, ' -- thyself by lawless might",0.0 +"Striped of all power, and exiled from thy right.",2.0 +"Awhile the venerable hero stood,",1.0 +And stemmed with quivering limbs the boisterous flood;,2.0 +"At length, overmatched by injuries and time,",2.0 +Cambria for him with moans her region fills:,2.0 +She wept his downfall from a thousand hills:,2.0 +"Tender embraced her prelate though undone,",3.0 +"And, when he died, received him in her breast.",0.0 +"Envied Ambition! what are all thy schemes,",2.0 +"But waking misery, or pleasing dreams,",1.0 +Sliding and tottering on the heights of state!,3.0 +The subject of this verse declares thy fate.,1.0 +"Great as he was, you see how small the gain,",1.0 +"A burial so obscure, a Muse so mean.",3.0 +"IT'S Nature here bids pleasing scenes arise,",1.0 +To veil each blemish; brighten every grace;,0.0 +Yet still preserve the lovely Parent's face.,0.0 +"How well the bard obeys, each valley tells;",0.0 +"These lucid streams, gay meads, and lonely cells;",1.0 +Where modest art in silence lurks concealed:,0.0 +"While Nature shines, so gracefully revealed,",1.0 +That she triumphant claims the total plan;,1.0 +"And, with fresh pride, adopts the work of man.",2.0 +"WHILE Night in solemn shade invests the pole,",0.0 +"While Reason undisturbed asserts her sway,",0.0 +This peaceful interval of sober thought.,1.0 +"Here all my better faculties confine,",1.0 +And be this hour of sacred silence thine.,1.0 +"If by the day's illusive scenes misled,",1.0 +My erring soul from Virtue's path has strayed:,0.0 +"Snared by example, or by passion warmed,",3.0 +"Some false delight my giddy sense has charmed,",0.0 +"Deprived of this, can life one joy afford!",1.0 +"But ah! how oft my lawless passions rove,",0.0 +And break those awful precepts I approve!,2.0 +"Pursue the fatal impulse I abhor,",1.0 +And violate the Virtue I adore!,2.0 +Oft when thy better spirit's guardian care,2.0 +"Warmed my fond soul to shun the tempting snare,",3.0 +My stubborn Will his gentle aid repressed.,1.0 +"And checked the rising Goodness in my breast,",0.0 +"Mad with vain hopes, or urged by false desires,",3.0 +"With grief oppressed, and prostrate in the dust,",0.0 +"But o! thy softer titles let me claim,",1.0 +And dissipates the horrors of Despair:,1.0 +From rigorous Justice steals the vengeful hour;,2.0 +Softens the dreadful attribute of Power;,2.0 +And teach my rebel passions to obey:,1.0 +Lest lurking Folly with insidious art,2.0 +"Shall every high resolve Devotion frames,",0.0 +Be only lifeless sounds and specious names?,0.0 +"OH rather while thy hopes and fears control,",1.0 +"In this still hour each motion of my soul,",4.0 +"Secure its safety by a sudden doom,",1.0 +And be the soft retreat of Sleep my tomb.,0.0 +"Calm let me slumber in that dark repose,",1.0 +Till the last morn its orient beam disclose:,5.0 +"Then, when the great Archangel's potent sound",6.0 +"Shall echo through Creation's ample round,",1.0 +"Excuse me, Stella, sunk in humble state,",0.0 +With more than needful awe I view the great;,0.0 +"No glossy diction ever can aid the thought,",3.0 +"First stamped in ignorance, with error fraught.",2.0 +"When first I saw them, and my mental eyes",1.0 +"Shall in that heavenly rapture view them still,",2.0 +For mine's a stubborn and a savage will;,2.0 +"No customs, manners, or soft arts I boast,",3.0 +On my rough soul your nicest rules are lost;,2.0 +While Stella deigns to nurse the spark divine.,0.0 +"A savage pleads ' -- let even her errors move,",3.0 +And your forgiving spirit melt in love.,1.0 +"Your gift, though sharpest miseries invade!",1.0 +"Like his, your influence cheers wherever it's given;",4.0 +"Blessed in dispensing! gentle Stella, hear",1.0 +"That thy great soul may spare the rustic Muse,",3.0 +"Whom Science ever scorned, and errors still abuse.",0.0 +PEACE to the spot where his remains are laid;,1.0 +May purest bliss await his friendly shade!,0.0 +Nature by him had done her noblest part:,1.0 +"She gave a head, nor yet denied a heart.",0.0 +"FROM horrid mountains ever hid in snow,",0.0 +"And barren lands, and dreary plains below;",0.0 +"To you, dear sir, my best regards I send,",2.0 +"The weakest reasoner, as the truest friend.",1.0 +"Your arguments, that vainly strive to please,",1.0 +"Your arts, your country, and your palaces;",2.0 +What signs of Roman grandeur still remain ' --,5.0 +Much you have said; and much have said in vain.,0.0 +"Fine pageants these for slaves, to please the eye;",2.0 +And put the neatest dress on misery!,1.0 +Unhappy man! you trifle with your chain:,1.0 +"But should your friend with your desires comply,",1.0 +And sell himself to Rome and slavery;,1.0 +Or hide the noble anguish of his heart:,1.0 +"For, trust me, I should make an awkward slave.",1.0 +"Falsely you blame our barren rocks and plains,",2.0 +"Our peasants cheerful to the field repair,",1.0 +"While yours, beneath some tree, with mournful eyes,",1.0 +Sees for his haughty lord his harvests rise:,0.0 +Then silent sighs; but stops his slavish breath:,0.0 +"He silent sighs: for should he speak, it's death.",0.0 +"Hence from our field the lazy grain we call,",0.0 +"Too much for want, for luxury too small:",2.0 +"In arms we breed our youth. To dart from far,",0.0 +"To ward the stroke, or bear upon the foe.",0.0 +"Early in hardships through the woods they fly,",3.0 +"Some prowling wolf or foamy boar to meet,",0.0 +And stretch the panting savage at their feet:,0.0 +And show an honest pride in every scar;,0.0 +"With joy the danger and the blood partake,",1.0 +"But you, soft warriors, forced into the field,",2.0 +"For well this universal truth you know,",0.0 +"I envy not your arts, the Roman schools,",0.0 +"Improved, perhaps, but to enslave your souls.",1.0 +"May you to stone, or nerves or beauty give,",1.0 +And teach the softening marble how to live;,1.0 +"May you the passions in your colours trace,",2.0 +And work up every piece with every grace;,0.0 +"In airs and attitudes be wondrous wise,",0.0 +"And know the arts to please, or to surprise;",1.0 +"In music's softest sound consume the day,",0.0 +Sounds that would melt the warrior's soul away:,0.0 +"Vain efforts these, an honest fame to raise;",2.0 +"Grant us more real goods, you heavenly powers!",3.0 +"Virtue, and arms, and liberty be ours.",3.0 +Weak are your offers to the free and brave;,1.0 +No bribe can purchase me to be a slave.,2.0 +"Hear me, you rocks, you mountains, and you plains,",1.0 +"In thee, my country, will I fix my seat;",1.0 +"Nor envy the poor wretch, that would be great:",2.0 +My life and arms I dedicate to thee; ' --,0.0 +"For, know, it is my interest to be free.",2.0 +"Unhappy Man! who through successive Years,",1.0 +From early Youth to Life's last Childhood errs;,2.0 +"No sooner born, but proves a Foe to Truth;",1.0 +For Infant Reason is overpowered in Youth:,3.0 +The Cheats of Sense will half our Learning share;,0.0 +And Pre-Conceptions all our Knowledge are.,1.0 +"Reason, it's true, should over Sense preside,",2.0 +"Correct our Notions, and our Judgement guide;",1.0 +"But false Opinions, rooted in the Mind,",0.0 +"Hoodwink the Soul, and keep our Reason blind.",1.0 +"Reason's a Taper, which but saintly burns,",2.0 +"A languid Flame, that glows, and dies by Turns;",0.0 +"We travel by its Light, as Men by Day.",1.0 +"Like Morning Stars, that never stay till Noon.",0.0 +"The Soul can scarce above the Body rise,",0.0 +"Life now does scarce one Glimpse of Light display,",1.0 +We mourn in Darkness and despair of Day;,1.0 +"That natural Light, once dressed with Orient Beams,",2.0 +"Is now diminished, and a Twilight seems,",2.0 +"A miscellaneous Composition made,",2.0 +"Of Night, and Day, of Sunshine, and of Shade.",2.0 +"Through an uncertain Medium now we look,",3.0 +"And find That, Falsehood, which for Truth we took.",1.0 +"So Rays projected from the Eastern Skies,",1.0 +Show the false Day before the Sun can rise.,3.0 +"That little Knowledge now which Man obtains,",0.0 +From outward Objects and from Sense he gains;,1.0 +"He like a wretched Slave, must plod and sweat,",0.0 +"By Day must toil, by Night that Toil repeat;",0.0 +And yet at last what little Fruit he gains?,0.0 +"The Passions still predominant will rule,",1.0 +"Our Understanding they with Darkness fill,",1.0 +"Cause strong Corruptions, and pervert the Will;",2.0 +"On these the Soul, as on some flowing Tide,",2.0 +"Must sit, and on the raging Billows ride,",1.0 +"Hurried away, for how can be withstood",3.0 +The impetuous Torrent of the boiling Blood?,2.0 +"Can we be free, where these the Rule maintain:",1.0 +These are the Tools of Knowledge which we use;,1.0 +"The Spirits heated, will strange things produce;",2.0 +"Tell me who ever the Passions could control,",2.0 +Or from the Body disengage the Soul;,2.0 +"Till this is done, our best Pursuits are vain",1.0 +To conquer Truth and unmixed Knowledge gain:,5.0 +"Through all the bulky Volumes of the Dead,",1.0 +And through those Books that modern times have bred.,1.0 +"With pain we travel, as through moorish Ground,",1.0 +Where scarce one useful Plant is ever found;,0.0 +"Overrun with Errors which so thick appear,",0.0 +"Our Search proves vain, no Spark of truth is there.",2.0 +"What's all the noisy Jargon of the Schools,",1.0 +"But idle Nonsense of laborious Fools,",3.0 +Who fetter Reason with perplexing Rules.,1.0 +"What in Aquinas, bulky Works are found",0.0 +"Does not enlighten Reason, but confound.",1.0 +A Cloud of Darkness rising on the Mind.,1.0 +When Passion or Conceit still hurries us away?,3.0 +"Thus his new Notions Sherlock would instill,",4.0 +And clear the greatest Mysteries at will.,1.0 +"But by unlucky Wit perplexed them more,",1.0 +And made them darker than they were before.,2.0 +"South soon opposed him out of Christian Zeal,",2.0 +Showing how well he could dispute and rail:,2.0 +"How shall we ever discover which is right,",2.0 +When both so eagerly maintain the Fight?,1.0 +"Each does the other's Arguments deride,",1.0 +Each has the Church and Scripture on his Side.,1.0 +"Both may be wrong, one perhaps errs the least:",5.0 +"How shall we know which Articles are true,",1.0 +"In Paths uncertain, and unsafe he treads,",1.0 +Who blindly follows other's fertile Heads.,0.0 +"What sure, what certain Mark have we to know,",1.0 +"The right or wrong, betwixt Burgess, Wake, and Howe?",4.0 +What Health can that contentious Tribe impart?,0.0 +"Every Physician writes a different Bill,",1.0 +And gives no other Reason but his Will.,2.0 +"No longer boast your Art, you impious Race,",3.0 +"Gibbons and Radcliffe do but rarely guess,",2.0 +"Even Garth and Sir Richard Blackmore. Maurus sometime shall prevail,",4.0 +"When Gibson, learnt Hannes, and Tyson fail:",3.0 +"Missing the Gout, by chance has hit the Stone;",2.0 +"The Patient does the lucky Error find,",0.0 +"A Cure he works, though not the Cure designed.",0.0 +"Custom, the World's great Idol we adore,",4.0 +"And knowing this, we seek to know no more;",2.0 +"What Education did at first receive,",0.0 +Our ripened Age confirms us to believe;,1.0 +"The careful Nurse, and Priest is all we need",0.0 +"The Parents Precepts early are instilled,",2.0 +"And spoil the Man, while they instruct the Child.",1.0 +"To what hard Fate is Human kind betrayed,",1.0 +When thus implicit Faith's a Virtue made?,0.0 +"When Education more than Truth prevails,",0.0 +"Thus from the time we first begin to know,",0.0 +"We live and learn, but not the wiser grow.",0.0 +Nor judge of things by universal Light;,0.0 +"The Soul in Chains, and Lord it over the Mind;",2.0 +"Good Heavens! that Man should thus himself deceive,",2.0 +"To learn on Credit, and on Trust believe;",1.0 +"Better the Mind no Notions had retained,",3.0 +But still a fair unwritten Blank remained;,0.0 +"For now, who Truth from Falsehood would discern,",1.0 +"When once removed, will smooth the way to truth:",0.0 +"To dispossess the Child the Mortal lives,",0.0 +But Death approaches ever the Man arrives.,2.0 +The dear bought Purchase of the Trading Mind;,2.0 +"From many Dangers must themselves acquit,",0.0 +"O! What an Ocean must be Voyaged over,",0.0 +To gain a Prospect of the shining Shore;,1.0 +And adverse Waves retard it as they roll.,2.0 +"Does not that foolish Deference we pay,",1.0 +"To Men that lived long since, our Passage stay?",1.0 +What odd preposterous Paths at first we tread?,0.0 +"And learn to walk, by stumbling on the Dead.",1.0 +"First we a Blessing from the Grave implore,",1.0 +"He lived long since, and must be wondrous Wise;",1.0 +"Thus are we Debtors to the famous Dead,",1.0 +For all those Errors which their Fancies bred;,0.0 +"With those first times, nor farther was conveyed:",3.0 +"While light Opinions are much lower brought,",1.0 +For on the Waves of Ignorance they float;,2.0 +"But solid truth scarce ever gains the Shore,",1.0 +So soon it sinks and never emerges more.,1.0 +"Suppose those many dreadful Dangers past,",0.0 +"Will Knowledge dawn, and bless the Mind at last?",0.0 +"Hides all its Charms, and undiscovered lies.",0.0 +"Truth like a single Point escapes the Sight,",0.0 +And claims Intention to perceive it right;,1.0 +Spread like a Surface and expanded wide.,1.0 +"The first Man rarely, very rarely finds",1.0 +"But yet what's worse, we know not when we err;",0.0 +"What Mark does truth, what bright Distinction bear?",0.0 +"How do we know, that what we Know, is True,",0.0 +"How shall we Falsehood Fly, and Truth Pursue;",1.0 +"Let none then here, his certain Knowledge boast,",1.0 +It's all but Probability at most;,1.0 +"This is the easy Purchase of the Mind,",2.0 +"But Truth lies hid, and ever we can explore",4.0 +"The glittering Gem, our fleeting Life is over.",2.0 +"THat Virtue Points our Way to Happiness,",1.0 +Even the Profane in Cooler Moods Confess:,1.0 +"But Because the Brave and generous are Few,",2.0 +Thin Trains this Guide to Happiness pursue.,2.0 +"Who' Vouch her Cause, must' bet a Suffering side",2.0 +Exposed to all the Outrages of Pride.,4.0 +Mean Souls desert afflicted Majesty:,2.0 +But when just Heaven and sure that Time draws on,2.0 +"Restores this Empress to her Starry Throne,",1.0 +With Crowns She will enrich her Loyall Few.,1.0 +While Shame and Vengeance Crush the Rebel Crew.,0.0 +"WE wish for thee, dear friend! for summer eve",2.0 +Looks of more lingering sweetness than the last.,1.0 +"The slanting sun, reluctant to bereave",1.0 +"Thy woods of beauty, fondly seemed to leave",0.0 +"Smiles of the softest light, that slowly past",0.0 +In bright succession over each charm thou hast,2.0 +Thyself so oft admired. And we might grieve,1.0 +Thine eye of taste should ever wander hence,0.0 +Over scenes less lovely than thine own; but here,2.0 +"Thou wilt return, and feel thy home more dear;",0.0 +"More dear the Muses' gentler influence,",4.0 +"And heart uninjured, thou hast gazed awhile.",1.0 +"HEALTH to my friend, and long unbroken years,",0.0 +By storms unruffled and unstained by tears:,1.0 +Winged by new joys may each white minute fly;,3.0 +"Spring on her cheek, and sunshine in her eye:",1.0 +"Over that dear breast, where love and pity springs,",1.0 +May peace eternal spread her downy wings:,0.0 +And fair ideas all her fancy fill.,0.0 +From glittering scenes which strike the dazzled sight,2.0 +"With mimic grandeur and illusive light,",4.0 +"From idle hurry, and tumultuous noise,",4.0 +"From hollow friendships, and from sickly joys,",1.0 +"Will DELIA, at the muse's call retire",0.0 +To the pure pleasures rural scenes inspire?,2.0 +"Will she from crowds and busy cities fly,",1.0 +"Where wreaths of curling smoke involve the sky,",0.0 +"To taste the grateful shade of spreading trees,",0.0 +And drink the spirit of the mountain breeze?,1.0 +"And hollow winds foretell approaching storms,",0.0 +"Then Pleasure, like a bird of passage, flies",0.0 +"To brighter climes, and more indulgent skies;",0.0 +"Cities and courts allure her sprightly train,",2.0 +From the bleak mountain and the naked plain;,3.0 +"And gold and gems with artificial blaze,",0.0 +Supply the sickly sun's declining rays:,0.0 +But soon returning on the western gale,1.0 +She seeks the bosom of the grassy vale;,1.0 +And early primroses around her rise.,5.0 +"We'll follow where the smiling goddess leads,",0.0 +In silent glades her fairy footsteps trace:,1.0 +"Small pains there needs her footsteps to pursue,",3.0 +"She cannot fly from friendship, and from you.",1.0 +And over her bosom breathe the western winds:,2.0 +Had changed an icicle into a flower:,1.0 +And winter lingers in its icy veins.,0.0 +And each inferior flower of fainter hue;,4.0 +"And FLORA cries exulting, See my Rose!",0.0 +"The Muse invites, my DELIA haste away,",0.0 +And let us sweetly waste the careless day.,0.0 +Here gentle summits lift their airy brow;,0.0 +"Here bathed by frequent showers cool vales are seen,",3.0 +"Here smooth canals, across the extended plain,",2.0 +"Stretch their long arms, to join the distant main:",3.0 +The sons of toil with many a weary stroke,2.0 +Scoop the hard bosom of the solid rock;,4.0 +With steady patience work their gradual way;,2.0 +Compel the genius of the unwilling flood,3.0 +Through the brown horrors of the aged wood;,3.0 +"Cross the lone waste the silver urn they pour,",3.0 +And cheer the barren heath or sullen moor:,0.0 +The traveller with pleasing wonder sees,1.0 +"And views the altered landscape with surprise,",2.0 +And doubts the magic scenes which round him rise.,0.0 +"Now, like a flock of swans, above his head",0.0 +Their woven wings the flying vessels spread;,0.0 +"Now meeting streams in artful mazes glide,",1.0 +"Now through the hidden veins of earth they flow,",0.0 +"The ductile streams obey the guiding hand,",0.0 +And social plenty circles round the land.,0.0 +The Muses here have fixed their sacred seats.,0.0 +"Mark where its simple front yonder mansion rears,",3.0 +The nursery of men for future years:,1.0 +"Here callow chiefs and embryo statesmen lie,",6.0 +"By fame neglected, and unknown to song,",1.0 +"Had crept inglorious, like a vulgar stream,",1.0 +"Reflects the ascending seats with conscious pride,",2.0 +And dares to emulate a classic tide.,0.0 +"Soft music breathes along each opening shade,",3.0 +"With mystic lines his sands are figured over,",0.0 +And circles traced upon the lettered shore.,0.0 +And court the fair majestic form of truth.,0.0 +"Here nature opens all her secret springs,",0.0 +"Too long had bigot rage, with malice swelled,",1.0 +Too long to cheque her ardent progress strove:,2.0 +"Hangs on her flight, restrains her towering wing,",0.0 +Her rising pride shall mock the vain design;,0.0 +"Where science smiles, the Muses join the train;",0.0 +And gentlest arts and purest manners reign.,2.0 +"You generous youth who love this studious shade,",4.0 +How rich a field is to your hopes displayed!,1.0 +And virtue blossoms for a better age.,1.0 +What bliss did you but know that bliss were yours?,1.0 +"Perception quick, and luxury of thought;",1.0 +"Panting for fame, impatient of control;",3.0 +"And fond enthusiastic thought, that feeds",0.0 +On pictured tales of vast heroic deeds;,0.0 +"And quick affections, kindling into flame",0.0 +And spirits light to every joy in tune;,0.0 +And friendship ardent as a summer's noon;,1.0 +And generous scorn of vice's venal tribe;,4.0 +And proud disdain of interest's sordid bribe;,0.0 +And vivid fancy; and clear simple truth;,2.0 +And all the mental bloom of vernal youth.,0.0 +"Through the long perspective of distant years,",2.0 +"When this, this little group their country calls",0.0 +"To fix her laws, her spirit to sustain,",1.0 +And light up glory through her wide domain!,1.0 +"Their various tastes in different arts displayed,",2.0 +"Like tempered harmony of light and shade,",1.0 +"With friendly union in one mass shall blend,",0.0 +"And this adorn the state, and that defend.",1.0 +"These the sequestered shade shall cheaply please,",1.0 +"With learnt labour, and inglorious ease:",5.0 +"Rich fruits matured by glowing suns behold,",1.0 +"From every land the various harvest spoil,",2.0 +And bear the tribute to their native soil:,1.0 +"But tell each land while every toil they share,",0.0 +"Firm to sustain, and resolute to dare,",2.0 +And SOULS are ripened in our northern sky.,0.0 +Some pensive creep along the shelly shore;,0.0 +Unfold the silky texture of a flower;,1.0 +"With sharpened eyes inspect an hornet's sting,",0.0 +And all the wonders of an insect's wing.,2.0 +Some trace with curious search the hidden cause,2.0 +"Of nature's changes, and her various laws;",3.0 +And hunt her to her elemental forms:,1.0 +Or prove what hidden powers in herbs are found,2.0 +To quench disease and staunch the burning wound;,0.0 +"With cordial drops the fainting head sustain,",0.0 +"The patriot passion this shall strongly feel,",3.0 +"Ardent, and glowing with undaunted zeal;",3.0 +And vindicate the majesty of laws.,2.0 +"This clothed with Britain's thunder, spread alarms",0.0 +"Through the wide earth, and shake the pole with arms.",2.0 +"That to the sounding lyre his deeds rehearse,",0.0 +"Enshrine his name in some immortal verse,",0.0 +"To long posterity his praise consign,",1.0 +And pay a life of hardships by a line.,1.0 +"While others, consecrate to higher aims,",0.0 +"Love in their heart, persuasion in their tongue,",0.0 +"With words of peace shall charm the listening throng,",0.0 +"Draw the dread veil that wraps the eternal throne,",3.0 +And launch our souls into the bright unknown.,0.0 +"A master's pencil, and a poet's fire:",1.0 +"Unequal far such bright designs to paint,",0.0 +"My drooping Muse folds up her fluttering wing,",4.0 +And hides her head in the green lap of spring.,2.0 +Marshaled in even ranks the obsequious band;,6.0 +While all Arcadia opened on his mind:,3.0 +"But here sweet Waller breathed his amorous flame,",3.0 +"Here met the Muse, while gentle Love was by,",0.0 +"That tuned his lute, and wound the strings so high:",0.0 +And the groves flourish in eternal Spring.,2.0 +"Eternal Spring smiles in those green retreats,",1.0 +"No more the Monarch's, still the Muse's seats,",1.0 +"Where crowned with towers majestic Windsor stands,",2.0 +And the wide world beneath her feet commands:,2.0 +"There Britain's Genius fixed his awful throne,",0.0 +Encircled with that glorious blaze that springs,3.0 +"From conquered nations, and from captive kings:",1.0 +And even the imperial dome itself shall fall:,3.0 +"When those great names, the Warrior and the Sage,",4.0 +Lie clouded in the dark historic page;,1.0 +"Through Time's deep shades her sacred light display,",1.0 +"Queen of sweet numbers and melodious strains,",6.0 +If yet thou deign to visit Britain's plains;,0.0 +"If yet thy hallowed haunts partake thy love,",0.0 +"OH come, and range with me the aspiring glades,",2.0 +"Where Leicester spreads the lawns and forms the shades,",0.0 +And the tall column shoot into the skies:,2.0 +"Beneath whose proud survey, extended wide,",0.0 +"New scenes, new beauties charm on every side:",2.0 +"Here, crowned with woods, the shaded hills ascend,",0.0 +In open light there the low vales extend;,2.0 +"Here in rich harvests waves the ripened grain,",1.0 +"Sweetly intermixed, and lovely to behold,",1.0 +"The hills between, her liquid treasures leads;",0.0 +Holds the clear mirror of her crystal tides:,4.0 +"Her crystal tides reflect the waving scene,",0.0 +"As on the steep banks, bending over the flood,",4.0 +Grotesque and wild up springs the overshadowing wood;,2.0 +"Or the slope margin, with a softer rise,",3.0 +"Shade above shade, and rank over rank supplies;",3.0 +Its hallowed head with God's own temple crowned:,0.0 +Emerging from the waves the tall tower rise;,4.0 +"With transport bids the solemn structure hail,",0.0 +And winged for Britain speeds the flying sail.,0.0 +"In nearer view, mid the lawn's wide extent,",3.0 +"In just proportion rising on the sight,",1.0 +"The stately mansion lifts its towery height,",2.0 +"And glitters over the groves. An oak beneath,",2.0 +"That calls the cool gales through its boughs to breathe,",2.0 +"Where the sun darts his fervid rays in vain,",3.0 +The princely Leicester sits: the pageant pride,0.0 +In these blessed bowers he plans the great design;,4.0 +With heightened charms bids modest nature shine;,1.0 +"Though rich, yet chaste; though splendid, not profuse;",0.0 +Calls forth each beauty that from order springs;,1.0 +From its loved Greece each honoured Science brings;,2.0 +Over Art's fair train extends his generous care;,3.0 +And bids each polished Grace inhabit here.,0.0 +"Nor these alone: here Virtue loves to dwell,",1.0 +"Active and warm she breathes a noble part,",2.0 +"Glows in the breast, and opens all the heart;",0.0 +The substitute of heaven to bless mankind;,1.0 +"Pours joy, and gives neglected Worth to bloom;",1.0 +"She in each bosom stills the rising sigh,",0.0 +And wipes off every tear from every eye;,0.0 +From toil and cares bids Age and Want remove;,1.0 +"Fed by her hand, and by her bounty blessed.",1.0 +"These, these are rays that round true greatness shine,",2.0 +"And thine, bright Clifford! the full blaze is thine.",4.0 +The violet glowing in the lap of spring;,0.0 +"Each herb, each leaf of aromatic power;",0.0 +"The Muse's hand shall their mixed odours spread,",1.0 +And screw the ground where Clifford deigns to tread.,0.0 +"In distant prospect, sinking from the eye,",1.0 +Low in the tufted dales the hamlets lie;,0.0 +"More distant yet the thronged commercial town,",0.0 +"That makes the wealth of other worlds her own,",0.0 +"Lifts her proud head, and sees with every tide",3.0 +Or bids the parting vessel spread the sail,0.0 +"Loose to the wind, and catch the rising gale:",0.0 +"Rolls its broad wave, a world of waters, round.",3.0 +In sweet astonishment the impatient Mind,3.0 +"From scene to scene in rapid progress flies,",1.0 +"Glances from earth to seas, from seas to skies;",2.0 +"Delights to feel the great ideas roll,",0.0 +"Swell on the sense, and fill up all the soul.",0.0 +On the bare hill no tree was seen to spread,4.0 +The graceful foliage of its waving head;,1.0 +Nor hawthorn blossomed on the unsightly ground;,4.0 +Joy was not here; no bird of finer note,1.0 +"Lo, Leicester comes! Before his mastering hand",3.0 +Flies the rude Genius of the savage land;,4.0 +Starts from the wondering fields the golden ear;,2.0 +"Up rise the waving woods, and haste to crown",0.0 +"The hill's bare brow, and shade the sultry down:",2.0 +"The sheltered traveller sees, with glad surprise,",2.0 +"And, as their hospitable branches spread,",6.0 +Blesses the friendly hand that formed the shade:,2.0 +"Joy blooms around, and cheers the peasant's toil,",1.0 +As smiling plenty decks the cultured soil;,0.0 +"The brightening scenes a kinder Genius own,",0.0 +And Nature finishes what Art begun.,1.0 +"But can the verse, though Philomela deign",1.0 +To breathe the sweet notes through the warbled strain;,2.0 +"Though every Muse and every Grace should smile,",0.0 +Can the verse paint like Nature? Can the power,3.0 +Boast charms like hers? or the creative hand,2.0 +"Though learnt Poussin gives each grace to flow,",2.0 +"Yet peerless is the power of sacred song,",3.0 +That bursts in transport from the Muse's tongue:,1.0 +"Swells through the grove, and melts along the plain.",0.0 +"Or braid your fine wreaths in the pearly caves,",1.0 +"See, the fair rival of your native seats,",4.0 +"Deign then, you sacred sisters! deign to tread",0.0 +"The rich embroidery of yonder velvet mead,",1.0 +The studious mazes of the twilight grove;,4.0 +"Or, at the foot of some hoar elm reclined,",1.0 +Or pensive listen to the solemn roar,1.0 +Of whitening billows breaking on the shore:,1.0 +"If the majestic domes, whose towery pride",3.0 +"Your steps detain; yonder princely structure view,",6.0 +Graced with each finer art your Athens knew!,0.0 +"Each finer art to just perfection brought,",0.0 +The sculptured forms that breathe along the wall;,0.0 +Athenian Pallas clad in radiant arms;,2.0 +Heaven's empress conscious of her slighted charms;,1.0 +"Your own Apollo, on whose polished brow",1.0 +"Gods, heroes, sages, an illustrious train,",4.0 +"Haste then, you sacred sisters! haste, and bring",0.0 +"On the choice bough a purer fragrance breathe,",2.0 +INstructive Sound! I'm now convinced by Thee,0.0 +Time in its Womb may bear Infinity.,1.0 +What Worlds of Parts compose the rolling Hour!,0.0 +The least of these a serious Care demands;,3.0 +"By some great Deeds distinguished all in Heaven,",1.0 +For the same End to me by Number given!,2.0 +"Cease, Man, to lavish Sums thou never hast told!",2.0 +"Cast round his eye of universal love,",0.0 +"And saw mankind with various ills oppressed,",3.0 +Nor his the power to free poor man from pain;,4.0 +And the three Sisters all the gods obey;,2.0 +"The web of life keeps them in close employ,",2.0 +Yet the fair web they weave but to destroy;,4.0 +"Lengthens by fits, and as it lengthens twirls;",3.0 +"In the soft loom the silken tissue flows,",3.0 +And brighter hues succeed the cloud of woes.,0.0 +"But oft as the gay shuttle glides along,",2.0 +"Skimming with ease the lighter shades among,",2.0 +"The fatal shears the fragile threads untie,",0.0 +And the cropped rose gives up her crimson die;,1.0 +The distant views that dawned with early morn,0.0 +Shut up their vistas ever the eve's return;,2.0 +"Or sullen night her sable mantle shows,",0.0 +And round the world her long dark curtain throws;,1.0 +"Such is the lot of man by Fate's decree,",1.0 +"But still compassion touched the mighty mind,",0.0 +"Shall these poor mortals, tenants of a day,",3.0 +In life's rude path but tread the thorny way?,1.0 +Gay fluttering insects that beneath the sky,4.0 +"Bask in the sun, and the next moment die!",1.0 +"A short-lived being, whom, so proud of breath,",1.0 +A weaker insect stings to instant death!,1.0 +"The sport of winds, of sky, and varying showers,",2.0 +The jest and pity of superior powers!,3.0 +"Shall these who're doomed a thousand ills to meet,",0.0 +"And seldom see one growing wish complete,",0.0 +"As onward wandering to the Stygian lake,",1.0 +Is there not one of all your blissful train,0.0 +Prone to arrest the flying shafts of pain?,2.0 +"If such compassion touch the immortal breast,",3.0 +Be now the generous sentiment confessed;,3.0 +"Descend to earth, and our protecting eye",1.0 +Shall look with pleasure as your task you ply!,1.0 +He said: while Pity round her forehead drew,0.0 +Gave to the sight the meek retiring tear;,0.0 +And the long sigh on a half word would dwell.,4.0 +Whose mind and essence is eternal love:,1.0 +For what from Pity want the happy gods?,0.0 +"Not so with Man; deceived by gilded show,",0.0 +"And painting happiness on scenes below,",1.0 +"Gives a clear sky, till the long prospect ends,",5.0 +And plants a paradise for thousand friends;,0.0 +"And meek Aurora dries the tears of night,",0.0 +"Yet blushing dries them, lest the god of Day",1.0 +Should rudely brush the trembling drops away ' --,0.0 +"Even those soft drops his absence caused to rise,",2.0 +"And fall from Night's too fond despairing eyes,",1.0 +"Till the storm gathers, and the sun retires",3.0 +"Muffled in clouds, extinguishing his fires;",3.0 +"Ever his blessed heat the breast had taught to glow,",2.0 +"Or the young buds, just cherished, bolder grow;",2.0 +"Then breaking forth in all his former pride,",0.0 +"Hope, like a rainbow, brightens by his side;",2.0 +"Thus, thus deluded Man from day to day",1.0 +Hopes and despairs his lingering life away!,2.0 +"And the slow growth of intermingled years,",2.0 +Shall I not call forth every latent power,1.0 +"Yes; balmy Friendship knows to cure the wound,",1.0 +And press the bosom till it's firmly sound!,1.0 +And seen her tears augment the dropping thorn;,0.0 +"Have seen her wander by the lonely brook,",1.0 +"The world forsaking, by the world forsook;",1.0 +"Unknown her worth, they melancholy deem",0.0 +This lone companion of the lonely stream;,1.0 +And softly draw her hidden virtues forth;,0.0 +To teach mankind the only good they share,1.0 +Is Friendship strengthened by a soul sincere.,1.0 +Friendship she sought amid her lonely bowers ' --,2.0 +"Her silent musings and her pensive hours,",1.0 +"Her tender feelings to herself best known,",2.0 +"Why on these banks, she said, overhung with yew",1.0 +"And weeping willows, shedding nightly dew, ' --",1.0 +"Why over this stream, that deep and black appears,",2.0 +"Drops the meek pearl, which some call trickling tears?",4.0 +"They fall to see yonder willow bend so low,",4.0 +Are not the ills to human life confined,0.0 +"Enough to load thy melancholy mind,",0.0 +"That thus imagined Sorrow claims her part,",0.0 +And half divides thy far too tender heart?,1.0 +"Haste, haste to where thy sympathy may ease",2.0 +"Where patient suffering makes no plaintive moan,",1.0 +Or pain extracts more than a smothered groan;,1.0 +And the blue missed that rolls his damps on high;,2.0 +"Blame that or this for every growing pain,",1.0 +"Marking each wish the weak voice cannot frame,",3.0 +And feel a want before it takes a name:,0.0 +"But, above all, the drooping spirits raise,",1.0 +And talk with certainty of better days;,1.0 +"Nor seem to doubt, or else the nerve will start,",0.0 +Spreading its tremor to the trembling heart;,3.0 +"The trembling heart cold faintness shall surprise,",1.0 +"And, for a moment, close the sinking eyes.",1.0 +"But to preserve the needful balm of rest,",1.0 +Haste to sweet Slumber; softly at her gate,3.0 +"Tap with thy finger, and admittance wait;",1.0 +"Quick is her ear, for even the softest tread",2.0 +"Wakes every nerve, and thunders through the head;",2.0 +"Sometime a fairy land invites the sight,",1.0 +"Sometime she wanders through the world alone,",2.0 +Or from the towering precipice is thrown;,2.0 +"Or wades through waters where no shore is near,",1.0 +And feels a death in every deadly fear;,0.0 +"Demons and goblins point the dire abode,",2.0 +And hissing snakes entwine the hideous road;,2.0 +"Lions and tigers stand with open jaw,",2.0 +"And flashing eyes, to fix the eager claw;",0.0 +"Till cheerful Health, with all her airy train,",0.0 +"Dispels the mists that settle on the brain, ' --",1.0 +"Removes the poppies on her temples spread,",1.0 +And from translucent springs refreshment sheds.,1.0 +"Wheels off in haste, nor lets his bugle sound",0.0 +When Day's sweet concert wakes the world around;,1.0 +"The murmuring stream, that kept a dying fall,",2.0 +"No more complains, but from the mansion all",2.0 +"In secret channels hides from cheerful day,",0.0 +"The mournful evergreens that crowd the door,",0.0 +"And wander all the gloomy garden over,",0.0 +All creep about where cheering light should stray,0.0 +And boldly venture into open day;,0.0 +"Through whose dark shades the lulling winds would sound,",1.0 +"Kiss the tall grass, and sigh along the ground;",3.0 +"The early bird, that rises with the day,",1.0 +Rocked by soft zephyrs slept the morn away;,3.0 +"And drizzling rain left such a weight on air,",2.0 +That owls at midnight nod in ivy chair;,1.0 +"These Health destroyed; for, from their bending boughs,",1.0 +For those who sleep but little sleep the best:,1.0 +"His sultry steam, and drinks the breath of flowers,",0.0 +"Or, while in youth ' -- as ought the being young ' --",0.0 +Know not that breezes rising with the morn,1.0 +"As gay as larks that, warbling as they fly,",1.0 +Bear the first message to the morning sky; ' --,4.0 +"Fleet as the roe, that over the mountain bounds",2.0 +When first his ear is threatened by the hounds; ' --,1.0 +"Thus, when weak mortals feel thy power to charm,",4.0 +"And the cold bosom grows a little warm,",2.0 +"It's then thy influence the mind must share,",1.0 +"Moulding to virtue, and the bliss of prayer, ' --",3.0 +"To moral duties by Religion taught,",1.0 +Till the blessed man becomes the man he ought.,2.0 +"Thou, next the gods, the good of all mankind;",1.0 +"Soothing thy manners, yet thy words sincere,",2.0 +Speaking all truths the sickly soul can bear.,2.0 +"Nor ruffle thou the spirit of the proud,",2.0 +Who never yet have to instruction bowed;,1.0 +"But wind about their errors as you may,",1.0 +And with sweet counsel weed their faults away;,2.0 +"By slow degrees Perfection must be wrought,",0.0 +For slow the growth of weak bewildered Thought;,0.0 +"Nor will one manner work alike with all,",1.0 +Some in soft whispers thou must gently call;,2.0 +"Nor censure harsh, nor mark with critic eye",0.0 +Those little faults that under virtues lie.,0.0 +"Others, again, thy freer speech demand,",2.0 +"And the correction of a bolder hand, ' --",2.0 +"Must have their vices marshaled in their view,",0.0 +And every error plainly pointed to;,1.0 +"Others, from seeming love, will hear thy voice,",2.0 +And fondly think that virtue is their choice;,1.0 +"Or seem to abate thy tender, warm regard,",2.0 +"Rage would run back to all the follies past,",2.0 +"Such is thy task, congenial to thy mind,",2.0 +"The Friend, the Lover, of forlorn Mankind!",2.0 +"Dares, unabashed, in every place appear,",1.0 +"And nothing fears, but what he ought to fear.",0.0 +"Him Fashion cannot tempt, him abject Need",0.0 +"Cannot compel, him Pride cannot mislead",0.0 +"To be the slave of greatness, to strike sail,",2.0 +"When, sweeping onward with her Peacock's tail,",1.0 +"QUALITY, in full plumage, passes by;",4.0 +"He views her with a fixed, contemptuous eye,",3.0 +"And mocks the Puppet, keeps his own due state,",1.0 +And is above conversing with the great.,2.0 +"Perish those Slaves, those minions of the quill,",3.0 +Who have conspired to seize that sacred hill,2.0 +"Where the nine Sisters pour a genuine strain,",4.0 +And sunk the mountain level with the plain;,1.0 +"Who, with mean, private views, and servile art,",2.0 +"No spark of Virtue living in their heart,",1.0 +"Their dignity of office, have disgraced,",1.0 +"And caused their name to stink through all the land,",0.0 +Have stooped to prostitute their venal pen,0.0 +"For the support of great, but guilty men,",1.0 +"Have made the Bard, of their own vile accord,",1.0 +Inferior to that thing we call a Lord.,1.0 +"What is a Lord? does that plain, simple word",1.0 +"Contain some magic spell? as soon as heard,",0.0 +"Like an Alarm Bell on Night's dull ear,",5.0 +"Does It strike louder, and more strong appear",3.0 +"Than other Words? whether we will or no,",4.0 +Through Reason's Court does It unquestioned go,1.0 +"Even on the mention, and of course transmit",2.0 +"Notions of something excellent, of Wit",3.0 +"Of sterling Genius with sound Judgement graced,",2.0 +"Of Virtue far above temptation's Reach,",0.0 +"And Honour, which not malice can impeach?",1.0 +"Believe it not ' -- 'twas NATURE's first intent,",1.0 +"Before their rank became their punishment,",1.0 +"The blessings she bestowed ' -- She gave them eyes,",1.0 +And They could see ' -- She gave them ears ' -- they heard ' --,1.0 +"The Instruments of stirring, and they stirred ' --",2.0 +"Like Us, they were designed to eat, to drink,",1.0 +"To talk, and every now and then to think.",0.0 +"Till They, by Pride corrupted, for the sake",2.0 +"Of Singularity, disclaimed that make,",1.0 +"Till They, disdaining Nature's vulgar mode,",1.0 +"Flew off, and struck into another road,",0.0 +"More fitting Quality, and to our view",2.0 +"Came forth a Species altogether new,",1.0 +"Something We had not known, and could not know,",1.0 +"Like nothing of God's making here below,",2.0 +"NATURE exclaimed with wonder ' -- Lords are Things,",2.0 +"Which, never made by Me, were made by Kings.",1.0 +"A Lord nor let the honest, and the brave,",1.0 +"The true, Old Noble, with the Fool and Knave",2.0 +"Here mix his fame; cursed be that thought of mine,",1.0 +Which with a B' -- and F' -- should GRAFTON join,0.0 +"My just contempt of some, abuse of all,",0.0 +"And, as of late, when SODOM was my theme,",2.0 +"Because she stops not, rapid in her song,",0.0 +"To make exceptions as She goes along,",1.0 +"Though well She hopes to find, another year,",0.0 +A whole MINORITY exceptions here,1.0 +"A mere, mere Lord, with nothing but the name,",2.0 +"Wealth all his Worth, and Title all his Fame,",0.0 +"Lives on another man, himself a blank,",2.0 +"A Bard owes all to Nature, and Himself.",2.0 +"Gods, how my Soul is burned up with disdain,",1.0 +"When I see Men, whom PHOEBUS in his Train",3.0 +"Might view with pride, lackey the heels of those",5.0 +Whom Genius ranks amongst her greatest foes!,0.0 +"And what's the cause? why these same sons of scorn,",2.0 +"No thanks to them, were to a Title born,",2.0 +"And could not help it; by Chance hither sent,",2.0 +And only Deities by accident.,2.0 +Had fortune on our getting chanced to shine,1.0 +"'Twas a mere random stroke, and should the Throne",3.0 +But FELIX never can be made a Wit.,1.0 +Which Fate hath placed beyond the reach of Kings.,0.0 +A Bard ' -- A Lord ' -- Why let them hand in hand,0.0 +"Go forth as Friends, and travel through the land,",2.0 +Observe which word the People can digest,1.0 +"Most readily, which goes to market best,",1.0 +"Which gets most credit, Whether Men will trust",0.0 +"A Bard because they think he may be just,",0.0 +"Or on a Lord will choose to risque their gains,",4.0 +Though Privilege in that point still remains.,3.0 +"A Bard ' -- A Lord ' -- let REASON take her Scales,",1.0 +"And fairly weigh those Words, see which prevails,",1.0 +"Which in the balance lightly kicks the beam,",0.0 +And which by sinking We the Victor deem.,1.0 +"Summons a Synod in the sacred grove,",2.0 +"Gods throng with Gods to take their chairs on high,",1.0 +"And sit in state, the Senate of the Sky,",1.0 +"While, in a kind of parliament below,",1.0 +"Men stare at those above, and want to know",3.0 +"Just in the mid, a balance in her hand,",0.0 +"Which over and over She tries, and finds it true;",4.0 +"From either side, conducted full in view,",0.0 +"A Man comes forth, of figure strange and queer;",1.0 +We now and then see something like them here.,1.0 +"But Nature kindly had made up in length,",2.0 +"What She in breadth denied; Erect and proud,",0.0 +"A head and shoulders taller than the crowd,",1.0 +He deemed them pygmies all; loose hung his skin,1.0 +"Over his bare bones; his Face so very thin,",2.0 +"So very narrow, and so much beat out,",1.0 +"Proportion lost, Expression quite forgot,",0.0 +"Whether It could be called a face, or not;",1.0 +Some twenty fathom length of chin appeared;,0.0 +"With Legs, which we might well conceive that Fate",1.0 +"Firmly he strove to tread, and with a stride",3.0 +"Which showed at once his weakness and his pride,",1.0 +"Shaking himself to pieces, seemed to cry,",2.0 +"Observe good People, how I shake the sky.",1.0 +"In his right hand a Paper did He hold,",3.0 +"On which, at large, in characters of gold,",1.0 +"Distinct, and plain for those who run to see,",1.0 +"Saint ARCHIBALD had wrote L, OH, R, D.",3.0 +"This, with an air of scorn, He from afar",2.0 +"Twirled into REASON'S scales, and on that Bar,",2.0 +"Which from his soul he hated, yet admired,",0.0 +"Quick turned his back, and as he came retired.",2.0 +The Judge to all around his name declared;,0.0 +"And the whole People cried, with one accord,",3.0 +"Good Heaven bless us all, is That a Lord!",0.0 +"Such was the First ' -- the Second was a man,",2.0 +Whom Nature built on quite a different plan;,0.0 +"A Bear, whom from the moment he was born,",2.0 +"A Babel, which, the power of Art outdone,",2.0 +She could not finish when She had begun;,0.0 +"An utter Chaos, out of which no might",1.0 +But that of God could strike one spark of light.,0.0 +"Broad were his shoulders, and from blade to blade",1.0 +"Vast were his Bones, his Muscles twisted strong,",0.0 +"His Features, though by Nature they were large,",2.0 +Contentment had contrived to overcharge,0.0 +"And bury meaning, save that we might spy",1.0 +Sense lowering on the penthouse of his eye;,4.0 +"His Arms were two twin Oaks, his Legs so stout",1.0 +"That they might bear a Mansion House about,",0.0 +"Nor were They, look but at his body there,",2.0 +Designed by Fate a much less weight to bear.,1.0 +"Over a brown Cassock, which had once been black,",2.0 +"Which hung in tatters on his brawny back,",1.0 +"A sight most strange, and awkward to behold",1.0 +He threw a covering of Blue and Gold.,1.0 +"Just at that time of life, when Man by rule,",0.0 +"The Fop laid down, takes up the graver fool,",3.0 +"He started up a Fop, and, fond of show,",1.0 +"Looked like another HERCULES, turned Beau.",2.0 +"A Subject, met with only now and then,",0.0 +Much fitter for the pencil than the pen;,2.0 +HOGARTH would draw him Envy must allow,1.0 +"Even to the life, was HOGARTH living now.",2.0 +"With such accoutrements, with such a form,",3.0 +"Much like a Porpoise just before a storm,",0.0 +"Onward He rolled; a laugh prevailed around,",2.0 +"Nor was the cause unknown, for from his Youth",2.0 +Himself he studied by the glass of Truth,1.0 +"He joined their mirth, nor shall the Gods condemn",0.0 +"If, while They laughed at him, he laughed at them.",1.0 +"Judge REASON viewed him with an eye of grace,",2.0 +"Looked through his soul, and quite forgot his face,",0.0 +"And, from his hand received, with fair regard",1.0 +Placed in her other scale the name of Bard.,0.0 +"Then for She did as Judges ought to do,",0.0 +She nothing of the case beforehand knew,2.0 +"Nor wished to know, She never stretched the laws,",0.0 +"Compelled Solicitors no longer free,",2.0 +To show those briefs She had no right to see,1.0 +"Then She with equal hand her scales held out,",2.0 +"Nor did the Cause one moment hang in doubt,",0.0 +She held her scales out fair to public view;,0.0 +"The Lord, as sparks fly upwards, upwards flew,",1.0 +"More light than air, deceitful in the weight;",0.0 +"REASON approved, and with a voice, whose sound",3.0 +"Shook earth, shook heaven, on the clearest ground.",2.0 +"Cried ' -- Those must Honour Them, who honour Me,",0.0 +"They from this present day, wherever I reign,",3.0 +"In their own right, Precedence shall obtain,",3.0 +"Merit rules here, Be it enough that Birth",1.0 +"Intoxicate, and sways the fools of earth.",0.0 +"Nor think that here, in hatred to a Lord,",1.0 +Search when You will I am not now in sport,2.0 +"Nor think that Envy here hath strung my lyre,",0.0 +"That I depreciate what I most admire,",1.0 +And look on titles with an eye of scorn,1.0 +Because I was not to a title born.,0.0 +"By Him that made me, I am much more proud,",2.0 +"A poor, but honest Bard, who dares be free",0.0 +"Amid Corruption, than to have a train",1.0 +"Of flickering Levee slaves, to make me vain",2.0 +"Of things I ought to blush for; to run, fly,",1.0 +And live but in the motion of my eye;,1.0 +And make me think that I am something more.,1.0 +"Recall past times, bring back the days of old,",2.0 +"And in the face of peril, when He dared",0.0 +"Things which his legal Bastard, if declared,",1.0 +"Might well discredit; faithful to his trust,",1.0 +"True to his King, and to his Country true,",1.0 +"Honest at Court, above the baits of gain,",2.0 +"Plain in his dress, and in his manners plain,",0.0 +"Moderate in wealth, generous but not profuse,",4.0 +"Well worthy riches, for he knew their use,",2.0 +"Possessing much, and yet deserving more,",0.0 +"With ease to all, and in return gained fame,",1.0 +"Which all men paid, because he did not claim,",1.0 +"When the grim War was placed in dread array,",3.0 +"Fierce as the Lion roaring for his prey,",1.0 +"In Peace, as mild as the departing Sun,",1.0 +"A Father of the Poor, a Friend to All,",1.0 +"Recall such times, and from the grave bring back",2.0 +"A Worth like this, my heart shall bend, or crack,",1.0 +"My stubborn pride give way, my tongue proclaim,",1.0 +"And every Muse conspire to swell his fame,",2.0 +"Till Envy shall to him that praise allow,",1.0 +Which She cannot deny to TEMPLE now.,2.0 +"This Justice claims, nor shall the Bard forget,",0.0 +"Delighted with the task, to pay that debt,",1.0 +"To pay it like a Man, and in his lays,",0.0 +"Sounding such worth, prove his own right to praise.",2.0 +"And think that empty Titles are my Theme,",1.0 +"Titles, with Me, are vain, and nothing worth,",1.0 +"I reverence Virtue, but I laugh at Birth.",3.0 +"I am his friend, but cannot be his slave.",1.0 +Though none indeed but Blockheads would pretend,0.0 +"To make a slave, where they may make a friend.",1.0 +"I love his Virtues, and will make them known,",1.0 +"Confess his rank, but can't forget my own.",0.0 +"Give me a Lord, who, to a Title born,",1.0 +"Boasts nothing else, I'll pay him scorn with scorn.",1.0 +"What, shall my Pride and Pride is Virtue here",0.0 +"Shall I uncovered stand, and bend my knee",1.0 +"To such a shadow of Nobility,",3.0 +"A Shred, a Remnant; he might rot unknown",1.0 +"For any real merit of his own,",4.0 +"And never had come forth to public note,",1.0 +Had He not worn by chance his Father's coat?,0.0 +By NATURE formed when for her Honour sake,2.0 +"She something more than common strove to make,",0.0 +"When, overlooking each minute defect,",0.0 +"And all too eager to be quite correct,",2.0 +The Bard nor think too lightly that I mean,1.0 +"Of their small parts, the MURPHYS of the stage,",3.0 +"And drawl out measured prose, which They call verse",1.0 +"The real Bard, whom native Genius fires,",3.0 +"Let him consider wherefore he was meant,",3.0 +"Let him but answer Nature's great intent,",0.0 +"And fairly weigh himself with other men,",0.0 +"Would never debase the glories of his pen,",3.0 +"Would in full state, like a true Monarch, live,",3.0 +Nor bate one inch of his Prerogative.,2.0 +"WINGATE may in the season be a Peer,",1.0 +"Though now, against his will, of figures sick,",1.0 +Who cries old Clothes to sell about the streets,1.0 +I hear him cry ' -- What does this jargon mean?,0.0 +Was ever such a damned dull Blockhead seen?,2.0 +Majesty ' -- Bard ' -- Prerogative ' -- Disdain,3.0 +"Hath got into, and turned the fellow's brain;",0.0 +"A saucy Groom who trades in Reason, thus",0.0 +To set himself upon a Par with us;,0.0 +"May when he pleases send us all to school,",0.0 +Why then our only business is outright,2.0 +"To take our caps, and bid the World good night.",0.0 +But nothing of this kind in him appears.,2.0 +"The hand which cuffs him, and the foot which kicks,",1.0 +"He fetches, and he carries, blacks my shoes,",1.0 +"Nor thinks it a discredit to his Muse,",2.0 +"A Creature of the right Chameleon hue,",3.0 +"Just as I wear them; it's all one to him,",1.0 +"Whether I change through conscience, or through whim.",3.0 +"Now this is something like, on such a plan",1.0 +A Bard may find a friend in a great Man;,1.0 +Of this queer tribe had been like my Old PAUL.,2.0 +Injurious Thought! accursed be the tongue,2.0 +"On which the vile insinuation hung,",0.0 +"But Me, but All, and make the very name",1.0 +"Talk not of Custom ' -- it's the Coward's plea,",1.0 +"Current with Fools, but passes not with me;",0.0 +"An old stale trick, which guilt hath often tried",1.0 +By numbers to overpower the better side.,4.0 +"Why tell me then that from the birth of Rhyme,",0.0 +"No matter when, down to the present time,",2.0 +"As by the original decree of Fate,",2.0 +"Conscious of weakness, have applied to them",2.0 +"As Vines to Elms, and twining round their stem,",0.0 +Flourished on high; to gain this wished support,2.0 +"As to the Custom it's a point agreed,",2.0 +"That Strength, which is most properly their own,",2.0 +"But why, when present times my care engage,",0.0 +"Why, anxious for the living, am I led",2.0 +Into the mansions of the ancient dead?,1.0 +"Can They find Patrons no where but at ROME,",3.0 +"Name but a WINGATE, twenty Fools of note",1.0 +They mention him as if to use his name,2.0 +"Was in some measure to partake his fame,",1.0 +"Though VIRGIL, was he living, in the street",1.0 +"Might rot for them, or perish in the Fleet.",1.0 +"See how They redden, and the charge disclaim ' --",1.0 +"Virgil, and in the Fleet ' -- forbid it Shame.",1.0 +"And ask, with blushes ask, if LLOYD is there.",0.0 +"Patrons, in days of yore, were Men of Sense,",2.0 +To rule in Letters ' -- Some of Them were heard,1.0 +"To read off-hand, and never spell a word;",0.0 +"Some of them too, to such a monstrous height",1.0 +"Was Learning risen, for themselves could write,",1.0 +"Do many other foolish things, for State.",0.0 +"Our Patrons are of quite a different strain,",1.0 +"With neither sense nor Taste, against the grain,",0.0 +"And keep a Bard, just as They keep a Whore.",1.0 +To name the dead was a rare proof of both.,2.0 +"Some of them would be puzzled even to read,",2.0 +Nor could deserve their Clergy by their Creed;,1.0 +"Others can write, but such a Pagan hand",3.0 +A WILLES should always at our elbow stand;,1.0 +"Many, if begged, A Chancellor, of right,",3.0 +Would order into keeping at first sight.,1.0 +Those who stand fairest to the public view,2.0 +"Take to themselves the praise to others due,",2.0 +"Patrons in days of yore, like Patrons now,",2.0 +Expected that the Bard should make his bow,0.0 +"At coming in, and every now and then",0.0 +"Hint to the world that They were more than men,",1.0 +"But, like the Patrons of the present day,",1.0 +They never bilked the Poet of his pay.,1.0 +"VIRGIL loved rural ease, and, far from harm,",3.0 +"Where he might, free from trouble, pass his days",0.0 +"In his own way, and pay his rent in praise.",0.0 +"HORACE loved wine, and, through his friend at Court,",2.0 +Could buy it off the Key in every port;,1.0 +"They met, they laughed, as GOY and I may do,",1.0 +Nor in those moments paid the least regard,0.0 +"To which was Minister, and which was Bard.",1.0 +"Not so our Patrons ' -- grave as grave can be,",0.0 +"They know themselves, They keep up dignity;",1.0 +That Men of fortune rank with men of Wit;,0.0 +"Wit if familiar made, will find her strength ' --",2.0 +"It's best to keep her weak, and at arm's length.",1.0 +"From hand to mouth, the scanty means to live.",0.0 +"Such is their language, and their practise such,",3.0 +"They promise little, and they give not much.",1.0 +"Praise that proud SCOT, whom all good men disdain;",1.0 +"What's his reward? Why, his own fame undone,",2.0 +He may obtain a patent for the run,2.0 +"Of his Lord's kitchen, and have ample time,",3.0 +Or if he strives true Patriots to disgrace,5.0 +"May at the second Table get a place,",0.0 +"With somewhat greater slaves allowed to dine,",1.0 +"Stand ranked as Men, who breathe in this fair Isle",2.0 +"The air of Freedom, with so little gall,",1.0 +"So low a Spirit, prostrate thus to fall",0.0 +"Before these Idols, and without a groan",1.0 +Bear wrongs might call forth murmurs from a stone?,3.0 +"The sight of men, and in some cave, secure",0.0 +"From all the outrages of pride, to feast",5.0 +"On Nature's salads, and be free at least.",1.0 +"Better though that, to say the truth, is worse",1.0 +Than almost any other modern curse,1.0 +"Discard all Sense, divorce the thankless Muse,",0.0 +"Critics commence, and write in the Reviews,",3.0 +"Write without tremor, GRIFFITHS cannot read;",4.0 +"No Fool can fail, where LANGHORNE can succeed.",2.0 +But not to make a brave and honest Pride,0.0 +"Try those means first, She must disdain when tried",3.0 +"There are a thousand ways, a thousand arts,",1.0 +"By which, and fairly, Men of real parts",1.0 +"May gain a living, gain what Nature craves;",0.0 +"Let Those, who pine for more, live, and be slaves.",0.0 +"Our real wants in a small compass lie,",4.0 +"But lawless Appetite with eager eye,",0.0 +"Kept in a constant Fever, more requires,",0.0 +And we are burned up with our own desires.,2.0 +"Hence our dependence, hence our slavery springs;",3.0 +Ourselves are to Ourselves the cause of ill;,1.0 +"We may be Independent, if we will.",2.0 +The Man who suits his Spirit to his state,1.0 +"Stands on an equal footing with the Great,",1.0 +"MOGULS themselves are not more rich, and He,",2.0 +"Who rules the English nation, not more free.",0.0 +Chains were not forged more durable and strong,1.0 +"Could They, though in their sleep, could They but know",1.0 +"The blessings which from INDEPENDENCE flow,",0.0 +Could They but have a short and transient gleam,0.0 +"They would no more in bondage bend their knee,",0.0 +"But, once made Freemen, would be always free.",1.0 +"The Muse if She one moment freedom gains,",1.0 +Can never more submit to sing in chains.,0.0 +"The Bird repays his keeper with his song,",2.0 +"But, if some playful child sets wide the door,",2.0 +"Abroad he flies, and thinks of home no more,",1.0 +"With love of Liberty begins to burn,",1.0 +And rather starves than to his cage return.,1.0 +"Hail INDEPENDENCE ' -- by true Reason taught,",3.0 +"Some give Thee up for riot; Some, like Boys,",1.0 +"Resign Thee, in their childish moods, for toys",0.0 +"Ambition some, some Avarice misleads,",1.0 +And in both cases INDEPENDENCE bleeds;,1.0 +"Abroad, in quest of Thee, how many roam",1.0 +Nor know They had Thee in their reach at home;,0.0 +"Some, though about their paths, their beds about,",1.0 +Have never had the Sense to find Thee out;,0.0 +"Others, who know of what They are possessed,",3.0 +"Like fearful Misers, lock Thee in a chest,",2.0 +Nor have the resolution to produce,1.0 +"In these bad times, and bring Thee forth for use.",3.0 +"Hail, INDEPENDENCE ' -- though thy name's scarce known,",3.0 +"Though Thou, Alas! art out of fashion grown,",2.0 +"Though All despise Thee, I will not despise,",1.0 +"Thy presence, and enjoy; by angry Fate",1.0 +And made me know what life was truly worth.,0.0 +"Hail, INDEPENDENCE ' -- never may my Cot,",2.0 +"Till I forget Thee, be by Thee forgot;",2.0 +"All thoughts, but what arise from joy, give over;",1.0 +"PEACE dwells within, and LAW shall guard the door.",1.0 +"The LAW of ENGLAND ' -- To control, and awe",1.0 +"Those saucy hopes, to strike that Spirit dumb,",0.0 +"Behold, in State, ADMINISTRATION come.",0.0 +"Why let Her come, in all her terrors too;",0.0 +I dare to suffer all She dares to do.,0.0 +"I know her malice well, and know her pride,",0.0 +"I know her strength, but will not change my side.",1.0 +This melting mass of flesh She may control,1.0 +"With iron ribs, She cannot chain my Soul.",0.0 +"No ' -- to the last resolved her worst to bear,",0.0 +"I'm still at large, and Independent there.",1.0 +Where is this Minister? where is the band,2.0 +"Of ready slaves, who at his elbow stand",1.0 +"To hear, and to perform his wicked will?",2.0 +"Why, for the first time, are they slow to ill?",2.0 +"When some grand act against Law is to be done,",3.0 +When He might do more precious mischief here?,0.0 +Does ' -- turn tail? does He refuse to draw,4.0 +"Illegal warrants, and to call them Law?",1.0 +"And, his more honest rival, CATCH to cheat",1.0 +Purchase a burial place where three ways meet?,5.0 +"And never sleeps, when he should wake to ill;",1.0 +Scorns to defraud the Hangman of his due.,3.0 +OH my poor COUNTRY ' -- weak and overpowered,3.0 +By thine own Sons ' -- eat to the bone ' -- devoured,1.0 +"By Vipers, which, in thine own entrails bred,",1.0 +"Prey on thy life, and with thy blood are fed,",1.0 +"With unavailing grief thy wrongs I see,",0.0 +"And, for myself not feeling, feel for Thee.",2.0 +"I grieve, but can't despair ' -- for, Lo, at hand",0.0 +"FREEDOM presents a choice, but faithful band",2.0 +"Of Loyal PATRIOTS, Men who greatly dare",2.0 +"In such a noble cause, Men fit to bear",1.0 +"The weight of Empires; Fortune, Rank, and Sense,",0.0 +March in their ranks; FREEDOM from file to file,5.0 +"Darts her delighted eye, and with a smile",3.0 +"Approves her honest Sons, while down her cheek,",1.0 +"One Tear in silence creeps, one honest Tear,",0.0 +"OH You brave Few, in whom we still may find",0.0 +"A Love of Virtue, Freedom, and Mankind,",2.0 +"Go forth ' -- in Majesty of Woe arrayed,",2.0 +"And, many of her children traitors grown,",1.0 +"Seeming to breathe her last in every breath,",2.0 +And to your drooping Parent bring relief.,1.0 +Go forth ' -- nor let the Siren voice of ease,1.0 +"Go forth ' -- nor let Hypocrisy, whose tongue",2.0 +"With many a fair, false, fatal art is hung,",3.0 +When your great Errand brooks not of delay;,3.0 +"Nor let vain Fear, who cries to all She meets,",1.0 +Trembling and pale ' -- A Lion in the streets ' --,1.0 +Be as One Man ' -- CONCORD success ensures ' --,1.0 +"Go forth ' -- and VIRTUE, ever in your sight,",1.0 +"Shall be your guide by day, your guard by night ' --",0.0 +"Go forth ' -- the Champions of your native land,",2.0 +And may the battle prosper in your hand ' --,1.0 +"It may, it Must ' -- You cannot be withstood ' --",1.0 +"Be your Hearts honest, as your Cause is good.",3.0 +"Lively as soft, and innocent as fair;",3.0 +Blessed with that sweet simplicity of thought,1.0 +"So rarely found, and never to be taught;",1.0 +Like some fair spirit from the realms of rest,2.0 +With all her native heaven within her breast;,0.0 +"So pure, so good, she scarce can guess at sin,",0.0 +But thinks the world without like that within;,0.0 +"Such melting tenderness, so fond to bless,",1.0 +Her charity almost becomes excess.,2.0 +"Wealth may be courted, wisdom be revered,",0.0 +"And beauty praised, and brutal strength be feared;",0.0 +But goodness only can affection move;,1.0 +And love must owe its origin to love.,1.0 +"OF gentle manners, and of taste refined,",1.0 +With all the graces of a polished mind;,1.0 +"Clear sense and truth still shone in all she spoke,",2.0 +And from her lips no idle sentence broke.,2.0 +Each nicer elegance of art she knew;,1.0 +"Correctly fair, and regularly true:",1.0 +Her ready fingers plied with equal skill,0.0 +"The pencil's task, the needle, or the quill.",1.0 +"So poised her feelings, so composed her soul,",1.0 +"So subject all to reason's calm control,",0.0 +"One only passion, strong, and unconfined,",0.0 +Disturbed the balance of her even mind:,1.0 +"One passion ruled despotic in her breast,",0.0 +"In every word, and look, and thought confessed;",0.0 +"But that was love, and love delights to bless",0.0 +The generous transports of a fond excess.,1.0 +"HAIL sweetest charmer of the rural plain,",2.0 +Accept the tribute of a humble swain;,1.0 +"Nor frown, though he presumptuous would essay;",3.0 +All that is feigned of the fair Cyprian queen.,4.0 +Here in this lovely damsel may be seen.,1.0 +In her fair form is every grace combined;,3.0 +Virtue and modesty adorn her mind.,3.0 +"Sure it would fail, and speak but half her praise.",0.0 +OH Cupid fix an arrow in her breast!,1.0 +"No more I'd wish, were I of her possessed.",2.0 +"WHen the intruding horrors of the night,",2.0 +Had just deprived our hemisphere of light,0.0 +"The blackness and confusion of my fate,",2.0 +"As by a Rivers side I walked along,",1.0 +"Despair and love were seated in my face,",0.0 +"And down I sunk, upon the bending grass,",1.0 +Cursing the spiteful Stars that ruled my fate;,2.0 +"To see my tears the gentle floods swell high,",1.0 +"The Rocks relent, and groan as oft as I,",0.0 +"The winds less deaf, than my ungrateful Swain,",2.0 +"Listen and breath over all my sighs again,",2.0 +"Ah, never, never, said I with an Air;",1.0 +"That poor complacent echo, grieved to hear,",0.0 +"And softly fearing to increase my pain,",1.0 +"No, never, never, she replied again,",2.0 +"Then all things else, as trifles I despise,",2.0 +"Said I, and smiling closed my wretched eyes.",0.0 +And all the Beauties that surround the Seat;,0.0 +Where Nature smiles in all her fertile Pride;,0.0 +Scarce Eden's Garden more divinely fair;,1.0 +Alike in Fragrance is thy balmy Air.,1.0 +"When bowed by Sickness nigh the gloomy Grave,",0.0 +"Reverend by hoary Age, and old in Fame,",1.0 +Unknown its Founder's Family and Name.,1.0 +The Fabric stands a venerable Seat;,1.0 +Just in the Centre of a fair Estate:,1.0 +"That wide its hospitable Door extends,",5.0 +Capacious to receive a thousand Friends.,1.0 +"The Owner's Soul, like Goodness, unconfined,",0.0 +"Her generous Breast scarce other Pleasure knows,",3.0 +Than what reflects from those that she bestows.,2.0 +She knows with strictest Prudence how to spend;,1.0 +"Still frugal to herself, and noble to her Friend.",3.0 +Fair verdant Avenues the House adorn;,1.0 +And double Courts the bold Intruder warn.,0.0 +For great Beneficence is oft oppressed;,1.0 +"And those that can't deny, can seldom rest.",1.0 +"Where wait the Poor, as their Distresses call:",1.0 +Nor call in vain; but of Assistance sure;,1.0 +"If hungry, fed; if sick, they find a Cure.",0.0 +But view the Parlour; here Description's faint:,0.0 +Its Beauties languish in my lifeless Paint.,0.0 +With pleasing Awe command and charm the Sight.,0.0 +"Here Oliver, in Britain's Annals famed,",1.0 +This Piece a Son of Spain could scarce survive;,0.0 +"The Canvas speaks, it's Oliver alive.",1.0 +From the broad Windows see the Scenes extend;,2.0 +Till on the distant Hills the Skies descend.,1.0 +"Nor less, you lovely Natives of our Isle,",1.0 +"Your Scenes delight me, or your Blossoms smile.",1.0 +Yet livelier Beauty in their native Soil;,2.0 +"Shed sweeter Fragrance, and require less Toil.",3.0 +Here hanging Gardens rich with Fruit appear;,0.0 +"The golden Apple, and the mellow Pear,",1.0 +"And nicer Plants, their spreading Arms extend;",0.0 +To tempt the gathering Hand of every Friend.,2.0 +"I walked, delighted with the lovely Scenes:",1.0 +And meet in verdant Arches over the Head.,2.0 +"Amid the awful Shades, from Grove to Grove,",0.0 +"Whence Clouds of Birds pursue their airy Way,",0.0 +When dawning Beams proclaim the rising Day;,0.0 +Roused from their leafy Beds they hail the Light.,0.0 +"I gaze, delighted with the Sound and Sight!",1.0 +And wait their wished Return with rising Night.,0.0 +Here rises on the Plain a spreading Town;,1.0 +See gently gradual yonder Hills arise;,3.0 +"Till blue the last, and hid among the Skies.",0.0 +"Along the Side an ancient City spreads,",0.0 +Churches and Gothic Spires erect their Heads.,2.0 +"With vocal Woods, and Corn with golden Ear.",0.0 +"Gay Plenty, with her ever smiling Face,",2.0 +"And graceful Beauty, dresses all the Space.",0.0 +The loaded Vessel there securely rides,1.0 +"On Severn, proudly rolling back her Tides;",0.0 +"Carrying our Plenty to each distant Shore,",2.0 +"Exchanged for foreign Wine, and golden Oar.",0.0 +"The distant River courts the wandering Eyes,",2.0 +Till the wide View in ancient Cambria dies.,4.0 +"Cambria; whose hardy Sons were true and bold,",1.0 +"Scorned to be Slaves, their Freedom never sold;",0.0 +"But chose to live on barren Cliffs their own,",0.0 +Disdained more fertile Fields for Roman Masters sown.,0.0 +Here view the wide extended Concave bound,0.0 +"The haughty Hills, that guard the Valleys round.",0.0 +What grateful Thoughts those awful Camps inspire!,0.0 +"Once a dread Scene of War, and Blood, and Fire:",3.0 +"When conquering Romans sat in Triumph there,",3.0 +"The slaughtered Natives spread the Valleys wide,",0.0 +And drenched the Meadows with a Crimson Tide.,2.0 +"Now Peace her downy Wing spreads over the Scene,",4.0 +"The Camps lie harmless on the level Green,",2.0 +"The Noise of War is hushed, and all a sweet Serene.",0.0 +"Nor Windsor Forest ever fair and gay,",0.0 +"Serenely blessed, here could I fix my Seat.",0.0 +But I must wander with unwilling Feet.,2.0 +"Thus Adam took his last, his farewell Round,",2.0 +And mourning left fair Eden's happy Ground.,1.0 +"Happy and long may here the Owner live,",2.0 +To taste those Pleasures which she loves to give!,0.0 +"Long by her wise and fair Example show,",0.0 +How Peace and Joy from silent Order flow!,0.0 +"With cheerful Health and Friendship ever crowned,",0.0 +And deal out Blessings to the Country round!,1.0 +"Triumphant Beauty never looks so Gay,",0.0 +As on the Morning of a Nuptial Day.,2.0 +"Love then within a larger Circle moves,",1.0 +"New Graces adds, and every Charm improves;",1.0 +"While Hymen does his sacred Rites prepare,",0.0 +The busy Nymphs attend the trembling Fair;,0.0 +"Whose Veins are swelled with an unusual Heat,",1.0 +And eager Pulses with strange Motions beat;,2.0 +"Alternate Passions various Thoughts impart,",4.0 +And painful Joys distend her throbbing Heart:,0.0 +"Her Fears are great, and her Desires are strong,",1.0 +The Minutes fly too fast ' -- yet stay too long:,2.0 +"Now she is ready, ' -- the next Moment not:",1.0 +All things are done ' -- then something is forgot:,1.0 +"She fears, ' -- yet wishes the strange Work were done:",2.0 +"Delays, ' -- yet is impatient to be gone.",2.0 +"Disorders thus from every Thought arise,",0.0 +"What Love persuades, I know not what denies.",0.0 +And shows at once he can be wise and love;,1.0 +"Because it from no spurious Passion came,",4.0 +But was the Product of a noble Flame:,2.0 +"Bold without Rudeness, without blazing bright,",11.0 +"By just Degrees it to Perfection grew,",1.0 +"So the bright Sun ascending to his Noon,",3.0 +"Moves not too slowly, nor is there too soon.",4.0 +"Are next, if only next, to those above:",1.0 +"Thus Power Divine does with his Foes engage,",4.0 +"Rewards his Virtues, and defeats their Rage;",1.0 +All that a Human Creature could receive:,0.0 +"Whatever can raise our Wonder or Delight,",4.0 +"Transport the Soul, or gratify the Sight,",0.0 +"Then in the full Perfection of her Charms,",1.0 +"For in her Aspect all the Graces meet,",1.0 +"All that is Noble, Beautiful, or Sweet;",1.0 +"There every Charm in lofty Triumph sits,",0.0 +"Scorns poor Defect, and to no Fault submits;",3.0 +"There Symmetry, Complexion, Air, unite,",2.0 +"So, newly finished by the Hand Divine",1.0 +"Before her Fall, did the first Woman shine:",2.0 +But Eve in one great Point she does excel;,2.0 +"From her, Temptation in Despair withdrew,",1.0 +"Nor more assaults, whom it could never subdue.",3.0 +"Virtue confirmed, and regularly brought",3.0 +"To full Maturity by serious Thought,",3.0 +"Her Actions with a watchful Eye surveys,",1.0 +"Each Passion guides, and every Motion sways:",0.0 +"Not the least Failure in her Conduct lies,",2.0 +"So gaily modest, and so freely wise.",1.0 +"Her Judgement sure, impartial, and refined,",1.0 +"Over all the Efforts of her Mind presides,",1.0 +"She knows the best, and does the best pursue,",0.0 +"That the weak only and the wavering lack,",5.0 +She does amid ten Thousand Ways prefer,1.0 +"The right, as if not capable to err.",2.0 +"Her Fancy strong, vivacious, and sublime,",1.0 +Seldom betrays her Converse to a Crime;,3.0 +"And though it moves with a luxuriant Heat,",4.0 +"It's never precipitous, but always great:",3.0 +"For each Expression, every teeming Thought,",0.0 +Is to the scanning of her Judgement brought;,2.0 +"Which wisely separates the finest Gold,",0.0 +"No trifling Words debase her Eloquence,",2.0 +"But all's Pathetic, all is Sterling Sense,",0.0 +"So well she knows what's understood by few,",0.0 +"To time her Thoughts, and to express them too;",1.0 +That what she speaks does to the Soul transmit,1.0 +The fair Ideas of delightful Wit.,1.0 +"Illustrious Born, and as Illustrious Bred,",5.0 +By great Example to wise Actions led;,2.0 +Much to the Fame her Lineal Heroes bore,2.0 +"She owes, but to her own high Genius more;",2.0 +"And, by a noble Emulation moved,",1.0 +"Excelled their Virtues, and her own Improved,",1.0 +"Till they arrived to that Celestial Height,",1.0 +"Scarce Angels Greater be, or Saints so bright.",1.0 +"Of Nobler Birth, or more a Deity,",3.0 +"Whose Generous Soul abhors a base Disguise,",2.0 +"Resolved in Action, and in Council Wise",1.0 +"Too well confirmed and fortified within,",1.0 +"For Threats to force, or Flattery to win.",1.0 +"Unmoved, amid the Hurricane he stood,",0.0 +"He dare be Guiltless, and he will be Good.",1.0 +"Since the first Pair in Paradise were joined,",3.0 +Two Hearts were never so Happily combined.,4.0 +"He, is her Heaven, and She, is more than His,",2.0 +"O, may the kindest Influence Above",2.0 +"Protect their Persons, and Indulge their Love.",1.0 +A weary waste expanded to the skies:,1.0 +"Wherever I roam, whatever realm to see,",3.0 +"Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain,",0.0 +Or drags at each remove a lengthening chain.,2.0 +"Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend,",2.0 +And round his dwelling guardian saints attend;,2.0 +"Blessed be that spot, where cheerful guests retire",0.0 +"To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire;",0.0 +"Blessed that abode, where want and pain repair,",1.0 +And every stranger finds a ready chair;,0.0 +"Blessed be those feasts where mirth and peace abound,",0.0 +Where all the ruddy family around,1.0 +"Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail,",0.0 +"Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale,",0.0 +"Or press the bashful stranger to his food,",1.0 +And learn the luxury of doing good.,1.0 +"But me, not destined such delights to share,",2.0 +My prime of life in wandering spent and care!,2.0 +"Impelled, with steps unceasing, to pursue",1.0 +"Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view;",1.0 +"That, like the circle bounding earth and skies,",0.0 +"My fortune leads to traverse realms alone,",0.0 +And find no spot of all the world my own.,1.0 +I sit me down a pensive hour to spend;,1.0 +"And, placed on high above the storm's career,",0.0 +Look downward where an hundred realms appear;,1.0 +"Lakes, forests, cities, plains extended wide,",1.0 +"The pomp of kings, the shepherd's humbler pride.",0.0 +"When thus creation's charms around combine,",0.0 +"Say, should the philosophic mind disdain",0.0 +"That good, which makes each humbler bosom vain?",0.0 +These little things are great to little man;,0.0 +"And wiser he, whose sympathetic mind",1.0 +Exults in all the good of all mankind.,1.0 +"You fields, where summer spreads profusion round,",0.0 +"You lakes, whose vessels catch the busy gale,",0.0 +For me your tributary stores combine;,1.0 +"Creation's tenant, all the world is mine.",0.0 +"As some lone miser visiting his store,",2.0 +"Bends at his treasure, counts, recounts it over;",0.0 +"Yet still he sighs, for hoards are wanting still:",0.0 +"Thus to my breast alternate passions rise,",4.0 +Pleased with each good that heaven to man supplies:,0.0 +"Yet oft a sigh prevails, and sorrows fall,",0.0 +To see the sum of human bliss so small;,0.0 +"And oft I wish, amid the scene, to find",0.0 +"Some spot to real happiness consigned,",4.0 +"Where my worn soul, each wandering hope at rest,",5.0 +May gather bliss to see my fellows blessed.,0.0 +"Yet, where to find that happiest spot below,",2.0 +"Who can direct, when all pretend to know?",1.0 +The shuddering tenant of the frigid zone,3.0 +"Boldly proclaims that happiest spot his own,",4.0 +"Extols the treasures of his stormy seas,",1.0 +And his long night of revelry and ease;,3.0 +"The naked savage, panting at the line,",0.0 +"Basks in the glare, or stems the tepid wave,",0.0 +And thanks his gods for all the good they gave.,0.0 +"Nor less the patriot's boast wherever we roam,",4.0 +"His first, best country, ever is, at home.",2.0 +"And yet, perhaps, if countries we compare,",1.0 +And estimate the blessings which they share;,0.0 +"Though patriots flatter, still shall wisdom find",2.0 +"An equal portion dealt to all mankind,",1.0 +"As different good, by Art or Nature given",0.0 +"To different nations, makes their blessings even.",0.0 +"Nature, a mother kind alike to all,",2.0 +With food as well the peasant is supplied,1.0 +"And though the rocky crested summits frown,",1.0 +"These rocks, by custom, turn to beds of down.",0.0 +From Art more various are the blessings sent;,1.0 +"Yet these each other's power so strong contest,",2.0 +That either seems destructive of the rest.,1.0 +"Hence every state to one loved blessing prone,",3.0 +Conforms and models life to that alone.,0.0 +"Each to the favourite happiness attends,",1.0 +And spurns the plan that aims at other ends;,0.0 +"Till, carried to excess in each domain,",1.0 +This favourite good begets peculiar pain.,0.0 +"But let us try these truths with closer eyes,",0.0 +And trace them through the prospect as it lies:,2.0 +"Here for a while, my proper cares resigned,",0.0 +Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind;,2.0 +"Like yonder neglected shrub at random cast,",2.0 +"That shades the steep, and sighs at every blast.",0.0 +"Bright as the summer, Italy extends:",1.0 +"Her uplands sloping deck the mountain's side,",0.0 +Woods over woods in gay theatric pride;,1.0 +With venerable grandeur marks the scene.,6.0 +"Could Nature's bounty satisfy the breast,",0.0 +The sons of Italy were surely blessed.,1.0 +"Whatever fruits in different climes are found,",1.0 +That proudly rise or humbly court the ground;,0.0 +"Whatever blooms in torrid tracts appear,",1.0 +Whose bright succession decks the varied year;,0.0 +Whatever sweets salute the northern sky,1.0 +With vernal lives that blossom but to die;,1.0 +To winnow fragrance round the smiling land.,1.0 +"But small the bliss that sense alone bestows,",0.0 +And sensual bliss is all this nation knows.,2.0 +"In florid beauty groves and fields appear,",0.0 +Men seem the only growth that dwindles here.,1.0 +"Contrasted faults through all their manners reign,",0.0 +"Though poor, luxurious; though submissive, vain;",3.0 +"Though grave, yet trifling; zealous, yet untrue;",0.0 +And even in penance planning sins anew.,2.0 +"All evils here contaminate the mind,",0.0 +That opulence departed leaves behind;,1.0 +"For wealth was theirs; nor far removed the date,",1.0 +When Commerce proudly flourished through the state;,1.0 +"At her command the palace learnt to rise,",1.0 +"The canvas glowed beyond even nature warm,",2.0 +"But, more unsteady than the southern gale,",1.0 +Soon Commerce turned on other shores her sail;,1.0 +"But towns unmanned, and lords without a slave.",0.0 +Yet still the loss of wealth is here supplied,0.0 +"By arts, the splendid wrecks of former pride;",0.0 +An easy compensation seem to find.,0.0 +"Here may be seen, in bloodless pomp arrayed,",0.0 +"Procession formed for piety and love,",1.0 +A mistress or a saint in every grove.,1.0 +"By sports like these are all their cares beguiled,",1.0 +The sports of children satisfy the child;,0.0 +"At sports like these, while foreign arms advance,",1.0 +In passive ease they leave the world to chance.,0.0 +"When noble aims have suffered long control,",0.0 +"They sink at last, or feebly man the soul;",0.0 +"While low delights, succeeding fast behind,",0.0 +In happier meanness occupy the mind:,2.0 +"As in those domes, where Caesars once bore sway,",1.0 +"Defaced by time and tottering in decay,",2.0 +"And, wondering man could want the larger pile,",2.0 +"Exults, and owns his cottage with a smile.",1.0 +My soul turn from them; turn we to survey,3.0 +"Where rougher climes a nobler race display,",3.0 +"Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansions tread,",3.0 +And force a churlish soil for scanty bread;,0.0 +"No product here the barren hills afford,",1.0 +"But man and steel, the soldier and his sword.",1.0 +"No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array,",1.0 +But winter lingering chills the lap of May;,0.0 +"Yet still, even here, content can spread a charm,",1.0 +"Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small,",0.0 +He sees his little lot the lot of all;,0.0 +Sees no contiguous palace rear its head,3.0 +To shame the meanness of his humble shed;,1.0 +No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal,3.0 +"But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil,",1.0 +"Each wish contracting, fits him to the soil.",4.0 +"Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose,",2.0 +"Breasts the keen air, and carols as he goes;",4.0 +And drags the struggling savage into day.,0.0 +"At night returning, every labour sped,",0.0 +"He sits him down, the monarch of a shed;",2.0 +"Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys",0.0 +"His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze;",0.0 +"While his loved partner, boastful of her hoard,",3.0 +Displays the cleanly platter on the board:,1.0 +With many a tale repays the nightly bed.,3.0 +"Thus every good his native wilds impart,",1.0 +Imprints the patriot passion on his heart;,3.0 +And even those hills that round his mansion rise,2.0 +Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies.,0.0 +"Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms,",0.0 +And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms;,1.0 +"And as a babe, when scaring sounds molest,",1.0 +"Clings close and closer to the mother's breast,",2.0 +But bind him to his native mountains more.,1.0 +"These are the charms to barren states assigned,",1.0 +"Their wants are few, their wishes all confined.",0.0 +"Yet let them only share the praises due,",0.0 +"If few their wants, their pleasures are but few;",1.0 +"Since every want that stimulates the breast,",0.0 +"Hence from such lands each pleasing science flies,",0.0 +"That first excites desire, and then supplies;",0.0 +"Unknown to them, when sensual pleasures cloy,",3.0 +To fill the languid pause with finer joy;,0.0 +"Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame,",2.0 +"Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frame.",2.0 +"On some high festival of once a year,",2.0 +"In wild excess the vulgar breast takes fire,",1.0 +"Their morals, like their pleasures, are but low:",1.0 +"For, as refinement stops, from sire to son,",3.0 +"Unaltered, unimproved, their manners run;",0.0 +And love's and friendship's finely pointed dart,0.0 +Some sterner virtues over the mountain's breast,2.0 +"May sit, like falcons cowering on the nest,",1.0 +"But all the gentler morals, such as play",1.0 +"Through life's more cultured walks, and charm our way,",0.0 +To sport and flutter in a kinder sky.,0.0 +"To kinder skies, where gentler manners reign,",0.0 +We turn; and France displays her bright domain.,0.0 +"Gay sprightly land of mirth and social ease,",1.0 +"Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please,",2.0 +"Where shading elms along the margin grew,",0.0 +And freshened from the wave the zephyr flew;,1.0 +"But mocked all tune, and marred the dancer's skill;",0.0 +"Yet would the village praise my wondrous power,",0.0 +Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days,0.0 +So bright a life these thoughtless realms display;,0.0 +Thus idly busy rolls their world away:,1.0 +"Theirs are those arts that mind to mind endear,",1.0 +For honour forms the social temper here.,2.0 +"Honour, that praise which real merit gains,",3.0 +"Or even imaginary worth obtains,",2.0 +"Here passes current; paid from hand to hand,",0.0 +It shifts in splendid traffic round the land:,0.0 +"From courts to camps, to cottages it strays,",1.0 +And all are taught an avarice of praise;,1.0 +"They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem,",0.0 +"Till, seeming blessed, they grow to what they seem.",0.0 +"But while this softer art their bliss supplies,",0.0 +It gives their follies also room to rise;,0.0 +"For praise too dearly loved or warmly sought,",1.0 +"Hence Ostentation here, with tawdry art,",1.0 +Pants for the vulgar praise which fools impart;,0.0 +"Here Vanity assumes her pert grimace,",4.0 +And trims her robes of frieze with copper lace;,0.0 +To boast one splendid banquet once a year;,0.0 +"The mind still turns where shifting fashion draws,",1.0 +"To men of other minds my fancy flies,",0.0 +"Where the broad ocean leans against the land,",2.0 +The firm connected bulwark seems to go;,0.0 +"Spreads its long arms amid the watery roar,",5.0 +"Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore:",4.0 +"While the penned Ocean rising over the pile,",4.0 +Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile;,4.0 +"The crowded mart, the cultivated plain,",0.0 +A new creation rescued from his reign.,1.0 +"Industrious habits in each bosom reign,",2.0 +And industry begets a love of gain.,1.0 +"Hence all the good from opulence that springs,",1.0 +"With all those ills superfluous treasure brings,",2.0 +Are here displayed. Their much loved wealth imparts,1.0 +"Convenience, plenty, elegance, and arts;",1.0 +"But view them closer, craft and fraud appear,",0.0 +Even liberty itself is bartered here.,1.0 +"At gold's superior charms all freedom flies,",2.0 +"The needy sell it, and the rich man buys;",2.0 +"A land of tyrants, and a den of slaves,",1.0 +"And calmly bent, to servitude conform,",0.0 +Dull as their lakes that sleep beneath the storm.,0.0 +"War in each breast, and freedom on each brow;",1.0 +How much unlike the sons of Britain now!,0.0 +"Fired at the sound, my genius spreads her wing,",0.0 +And flies where Britain courts the western spring;,0.0 +"Where lawns extend that scorn Arcadian pride,",3.0 +"There all around the gentlest breezes stray,",2.0 +There gentle music melts on every spray;,0.0 +"Creation's mildest charms are there combined,",1.0 +Extremes are only in the master's mind.,0.0 +"Stern over each bosom Reason holds her state,",3.0 +With daring aims irregularly great;,1.0 +"Pride in their port, defiance in their eye,",0.0 +"I see the lords of human kind pass by,",2.0 +"Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band,",0.0 +"True to imagined right, above control,",2.0 +"While even the peasant boasts these rights to scan,",2.0 +And learns to venerate himself as man.,0.0 +"Thine, Freedom, thine the blessings pictured here,",1.0 +Thine are those charms that dazzle and endear;,2.0 +"Too blessed, indeed, were such without alloy,",3.0 +"But, fostered even by Freedom, ills annoy:",2.0 +"Keeps man from man, and breaks the social tie;",1.0 +All kindred claims that soften life unknown:,0.0 +"Here by the bonds of nature feebly held,",0.0 +"Minds combat minds, repelling and repelled;",2.0 +"Ferments arise, imprisoned factions roar,",0.0 +"Repressed ambition struggles round her shore,",0.0 +"While overwrought, the general system feels",0.0 +"Its motions stopped, or frenzy fires the wheels.",0.0 +"Nor this the worst. As social bonds decay,",1.0 +"Fictitious bonds, the bonds of wealth and law,",0.0 +Still gather strength and force unwilling awe.,1.0 +"Hence all obedience bows to these alone,",4.0 +"And talent sinks, and merit weeps unknown;",0.0 +"Till time may come, when stripped of all her charms,",0.0 +"That land of scholars, and that nurse of arms,",1.0 +"Where noble stems transmit the patriot claim,",2.0 +"And monarchs toil, and poets pant for fame,",1.0 +"One sink of level avarice shall lie,",1.0 +"Yet think not, thus when freedom's ills I state,",0.0 +"I mean to flatter kings, or court the great;",0.0 +"You powers of truth that bid my soul aspire,",2.0 +Far from my bosom drive the low desire!,0.0 +"And thou, fair Freedom, taught alike to feel",2.0 +"Thou transitory flower, alike undone",2.0 +"By cold contempt, or favour's fostering sun,",5.0 +I only would repress them to secure:,1.0 +"For just experience tells in every soil,",2.0 +That those who think must govern those that toil;,1.0 +"And all that freedom's highest aims can reach,",0.0 +Is but to lay proportioned loads on each;,1.0 +"Much on the low, the rest, as rank supplies,",0.0 +Its double weight must ruin all below.,0.0 +"OH then how blind to all that truth requires,",0.0 +Who think it freedom when a part aspires!,0.0 +"Calm is my soul, nor apt to rise in arms,",0.0 +Except when fast approaching danger warms:,0.0 +"But when contending chiefs blockade the throne,",1.0 +Contracting regal power to stretch their own;,4.0 +To call it freedom when themselves are free;,0.0 +"Each wanton judge new penal statutes draw,",1.0 +"Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law;",2.0 +"The wealth of climes, where savage nations roam,",0.0 +Pillaged from slaves to purchase slaves at home;,2.0 +"Fear, pity, justice, indignation start,",1.0 +"Tear off reserve, and bare my swelling heart;",2.0 +"Till half a patriot, half a coward grown,",2.0 +I fly from petty tyrants to the throne.,1.0 +"Yes, brother, curse with me that baleful hour,",2.0 +When first ambition struck at regal power;,0.0 +"And thus polluting honour in its source,",0.0 +Gave wealth to sway the mind with double force.,1.0 +"Have we not seen, round Britain's peopled shore,",0.0 +Her useful sons exchanged for useless over?,0.0 +"Seen all her triumphs but destruction haste,",1.0 +Like flaring tapers brightening as they waste;,1.0 +"Seen Opulence, her grandeur to maintain,",6.0 +"Lead stern Depopulation in her train,",1.0 +"And, over fields where scattered hamlets rose,",0.0 +In barren solitary pomp repose?,0.0 +"Have we not seen, at Pleasure's lordly call,",2.0 +"The modest matron, and the blushing maid,",1.0 +"Forced from their homes, a melancholy train,",0.0 +To traverse climes beyond the western main;,0.0 +"Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around,",0.0 +And Niagara stuns with thundering sound?,3.0 +"Even now, perhaps, as there some pilgrim strays",1.0 +"Through tangled forests, and through dangerous ways;",3.0 +"Where beasts with men divided empire claim,",0.0 +And the brown Indian takes a deadly aim;,4.0 +"There, while above the giddy tempest flies,",0.0 +"The pensive exile, bending with his woe,",2.0 +"To stop too fearful, and too faint to go,",3.0 +"Casts a fond look where England's glories shine,",3.0 +"Vain, very vain, my weary search to find",1.0 +That bliss which only centres in the mind:,0.0 +"Why have I strayed from pleasure and repose,",1.0 +To seek a good each government bestows?,1.0 +"In every government, though terrors reign,",1.0 +"Though tyrant kings, or tyrant laws restrain,",0.0 +"How small of all that human hearts endure,",0.0 +That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.,0.0 +"Still to ourselves in every place consigned,",1.0 +Our own felicity we make or find:,1.0 +"With secret course, which no loud storms annoy,",1.0 +Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.,2.0 +"To men remote from power but rarely known,",2.0 +"Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own.",1.0 +SCEPTRE of ease! whose calm domain extends,2.0 +Fan to repose the Southern realms. OH! whom,3.0 +More slaves obey than swarm about the courts,0.0 +"Thy meanest subject, often hast thou deigned",0.0 +Gracious to visit. If thy poppy then,3.0 +"Was ever infused into my gifted quill,",2.0 +"If ever my nodding Muse was blessed with power,",2.0 +To doze the reader with her opiate verse ' --,3.0 +"Come, goddess; but be gentle; not as when",2.0 +On studious heads attendant thou art seen,3.0 +"Fast by the twinkling lamp, poring and pale",5.0 +"Immersed in meditation, sleep's great foe?",1.0 +Converses with the stars: In other guise,1.0 +"Thy presence I invoke. Serene approach,",1.0 +"Fix thy flat, musing, leaden eye: as looks",3.0 +Intent on books: he when alone applies,0.0 +"The needle's reparation to his hose,",1.0 +Or studious slices paper. Taught by thee,2.0 +"Turns over the page unread. Others more sage,",8.0 +"Yet stricter their enquiry, even proceed",5.0 +"To leaves within, and curious there select",3.0 +"Italics, or consult the margin, pleased",1.0 +"To find a hero or a tale: all else,",1.0 +"The observation, maxim, inference",1.0 +Disturb the brain with thought ' -- It sure were long,0.0 +And all thy various haunts. Why should I speak,2.0 +"Of coffeehouse? or where the eunuch plays,",0.0 +"Glorious, thy incense ambergris, and time",3.0 +Thy sacrifice. ' -- About thee cards and dice,0.0 +"Lie scattered, and a thousand vassal beaux",2.0 +Officiate at thy worship. ' -- Nor mean while,2.0 +Is solitude less thy peculiar sphere;,2.0 +"Your beauties, gentle Potentate; with me",0.0 +By vale or brook to loiter not displeased:,0.0 +"Debating, in full senate, points of state.",1.0 +"My bower, my walks, my study all are thine,",2.0 +"Spreads her soft lap, my waters whisper sleep.",3.0 +Make inroad on thy kingdom's peace. ' -- What though,1.0 +"Malicious tongues me harmless represent,",0.0 +A traitor to thy throne: or that I hold,1.0 +"Forbidden correspondence with the Nine,",1.0 +"Plotting with Phoebus, and thy foes! What though",3.0 +"Of satire they impeach me, strain severe!",2.0 +"In proof accept, OH goddess, this my verse.",2.0 +"That Bane of Glory, and a virtuous Name;",3.0 +"Pale Envy dwells, and every Breast inspires,",1.0 +"With mortal Hatred, and destructive Fires;",1.0 +And deals her impious Power all around;,3.0 +"Deceit, on one hand, stands with cruel Smiles,",2.0 +"But, in her Hand, though half concealed, is viewed,",0.0 +"Scandal, on other hand, like Fame appears,",2.0 +Alike her Number both of Tongues and Ears:,0.0 +"By these the fairest Reputation dies,",1.0 +"And swift, and sure, the spreading Ruin flies,",0.0 +"These, who to Virtue, Wit, and Beauty lost;",0.0 +Here strive to blast the Fame they cannot boast;,0.0 +"When Crowds they sacrifice to give thee Ease,",0.0 +Rises to blast thee with an honest Fame;,3.0 +Sunk in Oblivion the bright Merit dies;,5.0 +If spotless Chastity to Shame betrayed;,1.0 +"If charms, when blasted, in the blooming Maid,",0.0 +"Deserve thy Smile, ' -- the pleasing Mischief aid.",0.0 +"Still GODDESS, in our Souls thy Power increase,",2.0 +And to each pointed Scandal give Success.,1.0 +"Murders the Fair, the Innocent, and Young;",3.0 +"With doubtful Hints a horrid Sense convey,",0.0 +"Gentle her Air, but Anguish clouds her Face;",2.0 +"Merit uninjured, now demands her Grief,",2.0 +But future Scandal gives her Soul relief;,0.0 +And her bad Prayer in Whispers is addressed:,3.0 +"Goddess, who all my anxious Bosom fires,",0.0 +Who every Word and every Thought inspires;,0.0 +"Still while thy potent Influence I feel,",1.0 +Let Friendship's soft Disguise my Aims conceal;,1.0 +"And while I spread destructive Scandal round,",0.0 +"It's done ' -- it's granted, fly, you virtuous Few,",1.0 +Fly ever her cruel Arts your Fame pursue;,3.0 +"See Justice from the foul Infection flies,",2.0 +"Far from the guilty Scene averts her Sight,",0.0 +Her own Philander can't retard her Flight;,3.0 +"Though her bright Image, in his Breast he bears,",2.0 +And all her Beauties in his Form appears;,0.0 +"Though in his Soul she lights her heavenly Flame,",2.0 +"ILLUSTRIOUS Prince! forgive the feeble Lay,",2.0 +That now aspires to hail your Nuptial Day;,2.0 +"Nor scorn a Muse, the meanest of the Nine,",1.0 +Who brings her humble Offering to your Shrine.,1.0 +"And you, Imperial Nymph! whose lovely Face",3.0 +"Invites the Hero to your chaste Embrace,",1.0 +"Harmonious Words, and pleasing Thoughts inspire,",2.0 +"Soft, as your Love, and tuneful, as your Lyre:",1.0 +"So shall my Numbers charm the listening Ear,",0.0 +And even the glad NASSAU delighted hear.,4.0 +"NASSAU has long enriched the Book of Fame,",2.0 +And ANNA now adorns the noble Name.,0.0 +"Nations, who saw the Light of ORANGE rise,",2.0 +"Shall soon behold it with new Lustre shine,",2.0 +"SO, where the flowing Sambre gently glides,",0.0 +"But, when his more extended Eye surveys",0.0 +The shining Torrent join the spacious Maese;,0.0 +"Both Rivers, thus, with friendly Union flow,",1.0 +And to the Sight superior Beauty show.,3.0 +"WHENEVER the Gods a noble Race intend,",2.0 +"They suit the Causes to the destined End,",1.0 +Nor yoke unequal Hearts in Nuptial Love:,0.0 +"Great Minds, by native Sympathy, combine,",2.0 +As golden Particles the closest join.,1.0 +"Paternal Virtues in their Bosom roll,",0.0 +Hence Royal ANNE prefers NASSAU to Kings;,6.0 +"While Britons with united Hearts rejoice,",1.0 +"And willing Senators applaud the Choice,",1.0 +Discharge the Debt to sacred WILLIAM due;,0.0 +Immortal WILLIAM! by whose prudent Cares,1.0 +We yet enjoy the Fruits of all our Wars;,0.0 +"Our Laws, Religion, Liberty, and Peace,",1.0 +"NOR Thou, Illustrious ORANGE! blush to own,",3.0 +"Blessed with a Princess, in whose Form we trace",0.0 +"Her Father's Majesty, and Mother's Grace;",1.0 +"Dispel our Clouds, and beautify our Day:",0.0 +"Not as the Comet, raging through the Air,",1.0 +Infects the World with Pestilence and War;,1.0 +"But, like the Sun, their Beams of Goodness glow,",0.0 +"Inspiring Life, and cheering all below.",0.0 +"Such are the glorious SIRE, and gracious DAME,",5.0 +What Lion ever produced a timorous Hind?,4.0 +"The Royal Eagles Royal Eagles breed,",0.0 +And Heroes from heroic Sires proceed:,1.0 +"Rome's Founder, thus, confessed his Race Divine;",1.0 +"Thus ANNA's noble Stream of Virtue flows,",1.0 +"High, as the Regal Spring, from whence it rose.",0.0 +"Thrice happy Nymph, with every Grace supplied!",1.0 +"Thrice happy Prince, with such a heavenly Bride!",4.0 +"In whom superior Sense with Judgement joins,",2.0 +"Her Beauty much, but more her Merit shines.",0.0 +"How glorious! When such Worth adorns the Great,",1.0 +"We hear, we see, admire, and imitate:",0.0 +"Virtue, in Them, attracts remotest Eyes;",2.0 +"But, in the vulgar Soul, unheeded lies.",0.0 +"As radiant PHOEBUS darts superior Light,",2.0 +While smaller Planets shun the watchful Sight.,0.0 +"ACCOMPLISHED thus, let her Example fire",2.0 +"The drooping Muse, and wake the sounding Lyre:",0.0 +"Heaven justly claims the Soul, it made so fair",0.0 +"To stem the Torrent of licentious Rage,",1.0 +And prop the Virtues of a sinking Age;,1.0 +"Exalting Science to her ancient Height,",1.0 +"To raise declining Arts, and make the Rude polite:",0.0 +"While great NASSAU, whom native Glory warms,",3.0 +"Whenever his Country calls him forth to Arms,",2.0 +"May fire the Belgians in the Field of MARS,",0.0 +"Consult their Peace, or animate their Wars;",0.0 +"Paint his Forefathers to their wondering Eye,",6.0 +"And teach them how to conquer, or to die;",2.0 +"Like him, who bravely dared to break their Chain,",0.0 +Though held by all the Force and Fraud of Spain:,0.0 +"For injured Liberty the Sword he draws,",1.0 +"Resolved to gain, or perish in the Cause;",0.0 +"And having long the doubtful Combat tried,",0.0 +Though different far the Motives of their Mind;,1.0 +"That fought to conquer, this to save Mankind;",2.0 +"Till praised, lamented, envied, and admired,",1.0 +"The Hero, Patriot, and the Prince expired.",1.0 +OH! where did then the Guardian Angels hide?,2.0 +Nor watched to turn the guilty Ball aside;,0.0 +"When he, whom armed Hosts could not withstand,",1.0 +Now falls a Victim to one Villain's Hand!,2.0 +"BUT rise, you Muses, quit the pensive Lay:",0.0 +Nor damp the Joys of this auspicious Day.,1.0 +"Since yet the glorious Name of ORANGE stands,",2.0 +Since Royal ANNA seals the Nuptial Bands;,0.0 +"And be, what glorious WILLIAM was before.",3.0 +"NOR shall the States invading Forces fear,",0.0 +Ere pregnant Time the promised Heroes bear;,1.0 +"Nor want Allies their Freedom to defend,",1.0 +"As branching Oaks protect the rural Swain,",0.0 +"Secure from Summer Heat, and Winter Rain;",0.0 +"So shall our Monarch, with paternal Aid,",1.0 +His Regal Shelter over Batavia spread:,4.0 +"Long as the Sceptre fills his Royal Hand,",0.0 +A true Palladium shall insure the Land.,2.0 +"AND if the prescient Muses guide my Lay,",3.0 +Or future Secrets PHOEBUS can display;,1.0 +"The Day shall shine distinguished from the rest,",1.0 +"That ANNA dignified, and HYMEN blessed;",0.0 +And plans a Scheme of Union for his Son;,1.0 +"Bespeaks Allies for Princes yet to come,",0.0 +"New Friends to Britain, and new Foes to Rome.",3.0 +"PROCEED, Great MONARCH! new Allies to gain,",1.0 +And with new Nuptial Leagues our Peace maintain:,2.0 +"That Safety, other Kings defend with Arms;",0.0 +"They, VENUS like, could MARS himself surprise,",0.0 +And awe stern Tyrants with their conquering Eyes.,4.0 +"The soul indignant rushing from the wound,",1.0 +"While eminent amid the gazing bands,",1.0 +"Like Mars himself, the Trojan victor stands;",0.0 +And every heart in every bosom dies.,0.0 +"Now, fixed in earth their spears, the humbled foe",1.0 +"Rest on their swords, and targets from them throw;",1.0 +"Condemn the thirst of battle, and abhor",1.0 +The dreaded fury of destructive war;,1.0 +"Submit to all the conqueror shall impose,",2.0 +And pardon crave and end of all their woes.,0.0 +"As when two bulls, inflamed with martial rage,",1.0 +"Impetuous in the bloody fight engage,",0.0 +"To each his herd inclines, who anxious wait",0.0 +"The dubious conflict, and their champion's fate;",3.0 +From their foiled chief their former faith withdraw:,2.0 +"They grieve indeed, but join with one accord",1.0 +To share the fortunes of an happier lord.,3.0 +"Though deep their sorrow for their leader dead,",1.0 +Conducted by a leader so divine;,2.0 +"And a firm league of lasting peace implore,",2.0 +That cruel war might vex their lives no more.,1.0 +"Then striding over the foe, the ghastly dead,",2.0 +"That we by Heaven's appointment hither brought,",2.0 +Could from our mansions be expelled by thee?,0.0 +"O rash, the will celestial to oppose,",2.0 +At length the utmost of thy rage is done,2.0 +"Lo, future times from this instructive day",2.0 +"And learn from dread example, to abhor",1.0 +"The crime of kindling, without cause, a war.",5.0 +Since such a price thou for Lavinia paid:,1.0 +"With all his arms your hero I restore,",1.0 +"That, to his hoary sire I mean to send,",2.0 +Perhaps some comfort may the gift attend:,1.0 +"Shall lead your legions to successful wars,",1.0 +If justice wield the sword. I never sought,0.0 +"To save my own the hostile steel I drew,",0.0 +"Fate crowned my honest aim, and frowned on you.",1.0 +The walls that hold the poor remains of Troy;,0.0 +And with reproach the conquered hosts offend:,1.0 +"Their shouts triumphant echo to the sky,",1.0 +The pious Trojan ere he light the fire,0.0 +"Due to his friends upon the sacred pyre,",0.0 +"By other flames begins his just returns,",0.0 +And to the gods each holy altar burns;,1.0 +"Forth from each victim are the entrails torn,",1.0 +"And piecemeal cut, in sacred chargers born.",1.0 +"They strip the fleecy mother of her pride,",1.0 +And roasting fires the attendant throngs provide:,1.0 +"With grateful incense they the powers invoke,",4.0 +And from each altar curls the fragrant smoke.,1.0 +The choral bands the hymns appointed sing,0.0 +"To thee, OH Venus, and to Heavens Great King;",4.0 +Her rage abated towered the sons of Troy.,2.0 +"Mars too was sung, and then the numerous host",3.0 +"Bespoke the boy; At length, my only son,",0.0 +"Our toils are over, the task of war is done,",2.0 +"To clasp soft quiet, now within our power.",1.0 +Soon as the morn shall open the gates of day,2.0 +"To yonder proud walls, OH wing thy speedy way:",4.0 +"Next to his friends he turned him graceful round,",0.0 +"The brunt of battle, and the rage of seas",1.0 +"Have been our lot, a scene of endless pain",0.0 +"Involved us all, but better days remain;",0.0 +"Our pangs are past, our sufferings all are over,",0.0 +"For know, Lavinia shall be firmly mine,",1.0 +"From whose great mixture shall a nation spring,",1.0 +"To give the world one universal king,",0.0 +"Whose wide domain shall stretch from pole to pole,",0.0 +"Where earth is seen, or mighty oceans roll.",0.0 +In peace and concord share this happy land;,0.0 +"For who more just, more fit for regal sway.",0.0 +This have I fixed; by me be taught to dare,1.0 +"The rough approaches of invasive war,",1.0 +"By me instructed, suffer as you ought,",2.0 +"By heaven I swear, my friends so often tried,",0.0 +"Now wanton Fortune combats on my side,",3.0 +Shall meet with ample usury at last.,1.0 +"So spoke the chief, revolving in his mind",0.0 +"The various fortunes that attend mankind,",3.0 +Rejoiced to see the objects of his care,1.0 +As when a kite in many a whirling ring,2.0 +"Intent on blood, comes stooping on the wing,",2.0 +"The anxious hen, for her young brood in dread,",2.0 +"The fell destroyer hovering over their head,",2.0 +And urged by fondness conquers lawless rage;,0.0 +"The tyrant flies, nor yet her fears suppressed,",0.0 +"She calls each feathered wanderer to her breast,",1.0 +"There shields them close, and counts them over and over,",2.0 +"By former woe enhances present joy,",0.0 +"The perils past of battle, land and seas,",0.0 +"Are sweet remembrance to an heart at ease,",1.0 +For which the hero grateful homage pays,0.0 +"And the last office for the chief prepare,",3.0 +Presaging fears his anxious breast divide:,2.0 +"He quickly caught the epidemic woe,",0.0 +"His bosom heaved, his eyes in torrents flow,",0.0 +"And ordered silence to the intruding band,",3.0 +To view the features of the mighty slain.,1.0 +"As when the foaming boar, whom dogs surround,",0.0 +"Rips up their generous chief with mortal wound,",2.0 +"The howling pack about the hunter throng,",0.0 +And seem to call him to avenge the wrong;,1.0 +The well known signals of his hand and voice,2.0 +"Reduce their tumult, and compose the noise:",1.0 +And a dumb sorrow dwelled on all the plain;,2.0 +"The solemn pause the good old monarch broke,",1.0 +And the big drops fell from him as he spoke.,2.0 +"What scenes of various ills, of care, and strife,",2.0 +Await poor mortals on this sea of life;,2.0 +"Pride finds in crowns her pleasures all complete,",1.0 +Deluded wretch to call a poison sweet;,0.0 +"Ambition hastens to the dusty field,",1.0 +"Can death, can dangers soft contentment yield?",0.0 +"The example now is recent to your eyes,",2.0 +Beneath the glittering throne that bears a king,2.0 +"Few, few alas, a monarch's cares behold,",1.0 +"Controlled to act against his own intent,",0.0 +"And when he sighs for peace, to war consent.",0.0 +"To urge my people to the lawless fray,",1.0 +"To break that knot which sacred faith had tied,",0.0 +And war against those with whom the immortals side?,2.0 +"'Twas with regret the sword of rage I drew,",2.0 +For ah too well the consequence I knew.,2.0 +"Oft have I seen thee on thy bounding steed,",1.0 +"In burnished arms the willing nations lead,",0.0 +As oft my prayers have soothed thee from the plain;,1.0 +But sober prudence counsels rage in vain.,0.0 +"My cities thinned, are nodding to their fall,",1.0 +"Each useless fortress weeps her ruined wall,",0.0 +"A sanguine die, once happier rivers yield,",3.0 +"Grief, devastation, war, despair, and rage!",1.0 +"That warmth for glory, and that awful brow?",1.0 +"That pleasing face, by youth more pleasing dressed,",0.0 +Now shocks the sight that once charmed every breast.,2.0 +"What stings of sorrow shall his bosom tear,",0.0 +"Yet soiled with dust, and grim with clotted blood,",0.0 +"Cleanse the pale corpse in yonder silver flood,",3.0 +"Perhaps some ease his father's heart may feel,",0.0 +To know he sunk beneath an hero's steel.,0.0 +"He spoke and wept, and turning to the train,",1.0 +"They raise the body off the dusty plain,",1.0 +A horrid present to a sire to send.,3.0 +"Are born aloft, next moves the rattling car,",0.0 +"Moves slowly on, and sorrow clouds his brow;",2.0 +"The noble beast, who never before knew fear,",2.0 +"Full oft had he his daring master led,",1.0 +"Where the war thundered, and the nations bled,",3.0 +"To death, to danger, never known to yield,",0.0 +"The pride, the fear, the glory of the field.",1.0 +"Inverted arms the following legions bear,",2.0 +"Deep in his palace feels keen sorrow's sting,",1.0 +"Foresees strange horrors: widows, maids, and wives,",1.0 +"Young men and old, all anxious for their lives,",2.0 +"Join in one shrill complaint: thus surges roar,",1.0 +"When pressed by winds, they break upon the shore.",0.0 +"Should cheer his age, or what his army bore",0.0 +Another grief the pensive monarch calls:,0.0 +"For while the Latins had engaged in fight,",0.0 +"Involving flames had seized his native land,",0.0 +"Beyond the stars ascending sparkles fly,",0.0 +So willed the gods; perhaps the crumb'ling wall,0.0 +Through flames and death pursue their dubious way;,2.0 +"The shrieks of matrons witness their despair,",1.0 +And clouds of smoke involve the darkening air.,0.0 +"As careful ants for future wants provide,",0.0 +"Where an old oak presents her riven side,",3.0 +"But if the axe the sheltering timber wound,",3.0 +"Among the crowd what cares tumultuous rise,",3.0 +This way and that the sable cohort flies;,0.0 +"Or as the tortoise broiling on the fire,",2.0 +"When on her back, unable to retire,",1.0 +"With head, with feet, with tail declares her pain,",0.0 +And tries all strength and stratagem in vain:,1.0 +"And wild confusion, no deliverance found;",0.0 +When from amid the flames was seen to rise,1.0 +"With clapping wings, a fowl that cuts the skies:",0.0 +"With turrets crowned, and many a stately pile,",2.0 +"Fixed with dismay the astonished vulgar gaze,",4.0 +Nor further fly to shun the dreadful blaze;,0.0 +"But who a monarch's sorrows can relate,",2.0 +"Doomed tales of fresh affliction soon to know,",1.0 +Doomed to a sad variety of woe.,1.0 +"The solemn train approaches now too near,",1.0 +Each sad attendant carries in his hand;,0.0 +"A general sorrow seizes all the crowd,",0.0 +"The timorous matrons, in afflictions loud,",2.0 +"Pierce heavens blue arch, their flowing garments tear,",4.0 +He seemed a statue fixed upon the plain:,1.0 +"But soon his sorrows found a different way,",0.0 +"He flies like lightning where the body lay,",0.0 +"The breathless corpse he held in grapples fast,",0.0 +"My son, my son! my age's last relief,",0.0 +"Thy fire's late glory, now his cause of grief;",3.0 +"Prop of my age, and guardian of my throne,",1.0 +"Comfort no more her healing balm will shed,",0.0 +Are these the trophies of thy vast renown?,2.0 +Are these the glories of an added crown?,2.0 +"OH Fortune, giddy as the whirling hour?",2.0 +"Man builds up schemes for her to overturn,",2.0 +"And thou, who, lately a whole nation's joy,",3.0 +"Our hope no longer, nor the foe's dismay.",2.0 +"No more that face shall charm each gazing maid,",0.0 +"No more that form shall catch the admiring view,",2.0 +Those eyes no more their lustre shall renew;,1.0 +And every virtue withers on thy tomb.,1.0 +"Urged on to war, too eager in thy hate,",1.0 +"Thou rushed to sight, and halfway met thy fate.",1.0 +"Strikes down the great, and lays the haughty low;",0.0 +And shrink to dust when he approaches near.,1.0 +"Each day over whom thy sable stole is flung,",1.0 +Thy slaughtered son moves not thy quiet breast.,1.0 +"Say, say, you powers! have I yet more to dread?",1.0 +What drive you next on this devoted head?,1.0 +"You cropped my blossom in his earliest spring,",1.0 +The loss of him is every loss in one;,1.0 +"Some woe superior was for me decreed,",2.0 +"I have it now, and am a wretch indeed.",1.0 +"When once the Fates have marked their destined prey,",0.0 +Each various ill pursues him on his way;,3.0 +"This way and that the fainting wretch is hurled,",0.0 +"The sport of heaven, and pity of the world.",1.0 +"No more he said, but down his reverend cheeks,",1.0 +"Thick groans distend his breast, his eyeballs stare,",2.0 +And all his looks are horror and despair.,1.0 +"The hapless mother shakes with deadly fear,",0.0 +"And gives what aid she can, a fruitless tear.",1.0 +Now from the portals of the rosy sky,1.0 +"To try the fortunes of the warlike plain,",2.0 +"For his pale legions shuddered at the word,",2.0 +"He much revolved of former breach of vows,",0.0 +"At length a solemn embassy is sent,",1.0 +A thousand men select for that intent;,0.0 +"Commissioned these the virtuous chief implore,",3.0 +"To quiet hostile rage amongst the bands,",0.0 +"Well skilled to plead, and princes stand before:",1.0 +"Instructed to declare their king's desire,",1.0 +"Should flow commingled in one common flood,",0.0 +"He yielded gladly to their wise decree,",1.0 +"Relates his measures, and his pious view;",1.0 +"And all prepare to meet the sons of Troy,",0.0 +"Not in the plain in warfare to contend,",2.0 +But as to meet a brother or a friend.,2.0 +"The royal court is decked with double care,",0.0 +Worthy the chief who shall be shortly there.,3.0 +"The appointed envoys reach the camp designed,",1.0 +"Of peace the token, and their tongues no less",2.0 +Of friendly talk the full intent profess.,0.0 +With kind demeanour welcomes every one;,7.0 +"In virtue first, and mightiest of the host,",1.0 +"Our royal master swears by all the powers,",0.0 +"Hear me, immortals, in your heavenly bowers",4.0 +"That against his will the treaties sworn, he broke,",1.0 +Or did to fight your valiant bands provoke;,0.0 +"To give his daughter to thy longing arms,",1.0 +"Lavinia, famed for virtue, as for charms.",1.0 +"But if stern rage has turned his view aside,",2.0 +If seas of blood have flowed on either side;,0.0 +"If madding fury, reason over came,",0.0 +"His busy mind disdained all peace and rest,",0.0 +And floods of gall overflowed his rancorous breast.,5.0 +"To lend his troops, and against his will complied:",3.0 +Even then our armies wished the frantic boy,0.0 +Would yield obedience to the chief of Troy.,1.0 +Our monarch too requesting nations joined;,0.0 +"But say, can Reason bend the stubborn mind?",0.0 +"Can human reason hope for weight or force,",0.0 +When not the gods could turn his impious course?,3.0 +"In dire portents they spoke their will in vain,",4.0 +"His rage renews, he hurries to the plain,",1.0 +Contract new nuptials with some Stygian maid;,2.0 +"If rage and fury still be thy delight,",1.0 +Whom all our people their protector own;,1.0 +"Whose ample praises are with rapture sung,",1.0 +Whose glorious deeds untie the infant's tongue;,2.0 +"Our youth, our sages, and each sober dame,",1.0 +With one accord all celebrate thy name:,1.0 +"Believe not me, but hear a nation's voice;",1.0 +So shall the Italian and the Phrygian race,4.0 +"Join in one stock, which time shall never efface.",2.0 +"Then haste, great chief! thy conduct be our care,",1.0 +"He said; the shouting bands his sense approve,",0.0 +And former hate gives way to newborn love:,1.0 +"To which the pious hero smiling kind,",0.0 +Thus spoke the gentle dictates of his mind:,3.0 +"The rage of combats, and past scenes of woe,",5.0 +You and your king are guiltless of I know:,2.0 +"Lavish of blood, and prodigal of life;",3.0 +Too oft we find the youthful breast inflame;,1.0 +"Then tell your king his will shall be obeyed,",1.0 +And peace eternal swear. Nor till the powers,1.0 +"But, born a king, he still shall rule these lands.",0.0 +"Another city shall my Trojans found,",0.0 +Where added household gods shall bless the ground;,1.0 +And equal laws united bands shall own:,0.0 +"May love and friendship spread through all the host,",0.0 +What now remains but with a pious care,1.0 +"To burn those corpses that infect the air,",0.0 +"Sad victims of the war, whose ravenous hand",4.0 +"That business done, tomorrow's sun shall guide",1.0 +The happy lover to his blooming bride.,1.0 +"He said; the attentive people round him gaze,",2.0 +"His virtues charm them, and they shout his praise.",1.0 +"Now see the busy legions all around,",1.0 +"Trees crack'ling fall, and axes loud resound;",2.0 +"With holy zeal they shape the different pyres,",0.0 +And high to heaven ascend the curling fires;,0.0 +"Thick clouds of smoke mount slowly to the sky,",3.0 +"A thousand sheep, appointed victims, die;",0.0 +And in the flames they cast the heifers slain:,0.0 +"No more the field is loaded with the dead,",1.0 +And noisy shouts around the plain are spread;,0.0 +"At length the sun diffused his golden ray,",0.0 +And all prepared to hasten on their way.,1.0 +Who much bespoke the chief; the next to sight,0.0 +For so the friendly leaders had decreed.,1.0 +Viewed the procession moving over the plain;,4.0 +"Each citizen exults with inward joy,",1.0 +To think the sword no longer shall destroy.,1.0 +"With chosen friends, to meet the Trojan, lay:",0.0 +The mighty prince his actions all reveal;,0.0 +"High over the rest in graceful pomp he trod,",3.0 +Each action spoke the offspring of a god.,2.0 +"Addressed the chief, and pressed his friendly hand:",0.0 +"At length, thou glory of the Trojan race,",1.0 +"My hope's complete, for I behold thy face.",1.0 +"To me at length the happy hour is given,",1.0 +To clasp the choicest favourite of heaven;,2.0 +"With joy to yield to the divine decree,",1.0 +That here hath fixed a resting place for thee.,0.0 +"These lands, these happy lands, enjoy in peace.",0.0 +"Though furious rage that knows not ever to yield,",4.0 +And wildly boasted violated laws;,1.0 +"Yet I, alas, unwillingly complied,",2.0 +"Deceived my legions fought, and he who most,",0.0 +"Now lies a carcass on the barren sand,",2.0 +"Victim of heaven, and of thy mighty hand.",3.0 +No more the trumpet shall awake to arms,0.0 +"Some realms I have, and towns my own I call,",0.0 +"Yet of all objects that my soul engage,",0.0 +"She and her charms, OH mighty son, be thine,",2.0 +In this embrace I the sweet maid resign.,3.0 +"Dear to my soul, thy virtues I adore,",1.0 +I soon conclude that battle's stubborn rage,0.0 +Was never the option of thy prudent age;,3.0 +"If thou hast fears, o, give them to the wind,",2.0 +"In thee, o monarch, I a father find;",1.0 +"Again his figure in full sight appears,",1.0 +And filial duty melts me into tears.,2.0 +"Maids, women, boys, and hoary sires combine",1.0 +To praise the beauties of their guests divine.,1.0 +"His fair demeanour, and superior size,",4.0 +Attends the chief who bless with peace their days.,0.0 +"As when long rains have drenched the genial plain,",1.0 +In gloomy sadness sits each pensive swain;,0.0 +The farmer weeps his unavailing plough:,0.0 +"And pour his golden glories through the skies,",1.0 +"They haste exulting to their honest care,",1.0 +And wound earth's bosom with the crooked share:,2.0 +And shout and revel at the approach of peace.,2.0 +"Trojans, Italians, march in pomp along,",2.0 +And the court brightens with a noble throng:,3.0 +"By matrons circled, and by virgins led",1.0 +"Her eyes like stars diffused a lustre round,",0.0 +Her modest eyes she rivets to the ground.,1.0 +"He gazed, he loved, and thus in secret said:",0.0 +"To taste such beauties, such transcendent charms,",1.0 +"Kings rouse the nations, and the world's in arms.",2.0 +"The sacred priest fast by the altar stands,",2.0 +And Hymeneal songs are wafted all around.,3.0 +From out the camp the various presents brought.,3.0 +"A collar too, whose gems emitted flame,",0.0 +The gift of Priam in his happier days.,2.0 +Such royal presents kings may send to kings:,0.0 +"But the gay robes, and collar's radiant pride,",3.0 +Are justly destined for the blooming bride.,1.0 +"Now converse sweet, and joy without allay,",1.0 +"The genial feast is served in sumptuous state,",2.0 +"For luxury, at times, becomes the great.",1.0 +"On purple couches all the nobles lie,",0.0 +The taught attendants wait attentive by;,1.0 +And every dainty loads the regal board.,0.0 +"Bright Crees here provides her gifts divine,",1.0 +And the red god bestows his choicest wine.,2.0 +"With eye attentive every waiter stands,",0.0 +And flies to execute each guest's commands.,0.0 +"And crowds in billows seem to wave, and roll.",0.0 +"Heard him with transport, and devoured each word;",2.0 +The grace of feature with the worth of mind;,1.0 +"His manly talk, his observations sage,",0.0 +"Nor could the king withhold his honest praise,",0.0 +"Take this embrace, thou wonder of thy days:",3.0 +To make each son add lustre to the sire.,2.0 +"The banquet ended, some their talk employ",0.0 +"Who first broke through the ranks with furious force,",3.0 +And through the slaughter urged his foaming horse.,1.0 +And the forced earth her bounties to resign;,3.0 +"By arts improved them, and with laws reclaimed.",1.0 +"By his own hand, he fled across the main.",1.0 +And safely settled on the Phrygian lands.,3.0 +"Proud of his birth, he in his banner bore",0.0 +"Much fame he won, which time shall never destroy,",2.0 +The immortal founder of imperial Troy.,4.0 +"The torches blaze, the minstrel sweeps the strings;",0.0 +For thrice three days in revelry and joy,2.0 +They drowned their cares: at length the chief of Troy,0.0 +"To other tasks directs his curious eyes,",2.0 +Marked out by ploughs shall destined cities rise;,0.0 +"Here form they trenches, there dig ditches wide,",2.0 +"When, strange to say, the Phrygian leader spied",2.0 +"He stood aghast, nor knew what meant the sign;",0.0 +"But thus his prayer addressed: OH king divine,",1.0 +Of men and gods! if ever my Trojan bands,2.0 +Still through all perils or by land or sea,1.0 +"To thee have prayed, have sacrificed to thee;",1.0 +"If I have led them to these pious deeds,",2.0 +Explain this omen that belief exceeds.,0.0 +"Ah may no dire portent our peace oppose,",3.0 +"While thus he prayed, his mother lay concealed",0.0 +"Behind a cloud; but, soon to sight revealed,",0.0 +Interpret right the happiness in store,1.0 +"The gods predict. Peace spreads her olive wand,",1.0 +And buxom plenty crowns the laughing land.,0.0 +"From her a mighty race of chiefs shall rise,",1.0 +Whose fame immortal shall ascend the skies;,0.0 +"The vanquished world with pride shall wear their chain,",0.0 +Realms far divided by the seas in vain.,2.0 +Fame yet reserved is marked by this portent;,1.0 +Call thy new city by her happy name.,4.0 +"Thy household gods, escaped from burning Troy,",1.0 +Shall in these walls a double peace enjoy;,0.0 +"With pious awe their kindly love revere,",0.0 +For know they ever shall inhabit here.,0.0 +"With such affection for these realms they burn,",2.0 +That forced from hence again they shall return;,0.0 +"Then, my best son, thy happiness confess.",4.0 +"Over Trojan bands thy legal sway maintain,",0.0 +"One common law shall bind them all in one,",0.0 +"No fell division, and distinction none.",2.0 +"Yet mark, OH mark, what still remains for thee,",1.0 +"The gods consenting fixed the kind decree,",0.0 +"Thy days spun out, thou shalt not mix with earth,",2.0 +"Vanquish proud Fate, and mingle with the gods.",4.0 +"She spoke, and quickly darting from the sight,",1.0 +Streaked the thin either with a trail of light.,4.0 +The hero stood revolving in his mind,0.0 +The various bounties which the powers designed;,4.0 +"The pious Trojan rules the happy state,",0.0 +"Full wide extends his undisputed sway,",1.0 +And all alike one common king obey;,0.0 +"Their rites, their customs, and their will the same,",2.0 +As citizens they share one general name.,1.0 +"And now the mother of each smiling love,",1.0 +Bespoke the god: Almighty sire of Heaven!,2.0 +"To whom the ruling of the world is given,",1.0 +"Ere yet the lips have given the secret vent,",2.0 +"Thy sacred promise let a goddess claim,",0.0 +A goddess pleading for the Trojan name:,1.0 +To ease their sufferings by a blessed repose?,1.0 +"Nor can I tax thy promise made in vain,",1.0 +Three years hath peace beheld this happy plain;,0.0 +There yet remains a seat in heaven to spare,0.0 +"Past mortal strength his growing virtues rise,",1.0 +To whom the mighty power with looks serene.,2.0 +"But first he raised, and kissed the Cyprian queen:",2.0 +Thy mighty son and all his powerful bands,2.0 +"That much I love, bear witness sea and lands,",1.0 +"My arm hath snatched them from each peril near,",1.0 +"And to my grant, overcome, at length consents.",7.0 +"Then it's decreed, his virtues shall prevail,",1.0 +"Purge off each part that makes the mortal frail,",0.0 +Then add him to the stars; should others rise,1.0 +"Of equal merit, they shall share the skies.",1.0 +"The gods assent, and Juno vexed no more,",1.0 +Requests the boon she often crossed before.,0.0 +"Quick from the starry pole fair Venus glides,",1.0 +"She dips her son, and washes well away",0.0 +Each grosser particle of mortal clay;,1.0 +"The part divine to heaven the goddess bears,",0.0 +"Him as their god the Julian race invoke,",1.0 +"For him do temples rise, and sacred altars smoke.",1.0 +"HAIL happy Shades, and hail thou cheerful Plain,",1.0 +Where Peace and Pleasure unmolested reign;,0.0 +And the cool Rivers murmur as they flow:,3.0 +"Hum round the Blossoms, and extract their Dew:",1.0 +And smiling Nature decks the Infant Year;,0.0 +"See yonder proud Elm that shines in borrowed Charms,",5.0 +"When the streaked East receives a lighter Grey,",3.0 +And Larks prepare to meet the early Day;,0.0 +"Through the glad Bowers the shrill Anthems run,",4.0 +While the Groves glitter to the rising Sun:,3.0 +"Then Phillis hastens to her darling Cow,",1.0 +"Whose shining Tresses wanton on her Brow,",1.0 +"While to her Cheek enlivening Colours fly,",2.0 +And Health and Pleasure sparkle in her Eye.,0.0 +"Unspoiled by Riches, nor with Knowledge vain,",1.0 +"His Flock dismisses from their nightly Fold,",1.0 +"Observes their Health, and sees their Number told.",0.0 +"Pleased with its Being, see the nimble Fawn",0.0 +And the dull Ox affects unwieldy Play.,2.0 +"Then haste, my Friend, to yonder Sylvan Bowers,",0.0 +Where Peace and Silence crown the blissful Hours;,0.0 +No streaming Purple stains the guiltless Ground;,1.0 +"Give a soft Pleasure, and a quiet Joy;",4.0 +"Grief flies from hence, and wasting Cares subside,",1.0 +While winged with Mirth the laughing Minutes glide.,0.0 +"See, my fair Friend, the painted Shrubs are gay,",3.0 +And round they Head ambrosial Odours play;,1.0 +"At Sight of thee the swelling Buds expand,",1.0 +And opening Roses seem to court thy Hand;,2.0 +"Hark, the shrill Linnet charms the distant Plain,",3.0 +"See those bright Lilies shine with milky Hue,",3.0 +"To thee, my Fair, the cheerful Linnet sings,",1.0 +And Philomela warbles over the Springs;,1.0 +"For thee those Lilies paint the fertile Ground,",1.0 +"Here let us rest to shun the scorching Ray,",0.0 +While curling Zephyrs in the Branches play.,0.0 +"In these calm Shades no ghastly Woe appears,",4.0 +"Here no glossed Hate, no sainted Wolves are seen,",2.0 +Nor busy Faces throng the peaceful Green;,0.0 +"But Fear and Sorrow leave the careful Breast,",0.0 +And the glad Soul sinks happily to Rest.,5.0 +"Quite wearied with the business of the Day,",3.0 +And all the Vision of my Soul was Love;,1.0 +"Methought I saw a soft Celestial Youth,",2.0 +"Whose Eyes speak Love, and smiles Eternal Truth:",1.0 +"Gay as the Spring in all its vernal Pride,",0.0 +With Amorous Joy sit panting by my side.,4.0 +"I gazed with Wonder at a Form so bright,",0.0 +"With equal Scruple, Zeal and Passion moved,",0.0 +If he should be adored or be beloved:,1.0 +"His Eyes and Smiles darted refined delight,",5.0 +As if Heavens glowing Glories touched the sight;,0.0 +"A thousand Charms his flowing Locks bestow,",0.0 +For every Curl's inevitably so:,2.0 +"His welcome Head on my kind Bosom laid,",2.0 +On a soft Flute delightful Airs he played.,2.0 +"Mean while such dear undoing looks he cast,",0.0 +And every Note with artful Motions graced:,0.0 +"No Youth ever seemed so softening and Divine,",2.0 +"Sure he was made for Love, at least for mine.",0.0 +As when he Played all other Music was:,1.0 +His Hand more soft than down of Venus Doves.,1.0 +"Her young Adonis had not half his Charms,",0.0 +When he most pleasing filled her pressing Arms;,0.0 +"So kind he looked, such tender things he said,",0.0 +With eager Joy I grasped the lovely Shade.,0.0 +"The fleeting Charmer soon dissolved in Air,",0.0 +"I searched around but could not find him there,",0.0 +Then to the Grove sighed Love and loud despair.,1.0 +"It was Alexis form I did pursue,",1.0 +My conscious Soul took the sad Omen too;,3.0 +And will be never but in Dreams possessed.,2.0 +"NYMPH of the desert! on this lonely shore,",1.0 +"Simplicity, thy blessings still are mine,",1.0 +"I ask no lavish heaps to swell my store,",1.0 +And purchase pleasures far remote from thine:,0.0 +"You joys, for which the race of Europe pine,",0.0 +"Ah, not for me your studied grandeur pour;",4.0 +"Let me where yonder tall cliffs are rudely piled,",3.0 +"Where towers the Palm amid the mountain trees,",2.0 +"Where pendant from the steep, with graces wild,",1.0 +"The blue Liana floats upon the breeze,",0.0 +"Still haunt those bold recesses, Nature's child,",6.0 +Where thy majestic charms my spirit seize!,1.0 +"ANgels of Light, your God and King surround",2.0 +With Noble Songs; in his Exalted Flesh,1.0 +He claims your Worship; while his Saints on Earth,0.0 +"We bowing at his Feet, by Faith may feel",0.0 +"This distant Influence, and confess his Love.",3.0 +"Once I beheld his Face, when Beams Divine",2.0 +"Broke from his Eyelids, and unusual Light",2.0 +Wrapped me at once in Glory and Surprise.,1.0 +My Joyful Heart high leaping in my Breast,1.0 +"With Transport cried, This is the Christ of God;",1.0 +"Then threw my Arms around in sweet Embrace,",0.0 +"And clasped, and bowed Adoring low, till I was lost in him.",1.0 +While he appears no other Charms can hold,2.0 +"Or draw my Soul ashamed of former things,",0.0 +Which no Remembrance now deserve or Name,0.0 +"Though with Contempt, best in Oblivion hid.",4.0 +But the bright Shine and Presence soon withdrew;,2.0 +"I sought him whom I Love, but found him not;",0.0 +I felt his Absence; and with strongest cries,1.0 +"Proclaimed, Where Jesus is not, all is vain.",1.0 +"Whether I hold him with a full Delight,",3.0 +"Or seek him panting with Extreme Desire,",1.0 +It's He alone can please my Wondering Soul;,3.0 +To hold or seek him is my only Choice.,1.0 +If he refrain on me to cast his Eye,2.0 +"Down from his Palace, nor my longing Soul",2.0 +With upward Look can spy my Dearest Lord,0.0 +"Through his Blue Pavement, I'll behold him still",3.0 +"With sweet reflection on the peaceful Cross,",1.0 +"All in his Blood and Anguish, groaning deep,",0.0 +"This Sight I never can loose, by it I live:",3.0 +A Quickening Virtue from his Death inspired,3.0 +Is Life and Breath to me; His Flesh my Food;,1.0 +"His Vital Blood I drink, and hence my Strength.",0.0 +"I Live, I'm Strong, and now Eternal Life",0.0 +Beats quick within my Breast; my Vigorous Mind,3.0 +"Spurns the dull Earth, and on her fiery Wings",4.0 +"Reaches the Mount of Purposes Divine,",3.0 +Counsels of Peace betwixt the Almighty Three,4.0 +"Conceived at once, and Signed without Debate",0.0 +In perfect Union of the Eternal Mind.,4.0 +"Infinite Schemes, and Infinite Designs",3.0 +Of God's own Heart in which he ever rests.,0.0 +Eternity lies open to my View;,3.0 +Here the Beginning and the End of all,2.0 +"I can discover; Christ, the End of all,",1.0 +"And Christ the great Beginning; He my Head,",1.0 +"My God, my Glory, and my All in All.",1.0 +"OH that the Day, the joyful Day were come",0.0 +When the first Adam from his Ancient Dust,3.0 +Jesus his Son and Lord; while shouting Saints,2.0 +"Surround their King, and God's Eternal Son",0.0 +"Shines in the mid but with Superior Beams,",3.0 +And like himself; Then the Mysterious Word,3.0 +Long hid behind the Letter shall appear,1.0 +"All Spirit and Life, and in the fullest Light",2.0 +"Stand forth to public View, and there disclose",2.0 +His Father's Sacred Works and wondrous Ways:,0.0 +"Then Wisdom, Righteousness and Grace Divine",1.0 +Through all the Infinite Transactions past,1.0 +"Strike our astonished Eyes, and ever reign",2.0 +Admired and Glorious in Triumphant Light.,2.0 +"Now at the Bar arraigned, in Judgement cast,",0.0 +"Shall vex the Saints no more, but perfect Love",2.0 +"And loudest Praises perfect Joy create,",1.0 +"There dwelled, historians say, a worthy prince,",2.0 +"Who to his people's good confined his care,",0.0 +And fixed the basis of his empire there;,2.0 +"Enlarged their trade, the liberal arts improved,",0.0 +"Made nations happy, and himself beloved;",2.0 +"To all the neighbouring states a terror grown,",2.0 +"The dear delight, and glory of his own.",1.0 +Not like those kings who vainly seek renown,0.0 +"From countries ruined, and from battles won;",1.0 +"Call murder but a princely exercise,",2.0 +"And if one bloodless sun should steal away,",1.0 +"Cry out with Titus, they have lost a day;",1.0 +"Who, to be more than men, themselves debase",0.0 +"Beneath the brute, their Maker's form deface,",0.0 +Raising their titles by their God's disgrace.,3.0 +Who scorned by less than sacrilege to live;,1.0 +"On holy ruins raised a lasting name,",0.0 +And in the temple's fire diffused his shame.,0.0 +"Far different praises, and a brighter fame,",2.0 +"For by that name the Russian king was known,",1.0 +And sure a nobler never adorned the throne.,5.0 +"And sought the thickest dangers of the field,",1.0 +"A bold commander; but, the storm overblown,",4.0 +He seemed as he were made for peace alone;,1.0 +"Then was the golden age again restored,",0.0 +"All needless pomp, and outward grandeur spared,",3.0 +The deeds that graced him were his only guard;,1.0 +No private views beneath a borrowed name;,2.0 +His and the public interest were the same.,2.0 +"In wealth and pleasure let the subject live,",0.0 +But virtue is the king's prerogative;,2.0 +And would maintain his right of doing good.,0.0 +"Nor did his person less attraction wear,",0.0 +Such majesty and sweetness mingled there;,2.0 +"Heaven with uncommon art the clay refined,",1.0 +A proper mansion for so fair a mind;,1.0 +"Each look, each action bore peculiar grace,",0.0 +And love itself was painted on his face.,1.0 +In peaceful time he suffered not his mind,0.0 +"To rust in sloth, though much to peace inclined;",0.0 +"Nor wanton in the lap of pleasure lay,",0.0 +"But active rising ere the prime of day,",0.0 +Through woods and lonely deserts loved to stray;,0.0 +"With hounds and horns to wake the furious bear,",2.0 +Or rouse the tawny lion from his lair;,1.0 +"To rid the forest of the savage brood,",1.0 +"One day, as he pursued the dangerous sport,",3.0 +"Attended by the nobles of his court,",2.0 +It chanced a beast of more than common speed,0.0 +"Sprang from the brake, and through the desert fled.",1.0 +The ardent prince impetuous as the wind,1.0 +"Rushed on, and left his lagging train behind.",0.0 +"Fired with the chase, and full of youthful blood,",1.0 +"Over plains, and vales, and woodland wilds he rode,",0.0 +"How wasted, nor how intricate the way;",2.0 +"Restrained his pace, or found himself alone.",0.0 +"Missing his train, he strove to measure back",2.0 +"The road he came, but could not find the track;",0.0 +"Still turning to the place he left before,",2.0 +"The bugle horn, which over his shoulders hung,",2.0 +"So loud he winded, that the forest rung;",0.0 +"In vain, no voice but Echo from the ground,",2.0 +"And vocal woods, made mockery of the sound.",2.0 +And now the gathering clouds began to spread,2.0 +Over the dun face of night a deeper shade;,2.0 +"And the hoarse thunder growling from afar,",3.0 +With herald voice proclaimed the approaching war;,2.0 +"Silence awhile ensued, ' -- then by degrees",3.0 +A hollow wind came muttering through the trees.,2.0 +Of rain and rattling hail a mingled shower;,0.0 +The active lightning ran along the ground;,0.0 +"The fiery bolts by fits were hurled around,",2.0 +And the wide forests trembled at the sound.,2.0 +Amazement seized the prince; ' -- where could he fly?,0.0 +"No guide to lead, no friendly cottage nigh.",2.0 +"Pensive and unresolved awhile he stood,",3.0 +Beneath the scanty covert of the wood;,1.0 +"As chance directed, on the dreary plain;",1.0 +Constrained his melancholy way to take,0.0 +"Through many a loathsome bog, and thorny brake,",2.0 +"Caught in the thicket, floundering in the lake.",1.0 +"Wet with the storm, and wearied with the way,",1.0 +"By hunger pinched, himself to beasts a prey;",0.0 +"Nor wine to cheer his heart, nor fire to burn,",0.0 +"Nor place to rest, nor prospect to return.",1.0 +"He bade it pass, not worth his farther care;",0.0 +"When suddenly he spied a distant light,",1.0 +"That faintly twinkled through the gloom of night,",1.0 +"And his heart leaped for joy, and blessed the welcome sight.",2.0 +"But still pressed on his steed, still kept it in his eye;",3.0 +"Till, much fatigue, and many dangers past,",0.0 +At a huge mountain he arrived at last.,3.0 +"There lighting from his horse, on hands and knees",1.0 +"The thunder rolls above, the flames around him play.",0.0 +And found the rift whence sprang the friendly light.,0.0 +"And here he stopped to rest his wearied feet,",0.0 +And weigh the perils he had still to meet;,1.0 +With caution round him to prevent surprise;,1.0 +"Then summoned all the forces of his mind,",1.0 +And entering boldly cast his fears behind:,2.0 +"Resolved to push his way, whatever withstood,",3.0 +Or perish bravely as a monarch should.,1.0 +"While he the wonders of the place surveyed,",1.0 +"And through the various cells at random strayed,",3.0 +In a dark corner of the cave he viewed,3.0 +"Somewhat, that in the shape of woman stood;",1.0 +But more deformed than dreams can represent,0.0 +"The midnight hag, or poet's fancy paint",1.0 +She looked as nature made her to disgrace,1.0 +"Her kind, and cast a blot on all the race;",0.0 +Her feeble limbs with age and palsy shook;,0.0 +"Bent was her body, haggard was her look.",1.0 +And propped upon her crutch came tottering on.,2.0 +"The prince in civil guise approached the dame,",0.0 +"And till Aurora should the shades expel,",1.0 +Implored a lodging in her friendly cell.,0.0 +"Mortal, whoever thou art, the fiend began,",3.0 +And as she spoke a deadly horror ran,1.0 +"Through all his frame; his cheeks the blood forsook,",0.0 +"Whoever thou art, that with presumption rude",2.0 +"And without licence in our court appear,",5.0 +"More by thy fortune than thy own default,",1.0 +"Thy crime, though great, an easy pardon finds,",0.0 +For mercy ever dwells in royal minds;,0.0 +And would you learn from whose indulgent hand,0.0 +"You live, and in whose awful presence stand,",0.0 +"Know farther, through yonder wide extended plains",3.0 +"And in this lofty palace makes abode,",0.0 +"Well suited to his state, and worthy of the God.",3.0 +"The various elements his empire own,",3.0 +And pay their humble homage at his throne;,0.0 +"And hither all the storms and clouds resort,",0.0 +"Of winds arose, sweet fruit of our embrace!",2.0 +"She scarce had ended, when, with wild uproar,",1.0 +"And horrid din, her sons impetuous pour",0.0 +And close behind them on a whirlwind rode,2.0 +In clouded majesty the blustering God.,3.0 +Their locks a thousand ways were blown about;,0.0 +"Their boasting talk was of the feats the had done,",1.0 +"Of trees uprooted, and of towns overthrown;",4.0 +And when they kindly turned them to accost,1.0 +"The prince, they almost pierced him with their frost.",2.0 +"The gaping hag in fixed attention stood,",0.0 +"And at the close of every tale cried ' -- good,",1.0 +"Blessing with outstretched arms each darling son,",4.0 +In due proportion to the mischief done.,1.0 +"And where, said she, does little Zephyr stray?",0.0 +"Know you, my sons, your brother's rout today?",0.0 +In what bold deeds does he his hours employ?,1.0 +Grant heaven no evil has befallen my boy!,6.0 +Never was he known to linger thus before.,1.0 +"Scarce had she spoke, when at the cavern door",0.0 +Came lightly tripping in a form more fair,1.0 +"Than the young poet's fond ideas are,",3.0 +"When fired with love, he tries his utmost art",3.0 +"A satin vest his slender shape confined,",0.0 +"Embroidered over with flowers of every kind,",4.0 +To win the little wanderer to her love.,1.0 +"Of burnished silver were his sandals made,",1.0 +And added grace and grandeur as he trod.,2.0 +"His wings than lilies whiter to behold,",1.0 +"Sprinkled with azure spots, and streaked with gold;",2.0 +"So thin their form, and of so light a kind,",1.0 +"That they for ever danced, and fluttered in the wind.",0.0 +"Around his temples with becoming air,",1.0 +And over his shoulders negligently spread;,3.0 +"Such his attire, but OH! no pen can trace,",4.0 +No words can show the beauties of his face;,2.0 +So kind! so winning! so divinely fair!,1.0 +Eternal youth and pleasure flourish there;,1.0 +"There all the little loves and graces meet,",0.0 +"Thou vagrant, cried the dame in angry tone,",0.0 +"Well do you show your duty by your haste,",1.0 +For thou of all my sons are always last;,1.0 +A child less fondled would have fled more fast.,1.0 +"Sure it's a curse on mothers, doomed to mourn,",0.0 +"Where best they love, the least and worst return.",0.0 +"My dear mamma, the gentle youth replied,",4.0 +"And made a low obeisance, cease to chide,",5.0 +"Nor wound me with your words, for well you know,",1.0 +Your Zephyr bears a part in all your woe;,0.0 +How great must be his sorrow then to learn,0.0 +"But the fair princess of Felicity,",4.0 +And asked by her who could refuse to stay?,1.0 +"She sought the shady grove, her loved resort;",0.0 +"Fresh rose the grass, the flowers were mixed between,",3.0 +"Like rich embroidery on a ground of green,",1.0 +"And in the mid, protected by the shade,",1.0 +A crystal stream in wild meanders played;,0.0 +"While in its banks, the trembling leaves among,",0.0 +A thousand little birds in concert sung.,0.0 +"Close by a mount with fragrant shrubs overgrown,",3.0 +On a cool mossy couch she laid her down;,2.0 +"Her air, her posture, all conspired to please;",2.0 +"Her head, upon her snowy arm at ease",0.0 +"Reclined, a studied carelessness expressed;",1.0 +"Loose lay her robe, and naked heaved her breast.",1.0 +"Eager I flew to that delightful place,",2.0 +And poured a shower of kisses on her face;,3.0 +"Now hovered over her neck, her breast, her arms,",3.0 +"Like bees over flowers, and tasted all her charms;",3.0 +"And then her lips, and then her cheeks I tried,",0.0 +"OH Zephyr, cried the fair, thou charming boy,",1.0 +Thy presence only can create me joy;,1.0 +"To me thou art beyond expression dear,",1.0 +Nor can I quit the place while thou art here.,1.0 +"Excuse my weakness, madam, when I swear",0.0 +"Such gentle words joined with so soft an air,",2.0 +"Pronounced so sweetly from a mouth so fair,",1.0 +"How long I stayed; or when, or where to go.",0.0 +"Prattled around, and laughed the time away:",2.0 +"And those in rings, beneath the greenwood shade,",2.0 +Danced to the melody their fellows made.,1.0 +"Some studious of themselves, employed their care",3.0 +In weaving flowery wreaths to deck their hair;,2.0 +While others to some favourite plant conveyed,1.0 +"Refreshing showers, and cheered its drooping head.",2.0 +"A joy so general spread through all the place,",0.0 +"Such satisfaction dwelled on every face,",0.0 +"The nymphs so kind, so lovely looked the queen,",0.0 +That never eye beheld a sweeter scene.,0.0 +"And, wrapped in silent wonder, gazed and heard;",0.0 +"Much he admired the speech, the speaker more,",1.0 +"And dwelled on every word, and grieved to find it over.",0.0 +"OH gentle youth, he cried, proceed to tell,",1.0 +In what fair country does this princess dwell;,1.0 +"What regions unexplored, what hidden coast",0.0 +"Can so much goodness, so much beauty boast?",2.0 +"To whom the winged god with gracious look,",3.0 +Thus answered kind ' -- These happy gardens lie,1.0 +"Far hence removed, beneath a milder sky;",1.0 +Their name ' -- The kingdom of Felicity.,2.0 +"Sweet scenes of endless bliss, enchanted ground,",1.0 +"A soil for ever sought, but seldom found;",0.0 +Though in the search all human kind in vain,0.0 +"Weary their wits, and waste their lives in pain.",2.0 +"In different parties, different paths they tread,",0.0 +"As reason guides them, or as follies lead;",1.0 +"These wrangling for the place they never shall see,",2.0 +"Debating those, if such a place there be;",2.0 +"But not the wisest, nor the best can say",1.0 +"Where lies the point, or mark the certain way.",0.0 +Have sailed in sight of this delightful port;,1.0 +And in their fond delirium ranked with gods.,2.0 +Fruitless attempt! all avenues are kept,2.0 +"By dreadful foes, sentry that never slept.",5.0 +"And shakes her flaming brand, and stalks around the coast.",0.0 +"These on the helpless bark their fury pour,",1.0 +"Plunge in the waves, or dash against the shore;",0.0 +"Teach wretched mortals they were doomed to mourn,",2.0 +And never must rest but in the silent urn.,2.0 +"But say, young monarch, for what name you bear",2.0 +"Your mien, your dress, your person, all declare;",0.0 +"And though I seldom fan the frozen north,",1.0 +Swelling his breath to spread forth your renown;,4.0 +"Say, would you choose to visit this retreat,",1.0 +And view the world where all these wonders meet?,0.0 +Wish you some friend over that tempestuous sea,4.0 +To bear you safe! behold that friend in me.,0.0 +"My active wings shall all their force employ,",0.0 +And nimbly waft you to the realms of joy;,1.0 +"As once, to gratify the god of Love,",0.0 +I bore fair Psyche to the Cyprian grove;,4.0 +Snatched the young Trojan trembling to the sky.,4.0 +"' Escaped from the busy world, and all its care;",0.0 +There in the lovely princess shalt thou find,0.0 +"A mistress ever blooming, ever kind.",0.0 +And to his bosom strained the little god;,1.0 +"With grateful sentiments his heart overflowed,",4.0 +And in the warmest words millions of thanks bestowed.,5.0 +When Aeolus in surly humour broke,2.0 +"Their strict embrace, and thus abruptly spoke.",0.0 +Enough of compliment; I hate the sport,1.0 +"Where plain and honest are discarded quite,",1.0 +Where in soft speeches hypocrites impart,1.0 +"In friendship's holy guise their guilt improve,",0.0 +And kindly kill with specious show of love.,0.0 +"For us, ' -- may subjects are not used to wait,",1.0 +"They must abroad before the rising sun,",0.0 +"He ended frowning, and the noisy rout,",1.0 +Each to his several cell went puffing out.,2.0 +"But Zephyr, far more courteous than the rest,",1.0 +To his own bower conveyed the royal guest;,3.0 +"There on a bed of roses neatly laid,",1.0 +"Beneath the fragrance of a myrtle shade,",1.0 +"His limbs to needful rest the prince applied,",0.0 +His sweet companion slumbering by his side.,1.0 +NO sooner in her silver chariot rose,3.0 +"The ruddy morn, than sated with repose",1.0 +"The prince addressed his host; the God awoke,",0.0 +"And leaping from his couch, thus kindly spoke.",2.0 +"This early call, my lord, that chides my stay,",0.0 +"Requires my thanks, and I with joy obey.",1.0 +"Like you I long to reach the blissful coast,",0.0 +"Hate the slow night, and mourn the moments lost.",3.0 +"What sweet rewards on all my toils attend,",0.0 +Serving at once my mistress and my friend;,3.0 +"Just to my love and to my duty too,",1.0 +"Well paid in her, well pleased in pleasing you.",5.0 +"This said, he led him to the cavern gate,",1.0 +"And clasped him in his arms, and poised his weight;",0.0 +"Then balancing his body here and there,",1.0 +"Stretched forth his agile wings, and launched in air;",1.0 +Swift as the fiery meteor from on high,3.0 +"Shoots to its goal, and gleams athwart the sky.",0.0 +There glide at ease along the liquid way;,0.0 +Now lightly skim the plain with even flight;,1.0 +Now proudly soar above the mountain's height.,1.0 +"Sports with the sufferings of the good and great,",1.0 +"That he, so tried in arms, whose very name",0.0 +"Infused a secret panic where it came,",0.0 +"Even he, as high above the clouds he flew,",1.0 +"And spied the mountains lessening to the view,",1.0 +"Struck with the rapid whirl, and dreadful height,",0.0 +"Confessed some faint alarm, some little fright.",0.0 +"The terrors that possessed his fellow's mind,",0.0 +"To calm his troubled thoughts, and cheat the way,",0.0 +"Described the nations that beneath them lay,",0.0 +"The name, the climate, and the soil's increase,",1.0 +"Their arms in war, their government in peace;",1.0 +"Showed their domestic arts, their foreign trade,",2.0 +"What interest they pursued, what leagues they made.",1.0 +That lost in joy he had no time for fear.,1.0 +"And hover for awhile, and bless the soil.",1.0 +"Over the gay scene the prince delighted hung,",2.0 +"And gazed in rapture, and forgot his tongue;",1.0 +"Till bursting forth at length. Behold, cried he,",2.0 +"The promised isle, the land I longed to see;",0.0 +"Those plains, those vales, and fruitful hills declare",0.0 +"My queen, my charmer must inhabit there.",1.0 +"Thus raved the monarch, and the gentle guide,",2.0 +"Pleased with his error, thus in smiles replied.",0.0 +"I must applaud, my lord, the lucky thought;",0.0 +"Even I, who know the original, am caught,",4.0 +"And doubt my senses, when I view the draught,",0.0 +"That mantles over its brow, the silver flood",2.0 +"Wandering in mazes through the flowery mead,",4.0 +"Fresh wonder in my soul, and fills with new delights:",1.0 +And Art with Nature seems at strife to please.,0.0 +"There Liberty, delightful goddess, reigns,",1.0 +"There firmly seated may she ever smile,",1.0 +And shower her blessings over her favourite isle!,4.0 +"He said, and to the ocean winged his way,",1.0 +"Stretching his course to climates then unknown,",2.0 +Nations that swelter in the burning zone.,2.0 +"There in Peruvian vales a moment stayed,",2.0 +And smoothed his wings beneath the citron shade;,0.0 +"Crossed the new world, and sought the Southern main;",3.0 +The wished for paradise appeared at last.,0.0 +With force abated now they gently sweep,0.0 +Over the smooth surface of the shining deep;,3.0 +And breathes his welcome in a thousand sweets.,0.0 +"Nor wrath, nor foul revenge can enter there;",1.0 +"All that was ever delicious to the taste,",3.0 +"Sweet to the smell, or lovely to the view,",1.0 +Collected there with added beauty grew.,1.0 +"Their bulk immense, their leaf for ever green;",0.0 +"Can never descry the deeds beneath them done,",2.0 +"Their tender tops, and fan the leaves aside.",0.0 +Like a smooth carpet at their feet lies spread,3.0 +And on each bough the feathered choir employ,3.0 +"The painted flowers exhale a rich perfume,",2.0 +"The fruits are mingled with eternal bloom,",1.0 +"And Spring and Autumn hand in hand appear,",0.0 +"Lead on the merry months, and join to cloth the year.",0.0 +"Here, over the mountain's shaggy summit poured,",2.0 +"From rock to rock the tumbling torrent roared,",0.0 +Paints on the rising fumes her radiant bow.,0.0 +Now hid its wanderings in the myrtle shade;,2.0 +"Or in a thousand veins divides its store,",0.0 +"Visits each plant, refreshes every flower;",2.0 +"Over gems and golden sands in murmurs flows,",0.0 +"If hunger call, no sooner can the mind",2.0 +"Express her will to needful food inclined,",1.0 +"But in some cool recess, or opening glade,",2.0 +"The seats are placed, the tables neatly laid,",0.0 +And instantly conveyed by magic hand,1.0 +In comely rows the costly dishes stand;,0.0 +"Meats of all kinds that nature can impart,",1.0 +Prepared in all the nicest forms of art.,0.0 +"A troop of sprightly nymphs arrayed in green,",0.0 +"With fragrant blossoms these adorn the feast,",1.0 +"Beneath his feet the silken carpet spread,",0.0 +Or sprinkle liquid odours over his head.,5.0 +Others in ruby cups with roses bound,2.0 +Delightful! deal the sparkling nectar round;,0.0 +"Or weave the dance, or tune the vocal lay;",0.0 +"And swell each heart, and triumph in each face.",0.0 +"So when emboldened by the vernal air,",1.0 +The busy bees to blooming fields repair;,0.0 +"Again to different works returning home,",0.0 +"And now descending from his flight, the God",1.0 +On the green turf released his precious load;,2.0 +"And endless friendship vowed, they part in haste;",0.0 +"Zephyr impatient to behold his love,",3.0 +"Now skipping on, and singing as he went,",3.0 +Now stopping short to give his transports vent;,1.0 +"With sudden gusts of happiness oppressed,",1.0 +"Or stands entranced, or raves like one possessed;",1.0 +"His mind afloat, his wandering senses quite",2.0 +"Overcome with charms, and frantic with delight;",1.0 +"From scene to scene by random steps conveyed,",0.0 +"Admires the distant views, explores the secret shade,",0.0 +"Dwells on each spot, with eager eye devours",0.0 +"The woods, the lawns, the buildings, and the bowers;",1.0 +"New sweets, new joys at every glance arise,",2.0 +And every turn creates a fresh surprise.,0.0 +"Close by the borders of a rising wood,",1.0 +In a green vale a crystal grotto stood;,4.0 +In broken falls a silver fountain played.,0.0 +"Hither, attracted by the murmuring stream,",5.0 +And on the tender grass reclining chose,1.0 +"To wave his joys awhile, and take a short repose.",0.0 +"The scene invites him, and the wanton breeze",1.0 +"That whispers through the vale, the dancing trees,",1.0 +All join their music to prolong his sleep.,1.0 +The princess for her morning walk prepared;,1.0 +Arrayed in all her charms appeared the fair;,0.0 +"Tall was her stature, unconfined her air;",0.0 +"Proportion decked her limbs, and in her face",0.0 +"Lay love enshrined, lay sweet attractive grace",2.0 +"Tempering the awful beams her eyes conveyed,",1.0 +"No foreign aids, by mortal ladies worn,",1.0 +"For grant that beauty were by gems increased,",1.0 +It's rendered more suspected at the least;,0.0 +"And foul defects, that would escape the sight,",0.0 +"Start from the piece, and take a stronger light.",0.0 +Her chestnut hair in careless rings around,1.0 +"And, gathered in a silken cord behind,",0.0 +"Curled to the waist, and floated in the wind;",0.0 +"Over these a veil of yellow gause she wore,",1.0 +Her snowy neck half naked to the view,2.0 +Gracefully fell; a robe of purple hue,2.0 +"Hung loosely over her slender shape, and tried",3.0 +"To shade those beauties, that it could not hide.",0.0 +"Frolic behind, and laugh and sport along.",2.0 +The birds proclaim their queen from every tree;,0.0 +"The Loves, the Pleasures, and the Graces meet",1.0 +"In antic rounds, and dance before her feet.",0.0 +"By whatever fancy led, it chanced that day",2.0 +"They through the secret valley took their way,",1.0 +The prince extended by the fountain's side.,1.0 +When with the chase fatigued he quits the wood,0.0 +"There sleeps secure, his careless limbs displayed",0.0 +"At ease, encircled by the laurel shade;",1.0 +"Beneath his head his sheaf of arrows lie,",0.0 +"The slumbering prince might boast an equal grace,",2.0 +"So turned his limbs, so beautiful his face.",1.0 +"Waking he started from the ground in haste,",3.0 +"Then, summoning his senses, ran to meet",1.0 +"The queen, and laid him humbly at her feet.",0.0 +"Deign, lovely princess, to behold, said he,",4.0 +"One, who has traversed all the world to see",0.0 +"Those charms, and worship thy divinity:",2.0 +"Accept thy slave, and with a gracious smile",1.0 +"Stood motionless the fair with mute surprise,",2.0 +And read him over with admiring eyes;,1.0 +"And while she steadfast gazed, a pleasing smart",1.0 +"Ran thrilling through her veins, and reached her heart.",2.0 +"Each limb she scanned, considered every grace,",0.0 +"An animal like this she never had known,",3.0 +And thence concluded there could be but one;,1.0 +The creature too had all the phoenix' air;,0.0 +None but the phoenix could appear so fair.,0.0 +"The more she looked, the more she thought it true,",0.0 +"And called him by that name, to show she knew.",1.0 +"OH handsome phoenix, for that such you are",3.0 +We know; your beauty does your breed declare;,0.0 +And I with sorrow own through all my coast,1.0 +No other bird can such perfection boast;,2.0 +For Nature formed you single and alone:,1.0 +Alas! what pity it's there is but one!,2.0 +Were there a queen so fortunate to show,2.0 +"An aviary of charming birds like you,",2.0 +What envy would her happiness create,1.0 +"In all, who saw the glories of her state!",1.0 +"The prince laughed inwardly, surprised to find",2.0 +"So strange a speech, so innocent a mind.",1.0 +"To reason, and a little wronged her sense;",1.0 +"He could not let it pass, but told his name,",0.0 +"And what he was, and whence, and why he came;",1.0 +And hinted other things of high concern,0.0 +"For him to mention, and for her to learn;",3.0 +"And she had a piercing wit, of wondrous reach",0.0 +To comprehend whatever he could teach.,2.0 +"Thus hand in hand they to the palace walk,",2.0 +Pleased and instructed with each other's talk.,3.0 +"With emerald and pearl the floors inlaid,",2.0 +"A mimic heaven, and flame with gems and gold;",0.0 +"Or how Felicity regales her guest,",2.0 +"The wit, the mirth, the music, and the feast;",1.0 +"And on each part bestow the praises due,",1.0 +My amorous tale a softer path pursues:,2.0 +Love and the happy pair demand my Muse.,0.0 +OH could her art in equal terms express,0.0 +"The lives they lead, the pleasures they possess!",1.0 +"Bestowed her gifts, nor can she lavish more.",1.0 +"It's heaven itself, it's ecstasy of bliss,",1.0 +Mirth following mirth the moments dance away;,3.0 +"Love claims the night, and friendship rules the day.",1.0 +Their tender care no cold indifference knows;,1.0 +No jealousies disturb their sweet repose;,2.0 +"No sickness, no decay; but youthful grace,",1.0 +And constant beauty shines in either face.,0.0 +Flowers of a day that do but bloom and fade;,1.0 +"Far different here, on them it only blows",2.0 +No conquest over those radiant eyes can boast;,3.0 +They like the stars shine brighter in its frost;,1.0 +"All seasons are the fame, and every month is May.",1.0 +Alas! how vain is happiness below!,1.0 +Man soon or late must have his share of woe;,1.0 +"Slight are his joys, and fleeting as the wind;",1.0 +His lot distinguished from the brute appears,1.0 +Less certain by his laughter than his tears;,3.0 +"For ignorance too oft our pleasure breeds,",2.0 +But sorrow from the reasoning soul proceeds.,3.0 +"If man on earth in endless bliss could be,",0.0 +"The boon, young prince, had been bestowed on thee.",1.0 +"Bright shone thy stars, thy Fortune flourished fair,",1.0 +"And seemed secure beyond the reach of care,",0.0 +"And so might still have been, but anxious thought",1.0 +"Has dashed thy cup, and thou must taste the draught.",1.0 +"It so befell, as on a certain day",2.0 +"This happy couple toyed their time away,",0.0 +"He asked how many charming hours were flown,",0.0 +Since on her slave her heaven of beauty shone.,0.0 +"Should I consult my heart, cried he, the rate",3.0 +"Were small, a week would be the utmost date:",1.0 +"But when my mind reflects on actions past,",0.0 +"And counts its joys, time must have fled more fast.",1.0 +"Perhaps I might have said, three months are gone.",1.0 +"Three months! replied the fair, three months alone!",2.0 +"Know that three hundred years have rolled away,",2.0 +Since at my feet the lovely phoenix lay.,0.0 +A whole three hundred years completed since,1.0 +I landed here! OH! whither then are flown,1.0 +"My dearest friends, my subjects, and my throne?",1.0 +"How strange, alas! how altered shall I find",0.0 +"Each earthly thing, each scene I left behind!",0.0 +Who knows me now? on whom shall I depend,1.0 +To gain my rights? where shall I find a friend?,0.0 +"My crown perhaps may grace a foreign line,",0.0 +"A race of kings, that know not me nor mine;",1.0 +"Who reigns may wish my death, his subjects treat",0.0 +"My claim with scorn, and call their prince a cheat.",0.0 +O had my life been ended as begun!,1.0 +"My destined stage, my race of glory run,",0.0 +I should have died well pleased; my honoured name,2.0 +"Had lived, had flourished in the list of fame;",0.0 +Reflecting now my mind with horror sees,0.0 +"The sad survey, a scene of shameful ease,",0.0 +"The odious blot, the scandal of my race,",3.0 +"Scarce known, and only mentioned with disgrace.",2.0 +"The fair beheld him with impatient eye,",1.0 +And red with anger made this warm reply.,0.0 +Ungrateful man! is this the kind return,1.0 +My love deserves; and can you thus with scorn,1.0 +"Surpassed all charms, and made even glory poor?",3.0 +"What gifts have I bestowed, what favours shown!",2.0 +"Three centuries preserved in youthful prime,",2.0 +"Safe from the rage of death, and injuries of time,",1.0 +Weak arguments! for glory reigns above,2.0 +"The feeble ties of gratitude and love,",0.0 +"I urge them not, nor would request your stay;",0.0 +"The phantom glory calls, and I obey;",1.0 +"All other virtues are regardless quite,",1.0 +Sunk and absorbed in that superior light.,4.0 +"Go then, barbarian, to thy realms return,",2.0 +And show thyself unworthy my concern;,1.0 +"Go, tell the world, your tender heart could give",1.0 +"Death to the princess, by whose care you live.",1.0 +"Cold trembling seized her limbs, her spirits fled;",1.0 +"She sunk into his arms: the prince was moved,",0.0 +"He sighed, he wished he could forget his throne;",0.0 +"Confine his thoughts, and live for her alone;",1.0 +"Was fixed within, and rankled at his heart;",0.0 +"He could not hide its wounds, but pined away",0.0 +"Like a sick flower, and languished in decay.",4.0 +"An age no longer like a month appears,",1.0 +But every month becomes a hundred years.,0.0 +"Felicity was grieved, and could not bear",1.0 +"A scene so changed, a sight of so much care.",1.0 +"She told him with a look of cold disdain,",1.0 +"And seeming ease, as women well can feign,",0.0 +He might depart at will; a milder air,1.0 +Would mend his health; he was no prisoner there;,3.0 +"She kept him not, and wished he never might find",1.0 +Cause to regret the place he left behind;,2.0 +"Which once he loved, and where he still must own,",0.0 +He had at least some little pleasure known.,0.0 +If these prophetic words awhile destroy,1.0 +"His peace, the former balance it in joy.",1.0 +"He thanked her for her kind concern, but chose",1.0 +"To quit the place, the rest let heaven dispose.",1.0 +And first infatuates whom it means to kill.,1.0 +"Aurora now, not, as she wont to rise,",1.0 +"In gay attire tinged with a thousand dies,",0.0 +"The sickening sun emits a feeble ray,",0.0 +Some black event the threatening skies foretell.,0.0 +"A curious vest the mournful princess brought,",2.0 +"A shining lance with secret virtue stored,",0.0 +And loaded him with gifts and good advice;,1.0 +"But chief she gave, and what he most would need,",0.0 +And place you safely in your native air;,0.0 +"Ravage the field, and turn the doubtful fight;",2.0 +"With care protect you till the danger cease,",1.0 +"Your trust in war, your ornament in peace.",1.0 +"But this, I warn, beware; whatever shall lay",3.0 +"To intercept your course, or tempt your stay,",0.0 +"Quit not your saddle, nor your speed abate,",1.0 +Till safely landed at your palace gate.,0.0 +"He in the softest terms repaid her love,",0.0 +"And vowed, nor age, nor absence should remove",0.0 +"His constant faith, and sure she could not blame",0.0 +A short divorce due to his injured fame.,2.0 +"The debt discharged, then should her soldier come",0.0 +"Gay from the field, and flushed with conquest, home;",0.0 +"He ceased, and sighing took a kind adieu;",0.0 +"With rapid force outstripped the lagging wind,",0.0 +"And left the blissful shores, and weeping fair behind;",0.0 +"Now over the seas pursued his airy flight,",3.0 +"Now scoured the plains, and climbed the mountain's height.",3.0 +Thus driving on at speed the prince had run,2.0 +"Near half his course, when, with the setting sun,",1.0 +"As through a lonely lane he chanced to ride,",1.0 +"With rocks and bushes fenced on either side,",0.0 +Broke and overturned across the narrow way.,0.0 +The helpless driver on the dirty road,1.0 +"Lay struggling, crushed beneath the incumbent load.",3.0 +Never in human shape was seen before,2.0 +"A wight so pale, so feeble, and so poor.",1.0 +"Comparisons of age would do him wrong,",1.0 +"His limbs were naked all, and worn so thin,",0.0 +"The bones seemed starting through the parchment skin,",2.0 +Bald was his head; and furrowed was his cheek.,1.0 +"The conscious steed stopped short in deadly fright,",1.0 +"And, as he spoke, the tears ran trickling down.",3.0 +"OH gentle youth, if pity ever inclined",3.0 +"Thy soul to generous deeds, if ever thy mind",4.0 +"Was touched with soft distress, extend thy care",0.0 +"To save an old man's life, and ease the load I bear.",1.0 +"So may propitious heaven your journey speed,",1.0 +"Prolong your days, and all your vows succeed.",0.0 +"And, prudence yielding to superior grief,",3.0 +"Leaped from his steed, and ran to his relief;",1.0 +"Removed the weight, and gave the prisoner breath,",0.0 +"Just choked, and gasping on the verge of death.",1.0 +"Then reached his hand, when lightly with a bound",1.0 +"The grizzly spectre vaulting from the ground,",1.0 +"Seized him with sudden gripe, the astonished prince",2.0 +"OH king of Russia, with a thundering sound",4.0 +"Receive the ruler of mankind, and know,",2.0 +"These feet are foundered, and the wings you see",1.0 +"Through all the world in vain for ages sought,",0.0 +But Fate has doomed thee now; and thou art caught.,1.0 +"Then round his neck his arms he nimbly cast,",0.0 +"And seized him by the throat, and grasped him fast;",1.0 +"Till forced at length the soul forsook its seat,",0.0 +And the pale breathless corpse fell bleeding at his feet.,3.0 +"Scarce had the cursed spoiler left his prey,",6.0 +"When, so it chanced, young Zephyr passed that way;",1.0 +"Too late his presence to assist his friend,",2.0 +"A sad, but helpless witness of his end.",1.0 +"He chases, and fans, and strives in vain to cure",2.0 +His streaming wounds; the work was done too sure.,1.0 +"The lifeless load, and bathes it in his tears;",0.0 +"Then to the blissful seats with speed conveys,",0.0 +And graceful on the mossy carpet lays,1.0 +"With decent care, close by the fountain's side,",2.0 +Where first the princess had her phoenix spied.,0.0 +"And gave a parting kiss, and sighs and tears bestowed.",0.0 +"To that sad solitude the weeping dame,",1.0 +"Wild with her loss, and swollen with sorrow, came.",2.0 +Those dear delights that must no more return.,1.0 +Thither that morn with more than usual care,2.0 +"She sped, but OH what joy to find him there!",0.0 +"As just arrived, and weary with the way,",1.0 +Retired to soft repose her hero lay.,0.0 +Now near approaching she began to creep,2.0 +"With careful steps, loath to disturb his sleep;",2.0 +"Till quite overcome with tenderness she flew,",3.0 +And round his neck her arms in transport threw.,0.0 +"But, when she found him dead, no tongue can tell",1.0 +"The pangs she felt; she shrieked, and swooning fell.",0.0 +"Waking, with loud laments she pierced the skies,",2.0 +"That fatal hour the palace gates she barred,",0.0 +And fixed around the coast a stronger guard;,0.0 +"Now rare appearing, and at distance seen,",2.0 +With crowds of black misfortunes placed between;,0.0 +"And fears, and jealousies, and dark despair.",1.0 +And since that day the wretched world must own,0.0 +These mournful truths by sad experience known,2.0 +And every thing on earth submits to Time.,1.0 +"FAIR One, to you this Monitor I send;",2.0 +"You think your Conduct merits only Praise,",0.0 +But outlawed Poets censure whom they please:,1.0 +"Thus we begin ' -- your Servant has been told,",2.0 +"That you, despising Settlements and Gold",2.0 +"Determine Florio witty, young and gay,",2.0 +To have and hold for ever and for ay;,1.0 +"And view that Person as your mortal Foe,",1.0 +Who dares object against your charming Beau;,0.0 +Let us suppose Octavia may be wrong:,3.0 +That even Beauties like the rest may err.,0.0 +"I know, to shun, you hold it as a Rule,",1.0 +"No such is Florio, he has Wit ' -- it's true,",1.0 +"Enough, Octavia, to impose on you:",3.0 +"It only serves to gild his Vices over,",0.0 +And teach his Malice how to wound the more.,1.0 +"I need not tell you, most ingenious Fair,",0.0 +"That hungry Mortals are not fed with Air,",1.0 +But solid Food: And this voracious Clay,1.0 +Now could your Florio by his Wit inspire,1.0 +"The chilly Hearth, to blaze with lasting Fire:",0.0 +"Or when his Children round the Table throng,",0.0 +"By an Allusion or a sprightly Song,",2.0 +And not a Sage could blame the prudent Bride.,0.0 +Yet or some Authors often deal in Lies,0.0 +Lovers may live on Nuts and Blackberries;,5.0 +"For roving Knights bewildered in their way,",0.0 +Who in black Forests half a Season stray;,1.0 +"Unless they find Provision on the Trees,",1.0 +Must sup on Grass and breakfast on the Breeze.,1.0 +Your Constitution would but hardly bear,0.0 +Such Food as this: And therefore I advise,3.0 +"A better Husband than your darling Rake,",1.0 +"Is yet untainted, though not much refined;",1.0 +Nor asks for Joys but what his Pasture yields;,0.0 +"On Life's dull Cares with Patience can attend,",2.0 +A gentle Master and a constant Friend;,1.0 +"Who in soft Quiet spends the guiltless Days,",1.0 +"Say, would you, in his happy Mansion, reign,",0.0 +Toast of the Village and the rural Plain?,1.0 +"With honest Friends your cheerful Days beguile,",0.0 +While Peace and Plenty on your Table smile:,1.0 +"And dine with Florio upon Hips and Haws,",4.0 +In spite of all romantic Poets sing;,0.0 +"This Gold, my Dearest, is an useful thing:",1.0 +"Not that I'd have you hoard the precious Store,",0.0 +For not a Wretch is like the Miser poor:,0.0 +"Enjoy your Fortune with a cheerful Mind,",1.0 +And let the Blessing spread amongst the Kind:,0.0 +"Write Ballads both, and you may thrive ' -- Adieu.",2.0 +"Seated between the sides of rising Hills,",2.0 +"Whose airy Tops overlook the Gallic Seas,",3.0 +To beautify the Seats that crown thy Banks.,0.0 +"Through Ages passed consigned for Harbour meet,",0.0 +"And Place of sweet Repose to Wanderers poor,",2.0 +Which many a dangerous Borough had denied,5.0 +"Nor Food was wanting to the happy Pair,",1.0 +"Who with meek Aspect, and precarious Tone,",5.0 +"Well suited to their Hunger and Degree,",3.0 +"Had moved the Hearts of hospitable Dames,",5.0 +"While more to please the swarthy Bowl appears,",0.0 +And threatening Inundation over the Brim;,2.0 +"Yet, ere it to the longing Lips was raised",1.0 +"Of him who held it at its due Desert,",1.0 +"With Song and Dance, and every jovial Prank",2.0 +"Befitting buxom Crew, untied by Forms:",0.0 +"As next into her tender Thoughts revolved,",0.0 +"Should urge their calmer Thoughts to Iron War,",0.0 +"Or force them to promote coercive Laws,",1.0 +Deprives unruly Flesh of tempting Skin.,0.0 +Thus kind Remembrance brought the Absent near,1.0 +"To Fancies cleared by Exercise and Air,",0.0 +"And gliding now through every cherished Vein,",0.0 +And gives to that of Bone Precedence due.,4.0 +"Thus undisguised that Form again he wears,",1.0 +"Which Damsel fond had drawn from household Toils,",1.0 +While farther yet his Intellects confess,0.0 +"Ripe for Description, and set Turns of Speech,",4.0 +Which to Conjugal Spouse were thus addressed.,2.0 +"As long as mutual Love, the only Law,",2.0 +"Of Hedge or Barn, can bind our easy Faiths",0.0 +"Be thou observant of thy Husband's Voice,",2.0 +Sole Auditor of Flights and Figures bold;,2.0 +"Know, that the Valley which we hence descry",0.0 +"But whether from these Walls it takes the Name,",1.0 +"While such Denomination either claims,",1.0 +As speaks Affinity contiguous ' --,2.0 +"To Flowers promiscuous, and redundant Plants.",3.0 +And Thee the weaker Vessel still denotes,1.0 +With Looks erect observe the verdant Slope,0.0 +"Of graceful Hills, fertile in Bush and Brake,",0.0 +Shall wider Scenes display of rural Glee;,0.0 +Pursue the trembling Prey impetuous;,0.0 +"Which yet escaping, when the Night returns,",0.0 +"And downy Beds enfold their careless Limbs,",0.0 +And brings to us the Fruit of all their Toil.,1.0 +"Who like to us, in Idleness and Want",2.0 +"Consume fantastic Hours hither repair,",2.0 +"Of Wonders, here observed but not discussed:",0.0 +"Where, the White Sparrow never soiled her Plumes,",2.0 +Nor the dull Russet Clothes the Snowy Mouse.,2.0 +"To Helicon you might the Spring compare,",0.0 +"Who, trained in Learnt School of ancient Wye,",3.0 +"When mixed with Product of the Indian Cane,",3.0 +"They drink delicious Draughts, and part inspired,",0.0 +"Fit for the Banks of Isis, or of Cham,",1.0 +"For Cham and Isis to the Bard were known,",1.0 +"Though vagrant Liberty he early chose,",1.0 +"Who yet, when Drunk, retained Poetic Phrase.",0.0 +"Nor should quoth he that Well, overhung with Shade,",1.0 +"Mysterious, deep, and hid from Mortals Kenn,",2.0 +"Who thence could extricate a thousand Charms,",0.0 +The stagnant Waters of the sleepy Pool.,1.0 +"Thinking her Love a Sympathy confessed,",3.0 +"When the Word Sleepy parted from his Lips,",3.0 +"Sunk affable and easy to that Rest,",3.0 +"He often told her how sincere he loved,",1.0 +He walked abroad his straying steeds to find;,0.0 +"Just then fair Laura went across the green,",1.0 +The swain to meet her stepped across the way;,0.0 +She stopped to hear what Damon had to say.,0.0 +"Say, friendly maid, why wandering here alone?",3.0 +"Where is thy friend, the lovely Daphne gone?",0.0 +Ah! has some rival led her to the grove?,1.0 +"A shepherd's favourite dog long lost has been,",1.0 +Fair Daphne found him wandering on the green;,2.0 +The nymph is gone the wanderer to restore.,3.0 +"Ah, wretched Damon! doomed to love in vain,",0.0 +"O Daphne! I'll to death thy loss deplore,",1.0 +These lips shall never salute a virgin more.,2.0 +"Thy vows repeated, may her pity move;",1.0 +"See, up yonder hill ascends the maiden gay,",0.0 +"She said, and Damon turned his eyes around,",0.0 +And saw the maid ascend the rising ground;,0.0 +"Swift are the feet of messengers, that bring",1.0 +Glad news of conquests to their sovereign King;,3.0 +"But up the steep more swiftly Damon came,",1.0 +"Love, urged by fear, has swifter wings than fame.",1.0 +"The lovely Daphne smiled to see him run,",0.0 +And thus the swain in humble suit begun:,0.0 +"Why Daphne here, from every friend apart?",0.0 +What on this hill can charm thy virgin heart?,0.0 +"My lovely maid, permit me to attend.",1.0 +"Can such things fail to charm? but Damon say,",2.0 +How did you know that I was come this way?,1.0 +"I walked abroad, my straying steeds to see;",0.0 +But my fond heart was still pursuing thee;,3.0 +"They were my small, but thou my greater care,",2.0 +"OH happy chance, that led me to my fair.",2.0 +"A shepherd's dog has long been gone astray,",0.0 +I found him on the green the other day;,1.0 +"This favourite dog, the swain does much lament,",0.0 +"I'll lead him home, and give the swain content.",0.0 +"Why in such haste! the fun, my fair one, see,",0.0 +Is yet as high as yonder lofty tree;,0.0 +"Those verdant meadows, where fresh daisies grow,",2.0 +"Invite our steps, my Daphne, shall we go?",0.0 +"The maid consented, making no reply;",0.0 +What maid could such a small request deny?,1.0 +"A crystal stream, in gentle murmurs glides",0.0 +"Along the valley, and the meads divides;",1.0 +Their branches bending to the stream below;,1.0 +"The tender leaves that hung on every spray,",0.0 +And hawthorn blossoms showed the month was May;,1.0 +"Flowers, of various hue, bedecked the shade,",4.0 +"Her slender waist no gaudy a ribbon bound,",3.0 +But with more softness Damon told his tale;,1.0 +"The pleasing tale the maid in silence heard,",0.0 +But in her heart the gentle swain preferred;,0.0 +"Thus over one meadow they were quickly gone,",3.0 +"Yet still by pleasant meadows tempted on,",2.0 +"How soon the lovers moments pass away,",0.0 +"How soon, how, soon approached the close of day,",0.0 +"The sun departed, and the plains grew damp,",2.0 +And rising Cynthia trimmed her silver lamp;,2.0 +"No more the birds to charm the year aspired,",0.0 +And wandering lovers from the plain retired;,3.0 +"The swain never thought to go, his steeds to find,",2.0 +The nymph forgot to leave her dog behind.,0.0 +"Great D draws near ' -- the Duchess sure is come,",1.0 +"Her daughters decked most daintily I see,",1.0 +The dowager grows a perfect double D,3.0 +E enters next and with her Eve appears.,2.0 +Not like yonder dowager depressed with years:,1.0 +"What ease and elegance her person grace,",1.0 +Queen Esther next ' -- how fair even after death;,4.0 +Then one faint glimpse of Queen Elizabeth;,4.0 +"In vain you think to find them under E,",0.0 +F follows fast the fair ' -- and in his rear,1.0 +"All with fantastic clues, fantastic clothes,",1.0 +Henry the Eighth's most monstrous majesty.,3.0 +But why on such mock grandeur should we dwell?,0.0 +H mounts to heaven and H descends to hell.,1.0 +"As H the Hebrew found, so I the Jew:",1.0 +"See Isaac, Joseph, Jacob pass in view.",1.0 +"The walls of old Jerusalem appear,",1.0 +"P pokes his head out, yet has not a pain:",1.0 +"Like Punch he peeps, but soon pops in again.",1.0 +Mortals he loves to prick and pinch and pluck.,2.0 +"Now a pert prig, he perks upon your face;",3.0 +"Now peers, pores, ponders with profound grimace;",7.0 +"Now a proud prince, in pompous purple dressed,",3.0 +"And now a player, a peer, a pimp or priest,",2.0 +"A pea, a pin, in a perpetual round,",2.0 +"Now seems a penny, and now shows a pound.",3.0 +Like perch or pike in pond you see him come;,0.0 +"He in plantations hangs like pear or plum,",1.0 +"Pippin or peach, then perches on the spray,",3.0 +"As K a king, Q represents a queen,",1.0 +And seems small difference the sounds between.,2.0 +"Behold, K struts as might a king become;",1.0 +Slow follow all the quality of state:,2.0 +Queer Queensberry only does refuse to wait....,1.0 +"Thus great R reigns in town, while different far,",2.0 +Rests in retirement little rural R;,3.0 +"Remote from cities lives in lone retreat,",0.0 +S sails the swan slow down the silver stream....,3.0 +"A wench, a wife, a widow and a whore,",1.0 +"Let Others speak your Titles, and your Blood;",2.0 +Accept from Me the glorious Name of Good.,3.0 +"This Honour only from fair Virtue springs,",4.0 +"Ennobles Slaves, adds Dignity to Kings.",2.0 +OH Born to show Nobility designed,2.0 +"Not to insult, but to protect Mankind!",3.0 +"Well you discern to spare, or to bestow;",3.0 +"Nor waste in Riot, what to Worth you owe.",0.0 +"Judgement your Bounty guides; and all agree,",2.0 +"It's Praise, it's Glory, to receive from Thee.",1.0 +"To spare the Blush, and doubly bind the Heart.",0.0 +Though Fortune place me in a distant Scene;,0.0 +"And Mountains rise, and Oceans roll between;",0.0 +"Over Mountains, Oceans, Gratitude conveys",0.0 +"The good Man's Act, and wide extends his Praise.",1.0 +Strange! that your Judgement errs in this alone;,1.0 +"Barber you bless, yet hope your Gifts unknown.",2.0 +"It's Hers to bring each lovely Deed to Light,",1.0 +And force unwilling Virtue to the Sight:,1.0 +"It's Hers, and it's Her Muse's greatest Pride,",1.0 +"Illustrious Youth! and let me style you Friend,",2.0 +"Nor wait Correctness, when your Virtues call.",0.0 +"Here, blessed with all that human Life requires,",0.0 +"Superior to vain Fears, or low Desires;",4.0 +"In cheerful Solitude, in studious Ease;",2.0 +"Careful my Conscience, and my God, to please;",3.0 +"I think on Thee, when Want, or Worth, implore;",1.0 +"And faintly shine, not emulate her Light.",0.0 +"Go, fatal Book, yet happy at the last,",1.0 +"That such a Trifle, ever should be so graced.",0.0 +"But your Desires, which are to me Commands,",2.0 +Can charm what ever you please out of my Hands;,3.0 +"I rather than neglect obliging you,",2.0 +"But hope your Goodness, will one Smile bestow,",1.0 +On what my tender Infant Muse did do.,0.0 +"Scarce fourteen Years, when I the piece begun,",1.0 +"Without design of Publication writ,",0.0 +"And Innocence supplied, the want of Wit.",1.0 +"But ah! my Poetry, did fatal prove,",1.0 +And robbed me of a tender Father's Love;,1.0 +"I thought that only Men, who writ for Fame,",0.0 +"Were punished for, their proud or wanton Crime.",1.0 +"The Present is but mean, which you receive,",2.0 +"Yet cost me more, than all the World can give,",0.0 +"That which I would, with Life itself retrieve.",0.0 +"But Madam, if your Goodness condescend,",1.0 +"And one kind Minute, on this trifle spend;",0.0 +"It will complete my Happiness at last,",2.0 +And recompense for all my Sorrows past.,0.0 +"Say, dearest Villiers, poor departed Friend",1.0 +Since fleeting Life thus suddenly must end,2.0 +"Say, what did all thy busy Hopes avail,",0.0 +Ever on thy Chin the springing Beard began,1.0 +"To spread a doubtful Down, and promise Man?",1.0 +"What profited thy Thoughts, and Toils, and Cares,",1.0 +And march till close of Night in heavy Arms?,0.0 +"To scorn the Summer Suns and Winter Snows,",0.0 +And Anna's Bounty crown Her Soldier's hoary Age?,0.0 +To hasten or protract the appointed Hour.,3.0 +Our Term of Life depends not on our Deed:,1.0 +Before our Birth our Funeral was decreed.,3.0 +"Nor awed by Foresight, nor misled by Chance,",2.0 +"Alike must every State, and every Age",0.0 +Sustain the universal Tyrant's Rage:,2.0 +"Could or repel, or pacify his Arms:",1.0 +"Young Churchill fell, as Life began to bloom:",1.0 +And Bradford's trembling Age expects the Tomb.,0.0 +Wisdom and Eloquence in vain would plead,3.0 +Judges of Writings and of Men have died;,3.0 +And in their various Turns the Sons must tread,2.0 +"Those gloomy Journeys, which their Sires have led.",0.0 +"The ancient Sage, who did so long maintain,",0.0 +"That Bodies die, but Souls return again,",0.0 +"With all the Births and Deaths He had in Store,",0.0 +"Went out Pythagoras, and came no more.",4.0 +"And modern Al, whose capricious Thought",2.0 +"Is yet with Stores of wilder Notion fraught,",0.0 +"Too soon convinced, shall yield that fleeting Breath,",1.0 +Which played so idly with the Darts of Death.,1.0 +Some from the stranded Vessel force their Way:,0.0 +"Fearful of Fate, they meet it in the Sea:",2.0 +"Some who escape the Fury of the Wave,",1.0 +"Sicken on Earth, and sink into a Grave:",2.0 +"In Journeys or at home, in War or Peace,",1.0 +"By Hardships Many, Many fall by Ease.",0.0 +Each changing Season does it's Poison bring:,0.0 +"Wet, Dry, Cold, Hot, at the appointed Hour,",4.0 +All act subservient to the Tyrant's Power:,3.0 +"And when obedient Nature knows His Will,",2.0 +"In Paths unseen, over our devoted Heads;",7.0 +"And on the spacious Land, and liquid Main",1.0 +Variety of Deaths confirms her endless Reign.,1.0 +Showed her dire Warrant to the rising Flood;,1.0 +"When What I long must love, and long must mourn,",0.0 +With fatal Speed was urging his Return;,1.0 +"In his dear Country to disperse his Care,",3.0 +And arm himself by Rest for future War;,0.0 +And promise to their Joys his elder Years.,1.0 +O! destined Head; and o! severe Decree:,1.0 +"Nor native Country Thou, nor Friend shalt see;",2.0 +"Nor War hast thou to wage, nor Year to come:",1.0 +"Impending Death is thine, and instant Doom.",1.0 +Hark! the imperious Goddess is obeyed:,5.0 +Winds murmur; Snows descend; and Waters spread:,1.0 +"O! Kinsman, Friend, ' -- OH! vain are all the Cries",2.0 +Of human Voice; strong Destiny replies:,2.0 +Weep You on Earth; for He shall sleep below:,1.0 +Thence None return; and thither All must go.,1.0 +"Whoever Thou art, whom Choice or Business leads",1.0 +"To this sad River, or the neighbouring Meads;",5.0 +To find the Object which This Verse deplores;,0.0 +Cleanse the pale Corpse with a religious Hand,4.0 +From the polluting Weed and common Sand;,1.0 +Lay the dead Hero graceful in a Grave;,3.0 +And fragrant Mould upon his Body throw;,0.0 +Light lie the Earth; and flourish green the Bough.,1.0 +So may just Heaven secure thy future Life,1.0 +"From foreign Dangers, and domestic Strife:",1.0 +And when the Infernal Judges dismal Power,1.0 +From the dark Urn shall throw Thy destined Hour;,2.0 +"When yielding to the Sentence, breathless Thou",2.0 +And equal Rites perform to That which once was Thee.,0.0 +"As fast as He, and be the Emperor's Match?",3.0 +But while thy solitary Hours are spent,0.0 +"In scribbling tedious Systems, to prevent",3.0 +"The Worlds Mistakes, its Follies to Reform,",1.0 +"Contrive an Engine with perpetual Motion,",3.0 +"Then think how frantically thou dost devise,",1.0 +"In Youth and Prime when likeliest to improve,",3.0 +No Precepts this besotted World could move;,5.0 +"And wilt thou at these Years begin to School,",0.0 +Dull Moralist! the crazy doting Fool?,2.0 +"Go dreaming Stoic, once again Retire;",1.0 +And since thou art Ambitious to acquire,1.0 +Repute for Judgement ' -- Set thy Works on Fire.,0.0 +"NOthing, Ah nothing! Virtue only gives",2.0 +Immortal praise that only ever lives:,0.0 +"What pains wait Vice, what endless Worlds of Woe",1.0 +"You know full well, but may you never know.",2.0 +My Charms are native Innocence at most.,1.0 +"Alike thy Pencil, and thy Numbers charm,",1.0 +"Glad every Eye, and every Bosom warm.",1.0 +"Mature in Years, if ever I chance to tread,",2.0 +"Where Vice, triumphant, rears aloft her Head,",0.0 +"Even there the Paths of Virtue I'll pursue,",2.0 +And own my fair and kind Director You.,1.0 +"WITH Ease Advice to virtuous Woe we give,",2.0 +But ah! how few by Stoic Rules can live?,0.0 +Virtue distressed in melting Verse appears;,2.0 +But in the World it's viewed with other Eyes;,0.0 +Virtue in Rags is Beauty in Disguise;,2.0 +"And can no more Contempt and Scorn disarm,",2.0 +"Whatever Gifts we may to Nature owe,",2.0 +Success is all our Merit here below.,0.0 +Without it Virtue is an empty Name.,1.0 +"You climes, where genial gales incessant swell,",0.0 +Where art and nature shed profusely round,0.0 +"Their rival wonders ' -- Italy, farewell.",2.0 +Its icy darts in vain may winter throw!,0.0 +"And winged with health, I woo thy gales to blow.",0.0 +"But fly the Straights, and shun the winding Creek.",0.0 +"The Horsetail, and the Sword-Fish armed for War",3.0 +"Through Depths unknown the Serpents curling pass,",0.0 +And to their Beauty owe their awful Name.,1.0 +"He the deep Seas prefers to noisy Straights,",2.0 +"Who for the distant Ship impatient waits,",0.0 +"Around the wanton Shoals in Order move,",0.0 +"Eager press on, nor will be left behind,",1.0 +Though the full Sails swell bloated with the Wind.,5.0 +And drawn unwilling through the ruffling Deep.,1.0 +As when some Prince returns from martial Toil,0.0 +"Victorious, with a conquered Nation's Spoil;",1.0 +And on the Triumph feed their dazzled Eyes;,1.0 +"The Champion to his Home in Crowds attend,",1.0 +"So They, while no approaching Shores displease,",1.0 +Swim with the Ship tumultuous over the Seas.,5.0 +"But when they conscious Scent the coming Shore,",0.0 +"Avoid the nearer Land, and high again",0.0 +With equal Hast to the unbounded Main.,1.0 +"Pilots observe the Sign, and know the Coast",2.0 +"Draws nigh, when they perceive their Comrades lost.",4.0 +"Auspicious Friends, the Sailor's darling Fish,",0.0 +"Laid careless on the Deck, when you appear,",3.0 +The jolly Crew no sudden Dangers fear;,1.0 +"But wayward laugh, or vie in wanton Tales:",0.0 +"Your Presence gives clear Skies, and pleasing Gales.",1.0 +But unfurled Sails expect the gentler Breeze.,4.0 +Far from the Shore the wily Sucker waits,0.0 +"The coming Ship, but him the Sailor hates.",1.0 +"Slender his Shape, his Length a Cubit ends;",2.0 +His Jaws display tenacious Rows of Hooks.,0.0 +"But in strange Power the puny Fish excels,",3.0 +Beyond the boasted Art of Magic Spells.,0.0 +"Oft Seamen tell, but few the Tale believe,",1.0 +Or own those Truths they cannot well conceive.,0.0 +"Men think they know all Nature's secret Laws,",1.0 +"Her Powers define, and trace each hidden Cause.",2.0 +"To strange Effects, when proved, no Credit gives,",1.0 +"The Master bids them give her all the Sails,",0.0 +"To court the Winds, and catch the coming Gales.",0.0 +"But though the Canvas bellies with the Blast,",2.0 +"And boisterous Winds bend down the cracking Mast,",2.0 +"The Bark stands firmly rooted in the Sea,",1.0 +"And will unmoved nor Winds, nor Waves obey.",1.0 +And Infant Waves scarce wrinkle on the Main.,2.0 +"No Ship in Harbour moored so careless rides,",1.0 +When ruffling Waters tell the flowing Tides.,0.0 +"Appalled the Sailors stare, through strange Surprise",0.0 +"Believe they dream, and rub their waking Eyes.",0.0 +The feathered Death arrests the flying Doe;,0.0 +"Struck through the dying Beast falls sudden down,",2.0 +"The Parts grow Stiff, and all the Motion's gone;",1.0 +"Such sudden Force the floating Captive binds,",0.0 +"Though beat by Waves, and urged by driving Winds.",0.0 +"No Home they know, nor can Confinement love,",2.0 +But fond of hourly Change unsettled rove.,0.0 +"Now choose the Rocks, now seek the wider Seas;",2.0 +No Place can long the restless Wanderers please.,3.0 +"They soon grow weary when they once enjoy,",1.0 +"And Pleasures will, as soon as tasted, cloy.",1.0 +"Near hidden Crags, and Rocks unseen below,",0.0 +"Where slower Waves with silent Current flow,",0.0 +But oft must stray far from their Mansion Seat.,2.0 +"Voracious Appetite commands away,",0.0 +"To range for Food, and find the luckless Prey.",0.0 +Repeated Luxury gives no Relief.,2.0 +Though not for ravenous Force by Heaven designed;,2.0 +For Nature has disarmed the toothless Kind.,0.0 +Some gild the Waters with a shining Red.,1.0 +"A third of Hue less grateful to the Sight,",2.0 +"What Mark the others bear their Name implies,",0.0 +Called from the bending Arch that shades their Eyes.,0.0 +"In shelly Armour wrapped, the Lobsters seek",0.0 +"Safe Shelter in some Bay, or winding Creek;",1.0 +"Tenacious hold, nor will the dwelling leave.",1.0 +"And foreign Shores, and Seas unknown despise.",0.0 +"Though cruel Hand the banished Wretch expel,",0.0 +"And force the Captive from his native Cell,",1.0 +"He will, if freed, return, with anxious Care",1.0 +"Find the known Rock, and to his Home repair:",2.0 +"No novel Customs learns in different Seas,",1.0 +Fishes their Native Caves with Transport view;,2.0 +"They have their Countries, and their Fondness too.",1.0 +That gave us first to breath the vital Air.,0.0 +How dear the first Acquaintance of our Eyes!,1.0 +How rich the Soil! how beautiful the Skies!,1.0 +The Name of Country fills the grateful Mind,0.0 +"Ah! wretched those, who forced from what they love",1.0 +"Still restless must the killing Grief renew,",1.0 +"Despised by All, or pitied but by Few.",2.0 +Are not so constant to their native Seas.,1.0 +"Sometime the Amphibious Race the Floods disown,",4.0 +Nor are the Guests to neighbouring Shores unknown.,3.0 +"Their loosening Shell will soon the Body leave,",2.0 +From off their rising Back the tottering Crust.,3.0 +"But when their naked Bodies lie exposed,",0.0 +No longer with the shelly Fence enclosed;,2.0 +"They senseless seem, stretched on the sandy Bed",2.0 +"All pensive lie, and deem themselves as dead;",0.0 +"The tender Flesh, and stop the growing Shell.",0.0 +"But when slow Nature moulds the viscous Mass,",1.0 +"And Time begins to fix the hardening Case,",0.0 +And suck the Sands; yet dread the hearty Meal;,0.0 +Till the firm finished Work can safe endure,2.0 +"The rudest Shock, and every Part secure.",0.0 +"So when the Veins glow with a deeper Red,",2.0 +"The prudent Leech prescribes a wholesome Fast,",0.0 +Forbids the noxious Pleasures of the Taste.,1.0 +"While the slow Pulse with equal Motion beats,",3.0 +"He cautious fears to raise the sinking Flood,",0.0 +And gives with sparing Hand the slender Food.,0.0 +"Till perfect Health restores her former Grace,",1.0 +"Strength to the Limbs, and Beauty to the Face.",1.0 +The secret Caverns of the Ocean seek.,1.0 +"But curious oft to neighbouring Shores repair,",4.0 +And taste the Breezes of the cooler Air.,1.0 +The Rustic often hath with wonder seen,0.0 +And the gay Authors of the Purple Pride.,3.0 +"The Cockle, spiral Whirl, and hardy Mice,",0.0 +"With Wilks of various Shell, and quaint Device.",2.0 +"All stuck with Spikes, prefer the sandy Coast.",0.0 +"Should you with Knives their prickly Bodies wound,",0.0 +Till the crude Morsels pant upon the Ground;,2.0 +"You may even then, when Motion seems no more,",1.0 +Departing Sense and fleeting Life restore.,0.0 +"If in the Sea the mangled Parts you cast,",0.0 +The conscious Pieces to their Fellows hast;,1.0 +"Again they aptly join, their Whole compose;",0.0 +"Helpless, and weak, grow strong by harmless Theft.",3.0 +"Or such as empty lie, and deck the Shore,",1.0 +Whose first and rightful Owners are no more.,2.0 +"They make glad Seizure of the vacant Room,",2.0 +And count the borrowed Shell their native Home;,1.0 +"Screw their soft Limbs to fit the winding Case,",3.0 +And boldly herd with the Crustaceous Race.,1.0 +Careless they enter the first empty Cell;,4.0 +"The Wilk's etched Coat is most with Pleasure worn,",1.0 +"Wide in Extent, and yet but lightly born.",1.0 +"But when they growing more than fill the Place,",0.0 +"Compelled they quit the Roof they loved before,",0.0 +"Till a commodious roomy Seat be found,",3.0 +Such as the larger Cockles living owned.,1.0 +"Oft cruel Wars contending Hermits wage,",1.0 +And long for the disputed Shell engage.,1.0 +"Power gives him Right, and All the Claim confess.",0.0 +"Close in their concave Shells their Bodies wrap,",0.0 +"Avoid the Waves, and every Storm escape.",0.0 +"When pleasing Calms have stilled the sighing Wind,",0.0 +"Curious to know what Seas above contain,",1.0 +"Now wanton to the changing Surface hast,",2.0 +"But slow they cautious rise, and prudent fear",0.0 +The upper Region of the watery Sphere.,3.0 +"Backward they mount, and as the Stream overflows,",4.0 +Their convex Shells to pressing Floods oppose.,1.0 +"Conscious they know, that should they forward move,",2.0 +"Overwhelming Waves would sink them from above,",1.0 +"Fill the void Space, and with the rushing Weight",2.0 +"When first arrived they feel the stronger Blast,",0.0 +"The natural Barks outdo all human Art,",1.0 +"Two Feet they upward raise, and steady keep,",1.0 +"These are the Masts, and Rigging of the Ship.",2.0 +"A Membrane stretched between supplies the Sail,",1.0 +"Bends from the Masts, and swells before the Gale.",0.0 +"Two other Feet hang paddling on each side,",3.0 +"And serve for Oars to row, and Helm to guide.",0.0 +"It's thus they sail, pleased with the wanton Game,",2.0 +"The Fish, the Sailor, and the Ship the same.",1.0 +"But when the Swimmers dread some Danger near,",0.0 +"No more they wanton drive before the Blasts,",0.0 +"But strike the Sails, and bring down all the Masts.",0.0 +"The rolling Waves their sinking Shells overflow,",3.0 +And dash them down again to Sands below.,1.0 +"You Powers! when Man first felled the stately Trees,",3.0 +And past to distant Shores on wafting Seas:,0.0 +"Whether some God inspired the wondrous Thought,",4.0 +"Or Chance found out, or careful Study sought;",2.0 +"If humble Guess may probably divine,",1.0 +And trace the Improvement to the first Design;,3.0 +"Some Wight of prying Search, who wondering Stood,",2.0 +"When softer Gales had smoothed the dimpled Flood,",0.0 +"Observed these careless Swimmers floating move,",0.0 +And how each Blast the easy Sailor drove;,1.0 +Hence took the Hint; hence formed the imperfect Draught;,4.0 +"Then Mortals tried the shelving Hull to slope,",0.0 +"To raise the Mast, and twist the stronger Rope,",0.0 +"To fix the Yards, let fly the crowded Sails;",1.0 +"Sweep through the curling Waves, and court auspicious Gales.",0.0 +"Prodigious Fishes, of enormous Size,",1.0 +With shivering Fright pale Mariners surprise.,4.0 +"Nature's strange Work, vast Whales of differing Form",4.0 +"Toss up the troubled Floods, and are themselves a Storm.",1.0 +"Uncouth the Sight, when They in dreadful Play",2.0 +"Discharge their Nostrils, and refund a Sea;",1.0 +"Or angry lash the Foam with hideous Sound,",2.0 +And scatter all the watery Dust around.,2.0 +"Fearless the fierce destructive Monsters roll,",2.0 +"In deepest Seas these living Isles appear,",0.0 +And deepest Seas can scarce the Pressure bear.,0.0 +"But some will dare approach the rising Lands,",0.0 +"Near highland Coasts the ravenous Shoals appear,",2.0 +Fierce Rams and Panthers break the tattered Net.,1.0 +"White Sharks, the Fisher's Curse, force on their Way,",3.0 +"Erect their prickly Fins, and hunt for Food.",0.0 +"Rounds jetting Lands, and doubles every Cape.",1.0 +And spout the circling Torrents to the Sky.,1.0 +And all the Inlets of the Seas explore.,2.0 +From easy Softness are but falsely named.,1.0 +"Pirate around, and pillage all the Coast.",2.0 +"One Sort, that keeps the Seas, is ranked with Whales,",0.0 +"Others deep hide, and press the slimy Vales.",3.0 +Their widened Jaws a Magazine disclose,0.0 +Of pointed Weapons ranged in numerous Rows.,2.0 +"In Shape agreeing, and in Choice allied,",1.0 +"They pad in Troops, and the rich Spoils divide.",2.0 +"Kind generous Dolphins love the rocky Shore,",3.0 +Where broken Waves with fruitless Anger roar.,0.0 +"But though to sounding Shores they curious come,",3.0 +Yet Dolphins count the boundless Sea their Home.,0.0 +Neptune would grieve his melancholy Reign.,2.0 +"But when the Darlings frisk in wanton Play,",0.0 +"The Waters smile, and every Wave looks gay.",1.0 +"Fled from the Embrace, and scorned the proffered Joy;",1.0 +"In vain; the Dolphins saw, and could declare",0.0 +The secret Haunts of the unwilling Fair.,1.0 +They told him where She bashful hid her Charms;,0.0 +"He found, and clasped her struggling in his Arms.",0.0 +The Dolphins hence with just Ambition claim,0.0 +"Uncommon Gifts, and more than vulgar Fame.",0.0 +To the glad Finders of the Royal Bride.,3.0 +"Pass over the Banks, on sandy Fallows rest,",4.0 +Or seize the Covert of some absent Beast.,1.0 +"Thus the mailed Tortoise, and the wandering Eel",6.0 +Oft to the neighbouring Beach will silent steal.,2.0 +"Their Limbs all shudder, and their Cheeks turn pale;",2.0 +"While luckless Harbingers, with odious Yell,",3.0 +Too sure the fixed Resolves of Fate foretell.,1.0 +"So the Grand Whale will court the weedy Strand,",2.0 +"Stretch out, and bask upon the wavy Sand.",0.0 +And sometime dare to try the sunny Day;,1.0 +"Glad to the unequal dusty Ridges creep,",1.0 +Divided Streams of Entity descend,1.0 +"Whether by Choice confined thy Godhead stay,",3.0 +"Or art in every Part a Mundane Soul,",3.0 +"The jarring Principles of Things to bind,",1.0 +And reconcile their Natures to partake,1.0 +"Each other's Forms, and mutual Changes make?",2.0 +But middle Natures join the vast Extremes.,0.0 +"Pure with less pure, and gross with grosser meet,",3.0 +And thus the Commerce of the Whole complete.,1.0 +Of Nature's Chain how regular the Links!,1.0 +Matter by slow Gradations downward sinks;,2.0 +And intermediate Changes gently pass,2.0 +"Dissolving Earth in fluid Moisture glides,",0.0 +And Rocks transformed flow down in silver Tides.,2.0 +And sweating Seas will gild the distant Skies.,0.0 +"Things only differ as condense, or rare.",2.0 +"Air when too gross will falling Drops increase,",3.0 +And hang in lucid Pearls on weeping Trees.,0.0 +To earthly Mould; that hardening turns to Stone.,0.0 +"So All is different, and yet All is One.",1.0 +"The Elements, to slow themselves agreed,",1.0 +"And hence Amphibious Kinds indifferent rove,",2.0 +Designed as Pledges of their mutual Love.,3.0 +"The Sea-born Tribes will seek the distant Mead,",1.0 +"The ravenous Eagle, and the noisy Mew",3.0 +"Her Nest the mournful Halcyon trusts to Seas,",2.0 +"Dart from the Main, and try the aerial Way.",2.0 +Their native Streams for airy Pastime leave.,1.0 +"When ravenous Foes pursue, they conscious rise,",2.0 +And court the kind Protection of the Skies.,1.0 +And soaring high the distant Waters scorn.,0.0 +"With strange Surprise we view the dubious Sight,",2.0 +"Of Fish in Shape, and yet of Birds in Flight.",0.0 +"Mount in their Fear, but quickly dive again.",0.0 +"But cautious Hawks, though winged, will nearer keep,",0.0 +And hovering over the wavy Surface sweep.,2.0 +"Both Elements enjoy, and flying swim.",2.0 +"Some form Societies, and friendly dwell,",1.0 +"Others are ranged, unlike the huddled Drove;",2.0 +In equal Files the moist Battalions move.,0.0 +"With firm Platoons they stem the flowing Tide,",0.0 +And regular their watery Marches guide.,3.0 +Some with one Partner all their Blessings share;,0.0 +The strictest Friendship centres in a Pair.,0.0 +"Others, a pensive solitary Kind,",2.0 +"Full of themselves the sullen Bliss commend,",2.0 +"Never roam abroad, but where they live they die.",0.0 +"When Winter's stormy Season is begun,",1.0 +"And piercing Cold mocks the declining Sun,",2.0 +"Vexed by the Winds the angry Billows rise,",0.0 +And would revenge themselves upon the Skies.,0.0 +"The Tempest rattles, and the Surges roar.",1.0 +"Lurk in the Sands, or to the Caves repair;",1.0 +"There trembling lie; or sink to Depths below,",0.0 +"The distant Threats of lowering Storms despise,",2.0 +Nor fear the clouded Changes of the Skies.,1.0 +"The deepest Waves, and fiercest Wind that blows,",0.0 +"Can't reach those Depths, or raise the settled Ooze;",1.0 +"Eternal Calms protect the peaceful Plain,",0.0 +"Warm in old Ocean's Lap they rest secure,",2.0 +"Till stronger Rays the thawing Frost subdue,",0.0 +And Nature the decaying World renew.,1.0 +"When smiling Hours lead in the blooming Year,",0.0 +And Groves and Meads in gayer Dress appear;,0.0 +"Fishes the kinder Summons will obey,",3.0 +"Throng to the Shore, and bound in joyous Play.",0.0 +"So Citizens, when hostile Troops confine,",1.0 +"But when kind Fate, or pressing Want oblige",1.0 +"The investing Host to raise the fruitless Siege,",1.0 +All Ranks and Ages crowd the noisy Street.,0.0 +"The Youths and Virgins trip the joyful Round,",0.0 +And guide their Motions by directing Sound.,1.0 +And make amends for the suspended Kiss.,1.0 +"When pleasing Heat, and fragrant Blooms inspire",0.0 +"Seek out their Mates, and bill on every Spray.",0.0 +"The savage Kinds a softer Rage express,",0.0 +And gloating Eyes the secret Flame confess.,0.0 +But none like Fishes feel the dear Disease;,0.0 +For Venus doubly warms her native Seas.,0.0 +"Males unconcerned their pleasing Loves repeat,",1.0 +"On sandy Mounds their pressing Bellies lay,",0.0 +And force the Burden of the Womb away.,1.0 +Close joined the complicated Eggs remain;,1.0 +To separate that Heap is racking Pain.,0.0 +"Complain no more, you Fair, or partial Fate,",1.0 +What Sorrows on the teeming Bride await.,1.0 +"Now when the vernal Breeze has purged the Air,",0.0 +To every Shore the vigorous Males repair;,2.0 +"By Fear compelled, or Appetite inclined,",0.0 +"To chase the weak, or fly the stronger Kind:",0.0 +Nor will the amorous Females stay behind.,4.0 +"No Fears or Dangers can the Bliss prevent,",2.0 +"When urged by Love, and on the Joy intent,",1.0 +"Their Bodies meet, the close Embraces please,",0.0 +Till mingled Slime lies floating on the Seas:,2.0 +And fruitful from the strange Conception breed.,1.0 +"Hence the succeeding Colonies increase,",3.0 +But some no lawless Liberties allow;,2.0 +Whose Brides confined their private Chambers know.,0.0 +"In close Retreat they guard the imprisoned Fair,",2.0 +"Observe their Haunt, and watch with jealous Care,",0.0 +"Lest some false Leman should invade their Right,",1.0 +And wanton glory in the stolen Delight.,2.0 +"All Things obey, when softer Passions move,",0.0 +"They all the Pangs of jealous Fury know,",0.0 +"That cursed Fiend will dive to Worlds below,",1.0 +"Feel selfish Pride, Distrust, and anxious Pain,",1.0 +And all the Plagues that form Love's pompous Train.,1.0 +"As rival Lovers, that one Flame confess,",0.0 +"All blooming Youths, whom splendid Fortunes bless,",0.0 +"Still haunt the Nymph, and tell the moving Tale;",1.0 +Each hopes his Wealth or Passion may prevail;,1.0 +"Thus Sea-born Rivals round the She repair,",3.0 +And claim the sole Enjoyment of the Fair.,1.0 +"They boast no Wealth indeed to purchase Love,",1.0 +No soft deluding Eloquence to move;,2.0 +"But they have sharpest Teeth, and pointed Jaws,",1.0 +"To own their Passion, and maintain their Cause.",1.0 +Till joyful Conquest gives undoubted Right.,0.0 +"The vanquished Wretch must hide in pensive Shame,",0.0 +"Forego his Pleasure, and renounce his Claim.",1.0 +"Some to successive Choice of Wives are kind,",1.0 +Abhor the Curse of one to one confined.,2.0 +"The Beetle no promiscuous Joys allows,",2.0 +"True to his Vow, and grateful to his Spouse.",1.0 +Propitious Hymen joins the constant Pair.,0.0 +"That know no Sex, yet love the close Embrace.",1.0 +"Their folded Lengths they round each other twine,",0.0 +"Twist amorous Knots, and slimy Bodies join;",3.0 +"Till the close Strife brings off a frothy Juice,",1.0 +"Regardless They their future Offspring leave,",2.0 +"That genial Bed impregnates all the Heap,",0.0 +What great Effects from slender Causes flow!,0.0 +"The Forms, which from the frothy Drop began,",1.0 +"Stretch out immense, and eddy all the Main.",2.0 +"Justly might Female Tortoises complain,",3.0 +To whom Enjoyment is the greatest Pain.,1.0 +"They dread the Trial, and foreboding hate",1.0 +The growing Passion of the cruel Mate.,1.0 +"He amorous pursues, They conscious fly",1.0 +"Since partial Heaven has thus restrained the Bliss,",0.0 +"The Males they welcome with a closer Kiss,",1.0 +"Bite angry, and reluctant Hate declare.",2.0 +"Eager they fight, but with unlike Design,",3.0 +"Males to obtain, and Females to decline.",4.0 +"The conflict lasts, till these by Strength overcome",2.0 +"Not like a Bride, but pensive Captive, led",0.0 +To the loathed Duties of an hated Bed.,3.0 +"The Seal, and Tortoise copulate behind",0.0 +But secret Ties the passive Couple bind.,0.0 +Whose certain natural Death is only Love.,0.0 +"Once, and but once, the niggard Powers allow",5.0 +The luckless Pair congenial Bliss to know.,0.0 +"Soon as the Male has tried the luscious Joy,",0.0 +The soft repeated Pleasures never cloy.,0.0 +"Excessive in Desire he won't give over,",1.0 +Till strength and wasting Spirits be no more.,1.0 +"When Nature drained can grant no fresh Supplies,",1.0 +Stretched on the Sands all impotent he lies.,1.0 +"The little Shell-Fish, late his usual Prey,",3.0 +"Insult his Doom, and all his Wrongs repay;",0.0 +"Their Foe, so dreadful once, no longer fear,",1.0 +"He passive lies, nor feels the Power to move,",2.0 +"Nor long, when once enjoyed, the Females live,",1.0 +"Their Eggs lie all compact, and strait's the Way,",1.0 +Which must the clustered Heaps to Life convey.,0.0 +"Now when ripe Nature will the Birth constrain,",3.0 +The teeming Bride feels her increasing Pain;,2.0 +"Nor longer can the torturing Pressure bear,",3.0 +When falling Eggs the unequal Passage tear.,2.0 +"Fate stints their Life; that Term they cannot pass,",1.0 +One rolling Year concludes the shortened Space.,0.0 +"Has told the Days, and all his Circuit run,",0.0 +Fond Suicides the dear Destruction prove,1.0 +"Of luckless Marriage, and disastrous Love.",1.0 +"The Lamprey, glowing with uncommon Fires,",1.0 +"He no less kind makes amorous Returns,",3.0 +With equal Love the grateful Serpent burns.,0.0 +"Fixed on the Joy he bounding shoots along,",0.0 +Now his red Eyeballs glow with doubled Fires;,4.0 +"Proudly he mounts upon his folded Spires,",2.0 +"Displays his glossy Coat, and speckled Side,",0.0 +And meets in all his Charms the watery Bride.,2.0 +"The gentle Lover will himself disarm,",1.0 +"And putrid Bags, the poisonous Fund of Death.",2.0 +His Mate he calls with softly hissing Sounds;,0.0 +"She joyful hears, and from the Ocean bounds.",1.0 +"Swift as the bearded Arrow's Hast she flies,",0.0 +"To own her Love, and meet the Serpent's Joys.",0.0 +"At her approach, no more the Lover bears",2.0 +"Odious Delay, nor sounding Waters fears.",1.0 +"Onward he moves on shining Volumes rolled,",2.0 +The Foam all burning seems with wavy Gold.,0.0 +"At length with equal Hast the Lovers meet,",0.0 +"Sucks in his Head, and feels unknown Delights.",0.0 +"When full Fruition has assuaged Desire,",0.0 +And leaves his Prints on all the furrowed Sand;,0.0 +"With anxious Fear seeks the close private Cleft,",3.0 +Where he in Trust the important Secret left.,2.0 +"From the stained Rock he sucks the poisonous Heaps,",4.0 +"Feels his returning Strength, and hissing leaps;",2.0 +"With brandished Tongue the distant Foe defies,",0.0 +But if some Swain mean while observing spies,2.0 +The cleansing Waters to the Rock conveys;,1.0 +"The Serpent comes, and finds his Treasure gone,",0.0 +"Curls in the Grass, or hisses in the Brakes.",0.0 +"He creeps with Shame a tawdry speckled Worm,",0.0 +"On the same Rock with Head reclined he lies,",2.0 +"And, where he lost his Arms, despairing dies.",0.0 +"Dolphins like Men perform the nuptial Debt,",2.0 +Parts of like Form the vigorous Joy repeat;,2.0 +"Hide, and contract unseen, till eager Love,",2.0 +And conscious Hopes the powerful Fancy move.,2.0 +"Thus the moist Tribes the Call of Love obey,",3.0 +"Produce their Like, and people all the Sea.",0.0 +"Each knows the Time, by proper Instinct drawn,",0.0 +When Nature bids eject the enlivened Spawn.,2.0 +"Some breed, when vernal Days the Skies renew,",0.0 +And Waves each other but in Sport pursue.,1.0 +And fills the tainted Air with sultry Steams.,0.0 +"When wearied Titan takes a shorter Course,",0.0 +And from high Mountain Tops the Autumnal Breeze,4.0 +Lets fall the wafted Seeds on barren Seas.,1.0 +"Some, when inclement Winter rudely blows,",0.0 +To chilling Cold their tender Young expose.,0.0 +"Yearly their Eggs the pregnant Females lay,",3.0 +One annual Birth restores the vast Decay.,2.0 +"Again the Joys, again the Pangs return.",0.0 +"Three yearly Spawns the teeming Mullet bless,",1.0 +"Renew the Race, and give the large Increase.",0.0 +"The curling Scorpion in each Season knows,",1.0 +"The glad Conception, and the wringing Throws.",1.0 +Ever the swift Sun has traced his annual Round.,3.0 +"But no Research the puzzling Secret finds,",0.0 +"How Whitings gender, and preserve their Kinds.",1.0 +"They love, and propagate by Ways unknown,",0.0 +"Prepare their Beds, and wait the reckoned Day.",0.0 +"There pleasant Gulfs uncommon Sweetness boast,",0.0 +"With fruitful Banks, and fenced with rising Ground.",0.0 +"Here all the Pleasures of the Sea they find,",1.0 +"Rich Pastures, sandy Mounds, and gentle Wind.",1.0 +Capes jetting from the Shores on either Side,2.0 +"Elbow the Floods, and part the swelling Tide.",1.0 +"Here private Ways, and dubious Caverns please,",2.0 +And easy Dimples smile in broken Waves.,0.0 +"No ravenous Kinds, and fierce unwelcome Guest",3.0 +"Thirsting for Blood, the watery Roads infest.",4.0 +No Robber comes that preys on weaker Shoals.,1.0 +No Lobster on the little Captive feasts;,2.0 +"Dolphins are found, but innocently tame",3.0 +"These Dolphins play, and murderous Guilt disclaim.",2.0 +"Peaceful they rove, and without Slaughter feed.",7.0 +From every distant Sea the Strangers meet.,0.0 +"Led by one Thought they feel the same Desire,",0.0 +"Come at set Times, and all at once retire.",2.0 +"Begin the March, and all their Forces join,",0.0 +And now the coming Birth impatient wait.,0.0 +"Concert their Flight, and form their airy Ranks;",0.0 +When breeding Fish joy at the vernal Breeze;,1.0 +"Hast to the Birth, and annual Toils repeat.",2.0 +"Here their prolific Spawn they teeming lay,",1.0 +"Sunk Waves supine on the smooth Surface sleep,",3.0 +And Warmth impregnates all the jellied Heap.,0.0 +"But when Autumnal Winds grow hoarse with Cold,",1.0 +"When Mountains rise, and yawning Combs subside,",0.0 +"Insulting Winds it's shallow Depth command,",0.0 +And boiling Floods turn up the working Sand.,2.0 +"Dashed on themselves the bandied Surges roar,",2.0 +"Recruit the Tempest, and maintain the War.",1.0 +"Fishes alarmed the changing Season mourn,",2.0 +And with their little Fry in Throngs return.,1.0 +"Backward again their hasty Course they steer,",2.0 +And the free open Main to inland Seas prefer.,3.0 +"The Bloodless Crusty Race, who crawling play,",0.0 +Though no swollen Veins the purple Life convey;,2.0 +"Arrayed in silver Scales, and spotted Pride;",0.0 +"Fixed in the Concave of the pearly Shell,",1.0 +"All breed alike, distil a mucous Juice",0.0 +"Bring forth their Like, no shapeless clotted Mass;",2.0 +"Retain the Seed within till perfect grown,",1.0 +And Nature has her just Proportions shown.,0.0 +"So Dolphins teem, whom Subject Fish revere,",0.0 +Dolphins excel; that Race is all divine.,2.0 +"Dolphins were Men, Tradition hands the Tale",2.0 +"Transformed by Bacchus, and by Neptune loved,",1.0 +They all the Pleasures of the Deep improved.,1.0 +"Plunged in the Waves, and untried Fins displayed,",5.0 +"No further Change relenting Bacchus wrought,",1.0 +Nor have the Dolphins all the Man forgot;,0.0 +The conscious Soul retains her former Thought.,0.0 +"When painful Throws, for Twins the Dolphins bear",0.0 +"And finished Time brings forth the Princely Pair,",1.0 +"They round their Parent frisk, sport by her Side;",2.0 +"She glad receives, with watchful Eye attends,",0.0 +"Directs their Motions, and from Harm defends;",1.0 +"Exulting leaps, and feels the Mother's Joy,",0.0 +"Then suckling gives to each the swelling Breast,",0.0 +By partial Heaven with Gifts uncommon blessed.,0.0 +"But when her Young are grown to just Increase,",0.0 +"And stronger Fins can wrestle with the Seas,",1.0 +"She to more useful Arts directs the Way,",1.0 +"And shows to vault the Waves, and chase the Prey.",0.0 +"What pleasing Wonders charm the Sailor's sight,",0.0 +When Calms the Dolphins to their Sports invite?,1.0 +And leave their rounding Pressures on the Mead;,1.0 +"So They in circling Dance, with wanton Ease",1.0 +"Pursue each other round the furrowed Seas,",0.0 +"With rapid Force the curling Streams divide,",0.0 +"The Parent Dolphins, with suspicious Care,",1.0 +"Of casual Harms, and guilty Floods beware,",0.0 +"Move cautious on behind, and guard the Rear.",2.0 +"So when blithe Lambs their vernal Revels keep,",1.0 +"Now harmless try to butt, then race away,",2.0 +"Now wearied feed, and thus consume the Day,",1.0 +"Mean while the thoughtful Shepherd watching lies,",0.0 +Lest sudden Onset should his Flock surprise.,1.0 +"When the glad Pupil Throng to Sport inclined,",2.0 +"With jealous Eyes the while their Steps observe,",0.0 +Left playful Hours from steady Virtue swerve;,1.0 +So Parent Dolphins on the Care intent,1.0 +"Watch their gay Young, and threatened Ills prevent.",3.0 +And milky Stores distend the rising Breast.,0.0 +"They fly the Deep, and watery Pastures leave.",2.0 +"On the dry Ground, far from the swelling Tide,",1.0 +"Bring forth their Young, and on the Shores abide,",2.0 +Till twice six times they see the Eastern Gleams,1.0 +"Brighten the Hills, and tremble on the Streams.",3.0 +"The thirteenth Morn, soon as the early Dawn",3.0 +"Hangs out it's crimson Folds, or spreads it's Lawn,",0.0 +"Relieved the Womb, and caught the falling Birth.",0.0 +Far from the loved Abode all pensive lies;,0.0 +"Hurries along, and soon devours the Way.",4.0 +At length the Dame arrives; with weeping Joy,0.0 +"Talks idly fond, bids him admire his Home,",3.0 +And gay Amusements of each furnished Room.,1.0 +"The listening Infant turns his little Eyes,",0.0 +And void of reasoning Thought by smiling Looks replies.,2.0 +Good Gods! how tender is the Parent Love!,1.0 +"All Kinds that move in Ocean, Earth, or Air",0.0 +Alike the Charms of Piety revere.,1.0 +"Fondly the Savage licks her shapeless Young,",2.0 +"The careful Birds bring home the hourly Feast,",1.0 +"Even ravenous Fish defend their helpless Fry,",2.0 +"Forewarn their Dangers, and their Wants supply.",1.0 +Man can claim no Prerogative from Love.,4.0 +"Hunters from far the roaring Challenge dread,",2.0 +Their princely Train through all the Forrest lead.,0.0 +"The Royal Dam looks round with proud Disdain,",1.0 +"Lashes her Sides, and curls her flowing Mane;",2.0 +"No Danger fears, but willing to engage",2.0 +"With chafing Jaws she churns the frothy Rage,",0.0 +"Redoubled Fires flash from her rolling Eyes,",0.0 +"Still guards her Young, the Hunter's Motion thwarts,",1.0 +And wrenches from her Sides the reeking Darts.,1.0 +"But when Death hovers over her swimming Eyes,",3.0 +"And clotted on the Ground Life's wasted Treasure lies,",2.0 +When doubtful Staggers own the killing Wound;,0.0 +"Regardless of her self She looks around,",1.0 +"Over the dear Cub her sinking Head reclines,",2.0 +"But dreads to see the Wretch a Captive made,",0.0 +"To hear him roar, and call in vain for Aid,",0.0 +"Uneasy grins, and frets at every Noise;",0.0 +"Familiar once, but now with growling Threats",0.0 +"When the lone Cow repeats her daily Moan,",3.0 +A soft Compassion moves the sturdy Clown.,0.0 +From lowing Vales the undulating Air,0.0 +To every Mountain tells the Dam's Despair.,0.0 +"Where on the Bank She pressed the yielding Grass,",0.0 +"Or the calm Shelter of the cooler Wood,",3.0 +"Then restless walks, and rounds the Hedge again,",0.0 +"Looks over the Gate, and eyes the winding Lane.",3.0 +"Oft have the listening Streams the Osprey heard,",0.0 +When to the whispering Reeds the injured Bird,2.0 +"The Mother Nightingale, when childless made,",1.0 +With mournful Music fills the lonely Glade.,0.0 +"What pungent Sorrows must the Parent feel,",0.0 +They thoughtless from the Nest the Brood convey;,1.0 +"She in sad murmuring pines the tedious Day,",5.0 +At Night the melancholy Strain renews;,0.0 +"How passionate the Swallow tells her Wrong,",1.0 +"When some fell Serpent has devoured her Young,",3.0 +"Full of the tender Thought, with anxious Care",0.0 +"The Dolphins watch, and guard their Infant Pair,",0.0 +"While they in nimble Race the Tail expand,",0.0 +"Insult the Waves, and Subject Seas command.",0.0 +"Each Parent Fish her Young in Danger hides,",0.0 +"Nurtures the Fry, and in her Likeness prides.",2.0 +While She her Young from dreaded Harm secures.,0.0 +Within her Womb the Dam receives again,0.0 +"The pressing Burden, and renews her Pain.",1.0 +"To the known Place, when struck with sudden Fear,",2.0 +Those tender Parts; safe in the close Retreat,1.0 +"Escape their Dangers, and their Fears forget;",1.0 +"Again, when all's secure, the Womb release,",0.0 +"Force out their Way, and venture on the Seas.",1.0 +"The same fond Care commends the thorny Skate,",1.0 +When ravenous Shoals the Prey impatient wait.,2.0 +"She distant Waters eyes with kind Distrust,",0.0 +"Knows when all's safe, and when her Fears are just.",2.0 +Nor will her Womb again her Offspring hide;,2.0 +"Two spacious Cavities, on either Side",2.0 +"Below her Gills, the trembling Fry receive,",0.0 +When guilty Seas the careful Parent grieve.,0.0 +"While the fierce Foes unguarded Shoals surprise,",3.0 +"In safe Recess the prickly Darling lies,",0.0 +"No Dangers fears, though rolling Waters swell,",1.0 +And angry Hast of coming Monsters tell.,0.0 +"Others, when ought disturbs the ravaged Seas,",2.0 +"And trembling Young their conscious Fears express,",0.0 +"Extend their Jaws, and show the safer Way;",0.0 +"Within the concave Roof uninjured rest,",0.0 +Within their widened Mouths their Young enclose.,0.0 +"Beneath the circling Arch they fearless hide,",0.0 +Though bulky Forms drive on the rising Tide.,2.0 +"Of all Oviparous Kinds that throng the Seas,",2.0 +With what Concern they wait the teeming Mass!,0.0 +"What anxious Fears confess their secret Love,",0.0 +Lest the Birth failing should abortive prove!,2.0 +"While most their Eggs to Chance regardless leave,",0.0 +"They watch their Spawn, the slow Formation grieve,",0.0 +"Nature's faint Progress in the Work accuse,",0.0 +Till ripening Hours the vigorous Life infuse.,2.0 +"Observe their Motions, and restrain their Course,",1.0 +"Eye every Wave, and show the doubtful Way,",1.0 +"Teach where to hunt, and where to find the Prey.",0.0 +"When big with secret Guilt the Waters heave,",0.0 +They in their Mouths their sheltered Young receive.,0.0 +"But when the Waves at their own Leisure roll,",1.0 +Again the Parent's pointed Jaws compressed,0.0 +By Force expel them from their pleasing Rest.,1.0 +"On their own Spawn, and gulp the enlivened Seed;",3.0 +"Devour their Eggs, and praise the monstrous Feast.",2.0 +Nor to the painful Birth their Being owe.,1.0 +Some spring spontaneous from the genial Slime;,1.0 +"No curious Frame, or work of slower Time",3.0 +Nature on them bestows; but formed in Hast,3.0 +In ready Clay the Mould is easy cast.,0.0 +"In these no Difference of Sex appears,",3.0 +"No Male sheds down the Spawn, nor Female bears.",2.0 +"No ancient Lineage boast, or generous Kin.",5.0 +"Collected Showers their falling Forces join,",2.0 +"Beat on the Deep, and bubble up the Brine.",1.0 +The Waves diluted with the tasteless Rain,1.0 +"Vexed raise their Foam, and stir the chafing Main.",1.0 +"Shine on the Waves, and brighten all the Sea.",0.0 +"By unknown Loves, and Ways uncommon bred",4.0 +"As constant Tides observe their stated Time,",0.0 +Returning Currents raise the troubled Slime;,0.0 +"That mixed is in the rolling Waters lost,",0.0 +"Wafted afar, and on the Billows tossed,",3.0 +"Till purging Winds the winnowed Ocean sweep,",1.0 +"Force on the Draught, and form the worthless Heap.",0.0 +"To every Shore the Floods their Load convey,",0.0 +And leave behind the Refuse of the Sea.,2.0 +And waits the Influence of warmer Skies.,1.0 +"The loosened Parts, vexed with the active Heat,",2.0 +And the gross Steams creep slowly round the Shore.,4.0 +"Then from the teeming Filth, and putrid Heap,",0.0 +"Devoured by All the passive Curse they own,",1.0 +"Oppressed by every Kind, but injure none.",0.0 +"Harmless they live, nor murderous Hunger know,",4.0 +But to themselves their mutual Pleasures owe;,3.0 +"Each other lick, and the close Kiss repeat;",2.0 +"Thus loving thrive, and praise the luscious Treat.",1.0 +"When they in Throngs a safe Retirement seek,",2.0 +"Where pointed Rocks the rising Surges break,",0.0 +"Or where calm Waters in their Bason sleep,",1.0 +And shining Tracks inform their wandering Way.,2.0 +"As when soft Snows, brought down by Western Gales,",1.0 +Silent descend and spread on all the Vales;,2.0 +"Add to the Plains, and on the Mountains shine,",1.0 +While in changed Fields the starving Cattle pine;,1.0 +"Nature bears all one Face, looks coldly bright,",1.0 +"And mourns her lost Variety in White,",1.0 +"Unlike themselves the Objects glare around,",0.0 +And with false Rays the dazzled Sight confound:,2.0 +"What Food they seek, what Pastures they approve;",1.0 +"Soft Loves repeat, and form the new Increase.",1.0 +But whence could Man the wondrous Secret know?,0.0 +"To some kind Power he must the Blessing owe,",2.0 +"Who to his View the hidden Depths exposed,",0.0 +"Uncovered all the Abyss, and the vast Scene disclosed.",4.0 +For what great Work has Man unaided wrought?,1.0 +"Heaven gives the Means, and Heaven inspires the Thought.",0.0 +Did not assisting Influence from above,3.0 +"With unseen Force the passive Agents move,",4.0 +"The Body could no more it's Parts command,",1.0 +"Nor Stir the rooted Foot, nor stretch the stiffened Hand.",0.0 +"Without superior Aid, the sleeping Eyes",2.0 +"Again behold; but when the Guardian bids,",2.0 +The Gods do all; from Heaven our Actions guide,0.0 +"Distant yet Near, and over our Wills preside.",2.0 +"We must the grand Necessity obey,",1.0 +Unwilling shall pursue the destined Way.,0.0 +"The unruly Colt may champ the frothy Bit,",1.0 +At length he must obey the turning Rein.,0.0 +"When Heaven commands, it's Folly to deny;",1.0 +"The Gods will govern, and the Wise comply,",1.0 +"Nor strive to deviate from the allotted Course,",1.0 +"They hear the sounding Lash, and bleeding feel",0.0 +To those indulgent Powers Mankind below,4.0 +"All gainful Arts, and useful Science owe.",0.0 +"The Gods, distinguished hence by awful Names,",0.0 +"Declare their Office, and assert their Claims.",1.0 +And thus derived each sacred Title shows,0.0 +"Crees described the Farmer's annual Toil,",2.0 +What artful Rules improve the barren Soil.,0.0 +"She taught to yoke the unwilling Ox, to sow",2.0 +"To guide the brightened Share with steady Hands,",0.0 +"Hence rising Fields their yellow Harvest bear,",1.0 +And wavy Autumn crowns the ripened Year.,0.0 +"To carve the Pillar, and the Dome to raise",1.0 +"Pallas first taught, and Pallas claims the Praise.",3.0 +"She too the gainful Secret did reveal,",0.0 +"To draw the Woof, and twirl the murmuring Wheel.",2.0 +"Men curious tried, by her Assistance led,",4.0 +"To fix the Loom, and weave the thwarting Thread.",0.0 +"Apollo, and the sacred Nine inspire",1.0 +"Strains worthy them, and fan the Poet's Fire.",2.0 +But subtle Hermes smooths the oily Tongue,0.0 +"He taught Athletic Slights, and dusty Toil,",0.0 +"To ward the Blow, and give the inglorious Foil.",4.0 +"Vulcan first taught to mould the stubborn Mass,",3.0 +"To form the sparkling Steel, and flowing Brass.",0.0 +Mankind with all their Search could never know,1.0 +What Natives glide in Liquid Worlds below.,0.0 +"That blessed immortal Power to Man revealed,",2.0 +Where Rivers glide beneath the reedy Shade;,0.0 +"Who distant Bounds to rolling Waves assigned,",0.0 +"And scattered Fluids in one Void confined,",0.0 +"Who lofty raised the rocky Barriers round,",1.0 +And with the sandy Brim encircled Waters crowned.,1.0 +"Whether that God the Name of Neptune bears,",2.0 +"Whatever Names the Deities approve,",2.0 +"May all agree, Immortal Powers above,",2.0 +"Demons of Earth, Those that Aerial fly,",4.0 +"Their sinewy Arms, and shake their dropping Head,",2.0 +"May all propitious guard the Royal Pair,",0.0 +"Thee, Mighty Prince, and the World's growing Heir.",2.0 +"May they protect the Nations, nor refuse",2.0 +"To hear the Song, and aid the aspiring Muse.",2.0 +"Over all the Seas their Food they ravenous seek,",2.0 +And stronger Kinds feast on the injured weak.,2.0 +"Selfish alike each minds his private Good,",2.0 +"All in their Turns pursue, and are pursued.",1.0 +Some on mere Force depend; they nimble sweep,3.0 +"Through parting Floods, and eddy all the Deep.",0.0 +Their wider Jaws a Magazine disclose,0.0 +"Of pointed Teeth, that shine in double Rows.",0.0 +And in close Cells the noxious Treasures hide.,1.0 +"Others with sharpened Spikes are armed around,",2.0 +"Erect the Spears, and strike the killing Wound.",0.0 +"Weak puny Forms unequal War decline,",1.0 +"By wily Fraud they act, and close Design.",0.0 +Such Prudence oft over thoughtless Strength prevails;,3.0 +"Force may, but well laid Cunning seldom fails.",1.0 +"Though soft their Bodies, and their Motion slow.",1.0 +"Unseen, foreboding Chance of future Prey,",0.0 +"Stretched from each Side they point their magic Wands,",0.0 +Whose icy Touch the strongest Fin commands;,0.0 +"Quick through the whole it shoots the rushing Pain,",0.0 +"Freezes the Blood, and thrills in every Vein;",2.0 +"Strikes all that dare approach with strange Surprise,",0.0 +"Conscious of secret Power, a Gift divine,",4.0 +"Thus careless stretched a wide Destruction makes,",1.0 +And wandering Shoals without her Labour takes.,2.0 +Fixed sudden they the numbing Torpor feel;,2.0 +"The Parts contract, the Fluids all congeal.",0.0 +No more the busy Messengers of Sense,1.0 +"Motion around, and conscious Life dispense;",2.0 +"Nor flowing Streams the circling Heat diffuse,",0.0 +But the chilled parts forget their former Use.,2.0 +"In active Course, and curling Streams divide,",0.0 +"They lifeless stretch by sudden Pains confined,",0.0 +And secret Chains the fettered Captives bind.,0.0 +"No more they wanton dive, or giddy roam,",0.0 +"Vault on the Seas, and vex the rising Foam;",0.0 +"Nor backward can retreat, nor forward move.",1.0 +"As when in Dreams imagined Forms appear,",0.0 +"When dreaded Sounds we distant seem to hear,",0.0 +"Or shady Ghosts with silent Horror rise,",0.0 +"Fearful of coming Ills we sweating lie,",2.0 +And willing would from fancied Dangers fly:,0.0 +"Rooted we stand, the Heart incessant beats,",2.0 +And hasty Strokes the quicker Pulse repeats.,0.0 +While ponderous Clogs the struggling Feet retain.,2.0 +"The swiftest Fish, and strikes with dizzy Maze.",0.0 +"One Touch of hers dams up the vital Flood,",0.0 +"Contracts the Nerves, and clots the stagnate Blood.",1.0 +Hid in the Slime the Toad of Form uncouth,1.0 +That Fish is all one vast extended Mouth,0.0 +"Her tender Body wraps, on Prey intent,",0.0 +And silent there concerts the great Event.,1.0 +"What softer Skin, and slower Pace deny,",0.0 +Wise Foresight and successful Frauds supply.,3.0 +"Within her Jaws a fleshy Fibre lies,",0.0 +"Whose Whiteness, grateful Scent, and Wormlike Size",1.0 +"Attract the Shoals, and charm their longing Eyes.",0.0 +She to allure oft shakes the tempting Bait;,2.0 +"They eager press, and hurry on their Fate.",1.0 +"But as they near approach, with subtle Art",1.0 +The wily Toad contracts the inviting Part;,2.0 +Within the Circle of her widened Jaws.,1.0 +"The busy Flocks peck up the scattered Seed,",2.0 +Nor mid their Joy the fatal Engine heed;,0.0 +"Till with loud Clap the tilted Cover falls,",2.0 +"Stretched at full Length the mimic Carcass lies,",3.0 +"The Teeth are set, and fixed the closing Eyes;",0.0 +"The Hypocrite low draws his silent Breath,",1.0 +Expressing well the leaden Sleep of Death.,0.0 +The quiet harmless Posture of the Fox.,1.0 +To distant Flocks she sings the pleasing Tale;,0.0 +"All glad descend, and hover over the Vale,",2.0 +"Oft whet the Bill, oft turn the busy Head,",2.0 +And with vain Pride insult the seeming dead.,2.0 +"He watches, as they move, with guilty Eyes,",1.0 +Ah luckless Wretch! thy Death is too sincere.,0.0 +While downy Flakes lie scattered on the Ground.,2.0 +Parts aptly formed preserve the Cuttle-Fish,1.0 +"Long Fibres numerous branch around his Head,",3.0 +"With these the subtle Angler patient waits,",1.0 +"The jetting Cliff, nor quit the safer Hold.",0.0 +"Less fears the driving Storms, and beating Tides.",1.0 +"The little Prawn, though armed with pointed Spears,",0.0 +"Yet weak and slow, unequal Combat fears.",0.0 +He with the Means of sweet Revenge is blessed.,1.0 +"Within his Jaws enclosed he furious bounds,",2.0 +"Strikes at the Roof, and leaves the killing Wounds.",0.0 +The careless Wolf of tasteful Prey possessed,0.0 +"Regards no Pain, but gluttons on the Feast.",2.0 +"Till soon through all the deadly Gangrene spreads,",0.0 +And putrid Bane the fretting Ulcer feeds.,0.0 +From rankled Sores the gnawing Pains increase;,0.0 +"And now the Wretch his destined End foresees,",0.0 +"Despairing pines, and racking Torture feels:",0.0 +No friendly Hand the growing Ulcer heals.,1.0 +"Oft has the Wolf the bearded Squadrons sought,",0.0 +And oft the luscious Food too dearly bought.,1.0 +"No Pity to the shelly Race was shown,",2.0 +'Twas therefore just their Fate should prove his own.,1.0 +"They wound with Pain, what they with Pleasure fill,",1.0 +"Subdue their Conqueror, and dying kill.",1.0 +"Unarmed their Body, though with monstrous Size",1.0 +And bulky Form they strike the wondering Eyes.,2.0 +"Few are their Teeth, unfit for martial Toil,",0.0 +"Thin set, nor made to seize the doubtful Spoil.",1.0 +And by superior Fraud even Man subdue.,3.0 +"Man is their choicest Food, and when possessed",0.0 +"Of a fat Corpse, they scorn the meaner Feast.",2.0 +"They mark, when daring Mortals plunge below,",0.0 +"Where Pearls are hid, and Coral Branches grow;",0.0 +"Then hover over the Place, and float at ease,",2.0 +"Stretch on the Waves, and shade the covered Seas.",0.0 +"With patient Hope unmoved their Station keep,",0.0 +Till from the secret Chambers of the Deep,2.0 +"Laden with Spoils the Diver mounts again,",2.0 +Nor can the Surface reach with all his Pain.,1.0 +But over his Head the unwelcome Pressure stays.,3.0 +"Poised on the Floods the Ceiling hangs above,",0.0 +No human Force the vaulted Roof can move.,1.0 +In vain the pressing Lid his Shoulder heaves;,0.0 +"His weaker Trust the stubborn Weight withstands,",0.0 +And backward sinks him down to lowest Sands.,1.0 +"If he swims forward, and the Surface leaves,",3.0 +The subtle Fish the vain Attempt perceives;,0.0 +"Still hangs aloof, and over his pensive Head",3.0 +"But faintly strike, and catch the yielding Ooze.",0.0 +As when the falling Lid with quick Surprise,0.0 +"Close in the Trap confines the unwary Mice,",2.0 +"Hurry despairing, and impatient bound;",3.0 +"As well they might the fruitless Labour cease,",0.0 +No friendly Gap affords a kind Release;,1.0 +"Till wanton Boys the trembling Wretch relieve,",0.0 +"Free from Confinement, but of Life bereave.",3.0 +"The floating Roof, and push the pressing Weight.",0.0 +"Stretched on the watery Plain unmoved it lies,",2.0 +"Till swallowed Waves an easy Passage find,",0.0 +And in it's latest Breath Life mingles with the Wind.,2.0 +Thus proud of her Success the spreading Ray,2.0 +By Stratagem obtains the noblest Prey.,1.0 +As in some mossy Cave the Fishing Swain,0.0 +"At Leisure sits, and views the wavy Main,",0.0 +And wait the Motions of the shelly Heap.,1.0 +But cannot long their juicy Stores conceal;,0.0 +"Moisture they seek, and then no longer hid",3.0 +"Loosened they gape, and heave the upper Lid.",2.0 +"The Crab observes, and to the sandy Mounds,",1.0 +"Where polished Stones the whirling Eddy rounds,",0.0 +From the loose Heap the flinty Pebble draws.,2.0 +"Thus burdened, silent to the Oyster steals,",2.0 +And wedges fast the Stone between the Shells.,0.0 +"Divided thus no more the Parts are closed,",1.0 +But all the luscious Sweets must lie exposed.,0.0 +"By prosperous Fraud he gains the envied Meal,",2.0 +And drags the panting Captive from his Cell.,1.0 +"The prickly Star creeps on with like Deceit,",2.0 +To force the Oyster from his close Retreat.,1.0 +"When gaping Lids their widened Void display,",0.0 +"The watchful Star thrusts in a pointed Ray,",1.0 +Of all its Treasure spoils the rifled Case;,0.0 +"A stupid Wretch, and void of thoughtful Care,",0.0 +"He forms no Bait, nor lays the tempting Snare.",1.0 +Whose busy Eyes the coming Prey attend.,0.0 +One Room contains them; and the Partners dwell,1.0 +Beneath the Convex of one sloping Shell.,2.0 +"Deep in the watery Vast the Comrades rove,",3.0 +And mutual Interest binds their constant Love.,2.0 +"That wiser Friend the lucky Juncture tells,",0.0 +When in the Circuit of his gaping Shells,1.0 +Fish wandering enter; then the bearded Guide,3.0 +"Warns the dull Mate, and pricks his tender Side.",3.0 +"He knows the Hint, nor at the Treatment grieves,",0.0 +"But hugs the Advantage, and the Pain forgives.",3.0 +And betwixt the pressing Sides his Prey confines.,1.0 +"Thus fed by mutual Aid, the friendly Pair",3.0 +"Divide their Gains, and all the Plunder share.",0.0 +Men are not all with equal Knowledge blessed;,0.0 +"Man differs more from Man, than Man from Beast.",1.0 +The prudent Mind by studious Labour taught,2.0 +"Wise Schemes pursues, and fines the ruder Draught.",1.0 +Or give to brutal Joys the cheated Day.,0.0 +Are not with equal Shares of Wit endowed;,0.0 +Heaven has unlike the partial Gift bestowed.,0.0 +Some on the Cares of future Life intent,0.0 +"Consult their Welfare, and their Ills prevent;",2.0 +"While worthless Numbers take their giddy Way,",0.0 +"Cumber the Seas, and only serve for Prey.",2.0 +"Wedded to Sense, and fixed on mean Delights.",2.0 +"The Sea's dull Sleeper bids, that shortlived Fish,",2.0 +In Time to kerb your yet unbounded Wish.,0.0 +"Think on his Conduct, and remark his Fate,",1.0 +"In sensual Joys he squanders Life away,",4.0 +Fixed backward on his Head the rolling Eyes,2.0 +"Look up, and might behold the distant Skies;",0.0 +"Mid these his Mouth it's spacious Chasm displays,",2.0 +"Of brightened Skies, and fond of gloomy Shade.",0.0 +"And midnight Breezes rock the murmuring Floods,",3.0 +"When darkened Billows sound with deeper Roar,",0.0 +Roused from Repose he quits the weedy Shore:,2.0 +But the lewd Wretch of ready Meals possessed,2.0 +"Feeds on, in mid of Plenty most accursed,",0.0 +Motion and Strength the unwieldy Load denies;,3.0 +"Till Death's last Pains to fatal Treats succeed,",1.0 +Till his swollen Maw with useless Lumber stowed,0.0 +Bursting at length discharge the nauseous Load.,2.0 +"The Throat to tickle, and indulge the Taste.",1.0 +"But future Pain the lawless Joy begets,",0.0 +A Train of Ills succeeds the transient Sweets.,0.0 +"Continued Meals improve the hid Disease,",0.0 +And treasure up their Ills in tainted Blood.,1.0 +"The Spirits clog, and cloud the languid Eyes.",0.0 +"Ridges of Fat the manly Form disgrace,",2.0 +And too much Fuel chokes the smothered Fires.,0.0 +"Men too unwise let go the slackened Rein,",2.0 +"But they who think will lewd Desires restrain,",1.0 +"Cheque the Emotion, and the Wish control,",1.0 +And shun the Fate of the luxurious Owl.,3.0 +"Foresight and Art the prickly Urchins boast,",1.0 +"To keep the Seas, and shun the rocky Coast.",0.0 +"When teeming Clouds the infant Tempest form,",0.0 +"And whispering Winds concert the future Storm,",2.0 +"They careful fear, lest forced to distant Lands",0.0 +"They dash on Rocks, or bulge on rising Sands.",0.0 +Too light themselves their Motions to control,2.0 +"When the tenth Billows over their Fellows roll,",4.0 +"They Ballast seek, with busy Eyes explore",0.0 +"The various Pebbles of the winding Shore,",3.0 +"Choose out the Stone, and with that steady Weight",1.0 +"Fixed on their Backs, the raging Waters meet.",0.0 +"Thus poised they careless keep their destined Way,",1.0 +Nor the rude Shock of thwarting Floods obey.,2.0 +"How clung to Rocks, when coming Dangers threat,",0.0 +"New Forms they take, and wear a borrowed Dress,",2.0 +Or raise the clouded Azure of the Flint:,1.0 +"As the Rock looks, they take a different Stain,",2.0 +"Perceive the Cheat, or find the false Disguise.",0.0 +"Thus they concealed the dreaded Danger shun,",2.0 +"By borrowed Shapes obscured, and lost in seeming Stone.",1.0 +But when with near Approach the weaker Prey,0.0 +"Invites, her waning Colours all decay;",2.0 +"And Clouds hang low with ripened Storms overgrown,",4.0 +Close in the Shelter of some vaulted Cave,1.0 +"But forced by Want, while rougher Seas they dread,",0.0 +Nature the growing Parts anew supplies.,2.0 +"Twine to the Rocks, or paddle in the Deep.",0.0 +"Doubtless the God, whose Will commands the Seas,",3.0 +"Whom liquid Worlds, and watery Natives please,",2.0 +Had taught the Fish by tedious Wants oppressed,2.0 +"Life to preserve, and be himself the Feast.",2.0 +"Thus, when the Clouds their snowy Burden drop,",0.0 +"And rising Heaps improve the Mountain's Top,",0.0 +"And creeping Ice confines the lessened Streams,",0.0 +"Hides in his Den, nor hunts abroad for Prey:",0.0 +"Sullen he lays him down, with busy Toil",3.0 +"Licks his large Feet, and sucks the fattening Oil.",3.0 +"Till with fresh Sap the withered Plant revives,",2.0 +"Till lengthened Days the Bands of Winter loose,",0.0 +"Then he to Woods returns, with tender Feet",0.0 +"In Wars alternate, with embittered Rage,",3.0 +"Mutual their Fate, reciprocal the Wound;",2.0 +"By Turns they kill, and scatter Deaths around.",0.0 +"Each to the other is a grateful Feast,",1.0 +Successively they treat the unwelcome Guest.,3.0 +Must to hereditary Hate succeed.,1.0 +"From the moist Crannies, or the winding Cave",3.0 +"Roaming abroad for Prey, the Lamprey sees",2.0 +"Rapt with glad Hopes she feeds her wistful Eyes,",3.0 +Now from the rising Beach he listening hears,0.0 +"The rolling Floods, now shuddering looks around,",3.0 +When troubled Waves with nearer Murmurs sound.,0.0 +"The joyful Lamprey winds along the Flood,",0.0 +And in glad Thought enjoys the coming Food:,1.0 +Bounding she mounts all eager on the Chase;,3.0 +Escape her Rage; He must unwilling try,0.0 +"War's doubtful Chance, and with hard Doom comply.",3.0 +Born on high Waves the slippery Foe commands,3.0 +"The nearer Shore, and darts on yielding Sands.",0.0 +"No Time to fly, no Hopes of coming Aid,",2.0 +While murderous Teeth his tender Flesh invade.,2.0 +"Down her wide Throat, now round her Tail they fold,",1.0 +"To force her back, and break the fastened hold.",0.0 +All Parts in vain are tried; her slippery Train,0.0 +"Eludes his Touch, and mocks the fruitless Pain.",0.0 +So when contending Wrestlers twine around,0.0 +"In close Embrace, and beat the trampled Ground,",0.0 +And grasp the adverse Arm with dusty Hand;,1.0 +"Their cautious Feet incessant tread the Round,",0.0 +"Meet in rude Shock, and undistinguished sound;",3.0 +"With various Shifts each others Skill perplex,",2.0 +But less indulgent Fate Success denies.,0.0 +"Remorseless Teeth, and give the cruel Joy.",0.0 +"Along the Sands the panting Pieces reek,",0.0 +And even in Death a Shelter seem to seek.,2.0 +"So when the Stag breathes on the guilty Heaps,",2.0 +"Where hid from Cold the wily Serpent sleeps,",0.0 +"That wondrous Spell will rouse the crested Snake,",0.0 +"His speckled Form, and hides his secret Fears.",0.0 +"Resolved the Stag his fixed Design pursues,",0.0 +"Gripes fast the Wretch, and gives the killing Bruise.",1.0 +"The Snake impatient winds his twisted Train,",0.0 +And knotted Wreaths express the wringing Pain.,0.0 +Now on his Neck the glossy Circle shines.,0.0 +And hide in borrowed Forms the Fishy Shape.,1.0 +All are besides deceived; to her alone,2.0 +Whom most he dreads his Artifice is known;,1.0 +"Her curious Thought the mimic Secret learns,",2.0 +"With scornful Smile the Lamprey seems to speak,",0.0 +"TO elude my Wish, and cheat observing Eyes?",1.0 +"Since you so well express the rocky Hue,",0.0 +Enter within and there securely hide;,3.0 +"Or let the Rock it's craggy Summit bend,",0.0 +"But since in changing Forms you vainly pride,",0.0 +Learn Wretch in meaner Cunning to confide.,2.0 +"Thus said, her spiral Circles on she bears,",2.0 +"Hangs to the Cliff, nor will the Jetting leave.",1.0 +"When other Parts are lost, the branching Feet",0.0 +"Maintain their Hold, and grasp the rocky Seat.",0.0 +"So when sacked Towns to hostile Fury yield,",1.0 +"And mournful Streets with slaughtered Heaps are filled,",0.0 +The raving Mother strains with close Embrace,0.0 +"Her darling Babe, and hides his little Face:",0.0 +The Parent's Neck his clinging Arms enfold;,0.0 +"Fear gives him Strength, and knits the firmer Hold.",1.0 +"Divide the Pair, and loose their mutual Bands.",2.0 +"The Dame, mid the wild Transports of Despair,",4.0 +"With Conquest flushed new Wars the Lamprey breathes,",1.0 +In prouder State her silver Volumes wreaths:,0.0 +"But urged by partial Hopes, and vain Conceit,",0.0 +In her last Duel will the Lobster meet.,3.0 +"Nor fears her pointed Teeth, nor winding Tail.",0.0 +"Close by the Cave, where in the silent Shade",0.0 +"The feasted Lamprey sinks her easy Head,",0.0 +"He shakes his bearded Front, with Scorn extends",0.0 +"His wrinkled Horns, and thus the Challenge sends.",0.0 +"As, when two adverse Hosts encamped delay",2.0 +"The destined Fight, and wait the coming Day,",0.0 +"Impatient of Repose, some bolder Chief",1.0 +"Regrets lost Time, and feeds his inward Grief,",1.0 +"Thus dreadful pleases, and with Terror charms:",2.0 +"To Action calls, and blames inglorious Rest.",2.0 +"With taunting Language, and disdainful Eyes",1.0 +The boldest Champion to the Plain defies.,1.0 +"While adverse Troops the haughty Menace hear,",1.0 +Nor will the hostile Youth such Insult bear;,2.0 +"Accepts the Challenge, and the Scorn returns.",1.0 +"Enraged she comes, darts sudden from her Cell,",2.0 +"Seizes the Foe, and fixes on the Shell.",3.0 +From the hard Crust the baffled Teeth recoil.,2.0 +"No Entrance there the blunted Weapons find,",2.0 +At length provoked the bearded Lobster ends,0.0 +"Drives back the Blood, and all the Mass divides.",1.0 +"The Parts all bruised in racking Torture swell,",0.0 +By cruel Gripe the passive Wretch compressed,0.0 +"No Rest the Lobster gives, nor quits his hold;",1.0 +"Restless she moves, nor can her Pains conceal,",3.0 +"Clings to her Foe, and hugs the pointed Shell.",0.0 +"The piercing Lancets prick each tender Vein,",0.0 +"Over his rough Back she twists the fatal Round,",2.0 +"Tears her soft Skin, and gives her self the Wound.",3.0 +"And barbarous Sports the gazing Throng invites,",2.0 +First by rude Din the sullen Beast prepares.,3.0 +"Grins at the Crowd, and mocks the shining Spear.",0.0 +And wrinkled Lips exert their dreadful Rows.,0.0 +"While grinning Jaws their open Void display,",0.0 +Down the flung Spear takes swift it's destined Way.,4.0 +"The yawning Beast a ready Passage gives,",0.0 +And sheathed within his Throat the whizzing Steel receives.,0.0 +"The imprudent Lamprey, urged by fierce Despite,",1.0 +"Thus aids the Foe, and tries the fruitless Bite.",1.0 +And from rude Touch the tender Parts defend.,2.0 +Nor fears the rising Spikes that closely set,0.0 +Over the hard Shell their pointed Terrors threat:,2.0 +"Such is the Combat, when in lone Retreats",1.0 +Of silent Woods the crested Serpent meets,0.0 +The Urchin's secret Track: by Nature they,1.0 +The fierce Impulse of mutual Hate obey.,2.0 +"Approaching War the Urchin soon perceives,",0.0 +And hears the distant Rustle of the Leaves.,1.0 +"Close in her own Embrace she sheltered hides,",0.0 +"Contracts her Feet, and rounds her prickly Sides:",0.0 +From every Part the thorny Bristles rise;,0.0 +"The rounding Ball, and furious Onset makes;",3.0 +"With angry Jaws the ungrateful Morsel chews,",2.0 +While the safe Urchin mocks his weaker Bruise.,2.0 +"Enraged the Foe exerts his utmost Strength,",1.0 +"Resolved he curls, and with a rough Embrace",1.0 +"Squeezes the Ball, and binds the prickly Case.",2.0 +"While oft the Urchin turns, and rolling gives",0.0 +"Lost in his glossy Slough, and speckled Side,",0.0 +Their sharpened Tops the piercing Needles hide.,0.0 +"Hangs on the drooping Herb, and stains the blasted Ground.",0.0 +"Racking the Pain, but firm the Serpent holds,",2.0 +"His twisted Spires, or stretch his lengthened Train,",0.0 +Till dying both are from their Pains released.,1.0 +"But oft the Urchin, by the Serpent bruised,",1.0 +"Escapes with Hurt, and from the Prison loosed",1.0 +"Creeps weakened over the Bank with sickly Pace,",3.0 +"While fleshy Trophies on his Sides are born,",1.0 +"Like is the Event of the unkind Embrace,",2.0 +"Wounds to her self by thoughtless Rage she gives,",0.0 +"But though firm Mail the vigorous Lobster shields,",4.0 +"Beneath the Rock, where eating Eddies round",0.0 +"The shelving Cave, and plain in murmuring Sound,",2.0 +"As void of Care the bearded Lobster lies,",0.0 +"Behind with wary Steps he softly creeps,",0.0 +And on the sounding Armour sudden leaps;,1.0 +Spreads all his knotty Arms; they close entwined,0.0 +"With stubborn Squeeze the tortured Parts constrain,",0.0 +And with firm Braces fix the rounding Chain.,2.0 +"His straightened Jaws the throttling Ties compress,",0.0 +"Dam up the Way, and make the Channel less.",0.0 +"His Mouth choked up no flitting Blast receives,",6.0 +"Life's Vehicle denied, the Lobster dies,",2.0 +"For Fishes too must yield to chilling Death,",0.0 +When ought shall stop the constant Flux of Breath.,0.0 +Alternate Gusts maintain the vital Fire.,2.0 +"But long, before spent with Toil, the Lobster strives,",2.0 +"Now vigorous shoots away, or sudden dives,",3.0 +"Plies his broad Tail, and cuts the rolling Flood,",3.0 +"Oft heaves his Back, and shakes the pressing Load;",1.0 +"Now wearied stays, and weaker Efforts tries,",1.0 +"Now pants despairing, and now bursting dies.",3.0 +Nor pressing Arms their close Embrace remit.,0.0 +"When stretched on Sands the Lobster breathless lies,",0.0 +"And, like the busy Infant at the Breast,",0.0 +Sucks from the shelly Pipes the luscious Feast.,0.0 +"As the cursed Wretch, in hardy Mischief proved,",2.0 +"Untouched with Pity, and with Guilt unmoved,",1.0 +"Hid in the narrow Turn of winding Streets,",0.0 +Dozed with the circling Pledge of unmixed Wines:,3.0 +In faltering Accents hums a broken Song;,2.0 +"Fumes cloud the Brain, and sink the nodding Head,",1.0 +"When sudden starting from his guilty Shades,",1.0 +"The Thief behind with hardy Grasp invades,",0.0 +"Back pulls him down, and gives the gushing Wound;",2.0 +"He groaning falls, and dying bites the Ground.",0.0 +"With Hast the Villain, fearful of Delay,",1.0 +"Strips the warm Dead, and bears the Spoils away.",3.0 +"Thus when the Lobster, lulled by murmuring Seas,",2.0 +"Clings to the Rock reclined in thoughtless Ease,",0.0 +And all his branching Arms around the Captive flings.,0.0 +"These, of all Kinds that curl the wrinkled Waves,",1.0 +"That press the Sands, or hide in dropping Caves,",0.0 +"Impartial Foes, as if they Kindness meant,",1.0 +By mutual Hate each others Wrongs resent.,2.0 +"Successive Deaths the fatal Circle tread,",0.0 +"Attend the Victor, and avenge the Dead.",1.0 +Their hated Mouths the noxious Secret hoard.,0.0 +"The deadly Juice drops in the wounded Part,",1.0 +"Him most the Fishers dread, in hideous Form",2.0 +"And Name agreeing with that reptile Worm,",1.0 +"Whose Sides a double Row of Legs display,",0.0 +That print a thousand Footsteps on the Clay.,2.0 +Like him the Sea-born Monster over the Main,3.0 +With numerous Feet rows on his waving Train.,2.0 +"Through unseen Wounds injects the stinging Grief,",4.0 +"In Spots around the scarlet Venom spreads,",0.0 +"So touched by them, we feel the burning Pains",1.0 +"Itch in the Skin, and tingle in the Veins.",0.0 +"A dreaded Foe to those who dive below,",1.0 +"Where on hard Beds the porous Sponges grow,",3.0 +"From it's loved Moisture bear the Heap away,",2.0 +And bring the rancid Substance to the Day.,1.0 +"When the gay Shoals perceive the prying Guest,",3.0 +"Envious they throng, and all his Search molest;",1.0 +"Bite every Part, and suck the pleasing Wound.",1.0 +"Oft struck they can't forego the tempting Food,",1.0 +Such is their ardent Thirst of human Blood.,1.0 +"So when full Ears scarce hold the ripened Grains,",2.0 +"And of rude Gales the whispering Field complains,",4.0 +The buzzing Squadrons scent the grateful Sweat;,0.0 +"On every Part they light, roam busy round,",1.0 +"Tickle the Face, and raise the ruddy Wound.",2.0 +"The Peasant fans them off, but they again",2.0 +"Wanton return, and strike the itching Pain.",2.0 +"Nor will the restless Swarms their Sport forego,",1.0 +Till dead they fall pressed by the quicker Blow;,2.0 +And shun the Cool of the declining Day.,1.0 +Injected Poison fires the wounded Veins.,0.0 +"Soft Cuttle-Fish, that stain the flowing Tide",1.0 +"With inky Streams, more dreaded Moisture hide.",0.0 +Nor small the Wound like that the Rainbow gives;,1.0 +But raging Pain the glowing Member grieves.,0.0 +"From their cursed Mouths the dropping Fires distil,",2.0 +"Inflame the Blood, and shed the spreading Ill.",0.0 +"The prickly Gudgeon, that alternate dwells.",3.0 +"Or vault above, or glide unseen beneath;",0.0 +"Weavers, whose March the timorous Shoals obey,",4.0 +"Divide their Ranks, and humbly give the Way;",0.0 +"Or poised in Air, or born on grosser Seas;",0.0 +Whose piercing Bristles multiply the Wound;,0.0 +"And, as they prick, inject the flowing Bane.",1.0 +And hardy Sword-Fish wield the threatening Blade.,1.0 +"Nature and Time the growing Part produce,",2.0 +"Finish it's Length, and teach the murderous Use.",4.0 +"Nor burnished Steel, nor Plates of flaming Brass",0.0 +In solid Work the fishy Snout surpass.,0.0 +"Struck with it's Point, the sounding Stone gives Way,",1.0 +And shattered Rocks their secret Veins display.,0.0 +"Murderous alike they ravage all the Sea,",1.0 +"First give the mortal Wound, then seize the Prey.",1.0 +"In this they differ; when the Sword-Fish dies,",1.0 +"Despised and harmless now, the worthless Bone",0.0 +"No longer boasts the Sword, but useless grown",1.0 +Henceforth it's martial Nature must disown.,1.0 +"The dying Fish, and in it's Venom lives.",0.0 +"Man killing Arts has too industrious sought,",3.0 +And murderous Science to Perfection brought.,3.0 +"For guilty Hands designed, the sooty Trade",0.0 +"Mix cursed Herbs, and deadly Juice ferment.",1.0 +"Too curious Search Death's hidden Stores reveals,",4.0 +How Fate in Plants and poisonous Powder dwells.,2.0 +"But of all Ills, that Art from Nature steals,",1.0 +"That Seas produce, or Earth's dark Womb conceals,",1.0 +"No dreaded Stroke, no killing wound like hers.",2.0 +"All Things must yield; the dire Infection's such,",1.0 +The solid Flint would moulder at the Touch.,0.0 +"When rising Shrubs their spreading Branches shoot,",0.0 +"Pride in their Leaves, or joy in ripening Fruit,",0.0 +"But grate the Root, or prick the tender Rind,",0.0 +"The Leaves shrink in, and all the Glories fade,",1.0 +Rich Sap no more is through the Pipes conveyed;,2.0 +"No kind Supplies flow round the porous Stem,",2.0 +"Cast a bright Green, and swell the smiling Gem,",3.0 +"But killing Juices all the Fibres taint,",1.0 +"Dry Stalks now rustle on the Ground reclined,",3.0 +Where Shades once trembled at the wanton Wind.,1.0 +"Or washed by Seas, or nourished by the Dew,",1.0 +Mid all the deadly Treasures of her Art,1.0 +To it's long taper Shaft the fishy Spoil,2.0 +"The Goddess joins, and fits for martial Toil.",0.0 +"Describes it's Use, and the hid Venom shows.",2.0 +"He sought his Sire, till led by doubtful Fame",2.0 +To rocky Coasts of Ithaca he came.,1.0 +Here on his Father's Goats with youthful Pride,0.0 +His fatal Spear the wanton Warrior tried;,0.0 +"Around the Plain contagious Slaughters made,",0.0 +And on rank Heaps the bearded Victims laid.,2.0 +"While careless he the pleasing Sport pursues,",1.0 +The flying Herdsmen tell the unwelcome News,2.0 +"The Chief incensed recalls his youthful Hast,",1.0 +"Assaults his Sire, and wounds his aged Breast.",2.0 +"Through boiling Veins the glowing Poisons roll,",0.0 +And with dire Pains expel the lingering Soul.,0.0 +"Thus He, who dared the Dangers of the Main,",1.0 +And the fierce Sword-Fish rolls the calmer Deep.,4.0 +"Though swift their Pace, though Fate attends their Strokes,",0.0 +A worthless Fly the mighty Fish provokes.,0.0 +"When the cursed Dog begins the sultry Days,",3.0 +"Beneath the sheltering Fin the Insects hide,",3.0 +And goad with poisonous Sting the tender Side.,2.0 +"Ride over the foaming Seas, with Torture rave,",3.0 +"Bound into Air, and dash the smoking Wave.",1.0 +"Oft with imprudent Hast they fly the Main,",2.0 +"And seek in Death a kind Release from Pain,",0.0 +"Vault on some Ship, or to the Shores repair,",1.0 +And gasp away their hated Lives in Air.,0.0 +So when from reeking Vales Autumnal Days,0.0 +"With circling Tail, and wild distorted Eyes",0.0 +While far behind the hollowing Peasant sweats.,2.0 +"Nor Fence of twisted Hedge, nor slimy Dikes",0.0 +Retain the Beast; but over the shelving Steep,2.0 +"Nor breezy Caves, nor Meads invite her Stay,",0.0 +"Though Banks obstruct, and Rivers cross the Way.",0.0 +"She fords the Stream, and climbs the rising Mound;",0.0 +"Dolphins, by all the liquid Realms revered,",1.0 +"Command the Seas, and rule the floating Herd.",0.0 +"The willing Tribes their native Lord obey,",0.0 +"Confess his Power, and own the rightful Sway.",1.0 +"None can in Force with furious Dolphins vie,",2.0 +"Dolphins as swift their rapid Course pursue,",2.0 +"Fires sparkle in their Eyes, and gleaming Rays",0.0 +"Brighten the watery Shade, and clear the gloomy Ways.",4.0 +When Fishes with vain Hopes their trembling Heads,2.0 +"Or wrap in Slime, or roll in sandy Beds,",0.0 +"Mid the dark Shade they form a sudden Day,",3.0 +And all the Secrets of the Depth survey.,1.0 +"When Lions roar, the Beasts with Terror hear,",0.0 +And by their Silence own their passive Fear.,1.0 +"Birds distant view, when Eagles soar on high,",1.0 +And humbly give the Freedom of the Sky.,1.0 +"In shining Tracks, and taint the gilded Air,",0.0 +"Silent below the meaner Serpent creeps,",2.0 +"Nor dares to hiss, but hides in weedy Heaps.",0.0 +Over the unbounded Empire of the Main.,2.0 +"While over the Floods the wanton Dolphin rolls,",2.0 +"All give the Sea, and drive their mingled Shoals.",0.0 +Nor on their dreaded Monarch steady gaze.,1.0 +Passive they turn their Eyes; with servile Fear,2.0 +"But when the Sovereign hungry seeks his Prey,",0.0 +From the known Tyrant all the meaner Slaves,2.0 +"From the mixed Heaps will noblest Captives choose,",2.0 +"Let go the tasteless Prey, and vulgar Treats refuse.",1.0 +"But hardy Troops are found, and they alone",1.0 +"That brave the Dolphin, and his Sway disown;",1.0 +"With equal Scorn the Tyrant's Wrong repay,",2.0 +Nor passive will the lawless Force obey:,1.0 +"Nor wield the Sword, nor dart the poisonous Spear;",2.0 +"That ready strike, and give the certain Wound.",0.0 +"Engage their Monarch, nor his Threats' regard.",1.0 +"When wanton Dolphins from their Fellows stray,",1.0 +"And the lone Wanderers take their private Way,",4.0 +"None dread the Danger, or the Toil excuse:",2.0 +"With firm Consent the Summons all obey,",0.0 +"Press to the Charge, and throng the straightened Way.",0.0 +"So when the Hopes of Fame, and hostile Spoils",0.0 +To glorious Hazard push the embattled Files.,4.0 +"Resolved they move, and all the Danger court,",0.0 +"Scale the high Wall, and raze the battered Fort:",3.0 +War to the truly brave is only Sport.,0.0 +"Allied to One united Force oppose,",1.0 +"Nor royal Birth, nor ancient Fame forgets;",0.0 +"But mocks the Invaders, and their Onset meets:",4.0 +"Feeds with Revenge, and tastes the double Sweets",2.0 +"Of slaughtered Rebels, and of grateful Treats.",1.0 +"But when around the rallying Troops appear,",2.0 +"Rush in the Front, and thicken in the Rear,",0.0 +Rebellion worthy all the Monarch's Rage.,1.0 +Fearless of Danger they at once surround,3.0 +"The Princely Fish, and all the Dolphin wound.",0.0 +With Rage inveterate the restless Shoals,1.0 +"Make at his Head, and on his azure Jowls",1.0 +"Remorseless fasten; on his Back they ride,",1.0 +"Hang on his Gills, and tear his bleeding Side.",0.0 +"Some glide beneath, others behind him press,",5.0 +"Burden the Tail, and all the Fish distress.",2.0 +"Yet vigorous shoots, and all the Ocean rounds.",2.0 +"Vexed with Disgrace, and Sense of various Pain",4.0 +Now swift as sunny Gleams the Dolphin leaps,1.0 +"Through flying Mists, and over the Surface sweeps.",2.0 +"Where silent Waves, and stiller Waters flow.",0.0 +"Remove the Foes, nor give the Sovereign Ease.",0.0 +"They still unmoved their fastened Hold retain,",0.0 +"Drive with their Guide, and round the troubled Main.",0.0 +"Wherever he moves, unwelcome they attend,",3.0 +"And born by him, with him as swift descend",1.0 +"To lowest Seas, as swift again pursue",0.0 +"Repeated Tracks, and clearer Day review.",1.0 +"Thus joined they all one monstrous Fish appear,",1.0 +And to known Shapes no certain Likeness bear.,4.0 +"Fishers amazed long fix their steady Eyes,",3.0 +While blended Kinds their real Form disguise.,3.0 +As when the stagnate Blood corrupting breeds,1.0 +"The putrid Sore, and glowing Ulcer feeds;",0.0 +And give new Motion to the clotted Blood;,2.0 +"Curl up their Backs, and swell their bloated Sides,",0.0 +And by strong Suction force the streaming Tides;,2.0 +"But when the long continued Pleasures cloy,",0.0 +"Senseless they fall, and dizzy with the Joy.",3.0 +"Rivet their Teeth, nor will the Part resign.",3.0 +When fed the weary Dolphin they release;,1.0 +"Disperse themselves, and drive along the Seas.",0.0 +"The Royal Fish, from hostile Numbers freed,",0.0 +"Furious he dashes round the broken Waves,",1.0 +Devours whole Shoals and grinds the gasping Slaves.,3.0 +And blushing Waves their smiling Azure lose.,0.0 +"Flight or Resistance now no longer save,",3.0 +But in Return they feel the Wounds they gave.,0.0 +When prowling Troops of Wolves some wandering Deer,2.0 +In numerous Concert hunt; she winged with Fear,2.0 +The furious Wolves with more than equal Pace,2.0 +"Reach to the Wound, and gain upon the Chase;",0.0 +"From her fat Sides the reeking Morsels tear,",2.0 +"Their harmless Prey securely they destroy,",1.0 +"Void of Remorse, and insolent with Pride",3.0 +"Laugh at her Groans, and all her Pains deride.",0.0 +Not so the Dolphin's Foes unhurt retreat;,0.0 +"A just Revenge the daring Rebels meet,",0.0 +"Their former Insults of the Monarch grieve,",2.0 +"And Pains for Pains, and Wounds for Wounds receive.",0.0 +"Dolphins in Death their royal Birth regard,",2.0 +"Act like themselves, and for the Hour prepared,",2.0 +"Their Doom expecting they intrepid wait,",1.0 +Even then are careful to preserve their State;,1.0 +"Fate's Summons with Indifference obey,",3.0 +"But fly the Depths, and leave the wider Sea.",0.0 +And with rude Scorn their lifeless Sovereign treat.,2.0 +"To wavy Sands they silently retire,",1.0 +"On the moist Bed recline their sickly Head,",2.0 +Where no base Fish insults the royal Dead;,1.0 +And hope that grateful Man with pious Hand,0.0 +Will give his Friend the Burial of the Sand:,1.0 +At least the Waters and returning Tide,1.0 +"Living they rule, and dying leave the Main;",2.0 +Greatness of Soul in latest Hours appears:,2.0 +"Careless of Life the thoughtless Hero fears,",2.0 +And Dolphins thus in Death we must admire,0.0 +Just to themselves; their Conduct is entire.,2.0 +"Careful to assert their Honour, and maintain",3.0 +"Their former Port, the Dolphins dying reign.",0.0 +"Barbels, unlike the rest, are just and mild,",2.0 +"Nor on their own, nor different Kinds they prey,",1.0 +But equal Laws of common Right obey.,0.0 +"Each licks his Mate; by Love the Barbel lives,",0.0 +And the dear Kiss alternate Pleasure gives.,3.0 +The Good and Just are Heaven's peculiar Care:,2.0 +All ravenous Kinds the sacred Barbel spare;,2.0 +"Nor will though hungry seize the gentle Fry,",1.0 +"But give the Look, and pitying pass them by.",2.0 +"The brave good Man, who scorns the selfish End,",0.0 +"Will on no Rights by lawless Power intrude,",4.0 +But to his own prefers the public Good.,1.0 +"Even stormy Seas the juster Kinds revere,",0.0 +And Fish some Respect to Virtue bear.,2.0 +"But All besides, voracious and unjust,",1.0 +"Obey their Passions, and indulge their Lust.",1.0 +"When Hunger calls, they roam abroad for Food,",0.0 +"Pursue the weaker, by the strong pursued.",1.0 +"All the Night long they constant Watches keep,",3.0 +Nor one unguarded Moment give to Sleep.,1.0 +In grateful Intervals of soft Repose.,1.0 +"In some sequestered Cell removed from Sight,",0.0 +They sleep away the Dangers of the Night.,1.0 +From midnight Fears the God of Slumber flies.,1.0 +"Fondly we blame the Rage of warring Fish,",2.0 +Who urged by Hunger must supply the Wish;,0.0 +"When cruel Men, to whom their ready Food",0.0 +"Kind Earth affords, yet thirst for human Blood.",1.0 +"Peace, grieved by Man, to brighter Regions fled,",1.0 +And angry Mars contending Nations led.,0.0 +Ambitious Youths with Thirst of Glory fired,0.0 +The proud Deformity of Scars admired.,1.0 +"Power uncontrolled maintained the wrongful Cause,",0.0 +Nor feared the weaker Force of silent Laws.,0.0 +On his own Altar was a Victim made.,2.0 +And in vile Heaps the sacred Rubbish cast.,1.0 +"Boldly went up, and rolled their guilty Spires.",0.0 +"Statues deformed lay headless on the Ground,",3.0 +None knew what God the dubious Image owned.,3.0 +"At length soft Peace looked back; the Troubles ceased,",2.0 +And pitying Heaven gave the Kingdoms Rest.,2.0 +The dying Sparks of Fury to revive.,1.0 +"The proud Iberian, and the warlike Gaul",2.0 +"Oft did the Rhine polluted Currents mourn,",0.0 +And saw his Banks by slaughtered Legions raised.,0.0 +"Till you, blessed Pair, so kinder Heaven decreed,",2.0 +And steady Justice holds the impartial Scales.,2.0 +"Plenty around her various Mantle spreads,",4.0 +"The God of Sleep, freed from the noisy Dread,",2.0 +On every Bank inclines his drowsy Head.,0.0 +"Gay painted Dreams skim over the silent Plain,",4.0 +And kindly hover on the slumbering Swain.,3.0 +"The joyous Sun smiles on the calmer Day,",2.0 +And little Loves in every Corner play.,0.0 +"May the Good Gods these Halcyon Days prolong,",3.0 +"Give Rust to Arms, and Leisure to the Song.",2.0 +"May, through the Round of long successive Years,",1.0 +Continued Peace prevent our future Fears.,0.0 +"Or from the Imperial Sire, or Royal Son.",5.0 +"Now humble Merit meets a just Reward,",1.0 +Nor will the Court disdain the peaceful Bard.,1.0 +"That throng his Throne, and on the Godhead wait,",2.0 +"May all indulgent guard the Royal Pair,",0.0 +"The World's great Monarch, and the blooming Heir.",2.0 +"Our Wishes must succeed, our Prayers are heard,",0.0 +If Piety deserves a just Reward.,1.0 +"The Heavenly Powers will look propitious down,",5.0 +"By sure Succession fix the established Throne,",2.0 +"SINCE language never can describe my pain,",1.0 +How can I hope to move when I complain?,2.0 +"We love to plead, though hopeless of redress.",1.0 +From whence these lines? whose message to convey?,1.0 +"Mock not my grief with that feigned cold demand,",1.0 +Too well you know the hapless writer's hand:,1.0 +"But if you force me to avow my shame,",2.0 +"Lost to the world, abandoned and forlorn,",1.0 +"Exposed to infamy, reproach, and scorn,",1.0 +"To mirth and comfort lost, and all for you,",0.0 +"Yet lost, perhaps, to your remembrance too,",1.0 +"How hard my lot! what refuge can I try,",1.0 +"Weary of life, and yet afraid to die!",2.0 +"By friends, by kindred, by my lover, left.",1.0 +O! frail dependence of confiding fools!,1.0 +"On lovers oaths, or friendship's sacred rules,",0.0 +"How weak in modern heats, too late I find,",1.0 +"To these reflections, each slow wearing day,",2.0 +"And each revolving night a constant prey,",0.0 +What madness dictates in my fond despair;,1.0 +"Grudge not this short relief, too fast it flies",1.0 +Nor chide that weakness I myself despise.,2.0 +"One moment sure may be at least her due,",0.0 +Who sacrificed her all of life for you.,0.0 +"Without a frown this farewell then receive,",1.0 +"For, it's the last my hapless love shall give;",1.0 +"Nor this I would, if reason could command,",1.0 +But what restriction reins a lover's hand?,0.0 +"Nor prudence, shame, nor pride, nor interest sways,",0.0 +The hand implicitly the heart obeys:,1.0 +"Too well this maxim has my conduct shown,",1.0 +Too well that conduct to the world is known.,1.0 +"Oft have I writ, and often to the flame",1.0 +"Oft in my cooler recollected thought,",0.0 +"Thy beauties, and my fondness half forgot,",1.0 +How short those intervals for reason's aid!,1.0 +Thus to myself in anguish have I said.,3.0 +"Who act the wrong, can never that wrong deplore.",2.0 +"I formed thee melting, as I tell my pain.",1.0 +"If not of rock thy flinty heart is made,",0.0 +"Nor tigers nursed thee in the desert shade,",0.0 +"Let me at least thy cold compassion prove,",0.0 +That slender sustenance of greedy love:,1.0 +"Though no return my warmer wishes find,",0.0 +"Be to the wretch, though not the mistress, kind;",0.0 +"Nor while I court my melancholy state,",0.0 +The paths of pleasure; can I bear this change?,1.0 +"Doomed from the world unwilling to retire,",1.0 +"In bloom of life, and warm with young desire,",0.0 +Condemned in distant wilds to drag the day;,0.0 +"Where beasts of prey maintain their savage court,",0.0 +"For none I mourn, but what I find in thee,",0.0 +"There centre all my woes, thy heart estranged,",0.0 +"I weep my lover, not my fortune, changed;",0.0 +"Blessed with thy presence, I could all forget,",1.0 +"Nor gilded palaces in huts regret,",1.0 +"But exiled thence, superfluous is the rest,",2.0 +"Each place the same, my hell is in my breast;",0.0 +"To pleasure dead, and living but to pain,",1.0 +"My only sense to suffer, and complain.",1.0 +"Say, can thy pulse with equal cadence beat?",0.0 +That upright delegate for secret sin;,1.0 +"Is nature so extinguished in thy heart,",1.0 +That not one spark remains to take my part?,0.0 +"Not one repentant throb, one grateful sigh?",1.0 +"Nature has formed thee of the rougher kind,",2.0 +"And education more debased thy mind,",0.0 +"Born in an age when guilt and fraud prevail,",0.0 +"When Justice sleeps, and Interest holds the scale;",0.0 +"Thy loose companions a licentious crew,",1.0 +"Most to each other, all to us untrue,",1.0 +"Whom chance, or habit mix, but rarely choice,",0.0 +"Who indigent of honour, or of shame,",1.0 +Glory in crimes which others blush to name;,2.0 +"By right or wrong disdaining to be moved,",1.0 +"If not their falsehood, still their boasts expose;",1.0 +"Nor knows the wisest to elude the harm,",1.0 +Even she whose prudence shuns the tinsel charm,1.0 +"They know to slander, though they fail to warm:",1.0 +"They make her languish in fictitious flame,",0.0 +"Affix some specious slander on her name,",1.0 +"And baffled by her virtue, triumph over her fame.",3.0 +"These are the leaders of thy blinded youth,",2.0 +"Morality as weakness they upbraid,",3.0 +Nor even revere Religion's hallowed head;,2.0 +"Alike they spurn divine and human laws,",0.0 +And treat the honest like the christian cause.,0.0 +Curse on that tongue whose vile pernicious art,0.0 +"Delights the ear but to corrupt the heart,",1.0 +"That takes advantage of the cheerful hour,",1.0 +"When weakened Virtue bends to Nature's power,",0.0 +"And would the goodness of the soul efface,",1.0 +"With such you lose the day in false delights,",1.0 +Their arguments convince because they please;,1.0 +"While sophistry for reason they admit,",2.0 +"And wander dazzled by the glare of wit,",1.0 +"Wit that on ill a specious lustre throws,",0.0 +"And in false colours every object shows,",1.0 +"And hurts the judgement, while it feasts the sight;",0.0 +So in the prism to the deluded eye,3.0 +"Each pictured trifle takes a rainbow die,",1.0 +"With borrowed charms the shining prospect glows,",1.0 +"Inverted scenes in bright confusion lie,",0.0 +The lawns impending over the neither sky;,2.0 +"No just, no real images we meet,",2.0 +But all the gaudy vision is deceit.,1.0 +Oft I revolve in this distracted mind,3.0 +"Each word, each look, that spoke my charmer kind;",0.0 +But o! how dear their memory I pay!,2.0 +What pleasures past can present cares allay?,0.0 +Of all I love for ever dispossessed:,0.0 +Hard disposition of unequal fate!,2.0 +"Mixed are our joys, and transient are their date;",1.0 +"Nor can reflection bring them back again,",1.0 +"Thy fatal letters, o immoral youth,",1.0 +"Those perjured pledges of fictitious truth,",1.0 +"Dear as they were no second joy afford,",2.0 +"My credulous heart once leaped at every word,",3.0 +And floods of rapture gushed into my eyes:,0.0 +"When now repeated for thy theft was vain,",1.0 +Each treasured syllable my thoughts retain,1.0 +"Far other passions rule, and different care,",1.0 +"My joys and grief, my transports and despair.",1.0 +Why dost thou mock the ties of constant love?,0.0 +"They only taste the pleasures they receive,",1.0 +When sure the noblest is in those we give.,2.0 +"Acceptance is the heaven which mortals know,",1.0 +But it's the bliss of angels to bestow.,2.0 +"O! emulate, my love, that task divine,",0.0 +"Be thou that angel, and that heaven be mine.",1.0 +"Yes, yet relent, yet intercept my fate:",1.0 +"Alas! I rave, and sue for new deceit.",0.0 +"As soon the dead shall from the grave return,",1.0 +"O! that I dared to act a Roman part,",0.0 +"And stab thy image in this faithful heart,",0.0 +"Where riveted for life secure you reign,",1.0 +"A cruel inmate, author of my pain:",2.0 +"Time's tardy aid, nor dare to rush on fate;",1.0 +"Perhaps may linger on life's latest stage,",2.0 +"Survey thy cruelties, and fall by age:",1.0 +"No ' -- grief shall swell my sails, and speed me over",1.0 +Despair my pilot to that quiet shore,1.0 +"Where I can trust, and thou betray no more.",2.0 +"Might I but once again behold thy charms,",0.0 +"Might I but breathe my last in those dear arms,",1.0 +"On that loved face but fix my closing eye,",1.0 +"Permitted where I might not live to die,",0.0 +My softened fate I would accuse no more;,1.0 +But fate has no such happiness in store.,1.0 +"It's past, it's done ' -- what gleam of hope behind,",0.0 +"When I can never be false, nor thou be kind?",2.0 +Why then this care? ' -- it's weak ' -- it's vain ' -- farewell ' --,1.0 +At that last word what agonies I feel!,2.0 +I faint ' -- I die ' -- remember I was true ' --,1.0 +It's all I ask ' -- eternally ' -- adieu! ' --,1.0 +"The western shore, with slow, and languid waves,",0.0 +Thy valleys fragrant with perennial flowers;,3.0 +"There, far above, the Pine unbending rose,",1.0 +Along the pathway of thy mountain snows;,2.0 +"The Palms fling high in air their feathered heads,",1.0 +While each broad leaf an ample shadow spreads;,1.0 +"The Bark, reviving shrub! Ah, not in vain",0.0 +"You fostering gales around those blossoms blow,",2.0 +"Affection sees new lustre light the eye,",1.0 +And feels her vanished peace again is nigh.,0.0 +"The Mocking-bird his varying note essays,",2.0 +And charms the grove with imitative lays;,0.0 +The plaintive Hummingbird unfolds his wing,0.0 +Of vivid plumage to the ray of spring;,1.0 +"Then sinks, soft burden, on the humid flower,",2.0 +The Virtues rose unsullied and sublime;,1.0 +Spreads her wide mantle over the shivering form;,7.0 +His high behest the willing heart obeyed;,0.0 +Whose origin from glowing suns they trace.,1.0 +"Love's soft emotions now his soul possessed,",1.0 +"A selfish purpose, or a thought untrue;",1.0 +From mourning love the venal breast divide;,0.0 +"Yet Love, if there from sordid shackles free,",1.0 +One faithful bosom yet belongs to thee;,0.0 +"On that fond heart the purest bliss bestow,",1.0 +"Ah, never may that heart in vain deplore",1.0 +The pang that tortures when beloved no more.,0.0 +"And from that agony the spirit save,",2.0 +When unrelenting yawns the untimely grave;,2.0 +"When death dissolves the ties for ever dear,",0.0 +When frantic passion pours her parting tear;,0.0 +"With all the wasting pains she only feels,",0.0 +Hangs on the quivering lip that silence seals;,2.0 +"Views fondness struggling in the closing eye,",1.0 +And marks it mingling in the faltering sigh;,2.0 +"As the loved form, while folded to her breast,",3.0 +Breathes the last moan that gives its struggles rest;,3.0 +"Leaves her to pine in grief that none can share,",0.0 +And find the world a desert to despair.,1.0 +Bright was the lustre of the orient ray,2.0 +"Her auburn hair spread loosely on the wind,",2.0 +Seem deeper hues and richer scents to breathe.,1.0 +"The gentle tribe now sought the hallowed fane,",1.0 +"With love parental, to his anxious breast;",1.0 +Priest of the Sun! within the sacred shrine,0.0 +His fervent spirit breathed the strain divine;,0.0 +"With careful hand the guiltless offering spread,",0.0 +Nor vain the incense of erroneous praise,4.0 +"On wings of purity behold it rise,",1.0 +For soon shall burst the unrelenting storm,0.0 +"Over thy mild head, and crush thy prostrate form!",2.0 +"Recording Fame shall mark thy desperate fate,",0.0 +And distant ages weep for ills so great!,0.0 +"Now over the deep dull Night her mantle flung,",4.0 +Dim on the wave the moon's faint crescent hung;,1.0 +Soothed by the languid murmurs of the main;,1.0 +"When sudden clamour the illusion broke,",2.0 +Wild on the surface of the deep it spoke;,1.0 +"A rising breeze expands her flowing veil,",0.0 +"Aghast with fear, she spies a flying sail ' --",0.0 +With eager eye she views her destined foe,0.0 +Lead to her peaceful shores the adventurous prow;,4.0 +"Trembling she knelt, with wild, disordered air,",1.0 +And poured with frantic energy her prayer:,1.0 +"OH, you avenging spirits of the deep!",3.0 +"Mount the blue lightning's wing, over ocean sweep;",6.0 +"Loud from your central caves the shell resound,",1.0 +That summons death to your abyss profound;,1.0 +"Call the pale spectre from his dark abode,",4.0 +"To print the billow, swell the blackening flood,",0.0 +"Howl in the blast, and animate the storm ' --",0.0 +Relentless powers! for not one quivering breeze,3.0 +Has ruffled yet the surface of the seas ' --,1.0 +"Wave your black plumes, and cleave the aerial way;",5.0 +"Proud in terrific force your wings expand,",1.0 +"Press the firm earth, and darken all the strand;",3.0 +And shun the region veiled in partial night.,0.0 +"Vain hope, devoted land! I read thy doom,",1.0 +My sad prophetic soul can pierce the gloom;,0.0 +"Consumed, and wasted in its early prime.",0.0 +"Region abhorred! be gold the tempting bane,",2.0 +And luxury unnerve the sickening soul.,1.0 +"Ah, not in vain she poured the impassioned tear;",2.0 +"Ah, not in vain she called the powers to hear!",2.0 +"Each sweet affection fled the tainted shore,",0.0 +"And virtue wandered, to return no more.",2.0 +"FLUSHED with impatient hope, the martial band,",2.0 +"By stern PIZARRO led, approach the land;",0.0 +"No terrors arm his hostile brow, for guile",1.0 +To meet his latent foe on friendship's wings.,0.0 +His feathered chiefs the golden throne surround;,0.0 +"The waving canopy its plume displays,",1.0 +Whose waving hues reflect the morning rays;,0.0 +"With native grace he hails the warrior train,",0.0 +"In all the savage pomp of armour dressed,",0.0 +"The frowning helmet, and the nodding crest.",1.0 +And charm with eloquence the simple heart;,1.0 +Unfolding to the monarch's wondering thought,4.0 +All that inventive arts the rude have taught.,0.0 +And now he bids the musing spirit rise,0.0 +Above the circle of surrounding skies;,1.0 +Presents the page that sheds Religion's light,0.0 +Over the dark missed of intellectual night:,4.0 +"While, thrilled with awe, the monarch trembling stands,",0.0 +He dropped the hallowed volume from his hands.,1.0 +"And shuddering demons fan the rising fires,",2.0 +"The bloody signal waves, the banners play,",0.0 +The naked sabres flash their streaming ray;,0.0 +"The trumpet rolls its animating sound,",0.0 +"While fierce in sanguine rage, the sons of Spain",0.0 +"The fiends of slaughter urged their dire career,",0.0 +And virtue's guardian spirits dropped a tear!,2.0 +And closed with prayer his consecrated life! ' --,0.0 +"Shield their loved Prince, and bathe his robes in blood; ' --",3.0 +"And high of soul, receive each fatal wound;",0.0 +"Dragged from his throne, and hurried over the plain,",2.0 +The wretched Monarch swells the captive train;,0.0 +"With iron grasp the frantic Prince they bear,",0.0 +And feel their triumph in his wild despair. ' --,0.0 +"Deep in the gloomy dungeon's lone domain,",0.0 +"The earth's cold bed refused oblivious rest,",3.0 +And with the monarch's blends the lover's tears.,2.0 +"No tear the mourner shed, she breathed no sigh,",2.0 +"Her lips were mute, and closed her languid eye;",0.0 +"Fainter, and slower heaved her shivering breast,",4.0 +And her calmed passions seemed in death to rest. ' --,2.0 +"At length revived, amid rising heaps of slain,",6.0 +She pressed with hurried step the crimson plain;,0.0 +"The dungeon's gloomy depth she fearless sought,",0.0 +For love with scorn of danger armed her thought:,0.0 +Where human vultures haste to seize their prey. ' --,0.0 +"Torn from thy clinging arms, thy throbbing breast,",0.0 +The fatal cord his agony suppressed! ' --,1.0 +"And pours her sorrows over the form she grasps,",2.0 +The murderers soon their struggling victim tear,2.0 +From the lost object of her soul's despair!,0.0 +"The swelling pang unable to sustain,",1.0 +"They come! the mourner cried with panting breath,",0.0 +"One moment more, you bloody forms, bestow,",0.0 +One moment more for ever cares my woe ' --,0.0 +Lo! where the purple evening sheds her light,0.0 +"On blessed remains! OH! hide them, pitying night!",3.0 +That shrouds with tufted grass my lover's grave;,0.0 +"The murmuring gale, nor wakes his deep repose ' --",2.0 +"And see, yonder hoary form still lingers there!",4.0 +"Over his chilled bosom falls the winter rain,",2.0 +I feel the big drops on my withered brain.,2.0 +For his lost child it flows ' -- for me he weeps!,3.0 +"No more the dagger's point shall pierce thy breast,",3.0 +For calm and lovely is thy silent rest;,1.0 +"Yet still in dust these eyes shall see thee roll,",0.0 +What bleeding phantom moves along the storm?,0.0 +Her fears are all for ever lost in love.,0.0 +"Safe on the hanging cliff I now can rest,",0.0 +And press its pointed pillow to my breast ' --,1.0 +He weeps! in heaven he weeps! ' -- I feel his tear ' --,0.0 +"It chills my trembling heart, yet still it's dear.",0.0 +That pale look speaks of pity and of love!,2.0 +"Ah come, descend in yonder bending cloud,",0.0 +"As rolled her wandering glances wild around,",2.0 +She snatched a reeking sabre from the ground;,1.0 +"Firmly her lifted hand the weapon pressed,",2.0 +And deep she plunged it in her panting breast!,0.0 +It's but a few short moments that divide ' --,2.0 +She faltering said ' -- then sunk on earth and died!,2.0 +"Now stern PIZARRO seeks the distant plains,",1.0 +"The meek Peruvians gazed in wild dismay,",2.0 +"Of glory shone, foretelling day more bright,",0.0 +"Where the young arts had shed unfolding flowers,",3.0 +A scene of spreading desolation lowers!,0.0 +"While buried deep in everlasting shade,",0.0 +"And yet, devoted land, not gold alone,",0.0 +"For lo! a fiercer fiend, with joy elate,",0.0 +"Fanatic Fury rears her sullen shrine,",0.0 +Her savage arm with purple torrents stains,0.0 +"Her blazing torches flash the mounting fire,",0.0 +"She grasps the sabre, and she lights the pyre;",1.0 +"Her voice is thunder rending the still air,",2.0 +Her glance the baleful lightning's lurid glare;,0.0 +And pure Religion's sacred voice profane;,0.0 +"Whose law is mercy, and whose soul is love.",1.0 +"And see, fanatic Fury wakes the storm ' --",0.0 +No shriek of anguish breaks its dark repose.,1.0 +The temple nods ' -- an aged form appears ' --,0.0 +Where his meek spirit humbly sought its God;,2.0 +Two warlike youths impetuous rushed along;,2.0 +While in his troubled eye sat fierce despair;,1.0 +"But all in vain his erring weapon flies,",0.0 +"Pierced by a thousand wounds, on earth he lies.",0.0 +And on the youth in speechless anguish gazed;,1.0 +"While he who fondly shared his danger flew,",0.0 +Deep in my faithful bosom let me hide,0.0 +"The fatal steel that would our souls divide, ' --",0.0 +He quick exclaims ' -- the dying warrior cries,0.0 +"The youth replied, my spirit to detain;",1.0 +"From thee my soul, in childhood's earliest year,",3.0 +Caught the light pleasure and the passing tear;,4.0 +Thy friendship then my young affections blessed,0.0 +The first pure passion of my infant breast;,2.0 +"And still in death I feel its strong control,",0.0 +"Its sacred impulse wings my fleeting soul,",0.0 +"That only lingers here till thou depart,",1.0 +Whose image lives upon my fainting heart! ' --,0.0 +"In vain the generous youth, with panting breath,",2.0 +Poured these last murmurs in the ear of death;,3.0 +And gives to friendship his expiring sigh. ' --,1.0 +And mark the vengeance rankling in his soul;,0.0 +He bends his gloomy brow ' -- his lips impart,0.0 +He bids the hoary priest in muttered strains,0.0 +"While yet the lingering pangs of torture wait,",0.0 +"Vain man, the victim cried, to hoary years",1.0 +"Know death is mild, and virtue feels no fears;",2.0 +"Cruel of spirit, come! let tortures prove",1.0 +The power I served in life in death I love.,2.0 +"He ceased ' -- with rugged cords his limbs they bound,",0.0 +And drag the aged sufferer on the ground;,1.0 +"They grasp his feeble frame, his tresses tear;",0.0 +The sting of insult and the dart of pain!,2.0 +"His steadfast spirit feels one pang alone,",1.0 +"No moan she breathed, no tear had power to flow,",4.0 +"Yet ah, her livid cheek, her steadfast look,",1.0 +Mild victim! close not yet thy languid eyes;,1.0 +Pure spirit! claim not yet thy kindred skies;,1.0 +"A pitying angel comes to stay thy flight,",2.0 +LAS CASAS bids thee view returning light;,1.0 +"Ah, let that sacred drop, to virtue dear,",0.0 +Efface thy wrongs ' -- receive his precious tear;,0.0 +"See his flushed cheek with indignation glow,",3.0 +While from his lips the tones of pity flow. ' --,0.0 +"O, suffering Lord! he cried, whose streaming blood,",0.0 +"Was poured for man ' -- earth drank the sacred flood,",1.0 +Whose mercy in the mortal pang forgave,0.0 +"The murderous band, Thy love alone could save;",2.0 +Forgive ' -- thy goodness bursts each narrow bound,0.0 +"Which feeble thought, and human hope surround;",0.0 +"Forgive the guilty wretch, whose impious hand",3.0 +From thy pure altar flings the flaming brand;,2.0 +"The limits of thy mercy dares to scan,",1.0 +"The object of thy love, his victim, ' -- man.",1.0 +"While yet I linger, lo, the sufferer dies,",2.0 +"Whoever controls the purpose of my heart,",3.0 +First in this breast shall plunge his guilty dart.,0.0 +"With hurried step he flew, with eager hands",0.0 +"He broke the fetters, burst the cruel bands.",0.0 +"As the fallen angel heard with awful fear,",0.0 +"The cherub's grave rebuke, in grace severe,",0.0 +The form of virtue as she stood confessed;,1.0 +"Abashed, and followed by the hostile throng.",1.0 +"At length the hoary victim, freed from chains,",0.0 +LAS CASAS gently leads to safer plains;,1.0 +"His searching eye explores a secret cave,",0.0 +Whose shaggy sides the languid billows lave;,0.0 +"There rest secure, he cried, the Christian's God",0.0 +"Will hover near, will guard the lone abode.",0.0 +"Oft to the gloomy cell his steps repair,",0.0 +"Oft in the tones of love, the words of peace,",0.0 +He bids the bitter tears of anguish cease;,0.0 +"Bids drooping hope uplift her languid eyes,",6.0 +And points to bliss that dwells beyond the skies.,0.0 +Yet ah! in vain his pious cares would save,0.0 +The aged sufferer from the opening grave;,3.0 +"For deep the pangs of torture pierced his frame,",0.0 +And sunk his wasted life's expiring flame;,0.0 +"To his cold lip LAS CASAS' hand he pressed,",4.0 +"Then cried, the God, whom now my vows adore,",0.0 +"My heart through life obeyed, unknowing more;",0.0 +"His mild forgiveness then my soul shall prove,",0.0 +"His mercy share, LAS CASAS' God is love.",1.0 +Was heard responsive to his dying groan.,1.0 +"Victim of impious zeal, LAS CASAS cries,",3.0 +"Accept, departed shade, a Christian's sighs;",0.0 +"And thou, soft mourner, tender, drooping form,",2.0 +What power shall guard thee from the fearful storm?,2.0 +Soon in the sheltering earth shall find its rest;,2.0 +"Seek not the victim of despair to save,",1.0 +I ask but death ' -- I only wish a grave.,0.0 +"Witness, thou mangled form, that earth retains,",2.0 +Witness a murdered lover's cold remains;,2.0 +"I bore to live, though life was all despair.",0.0 +"Ah! still my lover's dying moan I hear,",0.0 +In every pulse I feel his parting tear ' --,0.0 +"I faint ' -- an icy coldness chills each vein,",0.0 +No more these feeble limbs their load sustain;,0.0 +"Spirit of pity! catch my fleeting breath,",2.0 +A moment stay ' -- and close my eyes in death.,0.0 +"LAS CASAS, thee thy God in mercy gave,",2.0 +"She ceased, her spirit fled to purer spheres,",0.0 +LAS CASAS bathes the pallid corpse with tears;,1.0 +"Fly, minister of good! nor lingering shed",2.0 +Those fruitless sorrows over the unconscious dead;,2.0 +"I view the sanguine flood, the wasting flame,",0.0 +I hear a suffering world LAS CASAS claim.,1.0 +And wander amid eternal hills of snow:,2.0 +Darts on the impervious ice his fervent ray;,3.0 +"Cold, keen as chains the oceans of the pole,",2.0 +"At length they reach luxuriant Chili's plain,",2.0 +Where ends the dreary bound of winter's reign.,0.0 +"Beheld the hostile sons of Spain advance,",0.0 +"Their threatening sabres red with purple streams,",0.0 +"With pale surprise they saw the impending storm,",2.0 +Where lowering danger wore an unknown form;,5.0 +"But soon their spirits, stung with generous shame,",2.0 +"Renounce each terror, and for vengeance flame;",1.0 +"Pant high with sacred freedom's ardent glow,",1.0 +And meet intrepid the superior foe.,3.0 +Their valiant tribes unequal fight maintain;,0.0 +"Long victory hovered doubtful over the field,",3.0 +That shook the warrior's soul with doubt and fear.,0.0 +"There yet remained a youth of blooming grace,",0.0 +"Who pined, the captive of relentless Spain,",1.0 +"The rankling fetters, and revenge prepares.",1.0 +But since his daring spirit must forego,0.0 +"The hope to rush upon the tyrant foe,",0.0 +"Led by his parent orb, that gives the day,",0.0 +"And fierce as darts the keen meridian ray,",2.0 +"He vows to bend unseen his hostile course,",0.0 +"Then on the victors rise with latent force,",0.0 +"As sudden from its cloud, the brooding storm,",1.0 +"Bursts in the thunder's voice, the lightning's form.",3.0 +"For this, from stern PIZARRO he obtains",2.0 +"The boon, enlarged, to seek the neighbouring plains,",2.0 +"For one blessed day, and with his friend's unite,",3.0 +To crown with solemn pomp an ancient rite;,0.0 +"Share the dear pleasures of the social hour,",4.0 +"So spoke the Prince ' -- far other thoughts possessed,",1.0 +Far other purpose animates his breast:,1.0 +"To lead, with silent step, her martial bands",0.0 +"Forth to the destined spot, prepared to dare",0.0 +"The fiercest shock of dire, unequal war;",0.0 +"While every sacred human interest pleads,",0.0 +And urges the firm soul to lofty deeds.,2.0 +"Rose with its dawn, and panted for the fight;",1.0 +But first with fondness to his heart he pressed,1.0 +"The tender CORA, partner of his breast,",1.0 +"Who with her lord had sought the dungeon's gloom,",0.0 +And wasted there in grief her early bloom.,1.0 +"No more, he cried, no more my love shall feel",1.0 +The mingled agonies I fly to heal; ' --,1.0 +"I go, but soon exulting shall return,",0.0 +And bid my faithful CORA cease to mourn;,0.0 +"For OH, amid each pang my bosom knows,",0.0 +"Sweet was the love that crowned our happier hours,",2.0 +And shed new fragrance over a path of flowers:,3.0 +The tie that passion seals with mutual tears!,2.0 +While thus in mournful accents she replies: ' --,1.0 +"Still let me feel the pressure of thy chain,",2.0 +Still share the fetters which my love detain;,1.0 +"The piercing iron to my soul is dear,",1.0 +Nor will its sharpness wound while thou art near.,1.0 +"Look on our helpless babe, in misery nursed ' --",2.0 +"My child! my child, thy mother's heart will burst!",0.0 +"OH, wherefore bid the raging battle rise,",1.0 +Nor hear this harmless sufferers feeble cries?,2.0 +"Look on those blades that pour a crimson flood,",0.0 +And plunge their cruel edge in infant blood!,0.0 +She could no more ' -- he sees with tender pain,0.0 +"Her grief, and leads her to a sheltering fane.",3.0 +"Now high in air his feathered standard waves,",1.0 +And soon from shrouding woods and hollow caves,0.0 +Arrest the torrent in its raging course;,0.0 +And half their captive city soon regain.,0.0 +"But now he shuns the Andes' frozen snows,",0.0 +"As over the sultry waste they slowly move,",2.0 +The keenest pang of raging thirst they prove;,0.0 +That shrinks the vernal bud and dries the stream;,0.0 +"While horror, as his giant stature grows,",1.0 +While death oft barred the sinking warrior's way;,1.0 +"At length the chief divides his martial force,",0.0 +And bids ALPHONSO by a separate course,1.0 +Lead over the hideous desert half his train ' --,5.0 +The pains of lessened numbers may appease;,1.0 +Or heaven in pity from some genial shower,1.0 +On the parched lip one precious drop may pour.,2.0 +"Not far the troops of young ALPHONSO went,",0.0 +When sudden from a rising hill's ascent,1.0 +"They view a valley fed by fertile springs,",0.0 +Which Andes from his snowy summit flings;,1.0 +"And wildly bloom, a waste by beauty spread.",0.0 +And now ALPHONSO and his martial band,1.0 +On the rich border of the valley stand;,3.0 +"Then give to balmy rest the night's still hours,",1.0 +Fanned by the cooling gale that shuts the flowers.,0.0 +"Soon as the purple beam of morning glows,",0.0 +"Refreshed from all their toils, the warriors rose;",0.0 +And saw the gentle natives of the mead,1.0 +"Search the clear currents for the golden seed,",4.0 +Which from the mountain's height with headlong sweep,1.0 +The torrents bear in many a shining heap;,2.0 +"Over those fair lawns to pour a sanguine flood,",2.0 +And die those lucid streams with guiltless blood.,0.0 +"Thus while the hummingbird, in beauty dressed,",0.0 +"Enchanting offspring of the ardent west,",2.0 +"Mild as the murmurs of the morning dove,",1.0 +"While his rich plumage glows with brighter hues,",2.0 +"And with soft bill he sips the scented dews,",2.0 +"The savage condor on terrific wings,",1.0 +"And, quivering in his fangs, his helpless prey",1.0 +"Drops his weak wing, and sighs his soul away.",3.0 +"IN this sweet scene, to all the virtues kind,",2.0 +For over his tuneful breast the heavenly muse,4.0 +Shed from her sacred spring inspiring dews;,0.0 +She loves to breathe her hallowed strain where art,0.0 +"Has never veiled the soul, or warped the heart;",0.0 +"Where fancy glows with all her native fire,",0.0 +And passion lives on the exulting lyre.,1.0 +"He loved the languid sigh the zephyr pours,",0.0 +He loved the placid rill that feeds the flowers ' --,0.0 +"But more the hollow sound the wild winds form,",1.0 +When black upon the billow hangs the storm;,0.0 +"The torrent rolling from the mountain steep,",1.0 +Its white foam trembling on the darkened deep ' --,2.0 +And oft on Andes' heights with earnest gaze,0.0 +He viewed the sinking sun's reflected rays,0.0 +"Rose in the vale, and languished in the bower;",0.0 +"Whose song was nature, and whose theme was love.",1.0 +"Ah stay, you tender hours of young delight,",0.0 +"Suspend, you moments, your impatient flight;",1.0 +Prolong the charm when passion's pure control,0.0 +Unfolds the first affections of the soul!,1.0 +Who still in wisdom and in mercy swayed.,1.0 +From him the dear illusions long had fled,1.0 +That over the morn of life enchantment shed;,2.0 +"But virtue's calm remembrance cheered his breast,",0.0 +"And life was joy serene, and death was rest:",0.0 +"Bright is the blushing Summer's glowing ray,",0.0 +"Roll the fierce eye, and shake the pointed lance.",3.0 +The hoary chief to the dire conflict leads,0.0 +While destined all the bitterness to prove,1.0 +"Of anxious duty and of mourning love,",1.0 +"Now pierced by wounds, and breathless from the fight,",2.0 +"Her friend, the valiant OMAR, struck her sight: ' --",0.0 +"OMAR, she cried, you bleed, unhappy youth!",2.0 +And sure that look unfolds some fatal truth;,0.0 +"Speak, pitying speak, my frantic fears forgive,",3.0 +"All, all is lost! the dying OMAR said,",0.0 +"I saw thy aged sire a captive bound,",2.0 +"He could no more, he yields his fleeting breath,",0.0 +While all in vain she seeks repose in death.,0.0 +"But OH, how far each other pang above",0.0 +"That woe, for which in vain would comfort shed",0.0 +"Her healing balm, or time in pity spread",0.0 +"The veil that throws a shade over other care,",3.0 +"For here, and here alone, profound despair",0.0 +"Casts over the suffering soul a lasting gloom,",3.0 +And slowly leads her victim to the tomb.,1.0 +"Now rude tumultuous sounds assail her ear,",4.0 +"Then, as with lingering step he moved along,",0.0 +She saw her father amid the captive throng;,2.0 +"She saw with dire dismay, she wildly flew,",0.0 +Her snowy arms around his form she threw; ' --,0.0 +He bleeds! she cries; I hear his moan of pain!,0.0 +My father will not bear the galling chain!,1.0 +"Cruel ALPHONSO, let not helpless age",0.0 +"Feel thy hard yoke, and meet thy barbarous rage;",5.0 +"Or, OH, if ever mercy moved thy soul,",0.0 +"If ever thou hast felt her blessed control,",1.0 +"Grant my sad heart's desire, and let me share",3.0 +The fetters which a father ill can bear.,0.0 +"While the young warrior, as she faltering spoke,",5.0 +With fixed attention and with ardent look,1.0 +"Hung on her tender glance, that love inspires,",0.0 +The rage of conquest yields to milder fires.,0.0 +"Yet as he gazed enraptured on her form,",1.0 +Her virtues awe the heart her beauties warm;,0.0 +"And while impassioned tones his love reveal,",0.0 +He asks with holy rites his vows to seal.,0.0 +"This bleeding heart, this trembling hand to thine?",0.0 +"To thine, whose ruthless heart has caused my pains,",1.0 +"That pang shall death, shall death alone remove,",0.0 +And cure the anguish of despairing love.,1.0 +"At length, to madness stung by fixed disdain,",0.0 +ALPHONSO now to fury gives the rein;,0.0 +"And with relentless mandate dooms her sire,",2.0 +Stretched on the bed of torture to expire;,1.0 +"But OH, what form of language can impart",1.0 +"When to the height of hopeless sorrow wrought,",0.0 +"The fainting spirit feels a pang of thought,",0.0 +"Which, never painted in the hues of speech,",0.0 +"Lives at the soul, and mocks expression's reach!",0.0 +"At length she faltering cried, the conflict's over,",2.0 +"My heart, my breaking heart can bear no more!",1.0 +"Yet spare his feeble age ' -- my vows receive,",0.0 +"And OH, in mercy bid my father live!",0.0 +"Yes, cruel! ' -- see, he dies! my father dies! ' --",1.0 +"Save, save my father! ' -- Dear, unhappy maid,",1.0 +"The charmed ALPHONSO cried, be swift obeyed ' --",0.0 +"Placed near his child, thy aged sire shall share",1.0 +"Our joys, still cherished by thy tender care. ' --",2.0 +"No more, she cried, will fate that bliss allow;",0.0 +"Before my lips shall breathe the impartial vow,",2.0 +Some faithful guide shall lead his aged feet,0.0 +To distant scenes that yield a safe retreat;,0.0 +"Where some soft heart, some gentle hand will shed",1.0 +The drops of comfort on his hoary head.,1.0 +"Forgive! ' -- she ceased, and shed no more a tear.",1.0 +Near the cool shelter of a waving wood;,3.0 +"But now the gales that bend its foliage die,",0.0 +Soft on the silver turf its shadows lie;,1.0 +"While slowly wandering over the vale below,",4.0 +The gazing moon looked pale as silent woe.,1.0 +"The sacred shade, amid whose fragrant bowers",0.0 +"Poured to the lunar orb his magic lay,",0.0 +"More mild, more pensive than her musing ray,",1.0 +"That shade with trembling step the mourner sought,",0.0 +"And thus she breathed her tender, plaintive thought: ' --",0.0 +"Ah where, dear object of these piercing pains,",0.0 +"Where rests thy murdered form, thy Loved remains?",0.0 +And dropped thy last cold tear upon my heart!,1.0 +"A pang less bitter then would waste this breast,",1.0 +That in the grave alone shall seek its rest.,0.0 +Soon as some friendly hand in mercy leads,0.0 +"My aged father safe to Chili's meads,",0.0 +"Death shall for ever seal the nuptial tie,",0.0 +The heart beloved by thee is fixed to die. ' --,1.0 +"She ceased, when dimly through her flowing tears",1.0 +"It's he! she cries, he moves upon the gale!",1.0 +"I faint ' -- his arms receive her sinking frame, ' --",0.0 +He calls his love by every tender name;,0.0 +He stays her fleeting spirit ' -- life anew,0.0 +"I senseless lay, some child of pity bound",0.0 +"My bleeding wounds, and bore me from the plain, ' --",1.0 +"But thou art lost, and I have lived in vain!",2.0 +"Forgive, she cried, in accents of despair,",1.0 +"The mild reproach that fills thy mournful eye,",0.0 +Could I behold my aged sire endure,3.0 +The pains his wretched child had power to cure?,2.0 +"Still, still my father, stretched in death, I see,",1.0 +His grey locks trembling while he gazed on me;,1.0 +Some listening foe may pitiless deny,1.0 +"This parting hour ' -- hark, sure some step I hear,",3.0 +"She paused, when sudden from the sheltering wood",3.0 +A venerable form before them stood:,1.0 +"Fear not, soft maid, he cried, nor think I come",3.0 +To seal with deeper miseries thy doom;,1.0 +"Ah, not for this LAS CASAS hither bends ' --",4.0 +"He comes to bid those rising sorrows cease,",0.0 +To pour upon thy wounds the balm of peace.,0.0 +"Through scenes of death, to Chili's verdant plain;",0.0 +"Their wish to bathe that verdant plain in gore,",0.0 +Then from its bosom drag the golden over:,0.0 +"But mine to cheque the stream of human blood,",1.0 +Or mingle drops of pity with the flood;,1.0 +This languid frame was stretched upon the bed,0.0 +"Of pale disease; when, helpless and alone,",1.0 +"With eager fondness round my couch they drew,",0.0 +"The cares of pity, and the toils of love ' --",1.0 +And softly bore me over its dreary waste;,2.0 +"Then parting, at my feet they bend, and clasp",0.0 +These aged knees ' -- my soul yet feels their grasp!,0.0 +"Now over the vale with painful step I strayed,",3.0 +"And reach this sheltering grove; here, hapless maid,",2.0 +"My listening ear has caught thy piercing wail,",0.0 +My heart has trembled to thy moving tale. ' --,1.0 +"And art thou he? the mournful pair exclaim,",1.0 +"Spirit benign, who every grief can share,",2.0 +"Whose pity stoops to make the wretch its care,",0.0 +Weep not for us ' -- in vain thy tears shall flow,1.0 +"Come, he replied, mild sufferers, to the fane",4.0 +Where rests ALPHONSO with his martial train;,1.0 +"My voice shall urge his soul to generous deeds,",2.0 +And bid him hear when truth and nature pleads.,0.0 +While in meek tones LAS CASAS thus expressed,4.0 +"A dawning ray of cheering comfort streams,",0.0 +But faint the hope that on her spirit beams;,1.0 +"Faint as when ebbing life must soon depart,",0.0 +"Before ALPHONSO now the lovers stand,",0.0 +The aged sufferer joined the mournful band;,2.0 +"The storey of their woes LAS CASAS told,",2.0 +"Fixed in the breast, and woven in the soul?",0.0 +"Ah, know, mistaken youth, thy power in vain",1.0 +Would bind thy victim in the nuptial chain;,0.0 +"That heart will break, that tender frame will die!",0.0 +"Then, by each sacred name to nature dear,",0.0 +"By all the wasting pangs that tear her breast,",0.0 +"By the deep groan that gives the sufferer rest,",4.0 +"Fixed was her lifted eye, and clasped her hands;",0.0 +Her heart was chilled ' -- her fainting heart ' -- for there,0.0 +Hope slowly sinks in cold and dark despair.,1.0 +My hapless flame shall hearts like yours divide.,1.0 +And all the wrongs of maddening rage forgive!,0.0 +"These plains, where avarice spreads the waste of war;",2.0 +"Go where pure pleasures gild the peaceful scene,",2.0 +Go where mild virtue sheds her ray serene!,2.0 +In vain the enraptured lovers would impart,2.0 +"The rising joy that swells, that pains the heart;",0.0 +"Looks on her sire and smiles, then turns and weeps;",2.0 +"Then smiles again, while her flushed cheek reveals",2.0 +The mingled tumult of delight she feels; ' --,1.0 +"So fall the crystal showers of fragrant Spring,",2.0 +Then paint the drooping clouds from which they flow,0.0 +"There many a wandering wretch, condemned to roam",4.0 +"By hard oppression, found a sheltering home:",2.0 +Brightening the tear of anguish as it fell.,2.0 +Did ever the human bosom throb with pain,2.0 +"She, who can still with harmony its sighs,",1.0 +And wake the sound at which affection dies!,0.0 +"To pierce the hostile camp, and brave the fight;",0.0 +"To the dire weapons stern IBERIA pours,",2.0 +"Fierce was the unequal contest, for the soul,",2.0 +"When raised by some high passion's strong control,",1.0 +"New strings the nerves, and over the glowing frame",3.0 +Breathes the warm spirit of heroic flame.,4.0 +"But from the scene where raging slaughter burns,",1.0 +The timid muse with silent horror turns;,0.0 +"The blended sounds of grief she panting hears,",0.0 +Where anguish dims a mother's eye with tears;,0.0 +"Or where the maid, who gave to love's soft power",1.0 +"Her faithful spirit, weeps the parting hour;",0.0 +"And OH, till death shall ease the tender woe,",0.0 +"That soul must languish, and those tears must flow;",1.0 +"For never with the thrill that rapture proves,",1.0 +Her voice again shall hail the youth she loves!,0.0 +"Her earnest eye no more his form shall view,",1.0 +Her quivering lip has breathed the last adieu!,2.0 +"Now night, that poured upon the hollow gale",1.0 +"The din of battle, dropped her mournful veil.",0.0 +"The sun rose lovely from the sleeping flood,",2.0 +And morning glittered over the field of blood;,2.0 +Lay cold and senseless on the sanguine plain.,2.0 +And fled indignant from the conquered field.,1.0 +Who tread amid slaughtered heaps in mute despair;,4.0 +"Over some loved corpse the shroud of earth to spread,",1.0 +"No moan was heard, for agony suppressed",2.0 +The fond complaints which ease the swelling breast;,0.0 +"Each hope for ever lost, they only crave",0.0 +The deep repose that wraps the sheltering grave: ' --,2.0 +"So the meek lama, lured by some decoy",2.0 +"Over rocks and mountains, dark and waste he goes,",0.0 +"Till, worn with toil, on earth he prostrate lies,",0.0 +"Heeds not the barbarous lash, and scornful dies.",2.0 +"Swift over the field of death sad CORA flew,",4.0 +Her infant to his mother's bosom grew;,1.0 +"She seeks her wretched lord, who fled the plain",0.0 +With the last remnant of his vanquished train:,3.0 +"Through the long glen, or forest's gloomy shade,",2.0 +"A dreary solitude, the mourner strayed;",0.0 +"Her timid heart can now each danger dare,",0.0 +Her drooping soul is armed by deep despair ' --,0.0 +"Long, long she wandered, till oppressed with toil,",2.0 +Her trembling footsteps track with blood the soil.,1.0 +"Where over an ample vale a mountain rose,",2.0 +Low at its base her fainting form she throws:,0.0 +"And here, my child, she cried, with panting breath,",0.0 +Here let us wait the hour of lingering death;,0.0 +This famished bosom can no more supply,2.0 +The streams that nourish life ' -- my babe must die!,0.0 +"In vain I strive to cherish, for thy sake,",1.0 +"When my cold bosom can no longer warm,",4.0 +"My stiffening arms no more enfold thy form,",1.0 +Soft on this bed of leaves my child shall sleep ' --,0.0 +"Close to his mother's corpse, he will not weep!",1.0 +"OH! weep not then, my tender babe ' -- though near,",1.0 +"I shall not hear thy moan, nor see thy tear;",0.0 +"Hope not to move me by thy mournful cry,",1.0 +Nor seek with earnest look my answering eye.,2.0 +Over the fair valley sudden darkness throws,2.0 +A hideous horror; through the wounded air,3.0 +Howled the shrill voice of nature in despair;,3.0 +"The birds dart screaming through the fluid sky,",2.0 +"And, dashed upon the cliff's hard surface, die;",1.0 +"High over their rocky bounds the billows swell,",3.0 +"Earth groaning heaves with dire convulsive throes,",1.0 +While yawning gulfs its central caves disclose.,0.0 +"Along the vale, and sought the mountain's base;",0.0 +And shun the ruin lowering over the plain.,4.0 +"They reached the spot where CORA clasped her child,",0.0 +And gazed on present death with aspect wild:,1.0 +"They pitying pause ' -- she lifts her mournful eye,",2.0 +"He meets her looks ' -- their melting souls unite,",1.0 +"At length she faintly cried, we yet must part!",0.0 +"Short are these rising joys ' -- I feel my heart,",0.0 +"My suffering heart is cold, and mists arise,",0.0 +That shroud thy image from my closing eyes!,1.0 +"OH, save my child! ' -- our helpless infant save,",1.0 +"The fluttering pulse of life now ceased to play,",3.0 +And in his arms a pallid corpse she lay!,0.0 +"Over her dear form he hung in speechless pain,",2.0 +And still on CORA called ' -- but called in vain;,0.0 +Scarce could his soul in one short moment bear,3.0 +The wild extremes of transport and despair.,1.0 +Now over the west in melting softness streams,3.0 +"A lustre, milder than the morning beams;",1.0 +"A purer dawn dispelled the fearful night,",0.0 +And nature glowed in all the blooms of light;,0.0 +"Then first the mourner, waking from his trance,",1.0 +Cast on his smiling babe an eager glance:,0.0 +"The parting words he hears, or seems to hear!",0.0 +That sought with anxious tenderness to save,1.0 +That dear memorial from the closing grave;,1.0 +And vows for him the load of life to bear.,1.0 +"He journeyed over a dreary length of way,",2.0 +To plains where freedom shed her hallowed ray;,0.0 +His faithful band the lifeless CORA bore:,0.0 +"You who never pined in sorrow's hopeless pain,",0.0 +"Perchance the conscious spirit hovers near,",2.0 +And love's fond tribute to the dead is dear.,2.0 +Her guilty warriors press the untimely grave;,2.0 +"For avarice rising from the caves of earth,",3.0 +Wakes all her savage spirit into birth:,0.0 +Now fierce in hostile rage each warlike train.,2.0 +"While pensive on the hills, whose lofty brow",1.0 +"Overhung with waving woods the vale below,",1.0 +Behold the fiends of strife avenge their wrongs:,0.0 +Conjure his conqueror by the holy tie,3.0 +"That sealed their mutual league with sacred force,",2.0 +When first to climes unknown they bent their course;,0.0 +"When danger's rising horrors lowered afar,",3.0 +"The storms of ocean, and the toils of war,",1.0 +"The sad remains of wasted life to spare,",0.0 +"Chilled by the heavy dews of night it lay,",0.0 +And withered in the sultry beam of day;,0.0 +Paid the last duties to a prostrate foe.,4.0 +With unrelenting hate the conqueror views,2.0 +Condemns the victims of his power to stray,3.0 +"To pine with famine's agony severe,",1.0 +And all the lingering forms of death to fear;,0.0 +"Till, by despair impelled, the rival train,",1.0 +Rush to the haughty victor's splendid fane;,0.0 +"Swift on their foe with rage impetuous dart,",0.0 +And plunge their daggers in his guilty heart.,0.0 +How unavailing now the treasured over,0.0 +"With ANDES' mines, the tribute of a sigh.",1.0 +"Now faint with virtue's toil, LAS CASAS' soul",2.0 +"Sought, with exulting hope, her heavenly goal: ' --",4.0 +It's Sensibility! she stands confessed:,1.0 +"With trembling step she moves, and panting breast;",0.0 +"To yonder deserted grave, lo, swift she flies,",3.0 +"Where her loved victim, mild LAS CASAS lies!",3.0 +I see her deck the solitary haunt,0.0 +"Its odours soft the simple violet shed,",2.0 +The shrinking lily hung its drooping head;,0.0 +"A moaning zephyr sighed within the bower,",0.0 +And bent the frail stem of the pliant flower:,2.0 +"Hither, she cried, her melting tone I hear,",2.0 +"The transport blended with delicious tears,",1.0 +"The bliss that swells to agony the breast,",1.0 +The sympathy that robs the soul of rest;,1.0 +"Hither, with fond devotion, pensive come,",2.0 +"Kiss the pale shrine, and murmur over the tomb;",5.0 +"Bend on the hallowed turf the tearful eye,",0.0 +And breathe the precious incense of a sigh.,2.0 +His sigh has moaned the wretch he failed to save!,0.0 +"He, while conflicting pangs his bosom tear,",0.0 +"Has sought the lonely cavern of despair,",1.0 +"Where desolate she pined, and poured her thought",0.0 +To the dread verge of wild distraction wrought.,2.0 +"While drops of mercy bathed his hoary cheek,",0.0 +"He poured, by heaven inspired, its accents meek;",2.0 +In truth's clear mirror bade the mourner's view,2.0 +"Pierce the deep veil which error darkly drew,",3.0 +"And vanquished empire with a smile resign,",1.0 +While brighter worlds in fair perspective shine.,0.0 +She paused ' -- yet still the sweet enthusiast bends,1.0 +"Over the cold turf, and still her tear descends.",2.0 +"She views, as slow the years of bondage roll,",0.0 +"Thy captive sons their antique garb assume,",5.0 +And wake remembered images of gloom.,1.0 +The mournful object of eternal tears!,1.0 +"Wild over the scene indignant glances dart,",3.0 +And pangs convulsive seize the throbbing heart ' --,0.0 +"Distraction soon each burning breast inflames,",0.0 +And from the tyrant foe a victim claims!,1.0 +"A blooming Chieftain of Peruvian race,",3.0 +"Whose soaring soul its high descent can trace,",0.0 +And leads to glorious strife his generous train.,4.0 +The gaping wounds of earth disclose no more,1.0 +"The lucid silver, and the blazing over;",1.0 +While Freedom breaks the rod of lawless power;,0.0 +"On Andes' icy steep exulting glows,",0.0 +And prints with rapid step the eternal snows;,2.0 +"While, rolled in dust her graceful feet beneath,",0.0 +"PERU! the timid muse who mourned thy woes,",0.0 +"Whom pity robbed so long of dear repose,",0.0 +"The muse whose pensive soul with anguish wrung,",0.0 +Her early lyre for thee has trembling strung;,1.0 +"Shed the vain tear, and breathed the powerless sigh,",5.0 +Which in oblivion with her song must die;,1.0 +Pants with the wish thy deeds may rise to fame;,0.0 +While on the string of ecstasy it pours,1.0 +"WITH such a Pulse, with such disordered Veins,",2.0 +"With failing Eyes, that scarce the Light endure,",0.0 +"I send thee Love: O! that I could impart,",0.0 +As well my vital Spirits to thy Heart!,1.0 +"That, when the fierce Distemper thine would quell,",1.0 +"They might renew the Fight, and the cold Foe repel.",2.0 +"When Persians through our Troops had mowed their way,",1.0 +"And barbarous Shouts proclaimed the Conquest won,",2.0 +Till over my Head to stop the swift Despair,2.0 +"Above my Plume does his broad Wings display,",2.0 +Shows to the wavering Host the auspicious Sight;,3.0 +"New Courage it inspires in every Breast,",2.0 +And wins at once the Empire of the East.,1.0 +"Could He, but now, some kind Presage afford,",5.0 +That Health might be again to Thee restored;,1.0 +"Thou to my Wishes, to my fond Embrace;",2.0 +"Thy Looks the same, the same Majestic Grace,",0.0 +"That round thee shone, when we together went",1.0 +"To cheer the Royal Captives in their Tent,",0.0 +Did Alexander in thy Form adore;,0.0 +"But no reviving Hope his Art allows,",0.0 +"And such cold Damps invade my anxious Brows,",2.0 +But Philip to my aid repaired in haste;,1.0 +"And while the proffered Draught I boldly taste,",0.0 +"As boldly He the dangerous Paper views,",3.0 +Which of hid Treasons does his Fame accuse.,2.0 +"More thy Physician's Life on Thine depends,",2.0 +"And what he gives, his Own preserves, or ends.",0.0 +And give strict Answer for his Errors there.,3.0 +"Near thy Pavilion listening Princes wait,",1.0 +Seeking from thine to learn their Monarch's State.,2.0 +"Submitting Kings, that post from Day to Day,",0.0 +"To keep those Crowns, which at my Feet they lay,",0.0 +"Forget the ambitious Subject of their Speed,",3.0 +"And here arrived, only Thy Dangers heed.",5.0 +"Droop, and retire, as if their God of Day",3.0 +"No more upon their early Prayers would shine,",1.0 +"Or take their Incense, at his late Decline.",1.0 +Lest to thy Heat it add redoubled Flame;,1.0 +And in her Grief a solemn Silence keeps.,0.0 +"Stretched in her Tent, upon the Floor she lies,",0.0 +"So pale her Looks, so motionless her Eyes,",1.0 +As when they gave thee leave at first to gaze,0.0 +Upon the Charms of her unguarded Face;,1.0 +"And sued to those, who more than Pity felt.",0.0 +"And at thy Name alone she sighs, and moves.",0.0 +"The World no Mirth, no War, no Business knows,",3.0 +"But, hushed with Sorrow, stands, to favour thy Repose.",2.0 +"Even I my boasted Title now resign,",1.0 +"Not Ammon's Son, nor born of Race Divine,",0.0 +"But Mortal all, oppressed with restless Fears,",0.0 +"And wept more Drops, than the old Hero bled;",2.0 +"Now my dire Arms the wretched Corpse surround,",0.0 +"Now the fled Soul I woo, now rave upon the Wound.",4.0 +"Yet He, for whom this mighty Grief did spring,",0.0 +"Not Alexander valued, but the King.",1.0 +"Then think, how much that Passion must transcend,",0.0 +Which not a Subject raises but a Friend;,1.0 +"An equal Partner in the vanquished Earth,",0.0 +"A Brother, not imposed upon my Birth,",0.0 +"Too weak a Tie unequal Thoughts to bind,",1.0 +But by the generous Motions of the Mind.,4.0 +"My Love to thee for Empire was the Test,",2.0 +"Since him, who from Mankind could choose the best,",3.0 +The Gods thought only fit for Monarch over the rest.,3.0 +"Live then, my Friend; but if that must not be,",0.0 +"Nor Fate will with my boundless Mind agree,",1.0 +"Affording, at one time, the World and Thee;",0.0 +"To the most Worthy I'll that Sway resign,",2.0 +In every state and every age the same;,0.0 +"With their own folly pleased the fair they toast,",1.0 +"And her that seems, yet is not really lewd;",1.0 +"While thus they think, and thus they vainly live,",0.0 +And taste no joys but what their fancy give:,1.0 +"Let this great maxim be my action's guide,",3.0 +"May I never hope, though I am never denied;",3.0 +"Where Pride and Luxury with meanness meets,",1.0 +"A sturdy Collier pressed the empty sack,",0.0 +A troop of thousands swarming on his back;,1.0 +When sudden to his rapt ecstatic view,1.0 +"Music spontaneously echoed from his tongue,",4.0 +"And thus the Lover rather bawled, than sung.",0.0 +"While locked in Cupid's amorous embrace,",1.0 +"And on her nose he stamped his sable lips,",1.0 +"My constant care and bright enlivening theme,",2.0 +In what soft language shall the Muse declare,1.0 +The fond extravagance of love sincere?,1.0 +"How all those pleasing sentiments convey,",1.0 +"That charm my fancy, when I think on thee?",0.0 +"Nor less by Friendship, than by Genius fired.",1.0 +"Then let her happier, more persuasive art",2.0 +Explain the agreeing dictates of my heart:,4.0 +"Sweet may her fame to late remembrance bloom,",0.0 +"And everlasting laurels shade her tomb,",0.0 +Whose spotless verse with genuine force expressed,2.0 +The brightest passion of the human breast.,1.0 +"Did thy fair form, propitious Friendship, rise?",3.0 +"With mystic sense, the poet's tuneful tongue",0.0 +Which wide diffused its happy influence round.,1.0 +"With hands united, and with looks serene,",1.0 +The attending graces hailed their newborn queen;,1.0 +"The zephyrs round her waved their purple wing,",0.0 +And shed the fragrance of the breathing spring:,1.0 +"The rosy hours, advanced in silent slight,",0.0 +"Led sparkling youth, and ever new delight.",1.0 +"Soft sigh the winds, the waters gently roll,",1.0 +"A purer azure vests the lucid pole,",0.0 +And heaven and earth smiled conscious of the scene.,2.0 +In heavenly breasts the sacred passion sprung:,2.0 +As warm consenting tempers here below:,0.0 +"While one attraction Mortal, Angel, binds,",1.0 +"Virtue, which forms the unison of minds:",3.0 +"Friendship her soft harmonious touch affords,",4.0 +"And gently strikes the sympathetic chords,",0.0 +"The agreeing notes in social measures roll,",1.0 +And the sweet concert flows from soul to soul.,3.0 +"By heaven's enthusiastic impulse taught,",2.0 +His s arching fancy traced the sovereign good!,2.0 +How sweet the philosophic music played!,0.0 +"Through all the grove, along the flowery shore,",2.0 +The charming sounds responsive echoes bore.,0.0 +"Here, from the cares of vulgar life refined,",0.0 +Immortal pleasures opened on his mind:,1.0 +The animating powers of Beauty rise;,2.0 +"On every object round, above, below,",0.0 +"Yet, not to matter's shadowy forms confined,",2.0 +The fair and good he sought remained behind:,0.0 +"Till gradual rising through the boundless whole,",3.0 +He viewed the blooming graces of the soul;,1.0 +"Where, to the beam of intellectual day,",2.0 +The genuine charms of moral beauty play:,2.0 +With pleasing force the strong attractions move,0.0 +"Each finer sense, and tune it into love.",0.0 +"OH Man! what Inspiration was thy Guide,",2.0 +Who taught thee Light and Air thus to divide;,2.0 +"To let in all the useful Beams of Day,",0.0 +"TO extract from Embers by a strange Device,",2.0 +Then polish fair these Flakes of solid Ice;,0.0 +"To Vessels blown exceed the gloomy Bowl,",0.0 +"Which did the Wine's full excellence control,",2.0 +"These show the Body, while you taste the Soul.",0.0 +"Though yet the Excess the Preacher warns to flee,",1.0 +Lest Men at length as clearly spy through Thee.,0.0 +BENEATH a Mountain's solitary Shade,0.0 +"An useful Dame that every Simple knew,",0.0 +And from choice Herbs exhaled a cordial Dew.,2.0 +"Rude was her Dome, and hid from prying Eyes,",0.0 +By lofty Hills that seemed to reach the Skies;,0.0 +"Deep in a Rock the winding Cavern run,",0.0 +A bending Cypress screened it from the Sun:,1.0 +"From its rude Side a Fountain used to flow,",2.0 +That poured incessant on the Stones below:,1.0 +"This Music lulled the pensive Dame to Rest,",0.0 +"No Sun was there, nor scarce a dawning Gleam,",2.0 +"With Age grown rotten, and by Lightning seared;",2.0 +With his wise Visage and his serious Scowl;,5.0 +"But a thick Forest spread its Shade around,",2.0 +"Here no glad Sound was heard nor human Tongue,",1.0 +"These gloomy Shades for Grief were only made,",0.0 +And howling Wolves that scampered through the Glade.,1.0 +Secluded both from Envy and from Praise.,1.0 +"Not so her laughing Moments used to run,",0.0 +When her bright Eyes were like a Morning Sun:,2.0 +Her Flock was then the fairest of the Plains:,1.0 +"And she no less ' -- with Veins of sprightly Blue,",2.0 +"And Cheeks like Roses wrapped in Morning Dew,",0.0 +The Loves and Graces round her Features flew.,0.0 +"Her Mind was cheerful as the rising Day,",1.0 +Mature as Summer and as April gay;,1.0 +"Yet Fate too soon eclipsed her early Joy,",1.0 +The winged Boy that bears the fatal Darts:,3.0 +Henceforth may Virgins better guard their Hearts.,1.0 +The fairest Shepherd of the rural Train;,1.0 +Long time her Pride and cooler Reason strove,1.0 +"Against the Power of encroaching Love,",1.0 +In vain ' -- her Cheeks and mournful Eyes declare,0.0 +"The smothered Passion and the secret Care,",1.0 +"While the dull Youth, whom Beauty never could please,",4.0 +"Ranged over the Valleys with his darling Tray,",4.0 +"All Nymphs he strove but mostly her to shun,",1.0 +And to thick Shades and distant Pastures run:,2.0 +"There the soft Flute his nimble Fingers plied,",2.0 +While his loved Dog sat listening by his Side.,5.0 +Then wept the Fair with Grief and Rage oppressed;,0.0 +"She lost her Crook ' -- her Flocks no more were told,",1.0 +"And her Lambs wandered from their nightly Fold,",3.0 +"Till to these Shades she took her desperate Way,",1.0 +And vowed no more to see the Beams of Day:,1.0 +"Here the gay Roses on her Cheek expired,",3.0 +And from her Eyes the laughing Loves retired:,1.0 +"No flowery Wreaths her faded Temples knew,",3.0 +"No silken Vestments on her Limbs were rolled,",2.0 +A russet Mantle saved her from the Cold;,1.0 +"A simple Cordage round her Waste she tied,",0.0 +And a rude Staff her better Hand supplied.,2.0 +And what the Woods and what the Mountains yield,0.0 +"Of sovereign Balm, to heal a rankling Wound,",0.0 +With magic Herbs she drew out festering Thorns;,2.0 +"To her repaired from all the neighbouring Plains,",3.0 +Nor to one Species was her Art confined;,2.0 +"Her Skill was known amongst the fleecy Kind,",0.0 +And limping Calves her healing Plasters knew.,0.0 +"MORTAL, whenever by Contemplation led,",4.0 +"Here pause awhile, and view this humble grave,",0.0 +"Where no pale statues weep, no banners wave;",3.0 +"Here rests, secure from every human woe,",0.0 +One whose sad fate commands the tear to flow;,1.0 +"Who, in the dawn of life, when all was gay,",0.0 +Where ruthless rocks afford a certain grave;,0.0 +Your pity now is all she means to claim;,0.0 +"But, while celestial Pity, pausing here,",0.0 +Shall kindly shed one tributary tear;,0.0 +Disturb the dust that near this willow lies:,1.0 +"For, though beneath this humble, harmless stone,",1.0 +"Sleeps one to human frailty often prone,",0.0 +Over all the guilt that clouds her hapless tale.,0.0 +"As vernal air then breathing pure and sweet,",0.0 +While radiant Hope shall fix her anchor there.,1.0 +"STILL sing, bright Maid, nor cease the pleasing Charm,",2.0 +"Each Soul subdue, each tender Bosom warm;",0.0 +"Such magic Sweetness to thy Voice is given,",1.0 +"Strange force of Harmony, whose Power controls,",4.0 +"The warring Passions, and informs our Souls,",1.0 +"Soft soothing Sounds, by whose enchantment blessed,",1.0 +Anger and Grief forsake the tranquil Breast;,2.0 +"While soft Ideas rising in the Mind,",0.0 +"Bids us in Love a gentle Tyrant find,",0.0 +And to his Sway the softened Soul's resigned.,1.0 +The listening Beasts confessed the magic Sound:,0.0 +When dancing Stones moved to the Notes he played;,2.0 +"Or him, who bore by Dolphins to the Shore,",2.0 +Made Winds and Waves confess his magic Power:,1.0 +"Thou no less powerful over the Human Mind,",5.0 +As great a Triumph from thy Songs can find;,1.0 +"Love and its pleasing Pains at once inspire,",0.0 +And fix in every Breast the latent Fire.,0.0 +"THY sanguine hope completed in a boy,",0.0 +"Of fine strange things, and miracles to be,",2.0 +Expect no flattering prophecy from me.,4.0 +It's Time's maturing business to call forth,2.0 +"Degenerate meanness, or transmitted worth:",3.0 +Under his sliding course of hours and days,2.0 +"Then, let me see, what my fond wish bespoke,",2.0 +"The lively colouring, and manly stroke.",1.0 +"Maternal beauties, shed upon his face?",0.0 +Is there the frank benevolence; the fire,2.0 +"Sincere and generous, darted from his sire?",3.0 +"The judging Muse, where lines like these must strike,",1.0 +"Will eye the copy, ' -- own, ' -- it's very like:",0.0 +"Point out each virtue, each resemblance tell",0.0 +"Pleased, that the parents drew themselves so well.",0.0 +"GLOOMY and still was the broad solemn deep,",4.0 +"Whose rolling tides for twice a hundred years,",0.0 +"Its frowning battlements overhung the sea,",2.0 +"Where in the fair serene of summer days,",0.0 +"Each answering Tower a neither heaven did meet,",4.0 +And cast its pictured shadow on the waves.,1.0 +"But now, no mild blue sky in gentle grandeur,",4.0 +"Did lend its azure covering to the main,",1.0 +"Softening the most majestic work of nature,",1.0 +"Dull heavy clouds hung in the lower air,",2.0 +"Misty and shapeless, like the humid chaos,",2.0 +Ere God divided it and called it water.,2.0 +"The creatures of the deep forgot their prey,",1.0 +Leaving the upper waves to seek the bottom;,2.0 +"A deadly calm reigned in the stately woods,",1.0 +That hung aloft upon the hardy shore;,0.0 +The mingled music of the forest ceased,1.0 +"Yet birds of night forgot their twilight song,",1.0 +"And every creature, whether fierce or tame,",0.0 +Nor was that creature styled the lord of earth,1.0 +"Without his fear: that secret worst of fears,",0.0 +The mind unknowing what it has to dread.,0.0 +"Fenced in the seeming safety of his home,",1.0 +And dark uncertainty of ill unseen,1.0 +"The sullen watch did lean upon their arms,",0.0 +In expectation of some unknown thing.,3.0 +"Each smothered in his breast his untold fears,",3.0 +"And wished within himself the hours might speed,",0.0 +"But that the night with tenfold horror came,",1.0 +"No cheerful converse graced the evening board,",1.0 +"Slow went the goblet round, each face was grave;",1.0 +"And ere the first dark watch fulfilled its term,",1.0 +"Sleep came, and closed full many a weary eye,",4.0 +"But not that gentle kindly visitor,",1.0 +More wealth than ever enjoyed his haughty lord;,2.0 +Or to the couch of the dejected lover,2.0 +"And cheering glances, making him by night",1.0 +"Nor yet that haggard tyrant of the night,",1.0 +"Tearing him from his heaps of silk and down,",1.0 +"Or through the air by foul fiends goaded on,",3.0 +"Bears him with dizzy, furious speed along;",2.0 +"But she, stiff shrouded in her blackest weed,",2.0 +"And swathed with leaden bands, awful and still,",5.0 +"Who by the couch of the condemned wretch,",2.0 +"Harassed and spent, before the morning breaks,",0.0 +"Whose setting sun he never shall behold,",0.0 +"Oft takes her stand, and scarce is known from death.",1.0 +Athwart the lofty chamber of the king;,1.0 +For he alone felt not her weighty power.,2.0 +A load of cares lay heavy at his heart;,1.0 +His thoughtful eyes were bent upon the ground;,0.0 +"Had sadly sobered over his cheek of youth,",2.0 +That newly blushed beneath a galling crown.,0.0 +"Long had his warlike father ruled the land,",1.0 +Whose vengeful bloody sword no scabbard knew.,1.0 +"Wild was his fury in the field of battle,",0.0 +"And dreadful was his wrath to nations round,",1.0 +"But kind and glowing yearned his manly heart,",0.0 +To the brave hardy sons of his blue hills.,3.0 +"He owned a friend and brother of the field,",1.0 +Who followed to the fight his daring steps.,1.0 +And dealt them death and ruin in his love.,0.0 +"Save that plain sense which nature gives to all,",3.0 +Of right and wrong within the monarch's breast;,1.0 +"And when no storm of passion shook his soul,",1.0 +It was a court of mildest equity.,2.0 +"One distant nation only in the field,",0.0 +Could meet his boasted arms with equal strength.,0.0 +"Impetuous, rushing from their mountains rude,",1.0 +"Oft had they striven like two adverse winds,",2.0 +"That bursting from their penned and narrow glens,",1.0 +"On the wide desert meet, ' -- in wild contention",3.0 +"Tossing aloft in air dun clouds of sand,",3.0 +"Till spent their force, low growling they retire,",2.0 +"And for a time within their caverns keep,",1.0 +Gathering new force with which they issue forth,2.0 +To rage and roar again. ' -- So held they strife.,0.0 +"His spear was hung high in the somber hall,",1.0 +"Whose lofty walls with darkening armour clad,",0.0 +"Spoke to the valiant of departed heroes,",1.0 +"A hardy people, scattered over the hills,",2.0 +"Depending more upon tomorrow's chase,",1.0 +"Than on the scanty produce of their fields,",2.0 +"Where the proud warrior, as debased by toil,",3.0 +"Throws down unwillingly his boasted weapons,",3.0 +"To mar the mossy earth with his rude tillage,",2.0 +Than he would plough the bosom of a foe;,2.0 +"A people rude but generous now looked up,",2.0 +"The son of their beloved, their only hope.",1.0 +"The general burden, though but new to care,",1.0 +Was laid on him. His heart within him whispered,1.0 +"That he was left in rough and perilous times,",2.0 +"Like elder brother of a needy race,",1.0 +"To watch and care for all, and it was thoughtful;",1.0 +"But never had he felt his mind so dark,",0.0 +As in this heavy and mysterious hour.,3.0 +"With drooping head and arms crossed over his breast,",3.0 +"His spirit all collected in itself,",0.0 +"As it had ceased to animate the body,",1.0 +"He sat, when like penned air from a dank cave,",2.0 +"He felt a cold and shivering wind pass over him,",4.0 +And from his sinking bosom raised his head.,1.0 +Through which the feeble lamp its blue flame showed,1.0 +"Show through the night their blunted heads, enlarged,",0.0 +"When, lo! a strange light, breaking through the gloom,",2.0 +Struck his astonished mind with awe and wonder.,2.0 +"As, seen upon the dim benighted ocean,",0.0 +"By partial moon-beams through some severed cloud,",2.0 +"Thick beat his fluttering heart against his breast,",3.0 +"As towards him the moving light approached,",0.0 +"A mighty phantom showed his awful form,",0.0 +"Gigantic, far above the sons of men.",0.0 +Did lightly float over his majestic limbs:,4.0 +"Firm in their strength more than was ever pictured,",1.0 +Of fabled heroes in their fields of war.,0.0 +"As if to draw down vengeance from the skies,",2.0 +"The other, spread upon his ample breast,",0.0 +"Thus far to mortal eye he stood revealed,",1.0 +Save that a ruddy glow did oft break through,2.0 +"With hasty flash, according with the vehemence",2.0 +"And agitation of the form beneath,",1.0 +"Speaking the terrors of that countenance,",4.0 +"A hollow muffled rumbling from beneath,",1.0 +Rolled deeply in its dark and secret course.,1.0 +The castle trembled on its rocky base;,1.0 +"And loosened fragments from the nodding towers,",1.0 +Fell on the flinty ground with hideous crash.,2.0 +"The bursting gates against the portal rung,",0.0 +"And as the phantom trodden, far echoing loud,",6.0 +The smitten pavement gave a fearful sound.,0.0 +"He stopped, the trembling walls their motion ceased,",0.0 +The earth was still; he raised his awful voice.,0.0 +"Thou creature, set over creatures like thyself,",3.0 +"To bear the rule for an appointed season,",1.0 +And visit with extreme of inward pangs,1.0 +"The dark breast of the secret murderer,",3.0 +"To bear the blood of thousands on thy head,",1.0 +And wrongs which cry to heaven and shall be heard?,0.0 +"Kings to the slaughter lead their people forth,",0.0 +"Bearing to every house its share of mourning,",2.0 +And call themselves the heroes of the earth.,1.0 +Thy race is stained with blood: such were thy fathers:,1.0 +"But they are passed away and have their place,",1.0 +Therefore to thee their doom is veiled in night.,2.0 +"Who gave to thee thy form of breathing flesh,",1.0 +"Of such like creatures as thyself endowed,",2.0 +"Although innumerable on this earth,",3.0 +And will prepare his vengeance for the man,2.0 +"And now he sets two paths before thy choice,",1.0 +Which are permitted thee: even thou thyself,4.0 +Wilt thou draw out securely on thy throne,3.0 +A life of such content and happiness,2.0 +"As thy wild country and rude people yield,",4.0 +"Laying thee late to rest in peaceful age,",2.0 +"Where thy forefathers sleep; thy name respected,",2.0 +Thy children after thee to fill thy seat?,1.0 +"Or wilt thou, as thy secret thoughts incline,",1.0 +"Across the untried deep conduct thy bands,",5.0 +"Attack the foe on their unguarded coast,",1.0 +"Overcome their strength at little cost of blood,",0.0 +"And raise thy trophies on a distant shore,",1.0 +"Where none of all thy race have footing gained, ' --",0.0 +"But not that better gain, content and happiness?",1.0 +"For far from hence, upon that hostile shore,",0.0 +"This is the will of Heaven: then choose thy fate,",1.0 +"Weak son of earth, I leave thee to thy troubles;",2.0 +"A little while shall make us more alike,",0.0 +A spirit shalt thou be when next we meet.,0.0 +It vanished. Black missed thickened where it stood.,1.0 +"A hollow sounding wind rushed through the chamber,",2.0 +And rent in twain the deep embodied darkness,0.0 +"On either side, did slowly roll away,",0.0 +"And now the waving banners of the castle,",1.0 +"In early breath of morn began to play,",0.0 +And faintly through the lofty windows looked,1.0 +And lighter airy fancies of the dawn,1.0 +"Till roused with fuller beams of powerful light,",2.0 +"Up sprung the dreamers from their easy beds,",1.0 +"And saw with a relieved and thankful heart,",1.0 +"The woods, and streams, and valleys brightening gladly,",0.0 +"But neither hill, nor vale, nor wood, nor stream,",0.0 +"Nor yet the sun high riding in his strength,",1.0 +"Who wist not when it rose, nor when it set.",0.0 +Silent but troubled in his lofty chamber,2.0 +"Two days he sat and shunned the searching eyes,",1.0 +"Oft in his downcast eye the round tear hung,",2.0 +"While by his side he clenched his trembling hand,",0.0 +"His seat beneath him shook, ' -- high heaved his breast,",1.0 +The changing passions of his troubled soul,1.0 +Passed with dark speed across his varied face;,3.0 +"Each passing shadow followed by a brother,",1.0 +Like clouds across the moon in a wild storm:,1.0 +"The storm subsided, calmer thoughts prevailed;",0.0 +Slow wore the gloom away like morning missed;,1.0 +"A gleam of joy spread over his lightened visage,",3.0 +"And from his eyeballs shot that vivid fire,",2.0 +When the loud trumpet calls them forth to battle.,2.0 +"Gird on mine armour, said the rising youth,",0.0 +"WHEN lonely Night composed the drowsy Mind,",0.0 +"And hushed the Bosom of the weary Hind,",1.0 +"Pleased with plain Nature and with simple Life,",4.0 +"I read the Scenes of Shore's deluded Wife,",0.0 +"Till my faint Spirits sought the silent Bed,",2.0 +And on its Pillow dropped my aching Head;,1.0 +"Then Fancy ever to her Mira kind,",1.0 +Prepared her Phantoms for the roving Mind.,1.0 +"Behold a Fabric rising from the Ground,",1.0 +"Corinthian Pillars the vast Building hold,",4.0 +Of polished Silver and Peruvian Gold;,3.0 +"In four broad Arches spread the shining Doors,",1.0 +The blazing Roofs enlighten all the Floors:,0.0 +Beneath a sparkling Canopy that shone,1.0 +"With Persian Jewels, like a Morning Sun",0.0 +Whose glowing Features would in Paint beguile:,0.0 +So well the Artist drew her mimic Smile;,0.0 +Her shining Eyes confessed a sprightly Joy;,0.0 +Upon her Knees reclined her wanton Boy;,0.0 +"On the bright Walls, around her and above,",3.0 +Were drawn the Statutes and the Arts of Love:,1.0 +"These taught the silent Language of the Eye,",1.0 +The broken Whisper and amusing Lie;,1.0 +"The careless Glance peculiar to the Fair,",1.0 +"And Vows for Lovers, that dissolve in Air;",0.0 +"The graceful Anger, and the rolling Eyes;",1.0 +"The practised Blush and counterfeit Surprise,",0.0 +And fine Description for imagined Pains;,1.0 +"The friendly Caution and designing Ease,",1.0 +And all the Arts that ruin while they please.,0.0 +"Now entered, followed by a splendid Train,",2.0 +A blooming Damsel and a wealthy Swain;,1.0 +"The gaudy Youth in shining Robes arrayed,",0.0 +Behind him followed the unthinking Maid:,1.0 +"Youth in her Cheek like opening Roses sprung,",2.0 +Her careless Tresses on her Shoulders hung.,1.0 +Her Smiles were cheerful as enlivening May;,2.0 +"Her Dress was careless, and her Eyes were gay;",1.0 +Then to soft Voices and melodious Sound,5.0 +"The Board was spread, the sparkling Glasses crowned:",0.0 +The sprightly Virgin in a Moment shines,0.0 +In the gay Entrails of the eastern Mines;,3.0 +"Then Pride comes in with Patches for the Fair,",2.0 +"Rude Riot in a crimson Vest arrayed,",1.0 +"Soft Pomp and Pleasure at her Elbow stand,",2.0 +And Folly shakes the Rattles in her Hand.,0.0 +"But now her feeble Structure seemed to shake,",0.0 +Its Basis trembled and its Pillars quake;,1.0 +"Then rushed Suspicion through the lofty Gate,",1.0 +"And foaming Rage, to close the horrid Band,",0.0 +"Now like an Earthquake shook the reeling Frame,",1.0 +The Lamps extinguish in a purple Flame:,0.0 +"One universal Groan was heard, and then",0.0 +The Cries of Women and the Voice of Men:,1.0 +"Some roar out Vengeance, some for Mercy call;",0.0 +And Shrieks and Tumult fill the dreadful Hall.,0.0 +Again the Lamps resumed a feeble Light;,0.0 +But gloomy Walls that Mirth had never known;,0.0 +"For the gay Dome where Pleasure used to dwell,",2.0 +Appeared an Abbey and a doleful Cell;,1.0 +"And here the sad, the ruined Nymph was found,",0.0 +"Her Robe disordered and her Locks unbound,",1.0 +"While from her Eyes the pearly Drops of Woe,",0.0 +Washed her pale Cheek where Roses used to blow:,3.0 +Her blue and trembling Lips prepared to breathe,0.0 +The Sighs that made her swelling Bosom heave;,0.0 +Thus stupid with her Grief she sat and pressed,2.0 +Her lily Hands across her pensive Breast;,0.0 +"A Group of ghastly Phantoms stood behind,",0.0 +Whose Task it is to wreck the guilty Mind:,1.0 +And hissing Scandal made a hideous Din;,2.0 +"Remorse that darted from her deadly Wings,",1.0 +"Then with pale Cheeks and with a ghastly Stare,",2.0 +"Whose Hand extended bore a bleeding Heart,",0.0 +And Death behind her shook his threatening Dart:,0.0 +"These Forms with Horror filled my aching Breast,",0.0 +And from my Eyelids drove the Balm of Rest:,2.0 +"I woke and found old Night her Course had run,",1.0 +And left her Empire to the rising Sun.,1.0 +"Each weeping muse assist my mournful pen,",0.0 +"To praise a soldier, and lament a friend;",1.0 +"Lost to the world in life's gay early bloom,",1.0 +"The clouds his mourners, and the deep his tomb;",1.0 +"No gentle friend received his parting breath,",1.0 +"Raged round his head, yet he was calm within:",1.0 +"For he was pure as is the mountain snow,",2.0 +Mild as the southern breezes when they blow;,0.0 +"His early virtues blasted in their prime,",0.0 +I'll say what truth does to his memory owe.,3.0 +"Born with a noble, with a generous heart,",3.0 +He knew no wish but what he might impart:,1.0 +"A friend sincere, his parent's hope and pride,",0.0 +His brother's comfort and his sister's guide;,1.0 +"Each manly virtue graced the gentle youth,",0.0 +"The soul of innocence, and pride of truth.",1.0 +"An angel's form, but more angelic mind;",1.0 +"With generous love his youthful bosom glowed,",2.0 +With generous sentiments his heart overflowed:,6.0 +His memory will to latest ages bloom:,1.0 +"To youth surviving he hath left behind,",1.0 +The bright example of a spotless mind;,1.0 +Thou dear departed friend a long farewell!,1.0 +Upon thy worth my thoughts shall ever dwell;,0.0 +"Still to thy shade sweet youth I'll drop a tear,",1.0 +"And ever mourn thee, with a heart sincere;",1.0 +"Ever yet I close, blessed shade! if in thy power,",1.0 +"My guardian be, in each eventful hour,",1.0 +"From thy bright realms o! kindly condescend,",2.0 +"To guard thy faithful, thy lamenting friend,",1.0 +"Still watchful of thy charge, blessed spirit be!",3.0 +For such an office I'd have done for thee;,2.0 +"That station keep, until I reach that shore,",0.0 +"Where we shall meet, and death can part no more.",1.0 +"Of simplest bard; auspicious come, and prompt",0.0 +The flowing numbers; so may Isis lend,1.0 +Begin; what Muse to Isis shall deny,0.0 +"I meditate, till Evening, matron stayed,",0.0 +Her tresses dripping with ambrosial dew,1.0 +"Nor cease I to reflect, how blessed are they,",1.0 +"To envy blessed, that in thy peaceful haunts",0.0 +Hold pleasing dalliance with the Muses' train;,3.0 +"To wander thy green verge beside, shalt thou",4.0 +Remain unsung; while now the hoary Cam,0.0 +Teaches the breathing canvas to express,3.0 +A furtive life; with wonder we behold,1.0 +"Gazing, while on the border of the lip",1.0 +"Stands mute Suspense, yet doubtful which may first",1.0 +"Demand, which last, the tribute of applause;",1.0 +"Thus, Isis, while for thee I string the lyre,",2.0 +"The tongue of praise awhile forgets its purpose,",0.0 +In magic wonder bound; nor knows the Muse,0.0 +"Lost in the pleasing labyrinth, where to bend",0.0 +"Her footstep first. ' -- Say, shall I first rehearse,",2.0 +"Thy sister train among, the fairest thou",1.0 +Skim the smooth surface of the glassy deep?,4.0 +Have storied true to share his watery bed,2.0 +Thee wooed long loving? nor in proud disdain,2.0 +Upon that great solemnity repaired,1.0 +The river gods: all that from crystal urn,0.0 +There first advancing with imperial port,3.0 +Proud Humber came; majestic as the god,2.0 +Whose mighty trident Neptune. shakes the trembling earth:,0.0 +The king of floods; in greenish mantle clad,0.0 +"The servile neck to William's William the conqueror. galling yoke,",4.0 +"At silent eve in pensive posture stretched,",0.0 +"And Eden, famous stream; who hath not heard",0.0 +"And ponderous shields with quaint device portrayed,",2.0 +And bones enormous of gigantic size,1.0 +With gaping wonder sees; then calls to mind,0.0 +"The well known tale, how there by British knights",2.0 +Was many a bold exploit and bloody fight,3.0 +Her virgin stream. Nor on that solemn day,1.0 +Though now adorned with many a glittering tower,4.0 +"Thou, father Cam: that oft with kind attention",0.0 +"Hast deigned awhile to listen, as I tuned",1.0 +"The simple madrigal; nor jealous he,",2.0 +"With musing gait; and teach the mimic nymph,",0.0 +"All as she sits his flowery bank along,",2.0 +To sound the praises of a sister flood: ' --,1.0 +"And can I sing aught better, than thy praise,",3.0 +"Should I rehearse, or those, whose bounty bad",2.0 +The liquid mirror of thy glassy wave,1.0 +"Yonder towery mansions to reflect; or those,",3.0 +"Thy darling progeny, who burned to grasp",1.0 +"Should I their names rehearse, the sun, that now",0.0 +"The ragged skirt of yonder orient cloud,",1.0 +"Would drink the western wave, or ever ceased",0.0 +The lengthened song. ' -- These structures Bodley planned;,0.0 +Bids grateful Isis still adore the shade,1.0 +For he was loved of Paean to explore,2.0 +The medicinal power of juicy shrub,5.0 +"And healing plant, that over her verdant lap",2.0 +Nor thankless he; for to the god he reared,2.0 +In pious gratitude a stately fane.,0.0 +Observes the budding Genius as it thrusts,1.0 +Its youthful blossoms; or with conscious joy,1.0 +Over Britain's peaceful land their goodly beams,0.0 +"Dispense abroad: names, that to latest time",1.0 +Shall shine distinguished in the rolls of Fame.,0.0 +"With pleased attention, Isis, hast thou caught",0.0 +"The dulcet sounds, when in yonder sacred grove,",0.0 +"His lonely step to yonder aged oak,",0.0 +"Deep musing, while bright Cynthia silvers over",4.0 +"Or dreams he sees the Muses Nine, and glows",0.0 +With inspiration strange? There Fame records,0.0 +"He tuned to notes of louder pitch, and sung",0.0 +To build in numbers apt the lofty song. ' --,0.0 +"Whence art thou, gracious Presence? Art thou sent",0.0 +"From heaven, an angel minister, to bless",1.0 +Bespeaks thee more than man; in wonder wrapped,0.0 +"Thus Isis cried, while on her margin green",2.0 +In youthful grace how amiable! stood,1.0 +"Long time she gazed unsatisfied, and marked",1.0 +"With strong reflection shone, the undoubted pledge",2.0 +"His ravaged crown yet mourned; nor deemed, that soon",0.0 +"Would dawn the luckless day, when he must drag",1.0 +"The gaze of clustering multitudes, and deck",2.0 +The glorious triumph of a British boy. ' --,3.0 +"Nor, while yonder fair aspiring domes adorn",0.0 +"Thy verge, OH Isis, shall unmentioned pass",1.0 +"Alfred, auspicious name: say, goddess say,",3.0 +"Advanced, not graceful less, than on the top",1.0 +"In mildest majesty: beside him went,",1.0 +Of wondrous reverence; on his broad smooth front,2.0 +The laurel graced his temples: in his hand,0.0 +And oft with cunning finger was he wont,1.0 +"To rove along the sounding strings, and lift",0.0 +"To the heaven of rapture ' -- OH how sweet thy charms,",0.0 +Advanced he seemed; yet on the cheek of age,1.0 +"Upright he stepped in stately mien, and breathed",0.0 +Amiable dignity: such seemed of yore,2.0 +"He dwelled with Janus, hospitable king.",5.0 +"Well knew, what was, what is, what is to come,",1.0 +The reverend Sage; and wisely could he treat,0.0 +"Of justice, truth, and universal love",0.0 +"From man to man; and mark the limits, when",0.0 +Virtue is virtue; when its mad excess,2.0 +Strays headlong into vice: he too could tell,3.0 +How moves the planet in harmonious dance,2.0 +Its central sun around: whence Iris steals,0.0 +"The bright variety of hues, that fringe",1.0 +Her humid bow; how springs of night and day,0.0 +The due vicissitude; why over the earth,4.0 +Circling the year with grateful interchange,1.0 +The wandering seasons roll; of higher things,2.0 +"That beams to day, tomorrow, and for ever,",2.0 +And nature's God full well could he discourse.,1.0 +Him gracious Heaven in pity to mankind,2.0 +"He settled, there where proud Euphrates rolls",1.0 +"Long choosing, softened with refinements meet",2.0 +"The savage genius of mankind, and taught",2.0 +"With awful laws to kerb licentious guilt,",0.0 +The peaceful league of blessed society,1.0 +Him Greece from thence with open arms embraced,0.0 +A welcome guest: but chief he loved to haunt,0.0 +The porch of Academe; where mildly beamed,0.0 +The modest wisdom of good Socrates;,1.0 +Was Science honoured less; since there had come,1.0 +"Over many a distant realm had stretched his search,",2.0 +And climates warmed beneath another sun.,0.0 +"The swelling back of Ocean, till he gained",1.0 +"Can Learning thrive, if Freedom shall deny",0.0 +To cherish with mild ray the rising flower;,2.0 +"To Albion isle he came, what time was sheathed",2.0 +"And led him forth, where through the flowery meads",3.0 +The silver Isis winds her liquid maze.,0.0 +When thus the royal goodness spoke benign:,0.0 +Thy favourite mansion; here to latest times,0.0 +Instruct thy sons nor think that Britons bear,0.0 +In soft humanity thy secret stores,1.0 +"To pierce with curious diligence, and snatch",3.0 +"Each fair perfection, each excelling art,",0.0 +"And all, that profits or delights mankind;",2.0 +Here as reclining on the peaceful lap,2.0 +"Of Leisure not inglorious, they delight",3.0 +To muse in calm Retirement's lonely haunt,0.0 +To rise from nature up to nature's God.,1.0 +How happy they! whom thou shalt give to tread,3.0 +"The pleasant paths of knowledge, and to weave",1.0 +"He ceased, with look mild as when Phoebus sheds",2.0 +His hoary reverence: With peculiar love,3.0 +"Sure heaven then looks he cried on mortals down,",2.0 +"When kings, like Alfred, rise; whose patriot souls",2.0 +Still centre in a nation's good; who live,1.0 +By glorious works to make their country great:,2.0 +"With conscious pride, how far his native land",0.0 +"Of polished Athens, and imperial Rome",3.0 +"Shall bless the name of Alfred; and relate,",1.0 +Led Science there where through the flowery meads,5.0 +Her liquid maze the silver Isis winds ' --,0.0 +"Nor shalt thou, hospitable flood, where now",5.0 +"I stay my wandering feet, a stranger guest,",2.0 +"Full oft shalt thou in silent joy behold,",1.0 +"With energy of song; and sages wise,",1.0 +"And statesmen, patriot souls, with merit fraught",2.0 +And virtue more than Roman. ' -- Here shall rise,0.0 +"Staggered the pedant's pride, and slipped the grasp",2.0 +"The tenfold gloom, which darkening logic spread,",1.0 +Scatter abroad the cheering beam of light. ' --,2.0 +"These are the glories, that with influence sweet",3.0 +"Shall gild thy shores, blessed Isis: these are they,",2.0 +With homage due that each revolving year,0.0 +The pledge of gratitude and filial love.,2.0 +'TWAS when the Fields had shed their golden Grain.,0.0 +And burning Suns had seared the russet Plain;,0.0 +"No more the Rose nor Hyacinth were seen,",0.0 +Nor yellow Cowslip on the tufted Green:,1.0 +"But the rude Thistle reared its hoary Crown,",2.0 +And the ripe Nettle showed an irksome Brown.,2.0 +"In mournful Plight the tarnished Groves appear,",0.0 +And Nature weeps for the declining Year.,1.0 +"The Sun too quickly reached the western Sky,",1.0 +"Autumnal Threads around the Branches flew,",0.0 +While the dry Stubble drank the falling Dew.,2.0 +"In this sick Season, at the close of Day,",2.0 +The Sparkles languished in her closing Eye.,0.0 +"Parched were those Lips whence Music used to flow,",0.0 +"Nor more the Flute her weary Fingers know,",0.0 +"Yet thrice to raise her feeble Voice she tried,",0.0 +Thrice on her Tongue the fainting Numbers died;,0.0 +And like the Swan expiring thus she sung.,0.0 +"Farewell, you Forests and delightful Hills,",2.0 +"You friendly Groves to whom we used to run,",0.0 +And beg a Shelter from the burning Sun.,1.0 +"Those blasted Shades all mournful now I see,",0.0 +Who droop their Heads as though they wept for me.,1.0 +"The pensive Linnet has forgot to sing,",0.0 +The Lark is silent till returning Spring.,1.0 +"Farewell, you Fields; my native Fields, adieu;",1.0 +"Where, when an Infant, I was wont to stray,",1.0 +"How oft has Lydia told a mournful Tale,",2.0 +By the clear Lake that shines in yonder Vale;,2.0 +"When she had done I sung a cheerful Lay,",0.0 +While the glad Goldfinch listened on the Spray:,5.0 +"Lured by my Song each jolly Swain drew near,",1.0 +And rosy Virgins thronged around to hear:,0.0 +"Though I unwilling leave the Streams and you,",1.0 +"Still may soft Music bless your happy Shore,",3.0 +"OH Lydia, thou, if wayward Tongues should blame",2.0 +"My Life, and blot a harmless Maiden's Name",0.0 +Although the Owner's Name I hardly knew;,1.0 +"I fed it kindly with my Father's Hay,",1.0 +And gave it shelter at the closing Day:,0.0 +"I never stole young Pigeons from their Dams,",2.0 +"Nor set my Dog to hunt their Flocks away,",0.0 +That mine might graze upon the vacant Lay.,0.0 +Or Colin praised young Mariana's Eyes:,1.0 +My Cheek with Envy never was seen to change:,2.0 +"Or walk the Forest with her darling Swain,",1.0 +But hated Scandal and abhorred a Lie.,1.0 +On Sundays I as Sister Sue can tell,2.0 +Nor used to giggle when he bid me pray:,0.0 +"When I am gone, I leave to Sister Sue",0.0 +"My Gown of Jersey, and my Aprons blue.",1.0 +My hoarded Apples and my winter Pears,1.0 +"Be thine, OH Lydia, to reward thy Cares.",5.0 +"These Nuts that late were plucked from yonder Tree,",0.0 +That Basket did these dying Fingers weave:,0.0 +"So shall it charm the listening Nymphs around,",0.0 +For none like him can make it sweetly sound.,1.0 +"In our Churchyard there grows a spreading Yew,",3.0 +"Be those sad Branches over my Grave reclined,",4.0 +"Mark, gentle Reader, ' -- Underneath this Tree,",1.0 +"There sleeps a Maid, old Simon's Daughter she;",2.0 +"Thou too, perhaps, ere many Weeks be over,",1.0 +Here ends the Maid ' -- for now the Seal of Death,0.0 +"Closed her pale Lips, and stopped her rosy Breath.",3.0 +"Her sinking Eyeballs took their long Adieu,",1.0 +And with a Sigh her harmless Spirit flew.,1.0 +"In this lone hour, when angry storms descend,",3.0 +And the chilled soul deplores her distant friend;,2.0 +"When all her sprightly fires inactive lie,",0.0 +And gloomy objects fill the mental eye;,0.0 +"When hoary Winter strides the northern blast,",0.0 +"Earth by the grisly tyrant desert made,",0.0 +The feathered warblers quit the leafless shade;,0.0 +"Quit those dear scenes where life and love began,",3.0 +How mourns each tenant of the silent grove!,1.0 +No soft sensation tunes the heart to love;,1.0 +No strain responsive aids the water's fall.,1.0 +"The Swain neglects his Nymph, yet knows not why;",0.0 +"The Nymph, indifferent, mourns the freezing sky;",0.0 +"Alike insensible to soft desire,",1.0 +She asks no warmth ' -- but from the kitchen fire;,2.0 +"Love seeks a milder zone; half sunk in snow,",2.0 +And crystal streams in frozen fetters stand.,0.0 +"Whose murder marks the fool with treble shame,",0.0 +"Near the low cottage door, in pensive mood,",2.0 +"Complains, and mourns her brothers of the wood.",1.0 +All but his ruthless soul whose gun destroys.,0.0 +"For this, rough clown, long pains on thee shall wait,",3.0 +And freezing want avenge their hapless fate;,0.0 +In outward form as savage as in mind;,1.0 +"Go, be a bear of Pythagorean name,",0.0 +From man distinguished by thy hideous frame.,3.0 +"Though slow and pensive now the moments roll,",0.0 +Successive months shall from our torpid soul,1.0 +Hurry these scenes again; the laughing hours,2.0 +"Advancing swift, shall strew spontaneous flowers;",2.0 +"And modest violet, grace the secret wild;",0.0 +And purple hyacinth together meet:,0.0 +"All Nature's sweets in joyous circle move,",0.0 +And wake the frozen soul again to love.,0.0 +"The ruddy swain now stalks along the vale,",1.0 +"He louder whistles, stretches over the green,",2.0 +"The downcast look never fixes on the swain,",5.0 +"They dread his eye, retire, and gaze again.",0.0 +"It's mighty Love ' -- You blooming maids, beware,",0.0 +Nor the lone thicket with a lover dare.,3.0 +The timid virgin of the rural kind;,1.0 +"No conquest of the passions ever was taught,",4.0 +"To sacrifice, to govern, to restrain,",1.0 +"Or to extinguish, or to hug the pain,",2.0 +"Was never theirs; instead, the fear of shame",1.0 +"Proves a strong bulwark, and secures their fame;",4.0 +"Shielded by this, they flout, reject, deny,",1.0 +With mock disdain put the fond lover by;,4.0 +"Awe the poor swain, and save the trembling bride.",3.0 +"As over the upland hills I take my way,",2.0 +My eyes in transport boundless scenes survey:,0.0 +From whence the contrite groan shall pierce the skies;,4.0 +And waft that sigh which never is lost in air.,2.0 +"Ah! sacred turf! here a fond Parent lies,",2.0 +How my soul melts while dreadful scenes arise!,2.0 +"The past! Ah! shield me, Mercy! from that thought,",1.0 +"Dead! can it be?'twas here we frequent strayed,",1.0 +"I marked the verse, the skulls her eye invite,",0.0 +"My heart recoiled, and shunned the loathsome view;",0.0 +"Start not, my child, each human thought subdue,",0.0 +"She calmly said; this fate shall once be thine,",0.0 +My woes pronounce that it shall first be mine.,1.0 +"Abashed, I caught the awful truths she sung,",0.0 +And on her firm resolves one moment hung;,1.0 +"Vain boast ' -- my bulwark tumbles to the deep,",2.0 +Amazed ' -- alone I climb the craggy steep;,0.0 +"My shrieking soul deserted, sullen views",0.0 +"The depths below, and Hope's fond strains refuse;",1.0 +"I listened not ' -- She louder struck the lyre,",0.0 +"And love divine, and moral truths conspire.",0.0 +"Whose deeds have never swelled the Muse's strain,",0.0 +"Here call for satire, would the verse avail.",1.0 +"Rest, impious race! ' -- The Muse pursues her flight,",1.0 +A meal penurious from the barren plain;,2.0 +"The distant walk, and every hillock nigh:",0.0 +"Some bask, some bound, nor terrors ever know,",0.0 +"Save from the human form, their only foe.",0.0 +Long have I shared with you this guiltless scene.,1.0 +"It's mine to wander over the dewy lawn,",3.0 +And mark the pallid streak of early dawn;,0.0 +"Lo! the grey dusk that filled the vacant space,",3.0 +"Now fleets, and infant light pursues the chase;",1.0 +From the hill top it seeks the valley low;,2.0 +"Inflamed, the cheeks of morn with blushes glow;",0.0 +"It strives no more, but to the God gives way.",3.0 +From the young daw; while in your rugged breast,1.0 +"The chattering brood, secured by Horror, rest.",2.0 +"Say, Muse, what arm the lowering brothers cleft,",3.0 +And the calm stream in this low cradle left?,4.0 +"Beneath those heights, lo! balmy springs The Hot Wells. arise,",4.0 +"Their kindly powers life's genial heat restore,",3.0 +"Here beats a livelier tune. The breezy air,",2.0 +To the wild hills invites the languid fair:,2.0 +"Fear not the western gale, thou timorous maid,",2.0 +Nor dread its blast shall thy soft form invade;,2.0 +"Though cool and strong the quickening breezes blow,",2.0 +With unseen particles of health it's fraught.,6.0 +"Sit not within the threshold of Despair,",3.0 +Nor plead a weakness fatal to the fair;,1.0 +By which we win no joy from earth or heaven.,1.0 +"Foul Fiend! thou bane of health, fair Virtue's bane,",2.0 +"Keen exercise shall brace the fainting soul,",1.0 +And bid her slackened powers more vigorous roll.,4.0 +"Blame not my rustic lay, nor think me rude,",0.0 +"Whom fashion guides, in youth's first bloom shall fade;",1.0 +"She seeks the cause, effect would fain elude,",0.0 +And wonders why the Tyrant yet appears ' --,0.0 +"Abrupt ' -- so soon ' -- Thine, Fashion, is the crime,",1.0 +Fell Dissipation does the work of time.,1.0 +"How thickly clothed, yonder Leigh Wood. rock of scanty soil,",4.0 +"Here the deep green, and here the lively plays,",2.0 +"The barren elm, the useful feeding oak,",0.0 +"Of axe relentless, till twice fifty years",2.0 +"Have crowned her woodland joys, and fruitful cares.",0.0 +And through the helpless sleeper dart the sting;,1.0 +"Here springs to light, lives long, and aged dies.",1.0 +"Sucks the young dew, but shuns the bolder day.",3.0 +"The timid rabbit hails impervious gloom,",2.0 +"Eludes the dog's keen scent, and shuns her doom.",1.0 +"Various the tenants of this tangled wood,",2.0 +"Who skulk all day, all night review the flood,",1.0 +"Chew the washed weed driven by the beating wave,",2.0 +"Or feast on dreadful food, which hoped a milder grave.",0.0 +"Hail, useful channel! Commerce spreads her wings,",1.0 +From either pole her various treasure brings;,2.0 +"Wafted by thee, the mariner long strayed,",3.0 +Joy tunes the cry; the rocks rebound the roar;,1.0 +"The merchant hears, and hails the peeping mast,",0.0 +"Now love and joy the noisy crew invite,",1.0 +And clumsy music crowns the rough delight.,0.0 +"Yours be the vulgar dissonance, while I",1.0 +"Cross the low stream, and stretch the ardent eye",3.0 +"Over Nature's wilds; it's peace, it's joy serene,",0.0 +The thought as pure as calm the vernal scene.,0.0 +"Ah, lovely meads! my bosom lighter grows,",0.0 +"Shakes off her huge oppressive weight of woes,",0.0 +"And swells in guiltless rapture; ever hail,",0.0 +"Low not, you herds, your lusty Masters bring",0.0 +The crop of Summer; and the genial Spring,1.0 +"Feels for your wants, and softens Winter's rage,",0.0 +The hoarded haystack shall your woes assuage;,1.0 +"Woes summed in one alone, it's Nature's call,",3.0 +That secret voice which fills creation all.,0.0 +Here the fair Maniac bore three Winters snows.,7.0 +"Here long she shivered, stiffening in the blast,",0.0 +The lightnings round their livid horrors cast;,0.0 +"The thunders roar, while rushing torrents pour,",0.0 +And add new woes to bleak affliction's hour;,1.0 +"The heavens lour dismal while the storm descends,",3.0 +No Mother's bosom the soft maid befriends;,3.0 +"But, frightened, over the wilds she swiftly flies,",2.0 +"These lonely woodlands, friends to sober Thought;",0.0 +"While, musing, she pursued the track alone.",1.0 +"OH, thou kind friend! whom here I dare not name,",1.0 +"And gently drew her from the beating storm,",1.0 +"Of Heaven, and justify its rigid laws;",0.0 +"Yet own that human laws are harshly given,",0.0 +When they extend beyond the will of Heaven.,2.0 +"Say, can thy pen for that hard duty plead,",1.0 +By which the meek and helpless maid's decreed,0.0 +"To dire seclusion? Snatched from guiltless joys,",0.0 +Where horrid silence chills the vital lamp;,0.0 +"Slowly and faint the languid pulses beat,",2.0 +And the chilled heart forgets its genial heat;,2.0 +"The dim sunk eye, with hopeless glance, explores",1.0 +"Never to be past again. ' -- Now heaves the sigh,",2.0 +Now unavailing sorrows fill the eye:,1.0 +"To the fond soul, in all the charms of Truth;",1.0 +She welcomes the loved image; busy Thought,2.0 +"Portrays the past, with guiltless pleasures fraught;",0.0 +"It's momentary bliss, it's rapture high,",0.0 +"The heart overflows, and all is ecstasy.",3.0 +"Memory! I charge thee yet preserve the shade,",1.0 +Ah! let not yet the glittering colours fade!,2.0 +"When the sad soul must bid a long adieu,",3.0 +Even to its fancied bliss ' -- Ah! turn not yet,1.0 +"Thou wretched bankrupt, that must soon forget",0.0 +"This farewell draught of joy: lo! Fancy dies,",2.0 +Even the thin phantom of past pleasure flies.,4.0 +Thought sinks in real woe; too poor to give,5.0 +"Her present bliss, she bids the future live;",0.0 +"The spirit soon quits that fond clasp, for see,",2.0 +The future offers finished misery.,1.0 +"Hope quite extinct, lo! frantic through the aisles",3.0 +"She raves, while Superstition grimly smiles.",0.0 +"The glance distracted each sad sister meets,",1.0 +Runs through each various shape of sad despair;,2.0 +"Now swells with gusts of hope, now sickening dies;",2.0 +Alternate thoughts of death and life arise,2.0 +"Within her panting soul; the firm resolve,",0.0 +"The new desire, in stronger fears dissolve.",0.0 +"She starts ' -- then seized the moment of her fate,",1.0 +"Quits the lone cloister and the horrid grate,",4.0 +While wilder horrors to receive her wait;,1.0 +"Muffled, on Freedom's happy plains they stand,",2.0 +And eager seize her not reluctant hand;,0.0 +"Too late to these mild shores the mourner came,",4.0 +For now the guilt of flight overwhelms her frame:,3.0 +"Her broken vows in wild disorder roll,",0.0 +And stick like serpents in her trembling soul;,0.0 +"Thought, what art thou? of thee she boasts no more,",2.0 +"Of lawless anarchy, which sweeps the soul,",1.0 +"While her drowned faculties like pebbles roll,",3.0 +And the wild glance now fills the staring eye;,4.0 +"The balls, fierce glaring in their orbits move,",1.0 +"Bright spheres, where beamed the sparkling fires of Love,",1.0 +"Now roam for objects which once filled her mind,",2.0 +"Ill starred Louisa! Memory, it's a strain,",2.0 +Which fills my soul with sympathetic pain.,0.0 +"Remembrance, hence, give thy vain struggles over,",3.0 +Nor swell the line with forms that live no more.,1.0 +"THE noble art to Cadmus owes its rise,",0.0 +"Of painting words, and speaking to the eyes;",1.0 +He first in wondrous magic fetters bound,0.0 +"The airy voice, and stopped the flying sound:",0.0 +"The various figures by his pencil wrought,",3.0 +"OH THOU, whose melody the heart obeys,",1.0 +"Whose notes to heaven the listening soul can raise,",0.0 +"Can thrill with pity, or can melt with love!",1.0 +"Happy! whom nature lent this native charm,",2.0 +"Angelic tones, that shed, with magic power,",1.0 +A sweeter pleasure over the social hour:,2.0 +"But yet more happy, that thy life as clear",0.0 +From discord as thy perfect cadence flows;,2.0 +"That, tuned to sympathy, thy faithful tear",1.0 +In mild accordance falls for others' woes;,0.0 +"That all the tender, pure affections bind,",0.0 +"In chains of harmony, thy willing mind!",1.0 +"CROWNED with the sickle, and the wheaten shear,",1.0 +"While Autumn, nodding over the yellow plain,",2.0 +"Comes jovial on; the doric reed once more,",3.0 +"Concocted strong, rush boundless now to view,",1.0 +"Full, perfect all, and swell my glorious theme.",2.0 +"Onslow! the muse, ambitious of thy name,",3.0 +"To grace, inspire, and dignify her song,",0.0 +Would from the public voice thy gentle ear,0.0 +"A while engage. Thy noble cares she knows,",0.0 +"Spread on thy front, and in thy conduct glow;",0.0 +"A roll of periods, sweeter than her song.",3.0 +"But she too pants for public virtue, she,",3.0 +"Though weak of power, yet strong in ardent will,",3.0 +"Whenever her country rushes on her heart,",3.0 +"Assumes a bolder note, and fondly tries",0.0 +To mix the patriot's with the poet's flame.,1.0 +And Libra weighs in equal scales the year;,0.0 +"With golden light irradiate, wide invests",3.0 +"A pleasing calm; while broad, and brown, below,",0.0 +Unbounded harvests hang the heavy head.,0.0 +"Rich, silent, deep, they stand; for not a gale",1.0 +Rolls its light billows over the bending plain;,5.0 +A calm of plenty! till the ruffled air,1.0 +"Falls from its poise, and gives the breeze to blow.",0.0 +Rent is the fleecy mantle of the sky;,1.0 +The clouds fly different; and the sudden sun,2.0 +And black by fits the shadows sweep along.,1.0 +"Far as the circling eye can shoot around,",0.0 +These are thy blessings Industry! rough Power!,3.0 +"Whom Labour still attends, and Sweat, and Pain;",0.0 +"Yet the kind source of every gentle art,",3.0 +And all the soft civility of life:,1.0 +"Raiser of human kind! by Nature cast,",2.0 +"Naked, and helpless, out amid the woods,",3.0 +"And wilds, to rude inclement elements;",1.0 +With various powers of deep efficiency,5.0 +"Implanted, and profusely poured around",1.0 +Materials infinite; but idle all.,3.0 +"Slept the lethargic powers; Corruption still,",4.0 +"Voracious, swallowed what the liberal hand",0.0 +Of Bounty scattered over the savage year.,2.0 +"And still the sad barbarian, roving, mixed",2.0 +"With winter charged, let the mixed tempest fly,",3.0 +Then to the shelter of the hut he fled;,1.0 +"And the wild season, sordid, pined away.",2.0 +For home he had not; home is the resort,1.0 +"Of love, of joy, of peace, and plenty, where,",0.0 +"Supporting and supported, polished friends,",1.0 +And dear relations mingle into bliss.,0.0 +"But this the rugged savage never felt,",1.0 +"A waste of time! till Industry approached,",1.0 +And roused him from his miserable sloth;,2.0 +"His faculties unfolded; pointed out,",2.0 +Where lavish Nature the directing hand,1.0 +Of Art demanded; showed him how to raise,1.0 +"His feeble force by the mechanic powers,",1.0 +"To dig the mineral from the vaulted earth,",1.0 +"On what to turn the piercing rage of fire,",0.0 +"On what the torrent, and the gathered blast;",1.0 +Gave the tall ancient forest to his axe;,4.0 +"Taught him to chip the wood, and hew the stone,",0.0 +Till by degrees the finished fabric rose;,1.0 +"And wrapped them in the woolly vestment warm,",0.0 +"Or bright in glossy silk, and flowing lawn;",0.0 +"The generous glass around, inspired, to wake",4.0 +"Nor stopped at barren, bare necessity;",1.0 +"But still advancing bolder, led him on,",0.0 +"By hardy patience, and experience slow,",3.0 +"To pomp, to pleasure, elegance, and grace;",1.0 +"And breathing high ambition through his soul,",1.0 +"Set science, wisdom, glory in his view,",1.0 +And bad him be the Lord of all below.,0.0 +"Then gathering men their natural powers combined,",4.0 +And formed a Public; to the general good,1.0 +"Submitting, aiming, and conducting all.",1.0 +"The free, and fairly represented Whole,",0.0 +"For this devised the holy guardian laws,",3.0 +"Distinguished orders, animated Arts,",0.0 +"And with joint force Oppression chaining, set",2.0 +Imperial Justice at the helm; yet still,2.0 +To them accountable: nor slavish dreamt,2.0 +"And all the honey of their search, to such",1.0 +As for themselves alone themselves have raised.,1.0 +Hence every form of cultivated life,1.0 +"In order set, protected, and inspired,",1.0 +"Into perfection wrought. Uniting all,",0.0 +"Society grew numerous, high, polite,",4.0 +And happy. Nurse of art! the city rose;,0.0 +"And stretching street on street by thousands led,",0.0 +"From twining woody haunts, and the tough yew",1.0 +"Of clustering houses, and of mingling men,",3.0 +"Restless design, and execution strong.",2.0 +In every street the sounding hammer plied,0.0 +"In flying touches, formed the fine machine.",0.0 +Then Commerce brought into the public walk,0.0 +The busy Merchant; the big warehouse built;,3.0 +Raised the strong crane; choked up the loaded street,1.0 +"With foreign plenty; and on thee, thou Thames,",2.0 +"Large, gentle, deep, majestic, king of floods!",1.0 +"Than whom no river heaves a fuller tide,",1.0 +"Seized for his grand resort. On either hand,",0.0 +Possessed the breezy void; the sooty hulk,0.0 +Steered sluggish on; the splendid barge along,2.0 +"Rowed, regular, to harmony; around,",3.0 +While deep the various voice of fervent toil,2.0 +"From bank to bank increased; whence ribbed with oak,",0.0 +"To bear the British thunder, black, and bold,",0.0 +The roaring vessel rushed into the main.,0.0 +His ample roof; and Luxury within,1.0 +"Poured out her glittering stores. The canvas smooth,",2.0 +"Embodied rose. The statue seemed to breathe,",1.0 +"And soften into flesh, beneath the touch",0.0 +All is the gift of Industry; whatever,2.0 +Delightful. Pensive Winter cheered by him,0.0 +"Sits at the social fire, and happy hears",0.0 +The excluded tempest idly rave along.,1.0 +His hardened fingers deck the gaudy Spring.,0.0 +Without him Summer were an arid waste;,1.0 +Nor to the autumnal months could thus transmit,1.0 +"These full, mature, immeasurable stores,",0.0 +"That, waving round, recall my wandering song.",2.0 +"In fair array; each by the lass he loves,",1.0 +"To bear the rougher part, and mitigate",0.0 +By nameless gentle offices her toil.,1.0 +"At once they stoop, and swell the lusty sheaves;",0.0 +"While, bandied round and round, the rural talk,",0.0 +"The rural scandal, and the rural jest",1.0 +"Fly hearty, to deceive the tedious time,",4.0 +"Behind the master walks, builds up the shocks;",2.0 +"And, conscious, glancing oft this way and that",0.0 +"His sated eye, feels his heart heave with joy.",3.0 +"Spike after spike, their sparing harvest pick.",1.0 +"From the full sheaf, with charitable stealth,",3.0 +"The liberal handful. Think, o grateful think!",1.0 +How good the God of harvest is to you;,1.0 +Who pours abundance over your flowing fields;,2.0 +While these unhappy partners of your kind,2.0 +And ask their humble dole. The various turns,2.0 +Of fortune ponder; that your sons may want,0.0 +"What now, with hard reluctance, faint, you give.",0.0 +The lovely young Lavinia once had friends;,0.0 +"And fortune smiled, deceitful, on her birth.",1.0 +"For in her helpless years deprived of all,",0.0 +"Of every stay, save innocence and Heaven,",2.0 +"She with her widowed mother, feeble, old,",1.0 +"And poor, lived in a cottage, lost far up",3.0 +"Safe from the cruel, blasting arts of man;",0.0 +"Almost on Nature's common bounty fed,",1.0 +"Like the gay birds that sung them to repose,",4.0 +"Content, and careless of tomorrow's fare.",2.0 +"As is the lily, or the mountain snow.",2.0 +"The modest virtues mingled in her eyes,",0.0 +"Still on the ground deject, and darting all",0.0 +Their humid beams into the blooming flowers:,0.0 +"Thrilled in her thought, they, like the dewy star",0.0 +"Of evening, shone in tears. A native grace",0.0 +"Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,",1.0 +But is when unadorned adorned the most.,1.0 +Will deign their faith. And thus she went compelled,0.0 +"By strong necessity, with as serene,",2.0 +"And pleased a look as patience can put on,",2.0 +"Who led the rural life in all its joy,",0.0 +"And elegance, such as Arcadian song",5.0 +"When tyrant custom had not shackled man,",0.0 +And free to follow nature was the mode.,1.0 +"He then, his fancy with autumnal scenes",1.0 +"To walk, when poor Lavinia drew his eye;",0.0 +"Unconscious of her power, and turning quick",4.0 +With unaffected blushes from his gaze.,1.0 +"He saw her charming, but he saw not half",1.0 +The charms her downcast modesty concealed.,2.0 +That very moment love and chaste desire,0.0 +"Sprung in his bosom, to himself unknown;",1.0 +"For still the world prevailed, and its dread laugh",1.0 +"Which scarce the firm philosopher can scorn,",1.0 +And thus in secret to his soul he sighed.,1.0 +"What pity! that so delicate a form,",1.0 +"By beauty kindled, and harmonious shaped,",3.0 +"Where sense sincere, and goodness seemed to dwell,",0.0 +Should be devoted to the rude embrace,1.0 +"Recalls that patron of my happy life,",1.0 +From whom my liberal fortune took its rise;,0.0 +"Now to the dust gone down; his houses, lands,",2.0 +"Urged by remembrance sad, and decent pride,",2.0 +"Far from those scenes which knew their better days,",0.0 +His aged widow and his daughter live;,1.0 +Whom yet my fruitless search could never find.,0.0 +"Romantic wish, would this the daughter were!",2.0 +"She was the same, the daughter of his friend,",2.0 +"The mingling passion that surprised his heart,",0.0 +And through his nerves in shivering transport ran?,3.0 +"Then blazed his smothered flame, avowed, and bold;",0.0 +"And as he run her, ardent, over and over,",3.0 +"Love, gratitude, and pity wept at once.",1.0 +"Confused, and frightened at his sudden tears,",0.0 +"Her rising beauties flushed a higher bloom,",0.0 +Poured out the pious rapture of his soul.,1.0 +"She, whom my restless gratitude has sought",0.0 +"So long in vain? O yes! the very same,",0.0 +"The softened image of my noble friend,",1.0 +"Alive, his every feature, every look,",0.0 +More elegantly touched. Fairer than spring!,5.0 +"Thou sole surviving blossom from the root,",1.0 +"That nourished up my fortune, say, ah where,",1.0 +"In what unsmiling desert, hast thou drawn",0.0 +The kindest aspect of delighted heaven?,2.0 +Into such beauty spread? and blown so white?,0.0 +"Beat keen, and heavy, on thy tender years.",2.0 +"OH let me now, into a richer soil,",1.0 +"Transplant thee safe! where vernal suns, and showers,",0.0 +"Diffuse their warmest, largest influence;",1.0 +"And of my garden be the pride, and joy!",1.0 +"It ill befits thee, o it ill befits",1.0 +"The father of a country, thus to pick",1.0 +"His bounty taught to gain, and right enjoy.",0.0 +"Then throw that shameful pittance from thy hand,",1.0 +But ill applied to such a rugged task;,1.0 +With harvest shining all these fields are thine;,0.0 +"And, if my wishes may presume so far,",2.0 +"Their master too, who then indeed were blessed,",0.0 +Here ceased the youth: yet still his speaking eye,0.0 +"Expressed the sacred triumph of his soul,",1.0 +"With conscious virtue, gratitude, and love,",0.0 +Above the vulgar joy divinely raised.,0.0 +Nor waited he reply. Won by the charm,3.0 +"Of goodness irresistible, and all",1.0 +"In sweet disorder lost, she blushed consent.",0.0 +"The news immediate to her mother brought,",1.0 +"While, pierced with anxious thought, she pined away",0.0 +"Amazed, and scarce believing what she heard,",0.0 +"Joy seized her withered veins, and one bright gleam",2.0 +Not less enraptured than the happy pair;,1.0 +"Who flourished long in mutual bliss, and reared",2.0 +"A numerous offspring, lovely like themselves,",3.0 +"And good, the grace of all the country round.",0.0 +The sultry south collects a potent blast.,0.0 +"At first, the groves are scarcely seen to stir",0.0 +Their trembling tops; and a still murmur runs,2.0 +"And in one mighty stream, invisible,",1.0 +"Immense, the whole excited atmosphere,",0.0 +Impetuous rushes over the sounding world;,2.0 +"Strained to the root, the stooping forest pours",0.0 +A rustling shower of yet untimely leaves.,2.0 +"From the bare wild, the dissipated storm,",2.0 +And send it in a torrent down the vale.,1.0 +"Exposed, and naked, to its utmost rage,",2.0 +"Through all the sea of harvest rolling round,",0.0 +"Though pliant to the blast, its seizing force;",1.0 +"Or whirled in air, or into vacant chaff",0.0 +"Shook waste. And sometime too a burst of rain,",2.0 +"Swept from the black horizon, broad, descends",0.0 +In one continuous flood. Still over head,4.0 +The deluge deepens; till the fields around,1.0 +"Sudden, the ditches swell; the meadows swim.",3.0 +"Red, from the hills, innumerable streams",1.0 +Tumultuous roar; and high above its banks,3.0 +"The river lift; before whose weighty rush,",0.0 +"Roll mingled down; all that the winds had spared,",2.0 +"In one wild moment ruined, the big hopes,",4.0 +"Driving along, his drowning ox at once",2.0 +He sees; and instant over his shivering thought,4.0 +"Be mindful of the rough laborious hand,",3.0 +"That sinks you soft in elegance, and ease;",1.0 +"Be mindful of those limbs, in russet clad,",1.0 +"Whose toil to yours is warmth, and graceful pride;",1.0 +"And o be mindful of that sparing board,",2.0 +"Which covers yours with luxury profuse,",2.0 +"Makes your glass sparkle, and your sense rejoice!",4.0 +"Nor cruelly demand what the deep rains,",3.0 +Would tempt the muse to ling the rural game.,0.0 +"Stiff, by the tainted gale, with open nose,",0.0 +"Outstretched, and finely sensible, draws full,",2.0 +"Fearful, and cautious, on the latent prey;",3.0 +As in the sun the circling covey bask,0.0 +"Their varied plumes, watchful, and every way",5.0 +Through the rough stubble turned the secret eye.,2.0 +"Their useless wings, entangled more and more:",0.0 +"Nor on the surges of the boundless air,",2.0 +"Though born triumphant, are they safe; the gun,",1.0 +"Immediate, brings them from the towering wing,",3.0 +"Dead to the ground; or drives them else dispersed,",0.0 +"Wounded, and wheeling various, down the wind.",3.0 +"These are not subjects for the peaceful muse,",0.0 +Nor will she stain her spotless theme with such;,1.0 +"Then most delighted, when she smiling sees",0.0 +The whole mixed animal creation round,2.0 +"Alive, and happy. It's not joy to her,",1.0 +"This falsely cheerful, barbarous game of death;",2.0 +"This rage of pleasure, which the restless youth",0.0 +"When beasts of prey retire, that all night long,",1.0 +"Urged by necessity, had roamed the dark;",3.0 +"As if their conscious ravage shunned the light,",1.0 +"Ashamed. Not so the steady tyrant man,",1.0 +Who with the thoughtless insolence of power,1.0 +"Inflamed, beyond the most infuriate rage",1.0 +"Of the worst monster that ever howled the waste,",4.0 +"For sport alone takes up the cruel tract,",2.0 +"Upbraid us not, you wolves! you tigers fell!",1.0 +"But lavish fed, in Nature's bounty rolled,",0.0 +"To laugh at anguish, and rejoice in blood,",1.0 +Poor is the triumph over the timid Hare!,2.0 +"Shook from the corn, and now to some lone seat",1.0 +"Of the same friendly hue, the withered fern;",2.0 +"The fallow ground laid open to the sun,",3.0 +Vain is her best precaution; though she sits,1.0 +By Nature raised to take the horizon in;,2.0 +"And head couched close betwixt her hairy feet,",1.0 +In act to spring away. The scented dew,0.0 +"Betrays her early labyrinth; and deep,",0.0 +"In scattered, sullen openings, far behind,",2.0 +With every breeze she hears the coming storm.,0.0 +"But nearer, and more frequent, as it loads",2.0 +"The sighing gale, she springs amazed, and all",0.0 +The savage soul of game is up at once:,1.0 +Wild for the chase; and the loud hunter's shout;,2.0 +"Over a weak, harmless, flying creature, all",2.0 +"Mixed in mad tumult, and discordant joy.",3.0 +"The Stag too, singled from the herd, where long",2.0 +"He ranged the branching monarch of the shades,",1.0 +"Before the tempest drives. At first in speed,",0.0 +"Against the breeze he darts, that way the more",0.0 +"To leave the lessening, murderous cry behind.",4.0 +"He bursts the thickets, glances through the glades,",1.0 +And plunges deep into the wildest wood.,0.0 +"If slow, yet sure, adhesive to the tract",1.0 +"The inhuman rout, and from the shady depth",2.0 +"Expel him, circling through his every shift.",1.0 +He sweeps the forest oft; and sobbing sees,0.0 +"Where, in kind contest, with his butting friends",0.0 +"He went to struggle, or his loves enjoy.",1.0 +"To lose the scent, and lave his burning sides;",0.0 +"Oft seeks the herd; the watchful herd alarmed,",1.0 +"With quick consent, avoid the infectious maze.",2.0 +"What shall he do? His once so vivid nerves,",0.0 +"So full of buoyant soul, inspire no more",1.0 +"The fainting course; but wrenching, breathless toil,",0.0 +"Sick, seizes on his heart: he stands at bay;",2.0 +And puts his last weak refuge in despair.,1.0 +"He groans in anguish; while the growling pack,",0.0 +Of this enough. But if the sylvan youth,2.0 +"Whose fervent blood boils into violence,",2.0 +"Must have the chase; behold, despising flight,",0.0 +See the grim wolf; on him his shaggy foe,2.0 +"Grins near destruction, to the monster's heart",3.0 +Let the dart lighten from the nervous arm.,4.0 +"These Britain Knows not; give, you Britons, then",0.0 +Loose on the sly destroyer of the flock.,1.0 +"Him, from his craggy winding haunts unearthed,",1.0 +Let all the thunder of the chase pursue.,1.0 +Throw the broad ditch behind you; over the hedge,5.0 +"Refuse, but through the shaking wilderness",2.0 +"Pick your, nice way; into the perilous flood",5.0 +"Bear fearless, of the raging instinct full;",2.0 +"And as you ride the torrent, to the banks",2.0 +"Your triumph sound sonorous, running round,",5.0 +"From rock to rock, in circling echo tossed;",0.0 +Then snatch the mountains by their woody tops;,1.0 +"Rush down the dangerous steep; and over the lawn,",4.0 +"In fancy swallowing up the space between,",1.0 +Pour all your speed into the rapid game.,0.0 +For happy he! who tops the wheeling chase;,1.0 +"Has every maze evolved, and every guile",0.0 +Disclosed; who knows the merits of the pack;,1.0 +"Who saw the villain seized, and dying hard,",0.0 +"Without complaint, though by an hundred mouths",1.0 +"At hour of dusk, while the retreating horn",1.0 +"Calls them to ghostly halls of grey renown,",0.0 +Depending decent from the roof; and spread,1.0 +And their repeated wonders shake the dome.,1.0 +But first the fuelled chimney blazes wide;,0.0 +"From side to side; on which, with fell intent,",0.0 +"They deep incision make, and talk the while",0.0 +"Of England's glory, never to be defaced,",2.0 +"If stomach keen can intervals allow,",1.0 +"Relating how it ran, and how it fell.",2.0 +Then sated Hunger bids his brother Thirst,0.0 +"Produce the mighty bowl; the mighty bowl,",0.0 +"Swelled high with fiery juice, steams liberal round",4.0 +"A potent gale, reviving as the breath",1.0 +"On violets diffused, while soft she hears",1.0 +"Her panting shepherd stealing to her arms,",1.0 +"Nor wanting is the brown october, drawn,",1.0 +"Mature, and perfect, from his dark retreat",2.0 +Of thirty years; and now his honest front,0.0 +To vie it with the vineyard's best produce.,1.0 +"Walks gentle round, beneath a cloud of smoke,",1.0 +"In thunder leaping from the box, awake",1.0 +"Is hauled about, in gallantry robust.",1.0 +"Aside, frequent, and full, the dry divan",1.0 +"Close in firm circle; and set, ardent, in",4.0 +"For serious drinking. Nor evasion sly,",3.0 +Nor sober shift is to the puking wretch,1.0 +"Indulged askew; but earnest, brimming bowls",0.0 +"Lave every soul, the table floating round,",1.0 +"Thus as they swim in mutual swill, the talk,",2.0 +"Vociferate at once by twenty tongues,",0.0 +"Reels fast from theme to theme; from horses, hounds,",1.0 +"To church, or mistress, politics, or ghost,",0.0 +"In endless mazes, intricate, perplexed.",1.0 +"Meantime, with sudden interruption, loud,",1.0 +The impatient catch bursts from the joyous heart.,3.0 +That moment touched is every kindred soul;,0.0 +Mix in the music of the day again.,1.0 +"As when the tempest, that has vexed the deep",0.0 +"The dark night long, falls murmuring towards morn;",4.0 +"So their mirth gradual sinks. Their feeble tongues,",4.0 +"Seen dim, and blue, the double tapers dance,",1.0 +Like the sun wading through the misty sky.,3.0 +"Then, sliding sweet, they drop. Overturned above",3.0 +"Lies the wet, broken scene; and stretched below,",3.0 +"Each way, the drunken slaughter; where astride",0.0 +"The lubber Power himself triumphant sits,",2.0 +But if the rougher sex by this red sport,2.0 +"Are hurried wild, let not such horrid joy",1.0 +Ever stain the bosom of the British Fair.,1.0 +Far be the spirit of the chase from them!,1.0 +"To spring the fence, to rein the prancing steed,",0.0 +"The cap, the whip, the masculine attire,",1.0 +The winning softness of their sex is lost.,1.0 +"Made up of blushes, tenderness, and fears,",1.0 +In them it's graceful to dissolve at woe;,1.0 +"With every motion, every word, to wave",0.0 +Quick over the kindling cheek the ready blush;,3.0 +"And from the smallest violence to shrink,",2.0 +"And by this silent adulation, soft,",1.0 +To their protection more engaging man.,1.0 +"OH may their eyes no miserable sight,",2.0 +"Through love's enchanting wiles pursued, yet fled,",0.0 +In chase ambiguous. May their tender limbs,1.0 +Float in the loose simplicity of dress!,1.0 +"And fashioned all to harmony, alone,",1.0 +"Know they to seize the captivated soul,",0.0 +In rapture warbled from the radiant lip;,1.0 +"To teach the lute to languish; with smooth step,",2.0 +"Disclosing motion in its every charm,",0.0 +To train the foliage over the snowy lawn;,2.0 +"To play the pencil, turn the instructive page;",2.0 +To rear their graces into second life;,0.0 +To give society its highest taste;,1.0 +"And by submissive wisdom, modest skill,",1.0 +"To raise the glory, animate the joys,",0.0 +And sweeten all the toils of human life;,0.0 +"This be the female dignity, and praise.",2.0 +Falls hoarse from steep to steep. In close array,1.0 +"Fit for the thickets, and the tangling shrub,",1.0 +"You virgins, come. For you their latest song",1.0 +The woodlands raise; the clustered nut for you,0.0 +The lover finds amid the secret shade;,0.0 +"Or shakes them ripe from the resigning husk,",1.0 +"A glossy shower, and of an ardent brown,",1.0 +"Melinda formed with every grace complete,",0.0 +"Yet these neglecting, above beauty wise,",6.0 +And far transcending such a vulgar praise.,1.0 +"In cheerful error, let us tread the maze",0.0 +"Of Autumn, unconfined; and vital taste",0.0 +The breath of orchard big with bending fruit.,0.0 +"Obedient to the breeze, and beating ray,",1.0 +Incessant melts away. The juicy pear,0.0 +"Lies, in a soft profusion, scattered round.",0.0 +A various sweetness swells the gentle race;,2.0 +"In species different, but in kind the same,",1.0 +"Of tempered sun, and water, earth, and air,",0.0 +"A various spirit, fresh, delicious, keen,",2.0 +"Phillips, facetious bard, the second thou",3.0 +With British freedom sing the British song;,0.0 +"Foam in transparent floods; some strong, to cheer",1.0 +"In this glad season, while his last, best beams",3.0 +"O lose me in the green, majestic walks",0.0 +"Where simple Nature reigns; and every view,",0.0 +Here rich with harvest; and there white with flocks.,1.0 +"Mean time the grandeur of thy lofty dome,",2.0 +New beauties rise with each revolving day;,1.0 +New columns swell; and still the fresh spring finds,2.0 +"New plants to quicken, and new groves to green.",3.0 +Full of thy genius all! the muses seat;,0.0 +"Where in the secret bower, and winding walk",2.0 +"They twine the bay for thee. Here oft alone,",1.0 +"Fired by the thirst of thy applause, I court",2.0 +The inspiring breeze; and meditate the book,1.0 +"And, as I steal along, the sunny wall,",1.0 +My theme still urges in my vagrant thought;,1.0 +"Presents the downy peach; the purple plumb,",0.0 +With a fine blueish missed of animals,3.0 +"Beneath his ample leaf, the luscious fig.",0.0 +"Hangs out her clusters, swelling to the south;",1.0 +And scarcely wishes for a warmer sky.,1.0 +"To vigorous soils, and climes of fair extent;",2.0 +"Where, by the potent sun elated high,",0.0 +"Spreads over the vale; or up the mountain climbs,",4.0 +"Profuse; and drinks amid the sunny rocks,",0.0 +"From cliff to cliff increased, the heightened blaze.",0.0 +"Half through the foliage seen, or ardent flame,",0.0 +Or shine transparent; while perfection breathes,0.0 +"As thus they brighten with exalted juice,",1.0 +"The rural youth and virgins over the field,",2.0 +"Each fond for each to cull the autumnal prime,",2.0 +"Exulting rove, and speak the vintage nigh.",0.0 +"Then comes the crushing swain; the country floats,",0.0 +"That by degrees fermented, and refined,",2.0 +Round the raised nations pours the cup of joy:,2.0 +"In sparkling fancy, while we drain the bowl;",0.0 +"As is the wit it gives, the bright Champaign.",1.0 +"Now by the cool, declining year condensed,",0.0 +"As up the middle sky unseen they stole,",1.0 +"No more the mountain, horrid, vast, sublime,",0.0 +Who pours a sweep of rivers from his sides;,1.0 +And deep betwixt contending kingdoms lays,0.0 +"The rocky, long division; while aloft,",0.0 +"His piny top is, lessening, lost in air:",2.0 +No more his thousand prospects fill the view,0.0 +With great variety; but in a night,1.0 +"Sink dark, and total. Nor alone immersed;",2.0 +"The huge dusk, gradual, swallows up the plain.",4.0 +"Sullen, and slow, to roll the misty wave.",2.0 +"Even in the height of noon oppressed, the sun",0.0 +Whence glaring oft with many a broadened orb,2.0 +"Seen through the turbid air, beyond the life,",0.0 +The shepherd stalks gigantic. Till at last,1.0 +"Successive floating, sits the general fog",0.0 +"Unbounded over the world; and mingling thick,",2.0 +As when of old so sung the hebrew bard,0.0 +"Light, uncollected, through the Chaos urged",3.0 +Its infant way; nor Order yet had drawn,0.0 +His endless train forth from the dubious gloom.,4.0 +"These roving mists, that constant now begin",0.0 +"To smoke along the hilly country, these,",1.0 +"With mighty rains, the skilled in nature say,",0.0 +"Of water, scooped among the hollow rocks;",0.0 +"Whence gush the streams, the ceaseless fountains play,",0.0 +And their unfailing stores the rivers draw.,1.0 +But is this equal to the vast effect?,2.0 +Is thus the Volga filled? the rapid Rhine?,0.0 +"And, in the rage of summer, never cease",0.0 +To send a thundering torrent to the main?,3.0 +What though the sun draws from the steaming deep,2.0 +"More than the rivers pour? How much again,",0.0 +"Frequent returns, let the wet sailor say:",4.0 +"And on the thirsty down, far from the burst",3.0 +"Of springs, how much, to their reviving fields,",1.0 +"And feeding flocks, let lonely shepherd's sing.",1.0 +"But sure it's no weak, variable cause,",2.0 +"That keeps at once ten thousand thousand floods,",1.0 +"For ever flowing, and for ever full.",1.0 +"That, where the hoarse, innumerable wave,",1.0 +"Sucked through the sandy Stratum, every way,",0.0 +The waters with the sandy Stratum rise;,1.0 +"Amid whole angles infinitely strained,",2.0 +"They leave each saline particle behind,",6.0 +"And clear, and sweeten, as they soak along.",1.0 +"Nor stops the restless fluid, mounting still,",0.0 +"Though here and there in lowly plains it springs,",1.0 +"But to the mountain courted by the sand,",2.0 +Fresh into day; and all the glittering hill,3.0 +"Hence, in its subterranean passage, gains,",3.0 +"From the washed mineral, that restoring power,",2.0 +"And salutary virtue, which anew",0.0 +"Strings every nerve, calls up the kindling soul",3.0 +"Into the healthful cheek, and joyous eye:",0.0 +"And whence, the royal maid, Amelia blooms",0.0 +"Beyond a crown, some happy prince; and shine,",0.0 +The Carolina of another land.,1.0 +"Warned of approaching winter, gathered, play",2.0 +"Over the calm sky, in convolution swift,",2.0 +"The feathered eddy floats. Rejoicing once,",0.0 +"And where the cavern sweats, as sages dream.",0.0 +"Or rather into warmer climes conveyed,",0.0 +"With other kindred birds of season, there",1.0 +Where the Rhine loses his majestic force,3.0 +"In Belgian plains, won from the raging deep",2.0 +"By diligence amazing, and the strong,",2.0 +"Consulting deep, and various, before they take",1.0 +"And now their rout designed, their leaders chose,",0.0 +"Their tribes adjusted, cleaned their vigorous wings;",2.0 +"And many a circle, many a short essay",4.0 +"Wheeled round and round, in congregation full,",0.0 +"The figured flight ascends; and, riding high",0.0 +"The aerial billows, mixes with the clouds.",3.0 +"Boils round the naked, melancholy isles",0.0 +Pours in among the stormy Hebrides;,2.0 +Are annual made? What nations come and go?,2.0 +And how the living clouds on clouds arise?,1.0 +And white resounding store are one wild cry,1.0 +"Here the plain, harmless native his small flock,",4.0 +"And herd diminutive of many hues,",1.0 +"Tends on the little island's verdant swell,",0.0 +Or sweeps the fishy shore; or treasures up,1.0 +"Of luxury. And here a while the muse,",1.0 +"Sees Caledonia, in romantic view:",3.0 +"Breathing the soul acute; her forests huge,",2.0 +"Planted of old; her azure lakes between,",2.0 +"Poured out extensive, and of watery wealth",5.0 +"Full; winding deep, and green, her fertile vales;",1.0 +"With many a cool, translucent, brimming flood",2.0 +"Nurse of a people, in misfortune's school",1.0 +Trained up to hardy deeds; soon visited,2.0 +She took her western flight. A generous race,2.0 +"Who still through bleeding ages struggled hard,",0.0 +"To hold a hapless, undiminished state;",0.0 +Too much in vain! Hence of ignoble bounds,2.0 +"Impatient, and by tempting glory born",1.0 +"Over every land, for every land their life",0.0 +"Has flowed profuse, their piercing genius planned,",0.0 +And swelled the pomp of peace their faithful toil.,0.0 +"As from their own clear north, in radiant streams,",2.0 +"O is there not some patriot, in whose power",2.0 +"Of blessing thousands, thousands yet unborn,",1.0 +"Through late posterity? some, large of soul!",1.0 +To cheer dejected industry? to give,1.0 +A double harvest to the pining swain?,1.0 +"How, by the finest art, the native robe",1.0 +"To weave; how, white as hyperborean snow,",2.0 +"How to dash wide the billow; nor look on,",4.0 +"The prosperous sail, from every growing port,",2.0 +And thus united Britain Britain make,0.0 +"Entire, the imperial Mistress of the deep.",4.0 +"Yes, there are such. And full on thee, Argyle,",2.0 +"Her hope, her stay, her darling, and her boast,",1.0 +"From her first patriots, and her heroes sprung,",3.0 +"Thy fond, imploring country turns her eye:",0.0 +"In thee, with all a mother's triumph, sees",0.0 +"Her every virtue, every grace combined,",0.0 +"Calm, and intrepid, in the very throat",2.0 +While thick around the deadly tempest flew.,0.0 +"And when the trumpet, kindling war no more,",1.0 +Pours not the flaming squadrons over the field;,2.0 +"But, fruitful of fair deeds, and mutual faith,",4.0 +Kind peace unites the jarring world again;,1.0 +Let the deep olive through thy laurels twine.,4.0 +"For, powerful as thy sword, from thy rich tongue",2.0 +"Persuasion flows, and wins the high debate:",0.0 +"While mixed in thee combine the charm of youth,",1.0 +"The force of manhood, and the depth of age.",2.0 +"Thee, Forbes, too, whom every worth attends,",3.0 +"As Truth sincere, as weeping Friendship kind,",0.0 +"Thee, truly generous, and in silence great,",1.0 +"Thy country feels through her reviving arts,",1.0 +"Planned by thy wisdom, by thy soul informed;",1.0 +And seldom has she felt the friend like thee.,0.0 +"Shade deepening over shade, the country round",1.0 +"Of every hue, from won, declining green",0.0 +"To sooty dark. These now the lonesome muse,",0.0 +And give the Season in its latest view.,0.0 +Fleeces unbounded either; whose least wave,1.0 +"Stands tremulous, uncertain where to turn",2.0 +"The gentle current: while illumined wide,",0.0 +"Shed over the peaceful world. Then is the time,",4.0 +"For those whom Wisdom, and whom Nature charm,",2.0 +"To steal themselves from the degenerate crowd,",2.0 +And soar above this little scene of things;,0.0 +And woo lone Quiet in her silent walks.,1.0 +"Thus solitary, and in pensive guise,",2.0 +"Oft let me wander over the russet mead,",3.0 +"And through the saddened grove, where scarce is heard",1.0 +"Swelled all the music of the swarming shades,",1.0 +"Robbed of their tuneful souls, now shivering sit",3.0 +"On the dead tree, a dull, despondent flock!",2.0 +"With not a brightness waving over their plumes,",2.0 +"OH let not, aimed from some inhuman eye,",1.0 +The gun the music of the coming year,1.0 +"Destroy; and harmless, unsuspecting harm,",0.0 +"Lay the weak tribes, a miserable prey!",4.0 +"In mingled murder, fluttering on the ground.",1.0 +"The pale, descending year, yet pleasing still,",0.0 +A gentler mood inspires; for now the leaf,0.0 +"Oft starting such as, studious, walk below,",4.0 +And slowly circles through the waving air.,1.0 +But should a quicker breeze and the boughs,0.0 +"Sob, over the sky the leafy rain streams;",4.0 +"Roll wide the withered waste, and whistle bleak.",1.0 +"And, shrunk into their beds, the flowery race",2.0 +Their sunny robes resign. Even what remained,4.0 +Of bolder fruits falls from the naked tree;,2.0 +"And woods, fields, gardens, orchards, all around",1.0 +He comes! he comes! in every breeze the Power,0.0 +Of philosophic Melancholy comes!,0.0 +"The glowing cheek, the mild dejected air,",0.0 +"The softened feature, and the beating heart,",1.0 +"Pierced deep with many a secret pang, declare.",3.0 +Over all his soul his sacred influence breathes;,2.0 +"In all the bosom triumphs, all the nerves;",0.0 +Inflames imagination; through the sense,1.0 +Infuses every tenderness; and far,1.0 +Beyond dim earth exalts the swelling thought.,1.0 +"Ten thousand thousand fleet ideas, such",2.0 +Crowd fast into the mind's creative eye.,1.0 +"As fast the correspondent passions rise,",0.0 +"As varied, and as high: devotion raised",1.0 +"To rapture, and divine astonishment.",2.0 +"The love of Nature unconfined, and chief",0.0 +"Of human kind; the large, ambitious wish,",0.0 +"To make them blessed; the sigh for suffering worth,",0.0 +Lost in obscurity; the indignant scorn,4.0 +"Of mighty pride; the fearless, great resolve;",0.0 +"The wonder that the dying patriot draws,",2.0 +Inspiring glory through remotest time;,1.0 +"The arousing pant for virtue, and for fame;",2.0 +"The sympathies of love, and friendship dear;",1.0 +With all the social offspring of the heart.,2.0 +"To twilight groves, and visionary vales!",1.0 +"Tremendous sweep, or seem to sweep along;",0.0 +"And voices more than human, through the void",1.0 +And now the western sun withdraws the day;,0.0 +"And humid evening, gilding over the sky,",2.0 +"In her chill progress, to the ground condensed",0.0 +"Where marshes stagnate, and where rivers wind,",2.0 +"Cluster the rolling fogs, and swim along",2.0 +"Turned to the sun direct, her spotted disk,",0.0 +"A lesser earth gives all his blaze again,",1.0 +"Void of its flame, and sheds a softer day.",0.0 +"Now through the passing cloud she seems to stoop,",0.0 +Wide the pale deluge floats; and streaming mild,3.0 +"While rocks, and floods reflect the quivering gleam,",2.0 +"Of silver radiance, trembling round the world.",0.0 +"Fainting, permits the starry fires to burn,",2.0 +With keener lustre through the depth of heaven;,1.0 +"Oft in this season, silent from the north",1.0 +"The lower skies, then all at once converge",0.0 +"High to the crown of heaven, and all at once",0.0 +"And mix, and thwart, extinguish, and renew,",1.0 +All either coursing in a maze of light.,0.0 +"From look to look, contagious through the crowd,",1.0 +"The appearance throws: armies in meet array,",6.0 +"Throng with aerial spears, and steeds of fire;",2.0 +"As thus they scan the visionary scene,",0.0 +"On all sides swells the superstitious din,",1.0 +Incontinent; and busy frenzy talks,1.0 +"Of blood and battle; cities overturned,",0.0 +"And, late at night, in swallowing earthquake sunk,",3.0 +Or painted hideous with ascending flame;,3.0 +"Of pestilence, and every great distress;",1.0 +The unalterable hour: even Nature's self,2.0 +Is deemed to totter on the brink of time.,1.0 +"Not so the man of philosophic eye,",0.0 +And inspect sage; the waving brightness he,5.0 +"Curious surveys, inquisitive to know",2.0 +"Of this appearance beautiful, and new.",2.0 +"Now black, and deep, the night begins to fall,",1.0 +"A solid shade, immense. Sunk in the gloom",1.0 +"Magnificent, and vast, are heaven and earth.",1.0 +Order confounded lies; all beauty void;,2.0 +Distinction lost; and gay variety,1.0 +One universal blot: such the fair power,2.0 +"Of Light, to kindle, and create the whole.",1.0 +"Who then, bewildered, wanders through the dark,",1.0 +"Nor visited by one directive ray,",2.0 +"From cottage streaming, or from airy hall.",1.0 +"Perhaps impatient as he stumbles on,",2.0 +"Struck from the root of slimy ruses, blue,",0.0 +A length of flame deceitful over the moss;,2.0 +"While still, from day to day, his pining wife,",0.0 +"And plaintive children his return await,",1.0 +"In wild conjecture lost. At other times,",0.0 +"Sent by the better Genius of the night,",1.0 +"The meteor sits; and shows the narrow path,",2.0 +"That winding leads through pits of death, or else",0.0 +Instructs him how to take the dangerous ford.,3.0 +"The lengthened night elapsed, the morning shines",0.0 +"Serene, in all her dewy beauty bright,",0.0 +Unfolding fair the last Autumnal day.,0.0 +And now the mounting sun dispels the fog;,0.0 +"And hung on every spray, on every blade",0.0 +"Ah see where robbed, and murdered, in that pit,",0.0 +"Lies the still heaving hive; at evening snatched,",3.0 +"Sat tending public cares, and planning schemes",1.0 +"Of temperance, for winter poor; rejoiced",1.0 +"Sudden the dark, oppressive steam ascends:",2.0 +"And, used to milder scents, the tender race,",0.0 +"And was it then for this you roamed the spring,",2.0 +Intent from flower to flower? for this you toiled,3.0 +"For this in Autumn searched the blooming waste,",1.0 +Nor lost one sunny gleam? for this sad sat?,1.0 +"Shall prostrate nature groan beneath your rage,",0.0 +"Awaiting renovation? When obliged,",0.0 +Must you destroy? Of their ambrosial food,2.0 +"Can you not borrow? and in just return,",1.0 +Again regale them on some smiling day?,1.0 +"Hard by, the stony bottom of their town",1.0 +"Looks desolate, and wild; with here and there",1.0 +"A helpless number, who the ruined state",0.0 +"Survive, lamenting weak, cast out to death.",2.0 +"Thus a proud city, populous, and rich,",4.0 +"Full of the works of peace, and high in joy,",0.0 +"At theatre, or feast, or sunk in sleep,",1.0 +"As late, Palermo, was thy fate is seized",1.0 +"By some dread earthquake, and convulsive hurled,",3.0 +"Hence every harsher sight! for now the day,",1.0 +"Over heaven and earth diffused, grows warm, and high,",1.0 +Of dew evaporate brushes from the plain.,5.0 +How clear the cloudless sky! how deeply tinged,0.0 +With a peculiar blue! the ethereal arch,5.0 +The radiant sun how gay! how calm below,0.0 +"Now gathered in, beyond the rage of storms,",1.0 +Sure to the swain; the circling sense shut up;,2.0 +And instant Winter bid to do his worst.,0.0 +"While loose to festive joy, the country round",0.0 +"Laughs with the loud sincerity of mirth,",1.0 +"Not needing the melodious impulse much,",2.0 +"Leaps wildly graceful, in the lively dance.",1.0 +"Young, buxom, warm, in native beauty rich,",1.0 +"Points an approving smile, with double force,",2.0 +"The cudgel rattles, and the struggle twists.",1.0 +"Age too shines out; and, garrulous, recounts",2.0 +The feats of youth. Thus they rejoice; nor think,2.0 +"That, with tomorrow's fun, their annual toil",4.0 +"O knew he but his happiness, of men",2.0 +"The happiest he! who far from public rage,",1.0 +"Deep in the vale, with a choice few retired,",2.0 +Drinks the pure pleasures of the rural life.,4.0 +"What though the dome be wanting, whose proud gate",1.0 +"Vile intercourse! What though the glittering robe,",4.0 +"Of every hue reflected light can give,",0.0 +"The pride, and gaze of fools! oppress him not.",0.0 +"What though from utmost land, and sea, purveyed,",4.0 +"For him each rarer, tributary life",1.0 +"With luxury, and death. What though his wine",2.0 +"Flows not from brighter gems; nor sunk in beds,",0.0 +"Oft of gay care, he tosses out the night;",4.0 +"Or, thoughtless, sleeps at best in idle state.",0.0 +"What though deprived of these fantastic joys,",2.0 +"A face of pleasure, but a heart of pain;",1.0 +"Sure peace is his; a solid life, estranged",2.0 +"To disappointment, and fallacious hope;",1.0 +"Rich in content, in Nature's bounty rich,",2.0 +"In herbs, and fruits; whatever greens the Spring,",1.0 +"When heaven descends in showers; or bends the bough,",2.0 +"These are not wanting; nor the milky drove,",2.0 +"Luxuriant, spread over all the lowing vale;",2.0 +"And hum of bees, inviting sleep sincere",0.0 +"Into the guiltless breast, beneath the shade,",0.0 +Or thrown at large amid the fragrant hay:,0.0 +"Nor aught beside of prospect, grove, or song,",0.0 +Here too lives simple truth; plain innocence;,3.0 +"Unsullied beauty; sound, unbroken youth,",0.0 +"Patient of labour, with a little pleased;",2.0 +"Calm contemplation, and poetic ease.",2.0 +"Let others brave the flood, in quest of gain,",1.0 +"Let such as deem it glory to destroy,",1.0 +Rush into blood; the sack of cities seek;,1.0 +"The virgin's shriek, and infant's trembling cry.",0.0 +"Urged, or by want, or hardened avarice,",1.0 +Find other lands beneath another sun.,1.0 +"Let This through cities work his ardent way,",0.0 +"By legal outrage, and established guile,",2.0 +The social sense extinct; and That ferment,0.0 +"Mad into tumult the seditious herd,",2.0 +Or melt them down to slavery. Let These,3.0 +"Ensnare the wretched in the toils of law,",0.0 +"Fomenting discord, and perplexing right,",3.0 +"An iron race! and Those of fairer front,",1.0 +"But equal inhumanity, in courts,",2.0 +And tread the weary labyrinth of state.,0.0 +"While He, from all the stormy passions free,",0.0 +"That restless men involve, hears, and but hears,",2.0 +"At distance safe, the human tempest roar,",0.0 +"Wrapped close in conscious peace. The fall of kings,",1.0 +"The rage of nations, and the crush of states",1.0 +"Move not the man, who, from the world escaped,",1.0 +"To Nature's voice attends, from day to day,",0.0 +"And month to month, through the revolving Year;",1.0 +"Admiring, sees her in her every shape:",0.0 +Feels all her fine emotions at his heart;,0.0 +"Takes what she liberal gives, nor thinks of more.",0.0 +"Marks the first bud, and sucks the healthful gale",3.0 +Into his freshened soul; her genial hours,0.0 +"He quite enjoys; and not a beauty blows,",0.0 +And not an opening blossom breathes in vain.,2.0 +"In Summer he, beneath the living shade,",1.0 +"Such as from frigid Tempe wont to fall,",1.0 +"Perhaps, has in immortal numbers sung;",0.0 +"Or what she dictates writes; and, oft an eye",1.0 +With gentle throws; and through the tepid gleams,1.0 +Even Winter wild to him is full of bliss.,1.0 +"The mighty tempest, and the hoary waste,",1.0 +"Abrupt, and deep, stretched over the buried earth,",3.0 +"Awake to solemn thought. At night the skies,",0.0 +"Disclosed, and kindled, by refining frost,",1.0 +Pour every lustre on the astonished eye.,4.0 +"A friend, a book, the stealing hours secure,",0.0 +"And mark them down for wisdom. With swift wing,",3.0 +"Over land, and sea, imagination roams;",0.0 +"Or truth, divinely breaking on his mind,",1.0 +"Elates his being, and unfolds his powers;",1.0 +Or in his breast heroic virtue burns.,0.0 +"The touch of love, and kindred too he feels,",0.0 +"The modest eye, whose beams on his alone",1.0 +"Ecstatic shine; the little, strong embrace",0.0 +"Of prattling children, twined around his neck,",0.0 +"The fond parental soul. Nor purpose gay,",0.0 +"Amusement, dance, or song, he sternly scorns;",0.0 +"For happiness, and true philosophy",2.0 +"Still are, and have been of the smiling kind.",1.0 +"This is the life which those who fret in guilt,",2.0 +"And guilty cities, never knew; the life,",0.0 +"When God himself, and Angels dwelled with men!",0.0 +Enrich me with the knowledge of thy works!,2.0 +"Snatch me to heaven; thy rolling wonders there,",1.0 +"World beyond world, in infinite extent,",3.0 +"Profusely scattered over the void immense,",2.0 +"Show me; their motions, periods, and their laws,",1.0 +Give me to scan; through the disclosing deep,1.0 +Light my blind way: the mineral Strata there;,4.0 +"Over that rising system, more complex,",2.0 +"Of animals; and higher still, the mind,",1.0 +And where the mixing passions endless shift;,0.0 +"A search, the flight of time can never exhaust!",2.0 +"But if to that unequal; if the blood,",2.0 +"In sluggish streams about my heart, forbids",0.0 +"That best ambition; under closing shades,",0.0 +"Inglorious, lay me by the lowly brook,",3.0 +"And whisper to my dreams. From Thee begin,",2.0 +"Dwell all on Thee, with Thee conclude my song;",2.0 +"And let me never, never stray from Thee!",0.0 +"IN vain the sprightly sun renews his course,",0.0 +"Climbs up the ascending signs and leads the day,",1.0 +"While long embattled clouds repel his force,",0.0 +In vain the spring proclaims the newborn year;,0.0 +"No flowers beneath her lingering footsteps spring,",4.0 +"No rosy garland binds her flowing hair,",1.0 +And in her train no feathered warblers sing.,1.0 +"Her opening breast is stained with frequent showers,",2.0 +"Her streaming tresses bathed in chilling dews,",0.0 +"And sad before her move the pensive hours,",0.0 +Whose flagging wings no breathing sweets diffuse.,1.0 +"Like some lone pilgrim, clad in mournful weed,",1.0 +"Whose wounded bosom drinks her falling tears,",0.0 +"On whose pale cheek relentless sorrows feed,",1.0 +Whose dreary way no sprightly carol cheers.,1.0 +And called the Tuscan Muses to her bowers;,1.0 +When Crees daughter filled her lap with flowers.,1.0 +"Clouds behind clouds in long succession rise,",3.0 +And heavy snows oppress the springing green;,0.0 +"The dazzling waste fatigues the aching eyes,",0.0 +Indulgent nature loose this frozen zone;,0.0 +"Dissolving snows shall their glad impulse own,",0.0 +And melt upon the bosom of the May.,1.0 +OH HAPPINESS! where art thou to be found?,3.0 +What bower is blessed with thy perpetual gleam?,5.0 +"From court, from cot, even while they seek thy stay,",3.0 +"Thy name, not substance, is to mortals known.",1.0 +"Repulse from thee makes drunkards stand aghast,",2.0 +Who nightly revel over the flowing bowl.,2.0 +"In vain they seek thy progress to retard,",2.0 +A guest too noble to be thus detained.,2.0 +"Balks hope, and certain disappointment brings.",1.0 +Nor find thy residence in golden over:,1.0 +"Fear, anxious care, bleak avarice, and distrust,",5.0 +"Not riches, though in gorgeous pomp arrayed,",1.0 +"Secure thee amongst the gay, fantastic train.",2.0 +"And bid defiance to thy sacred charms,",1.0 +Nor even the voice of honour can recall,3.0 +Thy hasty steps: thee Pleasure sues in vain;,0.0 +"A stranger to the gay, licentious crowd,",1.0 +The giddy fluttering sons of dance and song.,2.0 +Thou to the libertine dost ever prove,1.0 +"Leaves him to cruel disappointment's rage,",0.0 +"Remorse, despair, the inmates of his soul.",2.0 +"The ardent warrior quits his native shore,",0.0 +"Inured to martial toil; at danger smiles,",0.0 +And unconcerned treads over the heaps of slain:,3.0 +His enemies fly before him; at his feet,2.0 +"Millions fall prostrate, and for mercy call:",4.0 +Yet still in vain he makes his court to thee;,0.0 +"See lovers too, in yonder sequestered grove,",3.0 +"Seek lonely walks, and spend their sighs in vain,",1.0 +Whose smiles they deem can boundless bliss secure:,0.0 +Their views contracted would thee thus confine.,0.0 +Though silken cords of sweet affection bind.,0.0 +"A thousand ills encompass the fond pair,",2.0 +And mix their sweets with bitterness and woe.,1.0 +"Bent in pursuit, through many a devious track,",5.0 +To nobler objects henceforth bend your view.,4.0 +"All hail, Religion! thou celestial power!",1.0 +"And quite dispel the solitary gloom,",0.0 +There sullen shades that steal upon the soul.,0.0 +OH let me hear thy salutary voice!,1.0 +Thy sacred dictates let me still revere;,1.0 +"And ever prone in virtue's steps to tread,",0.0 +Whose hand omnipotent the world did frame.,1.0 +"OH Thou, great Source of all supreme delight!",3.0 +Without reluctance may I ever prove,1.0 +"Submissive to thy providential sway,",1.0 +"To know and to observe thy laws divine,",1.0 +"Content, and calm serenity of mind,",1.0 +Shall pave my paths along the rugged vale;,0.0 +"Then happiness, in all its vast extent",1.0 +Shall through eternal ages be my lot;,1.0 +The lot of all whose hope is fixed on thee.,0.0 +The internal Senses painted here we see:,1.0 +"OH were our Author with thy Converse blessed,",1.0 +"Could he behold the Virtues, of thy Breast;",2.0 +And bid the World not read ' -- but copy you!,1.0 +"Of Hope's bright blossoms, and Joy's fairy flowers,",3.0 +As she was wont to do in gayer hours;,1.0 +"Ill would it suit this brow, where many a line",2.0 +"Declares the springtime of my life gone by,",4.0 +And summer far advanced; what now remain,0.0 +"For those gay phantoms, chased by sober truth?",2.0 +"Those forms tumultuous which sick visions bring,",4.0 +That lightly flitting on the transient wing,1.0 +"Ah, no! my suffering soul at length restored,",0.0 +Shall taste the calm repose so oft in vain implored.,0.0 +"Delighted oft amid these shades to stray,",0.0 +To their loved master breathing many a lay,4.0 +Divinely soothing; o! be near to charm,1.0 +"For me the languid hours of pain, and warm",1.0 +This heart depressed with one inspiring ray,1.0 +From such bright visions as were wont to play,3.0 +"The soul subduing powers of mortal ill,",2.0 +"Beneath his own dear oaks, when, present still,",1.0 +This mourning Mother can with Ease explore,1.0 +"Was early learnt, nay more, was early wise;",1.0 +And knew the Pride of Science to despise;,1.0 +Left Men to take assuming Airs from thence;,1.0 +And seemed unconscious of superior Sense.,4.0 +"Yet, ah! how vain to guard the Soul, we see,",0.0 +Are the best Precepts of Philosophy!,4.0 +"See Nature triumph over the boasted Art,",3.0 +"See how she mourns her Son's untimely Doom,",0.0 +And pours her Woes over the relentless Tomb.,4.0 +"Soften, kind Heaven, her seeming rigid Fate,",3.0 +With frequent Visions of his blissful State:,1.0 +Oft let the Guardian Angel of her Son,4.0 +"Tell her in faithful Dreams, His Task is done;",0.0 +"Show, how he kindly led her lovely Boy",0.0 +"Then, for a while, reverse his happy Fate;",0.0 +"Show him still here, still in this wretched State:",0.0 +"Show the false World, seducing him from Truth;",4.0 +"And paint the slippery, dangerous Paths of Youth:",2.0 +"Convey him thence to Life's remotest Stage,",0.0 +To feel the dire Calamities of Age;,1.0 +"Or racked with Guilt, much harder to be born.",1.0 +"Raise the Distress; and let her darling Care,",2.0 +"Distracted in the Horrors of Despair,",1.0 +"The dreadful Scene of Judgement opening see,",2.0 +"And, trembling, plunge into Eternity.",1.0 +"Then ask her, Would she call him down from Bliss,",1.0 +To hazard such a dismal Doom as this?,1.0 +"That she may learn to be resigned from thence,",0.0 +"And bless the Guardian Hand, that snatched him hence.",2.0 +That state you say is lost! So when you find,0.0 +"The blood corrupted, and the fever high,",1.0 +You doubt not to pronounce ' -- that man must die.,1.0 +Now in the way of Fable we'll suppose,1.0 +Rebellion in the human frame arose;,0.0 +"Each member loudly sounded forth his merit,",0.0 +"And cried, to obey the Head showed want of spirit,",3.0 +"'Twas time the Limbs should now assert their part,",1.0 +And overturn the empire of the Heart.,1.0 +"For God or King, nor any strength would lend",0.0 +To bear a Head of such unwieldy size;,1.0 +To hear and see required not Ears and Eyes;,0.0 +"All parts were equal, and had each a right",1.0 +TO assume the gift of hearing and of sight.,2.0 +"This said, the Hands indignant caught the alarm,",2.0 +"Aloud they clapped, and summoned all to fight",0.0 +"To fix their freedom, and enforce their right.",1.0 +"And now Convulsion seized on every part,",0.0 +"Loud beat each Pulse, and terror shook the Heart;",1.0 +"Within was heard a horrid noise and rout,",0.0 +The Inside claimed the right to be the Out.,1.0 +They cared not if it brought on instant death;,1.0 +The right to hold a share in the Outside.,1.0 +"The Stomach roared he soon would stop digestion,",0.0 +If ever his outside right was called in question:,3.0 +Nor longer throw the blood up to the Heart;,1.0 +"The Heart might feed itself, or yield it's place",0.0 +"On this the Liver writhed himself around,",1.0 +"And swore that long, though rotten and unsound,",1.0 +"For he was fit to rule, and he alone.",2.0 +Planning by craft the downfall of the Head;,4.0 +"But now overcharged with envy, rage, and guile,",2.0 +"Thus all within was agony and strife,",2.0 +Each fresh convulsion seemed to threaten life;,0.0 +"The Limbs distorted rise ' -- they give the blow,",0.0 +"Taught by this sad example, ere too late,",1.0 +Where foul rebellion reigns and anarchy.,1.0 +AS one who long in thickets and in brakes,2.0 +"Entangled, winds now this way and now that",3.0 +"His devious course uncertain, seeking home;",2.0 +"Plunging, and half despairing of escape,",3.0 +"And faithful to the foot, his spirits rise,",1.0 +And winds his way with pleasure and with ease;,1.0 +"So I, designing other themes, and called",1.0 +"Have rambled wide. In country, city, seat",0.0 +Of academic fame however deserved,3.0 +"Long held, and scarcely disengaged at last.",2.0 +"I mean to tread. I feel myself at large,",1.0 +"Courageous, and refreshed for future toil,",1.0 +"If toil await me, or if dangers new.",1.0 +"Most part an empty ineffectual sound,",2.0 +"What chance that I, to fame so little known,",1.0 +"Nor conversant with men or manners much,",3.0 +"Should speak to purpose, or with better hope",1.0 +"And charmed with rural beauty, to repose",1.0 +"Where chance may throw me, beneath elm or vine,",5.0 +"My languid limbs when summer fears the plains,",0.0 +"Or when rough winter rages, on the soft",2.0 +"And sheltered Sofa, while the nitrous air",0.0 +Feeds a blue flame and makes a cheerful hearth;,3.0 +"How great the danger of disturbing her,",2.0 +"To muse in silence, or at least confine",1.0 +"Remarks that gall so many, to the few",1.0 +My partners in retreat. Disgust concealed,0.0 +"Is obstinate, and cure beyond our reach.",1.0 +"Domestic happiness, thou only bliss",1.0 +Of Paradise that has survived the fall!,0.0 +"Though few now taste thee unimpaired and pure,",1.0 +"Or tasting, long enjoy thee, too infirm",0.0 +"Unmixed with drops of bitter, which neglect",0.0 +Or temper sheds into thy crystal cup.,0.0 +Thou art the nurse of virtue. In thine arms,0.0 +"She smiles, appearing, as in truth she is,",1.0 +Heaven born and destined to the skies again.,1.0 +"Thou art not known where pleasure is adored,",1.0 +"And wandering eyes, still leaning on the arm",4.0 +"Of novelty, her fickle frail support;",1.0 +"For thou art meek and constant, hating change,",1.0 +"Forsaking thee, what shipwreck have we made",1.0 +Till prostitution elbows us aside,2.0 +"Convened for purposes of empire less,",1.0 +What provocation to the indignant heart,3.0 +That feels for injured love! but I disdain,1.0 +"The nauseous task to paint her as she is,",1.0 +The frequency of crimes has washed them white.,1.0 +"And verse of mine shall never brand the wretch,",1.0 +"And chaste themselves, are not ashamed to own.",0.0 +Virtue and vice had boundaries in old time,3.0 +Not to be passed. And she that had renounced,1.0 +'Twas hard perhaps on here and there a waif,2.0 +"Desirous to return and not received,",1.0 +And taught the unblemished to preserve with care,3.0 +"That purity, whose loss was loss of all.",1.0 +"Men too were nice in honour in those days,",1.0 +Was marked and shunned as odious. He that sold,1.0 +"His country, or was slack when she required",2.0 +"His every nerve in action and at stretch,",1.0 +"The price of his default. But now, yes, now,",2.0 +"We are become so candid and so fair,",2.0 +"So liberal in construction, and so rich",1.0 +"That they are safe, sinners of either sex,",5.0 +"Transgress what laws they may. Well dressed, well bred,",2.0 +To pass us readily through every door.,1.0 +"Hypocrisy, detest her as we may,",2.0 +And no man's hatred ever wronged her yet,1.0 +"May claim this merit still, that she admits",1.0 +"The worth of what she mimics with such care,",1.0 +And thus gives virtue indirect applause;,2.0 +"But she has burned her mask not needed here,",1.0 +"Where vice has such allowance, that her shifts",1.0 +I was a stricken deer that left the herd,1.0 +My panting side was charged when I withdrew,1.0 +To seek a tranquil death in distant shades.,0.0 +There was I found by one who had himself,2.0 +Been hurt by the archers. In his side he bore,0.0 +And in his hands and feet the cruel scars.,0.0 +With gentle force soliciting the darts,1.0 +"He drew them forth, and healed and bade me live.",0.0 +"And silent woods I wander, far from those",0.0 +"My former partners of the peopled scene,",1.0 +"Here much I ruminate, as much I may,",0.0 +With other views of men and manners now,0.0 +"Than once, and others of a life to come.",1.0 +"I see that all are wanderers, gone astray",2.0 +Each in his own delusions; they are lost,1.0 +"In chase of fancied happiness, still wooed",2.0 +"And never won. Dream after dream ensues,",1.0 +"And still they dream that they shall still succeed,",1.0 +And still are disappointed; rings the world,0.0 +"With the vain stir. I sum up half mankind,",3.0 +"And add two-thirds of the remainder half,",2.0 +And find the total of their hopes and fears,1.0 +"Dreams, empty dreams. The million flit as gay",1.0 +As if created only like the fly,1.0 +That spreads his motley wings in the eye of noon,0.0 +To sport their season and be seen no more.,2.0 +"The rest are sober dreamers, grave and wise,",0.0 +And pregnant with discoveries new and rare.,3.0 +Some write a narrative of wars and feats,1.0 +"Of heroes little known, and call the rant",0.0 +"An history. Describe the man, of whom",1.0 +"And paint his person, character and views,",1.0 +As they had known him from his mother's womb.,2.0 +They disentangle from the puzzled skein,1.0 +"In which obscurity has wrapped them up,",1.0 +The threads of politic and shrewd design,0.0 +"That ran through all his purposes, and charge",1.0 +"His mind with meanings that he never had,",0.0 +"Or having, kept concealed. Some drill and bore",0.0 +"The solid earth, and from the strata there",2.0 +"Extract a register, by which we learn",1.0 +That he who made it and revealed its date,1.0 +"To Moses, was mistaken in its age.",1.0 +Some more acute and more industrious still,2.0 +Contrive creation. Travel nature up,1.0 +"And tell us whence the stars. Why some are fixed,",0.0 +And planetary some. What gave them first,0.0 +"Rotation, from what fountain flowed their light.",1.0 +"Great contest follows, and much learnt dust",3.0 +"Involves the combatants, each claiming truth,",4.0 +And truth disclaiming both. And thus they spend,0.0 +"The little wick of life's poor shallow lamp,",1.0 +"In playing tricks with nature, giving laws",0.0 +To distant worlds and trifling in their own.,0.0 +"Of oracles like these? Great pity too,",3.0 +"That having wielded the elements, and built",3.0 +"A thousand systems, each in his own way,",1.0 +They should go out in fume and be forgot?,0.0 +Ah! what is life thus spent? and what are they,1.0 +But frantic who thus spend it? all for smoke ' --,1.0 +"Eternity for bubbles, proves at last",1.0 +A senseless bargain. When I see such games,0.0 +Played by the creatures of a power who swears,2.0 +"That he will judge the earth, and call the fool",0.0 +"To a sharp reckoning that has lived in vain,",2.0 +And when I weigh this seeming wisdom well,0.0 +And prove it in the infallible result,2.0 +So hollow and so false ' -- I feel my heart,1.0 +"Dissolve in pity, and account the learnt,",1.0 +"If this be learning, most of all deceived.",1.0 +"Great crimes alarm the conscience, but she sleeps",2.0 +While thoughtful man is plausibly amused.,1.0 +"Defend me therefore common sense, say I,",3.0 +"From reveries so airy, from the toil",2.0 +"Of dropping buckets into empty wells,",0.0 +And growing old in drawing nothing up!,1.0 +"And overbuilt with most impending brows,",0.0 +As the world pleases. What's the world to you?,2.0 +"Much. I was born of woman, and drew milk",2.0 +As sweet as charity from human breasts.,1.0 +"I think, articulate, I laugh and weep",0.0 +And exercise all functions of a man.,1.0 +How then should I and any man that lives,0.0 +"Be strangers to each other? pierce my vein,",1.0 +Take of the crimson stream meandering there,1.0 +"Search it, and prove now if it be not blood",2.0 +"Congenial with thine own. And if it be,",2.0 +"To cut the link of brotherhood, by which",0.0 +One common Maker bound me to the kind.,1.0 +"True; I am no proficient, I confess,",1.0 +In arts like yours. I cannot call the swift,1.0 +"And perilous lightnings from the angry clouds,",3.0 +"And bid them hide themselves in the earth beneath,",0.0 +The parallax of yonder luminous point,2.0 +Such powers I boast not ' -- neither can I rest,3.0 +A silent witness of the headlong rage,2.0 +"Bone of my bone, and kindred souls to mine.",0.0 +God never meant that man should scale the heavens,1.0 +By strides of human wisdom. In his works,0.0 +"Though wondrous, he commands us in his word",1.0 +"To seek him rather, where his mercy shines.",0.0 +The mind indeed enlightened from above,1.0 +Views him in all. Ascribes to the grand cause,1.0 +The grand effect. Acknowledges with joy,1.0 +"His manner, and with rapture tastes his style.",1.0 +But never yet did philosophic tube,0.0 +That brings the planets home into the eye,0.0 +"Of observation, and discovers, else",1.0 +"Not visible, his family of worlds,",2.0 +Discover him that rules them; such a veil,2.0 +"Hangs over mortal eyes, blind from the birth",3.0 +And dark in things divine. Full often too,1.0 +"Our wayward intellect, the more we learn",0.0 +"Of nature, overlooks her author more,",0.0 +From instrumental causes proud to draw,0.0 +Conclusions retrograde and mad mistake.,0.0 +"But if his word once teach us, shoot a ray",2.0 +"Through all the heart's dark chambers, and reveal",2.0 +In the pure fountain of eternal love,3.0 +Has eyes indeed; and viewing all she sees,0.0 +"As meant to indicate a God to man,",0.0 +"Gives him his praise, and forfeits not her own.",0.0 +Learning has born such fruit in other days,2.0 +On all her branches. Piety has found,1.0 +"Friends in the friends of science, and true prayer",2.0 +"Such was thy wisdom, Newton, childlike sage!",2.0 +"Milton, whose genius had angelic wings,",3.0 +And fed on manna. And such thine in whom,1.0 +Immortal Hale! for deep discernment praised,0.0 +"And sound integrity not more, than famed",1.0 +"All flesh is grass, and all its glory fades",0.0 +"Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream;",2.0 +"The man we celebrate must find a tomb,",0.0 +"And we that worship him, ignoble graves.",2.0 +Nothing is proof against the general curse,2.0 +"Of vanity, that seizes all below.",1.0 +"Is virtue, the only lasting treasure, truth.",2.0 +But what is truth?'twas Pilate's question put,1.0 +"To truth itself, that deigned him no reply.",0.0 +And wherefore? will not God impart his light,1.0 +"To them that ask it? ' -- Freely ' -- it's his joy,",2.0 +"His glory, and his nature to impart.",2.0 +"Or negligent enquirer, not a spark.",1.0 +What's that which brings contempt upon a book,0.0 +"And him that writes it, though the style be neat,",2.0 +"The method clear, and argument exact?",1.0 +That makes a minister in holy things,1.0 +"The joy of many and the dread of more,",1.0 +His name a theme for praise and for reproach? ' --,1.0 +"That while it gives us worth in God's account,",0.0 +"What pearl is it that rich men cannot buy,",2.0 +"That learning is too proud to gather up,",3.0 +But which the poor and the despised of all,1.0 +"Tell me, and I will tell thee, what is truth.",1.0 +"O friendly to the best pursuits of man,",1.0 +"Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace,",3.0 +Domestic life in rural leisure passed!,0.0 +"Few know thy value, and few taste thy sweets,",1.0 +To understand and choose thee for their own.,1.0 +"Even as his first progenitor, and quits,",2.0 +Though placed in paradise for earth has still,0.0 +Some traces of her youthful beauty left,1.0 +Substantial happiness for transient joy.,1.0 +"Scenes formed for contemplation, and to nurse",2.0 +The growing seeds of wisdom; that suggest,0.0 +By every pleasing image they present,1.0 +"Compose the passions, and exalt the mind,",1.0 +"Scenes such as these, it's his supreme delight",2.0 +"We persecute, annihilate the tribes",0.0 +That draw the sportsman over hill and dale,0.0 +"Fearless, and rapt away from all his cares;",2.0 +Could pageantry and dance and feast and song,1.0 +"Who dream they have a taste for fields and groves,",0.0 +"Would find them hideous nurseries of the spleen,",3.0 +"And crowd the roads, impatient for the town!",1.0 +"They love the country, and none else, who seek",2.0 +For their own sake its silence and its shade.,2.0 +"Delights which who would leave, that has a heart",0.0 +"Susceptible of pity, or a mind",2.0 +"Cultured and capable of sober thought,",3.0 +For all the savage din of the swift pack,1.0 +That feeds upon the sobs and dying shrieks,0.0 +"Of harmless nature, dumb, but yet endued",0.0 +With eloquence that agonies inspire,2.0 +Vain tears alas! and sighs that never find,1.0 +A corresponding tone in jovial souls.,2.0 +Well ' -- one at least is safe. One sheltered hare,0.0 +"Of cruel man, exulting in her woes.",0.0 +"Innocent partner of my peaceful home,",3.0 +Whom ten long years experience of my care,2.0 +"Has made at last familiar, she has lost",1.0 +"Much of her vigilant instinctive dread,",1.0 +"Not needful here, beneath a roof like mine.",0.0 +"At evening, and at night retire secure",1.0 +"For I have gained thy confidence, have pledged",2.0 +"All that is human in me, to protect",1.0 +Thine unsuspecting gratitude and love.,0.0 +"If I survive thee I will dig thy grave,",2.0 +"And when I place thee in it, sighing say,",0.0 +I knew at least one hare that had a friend.,0.0 +"How various his employments, whom the world",3.0 +"Calls idle, and who justly in return",2.0 +"Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen,",2.0 +"Delightful industry enjoyed at home,",1.0 +And nature in her cultivated trim,0.0 +"Dressed to his taste, inviting him abroad ' --",1.0 +Can he want occupation who has these?,2.0 +Will he be idle who has much to enjoy?,2.0 +"Me therefore, studious of laborious ease,",6.0 +Not waste it; and aware that human life,1.0 +"Is but a loan to be repaid with use,",1.0 +"When he shall call his debtors to account,",1.0 +"From whom are all our blessings, business finds",0.0 +"At least neglect not, or leave unemployed",2.0 +"The mind he gave me; driving it, though slack",1.0 +"Too oft, and much impeded in its work",1.0 +"By causes not to be divulged in vain,",0.0 +To its just point the service of mankind.,3.0 +"He that attends to his interior self,",3.0 +That has a heart and keeps it; has a mind,0.0 +"A social, not a dissipated life,",0.0 +Has business. Feels himself engaged to achieve,2.0 +"No unimportant, though a silent task.",3.0 +"A life all turbulence and noise, may seem",1.0 +"To him that leads it, wise and to be praised;",2.0 +But wisdom is a pearl with most success,1.0 +"Sought in still water, and beneath clear skies.",4.0 +"He that is ever occupied in storms,",0.0 +"Or dives not for it, or brings up instead,",3.0 +"Fresh for his task, intend what task he may.",0.0 +Whether inclement seasons recommend,2.0 +"His warm but simple home, where he enjoys",1.0 +"With her who shares his pleasures and his heart,",2.0 +"Sweet converse, sipping calm the fragrant lymph",1.0 +Which neatly she prepares; then to his book,2.0 +"In selfish silence, but imparted oft",1.0 +"As aught occurs that she may smile to hear,",1.0 +Or turn to nourishment digested well.,2.0 +"Or if the garden with its many cares,",2.0 +"All well repaid, demand him, he attends",1.0 +"The welcome call, conscious how much the hand",4.0 +"Nor does he govern only or direct,",1.0 +But much performs himself. No works indeed,1.0 +"Servile employ ' -- but such as may amuse,",4.0 +"Not tyre, demanding rather skill than force.",0.0 +"Proud of his well spread walls, he views his trees",1.0 +That meet no barren interval between,2.0 +"With pleasure more than even their fruits afford,",2.0 +"Which, save himself who trains them, none can feel.",0.0 +"These therefore are his own peculiar charge,",2.0 +"No meaner hand may discipline the shoots,",2.0 +"None but his steel approach them. What is weak,",0.0 +"Impaired by age, his unrelenting hand",0.0 +Dooms to the knife. Nor does he spare the soft,0.0 +And succulent that feeds its giant growth,1.0 +"But barren, at the expense of neighbouring twigs",4.0 +"Less ostentatious, and yet studded thick",2.0 +"With hopeful gems. The rest, no portion left",1.0 +"That may disgrace his art, or disappoint",1.0 +"Large expectation, he disposes neat",2.0 +"At measured distances, that air and sun",1.0 +"Admitted freely may afford their aid,",1.0 +And ventilate and warm the swelling buds.,0.0 +"Hence summer has her riches, autumn hence,",1.0 +And hence even winter fills his withered hand,2.0 +Fair recompense of labour well bestowed,1.0 +"Makes needful still, whose spring is but the child",2.0 +Discovering much the temper of her sire.,2.0 +"Maternal nature had reversed its course,",0.0 +"She brings her infants forth with many smiles,",0.0 +"But once delivered, kills them with a frown.",1.0 +"He therefore, timely warned, himself supplies",1.0 +"Her want of care, screening and keeping warm",5.0 +"As the sun peeps and vernal airs breathe mild,",3.0 +"The fence withdrawn, he gives them every beam,",0.0 +And spreads his hopes before the blaze of day.,0.0 +"So grateful to the palate, and when rare",2.0 +Food for the vulgar merely ' -- is an art,1.0 +"That toiling ages have but just matured,",0.0 +"Yet gnats have had, and frogs and mice long since",1.0 +"And in thy numbers, Phillips, shines for ay",0.0 +The solitary shilling. Pardon then,0.0 +You sage dispensers of poetic fame!,1.0 +"The ambition of one meaner far, whose powers",2.0 +"Presuming an attempt not less sublime,",1.0 +Pant for the praise of dressing to the taste,1.0 +"Of critic appetite, no sordid fare,",1.0 +"A cucumber, while costly yet and scarce.",1.0 +"Impregnated with quick fermenting salts,",5.0 +And potent to resist the freezing blast.,1.0 +For before the beech and elm have cast their leaf,1.0 +"Decidu'ous, and when now November dark",1.0 +Cheques vegetation in the torpid plant,1.0 +"Exposed to his cold breath, the task begins.",2.0 +"Warily therefore, and with prudent heed",2.0 +"The sun's meridian disk, and at the back",2.0 +"Enjoy close shelter, wall, or reeds, or hedge",1.0 +Impervious to the wind. First he bids spread,4.0 +"Dry fern or littered hay, that may imbibe",2.0 +The ascending damps; then leisurely impose,2.0 +"And lightly, shaking it with agile hand",1.0 +"From the full fork, the saturated straw.",2.0 +"What longest binds the closest, forms secure",0.0 +"The shapely side, that as it rises takes",1.0 +"By just degrees an overhanging breadth,",0.0 +Sheltering the base with its projected eaves.,2.0 +"The uplifted frame compact at every joint,",2.0 +And overlaid with clear translucent glass,0.0 +"He settles next upon the sloping mount,",0.0 +From the dashed pane the deluge as it falls.,3.0 +"He shuts it close, and the first labour ends.",2.0 +Thrice must the voluble and restless earth,1.0 +"Spin round upon her axle, before the warmth",4.0 +"Slow gathering in the mid, through the square mass",3.0 +"Diffused, attain the surface. When behold!",0.0 +"And fast condensed upon the dewy sash,",0.0 +"Asks egress; which obtained, the overcharged",2.0 +And drenched conservatory breathes abroad,1.0 +Its foul inhabitant. But to assuage,2.0 +"Within its reeking bosom, threatening death",0.0 +"To his young hopes, requires discreet delay.",2.0 +"The way to glory by miscarriage foul,",1.0 +"Must prompt him, and admonish how to catch",2.0 +"The auspicious moment, when the tempered heat",1.0 +"Friendly to vital motion, may afford",3.0 +"The seed selected wisely, plump and smooth",0.0 +"And glossy, he commits to pots of size",1.0 +"Diminutive, well filled with well prepared",2.0 +"And fruitful soil, that has been treasured long,",0.0 +And drunk no moisture from the dripping clouds.,2.0 +These on the warm and genial earth that hides,1.0 +"The rage of fermentation, plunges deep",0.0 +"In the soft medium, till they stand immersed.",3.0 +Then rise the tender germs upstarting quick,5.0 +"And spreading wide their spongy lobes, at first",0.0 +"Pale, won, and livid, but assuming soon,",2.0 +If fanned by balmy and nutritious air,1.0 +"Strained through the friendly mats, a vivid green.",0.0 +"A pimple, that portends a future sprout,",0.0 +"The branches, sturdy to his utmost wish,",2.0 +"Prolific all, and harbingers of more.",1.0 +The crowded roots demand enlargement now,0.0 +"Indulged in what they wish, they soon supply",0.0 +"Large foliage, overshadowing golden flowers,",3.0 +Blown on the summit of the apparent fruit.,3.0 +"These have their sexes, and when summer shines",1.0 +"From flower to flower, and even the breathing air",6.0 +"Then acts in nature's office, brings to pass",0.0 +Grudge not you rich since luxury must have,1.0 +"Grudge not the cost. You little know the cares,",0.0 +"The vigilance, the labour and the skill",2.0 +"That day and night are exercised, and hang",0.0 +"Upon the ticklish balance of suspense,",3.0 +That you may garnish your profuse regales,1.0 +Ten thousand dangers lie in wait to thwart,1.0 +"The process. Heat and cold, and wind and steam,",1.0 +"Moisture and drought, mice, worms, and swarming flies",3.0 +"Dire disappointment that admits no cure,",1.0 +"And which no care can obviate. It were long,",1.0 +Which he that fights a season so severe,1.0 +"Devises, while he guards his tender trust,",0.0 +"And oft, at last, in vain. The learnt and wise",0.0 +"Sarcastic would exclaim, and judge the song",0.0 +"Cold as its theme, and like its theme, the fruit",0.0 +"Of too much labour, worthless when produced.",0.0 +"Who loves a garden, loves a greenhouse too.",1.0 +"There blooms exotic beauty, warm and snug,",0.0 +While the winds whistle and the snows descend.,3.0 +Shines there and flourishes. The golden boast,1.0 +"Of Portugal and western India there,",2.0 +"Peep through their polished foliage at the storm,",0.0 +And seem to smile at what they need not sear.,0.0 +And cherries hangs her twigs. Geranium boasts,2.0 +All plants of every leaf that can endure,1.0 +"The winter's frown if screened from his shrewd bite,",1.0 +"Their jessamine, her jessamine remote",2.0 +"They form one social shade, as if convened",1.0 +"Yet just arrangement, rarely brought to pass",0.0 +"But by a master's hand, disposing well",1.0 +"Must lend its aid to illustrate all their charms,",0.0 +And dress the regular yet various scene.,3.0 +"Plant behind plant aspiring, in the van",3.0 +"So once were ranged the sons of ancient Rome,",0.0 +"And so, while Garrick as renowned as he,",2.0 +The sons of Albion; fearing each to lose,2.0 +"Some note of Nature's music from his lips,",1.0 +Nor taste alone and well contrived display,0.0 +Suffice to give the marshaled ranks the grace,0.0 +Of their complete effect. Much yet remains,1.0 +"Unsung, and many cares are yet behind",0.0 +And more laborious. Cares on which depends,2.0 +"The soil must be renewed, which often washed",0.0 +And disappoints the roots; the slender roots,0.0 +Close interwoven where they meet the vase,1.0 +Must fly before the knife; the withered leaf,0.0 +"Contagion, and disseminating death.",1.0 +"Discharge but these kind offices, and who",3.0 +"Would spare, that loves them, offices like these?",1.0 +"Well they reward the toil. The sight is pleased,",2.0 +Each opening blossom freely breathes abroad,2.0 +"Its gratitude, and thanks him with its sweets.",1.0 +"So manifold, all pleasing in their kind,",0.0 +"All healthful, are the employs of rural life,",3.0 +Reiterated as the wheel of time,1.0 +"Runs round, still ending, and beginning still.",3.0 +Nor are these all. To deck the shapely knoll,1.0 +"That softly swelled and gaily dressed, appears",0.0 +A flowery island from the dark green lawn,4.0 +"Emerging, must be deemed a labour due",0.0 +"To no mean hand, and asks the touch of taste.",1.0 +Here also grateful mixture of well matched,2.0 +"And sorted hues, each giving each relief,",0.0 +And by contrasted beauty shining more,1.0 +"Is needful. Strength may wield the ponderous spade,",2.0 +"But elegance, chief grace the garden shows",2.0 +"And most attractive, is the fair result",1.0 +"Of thought, the creature of a polished mind.",1.0 +"Without it, all is Gothic as the scene",1.0 +To which the insipid citizen resorts,2.0 +Has made a heaven on earth. With suns and moons,0.0 +And fairly laid the Zodiac in the dust.,0.0 +He therefore who would see his flowers disposed,3.0 +The beds the trusted treasure of their seeds,1.0 +Forecasts the future whole. That when the scene,0.0 +"Shall break into its preconceived display,",0.0 +"Each for itself, and all as with one voice",2.0 +"Conspiring, may attest his bright design.",1.0 +"Nor even then, dismissing as performed",1.0 +"His pleasant work, may he suppose it done.",1.0 +"Uninjured, but expect the upholding aid",3.0 +"Are wedded thus like beauty to old age,",2.0 +"For interest sake, the living to the dead.",1.0 +"Some cloth the soil that feeds them, far diffused",0.0 +"And lowly creeping, modest and yet fair,",1.0 +"Like virtue, thriving most where little seen.",0.0 +Some more aspiring catch the neighbour shrub,1.0 +"Else unadorned, with many a gay festoon",4.0 +The strength they borrow with the grace they lend.,2.0 +All hate the rank society of weeds,1.0 +"Disturb good order, and degrade true worth.",2.0 +O blessed seclusion from a jarring world,1.0 +"Which he thus occupied, enjoys! Retreat",2.0 +Cannot indeed to guilty man restore,0.0 +"But it has peace, and much secures the mind",1.0 +"From all assaults of evil, proving still",0.0 +"By vicious custom, raging uncontrolled",0.0 +When fierce temptation seconded within,1.0 +"By traitor appetite, and armed with darts",0.0 +"Tempered in hell, invades the throbbing breast,",2.0 +"To combat may be glorious, and success",4.0 +"Perhaps may crown us, but to fly is safe.",1.0 +"What could I wish, that I possess not here?",1.0 +"Health, leisure, means to improve it, friendship, peace,",3.0 +"No loose or wanton, though a wandering muse,",4.0 +And constant occupation without care.,3.0 +"Thus blessed, I draw a picture of that bliss;",2.0 +"Hopeless indeed that dissipated minds,",2.0 +And profligate abusers of a world,1.0 +"Created fair so much in vain for them,",0.0 +Should seek the guiltless joys that I describe,1.0 +Allured by my report. But sure no less,2.0 +"And what they will not taste, must yet approve.",1.0 +What we admire we praise. And when we praise,1.0 +"Advance it into notice, that its worth",0.0 +"Acknowledged, others may admire it too.",1.0 +"I therefore recommend, though at the risk",1.0 +"Of popular disgust, yet boldly still,",1.0 +The cause of piety and sacred truth,1.0 +"And virtue, and those scenes which God ordained",1.0 +Should best secure them and promote them most;,1.0 +"Scenes that I love, and with regret perceive",1.0 +"Forsaken, or through folly not enjoyed.",1.0 +"Pure is the nymph, though liberal of her smiles,",1.0 +"And chaste, though unconfined, whom I extol.",1.0 +To grace the full pavilion. Hi design,0.0 +"Was but to boast his own peculiar good,",1.0 +"Which all might view with envy, none partake.",0.0 +My charmer is not mine alone; my sweets,2.0 +"And she that sweetens all my bitters too,",1.0 +"Nature, enchanting Nature, in whose form",2.0 +Strange that so fair a creature should yet want,0.0 +"Admirers, and be destined to divide",2.0 +"With meaner objects, even the few she finds.",1.0 +"Stripped of her ornaments, her leaves and flowers,",1.0 +She loses all her influence. Cities then,2.0 +"Attract us, and neglected Nature pines",1.0 +"Abandoned, as unworthy of our love.",2.0 +"By roses, and clear suns though scarcely felt,",2.0 +"From clamour, and whose very silence charms,",0.0 +"To be preferred to smoke, to the eclipse",1.0 +"That Metropolitan volcano's make,",1.0 +"Whose Stygian throats breathe darkness all day long,",2.0 +"And to the stir of commerce, driving slow,",1.0 +"And thundering loud, with his ten thousand wheels?",4.0 +"They would be, were not madness in the head",0.0 +And folly in the heart; were England now,0.0 +"What England was, plain, hospitable, kind,",5.0 +"To all the virtues of those better days,",1.0 +And all their honest pleasures. Mansions once,0.0 +"Knew their own masters, and laborious hinds",3.0 +"That had survived the father, served the son.",0.0 +Now the legitimate and rightful Lord,3.0 +"Is but a transient guest, newly arrived",6.0 +And soon to be supplanted. He that saw,1.0 +"His patrimonial timber cast its leaf,",0.0 +"Estates are landscapes, gazed upon awhile,",1.0 +"The country starves, and they that feed the overcharged",1.0 +By a just judgement strip and starve themselves.,1.0 +The wings that waft our riches out of sight,1.0 +And nimble motion of those restless joints,1.0 +"That never tyre, soon fans them all away.",1.0 +"Improvement too, the idol of the age,",1.0 +Is fed with many a victim. Lo! he comes ' --,2.0 +"The omnipotent magician, Brown appears.",2.0 +"Down falls the venerable pile, the abode",3.0 +"But tasteless. Springs a palace in its stead,",0.0 +But in a distant spot; where more exposed,0.0 +It may enjoy the advantage of the north,4.0 +Those naked acres to a sheltering grove.,3.0 +"He speaks. The lake in front becomes a lawn,",0.0 +"Woods vanish, hills subside, and valleys rise,",1.0 +"And streams as if created for his use,",2.0 +Pursue the track of his directing wand,1.0 +"Sinuous or strait, now rapid and now slow,",5.0 +"Now murmuring soft, now roaring in cascades,",4.0 +Even as he bids. The enraptured owner smiles.,3.0 +"It's finished. And yet finished as it seems,",2.0 +A mine to satisfy the enormous cost.,3.0 +Drained to the last poor item of his wealth,2.0 +"He sighs, departs, and leaves the accomplished plan",2.0 +"Just when it meets his hopes, and proves the heaven",0.0 +"He wanted, for a wealthier to enjoy.",4.0 +"And now perhaps the glorious hour is come,",2.0 +"When having no stake left, no pledge to endear",4.0 +"Her interests, or that gives her sacred cause",1.0 +"A moment's operation on his love,",1.0 +He burns with most intense and flagrant zeal,0.0 +To serve his country. Ministerial grace,2.0 +"Deals him out money from the public chest,",1.0 +"Or if that mine be shut, some private purse",0.0 +"To be refunded duly, when his vote",0.0 +"O innocent compared with arts like these,",1.0 +Sent through the travellers temples! he that finds,3.0 +"One drop of heavens sweet mercy in his cup,",3.0 +So he may wrap himself in honest rags,1.0 +At his last gasp; but could not for a world,2.0 +"From pools and ditches of the commonwealth,",1.0 +Sordid and sickening at his own success.,2.0 +"Ambition, avarice, penury incurred",3.0 +"By endless riot; vanity, the lust",1.0 +"Of pleasure and variety, dispatch",2.0 +"As duly as the swallows disappear,",1.0 +The world of wandering knights and squires to town.,4.0 +"Begs a warm office, doomed to a cold jail",4.0 +"The levee swarms, as if in golden pomp",1.0 +BATTERED AND BANKRUPT FOR TUNES MENDED HERE,4.0 +These are the charms that sully and eclipse,2.0 +The charms of nature. It's the cruel gripe,1.0 +"The hope of better things, the chance to win,",0.0 +"The wish to shine, the thirst to be amused,",0.0 +"That at the sound of Winter's hoary wing,",0.0 +"Of fluttering, loitering, cringing, begging, loose",4.0 +"And wanton vagrants, as make London, vast",2.0 +"And boundless as it is, a crowded coop.",2.0 +"O thou resort and mart of all the earth,",1.0 +And spotted with all crimes; in whom I see,1.0 +"Much that I love, and more that I admire,",1.0 +And all that I abhor; thou freckled fair,1.0 +"That pleases and yet shocks me, I can laugh",2.0 +Feel wrath and pity when I think on thee!,1.0 +"Ten righteous would have saved a city once,",1.0 +And thou hast many righteous. ' -- Well for thee ' --,1.0 +"That salt preserves thee; more corrupted else,",0.0 +"And therefore more obnoxious at this hour,",1.0 +"Than Sodom in her day had power to be,",1.0 +For whom God heard his Abr'am plead in vain.,4.0 +WHAT mortal burns not with the love of fame?,1.0 +"Some write, some fight, some eat themselves a name.",0.0 +"For some beau Frightful haunts each public place,",1.0 +And grows conspicuous for ' -- his ugly face.,1.0 +"Laura, the rural circle's constant boast,",2.0 +"Usurps a scarf, and longs to preach in town.",1.0 +"Toil more for fame, I trow, than reformation.",0.0 +Yet prides himself in never showing it.,1.0 +"Safe in his cell, he shuns the staring crowd,",0.0 +"And inward shines, like Sol behind a cloud.",0.0 +"That unseen wight, whom all men wish to see,",4.0 +Illustrious grown ' -- by mere obscurity.,3.0 +"FAR off no matter whether East or West,",3.0 +"A real Country, or one made in jest",3.0 +"There lies an Island, neither great nor small,",0.0 +"Which, for distinction sake, I GOTHAM call.",1.0 +"The Man, who finds an unknown Country out,",6.0 +"By giving it a name acquires, no doubt,",2.0 +"A Gospel title, though the people there",2.0 +The pious Christian thinks not worth his care.,0.0 +The claim of EUROPE to the Western World.,1.0 +"Cast by a tempest on the savage coast,",1.0 +Some roving Buccaneer set up a Post;,2.0 +"From first to last, had been one scene of strife;",0.0 +"His royal master's name thereon engraved,",0.0 +"Without more process, the whole race enslaved,",3.0 +"Cut off that Charter they from Nature drew,",1.0 +And made them Slaves to men they never knew.,0.0 +"Search ancient histories, consult records,",2.0 +Under this title the most Christian Lords,3.0 +Hold thanks to Conscience more than half the Ball;,1.0 +"Overthrow this title, they have none at all.",1.0 +"For never yet might any Monarch dare,",0.0 +"Who lived to Truth, and breathed a Christian air,",0.0 +"Pretend that Christ who came, we all agree,",0.0 +"To bless his people, and to set them free",1.0 +"To make a Convert ever one law gave,",2.0 +By which Converters made him first a slave.,0.0 +"Who talks of Charity, but means a feast,",1.0 +Who recommends it while he seems to feel,0.0 +"To all his hearers, as a deed of worth,",1.0 +"To give them heaven, whom they have robbed of earth,",0.0 +"Never shall One, One truly honest man,",0.0 +"Who, blessed with LIBERTY, reveres her plan,",1.0 +"Allow one moment, that a Savage sire",0.0 +"Could from his wretched race, for childish hire,",0.0 +"By a wild grant, their All, their Freedom pass,",2.0 +And sell his Country for a bit of glass.,1.0 +"Or grant this barbarous right, Let SPAIN and FRANCE,",3.0 +"In Slavery bred, as purchasers advance,",3.0 +"Let them, while Conscience is at distance hurled,",1.0 +With some gay bauble buy a golden world;,1.0 +"An ENGLISHMAN, in chartered FREEDOM born,",1.0 +"Shall spurn the slavish merchandise, shall scorn",0.0 +"To take from others, through base private views,",2.0 +"What He himself would rather die, than lose.",1.0 +Happy the Savage of those early times,3.0 +"Gold, cursed Gold! slept in the womb of earth,",2.0 +In full Content he found the truest wealth;,0.0 +"In Toil he found Diversion, Food, and Health;",0.0 +"Strange to the ease and luxury of Courts,",1.0 +"His Youth was hardy, and his Old Age green;",2.0 +"Life's Morn was vigorous, and her Eve serene;",2.0 +"No rules he held, but what were made for use;",1.0 +"No Arts he learnt, nor ills which Arts produce;",1.0 +"False Lights he followed, but believed them true;",2.0 +"He knew not much, but lived to what he knew.",0.0 +"Happy, thrice happy now the Savage race,",3.0 +"Since EUROPE took their Gold, and gave them Grace!",0.0 +"Pastors she sends to help them in their need,",2.0 +"Some who can't write, with others who can't read,",2.0 +"And, on sure grounds the Gospel Pile to rear,",2.0 +Sends Missionary Felons every Year;,1.0 +"Our Vices, with more Zeal than holy prayers,",1.0 +"She teaches them, and in return takes theirs;",3.0 +"Her rank Oppressions give them cause to rise,",0.0 +"Her Want of Prudence means, and Arms supplies,",0.0 +"While her brave rage, not satisfied with life,",3.0 +"Knowledge She gives, enough to make them know",2.0 +"How abject is their State, how deep their Woe;",1.0 +"The Worth of Freedom strongly She explains,",1.0 +"While She bows down, and loads their necks with Chains;",0.0 +"Faith too She plants, for her own ends impressed,",2.0 +"To make them bear the worst, and hope the best;",0.0 +"As Laws of God, the wild decrees of man,",0.0 +She makes them ten times more the Sons of Hell.,1.0 +"Are they designed for any, or no end?",3.0 +"Briefly but this ' -- to prove, that by no act",2.0 +"Which Nature made, that by no equal pact",2.0 +"Betwixt Man and Man, which might, if Justice heard,",3.0 +"Stand good, that by no benefits conferred,",5.0 +"Or purchase made, EUROPE in chains can hold",5.0 +"The Sons of INDIA, and her mines of gold.",1.0 +"Chance led her there in an accursed hour,",4.0 +"She saw, and made the Country hers by power;",1.0 +"Nor, drawn by Virtue's Love from Love of Fame,",0.0 +"Or wish in thought that title overthrown,",0.0 +"Which coincides with, and involves my own.",1.0 +EUROPE discovered INDIA first; I found,4.0 +"I first discovered it, nor shall that plea",1.0 +"To Her be granted, and denied to Me.",2.0 +"I plead Possession, and till one more bold",2.0 +"Shall drive me out, will that Possession hold.",1.0 +"Hers be the WESTERN WORLD, be GOTHAM Mine.",1.0 +"Lift up your voice on high, a mighty voice,",0.0 +"In Strains of gratitude, be praises hung,",0.0 +The praises of so great and good a King;,1.0 +"Shall CHURCHILL reign, and shall not GOTHAM sing?",0.0 +"As on a Day, a high and holy Day,",1.0 +"Let every instrument of Music play,",2.0 +Ancient and Modern; Those which drew their birth,3.0 +As well as those by Christian made and Jew;,1.0 +"Those known to many, and those known to few;",1.0 +"Those which in whim and frolic lightly float,",0.0 +And those which swell the slow and solemn note;,1.0 +Those which while Reason stands in wonder by,1.0 +"Make some complexions laugh, and others cry;",1.0 +"Those which, by some strange faculty of sound,",2.0 +"Can build walls up, and raze them to the ground;",3.0 +"Those which can tear up forests by the roots,",1.0 +"Those which, while RIDICULE leads up the dance,",2.0 +"Those which, where Lady DULLNESS with Lord MAYORS",2.0 +"Which, planted in our Churches to dispose",1.0 +"And lift the mind to Heaven, are disgraced",1.0 +"All, from the Fiddle on which every Fool,",1.0 +"The pert Son of dull Sire, discharged from School,",7.0 +"Serves an apprenticeship in College ease,",2.0 +"To Those which though less common, not less sweet",4.0 +"Where Heaven, the utmost wish of man to grant,",1.0 +"Gave me an old House, and an older Aunt",2.0 +"THORNTON, while HUMOUR pointed out the road",2.0 +"To her arch cub, hath hitched into an ode;",2.0 +"All Instruments attend You listening Spheres,",1.0 +"Attend You Sons of Men, and hear with ears",0.0 +All Instruments nor shall they seek one Hand,1.0 +"Shall pour forth harmony, and loud proclaim,",2.0 +"Loud but yet sweet, to the according globe,",1.0 +"My praises, while gay NATURE, in a robe,",1.0 +"Keeps time, like BOYCE, and the World dances round.",3.0 +"In strains of gratitude, be praises hung,",0.0 +The Praises of so great and good a King;,1.0 +"INFANCY, straining backward from the breast,",3.0 +"Refusing in his fits, while all the while",0.0 +"The Mother eyes the wrangler with a smile,",1.0 +"And the fond Father sits on other side,",2.0 +"Laughs at his moods, and views his spleen with pride,",0.0 +"Shall murmur forth my name, while at his hand",0.0 +"CHILDHOOD who, like an April morn, appears,",1.0 +"Sunshine and Rain, Hopes clouded over with fears,",4.0 +"Pleased and displeased by starts, in passion warm,",2.0 +"In Reason weak, who, wrought into a storm,",0.0 +"Like to the fretful bullies of the deep,",1.0 +"Soon spends his rage, and cries himself asleep,",1.0 +"Who, with a feverish appetite oppressed,",2.0 +"For trifles sighs, but hates them when possessed,",0.0 +"His trembling lash suspended in the air,",0.0 +"Shall to his mates look up with eager glee,",2.0 +"YOUTH, who fierce, fickle, insolent, and vain,",3.0 +"Impatient urges on, yet, with a cast",2.0 +"Of dear regard, looks back on CHILDHOOD past,",2.0 +"And the quick spirits mount into his eye,",2.0 +"When Pleasure, which he deems his greatest wealth,",0.0 +"Beats in his heart, and paints his cheeks with health,",0.0 +"When the chafed Steed tugs proudly at the rein,",4.0 +"And, before he starts, hath run over half the plain,",5.0 +"When, winged with fear, the Stag flies full in view,",1.0 +"And in full cry the eager hounds pursue,",1.0 +"Shall shout my praise to hills which shout again,",0.0 +And even the Huntsman stop to cry Amen.,2.0 +"MANHOOD, of form erect, who would not bow",1.0 +Though Worlds should crack around him; on his brow,1.0 +"WISDOM serene, to Passion giving law,",2.0 +The Image of his Maker deep impressed;,1.0 +"With Reason blessed, and only less than God;",0.0 +"By wicked Elders chained, Redemption waits,",0.0 +"MANHOOD shall steal an hour, a little hour,",1.0 +"With more and greater evils than the first,",1.0 +"Weak, sickly, full of pains; in every breath",1.0 +"Railing at life, and yet afraid of death;",2.0 +"Putting things off, with sage and solemn air,",0.0 +"From day to day, without one day to spare;",0.0 +"Tiresome to friends, and tiresome to himself,",4.0 +"His faculties impaired, his temper soured,",1.0 +His memory of recent things devoured,1.0 +"Even with the acting, on his shattered brain",2.0 +Though the stale Registers of Youth remain;,3.0 +From morn to evening babbling forth vain praise,1.0 +"Of those rare men, who lived in those rare days",3.0 +"When He, the Hero of his tale, was Young,",1.0 +"Dull Repetitions faltering on his tongue,",2.0 +"Even while he curses time which made him grey,",0.0 +"All, but his gold, to have his Youth restored,",0.0 +"Shall for a moment, from himself set free,",2.0 +"Lean on his Crutch, and pipe forth praise to Me.",1.0 +"Things without life shall in this Chorus join,",1.0 +Who by her side struts in a Herald's coat;,1.0 +"The Tulip, idly glaring to the view,",1.0 +"Who, though no Clown, his birth from Holland drew,",3.0 +And brings her dowry in surrounding sweets;,0.0 +"The Lilly, silver Mistress of the vale,",1.0 +The Rose of SHARON which perfumes the gale;,0.0 +"The Jessamine, with which the Queen of flowers",1.0 +"To charm her God adorns his favourite bowers,",0.0 +"Which Brides, by the plain hand of neatness dressed,",2.0 +"Sweet as the incense of the Morn, and chaste",1.0 +"All flowers, of various names, and various forms,",6.0 +"Which the Sun into strength and beauty warms,",2.0 +"From the dwarf Daisy, which, like infants, clings,",2.0 +"And fears to leave the earth from whence it springs,",0.0 +"To the proud Giant of the garden race,",3.0 +"Who, madly rushing to the Sun's embrace,",1.0 +"Demands his wedded Love, and bears his name;",0.0 +"All, One and All, shall in this Chorus join,",0.0 +"The Ivy crawling over the hallowed cell,",2.0 +Where some old Hermit's wont his beads to tell,1.0 +"By day, by night; the Myrtle evergreen,",0.0 +Beneath whose shade Love holds his rites unseen;,1.0 +"The Willow weeping over the fatal wave,",3.0 +Where many a Lover finds a watery grave;,4.0 +"The Cypress sacred held, when Lovers mourn",0.0 +Their true Love snatched away; the Laurel worn,1.0 +"By Poets in old time, but destined now",1.0 +"The Fig, which, large as what in India grows,",2.0 +"Itself a Grove, gave our first Parents clothes;",3.0 +"The Yew, which, in the place of sculptured stone,",0.0 +"The Fir, the SCOTCH Fir, never out of place;",2.0 +"The Cedar, whose top mates the highest cloud,",1.0 +While his old Father LEBANON grows proud,4.0 +"Of such a child, and his vast Body laid",3.0 +"Out many a mile, enjoys the filial shade;",4.0 +"The Oak, when living, monarch of the wood;",1.0 +"The ENGLISH Oak, which, dead, commands the flood;",0.0 +"Shall CHURCHILL reign, and shall not GOTHAM sing.",0.0 +"The Showers, which make the young hills, like young Lambs,",4.0 +"Bound and rebound, the old Hills, like old Rams,",4.0 +"Unwieldy, jump for joy; the Streams, which glide,",0.0 +"While PLENTY marches smiling by their side,",1.0 +And from their bosom rising COMMERCE springs;,1.0 +"The Winds, which rise with healing on their wings,",1.0 +Before whose cleansing breath Contagion flies;,0.0 +"The Sun who, travelling in Eastern skies,",2.0 +"Fresh, full of strength, just risen from his bed,",2.0 +"With voice and whip, can scarce make his steeds stir,",3.0 +"Step by Step, up the perpendicular;",1.0 +"Who, at the hour of Eve, panting for rest,",5.0 +"The Moon, who holds over night her silver reign,",3.0 +"Regent of tides, and Mistress of the Brain,",3.0 +"Who to her Sons, those Sons who own her power,",0.0 +"And do her homage at the midnight hour,",1.0 +"Gives madness as a blessing, but dispenses",3.0 +"Wisdom to fools, and damns them with their Senses;",3.0 +"The Stars who, by I know not what strange right,",2.0 +"Preside over mortals in their own despite,",5.0 +"Who without Reason govern Those, who most",5.0 +"How truly judge from hence! of Reason boast,",0.0 +"And, by some mighty Magic yet unknown,",1.0 +"Our actions guide, yet cannot guide their own;",0.0 +"The Moment, Minute, Hour, Day, Week, Month, Year,",2.0 +"Morning and Eve, as they in turn appear;",3.0 +"Moments and Minutes which, without a crime,",2.0 +"Can't be omitted in accounts of time,",1.0 +"Or, if omitted, proof we might afford",1.0 +Worthy by Parliaments to be restored;,3.0 +"The Hours which, dressed by turns in black and white,",0.0 +"The Day, those hours I mean, when Light presides,",0.0 +And BUSINESS in a cart with PRUDENCE rides;,0.0 +"The Night, those hours I mean with darkness hung,",0.0 +"When Sense speaks free, and Folly holds her tongue;",1.0 +"The Morn, when Nature, rousing from her strife",1.0 +"The Eve, when, as unequal to the task,",2.0 +She mercy from her foe descends to ask;,1.0 +"The Week, in which Six days are kindly given",1.0 +"To think of Earth, and One to think of Heaven;",1.0 +"The Months, twelve Sisters, all of different hue,",1.0 +"Though there appears in all a likeness too,",1.0 +"Dull Mannerist, in Christians, Jews, and Turks,",2.0 +"But a strange Something, born of Art and Grace,",2.0 +"Which speaks them All, to vary and adorn,",1.0 +At different times of the same Parents born;,2.0 +"Dull February, in whose leaden reign,",1.0 +My Mother bore a bard without a brain;,0.0 +"APRIL with fools, and MAY with bastards blessed;",3.0 +JUNE with White Roses on her rebel breast;,4.0 +"AUGUST, who, banished from her Smithfield stand,",3.0 +"SEPTEMBER, when by Custom right divine",0.0 +"Geese are ordained to bleed at MICHAEL's shrine,",2.0 +"While the Priest, not so full of grace as wit,",0.0 +"OCTOBER, who the cause of FREEDOM joined,",0.0 +And gave a second GEORGE to bless mankind;,1.0 +"NOVEMBER, who at once to grace our earth,",0.0 +"DECEMBER, last of Months, but best, who gave",0.0 +"While, falsely grateful, Man, at the full feast,",1.0 +"To do God honour, makes himself a beast;",1.0 +"The Seasons as they roll; SPRING, by her side",1.0 +"Like Maids of Honour at a Masquerade,",0.0 +"The Fig, more modest, first brought up by EVE,",2.0 +"Panting for breath, inflamed with lustful fires,",2.0 +"Yet wanting strength to perfect her desires,",2.0 +"Leaning on SLOTH, who, fainting with the heat,",3.0 +"AUTUMN, when NATURE, who with sorrow feels",2.0 +"Her dread foe Winter treading on her heels,",2.0 +"Makes up in value what she wants in length,",0.0 +"Exerts her powers, and puts forth all her strength,",2.0 +"Bids Corn and Fruits in full perfection rise,",1.0 +"Corn Fairly Taxed, and Fruits without Excise;",1.0 +"By robes of Fur, since Furs became our own,",0.0 +"A Hag who, loathing all, by all is loathed,",0.0 +"Vile FACTION at her heels, who, mighty grown,",1.0 +"Would rule the Ruler, and foreclose the throne,",1.0 +"Make Laws one day, the next to be Unmade,",1.0 +"Beggar at home a People feared abroad,",2.0 +"And, force defeated, make them Slaves by Fraud;",0.0 +"And, dumb to other's praise, be loud in Mine.",0.0 +"The Year, Grand Circle, in whose ample round",1.0 +"The Seasons regular and fixed are bound,",1.0 +"Who, in his course repeated over and over,",2.0 +Sees the same things which he had seen before.,1.0 +"The same Stars keep their Watch, and the same Sun",2.0 +Runs in the track where he from first hath run;,1.0 +"The same Moon rules the night, Tides ebb and flow,",2.0 +"Man is a Puppet, and this World a Show,",1.0 +"Their old dull follies old dull fools pursue,",2.0 +"And Vice in nothing, but in Mode, is new,",1.0 +"He ' -- a Lord now fair befall that Pride,",1.0 +"He lived a Villain, but a Lord he died",1.0 +"DASHWOOD is pious, BERKLEY fixed as fate,",1.0 +"By Friends neglected, and by Foes oppressed,",1.0 +"The Year, encircled with the various train",3.0 +"Which waits, and fills the glories of his reign,",1.0 +"Shall, taking up this theme, in Chorus join,",1.0 +"Shall Churchill reign, and shall not GOTHAM sing?",0.0 +"Thus far in Sport ' -- nor let our Critics hence,",1.0 +"Who sell out monthly trash, and call it Sense,",0.0 +Or judge at random of so high a Theme;,1.0 +"High is our Theme, and worthy are the men",1.0 +To feel the sharpest stroke of Satire's Pen;,0.0 +"But when kind Time a proper season brings,",1.0 +"In serious mood to treat of serious things,",4.0 +"Then shall they find, disdaining idle play,",0.0 +That I can be as grave and dull as They.,0.0 +"Thus far in Sport ' -- nor let half Patriots, those",3.0 +"Who shrink from every blast of Power which blows,",1.0 +"Who, with tame Cowardice familiar grown,",3.0 +"Would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own,",0.0 +"Who, lest bold Truths, to do sage Prudence spite,",4.0 +"Should burst the Portals of their lips by night,",1.0 +"Tremble to trust themselves one hour in sleep,",2.0 +"Condemn our course, and hold our Caution cheap.",0.0 +"When brave Occasion bids, for some great end",1.0 +"When Honour calls the Poet as a Friend,",2.0 +"Then shall They find, that, even on danger's brink,",2.0 +"He dares to Speak, what they scarce dare to Think.",2.0 +"So heaven has willed together with their snows,",1.0 +The everlasting hills shall melt away:,0.0 +"This solid globe dissolve, as ductile wax",0.0 +Before the breath of Vulcan; like a scroll,0.0 +Shrivel the unfolded curtains of the sky;,2.0 +"Thy planets, NEWTON, tumble from their spheres;",1.0 +The moon be perished from her bloody orb;,1.0 +"The sun himself, in liquid ruin, rush",0.0 +And deluge with destroying flames the globe ' --,1.0 +"Peace then, my soul, nor grieve that POPE is dead.",0.0 +"If ever the tuneful spirit, sweetly strong,",2.0 +"Spontaneous numbers, teeming in my breast,",2.0 +"While, in the gratitude of praise, I sing",0.0 +The works and wonders of this man divine.,1.0 +"What wonder? when an infant, he applied",1.0 +"Fired by a sacred fury, and inspired",2.0 +"With all the god, in sounding numbers sung",0.0 +"Fraternal rage, and guilty Thebes' alarms.",0.0 +Sure at his birth things not unknown of old,1.0 +"The Graces round his cradle wove the dance,",0.0 +And led the maze of harmony: the Nine,1.0 +And Attic bees their golden store distilled.,0.0 +"The soul of HOMER, sliding from its star,",1.0 +"Where, radiant, over the poetic world",1.0 +"It rules and sheds its influence, for joy",1.0 +"Shouted, and blessed the birth: the sacred choir",2.0 +"Of poets, born in elder, better times,",0.0 +"Enraptured caught the elevating sound,",0.0 +"Imperial Windsor! raise thy brow august,",5.0 +Superbly gay exalt thy towery head;,4.0 +"And bid thy forests dance, and nodding, wave",0.0 +A verdant testimony of thy joy:,1.0 +A native ORPHEUS warbling in thy shades.,2.0 +How simple in his elegance of grief!,1.0 +"A shepherd, but no clown. His every lay",2.0 +"Sweet as the early pipe along the dale,",0.0 +"Their sleepy heads, and languish in the breeze.",0.0 +"Imperial in his art, prescribing laws",1.0 +"Learnt without pedantry; correctly bold,",5.0 +"And regularly easy. Gentle, now,",1.0 +"As rising incense, or descending dews,",2.0 +"Now, animated flame commands the soul",1.0 +To glow with sacred wonder. Pointed wit,0.0 +And keen discernment form the certain page.,0.0 +Of decent mirth? Am I in Fairyland?,1.0 +"Young, evanescent forms, before my eyes,",1.0 +"With blushes covered, low beneath the desk.",0.0 +And tenderness of anguish. While we read,1.0 +"The infectious page, we sicken into love,",1.0 +And languish with involuntary fires.,1.0 +"The Zephyr, panting on the silken buds",1.0 +"Of breathing violets; the virgin's sigh,",1.0 +"Rosy with youth, are turbulent and rude,",3.0 +"My aching eyes involves! A Temple of FAME. temple soars,",2.0 +"Three monumental columns, bright in air,",1.0 +"Of figured gold, the centre of the quire",1.0 +"Betwixt his HOMER and his HORACE placed,",1.0 +"Superior, by the hand of Justice. FAME,",1.0 +"With all her mouths, the eternal trumpet swells,",2.0 +"Exulting at his name; and, grateful, pours",0.0 +"Triumphant, floating on the wings of wind,",1.0 +Sweet over the world: the ambrosial spirit flies,4.0 +"Dear to the earth, and grateful to the sky.",1.0 +FAME owes him more than ever she can repay:,4.0 +She owes her very temple to his hands;,1.0 +"Attention, rouse thyself! the master's hand,",0.0 +"The master of our souls! has changed the key,",1.0 +And bids the thunder of the battle roar,1.0 +What pomp of words! what nameless energy,1.0 +"In transports tossed! when fierce ACHILLES raves,",0.0 +"And flashes, like a comet, over the field,",2.0 +To wither armies with his martial frown.,1.0 +I see the battle rage; I hear the wheels,0.0 +Of nations roll the labour of the winds,1.0 +Description never could so well deceive:,0.0 +"It's real! TROY is here, or I at TROY",3.0 +"Enjoy the war. My spirits, all on fire,",0.0 +"Above the world, and mingle with the gods.",1.0 +"Burns to the centre: rock the towers of heaven,",2.0 +"Sense, the foundation; harmony, the walls;",3.0 +Where SOCRATES and HORACE jointly reign.,0.0 +Best of philosophers! of poets too,3.0 +The best! he teaches thee thy self to know:,1.0 +That virtue is the noblest gift of heaven:,1.0 +And vindicates the ways of GOD to man.,0.0 +OH harken to the moralist polite!,3.0 +Might preach; and TULLY deign to lend an ear.,0.0 +"Condemned to suffer life. The motley crew,",0.0 +Give the round face to view; and shameless front,0.0 +Proudly expose; till laughter have her fill.,2.0 +"Born to improve the age, and cheat mankind",3.0 +Into the road of honour! ' -- Vice again,3.0 +The gilded chariot drives: ' -- For he is dead!,3.0 +"I saw the sable barge, along his Thames,",0.0 +"In slow solemnity beating the tide,",4.0 +"The attendant Graces checked the sprightly dance,",1.0 +"Their arms unlocked, and caught the starting tear:",0.0 +And Virtue for her lost defender mourned!,1.0 +"The year revolves, and I again explore",1.0 +The simple Annals of my Parish poor;,1.0 +What Pairs I blessed in the departed year;,1.0 +"Are lost to Life, its pleasures and its pains.",1.0 +"No Muse I ask, before my view to bring",1.0 +"How passed the youthful, how the old their days;",1.0 +"Who sank in sloth, and who aspired to praise;",0.0 +"Their tempers, manners, morals, customs, arts,",0.0 +"By what elated, soothed, seduced, depressed,",0.0 +Full well I know ' -- these Records give the rest.,1.0 +"Is there a place, save one the poet sees,",3.0 +"A land of love, of liberty and ease;",1.0 +The eternal flow of rustic happiness;,2.0 +"Where no proud mansion frowns in awful state,",1.0 +"Where young and old, intent on pleasure, throng,",0.0 +And half man's life is holiday and song?,1.0 +"Vain search for scenes like these! no view appears,",3.0 +By sighs unruffled or unstained by tears;,1.0 +"Since vice the world subdued and waters drowned,",0.0 +Auburn and Eden can no more be found.,4.0 +"Hence good and evil mixed, but man has skill",0.0 +"And power to part them, when he feels the will!",2.0 +"Fear, shame, and want the thoughtless herd pursue.",1.0 +"Behold the Cot! where thrives the industrious swain,",4.0 +"Source of his pride, his pleasure, and his gain;",1.0 +"Screened from the winter's wind, the sun's last ray",1.0 +Smiles on the window and prolongs the day;,1.0 +"All need requires is in that cot contained,",0.0 +"Surveys delighted; there she loves to trace,",1.0 +"In one gay picture, all the royal race;",2.0 +"Around the walls are heroes, lovers, kings;",0.0 +The print that shows them and the verse that sings.,1.0 +"Here the last Lewis on his throne is seen,",3.0 +"And there he stands imprisoned, and his Queen;",2.0 +"To these the mother takes her child, and shows",1.0 +What grateful duty to his God he owes;,1.0 +"Who gives to him a happy home, where he",1.0 +Lives and enjoys his freedom with the free;,3.0 +"When kings and queens, dethroned, insulted, tried,",0.0 +Are all these blessings of the poor denied.,1.0 +"There is King Charles, and all his Golden Rules,",2.0 +Who proved Misfortune's was the best of schools:,0.0 +"And there his Son, who, tried by years of pain,",1.0 +Proved that misfortunes may be sent in vain.,2.0 +Close at the side of kind Godiva hung;,0.0 +"She, of her favourite place the pride and joy,",1.0 +"Of charms at once most lavish and most coy,",1.0 +"By wanton act the purest fame could raise,",0.0 +In all the joys that ale and skittles give.,0.0 +By nations dreaded and by Nelson beat;,1.0 +"And here shall soon another triumph come,",0.0 +A deed of glory in a day of gloom;,0.0 +Distressing glory! grievous boon of fate!,0.0 +"The proudest conquest, at the dearest rate.",0.0 +"Learning we lack, not books, but have a kind",2.0 +"For all our wants, a meat for every mind:",0.0 +"The tale for wonder and the joke for whim,",1.0 +"No need of classing; each within its place,",0.0 +The feeling finger in the dark can trace;,0.0 +"First from the corner, farthest from the wall,",1.0 +"Such all the rules, and they suffice for all.",1.0 +There pious works for Sunday's use are found;,1.0 +Companions for that Bible newly bound;,1.0 +Has choicest prints by famous hands engraved;,0.0 +"Has choicest notes by many a famous head,",2.0 +"Such as to doubt, have rustic readers led;",1.0 +Have made them stop to reason why? and how?,0.0 +"Oh! rather give me commentators plain,",1.0 +Who with no deep researches vex the brain;,3.0 +"Who from the dark and doubtful love to run,",0.0 +And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun;,3.0 +"Who simple truth with ninefold reasons back,",1.0 +And guard the point no enemies attack.,2.0 +A genius rare but rude was honest John;,0.0 +"Not one who, early by the Muse beguiled,",1.0 +"Not one who slowly gained the hill sublime,",0.0 +Then often sipped and little at a time;,0.0 +"But one who dabbled in the sacred springs,",1.0 +"Here to interpret dreams we read the rules,",1.0 +Science our own! and never taught in schools;,1.0 +"In moles and specks we Fortune's gifts discern,",0.0 +And Fate's fixed will from Nature's wanderings learn.,4.0 +Far from mankind and seeming far from care;,3.0 +"Safe from all want, and sound in every limb;",0.0 +"Yes! there was he, and there was care with him.",2.0 +"Unbound and heaped, these valued tomes beside,",0.0 +"Yet these, long since, have all acquired a name;",2.0 +The Wandering Jew has found his way to fame;,2.0 +His shoes of swiftness on his feet he placed;,1.0 +"His sword of sharpness in his hand he took,",0.0 +And off the heads of doughty giants stroke:,1.0 +Their glaring eyes beheld no mortal near;,1.0 +No sound of feet alarmed the drowsy ear;,1.0 +"No English blood their pagan sense could smell,",1.0 +"But heads dropped headlong, wondering why they fell.",3.0 +"These are the Peasant's joy, when placed at ease,",1.0 +Half his delighted offspring mount his knees.,3.0 +To every cot the lord's indulgent mind,0.0 +Here ' -- till return of morn dismissed the farm ' --,1.0 +"The careful peasant plies the sinewy arm,",2.0 +"Warmed as he works, and casts his look around",0.0 +On every foot of that improving ground:,0.0 +It is his own he sees; his master's eye,1.0 +"Peers not about, some secret fault to spy;",1.0 +"Nor voice severe is there, nor censure known; ' --",1.0 +"Hope, profit, pleasure, ' -- they are all his own.",2.0 +"High climb his pulse in many an even row,",3.0 +Deep strike the ponderous roots in soil below;,3.0 +"And herbs of potent smell and pungent taste,",0.0 +"Apples and cherries grafted by his hand,",3.0 +And clustered nuts for neighbouring market stand.,2.0 +"Nor thus concludes his labour; near the cot,",0.0 +"Where rich carnations, pinks with purple eyes,",0.0 +Meet and rejoice a family of friends;,3.0 +"All speak aloud, are happy and are free,",1.0 +"And glad they seem, and gaily they agree.",1.0 +"What, though fastidious ears may shun the speech,",3.0 +"Where all are talkers, and where none can teach;",1.0 +"Where still the welcome and the words are old,",1.0 +"Yet theirs is joy that, bursting from the heart,",1.0 +Prompts the glad tongue these nothings to impart;,4.0 +"That lifts their steps, that sparkles in their eyes;",0.0 +"That talks or laughs or runs or shouts or plays,",0.0 +And speaks in all their looks and all their ways.,0.0 +"Fair scenes of peace! you might detain us long,",1.0 +But vice and misery now demand the song;,2.0 +"And turn our view from dwellings simply neat,",0.0 +"To this infected Row, we term our Street.",1.0 +"Riots are nightly heard: ' -- the curse, the cries",2.0 +"Of beaten wife, perverse in her replies;",1.0 +"While shrieking children hold each threatening hand,",0.0 +"And sometime life, and sometime food demand:",2.0 +"And girls, who heed not dress, are skilled in gin:",0.0 +"And here is one, the Sibyl of the Row,",2.0 +"Who knows all secrets, or affects to know.",1.0 +"Seeking their fate, to her the simple run,",3.0 +"To her the guilty, theirs awhile to shun;",2.0 +"Mistress of worthless arts, depraved in will,",2.0 +"Slave to the tribe, to whose command she stoops,",0.0 +And poorer than the poorest maid she dupes.,1.0 +Invades all eyes and strikes on every sense:,0.0 +"There lie, obscene, at every open door,",0.0 +"And day by day the mingled masses grow,",0.0 +There hungry dogs from hungry children steal;,0.0 +There pigs and chickens quarrel for a meal;,1.0 +"Yet should these boys, with bodies bronze and bare,",0.0 +"Though loath to action, is compelled at length,",1.0 +"When warmed by health, as serpents in the spring,",0.0 +"Yet, ere they go, a greater evil comes ' --",0.0 +See! crowded beds in those contiguous rooms;,4.0 +"Beds but ill parted, by a paltry screen",4.0 +Of papered lath or curtain dropped between;,0.0 +"Daughters and sons to yonder compartments creep,",4.0 +And parents here beside their children sleep:,0.0 +"You who have power, these thoughtless people part,",2.0 +Nor let the ear be first to taint the heart.,0.0 +"Come! search within, nor sight nor smell regard;",1.0 +What nauseous fragments on yonder fractured chest!,2.0 +And round these posts that serve this bed for feet;,0.0 +"This bed where all those tattered garments lie,",0.0 +"Worn by each sex, and now perforce thrown by!",2.0 +"See! as we gaze, an infant lifts its head,",0.0 +"And daily prattles, as her round she takes,",1.0 +With strong resentment of the want she makes.,1.0 +"Whence all these woes? ' -- From want of virtuous will,",1.0 +"From want of care to employ the vacant hour,",2.0 +And want of every kind but want of power.,0.0 +"Here are no wheels for either wool or flax,",3.0 +But packs of cards ' -- made up of sundry packs;,2.0 +"Here is no clock, nor will they turn the glass,",2.0 +And see how swift the important moments pass;,2.0 +"Here are no books, but ballads on the wall,",4.0 +"Are some abusive, and indecent all;",1.0 +"Of every kind, for rivers, ponds, and brooks;",0.0 +"An ample flask, that nightly rovers fill",0.0 +"A box of tools, with wires of various size,",2.0 +"Frocks, wigs, and hats, for night or day disguise,",1.0 +"To every house belongs a space of ground,",0.0 +"Within, a board, beneath a tiled retreat,",0.0 +"Where heavy ale in spots like varnish shows,",0.0 +"Prints of the meanest kind disgrace the door,",0.0 +"And cards, in curses torn, lie fragments on the floor.",2.0 +"Here his poor bird the inhuman Cocker brings,",2.0 +Arms his hard heel and clips his golden wings;,3.0 +"With spicy food the impatient spirit feeds,",2.0 +And shouts and curses as the battle bleeds.,1.0 +"Struck through the brain, deprived of both his eyes,",0.0 +The vanquished bird must combat till he dies;,1.0 +"Must faintly peck at his victorious foe,",3.0 +And reel and stagger at each feeble blow:,0.0 +"When fallen, the savage grasps his dabbled plumes,",2.0 +"His bloodstained arms, for other deaths assumes;",1.0 +And only bled and perished for his sake.,1.0 +"Such are our Peasants, those to whom we yield",2.0 +"Praise with relief, the fathers of the field;",3.0 +"And these who take from our reluctant hands,",2.0 +What Burn advises or the Bench commands.,1.0 +"Our Farmers round, well pleased with constant gain,",1.0 +"Like other farmers, flourish and complain. ' --",1.0 +"These are our groups; our Portraits next appear,",1.0 +And close our Exhibition for the year.,1.0 +With evil omen we that year begin:,1.0 +"A Child of Shame, ' -- stern Justice adds, of Sin,",1.0 +"Is first recorded; ' -- I would hide the deed,",1.0 +But vain the wish; I sigh and I proceed:,1.0 +"And could I well the instructive truth convey,",2.0 +IT would warn the giddy and awake the gay.,1.0 +"Of all the nymphs who gave our village grace,",0.0 +The Miller's daughter had the fairest face:,0.0 +Proud was the Miller; money was his pride;,1.0 +"He rode to market, as our farmers ride,",1.0 +"And iT was his boast, inspired by spirits, there,",4.0 +His favourite Lucy should be rich as fair;,0.0 +"But she must meek and still obedient prove,",3.0 +"And not presume, without his leave, to love.",0.0 +"A youthful Sailor heard him; ' -- Ha! quoth he,",1.0 +"Her charms I love, his riches I desire,",1.0 +And all his threats but fan the kindling fire;,0.0 +"My ebbing purse no more the foe shall fill,",1.0 +But Love's kind act and Lucy at the mill.,1.0 +"Thus thought the youth, and soon the chase began,",1.0 +"Stretched all his sail, nor thought of pause or plan:",0.0 +"His trusty staff in his bold hand he took,",2.0 +"Like him and like his frigate, heart of oak;",0.0 +"Fresh were his features, his attire was new;",3.0 +"Clean was his linen, and his jacket blue:",1.0 +"Of finest jean, his trousers, tight and trim,",0.0 +Brushed the large buckle at the silver rim.,3.0 +"There saw the maid, and was with pleasure seen;",1.0 +For ah! my father has a haughty soul;,0.0 +"Whom best he loves, he loves but to control;",1.0 +And make some tyrant of the parish mine:,2.0 +"Cold is his heart, and he with looks severe",1.0 +Has often forced but never shed the tear;,0.0 +"Save, when my mother died, some drops expressed",0.0 +A kind of sorrow for a wife at rest: ' --,1.0 +"To me a master's stern regard is shown,",1.0 +"Stroked but corrected, threatened when supplied,",2.0 +"His slave and boast, his victim and his pride.",1.0 +"Cheer up, my lass! I'll to thy father go,",1.0 +The Miller cannot be the Sailor's foe;,0.0 +"Both live by Heaven's free gale, that plays aloud",4.0 +In the stretched canvas and the piping shroud;,3.0 +"The rush of winds, the flapping sails above,",0.0 +"And rattling planks within, are sounds we love;",0.0 +"We take a reef, and to the rocking sleep.",1.0 +"Ha! quoth the Miller, moved at speech so rash,",1.0 +Art thou like me? then where thy notes and cash?,0.0 +"Away to Wapping, and a wife command,",1.0 +"With all thy wealth, a guinea, in thine hand;",0.0 +And leave my Lucy for thy betters here.,1.0 +"Revenge! revenge! the angry lover cried,",0.0 +"Then sought the nymph, and Be thou now my bride.",0.0 +"Bride had she been, but they no priest could move",2.0 +"To bind in law, the couple bound by love.",0.0 +"What sought these lovers then by day, by night?",0.0 +But stolen moments of disturbed delight;,1.0 +"Till the fond damsel, pleased with lad so trim,",2.0 +"Awed by her parent, and enticed by him,",1.0 +"Her lovely form from savage power to save,",2.0 +Gave ' -- not her hand ' -- but ALL she could she gave.,0.0 +"Then came the day of shame, the grievous night,",0.0 +"The varying look, the wandering appetite;",4.0 +"The joy assumed, while sorrow dimmed the eyes,",0.0 +The forced sad smiles that followed sudden sighs;,1.0 +"And every art, long used, but used in vain,",1.0 +"To hide thy progress, Nature, and thy pain.",2.0 +"Too eager caution shows some danger's near,",1.0 +"His sober step the drunkard vainly tries,",0.0 +And nymphs expose the failings they disguise.,1.0 +"First, whispering gossips were in parties seen",4.0 +"Next babbling Folly told the growing ill,",0.0 +And busy Malice dropped it at the mill.,0.0 +"Go! to thy curse and mine, the Father said,",1.0 +Strife and confusion stalk around thy bed;,2.0 +"Want and a wailing brat thy portion be,",0.0 +"Plague to thy fondness, as thy fault to me; ' --",1.0 +My William seeks a portion for his bride. ' --,1.0 +"Vain be his search! but, till the traitor come,",1.0 +Day after day was passed in pains and grief;,1.0 +"Week followed week, ' -- and still was no relief:",1.0 +To grace the rite or give the child a name;,0.0 +"Nor grave conceited nurse, of office proud,",0.0 +Bore the young Christian roaring through the crowd:,4.0 +"In a small chamber was my office done,",3.0 +Where blinks through papered panes the setting sun;,0.0 +"Where noisy sparrows, perched on penthouse near,",1.0 +And feebly shriek their melancholy love.,0.0 +No Sailor came; the months in terror fled!,1.0 +"Then news arrived ' -- He fought, and he was dead!",1.0 +"At the lone cottage Lucy lives, and still",2.0 +Walks for her weekly pittance to the mill;,1.0 +"Whose mirth insults her, as she stands and weeps;",1.0 +"And sees the plenty, while compelled to stay,",0.0 +"Throughout the lanes she glides, at evening's close,",0.0 +And softly lulls her infant to repose;,1.0 +She hears their murmurs as the waters flow:,1.0 +"And she too murmurs, and begins to find",3.0 +The solemn wanderings of a wounded mind:,1.0 +"Visions of terror, views of woe succeed,",2.0 +"By turns to that, by turns to this a prey,",1.0 +"She knows what reason yields, and dreads what madness may.",1.0 +"Next, with their boy, a decent couple came,",0.0 +"And called him Robert, iT was his father's name;",1.0 +"Three girls preceded, all by time endeared,",1.0 +And future births were neither hoped nor feared:,0.0 +"Blessed in each other, but to no excess,",1.0 +"Health, quiet, comfort, formed their happiness;",2.0 +"Love all made up of torture and delight,",1.0 +Was but mere madness in this couple's sight:,2.0 +"Susan could think, though not without a sigh,",2.0 +"If she were gone, who should her place supply;",1.0 +"And Robert, half in earnest, half in jest,",0.0 +Talk of her spouse when he should be at rest:,0.0 +"Yet strange would either think it to be told,",1.0 +Their love was cooling or their hearts were cold.,1.0 +"Few were their acres, ' -- but, with these content,",1.0 +"They were, each payday, ready with their rent:",3.0 +"And few their wishes ' -- what their farm denied,",0.0 +"The neighbouring town, at trifling cost, supplied.",2.0 +"A longing look, as with her goods she passed,",1.0 +"And, with the produce of the wheel and churn,",1.0 +"True to her maxim, she would take no rest,",2.0 +Till care repaid that portion to the chest:,1.0 +Her Robert spent some idle shillings there;,1.0 +"Up at the barn, before the break of day,",0.0 +He made his labour for the indulgence pay:,3.0 +Thus both ' -- that waste itself might work in vain ' --,1.0 +"Wrought double tides, and all was well again.",1.0 +"Yet, though so prudent, there were times of joy,",1.0 +"The day they wed, the christening of the boy,",1.0 +When to the wealthier farmers there was shown,3.0 +"For Susan served the great, and had some pride",0.0 +"Yet in that plenty, in that welcome free,",0.0 +"There was the guiding nice frugality,",2.0 +"Has, in a different mode, a sovereign sway;",0.0 +"As tides the same attractive influence know,",2.0 +In the least ebb and in their proudest flow;,2.0 +"The wise frugality, that does not give",1.0 +"A life to saving, but that saves to live;",1.0 +"Sparing, not pinching, mindful though not mean,",3.0 +"Over all presiding, yet in nothing seen.",0.0 +Recorded next a babe of love I trace!,0.0 +"Of many loves, the mother's fresh disgrace. ' --",0.0 +"Again, thou harlot! could not all thy pain,",0.0 +"Alas! your reverence, wanton thoughts I grant,",2.0 +"Were once my motive, now the thoughts of want;",0.0 +"Women, like me, as ducks in a decoy,",1.0 +"Swim down a stream, and seem to swim in joy:",0.0 +"Your sex pursue us, and our own disdain;",1.0 +"Return is dreadful, and escape is vain.",1.0 +"Would men forsake us, and would women strive",1.0 +"To help the fallen, their virtue might revive.",2.0 +"In dread of scandal, should she miss the day: ' --",0.0 +"Two matrons came! with them she humbly knelt,",2.0 +"Their action copied and their comforts felt,",1.0 +"From that great pain and peril to be free,",2.0 +Though still in peril of that pain to be;,1.0 +"Alas! what numbers, like this amorous dame,",2.0 +"Are quick to censure, but are dead to shame!",1.0 +One had I named in every year that passed,0.0 +Since Gerard wed! and twins behold at last!,3.0 +"Well pleased, the bridegroom smiled to hear ' -- A vine",2.0 +"Fruitful and spreading round the walls be thine,",2.0 +"Looked joyful love, and softly said, Amen.",1.0 +Those playful branches now disturb his peace:,0.0 +"But finds, the more the branch, the less the bread;",0.0 +"And while they run his humble walls about,",0.0 +They keep the sunshine of good humour out.,2.0 +"Cease, man, to grieve! thy master's lot survey,",1.0 +"Whom wife and children, thou and thine obey;",2.0 +"A farmer proud, beyond a farmer's pride,",0.0 +Of all around the envy or the guide;,1.0 +"Who trots to market on a steed so fine,",1.0 +"That when I meet him, I'm ashamed of mine;",1.0 +Which five stout sons and three tall daughters share.,2.0 +"Cease, man, to grieve, and listen to his care.",2.0 +"A few years fled, and all thy boys shall be",0.0 +"Brides from my church, and thenceforth thou art freed:",2.0 +"But then thy master shall of cares complain,",0.0 +"Care after care, a long connected train;",1.0 +"His sons for farms shall ask a large supply,",0.0 +For farmers' sons each gentle miss shall sigh;,0.0 +"Thy mistress, reasoning well of life's decay,",2.0 +"Shall ask a chaise, and hardly brook delay;",0.0 +"The smart young cornet who, with so much grace,",3.0 +"Rode in the ranks and bet at the race,",0.0 +"While the vexed parent rails at deed so rash,",2.0 +"Shall d ' -- n his luck, and stretch his hand for cash.",1.0 +"Sad troubles, Gerard! now pertain to thee,",6.0 +When thy rich master seems from trouble free;,2.0 +"But it's one fate at different times assigned,",1.0 +And thou shalt lose the cares that he must find.,3.0 +"Ah! quoth our village Grocer, rich and old,",0.0 +Would I might one such cause for care behold!,0.0 +"To whom his Friend, Mine greater bliss would be,",0.0 +Would Heaven take those my spouse assigns to me.,0.0 +"Who much of marriage thought, and much amiss;",0.0 +"Both would delay, the one, till ' -- riches gained,",2.0 +The son he wished might be to honour trained;,1.0 +"His Friend ' -- lest fierce intruding heirs should come,",0.0 +To waste his hoard and vex his quiet home.,0.0 +"Dawkins, a dealer once, on burdened back",2.0 +"To dames discreet, the duties yet unpaid,",0.0 +His stores of lace and hyson he conveyed:,1.0 +"When thus enriched, he chose at home to stop",0.0 +"Then wooed a spinster blithe, and hoped, when wed,",0.0 +Not so his Friend; ' -- on widow fair and stayed,0.0 +"He fixed his eye, but he was much afraid;",1.0 +Yet wooed; while she his hair of silver hue,1.0 +"Demurely noticed, and her eye withdrew:",1.0 +"Doubtful he paused ' -- Ah! were I sure, he cried,",2.0 +No craving children would my gains divide;,1.0 +"Fair as she is, I would my widow take,",1.0 +And live more largely for my partner's sake.,1.0 +"With such their views some thoughtful years the passed,",1.0 +"And hoping, dreading, they were bound at last.",1.0 +"And what their fate? Observe them as they go,",1.0 +Comparing fear with fear and woe with woe.,0.0 +"Humphrey! said Dawkins, envy in my breast",3.0 +"They are thy joys, while I go grieving home",3.0 +"To a sad spouse, and our eternal gloom:",3.0 +"We look despondency; no infant near,",2.0 +To bless the eye or win the parent's ear;,0.0 +"Our sudden heats and quarrels to allay,",1.0 +"Where are, I cry, these pledges of our love?",1.0 +"When she, like Jacob's wife, makes fierce reply,",1.0 +"Yet fond ' -- Oh! give me children, or I die:",2.0 +"And I return ' -- still childless doomed to live,",2.0 +Like the vexed patriarch ' -- Are they mine to give?,3.0 +"Ah! much I envy thee thy boys, who ride",1.0 +"On poplar branch, and canter at thy side;",0.0 +And with fresh beauty at the contact glow.,3.0 +A father's pleasure by a husband's pain?,1.0 +Alas! what pleasure ' -- when some vigorous boy,2.0 +"Should swell thy pride, some rosy girl thy joy;",0.0 +"Is it to doubt who grafted this sweet flower,",3.0 +Or whence arose that spirit and that power?,1.0 +Behold the fifth! behold a babe again!,0.0 +"While I in silence sat, revolving all",0.0 +"That influence ancient men, or that befall;",2.0 +A gay pert guest ' -- Heaven knows his business ' -- came;,2.0 +"A glorious boy, he cried, and what the name?",2.0 +"Angry I growled, ' -- My spirit cease to tease,",2.0 +"Name it yourselves, ' -- Cain, Judas, if you please;",4.0 +"His father's give him, ' -- should you that explore,",0.0 +"The devil's or yours: ' -- I said, and sought the door",1.0 +My tender partner not a word or sigh,0.0 +"Gives to my wrath, nor to my speech reply;",1.0 +"But takes her comforts, triumphs in my pain,",0.0 +And looks undaunted for a birth again.,1.0 +"Heirs thus denied afflict the pining heart,",1.0 +"And thus afforded, jealous pangs impart;",0.0 +"Let, therefore, none avoid, and none demand",2.0 +These arrows numbered for the giant's hand.,1.0 +"Then with their infants three, the parents came,",0.0 +And each assigned ' -- 'twas all they had ' -- a name;,1.0 +Names of no mark or price; of them not one,3.0 +Or keep the sexton from the sermon bell.,1.0 +"Her father died, her mother on that morn:",1.0 +The pious mistress of the school sustains,1.0 +"But pitying feels: with due respect and joy,",2.0 +I trace the matron at her loved employ;,0.0 +"Part at the closing of the summer's day,",1.0 +"Frugal of light; ' -- her Bible laid before,",2.0 +"When on her double duty she proceeds,",1.0 +Of time as frugal ' -- knitting as she reads:,1.0 +"Her idle neighbours, who approach to tell",2.0 +"Some trifling tale, her serious looks compel",2.0 +"To hear reluctant, ' -- while the lads who pass,",0.0 +"In pure respect, walk silent on the grass:",2.0 +"Then sinks the day, but not to rest she goes,",0.0 +Till solemn prayers the daily duties close.,0.0 +"But I digress, and lo! an infant train",1.0 +"Appear, and call me to my task again.",1.0 +"I asked the Gardener's wife, in accents mild:",2.0 +"We have a right, replied the sturdy dame; ' --",0.0 +"If next a son shall yield our Gardener joy,",2.0 +"And if a girl, they will at length agree,",2.0 +"Nor weeds are now, for whence arose the weed,",0.0 +"Scarce plants, fair herbs, and curious flowers proceed;",6.0 +"Gross names had they our plainer sires among,",1.0 +"But though no weed exists his garden round,",2.0 +"Of floral courtship, in the awakened Spring,",3.0 +"How those esteemed of old but tips and chives,",1.0 +Are tender husbands and obedient wives;,3.0 +"Who live and love within the sacred bower, ' --",0.0 +"That bridal bed, the vulgar term a flower.",0.0 +"Hear Peter proudly, to some humble friend,",2.0 +"A wondrous secret, in his science, lend: ' --",0.0 +"Would you advance the nuptial hour, and bring",1.0 +The fruit of Autumn with the flowers of Spring;,2.0 +"And trace the husbands in their golden bed,",0.0 +"Then by thyself, from prying glance secure,",1.0 +Twirl the full tip and make your purpose sure;,3.0 +And call it science and philosophy.,2.0 +"It's good, it's pleasant, through the advancing year,",3.0 +"Then names are good; for how, without their aid,",1.0 +"Is knowledge, gained by man, to man conveyed?",0.0 +But from that source shall all our pleasures flow?,1.0 +Shall all our knowledge be those names to know?,0.0 +"Then he, with memory blessed, shall bear away",2.0 +"The palm from Grew, and Middleton, and Ray:",1.0 +"No! let us rather seek, in grove and field,",1.0 +"What food for wonder, what for use they yield;",0.0 +"Some just remark from Nature's people bring,",0.0 +And some new source of homage for her King.,2.0 +"To helpless infants, that their own may live;",0.0 +And find some byway to the house of fame.,2.0 +The hat he gained has warmth for head and heart;,0.0 +The bowl that beats the greater number down,1.0 +"Or, foiled in these, he opens his ample jaws,",3.0 +"And lets a frog leap down, to gain applause;",2.0 +"Some idle deed, some child's preposterous name,",0.0 +"Shall make him known, and give his folly fame.",0.0 +"To name an infant meet our village sires,",0.0 +Assembled all as such event requires;,1.0 +"Frequent and full, the rural sages sat,",1.0 +"And speakers many urged the long debate, ' --",0.0 +"First, of the fact they questioned ' -- Was it true?",1.0 +The child was brought ' -- What then remained to do?,0.0 +"IT was pinched, it roared, and every doubt removed.",0.0 +Then by what name the unwelcome guest to call,2.0 +"Was long a question, and it posed them all;",1.0 +"For he who lent it to a babe unknown,",2.0 +"They looked about, they gravely spoke to all,",0.0 +And not one Richard answered to the call.,1.0 +The unlucky peasant heard the stranger's cry:,1.0 +Was next debated ' -- for the rogue would live;,1.0 +"At last, with all their words and work content,",0.0 +"There was he pinched and pitied, thumped and fed,",2.0 +And duly took his beatings and his bread;,1.0 +"Patient in all control, in all abuse,",2.0 +He found contempt and kicking have their use:,0.0 +"Sad, silent, supple; bending to the blow,",2.0 +"A slave of slaves, the lowest of the low;",1.0 +"His pliant soul gave way to all things base,",2.0 +"He knew no shame, he dreaded no disgrace.",1.0 +"It seemed, so well his passions he suppressed,",1.0 +"Him might the meanest pauper bruise and cheat,",0.0 +His were the legs that ran at all commands;,1.0 +They used on all occasions Richard's hands:,0.0 +His very soul was not his own; he stole,0.0 +"As others ordered, and without a dole;",1.0 +"In all disputes, on either part he lied,",0.0 +And freely pledged his oath on either side;,0.0 +"In all rebellions Richard joined the rest,",0.0 +"Yet, though disgraced, he watched his time so well,",1.0 +"He rose in favour, when in fame he fell;",0.0 +"Base was his usage, vile his whole employ,",0.0 +And all despised and fed the pliant boy.,0.0 +"At length, It's time he should abroad be sent,'",0.0 +"Was whispered near him, ' -- and abroad he went;",1.0 +"One morn they called him, Richard answered not;",0.0 +"They deemed him hanging, and in time forgot, ' --",1.0 +"Yet missed him long, as each, throughout the clan,",0.0 +Found he had better spared a better man.,0.0 +"Now Richard's talents for the world were fit,",2.0 +"Had that calm look which seemed to all assent,",1.0 +And that complacent speech which nothing meant:,0.0 +How best for Richard Monday to provide.,1.0 +"Steel, through opposing plates, the magnet draws,",2.0 +"And thus our hero, to his interest true,",1.0 +Gold through all bars and from each trifle drew;,1.0 +"But still more surely round the world to go,",0.0 +This fortune's child had neither friend nor foe.,0.0 +"Long lost to us, at last our man we trace, ' --",2.0 +And find his grandsons all as rich as Jews:,1.0 +"He gave reforming charities a sum,",1.0 +And bought the blessings of the blind and dumb;,1.0 +"Bequeathed to missions money from the stocks,",1.0 +And Bibles issued from his private box;,1.0 +"But to his native place severely just,",1.0 +He left a pittance bound in rigid trust; ' --,0.0 +At church produced for forty loaves should pay;,0.0 +He kept in mind their bounty and their blows!,1.0 +"To farmers three, the year has given a son,",2.0 +"Finch on the Moor, and French, and Middleton.",1.0 +"Twice in this year a female Giles I see,",1.0 +"A Spalding once, and once a Barnaby: ' --",1.0 +"A humble man is he, and, when they meet,",1.0 +Our farmers find him on a distant seat;,1.0 +"There for their wit he serves a constant theme, ' --",1.0 +"They praise his dairy, they extol his team,",1.0 +"And whence his sheep, that admirable breed?",1.0 +"His thriving arts they beg he would explain,",0.0 +And where he puts the money he must gain.,1.0 +"They have their daughters, but they fear their friend",1.0 +Would think his sons too much would condescend; ' --,1.0 +"They have their sons who would their fortunes try,",0.0 +But fear his daughters will their suit deny.,1.0 +"So runs the joke, while James, with sigh profound,",0.0 +"His cares, his sighs, provoke the insult more,",1.0 +And point the jest ' -- for Barnaby is poor.,1.0 +"Their father dead, compassion sent them here, ' --",0.0 +For still that rustic infidel denied,0.0 +To have their names with solemn rite applied:,0.0 +That he believed in neither God nor ghost;,1.0 +"That, when the sod upon the sinner pressed,",0.0 +"He, like the saint, had everlasting rest;",0.0 +"That never priest believed his doctrines true,",0.0 +"But would, for profit, own himself a Jew,",0.0 +"Or worship wood and stone, as honest heathen do;",0.0 +"That fools alone on future worlds rely,",0.0 +"And all who die for faith, deserve to die.",0.0 +"These maxims, ' -- part the Attorney's Clerk professed,",2.0 +His own transcendent genius found the rest.,0.0 +"Our pious matrons heard, and, much amazed,",0.0 +"Gazed on the man, and trembled as they gazed;",1.0 +"And now his face explored, and now his feet,",0.0 +"Man's dreaded foe, in this bad man, to meet:",3.0 +"But him our drunkards as their champion raised,",4.0 +"Their bishop called, and as their hero praised;",1.0 +"Though most, when sober, and the rest, when sick,",1.0 +"But he, triumphant spirit! all things dared,",2.0 +"He poached the wood, and on the warren snared;",1.0 +And call the want of rogues the rights of man;,0.0 +"Wild as the winds, he let his offspring rove,",1.0 +"What age and sickness, for a man so bold,",1.0 +"Had done, we know not; ' -- none beheld him old:",0.0 +"By night, as business urged, he sought the wood, ' --",0.0 +"The ditch was deep, ' -- the rain had caused a flood, ' --",0.0 +"And slept, if truth were his, the eternal sleep.",1.0 +"These have we named; on life's rough sea they sail,",1.0 +"With many a prosperous, many an adverse gale!",6.0 +"Where passion soon, like powerful winds, will rage,",2.0 +"And prudence, wearied, with their strength engage:",1.0 +"Then each, in aid, shall some companion ask,",0.0 +For help or comfort in the tedious task;,2.0 +"And what that help ' -- what joys from union flow,",0.0 +"What good or ill, we next prepare to show;",0.0 +"And row, meantime, our weary bark ashore,",1.0 +As Spenser his ' -- but not with Spenser's oar.,1.0 +"Disposed to wed, even while you hasten, stay;",3.0 +This prudent maxim of the priest of Love;,1.0 +"If poor, delay for future want prepares,",0.0 +And eases humble life of half its cares;,0.0 +"If rich, delay shall brace the thoughtful mind,",0.0 +TO endure the ills that even the happiest find:,5.0 +"Delay shall knowledge yield on either part,",0.0 +And show the value of the vanquished heart;,1.0 +"Love, that impatient guide! ' -- too proud to think",2.0 +"Of vulgar wants, of clothing, meat and drink,",0.0 +"And then, at rags and hunger frightened, flees: ' --",0.0 +Yet not too long in cold debate remain;,1.0 +"Till age refrain not ' -- but if old, refrain.",1.0 +"First in the year he led a blooming bride,",0.0 +And stood a withered elder at her side.,0.0 +To take a wanton harlot by the hand!,1.0 +"Thou, who wert used so tartly to express",1.0 +"Thy sense of matrimonial happiness,",3.0 +"Till every youth, whose bans at church were read,",0.0 +"Strove not to meet, or meeting, hung his head;",0.0 +"A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook:",3.0 +"And now at sixty, that pert dame to see,",1.0 +"Of all thy savings mistress, and of thee;",1.0 +"Cry, What, the wise one in the trap at last!",0.0 +Fie! Nathan! fie! to let an artful jade,1.0 +The close recesses of thine heart invade;,3.0 +What grievous pangs! what suffering she'll impart!,1.0 +And fill with anguish that rebellious heart;,0.0 +"For thou wilt strive incessantly in vain,",2.0 +By threatening speech thy freedom to regain:,1.0 +"But she for conquest married, nor will prove",2.0 +"A dupe to thee, thine anger or thy love;",2.0 +She'll gather friends around thee and perplex,1.0 +"Thy doubtful soul; ' -- thy money she will waste,",1.0 +"And will be happy to exert her power,",2.0 +"Then wilt thou bluster ' -- No! I will not rest,",1.0 +And see consumed each shilling of my chest:,1.0 +"Thou wilt be valiant, ' -- When thy cousins call,",0.0 +I will abuse and shut my door on all:,1.0 +"Thou wilt be cruel! ' -- What the law allows,",0.0 +"' That be thy portion, my ungrateful spouse!",1.0 +"' Nor other shillings shalt thou then receive,",0.0 +' And when I die ' -- What! may I this believe?,2.0 +Are these true tender tears? and does my Kitty grieve?,2.0 +"Ah! crafty vixen, thine old man has fears;",2.0 +But weep no more! I'm melted by thy tears;,2.0 +"Spare but my money; thou shalt rule me still,",2.0 +And see thy cousins ' -- there! I burn the will.,1.0 +"Thus, with example sad, our year began,",2.0 +A wanton vixen and a weary man;,1.0 +"But had this tale in other guise been told,",0.0 +"Young let the lover be, the lady old,",1.0 +And that disparity of years shall prove,1.0 +"No bane of peace, although some bar to love:",2.0 +"It's not the worst, our nuptial ties among,",0.0 +That joins the ancient bride and bridegroom young; ' --,1.0 +"Young wives, like changing winds, their power display",3.0 +By shifting points and varying day by day;,2.0 +"They sometime speed, but often thwart our course",1.0 +"And much experienced should that pilot be,",1.0 +Who sails with them on life's tempestuous sea.,4.0 +Mild to your wish and every day the same;,0.0 +"Steady as time, no sudden squalls you fear,",3.0 +But set full sail and with assurance steer;,2.0 +"Till every danger in your way be past,",0.0 +"And then she gently, mildly breathes her last;",0.0 +"Rich you arrive, in port awhile remain,",2.0 +And for a second venture sail again.,1.0 +"For this, blithe Donald southward made his way",2.0 +"Him to a neighbouring garden fortune sent,",3.0 +"Patient and mild he sought the dame to please,",2.0 +Who ruled the kitchen and who bore the keys.,1.0 +"Fair Lucy first, the laundry grace and pride,",1.0 +"With smiles and gracious looks, her fortune tried;",0.0 +Where never fondness was for Lucy seen:,1.0 +"Him the mild Susan, boast of dairies, loved,",2.0 +"And found him civil, cautious and unmoved:",1.0 +"From many a fragrant simple, Catherine's skill",2.0 +Drew oil and essence from the boiling still;,2.0 +"But not her warmth, nor all her winning ways",0.0 +To Mistress Dobson he preferred his suit;,1.0 +"There proved his service, there addressed his vows,",1.0 +"A butler now, he thanks his powerful bride,",2.0 +"And, like her keys, keeps constant at her side.",1.0 +"Next at our altar stood a luckless pair,",0.0 +Brought by strong passions and a warrant there;,5.0 +"By long rent cloak, hung loosely, strove the bride,",2.0 +"From every eye, what all perceived, to hide.",0.0 +Now hid awhile and then exposed his face;,1.0 +"As shame alternately with anger strove,",5.0 +The brain confused with muddy ale to move,0.0 +And looked the rage that rankled in his heart;,0.0 +Too soon made happy and made wise too late:,5.0 +"I saw his features take a savage gloom,",0.0 +And deeply threaten for the days to come.,1.0 +"Looked on the lad, and faintly tried to smile;",0.0 +With softened speech and humbled tone she strove,0.0 +To stir the embers of departed love:,1.0 +"While he, a tyrant, frowning walked before,",0.0 +"Felt the poor purse, and sought the public door,",3.0 +"She sadly following in submission went,",2.0 +"Then to her father's hut the pair withdrew,",0.0 +And bade to love and comfort long adieu!,0.0 +"Ah! fly temptation, youth, refrain! refrain!",0.0 +I preach for ever; but I preach in vain!,1.0 +"The sweetest flower that ever blossomed there,",3.0 +"When Phoebe Dawson gaily crossed the Green,",0.0 +In haste to see and happy to be seen:,1.0 +"Her air, her manners, all who saw admired;",0.0 +"Courteous though coy, and gentle though retired;",2.0 +"The joy of youth and health her eyes displayed,",0.0 +And ease of heart her every look conveyed;,0.0 +"A native skill her simple robes expressed,",0.0 +"The lads around admired so fair a sight,",0.0 +"And Phoebe felt, and felt she gave, delight.",0.0 +"Admirers soon of every age she gained,",0.0 +Her beauty won them and her worth retained;,1.0 +"Envy itself could no contempt display,",2.0 +"They wished her well, whom yet they wished away.",0.0 +"Correct in thought, she judged a servant's place",0.0 +Preserved a rustic beauty from disgrace;,1.0 +"When some proud bliss upon the heart would steal,",1.0 +"That, poor or rich, a beauty still must feel. ' --",0.0 +"At length the youth ordained to move her breast,",0.0 +"With looks less timid made his passion known,",1.0 +And pleased by manners most unlike her own;,0.0 +"Loud though in love, and confident though young;",1.0 +"Fierce in his air, and voluble of tongue;",1.0 +"By trade a tailor, though, in scorn of trade,",1.0 +"He served the' Squire, and brushed the coat he made.",0.0 +"Yet now, would Phoebe her consent afford,",1.0 +"With her should years of growing love be spent,",0.0 +And growing wealth: ' -- she sighed and looked consent.,0.0 +"Now, through the lane, up hill, and across the green,",2.0 +"Seen by but few, and blushing to be seen ' --",1.0 +"Dejected, thoughtful, anxious, and afraid,",1.0 +"Led by the lover, walked the silent maid,",0.0 +"Where, as he painted every blissful view,",0.0 +"And highly coloured what he strongly drew,",0.0 +"The pensive damsel, prone to tender fears,",0.0 +Dimmed the false prospect with prophetic tears. ' --,4.0 +"Thus passed the allotted hours, till lingering late,",2.0 +"There he pronounced adieu! and yet would stay,",1.0 +"He would of coldness, though indulged, complain,",1.0 +"And oft retire, and oft return again;",0.0 +"When, if his teasing vexed her gentle mind,",0.0 +"The grief assumed, compelled her to be kind!",1.0 +"That she resented first and then forgave,",1.0 +And to his grief and penance yielded more,1.0 +Than his presumption had required before. ' --,1.0 +"Ah! fly temptation, youth; refrain! refrain!",0.0 +Each yielding maid and each presuming swain!,0.0 +"Lo! now with red rent cloak and bonnet black,",2.0 +"And torn green gown loose hanging at her back,",2.0 +"One who an infant in her arms sustains,",0.0 +And seems in patience striving with her pains;,1.0 +"Pinched are her looks, as one who pines for bread,",1.0 +Whose cares are growing and whose hopes are fled;,1.0 +"Pale her parched lips, her heavy eyes sunk low,",4.0 +And tears unnoticed from their channels flow;,1.0 +"Serene her manner, till some sudden pain",1.0 +"Her broken pitcher to the pool she takes,",1.0 +And every step with cautious terror makes;,0.0 +"For not alone that infant in her arms,",0.0 +"But nearer cause, her anxious soul alarms.",0.0 +"With water burdened, then she picks her way,",0.0 +"Slowly and cautious, in the clinging clay;",2.0 +And deeply plunges in the adhesive ground;,2.0 +"Thence, but with pain, her slender foot she takes,",0.0 +"For when so full the cup of sorrow grows,",0.0 +"Add but a drop, it instantly overflows.",2.0 +"And now her path but not her peace she gains,",0.0 +"Safe from her task, but shivering with her pains;",1.0 +"Her home she reaches, open leaves the door,",0.0 +"And placing first her infant on the floor,",1.0 +"She bares her bosom to the wind, and sits,",1.0 +And sobbing struggles with the rising fits:,1.0 +"In vain, they come, she feels the inflating grief,",2.0 +That shuts the swelling bosom from relief;,1.0 +"That speaks in feeble cries a soul distressed,",0.0 +Or the sad laugh that cannot be repressed.,2.0 +With all the aid her poverty supplies;,1.0 +"Not led by profit, not allured by praise;",0.0 +"And waiting long, till these contentions cease,",1.0 +"She speaks of comfort, and departs in peace.",1.0 +"Friend of distress! the mourner feels thy aid,",2.0 +"She cannot pay thee, but thou wilt be paid.",1.0 +"But who this child of weakness, want, and care?",0.0 +"Who took her lover for his sparkling eyes,",1.0 +"Compassion first assailed her gentle heart,",0.0 +"And then his prayers! they would a savage move,",0.0 +And win the coldest of the sex to love: ' --,1.0 +"But ah! too soon his looks success declared,",1.0 +"If present, railing, till he saw her pained;",1.0 +"Till that fair form in want and sickness pined,",1.0 +And hope and comfort fled that gentle mind.,0.0 +"Then fly temptation, youth; resist, refrain!",0.0 +Nor let me preach for ever and in vain!,1.0 +"And made, in long procession, slow approach:",0.0 +"Silent, nor wanting due respect, the crowd",2.0 +"But not that silent crowd, in wonder fixed,",0.0 +"Not numerous friends, who praise and envy mixed,",2.0 +Nor nymphs attending near to swell the pride,0.0 +"Nor that gay bride, adorned with every grace,",1.0 +"Nor love nor joy triumphant in her face,",0.0 +"Could, from the youth's, sad signs of sorrow chase:",1.0 +"Vexed it thy soul, that freedom to resign?",1.0 +So soon to bring thy wooing to an end?,1.0 +"To end as soon, but in a different way?",0.0 +Who played uninjured with the dangerous flame:,3.0 +"That, while, like Lovelace, thou thy coat displayed,",2.0 +"And hid the snare for her affection laid,",1.0 +"Thee, with her net, she found the means to catch,",1.0 +"And at the amorous see-saw, won the match:",3.0 +"Yet others tell, the Captain fixed thy doubt,",0.0 +"But rest the motive ' -- all retreat too late,",1.0 +Joy like thy bride's should on thy brow have sat;,1.0 +"The deed had then appeared thine own intent,",0.0 +"A glorious day, by gracious fortune sent,",2.0 +In each revolving year to be in triumph spent.,0.0 +Then in few weeks that cloudy brow had been,0.0 +Without a wonder or a whisper seen;,1.0 +"And none had been so weak as to enquire,",1.0 +"How fair these names, how much unlike they look",0.0 +To all the blurred subscriptions in my book:,0.0 +"While free and fine the bride's appear below,",0.0 +"Mark now in what confusion, stoop or stand,",1.0 +"Now out, now in, they droop, they fall, they rise,",0.0 +Like raw recruits drawn forth for exercise;,1.0 +The freeborn legs stand striding as they will.,2.0 +"Much have I tried to guide the fist along,",0.0 +"Behold these marks uncouth! how strange that men,",1.0 +"Who guide the plough, should fail to guide the pen:",0.0 +For half an inch the letters stand awry; ' --,0.0 +"Our peasants, strong and sturdy in the field,",0.0 +Cannot these arms of idle students wield:,0.0 +"Like them, in feudal days, their valiant lords",0.0 +Resigned the pen and grasped their conquering swords;,2.0 +Left the light duties of the peaceful pen;,4.0 +"Nor to their ladies wrote, but sought to prove,",1.0 +"By deeds of death, their hearts were filled with love.",0.0 +"But yet, small arts have charms for female eyes;",2.0 +"For those who dress, and amorous scrolls indite.",3.0 +"For Lucy Collins happier days had been,",2.0 +Had Footman Daniel scorned his native green,0.0 +Had he his love reserved for lass in town;,0.0 +"To Stephen Hill she then had pledged her truth, ' --",0.0 +"But from the day, that fatal day she spied",1.0 +"The pride of Daniel, Daniel was her pride.",1.0 +In all concerns was Stephen just and true;,0.0 +"And felt his stockings were, and blacker than his shoe;",2.0 +"While Daniel's linen all was fine and fair, ' --",0.0 +"His master wore it, and he deigned to wear:",1.0 +"To wear his livery, some respect might prove;",2.0 +"To wear his linen, must be sign of love:",0.0 +"His hose were silk, his shoes of Spanish grain;",0.0 +A silver knot his breadth of shoulder bore;,0.0 +A diamond buckle blazed his breast before ' --,0.0 +Diamond he swore it was! and showed it as he swore:,4.0 +"And thus, with clouded cane, a fop complete,",0.0 +"He stalked, the jest and glory of the street.",1.0 +"Joined with these powers, he could so sweetly sing,",1.0 +"Talk with such toss, and saunter with such swing;",1.0 +"Laugh with such glee, and trifle with such art,",1.0 +"Stephen, meantime, to ease his amorous cares,",5.0 +Fixed his full mind upon his farm's affairs;,3.0 +"Increased his stock, and still he looked for more.",0.0 +"He, for his acres few, so duly paid,",1.0 +That yet more acres to his lot were laid;,1.0 +"Till our chaste nymphs no longer felt disdain,",4.0 +And prudent matrons praised the frugal swain;,0.0 +"Who thriving well, through many a fruitful year,",2.0 +"Now clothed himself anew, and acted overseer.",1.0 +"Just then poor Lucy, from her friend in town,",2.0 +Fled in pure fear and came a beggar down;,4.0 +"Trembling, at Stephen's door she knocked for bread, ' --",1.0 +"Then sat at Stephen's board, then shared in Stephen's bed:",0.0 +"All hope of marriage lost in her disgrace,",1.0 +"He mourns a flame revived, and she a love of lace.",1.0 +"Twice had old Lodge been tied, and twice the dame;",3.0 +"Tottering they came and toying, odious scene!",3.0 +Children from wedlock we by laws restrain;,2.0 +Why not forbid the doting souls to prove,0.0 +"In spite of prudence, uncontrolled by shame,",0.0 +"The amorous senior woos the toothless dame,",2.0 +"Relating idly, at the closing eve,",0.0 +The youthful follies he disdains to leave;,1.0 +"Till youthful follies wake a transient fire,",0.0 +When arm in arm they totter and retire.,1.0 +"So a fond pair of solemn birds, all day,",2.0 +Blink in their seat and doze the hours away;,0.0 +"Then by the moon awakened, forth they move,",0.0 +"So two sear trees, dry, stunted, and unsound,",3.0 +"Each other catch, when dropping to the ground;",1.0 +"Entwine their withered arms against wind and weather,",3.0 +And shake their leafless heads and drop together.,0.0 +"Move with new life, and feel awakened fire;",3.0 +"Quivering awhile, their flaccid forms remain,",1.0 +"But ever frowns your Hymen? man and maid,",0.0 +"Are all repenting, suffering or betrayed?",1.0 +"Forbid it, Love! we have our couples here",0.0 +Who hail the day in each revolving year:,0.0 +"These are with us, as in the world around;",1.0 +"They are not frequent, but they may be found.",2.0 +"Our farmers too, what though they fail to prove,",1.0 +"Nor, like those pairs whom sentiment unites,",1.0 +They heap the board and hail the happy day:,0.0 +"And though the bride, now freed from school, admits,",2.0 +"Of pride implanted there, some transient fits;",1.0 +"Yet soon she casts her girlish flights aside,",0.0 +And in substantial blessings rests her pride.,0.0 +No more she moves in measured steps; no more,1.0 +"Runs, with bewildered ear, her music over;",2.0 +"No more recites her French the hinds among,",1.0 +Plain work and plenty with her house to share;,2.0 +"Till, all her varnish lost in few short years.",0.0 +In all her worth the farmer's wife appears.,0.0 +Yet not the ancient kind; nor she who gave,1.0 +Her soul to gain ' -- a mistress and a slave:,1.0 +Who not to sleep allowed the needful time;,0.0 +"To whom repose was loss, and sport a crime;",0.0 +"Who, in her meanest room and all were mean,",0.0 +"A noisy drudge, from morn till night was seen; ' --",0.0 +"But she, the daughter, boasts a decent room,",1.0 +Fair prints along the papered wall are spread;,1.0 +"IT is here, assembled, while in space apart",0.0 +"Their husbands, drinking, warm the opening heart,",2.0 +With tongues more fluent and with hearts as light;,1.0 +"Theirs is that art, which English wives alone",0.0 +Profess ' -- a boast and privilege their own;,1.0 +An art it is where each at once attends,0.0 +"To all, and claims attention from her friends,",1.0 +"When they engage the tongue, the eye, the ear,",1.0 +"Reply when listening, and when speaking hear:",1.0 +"The ready converse knows no dull delays,",1.0 +"But double are the pains, and double be the praise.",1.0 +Yet not to those alone who bear command,1.0 +Heaven gives a heart to hail the marriage band;,0.0 +"Among their servants, we the pairs can show,",1.0 +"Who much to love, and more to prudence owe:",0.0 +"Reuben and Rachel, though as fond as doves,",3.0 +Were yet discreet and cautious in their loves;,0.0 +"Nor would attend to Cupid's wild commands,",0.0 +Till cool reflection bade them join their hands:,0.0 +"When both were poor, they thought it argued ill",0.0 +Of hasty love to make them poorer still;,0.0 +"Year after year, with savings long laid by,",3.0 +They bought the future dwelling's full supply;,0.0 +"Her frugal fancy culled the smaller ware,",0.0 +"Together then their last year's gain they threw,",1.0 +"And lo! an auctioned bed, with curtains neat and new.",0.0 +And cheerful then the calls of Love obeyed:,0.0 +Usurping grey among the black could spy?,1.0 +And their full autumn felt the mellowing frost?,4.0 +"Yet time, who blowed the rose of youth away,",0.0 +Had left the vigorous stem without decay;,2.0 +"By time confirmed and rooted in the land,",0.0 +"These are the happier pairs, their life has rest,",3.0 +"Their hopes are strong, their humble portion blessed",0.0 +"While those more rash to hasty marriage led,",0.0 +Lament the impatience which now stints their bread:,3.0 +"When such their union, years their cares increase,",0.0 +"Their love grows colder, and their pleasures cease;",2.0 +"In health just fed, in sickness just relieved;",0.0 +By hardships harassed and by children grieved;,2.0 +"In petty quarrels and in peevish strife,",1.0 +The once fond couple waste the spring of life:,1.0 +"But when to age mature those children grown,",0.0 +"Find hopes and homes and hardships of their own,",2.0 +The harassed couple feel their lingering woes,5.0 +"Receding slowly, till they find repose.",1.0 +"Complaints and murmurs then are laid aside,",0.0 +"By reason these subdued, and those by pride;",2.0 +"And, taught by care, the patient man and wife",0.0 +Agree to share the bittersweet of life;,0.0 +"Life that has sorrow much and sorrow's cure,",0.0 +Where they who most enjoy shall much endure:,0.0 +"Compose the soul, and fit it for its cares;",1.0 +Have each a medicine for the rustic mind;,1.0 +"Nor has he care to whom his wealth shall go,",0.0 +Or who shall labour with his spade and hoe;,1.0 +"But as he lends the strength that yet remains,",1.0 +"And some dead neighbour on his bier sustains,",1.0 +"One with whom oft he whirled the bounding flail,",1.0 +"Tossed the broad coit, or took the inspiring ale,",4.0 +"' This friendly duty, when my race be run;",0.0 +"IT was first in trouble as in error past,",1.0 +"Dark clouds and stormy cares whole years overcast,",4.0 +"But calm my setting day, and sunshine smiles at last:",1.0 +"My vices punished and my follies spent,",1.0 +"Not loath to die, but yet to live content,",0.0 +"I rest: ' -- then casting on the grave his eye,",1.0 +"Last on my list appears a match of love,",0.0 +And one of virtue; ' -- happy may it prove! ' --,2.0 +"Sir Edward Archer is an amorous knight,",4.0 +And maidens chaste and lovely shun his sight;,0.0 +"His bailiff's daughter suited much his taste,",0.0 +For Fanny Price was lovely and was chaste;,1.0 +"To her the Knight with gentle looks drew near,",2.0 +"And timid voice assumed, to banish fear: ' --",0.0 +"Hope of my life, dear sovereign of my breast,",2.0 +"Which, since I knew thee, knows not joy nor rest;",0.0 +"Know, thou art all that my delighted eyes,",1.0 +And is that bosom ' -- what on earth so fair!,1.0 +"To cradle some coarse peasant's sprawling heir,",1.0 +To be that pillow which some surly swain,0.0 +"To dread his insult, to support his care;",2.0 +"To hear his follies, his contempt to prove,",1.0 +And o! the torment! to endure his love;,3.0 +"Till want and deep regret those charms destroy,",0.0 +"That time would spare, if time were passed in joy?",0.0 +"With him, in varied pains, from morn till night,",1.0 +Your softest bed shall be the knotted wool;,0.0 +Your purest drink the waters of the pool;,1.0 +"Your sweetest food will but your life sustain,",1.0 +And your best pleasure be a rest from pain;,2.0 +"While, through each year, as health and strength abate,",0.0 +"And cry,' Behold,' as life's last cares come on,",3.0 +' My burdens growing when my strength is gone.',0.0 +"Now turn with me, and all the young desire,",2.0 +"Wealth, health, respect, delight, and love, are yours:",1.0 +"Sparkling, in cups of gold, your wines shall flow,",1.0 +"Grace that fair hand, in that dear bosom glow;",4.0 +Shall on your walls and in your walks appear:,0.0 +"Where all beholding, shall your praise repeat,",0.0 +No fruit so tempting and no flower so sweet:,5.0 +"The softest carpets in your rooms shall lie,",0.0 +"Pictures of happiest loves shall meet your eye,",4.0 +"And tallest mirrors, reaching to the floor,",1.0 +Shall show you all the object I adore;,1.0 +"Who, by the hands of wealth and fashion dressed,",0.0 +"Shall move, a wonder, through the public ways,",1.0 +And hear the whispers of adoring praise.,1.0 +"Shall see you happy, and shall, sighing, say,",1.0 +"While smothered envy rises in the breast, ' --",0.0 +"Come, then, my mistress, and my wife; for she",1.0 +Who trusts my honour is the wife for me;,0.0 +"Your slave, your husband, and your friend employ,",1.0 +In search of pleasures we may both enjoy.,1.0 +"To this the Damsel, meekly firm, replied:",1.0 +"My mother loved, was married, toiled, and died;",0.0 +But not one grief was pointed by remorse;,1.0 +"My mind is fixed, to Heaven I resign,",1.0 +"And be her love, her life, her comforts mine.",1.0 +"Tyrants have wept; and those with hearts of steel,",2.0 +"Unused the anguish of the heart to heal,",1.0 +"Have yet the transient power of virtue known,",2.0 +And felt the imparted joy promote their own.,2.0 +"Our Knight relenting, now befriends a youth,",0.0 +Who to the yielding maid had vowed his truth;,0.0 +"And finds in that fair deed a sacred joy,",1.0 +"That will not perish, and that cannot cloy; ' --",1.0 +"A living joy, that shall its spirit keep,",0.0 +"When every beauty fades, and all the passions sleep.",0.0 +"There was, iT is said, and I believe, a time,",2.0 +When humble Christians died with views sublime;,0.0 +"When all were ready for their faith to bleed,",1.0 +But few to write or wrangle for their creed;,1.0 +"When lively Faith upheld the sinking heart,",0.0 +"And friends, assured to meet, prepared to part;",0.0 +"When Love felt hope, when Sorrow grew serene,",1.0 +And all was comfort in the deathbed scene.,1.0 +"Alas! when now the gloomy king they wait,",0.0 +"Like wretched men upon the ocean cast,",0.0 +They labour hard and struggle to the last;,1.0 +"Hope against hope, and wildly gaze around,",3.0 +In search of help that never shall be found:,0.0 +"Nor, till the last strong billow stops the breath,",2.0 +Will they believe them in the jaws of Death!,1.0 +"When these my Records I reflecting read,",1.0 +And find what ills these numerous births succeed;,2.0 +With what regret these painful journeys end;,0.0 +"When from the cradle to the grave I look,",1.0 +Mine I conceive a melancholy book.,1.0 +Where now is perfect resignation seen?,1.0 +"Whose looks proclaimed that sunshine of the breast,",2.0 +"That more than hope, that Heaven itself expressed.",0.0 +"What I behold are feverish fits of strife,",3.0 +Betwixt fears of dying and desire of life:,4.0 +"Those earthly hopes, that to the last endure;",1.0 +"Those fears, that hopes superior fail to cure;",2.0 +"At best a sad submission to the doom,",1.0 +"Which, turning from the danger, lets it come.",1.0 +"Sick lies the man, bewildered, lost, afraid,",1.0 +His spirits vanquished and his strength decayed;,1.0 +"No hope the friend, the nurse, the doctor lend ' --",1.0 +"Call then a priest, and fit him for his end.",1.0 +"A priest is called; iT is now, alas! too late,",1.0 +"Or time allowed ' -- he goes, assured to find",0.0 +"And sighs to hear, what we may justly call",1.0 +"Death's commonplace, the train of thought in all.",1.0 +"True, I'm a sinner, feebly he begins,",1.0 +But trust in Mercy to forgive my sins:,1.0 +Such cool confession no past crimes excite!,1.0 +"I know, mankind are frail, that God is just,",1.0 +And pardons those who in his mercy trust;,1.0 +"We're sorely tempted in a world like this,",0.0 +"All men have done, and I like all, amiss;",1.0 +"But now, if spared, it is my full intent",1.0 +On all the past to ponder and repent:,1.0 +"Wrongs against me I pardon great and small,",0.0 +"And if I die, I die in peace with all.",1.0 +"His merits thus and not his sins confessed,",0.0 +"He speaks his hopes, and leaves to Heaven the rest.",0.0 +"Alas! are these the prospects, dull and cold,",1.0 +That dying Christians to their priests unfold?,1.0 +I die assured! and in a rapture dies?,0.0 +"With that confiding spirit, shall we find;",0.0 +"The mind that, feeling what repentance brings,",0.0 +"Feels then the hope, that mounts all care above,",0.0 +And the pure joy that flows from pardoning love?,4.0 +"Such have I seen in Death, and much deplore,",0.0 +So many dying ' -- that I see no more:,1.0 +"Lo! now my Records, where I grieve to trace,",1.0 +How Death has triumphed in so short a space;,0.0 +"Who are the dead, how died they, I relate,",1.0 +And snatch some portion of their acts from fate.,1.0 +"With Andrew Collett we the year begin,",1.0 +"The blind, fat landlord of the Old Crown Inn, ' --",4.0 +To take in stores of strong fermenting juice.,0.0 +"On his huge chair beside the fire he sat,",2.0 +"In revel chief, and umpire in debate;",3.0 +Each night his string of vulgar tales he told;,0.0 +When ale was cheap and bachelors were bold:,2.0 +"His heroes all were famous in their days,",0.0 +Cheats were his boast and drunkards had his praise;,0.0 +"One, in three draughts, three mugs of ale took down,",4.0 +As mugs were then ' -- the champion of the Crown;,1.0 +"For thrice three days another lived on ale,",1.0 +And knew no change but that of mild and stale;,1.0 +"Nor from their seats departed, till they found",2.0 +That butt was out and heard the mournful sound.,1.0 +"He praised a poacher, precious child of fun!",0.0 +There to expire; ' -- but one who saw him hang,2.0 +Cut the good cord ' -- a traitor of the gang.,1.0 +"His own exploits with boastful glee he told,",1.0 +What ponds he emptied and what pikes he sold;,1.0 +"And how, when blessed with sight alert and gay,",1.0 +The night's amusements kept him through the day.,1.0 +"He sang the praises of those times, when all",1.0 +"For cards and dice, as for their drink, might call;",1.0 +"When justice winked on every jovial crew,",2.0 +"He told, when angry wives, provoked to rail,",0.0 +"What were his triumphs, and how great the skill",1.0 +That won the vexed virago to his will;,5.0 +"Who raving came; ' -- then talked in milder strain, ' --",0.0 +"Then wept, then drank, and pledged her spouse again.",0.0 +"Such were his themes: how knaves over laws prevail,",4.0 +"Or, when made captives, how they fly from jail;",2.0 +"The young how brave, how subtle were the old:",1.0 +And oaths attested all that Folly told.,0.0 +"On death like his what name shall we bestow,",2.0 +So very sudden! yet so very slow?,0.0 +"IT was slow: ' -- Disease, augmenting year by year,",1.0 +Showed the grim king by gradual steps brought near:,5.0 +"IT was not less sudden; in the night he died,",1.0 +Thus aiding folly with departing breath: ' --,2.0 +"Next died the Widow Go, an active dame,",0.0 +"Famed ten miles round, and worthy all her fame;",1.0 +"She lost her husband when their loves were young,",0.0 +"But kept her farm, her credit, and her tongue:",1.0 +"Advice she scorned, rebellions she suppressed,",1.0 +And sons and servants bowed at her behest.,1.0 +Were the strong words of this commanding dame; ' --,3.0 +"Come, if she said, they came; if go, were gone;",0.0 +"And if do this, ' -- that instant it was done:",1.0 +"Her maidens told she was all eye and ear,",1.0 +In darkness saw and could at distance hear; ' --,0.0 +Without direction or assent from her;,1.0 +"In turn she took each office as it fell,",1.0 +Knew all their duties and discharged them well;,1.0 +"The lazy vagrants in her presence shook,",0.0 +"She looked on want with judgement clear and cool,",0.0 +And felt with reason and bestowed by rule;,1.0 +"She matched both sons and daughters to her mind,",2.0 +"And lent them eyes, for Love, she heard, was blind;",0.0 +"Yet ceaseless still she throve, alert, alive,",0.0 +"The working bee, in full or empty hive;",0.0 +"Busy and careful, like that working bee,",2.0 +No time for love nor tender cares had she;,1.0 +"But when our farmers made their amorous vows,",2.0 +"Not unemployed her evenings passed away,",0.0 +"When to her toilet's brief concern she ran,",0.0 +"And conversation with her friends began,",1.0 +"Who all were welcome, what they saw, to share;",0.0 +"That none around might, in their scorn, complain",0.0 +Of Gossip Go as greedy in her gain.,0.0 +"Thus long she reigned, admired, if not approved;",1.0 +"Praised, if not honoured; feared, if not beloved; ' --",1.0 +"When, as the busy days of Spring drew near,",1.0 +That called for all the forecast of the year;,2.0 +"When lively hope the rising crops surveyed,",0.0 +And April promised what September paid;,0.0 +When rose her grass in richer vales below;,0.0 +"When pleased she looked on all the smiling land,",0.0 +"And viewed the hinds, who wrought at her command;",1.0 +Poultry in groups still followed where she went;,3.0 +"Then dread overcame her, ' -- that her days were spent.",1.0 +"Bless me! I die, and not a warning given, ' --",0.0 +"With much to do on Earth, and all for Heaven! ' --",0.0 +"No reparation for my soul's affairs,",2.0 +No leave petitioned for the barn's repairs;,2.0 +"Accounts perplexed, my interest yet unpaid,",0.0 +"My mind unsettled, and my will unmade; ' --",2.0 +"A lawyer haste, and in your way, a priest;",0.0 +And let me die in one good work at least.,1.0 +"She spoke, and, trembling, dropped upon her knees,",0.0 +Heaven in her eye and in her hand her keys;,0.0 +"And still the more she found her life decay,",0.0 +With greater force she grasped those signs of sway:,0.0 +"Then fell and died! ' -- In haste her sons drew near,",1.0 +"And dropped, in haste, the tributary tear,",0.0 +"Then from the adhering clasp the keys unbound,",1.0 +And consolation for their sorrows found.,1.0 +"The brightest eye his glazing film makes dim,",1.0 +"He seized the sickening boy to Gerard lent,",3.0 +"When three days' life, in feeble cries, were spent;",1.0 +"In pain brought forth, those painful hours to stay,",1.0 +To breathe in pain and sigh its soul away!,0.0 +"But why thus lent, if thus recalled again,",1.0 +"To cause and feel, to live and die in, pain?",0.0 +"Or rather say, Why grievous these appear,",1.0 +If all it pays for Heaven's eternal year;,2.0 +"Delights that live, when worlds no more endure?",1.0 +"And pains from nature, pains from reason, know;",0.0 +"Through all the common ills of life may run,",0.0 +By hope perverted and by love undone;,1.0 +"May at old age arrive through numerous harms,",3.0 +With children's children in those feeble arms:,0.0 +Nor till by years of want and grief oppressed,1.0 +Shall the sad spirit flee and be at rest!,2.0 +"Yet happier therefore shall we deem the boy,",2.0 +Secured from anxious care and dangerous joy?,2.0 +Not so! for then would Love Divine in vain,0.0 +Send all the burdens weary men sustain;,0.0 +"All that now kerb the passions when they rage,",1.0 +The cheques of youth and the regrets of age;,1.0 +"All that now bid us hope, believe, endure,",1.0 +"All that for Heaven's high joys the spirits train,",3.0 +"And charity, the crown of all, were vain.",1.0 +"Say, will you call the breathless infant blessed,",0.0 +Because no cares the silent grave molest?,1.0 +Untimely thrust and never trained to sing;,0.0 +But far more blessed the bird whose grateful voice,0.0 +"Sings its own joy and makes the woods rejoice,",0.0 +Hard were his trials and his pains severe!,0.0 +Next died the Lady who yonder Hall possessed;,2.0 +And here they brought her noble bones to rest.,0.0 +In Town she dwelled; ' -- forsaken stood the Hall:,0.0 +"Worms ate the floors, the tapestry fled the wall:",3.0 +Here spun his shroud and laid him up to die,1.0 +The bat shrill shrieking wooed his flickering mate;,3.0 +"To empty rooms the curious came no more,",2.0 +"From empty cellars turned the angry poor,",0.0 +"To one small room the steward found his way,",2.0 +Where tenants followed to complain and pay;,1.0 +"Yet no complaint before the Lady came,",0.0 +The feeling servant spared the feeble dame;,0.0 +"Who saw her farms with his observing eyes,",1.0 +And answered all requests with his replies: ' --,1.0 +"She came not down, her falling groves to view;",1.0 +"Why should she know, what one so faithful knew?",1.0 +What one so just might whisper in her ear?,0.0 +"Her oaks or acres, why with care explore;",0.0 +"Why learn the wants, the sufferings of the poor;",1.0 +"When one so knowing all their worth could trace,",0.0 +"Lo! now, what dismal Sons of Darkness come,",1.0 +To bear this Daughter of Indulgence home;,1.0 +"Who nature, feeling, force, expression lack;",0.0 +"Who cause no tear, but gloomily pass by,",3.0 +"And shake their sables in the wearied eye,",0.0 +"That turns disgusted from the pompous scene,",1.0 +"Proud without grandeur, with profusion, mean!",2.0 +The tear for kindness past affection owes;,0.0 +For worth deceased the sigh from reason flows;,0.0 +And real tears for mimic miseries fall:,4.0 +"But this poor farce has neither truth nor art,",2.0 +To please the fancy or to touch the heart;,1.0 +"Unlike the darkness of the sky, that pours",1.0 +"Unlike to that which strikes the soul with dread,",0.0 +"Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean,",1.0 +"Presents no objects tender or profound,",4.0 +"When woes are feigned, how ill such forms appear",0.0 +"Slow to the vault they come, with heavy tread,",0.0 +Bending beneath the Lady and her lead;,3.0 +"A case of elm surrounds that ponderous chest,",2.0 +"For now, ere yet he works his tedious way,",3.0 +"Through cloth and wood and metal to his prey,",1.0 +"That prey dissolving shall a mass remain,",0.0 +Pleased that our rustic men and maids behold,0.0 +"His plate like silver, and his studs like gold,",1.0 +"As they approach to spell the age, the name,",1.0 +And all the titles of the illustrious dame. ' --,5.0 +"This as my duty done some scholar read,",1.0 +"Away, my friends! why take such pains to know",0.0 +What some brave marble soon in Church shall show?,1.0 +"Where not alone her gracious name shall stand,",0.0 +But how she lived ' -- the blessing of the land;,2.0 +"How much we all deplored the noble dead,",0.0 +What groans we uttered and what tears we shed;,1.0 +"Tears, true as those, which in the sleepy eyes",1.0 +Of weeping cherubs on the stone shall rise;,1.0 +"Tears, true as those which, ere she found her grave,",2.0 +The noble Lady to our sorrows gave.,1.0 +"In that small house, with those green pales before,",3.0 +Where jasmine trails on either side the door;,0.0 +"Where those dark shrubs, that now grow wild at will,",3.0 +"There lived a Lady, wise, austere, and nice,",0.0 +Who showed her virtue by her scorn of vice;,1.0 +"In the dear fashions of her youth she dressed,",3.0 +"Erect she stood, she walked with stately mien,",0.0 +"Tight was her length of stays, and she was tall and lean.",1.0 +From looks of love and treacherous man secured;,2.0 +Though evil fame ' -- but that was long before,0.0 +Had blown her dubious blast at Catherine's door.,2.0 +"A Captain thither, rich from India came,",5.0 +"And though a cousin called, it touched her fame:",1.0 +"Her annual stipend rose from his behest,",3.0 +If aught like joy awhile appeared to stay,0.0 +"In that stern face, and chase those frowns away;",1.0 +'Twas when her treasures she disposed for view,1.0 +And diamonds blazing on the buckled zone;,1.0 +"Rows of rare pearls by curious workmen set,",5.0 +And bracelets fair in box of glossy jet;,0.0 +"Bright polished amber precious from its size,",2.0 +Or forms the fairest fancy could devise:,0.0 +"Her drawers of cedar, shut with secret springs,",0.0 +"Letters, long proofs of love, and verses fine",3.0 +"That pictured wealth of China and Japan,",1.0 +"Like its cold mistress, shunned the eye of man.",2.0 +"A parrot next, but dead and stuffed with art;",0.0 +And then his life; for he was heard to speak,1.0 +"Unhappy bird! who had no power to prove,",3.0 +"Save by such speech, his gratitude and love.",0.0 +A grey old cat his whiskers licked beside;,1.0 +A type of sadness in the house of pride.,0.0 +"The polished surface of an India chest,",3.0 +"A glassy globe, in frame of ivory, pressed;",0.0 +All these were formed the guiding taste to suit;,0.0 +"A widowed Aunt was there, compelled by need",1.0 +The nymph to flatter and her tribe to feed;,1.0 +"Who, veiling well her scorn, endured the clog,",0.0 +Mute as the fish and fawning as the dog.,1.0 +"As years increased, these treasures, her delight,",1.0 +Arose in value in their owner's sight:,0.0 +"A miser knows that, view it as he will,",1.0 +A guinea kept is but a guinea still:,1.0 +"And so he puts it to its proper use,",2.0 +That something more this guinea may produce;,1.0 +"The oftener seen, the more in value rise,",2.0 +And thus are wisely hoarded to bestow,1.0 +The kind of pleasure that with years will grow.,0.0 +But what availed their worth ' -- if worth had they ' --,0.0 +In the sad summer of her slow decay?,3.0 +Then we beheld her turn an anxious look,1.0 +"From trunks and chests, and fix it on her book, ' --",1.0 +"Some Princess had it, or was said to have;",1.0 +"And then once more, on all her stores, look round,",1.0 +"That told, Alas! how hard from these to part,",1.0 +And for new hopes and habits form the heart!,2.0 +"What shall I do she cried, my peace of mind",0.0 +"To gain in dying, and to die resigned?",1.0 +"Hear, we returned; ' -- these baubles cast aside,",2.0 +Nor give thy God a rival in thy pride;,0.0 +"Thy closets shut, and open thy kitchen's door;",2.0 +"There own thy failings, here invite the poor;",0.0 +"For widow's prayers, thy vanities forsake;",1.0 +"And let the hungry, of thy pride partake",1.0 +Then shall thy inward eye with joy survey,0.0 +The angel Mercy tempering Death's delay!,2.0 +"Hope still its flattery, sickness its alarms;",4.0 +"Still was the same unsettled, clouded view,",0.0 +"And the same plaintive cry, What shall I do?",2.0 +"Nor change appeared; for when her race was run,",0.0 +"Doubtful we all exclaimed, What has been done?",2.0 +"Apart she lived, and still she lies alone,",0.0 +"Yonder earthy heap awaits the flattering stone,",2.0 +"On which invention shall be long employed,",0.0 +To show the various worth of Catherine Lloyd.,2.0 +"A noble Peasant, Isaac Ashford, died.",0.0 +His truth unquestioned and his soul serene:,1.0 +Of no man's presence Isaac felt afraid;,1.0 +At no man's question Isaac looked dismayed:,1.0 +"Shame knew him not, he dreaded no disgrace;",1.0 +"Truth, simple truth, was written in his face;",1.0 +"Yet while the serious thought his soul approved,",2.0 +"Cheerful he seemed, and gentleness he loved,",3.0 +"To bliss domestic he his heart resigned,",1.0 +And with the firmest had the fondest mind:,1.0 +"Were others joyful, he looked smiling on,",3.0 +And gave allowance where he needed none;,0.0 +"Good he refused with future ill to buy,",1.0 +Nor knew a joy that caused reflection's sigh;,0.0 +"No envy stung, no jealousy distressed;",3.0 +"Bane of the poor! it wounds their weaker mind,",0.0 +Yet far was he from stoic pride removed;,1.0 +"He felt humanely, and he warmly loved:",1.0 +"I marked his action, when his infant died,",0.0 +"The still tears, stealing down that furrowed cheek,",2.0 +"Spoke pity, plainer than the tongue can speak.",2.0 +"If pride were his, iT was not their vulgar pride",1.0 +"Who, in their base contempt, the great deride;",0.0 +"Nor pride in learning, ' -- though my Clerk agreed,",1.0 +"If fate should call him, Ashford might succeed;",0.0 +"Nor pride in rustic skill, although we knew,",1.0 +"None his superior, and his equals few: ' --",3.0 +"But if that spirit in his soul had place,",1.0 +It was the jealous pride that shuns disgrace;,1.0 +"A pride in honest fame, by virtue gained,",0.0 +And all that Englishmen enjoy and boast;,3.0 +"Pride, in a life that slander's tongue defied, ' --",3.0 +Christian and countrymen was all with him:,3.0 +Kept him at home in that important hour;,0.0 +"Nor his firm feet could one persuading sect,",3.0 +By the strong glare of their new light direct; ' --,4.0 +"On hope, in mine own sober light, I gaze,",1.0 +"But should be blind, and lose it, in your blaze.",0.0 +"In times severe, when many a sturdy swain",2.0 +"Felt it his pride, his comfort, to complain;",1.0 +And feel in that his comfort and his pride.,1.0 +"At length he found, when seventy years were run,",1.0 +"His strength departed, and his labour done;",1.0 +"When he, save honest fame, retained no more,",3.0 +"But lost his wife, and saw his children poor:",0.0 +"IT was then, a spark of ' -- say not discontent ' --",1.0 +"Struck on his mind, and thus he gave it vent: ' --",0.0 +"Kind are your laws, iT is not to be denied,",0.0 +"That in yonder House, for ruined age, provide,",0.0 +"And they are just; ' -- when young, we give you all,",1.0 +And for assistance in our weakness call. ' --,1.0 +"Why then this proud reluctance to be fed,",1.0 +"But yet I linger, loath with him to feed,",1.0 +Who gains his plenty by the sons of need,1.0 +"He who, by contract, all your paupers took,",1.0 +And gauges stomachs with an anxious look:,1.0 +On some old master I could well depend;,2.0 +See him with joy and thank him as a friend;,1.0 +"But ill on him, who doles the day's supply,",1.0 +And counts our chances who at night may die:,0.0 +"Yet help me, Heaven! and let me not complain",0.0 +"Of what I suffer, but my fate sustain.",1.0 +"Such were his thoughts, and so resigned he grew;",2.0 +"But came not there, for sudden was his fate,",2.0 +"I feel his absence in the hours of prayer,",0.0 +And view his seat and sigh for Isaac there:,1.0 +I see no more those white locks thinly spread,2.0 +Round the bald polish of that honoured head;,4.0 +"No more that awful glance on playful wight,",0.0 +"Compelled to kneel and tremble at the sight,",0.0 +"To fold his fingers, all in dread the while,",0.0 +Till Mister Ashford softened to a smile;,1.0 +"Nor the pure faith to give it force, are there: ' --",2.0 +"But he is blessed, and I lament no more",3.0 +A wise good man contented to be poor.,1.0 +Then died a Rambler; not the one who sails,1.0 +"Not one, who posts from place to place ' -- of men",0.0 +And manners treating with a flying pen;,1.0 +And chides the clouds that intercept the sight;,0.0 +"No curious shell, rare plant, or brilliant spar,",4.0 +Enticed our traveller from his home so far;,1.0 +"But all the reason, by himself assigned",1.0 +"For so much rambling, was, a restless mind;",2.0 +"As on, from place to place, without intent,",1.0 +"Without reflection, Robin Dingley went.",0.0 +Not thus by nature: ' -- never man was found,0.0 +Less prone to wander from his parish bound:,2.0 +"Save those where he and where his apples grew,",0.0 +"Resembled Robin, who around would look,",0.0 +And his horizon for the earth's mistook.,2.0 +To this poor swain a keen Attorney came; ' --,2.0 +"I give thee joy, good fellow! on thy name;",1.0 +"Nor wife, nor will; his all is left for thee:",1.0 +To be his fortune's heir thy claim is good;,0.0 +"Thou hast the name, and we will prove the blood.",1.0 +"The claim was made; iT was tried, ' -- it would not stand;",0.0 +"They proved the blood, but were refused the land",1.0 +"Assured of wealth, this man of simple heart,",0.0 +To every friend had predisposed a part:,0.0 +His wife had hopes indulged of various kind;,2.0 +"Masters were sought for what they each required,",2.0 +"So high was hope: ' -- the failure touched his brain,",0.0 +And Robin never was himself again;,1.0 +"Yet he no wrath, no angry wish expressed,",4.0 +"But tried, in vain, to labour or to rest;",1.0 +Then cast his bundle on his back and went,1.0 +"He knew not whither, nor for what intent.",1.0 +"Years fled; ' -- of Robin all remembrance past,",0.0 +When home he wandered in his rags at last:,0.0 +"A sailor's jacket on his limbs was thrown,",1.0 +A sailor's storey he had made his own;,1.0 +Encountering death in all his ugliest forms:,4.0 +"His cheeks were haggard, hollow was his eye",1.0 +"Where madness lurked, concealed in misery;",1.0 +And prompted cunning to that simple heart:,1.0 +But live at home and labour as before.,1.0 +"Here clothed and fed, no sooner he began",2.0 +"To round and redden, than away he ran;",1.0 +"His wife was dead, their children past his aid.",0.0 +"So, unmolested, from his home he strayed:",1.0 +"Six years elapsed, when, worn with want and pain,",1.0 +"Came Robin, wrapped in all his rags, again: ' --",1.0 +"We chide, we pity; ' -- placed among our poor,",0.0 +"He fed again, and was a man once more.",2.0 +"As when a gaunt and hungry fox is found,",0.0 +Entrapped alive in some rich hunter's ground:,1.0 +"Fed for the field, although each day's a feast,",1.0 +"Fatten you may, but never tame the beast;",1.0 +But loose his neck and off he goes again:,1.0 +"So stole our Vagrant from his warm retreat,",1.0 +To rove a prowler and be deemed a cheat.,1.0 +"Hard was his fare; for him at length we saw,",1.0 +In cart conveyed and laid supine on straw.,0.0 +His feeble voice now spoke a sinking heart;,1.0 +His groans now told the motions of the cart;,2.0 +"And when it stopped, he tried in vain to stand;",0.0 +"Closed was his eye, and clenched his clammy hand;",0.0 +"Life ebbed apace, and our best aid no more",2.0 +Could his weak sense or dying heart restore:,3.0 +"But now he fell, a victim to the snare,",1.0 +That vile attorneys for the weak prepare; ' --,1.0 +"They who, when profit or resentment call,",1.0 +Heed not the groaning victim they enthral.,1.0 +"Then died lamented, in the strength of life,",0.0 +A valued Mother and a faithful Wife;,1.0 +"Called not away, when time had loosed each hold",1.0 +"On the fond heart, and each desire grew cold;",3.0 +"But when, to all that knit us to our kind,",1.0 +"Not when the ills of age, its pain, its care,",0.0 +The drooping spirit for its fate prepare;,1.0 +"And, each affection failing, leaves the heart",0.0 +"Loosed from life's charm, and willing to dae part;",5.0 +"But all her ties the strong invader broke,",0.0 +"In all their strength, by one tremendous stroke!",1.0 +"Sudden and swift the eager pest came on,",4.0 +"And terror grew, till every hope was gone;",0.0 +Still those around appeared for hope to seek!,2.0 +But viewed the sick and were afraid to speak. ' --,1.0 +"Slowly they bore, with solemn step, the dead;",2.0 +When grief grew loud and bitter tears were shed,1.0 +"My part began; a crowd drew near the place,",1.0 +"Awe in each eye, alarm in every face:",0.0 +"So swift the ill, and of so fierce a kind,",1.0 +That fear with pity mingled in each mind;,0.0 +"He knew not grief, but cries expressed his fear;",0.0 +"Each different age and sex revealed its pain,",0.0 +"In now a louder, now a lower strain;",0.0 +"While the meek father, listening to their tones,",3.0 +Swelled the full cadence of the grief by groans.,4.0 +"The elder sister strove her pangs to hide,",0.0 +And soothing words to younger minds applied:,0.0 +"Be still, be patient; oft she strove to stay;",0.0 +"But failed as oft, and weeping turned away.",0.0 +The village lads stood melancholy still;,1.0 +"And idle children, wandering to and fro,",1.0 +"As Nature guided, took the tone of woe.",0.0 +"Arrived at home, how then they gazed around,",0.0 +"In every place, ' -- where she ' -- no more, was found; ' --",0.0 +The seat at table she was wont to fill;,1.0 +"The fireside chair, still set, but vacant still;",4.0 +"Each place of hers, was now a sacred place,",1.0 +"That, while it called up sorrows in the eyes,",0.0 +Pierced the full heart and forced them still to rise.,3.0 +"O sacred sorrow! by whom souls are tried,",1.0 +"Sent not to punish mortals, but to guide;",1.0 +"If thou art mine, and who shall proudly dare",0.0 +"To tell his Maker, he has had his share?",1.0 +"Still let me feel for what thy pangs are sent,",1.0 +And be my guide and not my punishment!,1.0 +"Of Leah Cousins next the name appears,",0.0 +"Save that she lived to feel, in life's decay,",0.0 +Viewed as the help and guardian of her life;,1.0 +"Fathers and sons, indebted to her aid,",3.0 +Respect to her and her profession paid;,2.0 +"Who in the house of plenty largely fed,",0.0 +Yet took her station at the pauper's bed;,1.0 +"Nor from that duty could be bribed again,",1.0 +While fear or danger urged her to remain:,1.0 +"In her experience all her friends relied,",2.0 +Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.,1.0 +"Thus Leah lived; long trusted, much caressed,",3.0 +"A gay vain bride, who would example give",1.0 +To that poor village where she deigned to live;,1.0 +"Some few months past, she sent, in hour of need,",1.0 +"For Doctor Glib, who came with wondrous speed:",0.0 +"Two days he waited, all his art applied,",1.0 +To save the mother when her infant died: ' --,0.0 +"'Twas well I came, at last he deigned to say;",1.0 +'Twas wondrous well; ' -- and proudly rode away.,1.0 +The news ran round; ' -- How vast the Doctor's power!,1.0 +He saved the Lady in the trying hour;,0.0 +"Saved her from death, when she was dead to hope,",1.0 +And her fond husband had resigned her up:,2.0 +"So all, like her, may evil fate defy,",0.0 +"If Doctor Glib, with saving hand, be nigh.",0.0 +"Fame now his friend, fear, novelty, and whim,",3.0 +"And fashion, sent the varying sex to him:",2.0 +"From this, contention in the village rose;",1.0 +And these the Dame espoused; the Doctor those:,2.0 +"The wealthier part, to him and science went;",3.0 +With luck and her the poor remained content.,1.0 +"The Matron sighed; for she was vexed at heart,",1.0 +"With so much profit, so much fame, to part:",2.0 +"So long successful in my art, she cried,",0.0 +"And this proud man, so young and so untried!",3.0 +"Nay, said the Doctor, dare you trust your wives",1.0 +"The joy, the pride, the solace of your lives,",1.0 +"To one who acts and knows no reason why,",2.0 +"But trusts, poor hag! to luck for an ally? ' --",1.0 +"Who, on experience, can her claims advance,",2.0 +And own the powers of accident and chance?,3.0 +"A whining dame, who prays in danger's view,",1.0 +A proof she knows not what beside to do;,0.0 +Blundering she wrought and still she blunders on: ' --,2.0 +And what is Nature? One who acts in aid,1.0 +"Of gossips half asleep, and half afraid:",0.0 +"With such allies I scorn my fame to blend,",1.0 +Skill is my luck and courage is my friend:,1.0 +"No slave to Nature, it's my chief delight",2.0 +To win my way and act in her despite: ' --,1.0 +"Trust then my art, that, in itself complete,",0.0 +Needs no assistance and fears no defeat.,3.0 +The angry Matron grew for contest ripe.,0.0 +"Can you, she said, ungrateful and unjust,",2.0 +"Before experience, ostentation trust!",2.0 +"What is your hazard, foolish daughters, tell?",0.0 +"That I have luck must friend and foe confess,",0.0 +And what's good judgement but a lucky guess?,1.0 +"He boasts, but what he can do: ' -- will you run",0.0 +"From me, your friend! who, all he boasts, have done?",1.0 +By proud and learnt words his powers are known;,5.0 +By healthy boys and handsome girls my own:,0.0 +Wives! fathers! children! by my help you live;,2.0 +Has this pale Doctor more than life to give?,2.0 +No stunted cripple hops the village round;,1.0 +Your hands are active and your heads are sound:,1.0 +My lads are all your fields and flocks require;,0.0 +"Can this proud leech, with all his boasted skill,",2.0 +"Amend the soul or body, wit or will?",0.0 +"Does he for courts the sons of farmers frame,",0.0 +Or make the daughter differ from the dame?,1.0 +"Or, whom he brings into this world of woe,",0.0 +Prepares he them their part to undergo?,1.0 +"If not, this stranger from your doors repel,",1.0 +And be content to be and to be well.,1.0 +"She spoke; but, ah! with words too strong and plain;",1.0 +"Her warmth offended, and her truth was vain:",1.0 +"The many left her, and the friendly few,",1.0 +"If never colder, yet they older grew;",0.0 +"Till, unemployed, she felt her spirits droop,",0.0 +"And took, insidious aid! the inspiring cup;",3.0 +"Grew poor and peevish as her powers decayed,",4.0 +"And propped the tottering frame with stronger aid, ' --",2.0 +"Who to this world, at least, with equal care,",0.0 +"Brought them its changes, good and ill to share.",0.0 +"Now to his grave was Roger Cuff conveyed,",0.0 +And strong resentment's lingering spirit laid.,0.0 +His brothers three ' -- and thrice they wished him drowned.,0.0 +"We part for ever! ' -- and they cried, Amen!",1.0 +"His words were truth's: ' -- Some forty summers fled,",0.0 +His brothers died; his kin supposed him dead:,0.0 +"Three nephews these, one sprightly niece, and one,",2.0 +Less near in blood ' -- they called him surly John;,0.0 +"He worked in woods apart from all his kind,",0.0 +Fierce were his looks and moody was his mind.,1.0 +For home the sailor now began to sigh: ' --,0.0 +"The dogs are dead, and I'll return and die;",1.0 +"When all I have, my gains, in years of care,",0.0 +The younger Cuffs with kinder souls shall share ' --,0.0 +"No; I'll disguise me, be in tatters dressed,",2.0 +And best befriend the lads who treat me best.,0.0 +"Now all his kindred, ' -- neither rich nor poor, ' --",0.0 +Kept the wolf want some distance from the door.,4.0 +"And begged for aid, as he described his state: ' --",1.0 +"But stern was George; ' -- Let them who had thee strong,",2.0 +Help thee to drag thy weakened frame along;,0.0 +"To us a stranger, while your limbs would move,",1.0 +"From us depart, and try a stranger's love: ' --",1.0 +"Ha! dost thou murmur? ' -- for, in Roger's throat,",1.0 +Was Rascal! rising with disdainful note.,1.0 +To pious James he then his prayer addressed; ' --,0.0 +"And, had I wealth, as have my brothers twain,",0.0 +One board should feed us and one roof contain:,1.0 +But plead I will thy cause and I will pray:,2.0 +And so farewell! Heaven help thee on thy way!,2.0 +Scoundrel! said Roger but apart; ' -- and told,4.0 +His case to Peter; ' -- Peter too was cold; ' --,0.0 +"But I will think, ' -- he said, and shut the door.",1.0 +Then the gay niece the seeming pauper pressed; ' --,3.0 +"Turn, Nancy, turn, and view this form distressed:",1.0 +"Akin to thine is this declining frame,",2.0 +And this poor beggar claims an Uncle's name.,2.0 +Thou vile impostor! Uncle Roger's dead:,0.0 +"I hate thee, beast; thy look my spirit shocks;",0.0 +Oh! that I saw thee starving in the stocks!,0.0 +My gentle niece! he said ' -- and sought the wood. ' --,0.0 +"Give! am I rich? This hatchet take, and try",0.0 +"Thy proper strength, nor give those limbs the lie;",0.0 +"Work, feed thyself, to thine own powers appeal,",4.0 +"Nor whine out woes, thine own right-hand can heal;",1.0 +"And while that hand is thine and thine a leg,",1.0 +Scorn of the proud or of the base to beg.,1.0 +"Come, surly John, thy wealthy kinsman view,",2.0 +Old Roger said; ' -- thy words are brave and true;,1.0 +"Tobacco's glorious fume all day we'll share,",3.0 +With beef and brandy kill all kinds of care;,0.0 +"We'll beer and biscuit on our table heap,",1.0 +"And rail at rascals, till we fall asleep.",1.0 +"Such was their life; but when the woodman died,",1.0 +His grieving kin for Roger's smiles applied ' --,0.0 +"In vain; he shut, with stern rebuke, the door,",0.0 +"And dying, built a refuge for the poor,",1.0 +"With this restriction, That no Cuff should share",2.0 +"One meal, or shelter for one moment there.",2.0 +My Record ends: ' -- But hark! even now I hear,3.0 +"The bell of death, and know not whose to fear:",0.0 +"Our farmers all, and all our hinds were well;",0.0 +In no man's cottage danger seemed to dwell: ' --,1.0 +"Yet death of man proclaim these heavy chimes,",0.0 +"For thrice they sound, with pausing space, three times.",1.0 +"Go; of my Sexton seek, Whose days are sped? ' --",0.0 +"What! he, himself! ' -- and is old Dibble dead?",3.0 +"But he is gone; his care and skill I lose,",1.0 +And gain a mournful subject for my Muse:,1.0 +"And kindly add, ' -- Heaven grant, I lose no more!",2.0 +"Yet, while he spoke, a sly and pleasant glance",0.0 +"For, as he told their fate and varying worth,",3.0 +"He archly looked, ' -- I yet may bear thee forth.",0.0 +"When first ' -- he so began ' -- my trade I plied,",1.0 +"His clerk and sexton, I beheld with fear,",1.0 +"His stride majestic, and his frown severe;",1.0 +"A noble pillar of the church he stood,",1.0 +"Then as he paced the hallowed aisles about,",0.0 +"But in his pulpit wearied down with prayer,",1.0 +"For while the anthem swelled, and when it ceased,",0.0 +The expecting people viewed their slumbering priest:,3.0 +"Who, dozing, died. ' -- Our Parson Peele was next;",0.0 +"' I will not spare you,' was his favourite text;",2.0 +"Nor did he spare, but raised them many a pound;",2.0 +Even me he mulct for my poor rood of ground;,3.0 +"' What should I do,' quoth he,' but what I preach?'",0.0 +Were daily offered both to rich and poor;,0.0 +"His scorn, his love, in playful words he spoke;",0.0 +"His pity, praise, and promise, were a joke:",1.0 +"But though so young and blessed with spirits high,",1.0 +He died as grave as any judge could die:,0.0 +"The strong attack subdued his lively powers, ' --",0.0 +Then were there golden times the village round;,0.0 +In his abundance all appeared to abound;,3.0 +Even cool Dissenters at his table fed;,0.0 +"Who wished and hoped, ' -- and thought a man so kind",0.0 +"A way to Heaven, though not their own, might find;",0.0 +"To them, to all, he was polite and free,",2.0 +"Kind to the poor, and, ah! most kind to me!",0.0 +"' Ralph,' would he say,' Ralph Dibble, thou art old;",2.0 +' How does my sexton? ' -- What! the times are hard;,0.0 +"' Drive that stout pig, and pen him in thy yard.'",3.0 +"' Clap that within, and see how they will wear!'",2.0 +Gay days were these; but they were quickly past:,2.0 +Upset him quite; ' -- but what's the gain of grief?,0.0 +Was all in books; to read them or to write:,1.0 +"Women and men he strove alike to shun,",2.0 +And hurried homeward when his tasks were done:,0.0 +"Courteous enough, but careless what he said,",1.0 +For points of learning he reserved his head;,1.0 +"And when addressing either poor or rich,",0.0 +He knew no better than his cassock which:,2.0 +"Erect by nature, but to bend inclined;",1.0 +And kindly took them as they came to hand,1.0 +"Nor, like the doctor, wore a world of hat,",0.0 +As if he sought for dignity in that:,2.0 +"He talked, he gave, but not with cautious rules:",0.0 +"It was his nature, but they thought it whim,",2.0 +And so our beaux and beauties turned from him:,1.0 +"Of questions, much he wrote, profound and dark, ' --",0.0 +"How spoke the serpent, and where stopped the ark;",1.0 +From what far land the queen of Sheba came;,1.0 +"He made the Song of Songs its mysteries yield,",2.0 +"And Revelations, to the world, revealed.",1.0 +"He sleeps in the aisle, ' -- but not a stone records",0.0 +"His name or fame, his actions or his words:",1.0 +"And truth, your reverence, when I look around,",1.0 +"Though dare I not of one man's hope to doubt,",2.0 +I'd join the party who repose without.,0.0 +"Next came a Youth from Cambridge, and, in truth,",1.0 +He was a sober and a comely youth;,2.0 +And gained attention ere his task began;,0.0 +"Advised and censured, flattered, ' -- and prevailed. ' --",1.0 +"Then did he much his sober hearers vex,",0.0 +"Confound the simple, and the sad perplex;",1.0 +"Loud grew his voice, to threatening swelled his look;",1.0 +"Above, below, on either side, he gazed,",0.0 +"Amazing all, and most himself amazed:",0.0 +"But launched outright, and rose and sank again:",1.0 +"At times he smiled in scorn, at times he wept,",0.0 +"And such sad coil with words of vengeance kept,",2.0 +That our best sleepers started as they slept.,3.0 +"' Conviction comes like lightning,' he would cry;",1.0 +"' In vain you seek it, and in vain you fly;",1.0 +"' IT is like the rushing of the mighty wind,",1.0 +"' Unseen its progress, but its power you find;",4.0 +' It strikes the child ere yet its reason wakes;,1.0 +"' His reason fled, the ancient sire it shakes;",2.0 +"' The proud, learnt man, and him who loves to know",2.0 +"' How and from whence these gusts of grace will blow,",1.0 +"' It shuns, ' -- but sinners in their way impedes,",0.0 +' Of faith and penance it supplies the place;,1.0 +"' And, without running, makes them win the race.'",5.0 +Such was the doctrine our young prophet taught;,5.0 +"And here conviction, there confusion wrought;",1.0 +"When his thin cheek assumed a deadly hue,",3.0 +And all the rose to one small spot withdrew:,2.0 +"They called it hectic; iT was a fiery flush,",3.0 +More fixed and deeper than the maiden blush;,1.0 +Upheld a body of the smaller size;,1.0 +"But down he sank upon his dying bed,",1.0 +' I fear of worldly works the wicked pride;,0.0 +"' Poor as I am, degraded, abject, blind,",1.0 +"' Your faith's your prop, nor have you passed such time",0.0 +"' If I of pardon for my sins were sure,",2.0 +' About my goodness I would rest secure.',1.0 +Such was his end; and mine approaches fast;,2.0 +"He bowed, and archly smiled at what he said,",0.0 +Civil but sly: ' -- And is old Dibble dead?,4.0 +Yes! he is gone: and we are going all;,1.0 +"Like flowers we wither, and like leaves we fall; ' --",3.0 +"Here, with an infant, joyful sponsors come,",0.0 +"A few short years and we behold him stand,",1.0 +"To ask a blessing, with his bride in hand:",1.0 +"A few, still seeming shorter, and we hear",2.0 +His widow weeping at her husband's bier: ' --,0.0 +"Thus, as the months succeed, shall infants take",0.0 +Their names; thus parents shall the child forsake;,1.0 +"By love or law compelled their vows to seal,",0.0 +"Ere I again, or one like me, explore",4.0 +These simple Annals of the Village Poor.,1.0 +"Had hatched her young Ones in a stately Oak,",1.0 +"And near the Root with Litter warmly dressed,",0.0 +A teeming Sow had made her peaceful Nest.,0.0 +Thus Palaces are crammed from Roof to Ground.,2.0 +"And Animals, as various, in them found.",2.0 +"When to the Sow, who no Misfortune feared,",0.0 +"Puss with her fawning Compliments appeared,",1.0 +"Rejoicing much at her Delivery past,",3.0 +"And that she escaped so well, who bred so fast.",1.0 +"Bestows good Wishes, but with Sighs implies,",1.0 +That some dark Fears do in her Bosom rise.,1.0 +"Such tempting Flesh, she cries, will Eagles spare?",0.0 +"Since I, who bring not forth such dainty Bits,",0.0 +Tremble for my unpalatable Chits;,4.0 +"And had I but foreseen, the Eagle's Bed",2.0 +Was in this fatal Tree to have been spread;,0.0 +Than made this Place of Danger my abode.,1.0 +"I heard her young Ones lately cry for Pig,",1.0 +"And pitied you, that were so near, and big.",2.0 +"In Friendship this I secretly reveal,",2.0 +"Or else, perhaps, Yourself may be their aim,",0.0 +"But overturning all with boisterous Fears,",0.0 +"She from her helpless Young in haste departs,",1.0 +"While Puss ascends, to practise farther Arts.",0.0 +"The Eagle, never alarmed so before,",3.0 +"Bids her come in, and look the Cause be great,",0.0 +That makes her thus disturb the Royal Seat;,0.0 +"Shall, in excuse of Insolence, prevail.",1.0 +"Alas! my Gracious Lady, quoth the Cat,",0.0 +"I think not of such Vermin; Mouse, or Rat",1.0 +To me are tasteless grown; nor dare I stir,1.0 +"A Foe intestine threatens all around,",0.0 +And even this lofty Structure will confound;,3.0 +"On the Foundation has been long at work,",1.0 +"Helped by a Rabble, issued from her Womb,",1.0 +Which she has fostered in that lower Room;,0.0 +"Who now for Acorns are so madly bent,",1.0 +"That soon this Tree must fall, for their Content.",0.0 +I would have fetched some for the unruly Elves;,1.0 +But it's the Mob's delight to help Themselves:,1.0 +"While your high Brood must with the meanest drop,",1.0 +"And steeper be their Fall, as next the Top;",0.0 +"Unless you soon to Jupiter repair,",1.0 +"And let him know, the Case demands his Care.",0.0 +"O! may the Trunk but stand, till you come back!",2.0 +"But hark! already sure, I hear it crack.",0.0 +"Away, away ' -- The Eagle, all aghast,",0.0 +"Soars to the Sky, nor falters in her haste:",0.0 +Replenishing her Maw with treacherous Gains.,3.0 +"Of those, who know you not, till it's too late!",2.0 +"Now wanton dived, now with an haughty Air",3.0 +Their wistful Eyes with sudden Transport glowed.,0.0 +"Too soon they feared to lose the pleasing Sight,",1.0 +And would the Nymph to longer Stay invite.,0.0 +And changing thus engage the listening Fair.,0.0 +"The Lamprey will admit the Serpent's Love,",1.0 +"But first she makes the Spouse himself disarm,",0.0 +"And leave behind the Poison, that would harm:",0.0 +But we court Love with its attending Ills;,3.0 +A deadly Draught the bitter Potion fills.,0.0 +"If those were innocent, and these sincere.",3.0 +"The Dolphins are to meaner Fish preferred,",1.0 +"They Love promote, and the hid Nymph betrayed,",2.0 +When Neptune sought in vain the fearful Maid:,0.0 +"Though coy she fled, the Dolphins were as fleet,",1.0 +"And told the God, and showed the close Retreat.",0.0 +And may the God yet greater Gifts bestow.,1.0 +"How can the Nymph be either true or kind,",1.0 +"Bred up with Waves, and used to noisy Wind?",0.0 +"Things here are cruel all; with mutual Rage,",2.0 +"Devour each other, and for Food engage.",3.0 +And joyous feast on the enlivened Seed.,1.0 +"So way ward Beauty its own Offspring hates,",3.0 +"And kills the Passion, which it self creates.",0.0 +"All are not cruel, but some harmless feed,",0.0 +"And eat the Slime, or bite the swimming Weed;",0.0 +"Nay there are those live by a constant Kiss,",1.0 +And to each other owe their Life and Bliss.,1.0 +"When Fishers for the Female Sepia wait,",4.0 +"If she be caught, they need no second Bait,",2.0 +"The constant Male will still the Fair attend,",0.0 +"And mocks the Net, and glories in his end.",0.0 +"When the mild Spring, or smiling Calms invite",0.0 +"The wanton Fish in Love, and gay Delight",0.0 +"Are sporting seen, but soon are hid below,",0.0 +"When Storms begin, and Winds in Anger blow.",0.0 +"But, Triton, there are some, who truly brave",1.0 +"Even court the Storms, and mock the rising Wave.",0.0 +So Love is heightened by opposing Frowns;,1.0 +"Scorn cannot heal, but may repeat the Wounds.",2.0 +I hate the Shore; for there the troubled Deep,1.0 +"The dying Dolphins to the Shore repair,",1.0 +Nor would in Death pollute the purer Air.,0.0 +Even when a cooling Breeze from airy Fields,0.0 +"In Summers Heat a kind Refreshment yields,",0.0 +"And sport with Fish above, or dive below.",0.0 +"Ah! wretched Seas, always a verse to Sleep;",1.0 +Here ravenous Fish their constant Watches keep:,2.0 +"And seize the Spoil, and feast upon the Prey.",0.0 +"But though we wake, no Hopes the Toil repay,",2.0 +"In vain by Night we sigh, or sing by Day,",0.0 +"Nor may in tuneful Song our Passion tell,",1.0 +"The Nymphs despise the Voice, and dread the louder Shell.",0.0 +"Art must be used, when Force will not prevail.",0.0 +"Snares wily laid, and cunning, seldom fail.",1.0 +He patient will the opening Oyster wait:,3.0 +"Then with a Stone prevents the closing Shell,",0.0 +"Unhappy Fish has all his Sweets exposed,",0.0 +"Overcome by Craft, and can no more be closed.",0.0 +"Then sunk beneath, and as she disappeared,",1.0 +"So well he loved, that the transported Boy",1.0 +Could scarce sustain the vast impetuous Joy.,0.0 +While luckless Alcon knit his angry Brow;,5.0 +"His Looks sad Rage, and deep Resentment show,",1.0 +And quick he dives to weep unseen below.,0.0 +"LET every line convey a sister's heart,",1.0 +And for thy health ' -- her anxious fears impart.,1.0 +"Think, OH! my brother ' -- alas! I have but one,",3.0 +"The hour of riot, it may last too long.",2.0 +"Folly and youth in all will have their sway,",2.0 +But reason too puts in a claim today.,1.0 +OH! hear her voice! the worthy man prefer,1.0 +While vain amusement takes up all thy time.,0.0 +"Harmless at least, though now a sigh would break.",2.0 +To gayer scenes I fain would me betake?,1.0 +In various arts my skill I do essay:,2.0 +"To shade yonder walk ' -- and flowers of various kind,",6.0 +"May some fair nymph, who all thy fancy takes ' --",1.0 +For you and her I plant it ' -- for your sakes.,2.0 +May one more modest be designed for thee;,1.0 +"Each day improves, though youth and beauty leave her.",0.0 +"WHAT Soil the Apple loves, what Care is due",0.0 +Adventurous I presume to sing; of Verse,3.0 +"Nor skilled, nor studious: But my Native Soil",1.0 +"Invites me, and the Theme as yet unsung.",1.0 +"To whom propitious Heaven these Blessings grants,",0.0 +"Attend my Lays; nor hence disdain to learn,",0.0 +How Nature's Gifts may be improved by Art.,0.0 +"And thou, OH Mostyn, whose Benevolence,",3.0 +"To knit in Friendship, growing still with Years,",0.0 +Accept this Pledge of Gratitude and Love.,0.0 +May it a lasting Monument remain,2.0 +"Of dear Respect; that, when this Body frail",0.0 +"As I had never been, late Times may know",2.0 +Be this his first Concern; to find a Tract,0.0 +That intercept the Hyperborean Blasts,2.0 +Noxious to feeble Buds: But to the West,3.0 +"Let him free Entrance grant, let Zephyrs bland",4.0 +Administer their tepid genial Airs;,1.0 +Invigorating tender Seeds; whose Breath,0.0 +"Nurtures the Orange, and the Citron Groves,",3.0 +"Wide through the Air, and distant Shores perfumes.",0.0 +Nor only do the Hills exclude the Winds:,0.0 +"Distil, from the high Summits down the Rain",3.0 +"Runs trickling; with the fertile Moisture cheered,",2.0 +"Their thriving Plants, and bless the heavenly Dew.",2.0 +"Next, let the Planter, with Discretion meet,",1.0 +The Force and Genius of each Soil explore;,1.0 +"To what adapted, what it shuns averse:",0.0 +"Without this necessary Care, in vain",0.0 +"Rejoicing in rich Mould, most ample Fruit",1.0 +"So Nature has decreed; so, oft we see",0.0 +"Elaborate; less, inwardly, exact.",2.0 +"Nor from the sable Ground expect Success,",1.0 +"Nor from cretaceous, stubborn and jejune:",3.0 +"The Must, of pallid Hue, declares the Soil",0.0 +"Grow wavy on the Tilth, that Soil select",2.0 +For Apples; thence thy Industry shall gain,1.0 +"Tenfold Reward; thy Garners, thence with Store",1.0 +"Shall flow, which, in revolving Years, may try",0.0 +"Thy feeble Feet, and bind thy faltering Tongue.",2.0 +"He promised to himself, allured by Fair",1.0 +"In height of Hopes ' -- O! hardest Fate, to fall",0.0 +"By Show of Friendship, and pretended Love!",1.0 +A kinder Mould: Yet it's unsafe to trust,1.0 +"Deceitful Ground: Who knows but that, once more,",0.0 +"This Mount may journey, and, his present Site",1.0 +"Forsaking, to thy Neighbours Bounds transfer",2.0 +"The goodly Plants, affording Matter strange",0.0 +"To deck this Rise with Fruits of various Tastes,",2.0 +Fail not by frequent Vows to implore Success;,2.0 +But if for Nature does not share alike,1.0 +Her Gifts an happy Soil should be withheld;,0.0 +"If a penurious Clay should be thy Lot,",4.0 +"Or rough unwieldy Earth, nor to the Plough,",1.0 +"Nor to the Cattle kind, with sandy Stones",1.0 +"Will rise luxuriant, and with toughest Root",1.0 +"But what, or of it self, or else compelled,",1.0 +Affords Advantage. On the barren Heath,1.0 +"The Shepherd tends his Flock, that daily crop",0.0 +"Their verdant Dinner from the mossy Turf,",1.0 +"Sufficient; after them the Cackling Goose,",1.0 +"Fearless of rending Winds, and dashing Waves,",2.0 +"Of pampered Luxury. Then, let thy Ground",1.0 +"Refuse to thrive, yet who would doubt to plant",0.0 +"Somewhat, that may to Human Use redound,",1.0 +"And Penury, the worst of Ills, remove?",1.0 +"There are, who, fondly studious of Increase,",3.0 +"Induce laborious, and with fattening Muck",1.0 +"Seems fair awhile, cherished with foster Earth:",6.0 +"But, when the alien Compost is exhaust,",3.0 +It's native Poverty again prevails.,1.0 +"In a due Hour employed, great Profit yield.",4.0 +"The Industrious, when the Sun in Leo rides,",2.0 +Forgets not at the Foot of every Plant,0.0 +"To sink a circling Trench, and daily pour",0.0 +"Exhausted Sap recruiting; else, false Hopes",1.0 +"He cherishes, nor will his Fruit expect",2.0 +"The autumnal Season, but, in Summer's Pride,",2.0 +"Thus the great Light of Heaven, that in his Course",3.0 +"Surveys and quickens all things, often proves",1.0 +"Noxious to planted Fields, and often Men",2.0 +Perceive his Influence dire: sweltering they run,3.0 +"Still streaming fresh revisit, to allay",2.0 +"Preceding should be destitute of Rain,",0.0 +Then woe to Mortals! Titan then exerts,0.0 +"Then Maladies of various Kinds, and Names",3.0 +"Unknown, malignant Fevers, and that Foe",1.0 +"To blooming Beauty, which imprints the Face",0.0 +"Of fairest Nymph, and cheques our growing Love,",0.0 +"Reign far and near; grim Death, in different Shapes,",2.0 +"His Victims, Youths, and Virgins, in their Flower,",0.0 +"Reluctant die, and sighing leave their Loves",0.0 +"Unfinished, by infectious Heaven destroyed.",1.0 +"Such Heats prevailed, when fair Eliza, last",0.0 +"Nor could her Virtues, nor repeated Vows",1.0 +"Of thousand Lovers, the relentless Hand",1.0 +"Of Death arrest; She with the Vulgar fell,",1.0 +Only distinguished by this humble Verse.,3.0 +But if it please the Sun's intemperate Force,3.0 +"To know, attend; while I of ancient Fame",1.0 +"The Annals trace, and image to thy Mind,",1.0 +"By the wide yawning Earth, to Stygian Shades",2.0 +"In elder Days, ever yet the Roman Bands",3.0 +"Victorious, this our Other World subdued,",1.0 +"A spacious City stood, with firmest Walls",0.0 +"Of Kings, and Heroes resolute in War,",0.0 +"Perhaps had stood, of ancient British Art",0.0 +"A pleasing Monument, not less admired",1.0 +"Than what from Attic, or Etruscan Hands",1.0 +Arose; had not the Heavenly Powers averse,4.0 +Decreed her final Doom: For now the Fields,0.0 +"Impregnable: The infernal Winds, till now",3.0 +"Disdained their narrow Cells; and, their full Strength",1.0 +"Collecting, from beneath the solid Mass",1.0 +"And baleful Lightning, and the Thunder, Voice",1.0 +"Of angry Gods, that rattled solemn, dismayed",2.0 +The sinking Hearts of Men. Where should they turn,0.0 +Distressed? Whence seek for Aid? when from below,1.0 +"Hell threatens, and even Fate supreme gives Signs",4.0 +"Of Wrath and Desolation? Vain were Vows,",0.0 +"Crushed, and overwhelmed. Others, in frantic Mood,",5.0 +"Run howling through the Streets, their hideous Yells",4.0 +"Despair, of abject Look: At every Gate",0.0 +"Press furious, and, too eager of Escape,",6.0 +Obstruct the easy Way; the rocking Town,0.0 +"Supplants their Footsteps; to, and fro, they reel",2.0 +"Astonished, as overcharged with Wine; when lo!",2.0 +"Horrible Chasm, profound! with swift Descent",4.0 +"Heroes, and Senators, down to the Realms",4.0 +"Of endless Night. Mean while, the loosened Winds",1.0 +"Infuriate, melted Rocks and flaming Globes",6.0 +"Hurled high above the Clouds; till, all their Force",1.0 +"Thus this fair City fell, of which the Name",3.0 +"Survives alone; nor is there found a Mark,",1.0 +Whereby the curious Passenger may learn,3.0 +"And huge unwieldy Bones, lasting Remains",5.0 +"Of that Gigantic Race; which, as he breaks",1.0 +"Appalled. Upon that treacherous Tract of Land,",2.0 +"Improved, that now recalls the devious Muse,",2.0 +"The Prudent will observe, what Passions reign",1.0 +"In various Plants for not to Man alone,",2.0 +"But all the wide Creation, Nature gave",0.0 +"Love, and Aversion: Everlasting Hate",2.0 +"The Vine to Ivy bears, nor less abhors",0.0 +"Her Bud, more lovely, near the fetid Leek,",0.0 +"The Price of her celestial Scent: The Gourd,",1.0 +"And thirsty Cucumber, when they perceive",2.0 +"The approaching Olive, with Resentment fly",2.0 +"TO approach the Quince, and the Elder's pithy Stem;",3.0 +"Or Walnut, whose malignant Touch impairs",1.0 +"All generous Fruits, or near the bitter Dews",2.0 +"Of Cherries. Therefore, weigh the Habits well",1.0 +"Of Plants, how they associate best, nor let",3.0 +Spontaneous will produce an wholesome Draught.,3.0 +Let Art correct thy Breed; from Parent Bough,1.0 +"By Wedges, and within the living Wound",1.0 +Refuse with thy own Hands around to spread,1.0 +"Unite, and kindly Nourishment convey",2.0 +To the new Pupil; now he shoots his Arms,2.0 +"To draw the Earth's purest Spirit, and resist",4.0 +"Of tart and sweet; whatever be the Cause,",1.0 +This doubtful Progeny by nicest Tastes,1.0 +"Expected best Acceptance finds, and pays",0.0 +"Some think, the Quince and Apple would combine",0.0 +In happy Union; Others fitter deem,0.0 +"Who knows but Both may thrive? However, what loss",2.0 +"To try the Powers of Both, and search how far",2.0 +Two different Natures may concur to mix,2.0 +"In close Embraces, and strange Offspring bear?",3.0 +And Pears of sundry Forms; at different times,0.0 +Adopted Plums will alien Branches grace;,2.0 +And Men have gathered from the Hawthorn's Branch,1.0 +Nor is it hard to beautify each Month,1.0 +Thrice sacred Muse! commodious Precepts gives,4.0 +On what is gainful: Sometime she diverts,2.0 +"From solid Counsels, shows the Force of Love",0.0 +In savage Beasts; how Virgin Face divine,0.0 +"Attracts the hapless Youth through Storms, and Waves,",0.0 +"Alone, in deep of Night: Then she describes",1.0 +"The Scythian Winter, nor disdains to sing,",3.0 +Let sage Experience teach thee all the Arts,3.0 +The flowing Branches; what Trees answer best,1.0 +"From Root, or Kernel: She will best the Hours",1.0 +"The different Qualities of things were found,",1.0 +And secret Motions; how with heavy Bulk,1.0 +Mounts on the Wings of Air; to Her we owe,1.0 +"The Indian Weed, unknown to ancient Times,",2.0 +"Nature's choice Gift, whose acrimonious Fume",5.0 +"Extracts superfluous Juices, and refines",3.0 +"It gently mitigates, Companion fit",0.0 +"Unfriendly, when they to the vocal Shell",1.0 +"She found the polished Glass, whose small Convex",0.0 +Enlarges to ten Millions of Degrees,3.0 +"The Mite, invisible else, of Nature's Hand",2.0 +"Least Animal; and shows, what Laws of Life",2.0 +"Fabric their Mansions in the hardened Milk,",2.0 +Wonderful Artists! But the hidden Ways,3.0 +"Strange Forms arise, in each a little Plant",1.0 +Unfolds its Boughs: observe the slender Threads,0.0 +"Thus All things by Experience are displayed,",5.0 +"Surcease to work; lo! thoughtful of Thy Gain,",4.0 +"Consume in Meditation deep, recluse",0.0 +"From human Converse, nor, at shut of Eve,",1.0 +Enjoy Repose; but oft at Midnight Lamp,1.0 +Thee I may counsel right; and oft this Care,1.0 +To labour for thy Self? and rather choose,1.0 +"Thy slighted Fruits, and give thee Bread unearned?",0.0 +"Returns, to show Compassion to thy Plants,",1.0 +Well sharpened now assail the spreading Shades,1.0 +"In barren Twigs, and, for the expected Crop,",1.0 +"When swelling Buds their odorous Foliage shed,",2.0 +"And gently harden into Fruit, the Wise",0.0 +"Void of sufficient Sustenance, will yield",3.0 +A slender Autumn; which the niggard Soul,1.0 +"Too late shall weep, and curse his thrifty Hand,",1.0 +That would not timely ease the ponderous Boughs.,2.0 +"Of Gardening, how to scare nocturnal Thieves,",1.0 +"And how the little Race of Birds, that hop",1.0 +"From Spray to Spray, scooping the costliest Fruit",7.0 +With the false Terrors of a breathless Kite.,3.0 +"This done, the timorous Flock with swiftest Wing",2.0 +Scud through the Air; their Fancy represents,0.0 +"His mortal Talons, and his ravenous Beak",3.0 +"Destructive; glad to shun his hostile Gripe,",0.0 +"Besides, the filthy Swine will oft invade",0.0 +"Thy firm Enclosure, and with delving Snout",1.0 +The rooted Forest undermine: forthwith,1.0 +"The noxious Herd, and print upon their Ears",0.0 +"No Art averts this Pest; on Thee it lies,",2.0 +With Morning and with Evening Hand to rid,1.0 +"The preying Reptiles; nor, if wise, wilt thou",1.0 +"Decline this Labour, which it self rewards",0.0 +"And drain a spurious Honey from thy Groves,",3.0 +"Their Winter Food; though oft repulsed, again",0.0 +"Bear frequent Vials, pregnant with the Dregs",2.0 +"They, by the alluring Odour drawn, in haste",3.0 +"Fly to the dulcet Cates, and crowding sip",0.0 +"Of greedy Insects, that with fruitless Toil",1.0 +"Their Feet, in liquid Shackles bound, till Death",0.0 +Bereave them of their worthless Souls: Such doom,1.0 +"Waits Luxury, and lawless Love of Gain!",2.0 +"Intestine Evils will prevail; damp Airs,",2.0 +"And rainy Winters, to the Centre pierce",1.0 +"Of firmest Fruits, and by unseen Decay",1.0 +The proper Relish vitiate: then the Grub,0.0 +"Pernicious Tenant, and her secret Cave",1.0 +"Enlarges hourly, preying on the Pulp",1.0 +Ceaseless; mean while the Apple's outward Form,0.0 +"He tastes the bitter Morsel, and rejects",1.0 +Embattled Troops with flowing Banners pass,0.0 +"Through flowery Meads delighted, nor distrust",3.0 +"With Grain incentive stored, by sudden Blaze",0.0 +"Bursts fatal, and involves the Hopes of War",2.0 +"Torn and dismembered, they aloft expire.",3.0 +"Sailing the Spaces of the boundless Deep,",3.0 +"Peculiar, styled the Ottley: Be thou first",0.0 +This Apple to transplant; if to the Name,2.0 +"It's Merit answers, no where shalt thou find",0.0 +"Nor does the Eliot least deserve thy Care,",2.0 +"With many a Furrow, aptly represents",2.0 +"Decrepit Age; nor that from Harvey named,",0.0 +Enormous in its Growth; for various Use,2.0 +"Are oft required, and crown the rich Desert?",0.0 +Best screen thy Mansion from the fervent Dog,2.0 +"Breaks the strong Onset, and controls their Rage.",3.0 +"Annual, in sumptuous Banquets claims Applause.",3.0 +Thrice acceptable Beverage! could but Art,2.0 +"Would dread thy Praise, and shun the dubious Strife.",2.0 +"To sit beneath her leafy Canopy,",1.0 +"At once her Fruits, and hospitable Shade!",5.0 +But how with equal Numbers shall we match,1.0 +"Sure hopes of racy Wine, and in its Youth,",1.0 +"With large and juicy Offspring, that defies",1.0 +"Improved her, and by courtly Discipline",2.0 +Taught her the savage Nature to forget:,1.0 +"Whoever tastes, let him with grateful Heart",2.0 +"Respect that ancient loyal House, and wish",0.0 +"The noble Peer, that now transcends our Hopes",0.0 +"Uninterrupted Joy, and Health entire.",2.0 +"Tempting, not fatal, as the Birth of that",3.0 +"Fond Eve in hapless Hour to taste, and die.",1.0 +Her sacred Virtue. See! the Numbers flow,0.0 +"All other Fields! Heaven's sweetest Blessing, hail!",3.0 +"Be thou the copious Matter of my Song,",3.0 +And Thy choice Nectar; on which always waits,3.0 +"And Friendship, chief Delight of Human Life.",0.0 +"What should we wish for more? or why, in quest",0.0 +"Of Foreign Vintage, insincere, and mixed,",0.0 +"Gallic, or Latin Grapes, or those that see",3.0 +"TO improve our vegetable Wealth, or let",3.0 +"The Soil lie idle, which, with fit Manure,",1.0 +"Will largest Usury repay, alone",1.0 +"Frugal, or what nice Appetite requires?",3.0 +"Of Golden Wheat, the Strength of Human Life.",0.0 +"Lo, on auxiliary Poles, the Hops",3.0 +"Ascending spiral, ranged in meet Array!",0.0 +"Stands thick, overshadowed, to the thirsty Hind",2.0 +"Transporting Prospect! These, as modern Use",1.0 +"Oft interlaced occur, and both imbibe",1.0 +"Fitting congenial Juice; so rich the Soil,",2.0 +"To Heaven aspire, affording Prospect sweet",0.0 +To Human Ken; nor at their Feet the Vales,0.0 +"Descending gently, where the lowing Herd",0.0 +"A nobler Hue, more delicate to Sight.",4.0 +"Next add the Sylvan Shades, and silent Groves,",0.0 +Haunt of the Druids whence the Hearth is fed,0.0 +"With copious Fuel; whence the sturdy Oak,",2.0 +"Of England's Throne, by sweating Peasants felled,",0.0 +"Stems the vast Main, and bears tremendous War",3.0 +"To distant Nations, or with Sovereign Sway",1.0 +Their hardened Iron; when our Mines produce,0.0 +"More prodigal of Life? In ancient Days,",1.0 +"Our Fathers no mean Foes: And Cressy Plains,",1.0 +Could do in rigid Fight; and chiefly what,0.0 +"Prudence, and ancient Prowess, and Renown,",3.0 +TO his Noble Offspring. OH thrice happy Peer!,2.0 +"Fresh blooming in Thy Generous Son; whose Lips,",3.0 +"Flowing with nervous Eloquence exact,",3.0 +"Charm the wise Senate, and Attention win",4.0 +"Him, as her chosen Worthy, first salutes.",1.0 +"Him on the Iberian, on the Gallic Shore,",2.0 +Him hardy Britons bless; His faithful Hand,0.0 +"Conveys new Courage from afar, nor more",2.0 +This Country claims; with Pride and Joy to Thee,0.0 +"Patient Thy Absence, since Thy prudent Choice",2.0 +"Has fixed Thee in the Muse's fairest Seat,",0.0 +"Where Aldrich reigns, and from his endless Store",1.0 +Of universal Knowledge still supplies,0.0 +His noble Care; He generous Thoughts instills,2.0 +Chief End of Life and forms their ductile Minds,1.0 +"To Human Virtues: By His Genius led,",1.0 +Thou soon in every Art preeminent,1.0 +"And Men, from whence conspicuous Patriots spring,",3.0 +"Hanmer, and Bromley; Thou, to whom with due",3.0 +"With like Examples, and to future Times",1.0 +"As, in the Cause of Virtue firm, may fix",0.0 +"Her Throne inviolate. Hear, you Gods, this Vow",2.0 +"From One, the meanest in her numerous Train;",3.0 +"Though meanest, not least studious of her Praise.",2.0 +"To Beaufort, in a long Descent derived",0.0 +"From Royal Ancestry, of Kingly Rights",1.0 +"Their glorious Virtues, high Desert from Pride",2.0 +"OH Thou of ancient Faith! Exulting, Thee,",1.0 +Who can refuse a Tributary Verse,1.0 +"To Weymouth, firmest Friend of slighted Worth",0.0 +"In evil Days? whose hospitable Gate,",5.0 +"Of daily Guests; whose Board, with Plenty crowned,",0.0 +"Forgets not the afflicted, but content",2.0 +"In Acts of secret Goodness, shuns the Praise,",0.0 +And with Thy Name to dignify my Song.,1.0 +"But who is He, that on the winding Stream",0.0 +"Approved in Anna's secret Councils sits,",0.0 +"Weighing the Sum of Things, with wise Forecast",3.0 +Solicitous of public Good? How large,1.0 +"His Mind, that comprehends whatever was known",3.0 +"To Old, or Present Time; yet not elate,",0.0 +Not conscious of its Skill? What Praise deserves,1.0 +"His liberal Hand, that gathers but to give,",1.0 +"Him lowly reverence, that first deigned to hear",3.0 +"Acknowledge thy Own Harley, and his Name",2.0 +Inscribe on every Bark; the wounded Plants,0.0 +"Will fast increase, faster thy just Respect.",5.0 +"Such are our Heroes, by their Virtues known,",2.0 +"Or Skill in Peace, and War: Of softer Mould",0.0 +"The Female Sex, with sweet attractive Airs",1.0 +"Subdue obdurate Hearts. The Travellers oft,",7.0 +"Catch sudden Love, and sigh for Nymphs unknown,",1.0 +Smit with the Magic of their Eyes: nor hath,1.0 +Her Gifts of outward Grace; their Innocence,1.0 +"From Pride, or Artifice, long Joys afford",2.0 +"To the honest Nuptial Bed, and in the Wane",0.0 +"Of Life, rebate the Miseries of Age.",2.0 +"And is there found a Wretch, so base of Mind,",1.0 +"Uneasy, tedious Days, despised, forlorn,",2.0 +"As Stain of Human Race: But may the Man,",1.0 +That cheerfully recounts the Females Praise,3.0 +"Find equal Love, and Love's untainted Sweets",1.0 +"Enjoy with Honour. OH, you Gods! might I",3.0 +"Elect my Fate, my happiest Choice should be",2.0 +"A fair, and modest Virgin, that invites",0.0 +"With Aspect chaste, forbidding loose Desire,",1.0 +Tenderly smiling; in whose Heavenly Eye,4.0 +"Malignant, these my better Hopes oppose,",1.0 +"May I, at least, the sacred Pleasures know",1.0 +Of strictest Amity; nor ever want,1.0 +"A Friend, with whom I mutually may share",3.0 +"Of Speech, and Offices. May in my Mind,",1.0 +Indelible a grateful Sense remain,1.0 +Of Favours undeserved! ' -- OH Thou! from whom,4.0 +"Gladly both Rich, and Low seek Aid; most Wise",4.0 +"Interpreter of Right, whose gracious Voice",1.0 +"Breathes Equity, and kerbs too rigid Law",3.0 +"With mild, impartial Reason; what Returns",0.0 +Of Thanks are due to Thy Beneficence,2.0 +I tended prone? If Thy indulgent Care,1.0 +I now had wandered; and these empty Thoughts,1.0 +"I tune my Pipe afresh, each Night, and Day",0.0 +"Desirous; but nor Night, nor Day suffice",1.0 +For that great Task; the highly Honoured Name,2.0 +Of Trevor must employ my willing Thoughts,0.0 +"Incessant, dwell for ever on my Tongue.",1.0 +"Let me be grateful, but let far from me",2.0 +"Be fawning Cringe, and false dissembling Look,",0.0 +"In Courts, and gilded Roofs. Some loose the Bands",0.0 +"Of ancient Friendship, cancel Nature's Laws",0.0 +"Renounce their Sires, oppose paternal Right",0.0 +"For Rule, and Power; and other's Realms invade,",2.0 +With specious Shows of Love. This traitorous Wretch,2.0 +"Betrays his Sovereign. Others, destitute",0.0 +"Of real Zeal, to every Altar bend,",2.0 +"To be styled Honourable: The Honest Man,",2.0 +"Simple of Heart, prefers inglorious Want",4.0 +"Each common Privilege, cut off from Hopes",0.0 +"Supports him, and Intention free from Fraud.",1.0 +If no Retinue with observant Eyes,4.0 +"Attend him, if he can't with Purple stain",1.0 +"Dazzle the Crowd, and set them all agape;",2.0 +"Remote he lives, nor knows the nightly Pangs",0.0 +"But as a Child, whose inexperienced Age",4.0 +"Nor evil Purpose fears, nor knows, enjoys",0.0 +"Night's sweet Refreshment, humid Sleep, sincere.",1.0 +"Unhealthy Mortals, and with curious Search",3.0 +"Examines all the Properties of Herbs,",1.0 +"Displays, if by his Industry he can",2.0 +Benefit Human Race: Or else his Thoughts,2.0 +Are exercised with Speculations deep,0.0 +"Of Good, and Just, and Meet, and the wholesome Rules",0.0 +"Of Temperance, and aught that may improve",2.0 +"Of harmless Men, or secret Whispers spread,",0.0 +"Among faithful Friends, to breed Distrust, and Hate.",5.0 +"Studious of Virtue, he no Life observes",3.0 +"Except his own, his own employs his Cares,",0.0 +"Daily, nor of his little Stock denies",1.0 +"Thus sacred Virgil lived, from courtly Vice,",1.0 +And Baits of pompous Rome secure; at Court,0.0 +"Still thoughtful of the rural honest Life,",2.0 +"And how to improve his Grounds, and how himself:",2.0 +Best Poet! fit Exemplar for the Tribe,2.0 +"Poor eyeless Pilgrim! and if after these,",3.0 +"If after these another I may name,",2.0 +"Content, depressed by Penury, and Pine",1.0 +In foreign Realm: Yet not debased his Verse,0.0 +"By Fortune's Frowns. And had that Other Bard,",0.0 +"O, had but He that first ennobled Song",1.0 +"That rolled in vain to find the piercing Ray,",0.0 +"But He ' -- However, let the Muse abstain,",2.0 +"Nor blast his Fame, from whom she learnt to sing",0.0 +"The Olympian Hill, on Plains, and Vales intent,",3.0 +"Mean Follower. There let her rest awhile,",2.0 +"Pleased with the fragrant Walks, and cool Retreat.",0.0 +"OH Harcourt, Whom the ingenuous Love of Arts",4.0 +"Has carried from Thy native Soil, beyond",1.0 +Lament Thy Absence? While in sweet Sojourn,3.0 +"For ever venerable, rural Seats,",1.0 +"Respecting his great Name, dost now approach",2.0 +"With bent Knee, and strow with purple Flowers;",2.0 +"This long Delay. At length, Dear Youth, return,",1.0 +"Of Wit, and Judgement ripe in blooming Years,",0.0 +"Return, and let Thy Father's Worth excite",0.0 +Thirst of Preeminence; see! how the Cause,4.0 +"Of Widows, and of Orphans He asserts",2.0 +"With winning Rhetoric, and well argued Law!",4.0 +"Mark well His Footsteps, and, like Him, deserve",4.0 +"Temper Thy Cups, yet wilt not Thou reject",2.0 +"Now grinds choice Apples, and the British Vats",3.0 +"Accept this Labour, nor despise the Muse,",1.0 +"That, passing Lands, and Seas, on Thee attends.",1.0 +"Thus far of Trees: The pleasing Task remains,",1.0 +"Against Heaven? Oft, notwithstanding all thy Care",4.0 +"Exempt from Ills, an oriental Blast",0.0 +"Disastrous flies, soon as the Hind, fatigued,",2.0 +"In the Year's Prime, the deadly Plague annoys",3.0 +The wide Enclosure; think not vainly now,0.0 +Thus disappointed: If the former Years,2.0 +"Exhibit no Supplies, alas! thou must,",0.0 +A thousand Accidents the Farmer's Hopes,1.0 +"Subvert, or cheque; uncertain all his Toil,",0.0 +"Rough, or soft Rind, or bearded Husk, or Shell;",3.0 +And the Pine's tasteful Apple: Autumn paints,2.0 +"OH let me now, when the kind early Dew",3.0 +"Diffuse Ambrosial Steams, than Myrrh, or Nard",0.0 +"More grateful, or perfuming flowery Beane!",6.0 +"Then woo to musing, and becalm the Mind",1.0 +"Perplexed with irksome Thoughts. Thrice happy time,",1.0 +"Best Portion of the various Year, in which",4.0 +"Lovely, to full Perfection wrought! but ah,",2.0 +Our pleasant Hours. Inclement Winter dwells,0.0 +Contiguous; forthwith frosty Blasts deface,3.0 +Of its rich Progeny; the turgid Fruit,3.0 +Thy Hinds to exercise the pointed Steel,0.0 +To the expected Grinder: Now prepare,1.0 +"Materials for thy Mill, a sturdy Post",1.0 +"Rounding, capacious of the juicy Hord.",3.0 +Nor must thou not be mindful of thy Press,1.0 +Long ever the Vintage; but with timely Care,4.0 +"Shave the Goat's shaggy Beard, least thou too late,",6.0 +"Be cautious next a proper Steed to find,",0.0 +Whose Prime is past; the vigorous Horse disdains,2.0 +"His past Achievements, and victorious Palms.",3.0 +"Blind Bayard rather, worn with Work, and Years,",1.0 +Shall roll the unwieldy Stone; with sober Pace,2.0 +"He'll tread the circling Path till dewy Eve,",0.0 +"With the dry Refuse; thou, more wise shalt steep",1.0 +"Thy Husks in Water, and again employ",1.0 +The ponderous Engine. Water will imbibe,3.0 +"The small Remains of Spirit, and acquire",1.0 +"Will quaff, and whistle, as thy tinkling Team",1.0 +Pleased with the medley Draught. Not shalt thou now,0.0 +Will yield an Harvest of unusual Growth.,1.0 +Such Profit springs from Husks discreetly used!,0.0 +"The tender Apples, from their Parents rent",1.0 +"By stormy Shocks, must not neglected lie,",0.0 +"The Prey of Worms: A frugal Man I knew,",0.0 +"Rich in one barren Acre, which, subdued",0.0 +"By endless Culture, with sufficient Must",1.0 +His Casks replenished yearly: He no more,2.0 +"Desired, nor wanted, diligent to learn",1.0 +"The various Seasons, and by Skill repel",3.0 +"Invading Pests, successful in his Cares,",0.0 +"Nor curse his Stars; but prudent, his fallen Heaps",2.0 +"Collecting, cherished with the tepid Wreaths",1.0 +"But this I warn Thee, and shall always warn,",2.0 +"No heterogeneous Mixtures use, as some",3.0 +"With watery Turnips have debased their Wines,",2.0 +"In heated Brass, steaming with Fire intense;",5.0 +Of strengthening Vulcan; with their native Strength,3.0 +"Thy Wines sufficient, other Aid refuse;",0.0 +"And, when the allotted Orb of Time's complete,",1.0 +Nor let thy Avarice tempt thee to withdraw,3.0 +The Priest's appointed Share; with cheerful Heart,0.0 +"The tenth of thy Increase bestow, and own",1.0 +"Thy grateful Duty: This neglected, fear",1.0 +"A Miser, that unjustly once withheld",0.0 +"Be Just, and Wise, and tremble to transgress.",1.0 +"Learn now, the Promise of the coming Year",2.0 +"To know, that by no flattering Signs abused,",4.0 +"Prophetic, and attendant Stars explain",1.0 +Each rising Dawn; ever Icy Crusts surmount,3.0 +"Twinkle with trembling Rays, and Cynthia glows",4.0 +"With Light unsullied: Now the Fowler, warned",0.0 +"By these good Omens, with swift early Steps",3.0 +"Treads the crimp Earth, ranging through Fields and Glades",3.0 +"Their tuneful Throats, the towering, heavy Lead",0.0 +Overtakes their Speed; they leave their little Lives,1.0 +Foretell a liberal Harvest: He of Times,1.0 +"Intelligent, the harsh Hyperborean Ice",6.0 +Shuns for our equal Winters; when our Suns,0.0 +"Cleave the chilled Soil, he backward wings his Way",3.0 +"To Scandinavian frozen Summers, meet",2.0 +For his numed Blood. But nothing profits more,4.0 +Sometime thou shalt with fervent Vows implore,1.0 +Their feeble Heads; the loosened Roots then drink,0.0 +"Large Increment, Earnest of happy Years.",5.0 +Nor will it nothing profit to observe,2.0 +"The monthly Stars, their powerful Influence",3.0 +"Over planted Fields, what Vegetables reign",2.0 +"Indulgent, to all Moons some succulent Plant",3.0 +"Allotted, that poor, helpless Man might slack",1.0 +"His present Thirst, and Matter find for Toil.",0.0 +Are pressed to Wines; the Britons squeeze the Works,0.0 +"Prepare balsamic Cups, to wheezing Lungs",0.0 +Profuse of nursing Sap. When Solar Beams,0.0 +Permit to range the Pastures; gladly they,1.0 +From whence thou artificial Wines shalt drain,1.0 +"Slack craving Thirst, and mitigate the Day.",1.0 +"The baleful Toad, and Viper from her Shore!",1.0 +"More happy in her Balmy Draughts, enriched",0.0 +"With Miscellaneous Spices, and the Root",3.0 +"Extend her Fame, and to each drooping Heart",1.0 +"Present Redress, and lively Health convey.",0.0 +"With Bowls of fattening Mum, or blissful Cups",0.0 +"Of early Phosphorus salute, at Noon",1.0 +"Instructed, thus to quell their Native Phlegm",0.0 +"Prevailing, and engender wayward Mirth.",1.0 +"What need to treat of distant Climes, removed",0.0 +"Far from the sloping Journey of the Year,",1.0 +"Of Darkness, would congeal their livid Blood,",0.0 +"Did not the Arctic Tract, spontaneous yield",2.0 +"A cheering purple Berry, big with Wine,",0.0 +"Intensely fervent, which each Hour they crave,",0.0 +"Spread round a flaming Pile of Pines, and oft",0.0 +"Of strongest Brandy, yet scarce with these Aids",2.0 +Enabled to prevent the sudden Rot,1.0 +"Whom sunny Borneo bears, are stored with Streams",3.0 +"For here, exposed to perpendicular Rays,",2.0 +"The Cordial Glass perpetual Motion keep,",2.0 +"Void of a bulky Charger near their Lips,",0.0 +Their frying Blood compels to irrigate,0.0 +"Obnoxious, dismal Death, the Effect of Drought!",2.0 +"More happy they, born in Columbus' World,",2.0 +"Bow with prodigious Nuts, that give at once",2.0 +"Celestial Food, and Nectar; then, at hand",0.0 +"They with Pneumatic Engine, ceaseless draw,",1.0 +Intent on Laughter; a continual Tide,3.0 +"A Ship is dashed, and leaking drinks the Sea,",0.0 +"The astonished Mariners ay ply the Pump,",3.0 +"No Stay, nor Rest, till the wide Breach is closed.",3.0 +"The draining Sucker, then alone concerned,",0.0 +When the dry Bowl forbids their pleasing Work.,3.0 +"And the harsh Draught, must twice endure the Sun's",2.0 +"Kind strengthening Heat, twice Winter's purging Cold.",4.0 +"There are, that a compounded Fluid drain",2.0 +"From different Mixtures, Woodcock, Pippin, Moyle,",1.0 +Each mutually correcting each create,3.0 +"A pleasurable Medley, of what Taste",2.0 +"That views the watery Breed, with thousand Shows",2.0 +"Their genuine Relish, and of sundry Vines",3.0 +"The Spanish Product, this, to Gauls has seemed",1.0 +"Deluded, that Imperial Rhine bestowed",2.0 +Thy thirsty Soul; let none persuade to broach,1.0 +"The hoary Frosts, and Northern Blasts take care",1.0 +"Thy muddy Beverage to serene, and drive",1.0 +"It's earthy Gross, yet let it feed awhile",0.0 +Suffice it to provide a brazen Tube,1.0 +"Ascending, then by downward Tract conveyed,",0.0 +"Spouts into subject Vessels, lovely clear.",2.0 +"Darts through a Cloud, her watery Skirts are edged",2.0 +"So, and so richly, the purged Liquid shines.",3.0 +"Now also, when the Colds abate, nor yet",1.0 +"Full Summer shines, a dubious Season, close",3.0 +"In Glass thy purer Streams, and let them gain,",0.0 +"For this Intent, the subtle Chemist feeds",1.0 +"Over Sand, and Ashes, and the stubborn Flint",1.0 +"From hence a glowing Drop, with hollowed Steel",0.0 +"He takes, and by one efficacious Breath",1.0 +"Or Oval, and fit Receptacles forms",4.0 +"For every Liquid, with his plastic Lungs,",1.0 +To human Life subservient; By his Means,1.0 +"And tasteful Pippin, in a Moon's short Year,",1.0 +Acquire complete Perfection: Now they smoke,2.0 +"Transparent, sparkling in each Drop, Delight",0.0 +"Of curious Palate, by fair Virgins craved.",4.0 +But harsher Fluids different lengths of time,0.0 +Expect: Thy Flask will slowly mitigate,0.0 +"Withstood the Greeks endures, ever justly mild.",4.0 +"Fallacious Drink! You honest Men beware,",0.0 +Nor trust its Smoothness; The third circling Glass,2.0 +"Suffices Virtue: But may Hypocrites,",1.0 +"That slyly speak one thing, another think,",0.0 +"Hateful as Hell pleased with the Relish weak,",2.0 +"Infatuate, they their wily Thoughts disclose,",0.0 +"Now call for Vent, his Lands exhaust permit",1.0 +TO indulge awhile. Now solemn Rites he pays,2.0 +"His honest Friends, at thirsty hour of Dusk,",0.0 +"Imparts his smoking Vintage, sweet Reward",0.0 +Of his own Industry; the well fraught Bowl,3.0 +"Circles incessant, while the humble Cell",2.0 +Shine in each Face; the Thoughts of Labour past,0.0 +"She varies, and of past Imprisonment",2.0 +Sweetly complains; her Liberty retrieved,3.0 +"Cheers her sad Soul, improves her pleasing Song.",3.0 +"Of healthy Temperance, nor encroach on Night,",1.0 +Ever Heaven's emblazoned by the Rosy Dawn,3.0 +"Domestic Cares awake them; brisk they rise,",0.0 +"Refreshed, and lively with the Joys that flow",1.0 +"From amicable Talk, and moderate Cups",2.0 +"Present Redress, and long Oblivion drinks",2.0 +Of Coy Lucinda. Give the Debtor Wine;,0.0 +"His Joys are short, and few; yet when he drinks",0.0 +"His Dread retires, the flowing Glasses add",0.0 +"Courage, and Mirth: magnificent in Thought,",3.0 +"Imaginary Riches he enjoys,",1.0 +"Nor can the Poet Bacchus' Praise indite,",1.0 +"Thus to the generous Bottle all incline,",2.0 +"To ply the sweet Carouse, remote from Noise,",0.0 +Secured of feverish Heats! When the aged Year,2.0 +Beware the inclement Heavens; now let thy Hearth,5.0 +Now instigate with the Apples powerful Streams.,3.0 +"Perpetual Showers, and stormy Gusts confine",4.0 +"In clean Array, for rustic Dance prepare,",0.0 +"They frisk, and bound, and various Mazes weave,",2.0 +"Shaking their brawny Limbs, with uncouth Mein,",3.0 +"Dart on their Loves, sometime, an hasty Kiss",1.0 +"Traverse loquacious Strings, whose solemn Notes",0.0 +"Provoke to harmless Revels; these among,",1.0 +"A subtle Artist stands, in wondrous Bag",0.0 +"That bears imprisoned Winds, of gentler sort",0.0 +"Peaceful they sleep, but let the tuneful Squeeze",2.0 +"Returns, can they refuse to usher in",1.0 +"Attire themselves with Blooms, sweet Rudiments",4.0 +"Leads on expected Autumn, and the Trees",3.0 +"Discharge their mellow Burdens, let them thank",0.0 +"Boon Nature, that thus annually supplies",5.0 +"Their Vaults, and with her former Liquid Gifts",1.0 +"Exhilarate their languid Minds, within",0.0 +"Of Health, or Pleasure. Therefore, when thy Heart",1.0 +"Prompts to pursue the sparkling Glass, be sure",2.0 +It's time to shun it; if thou wilt prolong,1.0 +"Her Empire to Confusion, and Misrule,",2.0 +And vain Debates; then twenty Tongues at once,0.0 +"But Din, and various Clamour, and mad Rant:",3.0 +"Distrust, and Jealousy to these succeed,",2.0 +"Commence, the brimming Glasses now are hurled",0.0 +With dire Intent; Bottles with Bottles clash,5.0 +"In rude Encounter, round their Temples fly",0.0 +"Dried an immeasurable Bowl, and thought",2.0 +Descending careless from his Couch; the Fall,1.0 +Nor need we tell what anxious Cares attend,0.0 +The turbulent Mirth of Wine; nor all the kinds,2.0 +"Of Maladies, that lead to Death's grim Cave,",2.0 +"Intestine Stone, and pining Atrophy,",1.0 +Yet craving Liquids: Nor the Centaurs Tale,2.0 +"Be here repeated; how with Lust, and Wine",1.0 +"Inflamed, they fought, and spilt their drunken Souls",0.0 +"At feasting Hour. You Heavenly Powers, that guard",3.0 +"The British Isles, such dire Events remove",0.0 +"Ferment from Social Cups: May we, remote",1.0 +"From the hoarse, brazen Sound of War, enjoy",2.0 +Too oft alas! has mutual Hatred drenched,3.0 +"Our Swords in Native Blood, too oft has Pride,",1.0 +"Have we forgot, how fell Destruction raged",1.0 +"For Loyalty, and Prowess, met their Fate",1.0 +"Untimely, undeserved! How Bertie fell,",0.0 +"Fit Themes of endless Grief, but that we view",1.0 +Their Virtues yet surviving in their Race!,0.0 +"Can we forget, how the mad, headstrong Rout",3.0 +"Defied their Prince to Arms, nor made account",0.0 +"Of Faith, or Duty, or Allegiance sworn?",1.0 +"Apostate, Atheist Rebels! bent to Ill,",2.0 +"With seeming Sanctity, and covered Fraud,",1.0 +"Instilled by him, who first presumed to oppose",3.0 +"Was not alike; these triumphed, and in height",1.0 +"Of barbarous Malice, and insulting Pride,",3.0 +Abstained not from Imperial Blood. OH Fact,4.0 +"What Stars their black, disastrous Influence shed",2.0 +"Thus, by inglorious Hands, in this Thy Realm,",4.0 +"Supreme, and Innocent, adjudged to Death",1.0 +"By those, Thy Mercy only would have saved!",1.0 +"Abhorred such base, disloyal Deeds, and all",0.0 +"Undaunted, to assert the trampled Rights",1.0 +However faithful! then was no Regard,1.0 +"Of Right, or Wrong. And this, once Happy, Land",2.0 +"Our exiled Kings, and Liberty restored.",2.0 +"Now we exult, by mighty ANNA's Care",2.0 +"Secure at home, while She to foreign Realms",1.0 +"Sends forth her dreadful Legions, and restrains",2.0 +"The Rage of Kings: Here, nobly She supports",1.0 +"Justice oppressed; here, Her victorious Arms",5.0 +Quell the Ambitious: From Her Hand alone,3.0 +"All Europe fears Revenge, or hopes Redress.",0.0 +"Rejoice, OH Albion! severed from the World",4.0 +"By Nature's wise Indulgence, indigent",1.0 +Of nothing from without; in One Supreme,2.0 +Entirely blessed; and from beginning time,3.0 +Designed thus happy; but the fond Desire,2.0 +"Of Rule, and Grandeur, multiplied a Race",5.0 +"Each Potentate, as wary Fear, or Strength,",0.0 +With ruinous Assault; on every Plain,1.0 +"Host coped with Host, dire was the Din of War,",3.0 +"By Havoc, and Dismay, till Jealousy",2.0 +Raised new Combustion: Thus was Peace in vain,1.0 +"Sought for by Martial Deeds, and Conflict stern:",0.0 +Till Edgar grateful as to those who pine,2.0 +Pacific Monarch; then her lovely Head,0.0 +"Concord reared high, and all around diffused",3.0 +"Their silent Harps, and taught the Woods, and Vales,",0.0 +"Ran smoothly on, productive of a Line",3.0 +"Of wise, Heroic Kings, that by just Laws",1.0 +"Established Happiness at home, or crushed",1.0 +Insulting Enemies in farthest Climes.,1.0 +"Piously valiant, like a Torrent swelled",2.0 +"Breaking a Way impetuous, and involves",3.0 +"Within its Sweep, Trees, Houses, Men he pressed",1.0 +Amid the thickest Battle; and overthrew,2.0 +"Whatever withstood his zealous Rage; no Pause,",4.0 +"No Stay of Slaughter, found his vigorous Arm,",3.0 +But the unbelieving Squadrons turned to Flight,0.0 +"Mangled behind: The Soldan, as he fled,",3.0 +"Oft called on Alla, gnashing with Despite,",2.0 +"And Shame, and murmured many an empty Curse.",2.0 +Behold Third Edward's Streamers blazing high,1.0 +"Awakens Vengeance; OH imprudent Gauls,",0.0 +"Relying on false Hopes, thus to incense",4.0 +The warlike English! one important Day,2.0 +"Shall teach you meaner Thoughts! Eager of Fight,",5.0 +Fierce Brutus Offspring to the adverse Front,4.0 +With furious Inroad pierce; the mighty Force,3.0 +"Of Edward, twice overturned their desperate King,",3.0 +"Twice he arose, and joined the horrid Shock:",2.0 +"He fugitive declined superior Strength,",3.0 +Ten Thousands ignominious fall; with Blood,3.0 +"The Valleys float: Great Edward thus avenged,",1.0 +With golden Iris his broad Shield embossed.,2.0 +"Thrice glorious Prince! whom, Fame with all her Tongues",3.0 +New Authors of Dissension spring; from him,2.0 +"Two Branches, that in hosting long contend",1.0 +For Sovereign Sway; and can such Anger dwell,1.0 +In noblest Minds? but little now availed,0.0 +"The Ties of Friendship; every Man, as lead",0.0 +"By Inclination, or vain Hope, repaired",2.0 +"To either Camp, and breathed immortal Hate,",0.0 +And dire Revenge: Now horrid Slaughter reigns;,1.0 +"Sons against Fathers tilt the fatal Lance,",4.0 +"Careless of Duty, and their native Grounds",3.0 +"Send Showers of Shafts, that on their barbed Points",4.0 +Alternate Ruin bear. Here might you see,2.0 +"Barons, and Peasants on the embattled Field",5.0 +"Slain, or half dead, in one huge, ghastly Heap",4.0 +"Some call for Aid, neglected; some overturned",2.0 +"In the fierce Shock, lie gasping, and expire,",5.0 +"And wild Uproar, and Desolation reigned",1.0 +"This long, pernicious Fray? What Man has Fate",0.0 +"Reserved for this great Work? ' -- Hail, happy Prince",3.0 +"Great Richmond Henry, that by nuptial Rites",1.0 +"Must close the Gates of Janus, and remove",1.0 +Destructive Discord: Now no more the Drum,1.0 +"But Joy, and Pleasure open to the View",1.0 +Uninterrupted! With presaging Skill,6.0 +"By wise Alliance; from Thee James descends,",1.0 +"To him alone, Hereditary Right",1.0 +Gave Power supreme; yet still some Seeds remained,3.0 +"Of Discontent; two Nations under One,",3.0 +"In Laws and Interest diverse, still pursued",4.0 +"Peculiar Ends, on each Side resolute",1.0 +"To fly Conjunction; neither Fear, nor Hope,",0.0 +"Nor the sweet Prospect of a mutual Gain,",5.0 +"Could ought avail, till prudent ANNA said",0.0 +Let there be UNION; strait with Reverence due,2.0 +"To Her Command, they willingly unite,",3.0 +"One in Affection, Laws, and Government,",1.0 +"What shall retard the Britons' bold Designs,",0.0 +"Or who sustain their Force; in Union knit,",0.0 +Sufficient to withstand the Powers combined,3.0 +Of all this Globe? At this important Act,1.0 +The British Navy through the Ocean vast,1.0 +"Terrific, and return with odorous Spoils",3.0 +"Of Araby well fraught, or Indus' Wealth,",5.0 +"From well stored Horn, rich Grain, and timely Fruits.",2.0 +"The elder Year, Pomona, pleased, shall deck",0.0 +"Abundant, flowing in well blended Streams,",1.0 +The Natives shall applaud; while glad they talk,0.0 +In other Realms; wherever the British spread,2.0 +"Triumphant Banners, or their Fame has reached",1.0 +"Shall please all Tastes, and triumph over the Vine.",2.0 +"In Notes more sweet he does his Sorrows tell,",0.0 +And sighing Echo in the Consort join;,3.0 +"Till over the pitying Plains the Tidings spread,",4.0 +"Soft are thy Lines as the first tender Fire,",2.0 +That warms the Breast ever it commence Desire:,4.0 +"Thy moving Numbers all our Passions share,",0.0 +"Sigh, Languish, Weep, Just what we read we are.",1.0 +"By the soft Magic raised to Ecstasy,",3.0 +"Had he addressed but in thy melting Strain,",1.0 +"And he could do it, sure if any Swain.",0.0 +"The Nymph in spite of her presuming Charms,",1.0 +With Joy had yielded to his wishing Arms.,1.0 +"Impatient Youth, that Death itself could bear,",0.0 +Rather than scorns of the neglecting Fair:,3.0 +"But thus we fondly Rave to miss the Joy,",0.0 +"Love natural as Life, does Life destroy.",2.0 +"To Wit alone Passion does fatal prove,",5.0 +Fools may be lewd but know not how to Love;,1.0 +"Since it in learnt Breasts such Woes create,",1.0 +"But to your Charms Caution does needless seem,",6.0 +"Fear less Love, on you need not die like him.",1.0 +"For o! what Nymph could ever so stupid prove,",3.0 +The slighted Victim of a Virgins Pride.,1.0 +"So well you Mourn the Shepherd's amorous Fate,",2.0 +In such soft strains his sad fond Fall relate.,4.0 +"Pan would himself quit Immortality,",3.0 +To be in Death so sweetly Sung by thee.,0.0 +"I Come, a friend to man, I'm never his foe",2.0 +My name is ' -- Stop though ' -- what am I about?,1.0 +They that would know my name may find it out.,0.0 +"I'm seen in Summer in the shady grove,",0.0 +Where pensive speculating maidens rove;,0.0 +"Before the Autumnal winds, that blustering rise",4.0 +Firm and unshaken still my leaves remain;,2.0 +"But in the Winter I some covert crave,",1.0 +"Yet if too near the fire I take my stand,",0.0 +"My rind contracts, and leaves too much expand;",1.0 +Doctors extract my essence and applied,3.0 +"To stop disorders, and to give delight;",1.0 +"And some that would my properties define,",1.0 +Declare I am essentially divine:,2.0 +"Nay some, by arrant superstition taught,",0.0 +Say I immediately from Heaven was brought;,5.0 +"But that I am in Heaven, let none deny,",4.0 +"The Scripture says it, can the Scripture lie?",1.0 +"Once more I trod the Muse's sacred seats,",0.0 +"Pleased where the rose its purple bloom displayed,",0.0 +"Just as my heart had beat itself to rest,",0.0 +"Your lines arrived: the lyre I snatched in haste,",0.0 +And emulation fired my panting breast.,2.0 +"Henceforth, I cried, let Glory be my aim,",2.0 +"The power of song invoked, my voice I raise,",2.0 +Or the bold image paints in nervous prose;,2.0 +"Whether once more the sister arts she joins,",0.0 +Or smiles indulgent over her yet loved Rowe;,2.0 +"Or, in the private scene, retired from view,",0.0 +That scene so oft with pleasure marked by You,0.0 +"Still as she came, my voice grew faint with fear,",1.0 +"So graceful She, so amiably severe.",4.0 +What could I more? ' -- Adieu you tuneful throng!,0.0 +"Presumptuous notes! whenever my voice I raise,",4.0 +"Vain is the song, too delicate her ear,",2.0 +And these the very sounds she will not hear.,2.0 +FROM friendship's cradle up the verdant paths,1.0 +"To its full manhood and meridian strength,",5.0 +"Her latest stage, for friendship ever hale",0.0 +"Knows not old age, diseases, and decay,",4.0 +"But burning keeps her sacred fire, till death's",0.0 +"Cold hand extinguish at this spot, this point,",1.0 +And look back to the scenes our pastime trod,3.0 +"Had sliding feet, and laughed themselves away.",0.0 +Luxurious season! vital prime! where Thames,2.0 +"Bathes with slow pace his academic grove,",3.0 +Impossible! untenable! to grasp,2.0 +Those joys again; to feel alike the pulse,0.0 +"Dancing, and fiery spirits boiling high:",4.0 +Or see the pleasure that with careless wing,0.0 +"Bid yesterday return, arrest the flight",1.0 +"Of Time; or musing by a river's brink,",1.0 +Say to the wave that huddles swiftly by,1.0 +"For ever, from thy fountain roll anew.",1.0 +"That echoed round the table, idle guests,",0.0 +"Must rise, and serious inmates take their place.",3.0 +Exact the balance of our loss and gain?,1.0 +Who knows how far a rattle may outweigh,2.0 +The mace or sceptre? But as boys resign,1.0 +"The plaything, bauble of their infancy,",3.0 +"And under Reason's banner take the field,",0.0 +"With resolution face the cloud or storm,",0.0 +While all their former rainbows die away.,1.0 +"And courtly blandishment resort, and there",1.0 +Advance obsequious; in the sunshine bask,2.0 +"Of princely grace, catch the creating eye,",2.0 +"Their listening passion such the power, the sway",3.0 +"Of Reason's eloquence! ' -- or at the bar,",1.0 +"Where Cowper, Talbot, Somers, Yorke before",0.0 +And worthy filled it. Let not these great names,1.0 +"Thy younger merit. Know, these lights, ere yet",1.0 +"Proceed familiar to the gate of Fame,",1.0 +ENCHANTING is the mighty power of Love;,3.0 +Life stripped of amorous joys would irksome prove;,3.0 +"And over all the world, Love keeps his reign;",1.0 +"No human heart can bear the piercing blade,",1.0 +"Or I than others, am more tender made.",2.0 +"Right through my heart a burning arrow drove,",0.0 +You are the pleasing Author of my care;,2.0 +"Look down, fair Angel, on a Swain distressed,",4.0 +A gracious smile from you would make me blessed.,1.0 +"Nothing but that blessed favour stills my grief,",2.0 +"Death, that denied, will quickly give relief.",1.0 +Friendship the great pursuit of noble Minds,2.0 +"Passion in abstract, void of all designs;",3.0 +"Each generous Pen, does celebrate thy Fame,",2.0 +Produced this mighty notional Delight.,1.0 +To turn all Fortunes to Felicity;,2.0 +"It's fancied well, and this I dare engage,",1.0 +"But tell me where, this Extract may be found,",1.0 +And what Ingredients make the Rich Compound;,2.0 +"Or in what Soul, is true kindly heat,",3.0 +That can this great Experiment complete.,1.0 +Sometime a fond good Nature lights upon,1.0 +A soft and civil Temper like its own;,0.0 +"Strait they resolve to be those happy things,",2.0 +"Which when combined, pity contending Kings:",5.0 +"The mighty Notions of the exalted State,",3.0 +"Sink to a vulgar Commerce, or Debate:",1.0 +"But to employ the curious searching Mind,",3.0 +"In the pursuit of what, none ever shall find;",3.0 +Who trusts too much to either is undone.,2.0 +"OH Thou! to whom the Muse is justly dear,",0.0 +"In Fancy elegant, in Judgement clear,",1.0 +In whom the Virtues with the Graces blend,1.0 +"A while suspend the Taste improved by Art,",0.0 +And take the Lay spontaneous from the Heart.,1.0 +"Of self, or somewhat, or of God knows what!",3.0 +"Who mimic every thing but what you should,",0.0 +"And even Virtue, to be reckoned good;",1.0 +"Alas! no varnish can that want supply,",2.0 +No specious talk conceal the acted lie.,1.0 +"While you on trifles waste the tedious day,",2.0 +"And dress, or dream your useless hours away;",0.0 +"Or worse, indulge the very crime you blame,",0.0 +"Plot the dark scandal, or disperse the shame:",4.0 +"She on her Friend attends with pious care,",1.0 +"That higher sense indulging, void of art,",0.0 +The virtuous feeling of a generous heart;,5.0 +When it transfers from Self to serve a Friend.,2.0 +How few for Friendship Nature has designed!,0.0 +OH sacred Friendship! all unworthy Thee.,2.0 +"Where then shall she, whose native manners start",0.0 +"Whose soul is open, as her purpose clear,",1.0 +"Foe to evasion, as of heart sincere;",3.0 +"Not too familiar, nor yet too precise,",1.0 +Where find a Friend to bear the equal part?,0.0 +"Say, Charlot, where? if not within thy heart.",1.0 +"Yet Thou, whose worth might sweeter sounds inspire,",0.0 +Indulge these efforts of a youthful lyre:,1.0 +"No flattering purpose has the Muse in view,",3.0 +"Though prompt to praise, wherever Praise is due;",0.0 +"Averse to flatter, cautious to commend,",1.0 +"But sick of the insipid senseless train,",1.0 +For Thee she feels the animated strain:,1.0 +OH be she sacred to the wife and good!,1.0 +Nor prostitute her praises to the crowd;,1.0 +Upon a neighbouring willow useless hung;,3.0 +"Till gentle deeds, and corresponding Love",0.0 +Impelled the sympathetic strings to move,0.0 +"To Her and Lovelace tuned, grow music in their praise.",3.0 +"Plague to thy Husband, scandal to thy Sex,",1.0 +Whose wearying Tongue does every Ear perplex;,2.0 +"False to thy own false Soul, thou dost declare,",1.0 +"How Lust and Pride do Reign and Revel there,",1.0 +"Tell the World too, how nicely Chaste you are.",3.0 +"This dull compulsive Virtues owned; for who,",0.0 +With one so odious would have ought to do?,2.0 +"Thy best Discourse is but mere Ribaldry,",8.0 +"Telling how fond all that before see you, be:",3.0 +"Thus Sins nicknamed speak the infernal Saint,",4.0 +Whose shining Robes are tawdry Clothes and Paint:,0.0 +"Extravagance and Cheats you mark for Wit,",1.0 +"Thou abstract of Contention, Fraud and Spite.",3.0 +"If Socrates could have made choice of thee,",1.0 +And turned his Patience to a Lunacy.,2.0 +"The restless Waters of the raging Sea,",1.0 +Are a serene and halcion Stream to thee:,3.0 +"They keep their Banks and sometime can be still,",2.0 +Vesuvius Noise and Flame has less of Hell than thine.,2.0 +What can I say? What Arguments can prove,1.0 +My Truth? What Colours can describe my Love?,2.0 +"If it's Excess and Fury be not known,",1.0 +In what Thy Celia has already done.,0.0 +"Thy Infant Flames, while yet they were concealed",1.0 +"In timorous Doubts, with Pity I beheld;",3.0 +"With easy Smiles dispelled the silent Fear,",0.0 +"That durst not tell Me, what I died to hear:",0.0 +"In vain I strove to cheque my growing Flame,",0.0 +Or shelter Passion under Friendship's Name:,0.0 +"You saw my Heart, how it my Tongue belied;",1.0 +"And when You pressed, how faintly I denied ' --",1.0 +Ever Guardian Thought could bring it's scattered Aid;,2.0 +Ever Reason could support the doubting Maid;,0.0 +"Left all Reserve, and all the Sex behind:",1.0 +From your Command her Motions She received;,2.0 +"And not for Me, but You, She breathed and lived.",1.0 +And Fires Eternal on Her Altars shine;,1.0 +Since Thy dear Breast has felt an equal Wound;,3.0 +Since in Thy Kindness my Desires are crowned.,1.0 +"By Thy each Look, and Thought, and Care it's shown,",1.0 +"For all the white Ones, Fate has in it's Power. ' --",1.0 +"Yet thus beloved, thus loving to Excess;",4.0 +Yet thus receiving and returning Bliss;,1.0 +"In this great Moment, in this golden Now,",2.0 +"When every Trace of What, or When, or How",0.0 +"Should from my Soul by raging Love be torn,",0.0 +And far on Swelling Seas of Rapture born;,0.0 +A melancholy Tear afflicts my Eye;,0.0 +Invading Fears repel my Coward Joy;,0.0 +And Ills foreseen the present Bliss destroy.,1.0 +"Poor as it is, This Beauty was the Cause,",2.0 +That with first Sighs Your panting Bosom rose:,3.0 +"But with no Owner Beauty long will stay,",2.0 +Upon the Wings of Time born swift away:,1.0 +"Pass but some fleeting Years, and These poor Eyes",1.0 +Where now without a Boast some Lustre lies,0.0 +"Shall only be of use to read, or weep:",0.0 +"And on this Forehead, where your Verse has said,",1.0 +"The Loves delighted, and the Graces played;",1.0 +"Insulting Age will trace his cruel Way,",0.0 +And leave sad Marks of his destructive Sway.,2.0 +"Moved by my Charms, with them your Love may cease,",1.0 +"And as the Fuel sinks, the Flame decrease:",1.0 +Or angry Heaven may quicker Darts prepare;,0.0 +And Sickness strike what Time awhile would spare.,0.0 +Then will my Swain His glowing Vows renew:,0.0 +Then will His throbbing Heart to Mine beat true;,1.0 +When my own Face deters Me from my Glass;,1.0 +And Kneller only shows what Celia was.,1.0 +Fantastic Fame may sound her wild Alarms:,0.0 +"Your Country, as You think, may want your Arms.",1.0 +"You may neglect, or quench, or hate the Flame,",1.0 +Whose Smoke too long obscured your rising Name:,1.0 +And quickly cold Indifference will ensue;,1.0 +To this abandoned Breast to bring You back;,1.0 +"When my lost Lover the tall Ship ascends,",4.0 +"With Music gay, and wet with Jovial Friends:",2.0 +When the rough Seaman's louder Shouts prevail;,2.0 +When fair Occasion shows the springing Gale;,0.0 +And Interest guides the Helm; and Honour swells the Sail.,3.0 +"Some wretched Lines from this neglected Hand,",1.0 +"May find my Hero on the foreign Strand,",1.0 +"Warm with new Fires, and pleased with new Command:",3.0 +"While She who wrote them, of all Joy bereft,",1.0 +To the rude Censure of the World is left;,3.0 +"Her mangled Fame in barbarous Pastime lost,",3.0 +But nearer Care OH pardon it! supplies,2.0 +"Sighs to my Breast, and Sorrow to my Eyes.",1.0 +"Love, Love himself the only Friend I have",1.0 +"May scorn his Triumph, having bound his Slave.",0.0 +"That Tyrant God, that restless Conqueror",1.0 +"May quit his Pleasure, to assert his Power;",1.0 +"Forsake the Provinces that bless his Sway,",1.0 +To vanquish Those which will not yet obey.,2.0 +"Another Nymph with fatal Power may rise,",2.0 +With haughty Pride may hear Her Charms confessed;,0.0 +And scorn the ardent Vows that I have blessed:,1.0 +You every Night may sigh for Her in vain;,1.0 +And rise each Morning to some fresh Disdain:,1.0 +And Her Embraces want the Power to warm:,3.0 +"While these fond Arms, thus circling You, may prove",5.0 +"More heavy Chains, than Those of hopeless Love.",1.0 +Just Gods! All other Things their Like produce:,0.0 +The Vine arises from her Mother's Juice:,1.0 +"When feeble Plants, or tender Flowers decay;",2.0 +They to their Seed their Images convey:,2.0 +Where the old Myrtle her good Influence sheds;,5.0 +"And when the Parent Rose decays, and dies;",0.0 +"That Product only which our Passions bear,",0.0 +Eludes the Planter's miserable Care:,4.0 +While blooming Love assures us Golden Fruit;,0.0 +Some inborn Poison taints the secret Root:,1.0 +Soon fall the Flowers of Joy: soon Seeds of Hatred shoot.,4.0 +"Say, Shepherd, say: Are these Reflections true?",2.0 +"This cruel Scene, unjust to Love and You?",0.0 +"Will You be only, and for ever Mine?",3.0 +From this dear Bosom shall I never be torn?,3.0 +"Or You grow cold, respectful, and forsworn?",4.0 +"And can You not for Her You love do more,",2.0 +Than any Youth for any Nymph before?,0.0 +AND is this all? Can reason do no more,2.0 +Than bid me shun the deep and dread the shore?,0.0 +Sweet moralist! afloat on life's rough sea,3.0 +The christian has an art unknown to thee;,0.0 +"Where duty bids he confidently steers,",1.0 +"Faces a thousand dangers at her call,",2.0 +"THINK not I write my innocence to prove,",1.0 +"To sue for pity, or awake thy love:",1.0 +"No mean defence expect, or abject prayers;",1.0 +"I laugh at all thy vengeance has decreed,",0.0 +"Avow the fact, and glory in the deed.",0.0 +"Yes, tyrant! I deceived thy spies and thee:",2.0 +"Pleased in oppression, and in bondage free:",2.0 +The rigid agents of thy cruel laws,1.0 +By gold I won to aid my juster cause:,0.0 +"With dextrous skill eluded all thy care,",0.0 +And acted more than jealousy could fear:,1.0 +And blessed that absence which you thought I mourned.,0.0 +"Yet so refined, so exquisitely great,",6.0 +That their excess compensated their date.,3.0 +I die: already in each burning vein,0.0 +"I feel the poisonous draught, and bless the pain:",2.0 +For what is life unless its joys we prove?,0.0 +"And where is joy, deprived of what we love?",0.0 +"Yet, ere I die, this justice I have paid",1.0 +To my dear murdered lover's injured shade:,2.0 +"Those sacrilegious instruments of power,",1.0 +"Who wrought that ruin these sad eyes deplore,",2.0 +"Already with their blood their crimes atone,",1.0 +And for his life have sacrificed their own.,1.0 +"Thee, though restraint and absence may defend",2.0 +"From my revenge, my curses still attend:",1.0 +"Despair like mine, barbarian! be thy part,",2.0 +"Remorse afflict, and sorrow sting thy heart.",0.0 +"Nor think this hate commencing in my breast,",0.0 +Though prudence long its latent force suppressed;,0.0 +"I knew those wrongs that I was forced to bear,",1.0 +And cursed those chains Injustice made me wear.,0.0 +"With idle tales, which only fools believe?",0.0 +"Poor abject souls in superstition bred,",1.0 +"In ignorance trained, by prejudice misled;",3.0 +From those whose false prerogative they preach.,2.0 +"That willingly those laws I ever obeyed,",3.0 +"Which Pride invented, and Oppression made?",1.0 +To quicken appetite by change in love;,0.0 +"Each passion sated, and each wish possessed",1.0 +"That Lust can urge, or Fancy can suggest:",1.0 +"That I should mourn thy loss with fond regret,",0.0 +"Weep the misfortune, and the wrong forget?",3.0 +"Could I believe that heaven this beauty gave,",1.0 +"Thy transient pleasure, and thy lasting slave;",1.0 +"Endued with reason, only to fulfil",1.0 +The harsh commands of thy capricious will?,2.0 +"And though I wanted power to assert my cause,",2.0 +"My right I knew; and still those pleasures sought,",0.0 +"Which Justice warranted, and Nature taught:",1.0 +"On Custom's senseless precepts I refined,",2.0 +"I weighed what heaven, I knew what man designed,",0.0 +And formed by her own rules my freeborn mind.,1.0 +"Thus while this wretched body owned thy power,",0.0 +"My soul subservient to herself alone,",3.0 +"And Reason independent on her throne,",1.0 +"Yet thus far to my conduct thanks are due,",1.0 +At least I condescended to seem true;,1.0 +"Indulged thy vanity, and soothed thy pride.",1.0 +"Though this submission to a tyrant paid,",2.0 +"Whom not my duty, but my fears obeyed,",1.0 +"If rightly weighed, would more deserve thy blame,",0.0 +"Who call it Virtue, but profane her name:",1.0 +"For to the world I should have owned that love,",1.0 +Which all impartial judges must approve:,0.0 +"Which he soliciting, assailed by art,",2.0 +"While I, impatient of the name of slave,",2.0 +"To force refused, what I to merit gave.",1.0 +"Oft, as thy slaves this wretched body led",0.0 +To the detested pleasures of thy bed;,2.0 +"In those soft moments, consecrate to joy,",2.0 +Which ecstasy and transport should employ;,1.0 +"Clasped in your arms, you wondered still to find",0.0 +"So cold my kisses, so composed my mind:",1.0 +"Not that my soul incapable of love,",1.0 +"No charms could warm, no tenderness could move;",3.0 +"For him, whose love my every thought possessed,",1.0 +"A fiercer passion filled this constant breast,",0.0 +"Than truth ever felt, or falsehood ever possessed,",5.0 +"This style unusual to thy pride appears,",1.0 +For truth's a stranger to the tyrant's ears;,3.0 +But what have I to manage or to dread?,1.0 +"Nor threats alarm, nor insults hurt the dead:",1.0 +"No wrongs they feel, no miseries they find;",3.0 +Cares are the legacies we leave behind:,1.0 +"No tyrant husband, no oppressive power.",1.0 +Alas! I faint ' -- Death intercepts the rest:,1.0 +"My senses, strength, and even my hate decay:",2.0 +"Though rage awhile the ebbing spirits stayed,",0.0 +It's past ' -- they sink beneath the transient aid.,0.0 +"Take then, inhuman wretch! my last farewell;",2.0 +"Pain be thy portion here, hereafter, hell:",0.0 +"And when our prophet shall my fate decree,",0.0 +"Be any curse my punishment, but thee.",1.0 +"Little amusement, and the weather bad;",3.0 +"What shall I do? I'll write ' -- Come, ready friend ' --",1.0 +"I mean my pen ' -- Good folks, I pray attend:",0.0 +"Still at a loss, I do not wish to tease; ' --",0.0 +"My muse, assist me ' -- teach me how to please ' --",1.0 +"My thoughts are free ' -- then, fancy, take thy range ' --",0.0 +"I'll write my wish ' -- no choice ' -- pshaw, how I change!",2.0 +"Critics, be dumb ' -- I will the thought impart,",2.0 +That some kind youth may bid for Anna's heart:,1.0 +"He who aspires this little heart to gain,",2.0 +Some decent share of merit must attain;,0.0 +"Serene religion must his actions guide,",0.0 +"Bright truth, nice honour, over his mind preside;",4.0 +"Prudence to guide him through life's busy scene,",4.0 +"Never extravagant, nor ever mean;",3.0 +"Let him have sense designing men to see,",0.0 +Enough to rule himself and govern me;,1.0 +"To feel for human kind ' -- a generous soul,",2.0 +"To me devoted, but polite to all;",2.0 +His temper kind ' -- of that I must be sure ' --,0.0 +A husband's frown I never could endure;,0.0 +But with indifference never chill the heart;,1.0 +"No foolish fondness should he ever show,",1.0 +"But love refined, within his bosom glow;",0.0 +"His manner easy, generous, void of art,",2.0 +Let every word flow candid from the heart;,3.0 +"His person pleasing, in his taste refined,",0.0 +A face the index of an honest mind;,1.0 +"To jealousy he never must give way,",2.0 +"Trust to my honour, and I'll not betray;",0.0 +"Where much is said, there little can remain;",1.0 +Let kindness grant what adverse fate denies;,2.0 +"I wish not wealth, nor titles do I claim,",0.0 +Only let goodness mark his honest name;,3.0 +To little errors I will kindly bend;,1.0 +"His wish, my law, I never will contend;",1.0 +Prudence shall veil it; for I will not see:,3.0 +"A youth like this to share the cares of life,",1.0 +Shall find in me a kind and faithful wife.,1.0 +"Ambitious females in their wealth may glee, ' --",1.0 +To hope so much a female is to blame;,2.0 +"In modern days, do you expect to find",1.0 +What do you boast? in what do you excel?,1.0 +"In great sincerity I now step forth,",2.0 +Confess my merit humble as my worth;,1.0 +"I boast no beauty ' -- I no graces claim,",3.0 +"And all my portion is, a spotless name;",1.0 +With prudent fondness make me what you will.,0.0 +No other claim! ' -- truly your merit's poor.,6.0 +"Yet, in life's varying maze, I hope to meet",3.0 +"To prove the tender friend ' -- companion ' -- wife,",0.0 +Will be the sweetest care of Anna's life;,0.0 +"With temper mild, and innocently gay,",1.0 +Submissive gentleness she'll ever pay. ' --,1.0 +"My friends, adieu! ' -- my hour is past away.",0.0 +"A Heart to Mercy as to Zeal inclined,",1.0 +As well a gentle as a prudent Mind;,1.0 +"Still free to pardon, cautious to offend",2.0 +A tender Parent and a faithful Friend.,1.0 +"All Parts performed, she willingly withdrew,",1.0 +"Turned from the World, and bid her Friends adieu.",0.0 +Ah thou! if Spirits or regard or know,1.0 +The Sigh of Friendship or a Daughter's Woe,1.0 +"Mixed with those Tears that wash the sacred Shrine,",0.0 +Accept the Tribute of a grateful Line.,1.0 +"WOULD you, my Friend, a finished Sceptic make,",0.0 +"To form his Nature, these Materials take:",3.0 +"A little Learning; twenty Grains of Sense,",0.0 +Joined with a double Share of Ignorance;,1.0 +"Infuse a little Wit into the Scull,",0.0 +Which never fails to make a mighty Fool;,0.0 +Let all be with the Dregs of Reason mixed:,0.0 +"When in his Mind, these jarring Seeds are sown,",0.0 +"He'll censure all Things, but approve of none.",2.0 +"NOW spent the altered King, in amorous Cares,",3.0 +The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Prayers:,0.0 +"In vain the Altar waits his slow returns,",0.0 +Where unattended Incense faintly burns:,2.0 +"In vain the whispering Priests their Fears express,",2.0 +And of the Change a thousand Causes guess.,1.0 +And in his Palace feeds his secret Fires;,0.0 +"Led to the Onset by a Chosen Few,",2.0 +"Who at the treacherous Signal, soon withdrew,",2.0 +"Nor to his Rescue ever returned again,",3.0 +Till by fierce Ammon's Sword they saw the Victim slain.,2.0 +"Too strong to be untied, at last is cut.",1.0 +"And now to Bathsheba the King declares,",4.0 +"That with his Heart, the Kingdom too is hers;",0.0 +Are to be filled but with her widowed Charms.,2.0 +"Nor must the Days of formal Tears exceed,",0.0 +"To cross the Living, and abuse the Dead.",1.0 +This she denies; and signs of Grief are worn;,1.0 +"But mourns no more than may her Face adorn,",2.0 +"Give to those Eyes, which Love and Empire fired,",0.0 +A melting Softness more to be desired;,0.0 +"Till the fixed Time, though hard to be endured,",2.0 +"When, with the Pomp that suits a Prince's Thought,",0.0 +"By Passion swayed, and glorious Woman taught,",2.0 +While light unusual Airs profane the hallowed Lyre.,0.0 +"Given to brave Vice, though on a Prince's Brow?",3.0 +"In what low Cave, or on what Desert Coast,",2.0 +"Now Virtue wants it, is thy Presence lost?",2.0 +"But lo! he comes, the Reverend Bard appears,",0.0 +"And his rough Garment, wet with falling Tears.",2.0 +"The King this marked, and conscious would have fled,",0.0 +The healing Balm which for his Wounds was shed:,1.0 +"Till the more wary Priest the Serpents Art,",1.0 +And thus retards the Prince just ready now to part.,0.0 +"Thou, who for Justice dost the Sceptre bear:",0.0 +"Help the Oppressed, nor let me weep alone",2.0 +"Good Princes for Protection are Adored,",2.0 +"And Greater by the Shield, than by the Sword.",2.0 +"This clears the Doubt, and now no more he fears",1.0 +"The Cause his Own, and therefore stays and hears:",1.0 +"Casts round his Eyes, in vain, to reach the Bound,",0.0 +Which Jordan's Flood sets to his fertile Ground:,2.0 +"Countless his Flocks, while Lebanon contains",3.0 +And to the Cedar's shade at scorching Noon repair.,4.0 +"Near to this Wood a lowly Cottage stands,",0.0 +Built by the humble Owner's painful Hands;,0.0 +"Secured without, within all Plain and Neat.",0.0 +"A Field of small Extent surrounds the Place,",0.0 +In which One single Ewe did sport and graze:,0.0 +"This his whole Stock, till in full time there came,",3.0 +"To bless his utmost Hopes, a snowy Lamb;",1.0 +"Which, lest the Season yet too Cold might prove,",1.0 +"And Northern Blasts annoy it from the Grove,",1.0 +"Or towering Fowl on the weak Prey might seize,",2.0 +For with his Store his Fears must too increase,1.0 +"He brings it Home, and lays it by his Side,",1.0 +"At once his Wealth, his Pleasure and his Pride;",1.0 +"Still bars the Door, by Labour called away,",1.0 +"And, when returning at the Close of Day,",0.0 +"With One small Mess himself, and that sustains,",2.0 +"And half his Dish it shares, and half his slender Gains.",0.0 +When to the great Man's Table now there comes,1.0 +"A Lord as great, followed by hungry Grooms:",5.0 +"For these must be provided sundry Meats,",1.0 +"The Best for Some, for Others coarser Cates.",0.0 +"One Servant, diligent above the rest",1.0 +"To help his Master to contrive the Feast,",1.0 +"Extols the Lamb was nourished with such Care,",1.0 +"So fed, so lodged, it must be Princely Fare;",0.0 +"And having this, my Lord his own may spare.",1.0 +"In haste he sends, led by no Law, but Will,",3.0 +"While for the Innocent the Owner feared,",1.0 +"And, sure would move, could Poverty be heard.",1.0 +"O spare he cries the Product of my Cares,",1.0 +"My Stock's Increase, the Blessing on my Prayers;",1.0 +"My growing Hope, and Treasure of my Life!",1.0 +"More was he speaking, when the murdering Knife",2.0 +"Showed him, his Suit, though just, must be denied,",0.0 +And the white Fleece in its own Scarlet died;,1.0 +"While the poor helpless Wretch stands weeping by,",4.0 +And lifts his Hands for Justice to the Sky.,1.0 +"Which he shall find, the incensed King replies,",1.0 +"OH Nathan! by the Holy Name I swear,",2.0 +Our Land such Wrongs unpunished shall not bear,0.0 +"If, with the Fault, the Offender thou declare.",4.0 +"To whom the Prophet, closing with the Time,",1.0 +"Nor think, against thy Place, or State, I err;",0.0 +A Power above thee does this Charge prefer;,2.0 +"Urged by whose Spirit, hither am I brought",1.0 +"To lead thee back to those forgotten Years,",1.0 +"In Labour spent, and lowly Rustic Cares,",0.0 +"When in the Wilderness thy Flocks but few,",1.0 +"Till wondering Jesse saw six Brothers past,",3.0 +"And Thou Elected, Thou the Least and Last;",2.0 +"A Sceptre to thy Rural Hand conveyed,",1.0 +And in thy Bosom Royal Beauties laid;,0.0 +When on the shaken Ground the Giant lay,0.0 +"Stupid in Death, beyond the Reach of Cries",2.0 +"That bore thy shouted Fame to listening Skies,",0.0 +"And drove the flying Foe as fast away,",0.0 +"Thy Heart with Love, thy Temples with Renown,",1.0 +While yet thy Cheek was spread with youthful Down.,1.0 +What more could craving Man of God implore?,0.0 +"Intemperate Wishes, drawn through wandering Eyes.",4.0 +"One Beauty not thy own and seen by chance,",0.0 +Melts down the Work of Grace with an alluring Glance;,1.0 +"Chases the Spirit, fed by sacred Art,",2.0 +And blots the Title AFTER GOD's OWN HEART;,0.0 +"Black Murder breeds to level at his Head,",1.0 +"Who boasts so fair a Partner of his Bed,",1.0 +"Nor longer must possess those envied Charms,",0.0 +"The single Treasure of his House, and Arms:",1.0 +To all the Heathen the Almighty Name.,1.0 +"For which the Sword shall still thy Race pursue,",0.0 +"Who from thy Bowels sprung shall seize thy Throne,",0.0 +And scourge thee by a Sin beyond thy own.,1.0 +Thou hast thy Fault in secret Darkness done;,0.0 +"Enough! the King, enough! the Saint replies,",0.0 +And pours his swift Repentance from his Eyes;,1.0 +"Falls on the Ground, and tears the Nuptial Vest,",0.0 +By which his Crime's Completion was expressed:,1.0 +"Then with a Sigh blasting to Carnal Love,",5.0 +"Drawn deep as Hell, and piercing Heaven, above",1.0 +"Let Me he cries let Me attend his Rod,",2.0 +"For I have sinned, for I have lost my God.",2.0 +"Hold! says the Prophet of that Speech beware,",2.0 +"God never was lost, unless by Man's Despair.",3.0 +"The Wound that is thus willingly revealed,",3.0 +The Almighty is as willing should be healed.,2.0 +"Thus washed in Tears, thy Soul as fair does show",1.0 +"As the first Fleece, which on the Lamb does grow,",1.0 +Or on the Mountain's top the lately fallen Snow.,1.0 +Yet to the World that Justice may appear,1.0 +"Acting her Part impartial, and severe,",3.0 +The Offspring of thy Sin shall soon resign,2.0 +"But with submissive Grief his Fate deplore,",1.0 +"And bless the Hand, that does inflict no more.",1.0 +"Shall I then pay but Part, and owe the Whole?",0.0 +Shall I no more endure the King demands,2.0 +And escape thus lightly his offended Hands?,3.0 +"O! let him All resume, my Crown, my Fame;",0.0 +"Reduce me to the Nothing, whence I came;",1.0 +"And, if but Pardoned, strip me to my Grave:",2.0 +"Since though he seems to Lose He surely Wins,",0.0 +Who gives but earthly Comforts for his Sins.,1.0 +One ambling rhyme to my sequestered friend;,1.0 +"Who at the call of many a daring wight,",2.0 +"Attendant fly, impregnating the air",1.0 +"With Ode and Sonnet to the blooming fair,",1.0 +"So first taking in a great gulp of the air,",4.0 +"And trying to find the poetical chair,",5.0 +To tell you my history with speed I prepare.,3.0 +"For surely it's right my relations should know it,",5.0 +That their wandering cousin is turned out a poet;,4.0 +"An, well would it be, since this place is so dear,",0.0 +"Could she turn a chameleon, and live on the air,",3.0 +"Or like poets of old, to a garret retire,",4.0 +And never to a hall or a parlour aspire;,3.0 +Two rooms by the year under fifty good pound;,8.0 +"But since it's the fashion to spend all one's worth,",2.0 +"It's best to bestow it on pleasure and mirth,",4.0 +"So at Bath will I live, let it end as it may,",4.0 +And a lodging I'll take in the street titled Gay.,4.0 +"But how to describe the fine fights which I see,",2.0 +"With all their fine speeches to me and my friend,",5.0 +"With the tickets for balls, or the notes which they send;",2.0 +"For all so polite are, so civil and kind,",3.0 +"Nor must I omit how the mornings glide on,",1.0 +"For I'm told to waste time is entirely the ton,",3.0 +"So I'm sure I am right in the method I take,",2.0 +For I waste all my time from the hour I awake;,1.0 +"And then in the street to go strolling about,",5.0 +"Then step to the Painters to rest me a while,",2.0 +"Acquaintance to meet, and the hours to beguile,",3.0 +"But I'm told at this place it's genteel to be ill,",2.0 +And to add a few draughts to make up a bill.,0.0 +"Then home to my dinner with speed I repair,",3.0 +"Which quickly is over, then to dressing my hair;",4.0 +"For who can appear in a place so polite,",3.0 +Unless on the head each hair stands upright;,2.0 +Or who in a circle is fit to be seen,2.0 +Unless dressed as young as if barely fifteen.,4.0 +"This business when ended with trouble and care,",6.0 +"Without loss of time I get into my chair,",3.0 +"And straight to the Ball-room or Playhouse I haste,",3.0 +For visits of friendship are quite out of taste;,4.0 +"Nay, I'm told it is vulgar beyond all compare",1.0 +"To own a relation, though ever so near.",4.0 +"But what pen can describe the high heads I behold,",4.0 +"No, these pretty creatures are just the reverse,",2.0 +"And their heads at a distance appear like a hearse,",2.0 +"With plumes sweetly, nodding, with plaits and with gold,",4.0 +"With things out of number which never can be told,",3.0 +Which serve to convince me St. Peter's not read,6.0 +"By folks of high taste, who are perfectly bred;",3.0 +And I can't but believe that they pass all the morning,2.0 +"In learning to dance, and their heads thus adorning.",4.0 +"O, were you to see the fine capers they give,",6.0 +You never would forget it as long as you live;,0.0 +"But I cannot relate you the half that I see,",1.0 +"Nor how we eat cake, or how we drink tea,",4.0 +"For the clock has struck six, and the post's at the door;",2.0 +"But if this should delight you, you soon shall have more.",1.0 +"How oft hast thou, great master of thine art,",3.0 +"Called forth each feeling from the human heart,",2.0 +"With admiration filled the wondering mind,",2.0 +"Now soothed with love, and now with grief oppressed,",1.0 +"With frantic madness rent the astonished ear,",2.0 +Or from the eye made flow the pitying tear;,4.0 +"Then, as the merry Muses led the way,",0.0 +"And bade thee all thy comic powers display,",2.0 +The champion both of wit and eloquence.,3.0 +"No more alas! thine accents charm the ear,",1.0 +"Deep is the grief, sincere the tears we shed,",0.0 +"Garrick, alas! lies numbered with the dead.",4.0 +"FLOWERS to the fair: To you these flowers I bring,",4.0 +And strive to greet you with an earlier spring.,2.0 +"Flowers sweet, and gay, and delicate like you;",1.0 +"Emblems of innocence, and beauty too.",3.0 +"With flowers the Graces bind their yellow hair,",2.0 +And flowery wreaths consenting lovers wear.,2.0 +"Flowers, the sole luxury which nature knew,",3.0 +In Eden's pure and guiltless garden grew.,0.0 +To loftier forms are rougher tasks assigned;,2.0 +"The sheltering oak resists the stormy wind,",2.0 +"The tougher yew repels invading foes,",0.0 +And the tall pine for future navies grows;,2.0 +"But this soft family, to cares unknown,",3.0 +Were born for pleasure and delight alone.,1.0 +"Gay without toil, and lovely without art,",5.0 +"They spring to cheer the sense, and glad the heart.",0.0 +"Nor blush, my fair, to own you copy these;",1.0 +"Your best, your sweetest empire is ' -- to please.",1.0 +"Those numerous Hosts, which Time must sweep away:",2.0 +He wept Misfortunes of a distant Date;,1.0 +"The dreaded Hour approaching fast I see,",0.0 +"When you, alas! will all be dead to me.",1.0 +"Then cease to wonder, if my Bosom rise,",1.0 +"It's thus, and only thus, a grateful Breast",0.0 +"Pours out those Thanks, which cannot be expressed:",0.0 +"For, OH Hibernia! when I quit thy Coast,",2.0 +"Such Friends I leave, as few could ever boast.",0.0 +"THE sultry Sun had spread along the sky,",0.0 +"Then bade the gales his sacred presence fly,",0.0 +"Descend to earth, and wander by the stream,",1.0 +Till they should mark his last departing beam;,1.0 +"Dropped a fresh essence on the thirsty flower,",4.0 +"Moistened the eye of every opening bud,",4.0 +And let them see their image in the flood;,0.0 +"Then dip their wings, and through the softened air",1.0 +"Waft the fresh sweet, and every perfume bear.",5.0 +"Such heat oppressive sickened through the sky,",1.0 +That panting flocks beneath the hedges lie;,0.0 +"The milky thorn, white as their coats, was seen,",2.0 +"The sun behind the fragrant hedge retired,",0.0 +And lent that coolness all so much desired;,0.0 +The shady walk tempts on my wandering feet,4.0 +"To a close grove, impervious to the heat,",3.0 +"Where every tree could wave a leafy fan,",0.0 +And breathe refreshment on exhausted man.,1.0 +"The poplar tall over many a head would rise,",5.0 +"The trembling asp a whispering breeze would hear,",2.0 +And shake its every leaf with needless fear;,0.0 +"The sheltering limes their spreading arms extend,",2.0 +"Born to protect, and happy to defend;",3.0 +"The stately oak looked on, and firmly stood",2.0 +The noble patron of the growing wood;,1.0 +The red tide glowing through transparent veins;,2.0 +"And his red harvest for the winter eyes,",3.0 +"Whistles his mate, and carols through the day.",3.0 +"Where softest moss her various kinds had brought,",2.0 +And to cling closely to a rock had taught;,3.0 +"Where many a shrub that Taste had trained to grow,",2.0 +From her fair hand all careless seemed to throw;,2.0 +Lilacs and roses fondly made to meet;,1.0 +Fearful to show the world too gay a flower;,3.0 +And warrior spears from every arm extends;,0.0 +The prickly spears the rifling fingers feel,0.0 +No less acute than those of pointed steel;,2.0 +"The myrtle to this guardian friend applied,",3.0 +"Clung to his arm, fast rooted by his side.",2.0 +"At a small distance ran a tinkling rill,",2.0 +"That made sad murmurs to the rocky hill,",2.0 +"On which this happy bower so sweet was placed,",2.0 +This bower so cultured by the hand of Taste.,3.0 +And taught the vine to curl around yonder chair;,6.0 +"For here a nymph at sultry noon would come,",0.0 +And call this bower her flowery dressing room.,4.0 +"The darling nymph from whom soft arts have sprung,",1.0 +The winning form where grace and ease agree,0.0 +"To smooth the manners, and yet leave them free;",1.0 +Where every polish that the mind ever takes,3.0 +"Shines in the eye, and the soft accent wakes;",1.0 +"Where sweetest thoughts their own pure course pursue,",1.0 +"Vary the old, and ornament the new;",3.0 +"While all the winning ways that sense can lend,",0.0 +"Melt in the looks, and with the manners blend;",1.0 +A form as gentle as if sweetness strove,1.0 +To see how far she could succeed with love ' --,0.0 +To see how far the lily could prevail,0.0 +"To gain the heart, when gayer roses fail!",0.0 +"This lovely form on the soft couch reclined,",2.0 +"Screened from the sun, and sheltered from the wind;",1.0 +"Save where the breeze a load of sweets would bring,",0.0 +"A silken loom overhung with lilac stands,",2.0 +And often courts her fair creative bands.,0.0 +"Distracted Dido over the canvas bends,",2.0 +"Her searching eye the lessening vessel sees,",2.0 +"Swift as the gale, fly over the rolling seas;",3.0 +"But when her straining eye no speck can find,",1.0 +"No sail stream out ' -- though lengthened by the wind,",2.0 +"Looks, sobs, and tears prevent, yet form a prayer.",1.0 +"When gazing long, you think at last you hear",0.0 +These moving accents murmur in your ear ' --,0.0 +"Was all this pomp, this sacrifice I see,",0.0 +All only to deceive unhappy me!,2.0 +"To scorn thy sister, or delude thy friend?",1.0 +"Thy summoned sister and thy friend had come,",1.0 +One sword had served us both ' -- one common tomb!,0.0 +Amid its strings the wandering fingers strayed;,2.0 +"The wandering fingers melody had found,",3.0 +Some crayon pencils Art had taught to vie,1.0 +With the meek lustre of the living eye;,3.0 +"The living eye her forming hand could show,",0.0 +And sense and feeling in its pupil throw;,0.0 +"An easy figure from her fingers strayed,",1.0 +"And the heart languished for the mimic shade,",3.0 +"But not the shade when Elegance was by, ' --",1.0 +"Some hide their heads, and among the dark grass blow;",3.0 +"Some taller seem, and stalk with greater state,",0.0 +And look like porters at the flowery gate;,2.0 +"While some to meek simplicity incline,",1.0 +"And such, sweet Lily of the Vale, is thine;",3.0 +"Thine is the lot, the happy lot to know,",1.0 +And on the breast of Elegance to blow;,2.0 +"Taste placed thee there, thy back ground dark and high",3.0 +Forms a sweet arbour for the resting eye;,4.0 +"The resting eye thy purity can see,",1.0 +And think how much my L' -- resembles thee.,1.0 +"Yet all things suited to the softened mind,",2.0 +Require a scene we may not hope to find;,1.0 +"If, when high polished, fewer things delight,",1.0 +Does then refinement with our good unite?,2.0 +"And every colour of the prism there,",1.0 +Marks the bright rainbow in its hundred rays;,1.0 +"The humble peasant sees its radiance stream,",0.0 +"And much admires the variegated beam,",1.0 +"But thinks his glassy beads as full of light,",0.0 +"As finely varied, and as precious quite.",1.0 +Have you not seen Refinement sicken over,0.0 +How happy they when every day can roll,1.0 +A tide of pleasure to the very soul!,1.0 +Who seek not by Refinement's small spun thread,2.0 +"That slender guide should a rude breath destroy,",2.0 +"The wanderer's lost, though in the court of joy;",0.0 +"Though Innocence herself should lead the train,",1.0 +"Silent she'd sit, and Wit might flash in vain.",2.0 +How blessed are they whom Elegance has brought,2.0 +To the true standard of reflecting thought!,3.0 +"Whose mind is still unfettered to enjoy,",1.0 +Nor see one wish to please solicit them in vain.,1.0 +"Now the bright sun slid down the sloping sky,",1.0 +"The fragrant breezes waved along the mead,",0.0 +And the shrill pipe employed the leisure swain;,2.0 +And over the ground dragged on the loosened trace;,2.0 +"The joyful cur ran forth to meet his friend,",1.0 +And yelped and leaped delighted to attend;,1.0 +"The little children haste to beg a ride,",0.0 +"Fearful, yet pleased, hang on, while daddy walks beside.",1.0 +"Sweet Elegance arose and left her bower,",2.0 +"Homeward she bends, and Taste that home had made",2.0 +"Myrtles and oranges bold lights oppose,",4.0 +And thus the staircase in soft twilight glows;,3.0 +"The playful sun looks artfully between,",2.0 +"In this blessed window two sweet cherubs played,",3.0 +And many a feast and many a cap were made;,4.0 +"At social life you see the darlings aim,",0.0 +And all their fondness their dear children claim.,2.0 +"Now soft indulgence the kind mother shows,",3.0 +Now from her arm the naughty baby throws;,0.0 +Makes both the mother and the child afraid.,2.0 +"A christening dinner now prepares with haste,",0.0 +Here bits of cake must turn again to past;,0.0 +"A hardened crust a round of beef must prove,",0.0 +And that bit cheese may serve as a remove;,2.0 +"While apples sliced a dumpling well may seem,",0.0 +"Yonder peach be curds, and yonder drop water cream;",3.0 +And the fair waiter helps with cautious hand;,2.0 +She gives to each with modest maiden grace.,0.0 +"And now to school the fancied children go,",0.0 +"Miss Kitty learns to read, Miss Jean to sow.",2.0 +"The dame is good, but then she will insist",1.0 +"With every stitch taken back a tear descends,",3.0 +"Yonder garter, too, had once three loops to show,",1.0 +And now you see the needle holds but two!,0.0 +"For shame, Miss Doll! go, in yonder corner stand,",4.0 +Or else the rod shall smart that dirty hand;,0.0 +A naughty thing! I know you can do better;,1.0 +"And you Miss Pert, what sets you in that titter?",2.0 +"Do mind your work, and let your sampler show",0.0 +How learning from the needle's point may grow.,1.0 +"Now the tea kettle dangles over the fire,",5.0 +And acorn cups as china we admire;,1.0 +"In due precedence round the dolls are set,",2.0 +"This drinks tea now, that must not have it yet.",1.0 +"Order presides ' -- Mamma is copied still,",7.0 +"Is the guide now, as ever more she will.",2.0 +"You happy parents, here observe your power,",0.0 +See how your precepts regulate the hour;,1.0 +"See how your manners round these cherubs cling,",0.0 +"Your air, your words, your looks, your every thing.",0.0 +"Mamma said so, is echoed all around,",0.0 +"Mamma did so, is breathed in every sound,",0.0 +"Mamma bade me, and so I need not fear,",1.0 +"Mark well this lesson, since your forming hand",1.0 +"Moulds the soft mind, and can its powers command,",4.0 +"Since now your actions are not yours alone,",2.0 +But every word is copied one by one;,1.0 +"Think to what consequence each thought may rise,",1.0 +Your every word the vacant mind supplies;,0.0 +"Even in their play the useful dictate give,",1.0 +"For even in play they may be taught to live,",2.0 +"May learn strict justice amongst their dolls to deal,",3.0 +"May learn forbearance, and may learn to feel,",1.0 +"May learn to share their little precious store,",0.0 +And know no grudge though lesser ones get more.,2.0 +OH! may no voice in false persuasion's tone,3.0 +"Bid them snatch all for fear it should be gone,",0.0 +And every part of narrow manners teach,0.0 +That little jealousy and self can reach!,1.0 +"But this faint shadow may some way express,",1.0 +"May prove the practise through the mimic scene,",1.0 +And be in life what here the child has been.,0.0 +"The patriot's eye hath left eternal light,",2.0 +Beaming over every line with influence bright,2.0 +"A grace unknown before, nor due to me:",0.0 +And still delighted fancy loves to see,0.0 +The flattering smile which prompt indulgence might,2.0 +"Have hung upon that lip, whose melody",1.0 +"Truth, sense, and liberty had called their own.",2.0 +"For strength of mind and energy of thought,",1.0 +An union beautiful in him had shown;,2.0 +And yet wherever the eye of taste found aught,3.0 +"To praise, he loved the critic's gentlest part.",2.0 +"Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,",1.0 +"Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;",1.0 +"Nor Grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile,",5.0 +The short and simple annals of the Poor.,1.0 +"MY loved, my honoured, much respected friend,",2.0 +No mercenary Bard his homage pays;,1.0 +"With honest pride, I scorn each selfish end,",0.0 +"To you I sing, in simple Scottish lays,",1.0 +The lowly train in life's sequestered scene;,0.0 +"The native feelings strong, the guileless ways,",0.0 +"Collects his spades, his mattocks and his hoes,",1.0 +"Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend,",2.0 +"At length his lonely Cot appears in view,",0.0 +Beneath the shelter of an aged tree;,1.0 +And makes him quite forget his labour and his toil.,1.0 +"At Service out, among the Farmers round;",1.0 +"In youthful bloom, Love sparkling in her e'e,",1.0 +"To help her Parents dear, if they in hardship be.",1.0 +The Parents partial eye their hopeful years;,0.0 +Anticipation forward points the view;,0.0 +The Father mixes of with admonition due.,1.0 +' And OH! be sure to fear the LORD always!,1.0 +"' And mind your duty, duly, morn and night!",0.0 +"Lest in temptation's path you gang astray,",0.0 +' Implore his counsel and assisting might:,1.0 +But hark! a rap comes gently to the door;,2.0 +The wily Mother sees the conscious flame,0.0 +"With kindly welcome, Jenny brings him ben;",0.0 +Blythe Jenny sees the visit's no ill taken;,2.0 +OH happy love! where love like this is found!,2.0 +And sage EXPERIENCE bids me this declare ' --,3.0 +"' If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare,",2.0 +"' One cordial in this melancholy Vale,",0.0 +"' It's when a youthful, loving, modest Pair,",0.0 +"' In other's arms, breathe out the tender tale,",2.0 +"Is there, in human form, that bears a heart ' --",1.0 +A Wretch! a Villain! lost to love and truth!,0.0 +Curse on his perjured arts! dissembling smooth!,0.0 +"Are Honer, Virtue, Conscience, all exiled?",1.0 +"Is there no Pity, no relenting Ruth,",2.0 +Points to the Parents fondling over their Child?,2.0 +"Then paints the ruined Maid, and their distraction wild!",1.0 +"But now the Supper crowns their simple board,",0.0 +"The cheerful Supper done, with serious face,",2.0 +"They, round the ingle, form a circle wide;",0.0 +"The Sire turns over, with patriarchal grace,",5.0 +"Those strains that once did sweet in ZION glide,",0.0 +He wales a portion with judicious care;,1.0 +' And let us worship GOD!' he says with solemn air.,0.0 +"They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim:",0.0 +"Or plaintive Martyrs, worthy of the name;",1.0 +How Abram was the Friend of GOD on high;,1.0 +"Or, Moses bade eternal warfare wage,",1.0 +"Or how the royal Bard did groaning lie,",1.0 +Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire;,2.0 +Or other Holy Seers that tune the sacred lyre.,0.0 +"Perhaps the Christian Volume is the theme,",1.0 +How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed;,0.0 +"How HE, who bore in heaven the second name,",1.0 +How His first followers and servants sped;,3.0 +The Precepts sage they wrote to many a land:,3.0 +Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand;,0.0 +"Then kneeling down to HEAVEN'S ETERNAL KING,",3.0 +"The Saint, the Father, and the Husband prays:",1.0 +"Hope' springs exulting on triumphant wing,'",1.0 +That thus they all shall meet in future days:,0.0 +"No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear,",0.0 +"In such society, yet still more dear;",2.0 +"Compared with this, how poor Religion's pride,",1.0 +"In all the pomp of method, and of art,",1.0 +"When men display to congregations wide,",0.0 +"The POWER, incensed, the Pageant will desert,",4.0 +"May hear, well pleased, the language of the Soul;",2.0 +Then homeward all take off their several way;,2.0 +"And proffer up to Heaven the warm request,",1.0 +"And decks the lily fair in flowery pride,",2.0 +"Would, in the way His Wisdom sees the best,",0.0 +For them and for their little ones provide;,1.0 +"But chiefly, in their hearts with Grace divine preside.",0.0 +"That makes her loved at home, revered abroad:",0.0 +"Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,",3.0 +' An honest man's the noble work of GOD;',0.0 +The Cottage leaves the Palace far behind:,0.0 +"Disguising oft the wretch of human kind,",0.0 +"Studied in arts of Hell, in wickedness refined!",3.0 +For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent!,0.0 +"Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil,",0.0 +"Be blessed with health, and peace, and sweet content!",0.0 +And OH may Heaven their simple lives prevent,0.0 +"Then however crowns and coronets be rent,",1.0 +"A virtuous Populace may rise the while,",3.0 +"OH THOU! who poured the patriotic tide,",0.0 +"That streamed through great, unhappy WALLACE' heart;",1.0 +"Or nobly die, the second glorious part:",2.0 +"The Patriot's GOD, peculiarly thou art,",3.0 +"In bright succession raise, her Ornament and Guard!",1.0 +"The lonely Minstrel wakes her strain forlorn,",0.0 +"And to the ear of Night unfolds her tale,",1.0 +"Of ceaseless sorrow, and of widowed wail:",1.0 +"Thus, bending beneath a more than common woe,",3.0 +Still ponder over the irrevocable past?,3.0 +"Why, weeping, bend over Virtue's hallowed tomb,",3.0 +"Whence Hope, immortal Hope, dispels the gloom?",0.0 +"To her mild sway thy tortured breast resign,",2.0 +"And make, dear maid, her balmy pleasures thine.",2.0 +A college life! I scorn the odious phrase;,2.0 +So dull a theme shall never employ my lays:,2.0 +Unless it's life merely to draw your breath;,5.0 +"By fusty walls cooped up, as in a pen,",2.0 +"Amongst fusty books, and still more fusty men.",5.0 +"Can this be life, by gothic rules compelled",1.0 +"To part from liberty, or be expelled?",1.0 +The live long day confined to Greek and Latin;,1.0 +"At such an hour amongst old dons to dine,",1.0 +Yet not allowed a social glass of wine;,0.0 +"With cap in hand across the court to go,",0.0 +Lest dire expulsion for that breach of laws,1.0 +Seize on the culprit with it's iron claws.,1.0 +"If when fatigued at evening, he should take",1.0 +"A nap too long, and not to prayers awake,",1.0 +"Strait through the College shall his name resound,",1.0 +"Then as a squirrel, who his chain has broke,",0.0 +"His liberty he hugs, with joy elate,",1.0 +"Nor ever reflects on bars, or keys, or gate.",2.0 +But now the college clock with gloomy knell,0.0 +Strikes through his heart ' -- with horror in his face,0.0 +Sudden he starts ' -- his short-lived joy gives place.,4.0 +"And at the portal for admittance cries,",1.0 +But cries in vain ' -- for ah! it's all too late;,1.0 +"Abashed the youth retires with thoughtful pace,",0.0 +"Next morn by Master, Tutor, Fellows rated,",0.0 +"In short, not much unlike a bear when baited.",0.0 +"Since this a College Life, peace to that pair,",2.0 +"Who dying left me to a Guardian's care,",3.0 +"And he, thank Fortune, to unbend my mind,",4.0 +"Chose a young Tutor, gay, polite and kind,",3.0 +"Who, anxious much my morals to advance,",1.0 +Took me a tour through Italy and France;,1.0 +"Gave me the Graces, which I more admire",0.0 +Than all the learning I could else acquire:,1.0 +"This, this is life, but that within a College,",1.0 +"Which musty pedants term the Seat of Knowledge,",0.0 +"Let pedants take ' -- I will not see their faces,",2.0 +But live and die devoted to the Graces.,1.0 +"Thus Florio talked ' -- much noise and little matter,",3.0 +"It's thus, that puppies yelp, and monkeys chatter.",0.0 +"OBEDIENT to the omnipotent command,",3.0 +"First smiling vegetation gaily rose,",1.0 +"Then, over the earth, unconscious beauty glows;",3.0 +"And from that heavenly spark that spread his sway,",3.0 +Was kindled animation's vital ray.,0.0 +"By fine degrees extending still the plan,",0.0 +"Highly endowed, the sovereign of the whole,",3.0 +"Nor him the swift escape, nor strong control.",1.0 +"Over earth he sits on an unquestioned throne,",1.0 +A tributary here to God alone;,0.0 +"Nor are his views alone to earth confined,",1.0 +To higher views are needful aids assigned.,0.0 +Then let not man his faith and hope withhold.,0.0 +"Let faith and hope imperfect virtue aid,",1.0 +And finite ' -- own what infinite has said.,2.0 +"Come dress me fiction for the ear of youth,",2.0 +Some tale that shall impress the sacred truth.,0.0 +His country loved and prided in the sage;,0.0 +"With kind affections, and persuasion's power,",1.0 +"If earth too strongly once had drawn his mind,",1.0 +"Sudden he lost, in pride of blooming years,",2.0 +The lovely partner of his joys and cares.,1.0 +"His patient tears were sown with future praise,",0.0 +"He marked the good and ill as equal given,",0.0 +"A guide through time and death, to life and heaven;",0.0 +"And on a mind so tempered, heaven bestowed,",1.0 +Its needful aids to keep his heavenly road;,2.0 +"Then who so fit the traveller to convey,",3.0 +And guide the inexperienced in their way.,2.0 +"For them were fortune, cares, and prayers employed.",1.0 +Gave him the anxious joys of hopes and fears;,0.0 +"He oft their virtues and their faults would try,",1.0 +And scan them with a parent's watchful eye;,1.0 +"As heirs of heaven, his sons he fondly viewed,",0.0 +Nor his low aim confined to earthly good;,2.0 +His oldest son to learning gave his hours;,0.0 +"By philosophic virtue firmly armed,",0.0 +By moral beauty was Eugenio charmed;,4.0 +"Unaided by high hopes or coward fear,",2.0 +All for itself to him was virtue dear;,2.0 +"Worthy the scale he held in nature's plan,",2.0 +"Approved by reason, and becoming man.",1.0 +"Rewards and punishments were motives light,",1.0 +And all the charities his soul adorn;,1.0 +And all his God was formed of peace and love;,0.0 +But thought no stern decree could flow from heaven;,1.0 +Treated the vicious with benevolence;,4.0 +"He said for misery God no being gave,",3.0 +"And even the guilty, mercy meant to save;",2.0 +"With joy his father viewed his virtues mild,",0.0 +"Yet would he mourn one error of his child,",1.0 +"That through his actions though they sweetly shone,",1.0 +Those virtues sat on an unguarded throne.,1.0 +But those he guarded by humility;,3.0 +"His knowledge would by patient labour earn,",0.0 +Nor ever deemed himself too wise to learn;,1.0 +"The dread of pain and prospect of reward,",1.0 +"His heart accepted, as its firmest guard.",1.0 +"Such were the sons who won each tender part,",1.0 +"His happiest hours were with their virtues shared,",3.0 +Nor tender lessons to their faults he spared;,1.0 +"But habits ever strengthen in their course,",0.0 +And lessons oft repeated lose their force;,0.0 +"That truth might be with novelty conveyed,",1.0 +The careful father sought for foreign aid;,0.0 +"His searches met the sages high renown,",0.0 +For wisdom and for virtue fully known;,1.0 +And poured his soul in many a fond complaint;,2.0 +"Pity he said, and hear me reverend sage,",2.0 +So heaven support thee in declining age;,0.0 +"Thy counsels to my need then straight display,",1.0 +"And aid me, far as human wisdom may;",1.0 +"Thy deeds are wisdom, and thy trust is God,",1.0 +Then who so fit to mark a dubious road;,2.0 +"Three virtuous sons I have, my age's pride,",3.0 +"To fame on earth, and to heaven's hopes allied;",0.0 +"O! may their virtues never their hearts forsake,",3.0 +"Nor those high hopes be lost by sad mistake,",2.0 +"As fares the mariner who near the shore,",1.0 +"Trusts the false calm and counts the dangers over,",3.0 +"When sad reverse, he thoughtless meets between,",0.0 +"The sudden tempest, and the rock unseen,",1.0 +For home and safety he must meet a grave.,1.0 +By my success be confidence repaid;,2.0 +"To morrow, ever the orb serene of night,",2.0 +"Let me receive thy treasures to my care,",3.0 +The closing day I ever end with prayer;,0.0 +"As to high heaven events are only known,",2.0 +And lightened were the cares that weighed his breast;,1.0 +"The sage's message to his sons he broke,",1.0 +And highly of his worth and wisdom spoke.,1.0 +"The youths with fond attention catch the strain,",0.0 +And chide the hours that yet their steps detain.,0.0 +"Those equal powers that charm in kindred minds,",2.0 +And to exalted heights of knowledge soar;,1.0 +Which honour draws for rectitude in man.,1.0 +"Fix virtue in her independent sphere,",1.0 +Unaided by reward or abject fear;,1.0 +To such a friend his feelings to disclose;,2.0 +"Revolves the joy that sympathy imparts,",1.0 +When generous feelings bind congenial hearts;,2.0 +"And while such sympathies their hearts expand,",1.0 +But clasp the scheme of wide benevolence.,1.0 +Heaven's mercy with its justice how combined;,2.0 +"Those high rewards that meet the happy saint,",0.0 +"The joys of heaven, he longs to hear him paint;",0.0 +"Potent, the strong temptation to defeat,",3.0 +"'Twas when the virgin yields her brilliant sway,",0.0 +"And tempered seasons smile in equal day,",0.0 +"In youth's gay season, when few cares annoy,",1.0 +"Alive to present and to future joy,",1.0 +"Imagination aids each scene to warm,",0.0 +And paints each beauty with a heightened charm;,1.0 +"More gay to them, reviving spring is seen,",1.0 +Where ripened beauty summer's suns disclose;,0.0 +"So, to the youths now more majestic shone,",2.0 +"Illustrious autumn, on her golden throne,",3.0 +"Queen of the year, they see her now display,",0.0 +The gifts which tributary seasons pay;,0.0 +"The blushing orchard, and the waving corn,",1.0 +Beneath her painted skies her reign adorn;,0.0 +As her rich tints display her changing hand.,2.0 +"Thus pleased they leave their parent and their home,",2.0 +The mansion rose in venerable pride;,1.0 +"Mid rocks and groves it rose in stately show,",1.0 +And seemed the sovereign of the vale below;,1.0 +"Where the gay scenes that struck the wondering eye,",5.0 +Seemed empires of each rural deity;,3.0 +And with rich purple decks the lowly bush;,2.0 +"The village church, there steals upon the view;",0.0 +"As just emerging from surrounding shade,",1.0 +It gives a decent order to the glade.,1.0 +"Hills rise on hills, to lead the extended eye,",3.0 +"Till with its kindred blue, they mix in sky.",1.0 +"Its streams collecting, gathering still new force,",3.0 +"Between, a river takes its rapid course;",0.0 +"A careful debtor, and a subject free,",1.0 +Hastening its willing waters to the sea.,2.0 +"From scenes like these their softened hearts imbibe,",1.0 +"What most have felt, but few can well describe.",0.0 +Whom the appointed time to meet them drew;,1.0 +"Serene as eve, as autumn rich to bless,",0.0 +He seemed the genius of his native place;,1.0 +"And thus in accents mild their coming greets,",0.0 +"Welcome young friends, your presence pleases more,",3.0 +"As thus observant of an old man's hour,",2.0 +"Though youth to folly and neglect is prone,",1.0 +"Our course of friendship shall be safely trod,",0.0 +"Hope marks the end, when we begin with God;",2.0 +"From dignity serene, and mild benevolence,",2.0 +These words mix awe with gentle confidence.,2.0 +"He leads them through the winding of the wood,",2.0 +"To where the chapel of the mansion stood,",1.0 +"In decent order all the household there,",2.0 +"Attend the blessing of their master's prayer,",1.0 +"And there the observance of the world they shun,",2.0 +"Thus every day was closed, and morn begun;",1.0 +"No warm disputes, or lectures oft as vain,",1.0 +"Employ the hours of eve that yet remain,",0.0 +"Instruction lost its name, but took its force.",0.0 +"An humbler notion of themselves are taught,",1.0 +"Their recollected vanity regret,",1.0 +And view their wisdom as a counterfeit;,1.0 +"Their hearts, late nature's lovely scenes expand,",1.0 +"Freeing from blind opinion to receive,",3.0 +The important lesson which he wished to give;,1.0 +"Dressing his purpose in a pleasing view,",2.0 +Which they as entertainment only knew;,0.0 +Swift fly the inspiring moments friendship shares;,2.0 +"As high in wisdom and refined in taste,",1.0 +All seemed a wonder that the sage possessed;,0.0 +"Nor aught escaped them as they took their way,",1.0 +Passing along to where their chambers lay.,2.0 +"And now, as still prepared for new delight,",0.0 +"A gallery stored with pictures struck their sight,",2.0 +"There many a sage and patriot appeared,",3.0 +"Who blessed in life, and were in death revered,",1.0 +"Not those whose dubious worth high fortune crowned,",3.0 +But whom unquestioned merit had renowned;,0.0 +"Amongst the many which they wondering saw,",2.0 +"Three more than all their fixed attention draw,",0.0 +"The painter's zeal his magic hand obeyed,",0.0 +"And almost life and breath his forms displayed,",1.0 +"One narrow path to a bright mansion led,",2.0 +"Along the landscape, over the canvas spread;",3.0 +"Three figures pass it with a different fate,",2.0 +And draw our admiration and regret;,1.0 +"While one with steady eye surveys the ground,",0.0 +"The others leave it, and with wandering feet,",3.0 +"Though they approach to bliss, destruction meet;",1.0 +"These pictures long their curious eyes detain,",2.0 +"And much they wish their meaning to explain,",1.0 +"Why the same landscape over the three are spread,",6.0 +And whence the different figures there displayed;,1.0 +"And anxious wait the coming of their friend,",1.0 +"Hearts open to his counsels they prepare,",3.0 +"And bread and fruits their wholesome meal complete,",0.0 +"Enraptured of the pictures now they speak,",1.0 +"O deign, they said, the mystery to relate,",3.0 +And why those figures meet such different fate;,0.0 +"Then to the gallery straight their host they lead,",2.0 +And point the pieces which they wish to read;,0.0 +"And ere he spoke, he heaved a feeling sigh;",0.0 +"It's there, he said, enraptured with the theme,",2.0 +"The painter gives to sight the poet's dream,",0.0 +And almost bids his airy phantoms breathe;,1.0 +"Nor to the painter give we all the praise,",1.0 +But now attend to what the legend says;,0.0 +"This said, a scroll of parchment next he shows,",0.0 +And thus proceeds its legend to disclose;,1.0 +"To your Commands I own Obedience due,",3.0 +And fain would paint this fair enchanting View;,0.0 +"A Palace, Centre of the Garden, stands,",1.0 +No common Structure reared by vulgar Hands;,1.0 +"But shows a Master's Skill, a Work complete,",0.0 +"And speaks the Founder's Name, and Fortune great.",0.0 +"Grand its Design, and its Proportion true.",3.0 +"No costly Folly, no expensive Waste;",1.0 +"Strong, but not heavy; noble, but not vast;",1.0 +"Finished with Judgement, furnished with a Taste.",3.0 +"Vain my Attempt to paint the charming Scenes,",2.0 +"Fountains, Canals, Cascades from towering Slopes;",2.0 +The grand Variety confound my Hopes:,1.0 +"Here Art over Nature shows a noble Pride,",0.0 +With Beauty clothes the barren Mountain's Side.,0.0 +Where scarce a Shrub was ever known to grow.,0.0 +"From Summer's Heat the Hills provide a Shade,",0.0 +"In Winter Shelter, when cold Winds invade.",1.0 +"Yet what were these but empty, all in vain",1.0 +"To ease an aching Heart, or Head in Pain;",0.0 +"Did Envy or Ambition rack the Breast,",1.0 +"The Day would yield no Joy, the Night no Rest;",2.0 +"One Vice indulged would cast a Gloom around,",0.0 +"Cloud all the Prospect, poison all the Ground.",0.0 +"But here true Happiness is understood,",2.0 +The noble manly Joy of doing Good;,0.0 +"Here sterling Truth, calm Temperance, and Love",2.0 +"Lead from these pleasing Scenes to those above,",1.0 +"Where Mildews blast not, nor chill Frosts annoy,",3.0 +"No Rains can rot, nor eating Worms destroy.",1.0 +Within these Walls such Happiness resides;,1.0 +Thus Fame reports. ' -- What can they wish besides?,2.0 +"The Poor shall bless them, all the Wise shall hail,",0.0 +And Heaven approve; their Joys can never fail.,0.0 +"Late may they peaceful to their Graves descend,",1.0 +And Heaven to all their Offspring prove a Friend!,1.0 +"In pride of generous strength, thou stately steed!",2.0 +"Thy broad chest to the battle's front is given,",2.0 +Thy mane fair floating to the winds of heaven;,2.0 +Thy stamping hoofs the flinty pebbles break;,0.0 +From thy moved nostrils bursts the curling smoke,2.0 +"Thy kindling eyeballs brave the glaring south,",1.0 +And dreadful is the thunder of thy mouth:,2.0 +"But lo! what creature, goodly to the sight,",1.0 +"Of portly stature, and determined mien,",1.0 +"Whose dark eye dwells beneath a brow serene,",1.0 +"And forward looks unmoved to scenes of death,",0.0 +"And smiling, gently strokes thee in thy wrath;",0.0 +"Generous, and good, sincere, and void of art,",1.0 +"Blessed with a tender, yet an honest heart,",0.0 +"Humane, and affable, to vice a foe,",1.0 +"Neither too much the rustic, or the beau:",1.0 +"Polite, and friendly, comely, good, and kind,",0.0 +"Foe to deceit, to virtue most inclined.",2.0 +"Fearless of danger, in a noble cause,",2.0 +"Kind heaven has given him all the charms of youth,",2.0 +"And in his soul shines honesty, and truth,",2.0 +"Esteemed by many, and by most approved,",1.0 +"Dictate, OH mighty Judge, what Thou hast seen",2.0 +"Of Cities, and of Courts, of Books, and Men;",1.0 +And deign to let Thy Servant hold the Pen.,0.0 +Through Ages thus I may presume to live;,1.0 +"And from the Transcript of Thy Prose receive,",3.0 +What my own short-lived Verse can never give.,1.0 +Thus shall fair Britain with a gracious Smile,3.0 +"Accept the Work; and the instructed Isle,",1.0 +"For more than Treaties made, shall bless my Toil.",0.0 +"Nor longer hence the Gallic Style preferred,",0.0 +Wisdom in English Idiom shall be heard;,3.0 +"Beauty, the bounty of indulgent Heaven,",3.0 +"Not to retire with to some lonely scene,",2.0 +"But to shine forth, and to be seen of Men.",2.0 +"In his own native day appears most bright,",0.0 +And leaves the moon the empire of the night.,1.0 +"By his example, Charlot, shine away;",1.0 +"And worship Thee, as Persians Him adore.",2.0 +"But had the hapless maid dwelled always there,",2.0 +"Who could have said she was, or was not fair?",1.0 +Her charms had been unheard of in the throng;,0.0 +Nor Horace left us his immortal song.,1.0 +"The sea-born goddess, rising from the main,",2.0 +Unheeded might have dabbled there again;,1.0 +And made her charms immortal as his fame.,1.0 +"It's therefore common prudence to appear,",2.0 +"And, like dull R ' -- smear your charms away.",1.0 +"To dirty shepherd's, and to homely maids:",1.0 +"To our Athenian Theatres repair,",4.0 +And let the learnt and gay admire thee there.,0.0 +"Inspire, and then reward some generous youth,",2.0 +"Nursed in the arms of science, and of truth:",1.0 +"For trust me, Charlot, who no flattery mean ' --",3.0 +"To be admired, you only need be seen.",0.0 +NO better Dog ever kept his Master's Door,4.0 +"Than honest Snarl, who spared nor Rich nor Poor;",0.0 +"But gave the Alarm, when any one drew nigh,",4.0 +Nor let pretended Friends pass fearless by:,2.0 +To keep the House from Rascals was my Charge;,1.0 +"The Task was great, and the Commission large.",1.0 +"Nor did your Worship ever declare your Mind,",2.0 +That to the begging Crew it was confined;,1.0 +"Who shrink an Arm, or prop an able Knee,",0.0 +"To Thieves, who know the Penalty of Stealth,",1.0 +"And fairly stake their Necks against your Wealth,",0.0 +"These are the known Delinquents of the Times,",2.0 +But since to Me there was by Nature lent,1.0 +An exquisite Discerning by the Scent;,2.0 +"A rallying Wit, when he commends and jeers:",3.0 +"The greedy Parasite I grudging note,",0.0 +"Who praises the good Bits, that oil his Throat;",1.0 +"I mark the Lady, you so fondly toast,",1.0 +"That plays your Gold, when all her own is lost:",0.0 +"The Knave, who fences your Estate by Law,",1.0 +Yet still reserves an undermining Flaw.,0.0 +"These and a thousand more, which I could tell,",2.0 +"Provoke my Growling, and offend my Smell.",1.0 +Perpetual draws his humid train of mud:,2.0 +Glad I revisit thy neglected reign;,3.0 +"O, take me to thy peaceful shade again.",1.0 +"But chiefly thee, whose influence breathed from high",3.0 +"Ah, Ignorance! soft salutary power!",2.0 +Prostrate with filial reverence I adore.,7.0 +"Thrice hath Hyperion rolled his annual race,",5.0 +Since weeping I forsook thy fond embrace.,1.0 +"O say, successful dost thou still oppose",0.0 +Thy leaden aegis against our ancient foes?,2.0 +"Still stretch, tenacious of thy right divine,",2.0 +"Break out, and flash a momentary day,",0.0 +"With damp, cold touch forbid it to aspire,",2.0 +And huddle up in fogs the dangerous fire.,3.0 +"O say ' -- she hears me not, but, careless grown,",0.0 +"Goddess! awake, arise! alas, my fears!",2.0 +Can powers immortal feel the force of years?,2.0 +She rode triumphant over the vanquished world;,2.0 +"And all was Ignorance, and all was Night.",1.0 +O! sacred age! O! times for ever lost!,0.0 +"For ever gone ' -- yet still to Fancy new,",0.0 +"Her rapid wings the transient scene pursue,",0.0 +And bring the buried ages back to view.,0.0 +Nor let fond poetry misguide thy sight.,2.0 +"The sweet creation, by thy pencil drawn,",1.0 +"Nor real in the fabric, nor the lawn.",1.0 +"Less in the master, is the picture true,",1.0 +"Unlike the portrait, and improved the view.",1.0 +"A trifling, careless, short-lived writer, he",2.0 +While Modesty persuaded her to place,2.0 +Another on that mount she ought to grace.,1.0 +"WHILE some, my Lord, the Roman Coast explore,",0.0 +"Studious of Arts, by which ingenious BOYLE",1.0 +"Now draws the Plan, or now erects the Pile;",1.0 +"More bounded in my Fancy, and my Purse,",1.0 +"I, over domestic Plains, pursue my Course;",2.0 +"And every pleasing Object in the Way,",0.0 +"The Muse shall sing, if you accept her Lay.",1.0 +"WHEN CANCER fiercely glowed with PHOEBUS' Heat,",0.0 +For Robbers famed; but I no Robbers fear:,2.0 +"Let Gold, like Guilt, increase the Miser's Grief;",2.0 +"A Poet's Purse, like Virtue, dares a Thief.",0.0 +"Colebrook I quickly pass, and soon my Eyes",1.0 +Survey the Royal Towers of Windsor rise:,2.0 +"Charmed with the Theme of POPE's harmonious Song,",2.0 +"I cheque my Steed, and slowly move along;",0.0 +"As lingering Mariners contract their Sails,",1.0 +To feast on Odours of Arabian Gales.,4.0 +"But lest, my Lord, your Patience should accuse",1.0 +"The dull Narration of a tedious Muse,",3.0 +"I will not sing each Trifle that occurred,",1.0 +"How much I eat, and drank, and whipped, and spurred:",0.0 +"Revives me with his friendly, flowing Bowl;",1.0 +"Yet forces no intemperate Bumpers round,",2.0 +"What Scenes we acted, and what Toils we bore:",1.0 +"No Party Feuds, nor Politics we name;",1.0 +The Joys of Friendship mostly were our Theme.,1.0 +"Warned by the Clock, we now retire to Rest,",0.0 +Till rising PHOEBUS streaked the purple East.,0.0 +"Breakfast soon over, we trace the verdant Field,",5.0 +Straight Emulation glows in every Vein;,1.0 +"Young Combatants their Martial Sports renew,",2.0 +Nor former Wounds their Courage can control;,1.0 +"Again they mount the Stage, again they play,",0.0 +So with Ambition burns my daring Breast;,1.0 +"Behind them close, I rush the sweeping Steel;",0.0 +The vanquished Mowers soon confess my Skill.,0.0 +NOT long at this laborious Sport I stay;,3.0 +"'Twas there, my Lord, induced by potent Ale,",0.0 +"Clowns dance, Boys hollow, and hoarse Cobblers sing.",4.0 +"Not greater was the Joy in ancient Greece,",1.0 +Soon as your Gold sung Prologue to the Feast.,2.0 +"WHY should the Muse recite our Bill of Fare,",0.0 +And with a long Description tyre your Ear?,1.0 +None can your generous Treat with Want reproach;,2.0 +"All eat enough, and many drank too much:",1.0 +"All name their Toast, and every one, my Lord.",1.0 +"No Cares, no Toils, no Troubles now appear;",5.0 +"For Troubles, Toils, and Cares are drowned in Beer;",0.0 +"Flush in their Face, and sparkle in their Eyes:",0.0 +"They now the rustic Feats of Manhood boast,",1.0 +"Who best could reap, or mow, or thresh the most:",0.0 +"Contention doubtful! All with Anger burn,",0.0 +While each appears a Hero in his Turn:,0.0 +"Hard Words succeed; so far can Beer prevail,",1.0 +"That Blows are menaced, even without the Flail;",2.0 +"Till thus our Landlord, rising from his Chair,",2.0 +"Like prudent NESTOR, stops impending War:",0.0 +"WHAT Madness, Friends, what Madness can engage",1.0 +Your Minds to burn with this unseemly Rage?,1.0 +"For Shame, stain not with Blood our grateful Cheer;",1.0 +Desist from Blood ' -- or else desist from Beer.,0.0 +Are these the only Thanks you give my Lord?,1.0 +"If no Respect you pay this cheerful Feast,",0.0 +"Yet pay the noble Founder some, at least ' --",0.0 +"HE said: Abashed the conscious Heroes stood,",0.0 +Another Glass to TEMPLE's Health they pour;,0.0 +Some Hours of Rest sacred to TEMPLE's Name;,5.0 +"Oft as this Day returns, shall TEMPLE cheer",0.0 +"Hence, when their Children's Children shall admire",0.0 +"This Holiday, and, whence derived, enquire;",0.0 +"Some grateful Father, partial to my Fame,",1.0 +"Shall thus describe from whence, and how it came.",1.0 +"HERE, Child, a Thresher lived in ancient Days;",0.0 +A gracious QUEEN his Sonnets did commend;,0.0 +"And some great Lord, one TEMPLE, was his Friend:",2.0 +"That Lord was pleased this Holiday to make,",0.0 +THUS shall Tradition keep my Fame alive;,1.0 +"The Bard may die, the Thresher still survive.",0.0 +While pleasing Hopes my grateful Bosom cheer;,0.0 +"Here often round the verdant Plain I stray,",0.0 +"And, though I swiftly walk, ascend but slow.",1.0 +"The spiral Paths in gradual Circles lead,",2.0 +"Increase my Journey, and elude my Speed:",1.0 +"Yet, when at length I reach the lofty Height,",0.0 +"Towns, Valleys, Rivers, Meadows meet my Sight;",2.0 +"A thousand grateful Objects round me smile,",0.0 +Whose various Beauties overpay my Toil.,2.0 +So may you often see the studious Youth,3.0 +"Begin the long, laborious Search for TRUTH;",2.0 +"How slow his Progress, but how great his Pain!",2.0 +"Before he over the Hills of Science rise,",2.0 +"Where, far from vulgar Sight, the Goddess lies:",0.0 +"Yet, there arrived, he ends the happy Chase;",1.0 +"Reflects, with Pleasure, on his glorious Race;",3.0 +"Sees the bright Nymph so many Charms display,",3.0 +"WITHIN the Basis of the verdant Hill,",1.0 +"Who, with her lovely Nymphs, adorns the Place;",0.0 +Gives every polished Stone its proper Grace;,1.0 +Now varies rustic Moss about the Cell;,1.0 +"Now fits the shining Pearl, or purple Shell:",1.0 +"CALYPSO thus, attended with her Train,",2.0 +With rural Palaces adorns the Plain;,1.0 +Nor with more Beauty shines the Immortal Fair.,3.0 +"THE Muse her Journey, next, to Bath pursues;",0.0 +"Bath, fixed by Nature to delight the Muse!",2.0 +"Where flowery Shrubs, and curling Vines unite;",3.0 +"Hills, Vales, and waving Woods attract the Sight;",1.0 +A varied Scene! For Nature here displays,0.0 +"A thousand lovely Charms, a thousand Ways:",0.0 +"Now forms the verdant Walk, or sunny Glade,",1.0 +Or pours the Waters over the steep Cascade;,2.0 +"Or now contracts them with judicious Skill,",1.0 +"And leads them, gently murmuring, down the Hill.",1.0 +"Polite his Manners, and his Temper sweet:",1.0 +"His sage Discourse, with soft, persuasive Art,",4.0 +"Charmed the pleased Ear, till it improved the Heart:",4.0 +"Bright Truth, and Virtue, were his lovely Theme;",2.0 +"Which seemed more lovely, when described by him.",0.0 +VARIOUS Diversions here employ the Fair;,1.0 +"To Dancing some, and some to Play repair:",0.0 +"Heaven, and domestic Care her Time divide:",1.0 +"In her own Breast she seeks a calm Repose,",0.0 +And shuns the crowded Rooms of Belles and Beaux;,0.0 +"Oft won a worthless Heart, and lost her Gold.",1.0 +"FROM Bath, I travel through the sultry Vale,",1.0 +"Arcadian Plains, where PAN delights to dwell,",3.0 +In verdant Beauties cannot these excel:,1.0 +"These too, like them, might gain immortal Fame,",1.0 +"If, to his Mouth, the Shepherd would apply",1.0 +"His mellow Pipe, or vocal Music try:",0.0 +"But, to his Mouth, the Shepherd never applies",3.0 +"His mellow Pipe, nor vocal Music tries:",0.0 +"His Hands support his Head, his Staff his Hands;",0.0 +"Or, idly basking in the sunny Ray,",0.0 +"Here, as I passed the Plains, a lovely Scene,",0.0 +"Arrayed in Nature's Livery, gaily green!",2.0 +Yet much the sweetest Tune the Farmer hears.,0.0 +New different Prospects equally delight;,2.0 +And awful Statues solemnly surprise:,2.0 +"A mixed, majestic, venerable Band!",1.0 +"Here mighty HOMER, PHOEBUS' eldest Son,",0.0 +"Or sings, or seems to sing, in breathing Stone.",0.0 +"And smooth tongued CICERO, in Marble, plead:",1.0 +"Here shines great POMPEY, greater JULIUS there,",2.0 +"With daring BRUTUS, honestly severe:",1.0 +"Friendship, and Freedom in his Soul contend;",2.0 +"Forgive him, CAESAR, if he wronged his Friend!",1.0 +"Though BRUTUS' Dagger pierced thy Bosom through,",1.0 +"'Twas Liberty, not Malice, struck the Blow.",2.0 +"Unhappy BRUTUS, destined to withstand",1.0 +Thy Friend's Ambition with a fatal Hand!,1.0 +"Unhappy CAESAR, whose Ambition moved",0.0 +"That fatal Hand, to murder whom it loved!",0.0 +"Expiring Nations, not the World enslave;",0.0 +Nor BRUTUS ever been stained with CAESAR's Blood.,2.0 +High on a bleak and barren Tract of Land;,0.0 +And lofty Towers adorned its awful Height;,2.0 +Till Want of Water forced the thirsty Crowd,0.0 +"To seek the Vale, where crystal Rivers flowed.",0.0 +"First, for a Temple, drew the glorious Plan;",2.0 +"Then quickly makes the sacred Columns rise,",0.0 +And bids the lofty Spire invade the Skies.,0.0 +"The prudent People too, with equal Haste,",0.0 +"New Dwellings built, which far their old surpassed:",1.0 +"Cautious of Thirst, they make the docile Tide,",2.0 +"In winding Currents, through the City glide:",1.0 +In which the lately thirsty Peasant spies,0.0 +"Scenes, which, before, the lofty Mount denied!",1.0 +Hence let Ambition learn to cheque its Pride:,1.0 +High Stations often bring a Weight of Cares;,1.0 +True Happiness is found in humble Spheres:,2.0 +"Which faded when on high, but flourishes below.",1.0 +"BATHURST, my infant Muse's generous Friend!",4.0 +"And, as around his spacious Park I strayed,",1.0 +"Charmed with the Prospect, which the Fields displayed,",0.0 +"Musing on Verse, the willing Numbers came,",2.0 +"My Song began, and Clarendon my Theme.",1.0 +What sweeter Subject could I wish to choose?,0.0 +What Scenes more lovely can delight a Muse?,1.0 +"See, FLORA paints the Ground with varied Dies,",1.0 +"Here curling Vines their luscious Sweets disclose,",0.0 +There fair POMONA loads the blushing Boughs:,0.0 +And fleecy Flocks the verdant Hills adorn!,0.0 +"Here waving Trees project a cooling Shade,",0.0 +Where BATHURST oft converses with the Dead;,1.0 +Reads over what the ancient Sages wrote;,1.0 +"Nor only reads, but acts as Sages taught;",0.0 +"Improves the present Hour, that Fortune gives;",0.0 +"Nor trusts Tomorrow, but Today he lives.",2.0 +For Time had turned the Cement into Stone.,3.0 +"Our Second HENRY here, if Fame be true,",0.0 +"Measured the Prince's Right, and People's Due;",2.0 +Made Laws to bound the Priests and Barons Claim ' --,1.0 +Nor even those Laws did haughty BECKET blame;,2.0 +"BECKET! true Tyrant of the Roman State,",4.0 +Cursed with Religion just enough to hate;,2.0 +"Whose stern, ambitious Zeal his King defied,",0.0 +"And damned all those, who dared oppose his Pride.",1.0 +OH Thou Supreme! whose Mercy ever shone,2.0 +"The best, the brightest Jewel in thy Crown!",0.0 +"Never let me such cruel Faith approve,",0.0 +"Which bids me hate, whom Heaven commands to love!",0.0 +Let Christian Charity incline my Mind,2.0 +To wish the Happiness of all Mankind!,2.0 +"In social Friendship always let me live,",0.0 +"Slow to be angry, easy to forgive!",1.0 +Where crowding Joys my grateful Heart dilate;,0.0 +"To see the Friend, who first my Lays approved,",0.0 +"Who loves the Muse, and by her is beloved;",2.0 +"Told when she crept too low, or soared too high.",2.0 +"OH STANLEY! if, forgetful of thy Love,",3.0 +I ever to Gratitude rebellious prove;,2.0 +"Still may I want a Friend, but never find;",0.0 +"May FORTUNE, PHOEBUS, STANLEY, prove unkind!",0.0 +"HERE often through the gloomy Woods I rove,",1.0 +Pleased with the silent Horror of the Grove.,1.0 +"And now the Lawn, and winding Walks delight;",0.0 +Here conic Firs in graceful Order stand;,0.0 +"Tall Cedars there, the Growth of Syrian Land.",4.0 +"Your sylvan Scenes, where future Navies grow;",0.0 +"Where lofty Oaks their branching Arms extend,",0.0 +And towering Pines to kiss the Clouds ascend;,0.0 +"Where opening Glades admit the sunny Ray,",2.0 +Or venerable Groves exclude the Day.,1.0 +And think of Actions worthy of the Wise.,1.0 +"MY Friend and me, Southampton next receives;",1.0 +"Southampton, washed with THETIS' silver Waves:",0.0 +Upon whose sandy Margin Bevis rears,0.0 +"His Head, on which a stately Dome appears;",0.0 +"Where British SCIPIO, crowned with Martial Bays,",2.0 +In Solitude enjoys his ancient Days:,0.0 +"Yet, still inclined to conquer, wages here,",0.0 +"Bends the young Plant obedient to his Will,",5.0 +Or through the Valley leads the crystal Rill;,1.0 +To stretch the Prospect over the lucid Tide:,2.0 +The Foils of Art illustrate his Design;,2.0 +And make the Di'mond NATURE brighter shine.,0.0 +"CHARMED with the Beauties of the silver Sea,",1.0 +"We board a Ship, and skim the watery Way:",2.0 +"Blown with propitious Gales, we quickly view",2.0 +To bear his fatal Thunder over the Flood.,2.0 +"The wondrous Scene delights my gazing Eyes,",0.0 +At once imparting Pleasure and Surprise:,1.0 +"Intrepid Sailors, swarming in the Sky,",0.0 +"Some stride the Yard, or towering Mast ascend;",0.0 +"Some on the Ropes, in airy Crowds, depend;",0.0 +"Thick as the Insects, round the Poplar, play,",1.0 +BUT unexpected Dangers oft deceive,0.0 +"The daring Man, who tempts the foamy Wave:",0.0 +"While on the Fleet we all delighted gaze,",0.0 +"The sudden Winds arise, and sweep the Seas;",0.0 +"With rapid Force they fly, and from the Ship",1.0 +"Our cautious Pilot quickly shifts the Sails,",0.0 +Reverts his Course against the furious Gales.,2.0 +OH CHLOE! then what ruthless Pains distressed,1.0 +"Thy dizzy Head, and racked thy tender Breast!",0.0 +How often did the Bard thy Fate bemoan!,0.0 +How often did he wish thy Pains his own!,0.0 +"On thy fair Face, distorted twenty Ways!",2.0 +"Yet, though distorted, still thy Features show",1.0 +"Bright in Distress, and innocent in Woe.",2.0 +"So VENUS oft her silver Light displays,",0.0 +"Through Evening Mists, that rise to cloud her Rays.",0.0 +"Returns the Boat; we steer our Course again,",0.0 +And soon forget the Dangers of the Sea.,1.0 +"Straight to some hospitable Inn we haste,",3.0 +Till gentle Sleep invites us to Repose.,1.0 +Survey the mighty Magazines of War:,0.0 +Tremendous Rows of Cannon meet our Eyes;,0.0 +"Storehouse of MARS! where, ranged in Order, lay",1.0 +Ten thousand Thunders for some fatal Day.,2.0 +"DEPARTING hence, the Dock we travel round,",0.0 +"Some bend the stubborn Planks, while others rear",0.0 +"The lofty Mast, or crooked Timber square;",0.0 +"Some ply their Engines, some direct the Toil,",0.0 +And carefully inspect the mighty Pile;,1.0 +"See every Chink securely stopped, before",1.0 +"So, when the youthful Crane intends to fly",0.0 +Her first long Journey through the spacious Sky;,2.0 +"Before she rears herself sublime in Air,",0.0 +She ranges every Plume with prudent Care;,0.0 +"Then springs away, and soars above the Main.",0.0 +Their brawny Arms the glowing Anchor beat;,0.0 +And loud Notes echo through the sooty Hall.,2.0 +When first the Harp melodious TUBAL strung:,2.0 +And VULCAN's heavenly Art to Mortals taught;,1.0 +"The Brother, pleased to hear his Hammers chime,",0.0 +"Man's Bosom then sonorous Organs warmed,",5.0 +The softer Lyre his gloomy Sorrows charmed;,0.0 +"While Tyrants Hearts unusual Pity found,",0.0 +And savage Tempers softened with the Sound.,1.0 +"'TWAS now the Time, when PHOEBUS' piercing Ray",1.0 +"Shot down direct, and measured half the Day:",2.0 +"A bold Commander luckily we meet,",1.0 +"A Table elegantly spread we found,",1.0 +"AUGUSTUS first, and all the Royal Line,",0.0 +"WAGER, and NORRIS, next, who boldly reign,",2.0 +"In floating Castles, Monarchs of the Main.",2.0 +"Where, parting from my Friend, I mount my Steed,",1.0 +"Wilds, which were lately sterile, as the Coast,",1.0 +Where patient CATO marched his fainting Host!,0.0 +"Nor could the Swain explore a cooling Shade,",0.0 +When fervid PHOEBUS burned his glowing Head;,0.0 +"He said; ten thousand Trees adorned the Plain,",1.0 +"Ten thousand Shades, delightful to the Swain.",2.0 +"HENCE, over the Plains, and fruitful Fields I pass,",3.0 +"In whom the Scholar, Friend, and Critic join;",0.0 +"Who freely judges of an Author's Thoughts,",1.0 +"Improves his Beauties, and corrects his Faults;",1.0 +"Severely kind, and candidly severe;",1.0 +"Polite, as Courtiers; and, as Truth, sincere;",1.0 +"Till having, with a generous Mind, bestowed",3.0 +The Flower of all his Years in doing Good;,1.0 +"Retires, with Honour, to the rural Shade.",0.0 +"SO, when the Prince of Rivers, fruitful Nile,",0.0 +"Spent all the Richness, that his Waves contain,",0.0 +"Back to his Banks, he draws his humid Train.",0.0 +"I pay my Offerings next at PHOEBUS' Shrine,",0.0 +"Oxford, the Seat of all the tuneful Nine.",2.0 +"Forgive me, God of Verse, who daring greet",0.0 +Zealous to worship at their Prophet's Tomb;,2.0 +Invoking thee to aid his humble Strains.,1.0 +OH! might a Spark of thy celestial Flame,1.0 +"But raise my Numbers equal to my Theme,",1.0 +ALFRED immortal in my Page should shine;,2.0 +"ALFRED, the Monarch, Hero, and Divine!",3.0 +"Who, having bravely all his Foes overthrown,",3.0 +"Advanced thy Kingdom, and confirmed his own;",1.0 +"Recalled the banished Arts, and bad the Muses sing.",0.0 +"Whose pious Care the decent Fabric reared,",0.0 +Which kindly sheltered the unworthy Bard;,1.0 +Nor the unworthy Bard should leave unpaid,1.0 +"The grateful Debt, contracted while he stayed:",0.0 +"Thy Favours, chiefly, WINDER, should be known,",2.0 +"In lasting Numbers, tuneful as thy own.",1.0 +"Thee, BODLEY, would I sing; who can refuse",1.0 +"A Verse to BODLEY, Patron of the Muse?",1.0 +Whose lettered Bounty to the World declares,1.0 +The treasured Wisdom of three thousand Years.,2.0 +"Who graced the River with a stately Frame,",1.0 +"Known by the flowery Meads, which round it lie,",2.0 +"Where courtly ADDISON attuned his Lays,",1.0 +"Hail, happy Bard! whose Genius still could shine",1.0 +The Critic's Pen improved the Poet's Rage;,0.0 +The Hero's Deeds shone brighter in thy Verse:,1.0 +How stubborn CATO for his Country fell;,1.0 +"Nor less thy soft diurnal Essays please,",1.0 +"That Glass, where every Fool his Folly sees;",0.0 +"Where Virtue shines with such attractive Grace,",1.0 +She tempts the Vicious to her chaste Embrace.,1.0 +My Thoughts and Actions over Life's devious Tide!,5.0 +"If Pride, or Passion cheque my doubtful Sail,",0.0 +"Let thy Instructions lend a friendly Gale,",2.0 +"To waft me to the peaceful, happy Shore,",1.0 +"Where thou, immortal Bard! art gone before:",1.0 +"Then those who grant me not a Poet's Name,",0.0 +Shall own I left behind a better Fame.,0.0 +"For her once more we touch the sounding String,",0.0 +But sacred Friendship that our Muse inspires.,0.0 +So to the Fair Ones I devote my Song.,3.0 +"The Wise will seldom credit all they hear,",0.0 +"Though saucy Wits should tell them with a Sneer,",1.0 +"It's true, our Sex has been from early Time",0.0 +A constant Topic for Satiric Rhyme:,1.0 +"Nor without Reason ' -- since we're often found,",5.0 +"Or lost in Passion, or in Pleasures drowned:",1.0 +"And the fierce Winds that bid the Ocean roll,",2.0 +"Yet some there are who keep the moderate Way,",2.0 +"Can think an Hour, and be calm a Day:",0.0 +"Who never were known to start into a Flame,",2.0 +Turn Pale or tremble at a losing Game.,1.0 +"But still serene, compassionate and kind,",1.0 +Walk through Life's Circuit with an equal Mind.,4.0 +Of all Companions I would choose to shun,1.0 +"Such, whose blunt Truths are like a bursting Gun,",1.0 +"Who in a Breath count all your Follies over,",1.0 +"But Reason here will prove the safest Guide,",0.0 +Extremes are dangerous placed on either Side.,2.0 +A Friend too soft will hardly prove sincere;,1.0 +To charm Mankind and make the World admire:,1.0 +"Yet in a Friend but serve an under Part,",0.0 +The main Ingredient is an honest Heart:,1.0 +Now let the Muse who takes no Courtier's Fee,2.0 +Point to her Friend ' -- and future Ages see,0.0 +If this shall live till future Ages be,1.0 +The loved Companion of my early Days:,1.0 +"By Nature cheerful, and by Nature wise.",1.0 +"To have them last, the social Laws decree;",0.0 +We choose our Friendships in the same degree:,0.0 +"What mighty Pleasure, if we might presume,",1.0 +Or share the Table what supreme Delight?,0.0 +For who shall dare to contradict her Grace?,0.0 +"Our freeborn Nature hates to be confined,",0.0 +Where State and Power cheque the speaking Mind;,0.0 +Where heavy Pomp and sullen Form withholds,1.0 +That cheerful Ease and Sympathy of Souls.,1.0 +"But yet the Soul whatever its Partner do,",3.0 +Must lift its Head above the baser Crew.,1.0 +"Celestial Friendship with its nicer Rules,",1.0 +"It asks, to make this Union soft and long,",0.0 +"A Mind susceptible, and Judgement strong;",1.0 +And then a Taste: But let that Taste be given,0.0 +By mighty Nature and the Stamp of Heaven:,1.0 +"Possessed of these, the justly tempered Flame",1.0 +"Will glow incessant, and be still the same:",1.0 +"Not moved by Sorrow, Sickness, or by Age",1.0 +"The Soul unstained with Envy or with Pride,",1.0 +"Pleased with itself and all the World beside,",2.0 +"Unmoved can see gilded Chariots whirling by,",6.0 +"Or view the wretched with a melting Eye,",1.0 +Discern a Failing and forgive it too:,1.0 +"Be seldom sour, or your Friends will fly",0.0 +From the hung Forehead and the scornful Eye:,3.0 +And soft as Summer or the western Wind:,1.0 +"But round ere night her giddy Passions wheel,",1.0 +She'll clap the Door against your parting Heel.,0.0 +"An even Temper will be sure to please,",1.0 +With cool Reflection and a cheerful Ease.,1.0 +How vainly spread with Carpets and Perfumes:,1.0 +And for no other Reason but her loathed Extremes.,3.0 +"Today more holy than a cloistered Nun,",1.0 +Almost an Atheist by tomorrow's Sun:,5.0 +Now speaks to Heaven with a lifted Eye:,1.0 +"OH say, from what strange Principles begin",3.0 +These odd Compounds of Piety and Sin?,1.0 +"A sickly Fair may some Excuses find,",0.0 +What grieves the Body will affect the Mind,1.0 +But not the Creatures who have learnt to screen,0.0 +"What the black Mists afflict the aching Skull,",3.0 +The Spirits tremble and the Heart be dull:,1.0 +"Have you from thence a Licence to offend,",1.0 +Affront a Patron or abuse a Friend?,1.0 +"And ape the Manners of a surly Beast,",1.0 +"But all have Failings, not the best are free,",0.0 +Or in a greater or a less Degree.,1.0 +"What follows then? ' -- Forgive, or unforgiven",0.0 +Expect no Passage at the Gate of Heaven.,1.0 +"Kind Nature gave, in Pity to Mankind,",3.0 +This social Virtue to the human Mind:,1.0 +"This gives our Pleasures a more easy Flow,",1.0 +And helps to blunt the Edge of smarting Woe:,0.0 +"The Soul's Relief, with Grief or Cares oppressed,",0.0 +Is to disclose them to a faithful Breast;,2.0 +"And then how lovely in a Friend appear,",0.0 +"When changing Fortune with propitious Ray,",1.0 +"The pleased Companion shares the welcome Tide,",0.0 +And wrapped in Joy the happy Minutes glide.,0.0 +Grave Authors differ ' -- Men of Sense incline,1.0 +This Way or that ' -- Opinions rarely join:,0.0 +But most in this and only this agree;,1.0 +"That our chief Task is seldom to offend,",4.0 +"Since he is gone, I'll fetch him to my Arms",1.0 +"By sacred Spells, and Force of Magic Charms,",0.0 +"That, chilling stops whatever swims too near:",2.0 +Though ruffling Winds drive over the noisy Deep:,3.0 +Look down auspicious Moon; too well you know,3.0 +"What Love will force, and potent Charms can do.",0.0 +"Sprinkle the Sea, and say, I thus infuse",2.0 +"Sad gloomy Thoughts into the perjured Swain,",1.0 +"Till he relenting sigh, and turn to love again.",1.0 +"In Numbers hid; and Energy divine,",1.0 +"In figured Spells, and the mysterious Trine.",3.0 +"Take here the ravenous Dog, and wound him through.",2.0 +"So may his Soul be pierced with fretting Pain,",1.0 +Go fetch dry Weeds; They lie on yonder Isle;,2.0 +"Then raise in cornered Squares the artful Pile,",0.0 +And force the kindled Heap with flaming Oil:,0.0 +"So may his tortured Soul in Anguish mourn,",1.0 +"And as the Pile, so may the Triton burn.",2.0 +"I hear the hollowing Elves, and Midnight Shriek",3.0 +"While now the Flames consume the sacred Heap,",0.0 +"Delightful Sounds, when formed by studious Art",1.0 +"Will kind Relief a while, and slumbering Ease impart;",2.0 +"They quell sad Thoughts, and raise from black Despair",1.0 +"The troubled Mind, and still the Voice of Care.",0.0 +"He pressed the Waters with extended Arms,",1.0 +"And as he moved, displayed a thousand Charms.",1.0 +"His Wings were clogged with Wet, and useless grown,",0.0 +"Fluttering he strove, but Moisture pressed him down.",1.0 +"The God of Love is now to Seas confined,",0.0 +"No Triton must be proud, or Nymph unkind.",1.0 +"Choked with dark smoky Fumes, that circling rise.",3.0 +Moisture imbibed preserves the reeking Heap:,2.0 +"Nor will he burn, nor shall I cease to weep.",1.0 +"In vain we strive: No artful Spell can move,",1.0 +No Charm will force unwilling Souls to love.,1.0 +"In the wished Close of Evening's welcome gloom,",3.0 +My longing steps reached an inviting Bloom;,2.0 +And in small Plots were softer Myrtles placed.,1.0 +"The lofty Cedars with extended Arms,",1.0 +Twine to keep off the force of roughest Storms;,0.0 +The solemn Glory of the pleasing Shade:,1.0 +"On verdant Moss, Nature's rich cloth of State,",6.0 +By a clear thrilling Stream supine I sat:,2.0 +"Upon my Hand my thoughtful Head reclined,",0.0 +"Sad soft Ideas entertained my Mind,",1.0 +And I to sing some Lovers fate inclined;,1.0 +"Forbid my Choice, her Speech abruptly broke,",0.0 +At last in Sighs the Interdiction spoke.,0.0 +"You shall no more write tender moving Strains,",2.0 +"But to the World my Sorrows you shall tell,",2.0 +"How I have grieved since the lost Hero fell,",3.0 +My darling Dryden whom I loved so well.,0.0 +"He who has done such Glories to my Name,",1.0 +Immortal as my self has made my Fame;,1.0 +Watchful as Lovers I first saw his Fate,4.0 +With raging Sounds Parnassus loss relate.,1.0 +"Called all my Sisters with my frantic Cries,",1.0 +"Like a deserted Maid in Wild Despair,",1.0 +My Mantle rent and shattered in the Air;,0.0 +"No more I'll wanton on our Mountains brow,",1.0 +Nor curious Pains upon my Locks bestow;,2.0 +"In amorous Folds my Rosey Mantle twine,",2.0 +"Which Willows, Cypress, Yew has awful made,",1.0 +My piercing Groans through every Wood and Plain.,0.0 +"Thus I and she in an Eternal round,",2.0 +"Whispered a thousand tender melting Things,",2.0 +Till he writ Lays moving as Orpheus strings.,5.0 +"Oft I for Ink did radiant Nectar bring,",0.0 +"Whose gentle force did as Victorious prove,",3.0 +"Warmed every Breast with a surprising Fire,",2.0 +"Such Lustre still graced his magnetic Line,",2.0 +"With what celestial Cadence does he tell,",0.0 +"The pristine Joys of Love, ever Mankind fell;",4.0 +"When in the blooming Grove the first kind Pair,",1.0 +To hear their loves Rivals the Bliss they lost;,5.0 +How Nobly Anthony the Empire scorns:,1.0 +"Dissolved in her kind Arms transported lay,",2.0 +"For Love's soft Joy, gave the rough Crown away.",4.0 +"Such Realms of Bliss the Hero there possessed,",1.0 +Sighing fond Vows on her returning Breast;,4.0 +Entranced in Joys too exquisite to tell.,2.0 +"When an incestuous Flame his Theme has been,",1.0 +He almost charms us to forgive the Sin.,2.0 +"Such Arts had our addressing Phoebus known,",1.0 +"But brought the Hero forth, and not their Crown.",0.0 +"He so advanced whatever I bestowed,",3.0 +"I was Love's Muse, but he himself the God.",3.0 +"Youth, beauty, strength, the trophy, and the bust,",2.0 +"But modest manners, innocent of art,",1.0 +"The open nature, and the moral heart.",1.0 +"Such love of truth as ancient Britains bore,",0.0 +"Such fortitude, as never Roman more:",0.0 +To mix with nature's social as his own.,1.0 +"For fleeting Life recalled, for Health restored,",0.0 +Be first the God of Life and Health adored;,0.0 +Whose boundless Mercy claims this Tribute due:,0.0 +"And next to Heaven, I owe my Thanks to you;",0.0 +"To you, who feel the Ease your Medicines give,",3.0 +"And, in reviving Patients, doubly live;",0.0 +"You, who from Nature's Dictates never stray;",1.0 +"But wisely wait, till she points out the Way:",0.0 +Heightened by Learning and Humanity.,4.0 +"With Ease all Nature's Secrets you explore,",1.0 +And to the noblest Heights of Science soar.,1.0 +"Your Thoughts, unbounded, travel with the Sun;",1.0 +And see attendant Worlds around him run;,0.0 +"Which trace their distant Courses through the Sky,",1.0 +"Nor fly his Throne too far, nor press too nigh.",2.0 +"The wise and wondrous Laws you clearly know,",0.0 +"Which rule those Worlds above, and this below.",1.0 +"In all its Wonders, is surveyed by thee:",1.0 +"To praise thy Maker, and to bless thy Kind:",1.0 +"Quick to discern, judicious to apply,",3.0 +"Your Judgement clear, and piercing, as your Eye:",1.0 +"Even Medicines, in your wise Prescriptions, please;",1.0 +And are no more the Patient's worst Disease.,0.0 +"Goodness, and Skill, and Learning less than thine,",2.0 +"While you, dear maid, over thousands born to reign,",1.0 +"For the gay town exchange the rural plain,",2.0 +The cooling breeze and evening walk forsake,0.0 +"For stifling crowds, which your own beauties make;",1.0 +"Through circling joys while you incessant stray,",1.0 +"Charm in the Mall, and sparkle at the play;",0.0 +Think if successive vanities can spare,3.0 +"One thought to love what cruel pangs I bear,",0.0 +"Left in these plains all wretched, and alone,",1.0 +"To weep with fountains, and with echoes groan,",1.0 +"And mourn incessantly that fatal day,",1.0 +That all my bliss with CHLOE snatched away.,0.0 +"Say, by what arts I can relieve my pain,",1.0 +"Music, verse, all I try, but try in vain;",0.0 +"In vain the breathing flute my hand employs,",0.0 +"Music, alas, is but the voice of love!",3.0 +"In vain I oft harmonious lines peruse,",2.0 +"Their treacherous numbers but assist the foe,",3.0 +And in their tender sorrows read my own.,0.0 +"Restless sometime, as oft the mournful dove",3.0 +"I fly from home, and seek the sacred fields,",0.0 +"Where CAM'S old urn its silver current yields,",1.0 +"Where solemn towers overlook each mossy grove,",0.0 +As if to guard it from the assaults of love;,2.0 +"Her sons, though few, not PALLAS could defend,",0.0 +Love like a fever with infectious rage,1.0 +"Scorched up the young, and thawed the frost of age;",0.0 +"To gaze at her, even DONS are seen to run,",0.0 +"And leave unfinished pipes, and authors ' -- scarce begun.",0.0 +"So HELEN looked, and moved with such a grace,",1.0 +When the grave seniors of the TROJAN race,3.0 +"Were forced those fatal beauties to admire,",1.0 +"That all their youth consumed, and set their town on fire.",0.0 +"At famed NEWMARKET oft I spend the day,",1.0 +An unconcerned spectator of the play;,6.0 +There pitiless observe the ruined heir,1.0 +"With anger fired, or melting with despair:",3.0 +"For how should I his trivial loss bemoan,",2.0 +"Who feel one, so much greater, of my own?",2.0 +"Wait the decision of two rival dice,",4.0 +"While long disputes betwixt seven and five remain,",5.0 +"And each, like parties, have their friends for gain,",0.0 +"Without one wish I see the guineas shine,",0.0 +"Fate, keep your gold, I cry, make CHLOE mine.",3.0 +"Now see, prepared their utmost speed to try,",2.0 +Over the smooth turf the bounding racers fly!,2.0 +"Now more and more their slender limbs they strain,",0.0 +And foaming stretch along the velvet plain!,0.0 +"Ah stay! swift steeds, your rapid flight delay,",1.0 +No more the jockey's smarting lash obey:,0.0 +"But rather let my hand direct the rein,",0.0 +"Then swift as eagles cut the yielding air,",0.0 +"Bear me, o bear me to the absent fair.",1.0 +"Now when the winds are hushed, the air serene,",0.0 +"Pensive over all the neighbouring fields I stray,",2.0 +"Wherever or choice, or chance directs the way;",2.0 +"Or view the opening lawns, or private woods,",2.0 +"Or distant bluish hills, or silver floods:",0.0 +"Now harmless birds in silken nets ensnare,",1.0 +Now with swift dogs pursue the flying hare;,3.0 +Dull sports! for o my CHLOE is not there!,3.0 +Fatigued at length I willingly retire,1.0 +"To a small study, and a cheerful fire,",3.0 +"There over some folio poor; I poor, it's true,",3.0 +"But o my thoughts are fled, and fled to you;",1.0 +"I hear you, see you, feast upon your eyes,",0.0 +"Here for a while I could forget my pain,",0.0 +While I by dear reflection live again;,0.0 +"But even these joys are too sublime to last,",2.0 +"And quickly fade, like all the real ones past:",1.0 +For just when now beneath some silent grove,0.0 +"I hear you talk ' -- and talk perhaps of love,",0.0 +"Or charm with thrilling notes the listening ear,",0.0 +"Sweeter than angels sing, or angels hear,",2.0 +"My treacherous hand its weighty charge lets go,",3.0 +"The book falls thundering on the floor below,",2.0 +"The pleasing vision in a moment's gone,",0.0 +And I once more am wretched and alone.,1.0 +So when glad ORPHEUS from the infernal shade,3.0 +"Soon as her charms had reached his eager eyes,",0.0 +Lost in eternal night ' -- again she dies.,1.0 +"AH stay, fair fleeting Form, I charge thee stay;",1.0 +"Ardelia calls thee, lovely cruel Shade!",2.0 +"Ardelia bids thee stay, thy once loved Maid!",3.0 +"Alas! in vain I call, for see he flies;",0.0 +Not all my Prayers can the loved Form detain:,3.0 +"My Sighs, my Tears, my Wishes are in vain.",1.0 +And bid once more the lovely Phantom rise.,1.0 +Bid him in all those heavenly Charms appear;,2.0 +"That melting Softness, that engaging Air,",0.0 +"In that too powerful Sorrow let him shine,",3.0 +When first he gave his Heart and conquered mine.,1.0 +"Hence then, you Sorrows, from the fancied Scene,",1.0 +"Despairs, eternal Sighs, and secret Pain,",0.0 +"Shall wound no more, no Thought my Bliss destroy;",4.0 +No happy Rival interrupt my Joy:,1.0 +"For o! whatever my cruel Fates Design,",4.0 +In Sleep Philander can be only mine.,1.0 +"In each dark hedge we start an insect fire,",2.0 +"Which lives by night, and must at dawn expire;",0.0 +"Yet such their number that their specks combine,",0.0 +And the unthinking vulgar swear they shine.,1.0 +"Poets are prodigies so greatly rare,",3.0 +"They seem the talks of heaven, and built with care:",0.0 +"They roll, immortal, over the wastes of time:",2.0 +Ages in vain close round and snatch in fame;,1.0 +High over all still shines the Poet's name!,2.0 +"Lords of a life that scorns the bounds of breath,",0.0 +They stretch existence and defy stern death.,2.0 +"Glory and shame are theirs ' -- they plant renown,",3.0 +Or shade the Monarch's by the Muse's crown:,2.0 +"To say Augustus reigned when Virgil shined,",0.0 +Does honour to the lord of half mankind.,1.0 +"So when three thousand years have waned away,",1.0 +"And POPE is said to have lived when GEORGE bore sway,",1.0 +"Millions shall lend the King the Poet's fame,",2.0 +And bless implicit the supported name.,1.0 +And pensive sadness shades the opening year;,2.0 +"Yet all its trembling strings over Anna's urn,",3.0 +"Again would vibrate, with my heart would mourn.",1.0 +"Friend of the good, farewell! my friend adieu!",1.0 +"The heart you often cheered, must mourn for you,",0.0 +"Ever was seen your hospitable door,",6.0 +"Oft on my solitary hours this knell,",0.0 +"By brooding fancy heard, shall sound ' -- farewell!",1.0 +"The comment marks perhaps a dubious aim,",2.0 +"But from the tomb be cold suspicion fled,",1.0 +"So freed ' -- to virtue and affection true,",1.0 +"The mourning muse this finished course would view,",0.0 +"For points contending be the bigot found,",0.0 +Declaring zeal and resting in a sound.,0.0 +Truths uncontested here could force impart,1.0 +To stamp the Christian's duties on the heart.,1.0 +"Benevolence thence gave her open smile,",2.0 +Sincerity her tongue that spoke no guile;,2.0 +"Forgiveness there through transient anger shone,",1.0 +"The heart that free from harm, suspected none,",0.0 +"The tears of wealth in smiles of ease may end,",0.0 +"But ah! when poverty has lost a friend,",1.0 +"Remembrance, that in prosperous days may sleep,",2.0 +Must with the sick and poor sad vigils keep.,1.0 +"Grateful to feeling hearts and friendly eyes,",2.0 +"O quickly let the sheltering pile arise,",2.0 +"Where misery most forlorn for years to come,",2.0 +"Screened from the world's contempt, shall find a home.",0.0 +"When winter rages, there in future days,",1.0 +Revered tradition shall repeat her praise.,0.0 +"While round their blazing fires these sit and tell,",0.0 +What they have heard of her who built that cell.,1.0 +"Ambitious each to rescue from the grave,",1.0 +"How good she was, what charities she gave;",2.0 +"By faithful records shall her memory shine,",2.0 +And still fresh olives round the cypress twine.,1.0 +"Ministering angels of the grace of Heaven,",3.0 +"To you you poor, the rich and good were given:",1.0 +"If faithful thus, their treasures they employ,",1.0 +Your present comfort yields their future joy.,0.0 +What braved the wreck of time shall be no more;,0.0 +"And in one general ruin shall resolve,",0.0 +"This globe, and all which it inherit shall dissolve.",1.0 +Which clouds of witnesses for them have sown.,2.0 +"Shall He, whose bright example they pursued,",1.0 +With these approving words reward imperfect good;,1.0 +The people all believed that he was dumb:,1.0 +"In troops, with hasty steps to him they went;",1.0 +To get their fate presaged was their intent.,6.0 +"The man well versed was in the mystic art,",1.0 +And quick as thought could wondrous things impart.,0.0 +"Whoever were with anxious cares oppressed,",1.0 +"Or on account of absent friends distressed,",1.0 +Each of his purse did amply make him share.,0.0 +"It matters not how great the distance be,",0.0 +"Though in distress, them frees from every pain;",0.0 +Dead or alive they now must cross the main:,2.0 +Though wont ere while to shun his fond address.,1.0 +"Sly Sanders too, who loves and woos for gold,",1.0 +"Cows, calves and horses, placed before his sight,",1.0 +"Poor Celia next, who, for some fickle swain,",2.0 +"Spends days in sorrow, and whole nights in pain:",3.0 +"It was his absence caused the maid to mourn,",1.0 +"His antic gestures did the fair one cheer,",0.0 +"And home she went, released from every fear.",0.0 +"She would be wed, but fears it is too late:",1.0 +May all get married for a penny more.,2.0 +Ah no! he is by empty fools despised.,1.0 +"A crafty youth, Will Watson was his name,",1.0 +"He dressed himself all in a maid's array,",0.0 +"Gown, stays and petticoat, extremely gay;",1.0 +Few of our Ladies looked so fine as he.,0.0 +"Up street he walked with a majestic air,",1.0 +"First gave a penny, then he showed his hand,",1.0 +And did with down cast eyes dejected stand:,2.0 +But who can tell the sequel without tears?,3.0 +"Now all around upon the youth did gaze,",1.0 +Such dismal signs had filled them with amaze.,1.0 +Will gave a penny more; the sage did bring,0.0 +"The lover home, and wed them with a ring.",1.0 +"Eight children too, he placed before their sight",1.0 +"Will seemed well pleased, and bade them all good night.",1.0 +"This might have passed, had he the fact concealed;",1.0 +"He thought indeed, but all his thoughts were vain,",0.0 +Or for one small mistake condemn the wise?,1.0 +"AH lay this cruel Artifice aside,",1.0 +"This barbarous distance, and affected Pride;",3.0 +"Or else resign my heart, which is too great",1.0 +For you in this imperious way to treat.,4.0 +"But know as well the influence of my Eyes,",1.0 +"OH Thou, who in a weak disjointed age",0.0 +"High above envy may thy name be placed,",5.0 +A roman spirit with true attic taste.,2.0 +"Born to achieve a glory of thy own,",3.0 +"To rise unaided, and to shine alone;",1.0 +Thy genius takes its elevated stand,0.0 +"Above the level of thy native land,",1.0 +"Grasping at once beyond the world's control,",2.0 +"The painter's fancy, and the poet's soul;",1.0 +"Reflection guided by thy mimic power,",1.0 +Commands whole ages in one fleeting hour.,1.0 +Of slow progressive arts over time's still flowing stream.,4.0 +Where virtue and desert approach the gods;,1.0 +Where beings of free thought and kindred mould,2.0 +"And the pure, endless, universal mind,",2.0 +Beams in benevolence on human kind;,2.0 +"There, placed by judgement in the fairest light,",0.0 +Each excellence appears distinctly bright;,1.0 +"Divine philosophy, the muse's art,",1.0 +"All that can touch the soul with living fire,",0.0 +"The love of honest fame, or elegant desire.",1.0 +"While I, constrained to droop the trembling wing,",1.0 +"Rejoice in triumphs, I despair to sing;",1.0 +"And mark well pleased thy genius in its rise,",1.0 +"Through envious clouds, to clear untroubled skies.",2.0 +"Pure as her Morals, sprightly as her Thought;",1.0 +"Filled with Compassion for the poor distressed,",3.0 +"And flowing from a grateful generous Breast,",3.0 +"My Muse would sing. ' -- But Swift approves her Lays,",0.0 +"Will Delia pardon, if I dare rehearse",1.0 +"Where Souls replete with Learning, Sense, and Truth;",0.0 +Himself alone unknowing of his Worth:,1.0 +"Preeminent, and every Eye commands;",1.0 +"Who sings with Genius, Elegance, and Art,",1.0 +"To warm the Passions, and enlarge the Heart.",1.0 +"Sublime in Sentiment, in Diction pure,",1.0 +His shall the Critic's keenest Pen endure;,0.0 +And stand the Rage of conquering Time secure.,2.0 +"A Fop let others choose, or Wretch they hate;",1.0 +To every Joy prefer a large Estate;,0.0 +"The Wise must Delia and her Choice approve,",1.0 +Who would great Merit recompense with Love;,1.0 +"Good Sense must Honour, Friendship, Faith secure,",3.0 +"While the rich Fool grows fickle, false, impure.",4.0 +With such a Friend what Woman would not dare,1.0 +"To stake some Fortune, and the rest to share?",1.0 +"To hear Truth flow melodious from his Tongue,",2.0 +"Such Force of Merit must successful prove,",0.0 +"Bays crown his Head, while Beauty crowns his Love.",1.0 +Pray who this Wig from dressing could refrain.,0.0 +"'Twas friendship only did the theft inspire,",1.0 +To make this Wig what students must admire.,0.0 +Now Art with Nature gladly will combine,1.0 +"This Wig may now a constellation blaze,",0.0 +While wondering Herschel shall enraptured gaze.,2.0 +"When these you read, chance anger from your breast,",2.0 +And pray be happy that your Wig is dressed.,0.0 +"OBserve this Piece, which to our Sight does bring",1.0 +The fittest Posture for the Swedish King;,1.0 +"Encompassed, as we think, with Armies round,",1.0 +Though not expressed within this narrow Bound,0.0 +"Who, while his warlike and extended Hand",2.0 +"Directs the foremost Ranks to Charge or Stand,",1.0 +"Reverts his Face, lest That, so Fair and Young,",0.0 +Should call in doubt the Orders of his Tongue:,1.0 +"While the excited, and emboldened Rear",2.0 +"Such Youth beholding, and such Features there,",2.0 +"Devote their plainer Forms, and are ashamed to Fear.",1.0 +"Thus! every Action, every Grace of thine,",1.0 +"OH latest Son of Fame, Son of Gustavus Line!",6.0 +"Affects thy Troops, with all that can inspire",1.0 +"A blooming Sweetness, and a martial Fire,",1.0 +"Fatal to none, but thy invading Foe.",3.0 +"So Lightnings, which to all their Brightness show,",0.0 +"Strike but the Man alone, who has provoked the Blow.",0.0 +"Thus lowly bending on my parent earth,",2.0 +I view with tears the day that gave me birth;,0.0 +Since I had power to think I never could find,3.0 +Myself of any service to mankind;,3.0 +"Though oft this vain, this giddy foolish heart,",0.0 +"And yet I never found means, or never could,",3.0 +"But this I know, I never did them good.",1.0 +"Me whom the iron hand of fate does press,",0.0 +"Though most familiar, never felt the less;",0.0 +"Scorned by those friends with whom I once could vie,",0.0 +"Without one kind companion doomed to sigh,",0.0 +"I feel new causes, each succeeding morn,",1.0 +To mourn the day when such a wretch was born.,1.0 +But OH! Almighty Father! if I dare,1.0 +"To left my eyes to thee, accept this prayer;",1.0 +"Let never ambition fire my youthful breast,",3.0 +Nor earthly trifles rob my soul of rest.,0.0 +"Or any thing that but concerns myself,",2.0 +"Unless my sins: OH! may they be forgiven,",2.0 +And all my happiness be placed in heaven!,1.0 +OH might I be enabled to relieve,1.0 +"I'd view my birthday with a heart elate,",2.0 +And leave the world without the least regret.,0.0 +"TIME was when poets played thorough the game,",5.0 +The first in brothels with their punk and Muse;,1.0 +"Thank heaven, the times are changed; no poet now",2.0 +"Need roar for Bacchus, or to Venus bow.",1.0 +"Even in those days some few escaped the fate,",0.0 +"By better judgement, or a longer date,",1.0 +"And rode, like buoys, triumphant over the tide.",4.0 +"While happier Southern, though with sports of yore,",3.0 +"And to our admiration, joined our love.",1.0 +"Light lie his funeral turf! ' -- For you, who join",4.0 +"His decent manners to his art divine,",1.0 +"Would you while, round you, toss the Proud and Vain",0.0 +"Indulge the muse in innocence and ease,",1.0 +And tread the flowery path of life in peace?,2.0 +"Avoid all authors, ' -- What! the illustrious Few,",3.0 +Who shunning Fame have taught her to pursue,1.0 +"Fair Virtue's heralds? ' -- Yes, I say again,",1.0 +"Full many a peevish, envious, slandering elf,",5.0 +"Is in his works, Benevolence itself.",1.0 +"For all mankind, unknown, his bosom heaves,",1.0 +He only injures those with whom he lives.,1.0 +"Read then the Man: Does truth his actions guide,",0.0 +"Exempt from petulance, exempt from pride?",1.0 +"To social duties does his heart attend,",0.0 +"As son, as father, husband, brother, friend?",0.0 +"Do those who know him love him? if they do,",1.0 +"But chief avoid the boisterous roaring sparks,",0.0 +"Fond to be heard they always court a crowd,",0.0 +"And, though it's borrowed nonsense, talk it loud.",2.0 +"One epithet supplies their constant chime,",0.0 +"Damned bad, damned good, damned low, and damned sublime!",4.0 +But most in quick short repartee they shine,1.0 +"Each quaint stale scrap which every subject hits,",1.0 +Till fools almost imagine they are wits.,2.0 +"Yet taste not half the beauties of HIS page,",1.0 +"Nor see that art, as well as Nature, strove",0.0 +"For there, there only, where the sisters meet,",1.0 +"His Genius triumphs, and the work's complete.",1.0 +"Or would you sift more near these sons of fire,",0.0 +"Without his breath, inspiring every thought,",0.0 +"Without his eager, his becoming zeal,",1.0 +"To teach them, though they scarce know why, to feel,",2.0 +"I'm no enthusiast, yet with joy can trace",0.0 +"If Monarchs listen when the Muses woo,",1.0 +"Attention wakes, and nations listen too.",0.0 +"The Bard grows rapturous, who was dumb before,",2.0 +"Friend of the finer arts, when Egypt saw",0.0 +"Her second Ptolemy give science law,",2.0 +"The column swelled, the pile majestic rose,",0.0 +"Exact proportion borrowed strength from ease,",1.0 +"And use was taught by elegance to please,",1.0 +"Along the breathing walls, as fancy flowed,",0.0 +"The sculpture softened, and the picture glowed,",1.0 +"Heroes revived in animated stone,",2.0 +Long live the king! my patron! and my pride!,2.0 +"Secure of endless praise, behold, I bear",0.0 +My grateful suffrage to my sovereign's ear.,2.0 +"Though war shall rage, though time shall level all,",0.0 +"Yonder colours sicken, and yonder columns fall,",5.0 +"Though art's dear treasures feed the wasting flame,",1.0 +"And the proud volume sinks, an empty name;",2.0 +"Though Plenty may desert this copious vale,",3.0 +"My streams be scattered, or my fountains fail,",1.0 +Yet Ptolemy has lived: the world has known,1.0 +"A king of arts, a patron on the throne,",1.0 +"Even utmost Britain shall his name adore,",1.0 +And Nile be sung when Nile shall be no more.,0.0 +One rule remains. Nor shun nor court the great;,0.0 +"Your truest centre is that middle state,",1.0 +From whence with ease the observing eye may go,2.0 +"To all which soars above, or sinks below.",0.0 +"It's yours all manners to have tried, or known,",2.0 +"TO adopt all virtues, yet retain your own;",1.0 +The firm spectators of a bustling world!,3.0 +"Thus armed, proceed: The breezes court your wing:",1.0 +"Go range all Helicon, taste every spring;",2.0 +Let puzzled critics with suspicious spite,2.0 +"True to yourselves, not anxious for renown,",3.0 +"Nor court the world's applause, nor dread its frown,",0.0 +"Guard your own breasts, and be the bulwark there,",1.0 +"To know no envy, and no malice fear.",3.0 +That verse and virtue are their own reward.,1.0 +"Sweet Contemplation, with thy ray benign",2.0 +"Light my lone passage through this vale of life,",4.0 +And raise the siege of Care! This silent hour,0.0 +"To thee is sacred, when the star of Eve,",1.0 +With high sensations: awful silence reigns,0.0 +"Above, around; the sounding winds no more",1.0 +Wild through the fluctuating forest fly,0.0 +With gust impetuous; Zephyr scarcely breathes,0.0 +"Upon the trembling foliage; flocks, and herds,",0.0 +Retired beneath the friendly shade repose,0.0 +"This the dread hour, as ancient fables tell,",2.0 +"When flitting spirits from their prisons broke,",1.0 +"The solemn churchyard, or the dreary grove;",2.0 +And view each friendly scene of past delight?,0.0 +"Quitting their caves, where in the reign of Day",2.0 +Chase the fleet shadows over the waving plains.,4.0 +"The fairy elves, attendant on their queen,",1.0 +"With light steps bound along the velvet mead,",1.0 +And leave the green impression of their dance,1.0 +In rings mysterious to the passing swain;,1.0 +Her silver lamp to light the festive scene.,0.0 +"From yonder majestic pile, in ruin great,",2.0 +Whose lofty towers once on approaching foes,2.0 +"Looked stern defiance, the sad bird of night",3.0 +In mournful accent to the moon complains:,2.0 +"Those towers with venerable ivy crowned,",3.0 +A safe retirement to the hostile bands;,1.0 +"But there the lonely bat, that shuns the day,",1.0 +Dwells in dull solitude; and screaming thence,2.0 +"Wheels the night raven shrill, with hideous note",5.0 +Portending death to the dejected swain.,1.0 +"Exhale refreshing sweets: from the smooth lake,",1.0 +"On whose still bosom sleeps the tall tree's shade,",2.0 +The moon's soft rays reflected mildly shine.,1.0 +Now towering Fancy takes her airy flight,1.0 +"Without restraint, and leaves this earth behind;",0.0 +"From pole to pole, from world to world she flies;",0.0 +"Rocks, seas, nor skies, can interrupt her course.",1.0 +"To trace the Eternal Cause through all his works,",2.0 +Minutely and magnificently wise?,4.0 +Mark the gradations which through Nature's plan,2.0 +"Join each to each, and form the vast design?",0.0 +And though day's glorious guide withdraws his beams,4.0 +"Impartial, cheering other skies and shores;",0.0 +"The mind, now rescued from the cares of day,",2.0 +"Where thought stupendous! systems infinite,",1.0 +"In regular confusion taught to move,",1.0 +"You sons of Pleasure, and you foes to Thought,",1.0 +"Who search for bliss in the capacious bowl,",1.0 +"Durst you retire, hold converse with yourselves,",4.0 +And in the silent hours of darkness court,0.0 +Kind Contemplation with her peaceful train;,2.0 +While intellectual pleasure reigned supreme!,2.0 +Who love in peaceful solitude to dwell,0.0 +"The dark intrigue, and midnight masquerade;",1.0 +"It's noise, it's toil, it's frenzy: like the cup",0.0 +"Your musty morals; hence, to deserts fly,",0.0 +And in the gloom of solitary caves,0.0 +"Crown then the bowl; let Music lend her aid,",1.0 +Ah! little does he know the Nymph he styles,0.0 +A foe to pleasure; pleasure is not more,1.0 +His aim than hers; with him she joins to blame,1.0 +"Each social joy approves. O! without thee,",2.0 +"Fair Friendship, Life were nothing; without thee,",3.0 +"The page of Fancy would no longer charm,",1.0 +And Solitude disgust even pensive minds.,4.0 +"Let Reason, Truth, and Virtue, guide thy steps,",1.0 +"And every blessing Heaven bestows, be thine.",0.0 +"Firm cement of the world! endearing tie,",0.0 +"Which binds the willing soul, and brings along",0.0 +"All else the dregs of spirit. Love's soft flame,",1.0 +"Bewildering, leads infatuated soul;",2.0 +"Levels, depresses, wraps in endless mists,",2.0 +"Relaxes, sinks, distracts, while Fancy fills",0.0 +Intoxicating charm! yet well refined,0.0 +"By Virtue's brightening flame, pure it ascends,",2.0 +"As incense in its grateful circles mounts,",1.0 +"Till, mixed and lost, with Thee it boasts thy name.",1.0 +And fain would grasp to cheer their lonely way;,0.0 +"Vain the wide stretch, and vain the shortened breath,",3.0 +"For, ah! the bright delusion onward flies,",0.0 +"While the sad swain deceived, now cautious treads",4.0 +"The common beaten track, nor quits it more.",0.0 +"That delving souls never find thee; it's to thee,",4.0 +"When found, if ever found, sweet fugitive,",2.0 +The noble mind opens all her richest stores;,3.0 +"Thy firm, strong hold suits the courageous breast,",3.0 +"Where stubborn virtues dwell in secret league,",0.0 +"Thy strong, yet softened rapture; softened more",0.0 +"When, doubting pardon, the meek, pleading eye",2.0 +"On which the soul had once with pleasure dwelled,",0.0 +Swims in the tear of sorrow and repentance.,1.0 +"The tarnished friend, who feels the sting of shame;",0.0 +It's then too little barely to forgive;,2.0 +"Nor can the soul rest on that frigid thought,",3.0 +"But rushing swiftly from her Stoic heights,",1.0 +With all her frozen feelings melted down,1.0 +"Shares the contagion, and with lenient hand",3.0 +Lifts the warm chalice filled with consolation.,3.0 +"Yet Friendship's name oft decks the crafty lip,",1.0 +With seeming virtue clothes the ruthless soul;,0.0 +Like an insidious serpent softly creep,3.0 +"To the poor, guileless, unsuspecting heart,",2.0 +"Wind round in wily folds, and sinking deep",0.0 +"Of the soft Cherub? Tell me, by what name",3.0 +"And, but that Thou art incorporate with the flame,",0.0 +My grateful spirit had recorded here,0.0 +"OH, it's the deepest error man can prove,",0.0 +"To fancy joys disinterested can live,",1.0 +No part but spirit in this chilling gloom.,1.0 +"My soul's ambitious, and its utmost stretch",2.0 +"Start back, Benevolence, and shun the charge;",2.0 +"Soft bending Pity, fly the sullen phrase,",1.0 +Ungrateful as it seems. My abject fate,1.0 +"Excites the willing hand of Charity,",1.0 +"The momentary sigh, the pitying tear,",2.0 +"And instantaneous act of bounty bland,",2.0 +"To Misery so kind; yet not to you,",1.0 +"Bounty, or Charity, or Mercy mild,",3.0 +The pensive thought applies fair friendship's name;,1.0 +That name which never yet could dare exist,0.0 +AND must the Hero that redeemed our Land,0.0 +Here in the Front of Vice and Scandal stand?,0.0 +"The Man of Wondrous Soul, that Scorned his Ease",0.0 +And paid an Annual Tribute of his Life,3.0 +To guard his England from the Irish Knife,1.0 +"WILLIAM the Brave, the Pious, and the Just",3.0 +Adorn these gloomy Scenes of Tyranny and Lust?,1.0 +"POLHILL, my Blood's a Fire, my Spirits flame;",1.0 +Vengeance and Darkness on the Poets Name:,3.0 +Why smoke the Skies not? Why no Thunders roll?,1.0 +Nor kindling Lightnings blast his guilty Soul?,0.0 +"Audacious Wretch! to stab a Monarch's Fame,",1.0 +To call the Painter to his Black Designs,1.0 +To draw our Guardian's Face in Hellish Lines:,2.0 +Painter beware! the Monarch can be shown,3.0 +"Under no Shape but Angels or his own,",4.0 +GABRIEL or WILLIAM on the British Throne.,2.0 +"O! could my Thoughts but grasp the vast Design,",0.0 +"And Words with Infinite Ideas join,",1.0 +And bid him trace the Warrior over the Deep:,2.0 +"Fierce, how he climbs the Mountains of the Slain",1.0 +Scattering Just Vengeance through the Red Campaign.,2.0 +Then dash the Canvas with a flying Stroke,1.0 +"Till it be lost in Clouds of Fire and Smoke,",1.0 +Mark him again emerging from the Cloud,3.0 +Far from his Troops; there like a Rock he stood,0.0 +His Countries Single Barrier in a Sea of Blood.,1.0 +"Calmly he leaves the Pleasures of a Throne,",3.0 +And his MARIA Weeping; while alone,1.0 +"He wards the Fate of Nations, and provokes his own:",1.0 +But Heaven secures its Champion; over the Field,4.0 +"Paint hovering Angels; though they fly concealed,",2.0 +"Each intercepts a Death, and wears it on his Shield.",1.0 +"Now, noble Pencil; lead him to our Isle,",2.0 +"Mark how the Skies with Joyful Lustre smile,",0.0 +Then imitate the Glory; on the Strand,1.0 +Spread half the Nation longing till he Land.,2.0 +"Wash off the Blood, and take a peaceful Taint,",0.0 +"All Red the Warrior, White the Ruler paint,",0.0 +"Abroad a Hero, and at Home a Saint.",1.0 +"Throne him on high upon a shining Seat,",0.0 +"While round his Head the Laurel and the Olive meet,",1.0 +The Crowns of War and Peace; and may they blow,1.0 +With Flowery Blessings ever on his Brow.,3.0 +At his right Hand pile all the English Laws,1.0 +In Sacred Volumes; thence the Monarch draws,0.0 +"Rise you Old Sages of the British Isle,",4.0 +On the fair Tablet cast a reverend Smile,2.0 +"And bless the Piece; these Statutes are your own,",1.0 +"That sway the Cottage, and direct the Throne;",1.0 +"People and Prince are one in WILLIAM's Name,",3.0 +"Their Joys, their Dangers, and their Laws the same.",1.0 +Let Liberty and Right with Plumes displayed,2.0 +"Clap their glad Wings around their Guardian's Head,",5.0 +"Religion guards him; round the Imperial Queen,",3.0 +"Place waiting Virtues, each of Heavenly Mien;",3.0 +"Learn their bright Air, and paint it from his Eyes,",4.0 +"The Just, the Bold, the Temperate, and the Wise",1.0 +"Dwell in his Looks: Majestic, but Serene;",1.0 +"Sweet, with no Fondness; Cheerful, but not Vain:",4.0 +"Bright without Terror; Great, without Disdain.",4.0 +"His Soul inspires us what his Lips command,",0.0 +"And spreads his brave Example through the Land,",1.0 +"Bend down his Ear to each afflicted Cry,",0.0 +Let Beams of Grace dart gently from his Eye;,3.0 +But the bright Treasures of his Sacred Breast,3.0 +"Are too Divine, too Vast to be expressed,",1.0 +"Colours must fail where Words and Numbers faint,",0.0 +And leave the Hero's Heart for Thought alone to paint.,0.0 +"NOW Muse, pursue the Satirist again,",2.0 +"Hark, how he bids the Servile Painter draw",0.0 +In monstrous Shapes the Patrons of our Law;,1.0 +At one slight Dash he cancels every Name,3.0 +From the white Rolls of Honesty and Fame:,3.0 +"This Scribbling Wretch marks all he meets for Knave,",1.0 +"Shoots sudden Bolts promiscuous at the Base and Brave,",2.0 +Poison and Spite on undistinguished Heads.,2.0 +"Dares to attempt the Villains of the Land,",3.0 +"Draw first this Poet, like some baleful Star",1.0 +With silent Influence shedding Civil War;,2.0 +"Calls off the Subjects to the Hostile Ground,",1.0 +"That first create the Plague, and then the Pain describe.",0.0 +"Draw next above, the Great Ones of our Isle,",3.0 +Still from the Good distinguishing the Vile;,1.0 +"Seat them in Pomp, in Grandeur, and Command,",3.0 +Feeling the Subjects with a greedy Hand:,1.0 +"Paint forth the Knaves that have the Nation sold,",1.0 +And tinge their greedy Looks with sordid Gold.,0.0 +Mark what a selfish Faction undermines,0.0 +"The Pious Monarch's generous Designs,",2.0 +"Spoil their own Native Land as Vipers do,",0.0 +Vipers that tear their Mothers Bowels through.,2.0 +"Mournful in Majesty, look gently down,",5.0 +Mingling soft Pity with an Awful Frown:,3.0 +He grieves to see how long in vain he strove,0.0 +"Bid the fond Mother spill her Infants Blood,",3.0 +The hungry Epicure not think of Food;,0.0 +Bid the Antarctic touch the Arctic Pole:,2.0 +When these obey I'll force Love from my Soul.,3.0 +"As Light and Heat compose the Genial Sun,",0.0 +So Love and I essentially are one:,2.0 +Ever your Advice a thousand ways I tried,1.0 +"Though I resolved, and grieved, and almost died.",2.0 +"Then I would needs dilate the mighty Flame,",0.0 +One thought of him contracts it all again.,1.0 +But find the fettered Soul has no Repose.,0.0 +Now I'm a double Slave to Love and Vows:,0.0 +"As if my former Sufferings were too small,",3.0 +"Ever this I gave a loose to fond Desire,",1.0 +"Durst smile, be kind, look, languish and admire,",3.0 +With wishing Sighs fan the transporting Fire.,2.0 +"But now these soft Alleys are so like Sin,",4.0 +I'm forced to keep the mighty Anguish in;,0.0 +"Cheque my too tender Thoughts and rising Sighs,",3.0 +As well as eager Arms and longing Eyes.,0.0 +"My Kindness to his Picture I refrain,",2.0 +Nor now embrace the lifeless lovely Swain.,0.0 +"To press the charming Shade though through a Glass,",1.0 +"Thus nicely fond, I only stand and gaze.",1.0 +"View the dear conquering Form that forced my Fate,",5.0 +Till I become as motionless as that.,2.0 +"Whose cruel Care restores my Sense and Pain,",0.0 +"For soon as I have Life I love again,",1.0 +And with the fated softness strive in vain.,1.0 +"Distorted Nature shakes at the Control,",1.0 +"Each vital String cracks with the unequal Strife,",4.0 +Departing Love racks like departing Life;,1.0 +"Yet there the Sorrow ceases with the Breath,",1.0 +But Love each day renews the torturing scene of Death.,2.0 +YOU little know the heart that you advise;,1.0 +I view this various scene with equal eyes:,2.0 +"In crowded courts I find myself alone,",1.0 +"Long since the value of this world I know,",1.0 +"Pity the madness, and despise the show.",3.0 +"Well as I can my tedious part I bear,",3.0 +"Seldom I mark mankind's detested ways,",3.0 +"Not hearing censure, nor affecting praise;",1.0 +"And, unconcerned, my future state I trust",0.0 +"To that sole Being, merciful and just.",2.0 +"WHILE soon the garden's flaunting flowers decay,",2.0 +"And, scattered on the earth, neglected lie,",1.0 +"The Mountain Daisy, cherished by the ray",1.0 +"A poet drew from heaven, shall never die.",0.0 +Ah! like that lovely flower the poet rose!,2.0 +"He felt each storm that on the mountain blows,",1.0 +Nor ever knew the shelter of the vale.,1.0 +"On Nature with impassioned look he gazed,",1.0 +Then through the cloud of adverse fortune burst,1.0 +"Shield from rude sorrow, SCOTIA! shield thy bard: ' --",3.0 +"Of her degenerate sons the faded fame,",3.0 +"Deep in her anxious heart, revolving sad:",0.0 +"Bare was her throbbing bosom to the gale,",1.0 +"That hoarse, and hollow, from the bleak surge blew;",2.0 +Loose flowed her tresses; rent her azure robe.,1.0 +Hung over the deep from her majestic brow,4.0 +"She tore the laurel, and she tore the bay.",1.0 +Nor ceased the copious grief to bathe her cheek;,2.0 +Nor ceased her sobs to murmur to the Main.,1.0 +"Peace discontented nigh, departing, stretched",1.0 +Yet mourned his fettered hands. While thus the Queen,0.0 +Of nations spoke; and what she said the Muse,0.0 +A freight of future glory to my shore;,1.0 +"Even not the flattering view of golden days,",2.0 +"And rising periods yet of bright renown,",1.0 +"Beneath the Parents, and their endless line",1.0 +"Infest the trading flood, full of vain War",3.0 +"Despise my Navies, and my Merchant's seize;",1.0 +"As, trusting to false peace, they fearless roam",2.0 +"The world of waters wild, made, by the toil,",2.0 +"And liberal blood of glorious ages, mine:",3.0 +Nor bursts my sleeping thunder on their head.,1.0 +This tame beseeching of rejected peace?,1.0 +To generous Britons never known before?,2.0 +And failed my Fleets for this; on Indian tides,3.0 +"The mockery of war! while hot disease,",1.0 +"For action ardent; and amid the deep,",1.0 +"Inglorious, sunk them in a watery grave.",4.0 +"There now they lie beneath the rolling flood,",0.0 +"And back the weeping warship comes again,",1.0 +"Dispirited, and thin; her sons ashamed",1.0 +Thus idly to review their native shore;,3.0 +"With not one glory sparkling in their eye,",0.0 +"One triumph on their tongue. A passenger,",2.0 +The violated Merchant comes along;,1.0 +"He drew, and sweat beneath Equator suns,",0.0 +By lawless force detained; a force that soon,0.0 +"Would melt away, and every spoil resign,",0.0 +Were once the British lion heard to roar.,0.0 +"Whence is it that the proud Iberian thus,",2.0 +Dares rouse to wrath the Masters of the Main?,2.0 +"Who told him, that the big incumbent war",0.0 +"Would not, ere this, have rolled his trembling ports",0.0 +"In smoky ruin? and his guilty stores,",1.0 +"Won by the ravage of a butchered world,",1.0 +There was a time O let my languid sons,1.0 +"When all the pride of Spain, in one dread fleet,",1.0 +Gaily the splendid Armament along,3.0 +"Exultant ploughed, reflecting a red gleam,",2.0 +"As sunk the sun, over all the flaming vast;",3.0 +"Tall, gorgeous, and elate; drunk with the dream",4.0 +"Of easy conquest; while their bloated war,",0.0 +"Stretched out from sky to sky, the gathered force",0.0 +Of ages held in its capacious womb.,1.0 +"With tempest black, the goodly scene deformed,",0.0 +And laid their glory waste. The bolts of fate,0.0 +Fierce over their beauty blazed the lurid flame;,3.0 +"And seized in horrid grasp, or shattered wide,",0.0 +"Amid the mighty waters, deep they sunk.",0.0 +"Rank fen, and cavern where the wild wave works,",2.0 +"I swept confederate winds, and swelled a storm.",2.0 +"Round the glad isle, snatched by the vengeful blast,",1.0 +"The scattered remnants drove; on the blind shelve,",1.0 +"Relentless dashed, where loud the Northern Main",0.0 +Howls through the fractured Caledonian isles.,2.0 +"But since how vast it grew, how absolute,",0.0 +"Even in those troubled times, when dreadful Blake",0.0 +"Awed angry Nations with the British Name,",2.0 +"Let every humbled state, let Europe say,",2.0 +"Sustained, and balanced, by my naval arm.",1.0 +Ah what must these immortal spirits think,2.0 +"Who faced the blackest danger, knew no fear,",1.0 +"No mean submission, but commanded peace.",2.0 +Ah how with indignation must they burn?,0.0 +With shame? with grief? to see their feeble sons,0.0 +"For which their wisdom planned, their councils glowed,",0.0 +And their veins bled through many a toiling age.,4.0 +O first of human blessings! and supreme!,1.0 +"Fair Peace! how lovely, how delightful thou!",3.0 +"By whose wide tie, the kindred sons of men,",1.0 +"Like brothers live, in amity combined,",1.0 +"Gives every joy, and to those joys a right,",2.0 +"When the blithe sheaves lie scattered over the field,",6.0 +"When only shining shares, the crooked knife,",0.0 +And hooks imprint the vegetable wound;,2.0 +"When the land blushes with the rose alone,",3.0 +"O, Peace! thou source, and soul of social life;",0.0 +"Beneath whose calm, inspiring influence,",1.0 +"Science his views enlarges, Art refines,",2.0 +And swelling Commerce opens all her ports;,0.0 +"Blessed be the Man divine, who gives us Thee!",0.0 +"Who bids the trumpet hush his horrid clang,",0.0 +Nor blow the giddy nations into rage;,0.0 +"To grateful industry converting, makes",1.0 +"The country flourish, and the city smile.",1.0 +And him the smiling mother to her train.,2.0 +"Of him the shepherd, in the peaceful dale,",1.0 +"Chants; and, the treasures of his labour sure,",1.0 +"Beneath the trembling moon, the midnight wave;",1.0 +"And the full city, warm, from street to street,",2.0 +"And shop to shop, responsive, rings of him.",0.0 +Nor joys one land alone; his praise extends,0.0 +"Far as the breeze can bare the gifts of peace,",0.0 +Till all the happy nations catch the song.,0.0 +What would not Peace! the Patriot bear for thee?,2.0 +What painful patience? What incessant care?,0.0 +What mixed anxiety? What sleepless toil?,1.0 +Even from the rash protected what reproach?,1.0 +For he thy value knows; thy friendship he,2.0 +"To human nature: but the better thou,",2.0 +"The richer of delight, sometime the more",2.0 +"Inevitable War, when russian force",1.0 +"Then the good easy man, whom reason rules;",0.0 +"Roused by bold insult, and injurious rage,",4.0 +"With sharp, and sudden cheque, the astonished sons",2.0 +"Of violence confounds; firm as his cause,",3.0 +His bolder heart; in awful justice clad;,0.0 +"And, as he charges through the prostrate war,",2.0 +To dare the sacred vengeance of the just.,1.0 +"And what, my thoughtless sons, should fire you more,",0.0 +The least beginning injury receives?,1.0 +What better cause can call your lightning forth?,0.0 +Your thunder wake? Your dearest life demand?,0.0 +"What better cause, than when your country sees",0.0 +"For o it much imports you, it's your all,",2.0 +"To keep your Trade entire, entire the force,",4.0 +"And honour of your Fleets; over that to watch,",2.0 +"Even with a hand severe, and jealous eye.",1.0 +"In intercourse be gentle, generous, just,",1.0 +"By wisdom polished, and of manners fair;",1.0 +Who shall but aim to touch your glory there.,1.0 +"Is there the man, into the lions' den",2.0 +"Who dares intrude, to snatch his young away?",0.0 +And is a Briton seized? and seized beneath,1.0 +The slumbering terrors of a British Fleet?,3.0 +Then ardent rise! O great in vengeance rise;,0.0 +"Make every vessel stoop, make every state",2.0 +At once their welfare and their duty know.,2.0 +This is your glory; this your wisdom; this,3.0 +The native power for which you were designed,2.0 +"By fate, when fate designed the firmest state,",0.0 +That ever was seated on the subject sea;,3.0 +"A state, alone, where Liberty should live,",1.0 +"In these late times, this evening of mankind,",5.0 +"When Athens, Rome, and Carthage are no more,",2.0 +The world almost in slavish sloth dissolved.,1.0 +"For this, these rocks around your coast were thrown;",1.0 +"For this, your oaks, peculiar hardened, shoot",1.0 +"Strong into sturdy growth; for this, your hearts",2.0 +"Swell with a sullen courage, growing still",0.0 +"As danger grows; and strength, and toil for this",0.0 +Are liberal poured over all the fervent land.,3.0 +By lavish Nature thrust into your hand:,0.0 +"And, unencumbered with the bulk immense",1.0 +"Of conquest, whence huge empires rose and fell,",1.0 +And fix it deep on this eternal base.,1.0 +"Soon slackened quite, and past recovery broke,",1.0 +"It gathers ruin as it rolls along,",1.0 +Where many a mighty empire buried lies.,2.0 +"And should the big redundant flood of Trade,",0.0 +"Their several currents, till the boundless tide",1.0 +"Rolls in a radiant deluge over the land,",2.0 +"Should this bright stream, the least inflected, point",3.0 +"Its course another way, over other lands",3.0 +Never to be won again; its ancient tract,1.0 +"Left a vile channel, desolate, and dead,",3.0 +With all around a miserable waste.,1.0 +"Not Egypt, were, her better heaven, the Nile",1.0 +"Turned in the pride of flow; when over his rocks,",2.0 +"And roaring cataracts, beyond the reach",0.0 +"Of dizzy vision piled, in one wide flash",1.0 +Whence wondering fable traced him from the sky,3.0 +"Even not that prime of earth, where harvests crowd",0.0 +"If of the fat overflowing culture robbed,",7.0 +"Were then a more uncomfortable wild,",1.0 +"Sterile, and void; than of her trade deprived,",3.0 +"Britons, your boasted isle: her Princes sunk;",2.0 +Unnerved her force; her spirit vanished quite;,0.0 +With rapid wing her riches fled away;,0.0 +Of what she was; her Merchant's scattered wide;,1.0 +"Her hollow shops shut up; and in her streets,",2.0 +"Her fields, woods, markets, villages, and roads,",2.0 +The cheerful voice of labour heard no more.,1.0 +O let not then waste Luxury impair,2.0 +"That manly soul of toil, which strings your nerves,",0.0 +And your own proper happiness creates!,2.0 +"O let not the soft, penetrating plague",2.0 +"Creep on the freeborn mind! and working there,",1.0 +"Endless, and idle all, eat out the heart",4.0 +Of Liberty; the high conception blast;,1.0 +"The noble sentiment, the impatient scorn",3.0 +"For general good, erasing from the mind:",1.0 +"And low design, the sneaking passions all",0.0 +"Let loose, and reigning in the rankled breast.",1.0 +"Sapping the very frame of government,",3.0 +"And life, a total dissolution comes;",0.0 +Oppression raging over the waste he makes;,2.0 +The human being almost quite extinct;,1.0 +And the whole state in broad Corruption sinks.,2.0 +O shun that gulf: that gaping ruin shun!,0.0 +And countless ages roll it far away,0.0 +The light of life! the sun of human kind!,0.0 +"Even where the keen depressive North descends,",0.0 +"Still spread, exalt, and actuate your powers!",1.0 +While slavish Southern climates beam in vain.,0.0 +"And may a public spirit from the Throne,",2.0 +"Where every Virtue sits, go copious forth",3.0 +Live over the land! the finer Arts inspire;,3.0 +"Make thoughtful Science raise his pensive head,",1.0 +"Blow the fresh Bay, bid Industry rejoice,",5.0 +And the rough Sons of lowest Labour smile.,2.0 +"As when, profuse of Spring, the loosened West",0.0 +"Lifts up the pining year, and balmy breathes",0.0 +"Youth, life, and love, and beauty over the world.",3.0 +"But haste we from these melancholy shores,",1.0 +Pour weak; the country claims our active aid;,1.0 +That let us roam; and where we find a spark,0.0 +"Of public virtue, blow it into flame.",0.0 +"And now my sons, the sons of freedom! meet",0.0 +In awful senate; thither let us fly;,3.0 +"Burn in the Patriot's thought, flow from his tongue",2.0 +"In fearless truth; myself, transformed, preside,",1.0 +And shed the spirit of Britannia round.,2.0 +"This said; her fleeting form, and airy train,",0.0 +But the rough cadence of the dashing wave.,3.0 +"Gladly I leave the town, and all its care,",2.0 +"For sweet retirement, and fresh wholesome air,",4.0 +"Leave opera, park, the masquerade, and play,",1.0 +In solitary groves to pass the day.,0.0 +"Adieu, gay throng, luxurious vain parade,",3.0 +"Sweet peace invites me to the rural shade,",2.0 +"No more the Mall, can captivate my heart,",0.0 +"Without regret I leave the splendid ball,",0.0 +"And the enchanting shades of gay Vauxhall,",2.0 +"Far from the giddy circle now I fly,",0.0 +"Such joys no more, can please my sickened eye.",1.0 +"The town's alluring scenes no more can charm,",1.0 +Nor dissipation my fond breast alarm;,2.0 +"Where vice and folly has each bosom fired,",0.0 +"And what is most absurd, ' -- is most admired.",0.0 +"Alas! what difference betwixt the town bred fair,",2.0 +And the blithe maid who breathes the purer air.,2.0 +"Whose life is innocent, whose thoughts are clear,",1.0 +"Whose soul is gentle, and whose heart sincere.",1.0 +"Blessed with her swain, she wants no greater joy,",1.0 +"Nor fears inconstancy, her bliss can cloy,",1.0 +"No anxious fears invade her tranquil breast,",1.0 +The peaceful mansion of content and rest.,1.0 +"But rich in every virtue, void of art,",0.0 +"She feels those joys, truth only can impart.",2.0 +"View the gay courtly dame, and mark her face,",3.0 +"Luxurious pleasures, all her days divide,",2.0 +"Each action has its fixed and settled rule,",0.0 +"Eyes, limbs, and features, are all put to school.",2.0 +"Beaux without number, daily round her swarm,",6.0 +"Till, like the rose, which blooms but for an hour,",1.0 +"Her face grown common, loses all its power.",1.0 +"Alone to languish, and alone despair,",1.0 +"To cards, and dice, the slighted maiden flies,",0.0 +"Scandal and coffee, pass the morn away,",2.0 +"At night a rout, an opera, or a play;",1.0 +"Thus glide their life, partly through inclination,",6.0 +"Yet more, because it is the reigning fashion.",1.0 +"Thus giddy pleasures they alone pursue,",2.0 +"Whatever can afford their hearts delight,",2.0 +"No matter if the thing be wrong, or right;",2.0 +"They will pursue it, though they be undone,",2.0 +"They see their ruin, ' -- still they venture on.",1.0 +"Prudence they hate, grave wisdom they despise,",4.0 +And laugh at those who teach them to be wise.,2.0 +"Pleased they embark upon the dangerous tide,",4.0 +And with the fashionable current glide;,2.0 +"Till fate has every wish and purpose crossed,",0.0 +"No art their wanted youth can then repair,",0.0 +"Abandoned to remorse, and keen despair,",1.0 +"Repentant sighs, their wretched bosom wound,",0.0 +"And happiness, alas! no more is found.",2.0 +"In some sequestered shade alone they stray,",0.0 +"And pensive waste, the solitary day.",0.0 +"Till fate relieves the wretched maid from grief,",0.0 +"And death affords, a long and last relief.",0.0 +"These are the follies that engage the mind,",1.0 +"And taint the principles, of half mankind,",2.0 +"Then wonder not my friend, that I can leave,",1.0 +"Those short-lived shadows of a fleeting day,",3.0 +Those idle customs of the rich and gay.,1.0 +"Henceforth, retirement, is my chosen seat,",2.0 +"Far from the insolent, the vain, the great.",1.0 +"Sweet solitude, ah! welcome to my breast,",2.0 +"And with thee welcome, sweet content, and rest;",1.0 +"Farewell ambition, source of every pain,",1.0 +"Farewell pale malice, and thy hateful train:",3.0 +"Farewell black calumny, no more thy dart,",4.0 +"Shall force one sigh, or wound my placid heart.",0.0 +"My future days, shall with sweet peace abound,",2.0 +"By friendship, virtue, and experience crowned.",3.0 +"Did sweeter Sounds adorn my flowing Tongue,",0.0 +"Than ever Man pronounced, or Angel sung:",0.0 +"Had I all Knowledge, Human and Divine,",1.0 +"That Thought can reach, or Science can define;",1.0 +"And had I Power to give that Knowledge Birth,",2.0 +In all the Speeches of the babbling Earth:,1.0 +"To weary Tortures, and rejoice in Fire:",1.0 +"Or had I Faith like That which Israel saw,",0.0 +"When Moses gave them Miracles, and Law:",1.0 +"Yet, gracious Charity, indulgent Guest,",1.0 +Were not Thy Power exerted in my Breast;,2.0 +Those Speeches would send up unheeded Prayer:,2.0 +That Scorn of Life would be but wild Despair:,0.0 +My Faith were Form: my Eloquence were Noise.,1.0 +"Charity, decent, modest, easy, kind,",2.0 +"Softens the high, and rears the abject Mind;",2.0 +"Knows with just Reins, and gentle Hand to guide,",0.0 +"Betwixt vile Shame, and arbitrary Pride.",1.0 +"Not soon provoked, She easily forgives;",1.0 +"And much She suffers, as She much believes.",1.0 +Soft Peace She brings wherever She arrives:,2.0 +"She builds our Quiet, as She forms our Lives;",1.0 +Lays the rough Paths of peevish Nature even;,3.0 +And opens in each Heart a little Heaven.,0.0 +"Each other Gift, which GOD on Man bestows,",0.0 +"It's proper Bounds, and due Restriction knows;",0.0 +To one fixed Purpose dedicates it's Power;,2.0 +"And finishing it's Act, exists no more.",2.0 +"Thus, in Obedience to what Heaven decrees,",2.0 +"Knowledge shall fail, and Prophecy shall cease:",3.0 +"Nor bound by Time, nor subject to Decay,",1.0 +"In happy Triumph shall for ever live,",0.0 +"And endless Good diffuse, and endless Praise receive.",0.0 +"As through the Artist's intervening Glass,",1.0 +Our Eye observes the distant Planets pass;,0.0 +"A little we discover; but allow,",2.0 +"That more remains unseen, than Art can show:",0.0 +So while our Mind it's Knowledge would improve;,0.0 +It's feeble Eye intent on Things above,0.0 +"High as We may, We lift our Reason up,",2.0 +"By Faith directed, and confirmed by Hope:",1.0 +Yet are We able only to survey,1.0 +Heaven's fuller Effluence mocks our dazzled Sight;,2.0 +"Too great it's Swiftness, and too strong it's Light.",3.0 +But soon the mediate Clouds shall be dispelled;,3.0 +"The Sun shall soon be Face to Face beheld,",0.0 +"In all His Robes, with all His Glory on,",1.0 +Seated sublime on His Meridian Throne.,5.0 +"Then constant Faith, and holy Hope shall die,",0.0 +"One lost in Certainty, and One in Joy:",2.0 +"While Thou, more happy Power, fair Charity,",4.0 +"Triumphant Sister, greatest of the Three,",1.0 +"Thy Office, and Thy Nature still the same,",1.0 +"Shalt stand before the Host of Heaven confessed,",1.0 +"For ever blessing, and for ever blessed.",1.0 +"THE lapse of time and rivers is the same,",1.0 +"Both speed their journey with a restless stream,",2.0 +"The silent pace with which they steal away,",0.0 +"No wealth can bribe, no prayers persuade to stay,",2.0 +"Alike irrevocable both when past,",1.0 +And a wide ocean swallows both at last.,2.0 +"Though each resemble each in every part,",0.0 +A difference strikes at length the musing heart;,0.0 +"Streams never flow in vain; where streams abound,",1.0 +How laughs the land with various plenty crowned!,2.0 +"But time that should enrich the nobler mind,",1.0 +"Neglected, leaves a dreary waste behind.",0.0 +"WHILE thirst of praise, and vain desire of fame,",0.0 +"With courtship pleased, of silly toasters proud,",1.0 +"Found of a train, and happy in a crowd;",0.0 +"On each poor fool bestowing some kind glance,",2.0 +Each conquest owing to some loose advance;,1.0 +Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide;,3.0 +In part she is to blame that has been tried ' --,1.0 +He comes too near that comes to be denied.,1.0 +OF blasted Hopes and of short withering Joys,4.0 +Sing Heavenly Muse. Try thine Ethereal Voice,7.0 +In Funeral Numbers and a doleful Song;,3.0 +"Of Earthly Bliss! It's all an Airy Dream,",0.0 +All a Vain Thought! Our Soaring Fancies rise,3.0 +On treacherous Wings; and Hopes that touch the Skies,2.0 +"Drag but a longer Ruin through the downward Air,",1.0 +And plunge the falling Joy but deeper in Despair.,0.0 +How did our Souls stand flattered and prepared,2.0 +To shout him welcome to the Seat he reared!,1.0 +"There the Dear Man should see his Hopes Complete,",2.0 +Smiling and tasting every lawful Sweet,2.0 +"That Peace and Plenty brings, while numerous Years",1.0 +Rolled happy Circles round the Joyful Spheres:,1.0 +"Revolving Suns should still renew his strength,",0.0 +And draw the uncommon Thread to an unusual Length.,3.0 +"But hasty Fate thrusts her dread Shears between,",3.0 +"Cuts the Young Life off, and shuts up the Scene.",2.0 +Thus Airy Pleasure dances in our Sight,1.0 +And spreads fair Images of Gay Delight,2.0 +"TO allure our Souls, till just within our Arms",1.0 +"The Vision dies, and all the painted Charms",0.0 +"Flee quick away from the pursuing Sight,",2.0 +"Till they are lost in Shades, and mingle with the Night.",2.0 +"Muse, stretch thy Wings and thy sad Journey bend",3.0 +To the fair The House. Fabric that thy Dying Friend,3.0 +"How did he lay the deep The Foundations. Foundations strong,",4.0 +"Marking the Bounds, and rear the The Walls. Walls along",4.0 +Solid and Lasting; there a numerous Train,5.0 +"While Nations perish and long Ages run,",2.0 +"Not Time it self should waste the Blessed Estate,",0.0 +Nor the Tenth Race rebuild the Ancient Seat:,2.0 +How fond our Fancies are! The Founder Dies,1.0 +"Childless: His Sisters weep, and close his Eyes,",2.0 +"Lofty and Slow it moves unto the Tomb,",6.0 +While weighty Sorrow nods on every Plume;,0.0 +A Thousand Groans his dear Remains convey,0.0 +"To his cold Lodging in a Bed of Clay,",2.0 +"See the dull Wheels roll on the Sable Load,",1.0 +"But no dear Son to tread the Mournful Road,",1.0 +"And fondly kind drop his young Sorrows there,",4.0 +OH had he left us One behind to play,1.0 +"Wanton about the Painted The Hall. Hall, and say",4.0 +"This was my Father's, with Impatient Joy",2.0 +"In my fond Arms I'de clasped the Smiling Boy,",6.0 +And called him my Young Friend: But Awful Fate,2.0 +"And must this Building then, this costly Frame",0.0 +Stand here for Strangers? Must some unknown Name,3.0 +Why were these Walls raised for this hapless End?,2.0 +Why these Apartments all adorned so Gay?,1.0 +Why his rich Fancy lavished thus away?,2.0 +"Muse, view the Paintings, how the hovering Light",2.0 +"Plays over the Colours in a wanton Flight,",3.0 +And mingled Shades wrought in by soft Degrees,1.0 +Give a sweet Foil to all the Charming Piece;,2.0 +"But Night, Eternal Night hangs black around",1.0 +"The dismal Chambers of the hollow Ground,",1.0 +"Stand Hideous: Earthy Fogs embrace his Head,",3.0 +"Rising perpetual. Muse, forsake the place,",4.0 +"Look to his Airy spacious Hall, and say",0.0 +"How has he changed it for a loathsome Cave,",1.0 +Confined and Crowded in a narrow Grave!,0.0 +"The Unhappy House looks desolate and mourns,",2.0 +And every The Doors. Door groans doleful as it turns;,6.0 +"The Pillars languish, and each lofty Wall",1.0 +"Stately in Grief, laments the Master's Fall",2.0 +His faint Resemblance and renews my Tears.,1.0 +Solid and square it rises from below;,3.0 +A Noble Air without a Gaudy Show,0.0 +"Reigns through the Model, and adorns the Whole,",1.0 +Manly and Plain just like the Builders Soul.,2.0 +"OH how I love to view the Stately Frame,",0.0 +Then could I wish for some prodigious Cave,0.0 +"Vast as his Seat, and silent as his Grave,",1.0 +"Where the tall Shades stretch to the hideous Roof,",3.0 +"Thither, my willing Feet, should you be drawn",1.0 +"At the grey Twilight, and the early Dawn;",1.0 +"There sweetly sad should my soft Minutes roll,",2.0 +But these are Airy Thoughts! Substantial Grief,1.0 +Grows by those Objects that should yield Relief;,0.0 +"Fond of my Woes I heave my Eyes around,",0.0 +My Grief from every Prospect courts a Wound;,0.0 +"Views the green Gardens, views the Smiling Skies,",3.0 +"Still my Heart sinks, and still my Cares arise;",3.0 +"My wandering Feet round the dear Mansion rove,",4.0 +"Oft have I laid the Awful Calvin by,",1.0 +"And the sweet Cowley, with Impatient Eye",3.0 +"To see those Walls, pay the sad Visit there,",4.0 +And drop the Tribute of an hourly Tear:,1.0 +"Still I behold some Melancholy Scene,",2.0 +"With many a Pensive Thought, and many a Sigh between.",4.0 +"Two Days ago we took the Evening Air,",1.0 +"Broke from Black Clouds, and in full Glory shone",4.0 +"Gilding the Roof, then dropped into the Sea,",2.0 +And sudden Night devoured the sweet remains of Day,2.0 +Thus the dear Youth just reared his shining Head,3.0 +"From Obscure Shades of Life, and sunk among the Dead.",4.0 +The rising Sun adorned with all his Light,0.0 +Smiles on these Walls again: But endless Night,0.0 +To greet a Mourning House? In vain the Day,0.0 +"Breaks through the The Windows. Windows with a joyful Ray,",2.0 +And marks a shining Path along the Floors,0.0 +Bounding the Evening and the Morning Hours;,3.0 +In vain it bounds them: While vast Emptiness,2.0 +"And hollow Silence reigns through all the Place,",0.0 +Nor heeds the cheerful change of Nature's Face.,0.0 +"Yet Natures Wheels will on without control,",1.0 +"The Sun will rise, the tuneful Spheres will roll,",0.0 +And the two Nightly Bears walk round and watch the Pole.,3.0 +Old Night comes rolling up the Eastern Hill:,3.0 +"Troops of dark Clouds prepare her way; behold,",3.0 +"Spread Shadowing over the House, and glide away",5.0 +Slowly pursuing the declining Day;,3.0 +"Over the broad The Roof. Roof they fly their Circuit still,",4.0 +"Thus Days before they did, and Days to come they will;",1.0 +But the Black Cloud that Shadows over his Eyes,5.0 +"Fain would I bid the Envious Gloom be gone,",2.0 +Ah fruitless Wish! how are his Curtains drawn,1.0 +For a long Evening that despairs the Dawn!,2.0 +"Muse, view the The Turret. Turret: Just beneath the Skies",1.0 +"Lonesome it stands, and fixes both mine Eyes",2.0 +"As it would ask a Tear. OH Sacred Seat,",2.0 +Sacred to Friendship! OH Divine Retreat!,2.0 +"Here did I hope my happy Hours to employ,",1.0 +"And fed beforehand on the promised Joy,",2.0 +"When weary of the noisy Town, my Friend",1.0 +From Mortal Cares retiring should ascend,0.0 +"And lead me thither. We Our Conversation there. alone would sit,",1.0 +Free and secure of all Intruding Feet:,2.0 +"Our Thoughts should stretch their longest Wings and rise,",0.0 +"Our Tongues should aim at everlasting Themes,",0.0 +"And speak what Mortals dare, of all the Names",0.0 +Built high in Heaven for Souls: We'd trace the Streets,1.0 +"Of Golden Pavement, walk each happy Field,",0.0 +And climb and taste the Fruits the spicy Mountains yield:,0.0 +"Then would we swear to keep the Sacred Road,",0.0 +And walk right upwards to the blessed Abode:,2.0 +"We'd charge our parting Spirits there to meet,",1.0 +And bend our Heads adoring at our Maker's Feet.,0.0 +"Thus should we mount on bold adventurous Wings,",2.0 +"In high Discourse, and dwell on Heavenly things,",5.0 +"While the pleased Hours in sweet Succession move,",3.0 +And Minutes measured as they are above,2.0 +"Anon our Thoughts should lower their lofty Flight,",2.0 +"Sink by degrees, and take a pleasing Sight",2.0 +"A large round Prospect of the spreading Plain,",1.0 +"The Wealthy River, and his Winding Train,",1.0 +How we should smile to see degenerate Worms,2.0 +"Lavish their Lives, and fight for Airy Forms",2.0 +"Till Envy rise, and shoot a secret Wound",0.0 +"At swelling Glory; strait the Bubble breaks,",0.0 +Then the tall Titles Insolent and Proud,3.0 +"Sink to the Dust, and mingle with the Crowd.",1.0 +"Man is a restless Thing: Still vain and wild,",1.0 +"Lives beyond Sixty, nor outgrows the Child:",3.0 +"To seek new Pleasures on forbidden Ground,",2.0 +"And buy them all too dear. Unthinking Fool,",1.0 +"It's but a Grain of Sweetness they can Sow,",2.0 +And reap the long sad Harvest of Immortal Woe.,2.0 +"Another Tribe toil in a different Strife,",1.0 +And banish all the lawful Sweets of Life,0.0 +"To sweat and dig for Gold, to hoard the Oar,",0.0 +"Hide the dear Dust yet darker than before,",4.0 +And never dare to use a Grain of all the Store.,0.0 +Happy the Man that knows the Value just,2.0 +"Of Earthly Things, nor is enslaved to Dust.",1.0 +It's a rich Gift the Skies but rarely send,2.0 +"To Favourite Souls. Then happy thou, my Friend,",1.0 +The Wealth that Heaven bestowed with Liberal Hand:,0.0 +Hence this fair Structure rose; and hence this Seat,3.0 +Made to invite my not unwilling Feet;,2.0 +"And Smile, and Love, and Bless each other here,",0.0 +"The Envious Tomb forbids thy Face to appear,",4.0 +"The heights of Fondness and the depths of Woe,",1.0 +"Young Mothers, who your darling Babes have found",1.0 +Untimely Murdered with a ghastly Wound;,1.0 +"Clasped in your Arms your Lovers Cold and Dead,",0.0 +Come; in the Pomp of all your wild Despair,0.0 +"With flowing Eyelids and disordered Hair,",2.0 +"Death in your Looks; come mingle Grief with me,",1.0 +And drown your little Streams in my unbounded Sea.,1.0 +"Born for a Friend, whose dear Embraces hold",0.0 +Beyond all Natures Ties; you that have known,0.0 +"Two happy Souls made intimately One,",4.0 +"And felt a parting Stroke, it's you must tell",1.0 +"This Soul of mine that dreadful Wound has born,",1.0 +"Off from its Side its dearest Half is torn,",1.0 +"The Rest lies bleeding, and but lives to mourn.",2.0 +O Infinite Distress! Such raging Grief,1.0 +"Should command Pity, and despair Relief.",5.0 +"Give Sense to Rocks, and Sympathy to Stones.",2.0 +Repeat my Cries with a perpetual Sound:,3.0 +"Be all you flowery Vales with Thorns overgrown,",4.0 +"Assist my Sorrows, and declare your own,",1.0 +Alas! your Lord is dead. The humble Plain,0.0 +Must never receive his Courteous Feet again:,4.0 +"Mourn you gay smiling Meadows, and be seen",5.0 +And bid the The Brook. Brook that still runs warbling by,4.0 +"Move silent on, and weep his useless Channel dry.",2.0 +And moaning Turtles murmur over his Tomb:,2.0 +"The Oak should wither, and the curling The Trees. Vine",3.0 +"Their Amorous Folds, and mix his Bleeding Soul with mine.",2.0 +"You stately Elms in your long Order mourn,",2.0 +Strip off your Pride to dress your Master's Urn:,0.0 +Here gently drop your Leaves instead of Tears;,0.0 +"You Elms, the Reverend Growth of Ancient Years,",0.0 +Stand tall and naked to the Blustering Rage,4.0 +Of the mad Winds; thus it becomes your Age,3.0 +To show your Sorrows. Often you have seen,1.0 +Our Heads reclined upon the rising Green;,0.0 +"Beneath your Sacred Shade diffused we lay,",0.0 +Here Friendship reigned with an unbounded sway:,1.0 +"Hither our Souls their constant Offerings brought,",2.0 +"Spread all the Sorrows, all the Joys we found,",0.0 +And mingled every Care; nor was it known,1.0 +Which of the Pains or Pleasures were our own;,1.0 +Then with an equal Hand and honest Soul,0.0 +"We share the Heap; yet both possess the Whole,",0.0 +"By turns We Comfort, and by turns Complain,",1.0 +And Bear and Ease by turns the Sympathy of Pain.,1.0 +"Friendship! Mysterious Thing, what Magic Powers",4.0 +"Support thy Sway, and charm these Minds of ours?",0.0 +"Bound to thy Foot we boast our Birthright still,",1.0 +And changed away our Souls: At thy Command,1.0 +We snatch new Miseries from a Foreign Hand,2.0 +"To call them ours, and thoughtless of our Ease",1.0 +Plague the dear Self that we were born to please.,1.0 +Heaps on poor Mortals Sorrows not their own;,3.0 +As though our Mother Nature could no more,2.0 +"Find Woes sufficient for each Son she bore,",2.0 +"Friendship divides the Shares, and lengthens out the Store.",3.0 +"Yet are we fond of thine Imperious Reign,",3.0 +"Proud of the Slavery, wanton in our Pain,",2.0 +And chide the courteous Hand when Death dissolves the Chain.,2.0 +"Virtue, forgive the Thought! The raving Muse",2.0 +"Wild and despairing knows not what she does,",2.0 +"Grows mad in Grief, and in her Savage Hours",1.0 +Affronts the Name she Loves and she adores.,1.0 +OH Sacred Friendship! offered Songs Divine,1.0 +Here to these Shades at solemn Hours we came,0.0 +"To pay Devotion with a mutual Flame,",3.0 +"And rolled in Pleasures, while the Evening Breeze",0.0 +"Fanned the Leaves gently, sporting through the Trees,",4.0 +And the declining Sun with sloping Wheels,1.0 +Rolled down the Golden Day behind the Western Hills.,0.0 +"Mourn you young The Gardens. Gardens, you unfinished Gates,",1.0 +"You Green Enclosures and you growing Sweets,",1.0 +"Lament, for you our Midnight Hours have known,",2.0 +And watched us walking by the silent Moon,1.0 +"In Conference Divine, while Heavenly Fire",3.0 +Kindling our Breasts did all our Thoughts inspire,2.0 +With Joys almost Immortal; then our Zeal,1.0 +"Blazed and burned high to reach the Ethereal Hill,",6.0 +And Love refined like that above the Poles,0.0 +Too dreadful to repeat; such Joys as these,2.0 +O for a general Grief! let all things share,3.0 +Our Woes that knew our Loves. The Neighbouring The Air. Air,2.0 +"Let it be laden with Immortal Sighs,",1.0 +"And tell the Gales, that every Breath that flies",0.0 +"Over these Fields should murmur and complain,",3.0 +"And kiss the fading Grass, and propagate the Pain.",0.0 +"Weep all you Buildings, and you The Groves. Groves around",4.0 +"For ever Weep, This is an endless Wound",1.0 +Vast and Incurable. You Buildings knew,3.0 +"His Silver Tongue, you Groves have heard it too:",0.0 +"At that dear Sound no more shall you rejoice,",2.0 +"And I no more must hear the Charming Voice,",0.0 +Woe to my drooping Soul! that Heavenly Breath,2.0 +That could speak Life lies now congealed in Death;,4.0 +While on his folded Lips all Cold and Pale,0.0 +Eternal Chains and heavy silence dwell.,0.0 +Yet my fond Hope would hear him speak again;,3.0 +"Once more at least, one gentle Word; and then",0.0 +"In vain I mourn, and drop these Funeral Tears,",2.0 +Death and the Grave have neither Eyes nor Ears:,0.0 +"Wandering I tune my Sorrows to the Groves,",2.0 +While the dear Youth Sleeps fast and hears them not;,4.0 +He has forgot me: In the lonesome Vault,0.0 +Mindless of WATTS and Friendship there he lies,3.0 +Hurries the Muse on obstinate and deaf,3.0 +"To all the nicer Rules, and bears her down",0.0 +From the tall Fabric to the Neighbouring Ground:,5.0 +The pleasing Hours and the dear Moments past,4.0 +In these sweet Fields reviving on my Taste,4.0 +And reach the The Turret. Turret thou hast left so long:,0.0 +"Over the wide Roof its lofty Head it rears,",2.0 +Waiting for our Converse; but only hears,3.0 +"The Winds salute it Whistling as they fly,",1.0 +Or jarring round the Windows; Rattling Showers,0.0 +"Lash the fair Sides, above loud Thunder roars,",4.0 +But still the Master Sleeps; nor hears the Voice,0.0 +"An Iron Slumber sits on every Sense,",0.0 +"One Labour more, my Muse, the Golden The Golden Ball. Sphere",3.0 +"Downward it shines upon the rising Moon,",2.0 +"The Ball pursues her Orb with streaming Light,",0.0 +Or pierce the solid Gloom that fills the Cave,0.0 +"Saw the last Midnight reigning over the Skies,",6.0 +"Bright as a Burning Meteor born on high,",2.0 +Or some new Comet glaring through the Sky,2.0 +It flamed and mingled with the larger Stars;,1.0 +"In vain said I the Golden Comet Glares,",1.0 +In vain it stands; while with a dismal Fall,1.0 +He sunk beneath the Ground that raised the Lofty Ball.,0.0 +Now let me call the Joyful Day to mind;,1.0 +'Twas a fair Morning; and the Blustering Wind,6.0 +"Slept in its peaceful Caverns, while he came",0.0 +Gazing and pleased to see the Noble Frame,2.0 +"Crowned with that shining Orb. Stand there, he cries,",2.0 +Thou little Emblem of the boundless Skies,1.0 +Whither my Soul with fiery Passion tends;,4.0 +The Emblem stands; and tells surviving Friends,0.0 +Of the bright Palace and the Golden Throne,3.0 +His eager Thoughts bent on their shining way,2.0 +Let the Clay drop to mingle with the Clay;,4.0 +But his great Soul beyond the Stars is fled:,2.0 +"Then why, my Heart, why should we Mourn him Dead?",0.0 +With a false Name impose on your Belief:,3.0 +It saw the Flesh sink down with closing Eyes,2.0 +Mistaken Grief! to call the Flesh the Friend!,0.0 +"The Heavenly Court saw the Bright Youth ascend,",5.0 +"Flew to embrace him with Immortal Love,",3.0 +And sung his Welcome to the Seats above.,1.0 +"The Building firm, and all the Mansions bright,",0.0 +In Heavenly Diamond: And for every Gate,3.0 +"On Golden Hinges a broad Ruby turns,",2.0 +"Guards off the Foe, and as it moves it burns.",1.0 +Millions of Glories Reign through every part;,2.0 +"Stand here displayed, and to the Stranger show",2.0 +How it outshines the Noblest Seats below;,1.0 +"The Stranger just looked down, and Smiled upon them too.",2.0 +Let Heavenly Notes resume their Joys again;,3.0 +"In Everlasting Numbers sing, and say,",0.0 +"Lie on their laps, or wait upon their chair;",0.0 +"You who defend the household, or the flocks:",2.0 +"But chiefly you in ladies' chambers nursed,",2.0 +"Hither your little whimpering offspring lead,",5.0 +"And join the dismal howl, to wail him dead.",0.0 +"Shame on the wretch, who dealt the deadly draught!",0.0 +Thou human brute! whose very name's a blot.,0.0 +OH that kind fate would poison all thy life,3.0 +"With some smart vixen, very much a Wife!",1.0 +"While the cold drug was struggling hard with life,",3.0 +And sense awhile maintained the doubtful strife;,0.0 +"With much of gratitude and sorrow mixed,",0.0 +"Then to these arms with staggering steps did haste,",2.0 +"There, where he oft had slept, to sleep his last.",0.0 +The tear was vain; nor will I blush to own,1.0 +A heart of softer workmanship than stone:,0.0 +"The tear I dropped to gratitude, and love.",0.0 +For thou wert all those tender names in one;,1.0 +"Thy high descent, thy ancient royal race!",0.0 +"Thy length of ears proclaimed the generous seed,",2.0 +"And had not William changed the face of things,",0.0 +"No more shalt thou, with each revolving day,",0.0 +"Nor when the balmy slumber I prolong,",1.0 +"Ascend the stairs, and wake me with thy tongue:",1.0 +No more shall thy discerning nose descry,1.0 +"But that performed, he barks exulting round;",0.0 +"The cats are scared, the neighbouring roofs resound.",3.0 +"Whether by instinct, or by reason taught,",3.0 +His just conclusions spoke the use of thought.,0.0 +"He smelled a Beau, and sullen left the room.",0.0 +"Or when the ruddy' Squire grew loud and vain,",1.0 +And practised all the noises of the plain;,1.0 +"But most the Fool was his inveterate foe,",3.0 +"That thing all over talk, all over beau:",0.0 +"Well he distinguished betwixt brocade and sense,",4.0 +And growled contempt beneath the sevenfold fence.,1.0 +No more shall I thy gratitude reward.,0.0 +"That cream, that bread and butter soaked in tea,",0.0 +"While she, proud vixen! often seems to say,",2.0 +Peace to his shade! ' -- each dog must have his day.,0.0 +"Yet Thou, his mistress once, and late his friend,",0.0 +"And think, whenever your Lark shall be no more,",2.0 +"How vain are tears, since Spark was wept before.",0.0 +"Or rather, how uncertain life's short date,",2.0 +"But could your smile, which sure gives life to all,",1.0 +"Then should these hands the welcome office pay,",0.0 +To wipe the dust from his reviving clay:,1.0 +"With pleasure guard him from a world of ill,",1.0 +"Ah! smile then; try, exert your saving power!",0.0 +"Be Spark your present now, as once before.",0.0 +"MY Guardian, bear me on thy downy Wing",3.0 +To some cool Shade where infant Flowers spring;,1.0 +"Where on the Trees sweet Honey-suckles blow,",1.0 +And ruddy Daisies paint the Ground below:,0.0 +"Where the shrill Linnet charms the solemn Shade,",2.0 +"And Zephyrs pant along the cooler Glade,",0.0 +"Or shake the Bulrush by a River Side,",1.0 +"Where Roses spread their unaffected Charms,",0.0 +"Where happy Silence lulls the quiet Soul,",0.0 +And makes it calm as Summer Waters roll.,0.0 +"Here let me learn to cheque each growing Ill,",0.0 +And bring to Reason disobedient Will;,1.0 +"To watch this incoherent Breast, and find",1.0 +What favourite Passions rule the giddy Mind.,0.0 +"We see delighted, and transported hear,",1.0 +"While the glad Warblers wanton round the Trees,",2.0 +"And the still Waters catch the dying Breeze,",2.0 +"Grief waits without, and melancholy Gloom:",1.0 +"Come, cheerful Hope, and fill the vacant Room;",1.0 +"Come every Thought, which Virtue gave to please;",1.0 +Come smiling Health with thy Companion Ease:,2.0 +"Let these, and all that Virtue's self attends,",0.0 +Bless the still Hours of my gentle Friends:,2.0 +"Peace to my Foes, if any such there be,",1.0 +And gracious Heaven give Repose to me.,0.0 +"BEHOLD the lordly pedant in his school,",0.0 +"How stern his brow, how absolute his rule!",0.0 +The trembling boys start at his awful nod;,1.0 +See him at home before the sovereign dame!,0.0 +"How fawning, how obsequious, and how tame!",2.0 +"Prosper, bright amazon, to thee it's given,",4.0 +"Like Juno, to rule him who rules the heaven.",2.0 +"BRIGHT emanation of all righteous power,",2.0 +Religion! bear me to thy sacred bower;,1.0 +"Where fixed in faith, by holy patience blessed,",0.0 +Calm resignation yields the wretched rest;,1.0 +"Beams in each breast, and lists the soul to heaven.",0.0 +"Who lightly bounding over life's surface skim,",3.0 +"Monarchs of mode, and worshippers of whim.",2.0 +"Wanton thus flies, display their painted wings:",3.0 +"Like you self pleased; as pretty, and ' -- as vain.",4.0 +And your frail forms can play the fool no more:,3.0 +"Ever it's too late, look with religious eyes;",4.0 +"Think, think, you faulty, and be timely wise.",2.0 +"Whose words are music, and whose motion grace;",1.0 +"Whose soft endearing looks insidious play,",2.0 +"Feast the fond eye, and snatch the soul away.",3.0 +"You laughing sex, who vainly wanton, rove",0.0 +Through the Elysium of unbounded love:,4.0 +"Watch the soft smile, and catch the glancing eye;",3.0 +"And what now feeds your lover, feast a worm.",1.0 +"A moment think; then, if you dare, ' -- be vain.",1.0 +"Whose cheeks never felt the trickling, tender tear;",1.0 +Whose breasts never heaved with sympathetic sigh;,1.0 +Whose hearts never opened to the asking eye.,2.0 +"You sons of trade, you busy tasteless train,",0.0 +"Whose God is gold, and whose religion gain;",0.0 +"Your greedy minds, to social joys unknown,",0.0 +Can you expect a charity from Heaven?,2.0 +"Shall you! you stubborn hearted, be forgiven?",0.0 +"Fruitless your sighs, repentant, will appear;",3.0 +"Unmoved the Godhead will your sorrows view,",2.0 +"As weeping want, on earth, was seen by you.",0.0 +"Big with each blessing that attends a throne,",0.0 +"Yet, spite of pride, the statesman and the slave.",1.0 +"Rise, undistinguished, from the equal grave. ' --",2.0 +Go search within for all ennobled earth;,1.0 +"Correct his feeding, and refine his taste:",1.0 +Courtiers and clowns compose alike his feast,1.0 +"What will avail the diamonds sparkling blaze,",1.0 +To the sad sense what then can give content,1.0 +The sweet reflection of a life well spent.,2.0 +"Springs to the skies, and humbly waits his God.",0.0 +"Starts at life's loss; and, frightful, meets his fate;",3.0 +"Have mercy, Heaven! ' -- Can I its mercy share?",1.0 +"Hear, from the grave, the plaintive orphan's groan",0.0 +And the sound shakes along the trembling skies,2.0 +"What shall we say in that great day of dread,",1.0 +When the rent graves shall render back their dead?,3.0 +"When, at the trumpet's sound, the clouds give way,",1.0 +And the world blazes in eternal day?,2.0 +"There the fierce tyrant feels the avenging rod,",4.0 +And pride sinks trembling at the sight of God;,1.0 +There suffering virtue happiness receives;,1.0 +"There the fooled atheist, though too late, believes:",6.0 +The poor lost sinner hears the eternal doom;,3.0 +"And, woe appalled, clings shuddering to his tomb.",2.0 +"Command your slain, you heroes, from their shrouds;",1.0 +You prime in state display your deepest schemes;,0.0 +"Try, try, you proud, in that tremendous hour,",1.0 +"The skill of science, or the strength of power,",1.0 +Lay them before the universal Lord;,2.0 +"Go, plead your merits, and revoke his word.",2.0 +Sooner shall shadows stop the lightning's blaze,2.0 +But chiefly you to whom the word was given,1.0 +"Whose pious toils dispel the sinner's fear,",1.0 +"On foot, coarse clad, with homely fare content,",1.0 +"Declared the dictates of the almighty Lord,",3.0 +But proved no doctrine by the dint of sword.,2.0 +"Love, justice, faith, humility they pressed,",2.0 +Yet threatened no damnation to the rest.,1.0 +"Plain and unsullied, like the simple maid,",2.0 +"Then social bliss descended from above,",1.0 +"Spread through each sex, and ripened into love:",0.0 +No feigned desires fed the heavenly flame;,3.0 +"Pure blazed the passion, as from God it came:",2.0 +All beings then with mutual rapture strove;,2.0 +"Love was religion; and religion, love.",3.0 +"You motley sons, composed of noise and show;",0.0 +Though round the fair you ever fondly rove;,0.0 +Heaven equal hears ' -- equal dispenses place:,5.0 +Cheque the gay vicious in their guilty race:,3.0 +"And scourge the shameless, though the powerful frown.",3.0 +"Raise, though in rags, and lend the wretched cure,",0.0 +"Shines over a throne, and through the cottage plays:",4.0 +"Scorn quibbling logic, and the modes of schools;",2.0 +"You congregated lay, who duly creep",0.0 +As the bell tolls for church ' -- to fall asleep.,2.0 +And treat the temple as you use the court.,1.0 +Blush the meek beauty in her hour of prayer.,3.0 +"Too nice to kneel, and much too proud to pray",2.0 +"No more, you vain, the sacred dome debase,",0.0 +"Wanton with worship, and your God disgrace,",3.0 +With me fall prostrate ' -- penitent adore;,3.0 +"Confess your errors, and offend no more.",2.0 +By chance condemned to wander from my birth,1.0 +"An erring exile, over the face of earth,",3.0 +Wild through the world of vice; ' -- licentious race! ' --,0.0 +"Pleased with each passion, I pursued their aim,",1.0 +"Cheered the gay pack, and grasped the guilty game;",3.0 +"Revealed regardless, leaped reflection over,",0.0 +"Till youth, till health, fame, fortune, are no more:",3.0 +"Of sharp remembrance, and severe disdain:",1.0 +Each painted pleasure its avenger breeds;,1.0 +"Contempt on pride, pale wants on waste approach.",1.0 +Eternal Good! from Thee our hope descends;,1.0 +"With Thee it centres, and in Thee it ends:",3.0 +"Great Lord of life, if daring I request,",2.0 +Whatever my fate is ' -- still my faith's in you:,3.0 +Still shall thy praise dwell rapturous on his tongue,2.0 +"Wretched or blessed, still shall I always own,",2.0 +"Whatever I feel, Heaven's holy will be done.",4.0 +"UP, Rouse your selves, you Nations, praise the Lord,",0.0 +"Sing, you delivered Nations, to your God,",3.0 +A lofty Song of Thankfulness and Praise;,1.0 +"For his Almighty Arm overthrew the Proud,",6.0 +"His be the Triumph, as the Conquest his.",2.0 +"And thou, OH God, raised High above all Gods,",4.0 +"Thou God of great Revenge, true God of War,",1.0 +"Who when the injured World to thee appealed,",1.0 +"Descending bowed the very Heaven of Heavens,",0.0 +Upon their mighty and their proud Oppressor:,1.0 +"OH animate my Breast, inspire my Voice,",1.0 +"Invigorate my Mind, inflame my Song;",1.0 +"But lofty, spirited, inspired, divine,",3.0 +That the admiring World may know it's thine.,1.0 +From none but thee the lofty Thought could spring.,1.0 +"From none but thee the immortal Spirit flow,",1.0 +"OH may it last whole Ages, last as long,",1.0 +"As the Remembrance of the mighty Day,",2.0 +Which now it Celebrates in sounding Verse;,0.0 +"That it be never by Human Wrongs oppressed,",2.0 +"That when our late Posterity shall read,",1.0 +"Our late Posterity with melting Eyes,",1.0 +"May prostrate all adore thy wondrous Power,",0.0 +Thy Divine Mercy to their blessed Forefathers;,7.0 +"And that it may advance, whenever it's read,",3.0 +"Thy Glory, and Victorious England's Fame.",3.0 +"Such Moses and exulting Israel sang,",1.0 +"Theirs was the Sound, the Inspiration thine",2.0 +"When the Red Sea, the Chariots and the Horse",4.0 +"Of haughty wretched Pharoah overturned,",0.0 +"Such the glad Prophetess Triumphant Sang,",3.0 +"As Hoary Danube, with indignant Waves,",1.0 +"Swallowed the Gallic and Bavarian Hosts,",5.0 +"Begin my Soul, and strike the Living Lyre,",0.0 +"OH raise thy self, OH rouse thy utmost Powers.",3.0 +"Contemn the World, and every thing below,",0.0 +"And soaring Tower above Mortality,",3.0 +To meet and welcome thy descending God.,1.0 +Tempestuous Whirlwind of Transporting Flame!,5.0 +"OH whither am I caught! OH whither rapt,",3.0 +"Begin my Soul, and strike the Living Lyre!",0.0 +Join you delivered Nations in the Song!,2.0 +Your Voices you delivered Nations join!,1.0 +"But you peculiarly, you chosen Tribes,",2.0 +Professors of Reformed and Spotless Faith!,1.0 +Let for one happy Hour the Church below,0.0 +"Triumph like that above, and you blessed Beings,",4.0 +"You Hosts of Saints, you glorious Hosts of Martyrs,",2.0 +Who now in the exulting Realms of Light,1.0 +Sing your old Triumphs over the Grizzly King,5.0 +Of Terrors in the noble Cause of Truth;,0.0 +"You Harmonious Hosts of Angels, who your Hours,",3.0 +"Your blissful Hours in tuneful Shouts of Joy,",0.0 +"Over the Infernal Tyrants dreadful Host,",1.0 +And still the Fall of dire Ambition sing,0.0 +In lofty Song with which all Heaven is charmed;,0.0 +And for one Hour rehearse our numerous Song;,3.0 +"The Sacred Subject is the same with yours,",1.0 +"How is Ambition fallen, like you we sing;",1.0 +"We sing the Wonders of our Maker's Power,",1.0 +"His Glory, and the Triumphs of the Just.",2.0 +"Now let thy tuneful Joy, my Soul, grow loud,",2.0 +"So loud, that all the listening World may hear,",0.0 +"And let the attending Universe reply,",2.0 +"Let Earth and Heaven rehearse the lofty Song,",1.0 +"While the bright Church Triumphant in the Sky,",3.0 +Join in one Chorus of Immortal Praise.,1.0 +"And thou, Great Queen, the Glory of thy Sex,",3.0 +The Prop and Glory of the Noble Isle;,1.0 +"On whom even William looks admiring down,",1.0 +And owns thee a Successor worthy him;,2.0 +"On whom the gazing World looks wondering up,",2.0 +"And its Deliverance waits from Heaven and thee,",1.0 +Shows all the wondering World that thou art sent,2.0 +From the bright Church Triumphant in the Sky,2.0 +To make the warring Church Triumph below;,5.0 +Great Patroness of all the Christian World!,2.0 +"Lo first for thee, and thy auspicious Reign,",3.0 +The exulting Nation's Praise to Heaven return!,1.0 +Is there a Climate so remote on Earth,2.0 +Where distressed Virtue is beyond the Reach,5.0 +Of thy extensive Charity? Thy Aid,2.0 +"Through all his rapid Course old Danube owns,",1.0 +And proudly curling his Imperial Waves,3.0 +To distant barbarous Armies transports thy Fame;,4.0 +A Thousand Echoes from his Shores reply,1.0 +"Thy Praise his Nymphs in tuneful Notes rehearse,",0.0 +"Thy Fame, Great Queen, the horrid Alps ascends,",1.0 +"And warms them, covered with eternal Snow;",1.0 +Warmly thy Goodness and thy Power extol;,5.0 +Those dreadful Fortresses by Nature made,1.0 +"The Bounds of dire Ambition, were too weak,",2.0 +Before thy generous Aid new Strength supplied.,3.0 +Since then the Christian World repairs to thee,0.0 +"For Patronage and Shelter from their Foes,",2.0 +Since Right and Truth from thee Protection find,1.0 +"Since purest Faith, the Darling Child of Heaven,",0.0 +"For Shelter under thy auspicious Power,",1.0 +"Begun at thy Command so strictly given,",2.0 +To celebrate with Pomp of Holy Praise,0.0 +A Song composed expressly to advance,1.0 +The Glory of thy Maker in thy Fame.,1.0 +So loud that all the listening World may hear;,0.0 +"You Nations raise your Tuneful Notes on High,",0.0 +"And raising to the Stars your mighty Arms,",1.0 +"Your Arms now mighty, now secured from Bonds",1.0 +"OH lift above the Stars your joyful Praise,",1.0 +To him from whom alone Deliverance flows.,1.0 +"But be thy Voice distinguished from the rest,",1.0 +"Thou stately Daughter of Imperial Rome,",3.0 +OH no! Thou surely wilt grow wild with Joy!,2.0 +"For thou hast past at once beyond all Hope,",1.0 +To blissful Rapture from extreme Despair;,1.0 +Thou art delivered from a World of Woe.,1.0 +"And piercing Groans, and Shrieks, and rueful Wails;",0.0 +Thou stately Daughter of Imperial Rome,3.0 +"Thy trembling Offspring helpless round thee ran,",1.0 +"And some shrieked piously aloud for Aid,",2.0 +While others wrung their wretched Arms in vain;,0.0 +"And some looked on with stupid Eyes aghast,",0.0 +"Some swooning, dying, with their Grief expressed",1.0 +By their last Groans their vast Excess of Woe.,2.0 +"One desperate Villain helped thy raging Foes,",0.0 +"With execrable Hands his Mother bound,",4.0 +"Thou Danube wert confounded at the Sight,",1.0 +"Then lifting thy sonorous Voice on High,",4.0 +"Thy Brother Rhine soon heard thy sounding Voice,",1.0 +"But sadly shaking his Majestic Head,",1.0 +Strait hid himself within his thickest Ooze.,1.0 +"Within thy Reeds, and breath forth empty Threats,",1.0 +The windy Births of melancholy Rage.,0.0 +"When in the dreary Horrors of the Dark,",1.0 +Expressing Manly Sorrow mixed with Rage;,0.0 +"While thy brown Billows sounding on thy Shore,",3.0 +"And swinging slow with hoarse and sullen Roar,",0.0 +Kept murmuring Consort to thy threatening Moan.,2.0 +"To which insulting thou wert wont to fly,",1.0 +"Not to discharge the Tribute of thy Waves,",2.0 +"But carry Terrors to the astonished Main,",3.0 +And make the Crescent wear a deadlier Pale.,2.0 +And in thy rapid Flight thy Maker praise:,0.0 +"Sound, sound his Praise at all thy extended Mouths,",2.0 +"Then turning to the distant Rhine thy Voice,",1.0 +Raise it that all the astonished Rhine may hear:,1.0 +"And lifting up thy Arms, now free from Bonds,",2.0 +Lifting aloft thy now Victorious Arms;,4.0 +"Let him with Rapture see, with Rapture hear,",0.0 +"Prepares to shake off his ignoble Bonds,",1.0 +"Germania, Raise thy tuneful Voice to Heaven;",2.0 +"Let thy fierce Eagle towering to the Skies,",4.0 +"In Thunder bear thy Maker's Praise to Heaven,",0.0 +"Who has for thee performed amazing things,",1.0 +"Which but to hope had been Presumption thought,",0.0 +And what had looked like Wildness even to wish.,2.0 +"March to thy Aid, OH vast Surprise of Joy!",1.0 +"Hark! How they fiercely cry Revenge, Revenge,",0.0 +"OH welcome, welcome to our longing Souls,",2.0 +For whose dear Sake a thousand times we'll die.,1.0 +"See, see thy Sons in firm Battalions stand,",1.0 +"See great Revenge inflame their Martial Eyes,",1.0 +And round their Temples spread its warlike Die?,1.0 +But whence this Spirit? Whence this wondrous Change?,0.0 +March to thy Aid; OH vast Surprise of Joy!,1.0 +"They whom thy wondering Eyes never saw before,",2.0 +"Nor them, nor their Forefathers since the Time",4.0 +"For Britain's gentle Shore, at last are come,",0.0 +See to their ancient wretched Mother's Aid,0.0 +The Pious Nation march impetuous on.,1.0 +"Germania raise thy tuneful Voice to Heaven,",2.0 +"And praise return to Heaven, and gracious Ann,",0.0 +Who sends them to thy Aid; she Day and Night,1.0 +"Breaks her own Rest to give the World Repose,",0.0 +To give it Liberty and lasting Peace.,1.0 +For only Gracious Ann can under Heaven,0.0 +"Give Freedom to the World, and lasting Peace;",2.0 +"For only she over willing Nations reigns,",2.0 +"Over freeborn Souls, whose Glory, and whose Pride",1.0 +For as the Dove that from the Deluge fled,2.0 +"Brought her mild Olive to the sheltering Ark,",6.0 +"Framed by great Heavens Command to save Mankind,",6.0 +"And found Protection there; so gentle Peace,",1.0 +"To Anna's sacred Breast for Shelter flies,",0.0 +"And finds sure Refuge there, and will from thence",3.0 +Send its blessed Influence out to glad the World.,4.0 +"But the French Tyrant's Breast had never Peace,",4.0 +"There endless Strife, there dire Ambition reigns,",0.0 +He what he never had can never bestow.,2.0 +"Peace without Freedom is an empty Name,",5.0 +"But he calls miserable Bondage Peace,",3.0 +"As Plunder, Murder, Rape he Empire calls.",0.0 +"Germania, Praise return to Heaven and Ann,",2.0 +It's Heaven and she that from the Northern Main,0.0 +"Have sent the noblest Nation to thy Aid,",1.0 +Which the wide Ocean from the World divides;,3.0 +A Nation round the which wise Nature casts,1.0 +"The stormy Main subjected to her Sway,",1.0 +That no usurping Tyrant might invade,1.0 +"The sacred Refuge of fair Liberty,",3.0 +"And the World's Champion People might annoy,",4.0 +"Her Grim Destroyers, there Britannia sends",3.0 +Her glad Deliverers to preserve Mankind;,4.0 +A Nation which the lovely Fame enjoys,0.0 +"Still to have fought for Liberty, for Truth,",1.0 +"For all the injured Nations common Rights,",0.0 +"Which speaks to dire Ambition in the Tone,",0.0 +"Here know thy Bounds, here stop thy aspiring Waves.",2.0 +Hers are the shining Squadrons that descend,1.0 +"Their Forms not wholly like, nor yet unlike thy Sons,",0.0 +"Resembling just as far as Brothers should,",0.0 +As they who from the same brave Sires descend.,1.0 +"The Joy that in their Looks severely shines,",0.0 +And all the dreadful Spirit in their Eyes,0.0 +"Secure of Victory, secure of Fame!",1.0 +Such Spirit never did thy Eyes behold;,0.0 +"No, never, thy Heroic Eugene cries,",5.0 +Such mighty Eugene never saw before;,5.0 +"Though thou hast long Triumphant Armies led,",1.0 +"Though thou hast conquered Foes of every kind,",1.0 +Though thou hast been victorious in more Lands,2.0 +"Than wandering Travellers have seen, yet thou",3.0 +An Army from a freeborn People chose:,1.0 +For only Briton's of the Race of Men,1.0 +"Their Liberties entirely have maintained,",3.0 +Nobly maintained against the joint Assaults,2.0 +"The Pride of Foreign Tyrants, and their own.",1.0 +"Know it's from Liberty, thou wondrous Man,",1.0 +"Master of daring Councils yet of wise,",2.0 +"Germania, raise thy tuneful Voice on high,",2.0 +This is the Nation preordained by Fate,1.0 +"To save thee Daughter of Imperial Rome,",3.0 +"Just sinking in the vast Abyss of Time,",0.0 +Like thy great Mother under barbarous Rage.,4.0 +"Hear this, you aspiring Rulers of the Earth,",2.0 +You who for empty Noise or transient Power,0.0 +"Oppress the weak, and undermine the strong,",0.0 +You Plagues of God to scourge a guilty World,0.0 +By vain Pursuits of Arbitrary Sway!,0.0 +"Who this magnanimous People would destroy,",3.0 +That stands between your proud Designs and you;,0.0 +"Hear this, and think that nothing's lasting here,",0.0 +Think that the time must come when you or yours,1.0 +"Must taste the sad Vicissitudes of Fate,",1.0 +And in your Turns by proud Oppression groan;,0.0 +"Then hate so brave a People, if you can.",1.0 +"A People the sure Hope of the distressed,",3.0 +"The brave Defenders of the Rights of Kings,",1.0 +"And the just Guardians of fair Liberty,",6.0 +"O Austria, Austria, had thy Philip known",3.0 +"That time even then was harnessing the Years,",2.0 +"When this brave People, Object of his Rage",3.0 +"And of his Hate, should prove thy noblest Friends'",1.0 +"Should rescue both thy bright Imperial Crowns,",2.0 +"Deliver Germany, recover Spain.",1.0 +"Raise up thy drooping Eagle from the Dust,",1.0 +And fix new Thunder on his soaring Wings;,2.0 +Then deep Reflection on the just Returns,1.0 +Of Fate had dashed his proud aspiring Thoughts.,0.0 +The chief Ambition of his Soul had been,1.0 +To be allied to such a generous Race.,3.0 +He great Eliza would have courted then,0.0 +"For Friendship, as Maria for Desire,",2.0 +That strict inviolable League which joins,1.0 +And Philip then like Leopold or Charles,0.0 +"To establish Right and Peace, and from the Proud",2.0 +And strong Oppressor vindicate Mankind.,2.0 +"You Nations, who profess the Christian Faith,",0.0 +"Together raise your tuneful Notes on High,",0.0 +So High that all the listening World may hear,0.0 +"Let Earth and Heaven repeat the lofty Song,",1.0 +"But let the Sound of thy aspiring Song,",1.0 +"Britannia, be distinguished from them all,",3.0 +As among all thy Offspring Anna's famed,2.0 +For pious Praise and Gratitude to Heaven;,0.0 +So over thy Sister Nations be thy Song,2.0 +"Renowned, for Heaven and Nature have bestowed",0.0 +"On thee, the Talent of exalted Song.",2.0 +As Heaven and Nature may rejoice to hear;,1.0 +And over thy Sister Nations lifts thy Name;,2.0 +"Thee they all bless, and thee they all admire,",2.0 +"But to Oppressors' like the Fiery Mars Star,",3.0 +Or like a Comet that with sanguine Blaze,0.0 +"Denounces War and Revolutions dire,",0.0 +To purple Tyrants a portentous Light.,1.0 +"Such new unheard of Fame thou hast acquired,",0.0 +"As never old, nor modern Nations knew,",0.0 +"And modern Spaniards too, and modern Gauls",0.0 +Have conquering fought for universal Sway;,2.0 +"For universal Freedom only thou,",1.0 +"By so much more illustrious than them all,",2.0 +As it's more truly glorious to redeem,4.0 +Than it's to damn the wretched Race of Men.,1.0 +"Then stretch thy lofty Voice to Heaven, and sing",0.0 +"Thy Maker's Praise, that Earth and Heaven may hear.",0.0 +His Terrors and his Thunders armed thy Powers;,1.0 +"He thy Great Queen with sovereign Wisdom blessed,",2.0 +"Instructing her to choose the glorious Chief,",3.0 +"Deserving to command her daring Troops,",1.0 +Embattled for the Freedom of the World.,2.0 +"A general Worthy of Heroic Times,",1.0 +For Marlborough now fills the Breath of Fame.,2.0 +"But who shall paint thee wondrous Chief, in whom",0.0 +Repugnant Qualities are reconciled;,1.0 +"Secret thy Soul as is the dead of Night,",3.0 +"Yet cheerful as the Smile of opening Day,",3.0 +"That lofty, awful, and commanding Brow",1.0 +With sweet attractive Majesty invites.,1.0 +"Calm are his Thoughts in his profound Designs,",1.0 +"Yet swift though sure his executing Might,",0.0 +His Breast supplied with all the glorious Fire,2.0 +"In the aspiring Minds of those brave Men,",2.0 +Who by great Actions court eternal Fame.,2.0 +"Yet he by a transcendent Force of Mind,",1.0 +"Entirely Master of that towering Fire,",3.0 +"Which, like his Slave, he absolutely sways",0.0 +With a Controlling and a Lordly Power.,2.0 +"Calm are his Gestures, his Majestic Brow",1.0 +"Composed, never dark with Grief, nor rough with Rage,",4.0 +"But always mild, attractive, bright, serene.",0.0 +"In whom deep Foresight dwells unknown to fear,",4.0 +And Intrepidity unknown to Rage.,2.0 +The Love of Fame that urges him away,1.0 +"And guided like the Chariot of the Sun,",1.0 +Whose animating Fires preserve the World,0.0 +"Wisely he manages the Nerves of War,",3.0 +"His Essay an Heroic Masterpiece,",3.0 +Stupendous the Design in every Part,1.0 +"Whether the vast Conception we regard,",3.0 +Or the surprising Secrecy with which,2.0 +"'Twas long concealed from penetrating Eyes,",1.0 +Or the amazing Swiftness of his March,2.0 +When from the Maese his wondering Troops he led.,2.0 +Or the judicious Boldness of his Choice,2.0 +"Which Conquest opened the Bavarian Plains,",3.0 +And made them to victorious Flames a Prey.,3.0 +As Marlborough the bright Occasion found.,1.0 +How great is he who in his ample Thought,0.0 +Could comprehend and afterwards prepare,1.0 +In which a large Extent of Ground he gained,0.0 +A strengthening Barrier for the cautious Dutch,3.0 +"The astonishing Design, which all at once,",2.0 +Like Magic changes all the Face of War;,0.0 +"Confounds the Gallic Tyrants proud Designs,",0.0 +Dashes him headlong from his towering Thoughts,2.0 +"The Mountains heaped on Mountains in his Head,",0.0 +From which his proud Imagination thought,0.0 +"In his enchanted Castle sat retired,",1.0 +"And there unseen he muttered secret Sounds,",1.0 +And there Infernal Characters he drew,2.0 +"That mustered up black Clouds obscure the Day,",2.0 +"And scare the Nations with their dreadful Gloom,",1.0 +"And then the Tempest raged, the Thunder roared,",0.0 +Threatening the World with universal Wreck.,1.0 +"At length the time ordained by Fate is come,",0.0 +"The Conquering Hero's come who breaks the Charm,",2.0 +"And now the old Enchanter looks aghast,",0.0 +"Forlorn, forsaken by the Infernal Powers,",3.0 +And trembling at the impending Wrath of Heaven,2.0 +But of the Talents of thy mighty Mind,2.0 +Is that Rapidity by which to Fame,1.0 +"Through all the Bars that Art or Nature cast,",0.0 +"Daring yet wise thy Conduct, and resolved",3.0 +"With all the Judgement of discerning Thought,",1.0 +For the great Juncture called for all thy Speed.,2.0 +"The insulting French were overturning all,",1.0 +And Liberty in dire Convulsions lay;,1.0 +The Empire foundering like a vast Galloon,1.0 +When raging Ocean in a general Storm,0.0 +Sends his sonorous Billows to the Assault:,5.0 +"Savoy was sinking, and the cruel French,",1.0 +"Climbing the Summits of the horrid Alps,",3.0 +Even in the dreadful Region of the Thunder.,1.0 +"Of adverse War, and unexpected Rout,",1.0 +And fondly sighed for ancient Leagues again.,0.0 +"Whiter than Ambient Snow her deadly Hue,",4.0 +"And howling over her Alpine Rocks she ran,",3.0 +"And trembling with pale Fear, her hoary Hair",4.0 +"She tore, and would have wrung her wretched Arms,",0.0 +But her own Sons for mercenary Sums,1.0 +Had bound her wretched Arms with Chains of Gold;,0.0 +"And her Majestic Robe had rudely torn,",1.0 +And naked left her to the killing Cold.,1.0 +"A Giant over the Neighbouring Mountains stalked,",4.0 +With mad Deportment and with savage Mein.,1.0 +And cruel Eyes that threatened instant Fate.,0.0 +"Italia, Ah how fallen, how changed from her,",2.0 +"Who won the World with her victorious Arms,",3.0 +"With the wide Ocean circumscribed her Sway,",2.0 +"And with the Stars her never dying Fame,",1.0 +Brittain in dreadful Expectation lay,2.0 +"By two contending Daughters to be torn,",1.0 +"Both stubborn Foes to Union, and yet both",2.0 +Unless united hopelessly undone.,1.0 +"England was plagued with an unnatural Race,",5.0 +"A Race expecting but the Blow of Fate,",1.0 +"The cutting off one slender royal Thread,",1.0 +"That Thread on which the Christian World depends,",0.0 +And then but long avert that Hour you Heavens,0.0 +Their Country to a Foreign Tyrants Power.,1.0 +"These were the potent Reasons for Dispatch,",2.0 +Beside the undaunted Spirit that appeared,2.0 +"In the brave Squadrons and Battalions joined,",3.0 +That flashed victorious Lightning from their Eyes;,3.0 +Which their great Leader soon perceived with Joy;,2.0 +And cheque their Fire impatient to be freed.,1.0 +"Such as their famed Forefathers never knew,",2.0 +And which attracted the admiring Eyes,1.0 +"Of all the gazing World, and seemed to cry",0.0 +"They had not time to cool, but must do things",0.0 +"To satisfy the expecting World, so great",2.0 +As scarce their great Forefathers ever performed.,3.0 +"To which the French their boasted Conquests owe,",1.0 +"It's not their Discipline which makes them dreadful,",1.0 +Besides a thousand other Arts obscene.,0.0 +"Could they by Discipline or Force prevail,",1.0 +It's manifest they bravely would disdain,0.0 +To have Recourse to such inglorious ways.,5.0 +The sooner he compelled them to decide,2.0 +"The Contest by the last Event of War,",1.0 +The less Occasion would the Traitors find,0.0 +Add that the exhausted Empire could afford,1.0 +No long Supply to such a numerous Host.,4.0 +"Lastly, this War was an Appeal to Heaven",3.0 +"And this great Cause the darling Cause of Heaven,",2.0 +"For Justice, Liberty, Religion, God.",1.0 +"His Confidence in Heaven would fire their Souls,",1.0 +"Broke the proud Column of thy Master's Praise,",4.0 +Which sixty Winters had conspired to raise?,2.0 +From the lost Field a hundred Standards brought,2.0 +"Must be the Work of Chance, and Fortune's Fault:",0.0 +"That fatal Day the mighty Work was done,",0.0 +With Rays oblique upon the Gallic Sun.,0.0 +"And Mars mistook, though Louis ordered right.",0.0 +"To say how Louis did not pass the Rhine,",0.0 +"And though the Poet made his last Efforts,",4.0 +"But, tell me, hast thou reason to complain",1.0 +Of the rough Triumphs of the last Campaign?,3.0 +"The Danube rescued, and the Empire saved,",1.0 +"Say, is the Majesty of Verse retrieved?",1.0 +"And would it prejudice thy softer vein,",1.0 +"To sing the Princes, Louis and Eugene?",1.0 +Is it too hard in happy Verse to place,2.0 +"Her Warriors Anna sends from Tweed and Thames,",0.0 +That France may fall by more harmonious Names.,2.0 +"Which Thou and all thy Brothers ought to claim,",0.0 +"Sacred to Verse, and sure of endless Fame?",2.0 +Cutts is in metre something harsh to read:,1.0 +Let the Intention make the Number good:,2.0 +"And though rough Churchill scarce in Verse will stand,",2.0 +"I grant, old Friend, old Foe for such We are",3.0 +"Alternate, as the Chance of Peace and War",0.0 +"That we Poetic Folks, who must restrain",1.0 +"Our measured Sayings in an equal Chain,",0.0 +"Have Troubles utterly unknown to Those,",1.0 +Who let their Fancy loose in rambling Prose.,0.0 +"For Instance now, how hard it is for Me",1.0 +To make my Matter and my Verse agree?,1.0 +Pushed through the Danube to the Shores of Styx,1.0 +"Squadrons eighteen, Battalions twenty six;",2.0 +"Officers Captive made and private Men,",2.0 +"Of these twelve hundred, of those thousands ten;",3.0 +"And when you should your Heroes Deeds rehearse,",0.0 +I told You where my Difficulty lay:,0.0 +"They scorn the Bounds of Verse, and mock the Muse's Toils.",0.0 +"To make the rough Recital aptly chime,",0.0 +It's mighty hard: What Poet would essay,0.0 +To count the Streamers of my Lord Mayor's Day?,4.0 +To number all the several Dishes dressed,0.0 +"By honest Lamb, last Coronation Feast?",1.0 +Or make Arithmetic and Epic meet;,0.0 +That I had shared a Portion of thy Skill;,1.0 +Had this poor Breast received the Heavenly Beam;,5.0 +Should call aspiring Gods to bless her Choice;,0.0 +"Arms and a Queen to Sing; Who, Great and Good,",0.0 +"Sent forth the Terror of her high Commands,",2.0 +"To save the Nations from invading Hands,",1.0 +And fix the jarring World with equal Laws.,0.0 +"The Queen should sit in Windsor's sacred Grove,",0.0 +"Attended by the Gods of War, and Love:",1.0 +"Both should with equal Zeal Her Smiles implore,",0.0 +"To fix Her Joys, or to extend Her Power.",1.0 +"And as great Anna's Smiles dispel their Fear,",2.0 +With active Dance should Her Observance claim;,1.0 +With Vocal Shell should sound Her happy Name.,0.0 +"Their Master Thames should leave the neighbouring Shore,",2.0 +"By his strong Anchor known, and Silver Oar;",2.0 +"To Her, his dear Defence, He should complain,",1.0 +That while He blesses Her indulgent Reign;,1.0 +"While furthest Seas are by his Fleets surveyed,",1.0 +And on his happy Banks each India laid;,3.0 +"His Brethren Maes, and Waal, and Rhine, and Saar",0.0 +Feel the hard Burden of oppressive War;,4.0 +That Danube scarce retains his rightful Course,0.0 +Against two Rebel Armies neighbouring Force;,3.0 +"And All must weep sad Captives to the Sein,",2.0 +The valiant Sovereign calls Her General forth;,0.0 +"Neither recites Her Bounty, nor His Worth:",3.0 +And by That Labour merit Her Esteem:,2.0 +She bids Him wait Her to the Sacred Hall;,1.0 +"Shows Him Prince Edward, and the conquered Gaul;",4.0 +"Fixing the bloody Cross upon His Breast,",2.0 +"Placing the Saint an Emblem by His Side,",3.0 +"She tells Him, Virtue armed must conquer lawless Pride.",0.0 +"The Hero bows obedient, and retires:",3.0 +The Queen's Commands exalt the Warrior's Fires.,0.0 +"His Steps are to the silent Woods inclined,",1.0 +The great Design revolving in his Mind:,0.0 +When to his Sight a Heavenly Form appears:,2.0 +"Her Hand a Palm, her Head a Laurel wears.",0.0 +"Below for ever sought, and blessed above;",0.0 +"Me, the bright Source of Wealth, and Power, and Fame;",4.0 +"Nor need I say, Victoria is my Name:",1.0 +Me the great Father down to Thee has sent:,4.0 +"He bids Me wait at Thy distinguished Tent,",1.0 +To execute what Anna's Wish would have:,0.0 +"Her Subject Thou, I only am Her Slave.",2.0 +"Dare then, Thou much beloved by smiling Fate:",0.0 +"For Anna's Sake, and in Her Name, be Great:",0.0 +"Go forth, and be to distant Nations known,",1.0 +"My future Favourite, and My darling Son.",1.0 +At Schellenberg I'll manifest sustain,1.0 +"Thy glorious Cause; and spread my Wings again,",2.0 +"The Goddess said, nor would admit Reply;",0.0 +"But cut the liquid Air, and gained the Sky.",0.0 +His high Commission is through Britain known;,1.0 +He marches thoughtful; and He speedy sails:,1.0 +"Bless Him, you Seas! and prosper Him, you Gales!",1.0 +And William's Death with lessened Grief deplores.,0.0 +His Presence only must retrieve That Loss:,0.0 +"Sustained the Ball, nor drooped beneath the Weight.",0.0 +Secret and Swift behold the Chief advance;,2.0 +"Sees half the Empire joined, and Friend to France:",1.0 +The British General dooms the Fight: His Sword,0.0 +Dreadful He draws: The Captains wait the Word.,2.0 +"Anne and St. George, the charging Hero cries:",3.0 +Shrill Echo from the neighbouring Wood replies,4.0 +Anne and St. George. ' -- At That auspicious Sign,3.0 +The Standards move; the adverse Armies join.,1.0 +"Of Eight great Hours, Time measures out the Sands;",5.0 +Confessed She sits: the Hostile Troops recede: ' --,0.0 +"Triumphs the Goddess, from her Promise freed.",3.0 +"The Eagle, by the British Lion's Might",1.0 +"Fired with the Thoughts which these Ideas raise,",2.0 +"Scornful of Earth and Clouds, should reach the Skies,",2.0 +With Wonder though with Envy still pursued by human Eyes.,1.0 +"But We must change the Style. ' -- Just now I said,",1.0 +I never was Master of the tuneful Trade.,3.0 +"Or the small Genius which my Youth could boast,",2.0 +In Prose and Business lies extinct and lost:,0.0 +"Blessed, if I may some younger Muse excite;",1.0 +"Point out the Game, and animate the Flight:",0.0 +"That from Marseilles to Calais France may know,",5.0 +"As We have Conquerors, We have Poets too;",2.0 +And either Laurel does in Britain grow:,0.0 +"That, though amongst our selves, with too much Heat,",1.0 +"We sometime wrangle, when We should debate;",1.0 +A consequential Ill which Freedom draws;,0.0 +"A bad Effect, but from a Noble Cause:",1.0 +"We can with universal Zeal advance,",1.0 +"To answer to thy Master, or thy Muse;",2.0 +"Nor want just Subject for victorious Strains,",3.0 +"And where old Spencer sung, a new Elisa reigns.",1.0 +"IT'S hard to say, if greater Want of Skill",0.0 +Appear in Writing or in Judging ill;,1.0 +"To tyre our Patience, than mislead our Sense.",1.0 +"Some few in that, but Numbers err in this,",0.0 +Ten Censure wrong for one who Writes amiss;,2.0 +"A Fool might once himself alone expose,",0.0 +Now One in Verse makes many more in Prose.,1.0 +"It's with our Judgements as our Watches, none",2.0 +"Go just alike, yet each believes his own.",1.0 +"In Poets as true Genius is but rare,",3.0 +True Taste as seldom is the Critic's Share;,2.0 +"Both must alike from Heaven derive their Light,",1.0 +"These born to Judge, as well as those to Write.",1.0 +And censure freely who have written well.,0.0 +"Authors are partial to their Wit, it's true,",3.0 +But are not Critics to their Judgement too?,2.0 +"Yet if we look more closely, we shall find",1.0 +Nature affords at least a glimmering Light;,4.0 +"The Lines, though touched but faintly, are drawn right.",2.0 +"But as the slightest Sketch, if justly traced,",1.0 +"Is by ill Colouring but the more disgraced,",3.0 +So by false Learning is good Sense defaced.,3.0 +"Some are bewildered in the Maze of Schools,",1.0 +"In search of Wit these lose their common Sense,",0.0 +And then turn Critics in their own Defence:,1.0 +Those hate as Rivals all that write; and others,0.0 +"All Fools have still an Itching to deride,",1.0 +And fain would be upon the Laughing Side:,0.0 +"There are, who judge still worse than he can write.",3.0 +"Some have at first for Wits, then Poets past,",0.0 +"Turned Critics next, and proved plain Fools at last.",2.0 +"Some neither can for Wits nor Critics pass,",1.0 +As heavy Mules are neither Horse nor Ass.,0.0 +"Unfinished Things, one knows not what to call,",0.0 +Their Generation's so equivocal:,2.0 +"To tell them, would a hundred Tongues require,",0.0 +"Or one vain Wit's, that might a hundred tyre.",1.0 +"But you who seek to give and merit Fame,",1.0 +"And justly bear a Critic's noble Name,",0.0 +"Be sure your self and your own Reach to know,",1.0 +"How far your Genius, Taste, and Learning go;",0.0 +"Launch not beyond your Depth, but be discreet,",1.0 +And mark that Point where Sense and Dullness meet.,0.0 +"Nature to all things fixed the Limits fit,",3.0 +"As on the Land while here the Ocean gains,",1.0 +In other Parts it leaves wide sandy Plains;,1.0 +"Thus in the Soul while Memory prevails,",1.0 +The solid Power of Understanding fails;,2.0 +"Where Beams of warm Imagination play,",0.0 +One Science only will one Genius fit;,1.0 +"So vast is Art, so narrow Human Wit:",0.0 +"Not only bounded to peculiar Arts,",1.0 +"But oft in those, confined to single Parts.",1.0 +"Like Kings we lose the Conquests gained before,",1.0 +"Each might his several Province well command,",0.0 +Would all but stoop to what they understand.,0.0 +"First follow NATURE, and your Judgement frame",2.0 +"By her just Standard, which is still the same:",1.0 +"One clear, unchanged, and Universal Light,",0.0 +"Life, Force, and Beauty, must to all impart,",1.0 +"At once the Source, and End, and Test of Art.",0.0 +That Art is best which most resembles Her;,1.0 +"Which still presides, yet never does Appear:",0.0 +In some fair Body thus the sprightly Soul,1.0 +"Each Motion guides, and every Nerve sustains;",0.0 +"It self unseen, but in the Effects, remains.",1.0 +"There are whom Heaven has blessed with store of Wit,",1.0 +Yet want as much again to manage it;,1.0 +"For Wit and Judgement ever are at strife,",1.0 +"Though meant each other's Aid, like Man and Wife.",0.0 +It's more to guide than spur the Muse's Steed;,0.0 +"Restrain his Fury, than provoke his Speed;",1.0 +"The winged Courser, like a generous Horse,",4.0 +Shows most true Mettle when you cheque his Course.,2.0 +"Those RULES of old discovered, not devised,",0.0 +"Nature, like Monarchy, is but restrained",4.0 +By the same Laws which first herself ordained.,2.0 +"First learnt Greece just Precepts did indite,",2.0 +"When to repress, and when indulge our Flight.",1.0 +"High on Parnassus' Top her Sons she showed,",2.0 +"And pointed out those arduous Paths they trod,",3.0 +And urged the rest by equal Steps to rise.,0.0 +From great Examples useful Rules were given;,0.0 +She drew from them what they derived from Heaven.,2.0 +"The generous Critic fanned the Poet's Fire,",2.0 +"And taught the World, with Reason to Admire.",1.0 +"To dress her Charms, and make her more beloved:",0.0 +But following Wits from that Intention strayed;,2.0 +"Who could not win the Mistress, wooed the Maid,",0.0 +"Set up themselves, and drove a separate Trade;",2.0 +"Against the Poets their own Arms they turned,",1.0 +Sure to hate most the Men from whom they learnt.,0.0 +"By Doctor's Bills to play the Doctor's Part,",0.0 +"Bold in the Practise of mistaken Rules,",1.0 +"Prescribe, apply, and call their Masters Fools.",0.0 +"Some on the Leaves of ancient Authors prey,",0.0 +"Some dryly plain, without Invention's Aid,",0.0 +"These lost the Sense, their Learning to display,",1.0 +And those explained the Meaning quite away.,1.0 +"You then whose Judgement the right Course would steer,",2.0 +Know well each ANCIENT's proper Character;,2.0 +"His Fable, Subject, Scope in every Page;",0.0 +"Religion, Country, Genius of his Age:",1.0 +"Without all these at once before your Eyes,",1.0 +"Be HOMER's Works your Study, and Delight,",1.0 +"Read them by Day, and meditate by Night;",0.0 +"Thence form your Judgement, thence your Notions bring,",1.0 +And trace the Muses upward to their Spring.,1.0 +"Still with It self compared, his Text peruse;",0.0 +"Ere warning Phoebus touched his trembling Ears,",1.0 +"Perhaps he seemed above the Critic's Law,",0.0 +And but from Nature's Fountains scorned to draw:,1.0 +"Nature and Homer were, he found, the same:",3.0 +"Convinced, amazed, he checked the bold Design,",0.0 +"And did his Work to Rules as strict confine,",0.0 +Learn hence for Ancient Rules a just Esteem;,1.0 +To copy Nature is to copy Them.,2.0 +"Some Beauties yet, no Precepts can declare,",3.0 +"Music resembles Poetry, in each",3.0 +"Are nameless Graces which no Methods teach,",1.0 +Since Rules were made but to promote their End,1.0 +Some Lucky LICENCE answers to the full,1.0 +"The Intent proposed, that Licence is a Rule.",2.0 +"Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take,",2.0 +May boldly deviate from the common Track.,0.0 +"Great Wits sometime may gloriously offend,",5.0 +And rise to Faults true Critics dare not mend;,1.0 +"From vulgar Bounds with brave Disorder part,",0.0 +"And snatch a Grace beyond the Reach of Art,",0.0 +"Which, without passing through the Judgement, gains",5.0 +"The Heart, and all its End at once attains.",0.0 +"In Prospects, thus, some Objects please our Eyes,",0.0 +"Which out of Nature's common Order rise,",0.0 +"The shapeless Rock, or hanging Precipice.",1.0 +"But Care in Poetry must still be had,",1.0 +It asks Discretion even in running Mad:,2.0 +"And though the Ancients thus their Rules invade,",1.0 +As Kings dispense with Laws Themselves have made,0.0 +"Moderns, beware! Or if you must offend",3.0 +"Against the Precept, never transgress its End;",3.0 +Let it be seldom; and compelled by Need;,1.0 +"And have, at least, Their Precedent to plead.",1.0 +"The Critic else proceeds without Remorse,",0.0 +"Seizes your Fame, and puts his Laws in force.",2.0 +"I know there are, to whose presumptuous Thoughts",3.0 +"Those Freer Beauties, even in Them, seem Faults.",1.0 +"Considered singly, or beheld too near,",2.0 +"Which, but proportioned to their Light, or Place",2.0 +Due Distance reconciles to Form and Grace.,1.0 +A prudent Chief not always must display,0.0 +"His Powers in equal Ranks, and fair Array,",2.0 +"But with the Occasion and the Place comply,",2.0 +"Conceal his Force, nay seem sometime to Fly.",2.0 +"Those oft are Stratagems which Errors seem,",1.0 +"Nor is it Homer Nods, but We that Dream.",2.0 +"Still green with Bays each ancient Altar stands,",1.0 +Above the reach of Sacrilegious Hands;,0.0 +"Hear, in all Tongues consenting Paeans ring!",0.0 +"In Praise so just, let every Voice be joined,",1.0 +And fill the General Chorus of Mankind!,2.0 +Immortal Heirs of Universal Praise!,0.0 +"As Streams roll down, enlarging as they flow!",3.0 +"Nations unborn your mighty Names shall sound,",3.0 +And Worlds applaud that must not yet be found!,0.0 +O may some Spark of your Celestial Fire,2.0 +"The last, the meanest of your Sons inspire,",1.0 +"That on weak Wings, from far, pursues your Flights;",3.0 +"To teach vain Wits a Science little known,",1.0 +"Admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!",2.0 +OF all the Causes which conspire to blind,2.0 +"Man's erring Judgement, and misguide the Mind,",2.0 +"Whatever Nature has in Worth denied,",1.0 +She gives in large Recruits of needful Pride;,0.0 +"For as in Bodies, thus in Souls, we find",1.0 +"What wants in Blood and Spirits, swelled with Wind:",0.0 +"Pride, where Wit fails, steps in to our Defence,",2.0 +And fills up all the mighty Void of Sense!,0.0 +"If once right Reason drives that Cloud away,",1.0 +"Trust not your self; but your Defects to know,",1.0 +Make use of every Friend ' -- and every Foe.,1.0 +A little Learning is a dangerous Thing;,3.0 +"There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,",0.0 +And drinking largely sobers us again.,1.0 +"Fired with the Charms fair Science does impart,",2.0 +"In fearless Youth we tempt the Heights of Art,",0.0 +"While from the bounded Level of our Mind,",1.0 +"Short Views we take, nor see the Lengths behind;",1.0 +"But more advanced, behold with strange Surprise",0.0 +"New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise!",1.0 +"So pleased at first the towering Alps we try,",0.0 +"Mount over the Vales, and seem to tread the Sky,",3.0 +"The Eternal Snows appear already past,",1.0 +And the first Clouds and Mountains seem the last:,2.0 +"But those attained, we tremble to survey",2.0 +"The increasing Prospect tyres our wandering Eyes,",3.0 +"Hills peep over Hills, and Alps on Alps arise!",1.0 +"With the same Spirit that its Author writ,",2.0 +"Survey the Whole, nor seek slight Faults to find;",1.0 +"Where Nature moves, and Rapture warms the Mind;",0.0 +"Nor lose, for that malignant dull Delight,",0.0 +The generous Pleasure to be charmed with Wit.,3.0 +"But in such Lays as neither ebb, nor flow,",0.0 +"Correctly cold, and regularly low,",1.0 +"That shunning Faults, one quiet Tenor keep;",0.0 +We cannot blame indeed ' -- but we may sleep.,1.0 +"In Wit, as Nature, what affects our Hearts",0.0 +"It's not a Lip, or Eye, we Beauty call,",0.0 +But the joint Force and full Result of all.,2.0 +"Thus when we view some well proportioned Dome,",0.0 +"The World's just Wonder, and even thine, OH Rome!",4.0 +All comes united to the admiring Eyes;,3.0 +"No monstrous Height, or Breadth, or Length appear;",1.0 +"The Whole at once is Bold, and Regular.",1.0 +"Thinks what never was, nor is, nor ever shall be.",2.0 +"In every Work regard the Writer's End,",0.0 +Since none can compass more than they Intend;,1.0 +"And if the Means be just, the Conduct true,",1.0 +"Applause, in spite of trivial Faults, is due.",2.0 +"As Men of Breeding, oft the Men of Wit",0.0 +"TO avoid great Errors, must the less commit,",2.0 +"Neglect the Rules each Verbal Critic lays,",0.0 +"For not to know some Trifles, is a Praise.",1.0 +"Most Critics fond of some subservient Art,",1.0 +"Still make the Whole depend upon a Part,",1.0 +And All to one loved Folly Sacrifice.,2.0 +"A certain Bard encountering on the Way,",1.0 +"Our Author, happy in a Judge so nice,",0.0 +"Produced his Play, and begged the Knight's Advice;",0.0 +"Made him observe the Subject and the Plot,",3.0 +"All which, exact to Rule were brought about,",0.0 +Were but a Combat in the Lists left out.,3.0 +What! Leave the Combat out? Exclaims the Knight;,1.0 +Not so by Heaven he answers in a Rage,0.0 +"Knights, Squires, and Steeds, must enter on the Stage.",4.0 +The Stage can never so vast a Throng contain.,2.0 +"Then build a New, or act it in a Plain.",0.0 +"Thus Critics, of less Judgement than Caprice,",4.0 +"Curious, not Knowing; not exact, but nice;",1.0 +Form short Ideas; and offend in Arts,2.0 +As most in Manners by a Love to Parts.,1.0 +"Some to Conceit alone their Taste confine,",1.0 +And glittering Thoughts struck out at every Line;,2.0 +Pleased with a Work where nothing's just or fit;,0.0 +One glaring Chaos and wild Heap of Wit.,2.0 +"Poets like Painters, thus, unskilled to trace",2.0 +"The naked Nature and the living Grace,",1.0 +"With Gold and Jewels cover every Part,",0.0 +And hide with Ornaments their Want of Art.,1.0 +"What oft was Thought, but never so well Expressed;",2.0 +"Something, whose Truth convinced at Sight we find,",2.0 +That gives us back the Image of our Mind.,1.0 +"As Shades more sweetly recommend the Light,",0.0 +"For Works may have more Wit than does them good,",0.0 +As Bodies perish through Excess of Blood.,1.0 +"Others for Language all their Care express,",2.0 +"And value Books, as Women Men, for Dress:",0.0 +Their Praise is still ' -- The Style is excellent:,1.0 +"The Sense, they humbly take upon Content.",0.0 +"Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound,",0.0 +Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.,0.0 +"False Eloquence, like the Prismatic Glass,",3.0 +The Face of Nature we no more survey;,2.0 +"All glares alike, without Distinction gay:",0.0 +"But true Expression, like unchanging Sun,",0.0 +"Clears, and improves whatever it shines upon,",5.0 +"Expression is the Dress of Thought, and still",1.0 +Appears more decent as more suitable;,2.0 +"A vile Conceit in pompous Words expressed,",0.0 +Is like a Clown in regal Purple dressed:,0.0 +"Ancients in Phrase, mere Moderns in their Sense!",3.0 +These Sparks with awkward Vanity display,1.0 +What the Fine Gentlemen wore Yesterday:,4.0 +"And but so mimic ancient Wits at best,",1.0 +"In Words, as Fashions, the same Rule will hold;",2.0 +"Alike Fantastic, if too New, or Old;",2.0 +"Be not the first by whom the New are tried,",0.0 +Nor yet the last to lay the Old aside.,0.0 +"And smooth or rough, with such, is right or wrong;",1.0 +"In the bright Muse though thousand Charms conspire,",3.0 +Her Voice is all these tuneful Fools admire;,0.0 +"Who haunt Parnassus but to please their Ear,",2.0 +"Not mend their Minds; as some to Church repair,",0.0 +"Not for the Doctrine, but the Music there.",2.0 +"These Equal Syllables alone require,",1.0 +While Expletives their feeble Aid do join;,1.0 +And ten low Words oft creep in one dull Line;,3.0 +"Wherever you find the cooling Western Breeze,",2.0 +"In the next Line, it whispers through the Trees;",1.0 +"If Crystal Streams with pleasing Murmurs creep,",0.0 +The Reader's threatened not in vain with Sleep.,0.0 +"A needless Alexandrine ends the Song,",0.0 +"That like a wounded Snake, drags its slow Length along.",3.0 +The Sound must seem an Echo to the Sense.,1.0 +"Soft is the Strain when Zephyr gently blows,",0.0 +And the smooth Stream in smoother Numbers flows;,2.0 +"But when loud Surges lash the sounding Shore,",1.0 +"The hoarse, rough Verse should like the Torrent roar.",1.0 +"When Ajax strives, some Rock's vast Weight to throw,",2.0 +"Not so, when swift Camilla scours the Plain,",2.0 +And bid Alternate Passions fall and rise!,4.0 +"Now burns with Glory, and then melts with Love;",2.0 +"Now his fierce Eyes with sparkling Fury glow,",3.0 +"Now Sighs steal out, and Tears begin to flow:",1.0 +"Persians and Greeks like Turns of Nature found,",2.0 +And the World's Victor stood subdued by Sound!,2.0 +The Power of Music all our Hearts allow;,2.0 +"Avoid Extremes; and shun the Fault of such,",0.0 +"Who still are pleased too little, or too much.",3.0 +"That always shows Great Pride, or Little Sense;",1.0 +"Those Heads, as Stomachs, are not sure the best,",1.0 +"Which nauseate all, and nothing can digest.",1.0 +"Yet let not each gay Turn thy Rapture move,",1.0 +"For Fools Admire, but Men of Sense Approve;",0.0 +"As things seem large which we through Mists descry,",2.0 +Dullness is ever apt to Magnify.,2.0 +"Some the French Writers, some our own despise;",2.0 +"Thus Wit, like Faith, by each Man is applied",3.0 +"To one small Sect, and All are damned beside.",2.0 +"And force that Sun but on a Part to Shine,",1.0 +"Which from the first has shone on Ages past,",0.0 +"Though each may feel Increases and Decays,",1.0 +And see now clearer and now darker Days,3.0 +"Regard not then if Wit be Old or New,",0.0 +"But blame the False, and value still the True.",0.0 +"Some never advance a Judgement of their own,",3.0 +But catch the spreading Notion of the Town;,1.0 +"They reason and conclude by Precedent,",2.0 +And own stale Nonsense which they never invent.,3.0 +"Some judge of Author's Names, not Works, and then",0.0 +"Nor praise nor damn the Writings, but the Men.",1.0 +Of all this Servile Herd the worst is He,0.0 +"That in proud Dullness joins with Quality,",2.0 +To fetch and carry Nonsense for my Lord.,1.0 +"What woeful stuff this Madrigal would be,",1.0 +"But let a Lord once own the happy Lines,",1.0 +How the Wit brightens! How the Style refines!,3.0 +"Before his sacred Name flies every Fault,",1.0 +And each exalted Stanza teems with Thought!,0.0 +The Vulgar thus through Imitation err;,0.0 +As oft the Learnt by being Singular;,1.0 +"So much they scorn the Crowd, that if the Throng",1.0 +"By Chance go right, they purposely go wrong:",3.0 +And are but damned for having too much Wit.,1.0 +Some praise at Morning what they blame at Night;,0.0 +But always think the last Opinion right.,0.0 +"A Muse by these is like a Mistress used,",1.0 +Betwixt Sense and Nonsense daily change their Side.,3.0 +"We think our Fathers Fools, so wise we grow;",0.0 +"Our wiser Sons, no doubt, will think us so.",1.0 +Who knew most Sentences was deepest read;,1.0 +"Faith, Gospel, All, seemed made to be disputed,",2.0 +"If Faith it self has different Dresses worn,",0.0 +What wonder Modes in Wit should take their Turn?,0.0 +"Oft, leaving what is Natural and fit,",2.0 +"And Authors think their Reputation safe,",0.0 +Which lives as long as Fools are pleased to Laugh.,0.0 +"Some valuing those of their own Side, or Mind,",2.0 +Still make themselves the measure of Mankind;,3.0 +"Fondly we think we honour Merit then,",4.0 +When we but praise Our selves in Other Men.,0.0 +"Parties in Wit attend on those of State,",3.0 +And public Faction doubles private Hate.,0.0 +"Pride, Malice, Folly, against Dryden rose,",6.0 +"But Sense survived, when merry Jests were past;",0.0 +For rising Merit will buoy up at last.,3.0 +"Might he return, and bless once more our Eyes,",2.0 +"Nay should great Homer lift his awful Head,",2.0 +"Envy will Merit, as its Shade, pursue;",3.0 +"But like a Shadow, proves the Substance too.",0.0 +"For envied Wit, like Sol eclipsed, makes known",1.0 +"When first that Sun too powerful Beams displays,",3.0 +"But even those Clouds at last adorn its Way,",2.0 +"Reflect new Glories, and augment the Day.",2.0 +"Be thou the first true Merit to befriend,",2.0 +"His Praise is lost, who stays till All commend.",0.0 +"Short is the Date, alas, of Modern Rhymes,",0.0 +"No longer now that Golden Age appears,",1.0 +"Now Length of Fame our second Life is lost,",1.0 +"Our Sons their Father's failing Language see,",0.0 +So when the faithful Pencil has designed,0.0 +"Some fair Idea of the Master's Mind,",1.0 +"Where a new World leaps out at his command,",2.0 +And ready Nature waits upon his Hand;,0.0 +"When the ripe Colours soften and unite,",3.0 +"And sweetly melt into just Shade and Light,",0.0 +"When mellowing Time does full Perfection give,",2.0 +And each Bold Figure just begins to Live;,1.0 +"The treacherous Colours in few Years decay,",2.0 +And all the bright Creation fades away!,0.0 +"Unhappy Wit, like most mistaken Things,",0.0 +"In Youth alone its empty Praise we boast,",0.0 +But soon the short-lived Vanity is lost!,2.0 +"And gaily blooms, but even in blooming dies.",2.0 +What is this Wit which does our Cares employ?,0.0 +"The Owner's Wife, that other Men enjoy;",0.0 +It's most our Trouble when it's most admired;,0.0 +"The more we give, the more is still required:",0.0 +"The Fame with Pains we gain, but lose with ease;",0.0 +"Sure some to vex, but never all to please;",0.0 +"It's what the Vicious fear, the Virtuous shun;",2.0 +"By Fools it's hated, and by Knaves undone!",1.0 +"Too much does Wit from Ignorance undergo,",2.0 +Ah let not Learning too commence its Foe!,0.0 +"Of old, those met Rewards who could excel,",0.0 +"Though Triumphs were to Generals only due,",1.0 +Crowns were reserved to grace the Soldiers too.,2.0 +"Now, they who reach Parnassus' lofty Crown,",3.0 +Employ their Pains to spurn some others down;,1.0 +Contending Wits become the Sport of Fools.,0.0 +"But still the Worst with most Regret commend,",0.0 +For each Ill Author is as bad a Friend.,2.0 +"To what base Ends, and by what abject Ways,",2.0 +Are Mortals urged by Sacred Lust of Praise?,0.0 +"Ah never so dire a Thirst of Glory boast,",2.0 +Nor in the Critic let the Man be lost!,0.0 +"To Err is Humane; to Forgive, Divine.",4.0 +"But if in Noble Minds some Dregs remain,",1.0 +"Not yet purged off, of Spleen and sour Disdain,",0.0 +"Discharge that Rage on more provoking Crimes,",0.0 +"No Pardon vile Obscenity should find,",2.0 +Though Wit and Art conspire to move your Mind;,2.0 +But Dullness with Obscenity must prove,2.0 +As Shameful sure as Impotence in Love.,1.0 +"In the fat Age of Pleasure, Wealth, and Ease,",3.0 +"Sprung the rank Weed, and thrived with large Increase;",3.0 +When Love was all an easy Monarch's Care;,1.0 +"Seldom at Council, never in a War:",2.0 +"Nay Wits had Pensions, and young Lords had Wit:",3.0 +"The Fair sat panting at a Courtier's Play,",1.0 +And not a Mask went unimproved away:,1.0 +"The modest Fan was lifted up no more,",2.0 +And Virgins smiled at what they blushed before ' --,0.0 +The following Licence of a Foreign Reign,3.0 +Then first the Belgian Morals were extolled;,1.0 +"We their Religion had, and they our Gold:",2.0 +"Then Unbelieving Priests reformed the Nation,",0.0 +And taught more Pleasant Methods of Salvation;,1.0 +"Where Heavens free Subjects might their Rights dispute,",0.0 +Lest God himself should seem too Absolute.,1.0 +"Pulpits their Sacred Satire learnt to spare,",3.0 +"Encouraged thus, Wit's Titans braved the Skies",1.0 +"These Monsters, Critics! with your Darts engage,",1.0 +"Here point your Thunder, and exhaust your Rage",1.0 +Will needs mistake an Author into Vice;,0.0 +"All seems Infected that the Infected spy,",2.0 +As all looks yellow to the Jaundiced Eye.,2.0 +"Learn then what Morals Critics ought to show,",0.0 +"For it's but half a Judge's Task, to Know.",1.0 +"It's not enough, Wit, Art, and Learning join;",1.0 +"That not alone what to your Judgement's due,",1.0 +All may allow; but seek your Friendship too.,1.0 +Be silent always when you doubt your Sense;,0.0 +"That, if once wrong, will needs be always so;",4.0 +"But you, with Pleasure own your Errors past,",1.0 +"And make, each Day, a Critic on the last.",1.0 +It's not enough your Counsel still be true;,0.0 +Blunt Truths more Mischief than nice Falsehoods do;,4.0 +Men must be taught as if you taught them not;,1.0 +And things never known proposed as Things forgot.,2.0 +"Without Good Breeding, Truth is not approved;",0.0 +That only makes Superior Sense beloved.,2.0 +For the worst Avarice is that of Sense.,3.0 +Nor be so Civil as to prove Unjust:,1.0 +Fear not the Anger of the Wise to raise;,1.0 +"And stares, Tremendous! with a threatening Eye;",1.0 +Like some fierce Tyrant in Old Tapestry!,3.0 +"Fear most to tax an Honourable Fool,",2.0 +"Such without Wit are Poets when they please,",4.0 +As without Learning they can take Degrees.,6.0 +"Whom, when they Praise, the World believes no more,",1.0 +Than when they promise to give Scribbling over.,2.0 +"It's best sometime your Censure to restrain,",2.0 +And charitably let the dull be vain.,1.0 +"Your Silence there is better than your Spite,",2.0 +For who can rail so long as they can write?,1.0 +"Still humming on, their drowsy Course they keep,",2.0 +"And lashed so long, like Tops, are lashed asleep.",0.0 +"False Steps but help them to renew the Race,",2.0 +"As after Stumbling, Jades will mend their Pace.",0.0 +"Still run on Poets, in a raging Vein,",1.0 +"Strain out the last, dull droppings of their Sense,",2.0 +And Rhyme with all the Rage of Impotence!,1.0 +"There are as mad, abandoned Critics too.",1.0 +"With Loads of Learnt Lumber in his Head,",3.0 +And always Listening to Himself appears.,1.0 +"All Books he reads, and all he reads assails,",0.0 +"With him, most Authors steal their Works, or buy;",1.0 +Garth did not write his own Dispensary.,0.0 +Nay showed his Faults ' -- but when would Poets mend?,1.0 +Nor is Paul's Church more safe than Paul's Churchyard:,3.0 +For Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.,1.0 +Distrustful Sense with modest Caution speaks;,0.0 +"It still looks home, and short Excursions makes;",1.0 +But rattling Nonsense in full Volleys breaks;,1.0 +"And never shocked, and never turned aside,",0.0 +"Still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know?",1.0 +"Modestly bold, and Humanly severe?",3.0 +"Who to a Friend his Faults can freely show,",0.0 +And gladly praise the Merit of a Foe?,1.0 +"Blessed with a Taste exact, yet unconfined;",0.0 +A Knowledge both of Books and Humankind;,0.0 +Generous Converse; a Soul exempt from Pride;,1.0 +"And Love to Praise, with Reason on his Side?",1.0 +"Such once were Critics; such the Happy Few,",1.0 +Athens and Rome in better Ages knew.,2.0 +"He steered securely, and discovered far,",1.0 +"Poets, a Race long unconfined and free,",3.0 +"Still fond and proud of Savage Liberty,",2.0 +"Who conquered Nature, should preside over Wit.",6.0 +"Horace still charms with graceful Negligence,",4.0 +"And without Method talks us into Sense,",5.0 +The truest Notions in the easiest way.,2.0 +"He, who supreme in Judgement, as in Wit,",1.0 +"Might boldly censure, as he boldly writ,",1.0 +"Yet judged with Coolness though he sung with Fire,",1.0 +His Precepts teach but what his Works inspire.,1.0 +"Our Critics take a contrary Extreme,",1.0 +Nor suffers Horace more in wrong Translations,0.0 +"By Wits, than Critics in as wrong Quotations.",0.0 +And call new Beauties forth from every Line!,1.0 +"The Scholar's Learning, with the Courtier's Ease.",1.0 +"Thus useful Arms in Magazines we place,",1.0 +"All ranged in Order, and disposed with Grace,",1.0 +"Nor thus alone the curious Eye to please,",2.0 +"But to be found, when Need requires, with Ease.",1.0 +And blessed their Critic with a Poet's Fire.,1.0 +"An ardent Judge, who zealous in his Trust,",0.0 +"With Warmth gives Sentence, yet is always Just;",1.0 +"Whose own Example strengthens all his Laws,",0.0 +And Is himself that great Sublime he draws.,1.0 +"Thus long succeeding Critics justly reigned,",1.0 +"Licence repressed, and useful Laws ordained.",2.0 +"Learning and Rome alike in Empire grew,",2.0 +And Arts still followed where her Eagles flew.,1.0 +"From the same Foes, at last, both felt their Doom,",3.0 +"And the same Age saw Learning fall, and Rome.",4.0 +"With Tyranny, then Superstition joined,",1.0 +"As that the Body, this enslaved the Mind;",1.0 +"Much was Believed, but little understood,",1.0 +And to be dull was construed to be good;,3.0 +"A second Deluge Learning thus overrun,",3.0 +"At length Erasmus, that great, injured Name,",1.0 +"The Glory of the Priesthood, and the Shame!",2.0 +"Stemmed the wild Torrent of a barbarous Age,",6.0 +And drove those Holy Vandals off the Stage.,1.0 +"But see! each Muse, in Leo's Golden Days,",0.0 +"Starts from her Trance, and trims her withered Bays!",0.0 +"Rome's ancient Genius, over its Ruins spread,",3.0 +"Shakes off the Dust, and rears his reverend Head!",0.0 +"Stones leaped to Form, and Rocks began to live;",1.0 +With sweeter Notes each rising Temple rung;,0.0 +Immortal Vida! on whose honoured Brow,2.0 +The Poet's Bays and Critic's Ivy grow:,0.0 +"As next in Place to Mantua, next in Fame!",1.0 +Their ancient Bounds the banished Muses past;,0.0 +But Critic Learning flourished most in France.,0.0 +"The Rules, a Nation born to serve, obeys,",0.0 +And Boileau still in Right of Horace sways.,1.0 +"But we, brave Britains, Foreign Laws despised,",2.0 +"Fierce for the Liberties of Wit, and bold,",1.0 +"We still defied the Romans, as of old.",1.0 +"Yet some there were, among the sounder Few",1.0 +"Of those who less presumed, and better knew,",1.0 +"Who durst assert the juster Ancient Cause,",0.0 +And here restored Wit's Fundamental Laws.,1.0 +With Manners generous as his Noble Blood;,1.0 +"To him the Wit of Greece and Rome was known,",1.0 +"And every Author's Merit, but his own.",1.0 +"Such late was Walsh, ' -- the Muses Judge and Friend,",0.0 +Who justly knew to blame or to commend;,1.0 +"To Failings mild, but zealous for Desert;",1.0 +"This humble Praise, lamented Shade! receive,",0.0 +This Praise at least a grateful Muse may give!,0.0 +"The Muse, whose early Voice you taught to Sing,",0.0 +"Prescribed her Heights, and pruned her tender Wing,",0.0 +"Her Guide now lost no more attempts to rise,",2.0 +But in low Numbers short Excursions tries.,1.0 +The Learnt reflect on what before they knew.,0.0 +"Careless of Censure, nor too fond of Fame,",4.0 +"Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame;",1.0 +"Averse alike to Flatter, or Offend,",1.0 +"Not free from Faults, nor yet too vain to mend.",1.0 +"For your seducing Words the same implies,",1.0 +"In begging Pity with a soft Surprise,",1.0 +"For one who loves, and sighs, and almost dies.",2.0 +"In every Word and Action does appear,",0.0 +Something I hate and blush to see or hear;,2.0 +"At first your Love for vast Respect was told,",0.0 +"Till your excess of Manners grew too bold,",2.0 +"And did your base, designing Thoughts unfold.",0.0 +"When a Salute did seem to Custom due,",1.0 +Nay every Look had something of Address.,2.0 +"You Gods! I cried, sure he designs to woo,",2.0 +"The Youth whose Passion none could disapprove,",0.0 +When Hymen waited to complete his Love;,1.0 +"But now, when sacred Laws and Vows confine",0.0 +Me to another what can you design?,2.0 +"At first, I could not see the lewd Abuse,",0.0 +But framed a thousand Things for your Excuse.,1.0 +I knew that Bacchus sometime did inspire,1.0 +"A sudden Transport, though not lasting Fire;",1.0 +"For he no less than Cupid can make kind,",4.0 +And force a Fondness which was never designed;,2.0 +"Till you so oft your amorous Crimes repeat,",3.0 +That to permit you would make mine as great;,1.0 +"What saw you in me, that could make you vain,",0.0 +"Or any thing expect, but just Disdain?",0.0 +"I must confess I am not quite so Nice,",1.0 +If none but sullen Saints can be thought Chaste:,1.0 +"O sacred Love! let not the World profane,",1.0 +"Thy Transports, thus to Sport, and Entertain;",0.0 +"Can make a Treat, for all the wanton Town:",0.0 +"I thought my self secure, within these Shades,",0.0 +"But your rude Love, my Privacy invades,",3.0 +"Affronts my Virtue, hazards my just Fame,",1.0 +"Why should I suffer, for your lawless Flame?",1.0 +"For oft it's known, through Vanity and Pride,",1.0 +Men boast those Favours which they are denied:,2.0 +"Or others Malice, which can soon discern;",0.0 +Perhaps may see in you some kind Concern.,1.0 +"So scatter false Suggestions of their own,",1.0 +That I love too: O! Stain to my Renown;,4.0 +"No, I'll be Wise, avoid your Sight in time,",0.0 +And shun at once the Censure and the Crime.,1.0 +"Assumes the graceful muses winning air,",0.0 +That dullness may serenity succeed;,2.0 +"This step still onward her dark purpose brings,",3.0 +"For out of dullness, melancholy springs;",1.0 +"Nor here the gloomy phantom ends her care,",0.0 +"For next to melancholy, comes despair:",0.0 +"When fainting virtue makes her slow retreat,",0.0 +"Vice ready stands, to fill the vacant seat.",1.0 +"Still, as your breath, the cheering pipe inspires,",0.0 +Slack negligence will over the rest prevail;,4.0 +"But giddy youths to vanities shall run,",1.0 +"Nay, well if darker scenes of vice they shun.",1.0 +"Methought I heard Horatio say, Tomorrow.",3.0 +Go to ' -- I will not hear of it ' -- Tomorrow!,3.0 +"It's a sharper, who stakes his penury",3.0 +"Against thy plenty ' -- who takes thy ready cash,",2.0 +"The currency of idiots. ' -- Injurious bankrupt,",4.0 +That gulls the easy creditor! ' -- Tomorrow!,2.0 +It is a period no where to be found,3.0 +"In all the hoary registers of Time,",1.0 +Unless perchance in the fool's calendar.,10.0 +"Wisdom disclaims the word, nor holds society",3.0 +"With those who own it. No, my Horatio,",2.0 +Wrought of such stuff as dreams are; and baseless,0.0 +As the fantastic visions of the evening.,2.0 +"But soft, my friend ' -- arrest the present moments;",0.0 +"For be assured, they all are arrant telltales;",1.0 +"And though their flight be silent, and their path",2.0 +"They post to heaven, and there record thy folly.",1.0 +"Because, though stationed on the important watch,",3.0 +Thou shalt be made to answer at the bar,0.0 +For every fugitive: and when thou thus,1.0 +"Of hoodwinked Justice, who shall tell thy audit!",1.0 +"Then stay the present instant, dear Horatio;",0.0 +Imprint the marks of wisdom on its wings.,1.0 +It's of more worth than kingdoms! far more precious,1.0 +Than all the crimson treasures of life's fortune.,2.0 +"O! let it not elude thy grasp, but like",0.0 +"The good old patriarch upon record,",1.0 +"A pictured tablet, over the portal raised,",2.0 +"Attached our eye: in wonder lost, we gazed.",0.0 +"The pencil there some strange device had wrought,",1.0 +"And fables, all its own, disguised the thought.",0.0 +"Nor camp it seemed, nor city: the design,",1.0 +"Whose moral mocked our labour to divine,",1.0 +"Was a walled court, where rose another bound,",2.0 +"And, higher still, a third still lessening ground.",3.0 +"The neither area opened, at a gate",2.0 +Where a vast crowd impatient seemed to wait.,3.0 +"Within, a group of female figures stood,",1.0 +"In motley dress, a sparkling multitude.",0.0 +"Without, in station at the porch, was seen",0.0 +"A venerable form, in act and mien",1.0 +"Like some great teacher who with urgent tongue,",1.0 +"Authoritative, warned the rushing throng.",0.0 +From doubt to doubt we wandered; when appeared,0.0 +"A sire, who thus the hard solution cleared.",2.0 +"A foreigner, long since, whose nobler mind",1.0 +"Here lived, conversed, and showed the admiring age",2.0 +"He reared this dome to Saturn's awful name,",0.0 +And gave that portrait to eternal same.,1.0 +"He reasoned much, high argument he chose,",2.0 +High as his theme his great conceptions rose.,0.0 +Such wisdom flowing from a mouth but young,1.0 +"I heard astonished, and enjoyed it long:",1.0 +"Him oft I heard this moral piece expound,",0.0 +With nervous eloquence and sense profound.,1.0 +"Father, if leisure with thy will conspire,",4.0 +"Yield, yield that comment to our warm desire.",2.0 +"Free to bestow, I warn you first, beware:",2.0 +"Wise, virtuous, blessed, whose heart our precepts gain,",4.0 +"The stupid perished, by the Sphinx destroyed.",1.0 +"Count folly as a Sphinx to all mankind,",3.0 +"Her problem, How is Good and Ill defined?",1.0 +Not instant victims of her cruelty;,1.0 +"From day to day our reasoning part she wounds,",2.0 +"Devours its strength, its noblest powers confounds:",4.0 +"The mind with pangs which guilty life prepares,",0.0 +"With opposite effect, where thoughtful skill",2.0 +"Discerns the boundaries of Good and Ill,",1.0 +Folly must perish; and the illumined breast,5.0 +"To Virtue saved, is like the immortals blessed.",1.0 +"With strong desire, in dread suspense we wait,",0.0 +"So great the blessing, and the bane so great.",1.0 +And said our eye he guided with a wand,1.0 +"Which danger's path, and which to safety bears,",1.0 +"That ancient, Genius of mankind, declares.",2.0 +"See him aloft, benevolent he bends,",3.0 +"One hand is pointing, one a roll extends",1.0 +Reason's imperial code; by heaven impressed,4.0 +In living letters on the human breast.,1.0 +"Opposed to him, Delusion plies her part,",1.0 +"With skin of borrowed snow, and blush of art,",1.0 +"Whence soft infection steals in every glance,",0.0 +Whose poisonous draught intoxicate the soul.,2.0 +"Error and ignorance infused, compose",3.0 +The fatal beverage which her fraud bestows.,0.0 +Is that the hard condition of our birth?,1.0 +Must all drink Error who appear on earth?,1.0 +"All; yet in some their measure drowns the mind,",0.0 +"Others but taste, less erring and less blind.",5.0 +"Thick as bright atoms in the solar ray,",3.0 +Diverse their drapery and profusely gay.,3.0 +"These tempting forms, each like a mistress dressed,",0.0 +Our early steps with powerful charms arrest:,2.0 +"Soon as we enter life, with various art",1.0 +Of dalliance they assail the unguarded heart.,5.0 +"All promise joy, we rush to their embrace;",1.0 +To bliss or ruin here begins our race.,0.0 +"To right Opinions, and ascend to Truth:",1.0 +"Whom Wisdom tutors, whom the Virtues hail,",0.0 +And with their own substantial feast regale.,1.0 +In chase of empty sciences we run:,1.0 +"Or Fortune's vanities pursue, and stray",1.0 +With sensual Pleasure in more dangerous way.,4.0 +"See the mad rounds their giddy followers tread,",5.0 +Succeeding shoals the busy farce renew.,0.0 +Who on that globe stands stretching to her flight?,2.0 +"Wild seems her aspect, and bereaved of sight.",3.0 +"Fortune, blind, frantic, deaf. With restless wings",3.0 +Caprice divides the blessings and the woes.,1.0 +"Her grace unstable as her tottering ball,",3.0 +"When most we trust her, we are cheated most,",1.0 +"Her cruel blast invades our hasty fruit,",0.0 +And withers all our glory at the root.,0.0 +What mean those multitudes around her? Why,0.0 +Such motley attitudes perplex our eye?,0.0 +"Some, in the act of wildest rapture, leap,",0.0 +"In agony some wring their hands, and weep.",1.0 +"The unreasoning crowd; to passion's sequel blind,",1.0 +By passion fired and impotent of mind:,3.0 +The toys she tosses with regardless air;,1.0 +"Trifles, for solid worth by most pursued,",2.0 +"The pageantry of wealth, the blaze of fame,",1.0 +"Titles, an offspring to extend the name,",4.0 +"Huge strength, or beauty which the strong obey,",1.0 +"The victor's laurel, and despotic sway.",1.0 +The glory of the gracious goddess raise:,1.0 +"Those other, losers in her chance full game,",1.0 +"Shorn of their all, or frustrate in their aim,",1.0 +"In murmurs of their hard mishap complain,",2.0 +And curse her partial and malignant reign.,1.0 +"Now, further still in this low sensual ground,",5.0 +Traverse yonder flowery mount's sequestered bound.,2.0 +"In the green centre of those citron shades,",3.0 +"Among gardens, fountains, bowery walks, and glades,",7.0 +"Voluptuous Sin her powerful spells employs,",4.0 +"Souls to seduce, seducing she destroys.",3.0 +See! Riot her luxurious bowl prepares:,4.0 +"To try the pleasures of their soft retreat,",1.0 +"All ease, all mirth, and high felicity.",1.0 +"To tread that magic paradise of Sin,",0.0 +"His blood ferments, fired by the wanton glance,",5.0 +And his loose soul dissolves in amorous trance.,4.0 +"While circulating joys to joys succeed,",0.0 +While new delights the sweet delirium feed;,2.0 +"Sees glittering visions in succession rise,",3.0 +And laughs at Socrates the chaste and wise.,0.0 +"Till, sobered by distress, awake, confused,",1.0 +"Amazed, he knows himself a wretch abused;",0.0 +"A short illusion his imagined feast,",1.0 +"Himself the game, himself the slaughtered beast.",0.0 +"Now, raving for his squandered wealth in vain,",2.0 +"Compelled to suffer hard and hungry need,",0.0 +Compelled to dare each foul and desperate deed.,0.0 +"Robs altars, or is perjured for a bribe:",3.0 +"Stabs for a purse, his country pawns for gold,",0.0 +To every crime of blackest horror sold.,0.0 +"Shiftless at length, of all resource bereft,",4.0 +Just shows the dismal deep descent to night.,0.0 +"Rude locks overhang, a frown their forehead ploughs:",1.0 +And fluttering shreds their vile defence from cold.,2.0 +"Fixed, with her head upon her knees reclined:",0.0 +"And, frantic with remorseful fury, there",2.0 +"And she, whose eye aghast with horror stares,",1.0 +What tongue the terrors of his soul can tell?,1.0 +"Worried by these foul fiends, the wretch begins",4.0 +"Sharp penance, wages of remembered sins:",2.0 +"Then deeper sinks, plunged in the pit of Woe,",1.0 +Worse sufferings in worse hell to undergo:,2.0 +"Unless, rare guest, Repentance over the gloom",3.0 +"Diffuse her radiance, and repeal his doom.",1.0 +"See Right Opinion, joined with Good Desire,",1.0 +"Come forth, she calls, come forth to liberty,",3.0 +"And, pondering well, elect thy future guide.",2.0 +Momentous option! choosing right he'll find,0.0 +"Led to True Wisdom, whose cathartic bowl",3.0 +"Misguided else, a counterfeit he'll gain,",0.0 +Whose art is only to amuse the brain:,1.0 +"From vice to studious folly now he flies,",2.0 +"From bliss still erring, still betrayed by lies.",1.0 +OH heavens! where end the risks we mortals run?,3.0 +"How dreadful this, and yet how hard to shun!",1.0 +"Say, father, what distinctive marks declare",1.0 +"The second court, or the studious life. View her there.",2.0 +"At yonder gate, with decent port, she stands,",0.0 +Her spotless form that second court commands:,0.0 +"Styled Wisdom by the crowd, the thinking few",2.0 +"Know her disguise, the phantom of the true:",3.0 +"Skilled in all learning, skilled in every art",0.0 +"The saved, who meditate their noble flight",0.0 +Then speed their journey forward to its last.,1.0 +"The plain man's path, without proud Science wise.",2.0 +"A busy scene, all thought or action round.",0.0 +"Her lovers, whom her specious beauty warms,",0.0 +"Who grasp, in vision, Truth's immortal charms,",0.0 +Vain of the glory of a false embrace:,1.0 +And mighty masters of the vocal strings:,1.0 +"Those who in crabbed calculations toil,",1.0 +"Who measure earth, who climb the starry road,",0.0 +"And human fates by heavenly signs forebode,",2.0 +Disdainful soaring up to heights untried.,1.0 +"All who in learnt trifles spin their wit,",6.0 +"Who are yonder active females, like in face",1.0 +"They boast some rarer less ignoble spoils,",0.0 +"Art, wit, and reason, tangled in their toils.",0.0 +"And Fancy, with the Opinions in her rear,",3.0 +"Enjoys these studious walks, no stranger here:",3.0 +"Where wild hypothesis, and learnt romance",1.0 +Too oft lead up the philosophic dance.,1.0 +Still these ingenious heads alas! retain,2.0 +"Delusion's dose, still the vile dregs remain",3.0 +"Of ignorance with madding folly joined,",1.0 +And a foul heart pollutes the embellished mind.,4.0 +"Nor will presumption from their souls recede,",2.0 +"Nor will they from one vicious plague be freed,",1.0 +"The exalted way to Truth's enlightened ground,",1.0 +"Quaffed her cathartic, and all cleansed within,",3.0 +"By that strong energy, from pride and sin,",2.0 +Are healed and saved. But loitering here they spend,1.0 +Life's precious hours in thinking to no end:,3.0 +"From science up to science let them rise,",1.0 +"And arrogate the swelling style of wise,",0.0 +Which cures not one distemper of the mind.,2.0 +"Enough. Discover now the faithful road,",0.0 +Which mounts us to the joys of Truth's abode.,1.0 +"Survey this solitary waste, which rears",0.0 +"Nor bush nor herb, nor cottage there appears.",1.0 +At distance see yonder strait and lonely gate,3.0 +No crowds at the forbidding entrance wait,3.0 +"Its avenue a rugged rocky soil,",0.0 +Travelled with painful step and tedious toil.,4.0 +"Beyond the wicket, towering in the skies",0.0 +"Narrow and sharp the ascent; each edge a brink,",3.0 +Is that the way to Wisdom? Dreadful way!,0.0 +"Yet higher still, around the mountain's brow",0.0 +"Winds yonder huge rock, whose steep smooth sides allow",5.0 +"No track. Its top two sister figures grace,",2.0 +"Stationed by Wisdom, her commission bear",3.0 +To rouse the spirit of her fainting son,1.0 +"Thus far advanced, and urge and urge him on.",1.0 +"Courage! they call, the coward's sloth disdain,",2.0 +"Yet, yet awhile, the noble toil sustain:",0.0 +A lovely path soon opens to your sight.,2.0 +But ah! how climbed that rock's bare slippery height?,1.0 +"These generous guides, who Virtue's course befriend,",2.0 +"Draw up their trembling charge; then, smiling, greet",0.0 +"With kind command to rest his weary feet,",0.0 +"With their own force his panting breast they arm,",1.0 +And with their own intrepid spirit warm:,1.0 +"Next, plight their guidance in his future way",0.0 +"To Wisdom, and in rapturous view display",3.0 +The blissful road there it invites your eyes,1.0 +"How smooth and easy to the foot it lies,",1.0 +Of thorny evil and perplexing fear.,1.0 +"A meadow with eternal beauty bright,",2.0 +"Beneath a purer heaven, overflowed with light.",0.0 +"Full in the centre of the plain, behold",1.0 +"And gate of diamond, where the righteous rest;",0.0 +"Here all the Virtues dwell, communion sweet!",0.0 +"With Happiness, who rules the peaceful seat.",1.0 +Her eyes how piercing! how sedate her mien!,1.0 +"Mature in life, her countenance serene:",1.0 +"Spirit and solid thought each feature shows,",2.0 +"She stands upon a cube of marble, fixed",0.0 +"As the firm rock, two lovely nymphs betwixt,",4.0 +"Her daughters, copies of her looks and air,",1.0 +"Here candid Truth, and sweet Persuasion there:",1.0 +"She, she is Wisdom. In her steadfast eye",2.0 +Behold the oppressive type of certainty:,3.0 +"Certain her way, and permanent the deed",3.0 +Of gift substantial to her friends decreed.,1.0 +"She gives the confidence erect and clear,",1.0 +"She gives magnanimous contempt of fear,",1.0 +And bids the invulnerable mind to know,3.0 +Her safety from the future shafts of woe.,1.0 +"OH treasure, richer than the sea or land!",2.0 +But why without the walls her destined stand?,0.0 +"There standing, she presents her potent bowl,",1.0 +"Divine cathartic, which restores the soul.",0.0 +"Then clear and strong the purple current flows,",0.0 +And life renewed in every member glows:,0.0 +"But if the patient all control despise,",1.0 +Just victim of his stubborn will he dies.,2.0 +"So Wisdom, by her rules, with healing art",1.0 +"Hydropic avarice, all the plagues behind",1.0 +Which in the first mad court oppressed the mind.,1.0 +"Thus purged, her pupil through the gate she brings,",2.0 +"The Virtues hail their guest, the guest enraptured sings.",0.0 +"Behold the spotless band, celestial charms!",0.0 +Scene that with awe chastises whom it warms:,0.0 +But beauty unaffected as their dress.,1.0 +See Fortitude in panoply of war:,2.0 +"Justice her equal scale aloft displays,",2.0 +And rights both human and divine she weighs.,2.0 +"There Moderation, all the pleasures bound",0.0 +In brazen chains her dreaded feet surround.,0.0 +"The florid hue of Temperance, her side",1.0 +"Adorned by Health, a nymph in blooming pride.",0.0 +"While Moral Order tunes her golden lyre,",0.0 +OH fairest of all fair! OH blissful state!,3.0 +"Substantial hopes, if by the doctrine taught,",1.0 +The fashioned manners are to habit wrought.,1.0 +"Yes, it's resolved. We'll every nerve employ.",2.0 +"Live, then, restored; and reap the promised joy.",1.0 +But whither do the Virtues lead their trust?,0.0 +"Look upward to the hill beyond the grove,",2.0 +A sovereign pile extends its front above:,0.0 +"Stately and strong, the lofty castle stands,",2.0 +Its boundless prospect all the courts commands.,0.0 +"Within the porch, high on a jasper throne,",2.0 +The Imperial Mother by her form is known;,4.0 +"Bright as the morn, when smiling on the hills",1.0 +"Earth, air, and sea with vernal joy she fills.",1.0 +Rich without lavish cost her vest behold,4.0 +"Of liveliest tints, around her temples glows:",2.0 +"Eternal bloom her snowy temples binds,",0.0 +Fearless of burning suns and blasting winds.,2.0 +"Now, with a crown of wondrous power, her hand",2.0 +"Assistant, round her, all the Virtues stand",0.0 +Of conquests won by many a valiant deed.,3.0 +"Till roused from his inglorious sloth, possessed",3.0 +"Lord of himself, the victor now constrains",2.0 +Those hostile monsters in his powerful chains.,2.0 +Explain those savage beasts at war with man.,0.0 +"Error and Ignorance, which head the van,",3.0 +Rapacious Avarice; cruel numbers more:,2.0 +"Over all he triumphs now, their slave before.",0.0 +OH great achievements! more illustrious far,3.0 +"These triumphs, than the bloody wreaths of war.",1.0 +"But, say; what salutary power is shed",2.0 +"By the fair crown, which decks the hero's head?",2.0 +"He lives, rich owner of man's proper bliss:",3.0 +"Bliss independent or on wealth or power,",2.0 +"Fame, birth, or beauty, or voluptuous hour.",4.0 +"His hope's divorced from all exterior things,",2.0 +And his own honest heart's a constant feast.,1.0 +"Conducted by the Virtues, to survey",2.0 +"His first abode. The giddy crowd, below,",0.0 +"Wasting their wretched span in crime, they show;",2.0 +"How in the whirl of passions they are tossed,",1.0 +"The mighty, there a despicable train",5.0 +And slaves of Avarice rooting up the ground:,3.0 +"To spring aloft, and reach yonder happy land,",5.0 +"Entangled, impotent the way to find,",1.0 +"I stand convinced, but yet perplexed in thought",0.0 +His judgement by illusions was abused.,2.0 +"His evil was not evil, nor his good",2.0 +"Confounding good and evil, like the throng,",0.0 +"His life, like theirs, was action always wrong.",1.0 +"Enlightened now in the true bliss of man,",2.0 +The madding world an hospital of sighs.,5.0 +"Wherever it leads, safety attends him still:",4.0 +"Among the Nymphs, among the vocal Powers,",0.0 +"Honoured by all, the friend of human kind,",0.0 +Redeems his patient from the yawning grave.,1.0 +But never more shall his old restless foes,2.0 +"Awake his fears, nor trouble his repose?",1.0 +"In each enticing scene, each instant hard,",0.0 +That sovereign antidote his mind will guard:,0.0 +"Like him, who, of some virtuous drug possessed,",2.0 +"Grasps the fell viper coiled within her nest,",3.0 +"Yonder troops in motion from the mount explain,",1.0 +"Various to view; for there a goodly train,",2.0 +"Noble their port, and in each tranquil face",2.0 +"Battered and gashed, drag their slow steps along,",5.0 +"Her healing aid; rejected from her care,",1.0 +In evil plight their wicked days they wear:,0.0 +"Apostate now, in thorny wilds they rove,",0.0 +"Sorrows which gnaw, remorseful Thoughts which tear,",2.0 +"And every ill, and every hateful name.",0.0 +Lost from the pleasures here at large possessed.,0.0 +Pleasures which Riot's frantic bowls infuse.,1.0 +"These high fruition their gross souls repute,",2.0 +And man's chief good to sink into a brute.,1.0 +"But who that lovely bevy, blithe and gay,",0.0 +So smoothly gliding down the hilly way?,1.0 +"Returning, new adventurers to bring,",1.0 +Opinion's foot is never never found,0.0 +"Where Knowledge dwells, it's interdicted ground,",0.0 +"Their charge, those limits their employ confine.",1.0 +"Thus trading barks, skilled in the watery road,",4.0 +"To distant climes convey their precious load,",0.0 +"Then turn their prow, light bounding over the main,",3.0 +And with new traffic store their keels again.,2.0 +Thus far is clear. But yet untold remains,1.0 +The instructions of the Genius. He bids them hold,4.0 +A spirit with erected courage bold.,1.0 +"Never he calls on Fortune's faith rely,",2.0 +Nor grasp her dubious gifts as property.,3.0 +"Let not her smile transport, her frown dismay,",0.0 +"Nor praise, nor blame, nor wonder at her sway",0.0 +"Which reason never guides: it's fortune still,",0.0 +"Capricious chance and arbitrary will,",1.0 +"Bad bankers, vain of treasure not their own,",1.0 +With foolish rapture hug the trusted loan:,0.0 +"Impatient, when the powerful bond demands",2.0 +"Unlike to such, without a sigh restore",1.0 +What Fortune lends: anon she'll lavish more:,0.0 +"Repenting of her bounty snatch away,",1.0 +Yea seize your patrimonial fund for prey.,1.0 +"Embrace her proffered boon, but instant rise,",0.0 +The gift which Wisdom to her sons divides;,1.0 +"Knowledge, whose beam the doubting judgement guides,",2.0 +Distinguishes false interest from the true.,3.0 +Nor parley for a moment at the place,1.0 +And taste what science may your palate hit:,1.0 +"Then wing your journey forward, till you reach",1.0 +"Such is the advice the friendly Genius gives,",1.0 +And thus this moral piece instructs; if aught,0.0 +"Is mystic still, reveal your doubting thought.",0.0 +"Thanks, generous Sire; tell, then, the transient bait,",3.0 +"Of solid use, in their capacious round,",1.0 +Unruly youth from devious starts restrain.,2.0 +"Must we, solicitous our souls to save,",2.0 +Assistance from these previous studies crave?,3.0 +Their merit in some less utility;,1.0 +"But they contribute, we aver, no part",4.0 +To heal the manners and amend the heart.,1.0 +"An author's meaning, in a tongue unknown,",0.0 +May glimmer through translation in our own:,1.0 +"Yet masters of his language, we might gain",2.0 +Some trivial purposes by tedious pain.,5.0 +"So in the sciences, though, rudely taught,",1.0 +We may attain the little that we ought;,1.0 +"Yet, accurately known they might convey",1.0 +More light not wholly useless in its way.,0.0 +"But Virtue may be reached, through all her rules,",1.0 +Without the curious subtleties of schools.,3.0 +"Blind as the crowd alas! to good and ill,",0.0 +"Entangled by the like corrupted will,",2.0 +What boasts the man of letters over the rest?,2.0 +"Skilled in all tongues, of all the arts possessed,",0.0 +"What hinders but he sink into a sot,",1.0 +"A libertine, or villain in a plot,",0.0 +Of moral lunacy and reason's shame?,1.0 +"Avail those studies, and their vaunted light",1.0 +The cause from whence this strange appearance grows.,0.0 +Held by a potent charm in this retreat,1.0 +"Since numbers, oft, from out the neither plain,",1.0 +"In moral things, advantaged over the lees",2.0 +"Of human race? in moral things, we find",0.0 +These duller or less tractable of mind.,3.0 +"Although unknowing, they presume to know:",2.0 +"Clogged with that vain conceit they creep below,",0.0 +"Nor can mount up to yonder exalted bound,",2.0 +"Not found by these, till the vain visions spread,",3.0 +"By False Opinion, in the learnt head,",1.0 +"Repentance scatter; and deceived no more,",2.0 +"They own the illusion which deceived before,",1.0 +"That for True Wisdom they embraced her shade,",3.0 +And hence the healing of their souls delayed.,1.0 +"Strangers, these lessons, oft revolving, hold",2.0 +"Fast to your hearts, and into habit mould:",0.0 +"To this high scope life's whole attention bend,",4.0 +Despise aught else as erring from your end.,2.0 +"Do thus, or unavailing is my care,",1.0 +And all the instruction dies away in air.,1.0 +"HOW much mistaken are the men, who think",1.0 +"That all who will, without restraint, may drink,",2.0 +"May largely drink, even till their bowels burst,",4.0 +"Pleading no right but merely that of thirst,",3.0 +"At the pure waters of the living well,",3.0 +Beside whose streams the MUSES love to dwell!,0.0 +"Verse is with them a knack, an idle toy,",1.0 +"A rattle gilded over, on which a boy",1.0 +"Make it but jingle, Music comes of course.",0.0 +"Little do such men know the toil, the pains,",3.0 +"The daily, nightly racking of the brains,",1.0 +"To range the thoughts, the matter to digest,",1.0 +"To cull fit phrases, and reject the rest,",2.0 +"To know the times when HUMOUR, on the cheek",0.0 +"Of MIRTH may hold her sports, when WIT should speak,",0.0 +And when be silent; when to use the powers,0.0 +"Of Ornament, and how to place the flowers,",2.0 +"So that they neither give a tawdry glare,",0.0 +Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air;,0.0 +"To form which few can do, and scarcely one,",1.0 +"One Critic in an age can find, when done",0.0 +"To form a plan, to strike a grand Outline,",1.0 +"To fill it up, and make the picture shine",1.0 +"A full, and perfect piece; to make coy rhyme",2.0 +"Renounce her follies, and with sense keep time,",2.0 +"To make proud sense against her nature bend,",1.0 +"And wear the chains of rhyme, yet call her friend.",0.0 +"Who make it all their business to describe,",1.0 +"No matter whether in, or out of place;",2.0 +"Studious of finery, and fond of lace,",2.0 +"The rags of beggars, and the robes of kings.",1.0 +Let dull Propriety in State preside,2.0 +"Over her dull children, Nature is their guide,",3.0 +"Wild Nature, who at random breaks the fence",1.0 +Nor would forgive herself the mighty crime,0.0 +"Of keeping terms with Person, Place, and Time.",0.0 +"With borrowed beams let Silver pale the Moon,",2.0 +"Let surges hoarse lash the resounding shore,",3.0 +Let them breed up the melancholy breeze,0.0 +"To sigh with sighing, sob with sobbing trees,",0.0 +"Let Vales embroidery wear, let Flowers be tinged",5.0 +"They have their wish; like idle monarch Boys,",0.0 +"Neglecting things of weight, they sigh for toys;",0.0 +"Give them the crown, the sceptre, and the robe,",1.0 +"Who will may take the power, and rule the globe.",2.0 +"Others there are, who, in one solemn pace,",1.0 +"With as much zeal, as Quakers rail at lace,",1.0 +"Railing at needful Ornament, depend",3.0 +On Sense to bring them to their journey's end.,1.0 +"They would not Heaven forbid their course delay,",0.0 +"Nor for a moment step out of the way,",2.0 +"To make the barren road those graces wear,",0.0 +"Which Nature would, if pleased, have planted there.",1.0 +Vain Men! who blindly thwarting Nature's plan,1.0 +Never find a passage to the heart of man;,1.0 +"Who, bred amongst fogs in Academic land,",3.0 +Scorn every thing they do not understand;,1.0 +"Who, destitute of Humour, Wit, and Taste,",3.0 +"Let all their little knowledge run to waste,",0.0 +"And frustrate each good purpose, while they wear",1.0 +"Though solid Reasoning arms each sterling line,",2.0 +"Though Truth declares aloud, This work is mine,",0.0 +"Vice, while from page to page dull Morals creep,",1.0 +"Throws by the book, and Virtue falls asleep.",0.0 +"Sense, mere, dull, formal Sense, in this gay town",3.0 +"Must have some vehicle to pass her down,",1.0 +"Nor can She for an hour ensure her reign,",1.0 +Unless She brings fair Pleasure in her train.,1.0 +"Let Her, from day to day, from year to year,",0.0 +"And, with the voice of trumpets, through the streets",2.0 +"Deal lectures out to every one She meets,",3.0 +"Half who pass by are deaf, and other half",0.0 +"Can hear indeed, but only hear to laugh.",0.0 +"Quit then, You graver Sons of lettered Pride,",0.0 +"Taking for once Experience as a guide,",3.0 +"Quit this grand Error, this dull College mode;",5.0 +"Be your pursuits the same, but change the road;",1.0 +"Write, or at least appear to write with ease,",0.0 +"And, if You mean to profit, learn to please.",1.0 +"In vain for such mistakes they pardon claim,",1.0 +Because they wield the pen in Virtue's name.,0.0 +"Thrice sacred is that Name, thrice blessed the Man",3.0 +"Who thinks, speaks, writes, and lives on such a plan!",2.0 +"This, in himself, himself of course must bless,",0.0 +But cannot with the world promote success.,1.0 +"He may be strong, but, with effect to speak,",2.0 +Should recollect his readers may be weak;,1.0 +"Plain, rigid Truths, which Saints with comfort bear,",1.0 +"Will make the Sinner tremble, and despair.",1.0 +"True Virtue acts from Love, and the great end,",2.0 +"At which She nobly aims, is to amend;",1.0 +"How then do those mistake, who arm her laws",1.0 +"They mean to help, while with a zealot rage",1.0 +"Our dearest Love, in hideous terror rise!",2.0 +"Such may be honest, but they can't be wise.",2.0 +"In her own full, and perfect blaze of light,",1.0 +Virtue breaks forth too strong for human sight:,4.0 +"The dazzled eye, that nice but weaker sense,",0.0 +Shuts herself up in darkness for defence.,1.0 +"But, to make strong conviction deeper sink,",2.0 +"To make the callous feel, the thoughtless think,",0.0 +"Like God made Man, she lays her glory by,",2.0 +"In earnest most, when most she seems in jest,",0.0 +"She worms into, and winds around the breast,",0.0 +"To conquer vice, of vice appears the friend,",0.0 +And seems unlike herself to gain her end.,0.0 +"The Sons of Sin, to while away the time",0.0 +"Which lingers on their hands, of each black crime",2.0 +"To hush the painful memory, and keep",1.0 +"Read on at random, nor suspect the dart",1.0 +Until they find it rooted in their heart.,0.0 +"Against Vice they give their vote, nor know at first",3.0 +"That, cursing that, themselves too they have cursed,",2.0 +"They see not, till they fall into the snares,",1.0 +Deluded into Virtue unawares.,0.0 +"Discarding drugs, and striving how to please,",1.0 +"The patient to those manly sports, which bind",1.0 +"The patient feels a change as wrought by stealth,",0.0 +And wonders on demand to find it health.,1.0 +"Some Few, whom Fate ordained to deal in rhymes",0.0 +"In other lands, and here in other times,",0.0 +"Whom, waiting at their birth, the Midwife MUSE",1.0 +"To whom true GENIUS gave his magic pen,",1.0 +"Whom ART by just degrees led up to men,",2.0 +"These dangerous rocks, and held the golden mean.",2.0 +"SENSE in their works maintains her proper state,",0.0 +"GRACE makes the whole look elegant, and gay,",3.0 +But never dares from SENSE to run astray.,0.0 +"So nice the Master's touch, so great his care,",0.0 +"The Colours boldly glow, not idly glare.",2.0 +"Mutually giving, and receiving aid,",2.0 +"They set each other off, like light and shade,",1.0 +"And, as by stealth, with so much softness blend,",2.0 +"It's hard to say, where they begin, or end.",1.0 +"Health to their souls, and to their memories fame:",3.0 +"Be it my task, and no mean task, to teach",1.0 +A reverence for that worth I cannot reach;,1.0 +"Let me at distance, with a steady eye,",1.0 +"Observe, and mark their passage to the sky,",1.0 +"From envy free, applaud such rising worth,",0.0 +"Had I the power, I could not have the time,",1.0 +"While spirits flow, and Life is in her prime,",0.0 +"Without a sin against Pleasure, to design",5.0 +"Highly to finish, and make every grace,",4.0 +"In itself charming, take new charms from place.",7.0 +"Nothing of Books, and little known of men,",2.0 +"When the mad fit comes on, I seize the pen,",1.0 +"Rough as they run, the rapid thoughts set down,",2.0 +"Rough as they run, discharge them on the Town.",1.0 +"Hence rude, unfinished brats, before their time,",1.0 +"Are born into this idle world of rhyme,",0.0 +With all her imperfections on her head.,1.0 +"Some, as no life appears, no pulses play",4.0 +"Through the dull, dubious mass, no breath makes way,",6.0 +"Doubt, greatly doubt, till for a glass they call,",2.0 +"Others, on other grounds, objections frame,",2.0 +"And, granting that the child may have a name,",0.0 +"Doubt, as the Sex might well a midwife pose,",1.0 +In love to Critics stumble now and then.,0.0 +"Something I do myself, and something too,",3.0 +"If they can do it, leave for them to do.",2.0 +In the small compass of my careless page,3.0 +Critics may find employment for an age;,3.0 +Without my blunders they were all undone;,1.0 +"I twenty feed, where MASON can feed one.",2.0 +"To praise the man I love, curse him I hate;",2.0 +"When SENSE, in tides of passion born along,",0.0 +"Sinking to prose, degrades the name of song;",2.0 +"The Censor smiles, and, while my credit bleeds,",0.0 +With as high relish on the carrion feeds,5.0 +"As the proud EARL fed at a Turtle feast,",1.0 +"Who, turned by gluttony to worse than beast,",1.0 +"Eat, till his bowels gushed upon the floor,",0.0 +"Yet still eat on, and dying called for more.",1.0 +"Spurning Connection, and her formal yoke,",3.0 +"Bounds through the forest, wanders far astray",0.0 +"From the known path, and loves to loose her way,",2.0 +"To run the rambler down, and bring her back.",1.0 +"Wild without art, and yet with pleasure wild,",0.0 +Waking with Nature at the morning hour,2.0 +"To the lark's call, walks over the opening flower",8.0 +"Which largely drank all night of heaven's fresh dew,",1.0 +"So lightly walks, she not one mark imprints,",0.0 +"Nor brushes off the dews, nor soils the tints;",1.0 +"When thus DESCRIPTION sports, even at the time",3.0 +"That Drums should beat, and Cannons roar in rhyme,",0.0 +Critics can live on such a fault as that,3.0 +"From one month to the other, and grow fat.",2.0 +"You mighty Monthly Judges, in a dearth",0.0 +"Of lettered blockheads, conscious of the worth",1.0 +"Of my materials, which against your will",3.0 +"Materials rich, though rude, inflamed with Thought,",2.0 +"Though more by Fancy than by Judgement wrought,",1.0 +"Take, use them as your own, a work begin,",2.0 +"Which suits your Genius well, and weave them in,",0.0 +"Framed for the Critic loom, with Critic art,",0.0 +"Till thread on thread depending, part on part,",0.0 +"Colour with Colour mingling, Light with Shade,",3.0 +"To your dull taste a formal work is made,",2.0 +"And, having wrought them into one grand piece,",2.0 +"Swear it surpasses ROME, and rivals GREECE.",2.0 +"Nor think this much, for at one single word,",0.0 +SCIENCE attends their call; their power is owned;,4.0 +"ORDER takes place, and GENIUS is dethroned;",4.0 +"Letters dance into books, defiance hurled",2.0 +"At means, as Atoms danced into a world.",0.0 +"Me higher business calls, a greater plan,",0.0 +"Worthy Man's whole employ, the good of Man,",3.0 +The good of Man committed to my charge;,1.0 +"Careless of such a trust, these harmless lays",1.0 +"May Friendship envy, and may Folly praise,",1.0 +"The crown of GOTHAM may some SCOT assume,",1.0 +"OH my poor People, OH thou wretched Earth,",3.0 +"To whose dear love, though not engaged by birth,",1.0 +"My heart is fixed, my service deeply sworn,",0.0 +"How by thy Father can that thought be born,",2.0 +"For Monarchs, would they all but think like me,",1.0 +Are only Fathers in the best degree,0.0 +"How must thy glories fade, in every land",0.0 +"Thy name be laughed to scorn, thy mighty hand",0.0 +"Be shortened, and thy zeal, by foes confessed,",1.0 +"Blessed in thy self, to make thy neighbours blessed,",1.0 +"The boast of ages, which adorns the Isle",0.0 +"And makes it great and glorious, feared abroad,",2.0 +"Happy at home, secure from force and fraud,",2.0 +"How must that pile, by ancient Wisdom raised",0.0 +"On a firm rock, by friends admired and praised,",2.0 +"Envied by foes, and wondered at by all,",2.0 +"In one short moment into ruins fall,",2.0 +Should any Slip of STUART's tyrant race,0.0 +"Or bastard, or legitimate, disgrace",2.0 +Thy royal seat of Empire! but what care,1.0 +"What sorrow must be mine, what deep despair",1.0 +Admittance gain through any fault of mine!,0.0 +"Sink in the dust; that Court, which now is our's,",0.0 +"Become a den, where Beasts may, if they can,",1.0 +"A lodging find, nor fear rebuke from Man;",0.0 +"Where yellow harvests rise, be brambles found;",0.0 +"Where vines now creep, let thistles curse the ground;",2.0 +"Barren the Cattle, on her thousand Hills;",3.0 +"Where Power is placed, let Tigers prowl for prey;",3.0 +"Where Justice lodges, let wild Asses bray;",1.0 +"Let Cormorants in Churches make their nest,",2.0 +"Be all, though princes in the earth before,",0.0 +"Much rather would I, might the will of Fate",1.0 +"By ills on ills, thus to the earth weighed down,",4.0 +Than live to see a STUART wear her crown.,0.0 +"Let Heaven in vengeance arm all Nature's host,",1.0 +"Those Servants, who their Maker know, who boast",0.0 +"Obedience as their glory, and fulfil,",2.0 +"Unquestioned, their great Master's sacred will.",3.0 +"Let raging Winds root up the boiling deep,",3.0 +"And, with destruction big, over GOTHAM sweep;",6.0 +"Let Rains rush down, till FAITH with doubtful eye",1.0 +Looks for the sign of Mercy in the sky;,0.0 +Let Pestilence in all her horrors rise;,2.0 +"Wherever I turn, let Famine blast my eyes;",3.0 +In the deep gulf let all my subjects sink,1.0 +"Before my eyes, while on the verge I reel;",1.0 +"Feeling, but as a Monarch ought to feel,",1.0 +"Not for myself, but them, I'll kiss the rod,",2.0 +"And, having owned the Justice of my God,",1.0 +"Myself with firmness to the ruin give,",2.0 +And die with those for whom I wished to live.,1.0 +This but may Heaven's more merciful decrees,4.0 +Never tempt his servant with such ills as these,1.0 +"But that the STUART race my Crown should wear,",0.0 +"That Crown, where, highly cherished, FREEDOM shone",0.0 +"Bright as the glories of the midday Sun,",2.0 +"Born and bred Slaves, that They, with proud misrule,",1.0 +"Should make brave, freeborn men, like boys at school,",1.0 +"To the Whip crouch and tremble ' -- OH, that Thought!",2.0 +"By the dread vision, at the mere surmise",2.0 +"My heart, as for a passage, loudly beats,",1.0 +"And, turn me where I will, distraction meets.",1.0 +"OH my brave fellows, great in Arts and Arms,",3.0 +"The wonder of the Earth, whom Glory warms",1.0 +"To high Achievements, can your Spirits bend",1.0 +Through base control You never can descend,1.0 +"So low by choice to wear a Tyrant's chain,",2.0 +"Or let, in FREEDOM's seat, a STUART reign.",0.0 +"If Fame, who hath for ages far and wide",0.0 +"Spread in all realms, the Cowardice, the Pride,",1.0 +"The Tyranny, and Falsehood of those Lords,",3.0 +"Contents You not, search ENGLAND's fair records,",1.0 +"ENGLAND, where first the breath of Life I drew,",2.0 +"Where, next to GOTHAM, my best Love is due.",2.0 +"There once they ruled, though crushed by WILLIAM's hand,",0.0 +"They rule no more, to curse that happy land.",1.0 +"The First, who, from his native soil removed,",1.0 +"Held ENGLAND's sceptre, a tame Tyrant proved.",3.0 +"Virtue he lacked, cursed with those thoughts which spring",2.0 +"In souls of vulgar stamp, to be a King;",0.0 +"Spirit he had not, though he laughed at Laws,",1.0 +"On practises most mean he raised his pride,",2.0 +"And Craft oft gave, what Wisdom oft denied.",1.0 +Never could he feel how truly Man is blessed,0.0 +"In blessing those around him; in his breast,",1.0 +"Marked for a Coward in his Mother's Womb,",0.0 +"He was too proud without affronts to live,",2.0 +Too timorous to punish or forgive.,3.0 +"To gain a crown, which had in course of time,",0.0 +"By fair descent, been his without a crime,",1.0 +He bore a Mother's exile; to secure,2.0 +"The spilling of her blood by foreign knife,",1.0 +Nor dared revenge her death who gave him life;,0.0 +"Nay, by fond fear, and fond ambition led,",3.0 +Struck hands with Those by whom her blood was shed.,2.0 +"Called up to Power, scarce warm on England's throne,",3.0 +"He filled her Court with beggars from his own,",1.0 +"Turn where You would, the eye with SCOTS was caught,",0.0 +"To vain expense unbounded loose he gave,",0.0 +"The dupe of Minions, and of slaves the slave;",1.0 +"From Empire thrown, and doomed to beg her bread,",0.0 +"On foreign bounty while a Daughter fed,",0.0 +"He lavished sums, for her received, on Men",1.0 +"Lies were his Playthings, Parliaments his sport,",2.0 +"The Pedant Scholar, he forgot the Prince,",1.0 +"And, having with some trifles stored his brain,",1.0 +"Never learnt, or wished to learn the arts to reign.",0.0 +"Enough he knew to make him vain and proud,",0.0 +"Mocked by the wise, the wonder of the crowd;",1.0 +"False Friend, false Son, false Father, and false King,",7.0 +"False Wit, false Statesman, and false every thing,",4.0 +"And pamphlets wrote, when he should save the State.",1.0 +"Religious, if Religion holds in whim,",1.0 +"To talk with all, he let all talk with him,",0.0 +"Not on God's honour, but his own intent,",2.0 +"Not for Religion sake, but argument;",2.0 +"Or, from the Jesuit school, some precious knave",3.0 +"Conviction feigned, than if, to Peace restored",1.0 +"Power was his wish, unbounded as his will,",2.0 +"The Power, without control, of doing ill.",2.0 +"But what he wished, what he made Bishops preach,",2.0 +"And Statesmen warrant, hung within his reach",0.0 +"He dared not seize; Fear gave, to gall his pride,",1.0 +That Freedom to the Realm his will denied.,2.0 +"In every Treaty, of his own mean arts",2.0 +"He fell the dupe; Peace was his Coward care,",2.0 +Even at a time when Justice called for war;,0.0 +"TRUTH fairly must record, and, pleased to live",1.0 +"In league with MERCY, JUSTICE may forgive",1.0 +"Kingdoms betrayed, and Worlds resigned to SPAIN,",2.0 +But never can forgive a RALEIGH slain.,1.0 +At length with white let Freedom mark that year,1.0 +"Not feared by those, whom most he wished to fear,",0.0 +"Not loved by those, whom most he wished to love,",0.0 +"He went to answer for his faults above,",1.0 +"To answer to that God, from whom alone",1.0 +"He claimed to hold, and to abuse the throne,",1.0 +"Leaving behind, a curse to all his line,",2.0 +The bloody Legacy of RIGHT DIVINE.,1.0 +"With many Virtues which a radiance fling,",0.0 +"Round private men; with few which grace a King,",0.0 +"And speak the Monarch, at that time of life",0.0 +"When Passion holds with Reason doubtful strife,",0.0 +"Succeeded CHARLES, by a mean Sire undone,",5.0 +"Who envied virtue, even in a Son.",0.0 +"He took the Man up, before he left the child;",2.0 +His Soul was eager for imperial sway,3.0 +Ever he had learnt the lesson to obey.,2.0 +"Surrounded by a fawning, flattering throng,",3.0 +"Judgement each day grew weak, and Humour strong;",4.0 +And all his follies let to run to seed.,0.0 +What ills from such beginnings needs must spring!,1.0 +"What ills to such a land, from such a King!",2.0 +What could She hope! what had she not to fear!,0.0 +Base BUCKINGHAM possessed his youthful ear;,1.0 +"Engrossed his love, and made him all their own,",0.0 +The traitorous doctrines taught by Tories now;,2.0 +"Each strove undo him, in his turn and hour,",0.0 +"The first with pleasure, and the last with power.",1.0 +"Thinking vain thought, disgraceful to the throne!",4.0 +"That all Mankind were made for Kings alone,",1.0 +"That Subjects were but Slaves, and what was Whim",0.0 +"Or worse in common men, was Law in him;",0.0 +"Drunk with Prerogative, which Fate decreed",3.0 +"To guard good Kings, and Tyrants to mislead,",1.0 +"Which, in a fair proportion, to deny",1.0 +"Allegiance dares not, which to hold too high",1.0 +"No Good can wish, no Coward King can dare,",1.0 +"And held too high, no English Subject bear;",2.0 +"Besieged by Men of deep and subtle arts,",0.0 +"Men void of Principle, and damned with parts,",2.0 +"Who saw his weakness, made their King their tool,",0.0 +"Then most a slave, when most he seemed to rule;",0.0 +"Taking all public steps for private ends,",2.0 +He had not strength enough of soul to find,0.0 +"That Monarchs, meant as blessings to Mankind,",3.0 +"Sink their great State, and stamp their fame undone,",3.0 +"When, what was meant for all, they give to One;",0.0 +While in the State not more than Women read,0.0 +Tutored to see with ministerial eyes;,4.0 +Forbid to hear a loyal Nation's cries;,0.0 +Made to believe what can't a Favourite do,2.0 +He heard a Nation hearing one or two;,1.0 +"And out of danger, even on danger's brink;",3.0 +"While Power was daily crumbling from his hand,",3.0 +"While murmurs ran through an insulted land,",1.0 +"As if to sanction Tyrants Heaven was bound,",1.0 +He proudly sought the ruin which he found.,0.0 +"Twelve years, twelve tedious and inglorious years,",6.0 +"Did ENGLAND, crushed by power and awed by fears,",2.0 +"While proud Oppression struck at Freedom's root,",0.0 +"Illegal taxes, and oppressive loans,",1.0 +"In spite of all her pride, called forth her groans,",1.0 +And LOYALTY was tempted to rebel.,2.0 +"Each day new acts of outrage shook the state,",2.0 +New Courts were raised to give new Doctrines weight;,2.0 +"Juries were packed, and Judges were unsound;",3.0 +Through the whole kingdom not one PRATT was found.,2.0 +From the first moments of his giddy youth,3.0 +"At length against his will compelled to treat,",1.0 +"Those whom he could not fright, he strove to cheat,",0.0 +"With base dissembling every grievance heard,",0.0 +"And, often giving, often broke his word.",0.0 +"OH where shall helpless Truth for refuge fly,",0.0 +"If Kings, who should protect her, dare to lie?",0.0 +"Those who, the general good their real aim,",1.0 +"Those who were anxious for his safety, Those",2.0 +"Who were induced by duty to oppose,",2.0 +"Their truth suspected, and their worth unknown,",1.0 +"He held as foes, and traitors to his throne,",1.0 +Nor found his fatal error till the hour,1.0 +"Of saving him was gone and past, till Power",1.0 +"Had shifted hands, to blast his hapless reign,",0.0 +"Making their Faith, and his Repentance vain.",3.0 +"War, dread to mention, Civil War arose;",1.0 +"All acts of Outrage, and all acts of shame",2.0 +"Rebellion, raising high her bloody hand,",0.0 +Spread universal havoc through the land;,2.0 +"With zeal for Party, and with Passion drunk,",1.0 +"In Public rage all private Love was sunk,",0.0 +"Friend against Friend, Brother against Brother stood,",6.0 +And the Son's weapon drank the Father's blood;,2.0 +"Nature, aghast, and fearful lest her reign",3.0 +"Should last no longer, bled in every vein.",1.0 +"Unhappy Stuart! harshly though that name,",1.0 +"Grates on my ear, I should have died with shame,",0.0 +"To see my King before his subjects stand,",0.0 +"And at their bar hold up his royal hand,",2.0 +"At their commands to hear the monarch plead,",1.0 +By their decrees to see that Monarch bleed.,1.0 +"What though thy faults were many, and were great,",1.0 +"What though they shook the basis of the state,",1.0 +"In Royalty secure thy Person stood,",1.0 +And sacred was the fountain of thy blood.,2.0 +"Vile Ministers, who dared abuse their trust,",2.0 +"Who dared seduce a King to be unjust,",0.0 +Had nobly crushed; the King could do no wrong.,1.0 +"Yet grieve not, CHARLES, nor thy hard fortunes blame;",4.0 +"They took thy life, but they secured thy fame.",1.0 +"Their greater crimes made thine like specks appear,",2.0 +From which the Sun in glory is not clear.,1.0 +"As in a sleep, thy name, by Justice born",0.0 +"On the four winds, had been in pieces torn.",1.0 +"Pity, the Virtue of a generous soul,",5.0 +"Sometime the Vice, hath made thy memory whole.",3.0 +"Misfortunes gave, what Virtue could not give,",0.0 +"And bade, the Tyrant slain, the Martyr live.",0.0 +"You princes of the Earth, you mighty few,",1.0 +"Who, worlds subduing, can't yourselves subdue,",0.0 +"Who, goodness scorned, wish only to be great,",2.0 +"Whose breath is blasting, and whose voice is fate,",1.0 +"Who own no law, no reason but your will,",5.0 +"And scorn restraint, though it's from doing ill,",1.0 +"Who of all passions groan beneath the worst,",0.0 +Then only blessed when they make others cursed;,2.0 +"Long may You sin, and long may Heaven forgive;",0.0 +"But, when You least expect, in sorrow's day,",0.0 +Vengeance shall fall more heavy for delay;,3.0 +Nor think that Vengeance heaped on you alone,1.0 +Shall poor amends for injured worlds atone;,0.0 +"No; like some base distemper, which remains,",0.0 +"Transmitted from the tainted Father's veins,",1.0 +"In the Son's blood, such broad and general crimes",3.0 +"Shall call down Vengeance even to latest times,",2.0 +"Call Vengeance down on all who bear your name,",2.0 +And make their portion bitterness and shame.,1.0 +"From land to land for years compelled to roam,",0.0 +"Not daring, like a King, to reign, or die,",0.0 +Recalled to repossess his lawful throne,0.0 +"More at his people's seeking, than his own,",1.0 +Another CHARLES succeeded; in the school,0.0 +"Of travel he had learnt to play the fool,",1.0 +"And, like pert pupils with dull Tutors sent",3.0 +"To shame their Country on the Continent,",2.0 +"From love of ENGLAND by long absence weaned,",2.0 +"From every Court he every folly gleaned,",0.0 +"And was, so close do evil habits cling,",1.0 +"Till crowned, a Beggar; and when crowned, no King.",2.0 +"Those grand and general powers, which Heaven designed",2.0 +"An instance of his mercy to Mankind,",3.0 +"Were lost, in storms of dissipation hurled,",0.0 +Nor would he give one hour to bless a world;,0.0 +"Lighter than levity which strides the blast,",3.0 +"And, of the present fond, forgets the past,",1.0 +"He changed and changed, but, every hope to curse,",0.0 +Changed only from one folly to a worse;,3.0 +"State he resigned to those whom state could please,",3.0 +"Careless of Majesty, his wish was ease;",3.0 +"Pleasure, and Pleasure only was his aim;",3.0 +Kings of less Wit might hunt the bubble fame;,3.0 +"Dignity, through his reign, was made a sport,",1.0 +"Nor dared Decorum show her face at Court,",0.0 +"Morality was held a standing jest,",1.0 +And Faith a necessary fraud at best;,0.0 +"Courtiers, their monarch ever in their view,",1.0 +"Possessed great talents, and abused them too;",2.0 +"Whatever was light, impertinent, and vain,",4.0 +"Whatever was loose, indecent, and profane,",4.0 +"So ripe was Folly, Folly to acquit",1.0 +"Stood all absolved in that poor bauble, WIT.",2.0 +"In gratitude, alas! but little read,",0.0 +"He let his Father's servants beg their bread,",0.0 +"His Father's faithful servants, and his own,",1.0 +To place the foes of both around his throne.,0.0 +"Through love of ease, and not through want of sense;",0.0 +"He saw them wrong, but rather let them go",0.0 +"As right, than take the pains to make them so.",0.0 +"Women ruled all, and Ministers of State",1.0 +"Women, who have, as Monarchs, graced the land,",1.0 +But never governed well at Secondhand.,0.0 +"To make all other errors slight appear,",0.0 +"In memory fixed so deep, that Time in vain",2.0 +"Shall strive to wipe those records from the brain,",1.0 +"In such high Estimate, vile, paltry gold,",3.0 +"And of his duty be so careless found,",1.0 +"That, when the blood of Subjects from the ground",1.0 +"For Vengeance called, he should reject their cry,",0.0 +"Give HOLLAND peace, while ENGLISH victims groaned,",1.0 +"OH, dear, deep injury to ENGLAND's fame,",3.0 +"To them, to us, to all! to him, deep Shame!",2.0 +"Of all the passions which from frailty spring,",0.0 +Avarice is that which least becomes a King.,1.0 +"Which through his reign he little understood,",0.0 +"Or little heeded, with too narrow aim",2.0 +"He reassured a Bigot Brother's claim,",0.0 +"Suddenly died, that Brother best knew how.",4.0 +"No matter how ' -- he slept amongst the dead,",2.0 +And JAMES his Brother reigned in his stead.,0.0 +"In every step against Freedom, Law, and Sense,",4.0 +"Against all the rights of Nature's general plan,",0.0 +"Against all which constitutes an Englishman,",1.0 +"That the Relation would mere fiction seem,",2.0 +"The mock creation of a Poet's dream,",1.0 +Appear as false as their Historian's page.,1.0 +"Ambitious Folly seized the seat of Wit,",0.0 +"Christians were forced by Bigots to submit,",3.0 +"Pride without sense, without Religion Zeal,",3.0 +"Stern Persecution raised her iron rod,",1.0 +"And called the pride of Kings, the power of God,",2.0 +"Conscience and Fame were sacrificed to ROME,",2.0 +And ENGLAND wept at FREEDOM's sacred tomb.,0.0 +"Her Laws despised, her Constitution wrenched",0.0 +"From its due, natural frame, her Rights retrenched",2.0 +"And healing Justice from the Crown divorced,",1.0 +"Each moment pregnant with vile acts of power,",2.0 +"Her patriot BISHOPS sentenced to the Tower,",3.0 +Her OXFORD who yet loves the STUART name,0.0 +"Branded with arbitrary marks of shame,",2.0 +"She wept ' -- but wept not long; to arms she flew,",0.0 +"Turned all her terrors on the Tyrant's head,",3.0 +"And sent him in despair to beg his bread,",0.0 +While she may every State in such distress,1.0 +"Dare with such zeal, and meet with such success",1.0 +"While She may GOTHAM, should my abject mind",0.0 +"Choose to enslave, rather than free mankind,",8.0 +"Pursue her steps, tear the proud Tyrant down,",4.0 +Nor let me wear if I abuse the crown,1.0 +Written in gold let REVOLUTION stand,3.0 +"While She, secured in Liberty and Law,",2.0 +"OH COME, blessed Spirit! whatsoever thou art,",3.0 +"Thou rushing warmth that hovers round my heart,",0.0 +"Sweet inmate, hail! thou source of sterling joy,",2.0 +"That poverty itself cannot destroy,",1.0 +"Be thou my Muse; and faithful still to me,",0.0 +Retrace the paths of wild obscurity.,1.0 +"No deeds of arms my humble lines rehearse,",1.0 +"No Alpine wonders thunder through my verse,",3.0 +"Inspiring awe, till breath itself stands still:",1.0 +Nor Science led me through the boundless skies;,1.0 +For all the blessings of my infant days!,1.0 +Bear me through regions where gay Fancy dwells;,1.0 +But mould to Truth's fair form what Memory tells.,3.0 +"Live, trifling incidents, and grace my song,",2.0 +That to the humblest menial belong;,3.0 +"To him whose drudgery unheeded goes,",2.0 +"Though joys and cares in every path are sown,",0.0 +And youthful minds have feelings of their own;,1.0 +"Quick springing sorrows, transient as the dew;",2.0 +"Delights from trifles, trifles ever new.",0.0 +"'Twas thus with GILES: meek, fatherless, and poor;",3.0 +"Labour his portion, but he felt no more;",3.0 +"No stripes, no tyranny his steps pursued;",3.0 +"His life was constant, cheerful, servitude;",0.0 +"Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look,",0.0 +"The Fields his study, Nature was his book;",1.0 +"And, as revolving SEASONS changed the scene",1.0 +"From heat to cold, tempestuous to serene,",4.0 +"Though every change still varied his employ,",2.0 +Yet each new duty brought its share of joy.,1.0 +"Where noble GRAFTON spreads his rich domains,",0.0 +"Where woods and groves in solemn grandeur rise,",3.0 +"Where the kite brooding, unmolested flies;",2.0 +"And skulking foxes, destined for the chase;",1.0 +"There his first thoughts to Nature's charms inclined,",2.0 +Who with peculiar grace his station filled;,1.0 +"By deeds of hospitality endeared,",1.0 +"Served from affection, for his worth revered:",3.0 +"His fields were fruitful, and his barns well stored,",2.0 +Unceasing industry he kept in view;,1.0 +And never lacked a job for Giles to do.,0.0 +"FLED now the sullen murmurs of the North,",2.0 +"Her universal green, and the clear sky,",1.0 +Delight still more and more the gazing eye.,1.0 +"Wide over the fields, in rising moisture strong,",3.0 +"Shoots up the simple flower, or creeps along",2.0 +Fresh sweets from frequent showers and evening dews;,3.0 +"That summon from its shed the slumbering ploughs,",3.0 +While health impregnates every breeze that blows.,0.0 +No wheels support the diving pointed share;,1.0 +No groaning ox is doomed to labour there;,2.0 +"Draws his fresh parallels, and widening still,",5.0 +"Treads slow the heavy dale, or climbs the hill:",1.0 +"Strong on the wing his busy followers play,",2.0 +Where writhing earthworms meet the unwelcome day;,3.0 +"Till all is changed, and hill and level down",1.0 +Assume a livery of sober brown:,1.0 +"Again disturbed, when Giles with wearying strides",2.0 +From ridge to ridge the ponderous harrow guides;,2.0 +"His heels deep sinking every step he goes,",1.0 +Till dirt usurp the empire of his shoes.,2.0 +Welcome the friendly bank's refreshing seat!,2.0 +"There, warm with toil, his panting horses browse.",0.0 +"Till rest, delicious, chase each transient pain,",0.0 +"Hour after hour, and day to day succeeds,",0.0 +"To crumbling mould; a level surface clear,",0.0 +"And over the whole Giles once transverse again,",3.0 +In earth's moist bosom buries up the grain.,2.0 +The work is done; no more to man is give;,0.0 +The grateful farmer trusts the rest to Heaven.,0.0 +"Yet oft with anxious heart he looks around,",0.0 +And marks the first green blade that breaks the ground:,1.0 +His tufted barley yellow with the sun;,1.0 +"Sees clouds propitious shed their timely store,",1.0 +And all his harvest gathered round his door.,0.0 +A favourite morsel with the rook and crow;,1.0 +From field to field the flock increasing goes;,0.0 +To level crops most formidable foes:,1.0 +And place a watch on some conspicuous bough;,2.0 +Yet oft the skulking gunner by surprise,1.0 +Will scatter death amongst them as they rise.,1.0 +"These, hung in triumph round the spacious field,",0.0 +At best will but a short-lived terror yield:,2.0 +"Nor guards of property; not penal law,",1.0 +"Let then your birds lie prostrate on the earth,",2.0 +"In dying posture, and with wings stretched forth;",2.0 +"Shift them at eve or morn from place to place,",0.0 +And death shall terrify the pilfering race;,2.0 +"In the mid air, while circling round and round,",3.0 +"With quickening wing, and notes of loud alarm,",2.0 +Warn the whole flock to shun the impending harm.,4.0 +"This task had Giles, in fields remote from home:",0.0 +Oft has he wished the rosy morn to come.,0.0 +Yet never famed was he nor foremost found,2.0 +To break the seal of sleep; his sleep was sound:,0.0 +"But when at daybreak summoned from his bed,",2.0 +"Waving aloft their towering branches proud,",2.0 +"Whence inspiration, pure as ever flowed,",0.0 +And genuine transport in his bosom glowed,1.0 +"Of Nature's music, from a thousand throats:",1.0 +"The blackbird strove with emulation sweet,",0.0 +And Echo answered from her close retreat;,1.0 +Poured hymns to freedom and the rising morn;,2.0 +Stopped in her song perchance the starting thrush,5.0 +And trembled as the minstrel sweetly sung.,1.0 +"Across his path, in either grove to hide,",0.0 +The timid rabbit scouted by his side;,1.0 +Whose gold and purple tints alternate glowed.,4.0 +But groves no further fenced the devious way;,3.0 +"Where on the grass the stagnant shower had run,",1.0 +"And shone a mirror to the rising sun,",1.0 +"Thus doubly seen lighting a distant wood,",6.0 +Giving new life to each expanding bud;,3.0 +Where prowling Reynard trod his nightly round;,0.0 +"His feathered victims to suspend in air,",1.0 +"High on the bough that nodded over his head,",2.0 +And thus each morn to strew the field with dead.,0.0 +Another instantly its place supplies.,1.0 +"Singing and scrubbing mid her milk and cream,",2.0 +"Bawls out, Go fetch the cows:... he hears no more;",4.0 +"For pigs, and ducks, and turkeys, throng the door,",0.0 +"And sitting hens, for constant war prepared;",0.0 +A concert strange to that which late he heard.,0.0 +Straight to the meadow then he whistling goes:,1.0 +Or hear the summon with an idle gaze;,1.0 +"Reluctance marks their steps, sedate and slow;",0.0 +The right of conquest all the law they know:,0.0 +Subordinate they one by one succeed;,2.0 +"And one among them always takes the lead,",1.0 +"Allowed precedence, undisputed sway;",5.0 +"With jealous pride her station is maintained,",1.0 +For many a broil that post of honour gained.,3.0 +"At home, the yard affords a grateful scene,",0.0 +"The rich manure that drenching winter made,",0.0 +"Which piled near home, grows green with many a weed,",3.0 +"Forth comes the Maid, and like the morning smiles;",1.0 +"The Mistress too, and followed close by Giles.",0.0 +"A friendly tripod forms their humble seat,",1.0 +"With pails bright scoured, and delicately sweet.",4.0 +"Where shadowing elms obstruct the morning ray,",2.0 +"Begins their work, begins the simple lay;",0.0 +While Mary sings some lover's amorous dreams;,2.0 +And crouching Giles beneath a neighbouring tree,2.0 +"Tugs over his pail, and chants with equal glee:",3.0 +"A mottled ensign of his harmless trade,",1.0 +The mistress yields beside her rosy maid;,0.0 +And bears a brimmer to the dairy door;,1.0 +"Her cows dismissed, the luscious mead to roam,",0.0 +Till eve again recall them loaded home.,0.0 +"And now the DAIRY claims her choicest care,",0.0 +And half her household find employment there:,2.0 +"Slow rolls the churn, its load of clogging cream",1.0 +From knotty particles first floating wide,2.0 +"Streams of new milk through flowing coolers stray,",3.0 +"Brisk goes the work beneath each busy hand,",1.0 +"And Giles must trudge, whoever gives command;",0.0 +"He drains the pump, from him the faggot burns;",1.0 +From him the noisy hogs demand their food;,1.0 +"While at his heels run many a chirping brood,",3.0 +"Or down his path in expectation stand,",1.0 +"Thus wastes the morn, till each still pleasure sees",2.0 +Whose very name alone engenders smiles;,5.0 +"Whose fame abroad by every tongue is spoke,",0.0 +That pass like current coin the nation through;,1.0 +"And, ah! experience proves the satire true.",3.0 +"Provision's grave, thou ever craving mart,",0.0 +"Mid poisonous smokes and steams, and rattling looms;",3.0 +Where Grandeur revels in unbounded stores;,4.0 +"Restraint, as slighted stranger at their doors!",0.0 +"Till London market, London price, resound",1.0 +"Through every town, round every passing load,",0.0 +And dairy produce throngs the eastern road:,0.0 +"And further far, where numerous herds repose,",2.0 +And leave their milk with nothing but its name;,1.0 +"Its name derision and reproach pursue,",1.0 +"To cheese converted, what can be its boast?",0.0 +"What, but the common virtues of a post!",1.0 +"If drought overtake if faster than the knife,",3.0 +"Most fair it bids for stubborn length of life,",0.0 +Mocks the weak efforts of the bending blade;,4.0 +"Too big to swallow, and too hard to bite.",3.0 +"Inglorious victory! You Cheshire meads,",3.0 +"Or Severn's flowery dales, where plenty treads,",4.0 +"Was your rich milk to suffer wrongs like these,",2.0 +"The skimmer dread, whose ravages alone",1.0 +Thus turn the mead's sweet nectar into stone.,2.0 +NEGLECTED now the early daisy lies;,0.0 +Advancing SPRING profusely spreads abroad,0.0 +"Flowers of all hues, with sweetest fragrance stored;",1.0 +Delight on tiptoe bears her lucid train;,1.0 +"Sweet Hope with conscious brow before her flies,",1.0 +Anticipating wealth from Summer skies;,0.0 +All Nature feels her renovating sway;,0.0 +"And trees, and shrubs, no longer budding seen,",1.0 +"On airy downs the shepherd idling lies,",0.0 +And sees tomorrow in the marbled skies.,1.0 +"Here then, my soul, thy darling theme pursue,",0.0 +For every day was Giles a SHEPHERD too.,0.0 +"Small was his charge; no wilds had tay to roam,",1.0 +But bright enclosures circling round their home.,0.0 +"Yet ever roving, ever seeking thee,",1.0 +"Enchanting spirit, dear Variety!",1.0 +"OH happy tenants, prisoners of a day!",2.0 +"Released to ease, to pleasure, and to play;",1.0 +"Indulged through every field by turns to range,",0.0 +And taste them all in one continual change.,3.0 +"For through luxuriant their grassy food,",2.0 +Sheep long confined but loathe the present good;,1.0 +"Instinctively they haunt the homeward gate,",1.0 +"And starve, and pine, with plenty at their feet.",0.0 +"Loosed from the winding lane, a joyful throng,",0.0 +"See, over yonder pasture how they pour along!",2.0 +Giles round their boundaries takes his usual stroll:,2.0 +"Sees every pass secured, and fences whole;",1.0 +Where many a nestling first assays to fly;,2.0 +And rests on every bough its tender head;,0.0 +"Round the young ash its twining branches meet,",3.0 +"Say, you that know, you who have felt and seen",0.0 +"Say, did you give the thrilling transport way?",0.0 +"Did your eye brighten, when young lambs at play",3.0 +"Leaped over your path with animated pride,",3.0 +Or gazed in merry clusters by your side?,1.0 +"You who can smile, to wisdom no disgrace,",0.0 +At the arch meaning of a kitten's face;,3.0 +"If spotless innocence, and infant mirth,",1.0 +"Excites to praise, or gives reflection birth;",0.0 +"In shades like these pursue your favourite joy,",1.0 +"Mid Nature's revels, sports that never cloy.",1.0 +"A few begin a short but vigorous race,",2.0 +From every side assembling playmates run;,1.0 +"A starting crowd, impatient of delay.",1.0 +"Like the fond dove from fearful prison freed,",3.0 +"Each seems to say, Come, let us try our speed;",1.0 +"Away they scour, impetuous, ardent, strong,",0.0 +The green turf trembling as they bound along;,2.0 +"Down the slope, then up the hillock climb,",1.0 +Where every molehill is a bed of thyme;,2.0 +There panting stop; yet scarcely can refrain;,1.0 +"A bird, a leaf, will set them off again:",1.0 +"Or, if a gale with strength unusual blow.",1.0 +"Their little limbs increasing efforts try,",0.0 +Like the torn flower the fair assemblage fly.,4.0 +"Ah, fallen rose! sad emblem of their doom;",2.0 +"Frail as thyself, they perish while they bloom!",2.0 +"Though frantic ewes may mourn the savage deed,",0.0 +"Their shepherd comes, a messenger of blood,",1.0 +"For lo, the murdering BUTCHER with his cart",3.0 +And makes a sport of life and liberty!,1.0 +"Closed are their eyes, their fleeces drenched in gore;",2.0 +"Nor can Compassion, with her softest notes,",2.0 +Withhold the knife that plunges through their throats.,1.0 +"Down, indignation! hence, ideas foul!",0.0 +Away the shocking image from my soul!,1.0 +Beneath approaching Summer's fervid ray;,0.0 +While the sweet theme is universal joy.,3.0 +THE FARMER'S life displays in every part,0.0 +A moral lesson to the sensual heart.,3.0 +"Though in the lap of Plenty, thoughtful still,",0.0 +He looks beyond the present good or ill;,0.0 +"Nor estimates alone one blessing's worth,",0.0 +"But views the future with the present hours,",1.0 +And looks for failures as he looks for show'er;,1.0 +"For casual as for certain want prepares,",1.0 +And round his yard the reeking haystack rears;,1.0 +"Or clover, blossomed lovely to the sight,",1.0 +"What though abundance round his dwelling spreads,",1.0 +"Supply his dairy with a copious flood,",3.0 +"That promise fails, when buried deep in snow,",0.0 +And vegetative juices cease to flow.,0.0 +"For this, his plough turns up the destined lands,",3.0 +Whence stormy Winter draws its full demands;,0.0 +"For this, the seed minutely small he sows,",6.0 +"Whence, sound and sweet, the hardy turnip grows.",0.0 +"High climbs the Sun, and darts his powerful rays;",3.0 +Over heaven's bright azure hence with joyful eyes,3.0 +The Farmer sees dark clouds assembling rise;,1.0 +"Born over his fields a heavy torrent falls,",3.0 +And strikes the earth in hasty driving squalls.,0.0 +"Right welcome down, you precious drops, he cries;",2.0 +"But soon, too soon, the partial blessing flies.",1.0 +"Dry dust beneath the bubbling surface lurks,",1.0 +"And mocks his pains the more, the more he works:",0.0 +"Resists the stormy lectures of the school,",1.0 +Presents a cheerful easy task for Giles.,0.0 +"Down with a touch the mellowed soil is laid,",1.0 +And you tall crop next claims his timely aid;,2.0 +"Shot up from broad rank blades that droop below,",1.0 +"With milky kernels starting full, weighed down,",2.0 +Ere yet the sun hath tinged its head with brown;,0.0 +"While thousands in a flock, for every gay,",0.0 +"Loud chirping sparrows welcome on the day,",2.0 +And from the mazes of the leafy thorn,2.0 +Drop one by one upon the bending corn;,1.0 +"Giles with a pole assails their close retreats,",0.0 +"Green covert, hail! for through the varying year",4.0 +"No hours so sweet, no scene to him so dear.",3.0 +"His frequent intervals of lonely case,",1.0 +"And with one ray his infant soul inspires,",1.0 +"Whence solitude derives peculiar charms,",0.0 +"Just where the parting bough's light shadows play,",2.0 +"Scarce in the shade, nor in the scorching day,",0.0 +"Stretched on the turf he lies, a peopled bed,",0.0 +Where swarming insects creep around his head.,1.0 +"Thence higher still, by countless steps conveyed,",1.0 +"He gains the summit of a shivering blade,",3.0 +Exulting in his distance from the ground.,1.0 +"The tender speckled moth here dancing seen,",0.0 +"The vaulting grasshopper of glossy green,",5.0 +"And all prolific Summer's sporting train,",0.0 +Their little lives by various powers sustain.,4.0 +But what can unassisted vision do?,0.0 +"What, but recoil where most it would pursue;",1.0 +"His patient gaze but finish with a sigh,",1.0 +When music waking speaks the skylark nigh.,1.0 +And trusts with conscious pride her downy wings;,0.0 +"Still louder breathes, and in the face of day",1.0 +"Mounts up, and calls on Giles to mark her way.",0.0 +"Close to his eyes his hat he instant bends,",0.0 +"And forms a friendly telescope, that lends",0.0 +"Just aid enough to dull the glaring light,",0.0 +"Yet oft beneath a cloud she sweeps along,",0.0 +"Lost for awhile, yet pours her varied song:",2.0 +"He views the spot, and as the cloud moves by,",2.0 +Again she stretches up the clear blue sky;,2.0 +"Her form, her motion, undistinguished quite,",0.0 +Save when she wheels direct from shade to light:,0.0 +"He sees her yet, but yielding to repose,",1.0 +Unwittingly his jaded eyelids close.,2.0 +"With no more guilt than Giles, and no more care?",0.0 +Nor conscience once disturbs him with a sting;,1.0 +"He wakes refreshed from every trivial pain,",2.0 +And takes his pole and brushes round again.,0.0 +"A glorious sight, if glory dwells below,",2.0 +"Over every field and golden prospect found,",0.0 +"When on some eminence he takes his stand,",1.0 +To judge the smiling produce of the land.,1.0 +What is there here to flatter human pride?,0.0 +"The towering fabric, or the dome's loud roar,",2.0 +"And steadfast columns, may astonish more,",2.0 +Yet traced but to the architect the praise;,1.0 +"Without one scruple, gives the praise to GOD;",0.0 +From gratitude and admiration joined.,0.0 +"Here, mid the boldest triumphs of her worth,",1.0 +"From infancy to age alike appears,",1.0 +No rake takes here what Heaven to all bestows:,1.0 +"Children of want, for you the bounty flows!",3.0 +Receives a burden nightly at its door.,0.0 +Hark! where the sweeping scythe now rips along:,1.0 +"Whose writhing form meridian heat defies,",2.0 +"But spares the rising clover, short and sweet.",0.0 +"Here hold your revels, and make this your home.",2.0 +Each heart awaits and hails you as its own;,1.0 +"Each moistened brow, that scorns to wear a frown:",0.0 +"And braves the sultry beams, and gladly sees",0.0 +"His gates thrown open, and his team abroad,",2.0 +"The ready group attendant on his word,",1.0 +"Or ply the busy rake, the land to clear.",0.0 +"While unrestrained the social converse flows,",0.0 +"And every breast Love's powerful impulse knows,",3.0 +And rival wits with more than rustic grace,0.0 +Confess the presence of a pretty face;,1.0 +"For, lo! encircled there, the lovely MAID,",1.0 +In youth's own bloom and native smiles arrayed;,0.0 +"Her hat awry, divested of her gown,",1.0 +"Her creaking stays of leather, stout and brown;...",0.0 +"When the slight covering of her neck slips by,",5.0 +There half revealing to the eager sight,1.0 +"Her full, ripe bosom, exquisitely white?",6.0 +"In many a local tale of harmless mirth,",2.0 +"And many a jest of momentary birth,",2.0 +"She bears a part, and as she stops to speak,",1.0 +"Now noon gone by, and four declining hours,",1.0 +The weary limbs relax their boasted powers;,0.0 +"Thirst rages strong, the fainting spirits fail,",1.0 +Beneath some sheltering heap of yellow corn,2.0 +"Its costlier potions, and its nobler name.",4.0 +"To Mary first the brimming draught is given,",0.0 +"By toil made welcome as the dews of heaven,",2.0 +And never lip that pressed its homely edge,0.0 +Had kinder blessings or a heartier pledge.,1.0 +"A common cheer for all;... even humble Giles,",0.0 +Who joys his trivial services to yield,3.0 +Amid the fragrance of the open field;,1.0 +Oft doomed in suffocating heat to bear,1.0 +"To ride in murky state the panting steed,",0.0 +"Destined aloft the unloaded grain to tread,",4.0 +"Where, in his path as heaps on heaps are thrown,",0.0 +"He rears, and plunges the loose mountain down:",3.0 +Laborious task! with what delight when done,2.0 +"The bold assailants that surround thine head,",0.0 +Poor patient Ball! and with insulting wing,2.0 +"Roar in thine ears, and dart the piercing sting:",0.0 +"A moving mockery, a useless name,",1.0 +"Shame to the man, whatever fame he bore,",1.0 +"Who took from thee what man can never restore,",3.0 +When swarming flies contending suck thy blood.,0.0 +"Nor thine alone the suffering, thine the care,",2.0 +The fretful Ewe bemoans an equal share;,0.0 +"Tormented into sores, her head she hides,",1.0 +"Penned in the yard, even now at closing day",4.0 +"Unruly Cows with marked impatience stay,",0.0 +"And vainly striving to escape their foes,",1.0 +Must still another foe annoy their rest?,0.0 +"He comes, the pest and terror of the yard,",1.0 +"The GANDER;... spiteful, insolent, and bold,",1.0 +"Each booby goose the unworthy strife enjoys,",2.0 +And hails his prowess with redoubled noise.,1.0 +"Till whirled aloft he falls; a timely cheque,",0.0 +Enough to dislocate his worthless neck:,1.0 +Behold that broken wing that trails the ground!,0.0 +"As savage quite, and oft as fatal too.",0.0 +"Happy the man that foils an envious elf,",4.0 +Using the darts of spleen to serve himself.,2.0 +As when by turns the strolling Swine engage,0.0 +"Gently he stoops, or lays himself along,",2.0 +"That march exulting round his fallen head,",0.0 +As human victors trample on their dead.,1.0 +"Still TWILIGHT, welcome! Rest, how sweet art thou!",2.0 +Now eve overhangs the western cloud's thick brow;,2.0 +"With fiery treasures fraught, that on the sight",3.0 +"Or craggy coasts just rising into view,",0.0 +"When MIDNIGHT, and the frightful TEMPEST comes.",1.0 +"The Farmer wakes, and sees with silent dread",0.0 +The angry shafts of Heaven gleam round his bed;,0.0 +"The bursting cloud reiterated roars,",0.0 +"Shakes his straw roof, and jars his bolted doors:",3.0 +Spreads its dark course; the wind begins to rise;,3.0 +With mimic thunder give its fury way:,0.0 +"Sounds in his chimney top a doleful peal,",0.0 +"Mid pouring rain, or gusts of rattling hail;",1.0 +"With tenfold danger low the tempest bends,",1.0 +"The frightened mastiff from his kennel flies,",1.0 +These are the moments when the heart is tried!,1.0 +"Nor lives the man with conscience ever so clear,",2.0 +"But feels a solemn, reverential fear;",0.0 +"Feels too a joy relieve his aching breast,",1.0 +When the spent storm hath howled itself to rest.,3.0 +"Still, welcome beats the long continued shower,",1.0 +"And sleep protracted, comes with double power;",0.0 +"Calm dreams of bliss bring on the morning sun,",3.0 +"For every barn is filled, and HARVEST done!",0.0 +"Now, ere sweet SUMMER bids its long adieu,",2.0 +"And winds blow keen where late the blossom grew,",1.0 +"The bustling day and jovial night must come,",2.0 +"No bloodstained victory, in storey bright,",4.0 +Can give the philosophic mind delight;,0.0 +No triumph please while rage and death destroy:,1.0 +"And where the joy, if rightly understood,",0.0 +Like cheerful praise for universal good?,0.0 +But free and pure the grateful current flows.,0.0 +"And generous host invite their friends around,",2.0 +Are guests by right of custom:... old and young;,0.0 +"And many a neighbouring yeoman join the throng,",4.0 +"Yet Plenty reigns, and from her boundless hoard,",1.0 +Supplies the feast with all that sense can crave;,0.0 +"With all that made our great forefathers brave,",1.0 +And cooks had Nature's judgement set aside.,0.0 +"With thanks to Heaven, and tales of rustic lore,",0.0 +The mansion echoes when the banquet's over;,0.0 +"A wider circle spreads, and smiles abound,",0.0 +Care's mortal foe; that sprightly joys imparts,1.0 +To cheer the frame and elevate their hearts.,0.0 +"And crackling Music, with the frequent Song,",1.0 +Unheeded bear the midnight hour along.,1.0 +"Here once a year Distinction lowers its crest,",2.0 +"The master, servant, and the merry guest,",1.0 +Are equal all; and round the happy ring,0.0 +"And, warmed with gratitude, he quits his place,",0.0 +"Refills the jug his honoured host to tend,",3.0 +To serve at once the master and the friend;,1.0 +"Proud thus to meet his smiles, to share his tale,",1.0 +"His nuts, his conversation, and his ale.",1.0 +"Such were the days,... of days long past I sing,...",2.0 +When Pride gave place to mirth without a sting;,1.0 +Ere tyrant customs strength sufficient bore,1.0 +To violate the feelings of the poor;,2.0 +"To leave them distanced in the maddening race,",0.0 +Wherever Refinement shows its hated face:,2.0 +That hourly makes his wretched station worse;,0.0 +"Wealth flows around him, fashion lordly reigns;",1.0 +"Yet poverty is his, and mental pains.",2.0 +The stifled murmurs of his wounded heart:,1.0 +' Whence the new grandeur that mine eyes behold?,0.0 +"' The widening distance which I daily see,",2.0 +' Has Wealth done this?... the wealth's a foe to me;,1.0 +' Foe to our rights; that leaves a powerful few,1.0 +' The paths of emulation to pursue:...,1.0 +' For emulation stoops to us no more:,0.0 +' The hope of humble industry is over;,1.0 +"' The blameless hope, the cheering sweet presage",3.0 +' Of future comforts for declining age.,1.0 +' Can my sons share from this paternal hand,3.0 +"' No; though indulgent Heaven its blessing deigns,",2.0 +"' Content, the poet sings, with us resides,",1.0 +' In lonely cots like mine the damsel hides;,1.0 +' That sweet Content with Want can ever dwell?,0.0 +"' A barley loaf, it's true, my table crowns,",0.0 +"' That fast diminishing in lusty rounds,",1.0 +' Stops Nature's cravings; yet her sighs will flow,1.0 +"' From knowing this,... that once it was not so.",1.0 +"Our annual fist, when Earth her plenty yields,",2.0 +"' When crowned with boughs the last load quits the fields,",1.0 +' The aspect still of ancient joy puts on;,3.0 +"' The aspect only, with the substance gone:",2.0 +' But serves none now but the plebeian hand:,2.0 +' Is quite discarded from the realms of taste.,1.0 +"' Where unaffected Freedom charmed the soul,",0.0 +"' The separate table and the costly bowl,",1.0 +"' Cool as the blast that cheques the budding Spring,",0.0 +"' For oft the Farmer, ere his heart approves,",0.0 +' Yields up the custom which he dearly loves:,0.0 +' Refinement forces on him like a tide;,1.0 +"' Bold innovations down its current ride,",2.0 +"' That bear no peace beneath their showy dress,",1.0 +' Nor add one tittle to his happiness.,2.0 +' What trouble waits upon a casual frown!,0.0 +' Selected guests selected phrases claim:,0.0 +' Nor reigns that joy when hand in hand they join,0.0 +' That good old Master felt in shaking mine.,2.0 +' HEAVEN bless his memory! bless his honoured name!,3.0 +' The poor will speak his lasting worthy fame:,0.0 +' In pity to us still let goodness live:,2.0 +' Let labour have its due! my cot shall be,1.0 +' From chilling want and guilty murmurs free:,0.0 +"' Let labour have its due;... then peace is mine,",1.0 +"AGAIN, the year's decline, mid storms and floods,",1.0 +"The thundering chase, the yellow fading woods,",2.0 +Invite my song; that fain would boldly tell,0.0 +"By turns resounding loud, at eve and morn",0.0 +No more the fields with scattered grain supply,0.0 +The restless wandering tenants of the STY;,3.0 +"From oak to oak they run with eager haste,",0.0 +And wrangling share the first delicious taste,0.0 +Of fallen ACORNS; yet but thinly found,0.0 +Till the strong gale have shook them to the ground.,3.0 +It comes; and roaring woods obedient wave:,2.0 +Their home well pleased the joint adventures leave:,1.0 +"The trudging sow leads forth her numerous young,",3.0 +"And over their heads, loud lashed by furious squalls,",5.0 +Bright from their cups the rattling treasure falls;,0.0 +Hot thirsty food; whence doubly sweet and cool,1.0 +"The wild duck's lonely haunt, whose jealous eye",1.0 +"Guards every point; who sits prepared to fly,",1.0 +"On the calm bosom of her little lake,",3.0 +Too closely screened for russian winds to shake;,1.0 +"And as the bold intruders press around,",1.0 +"At once she starts, and rises with a bound:",1.0 +"With bristles raised the sudden noise they hear,",0.0 +"And ludicrously wild, and winged with fear,",1.0 +"And snorting dash through sedge, and rush, and reed:",0.0 +"Through tangling thickets headlong on they go,",2.0 +"Then stop, and listen for their fancied foe;",1.0 +"Repeated fright the first alarm succeeds,",0.0 +"Their groundless terrors by degrees soon cease,",2.0 +"For now the gale subsides, and from each bough",1.0 +The roosting pheasant's short but frequent crow,0.0 +"Invites to rest; and huddling side by side,",0.0 +The herd in closets ambush seek to hide;,1.0 +Dried leaves their copious covering and their bed.,4.0 +"And solemn silence, urge his piercing call:",0.0 +"Whole days and nights they tarry mid their store,",1.0 +Nor quit the woods till oaks can yield no more.,1.0 +"Beyond bleak Winter's rage, beyond the Spring",1.0 +And sees next Summer's sheaves and cloudless sky;,0.0 +"And even now, while Nature's beauty dies,",0.0 +"Deposits SEED, and bids new harvests rise;",1.0 +"Seed well prepared and warmed with glowing lime,",1.0 +"For searching frosts and various ills invade,",2.0 +"The plough moves heavily, and strong the soil,",2.0 +"Dive deep: and clinging, mixes with the mould",2.0 +"A fattening treasure from the nightly fold,",1.0 +"No idling hours are here, when Fancy trims",1.0 +"Her dancing taper over outstretched limbs,",3.0 +"And in her thousand thousand colours dressed,",1.0 +"With strong exertion, and with weary bones,",1.0 +And knows no leisure; till the distant chime,2.0 +"Of Sabbath bells he hears at sermon time,",0.0 +"Or strike the rising hill, or skim the dale.",0.0 +Nor his alone the sweets of ease to taste:,1.0 +"Kind rest extends to all;... save one poor beast,",2.0 +"That true to time and pace, is doomed to plod,",0.0 +To bring the Pastor to the HOUSE of GOD:,1.0 +Mean structure; where no bones of heroes lie!,2.0 +Reigns here alone: else why that roof of straw?,2.0 +Those narrow windows with the frequent flaw?,1.0 +"Over whose low cells the dock and mallow spreads,",1.0 +While from the hollows of the tower on high,3.0 +"Round these lone walls assembling neighbours meet,",4.0 +And tread departed friends beneath their feet;,0.0 +Show each the spot where he himself must lie.,1.0 +"Mid timely greetings village news goes round,",2.0 +"Of crops late shorn, or crops that deck the ground;",1.0 +"While sturdy boys, in feats of strength to shine,",0.0 +With pride elate their young associates brave,1.0 +"Then close consulting, each his talent lends",0.0 +To plan fresh sports when tedious service ends.,3.0 +"Hither at times, with cheerfulness of soul,",4.0 +"Sweet village Maids from neighbouring hamlets stroll,",3.0 +For love's their errand: hence the tints that glow,0.0 +"On either cheek, an heightened lustre know:",0.0 +"When, conscious of their charms, even Age looks sly,",5.0 +And rapture beams from Youth's observant eye.,0.0 +"THE PRIDE of such a party, Nature's pride,",1.0 +"With hat of airy shape and ribbons gay,",0.0 +"But, ere her twentieth Summer could expand,",2.0 +"Or youth was rendered happy with her hand,",1.0 +"Her mind's serenity was lost and gone,",1.0 +"Her eye grew languid, and she wept alone;",2.0 +"Mirth followed loud, or indignation reigned:",1.0 +"Whims wild and simple led her from her home,",2.0 +"The heath, the common, or the fields to roam:",1.0 +Terror and joy alternate ruled her hours;,4.0 +"Now blithe she sung, and gathered useless flowers;",1.0 +"Now plucked a tender twig from every bough,",1.0 +To whip the hovering demons from her brow.,1.0 +"Thy bed of straw! for mark, where even now",0.0 +Over their lost child afflicted parents bow;,2.0 +Inverted customs yield her sullen joy;,0.0 +"Her midnight meals in secrecy she takes,",2.0 +"Low muttering to the moon, that rising breaks",2.0 +Through night's dark gloom:... o how much more forlorn,2.0 +"Her night, that knows of no returning dawn!...",0.0 +"Slow from the threshold, once her infant seat,",1.0 +Over the cold earth she crawls to her retreat;,3.0 +"Quitting the cot's warm walls in filth to lie,",3.0 +where the swine grunting yields up half his sty;,2.0 +The damp night air her shivering limbs assails;,3.0 +"When morning wakes, none earlier roused than she,",3.0 +"Her head bowed down, her faded cheek to hide;...",2.0 +She calls her throne; there weeps her life away:,0.0 +And oft the gaily passing stranger stays,0.0 +And pangs quick springing muster round his heart;,1.0 +And fain would catch her sorrows plaintive sound:,0.0 +"One word alone is all that strikes the car,",0.0 +"One short, pathetic, simple word,... O dear!",0.0 +"A thousand times repeated to the wind,",1.0 +"For ever of the proffered parley shy,",1.0 +She hears the unwelcome foot advancing nigh;,2.0 +"Nor quite unconscious of her wretched plight,",2.0 +"Gives one sad look, and hurries out of sight....",4.0 +"For in life's road though thorns abundant grow,",1.0 +There still are joys poor Poll can never know;,1.0 +Joys which the gay companions of her prime,1.0 +"Sip, as they drift along the stream of time;",0.0 +At eve to hear beside their tranquil home,0.0 +"The lifted latch, that speaks the lover come:",0.0 +"That love matured, next playful on the knee",1.0 +To press the velvet lip of infancy;,1.0 +"To stay the tottering step, the features trace;...",2.0 +"Thou, on whose blasts autumnal foliage flies!",1.0 +"Let Peace never leave me, nor my heart grow cold,",3.0 +While life and sanity are mine to hold.,2.0 +"The withering pasture, and the fading mead,",3.0 +"Less tempting grown, diminish more and more,",1.0 +"New cares succeed, and gentle duties press,",1.0 +"Where the fireside, a school of tenderness,",1.0 +"Revives the languid chirp, and warms the blood",0.0 +"That from the shell just bursting into day,",0.0 +"From hungry woodland foes go, Giles, and guard",1.0 +The rising wheat; ensure its great reward:,0.0 +"A future sustenance, a Summer's pride,",1.0 +Demand thy vigilance: then be it tried:,1.0 +"Go, Tarry there from morn till setting sun.",2.0 +"Keen blows the blast, or ceaseless rain descends;",1.0 +"OH for a HOVEL, ever so small or low,",2.0 +"Whose roof, repelling winds and early snow,",0.0 +Might bring home's comforts fresh before his eyes!,1.0 +"No sooner thought, than see the structure rise,",1.0 +"Dried fuel hoarded is his richest store,",2.0 +And circling smoke obscures his little door;,0.0 +And strolls the Crusoe of the lonely fields.,1.0 +"And over the flame the sputtering fruit he rests,",4.0 +His guests by promise; playmates young and gay:...,1.0 +BUT AH! fresh pastimes lure their steps away!,2.0 +"He sweeps his hearth, and homeward looks in vain,",0.0 +"Till feeling Disappointment's cruel pain,",0.0 +"His fairy revels are exchanged for rage,",1.0 +"His banquet marred, grown dull his hermitage.",2.0 +"The field becomes his prison, till on high",1.0 +"Mid air, health, daylight, can he prisoner be?",2.0 +"If fields are prisons, where is Liberty?",1.0 +"When troubles press, to chains and barriers grow.",2.0 +Look then from trivial up to greater woes;,1.0 +Where not one cheering sunbeam meets his eye.,1.0 +"Though ineffectual pity thine may be,",3.0 +"No wealth, no power, to set the captive free;",4.0 +The golden path that HOWARD trod to heaven;,0.0 +"Thy slights can make the wretched more forlorn,",0.0 +"Say not, I'll come and cheer thy gloomy cell",0.0 +"With news of dearest friends; how good, how well:",0.0 +I'll be a joyful herald to thine heart:,1.0 +"Where can he turn, to whom complain of you?",0.0 +"Back to past joys in vain his thoughts may stray,",3.0 +"The rankling injury will pierce his breast,",1.0 +And curses on thee break his midnight rest.,2.0 +"Bereft of song, and ever cheering green,",0.0 +"New harmony pervades the solemn wood,",2.0 +"Dear to the soul, and healthful to the blood:",1.0 +For bold exertion follows on the sound,1.0 +"Of distant sportsmen, and the chiding hound;",1.0 +"First heard from kennel bursting, mad with joy,",1.0 +"Lord of pure alms, and gifts that wide extend;",3.0 +"The farmer's patron, and the poor man's friend:",2.0 +"Whose mansion glittering with the eastern ray,",1.0 +"Whose elevated temple, points the way,",0.0 +"Over slopes and lawns, the park's extensive pride,",0.0 +"To where the victims of the chase reside,",1.0 +Till lo! a plot portends their coming harm.,0.0 +"Ere yet one rosy cloud bespeaks the dawn,",0.0 +"While far abroad THE FOX pursues his prey,",0.0 +"From his strong hold blocked out; perhaps to bleed,",3.0 +Or owe his life to fortune or to speed.,1.0 +"For now the pack, impatient rushing on,",1.0 +Trace every spot; while down each noble glade,2.0 +"The loitering sportsman feels the instinctive flame,",4.0 +And cheques his steed to mark the springing game.,0.0 +Mid intersecting cuts and winding ways,1.0 +"The huntsman cheers his dogs, and anxious strays",0.0 +"Where every narrow riding, even shorn,",0.0 +Gives back the echo of his mellow horn:,2.0 +"The starting fugitive leaps by his side,",2.0 +"His lifted finger to his ear he plies,",1.0 +As bursting thunder rolls from cloud to cloud.,0.0 +"With ears cropped short, and chest of vigorous mould,",3.0 +"The shining courser lengthens every bound,",0.0 +"As from the confines of the wood they pour,",1.0 +And joyous villages partake the roar.,1.0 +"Over heath far stretched, or down, or valley low,",2.0 +"Pursues in vain; where youth itself soon tyres,",1.0 +Spite of the transports that the chase inspires;,0.0 +Or hear the music of the leading cry?,1.0 +All thy fatigues and all thy triumphs over!,1.0 +"Triumphs of worth, whose honorary fame",2.0 +Was still to follow true the hunted game;,0.0 +"When the warm pack in faltering silence stood,",5.0 +"Thine was the note that roused the listening wood,",1.0 +"Rekindling every joy with tenfold force,",1.0 +Through all the mazes of the tainted course.,1.0 +"Still foremost thou the dashing stream to cross,",1.0 +And tempt along the animated horse;,0.0 +"Foremost over fen or level mead to pass,",1.0 +Then bright emerging from the missed below,1.0 +To climb the woodland hill's exulting brow.,0.0 +"Pride of thy race! with worth far less than thine,",1.0 +Full many human leaders daily shine!,1.0 +"Then no disgrace mine humble verse shall feel,",0.0 +Nor flowers are strewn around Ambition's car:...,2.0 +"Each sportsman heard the tidings with a sigh,",1.0 +When Death's cold touch had stopped his tuneful cry;,1.0 +"And though high deeds, and fair exalted praise,",2.0 +"In memory lived, and flowed in rustic lays,",2.0 +Short was the strain of monumental woe:,0.0 +"In safety housed, throughout NIGHT'S lengthening reign.",3.0 +The Cock sends forth a loud and piercing strain;,1.0 +"And hours roll round, that brought him liberty,",1.0 +"When Summer's early dawn, mild, clear, and bright,",1.0 +Chased quick away the transitory night:...,1.0 +Hours now in darkness veiled; yet loud the scream,0.0 +Of Geese impatient for the playful stream;,1.0 +And all the feathered tribe imprisoned raise,0.0 +"When daylight slowly through the fog breaks way,",3.0 +"Fly wantonly abroad: but ah, how soon",2.0 +"The shades of twilight follow hazy noon,",1.0 +Shortening the busy day!... day that slides by,4.0 +Amid the unfinished toils of HUSBANDRY;,3.0 +"Toils still each morn resumed with double care,",1.0 +To meet the icy terrors of the year;,1.0 +And Winter's gathering frowns and hoary head.,2.0 +"THEN welcome, COLD; welcome, you snowy nights!",5.0 +"Heaven mid your rage shall mingle pure delights,",0.0 +"And confidence of hope the soul sustain,",1.0 +While devastation sweeps along the plain:,0.0 +"Nor shall the child of poverty despair,",1.0 +But bless THE POWER that rules the changing year;,2.0 +"Assured,... though horrors round his cottage reign,...",0.0 +"That Spring will come, and Nature smile again.",0.0 +"WITH kindred pleasures moved, and cares oppressed;",0.0 +Sharing alike our weariness and rest;,3.0 +"Who lives the daily partner of our hours,",1.0 +"Through every change of heat, and frost, and showers;",0.0 +In mutual labour and in mutual thirst;,4.0 +The kindly intercourse will ever prove,0.0 +A bond of amity and social love.,1.0 +"To more than man this generous warmth extends,",2.0 +And oft the team and shivering herd befriends;,2.0 +"Tender solicitude the bosom fills,",2.0 +And Pity executes what Reason wills:,0.0 +And flies to aid the helpless and the young;,1.0 +"When now, unsparing as the scourge of war,",1.0 +"Blasts follow blasts, and groves dismantled roar.",1.0 +No nourishment in frozen pastures grows;,2.0 +Yet frozen pastures every morn resound,1.0 +With fair abundance thundering to the ground.,1.0 +"For though on hoary twigs no buds peep out,",4.0 +"And even the hardy bramble cease to sprout,",2.0 +Beneath dread WINTER'S level sheets of snow,1.0 +Till now imperious want and widespread dearth,3.0 +Bid Labour claim her treasures from the earth.,2.0 +"On GILES, and such as Giles, the labour falls,",1.0 +"On driving gales sharp hail indignant flies,",1.0 +"And sleet, more irksome still, assails his eyes;",0.0 +"Snow clogs his feet; or if no snow is seen,",3.0 +"The field with all its juicy store to screen,",0.0 +"Deep goes the frost, till every root is found",1.0 +A rolling mass of ice upon the ground.,0.0 +"No tender ewe can break her nightly fast,",1.0 +"Till Giles with ponderous beetle foremost go,",3.0 +And scattering splinters fly at every blow;,2.0 +"If now in beaded rows drops deck the spray,",1.0 +"While Phoebus grants a momentary ray,",0.0 +And stiffened into gems the drops are seen;,0.0 +And down the furrowed oak's broad southern side,2.0 +Streams of dissolving rhyme no longer glide.,3.0 +"THOUGH NIGHT approaching bids for rest prepare,",0.0 +"Still the flail echoes brought the frosty air,",3.0 +"Nor stops till deepest shades of darkness come,",0.0 +"From him, with bed and nightly food supplied,",1.0 +"Throughout the yard, housed round on every side,",1.0 +"Who moves unseen beneath his trailing load,",0.0 +"Fills the tall racks, and leaves a scattered road;",3.0 +Where oft the swine from ambush warm and dry,1.0 +"Bolt out, and scamper headlong to their sty,",2.0 +Deigns them a portion of his evening care.,1.0 +"Him, though the cold may pierce, and storms molest,",1.0 +"To heap the fire, and to extend the blaze",1.0 +"That quivering strong through every opening flies,",4.0 +While smoky columns unobstructed rise.,0.0 +"For the rude architect, unknown to fame,",2.0 +Nor symmetry nor elegance his aim,2.0 +"Who spread his floors of solid oak on high,",0.0 +Bade his wide Fabric unimpaired sustain,3.0 +"Bade from its central base, capacious laid,",0.0 +"FLAT on the hearth the glowing embers lie,",0.0 +And flames reflected dance in every eye:,0.0 +"There the long billet, forced at last to bend,",2.0 +"And oft the joke runs hard on sheepish Giles,",1.0 +For now attentively it's his to hear,2.0 +Interrogations from the Master's chair.,1.0 +' Near where the haystack lifts its snowy head?,1.0 +' May stop the slanting bullets of the storm.,1.0 +"' For, hark! it blows; a dark and dismal night:",0.0 +"' The Fox in silent darkness seems to glide,",0.0 +"' Stealing around us, listening as he goes,",3.0 +"' Destruction waits them, Giles, if ever you fail",2.0 +' To bolt their doors against the driving gale.,0.0 +"' The wrath of Winter from the bleak northeast,",2.0 +' Thine utmost sufferings in the coldest day,1.0 +"' A period terminates, and joys repay.",2.0 +"Perhaps even now, while her those joys we boast,",5.0 +"' Full many a bark rides down the neighbouring coast,",5.0 +"Where the high northern waves tremendous roar,",2.0 +' Feels all thy pains in all the gusts that blow;,0.0 +"His freezing hands now drenched, now dry, by turns;",2.0 +"' Now lost, now seen, the distant light that burns,",2.0 +' That throws its friendly radiance over the tide.,2.0 +' But toils and perils mark his watery way;,2.0 +"' And while in peaceful dreams secure we lie,",0.0 +' While this protecting roof still shelters thine?',3.0 +"Mild, as the vernal shower, his words prevail,",2.0 +And aid the moral precept of his tale:,2.0 +"His wondering hearers learn, and ever keep",2.0 +"And, as the opening mind a circuit tries,",3.0 +"Increasing pleasures every hour they find,",0.0 +"The warmth more precious, and he shelter kind;",1.0 +"Warmth that long reigning bids the eyelids close,",3.0 +"As through the blood its balmy influence goes,",3.0 +"When the cheered heart forgets fatigues and cares,",3.0 +And drowsiness alone dominion bears.,1.0 +When the last topic dies upon his tongue;,2.0 +"Sweet then the bliss his transient dreams inspire,",0.0 +"Till chilblains wake him, or the snapping fire:",1.0 +"He starts, and ever thoughtful of his team,",1.0 +Along the glittering snow a feeble gleam,2.0 +"Shoots from his lantern, as he yawning goes",1.0 +To add fresh comforts to their night's repose;,2.0 +"Diffusing fragrance as their food he moves,",1.0 +And pats the jolly sides of those he loves.,1.0 +"Thus full replenished, perfect ease possessed,",2.0 +"From might till morn alternate food and rest,",5.0 +Their each day's labour brings its sure reward.,1.0 +"Yet when from plough or lumbering cart set free,",3.0 +They taste awhile the sweets of liberty:,1.0 +Even sober Dobbin lifts his clumsy heels,0.0 +"And kicks, disdainful of the dirty wheels;",1.0 +"But soon, his frolic ended, yields again",0.0 +The trivial hardships that encompass thee:,3.0 +"Thy chains were freedom, and thy toils repose,",1.0 +"Show thee his bleeding shoulders, and unfold",1.0 +The dreadful anguish he endures for gold:,1.0 +"Hired at each call of business, lust, or rage,",0.0 +That prompt the trav'eller on from stage to stage.,1.0 +Still on his strength depends their boasted speed;,0.0 +"For them his limbs grow weak, his bare ribs bleed;",3.0 +"And though he groaning quickens at command,",1.0 +Their extra shilling in the rider's hand,0.0 +Becomes his bitter scourge:... it's he must feel,1.0 +The double efforts of the lash and steel;,1.0 +"Till when, uphill, the destined inn he gains,",1.0 +"And trembling under complicated pains,",0.0 +"Prone from his nostrils, darting on the ground,",1.0 +His breath emitted floats in clouds around:,0.0 +"Drops chase each other down his chest and sides,",2.0 +"Through his swollen veins the boiling torrent flows,",0.0 +As the starved mariner the friendly shore.,3.0 +"Ah, well for him if here his sufferings ceased,",1.0 +And ample hours of rest his pains appeased!,0.0 +"But roused again, and sternly bade to rise,",0.0 +"And shake refreshing slumber from his eyes,",1.0 +"Ere his exhausted spirits can return,",3.0 +"Come forth he must, though limping, maimed, and sore;",1.0 +He hears the whip; the chaise is at the door:...,0.0 +"The collar tightens, and again he feels",1.0 +"With tiresome sameness in his ears resound,",3.0 +"Over blinding dust, or miles of flinty ground.",0.0 +"Thus nightly robbed, and injured day by day,",1.0 +His piecemeal murderers wear his life away.,3.0 +With open jaws the moment of thy fate,1.0 +No better fate attends his public race;,1.0 +"His life is misery, and his end disgrace.",1.0 +"Then freely bear thy burden to the mill,",1.0 +"Obey but one short law,... thy driver's will.",3.0 +"Affection, to thy memory ever true,",3.0 +Shall boast of mighty loads that Dobbin drew;,0.0 +And back to childhood shall the mind with pride,1.0 +Recount thy gentleness in many a ride,3.0 +"To pond, or field, or village fair, when thou",0.0 +And oft the Tale shall rise to homely fame,0.0 +Upon thy generous spirit and thy name.,3.0 +"Though faithful to a proverb, we regard",2.0 +"The midnight chieftain of the farmer's yard,",2.0 +"Beneath whose guardianship all hearts rejoice,",3.0 +Woke by the echo of his hollow voice;,1.0 +"Yet as the Hound may faltering quit the pack,",2.0 +"Snuff the foul scent, and hasten yelping back;",3.0 +"And even the docile Pointer know disgrace,",2.0 +Thwarting the general instinct of his race;,3.0 +"Even so the MASTIFF, or the meaner Cur,",2.0 +"At times will from the path of duty err,",1.0 +A pattern of fidelity by day;,2.0 +"By night a murderer, lurking for his prey;",3.0 +"And round the pastures or the fold will creep,",1.0 +"Alone the wanton mischief he pursues,",1.0 +"Then wearied out, to kennel sneaks away,",1.0 +And licks his guilty paws till break of day.,0.0 +"The deed discovered, and the news once spread,",2.0 +"Vengeance hangs over the unknown culprit's head,",10.0 +And careful Shepherd's extra hours bestow,0.0 +"A foe most dreaded now, when rest and peace",0.0 +Should wait the season of the flock's increase.,1.0 +"In part these nightly terrors to dispel,",1.0 +"GILES, ere he sleeps, his little Flock must tell.",1.0 +And through the unbroken stillness of the night,2.0 +Shed on his path her beams of cheering light.,0.0 +While all around him wears a placid smile;,0.0 +And all the glorious pageantry of heaven.,3.0 +"Low, on the utmost boundary of the sight,",2.0 +"Thence Fancy measures, as they parting fly,",2.0 +"Which first will throw its shadow on they eye,",1.0 +"Passing the source of light; and thence away,",2.0 +Succeeded quick by brighter still than they.,0.0 +For yet above these wafted clouds are seen,0.0 +"Others, detached in ranges through the air,",3.0 +"Scattered immensely wide from east to west,",2.0 +Their MIGHTY SHEPHERD'S everlasting Name.,0.0 +"Climbs the still clouds, or passes those that roll,",4.0 +And loosed Imagination soaring goes,0.0 +"High over his home, and all his little woes,",3.0 +TIME glides away; neglected Duty calls:,1.0 +"And down a narrow lane, well known by day,",2.0 +"With all his speed pursues his sounding way,",0.0 +"In thought still half absorbed, and chilled with cold;",1.0 +"When, lo! an object frightful to behold;",1.0 +"Around whose feet the waving shadows play,",1.0 +"Stands in his path!... He stops, and not a breath",0.0 +"Heaves from his heart, that sinks almost to death.",1.0 +"All else is silent, dismally serene:",1.0 +"Some prompt ejaculation, whispered low,",0.0 +Yet bears him up against the threatening foe;,1.0 +"And thus poor Giles, though half inclined to fly,",1.0 +"Mutters his doubts, and strains his steadfast eye.",3.0 +"' No murders stain my soul, no perjured love:",2.0 +' Thy dreadful mission cannot reach to me.,0.0 +"' By parents taught still to mistrust mine eyes,",2.0 +"' Still to approach each object of surprise,",3.0 +' To scan thy motionless deformity;,2.0 +"' But o, the fearful task! yet well I know",1.0 +"' An aged ash, with many a spreading bough,",2.0 +"' Stands singly down this solitary way,",2.0 +' But far beyond where now my footsteps stay.,1.0 +"' No reckoning kept, no passing objects traced:...",2.0 +' And can I then have reached that very tree?,1.0 +' Or is its reverend form assumed by thee?',1.0 +The happy thought alleviates his pain:,1.0 +He creeps another step; then stops again;,0.0 +"Its crown of shivering ivy whispering peace,",4.0 +And its white bark that fronts the moon's pale face.,3.0 +"Now, while his blood mounts upward, now he knows",1.0 +The solid gain that from conviction flows;,1.0 +And strengthened Confidence shall hence fulfil,1.0 +With conscious Innocence more valued still,1.0 +"By churchyard dark, or grove, or fairy ring;",1.0 +"Still buoying up the timid mind of youth,",2.0 +Till loitering Reason hoists the scale of Truth.,2.0 +"With these blessed guardians Giles his course pursues,",4.0 +And shape the dreams that wait his hours of rest.,0.0 +"Whose skirts at length the azure sky unfold,",0.0 +Bringing the bosom joy: so WINTER flies!...,2.0 +And see the Source of Life and Light uprise!,3.0 +A heightening arch over southern hills he bends;,3.0 +"Warm on the cheek the slanting beam descends,",0.0 +"And gives the reeking mead a brighter hue,",0.0 +And draws the modest primrose bud to view.,1.0 +"Yet frosts succeed, and winds impetuous rush,",0.0 +"And teeming EWES, that still their burdens bear;",0.0 +Beneath whose sides tomorrow's dawn may see,1.0 +At whose first birth the powerful instinct's seen,3.0 +"For ewes that stood aloof with fearful eye,",0.0 +"With stamping foot now men and dogs defy,",1.0 +But casualties and death from damps and cold,1.0 +"Her tender offspring dead, the dam aloud",1.0 +"Calls, and runs wild amid the unconscious crowd:",6.0 +"No wool to warm them, no defenders nigh.",1.0 +And must her streaming milk then flow in vain?,0.0 +"No;... ere this strong solicitude subside,",1.0 +"Maternal fondness may be fresh applied,",1.0 +And the adopted stripling still may find,1.0 +A parent most assiduously kind.,2.0 +"For this his predecessor's skin he wears,",1.0 +"Till cheated into tenderness and cares,",1.0 +"The unsuspecting dam, contented grown,",0.0 +Cherish and guard the fondling as her own.,3.0 +Thus all by turns to fair perfection rise;,0.0 +Thus twins are parted to increase their size:,2.0 +"Thus instinct yields as interest points the way,",1.0 +"Till the bright flock, augmenting every day,",4.0 +On sunny hills and vales of springing flowers,0.0 +With ceaseless clamour greet the vernal hours.,3.0 +"The approved economy of crowded folds,",2.0 +"And, in his small contracted round of cares,",0.0 +Adjusts the practise of each hint he hears:,1.0 +"For Boys with emulation learn to glow,",0.0 +"And boast their pastures, and their healthful show",1.0 +And field to field in competition bring.,0.0 +Claims a full share of that sweet praise bestowed,4.0 +"By gazing neighbours, when along the road,",2.0 +Suspends the chorus of the spinner's song;,1.0 +When Admiration's unaffected grace,0.0 +"Delightful moments!... Sunshine, Health, and Joy,",1.0 +"Play round, and cheer the elevated Boy!",0.0 +' Another SPRING!' his heart exulting cries;,0.0 +' Another YEAR! with promised blessings rise!...,0.0 +"' ETERNAL POWER! from whom those blessings flow,",1.0 +"' Teach me still more to wonder, more to know:",0.0 +"' Here round my home, still lift my soul to THEE;",1.0 +"' And let me ever, mid thy bounties, raise",0.0 +' An humble note of thankfulness and praise! ' --,1.0 +"SOME Herbs there are, whose deadly Juices fill",1.0 +"The Heart with Venom, and directly kill:",1.0 +"Some operate more slowly, but as sure;",1.0 +"The Dart less sudden, but admits no Cure.",3.0 +It's Flattery called ' -- the Poison of the Mind.,3.0 +"This, soft Sir Wealthy feeds on all the Day:",1.0 +"Bow to his Friends, or with his Tenants talk;",1.0 +"Nor had been seized with this majestic Fit,",1.0 +If subtle Florio had not praised his Wit.,1.0 +"Grey Thalia too would now her Arts give over,",2.0 +And rest those Eyeballs that must slay no more;,2.0 +"Nor would that Face engross her Morning's Care,",0.0 +Did not Philander tell her she is fair.,2.0 +"His Way is cunning and mischievous too,",4.0 +He'll praise in others what he finds in you.,0.0 +"You hear delighted, nor perceive the Foe;",1.0 +But drink in Flattery ere you think it's so.,2.0 +The smart Conclusion is applied to you:,1.0 +"How oft you hear from a designing Knave,",1.0 +"Sir, I'm your Servant, Madam, I'm your Slave;",1.0 +"Whose Actions point to some unworthy End,",0.0 +"And never was Patron, Counsellor, or Friend:",3.0 +"Whose narrow Views are to himself confined,",1.0 +"These fawning Rogues are irksome Creatures ' -- True,",0.0 +But then a Clown is full as odious too:,2.0 +"Nor yet affect the Cynic's awful Scowl,",0.0 +"For some reject and hold it as a Rule,",1.0 +And careless Gesture never fails to please:,0.0 +The Heart instructs the Features and the Tongue;,1.0 +"Let that be right, and these will never be wrong.",2.0 +"He'll praise your Conduct with a charming Air,",1.0 +Extol your Sense and Prudence to the Skies:,1.0 +And sure such Merits were designed to rise.,1.0 +"His candid Eyes can hidden Beauties see,",0.0 +"Even Faults are useful, or they cease to be:",1.0 +"But asks his Friendship, and he speaks no more.",2.0 +Is him whose Power aggravates the Wrong:,1.0 +And bow like Persians to the rising Sun:,1.0 +"Grow stiff with Standing and with Staring thin,",2.0 +To watch the Dimple on their Patron's Chin:,1.0 +"Who with a Nod can make the Wretch believe,",0.0 +And smiles on Hunger which he'll never relieve.,2.0 +"Surrounded thick with Business and with Gold,",1.0 +"The expecting Crowd around his Table stand,",1.0 +"Another comes with an obsequious Air,",3.0 +He winks and whispers. ' -- Leave it to my Care.,1.0 +Then to the next ' -- O I'll remember you;,2.0 +"Sir, trust my Honour, you shall find me true:",1.0 +"Then bows a third. ' -- Good Sir, your Pardon. ' -- Why?",0.0 +I saw you not. ' -- Forgive my careless Eye.,0.0 +Romantic Visions in his Bosom roll:,0.0 +"He fasts in Rapture, as of late in Sorrow;",1.0 +"But Tuesday see, the joyful Day is come;",0.0 +"Alas! But then tomorrow Morn will do,",1.0 +"And I'll be early. ' -- Gentlemen, adieu.",2.0 +"Next Day at Six before the Gate appears,",0.0 +The Wretch divided by his Hopes and Fears.,1.0 +The haughty Servants meet him with a Frown.,1.0 +"Your Servant, Sir ' -- I'll stay then in the Hall:",0.0 +"I'll wait with Patience till another Day,",1.0 +And for his Honour and his Health shall pray.,1.0 +At last the Knight his Fate had ordered so,1.0 +Was seized and boarded by the lurking Foe;,1.0 +"I'm glad to see you: Yet I'm sorry too,",0.0 +"Sure some ill Stars presided over your Fate,",5.0 +"Yet sure, there is whose honest Soul was made",1.0 +Too grand a Being for the soothing Trade;,2.0 +"Whose Wit can neither flatter nor offend,",1.0 +"A gay Companion, yet a constant Friend;",0.0 +"Willing to please where Honesty may win,",3.0 +"Averse to Slander, though it was no Sin.",2.0 +With native Manners as with Sense endued;,1.0 +Whose Tongue never promised what his Heart denied.,1.0 +"Whose Satire charms, nor Mirth offends the Ear;",1.0 +"Not swayed by Interest, nor in Passion hurled:",1.0 +"But walks a calm Spectator through the World,",4.0 +That shine celestial in the speaking Eye.,0.0 +"This Man is great, whatever be his Degree;",3.0 +"OH bless him, Heaven, if such a one there be:",2.0 +"May Life's best Comforts on his Days attend,",2.0 +"Blessed in himself, and happy in his Friend:",1.0 +Far from his Gate fly Poverty and Woe;,2.0 +Let not a Sigh his quiet Mansion know:,0.0 +"But the fair Dome each roving Eye allure,",2.0 +With Peace and Plenty smiling at the Door:,0.0 +"Let him soft Days and happy Evenings find,",3.0 +"And live still blessed, and blessing all Mankind.",2.0 +"I'LL not believe that Phoebus did not smile,",0.0 +Unhappily for you I know his style;,2.0 +"To strains like yours of old his harp he strung,",1.0 +And while he dictated Orinda sung.,3.0 +Against the sex his indignation move?,0.0 +"It rather made you his peculiar care,",1.0 +"Convinced from thence, you were as good as fair.",1.0 +"As mortals who from dust received their birth,",0.0 +Must when they die return to native earth;,0.0 +"So too the laurel, that your brow adorns,",0.0 +"Sprang from the fair, and to the fair returns.",1.0 +IF Heaven has into being deigned to call,0.0 +"Thy light, OH LIBERTY! to shine on all;",2.0 +Bright intellectual Sun! why does thy ray,3.0 +To earth distribute only partial day?,0.0 +Since no resisting cause from spirit flows,0.0 +Thy penetrating essence to oppose;,1.0 +"No obstacles by Nature's hand impressed,",2.0 +Thy subtle and ethereal beams arrest;,3.0 +"Nor motion's laws can speed thy active course,",0.0 +Why are thy genial beams to parts confined?,0.0 +"While the chill North with thy bright ray is blessed,",5.0 +Why should fell darkness half the South invest?,1.0 +"Was it decreed, fair Freedom! at thy birth,",2.0 +"While Britain basks in thy full blaze of light,",2.0 +"Thee only, sober Goddess! I attest,",1.0 +"In smiles chastised, and decent graces dressed.",0.0 +"Not that unlicensed monster of the crowd,",1.0 +Deafening the ear of Peace: fierce Faction's tool;,2.0 +"Of rash Sedition born, and mad Misrule;",0.0 +"Whose stubborn mouth, rejecting Reason's rein,",0.0 +"No strength can govern, and no skill restrain;",3.0 +Whose magic cries the frantic vulgar draw,0.0 +"To spurn at Order, and to outrage Law;",2.0 +"To tread on grave Authority and Power,",1.0 +And shake the work of ages in an hour:,0.0 +"She raves of mercy, while she deals out death:",0.0 +Each blast is fate; she darts from either hand,0.0 +Red conflagration over the astonished land;,2.0 +"And to reform a part, the whole destroys.",1.0 +"Now, when congenial themes her cares engage,",1.0 +She burns to emulate thy glowing page;,0.0 +"Her failing efforts mock her fond desires,",0.0 +Strange power of song! the strain that warms the heart,3.0 +Seems the same inspiration to impart;,4.0 +"Touched by the kindling energy alone,",1.0 +We think the flame which melts us is our own;,1.0 +"Deceived, for genius we mistake delight,",1.0 +"Charmed as we read, we fancy we can write.",1.0 +"Though not to me, sweet Bard, thy powers belong,",4.0 +"Fair Truth, a hallowed guide! inspires my song.",1.0 +For Truth the bright invention would disdain.,0.0 +"For no fictitious ills these numbers flow,",0.0 +"But living anguish, and substantial woe;",1.0 +"Fired by no single wrongs, the countless host",2.0 +The native genius of the sable race!,1.0 +"Perish the proud philosophy, which sought",3.0 +To rob them of the powers of equal thought!,3.0 +Does then the immortal principle within,2.0 +Change with the casual colour of a skin?,0.0 +Does matter govern spirit? or is mind,1.0 +Degraded by the form to which it's joined?,1.0 +"No: they have heads to think, and hearts to feel,",0.0 +"And souls to act, with firm, though erring zeal;",0.0 +"For they have keen affections, kind desires,",1.0 +"Love strong as death, and active patriot fires;",3.0 +"All the rude energy, the fervid flame,",3.0 +"Strong, but luxuriant virtues boldly shoot",4.0 +For pride is virtue in a Pagan soul;,0.0 +"A sense of worth, a conscience of desert,",1.0 +Of which the conquerors of the world were made.,1.0 +Capricious fate of man! that very pride,0.0 +No statue snatch thee from oblivious fate!,5.0 +Plucks the fair deed from Time's devouring rage.,5.0 +"Had Fortune placed thee on some happier coast,",3.0 +"Where polished souls heroic virtue boast,",0.0 +"Whose generous arm thy barbarous Master spared,",4.0 +"Altars had smoked, and temples had been reared.",2.0 +"Horrors of deepest, deadliest guilt arise;",4.0 +"The burning village, and the blazing town:",1.0 +"See the dire victim torn from social life,",0.0 +"She, wretch forlorn! is dragged by hostile hands,",0.0 +"To distant tyrants sold, in distant lands!",0.0 +"Transmitted miseries, and successive chains,",3.0 +The sole sad heritage her child obtains!,2.0 +"Even this last wretched boon their foes deny,",2.0 +"To weep together, or together die.",1.0 +"By felon hands, by one relentless stroke,",1.0 +See the fond links of feeling Nature broke!,3.0 +"The fibres twisting round a parent's heart,",2.0 +"Torn from their grasp, and bleeding as they part.",1.0 +"Hold, murderers, hold! nor aggravate distress;",3.0 +Respect the passions you yourselves possess;,1.0 +"Love your own offspring, love your native land.",1.0 +"Ah! leave them holy Freedom's cheering smile,",0.0 +"Revere affections mingled with our frame,",1.0 +"In all, these feelings equal sway maintain;",0.0 +In all the love of HOME and FREEDOM reign:,0.0 +One equal fondness of their sons command.,1.0 +Basking in Freedom's beams which gild his native soil.,2.0 +For these are specious crimes our rage inflame?,1.0 +"No: sordid lust of gold their fate controls,",1.0 +"Gold, better gained, by what their ripening sky,",1.0 +"Their fertile fields, their arts and mines supply.",0.0 +"What wrongs, what injuries does Oppression plead",2.0 +To smooth the horror of the unnatural deed?,5.0 +They stand convicted ' -- of a darker skin!,1.0 +Respect his sacred image which they bear:,0.0 +"Though dark and savage, ignorant and blind,",1.0 +They claim the common privilege of kind;,1.0 +"Let Malice strip them of each other plea,",2.0 +"They still are men, and men should still be free.",0.0 +Dire change! the agent is the purchase made!,1.0 +"Perplexed, the baffled Muse involves the tale;",0.0 +"Nature confounded, well may language fail!",2.0 +The outraged Goddess with abhorrent eyes,2.0 +"Sees MAN the traffic, SOULS the merchandise!",1.0 +"Plead not, in reason's palpable abuse,",1.0 +Their sense of feeling callous and obtuse:,1.0 +"From heads to hearts lies Nature's plain appeal,",1.0 +"Though few can reason, all mankind can feel.",1.0 +"Though wit may boast a livelier dread of shame,",2.0 +A loftier sense of wrong refinement claim;,2.0 +"Though polished manners may fresh wants invent,",2.0 +And nice distinctions nicer souls torment;,0.0 +"Though these on finer spirits heavier fall,",3.0 +Yet natural evils are the same to all.,1.0 +"Though wounds there are which reason's force may heal,",1.0 +There needs no logic sure to make us feel.,1.0 +"As exquisitely fashioned in a slave,",4.0 +As where unequal fate a sceptre gave.,0.0 +As where proud Tiber rolls his classic tide.,1.0 +"Rhetoric or verse may point the feeling line,",1.0 +"They do not whet sensation, but define.",1.0 +"Did ever slave less feel the galling chain,",1.0 +When Zeno proved there was no ill in pain?,2.0 +"Their miseries philosophic quirks deride,",2.0 +Slaves groan in pangs disowned by Stoic pride.,1.0 +"When the fierce Sun darts vertical his beams,",5.0 +And thirst and hunger mix their wild extremes;,0.0 +And his strained eyes in burning anguish roll;,2.0 +"Will the parched negro find, ere he expire,",4.0 +"No pain in hunger, and no heat in fire?",3.0 +"For him, when fate his tortured frame destroys,",1.0 +"What hope of present fame, or future joys?",0.0 +"For this, have heroes shortened nature's date;",1.0 +"For that, have martyrs gladly met their fate;",0.0 +"But him, forlorn, no hero's pride sustains,",2.0 +"Sullen, he mingles with his kindred dust,",3.0 +For he has learnt to dread the Christian's trust;,1.0 +"To him what mercy can that Power display,",4.0 +"Whose servants murder, and whose sons betray?",1.0 +They are not Christians who infest thy shore.,1.0 +"OH thou sad spirit, whose preposterous yoke",3.0 +"The great deliverer Death, at length, has broke!",2.0 +"Released from misery, and escaped from care,",3.0 +"Go, meet that mercy man denied thee here.",1.0 +"In thy dark home, sure refuge of the oppressed,",7.0 +"The wicked vex not, and the weary rest.",1.0 +"And, if some notions, vague and undefined,",1.0 +Of future terrors have assailed thy mind;,0.0 +"If such thy masters have presumed to teach,",1.0 +As terrors only they are prone to preach;,1.0 +"Where were the oppressor's rod, the captive's chain?",4.0 +"If, then, thy troubled soul has learnt to dread",0.0 +The dark unknown thy trembling footsteps tread;,1.0 +"On HIM, who made thee what thou art, depend;",1.0 +"HE, who withholds the means, accepts the end.",1.0 +"Not thine the reckoning dire of LIGHT abused,",0.0 +"KNOWLEDGE disgraced, and LIBERTY misused;",3.0 +On thee no awful judge incensed shall sit,3.0 +"Where ignorance will be found the surest plea,",1.0 +How many learnt and wise shall envy thee!,1.0 +"And thou, WHITE SAVAGE! whether lust of gold,",2.0 +"Or lust of conquest, rule thee uncontrolled!",0.0 +"Hero, or robber! ' -- by whatever name",4.0 +Thou plead thy impious claim to wealth or fame;,3.0 +"Or bolder carnage track thy crimson way,",0.0 +"Kings dispossessed, and Provinces thy prey;",2.0 +Panting to tame wide earth's remotest bound;,3.0 +"All Cortez murdered, all Columbus found;",4.0 +"Over plundered realms to reign, detested Lord,",0.0 +"Make millions wretched, and thyself abhorred; ' --",2.0 +Your sum of glory boasts a like amount;,0.0 +"The means may differ, but the end's the same;",1.0 +"Who makes the sum of human blessings less,",0.0 +"Or sinks the stock of general happiness,",1.0 +"No solid same shall grace, no true renown,",2.0 +Had those adventurous spirits who explore,3.0 +"Had these possessed, OH COOK! thy gentle mind,",2.0 +"Thy love of arts, thy love of humankind;",0.0 +"Had these pursued thy mild and liberal plan,",1.0 +DISCOVERERS had not been a curse to man!,0.0 +"Then, blessed Philanthropy! thy social hands",1.0 +"Then, loved, and loving, man had lived, and died.",0.0 +"For empires founded, peaceful PENN! are thine;",0.0 +"No bloodstained laurels crowned thy virtuous toil,",4.0 +"Still thy meek spirit in thy flock survives,",3.0 +"Consistent still, their doctrines rule their lives;",0.0 +Inscribed by SLAVERY on the Christian name.,1.0 +"Shall Britain, where the soul of Freedom reigns,",0.0 +Forge chains for others she herself disdains?,2.0 +"Forbid it, Heaven! OH let the nations know",3.0 +The liberty she loves she will bestow;,2.0 +"Not to herself the glorious gift confined,",3.0 +She spreads the blessing wide as humankind;,0.0 +Bids all be free in earth's extended space.,0.0 +What page of human annals can record,1.0 +A deed so bright as human rights restored?,0.0 +"Redeem OUR fame, and consecrate OUR age!",0.0 +"And see, the cherub Mercy from above,",1.0 +"Descending softly, quits the sphere of love!",0.0 +"On feeling hearts she sheds celestial dew,",0.0 +And breathes her spirit over the enlightened few;,1.0 +"From soul to soul the spreading influence steals,",2.0 +Till every breast the soft contagion feels.,0.0 +"She bears, exulting, to the burning shore",1.0 +"To vindicate the power in Heaven adored,",3.0 +"To still the clank of chains, and sheathe the sword;",0.0 +"To cheer the mourner, and with soothing hands",1.0 +"To raise the lustre of the Christian name,",1.0 +"As the mild Spirit hovers over the coast,",4.0 +A fresher hue the withered landscapes boast;,1.0 +"Her healing smiles the ruined scenes repair,",0.0 +And blasted Nature wears a joyous air.,0.0 +"She spreads her blessed commission from above,",1.0 +Stamped with the sacred characters of love;,1.0 +"She tears the banner stained with blood and tears,",0.0 +"And, LIBERTY! thy shining standard rears!",1.0 +"The chain untouched, drops off; the fetter falls.",2.0 +"Astonished echo tells the vocal shore,",0.0 +"Oppression's fallen, and Slavery is no more!",3.0 +And hail that mercy long invoked in vain.,0.0 +"Victorious Power! she bursts their twofold bands,",5.0 +I SING the SOFA. I who lately sang,1.0 +"Truth, Hope and Charity, and touched with awe",2.0 +"The solemn chords, and with a trembling hand,",1.0 +"Escaped with pain from that adventurous flight,",2.0 +Now seek repose upon an humbler theme;,1.0 +"The theme though humble, yet august and proud",4.0 +The occasion ' -- for the Fair commands the song.,2.0 +"Time was, when clothing sumptuous or for use,",1.0 +"Save their own painted skins, our sires had none.",0.0 +"As yet black breeches were not; satin smooth,",1.0 +"Or velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile:",0.0 +The hardy chief upon the rugged rock,0.0 +"Those barbarous ages past, succeeded next",2.0 +"The birthday of invention, weak at first,",2.0 +"Dull in design, and clumsy to perform.",2.0 +"On such a stool immortal Alfred sat,",1.0 +And swayed the sceptre of his infant realms;,1.0 +"May still be seen, but perforated sore",0.0 +"And drilled in holes the solid oak is found,",0.0 +By worms voracious eating through and through.,1.0 +At length a generation more refined,0.0 +"Improved the simple plan, made three legs four,",2.0 +"Induced a splendid cover green and blue,",0.0 +"Yellow and red, of tapestry richly wrought",4.0 +"And woven close, or needlework sublime.",0.0 +And parrots with twin cherries in their beak.,2.0 +"Now came the cane from India, smooth and bright",3.0 +With Nature's varnish; severed into stripes,0.0 +"That interlaced each other, these supplied",1.0 +"Of texture firm a lattice work, that braced",0.0 +"The new machine, and it became a chair.",1.0 +But restless was the chair; the back erect,1.0 +The slippery seat betrayed the sliding part,0.0 +"That pressed it, and the feet hung dangling down,",3.0 +Anxious in vain to find the distant floor.,2.0 +"These for the rich: the rest, whom fate had placed",1.0 +"In modest mediocrity, content",1.0 +"With base materials, sat on well tanned hides",3.0 +"With here and there a tuft of crimson yarn,",1.0 +Or scarlet crewel in the cushion fixed:,0.0 +"If cushion might be called, what harder seemed",0.0 +Than the firm oak of which the frame was formed.,2.0 +No want of timber then was felt or feared,1.0 +"But elbows still were wanting; these, some say,",2.0 +And some ascribe the invention to a priest,3.0 +Burly and big and studious of his ease.,3.0 +"But rude at first, and not with easy slope",0.0 +"Receding wide, they pressed against the ribs,",0.0 +"And bruised the side, and elevated high",0.0 +Taught the raised shoulders to invade the ears.,4.0 +Long time elapsed or ever our rugged sires,3.0 +And ill at ease behind. The Ladies first,0.0 +"Began murmur, as became the softer sex.",5.0 +"Ingenious fancy, never better pleased",0.0 +"Than when employed to accommodate the fair,",2.0 +"Heard the sweet moan with pity, and devised",4.0 +"And in the mid an elbow, it received",2.0 +"United yet divided, twain at once.",0.0 +And so two citizens who take the air,3.0 +Close packed and smiling in a chaise and one.,1.0 +But relaxation of the languid frame,1.0 +Was bliss reserved for happier days. So slow,2.0 +"The growth of what is excellent, so hard",1.0 +"Thus first necessity invented stools,",2.0 +"Convenience next suggested elbow chairs,",1.0 +And luxury the accomplished Sofa last.,3.0 +"The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick",3.0 +Whom snoring she disturbs. As sweetly he,2.0 +"To sleep within the carriage more secure,",0.0 +His legs depending at the open door.,0.0 +"Sweet sleep enjoys the Curate in his desk,",1.0 +And sweet the Clerk below: but neither sleep,0.0 +"Of lazy Nurse, who snores the sick man dead,",1.0 +Nor his who quits the box at midnight hour,2.0 +"To slumber in the carriage more secure,",0.0 +"Nor sleep enjoyed by Curate in his desk,",0.0 +Compared with the repose the SOFA yields.,1.0 +O may I live exempted while I live,1.0 +Guiltless of pampered appetite obscene,2.0 +From pangs arthritic that infest the toe,0.0 +Of libertine excess. The SOFA suits,0.0 +"The gouty limb, it's true; but gouty limb",0.0 +"Though on a SOFA, may I never feel:",2.0 +For I have loved the rural walk through lanes,1.0 +Of thorny boughs: have loved the rural walk,0.0 +"Over hills, through valleys, and by rivers brink,",1.0 +Ever since a truant boy I passed my bounds,0.0 +Enjoy a ramble on the banks of Thames.,1.0 +"And still remember, nor without regret",1.0 +"Of hours that sorrow since has much endeared,",0.0 +"How oft, my slice of pocket store consumed,",0.0 +"I fed on scarlet hips and stoney haws,",0.0 +Hard fare! but such as boyish appetite,2.0 +"No SOFA then awaited my return,",2.0 +Nor SOFA then I needed. Youth repairs,0.0 +"His wasted spirits quickly, by long toil",2.0 +Incurring short fatigue; and though our years,1.0 +"As life declines, speed rapidly away,",2.0 +And not a year but pilfers as he goes,0.0 +"Some youthful grace that age would gladly keep,",0.0 +"A tooth or auburn lock, and by degrees",1.0 +"That mounts the style with ease, or leaps the fence,",0.0 +That play of lungs inhaling and again,1.0 +"Swift pace or steep ascent no toil to me,",2.0 +Mine have not pilfered yet; nor yet impaired,0.0 +My relish of fair prospect; scenes that soothed,2.0 +"Or charmed me young, no longer young, I find",1.0 +Still soothing and of power to charm me still.,4.0 +"And witness, dear companion of my walks,",1.0 +Whose arm this twentieth winter I perceive,3.0 +"Fast locked in mine, with pleasure such as love",2.0 +Confirmed by long experience of thy worth,1.0 +Witness a joy that thou hast doubled long.,2.0 +"To serve occasions of poetic pomp,",1.0 +"But genuine, and art partner of them all.",2.0 +"How oft upon yonder eminence, our pace",7.0 +"Has slackened to a pause, and we have born",2.0 +"The ruffling wind scarce conscious that it blew,",1.0 +"While admiration feeding at the eye,",0.0 +Thence with what pleasure have we just discerned,0.0 +The sturdy swain diminished to a boy!,1.0 +"Of spacious meads with cattle sprinkled over,",0.0 +Conducts the eye along his sinuous course,0.0 +"Delighted. There, fast rooted in his bank",2.0 +"Stand, never overlooked, our favourite elms",1.0 +The sloping land recedes into the clouds;,0.0 +"Displaying on its varied side, the grace",1.0 +"Tall spire, from which the sound of cheerful bells",1.0 +Just undulates upon the listening ear;,0.0 +Scenes must be beautiful which daily viewed,1.0 +"Please daily, and whose novelty survives",3.0 +Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years.,3.0 +Praise justly due to those that I describe.,3.0 +"Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds",0.0 +"Exhilarate the spirit, and restore",1.0 +The tone of languid Nature. Mighty winds,0.0 +"Of ancient growth, make music not unlike",1.0 +"The dash of ocean on his winding shore,",1.0 +"And lull the spirit while they fill the mind,",0.0 +"And all their leaves fast fluttering, all at once.",2.0 +Nor less composure waits upon the roar,0.0 +"Of distant floods, or on the softer voice",1.0 +"Upon loose pebbles, lose themselves at length",1.0 +Betrays the secret of their silent course.,1.0 +"Nature inanimate employs sweet sounds,",4.0 +But animated Nature sweeter still,0.0 +"Ten thousand warblers cheer the day, and one",1.0 +"In still repeated circles, screaming loud,",0.0 +"That hails the rising moon, have charms for me.",0.0 +"Yet heard in scenes where peace for ever reigns,",0.0 +"And only there, please highly for their sake.",3.0 +"Peace to the artist, whose ingenious thought",0.0 +Fearless of humid air and gathering rains,4.0 +"Forth steps the man, an emblem of myself,",3.0 +More delicate his timorous mate retires.,3.0 +"When Winter soaks the fields, and female feet",1.0 +"Too weak to struggle with tenacious clay,",2.0 +The task of new discoveries falls on me.,2.0 +At such a season and with such a charge,2.0 +"Once went I forth, and found, till then unknown,",1.0 +"A cottage, whither oft we since repair:",0.0 +"It's perched upon the green-hill top, but close",1.0 +"That overhang the thatch, itself unseen,",0.0 +Peeps at the vale below; so thick beset,0.0 +"With foliage of such dark redundant growth,",1.0 +"And hidden as it is, and far remote",2.0 +Oft have I wished the peaceful covert mine.,1.0 +"Here, I have said, at least I should possess",0.0 +"The poet's treasure, silence, and indulge",1.0 +"The dreams of fancy, tranquil and secure.",1.0 +Vain thought! the dweller in that still retreat,1.0 +Dearly obtains the refuge it affords.,3.0 +To drink sweet waters of the crystal well;,2.0 +"He dips his bowl into the weedy ditch,",0.0 +"Farfetched and little worth; nor seldom waits,",1.0 +Angry and sad and his last crust consumed.,4.0 +So farewell envy of the peasant's nest.,2.0 +"If solitude make scant the means of life,",1.0 +"Society for me! thou seeming sweet,",2.0 +"Be still a pleasing object in my view,",0.0 +"My visit still, but never mine abode.",1.0 +"Invites us. Monument of ancient taste,",1.0 +"Now scorned, but worthy of a better fate.",2.0 +Our fathers knew the value of a screen,1.0 +"From sultry suns, and in their shaded walks",0.0 +The gloom and coolness of declining day.,1.0 +We bear our shades about us; self deprived,0.0 +"Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread,",0.0 +And range an Indian waste without a tree.,2.0 +"These chestnuts ranged in corresponding lines,",0.0 +"Descending now but cautious, lest too fast",2.0 +"A sudden steep, upon a rustic bridge",0.0 +We pass a gulf in which the willows dip,1.0 +Hence ankle deep in moss and flowery thyme,3.0 +"We mount again, and feel at every step",0.0 +"Raised by the mole, the miner of the soil.",1.0 +"He not unlike the great ones of mankind,",3.0 +"Toils much to earn a monumental pile,",0.0 +"The summit gained, behold the proud alcove",1.0 +That crowns it! yet not all its pride secures,0.0 +The grand retreat from injuries impressed,1.0 +"By rural carvers, who with knives deface",0.0 +"The panels, leaving an obscure rude name",2.0 +"Beats in the breast of man, that even a few",1.0 +Few transient years won from the abyss abhorred,3.0 +And posted on this speculative height,2.0 +"At first, progressive as a stream, they seek",1.0 +The middle field; but scattered by degrees,1.0 +"Each to his choice, soon whiten all the land.",1.0 +"The loaded wain, while lightened of its charge",1.0 +"The wain that meets it, passes swiftly by,",1.0 +The boorish driver leaning over his team,2.0 +Nor less attractive is the woodland scene,1.0 +Diversified with trees of every growth,0.0 +Alike yet various. Here the grey smooth trunks,2.0 +"Of ash or lime, or beech, distinctly shine,",0.0 +Within the twilight of their distant shades;,2.0 +"There lost behind a rising ground, the wood",0.0 +"No tree in all the grove but has its charms,",1.0 +"And poplar, that with silver lines his leaf,",0.0 +"Of deeper green the elm; and deeper still,",0.0 +"The maple, and the beech of oily nuts",1.0 +"Prolific, and the lime at dewy eve",1.0 +"The sycamore, capricious in attire,",0.0 +"Now green, now tawny, and before autumn yet",5.0 +"Over these, but far beyond, a spacious map",1.0 +"Now glitters in the sun, and now retires,",1.0 +"As bashful, yet impatient to be seen.",1.0 +"All summer long, which winter fills again.",0.0 +"The folded gates would bar my progress now,",1.0 +"Communicative of the good he owns,",2.0 +Admits me to a share: the guiltless eye,1.0 +"Commits no wrong, nor wastes what it enjoys.",2.0 +Refreshing change! where now the blazing sun?,0.0 +By short transition we have lost his glare,1.0 +You fallen avenues! once more I mourn,1.0 +That yet a remnant of your race survives.,1.0 +"How airy and how light the graceful arch,",1.0 +Yet awful as the consecrated roof,1.0 +"Shot through the boughs, it dances as they dance,",1.0 +"Shadow and sunshine intermingling quick,",2.0 +"And darkening and enlightening, as the leaves",2.0 +"Play wanton, every moment, every spot.",1.0 +"With curvature of slow and easy sweep,",1.0 +Deception innocent ' -- give ample space,2.0 +To narrow bounds. The grove receives us next;,0.0 +Between the upright shafts of whose tall elms,2.0 +We may discern the thresher at his task.,1.0 +"That seems to swing uncertain, and yet falls",1.0 +"Full on the destined ear. Wide flies the chaff,",1.0 +The rustling straw sends up a frequent missed,2.0 +"Come hither, you that press your beds of down",2.0 +And sleep not: see him sweating over his bread,2.0 +"Before he eats it. ' -- It's the primal curse,",1.0 +But softened into mercy; made the pledge,0.0 +"Of cheerful days, and nights without a groan.",0.0 +"That nature rides upon, maintains her health,",0.0 +"Her beauty, her fertility. She dreads",2.0 +"Winds from all quarters agitate the air,",0.0 +"Else noxious: oceans, rivers, lakes, and streams",1.0 +"All feel the freshening impulse, and are cleansed",1.0 +Thrives by the rude concussion of the storm;,1.0 +"He seems indeed indignant, and to feel",1.0 +"The impression of the blast with proud disdain,",2.0 +Frowning as if in his unconscious arm,3.0 +He held the thunder. But the monarch owes,1.0 +"His firm stability to what he scorns,",1.0 +"More fixed below, the more disturbed above.",0.0 +"The law by which all creatures else are bound,",0.0 +Binds man the lord of all. Himself derives,1.0 +"No mean advantage from a kindred cause,",2.0 +From strenuous toil his hours of sweetest ease.,2.0 +The sedentary stretch their lazy length,0.0 +"When custom bids, but no refreshment find,",0.0 +"For none they need: the languid eye, the cheek",0.0 +"Deserted of its bloom, the flaccid, shrunk,",1.0 +"And withered muscle, and the vapid soul,",1.0 +Reproach their owner with that love of rest,1.0 +To which he forfeits even the rest he loves.,2.0 +Not such the alert and active. Measure life,1.0 +"By its true worth, the comforts it affords,",3.0 +And theirs alone seems worthy of the name.,3.0 +"Good temper; spirits prompt to undertake,",0.0 +"And not soon spent, though in an arduous task;",3.0 +The powers of fancy and strong thought are theirs;,4.0 +Even age itself seems privileged in them,1.0 +With clear exemption from its own defects.,1.0 +A sparkling eye beneath a wrinkled front,0.0 +"The veteran shows, and gracing a grey beard",2.0 +"With youthful smiles, descends towards the grave",0.0 +"Sprightly, and old almost without decay.",3.0 +"Like a coy maiden, ease, when courted most,",2.0 +"Farthest retires ' -- an idol, at whose shrine",2.0 +"The love of Nature, and the scenes she draws",1.0 +Is Nature's dictate. Strange! there should be found,1.0 +Prefer to the performance of a God,2.0 +The inferior wonders of an artist's hand.,4.0 +"Lovely indeed the mimic works of art,",2.0 +"None more admires the painter's magic skill,",1.0 +"Who shows me that which I shall never see,",0.0 +"Conveys a distant country into mine,",1.0 +And throws Italian light on English walls.,0.0 +But imitative strokes can do no more,0.0 +"Than please the eye, sweet Nature every sense.",1.0 +The cheering fragrance of her dewy vales,1.0 +And music of her woods ' -- no works of man,2.0 +May rival these; these all bespeak a power,1.0 +"Peculiar, and exclusively her own.",2.0 +Beneath the open sky she spreads the feast;,0.0 +"It's free to all ' -- it's every day renewed,",0.0 +"Who scorns it, starves deservedly at home.",1.0 +"He does not scorn it, who imprisoned long",0.0 +"And clammy of his dark abode have bred,",1.0 +Escapes at last to liberty and light.,1.0 +"His cheek recovers soon its healthful hue,",0.0 +"He walks, he leaps, he runs ' -- is winged with joy,",0.0 +And riots in the sweets of every breeze.,0.0 +"He does not scorn it, who has long endured",0.0 +"Nor yet the mariner, his blood inflamed",1.0 +To gaze at Nature in her green array.,0.0 +"Upon the ship's tall side he stands, possessed",1.0 +With visions prompted by intense desire;,1.0 +"Fair fields appear below, such as he left",2.0 +"Far distant, such as he would die to find ' --",3.0 +"He seeks them headlong, and is seen no more.",3.0 +The spleen is seldom felt where Flora reigns;,0.0 +"The lowering eye, the petulance, the frown,",3.0 +"And mar the face of beauty, when no cause",1.0 +"For such immeasurable woe appears,",1.0 +Sweet smiles and bloom less transient than her own.,3.0 +It is the constant revolution stale,1.0 +"And tasteless, of the same repeated joys,",1.0 +"Health suffers, and the spirits ebb; the heart",2.0 +Recoils from its own choice ' -- at the full feast,2.0 +"Is famished ' -- finds no music in the song,",1.0 +"No smartness in the jest, and wonders why.",1.0 +"Yet thousands still desire to journey on,",1.0 +Though halt and weary of the path they tread.,1.0 +"But cannot play them, borrows a friend's hand",2.0 +"To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort",1.0 +"Her mingled suits and sequences, and sits",1.0 +"And silent cypher, while her proxy plays.",0.0 +Others are dragged into the crowded room,2.0 +"Between supporters; and once seated, sit",2.0 +"Through downright inability to rise,",2.0 +Till the stout bearers lift the corpse again.,2.0 +These speak a loud memento. Yet even these,3.0 +"Themselves love life, and cling to it, as he",2.0 +"That overhangs a torrent, to a twig.",1.0 +"They love it, and yet loath it; fear to die,",1.0 +Yet scorn the purposes for which they live.,1.0 +"Then wherefore not renounce them? No ' -- the dread,",0.0 +"The slavish dread of solitude, that breeds",0.0 +"Reflection and remorse, the fear of shame,",1.0 +"And their inveterate habits, all forbid.",3.0 +Whom call we gay? That honour has been long,0.0 +The boast of mere pretenders to the name.,1.0 +The innocent are gay ' -- the lark is gay,1.0 +That dries his feathers saturate with dew,0.0 +"Beneath the rosy cloud, while yet the beams",0.0 +"The peasant too, a witness of his song,",1.0 +And save me too from theirs whose haggard eyes,1.0 +"Flash desperation, and betray their pangs",2.0 +For property stripped off by cruel chance;,2.0 +"The mouth with blasphemy, the heart with woe.",1.0 +"The earth was made so various, that the mind",1.0 +"Of desultory man, studious of change,",4.0 +"And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.",1.0 +Prospects however lovely may be seen,4.0 +"Till half their beauties fade; the weary sight,",0.0 +"Too well acquainted with their smiles, slides off",4.0 +"Fastidious, seeking less familiar scenes.",2.0 +"Then snug enclosures in the sheltered vale,",0.0 +"Where frequent hedges intercept the eye,",0.0 +"Delight us, happy to renounce a while,",1.0 +"Not senseless of its charms, what still we love,",1.0 +That such short absence may endear it more.,3.0 +"Then forests, or the savage rock may please,",1.0 +Above the reach of man: his hoary head,0.0 +"Conspicuous many a league, the mariner",5.0 +"Bound homeward, and in hope already there,",3.0 +Greets with three cheers exulting. At his waist,3.0 +And at his feet the baffled billows die.,0.0 +"The common overgrown with fern, and rough",0.0 +"With prickly goss, that shapeless and deform",2.0 +"And dangerous to the touch, has yet its bloom",1.0 +"And decks itself with ornaments of gold,",1.0 +With luxury of unexpected sweets.,1.0 +"There often wanders one, whom better days",1.0 +"Saw better clad, in cloak of satin trimmed",1.0 +"With lace, and hat with splendid ribbon bound.",0.0 +"A serving maid was she, and fell in love",1.0 +"With one who left her, went to sea and died.",1.0 +Her fancy followed him through foaming waves,1.0 +"To distant shores, and she would sit and weep",1.0 +At what a sailor suffers; fancy too,0.0 +"Would oft anticipate his glad return,",0.0 +And dream of transports she was not to know.,1.0 +"She heard the doleful tidings of his death,",1.0 +And never smiled again. And now she roams,0.0 +"And there, unless when charity forbids,",2.0 +"Worn as a cloak, and hardly hides a gown",0.0 +More tattered still; and both but ill conceal,0.0 +"She begs an idle pin of all she meets,",0.0 +"And hoards them in her sleeve; but needful food,",0.0 +"Though pinched with cold, asks never. ' -- Kate is crazed.",1.0 +A vagabond and useless tribe there eat,1.0 +Their miserable meal. A kettle flung,1.0 +"Between two poles upon a stick transverse,",1.0 +"Receives the morsel; flesh obscene of dog,",0.0 +"Or vermin, or at best, of cock purloined",1.0 +"They pick their fuel out of every hedge,",0.0 +"Their fluttering rags, and shows a tawny skin,",2.0 +"Great skill have they in palmistry, and more",2.0 +"To conjure clean away the gold they touch,",0.0 +Conveying worthless dross into its place.,0.0 +"Loud when they beg, dumb only when they steal.",1.0 +"Strange! that a creature rational, and cast",1.0 +"His nature, and though capable of arts",2.0 +"By which the world might profit and himself,",1.0 +"Yet even these, though feigning sickness oft",1.0 +"They swath the forehead, drag the limping limb",0.0 +"And vex their flesh with artificial sores,",0.0 +"When safe occasion offers, and with dance",1.0 +And music of the bladder and the bag,2.0 +Beguile their woes and make the woods resound.,1.0 +"And breathing wholesome air, and wandering much,",1.0 +"Blessed he, though undistinguished from the crowd",1.0 +"By wealth or dignity, who dwells secure",1.0 +"Where man, by nature fierce, has laid aside",0.0 +The manners and the arts of civil life.,1.0 +"His wants, indeed, are many; but supply",1.0 +Is obvious; placed within the easy reach,2.0 +Of temperate wishes and industrious hands.,3.0 +Here virtue thrives as in her proper soil;,0.0 +"Not rude and surly, and beset with thorns,",1.0 +"And terrible to sight, as when she springs,",1.0 +If ever she spring spontaneous in remote,3.0 +"And barbarous climes, where violence prevails,",3.0 +"And strength is lord of all; but gentle, kind,",0.0 +"By culture tamed, by liberty refreshed,",1.0 +And all her fruits by radiant truth matured.,0.0 +War and the chase engross the savage whole.,0.0 +"War followed for revenge, or to supplant",3.0 +"The envied tenants of some happier spot,",3.0 +"The chase for sustenance, precarious trust!",3.0 +His hard condition with severe constraint,1.0 +"Binds all his faculties, forbids all growth",1.0 +"Of wisdom, proves a school in which he learns",0.0 +"Sly circumvention, unrelenting hate,",1.0 +"Thus fare the shivering natives of the north,",4.0 +And thus the rangers of the western world,1.0 +"Where it advances far into the deep,",1.0 +"So lately found, although the constant sun",1.0 +"Cheer all their seasons with a grateful smile,",1.0 +Can boast but little virtue; and inert,1.0 +"Through plenty, lose in morals, what they gain",0.0 +"In manners, victims of luxurious ease.",3.0 +"These therefore I can pity, placed remote",2.0 +"From all that science traces, art invents,",0.0 +Or inspiration teaches; and enclosed,1.0 +In boundless oceans never to be passed,1.0 +"By navigators uninformed as they,",0.0 +Or ploughed perhaps by British bark again.,0.0 +"But far beyond the rest, and with most cause",1.0 +"Or thine, but curiosity perhaps,",2.0 +"Or else vain glory, prompted us to draw",2.0 +"Forth from thy native bowers, to show thee here",2.0 +With what superior skill we can abuse,3.0 +"The gifts of providence, and squander life.",1.0 +The dream is past. And thou hast found again,1.0 +"Their former charms? And having seen our state,",0.0 +"Our palaces, our ladies, and our pomp",2.0 +"And heard our music; are thy simple friends,",1.0 +"Thy simple fare, and all thy plain delights",0.0 +As dear to thee as once? And have thy joys,1.0 +Lost nothing by comparison with ours?,3.0 +Rude as thou art for we returned thee rude,1.0 +"And ignorant, except of outward show",1.0 +I cannot think thee yet so dull of heart,0.0 +"Sweets tasted here, and left as soon as known.",1.0 +And asking of the surge that bathes thy foot,1.0 +If ever it has washed our distant shore.,1.0 +"I see thee weep, and thine are honest tears,",1.0 +A patriot's for his country. Thou art sad,2.0 +"At thought of her forlorn and abject state,",1.0 +From which no power of thine can raise her up.,2.0 +"Thus fancy paints thee, and though apt to err,",2.0 +"Perhaps errs little, when she paints thee thus.",1.0 +She tells me too that duly every morn,0.0 +Exploring far and wide the watery waste,2.0 +For sight of ship from England. Every speck,0.0 +"Seen in the dim horizon, turns thee pale",0.0 +With conflict of contending hopes and fears.,1.0 +To dream all night of what the day denied.,0.0 +Alas! expect it not. We found no bait,1.0 +"To tempt us in thy country. Doing good,",0.0 +"Disinterested good, is not our trade.",1.0 +And must be bribed to compass earth again,0.0 +By other hopes and richer fruits than yours.,0.0 +"But though true worth and virtue, in the mild",2.0 +And genial soil of cultivated life,0.0 +"Thrive most, and may perhaps thrive only there,",3.0 +Yet not in cities oft. In proud and gay,0.0 +In cities foul example on most minds,1.0 +Begets its likeness. Rank abundance breeds,0.0 +"In gross and pampered cities sloth and lust,",0.0 +"In cities, vice is hidden with most ease,",1.0 +Or seen with least reproach; and virtue taught,0.0 +"By frequent lapse, can hope no triumph there",2.0 +Beyond the achievement of successful flight.,3.0 +"I do confess them nurseries of the arts,",1.0 +In which they flourish most. Where in the beams,0.0 +"Of warm encouragement, and in the eye",1.0 +Of public note they reach their perfect size.,1.0 +"Such London is, by taste and wealth proclaimed",1.0 +"The fairest capital of all the world,",1.0 +By riot and incontinence the worst.,2.0 +"There, touched by Reynolds, a dull blank becomes",2.0 +"A lucid mirror, in which nature sees",0.0 +All her reflected features. Bacon there,2.0 +"Gives more than female beauty to a stone,",2.0 +"The powers of sculpture, but the style as much;",3.0 +Each province of her art her equal care.,1.0 +With nice incision of her guided steel,1.0 +"She ploughs a brazen field, and clothes a soil",0.0 +Where finds philosophy her eagle eye,1.0 +With which she gazes at yonder burning disk,2.0 +In London; where her implements exact,1.0 +With which she calculates computes and scans,0.0 +"All distance, motion, magnitude, and now",0.0 +"Measures an atom, and now girds a world?",4.0 +"In London; where has commerce such a mart,",1.0 +"So rich, so thronged, so drained, and so supplied",1.0 +"As London, opulent, enlarged, and still",1.0 +Increasing London? Babylon of old,0.0 +"Not more the glory of the earth, than she",1.0 +A more accomplished world's chief glory now.,1.0 +She has her praise. Now mark a spot or two,1.0 +That so much beauty would do well to purge;,0.0 +"And show this queen of cities, that so fair",0.0 +"May yet be foul, so witty, yet not wise.",0.0 +That she is slack in discipline. More prompt,1.0 +Avenge than to prevent the breach of law.,1.0 +That she is rigid in denouncing death,0.0 +"On petty robbers, and indulges life",1.0 +That thieves at home must hang; but he that puts,1.0 +"The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.",3.0 +"Nor is it well, nor can it come to good,",2.0 +That through profane and infidel contempt,1.0 +"And abrogate, as roundly as she may,",1.0 +"Advancing fashion to the post of truth,",1.0 +"And customs of her own, till sabbath rites",1.0 +"God made the country, and man made the town.",3.0 +"What wonder then, that health and virtue, gifts",0.0 +That can alone make sweet the bitter draught,2.0 +"That life holds out to all, should most abound",1.0 +And least be threatened in the fields and groves?,0.0 +"Possess you therefore, you who born about",2.0 +"In chariots and sedans, know no fatigue",4.0 +"But that of idleness, and taste no scenes",2.0 +"Your element; there only, you can shine,",2.0 +There only minds like yours can do no harm.,2.0 +Our groves were planted to console at noon,1.0 +The pensive wanderer in their shades. At eve,1.0 +The moon-beam sliding softly in between,1.0 +"The sleeping leaves, is all the light they wish,",0.0 +Birds warbling all the music. We can spare,2.0 +Our softer satellite. Your songs confound,0.0 +Our more harmonious notes. The thrush departs,2.0 +"Scared, and the offended nightingale is mute.",2.0 +"There is a public mischief in your mirth,",1.0 +It plagues your country. Folly such as your's,1.0 +"Graced with a sword, and worthier of a fan,",1.0 +"Has made, which enemies could never have done,",1.0 +"Our arch of empire, steadfast but for you,",2.0 +"A mutilated structure, soon to fall.",0.0 +"By Orpheus poured along the verdant plain,",2.0 +"Disarmed the tiger's fierce relentless rage,",0.0 +And could the lion's horrid wrath assuage:,0.0 +"Secure from harm amid the bloody throng,",0.0 +"Such were the wondrous feats of former days,",1.0 +"Though now at Music's voice no ramparts rise,",2.0 +We feel its force in living vocal strains.,0.0 +And while full many a proud aspiring fane,3.0 +"In echo sweet prolongs the cheerful strain,",0.0 +"Behold, forth issuing from the portals wide,",2.0 +"Displayed in many a long and sable tide,",2.0 +"The lettered sons of holy science come,",0.0 +"By music lured to quit that peaceful home,",0.0 +"Where tranquil pleasures crown the passing hour,",0.0 +And list enraptured to the swelling song.,1.0 +But mark! ' -- Swift passing through the buoyant air,2.0 +"See Handel, source of sweet majestic strains,",1.0 +Direct his flight to these his favourite plains.,1.0 +"Behold him now with mute attention pause,",0.0 +"Now join, with rapture bright, the just applause.",1.0 +"Since Handel then approves the lovely dame,",0.0 +"And stamps his fiat on her lasting fame,",1.0 +And round her brows your brightest laurels twine.,0.0 +"THE counsels of a friend, Belinda, hear,",1.0 +Such truths as women seldom learn from men.,0.0 +"Nor think I praise you ill, when thus I show",0.0 +What female Vanity might fear to know:,2.0 +"Some merit's mine, to dare to be sincere,",1.0 +"But greater your's, sincerity to bear.",2.0 +Hard is the fortune that your sex attends;,0.0 +"Women, like Princes, find few real friends:",3.0 +All who approach them their own ends pursue:,1.0 +Lovers and ministers are seldom true.,3.0 +And the most trusted Guide the most betrays:,1.0 +"Hence by fond dreams of fancied power amused,",5.0 +Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair:,1.0 +"For this the toilet every thought employs,",1.0 +"Hence all the toils of dress, and all the joys:",0.0 +"For this, hands, lips, and eyes are put to school,",2.0 +And each instructive feature has its rule;,0.0 +"And yet how few have learnt, when this is given.",1.0 +Not to disgrace the partial boon of heaven?,1.0 +How few with all their pride of form can move?,0.0 +"How few are lovely, that were made for love?",0.0 +"Do you, my fair, endeavour to possess",1.0 +An elegance of mind as well as dress;,1.0 +"Be that your ornament, and know to please",1.0 +By grateful Nature's unaffected ease.,0.0 +But wisely rest content with modest Sense;,0.0 +"For wit, like wine, intoxicate the brain,",0.0 +Too strong for feeble women to sustain;,2.0 +"Of those who claim it, more than half have none,",1.0 +"And half of those who have it, are undone.",1.0 +Nor think Dishonesty a proof of Parts;,1.0 +"Can raise your merit, or adorn your fame.",1.0 +"At ministers, because they wish their place.",1.0 +"Virtue is amiable, mild, serene,",3.0 +"Without all beauty, and all peace within:",1.0 +It's ugliness in its most frightful form:,2.0 +"Fiercely it stands defying gods and men,",2.0 +As fiery monsters guard a giant's den.,2.0 +"Seek to be good, but aim not to be great:",1.0 +"Her fairest virtues fly from public sight,",0.0 +"Domestic worth, that shuns too strong a light.",1.0 +To rougher man Ambition's task resign:,0.0 +"To labour for a sunk corrupted state,",1.0 +"Or dare the rage of envy, and be great.",1.0 +"One only care your gentle breasts should move,",0.0 +The important business of your life is Love:,2.0 +"To this great point direct your constant aim,",2.0 +"This makes your Happiness, and this your Fame.",2.0 +Be never cool reserve with passion joined;,0.0 +With caution choose; but then be fondly kind.,0.0 +"The selfish heart, that but by halves is given,",1.0 +Shall find no place in Love's delightful heaven;,1.0 +"Here sweet extremes alone can truly bless,",0.0 +The virtue of a lover is excess.,2.0 +"Not loving first, but loving wrong is shame.",0.0 +"Contemn the little pride of giving pain,",0.0 +Nor think that conquest justifies disdain;,0.0 +Short is the period of insulting Power;,3.0 +"Offended Cupid finds his vengeful hour,",0.0 +"Soon will resume the empire which he gave,",0.0 +And soon the Tyrant shall become the Slave.,0.0 +"Blessed is the maid, and worthy to be blessed,",1.0 +"Whose soul, entire by him she loves possessed,",1.0 +"Feels every vanity in fondness lost,",2.0 +"And asks no power, but that of pleasing most:",2.0 +Hers is the bliss in just return to prove,1.0 +And Gratitude forbid Desire to change.,0.0 +"But lest harsh Care the lover's peace destroy,",2.0 +"And roughly blight the tender buds of joy,",0.0 +"Let Reason teach what Passion fain would hide,",1.0 +"Venus in vain the wedded pair would crown,",2.0 +If angry Fortune on their union frown:,1.0 +"Soon will the flattering dream of bliss be over,",2.0 +"Then waking to the sense of lasting pain,",1.0 +With mutual tears the nuptial couch they stain;,2.0 +"And that fond love, which should afford relief,",1.0 +Does but increase the anguish of their grief;,2.0 +"While both could easier their own sorrows bear,",1.0 +Than the sad knowledge of each other's care.,3.0 +"Yet may you rather feel that virtuous pain,",2.0 +Than sell your violated charms for gain;,1.0 +"Than wed the wretch whom you despise, or hate,",1.0 +For the vain glare of useless wealth or state.,2.0 +"The most abandoned prostitutes are they,",0.0 +"Who not to Love, but Avarice fall a prey:",2.0 +"A maid so wedded, is a WHORE FOR LIFE.",1.0 +"Has equal love, and easy fortune given,",0.0 +"Think not, the husband gained, that all is done;",0.0 +"And oft, the careless find it to their cost,",1.0 +The Lover in the Husband may be lost;,1.0 +The Graces might alone his heart allure;,0.0 +They and the Virtues meeting must secure.,1.0 +Let even your Prudence wear the pleasing dress,3.0 +"Of care for him, and anxious tenderness.",2.0 +Let each domestic duty seem to flow;,1.0 +Make it your pride his servant to appear;,1.0 +"Endearing thus the common acts of life,",0.0 +The Mistress still shall charm him in the Wife;,0.0 +Before his eye perceives one beauty gone:,0.0 +"Thus I, Belinda, would your charms improve,",2.0 +And form your heart to all the arts of Love;,0.0 +The task were harder to secure my own,1.0 +Against the power of those already known;,3.0 +For well you twist the secret chains that bind,0.0 +"With gentle force the captivated mind,",0.0 +"Skilled every soft attraction to employ,",2.0 +"Each flattering hope, and each alluring joy;",2.0 +"I own your genius, and from you receive",2.0 +"The rules of Pleasing, which to you I give.",1.0 +"WHy Philomela sleep those cheerful Strains,",0.0 +With which so much you gratified the Plains?,0.0 +When every murmuring stream and pretty spring,2.0 +Of some soft Tale would stop to hear thee Sing,1.0 +"In Notes, that all the Nymphs and Shepherd's moved;",0.0 +"And Theron too, had he been by, had Loved.",0.0 +"But ah! unwelcome Alteration, now",0.0 +"About the Plains thy Flocks neglected, stray;",0.0 +"And thou, as careless and forlorn as they:",2.0 +"In hollow Rocks, and Cypress Shades, alone,",0.0 +Dost Teach the Mournful Dove a sadder Moan.,0.0 +"For, all I heard from thee, when listening by,",2.0 +"Were broken Notes, of some sad Elegy:",2.0 +But such a great and unaffected Air,1.0 +"I find, no selfish Grief, or Interest",1.0 +Could draw those Generous Murmurs from thy Breast.,3.0 +It's that which yet lies pressing on thy Soul.,2.0 +"It's that indeed, our common loss and care,",0.0 +"Too sadly claims it: O! the Queen, the Queen",2.0 +Has left the World: but Heaven! How black a Scene,0.0 +Her Exit makes it? ' -- O Illustrious Saint!,3.0 +Too mighty for my boldest Thoughts to Stem:,2.0 +"Even my own Grief, I have no words to Paint,",2.0 +Nor find my Love an Elegant Complaint.,1.0 +"My Lyre it self no more can give me ease,",1.0 +"No more can give my swelling Breast relief,",0.0 +Then Fate reverse the Subject of my Grief:,1.0 +O! Could not all those Heavenly Virtues Save,2.0 +"Nor hers, and our Dear Hero's Moving Tears?",4.0 +Nor all the poor Lamenting Nations Fears?,0.0 +"No, no; they could not ' -- She resigns Her Breath;",2.0 +The Charming QUEEN a Trophy falls to Death.,0.0 +"FROM where dark clouds of curling smoke arise,",1.0 +And the tall column mounts into the skies;,2.0 +"Where the grim arches of the forge appear,",3.0 +Where domes of peers and humble roofs are found,0.0 +"From denser air and busy towns I run,",0.0 +"Foe to the toils which wealth and pomp create,",0.0 +"Aurora now had left her crimson bed,",0.0 +And the sky glowed with pure reflected red;,2.0 +"The moving stars withdrew their timorous light,",2.0 +As her gilded chariot burst upon the sight;,2.0 +"The glittering pearls that gentle Eve had born,",2.0 +Were all adorning the sweet brow of Morn;,2.0 +Unlocked some jewel for the rising hour.,0.0 +"Meanwhile unseen the fragrant zephyr flew,",1.0 +And gathered essence from the balmy dew;,1.0 +"I wandered on, till Fancy bade me stay,",1.0 +And spend with Health and her one holiday.,1.0 +"Where the clear stream its useful tenor holds,",3.0 +"Where on each side the cottages are seen,",1.0 +"There many an apple, in autumnal pride,",2.0 +"Glows with red cheek, and blushes side by side;",3.0 +"Till Christmas comes, and tarts draw out the feast.",2.0 +"Nor does the garden useful herbs deny,",0.0 +Fenced round with thorns that point their spears on high;,0.0 +"There the thyme blows, from which brown bees distil",3.0 +"The parsley next extends its useful row,",0.0 +"With cordial mint, the doctor of the field.",1.0 +"There spreading cabbage all their strength produce,",0.0 +And take firm root to stand for winter's use.,1.0 +Till blessed potatoes meet the thankful eye.,0.0 +"There the tall pea in stately grandeur stalks,",5.0 +And humbler bean mid her own fragrance walks.,2.0 +Amongst whom the blackbird spreads his sooty wings.,0.0 +"Nor quench in darkness his quick visual ray,",4.0 +Shut out from liberty and glorious day.,3.0 +"Enough, enough! while to the cage confined,",1.0 +"Let him at least the gift of light retain,",0.0 +Nor hear his whistling pipe with conscious pain!,0.0 +"And, look, where ornament her care bestows!",1.0 +"Above the lily nods the blushing rose,",0.0 +Spreading their shade over the dark marigold.,4.0 +Smiles on himself as if his bob he eyed;,3.0 +"And in the church waft faintness far away,",1.0 +"Through new cut hay, or fields of standing corn;",1.0 +And all the heart the creeping sickness feels;,0.0 +"No salts are there, ' -- yet thyme and mint renew",2.0 +"The wasting sense, and cheer from pew to pew.",0.0 +"But now the sun sends forth his scorching rays,",1.0 +And the hot cattle startling cease to graze;,2.0 +"While to the pool, or darkest shade they high,",0.0 +And with the scourging tail whip off the offending fly.,5.0 +Along the path that winds around the hill,0.0 +"At the last fair she caught yonder thrilling lay,",3.0 +"The waving pail swims lightly on her head,",2.0 +For equal steps to measured music tread.,0.0 +Down the stream where woods begin to throw,0.0 +"Their verdant arms around the rocks below,",0.0 +"A rustic bridge across the tide is thrown,",0.0 +"A simple arch salutes the admiring eye,",2.0 +And the mill's clack the tumbling waves supply.,2.0 +"But lest society some loss should share,",2.0 +"Over which trips lightly many a busy maid,",3.0 +"And many a matron, when one failing cow",2.0 +"Their wealthier neighbour then, her bowls to swell,",2.0 +Will gladly take what they as gladly sell.,1.0 +"The morning toils are now completely over,",0.0 +"The bowls well scalded, and well swept the floor.",3.0 +"The daughter at the needle plies the seam,",0.0 +While the good mother hastens to the stream:,1.0 +Lie stretched and beaming in the summer's sun;,1.0 +"And lest he scorch them in his fervid hours,",1.0 +She scoops along the nice conducted showers;,0.0 +"Till like the snow, that tips the mountain's height,",0.0 +The brown's dull shade gives place to purest white;,2.0 +"Picking bright stones, or tumbling on the green.",4.0 +But now the sun's bright whirling wheels appear,1.0 +"On the broad front of noon, in full career,",2.0 +"A sign more welcome hangs not in the air,",0.0 +For now the sister's call the brothers hear;,0.0 +"Dinner's the word, and every cave around",0.0 +"Devours the voice, and feasts upon the sound.",2.0 +"It's dinner, father! all the brothers cry,",0.0 +"It's dinner, father! home they panting go,",0.0 +"Their pace they mend, till at the pump they stand,",0.0 +"Deluge the face, and purify the hand,",2.0 +"And then to dinner. There the women wait,",1.0 +"Smoking potatoes meet their thankful eyes,",2.0 +And Peace and Plenty watch around the board.,0.0 +"Now, till the sun has somewhat sunk in height,",1.0 +"Yet long before he dips his wheels in night,",0.0 +In the soft dews of renovating sleep;,3.0 +"The worthy sire to the soft bed repairs,",4.0 +The sons beneath the shade forget their cares.,0.0 +"The clock strikes two, it beats upon the ear,",1.0 +And soon the parent's anxious voice they hear;,0.0 +"Come, come, my lads, you must not sleep all day!",1.0 +"They rub their eyes, start up, then stalk away.",2.0 +But let me not at twelve forget to eye,0.0 +"Some near at home to dinner dancing run,",0.0 +While bread and cheese form battlements on high;,2.0 +Best to demand the name of good thick cream!,3.0 +"The dinner done; the happy train so gay,",0.0 +In various groups disperse to various play;,4.0 +"Gets leave to breathe, and breath brings change of thought;",2.0 +"For races some, but more for football cry,",1.0 +"Mark out their ground, and toss the globe on high;",0.0 +"The well fought field deals many a galling stroke,",4.0 +"And many a chief's overthrown, and many a shin is broke.",4.0 +The gentler sex choose out a gentler play;,2.0 +"They form a smiling circle on the green,",1.0 +"Run home to see if yet they pick themselves,",1.0 +"Though but an hour ago their throats they crammed,",1.0 +"Their books forgot, nor work remembered more;",0.0 +"All share the joy, but one imprisoned slave,",1.0 +Who from offended worth no boon would save.,2.0 +"The dame he said was like a clocking hen,",0.0 +Who never would let them out when it did rain;,2.0 +"And if again his hands she dared to switch,",1.0 +Who for a raisin or a fig would tell,1.0 +Faults of a brother he loved never so well;,4.0 +"Nor with the dame will his proud heart be friends,",3.0 +"He loves her not; for this the hour of play,",1.0 +"And now the dame in neat white mob is seen,",1.0 +"Her russet gown, silk kerchief, apron clean,",1.0 +"At the school door her tremulous voice is heard,",5.0 +And the blithe game's unwillingly deferred.,3.0 +From noon till morn rests female toil; save come,3.0 +The evening hours when lowing cows draw home.,1.0 +"Now the good neighbour walks her friend to see,",1.0 +"And knit an hour, and drink a dish of tea.",0.0 +"The baker has none, got no yeast last week;",3.0 +"And little Peggy thinks herself ill sped,",1.0 +Though she has got a great piece gingerbread.,2.0 +"Home she returns, but disappointment's trace",2.0 +"She whispers lowly in her sister's ear,",0.0 +"Scarce can restrain the glistening, swelling tear.",2.0 +"Blythe Peggy smiles, she well the errand knows",1.0 +"There from the bowl where cream so coolly swims,",1.0 +That for the wheaten loaf oft stands in stead;,1.0 +"Cup after cup sends steaming circles round,",2.0 +And oft the weak tea's in the full pot drowned;,2.0 +"It matters not, for while their news they tell",0.0 +"The mind's content, and all things move on well.",1.0 +"The sun has now his saffron robe put on,",2.0 +"Stepped from his chariot that with rubies shone,",1.0 +"The glittering monarch gains the western gate,",2.0 +And for a moment shines in regal state;,1.0 +"His streaming mantle floats along the sky,",0.0 +While he glides softly from the gazing eye;,3.0 +"From saffron tinge to yellow soon it flew,",0.0 +"Now different cares employ the village train,",1.0 +The rich in cattle press the milky vein;,0.0 +"It's little Peggy, she the pail would fill,",1.0 +"She stroked and clapped her, but she'd not allow;",1.0 +The well known hand best pleased the knowing cow;,2.0 +"Though cabbage leaves before her band was cast,",0.0 +In gathered heaps you see the fragments laid;,0.0 +"Piled up with care to swell the nightly blaze,",0.0 +And in the widow's hut a fire to raise.,0.0 +"See where she comes with her blue apron full,",3.0 +Crowned with some scattered locks of dingy wool.,0.0 +"In years she seems, and on her well patched clothes",2.0 +Want much has added to her other woes.,1.0 +There is a poor-house; but some little pride,3.0 +Forbids her there her humbled head to hide;,1.0 +"Over former scenes of better days she runs,",0.0 +And every thing like degradation shuns!,0.0 +"Now hooded Eve slow gliding comes in view,",2.0 +Busied in threading pearls of diamond dew;,2.0 +"Waking the flowers that early close the eye,",4.0 +And giving drops to those that else would die.,1.0 +"And what is man but such a tender flower,",1.0 +"That buds, blooms, fades, and dies within the hour?",1.0 +"Where round yonder cottage the rosemary grows,",2.0 +"Two aged females turn the weary wheel,",2.0 +"And, as they turn, their slumbering thoughts reveal:",3.0 +Poor England may remembered to her cost!,3.0 +"Ever since that time the weather has grown cold,",1.0 +For Jane forgets that she is now grown old.,2.0 +"So scorching hot the weather was in April,",1.0 +It's not so now; the sun has lost its power;,0.0 +The very apples nowadays are sour!,0.0 +Could not the Parson tell the reason why,0.0 +There are such changes both in earth and sky?,1.0 +"It's not these only, Margaret replied,",1.0 +Look at the girls! ' -- they all dress nowadays,1.0 +Like them fine folk who act them nonsense plays!,3.0 +"No more the decent mob surrounds the face,",0.0 +"All things are changed, the world's turned upside down,",3.0 +"And every servant wears a cotton gown,",0.0 +"Bit flimsy things, that have no strength to wear,",2.0 +She slighting told me iT would not do in town!,0.0 +"This pride! this pride! it sure must have a fall,",0.0 +And bring some heavy judgement on us all!,1.0 +"When courting them, to skulk behind a cow,",1.0 +"Till all's in bed. My John, when courting me,",1.0 +Used after supper to come manfully;,4.0 +For oft he used to say he knew no place,1.0 +Where honesty need fear to show its face.,1.0 +"No more it need! My master used to cry, ' --",0.0 +"He feared but two things ' -- to turn thief, and lie.",3.0 +"The leading crow her colony brings home,",2.0 +And two by two they seek their leafy dome.,0.0 +"Of all the branches that invite to rest,",0.0 +Each loves the one that hangs above its nest;,1.0 +"What though of rudest architecture made,",0.0 +"Nor thorns surrounding nor with clay inlaid,",2.0 +"Yet it's the spot where infant days began,",0.0 +That thus attaches both the crow and man!,0.0 +"Others the wrestler's glory would maintain,",2.0 +Twist the strong nerve and fill the swelling vein;,3.0 +"One youth his pipe blows from the rocky hill,",2.0 +"Another strikes the violin cheerful string,",7.0 +Light to the dance the bounding virgins spring:,0.0 +"It's most part nature, yet some art is found",1.0 +When one ' -- two ' -- three lies heavy on the ground;,5.0 +"For it's not airy feet which seem to fly,",1.0 +"Then come descended quivering from the sky,",1.0 +"Nor form that every Grace was known to bend,",0.0 +"Nor foot that every feathered Hour would lend,",0.0 +"Has any merit here; ' -- but feet of sound,",0.0 +"Or as the drum a certain sound repeats,",1.0 +"Flutters now low, and then in thunder beats;",2.0 +From Nature and from Art how wide the sphere,1.0 +Courts unimproved would be what you see here.,1.0 +"Now Eve had sprinkled every flower with dew,",3.0 +And her gauze hood was wet and dripping through;,3.0 +"A light grey cloak to the warm fleece allied,",3.0 +"Her chilly fingers close and closer tied,",0.0 +Was given her by her elder sister Night.,1.0 +A faithful couple to the shades withdrew.,1.0 +"The maid had every blush that bloom can give,",0.0 +"Where youth fresh glowing bids the blossom live,",1.0 +"Shades the full rose, and hides its bolder red,",3.0 +Pure as the drop that in the early morn,0.0 +"Hangs with such sweetness smiling on the thorn,",1.0 +"Shadows the frown, or plays within the smile;",1.0 +"She moves, the wonder of the rural plain,",1.0 +And many a sigh steals to her ear in vain.,2.0 +"A youth there was like her, of better mould,",0.0 +Whose soul deemed lightly of the weight of gold.,2.0 +"Which some call merit, though no way their own;",3.0 +"The Church was laid out as his rising line,",1.0 +Himself delighting in the text divine;,0.0 +"That text, at home by country masters taught,",0.0 +"Might stint the learning but keep back the fault,",2.0 +"For sure great knowledge we should all despise,",2.0 +The mother's eye had long over all her son,3.0 +"With many a fear, and much observance run,",2.0 +"Seen where beneath the elms a path was worn, ' --",1.0 +"Marked him at pensive eve, and laughing morn",0.0 +"Still seek the shade, ' -- now with sad step, and slow,",4.0 +"With folded arms, and head declining low;",0.0 +"Then livelier thoughts awake a quicker pace,",2.0 +And hope breaks out and glows along his face.,2.0 +Thus to the partner of her thirty years,1.0 +"She soft began: ' -- Thou calmer of my fears,",1.0 +"Oft has thy firmer mind my sorrows stilled,",0.0 +"As from thy lips thy better sense distilled,",1.0 +Hast thou observed our dearest hope of late?,1.0 +"Whose spirits flag with some uncommon weight, ' --",0.0 +"And silent night has seen the torrent roll,",0.0 +"The wandering stream has from his eyelids crept,",3.0 +And his moist pillow shown he has not slept.,2.0 +"My life, rejoined the father, in thy mind",0.0 +"The missed of tenderness the optics blind,",1.0 +"Imagined ills from feeling ever flow,",0.0 +All things look big when seen through clouds of woe;,1.0 +They all turn grave who search the source of things.,1.0 +"This not believing, ceased she to reply,",1.0 +"Marked when sweet Anna's name breathed in the sound,",3.0 +How quick his eye sprung from the thoughtful ground;,2.0 +"Joy smoothed his brow, and blushes died his face.",1.0 +And now she knew what sickened over his soul.,2.0 +"The father skilled in all the ways of man,",0.0 +"Thus, to his mate affectionate, began:",1.0 +The greatest good from change of scene we find.,0.0 +"Though one dear object, touchstone of our woe,",1.0 +"Yet gay variety divides the view, ' --",1.0 +Spite of ourselves we gaze at what is new;,1.0 +"That fainter grow, worn out by length of way;",2.0 +"A softer missed over every object spreads,",3.0 +"Figures grow dim, and towers scarce show their heads:",6.0 +"But scenes retire, and dearest objects fly;",0.0 +He lags no more ' -- by soft degrees is stole,1.0 +"New loves, or friends, shall wear out all his woe;",1.0 +Ideas changing as new views arise,2.0 +"Let in new light, and almost change the eyes;",4.0 +"Excite no wonder, and delight no more.",3.0 +"The mother sighed, the starting tear withheld,",0.0 +To her fond partner ever fond to yield;,2.0 +"Nor ever felt she what is called command,",0.0 +His wish grew hers in magic quickness bland.,2.0 +Through all the wood her new washed flock had strayed;,1.0 +The youth too sought the shade in hopes to clear,1.0 +"Far from the uproar of the loud cascade,",2.0 +"Where the slow stream crept softly to the shade,",5.0 +"That seem by some enchantment to have sprang,",1.0 +"For the scant soil nor moss nor grass bestows,",2.0 +But yawning cliffs the sinewy roots expose;,2.0 +"There on her cheek the roses felt the dew,",1.0 +Which drop by drop extracts their softest hue:,0.0 +"Why weeps my Anna? Sure she knows this heart,",0.0 +And knows in absence we but seem to part;,1.0 +"Though mountains rise, and the slow weary day",2.0 +"Draws out the journey a long length of way,",2.0 +"Yet trust me, Anna, still my soul shall be",0.0 +"Chained to thy soul, and never part from thee!",0.0 +Sweet Anna shook her head ' -- sad sighs oppose,2.0 +"The lip kept moving, but no accent fell,",4.0 +Yet the round tear perhaps can speak as well.,0.0 +"OH cease, my Anna, or declare thy fears,",2.0 +"I cannot, cannot bear these softening tears!",0.0 +What have I done to tempt thy generous mind,2.0 +To form a thought that I can grow unkind?,1.0 +"Nothing ' -- she sobbed, ' -- but ' -- but it cannot be ' --",3.0 +But every eye must take delight in thee!,0.0 +"Some maid whom education softens over,",0.0 +To whose rich mind each day keeps adding more;,2.0 +"Whose winning manners mixed with every grace,",0.0 +"Invite the eye, and keep it from the face, ' --",1.0 +"And, when she speaks, Persuasion's lyre is strung,",0.0 +And the sweet words come warbling from her tongue;,5.0 +"If such a one thy heart in fetters hold, ' --",1.0 +"For I have not one fear from sordid gold,",0.0 +"I shall not blame my William, ' -- still may he",0.0 +"Taste every bless, whatever becomes of me.",4.0 +"Dearest of women, William thus rejoined,",2.0 +How can such fears ever cloud so bright a mind!,5.0 +"In finer arts I know some may excel,",1.0 +"Some have more grace, and some few speak as well",0.0 +"Yet the sweet accent will but thrill my ear,",0.0 +"Trust me, my Anna, iT will not reach me here.",1.0 +"This heart is thine, and every faithful chord",1.0 +Will only vibrate to thy well known word:,2.0 +"Our wish the same, and our delights but one;",1.0 +"One after one, to crown my happiness;",2.0 +"The day shall come when I shall claim my own,",1.0 +And freely to the world my love make known.,2.0 +"So saying, to their homes they separate go,",1.0 +He more at ease ' -- she something less in woe.,0.0 +"In this gay village hangs a wondrous sign,",2.0 +The Hounds and Hare are the immense design.,1.0 +"There hunters crack their whips, and seem to bound",0.0 +"Over every hedge, nor touch the mimic ground;",0.0 +"The huntsman winds his horn, his big cheeks swell,",1.0 +As to the school he drags the unwilling way.,3.0 +"Around the front inviting benches wait,",0.0 +Conscious of many a glass and sage debate;,4.0 +"The great man of the village cracks his joke,",2.0 +"Tells tales of old, and nods, and heaves the can,",1.0 +"Makes fixed decrees, and seems much more than man.",1.0 +"Come, Jack, sit down. Thy father, man, and me,",1.0 +"Broke many a glass, and many a freak had we.",5.0 +"'Twas when he sought thy mother, at Carel Fair",1.0 +I mind the corn was very bad that year,0.0 +"We met thy mother and my wife in the street,",1.0 +And took them into Beck's to get a treat;,0.0 +"Blind Joseph played, and I took out thy mother,",1.0 +"Thy father, he was shy, he got another;",1.0 +"And when I took her back, as you may see,",1.0 +I whipped her blushing on thy father's knee.,1.0 +"Then in came Robin Bell, who liked her too,",1.0 +"And bit his lip, and turned both red and blue,",1.0 +"Teased her to dance, as you may see, and then",1.0 +"Kept her himself, nor brought her back again.",2.0 +"I fired at this, while up thy father rose,",0.0 +"Gave him a kick, and tweaked him by the nose.",1.0 +"They stripped to fight, as you may see, and I",1.0 +In seeing fair play got a blackened eye;,1.0 +"I durst not show my face at home next day,",0.0 +"But bade my mother say I went away,",0.0 +"The blacksmith laughed, the cobbler gave a smile,",1.0 +And the pleased tailor scratched his head the while.,2.0 +But hark! what sounds of mingled joy and woe,0.0 +From yonder poor cottage bursting seem to flow.,3.0 +"And, after all his toils, got safely home.",1.0 +"Welcome, old soldier, welcome from the wars!",4.0 +"Come give's thy hand, and bring the to other can,",2.0 +"Now expectation stares in every eye,",1.0 +"The jaw falls down, and every soul draws nigh,",3.0 +"With ear turned up, and head held all awry.",3.0 +"What battle's lost, and what is hardly won.",0.0 +"But when the eye looks into private woes,",1.0 +"And sees the grief that from one battle flows,",1.0 +"Small cause of triumph can the bravest feel,",2.0 +For never yet were brave hearts made of steel.,1.0 +"It happened once, in storming of a town,",1.0 +"When our bold men had pushed the ramparts down,",4.0 +"We found them starving, the last loaf was gone,",2.0 +"Beef was exhausted, and they flour had none;",3.0 +"Their springs we drain, to ditches yet they fly ' --",0.0 +The stagnant ditch lent treacherous supply;,2.0 +And the quick fever hastens through their veins.,3.0 +In the same room the dying and the dead ' --,4.0 +"You saw the mother with her children lie,",1.0 +None but the father left to close the sunken eye.,0.0 +"In a dark corner, once myself I found",3.0 +A youth whose blood was pouring through the wound;,1.0 +"No sister's hand, no tender mother's eye",2.0 +To staunch that wound was fondly watching by;,1.0 +"Famine had done her work, and low were laid",0.0 +The loving mother and the blooming maid.,1.0 +"He raised his eyes, and bade me strike the blow,",0.0 +"No foe is near, I softly made reply,",1.0 +"A soldier, friend, would save and not destroy.",0.0 +A drop of cordial in my flask I found;,0.0 +And I myself am sovereign for a wound;,3.0 +"I'll bleed you all, lads! if you should be ill,",0.0 +"Our drummer too, poor man, dealt much in horns,",2.0 +That oft had charmed the sentinels and me;,1.0 +"From post to post like lightning he would fly,",1.0 +"We praised him for't, ' -- so I my captain told,",1.0 +"So then the surgeon took him in his charge,",0.0 +And the captain made him prisoner at large.,1.0 +Spring like the grass that clothes the common ground;,0.0 +"Some more, some less, you know, grows every where;",1.0 +"Some soils are fertile, and some are but bare.",2.0 +And as much pity as I could do here!,2.0 +"Once in their woods I strayed a length of way,",0.0 +And thought I'd known the path that homeward lay;,0.0 +"We'd gone to forage, but I lost the rest,",1.0 +"Which, till quite out of hearing, never guessed.",0.0 +"I hollowed loud, some voices made reply,",0.0 +But not my comrades; not one friend was nigh.,1.0 +"Some men appeared, their faces painted over,",0.0 +"Their ears were hung with beads, that largely spread",0.0 +"A breadth of wing, and covered half the head.",0.0 +I kissed the ground; one older than the rest,1.0 +"Stepped forth, and laid his hand upon my breast,",1.0 +"Then seized my arms, and signed that I should go,",1.0 +And learn with them to bend the sturdy bow:,1.0 +"I bowed and followed; sadly did I mourn,",0.0 +And never more expected to return.,1.0 +"Here Sarah sobbed, and stepped behind the door,",0.0 +"We travelled on some days through woods alone,",1.0 +At length we reached their happy silent home.,0.0 +"A few green acres the whole plot compose,",3.0 +"Which woods surround, and fencing rocks enclose,",0.0 +"Skirting whose banks, a river fond of play",2.0 +"Sometime stood still, and sometime ran away;",3.0 +"The branching deer would drink the dimpled tide,",0.0 +"And crop the wild herbs on its flowery side, ' --",4.0 +"Around the silent hut would sometime stray,",1.0 +"Then, at the sight of man, bound swift away;",1.0 +But all in vain; the hunter's flying dart,0.0 +"A mother and four daughters here we found,",2.0 +"With shells encircled, and with feathers crowned,",1.0 +While lesser shells surround the moonlike ear.,1.0 +With screams at sight of me away they flew,1.0 +For fear or pleasure springs from what is new;,0.0 +"Then, to their brothers, screaming still they ran,",0.0 +"When bolder grown, they ventured something near,",0.0 +"Light touched my coat, but started back with fear.",1.0 +"When time and use had chased their fears away,",0.0 +"And I had learnt some few short words to say,",2.0 +"They oft would tell me, would I but allow",1.0 +"The rampant lion to overhang my brow,",2.0 +"And on my cheek the spotted leopard wear,",1.0 +"Stretch out my ears, and let my arms go bare.",1.0 +"OH mercy on us? cried the listeners round,",2.0 +Their gaping wonder bursting into sound.,0.0 +"Though different in their manners, yet their heart",0.0 +Was equal mine in every better part.,1.0 +"Brave to a fault, if courage fault can be;",0.0 +"Kind to their fellows, doubly kind to me.",0.0 +"Some little arts my travelled judgement taught,",0.0 +"Needless with bows for me the woods to roam,",3.0 +I therefore tried to do some good at home.,1.0 +Save the swift salmon of the silver flood;,4.0 +"Some goats I saw that browsed the rocks among,",0.0 +And oft I thought to trap their playful young;,0.0 +But not till first a fencing hedge surrounds,0.0 +"Their future fields, and the enclosure bounds;",1.0 +"For many a father owns a hatchet here,",2.0 +Which falls descending to his wealthy heir.,1.0 +"The playful kid we from the pitfall bring,",2.0 +"Light lay the branches over the treacherous deep,",5.0 +And favourite herbs among the long grass creep.,1.0 +"The little prisoner soon is taught to stand,",0.0 +And in another field the clover grew;,0.0 +"At last, of stone we formed a sort of spade,",0.0 +"Broad at the end, and sharp, for cutting made;",0.0 +"We pushed along, the tender grass gave way,",1.0 +And soon the sun turned every pile to hay.,1.0 +"It was not long before the flocks increased,",1.0 +And I first gave the unknown milky feast.,7.0 +"Some clay I found, and useful bowls I made,",0.0 +"Though, I must own, I marred the potter's trade;",0.0 +Yet use is every thing ' -- they did the same,0.0 +As if from China the rude vessels came.,3.0 +And twirled on strings the roasting meat to dress.,0.0 +"In all the woods the Indian corn was found,",2.0 +Whose grains I scattered in the faithful ground;,0.0 +"The willing soil leaves little here to do,",1.0 +"Yet something like one with delight I made,",1.0 +"The coulter and the sock were pointed stone,",1.0 +"The eager brothers drew the traces on,",1.0 +"I stalked behind, and threw the faithful grain,",0.0 +Nor wait the golden sheaves the falling year;,0.0 +"Some bricks I burned, and now a house arose,",0.0 +Finer than aught the Indian chieftain knows;,4.0 +But lamps cheered up the gloom of lengthened night;,2.0 +"The cotton shrub through all the woods had run,",0.0 +"Around their fields the yam I taught to grow,",0.0 +With all the fruits they either love or know.,0.0 +"The bed I raised from the damp earth, and now",2.0 +Some little comfort walked our dwelling through.,1.0 +"My fame was spread: the neighbouring Indians came,",4.0 +"Viewed all our works, and strove to do the same.",0.0 +That tells great actions without help of words.,6.0 +"I gained much honour, and each friend would bring",0.0 +"And when, with many a prayer, I ask once more",3.0 +"To seek my friends, and wander to the shore,",1.0 +While many a friend his load of skins would bear.,2.0 +Riches were mine; but fate willed it not,3.0 +They grew the treasure of the Spanish foe;,1.0 +"My Indian friends threw down their fleecy load,",2.0 +"And, like the bounding elk, leaped back into the wood.",1.0 +"What though a prisoner! countrymen I found,",1.0 +"Heard my own tongue, and blessed the cheerful sound;",0.0 +"It seemed to me as if my home was there,",1.0 +And every dearest friend would soon appear.,0.0 +At length a cartel gave us back to share,5.0 +The wounds and dangers of a bloody war.,1.0 +"Peace dawned at last, and now the sails were spread,",1.0 +"Some climb the ship unhurt, some few half dead.",1.0 +"Not this afflicts the gallant soldier's mind,",1.0 +"Chelsea a crutch and bench will yet supply,",2.0 +And be the veteran's dear lost limb and eye!,3.0 +"When English ground first struck the sailor's view,",1.0 +"The waving crutch leapt up in every hand,",2.0 +While one poor leg was left alone to stand;,3.0 +"The very name another limb bestows,",0.0 +And through the artery the blood now flows.,3.0 +And fondly fancied friends would crowd around;,0.0 +And little pride is every where the same.,0.0 +"In coming down, the seeing eye of day",1.0 +"Darkened around me, and I lost my way.",3.0 +"Wherever a light shot glimmering through the trees,",4.0 +"I thither urged my weary trembling knees,",2.0 +"They barred the door, and bade me beg elsewhere,",1.0 +"This was the tale wherever I made a halt,",3.0 +And greater houses grew upon the fault;,0.0 +"The dog was loosed to keep me far at bay,",0.0 +Or else a constable should find a home,1.0 +For wandering captains from the wars new come.,4.0 +"Alas! thought I, is this the soldier's praise",3.0 +"For loss of health, of limb, and length of days?",0.0 +"And is this England? ' -- England, my delight!",2.0 +For whom I thought it glory but to fight ' --,1.0 +That has no covert for the soldier's night!,2.0 +"I turned half fainting, led through all the gloom",1.0 +"One path I kept, that seemed at times to end,",0.0 +Till it forsook the open fields around;,1.0 +"By slow degrees, to towering woods it crept,",0.0 +As if beneath their shade it nightly slept.,1.0 +"I here had halted, lest some beasts of prey,",1.0 +"In midnight theft, had paced the treacherous way,",3.0 +"But that a twinkling light sometime appeared,",1.0 +"Sometime grew dim, and sometime brightly cleared",3.0 +This could not be the lure of beasts of prey;,0.0 +"They know no art of imitating day,",1.0 +"Through tufts of flowers, that made its borders gay;",2.0 +"And now a rock the parting leaves unfold,",0.0 +"On which a withering oak had long grown old,",3.0 +The curling ivy oft attempts to hide,0.0 +"Its sad decay, with robes of verdant pride,",0.0 +"Yet through her leafy garb the eye can peer,",0.0 +And see it buys the youthful dress too dear.,1.0 +"A hollow cavern now methought I spied,",5.0 +"Where clustering grapes came wandering down its side,",4.0 +"Between whose leaves a ray of light would dart,",0.0 +That both rejoiced and terrified my heart.,0.0 +"I ventured in, ' -- my breath I scarcely drew,",0.0 +"An inner cavern beamed with fuller light,",0.0 +And gave a holy hermit to my sight;,1.0 +"Himself and Piety seemed but the same,",2.0 +And Wisdom for grey hairs another name;,2.0 +"Some traces yet of sorrow might be found,",0.0 +That over his features walked their pensive round;,2.0 +"Devotion seemed to bid them not to stray,",0.0 +But human feelings gave the wanderers way.,2.0 +"His eye he raised from the instructive page,",1.0 +An eye more sunk by wearing grief than age;,0.0 +"Surprise a moment over his features spread,",2.0 +And gave them back their once accustomed red.,0.0 +"Welcome my son ' -- a hermit's welcome share,",2.0 +And let the welcome mend the scanty fare.,0.0 +"A soldier's toils the softest couch requires,",0.0 +"The strengthening food, and renovating fires;",2.0 +"Not such the hermit's needy cell bestows,",0.0 +"Pampered alone by luxury of woes,",3.0 +And the moss pillow props the weary head;,2.0 +And languid Sorrow asks for nothing more;,0.0 +"Sufficient that her eye unseen can weep,",0.0 +"Stream while awake, and flow yet more in sleep.",1.0 +It's now twelve years since Solitude first drew,2.0 +"Her closing curtain round my opening view,",2.0 +"Since first I left my once delightful home,",0.0 +Along with Grief and Solitude to roam.,0.0 +"Much I expressed my wonder, how a mind",2.0 +So stored as his could herd from all mankind.,2.0 +"You speak, he said, like one whose soul is free,",1.0 +"Slave to no wish, nor chained to misery.",4.0 +"When ceaseless anguish clouds the summer's sky,",0.0 +And fairest prospects tarnish in the eye;,0.0 +"When cheerful scenes spread every lure in vain,",1.0 +And sweet Society but adds to pain;,1.0 +When weeping Memory incessant brings,1.0 +"The sad reversion of all former things,",1.0 +To gild those views that opened with our friends:,1.0 +"When joyful days through the whole year would run,",2.0 +And Mirth set out and travel with the sun;,3.0 +"When Youth and Pleasure hand in hand would stray,",0.0 +And every month was little less than May;,0.0 +"When changing Fortune shifts the incessant scene,",2.0 +"And only points to where our joys have been,",0.0 +"Is it a wonder from the world we run,",2.0 +And all its fleeting empty pageants shun?,0.0 +"There is a something in a well known view,",2.0 +That seems to show our long past pleasures through;,2.0 +"Sure in the eye a fairy land is found,",0.0 +When former scenes bring former friends around.,1.0 +"Let but the woods, the rocks, the streams appear,",0.0 +And every friend you see and think you hear;,0.0 +"Their words, their dress, their every look, you find",0.0 +"Swell to the sight, and burst upon the mind;",0.0 +"Though many a spring has lent the blossom gay,",1.0 +"And many an autumn blown the leaf away,",2.0 +"Unchanged the lasting images remain,",1.0 +Of which Remembrance ever holds the chain.,0.0 +"Even the mind's eye a glassy mirror shows,",2.0 +And far too deeply her bold pencil draws;,3.0 +"The lifelike pictures rise before the sight,",1.0 +"Glow through the day, and sparkle through the night.",1.0 +Though dimly seen through this sad vale of tears.,2.0 +"That winning form, where elegance has wove",1.0 +Which leaves so little for the tongue to speak;,1.0 +The nameless graces of her polished mind;,1.0 +"That laughing wit, and serious sense refined;",2.0 +"That altogether which no art can reach,",1.0 +And which it's nature's very rare to teach;,0.0 +"That nameless something which pervades the soul,",0.0 +"Wins not by halves, but captivates the whole;",3.0 +"Yet, if one feature shone before the rest,",0.0 +'Twas surely Pity by Religion dressed.,2.0 +"Have I not seen the softly stealing tear,",0.0 +"While the dark orb the glittering diamond shed,",5.0 +"From her fair cheek the frightened roses fled,",2.0 +"Ashamed that, such a gem so sweetly clear,",1.0 +"Aught, save the lily, should presume to wear.",1.0 +And some relief in every tear that flows!,0.0 +"Else why call back those days for ever flown,",3.0 +And with them every joy this heart can own?,1.0 +"Pleasure and pain is the sad mixture still,",4.0 +"Taste but the good, and you must taste the ill;",1.0 +That brings up pleasures livelier than they were;,2.0 +"Delighted Fancy dwells upon the view,",0.0 +Compares old scenes with what she meets with new;,1.0 +"The present hour grows dull, her charms decay,",3.0 +"And, one by one, drop silently away.",5.0 +"Neglect succeeds ' -- Neglect, the worst of foes,",0.0 +"That married love or single friendship knows,",0.0 +"Whose torpid soul congealed in stupor lies,",0.0 +"Nor sees one charm, nor hears the smothering sighs;",2.0 +Sees not the hourly load of comforts brought,0.0 +"By fond affection, watching every thought,",0.0 +"Nor the heart beating with the wish to please, ' --",3.0 +"Cold, cold Neglect, nor hears, nor feels, nor sees!",1.0 +"Thus, in the present hour too, oft slides by",1.0 +The many a charm that might detain the eye;,2.0 +"But just as if from woes we could not part,",1.0 +"We veil the sight, and close shut up the heart;",2.0 +So I myself would never forget the day,4.0 +When Ethelinda vowed her heart away.,1.0 +"Our births were equal, but exalted views",1.0 +For the fair daughter bade the sire refuse.,3.0 +"Though, after all, the greatest good is health!",0.0 +My soul's companion joined me every where;,0.0 +"Whatever scenes entrapped my travelling eye,",1.0 +"Her just opinion met my listening ear,",0.0 +"And her remarks on men, and climes, I hear.",1.0 +"This was not absence, or it was a dream,",3.0 +"Of growing love, or less increasing gold;",0.0 +"Yet fortune frowned not; and, in lengthening time,",3.0 +One day I saw that marked her to be mine.,0.0 +"That gives the converse of an absent friend,",1.0 +"And, for a moment, makes that absence end;",1.0 +"For, while the eager eyes the lines run over,",1.0 +"Distance steps back, and drags the chain no more;",4.0 +For one short moment the dear friends we see,4.0 +"Close by our side, just as they used to be.",1.0 +"Such sweet delusions are not formed to last,",1.0 +They met the hand of a deceitful friend;,1.0 +"Her brother, anxious for a lord's success,",1.0 +"Thought it no sin to blast my happiness,",4.0 +"That I had sold myself to age, and gold.",1.0 +"Her good opinion baffled long the tale,",0.0 +And love for long kept down the struggling scale.,2.0 +"But when, from year to year, Hope pointed on,",2.0 +"And the last hope with the last year was gone,",4.0 +"She tried to think I must be base, and strove",0.0 +To scorn the man who could give up her love;,0.0 +"Yet her soft heart no other flame confessed,",4.0 +It lodged the tenant of her faithful breast.,1.0 +"Home I returned, much wearied out with woes,",3.0 +And every fear that fretful silence knows.,0.0 +Fear for her death was far my greatest dread;,0.0 +How could I bear to think her with the dead!,1.0 +When the warm lover cooled into the friend.,2.0 +Found her unmarried ' -- found she was not dead.,3.0 +"And now, to know the cause of all my woe,",0.0 +"With hope and fear, and joy, and grief, I go;",0.0 +"A thousand fears would stop me in my way,",0.0 +A thousand hopes forbid one moment's stay.,0.0 +"As nigh the house with anxious step I drew,",0.0 +Fond recollections crowded all the view;,1.0 +"I felt a tear creep round and round my eye,",1.0 +"That shame of man, and yet I know not why.",0.0 +"While at the door her faithful maid I saw,",0.0 +The short quick breath I scarce had power to draw;,3.0 +Where ' -- is ' -- your la ' -- my lips no more would move.,1.0 +"Something like hope a cordial drop bestowed,",2.0 +"The heart grew warm, and the pale cheek now glowed.",3.0 +"Near to the arbour silently I drew,",1.0 +And trembling looked the leafy lattice through;,1.0 +"The sprightly air which once lit up her face,",2.0 +To pensive softness long had given place;,0.0 +"Its gentle charms around her features crowd,",0.0 +"More dear she seemed, more interesting far,",1.0 +Than when her eye was called the evening star;,0.0 +"On her fair hand she leaned her drooping head,",2.0 +"Once my own profile on the leaf I drew,",1.0 +' With thee conversing I forget all time;',2.0 +"Her eye I saw ran every feature over,",1.0 +And scanned the line where truth seemed writ no more;,2.0 +"She shook her head, its meaning well I knew:",0.0 +"'Twas even thus, you once loved lines adieu;",2.0 +"The book she shut ' -- so softly was it closed,",1.0 +"I walked around, the crimping grass would say, ' --",0.0 +Some heavy foot has brushed our dews away;,0.0 +"She started up, and, shaking off the tear,",2.0 +"But when my form the parting leaves betrayed,",0.0 +"And fuller light around my features played,",0.0 +"She grows a statue, wrought by Michael's art,",1.0 +"A marble figure, with a human heart,",1.0 +"More pale, more cold, than Medici can seem,",4.0 +Or all the forms that from the quarry teem.,1.0 +"I bowed, but spoke not, injured as I thought,",1.0 +And wishing much to show the sense I ought;,0.0 +"I durst not trust the impatient tongue to move,",2.0 +"For, ah! I felt it would but talk of love.",0.0 +"I silent stand. What art thou, vision, say,",0.0 +Why dost thou cross a wretched wanderer's way?,0.0 +Sure it's the whimsy of a feverish mind,3.0 +That fancies forms none but itself can find!,2.0 +I bowed again. O! speak if thou art he,0.0 +That once was dear ' -- so very dear to me?,0.0 +"That once was dear, so very dear to thee;",0.0 +"To swell my sails, and ask my quick return?",0.0 +"A married man! ' -- she sharply made reply,",0.0 +"With much resentment sparkling in her eye, ' --",0.0 +A married man has every right to hear,0.0 +What thoughts pursue us through the changing year!,1.0 +"Yes, I will tell you: happy was the day",1.0 +In which you gave your heart and hand away.,0.0 +"I gave not mine, yet free from every vow",1.0 +That would have tied me to a wretch like you.,1.0 +"I feel as blissful in my single state,",0.0 +"As you, no doubt, feel in your wealthy mate!",1.0 +Some cruel monster has abused your ear;,0.0 +"Your faithful lover see before you stand,",0.0 +Your faithful lover dares to claim your hand;,0.0 +No other loves melt over this heart again!,4.0 +"Let easy fortune nameless comforts spread,",1.0 +And slope for life the soft descending tread.,0.0 +"No needful cares, to study how the year",2.0 +"Shall rule its squares, and run its circles clear;",0.0 +"The generous hand no close restraint shall know,",3.0 +But opening bounty from the fingers flow.,3.0 +"The saddest sight the pitying eyes receive,",2.0 +"Brings no warm clothing, and affords no bread.",4.0 +"On you shall pleasure wait with ready call,",1.0 +"Speed to the play, or hasten to the ball;",1.0 +"Where safest ease her flowery carpet throws,",2.0 +And plain good comforts ornamental grow.,0.0 +"'Midst scenes like these would Ethelinda blaze,",3.0 +"Wealth is her own, for it is mine to give,",1.0 +"As it is hers, to bid me how to live.",2.0 +"But should domestic peace her soul allure,",0.0 +"If in sweet converse hours should steal away,",1.0 +While we still wander at the close of day;,2.0 +"If every wish preventing love should see,",0.0 +"And all the world we to ourselves should be,",1.0 +To be whatever her heart would ask the while;,3.0 +"OH yes, dear friend! I yet can read the line,",2.0 +"Domestic peace has every charm for me,",0.0 +How doubly charming when enjoyed with thee!,0.0 +Now honour pleaded that my fame should bleed.,1.0 +And life is ruled by her detested creed;,1.0 +"This idol, honour, at whose shrine appears",0.0 +"He, fiery youth, impatient of control,",3.0 +"And the grey veteran sorry from his soul,",3.0 +"The injuring and the injured both repair,",1.0 +"It matters not where right or wrong began,",0.0 +"The man who fights must be an honest man,",0.0 +"Should damp his soul, and keep his sword in awe;",0.0 +Sole proof of excellence such warriors give ' --,2.0 +"The guilty breast is ever up in arms,",1.0 +And the least look the conscious soul alarms!,2.0 +"Should your quick eye the shuffling card detect,",3.0 +And all the world admits the challenge right!,0.0 +"Not to accept it blasts a virtuous fame,",3.0 +And links your memory with eternal shame;,3.0 +It matters not though pure your life appears,0.0 +On the long record of revolving years;,2.0 +"Though heaven you fear, arid heaven's forbidding law,",6.0 +"That stamps him criminal who dares to draw,",1.0 +"Yet man, vain man, breaks through the laws of heaven,",3.0 +"Dies by the sword, and hopes to be forgiven;",0.0 +"For what we duels from high fashion call,",2.0 +"Is Suicide, or Murder, after all!",0.0 +"Sometime the heart almost approves the deed,",2.0 +When barbarous wounds make reputation bleed;,3.0 +"Of all the crimes of any shape or die,",0.0 +"That looks the blackest in true feeling's eye,",1.0 +"If a dear sister's purity we feel,",3.0 +Nature cries out ' -- where is the avenging steel?,1.0 +"Avenging steel! how impotent the word,",1.0 +And all the threats and cures that tend the sword!,0.0 +"Sweet Reputation, like a lily fair,",1.0 +"The colouring sunbeam on its whiteness plays,",2.0 +And dances round and round with gilding rays;,0.0 +"Anon dark clouds these gilding rays withhold,",1.0 +"Nor can a sword, or the depending pen,",2.0 +Clear the lost female character again;,3.0 +"The vindication better never hear, ' --",1.0 +"And female fame is such a tender flower,",2.0 +It cannot even bear a pitying shower;,2.0 +"Courage in man is something near as nice,",2.0 +"Which life must buy, and wear at any price.",0.0 +"Much against my conscience, and against heaven's law,",5.0 +My destined brother to account I draw;,1.0 +"Against his life I meant no hand to rear, ' --",1.0 +I meant but with the world to settle clear;,1.0 +Was all the sword I ever thought to wield.,0.0 +Hard was the onset; in the fatal strife,1.0 +His hand I saw aimed only at my life;,1.0 +"I waved its point, still hoping to disarm,",2.0 +And guard both lives secure from every harm.,1.0 +"I parried long; he made a lounging stroke,",0.0 +And my sad weapon in his bosom broke.,2.0 +"It's past he said ' -- much injured man, adieu!",0.0 +In that sad moment every pang I found,1.0 +"That darts through father's, brother's, sister's, wound!",0.0 +How sunk in sin seemed the detested deed;,2.0 +"The world's applause was stripped of all its charms,",0.0 +"And the whole Conscience met the Man in arms,",2.0 +"With sad remorse, that never can have rest.",1.0 +Lost in the floods of never ending woe!,0.0 +"For, ah! what woes can ever hope an end",0.0 +That mourn a brother slaughtered by a friend!,1.0 +"Then from his breast some brief, brief lines he drew, ' --",1.0 +"The blots were many, though the words were few:",1.0 +"Fly me, for ever, it is time we part,",1.0 +"Tortured in soul from place to place I flew,",2.0 +"Unless from memory our thoughts can run,",1.0 +How vain to journey round and round the sun.,0.0 +"At last this solitude my sorrow sought,",0.0 +For cities leave no bar for entering thought;,3.0 +"I here have lived, in hopes the time will come,",0.0 +"His tears fresh flowed, and mine ran down my cheek,",1.0 +"At last we parted ' -- he to endless woe,",1.0 +While happy I to wife and children go.,1.0 +Now scolding Nancy to the alehouse flies ' --,3.0 +"Thomas, get in, and do not sit to drink,",0.0 +And now the sisters take their evening walk;,0.0 +"One famed for goodness, and one famed for joke,",1.0 +With every salve that loves to heal the wound;,0.0 +"The pulse she feels with true mysterious air,",2.0 +While Mrs Graham of strengthening broths takes care.,3.0 +"That sickness must be hopeless of all end,",1.0 +Which her good home-made wine no way can mend;,2.0 +"The brother then his skill of medicine tries,",2.0 +And rarely in his hands the lingering patient dies.,0.0 +"The winds are lulled asleep, and now you hear",0.0 +The murmuring stream hum slumber in your ear.,3.0 +"Sweet Row, flow on, and be thy little vale",1.0 +The future glory of the happy tale;,1.0 +"With nibbling sheep, or richer feeding cow;",0.0 +"With rock, and scar, and cottage on the hill,",1.0 +"With curling smoke, and busy useful mill;",0.0 +"Long may yonder trees afford their leafy screen,",0.0 +And long from winter save the fading green;,0.0 +"In every season in their speckled pride,",0.0 +"Bathe the webbed foot, or over thy mirror skim,",5.0 +"Nor yet the schoolboy cast the deadly stone,",1.0 +"For peace and plenty, and the cheerful tale,",1.0 +"For happy wives, for mirth, and honest ale,",0.0 +"WIlt thou deny the bounty of a Kiss,",2.0 +And see me languish for the Melting bliss?,1.0 +"More sweet to me than bright delicious Wine,",1.0 +Pressed from the Purple clusters of the Vine:,1.0 +"Which makes the Virgins, kindled by thy fame,",1.0 +Wish to expire in the Celestial Flame:,3.0 +"Come then, display thy Lovely Face, and we,",1.0 +"Into thy Royal Chambers brought, where I,",0.0 +"May see my Lord, and fear no Witness by.",2.0 +"I'm black, tis true, for scorching in the Sun;",1.0 +"But though thus Clouded, the reflecting Face",3.0 +Of my Bright Love shall all this blackness chase.,1.0 +"Say then my Dear, much dearer than my Soul;",0.0 +Where feed thy Milky Flocks? Unto what cool,4.0 +Refreshing Shade dost thou resort? least I,3.0 +Should as I languish in thy absence die:,0.0 +"Say, Lovely Shepherd, say, What happy Streams",1.0 +Are gilded now with thy Illustrious Beams?,3.0 +"I'll tell thee, Fairest of all Women, how,",2.0 +"Follow the Footsteps of my Flocks, and there",2.0 +I will not fail to Meet my Charming Fair.,1.0 +"Whom I, as Mistress of my Flocks will Grace,",1.0 +My Charmer with its Tributary Sweet:,1.0 +"Then, all the Night, upon my Panting Breast,",0.0 +"When thy Two Lovely Eyes Inflame my Heart,",2.0 +"O thou more Fair, more vastly bright, then all",1.0 +"The World did ever Bright, or Glorious call:",2.0 +"My Verdant Love still flourishing, to thee",2.0 +"Shall sixth, as our Eternal Mansions be.",1.0 +"AT thy Approach, my Cheek with Blushes glows,",1.0 +"And Conscious warmth, which with Thee comes and goes;",1.0 +"And Thorns to them I sooner would compare,",1.0 +Then other Beauties to my Darling Fair.,1.0 +And I as soon would rank a Fruitful Tree,1.0 +"Beneath thy Shade, blessed, to my wish, I sat,",2.0 +And of thy Royal Banquet freely eat;,1.0 +While over my head a Banner was displayed:,3.0 +"In which, o Melting Sight, the God of Love did Bleed.",0.0 +Excess of Pleasure will my Soul destroy;,1.0 +O therefore turn thy Lovely Eyes away;,1.0 +"Yet do not, for I die unless they stay.",0.0 +"I faint, I faint; alas! no Mortal yet,",1.0 +"But sure I cannot sink, upheld by Thee;",0.0 +So would I rest unto Eternity.,6.0 +"And now I charge you, Virgins, not to make",0.0 +"The least disturbance, till my Love awake,",1.0 +What Charming Voice is that Salutes my Ear?,0.0 +"He is, and yet unfriendly stays without:",1.0 +"He stays, as if he did a Wellcome doubt.",2.0 +"Arise my Fair, arise, and come away!",0.0 +For lo the Stormy Winter's past and gone;,0.0 +"And Summer, Dressed in all her Pride, comes on:",2.0 +"Arise my Lovely Fair, and come away!",0.0 +"Come Forth, my Dove, my Charming Innocence;",2.0 +"Do thou the Spiteful Foxes then Destroy,",0.0 +That would my Young Aspiring Vines Annoy.,0.0 +"Not for the World would I exchange my Bliss,",1.0 +"And till the break of that Eternal Day,",1.0 +Whose Rising Sun shall chase the Shades away;,0.0 +"Turn, my Beloved, turn again; and thy",2.0 +Dear sight shall make the lazy Moments fly.,1.0 +Over all my Bed I vainly sought; for there,0.0 +My Arms could Grasp no more than empty air:,1.0 +"Grieved with my Loss, through all the streets I rove,",0.0 +And every Ear with soft Complaints I move:,0.0 +"Then to the Watch, Impatient, thus I Cry;",0.0 +"Tell me, OH tell! Did not my Love pass by?",3.0 +"When lo, a Glimpse of my approaching Lord,",1.0 +A Heaven of Joy did to my Soul afford:,1.0 +"So the dark Souls confined to endless Night,",2.0 +That had the stings of Absence understood:,0.0 +Him to my Mothers House I did convey;,1.0 +"Humble it was, and yet he deigned to stay.",1.0 +"The least disturbance, till my Love awake.",1.0 +"Glorious as Titan, from the Eastern Seas",2.0 +A Beauty comes from yonder dark Wilderness:,4.0 +So Sacred Incense proudly rises up,2.0 +In cloudy Pillars of perfumed smoke:,2.0 +Compounded Spices of the greatest cost,1.0 +Could never such Aromatic sweetness boast.,2.0 +The Shining Courts of Princely Solomon,1.0 +Were nobly crowded with a Warlike Train:,2.0 +"All Armed completely, all Expert in Fight,",3.0 +To Guard him from the Terrors of the Night.,2.0 +A Chariot Royal too himself he had;,2.0 +"The Seats of Gold, fair Purple Clouds above;",1.0 +"And, all the bottom, softly paved with Love.",0.0 +"But lo, a Prince then Solomon, more great;",1.0 +On whom vast Toops of shining Angels wait:,1.0 +"His Crown more bright, and fixed, than that which shone",0.0 +Upon the Nuptial brows of Solomon.,1.0 +"Though all the lower World should ransacked be,",1.0 +There could be found no parallel for thee:,1.0 +"Like them thy Pearly Teeth appear, for so",0.0 +Unsullied from the Crystal Streams they go.,1.0 +But o! To what may I thy Lips compare?,2.0 +Since fragrant Roses Bloom not half so fair.,0.0 +"The Morning never with such a Crimson blushed,",1.0 +When from the Arms of sooty Night she rushed.,0.0 +To those fresh Beauties that thy Cheeks do paint.,2.0 +"Thy Neck and Breasts, in Whiteness, do outgo",1.0 +"And till the dawn of that expected Day,",1.0 +"When all my Radiant Glories I display,",1.0 +"And Chase, at once, the Injurious Shades away:",4.0 +"I'll on the Hills of Frankincense reside,",1.0 +And pass the time with thee my Charming Bride;,1.0 +"Then, come with me, from Lebanon, my Spouse,",2.0 +"OH come, and look beyond this Scene of woes:",1.0 +"So sweet she looks, that in blessed Transports I,",0.0 +Meet the believing glances of her eye;,3.0 +"My All on Earth, my Sister, and my Spouse;",1.0 +Before gave such Elevating Joys as Thine;,1.0 +"Such, as the soft expressions of thy Love;",2.0 +"So much those dear, those charming accents move.",0.0 +"My Love is like a Flowery Mansion Walled,",2.0 +Or some reserved Crystal Fountain sealed;,4.0 +"Whose Waves, untouched, through secret Channels slide,",0.0 +"Untainted, as the Silver Streams, that glide",1.0 +"From Heaven, assaulting Lebanon; and fair,",1.0 +"Were I a Garden, every Flower in me",1.0 +"Should proudly yield their conscious Sweets to thee,",0.0 +"The ruddy fruits should thy arrival great,",1.0 +"And Smile, and gently bend, thy Lips to meet.",0.0 +"So strongly thy kind Invitations move,",2.0 +"I will my Garden see, my Garden, and my Love.",2.0 +"Which, to my lips, I'll raise with eager hast;",0.0 +My Lips that longed the Heavenly Fruit to taste.,2.0 +"THe Night her blackest Vestments had put on,",2.0 +And all the fair remains of day were gone:,0.0 +"When my dear Lord, as he had oft before,",2.0 +With Speed and Love approached the bolted Door:,0.0 +"Arise, my Love, he cries, and with a Voice,",1.0 +"Divinely charming, pleads his entrance thus;",0.0 +"My Spouse, my Sister, and my fairest Love,",1.0 +"Believing, sure, that Dialect would move;",0.0 +"Arise, for loaded with the Midnight Dew,",2.0 +"Disordered, all my streaming Tresses flew:",0.0 +"I knew the Voice, the moving Eloquence;",1.0 +But ah! deluded by my drowsy sense;,1.0 +"Careless, and Soft, upon a Mossy Bed,",2.0 +"I leaned Supine, with Odorous Roses spread;",2.0 +"And long, with weak Excuses, did delay,",0.0 +"Moved, with his Patience, my relenting Breast,",1.0 +"Unto the Door, at length, I rushed, in spite",2.0 +"Of Darkness, and the Terrors of the Night;",2.0 +"With Rage, to break the guilty Bars I tried,",0.0 +Which Entrance to my Lord so long denied:,1.0 +"But found the dear resenting Charmer fled,",0.0 +"I cursed my Sloth, and cursed my conscious Bed.",0.0 +Yet such a fragrant Sweetness filled the Air,0.0 +"From his dear Hands, I thought he had still been there.",2.0 +"I called aloud, still hoping he was near,",2.0 +"And louder still, but Ah! he would not hear.",0.0 +"Then through the Streets, distracted with my Grief",1.0 +"I wildly roving, begged of all, relief.",0.0 +"Deride my Tears, and force my Veil away.",0.0 +You tender Virgins! you that know the pain,1.0 +"A Breast so soft as mine must needs sustain,",1.0 +"Robbed of the once kind Partner of my Fires,",2.0 +And still dear Object of my racked desires;,2.0 +"I charge you, if you meet my absent Love,",1.0 +"With all the Rhetoric of our Sex, to move",1.0 +' -- Perhaps that Tragic Word may force the dear,0.0 +Relentless Author of my Grief to hear.,1.0 +"What thy Beloved is, we first would know,",1.0 +Fairest of Women! thou dost charge us so.,3.0 +Impatient Fair! to raise these Storms in thee?,0.0 +"Commencing all Perfection, he is such",1.0 +"Your most exalted Thoughts can hardly touch,",0.0 +"Unsullied heaps of Snow are not so white,",0.0 +"His Rosy Cheeks of such a lucent Die,",1.0 +As Sol never gilded on the morning Sky.,3.0 +"His Head like polished Gold, his graceful Hair,",0.0 +Dark as the Plumes that jetty Ravens wear.,0.0 +"His Eyes, the endless Magazines of Love,",0.0 +How soft! how sweet! how powerfully they move!,1.0 +"He breathes more sweetness than the Infant Morn,",1.0 +When Heavenly Dews the Flowery Plains Adorn.,4.0 +The Fragrant Drops of Rich Arabian Gums,2.0 +"Burned on the Altar, yield not such Perfumes.",1.0 +"His Hands, surpassing Lilies, graced with Gems",0.0 +"Divine his Steps, with his Majestic Air,",1.0 +Not even the Lofty Cedars can compare.,3.0 +"So sweet his Voice, the listening Angels throng",0.0 +"With silent Harps to the Music of his Tongue,",1.0 +"Now, Virgins! Pity, though you envy Me.",3.0 +"BUt where, ah where can this bright wonder be",2.0 +"For, till we see Him, we are all on Fire;",2.0 +"We'll find Him out, or in the search Expire.",1.0 +"If my Prophetic Hopes can rightly guess,",1.0 +The Lovely Wanderer in his GARDEN is,2.0 +"Among the Lilies, and the Spices; He",2.0 +Is now perhaps kindly expecting Me;,6.0 +O it's a Heaven of Joy to think him Mine.,1.0 +And who can see those Eyes and not be thine?,0.0 +"Thy Face, where all the Conquering Graces meet;",2.0 +"I Love, but cannot bear the kind Surprise.",0.0 +More bright than Streams of Fluid Silver are:,1.0 +"Expose no more thy Pearly Teeth, the while",1.0 +Those Rosy Cheeks put on kind looks and smile:,3.0 +"Such genuine charms, how strongly they allure",3.0 +"My Soul, and all their rivals beams obscure.",0.0 +"But one, the Choice, and all her Mother bare.",1.0 +"The Royal Beauties saw, the blessed the Sight;",0.0 +"And Setting, wondered at a Star so Bright.",0.0 +"Gentle, but awful, as a Scene of War;",3.0 +At once her Graces conquer and Endear.,1.0 +To leave a Spouse so Beautiful and Kind?,1.0 +"Thence ranged the pleasant Vale, whose Spreading Vine",1.0 +"Or before I was aware, my happy Eyes",2.0 +"Met Thee, a Juster Object of surprise;",1.0 +Fair as a Vision breaking from the Skies:,1.0 +Scarce could my Breast my leaping heart retain;,0.0 +"Scarce could my Soul the unwieldy Joy sustain,",2.0 +When I beheld those Wellcome Eyes again.,2.0 +But why that Discontent upon the Brow?,1.0 +"Thou wilt not leave me, Cruel Beauty, now!",0.0 +"Injurious Charmer, stay ' -- What needs this Art,",2.0 +Return again; let my Companions see,2.0 +"Return, my Dear, return, and show the most",0.0 +Victorious Face that before the World could boast.,2.0 +And joys Autumnal crowned our circling year;,0.0 +"Even then my thoughts to you excursions made,",1.0 +"Where oft we met in Eccles' peaceful bowers,",0.0 +While social pleasure marked the passing hours.,0.0 +"From there sweet scenes I found myself removed,",3.0 +I feared no more remembered or beloved.,2.0 +"Forgot by Nell, whose friendship seemed sincere,",0.0 +"Such cold neglect, who undisturbed could bear?",0.0 +"Mild Autumn now resigns to rougher skies,",1.0 +"And frightful storms, in wild commotion, rise.",0.0 +"The tempest howls, while dark December reigns,",0.0 +"Which oft does now his native glory shroud,",0.0 +Your welcome letter cheers my anxious soul;,0.0 +Well pleased I find you on Parnassus' hill;,3.0 +"The Muses coy, you seem to catch with ease,",0.0 +In time perhaps you may receive your due.,1.0 +"We'll beat the bushes for the rustic Muse,",1.0 +"Amongst the vast crowd, let you and I aspire",2.0 +"If Fortune prove, like Cupid, ever blind,",0.0 +We may perhaps some petty favour find;,2.0 +"But if no more we gain by these our lays,",1.0 +"O, thou! whose tender smile most partially",1.0 +Hath ever blessed thy child: to thee belong,1.0 +"The graces which adorn my first wild song,",1.0 +If aught of grace it knows: nor thou deny,1.0 +Thine ever prompt attention to supply.,1.0 +"But let me lead thy willing ear along,",0.0 +Where virtuous love still bids the strain prolong,3.0 +His innocent applause; since from thine eye,2.0 +"The beams of love first charmed my infant breast,",1.0 +And from thy lip Affection's soothing voice,1.0 +"That eloquence of tenderness expressed,",2.0 +Which still my grateful heart confessed divine:,0.0 +O! ever may its accents sweet rejoice,1.0 +The soul which loves to own whatever it has is thine!,3.0 +William! A Name my Lines grow proud to bear!,3.0 +"A Prince as Great, and wondrous Good, as before",1.0 +The sacred Burden of a Crown did wear.,1.0 +"Resolve me, then, Athenians, what are those,",2.0 +Can there be any such? You call his Foes?,2.0 +Ungrateful Vipers! where they warmly rest?,0.0 +"YOU holy cares that haunt these lonely cells,",0.0 +These scenes where salutary sadness dwells;,0.0 +"You sighs that minute the slow wasting day,",2.0 +You pale regrets that wear my life away;,0.0 +"OH bid these passions for the world depart,",2.0 +"These wild desires, and vanities of heart!",1.0 +"Hide every trace of vice, of follies past,",1.0 +And yield to Heaven the victory at last.,1.0 +"To that the poor remains of life are due,",0.0 +"It's Heaven that calls, and I the call pursue.",1.0 +"Lord of my life, my future cares are thine,",0.0 +"My love, my duty greet thy holy shrine:",0.0 +"But live for thee, whose bounty bids me live.",1.0 +"The power that gave these little charms their grace,",2.0 +"Spite of those charms shall time, with rude essay,",0.0 +Tear from the cheek the transient rose away;,0.0 +"But the free Mind, ten thousand ages past,",4.0 +"Its maker's form, shall with its maker last.",1.0 +Uncertain objects still our hopes employ;,0.0 +Uncertain all that bears the name of joy!,0.0 +Of all that feels the injuries of fate,1.0 +"Uncertain is the search, and short the date:",1.0 +"That boon of Death, the sad resource of pain!",5.0 +"Once on my path all fortune's glory fell,",0.0 +"Love touched my soul at least with soft desires,",1.0 +And Vanity there fed her meteor fires.,3.0 +"This truth at last the mighty scenes let fall,",1.0 +An hour of Innocence was worth them all.,1.0 +Lord of my life! OH let thy sacred ray,1.0 +"Shine over my heart, and break its clouds away!",3.0 +Long hast thou taught me GOD IS ONLY TRUE.,0.0 +"That God alone I trust, alone adore,",0.0 +"No more deluded, and misled no more.",3.0 +"Come, sacred hour, when wavering doubts shall cease!",3.0 +"Come, holy scenes of long repose and peace!",1.0 +"Yet shall my heart, to other interests true,",0.0 +A moment balance betwixt the world and you?,2.0 +"Be yours, at last, the triumph and the praise!",1.0 +"Great, gracious Master! whose unbounded sway,",1.0 +"Felt through ten thousand worlds, those worlds obey,",3.0 +"Wilt thou for once thy awful glories shade,",0.0 +And deign to espouse the creature thou hast made?,3.0 +"All other ties indignant I disclaim,",1.0 +For which the pleasures of the world lay dead!,2.0 +That world's soft pleasures you alone disarm;,2.0 +That world without you still might have its charm.,0.0 +"But now those scenes of tempting hope I close,",0.0 +And seek the peaceful studies of Repose;,1.0 +"Look on the past as time that stole away,",0.0 +And beg the blessings of a happier day.,3.0 +And all the toilet's science to excel!,1.0 +"No more shall lie, like Indian archers, there.",2.0 +"Go, erring Love! for nobler objects given!",4.0 +"Soon shall the veil these glowing features hide,",0.0 +At once the period of their power and pride!,3.0 +The hapless lover shall no more complain,1.0 +"My secret sorrow, and his sighs professed.",1.0 +With the same sighs some happier fair adore!,4.0 +If he that loved me knew no other love!,2.0 +"By charms of more than mortal beauty fired,",0.0 +What nobler pride! could I to Heaven resign,1.0 +"The zeal, the service that I boasted mine!",1.0 +"OH change your false desires, you flattering train!",3.0 +"And love me pious, whom you love profane!",0.0 +"Or prove their merit, or my weakness show;",1.0 +"But Heaven, to such soft frailties less severe,",4.0 +"May spare the tribute of a female tear,",2.0 +May yield one tender moment to deplore,1.0 +Those gentle hearts that I must hold no more.,1.0 +And every muse dropped honey on her tongue.,2.0 +"Blessed shade! how pure a breath of praise was thine,",1.0 +"In whom each worth and every grace conspire,",0.0 +"Learnt without pride, a woman without art;",5.0 +The sweetest manners and the gentlest heart.,3.0 +"Smooth like her verse her passions learnt to move,",0.0 +And her whole soul was harmony and love:,3.0 +"Virtue that breast without a conflict gained,",2.0 +And easy like a native monarch reigned.,0.0 +"The world applauded, and ALEXIS loved.",1.0 +"With love, with health, with fame, and friendship blessed,",0.0 +"And of a cheerful heart the constant feast,",1.0 +What more of bliss sincere could earth bestow?,0.0 +What purer heaven could angels taste below?,0.0 +But bliss from earth's vain scenes too quickly flies;,2.0 +"The golden chord is broke, ALEXIS dies.",0.0 +"Now in the leafy shade, and widowed grove,",0.0 +Sad PHILOMELA mourns her absent love.,1.0 +She pours her tuneful sorrows on the gale;,1.0 +"Without one fond reserve the world disclaims,",0.0 +And gives up all her soul to heavenly flames.,2.0 +Yet in no useless gloom she wore her days;,1.0 +"She loved the work, and only shunned the praise.",0.0 +"Her pious hand the poor, the mourner blessed;",0.0 +Her image lived in every kindred breast.,0.0 +And virtue's noblest champions filled the line.,2.0 +Blessed in thy friendships! in thy death too blessed!,1.0 +"Heaven called the Saint matured by length of days,",0.0 +And her pure spirit was exhaled in praise.,3.0 +"Bright pattern of thy sex, be thou my muse;",3.0 +Thy gentle sweetness through my soul diffuse:,1.0 +"Let me thy palm, though not thy laurel share,",0.0 +And copy thee in charity and prayer.,2.0 +"Though for the bard my lines are yet too faint,",2.0 +Yet in my life let me transcribe the saint.,2.0 +"The towering pile to rise, and formed the plan",0.0 +"With fair proportion; architect divine,",0.0 +"Minerva, thee to my adventurous lyre",4.0 +"Assistant I invoke, the means to sing",1.0 +Thy glorious work! for thou the lofty towers,3.0 +"In peril guarded, and thy wisdom steered",1.0 +"Through all the storms of war. ' -- Thee too I call,",0.0 +Along the shady paths and verdant bowers,0.0 +Attentive listen; let thy warbling song,0.0 +"Paint with melodious praise the pleasing scene,",4.0 +"When Europe freed, confessed the saving power",0.0 +"Chief of confederate hosts, to fight the cause",4.0 +"Of Liberty and Justice, grateful raised",1.0 +This palace sacred to her Leader's fame;,1.0 +A trophy of success; with spoils adorned,1.0 +"Vanquished the might of Gallia, and chastised",2.0 +"Stands the proud dome, and speaks its great design.",3.0 +"Reward so glorious! grateful nation hail,",2.0 +"Which most shall I admire, which worthiest praise,",4.0 +And weighs their virtues in an equal scale.,0.0 +"Of gratitude to us. ' -- Blush, Caesar, blush,",2.0 +"Whence they are named, and what an English arm",0.0 +Did for thy throne that day? But we disdain,1.0 +"Or to upbraid, or imitate thy guilt.",2.0 +"Of obligation infinite, and know,",1.0 +"Britain, like Heaven, protects a thankless world",2.0 +"For her own glory, nor expects reward.",2.0 +"Pleased with the noble theme, her task the Muse",0.0 +With passing squadrons foams: here hardy Gaul,0.0 +Flies from the sword of Britain; there to Greece,1.0 +Effeminate Persia yields. ' -- In arms opposed,2.0 +With glorious competition; equal both,2.0 +"Be different, for with different views they fought;",1.0 +"This to subdue, and that to free mankind.",2.0 +"Now through the stately portals issuing forth,",2.0 +The Muse to softer glories turns and seeks,0.0 +"The woodland shade, delighted. Not the vale",0.0 +Of this romantic wilderness once stood,3.0 +"Still warbling flows, pleased to reflect the face",3.0 +"Beside its flowery brink, and views those charms",2.0 +Which only Rosamond could once excel.,1.0 +"But see where flowing with a nobler stream,",2.0 +Through which the Danube might collected pour,0.0 +His spacious urn! Silent awhile and smooth,5.0 +"The current glides, till with an headlong force",2.0 +"Broke and disordered, down the steep it falls",3.0 +"Of CHURCHILL, from the toils of war and state,",1.0 +"Splendidly private, and the tranquil joy",3.0 +"Triumphal, ever in his mind renewed",0.0 +"The memory of his fame, and soothed his thoughts",1.0 +With pleasing record of his glorious deeds.,3.0 +"So by the rage of faction, home recalled,",1.0 +"Against the pride of Asia, and the power",1.0 +"Of Mithridates, whose aspiring mind",2.0 +"No losses could subdue, enriched with spoils",1.0 +"Of conquered nations, back returned to Rome,",0.0 +And in magnificent retirement past,3.0 +"The evening of his life. ' -- But not alone,",1.0 +"In the calm shades of honourable ease,",5.0 +"Gave a companion to his softer hours,",3.0 +"With whom conversing, he forgot all change",1.0 +"Of fortune, or of taste, and in her mind",1.0 +"Found greatness equal to his own, and loved",2.0 +"Himself in her. ' -- Thus each by each admired,",0.0 +"In mutual honour, mutual fondness joined:",4.0 +"Like two fair stars with intermingled light,",1.0 +"In friendly union they together shone,",1.0 +"Aiding each other's brightness, till the cloud",3.0 +Thee CHURCHILL first the ruthless hand of death,0.0 +"Where Fate again shall join her soul to thine,",0.0 +Immortal. Lo! where towering on the height,1.0 +Of yonder aerial pillar proudly stands,2.0 +"Thy image, like a guardian god, sublime,",2.0 +"The Germane eagles spread their wings, his hand",5.0 +"Grasps Victory, its slave. Such was the brow",3.0 +"Majestic, such thy martial port, when Gaul",1.0 +"Fled from thy frown, and in the Danube sought",0.0 +"A refuge from thy sword. ' -- There, where the field",1.0 +"The theatre of thy glory, once was raised",1.0 +"A meaner trophy, by the Imperial hand;",5.0 +Extorted gratitude; which now the rage,0.0 +"A regal breast, has levelled to the ground:",1.0 +Mean insult! this with better auspices,1.0 +"Shall stand on British earth, to tell the world",0.0 +His services. Nor shall the constant love,1.0 +Of her who raised the monument be lost,2.0 +In dark oblivion: That shall be the theme,1.0 +"First tuned the British harp, and little deemed",1.0 +His humble dwelling should the neighbour be,0.0 +"Of BLENHEIM, house superb; to which the throng",1.0 +"Of travellers approaching, shall not pass",1.0 +With reverence due. Such honour does the Muse,2.0 +"My theme demands my voice. ' -- OH shade adored,",1.0 +"This thy abode, while present here below,",1.0 +"And sacred still to thy immortal fame,",1.0 +"From Time's destroying hand, and cruel stroke",0.0 +"Here may, long ages hence, the British youth,",2.0 +"When Honour calls them to the field of war,",2.0 +The proud reward of thy successful toils,1.0 +"That fired with generous envy, they may dare",5.0 +"To emulate thy deeds. ' -- So shall thy name,",0.0 +"Dear to thy country, still inspire her sons",0.0 +With martial virtue: and to high attempts,1.0 +"Excite their arms, till other battles won,",0.0 +"And nations saved, new Monuments require,",2.0 +"WIth gifts like these, the spoils of neighbouring shores,",3.0 +"The Indian swain his sable love adores,",2.0 +"Of his rude goddess, but unworthy mine:",4.0 +If nicely viewed by philosophic eyes:,0.0 +"And such are yours, that nature's works admire",1.0 +"With warmth like that, which they themselves inspire.",1.0 +"To such how fair appears each grain of sand,",1.0 +"Or humblest weed, as wrought by nature's hand!",2.0 +How far superior to all human power,1.0 +"Springs the green blade, or buds the painted flower!",3.0 +"In all her births, though of the meanest kinds,",1.0 +"A just observer entertainment finds,",0.0 +"With fond delight her low productions sees,",0.0 +And how she gently rises by degrees;,2.0 +"A shell, or stone he can with pleasure view,",1.0 +"Hence trace her noblest works, the heavens ' -- and you.",2.0 +"Behold how bright these gaudy trifles shine,",0.0 +"See with what art each curious shell is made,",2.0 +Fair as the paintings of the purple morn!,1.0 +"Yet still not half their charms can reach our eyes,",0.0 +While thus confused the sparkling Chaos lies;,0.0 +"Then glories yet unseen shall over them rise,",2.0 +"New order from your hand, new lustre from your eyes.",4.0 +When by your art to full perfection brought!,0.0 +"Here verdant plants, and blooming flowers will grow,",2.0 +"Here coral mixed with shells of various dies,",2.0 +There polished stone will charm our wondering eyes;,2.0 +Delightful bower of bliss! secure retreat!,2.0 +Who thus in solitude can pleasure find!,0.0 +In silent shades to pass her hours away;,0.0 +"Who better likes to breathe fresh country air,",1.0 +"Than ride imprisoned in a velvet chair,",0.0 +"And makes the warbling nightingale her choice,",1.0 +"Prefers her books, and conscience void of ill,",0.0 +"Sweet bowers more pleased, than gilded chariots sees,",5.0 +"Blessed is the man, whom heaven shall grant one hour",0.0 +"With such a lovely nymph, in such a lovely bower.",2.0 +"YES, yes, my friend, disguise it as you will,",2.0 +To right or wrong it's Fashion guides us still;,0.0 +"A few perhaps rise singularly good,",2.0 +"The rest to wander from their brothers fear,",1.0 +As social herrings in large shoals appear.,1.0 +"'Twas not a taste, but powerful mode, that bade",2.0 +Alas! five faded landscapes of Claude Loraine. LORAINE.,4.0 +"Earth, air, and ocean's ransacked for the feast,",3.0 +"Calm, healthful temperance, like an INDIAN sage:",3.0 +"But could he walk in public, were it said,",1.0 +"How curled her hair, how clean her Brussels lace!",0.0 +"She lifts her eyes, her sparkling eyes to heaven,",0.0 +"Think not she prays, or is grown penitent ' --",4.0 +She went to church ' -- because the parish went.,0.0 +"More than fierce Arabs, or proud tyrants feel;",4.0 +Why would she not with twenty porters lie?,0.0 +Why not in crowded Malls quite naked walk?,1.0 +Not awed by virtue ' -- but The world would talk. ' --,1.0 +"Yet how demurely looks the wishing maid,",1.0 +"For ever, but in bed, of man afraid!",1.0 +"Charm the whole man, and lap his soul in bliss:",3.0 +Of a deaf fool who scarce can thunders hear?,2.0 +"Rich rings, white hand, and coat of stiff brocade;",2.0 +"With him the fair, enraptured with a rattle,",2.0 +"Of VAUXHALL, GARRICK, or PAMELA prattle:",5.0 +At the dear toilet harmlessly to sit;,3.0 +"With wooden swords, or toothless puppies play:",0.0 +"A conquering host, or save a sinking land,",2.0 +"OH FRANCE, whose edicts govern dress and meat,",1.0 +Thy victor BRITAIN bends beneath thy feet!,0.0 +"Strange! that pert grasshoppers should lions lead,",3.0 +"And teach to hop, and chirp across the mead;",0.0 +"Let ITALY give mimic canvas fire,",3.0 +"Carve rock to life, or tune the lulling lyre;",1.0 +"Drinks chocolate, strokes FOP, and sleeps again,",3.0 +"Perhaps at twelve dares open her drowsy eyes,",3.0 +Asks LUCY if it's late enough to rise;,2.0 +"By three each curl and feature justly set,",0.0 +"She dines, talks scandal, visits, plays piquette:",1.0 +"Meanwhile her babes with some foul nurse remain,",2.0 +For modern dames a mother's cares disdain;,0.0 +"Each fortnight once she bears to see the brats,",1.0 +"The vulture hovers vengeful over her nest,",2.0 +If the rude hand her helpless brood infest;,2.0 +"Shall lovely woman, softest frame of heaven,",0.0 +"To whom were tears, and feeling pity given,",0.0 +"Most fashionably cruel, less regard",1.0 +"What art, OH FASHION, power supreme below!",3.0 +"You make us virtue, nature, sense, forego;",0.0 +"You sanctify knave, atheist, whore, and fool,",4.0 +"And shield from justice, shame, and ridicule.",0.0 +"For many a league, emerging flows again;",2.0 +Scarce have you chose like Fortune fond to joke,0.0 +"Some reigning dress, but you the choice revoke:",1.0 +"Hark, how at once the dying strains decay,",0.0 +And soften unexpectedly away.,1.0 +"The peer, prince, peasant, soldier, squire, divine,",1.0 +"Goddess of Change, bend low before your shrine,",3.0 +"Though you eat toads, or walk upon your head.",2.0 +"Hence girls, once modest, without blush appear,",7.0 +"Hence stale, autumnal dames, still decked with laces,",2.0 +"Ask you, why whores live more beloved than wives,",1.0 +"Why weeping virtue exiled, flattery thrives,",3.0 +"Why mad for pensions, BRITONS young and old",0.0 +"Adore base ministers, those calves of gold,",2.0 +"Fat, rosy justices, drink, doze, and smoke,",3.0 +"As babes that mumble coral, cannot bite,",0.0 +"At this CORRUPTION smiles with ghastly grin,",1.0 +"Presaging triumphs to her mother, SIN;",3.0 +This falling land be mine! ' -- exulting cries;,1.0 +"Grim TYRANNY attends her on her way,",3.0 +"Look, from the frigid to the torrid zone,",1.0 +"By custom all are led, by nature none.",0.0 +To cook the dainty flesh with buttock's heat:,0.0 +"How would our tender British beauties shriek,",0.0 +"Yet not LUCINDA, in heroic SPAIN,",0.0 +"Admits a youth, but who his beast has slain.",0.0 +"See, wondrous lands, where the fell victor brings,",3.0 +"To his glad wives, the heads of slaughtered kings,",2.0 +"The mangled heads! ' -- over which they sing and laugh,",3.0 +And in dire banquets the warm lifeblood quaff;,3.0 +"Pitying their weary weakness, kindly slay:",1.0 +To die spontaneous on the spicy pyre;,1.0 +"Where stranger still! with their wild dates content,",1.0 +"How fondly partial are our judgements grown,",1.0 +"We deem all manners odious, but our own!",1.0 +"OH teach me, friend, to know wise NATURE'S rules,",2.0 +"And laugh, like you, at FASHION'S hoodwinked fools;",2.0 +"Despise the distant world's hoarse, busy din;",1.0 +"As shepherd's from high rocks hear far below,",3.0 +Hear unconcerned loud torrents fiercely flow;,2.0 +"You, though mad millions the mean taste upbraid,",5.0 +"Who still love VIRTUE, fair, forsaken maid;",1.0 +"As BACCHUS charming ARIADNE bore,",0.0 +"By all abandoned, from the lonesome shore.",1.0 +"The inveterate foes of Israel, and of God,",4.0 +"Lie vanquished, dormant on the dreary waste",2.0 +Of far extended ruin; and involved,1.0 +"In hideous woe, and desolation wide,",2.0 +Then shall Judea lift her cheerful head;,0.0 +Put forth the leaves of glad prosperity;,2.0 +"And, after all the gloomy scene of grief",0.0 +"And sad affliction, flourish and revive",1.0 +In all the bright serenity of peace.,1.0 +"As the gay rose, when winter storms are past,",2.0 +"Warmed with the influence of a kinder sun,",1.0 +"Comes from the bud with a vermilion blush,",1.0 +"Cheering the sight, and scattering all around",4.0 +"A balmy odour, that perfumes the skies.",2.0 +"She shall rejoice with joy unspeakable,",1.0 +"And, fraught with richest blessings from above,",1.0 +"Spring forth in all the pride of Lebanon,",2.0 +"Whose lofty cedars, wondrous to behold,",1.0 +"In bodies huge, and to the skies erect",1.0 +"In regular distances, and verdant shades,",3.0 +Emblem of happy state. Nor shall the hills,2.0 +"Of fragrant Carmel, rich in fruitful soil;",0.0 +"And breathing fresh a gale of heavenly sweets,",2.0 +Spring forth in greater glory. For the Lord,2.0 +"His goodness will declare, that knows no bounds;",2.0 +"And all the people shall behold his might,",0.0 +And see the wonders of omnipotence.,2.0 +"Strengthen the languid nerves, you seers! and bid",2.0 +The dissipated spirits; and confirm,1.0 +"And bid the lazy blood flow briskly on,",2.0 +And circulate with joy through every vein.,0.0 +Comfort the oppressed; and smooth the ruffled mind;,1.0 +"Say to the afflicted heart, devoid of hope,",1.0 +"Behold! the Almighty rushes from the skies,",3.0 +"Of glory comes, but not with radiant blaze",0.0 +"Of light, even light invisible, as when",3.0 +And sent his faithful servant to redeem,1.0 +Ungrateful Israel from Egyptian bonds;,1.0 +"Nor with the music of a still, soft voice,",3.0 +As when he informed the prophet of his will;,2.0 +But in a black and dreadful hemisphere,0.0 +And flashes of red lightning to increase,3.0 +"The woe, and make even darkness visible.",4.0 +The hills shall tremble at his dire approach;,0.0 +"And fearful mountains, piled up to the clouds,",1.0 +And spread a plain immense. For God will come,0.0 +Full fraught with vengeance to consume your foes;,2.0 +Then shall the eyes long closed in blackest night.,1.0 +"Shake off the film of darkness, and behold",1.0 +"Shall then appear, and various prospects rise",2.0 +"And locked from music's note, or voice of man,",0.0 +"Again the stringed instrument shall feel,",4.0 +And the sweet words of social converse hear.,2.0 +"The lame, infirm, creeping with slow advance,",5.0 +"Dragging with pain reluctant feet along,",2.0 +"And scarcely by the friendly crutch sustained,",1.0 +"Shall throw the unserviceable prop aside,",3.0 +"And stand erect, exulting like a roe",0.0 +"On the soft verdant turf, with wanton tread",2.0 +"Skimming along the surface of the plain,",3.0 +Or lightly bounding over the rising ground.,2.0 +"The dumb for melancholy silence framed,",0.0 +"Cut off from friendly converse with mankind,",2.0 +Striving in vain the sad defect to mend,2.0 +"Confused, shall talk in dialects complete;",0.0 +"And tongues, that knew not how to speak, shall sing.",1.0 +New scenes of joy shall gladden every face;,1.0 +"The glowing ground, gaping with burning thirst,",5.0 +"Shall greedily suck in the humid tide,",2.0 +Pouring from caverns of the craggy hills,3.0 +"Melodious murmurs down the ample glade,",3.0 +And crystal springs refresh the thirsty land.,0.0 +Where heretofore the curling serpent lay,0.0 +Or swept deceitful over the dusty plain,2.0 +"In horrid spires, and many a towering maze,",2.0 +And the tall rush in slender spires uprise.,5.0 +"The swampy marsh shall its broad flag produce,",1.0 +"With bending willow, sport of every wind;",1.0 +"A wasteful desert now, and barren soil.",0.0 +"A way shall be prepared, a path direct,",0.0 +"Even a straight path, which God himself shall make;",2.0 +"It shall be called, THE WAY OF HOLINESS;",1.0 +"A way to sacred footsteps only known,",1.0 +Nor impious feet profane the sacred ground.,2.0 +"God shall attend the motions of the just,",2.0 +"Watch over their steps, and guide them as they go;",4.0 +"And none shall wander from the obvious path,",3.0 +"For who can err, when God directs the way?",0.0 +"The rampant lion shall not wander there,",1.0 +"Nor fiery tiger, roaring for his prey;",3.0 +"Nor prowling wolf, that howls along the plain,",0.0 +With the keen pangs of raging hunger stung;,2.0 +Such as came furious from the neighbouring groves,5.0 +"Of ancient Bethel with voracious speed,",1.0 +"Grinning destruction as they roamed along,",3.0 +"But free, and unmolested shall they walk",0.0 +"The heavy yoke of long oppressive thrall,",0.0 +"Shall cheerfully return to happier climes,",3.0 +"That speaks deliverance, and the voice of joy.",1.0 +Judah shall witness to the grateful song;,3.0 +And faithful Zion echo back the sound.,0.0 +"No signs of woe shall hang upon the cheek,",1.0 +"No shuddering fear, nor horrible despair;",4.0 +But grief with all its melancholy train,0.0 +Of huge dismay shall fly from every face.,0.0 +And endless rapture dwell on every brow.,0.0 +"No more shall those dear names my rapture move,",3.0 +"Low in the grave, and deaf to thee and Love.",1.0 +When Honour called thy patriot virtues hence;,3.0 +"The slow disease which tainted then my blood,",0.0 +"In vain by all the powers of art withstood,",2.0 +"Aided by grief more deadly, creeps at length",2.0 +"Through every vein, and undermines my strength.",0.0 +"Already Death hath summoned me away,",1.0 +"And Love, fond Love, scarce gains an hour's delay,",4.0 +"Yet without dread Death's awful call I hear,",4.0 +"No dark presages chill my soul with fear,",3.0 +"And one short moment more, with anguish crave,",2.0 +"Prepared I'm called, from every terror free,",0.0 +Save that for ever I must part from thee.,1.0 +"But when on thee my thoughts reflecting rove,",1.0 +And all the pleasures of our virtuous love;,3.0 +"To think how blessed we were, how soon must part,",1.0 +"To cast one longing, lingering look behind,",0.0 +Can be no guilty weakness of the mind;,2.0 +"Fond Love, at parting, sheds a pious tear.",1.0 +"Still with each comfort will I cheer my heart,",1.0 +"Resigned to God, though trembling to depart.",1.0 +"Short is man's knowledge of a future state,",4.0 +"Perplexed with doubts, and ignorant of fate;",1.0 +This one important truth we only know.,1.0 +"Bliss waits the good, the bad, eternal woe.",1.0 +"But what those blessings, what those woes shall be,",0.0 +And scenes of visionary transport rise.,0.0 +"Still, as was ever here my fondest joy,",0.0 +Let me for thee my every care employ;,1.0 +"Still let me serve, and though unseen, be near,",2.0 +Not life itself imparts a charm more dear.,0.0 +"From every dangerous step those feet to guide,",2.0 +Which here to follow was my virtuous pride;,3.0 +"When wrath provokes, or fortune proves unkind,",0.0 +"The sweets around of balmy sleep to shed,",0.0 +When Sickness binds thee to her painful bed;,1.0 +"To guard thee safely through the dreadful day,",1.0 +When Slaughter stalks from rank to rank for prey;,0.0 +And bid the uplifted weapon guiltless fall:,2.0 +"Still at thy side, as was my wish below,",1.0 +"With thoughts like these my drooping soul I warm,",1.0 +"Plume every hope, and every fear disarm.",1.0 +"But, ah! to think what thy fond heart must feel,",2.0 +"When first these lines the fatal news reveal,",0.0 +"Sinks my sad soul, with pain and love oppressed.",3.0 +"But let me from the tender theme refrain,",1.0 +While every word but sharpens every pain;,0.0 +"For when the hand that wounds would heal the before,",1.0 +The generous heart will only bleed the more.,2.0 +"My latest breath for thee a prayer shall sigh,",1.0 +"If not deserted by myself, I die.",2.0 +"Adieu, for ever, best of friends, adieu!",0.0 +WHence come these dismal sounds that fill our ears!,0.0 +"Why sit the virgins on the hill of tears,",1.0 +"They weep for ALBIN with the flowing hair,",1.0 +Who perished by the cruelty of MEY;,2.0 +"A blameless hero, blooming, young, and fair;",0.0 +Because he scorned her passion to obey.,1.0 +"See on you western hill the heap of stones,",0.0 +Which mourning friends have raised over his bones!,5.0 +"OH woman! bloody, bloody was thy deed;",2.0 +The blackness of thy crime exceeds belief;,1.0 +"The storey makes each heart but thine to bleed,",1.0 +And fills both men and maids with keenest grief!,1.0 +"When early morn transcends yonder eastern hills,",6.0 +"She loved the youth who by thy guile did die,",1.0 +"Weeps over his grave, and makes the woods resound.",4.0 +A thousand graces did the maid adorn:,0.0 +Her looks were charming and her heart was kind;,1.0 +"Her eyes were like the windows of the morn,",1.0 +A hundred heroes tried her love to gain:,0.0 +"She pitied them, yet did their suits deny:",2.0 +"Young ALBIN only courted not in vain,",1.0 +ALBIN alone was lovely in her eye:,2.0 +"Their birth was equal, and their age the same.",1.0 +"Her mother MEY, a woman void of truth,",0.0 +"In practise of deceit and guile grown old,",2.0 +"Conceived a guilty passion for the youth,",1.0 +And in his ear the shameful storey told:,0.0 +But over his mind she never could prevail;,2.0 +For in his life no wickedness was found;,2.0 +"With shame and rage he heard the horrid tale,",0.0 +And shook with indignation at the sound:,0.0 +He fled to shun her; while with burning wrath,0.0 +"The monster, in revenge, decreed his death.",0.0 +"On a green island, grew a stately tree,",2.0 +"With precious fruit each season covered over,",0.0 +"Delightful to the taste, and fair to see:",1.0 +"This fruit, more sweet than virgin honey found,",0.0 +"It cured diseases, healed the bleeding wound,",0.0 +"But precious things are purchased still with pain,",0.0 +"And thousands tried to pluck it, but in vain.",1.0 +"For at the root of this delightful tree,",1.0 +"A venomous and awful dragon lay,",1.0 +"With watchful eyes, all horrible to see,",1.0 +"Worse than the viper's sting its teeth did wound,",2.0 +Nor could physician ever yet be found,0.0 +Who might a certain antidote apply:,0.0 +"Even they whose skill had saved a mighty host,",1.0 +Against its bite no remedy could boast.,2.0 +"And him destroy who durst her passion slight,",1.0 +"Feigned to be stricken with a dire disease,",1.0 +And called the hapless ALBIN to her sight:,1.0 +"Arise, young hero! skilled in feats of war,",1.0 +"To pull me of the fruit, now bravely dare,",2.0 +And save the mother of the maid you love.,1.0 +I die without its influence divine;,1.0 +Nor will I taste it from a hand but thine.,2.0 +My might in this adventure shall be tried;,1.0 +I go to pull the healing fruit for you.,0.0 +"With stately steps approaching to the deep,",1.0 +The hardy hero swims the liquid tide;,0.0 +"With joy he finds the dragon fast asleep,",0.0 +"Then pulls the fruit, and comes in safety back;",0.0 +"Then with a cheerful countenance, and gay,",1.0 +He gives the present to the hands of MEY.,1.0 +"Well have you done, to bring me of this fruit;",1.0 +But greater signs of prowess must you give:,0.0 +"Go pull the tree entirely by the root,",2.0 +"And bring it hither, or I cease to live.",1.0 +"Though hard the task, like lightning fast he flew,",0.0 +And nimbly glided over the yielding tide;,2.0 +"Then to the tree with manly steps he drew,",0.0 +"And pulled, and tugged it hard, from side to side:",0.0 +Its bursting roots his strength could not withstand;,0.0 +"He tears it up, and bears it in his hand.",1.0 +"But long, alas! ere he could reach the shore,",2.0 +"Or fix his footsteps on the solid sand,",2.0 +"The monster followed with a hideous roar,",3.0 +And like a fury grasped him by the hand.,1.0 +"Then, gracious God! what dreadful struggling rose!",0.0 +"In vain: for round the bloody current flows,",0.0 +While its fierce teeth his tender body gnaws.,3.0 +"He groans through anguish of the grievous wound,",1.0 +"And cries for help; but, ah! no help was found?",1.0 +"At length the maid, now wondering at his stay,",2.0 +"And racked with dread of some impending ill,",0.0 +"Swift to the lake, to meet him, bends her way;",0.0 +And there beheld what might a virgin kill!,1.0 +"She saw her lover struggling on the flood,",1.0 +The dreadful monster gnawing at his side;,0.0 +"She saw young ALBIN fainting, while his blood",1.0 +With purple tincture died the liquid tide!,0.0 +"Though pale with fear, she plunges in the wave,",0.0 +And to the hero's hand a dagger gave!,1.0 +"Alas! too late; yet gathering all his force,",2.0 +"He drags, at last, his hissing foe to land.",0.0 +"Yet there the battle still grew worse and worse,",1.0 +And long the conflict lasted on the strand.,1.0 +And laid the monster breathless at his feet.,0.0 +"The lovers shouted when they saw him dead,",0.0 +While from his trunk they cut the bleeding head.,0.0 +But soon the venom of his mortal bite,1.0 +Within the hero's bosom spreads like flame;,0.0 +"His face grew pale, his strength forsook him quite,",1.0 +And over his trembling limbs a numbness came.,2.0 +"Then fainting on the slimy shore he fell,",1.0 +"And uttered, with a heavy, dying groan,",1.0 +"These tender words, My lovely maid, farewell!",1.0 +Remember ALBIN; for his life is gone!,1.0 +"These sounds, like thunder, all her sense oppressed,",0.0 +And swooning down she fell upon his breast.,1.0 +"At last, the maid awakening as from sleep,",1.0 +"Felt all her soul overwhelmed in deep despair,",6.0 +"Her eyes stared wild, she raved, she could not weep,",1.0 +"She beat her bosom, and she tore her hair!",1.0 +"She looked now on the ground, now on the skies,",4.0 +"Now gazed around, like one imploring aid:",2.0 +"But none was near in pity to her cries,",1.0 +"Then grasping in her palm, that shone like snow,",0.0 +"The youth's dead hand, she thus expressed her woe.",1.0 +"Burst, burst, my heart! the lovely youth is dead,",1.0 +"Who, like the dawn, was wont to bring me joy;",0.0 +"Now birds of prey will hover round his head,",1.0 +"While I who loved him, and was loved again,",1.0 +"With sighs and lamentable strains must tell,",4.0 +But struggling with a beast inglorious fell!,3.0 +"This makes my tears with double anguish flow,",0.0 +This adds affliction to my bitter woe!,1.0 +"That force would have dismayed a mighty host,",0.0 +"He showed, before the dragon could him wound.",0.0 +"His teeth were whiter than the fragrant trees,",1.0 +When blossoms cloth them in the days of spring;,0.0 +"A brighter red his glowing cheeks did stain,",0.0 +Than blood of tender heifer newly slain.,0.0 +"A purer azure sparkled in his eye,",0.0 +"Whenever he spoke, his voice was melody,",3.0 +And sweeter far than instrumental sound.,0.0 +"OH he was lovely! fair as purest snow,",0.0 +Whose wreaths the tops of highest mountains crown;,0.0 +His lips were radiant as the heavenly bow;,3.0 +His skin was softer than the softest down;,2.0 +"More sweet his breath than fragrant bloom, or rose,",0.0 +Or gale that cross a flowery garden blows.,2.0 +"But when in battle with our foes he joined,",1.0 +"And sought the hottest dangers of the fight,",1.0 +And none durst try to rival him in might!,2.0 +"His ample shield then seemed a gate of brass,",0.0 +His awful sword did like the lightning shine!,0.0 +"No force of steel could through his armour pass,",2.0 +"Even kings and heroes trembled at his name,",0.0 +And conquest smiled wherever the warrior came!,2.0 +Great was his swiftness in the rapid race;,0.0 +None could outstrip him in the days of chase.,1.0 +"Yet he was tender, merciful, and kind;",1.0 +His vanquished foes his clemency confessed;,1.0 +And in his soul superior to a king!,1.0 +"For wretched me; with him my joys are fled,",2.0 +"Around his tomb my tears shall ever flow,",0.0 +"The rock my dwelling, and the clay my bed!",1.0 +"You maids, and matrons, from your hills descend,",1.0 +"To join my moan, and answer tear for tear;",0.0 +"With me the hero to his grave attend,",2.0 +And sing the songs of mourning round his bier.,0.0 +"Through his own grove his praise we will proclaim,",2.0 +And bid the place for ever bear his name.,0.0 +"AS some grave Matron bred on rural Downs,",1.0 +"Who at the mention of a Topknot frowns,",2.0 +"Whose humble Senses are not much refined,",1.0 +But used to Labour with a cheerful Mind;,1.0 +With homespun Aprons of a decent Blue;,2.0 +"From the white Curds extracts the greener Whey,",2.0 +"Nor dreams of Fashion, Poetry, or Play;",1.0 +"From wicked Verse she turns her cautious Eyes,",0.0 +And wonders People can delight in Lies:,1.0 +"At length her Landlord, the right noble Squire,",3.0 +Takes her young Daughter at her own Desire;,3.0 +"Prefers the Damsel to attend his Spouse,",1.0 +"For London now prepares the smiling Dame,",0.0 +"No Muse can paint them, nor no Heart conceive:",3.0 +"In vain her Spouse or friendly Neighbour tries,",1.0 +To quell the Sorrows in her streaming Eyes:,0.0 +"Rossell she fears will slight her Jersey Gown,",2.0 +And wear white Aprons in the sinful Town;,1.0 +"On the pure Ghost of Win'fred then she calls,",2.0 +To guard her Child within its guilty Walls.,0.0 +"So this rude Babe I to your Mercy yield,",2.0 +Reforming Art should follow close behind;,0.0 +"But that proud Dame with me disdains to dwell,",2.0 +"What then remains? What Hope for me or mine,",1.0 +But the kind Silence of forgetful Time?,3.0 +"The spiteful Grimace, and the scornful Sneer;",1.0 +"The threatening Critic with his dreadful Rules,",1.0 +The Wit's keen Satire and the Burst of Fools.,3.0 +"With Eggs and Turnips whirling round his Pate,",0.0 +Is but an Emblem of an Author's Fate.,2.0 +"A dread Example to the rhyming Fry,",1.0 +"So Poets tell me, but I hope they lie:",1.0 +But Wits are often saucy to their Cost.,1.0 +I trust this Infant to its Patron's Care:,1.0 +"Ah let your Roofs the simple Vagrants shield,",0.0 +"I ask no more than Charity may yield,",2.0 +"Some little Corner in the friendly Dome,",0.0 +"Where the cold Storms may hover round in vain,",3.0 +The chilling Snow or penetrating Rain;,0.0 +"Where the fierce Rat all dreadful never climbs,",3.0 +But I have done ' -- for who implores a Friend,0.0 +"With long Petitions, justly may offend:",1.0 +And who shall dictate to a generous Mind?,2.0 +"Which not content in narrow Space to roll,",0.0 +Like the broad Ocean spreads from Pole to Pole:,2.0 +"While the glad Nations bless the ample Tide,",2.0 +And wafted Treasures over its Surface glide:,2.0 +"That still waves on, regardless of their Praise,",4.0 +WHAT means this awful sight? why round me shine,0.0 +"Those radiant glories, and that form divine?",1.0 +"See! where commissioned with some dread command,",2.0 +How sternly waves you visionary hand!,0.0 +"Near and more near it beckons, Cyrus, rise;",0.0 +The Gods remand thee to thy native skies.,1.0 +And solemn omens warn me from above;,1.0 +"Come then, you fathers, venerable grown,",1.0 +Whose steady counsels prop the Persian throne!,0.0 +"You friends, long wedded to fair Virtue's cause,",3.0 +"Attentive hear, amid the assembled throng,",2.0 +The dying accents of a monarch's tongue.,2.0 +"To die, is to be blessed: this understood,",1.0 +"What Virtues charm us, or what Arts engage",1.0 +"In childhood, youth, in manhood, or in age,",3.0 +"And still pursued, where Honour led the way:",3.0 +"Mine was each gift kind fortune could afford,",2.0 +"See, Asia, see thy once ignoble race,",1.0 +"What glory heightens, and what worthies grace!",1.0 +"See Peace thy realms with smiling train adorn,",1.0 +And Plenty pour the treasures of her horn.,1.0 +"Yet, oft as Fortune blew propitious gales,",0.0 +"And mildest Zephyrs fanned my swelling sails,",0.0 +"Still Caution warned me, anxious for the realm,",2.0 +"She calmly stemmed Ambition's boisterous tide,",0.0 +And lowered the projects of gigantic Pride:,3.0 +Hence unimpaired are all my blessings now;,1.0 +Hence fresh my laurels blooming over my brow:,3.0 +Sage Foresight only keeps our conquests won;,3.0 +The too secure too surely are undone.,2.0 +"No claimant princes shall hereafter jar,",1.0 +The bloody sources of intestine war,1.0 +"For thus I will ' -- both you, my children, share",0.0 +"Alike my fondness, and alike my care!",1.0 +"Yet you, my eldest, to the crown succeed;",1.0 +"It's what thy father, what the gods decreed.",0.0 +"Reflect, from whence that sacred power is given,",2.0 +"Reflect, that monarchs only were designed",2.0 +"To guard their people, and to bless mankind!",2.0 +"Each royal mandate Equity should bound,",2.0 +And Goodness cast a smile on all around.,0.0 +"Nor less, while, hovering over the embattled field,",1.0 +"Her palms to thee fond Victory shall yield,",3.0 +Let Mercy plead: no hero's truly brave,2.0 +Distress should bid our generous pity flow;,2.0 +"By me released, OH! how the Jewish choir",3.0 +In late sad silence on the willows hung!,3.0 +"Thy breast, young prince, let all these virtues fire,",2.0 +And nobly to the world confess thy sire.,1.0 +"This happy state, that, from an heavenly plan,",3.0 +"Forms every scheme of happiness to man,",2.0 +"By justice establish, and by arms defend;",3.0 +"Transmit entire, to bless the peaceful home",2.0 +"Of nations now unborn, and monarchs yet to come.",2.0 +"And thou, my son, thou youngest, shalt command",1.0 +The narrower confines of some neighbouring land.,3.0 +"Though larger realms thy brother's sway confess,",0.0 +"Thy peace is greater, as thy kingdom less.",1.0 +"Ambition's spur still pungent to the soul,",2.0 +When over his mind his father's glories roll;,2.0 +"Fame hard to gain, and harder yet to keep;",1.0 +"Foremost in cares, as first in rule to shine;",1.0 +"These, these are his ' -- but pleasures all are thine.",1.0 +Without the sceptre of thy people's love.,1.0 +"But yet it asks thy caution, all thy care,",0.0 +"Thy subjects when to court, and when beware:",0.0 +"Not true by nature, man, whatever he boast,",3.0 +"Who public good prefers to private ends,",0.0 +"Whose truth directs you, and whose zeal defends.",1.0 +Then no sad murmurs can suspicion raise;,2.0 +Admiring Anarchy itself obeys;,1.0 +"Base Treason dreads infernal plots to lay,",1.0 +And calmed Rebellion looks her rage away.,0.0 +"Thy head as learnt, as was sincere thy heart.",1.0 +"Though sullen Jealousy oft cursed thy name,",2.0 +"And Envy planned the ruins of thy fame,",1.0 +Thy spotless honour could the mouth defy,0.0 +"Of deadly lions, or the deadlier spy.",3.0 +"Chiefs, such as thou, best guard each prince's cause,",2.0 +"Thy friends promote, thy brother first of these,",0.0 +"Advancing most his honour, interest, ease;",3.0 +"So shall his soul with kindred passions burn,",0.0 +And grateful friendship make the best return;,0.0 +"Faithful alike his counsels and his arms,",3.0 +"When peace shall bless you, or when war alarms.",1.0 +"But, OH! if where respect her balms should bring,",0.0 +"If royal brothers, when some fiend inspires,",0.0 +"When Anger prompts, or when Ambition fires,",0.0 +"Divide themselves, and with imperious awe",3.0 +Their people's hearts to different factions draw;,0.0 +"Then soon will Peace, that guardian Goddess, fail,",2.0 +And injured Justice drop her equal scale;,0.0 +And Truth indignant flee the guilty land;,0.0 +And maddening Fury clank her broken chain;,0.0 +"Her rights sequestered Freedom shall deplore,",0.0 +"OH! then, my sons, by that great God above!",1.0 +"Let sacred Friendship with you ever grow,",2.0 +The best of blessings earth contains below.,0.0 +"Nor think, when this poor life away shall flee,",2.0 +Your royal father never more must be.,0.0 +"Though in our breast the soul's unseen, it's clear",0.0 +A soul immortal has existence there.,1.0 +Whence all the dreadful scene of Horror spread,0.0 +Around the trembling murderer's guilty head?,2.0 +"Or why does thus, when mortals dare to sin,",0.0 +Vindictive Conscience ply the lash within?,0.0 +Why over the grave those glaring trophies blaze?,2.0 +Why all the pomp of monumental praise?,0.0 +"Vain were the lofty Muse's epic strain,",0.0 +"Vain the sad dirge, the rising column vain,",3.0 +"If human souls mortality must share,",1.0 +And at the last but vanish into air.,0.0 +"Our thirst for Truth, which cannot here abate,",0.0 +"Points out some clearer, some more perfect state;",1.0 +"While longing Hope still bids us calmly die,",1.0 +And take our fair possession of the sky.,1.0 +"See Innocence with various cares distressed,",4.0 +"See modest Worth, mid troubles undeserved!",2.0 +"Admired, repulsed! just pitied, praised, and starved!",1.0 +"Yet still rejoice the sons of virtuous Woe,",2.0 +Though prosperous Vice triumphant reigns below;,2.0 +They walk contented through the vale of grief!,1.0 +"' -- It must be so ' -- what Reasoner can believe,",3.0 +"That souls, when freed from bodies, cease to live?",0.0 +"The soul survives ' -- this, this can never die:",1.0 +"This still shall flourish in immortal bloom,",0.0 +"Purged from all earthly dross, for ever rove",0.0 +Through all the unbounded tracts of happiness above.,2.0 +"Reflect, what Death is, from its image, Sleep!",1.0 +"In airy dreams the soul then wings its way,",0.0 +"Freed from the dull impediments of clay,",1.0 +"Holds converse sweet with every kindred power,",1.0 +"Through worlds unknown quick darts the vital flame,",1.0 +"But yet if, with the body, rigid Fate",1.0 +"The soul's existence should annihilate,",0.0 +"How, when fond thoughts the pleasing theme pursue,",1.0 +"Yet still to God let pure devotion rise,",1.0 +Whose piercing eye each secret fraud detects;,0.0 +"Whose wisdom governs, and whose care directs;",1.0 +"That Time, nor Fate hath in confusion hurled",0.0 +"The beauty, order, grandeur of the world.",2.0 +"Rears its rude summit to yonder realms of light,",5.0 +"The body prostrate, or uplift the eye;",4.0 +There glad thanksgiving grateful altars raise!,1.0 +There choral Paeans swell the song of praise!,0.0 +"Let no Corruption near thy palace spread,",1.0 +Nor dire Oppression rear her iron head.,0.0 +"Peace, Love, and Charity, divinely bright;",2.0 +Shall deal her favours to a grateful land:,0.0 +"There Truth shall smile, in awful state enshrined,",0.0 +"The fair resemblance of the eternal mind,",3.0 +"There Justice brandish her impartial sword,",1.0 +"Shall right the injured, and the weak defend,",1.0 +"Each orphan's guardian, and each widow's friend.",1.0 +"Pursue, great prince, pursue the important plan;",3.0 +"Be feared, as monarch; but be loved, as man.",1.0 +"And when my soul, fair tenant, flies away",1.0 +"No costly pile with funeral grandeur burn,",3.0 +Nor cull my ashes for the pompous urn;,1.0 +"Where, when our gloomy long abode we fix,",0.0 +"The human particles with earthly mix,",1.0 +"While beyond fate, and fortune's farthest line,",1.0 +For ever lives the particle divine.,1.0 +And with a modest verse inscribe the stone:,1.0 +The verse shall preach some moral truth to man ' --,0.0 +"That fortune's various, or that life's a span;",1.0 +"That vain the pomp and pageantry of state,",1.0 +"That weak the mighty, and that frail the great;",1.0 +"That heroes perish, and that monarchs fall.",2.0 +"And now, my friends, receive the parting view!",0.0 +"Press my chilled hand, and bid the last adieu!",3.0 +"Call my dear Persians round the solemn bier,",3.0 +"Brave troops! by whom, as heaven protecting led,",1.0 +"But now, frail Health, how won thy roses seem!",1.0 +In flower currents flows the purple stream:,0.0 +"No more this breast with martial rage shall glow,",0.0 +Nor rush all vengeance on the adverse foe;,2.0 +"No more ' -- for see the dire disease prevail,",0.0 +"My nerves all tremble, all my spirits fail!",0.0 +"' -- Ah, why those cries? see lovely Reason near",1.0 +"To calm the soul, and wipe off every tear,",0.0 +"If life I leave, I leave its troubles too:",0.0 +"For, if my happy soul to God ascends,",1.0 +"Or in mere nothing if my being ends,",2.0 +"Death soon shall waft me to some unknown shore,",2.0 +Where patriot heroes in the peaceful shade,2.0 +"No factions threaten, and no foes invade;",3.0 +"Where long oblivion, ending anxious strife,",2.0 +Stills the wild hurry of a noisy life;,4.0 +"Or where all joys with heart-felt ease abound,",1.0 +While youthful spring for ever blooms around.,0.0 +"Come, give the fond embrace, and let me die;",1.0 +"How will it wound, sad tale! her tender heart!",2.0 +"Her heart by grief too delicately moved,",2.0 +"For ever loving, and for ever loved.",1.0 +"Ah! now what ease employs her softer hours,",0.0 +"Near murmuring fountains, or in cooling bowers",3.0 +"Where now that tongue, that never ceased to charm?",0.0 +"Where the soft smile, that sickness could disarm?",3.0 +"Or where the hands my weary eyes to close,",0.0 +The last kind office in my last repose?,1.0 +"How oft I named her with my latest breath,",1.0 +"How blessed her absent, in the mid of death,",0.0 +"You conscious skies, you lights celestial, tell!",0.0 +"Farewell, my chiefs! in my example see",2.0 +"Fair breaks the morn over yonder eastern skies,",7.0 +And brightening hills in pleasing prospect rise;,0.0 +"But who can say, serene the day will end,",0.0 +"Such dear departed infant was thy dawn,",1.0 +"O, thou! so late my child ' -- my hope and pride,",1.0 +"Who ever pleased, until the hour thou died,",0.0 +"In mournful strains let now my sad heart tell,",2.0 +How I my darling boy could bid farewell!,2.0 +Angelic brightness! o! look down and see,3.0 +What bitter pangs thy parent feels for thee.,0.0 +If thy pure shade can know what passes here;,2.0 +Accept the bursting sigh ' -- ' -- the gushing tear; ' -- ' --,0.0 +Forgive the murmurs of maternal love!,1.0 +When thy sweet form did every pain repay:,3.0 +"Thy angel beauty did my hope engage,",0.0 +"And thou, fair spirit, now removed from pain,",2.0 +"Hast taught my humble heart, that life is vain:",0.0 +"Yet, what is this that struggles at my breast",1.0 +"For thee, my child? ' -- ' -- it will not be suppressed:",2.0 +"Thy spotless innocence ' -- ' -- thy soul so pure,",1.0 +From scorn could not thy guiltless clay secure.,0.0 +What though distinguished by that honoured name,3.0 +"Which gained to Britain glory, wealth and fame,",0.0 +"That swift destruction over her foes has hurled,",2.0 +And lived the pride of an admiring world;,1.0 +"What though descended from that soldier's breast,",2.0 +And thou the latest darling of his age;,2.0 +"Did it avail thee, honour, worth, and grace,",4.0 +"Gave brilliant lustre to thy mother's race, ' --",2.0 +"A noble race, where all the virtues glow,",0.0 +Adorned with all that monarchs can bestow?,2.0 +"Ah, no! though thus distinguished by thy birth,",1.0 +"Though soft humanity exalts her crest,",1.0 +"And in Britannia reigns an honoured guest,",3.0 +The last retreat thy lovely form could crave,0.0 +Thou angel innocent art now serene;,1.0 +And though no costly marble ever may grace,4.0 +"Yet shall the fairest flowers the spot adorn,",2.0 +Cherished with purest tears of early morn;,2.0 +"And angels guard thy guiltless sleeping clay,",0.0 +How sweet thy rest! from every evil free!,0.0 +"O, why! ' -- but soft ' -- be still, my murmuring breast, ' --",2.0 +My little angel's gone to endless rest;,0.0 +"With kindred spirits, far remote from pain,",0.0 +He waits the hour when we shall meet again.,0.0 +"THE sun revolving on his axis turns,",1.0 +And with creative fire intensely burns;,1.0 +Rolls with the planets round the solar gleam;,0.0 +"First Mercury completes his transient year,",2.0 +"Bright Venus occupies a wider way,",1.0 +The early harbinger of night and day;,1.0 +"Nor chills intense, nor fiercely heated burns;",0.0 +"Around her rolls the lunar orb of light,",0.0 +Trailing her silver glories through the night:,3.0 +"On the earth's orbit see the various signs,",4.0 +"Mark where the sun, our year completing, shines:",0.0 +First the bright Ram his languid ray improves;,3.0 +Next glaring watery through the Bull he moves;,1.0 +The amorous Twins admit his genial ray;,2.0 +"Now burning, through the Crab he takes his way;",2.0 +"The Lion, flaming, bears the solar power;",0.0 +"Now the just Ballance weighs his equal force,",0.0 +The slimy Serpent swelters in his course;,0.0 +"Now in the Water his faint beams appear,",2.0 +And the cold Fish end the circling year.,1.0 +Beyond our globe the sanguine Mars displays,0.0 +"Next belted Jupiter far distant gleams,",2.0 +Scarcely enlightened with the solar beams;,3.0 +He tours majestic through the spacious height:,1.0 +"But farther yet the tardy Saturn lags,",0.0 +And five attendant luminaries drags;,0.0 +"Investing with a double ring his pace,",1.0 +"These are thy wondrous works, first source of good!",2.0 +Now more admired in being understood.,1.0 +"ERE death these closing eyes for ever shade,",1.0 +That death thy cruelties have welcome made,2.0 +"Receive, thou yet loved man! this one adieu,",2.0 +This last farewell to happiness and you.,2.0 +"My eyes overflow with tears, my trembling hand",2.0 +"Can scarce the letters form, or pen command:",0.0 +"The dancing paper swims before my sight,",0.0 +And scarce myself can read the words I write.,1.0 +"Think you behold me in this lost estate,",2.0 +And think yourself the author of my fate:,1.0 +"The general pity, not the boast of Rome.",0.0 +"This form, a pattern to the sculptor's art,",1.0 +Whose pictured beauties Rome thought fit to place,1.0 +The sacred temples of her gods to grace,1.0 +"Are charming now no more; the bloom is fled,",1.0 +"The lilies languid, and the roses dead.",1.0 +"Soon shall some hand the glorious work deface,",2.0 +"No longer my resemblance they impart,",3.0 +"They lost their likeness, when I lost thy heart.",0.0 +"O! that those hours could take their turn again,",0.0 +"His Flora thus bespoke: Say, my dear love!",3.0 +Shall all these rivals unsuccessful prove?,0.0 +"In vain, for ever, shall the Roman youth",0.0 +"Envy my happiness, and tempt thy truth?",3.0 +Shall neither tears nor prayers thy pity move?,0.0 +"Ah! give not pity, it's akin to love.",1.0 +"Would Flora were not fair in such excess,",2.0 +"That I might fear, though not adore her less.",0.0 +"Fool that I was, I sought to ease that grief,",1.0 +Nor knew indifference followed the relief:,1.0 +"Experience taught the cruel truth too late,",3.0 +"I never dreaded, till I found my fate.",1.0 +"Unmoved, his rival's unsuccessful prayer;",0.0 +Alas! such pity is no kin to love.,2.0 +'Twas thou thyself ungrateful as thou art!,3.0 +The constancy my soul maintained for you;,1.0 +"To other arms your mistress you condemned,",1.0 +"Too cool a lover, and too warm a friend.",3.0 +To ask the only thing it could refuse?,0.0 +"Nor yet upbraid me, Pompey, what I say,",1.0 +For it's my merit that I can't obey;,1.0 +"Yet this alleged against me as a fault,",2.0 +"Thy rage fomented, and my ruin wrought.",3.0 +"Just gods! what tie, what conduct can prevail",1.0 +"Over fickle man, when truth like mine can fail?",1.0 +"Urge not, to gloss thy crime, the name of friend,",0.0 +We know how far those sacred laws extend;,0.0 +Since other heroes have not blushed to prove,0.0 +How weak all passions when opposed to love:,0.0 +Nor boast the virtuous conflict of thy heart,1.0 +"It's all heroic fraud, and Roman art.",0.0 +"Such flights of honour might amuse the crowd,",2.0 +But by a mistress never can be allowed;,3.0 +"Keep for the senate, and the grave debate,",1.0 +That infamous hypocrisy of state:,2.0 +"There words are virtue, and your trade deceit.",1.0 +"No riddle is thy change, nor hard to explain;",4.0 +"Flora was fond, and Pompey was a man:",3.0 +"No longer then a specious tale pretend,",1.0 +Nor plead fictitious merit to your friend:,1.0 +"By nature false, you followed her decree,",1.0 +"Nor generous are to him, but false to me.",2.0 +"Gross artifice, that this from him could move,",3.0 +"And not from Flora, whom you say you love:",0.0 +"You could not bear to hear your rival sigh,",0.0 +Yet bear unmoved to see your mistress die.,0.0 +Inhuman hypocrite! nor thus can he,0.0 +"He, who received, condemns the gift you made,",0.0 +"And joins with me the giver to upbraid,",3.0 +"He loves too well that cruel gift to use,",1.0 +Which Pompey loved too little to refuse:,2.0 +"Fain would he call my vagrant lord again,",0.0 +But I the kind ambassador restrain;,2.0 +"I scorn to let another take my part,",0.0 +And to myself will owe or lose thy heart.,2.0 +Can nothing ever rekindle love in thee?,2.0 +Can nothing ever extinguish it in me?,3.0 +That I could tear thee from this injured breast!,1.0 +"And where you gave my person, give the rest,",0.0 +At once to grant and punish thy request.,1.0 +That I could place thy worthy rival there!,1.0 +No second insult need my fondness fear;,2.0 +"Come to my arms, thou dear deserving youth!",0.0 +Thou prodigy of man! thou man with truth!,1.0 +"For him, I will redouble every care,",2.0 +"To please, for him, these faded charms repair;",1.0 +"To crown his vows, and sharpen thy despair.",1.0 +O! it's illusion all! and idle rage!,1.0 +No second passion can this heart engage;,2.0 +"And shortly, Pompey, shall thy Flora prove,",0.0 +"Death may dissolve, but nothing change her love.",2.0 +The Muse would take me on her airy wing,1.0 +And waft to views romantic; there present,1.0 +"Some motley vision, shade and sun: the cliff",0.0 +"Overhanging, sparkling brooks, and ruins grey;",0.0 +"Bad me meanders trace, and catch the form",2.0 +"Of varying clouds, and rainbows learn to paint.",3.0 +"Sometime ambition, brushing by, would twitch",2.0 +"My mantle, and with winning look sublime",1.0 +"Allure to follow. What though steep the track,",0.0 +Her mountain's top would overpay when climbed,0.0 +And lovely thence the prospects. She could tell,1.0 +"But more advised to shun the barren twig,",0.0 +And woo some thriving art: her numerous mines,2.0 +"Caught by the harangue, heart beat, and fluttering pulse",4.0 +Sounded irregular marches to be gone ' --,5.0 +"What, pause a moment when Ambition calls?",0.0 +"When Fortune gentle, at the hill's verge extreme,",3.0 +"Arrayed in decent garb, but somewhat thin,",1.0 +"Smiling approached, and what occasion asked,",2.0 +Of climbing? She already provident,2.0 +"Had catered well, if stomach could digest",0.0 +"Unfit she said, for perilous attempt,",1.0 +"She took, and laid me in a vale remote,",0.0 +"Amid the gloomy scene of fir and yew,",0.0 +"Obscurity her curtain round me drew,",1.0 +"Since no fairy lights, no quickening ray,",4.0 +"Nor stir of pulse, nor objects to entice",1.0 +Abroad the spirits; but the cloistered heart,1.0 +"And folded arms, in presence of the throne,",1.0 +"Lethargic, which at intervals the sick",1.0 +"Hears and forgets, and wakes to doze again.",2.0 +"Instead of converse and variety,",2.0 +"The same trite round, the same stale silent scene:",2.0 +"But Innocence is there, but Peace all kind,",2.0 +"And simple Quiet with her downy couch,",1.0 +"Meads lowing, tune of birds, and lapse of streams,",1.0 +"And Saunter, with a book, and warbling Muse,",1.0 +In praise of hawthorns. ' -- Life's whole business this!,3.0 +"Is it to bask in the sun, if so, a snail",2.0 +Were happy crawling on a southern wall.,1.0 +The hard pallet? not because from haunt remote,2.0 +And works out his repose: for ease must ask,1.0 +The leave of diligence to be enjoyed.,1.0 +"With seeming smile, her palatable cup",1.0 +By standing grows insipid; and beware,1.0 +"What health impaired, and crowds inactive maimed?",0.0 +What daily martyrs to her sluggish cause!,1.0 +Despotic; and as subjects long inured,1.0 +"To servile burden, grow supine and tame,",0.0 +So fares it with our sovereign and her train.,2.0 +What though with lure fallacious she pretend,1.0 +"From worldly bondage to set free, what gain",2.0 +"Exempt, if rosy fetters bind as fast.",0.0 +"Think we that man with vigorous power endowed,",4.0 +"And room to stretch, was destined to sit still?",2.0 +Nor live up to the terms on which they hold,1.0 +"Their vital lease. Laborious terms and hard,",2.0 +But such the tenure of our earthly state!,2.0 +"The nimble runner courses Fortune down,",1.0 +"And then he banquets, for she feeds the bold.",1.0 +"Think what you owe your country, what yourself.",0.0 +That treads on lowly stations. Think of some,0.0 +"Assiduous booby mounting over your head,",2.0 +And thence with saucy grandeur looking down:,6.0 +Think of Reflection's stab! the pitying friend,4.0 +"With shoulder shrugged, and sorry. Think that Time",0.0 +"Has golden minutes, if discreetly seized:",1.0 +"And if some sad example, indolent,",2.0 +To warn and scare be wanting ' -- think of me.,0.0 +In this great world and known its many joys:,3.0 +"The songs of birds, the strong sweet scent of hay,",1.0 +And cooling breezes in the secret dusk;,0.0 +"The flaming sunsets at the close of day,",1.0 +"Music at night, and moonlight on the sea,",3.0 +The beat of waves upon the rocky shore,0.0 +"And wild white spray, flung high in ecstasy;",3.0 +"The faithful eyes of dogs, and treasured books,",0.0 +The love of Kin and fellowship of friends,0.0 +And all that makes life dear and beautiful.,2.0 +"I thank Thee too, that there has come to me",1.0 +"A little sorrow and sometime defeat,",2.0 +A little heartache and the loneliness,3.0 +That comes with parting and the words' Good-bye';,1.0 +"Dawn breaking after weary hours of pain,",1.0 +When I discovered that night's gloom must yield,2.0 +And morning light break through to me again.,3.0 +Because of these and other blessings poured,1.0 +Because I know that there is yet to come,1.0 +"An even richer and more glorious life,",3.0 +"And most of all, because Thine only Son",0.0 +"The Goddess Nature, so unjustly Crowned,",1.0 +And by the Learnt so many Ages owned.,1.0 +"Refuge of Atheists, whose supine desire,",4.0 +"Pleased with that Stage, no farther will aspire:",2.0 +"To Nature, what's done by a Power divine.",3.0 +"We know not how, nor where, to ascribe events,",2.0 +"Sure that alone, the mighty Work can do,",1.0 +"The Power that did create, can Govern too:",2.0 +"That must be circumscribed to place, and things,",0.0 +"Whose straightened Power, does Ministers Elect,",3.0 +"The Omnipresence, of the Power Divine,",3.0 +Argues it need no Deputies assign;,4.0 +"To Rule, Protect the Beings he create:",1.0 +"Tis Boyle, not thee, that must the World convince;",1.0 +Boyle the great Champion of Providence.,5.0 +"Whose conquering Truths in an Enquiry dressed,",5.0 +Have celebrated Nature dispossessed;,0.0 +But nice Idea of the erring Schools.,1.0 +"Fate, Fortune, Chance, all notional and vain,",2.0 +The floating Fictions of the Poet's brain;,1.0 +"The World rejects, yet stupidly prefers,",1.0 +This wild Chimera of Philosophers:,2.0 +"This more insinuating Notion lay,",1.0 +"Unquestioned till you made your brave Assay,",4.0 +Than a suspected Orthodox dispute.,1.0 +"They can't pretend Interest, thy Lines does Bribe",5.0 +"With which they censure, the Canonic Tribe:",1.0 +"'Twas Love of Truth alone, thy Pen did move,",1.0 +"Nor none but thee, could so successful prove.",2.0 +"Tending thy Triumphs of Philosophy,",4.0 +"Resigning their Gigantic Notions now,",1.0 +And only what you write for Truth allow.,0.0 +"See they have all their renounced Volumes brought,",5.0 +"Bidding Mankind believe, what you have Taught;",4.0 +Adorning that victorious Head of thine.,2.0 +"And shall my Female Pen, thy Praise pretend,",1.0 +"When Angels only, can enough commend,",1.0 +"In Songs, which like themselves, can know no End.",1.0 +"MADAM, What Muse can speak, what Pen display",2.0 +And from impending Slavery freed her Race?,3.0 +"His grateful Subjects round his Chariot hung,",2.0 +Long live the King was heard from every Tongue:,1.0 +"And Babes unborn, by Instinct leaped for Joy;",1.0 +"Even those whom Death stood ready to release,",3.0 +"Blessed the Deliverer, and died in Peace.",3.0 +As Roman Sages charged their Sons to tell,0.0 +That at their Deaths they left Augustus well:,0.0 +"So shall those Patriots who with Care and Toil,",1.0 +"Rescued the Charters of our British Isle,",3.0 +"At Fate's first Summons willingly obey,",2.0 +"And to their weeping Wives and Children say,",1.0 +"Cease, cease your Tears, no more of Grief be shown,",2.0 +"We leave you Free, and George upon the Throne.",0.0 +"This Madam, we may write, but who can tell",1.0 +"What mighty Transports in your Bosom dwell,",0.0 +"To see the Sceptre by that Hero swayed,",1.0 +To whom long since your ardent Vows were paid.,0.0 +Nor feared what Dangers might obstruct your Way:,0.0 +"Not led by Interest, or Intrigues of State,",1.0 +"No private End by you was understood,",2.0 +But all your Wishes were the Public Good.,1.0 +"O may the Princess you so oft have praised,",2.0 +"And great Ideas of her Virtues raised,",1.0 +"Give you that Preference due to your Desert,",0.0 +And place you foremost in her Royal Heart.,1.0 +"The Princess, said I? O that charming Name,",1.0 +She comes! Who can the exulting Joy sustain?,1.0 +"The Heroes did such mighty Transports give,",0.0 +"We scarce can view the Heroine, and Live.",1.0 +O Happy Britain! O propitious Day!,1.0 +That shall this Lady to thy Isle convey:,1.0 +"From her may such a Race of Princes flow,",1.0 +Till Heralds barren of new Titles grow.,2.0 +"Come Royal Dame, and bless our longing Eyes,",1.0 +"Fulfil our Hopes, consummate all our Joys.",3.0 +"Your Glorious Offspring let Britannia see,",5.0 +"And make her happy, as you made her free.",1.0 +The Darling Hostages betwixt her and Heaven.,1.0 +Like Music tuned from the Celestial Spheres.,1.0 +"With thousand Beauties was Maria graced,",1.0 +A thousand Virtues in her Soul were placed;,0.0 +"Such was her Form, and such her mighty Mind,",2.0 +That scarcely Angels could be more refined:,0.0 +"She wanted only Immortality,",1.0 +To make the Angel with the Saint agree.,1.0 +"In Carolina's does triumphant rise,",0.0 +That Charming Queen for whom so much we grieved.,0.0 +"As when some happy Nuptial Knot's untied,",0.0 +"The poor Wife, overpowered by the Stroke of Fate,",2.0 +"Mourns like a Turtle her departed Mate,",1.0 +"Stretched on the Breathless Trunk her Tears she vents,",0.0 +And utters to the Lifeless Clay Complaints:,1.0 +"To draw her thence all Arguments are tried,",1.0 +"Nothing can raise her from her Husband's Side,",3.0 +"Till some one Friend more lucky than the rest,",1.0 +Lays the surviving Infant on her Breast:,3.0 +"She views each Feature, dwells on every Grace,",0.0 +And in the Child surveys the Father's Face;,0.0 +"Then the dear Relic snatches to her Arms,",3.0 +And all the Mother instantly returns.,1.0 +"Fixed the Succession, and relieved our Woes.",3.0 +"Whatever the Almighty gives to bless Mankind,",3.0 +"We, or in Spring, or in the Autumn find,",0.0 +"The Spring revives what Winter has decayed,",0.0 +And in New Livery all the Earth's arrayed.,2.0 +"But though the Spring a Thousand Sweets disclose,",1.0 +"The Indian Jessamine, and Syrian Rose;",5.0 +"The various Product of each fertile Soil,",3.0 +It's the Rich Autumn Crowns the Peasant's Toil.,2.0 +And every Joy reviving in the KING;,0.0 +YOU in the PRINCESS will our Harvest bring.,1.0 +"Low in a Vale beneath a spreading Shade,",0.0 +"To please the Fair thus formed the rival Song,",1.0 +While the Herds listened to each tuneful Tongue.,3.0 +"This Morn I wandered through a poplar Grove,",1.0 +Where a lone Turtle mourned her absent Love;,2.0 +"With pensive Coo she well expressed her Woe,",0.0 +Lulled by her Voice the Brooks more gently flow;,0.0 +When lo the Partner of her Nest drew nigh,2.0 +With hovering Wings: And bid her Sorrows fly.,0.0 +"All sprightly now with brisker Note she sings,",0.0 +"Prunes her soft Breast, and spreads her joyful Wings.",3.0 +"No more the Grove is Witness to her Woe,",1.0 +Such are the Joys that faithful Lovers know.,1.0 +"'Twas there a single Violet I spied,",1.0 +"That breathed its Odours, drooped its Head, and died;",3.0 +"When from the Root a gay Companion grew,",0.0 +Fair as the first and fresh as Morning Dew:,0.0 +Whose fragrant Leaves perfumed the bordering Plain;,2.0 +"Then did the first its former Beauties gain,",0.0 +"Pleased with each other side by side they grow,",0.0 +As sweet as was the Violet is my Love.,2.0 +"Soft are the Murmurs of a southern Wind,",1.0 +But she is softer than her harmless Sheep.,2.0 +"Sweet are the Gales that meet the rosy Morn,",0.0 +Sweet are the Flowers that yonder Meads adorn;,2.0 +But my loved Nymph is sweet as early Day.,2.0 +"Where walks my Love ' -- there opening Roses bloom,",2.0 +"When she is gone the opening Roses fade,",2.0 +The Sun himself laments the absent Maid.,0.0 +"When smiles my Love, then smile the Groves below;",0.0 +And the clear Skies with brighter Lustre glow:,2.0 +"But when she frowns, those Groves are glad no more,",1.0 +And the Sky lowers that was bright before.,2.0 +"While we prefer the Spring to Winter Storms,",1.0 +Or goodly Cedars to unseemly Thorns;,1.0 +"While Maples keep below the lofty Pine,",0.0 +Shall my loved Nymph before her Sisters shine?,3.0 +"As we prefer the Peacock to the Crow,",3.0 +As Maidens fairer than their Mothers show;,1.0 +So my loved Nymph each other Nymph excels.,2.0 +"You sung last Night with more melodious Air,",3.0 +"While the shrill Pipe her slender Fingers plied,",3.0 +"The Pipe you gave her, and your Heart beside.",1.0 +'Twas you I saw beneath a maple Shade;,0.0 +"Who broke your Cypress Bowl on yonder Plain,",0.0 +And sent the Willow to her slighted Swain.,2.0 +And Blood fall dropping from the darkened Moon:,2.0 +"Tell this, and I shall for thy Learning yield,",1.0 +And Shrubs yield Apples that were Crabs before;,1.0 +And for thy Knowledge I shall not refuse,2.0 +To give the best of all my speckled Ewes.,0.0 +"Thus sung the Shepherd's while the listening Maid,",1.0 +"Praised both their Songs, and thus their Songs repaid;",1.0 +"Behold this lovely Pineapple, she cried;",5.0 +"These long were mine, and these I give to you;",1.0 +"They part the Flocks, and to the Folds repair;",1.0 +"And the black Clouds forbid their longer Stay,",2.0 +Their Feet unwilling tread their destined Way,0.0 +"At once: Farewell too lovely Nymphs, they cry,",2.0 +And on the Virgin cast a parting Eye.,1.0 +"TO You, great Steward of the public Trust,",3.0 +"True to your King, and to your Country just!",1.0 +"No venal Bard his joyful Tribute brings,",1.0 +Nor Envy sure can censure what he sings;,0.0 +"Since each impartial Tongue your Praise declares,",0.0 +"The Muse but echoes, what the Poet hears.",0.0 +"But You, whose Merits moved the People's Voice,",1.0 +"Unanimous, to make so wise a Choice,",1.0 +"With solid Sense, and prudent Conduct show,",0.0 +"You grace the Senate, not the Senate You.",1.0 +"Where, in the List of Patriots, could we find",1.0 +"Or where a juster Hand, to poise the Scale",0.0 +"Nor this you strive to sink, nor that extend;",1.0 +"Bigot to neither Side, to both a Friend.",2.0 +So flow the Spirits through our vital Frame;,1.0 +"Nor yet this Member chill, nor that inflame.",0.0 +"TRUE to your Principles, you never stray",1.0 +"From Public Good, though Interest lead the Way:",0.0 +For Public Good you still employ your Tongue;,0.0 +"And, rather than commit, you suffer Wrong.",1.0 +And Members bartered Honesty for Gain;,1.0 +"No Gain, no Place, nor Profit could control",2.0 +The stubborn Virtue of your steady Soul:,1.0 +BUT why should I in feeble Numbers tell,0.0 +"Those Virtues, which your Actions paint so well?",0.0 +For all the Actions of your Life proclaim,1.0 +"A Subject's loyal Love, a Patriot's Fame.",2.0 +"Your Care to keep the People's Interest sure,",0.0 +"Your Zeal to guard the Prince's Crown secure,",0.0 +Make Prince and People both espouse your Cause;,1.0 +"Witness their latest Choice, and loud Applause;",2.0 +"Parties themselves agreed your Worth to boast,",2.0 +"Or differed only, who should praise it most;",0.0 +"While timorous Candidates the Test declined,",3.0 +So fly the Stars before the rising Sun;,0.0 +"And, from his brighter Beams withdraw their own.",1.0 +"DORINDA, once the fairest of the Train,",1.0 +"Toast of the Town, and Triumph of the Plain;",1.0 +"Whose shining Eyes a thousand Hearts alarmed,",0.0 +"Whose Wit inspired, and whose Follies charmed:",1.0 +"Who, with Invention, racked her careful Breast",1.0 +"To find new Graces to insult the rest,",2.0 +"Now sees her Temples take a swarthy Hue,",1.0 +"While on her Cheeks the fading Roses die,",0.0 +And the last Sparkles tremble in her Eye.,2.0 +"Bright Sol had drove the sable Clouds away,",1.0 +"And cheered the Heavens with a Stream of Day,",1.0 +"The woodland Choir their little Throats prepare,",2.0 +To chant new Carols to the Morning Air:,2.0 +On her sad Pillow lost Dorinda lay;,2.0 +"To Mirth a Stranger, and the like to Ease,",1.0 +"For if to close her weary Lids she tries,",1.0 +Detested Wrinkles swim before her Eyes;,0.0 +"At length the Mourner raised her aching Head,",0.0 +And discontented left her hated Bed.,0.0 +"But sighing shunned the Relics of her Pride,",1.0 +And left the Toilet for the Chimney Side:,1.0 +Her careless Locks upon her Shoulders lay,0.0 +"She slights her Form, no more by Youth inspired,",1.0 +"At length all trembling, of herself afraid,",1.0 +"To her loved Glass repaired the weeping Maid,",2.0 +And with a Sigh addressed the altered Shade.,1.0 +"With lowering Forehead, like a northern Storm;",2.0 +"Cheeks pale and hollow, as the Face of Woe,",2.0 +And Lips that with no gay Vermilion glow?,2.0 +Where is that Form which this false Mirror told,4.0 +"Bloomed like the Morn, and should for Ages hold;",0.0 +"But now a Spectre in its room appears,",0.0 +But surely not the mimic Shape of me.,0.0 +"Ah! yes ' -- the Shade its mourning Visage rears,",0.0 +"Pants when I sigh, and answers to my Tears:",1.0 +"Now who shall bow before this withered Shrine,",0.0 +"This Mortal Image, that was late Divine?",0.0 +"What Victim now will praise these faded Eyes,",0.0 +Once the gay Basis for a thousand Lies?,4.0 +"Deceitful Beauty ' -- false as thou art gay,",1.0 +"This the Reward of many careful Years,",1.0 +"The Gloves anointed, and the bathing Hour,",1.0 +"Yet to thy Worship still the fair Ones run,",1.0 +And hail thy Temples with the rising Sun;,1.0 +And Isabella curls her grizzled Hair:,0.0 +"See poor Augusta of her Glass afraid,",2.0 +While her thin Cheeks disown the mimic Red.,3.0 +"Soft Silvia, who no Lover's Breast alarms,",4.0 +"And though her Cheek can boast no rosy Die,",2.0 +Her gay Brocades allure the gazing Eye.,0.0 +"But hear, my Sisters ' -- Hear an ancient Maid,",0.0 +"Too long by Folly, and her Arts betrayed;",2.0 +"From these light Trifles turn your partial Eyes,",2.0 +It's sad Dorinda prays you to be wise;,1.0 +"And thou Celinda, thou must shortly feel",2.0 +The sad Effect of Time's revolving Wheel;,0.0 +"Thy Spring is past, thy Summer Sun declined,",0.0 +"See Autumn next, and Winter stalks behind:",1.0 +"But let not Reason with thy Beauties fly,",1.0 +Nor place thy Merit in a brilliant Eye;,0.0 +"And make thy Temper, like thy Features, please:",0.0 +Nor trim thy Eyebrows with so nice a Care;,2.0 +Let Isabel unload her aching Head,1.0 +"Of twisted Papers, and of binding Lead;",1.0 +"Let sage Augusta now, without a Frown,",1.0 +Strip those gay Ribbons from her aged Crown;,4.0 +Change the laced Slipper of delicious Hue,4.0 +"For a warm Stocking, and an easy Shoe;",3.0 +"Guard her swelled Ankles from Rheumatic Pain,",4.0 +And from her Cheek expunge the guilty Stain.,1.0 +"Would smiling Silvia lay that Hoop aside,",2.0 +"She, like the rest, had once her flagrant Day,",0.0 +But now she twinkles in a fainter Ray.,0.0 +"Those youthful Airs set off their Mistress now,",2.0 +Just as the Patch adorns her Autumn Brow:,0.0 +"In vain her Feet in sparkling Laces glow,",0.0 +"Since none regard her Forehead, nor her Toe.",1.0 +"Who would not burst with Laughter, or with Spleen,",1.0 +The little Loves have bid her Eyes adieu:,0.0 +"Yet she pursues the Pleasures of her Prime,",2.0 +"And vain Desires, not subdued by Time;",0.0 +"Thrusts in amongst the Frolic and the Gay,",2.0 +But shuts her Daughter from the Beams of Day:,1.0 +"The Child, she says, is indolent and grave,",1.0 +And tells the World Ophelia can't behave:,0.0 +"But while Ophelia is forbid the Room,",1.0 +"Or to the Sound of melting Music dies,",1.0 +And in their Sockets rolls her blinking Eyes;,0.0 +While Scorn and Satire whisper through the Hall.,2.0 +"Hear this, you fair Ones, that survive your Charms,",1.0 +Nor reach at Folly with your aged Arms;,1.0 +"Thus Pope has sung, thus let Dorinda sing;",2.0 +"Virtue, brave Boys, ' -- it's Virtue makes a King:",3.0 +Why not a Queen? fair Virtue is the same,2.0 +"In the rough Hero, and the smiling Dame:",3.0 +"Though late I see her, and embrace her too:",1.0 +"Come, you blessed Graces, that are sure to please,",3.0 +"The Smile of Friendship, and the careless Ease;",1.0 +"The Hand of Bounty, and the Heart sincere:",1.0 +"May these the Twilight of my Days attend,",3.0 +And may that Evening never want a Friend,1.0 +"To smooth my Passage to the silent Gloom,",1.0 +And give a Tear to grace the mournful Tomb.,0.0 +HOW happy you! who varied joys pursue;,1.0 +And every hour presents you something new?,0.0 +For six long months have gained upon your heart;,1.0 +The winding staircase and the covered walk;,2.0 +And raise with wondrous joy the fancied pile:,0.0 +But coldly executes his lord's command.,0.0 +"With dirt and mortar soon you grow displeased,",0.0 +"Planting succeeds, and avenues are raised,",2.0 +"Canals are cut, and mountains level made;",0.0 +"Bowers of retreat, and galleries of shade;",2.0 +The shaven turf presents a lively green;,0.0 +The bordering flowers in mystic knots are seen:,4.0 +With studied art on nature you refine ' --,1.0 +"The spring beheld you warm in this design,",1.0 +"But scarce the cold attacks your favourite trees,",0.0 +"Your inclination fails, and wishes freeze.",0.0 +"You quit the grove, so lately you admired;",1.0 +"With other views your eager hopes are fired,",0.0 +Post to the city you direct your way;,1.0 +Not blooming paradise could bribe your stay:,0.0 +Ambition shows your power's brightest side;,0.0 +"Though certain pains attend the cares of state,",0.0 +A good man owes his country to be great;,2.0 +"Should act abroad the high distinguished part,",0.0 +Or show at least the purpose of his heart.,1.0 +With thoughts like these the shining courts you seek;,1.0 +Full of new projects for almost a week:,3.0 +You then despise the tinsel glittering snare;,2.0 +Think vile mankind below a serious care.,4.0 +Life is too short for any distant aim;,3.0 +And cold the dull reward of future fame:,0.0 +Be happy then while yet you have to live;,0.0 +And love is all the blessing heaven can give.,0.0 +Fired by new passion you address the fair;,3.0 +Your beating heart acknowledges her power;,1.0 +Your eager eyes her lovely form devour;,0.0 +"You feel the poison swelling in your breast,",0.0 +And all your soul by fond desire possessed.,0.0 +In dying sighs a long three hours are past;,1.0 +"To some assembly with impatient haste,",1.0 +"With trembling hope, and doubtful fear you move,",0.0 +"Resolved to tempt your fate, and own your love:",0.0 +"But there Belinda meets you on the stairs,",2.0 +"Easy her shape, attracting all her airs;",2.0 +"A smile she gives, and with a smile can wound;",1.0 +Her melting voice has music in the sound;,0.0 +"Wit in her mien, and pleasure in her face:",0.0 +"Here while you vow eternity of love,",1.0 +"However deeply made, no long impress remains;",2.0 +The lightest leaf can leave its figure there;,1.0 +The strongest form is scattered by the air.,1.0 +"So yielding the warm temper of your mind,",3.0 +"So touched by every eye, so tossed by wind;",0.0 +O! how unlike the heaven my soul designed!,1.0 +"Unseen, unheard, the throng around me move;",0.0 +"Not wishing praise, insensible of love:",1.0 +"No whispers soften, nor no beauties fire;",3.0 +"Careless I see the dance, and coldly hear the lyre.",2.0 +So numerous herds are driven over the rock;,4.0 +No print is left of all the passing flock:,1.0 +So sings the wind around the solid stone:,0.0 +So vainly beat the waves with fruitless moan.,0.0 +Who dare attempt to fix impressions there:,1.0 +"Engrave his name upon this marble breast,",0.0 +Not rolling ages could deface that name;,0.0 +Through all the storms of life it's still the same:,0.0 +"Though length of years with moss may shade the ground,",0.0 +"Deep, though unseen, remains the secret wound.",2.0 +"THOU pleasant noble Bard of fame far spread,",1.0 +"Now art thou gathered to the mighty dead,",1.0 +"All that of thee is perishable, hold.",2.0 +Mourners and mutes and weeping friends are gone;,2.0 +"The pageant closed, and thou art left alone,",1.0 +"The covered treasure of a sacred spot,",1.0 +That in the course of time shall never be forgot.,0.0 +"Soon those who loved, admired and honoured thee,",0.0 +"And great their number is, who have with pride",1.0 +"Looked in thy manly face, sat by thy side,",2.0 +"And heard thy social converse, ' -- words of cheer,",0.0 +And words of power to charm the listening ear!,2.0 +"At death's despotic summons will they come,",1.0 +Each in his turn from many a different home:,2.0 +"The regal palace, and the homely farm.",1.0 +"Soldier and lawyer, merchant, priest and peer,",2.0 +"The crowned monarch and the simple hind,",1.0 +Did all in thee a meet companion find.,0.0 +"For thee the peasant's wife her elbow chair,",2.0 +"Smiling a welcome, kindly set, and there",2.0 +"With fair exchange of storey, saw and jest,",0.0 +Thou wert to her a free and pleasant guest;,1.0 +"While nature, undisguised, repaid thee well",0.0 +For time so spent. She and her mate could tell,1.0 +"They claimed thee as their own, their kin their kind.",1.0 +More precious than the scholar's classic lore.,1.0 +"And how felt he, whose early rhymes had been",0.0 +"To perilous inspection given, and seen",3.0 +"By one whose brows were graced from every land,",1.0 +"How beat his heart, as with the morning ray,",1.0 +"Imagining what shortly he must see,",2.0 +Him in whose presence he so soon will be?,1.0 +When on thy real face his eyes were cast?,3.0 +Thine open brow with glow of fancy heated;,0.0 +Thy purring cat upon the table seated;,0.0 +Thy sleeping hound that hath his easy lair,0.0 +Close on the precincts of his master's chair;,2.0 +"The honest welcome of that sudden smile,",1.0 +"And outstretched hand, misgiving thoughts beguile.",4.0 +"But when thy cheerful greeting met his ear,",0.0 +"Fie on thee! foolish heart, a man like this to fear!",1.0 +"Thou wert to him, when blushed the eastern sky,",1.0 +A sage of awful mien and lofty eye;,0.0 +Thou wert the monitor both kind and free;,3.0 +"Thou wert his easy cheerful host, ' -- his friend.",1.0 +"When all whose eyes have ever beheld thy face,",2.0 +"Thou wilt exist in all thy magic then,",0.0 +"The cherished, speaking friend of living men.",0.0 +"In torrid climes, in regions cold and bleak,",0.0 +In every land and language wilt thou speak.,0.0 +"Within the seaman's cabin, where the sound",0.0 +Of many leagues of water murmurs round.,0.0 +"The buoyant schoolboy will forego his play,",2.0 +In secret nook alone with thee to stray;,1.0 +"The sober sage wise tomes will cast aside,",1.0 +An hour with thee ' -- a pleasant hour to bide.,1.0 +"Men of all nations, of all creeds, all ranks,",1.0 +"Of mortal life, they will delight to pay.",1.0 +"For who shall virtuous sympathies resign,",3.0 +Or feed foul fancies from a page of thine?,2.0 +"No, none! thy writings as thy life are pure,",2.0 +And their fair fame and influence will endure.,5.0 +Not so with those where perverse skill portrays,4.0 +"Wild, maniac, selfish fiends to be admired,",7.0 +"Such are, to what thy faithful pen hath traced,",1.0 +"With all the shades of varied nature graced,",0.0 +"Like grim cartoons, for Flemish looms prepared,",0.0 +"Stately or mean, theirs still are forms of truth,",2.0 +But silent smiles of pleasure speak their praise.,0.0 +"When those, who now thy recent death deplore,",0.0 +"Lie in the dust, thought of and known no more,",3.0 +Will brightly shine with undiminished fame;,0.0 +And future sons of fancy fondly strive,0.0 +To their compatriots works like thine to give.,3.0 +But of the many who on her wide sea,2.0 +"Shall boldly spread their sails to follow thee,",1.0 +Than those who emulate the poet's strain.,1.0 +"A tale like Waverley we yet may con,",1.0 +But shall we read a lay like Marmion?,1.0 +The voice of public favour says not so:,1.0 +"Which hath of old most fascinating been,",0.0 +"And will be ever, ' -- strong in ready power,",1.0 +"And over these common foes will oft prevail,",2.0 +Against thy left hand for thy right to plead:,2.0 +"Think as we list, one truth, alas! is plain,",0.0 +We never shall look upon thy like again.,2.0 +"Thy country, bounded by her subject sea,",1.0 +Adds to her fame by giving birth to thee;,0.0 +"In distant lands yonder fancied group behold,",3.0 +Where busy traders meet in quest of gold;,0.0 +"Motley and keen, all gathered round a youth,",2.0 +"Who simply stands unconscious of the truth,",2.0 +"Look at him wistfully, and hark, they speak ' --",1.0 +"The Turk and Jew, Armenian and Greek,",1.0 +Their rapid lips the whispered words betraying ' --,0.0 +"That Caledonian, too, with more good will",2.0 +They greet as of thy closer kindred still:,1.0 +"But who is he, who, standing by their side,",2.0 +As if he meant to look the others down?,2.0 +Ay; he is from thine own romantic town.,1.0 +"Thou art in time's long course a landmark high,",2.0 +"A beacon blazing to the neither sky,",1.0 +"To which, as far and wide it shoots its rays,",0.0 +"From ship, and shore, and mountain turn their sight,",0.0 +And hail the glorious signal of the night.,3.0 +"Shall be thy hallowed sod; solemn and sweet,",5.0 +"Will be the gentle sorrow uttered there,",1.0 +The whispered blessing and the quiet prayer.,1.0 +"Flower, herb, or leaf by children yet unborn",1.0 +"Will often from thy verdant turf be torn,",1.0 +And kept in dear memorial of the place,1.0 +Where thou art laid with a departed race;,1.0 +"Where every thing around, tower, turret, tree,",6.0 +"River, and glen, and mountain, wood and lea,",2.0 +"And ancient ruin, by the moonlight made",2.0 +"More stately with alternate light and shade,",4.0 +"Thy once beloved Melrose, ' -- all speak of thee,",3.0 +"With mingled voices through the gale of morn,",1.0 +"Of evening, noon, and night, most sadly born,",0.0 +That sadly seems to utter He is gone!,1.0 +To God's forgiving mercy and his love ' --,1.0 +Bright hosts redeemed by him whose voice of hope,2.0 +Revealed the immortal spirit's boundless scope ' --,2.0 +"We leave thee, though within its narrow cell,",1.0 +Thy honoured dust must for a season dwell ' --,1.0 +"Our friend, our bard, our brother, ' -- fare thee well!",0.0 +THERE are it seems who think the natal star,1.0 +Dart their strong influence on the dawning soul;,4.0 +Or lulled to pleasure by the queen of love:,1.0 +And point to arts and sciences the wand;,1.0 +"Or angry Mars inspiring warlike heat,",1.0 +"Alarm the pulse, and at the bosom beat.",0.0 +If so: then why the Muse a contrast finds,0.0 +"The one of nature easy and composed,",2.0 +"TO other of eager and impetuous soul,",3.0 +"Where the rill murmurs, and the laurel shades;",3.0 +"That warmed and roused by what his soul approves,",0.0 +"The sport, the mistress, or the friend he loves.",1.0 +"Yet the same sun saluted them on earth,",4.0 +"Yet the same planets glittered at their birth,",2.0 +"The same soft gale, or whispered in the wood,",1.0 +"It is enough, that harmony appears,",2.0 +"And friendship reconciles, where nature jars;",0.0 +"For whatsoever the scheme of dreamers be,",2.0 +"Their stars may differ, since their lives agree.",0.0 +"SINCE now, dear Youth, this sad recording stone",1.0 +"Proclaims, alas! thy gentle spirit flown;",0.0 +"To thee, thou spotless, thou lamented shade,",2.0 +By weeping friends be sorrow's tribute paid;,0.0 +"And her aspiring love attempts thy praise,",1.0 +"Attempts to paint that pang her bosom knew,",0.0 +When robbed by Death of happiness and you;,1.0 +"While to this tablet frail she gives the trust,",0.0 +To bear thy virtues and protect thy dust;,1.0 +"For Hope celestial, dawning on thy grave,",1.0 +From whose sad bourn mortals return no more.,4.0 +She for I know not yet her name in heaven,1.0 +"Nor sudden, like Philander. What avail?",2.0 +This seeming mitigation but inflames;,1.0 +This fancied medicine heightens the disease.,3.0 +"The longer known, the closer still she grew;",0.0 +And gradual parting is a gradual death.,5.0 +"IT is the grim tyrant's engine, which extorts",6.0 +"From hardest hearts, confession of distress.",1.0 +"OH the long, dark approach through years of pain,",3.0 +"Death's gallery, might I dare to call it so,",2.0 +With dismal doubt and sable terror hung;,0.0 +Sick Hope's pale lamp its only glimmering ray!,4.0 +"There Fate my melancholy walk ordained,",0.0 +"How oft I saw her dead, while yet in smiles!",0.0 +"In smiles she sunk her grief, to lessen mine.",1.0 +"She spoke me comfort, and increased my pain.",1.0 +"In his pale progress gently gaining ground,",2.0 +"Death urged his deadly siege; in spite of Art,",1.0 +Of all the balmy blessings Nature lends,0.0 +"Not now first made familiar to my sight,",2.0 +"And thou, OH Moon, bear witness! many a night",6.0 +"He tore the pillow from beneath my head,",1.0 +"Tied down my sore attention to the shock,",1.0 +By ceaseless depredations on a life,1.0 +Dearer than that he left me. Dreadful post,0.0 +"Of observation, darker every hour!",0.0 +"Less dread the day that drove me to the brink,",2.0 +And pointed at Eternity below;,1.0 +"When, on a moment's point, the important die",2.0 +"Of life and death spun doubtful, ere it fell,",1.0 +And turned up life; my title to more woe.,1.0 +But why more woe? More comfort let it be.,0.0 +Nothing is dead but that which wished to die;,2.0 +Where dwells that wish most ardent of the wise?,1.0 +Too dark the sun to see it; highest stars,1.0 +"Too low to reach it; Death, great Death alone,",2.0 +"Over stars and sun triumphant, lands us there.",0.0 +"Nor dreadful our transition; though the mind,",2.0 +Is prone to paint it dreadful. Who can take,0.0 +Death's portrait true? The tyrant never sat.,1.0 +"Our sketch all random strokes, conjecture all;",0.0 +"Close shuts the Grave, nor tells one single tale.",1.0 +"Death, and his image rising in the brain,",0.0 +Bear faint resemblance; never are alike:,2.0 +Fear shakes the pencil; Fancy loves excess;,1.0 +Dark Ignorance is lavish of her shades:,3.0 +And these the formidable picture draw.,2.0 +"But grant the worst; iT is past; new prospects rise,",1.0 +And drop a veil eternal over her tomb.,2.0 +Far other views our contemplation claim;,1.0 +Views that suspend our agonies in death.,2.0 +"Wrapped in the thought of immortality,",1.0 +"Wrapped in the single, the triumphant thought,",1.0 +"Its nature, proof, importance, fire my song.",0.0 +OH that my song could emulate my soul!,0.0 +"Like her, immortal. No! ' -- the soul disdains",1.0 +"If endless ages can outweigh an hour,",2.0 +"Let not the laurel, but the palm, inspire.",1.0 +"Thy nature, Immortality, who knows?",1.0 +And yet who knows it not? It is but life,1.0 +"In stronger thread of brighter colour spun,",1.0 +And spun for ever; dipped by cruel Fate,0.0 +"In Stygian die, how black, how brittle here!",0.0 +"How short our correspondence with the sun,",1.0 +"And, while it lasts, inglorious! Our best deeds,",2.0 +"How wanting in their weight! Our highest joys,",0.0 +"Small cordials to support us in our pain,",2.0 +And give us strength to suffer. But how great,1.0 +"With all the sons of Reason, scattered wide",0.0 +"Through habitable space, wherever born,",1.0 +However endowed; to live free citizens,5.0 +"Of universal nature; to lay hold,",2.0 +"By more than feeble faith, on the Supreme!",1.0 +To call Heaven's rich unfathomable mines,3.0 +Mines which support archangels in their state,2.0 +"Our own! to rise in science as in bliss,",1.0 +Initiate in the secrets of the skies!,1.0 +"To read Creation, read its mighty plan",0.0 +In the bare bosom of the Deity!,4.0 +The plan and execution to collate!,1.0 +"To see, before each glance of piercing thought,",0.0 +"All cloud, all shadow, blown remote, and leave",0.0 +"No mystery ' -- but that of love Divine,",2.0 +"Of inward anguish, and of outward ill,",1.0 +"From darkness and from dust, to such a scene;",2.0 +"Love's element, true joy's illustrious home,",5.0 +From earth's sad contrast now deplored more fair!,1.0 +What exquisite vicissitude of fate!,3.0 +Blessed absolution of our blackest hour!,2.0 +"Lorenzo, these are thoughts that make man Man,",2.0 +And every moment fear to sink beneath,0.0 +"How great, in the wild whirl of Time's pursuits,",2.0 +"To stop, and pause; involved in high presage,",3.0 +"Through the long vista of a thousand years,",3.0 +"To stand contemplating our distant selves,",4.0 +"As in a magnifying mirror seen,",0.0 +"Enlarged, ennobled, elevate, Divine!",0.0 +To gaze in thought on what all thought transcends!,0.0 +"As far beyond conception as desert,",1.0 +"Ourselves the astonished talkers, and the tale!",3.0 +"Lorenzo, swells thy bosom at the thought?",0.0 +The swell becomes thee; iT is an honest pride.,1.0 +"Revere thyself, ' -- and yet thyself despise.",0.0 +"His nature no man can overrate, and none",3.0 +"Can underrate his merit. Take good heed,",1.0 +That almost universal error shun.,1.0 +"How just our pride, when we behold those heights!",1.0 +"Not those Ambition paints in air, but those",1.0 +"Reason points out, and ardent Virtue gains,",0.0 +"And angels emulate. Our pride, how just!",0.0 +When mount we? when these shackles cast? when quit,0.0 +"This cell of the creation? this small nest,",3.0 +"Stuck in a corner of the universe,",1.0 +To souls celestial; souls ordained to breathe,0.0 +"Ambrosial gales, and drink a purer sky;",0.0 +"Greatly triumphant on Time's farther shore,",4.0 +"Where Virtue reigns, enriched with full arrears,",0.0 +While Pomp imperial begs an alms of Peace.,2.0 +"In empire high, or in proud science deep,",1.0 +"You born of earth, on what can you confer,",1.0 +"With half the dignity, with half the gain,",1.0 +"The gust, the glow of rational delight,",1.0 +"As on this theme, which angels praise and share?",1.0 +Man's fates and favours are a theme in heaven.,1.0 +"What periodic potions for the sick,",1.0 +"In an eternity what scenes shall strike,",2.0 +"Adventures thicken, novelties surprise!",1.0 +What webs of wonder shall unravel there!,1.0 +"What full day pour on all the paths of Heaven,",1.0 +How shall the blessed day of our discharge,3.0 +And straighten its inextricable maze!,4.0 +"To know, how rich, how full, our banquet there!",1.0 +"There, not the moral world alone unfolds;",0.0 +"The world material, lately seen in shades,",2.0 +"And in those shades by fragments only seen,",0.0 +"Unbroken, then, illustrious and entire,",3.0 +"Its ample sphere, its universal frame,",0.0 +"In full dimensions, swells to the survey,",1.0 +"From some superior point, where, who can tell?",2.0 +"Suffice it, iT is a point where gods reside,",1.0 +"How shall the stranger man's illumined eye,",0.0 +"In the vast ocean of unbounded space,",3.0 +Behold an infinite of floating worlds,1.0 +"Divide the crystal waves of either pure,",0.0 +"In endless voyage, without port! The least",5.0 +"Great as they are, what numbers these surpass,",2.0 +"Huge as Leviathan to that small race,",4.0 +"Those twinkling multitudes of little life,",0.0 +Yet what are these stupendous to the whole?,2.0 +So vast the plan. Fecundity Divine!,1.0 +Exuberant Source! perhaps I wrong thee still.,2.0 +"If admiration is a source of joy,",1.0 +What transport hence! yet this the least in heaven.,1.0 +What this to that illustrious robe He wears,2.0 +"Who tossed this mass of wonders from His hand,",1.0 +"A specimen, an earnest of His power?",2.0 +"Tis to that glory, whence all glory flows,",0.0 +Which gave it birth. But what this Sun of heaven?,0.0 +This bliss supreme of the supremely blessed?,3.0 +"Death, only Death, the question can resolve.",2.0 +The bare ideas! solid happiness,1.0 +So distant from its shadow chased below.,1.0 +"And chase we still the phantom through the fire,",1.0 +"Over bog, and brake, and precipice, till death?",1.0 +Defy the dangers of the field and flood?,1.0 +"Of subtle thought, and exquisite design,",1.0 +"Fine network of the brain! to catch a fly,",1.0 +"The momentary buzz of vain renown,",0.0 +"A name, a mortal immortality?",1.0 +"Or, meaner still, instead of grasping air,",0.0 +"Drudge, sweat, through every shame, for every gain,",1.0 +For vile contaminating trash; throw up,2.0 +"Our hope in heaven, our dignity with man,",1.0 +"And deify the dirt, matured to gold?",0.0 +"Ambition, Avarice! the two demons these,",5.0 +"Which goad through every slough our human herd,",0.0 +Hard travelled from the cradle to the grave.,3.0 +These demons burn mankind; but most possess,1.0 +Is it in Time to hide Eternity?,2.0 +And why not in an atom on the shore,1.0 +"To cover ocean? or a mote, the sun?",1.0 +Glory and wealth! have they this blinding power?,2.0 +"What, if to them I prove Lorenzo blind?",1.0 +Would it surprise thee? Be thou then surprised:,1.0 +"Mark well, as foreign as these subjects seem,",2.0 +What close connexion ties them to my theme.,1.0 +"First, what is true ambition? The pursuit",1.0 +"Of glory, nothing less than man can share.",0.0 +"Their arts and conquests animals might boast,",2.0 +And claim their laurel crowns as well as we;,0.0 +But not celestial. Here we stand alone;,0.0 +"As in our form, distinct, preeminent:",1.0 +"If prone in thought, our stature is our shame,",1.0 +And man should blush his forehead meets the skies.,0.0 +"A slender portion, and a narrow bound!",1.0 +"These Reason, with an energy Divine,",2.0 +"When the great soul buoys up to this high point,",3.0 +"Leaving gross Nature's sediments below,",4.0 +"Then, and then only, Adam's offspring quits",1.0 +"The sage and hero of the fields and woods,",1.0 +"Asserts his rank, and rises into man.",0.0 +This is ambition: this is human fire.,2.0 +Can Parts or Place two bold pretenders! make,1.0 +"Lorenzo great, and pluck him from the throng?",1.0 +"Genius and Art, Ambition's boasted wings,",2.0 +Our boast but ill deserve. A feeble aid!,0.0 +"A celebrated wretch when I behold,",1.0 +"When I behold a genius bright and base,",1.0 +"Of towering talents, and terrestrial aims;",3.0 +"The glorious fragments of a soul immortal,",3.0 +"With rubbish mixed, and glittering in the dust.",1.0 +"Struck at the splendid, melancholy sight",0.0 +"At once compassion soft, and envy, rise ' --",0.0 +"If wanting worth, are shining instruments",1.0 +"In false Ambition's hand, to finish faults",0.0 +"Illustrious, and give Infamy renown.",5.0 +Great ill is an achievement of great powers:,4.0 +Plain Sense but rarely leads us far astray.,1.0 +"Reason the means, Affections choose our end;",2.0 +"Means have no merit, if our end amiss.",3.0 +"If wrong our hearts, our heads are right in vain;",0.0 +Hearts are proprietors of all applause.,3.0 +Let Genius then despair to make thee great;,1.0 +Nor flatter Station. What is Station high?,0.0 +"It begs an alms of homage from the throng,",1.0 +And oft the throng denies its charity.,1.0 +Monarchs and ministers are awful names;,2.0 +"Religion, public order, both exact",0.0 +"External homage, and a supple knee,",1.0 +"The meanest slave: all more is Merit's due,",0.0 +Her sacred and inviolable right;,2.0 +"Nor ever paid the monarch, but the man.",1.0 +"Our hearts never bow but to superior worth,",5.0 +Nor ever fail of their allegiance there.,2.0 +"Fools, indeed, drop the man in their account,",4.0 +And vote the mantle into majesty.,1.0 +Let the small savage boast his silver fur;,3.0 +"His own, descending fairly from his sires.",1.0 +"Shall man be proud to wear his livery,",1.0 +And souls in ermine scorn a soul without?,0.0 +And pyramids are pyramids in vales.,2.0 +"Each man makes his own stature, builds himself:",1.0 +Of these sure truths dost thou demand the cause?,3.0 +The cause is lodged in immortality.,1.0 +"Hear, and assent. Thy bosom burns for power;",2.0 +What station charms thee? I'll install thee there;,1.0 +IT is thine. And art thou greater than before?,2.0 +Has thy new post betrayed thee into pride?,3.0 +That treacherous pride betrays thy dignity;,3.0 +The being mean which staffs or strings can raise.,0.0 +"That pride, like hooded hawks, in darkness soars,",0.0 +"From blindness bold, and towering to the skies.",1.0 +"IT is born of Ignorance, which knows not man",1.0 +An angel's second; nor his second long.,1.0 +"A Nero, quitting his imperial throne,",3.0 +"And courting glory from the tinkling string,",1.0 +"But faintly shadows an immortal soul,",2.0 +"With empire's self, to pride or rapture fired.",0.0 +Even Vanity forbids thee to be vain.,2.0 +High worth is elevated place: iT is more;,1.0 +It makes the post stand candidate for thee;,2.0 +"Makes more than monarchs, makes an honest man;",1.0 +"Though no exchequer it commands, iT is wealth;",2.0 +"And though it wears no ribbon, iT is renown;",5.0 +"Renown, that would not quit thee, though disgraced,",1.0 +"Nature proclaims it most absurd in man,",2.0 +By pointing at his origin and end;,1.0 +"Milk and a swath, at first, his whole demand;",0.0 +"His whole domain, at last, a turf or stone;",0.0 +"To whom, between, a world may seem too small.",1.0 +"Souls truly great dart forward, on the wing",3.0 +"Of just Ambition, to the grand result,",1.0 +"Reduced to his own stature, low or high,",1.0 +"This antic prelude of grotesque events,",2.0 +"Where dwarfs are often stilted, and betray",1.0 +And nations laid in blood. Dread sacrifice,1.0 +To Christian pride! which had with horror shocked,0.0 +OH thou most Christian enemy to peace!,1.0 +Again in arms? again provoking Fate?,0.0 +"That prince, and that alone, is truly great,",0.0 +"On empire builds what empire far outweighs,",1.0 +And makes his throne a scaffold to the skies.,1.0 +Why this so rare? Because forgot of all,0.0 +"The day of death; that venerable day,",1.0 +Which sits as judge; that day which shall pronounce,0.0 +"On all our days, absolve them or condemn.",1.0 +"Lorenzo, never shut thy thought against it;",0.0 +"Be levees never so full, afford it room,",2.0 +And give it audience in the cabinet.,1.0 +Will tell thee fair if thou art great or mean.,1.0 +"To dote on aught may leave us, or be left, ' --",1.0 +"Is that ambition? Then let flames descend,",1.0 +"Point to the centre their inverted spires,",1.0 +And learn humiliation from a soul,1.0 +Which boasts her lineage from celestial fire.,3.0 +Yet these are they the world pronounces wise;,1.0 +"The world which cancels Nature's right and wrong,",0.0 +And casts new wisdom: even the grave man lends,4.0 +His solemn face to countenance the coin.,1.0 +Wisdom for parts is madness for the whole.,3.0 +"This stamps the paradox, and gives us leave",0.0 +"To call the wisest weak, the richest poor,",0.0 +"In triumph mean, and abject on a throne.",1.0 +"Nothing can make it less than mad in man,",2.0 +"And give his soul her full unbounded flight,",0.0 +But reaching Him who gave her wings to fly.,1.0 +"When blind Ambition quite mistakes her road,",0.0 +"And downward pores for that which shines above,",0.0 +"Substantial happiness, and true renown;",1.0 +"Then, like an idiot, gazing on the brook,",3.0 +"We leap at stars, and fasten in the mud;",0.0 +"At glory grasp, and sink in infamy.",1.0 +Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!,2.0 +"Thy strength in man, like length of wing in birds,",0.0 +"When disengaged from earth, with greater ease",1.0 +"And swifter flight, transports us to the skies:",1.0 +It turns a curse; it is our chain and scourge,1.0 +"In this dark dungeon, where confined we lie,",2.0 +All prospect of eternity shut out;,3.0 +"And, but for execution, never set free.",2.0 +"With error in ambition justly charged,",0.0 +Find we Lorenzo wiser in his wealth?,2.0 +"What, if thy rental I reform, and draw",1.0 +An inventory new to set thee right?,0.0 +"Where thy true treasure? Gold says, Not in me;",3.0 +"And, Not in me, the diamond. Gold is poor;",0.0 +"Seek in thy naked self, and find it there;",0.0 +"In being so descended, formed, endowed;",1.0 +"Erect, immortal, rational, Divine!",1.0 +"In senses, which inherit earth and heavens;",0.0 +Enjoy the various riches Nature yields;,2.0 +"Give taste to fruits, and harmony to groves,",2.0 +"Their radiant beams to gold, and gold's bright sire;",1.0 +"At a small inlet, which a grain might close,",1.0 +"Our senses, as our reason, are Divine.",2.0 +"But for the magic organ's powerful charm,",3.0 +"Ours is the cloth, the pencil, and the paint,",1.0 +"Which Nature's admirable picture draws,",1.0 +"Say then, shall man, his thoughts all sent abroad,",0.0 +"Superior wonders in himself forgot,",2.0 +"His admiration waste on objects round,",0.0 +When Heaven makes him the soul of all he sees?,0.0 +"Absurd, not rare! so great, so mean, is man!",0.0 +What wealth in senses such as these! What wealth,2.0 +In Fancy fired to form a fairer scene,2.0 +"Which, should it perish, could this world recall",0.0 +"From the dark shadows of overwhelming years,",1.0 +"In colours fresh, originally bright,",2.0 +"Preserve its portrait, and report its fate!",1.0 +"What wealth in Intellect, that sovereign power,",0.0 +Which Sense and Fancy summons to the bar;,1.0 +"And from the mass those underlings import,",2.0 +"From their materials sifted, and refined,",4.0 +"And in Truth's balance accurately weighed,",2.0 +"Forms art and science, government and law;",1.0 +"And, manners sad exception! set aside,",0.0 +"Of His idea, whose indulgent thought,",1.0 +"What wealth in souls that soar, dive, range around,",1.0 +Disdaining limit or from place or time:,1.0 +"And hear at once, in thought extensive, hear",0.0 +"The Almighty fiat, and the trumpet's sound!",2.0 +"Bold on Creation's outside walk, and view",3.0 +"What was, and is, and more than ever shall be;",1.0 +"Commanding, with omnipotence of thought,",2.0 +"Souls, that can grasp whatever the Almighty made,",2.0 +And wander wild through things impossible!,1.0 +"What wealth in faculties of endless growth,",1.0 +"In liberty to choose, in power to reach,",3.0 +"And in duration, how thy riches rise!",2.0 +Duration to perpetuate ' -- boundless bliss!,8.0 +"Ask you, what power resides in feeble man",2.0 +"That bliss to gain? Is Virtue's, then, unknown?",0.0 +Its tenure sure; its income is Divine.,2.0 +"To breed new wants, and beggar us the more!",2.0 +"Then, make a richer scramble for the throng.",1.0 +"Soon as this feeble pulse, which leaps so long",0.0 +Our magazines of hoarded trifles fly;,0.0 +"Fly diverse; fly to foreigners, to foes;",4.0 +"New masters court, and call the former fool",1.0 +How justly! for dependence on their stay.,2.0 +"Wide scatter, first, our playthings; then our dust.",2.0 +Dost court abundance for the sake of peace?,1.0 +Riches enable to be richer still;,3.0 +And richer still what mortal can resist?,1.0 +"New toils, succeeding toils, an endless train!",1.0 +"And murders Peace, which taught it first to shine.",0.0 +"The poor are half as wretched as the rich,",1.0 +Whose proud and painful privilege it is,1.0 +At once to bear a double load of woe;,0.0 +"To feel the stings of Envy and of Want,",1.0 +"Outrageous Want, both Indies cannot cure.",1.0 +A competence is vital to content.,2.0 +"Sick, or encumbered, is our happiness.",4.0 +A competence is all we can enjoy.,2.0 +OH be content where Heaven can give no more!,3.0 +"More, like a flash of water from a lock,",1.0 +Quickens our spirit's movement for an hour;,3.0 +"But soon its force is spent, nor rise our joys",0.0 +"As bees in flowers, and stings us with success.",3.0 +Nor knows the wise are privy to the lie.,1.0 +Much learning shows how little mortals know;,0.0 +"At best it babies us with endless toys,",1.0 +And keeps us children till we drop to dust.,1.0 +"As monkeys at a mirror stand amazed,",0.0 +They fail to find what they so plainly see:,1.0 +"Thus men, in shining riches, see the face",1.0 +"Of Happiness, nor know it is a shade;",2.0 +"But gaze, and touch, and peep, and peep again",0.0 +"And wish, and wonder it is absent still.",1.0 +How few can rescue opulence from want!,1.0 +Who lives to Nature rarely can be poor;,1.0 +Who lives to Fancy never can be rich.,1.0 +"Poor is the man in debt; the man of gold,",0.0 +The man of Reason smiles at her and Death.,1.0 +OH what a patrimony this! A being,1.0 +"Of such inherent strength and majesty,",2.0 +Not worlds possessed can raise it; worlds destroyed,0.0 +"Can't injure; which holds on its glorious course,",5.0 +"When thine, OH Nature! ends; too blessed to mourn",3.0 +The monarch is a beggar to the man.,2.0 +"IMMORTAL! Ages past, yet nothing gone!",0.0 +"Morn without eve! a race without a goal,",3.0 +Beginning still where computation ends!,0.0 +IT is the description of a Deity!,3.0 +IT is the description of the meanest slave:,2.0 +"The meanest slave dares, then, Lorenzo scorn?",1.0 +The meanest slave thy sovereign glory shares.,0.0 +"Proud youth, fastidious of the lower world!",2.0 +Man's lawful pride includes humility;,2.0 +Stoops to the lowest; is too great to find,2.0 +Proprietors eternal of thy love!,2.0 +"IMMORTAL! What can strike the sense so strong,",0.0 +As this the soul? It thunders to the thought;,2.0 +Reason amazes; gratitude overwhelms.,8.0 +No more we slumber on the brink of fate;,1.0 +"Roused at the sound, the exulting soul ascends,",2.0 +And breathes her native air; an air that feeds,0.0 +"Ambitions high, and fans ethereal fires;",2.0 +Nor leaves one loitering thought beneath the stars.,2.0 +"Immortal! Were but one immortal, how",3.0 +"Because iT is common, is the blessing lost?",1.0 +"OH vain, vain, vain, all else! Eternity!",3.0 +"A glorious and a needful refuge, that,",1.0 +From vile imprisonment in abject views.,1.0 +"IT is immortality, iT is that alone,",1.0 +"The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill.",0.0 +"That only, and that amply, this performs,",2.0 +"Lifts us above Life's pains, her joys above;",3.0 +"Their terror those, and these their lustre, lose:",2.0 +Eternity depending covers all;,1.0 +Eternity depending all achieves;,1.0 +Sets Earth at distance; casts her into shades;,1.0 +"The low, the lofty, joyous, and severe,",1.0 +"Fortune's dread frowns and fascinating smiles,",3.0 +"Make one promiscuous and neglected heap,",3.0 +"The man beneath; if I may call him man,",1.0 +Nothing terrestrial touches his high thought:,6.0 +"Suns shine unseen, and thunders roll unheard,",1.0 +"By minds quite conscious of their high descent,",2.0 +"Divinely darting upward every wish,",0.0 +"Warm on the wing, in glorious absence lost!",2.0 +"Were seen at once, her towering Alps would sink,",0.0 +And levelled Atlas leave an even sphere.,0.0 +"Thus Earth, and all that earthly minds admire,",1.0 +"To that stupendous view when souls awake,",0.0 +"So large of late, so mountainous to man,",1.0 +Time's toys subside; and equal all below.,1.0 +"Enthusiastic this? then all are weak,",1.0 +"Some souls have soared, or martyrs never had bled:",1.0 +And all may do what has by man been done.,0.0 +"Boundless, interminable joys can weigh,",3.0 +"Expects an empire? He forgets his chain,",1.0 +And what a sceptre waits us! what a throne!,0.0 +"Her own immense appointments to compute,",1.0 +"Or comprehend her high prerogatives,",1.0 +"In this her dark minority, how toils,",1.0 +"How vainly pants, the human soul Divine!",0.0 +Too great the bounty seems for earthly joy.,1.0 +"In spite of all the truths the Muse has sung,",0.0 +"Are there who wrap the world so close about them,",1.0 +They see no farther than the clouds; and dance,2.0 +"Till, stumbling at a straw, in their career,",1.0 +"Headlong they plunge, where end both dance and song?",2.0 +"Are there, Lorenzo? is it possible?",3.0 +Are there on earth let me not call them men,3.0 +Who lodge a soul immortal in their breasts;,0.0 +Unconscious as the mountain of its over;,3.0 +"When rocks shall melt, and mountains vanish, these",1.0 +Shall know their treasure; treasure then no more.,1.0 +Are there still more amazing! who resist,2.0 +"The rising thought? who smother, in its birth,",0.0 +"And, with reversed ambition, strive to sink?",1.0 +Who labour downwards through the opposing powers,3.0 +"Of Instinct, Reason, and the World against them,",1.0 +"To dismal hopes, and shelter in the shock",0.0 +"Of endless night, night darker than the grave's?",2.0 +Who fight the proofs of immortality?,1.0 +"With horrid zeal and execrable arts,",5.0 +"Work all their engines, level their black fires,",2.0 +"To blot from man this attribute Divine,",0.0 +"To contradict them, see all Nature rise!",0.0 +"What object, what event, the moon beneath,",0.0 +All things proclaim it needful; some advance,0.0 +"One precious step beyond, and prove it sure.",0.0 +"A thousand arguments swarm round my pen,",2.0 +"From Heaven, and Earth, and Man. Indulge a few,",0.0 +"By nature, as her common habit, worn;",1.0 +"So pressing Providence a truth to teach,",1.0 +"Whose hand directs, whose Spirit fills and warms",0.0 +"Creation, and holds empire far beyond!",2.0 +"One past, ere man's or angel's had begun:",1.0 +Aid! while I rescue from the foe's assault,1.0 +Thy glorious immortality in man:,3.0 +"A theme for ever, and for all, of weight,",1.0 +Of moment infinite! but relished most,1.0 +"By those who love Thee most, who most adore.",1.0 +"Of Thee the great Immutable, to man",2.0 +Speaks wisdom; is his oracle supreme;,3.0 +And he who most consults her is most wise.,2.0 +"Look Nature through, iT is revolution all;",2.0 +"All change, no death. Day follows night; and night,",2.0 +"The dying day; stars rise, and set, and rise;",1.0 +"Earth takes the example. See, the Summer gay,",2.0 +"Horrid with frost, and turbulent with storm,",3.0 +Blows Autumn and his golden fruits away;,2.0 +"Emblems of man, who passes, not expires.",2.0 +"With this minute distinction, emblems just, ' --",1.0 +"Nature revolves, but man advances: both",2.0 +"Eternal; that a circle, this a line;",1.0 +"That gravitates, this soars. The aspiring Soul,",2.0 +"Ardent and tremulous, like flame, ascends;",3.0 +Zeal and Humility her wings to heaven.,3.0 +"The world of matter, with its various forms,",3.0 +"All dies into new life. Life, born from Death,",2.0 +"Rolls the vast mass, and shall for ever roll.",2.0 +"No single atom, once in being, lost,",1.0 +With change of counsel charges the Most High.,1.0 +What hence infers Lorenzo? Can it be?,1.0 +Matter immortal? And shall spirit die?,3.0 +"Above the nobler, shall less noble rise?",3.0 +"Shall man alone, for whom all else revives,",0.0 +"No resurrection know? Shall man alone,",1.0 +"Imperial man! be sown in barren ground,",2.0 +Less privileged than grain on which he feeds?,2.0 +"The bliss of being, or with previous pain",3.0 +"Deplore its period, by the spleen of Fate,",1.0 +Severely doomed Death's single unredeemed?,1.0 +"If Nature's revolution speaks aloud,",0.0 +In her gradation hear her louder still.,1.0 +Look Nature through; iT is neat gradation all.,2.0 +By what minute degrees her scale ascends!,0.0 +"Each middle nature joined at each extreme,",0.0 +"To that above it joined, to that beneath.",0.0 +Abhor divorce. What love of union reigns!,0.0 +"Here, dormant matter waits a call to life;",0.0 +"There, sense from reason steals a glimmering ray;",2.0 +Reason shines out in man. But how preserved,1.0 +"The chain unbroken upward, to the realms",1.0 +Where Death hath no dominion? Grant a make,0.0 +And part ethereal: grant the soul of man,2.0 +Eternal; or in man the series ends.,1.0 +Wide yawns the gap; connexion is no more;,3.0 +Checked Reason halts; her next step wants support;,2.0 +"Striving to climb, she tumbles from her scheme;",3.0 +A scheme Analogy pronounced so true:,1.0 +"Analogy, man's surest guide below.",2.0 +Thus far all Nature calls on thy belief.,2.0 +"And will Lorenzo, careless of the call,",2.0 +Rather than violate his league with Death?,3.0 +"Renounce his reason, rather than renounce",1.0 +"The dust beloved, and run the risk of heaven?",0.0 +"What treason to the majesty of man,",2.0 +Of man immortal hear the lofty style: ' --,0.0 +"If so decreed, the almighty will be done.",4.0 +And grind us into dust: the soul is safe;,0.0 +The man emerges; mounts above the wreck.,0.0 +As towering flame from Nature's funeral pyre;,2.0 +"Over Devastation, as a gainer, smiles;",1.0 +"His charter, his inviolable rights,",2.0 +The glories of the world thy sevenfold shield.,2.0 +"Other ambition than of crowns in air,",3.0 +"Thy bosom warms. I'll cool it, if I can;",1.0 +"And turn those glories that enchant, against thee.",0.0 +What ties thee to this life proclaims the next.,1.0 +"If wise, the cause that wounds thee is thy cure.",1.0 +"Come, my ambitious! let us mount together,",2.0 +"To mount, Lorenzo never can refuse,",1.0 +"And from the clouds, where Pride delights to dwell,",1.0 +"Terrestrial wonders, that eclipse the skies.",2.0 +"Loaded by man for pleasure, wealth, or war!",2.0 +"Seas, winds, and planets, into service brought,",1.0 +"His art acknowledge, and promote his ends.",1.0 +Nor can the eternal rocks his will withstand:,2.0 +"What levelled mountains, and what lifted vales!",1.0 +"Over vales and mountains sumptuous cities swell,",2.0 +And gild our landscape with their glittering spires.,4.0 +Some amid the wondering waves majestic rise;,2.0 +And Neptune holds a mirror to their charms.,1.0 +Far greater still! what cannot mortal might?,1.0 +The narrowed deep with indignation foams.,0.0 +Or southward turn: to delicate and grand,1.0 +The finer arts there ripen in the sun.,0.0 +"How the tall temples, as to meet their gods,",3.0 +Ascend the skies! The proud triumphal arch,0.0 +Shows us half heaven beneath its ample bend.,3.0 +"High through mid-air, here streams are taught to flow;",3.0 +"Whole rivers, there, laid by in basins, sleep.",3.0 +"Here, plains turn oceans; there, vast oceans join",3.0 +And changed Creation takes its face from man.,0.0 +Beats thy brave breast for formidable scenes.,4.0 +Where fame and empire wait upon the sword?,0.0 +"See fields in blood; hear naval thunders rise, ' --",2.0 +How yonder enormous mole projecting breaks,2.0 +"Thus far, nor farther! new restraints obey.",1.0 +Stars are detected in their deep recess!,2.0 +Creation widens! vanquished Nature yields!,0.0 +Her secrets are extorted! Art prevails!,1.0 +"What monuments of genius, spirit, power!",1.0 +"Whose glories render heaven superfluous! say,",2.0 +Whose footsteps these? ' -- Immortals have been here.,3.0 +Could less than souls immortal this have done?,1.0 +"Earth's covered over with proofs of souls immortal,",3.0 +And proofs of immortality forgot.,1.0 +"To flatter thy grand foible, I confess,",3.0 +These are Ambition's works; and these are great:,2.0 +But this the least immortal souls can do:,1.0 +Transcend them all. ' -- But what can these transcend?,1.0 +"Dost ask me, what? ' -- One sigh for the distressed.",1.0 +What then for infidels? ' -- A deeper sigh.,1.0 +IT is moral grandeur makes the mighty man:,5.0 +How little they who think aught great below!,2.0 +"All our ambitions Death defeats, but one;",1.0 +"And that it crowns. ' -- Here cease we; but, ere long,",1.0 +"More powerful proof shall take the field against thee,",2.0 +"Stronger than Death, and smiling at the tomb.",2.0 +Who dwell where Thames rolls on his silver way;,2.0 +To you a wanderer gives his parting lay;,3.0 +"Nor will he ever forget those blissful days,",3.0 +"To you his Muse this parting tribute pays,",1.0 +"With you no more I tread the verdant plains,",0.0 +"No more with you I share my joys, my pains,",1.0 +Nor shall you hear again my plaintive strains:,0.0 +"But ere, loved Thames, thy flowery banks I leave,",3.0 +"O! ever gently flow, thou hallowed stream!",0.0 +O! may thy waves be still the Muse's theme!,1.0 +"When on thy banks pale Cynthia sheds her beam,",3.0 +O! there may Fancy gild the Poet's dream!,1.0 +"With the least vice of each luxuriant soil,",4.0 +"Say, YORKE, for sure, if any, you can tell",2.0 +"What Virtue is, who practise it so well;",2.0 +"Praised and adored by all, but rarely seen:",2.0 +"By what sure marks her essence can we trace,",2.0 +"When each religion, faction, age, and place",0.0 +"Sets up some fancied idol of its own,",1.0 +A vain pretender to her sacred throne?,1.0 +"Whoever their sense of Virtue could express,",2.0 +It's still by something they themselves possess.,1.0 +True churchmen zeal right orthodox; and hence,2.0 +"To constancy alone fond lovers join it,",2.0 +But have we then no law besides our will?,1.0 +No just criterion fixed to good and ill?,3.0 +"As well at noon we may obstruct our sight,",1.0 +Then doubt if such a thing exists as light;,1.0 +"For no less plain would nature's law appear,",1.0 +"As the meridian sun unchanged, and clear,",3.0 +"Would we but search for what we were designed,",1.0 +"And for what end the Almighty formed mankind,",4.0 +"A rule of life we then should plainly see,",0.0 +For to pursue that end must Virtue be.,1.0 +"Then what is that? not want of power, or fame,",2.0 +"But a desire his blessings to diffuse,",2.0 +And fear lest millions should existence lose;,0.0 +"His goodness only could his power employ,",2.0 +And an eternal warmth to propagate his joy.,1.0 +"Hence soul, and sense diffused through every place,",1.0 +Make happiness as infinite as space;,3.0 +"Thousands of suns beyond each other blaze,",2.0 +"Each is a world, where formed with wondrous art,",0.0 +"In every tract of ocean, earth, and skies",0.0 +"No fruit our palate courts, or flower our smell,",3.0 +"But on its fragrant bosom nations dwell,",1.0 +All formed with proper faculties to share,1.0 +The daily bounties of their Maker's care;,1.0 +"The great Creator from his heavenly throne,",3.0 +"And his eternal law is only this,",2.0 +That all contribute to the general bliss.,1.0 +"Nature so plain this primal law displays,",2.0 +"Each living creature sees it, and obeys;",1.0 +"Each, formed for all, promotes through private care",0.0 +"The public good, and justly tastes its share.",0.0 +"All understand their great Creator's will,",0.0 +"Strive to be happy, and in that fulfil;",1.0 +"Mankind excepted; lord of all beside,",1.0 +"But only slave to folly, vice, and pride;",0.0 +"Delights in others' woe, and courts his own;",0.0 +"Racks and destroys with torturing steel and flame,",4.0 +"Sets Superstition high on Virtue's throne,",1.0 +Then thinks his Maker's temper like his own:,0.0 +"Hence are his altars stained with reeking gore,",0.0 +As if he could atone for crimes by more:,1.0 +Hence while offended heaven he strives in vain,1.0 +"TO appease by fasts, and voluntary pain,",2.0 +Even in repenting he provokes again.,1.0 +How easy is our yoke! how light our load!,1.0 +Did we not strive to mend the laws of God:,0.0 +"For his own sake no duty he can ask,",3.0 +The common welfare is our only task;,2.0 +"For this sole end his precepts, kind as just,",3.0 +With every act injurious to our own,1.0 +"Or others' good, for such are crimes alone:",1.0 +"For this are peace, love, charity, enjoined,",3.0 +With all that can secure and bless mankind.,2.0 +"Thus is the public safety Virtue's cause,",0.0 +And happiness the end of all her laws;,1.0 +"For such by nature is the human frame,",2.0 +Our duty and our interest are the same.,2.0 +"But hold, cries out some Puritan divine,",3.0 +"Is this to fast, to mortify, refrain,",1.0 +And work salvation out with fear and pain?,1.0 +"We own, the rigid lessons of their schools",1.0 +Are widely different from these easy rules;,1.0 +"Virtue, with them, is only to abstain",2.0 +"From all that nature asks, and covet pain;",0.0 +"Pleasure and vice are ever near akin,",2.0 +"And, if we thirst, cold water is a sin:",3.0 +"Heaven's path is rough and intricate, they say,",1.0 +"Yet all are damned that trip, or miss their way;",0.0 +"God is a being cruel and severe,",1.0 +"And man a wretch, by his command placed here,",2.0 +"In sunshine for awhile to take a turn,",3.0 +Only to dry and make him fit to burn.,2.0 +"Mistaken men, too piously severe!",2.0 +"Through craft misleading, or misled by fear;",1.0 +"How little they God's counsels comprehend,",2.0 +"Our universal parent, guardian, friend!",2.0 +"Who, forming by degrees to bliss mankind,",2.0 +Where for awhile his fond paternal care,1.0 +Feasts us with every joy our state can bear:,0.0 +"Each sense, touch, taste, and smell dispense delight,",1.0 +"Music our hearing, beauty charms our sight;",2.0 +"Trees, herbs, and flowers to us their spoils resign,",2.0 +"Its pearl the rock presents, its gold the mine;",0.0 +"Beasts, fowl, and fish their daily tribute give",1.0 +"Of food and clothes, and die that we may live:",1.0 +"Seasons but change, new pleasures to produce,",4.0 +And elements contend to serve our use:,1.0 +"Love's gentle shafts, ambition's towering wings,",1.0 +"All that our reverence, joy, or hope create,",2.0 +Are the gay playthings of this infant state.,1.0 +"Scarcely an ill to human life belongs,",2.0 +"But what our follies cause, or mutual wrongs;",2.0 +"Or if some stripes from Providence we feel,",2.0 +"He strikes with pity, and but wounds to heal;",1.0 +"Kindly perhaps sometime afflicts us here,",3.0 +"In more exalted joys to fix our taste,",0.0 +And wean us from delights that cannot last.,1.0 +"Our present good the easy task is made,",0.0 +"To earn superior bliss, when this shall fade;",2.0 +"For, soon as ever these moral pleasures cloy,",2.0 +"Snatch us from all our little sorrows here,",0.0 +"Calm every grief, and dry each childish tear;",1.0 +"Waft us to regions of eternal peace,",1.0 +Where bliss and virtue grow with like increase;,0.0 +"From strength to strength our souls for ever guide,",0.0 +"Through wondrous scenes of being yet untried,",0.0 +"Where in each stage we shall more perfect grow,",1.0 +"O! would mankind but make these truths their guide,",1.0 +"And force the helm from prejudice and pride,",1.0 +"Were once these maxims fixed, that God's our friend,",0.0 +"Virtue our good, and happiness our end,",2.0 +"How soon must reason over the world prevail,",2.0 +"And error, fraud, and superstition fail!",0.0 +None would hereafter then with groundless fear,1.0 +"Describe the Almighty cruel and severe,",3.0 +"Inflicting endless pains for transient crimes,",0.0 +"Or food, or rest, or itch in shirts of hair,",0.0 +"Or deem it merit to believe, or teach,",1.0 +"What reason contradicts, or cannot reach;",0.0 +"None would fierce zeal for piety mistake,",4.0 +"Or malice for whatever tenet's sake,",2.0 +"Or think salvation to one sect confined,",1.0 +And heaven too narrow to contain mankind.,5.0 +"No more then nymphs, by long neglect grown nice,",1.0 +"Would in one female frailty sum up vice,",1.0 +"And censure those, who, nearer to the right,",2.0 +Think Virtue is but to dispense delight.,3.0 +"No servile tenets would admittance find,",1.0 +Destructive of the rights of humankind;,1.0 +"Of power divine, hereditary right,",2.0 +"For sure that all should thus for one be cursed,",1.0 +Is but great nature's edict just reversed.,2.0 +"No moralists then, righteous to excess,",3.0 +"Would show fair Virtue in so black a dress,",1.0 +First from the spectre fly themselves away:,0.0 +"No preachers in the terrible delight,",2.0 +And draw each moving argument from hell.,1.0 +"No more our sage interpreters of laws,",1.0 +"But rather nobly careful of their trust,",1.0 +"And be, like HARDWICKE, guardians of the just.",1.0 +"No more applause would on ambition wait,",2.0 +"And laying waste the world be counted great,",0.0 +"Than armies overthrown, and thousands slain;",0.0 +"No more would brutal rage disturb our peace,",0.0 +"But envy, hatred, war, and discord cease;",0.0 +"Our own and others' good each hour employ,",0.0 +And all things smile with universal joy;,1.0 +"Virtue with Happiness her consort joined,",6.0 +"Would regulate and bless each human mind,",0.0 +And man be what his Maker first designed.,0.0 +"Now Betty from her Masters Bed had flown,",2.0 +"The Slipshod Prentice from his Masters Door,",2.0 +"Had pared the Dirt, and Sprinkled round the Floor.",0.0 +Prepared to Scrub the Entry and the Stairs.,1.0 +"The Turnkey now his Flock returning sees,",1.0 +Duly let out a Nights to Steal for Fees.,0.0 +"The watchful Bailiffs take their silent Stands,",0.0 +"Preposterous Fate, let me accuse thee now,",2.0 +What means this Myrtle on the Cypress bough;,1.0 +"Hast thou to Love, betrayed my unwary Breast?",2.0 +Me to the care of his once dearest Friend;,3.0 +"We the kind fatal Orders did pursue,",2.0 +And for his sake I strove to Love him too:,1.0 +Where he loved best excepting me below;,5.0 +"But my ill Fate, the obedient purpose crossed,",4.0 +Duty was soon in Inclination lost;,2.0 +"For o! I find the generous Probation,",2.0 +Has now commenced an unsuspected Passion.,0.0 +"I would my Friendship to the height improve,",1.0 +Run their Devotion up to Superstition:,3.0 +"But from the utmost Error I'll be free,",3.0 +"Confess the kind Platonic at the most,",0.0 +"And make my Passion not my Blush, but Boast:",0.0 +"I do not wish him in these careless Arms,",0.0 +Let me but gaze at distance on his Charms;,1.0 +"To view that softening Air, that Voice to hear,",0.0 +Is all the Bliss my temperate Soul would share.,0.0 +"But then be ever present ever kind,",0.0 +Joy to my Eyes and Pleasure to my Mind.,1.0 +"Should you be kinder, would abate my Bliss:",0.0 +"My elevated Flame needs no supply,",1.0 +But the nice subtle Fuel of the Eye:,2.0 +"In Contemplation all my Pleasure lies,",0.0 +"The Lip or Hand are not enough refined,",0.0 +With Looks and Smiles let me regale my Mind,2.0 +It's all my softest Wishes ever designed.,2.0 +"Love like the sacred Tree which Eden graced,",0.0 +To entertain the sight is only placed;,0.0 +"Safely we gaze, but if we venture on,",4.0 +"To touch and taste, we blush and are undone.",1.0 +"May pleasures spring, and lovely prospects' rise;",0.0 +In pensive sadness views each ripening flower:,0.0 +"Why am I pensive? all things else are gay,",1.0 +"Surrounding groves invite my steps to rove,",0.0 +Resembling that in which I learnt to love;,0.0 +"They each returning morn, grow fresher still,",1.0 +And happy birds their leafy branches fill;,0.0 +OH lovely scenes! but what are these to me?,2.0 +Joy is no joy without society.,4.0 +"Then morn and night, I'd tune my cheerful lay,",0.0 +"Sing with the birds, and be more glad than they;",0.0 +"But while your absence I am doomed to bear,",1.0 +Your fancied presence in my thoughts shall share;,0.0 +"I'll bless the hour in which our love began,",0.0 +And ever be as constant as I can.,1.0 +"To visit earth, contracted to our size;",1.0 +And loved however things in heaven might go,1.0 +"Miss Semele he picked up, as he went,",2.0 +"And thought, he pleased her to her heart's content.",1.0 +But minds aspiring never can be at ease;,1.0 +"Once known a god, as man he ceased to please.",1.0 +Thus she bespoke the loving god in bed.,2.0 +"Hear my request, for something yet untried,",2.0 +"And swear by Styx, I shall not be denied.",0.0 +Took any oath; then bade the girl proceed.,1.0 +"What are those joys, which as a man you give,",1.0 +To what a god of thunder can achieve?,1.0 +"Such weight of love, and might of limbs employ,",0.0 +And Semele enjoyed the god in state:,0.0 +"Divinely shone, and struck the mortal dead.",0.0 +"Faint from the course though we awhile retreat,",1.0 +To cool and breathe before another heat;,0.0 +"The gods can't know, fresh with eternal prime,",3.0 +And bear down nature with excess of bliss.,1.0 +"Learn hence, each fair one, whom like beauties grace,",1.0 +"Possessed of lawless empire by your face,",1.0 +"Not to do what you list, because you may,",0.0 +Let cool discretion warm desires allay;,1.0 +"And itching curiosity believe,",1.0 +A lurking taint derived from mother Eve.,0.0 +"Spare then the men, you fair, and frankly own,",0.0 +"OH, EVER skilled to wear the form we love!",1.0 +To bid the shapes of fear and grief depart;,0.0 +"Come, gentle Hope! with one gay smile remove",3.0 +The lasting sadness of an aching heart.,1.0 +"Say that for me some pleasures yet shall bloom, ' --",1.0 +"Shall soften, or shall chase, misfortune's gloom.",2.0 +"But come not glowing in the dazzling ray,",0.0 +"Which once with dear illusions charmed my eye, ' --",0.0 +The flowers I fondly thought too bright to die;,3.0 +"That asks not happiness, but longs for rest!",1.0 +"Love, like Original Sin, in all does dwell,",3.0 +"Fools sighs in private, and the Witty tell;",2.0 +That other Reigning Mischief of the Times:,1.0 +"The Learnt ashamed to own their Amorous Pain,",2.0 +"Sigh, Languish, Die, though for a Mortal fair,",2.0 +"Of all the borders of the sea did reign,",1.0 +"As great as good, and eke as good as great.",0.0 +"Though blessed with what us men accounts as store,",0.0 +"Saw something further, and saw something more.",3.0 +"And gilded fish wanton in the sun,",3.0 +As in the twining pathway he does run;,2.0 +"Here stood a house, that in the river smile",0.0 +"The stones in one as firm as rock unite,",2.0 +And it defied the greatest Warriors might;,1.0 +Around about the lofty elements high,2.0 +"Bent out their heads, when ever the winds came bye.",3.0 +In amorous dalliance the fleet clouds cast,4.0 +"Attending Squires dressed in tricking bright,",0.0 +"To each tenth Squier an attending Knight,",2.0 +A coat of noble armes upon the door;,0.0 +"Horses and dogs to hunt the fallow deer,",3.0 +"Just in the prime of life, when others court",0.0 +"ALL hail, auspicious day, whose wished return",0.0 +While pleased Britannia that great man surveys,3.0 +"The Prince may trust, and yet the People praise:",0.0 +"One bearing greatest toils with greatest ease,",0.0 +"One born to serve us, and yet born to please;",1.0 +"His soul capacious, yet his judgement clear,",0.0 +"His tongue is flowing, and his heart sincere:",1.0 +"His counsels guide, his temper cheers our isle,",0.0 +And smiling gives three kingdoms cause to smile.,1.0 +"August, how bright thy golden scenes appear,",2.0 +"Thou fairest daughter of the various year,",3.0 +"On thee in dowry all its fruits bestows,",1.0 +"The greatest Prince, the foremost son of fame,",1.0 +To thee bequeathed the glories of his name;,2.0 +"Nature and Fortune thee their darling chose,",3.0 +"Nor could they grace thee more, till Walpole rose.",1.0 +"By steps to mighty things Fate makes her way,",1.0 +The sun and Caesar but prepared this day.,1.0 +"Lovely Armina, over her Books reclined,",4.0 +"Impairs her Body, to improve her Mind:",1.0 +"Of Wisdom fond, as others are of Wealth,",1.0 +In that Pursuit will sacrifice her Health:,0.0 +"Hides both Herself, and Treasure, from our Eyes.",2.0 +"Regardless of your Health, or Friendship's Claim:",1.0 +"A giddy, thoughtless World your Aid require;",0.0 +"And Ignorance prevails, when You retire.",2.0 +"Why, Formed to please! and why, Improved with Care!",0.0 +"Is there no End, in being Wise, and Fair?",2.0 +"THE festive roar of laughter, the warm glow",2.0 +"Wit's seasoned converse, and the liberal flow",2.0 +Delight not ever; from the boisterous scene,1.0 +"Amid your fretted vaults and lengthening isles,",2.0 +"Lonely to wander; no unholy guest,",2.0 +"That means to break, with sacrilegious tread,",0.0 +"Permit me with sad musings, that inspire",2.0 +"Of Hades, and stern death, whose iron sway",3.0 +Great nature owns through all her wide domain;,1.0 +"In many a wheeling glide, their feathery sail;",4.0 +"That roam over forest, hill, or browsed dale;",2.0 +The victims each of ruthless fate must fall;,0.0 +"Even God's own image, man, high paramount of all.",1.0 +"And you, the young, the giddy, and the gay,",2.0 +"Yonder radiant goddess, that now shoots among",1.0 +These many windowed isles her glimmering beam;,2.0 +"Know, that or ever its starred career along",2.0 +"Some parent breast may heave the answering sigh,",2.0 +To the slow pauses of the funeral knoll;,5.0 +"Roars in the laugh, and revels over the bowl,",2.0 +"Know, on the stealing wing of time shall flee",0.0 +"Some few, some short-lived years; and all is past;",1.0 +"A future bard these awful domes may see,",0.0 +Muse over the present age as I the last;,4.0 +"The various maze of life were seen to tread,",2.0 +"Each bent their own peculiar to pursue,",1.0 +And feel the thrilling melody of sweet renown.,1.0 +"The nerve that beat with soul, the brow that thought!",0.0 +"The mute attention riveting, to the lyre",1.0 +The warrior arm: where sleeps the patriot breast,2.0 +"These now are past; long, long, you fleeting years,",1.0 +"Pursue, with glory winged, your fated way,",0.0 +Ere from the womb of time unwelcome peers,0.0 +"The dawn of that inevitable day,",1.0 +When wrapped in shrouded clay their warmest friend,0.0 +"The widowed virtues shall again deplore,",0.0 +When over his urn in pious grief shall bend,2.0 +"Thy beaming emanations unconfined,",0.0 +"Doomed, like some better angel sent of God",0.0 +"To scatter blessings over humankind,",0.0 +"Thou too must fall, OH Pitt! to shine no more,",2.0 +Fast to the driving winds the marshaled clouds,0.0 +All hastening downward to their native main.,1.0 +Thus passes over through varied life's career,3.0 +Man's fleeting age; the Seasons as they fly,2.0 +"Snatch from us in their course, year after year,",1.0 +"Some sweet connection, some endearing tie.",0.0 +Claims from the filial breast the pious sigh;,2.0 +A brother's urn demands the kindred tear;,0.0 +And gentle sorrows gush from friendship's eye.,0.0 +Today we frolic in the rosy bloom,0.0 +How soon the past irrevocable lot,1.0 +"Of these, that rest beneath me, shall be mine.",1.0 +To find me sleeping in the senseless grave.,0.0 +"No more the social leisure to divide,",1.0 +"In the sweet intercourse of soul and soul,",2.0 +Blithe or of graver brow; no more to chide,1.0 +"The lingering years impatient as they roll,",1.0 +"Till all thy cultured virtues shall display,",0.0 +"Ah, dearest youth! these vows perhaps unheard,",0.0 +These prayers at friendship's holy shrine preferred,0.0 +May rise to grasp their father's knees in vain.,0.0 +"With solemn horror over thy timeless hearse,",2.0 +And I survive to grave upon thy tomb,1.0 +The mournful tribute of memorial verse. ' --,3.0 +"That leave to heaven's decision ' -- Be it thine,",2.0 +"Higher than yet a parent's wishes flew,",1.0 +"To soar in bright preeminence, and shine",1.0 +"Where glory, with her clear unsullied rays,",1.0 +The wellborn spirit lights to deeds of mightiest praise.,3.0 +"The patriot axe of Sidney, edged with death.",2.0 +"Smit with the warmth of her impulsive flame,",1.0 +"Bared thy young bosom to the fatal blow,",4.0 +"OH bathe him in the pearly caves below,",1.0 +Weep ' -- for you oft have seen him on your haunted shore.,1.0 +"Better to die with glory, than recline",3.0 +"On the soft lap of ignominious peace,",4.0 +Than yawn out the dull droning life supine,2.0 +"The least division on the dial's round,",1.0 +"Grown old in sloth, the burden of the ground;",2.0 +Than tug with sweating toil the slavish oar,0.0 +"Of unredeemed affliction, and sustain",1.0 +"A thousand maladies are posted round,",1.0 +With wretched man to wage eternal strife,0.0 +"Unseen, like ambushed Indians, till they wound.",2.0 +And moping ever in the cloistered gloom,0.0 +"And the shunned hag unsightly, that ordained",2.0 +"Of Cortez, with the blood of millions stained,",1.0 +Shakes threatening; since the while she winged her flight,1.0 +"Where the won daughter of the yellow year,",3.0 +"The chattering ague chill, the writhing stone,",2.0 +"And he of ghastly feature, on whose ear",2.0 +"Lowering, and foaming fierce with hideous howl",3.0 +"Scared madness, with her moonstruck eyeballs staring wide.",4.0 +"He, the dread delegate of wrath divine,",2.0 +"Vindictive; thrice he waved the earth-shaking wand,",3.0 +"And thrice he raised, and thrice he checked his hand.",0.0 +"He struck the rocking ground, with thunderous roar",2.0 +"Yawned; here from street to street hurries, and there",4.0 +"Staring distraction: many a palace fair,",4.0 +Old Ocean's farthest waves confessed the shock;,1.0 +Even Albion trembled conscious on his steadfast rock.,4.0 +"Stern war; and the loathed monster, whom of yore",7.0 +Spotted contagion; at his heels dismay,2.0 +"Terrible; as long of old, when from the height",2.0 +Earth's firm fixed base tottering; through the black night,4.0 +Glanced the flashed lightnings: heavens rent roof abroad,6.0 +Thundered; and universal nature felt its God.,2.0 +"Who on that scene of terror, on that hour",1.0 +"Of roused indignation, shall withstand",2.0 +The bursting vengeance over a guilty land!,2.0 +With more than Hebrew rage the innocent side,2.0 +Disclaims thee ' -- guilt is ever quick of fear ' --,0.0 +And every glancing meteor glares imagined death.,2.0 +The good alone are fearless ' -- they alone,1.0 +"Firm and collected in their virtue, brave",2.0 +Thrice happy! who the blameless road along,1.0 +Of honest praise hath reached the vale of death;,0.0 +His better actions; to the parting breath,1.0 +Calm as the slumbering infant: from the goal,3.0 +Free and unbounded flies the disembodied soul.,3.0 +"Whether some delegated charge below,",2.0 +"Of lettered arrogance, delights to run",1.0 +"Through speculation's puzzling mazes wild,",0.0 +And all to end at last where it begun.,0.0 +"Fain would we trace, with reason's erring clue,",0.0 +In vain; the task were easier to pursue,3.0 +From mortal ken himself the Almighty shrouds,2.0 +You know what it's to love and not prevail:,1.0 +"How much he loved, and how he was undone.",2.0 +And proud of youthful Charms despised the Boy;,0.0 +"Has left the calmer Sea's pacific Arms,",0.0 +Where constant Heat the smiling Ocean warms.,0.0 +To shun the Youth: such is the Power of Hate,3.0 +Some windy Bay is now her lone Retreat.,0.0 +"In every Creek, and marked each rising Wave;",0.0 +"In vain he has the fruitless Search pursued,",0.0 +"For she is gone, and will no more be wooed.",1.0 +"Pierced with the killing Thought the Lover sighs,",0.0 +And stills the rising Storms with louder Cries:,0.0 +"While thus he sadly plains; in mournful Rounds,",0.0 +"The Air through hollow Rocks repeats the distant Sounds,",0.0 +"Each winding Cavern tells the fruitless Care,",0.0 +"By the sad Echo's which it still returns,",2.0 +"It seems to pity, when the Triton mourns:",0.0 +"Is still unmoved, and makes no kind Reply.",1.0 +"Weep not, fond Triton, for a peevish Maid,",3.0 +"Though she is gone let not the Youth despair,",2.0 +"For there are kinder Nymphs, and Nymphs as fair.",1.0 +The best Advice is thought the most unkind.,0.0 +Restless he goes from the fair pitying Throng,6.0 +"Where frightful Gloom, and Horrors sat around.",0.0 +"There on its slimy Bottom careless laid,",1.0 +"He sighed and wept; he sighed, and then he said:",0.0 +Have I then loved to be repaid with Scorn;,0.0 +"You Gods! it's hard, too cruel to be born.",1.0 +"What? ' -- Have I poisoned too the hated Sea,",0.0 +"Had you but told; had you your Hatred shown,",1.0 +"By my own Flight I had prevented yours,",2.0 +"And, banished hence, retired to distant Shores,",0.0 +"Where rigid lasting Cold, and Northern Blasts",0.0 +"Where Icy Flakes like floating Isles appear,",0.0 +Nor can your tender Limbs the piercing Climate bear.,1.0 +"Muscles in Shoals on mighty Whales attend,",2.0 +"Who feed the worthless Fish, and court the puny Friend:",0.0 +"Fierce Sharks by gentle Usage are reclaimed,",2.0 +"To boisterous Channels, and to foreign Seas,",1.0 +Where Rocks like you unmoved with careless Pride,1.0 +"Repulse the Waves, and cheque the rising Tide.",0.0 +Thus the unhappy Youth was heard to moan;,2.0 +"The Winds to sigh, the Hollow seemed to groan,",0.0 +And dropping Tears fell from the weeping Stone.,2.0 +"Thy Song's more grateful than a Summer's Breeze,",1.0 +And move in wanton Rings the listening Seas.,0.0 +"Not half so sweet, when first the Morning dawns,",0.0 +"Are juicy Oysters, or the luscious Prawns.",1.0 +But now the Sun is dipped in cooling Streams;,0.0 +The twilight is no more; no doubtful Gleams,6.0 +"Of weaker Light the flitting Shades divide,",0.0 +"But they unmixed prevail, and every Object hide.",1.0 +"The Sea is heard with deeper Sound to roar,",0.0 +And slumbering Waters may be said to snore.,3.0 +And scarce a Fish pops up his sleepy Head;,2.0 +"Those who were clung to Rocks, the shelly Heap",0.0 +"Drop from their Hold, and fall into the Deep.",0.0 +"WHERE yonder trees rise high in cheerful air,",1.0 +And opening flowers diffusing sweets around,4.0 +Paint with their vivid hues the happy ground;,0.0 +"While Thames majestic rolls the meads between,",0.0 +And with his silver current crowns the scene;,1.0 +"From crowds, and shouting theatres withdraws:",1.0 +"There courts the Muse, turns over the instructive page,",2.0 +"Hath raised the dome, and placed the honoured bust,",1.0 +Bidding the pile to future times proclaim,2.0 +His veneration for thy mighty name.,1.0 +A place more fit his zeal could never find,0.0 +"Than this fair spot, an emblem of thy mind ' --",3.0 +"As hill and dale there charm the wondering eye,",2.0 +Such sweet variety thy scenes supply ' --,1.0 +"Like the tall trees sublime thy genius towers,",3.0 +"Sprightly thy fancy, as the opening flowers,",5.0 +"While copious as the tide Thames pours along,",2.0 +"Flow the sweet numbers of thy heavenly song,",6.0 +"Serenely pure, and yet divinely strong ' --",0.0 +"Look down, great shade, with pride this tribute see,",3.0 +The hand that pays it makes it worthy thee ' --,1.0 +"To paint the form august of Philip's son,",5.0 +"None but a GARRICK can, OH bard divine!",2.0 +Lay a fit offering on thy hallowed shrine.,4.0 +"To speak thy worth is his peculiar boast,",1.0 +"He best can tell it, for he feels it most.",1.0 +"Blessed bard! thy fame through every age shall grow,",1.0 +"Till nature cease to charm, or Thames to flow.",0.0 +"Thou too, with him, whose fame thy talents raise,",1.0 +"Shalt share our wonder, and divide our praise;",2.0 +"Blended with his thy merits rise to view,",1.0 +"Unless the actor with the bard conspire,",1.0 +"How impotent his strength, how faint his fire!",1.0 +"One boasts the mine, one brings the gold to light,",1.0 +And the muse triumphs in the actor's might;,2.0 +"Too weak to give her own conceptions birth,",1.0 +"Thus the sweet pipe, mute in itself, no sound",4.0 +"Sends forth, nor breathes its pleasing notes around;",1.0 +"But if some swain with happy skill endued,",1.0 +"Inspire with animating breath the wood,",0.0 +"My injured Love, thy Anthems cease awhile,",0.0 +And hear my Vows with an accepting Smile.,1.0 +"By thee I swear, by thee as sacred now,",2.0 +I'll pay thee all the Passion that I owe.,0.0 +"Forgive, that I so negligent did prove,",2.0 +Was such a careless Debtor to thy Love:,2.0 +As some wild Gallant who profusely spends,1.0 +"Yet gives good Words, is complaisant and kind,",4.0 +And with small Presents shows his thankful Mind.,3.0 +"So did I manage my vast stock of Love,",2.0 +"Did neither just, nor yet ungrateful prove;",0.0 +"Heaven knows, to pay thee all I had begun,",0.0 +But the neglected Score too far had run.,2.0 +"Fatal Delay, for now the dreadful Sum,",2.0 +I with kind Horror offer at thy Tomb;,2.0 +"Whatever I owed thy Life, I'll pay thy Dust,",3.0 +"Bring all the Arrears of Passion, and be Just;",2.0 +"Accept it now, although alas too late,",2.0 +And pity this sad Pressure of my Fate.,3.0 +"Not the least Thought shall to ought else be given,",1.0 +"I offer all to thee, and what retains thee, Heaven.",1.0 +"Though at thy Death no sable Scenes of State,",1.0 +Nor solemn Pageantry did gild thy Fate;,1.0 +Of hired Mourners ushered thee along;,1.0 +"One moment's Grief of mine is of more Cost,",1.0 +Than a Majestic thirty Days can boast.,1.0 +"Those pageant Sorrows on the Dead bestowed,",1.0 +"But touch the Fancy of the gazing Crowd,",1.0 +Where scarce one Tear in earnest is allowed.,1.0 +"Amid a thousand torturing Pangs I live,",2.0 +"Too well I know, both who and how to grieve.",3.0 +It is more Honour to be mourned by me.,1.0 +"Than all their stately dark Solemnity,",1.0 +"Though on thy Grave no Statue I erect,",4.0 +Yet the smooth Stone shall with my Tears be decked.,1.0 +"No, take a Tomb more fitting thy Desert,",2.0 +That now it's fitting for that Use alone.,1.0 +"No Monument more glorious or safe,",3.0 +Graced with a vital crimson Epitaph.,0.0 +"My bleeding Heart shall this Inscription give,",1.0 +"Not here you Lie, but here for ever Live.",0.0 +"What mighty Quarrels rise from trivial Things,",2.0 +"Slight is the Subject, but not so the Praise,",1.0 +"If She inspire, and He approve my Lays.",2.0 +"Say what strange Motive, Goddess! could compel",2.0 +"O say what stranger Cause, yet unexplored,",0.0 +Could make a gentle Belle reject a Lord?,0.0 +And lodge such daring Souls in Little Men?,0.0 +"Sol through white Curtains did his Beams display,",3.0 +And opened those Eyes which brighter shine than they;,2.0 +"Now Shock had given himself the rousing Shake,",3.0 +"Thrice the wrought Slipper knocked against the Ground,",3.0 +And striking Watches the tenth Hour resound.,3.0 +"Belinda still her downy Pillow pressed,",0.0 +Her Guardian Sylph prolonged the balmy Rest.,2.0 +'Twas he had summoned to her silent Bed,1.0 +The Morning Dream that hovered over her Head.,2.0 +That even in Slumber caused her Cheek to glow,2.0 +"Seemed to her Ear his winning Lips to lay,",0.0 +"And thus in Whispers said, or seemed to say.",0.0 +"Fairest of Mortals, thou distinguished Care",3.0 +Of thousand bright Inhabitants of Air!,1.0 +"If ever one Vision touched thy infant Thought,",2.0 +"Of all the Nurse and all the Priest have taught,",0.0 +"Of airy Elves by Moonlight Shadows seen,",2.0 +"The silver Token, and the circled Green,",1.0 +"With Golden Crowns and Wreaths of heavenly Flowers,",2.0 +"Hear and believe! thy own Importance know,",2.0 +Nor bound thy narrow Views to Things below.,0.0 +"Some secret Truths from Learnt Pride concealed,",3.0 +To Maids alone and Children are revealed:,1.0 +What though no Credit doubting Wits may give?,2.0 +The Fair and Innocent shall still believe.,1.0 +The light Militia of the lower Sky;,1.0 +"These, though unseen, are ever on the Wing,",2.0 +"Hang over the Box, and hover round the Ring.",3.0 +And view with scorn Two Pages and a Chair.,2.0 +"As now your own, our Beings were of old,",1.0 +"Thence, by a soft Transition, we repair",1.0 +From earthly Vehicles to these of Air.,2.0 +That all her Vanities at once are dead:,1.0 +"Succeeding Vanities she still regards,",1.0 +"And though she plays no more, overlooks the Cards.",4.0 +"Her Joy in gilded Chariots, when alive,",2.0 +"For when the Fair in all their Pride expire,",0.0 +To their first Elements the Souls retire:,3.0 +"Soft yielding Minds to Water glide away,",1.0 +"And sip with Nymphs, their Elemental Tea.",0.0 +"The graver Prude sinks downward to a Gnome,",2.0 +In search of Mischief still on Earth to roam.,0.0 +And sport and flutter in the Fields of Air.,0.0 +Know farther yet; Whoever fair and chaste,1.0 +"Rejects Mankind, is by some Sylph embraced:",2.0 +"For Spirits, freed from mortal Laws, with ease",0.0 +Assume what Sexes and what Shapes they please.,1.0 +"What guards the Purity of melting Maids,",1.0 +"Safe from the treacherous Friend, and daring Spark,",2.0 +"The Glance by Day, the Whisper in the Dark;",0.0 +"When kind Occasion prompts their warm Desires,",0.0 +"When Music softens, and when Dancing fires?",1.0 +"Some Nymphs there are, too conscious of their Face,",3.0 +For Life predestined to the Gnomes Embrace.,2.0 +"Who swell their Prospects and exalt their Pride,",1.0 +"When Offers are disdained, and Love denied.",1.0 +Then gay Ideas crowd the vacant Brain;,0.0 +"While Peers and Dukes, and all their sweeping Train,",0.0 +"And Garters, Stars, and Coronets appear,",0.0 +"And in soft Sounds, Your Grace salutes their Ear.",1.0 +"It's these that early taint the Female Soul,",2.0 +"Teach Infants Cheeks a bidden Blush to know,",1.0 +And little Hearts to flutter at a Beau.,0.0 +"Oft when the World imagine Women stray,",0.0 +"Through all the giddy Circle they pursue,",1.0 +What tender Maid but must a Victim fall,0.0 +"When Florio speaks, what Virgin could withstand,",2.0 +If gentle Damon did not squeeze her Hand?,0.0 +"With varying Vanities, from every Part,",3.0 +"This erring Mortals Levity may call,",1.0 +"Of these am I, who thy Protection claim,",2.0 +"A watchful Sprite, and Ariel is my Name.",1.0 +"Late, as I ranged the Crystal Wilds of Air,",0.0 +In the clear Mirror of thy ruling Star,3.0 +"I saw, alas! some dread Event impend,",0.0 +Before to the Main this Morning's Sun descend.,0.0 +"But Heaven reveals not what, or how, or where:",1.0 +"Warned by thy Sylph, o Pious Maid beware!",0.0 +This to disclose is all thy Guardian can.,2.0 +"Beware of all, but most beware of Man!",0.0 +"He said; when Shock, who thought she slept too long,",1.0 +"'Twas then Belinda! if Report say true,",3.0 +But all the Vision vanished from thy Head.,1.0 +"And now, unveiled, the Toilet stands displayed,",0.0 +Each Silver Vase in mystic Order laid.,0.0 +"First, robbed in White, the Nymph intent adores",1.0 +"With Head uncovered, the Cosmetic Powers.",1.0 +"A heavenly Image in the Glass appears,",2.0 +"To that she bends, to that her Eyes she rears;",0.0 +"The inferior Priestess, at her Altar's side,",4.0 +"Trembling, begins the sacred Rites of Pride.",1.0 +The various Offerings of the World appear;,3.0 +And decks the Goddess with the glittering Spoil.,3.0 +And all Arabia breathes from yonder Box.,2.0 +"The Tortoise here and Elephant unite,",2.0 +"Transformed to Combs, the speckled and the white.",1.0 +"Here Files of Pins extend their shining Rows,",0.0 +Now awful Beauty puts on all its Arms;,1.0 +"The Fair each moment rises in her Charms,",0.0 +"Repairs her Smiles, awakens every Grace,",0.0 +And calls forth all the Wonders of her Face;,2.0 +"Sees by Degrees a purer Blush arise,",2.0 +And keener Lightnings quicken in her Eyes.,0.0 +"These set the Head, and those divide the Hair,",1.0 +"Some fold the Sleeve, while others plait the Gown;",0.0 +"Than issuing forth, the Rival of his Beams",3.0 +Launched on the Bosom of the Silver Thames.,1.0 +But every Eye was fixed on her alone.,1.0 +"On her white Breast a sparkling Cross she wore,",2.0 +"Which Jews might kiss, and Infidels adore.",1.0 +"Her lively Looks a sprightly Mind disclose,",0.0 +"Favours to none, to all she Smiles extends,",0.0 +"Oft she rejects, but never once offends.",2.0 +"And, like the Sun, they shine on all alike.",0.0 +"Yet graceful Ease, and Sweetness void of Pride,",0.0 +"Might hide her Faults, if Belles had Faults to hide:",0.0 +"If to her share some Female Errors fall,",2.0 +"This Nymph, to the Destruction of Mankind,",3.0 +"Nourished two Locks, which graceful hung behind",3.0 +"In equal Curls, and well conspired to deck",2.0 +And mighty Hearts are held in slender Chains.,0.0 +"Fair Tresses Man's Imperial Race ensnare,",3.0 +And Beauty draws us with a single Hair.,1.0 +"The Adventurous Baron the bright Locks admired,",5.0 +"For when Success a Lover's Toil attends,",0.0 +"Few ask, if Fraud or Force attained his Ends.",0.0 +"Propitious Heaven, and every Power adored,",2.0 +"But chiefly Love ' -- to Love an Altar built,",0.0 +"Of twelve vast French Romances, neatly gilded.",1.0 +"A Fan, a Garter, half a Pair of Gloves;",0.0 +And all the Trophies of his former Loves.,1.0 +And breathes three amorous Sighs to raise the Fire.,3.0 +"Then prostrate falls, and begs with ardent Eyes",0.0 +"The Powers gave Ear, and granted half his Prayer,",3.0 +"The rest, the Winds dispersed in empty Air.",0.0 +"But now secure the painted Vessel glides,",0.0 +"While melting Music steals upon the Sky,",0.0 +And softened Sounds along the Waters die.,0.0 +"Smooth flow the Waves, the Zephyrs gently play,",1.0 +"Belinda smiled, and all the World was gay.",0.0 +"All but the Sylph ' -- With careful Thoughts oppressed,",0.0 +The impending Woe sat heavy on his Breast.,3.0 +He summons strait his Denizens of Air;,1.0 +The lucid Squadrons round the Sails repair:,0.0 +"Soft over the Shrouds Aerial Whispers breath,",5.0 +That seemed but Zephyrs to the Train beneath.,1.0 +"Waft on the Breeze, or sink in Clouds of Gold.",0.0 +"Transparent Forms, too fine for mortal Sight,",1.0 +Their fluid Bodies half dissolved in Light.,0.0 +"Loose to the Wind their airy Garments flew,",0.0 +"Dipped in the richest Tincture of the Skies,",1.0 +"While every Beam new transient Colours flings,",2.0 +Colours that change whenever they wave their Wings.,2.0 +"Amid the Circle, on the gilded Mast,",1.0 +"Superior by the Head, was Ariel placed;",3.0 +"He raised his Azure Wand, and thus begun.",0.0 +"You know the Spheres and various Tasks assigned,",2.0 +"By Laws Eternal, to the Aerial Kind.",3.0 +And bask and whiten in the Blaze of Day.,0.0 +Or roll the Planets through the boundless Sky.,1.0 +"Some less refined, beneath the Moon's pale Light",1.0 +"Hover, and catch the shooting Stars by Night;",2.0 +"Or suck the Mists in grosser Air below,",0.0 +"Others on Earth over human Race preside,",2.0 +"Watch all their Ways, and all their Actions guide:",0.0 +"Of these the Chief the Care of Nations own,",1.0 +And guard with Arms Divine the British Throne.,0.0 +"Our humbler Province is to tend the Fair,",1.0 +"Not a less pleasing, though less glorious Care.",6.0 +"To save the Powder from too rude a Gale,",2.0 +"To draw fresh Colours from the vernal Flowers,",1.0 +To steal from Rainbows ere they drop in Showers,1.0 +"A brighter Wash; to curl their waving Hairs,",0.0 +"Assist their Blushes, and inspire their Airs;",1.0 +"Nay oft, in Dreams, Invention we bestow,",2.0 +"This Day, black Omens threat the brightest Fair",1.0 +That ever deserved a watchful Spirit's Care;,2.0 +"Some dire Disaster, or by Force, or Slight,",1.0 +"But what, or where, the Fates have wrapped in Night.",0.0 +"Or some frail China Jar receive a Flaw,",1.0 +"Forget her Prayers, or miss a Masquerade,",0.0 +"Or lose her Heart, or Necklace, at a Ball;",0.0 +Or whether Heaven has doomed that Shock must fall.,0.0 +Haste then you Spirits! to your Charge repair;,1.0 +Ariel himself shall be the Guard of Shock.,1.0 +"We trust the important Charge, the Petticoat:",2.0 +"Oft have we known that sevenfold Fence to fail,",3.0 +"Though stiff with Hoops, and armed with Ribs of Whale.",0.0 +"Form a strong Line about the Silver Bound,",3.0 +"Whatever Spirit, careless of his Charge,",2.0 +"His Post neglects, or leaves the Fair at large,",0.0 +"Shall feel sharp Vengeance soon overtake his Sins,",7.0 +"Be stopped in Vials, or transfixed with Pins;",1.0 +"Or plunged in Lakes of bitter Washes lie,",0.0 +Or wedged whole Ages in a Bodkin's Eye:,1.0 +While clogged he beats his silken Wings in vain;,0.0 +"Or as Ixion fixed, the Wretch shall feel",1.0 +"The giddy Motion of the whirling Mill,",1.0 +"In Fumes of burning Chocolate shall glow,",1.0 +And tremble at the Sea that froths below!,0.0 +He spoke; the Spirits from the Sails descend;,1.0 +"Some, Orb in Orb, around the Nymph extend,",0.0 +"With beating Hearts the dire Event they wait,",0.0 +"Anxious, and trembling for the Birth of Fate.",3.0 +"CLOSE by those Meads for ever crowned with Flowers,",0.0 +"Where Thames with Pride surveys his rising Towers,",0.0 +"There stands a Structure of Majestic Frame,",1.0 +Which from the neighbouring Hampton takes its Name.,2.0 +"Of Foreign Tyrants, and of Nymphs at home;",1.0 +"Here Thou, great Anna! whom three Realms obey,",3.0 +Dost sometime Counsel take ' -- and sometime Tea.,2.0 +"Hither the Heroes and the Nymphs resort,",3.0 +To taste awhile the Pleasures of a Court;,1.0 +"In various Talk the instructive hours they past,",3.0 +"Who gave a Ball, or paid the Visit last:",0.0 +"One speaks the Glory of the British Queen,",1.0 +And one describes a charming Indian Screen;,3.0 +"A third interprets Motions, Looks, and Eyes;",0.0 +At every Word a Reputation dies.,0.0 +"Snuff, or the Fan, supply each Pause of Chat,",0.0 +"Mean while declining from the Noon of Day,",2.0 +The Sun obliquely shoots his burning Ray;,0.0 +"The hungry Judges soon the Sentence sign,",0.0 +"The Merchant from the Exchange returns in Peace,",3.0 +"Belinda now, whom Thirst of Fame invites,",0.0 +"Burns to encounter two adventurous Knights,",4.0 +And swells her Breast with Conquests yet to come.,1.0 +"Strait the three Bands prepare in Arms to join,",3.0 +Each Band the number of the Sacred Nine.,1.0 +"Soon as she spreads her Hand, the Aerial Guard",2.0 +"Descend, and sit on each important Card:",0.0 +"Then each, according to the Rank they bore;",1.0 +"Are, as when Women, wondrous fond of Place.",1.0 +"Behold, four Kings in Majesty revered,",2.0 +"And four fair Queens whose hands sustain a Flower,",1.0 +The expressive Emblem of their softer Power;,2.0 +Draw forth to Combat on the Velvet Plain.,2.0 +"Let Spades be Trumps, she said, and Trumps they were.",1.0 +In Show like Leaders of the swarthy Moors.,1.0 +"Led off two captive Trumps, and swept the Board.",3.0 +And marched a Victor from the verdant Field.,1.0 +Gained but one Trump and one Plebeian Card.,1.0 +"With his broad Sabre next, a Chief in Years,",2.0 +The hoary Majesty of Spades appears;,1.0 +"Puts forth one manly Leg, to sight revealed;",1.0 +"The Rebel- Knave, that dares his Prince engage,",0.0 +Proves the just Victim of his Royal Rage.,1.0 +"Even mighty Pam that Kings and Queens overthrew,",3.0 +"And mowed down Armies in the Fights of Lu,",0.0 +"Sad Chance of War! now, destitute of Aid,",2.0 +Falls undistinguished by the Victor Spade!,2.0 +Thus far both Armies to Belinda yield;,3.0 +Now to the Baron Fate inclines the Field.,0.0 +"His warlike Amazon her Host invades,",1.0 +The Imperial Consort of the Crown of Spades.,2.0 +"The Club's black Tyrant first her Victim died,",1.0 +"Spite of his haughty Mien, and barbarous Pride:",2.0 +"What boots the Regal Circle on his Head,",1.0 +His Giant Limbs in State unwieldy spread?,0.0 +"That long behind he trails his pompous Robe,",0.0 +And of all Monarchs only grasps the Globe?,2.0 +The Baron now his Diamonds pours apace;,0.0 +"The embroidered King who shows but half his Face,",1.0 +Of broken Troops an easy Conquest find.,0.0 +"Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, in wild Disorder seen,",1.0 +With Throngs promiscuous strow the level Green,2.0 +"Thus when dispersed a routed Army runs,",1.0 +"With like Confusion different Nations fly,",0.0 +"In various Habits and of various Die,",5.0 +In Heaps on Heaps; one Fate overwhelms them all.,3.0 +"The Knave of Diamonds now exerts his Arts,",0.0 +And wins o shameful Chance! the Queen of Hearts.,0.0 +"At this, the Blood the Virgin's Cheek forsook,",0.0 +"On one nice Trick depends the general Fate,",2.0 +An Ace of Hearts steps forth: The King unseen,1.0 +"Lurked in her Hand, and mourned his captive Queen.",0.0 +"He springs to Vengeance with an eager pace,",1.0 +And falls like Thunder on the prostrate Ace.,1.0 +"The Nymph exulting fills with Shouts the Sky,",0.0 +"The Walls, the Woods, and long Canals reply.",0.0 +"O thoughtless Mortals! ever blind to Fate,",0.0 +"Too soon dejected, and too soon elate!",3.0 +And cursed for ever this Victorious Day.,3.0 +"For lo! the Board with Cups and Spoons is crowned,",0.0 +"The Berries crackle, and the Mill turns round.",2.0 +On shining Altars of Japan they raise,1.0 +"The silver Lamp, and fiery Spirits blaze.",2.0 +"At once they gratify their Scent and Taste,",0.0 +Strait hover round the Fair her Airy Band;,1.0 +"Some over her Lap their careful Plumes displayed,",2.0 +"Trembling, and conscious of the rich Brocade.",2.0 +"Coffee, which makes the Politician wise,",2.0 +And see through all things with his half shut Eyes,1.0 +"New Stratagems, the radiant Lock to gain.",2.0 +"Ah cease rash Youth! desist ever it's too late,",7.0 +"Changed to a Bird, and sent to flit in Air,",0.0 +"But when to Mischief Mortals bend their Mind,",0.0 +How soon fit Instruments of Ill they find?,2.0 +"Just then, Clarissa drew with tempting Grace",0.0 +"So Ladies in Romance assist their Knight,",0.0 +"Present the Spear, and arm him for the Fight.",1.0 +"He takes the Gift with reverence, and extends",3.0 +As over the fragrant Steams she bends her Head:,2.0 +"A thousand Wings, by turns, blow back the Hair,",1.0 +"And thrice they twitched the Diamond in her Ear,",0.0 +"Thrice she looked back, and thrice the Foe drew near.",4.0 +"Just in that instant, anxious Ariel sought",2.0 +The close Recesses of the Virgin's Thought;,3.0 +"He watched the Ideas rising in her Mind,",2.0 +"Sudden he viewed, in spite of all her Art,",2.0 +An Earthly Lover lurking at her Heart.,0.0 +"Amazed, confused, he found his Power expired,",2.0 +"Resigned to Fate, and with a Sigh retired.",1.0 +"Even then, before the fatal Engine closed,",0.0 +"From the fair Head, for ever and for ever!",3.0 +"Then flashed the living Lightnings from her Eyes,",1.0 +"Not louder Shrieks by Dames to Heaven are cast,",0.0 +"When Husbands or when Monkeys breath their last,",1.0 +"Or when rich China Vessels, fallen from high,",3.0 +In glittering Dust and painted Fragments lie!,2.0 +"Let Wreaths of Triumph now my Temples twine,",1.0 +"While Fish in Streams, or Birds delight in Air,",0.0 +"Or in a Coach and Six the British Fair,",0.0 +"While Visits shall be paid on solemn Days,",0.0 +"So long my Honour, Name, and Praise shall live!",3.0 +"What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date,",0.0 +"And Monuments, like Men, submit to Fate!",1.0 +"Steel did the Labour of the Gods destroy,",1.0 +And strike to Dust the Imperial Towers of Troy;,6.0 +"Steel could the Works of mortal Pride confound,",0.0 +And hew Triumphal Arches to the Ground.,1.0 +"What Wonder then, fair Nymph! thy Hairs should feel",1.0 +"BUT anxious Cares the pensive Nymph oppressed,",0.0 +"Not youthful Kings in Battle seized alive,",0.0 +"Not scornful Virgins who their Charms survive,",0.0 +"Not ardent Lovers robbed of all their Bliss,",0.0 +"Not ancient Ladies when refused a Kiss,",0.0 +"Ever felt such Rage, Resentment and Despair,",1.0 +"And Ariel weeping from Belinda flew,",3.0 +"As ever sullied the fair face of Light,",2.0 +"Down to the Central Earth, his proper Scene,",1.0 +Repairs to search the gloomy Cave of Spleen.,0.0 +"No cheerful Breeze this sullen Region knows,",1.0 +The dreaded East is all the Wind that blows.,0.0 +"Here, in a Grotto, sheltered close from Air,",1.0 +"And screened in Shades from Day's detested Glare,",0.0 +"She sighs for ever on her pensive Bed,",1.0 +But differing far in Figure and in Face.,1.0 +Her wrinkled Form in Black and White arrayed;,0.0 +"With store of Prayers, for Mornings, Nights, and Noons.",0.0 +There Affectation with a sickly Mien,1.0 +"Shows in her Cheek the Roses of Eighteen,",1.0 +"Practised to Lisp, and hang the Head aside,",2.0 +"On the rich Quilt sinks with becoming Woe,",3.0 +"Wrapped in a Gown, for Sickness, and for Show.",1.0 +"The Fair ones feel such Maladies as these,",2.0 +Strange Phantoms rising as the Mists arise;,2.0 +"Dreadful, as Hermit's Dreams in haunted Shades,",2.0 +Or bright as Visions of expiring Maids.,1.0 +"Now glaring Fiends, and Snakes on rolling Spires,",1.0 +"And Crystal Domes, and Angels in Machines.",0.0 +Of Bodies changed to various Forms by Spleen.,2.0 +"One bent; the Handle this, and that the Spout:",1.0 +A Pipkin there like Homer's Tripod walks;,2.0 +"Men prove with Child, as powerful Fancy works,",3.0 +"And Maids turned Bottles, call aloud for Corks.",1.0 +"Safe past the Gnome through this fantastic Band,",2.0 +Then thus addressed the Power ' -- Hail wayward Queen;,3.0 +"Who rule the Sex to Fifty from Fifteen,",1.0 +"Who give the Hysteric or Poetic Fit,",4.0 +"On various Tempers act by various ways,",4.0 +"Who cause the Proud their Visits to delay,",1.0 +"And send the Godly in a Pett, to pray.",0.0 +"A Nymph there is, that all thy Power disdains,",2.0 +And thousands more in equal Mirth maintains.,0.0 +"But o! if ever thy Gnome could spoil a Grace,",3.0 +Or change Complexions at a losing Game;,0.0 +"If ever with airy Horns I planted Heads,",2.0 +"Or rumpled Petticoats, or tumbled Beds,",0.0 +"Or caused Suspicion when no Soul was rude,",1.0 +Which not the Tears of brightest Eyes could ease:,0.0 +"Hear me, and touch Belinda with Chagrin;",1.0 +That single Act gives half the World the Spleen.,1.0 +The Goddess with a discontented Air,1.0 +"Seems to reject him, though she grants his Prayer.",1.0 +"A wondrous Bag with both her Hands she binds,",0.0 +Like that where once Ulysses held the Winds;,0.0 +"There she collects the Force of Female Lungs,",2.0 +"Sighs, Sobs, and Passions, and the War of Tongues.",2.0 +"A Vial next she fills with fainting Fears,",0.0 +"The Gnome rejoicing bears her Gift away,",0.0 +"Spreads his black Wings, and slowly mounts to Day.",3.0 +Her Eyes dejected and her Hair unbound.,1.0 +"Full over their Heads the swelling Bag he rent,",3.0 +"Belinda burns with more than mortal Ire,",0.0 +"OH wretched Maid! she spread her hands, and cried,",1.0 +"While Hampton's Echoes, wretched Maid replied",0.0 +Was it for this you took such constant Care,1.0 +"The Bodkin; Comb, and Essence to prepare;",1.0 +"For this with Fillets strained your tender Head,",1.0 +And bravely bore the double Loads of Lead?,0.0 +"Ease, Pleasure, Virtue, All, our Sex resign.",1.0 +"Already hear the horrid things they say,",0.0 +"Already see you a degraded Toast,",1.0 +And all your Honour in a Whisper lost!,0.0 +"How shall I, then, your helpless Fame defend?",0.0 +"Exposed through Crystal to the gazing Eyes,",1.0 +"And heightened by the Diamond's circling Rays,",1.0 +On that Rapacious Hand for ever blaze?,0.0 +And Wits take Lodgings in the Sound of Bow;,1.0 +"Sooner let Earth, Air, Sea, to Chaos fall,",4.0 +"She said; then raging to Sir Plume repairs,",2.0 +And bids her Beau demand the precious Hairs:,0.0 +And the nice Conduct of a clouded Cane,0.0 +"With earnest Eyes, and round unthinking Face,",0.0 +"And thus broke out ' -- My Lord, why, what the Devil?",2.0 +"Give her the Hair ' -- he spoke, and rapped his Box.",0.0 +It grieves me much replied the Peer again,0.0 +Who speaks so well should ever speak in vain.,0.0 +"Which never more shall join its parted Hair,",0.0 +Clipped from the lovely Head where once it grew,0.0 +"That while my Nostrils draw the vital Air,",0.0 +"This Hand, which won it, shall for ever wear.",0.0 +"He spoke, and speaking in proud Triumph spread",1.0 +He breaks the Vial whence the Sorrows flow.,0.0 +"Her Eyes half languishing, half drowned in Tears;",3.0 +"On her heaved Bosom hung her drooping Head,",2.0 +"Which, with a Sigh, she raised; and thus she said.",0.0 +"For ever cursed be this detested Day,",1.0 +"Which snatched my best, my favourite Curl away!",0.0 +"Happy! ah ten times happy, had I been,",3.0 +"Yet am not I the first mistaken Maid,",0.0 +By Love of Courts to numerous Ills betrayed.,2.0 +"In some lone Isle, or distant Northern Land;",1.0 +"Where the gilded Chariot never marked the way,",2.0 +"There kept my Charms concealed from mortal Eye,",0.0 +Like Roses that in Deserts bloom and die.,0.0 +What moved my Mind with youthful Lords to room?,0.0 +"OH had I stayed, and said my Prayers at home!",0.0 +"'Twas this, the Morning Omens did foretell;",0.0 +"The tottering China shook without a Wind,",2.0 +"Nay, Poll sat mute, and Shock was most Unkind!",2.0 +"A Sylph too warned me of the Threats of Fate,",2.0 +"In mystic Visions, now believed too late!",1.0 +See the poor Remnants of this slighted Hair!,4.0 +Once gave new Beauties to the snowy Neck.,3.0 +And in its Fellow's Fate foresees its own;,0.0 +And tempts once more thy sacrilegious Hands.,1.0 +"Hairs less in sight, or any Hairs but these!",1.0 +"SHE said: the pitying Audience melt in Tears,",4.0 +For who can move when fair Belinda fails?,0.0 +"Not half so fixed the Trojan could remain,",0.0 +While Anna begged and Dido raged in vain.,0.0 +And swift as Lightning to the Combat flies.,1.0 +"All side in Parties, and begin the Attack;",3.0 +"And base, and treble Voices strike the Skies.",0.0 +"No common Weapons in their Hands are found,",1.0 +"Like Gods they fight, nor dread a mortal Wound.",0.0 +And heavenly Breasts with human Passions rage;,2.0 +"Against Pallas, Mars; Latona, Hermes, Arms;",4.0 +And all Olympus rings with loud Alarms.,0.0 +"Earth shakes her nodding Towers, the Ground gives way;",4.0 +And the pale Ghosts start at the Flash of Day!,1.0 +"Clapped his glad Wings, and sat to view the Fight,",3.0 +"The growing Combat, or assist the Fray.",1.0 +"One died in Metaphor, and one in Song.",2.0 +"OH cruel Nymph! a living Death I bear,",1.0 +Thus on Meander's flowery Margin lies,7.0 +"The expiring Swan, and as he sings he dies.",2.0 +"As bold Sir Plume had drawn Clarissa down,",2.0 +"Chloe stepped in, and killed him with a Frown;",1.0 +"She smiled to see the doughty Hero slain,",0.0 +"But at her Smile, the Beau revived again.",0.0 +The doubtful Beam long nods from side to side;,1.0 +"At length the Wits mount up, the Hairs subside.",2.0 +"See fierce Belinda on the Baron flies,",2.0 +With more than usual Lightning in her Eyes;,2.0 +"Nor feared the Chief the unequal Fight to try,",2.0 +Who sought no more than on his Foe to die.,2.0 +"But this bold Lord, with manly Strength endued,",2.0 +She with one Finger and a Thumb subdued:,2.0 +"Just where the Breath of Life his Nostrils drew,",0.0 +A Charge of Snuff the wily Virgin threw;,0.0 +"The Gnomes direct, to every Atom just,",0.0 +The pungent Grains of titillating Dust.,0.0 +"Sudden, with starting Tears each Eye overflows,",5.0 +"Now meet thy Fate, the incensed Virago cried,",4.0 +And drew a deadly Bodkin from her Side.,1.0 +Formed a vast Buckle for his Widow's Gown:,4.0 +"Then in a Bodkin graced her Mother's Hairs,",0.0 +"Which long she wore, and now Belinda wears.",0.0 +Boast not my Fall he cried insulting Foe!,0.0 +Thou by some other shalt be laid as low.,1.0 +"All that I dread, is leaving you behind!",1.0 +"Rather than so, ah let me still survive,",1.0 +"And burn in Cupid's Flames, ' -- but burn alive.",0.0 +Restore the Lock! she cries; and all around,0.0 +Restore the Lock! the vaulted Roofs rebound.,0.0 +Not fierce Othello in so loud a Strain,0.0 +Roared for the Handkerchief that caused his Pain.,1.0 +"But see how oft Ambitious Aims are crossed,",0.0 +"The Lock, obtained with Guilt, and kept with Pain,",0.0 +"In every place is sought, but sought in vain:",0.0 +So Heaven decrees! with Heaven who can contest?,0.0 +"Some thought it mounted to the Lunar Sphere,",1.0 +"There Hero's Wits are kept in ponderous Vases,",2.0 +"There broken Vows, and Deathbed Alms are found,",1.0 +And Lovers Hearts with Ends of Ribbon bound;,0.0 +"The Courtiers Promises, and Sick Man's Prayers,",4.0 +"Cages for Gnats, and Chains to Yoke a Flea;",2.0 +"But trust the Muse ' -- she saw it upward rise,",0.0 +Though marked by none but quick Poetic Eyes:,0.0 +"So Rome's great Founder to the Heavens withdrew,",4.0 +"A sudden Star, it shot through liquid Air,",0.0 +And drew behind a radiant Trail of Hair.,0.0 +And pleased pursue its Progress through the Skies.,2.0 +And hail with Music its propitious Ray.,1.0 +"This, the blessed Lover shall for Venus take,",2.0 +"This Partridge soon shall view in cloudless Skies,",0.0 +"The Fate of Louis, and the Fall of Rome.",1.0 +Which adds new Glory to the shining Sphere!,2.0 +Not all the Tresses that fair Head can boast,1.0 +Shall draw such Envy as the Lock you lost.,1.0 +"For, after all the Murders of your Eye,",1.0 +"When, after Millions slain, your self shall die;",0.0 +"When those fair Suns shall set, as set they must,",3.0 +And all those Tresses shall be laid in Dust;,0.0 +"This Lock, the Muse shall consecrate to Fame,",0.0 +"To hymn thy God, and thou, immortal Fame,",1.0 +"Arise, and blow thy everlasting trump.",0.0 +"All glory to the Omniscient, and praise,",5.0 +"And power, and domination in the height!",2.0 +"And thou, cherubic Gratitude, whose voice",1.0 +"Come with thy precious incense, bring thy gifts,",1.0 +And with thy choicest stores the altar crown.,1.0 +"Thou too, my heart, whom He, and He alone",2.0 +"Who all things knows, can know, with love replete,",1.0 +"Regenerate, and pure, pour all thyself",1.0 +A living sacrifice before his throne:,0.0 +"And may the eternal, high mysterious tree,",3.0 +"Bears the rich fruit of Knowledge, with some branch",4.0 +"Stoop to my humble reach, and bless my toil!",0.0 +When in my mother's womb concealed I lay,0.0 +And every faint Idea yet unformed.,0.0 +When up the imperceptible ascent,1.0 +"Of growing years, led by thy hand, I rose,",2.0 +"Perception's gradual light, that ever dawns",2.0 +"That what of knowledge in my mind was low,",0.0 +"Imperfect, incorrect ' -- in Thee is wondrous,",2.0 +And estimable solely by itself.,2.0 +"Which Ignorance calls instinct? It's from Thee,",3.0 +It is the operation of thine hands,2.0 +"Immediate, instantaneous; it's thy wisdom,",3.0 +That glorious shines transparent through thy works.,3.0 +"Who taught the Pie, or who forewarned the Jay",0.0 +To shun the deadly nightshade? though the cherry,2.0 +"Boasts not a glossier hue, nor does the plumb",2.0 +"Lure with more seeming sweets the amorous eye,",2.0 +"By fair appearance, touch the noxious fruit.",0.0 +"They know to touch is fatal, whence alarmed",0.0 +Swift on the winnowing winds they work their way.,2.0 +"Go to, proud reasoner philosophic Man,",5.0 +"Hast thou such prudence, thou such knowledge? ' -- No.",1.0 +Full many a race has fell into the snare,3.0 +And oft in desert isles the famished pilgrim,0.0 +"By forms of fruit, and luscious taste beguiled;",0.0 +"Like his forefather Adam, eats and dies.",2.0 +For why? his wisdom on the leaden sect,1.0 +"And comes, like vengeance, after long delay.",0.0 +"The venerable Sage, that nightly trims",1.0 +"The learnt lamp, to investigate the powers",2.0 +"Of plants medicinal, the earth, the air,",1.0 +"And the dark regions of the fossil world,",3.0 +"Grows old in following, what he never shall find;",3.0 +"He spies a missed, then shapes it into mountains,",0.0 +And baseless fabrics from conjecture builds:,1.0 +"While the domestic animal, that guards",2.0 +"At midnight hours his threshold, if oppressed",3.0 +"By sudden sickness, at his master's feet",0.0 +"Begs not that aid his services might claim,",1.0 +"But is his own physician, knows the case,",1.0 +"Hark, far, from afar the The hen turkey. feathered matron screams.",4.0 +"And all her brood alarms, the docile crew",0.0 +"Accept the signal one and all, expert",1.0 +"Along the sod, in counterfeited death,",0.0 +"But who informed her of the approaching danger,",1.0 +"Who taught the cautious mother, that the hawk",0.0 +"Was hatched her foe, and lived by her destruction?",1.0 +"Her own prophetic soul is active in her,",0.0 +And more than human providence her guard.,1.0 +"When Philomela, ever the cold domain",2.0 +"Of crippled winter begins to advance, prepares",4.0 +"Her annual flight, and in some poplar shade",2.0 +"To realms from us remote, to us unknown?",2.0 +Her science is the science of her God.,2.0 +Not the magnetic index to the North,2.0 +"Courts nor coy West nor East, but instant knows",3.0 +"What The Longitude. Newton, or not sought, or sought in vain.",5.0 +"Of man's vast genius, and the soaring soul!",2.0 +"Yet what wert thou to him, who knew his works,",1.0 +"Before creation formed them, long before",0.0 +He measured in the hollow of his hand,1.0 +"The exulting ocean, and the highest Heavens",2.0 +"He comprehended with a span, and weighed",1.0 +The mighty mountains in his golden scales:,0.0 +"Who shone supreme, who was himself the light,",1.0 +When Knowledge at her father's dread command,0.0 +OH! to have joined the frequent auditors,1.0 +"To God's own honour, and good will to man,",0.0 +That wisdom he alone of men possessed,1.0 +How did he rouse the pampered silken sons,0.0 +"Of bloated ease, by placing to their view",1.0 +"The sage industrious Ant, the wisest insect,",3.0 +"To measure times and seasons, nor consults",1.0 +"Pointing with icy hand to want and woe,",2.0 +"Receives him as a welcome guest, prepared",1.0 +Against the churlish winter's fiercest blow.,0.0 +"Gives to the genial earth the enlivening ray,",4.0 +"Not the poor suffering slave, that hourly toils",2.0 +"Endures such trouble, such fatigue, as she;",1.0 +"Then many a weary step, and many a strain,",4.0 +"And many a grievous groan subdued, at length",2.0 +Up the huge hill she hardly heaves it home:,2.0 +"Nor rests she here her providence, but nips",1.0 +"With subtle tooth the grain, lest from her garner",1.0 +"In mischievous fertility it steal,",2.0 +And back to daylight vegetate its way.,1.0 +And by her wary ways reform thine own.,1.0 +"More glaring evidence demand; behold,",1.0 +May read himself a fool. The Chemist there,1.0 +May with astonishment invidious view,4.0 +"His toils outdone by each plebeian Bee,",1.0 +"Who, at the royal mandate, on the wing",2.0 +"From various herbs, and from discordant flowers,",3.0 +A perfect harmony of sweets compounds.,2.0 +Back to the Prince of vanity and air!,1.0 +OH! it's a thought of energy most piercing;,1.0 +Formed to make pride grow humble; formed to force,4.0 +"Its weight on the reluctant mind, and give her",1.0 +A true but Irksome image of herself.,1.0 +"Woeful vicissitude! when Man, fallen Man,",6.0 +"Who first from Heaven, from gracious God himself",0.0 +"By slow degrees from lowly steps ascend,",0.0 +"Yet murmur not, but praise ' -- for though we stand",1.0 +"By Adam's dire transgression, though no more",2.0 +"Is Paradise our home, but over the portal",2.0 +Hangs in terrific pomp the burning blade;,1.0 +Still with ten thousand beauties blooms the Earth,3.0 +"With pleasures populous, and with riches crowned.",1.0 +Still is there scope for wonder and for love,1.0 +Even to their last exertion ' -- showers of blessings,3.0 +"Far more than human virtue can deserve,",1.0 +"Or hope expect, or gratitude return.",0.0 +"Then, OH you People, OH you Sons of Men,",0.0 +"Whatever be the colour of your lives,",1.0 +Whatever portion of itself his Wisdom,2.0 +"Shall deign to allow, still patiently abide",4.0 +And praise him more and more; nor cease to chant,0.0 +"ALL GLORY TO THE OMNISCIENT AND PRAISE,",5.0 +AND POWER AND DOMINATION IN THE HEIGHT!,2.0 +"You Sons of Men, with just Regard attend,",0.0 +"Observe the Preacher, and believe the Friend,",1.0 +"Whose serious Muse inspires Him to explain,",3.0 +"That all we Act, and all we Think is Vain.",0.0 +"That in this Pilgrimage of Seventy Years,",2.0 +"Over Rocks of Perils, and through Vales of Tears",1.0 +"Destined to march, our doubtful Steps we tend,",2.0 +That from the Womb We take our fatal Shares,0.0 +And at Approach of Death shall only know,0.0 +"The Truths, which from these pensive Numbers flow,",1.0 +"That We pursue false Joy, and suffer real Woe.",3.0 +"Happiness, Object of that waking Dream,",1.0 +"Which we call Life, mistaking; Fugitive Theme",5.0 +"Notional Good, by Fancy only made,",1.0 +"And by Tradition nursed, fallacious Fire,",1.0 +"Whose dancing Beams mislead our fond Desire,",0.0 +"Cause of our Care, and Error of our Mind:",1.0 +"To Adam, and his Mortal Race; the Boon",1.0 +"Entire, had been reserved for Solomon:",3.0 +On Me the partial Lot had been bestowed;,1.0 +And in my Cup the golden Draught had flowed.,0.0 +But OH! ever yet Original Man was made;,4.0 +Ever the Foundations of this Earth were laid;,2.0 +"It was, opponent to our Search, ordained,",2.0 +"That Joy, still sought, should never be attained.",1.0 +"This, sad Experience cites me to reveal;",3.0 +"And what I dictate, is from what I feel.",1.0 +"Born as I was, great David's favourite Son,",2.0 +"Dear to my People, on the Hebrew Throne",1.0 +"My Name extended to the farthest East,",1.0 +"My Body clothed with every outward Grace,",0.0 +"Strength in my Limbs, and Beauty in my Face,",0.0 +"My shining Thought with fruitful Notions crowned,",0.0 +"Quick my Invention, and my Judgement sound.",3.0 +"Think, to be Happy; to be Great, be Wise:",1.0 +Content of Spirit must from Science flow;,0.0 +I said; and sent my Edict through the Land:,1.0 +"Historic Leaves revolve, long Volumes spread,",1.0 +"Attended I heard, proposed my Doubts, and said;",2.0 +"The Vegetable World, each Plant, and Tree,",2.0 +"It's Seed, it's Name, it's Nature, it's Degree",1.0 +"I am allowed, as Fame reports, to know,",1.0 +"From the fair Cedar, on the craggy Brow",3.0 +"Of Lebanon nodding supremely tall,",6.0 +"To creeping Moss, and Hyssop on the Wall:",1.0 +"Yet just and conscious to my self, I find",1.0 +A thousand Doubts oppose the searching Mind.,0.0 +I know not why the Beach delights the Glade,0.0 +"With Boughs extended, and a rounder Shade;",1.0 +"While towering Firs in Conic forms arise,",0.0 +And with a pointed Spear divide the Skies:,1.0 +Nor why again the changing Oak should shed,0.0 +"While the distinguished Yew is ever seen,",1.0 +"Unchanged his Branch, and permanent his Green.",1.0 +Wanting the Sun why does the Caltha fade?,2.0 +Why does the Cypress flourish in the Shade?,0.0 +The Fig and Date why love they to remain,1.0 +"In middle Station, and an even Plain;",1.0 +While in the lower Marsh the Gourd is found;,0.0 +The blushing Poppy with a crimson Hue;,1.0 +"Yet leave the Lilly pale, and tinge the Violet blue?",0.0 +Why does the fond Carnation love to shoot,0.0 +A various Colour from one Parent Root;,2.0 +While the fantastic Tulip strives to break,1.0 +"In twofold Beauty, and a parted Streak?",2.0 +"The twining Jasmine, and the blushing Rose,",1.0 +With lavish Grace their Morning Scents disclose:,0.0 +The stronger Impulse of an Evening Air.,1.0 +Whence has the Tree resolve me or the Flower,1.0 +"A various Instinct, or a different Power?",3.0 +"Raise This to Strength, and sicken That to Death?",0.0 +"Whence does it happen, that the Plant which well",0.0 +"We name the Sensitive, should move and feel?",1.0 +"Whence know her Leaves to answer her Command,",1.0 +And with quick Horror fly the neighbouring Hand?,4.0 +"Along the Sunny Bank, or watery Mead,",2.0 +Ten thousand Stalks their various Blossoms spread:,3.0 +"Peaceful and lowly in their native Soil,",2.0 +"They neither know to spin, nor care to toil;",0.0 +"Our vile Attire, and Impotence of Pride.",3.0 +"The Cowslip smiles, in brighter yellow dressed,",0.0 +"A fairer Red stands blushing in the Rose,",1.0 +Take but the humblest Lilly of the Field;,3.0 +"And if our Pride will to our Reason yield,",2.0 +"It must by sure Comparison be shown,",1.0 +"That on the Regal Seat great David's Son,",1.0 +"Arrayed in all his Robes, and Types of Power,",0.0 +"Shines with less Glory, than that simple Flower.",4.0 +"Of Fishes next, my Friends, I would enquire,",0.0 +From the small Fry that glide on Jordan's Stream,2.0 +"Unmarked, a Multitude without a Name,",0.0 +"To that Leviathan, who over the Seas",3.0 +"Immense rolls onward his impetuous Ways,",2.0 +"And mocks the Wind, and in the Tempest plays.",0.0 +How They in Warlike Bands march greatly forth,3.0 +"From freezing Waters, and the colder North,",1.0 +"To Southern Climes directing their Career,",1.0 +"How all with careful Knowledge are endued,",1.0 +"To choose their proper Bed, and Wave, and Food:",0.0 +"To guard their Spawn, and educate their Brood.",0.0 +"Of Birds, how each according to her Kind",1.0 +Proper Materials for her Nest can find;,3.0 +"And build a Frame, which deepest Thought in Man",0.0 +"Would or amend, or imitate in vain.",1.0 +"How in small Flights They know to try their Young,",1.0 +And teach the callow Child her Parent's Song.,0.0 +"Why these frequent the Plain, and those the Wood.",3.0 +Why every Land has her specific Brood.,1.0 +"Where the tall Crane, or winding Swallow goes,",3.0 +"Fearful of gathering Winds, and falling Snows:",4.0 +"If into Rocks, or hollow Trees they creep,",0.0 +In temporary Death confined to Sleep;,0.0 +"Or conscious of the coming Evil, fly",1.0 +"To milder Regions, and a Southern Sky.",1.0 +Of Beasts and creeping Insects shall we trace,1.0 +"The wondrous Nature, and the various Race;",3.0 +"Or wild or tame, or Friend to Man or Foe,",0.0 +"Of Us, what They, or what of Them We know?",1.0 +"Tell me, You studious, who pretend to see",2.0 +"Far into Nature's Bosom, whence the Bee",1.0 +"Whence she avoids the slimy Marsh, and knows",1.0 +"How from the thickened Mist, and setting Sun",1.0 +Finds She the Labour of her Day is done?,1.0 +"Who taught Her against Winds and Rains to strive,",5.0 +"To bring her Burden to the certain Hive,",1.0 +And through the liquid Fields again to pass,1.0 +'Midst Summer's Plenty thinks of Winter's Want:,1.0 +By constant Journeys careful to prepare,1.0 +"Her Stores; and bringing home the Corny Ear,",0.0 +"By what Instruction does She bite the Grain,",0.0 +"Lest hid in Earth, and taking Root again,",0.0 +It might elude the Foresight of her Care?,2.0 +Distinct in either Insect's Deed appear,1.0 +"The marks of Thought, Contrivance, Hope, and Fear.",0.0 +"On the vile Worm, that Yesterday began",2.0 +"Like Thee they breath, they move, they taste, they see,",0.0 +They show their Passions by their Acts like Thee:,1.0 +"Darting their Stings, they previously declare",5.0 +"Designed Revenge, and fierce intent of War:",0.0 +"Laying their Eggs, they evidently prove",3.0 +"The Genial Power, and full Effect of Love.",2.0 +"Each then has Organs to digest his Food,",1.0 +"One to beget, and one receive the Brood:",2.0 +"Life, and her proper Functions to sustain;",1.0 +Though the whole Fabric smaller than a Grain.,3.0 +What more can our penurious Reason grant,5.0 +"To those enormous Terrors of the Nile,",2.0 +"Than that all differ but in Shape and Name,",1.0 +"Each destined to a less, or larger Frame?",1.0 +"For potent Nature loves a various Act,",2.0 +"Prone to enlarge, or studious to contract:",4.0 +"Now forms her Work too small, now too immense,",3.0 +And scorns the Measures of our feeble Sense.,1.0 +"The Object spread too far, or raised too high,",2.0 +"Too little, it eludes the dazzled Sight;",2.0 +Water and Air the varied Form confound;,2.0 +"The Strait looks crooked, and the Square grows round.",3.0 +"Thus while with fruitless Hope, and weary Pain,",0.0 +"We seek great Nature's Power, but seek in vain;",3.0 +Safe sits the Goddess in her dark Retreat;,1.0 +"And endless Shapes, which the Mysterious Queen",3.0 +"Can take or quit, can alter or retain:",1.0 +As from our lost Pursuit She wills to hide,1.0 +"Her close Decrees, and chasten human Pride.",0.0 +He tyres his Life in biting on his Chains:,1.0 +"For the kind Gifts of Water, and of Food,",3.0 +"Ungrateful, and returning Ill for Good,",1.0 +"While the strong Camel, and the generous Horse,",5.0 +"Restrained and awed by Man's inferior Force,",2.0 +"Do to the Rider's Will their Rage submit,",1.0 +"And answer to the Spur, and own the Bit;",1.0 +"Pleased with his Weight, and proud of his Command.",1.0 +"Again: the lonely Fox roams far abroad,",1.0 +"While the kind Spaniel, and the faithful Hound,",3.0 +Refuses through these Cliffs and Lawns to roam;,1.0 +"Pursues the noted Path, and covets home;",0.0 +Does with kind Joy Domestic Faces meet;,3.0 +Takes what the glutted Child denies to eat;,0.0 +"By what immediate Cause They are inclined,",3.0 +"In many Acts, it's hard, I own, to find.",0.0 +"I see in others, or I think I see,",1.0 +"That strict their Principles, and our's agree.",1.0 +"Evil like Us they shun, and covet Good;",0.0 +"Abhor the Poison, and receive the Food.",1.0 +"Like Us they love or hate: like Us they know,",1.0 +"To joy the Friend, or grapple with the Foe.",1.0 +"With seeming Thought their Action they intend,",1.0 +And use the Means proportioned to the End.,1.0 +"Then vainly the Philosopher avers,",3.0 +"That Reason guides our Deed, and Instinct their's.",1.0 +"How can We justly different Causes frame,",1.0 +When the Effects entirely are the same?,3.0 +Instinct and Reason how can we divide?,4.0 +"It's the Fool's Ignorance, and the Pedant's Pride.",3.0 +If the brute Beast refuses to Obey.,3.0 +Proclaims himself the Universal Lord;,0.0 +"Does He not tremble, lest the Lion's Paw",1.0 +Should join his Plea against the fancied Law?,0.0 +Would not the Learnt Coward leave the Chair;,6.0 +If in the Schools or Porches should appear,0.0 +The Combatant too late the Field declines;,4.0 +When the swift Vessel flies before the Wind;,2.0 +Too late the Sailor views the Land behind.,1.0 +And it's too late now back again to bring,4.0 +"Enquiry, raised and towering on the Wing;",3.0 +"Forward She strives, averse to be withheld",2.0 +"From nobler Objects, and a larger Field.",0.0 +Yielding to Earth and Sea the middle Place.,2.0 +"Should never strive to rise, nor fear to fall.",0.0 +"When I reflect, how the revolving Sun",2.0 +Does round our Globe his crooked Journeys run;,0.0 +"I doubt of many Lands, if they contain",1.0 +"Or Herd of Beast, or Colony of Man:",1.0 +If any Nations pass their destined Days,0.0 +"If any suffer on the Polar Coast,",1.0 +May not the Pleasure of Omnipotence,2.0 +To each of These some secret Good dispense?,1.0 +"Those who amid the Torrid Regions live,",0.0 +May they not Gales unknown to us receive;,2.0 +"See daily Showers rejoice the thirsty Earth,",3.0 +And bless the flowery Buds succeeding Birth?,2.0 +"May they not pity Us, condemned to bear",2.0 +"While by fixed Laws, and with a just Return,",2.0 +"They feel twelve Hours that shade, for twelve that burn;",1.0 +"And praise the neighbouring Sun, whose constant Flame",2.0 +Enlightens them with Seasons still the same?,1.0 +"And may not Those, whose distant Lot is cast",0.0 +"Where through the Plains of one continual Day,",3.0 +Six shining Months pursue their even Way;,1.0 +"May not, I ask, the Natives of these Climes",1.0 +As Annals may inform succeeding Times,1.0 +"Their one Vicissitude, and equal Share",3.0 +"May they not scorn our Sun's repeated Race,",1.0 +"To narrow bounds prescribed, and little space,",0.0 +"Hastening from Morn, and headlong driven from Noon,",4.0 +Half of our Daily Toil yet scarcely done?,0.0 +May they not justly to our Climes upbraid,3.0 +"Shortness of Night, and Penury of Shade;",3.0 +That ever our wearied Limbs are justly blessed,2.0 +"With wholesome Sleep, and necessary Rest;",0.0 +"Another Sun demands return of Care,",0.0 +The remnant Toil of Yesterday to bear?,0.0 +"While, when the Solar Beams salute their Sight,",0.0 +"Bold and secure in half a Year of Light,",2.0 +Uninterrupted Voyages they take,3.0 +"To the remotest Wood, and farthest Lake;",1.0 +"Manage the Fishing, and pursue the Course",3.0 +"With more extended Nerves, and more continued Force.",0.0 +When gathering Clouds speak gloomy Winter nigh;,3.0 +"With Plenty for the coming Season blessed,",1.0 +"Six solid Months an Age they live, released",1.0 +"From all the Labour, Process, Clamour, Woe,",2.0 +Which our sad Scenes of daily Action know:,3.0 +"They light the shining Lamp, prepare the Feast,",0.0 +And with full Mirth receive the welcome Guest;,2.0 +Or tell their tender Loves the only Care,0.0 +Which now they suffer to the listening Fair;,1.0 +Grateful Alternates of substantial Peace,2.0 +They bless the long Nocturnal Influence shed,2.0 +"On the crowned Goblet, and the Genial Bed.",3.0 +"Frighten the Valleys, and infest the Wood:",3.0 +"The hungry Crocodile, and hissing Snake",0.0 +"Does Valley, Wood, and Brake, and Stream infest.",0.0 +Derived these Men and Animals their Birth,1.0 +"From Trunk of Oak, or pregnant Womb of Earth?",0.0 +"Whence then the Old Belief, that All began",0.0 +"In Eden's Shade, and one created Man?",1.0 +"Or grant, this Progeny was wafted over",1.0 +By coasting Boats from next adjacent Shore:,0.0 +"Would Those, from whom We will suppose they spring,",1.0 +"Slaughter to harmless Lands, and Poison bring?",2.0 +"Would they on Board or Bears, or Lynxes take,",0.0 +Or could they think the new Discovered Isle,0.0 +Pleased to receive a pregnant Crocodile?,2.0 +And since the Savage Lineage we must trace,1.0 +"From Noah saved, and his distinguished Race;",1.0 +How should their Fathers happen to forget,1.0 +"The Arts which Noah taught, the Rules He set,",0.0 +And load with grateful Flames the Holy Shrine?,0.0 +"While the great Sire's unhappy Sons are found,",3.0 +"And rude of Arts, of Virtue, and of God.",1.0 +How shall We next over Earth and Seas pursue,0.0 +The varied Forms of every thing we view;,0.0 +"That all is changed, though all is still the same,",0.0 +"Fluid the Parts, yet durable the Frame?",3.0 +"Of those Materials, which have been confessed",2.0 +"The pristine Springs, and Parents of the rest,",1.0 +Each becomes other. Water stopped gives Birth,5.0 +"To Grass and Plants, and thickens into Earth:",0.0 +Diffused it rises in a higher Sphere;,0.0 +Those finer Parts of Air again aspire;,0.0 +"That Fire once more by thicker Air overcome,",3.0 +"And downward forced, in Earth's capacious Womb",0.0 +Alters it's Particles; is Fire no more;,3.0 +"But lies resplendent Dust, and Shining Oar:",0.0 +"Or running through the mighty Mother's Veins,",1.0 +Changes it's Shape; puts off it's old Remains;,2.0 +With watery Parts it's lessened Force divides;,2.0 +"And furious Wind, down to the distant Plain",3.0 +"The Hill, that hides his Head above the Skies,",0.0 +Shall fall: The Plain by slow Degrees shall rise,0.0 +"Thus by a length of Years, and Change of Fate,",0.0 +"All Things are light or heavy, small or great:",0.0 +Thus Jordan's Waves shall future Clouds appear;,1.0 +"And Travellers enquire, where Babel stood.",3.0 +"Now where we see these Changes often fall,",0.0 +"Sedate we pass them by, as Natural:",1.0 +"Where to our Eye more rarely they appear,",1.0 +The Pompous Name of Prodigy they bear:,1.0 +Let Human Wit their dubious Boundaries place.,3.0 +Are all Things Miracle; or nothing such?,3.0 +"And prove We not too little, or too much?",3.0 +"For that a Branch cut off, a withered Rod",2.0 +Should at a Word pronounced revive and bud:,0.0 +"Is this more strange, than that the Mountain's Brow,",1.0 +"Should push, in Spring, ten thousand thousand Buds;",1.0 +"And boast returning Leaves, and blooming Woods?",0.0 +That each successive Night from opening Heaven,2.0 +The Food of Angels should to Man be given;,0.0 +"Is this more strange, than that with common Bread",1.0 +Our fainting Bodies every Day are fed;,0.0 +"Than that each Grain and Seed consumed in Earth,",0.0 +"Raises it's Store, and multiplies it's Birth;",2.0 +"And from the handful, which the Tiller sows,",2.0 +Then from whatever We can to Sense produce,3.0 +"Common and plain, or wondrous and abstruse,",3.0 +"From Nature's constant or Eccentric Laws,",1.0 +"The thoughtful Soul this general Influence draws,",2.0 +That an Effect must presuppose a Cause.,2.0 +"And while She does her upward Flight sustain,",0.0 +"Touching each Link of the continued Chain,",3.0 +At length she is obliged and forced to see,1.0 +"A First, a Source, a Life, a Deity;",1.0 +"What has for ever been, and must for ever be.",0.0 +"This great Existence thus by Reason found,",0.0 +"Blessed by all Power, with all Perfection crowned;",2.0 +"How can we bind or limit His Decree,",2.0 +"By what our Ear has heard, or Eye may see?",0.0 +"Say then: Is all in Heaps of Water lost,",0.0 +"Beyond the Islands, and the Midland Coast?",2.0 +"Or has that God, who gave our World it's Birth,",0.0 +"Severed those Waters by some other Earth,",3.0 +"Countries by future Ploughshares to be torn,",3.0 +And Cities raised by Nations yet unborn?,1.0 +Ever the progressive Course of restless Age,1.0 +Performs Three thousand times it's Annual Stage;,3.0 +May not our Power and Learning be suppressed;,2.0 +And Arts and Empire learn to travel West?,0.0 +"Where, by the Strength of this Idea charmed,",1.0 +"Lightened with Glory, and with Rapture warmed,",3.0 +Ascends my Soul? what sees She White and Great,0.0 +"Amid subjected Seas? An Isle, the Seat",0.0 +"Of Power and Plenty; Her Imperial Throne,",5.0 +For Justice and for Mercy sought and known;,1.0 +"Virtues Sublime, great Attributes of Heaven,",3.0 +From thence to this distinguished Nation given.,1.0 +Yet farther West the Western Isle extends,0.0 +To Climates folded yet from human Eye;,0.0 +"And Lands, which We imagine Wave and Sky.",1.0 +"From Pole to Pole She hears her Acts resound,",1.0 +And rules an Empire by no Ocean bound;,4.0 +"Knows her Ships anchored, and her Sails unfurled",4.0 +"In other Indies, and a second World.",1.0 +Long shall Britannia That must be her Name,2.0 +"Be first in Conquest, and preside in Fame:",1.0 +"The Teeth of Envy, and the Force of Age:",1.0 +"Revered and Happy She shall long remain,",1.0 +"Of human Things least changeable, least vain.",3.0 +Yet All must with the general Doom comply;,0.0 +"And this Great Glorious Power, though last, must die.",6.0 +"Now let us leave this Earth, and lift our Eye",1.0 +To the large Convex of yonder Azure Sky:,0.0 +"Behold it like an ample Curtain spread,",0.0 +Now streaked and glowing with the Morning Red;,2.0 +"Anon at Noon in flaming Yellow bright,",0.0 +And choosing Sable for the peaceful Night.,1.0 +"Ask Reason now, whence Light and Shade were given,",1.0 +And whence this great Variety of Heaven:,1.0 +"Reason our Guide, what can She more reply,",2.0 +Than that the Sun illuminates the Sky;,0.0 +"Than that Night rises from his absent Ray,",2.0 +But we expect the Morning Red in vain:,1.0 +"It's black in Storm, or red in Lightning Fire.",0.0 +"Friend to our Woe, and Parent of our Fears:",1.0 +"Our Joy and Wonder sometime She excites,",2.0 +"Let it return with empty Notions fraught,",2.0 +"Of airy Columns every Moment broke,",0.0 +"Of circling Whirlpools, and of Spheres of Smoke:",2.0 +Yet this Solution but once more affords,3.0 +"New Change of Terms, and scaffolding of Words:",2.0 +In other Garb my Question I receive;,1.0 +And take the Doubt the very same I gave.,0.0 +Lo! as a Giant strong the lusty Sun,0.0 +"Multiplied Rounds in one great Round does run,",1.0 +"Twofold his Course, yet constant his Career,",2.0 +"Changing the Day, and finishing the Year.",3.0 +"Again when his descending Orb retires,",1.0 +And Earth perceives the Absence of his Fires;,1.0 +"The Moon affords us Her alternate Ray,",1.0 +And with kind Beams distributes fainter Day:,2.0 +"Yet keeps the Stages of her Monthly Race,",1.0 +"Various her Beams, and changeable her Face.",2.0 +"Each Planet shining in his proper Sphere,",0.0 +Does with just Speed his radiant Voyage steer:,0.0 +Each sees his Lamp with different Lustre crowned:,0.0 +Each knows his Course with different Periods bound;,2.0 +"And in his Passage through the liquid Space,",1.0 +Now shine these Planets with substantial Rays?,2.0 +Does innate Lustre gild their measured Days?,4.0 +"Or do they as your Schemes, I think, have shown",1.0 +"Dart furtive Beams, and Glory not their own,",1.0 +"All Servants to that Source of Light, the Sun?",1.0 +"Again I see ten thousand thousand Stars,",1.0 +"Nor cast in Lines, in Circles, nor in Squares:",1.0 +"Poor Rules, with which our bounded Mind is filled,",1.0 +"When We would plant, or cultivate, or build",0.0 +"But shining with such vast, such various Light,",3.0 +"As speaks the Hand, that formed them, Infinite:",1.0 +How mean the Order and Perfection sought,1.0 +"In the best Product of the human Thought,",3.0 +Compared to the great Harmony that reigns,3.0 +"Now if the Sun to Earth transmits his Ray,",0.0 +Yet does not scorch us with too fierce a Day;,2.0 +How small a Portion of his Power is given,3.0 +"And of those Stars, which our imperfect Eye",2.0 +"Has doomed, and fixed to one Eternal Sky,",1.0 +"Each by a native stock of Honour great,",1.0 +"May dart strong Influence, and diffuse kind Heat,",5.0 +Enliven Worlds denied to human Sight:,0.0 +Around the Circles of their ambient Skies,3.0 +"New Moons may grow or wane, may set or rise;",1.0 +And other Stars may to those Suns be Earth's;,1.0 +Give their own Elements their proper Births;,1.0 +"Divide their Climes, or elevate their Pole;",0.0 +"See their Lands flourish, and their Oceans roll;",4.0 +May each to other as their different Sphere,1.0 +"Makes or their Distance, or their height appear",1.0 +"Be seen a nobler, or inferior Star;",4.0 +"And in that Space, which We call Air and Sky,",2.0 +"In vain We measure this amazing Sphere,",1.0 +And find and fix it's Centre here or there;,0.0 +"Where then are all the radiant Monsters driven,",0.0 +With which your Guesses filled the frightened Heaven?,0.0 +"This Problem yet, this Offspring of a Guess,",2.0 +Let Us for once a Child of Truth confess;,0.0 +"That these fair Stars, these Objects of Delight,",4.0 +"And Terror, to our searching dazzled Sight,",1.0 +"But do these Worlds display their Beams, or guide",0.0 +"Thy self but Dust, thy Stature but a Span,",1.0 +A Moment thy Duration; foolish Man!,2.0 +"That Caucasus was raised, to pave his Way:",1.0 +"Was destined only for his Walk, and Food:",1.0 +"That rounds the ample Seas, as well may boast,",0.0 +"The craggy Rock projects above the Sky,",0.0 +That He in Safety at it's Foot may lie;,0.0 +"And the whole Ocean's confluent Waters swell,",4.0 +"Only to quench his Thirst, or move and blanch his Shell.",2.0 +"Leaving material Worlds, and local Skies:",4.0 +That formed and held the Angels ancient Race.,0.0 +For Rebel Lucifer with Michael fought:,1.0 +I offer only what Tradition taught:,0.0 +Embattled Cherub against Cherub rose;,5.0 +"Did Shield to Shield, and Power to Power oppose:",4.0 +Heaven rung with Triumph: Hell was filled with Woes.,0.0 +"What were these Forms, of which your Volumes tell,",0.0 +"These bound to bear an everlasting Load,",0.0 +By fatal Turns their wretched Strength to tyre;,0.0 +"Excess of Blessing, and Supreme Delight,",1.0 +Only perceive some little Pause of Joys,2.0 +"In those great Moments, when their God employs",2.0 +"Their Ministry, to pour his threatened Hate",1.0 +"On the proud King, or the Rebellious State:",3.0 +"And speak the Thunder falling from his Hand,",1.0 +When to his Duty the proud King returns;,2.0 +And the Rebellious State in Ashes mourns.,1.0 +How can good Angels be in Heaven confined;,1.0 +"Or view that Presence, which no Space can bind?",1.0 +"Is GOD above, beneath, or yonder, or here?",1.0 +"He who made all, is He not every where?",1.0 +OH how can wicked Angels find a Night,0.0 +"So dark, to hide them from that piercing Light,",1.0 +"Which formed the Eye, and gave the Power of Sight?",2.0 +"What mean I now of Angel, when I hear",0.0 +"Firm Body, Spirit pure, or fluid Air?",1.0 +"Spirits to Action spiritual confined,",3.0 +"Friends to our Thought, and Kindred to our Mind,",1.0 +"Should only act and prompt us from within,",1.0 +Nor by external Eye be ever seen.,1.0 +"Was it not therefore to our Fathers known,",1.0 +"That these had Appetite, and Limb, and Bone?",0.0 +Else how could Abram wash their wearied Feet;,3.0 +Whence should they fear? or why did Lot engage,0.0 +To save their bodies from abusive Rage?,1.0 +"And how could Jacob, in a real Fight,",2.0 +Feel or resist the wrestling Angel's Might?,2.0 +How could a Form it's Strength with Matter try?,0.0 +Or how a Spirit touch a Mortal's Thigh?,1.0 +"Now are they Air condensed, or gathered Rays?",0.0 +"How guide they then our Prayer, or keep our Ways,",0.0 +"By stronger Blasts still subject to be tossed,",2.0 +Have they again as Sacred Song proclaims,1.0 +"How comes it, since with them we jointly share",1.0 +The great Effect of one Creator's Care;,2.0 +"That while our Bodies sicken, and decay,",1.0 +"Their's are for ever healthy, young, and gay?",1.0 +"Why, while We struggle in this Vale beneath,",0.0 +"With Want and Sorrow, with Disease and Death;",1.0 +Do They more blessed perpetual Life employ,2.0 +"On Songs of Pleasure, and in Scenes of Joy?",1.0 +"Now when my Mind has all this World surveyed,",0.0 +"And found, that Nothing by it self was made;",1.0 +"When Thought has raised it self by just Degrees,",0.0 +"From Valleys crowned with Flowers, and Hills with Trees;",2.0 +"From smoking Minerals, and from rising Streams;",1.0 +"Along the Shore, the Meadow, or the Grove;",2.0 +"From all that can with Finns, or Feathers fly",0.0 +"Through the Aerial, or the Watery Sky;",3.0 +"From the poor Reptile with a reasoning Soul,",5.0 +That miserable Master of the Whole;,2.0 +"Terribly large, and wonderfully bright",3.0 +"Enlightening Spirits, and ministerial Flames,",4.0 +All that in each Degree the name of Creature owns:,0.0 +"Lift we our Reason to that Sovereign Cause,",1.0 +"Who blessed the whole with Life, and bounded it with Laws;",1.0 +"Who forth from Nothing called this comely Frame,",0.0 +"His Will and Act, His Word and Work the same;",1.0 +To whom a thousand Years are but a Day;,1.0 +Who bad the Light her genial Beams display;,0.0 +"And set the Moon, and taught the Sun his Way:",0.0 +"Who waking Time, his Creature, from the Source",1.0 +"Himself, as in the Hollow of His Hand,",1.0 +"Holding, obedient to His high Command,",3.0 +"The deep Abyss, the long continued Store,",0.0 +"Where Months, and Days, and Hours, and Minutes pour",0.0 +"Their floating Parts, and thenceforth are no more.",3.0 +"This Alpha and Omega, First and Last,",1.0 +Who like the Potter in a Mould has cast,0.0 +"The World's great Frame, commanding it to be",2.0 +Such as the Eyes of Sense and Reason see;,1.0 +"Yet if He wills, may change or spoil the whole;",0.0 +"And burn it, like an useless parchment Scroll:",0.0 +May from it's Basis in one Moment pour,1.0 +"Like liquid Metal, and like burning Oar:",1.0 +"Who sole in Power, at the Beginning said;",2.0 +"Let Sea, and Air, and Earth, and Heaven be made:",1.0 +And it was so ' -- And when He shall ordain,1.0 +"In other Sort, has but to speak again,",1.0 +"And They shall be no more: Of this great Theme,",2.0 +"This Glorious, Hallowed, Everlasting Name,",2.0 +And each with mutual Look on other gazed.,2.0 +"Nor Speech They meditate, nor Answer frame:",0.0 +"Too plain, alas! their Silence spoke their Shame:",1.0 +"Till One, in whom an outward Mien appeared,",0.0 +"And Turn superior to the vulgar Herd,",1.0 +Was but to note the Doctrines I could teach;,2.0 +"That Mine to Speak, and Their's was to Obey:",2.0 +"For I in Knowledge more, than Power did sway;",2.0 +And the astonished World in Me beheld,2.0 +"Humble a Second bowed, and took the Word;",2.0 +Foresaw my Name by future Age adored.,1.0 +"OH Live, said He, Thou Wisest of the Wise!",2.0 +"Parent of wicked, Bane of honest Deeds,",2.0 +Pernicious Flattery! Thy malignant Seeds,3.0 +"In an ill Hour, and by a fatal Hand",2.0 +"With rising Pride amid the Corn appear,",0.0 +And choke the Hopes and Harvest of the Year.,1.0 +And now the whole perplexed ignoble Crowd,0.0 +"Mute to my Questions, in my Praises loud,",0.0 +"Echoed the Word: whence Things arose, or how",2.0 +"What yet is not, but is ordained to be,",1.0 +"All Veil of Doubt apart, the Dullest see.",0.0 +Their Civil Efforts of the Verbal War:,1.0 +Retiring still they combat: from the Field,1.0 +"Of open Arms unwilling they depart,",1.0 +And skulk behind the Subterfuge of Art.,0.0 +To speak one Thing mixed Dialects they join;,1.0 +"Divide the Simple, and the Plain define;",1.0 +"Fix fancied Laws, and form imagined Rules,",1.0 +"Terms of their Art, and Jargon of their Schools,",1.0 +"Ill grounded Maxims by false Gloss enlarged,",3.0 +Soon their crude Notions with each other fought:,4.0 +"The adverse Sect denied, what This had taught;",2.0 +Who contradicted what the last maintained.,0.0 +OH wretched Impotence of human Mind!,2.0 +We erring still Excuse for Error find;,0.0 +His Folly with connected Leaves to shade;,1.0 +How does the Crime of thy resembling Race,1.0 +With like Attempt that pristine Error trace?,0.0 +Why dost Thou strive the conscious Shame to hide,0.0 +"By Masks of Eloquence, and Veils of Pride?",1.0 +With outward Smiles their Flattery I received;,3.0 +Owned my Sick Mind by their Discourse relieved;,4.0 +But bent and inward to my Self again,1.0 +"Perplexed, these Matters I revolved; in vain.",1.0 +"At length I Ignorance, and Knowledge viewed,",1.0 +Impartial; Both in equal Balance laid:,0.0 +Light flew the knowing Scale; the doubtful Heavy weighed.,1.0 +"Forced by reflective Reason I confess,",3.0 +That human Science is uncertain Guess.,1.0 +"Alas! We grasp at Clouds, and beat the Air,",0.0 +Vexing that Spirit We intend to clear.,3.0 +Can Thought beyond the Bounds of Matter climb?,0.0 +"Or who shall tell Me, what is Space or Time?",0.0 +In vain We lift up our presumptuous Eyes,3.0 +To what our Maker to their Ken denies:,1.0 +The Searcher follows fast; the Object faster flies.,0.0 +"The little which imperfectly We find,",1.0 +To fruitless Search of Something yet behind.,0.0 +Various Discussions tear our heated Brain:,1.0 +Opinions often turn; still Doubts remain;,1.0 +"And who indulges Thought, increases Pain.",0.0 +How narrow Limits were to Wisdom given?,1.0 +Earth She surveys: She thence would measure Heaven:,2.0 +"Through Mists obscure, now wings her tedious Way;",3.0 +Now wanders dazzled with too bright a Day;,3.0 +"Sees Infinite, and in that Sight is lost.",2.0 +"Remember, that the cursed Desire to know,",0.0 +"Offspring of Adam, was thy Source of Woe.",2.0 +"Why wilt Thou then renew the vain Pursuit,",0.0 +With empty Labour and eluded Strife,1.0 +"Seeking, by Knowledge, to attain to Life;",3.0 +Which flaming Swords and angry Cherubs guard.,0.0 +"Try then, OH Man, the Moments to deceive,",4.0 +That from the Womb attend Thee to the Grave:,1.0 +For wearied Nature find some apter Scheme:,0.0 +Health be thy Hope; and Pleasure be thy Theme:,0.0 +"From the perplexing and unequal Ways,",2.0 +"Where Study brings Thee; from the endless Maze,",1.0 +"Which Doubt persuades to run, forewarned recede,",0.0 +"To the gay Field, and flowery Path, that lead",4.0 +"Forsake what may instruct, for what may please:",1.0 +"Essay amusing Art, and proud Expense;",0.0 +And make thy Reason subject to thy Sense.,1.0 +Artists and Plans relieved my solemn Hours:,2.0 +"I founded Palaces, and planted Bowers.",1.0 +"Birds, Fish, Beasts of each Exotic Kind",1.0 +I to the Limits of my Court confined.,2.0 +To Trees transferred I gave a second Birth;,0.0 +And Hills were levelled to extend the View.,1.0 +"Rivers diverted from their Native Course,",3.0 +"And bound with Chains of Artificial Force,",0.0 +From large Cascades in pleasing Tumult rolled;,0.0 +"Or rose through figured Stone, or breathing Gold.",0.0 +The Marble brought erects the spacious Dome;,0.0 +"The Workmen here obey the Master's Call,",0.0 +"To gild the Turret, and to paint the Wall;",0.0 +To mark the Pavement there with various Stone;,3.0 +And on the Jasper Steps to rear the Throne:,1.0 +"The spreading Cedar, that an Age had stood,",0.0 +"Supreme of Trees, and Mistress of the Wood,",1.0 +"Cut down and carved, my shining Roof adorns;",0.0 +"A thousand Artists show their cunning Power,",0.0 +To raise the Wonders of the Ivory Tower.,1.0 +"A thousand Maidens ply the purple Loom,",0.0 +"To weave the Bed, and deck the Regal Room;",0.0 +"Till Tyre confesses her exhausted Store,",1.0 +The Mountains grieve their hopes of Marble lost;,0.0 +"Their Brood decayed, and want of Elephant.",1.0 +"My full Design with vast Expense achieved,",0.0 +"I came, beheld, admired, reflected, grieved.",0.0 +"For, the Work perfected, the Joy was past.",2.0 +To my new Courts sad Thought did still repair,4.0 +And round my gilded Roofs hung hovering Care.,1.0 +In vain on silken Beds I sought Repose;,0.0 +And restless oft from purple Couches rose:,0.0 +Vexatious Thought still found my flying Mind,1.0 +"Nor bound by Limits, nor to Place confined;",1.0 +"Haunted my Nights, and terrified my Days;",2.0 +"Stalked through my Gardens, and pursued my Ways,",1.0 +"Nor shut from artful Bower, nor lost in winding Maze.",2.0 +"Yet take thy Bent, my Soul; another Sense",0.0 +"Essay, if Harmony may Grief control;",1.0 +Or Power of Sound prevail upon the Soul.,2.0 +"Often our Seers and Poets have confessed,",2.0 +That Music's Force can tame the furious Beast;,2.0 +"Can make the Wolf, or foaming Boar restrain",0.0 +"His Rage; the Lion drop his crested Mane,",0.0 +Attentive to the Song: the Lynx forget,1.0 +"His Wrath to Man, and lick the Minstrel's Feet.",0.0 +"Are we, alas! less savage yet than these?",2.0 +Else Music sure may human Cares appease.,1.0 +I spoke my Purpose; and the cheerful Choir,1.0 +Parted their shares of Harmony: the Lyre,3.0 +Provoked the Dorian Flute both sweeter found,3.0 +And every Strength with every Grace was joined.,0.0 +Each Evening their repeated Skill expressed,1.0 +"Scenes of Repose, and Images of Rest:",3.0 +Yet still in vain: for Music gathered Thought:,0.0 +But how unequal the Effects it brought?,2.0 +"The soft Ideas of the cheerful Note,",1.0 +"Lightly received, were easily forgot.",3.0 +The solemn Violence of the graver Sound,1.0 +"Knew to strike deep, and leave a lasting Wound.",3.0 +"And now reflecting, I with Grief descry",1.0 +The sickly Lust of the fantastic Eye;,1.0 +Flying ever Night what it at Noon enjoyed.,1.0 +And now unhappy Search of Thought! I found,0.0 +"The fickle Ear soon glutted with the Sound,",2.0 +"Condemned eternal Changes to pursue,",1.0 +"I bad the Virgins and the Youth advance,",1.0 +To temper Music with the sprightly Dance.,1.0 +"What takes our Heart, must merit our Esteem.",1.0 +"Nature, I thought, performed too mean a Part,",3.0 +Forming her Movements to the Rules of Art;,3.0 +"And vexed I found, that the Musician's Hand",1.0 +Had over the Dancer's Mind too great Command.,3.0 +An airy Scene of transitory Joys.,0.0 +"In vain I trusted, that the flowing Bowl",0.0 +"Would banish Sorrow, and enlarge the Soul.",1.0 +"To the late Revel, and protracted Feast",3.0 +"Wild Dreams succeeded, and disordered Rest;",2.0 +And as at Dawn of Morn fair Reason's Light,2.0 +Broke through the Fumes and Phantoms of the Night;,1.0 +"What had been said, I asked my Soul, what done;",0.0 +"How flowed our Mirth, and whence the Source begun?",0.0 +"Perhaps the Jest that charmed the sprightly Crowd,",0.0 +"And made the Jovial Table laugh so loud,",2.0 +"To an ambiguous Word's perverted Sense,",3.0 +"To a wild Sonnet, or a wanton Air,",3.0 +"Perhaps, alas! the pleasing Stream was brought",0.0 +And Prudence mention with the last Regret.,1.0 +"In the pernicious Draught; the Word obscene,",1.0 +"Irrevocable; the too prompt Reply,",3.0 +"Seed of severe Distrust, and fierce Debate;",2.0 +"What We should shun, and what We ought to hate.",0.0 +"Add too the Blood impoverished, and the Course",2.0 +"Of Health suppressed, by Wine's continued Force.",0.0 +Unhappy Man! whom Sorrow thus and Rage,0.0 +To different Ills alternately engage.,6.0 +"Who drinks, alas! but to forget; nor sees,",1.0 +"That melancholy Sloth, severe Disease,",0.0 +"Memory confused, and interrupted Thought,",1.0 +"Death's Harbingers, lie latent in the Draught:",3.0 +"Remains there Ought untried, that may remove",1.0 +"Sickness of Mind, and heal the Bosom? ' -- Love,",2.0 +"Love yet remains: Indulge his genial Fire,",1.0 +"Cherish fair Hope, solicit young Desire,",3.0 +And boldly bid thy anxious Soul explore,0.0 +Why therefore hesitates my doubtful Breast?,1.0 +Why ceases it one Moment to be blessed?,2.0 +"Fly swift, my Friends; my Servants, fly; employ",1.0 +Your instant Pains to bring your Master Joy.,0.0 +Let all my Wives and Concubines be dressed:,0.0 +Let them to Night attend the Royal Feast;,0.0 +"The Gifts of Princes, or the Spoils of War.",1.0 +Before their Monarch They shall singly pass;,1.0 +And the most Worthy shall obtain the Grace.,1.0 +I said: the Feast was served: the Bowl was crowned;,0.0 +"The Women came: as Custom wills, they past:",0.0 +On One OH that distinguished One! I cast,3.0 +The favourite Glance: OH! yet my Mind retains,1.0 +That fond Beginning of my infant Pains.,1.0 +Grace shaped her Limbs; and Beauty decked her Face:,1.0 +"Easy her Motion seemed, serene her Air:",2.0 +"Untied, and ignorant of artful Aid,",1.0 +And in the Jetty Curls ten thousand Cupids played.,1.0 +"Fixed on her Charms, and pleased that I could love,",1.0 +"Aid me my Friends, contribute to improve",1.0 +"Your Monarch's Bliss, I said; fresh Roses bring",2.0 +To strow my Bed; till the impoverished Spring,1.0 +Confess her Want; around my amorous Head,2.0 +"Be dropping Myrrh, and liquid Amber shed,",0.0 +"Till Arab has no more. From the soft Lyre,",2.0 +"Sounds of Delight: and Thou, fair Nymph, draw nigh;",4.0 +"Thou, in whose graceful Form, and potent Eye",0.0 +Thy Master's Joy long sought at length is found;,1.0 +"And as thy Brow, let my Desires be crowned;",3.0 +"OH favourite Virgin, that hast warmed the Breast,",1.0 +Whose sovereign Dictates subjugate the East!,1.0 +I said; and sudden from the golden Throne,1.0 +"The glowing Garland from my Hair I took,",1.0 +"Love in my Heart, Obedience in my Look;",1.0 +Prepared to place it on her comely Head:,1.0 +OH favourite Virgin! yet again I said,1.0 +And OH above thy Fellows happy Thou!,1.0 +Their Duty must thy sovereign Word obey.,0.0 +"Rise up, my Love; my fair One, come away.",0.0 +"What Pang, alas! what Ecstasy of Smart",1.0 +"Tore up my Senses, and transfixed my Heart;",1.0 +"Forced by my Pride, I my Concern suppressed",1.0 +"Pretended Drowsiness, and Wish of Rest;",1.0 +"To lead Her forth to a distinguished Bower,",1.0 +"And bid her dress the Bed, and wait the Hour.",0.0 +Swift are the Steps that Love and Anger tread:,0.0 +"Approached her Person, courted her Embrace,",1.0 +"Renewed my Flame, repeated my Disgrace:",1.0 +"Threatened this Moment, and the next implored;",3.0 +"And Choice of happy Love, or instant Death.",0.0 +"Averse to all her amorous King desired,",2.0 +"Far as She might, She decently retired;",1.0 +"And darting Scorn, and Sorrow from her Eyes,",1.0 +"What means, said She, King Solomon the Wise?",6.0 +Thus far could Fortune: but She can no more.,2.0 +Free to her Self my potent Mind remains;,0.0 +"Nor fears the Victor's Rage, nor feels his Chains.",0.0 +"Supreme of Seers, of Angel, Man, and Brute;",0.0 +"Of Passion's Folly, and of Reason's Force.",1.0 +"Whence their Misfortunes, or their Blessings flow.",2.0 +"That Thou in Science, as in Power art great;",2.0 +"Where is that Knowledge now, that regal Thought,",0.0 +"With just Advice, and timely Counsel fraught?",0.0 +"Where now, OH Judge of Israel, does it rove?",1.0 +What in one Moment dost Thou offer? Love ' --,0.0 +"Love? why it's Joy or Sorrow, Peace or Strife:",0.0 +It's all the Colour of remaining Life:,2.0 +"And Human Misery must begin or end,",2.0 +"As He becomes a Tyrant, or a Friend.",2.0 +"Would David's Son, religious, just, and grave,",0.0 +"A Foreigner, a Heathen, and a Slave?",2.0 +"Or grant, Thy Passion has these Names destroyed;",0.0 +"That Love, like Death, makes all Distinction void;",1.0 +"Yet in his Empire over Thy abject Breast,",2.0 +His Flames and Torments only are expressed:,2.0 +His Rage can in my Smiles alone relent;,0.0 +And all his Joys solicit my Consent.,1.0 +"Soft Love, spontaneous Tree, it's parted Root",3.0 +"While each delighted, and delighting, gives",1.0 +"The pleasing Ecstasy, which each receives:",1.0 +"Cherished with Hope, and fed with Joy it grows:",2.0 +It's cheerful Buds their opening Bloom disclose;,2.0 +If angry Fate that mutual Care denies;,2.0 +"Wild with Despair, or sick with Grief, it dies.",2.0 +"By Force Beasts act, and are by Force restrained:",2.0 +The Human Mind by gentle Means is gained.,0.0 +"Thy useless Strength, mistaken King, employ:",0.0 +"Sated with Rage, and ignorant of Joy,",3.0 +Thou shalt not gain what I deny to yield;,1.0 +"Know, Solomon, Thy poor Extent of Sway;",2.0 +"Contract thy Brow, and Israel shall obey:",0.0 +Approach his awful Throne by just Degrees;,0.0 +Not that those Arts can here successful prove:,0.0 +"Beyond the cruel Bounds of Thy Command,",1.0 +"To my dear Equal, in my Native Land,",2.0 +Each swore with Truth: with Pleasure each believed.,0.0 +The mutual Contract was to Heaven conveyed:,1.0 +In equal Scales the busy Angels weighed,0.0 +"It's solemn Force, and clapped their Wings, and spread",0.0 +"The lasting Roll, recording what We said.",0.0 +Take the sad Life which I have long disdained:,1.0 +"End, in a dying Virgin's wretched Fate,",0.0 +For long as Blood informs these circling Veins;,0.0 +Or fleeting Breath it's latest Power retains;,2.0 +"Hate is My Part: be Thine, OH King, Despair.",2.0 +"Now strike, She said, and opened bare her Breast:",1.0 +"That David's Son, by impious Passion moved,",3.0 +"Ashamed, confused I started from the Bed;",1.0 +And to my Soul yet uncollected said:,2.0 +"Into Thy self, fond Solomon, return;",2.0 +"Reflect again, and Thou again shalt mourn.",2.0 +When I through numbered Years have Pleasure sought;,0.0 +And in vain Hope the wanton Phantom caught;,1.0 +"To mock my Sense, and mortify my Pride,",0.0 +"Am I a King, great Heaven! does Life or Death",2.0 +"Hang on the Wrath, or Mercy of My Breath;",1.0 +While kneeling I My Servant's Smiles implore;,1.0 +And One mad Damsel dares dispute My Power?,2.0 +Which must debase the Monarch to the Beast.,1.0 +"To send Her back? OH whither, and to whom?",2.0 +To Lands where Solomon must never come;,1.0 +"To that Insulting Rival's happy Arms,",0.0 +"For whom, disdaining Me, She keeps her Charms.",1.0 +Fantastic Tyrant of the amorous Heart;,3.0 +How hard Thy Yoke! how cruel is Thy Dart!,0.0 +"Those escape Thy Anger, who refuse Thy Sway;",1.0 +"And those are punished most, who most Obey.",1.0 +"Why then, OH Love, with an obdurate Ear",1.0 +Does this proud Nymph reject a Monarch's Prayer?,4.0 +"Why to some simple Shepherd does She run,",0.0 +From the fond Arms of David's Favourite Son?,2.0 +"Why flies She from the Glories of a Court,",2.0 +"Where Wealth and Pleasure may Thy Reign support,",1.0 +"To some poor Cottage on the Mountain's Brow,",2.0 +"Now bleak with Winds, and covered now with Snow,",1.0 +"Where pinching Want must kerb her warm Desires,",0.0 +And Household Cares suppress Thy Genial Fires?,1.0 +"The Force, while they erect the Shrines of Love.",1.0 +His Mystic Form the Artisans of Greece,1.0 +"In wounded Stone, or melted Gold express:",0.0 +And Cyprus to his Godhead pays her Vow:,2.0 +Fast in his Hand the Idol holds his Bow;,0.0 +A Quiver by his Side sustains a Store,1.0 +Of pointed Darts; sad Emblems of his Power;,2.0 +"A pair of Wings He has, which He extends",1.0 +Now to be gone; which now again He bends,0.0 +"Prone to return, as best may serve his wanton Ends.",2.0 +"Entirely thus I find the Fiend portrayed,",2.0 +I felt Him strike; and now I see Him fly:,0.0 +Cursed Daemon! OH! for ever broken lie,1.0 +"Those fatal Shafts, by which I inward bleed!",0.0 +OH! can my Wishes yet overtake thy Speed!,2.0 +"My Soul thus struggling in the fatal Net,",1.0 +"Unable to enjoy, or to forget;",2.0 +"I reasoned much, alas! but more I loved;",0.0 +"Sent and recalled, ordained and disapproved:",2.0 +"Till hopeless plunged in an Abyss of Grief,",1.0 +I from Necessity received Relief:,2.0 +Time gently aided to assuage my Pain;,2.0 +And Wisdom took once more the slackened Rein.,1.0 +But OH how short My Interval of Woe!,1.0 +"Another Nymph for so did Heaven ordain,",1.0 +"To change the Manner, but renew the Pain",1.0 +"Another Nymph, amongst the many Fair,",0.0 +"That made My softer Hours their solemn Care,",0.0 +Before the rest affected still to stand;,0.0 +"And watched My Eye, preventing My Command.",1.0 +"Abra, She so was called, did soonest hast",1.0 +To grace my Presence: Abra went the last:,0.0 +Abra was ready ever I called her Name;,4.0 +"And though I called another, Abra came.",1.0 +Her Equals first observed her growing Zeal;,0.0 +"And laughing glossed, that Abra served so well.",0.0 +"To Me her Actions did unheeded die,",1.0 +Or were remarked but with a common Eye;,2.0 +"Till more apprised of what the Rumour said,",0.0 +More I observed peculiar in the Maid.,1.0 +The Sun declined had shot his Western Ray;,0.0 +"I called, before I sat, to wash My Hands:",0.0 +For so the Precept of the Law commands.,3.0 +"To mix the Sweets, and minister the Urn.",1.0 +"With awful Homage, and submissive Dread",1.0 +"The Maid approached, on my declining Head",1.0 +To pour the Oils: She trembled as She poured;,1.0 +With an unguarded Look She now devoured,1.0 +"My nearer Face: and now recalled her Eye,",0.0 +"And heaved, and strove to hide a sudden Sigh.",0.0 +What can thy Imagery of Sorrow mean?,1.0 +"Secluded from the World, and all it's Care,",1.0 +"Hast Thou to grieve or joy, to hope or fear?",0.0 +"For sure, I added, sure thy little Heart",0.0 +"Never felt Love's Anger, or received his Dart.",2.0 +"Abashed She blushed, and with Disorder spoke:",1.0 +Her rising Shame adorned the Words it broke.,0.0 +If the great Master will descend to hear,3.0 +"OH! while She tells it, let him not put on",0.0 +OH! let not Death severe in Glory lie,1.0 +"In the King's Frown, and Terror of his Eye.",4.0 +Mine to obey; Thy Part is to ordain:,2.0 +"And though to mention, be to suffer Pain;",1.0 +"If the King smiles, while I my Woe recite;",1.0 +If weeping I find Favour in His Sight;,2.0 +"Flow fast my Tears, full rising his Delight.",3.0 +"OH! Witness Earth beneath, and Heaven above;",1.0 +For can I hide it? I am sick of Love:,2.0 +If Madness may the Name of Passion bear;,1.0 +"Or Love be called, what is indeed Despair.",1.0 +"Thou Sovereign Power, whose secret Will controls",3.0 +The inward Bent and Motion of our Souls!,1.0 +Why hast Thou placed such infinite Degrees,1.0 +Between the Cause and Cure of my Disease?,1.0 +"The mighty Object of that raging Fire,",1.0 +"Had He been born some simple Shepherd's Heir,",0.0 +"The lowing Herd, or fleecy Sheep his Care;",0.0 +"At Morn with him I over the Hills had run,",3.0 +"Scornful of Winter's Frost, and Summer's Sun,",2.0 +"Still asking, where He made his Flock to rest at Noon.",1.0 +"For him at Night, the dear expected Guest,",1.0 +I had with hasty Joy prepared the Feast;,0.0 +"And from the Cottage, over the distant Plain,",3.0 +Sent forth my longing Eye to meet the Swain;,1.0 +"Wavering, impatient, tossed by Hope and Fear;",1.0 +Till He and Joy together should appear;,1.0 +And the loved Dog declare his Master near.,2.0 +"On my declining Neck, and open Breast,",1.0 +I should have lulled the lovely Youth to Rest;,0.0 +"And from beneath his Head, at dawning Day,",1.0 +With softest Care have stolen my Arm away;,2.0 +"To rise, and from the Fold release the Sheep,",1.0 +"Fond of his Flock, indulgent to his Sleep.",1.0 +Or if kind Heaven propitious to my Flame,3.0 +"Had blessed my Life, and decked my natal Hour",0.0 +"With Height of Title, and Extent of Power:",1.0 +"Without a Crime my Passion had aspired,",0.0 +"Found the loved Prince, and told what I desired.",4.0 +"To hear the charming Poet's amorous Song,",2.0 +And gather Honey falling from his Tongue;,1.0 +"To take the fragrant Kisses of his Mouth,",1.0 +Sweeter than Breezes of her native South;,3.0 +"Likening his Grace, his Person, and his Mien",2.0 +"Serene and bright his Eyes, as solar Beams",0.0 +Reflecting tempered Light from Crystal Streams;,0.0 +Ruddy as Gold his Cheek; his Bosom fair,2.0 +"Black as the Raven's Wing; his Lip more red,",0.0 +"Than Eastern Coral, or the scarlet Thread;",1.0 +"Even his Teeth, and white, like a young Flock",3.0 +"How white his Hands, how blue the Manly Veins.",0.0 +Columns of polished Marble firmly set,2.0 +"On golden Bases, are his Legs, and Feet.",1.0 +"His Stature all Majestic, all Divine,",0.0 +Saffron and Myrrh are on his Garments shed:,3.0 +And everlasting Sweets bloom round his Head.,1.0 +What utter I? where am I? wretched Maid!,2.0 +"Die, Abra, die: too plainly hast Thou said",2.0 +"Thy Soul's Desire to meet His high Embrace,",0.0 +And Blessings stamped upon thy future Race;,0.0 +"To bid attentive Nations bless thy Womb,",0.0 +Here over her Speech her flowing Eyes prevail.,2.0 +OH foolish Maid! and OH unhappy Tale!,1.0 +My suffering Heart for ever shall defy,0.0 +"New Wounds, and Danger from a future Eye.",2.0 +OH! yet my tortured Senses deep retain,0.0 +"The wretched Memory of my former Pain,",1.0 +"The dire Affront, and my Egyptian Chain.",1.0 +"As Time, I said, may happily efface",1.0 +That cruel Image of the King's Disgrace;,1.0 +Imperial Reason shall resume her Seat;,2.0 +"And Solomon once fallen, again be great.",4.0 +"Betrayed by Passion, as subdued in War,",1.0 +"We wisely should exert a double Care,",0.0 +Nor ever ought a second time to Err.,0.0 +Some Respite to the Sorrows of my Slave.,2.0 +Her fond Excess proclaimed her Passion true;,0.0 +And generous Pity to that Truth was due.,3.0 +I called Her often; for She always served.,1.0 +Use made her Person easy to my Sight;,2.0 +For first I sought Her but at looser Hours:,1.0 +The Apples She had gathered smelled most sweet:,1.0 +If gentle Abra had not decked the Feast.,0.0 +"And when the Virgins formed the Evening Choir,",0.0 +"Too flat I thought This Voice, and That too shrill;",2.0 +"One showed too much, and one too little Skill:",3.0 +Nor could my Soul approve the Music's Tone;,0.0 +"Till all was hushed, and Abra Sung alone.",0.0 +"Fairer She seemed, distinguished from the rest;",3.0 +"And better Mein disclosed, as better dressed.",0.0 +"A bright Tiara round her Forehead tied,",0.0 +To juster Bounds confined it's rising Pride:,0.0 +"The blushing Ruby on her snowy Breast,",1.0 +Rendered it's panting Whiteness more confessed:,2.0 +And every Gem augmented every Charm.,0.0 +"Her Senses pleased, her Beauty still improved;",0.0 +"And She more lovely grew, as more beloved.",1.0 +"And now I could behold, avow, and blame",0.0 +The several Follies of my former Flame;,1.0 +Willing my Heart for Recompense to prove,2.0 +The certain Joys that lie in prosperous Love.,2.0 +"For what, said I, from Abra can I fear,",1.0 +"Too humble to insult, too soft to be severe?",3.0 +"With Freedom I may like, and quit with Ease:",1.0 +Why may not Peace and Love for once be joined?,0.0 +Great Heaven! how frail thy Creature Man is made!,1.0 +"In our own Strength unhappily secure,",1.0 +Too little cautious of the adverse Power;,3.0 +"We wish to charm, and seek to be beloved.",0.0 +Masters as yet of our returning Way:,2.0 +"Seeing no Danger, We disarm our Mind;",4.0 +And give our Conduct to the Waves and Wind:,1.0 +"Then in the flowery Mead, or verdant Shade",2.0 +"To wanton Dalliance negligently laid,",3.0 +And smiling see the nearer Waters roll;,0.0 +Till the strong Gusts of raging Passion rise;,2.0 +Till the dire Tempest mingles Earth and Skies;,0.0 +"And swift into the boundless Ocean born,",0.0 +Our foolish Confidence too late We mourn:,2.0 +Round our devoted Heads the Billows beat;,1.0 +And from our troubled View the lessened Lands retreat.,1.0 +OH mighty Love! from thy unbounded Power,2.0 +How shall the human Bosom rest secure?,0.0 +How shall our Thought avoid the various Snare?,2.0 +Or Wisdom to our cautioned Soul declare,1.0 +"When bent to hurt, and certain to destroy?",1.0 +"The haughty Nymph in open Beauty dressed,",0.0 +To-Day encounters our unguarded Breast:,1.0 +"She looks with Majesty, and moves with State:",1.0 +"She scorns the World, and dares the Rage of Fate.",0.0 +"Here while we take stern Manhood for our Guide,",3.0 +And guard our Conduct with becoming Pride;,1.0 +"Charmed with the Courage in her Action shown,",0.0 +"We praise her Mind, the Image of our own.",1.0 +"She that can please, is certain to persuade:",1.0 +"Today beloved, Tomorrow is obeyed.",2.0 +We think we see through Reason's Optics right;,0.0 +Struck with her Eye while We applaud her Mind;,1.0 +"And when We speak Her great, We wish Her kind.",0.0 +"Sad her Complaint, and humble is her Tale,",3.0 +Her Sighs explaining where her Accents fail.,0.0 +Here generous Softness warms the honest Breast:,2.0 +And while our Wish prepares the kind Relief;,0.0 +While Pity mitigates her rising Grief:,0.0 +We sicken soon from her contagious Care;,1.0 +"Grieve for her Sorrows, groan for her Despair;",1.0 +"Which Tears can soften, and which Sighs can warm.",1.0 +"What shall With meditate, or Force oppose?",0.0 +"Whence, feeble Nature, shall We summon Aid;",0.0 +"If by our Pity, and our Pride betrayed?",2.0 +"External Remedy shall We hope to find,",1.0 +When the close Fiend has gained our treacherous Mind;,5.0 +Insulting there does Reason's Power deride;,3.0 +"And blind Himself, conducts the dazzled Guide?",0.0 +"My Conqueror now, my Lovely Abra held",2.0 +My Freedom in her Chains: my Heart was filled,0.0 +"With Her, with Her alone: in Her alone",3.0 +"It sought it's Peace and Joy: while She was gone,",1.0 +"It sighed, and grieved, impatient of her Stay:",1.0 +"Returned, She chased those Sighs, that Grief away:",0.0 +Her Absence made the Night: her Presence brought the Day.,0.0 +"The Ball, the Play, the Mask by Turns succeed.",0.0 +For Her I make the Song: the Dance with Her I lead.,2.0 +"I court Her various in each Shape and Dress,",1.0 +"That Luxury may form, or Thought express.",1.0 +"And low, like Barak, at her Feet I bow.",0.0 +The Mimic Chorus sings her prosperous Hand;,2.0 +"As She had slain the Foe, and saved the Land.",1.0 +Tomorrow She approves a softer Air;,2.0 +The Form of peaceful Abigail assumes;,0.0 +And from the Village with the Present comes:,2.0 +The Youthful Band depose their glittering Arms;,2.0 +"Receive her Bounties, and recite her Charms;",1.0 +"While I assume my Father's Step and Mein,",1.0 +To meet with due Regard my future Queen.,0.0 +"To range the Woods, or chase the flying Hind;",0.0 +"Leave their Repose, and hasten to the Sport.",3.0 +"In lessened Royalty, and humble State,",1.0 +"Thy King, Jerusalem, descends to wait,",1.0 +Sustains the Nymph: her Garments flying loose,0.0 +"And half her Knee, and half her Breast appear,",0.0 +"By Art, like Negligence, disclosed, and bare.",1.0 +A Silver Bow She carries in her Right:,0.0 +"And from the golden Quiver at her Side,",1.0 +An artificial Moon's increasing Ray.,0.0 +"Diana, Huntress, Mistress of the Groves,",1.0 +"The favourite Abra speaks, and looks, and moves.",0.0 +"Her, as the present Goddess, I obey:",2.0 +Beneath her Feet the captive Game I lay.,0.0 +Her Mystic Praise: the vocal Triumphs bound,0.0 +Against the Hills: the Hills reflect the Sound.,0.0 +Her Mind Tomorrow points; a thousand Hands,1.0 +"Tonight employed, obey the King's Commands.",0.0 +Upon the watery Beach an artful Pile,2.0 +"Of Planks is joined, and forms a moving Isle.",0.0 +A golden Chariot in the Mid is set;,1.0 +"Abra, bright Queen, ascends her gaudy Throne,",3.0 +And sing in moving Strains the Force of Love:,0.0 +"Fast on the utmost Margin of the Land,",2.0 +"With Arms and Hopes extended, to receive",1.0 +The fancied Goddess rising from the Wave.,1.0 +OH subject Reason! OH imperious Love!,3.0 +Whither yet further would My Folly rove?,2.0 +"Is it enough, that Abra should be great",1.0 +"In the walled Palace, or the Rural Seat?",3.0 +"That masking Habits, and a borrowed Name",2.0 +"No, no: Jerusalem combined must see",2.0 +"My open Fault, and Regal Infamy.",1.0 +Solemn a Month is destined for the Feast:,3.0 +Abra Invites: the Nation is the Guest.,3.0 +"To have the Honour of each Day sustained,",0.0 +The Woods are traversed; and the Lakes are drained:,1.0 +The Edible Creation decks the Board:,1.0 +"In lying Strains, and ignominious Verse:",2.0 +"While from the Banquet leading forth the Bride,",0.0 +Whom prudent Love from public Eyes should hide;,0.0 +"I show Her to the World, confessed and known",1.0 +"Queen of my Heart, and Partner of my Throne.",1.0 +"They barter Places, and dispose of Grants,",1.0 +Whole Provinces unequal to their Wants.,3.0 +"They teach Her to recede, or to debate;",2.0 +With Toys of Love to mix Affairs of State;,0.0 +By practised Rules her Empire to secure;,1.0 +And in my Pleasure make my Ruin sure.,0.0 +"They gave, and She transferred the cursed Advice,",1.0 +"That Monarchs should their inward Soul disguise,",1.0 +"Dissemble, and command; be false, and wise;",1.0 +By ignominious Arts for servile Ends,2.0 +"Should compliment their Foes, and shun their Friends.",1.0 +And now I leave the true and just Supports,0.0 +"Of Legal Princes, and of honest Courts,",1.0 +"Whose Sires, Great Partners in my Father's Cares,",1.0 +"Saluted their young King at Hebron crowned,",2.0 +"Great by their Toil, and glorious by their Wound.",1.0 +"And now, unhappy Council, I prefer",1.0 +"Those whom my Follies only made me fear,",0.0 +Miscreants who owed their Lives to David's Grace;,1.0 +"Though they had spurned his Rule, and cursed Him to his Face.",2.0 +Justice submitted to what Abra pleased:,3.0 +Her Will alone could settle or revoke;,2.0 +And Law was fixed by what She latest spoke.,0.0 +"Israel neglected, Abra was my Care:",2.0 +"I only acted, thought, and lived for Her.",0.0 +I durst not reason with my wounded Heart.,1.0 +Abra possessed; She was it's better Part.,3.0 +"OH! had I now reviewed the famous Cause,",0.0 +Which gave my righteous Youth so just Applause;,0.0 +"Had cunning Art, and sly Persuasion hung;",0.0 +"And real Care in vain, and native Love",3.0 +In the true Parent's panting Breast had strove;,2.0 +While both deceived had seen the destined Child,0.0 +"Or slain, or saved, as Abra frowned or smiled.",0.0 +"Unknowing to command, proud to obey,",3.0 +"A lifeless King, a Royal Shade I lay.",0.0 +The Widow's Cries address the Throne in vain.,0.0 +And sleeping Laws the King's Neglect revile.,0.0 +"No more the Elders thronged around my Throne,",0.0 +"To hear My Maxims, and reform their own.",1.0 +"No more the Young Nobility were taught,",1.0 +"How Moses governed, and how David fought.",1.0 +Loose and undisciplined the Soldier lay;,3.0 +"Or lost in Drink, and Game, the solid Day:",0.0 +"Porches and Scholes, designed for public Good,",2.0 +Half Pillars wanted their expected Height;,2.0 +And Roofs imperfect prejudiced the Sight.,1.0 +"The Wise and Grave deplored their Monarch's Fate,",1.0 +"Is this, the Serious said, is this the Man,",4.0 +Whose active Soul through every Science ran?,0.0 +Who by just Rule and elevated Skill,0.0 +Prescribed the dubious Bounds of Good and Ill?,2.0 +"Whose Golden Sayings, and Immortal Wit,",1.0 +"Our Youth's Instruction, and our Age's Pride?",1.0 +Could not the Wise his wild Desires restrain?,0.0 +"Then was our Hearing, and his Preaching vain:",1.0 +"What from his Life and Letters were we taught,",1.0 +But that his Knowledge aggravates his Fault?,0.0 +"In lighter Mood the Humorous and the Gay,",1.0 +As crowned with Roses at their Feasts they lay;,0.0 +And Charms superior to their Master's Fame:,1.0 +"Laughing some praise the King, who let them see,",2.0 +"Some glossed, how Love and Wisdom were at Strife;",1.0 +And brought my Proverbs to confront my Life.,1.0 +"To Him who was the King, the Friend replies.",0.0 +"To Abra yields: could I, or Thou do worse?",1.0 +Our looser Lives let Chance or Folly steer;,1.0 +If thus the Prudent and Determined err.,1.0 +Let Dinah bind with Flowers her flowing Hair;,3.0 +"And touch the Lute, and sound the wanton Air:",0.0 +"Let Us the Bliss without the Sting receive,",0.0 +"Free, as We will, or to enjoy, or leave.",2.0 +"Thought brings the Weight, that sinks the Soul to Woe.",1.0 +"Now be this Maxim to the King conveyed,",1.0 +And added to the Thousand He has made.,2.0 +"Sadly, OH Reason, is thy Power expressed,",6.0 +"And harsh the Rules, which We from Thee receive;",2.0 +If for our Wisdom We our Pleasure give;,2.0 +And more to think be only more to grieve.,0.0 +"And changing Sorrows, I am only found",1.0 +"Loosed from the Chains of Love, in Thine more strictly bound.",1.0 +"But do I call Thee Tyrant, or complain,",1.0 +"How hard thy Laws, how absolute thy Reign?",0.0 +"While Thou, alas! art but an empty Name,",2.0 +"The idle Product of a troubled Thought,",1.0 +"In borrowed Shapes, and airy Colours wrought;",2.0 +"A fancied Line, and a reflected Shade;",1.0 +"A Chain which Man to fetter Man has made,",0.0 +"By Artifice imposed, by Fear obeyed.",1.0 +"Yet, wretched Name, or Arbitrary Thing,",0.0 +"Whence ever I thy cruel Essence bring,",1.0 +I own thy Influence; for I feel thy Sting.,1.0 +"Reluctant I perceive thee in my Soul,",1.0 +"Formed to command, and destined to control.",3.0 +Yes; thy insulting Dictates shall be heard:,3.0 +Virtue for once shall be Her own Reward:,2.0 +"Yes; Rebel Israel, this unhappy Maid",2.0 +Shall be dismissed: the Crowd shall be obeyed:,0.0 +"The King his Passion, and his Rule shall leave,",1.0 +My Coward Soul shall bear it's wayward Fate:,0.0 +"I will, alas! be wretched, to be great;",2.0 +"And sigh in Royalty, and grieve in State.",1.0 +I said: resolved to plunge into my Grief,0.0 +"At once so far, as to expect Relief",1.0 +"I chose to write the Thing I durst not speak,",0.0 +To Her I loved; to Her I must forsake.,2.0 +"How inconsistent Majesty, and Love.",1.0 +"I always should, It said, esteem Her well;",0.0 +But never see her more: It bid Her feel,0.0 +No future Pain for Me; but instant wed,2.0 +A Lover more proportioned to her Bed;,1.0 +And quiet dedicate her remnant Life,0.0 +To the just Duties of an humble Wife.,2.0 +"She read; and forth to Me She wildly ran,",1.0 +"To Me, the Ease of all her former Pain.",1.0 +"And with alternate Passion lived, and died:",2.0 +"Till now denied the Liberty to mourn,",1.0 +"And by rude Fury from my Presence torn,",3.0 +"This only Object of my real Care,",2.0 +"Cut off from Hope, abandoned to Despair,",1.0 +In some few posting fatal Hours is hurled,0.0 +"From Wealth, from Power, from Love, and from the World.",3.0 +What different Sorrows did within Thee roll:,0.0 +What sad Vicissitudes of smarting Pain?,1.0 +"How oft from Pomp and State did I remove,",1.0 +"To feed Despair, and cherish hopeless Love?",0.0 +"Her Beauties pressed, and panting in my Arms?",0.0 +"How oft, with Sighs, viewed every Female Face,",2.0 +Where mimic Fancy might her Likeness trace?,0.0 +And live in Shades with Her and Love alone?,1.0 +"How oft, all Night, pursued Her in my Dreams,",0.0 +"Over flowery Valleys, and through Crystal Streams;",3.0 +"And waking, viewed with Grief the rising Sun,",0.0 +And fondly mourned the dear Delusion gone?,0.0 +When thus the gathered Storms of wretched Love,0.0 +"In my swollen Bosom, with long War had strove;",2.0 +At length they broke their Bounds: at length their Force,0.0 +Bore down whatever met it's stronger Course:,3.0 +Laid all the Civil Bonds of Manhood waste;,1.0 +And scattered Ruin as the Torrent past.,1.0 +"So from the Hills, whose hollow Caves contain",1.0 +"The congregated Snow, and swelling Rain;",0.0 +Till the full Stores their ancient Bounds disdain;,2.0 +Precipitate the furious Torrent flows:,2.0 +"In vain would Speed avoid, or Strength oppose:",0.0 +"Towns, Forests, Herds, and Men promiscuous drowned,",3.0 +With one great Death deform the dreary Ground;,4.0 +The echoed Woes from distant Rocks resound.,1.0 +And now what impious Ways my Wishes took;,3.0 +"How they the Monarch, and the Man forsook;",2.0 +"And how I followed an abandoned Will,",3.0 +"Through crooked Paths, and sad Retreats of Ill;",0.0 +Through Tribes of Women how I loosely ranged,1.0 +"Impatient; liked Tonight, Tomorrow changed;",1.0 +"And by the Instinct of capricious Lust,",2.0 +"Enjoyed, disdained, was grateful, or unjust:",1.0 +"OH, be these Scenes from human Eyes concealed,",0.0 +In Clouds of decent Silence justly veiled!,0.0 +"OH, be the wanton Images conveyed",1.0 +"To black Oblivion, and eternal Shade!",3.0 +"Or let their sad Epitome alone,",1.0 +"And outward Lines to future Age be known,",0.0 +"Enough to propagate the sure Belief,",0.0 +"Buried in Sloth, and lost in Ease I lay:",2.0 +The Night I revealed; and I slept the Day.,2.0 +New Heaps of Fuel damped my kindling Fires;,1.0 +And daily Change extinguished young Desires.,0.0 +"By its own Force destroyed, Fruition ceased;",1.0 +"And always wearied, I was never pleased.",1.0 +No longer now does my neglected Mind,2.0 +"Fixed Judgement there no longer does abide,",3.0 +"To take the True, or set the False aside.",0.0 +"No longer does swift Memory trace the Cells,",4.0 +"Where springing Wit, or young Invention dwells.",0.0 +"Patience of Toil, and Love of Virtue fails.",2.0 +Till I Command no longer even in Vice.,3.0 +They ask; I grant: They threaten; I obey.,1.0 +"In Regal Garments now I gravely stride,",0.0 +"Now with the looser Syrian dance, and sing,",2.0 +"Charmed by their Eyes, their Manners I acquire;",1.0 +And shape my Foolishness to their Desire.,2.0 +"Seduced and awed by the Philistine Dame,",1.0 +To each new Harlot I new Altars dress;,3.0 +"And serve Her God, whose Person I caress.",1.0 +"Where, my deluded Sense, was Reason flown?",1.0 +Where the high Majesty of David's Throne?,3.0 +"Where all the Maxims of Eternal Truth,",1.0 +With which the Living GOD informed my Youth?,0.0 +When with the lewd Egyptian I Adore,1.0 +"Vain Idols, Deities that never before",3.0 +"Beastly Divinities, and Droves of Gods:",3.0 +When in the Woody Hill's forbidden Shade,0.0 +"I carved the Marble, and invoked it's Aid:",1.0 +"Unworthy human Thought, I prostrate fell;",0.0 +To Shrubs and Plants my vile Devotion paid;,0.0 +"And set the bearded Leek, to which I prayed:",0.0 +When to all Beings Sacred Rites were given;,0.0 +Forgot the Arbiter of Earth and Heaven.,1.0 +"Through these sad Shades, this Chaos in my Soul,",2.0 +Some Seeds of Light at length began to roll.,0.0 +The rising Motion of an Infant Ray,1.0 +"Shot glimmering through the Cloud, and promised Day.",2.0 +"And now one Moment able to reflect,",1.0 +"I found the King abandoned to Neglect,",1.0 +"Seen without Awe, and served without Respect.",3.0 +"I found my Subjects amicably join,",1.0 +"To lessen their Defects, by citing Mine.",2.0 +The Priest with Pity prayed for David's Race;,0.0 +"And left his Text, to dwell on my Disgrace.",1.0 +"The Father, while he warned his erring Son,",0.0 +"The sad Examples which He ought to shun,",0.0 +"Described, and only named not, Solomon.",1.0 +"Each Bard, each Sire did to his Pupil sing,",0.0 +A Wise Child better than a Foolish King.,2.0 +Into My self my Reason's Eye I turned;,0.0 +"And as I much reflected, much I mourned.",1.0 +"A Mighty King I am, an Earthly God:",1.0 +"Nations obey my Word, and wait my Nod.",2.0 +"I raise or sink, imprison or set free;",2.0 +And Life or Death depends on My Decree.,1.0 +"Fond the Idea, and the Thought is vain:",3.0 +"Legions of Lust, and various Powers of Ill",6.0 +Insult the Master's Tributary Will:,1.0 +"And He, from whom the Nations should receive",1.0 +"Justice, and Freedom, lies Himself a Slave,",2.0 +"Tortured by cruel Change of wild Desires,",2.0 +"Lashed by mad Rage, and scorched by brutal Fires.",3.0 +OH Reason! once again to Thee I call:,2.0 +"Accept my Sorrow, and retrieve my Fall.",1.0 +Her Beams transmitted to the subject Earth.,1.0 +Yet this great Empress of the human Soul,3.0 +Does only with imagined Power control;,3.0 +If restless Passion by Rebellious Sway,1.0 +"OH troubled, weak, and Coward, as thou art!",2.0 +"To worse Extremes with swifter Steps would run,",0.0 +"Not saved by Virtue, yet by Vice undone.",0.0 +"Oft have I said, the Praise of doing well",0.0 +"Is to the Ear, as Ointment to the Smell.",2.0 +"Now if some Flies perchance, however small,",4.0 +Into the Alabaster Urn should fall;,0.0 +The Odours of the Sweets enclosed would die;,0.0 +And Stench corrupt sad Change! their Place supply.,1.0 +"So the least Faults, if mixed with fairest Deed,",2.0 +Of future Ill become the fatal Seed:,0.0 +"Into the Balm of purest Virtue cast,",0.0 +Annoy all Life with one contagious Blast.,1.0 +Lost Solomon! pursue this Thought no more:,3.0 +Of thy past Errors recollect the Store:,2.0 +Shall sing the Just; shall over their Head diffuse,2.0 +Perfumes with lavish Hand; She shall proclaim,0.0 +Thy Crimes alone; and to Thy evil Fame,1.0 +"Impartial, scatter Damps, and Poisons on thy Name.",1.0 +"Much of my Women, and their Gods ashamed,",1.0 +From this Abyss of exemplary Vice,5.0 +"Resolved, as Time might aid my Thought, to rise;",0.0 +Again I bid the mournful Goddess write,0.0 +The fond Pursuit of fugitive Delight:,1.0 +"Bid her exalt her melancholy Wing,",2.0 +"And raised from Earth, and saved from Passion, sing",0.0 +"Of human Hope by cross Event destroyed,",0.0 +"Of Lust and Love, with their fantastic Train,",1.0 +"Their Wishes, Smiles, and Looks deceitful all, and vain.",0.0 +"Come then, my Soul: I call Thee by that Name,",1.0 +"Thou busy Thing, from whence I know I am:",0.0 +"For knowing that I am, I know Thou art;",1.0 +"Since That must needs exist, which can impart.",1.0 +For various of Thee Priests and Poets sing.,1.0 +"Some separate Particles of finer Earth,",1.0 +"A plain Effect, which Nature must beget,",0.0 +"As Motion orders, and as Atoms meet;",1.0 +From Force of Instinct more than Choice of Will;,0.0 +As the wild Courses of the Blood ordain;,3.0 +"Who as Degrees of Heat and Cold prevail,",1.0 +"In Youth dost flourish, and with Age shalt fail;",2.0 +Till mingled with thy Partner's latest Breath,1.0 +Or if Thy great Existence would aspire,1.0 +To Causes more sublime; of Heavenly Fire,2.0 +Ordained to mingle with Terrestrial Clay;,3.0 +"With it condemned for certain Years to dwell,",1.0 +"To grieve it's Frailties, and it's Pains to feel;",1.0 +"To teach it Good and Ill, Disgrace or Fame;",0.0 +"Pale it with Rage, or redden it with Shame:",1.0 +"To guide it's Actions with informing Care,",1.0 +"In Peace to Judge, to Conquer in the War;",0.0 +"Render it Agile, Witty, Valiant, Sage,",2.0 +As fits the various Course of human Age;,2.0 +"Till as the Earthly Part decays and falls,",1.0 +"Hovers awhile upon the sad Remains,",2.0 +"And thence with Liberty unbounded flies,",1.0 +Impatient to regain Her native Skies.,1.0 +"Whatever Thou art, wherever ordained to go:",5.0 +"Points which We rather may dispute, than know",1.0 +"Come on, Thou little Inmate of this Breast,",2.0 +Which for Thy Sake from Passions I divest:,1.0 +"Which hinder Thy Repose, and trouble Life.",1.0 +"Be the fair Level of Thy Actions laid,",3.0 +"As Temperance wills, and Prudence may persuade;",1.0 +"Be Thy Affections undisturbed and clear,",1.0 +Guided to what may Great or Good appear;,1.0 +And try if Life be worth the Liver's Care.,1.0 +Amassed in Man there justly is beheld,1.0 +What through the whole Creation has excelled:,0.0 +"The Life and Growth of Plants, of Beasts the Sense,",0.0 +The Angel's Forecast and Intelligence:,3.0 +Say from these glorious Seeds what Harvest flows;,2.0 +"Recount our Blessings, and compare our Woes.",1.0 +In it's true Light let clearest Reason see,4.0 +"The Man dragged out to Act, and forced to Be;",2.0 +To be exposed or reared as She may please;,1.0 +"Feel her Neglect, and pine from her Disease.",3.0 +His tender Eye by too direct a Ray,0.0 +"His Heart assaulted by invading Air,",1.0 +And beating fervent to the vital War;,1.0 +To his Young Sense how various Forms appear;,4.0 +"That strike his Wonder, and excite his Fear?",1.0 +By his Distortions he reveals his Pains;,2.0 +"He by his Tears, and by his Sighs complains;",2.0 +"Till Time and Use assist the Infant Wretch,",0.0 +"By broken Words, and Rudiments of Speech,",1.0 +"His Wants in plainer Characters to show,",1.0 +And paint more perfect Figures of his Woe.,2.0 +Condemned to sacrifice his childish Years,0.0 +"To babbling Ignorance, and to empty Fears;",1.0 +Acting his Part upon a crowded Stage;,2.0 +"To lasting Toils exposed, and endless Cares,",0.0 +"To open Dangers, and to secret Snares;",1.0 +"To Malice which the vengeful Foe intends,",0.0 +And the more dangerous Love of seeming Friends.,3.0 +"His Deeds examined by the People's Will,",2.0 +"Prone to forget the Good, and blame the Ill:",2.0 +"Or sadly censured in their cursed Debate,",0.0 +Dare to condemn the Virtue which They hate.,2.0 +Or would he rather leave this frantic Scene;,0.0 +And Trees and Beasts prefer to Courts and Men?,0.0 +"Certain to meet that worst of Evils, Thought;",2.0 +Different Ideas to his Memory brought:,4.0 +"Impetuous some, as the descending Floods:",1.0 +"With anxious Doubts, with raging Passions torn,",0.0 +No sweet Companion near with whom to mourn;,1.0 +He hears the Echoing Rock return his Sighs;,2.0 +"Rage companies our Hate, and Grief our Love:",2.0 +"Vexed with the present Moment's heavy Gloom,",0.0 +Why seek We Brightness from the Years to come?,1.0 +"Disturbed and broken like a sick Man's Sleep,",1.0 +Our troubled Thoughts to distant Prospects leap;,0.0 +Desirous still what flies us to overtake:,0.0 +For Hope is but the Dream of Those that wake:,2.0 +"But looking back, We see the dreadful Train",0.0 +"Of Woes, anew which were We to sustain,",2.0 +We should refuse to tread the Path again.,0.0 +"Still adding Grief, still counting from the first;",3.0 +Judging the latest Evils still the worst;,2.0 +And sadly finding each progressive Hour,0.0 +"Heighten their Number, and augment their Power;",3.0 +"Till by one countless Sum of Woes oppressed,",1.0 +"Hoary with Cares, and Ignorant of Rest,",3.0 +We find the vital Springs relaxed and worn:,0.0 +"Compelled our common Impotence to mourn,",1.0 +"Thus, through the Round of Age, to Childhood We return;",2.0 +"Reflecting find, that naked from the Womb",1.0 +We yesterday came forth; that in the Tomb,1.0 +"Naked again We must Tomorrow lie,",3.0 +"Born to lament, to labour, and to die.",3.0 +"Pass We the Ills, which each Man feels or dreads,",1.0 +"The Weight or fallen, or hanging over our Heads;",4.0 +"The Bear, The Lion, Terrors of the Plain,",1.0 +"The giddy Precipice, and the dangerous Flood:",3.0 +"Terrible, marches through the Midday Air,",4.0 +"Cuts the dank Mist, and fatal wings it's Flight;",3.0 +"The billowing Snow, and Violence of the Shower,",3.0 +"That from the Hills disperse their dreadful Store,",0.0 +And over the Vales collected Ruin pour;,2.0 +"The Worm that gnaws the ripening Fruit, sad Guest,",1.0 +Canker or Locust hurtful to infest,3.0 +And Eminence of Want distinguishes the Year.,2.0 +"Pass we the slow Disease, and subtle Pain,",0.0 +Which our weak Frame is destined to sustain;,4.0 +"The cruel Stone, with congregated War",0.0 +"With frequent Impulse, and continued Strife,",1.0 +Weakening the wasted Seats of irksome Life;,1.0 +"The sad Experience of Decay; and Age,",3.0 +"Oft and in vain invoked, or to appease,",1.0 +"Or end the Grief, with hasty Wings recede",0.0 +"From the vexed Patient, and the sickly Bed.",3.0 +"Angelic, softest Work of Heaven, draws near",1.0 +"To the cold shaking paralytic Hand,",2.0 +"Nor longer apt, or able to fulfil",1.0 +The Dictates of it's feeble Master's Will.,2.0 +"The pleasing Song, or well repeated Tale,",0.0 +"The verdant Rising of the flowery Hill,",3.0 +"The Ocean rolling, and the shelly Shore,",1.0 +"Beautiful Objects, shall delight no more;",3.0 +Day follows Night; the Clouds return again,1.0 +After the falling of the later Rain:,3.0 +Grateful Vicissitude: He still must mourn,4.0 +"The Sun, and Moon, and every Starry Light",0.0 +"Eclipsed to Him, and lost in everlasting Night.",1.0 +Behold where Age's wretched Victim lies:,0.0 +Frequent for Breath his panting Bosom heaves:,1.0 +To broken Sleeps his remnant Sense He gives;,0.0 +Loosed by devouring Time the Silver Cord,4.0 +"The Crystal Urn, when broken, is thrown by;",2.0 +And apter Utensils their Place supply.,4.0 +These Things and Thou must share One equal Lot;,1.0 +"Die and be lost, corrupt and be forgot;",0.0 +"While still another, and another Race",1.0 +"Shall now supply, and now give up the Place.",2.0 +"From Earth all came, to Earth must all return;",0.0 +"Frail as the Cord, and brittle as the Urn.",1.0 +But be the Terror of these Ills suppressed:,1.0 +"Home He returns with the declining Sun,",3.0 +His destined Task of Labour hardly done;,0.0 +"Goes forth again with the ascending Ray,",2.0 +"Again his Travel for his Bread to pay,",1.0 +And find the Ill sufficient to the Day.,1.0 +"A widowed Daughter, or a dying Son:",1.0 +And doubly feels his Want in their Increase:,1.0 +"The next Day, and the next he must attend",0.0 +"His Foe triumphant, or his buried Friend.",1.0 +In every Act and Turn of Life he feels,0.0 +"Public Calamities, or Household Ills:",4.0 +The due Reward to just Desert refused:,0.0 +"The Trust betrayed, the Nuptial Bed abused:",0.0 +"The Judge corrupt, the long depending Cause,",0.0 +And doubtful Issue of misconstrued Laws:,3.0 +"The crafty Turns of a dishonest State,",1.0 +And violent Will of the wrongdoing Great:,3.0 +"Which nor can Wisdom shun, nor fair Advice reclaim.",0.0 +"Esteem We these, my Friends, Event and Chance,",1.0 +Produced as Atoms form their fluttering Dance?,2.0 +Or higher yet their Essence may We draw,1.0 +"From destined Order, and Eternal Law?",1.0 +"Again, my Muse, the cruel Doubt repeat:",0.0 +"Spring they, I say, from Accident, or Fate?",1.0 +"Yet such, We find, they are, as can control",2.0 +The servile Actions of our wavering Soul;,3.0 +"Can fright, can alter, or can chain the Will;",1.0 +"Their Ills all built on Life, that fundamental Ill.",0.0 +"Still pressed with Weight of Woe, still hopes to find",2.0 +"A Shadow of Delight, a Dream of Peace,",1.0 +"From Years of Pain, one Moment of Release;",1.0 +"Hoping at least She may Her self deceive,",2.0 +"Against Experience willing to believe,",3.0 +"Desirous to rejoice, condemned to grieve.",1.0 +"Happy the Mortal Man, who now at last",2.0 +Has through this doleful Vale of Misery past;,2.0 +Who to his destined Stage has carried on,1.0 +"The tedious Load, and laid his Burden down;",3.0 +"Whom the cut Brass, or wounded Marble shows",3.0 +"Victor over Life, and all Her Train of Woes.",0.0 +"He happier yet, who privileged by Fate",2.0 +"To shorter Labour, and a lighter Weight,",1.0 +"Received but Yesterday the Gift of Breath,",0.0 +Ordered Tomorrow to return to Death.,4.0 +"But OH! beyond Description happiest He,",1.0 +Who never must roll on Life's tumultuous Sea;,5.0 +Who with blessed Freedom from the general Doom,3.0 +"Exempt, must never force the teeming Womb,",0.0 +"Nor see the Sun, nor sink into the Tomb.",0.0 +"Who breathes, must suffer; and who thinks, must mourn;",1.0 +"And He alone is blessed, who never was born.",3.0 +"Yet in thy turn, Thou frowning Preacher, hear:",0.0 +Are not these general Maxims too severe?,0.0 +Say: cannot Power secure it's Owner's Bliss?,3.0 +And is not Wealth the potent Sire of Peace?,3.0 +"Are Victors blessed with Fame, or Kings with Ease?",0.0 +"I tell Thee, Life is but one common Care;",1.0 +"And Man was born to suffer, and to fear.",1.0 +"But is no Rank, no Station, no Degree",4.0 +From this contagious Taint of Sorrow free?,1.0 +"None, Mortal, None: Yet in a bolder Strain",1.0 +Let Me this melancholy Truth maintain:,0.0 +"But hence, You Worldly, and Profane, retire:",1.0 +"For I adapt my Voice, and raise my Lyre",1.0 +To Notions not by Vulgar Ear received:,0.0 +"You still must covet Life, and be deceived:",0.0 +Your very Fear of Death shall make You try,0.0 +To catch the Shade of Immortality;,1.0 +"Wishing on Earth to linger, and to save",3.0 +Part of it's Prey from the devouring Grave;,3.0 +"Something entire, in spite of Time, and Death;",4.0 +"A fancied Kind of Being to retrieve,",1.0 +"And in a Book, or from a Building live.",1.0 +False Hope! vain Labour! let some Ages fly:,2.0 +"The Dome shall moulder, and the Volume die:",1.0 +That all the Parts of this great Fabric change;,2.0 +"And lose their Shape, their Essence, and their Name?",1.0 +"Reduce the Song: our Hopes, our Joys are vain:",0.0 +Our Lot is Sorrow; and Our Portion Pain.,1.0 +"What Pause from Woe, what Hopes of Comfort bring",0.0 +"The Name of Wise or Great, of Judge or King?",0.0 +What is a King? A Man condemned to bear,0.0 +The public Burden of the Nation's Care;,1.0 +Now crowned some angry Faction to appease;,2.0 +Now falls a Victim to the People's Ease:,2.0 +"Nourished in Flattery, and estranged from Truth:",5.0 +"At Home surrounded by a servile Crowd,",1.0 +His very State acknowledging his Fears:,1.0 +"Marching amid a thousand Guards, He shows",2.0 +His secret Terror of a thousand Foes;,1.0 +"In War however Prudent, Great, or Brave,",1.0 +"To blind Events, and fickle Chance a Slave:",0.0 +Seeking to settle what for ever flies;,2.0 +But He returns with Conquest on his Brow;,2.0 +"Brings up the Triumph, and absolves the Vow:",1.0 +The Captive Generals to his Carr are tied:,1.0 +"Echoing his Glory, gratify his Pride.",1.0 +"What is this Triumph? Madness, Shouts, and Noise,",0.0 +One great Collection of the People's Voice.,1.0 +What may Tomorrow be the Victor's Fate.,2.0 +"The Spoils and Trophies born before Him, show",0.0 +"National Loss, and Epidemic Woe,",0.0 +"Various Distress, which He and His may know.",2.0 +Does He not mourn the valiant Thousands slain;,0.0 +"The Heroes, once the Glory of the Plain,",1.0 +"Left in the Conflict of the Fatal Day,",1.0 +"Does He not weep the Laurel, which he wears,",0.0 +"Wet with the Soldier's Blood, and Widow's Tears?",0.0 +"See, where He comes, the Darling of the War!",1.0 +See Millions crowding round the gilded Car!,1.0 +"In the vast Joys of this Ecstatic Hour,",4.0 +"And full Fruition of successful Power,",1.0 +One Moment and one Thought might let Him scan,1.0 +"The various Turns of Life, and fickle State of Man.",2.0 +"Are the dire Images of sad Distrust,",1.0 +"And Popular Change, obscured amid the Dust,",2.0 +That rises from the Victor's rapid Wheel?,1.0 +"Can the loud Clarion, or shrill Fife repel",6.0 +The inward Cries of Care? can Nature's Voice,0.0 +"Plaintive be drowned, or lessened in the Noise;",2.0 +Though Shouts as Thunder loud afflict the Air;,0.0 +"Stun the Birds now released, and shake the Ivory Chair?",3.0 +"Yonder Crowd He might reflect yonder joyful Crowd,",5.0 +Should fleeting Victory to the Vanquished go;,1.0 +"Should She depress my Arms, and raise the Foe;",1.0 +"At the high Palace, or the crowded Gate;",3.0 +With restless Rage would pull my Statues down;,2.0 +And cast the Brass anew to His Renown.,1.0 +OH impotent Desire of Worldly Sway!,2.0 +"That I, who make the Triumph of Today,",1.0 +"May of Tomorrow's Pomp one Part appear,",2.0 +"Ghastly with Wounds, and lifeless on the Bier!",3.0 +"Whom my dilated Eye with Labour sees,",1.0 +"Would one, alas! repeat Me Good, or Great?",1.0 +"Or, marched I chained behind the Hostile Carr,",0.0 +"The Victor's Pastime, and the Sport of War;",2.0 +"Would One, would One his pitying Sorrow lend,",2.0 +"Or be so poor, to own He was my Friend?",1.0 +To see this cruel Scene with quicker Eyes?,0.0 +"To know with more Distinction to complain,",1.0 +And have superior Sense in feeling Pain?,2.0 +"Let us revolve that Roll with strictest Eye,",2.0 +Where safe from Time distinguished Actions lie;,0.0 +"And judge if Greatness be exempt from Pain,",0.0 +Or Pleasure ever may with Power remain.,3.0 +"Adam, great Type, for whom the World was made,",2.0 +"The fairest Blessing to his Arms conveyed,",1.0 +"A charming Wife; and Air, and Sea, and Land,",0.0 +"And all that move therein, to his Command",1.0 +"Rendered obedient: say, my Pensive Muse,",4.0 +What did these golden Promises produce?,1.0 +"Scarce tasting Life, He was of Joy bereaved:",2.0 +"One Day, I think, in Paradise He lived;",0.0 +"Destined the next His Journey to pursue,",2.0 +"Where wounding Thorns, and cursed Thistles grew.",3.0 +"Ever yet He earns his Bread, down his Brow,",0.0 +"His Limbs must ache, with daily Toils oppressed;",0.0 +"Still viewing with Regret his Darling Eve,",2.0 +"He for Her Follies, and His own must grieve.",2.0 +"Of Heaven, when first it thundered; oft his View",0.0 +"Aghast, as when the Infant Lightning flew;",0.0 +"And the stern Cherub stopped the fatal Road,",2.0 +Armed with the Flames of an Avenging GOD.,1.0 +"His Younger Son on the polluted Ground,",1.0 +"First Fruit of Death, lies Plaintiff of a Wound",3.0 +Given by a Brother's Hand: His Eldest Birth,1.0 +"Flies, marked by Heaven, a Fugitive over Earth.",3.0 +"Yet why these Sorrows heaped upon the Sire,",0.0 +"Becomes nor Man, nor Angel to enquire.",1.0 +Each Age sinned on; and Guilt advanced with Time:,1.0 +The Son still added to the Father's Crime;,2.0 +"Till God arose, and great in Anger said:",0.0 +"Withdraw thy Light, Thou Sun! be dark, You Skies!",0.0 +"And from your deep Abyss, You Waters, rise!",1.0 +"Mean time, His Providence to Noah gave",2.0 +"The Guard of All, that He designed to save.",1.0 +Exempt from general Doom the Patriarch stood;,1.0 +The Winds fall silent; and the Waves decrease:,2.0 +"The Dove brings Quiet, and the Olive Peace:",2.0 +"Yet still His Heart does inward Sorrow feel,",0.0 +Which Faith alone forbids Him to reveal.,1.0 +If on the backward World his Views are cast;,1.0 +"It's Death diffused, and universal Waste.",0.0 +"Present sad Prospect! can He Ought descry,",2.0 +But what affects his melancholy Eye,0.0 +"The Beauties of the Ancient Fabric lost,",1.0 +"In Chains of craggy Hill, or Lengths of dreary Coast?",0.0 +"Weeping He hoped, and Sacrificing mourned;",2.0 +When of GOD's Image only Eight He found,2.0 +"Snatched from the Watery Grave, and saved from Nations drowned;",2.0 +"And of three Sons, the future Hopes of Earth,",2.0 +"The Seed, whence Empires must receive their Birth,",0.0 +"One He foresees excluded Heavenly Grace,",3.0 +"And marked with Curses, fatal to his Race.",1.0 +"Abraham, Potent Prince, the Friend of GOD,",6.0 +Of Human Ills must bear the destined Load;,0.0 +"By Blood and Battles must his Power maintain,",2.0 +"And slay the Monarchs, ever He rules the Plain;",3.0 +Must deal just Portions of a servile Life,1.0 +"Must with the Mother leave the weeping Son,",0.0 +"In Want to wander, and in Wilds to groan;",1.0 +"Must take his other Child, his Age's Hope",0.0 +Ordered to drench his Knife in filial Blood;,4.0 +"Destroy his Heir, or disobey his GOD.",0.0 +Moses beheld that GOD; but how beheld?,3.0 +"The Deity in radiant Beams concealed,",1.0 +And clouded in a deep Abyss of Light;,0.0 +"While present, too severe for Human Sight,",0.0 +"The following Days, and Months, and Years decreed",2.0 +His Youth with Wants and Hardships must engage:,0.0 +Plots and Rebellions must disturb his Age.,2.0 +"And Israel did his Rage so far provoke,",0.0 +"That what the Godhead wrote, the Prophet broke.",1.0 +"His Voice scarce heard, his Dictates scarce believed,",2.0 +"In Camps, in Arms, in Pilgrimage, He lived;",1.0 +"And died obedient to severest Law,",3.0 +"Forbid to tread the promised Land, He saw.",0.0 +"My Father's Life was one long Line of Care,",2.0 +"A Scene of Danger, and a State of War.",1.0 +"Alarmed, exposed, his Childhood must engage",1.0 +"The Bear's rough Gripe, and foaming Lion's Rage.",1.0 +By various Turns his threatened Youth must fear,2.0 +"Forlorn He must, and persecuted fly;",0.0 +"Climb the steep Mountain, in the Cavern lie;",3.0 +"And often ask, and be refused to die.",0.0 +"For ever, from His manly Toils, are known",1.0 +"The Weight of Power, and Anguish of a Crown.",3.0 +What Tongue can speak the restless Monarch's Woes;,1.0 +"When GOD, and Nathan were declared his Foes?",1.0 +The Parent's Sins impressed upon the dying Child?,0.0 +What Heart can think the Grief which He sustained;,1.0 +When the King's Crime brought Vengeance on the Land;,5.0 +And the inexorable Prophet's Voice,3.0 +"Gave Famine, Plague, or War; and bid him fix his Choice?",1.0 +He died; and O! may no Reflection shed,1.0 +It's poisonous Venom on the Royal Dead:,3.0 +Yet the unwilling Truth must be expressed;,1.0 +Dying He added to my Weight of Care:,3.0 +He made Me to his Crimes undoubted Heir:,1.0 +"Left his unfinished Murder to his Son,",3.0 +The cruel Dictates of My Parent's Will.,1.0 +Of his fair Deeds a distant View I took;,2.0 +But turned the Tube upon his Faults to look;,0.0 +"His Care of Right, his Reverence to the Laws:",1.0 +"But could with Joy his Years of Folly trace,",0.0 +"Could follow Him, where ever He strayed from Good,",3.0 +And cite his sad Example; while I trod,0.0 +"Paths open to Deceit, and tracked with Blood.",2.0 +"Soon docile to the secret Acts of Ill,",2.0 +"With Smiles I could betray, with Temper kill:",0.0 +Soon in a Brother could a Rival view;,0.0 +"Watch all his Acts, and all his Ways pursue.",0.0 +In vain for Life He to the Altar fled:,1.0 +Ambition and Revenge have certain Speed.,1.0 +"Even there, My Soul, even there He should have fell;",5.0 +But that my Interest did my Rage conceal.,0.0 +"Doubling my Crime, I promise, and deceive;",2.0 +"Purpose to slay, while swearing to forgive.",3.0 +"Treaties, Persuasions, Sighs, and Tears are vain:",2.0 +With a mean Lie cursed Vengeance I sustain;,5.0 +"Join Fraud to Force, and Policy to Power;",2.0 +"Till of the destined Fugitive secure,",2.0 +"And, as GOD lives, this Day my Brother dies.",2.0 +"Be Witness to my Tears, Celestial Muse!",1.0 +"In vain I would forget, in vain excuse",0.0 +Fraternal Blood by my Direction spilt;,1.0 +The Deed was acted by the Subject's Hand;,1.0 +The Sword was pointed by the King's Command.,1.0 +Mine was the Murder: it was Mine alone;,3.0 +Years of Contrition must the Crime atone:,1.0 +"Nor can my guilty Soul expect Relief,",1.0 +But from a long Sincerity of Grief.,2.0 +"With an imperfect Hand, and trembling Heart,",1.0 +"Her Love of Truth superior to her Art,",1.0 +Already the reflecting Muse has traced,1.0 +The mournful Figures of my Action past.,1.0 +"The pensive Goddess has already taught,",0.0 +"How vain is Hope, and how vexatious Thought;",1.0 +"From growing Childhood to declining Age,",2.0 +"This Course of Vanity almost complete,",2.0 +"In the still Shades of Death: for Dread and Pain,",3.0 +"And their Points broke, retorted from the Head,",3.0 +"Safe in the Grave, and free among the Dead.",0.0 +"Blood only stopped, and interrupted Breath?",1.0 +"The utmost Limit of a narrow Span,",2.0 +And End of Motion which with Life began?,0.0 +As smoke that rises from the kindling Fires,1.0 +"Is seen this Moment, and the next expires:",1.0 +"As empty Clouds by rising Winds are tossed,",0.0 +Their fleeting Forms scarce sooner found than lost:,1.0 +So vanishes our State: so pass our Days:,1.0 +"So Life but opens now, and now decays:",0.0 +"The Cradle and the Tomb, alas! so nigh;",1.0 +To live is scarce distinguished from to die.,1.0 +"Death only shows Us, what We knew was near.",1.0 +With Courage therefore view the pointed Hour;,1.0 +Dread not Death's Anger; but expect his Power;,3.0 +Nor Nature's Law with fruitless Sorrow mourn;,0.0 +"Cautious through Doubt; by Want of Courage, Wise,",2.0 +"To such Advice, the Reasoner still replies.",3.0 +"Yet measuring all the long continued Space,",1.0 +"Every successive Day's repeated Race,",1.0 +"Till He had reached that Hour, wherein my Soul",1.0 +"Joined to my Body swelled the Womb; I was,",0.0 +At least I think so Nothing: must I pass,0.0 +"Again to Nothing, when this vital Breath",0.0 +"Must the whole Man, amazing Thought! return",3.0 +"To the cold Marble, or contracted Urn?",3.0 +"And never shall those Particles agree,",1.0 +That were in Life this Individual He?,1.0 +"But severed, must They join the general Mass,",0.0 +"Through other Forms, and Shapes ordained to pass;",0.0 +Nor Thought nor Image kept of what He was?,0.0 +"Does the great Word that gave him Sense, ordain,",3.0 +That Life shall never wake that Sense again?,0.0 +And will no Power his sinking Spirits save,4.0 +"From the dark Caves of Death, and Chambers of the Grave?",3.0 +Each Evening I behold the setting Sun,1.0 +With downward Speed into the Ocean run:,0.0 +Yet the same Light pass but some fleeting Hours,1.0 +Starts the bright Race again: His constant Flame,3.0 +"Rises and sets, returning still the Same.",2.0 +I mark the various Fury of the Winds:,3.0 +"These neither Seasons guide, nor Order binds:",0.0 +"They now dilate, and now contract their Force:",0.0 +"Various their Speed, but endless is their Course.",2.0 +"Down to the Sea each Brook, and Torrent flows:",1.0 +"Though sundry Drops or leave, or swell the Stream;",0.0 +"The Whole still runs, with equal Pace, the Same.",1.0 +And the eternal Flood no Want of Water mourns.,2.0 +"Why then must Man obey the sad Decree,",0.0 +"Which subjects neither Sun, nor Wind, nor Sea?",0.0 +"A Flower, that does with opening Morn arise,",2.0 +"And flourishing the Day, at Evening dies;",1.0 +"A Winged Eastern Blast, just skimming over",2.0 +"The Ocean's Brow, and sinking on the Shore;",1.0 +"A Fire, whose Flames through crackling Stubble fly;",0.0 +A Meteor shooting from the Summer Sky;,3.0 +"A Bubble breaking, and a Fable told;",1.0 +"Are Emblems, which with Semblance apt proclaim",0.0 +"Our Earthly Course: But, OH my Soul! so fast",0.0 +Must Life run off; and Death for ever last?,1.0 +"This dark Opinion, sure, is too confined:",0.0 +"Else whence this Hope, and Terror of the Mind?",1.0 +"Does Something still, and Somewhere yet remain,",1.0 +"Reward or Punishment, Delight or Pain?",1.0 +Say: shall our Relics second Birth receive?,0.0 +"Sleep We to wake, and only die to live?",0.0 +"When the sad Wife has closed her Husband's Eyes,",3.0 +And pierced the Echoing Vault with doleful Cries;,2.0 +Lies the pale Corpse not yet entirely Dead?,5.0 +"The Spirit only from the Body fled,",1.0 +"The grosser Part of Heat and Motion void,",0.0 +"To be by Fire, or Worm, or Time destroyed;",0.0 +"The Soul, immortal Substance, to remain,",1.0 +"Conscious of Joy, and capable of Pain?",3.0 +"And if Her Acts have been directed well,",1.0 +While with her friendly Clay She deigned to dwell;,0.0 +Shall She with Safety reach her pristine Seat?,0.0 +"Find her Rest endless, and her Bliss complete?",4.0 +And while the buried Man We idly mourn;,0.0 +Do Angels joy to see His better Half return?,0.0 +But if She has deformed this Earthly Life,1.0 +"Amazed, repulsed, and by those Angels driven",1.0 +"In everlasting Darkness must She lie,",0.0 +"Still more unhappy, that She cannot die?",1.0 +Amid Two Seas on One small Point of Land,3.0 +"Wearied, uncertain, and amazed We stand:",3.0 +On either Side our Thoughts incessant turn:,0.0 +Forward We dread; and looking back We mourn.,2.0 +Losing the Present in this dubious Hast;,2.0 +"And lost Our selves betwixt the Future, and the Past.",1.0 +"These cruel Doubts contending in my Breast,",0.0 +"My Reason staggering, and my Hopes oppressed,",1.0 +"Once more I said: once more I will enquire,",2.0 +"This fluttering Motion, which We call the Mind?",2.0 +How does She act? and where is She confined?,1.0 +"Have We the Power to guide Her, as We please?",3.0 +"Whence then those Evils, that obstruct our Ease?",0.0 +We Happiness pursue; We fly from Pain;,1.0 +"Yet the Pursuit, and yet the Flight is vain:",1.0 +"By Day with Pleasure, and by Night with Rest;",1.0 +Some stronger Power eludes our sickly Will;,3.0 +Dashes our rising Hope with certain Ill;,2.0 +"And makes Us with reflective Trouble see,",1.0 +"That all is destined, which We fancy free.",0.0 +"That Power superior then, which rules our Mind,",3.0 +Is His Decree by Human Prayer inclined.,1.0 +Will He for Sacrifice our Sorrows ease?,1.0 +And can our Tears reverse His firm Decrees?,1.0 +"Then let Religion aid, where Reason fails:",0.0 +"Throw loads of Incense in, to turn the Scales;",2.0 +"And let the silent Sanctuary show,",0.0 +"What from the babbling Scholes We may not know,",1.0 +"How Man may shun, or bear his destined Part of Woe.",0.0 +"What shall amend, or what absolve our Fate?",0.0 +"Anxious We hover in a mediate State,",3.0 +"Betwixt Infinity and Nothing; Bounds,",1.0 +"Or boundless Terms, whose doubtful Sense confounds",0.0 +"Unequal Thought; while All We apprehend,",0.0 +"Is, that our Hopes must rise, our Sorrows end;",0.0 +As our Creator deigns to be our Friend.,1.0 +I said; ' -- and instant bad the Priests prepare,0.0 +"The ritual Sacrifice, and solemn Prayer.",2.0 +A hundred Bulls ascend the Sacred Way.,0.0 +The artful Youth proceed to form the Choir;,0.0 +"They breath the Flute, or strike the vocal Wire.",0.0 +The Maids in comely Order next advance;,0.0 +"Follows the chosen Tribe from Levi sprung,",2.0 +Chanting by just Return the Holy Song.,2.0 +Along the Choir in Solemn State they past.,2.0 +"The Sacred Hymn performed, my promised Vow",0.0 +"I paid; and bowing at the Altar low,",0.0 +"Father of Heaven! I said, and Judge of Earth!",2.0 +Whose Word called out this Universe to Birth;,1.0 +By whose kind Power and influencing Care,5.0 +"The various Creatures move, and live, and are;",2.0 +"But, ceasing once that Care; withdrawn that Power;",0.0 +"They move alas! and live, and are no more:",0.0 +"Omniscient Master, Omnipresent King,",0.0 +"To Thee, to Thee, my last Distress I bring.",1.0 +"From Storms of Rage, and dangerous Rocks of Pride,",2.0 +Let Thy strong Hand this little Vessel guide,3.0 +It was Thy Hand that made it through the Tide,2.0 +Impetuous of this Life: let Thy Command,3.0 +"Direct my Course, and bring me safe to Land.",0.0 +"If, while this wearied Flesh draws fleeting Breath,",1.0 +"Not satisfied with Life, afraid of Death,",0.0 +"Glimpse of Delight, or Pause from anxious Woe;",2.0 +"From Now, from instant Now, great Sire, dispel",3.0 +The Clouds that press my Soul; from Now reveal,0.0 +A gracious Beam of Light; from Now inspire,0.0 +"My Tongue to sing, my Hand to touch the Lyre:",0.0 +My opened Thought to joyous Prospects raise;,0.0 +"And, for Thy Mercy, let me sing Thy Praise.",1.0 +"Some New Hereafter, and a future State;",1.0 +"Permit me Strength, my Weight of Woe to bear;",0.0 +And raise my Mind superior to my Care.,1.0 +"Let Me, however unable to explain",6.0 +With humble Zeal confess Thy awful Power;,0.0 +"Still weeping Hope, and wondering still Adore.",3.0 +So in my Conquest be Thy Might declared:,0.0 +"And, for Thy Justice, be Thy Name revered.",1.0 +"My Prayer scarce ended, a stupendous Gloom",4.0 +To the beginning Miracle succeed,2.0 +"An awful Silence, and religious Dread.",1.0 +Sudden breaks forth a more than common Day:,2.0 +"The sacred Wood, which on the Altar lay,",1.0 +Does round the Air evolving Scents diffuse:,0.0 +The holy Ground is wet with Heavenly Dews:,2.0 +"Strikes to my Thought through my admiring Ear,",1.0 +"With Ecstasy too fine, and Pleasure hard to bear.",2.0 +My wondering Soul? an opening Cloud reveals,4.0 +An Heavenly Form embodied and arrayed,3.0 +With Robes of Light. I heard: the Angel said:,0.0 +"Cease, Man of Woman born, to hope Relief",1.0 +"From daily Trouble, and continued Grief.",1.0 +Thy Hope of Joy deliver to the Wind:,1.0 +Suppress thy Passions; and prepare thy Mind.,1.0 +Free and familiar with Misfortune grow:,3.0 +"Be used to Sorrow, and inured to Woe.",1.0 +"By weakening Toil, and hoary Age overcome,",5.0 +See thy Decrease; and hasten to thy Tomb.,3.0 +"Leave to thy Children Tumult, Strife, and War,",0.0 +"Portions of Toil, and Legacies of Care.",3.0 +Send the Successive Ills through Ages down;,3.0 +"And let each weeping Father tell his Son,",0.0 +"That deeper struck, and more distinctly grieved,",0.0 +He must augment the Sorrows He received.,1.0 +"The Child to whose Success thy Hope is bound,",0.0 +"Ever thou art scarce Interred, or he is Crowned;",3.0 +"To Lust of Arbitrary Sway inclined,",0.0 +That cursed Poison to the Prince's Mind!,2.0 +"Shall from thy Dictates and his Duty rove,",1.0 +"And lose his great Defence, his People's Love.",0.0 +"Shall sigh, the King diminished, and the Crown",1.0 +With lessened Rays descending to his Son.,1.0 +"By active Toil, and Military Sweat,",0.0 +"Pining incline their sickly Leaves, and shed",2.0 +"By Arms, or Prayer unable to assuage",1.0 +"Domestic Horror, and intestine Rage,",1.0 +"Shall from the Victor, and the Vanquished fear,",1.0 +"Shall cast his wearied Limbs on Jordan's Flood,",0.0 +Charged with ill Omens; sullied with Disgrace.,4.0 +"Time by Necessity compelled, shall go",3.0 +"The Empire lessened in a parted Stream,",0.0 +"Judah shall fall, oppressed by Grief and Shame;",2.0 +And Men shall from her Ruins know her Fame.,1.0 +"A harsher Pharaoh, and a heavier Chain.",3.0 +"Again obedient to a dire Command,",1.0 +Thy Captive Sons shall leave the promised Land.,0.0 +"Their Name more low, their Servitude more vile,",0.0 +"Shall, on Euphrates' Bank, renew the Grief of Nile.",1.0 +These pointed Spires that wound the ambient Sky,2.0 +Inglorious Change! shall in Destruction lie,2.0 +"Low, levelled with the Dust; their Heights unknown,",2.0 +"Or measured by their Ruin. Yonder Throne,",1.0 +"For lasting Glory built, designed the Seat",0.0 +"Of Kings for ever blessed, for ever great,",0.0 +"Removed by the Invader's barbarous Hand,",6.0 +Shall grace his Triumph in a foreign Land.,0.0 +The Tyrant shall demand yonder sacred Load,6.0 +"Of Gold and Vessels set apart to GOD,",0.0 +Then by vile Hands to common Use debased;,3.0 +"Shall send them flowing round his drunken Feast,",0.0 +"With sacrilegious Taunt, and impious Jest.",3.0 +Twice fourteen Ages shall their Way complete:,2.0 +Empires by various Turns shall rise and set;,3.0 +While Thy abandoned Tribes shall only know,1.0 +"A different Master, and a Change of Woe:",1.0 +"With downcast Eyelids, and with Looks aghast,",3.0 +"Afflicted Israel shall sit weeping down,",2.0 +"Their Harps upon the neighbouring Willows hung,",3.0 +"Nor joyous Hymn encouraging their Tongue,",1.0 +"Nor cheerful Dance their Feet; with Toil oppressed,",0.0 +Their wearied Limbs aspiring but to Rest.,1.0 +"In the reflective Stream the sighing Bride,",1.0 +"Viewing her Charms impaired, abashed shall hide",2.0 +Her pensive head; and in her languid Face,0.0 +The Bridegroom shall foresee his sickly Race:,1.0 +While ponderous Fetters vex their close Embrace.,2.0 +With irksome Anguish then your Priests shall mourn,0.0 +And sad Oblivion of their solemn Days.,1.0 +"Thenceforth their Voices They shall only raise,",2.0 +Shall call for Fountains to express their Tears;,1.0 +And wish their Eyes were Floods: by Night from Dreams,0.0 +"Of opening Gulfs, black Storms, and raging Flames,",3.0 +"Starting amazed, shall to the People show",3.0 +"Emblems of Heavenly Wrath, and Mystic Types of Woe.",4.0 +"The Captives, as their Tyrant shall require,",1.0 +"That They should breath the Song, and touch the Lyre,",0.0 +"Shall say: can Jacob's servile Race rejoice,",0.0 +What can We play? They shall discourse how sing,2.0 +"In foreign Lands, and to a Barbarous King?",3.0 +We and our Fathers from our Childhood bred,3.0 +"To watch the cruel Victor's Eye, to dread",0.0 +"The arbitrary Lash, to bend, to grieve;",0.0 +Outcast of Mortal Race! can We conceive,2.0 +"Image of ought delightful, soft, or gay?",2.0 +"The fullest Bliss our Hearts aspire to know,",0.0 +Is but some Interval from active Woe;,2.0 +"In broken Rest, and startling Sleep to mourn;",0.0 +"Till Morn, the Tyrant, and the Scourge return.",1.0 +"Bred up in Grief, can Pleasure be our Theme?",0.0 +Our endless Anguish does not Nature claim?,0.0 +"Reason, and Sorrow are to Us the Same.",4.0 +"Alas! with wild Amazement We require,",1.0 +If Idle Folly was not Pleasure's Sire:,3.0 +"To grinning Laughter, and to frantic Mirth.",1.0 +"This is the Series of perpetual Woe,",4.0 +"Which Thou, alas! and Thine are born to know.",2.0 +Too bright the Object is: the Distance is too high.,4.0 +"The Man who would resolve the Work of Fate,",0.0 +"May limit Number, and make Crooked Strait:",2.0 +Stop Thy Enquiry then; and kerb Thy Sense;,3.0 +Nor let Dust argue with Omnipotence.,3.0 +"It's GOD who must dispose, and Man sustain,",0.0 +"Born to endure, forbidden to complain.",3.0 +Thy Sum of Life must His Decrees fulfil:,1.0 +"And that alone is Good, which centres in His Will.",0.0 +"Lost to Delight, and destitute of Hope;",2.0 +"Remark what I, GOD's Messenger, aver",4.0 +"From Him, who neither can deceive, nor err.",2.0 +"The Land at length redeemed, shall cease to mourn;",0.0 +Shall from her sad Captivity return.,1.0 +And in her Courts the Law again be read.,0.0 +"Again the glorious Temple shall arise,",2.0 +And with new Lustre pierce the neighbouring Skies.,4.0 +The promised Seat of Empire shall again,0.0 +"Cover the Mountain, and command the Plain,",3.0 +"And from Thy Race distinguished, One shall spring,",2.0 +"Greater in Act than Victor, more than King",2.0 +"In Dignity and Power, sent down from Heaven,",1.0 +"Passion, and Care, and Anguish to destroy.",3.0 +Perpetual over the World redeemed shall flow.,4.0 +"No more may Man enquire, nor Angel know.",2.0 +"Now, Solomon, remembering Who thou art,",2.0 +Act through thy remnant Life the decent Part.,0.0 +"Go forth: Be strong: With Patience, and with Care",2.0 +"Perform, and Suffer: To Thy self severe,",1.0 +"Gracious to Others, Thy Desires suppressed,",3.0 +"Diffused Thy Virtues, First of Men, be Best.",0.0 +Thy Sum of Duty let Two Words contain;,1.0 +"Be Humble, and be Just. The Angel said:",1.0 +With upward Speed His agile Wings He spread;,0.0 +"While on the holy Ground I prostrate lay,",0.0 +"By various Doubts impelled, or to obey,",3.0 +Or to object: at length my mournful Look,1.0 +"Sole Author, Sole Disposer of our Fate!",2.0 +"Whom no Man fully sees, and none can see!",1.0 +Original of Beings! Power Divine!,3.0 +"Since that I Live, and that I Think, is Thine;",0.0 +"Benign Creator, let Thy plastic Hand",0.0 +Dispose it's own Effect. Let Thy Command,2.0 +"Restore, Great Father, Thy Instructed Son;",2.0 +And in My Act may Thy great Will be done.,0.0 +FAIREST and foremost of the train that wait,2.0 +"On man's most dignified and happiest state,",2.0 +"Whether we name thee Charity or love,",3.0 +"Chief grace below, and all in all above,",1.0 +Prosper I press thee with a powerful plea,5.0 +"A task I venture on, impelled by thee:",1.0 +"O never seen but in thy blessed effects,",0.0 +"Nor felt but in the soul that heaven selects,",0.0 +"Who seeks to praise thee, and to make thee known",1.0 +"To other hearts, must have thee in his own.",0.0 +"Come, prompt me with benevolent desires,",3.0 +"Teach me to kindle at thy gentle fires,",0.0 +"And though disgraced and slighted, to redeem",2.0 +"A poet's name, by making thee the theme.",1.0 +"God working ever on a social plan,",2.0 +By various ties attaches man to man:,2.0 +"He made at first, though free and unconfined,",0.0 +"One man the common father of the kind,",1.0 +"That every tribe, though placed as he sees best,",1.0 +"Where seas or deserts part them from the rest,",1.0 +"Differing in language, manners, or in face,",2.0 +Might feel themselves allied to all the race.,0.0 +"When Cook ' -- lamented, and with tears as just",1.0 +"As ever mingled with heroic dust,",1.0 +"Steered Britain's oak into a world unknown,",1.0 +"Wherever he found man, to nature true,",2.0 +The rights of man were sacred in his view:,0.0 +He soothed with gifts and greeted with a smile,1.0 +"The simple native of the newfound isle,",2.0 +He spurned the wretch that slighted or withstood,1.0 +"The tender argument of kindred blood,",1.0 +Nor would endure that any should control,0.0 +His freeborn brothers of the southern pole.,1.0 +"But though some nobler minds a law respect,",1.0 +"That none shall with impunity neglect,",2.0 +To thwart its influence and its end defeat.,1.0 +"While Cook is loved for savage lives he saved,",0.0 +See Cortez odious for a world enslaved!,6.0 +Or building hospitals on English ground?,5.0 +"Through fear not love, and heaven abhors the fee:",0.0 +Wherever found and all men need thy care,0.0 +Nor age nor infancy could find thee there.,1.0 +"The hand that siew till it could slay no more,",1.0 +"Their prince as justly seated on his throne,",1.0 +"As vain imperial Philip on his own,",3.0 +"Tricked out of all his royalty by art,",1.0 +"That stripped him bare, and broke his honest heart,",0.0 +"Died by the sentence of a shaven priest,",1.0 +How dark the veil that intercepts the blaze,0.0 +Of heavens mysterious purposes and ways;,5.0 +"God stood not, though he seemed to stand aloof,",1.0 +And at this hour the conqueror feels the proof.,2.0 +"The fretting plague is in the public purse,",0.0 +"O could their ancient Incas rise again,",0.0 +"Art thou too fallen Iberia, do we see",5.0 +The robber and the murderer weak as we?,3.0 +"Thou that hast wasted earth, and dared despise",0.0 +"Alike the wrath and mercy of the skies,",1.0 +"Thy pomp is in the grave, thy glory laid",0.0 +Low in the pits thine avarice has made.,1.0 +"We come with joy from our eternal rest,",1.0 +To see the oppressor in his turn oppressed.,2.0 +Art thou the God the thunder of whose hand,1.0 +"Shook principalities and kingdoms down,",3.0 +And made the mountains tremble at his frown?,0.0 +"The sword shall light upon thy boasted powers,",0.0 +"And waste them, as thy sword has wasted ours.",1.0 +And vengeance executes what justice wills.,0.0 +Again ' -- the band of commerce was designed,1.0 +"TO associate all the branches of mankind,",3.0 +"And if a boundless plenty be the robe,",1.0 +Trade is the golden girdle of the globe:,1.0 +"Wise to promote whatever end he means,",3.0 +"God opens fruitful nature's various scenes,",3.0 +"Each climate needs what other climes produce,",0.0 +And offers something to the general use;,1.0 +"No land but listens to the common call,",2.0 +And in return receives supply from all;,0.0 +"This genial intercourse and mutual aid,",2.0 +"Cheers what were else an universal shade,",0.0 +Ingenious Art with her expressive face,1.0 +"Steps forth to fashion and refine the race,",2.0 +But overcharges her capacious hand;,1.0 +"Capricious taste itself can crave no more,",1.0 +Than she supplies from her abounding store;,2.0 +"She strikes out all that luxury can ask,",1.0 +"Hers is the spacious arch, the shapely spire,",1.0 +The painters pencil and the poets lyre;,1.0 +"From her the canvas borrows light and shade,",1.0 +"And verse more lasting, hues that never fade.",0.0 +"She guides the finger over the dancing keys,",2.0 +"Gives difficulty all the grace of ease,",1.0 +"And pours a torrent of sweet notes around,",2.0 +Fast as the thirsting ear can drink the sound.,0.0 +"These are the gifts of art, and art thrives most",1.0 +Where commerce has enriched the busy coast:,0.0 +"He catches all improvements in his flight,",0.0 +"Imports what others have invented well,",0.0 +"And stirs his own to match them, or excel.",1.0 +"It's thus reciprocating each with each,",0.0 +Alternately the nations learn and teach;,3.0 +Heaven speed the canvas gallantly unfurled,1.0 +To furnish and accommodate a world;,1.0 +"To give the Pole the produce of the sun,",1.0 +"Impel the fleet whose errand is to save,",1.0 +The smile of opulence in sorrow's face. ' --,1.0 +"Let nothing adverse, nothing unforeseen,",2.0 +"Impede the bark that ploughs the deep serene,",0.0 +Charged with a freight transcending in its worth,0.0 +"The gems of India, nature's rarest birth,",2.0 +"That flies like Gabriel on his Lord's commands,",1.0 +"An herald of God's love, to pagan lands. ' --",2.0 +"But ah! what wish can prosper, or what prayer,",1.0 +"For merchant's rich in cargoes of despair,",2.0 +"Who drive a loathsome traffic, gauge and span,",0.0 +And buy the muscles and the bones of man?,1.0 +"The tender ties of father, husband, friend,",0.0 +"All bonds of nature in that moment end,",0.0 +"And each endures while yet he draws his breath,",0.0 +A stroke as fatal as the scythe of death.,1.0 +"The sable warrior, frantic with regret",1.0 +"Of her he loves, and never can forget,",2.0 +"Loses in tears the far receding shore,",2.0 +But not the thought that they must meet no more;,1.0 +"Deprived of her and freedom at a blow,",1.0 +What has he left that he can yet forego?,1.0 +"Puts off his generous nature, and to suit",3.0 +"His manners with his fate, puts on the brute.",3.0 +O most degrading of all ills that wait,1.0 +"On man, a mourner in his best estate!",0.0 +"All other sorrows virtue may endure,",1.0 +And find submission more than half a cure;,0.0 +"Grief is itself a medicine, and bestowed",5.0 +"TO improve the fortitude that bears the load,",1.0 +"To teach the wanderer, as his woes increase,",1.0 +"The path of wisdom, all whose paths are peace.",0.0 +"But slavery! ' -- virtue dreads it as her grave,",3.0 +Patience itself is meanness in a slave:,2.0 +Or if the will and sovereignty of God,2.0 +"Bid suffer it awhile, and kiss the rod,",2.0 +"Wait for the dawning of a brighter day,",1.0 +And snap the chain the moment when you may.,0.0 +Nature imprints upon whatever we see,5.0 +"That has a heart and life in it, be free;",1.0 +The beasts are chartered ' -- neither age nor force,0.0 +Can quell the love of freedom in a horse:,0.0 +"He breaks the cord that held him at the rack,",0.0 +"Snuffs up the morning air, forgets the rein,",0.0 +He finds the pasture where his fellows graze.,0.0 +"Trade in the blood of innocence, and plead",1.0 +Expedience as a warrant for the deed?,2.0 +So may the wolf whom famine has made bold,2.0 +To quit the forest and invade the fold;,1.0 +"Dagger in hand, steals close to your bedside;",4.0 +"Not he, but his emergence forced the door,",1.0 +He found it inconvenient to be poor.,1.0 +Has God then given its sweetness to the cane,3.0 +Unless his laws be trampled on ' -- in vain?,1.0 +"Built a brave world, which cannot yet subsist,",3.0 +Unless his right to rule it be dismissed?,0.0 +"And avarice being judge, with ease succeeds.",2.0 +"But grant the plea, and let it stand for just,",0.0 +"That man make man his prey, because he must,",1.0 +Still there is room for pity to abate,1.0 +"A Briton knows, or if he knows it not,",1.0 +"The Scripture placed within his reach, he ought,",0.0 +"That souls have no discriminating hue,",0.0 +"Alike important in their Maker's view,",0.0 +"That none are free from blemish since the fall,",0.0 +And love divine has paid one price for all.,0.0 +"The wretch that works and weeps without relief,",0.0 +"Has one that notices his silent grief,",1.0 +"He from whose hands alone all power proceeds,",3.0 +"Considers all injustice with a frown,",1.0 +But marks the man that treads his fellow down.,1.0 +Not Mexico could purchase kings a claim,0.0 +"To scourge him, weariness his only blame.",1.0 +"Remember, heaven has an avenging rod;",2.0 +"Murmuring and weary of our daily toil,",2.0 +Or taste the fountain in the neighbouring glade:,2.0 +Else who would lose that had the power to improve,1.0 +And he that scorns it is himself a slave. ' --,2.0 +"Inform his mind, one flash of heavenly day",2.0 +Would heal his heart and melt his chains away;,0.0 +"And slaves, by truth enlarged, are doubly freed:",0.0 +"Then would he say, submissive at thy feet,",0.0 +"While gratitude and love made service sweet,",1.0 +"My dear deliverer out of hopeless night,",1.0 +"Whose bounty bought me but to give me light,",1.0 +"Sin forged, and ignorance made fast the chain;",3.0 +"Thy lips have shed instruction as the dew,",1.0 +"Taught me what path to shun, and what pursue;",0.0 +Farewell my former joys! I sigh no more,2.0 +"Serving a benefactor I am free,",3.0 +At my best home if not exiled from thee.,4.0 +"Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds",1.0 +"A stream of liberal and heroic deeds,",1.0 +"The swell of pity, not to be confined",0.0 +"Within the scanty limits of the mind,",1.0 +"Disdains the bank, and throws the golden sands,",0.0 +"A rich deposit, on the bordering lands:",3.0 +"These have an ear for his paternal call,",1.0 +"Who makes some rich for the supply of all,",1.0 +"God's gift with pleasure in his praise employ,",1.0 +And THORNTON is familiar with the joy.,2.0 +"O could I worship aught beneath the skies,",0.0 +"That earth hath seen or fancy can devise,",1.0 +"Thine altar, sacred liberty, should stand,",1.0 +"Built by no mercenary vulgar hand,",3.0 +With fragrant turf and flowers as wild and fair,2.0 +As ever dressed a bank or scented summer air.,0.0 +Duly as ever on the mountain's height,3.0 +The peep of morning shed a dawning light;,0.0 +"Again, when evening in her sober vest",0.0 +"Drew the grey curtain of the fading west,",4.0 +My soul should yield thee willing thanks and praise,0.0 +For the chief blessings of my fairest days:,3.0 +"But that were sacrilege ' -- praise is not thine,",2.0 +But his who gave thee and preserves thee mine:,2.0 +"Else I would say, and as I spoke, bid fly",2.0 +"A captive bird into the boundless sky,",0.0 +This triple realm adores thee ' -- thou art come,1.0 +"From Sparta hither, and art here at home;",1.0 +"We feel thy force still active, at this hour",1.0 +"Enjoy immunity from priestly power,",1.0 +"While conscience, happier than in ancient years,",1.0 +Owns no superior but the God she fears.,2.0 +Propitious spirit! yet expunge a wrong,0.0 +"Thy rights have suffered, and our land, too long,",2.0 +Teach mercy to ten thousand hearts that share,3.0 +The fears and hopes of a commercial care;,1.0 +"Prisons expect the wicked, and were built",3.0 +"To bind the lawless and to punish guilt,",1.0 +"But shipwreck, earthquake, battle, fire and flood,",1.0 +"And honest merit stands on slippery ground,",0.0 +Where covert guile and artifice abound:,1.0 +"Let just restraint for public peace designed,",1.0 +"Chain up the wolves and tigers of mankind,",2.0 +"The foe of virtue has no claim to thee,",1.0 +But let insolvent innocence go free.,2.0 +"Patron, of else the most despised of men,",2.0 +Accept the tribute of a stranger's pen;,1.0 +"I may alarm thee, but I fear the shame",2.0 +Charity chosen as my theme and aim,3.0 +"Blessed with all wealth can give thee, to resign",1.0 +"Joys doubly sweet to feelings quick as thine,",1.0 +"To quit the bliss thy rural scenes bestow,",0.0 +"To traverse seas, range kingdoms, and bring home",3.0 +"Not the proud monuments of Greece or Rome,",3.0 +"But knowledge such as only dungeons teach,",1.0 +And only sympathy like thine could reach;,2.0 +"That grief, sequestered from the public stage,",1.0 +"Might smooth her feathers and enjoy her cage,",1.0 +"Speaks a divine ambition, and a zeal",3.0 +The boldest patriot might be proud to feel.,1.0 +"O that the voice of clamour and debate,",2.0 +"That pleads for peace till it disturbs the state,",1.0 +"Were hushed in favour of thy generous plea,",2.0 +"The poor thy clients, and heaven's smile thy fee.",2.0 +"Philosophy that does not dream or stray,",1.0 +"Walks arm in arm with nature all his way,",1.0 +"Whatever steep enquiry recommends,",3.0 +Sees planetary wonders smoothly roll,1.0 +"Round other systems under her control,",1.0 +Drinks wisdom at the milky stream of light,1.0 +"That cheers the silent journey of the night,",1.0 +"And brings at his return a bosom charged,",1.0 +"With rich instruction, and a soul enlarged.",1.0 +The treasured sweets of the capacious plan,1.0 +"That heaven spreads wide before the view of man,",3.0 +"All prompt his pleased pursuit, and to pursue",1.0 +"Still prompt him, with a pleasure always new:",2.0 +"He too has a connecting power, and draws",3.0 +"Man to the centre of the common cause,",1.0 +Aiding a dubious and deficient sight,5.0 +With a new medium and a purer light.,3.0 +"All truth is precious if not all divine,",1.0 +"He reads the skies, and watching every change,",0.0 +"And wins mankind, as his attempts prevail,",2.0 +"But reason still unless divinely taught,",0.0 +"Whatever she learns, learns nothing as she ought;",5.0 +"The lamp of revelation only, shows,",0.0 +"What human wisdom cannot but oppose,",1.0 +"That man in nature's richest mantle clad,",0.0 +"And graced with all philosophy can add,",1.0 +"Though fair without, and luminous within,",1.0 +Is still the progeny and heir of sin.,1.0 +"Thus taught down falls the plumage of his pride,",2.0 +"And knows that falling he shall rise no more,",2.0 +"Unless the power that bade him stand, restore.",2.0 +"This is indeed philosophy; this known,",2.0 +"Makes wisdom, worthy of the name, his own;",2.0 +"And without this, whatever he discuss,",6.0 +"Whether the space between the stars and us,",2.0 +"Whether he measure earth, compute the sea,",2.0 +"Blind was he born, and his misguided eyes",1.0 +"Grown dim in trifling studies, blind he dies.",1.0 +"For self to self, and God to man revealed,",0.0 +Two themes to nature's eye for ever sealed,1.0 +Are taught by rays that fly with equal pace,0.0 +"Here stay thy foot, how copious and how clear",1.0 +The overflowing well of Charity springs here!,1.0 +"Some through the groves, some down the sloping hills,",1.0 +"Winding a secret or an open course,",3.0 +And all supplied from an eternal source.,1.0 +"The ties of nature do but feebly bind,",0.0 +"Philosophy without his heavenly guide,",3.0 +"But while his province is the reasoning part,",3.0 +Has still a veil of midnight on his heart:,2.0 +"It's truth divine exhibited on earth,",1.0 +Gives Charity her being and her birth.,3.0 +"Suppose when thought is warm and fancy flows,",0.0 +What will not argument sometime suppose,2.0 +"An isle possessed by creatures of our kind,",1.0 +"Endued with reason, yet by nature blind.",0.0 +"Let supposition lend her aid once more,",2.0 +"And land some grave optician on the shore,",1.0 +"Close to the part where vision ought to be,",0.0 +"But finds that though his tubes assist the sight,",1.0 +"They cannot give it, or make darkness light.",2.0 +"He reads wise lectures, and describes aloud",2.0 +"A sense they know not, to the wondering crowd,",3.0 +"He talks of light and the prismatic hues,",1.0 +"As men of depth in erudition use,",0.0 +But all he gains for his harangue is ' -- Well ' --,1.0 +What monstrous lies some travellers will tell.,1.0 +"Takes the resemblance of the good she views,",3.0 +"As diamonds stripped of their opaque disguise,",1.0 +"She speaks of him, her author, guardian, friend,",3.0 +"Whose love knew no beginning, knows no end,",2.0 +"In language warm as all that love inspires,",0.0 +And in the glow of her intense desires,1.0 +Pants to communicate her noble fires.,2.0 +She sees a world stark blind to what employs,1.0 +"Her eager thought, and feeds her flowing joys,",0.0 +"Flies to save some, and feels a pang for all:",0.0 +"Herself as weak as her support is strong,",1.0 +"She feels that frailty she denied so long,",1.0 +"And from a knowledge of her own disease,",2.0 +Learns to compassionate the sick she sees.,3.0 +The reign of genuine Charity commence;,3.0 +"Though scorn repay her sympathetic tears,",0.0 +"She still is kind, and still she perseveres;",0.0 +"The danger they discern not, they deny,",2.0 +"Laugh at their only remedy, and die:",1.0 +"But still a soul thus touched, can never cease",1.0 +"Whoever threatens war to speak of peace,",0.0 +"Pure in her aim and in her temper mild,",0.0 +"Her wisdom seems the weakness of a child,",1.0 +"She makes excuses where she might condemn,",0.0 +"Reviled by those that hate her, prays for them;",1.0 +"The worst suggested, she believes the best;",1.0 +"Not soon provoked, however stung and teased,",1.0 +"And if perhaps made angry, soon appeased,",2.0 +"She rather waves than will dispute her right,",1.0 +"And injured, makes forgiveness her delight.",1.0 +"Such was the portrait an apostle drew,",2.0 +"The bright original was one he knew,",2.0 +"Heaven held his hand, the likeness must be true.",0.0 +"When one that holds communion with the skies,",1.0 +"Has filled his urn where these pure waters rise,",2.0 +"And once more mingles with us meaner things,",1.0 +It's even as if an angel shook his wings;,1.0 +"Immortal fragrance fills the circuit wide,",0.0 +That tells us whence his treasures are supplied.,1.0 +"In some safe haven of our western world,",2.0 +"The gale informs us, laden with the scent.",1.0 +"Some seek, when queasy conscience has its qualms,",0.0 +To lull the painful malady with alms;,1.0 +"But charity not feigned, intends alone",1.0 +"And too short-lived to reach the realms of peace,",1.0 +Must cease for ever when the poor shall cease.,0.0 +"Flavia, most tender of her own good name,",2.0 +"Is rather careless of a sister's fame,",1.0 +"But if she touch a character, it dies.",2.0 +"The seeming virtue weighed against the vice,",0.0 +"She deems all safe, for she has paid the price,",1.0 +"No charity but alms aught values she,",4.0 +"How many deeds with which the world has rung,",0.0 +From pride in league with ignorance have sprung?,1.0 +And bends the tough materials to his will.,2.0 +"Has left some hundreds without home or food,",5.0 +"Extravagance and avarice shall subscribe,",3.0 +"The brief proclaimed, it visits every pew,",0.0 +"His glittering purse, that envy of all eyes,",3.0 +"And while the clerk just puzzles out the psalm,",1.0 +"Slides guinea behind guinea in his palm,",6.0 +"Till finding what he might have found before,",0.0 +"A smaller piece amid the precious store,",0.0 +"Pinched close between his finger and his thumb,",2.0 +"He half exhibits, and then drops the sum;",1.0 +Gold to be sure! ' -- throughout the town it's told,0.0 +"From motives such as his, though not the best,",2.0 +"Springs in due time supply for the distressed,",4.0 +Except that office clips it as it goes.,1.0 +"But lest I seem to sin against a friend,",1.0 +"And wound the grace I mean to recommend,",0.0 +Though vice derided with a just design,1.0 +Implies no trespass against love divine,6.0 +"Once more I would adopt the graver style,",0.0 +A teacher should be sparing of his smile.,1.0 +"Unless a love of virtue light the flame,",0.0 +He hides behind a magisterial air,2.0 +Affects indeed a most humane concern,0.0 +"That men if gently tutored will not learn,",1.0 +"By softer methods, must be made ashamed,",0.0 +But I might instance in St. Patrick's dean,2.0 +Too often rails to gratify his spleen.,1.0 +Their acrid temper turns as soon as stirred,0.0 +"The milk of their good purpose all to curd,",1.0 +"Their zeal begotten as their works rehearse,",1.0 +By lean despair upon an empty purse;,0.0 +"The wild assassins start into the street,",0.0 +"And even virtue so unfairly matched,",1.0 +"Although immortal, may be pricked or scratched.",2.0 +"When scandal has new minted an old lie,",3.0 +"Or taxed invention for a fresh supply,",1.0 +Gathering around it with erected ears;,2.0 +"A thousand names are tossed into the crowd,",0.0 +Suggests it safe or dangerous to be plain.,1.0 +"Strange! how the frequent interjected dash,",0.0 +"Quickens a market and helps off the trash,",4.0 +"The important letters that include the rest,",1.0 +"Serve as a key to those that are suppressed,",2.0 +"Conjecture gripes the victims in his paw,",0.0 +"So when the cold damp shades of night prevail,",1.0 +"Worms may be caught by either head or tail,",0.0 +"Forcibly drawn from many a close recess,",4.0 +"They meet with little pity, no redress;",0.0 +"Plunged in the stream they lodge upon the mud,",0.0 +Food for the famished rovers of the flood.,1.0 +"A bold remark, but which if well applied,",0.0 +Would humble many a towering poet's pride:,2.0 +"Perhaps enchanted with the love of fame,",1.0 +He sought the jewel in his neighbour's shame;,1.0 +"Perhaps ' -- whatever end he might pursue,",1.0 +The cause of virtue could not be his view.,0.0 +"At every stroke wit flashes in our eyes,",1.0 +"The turns are quick, the polished points surprise,",0.0 +"But shine with cruel and tremendous charms,",1.0 +That while they please possess us with alarms:,1.0 +"So have I seen, and hastened to the sight",1.0 +On all the wings of holiday delight,0.0 +"Where stands that monument of ancient power,",1.0 +"Named with emphatic dignity, the tower,",3.0 +In starry forms disposed upon the wall;,0.0 +"We wonder, as we gazing stand below,",1.0 +That brass and steel should make so fine a show;,0.0 +"But though we praise the exact designer's skill,",3.0 +Account them implements of mischief still.,1.0 +No works shall find acceptance in that day,1.0 +"When all disguises shall be rent away,",0.0 +"That square not truly with the Scripture plan,",1.0 +"Nor spring from love to God, or love to man.",0.0 +"To be resolved into their parent earth,",0.0 +"Whatever this world produces, it absorbs,",4.0 +So self starts nothing but what tends apace,2.0 +Home to the goal where it began the race.,1.0 +"Such as our motive is our aim must be,",2.0 +"If this be servile, that can never be free;",2.0 +"If self employ us, whatsoever is wrought,",2.0 +"We glorify that self, not him we ought:",1.0 +"Such virtues had need prove their own reward,",0.0 +The judge of all men owes them no regard.,1.0 +"True Charity, a plant divinely nursed,",2.0 +"Fed by the love from which it rose at first,",0.0 +"Thrives against hope and in the rudest scene,",2.0 +"Exuberant is the shadow it supplies,",2.0 +"Its fruit on earth, its growth above the skies.",0.0 +"To look at him who formed us and redeemed,",2.0 +"To see a God stretch forth his human hand,",1.0 +"TO uphold the boundless scenes of his command,",2.0 +"To recollect that in a form like ours,",0.0 +"He bruised beneath his feet the infernal powers,",2.0 +Captivity led captive rose to claim,2.0 +"To call the few that trust in him his friends,",1.0 +"That in the heaven of heavens, that space he deems",2.0 +"Too scanty for the exertion of his beams,",5.0 +And shines as if impatient to bestow,2.0 +Life and a kingdom upon worms below;,5.0 +"Though feeble in degree, in kind the same;",0.0 +"Like him, the soul thus kindled from above,",2.0 +"Spreads wide her arms of universal love,",1.0 +"And still enlarged as she receives the grace,",1.0 +Includes creation in her close embrace.,0.0 +Behold a Christian ' -- and without the fires,1.0 +"The founder of that name alone inspires,",1.0 +"Though all accomplishments, all knowledge meet,",1.0 +"To make the shining prodigy complete,",1.0 +Whoever boasts that name ' -- behold a cheat.,0.0 +Were love in these the world's last doting years,2.0 +"As frequent, as the want of it appears,",2.0 +"The churches warmed, they would no longer hold",1.0 +"Such frozen figures, stiff as they are cold;",1.0 +"Relenting forms would lose their power or cease,",2.0 +"And even the dipped and sprinkled, live in peace;",2.0 +"Each heart would quit its prison in the breast,",0.0 +And flow in free communion with the rest.,1.0 +"The statesman skilled in projects dark and deep,",0.0 +"His budget often filled yet always poor,",0.0 +"Might swing at ease behind his study door,",0.0 +"No longer prey upon our annual rents,",3.0 +Nor scare the nation with its big contents:,1.0 +"Disbanded legions freely might depart,",0.0 +And slaying man would cease to be an art.,0.0 +"Sure not to conquer, and sure not to yield,",2.0 +"Both sides deceived if rightly understood,",1.0 +Pelting each other for the public good.,3.0 +"Did Charity prevail, the press would prove",1.0 +"A vehicle of virtue, truth and love,",1.0 +And I might spare myself the pains to show,2.0 +"What few can learn, and all suppose they know.",0.0 +Thus have I sought to grace a serious lay,2.0 +"With many a wild indeed, but flowery spray,",4.0 +"In hopes to gain what else I must have lost,",0.0 +The attention pleasure has so much engrossed.,1.0 +"But if unhappily deceived I dream,",2.0 +"And prove too weak for so divine a theme,",2.0 +Let Charity forgive me a mistake,3.0 +"That zeal not vanity has chanced to make,",1.0 +And spare the poet for his subject sake.,1.0 +"When summer smiled, and birds on every spray,",0.0 +"Nature on all sides showed a lovely scene,",3.0 +"And people's minds were, like the air, serene;",0.0 +"Sudden from the herd we saw an heiser stray,",1.0 +And to our peaceful village bend her way.,1.0 +"She spurns the ground with madness as she flies,",1.0 +"And clouds of dust, like autumn mists, arise;",0.0 +"Then bellows loud: the villagers alarmed,",1.0 +"Come rushing forth, with various weapons armed:",3.0 +"Some run with pieces of old broken rakes,",2.0 +And some from hedges pluck the rotten stakes;,0.0 +And there another comes with half a rail:,1.0 +Stop her ' -- one cries; another ' -- turn her there:,0.0 +"But furiously she rushes by them all,",4.0 +"A mother snatched her infant off the road,",1.0 +Close to the spot of ground where next she trod;,0.0 +"Camilla walking, trembled and turned pale;",2.0 +See over her gentle heart what fears prevail!,3.0 +"At last the beast, unable to withstand",1.0 +"Such force united, leapt into a pond:",0.0 +"No more she'll fright our village, I presage.",2.0 +"WHILE in long exile far from you I roam,",3.0 +"For me, my friend, with rich poetic grace",1.0 +The landscapes of my native Isle you trace;,2.0 +"Her cultured meadows, and her lavish shades,",2.0 +The rivers winding through her lovely glades;,1.0 +"Far as where, frowning on the flood below,",1.0 +The rough Welsh mountain lifts its craggy brow.,1.0 +Meanwhile my steps have strayed where Autumn yields,1.0 +A purple harvest on the sunny fields;,1.0 +"Where, bending with their luscious weight, recline",1.0 +The loaded branches of the clustering vine;,3.0 +Culled the rich produce of the fruitful land;,0.0 +"The youthful peasant, and the village maid,",1.0 +And age and childhood lent their feeble aid.,1.0 +"Delightful land! ah, now with general voice,",0.0 +Thy village sons and daughters may rejoice;,1.0 +"Thy happy peasant, now no more a slave,",1.0 +"Forbade to taste one good that nature gave,",0.0 +No longer views with unavailing pain,1.0 +"The lavish harvest, ripe for him in vain.",1.0 +Oppression's cruel hand shall dare no more,1.0 +To seize its tribute from his scanty store;,1.0 +"And from his famished infants wring the spoils,",1.0 +Those equal rights impartial heaven bestows;,0.0 +"He now, by freedom's ray illumined, taught",0.0 +"Discerns the blessings that to all belong,",0.0 +And lives to guard his humble shed from wrong.,0.0 +Auspicious Liberty! in vain thy foes,1.0 +"In vain refuse to mark thy spreading light,",0.0 +"While, like the mole, they hide their heads in night,",0.0 +Can dim the blaze of philosophic day;,0.0 +"Sanctioned by precedent, has some blessed use!",4.0 +Extracting by some process right from wrong?,2.0 +"Must feudal governments for ever last,",1.0 +"Those Gothic piles, the work of ages past?",0.0 +"Nor may obtrusive reason dare to scan,",1.0 +"Where danger threatens, and where horror lowers;",1.0 +"The jealous drawbridge, and the mote profound,",2.0 +"The sullen dome above those central caves,",0.0 +Where lived one despot and a host of slaves? ' --,1.0 +"Ah, Freedom, on this renovated shore",1.0 +"Shook to its basis by thy powerful spell,",3.0 +"While, rising from the hideous wreck, appears",3.0 +"Of fair proportions, and of simple grace,",1.0 +A mansion worthy of the human race.,1.0 +"For me, the witness of those scenes, whose birth",2.0 +Forms a new era in the storied earth;,3.0 +"Oft, while with glowing breast those scenes I view,",0.0 +"They lead, ah friend beloved, my thoughts to you!",0.0 +Still every fine emotion they impart,2.0 +With your idea mingles in my heart;,1.0 +"You, whom I oft have heard, with generous zeal,",2.0 +"With all that truth can urge, or pity feel,",0.0 +"Refute the pompous argument, that tried",1.0 +The common cause of millions to deride;,1.0 +Or dart on folly the bright flash of wit;,2.0 +"And warmly share, with philosophic mind,",0.0 +"The great, the glorious triumph of mankind.",4.0 +"You ask why thus my loves I still rehearse,",0.0 +From Cynthia all that in my numbers shines;,1.0 +"She is my genius, she inspires the lines;",2.0 +"No Phoebus else, no other muse I know;",2.0 +She tunes my easy rhyme and gives the lay to flow.,0.0 +"If the loose curls around her forehead play,",2.0 +Or lawless over their ivory margin stray;,2.0 +And half disclose those limbs it should conceal;,0.0 +"Of those loose curls, that ivory front, I write,",2.0 +Of the dear web whole volumes I indite.,5.0 +"Or if to music she the lyre awake,",2.0 +"That the soft subject of my song I make,",0.0 +And sing with what a careless grace she flings,0.0 +Her artful hand across the sounding strings.,0.0 +If sinking into sleep she seem to close,0.0 +"With lulling notes, and thousand beauties see",0.0 +That slumber brings to aid my poetry.,1.0 +"When less averse and yielding to desires,",1.0 +She half accepts and half rejects my fires;,0.0 +"While to retain the envious lawn she tries,",3.0 +And struggles to elude my longing eyes;,1.0 +The fruitful muse from that auspicious night,0.0 +Dates the long Iliad of the amorous fight.,6.0 +"In brief, whatever she do, or say, or look,",2.0 +It's ample matter for a lover's book;,1.0 +Big with important nothing's history.,2.0 +Yet would the tyrant Love permit me raise,0.0 +"My feeble voice to sound the victor's praise,",0.0 +"To paint the hero's toil, the ranks of war,",0.0 +Or how the Persian trod the indignant sea;,3.0 +Nor lofty Carthage struggling with her fate.,1.0 +"Here should Augustus great in arms appear,",0.0 +And sad Philippi red with Roman gore.,0.0 +"In golden chains should loaded monarchs bend,",1.0 +And hoary Nile with pensive aspect seem,1.0 +"To mourn the glories of his sevenfold stream,",2.0 +"While prows, that late in fierce encounter met,",0.0 +Move through the sacred way and vainly threat.,0.0 +"Thee too the muse should consecrate to fame,",0.0 +Back to its source divine the Julian race.,0.0 +"Sailors to tell of winds and seas delight,",2.0 +"The shepherd of his flocks, the soldier of the fight;",2.0 +A milder warfare I in verse display;,2.0 +Each in his proper art should waste the day.,0.0 +Nor thou my gentle calling disapprove:,1.0 +To die is glorious in the bed of love.,1.0 +"Happy the youth, and not unknown to fame,",2.0 +Whose heart has never felt a second flame.,0.0 +"O, might that envied happiness be mine!",1.0 +To Cynthia all my wishes I confine;,2.0 +"Or if, alas! it be my fate to try",1.0 +"Another love, the quicker let me die.",0.0 +"But she, the mistress of my faithful breast,",2.0 +"Has oft the charms of constancy confessed,",1.0 +And hates the tale of Troy for Helen's sake.,0.0 +Ah! let her ever my desires control.,1.0 +"Or if I fall the victim of her scorn,",2.0 +From her loved door may my pale corpse be born.,4.0 +"The power of herbs can other harms remove,",2.0 +And find a cure for every ill but love.,0.0 +Heal the slow chief and send again to war;,3.0 +"Here arts are vain, even magic here must fail,",3.0 +The powerful mixture and the midnight spell.,4.0 +The hand that can my captive heart release,1.0 +"May the long thirst of Tantalus allay,",3.0 +Or drive the infernal vulture from his prey.,3.0 +"For ills unseen what remedy is found,",1.0 +Or who can probe the undiscovered wound?,0.0 +Nor changing skies can hurt nor sultry air.,0.0 +It's hard the elusive symptoms to explore:,3.0 +"Today the lover walks, tomorrow is no more;",3.0 +"A train of mourning friends attend his pall,",0.0 +And wonder at the sudden funeral.,1.0 +"When then my fates that breath they gave shall claim,",0.0 +"When the short marble but preserves a name,",3.0 +"A little verse, my all that shall remain,",0.0 +Of all our youth the ambition and the praise!;,3.0 +"Then to my quiet urn awhile draw near,",1.0 +"And say, while over the place you drop a tear,",2.0 +Love and the fair were of his life the pride;,1.0 +"He lived while she was kind, and, when she frowned, he died.",1.0 +"May each new Year some new Perfection give,",1.0 +Till all the Mother in the Daughter live!,0.0 +"And when revolving Years mature thy Charms,",0.0 +"When Pride of Conquest thy fair Bosom warms,",2.0 +"May some great Youth, for every Grace renowned,",1.0 +"With Taste and Science blessed, by Virtue crowned;",0.0 +"By Virtue guarded from Ambition's Wiles,",1.0 +Superior both to Fortune's Frowns and Smiles;,2.0 +Yet to Distinction bears a nobler Claim;,2.0 +"Like a new Star, in native Lustre bright,",3.0 +That boasts no Radiance from reflected Light:,2.0 +Allowed the rising Genius of his Age;,1.0 +By every Excellence thy Heart engage;,1.0 +Like Him who blessed thy Mother's Nuptial State;,0.0 +But OH! may Heaven give Thine a longer Date.,0.0 +"LIKE gleam of sunshine on the mountain's side,",2.0 +"Fair, bright and beautiful, while all beside,",2.0 +"Slope, cliff and pinnacle in shadow lie",2.0 +Through loophole in its cloudy texture beaming,1.0 +"A cataract of light, so softly streaming, ' --",1.0 +Shines one blessed deed of ruth when war's grim form,4.0 +Over a scourged nation guides his passing storm.,2.0 +"Through the dull missed, as morning breezes clear",2.0 +Do frequent deeds of gentle charity,1.0 +"Britain, thou art in arms and commerce graced",1.0 +"With many generous acts, that, fairly traced",2.0 +"On thy long annals, give a lustre far",2.0 +"And may we not say truthfully of thee,",3.0 +Thou art a land of mercy? ' -- May it be!,1.0 +Heaped loads to draw with lash and goad urged on.,3.0 +"They were in other days, but lately gone,",1.0 +"Who to their failing age give no repose, ' --",1.0 +"Of thankless, heartless owners. Then full oft",1.0 +Beneath a master's stroking hand would rear,0.0 +"But now how changed! ' -- And what marred things are these,",1.0 +"Starved, hooted, scarred, denied or food or ease;",1.0 +"Familiar with the kick, the pinch, the blow?",1.0 +Alas! in this sad fellowship are found,2.0 +"The playful kitten and the faithful hound,",1.0 +"The gallant cock that hailed the morning light,",0.0 +Ah no! a land of mercy is a name,1.0 +"But yet there dwell in thee the good, the bold,",1.0 +"Contention with thy wayward cruelty,",1.0 +And shall subdue it ere this age glide by.,2.0 +"Meantime as they their manly power exert,",4.0 +God speed you well! bursts from each kindly heart.,3.0 +And they will speed; for this foul blot of shame,3.0 +"Must be washed out from Britain's honoured name,",1.0 +"And she among enlightened nations stand,",1.0 +"A brave, a merciful and generous land.",3.0 +"YES, I remember the dear suffering saint,",4.0 +"Whose hand, with fond, commemorative care,",0.0 +Planted that myrtle on my natal day.,3.0 +It was a day of joy to him she loved,2.0 +"Best upon earth; ' -- and still her gentle heart,",3.0 +"That never felt one passion's eager throb,",0.0 +"Nor aught but quiet joys, and patient woes,",0.0 +With that beloved brother. ' -- She had hoped,1.0 +"Perchance, that, fondly on his arm reclined",3.0 +"In placid happiness, her feeble step",1.0 +"Might here have wandered through these friendly shades,",1.0 +This hospitable seat of kindred worth:,4.0 +"And that the plant, thus reared, in future years",1.0 +"Bright spreading to the sun its fragrant leaf,",2.0 +"When sweet affection thus designs in vain,",0.0 +And sees the fragile web it smiling spun,0.0 +"In playful love, crushed by the sudden storm,",2.0 +"And swept to dark oblivion, mid the wreck",2.0 +"Of greater hopes! ' -- Even while she thought of bliss,",3.0 +Already over that darling brother's head,2.0 +His black and heavy wings: and though she mourned,1.0 +"That stroke, in pious sorrow, many a year,",2.0 +"Now, both at rest, in blessed peacefulness,",6.0 +"With no impatient hope, regret, or doubt,",0.0 +Await that full completion of the bliss,1.0 +Which their more perfect spirits shall receive.,2.0 +Its aromatic breath; for other eyes,0.0 +"Blushed the soft folded buds, and other hands",3.0 +Pruned its luxuriant branches: friendship still,4.0 +"Preserved the fond memorial; nay, even yet",2.0 +Would fain preserve with careful tenderness,1.0 +The blighted relic of what once it loved.,1.0 +"Amid these green protecting walls, and late",0.0 +"The timid Spring, oft chilled and rudely checked,",1.0 +With radiant blushes on her amorous train:,3.0 +"But no reviving gale, no fruitful dew,",1.0 +"Visits the brown parched leaf, or from the stem,",4.0 +"The withering stem, elicits the young shoots",4.0 +With hopes of life and beauty; yet thy care,0.0 +"Perhaps, dear Sydney, thine assiduous care",2.0 +May save it still. What can resist the care,1.0 +"Of fond, assiduous love? O! it can raise",1.0 +"The shuddering soul, though sunk beneath the black,",2.0 +"Suspended pall of death! Believe this lip,",0.0 +"Believe this grateful heart, which best can feel",0.0 +"A wandering Lamb, which from the Flocks had strayed,",2.0 +"Beneath a mournful Cypress Shade, he found",0.0 +"Amazed, with eager Haste, he ran to know",0.0 +The fatal Cause of her intemperate Woe;,3.0 +In these soft Words his tender Care expressed.,3.0 +"Has some fierce Tiger thy loved Heifer slain,",3.0 +"While I was wandering on the neighbouring Plain,",3.0 +Or has some greedy Wolf devoured thy Sheep;,2.0 +"Partake thy Sorrows, or restore thy Peace.",1.0 +Do you not hear from far that mournful Bell?,0.0 +"It's for ' -- I cannot the sad Tidings tell,",3.0 +"OH, whither are my fainting Spirits fled!",2.0 +"The brightest Nymph, the Princess of the Plain,",1.0 +"By an untimely Dart, untimely slain.",1.0 +"Dead! it's impossible, she cannot die,",3.0 +"Ah! No, the Truth in every Face appears,",0.0 +"For every Face you meet's overflowed with Tears,",3.0 +"Trembling, and pale, I ran through all the Plain,",1.0 +"From Flock to Flock, and asked of every Swain,",0.0 +"But each, scarce lifting his dejected Head,",2.0 +"Of the prophetic Raven from the Oak,",2.0 +Which strait by Lightning was in Shivers broke.,1.0 +"But we our Mischief feel, before we see,",1.0 +Seized and overwhelmed at once with Misery.,1.0 +"Since then we have no Trophies to bestow,",2.0 +"No pompous Things to make a glorious Show,",3.0 +"For all the Tribute a poor Swain can bring,",2.0 +"In Rural Numbers, is to mourn and sing;",1.0 +Let us beneath the gloomy Shade rehearse,2.0 +What's all the Comforts that these Plains can give?,0.0 +"Since she, by whose bright Influence alone",2.0 +"Our Flocks increased, and we rejoiced, is gone.",1.0 +"Since she, who round such Beams of Goodness spread",0.0 +"As gave new Life to every Swain, is dead.",1.0 +"In vain we wish for the delightful Spring,",1.0 +"What Joys can flowery May, or April bring,",1.0 +"When she, for whom the spacious Plains were spread",0.0 +"With early Flowers, and cheerful Greens, is dead?",2.0 +"In vain did courtly Damon warm the Earth,",0.0 +"To give to Summer Fruits, a Winter Birth.",0.0 +"In vain we Autumn wait, which crowns the Fields",0.0 +"With wealthy Crops, and various Plenty yields:",2.0 +"Since that fair Nymph, for whom the boundless Store",1.0 +"Of nature was preserved, is now no more.",2.0 +"You will forget to sing, and I to play.",2.0 +"No more with cheerful Songs in cooling Bowers,",0.0 +Shall we consume the pleasurable Hours.,2.0 +"All Joys are banished, all Delights are fled,",0.0 +"If ever I sing, they shall be mournful Lays",2.0 +"How good she was, how generous, how wise!",2.0 +"How beautiful her Shape, how bright her Eyes!",1.0 +"How charming all, how much she was adored",1.0 +"Alive; when dead, how much her loss deplored!",0.0 +"A noble Theme, and able to inspire",1.0 +"And since we do of such a Princess sing,",1.0 +Let ours ascend upon a stronger Wing;,1.0 +"And while we do the lofty Numbers join,",0.0 +Her Name will make their Harmony Divine.,1.0 +"Raise then thy tuneful Voice, and be thy Song",0.0 +"Sweet as her Temper, as her Virtue strong.",1.0 +"When her great Lord to foreign Wars was gone,",3.0 +"With how serene a Brow, how void of Fear",1.0 +"When Storms arose, did she the Vessel steer?",1.0 +"And, when the raging of the Waves did cease,",1.0 +How gentle was her Sway in times of Peace?,1.0 +"Justice and Mercy did their Beams unite,",3.0 +And round her Temples spread a glorious Light.,2.0 +"So quick she eased the Wrongs of every Swain,",0.0 +She hardly gave them Leisure to complain.,1.0 +"Impatient to reward, but slow to draw",1.0 +"Like Heaven, she took no pleasure to destroy,",2.0 +"With Grief she punished, and she saved with Joy.",1.0 +"She met her Hero with a full Desire,",1.0 +"But chaste as Light, and vigorous as Fire",1.0 +"Such mutual Flames, so equally Divine,",3.0 +"Did in each Breast with such a Lustre shine,",1.0 +"His could not seem the greater, hers the less:",1.0 +"Both were immense, for both were in Excess.",2.0 +While she presided over the fruitful Plains;,3.0 +"To mingle with her Kindred of the Skies,",2.0 +"Did for your Peace her constant Thoughts employ,",0.0 +"The Nymph's good Angel, and the Shepherd's Joy.",1.0 +"There Wisdom sat, with solid Reason joined;",0.0 +"There too did Piety, and Greatness wait,",1.0 +"Placed above all, and yet despising none.",0.0 +"And when a Crown was forced on her by Fate,",1.0 +"She with some pain submitted to be Great,",2.0 +Her pious Soul with Emulation strove,0.0 +To gain the mighty Pan's important Love:,0.0 +"To whose mysterious Rites she always came,",2.0 +"With such an active, so intense a Flame,",2.0 +The Duties of Religion seemed to be,1.0 +"Not more her Care, than her Felicity.",2.0 +"Virtue unmixed, without the least allay,",2.0 +"Pure as the Light of a Celestial Ray,",1.0 +"Commanded all the Motions of the Soul,",1.0 +"With such a soft, but absolute Control,",1.0 +"That as she knew what best great Pan would please,",1.0 +She still performed it with the greatest Ease.,1.0 +"Him for her high Exemplar she designed,",2.0 +"Like him, benevolent to all Mankind.",3.0 +"Her Foes she pitied, not desired their Blood,",1.0 +"And to revenge their Crimes, she did them good:",1.0 +"Nay, all Affronts, so unconcerned she bore,",1.0 +"As if she thought it vulgar to resent,",2.0 +Or wished Forgiveness their worst Punishment.,3.0 +"Next mighty Pan, was her illustrious Lord,",3.0 +"Him with such Piety and Zeal she loved,",2.0 +The noble Passion every Hour improved.,0.0 +"Till it ascended to that glorious Height,",4.0 +"'Twas next, if only next to infinite.",1.0 +"This made her so entire a Duty pay,",3.0 +"She grew at last impatient to obey,",1.0 +"And met his Wishes with as prompt a Zeal,",1.0 +"Mature for Heaven, the fatal Mandate came,",1.0 +"In which, Elijah like, she passed the Spheres;",0.0 +"Brought Joy to Heaven, but left the World in Tears.",1.0 +"All Glorious, all incomparably Bright!",3.0 +While the immortal Minds around her gaze,1.0 +And scarce believe a human Soul could be,0.0 +Endowed with such stupendous Majesty.,2.0 +"Who can lament too much? OH, who can mourn",3.0 +So great a Loss as this deserves Excess,1.0 +"Of Sorrow, all's too little, that is less.",1.0 +"But to supply the Universal Woe,",1.0 +"Tears from all Eyes, without Cessation flow:",1.0 +"All that have power to weep, or voice to groan,",2.0 +And Echo back those Cries they cannot make.,0.0 +"Weep then once fruitful Vales, and spring with Yew;",2.0 +"You thirsty barren Mountains, weep with Dew.",0.0 +Let every Flower on this extended Plain,4.0 +"Not droop, but shrink into its Womb again,",0.0 +Never to receive anew its yearly Birth;,1.0 +"Let mournful Cypress, with each noxious Weed,",2.0 +Haste swiftly to the Sea for more Relief;,2.0 +"Then tiding back, each to his sacred Head,",1.0 +"Well have you sung, in an exalted Strain,",1.0 +"The fairest Nymph ever graced the British Plain,",3.0 +Your grateful Numbers to her Ears convey:,1.0 +"That she may smile upon us, from above,",1.0 +And bless our mournful Plains with Peace and Love.,0.0 +"But see, our Flocks do to their Folds repair,",1.0 +"For Night with sable Clouds obscures the Air,",0.0 +And Safety bids us to our Cottage fly.,1.0 +"Though with each Morn our Sorrows will return,",2.0 +Till Death conveys Us to the peaceful Urn.,1.0 +"THOU who through Nature's various Faults can rove,",2.0 +And show what Springs the eager Passions move;,0.0 +"Teach us to combat Anger, Grief and Fear,",0.0 +"Recall the Sigh, and stop the falling Tear,",0.0 +"O be thy soft Philosophy addressed,",1.0 +To the untroubled Ear and tranquil Breast:,1.0 +"To these be all thy peaceful Notions taught,",0.0 +Who idly rove amid a Calm of Thought:,0.0 +"Whose Soul by Love or Hate were never possessed,",2.0 +"Who never were wretched, and who never were blessed:",5.0 +"Whose fainter Wishes, Pleasures, Fears remain,",0.0 +"Dreams but of Bliss, and Shadows of a Pain;",2.0 +Serenely stupid; so some shallow Stream,1.0 +Flows through the winding Valleys still the same:,0.0 +"Who fears no Winter Rain, or falling Snows;",1.0 +"But slowly down its flowery Borders creeps,",3.0 +And the soft Zephyr on its Bosom sleeps.,3.0 +"With Patience, each Extreme of human Woe;",0.0 +"The Frowns of Fortune, and the Racks of Love:",1.0 +"Still should my Breast some quiet Moments share,",0.0 +Still rise superior to each threatening Care:,2.0 +"Nor fear approaching Ills, or distant Woes,",0.0 +"'TWAS when the Morn disclosed her rosy Brow,",0.0 +"Perched on a Bough that shone with Morning Dew,",0.0 +The Linnet thus addressed the feathered Crew.,0.0 +"Say, my soft Sisters; say, you tuneful Throng;",3.0 +Who now demands the Tribute of a Song?,1.0 +Who called us here? Who gave us leave to rove,0.0 +And warble in this late forbidden Grove?,0.0 +"Not long ago as Mira, mournful Maid,",0.0 +"Just over her Head I whistled on a Bough,",3.0 +But Discontent sat frowning on her Brow:,3.0 +And turned on Me ' -- on Me her angry Eyes,1.0 +"Go from my Bowers, lead the tuneful Throng;",0.0 +These slighted Shades can please the Fair no more;,1.0 +You Honey-suckles shed your blooming Store;,0.0 +You spreading Trees now let your Branches die;,1.0 +And you shrill Warblers from those Branches fly:,3.0 +"She said: ' -- the Blossoms fell from every Tree,",0.0 +We fled all mournful to the distant Plain:,1.0 +Then say who calls us to these Groves again.,1.0 +"Mira, whose Sonnets please the rural Dame:",2.0 +Come here she cried you soft aerial Choirs;,5.0 +My Ear no more your sprightly Music tyres:,1.0 +"Now I can listen all the Evening long,",0.0 +"She comes: You Trees put on your best Array,",2.0 +Court the soft Whispers of the western Wind.,4.0 +"You friendly Zephyrs, dry the dewy Ground;",0.0 +"Shine bright, thou Sun; and laugh, you Meads around:",1.0 +"Thus Mira spoke. ' -- Once more the Blossoms glow,",2.0 +And milder Breezes over the Mountains blow.,2.0 +"The smiling Grove once more renews its Charms,",1.0 +And Trees embracing twist their curling Arms;,0.0 +"Safely to shelter the expected Fair,",3.0 +"Here we attend, and hop from Spray to Spray,",1.0 +"When She, of whom our Mira daily sings,",0.0 +"Whose Name she whispers to the listening Springs,",1.0 +"Shall bless these Shades ' -- then, you melodious Throng,",3.0 +Let each prepare them for the sprightly Song.,2.0 +"Let the shrill Thrush begin her varied Strain,",3.0 +And the small Wren in softer Note complain.,2.0 +"The piercing Linnet and the Lark agree,",1.0 +"Here ends the Goldfinch, and exulting springs;",2.0 +Her pleased Companions clap their joyful Wings.,0.0 +"A Gentleman, most wretched in his Lot,",1.0 +"Called him My Dear, and did it for his Good,",1.0 +"Ills to prevent; She of all Ills the worst,",3.0 +"The Servants too experiment her Lungs,",1.0 +Nothing went on; for her eternal Clack,1.0 +"Still rectifying, set all Matters back;",1.0 +"Nor Town, nor Neighbours, nor the Court could please,",0.0 +But furnished Matter for her sharp Disease.,1.0 +"To distant Plains at length he gets her down,",0.0 +With no Affairs to manage of her own;,1.0 +"A calmer Habit, grown upon her Mind:",0.0 +"But soon returned he hears her at his Door,",0.0 +As noisy and tempestuous as before;,4.0 +"Yet mildly asked, How she her Days had spent",1.0 +"Amid the Quiet of a sweet Content,",1.0 +"Where Shepherd's attend their Flocks, and Maids their Pails,",2.0 +"Not rail! she cries ' -- Why, I that had no share",1.0 +My Name a Terror to them still remains;,1.0 +"And with such Freedom told them all my Thoughts,",1.0 +That I no more amongst them could reside.,2.0 +"Has then, alas! the Gentleman replied,",1.0 +One single Month so much their Patience tried?,0.0 +"Where you by Day, and but at Seasons due,",1.0 +"How had they shrunk, and justly been afraid,",0.0 +"Yet enter Madam, and resume your Sway;",1.0 +"Who can't Command, must silently Obey.",1.0 +"In secret here let endless Faults be found,",1.0 +"Till, like Reformers who in States abound,",0.0 +"NOT death so common, or an infant lost,",1.0 +The turn of mind by tender feelings tossed;,0.0 +"Deep by regret each happy scene reflect,",2.0 +For her my life all other joys neglect.,1.0 +Blows there a rose so sweet? each flower recalls ' --,1.0 +"Bleak winter comes! the lifeless trees no shade,",2.0 +"A dreary night; how cold, how changed a bed!",0.0 +"How then to sleep, to peace, my mind compose!",0.0 +At once deprived for ever of repose.,1.0 +"What have I done? to blast my early hope,",0.0 +"Torn thus my life, the cause of my hard lot?",2.0 +"O! awful thought, to question thy decree!",1.0 +"Prostrate to earth, my spirit flies to thee;",2.0 +"The mystic dove in clouds ascends above,",0.0 +"Come, little children, come, and share my love.",1.0 +"Around her couch in innocence descend,",1.0 +Thy guardian wings to comfort and defend.,3.0 +Thy heavenly scenes to raise again her heart.,2.0 +"But how these scenes, these joys, conceived below?",1.0 +"For aught in earth would I these scenes forego,",1.0 +"Already blessed, yet wants one blessing more,",0.0 +"When we shall meet, and you these scenes explore.",1.0 +"You Winds, be calm, and brush with softer Wing;",0.0 +We mean the Charms of Anthony to sing;,1.0 +See all around the listening Shepherd's throng;,1.0 +"OH help, you Sisters of immortal Song.",2.0 +"Sing, Phebe, sing what Shepherd rules the Plain,",1.0 +"Whom none can rival when he mows the Field,",0.0 +And to whose Flute the Nightingale must yield.,2.0 +"It's Anthony ' -- it's he deserves the Lay,",2.0 +"As mild as Evening, and as Morning gay;",1.0 +Nor the white Hawthorn half so fair as he;,2.0 +Nor the young Daisy dressed in Morning Dew;,2.0 +Nor the Pea Blossom wears a brighter Hue.,2.0 +"None knows like him to strew the wheaten Grain,",1.0 +Or drive the Ploughshare over the fertile Plain;,2.0 +"To raise the Sheaves, or reap the waving Corn,",0.0 +Or mow brown Stubble in the early Morn.,1.0 +"How mild the Youth, when on a sultry Day",1.0 +In yonder Vale we turned the fragrant Hay:,0.0 +"How on his Voice the listening Shepherd's hung,",1.0 +Not tuneful Stella half so sweetly sung.,0.0 +"Whether he binds the Sheaf in twisted Band,",2.0 +Or turns the Pitchfork on his nimble Hand;,2.0 +While clumsy Colin stands neglected by.,1.0 +"His curling Locks by far more lovely show,",0.0 +"And when the Shepherd on a rainy Day,",1.0 +"Weaves for his Hat a Wisp of flowery Hay,",2.0 +"The scarlet Feather not so gay appears,",0.0 +Which on his Crown Sir Ambrose Fino wears.,2.0 +And stands to gape at him upon the Mow:,1.0 +While he for who but must that Wench despise?,0.0 +Throws Straws and Cobwebs on her staring Eyes.,3.0 +"To the Backdoor I saw proud Lydia high,",5.0 +To see the Team with Anthony go by;,2.0 +I thought the Damsel would have spoke no more.,1.0 +Each Morn I brought the heavy milking Pail:,0.0 +"He took it from my Head, and with a Smile",2.0 +"Reached out his Hand, and helped me over the Style.",2.0 +"As I was dancing late amongst the Crew,",1.0 +A yellow Pippin over my Head he threw:,2.0 +And Phillis looked as though she would have swooned.,1.0 +And Rodrigo from weeding of the Rye;,4.0 +"Each took his Lass, and sped them to the Town,",1.0 +To drink cool Cider at the Hare and Hound:,1.0 +And Colin shines till Anthony is near.,1.0 +"NOW blush, CALYPSO; it's but just to yield,",3.0 +That all your mossy Caves are here excelled.,0.0 +"See how the Walls, in humble Form, advance,",0.0 +"With careless Pride, and simple Elegance:",1.0 +"See Art and Nature strive with equal Grace,",0.0 +And Fancy charmed with what she can't surpass.,0.0 +"Flow swiftly, THAMES; and flowing, still proclaim.",1.0 +"This Building's Beauty, and the Builder's Fame;",1.0 +"The sweetest Grotto, and the wisest QUEEN;",2.0 +Whose Royal Presence blessed this humble Seat:,0.0 +"How small the Mansion, and the Guest how Great!",1.0 +"Far as the Worthies, that adorn the Place;",0.0 +Their Fathers dimly viewed the dawning Ray;,0.0 +"These rose like Suns, and brought a Flood of Day.",0.0 +"BUT cease, my Muse, and cast thy wondering Eyes,",2.0 +"Contending each, till each deserves the Bays.",0.0 +"Who saintly, after you, attempt the Theme;",1.0 +"Nor think, I rival your poetic Fires;",1.0 +"My QUEEN commands, and Gratitude inspires",0.0 +"Nor scorn the least, the latest Muse's Toil;",0.0 +"Who brings the tardy Offering of her Lays,",1.0 +"The first in Duty, though the last in Praise.",1.0 +"SO much this building entertains my sight,",0.0 +"In them the masterpiece of Nature's shown,",0.0 +In this I see Art's masterpiece in stone.,1.0 +"OH! Nature, Nature, thou hast conquered Art;",2.0 +"She charms the sight alone, but you the heart.",1.0 +"TWO long had Loved, and now the Nymph desired,",1.0 +"The Cloak of Wedlock, as the Case required;",2.0 +"Urged that, the Day he wrought her to this Sorrow,",1.0 +"He Vowed, that he would marry her To-Morrow.",2.0 +"Again he Swears, to shun the present Storm,",0.0 +"That he, To-Morrow, will that Vow perform.",1.0 +"Impatient still on Each, the pregnant Dame",0.0 +"Urged him to keep his Word, and still he swore the same.",0.0 +"But yet the Lie not caring to confess,",1.0 +"He for his Oath this Salvo chose to borrow,",2.0 +"That he was Free, since there was no To-Morrow;",1.0 +"For when it comes in Place to be employed,",0.0 +It's then To-Day; To-Morrow's never enjoyed.,2.0 +"The Tale's a Jest, the Moral is a Truth;",1.0 +"To-Morrow and To-Morrow, cheat our Youth:",1.0 +"Not thinking, that the present Day we Die;",0.0 +"AT length, in pity to a nation's prayer,",1.0 +"Life's sun, we read, when heaven a respite lends,",1.0 +"By wisdom purified, by age inspired;",0.0 +For twice nine years in Greenwich groves retired;,1.0 +"Rapt like Elijah in the aerial car,",3.0 +"Where Avarice and Ambition vainly run,",3.0 +"This to undo, and that to be undone. ' --",1.0 +Considerate truths are now thy favourite themes;,2.0 +"Age may see visions, though our youth dreamt dreams:",5.0 +"Hail truly wise, and good! OH happier thou",3.0 +Unseen you see the falsehood of the crowd:,2.0 +"Brother his brother cheats, and friend his friend: ' --",2.0 +Life's vain wise men prove blockheads in the end. ' --,5.0 +The many peopled earth beneath thee spread;,0.0 +For even a CHESTERFIELD has much to view,2.0 +"The snares of greatness, emptiness of life,",1.0 +"OH still contemplate, look through Reason's eye, ' --",4.0 +For hours are precious ages when we die!,0.0 +"Thus, even in Pagan times, the chosen few,",3.0 +And left court sunshine for the sylvan shade;,3.0 +"Lord of himself, monarch of fields and plains,",3.0 +"Start not, nor tremble at the Sight of this;",0.0 +It comes not written from the Realms of Bliss:,1.0 +Thence may conclude from Heaven some high Command;,2.0 +"Conscious perhaps of your celestial Frame,",3.0 +"Not so ' -- but ere her Soul began its Flight,",0.0 +"She thought of you, and stayed awhile to write;",1.0 +Kindly for me her dying Suit addressed:,1.0 +"Then view it, Madam, as her last Request.",1.0 +"THE Pencil's glowing Lines and vast Command,",0.0 +"And Mankind rising from the Painter's Hand,",2.0 +"To sing, OH! Muse, the pious Bard inspire,",1.0 +And waken in his Breast the Sacred Fire.,0.0 +"The hallowed Field, a bare white Wall of late,",1.0 +"Now clothed in gaudy Colours, shines in State;",3.0 +And lest some little Interval confess,2.0 +"It's ancient simple Form, and homely Dress,",0.0 +"The first Foundation of his future Art,",1.0 +"Over the wide Frame his ductile Colours led,",3.0 +"Lest one great Blank should yawn through boundless Sky,",2.0 +"The Sun at length burns out, intensely bright,",2.0 +And the pale Crescent sheds her borrowed Light;,3.0 +"Of milky Glories a long Tract is found,",2.0 +"So when the Groundwork of the Piece was laid,",2.0 +"Nor yet the Painter had his Art displayed,",0.0 +"With slower Hand, and Pencil more divine",0.0 +"He blends each Colour, heightens every Line,",3.0 +"Till various Forms the breathing Picture wears,",2.0 +"Ten thousand Worlds revive to better Skies,",1.0 +"So when famed Cadmus sowed the fruitful Field,",1.0 +With pregnant Throws the quickened Furrow swelled;,0.0 +"From the warm Soil sprung up a warlike Train,",2.0 +And Human harvests covered all the Plain.,0.0 +And now from every Corner of the Earth,1.0 +The scattered Dust is called to second Birth;,0.0 +"Whether in Mines it formed the ripening Mass,",2.0 +"Or humbly mixed, and flourished in the Grass:",0.0 +"The severed Body now unites again,",0.0 +And kindred Atoms rally into Men;,0.0 +"The various Joints resume their ancient Seats,",2.0 +And every Limb its former Task repeats.,0.0 +"Here an imperfect Form returns to Light,",1.0 +"Not half renewed, dishonest to the Sight;",1.0 +And scarce the Image of a Man we trace:,1.0 +"Here by Degrees infused, the vital Ray",1.0 +Gives the first Motion to the panting Clay:,4.0 +"Here on the guilty Brow pale Horrors glare,",1.0 +"From Scenes like these now turn thy wondering Sight,",4.0 +The Godhead opening in his awful Face;,2.0 +"See! what mild Beams their gracious Influence shed,",5.0 +And how the pointed Radiance crowns his Head!,1.0 +And on his Brow sits Majesty Divine;,3.0 +"His Eyeballs lighten the Celestial Fires,",2.0 +"How changed from him, who came to be Betrayed,",1.0 +And who for Man the precious Ransom paid!,0.0 +"Who did on Earth such arduous Toils sustain,",2.0 +And patient bore an irksome Life of Pain:,0.0 +"But Death and Hell subdued, the Deity",1.0 +Ascends Triumphant to his native Sky;,1.0 +The Sun and Moon diminished to his Sight.,1.0 +"And now to View he bared his bleeding side,",0.0 +"And his pierced Hands and Feet, in Crimson died;",2.0 +"Still did the Nails the recent Scars reveal,",0.0 +And throng the Mansions of Immortal Light;,1.0 +"The fruitful Matron and the spotless Maid,",1.0 +"And Infants, with a longer Life repaid,",1.0 +"Stand round; and drinking in Celestial Rays,",0.0 +And all the Heavens resound with Hymns of Praise.,3.0 +When by the inmate Deity possessed;,2.0 +"When Phoebus the Prophetic Maid inspires,",1.0 +And her Limbs tremble with convulsive Fires.,3.0 +But whence this sudden Blaze of dazzling Light!,0.0 +"Forth from a stately Tomb he lifts his Head,",0.0 +And to the Skies on Angels Wings is sped.,1.0 +"I know the Form ' -- alike the Look and Mien,",0.0 +"When will, alas! such spotless Worth be found?",1.0 +When will a Mind with equal Virtues crowned?,0.0 +"Fearless he sees almighty Vengeance rise,",2.0 +And fixes on his GOD his guiltless Eyes.,1.0 +"But now far different Scenes our Wonder claim,",1.0 +And liquid Sulphur rolls in burning Tides;,0.0 +"So Strong, so fierce, the painted Flames arise,",0.0 +The pale Spectator views them with surprise;,5.0 +"Believes the blazing Wall indeed to burn,",0.0 +And fears the Frame should into Ashes turn.,0.0 +Obscene with Horror and with shame defaced;,1.0 +"With haggard Looks the gloomy Fiends appear,",0.0 +"They gnash their foamy Teeth, and frown severe.",0.0 +"A stern Avenger, with relentless Mind,",1.0 +"With which, as once from Paradise he drove,",0.0 +He drives the Sinner from the Joys above.,1.0 +"What shall he do forlorn? or whither fly,",0.0 +"What would he give amongst the Just to shine,",0.0 +And fall before Omnipotence Divine?,1.0 +"But o! too late in Sighs he vents his Woe,",2.0 +Too late his Eyes with gushing Tears overflow!,6.0 +"Vain are his Sighs and fruitless are his Tears,",1.0 +"See! with what various Charms the Piece is fraught,",2.0 +And with what pregnant Marks of Judgement wrought!,1.0 +With how much Grace the living Colours glow!,2.0 +Not brighter Colours paint the watery Bow;,5.0 +"When the fresh Showers her various Lustre share,",6.0 +"Nor wasteful Time their shining Charms invade,",0.0 +"Till the first Dawn of that Eternal Light,",2.0 +Which by his fruitful Pencil shines so Bright.,0.0 +There are no Stars like her propitious Eyes.,3.0 +"When Hearts are lost to set a Figure vain,",0.0 +For he knows nothing of an amorous Cheat:,5.0 +"It's she alone that can the Mystery tell,",4.0 +Read but her Looks they are infallible;,2.0 +"Consult the upper World for Death and Wars,",0.0 +"She is Love's Heaven, her Eyes the only Stars:",2.0 +"Since her kind Influence hath attracted you,",5.0 +She may admit of a Conjunction too.,2.0 +TO all inferior animals it's given,3.0 +TO enjoy the state allotted them by Heaven;,2.0 +"No vain researches ever disturb their rest,",3.0 +"Man, only Man solicitous to know",2.0 +"The springs whence Nature's operations flow,",0.0 +"And reasons, hopes, and thinks, and lives in vain;",0.0 +"For sable Death still hovering over his head,",3.0 +"Cuts short his progress, with his vital thread.",3.0 +"Wherefore, since Nature errs not, do we find",2.0 +"These seeds of Science in the human mind,",0.0 +"Through ages past, and ages yet to come,",0.0 +"Chained to a spot, and living but a day?",1.0 +"Since all must perish in one common grave,",0.0 +"Nor can these long laborious searches save,",3.0 +"Or at thy jovial festivals appear,",3.0 +"Great Bacchus, who alone the soul can clear",1.0 +"From all that it has felt, and all that it can fear?",0.0 +"Come on then, let us feast: let Chloe sing,",1.0 +"Enjoy the present hour, nor seek to know",0.0 +What good or ill tomorrow may bestow.,2.0 +But these delights soon pall upon the taste;,2.0 +Let's try then if more serious cannot last:,3.0 +"Wealth let us heap on wealth, or fame pursue,",1.0 +Let power and glory be our points in view:,3.0 +Our levees crowded like the buzzing hive:,0.0 +"Each weak attempt the same sad lesson brings,",1.0 +"Alas, what vanity in human things!",1.0 +What means then shall we try? where hope to find,0.0 +A friendly harbour for the restless mind?,1.0 +"Who still, you see, impatient to obtain",1.0 +"Knowledge immense, so Nature's laws ordain",2.0 +"Climbs step by step the prospect to survey,",2.0 +"No fleeting joys she asks, which must depend",1.0 +"On the frail senses, and with them must end;",4.0 +"But such as suit her own immortal fame,",1.0 +"Free from all change, eternally the same.",1.0 +"Take courage then, these joys we shall attain;",1.0 +Almighty Wisdom never acts in vain;,0.0 +"Nor shall the soul, on which it has bestowed",0.0 +"But purged at length from foul corruption's stain,",3.0 +"Freed from her prison, and unbound her chain,",1.0 +"She shall her native strength, and native skies regain:",0.0 +"To heaven an old inhabitant return,",1.0 +"While life remains, if life it can be called",1.0 +Retains some marks of her celestial race;,1.0 +"Such various thoughts, or range them so for use?",3.0 +"Can matter these contain, dispose, apply?",1.0 +Can in her cells such mighty treasures lie?,0.0 +Or can her native force produce them to the eye?,2.0 +"Serving, adorning life, through all its parts,",2.0 +"Which names imposed, by letters marked those names,",0.0 +"Adjusted properly by legal claims,",1.0 +"From woods, and wilds collected rude mankind,",1.0 +"And cities, laws, and governments designed?",1.0 +"What can this be, but some bright ray from heaven,",1.0 +When now the rapid stream of Eloquence,1.0 +"Bears all before it, passion, reason, sense,",1.0 +"Can its dread thunder, or its lightning's force",3.0 +Derive their essence from a mortal source?,1.0 +"Which, whether he attempts to warm the heart",1.0 +"With fabled scenes, or charm the ear with rhyme,",0.0 +"Breathes all pathetic, lovely, and sublime?",2.0 +"While things on earth roll round from age to age,",1.0 +The same dull farce repeated; on the stage,2.0 +"The poet gives us a creation new,",1.0 +"More pleasing, and more perfect than the true;",2.0 +"Perfection, such as here she never tastes,",1.0 +"With gratitude accepts the kind deceit,",0.0 +And thence foresees a system more complete.,0.0 +"Of those what think you, who the circling race",1.0 +"Of suns, and their revolving planets trace,",1.0 +And comets journeying through unbounded space?,3.0 +That now can traverse heaven from pole to pole;,0.0 +"From thence descending visits but this earth,",1.0 +And shall once more regain the regions of her birth?,2.0 +"Could she thus act, unless some Power unknown,",5.0 +"From matter quite distinct, and all her own,",0.0 +"Supported, and impelled her? She approves",2.0 +"Her own internal strength her reason guides,",0.0 +"By this she now compares things, now divides;",2.0 +"Truth's scattered fragments piece by piece collects,",1.0 +"Rejoins, and thence her edifice erects;",1.0 +"Piles arts on arts, effects to causes ties,",1.0 +And rears the aspiring fabric to the skies:,3.0 +"From whence, as on a distant plain below,",1.0 +"She sees from causes consequences flow,",0.0 +"And the whole chain distinctly comprehends,",2.0 +"And lastly, turning inwardly her eyes,",1.0 +"Perceives how all her own ideas rise,",0.0 +"Contemplates what she is, and whence she came,",1.0 +And almost comprehends her own amazing frame.,1.0 +"Can mere machines be with such powers endued,",3.0 +"Or conscious of those powers, suppose they could?",3.0 +For body is but a machine alone,2.0 +"Moved by external force, and impulse not its own.",2.0 +Rate not the extension of the human mind,2.0 +"By the plebeian standard of mankind,",3.0 +"But by the size of those gigantic few,",2.0 +Whom Greece and Rome still offer to our view;,2.0 +Parent of heroes too in better days.,2.0 +Why should I try her numerous sons to name,2.0 +"By verse, law, eloquence consigned to fame?",2.0 +"Or who have forced fair Science into sight,",1.0 +"Long lost in darkness, and afraid of light.",2.0 +"Over all superior, like the solar ray",1.0 +"First Bacon ushered in the dawning day,",1.0 +And drove the mists of sophistry away;,1.0 +"Pervaded nature with amazing force,",1.0 +"Following experience still throughout his course,",3.0 +"And finishing at length his destined way,",1.0 +To Newton he bequeathed the radiant lamp of day.,1.0 +Illustrious souls! if any tender cares,2.0 +"Affect angelic breasts for man's affairs,",1.0 +"If in your present happy heavenly state,",2.0 +Let this degenerate land again be blessed,4.0 +"Compel us to unfold our slumbering eyes,",3.0 +And to our ancient dignity to rise.,2.0 +Such wondrous powers as these must sure be given,1.0 +For most important purposes by heaven;,1.0 +Who bids these stars as bright examples shine,0.0 +"To form to virtue each degenerate time,",1.0 +And point out to the soul its origin sublime.,2.0 +"All are concerned about, and all believe;",1.0 +"That something's ours, when we from life depart,",0.0 +"This all conceive, all feel it at the heart;",0.0 +The wise of learnt antiquity proclaim,1.0 +"This truth, the public voice declares the same;",0.0 +No land so rude but looks beyond the tomb,1.0 +For future prospects in a world to come.,0.0 +"Hence, without hopes to be in life repaid,",2.0 +We plant slow oaks posterity to shade;,2.0 +And hence vast pyramids aspiring high,2.0 +"Lift their proud heads aloft, and time defy.",3.0 +"Hence is our love of fame, a love so strong,",0.0 +"By which we hope our beings to extend,",1.0 +And to remotest times in glory to descend.,2.0 +"For fame the wretch beneath the gallows lies,",0.0 +"Of life profuse, tenacious of a name,",1.0 +"Fearless of death, and yet afraid of shame.",2.0 +Nature has wove into the human mind,2.0 +"This anxious care for names we leave behind,",0.0 +"TO extend our narrow views beyond the tomb,",1.0 +And give an earnest of a life to come:,1.0 +"For, if when dead, we are but dust or clay,",2.0 +Why think of what posterity shall say?,1.0 +"Her praise, or censure cannot us concern,",1.0 +Nor ever penetrate the silent urn.,0.0 +"What mean the nodding plumes, the funeral train,",2.0 +"And marble monument that speaks in vain,",1.0 +"With all those cares, which every nation pays",0.0 +To their unfeeling dead in different ways!,1.0 +As if to please the poor departed shade;,1.0 +"Others on blazing piles the body burn,",2.0 +And store their ashes in the faithful urn;,0.0 +But all in one great principle agree,4.0 +To give a fancied immortality.,1.0 +"Is rendered fertile by the overflowing Nile,",1.0 +"Their dead they bury not, nor burn with fires,",0.0 +"No graves they dig, erect no funeral pires,",4.0 +"Gums, spice, and melted pitch they pour within;",1.0 +"Then with strong fillets bind it round and round,",2.0 +"To make each flaccid part compact, and sound;",0.0 +And lastly paint the varnished surface over,0.0 +"With the same features, which in life it wore:",2.0 +"So strong their presage of a future state,",1.0 +"Nations behold remote from reason's beams,",2.0 +"Where Indian Ganges rolls his sandy streams,",2.0 +"Of life impatient rush into the fire,",0.0 +And willing victims to their Gods expire!,1.0 +Persuaded the loose soul to regions flies,2.0 +"Blessed with eternal spring, and cloudless skies.",2.0 +Nor is less famed the oriental wife,2.0 +"For steadfast virtue, and contempt of life:",2.0 +These heroines mourn not with loud female cries,4.0 +"Their husbands lost, or with overflowing eyes,",0.0 +"But, strange to tell! their funeral piles ascend,",2.0 +And in the same sad flames their sorrows end;,1.0 +"In hopes with them beneath the shades to rove,",1.0 +And there renew their interrupted love.,1.0 +"See numerous nations, warlike, fierce, and bold,",4.0 +"To battle all unanimously run,",1.0 +"Nor fire, nor sword, nor instant death they shun:",0.0 +"Whence this disdain of life in every breast,",1.0 +"But from a notion on their minds impressed,",2.0 +"That all, who for their country die, are blessed.",0.0 +"Add too to these the once prevailing dreams,",2.0 +All show with what consent mankind agree,1.0 +In the firm hope of Immortality.,4.0 +"Grant these the inventions of the crafty priest,",2.0 +Yet such inventions never could subsist.,1.0 +"For every fiction, which can long persuade,",0.0 +In truth must have its first foundations laid.,0.0 +"Because we are unable to conceive,",2.0 +"The vulgar give them forms, and limbs, and faces,",0.0 +"Struck with the glare of such absurdities,",2.0 +And truth and falsehood in a lump reject;,1.0 +"Too indolent to learn what may be known,",3.0 +Or else too proud that ignorance to own.,2.0 +Folly and fraud on Truth's fair form have laid;,3.0 +"Nor let us Truth's celestial charms despise,",0.0 +"Because that priests, or poets may disguise.",1.0 +And yet what errors to this truth adhere?,1.0 +How have the fears and follies of mankind,2.0 +To each the frailties of the human mind?,1.0 +"Nay superstition spread at length so wide,",1.0 +The Athenian sage revolving in his mind,3.0 +"This weakness, blindness, madness of mankind,",2.0 +"When time should ripen the decrees of Fate,",1.0 +"Some God would light us, like the rising day,",0.0 +"Long since has Time fulfilled this great decree,",0.0 +And brought us aid from this divinity.,2.0 +Well worth our search discoveries may be made,2.0 +"By Nature, void of the celestial aid:",1.0 +"Let's try what her conjectures then can reach,",3.0 +"Nor scorn plain Reason, when she deigns to teach.",1.0 +Is plain; such is this union Nature ties:,1.0 +"But then as often too they disagree,",1.0 +Which proves the soul's superior progeny.,3.0 +Sometime the body in full strength we find.,2.0 +While various ails debilitate the mind;,2.0 +"At others, while the mind its force retains,",0.0 +The body sinks with sickness and with pains:,1.0 +"Now did one common fate their beings end,",0.0 +"But sure experience, on the slightest view,",1.0 +"Shows us, that the reverse of this is true;",2.0 +"For when the body oft expiring lies,",0.0 +"Its limbs quite senseless, and half closed its eyes,",3.0 +"The mind new force, and eloquence acquires,",2.0 +And with prophetic voice the dying lips inspires.,1.0 +"Of like materials were they both composed,",1.0 +"How comes it, that the mind, when sleep has closed",0.0 +"Her liberty restored, her bonds untied?",1.0 +"And like some bird who from its prison flies,",1.0 +"Claps her exulting wings, and mounts the skies.",2.0 +It must have parts in infinitum joined;,3.0 +"And each of these must will, perceive, design,",2.0 +"Which then can claim dominion over the rest,",2.0 +Or stamp the ruling passion in the breast?,0.0 +Perhaps the mind is formed by various arts,2.0 +"Of modelling, and figuring these parts;",2.0 +Just as if circles wiser were than squares;,1.0 +But surely common sense aloud declares,0.0 +"That site, and figure are as foreign quite",1.0 +"From mental powers, as colours black or white.",2.0 +"Allow that motion is the cause of thought,",1.0 +With what strange powers must motion then be fraught?,3.0 +"Reason, sense, science, must derive their source",3.0 +"Tops whipped by school-boys sages must commence,",2.0 +And boiling pots overflow with eloquence.,4.0 +Whence can this very motion take its birth?,0.0 +"But from a living spirit lodged within,",1.0 +Which governs all the bodily machine:,1.0 +Just as the Almighty Universal Soul,1.0 +"Informs, directs, and animates the whole.",0.0 +Cease then to wonder how the immortal mind,3.0 +"But rather wonder, if she ever could die,",2.0 +"So framed, so fashioned for eternity;",2.0 +"Which time can dissipate, and force divide;",0.0 +"For beings of this make can never die,",1.0 +"Whose powers within themselves, and their own essence lie.",3.0 +If to conceive how any thing can be,1.0 +From shape abstracted and locality,3.0 +Is hard; what think you of the Deity?,2.0 +"His Being not the least relation bears,",0.0 +"As far as to the human mind appears,",1.0 +"Clothed in no form, and bounded by no space.",5.0 +"Such then is God, a Spirit pure refined",0.0 +"From all material dross, and such the human mind.",3.0 +For in what part of essence can we see,1.0 +More certain marks of Immortality?,1.0 +Even from this dark confinement with delight,2.0 +"She looks abroad, and prunes herself for flight;",0.0 +Like an unwilling inmate longs to roam,2.0 +"From this dull earth, and seek her native home.",2.0 +"Go then forgetful of its toil and strife,",2.0 +Pursue the joys of this fallacious life;,1.0 +"Like some poor fly, who lives but for a day,",2.0 +"Sip the fresh dews, and in the sunshine play,",3.0 +And into nothing then dissolve away.,0.0 +"Are these our great pursuits, is this to live?",2.0 +"How much more worthy envy is their fate,",1.0 +Who search for truth in a superior state?,3.0 +"Not groping step by step, as we pursue,",1.0 +"And following reason's much entangled clue,",2.0 +"But with one great, and instantaneous view.",3.0 +"Since it from them proceeds, and with them must decay.",2.0 +Why not? or why may not the soul receive,0.0 +"New organs, since even art can these retrieve?",4.0 +"The silver trumpet aids the obstructed ear,",2.0 +And optic glasses the dim eye can clear;,2.0 +"These in mankind new faculties create,",3.0 +And lift him far above his native state;,0.0 +"Call down revolving planets from the sky,",3.0 +"Earth's secret treasures open to his eye,",2.0 +"The whole minute creation make his own,",0.0 +With all the wonders of a world unknown.,1.0 +"How could the mind, did she alone depend",1.0 +"On sense, the errors of those senses mend?",1.0 +"Yet oft, we see those senses she corrects,",1.0 +And oft their information quite rejects.,0.0 +"In distances of things, their shapes and size,",1.0 +Our reason judges better than our eyes.,1.0 +Declares not this the soul's pre-eminence,3.0 +"Superior to, and quite distinct from sense?",1.0 +"For sure it's likely, that, since now so high",0.0 +"Loosed, and mature, she shall her strength display,",2.0 +"Enquire you how these powers we shall attain,",3.0 +It's not for us to know; our search is vain:,1.0 +Can any now remember or relate,1.0 +How he existed in the embryo state?,2.0 +Or one from birth insensible of day,2.0 +Conceive ideas of the solar ray?,1.0 +"That light's denied to him, which, others see,",1.0 +The mind contemplative finds nothing here,2.0 +"He, whose sublime pursuit is God and truth,",0.0 +"Burns, like some absent and impatient youth,",1.0 +"To join the object of his warm desires,",1.0 +"Thence to sequestered shades, and streams retires,",2.0 +And there delights his passion to rehearse,2.0 +"To me most happy therefore he appears,",3.0 +"Who having once, unmoved by hopes or fears,",0.0 +"Surveyed this sun, earth, ocean, clouds, and flame,",1.0 +Well satisfied returns from whence he came.,1.0 +"Is life a hundred years, or ever so few,",1.0 +"It's repetition all, and nothing new:",0.0 +"A fair, where thousands meet, but none can stay,",0.0 +"An inn, where travellers bait, then post away;",2.0 +"A sea, where man perpetually is tossed,",3.0 +"Now plunged in business, now in trifles lost:",1.0 +"Who leave it first, the peaceful port first gain;",1.0 +Hold then! no farther launch into the main:,2.0 +Contract your sails; life nothing can bestow,2.0 +"By long continuance, but continued woe:",3.0 +The wretched privilege daily to deplore,1.0 +"The funerals of our friends, who go before:",1.0 +"Diseases, pains, anxieties, and cares,",1.0 +And age surrounded with a thousand snares.,1.0 +But whither hurried by a generous scorn,3.0 +"Of this vain world, ah, whither am I born?",3.0 +"However severe our post, we must submit.",3.0 +Could I a firm persuasion once attain,0.0 +That after death no being would remain;,1.0 +"To those dark shades I'd willingly descend,",3.0 +"Where all must sleep, this drama at an end:",0.0 +"Nor life accept, although renewed by Fate",1.0 +"Even from its earliest, and its happiest state.",4.0 +"Each boon, each blessing in her power to give,",2.0 +A numerous offspring to the world well known,3.0 +"Both for paternal virtues, and their own;",3.0 +Even at this mighty price I'd not be bound,0.0 +"To tread the same dull circle round, and round;",1.0 +"The soul requires enjoyments more sublime,",0.0 +"GOD then through all creation gives, we find,",0.0 +"Sufficient marks of an indulgent mind,",1.0 +"His works the chief on this terrestrial ball,",3.0 +"Feel ills perpetual, happy all the rest.",3.0 +"But hold, presumptuous? charge not heaven's decree",4.0 +"With such injustice, such partiality.",4.0 +"Yet true it is, survey we life around,",1.0 +Whole hosts of ills on every side are found;,1.0 +"Who wound not here and there by chance a foe,",1.0 +But at the species meditate the blow.,0.0 +What millions perish by each others hands,1.0 +In war's fierce rage? or by the dread commands,2.0 +"Of tyrants languish out their lives in chains,",1.0 +Or lose them in variety of pains?,1.0 +"What numbers pinched by want and hunger die,",0.0 +In spite of Nature's liberality?,1.0 +"Those, still more numerous, I to name disdain,",1.0 +"What numbers, guiltless of their own disease,",1.0 +"Are snatched by sudden death, or waste by slow degrees?",0.0 +Where then is Virtue's well deserved reward! ' --,0.0 +Let's pay to Virtue every due regard:,1.0 +"That she enables man, let us confess,",3.0 +"To bear those evils, which she can't redress;",0.0 +"Gives hope, and conscious peace, and can assuage",2.0 +That oft her friends peculiar ills endure:,0.0 +"Where Vice prevails severest is their fate,",1.0 +Tyrants pursue them with a threefold hate.,4.0 +"And from their country meriting applause,",2.0 +And perished by the hands themselves had saved?,1.0 +"Soon as superior worth appears in view,",4.0 +"See knaves, and fools united to pursue!",2.0 +"The man so formed they all conspire to blame,",2.0 +"Should he at length, so truly good and great,",0.0 +"Prevail, and rule with honest views the state,",0.0 +"Then must he toil for an ungrateful race,",1.0 +"Threatened, opposed, defeated in his ends,",2.0 +"By foes seditious, and aspiring friends.",1.0 +"Hear this and tremble! all who would be great,",0.0 +Yet know not what attends that dangerous wretched state.,2.0 +Is private life from all these evils free?,0.0 +"Vice of all kinds, rage, envy there we see,",2.0 +"Deceit, that Friendship's mask insidious wears,",2.0 +"But there are pleasures still in human life,",1.0 +"Domestic ease, a tender loving wife,",0.0 +"Children, whose dawning smiles your heart engage,",2.0 +"If happiness exists, it's surely here ' --",1.0 +But are these joys exempt from care and fear?,1.0 +"Need I the miseries of that state declare,",1.0 +When different passions draw the wedded pair?,0.0 +"Or say how hard those passions to discern,",1.0 +"Ere the die's cast, and it's too late to learn?",5.0 +"Who can insure, that what is right, and good,",1.0 +"These children shall pursue? or if they should,",1.0 +"Death comes, when least you fear so black a day,",1.0 +And all your blooming hopes are snatched away.,0.0 +"We say not, that these ills from Virtue flow:",0.0 +"Did her wise precepts rule the world, we know",2.0 +"The golden ages would again begin,",0.0 +"But it's our lot in this to suffer, and to sin.",3.0 +"Observing this, some sages have decreed",1.0 +That all things from two causes must proceed;,3.0 +"Two principles with equal power endued,",4.0 +"This wholly evil, that supremely good.",1.0 +"From this arise the miseries we endure,",4.0 +While that administers a friendly cure;,1.0 +And poisonous serpents make their dread repose,2.0 +Beneath the covert of the fragrant rose.,1.0 +"Can such a system satisfy the mind,",1.0 +"Are both these Gods in equal power conjoined,",1.0 +"Or one superior? Equal if you say,",4.0 +"Chaos returns, since neither will obey.",3.0 +"Is one superior? good, or ill must reign,",2.0 +"Eternal joy, or everlasting pain.",0.0 +"Whichever is conquered must entirely yield,",4.0 +And the victorious God enjoy the field.,3.0 +Or comes the Stoic nearer to the right?,1.0 +"He holds, that whatsoever yields delight,",0.0 +Himself half starving happier far than kings.,3.0 +It's fine indeed to be so wondrous wise!,0.0 +By the same reasoning too he pain denies;,4.0 +"Roast him, or flea him, break him on the wheel,",1.0 +"Retract he will not, though he can't but feel:",0.0 +"Pain's not an ill, he utters with a groan;",1.0 +"What then? an inconvenience it's, he'll own.",1.0 +"No: they may be accepted, not pursued:",0.0 +"Absurd to squabble thus about a name,",0.0 +"Quibbling with different words, that mean the same.",1.0 +"Stoic, were you not framed of flesh and blood,",1.0 +You might be blessed without external good;,0.0 +"You are not spirit quite, but frail, and mortal man.",1.0 +"But since these sages, so absurdly wise,",1.0 +"Vainly pretend enjoyments to despise,",3.0 +"Now mine, now thine, the blessings of an hour;",1.0 +"Why value then, that strength of mind, they boast,",0.0 +"As often varying, and as quickly lost?",1.0 +"A headache hurts it, or a rainy day,",2.0 +And a slow fever wipes it quite away.,2.0 +"Examples of the mind's extensive power,",1.0 +Examples too how quickly fades that flower.,0.0 +"Dean Swift. Him let me add, whom late we saw excel",1.0 +Whether he strove our follies to expose,3.0 +"In easy verse, or droll and humorous prose;",2.0 +"Few years, alas! compel his throne to quit",0.0 +"This mighty monarch over the realms of wit,",2.0 +A melancholy proof our parts are not our own.,0.0 +"Thy tenets, Stoic, yet we may forgive,",1.0 +If in a future state we cease to live.,0.0 +"For here the virtuous suffer much, it's plain;",2.0 +"If pain is evil, this must God arraign;",1.0 +"And on this principle confess we must,",2.0 +"Pain can no evil be, or God must be unjust.",3.0 +"Blind man! whose reason such strait bounds confine,",3.0 +"It stops amazed, and quits the great design.",0.0 +"Own you not, Stoic, God is just and true?",0.0 +Dare to proceed; secure this path pursue:,2.0 +"To future justice, and a life to come.",1.0 +"This path you say is hid in endless night,",0.0 +"You stop, ere half your destined course is run,",1.0 +"And triumph, when the conquest is not won;",1.0 +See what a monstrous race from one mistake is bred!,1.0 +"Hear then my argument: ' -- confess we must,",1.0 +"A God there is, supremely wise and just:",3.0 +"If so, however things affect our sight,",2.0 +"As sings our bard, whatever is, is right.",2.0 +"But is it right, what here so oft appears,",1.0 +"That vice should triumph, virtue sink in tears?",0.0 +"The inference then, that closes this debate,",2.0 +"Is, that there must exist a future state.",0.0 +See how both states are by connection tied;,4.0 +"Fools view but part, and not the whole survey,",1.0 +So crowd existence all into a day.,0.0 +"Hence are they led to hope, but hope in vain,",0.0 +That Justice never will resume her reign;,1.0 +"On this vain hope adulterers, thieves rely,",4.0 +And to this altar vile assassins fly.,1.0 +But rules not God by general laws divine?,0.0 +"Man's vice, or virtues change not the design.",2.0 +What laws are these? instruct us if you can: ' --,2.0 +"Another guides inactive matter's course,",0.0 +"Attracting, and attracted by its force:",2.0 +"Far distant worlds, and ties the vast machine.",1.0 +"The laws of life why need I call to mind,",0.0 +"Obeyed by birds, and beasts of every kind;",0.0 +"By all the sandy desert's savage brood,",3.0 +And all the numerous offspring of the flood;,2.0 +"Of these none uncontrolled, and lawless rove,",2.0 +But to some destined end spontaneous move.,3.0 +"Led by that instinct, heaven itself inspires,",0.0 +"Or so much reason, as their state requires;",2.0 +"See all with skill acquire their daily food,",2.0 +"All use those arms, which Nature has bestowed;",0.0 +"Produce their tender progeny, and feed",1.0 +"With care parental, while that care they need;",0.0 +"In these loved offices completely blessed,",3.0 +"No hopes beyond them, nor vain fears molest.",3.0 +Man over a wider field extends his views;,3.0 +"God through the wonders of his works pursues,",1.0 +"Exploring thence his attributes, and laws,",0.0 +"Adores, loves, imitates the Eternal Cause;",3.0 +For sure in nothing we approach so nigh,1.0 +"The great example of divinity,",2.0 +As in benevolence: the patriot's soul,3.0 +"But warms, enlightens, animates the whole:",0.0 +"Its mighty orb embraces first his friends,",0.0 +"His country next, then man; nor here it ends,",0.0 +But to the meanest animal descends.,2.0 +"Wise Nature has this social law confirmed,",1.0 +"By forming man so helpless, and unarmed;",1.0 +"His want of others' aid, and power of speech",2.0 +"TO implore that aid, this lesson daily teach.",1.0 +"Mankind with other animals compare,",2.0 +"Single how weak, and impotent they are!",3.0 +"But view them in their complicated state,",0.0 +"Their powers how wondrous, and their strength how great,",3.0 +"When social virtue individuals joins,",2.0 +"And in one solid mass, like gravity combines!",1.0 +"Stamped on our souls, and ratified by Heaven;",0.0 +"All from utility this law approve,",2.0 +Why deviate then so many from this law?,1.0 +"See passions, custom, vice, and folly draw!",1.0 +"Survey the rolling globe from East to West,",0.0 +"How few, alas! how very few are blessed?",0.0 +"Beneath the frozen poles, and burning line,",0.0 +"No trace of man, but in the form we find.",1.0 +"And are we free from error, and distress,",2.0 +Whom Heaven with clearer light has pleased to bless?,0.0 +Whom true Religion leads? for she but leads,1.0 +"By soft persuasion, not by force proceeds;",0.0 +Behold how we avoid this radiant sun!,1.0 +For these as for essentials we engage,3.0 +"In wars, and massacres, with holy rage;",1.0 +"Brothers by brothers' impious hands are slain,",5.0 +"Mistaken Zeal, how savage is thy reign!",1.0 +"Unpunished vices here so much abound,",0.0 +"All right, and wrong, all order they confound;",1.0 +"These are the giants, who the gods defy,",1.0 +And mountains heap on mountains to the sky.,1.0 +"Sees this the Almighty Judge, or seeing spares,",1.0 +And deems the crimes of man beneath his cares?,0.0 +"He sees; and will at last rewards bestow,",1.0 +"And punishments, not less assured for being slow.",1.0 +"Nor doubt I, though this state confused appears,",1.0 +That even in this God sometime interferes:,4.0 +"Sometime, lest man should quite his power disown,",3.0 +He makes that power to trembling nations known:,2.0 +"But rarely this; not for each vulgar end,",2.0 +"Who thinks all foes to God, who are her own,",1.0 +"Directs his thunder, and usurps his throne.",2.0 +"Nor know I not, how much a conscious mind",0.0 +"Even in this life thou, impious wretch, must feel",3.0 +"What must thou suffer, when each dire disease,",0.0 +"The progeny of Vice, thy fabric seize?",1.0 +"Consumption, fever, and the racking pain",1.0 +"Of spasms, and gout, and stone, a frightful train!",2.0 +"When life new tortures can alone supply,",2.0 +"Should such a wretch to numerous years arrive,",2.0 +It can be little worth his while to live;,1.0 +Companions fly: he never could have a friend:,0.0 +"He looks within, and shudders at the sight:",0.0 +"With what impatience he applies to art,",1.0 +Life to prolong amid disease and pains!,2.0 +"Why this, if after it no sense remains?",2.0 +"Why should he choose these miseries to endure,",3.0 +If Death could grant an everlasting cure?,0.0 +"See the reverse! how happy those we find,",3.0 +Who know by merit to engage mankind?,2.0 +"Praised by each tongue, by every heart beloved,",0.0 +"For Virtues practised, and for Arts improved:",1.0 +"Their easy aspects shine with smiles serene,",1.0 +"And all is peace, and happiness within:",1.0 +"Their sleep is never disturbed by fears, or strife,",2.0 +"Nor lust, nor wine, impair the springs of life.",0.0 +"Him Fortune can not sink, nor much elate,",1.0 +Whose views extend beyond this mortal state;,0.0 +"By age when summoned to resign his breath,",1.0 +"Calm, and serene, he sees approaching death,",2.0 +"As the safe port, the peaceful silent shore,",2.0 +"Where he may rest, life's tedious voyage over:",3.0 +"He, and he only, is of death afraid,",2.0 +Whom his own conscience has a coward made;,0.0 +"While he, who Virtue's radiant course has run,",0.0 +"His thoughts triumphant Heaven alone employs,",0.0 +And hope anticipates his future joys.,0.0 +Whose image dwells with pleasure on my mind;,1.0 +In times which asked a champion to defend;,3.0 +"Who after near a hundred virtuous years,",1.0 +"His senses perfect, free from pains and fears,",1.0 +Like an applauded actor left the stage;,1.0 +"Or like some victor in the Olympic games,",2.0 +"Who having run his course, the crown of Glory claims.",0.0 +"From this just contrast plainly it appears,",2.0 +How Conscience can inspire both hopes and fears;,2.0 +"But whence proceed these hopes, or whence this dread,",0.0 +If nothing really can affect the dead?,1.0 +"See all things join to promise, and presage",5.0 +The sure arrival of a future age!,1.0 +"Whatever their lot is here, the good and wise,",3.0 +"An honest man, when Fortune's storms begin,",0.0 +"Has Consolation always sure within,",0.0 +"And, if she sends a more propitious gale,",1.0 +"Nor fear that he, who sits so loose to life,",1.0 +Shrink from the duties of this bustling scene;,1.0 +"Avoid the fight inglorious, and afraid:",3.0 +"Who scorns life most must surely be most brave,",1.0 +"Virtue will lead him to Ambition's ends,",3.0 +"And prompt him to defend his country, and his friends.",2.0 +"But still his merit you can not regard,",1.0 +Who thus pursues a posthumous reward;,1.0 +"Of her abstracted, native excellence,",3.0 +"The beauty, fitness, harmony of things.",1.0 +"It may be so: yet he deserves applause,",1.0 +Who follows where instructive Nature draws;,0.0 +"Aims at rewards by her indulgence given,",2.0 +And soars triumphant on her wings to heaven.,1.0 +"Say what this venal virtuous man pursues,",2.0 +"No mean rewards, no mercenary views;",2.0 +"Not fame by fraud acquired, or title vain!",2.0 +"He follows but where Nature points the road,",1.0 +"Rising in Virtue's school, till he ascends to God.",3.0 +"But we the inglorious common herd of man,",3.0 +"Sail without compass, toil without a plan;",6.0 +"In Fortune's varying storms for ever tossed,",2.0 +"Shadows pursue, that in pursuit are lost;",1.0 +"Scrambling for toys, then tossing them away.",2.0 +Who rests of Immortality assured,1.0 +"Is safe, whatever ills are here endured:",1.0 +"He hopes not vainly in a world like this,",0.0 +To meet with pure uninterrupted bliss;,5.0 +"For good and ill, in this imperfect state,",1.0 +Are ever mixed by the decrees of Fate.,1.0 +And baleful hemlock mingles with the rose;,2.0 +"All things are blended, changeable, and vain,",1.0 +"No hope, no wish we perfectly obtain;",3.0 +God may perhaps might human Reason's line,2.0 +Pretend to fathom infinite design,1.0 +"Have thus ordained things, that the restless mind",1.0 +No happiness complete on earth may find;,2.0 +"To heaven her safest, best retreat may rise.",0.0 +"Come then, since now in safety we have past",1.0 +"Through Error's rocks, and see the port at last,",2.0 +"Let us review, and recollect the whole. ' --",3.0 +Thus stands my argument. ' -- The thinking soul,2.0 +"Cannot terrestrial, or material be,",4.0 +But claims by Nature Immortality:,1.0 +"God, who created it, can make it end,",2.0 +"We question not, but cannot apprehend",0.0 +He will; because it is by him endued,3.0 +With strong ideas of all perfect Good:,2.0 +"With wondrous powers to know, and calculate",2.0 +Things too remote from this our earthly state;,2.0 +"With sure presages of a life to come,",3.0 +All false and useless; if beyond the tomb,1.0 +Our beings cease: we therefore can't believe,1.0 +"God either acts in vain, or can deceive.",2.0 +"If every rule of equity demands,",1.0 +"Should due rewards, and punishments receive,",1.0 +"And this by no means happens while we live,",2.0 +"It follows, that a time must surely come,",0.0 +"Then shall this scene, which now to human sight",0.0 +"Seems so unworthy Wisdom infinite,",3.0 +"A system of consummate skill appear,",4.0 +"And every cloud dispersed, be beautiful and clear.",1.0 +"Doubt we of this! what solid proof remains,",1.0 +That over the world a wise Disposer reigns?,2.0 +"While all Creation speaks a power divine,",2.0 +Is it deficient in the main design?,1.0 +"Not so: the day shall come, pretend not now",0.0 +"Presumptuous to enquire or when, or how",5.0 +"But after death shall come the important day,",2.0 +When God to all his justice shall display;,0.0 +"Each action with impartial eyes regard,",1.0 +And in a just proportion punish and reward.,1.0 +"One sun by day, by night ten thousand shine.",1.0 +IT'S past! The sultry tyrant of the south,1.0 +Has spent his short-lived rage; more grateful hours,1.0 +Move silent on; the skies no more repel,3.0 +"The dazzled sight, but with mild maiden beams",2.0 +"Of tempered light, invite the cherished eye",0.0 +To wander over their sphere; where hung aloft,2.0 +"Impatient for the night, and seems to push",1.0 +Her brother down the sky. Fair VENUS shines,2.0 +Even in the eye of day; with sweetest beam,0.0 +"Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood",0.0 +Of softened radiance from her dewy locks.,1.0 +"Her cheek yet warm with blushes, slow retires",0.0 +And shuts the gates of day. It's now the hour,0.0 +"The cool damp grotto, or the lonely depth",3.0 +"She mused away the gaudy hours of noon,",0.0 +Moves forward; and with radiant finger points,2.0 +"To yonder blue concave swelled by breath divine,",3.0 +"Where, one by one, the living eyes of heaven",1.0 +"Awake, quick kindling over the face of either",3.0 +"One boundless blaze; ten thousand trembling fires,",1.0 +"Restless, and dazzled wanders unconfined",2.0 +Over all this field of glories: spacious field!,0.0 +"And worthy of the master: he, whose hand",2.0 +"With hieroglyphics older than the Nile,",1.0 +Inscribed the mystic tablet; hung on high,0.0 +"To public gaze, and said, adore, OH man!",1.0 +The finger of thy GOD. From what pure wells,2.0 +"Of milky light, what soft overflowing urn,",3.0 +"Are all these lamps so filled? these friendly lamps,",0.0 +For ever streaming over the azure deep,2.0 +"To point our path, and light us to our home.",1.0 +How soft they slide along their lucid spheres!,0.0 +"And silent as the foot of time, fulfil",1.0 +"Their destined courses: Nature's self is hushed,",0.0 +"To break the midnight air; though the raised ear,",2.0 +"Intensely listening, drinks in every breath.",0.0 +"How deep the silence, yet how loud the praise!",0.0 +But are they silent all? or is there not,2.0 +"A tongue in every star that talks with man,",0.0 +"This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,",2.0 +And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.,1.0 +"Of high descent, and more than mortal rank;",0.0 +"An embryo GOD; a spark of fire divine,",3.0 +"Which must burn on for ages, when the sun,",0.0 +Fair transitory creature of a day!,2.0 +"Has closed his golden eye, and wrapped in shades",0.0 +"Perhaps my future home, from whence the soul",0.0 +"Revolving periods past, may oft look back",3.0 +"With recollected tenderness, on all",1.0 +"The various busy scenes she left below,",2.0 +"Its deep laid projects and its strange events,",2.0 +As on some fond and doting tale that soothed,1.0 +Her infant hours; OH be it lawful now,0.0 +"To tread the hallowed circle of your courts,",1.0 +And with mute wonder and delighted awe,3.0 +Approach your burning confines. Seized in thought,1.0 +"From the green borders of the peopled earth,",3.0 +From solitary Mars; from the vast orb,1.0 +"Of Jupiter, whose huge gigantic bulk",1.0 +Dances in either like the lightest leaf;,2.0 +"To the dim verge, the suburbs of the system,",3.0 +In gloomy grandeur; like an exiled queen,3.0 +"Where, burning round, ten thousand suns appear,",1.0 +Of elder beam; which ask no leave to shine,1.0 +"Of our terrestrial star, nor borrow light",4.0 +From the proud regent of our scanty day;,3.0 +"Sons of the morning, first born of creation,",2.0 +"And only less than him who marks their track,",1.0 +"And guides their fiery wheels. Here must I stop,",2.0 +Or is there aught beyond? What hand unseen,1.0 +"Of habitable nature; far remote,",1.0 +"To the dread confines of eternal night,",2.0 +"The deserts of creation, wide and wild;",1.0 +And thought astonished stops her bold career.,0.0 +But o thou mighty mind! whose powerful word,3.0 +"Said, thus let all things be, and thus they were,",1.0 +Have the broad eyelids of the morn beheld thee?,1.0 +Support thy throne? OH look with pity down,2.0 +On erring guilty man; not in thy names,0.0 +Of terror clad; not with those thunders armed,1.0 +"That conscious Sinai felt, when fear appalled",1.0 +"The scattered tribes; thou hast a gentler voice,",0.0 +"That whispers comfort to the swelling heart,",1.0 +"Abashed, yet longing to behold her Maker.",1.0 +But now my soul unused to stretch her powers,0.0 +"In flight so daring, drops her weary wing,",0.0 +"And seeks again the known accustomed spot,",0.0 +"Dressed up with sun, and shade, and lawns, and streams,",0.0 +"A mansion fair and spacious for its guest,",1.0 +And full replete with wonders. Let me here,0.0 +"Content and grateful, wait the appointed time",2.0 +And ripen for the skies: the hour will come,1.0 +Unlock the glories of the world unknown.,1.0 +"AT once to raise our reverence and delight,",3.0 +"To elevate the mind, and please the sight,",0.0 +"To pour in virtue at the attentive eye,",2.0 +And waft the soul on wings of ecstasy;,1.0 +"For this the painter's art with nature vies,",1.0 +And bids the visionary saint arise;,0.0 +"Who views the sacred forms in thought aspires,",0.0 +"Catches pure zeal, and as he gazes, fires;",2.0 +"Is what he sees, and emulates the shade.",0.0 +"Thy strokes, great Artist, so sublime appear,",2.0 +They cheque our pleasure with an awful fear;,1.0 +"While, through the mortal line, the God you trace,",0.0 +"And, as the subject, own the hand divine.",1.0 +"While through thy work the rising day shall stream,",0.0 +"So long shall last thy honour, praise, and name.",3.0 +"Some emanation from her sister art,",1.0 +"To animate the verse, and bid it shine",0.0 +"In colours easy, bright, and strong, as Thine.",1.0 +"Supine on earth an awful figure lies,",0.0 +"The hoary sire Heaven's guardian care demands,",2.0 +And at his feet the watchful angel stands.,0.0 +"The form august and large, the mien divine",4.0 +Betray the Jesse. founder of Messiah's line.,2.0 +And high to Heaven its sacred Boughs extends:,0.0 +"Each limb productive of some hero springs,",1.0 +And blooms luxuriant with a race of kings.,1.0 +"The eternal plant wide spreads its arms around,",2.0 +And with the mighty Branch the mystic top is crowned.,1.0 +And lo! the glories of the illustrious line,5.0 +"In DAVID all expressed; the good, the great,",0.0 +"The king, the hero, and the man complete.",1.0 +"Serene he fits, and sweeps the golden lyre,",0.0 +And blends the prophet's with the poet's fire.,1.0 +"See! with what art he strikes the vocal strings,",0.0 +"The God, his theme, inspiring what he sings!",0.0 +"Hark, ' -- or our ears delude us ' -- from his tongue",1.0 +"Sweet flows, or seems to flow, some heavenly song.",3.0 +"OH! could thine art arrest the fleeting sound,",0.0 +And paint the voice in magic numbers bound;,0.0 +Wake with his rising beam the vocal shade:,0.0 +"Then might he draw the attentive angels down,",3.0 +"Bending to hear the lay, so sweet, so like their own.",2.0 +"On either side the monarch's offspring shine,",2.0 +"And some adorn, and some disgrace their line.",0.0 +"Here Ammon glories; proud, incestuous lord!",0.0 +"This hand sustains the robe, and that the sword.",0.0 +"Frowning and fierce, with haughty strides he towers,",2.0 +And on his horrid brow defiance lowers.,1.0 +And his stolen honour all his shame displays:,0.0 +"The rebel subject, and the ungrateful son.",3.0 +"Amid the royal race, see Nathan stand:",1.0 +"Fervent he seems to speak, and lift his hand;",2.0 +"His looks the emotion of his soul disclose,",1.0 +And eloquence from every gesture flows.,1.0 +"Such, and so stern he came, ordained to bring",1.0 +The ungrateful mandate to the guilty King:,3.0 +"When, at his dreadful voice, a sudden smart",0.0 +Shot through the trembling monarch's conscious heart;,1.0 +From his own lips condemned; severe decree!,1.0 +Had his God proved so stern a Judge as He.,3.0 +But man with frailty is allied by birth;,1.0 +Consummate purity never dwelled on earth:,4.0 +"Through all the soul though virtue holds the rein,",0.0 +"Beats at the heart, and springs at every vein:",0.0 +Yet ever from the clearest source have ran,1.0 +"Some gross allay, some tincture of the man.",1.0 +"But who is he ' -- deep musing ' -- in his mind,",2.0 +"He seems to weigh in Reason's scales, Mankind;",1.0 +Fixed Contemplation hold his steady eyes ' --,1.0 +I know the Sage Solomon.; the wisest of the wise.,5.0 +"Blessed with all man could wish, or prince obtain,",0.0 +Yet his great heart pronounced those blessings vain.,3.0 +"And lo! bright glittering in his sacred hands,",2.0 +In miniature the glorious temple stands.,2.0 +"Gold the strong valves, the roof of burnished gold.",3.0 +"The wandering ark, in that bright dome enshrined,",3.0 +"Spreads the strong light, eternal, unconfined!",3.0 +Pour through reluctant crowds intolerable blaze.,3.0 +"See the gay prince, injurious, proud, and vain!",5.0 +And proud Rebellion triumphs in the land.,0.0 +"There Asa, good and great, the sceptre bears,",0.0 +"Justice attends his peace, success his wars:",2.0 +"While Virtue was his sword, and Heaven his shield,",1.0 +Without control the warrior swept the field;,0.0 +"Loaded with spoils, triumphant he returned,",3.0 +And half her swarthy sons sad Ethiopia mourned.,3.0 +"But since thy flagging piety decayed,",1.0 +And bartered God's defence for human aid;,0.0 +"See their fair laurels wither on thy brow,",4.0 +"Nor herbs, nor healthful arts avail thee now,",0.0 +"Nor is Heaven changed, apostate prince, but Thou.",0.0 +No mean atonement does this lapse require;,1.0 +"But see the Son, you must forgive the Sire:",0.0 +"He reigned, and goodness all the man possessed,",0.0 +"Around his throne, fair happiness and peace",2.0 +"Smoothed every brow, and smiled in every face.",1.0 +"As when along the burning waste he strayed,",0.0 +"Where no pure streams in bubbling mazes played,",1.0 +"Where drought incumbent on the thirsty ground,",1.0 +Long since had breathed her scorching blasts around;,0.0 +"The Elisha. prophet calls, the obedient floods repair",6.0 +Trickle luxurious through the sucking plain;,3.0 +And over the desert Plenty pours her horn.,2.0 +"So, from the throne his influence he sheds,",2.0 +And bids the Virtues raise their languid heads:,0.0 +"Wherever he goes, attending Truth prevails,",2.0 +"Oppression flies, and Justice lifts her scales.",0.0 +"See, on his arm, the royal eagle stand,",0.0 +Great type of conquest and supreme command;,2.0 +"The exulting bird distinguished triumph brings,",1.0 +And greets the Monarch with expanded wings.,1.0 +"Rush on themselves, and shall without the foe.",2.0 +The pious Hero vanquished Heaven by prayer;,0.0 +"His faith an army, and his vows a war.",1.0 +"And thy days shone, in fairest actions dressed;",2.0 +"Till that rash hand; by some blind frenzy swayed,",2.0 +"Unclean, the sacred office durst invade.",0.0 +The father's virtues with the father's throne.,1.0 +Lo! there he stands: he who the rage subdued,0.0 +"Of Ammon's sons, and drenched his sword in blood,",0.0 +"With thy base front, the glories of thy race?",3.0 +See the vile King his iron sceptre bear ' --,3.0 +"He, in whose soul the virtues all conspire,",0.0 +"The best good son, from the most wicked sire.",1.0 +"Again, in genuine purity she shines,",3.0 +"His own vain threats the insulting King overthrow,",5.0 +"But breathe new Courage on the generous foe,",4.0 +"The avenging Angel, by divine command,",2.0 +"Leaned down from Heaven: amid the storm he rode,",0.0 +"Marched Pestilence before him; as he trod,",3.0 +Pale Desolation bathed his steps in blood.,1.0 +"Thick wrapped in night, through the proud host he past,",3.0 +"Dispensing death, and drove the furious blast;",2.0 +"Nor bade Destruction give her revels over,",0.0 +"Thy sceptre rescued, and the Assyrian slain?",5.0 +"Even now the soul maintains her latest strife,",0.0 +"Yet see, kind Heaven renews thy brittle thread,",1.0 +And rolls full fifteen summers over thy head;,4.0 +"Lo! the receding sun repeats his way,",2.0 +"And, like thy life, prolongs the falling day.",0.0 +"Though Nature her inverted course forego,",1.0 +"The day forget to rest, the time to flow,",0.0 +"His mercy fixed, eternal shall endure;",0.0 +"More mild, and bright, and sure, OH sun! than thine.",1.0 +"The last good King; in ancient days foretold,",0.0 +"Blessed, happy prince! over whose lamented urn,",4.0 +And Jeremiah pours his sweet melodious woes.,2.0 +"Sits deep in dust, abandoned, desolate;",1.0 +"Bleeds her sad heart, and ever stream her eyes,",3.0 +"And anguish tears her, with convulsive sighs.",1.0 +"The mournful captive spreads her hands in vain,",0.0 +"Her hands, that rankle with the servile chain;",1.0 +"Fair Liberty revives with all her joys,",2.0 +And bids her envied walls securely rise.,0.0 +"And thou, great hallowed dome, in ruin spread,",2.0 +Again shall lift sublime thy sacred head.,0.0 +"But ah! with weeping eyes, the ancients view",0.0 +A faint resemblance of the old in you.,1.0 +Speaks awful answers from the mystic cloud:,2.0 +"No more thine altars blaze with fire divine,",0.0 +And Heaven has left thy solitary shrine.,0.0 +"Yet, in thy courts, hereafter shalt thou see",0.0 +"Presence immediate of the Deity,",4.0 +"The light himself revealed, the God confessed in thee.",0.0 +And now at length the fated term of years,0.0 +"The world's desire have brought, and lo! the God appears.",0.0 +The Heavenly Babe the Virgin Mother bears.,2.0 +"And her fond looks confess the parent's cares,",2.0 +"The pleasing burden on her breast she lays,",1.0 +"Hangs over his charms, and with a smile surveys.",4.0 +"The Infant smiles, to her fond bosom pressed,",2.0 +"A radiant glory speaks him all Divine,",0.0 +And in the Child the beams of Godhead shine.,1.0 +But now alas! far other views disclose,1.0 +The blackest comprehensive scene of woes.,0.0 +See where man's voluntary sacrifice,3.0 +"Bows his meek head, and God Eternal dies!",3.0 +"Fixed to the Cross, his healing arms are bound,",0.0 +While copious Mercy streams from every wound.,2.0 +"As all death's tortures, with severe delay,",2.0 +"Exult and riot in the noblest prey,",0.0 +Nor share the anguish which He bears for Thee?,0.0 +"Thy sin, for which his sacred Flesh is torn,",0.0 +"Points every nail, and sharpens every thorn;",1.0 +And each pang cleaves the sympathetic ground!,1.0 +"Lo! the black sun, his chariot backward driven,",5.0 +"Earth, trembling from her entrails, bear a part,",2.0 +"The yawning grave reveals his gloomy reign,",0.0 +"And thou, OH tomb, once more shalt wide display",4.0 +"Thou, groaning earth, shalt heave, absorbed in flame,",1.0 +"Wrapped in full blaze of Power and Majesty,",6.0 +"Ride on the clouds; while, as his chariot flies,",3.0 +"Then shall the proud dissolving mountains glow,",0.0 +And yielding rocks in fiery rivers flow:,2.0 +And all man's arts and labour be no more.,2.0 +Sink undistinguished in the burning mass.,1.0 +"And OH! till earth, and seas, and Heaven decay,",0.0 +Never may that fair creation fade away;,1.0 +"Still may they bloom, as permanent as fair,",1.0 +"All the vain rage of wasting time repel,",3.0 +"And his Tribunal see, whose Cross they paint so well.",1.0 +"As one who late hath lost a friend adored,",1.0 +Clings with sick pleasure to the faintest trace,4.0 +"Or sadly gazing on that form deplored,",1.0 +Would clasp the silent canvas to his breast:,1.0 +"So muse I on the good I have enjoyed,",1.0 +The wretched victim of my hopes destroyed;,1.0 +"On images of peace I fondly rest,",1.0 +"Or in the page, where weeping fancy mourns,",0.0 +"I love to dwell upon each tender line,",0.0 +And think the bliss once tasted still is mine;,1.0 +"While cheated memory to the past returns,",1.0 +"And, from the present leads my shivering heart",3.0 +"Back to those scenes from, which it wept to part.",0.0 +"Ah! only shown to cheque our fond pursuits,",0.0 +And teach our humbled hopes that life is vain!,0.0 +"SWEET youth farewell! the day that gave thee birth,",2.0 +Again unites thee to thy parent earth;,1.0 +"That day, to busy cares devoted thee,",1.0 +"That day, was crowned with rest and liberty.",1.0 +And lightly lie the turf upon thy head;,0.0 +"While from thy cold remains with mournful eye,",0.0 +"The muse collects the sweets which shall not die,",0.0 +To strew thy early tomb with choicest flowers.,0.0 +"Though from thy cheek death plucked the blushing rose,",2.0 +Thy rising virtues still its sweets disclose:,0.0 +"And oft as Flora paints the purple year,",0.0 +Shall recollection trace thy emblem there.,1.0 +"When hopeful youth, or worth like thine shall fall,",1.0 +The thoughts of thee for added tears shall call.,1.0 +"Our kindest wishes were in error sown,",1.0 +Infinite wisdom gave thee joys unknown.,2.0 +"Fain would our languid spirits wing their way,",0.0 +To hail thee in the realms of radiant day.,0.0 +"This warning lesson read you gay and young,",0.0 +Who thoughtless flutter in life's giddy throng.,1.0 +"Of health, of youth possessed, still frail your breath,",1.0 +For many are the hidden roads to death.,1.0 +"Thus over the dust we love we fondly mourn,",3.0 +And wait the voice that bids our dust return.,0.0 +"Loosened from earth, would reach yonder upper sky,",3.0 +"By faith, man's early immortality.",2.0 +"Shoot the dark gulf, and seize a heavenly crown.",5.0 +"THOUGH from the feeling heart be kindred torn,",1.0 +"And early friends, by chance or change, it mourn;",0.0 +"While it inhabits in this middle sphere,",1.0 +Where good and ill for ever mixed appear.,0.0 +"Not for itself, alone, it can survive;",2.0 +Supporting and supported it would live;,2.0 +"Feel its best joys in soothing others woes,",3.0 +And would its own in some kind breast repose;,1.0 +"Native affections still around it play,",2.0 +"Best bliss of life, if joy they can diffuse,",2.0 +And that seems dearest which we fear to lose.,1.0 +"Ah! be no parting tie more mourned by me,",1.0 +"Nor I, Eliza, doomed to grieve for thee.",1.0 +"May health return, and still thy friendship bless;",0.0 +"And none who love me, leave me in my race.",0.0 +"Denied by distance to my anxious sight,",1.0 +"I cannot cheer thy day, and watch thy night.",0.0 +"Denied the tender cares, by friendship taught,",0.0 +I cannot give the salutary draught:,0.0 +"And anxious hopes, and fears, and prayers are mine,",0.0 +"Till cheerful days, and health again be thine.",0.0 +And warm my Soul with an Immortal Fire;,1.0 +"The Muse should in Celestial numbers Sing,",0.0 +"Who did of old display his Glorious Grace,",2.0 +"To Abraham's seed, and Jacob's chosen race.",3.0 +Gave them possession of a goodly land.,3.0 +"No crowned King did over them bear Sway,",3.0 +"Judges, and Governors, they did obey;",3.0 +"His Providence, and his peculiar care,",2.0 +Renowned Captains did for them prepare.,6.0 +"They oft abused his Grace, forgot his love.",0.0 +"Philistines arms the Rebels did chastise,",3.0 +"Yet of his tender mercy did provide,",0.0 +A faithful Prophet and courageous Guide;,1.0 +"That might the People's hearts, and minds prepare.",0.0 +To Worship him with reverential fear;,1.0 +And by his own Example daily Show,1.0 +"Them, how to put in practise what they knew.",1.0 +"Who had himself, and Household set apart,",1.0 +To serve his Maker with a willing heart.,1.0 +"Two Wives he had, the one a virtuous Dame,",4.0 +"Whose fair, and lovely body did enshrine,",0.0 +"A Pious Soul with qualities Divine,",1.0 +"Her virtue did her Husbands love insure,",0.0 +"And from all People due respect procure,",1.0 +Only her Rival could not her endure.,3.0 +"The Lord had children unto her denied,",1.0 +"The Feasts that were to Israelites enjoined,",1.0 +For God had fixed his Tabernacle there;,1.0 +"To offer sacrifice was his design,",1.0 +And Worship at the fixed place and time:,3.0 +"And when he this August Assembly joined,",2.0 +The wicked Offspring of a Stock Sincere;,2.0 +"Whose vile Example had pernicious been,",0.0 +In Tempting Abraham's chosen race to Sin.,6.0 +"Observes the Law, laments the Reigning crimes;",0.0 +"Frequents the Feasts, and with an honest mind,",2.0 +Due portions to his Family assigned:,3.0 +Because her Virtuous carriage gained his heart.,2.0 +"With Galling words, she urged the Pious Dame;",0.0 +"As if neglected by the God of Heaven,",2.0 +Because he yet to her no Child had given.,2.0 +"Year after Year she did her thus upbraid,",2.0 +"And what She could to grieve, and vex her said,",0.0 +"Whose noble Soul was soaring far above,",0.0 +And following ways of Peace and perfect love;,3.0 +"And to the Heavenly Throne herself addressed,",3.0 +With sighs and Tears that cannot be expressed.,0.0 +"Entreating him that reigns on high, that She,",1.0 +"The happy Mother of a Son might be,",1.0 +"And if she could that happiness obtain,",2.0 +She would resign him to the Lord again;,1.0 +And on the Public worship still attend.,1.0 +While thus She did disclose her pain and Grief,0.0 +"To him, who able was to grant relief,",2.0 +"No Friend on Earth was privy to her moan,",2.0 +"Her voice not heard, only her lips did move,",5.0 +"As if the Virtuous Dame, at that Divine",3.0 +"But when with flowing Tears she let him know,",0.0 +"She was oppressed, and overwhelmed with woe,",1.0 +"The Priest to comfort her himself addressed,",1.0 +"The days of Solemn Feasting being Spent,",0.0 +"And ever the Sun his Annual Race had run,",4.0 +The joyful Mother did embrace a Son;,0.0 +And as the Gift of God this worthy Dame,1.0 +"Did him receive, And Samuel called his Name;",1.0 +"Asked of God, by which She did declare",0.0 +"To all Mankind, how great his Mercies are.",2.0 +"And with a grateful Heart, in Person She",2.0 +"Attended on him, in his Infancy;",2.0 +"With kind affection, and a Parents Joy,",1.0 +"Some Years expired, And the Child being grown,",2.0 +The Pious Matron with her little Son,1.0 +And there to Ely does her Son present:,1.0 +"To him, And to the Congregated Tribes",1.0 +Declared his goodness who over Earth presides.,2.0 +"There to his chosen People did proclaim,",1.0 +"The Praises due to his Eternal Name,",1.0 +"Who heard her cries, and granted her request.",1.0 +"Her grateful tongue those joyful words Expressed,",0.0 +"My heart and soul does in the Lord rejoice,",0.0 +"My glory, and my Strength he does appear,",1.0 +What cause have I the Race of man to fear?,1.0 +"I am exalted by the God of Love,",2.0 +"My Mouth enlarged by him, who reigns above,",1.0 +"He makes me over mine Enemies rejoice,",3.0 +In his Salvation I exert my voice.,2.0 +"Most pure and holy is his Mighty Name,",1.0 +And when in deep distress there is not one,0.0 +"Can be our refuge, but our God alone.",1.0 +"OH! lay your haughty Arrogance aside,",2.0 +"The God of Israel will correct your Pride,",1.0 +"He knows our Hearts, the Proud he does despise,",0.0 +But humble Souls are precious in his eyes;,0.0 +"While those who glory in their Strength and might,",0.0 +By his all conquering Arm are put to Flight.,3.0 +"Yet they, that in his Truth and Mercy trust,",0.0 +"Shall find a God both tender, kind, and just;",1.0 +"She that was barren, his praises shall prolong",2.0 +Whose love fires my breast and joy swells my Song.,4.0 +"He is the Lord Supreme of life and Death,",1.0 +"When brought to Dust he can restore our breath,",1.0 +"From abject State can raise unto a Throne,",5.0 +"The Earth with all its Kingdoms are his own,",1.0 +"It's he protects his Saints and will display,",2.0 +His Sovereign Grace to keep them in the way;,0.0 +But from his hands the Slaves of vice shall share,1.0 +"Destruction Shall his Enemies attend,",1.0 +Amazing Thunder he from Heaven will send;,1.0 +His Judgements shall upon the Earth appear,0.0 +"The just shall live, uplifted by his Arm",2.0 +The Worthy Matron having paid her vows,0.0 +Did bless her with a numerous Progeny.,4.0 +"Samuel proves, even in his Infant days",3.0 +A Miracle of God's Stupendous Grace!,1.0 +"Against their House, the word to Samuel came,",0.0 +"The Judge and Priest before him must appear,",0.0 +And from a blooming Youth compelled to hear,1.0 +"Sentence pronounced, most grievous and Severe;",3.0 +No Sacrifice can Purge their guilt away,1.0 +Samuel a Prophet by the Lords decree;,3.0 +And Jacob's Sons approach with Reverend Awe,0.0 +While he pronounces God's Eternal Law:,1.0 +"His Missions plain, his Visions full and clear",0.0 +His words like Oracles remembered are,2.0 +"When for their Sins their foes did them invade,",1.0 +He to Repentance did the Tribes persuade:,1.0 +"And by his Prayers, and Devotion true,",2.0 +"Brought Thunder down, Philistines to Subdue:",5.0 +To choose a King to rule his chosen Land;,0.0 +Yet in Pathetic Speeches let them know,0.0 +The Arbitrary ways that Saul would go.,0.0 +"And when that King the Lord's command had broke,",0.0 +"Samuel was Sent and to the Monarch's Face,",4.0 +Boldly declared the Lord would him displace.,3.0 +Yet for his King most earnestly did pray,1.0 +"That God would turn his Burning Wrath away,",0.0 +"Until forbid. Then God did him appoint,",1.0 +"His own peculiar David to Anoint,",1.0 +"From whom by God's Decree in time should spring,",0.0 +"The Prince of Peace, the Everlasting King,",0.0 +That Jew and Gentile to one fold Should bring.,2.0 +"To hail Louisa, this auspicious day,",1.0 +You sister muses annual tribute pay.,2.0 +"You sons of science, greet this happy morn,",0.0 +"On which my generous, honoured, friend was born.",2.0 +"My ardent wishes, gentle maid receive,",0.0 +"My steady friendship, and my love believe.",1.0 +"Health and contentment, crown thy youthful days,",2.0 +"From malice, envy, and oppression free,",1.0 +"May fortune smile, propitious over thy life,",2.0 +And guard thy gentle breast from care and strife.,0.0 +"Thus pass thy moments innocently gay,",2.0 +"And joys arise, with each revolving day,",0.0 +"That when grim death, shall spread his shadows round,",2.0 +"With bliss eternal, may thy life be crowned.",1.0 +"Say Tyrant Custom, why must we obey,",2.0 +"From the first dawn of Life, unto the Grave,",5.0 +"The Nurse, the Mistress, Parent and the Swain,",1.0 +"Then comes the last, the fatal Slavery,",1.0 +The Husband with insulting Tyranny,2.0 +Can have ill Manners justified by Law;,1.0 +For Men all join to keep the Wife in awe.,0.0 +"Moses who first our Freedom did rebuke,",2.0 +"If we were loose, we soon should make them, so.",1.0 +"We yield like vanquished Kings whom Fetters bind,",0.0 +And lay restraints on the impassive Soul:,1.0 +"They fear we should excel their sluggish Parts,",0.0 +Should we attempt the Sciences and Arts.,2.0 +"Pretend they were designed for them alone,",2.0 +So keep us Fools to raise their own Renown;,0.0 +"Thus Priests of old their Grandeur to maintain,",5.0 +Cried vulgar Eyes would sacred Laws Profane.,1.0 +"So kept the Mysteries behind a Screen,",1.0 +There Homage and the Name were lost had they been seen:,2.0 +"But in this blessed Age, such Freedom's given,",3.0 +That every Man explains the Will of Heaven;,1.0 +"Make no excursions in Philosophy,",2.0 +Or grace our Thoughts in tuneful Poetry?,1.0 +"Wits Empire, now, shall know a Female Reign;",2.0 +"Come all you Fair, the great Attempt improve,",0.0 +Divinely imitate the Realms above:,0.0 +And but two Gods that dare pretend to it;,2.0 +"And shall these finite Males reverse their Rules,",1.0 +"No, we'll be Wits, and then Men must be Fools.",0.0 +"TOO well these lines that fatal truth declare,",1.0 +"What can it hope, though mutual it should prove?",1.0 +"This little form is fair in vain for you,",0.0 +In vain for me thy honest heart is true;,1.0 +"Or gild my ruin with the name of wife,",1.0 +And make me a poor virtuous wretch for life:,4.0 +Too sure a cure for all thy present pain,1.0 +"No saffron robe for us the godhead wears,",3.0 +"His torch inverted, and his face in tears.",1.0 +"Though every softer wish were amply crowned,",0.0 +Love soon would cease to smile where Fortune frowned;,1.0 +"Then would thy soul my fond consent deplore,",0.0 +And blame what it solicited before;,2.0 +"Thy own exhausted would reproach my truth,",0.0 +And say I had undone thy blinded youth;,0.0 +"That I had damped Ambition's nobler flame,",1.0 +"Eclipsed thy talents, and obscured thy fame;",1.0 +"To madrigals and odes that wit confined,",1.0 +"Asserting freedom, and enacting laws.",1.0 +"Or say, at best, that negatively kind",1.0 +"Would all these thoughts incessantly suggest,",1.0 +"And all that sense must feel, though pity had suppressed.",0.0 +Yet added grief my apprehension fills,0.0 +If there can be addition to those ills,2.0 +"'Twas thy own deed, thy folly on thy head!",1.0 +"Age knows not to allow for thoughtless youth,",3.0 +"Holds it romantic to confess a heart,",3.0 +And say those virgins act a wiser a wiser part,2.0 +"To find the rich, and only dread the poor;",0.0 +"Who legal prostitutes, for interest sake,",0.0 +"And, if avenging heaven permit increase,",1.0 +People the world with folly and disease.,3.0 +"While the best bidder mounts the venal bed,",2.0 +And the grave aunt and formal sire approve,4.0 +"This nuptial sale, this auction of their love.",1.0 +"But if regard to worth or sense be shown,",1.0 +"That poor degenerate child her friends disown,",2.0 +Who dares to deviate by a virtuous choice,2.0 +From her great name's hereditary vice.,2.0 +"These scenes my prudence ushers to my mind,",1.0 +"Of all the storms and quicksands I must find,",2.0 +"If I embark upon this summer sea,",1.0 +Had our ill fate never blown thy dangerous flame,3.0 +"Beyond the limits of a friend's cold name,",2.0 +"I might upon that score thy heart receive,",0.0 +And with that guiltless name my own deceive;,1.0 +"That commerce now in vain you recommend,",0.0 +I dread the latent lover in the friend;,0.0 +"Of ignorance I want the poor excuse,",1.0 +"And know, I both must take, or both refuse.",0.0 +"Hear then the safe, the firm resolve I make,",0.0 +Never to encourage one I must forsake.,2.0 +"While other maids a shameless path pursue,",0.0 +"Neither to interest, nor to honour true,",4.0 +"And proud to swell the triumph of their eyes,",1.0 +Exult in love from lovers they despise;,1.0 +"Their maxims all reversed I mean to prove,",0.0 +"And though I like the lover, quit the love.",1.0 +"NO more, dear Smith, the hackneyed Tale renew;",3.0 +"I own their censure, I approve it too.",1.0 +"For how can Idiots destitute of thought,",3.0 +"Exalt his name, or mutilate his ears?",0.0 +"None, but a Lawrence, can adore his Lays,",1.0 +"If in myself I think my notions just,",1.0 +The Church and all her arguments are dust.,1.0 +"Religion's but Opinion's bastard Son,",1.0 +"A perfect mystery, more than three in one.",2.0 +"As Education taught us, we're inclined.",1.0 +"Happy the man, whose reason bids him see,",2.0 +Mankind are by the state of Nature free;,2.0 +"Who, thinking for himself, despises those,",2.0 +That would upon his better sense impose;,0.0 +"Is to himself the Minister of God,",2.0 +"Happy if Mortals can be is the Man,",4.0 +"Who, not by Priest, but Reason rules his span;",0.0 +"Reason, to its Possessor a sure guide,",5.0 +"Reason, a thorn in Revelations side.",2.0 +"If Reason fails, incapable to tread",1.0 +"Through gloomy Revelations thickening bed,",0.0 +On what authority the Church we own?,1.0 +How shall we worship Deities unknown?,1.0 +Can the Eternal Justice pleased receive,1.0 +"The prayers of those, who, ignorant believe?",2.0 +"Search the thick multitudes of every Sect,",3.0 +"No individual can their God define,",2.0 +"No, not great Penny in his nervous Line.",2.0 +"But why must Chatterton selected sit,",1.0 +The butt of every Critic's little wit?,1.0 +Am I alone for ever in a crime;,1.0 +"Nonsense in Prose, or blasphemy in Rhyme?",3.0 +Is it not very often so in Shears?,2.0 +The cream of modern Literary Taste.,0.0 +"Has something sentimental, tender, fine;",0.0 +But then how hobbling are the other two;,1.0 +Commends a reverential awe of God.,0.0 +Read but another fancy of his brain;,3.0 +"Fallacious is the charge: It's all a lie,",1.0 +As to my reason I can testify.,2.0 +"I own a God, immortal, boundless, wise,",0.0 +Who bid our glories of Creation rise;,1.0 +"Who formed his varied likeness in mankind,",1.0 +"Who saw Religion, a fantastic night",1.0 +But gave us Reason to obtain the light.,1.0 +"Indulgent Whitfield scruples not to say,",0.0 +He only can direct to Heavens highway.,2.0 +"While Bishops, with as much vehemence tell,",1.0 +"Why then, dear Smith, since Doctors disagree,",2.0 +Their notions are not oracles to me:,2.0 +"What I think right, I ever will pursue",4.0 +And leave you liberty to do so too.,1.0 +"NOW while the fields in vivid green are dressed,",0.0 +And early flowers adorn Spring's simple vest;,3.0 +"While brighter suns the opening landscape warm,",3.0 +And Nature's beauties in each object charm;,0.0 +"Far from the tumult of the worldly crowd,",1.0 +"From mad extravagance and folly loud,",1.0 +"Here let me sit, and court the Muse to tell",0.0 +"By what attractions, by what magic spell,",1.0 +And fix on trifles the deluded mind;,1.0 +"Can lead us from the path mild Reason taught,",2.0 +"Corrupt our principles, debase our thought;",1.0 +"And render Man, for noblest views designed,",0.0 +To all Creation's boundless glories blind.,0.0 +The sons of earth in emulation vie,0.0 +"To gain applause, to draw the public eye,",0.0 +"And to become, pursuing different rules,",1.0 +The praise and envy of surrounding fools.,1.0 +"To few, alas! the indulgent hand of Heaven",2.0 +Has dazzling wit or deep discernment given:,0.0 +"To few superior talents are allowed,",3.0 +And all Ambition's glittering toys despise.,2.0 +"Hers are the gay, the trivial, and the vain;",2.0 +To them profuse the partial goddess pours,1.0 +A name nor wealth nor titles can bestow:,1.0 +"That, and that only, to ourselves we owe.",1.0 +Each candidate some various method tries.,3.0 +"In rural scenes, where peaceful shades delight,",0.0 +And flowery meadows fix the wandering sight ' --,5.0 +And perfumed winds over beds of roses blow ' --,2.0 +"Even there the love of fame mankind inspires,",2.0 +And rustic breasts with rustic passions fires.,0.0 +If other hounds in swiftness his excel;,1.0 +"If other steeds, more forward in the race,",0.0 +"The Country Justice, into years declined,",0.0 +"He glories in his barns with plenty stored,",0.0 +Nor lets one care his placid mind molest ' --,0.0 +"The rural Belle, impatient, seeks renown",0.0 +In some new headdress just arrived from Town;,2.0 +"Thinks how the wondering neighbourhood will gaze,",2.0 +And circling beauties envy while they praise.,0.0 +"Not yet by Vice or tainted or depressed,",1.0 +"Compared to those more courtly belles engage,",1.0 +Where Fashion governs with despotic rage;,1.0 +"Severed from blushing Modesty and Truth,",3.0 +"The dear companions of her happier youth,",3.0 +"No ties can bind, no principles restrain,",3.0 +"And Love and Duty plead, but plead in vain.",0.0 +"Yet, of the numbers who in error tread,",0.0 +More are by weakness than by vice misled ' --,1.0 +"And rather act an imitative part,",0.0 +Than follow the plain dictates of their heart. ' --,2.0 +"Elected by a grateful people's voice,",1.0 +"More from a sense of duty than from choice,",1.0 +"Hermione, who reared amid circling shades,",6.0 +"Remote from Fashion and remote from Strife,",1.0 +He chose the partner of his blameless life.,1.0 +"Her cheeks disclosed the rose's softest die,",0.0 +And innocence beamed lovely from her eye;,3.0 +"On her red lips a mild composure charmed,",2.0 +And perfect symmetry her figure formed.,2.0 +"In this new scene with timid steps she moved,",3.0 +And blushing heard when Flattery approved;,1.0 +The fluttering beaux in vain to please her sought ' --,2.0 +"Now Envy loudly ridicules the fair,",1.0 +"And every female, swelled with jealous hate,",1.0 +Condemns what she can never imitate; ' --,1.0 +"Whom Nature formed in a capricious mood,",1.0 +"Scorned by the wise, and pitied by the good.",2.0 +"By nature virtuous, but too weak her sense",4.0 +"She leaves reluctant all she fondly loves,",0.0 +And follows what her judgement disapproves;,1.0 +"With follies first, with vices next complied,",0.0 +And sacrificed her feelings to her pride.,1.0 +Behold Hermione in triumph reign:,2.0 +"No more she rises with the morning ray,",1.0 +But wastes in cards the night ' -- in sleep the day;,0.0 +Assumes the glow of artificial red;,0.0 +To clear the mists of error from her eyes.,1.0 +"At length he leads her to the rural plain,",1.0 +Where once Contentment blessed his wide domain:,0.0 +"But now no more Contentment will attend,",2.0 +No more from Care's corrosive stings defend;,0.0 +Whose altered heart no tenderness returns;,2.0 +"Till, long between contending passions tossed,",0.0 +"His fortune sunk, his peace entirely lost,",2.0 +"He yielded to the welcome stroke of death,",1.0 +OH sad vicissitude of human state!,3.0 +"Daughters of Virtue, with vain pride elate,",4.0 +Condemn not here a sister's levity;,1.0 +"But trembling think, such you, perhaps, may be. ' --",1.0 +"Yet, if over this sad tale we drop a tear,",2.0 +"His figure mean, and consequential face,",0.0 +And views his mind ' -- receptacle for all,1.0 +The follies that to wretched mortals fall?,0.0 +"Bred in the City to an humble fate,",1.0 +The sober youth behind his counter sat:,0.0 +"His study was of stocks the rise and fall,",1.0 +And his grand festival a Lord Mayor's ball.,6.0 +"When Fortune, careful of the fool and knave,",1.0 +"A large estate beyond his wishes gave,",0.0 +And quits the Exchange to bustle through the Court.,3.0 +To ape the courtly fop in vain he tries;,0.0 +Now with Lord Trinket in his carriage vies;,3.0 +"Now games, now drinks, now swears ' -- and all for fame,",4.0 +Since more illustrious blockheads do the same. ' --,2.0 +"But hark! what knell, inspiring awful fear,",0.0 +In broken sounds thus strikes my wounded ear?,1.0 +"That knell it calls Olivia to the tomb,",1.0 +"Adorned with sentiment and sense refined,",1.0 +Whose only fault was a too feeling mind.,2.0 +"Propitious Fortune, at her natal hour,",0.0 +Had added wealth to Nature's lavish dower:,0.0 +"She grew and flourished in his guardian care,",2.0 +Till the pleased father with delight surveyed,3.0 +"His fondest hopes accomplished in the maid,",0.0 +Soon at the altar join their willing hands.,0.0 +Unhappy fair! she hoped the sacred rite,0.0 +"Their hearts should ever with their hands unite,",2.0 +"Her husband still her lover should remain,",0.0 +And Death alone dissolve their lasting chain.,0.0 +"And blindly governed by her senseless rules,",1.0 +He thought affection for a wife disgraced,1.0 +The nice refinement of a man of taste.,1.0 +In vain mankind with one consent declare,2.0 +Olivia fairest amid thousands fair:,7.0 +"Blind to her charms, unworthy of her love,",1.0 +To meaner beauties his affections rove;,1.0 +"And, seeking fancied bliss, his footsteps roam",1.0 +Far from the genuine happiness of home.,3.0 +"A soft concern, mixed with offended pride,",2.0 +"Usurped the breast of his neglected bride,",2.0 +To think that he alone unmoved should view,1.0 +Those peerless charms which all beside subdue.,0.0 +At length her busy thought suggests a scheme,0.0 +"Destructive to her peace and to her fame,",2.0 +And makes her strive by jealousy to gain,1.0 +That fickle heart which scorned a milder chain.,0.0 +"Too soon the storey restless Scandal spread,",1.0 +"How fair Olivia, by resentment led,",3.0 +"His life for her, whom his caprice disdained",2.0 +Why should on the sad relation dwell?,0.0 +"A hasty challenge sent ' -- he fought, and fell!",0.0 +"Borne through those streets a senseless load of clay,",0.0 +"Where late he wandered negligent and gay,",1.0 +His altered features crowds with tears survey.,0.0 +But who can paint the anguish and despair,1.0 +That racked the bosom of the hapless fair,1.0 +"Who caused his death, when, pierced with many a wound,",2.0 +The man she loved a breathless corpse she found?,0.0 +"Horror, contrition, grief, at once combined",2.0 +"To rouse each feeling of her tortured mind,",1.0 +"Till, her weak frame unequal to the strife,",3.0 +"Learn hence, you fair, to shun each dangerous art,",2.0 +Nor even in thought from rectitude depart:,2.0 +For Temper more than Wit or Beauty charms.,0.0 +"So, when old age shall spoil each transient grace,",1.0 +"Dim thy bright eyes, and wrinkle over thy face ' --",5.0 +"Steal from thy faded cheek the rose's hue,",0.0 +And bend that form which now delights the view ' --,0.0 +Shall gild the evening of thy latest day;,1.0 +"Still powerful Virtue shall victorious prove,",5.0 +"And fix, where Beauty fails, a husband's love. ' --",0.0 +"Nothing by him is heard, and nothing seen;",1.0 +"Or, should his eyes a play or ball explore,",0.0 +"He listless yawns, and wishes it was over. ' --",1.0 +"Foreign his accent, foreign is his air,",4.0 +His dress resplendent with Parisian glare;,1.0 +He vainly thinks the wondering crowds admire. ' --,2.0 +As to be thought a man of taste refined;,1.0 +"On pictures, statues, poems to decide,",2.0 +And by his nod the sons of Genius guide.,1.0 +And needy Science courts the wealthy lord:,0.0 +"There, like the mimic heroes of the stage,",1.0 +"While starving wits, amid their venal lays,",0.0 +Pay for substantial dinners empty praise. ' --,2.0 +"But these are trifling faults, and less proceed",1.0 +From heart defective than defective head.,1.0 +"But darker shades remain, whose force to paint,",0.0 +"Language is cold, ideas are but faint;",3.0 +"Crimes at which Reason starts with holy fear,",0.0 +To which even Pity scarce can grant a tear.,0.0 +"Behold the reptile man, whose impious pride",3.0 +"Dares the existence of that God deny,",3.0 +"Who was, and is, through all eternity;",2.0 +"To man, ungrateful man, a being gave;",0.0 +"Whose mercy doomed his only Son to bleed,",0.0 +Our sinful race from paths of Death to lead;,0.0 +"Who, omnipresent, all our guilt can view,",0.0 +And pitying yet withholds the vengeance due!,3.0 +But let me hope that few thus madly dare,1.0 +Wage with Omnipotence a desperate war.,3.0 +"Most men acknowledge and revere a God,",1.0 +"But scarce the tears of soft Contrition spring,",0.0 +Too oft the thoughtless wanderer is lost.,2.0 +"Children of Error, then, a moment stay,",2.0 +"Which seeks no recompense, but to impart",2.0 +A ray of Truth to the bewildered heart.,1.0 +"Yet think an hour shall come, nor far that hour,",0.0 +When Death's dread horrors shall each sense overpower;,7.0 +"When you shall ask in vain a little time,",0.0 +In vain lament the errors of your prime;,1.0 +"With terror view your near approaching end,",0.0 +"And helpless, hopeless to the grave descend.",1.0 +"While Providence allows a lengthening span,",3.0 +Nor to a future time the change delay.,1.0 +Perhaps your life may finish with this day;,1.0 +"The present day, the present hour alone,",0.0 +Then seize this fleeting moment to deplore,1.0 +"Thy sins, resolved to yield to sin no more;",1.0 +"Regard life's darkest hours, its scenes most gay,",1.0 +"And fix thy mind on that sublime abode,",0.0 +Where soon thy spirit may rejoin its God;,1.0 +"There, mixed with angels and archangels, raise",2.0 +The hymn of glory to thy Maker's praise;,1.0 +And taste pure joys that know nor change nor end!,1.0 +"IN a fair island, in the southern main,",2.0 +"A Princess lived, of origin divine,",1.0 +"Of bloom celestial, and imperial line.",3.0 +IN that sweet season when the mounting Sun,1.0 +"Prepares, with joy, his radiant course to run,",0.0 +"Led by the Graces, and the dancing Hours,",1.0 +And wakes to life the various race of flowers;,2.0 +"The lovely Queen forsook her shining court,",0.0 +"For rural scenes, and healthful Sylvan sport,",0.0 +"IT so befell, that, as in cheerful talk,",2.0 +"Her Nymphs and She pursued their evening walk,",1.0 +"They found a graceful Youth dissolved in sleep,",0.0 +"His charms the Queen surveyed with fond delight,",0.0 +"By her command the youth was strait conveyed,",1.0 +And sleeping softly in her palace laid.,0.0 +"Who cried aloud, You Gods unfold this Scene!",0.0 +Where am I? what can all these wonders mean?,0.0 +Attendant nymphs a fragrant bath prepare;,0.0 +"He rose, he bathed, and on his lovely head,",1.0 +"To deck his polished limbs, a robe they brought,",0.0 +In all the various dies of beauty wrought;,2.0 +"Then led him to the Queen, who, on a throne",2.0 +"What love, what ecstasy his soul possessed!",1.0 +"Entranced he stood, and on his faltering tongue,",3.0 +"Imperfect words, and half formed accents hung;",1.0 +"Nor less the Queen the blooming youth admired,",0.0 +"Nor less delight, and love, her soul inspired.",0.0 +"OH Stranger! said the Queen, if hither driven,",1.0 +"By adverse winds, or sent a guest from Heaven;",1.0 +"To me the wretched never sue in vain,",1.0 +This fruitful isle with joy approves my reign;,0.0 +"Then speak thy wishes, and thy wants declare,",1.0 +And no denial shall attend thy prayer:,0.0 +"She paused, and blushed; the youth his silence broke,",0.0 +"And kneeling, thus the charming Queen bespoke:",0.0 +"OH GODDESS! for a form so bright as thine,",2.0 +Speaks thee descended of celestial line;,3.0 +"Low at your feet a prostrate King behold,",0.0 +"I fly a cruel tyrant's lawless hand,",2.0 +And storms have drove my vessel on your strand:,1.0 +But why do I complain of Fortune's frowns?,1.0 +"To this sweet moment? while in fond amaze,",2.0 +On such transporting excellence I gaze!,2.0 +Such symmetry of shape! so fair a face!,1.0 +Such finished elegance! such perfect grace!,2.0 +"Hear then my only wish, and OH approve",0.0 +"From Neptune, know, OH Prince, my birth I claim,",1.0 +"This island, these attendant nymphs he gave",1.0 +"But he whose fortune gains me for a bride,",2.0 +Must have his constancy severely tried;,1.0 +One day each moon am I compelled to go,1.0 +"To my Great Father's watery realms below,",4.0 +"Where coral groves celestial red display,",0.0 +And blazing diamonds emulate the day;,0.0 +"In this short absence if your love endures,",3.0 +My heart and empire are for ever your's;,2.0 +"And hoary Neptune, to reward your truth,",1.0 +Shall crown you with immortal bloom and youth;,1.0 +"But instant death will on your falsehood wait,",2.0 +Nor can my tenderness prevent your fate:,2.0 +"Twice twenty noble youths, alas! are dead,",1.0 +Who in my absence stained the nuptial bed;,0.0 +But mine is yielded on these terms alone.,2.0 +"Accept my constancy, my endless truth:",1.0 +They merited the fate by which they died:,1.0 +Accept a heart incapable of change;,1.0 +Thy beauty shall forbid desire to range.,0.0 +No other form shall to my eye seem fair;,3.0 +No other voice attract my listening ear;,1.0 +"No charms but thine, shall ever my soul approve;",4.0 +While tuneful voices chant the nuptial lay:,0.0 +"But when the Sun descending sought the main,",0.0 +"Now rose the morn, and with auspicious ray,",2.0 +"Dispelled the dewy mists, and gave the day;",0.0 +"When Lucida, with anxious cares oppressed,",2.0 +"Soul of my soul, and monarch of my heart,",1.0 +"This day, she cried, this fatal day, we part;",0.0 +"Yet, if your love uninjured you retain,",1.0 +"We soon shall meet in happiness again,",1.0 +"To part no more, but rolling years employ,",1.0 +"JOY of my life, dismiss those needless fears,",0.0 +"Replied the King, and stay those precious tears;",0.0 +"Should lovely Venus leave her native sky,",0.0 +"And at my feet, imploring fondness, lie,",0.0 +"Even she, the radiant Queen of soft desires,",1.0 +"Should, disappointed, burn with hopeless fires.",0.0 +"THE heart of Man, the Queen's experience knew",2.0 +"Perjured, and false, yet wished to find him true:",2.0 +"She sighed, retiring; and, in regal state,",1.0 +"The King conducts her to the palace gate,",1.0 +The wondrous work of his celestial hands;,1.0 +"Six harnessed swans the bright machine convey,",1.0 +And plunge the goddess in the sounding tide.,0.0 +"SLOW to the court the pensive King returns,",0.0 +"And sighs in secret, and in silence mourns;",1.0 +"In mournful accents, and melodious strains;",3.0 +"Her plaintive woes fill the resounding lawn,",2.0 +"THE King, to mitigate his tender pain,",0.0 +"Seeks the apartment of the virgin train,",3.0 +And bid the melancholy moments smile;,0.0 +"But there deserted, lonely rooms he found;",1.0 +And solitary silence reigned around:,0.0 +"He called aloud, when, lo! a hag appears,",0.0 +Bending beneath deformity and years;,3.0 +"Who said, My Liege, explain your sacred will,",1.0 +With joy your sovereign purpose I fulfil.,1.0 +"My will! detested wretch! avoid my sight,",1.0 +And hide that hideous shape in endless night.,2.0 +"What? does thy Queen, overrun with rude distrust,",6.0 +Resolve by force to keep a husband just?,0.0 +"YOU wrong, replied the hag, your royal wife,",0.0 +"Whose care is love, and love to guard your life;",0.0 +"The race of mortals are by nature frail,",1.0 +And strong temptations with the best prevail.,1.0 +"Be that my care, he said; be thine, to send",1.0 +"The virgin train, let them my will attend.",3.0 +"No more recalls the image of his spouse,",2.0 +How false is Man! nor recollects his vows;,0.0 +"With wild inconstancy for all he burns,",1.0 +"At length a maid superior to the rest,",1.0 +"Arrayed in smiles, in virgin beauty dressed,",0.0 +"Received his passion, and returned his love,",1.0 +And softly wooed him to the silent grove.,1.0 +"Within the grove a spacious grotto stood,",1.0 +"Where forty youths in marble seemed to mourn,",0.0 +Each youth reclining on a funeral urn;,3.0 +"He treads her footsteps, joyful to obey;",2.0 +"There, fired with passion, clasped her to his breast,",3.0 +And thus the transport of his soul expressed:,1.0 +DELIGHTFUL beauty! decked with every charm,0.0 +"High fancy paints, or glowing love can form,",1.0 +"I sigh, I gaze, I tremble, I adore,",1.0 +Such lovely looks never blessed my eyes before!,3.0 +"For Love's delights, and tender transports made,",0.0 +"No envious tongue to censure or direct,",4.0 +"Here yield to Love, and tenderly employ",1.0 +The silent season in ecstatic joy.,0.0 +"He sighed and strove, but strove and sighed in vain;",0.0 +"She rushed indignant from his fond embrace,",1.0 +"While rage, with blushes, paints her virgin face;",0.0 +While she to magic charms for vengeance flies.,0.0 +"She filled her palm with the translucent wave,",1.0 +"And, sprinkling, cried, Receive, false man, in time,",1.0 +The just reward of thy detested crime.,1.0 +"Despise perfection, and fair virtue slight;",2.0 +"Whose hearts nor vows can chain, nor honour bind,",1.0 +"Mad to possess, by passion blindly led,",2.0 +"And then as mad, to stain the nuptial bed;",0.0 +"Whose roving souls no excellence, no age,",3.0 +"No form, no rank, no beauty, can engage:",6.0 +"Slaves to the bad, to the deserving worst,",1.0 +"Sick of your twentieth love, as of your first.",3.0 +"Like thee were Lovers, and like thee forsworn;",2.0 +Nor for a day preserve their passion pure;,1.0 +"Whom neither love, nor beauty, could restrain,",0.0 +Nor fear of endless infamy and pain.,1.0 +"Now feel the force of heavens avenging hand,",3.0 +And here inanimate for ever stand!,1.0 +SHE spoke ' -- amazed the listening monarch stood;,0.0 +And icy horror froze his ebbing blood!,0.0 +"Thick shades of death upon his eyelids creep,",2.0 +And closed them fast in everlasting sleep;,0.0 +"No sense of life, no motion he retains,",3.0 +"But fixed, a dreadful monument remains!",1.0 +"A STATUE now! and if revived once more,",3.0 +"Would prove, no doubt, as CONSTANT as before.",2.0 +"OH CHATTERTON! for thee the pensive song I raise,",3.0 +"Thou object of my wonder, pity, envy, praise!",1.0 +"Bright Star of Genius! ' -- torn from life and fame,",1.0 +"My tears, my verse, shall consecrate thy name!",0.0 +You Muses! who around his natal bed,0.0 +"Triumphant sung, and all your influence shed;",2.0 +"APOLLO! thou who rapt his infant breast,",1.0 +"Ah! why, in vain, such mighty gifts bestow",0.0 +' -- Why give fresh tortures to the Child of Woe?,2.0 +Adding new sense to all the ills behind?,2.0 +Transforms young rapture to the ponderous sigh;,4.0 +Why all thy spells for CHATTERTON combine?,1.0 +"His thought creative, why must thou confine?",1.0 +"Subdued by thee, his pen no more obeys,",2.0 +No longer gives the song of ancient days;,1.0 +"Nor paints in glowing tints from distant skies,",0.0 +"Drops her sad plumes, and yields to thee her powers.",4.0 +"Behold him, Muses! see your favourite son",0.0 +"The prey of WANT, ere manhood is begun!",3.0 +"The bosom you have filled, with anguish torn ' --",1.0 +"The mind you cherished, drooping and forlorn!",1.0 +"And now Despair her sable form extends,",0.0 +"Creeps to his couch, and over his pillow bends.",2.0 +"Ah, see! a deadly bowl the fiend concealed,",0.0 +Which to his eye with caution is revealed ' --,1.0 +"Seize it, APOLLO! ' -- seize the liquid snare!",2.0 +"Dash it to earth, or dissipate in air!",0.0 +"Stay, hapless Youth! refrain ' -- abhor the draught,",1.0 +"With pangs, with racks, with deep repentance fraught!",0.0 +"O, hold! the cup with woe ETERNAL flows,",0.0 +More ' -- more than Death the poisonous juice bestows!,2.0 +In vain! ' -- he drinks ' -- and now the searching fires,0.0 +"Rush through his veins, and writhing he expires!",1.0 +"That wings my pulse, and shoots from vein to vein?",0.0 +"What mean, regardless of yonder midnight bell,",3.0 +What strange disorder prompts these thoughts to glow?,0.0 +"These sighs to murmur, and these tears to flow?",1.0 +"Once a pure saint, and more than saints adored:",2.0 +"She comes in all her killing charms confessed,",0.0 +"Glares through the gloom, and pours upon my breast,",0.0 +And drags me back to misery and love.,1.0 +"Enjoy thy triumphs, dear illusion! see",0.0 +This sad apostate from his God to thee;,1.0 +"Flame through my blood, and steal me from my urn.",1.0 +"Yet, yet, frail Abelard! one effort try,",2.0 +Ere the last lingering spark of virtue die;,3.0 +And spite of nature tear her from thy soul.,1.0 +"From love's wild visionary wishes strayed,",1.0 +"And sought to lose thy beauties in the shade,",0.0 +"Faith dropped a smile, devotion lent her fire,",1.0 +"Led me enraptured to the blessed abode,",3.0 +And taught my heart to glow with all its God.,0.0 +"But o, how weak fair faith and virtue prove!",2.0 +When Eloisa melts away in love!,0.0 +"When her fond soul impassioned, rapt, unveiled,",3.0 +"No joy forgotten, and no wish concealed,",3.0 +"Flows through her pen as infant softness free,",0.0 +You heavens! as walking in yonder sacred fane,4.0 +"Just as remorse had roused an aching sigh,",1.0 +"And my torn soul hung trembling in my eye,",4.0 +"In that kind hour thy fatal letter came,",1.0 +"I saw, I gazed, I shivered at the name;",0.0 +"The conscious lamps at once forgot to shine,",0.0 +Prophetic tremors shook the hallowed shrine;,0.0 +"Priests, censors, altars from thy genius fled,",2.0 +And heaven itself shut on me while I read.,2.0 +"Dear smiling mischief! art thou still the same,",1.0 +The still pale victim of too soft a flame?,3.0 +"Warm, as when first with more than mortal shine",0.0 +Each melting eye-ball mixed thy soul with mine?,1.0 +"Have not thy tears for ever taught to flow,",0.0 +"The pomp of sacrifice, the whispered tale,",0.0 +"The dreadful vow yet hovering over thy veil,",2.0 +"To love's dread shrine, and weep and sigh for me?",1.0 +"Then take me, take me, lock me in thy arms,",0.0 +"Spring to my lips, and give me all thy charms:",0.0 +"No, fly me, fly me, spread the impatient sail,",3.0 +"Steal the lark's wing, and mount the swiftest gale;",3.0 +"Skim the last ocean, freeze beneath the pole;",3.0 +"Renounce me, curse me, root me from thy soul;",1.0 +"Fly, fly, for justice bares the arm of God,",1.0 +And the grasped vengeance only waits his nod.,2.0 +Are these my wishes? can they thus aspire?,2.0 +"Does frenzy form them, or does grace inspire?",1.0 +"Can Abelard, in hurricanes of zeal,",1.0 +"Betray his heart, and teach thee not to feel?",0.0 +"Each human warmth, and chill thee into stone?",0.0 +"On that dear bosom trembling let me lie,",1.0 +"Rouse all my passions, act my joys anew,",0.0 +"Farewell, you cells! you martyred saints! adieu:",1.0 +"Sleep, conscience, sleep! each awful thought be drowned,",1.0 +And sevenfold darkness veil the scene around.,6.0 +"Around the expiring God bright angels fly,",3.0 +"Swell the loud hymn, and open all the sky:",3.0 +"OH save me, save me, ere the thunders roll,",1.0 +"Return, you hours! when guiltless of a stain,",1.0 +"All Athens boasted, and all Rome admired;",1.0 +"My merit in its full meridian shone,",2.0 +"Each rival blushing, and each heart my own.",1.0 +"Return, you scenes! ah no, from fancy fly,",0.0 +"On time's stretched wing, till each idea die,",1.0 +"Eternal fly, since all that learning gave",0.0 +"Too weak to conquer, and too fond to save,",3.0 +"To love's soft empire every wish betrayed,",1.0 +And left my laurels withering in the shade.,1.0 +"Let me forget, that while deceitful fame",2.0 +"Grasped her shrill trump, and filled it with my name,",4.0 +"Each saint, each blessed insensible to love,",1.0 +"At once my soul from bright ambition won,",0.0 +"I hugged the dart, I wished to be undone;",0.0 +"No more pale science durst my thoughts engage,",2.0 +Insipid dullness hung on every page;,0.0 +"The midnight lamp no more enjoyed its blaze,",2.0 +No more my spirit flew from maze to maze:,0.0 +Thy glances bade philosophy resign,1.0 +"Her throne to thee, and every sense was thine.",1.0 +"But what could all the frosts of wisdom do,",0.0 +"Opposed to beauty, when it melts in you?",0.0 +"Misshapen rocks, wild images of woe,",2.0 +"Wakes the green herb, or paints the unfolding flower;",4.0 +The dismal scenes black melancholy pours,1.0 +"Conspire, in vain, with all the aids of art,",2.0 +To blot thy dear idea from my heart.,1.0 +Why lives thy soft divinity where woe,1.0 +"Heaves the pale sigh, and anguish loves to glow?",3.0 +"Breathe in its sweets, and melt along the gale;",0.0 +"Fly where gay scenes luxurious youths employ,",5.0 +Where every moment steals the wing of joy;,0.0 +Devoted slaves and victims all thy own:,0.0 +OH memory! ingenious to revive,3.0 +"Each fleeting hour, and teach the past to live,",0.0 +Witness what conflicts this frail bosom tore!,3.0 +An heart that panted to be still a slave!,1.0 +"When youth, warmth, rapture, spirit, love, and flame,",1.0 +"Seized every sense, and burned through all my frame;",1.0 +"From youth, warmth, rapture, to these wilds I fled,",2.0 +"There, while these venerable cloisters rise",1.0 +"Over the bleak surge, and gain upon the skies,",2.0 +My wounded soul indulged the tear to flow,0.0 +Over all her sad vicissitudes of woe;,1.0 +"Profuse of life, and yet afraid to die,",0.0 +"Guilt in my heart, and horror in my eye,",0.0 +"With ceaseless prayers, the whole artillery given",2.0 +"To win the mercies of offended heaven,",1.0 +"Each hill, made vocal, echoed all around,",1.0 +While my torn breast knocked bleeding on the ground.,5.0 +"Yet, yet, alas! though all my moments fly",0.0 +"Stained by a tear, and darkened in a sigh;",0.0 +"The dusk of death, and sunk me to a shade,",1.0 +"Shoots through my blood, and drinks up all my heart;",0.0 +"My vows and wishes wildly disagree,",1.0 +And grace itself mistakes my God for thee.,0.0 +"For ever rises in the solar ray,",0.0 +A phantom brighter than the blaze of day:,1.0 +"Wherever I go, the visionary guest",2.0 +"Pants on my lip, or sinks upon my breast;",0.0 +"Unfolds her sweets, and, throbbing to destroy,",1.0 +Winds round my heart in luxury of joy;,1.0 +I hear her softer accents in the sound;,0.0 +"No tears can drive her hence, no pangs control,",2.0 +For every object brings her to my soul.,1.0 +"Last night, reclining on yonder airy steep,",3.0 +My busy eyes hung brooding over the deep;,3.0 +And the soft moon-beam danced from wave to wave;,4.0 +"Each former bliss in this bright mirror seen,",2.0 +"With all my glories, dawned upon the scene,",0.0 +"Recalled the dear auspicious hour anew,",0.0 +When my fond soul to Eloisa flew:,2.0 +"Thy frantic lover snatched thee to his breast,",1.0 +"Gazed on thy blushes armed with every grace,",0.0 +And saw the goddess beaming in thy face;,0.0 +"Saw thy wild, trembling, ardent wishes move",3.0 +"Each pulse to rapture, and each glance to love.",1.0 +"But lo! the winds descend, the billows roar,",0.0 +"Foam to the clouds, and burst upon the shore,",0.0 +"At once the pleasing images withdrew,",1.0 +And more than horrors crowded on my view;,1.0 +"Thy uncle's form, in all his ire arrayed,",0.0 +"Serenely dreadful stalked along the shade,",0.0 +"Pierced by his sword, I sunk upon the ground,",0.0 +The spectre ghastly smiled upon the wound;,0.0 +And tossed my infamy from tongue to tongue.,1.0 +Detested wretch! how impotent thy age!,1.0 +"Spite of thyself, inhuman as thou art,",3.0 +Thy murdering hand has left me all my heart;,2.0 +"Left me each tender, fond affection, warm,",0.0 +"A nerve to tremble, and an eye to charm.",1.0 +"No, cruel, cruel, exquisite in ill,",2.0 +"My death had robbed lost vengeance of her toil,",2.0 +And scarcely warmed a Scythian to a smile:,1.0 +With all their savage mysteries of woe;,1.0 +"The powers of nature, and the source of joy;",3.0 +"To stretch me on the racks of vain desire,",1.0 +"Each passion throbbing, and each wish on fire;",1.0 +"Mad to enjoy, unable to be blessed,",3.0 +"Fiends in my veins, and hell within my breast.",0.0 +"Aid me, fair faith! assist me, grace divine!",3.0 +"You martyrs! bless me, and you saints! refine,",1.0 +You vows! you altars! from this bosom tear,1.0 +"Voluptuous love, and leave no anguish there:",4.0 +Oblivion! be thy blackest plume displayed,1.0 +While awful reason whispers in the friend;,0.0 +"Friend, did I say? immortals! what a name?",0.0 +"Can dull, cold friendship, own so wild a flame?",1.0 +"Shot all his soul between thee and the sky,",1.0 +"Called thy rapt ear to die upon his tongue,",3.0 +"Now strongly rouse, while heaven his zeal inspires",1.0 +"Calm all thy passions, all thy peace restore,",0.0 +And teach that snowy breast to heave no more.,1.0 +"By angels guarded, and by vows secured,",1.0 +"To all that once awoke thy fondness dead,",0.0 +"And hope, pale sorrow's last sad refuge, fled;",2.0 +"Why wilt thou weep, and sigh, and melt in vain,",0.0 +"From yonder bright portal opening in the sky,",4.0 +"Thy Abelard should bid his God adieu,",1.0 +"Pant at thy feet, and taste thy charms anew?",0.0 +"You heavens! if to this tender bosom wooed,",1.0 +If one faint glimpse of Eloise can move,2.0 +"The fiercest, wildest agonies of love;",1.0 +"What shall I be, when, dazzling as the light,",1.0 +"Look on thyself, consider who thou art,",2.0 +"Pours the loud organ through the trembling fane,",4.0 +"Yonder pious maids each earthly wish disown,",0.0 +"Kiss the dread cross, and crowd upon the throne:",3.0 +"OH let thy soul the sacred charge attend,",1.0 +Teach every breast from every hymn to steal,1.0 +"To rise to rapture, to dissolve away",1.0 +"In dreams of heaven, and lead thyself the way,",0.0 +Till all the glories of the blessed abode,1.0 +"Blaze on the scene, and every thought is God!",0.0 +"While thus thy exemplary cares prevail,",4.0 +"And make each vestal spotless as her veil,",1.0 +The eternal spirit over thy cell shall move,3.0 +In the soft image of the mystic dove;,3.0 +"Peace in his smile, and healing on his wing;",1.0 +"At once remove affliction from thy breast,",1.0 +"Melt over thy soul, and hush her pangs to rest.",3.0 +"OH that my soul, from love's cursed bondage free,",1.0 +Could catch the transports that I urge to thee!,0.0 +OH that some angel's more than magic art,0.0 +Would kindly tear the hermit from his heart!,1.0 +"Extinguish every guilty sense, and leave",0.0 +"No pulse to riot, and no sigh to heave.",3.0 +"Vain fruitless wish! still, still, the vigorous flame",4.0 +"Bursts, like an earthquake, through my shattered frame;",2.0 +"Spite of the joys that truth and virtue prove,",0.0 +"I feel but thee, and breathe not but to love;",2.0 +"Repent in vain, scarce wish to be forgiven;",1.0 +"Thy form my idol, and thy charms my heaven.",1.0 +"Yet, yet, my fair! thy nobler efforts try,",3.0 +"Lift me from earth, and give me to the sky;",1.0 +"Let my lost soul thy brighter virtues feel,",3.0 +"Warmed with thy hopes, and winged with all thy zeal.",0.0 +"And when, low bending at the hallowed shrine,",1.0 +Thy contrite heart shall Abelard resign;,6.0 +"When pitying heaven, impatient to forgive,",3.0 +And ask the same immortal boon for me.,0.0 +"Then when these black terrific scenes are over,",0.0 +And rebel nature chills the soul no more;,1.0 +"When on thy cheek the expiring roses fade,",2.0 +"When armed with quick varieties of pain,",1.0 +"Pale death shall set my kindred spirit free,",1.0 +"Some pious friend, whose wild affections glow",0.0 +"Prepare the garland, and adorn the bier;",1.0 +And teach thy genial dust to mix with mine.,0.0 +"Mean while, divinely purged from every stain,",1.0 +"To each bright cherub's purity aspire,",2.0 +"Catch ali his zeal, and pant with all his fire;",3.0 +"No uncle murders, and no passion tears,",3.0 +"Enjoy with heaven eternity of rest,",1.0 +"PRoud thus to wait, ' -- each colour to prepare,",3.0 +But wants the art ' -- to paint the blooming fair.,0.0 +"Around her neck, in innocence she smiles,",1.0 +And fondly ' -- hides herself in infant wiles.,0.0 +"The maid obsequious ' -- scarcely in her arms,",2.0 +Restrains the babe ' -- her slender hold alarms.,0.0 +"Choose then this group, disposed by softest shades",0.0 +And playful win them to their evening beds.,1.0 +But how the mind ' -- the mother to express?,2.0 +Who fondly folds her infant to her breast.,1.0 +A vain attempt ' -- a figure far too fine ' --,1.0 +"Steal fancy lightly ' -- scarce the curtain by,",2.0 +Nor breathe while sleep ' -- the babes in slumber lie;,0.0 +To the first cause let innocence my mind.,5.0 +How moves the babe? ' -- who forms the human kind.,0.0 +"While fancy hovers as the two she views,",1.0 +"TO thee, OH Mira, I these Lines commend,",3.0 +"These from thy gentle and immortal Friend,",2.0 +"Though not to thee my airy Form appears,",1.0 +"At Night when, lonely by the Taper's Flame,",2.0 +In a still Whisper thou hast breathed my Name,3.0 +And in thy Eyes beheld the rising Woe;,0.0 +Ah simple Sorrows when for me they flow!,1.0 +"Think not, OH Mira, not in me to find",3.0 +These are as thou wilt by the Sequel find,1.0 +Below a Spirit of the blissful kind:,1.0 +"And was thy Form, as wanton Helen gay,",1.0 +"Or did thy Eyes outshine the Lamp of Day,",1.0 +"These please not me ' -- Bright Eyes in vain may roll,",2.0 +I read no Charms but in the purer Soul.,1.0 +By thy changed Features I too often find,4.0 +The wild Ideas of thy restless Mind;,1.0 +"All serious now abstracted from the Crew,",4.0 +"No prudent Stoic more serene than you,",1.0 +"Till in your Brain some gaudy Pictures spring,",0.0 +"All gay and careless, then you laugh and sing:",0.0 +These vanish like a painted Cloud ' -- and now,0.0 +"You form dark Visions and at Phantoms start,",2.0 +From a too thoughtless or too roving Mind;,4.0 +For these are Strangers to a Soul resigned.,2.0 +Where Disappointments crowd the rocky Strand?,1.0 +Not so ' -- nor let thy Vanity pretend,1.0 +To hope for more than ever blessed thy Friend;,0.0 +"In Life I shone conspicuous over the rest,",4.0 +While the pure Beams malignant Eyes oppressed;,3.0 +"Sound Judgement, Learning, Wisdom, too was mine,",1.0 +And piercing Wit superior far to thine;,2.0 +"Yet gaping Rage stood ready to devour,",2.0 +And Dullness rained on me a leaden Shower:,1.0 +"Defamed, applauded, envied, and admired:",1.0 +A milder Passage and more easy Doom?,1.0 +Deluded Girl! let not a Thought so vain,1.0 +"Elate thy Spirits, nor ascend thy Brain.",1.0 +"But hear, OH Mira, nor too late be wise,",3.0 +From painted Trifles turn thy longing Eyes;,0.0 +"Ask not for what will make thy Prayer offend,",0.0 +"But ask Content, a Parent and a Friend;",1.0 +"Ask Bread and Peace, it's all that Nature craves,",1.0 +"This Kings acknowledge, when they find their Graves.",0.0 +"Say, why thy Features lose their healthful Die,",0.0 +And the Tears tremble in the languid Eye?,2.0 +"The mighty Conflict I with pity see,",1.0 +"When thy rude Passions struggle to be free,",3.0 +"And rack thy Breast ' -- the incoherent Stage,",1.0 +Where grave and comic jar like Youth and Age;,0.0 +Now Death appears all horrible and grim:,2.0 +"But the next Moment none so fair as him,",1.0 +"And now you sigh ' -- Ah, let me calmly die:",0.0 +"Then shrinking, trembling from the Grave you fly,",1.0 +"But thou, beware, and if thy Fate has joined",2.0 +A sickly Body to a roving Mind;,1.0 +"Be calm nor mourn at the Supreme Decree,",1.0 +"Nor think the Mandate shall be changed for thee,",1.0 +From Sphere to Sphere and trace the boundless Sky?,0.0 +"Then would the Lives of little Mortals show,",0.0 +Like empty Bubbles raised of Morning Dew:,0.0 +"All seem as Trifles, whether we behold",1.0 +"A Monarch banished, or a Sparrow sold;",1.0 +"A thoughtless Insect trampled in the Mire,",1.0 +Or a proud Beauty in her Bloom expire.,2.0 +"More noble Scenes enraptured Spirits view,",0.0 +But the grand Prospect is too large for you:,4.0 +"A closer Bound best suits thy narrow Mind,",1.0 +A few Examples of thy fading kind.,1.0 +Whose smiling Face not Spleen itself could blame;,0.0 +"Scarce nineteen Years her dawning Beauties knew,",1.0 +Ever the young Roses bid her Cheeks adieu;,2.0 +"Her Sire lifts to Heaven his mournful Eyes,",0.0 +And her sad Brother fills the Air with Cries:,2.0 +To fruitless Passion all his manly Mind.,0.0 +"What simple Sorrow to the dead you pay,",1.0 +"For ever the Transport of his Grief was over,",1.0 +"Still Pero lived a yet surviving Son,",1.0 +"Death's icy Hand his youthful Limbs invades,",1.0 +And bids him mingle with his kindred Shades.,1.0 +Scarce looking round them ever they bid farewell:,4.0 +Yet dangerous it's to wander here too long;,2.0 +These went more willing as they fell more young;,1.0 +"Whose Doubts increasing with her lengthened Years,",1.0 +And gave new Terrors to her final Day:,2.0 +"The dreadful Moment would have past as well,",0.0 +At sixteen Years had weeping Laura fell.,0.0 +"Let this, OH Mira, cheer thy drooping Mind,",3.0 +To bear the Sentence past on all Mankind:,1.0 +"I bore the same, whose Life was more desired,",0.0 +"More loved, more known, and justly more admired:",0.0 +Yet this grand Fear is wove with Nature's Laws;,3.0 +"Is sometime right, and sometime has no Cause:",3.0 +And the Clouds brighten to a purer Sky;,3.0 +"Still look to Heaven and its Laws attend,",1.0 +And next the Lines of thy aerial Friend.,2.0 +"From this high Cliff is an unusual View,",3.0 +And here our Eyes uncommon Scenes pursue.,0.0 +"Compared with us, who cut through shining Waves?",1.0 +"They are exposed to Cold, exposed to Heat,",1.0 +In different Seasons mourn a different Fate;,0.0 +"To breezy Mountains, or to sheltering Groves.",3.0 +"While we no clothing need, no Change of Rules,",3.0 +"The Sea in Winter warms, in Summer cools.",0.0 +"For a new Crop to fit the stubborn Soil,",2.0 +"While Heaven supplies our Wants without our Sweat,",0.0 +"We never are hungry, but we have to eat.",3.0 +Why should we thus by partial Heaven be blessed;,0.0 +"With neither Grief, nor Doubt, nor Toil oppressed;",0.0 +"While those on Earth of Happiness despair,",1.0 +"In Pain, and Anguish die, and live in Care?",0.0 +"Two different Kinds of Men by Heaven were made,",1.0 +Under the Covert of the shadowing Trees.,5.0 +To each a Guardian Spirit was assigned,3.0 +"To guide their Passions, and inform their Mind:",1.0 +"Despised his Maker, and abused his Love.",1.0 +And bid him his own blinded Will pursue;,2.0 +Thus earthy Men deserted by their Guide,2.0 +"Can't rule their giddy Thoughts, nor Stem the coming Tide;",1.0 +"But still are doomed Slaves to their darling Lust,",2.0 +"Are all deceitful, cruel, and unjust;",1.0 +"Restless Desires their wearied Soul distract,",2.0 +"They know not what they are, nor, ' -- why they act.",1.0 +"While we content with what the Gods approve,",1.0 +"The Tide swells on the Shore, and forward creeps,",2.0 +"The Cause is wondrous, and in vain I sought.",1.0 +The Cause is wondrous plain; the wise will prove,0.0 +The Nature of a Fluid is to move:,2.0 +"An Eddy, though unseen, disturbs the whole.",1.0 +The gliding Parts with secret Motion flow;,0.0 +"Were they at rest, they would to Hardness grow.",1.0 +"Are fixed to solid Ice, and all the Motion's lost.",0.0 +Happy are those who know the secret Cause,1.0 +"Of strange Effects, and Nature's hidden Laws.",0.0 +"But leave the Rocks; for rising Fogs appear,",0.0 +IMperial dome of Edward wise and brave!,2.0 +"At whose proud tilts, unmatched for hardy deeds,",1.0 +Heroic kings have frowned on barbed steeds:,1.0 +Though now no more thy crested chiefs advance,1.0 +"In armed array, nor grasp the glittering lance;",2.0 +"Though knighthood boasts the martial pomp no more,",2.0 +That graced its gorgeous festivals of yore;,1.0 +"Say, stately dome, if ever thy marshaled knights",3.0 +"So nobly decked their old majestic rites,",0.0 +"Yet future triumphs, Windsor, still remain;",0.0 +Still may thy bowers receive as brave a train:,2.0 +Heaven's high command has sent a sacred heir!,0.0 +"Him, the bold pattern of his patriot sire,",5.0 +Shall fill with early fame immortal fire:,0.0 +"In life's fresh spring, ever buds the promised prime",4.0 +The patriot sire shall catch with sure presage,5.0 +Each liberal omen of his opening age;,3.0 +"Then to thy courts shall lead, with conscious joy,",0.0 +"Meantime, thy royal piles that rise elate",1.0 +In the young champion's musing mind shall raise,4.0 +"While, as around his eager glance explores",1.0 +"Thy chambers rough with war's constructed stores,",0.0 +Young Edward's sable mail shall strike his eye:,1.0 +"On the same wall, the same triumphal base,",2.0 +His own victorious monument to place.,3.0 +Nor can a fairer kindred title move,1.0 +"Than Edward, laureate prince. In lettered truth,",2.0 +"Oxford, sage mother, schooled this studious youth:",5.0 +"Her simple institutes, and rigid lore,",0.0 +"Nor shunned, at pensive eve, with lonesome pace",0.0 +Stream through the storied window's holy hue.,0.0 +"And OH, young prince, be thine his moral praise;",2.0 +Nor seek in fields of blood his warrior bays.,0.0 +And the long phalanx flashes in the sun;,2.0 +"Mar the bright scene, nor break the firm array:",3.0 +"The youthful breast, and asks the future fight;",0.0 +"Nor knows that Horror's form, a spectre won,",3.0 +May no such rage be thine: no dazzling ray,2.0 +Of specious fame thy steadfast feet betray.,1.0 +"Be thine the throne with peaceful emblems hung,",0.0 +The silver lyre to milder conquest strung!,0.0 +"Instead of glorious feats achieved in arms,",2.0 +Bid rising arts display their mimic charms:,1.0 +"Record the past, and rouse to future praise:",0.0 +"Before the public eye, in breathing brass,",0.0 +Bid thy famed father's mighty triumphs pass:,3.0 +"Then mourn not, Edward's dome, thine ancient boast,",0.0 +"They tournaments, and listed combats lost!",4.0 +"From Arthur's board, no more, proud castle, mourn",2.0 +"Those elfin charms, that held in magic night",0.0 +"Its elder fame, and dimmed its genuine light,",2.0 +"At length dissolve in Truth's meridian ray,",2.0 +And the bright order bursts to purer day:,2.0 +On virtue's base its rescued glory rears;,0.0 +"Sees civil prowess mightier acts achieve,",3.0 +Sees meek humanity distress relieve;,2.0 +"Adopts the worth that bids the conflict cease,",0.0 +"Still thou dost triumph in the noblest part,",0.0 +Still does preserve the generous patriot's heart;,5.0 +"Thy principles, great Chief, exalt thy fame,",2.0 +"For ever loved, distinguished must thou be,",0.0 +For brightest virtues ever shone in thee;,0.0 +"Thy noble acts are well in Britain known,",0.0 +And generous friendship marks thee for her own;,3.0 +"Then glory, C' -- ' -- y in this seeming fall,",1.0 +The day will dawn when Britain's sons shall see,0.0 +"Thou like the sun in yonder western skies,",0.0 +"THE grateful Tribute of these rural Lays,",1.0 +"Which to her Patron's Hand the Muse conveys,",0.0 +Deign to accept: It's just she Tribute bring,2.0 +"To him, whose Bounty gives her Life to sing;",1.0 +"To him, whose generous Favours tune her Voice;",3.0 +"And bid her, mid her Poverty, rejoice.",1.0 +"Inspired by these, she dares herself prepare,",1.0 +To sing the Toils of each revolving Year;,0.0 +"Those endless Toils, which always grow anew,",0.0 +"Even these, with Pleasure, can the Muse rehearse,",2.0 +When you and Gratitude demand her Verse.,0.0 +"SOON as the golden Harvest quits the Plain,",0.0 +And CERES' Gifts reward the Farmer's Pain;,2.0 +"What Corn each Sheaf will yield, intent to hear,",0.0 +"And guess from thence the Profits of the Year,",1.0 +"With deep Attention, waiting his Command.",1.0 +"To each our Task he readily divides,",1.0 +"And pointing, to our different Stations guides.",1.0 +"As he directs, to distant Barns we go;",1.0 +"Here two for Wheat, and there for Barley two.",1.0 +"But first, to show what he expects to find,",1.0 +"These Words, or Words like these, disclose his Mind:",1.0 +"So dry the Corn was carried from the Field,",1.0 +"Come, strip and try; let's see what you can do.",3.0 +"DIVESTED of our Clothes, with Flail in Hand,",1.0 +"At proper Distance, Front to Front we stand:",0.0 +"That once secure, we swiftly whirl them round;",0.0 +"From the strong Planks our Crabtree Staves rebound,",3.0 +And echoing Barns return the rattling Sound.,2.0 +"Now in the Air our knotty Weapons fly,",0.0 +And now with equal Force descend from high;,0.0 +"Down one, one up, so well they keep the Time,",1.0 +The CYCLOPS' Hammers could not truer chime;,0.0 +"Nor with more heavy Strokes could Aetna groan,",1.0 +When VULCAN forged the Arms for THETIS' Son.,0.0 +"Drops from our Locks, or trickles down our Face.",1.0 +No Intermission in our Work we know;,1.0 +"Their Master absent, others safely play;",0.0 +"Nor yet, the tedious Labour to beguile,",3.0 +"And make the passing Minutes sweetly smile,",0.0 +"Can we, like Shepherd's, tell a merry Tale;",1.0 +"The Voice is lost, drowned by the louder Flail.",2.0 +"But we may think ' -- Alas! what pleasing thing,",1.0 +"Here, to the Mind, can the dull Fancy bring?",3.0 +No cheerful Sound diverts our listening Ear.,1.0 +"The Shepherd well may tune his Voice to sing,",0.0 +Inspired with all the Beauties of the Spring.,2.0 +"It's all a gloomy, melancholy Scene,",0.0 +Fit only to provoke the Muse's Spleen.,2.0 +"When sooty Peas we thresh, you scarce can know",0.0 +"The Sweat, the Dust, and suffocating Smoke,",0.0 +"Make us so much like Ethiopians look,",2.0 +"We scare our Wives, when Evening brings us home;",0.0 +"Week after Week, we this dull Task pursue,",3.0 +"A new, indeed, but frequently a worse!",1.0 +"He counts the Bushels, counts how much a Day;",0.0 +"Why, look you, Rogues, d'ye think that this will do?",1.0 +Your Neighbours thresh as much again as you.,2.0 +"Now in our Hands we wish our noisy Tools,",0.0 +To drown the hated Names of Rogues and Fools.,0.0 +"But wanting these, we just like School-boys look,",2.0 +When angry Masters view the blotted Book:,1.0 +"They cry, their Ink was faulty, and their Pen;",1.0 +"BUT soon as Winter hides his hoary Head,",0.0 +And Nature's Face is with new Beauty spread;,2.0 +"The lovely Spring appears, refreshing Showers",0.0 +"New cloth the Field with Grass, and blooming Flowers.",1.0 +"Next her, the ripening Summer presses on,",1.0 +And SOL begins his longest Race to run.,0.0 +Before the Door our welcome Master stands;,0.0 +"Tells us, the ripened Grass requires our Hands.",0.0 +The grateful Tidings presently imparts,1.0 +"Life to our Looks, and Spirits to our Hearts.",1.0 +We wish the happy Season may be fair;,1.0 +"And, joyful, long to breathe in opener Air.",2.0 +"This Change of Labour seems to give such Ease,",0.0 +With Thoughts of Happiness ourselves we please.,1.0 +"When first the Lark sings Prologue to the Day,",2.0 +"We rise, admonished by his early Lay;",1.0 +"This new Employ with eager Haste to prove,",0.0 +"This new Employ, become so much our Love.",0.0 +Alas! that human Joys should change so soon!,0.0 +Our Morning Pleasure turns to Pain at Noon.,0.0 +"The Birds salute us, as to Work we go,",1.0 +"On our right Shoulder hangs the crooked Blade,",2.0 +"Our left supports the Whetstone, Scrip, and Beer;",1.0 +"And now the Field, designed to try our Might,",0.0 +"At length appears, and meets our longing Sight.",0.0 +"The Grass and Ground we view with careful Eyes,",0.0 +To see which way the best Advantage lies;,0.0 +"With rapid Force our sharpened Blades we drive,",0.0 +"Strain every Nerve, and Blow for Blow we give.",1.0 +"All strive to vanquish, though the Victor gains",1.0 +"No other Glory, but the greatest Pains.",2.0 +"BUT when the scorching Sun is mounted high,",0.0 +And no kind Barns with friendly Shade are nigh;,1.0 +While Streams of Sweat run trickling down apace.,2.0 +"And wish that Strength again, we vainly spent.",0.0 +"THUS, in the Morn, a Courser have I seen",0.0 +With headlong Fury scour the level Green;,1.0 +"Or mount the Hills, if Hills are in his Way,",0.0 +As if no Labour could his Fire allay;,1.0 +"Till PHOEBUS, shining with meridian Heat,",3.0 +"The lengthened Chase scarce able to sustain,",2.0 +He measures back the Hills and Dales with Pain.,0.0 +"Search out a shady Tree, and down we sit:",1.0 +From Scrip and Bottle hope new Strength to gain;,1.0 +But Scrip and Bottle too are tried in vain.,0.0 +Down our parched Throats we scarce the Bread can get;,2.0 +Nor can the Bottle only answer all;,1.0 +The Bottle and the Beer are both too small.,2.0 +Time flows: Again we rise from off the Grass;,2.0 +Again each Mower takes his proper Place;,0.0 +"Not eager now, as late, our Strength to prove;",0.0 +But all contented regular to move.,1.0 +"We often whet, and often view the Sun;",0.0 +"As often wish, his tedious Race was run.",2.0 +"At length he veils his purple Face from Sight,",0.0 +"Homeward we move, but spent so much with Toil,",2.0 +"We slowly walk, and rest at every Style.",0.0 +"Our good expecting Wives, who think we stay,",0.0 +"Got to the Door, soon eye us in the Way.",1.0 +And homely by its Side the Bacon placed.,1.0 +Supper and Sleep by Morn new Strength supply;,3.0 +"And out we set again, our Work to try;",1.0 +"But not so early quite, nor quite so fast,",0.0 +"As, to our Cost, we did the Morning past.",1.0 +"SOON as the rising Sun has drank the Dew,",0.0 +Another Scene is open to our View:,1.0 +"Our Master comes, and at his Heels a Throng",0.0 +"Of prattling Females, armed with Rake and Prong;",1.0 +"Prepared, while he is here, to make his Hay;",1.0 +"Or, if he turns his Back, prepared to play:",1.0 +"But here, or gone, sure of this Comfort still;",2.0 +"Ah! were their Hands so active as their Tongues,",1.0 +How nimbly then would move the Rakes and Prongs?,0.0 +"THE Grass again is spread upon the Ground,",0.0 +Till not a vacant Place is to be found;,1.0 +The Hay-makers have Time allowed to dine.,5.0 +"That soon dispatched, they still sit on the Ground;",2.0 +"And the brisk Chat, renewed, afresh goes round.",3.0 +"All talk at once; but seeming all to fear,",0.0 +"That what they speak, the rest will hardly hear;",0.0 +"Till by degrees so high their Notes they strain,",1.0 +Scarce puzzled ECHO can return the Voice.,2.0 +"Yet, spite of this, they bravely all go on;",3.0 +"Each scorns to be, or seem to be, outdone.",1.0 +"Meanwhile the changing Sky begins to lour,",1.0 +And hollow Winds proclaim a sudden Shower:,0.0 +Before descends the thick impetuous Rain;,0.0 +"Their noisy Prattle all at once is done,",0.0 +And to the Hedge they soon for Shelter run.,1.0 +"THUS have I seen, on a bright Summer's Day,",3.0 +"On some green Brake, a Flock of Sparrows play;",1.0 +"From Twig to Twig, from Bush to Bush they fly;",0.0 +And with continued Chirping fill the Sky:,1.0 +"But, on a sudden, if a Storm appears,",2.0 +They fly for Shelter to the thickest Bush;,1.0 +"There silent sit, and All at once is hush.",0.0 +"BUT better Fate succeeds this rainy Day,",0.0 +And little Labour serves to make the Hay.,0.0 +"Fast as it's cut, so kindly shines the Sun,",0.0 +"Turned once or twice, the pleasing Work is done.",1.0 +"Next Day the Cocks appear in equal Rows,",0.0 +Which the glad Master in safe Ricks bestows.,3.0 +THE spacious Fields we now no longer range;,1.0 +"And yet, hard Fate! still Work for Work we change.",2.0 +"Back to the Barns we hastily are sent,",1.0 +Where lately so much Time we pensive spent:,1.0 +"Not pensive now, we bless the friendly Shade;",0.0 +"Yet little Time we in the Shade remain,",0.0 +Before our Master calls us forth again;,0.0 +"And says, For Harvest now yourselves prepare;",0.0 +"Get all things ready, and be quickly dressed;",3.0 +Early next Morn I shall disturb your Rest.,2.0 +"Strict to his Word! for scarce the Dawn appears,",0.0 +Before his hasty Summons fills our Ears.,0.0 +"His hasty Summons we obey; and rise,",1.0 +While yet the Stars are glimmering in the Skies.,1.0 +"He to appoint, and we the Work to do.",2.0 +And view the various Scenes its Beauties yield:,2.0 +"Then look again, with a more tender Eye,",1.0 +To think how soon it must in Ruin lie!,0.0 +"For, once set in, wherever our Blows we deal,",3.0 +"But here or there, wherever our Course we bend,",3.0 +Sure Desolation does our Steps attend.,1.0 +"To some more fertile Country take their Way,",0.0 +"There rural Cots, and pleasant Villa's here!",0.0 +"So many grateful Objects meet the Sight,",0.0 +"But long ere then, wherever their Troops have past,",3.0 +These pleasing Prospects lie a gloomy Waste.,0.0 +"THE Morning past, we sweat beneath the Sun;",0.0 +And but uneasily our Work goes on.,4.0 +"Before us we perplexing Thistles find,",1.0 +And Corn blown adverse with the ruffling Wind.,3.0 +Behind our Master waits; and if he spies,1.0 +"One charitable Ear, he grudging cries,",1.0 +You scatter half your Wages over the Land.,2.0 +Then scrapes the Stubble with his greedy Hand.,1.0 +"LET those who feast at Ease on dainty Fare,",0.0 +For Toils scarce ever ceasing press us now;,1.0 +"Rest never does, but on the Sabbath, show;",2.0 +And barely that our Masters will allow.,1.0 +Think what a painful Life we daily lead;,0.0 +"Each Morning early rise, go late to Bed:",1.0 +"Nor, when asleep, are we secure from Pain;",1.0 +Our mimic Fancy ever restless seems;,0.0 +"And what we act awake, she acts in Dreams.",0.0 +Scarce HERCULES ever felt such Toils as these!,5.0 +"BUT soon we rise the bearded Crop again,",0.0 +Soon PHOEBUS' Rays well dry the golden Grain.,2.0 +"Pleased with the Scene, our Master glows with Joy;",0.0 +Bids us for Carrying all our Force employ;,1.0 +"When strait Confusion over the Field appears,",2.0 +"The Bells and clashing Whips alternate sound,",4.0 +"The Wheat, when carried, Peas, and other Grain,",0.0 +"We soon secure, and leave a fruitless Plain;",0.0 +"In noisy Triumph the last Load moves on,",3.0 +"OUR Master, joyful at the pleasing Sight,",0.0 +Invites us all to feast with him at Night.,1.0 +"And Jugs of humming Ale, to cheer the Mind;",0.0 +"Which he, too generous, pushes round so fast,",4.0 +"We think no Toils to come, nor mind the past.",1.0 +"But the next Morning soon reveals the Cheat,",1.0 +When the same Toils we must again repeat;,3.0 +"To the same Barns must back again return,",2.0 +To labour there for Room for next Year's Corn.,2.0 +"THUS, as the Year's revolving Course goes round,",1.0 +No Respite from our Labour can be found:,3.0 +Continually rolls back the restless Stone.,4.0 +"And growing always new, must always last.",0.0 +Lorenzo! to recriminate is just.,1.0 +Fondness for fame is avarice of air.,3.0 +I grant the man is vain who writes for praise.,0.0 +"Praise no man ever deserved, who sought no more.",5.0 +As just thy second charge. I grant the Muse,0.0 +"Has often blushed at her degenerate sons,",2.0 +Retained by Sense to plead her filthy cause,0.0 +"To raise the low, to magnify the mean,",0.0 +As if to magic numbers' powerful charm,6.0 +IT was given to make a civet of their song,3.0 +"The fact notorious, nor obscure the cause.",3.0 +We wear the chains of Pleasure and of Pride:,1.0 +These share the man; and these distract him too;,1.0 +"Draw different ways, and clash in their commands.",2.0 +"Pride, like an eagle, builds among the stars;",0.0 +"Pleasure embraces. Man would both enjoy,",2.0 +And both at once: a point how hard to gain!,0.0 +"But what can't Wit, when stung by strong desire?",1.0 +Wit dares attempt this arduous enterprise.,3.0 +"Since joys of Sense can't rise to Reason's taste,",1.0 +"Wit hammers out a reason new, that stoops",2.0 +"To sordid scenes, and greets them with applause.",1.0 +"Wit calls the Graces the chaste zone to loose,",3.0 +Nor less than a plump god to fill the bowl;,2.0 +"A thousand phantoms, and a thousand spells,",1.0 +"To fascinate, inebriate, lay asleep,",3.0 +And the fooled mind delightfully confound.,3.0 +"Thus that which shocked the Judgement, shocks no more;",1.0 +"Pleasure and Pride, by nature mortal foes,",2.0 +"At war eternal which in man shall reign,",0.0 +"By Wit's address, patch up a fatal peace,",2.0 +From rank refined to delicate and gay.,1.0 +"Art, cursed Art! wipes off the indebted blush",1.0 +"From Nature's cheek, and bronzes every shame.",0.0 +"Man smiles in ruin, glories in his guilt,",1.0 +And Infamy stands candidate for praise.,3.0 +All writ by man in favour of the soul,0.0 +These sensual ethics far in bulk transcend.,2.0 +The flowers of eloquence profusely poured,3.0 +"Over spotted Vice, fill half the lettered world.",1.0 +Condemn the Muse that knows her dignity;,1.0 +"As iT is, in Nature's ample field, a point ' --",1.0 +"A point in her esteem; from whence to start,",1.0 +"And run the round of universal space,",0.0 +"To visit being universal there,",1.0 +"And Being's Source, that utmost flight of mind!",1.0 +"Yet, spite of this so vast circumference,",1.0 +Sing sirens only? Do not angels sing?,1.0 +"Which well becomes her when she speaks to Prose,",0.0 +"No guilty passion blown into a flame,",1.0 +"No foible flattered, dignity disgraced,",2.0 +"No fairy field of fiction, all on flower,",1.0 +"No rainbow colours here, or silken tale;",2.0 +"But solemn counsels, images of awe,",1.0 +Truths which Eternity lets fall on man,3.0 +"With double weight, through these revolving spheres,",1.0 +Thoughts such as shall revisit your last hour;,2.0 +"Visit uncalled, and live when life expires;",2.0 +"And thy dark pencil, Midnight, darker still",3.0 +"Lorenzo, and thy brothers of the smile!",2.0 +"If what imports you most can most engage,",0.0 +"Shall steal your ear, and chain you to my song.",1.0 +"Or if you fail me, know, the wise shall taste",1.0 +The truths I sing; the truths I sing shall feel;,0.0 +"And, feeling, give assent; and their assent",1.0 +Is ample recompense; is more than praise.,0.0 +"By virtue or by blood, illustrious youth,",3.0 +"Where all the language harmony, descends",1.0 +"Uncalled, and asks admittance for the Muse;",1.0 +A Muse that will not pain thee with thy praise;,2.0 +"Thy praise she drops, by nobler still inspired.",3.0 +"OH Thou blessed Spirit! whether the supreme,",4.0 +And all its various revolutions rolled,2.0 +"Present, though future, prior to themselves;",1.0 +"Or from His throne some delegated Power,",1.0 +"Who, studious of our peace, dost turn the thought",1.0 +From vain and vile to solid and sublime!,1.0 +"Of inspiration, from a purer stream,",1.0 +"And fuller of the God, than that which burst",1.0 +My sacred thirst; though long my soul has ranged,0.0 +"Through pleasing paths of moral and Divine,",1.0 +"By Thee sustained, and lighted by the STARS.",2.0 +By them best lighted are the paths of thought:,3.0 +"Nights are their days, their most illumined hours.",0.0 +"Stunned by the din, and giddy with the glare,",1.0 +"Reels far from reason, jostled by the throng.",2.0 +"By day the soul is passive, all her thoughts",0.0 +"Imposed, precarious, broken, ere mature.",2.0 +"By night, from objects free, from passion cool,",0.0 +"Thoughts uncontrolled and unimpressed, the births",1.0 +"Of pure election, arbitrary range,",0.0 +"Not to the limits of one world confined,",1.0 +"But from ethereal travels light on earth,",3.0 +"As voyagers drop anchor, for repose.",3.0 +"Let Indians, and the gay, like Indians, fond",4.0 +Darkness has more divinity for me:,3.0 +It strikes thought inward; it drives back the soul,3.0 +"To settle on herself, our point supreme!",1.0 +There lies our theatre; there sits our judge.,1.0 +Darkness the curtain drops over life's dull scene;,6.0 +IT is the kind hand of Providence stretched out,6.0 +"Betwixt man and vanity; iT is Reason's reign,",4.0 +Are man's asylum from the tainted throng.,1.0 +"Night is the good man's friend, and guardian too;",3.0 +It no less rescues Virtue than inspires.,3.0 +"Virtue for ever frail, as fair, below,",2.0 +"Her tender nature suffers in the crowd,",0.0 +Nor touches on the world without a stain.,1.0 +"The world's infectious; few bring back at eve,",1.0 +"Immaculate, the manners of the morn.",2.0 +"Is shaken; we renounced, returns again.",1.0 +"Nor is it strange; light, motion, concourse, noise,",3.0 +"In fume and dissipation, quits her charge,",0.0 +And leaves the breast unguarded to the foe.,1.0 +"Present example gets within our guard,",0.0 +"And acts with double force, by few repelled.",0.0 +Ambition fires ambition; love of gain,0.0 +"Strikes like a pestilence, from breast to breast;",1.0 +"And inhumanity is caught from man,",2.0 +"From smiling man! A slight, a single glance,",0.0 +"And shot at random, often has brought home",1.0 +A sudden fever to the throbbing heart,1.0 +"We see, we hear, with peril; Safety dwells",0.0 +Remote from multitude; the world's a school,0.0 +We must or imitate or disapprove;,0.0 +"Must list as their accomplices, or foes;",2.0 +"That stains our innocence, this wounds our peace.",1.0 +"From Nature's birth, hence, Wisdom has been smit",1.0 +"With sweet recess, and languished for the shade.",1.0 +"This sacred shade and solitude, ' -- what is it?",1.0 +IT is the felt presence of the Deity.,7.0 +Few are the faults we flatter when alone.,0.0 +"And looks, like other objects, black by night:",0.0 +Night is fair Virtue's immemorial friend;,5.0 +"The conscious Moon, through every distant age,",0.0 +"Has held a lamp to Wisdom, and let fall",2.0 +"The famed Athenian, he who wooed from heaven",1.0 +"Philosophy the fair, to dwell with men,",1.0 +"And form their manners, not inflame their pride, ' --",0.0 +"While over his head, as fearful to molest",3.0 +"And seem all gazing on their future guest,",1.0 +See him soliciting his ardent suit,3.0 +"Rigid in thought, and motionless, he stands;",3.0 +Nor quits his theme or posture till the sun,1.0 +Rude drunkard! rising rosy from the main,2.0 +"Disturbs his nobler intellectual beam,",5.0 +And gives him to the tumult of the world.,2.0 +"Hail, precious moments, stolen from the black waste",3.0 +"Of murdered Time! auspicious Midnight, hail!",1.0 +"The world excluded, every passion hushed,",0.0 +"And opened a calm intercourse with Heaven,",2.0 +"Here the soul sits in council; ponders past,",3.0 +"Tumultuous life, and reasons with the storm;",4.0 +"All her lies answers, and thinks down her charms.",4.0 +What awful joy! what mental liberty!,1.0 +"I am not penned in darkness: rather say,",1.0 +Delightful gloom! the clustering thoughts around,2.0 +"Spontaneous rise, and blossom in the shade;",2.0 +"But droop by day, and sicken in the sun.",0.0 +"Fountain of animation, whence descends",2.0 +"Nightly to visit me, so mean; and now,",3.0 +"Conscious how needful discipline to man,",3.0 +"From pleasing dalliance with the charms of Night,",1.0 +"My wandering thought recalls, to what excites",2.0 +"Or is it feeble Nature calls me back,",1.0 +And breaks my spirit into grief again?,0.0 +"A cold, slow puddle, creeping through my veins?",2.0 +Or is it thus with all men? ' -- Thus with all.,2.0 +"What are we? how unequal! now we soar,",1.0 +"And now we sink. To be the same, transcends",0.0 +Our present prowess. Dearly pays the soul,0.0 +For lodging ill; too dearly rents her clay.,1.0 +"Reason, a baffled counsellor, but adds",3.0 +The blush of weakness to the bane of woe.,1.0 +"The noblest spirit, fighting her hard fate",2.0 +"Or, flying, short her flight, and sure her fall.",0.0 +"Our utmost strength, when down, to rise again;",2.0 +"And not to yield, though beaten, all our praise.",0.0 +IT is vain to seek in men for more than man.,0.0 +"Though proud in promise, big in previous thought,",2.0 +"Experience damps our triumph. I, who late,",3.0 +"Emerging from the shadows of the grave,",3.0 +"Where Grief detained me prisoner, mounting high,",0.0 +"Threw wide the gates of everlasting day,",1.0 +"And called mankind to glory, shook off pain,",1.0 +"Mortality shook off, in either pure,",2.0 +And struck the stars; now feel my spirits fail:,1.0 +"They drop me from the zenith; down I rush,",2.0 +In sorrow drowned ' -- but not in sorrow lost.,0.0 +How wretched is the man who never mourned!,1.0 +I dive for precious pearl in sorrow's stream:,0.0 +Not so the thoughtless man that only grieves;,0.0 +"Takes all the torment, and rejects the gain,",2.0 +"To make him but more wretched, not more wise.",1.0 +"If wisdom is our lesson, and what else",2.0 +Ennobles man? what else have angels learnt?,0.0 +"Than Genius, or proud Learning, ever could boast.",3.0 +"Voracious Learning, often over-fed,",0.0 +Digests not into sense her motley meal.,0.0 +"This Bookcase, with dark booty almost burst,",7.0 +Her servant's wealth encumbered Wisdom mourns.,0.0 +And what says Genius? Let the dull be wise.,1.0 +"Genius, too hard for right, can prove it wrong;",3.0 +And loves to boast where blush men less inspired.,1.0 +It pleads exemption from the laws of Sense;,1.0 +And scorns to share a blessing with the crowd;,1.0 +"That wise it could be, thinks an ample claim",0.0 +"To Glory, and to Pleasure gives the rest.",1.0 +Wisdom less shudders at a fool than wit.,3.0 +But Wisdom smiles when humbled mortals weep.,0.0 +And hearts obdurate feel her softening shower;,2.0 +"Her seed celestial, then, glad Wisdom sows;",1.0 +Her golden harvest triumphs in the soil.,0.0 +"I'll raise a tax on my calamity,",2.0 +And reap rich compensation from my pain.,2.0 +"And gather every thought of sovereign power,",0.0 +To chase the moral maladies of man;,1.0 +"Thoughts which may bear transplanting to the skies,",1.0 +Though natives of this coarse penurious soil;,4.0 +"Refined, exalted, not annulled, in heaven:",3.0 +"Reason, the sun that gives them birth, the same",2.0 +"Say, on what themes shall puzzled choice descend?",0.0 +The importance of contemplating the tomb;,5.0 +Why men decline it; Suicide's foul birth;,1.0 +The various kinds of Grief; the faults of Age;,2.0 +"And Death's dread character, ' -- invite my song.",2.0 +"And, first, the importance of our end surveyed.",3.0 +Mistaken kindness! our hearts heal too soon.,3.0 +"Are they more kind than He who struck the blow,",2.0 +"Who bid it do His errand in our hearts,",0.0 +And bring it back a true and endless peace?,0.0 +Calamities are friends: as glaring day,1.0 +"Of import high, and light Divine, to man.",0.0 +"The man how blessed, who, sick of gaudy scenes,",0.0 +Scenes apt to thrust between us and ourselves!,2.0 +Is led by choice to take his favourite walk,0.0 +"Beneath Death's gloomy, silent, cypress shades,",1.0 +"To read his monuments, to weigh his dust,",1.0 +"Visit his vaults, and dwell among the tombs!",2.0 +Her moral stone: few doctors preach so well;,0.0 +Few orators so tenderly can touch,2.0 +The feeling heart. What pathos in the date!,0.0 +Apt words can strike; and yet in them we see,1.0 +Faint images of what we here enjoy.,2.0 +What cause have we to build on length of life?,1.0 +"Temptations seize when Fear is laid asleep,",0.0 +"See, from her tomb, as from an humble shrine,",1.0 +"Truth, radiant goddess, sallies on my soul,",2.0 +"Dispels the mists our sultry passions raise,",0.0 +"From objects low, terrestrial, and obscene;",3.0 +"And shows the real estimate of things,",3.0 +Pulls off the veil from Virtue's rising charms;,0.0 +Detects Temptation in a thousand lies.,0.0 +"Truth bids me look on men as autumn leaves,",1.0 +"And all they bleed for as the summer's dust,",1.0 +"Driven by the whirlwind. Lighted by her beams,",3.0 +"I widen my horizon, gain new powers,",2.0 +"See things invisible, feel things remote,",3.0 +"To man so foreign as the joys possessed,",1.0 +No folly keeps its colour in her sight;,1.0 +Pale worldly Wisdom loses all her charms;,1.0 +"In pompous promise from her schemes profound,",1.0 +"If future fate she plans, iT is all in leaves,",0.0 +At the first blast it vanishes in air.,4.0 +How differ worldly Wisdom and Divine?,1.0 +Just as the waning and the waxing moon.,1.0 +"More empty worldly Wisdom every day,",0.0 +And every day more fair her rival shines.,0.0 +"Soon our whole term for Wisdom is expired,",4.0 +"And everlasting fool is writ in fire,",0.0 +"In price still rising, as in number less;",2.0 +Insolvent worlds the purchase cannot pay.,0.0 +OH let me die his death! all Nature cries.,1.0 +Then live his life! ' -- all Nature falters there.,1.0 +"Our great Physician daily to consult,",1.0 +"To commune with the Grave, our only cure.",1.0 +What grave prescribes the best? A friend's; and yet,0.0 +From a friend's grave how soon we disengage!,3.0 +"Even to the dearest, as his marble, cold.",2.0 +"By soft Affection's ties, on human hearts,",0.0 +"The thought of death, which Reason, too supine,",0.0 +"Nor Reason, nor Affection, no, nor both",1.0 +Behold the inexorable hour at hand!,4.0 +Behold the inexorable hour forgot!,4.0 +"And to forget it the chief aim of life,",3.0 +Though well to ponder it is life's chief end.,2.0 +"Is Death, that ever threatening, never remote,",2.0 +"Come when he will, an unexpected guest?",1.0 +"Nay, though invited by the loudest calls",3.0 +"Of blind Imprudence, unexpected still?",0.0 +"Though numerous messengers are sent before,",3.0 +"To warn his great arrival. What the cause,",0.0 +"The wondrous cause, of this mysterious ill?",3.0 +"All heaven looks down, astonished at the sight.",2.0 +"Is it, that Life has sown her joys so thick,",1.0 +We can't thrust in a single care between?,1.0 +"Is it, that Life has such a swarm of cares,",1.0 +The thought of death can't enter for the throng?,2.0 +"Is it, that Time steals on with downy feet,",1.0 +Nor wakes Indulgence from her golden dream?,1.0 +"Today is so like yesterday, it cheats;",1.0 +We take the lying sister for the same.,1.0 +"Life glides away, Lorenzo, like a brook;",1.0 +In the same brook none ever bathed him twice:,4.0 +To the same life none ever twice awoke.,4.0 +We call the brook the same; the same we think,0.0 +"Our life, though still more rapid in its flow;",0.0 +"Nor mark the much irrevocably lapsed,",1.0 +"And mingled with the sea. Or shall we say,",1.0 +"Retaining still the brook to bear us on,",0.0 +That life is like a vessel on the stream?,1.0 +"In life embarked, we smoothly down the tide",1.0 +"Of time descend, but not on time intent;",0.0 +"Amused, unconscious of the gliding wave;",2.0 +Till on a sudden we perceive a shock;,2.0 +"We start, awake, look out; what see we there?",2.0 +Is this the cause Death flies all human thought?,2.0 +"Or is it Judgement by the Will struck blind,",3.0 +"That domineering mistress of the soul,",1.0 +"Like him so strong, by Delilah the fair?",4.0 +"Or is it Fear turns startled Reason back,",2.0 +From looking down a precipice so steep?,2.0 +"IT is dreadful; and the dread is wisely placed,",1.0 +"By Nature, conscious of the make of man.",1.0 +"A dreadful friend it is, a terror kind,",1.0 +A flaming sword to guard the tree of life.,0.0 +And burn impatient for his promised skies.,1.0 +"The bad, on each punctilious pique of Pride,",2.0 +"Or gloom of Humour, would give Rage the rein,",3.0 +"Bound over the barrier, rush into the dark,",5.0 +And mar the schemes of Providence below,1.0 +"And drown, in your less execrable yell,",3.0 +"On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul,",2.0 +"Blasted from hell, with horrid lust of death,",2.0 +"Thy friend, the brave, the gallant Altamont,",0.0 +"So called, so thought: ' -- and then he fled the field.",0.0 +Less base the fear of death than fear of life.,1.0 +"OH Britain, infamous for suicide!",2.0 +"In ambient waves plunge thy polluted head,",4.0 +"Wash the dire stain, nor shock the Continent.",1.0 +"But thou be shocked, while I detect the cause",2.0 +And bid Abhorrence hiss it round the world.,0.0 +Immoral climes kind Nature never made.,1.0 +"The cause I sing in Eden might prevail,",0.0 +"And proves it is thy folly, not thy fate.",1.0 +"The soul of man, let man in homage bow,",1.0 +"Who names his soul, a native of the skies,",1.0 +"The illustrious stranger, in this foreign land, ' --",3.0 +"Like strangers, jealous of her dignity,",2.0 +"Studious of home, and ardent to return, ' --",2.0 +"Of Earth suspicious, Earth's enchanted cup",0.0 +"With cool reserve light touching, should indulge",1.0 +There take large draughts; make her chief banquet there.,5.0 +But some reject this sustenance Divine;,1.0 +Ask alms of Earth for guests that came from heaven;,1.0 +"Their rich reversion, and what shares its fate",1.0 +"Their native freedom, to the prince who sways",1.0 +"This neither world; and, when his payments fail,",0.0 +"When his foul basket gorges them no more,",4.0 +"For breaking all the chains of Providence,",1.0 +And bursting their confinement; though fast barred,3.0 +By laws Divine and human; guarded strong,0.0 +With horrors doubled to defend the pass,1.0 +The blackest Nature or dire Guilt can raise;,2.0 +"Such, Britons! is the cause, to you unknown,",2.0 +"Or worse, overlooked; overlooked by magistrates,",8.0 +Thus criminals themselves. I grant the deed,2.0 +Is madness; but the madness of the heart.,2.0 +And what is that? Our utmost bound of guilt.,1.0 +"With monstrous births, and Suicide, to crown",0.0 +The black infernal brood. The bold to break,0.0 +"Heaven's law supreme, and desperately rush",1.0 +"Through sacred Nature's murder on their own,",1.0 +"Because they never think of death, they die.",0.0 +"IT is equally man's duty, glory, gain,",2.0 +At once to shun and meditate his end.,0.0 +"The seat of wisdom! if our choice, not fate,",1.0 +"Or over our dying friends in anguish hang,",2.0 +"Wipe the cold dew, or stay the sinking head,",3.0 +"Number their moments, and in every clock",3.0 +Start at the voice of an eternity;,2.0 +See the dim lamp of life just feebly lift,3.0 +"Then sink again, and quiver into death,",0.0 +That most pathetic herald of our own: ' --,1.0 +How read we such sad scenes? as sent to man,2.0 +"In perfect vengeance? No; in pity sent,",1.0 +"To melt him down, like wax, and then impress,",1.0 +"Indelible, Death's image on his heart;",3.0 +"Bleeding for others, trembling for himself.",3.0 +"We bleed, we tremble; we forget, we smile:",1.0 +The mind turns fool before the cheek is dry.,1.0 +"In yielding sands, and smooths the lettered shore.",0.0 +"Lorenzo! hast thou ever weighed a sigh,",0.0 +Or studied the philosophy of tears?,2.0 +"Hast thou descended deep into the breast,",1.0 +"And seen their source? If not, descend with me,",0.0 +Our funeral tears from different causes rise.,2.0 +"As if from separate cisterns in the soul,",1.0 +"Of various kinds, they flow. From tender hearts,",2.0 +"By soft contagion called, some burst at once,",0.0 +And stream obsequious to the leading eye.,1.0 +"Some ask more time, by curious art distilled.",2.0 +"Struck by the magic of the public eye,",1.0 +"Some weep to share the fame of the deceased,",1.0 +"So high in merit, and to them so dear.",2.0 +They dwell on praises which they think they share;,0.0 +"And thus, without a blush, commend themselves.",0.0 +Some mourn in proof that something they could love;,1.0 +"They weep, not to relieve their grief, but show.",1.0 +"Some weep in perfect justice to the dead,",2.0 +Tears sometime aid the conquest of an eye.,3.0 +Their sable network over entangled hearts!,3.0 +"As seen through crystal, how their roses glow,",1.0 +While liquid pearl runs trickling down their cheek!,2.0 +"Carousing gems, herself dissolved in love.",0.0 +"Some weep at Death, abstracted from the dead,",2.0 +"And celebrate, like Charles, their own decease.",0.0 +"By kind construction some are deemed to weep,",0.0 +Because a decent veil conceals their joy.,0.0 +"Some weep in earnest, and yet weep in vain;",1.0 +As deep in indiscretion as in woe.,1.0 +"Tears that deserve more tears, while Reason sleeps,",1.0 +"Or gazes, like an idiot, unconcerned,",2.0 +Nor comprehends the meaning of the storm;,1.0 +"Knows not it speaks to her, and her alone.",2.0 +"That noble gift, that privilege of man!",1.0 +"From Sorrow's pang, the birth of endless joy.",0.0 +But these are barren of that birth Divine:,2.0 +"They weep impetuous as the summer storm,",1.0 +"And full as short! The cruel grief soon tamed,",1.0 +"The dreadful news, and hardly feel it more:",0.0 +No grain of wisdom pays them for their woe.,2.0 +"Half round the globe, the tears pumped up by Death",2.0 +Are spent in watering vanities of life;,3.0 +In making Folly flourish still more fair.,0.0 +"Reclines on earth, and sorrows in the dust,",0.0 +"Instead of learning there her true support,",1.0 +"Though there thrown down her true support to learn,",0.0 +"Without Heaven's aid impatient to be blessed,",5.0 +"She crawls to the next shrub or bramble vile,",1.0 +"With stale, forsworn embraces clings anew,",1.0 +"Presents her weed, well fancied, at the ball,",1.0 +"Stepped in with his receipt for making smiles,",1.0 +"And died to give him, orphaned in his birth!",0.0 +"I'll make an altar of thy sacred tomb,",1.0 +"Young, gay, and fortunate! Each yields a theme:",2.0 +"I'll dwell on each, to shun thought more severe;",1.0 +Heaven knows I labour with severer still!,2.0 +"I'll dwell on each, and quite exhaust thy death.",0.0 +"A soul without reflection, like a pile",0.0 +"Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.",1.0 +"And, first, thy youth: what says it to grey hairs?",1.0 +"Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew,",3.0 +"She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.",1.0 +"Time on this head has snowed, yet still iT is born",0.0 +"Covered with shame I speak it, Age severe",2.0 +"With graceless gravity chastising Youth,",1.0 +"That Youth chastised surpassing in a fault,",0.0 +"As if, like objects pressing on the sight,",2.0 +Death had advanced too near us to be seen;,3.0 +"Or, that life's loan Time ripened into right,",2.0 +And men might plead prescription from the grave;,1.0 +Their hearts are buried; and the world their grave.,1.0 +"Tell me, some god! my guardian angel, tell,",2.0 +What thus infatuates? what enchantment plants,1.0 +The phantom of an age betwixt us and Death,1.0 +"Already at the door? He knocks; we hear him,",0.0 +And yet we will not hear. What mail defends,1.0 +Our untouched hearts? What miracle turns off,7.0 +"Is daily darted, and is daily shunned?",1.0 +"We stand, as in a battle, throngs on throngs",0.0 +Around us falling; wounded oft ourselves;,0.0 +"Though bleeding with our wounds, immortal still!",1.0 +"And Death, entrenched, preparing his assault:",1.0 +How few themselves in that just mirror see!,0.0 +"Or, seeing, draw their inference as strong!",1.0 +"There Death is certain; doubtful here: he must,",0.0 +"And soon ' -- we may, within an age ' -- expire.",1.0 +"Though grey our heads, our thoughts and aims are green;",0.0 +"Like damaged clocks, whose hand and bell dissent;",0.0 +"Folly sings six, while Nature points at twelve.",3.0 +"Absurd longevity! More, more, it cries:",1.0 +"More life, more wealth, more trash of every kind.",0.0 +"And wherefore mad for more, when relish fails?",0.0 +Object and Appetite must club for joy.,0.0 +"Shall Folly labour hard to mend the bow,",0.0 +"Baubles I mean, that strike us from without,",3.0 +While Nature is relaxing every string?,1.0 +"Ask Thought for joy; grow rich, and hoard within.",2.0 +"Think you the soul, when this life's rattles cease,",2.0 +Has nothing of more manly to succeed?,2.0 +Contract the taste immortal; learn even now,3.0 +"Divine or none, henceforth, your joys for ever.",1.0 +"Of age the glory is, to wish to die;",1.0 +That wish is praise and promise; it applauds,1.0 +"Past life, and promises our future bliss.",2.0 +What weakness see not children in their sires?,0.0 +How shocking! it makes Folly thrice a fool;,2.0 +And our first childhood might our last despise.,1.0 +Peace and esteem is all that age can hope.,2.0 +"Nothing but wisdom gives the first; the last,",2.0 +Nothing but the repute of being wise.,3.0 +Folly bars both: our age is quite undone.,3.0 +"What folly can be ranker? Like our shadows,",2.0 +Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.,1.0 +"No wish should loiter, then, this side the grave.",1.0 +Our hearts should leave the world before the knell,0.0 +Calls for our carcasses to mend the soil.,1.0 +"Enough to live in tempest, die in port.",0.0 +"Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat",4.0 +"Defects of judgement, and the will's subdue;",1.0 +"Walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore",2.0 +"Of that vast ocean it must sail so soon,",2.0 +"And put good works on board, and wait the wind",0.0 +That shortly blows us into worlds unknown;,0.0 +All should be prophets to themselves; foresee,1.0 +Their future fate; their future fate foretaste:,0.0 +This art would waste the bitterness of death.,1.0 +The thought of death alone the fear destroys.,0.0 +A disaffection to that precious thought,1.0 +"Is more than midnight darkness on the soul,",2.0 +"Which sleeps beneath it, on a precipice,",2.0 +"Puffed off by the first blast, and lost for ever.",2.0 +"Dost ask, Lorenzo, why so warmly pressed,",0.0 +"By repetition hammered on thine ear,",1.0 +"The thought of Death? That thought is the machine,",1.0 +"The grand machine that heaves us from the dust,",1.0 +And rears us into men! That thought plied home,1.0 +Will soon reduce the ghastly precipice,1.0 +"Overhanging hell, will soften the descent,",1.0 +And gently slope our passage to the grave.,1.0 +How warmly to be wished! What heart of flesh,1.0 +"Would trifle with tremendous, dare extremes,",1.0 +"Yawn over the fate of infinite? What hand,",4.0 +"Beyond the blackest brand of censure bold,",0.0 +"To speak a language too well known to thee,",1.0 +"Would at a moment give its all to chance,",0.0 +And stamp the die for an eternity?,2.0 +With Destiny; and ere her scissors cut,1.0 +"My thread of life, to break this tougher thread",0.0 +"Of moral death, that ties me to the world.",1.0 +Sting thou my slumbering Reason to send forth,4.0 +A thought of observation on the foe;,1.0 +"To sally, and survey the rapid march",1.0 +Of his ten thousand messengers to man;,3.0 +"All accident apart, by Nature signed,",1.0 +"My warrant is gone out, though dormant yet;",2.0 +Perhaps behind one moment lurks my fate.,0.0 +Must I then forward only look for Death?,0.0 +"Backward I turn mine eye, and find him there.",2.0 +"Man, like a stream, is in perpetual flow.",2.0 +The bold invader shares the present hour.,0.0 +Each moment on the former shuts the grave.,1.0 +"While man is growing, life is in decrease,",0.0 +And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb.,1.0 +Our birth is nothing but our death begun;,1.0 +As tapers waste that instant they take fire.,2.0 +"Shall we then fear lest that should come to pass,",0.0 +Which comes to pass each moment of our lives?,1.0 +"If fear we must, let that death turn us pale",2.0 +"Should rather call on Death, than dread his call.",0.0 +You partners of my fault and my decline!,2.0 +"Thoughtless of death, but when your neighbour's knell",3.0 +And with its thunder scarce obtains your ear!,1.0 +Be death your theme in every place and hour;,0.0 +"Nor longer want, you monumental sires,",0.0 +"That death you dread, so great is Nature's skill!",0.0 +"Know, you shall court, before you shall enjoy.",0.0 +"But you are learnt; in volumes deep you sit,",1.0 +In wisdom shallow. Pompous ignorance!,1.0 +Would you be still more learnt than the learnt?,0.0 +"Learn well to know how much need not be known,",1.0 +And what that knowledge which impairs your sense.,0.0 +"Our needful knowledge, like our needful food,",0.0 +"Unhedged, lies open in life's common field,",2.0 +And bids all welcome to the vital feast.,1.0 +You scorn what lies before you in the page,0.0 +"Of Nature and Experience, ' -- moral truth,",3.0 +"Of indispensable, eternal fruit;",1.0 +"Fruit on which mortals, feeding, turn to gods, ' --",0.0 +"And dive in science for distinguished names,",1.0 +Sinking in virtue as you rise in fame.,3.0 +"Your learning, like the lunar beam, affords",0.0 +"Frozen at heart, while speculation shines.",2.0 +"If you would learn Death's character, attend.",3.0 +"All casts of conduct, all degrees of health,",0.0 +"All dies of fortune, and all dates of age,",1.0 +"Together shook in his impartial urn,",1.0 +"Come forth at random; or, if choice is made,",2.0 +"The choice is quite sarcastic, and insults",1.0 +All bold conjecture and fond hopes of man.,2.0 +What countless multitudes not only leave,0.0 +But deeply disappoint us by their deaths!,1.0 +"Though great our sorrow, greater our surprise.",1.0 +"What, smitten, most proclaims the pride of power",0.0 +"And arbitrary nod. His joy supreme,",0.0 +To bid the wretch survive the fortunate;,1.0 +The feeble wrap the athletic in his shroud;,2.0 +And weeping fathers build their children's tomb:,0.0 +"Virtue, not rolling suns, the mind matures.",2.0 +That life is long which answers life's great end.,1.0 +The time that bears no fruit deserves no name.,2.0 +The man of wisdom is the man of years.,1.0 +"That, like the Jews' famed oracle of gems,",2.0 +"Sparkles instruction; such as throws new light,",4.0 +"And opens more the character of Death,",1.0 +"Give death his due, ' -- the wretched and the old;",2.0 +Even let him sweep his rubbish to the grave:,1.0 +"Let him not violate kind Nature's laws,",2.0 +"But own man born to live, as well as die",1.0 +He takes; and plunder is a tyrant's joy.,3.0 +"What if I prove, The farthest from the fear",1.0 +Are often nearest to the stroke of Fate?,1.0 +"All more than common, menaces an end.",2.0 +"As if bright embers should emit a flame,",2.0 +"And made youth younger, and taught life to live.",3.0 +"As Nature's opposites wage endless war,",2.0 +"Inviolable stupor of his reign,",2.0 +"Where Lust and turbulent Ambition sleep,",1.0 +"More life is still more odious; and, reduced",3.0 +"To plant the soul on her eternal guard,",1.0 +In awful expectation of our end.,1.0 +"Thus runs Death's dread commission: Strike, but so",2.0 +As most alarms the living by the dead.,1.0 +"Hence stratagem delights him, and surprise,",3.0 +And cruel sport with man's securities.,1.0 +"Not simple conquest, triumph is his aim;",1.0 +"And where least feared, there conquest triumphs most.",1.0 +This proves my bold assertion not too bold.,1.0 +What are his arts to lay our fears asleep?,0.0 +"Who travel under cover, Death assumes",0.0 +"The name and look of Life, and dwells among us;",0.0 +He takes all shapes that serve his black designs;,0.0 +Though master of a wider empire far,1.0 +"Than that over which the Roman eagle flew,",0.0 +"Quite unsuspected, till, the wheel beneath,",2.0 +"He most affects the forms least like himself,",1.0 +"Is his familiar wear, and sleek disguise.",1.0 +"Behind the rosy bloom he loves to lurk,",0.0 +"Or ambush in a smile; or, wanton, dive",1.0 +"In dimples deep: Love's eddies, which drawing",3.0 +"Unwary hearts, and sink them in despair.",0.0 +"Unknown, and, when detected, still was seen",0.0 +To smile: such peace has Innocence in death!,1.0 +Most happy they whom least his arts deceive!,1.0 +"One eye on Death, and one full fixed on Heaven,",2.0 +Becomes a mortal and immortal man.,1.0 +"Long on his wiles a piqued and jealous spy,",0.0 +"Lay by his horrors, and put on his smiles.",2.0 +And show Lorenzo the surprising scene:,1.0 +IT was in a circle of the gay I stood:,1.0 +Death would have entered; Nature pushed him back;,0.0 +"Supported by a Doctor of renown,",2.0 +His point he gained; then artfully dismissed,1.0 +"The sage, for Death designed to be concealed.",0.0 +"A pampered spendthrift, whose fantastic air,",1.0 +"He took in change, and underneath the pride",0.0 +Of costly linen tucked his filthy shroud.,0.0 +"His crooked bow he straightened to a cane,",1.0 +Where is he not? For his peculiar haunts,1.0 +"Let this suffice: ' -- Sure as night follows day,",5.0 +"Death treads in Pleasure's footsteps round the world,",2.0 +When Pleasure treads the paths which Reason shuns.,0.0 +"When against Reason Riot shuts the door,",4.0 +"Then foremost, at the banquet and the ball,",2.0 +"Death leads the dance, or stamps the deadly die:",1.0 +Nor ever fails the midnight bowl to crown.,1.0 +"As absent far; and when the revel burns,",0.0 +"When Fear is banished, and triumphant Thought,",1.0 +"Calling for all the joys beneath the moon,",1.0 +"Against him turns the key, and bids him sup",0.0 +"Frowns out at full; they start, despair, expire.",0.0 +Scarce with more sudden terror and surprise,1.0 +"He bursts, expands, roars, blazes, and devours.",2.0 +"And is not this triumphant treachery,",3.0 +"And more than simple conquest, in the fiend?",0.0 +"And now, Lorenzo, dost thou wrap thy soul",0.0 +"In soft security, because unknown",1.0 +Which moment is commissioned to destroy?,2.0 +In Death's uncertainty thy danger lies.,1.0 +"Is Death uncertain? Therefore thou be fixed,",2.0 +"Fixed as a sentinel, all eye, all ear,",1.0 +All expectation of the coming foe.,1.0 +"Rouse, stand in arms, nor lean against thy spear,",1.0 +"Lest slumber steal one moment over thy soul,",2.0 +"And Fate surprise thee nodding. Watch, be strong:",0.0 +Thus give each day the merit and renown,2.0 +"Of dying well, though doomed but once to die.",0.0 +Nor let life's period hidden as from most,4.0 +"Hide, too, from thee the precious use of life.",2.0 +"Soon, not surprising, Death his visit paid:",1.0 +"Her Thought went forth to meet him on his way,",2.0 +"Though Fortune, too, our third and final theme,",0.0 +"As an accomplice, played her gaudy plumes,",1.0 +"And every glittering gewgaw, on her sight,",3.0 +"Death's dreadful advent is the mark of man,",3.0 +And every thought that misses it is blind.,1.0 +If happiness on earth to crown her brow.,1.0 +And could Death charge through such a shining shield?,2.0 +"That shining shield invites the tyrant's spear,",2.0 +"As if to damp our elevated aims,",1.0 +And strongly preach humility to man.,1.0 +OH how portentous is prosperity!,4.0 +"Few years but yield us proof of Death's ambition,",0.0 +"To cull his victims from the fairest fold,",1.0 +And sheathe his shafts in all the pride of life.,0.0 +"Set up in ostentation, made the gaze,",0.0 +"The gaudy centre, of the public eye;",1.0 +"When Fortune thus has tossed her child in air,",0.0 +"Snatched from the covert of an humble state,",1.0 +"How often have I seen him dropped at once,",0.0 +"Our morning's envy, and our evening's sigh!",1.0 +"As if her bounties were the signal given,",2.0 +And call Death's arrows on the destined prey!,2.0 +High Fortune seems in cruel league with Fate.,1.0 +Ask you for what? To give his war on man,0.0 +"The deeper dread, and more illustrious spoil;",2.0 +Thus to keep daring mortals more in awe.,3.0 +And burns Lorenzo still for the sublime,1.0 +"Of life? to hang his airy nest on high,",0.0 +"Rocked at each breeze, and menacing a fall?",1.0 +"Granting grim Death at equal distance there,",4.0 +Yet peace begins just where ambition ends.,0.0 +What makes man wretched? happiness denied?,2.0 +Lorenzo! no: iT is Happiness disdained.,1.0 +"And calls herself Content, a homely name:",0.0 +"Our flame is Transport, and Content our scorn.",1.0 +"Ambition turns, and shuts the door against her,",0.0 +"A Tempest, to warm Transport near of kin.",2.0 +Unknowing what our mortal state admits,0.0 +"Life's modest joys we ruin while we raise,",1.0 +"Peace, the full portion of mankind below.",5.0 +"And since thy peace is dear, ambitious youth!",0.0 +"Of Fortune fond, as thoughtless of thy fate!",1.0 +"As late I drew Death's picture, to stir up",3.0 +"Thy wholesome fears; now, drawn in contrast, see",1.0 +"Gay Fortune's, thy vain hopes to reprimand.",3.0 +And calls the giddy winds to puff abroad,0.0 +Her random bounties over the gaping throng.,2.0 +"All rush rapacious, ' -- friends over trodden friends,",3.0 +"Sons over their fathers, subjects over their kings,",5.0 +"Priests over their gods, and lovers over the fair,",5.0 +"Still more adored, ' -- to snatch the golden shower.",1.0 +"Gold glitters most where Virtue shines no more,",2.0 +As stars from absent suns have leave to shine.,0.0 +"Pour in, all opening in their Idol's praise!",1.0 +And bold to seize the greatest. If blessed chance!,2.0 +"Over just, over sacred, all forbidden ground,",2.0 +"Drunk with the burning scent of place or power,",0.0 +"Or, if for men you take them, as I mark",2.0 +"Their manners, thou their various fates survey.",3.0 +"Some, darting, strike their ardent wish far off,",2.0 +"Through fury to possess it: some succeed,",1.0 +"From some, by sudden blasts, iT is whirled away,",0.0 +"To some it sticks so close, that, when torn off,",0.0 +"Torn is the man, and mortal is the wound.",1.0 +"Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.",1.0 +"Together some unhappy rivals! seize,",0.0 +Smiles too the goddess; but smiles most at those,3.0 +fust victims of exorbitant desire!,3.0 +"Beneath her load of lavish grants, expire.",0.0 +Fortune is famous for her numbers skin:,3.0 +The number small which happiness can bear.,1.0 +"Though various for a while their fates, at last",1.0 +"One curse involves them all: at Death's approach,",0.0 +"All read their riches backward into loss,",0.0 +And mourn in just proportion to their store.,1.0 +And Death's approach if orthodox my song,0.0 +Is hastened by the lure of Fortune's smiles.,1.0 +And art thou still rapacious of thy ruin?,1.0 +"Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow;",1.0 +"A blow which, while it executes, alarms,",0.0 +And startles thousands with a single fall.,1.0 +"As when some stately growth of oak, or pine,",0.0 +"Which nods aloft, and proudly spreads her shade,",0.0 +"The sun's defiance and the flock's defence,",1.0 +"Loud groans her last, and, rushing from her height,",2.0 +"And hill, and stream, and distant dale resound.",1.0 +"Should I collect, my quiver would be full;",1.0 +"A quiver which, suspended in mid air,",1.0 +"Or near Heaven's Archer, in the zodiac, hung,",1.0 +"So could it be, should draw the public eye,",0.0 +The gaze and contemplation of mankind;,2.0 +"A constellation awful, yet benign,",0.0 +To guide the gay through life's tempestuous wave;,3.0 +"Nor suffer them to strike the common rock, ' --",1.0 +"From greater danger to grow more secure,",2.0 +"And, wrapped in happiness, forget their fate.",1.0 +"Lysander, happy past the common lot,",1.0 +"Was warned of danger, but too gay to fear.",2.0 +"In youth, form, fortune, fame, they both were blessed:",1.0 +"All who knew envied, yet in envy loved:",1.0 +Can Fancy form more finished happiness?,1.0 +Fixed was the nuptial hour. Her stately dome,0.0 +Rose on the sounding beach. The glittering spires,2.0 +"Float in the wave, and break against the shore:",0.0 +"So break those glittering shadows, human joys!",3.0 +The rising storm forbids. The news arrives;,0.0 +Untold she saw it in her servant's eye.,0.0 +She felt it seen; her heart was apt to feel;,0.0 +"And, drowned without the furious ocean's aid,",2.0 +"In suffocating sorrows, shares his tomb.",0.0 +Now round the sumptuous bridal monument,3.0 +The guilty billows innocently roar;,1.0 +"And the rough sailor, passing, drops a tear.",2.0 +A tear! ' -- can tears suffice? ' -- but not for me.,0.0 +How vain our efforts! and our arts how vain!,1.0 +"The distant train of thought I took, to shun,",0.0 +"Has thrown me on, my fate. ' -- These died together;",1.0 +"Or never to meet, or never to part, is peace. ' --",4.0 +Survive myself? ' -- That cures all other woe.,1.0 +"OH the soft commerce! OH the tender ties,",3.0 +"Which, broken, break them, and drain off the soul",0.0 +"Of human joy, and make it pain to live. ' --",0.0 +"And is it then to live? When such friends part,",2.0 +Tis the survivor dies. ' -- My heart! no more.,3.0 +By holy church he cannot her abide.,1.0 +"Like unto dog which lights of a bone,",0.0 +"IN the smooth dance to move with graceful mien,",3.0 +"Easy with care, and sprightly though serene,",3.0 +"To mark the instructions echoing strains convey,",4.0 +"And with just steps each tuneful note obey,",1.0 +"I teach; be present, all you sacred Choir,",0.0 +"Blow the soft flute, and strike the sounding lyre;",3.0 +"When FIELDING bids your kind assistance bring,",0.0 +And at her feet the lowly tribute fling;,0.0 +O may her eyes to her this verse is due,2.0 +And make the fairest still appear more fair.,0.0 +"Beauty can little execution do,",2.0 +Unless she borrows half her arms from you!,0.0 +"Few, like PYGMALION, dote on lifeless charms,",1.0 +Or care to clasp a statue in their arms;,1.0 +"But breasts of flint must melt with fierce desire,",0.0 +When art and motion wake the sleeping fire:,0.0 +"May for awhile our wondering eyes command,",3.0 +"But still, though formed with all the powers of art,",1.0 +The lifeless piece can never warm the heart;,0.0 +"So fair a nymph, perhaps, may please the eye,",0.0 +"But when her charms are in the dance displayed,",0.0 +Then every heart adores the lovely maid:,0.0 +"This sets her beauty in the fairest light,",0.0 +And shows each grace in full perfection bright;,0.0 +"Then, as she turns around, from every part,",0.0 +Like porcupines she sends a piercing dart;,0.0 +"In vain, alas! the fond spectator tries",5.0 +"To shun the pleasing dangers of her eyes,",1.0 +"With flowing curls, and ivory neck reclined:",0.0 +"Or sprightly Jig displays the nimble fair,",0.0 +"At every stop new beauties we explore,",2.0 +"And worship now, what we admired before:",1.0 +"Fair Venus met, the charming queen of Love,",1.0 +"Seemed some fair nymph, the guardian of the wood;",4.0 +"But when she moved, at once her heavenly mien",2.0 +"New glories over her form each moment rise,",3.0 +And all the Goddess opens to his eyes.,1.0 +"Now haste, my Muse, pursue thy destined way,",1.0 +"What dresses best become the dancer, say;",0.0 +"The rules of dress forget not to impart,",1.0 +A lesson previous to the dancing art.,1.0 +"The soldiers scarlet glowing from afar,",1.0 +Shows that his bloody occupation's war;,0.0 +"While the lawn band, beneath a double chin,",3.0 +As plainly speaks divinity within;,1.0 +"Needs but the silken shoe, and trusts her bosom bare:",0.0 +"Guard well the horseman from the beating storm,",2.0 +"But load the dancer with too great a weight,",2.0 +And call from every poor the dewy sweat;,0.0 +Rather let him his active limbs display,0.0 +Let no unwieldy pride his shoulders press;,1.0 +"But airy, light, and easy be his dress;",0.0 +"So shall he nimbly bound, and safely wheel.",0.0 +"But let not precepts known my verse prolong,",1.0 +"Precepts which use will better teach, than song;",1.0 +"For why should I the gallant spark command,",0.0 +With clean white gloves to fit his ready hand?,1.0 +"Or in his fob enlivening spirits wear,",2.0 +And pungent salts to raise the fainting fair?,0.0 +"Or hint, the sword that dangles at his side,",0.0 +Should from its silken bandage be untied?,0.0 +"Why should my lays the youthful tribe advise,",0.0 +Lest snowy clouds from out their wigs arise;,1.0 +And shining silks with greasy powder soiled?,0.0 +"Nor need I, sure, bid prudent youths beware,",1.0 +"Lest with erected tongues their buckles stare,",1.0 +And oft the approaching petticoat offend.,2.0 +"And now, you youthful fair, I sing to you,",0.0 +"For you bright gems with radiant colours glow,",3.0 +"Fair as the dies that paint the heavenly bow,",2.0 +"For you the sea resigns its pearly store,",1.0 +"In vain yet Nature thus her gifts bestows,",0.0 +Unless yourselves with art those gifts dispose.,0.0 +"Yet think not, Nymphs, that in the glittering ball,",2.0 +One form of dress prescribed can suit with all;,0.0 +One brightest shines when wealth and art combine,0.0 +To make the finished piece completely fine;,0.0 +"When least adorned, another steals our hearts,",0.0 +"And rich in native beauties, wants no arts:",1.0 +That in all dresses they are sure to wound;,1.0 +"Their perfect forms all foreign aids despise,",1.0 +And gems but borrow lustre from their eyes.,2.0 +"Let the fair Nymph, in whose plump cheeks is seen",4.0 +"A constant blush, be clad in cheerful green;",0.0 +So in their grassy bed fresh roses blow:,1.0 +"The lass whose skin is like the hazel brown,",0.0 +With brighter yellow should overcome her own:,2.0 +"While maids grown pale with sickness or despair,",2.0 +The sable's mournful die should choose to wear;,0.0 +"So the pale moon still shines with purest light,",4.0 +"But far from you be all those treacherous arts,",2.0 +"That wound with painted charms unwary hearts,",0.0 +Nor suffers charms that Nature's hand denies:,0.0 +Though for awhile we may with wonder view,2.0 +"The rosy blush, and skin of lovely hue,",0.0 +"Yet soon the dance will cause the cheeks to glow,",0.0 +"So shine the fields in icy fetters bound,",0.0 +"Through the clear crystal of the glittering snow,",5.0 +With scarlet die the blushing hawthorns glow;,1.0 +And a new bright creation charms our eyes:,2.0 +"Till Zephyr breathes, then all at once decay",0.0 +"The splendid scenes, their glories fade away,",0.0 +"The fields resign the beauties not their own,",0.0 +And all their snowy charms run trickling down.,2.0 +"Dare I in such momentous points advise,",1.0 +"I should condemn the hoop's enormous size,",0.0 +"Of ills I speak by long experience found,",2.0 +"Oft have I trod the immeasurable round,",2.0 +Nor ruffles edged with dangling fringes wear;,0.0 +Oft will the cobweb ornaments catch hold,3.0 +"On the approaching button rough with gold,",1.0 +"Nor force, nor art can then the bonds divide,",0.0 +When once the entangled Gordian knot is tied:,4.0 +"The more they strive their freedom to regain,",1.0 +"Let each fair maid, who fears to be disgraced,",3.0 +"Ever be sure to tie her garter fast,",2.0 +"Lest the loosed string, amid the public ball,",2.0 +"Who the rich treasure shall triumphant show,",2.0 +And with warm blushes cause her cheeks to glow.,2.0 +"She humbles many, some delights to raise",0.0 +By such neglect acquired immortal fame.,3.0 +And hence the radiant Star and Garter blue,0.0 +"Still thy lost Garter is thy sovereign's care,",5.0 +And what each royal breast is proud to wear.,0.0 +"But let me now my lovely charge remind,",0.0 +Lest they forgetful leave their fans behind;,1.0 +"Lay not, you fear, the pretty toy aside,",0.0 +"A toy at once displayed, for use and pride,",0.0 +"A wondrous engine, that by magic charms,",0.0 +"Cools your own breast, and every other's warms.",0.0 +What daring bard shall ever attempt to tell,2.0 +"The powers, that in this little weapon dwell?",0.0 +"What verse can ever explain its various parts,",4.0 +"Its numerous uses, motions, charms and arts?",2.0 +"Its painted folds, that oft extended wide,",0.0 +"When secret sorrows her sad bosom fill,",2.0 +"Its sticks, on which her eyes dejected poor,",0.0 +"And pointing fingers number over and over,",2.0 +"When the kind virgin burns with secret shame,",2.0 +"Dies to consent, yet fears to own her flame;",2.0 +"Its shake triumphant, its victorious clap,",3.0 +Nor trust in such a flight thy tender wing;,1.0 +"Rather do you in humble lines proclaim,",0.0 +"From whence this engine took its form and name,",0.0 +"Say from what cause it first derived its birth,",0.0 +"How formed in heaven, how thence deduced to earth.",0.0 +"Once in Arcadia, that famed seat of love,",4.0 +"There lived a nymph, the pride of all the grove,",0.0 +"A lovely nymph, adorned with every grace,",0.0 +"An easy shape, and sweetly blooming face,",0.0 +"To charm her ear the rival shepherd's sing,",0.0 +"Blow the soft flute, and wake the trembling string,",3.0 +"For her they leave their wandering flocks to rove,",3.0 +"And spreads on every tree, enclosed in knots of love;",0.0 +"Like her in beauty, as alike in name.",1.0 +"'Twas when the summer sun, now mounted high,",1.0 +"With fiercer beams had scorched the glowing sky,",0.0 +"Beneath the covert of a cooling shade,",1.0 +"To shun the heat, this lovely nymph was laid;",0.0 +The sultry weather over her cheeks had spread,2.0 +"A blush, that added to their native red,",1.0 +"And her fair breasts, as polished marble white,",2.0 +"Were half concealed, and half exposed to sight;",0.0 +"AEOLUS the mighty God, whom winds obey,",1.0 +"Over all her charms he gazed with fond delight,",0.0 +And sucked in poison at the dangerous sight;,2.0 +"He sighs, he burns; at last declares his pain,",0.0 +"The cruel nymph, regardless of his moan,",1.0 +"Minds not his flame, uneasy with her own;",1.0 +"But still complains, that he who ruled the air",1.0 +Would not command one Zephyr to repair,1.0 +"Around her face, nor gentle breeze to play",0.0 +"Through the dark glade, to cool the sultry day;",2.0 +"By love incited, and the hopes of joy,",1.0 +"The ingenious God contrived this pretty toy,",1.0 +With gales incessant to relieve her flame;,1.0 +"NOW see prepared to lead the sprightly dance,",1.0 +"The spacious room receives each jovial guest,",2.0 +And the floor shakes with pleasing weight oppressed:,2.0 +"Thick ranged on every side, with various dies",3.0 +The fair in glossy silks our sight surprise:,0.0 +"So, in a garden bathed with genial showers,",0.0 +"A thousand sorts of variegated flowers,",5.0 +And in a gay confusion charm our eyes.,0.0 +"High over their heads, with numerous candles bright,",5.0 +"Large sconces shed their sparkling beams of light,",1.0 +"Their sparkling beams that still more brightly glow,",0.0 +"Reflected back from gems, and eyes below:",0.0 +"With breathing Zephyrs move the circling air,",0.0 +"The sprightly fiddle, and the sounding lyre",1.0 +Each youthful breast with generous warmth inspire;,2.0 +"Fraught with all joys the blissful moments fly,",0.0 +"While music melts the ear, and beauty charms the eye.",0.0 +"Now let the youth, to whose superior place",3.0 +"It first belongs the splendid ball to grace,",0.0 +"With humble bow, and ready hand prepare,",0.0 +Forth from the crowd to lead his chosen fair;,0.0 +"The fair shall not his kind request deny,",0.0 +"First hear the Muse, ere you attempt to dance:",3.0 +Secure from rocks the painted vessels glide;,0.0 +"By art the chariot scours the dusty plain,",4.0 +"To art our bodies must obedient prove,",2.0 +If ever we hope with graceful ease to move.,2.0 +"Hence lost in error and uncertainty,",3.0 +"No precepts did in mind, or rules obey,",1.0 +But every master taught a different way;,0.0 +"Hence ere each newborn dance was fully tried,",1.0 +"The lovely product even in blooming died,",2.0 +"Through various hands in wild confusion tossed,",2.0 +"Its steps were altered, and its beauties lost;",1.0 +"And did the dance in characters compose,",1.0 +"Each lovely grace by certain marks he taught,",0.0 +And every step in lasting volumes wrote:,0.0 +"Hence over the world this pleasing art shall spread,",3.0 +"By distant masters shall each step be seen,",0.0 +"Though mountains rise, and oceans roar between;",0.0 +"Hence, with her sister arts, shall Dancing claim",0.0 +"An equal right to universal fame,",0.0 +"Wise Nature ever, with a prudent hand,",2.0 +"Dispenses various gifts to every land,",2.0 +To every nation frugally imparts,1.0 +A genius fit for some peculiar arts;,0.0 +"To trade the DUTCH incline, the SWISS to arms,",0.0 +BRITANNIA justly glories to have found,3.0 +"Lands unexplored, and sailed the globe around:",1.0 +"But none will sure presume to rival FRANCE,",0.0 +"Whether she forms, or executes the dance;",2.0 +To her exalted genius it's we owe,2.0 +"With all those dances of illustrious fame,",3.0 +"French dances. That from their native country take their name,",1.0 +"With these let every ball be first begun,",2.0 +Nor country dance intrude till these are done.,1.0 +"Each cautious bard, ere he attempts to sing,",2.0 +"First gently fluttering tries his tender wing,",3.0 +And if he finds that with uncommon fire,2.0 +"At once to heaven he soars in lofty odes,",0.0 +And sings alone of heroes and of gods;,1.0 +"But if he trembling fears a flight so high,",1.0 +He then descends to softer elegy;,1.0 +"And if in elegy he can't succeed,",2.0 +"So should the dancer, ere he tries to move,",0.0 +"With care his strength, his weight, and genius prove;",0.0 +"Then, if he finds kind Nature's gifts impart",1.0 +"Endowments proper for the dancing art,",1.0 +"If in himself he feels together joined,",0.0 +"An active body and ambitious mind,",1.0 +"If these he fears to reach, with easy pace",1.0 +"Would you in dancing every fault avoid,",0.0 +To keep true time be your first thoughts employed;,3.0 +"All other errors they in vain shall mend,",1.0 +Who in this one important point offend;,1.0 +"For this, when now united hand in hand",1.0 +Eager to start the youthful couple stand;,2.0 +"Let them awhile their nimble feet restrain,",2.0 +And with soft taps beat time to every strain:,4.0 +"In vain a master shall employ his care,",0.0 +Where Nature once has fixed a clumsy air;,0.0 +"Rather let such, to country sports confined,",0.0 +"Pursue the flying hare, or timorous hind:",2.0 +A mien effeminate would I advise;,2.0 +"With equal scorn I would the fop deride,",0.0 +"And you, fair nymphs, avoid with equal care,",2.0 +"Neither with eyes, that ever love the ground,",2.0 +"Nor yet with giddy looks, and wanton pride,",0.0 +"Stare all around, and skip from side to side.",1.0 +"True dancing, like true wit, is best expressed",2.0 +By nature only to advantage dressed;,1.0 +"It's not a nimble bound, or caper high,",0.0 +"That can pretend to please a curious eye,",3.0 +"Good judges no such tumblers tricks regard,",0.0 +"No glaring errors in your steps can spy,",1.0 +"The dance and music must so nicely meet,",0.0 +Each note should seem an echo to your feet;,1.0 +"A nameless grace must in each movement dwell,",0.0 +"Which words can never express, or precepts tell,",3.0 +"Not to be taught, but ever to be seen",1.0 +"It's such an air that makes her thousands fall,",1.0 +And flies like her through crowds of heroes slain.,1.0 +"Now when the Minuet oft repeated over,",3.0 +"Like all terrestrial joys can please no more,",3.0 +"And every nymph, refusing to expand",1.0 +"Her charms, declines the circulating hand;",0.0 +And the loud fiddles call each straggler in:,2.0 +"But ere they come, permit me to disclose,",1.0 +"How first, as legends tell, this pastime rose.",1.0 +In ancient times such times are now no more,1.0 +"In some fair opening glade, each summer's night,",3.0 +"On the soft carpet of a grassy field,",3.0 +The sporting fairies their assemblies held:,1.0 +"Some lightly tripping with their pigmy queen,",1.0 +"Some with soft notes bade mellow pipes resound,",5.0 +And music warble through the groves around;,1.0 +"Oft lonely shepherd's by the forest side,",2.0 +"Belated peasants oft their revels spied,",0.0 +Their guests diverted with the wondrous tale.,1.0 +"Instructed hence, throughout the British isle,",0.0 +"And fond to imitate the pleasing toil,",0.0 +"Round where the trembling may pole's fixed on high,",4.0 +And practise every night the lovely sport;,0.0 +"Whose active elbows swelling winds command,",1.0 +"The swelling winds harmonious pipes inspire,",2.0 +And blow in every breast a generous fire.,2.0 +"And hence to cities and to courts it ran,",1.0 +Succeeding ages did in time impart,0.0 +Various improvements to the lovely art:,2.0 +From fields and groves to palaces removed;,1.0 +Great ones the pleasing exercise approved;,1.0 +"Hence the loud fiddle, and shrill trumpet's sounds,",5.0 +Are made companions of the dancer's bounds;,1.0 +"Hence gems, and silks, brocades, and ribbons join,",1.0 +To make the ball with perfect lustre shine.,1.0 +"So rude at first the tragic Muse appeared,",0.0 +"Her voice alone by rustic rabble heard,",0.0 +Where twisting trees a cooling arbour made,0.0 +"The pleased spectators sat beneath the shade,",4.0 +And in a cart the strolling actors rode:,0.0 +"Till time at length improved the great design,",0.0 +And bade the scenes with painted landscapes shine;,1.0 +"Then art did all the bright machines dispose,",0.0 +"Then mimic thunder shook the canvas sky,",0.0 +And Gods descended from their towers on high.,3.0 +With caution now let every youth prepare,1.0 +To choose a partner from the mingled fair;,1.0 +"Vain would he hear the instructed Muse's voice,",2.0 +If she pretended to direct his choice:,2.0 +"Beauty alone by fancy is expressed,",3.0 +"A snowy skin this amorous youth admires,",2.0 +"Small waists and slender limbs some hearts ensnare,",1.0 +While others love the more substantial fair.,0.0 +"But let not outward charms your judgements sway,",0.0 +"Your reason rather than your eyes obey,",1.0 +"And in the dance, as in the marriage noose,",0.0 +"Rather for merit, than for beauty, choose:",3.0 +"Be her your choice, who knows with perfect skill",1.0 +"When she should move, and when she should be still,",0.0 +And kindly half the pleasing burden bear.,0.0 +Who fettered in the matrimonial state,2.0 +Is forced to lead the tedious dance of life;,2.0 +"And such is his, with such a partner joined,",2.0 +"A moving puppet, but without a mind:",1.0 +"Still must his hand be pointing out the way,",1.0 +"Yet never can teach so fast, as she can stray,",3.0 +"Beneath her follies he must ever groan,",1.0 +And ever blush for errors not his own.,0.0 +"But now behold united hand in hand,",0.0 +"Each youthful bosom beating with delight,",1.0 +Waits the brisk signal for the pleasing fight:,4.0 +"While lovely eyes, that flash unusual rays,",0.0 +The fond impatience of the starting fair.,1.0 +And see the sprightly dance is now begun!,0.0 +"Now here, now there the giddy maze they run,",0.0 +"Now with slow steps they pace the circling ring,",3.0 +"Now all confused, too swift for sight they spring:",2.0 +"So, in a wheel with rapid fury tossed,",0.0 +The undistinguished spokes are in the motion lost.,0.0 +"The dancer here no more requires a guide,",1.0 +"To no strict steps his nimble feet are tied,",1.0 +"The Muse's precepts here would useless be,",1.0 +"Where all is fancied, unconfined, and free;",0.0 +"Let him but to the music's voice attend,",1.0 +"By this instructed, he can never offend;",4.0 +"If to his share it falls the dance to lead,",1.0 +"If others lead, let him their motions view,",2.0 +And in their steps the winding maze pursue.,0.0 +"Turned for reflection, can a moral find;",3.0 +"Seeks when we fly, but flies when we pursue:",1.0 +"And unconfined from fair to fair we range,",0.0 +"As soon as one from his own consort flies,",2.0 +"Awhile the favourite youth enjoys her charms,",0.0 +"Till the next comer steals her from his arms,",2.0 +"New ones succeed, the last is still her care;",1.0 +"Where can philosophers, and sages wise,",2.0 +"Who read the curious volumes of the skies,",3.0 +"A model more exact than dancing name,",0.0 +Of the creation's universal frame?,1.0 +In a bright regular confusion stray;,3.0 +"Now here, now there they whirl along the sky,",0.0 +"Now near approach, and now far distant fly,",2.0 +"Now meet in the same order they began,",8.0 +And then the great celestial dance is done.,0.0 +"And eagerly pursue we know not what,",1.0 +"Then when our trifling short-lived race is run,",1.0 +Though to your arms kind fate's indulgent care,2.0 +"Has given a partner exquisitely fair,",7.0 +"Let not her charms so much engage your heart,",0.0 +"Be not, when you the tuneful notes should hear,",0.0 +Still whispering idle prattle in her ear;,3.0 +"When you should be employed, be not at play,",0.0 +Nor for your joys all others steps delay:,1.0 +"But when the finished dance you once have done,",0.0 +"And with applause through every couple run,",1.0 +"There rest awhile: there snatch the fleeting bliss,",0.0 +"The tender whisper, and the balmy kiss;",1.0 +"Each secret wish, each softer hope confess,",0.0 +And her moist palm with eager fingers press;,2.0 +"With smiles the fair shall hear your warm desires,",0.0 +"When music melts her soul, and dancing sires.",0.0 +"Thus mixed with love, the pleasing toil pursue,",1.0 +Till the unwelcome morn appears in view;,1.0 +"Then, when approaching day its beams displays,",0.0 +"And the dull candles shine with fainter rays,",2.0 +"Then when the sun just rises over the deep,",2.0 +"And each bright eye is almost set in sleep,",2.0 +"With ready hands, obsequious youths, prepare",2.0 +"Safe to her coach to lead each chosen fair,",0.0 +"And over her neck a handkerchief be spread,",3.0 +"Around her shoulders let this arm be cast,",0.0 +While that from cold defends her slender waist;,0.0 +"With kisses warm her balmy lips shall glow,",0.0 +Safely protects her inward frame from harm.,2.0 +But ever let my lovely pupils fear,0.0 +"Ah, thoughtless fair! the tempting draught refuse,",0.0 +When thus forewarned by my experienced Muse;,3.0 +"Let the sad consequence your thoughts employ,",4.0 +"Nor hazard future pains, for present joy,",0.0 +"Destruction lurks within the poisonous dose,",2.0 +Thus through each precept of the dancing art,1.0 +"The Muse has played the kind instructors part,",0.0 +"Through every maze her pupils she has led,",1.0 +And pointed out the surest paths to tread;,1.0 +"No more remains; no more the goddess sings,",2.0 +"On downy beds the weary dancers lie,",0.0 +And sleep's silk cords tie down each drowsy eye;,3.0 +"Delightful dreams their pleasing sports restore,",0.0 +And even in sleep they seem to dance once more.,3.0 +"And now the work completely finished lies,",0.0 +Which the devouring teeth of time defies;,3.0 +"While birds in air, or fish in streams we find,",0.0 +As long as nymphs shall with attentive ear,1.0 +A fiddle rather than a sermon hear;,1.0 +The useful lines of my instructive Muse;,1.0 +"Each belle shall wear them wrote upon her fan,",0.0 +And each bright beau shall read them ' -- if he can.,2.0 +OH lovely woman! framed for man's destruction!,1.0 +"Beauty, like nightshade to the teeming wife,",1.0 +"If seen, gives wishes restless, endless longings;",1.0 +"If tasted, death. Too hard decree of fate,",1.0 +"That life must be a burden, or must end!",1.0 +"Farewell, vain world! dwelling of ills and fears,",4.0 +"Full of fond hopes, false joys, and sad repentance;",4.0 +"For though sometime warm Fancy lights a fire,",4.0 +That mounting upwards darts its pointed head,0.0 +"Yet then comes Thought, and cold Consideration,",1.0 +"Lame Afterthought with endless scruples fraught,",1.0 +"Farewell, vain world! ' -- Yet, ere I die, I'll find",2.0 +"Haste then, for nimble Death pursues me close,",0.0 +"My fluttering soul seems like a bird entrapped,",2.0 +"That beats his wings against the prison walls,",0.0 +And fain would be at liberty again;,1.0 +"Hath warned me that my time would soon expire,",0.0 +"And that life's thread, never to be wound up more,",2.0 +Would by the spring of fate be quickly drawn,0.0 +"To its full stretch ' -- Haste then, and let me find",1.0 +"A shelter, that may shut out noise and light,",0.0 +"Save one dim taper, whose neglected snuff,",3.0 +"Grown higher than the flame, shall with its bulk",3.0 +"Almost extinguish it; no noise be there,",3.0 +"But that of water, ever friend to thought.",0.0 +"Hail, gloomy shade! the abode of modesty",4.0 +Void of deceit; no glittering objects here,4.0 +"Dazzle the eyes; and thou, delightful Silence,",3.0 +"The angels' language, and the hermits' pride,",1.0 +"The help of waking wisdom, and its food;",1.0 +In thee philosophers have justly placed,2.0 +"The sovereign good; free from the broken vows,",2.0 +Of which the noisy babbling world complains.,0.0 +"Lies down to die, the arrow in his breast;",0.0 +"There hid in shades, and wasting day by day,",0.0 +"SO here confined, and but to female Clay,",2.0 +While the soft Breeze of Pleasure's tempting Air,3.0 +"Made her believe, Felicity was there;",3.0 +"And basking in the warmth of early Time,",0.0 +To vain Amusements dedicate her Prime.,0.0 +Ambition next allured her towering Eye;,0.0 +"For Paradise she heard was placed on high,",0.0 +"Then thought, the Court with all its glorious Show",2.0 +"Was sure above the rest, and Paradise below.",0.0 +"There placed too soon the flaming Sword appeared,",1.0 +"Removed those Powers, whom justly she revered,",3.0 +"Adhered too in their Wreck, and in their Ruin shared.",1.0 +"Now by the Wheels inevitable Round,",1.0 +"With them thrown prostrate to the humble Ground,",3.0 +No more she takes instructed by that Fall,1.0 +"For fixed, or worth her thought, this rolling Ball:",0.0 +"Towards a more certain Station she aspires,",1.0 +"Unshaken by Revolts, and owns no less Desires.",2.0 +"But all in vain are Prayers, ecstatic Thoughts,",0.0 +"Recovered Moments, and retracted Faults,",1.0 +"These, but at distance, towards that purpose tend,",1.0 +The lowly Means to an exalted End;,1.0 +"Which He must perfect, who allots her Stay,",2.0 +"And That, accomplished, will direct the way.",1.0 +"Pity her restless Cares, and weary Strife,",2.0 +And point some Issue to escaping Life;,1.0 +"Which so dismissed, no Pen or Human Speech",2.0 +The ineffable Recess can ever teach:,2.0 +"The Expanse, the Light, the Harmony, the Throng,",2.0 +"The Bride's Attendance, and the Bridal Song,",1.0 +"The numerous Mansions, and the immortal Tree,",5.0 +Or Waves which through that wondrous City roll.,1.0 +"Rest then content, my too impatient Soul;",2.0 +"Observe but here the easy Precepts given,",1.0 +Careful Observers may foretell the Hour,3.0 +"While Rain depends, the pensive Cat gives over",1.0 +Strike your offended Sense with double stink.,2.0 +"A coming Shower your shooting Corns presage,",5.0 +"He damns the Climate, and complains of Spleen.",1.0 +"MEAN while the South rising with dabbled Wings,",5.0 +And like a Drunkard gives it up again.,1.0 +"Brisk Susan whips her Linen from the Rope,",2.0 +"Flirts on you from her Mop, but not so clean.",1.0 +"You fly, invoke the Gods; then turning, stop",0.0 +"Not yet, the Dust had shunned the unequal Strife,",2.0 +"But aided by the Wind, fought still for Life;",2.0 +"And wafted with its Foe by violent Gust,",1.0 +"'Twas doubtful which was Rain, and which was Dust.",1.0 +"Ah! where must needy Poet seek for Aid,",0.0 +When Dust and Rain at once his Coat invade;,0.0 +"His only Coat, where Dust confused with Rain,",0.0 +"NOW in contiguous Drops the Flood comes down,",5.0 +Threatening with Deluge this Devoted Town.,2.0 +"Pretend to cheapen Goods, but nothing buy.",0.0 +"Stays till it's fair, yet seems to call a Coach.",0.0 +While Streams run down her oiled Umbrella's Sides.,1.0 +"Here various Kinds by various Fortunes led,",4.0 +Commence Acquaintance underneath a Shed.,0.0 +"Forget their Feuds, and join to save their Wigs.",0.0 +"Boxed in a Chair the Beau impatient sits,",0.0 +While Spouts run clattering over the Roof by Fits;,3.0 +And ever and anon with frightful Din,1.0 +"So when Troy Chairmen bore the Wooden Steed,",1.0 +"Pregnant with Greeks, impatient to be freed,",3.0 +"Those Bully Greeks who, as the Moderns do,",1.0 +"Instead of paying Chairmen, run them through.",0.0 +And bear their Trophies with them as they go:,2.0 +Filth of all Hues and Odours seem to tell,3.0 +"What Street they sailed from, by their Sight and Smell.",1.0 +"They, as each Torrent drives, with rapid Force",1.0 +"Love, gentle power, to peace was ever a friend:",5.0 +Still may his bard in softer fights engage:,0.0 +Wars hand to hand with Cynthia let me wage.,3.0 +"Long as of youth the joyous hours remain,",0.0 +"Or roused by sprightly sounds from out the trance,",1.0 +I'd in the ring knit hands and join the Muses' dance.,2.0 +"Give me to send the laughing bowl around,",0.0 +My soul in Bacchus' pleasing fetters bound;,0.0 +There bloom the vernal rose's earliest pride;,2.0 +"And when, our flames commissioned to destroy,",1.0 +"Age step betwixt love and me, and intercept our joy;",3.0 +"When my changed head these locks no more shall know,",3.0 +Then let me rightly spell of nature's ways.,0.0 +"To Providence, to him my thoughts I'd raise,",2.0 +"Who taught this vast machine its steadfast laws,",1.0 +"That first, eternal, universal Cause;",0.0 +"Search to what regions yonder star retires,",0.0 +"And whence, anew revived, with silver light",0.0 +How rising winds the face of ocean sweep;,0.0 +Where lie the eternal fountains of the deep;,3.0 +And whence the cloudy magazines maintain,0.0 +"How flames perhaps, with dire confusion hurled,",0.0 +"What wondrous force the solid earth can move,",0.0 +Shakes all his pines and bows his hundred heads;,0.0 +"Why does yonder orb, so exquisitely bright,",5.0 +Obscure his radiance in a short-lived night;,1.0 +"Whence the Seven Sisters' congregated fires,",3.0 +How the rude surge its sandy bounds control;,2.0 +Who measured out the year and bade the seasons roll;,1.0 +"If realms beneath those fabled torments know,",1.0 +"Pangs without respite, fires that ever glow;",4.0 +The triple dog that scares the shadowy kind;,2.0 +"All angry heaven inflicts or hell can feel,",0.0 +Famine at feasts and thirst amid the stream.,2.0 +"Or are our fears the enthusiast's empty dream,",9.0 +"And all the scenes that hurt the grave's repose,",0.0 +But pictured horror and poetic woes?,1.0 +"These soft, inglorious joys my hours engage;",2.0 +Be love my youth's pursuit and science crown my age.,0.0 +Who rove from spa to spa ' -- to shift the scene.,0.0 +"Come, learn a wholesome secret from my song.",2.0 +"You fair, whose roses feel the approaching frost,",2.0 +And drops supply the place of spirits lost:,0.0 +Condemned to water for excess in wine:,1.0 +Who eat and drink till appetite grows dull:,1.0 +While nature more oppressed grows worse and worse:,1.0 +You nod or laugh at what the parson preaches:,0.0 +"Hear then a rhyming quack, ' -- who spurns your wealth,",0.0 +And gratis gives a sure receipt for health.,0.0 +"No more thus vainly roam over sea and land,",6.0 +When lo! a sovereign remedy at hand:,1.0 +It's Temperance ' -- stale cant! ' -- It's Fasting then;,3.0 +Heaven's antidote against the sins of men.,0.0 +"To scour the obstructed glands, abstain! abstain!",1.0 +"Fast and take rest, you candidates for sleep,",4.0 +Who from high food tormenting vigils keep:,4.0 +"You nymphs that pine over chocolate and rolls,",5.0 +"Hunger may starve, excess is sure to kill.",2.0 +"OH THOU most terrible, most dreaded power,",1.0 +In the dread silence of the midnight hour;,4.0 +"Or whether, hovering over the lingering wretch",2.0 +"Thy sad cold javelin hangs suspended long,",1.0 +While round the couch the weeping kindred throng,0.0 +With hope and fear alternately on stretch;,6.0 +"O, say, for me what horrors are prepared?",2.0 +Am I now doomed to meet thy fatal arm?,2.0 +"Or wilt thou first from life steal every charm,",1.0 +And bear away each good my soul would guard?,0.0 +"That thus, deprived of all it loved, my heart",0.0 +From life itself contentedly may part.,1.0 +"THERE was a time when from those hapless schools,",2.0 +"Inhaling faction, with the Tory race",1.0 +"On Right Divine, Hereditary Grace,",0.0 +"Much did I waver, much did I unite",1.0 +"The names of Patriot, and of Jacobite:",1.0 +"Thanks to my friendly stars those days are over,",0.0 +Kindling at thy perpetual flame the brand,4.0 +"To thee, OH Truth, I consecrate the blaze; ' --",2.0 +"Receive, exalt, invigorate my lays.",1.0 +"The studious Pilgrim, as his bare feet tread",4.0 +"Over holy Carmel! with religious dread,",1.0 +"Where some old fane, or massive altar lies,",1.0 +"Kneeling adores it with a steadfast gaze,",4.0 +"Amid the historic ravages of Time,",3.0 +Thus the bold Muse asserts her liberal plan,3.0 +"To mark the genuine privilege of man,",3.0 +"To prove how Fiction, and how Fact agree,",1.0 +"That God was just, and all Mankind were free.",1.0 +"From Jura's mount, from those inclement skies,",1.0 +"His arms reversed, his shield thrown idly by,",2.0 +To note the sad decays of Liberty;,1.0 +"Come, stern Philosophy, ' -- that garb of woe",2.0 +"Befits thee most, majestically slow",1.0 +"Thy gait, while raised aloof thy red right hand",1.0 +"Waves in the gale Resentment's flaming brand,",0.0 +"While Justice triumphs in a George's reign,",0.0 +Will I encounter this adventurous task;,4.0 +"Though far too sanguine to conceal their rage,",2.0 +"My Foes already curse each opening page,",2.0 +"And Friends, half shrinking at so rude a test,",1.0 +"Glance over my title, and forswear the rest.",4.0 +"Back to Creation's infancy, when Earth",3.0 +"Few revolutions dated from its birth,",1.0 +My theme invites: ' -- poor Exile doomed to rove,2.0 +Far from the sweets of Eden's happy grove,0.0 +Behold our first Progenitor; ' -- his race,1.0 +"Plunged in a lineal series of disgrace,",3.0 +"To pain, disease, and death's remorseless power.",0.0 +"Some evils soon attained their utmost prime,",1.0 +To perfect others was a work of time.,2.0 +"Perhaps in those rude ages, when no law",3.0 +"Kept the warm passions of mankind in awe,",5.0 +"Some proud Oppressor, of gigantic mould,",1.0 +"His fleecy charge, his only treasure bore,",0.0 +Yet then no dire necessity had made,2.0 +"Murder a system, war a needful trade;",2.0 +"No Frederick, foe to nature and to man,",2.0 +"Justice his pretext, tyranny his plan,",4.0 +"Born every right of nations to betray,",2.0 +"Coarse was their food, their sordid dwelling small,",0.0 +"Such was the lot of one, the lot of all:",2.0 +In some deep vale their shapeless altar stood,1.0 +On some choice festival the Rustic brought,2.0 +"A decent offering from his little stock,",1.0 +"No temple reared its fretted roof on high,",1.0 +As if to shame the meanness of his God.,2.0 +"When, like the Titans, earth's rebellious crew",0.0 +"In vain, their boastful arrogance to quell,",1.0 +"Their leaders were dispersed, their turret fell;",1.0 +"Her banner, and to vex the groaning world",1.0 +From shore to shore the strange contagion ran;,0.0 +"Fraternal concord ceased, and Monarchy began.",1.0 +"Thus while the storms in hollow caverns sleep,",0.0 +"And scarce a zephyr fans the quiet deep,",0.0 +Suddenly from the rock's impending brow,1.0 +"Comes rushing downwards; boils the vast profound,",1.0 +Waves upon waves dashed on the beach resound.,2.0 +"Detested Hunter! Nimrod led the way,",0.0 +"War was his savage pastime, man his prey;",1.0 +For brutal strength by trembling vassals feared,0.0 +The walls of ancient Babylon he reared:,0.0 +"In his high dome, with crayons rude portrayed,",4.0 +The warrior's dread achievements were displayed;,1.0 +"Here pierced with darts the expiring tiger lay,",2.0 +There rushed embattled hosts in firm array;,0.0 +"There in his car the thickest ranks he broke,",0.0 +And nations yielded to his galling yoke.,1.0 +Such empire's origin: ' -- with horrid yell,1.0 +From the black confines of his native hell,0.0 +And Vice came onward with a larger stride:,2.0 +"Ungrateful were the task, and endless toil",1.0 +To trace its progress through each distant soil,2.0 +Fertile of Tyrants. Craft with Prowess joined,0.0 +Dominion first was gained by lawless might;,0.0 +The claim of long Hereditary Right,0.0 +"Succeeded; when to varnish over each flaw,",1.0 +"And bow the world with superstitious awe,",0.0 +"Called him a King, and placed him on a throne;",1.0 +"Then caught the weakness of those darker times,",1.0 +And dragged in Heaven to sanctify his crimes.,1.0 +"When that audacious crew renounced their God,",0.0 +"Despised his mercies, braved his heaviest rod;",2.0 +And for his Patronage too mighty grown,3.0 +Set up a little Idol of their own:,1.0 +"Say, did their Prophet urge Saul's Right Divine? ' --",1.0 +His incense blazed not at so vile a shrine.,1.0 +"Or did some ill in mystic leaves foretold,",0.0 +"And chronicled by gravest seers of old,",1.0 +Overwhelm them with involuntary guilt?,1.0 +And in their temple took its guilty stand.,0.0 +As with inhuman zeal the trembling sire,1.0 +"Consigned his shrieking infants to the fire,",1.0 +"While with loud din their hideous cymbals rung,",5.0 +His Worshippers obscene their uncouth orgies sung.,2.0 +"Belief, in various senses understood,",2.0 +"Is man's severest curse, or surest good.",0.0 +"Thus, in the meads where hallowed Jordan glides,",0.0 +"Enriching Palestine with copious tides,",2.0 +"Where springs the branching palm, where streams the oil,",0.0 +Where fruitful vineyards bless the peasant's toil;,0.0 +"Impregnating with death each tainted gale,",1.0 +"Let Mecca tell, big with aspiring schemes,",3.0 +"Diffused his tenets through the astonished earth,",3.0 +"Confessed their former errors, and believed.",1.0 +"Whose fruit unsound, yet specious to the view,",1.0 +"Fell, ere it ripened, in that baleful air;",1.0 +Relentless Cowards! with a brutal hand,1.0 +"Over Nature's parting agonies they trod,",1.0 +"And slaughtered millions in the name of God,",0.0 +To dip their reeking blades in infant gore;,0.0 +"Till mighty conscience, whose prevailing call",0.0 +"Opens the dread volume of her laws to all,",3.0 +That none discerned the villain from the saint.,1.0 +"Far other fame the Christian doctrine gained,",1.0 +"From Heaven transmitted, and by Heaven maintained,",1.0 +"Yet most those realms which gave his grandeur birth,",3.0 +"To make divided Faith and Virtue foes,",0.0 +On its firm base no second David rose:,4.0 +"Ere long, the streams in a perverted course",2.0 +Ran foul: Fanatics soon began to call,1.0 +"Merit a sound, Religion all in all;",2.0 +"Infuriate Priests the bonds of nature tore,",3.0 +And Persecution drenched the world with gore.,0.0 +"See sainted Champions pour their desperate bands,",3.0 +"A dreaming Hermit leads them, and aloud",1.0 +Preaches salvation to the frantic crowd:,3.0 +The Muse rejecting this historic draught,1.0 +"With bitter truths, strict testimonies fraught,",1.0 +"Overlooks, to take a fairer view of life;",0.0 +"Born on the rapid wings of Thought she flies,",0.0 +"Opens new creations, seeks for other skies,",0.0 +"Of cloudless suns, of ages winged with gold,",0.0 +"Man knew no sorrows, no disease but Love;",2.0 +"When Nature's self was unconstrained and young,",0.0 +"You happier times of innocence and truth,",3.0 +"Pleasing instructors of my thoughtless youth,",3.0 +"When none the image of his God belied,",1.0 +"No Minions crouched beneath a Sultan's pride,",1.0 +"No wealth ensnared, no poverty distressed,",3.0 +"Though doomed to grovel in a baser age,",1.0 +Retrace your scattered annals. ' -- When of old,0.0 +"Their ranging flocks through boundless pastures drove,",0.0 +"Or tuned their pipes beneath the myrtle grove,",0.0 +Their laws on brazen tablets unimpressed,0.0 +"Books, useless lumber, yet in embryo slept,",2.0 +Plain were the duties of that simpler age:,1.0 +"For Nature, best of mothers, pleased to teach",0.0 +Virtues no modern theorist can reach;,4.0 +"With characters indelible, on high",2.0 +Alas! how gladly would Illusion's beam,0.0 +For ever vibrate on this glittering theme:,3.0 +"Here let me finish; nor, my soul to wring,",1.0 +From Fable's sweets proceed to Fable's sting:,0.0 +"I must; ' -- these fairy dreams have had their space,",0.0 +And now the dreadful sequel claims a place.,0.0 +"Like the presumptuous Mariner, whose sails,",4.0 +And bury all his fortunes in the deep:,0.0 +"Of pleasing errors have I dared to rove,",0.0 +"I but survey bright Freedom's form at last,",2.0 +To see her perish by as sure a wound,1.0 +Forth from the casket glittering to the view,1.0 +"Man eyed the bait, and with an idiot joy",4.0 +Eagerly rushed to snatch the gilded toy:,2.0 +"Freedom thenceforth, and Peace, and Justice fled,",3.0 +"Too late remorse congealed each guilty soul,",1.0 +Wherever we search the vast instructive page,2.0 +"Of Fact, or Fiction, we in every age",1.0 +See Saints impaled and tortured at the stake,1.0 +"Through fervent zeal, and for Religion's sake;",1.0 +"Never prompted one humane, one generous part,",3.0 +"While some vain Mortal, arbiter os ill,",3.0 +Governed the rest; at whose imperious will,3.0 +Millions of slaughtered Heroes bit the dust,2.0 +"Till loathing both the present, and the past,",1.0 +We learn this melancholy truth at last;,0.0 +"On Life's rough sea by stormy passions tossed,",1.0 +Freedom and Virtue were together lost.,3.0 +"Shame on our vaunted reason, when we find",0.0 +"No creature else so senseless, and so blind;",2.0 +"And leave the strongest master of the field,",1.0 +"Yet this imperial claim to none descends,",3.0 +"And with heroic frenzy risk their life,",1.0 +Fomenting some unnecessary strife.,2.0 +"Their Nature's end, their mighty Maker's will:",1.0 +"Stoop then, you sons of Reason, stoop, and own",0.0 +"The Chain, whose two Extremities unite,",2.0 +"Presenting still a middle to our sight,",1.0 +"Where link by link in fruitless search we tend,",0.0 +"Yet find not a beginning, or an end,",2.0 +"Talk as we please, dissemble how we can,",1.0 +"Who, in each state of life constrained to own",0.0 +"A strict dependence, useless when alone,",0.0 +"Cleaves, though a Monarch, to his native dung,",1.0 +And venerates the soil from whence he sprung.,0.0 +"View first the Slave, whom his unhappy fate",2.0 +In galling fetters to some foreign state,1.0 +"By those, who truck humanity for gold,",2.0 +"Abused, neglected, sinking with distress,",1.0 +"When all is dark, and Hope alone can bless;",0.0 +"Where Commerce never rears her impious head,",3.0 +"No Fiends approach, no Missionaries tread.",2.0 +"Next him the Peasant, whose incessant toil,",0.0 +"Pressed by the barbarous insults of the great,",1.0 +"Yet his low couch no thorny cares molest,",4.0 +His even spirits yield unbroken rest.,0.0 +"Those restless Beings next in order place,",0.0 +"Whose motley stations wear a doubtful face,",0.0 +"Who dragged by Fortune into Middle Life,",0.0 +"Or swollen with pride, or wasted with chagrin,",3.0 +"Midway suspended, between Heaven and Hell.",6.0 +Clad with those Titles ancient Justice gave,0.0 +"To grace the wise, the generous, and the brave,",1.0 +"Their master's tools, the minions of an hour.",1.0 +"Last of the Group, to close this irksome scene,",0.0 +"Behold the Monarch, whose exalted throne,",0.0 +"Dupes to their fear, his Eastern Vassals own;",0.0 +"When by the toil, which earns the Hind's hard bread,",1.0 +"Is not a wretch like this, to either side",1.0 +Of Life's perverse extremities allied?,1.0 +"Here to its source the line revolving tends,",0.0 +"Here close the points, and here the circle ends.",0.0 +"Law soon became a necessary ill,",1.0 +"Vice edged the sword, and gave it force to kill;",1.0 +"Monarchs, we see, were then at first designed",1.0 +"A general good, a blessing unconfined:",0.0 +"For public welfare, not for private ends,",1.0 +From sire to son the regal crown descends.,2.0 +"When Kings support afflicted Virtue's cause,",0.0 +"Kerb potent Vice, and vindicate the laws,",2.0 +"Our high respect deservedly they share,",1.0 +"Not for themselves, but for the trust they bear.",2.0 +As on the slippery pinnacle they stand,2.0 +"Of brittle grandeur, with rapacious hand",4.0 +"If they assume unlimited domain,",2.0 +And madly govern with perverted rein,1.0 +The vast Machine of Empire; to the skies,1.0 +"Ascend the widow's tears, the orphan's cries;",0.0 +With keen resentment animates the throng;,0.0 +And in just vengeance shakes a guilty throne.,0.0 +Should inauspicious Fortune tear away,4.0 +"From Virtue's grasp the triumphs of a day,",1.0 +"Should Tyranny, by long success grown great,",2.0 +Grim Superstition with an haggard eye,2.0 +"Points to the spoils, and rears her torch on high,",0.0 +"From regal conquest her own inference draws,",3.0 +And blends with that of Heaven its dearer cause.,1.0 +"Blind to the treacherous snare, when Fate decreed",2.0 +That Troy should perish by the wooden steed;,1.0 +"The rest stood fixed with hesitating fear,",1.0 +"Against the monster, from whose knotty side",1.0 +"Stung by a snake the pious Priest expired,",0.0 +"While Folly gazed, and Ignorance admired;",1.0 +The sacrilegious wretch Minerva slew.,0.0 +Crowned with that honest prayer his closing life;,0.0 +Can we unmoved with indignation bear,1.0 +"To see grave Clarendon, whose style, whose air,",2.0 +"Shows half the royalist, and half the saint,",2.0 +Of Freedom greatly prospered; where that band,0.0 +"Of hardy Patriots resolutely bore,",2.0 +"Through storms of horror, and through seas of gore,",1.0 +"Oft as your towers, on which dread Vengeance wrote",3.0 +"In youth's gay season fixed my roving eye,",1.0 +How did I hail that scene of victory!,0.0 +Those laurels green with everlasting spring:,0.0 +"To deck the precincts of Ambition's throne,",2.0 +"But due to vengeance, due to Britain's cause.",0.0 +"Nor, though the Muse forlorn and helpless stray",1.0 +"Over thy bare coast, nor glean one fragrant bay,",2.0 +"Bleak Caledonia, shalt thou pass unsung,",3.0 +"Against their altars lift an impious hand,",3.0 +"And threat the accustomed worship of the land,",3.0 +"From their huge cliffs descending like a flood,",2.0 +"Stood forth, prepared to seal their faith with blood;",1.0 +"At their approach while perjured Holland fled,",1.0 +"False to his Master's cause, his Master's bed;",0.0 +"And Hierarchy, that fiend, whom Scripture paints",5.0 +"Drunk with the blood of Martyrs and of Sai n ts,",3.0 +"Consigned by Fate in penal chains to dwell,",0.0 +"Curse on the shouts of that licentious Throng,",0.0 +Proclaims the fall of Liberty: ' -- you shades,1.0 +"Look down benign, avert the dire presage,",2.0 +"OH, my poor country! what capricious tide",3.0 +Of Fortune swells the Tyrant's motley pride!,2.0 +Around his brows yonder servile Prelates twine,3.0 +Move their light feet to each lascivious air.,5.0 +"A purer worship, less audacious strains.",0.0 +When falls by William's sword as soon it must,0.0 +"This Edifice of bigotry and lust,",2.0 +"The Muse shall start from her inglorious trance,",3.0 +"And give to Satire's grasp her vengeful lance,",0.0 +"At Truth's historic shrine shall victims smoke,",0.0 +And a fresh Stuart bleed at every stroke:,1.0 +"Shrunk from thy coward arm, consigned the reins",0.0 +"Of power to Charles, and forged a nation's chains",2.0 +"High deeds, on plates of adamant enrolled,",2.0 +"Shall meet the felon's undistinguished fate,",0.0 +"Sure of contempt, unworthy of our hate.",3.0 +Once more emerging from this baleful reign,1.0 +When from those banks the Papal Tyrant fled;,0.0 +Then every vale with lo Paeans rung,3.0 +"As the glad reaper at his harvest sung,",2.0 +"Equally born to conquer, and to save,",3.0 +"The exulting shouts of British Freedom bore,",1.0 +And Seine hung trembling over her wasted urn.,5.0 +"Warm with the same benevolence of mind,",1.0 +"Friends to the native rights of human kind,",0.0 +"Succeeding Kings extend the generous plan,",2.0 +Impartial Justice with a steady hand,1.0 +"Of Norman Peers in musty tomes decay,",0.0 +Swept by obliterating years away.,2.0 +But if in Faction's loud and empty strain,1.0 +"In Peace itself ideal dangers find,",6.0 +"Provoke new wars, and challenge half mankind;",2.0 +What though another Tully at their head,1.0 +From breast to breast the rank contagion spread:,0.0 +"Stung with the fever, tortured with the spleen,",1.0 +"By each vague blast dejected or elate,",2.0 +"With strange formality, or bearish ease,",1.0 +"No happy mean the sons of Albion know,",3.0 +"Their wavering tempers ever ebb and flow,",2.0 +"While parties rage, OH Truth! with honest zeal",1.0 +"OH deign to show me in their real light,",2.0 +"Stripped of that glare which cheats the dazzled sight,",0.0 +Usurp a sphere above the sons of earth;,1.0 +"Conduct me to the mansions of the tomb,",2.0 +"Where titles cease, where worldly pomp is over,",0.0 +"So may I take a more impartial view,",1.0 +"Forget the rank, and give the man his due.",0.0 +"Yet what regards it or the world, or me,",1.0 +"How Fame awards her posthumous decree,",1.0 +"If man, unconscious of her loudest breath,",2.0 +Sleep a cold tenant of the vale of death?,4.0 +"Through being's long progressive stages trod,",0.0 +"Began an Ox, and ended in a God.",0.0 +"These baseless structures, fictions light and vain,",0.0 +"To their absurd inventors I resign,",2.0 +"Or rise no more, or wake again a Slave?",1.0 +"And shall the Monarch in a future state,",0.0 +"With the same visionary pomp elate,",2.0 +"Resume the trappings of his lost command,",1.0 +And wield a mimic sceptre in his hand?,0.0 +"Though gloomy Bigots paint a partial God,",0.0 +"Bare his red arm, and lift his scorpion rod;",5.0 +"Though on a text perverting Zealots dwell,",1.0 +Till Scripture suits the purposes of hell;,1.0 +Think for thyself; ' -- suppose life's voyage over;,3.0 +"Think for thyself, and envy Kings no more:",3.0 +"Resigned and calm await that awful hour,",0.0 +"When wreaths of glory shall adorn the Just,",0.0 +And Empire's proud Colossus sink to dust.,0.0 +FAREWELL you walls where solitude has thrown,1.0 +"Her long dark shadow on each silent stone,",2.0 +"Where the slow pulse but feebly dares to creep,",3.0 +Or give the wretched the sad leave to weep;,2.0 +"Where struggling sighs break forth from every breast,",1.0 +And wasting sorrow wears a holy vest;,0.0 +"Where pure religion seldom ventures nigh,",0.0 +"Or owns the tear that hangs within the eye,",0.0 +"Which trembling long, at last in secret falls,",0.0 +"Sighs, that so oft for worldly cares are given,",0.0 +Heard oft at eve and at return of morn.,1.0 +"Some sisters may revere the cloister's gloom,",2.0 +"And, warm with life, yet hover over the tomb;",2.0 +"May wing their souls to the supreme abode,",1.0 +"And, quitting earth, place every thought with God.",1.0 +"Thrice happy they who taste this early heaven,",2.0 +And feel while here their every fault forgiven.,0.0 +"When the slow organ swells the lengthened note,",2.0 +"When warm devotion breathes the fervent prayer,",0.0 +And holy saints the pious rapture share;,0.0 +"And, waking, teach the ready knee to bow;",0.0 +"When Faith and Hope both animate the breast,",1.0 +And habit's only made Religion's vest;,0.0 +"When strong conviction holds a steady light,",0.0 +And clearly shows the vestal life is right;,0.0 +"When Conscience dictates the prompt will obeys,",4.0 +And makes responses both to prayer and praise;,0.0 +"And trust, and feel, our every fault forgiven?",0.0 +"Not so! ' -- my years over many a sand has run,",3.0 +And still my sighs have counted one by one.,1.0 +"And quick transport me to some blissful day,",1.0 +"When social intercourse her sweets would lend,",0.0 +Mixing the lover with the tender friend;,3.0 +"When father's, mother's, sister's, voice was heard,",0.0 +With every name that sense of life endeared;,0.0 +When future plans of dear domestic ease,0.0 +Were fondly suffered every wish to seize;,0.0 +"When useful life was held a female part,",1.0 +"Or link the soft affections in my chain,",0.0 +And hope to please ' -- nor strive to please in vain;,0.0 +"To see the wish before it takes a form,",0.0 +"To mark the cloud or break the coming storm,",0.0 +"To shield the heart from every sense of pain,",0.0 +And tell my own it did not beat in vain!,0.0 +"This! this was life! the life my faith approved,",1.0 +A useful current to some friend beloved;,0.0 +"If not a friend beloved, at least to those",0.0 +Whose length of suffering called for sweet repose;,0.0 +In every form that Pity can be dressed.,1.0 +"Once through a vale of tempting wiles I strayed,",0.0 +"And night approached before I guessed the hour,",0.0 +"Wrapped in a cloud, and ushered by a shower.",1.0 +On a green carpet sweet and lonely stood;,2.0 +The rising hill on either side would show,0.0 +Where the soft murmurs of a low cascade,3.0 +Might join the stream that gurgle through the glade;,1.0 +"Along the pasture nibbling sheep were seen,",0.0 +And knocked their little heads against the door;,0.0 +"The opening door a willing shelter lends,",2.0 +For here sweet Innocence and Man were friends;,2.0 +"Two little cherubs, rosy as the morn,",2.0 +"The little playmates knew the gentle hand,",1.0 +"And, patted softly, took a patient stand;",0.0 +And show the world how Innocence should play.,1.0 +"In a warm corner sat the aged sire,",2.0 +"His cushion spread, and placed beside the fire;",0.0 +"Respect from love, and not from silent awe.",0.0 +"He thankful looked, and seemed to bless his race,",0.0 +"Hope lit his eye, and Piety his face;",2.0 +"Few men more blessed, more fortunate had been,",1.0 +"Or sweeter, better children's children seen;",0.0 +"His daughter's cheek had not yet ceased to glow,",0.0 +The rose could yet upon occasion blow;,0.0 +When the dear partner of her useful life,3.0 +"Would fondly call her his beloved wife,",1.0 +"The sweetest feelings all her heart would charm,",0.0 +"Beam in her eyes, and on her cheek grow warm!",2.0 +"Close to her heart a younger cherub pressed,",0.0 +"Smiled in her face, and sunk upon her breast;",0.0 +The happy father at his homely board,0.0 +Never thought the world could greater wealth afford;,0.0 +"Tug at his coat, and, peeping, run away;",0.0 +"While nods and whispers, loud enough to hear,",0.0 +Gave certain notice when the foe drew near;,2.0 +"While his sly hands pretend the rogues to seize,",3.0 +"And watching, when his eye was turned aside,",0.0 +Beneath the mother's apron seek to hide;,0.0 +"Neatness and comfort wore a shining face,",2.0 +And every thing seemed well to know its place.,1.0 +"Gay peacock feathers waved over pewter rows,",5.0 +And many a tint the painted rainbow throws;,3.0 +"The white scoured chair even seemed a tempting seat,",6.0 +But all's inviting where all things are neat;,0.0 +"The sun looked in, and saw each corner clean,",1.0 +And brighter shone as he surveyed the scene.,1.0 +"Blessed through long life, may every pair like these",3.0 +Feel the full comfort of the wish to please!,4.0 +"No lot like this attended on my doom,",4.0 +"Destined to live, but live within the tomb.",2.0 +"False zeal! false pride! but let me hide their shame,",2.0 +Nor blot the parents with a barbarous name.,3.0 +"Back to the world I now may safely go,",0.0 +And kindly foster every child of woe;,0.0 +And every mourner may claim kin with me;,2.0 +"For keen afflictions make the strongest ties,",0.0 +But how shall I the world retrace once more!,1.0 +How changed that world from what I knew before!,0.0 +"No more I know to form the quick reply,",0.0 +Or smooth my manners to the expecting eye;,3.0 +"No longer know the various turns of mind,",3.0 +"Which now deceive, and now inform mankind;",1.0 +"The favourite topics which refinement taught,",0.0 +And graced with every happy turn of thought;,0.0 +The sentimental strain that softly flows,0.0 +Has but been taught me by instructing woes;,1.0 +The wiles of Fashion that with eager haste,0.0 +"Nor captive Fancy in their mazes hold,",0.0 +"Which long keep Sense uncertain what to say,",1.0 +"What part to praise, or what to vote away:",0.0 +"These arts unknowing, how shall I appear",2.0 +"Wrapped in the garb Simplicity would wear,",1.0 +"And, as a being of a world unknown,",2.0 +"Live much a wonder, or live much alone!",2.0 +"Of friends I left, alas! how few remain,",0.0 +How few to greet my welcome back again!,0.0 +"A change of manners makes a change of thought,",0.0 +And I may seem but little what I ought.,1.0 +"Stern Bigotry may rail, and blame my choice,",2.0 +"And Superstition raise her hollow voice,",0.0 +"And Priests and Prelates may my actions scan,",1.0 +And scorn with all the powers of reasoning man;,4.0 +"But let them scorn ' -- for ever may it be,",1.0 +That human reason and her acts are free!,1.0 +"One soft regret yet softens over my mind,",2.0 +One other self I yet must leave behind;,0.0 +"In leaving her, I leave my better part,",1.0 +With half the fairest virtues of my heart.,1.0 +"In scenes of sorrow long our loves were tried,",0.0 +"Oft has she wept, and sighed as I have sighed;",1.0 +The sister Fates for both alike had wove,0.0 +A tale of sorrow in a veil of love;,0.0 +The blending lights and shades of other's woe,0.0 +Mix in a way none but the wretched know;,2.0 +None but the wretched see by what fine thread,1.0 +Those hearts are tied which with one wound have bled!,1.0 +"Forbidding friends the happy union crossed,",0.0 +And sweet Cecilia to the world was lost;,1.0 +The gentlest lily not more sweet appears,2.0 +When seen through all the morning's softening tears;,0.0 +"The melting Graces mould her winning form,",0.0 +"Tall as the cedar on yonder mountain's brow,",2.0 +That stoops to shade the murmuring stream below;,2.0 +"Meek as when Patience cheques the rebel tear,",0.0 +"And makes Submission a blessed saint appear,",2.0 +"While plaintive accents swell the softest chord,",0.0 +And breathe full harmony on every word;,2.0 +In every word the fullest sense you hear,0.0 +"Exactly suited to the listening ear,",1.0 +"While tender interest every heart inspires,",0.0 +When to the world I urged her to return;,1.0 +"What is the world, said she, to those who mourn,",3.0 +The only thing that makes life worth a care!,1.0 +OH! had my friends but been content to see,0.0 +This closing grate fold all its bars on me;,1.0 +"Nor, as the veil was hovering over my head,",3.0 +With impious hand the sacred vestment shred; ' --,2.0 +"Had but the monks the frantic rage forgiven,",0.0 +"Nor sent his pure and ardent soul to heaven,",0.0 +"Then to the world I might again have flown,",0.0 +"And not, as now,' forget myself to stone!'",1.0 +But why should I withdraw from this retreat?,2.0 +What friend have I in all the world to meet?,0.0 +"Dead in the breast of every kindred tie,",0.0 +For long ere dead to all the world we die;,1.0 +"Indifference heeds not where the wretched sleep,",0.0 +Nor leaves one soothing sigh though they should wake and weep!,1.0 +"No; my Saint Agnes, let me here remain,",3.0 +These walls are old companions of my pain!,1.0 +In hollow murmurs groan a sad reply;,0.0 +"These sad replies have bound me to my cell,",1.0 +"Nor, than its gloom, few things I love so well;",1.0 +"Oft have I mourned ' -- oft told my storey here,",1.0 +"And now the place, like a tried friend, grows dear.",2.0 +"Where fond Remembrance peoples all the scene,",0.0 +And friends appear where friends have never been;,0.0 +In that loved spot where the idea rose;,3.0 +"There the blessed shade for ever haunts the ground,",2.0 +And wanders with us all the groves around.,1.0 +"Oft have you met me in yonder cloistered aisle,",0.0 +"'Twas there, at evening hour, just as the sun",0.0 +"That first of home I dared indulge the thought,",0.0 +And with warm Fancy many an image wrought;,4.0 +And built to Memory the forbidden shrine.,3.0 +"Forbidden, ah! yet Nature will be found,",1.0 +Though walls of adamant enclose her round;,1.0 +"Though vows, and veils, and cloisters, bind her fast,",0.0 +The freeborn spirit breaks her bars at last;,0.0 +"Finds the sick heart devoted to her sway,",4.0 +And all her dictates waiting to obey;,2.0 +"Wonder not, then, this place becomes so dear!",0.0 +"Unfit abroad to take an active part,",0.0 +"With all this load of misery at my heart,",1.0 +"I only hope to wing my soul to heaven,",0.0 +"And, for my countless tears and sighs, to be forgiven.",1.0 +You I shall miss! through every lengthening aisle,3.0 +Your heavenly presence sacred made the pile;,2.0 +The long perspective found an opening ray,2.0 +"Whenever your image crossed my wandering way,",4.0 +"Light sudden gleams of joy my breast would seize,",1.0 +And the cold blood forget awhile to freeze.,2.0 +"But go, St Agnes, bear along with thee",1.0 +The many a tale of cloistered misery;,3.0 +"Bless that sage Council where fair Freedom dwells,",3.0 +And bid her henceforth close these gloomy cells;,1.0 +"Drag forth Delusion to their wondering sight,",4.0 +And let them see their blessed decree was right!,0.0 +"How soon shall Freedom cheer the drooping swain,",0.0 +"How soon shall Plenty spread along the plain,",0.0 +"How soon shall Labour make a sport of toil,",0.0 +"The grateful soil her freest gifts shall lend,",0.0 +To prove herself blessed Freedom's steady friend.,1.0 +"As over the earth she bends her flowery way,",4.0 +"The towering woods more towering seem to grow,",0.0 +And freeborn rivers freer seem to flow;,0.0 +"The barren rocks their little part will bear,",0.0 +"And tufts of grass grow, nourished here and there;",1.0 +"All Nature sees, and hails the hour with me,",0.0 +"Dear Liberty! the source of heartfelt ease,",3.0 +Which still must please while earthly good can please.,0.0 +"WE deem the Saints, from mortal Flesh released,",0.0 +"Sense now no more precludes the distant Thought,",3.0 +"And naked Souls now feel the GOD they sought,",1.0 +"But thy great Soul, which walked with GOD on Earth",2.0 +Can scarce be nearer by that second Birth:,1.0 +"By Change of Place dull Bodies may improve,",2.0 +But Spirits to their Bliss advance by Love.,1.0 +"Thy Change insensible brought no Surprise,",2.0 +Inured to Innocence and Paradise:,1.0 +"The Glass was Love; and Love no Evil knew,",1.0 +But in all Places only Heaven did show.,0.0 +"Which so much Life, so little had of Need?",0.0 +"So pure, it seemed for This alone designed,",1.0 +To usher forth the Virtues of the Mind!,1.0 +"From Nature's Chain, from Earthly Dross set free,",1.0 +One only Appetite remained in Thee:,0.0 +"That Appetite it mourned but once denied,",0.0 +"For when it ceased from serving GOD, it died.",0.0 +"That graced the flowery bank, or trodden the plains;",4.0 +"Not rustic, but from affectation free,",1.0 +"Still courteous, kind, and affable was he.",4.0 +"Of gentlest manners, ever formed to please;",2.0 +"His mind unruffled, ever blessed with ease;",0.0 +"His mien engaging, sweet beyond compare;",0.0 +His breath delicious as the fragrant air;,1.0 +"His nature prone, attractive sweets to impart,",2.0 +"Good without show, and lovely without art.",5.0 +"The noble conquest of his heart to gain,",1.0 +"Their gentlest arts unable were to move,",3.0 +"His soul serene, yet undisturbed by love.",0.0 +Ah! transient happiness! how short thy sway!,1.0 +How swift thy flight! how sudden thy decay!,1.0 +"Thy absence now the youth, dejected, mourns,",0.0 +While in his heart love's kindling passion burns.,1.0 +"An easy shape, and graceful in her air,",0.0 +"Her name was Mary, from the banks of Clyde,",1.0 +She came to taste the summer in its pride.,0.0 +"One fatal eve, this charming youth passed by,",2.0 +And on this blooming damsel cast his eye:,1.0 +"Surprised, confounded, then he felt the smart.",0.0 +"Sometime with wonder on the maid he gazed,",2.0 +"Then silence broke, and thus, like one amazed:",1.0 +What do I feel! from whence this magic spell!,0.0 +Is this that love of which the poets tell?,1.0 +"It must be so; else why this pleasing pain,",0.0 +These sweet enchanting hopes the nymph to gain?,0.0 +"This fear, this dread, which does my soul molest?",0.0 +Such things till now were strangers to my breast.,1.0 +"The sweets of Spring no pleasure now can yield,",1.0 +"To this lost passion all his powers gave way,",3.0 +And in his heart young Mary bore the sway.,1.0 +"Go then, fond youth, and tell the maid thy care,",3.0 +"Who knows, perhaps she may be kind as fair.",1.0 +"Yes, Mary sure will hear thy plaintive strain;",1.0 +"'Twas her who caused, she too must cure thy pain.",0.0 +"Thy passion urged, her tender love confessed,",0.0 +"What maid so happy, or what swain so blessed?",1.0 +"The saddest news that ever reached their Plains,",0.0 +Like Thunder in my ears the sound did break;,0.0 +The killing accents which I dare not speak.,0.0 +"Less was I touched with that pernicious Dart,",0.0 +"That I, to please the fond Orestes, wore;",0.0 +"And quite over charged with Grief upon the ground,",2.0 +"I sunk my Brows, with mournful Cypress Crowned;",0.0 +"My trembling Hand sustained my drooping Head,",0.0 +And at my feet my Lire and Songs were laid;,2.0 +"'Twas in a gloomy Shade, where over and over",2.0 +I'de mourned my Loved Companions loss before;,3.0 +"In Numbers kind, and sensible as those",1.0 +"For, ah! the Potent ills that filled my Breast,",0.0 +Were much to vast and black to be expressed,0.0 +And chose Authentic Coke and Littleton;,1.0 +To vent your self in legislative Strain:,0.0 +"Where you each nice Distinction did pursue,",0.0 +"It was not done by Lease or Mortgage then,",0.0 +To be redeemed as you told how and when;,0.0 +For nothing too our Tenement of Clay;,1.0 +"And that the Devil who the Purchase bought,",0.0 +He nothing gave nor nothing had he got.,0.0 +"On this you Cant awhile at last recall,",1.0 +"When of the Gospel you make Law take Place,",3.0 +"Sure you the Primitive design have missed,",1.0 +Joshua must yield to an Evangelist.,3.0 +"But Littleton in you has got the start,",2.0 +The Sermon is at best but a Debate:,2.0 +"Instead of Proofs you bring us Presidents,",0.0 +Need more the Judges than the Saints consents.,1.0 +"You Declare, Plead, Join Issue or Demur,",7.0 +Then sell at last with come ceo Sur;,2.0 +"So far you on the legal Rights entrench,",1.0 +We scarcely know your Pulpit from the Bench.,1.0 +ONCE more I dare to rouse the sounding string,0.0 +"THE POET OF MY GOD ' -- Awake my glory,",1.0 +"Awake my lute and harp ' -- myself shall wake,",1.0 +In lively lay sings welcome to the dawn.,2.0 +List you! how nature with ten thousand tongues,2.0 +"Begins the grand thanksgiving, Hail, all hail,",1.0 +You tenants of the forest and the field!,2.0 +"My fellow subjects of the eternal King,",3.0 +"Confess his presence, and report his praise.",1.0 +"When offered by the lowly, meek, and poor,",1.0 +Of Glory' immense the Orphan's mite exclude.,2.0 +High over yonder azure Heaven's exalted dome,3.0 +"Nor South, nor blustering North has breath to blow;",2.0 +"Albeit He there with Angels, and with Saints",2.0 +"Hold conference, and to his radiant host",2.0 +Even face to face stand visibly confessed:,2.0 +Yet know that nor in Presence or in Power,2.0 +Shines He less perfect here; it's Man's dim eye,1.0 +"That makes the obscurity. He is the same,",4.0 +Alike in all his Universe the same.,0.0 +Whether the mind along the spangled sky,2.0 +"Weave their harmonious rounds, their march directing",4.0 +Or where the Comet through space infinite,3.0 +"Though whirling worlds oppose, and globes of fire",0.0 +"Darts, like a javelin, to his destined goal.",1.0 +Or where in Heaven above the Heaven of Heavens,0.0 +Or whether on the Ocean's boisterous back,1.0 +"Thou ride triumphant, and with outstretched arm",4.0 +"Kerb the wild winds and discipline the billows,",4.0 +It ceases ' -- and the vessel gently glides,1.0 +Along the glassy level of the calm.,1.0 +"OH! could I search the bosom of the sea,",1.0 +Down the great depth descending; there thy works,3.0 +Would also speak thy residence; and there,1.0 +"Would I thy servant, like the still profound,",0.0 +Astonished into silence muse thy praise!,0.0 +"While high above their heads Leviathan,",1.0 +"The terror and the glory of the main,",2.0 +"His pastime takes with transport, proud to see",1.0 +The ocean's vast dominion all his own.,0.0 +Hence through the genial bowels of the earth,0.0 +Easy may fancy pass; till at thy mines,2.0 +Form weak ideas of her Maker's glory.,2.0 +Where the rich ruby deemed by Sages old,2.0 +"Of Sovereign virtue sparkles even like Sirius,",3.0 +And blushes into flames. Thence will I go,2.0 +Of kindred Jasper ' -- Nature in them both,0.0 +Delights to play the Mimic on herself;,1.0 +And in their veins she oft portrays the forms,0.0 +"Of leaning hills, of trees erect, and streams",0.0 +"Now stealing softly on, now thundering down",4.0 +In desperate cascade with flowers and beasts,3.0 +"In vain thy pencil Claudio, or Poussin,",0.0 +"Or thine, immortal Guido, would essay",1.0 +Such skill to imitate ' -- it is the hand,1.0 +Of God himself ' -- for God himself is there.,0.0 +Hence with the ascending springs let me advance,3.0 +"Through beds of magnets, minerals, and spar,",1.0 +"Up to the mountain's summit, there to indulge",4.0 +"The ambition of the comprehensive eye,",2.0 +That dares to call the Horizon all her own.,2.0 +"No object interrupts, unless the oak",1.0 +"Extends ' -- Behold in regal solitude,",0.0 +So simple! and so great! the underwood,1.0 +Of meaner rank an awful distance keep.,0.0 +"Yet Thou art there, yet God himself is there",0.0 +Even on the bush though not as when to Moses,1.0 +He shone in burning majesty revealed,1.0 +"Is his unbounded goodness ' -- Thee her Maker,",2.0 +Thee her Preserver chants she in her song;,1.0 +The grateful lesson learn ' -- no other voice,1.0 +"Is heard, no other sound ' -- for in attention",1.0 +"Buried, even babbling Echo bolds her peace.",0.0 +"Now from the plains, where the unbounded prospect",1.0 +"Gives liberty her utmost scope to range,",3.0 +"Turn we to yonder enclosures, where appears",2.0 +Which the vague mind attract and still suspend,3.0 +"With sweet perplexity. What are yonder towers,",1.0 +"The rocking winds molest her not; for see,",0.0 +"That, like the compass in the bark, it keeps",0.0 +"True to itself, and steadfast even in storms.",4.0 +"Thou idiot that asserts, there is no God,",3.0 +"The bee his mansion, or the ant her cave ' --",1.0 +"To paint the hawthorn's bloom, or teach the cherry",0.0 +To blush with just vermilion ' -- hence away ' --,0.0 +Hence you profane! for God himself is here.,2.0 +"Vain were the attempt, and impious to trace",3.0 +"And though nor shining sun, nor twinkling star",1.0 +Bedecked the crimson curtains of the sky;,1.0 +"Were extant on the surface of this ball,",2.0 +Nor lurking gem beneath; though the great sea,1.0 +"Slept in profound stagnation, and the air",2.0 +Had left no thunder to pronounce its maker;,2.0 +"Yet man at home, within himself, might find",0.0 +"The Deity immense, and in that frame",1.0 +See and adore his providence and power ' --,3.0 +OH infinite of Goodness and of Glory!,3.0 +"The knee, that thou hast shaped, shall bend to Thee,",1.0 +"The tongue, which thou hast tuned, shall chant thy praise,",1.0 +"And, thine own image, the immortal foul,",2.0 +Shall consecrate herself to Thee for ever.,1.0 +ASK what is human life ' -- the sage replies,0.0 +"With disappointment lowering in his eyes,",1.0 +"A painful passage over a restless flood,",2.0 +"A vain pursuit of fugitive false good,",2.0 +"A scene of fancied bliss and heart-felt care,",1.0 +Closing at last in darkness and despair. ' --,3.0 +"The poor, inured to drudgery and distress,",3.0 +"Act without aim, think little and feel less,",6.0 +"And no where but in feigned Arcadian scenes,",4.0 +"Taste happiness, or know what pleasure means.",2.0 +"Riches are passed away from hand to hand,",2.0 +"As fortune, vice or folly may command;",1.0 +As in a dance the pair that take the lead,0.0 +"Turn downward, and the lowest pair succeed,",2.0 +So shifting and so various is the plan,2.0 +"By which Heaven rules the mixed affairs of man,",0.0 +"Vicissitude wheels round the motley crowd,",3.0 +"Business is labour, and man's weakness such,",5.0 +"Pleasure is labour too, and tyres as much,",2.0 +"Youth lost in dissipation, we deplore",2.0 +"Through life's sad remnant, what no sighs restore,",2.0 +"Too many, yet too few to make us wise.",2.0 +"Dangling his cane about, and taking snuff,",1.0 +O querulous and weak! whose useless brain,1.0 +"Once thought of nothing, and now thinks in vain,",3.0 +"Whose eye reverted weeps over all the past,",3.0 +"Whose prospect shows thee a disheartening waste,",3.0 +"And youth invigorate that frame again,",1.0 +Renewed desire would grace with other speech,0.0 +"That overhangs the borders of thy tomb,",1.0 +"See nature gay as when she first began,",1.0 +"With smiles alluring her admirer, man,",1.0 +"She spreads the morning over eastern hills,",0.0 +"The sun obedient, at her call appears",1.0 +"To fling his glories over the robe she wears,",2.0 +"Banks clothed with flowers, groves filled with sprightly sounds,",4.0 +"The yellow tilth, green meads, rocks, rising grounds,",2.0 +"Wherever they flow, now seen and now concealed,",3.0 +"From the blue rim where skies and mountains meet,",2.0 +"Down to the very turf beneath thy feet,",1.0 +"Ten thousand charms that only fools despise,",1.0 +"Or pride can look at with indifferent eyes,",1.0 +"All speak one language, all with one sweet voice",1.0 +"Cry to her universal realm, rejoice.",0.0 +"Man feels the spur of passions and desires,",2.0 +"And she gives largely more than he requires,",3.0 +"Not that his hours devoted all to care,",0.0 +"The wretch may pine, while to his smell, taste, sight,",2.0 +"She holds a Paradise of rich delight,",0.0 +"But gently to rebuke his awkward fear,",1.0 +"To prove that what she gives, she gives sincere,",0.0 +"To banish hesitation, and proclaim",1.0 +"His happiness, her dear, her only aim.",1.0 +"That Heaven's intentions are not what they seem,",3.0 +"That only shadows are dispensed below,",2.0 +And earth has no reality but woe.,1.0 +"Thus things terrestrial wear a different hue,",3.0 +"As youth or age persuades, and neither true;",0.0 +"The rose or lily appears blue or green,",5.0 +But still the imputed tints are those alone,3.0 +"The medium represents, and not their own.",2.0 +"To rise at noon, sit slipshod and undressed,",3.0 +"To read the news or fiddle as seems best,",2.0 +"Till half the world comes rattling at his door,",1.0 +"And just when evening turns the blue vault grey,",1.0 +"To spend two hours in dressing for the day,",2.0 +"To make the sun a bauble without use,",3.0 +"Save for the fruits his heavenly beams produce,",2.0 +"Quite to forget, or deem it worth no thought,",3.0 +"Who bids him shine, or if he shine or not,",1.0 +Through mere necessity to close his eyes,1.0 +"Just when the larks and when the shepherd's rise,",0.0 +"Is such a life, so tediously the same,",4.0 +"So void of all utility or aim,",1.0 +"For he, with all his follies, has a mind",1.0 +"Not yet so blank, or fashionably blind,",1.0 +But now and then perhaps a feeble ray,0.0 +"Of distant wisdom shoots across his way,",0.0 +"By which he reads, that life without a plan,",0.0 +"As useless as the moment it began,",2.0 +Serves merely as a soil for discontent,3.0 +"O weariness beyond what asses feel,",1.0 +"That tread the circuit of the cistern wheel,",1.0 +"A dull rotation never at a stay,",0.0 +"Yesterday's face twin image of today,",4.0 +"While conversation, an exhausted stock,",1.0 +Grows drowsy as the clicking of a clock.,3.0 +"No need, he cries, of gravity stuffed out",2.0 +"With academic dignity devout,",1.0 +"To read wise lectures, vanity the text;",2.0 +"Proclaim the remedy, you learnt, next,",1.0 +Is vanity surpassing all the rest.,1.0 +"Yet seldom sought, where only to be found,",1.0 +While passion turns aside from its due scope,1.0 +"Life is his gift, from whom whatever life needs,",2.0 +"And every good and perfect gift proceeds,",1.0 +"Bestowed on man, like all that we partake,",1.0 +"Royally, freely, for his bounty sake.",3.0 +"Transient indeed, as is the fleeting hour,",3.0 +"And yet the seed of an immortal flower,",1.0 +"Designed in honour of his endless love,",0.0 +To fill with fragrance his abode above.,1.0 +"Its value, what no thought can ascertain,",1.0 +Nor all an angel's eloquence explain.,1.0 +"Men deal with life, as children with their play,",2.0 +"Who first misuse, then cast their toys away,",0.0 +"Live to no sober purpose, and contend",4.0 +That their creator had no serious end.,4.0 +"When God and man stand opposite in view,",2.0 +Man's disappointment must of course ensue.,1.0 +"His names of wisdom, goodness, power and love,",2.0 +"On all that blooms below or shines above,",0.0 +"To catch the wandering notice of mankind,",4.0 +"And teach the world, if not perversely blind,",0.0 +"His gracious attributes, and prove the share",0.0 +His offspring hold in his paternal care.,2.0 +"If led from earthly things to things divine,",0.0 +"His creature thwart not his august design,",2.0 +"Then praise is heard instead of reasoning pride,",2.0 +"Nature employed in her allotted place,",3.0 +And bliss not seen by blessings understood.,0.0 +That bliss revealed in scripture with a glow,1.0 +Fires all his feelings with a noble scorn,1.0 +"Of sensual evil, and thus hope is born.",4.0 +Hope sets the stamp of vanity on all,2.0 +"That men have deemed substantial since the fall,",0.0 +And while she takes as at a father's hand,0.0 +"What health and sober appetite demand,",0.0 +"That lasting happiness, a thankful heart.",1.0 +"Hope with uplifted foot set free from earth,",3.0 +"Pants for the place of her ethereal birth,",3.0 +"On steady wing sails through the immense abyss,",4.0 +"And crowns the soul while yet a mourner here,",0.0 +With wreaths like those triumphant spirits wear.,1.0 +"Hope as an anchor firm and sure, holds fast",1.0 +"The Christian vessel, and defies the blast;",1.0 +Hope! nothing else can nourish and secure,2.0 +"His newborn virtues, and preserve him pure;",1.0 +"Hope! let the wretch once conscious of the joy,",3.0 +"Whom now despairing agonies destroy,",1.0 +"Speak, for he can, and none so well as he,",1.0 +"What treasures centre, what delights in thee.",0.0 +"Had he the gems, the spices, and the land",1.0 +"That boasts the treasure, all at his command,",1.0 +Were light when weighed against one smile of thine.,0.0 +"Man is the genuine offspring of revolt,",4.0 +His passions like the watery stores that sleep,2.0 +"Beneath the smiling surface of the deep,",1.0 +"To frown and roar, and shake his feeble form.",0.0 +"From infancy through childhood's giddy maze,",1.0 +The puny tyrant burns to subjugate,0.0 +"If one, his equal in athletic frame,",1.0 +"Or more provoking still, of nobler name,",1.0 +"Dares step across his arbitrary views,",1.0 +"An Iliad, only not in verse, ensues.",2.0 +"The little Greeks look trembling at the scales,",1.0 +Till the best tongue or heaviest hand prevails.,4.0 +Now see him launched into the world at large;,1.0 +"Their fleece his pillow, and his weekly drawl,",1.0 +"Though short, too long, the price he pays for all;",1.0 +"If lawyer, loud whatever cause he plead,",1.0 +"But proudest of the worst, if that succeed.",1.0 +"Perhaps a grave physician, gathering fees,",2.0 +"No COTTON, whose humanity sheds rays",3.0 +That make superior skill his second praise.,2.0 +"If arms engage him, he devotes to sport",1.0 +"His date of life, so likely to be short,",1.0 +"A soldier may be any thing, if brave,",1.0 +Such stuff the world is made of; and mankind,1.0 +"To passion, interest, pleasure, whim resigned,",0.0 +"Insist on, as if each were his own pope,",2.0 +"Forgiveness, and the privilege of hope;",2.0 +"But conscience in some awful silent hour,",0.0 +"Perhaps when sickness, or some fearful dream",1.0 +"Reminds him of religion, hated theme!",1.0 +"Starts from the down on which she lately slept,",1.0 +"And tells of laws despised, at least not kept;",0.0 +"Shows with a pointing finger and no noise,",2.0 +"A pale procession of past sinful joys,",2.0 +"Mark these, she says, these summoned from afar,",1.0 +Begin their march to meet thee at the bar;,0.0 +"There find a Judge, inexorably just,",1.0 +"And perish there, as all presumption must.",1.0 +Peace be to those such peace as earth can give,1.0 +"Who live in pleasure, dead even while they live,",3.0 +"Born capable indeed of heavenly truth,",4.0 +But down to latest age from earliest youth,3.0 +"Their mind a wilderness through want of care,",1.0 +The plough of wisdom never entering there.,1.0 +"To men of pedigree, their noble race",1.0 +"To any throne, except the throne of grace.",0.0 +"Resort on Sundays to the house of prayer,",2.0 +"And ask, and fancy they find blessings there;",3.0 +Themselves perhaps when weary they retreat,1.0 +"TO enjoy cool nature in a country seat,",2.0 +"TO exchange the centre of a thousand trades,",2.0 +"For clumps and lawns and temples and cascades,",1.0 +"May now and then their velvet cushions take,",0.0 +And seem to pray for good example sake;,0.0 +"Judging, in charity no doubt, the town",4.0 +"Pious enough, and having need of none.",2.0 +What they themselves without remorse despise;,1.0 +"Nor hope have they nor fear of aught to come,",1.0 +As well for them had prophecy been dumb;,2.0 +"They could have held the conduct they pursue,",1.0 +Had Paul of Tarsus lived and died a Jew;,0.0 +Is a pearl cast ' -- completely cast away.,2.0 +"They die ' -- Death lends them, pleased and as in sport,",2.0 +"Far other paintings grace the chamber now,",1.0 +Where late we saw the mimic landscape glow;,1.0 +The busy heralds hang the sable scene,0.0 +"Proclaim their titles to the crowd around,",1.0 +"But they that wore them, move not at the sound;",1.0 +"The coronet placed idly at their head,",1.0 +"Adds nothing now to the degraded dead,",2.0 +"And even the star that glitters on the bier,",3.0 +"Can only say, nobility lies here.",2.0 +"By useless censure whom we cannot mend,",0.0 +"Life without hope can close but in despair,",3.0 +'Twas there we found them and must leave them there.,1.0 +"As when two pilgrims in a forest stray,",1.0 +"Both may be lost, yet each in his own way,",0.0 +So fares it with the multitudes beguiled,1.0 +In vain opinion's waste and dangerous wild;,2.0 +"Ten thousand rove the brakes and thorns among,",1.0 +"Some eastward, and some westward, and all wrong:",2.0 +"But here, alas! the fatal difference lies,",0.0 +Each man's belief is right in his own eyes;,1.0 +"And he that blames what they have blindly chose,",1.0 +Incurs resentment for the love he shows.,1.0 +Say botanist! within whose province fall,2.0 +"The cedar and the hyssop on the wall,",2.0 +"Of all that deck the lanes, the fields, the bowers,",0.0 +What parts the kindred tribes of weeds and flowers?,0.0 +"Sweet scent, or lovely form, or both combined,",1.0 +"Distinguish every cultivated kind,",0.0 +"The want of both denotes a meaner breed,",0.0 +And Chloe from her garland picks the weed.,1.0 +"Thus hopes of every sort, whatever sect",2.0 +"Esteem them, sow them, rear them, and protect;",1.0 +"If wild in nature, and not duly found",1.0 +"That cannot bear the blaze of scripture light,",0.0 +"Nor cheer the spirit, nor refresh the sight,",1.0 +"Nor animate the soul to Christian deeds,",0.0 +"O cast them from thee! are weeds, arrant weeds.",3.0 +"Diverging each from each, like equal rays,",0.0 +"Himself as bountiful as April rains,",1.0 +"Lord paramount of the surrounding plains,",2.0 +"Would give relief of bed and board to none,",0.0 +"But guests that sought it in the appointed, ONE.",2.0 +"And they might enter at his open door,",1.0 +Even till his spacious hall would hold no more.,2.0 +"He sent a servant forth by every road,",0.0 +"To sound his horn and publish it abroad,",1.0 +"That all might mark, knight, menial, high and low,",3.0 +An ordnance it concerned them much to know.,1.0 +"Would disobey, though sure to be shut out,",0.0 +"Could he with reason murmur at his case,",0.0 +Himself sole author of his own disgrace?,2.0 +"No! the decree was just and without flaw,",4.0 +"And he that made, had right to make the law;",1.0 +"His sovereign power and pleasure unrestrained,",2.0 +"The wrong was his, who wrongfully complained.",2.0 +Yet half mankind maintain a churlish strife,1.0 +"With him, the donor of eternal life,",2.0 +Because the deed by which his love confirms,0.0 +"The largess he bestows, prescribes the terms.",1.0 +"Compliance with his will your lot insures,",2.0 +"Accept it only, and the boon is yours;",1.0 +"And sure it is as kind to smile and give,",1.0 +"As with a frown to say, do this and live.",2.0 +"He will give freely, or he will withhold,",4.0 +"His soul abhors a mercenary thought,",0.0 +And him as deeply who abhors it not;,1.0 +"He stipulates indeed, but merely this,",1.0 +"Will trust him for a faithful generous part,",3.0 +Nor set a price upon a willing heart.,0.0 +"Of all the ways that seem to promise fair,",0.0 +"To place you where his saints his presence share,",0.0 +"This only can ' -- for this plain cause, expressed",3.0 +In terms as plain; himself has shut the rest.,0.0 +"But o the strife, the bickering and debate,",4.0 +"The flirted fan, the bridle and the toss,",1.0 +"All speakers, yet all language at a loss.",0.0 +"From stuccoed walls smart arguments rebound,",2.0 +"Die of disdain, or whistle off the sound.",3.0 +"The explosion of the levelled tube excites,",2.0 +"The screaming nations hovering in mid air,",1.0 +"Loudly resent the stranger's freedom there,",3.0 +And seem to warn him never to repeat,1.0 +His bold intrusion on their dark retreat.,1.0 +"The purple bumper trembling at his lips,",0.0 +Adieu to all morality! if grace,1.0 +Make works a vain ingredient in the case.,2.0 +"The Christian hope is ' -- waiter, draw the cork ' --",0.0 +If I mistake not ' -- blockhead! with a fork!,2.0 +"Without good works, whatever some may boast,",1.0 +"Mere folly and delusion ' -- Sir, your toast.",2.0 +"My firm persuasion is, at least sometime,",2.0 +"That heaven will weigh man's virtues and his crimes,",2.0 +"With nice attention in a righteous scale,",0.0 +And save or damn as these or those prevail.,2.0 +"I plant my foot upon this ground of trust,",0.0 +And silence every fear with ' -- God is just;,0.0 +"But if perchance on some dull drizzling day,",3.0 +"A thought intrude that says, or seems to say.",0.0 +"If thus the important cause is to be tried,",3.0 +"Suppose the beam should dip on the wrong side,",1.0 +And God is merciful ' -- sets all to rights.,2.0 +"Thus between justice, as my prime support,",5.0 +"And mercy fled to, as the last resort,",1.0 +"I glide and steal along with heaven in view,",0.0 +"And ' -- pardon me, the bottle stands with you.",1.0 +"I never will believe, the colonel cries,",1.0 +"Who make the good Creator, on their plan,",1.0 +A being of less equity than man.,3.0 +"Which men comply with, even because they must,",2.0 +"Then theirs, no doubt, as well as mine, is sure.",4.0 +If sentence of eternal pain belong,1.0 +"To every sudden slip and transient wrong,",0.0 +"An hopeless task, and damns them if they fail.",1.0 +"My creed is, he is safe that does his best,",1.0 +And death's a doom sufficient for the rest.,1.0 +"Right, says an ensign, and for aught I see,",2.0 +Your faith and mine substantially agree:,2.0 +"The best of every man's performance here,",0.0 +Is to discharge the duties of his sphere.,2.0 +"A lawyer's dealing should be just and fair,",0.0 +Honesty shines with great advantage there;,3.0 +"Fasting and prayer sit well upon a priest,",5.0 +A decent caution and reserve at least.,1.0 +"A soldier's best is courage in the field,",0.0 +"With nothing here that wants to be concealed,",0.0 +"Manly deportment, gallant, easy, gay,",2.0 +"An hand as liberal as the light of day,",1.0 +"The soldier thus endowed, who never shrinks,",0.0 +"Nor closets up his thought whatever he thinks,",4.0 +"Who scorns to do an injury by stealth,",1.0 +Must go to heaven ' -- and I must drink his health.,1.0 +"Sir Smug! he cries for lowest at the board,",1.0 +"Just made fifth chaplain of his patron lord,",2.0 +"His shoulders witnessing by many a shrug,",3.0 +"How much his feelings suffered, sat Sir Smug",1.0 +"Your office is to winnow false from true,",2.0 +"Come, prophet, drink, and tell us what think you.",1.0 +"Sighing and smiling as he takes his glass,",3.0 +"Is still found fallible, however wise,",3.0 +And differing judgements serve but to declare,1.0 +"That truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where.",3.0 +Of all it ever was my lot to read,1.0 +"Of critics now alive or long since dead,",0.0 +The book of all the world that charmed me most,0.0 +"The writer well remarks, an heart that knows",0.0 +"To take with gratitude what heaven bestows,",0.0 +"With prudence always ready at our call,",0.0 +"To guide our use of it, is all in all.",1.0 +Doubtless it is ' -- to which of my own store,2.0 +"But these, excuse the liberty I take,",2.0 +"I wave just now, for conversation sake. ' --",0.0 +"Spoke like an oracle, they all exclaim,",1.0 +And yet our lot is given us in a land,1.0 +"Where busy arts are never at a stand,",0.0 +"Where science points her telescopic eye,",0.0 +"Familiar with the wonders of the sky,",2.0 +"Where bold enquiry diving out of sight,",3.0 +"Brings many a precious pearl of truth to light,",3.0 +"That fashion, taste, or luxury suggest.",1.0 +"But above all, in her own light arrayed,",1.0 +"The sacred book no longer suffers wrong,",1.0 +"Bound in the fetters of an unknown tongue,",4.0 +What simplest minds can soonest comprehend.,0.0 +"God gives the word, the preachers throng around,",1.0 +"Live from his lips, and spread the glorious sound:",2.0 +"That sound bespeaks salvation on her way,",1.0 +"It's heard where England's eastern glory shines,",0.0 +And still it spreads. See Germany send forth,3.0 +"Fired with a zeal peculiar, they defy",2.0 +On icy plains and in eternal snows.,0.0 +"O blessed within the enclosure of your rocks,",3.0 +"That show reversed the villas on their side,",1.0 +"No groves have you; no cheerful sound of bird,",7.0 +"Or voice of turtle in your land is heard,",0.0 +Nor grateful eglantine regales the smell,0.0 +Of those that walk at evening where you dwell ' --,1.0 +"But winter armed with terrors, here unknown,",0.0 +"Sits absolute on his unshaken throne,",2.0 +"Piles up his stores amidst the frozen waste,",0.0 +"And bids the mountains he has built, stand fast,",2.0 +Beckons the legions of his storms away,3.0 +"From happier scenes, to make your land a prey,",2.0 +"Proclaims the soil a conquest he has won,",1.0 +And scorns to share it with the distant sun.,1.0 +"And peace, the genuine offspring of her smile,",2.0 +The pride of lettered ignorance that binds,1.0 +"In chains of error, our accomplished minds,",1.0 +"A false religion, is unknown to you.",1.0 +"The sweet vicissitudes of day and night,",1.0 +"Soft airs and genial moisture, feed and cheer",1.0 +"Field, fruit and flower, and every creature here,",3.0 +"But brighter beams than his who fires the skies,",1.0 +That shoot into your darkest caves the day,0.0 +From which our nicer optics turn away.,0.0 +"Here see the encouragement grace gives to vice,",4.0 +The dire effect of mercy without price!,3.0 +What were they? ' -- what some fools are made by art,0.0 +"They were by nature, atheists, head and heart.",3.0 +"Was too refined for them, beyond their reach;",1.0 +"Not even the glorious sun, though men revere",4.0 +"The monarch most that seldom will appear,",1.0 +"And though his beams that quicken where they shine,",1.0 +"May claim some right to be esteemed divine,",0.0 +"Not even the sun, desirable as rare,",3.0 +They were what base credulity believes,2.0 +"Was one, whom justice on an equal plan",2.0 +"Denouncing death upon the sins of man,",0.0 +"Might almost have indulged with an escape,",2.0 +Chargeable only with an human shape.,3.0 +What are they now? ' -- morality may spare,1.0 +"Her grave concern, her kind suspicions there.",1.0 +"The wretch that once sang wildly, danced and laughed,",1.0 +"And sucked in dizzy madness with his draught,",1.0 +"Has wept a silent flood, reversed his ways,",0.0 +"Is sober, meek, benevolent, and prays;",1.0 +"Feeds sparingly, communicates his store,",2.0 +"Abhors the craft he boasted of before,",1.0 +And he that stole has learnt to steal no more.,2.0 +"Well spoke the prophet, let the desert sing,",1.0 +"And where unsightly and rank thistles grew,",2.0 +Shall grow the myrtle and luxuriant yew.,3.0 +"Go now, and with important tone demand",2.0 +"On what foundation virtue is to stand,",1.0 +"And grace be grace indeed, and life a gift;",0.0 +"The poor reclaimed inhabitant, his eyes",1.0 +"Glistening at once with pity and surprise,",2.0 +Amazed that shadows should obscure the sight,1.0 +"Of one whose birth was in a land of light,",1.0 +"Shall answer, Hope, sweet Hope, has set me free,",1.0 +And made all pleasures else mere dross to me.,1.0 +These amid scenes as waste as if denied,5.0 +"The common care that waits on all beside,",0.0 +"Wild as if nature there, void of all good,",2.0 +Yet charge not heavenly skill with having planned,2.0 +"A plaything world unworthy of his hand,",2.0 +"Can see his love, though secret evil lurks",0.0 +"In all we touch, stamped plainly on his works,",2.0 +"Deem life a blessing with its numerous woes,",4.0 +Nor spurn away a gift a God bestows.,0.0 +"Hard task indeed, over arctic seas to roam!",7.0 +Is hope exotic? grows it not at home?,0.0 +"Yes, but an object bright as orient morn,",1.0 +"May press the eye too closely to be born,",2.0 +"A distant virtue we can all confess,",1.0 +It hurts our pride and moves our envy less.,0.0 +I slur a name a poet must not speak,0.0 +"And bore the pelting scorn of half an age,",0.0 +"The very butt of slander, and the blot",2.0 +For every dart that malice ever shot.,0.0 +"The man that mentioned him, at once dismissed",1.0 +"All mercy from his lips, and sneered and hissed;",1.0 +"His crimes were such as Sodom never knew,",1.0 +And perjury stood up to swear all true;,2.0 +"His speech rebellion against common sense,",5.0 +"And when by that of reason, a mere fool,",2.0 +"The world's best comfort was, his doom was passed,",2.0 +"Die when he might, he must be damned at last.",0.0 +"Now truth perform thine office, waft aside",1.0 +"The curtain drawn by prejudice and pride,",1.0 +"Reveal the man is dead to wondering eyes,",2.0 +This more than monster in his proper guise.,0.0 +He loved the world that hated him: the tear,1.0 +That dropped upon his Bible was sincere.,1.0 +"Assailed by scandal and the tongue of strife,",1.0 +"His only answer was a blameless life,",1.0 +"And he that forged and he that threw the dart,",2.0 +Had each a brother's interest in his heart.,0.0 +"Were copied close in him, and well transcribed;",1.0 +"He followed Paul: his zeal a kindred flame,",0.0 +"His apostolic charity the same,",2.0 +"Like him crossed cheerfully tempestuous seas,",7.0 +"Forsaking country, kindred, friends, and ease;",0.0 +"To bear it, suffered shame wherever he went.",2.0 +"Blush calumny! and write upon his tomb,",2.0 +"If honest eulogy can spare thee room,",1.0 +"Thy deep repentance of thy thousand lies,",1.0 +"Which aimed at him, have pierced the offended skies,",2.0 +"And say, blot out my sin, confessed, deplored,",2.0 +"Against thine image in thy saint, o Lord!",0.0 +"No blinder bigot, I maintain it still,",2.0 +"Than he that must have pleasure, come what will;",0.0 +"He laughs, whatever weapon truth may draw,",1.0 +And deems her sharp artillery mere straw.,2.0 +"Scripture indeed is plain, but God and he",2.0 +"Some wiser rule must teach him how to live,",1.0 +"Than that his Maker has seen fit to give,",1.0 +"Supple and flexible as Indian cane,",5.0 +"To take the bend his appetites ordain,",0.0 +"Contrived to suit frail nature's crazy case,",1.0 +"By this, with nice precision of design,",2.0 +"He draws upon life's map a zig-zag line,",2.0 +"That shows how far it's safe to follow sin,",0.0 +And where his danger and God's wrath begin.,2.0 +"By this he forms, as pleased he sports along,",1.0 +"His well poised estimate of right and wrong,",1.0 +"Though loose, as harmless as an infant's play.",1.0 +"Build by whatever plan caprice decrees,",3.0 +"With what materials, on what ground you please,",1.0 +If not that hope the scripture has required:,0.0 +"With which hypocrisy for ever teems,",1.0 +"Though other follies strike the public eye,",0.0 +And raise a laugh pass unmolested by;,2.0 +"A man arise, a man whom God has taught,",0.0 +"And all the love of the beloved John,",1.0 +"To sweep away all refuges of lies,",1.0 +"And place, instead of quirks themselves devise,",0.0 +"To prove that without Christ, all gain is loss,",5.0 +"All hope, despair, that stands not on his cross,",1.0 +"Except the few his God may have impressed,",0.0 +A tenfold frenzy seizes all the rest.,1.0 +"Throughout mankind, the Christian kind at least,",1.0 +"There dwells a consciousness in every breast,",1.0 +"That folly ends where genuine hope begins,",2.0 +And he that finds his heaven must lose his sins:,1.0 +"Nature opposes with her utmost force,",4.0 +"And while religion seems to be her view,",0.0 +"Hates with a deep sincerity, the true;",1.0 +"For this of all that ever influenced man,",3.0 +"Since Abel worshipped, or the world began,",1.0 +"This only spares no lust, admits no plea,",2.0 +"But makes him, if at all, completely free,",1.0 +"Sounds forth the signal, as she mounts her car,",2.0 +"Of an eternal, universal war,",1.0 +"Rejects all treaty, penetrates all wiles,",0.0 +"Scorns with the same indifference frowns and smiles,",0.0 +"Drives through the realms of sin, where riot reels,",0.0 +And grinds his crown beneath her burning wheels!,0.0 +"Hence all that is in man, pride, passion, art,",1.0 +"Powers of the mind, and feelings of the heart,",2.0 +"Insensible of truth's almighty charms,",1.0 +"Starts at her first approach, and sounds to arms!",0.0 +"His eyes shut fast, his fingers in his ears,",1.0 +"Mighty to parry, and push by God's word",5.0 +"With senseless noise, his argument the sword,",1.0 +And spits abhorrence in the Christian's face.,0.0 +"Parent of hope, immortal truth, make known",3.0 +"The silent progress of thy power is such,",3.0 +"Thy means so feeble, and despised so much,",1.0 +"That few believe the wonders thou hast wrought,",1.0 +And none can teach them but whom thou hast taught.,0.0 +"O see me sworn to serve thee, and command",1.0 +"A painter's skill into a poet's hand,",0.0 +"That while I trembling trace a work divine,",0.0 +"Fancy may stand aloof from the design,",3.0 +And light and shade and every stroke be thine.,0.0 +"If ever when he sighed, hast sighed again,",0.0 +If ever on thine eyelid stood the tear,2.0 +"That pity had engendered, drop one here.",0.0 +"This man was happy ' -- had the world's good word,",0.0 +And with it every joy it can afford;,2.0 +"Friendship and love seemed tenderly at strife,",4.0 +Which most should sweeten his untroubled life;,1.0 +"Politely learnt, and of a gentle race,",1.0 +And whether at the toilet of the fair,1.0 +"Or, if in masculine debate he shared,",2.0 +Insured him mute attention and regard.,1.0 +"Alas how changed! expressive of his mind,",1.0 +"Those awful syllables, hell, death, and sin,",2.0 +"Though whispered, plainly tell what works within,",0.0 +"That conscience there performs her proper part,",1.0 +And writes a doomsday sentence on his heart;,2.0 +"Forsaking, and forsaken of all friends,",2.0 +"He now perceives where earthly pleasure ends,",0.0 +"Hard task! for one who lately knew no care,",3.0 +And harder still as learnt beneath despair:,0.0 +"His hours no longer pass unmarked away,",3.0 +"A dark importance saddens every day,",0.0 +"He hears the notice of the clock, perplexed,",1.0 +"And cries, perhaps eternity strikes next:",2.0 +"Sweet music is no longer music here,",3.0 +"And laughter sounds like madness in his ear,",0.0 +"Wine has no taste, and beauty has no charms:",4.0 +"God's holy word, once trivial in his view,",3.0 +"Now by the voice of his experience, true,",3.0 +"Seems, as it is, the fountain whence alone",1.0 +Must spring that hope he pants to make his own.,0.0 +"Now let the bright reverse be known abroad,",1.0 +"Say, man's a worm, and power belongs to God.",3.0 +"Have justly doomed for some atrocious cause,",0.0 +"A tempest usher in the dreaded morn,",0.0 +"Upon his dungeon walls the lightnings play,",0.0 +"The thunder seems to summon him away,",1.0 +"The warder at the door his key applies,",0.0 +"Shoots back the bolt, and all his courage dies:",1.0 +"If then, just then, all thoughts of mercy lost,",0.0 +"When Hope, long lingering, at last yields the ghost,",2.0 +"The sound of pardon pierce his startled ear,",0.0 +"He drops at once his fetters and his fear,",1.0 +"A transport glows in all he looks and speaks,",0.0 +"Joy, far superior joy, that much outweighs",4.0 +"The comfort of a few poor added days,",2.0 +"Invades, possesses, and overwhelms the soul",2.0 +Of him whom hope has with a touch made whole:,2.0 +"It's heaven, all heaven descending on the wings",1.0 +Of the glad legions of the King of Kings;,3.0 +"It's more ' -- it's God diffused through every part,",0.0 +It's God himself triumphant in his heart.,0.0 +"O welcome now, the sun's once hated light,",1.0 +Not kindred minds alone are called to employ,2.0 +"Their hours, their days in listening to his joy,",1.0 +"Unconscious nature, all that he surveys,",2.0 +"Rocks, groves and streams must join him in his praise.",1.0 +"These are thy glorious works, eternal truth,",3.0 +Of fools that hate thee and delight in sin:,1.0 +And heaven is all departed as a scroll:,1.0 +"And when, as justice has long since decreed,",1.0 +"This earth shall blaze, and a new world succeed,",2.0 +"Then these thy glorious works, and they that share",3.0 +"That Hope which can alone exclude despair,",1.0 +"Shall live exempt from weakness and decay,",1.0 +The brightest wonders of an endless day.,1.0 +"Happy the bard, if that fair name belong",3.0 +To him that blends no fable with his song,3.0 +"Whose lines uniting, by an honest art,",1.0 +"The faithful monitors and poets part,",1.0 +"Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind,",4.0 +"And while they captivate, inform the mind.",0.0 +"Still happier, if he till a thankful soil,",3.0 +But happier far who comfort those that wait,3.0 +"Their language simple as their manners meek,",1.0 +"No shining ornaments have they to seek,",3.0 +"Nor labour they, nor time nor talents waste",1.0 +In sorting flowers to suit a fickle taste;,2.0 +"But while they speak the wisdom of the skies,",1.0 +"Which art can only darken and disguise,",1.0 +"The abundant harvest, recompense divine,",1.0 +"Sure, hapless Fair, no hearts can ever know,",2.0 +"But banished lovers, banished lovers' woe!",0.0 +"My sympathetic heart now shares thy grief,",1.0 +"Repeats thy sighs, and wishes thy relief:",1.0 +But when I hear thee unrelenting boast,0.0 +"All sense of pity in my bosom dies,",0.0 +But rage and madness in thy bosom reign;,0.0 +"Ah! must thy Abelard exalted be,",1.0 +Above the Maker of himself and thee!,1.0 +"Disclaim her virtues, and disdain her same:",1.0 +Thy face with crimson let confusion stain;,0.0 +And while thy bosom glows with guilty fire;,0.0 +Let every hope of happiness expire;,2.0 +Lament at once thy honour and thy love.,0.0 +"IN vain, alas! do lazy Mortals cry",0.0 +"In vain would Wisdom trace the boundless Sky,",0.0 +"Where doubled Wonders upon Wonders rise,",5.0 +And Worlds on Worlds confound our dazzled Eyes:,0.0 +"Better be still ' -- Let Nature rest, say they,",5.0 +Than err by Guess and with Opinion stray:,1.0 +"Then tell me, why our Eyes were made to view",0.0 +Why in our Sight those shining Wonders roll?,0.0 +Or why to Man was given a thinking Soul?,2.0 +May I not ask how moves the radiant Sun?,1.0 +How the bright Stars their pointed Circuits run?,2.0 +What warms those Worlds that so remotely shine?,1.0 +That cheerful Empress of the nightly Skies;,1.0 +Who would not ask could learnt Sages tell,3.0 +What kind of People on her Surface dwell?,1.0 +"A Truth, perhaps, not fit for us to know.",1.0 +"How great the Power, who gave those Worlds to roll;",2.0 +"The Thought strikes inward, and confounds the Soul;",2.0 +"Fall down, OH Man ' -- Ah fall before the Rod",3.0 +But hark ' -- from Heaven there came a cheering Sound;,0.0 +"Now Man revives, and smile the Worlds around:",1.0 +"It's Mercy ' -- lo a golden Ray descends,",0.0 +And Hope and Comfort in the Lustre blends.,0.0 +"When from the Stars we turn our aching Eyes,",0.0 +To Earth we bend them where new Wonders rise;,1.0 +"Where Life and Death the equal Scale suspend,",0.0 +New Beings rising as the former end.,2.0 +Who not surprised can trace each just Degree,0.0 +From the swift Eagle to the peevish Bee;,3.0 +"From the fierce Lion that will yield to none,",2.0 +To the weak Mouse that hides her from the Sun!,3.0 +"How near one Species to the next is joined,",1.0 +The due Gradations please a thinking Mind;,0.0 +"And there are Creatures which no Eye can see,",2.0 +That for a Moment live and breathe like me:,0.0 +"Whom a small Fly in bulk as far exceeds,",3.0 +As you tall Cedar does the waving Reeds:,2.0 +These we can reach ' -- and may we not suppose,2.0 +There still are Creatures more minute than those.,0.0 +"Would Heaven permit, and might our Organs bear",0.0 +To pierce where Comets wave their blazing Hair:,0.0 +"Where other Suns alternate set and rise,",5.0 +And other Moons light up the cheerful Skies:,2.0 +Still find new Wonders opening on her view:,3.0 +"From thence to Worlds in Miniature descend,",0.0 +"And still press forward, but should find no End:",3.0 +"Where little Forests on a Leaf appear,",1.0 +And Drops of Dew are mighty Oceans there:,1.0 +"These may have Whales that in their Waters play,",1.0 +And wanton out their Age of half a Day:,1.0 +"In those small Groves the smaller Birds may sing,",3.0 +And share like us their Winter and their Spring.,2.0 +"Pluck off you Acorn from its Parent Bough,",1.0 +Divide that Acorn in the mid ' -- and now,0.0 +In its firm Kernel a fair Oak is seen,4.0 +With spreading Branches of a sprightly Green:,1.0 +There would another its small Boughs extend.,2.0 +"All Matter lives, and shows its Maker's Power;",0.0 +Till we are blessed with Microscopic Eyes.,1.0 +Or scarlet Cherries that adorn the Walls;,0.0 +"With each plump Fruit we swallow down a Tree,",2.0 +And so destroy whole Groves that else would be,2.0 +As large and perfect as those Shades we see.,2.0 +"Still as he turns, the troubled Sea divides;",0.0 +And rolls in Eddies from his slimy Sides.,1.0 +Less huge the Dolphin to the Sun displays,2.0 +"His Scales, and in the smoother Ocean plays:",0.0 +"The shallow Tide, nor trust the roaring Deep:",0.0 +The senseless Oyster is removed from these.,1.0 +"Where now she rises, now her Steps decline",0.0 +Has need of Judgement better taught than mine:,0.0 +"But on this Subject we have talked too long,",2.0 +"HOW strangely does the power of custom rule,",2.0 +And prejudice our wisest thoughts control!,1.0 +How does one country with contempt deride,1.0 +When in the entrails of a worm they shine;,1.0 +"Grow vain, though shining in far nobler guts.",3.0 +"In turgid pomp their strutting limbs are decked,",0.0 +"The balmy gloss, which on the surface shines,",1.0 +"Regales the smell, and smooths the ladies' skins.",1.0 +"Richly, yet wisely dressed! for of the cost",3.0 +They suffer not a remnant to be lost;,1.0 +"But eat each tatter, as it wears away,",1.0 +And sup upon the fragments of the day.,1.0 +"Frugal of time, at once they undress and feed,",4.0 +"Gnaw off their clothes, and put themselves to bed.",0.0 +"Their wedding garments prove their wedding feasts,",0.0 +And the bride's finery entertains the guests:,4.0 +"And fills his belly, as he fills his arms.",1.0 +"Justly may they condemn our foolish pride,",3.0 +Who only for the naked back provide;,1.0 +"Who well might purchase, had we their good sense,",1.0 +"When will our wives and daughters be so good,",0.0 +Thus to convert their old clothes into food?,3.0 +And the soft Twins received the radiant Sun;,2.0 +"The cheerful Earth appeared in vernal Pride,",0.0 +And the clear Waves did more serenely glide:,2.0 +"Kind Zephyrs played around the waving Trees,",1.0 +While opening Roses caught the welcome Breeze.,2.0 +"Amid these Scenes beneath a Maple Shade,",0.0 +"Sat careless Mira on her Elbow laid,",3.0 +While frolic Fancy led the usual Train,2.0 +Of gaudy Phantoms through her cheated Brain:,1.0 +"Till Slumber seized upon her thoughtful Breast,",0.0 +And the still Spirits sunk in balmy Rest:,2.0 +"But while her Eyes had bid the World farewell,",1.0 +"Thus Mira dreamt, and thus her Dreams we tell;",1.0 +"Came swiftly tripping over the flowery Plain,",5.0 +"Whose smiling Face was as the Morning fair,",1.0 +"A golden Zone her lovely Bosom bound,",0.0 +And her green Robe hung careless on the Ground.,5.0 +"Sleep, happy Mortal, with a Smile she cries,",2.0 +"Still over thy own aerial Mountains stray,",4.0 +And in bright Visions slumber out the Day;,2.0 +"With gaudy Scenes delude thy dazzled Mind,",0.0 +Yet thou must wake and leave them all behind:,0.0 +"Yes, thou shalt drop from that enchanted Sky,",3.0 +"And wake to Wisdom with a weeping Eye,",1.0 +While in a Mist the shining Prospects end;,0.0 +"Then hear, OH Mira, thy immortal Friend.",2.0 +"Recall thy wandering Thoughts, and make them dwell",2.0 +In the small Limits of their native Cell.,3.0 +"For Mira, know, thy Joys are planted there:",1.0 +"And as you manage and improve the Soil,",2.0 +"Here let your Views and your Ambition rest,",1.0 +"This Point secured, let Heaven dispose the rest.",1.0 +"Yet you may ask for what your State requires,",0.0 +"As thus,' OH keep me from the reach of Pain,",2.0 +"' Let not Reproach assault my wounded Ears,",1.0 +' Nor let my Soul behold a Friend in Tears:,0.0 +"' Secure from Noise, let my still Moments run,",3.0 +' And still be cheerful as the rising Sun:,1.0 +"' Or if a Gloom my trembling Heart invades,",1.0 +' Ah! may it vanish with the nightly Shades,1.0 +' Through the crazed Walls: OH may not Reason fly?,1.0 +' But if it does then let its Mansion die:,1.0 +"' Let not Remorse of Guilt the certain Pay,",1.0 +' Blot my clear Sun nor stain its parting Ray:,3.0 +"' Give me a lively but a guiltless Mind,",1.0 +' A Body healthful and a Soul resigned.,1.0 +How blessed the Mortal to whom these are given:,2.0 +"If such thy Lot, let Kings enjoy their Crowns,",2.0 +Their pageant State and arbitrary Frowns:,0.0 +"Who, though encircled by their shining Slaves,",2.0 +"Are only wretched Idols placed on high,",0.0 +To bear the Rage of a tempestuous Sky:,4.0 +"And while the Storms around his Temples blow,",0.0 +His fawning Servants safely sneer below:,0.0 +"But now the Sun brings on the Noon of Day,",2.0 +"Rise, Mira, rise and shun the scorching Ray:",1.0 +And Mira waking found a lonely Shade.,0.0 +"This to religion, that to liberty.",2.0 +"Louis, in thee again the tyrants live;",2.0 +"Dread, lest our deep despair those scenes revive.",0.0 +"The church a Clement, nor the court a Guise.",1.0 +"'Twas then, while stillness grasped the sleeping air,",0.0 +"Her left hand waving, bore the trump of fame;",1.0 +"Her right a regal sceptre seemed to hold,",0.0 +"And thus, My Son, the Queen of Glory said;",0.0 +"Immortal Caesar, raise thy languid head.",0.0 +Shall Night's dull chains the man of counsels bind?,1.0 +Or MORPHEUS rule the monarch of mankind?,2.0 +"See yonder proud isle, whose mountains meet the sky,",4.0 +"Thy foes encourage, and thy power defy!",3.0 +"What, though by Nature's firmest bars secured,",0.0 +"Shall Caesar shrink the greatest toils to brave,",0.0 +"Scale the high rock, or beat the maddening wave?",3.0 +She spoke ' -- her words the warrior's breast inflame,0.0 +"With rage indignant, and with conscious shame;",1.0 +"Already beat, the swelling floods give way,",1.0 +And the thin rear of barbarous nations flies.,4.0 +"Quick round their chief his active legions stand,",0.0 +"Dwell on his eye, and wait the waving hand.",0.0 +"The Hero rose, majestically slow,",1.0 +And looked attention to the crowds below.,1.0 +"' ROMANS and Friends! is there who seeks for rest,",3.0 +"' That respite Caesar shall with pleasure yield,",0.0 +"' Is there who shrinks at thought of dangers past,",1.0 +"' While savage hosts, or savage floods oppose,",0.0 +' Or shivering fancy pines in Alpine snows?,3.0 +"' He once has toiled, and Caesar asks no more.",1.0 +"' No pains have conquered, and no fears depressed?",3.0 +"' Who, doomed through death's dread ministers to go,",2.0 +' Dares to chastise the insults of a foe;,4.0 +"' With reverence hear her, and with pride obey.",3.0 +"' Whose look threw radiance round the pall of night,",1.0 +"' With calm severity approached and said,",1.0 +"Wake thy dull ear, and lift thy languid head.",3.0 +"What! shall a Roman sink in soft repose,",0.0 +See them secure the rebel Gaul supply;,2.0 +"Spurn his vain eagles, and his power defy?",6.0 +"Scale the wild rock, and beat the maddening wave.",3.0 +"Here paused the chief, but waited no reply,",0.0 +"Were dangers dreadful, or were toils severe.",1.0 +"Or is it POPE's harmonious Voice we hear,",3.0 +Or whose majestic Numbers charm our Ear?,0.0 +"What modest Youth fears to expose his Name,",2.0 +When every Line so justly merits Fame?,0.0 +"Whoever thou art, these feeble Lays receive,",1.0 +Though I this Tribute with Reluctance give;,2.0 +"For, when my Eye thy pompous Verse surveys,",0.0 +"I read with Wonder, but with Envy praise.",1.0 +And jarring Feuds enrage the Patriot's Breast;,2.0 +"If some judicious Speech great WALPOLE makes,",2.0 +"Opposing Parties praise him, while he speaks;",0.0 +"And, spite of Malice, Envy gives Applause.",0.0 +"Behind her Neck her comely Tresses tied,",0.0 +"Her Ivory Quiver graceful by her Side,",1.0 +And through the Woods uncertain chanced to stray.,1.0 +Apollo passing by beheld the Maid;,1.0 +"And, Sister Dear, bright Cynthia turn, He said:",3.0 +The hunted Hind lies close in yonder Brake.,1.0 +"Loud Cupid laughed, to see the God's Mistake;",1.0 +"And laughing cried, Learn better, great Divine,",1.0 +"Rightly advised, far hence Thy Sister seek,",3.0 +"But in This Nymph, My Friend, My Sister know:",0.0 +"She draws My Arrows, and She bends My Bow:",1.0 +"Fair Thames She haunts, and every neighbouring Grove",3.0 +"Sacred to soft Recess, and gentle Love.",2.0 +"Go, with Thy Cynthia, hurl the pointed Spear",2.0 +At the rough Boar; or chase the flying Deer:,3.0 +"At human Hearts We fling, nor ever miss the Game.",0.0 +"As those, who hope hereafter Heaven to share,",1.0 +"A rigorous Exile here, can calmly bear;",2.0 +And with collected Spirits undergo,1.0 +The sad variety of Pain below:,1.0 +"While the bright Prospect of approaching Joy,",3.0 +Creates a Bliss no Trouble can destroy.,2.0 +"So, though I'm tossed by giddy Fortunes Hand,",1.0 +Even to the Confines of my native Land;,3.0 +"Where I can hear the stormy Ocean roar,",0.0 +And break its Waves upon the foaming Shore:,0.0 +"Yet flattering Hopes encourage me to live,",3.0 +And tell me Fate will kinder Minutes give.,0.0 +That the dark Treasury of Time contains,3.0 +"A glorious Day, will finish all my Pains;",2.0 +"And while I contemplate on Joys to come,",0.0 +"Believe me, Nymph, believe me charming Fair,",0.0 +"When Truth's conspicuous, we need not swear;",1.0 +"That I am false, my Flame fictitious too,",0.0 +"Were I condemned by Fate's imperial Power,",3.0 +"Never to return to your Embraces more,",2.0 +"I'd scorn whatever the busy World could give,",3.0 +"For all my Wishes, and Desires pursue,",1.0 +"All I admire, or covet here, is you.",1.0 +"Were I possessed of your surprising Charms,",2.0 +"Then would my Joys ascend to that degree,",0.0 +"Could Angels envy, they would envy me.",2.0 +"Oft as I wander in a silent Shade,",0.0 +"I banish the rough Thought, and none pursue,",2.0 +But what inclines my willing Mind to you.,0.0 +"The soft Reflections on your sacred Love,",1.0 +"Composing every Faculty to rest,",1.0 +"Retired sometime into a lonely Grove,",3.0 +"What mighty Pleasure have I oft possessed,",0.0 +"When in a Masculine Embrace I pressed,",1.0 +The lovely Delia to my heaving Breast?,1.0 +"Then I remember, and with vast delight,",2.0 +The kind Expressions of the parting Night:,1.0 +"Methought, the Sun too quick returned again,",3.0 +And Day was never impertinent till then.,3.0 +"Strong and contracted was our eager Bliss,",1.0 +An Age's Pleasure in each generous Kiss;,2.0 +"But when the Glories of the eastern Light,",1.0 +"Overflowed the twinkling Tapers of the Night,",1.0 +"Farewell my Delia, OH farewell, said I,",4.0 +The utmost Period of my time is nigh:,2.0 +"Too cruel Fate forbids my longer stay,",1.0 +"But though I must my native Plains forego,",1.0 +"Forsake these Fields, forsake my Delia too,",0.0 +"No change of Fortune shall for ever move,",1.0 +The settled Base of my immortal Love.,1.0 +The Darling of my Soul so soon removed?,1.0 +"The only valued, and the best beloved.",1.0 +"Flat and insipid all their Courtship seemed,",3.0 +"Little themselves, their Passions less esteemed.",2.0 +"For my aversion with their Flames increased,",2.0 +"Though I'm deprived of my kind Shepherd's sight,",3.0 +"Joy of the Day, and Blessing of the Night;",1.0 +"However flatter me, and say you will.",2.0 +"For should you entertain a Rival Love,",0.0 +"No Mortal ever could half so wretched be,",3.0 +For sure no Mortal ever loved like me.,1.0 +"Your Beauty, Nymph, said I, my Faith secures;",2.0 +"Those you once conquer, must be always yours:",3.0 +"For Hearts subdued by your victorious Eyes,",3.0 +"No Force can storm, no Stratagem surprise,",3.0 +"Nor can I of Captivity complain,",3.0 +While lovely Delia holds the glorious Chain.,2.0 +"The Cyprian Queen in young Adonis' Arms,",2.0 +"Might fear, at last he would despise her Charms.",0.0 +"But I can never such a Monster prove,",2.0 +"Would those, who at Celestial Tables sit,",0.0 +"Blessed with immortal Wine, immortal Wit:",2.0 +"Choose to descend to some inferior Board,",4.0 +"Nor can I ever to those gay Nymphs address,",4.0 +"Whose Pride is greater, and whose Charms are less.",1.0 +Their Tinsel Beauty may perhaps subdue,1.0 +"But seem at best indifferent to me,",1.0 +Who none but you with admiration see.,1.0 +I'd make the Sun a second time stand still;,1.0 +"And to the lower World their Light repay,",1.0 +"When conquering Joshua robbed them of a Day,",5.0 +"Though our two Souls would different Passions prove,",2.0 +"His was a Thirst of Glory, mine is Love.",2.0 +"It will not be; the Sun makes haste to rise,",1.0 +And takes Possession of the Eastern Skies:,1.0 +"Yet one Kiss more, though Millions are too few,",2.0 +"And Delia since we must, must part, Adieu.",0.0 +As Adam by an injured Maker driven,1.0 +"Compelled to wander, and obliged to bear",1.0 +"The harsh Impressions of a ruder Air,",1.0 +"With mighty Sorrow, and with weeping Eyes,",1.0 +"Looked back, and mourned the loss of Paradise.",1.0 +"With a concern like his, did I review",2.0 +"My native Plains, my charming Delia too;",0.0 +For I left Paradise in leaving you.,3.0 +"If, as I walk, a pleasant Shade I find,",1.0 +It brings your fair Idea to my Mind.,1.0 +"Such was the happy place, I sighing say;",1.0 +"Where I, and Delia, lovely Delia lay;",0.0 +When first I did my tender Thoughts impart.,0.0 +And made a grateful Present of my Heart.,1.0 +"Or if my Friend in his Apartment, shows",2.0 +"In which the Artist has with wondrous Care,",0.0 +Described the Face of one exceeding fair;,1.0 +"Though, at first sight, it may my Passion raise,",2.0 +"And every Feature I admire, and praise;",1.0 +"It's not so beautiful, so fair as you,",1.0 +"If I converse with those, whom most admit,",1.0 +"To have a ready, gay, vivacious Wit,",0.0 +"They want some amiable, moving Grace,",1.0 +Some Turn of Fancy that my Delia has.,0.0 +"For ten good Thoughts, amongst the Crowd they vent,",0.0 +"Let other Shepherd's, that are prone to range,",1.0 +"They from variety less Joys receive,",3.0 +Than you alone are capable to give.,2.0 +What they enjoy's the refuse of the Plains;,3.0 +"If for my share of Happiness below,",2.0 +"Kind Heaven upon me, Delia would bestow:",1.0 +"Whatever Blessings it can give beside,",2.0 +Let all Mankind among themselves divide.,3.0 +"Happy the Man, who void of Care and Strife,",2.0 +A Splendid Shilling: He nor hears with Pain,1.0 +"New Oysters cried, nor sighs for cheerful Ale;",1.0 +"But with his Friends, when mighty Mists arise,",1.0 +"To Juniper's, Magpie, or Town Hall repairs:",3.0 +"Where mindful of the Nymph, whose wanton Eye",1.0 +"Transfixed his Soul, and kindled amorous Flames,",2.0 +Chloe or Phillis; he each circling Glass,3.0 +"Wishes her Health, and Joy, and equal Love.",2.0 +"Mean while, he smokes and laughs at merry Tale,",0.0 +"Or Pun ambiguous, or Conundrum quaint.",3.0 +"But I, whom gripping Penury surrounds,",2.0 +"And Hunger, sure Attendant upon Want,",3.0 +"Then solitary walk, or doze at home",0.0 +"In Garret vile, and with a warming Puff",1.0 +Regale chilled Fingers; or from Tube as black,2.0 +"Not blacker Tube, nor of a shorter Size",1.0 +"Sprung from Cadwalader and Arthur, Kings",4.0 +Full famous in romantic Tale when he,1.0 +"Over many a craggy Hill and barren Cliff,",2.0 +"High overshadowing rides, with a design",4.0 +"With Looks demure, and silent Pace, a Dunn,",0.0 +"Horrible Monster! hated by Gods and Men,",4.0 +To my aerial Citadel ascends;,2.0 +"With vocal Heel thrice thundering at my Gates,",2.0 +With hideous Accent thrice he calls; I know,3.0 +"What should I do? or whither turn? Amazed,",0.0 +"Confounded, to the dark Recess I fly",1.0 +"My shuddering Limbs, and wonderful to tell!",3.0 +My Tongue forgets her Faculty of Speech;,1.0 +So horrible he seems! his faded Brows,1.0 +"Entrenched with many a Frown, and conic Beard",2.0 +"And spreading Band, admired by modern Saints,",0.0 +Disastrous Acts forebode; in his Right Hand,1.0 +"Long Scrolls of Paper solemnly he waves,",2.0 +"With Characters and Figures dire inscribed,",1.0 +"Grievous to mortal Eyes; you Gods, avert",2.0 +Such Plagues from righteous Men! behind him stalks,0.0 +"Another Monster, not unlike himself,",0.0 +"Sullen of Aspect, by the Vulgar called",2.0 +"With Force incredible, and Magic Charms",1.0 +"Of Debtor, strait his Body, to the Touch",1.0 +"To some enchanted Castle is conveyed,",1.0 +"Where Gates impregnable, and coercive Chains",3.0 +"Of Money, Pallas sets the Captive free.",0.0 +"Beware, you Debtors, when you walk beware,",0.0 +Be circumspect; oft with insidious Ken,4.0 +"Lies perdue in a Nook or gloomy Cave,",0.0 +Prompt to enchant some inadvertent Wretch,2.0 +"An everlasting Foe, with watchful Eye",0.0 +Obvious to vagrant Flies: She secret stands,1.0 +"Within her woven Cell; the humming Prey,",0.0 +"Regardless of their Fate, rush on the Toils",3.0 +"Inextricable, nor will aught avail",1.0 +"Their Arts, nor Arms, nor Shapes of lovely hue;",0.0 +"The Wasp insidious, and the buzzing Drone,",1.0 +And Butterfly proud of expanded Wings,2.0 +"Distinct with Gold, entangled in her Snares,",0.0 +"Useless Resistance make: With eager Strides,",2.0 +She towering flies to her expected Spoils;,1.0 +"Drinks of reluctant Foes, and to her Cave",3.0 +Their bulky Carcasses triumphant drags.,1.0 +So pass my Days. But when Nocturnal Shades,0.0 +"With pleasant Wines, and crackling Blaze of Wood;",0.0 +"Me lonely sitting, nor the glimmering Light",3.0 +"Of loving Friend delights; distressed, forlorn,",0.0 +"Amid the Horrors of the tedious Night,",3.0 +My anxious Mind; or sometime mournful Verse,1.0 +"Indite, and sing of Groves and Myrtle Shades,",0.0 +"Mean while, I labour with eternal Drought,",1.0 +"Finds no Relief, nor heavy Eyes Repose:",1.0 +"Thoughtful of Drink, and eager, in a Dream,",2.0 +In vain; awake I find the settled Thirst,0.0 +"Still gnawing, and the pleasant Phantom curse.",2.0 +Nor taste the Fruits that the Sun's genial Rays,2.0 +"Nor Medlar, Fruit delicious in Decay:",0.0 +Afflictions great! yet greater still remain:,0.0 +"The Winter's Fury, and encroaching Frosts,",1.0 +By Time subdued what will not Time subdue!,1.0 +"An horrid Chasm disclose, with Orifice",3.0 +"Tumultuous enter with dire chilling Blasts,",5.0 +"She strikes rebounding, whence the shattered Oak,",0.0 +"So fierce a Shock unable to withstand,",1.0 +Admits the Sea; in at the gaping Side,0.0 +"The crowding Waves gush with impetuous Rage,",2.0 +"The Mariners, Death in their Eyes appears,",2.0 +"They stare, they lave, they pump, they swear, they pray;",0.0 +Vain Efforts! still the battering Waves rush in,3.0 +"Implacable, till deluged by the Foam,",2.0 +The Ship sinks foundering in the vast Abyss.,2.0 +"HOW was I charmed, when fair Harmonia sung!",3.0 +What heavenly Sweetness dwelled upon her Tongue!,2.0 +What melting Joys did her soft Song impart!,2.0 +"O Power of Music, on a tender Heart!",3.0 +"While she repeats the Lover's ardent Pains,",1.0 +"Soft flow the Tears; the gentle Sorrows rise,",1.0 +"But when a faithful, generous Pair's her Theme;",2.0 +"When in soft Sounds she sings their mutual Flame,",3.0 +It's then I feel the Lover's soft Excess;,0.0 +"Share in their Joy, and triumph in their Bliss;",0.0 +"Wish I may thus to Tenderness be moved,",1.0 +"And love like them, like them to be beloved:",0.0 +"O say, bright Virgin, by what powerful Art",3.0 +And makes the struggling Soul alternate prove,4.0 +"The Joys of true, and Pangs of perjured Love:",0.0 +"A Voice less fine than yours the Bard possessed,",2.0 +Whose magic Sweetness moving Trees confessed.,0.0 +"On Mortals! thy superior Skill is shown,",3.0 +And Hearts subdued thy greater Power own.,0.0 +"REASON, a dame not often in the wrong",2.0 +"On what is ill, and what is left undone,",0.0 +And how disposed of all the gifts of Heaven.,1.0 +"Perceiving Fortune off could fling her hood,",1.0 +"And stop to cast on knaves a partial eye,",0.0 +"And that when come where blushing merit stood,",0.0 +"Up went her bandage, and she passed him by.",1.0 +Within a sacred grove to peace consigned,0.0 +"A branch by Fortune from the Laurel torn,",1.0 +She said ' -- by Victory let this be worn!,0.0 +To Victory the sculptured arch was raised,1.0 +High over the smoking ruins of a town!,4.0 +"And bells rang loud, and every window blazed,",1.0 +And tuneful minstrels sang her vast renown.,0.0 +And on her forehead Glory was inscribed,2.0 +"In glittering letters great of beaming gold,",2.0 +Or fierce Ambition only fire the soul.,0.0 +"Say, why to Victory the choral joy?",1.0 +"Such songs, indeed, were pure immortal praise,",0.0 +Did God create for man but to destroy.,1.0 +"Her flash of Glory, all illusive! vain!",0.0 +"She makes of Victory a pliant tool,",1.0 +"To work a star or ribbon wondrous fine,",0.0 +"Reward of coward ' -- knave, or valiant fool.",0.0 +"Before the rustic youth can form a choice,",0.0 +"Some trick conveys him to a foreign land,",1.0 +The brutal hero of a cutthroat band!,2.0 +"The perfect general shows his needled star,",1.0 +"The mangled private may go hang or beg,",2.0 +"Dispute his charter to the trade of war,",1.0 +"He swears, and shows it in his wooden leg.",0.0 +"Fire! pest! and famine does she give mankind,",1.0 +Is Victory then the Laurel won by thee?,0.0 +"The sovereign good, OH Wisdom! let me find,",1.0 +"Which Victory bids down the cheek to flow,",0.0 +"That lifts with smiles the mourner from the bier,",1.0 +And puts aside the bitter cup of woe.,0.0 +Perish her hopes of Industry the bane!,3.0 +"That turn the ploughshare to a murderous sword,",3.0 +Achieve exploits by earth and heaven abhorred.,1.0 +The husband and the parent she hath slain!,2.0 +Widows and orphans Victory hath made!,3.0 +For Desolation marks her ruthless trade.,0.0 +"Few know where bashful Charity does hide,",1.0 +"Full seen of Heaven, she shrinks from mortal ken,",1.0 +"And many a devious round, and far and wide",3.0 +"Did Reason seek her,' mid the haunts of men.",0.0 +"For just decision idly thus to roam,",0.0 +"When Charity, beneficent and kind,",4.0 +"It's not alone with paltry gold to part,",0.0 +"Or chase pale sorrow from the cottage door,",2.0 +"She there, stores treasured moral in the heart,",2.0 +God's own appointed agent for the poor.,2.0 +"Blithe on a velvet turf of mossy green,",0.0 +"Surrounded by her playful charge was seen,",1.0 +Far Vice and Folly fly at her command!,2.0 +"And sure success attends her sweet employ,",0.0 +"And as the mental buds to flowers expand,",3.0 +"To little acts let great ones lowly bend,",2.0 +Where rank by pride is only understood;,0.0 +"To works angelic her white thoughts ascend,",3.0 +Aspiring to the height of doing good.,1.0 +"Reason convinced, that Charity benign,",3.0 +"Bade Victory her Laurel Crown resign,",2.0 +"Nature her noblest task had well performed,",2.0 +"Endowed the babe with intellectual grace,",2.0 +"Shone full confessed in air, shape, limb, and face.",2.0 +"In culture, Fortune! take an ample share!",0.0 +Or else the plant may wither in the bloom:,0.0 +Condemn to waste? a lamp within the tomb!,0.0 +"Not that each shrub can hang with golden fruit,",0.0 +"Or roses issue from the humble sod,",1.0 +"But Reason best can lift him from the brute,",1.0 +"Or say, that nature leaves her work most crude,",0.0 +"Still more it stands in need of polished aid,",0.0 +And wonder at the monster we have made.,1.0 +"But wealth can cherish! draw the talents forth,",0.0 +"A sun! which Fortune's cold neglect supplies,",0.0 +That gives what sordid penury denies.,1.0 +"Hail, heavenly FREDERICA! God of all,",3.0 +Pour every blessing on the gentle fair!,2.0 +"Should ills assail, anticipate her call,",0.0 +Who takes the helpless infant to her care.,1.0 +"THOUGH Peters oft, with pleasing strokes of art,",0.0 +"Had swayed the mind, and charmed the feeling heart,",0.0 +"And had to mortal view those forms revealed,",0.0 +Which distance infinite before concealed;,1.0 +"But Rutland, who forgave the theft of grace",0.0 +"He oft had made from her angelic face,",2.0 +"With liberal hand repaid the painter's toil,",0.0 +And made him master of a fruitful soil.,1.0 +"No longer now the drudge of servile trade,",1.0 +"While the celestial nymphs shall prompt the theme,",1.0 +"At eve, when temperate shines the silver Queen,",0.0 +"Devoid of care he will tread the village green,",0.0 +"And, gazing steadfast on the vaulted sky,",2.0 +"Beyond the narrow bounds will dart his eye,",0.0 +"To where, decked in the majesty of light,",1.0 +The cherub host shall cheque his daring sight;,0.0 +"Yet there, uninjured, shall he ardent gaze,",1.0 +"While suns, unknown before, around him blaze;",0.0 +Then to this neither world his hand shall give,0.0 +"While all who Genius love, or cherish Art,",0.0 +Will join with thee to bless the noble heart,1.0 +GOD of my life! and author of my days!,1.0 +Permit my feeble voice to lisp thy praise;,0.0 +"And trembling, take upon a mortal tongue",0.0 +"Than hide their faces, tremble, and adore.",1.0 +"Worms, angels, men, in every different sphere",1.0 +"Are equal all, for all are nothing here.",0.0 +"Which nature's works, through all their parts proclaim.",0.0 +And breathe an awful stillness through my soul;,1.0 +"As by a charm, the waves of grief subside;",1.0 +Impetuous passion stops her headlong tide;,1.0 +"At thy felt presence all emotions cease,",2.0 +"And my hushed spirit finds a sudden peace,",2.0 +"Till every worldly thought within me dies,",0.0 +And earth's gay pageants vanish from my eyes;,2.0 +"Till all my sense is lost in infinite,",1.0 +And one vast object fills my aching sight.,3.0 +"But soon, alas! this holy calm is broke;",0.0 +And mingles with the dross of earth again.,1.0 +"But he, our gracious Master, kind, as just,",1.0 +"Knowing our frame, remembers man is dust:",2.0 +"His spirit, ever brooding over our mind,",2.0 +Sees the first wish to better hopes inclined;,3.0 +"Marks the young dawn of every virtuous aim,",5.0 +And fans the smoking flax into a flame:,0.0 +"His ears are open to the softest cry,",1.0 +His grace descends to meet the lifted eye;,0.0 +"He reads the language of a silent tear,",1.0 +And sighs are incense from a heart sincere.,2.0 +"Such are the vows, the sacrifice I give;",1.0 +From each terrestrial bondage set me free;,2.0 +Hush every wish that centres not in thee;,1.0 +And point my path to everlasting peace.,0.0 +If the soft hand of winning pleasure leads,2.0 +"By living waters, and through flowery meads,",3.0 +"When all is smiling, tranquil, and serene,",1.0 +"And vernal beauty paints the flattering scene,",2.0 +"O! teach me to elude each latent snare,",1.0 +And whisper to my sliding heart ' -- Beware:,1.0 +"And doubtful, with a trembling heart, rejoice.",1.0 +"Still let my steady soul thy goodness see,",1.0 +And with strong confidence lay hold on thee;,4.0 +"With equal eye my various lot receive,",2.0 +"Resigned to die, or resolute to live;",0.0 +"Prepared to kiss the sceptre, or the rod,",1.0 +"While GOD is seen in all, and all in GOD.",0.0 +"I read his awful name, emblazoned high",0.0 +With golden letters on the illumined sky;,3.0 +Nor less the mystic characters I see,1.0 +"Wrought in each flower, inscribed on every tree;",2.0 +I hear the voice of GOD among the trees;,0.0 +"With thee in busy crowded cities talk,",1.0 +"In every creature own thy forming power,",0.0 +In each event thy providence adore.,1.0 +"Thy hopes shall animate my drooping soul,",0.0 +"Thy precepts guide me, and thy fear control.",2.0 +"Thus shall I rest, unmoved by all alarms,",0.0 +"Secure within the temple of thine arms,",1.0 +"From anxious cares, from gloomy terrors free,",0.0 +And feel myself omnipotent in thee.,2.0 +"Then when the last, the closing hour draws nigh,",1.0 +And earth recedes before my swimming eye;,0.0 +When trembling on the doubtful edge of fate,1.0 +I stand and stretch my view to either state;,0.0 +Teach me to quit this transitory scene,0.0 +With decent triumph and a look serene;,1.0 +"Teach me to fix my ardent hopes on high,",0.0 +"And having lived to thee, in thee to die.",0.0 +"A sight like this, who can unmoved survey?",2.0 +"See the freed Captives hail their native Shore,",3.0 +And tread the Land of Liberty once more:,2.0 +"See, as they pass, the crowding People press,",0.0 +"Now, Slavery! no more thy rigid Hand",3.0 +Shall drag the Trader to thy fatal Strand:,1.0 +No more in Iron Bonds the Wretched groan;,0.0 +"Secured, Britannia, by thy Guardian Throne.",3.0 +"Say, mighty Prince! can Empire boast a Bliss,",1.0 +"Amid its radiant Pomp, that equals this?",1.0 +"To see the Captives by thy Power set free,",2.0 +No more shall Woes the fainting Heart destroy;,0.0 +The House of Mourning now is turned to Joy:,0.0 +"See Arms in Grief long folded up, extend,",3.0 +"To clasp a Husband, Brother, Kinsman, Friend:",1.0 +"See hoary Parents, tottering over the Grave,",5.0 +"And, Have we lived to see thy Face? they cry;",0.0 +OH! it's enough ' -- We now in Peace shall die:,2.0 +"OH blessed be Heaven! and blessed, while Life remains.",1.0 +"Shall be the Hand, that has unbound thy Chains!",0.0 +What Nature pictures to the Breast humane.,1.0 +"To feed the Hungry, long has been his Choice,",0.0 +"And make the Heart, born down by Care, rejoice.",2.0 +"Say, you Luxurious, who indulge your Taste,",4.0 +"And, by one Riot, might a Thousand feast;",1.0 +Do you not blush to see his Care to feed,0.0 +The Captives by your Monarch's Bounty freed?,2.0 +The bitter Cup of Slavery is past;,1.0 +But pining Penury approaches fast.,1.0 +Shall not Compassion from the Subject flow?,1.0 +"Shall not each freeborn Briton's Bosom melt,",0.0 +To make the Joys of Liberty more felt?,1.0 +"So, Albion, be it ever given to thee,",2.0 +"To break the Bonds, and set the Prisoners free",0.0 +"WIth Singing Angels hence she posts away,",0.0 +As Lovely now and excellent as they:,1.0 +"For one short Moment Death's Grim Looks she bore,",3.0 +But never shall see his Ghastly Visage more.,2.0 +"Released from her dull Fetters; as the Light,",3.0 +"Active, and Pure, Parthenia takes her flight;",4.0 +"And finds, at last, the awful Secrecy,",1.0 +"How Spirits act, and what they do, and be.",0.0 +"Dear Shade, whom Heaven did so soon remove",1.0 +From these Cold Regions to the Land of Love;,3.0 +"To endless Pleasures, and Eternal day;",1.0 +How glittering now? How satisfied and gay,2.0 +The Lovely Saint from my Embraces rent:,1.0 +"Nor can to those fair Mansions cast my eyes,",4.0 +"My grief for her were as unjust, as vain,",2.0 +Yet she the while may the advantage boast:,1.0 +And should her pure unfettered Soul but deign,0.0 +"A careless glance on these dark coasts again,",2.0 +And smile again at the surprising odds,1.0 +She Sings the Anthems of Eternal rest.,1.0 +In the Wild Cliffs a natural Vault he found,3.0 +With woven Ivy Cheaply decked around.,0.0 +"He rushed into the Solitary Nook,",0.0 +Where into these Pathetic Sounds he broke.,2.0 +"O when will Nature take the life she gave,",0.0 +And Lodge me free from Trouble in the Grave!,0.0 +"Sleep there alone deserves the Name of Rest,",2.0 +No frightful Dreams the sleep of Death infest.,1.0 +"While shrouded in this marble Cell I Lie,",0.0 +What can be more Commodious than to Die?,1.0 +"Each Object Here wears such a mournful Face,",0.0 +That Dying seems the Business of the Place!,1.0 +"Here from the wrangling World I will Retire,",1.0 +"And as I Lived Unknown, Unknown Expire.",1.0 +Then let that hanging Rock that shades my Head,0.0 +"Sink down, and shut this Vault when I am Dead:",1.0 +"Rude as it is, this Marble Cell would save",1.0 +"It self my Cossin, Monument and Grave.",1.0 +As nearer I approach that fatal day,1.0 +"Which makes all mortal cares appear so light,",0.0 +"Time seems on swifter wing to speed his flight,",1.0 +And Hope's fallacious visions fade away;,0.0 +"While to my fond desires, at length, I say,",0.0 +"Behold, how quickly melted from your sight",1.0 +"The promised objects you esteemed so bright,",1.0 +"When love was all your song, and life looked gay!",1.0 +"Now let us rest in peace! those hours are past,",1.0 +"And with them, all the agitating train",1.0 +By which hope led the wandering cheated soul;,3.0 +"Wearied, she seeks repose, and owns at last",2.0 +"How sighs, and tears, and youth, were spent in vain,",0.0 +"In ancient legends of past time we find,",2.0 +"Birds, beasts, and insects used to speak their mind,",2.0 +And oft by fable serious truths impart,2.0 +To mend the morals and to strike the heart:,1.0 +"Nay Solomon himself would deign to say,",2.0 +"But now alas! in these degenerate times,",2.0 +Insects have learnt from men to ape their crimes;,1.0 +The table's turned ' -- false morals now are shown,1.0 +A hive of bees within a certain grove,0.0 +"Had long enjoyed contentment, peace, and love,",0.0 +"Fed on each source of sweet that earth bestows,",0.0 +Even from the cowslip to the stately rose;,2.0 +"Each morn had sipped of dew from Heaven, which fell",0.0 +Had drawn the nectar of each fragrant flower,1.0 +"To carry treasures to their native bower,",1.0 +And there in cells of curious form they stored,3.0 +Their several tributes to the general hoard;,1.0 +"Then safe at night were sheltered by those bowers,",1.0 +"Where first they swarmed, when in their infant hours",0.0 +Nor ever returned until their task was done;,2.0 +"For arts and industry had made them great,",1.0 +And seemingly had fixed their happy state;,1.0 +"A state, where nature's policy does trace",1.0 +"To every bee his station, rank, and place:",0.0 +"Some formed to labour for the public good,",1.0 +"Others to nurse the young, and chew their food;",2.0 +Whatever danger may assail their queen;,2.0 +"For every hive is in itself protected,",0.0 +"While to it's sovereign it is well affected,",1.0 +"But now no further to dilate my storey,",2.0 +"This hive, when at it's highest pitch of glory,",0.0 +Like other states did subjects still contain,0.0 +"Of discontented mind and heated brain,",0.0 +"Prone to adopt and lead some new opinion,",2.0 +"Spurning restraint, and grasping at dominion;",2.0 +These oft with greedy listening ear repaired,0.0 +"Close to a neighbouring hive, from whence they heard",2.0 +"A murmuring hum, as if from discontent,",4.0 +"Of liberty, no queen, no government;",4.0 +"Let all be equal, and these lordly drones",1.0 +Be set to work to shape these ugly cones:,0.0 +It's slavery I swear ' -- no more will I,2.0 +"Lag home with honey in my bag and thigh,",1.0 +Much sooner will I dart my sting and die.,1.0 +And in convention plot against the state;,0.0 +"But here disorder marked their wretched way,",0.0 +"Each claimed his right, a right to bear the sway,",0.0 +"And left the loyal bees their haunts should see,",0.0 +"They dared not light upon a flower or tree,",2.0 +"Where aught of substance, fit for daily food,",0.0 +Might be extracted for the public good;,1.0 +"But conscious of their base intent, they shun",1.0 +"Whatever spreads its blossoms to the sun,",2.0 +"Or on the hemlock swarmed, or poisonous yew,",4.0 +There planned the downfall of their queen and state:,2.0 +"So loud they buzzed their murmurs through the trees,",1.0 +"Of liberty, no work ' -- the rights of bees ' --",2.0 +"That echo swift conveyed the infectious sound,",2.0 +"Their plot now ripe, they act the fatal scene,",1.0 +"Murder the guards, and then confine their queen;",2.0 +"Seize, seize the honey, and lay waste the comb!",3.0 +"Destroy each cell, for labour now is over,",0.0 +We'll feast and revel on the public store.,1.0 +And now how gladly would I draw a veil,0.0 +Over the remaining sequel of my tale;,2.0 +But recent facts require I should relate,0.0 +How bad example marred the happy state.,0.0 +Though most with horror heard the soul disgrace,0.0 +"Brought on the noblest of the insect race,",2.0 +"Yet those who had enlisted in the plan,",0.0 +"And longed like them to copy after man,",1.0 +"Against their friends, their queen, their hive conspire,",0.0 +While swarms from forth the rebel state combine,0.0 +"To prosecute the horrible design,",1.0 +League against those by whom they are relieved.,1.0 +"Aroused at length, the loyal bees unite",1.0 +"To save their state, and arm them for the fight,",1.0 +"True to their sovereign, who with gentle sway",0.0 +And now behold them eager and alert,1.0 +To expel the traitors and their schemes avert;,2.0 +"Taught by examples terrible as these,",3.0 +"That faction blasts the happiness of bees,",1.0 +Active they keep their vigilance alive,3.0 +"To guard their monarch, property, and hive.",1.0 +"The Phoenix of your Age, Station and Sex!",6.0 +Resume the Quill; And let us see displayed,0.0 +The Happy Wife ' -- And discontented Maid.,0.0 +So by your Strong persuasive you may win,2.0 +Virgins to fix their love on Virtuous Men.,4.0 +"Your Compliments returned, for I protest",2.0 +"I truly think that you deserve them best,",1.0 +"And to Obey Should be my Humble aim,",1.0 +Most Men are now so viciously inclined,1.0 +That happy Wives are very hard to find;,0.0 +"And as for discontented Maids I own,",1.0 +"Nor can persuasive be of any use,",1.0 +"Virgins I think for Virtuous Men would choose,",4.0 +"Only there are so very few of late,",1.0 +"Maids will grow old, if they for Such should wait.",3.0 +"So Reverend Sir, I hope you will excuse",1.0 +"The ignorance, And freedom of the Muse.",2.0 +"OF blissful Groves I sing, and flowery Plains:",2.0 +"You Sylvan Nymphs, assist my rural Strains.",0.0 +"And grow immortal, as the Poet's Name;",1.0 +"While not a Bard, of all the tuneful Throng,",0.0 +"Thy Gardens, Richmond, boast an equal Theme,",0.0 +And only ask an equal Muse's Flame.,0.0 +With Belt and Quiver grace the verdant Plain?,0.0 +"What, though no fabled consecrated Floods",2.0 +"Flow over thy Fields, or murmur through thy Woods?",4.0 +"My Song thy real Beauties shall pursue,",3.0 +"And paint the lovely Scenes, and paint them true;",0.0 +"A pleasing Task! Nor slight shall be the Praise,",0.0 +If Royal CAROLINE accept the Lays.,0.0 +"Or climbs the slow ascending Richmond Hill. Hill, whose Brow",2.0 +"Hangs over the silver Stream, which rolls below;",3.0 +"Where all around me shining Prospects rise,",0.0 +And various Scenes invite my gazing Eyes;,2.0 +"And, while I view one Object with Delight,",1.0 +New pleasing Wonders charm the feasted Sight:,1.0 +"THUS, in a grateful Concert, may we hear",1.0 +"The Sounds at once surprise, and charm our Ear;",0.0 +"The trembling Notes, in hasty Fugues, arise;",0.0 +"And this advances, ere the former flies;",1.0 +"All seem to be confused, yet all agree,",0.0 +To perfect the melodious Harmony.,6.0 +"BENEATH the Mount, with what Majestic Pride",0.0 +The Sire of Rivers rolls his silver Tide!,2.0 +"His amber Foam, and Sands of shining Over:",0.0 +Whose fattening Floods enrich the thirsty Soil:,0.0 +"Happy BRITANNIA boasts as fair a Stream,",4.0 +"As great in Bounties, and as great in Fame;",1.0 +"OBSEQUIOUS River, when my Eyes survey",2.0 +"Thy Waves, or East, or West, pursue their Way;",0.0 +"At stated Periods, now return again;",2.0 +How vain the Schemes of Infidels appear!,1.0 +"Say, Atheists, since you own, by Nature's Laws,",2.0 +"Why should the restless Stream run to and fro,",2.0 +"And, with alternate Motion, ebb and flow;",2.0 +"Did not some Being, of superior Force,",3.0 +"Rule the wild Waves, and regulate their Course?",3.0 +HENCE lofty Windsor to the Sight appears;,2.0 +"And, high in Air, her pompous Turrets rears:",0.0 +"Wide, round her Domes, the spacious Forest shines.",0.0 +Though brighter much in POPE's harmonious Lines:,2.0 +"OH! would his tuneful Muse my Breast inspire,",0.0 +"Then Richmond Hill renowned in Verse should grow,",0.0 +"A second Eden in my Page should shine,",0.0 +"OFT, lost in Thought, forgetful of my Way,",2.0 +"I, over the Park, through Wilds of Beauty, stray;",2.0 +"And lavishes her Bloom, unchecked by Skill.",1.0 +"Old venerable Trees, majestic, rise,",2.0 +"Sublime in Air, and brave the vaulted Skies;",0.0 +"In peaceful Age, and hoary Honour, stand.",1.0 +"Here, when AURORA first begins to dawn,",0.0 +"Poised by their Plumes, in lofty Flights they play;",0.0 +"But, when the Sun displays a purple Scene,",0.0 +"And drinks the pearly Dew, that decked the Green;",0.0 +"A thousand tuneful Birds in Concert meet,",0.0 +A thousand tuneful Notes the Groves repeat;,0.0 +"And, when their Music ceases with the Day,",1.0 +Sweet PHILOMELA chants her pensive Lay.,1.0 +"BUT, hark! I hear a louder Music sound;",0.0 +From Woods and Vales the various Notes rebound:,2.0 +"The Way which Fear directs, he trembling tries;",0.0 +"Nor knows, where Fear directs, or where he flies:",0.0 +A hundred different Sounds assail his Ears;,0.0 +"A Death, in every different Sound, he fears:",0.0 +"And now he faintly moves a slower Pace,",0.0 +And closer now the Hounds pursue the Chase;,0.0 +"Till, in Despair, back on his Foes he turns;",2.0 +"Short is the Combat, soon he yields his Breath,",0.0 +"And gasping falls, and trembling pants in Death.",0.0 +Now to a softer Theme descends my Muse;,0.0 +Through artful Walks her pleasing Path pursues;,0.0 +"Where Elegance and noble Grandeur meet,",4.0 +"As the Ideas of its Mistress, great,",2.0 +"Magnificently fair, majestically sweet.",2.0 +"See, on its Margin, Fields of waving Corn;",0.0 +And gay Varieties the Landscape grace.,2.0 +"HENCE lead me, Muses, through yonder arched Grove,",4.0 +"Adorned with Sand below, and Leaves above;",0.0 +"Or let me over the spacious Oval trace,",2.0 +Where verdant Carpets spread the lovely Place;,0.0 +"Where Trees in regular Confusion stand,",1.0 +And sylvan Beauties rise on every Hand:,0.0 +"Or bear me, Nymphs, to the sequestered Cell,",1.0 +"Where BOYLE and NEWTON, mighty Sages! dwell;",0.0 +Long as those sacred Truths their Works display.,0.0 +"HOW sweetly pleasing is this cool Retreat,",1.0 +When PHOEBUS blazes with meridian Heat!,3.0 +In vain the fervid Beams around it play;,0.0 +The rocky Roof repels the scorching Ray;,0.0 +"Securely guarded with a sylvan Scene,",1.0 +"In Nature's Livery dressed, for ever green.",2.0 +"With grateful Travel, through a Wild of Groves;",1.0 +"And, though directed, oft mistakes his Way,",1.0 +Unknowing where the winding Mazes stray;,0.0 +"Yet still his Feet the magic Paths pursue,",0.0 +"Charmed, though bewildered, with the pleasing View.",3.0 +"NOT so attractive lately shone the Plain,",1.0 +"A gloomy Waste, not worth the Muses Strain;",0.0 +"Where thorny Brakes the Traveller repelled,",1.0 +"Till Royal GEORGE, and Heavenly CAROLINE,",2.0 +Bid Nature in harmonious Lustre shine;,3.0 +"The sacred Fiat through the Chaos rung,",1.0 +And Symmetry from wild Disorder sprung.,1.0 +"SO, once, confused, the barbarous Nations stood;",2.0 +"Till Rome her conquering Eagles wide displayed,",2.0 +And bid the World reform ' -- The World obeyed.,0.0 +HOW blessed the Man in these delightful Fields!,1.0 +New Pleasures each indulgent Moment yields.,1.0 +"Let gayer Minds in Town pursue their Joys,",1.0 +Exchanging Quietness for Crowds and Noise;,1.0 +Consume the Night at Masquerade or Play;,0.0 +"Or waste, in busy Idleness, the Day:",1.0 +Since rural Solitude more pleasing smiles.,0.0 +OH Solitude! the Sage's chief Delight!,1.0 +What Numbers can thy lovely Charms recite!,1.0 +"Hail, peaceful Nymph! thou eldest Thing on Earth!",1.0 +"The Heavens alone can thy Commencement tell,",3.0 +"Before the Skies with radiant Light were clad,",0.0 +"In awful Gloom, and venerable Shade,",1.0 +The FATHER thee his sole Companion made.,1.0 +"When to Creation first his Thoughts inclined,",1.0 +And future Worlds were rising in his Mind;,0.0 +"He sat with thee, and planned the mighty Scheme;",1.0 +With thee adjusted the stupendous Frame;,2.0 +With restless Rounds should rule the circling Year;,0.0 +"What Laws support, and regulate the Whole:",0.0 +"Nor art thou yet impaired, celestial Dame;",0.0 +"Thy Charms are still attractive, still the same;",0.0 +"With thee the Mind, abstracted from the Crew,",3.0 +"May study Nature, and her Ends pursue;",1.0 +With thee I hear the feathered Warblers sing;,1.0 +"With thee survey the Beauties of the Spring,",2.0 +"When Blossoms, Leaves, and Fruits the Branches yield,",0.0 +And Eden's Glory crowns the happy Field.,0.0 +HERE first the Muse auspicious was the Place!,1.0 +Rejoiced to see her Royal Guardian's Face:,2.0 +"How mild, yet how majestic, was her Look!",2.0 +How sweetly condescending all she spoke!,0.0 +"On every pleasing Accent Wisdom hung,",1.0 +And Truth and Virtue dwelled upon her Tongue.,0.0 +"OH! were I equal to the glorious Theme,",3.0 +"Or paint Great GEORGE in peaceful Laurels dressed,",1.0 +"Who while contending Nations round him jar,",0.0 +And Subjects Wealth supports their Monarchs War,1.0 +"Guards happy Britain, with his floating Towers,",2.0 +"From purple Slaughter, and invading Powers;",1.0 +No plundering Armies rob our fruitful Plain;,3.0 +"But, blessed with Peace and Plenty, smiles the Swain.",0.0 +NOT so he smiles upon the foreign Shores;,0.0 +But starving walks through Nature's lavish Stores;,0.0 +"Poor Peasants with their rigid Burdens groan,",2.0 +"What, though their more propitious PHOEBUS shines",0.0 +"With warmer Rays, and cheers the curling Vines?",0.0 +"What, though rich Olives grace the fertile Soil,",2.0 +And the hot Climate teems with fattening Oil?,2.0 +"The hungry Farmer views his Crops in vain,",0.0 +In vain the Vineyard tempts the thirsty Swain;,0.0 +While their stern Tyrant's arbitrary Power,4.0 +"Thy Sons, BRITANNIA, from such Evils free,",1.0 +Enjoy the Sweets of Peace and Liberty;,1.0 +"A gracious Sovereign smiles upon the Throne,",0.0 +And Heaven confirms the happy Realm his own.,0.0 +"WHere is that World, to which the Fancy flies,",0.0 +When Sleep excludes the Present from our Eyes;,1.0 +"Whose Map no Voyager could ever design,",4.0 +Nor to Description its wild Parts confine?,3.0 +"Yet such a Land of Dreams We must allow,",0.0 +"Who nightly trace it, though we know not how:",1.0 +We All enjoy that Paradise of Fools;,0.0 +"And find a Sorrow, in resuming Sense,",0.0 +"Which breaks some free Delight, and snatches us from thence.",1.0 +"And made the Nations with a Nod obey,",1.0 +"Now all serene, and splendid was his Brow,",2.0 +While ready Waiters to his Orders bow;,1.0 +"His Residence, an artful Garden seemed,",1.0 +"Adorned with all, that pleasant he esteemed;",1.0 +"Full of Reward, his glorious Lot appeared,",4.0 +"But turning, next he saw a dreadful Sight,",0.0 +"Through scorching Plains, which to wide Distance spread;",2.0 +"While every Torture, gloomy Poets paint,",0.0 +Was there prepared for the reputed Saint.,2.0 +"Now rolled in Bliss, while other rolled in Fires?",1.0 +"We're taught the Sufferings of this Future State,",1.0 +The Excess of Courts is likeliest to create;,4.0 +"While solitary Cells, overgrown with Shade,",3.0 +"True, quoth the Phantom which he dreamt replied",1.0 +"The lonely Path is still the surest Guide,",0.0 +Nor is it by these Instances denied.,2.0 +"For, know my Friend, whatever Fame report,",1.0 +"Accept, my Charles, from thy still anxious friend,",4.0 +Some useful counsel by affection penned;,1.0 +"To my advice you oft have deference paid,",1.0 +Which bids me hope this last will be obeyed;,0.0 +The humble talents which I now disclose;,0.0 +"Then, my dear brother, kindly plead excuse",2.0 +For every error of your sister's muse:,1.0 +"First, my young soldier, let me recommend,",3.0 +In life's fair spring to make your God your friend;,1.0 +"That Power you in the bloom of youth engage,",1.0 +Will never desert you in declining age;,2.0 +"In danger's hour he'll prove the truest friend,",1.0 +On him for all you want and wish depend;,1.0 +"Unto your parents every reverence pay,",4.0 +Tis God's command their precepts to obey;,3.0 +"Support their age, to their advice adhere!",1.0 +"Let strictest justice every action guide,",1.0 +And truth with honour over your mind preside;,5.0 +"Be firm in friendship, scorn all mean disguise,",0.0 +Nor suffer mean resentment to arise;,1.0 +"On your superior's favour never presume,",5.0 +"Through love; not fear, teach soldiers to obey;",2.0 +"Watch over yourself, to them be not severe,",2.0 +"They then will love you, and your worth revere;",1.0 +"If once indulged, it never brooks control;",0.0 +"Through all the varying scenes of this frail state,",3.0 +"Temperance, dear youth, I warmly recommend,",3.0 +In fumes of wine too oft is lost a friend;,1.0 +"O! fly the frenzy like contempt or scorn,",0.0 +"Though mad at night, reflection comes with morn:",0.0 +It breaks through laws prescribed by God and man;,0.0 +"Alas! too late the deed you may repent,",2.0 +Be warned! the pangs of dire remorse prevent;,0.0 +"Trembling, I charge thee, fatal gaming shun,",1.0 +A dangerous vice that thousands has undone;,2.0 +"It lures the heart with smiles, o! sad deceit,",0.0 +"Never be ruled by fashion, but by sense,",3.0 +"Be not ambitious riches to attain,",1.0 +For trust me wealth is not exempt from pain;,0.0 +"Aim at a competence with credit blessed,",1.0 +In every point we find the medium best.,2.0 +The youthful heart in general takes its way;,0.0 +That he may lead you to a happy choice;,1.0 +"Dear as you are, detested be your name,",1.0 +Should ever you bring the innocent to shame;,3.0 +"Ever stain the honour of a virtuous race,",2.0 +Or bring a helpless female to disgrace;,2.0 +"Scorn to their ruin any aid to lend,",0.0 +"When we're apart, you on some distant shore,",2.0 +"Remember Anna, and these lines read over;",2.0 +"They are her counsels, breathed with love sincere,",1.0 +My only brother! then to them adhere;,1.0 +Your fame still brighten as your days decline.,2.0 +"BLOWN on the rolling Surface of the Deep,",1.0 +The mourning Maid at length reclines to Sleep;,0.0 +"While conscious Visions labour in her Breast,",0.0 +"Sometime she seems upon her native Shore,",1.0 +"Hears him converse, while from his tuneful Tongue",0.0 +"Melodious Sense, in melting Music, rung:",2.0 +"Sometime she finds, or seems at least to find,",1.0 +"His shattered Vessel forced before the Wind,",0.0 +"The Mast, and broken Sails, and Sailors lost:",0.0 +"Sometime her Dream, in frightful Forms, displayed",1.0 +"A Crowd of Martyrs, cruel Love had made;",0.0 +"Shows her capacious Wound, and purple Hands;",2.0 +"UNHAPPY Christian Maid! for such, at least,",1.0 +"You, by your decent Habit, seem expressed",1.0 +"Say whence you came, and hither how conveyed,",1.0 +"Exposed to Sea, without the Seaman's Aid?",0.0 +"SOON as the Nymph her native Language hears,",0.0 +"Till, starting up, a spacious Land she spies;",1.0 +Barbarian Caves and Cots her Sight surprise:,2.0 +She sees a Matron on the neighbouring Strand;,3.0 +"Nor knows the Matron, nor the neighbouring Land.",3.0 +"OH! whither, whither am I blown? she cries;",2.0 +What Dens and Caves appear before my Eyes?,0.0 +"And who inhabit them? or Beasts of Prey,",1.0 +"To whom the Matron: Fly, nor dare to trust.",0.0 +Here Sailors oft their hapless Fate deplore;,0.0 +"Who escape the Seas, are wrecked upon the Shore:",0.0 +"For, when the forceful Wind, and foaming Deep,",0.0 +To this inhuman Coast impel the Ship;,1.0 +"Around the Beach the rude Barbarians stray,",2.0 +"Destroy the Mariners, and seize their Prey;",1.0 +"By others Death, they keep themselves alive,",0.0 +UNHAPPY Fate! the mourning Nymph replied;,0.0 +OH! had I perished in the safer Tide!,0.0 +"For much I fear, the Land I now survey,",0.0 +"Dooms me to greater Evils, than the Sea:",1.0 +"And yet what greater Ills can Fate provide,",0.0 +"Than thus to seek for Death, and be denied?",0.0 +Not so my FELIX escaped the raging Waves;,2.0 +"Saves, only to increase my former Woes;",2.0 +Or to indulge some lustful Tyrant's Will:,2.0 +"But, OH you Heavens! avert the fatal Ill;",2.0 +"Protect my Honour in this foreign Coast,",0.0 +The only Blessing which I have not lost!,0.0 +THE listening Matron wonders with Surprise;,1.0 +"But leads her to her neighbouring Cottage, where",3.0 +She cheers her fainting Soul with homely Fare;,0.0 +"Her Country, Cares, and Cause of all her Woes.",0.0 +"Excited by her Words, the pensive Maid",1.0 +"Preludes with Sighs, and thus, reluctant, said:",1.0 +OH hospitable Dame! why would you move,3.0 +A Wretch to tell a Tale of hapless Love?,0.0 +"Which, in relating, must renew my Grief;",0.0 +"Nor can I hope, nor you bestow, Relief:",2.0 +"Yet, since you seem a Partner of my Care,",1.0 +It's just a Partner know the Weight I bear.,0.0 +"And, OH! too much to make his Daughter blessed.",1.0 +"I once with Fame and Fortune was supplied,",1.0 +"Now, like a Meteor, fallen from its Height,",3.0 +"Full twenty Years in Happiness I passed,",2.0 +And every Year was happier than the last.,1.0 +Young FELIX then his Love began to show;,1.0 +Young FELIX was the Cause of all my Woe,2.0 +But far his noble Soul excelled his Face:,0.0 +"And, though his niggard Fate had Wealth denied,",4.0 +The Want of Wealth by Virtue was supplied.,1.0 +"Two Years to win my doubtful Heart he strove,",0.0 +Two Years my doubtful Heart declined his Love:,0.0 +"Yet still he pressed me with his amorous Tale,",3.0 +"To first approve, and then indulge, his Flame;",0.0 +"I heard with Joy, nor thought it Sin to love;",0.0 +Till in my Breast imperious CUPID reigned:,2.0 +Alas! how easy Love a Conquest gained!,0.0 +And now my Reason checked my Will no more;,0.0 +"But fed the Flame, it strove to quench before:",0.0 +I scorned to stain my Virtue with a King;,1.0 +As much my Lover scorned so mean a thing.,0.0 +What could we do? What cannot Love inspire?,0.0 +The Youth reveals his Passion to my Sire;,1.0 +"And in such melting Accents made it known,",0.0 +"As might have moved all Fathers, but my own:",1.0 +But proudly he my Lover's Suit repelled;,1.0 +"And, frowning, thus our mutual Ruin sealed:",2.0 +"No more, presumptuous Youth! thy Passion name;",3.0 +"Suppress the Sparks, before they rise to Flame.",0.0 +"My Daughter's Scandal, and her Father's Scorn!",1.0 +Aspire to wed so far above thy Fate?,0.0 +"He sternly said, and forced him from his Gate.",1.0 +"OH Avarice! what Evils dost thou cause,",2.0 +"Breaking the Bands of Love, and Nature's Laws?",2.0 +Fit Province for thy Reign! too mean to prove,3.0 +"The Charms of Nuptial Life, and Joys of Love!",0.0 +"With boasted Titles of paternal Fame,",1.0 +Derived from Ancestors of noble Blood?,5.0 +"Things common to the Vicious, and the Proud!",3.0 +"If Love be absent, Pomp and worldly Gain",0.0 +"But gild our Cares, and varnish over our Pain.",2.0 +"OH! had my cruel Father thought like me,",0.0 +"I never had proved the Dangers of the Sea,",3.0 +Nor ever wandered here a banished Maid;,0.0 +"So speaks the trembling Nymph; and, while she speaks,",0.0 +"Cold clammy Sweats, and throbbing Sighs arise,",1.0 +"Slow moves the Blood, and dizzy roll her Eyes;",1.0 +"So much affected with her Lover's Fate,",1.0 +"She struggled, groaned, and fainted from her Seat.",1.0 +"Her Hostess straight a grateful Cordial sought,",0.0 +"And to her Lips applies the cheerful Draught,",1.0 +Washing her Temples with reviving Oil;,3.0 +The vital Spirits answer to her Toil;,1.0 +"The purple Tide begins to roll again,",0.0 +Again diffuses Life through every Vein:,0.0 +"And now she sighing, raised her drooping Head;",0.0 +"And, Is my Death, she cries, again delayed?",1.0 +Why did you cheque me on the Brink of Fate?,1.0 +Better the Soul had fled her loathsome Seat.,2.0 +"Death is the only Good I wish to know,",0.0 +"End of my Pain, and Period of my Woe.",1.0 +To whom replies the Dame: Unhappy Fair!,0.0 +"Rely on Heaven, nor let your Soul despair:",0.0 +Teach me to give your troubled Heart Relief;,0.0 +"Or teach me how, at least, to share your Grief:",1.0 +Your mournful Storey much affects my Mind;,0.0 +Yet something seems remaining still behind.,0.0 +"The fatal Part, that finishes my Doom:",1.0 +"For, when my FELIX, FELIX now no more!",1.0 +"Was banished from my haughty Father's Door,",1.0 +"Not able to obtain me for his Bride,",2.0 +"Nor willing to resign me, though denied;",2.0 +"Then called a few Domestics to his Aid,",1.0 +"Embraced me in his Arms, and sighing, said:",0.0 +"OH Thou, for ever dear, for ever blessed,",0.0 +"At once the Joy, and Trouble of my Breast!",1.0 +Since Wealth alone is worthy of thy Charms;,1.0 +"I swear by all the mighty Powers above,",2.0 +"Sad Fate, that drives me from the Nymph I love!",2.0 +"And seek the Gold, thy Sire so much adores.",2.0 +In other Climes may kinder Aspects wear;,1.0 +"May lead me where the rocky Diamonds lie,",0.0 +Or where the golden Mines may Wealth supply;,0.0 +"If not, the last sad Pleasure is to die.",2.0 +"OH fatal Vow, and fatally obeyed!",2.0 +"Struck dumb, my Tears the want of Words supplied;",1.0 +"His, mixed with mine, increased the pearly Tide:",1.0 +"Yet, lest I should his Resolution shake,",0.0 +"He rushed away, and mounted on the Deck:",1.0 +"His hasty Crew expand the swelling Sails,",0.0 +Strong rolls the Sea before impulsive Gales;,1.0 +"The crooked Keel the frothy Flood divides,",0.0 +"Swift flies the Ship, and rushes through the Tides.",2.0 +MY Lover long my gazing Eyes pursue;,0.0 +As long my Lover kept me in his View:,0.0 +"Reluctant so, departing Souls prepare",1.0 +"To wing their doubtful Flight, they know not where;",0.0 +"Reluctant so, expiring Bodies lie,",1.0 +"Nor willing these to stay, nor those to fly.",2.0 +"TWICE twenty Days I spent in fruitless Tears,",1.0 +Before the fatal Tidings reached my Ears;,0.0 +"How FELIX, sailing over the watery Way,",4.0 +"Was wrecked on Rocks, and perished in the Sea.",0.0 +"OH! then what Trouble, Grief, and anxious Care,",0.0 +"Confused my Soul, and bent it to Despair!",1.0 +"I cursed the Cause, that forced him to expire;",1.0 +"OH Heaven! forgive me, if I cursed my Sire:",2.0 +"I fled his House, and sought the lonely Grove,",0.0 +The gloomy Witness of my former Love!,1.0 +"Where, once resolved to seek the Shades below,",0.0 +"I drew the Knife, to strike the mortal Blow;",0.0 +"Till Piety the cruel Thought suppressed,",1.0 +And checked the Roman Courage of my Breast:,1.0 +"I trembling saw two doubtful Paths; nor knew,",1.0 +"Which Path was best to shun, or which pursue;",0.0 +"Opposing Passions in my Bosom strove,",0.0 +"And Conscience now prevailed, and now my Love.",0.0 +"As when the Wind and Tide a Contest make,",0.0 +"The Sailer, trembling, sees his Vessel shake;",0.0 +"This way, and that, and both, by turns reclined,",0.0 +"As swells the Surge, or blows the furious Wind:",2.0 +"So was my Soul with different Notions swayed,",1.0 +"Of this, of that, of both, and all, afraid.",1.0 +"Ah! why should Mortals of their Reason boast,",1.0 +"Which most deserts them, when they want it most?",0.0 +"For, when the troubled Mind's confused with Pain,",0.0 +"Which, if our wandering Souls from Virtue stray,",2.0 +But leads us more and more from Virtue's Way:,0.0 +"So led it me to stem the devious Tide,",3.0 +"And seek for Death, where wretched FELIX died.",0.0 +"NOT distant far, a fishing Vessel stood,",0.0 +"Nor wholly on the Land, nor in the Flood:",1.0 +"Arrived to this, I rowed it from the Shore;",2.0 +"And, bent on Death, the Tide I now explore;",0.0 +Would give my Troubles and myself a Grave.,2.0 +"But, when I saw the Billows round me flow,",0.0 +"The boundless Skies above, and Seas below;",0.0 +"Scared with the Terrors of the watery Space,",3.0 +I wrapped my Mantle round my timorous Face:,2.0 +"Then lay me down, to all the Dangers blind;",1.0 +"Chance was my Compass, and my Pilot, Wind.",1.0 +"Blown here and there, I floated on the Deep,",2.0 +"Which rocked my Eyes, but not my Fears, asleep:",0.0 +A thousand tragic airy Ghosts surveys;,0.0 +"Die, Coward! follow FELIX to the Shade:",2.0 +"But when, at length, your friendly Voice I heard,",0.0 +"Thus have I told, but can't dispel my Care;",0.0 +"For who can conquer Love, or cure Despair?",0.0 +"Unhappy Nymph! compose your troubled Mind,",0.0 +Nor doubt the gracious Guide of human Kind:,0.0 +"That GOD, who saved you from the foamy Wave,",1.0 +"Will doubtless guard the Life, he deigned to save.",0.0 +"At Susa Heaven has blessed me with a Friend,",1.0 +"Much famed for Wealth, for pious Actions more;",0.0 +"No Husband, and no Children, but the Poor:",4.0 +Let me conduct you to her friendly Gate;,1.0 +Too small my Cottage for a Guest so great,2.0 +"She will protect you from Barbarian Foes,",4.0 +"With prudent Counsel mitigate your Woes,",0.0 +And charm your ruffled Soul to soft Repose.,0.0 +"BLESSED Partner of my Grief! the Damsel said,",2.0 +Some Angel surely sent you to my Aid;,1.0 +"For now some dawning Rays of Hope appear,",0.0 +That chase away the Clouds of dark Despair.,0.0 +"This Pause of Pain, and Interval of Grace,",1.0 +Shall be employed in Search of future Peace.,0.0 +"Then guide, and guard me to your noble Friend;",1.0 +So may you never want this Aid you lend!,1.0 +"And, as we travel, deign to let me know,",1.0 +To whom so many Thanks I justly owe;,0.0 +"What hapless Fortune cast you on this Land,",1.0 +What Occupation here employs your Hand.,0.0 +"Sweet Conversation may suspend my Care,",2.0 +"Dispel my Grief, or make it less severe:",0.0 +So shall I easier reach the neighbouring Town;,4.0 +"And, listening to your Fate, forget my own.",1.0 +THUS she; and thus the pensive Dame replies:,0.0 +"Fain would I, lovely Nymph! suspend your Care,",0.0 +"Dispel your Grief, or make it less severe:",0.0 +"But, were I all my Fortune to explain,",2.0 +"For in your Soul such Sparks of Nature glow,",0.0 +"The Christian Faith I secretly embrace,",1.0 +Though doomed to dwell among a Pagan Race:,0.0 +"Where long I lived, a Farmer's happy Wife:",0.0 +Nor was the Field ungrateful to his Toil:,2.0 +"For, every Summer, CREES crowned the Plain;",3.0 +"Each Autumn, filled the Barn with golden Grain:",0.0 +"So thick the verdant Harvest yearly stood,",0.0 +The Meadows seemed to groan beneath their Load.,1.0 +"Our fleecy Flocks were fruitful of their Young,",1.0 +"Hail were our Oxen, and our Horses strong;",1.0 +"'Twas then, alas! how often have I cried,",1.0 +I would not wish to be a Monarch's Bride!,1.0 +"When all around my little Infants came,",0.0 +"Or met their Father with the Evening Ray,",1.0 +"Embraced his Neck, and kissed his Cares away.",0.0 +We sent them forth to feed the fleecy Care;,0.0 +"Where often have we spent the Summer's Day,",0.0 +We thought our Joys could never be increased;,0.0 +"Love, Peace, and Plenty joined to make us blessed.",1.0 +But see how Fortune holds her fickle Reign!,0.0 +"She raises up, to tumble down again:",2.0 +For now our Thread of Happiness was spun;,1.0 +The Gains of twenty Years were lost in one.,0.0 +"'Twas in the Season, when the verdant Mead",0.0 +"Before the Wheat receives the yellow Stain,",0.0 +Or milky Juice is hardened into Grain;,0.0 +The vernal Product sickened with the Blast;,1.0 +"Our Meadows straight a saffron Scene disclose,",1.0 +Our infant Apples quit the blighted Boughs;,0.0 +"Peas, Wheat, and Barley, withered in the Fields,",1.0 +And Nature one abortive Harvest yields:,1.0 +Nor stopped it here; the flying Plague began,0.0 +"To spread the Bane in Beasts, and thence to Man:",0.0 +"First died our Sheep upon the russet Plain,",1.0 +Next swelled our Oxen with a fatal Blain;,1.0 +"Here tumbles, over her Meat, the moping Cow;",2.0 +There drops the panting Horse before the Plough:,0.0 +"At length the dire Contagion spread so wide,",0.0 +My Virgin Children made the Tomb their Bride.,0.0 +This Nature bore ' -- But when our Landlord sent,1.0 +"His Officers, to seize my Lord for Rent;",1.0 +"And he, to shun the Prison, flies the Shore;",1.0 +"I wept, I raved, I cursed the baleful Air;",0.0 +"And fled my native Land, but not my Care.",0.0 +"Thus, banished here, a Widow, and a Wife,",2.0 +"Condemned to suffer, not enjoy a Life,",0.0 +"The Toils are great, but very small the Pay!",0.0 +"And then was washing, when, with great Surprise,",0.0 +"You, and your floating Vessel, met my Eyes.",1.0 +NOW Heaven defend us both! the Nymph replied;,1.0 +And can such Rage in Christian Minds reside?,1.0 +"What, could the cursed, inhuman Tyrant wrest",0.0 +"Thy tender Husband from thy loving Breast,",1.0 +"When all thy Wealth was lost, thy Children dead?",0.0 +OH Virtue! Virtue! whither art thou fled?,1.0 +Why must such Evils on the Guiltless flow?,1.0 +You Heavens! is Innocence rewarded so?,4.0 +SO spoke the Nymph; her Friend no more replies;,1.0 +"Approaching to her friendly Gate, they found",1.0 +The generous Lady dealing Alms around,2.0 +"To needy Souls, a hapless, helpless Crowd,",0.0 +Who daily blessed her Hand for daily Food!,0.0 +"Yet none of these, who claim your Christian Aid,",1.0 +Deserves it more than this unhappy Maid;,1.0 +"Who once was blessed with Fame and Riches too,",0.0 +Though fickle Fortune now is turned her Foe;,0.0 +"Your friendly Bounty, and maternal Care.",1.0 +"TO whom the Lady, with a gracious Look,",1.0 +"That seemed to breathe Compassion, while she spoke:",0.0 +"Sure Decency forbids, a Guest so great",2.0 +"Should, undistinguished, with the Vulgar eat.",1.0 +No; deck my Table with the choicest Fare;,2.0 +That lovely Body clothes a lovely Mind.,0.0 +"SHE said, and CONSTANCE low Obeisance made;",5.0 +"Then gladly followed, where PRISCILLA led.",0.0 +"Within the Gate a spacious Room she found,",0.0 +"Where pious Tales appeared, so lively wrought,",0.0 +"The Work seemed vital, and the Figures Thought:",2.0 +"Here, in the Shade, the Jewish Patriarch stood,",1.0 +Feasting the Sons of Heaven with earthly Food;,2.0 +"While, there, the good Samaritan confessed",1.0 +"With many more, a charitable Band,",1.0 +"Rich Meats, and rosy Wines the Table graced:",1.0 +"They eat, they drank, in pleasing Converse joined;",0.0 +And cheered at once the Body and the Mind.,1.0 +"The Call of Nature being soon suppressed,",0.0 +Thus spoke the Lady to her youthful Guest:,2.0 +"SAY, lovely Stranger! for I long to know;",2.0 +So may propitious Heaven remove thy Woe!,1.0 +"Whence thus reduced? By Famine, Sword, or Fire?",0.0 +"What Sire thy Beauty boasts, what Land thy Sire?",2.0 +"Perhaps some Princess, banished from her Home,",1.0 +"If so, I greatly fear, my homely Feast",1.0 +Has been unworthy of my Royal Guest.,1.0 +"SHE said, the Nymph unfolds her Tale again;",0.0 +"And thus replied: Though weighty are your Woes,",1.0 +"Then bear with Patience all that Heaven designed,",0.0 +"Whose Ways are just, though difficult to find,",1.0 +Planned for the general Good of Human Kind.,0.0 +"God's Paths in winding Mazes often lie,",1.0 +Too intricate for feeble Reason's Eye;,2.0 +"Most regular, when in Confusion lost;",1.0 +"Most constant, when they seem to vary most.",0.0 +"Perhaps his Mercy forced you thus to roam,",0.0 +To shun a more unhappy Fate at home;,0.0 +"For with one Evil he removes a worse,",2.0 +And blesses oft with what we think a Curse.,0.0 +"But trust in Heaven's Protection, next, in mine:",2.0 +"In me you still shall find a faithful Friend,",0.0 +"With whom, in time, your Troubles all may end:",0.0 +"But, since you now are harassed out with Woes,",2.0 +Refresh your weary Soul with sweet Repose;,0.0 +"And when you wake, at Morning, may you find",1.0 +Heaven's balmy Comfort heal your wounded Mind!,0.0 +And bathed her Cares in Sleep's refreshing Dew;,0.0 +"Till PHOEBUS, rising from the Shades of Night,",1.0 +With rosy Keys unlocked the Gates of Light:,0.0 +"And, to her Patroness returning, said:",2.0 +"WHAT Thanks, propitious Lady! shall I give",0.0 +"OH! let my Silence thank you; for I know,",2.0 +Words can't express the Gratitude I owe.,1.0 +To whom replies the venerable Dame:,1.0 +"No other Thanks, but Gratitude, I claim:",1.0 +"The Terms of Charity are never hard,",1.0 +Love and Compassion are their own Reward:,3.0 +Can with Reflection make a noble Feast;,1.0 +"SUCH was their Converse, till domestic Care",2.0 +Invites PRISCILLA from the youthful Fair;,1.0 +"Who sat in pensive Solitude, and strove",0.0 +"To soften, or suspend the Pains of Love.",1.0 +"At length the Linen on her Knee she spread,",1.0 +And with her Needle worked the docile Thread.,1.0 +But soon commits her Labour to the Flame:,1.0 +Next drew she HERO sinking in the Main;,0.0 +Then razed the finished Image out again:,1.0 +"Both these displeased her, though judicious Art,",3.0 +And Rays of Nature shone in every Part.,0.0 +"At length her own unhappy Tale she chose,",0.0 +And lively paints the Scene of all her Woes:,0.0 +Her charming FELIX first the Linen graced;,0.0 +"By whom her Father, frowning stern, she placed:",0.0 +Her Lover's Parting next to these appears;,1.0 +"But, weeping here, she soiled her Work with Tears",0.0 +"Next, on the Seas, she drew her floating Ship;",0.0 +"The good PRISCILLA last employed her Art,",0.0 +Whose Aspect spoke the Bounty of her Heart;,2.0 +"Her friendly Roof, a Refuge for the Poor,",1.0 +"Diffusing Blessings still, and still increasing more.",0.0 +"All these confessed such Beauty, Skill, and Care,",1.0 +"Not HELEN better wove the Trojan War,",0.0 +"While HECTOR, PARIS, and their Martial Train,",1.0 +"HERE let us leave the lovely Nymph awhile,",0.0 +To pass her tedious Hours in pleasing Toil:,2.0 +"Her absent Lover now my Song pursues,",0.0 +Whose valiant Deeds require a nobler Muse.,1.0 +"To bear unwelcome Truths, and oftener Lies,",2.0 +"Had spread the ductile Error far and wide,",0.0 +How wandering FELIX perished in the Tide.,2.0 +His Wisdom there the wisest Peers excelled;,1.0 +"When first he to the Royal Palace came,",1.0 +An Accident occurred to raise his Fame:,1.0 +"A noble Lord there was, of great Renown,",1.0 +"Rebelled against the King, and claimed his Crown:",0.0 +Great Preparations made he for the Fight;,2.0 +"Nor less the Monarch, to defend his Right;",1.0 +"But summoned all, to meet the daring Foe,",0.0 +"Whose Strength could wield a Sword, or bend a Bow;",0.0 +"And promised to reward their Martial Care,",1.0 +"Now rings the Region with the Foe's Alarms,",2.0 +Terrific shines the Field with burnished Arms;,0.0 +"The Martial Trumpet, sounding from afar,",1.0 +"With dreadful Notes, proclaims approaching War.",0.0 +The Royal Army valiant FELIX joined;,0.0 +Intrepid Courage animates his Mind:,0.0 +"Fixed in the Front, the Foe he bravely dares,",0.0 +"Like PALLAS prudent, and as bold as MARS.",1.0 +"Say, Muse, What Goddess, that tremendous Hour,",1.0 +Aided the Youth with such unusual Power?,3.0 +"Bright VENUS, conscious of the Lover's Smart,",2.0 +"Sharpened his Sword, and pointed every Dart:",2.0 +"Fierce, as a Lion, through the Lines he sprung;",1.0 +"And from its Anchor force the driving Ship,",1.0 +Or furiously against the Woodland roar;,3.0 +"The leafy Harvest, tumbling, flies before:",0.0 +"So rushed the Hero on the adverse Band,",2.0 +So fled the Legions from his powerful Hand;,3.0 +"Till soon the rebel Lord he Prisoner made,",0.0 +Now reaps the Youth the Glory of his Toil;,2.0 +"To him the Monarch gives the Martial Spoil,",1.0 +And makes him First Commander of his Host.,1.0 +"Thus, was his Labour crowned with Wealth and Fame:",0.0 +But Wealth and Fame insipid Things appear;,0.0 +"To give them Taste, he wants the lovely Fair;",0.0 +"The lovely Fair, oppressed with equal Grief,",0.0 +"To make her happy, wants the glorious Chief.",2.0 +"HIS Fame, which soon at Susa was revealed,",1.0 +Heroic Actions seldom lie concealed,0.0 +And filled her doubtful Soul with Hopes and Fears:,0.0 +"For, though the wise PRISCILLA often strove",1.0 +With prudent Counsel to suppress her Love;,1.0 +"Her Love was only lessened, not suppressed;",0.0 +"But glows again, again distracts her Breast.",0.0 +"AS when, in rural Cots, the Flames aspire,",0.0 +"If chance a latent Spark remain behind,",0.0 +"The Fires again, with former Fury, rise,",0.0 +"Flame through the Roof, and flash into the Skies:",0.0 +"So in her Bosom glows the amorous Fire,",2.0 +And fills her tender Soul with soft Desire.,0.0 +And is my FELIX yet alive? she says;,1.0 +"Ah! why, you Heavens, are feeble Mortals cursed,",2.0 +"In Things uncertain, to believe the worst?",1.0 +"There, with my Eyes, confirm the blessed Report:",1.0 +"Hope flies before, and points the pleasing Way;",1.0 +"Love urges on, and Love I must obey.",2.0 +"SO saying, to PRISCILLA straight she came,",1.0 +"The pious Dame, with tender Pity swayed,",0.0 +Approves the Passion of the loving Maid;,1.0 +Resolved herself to view the Hero's Face.,0.0 +"The Hero meets them at the Regal Gate,",0.0 +"Arrayed in Armour, formidably great;",1.0 +"For on that Morning, by the King's Command,",2.0 +The Chief was to review the Martial Band:,2.0 +"The nodding Plumes around his Temples wave,",0.0 +"With awful Grace, and beautifully brave.",1.0 +The joyous Stream descended from his Eyes:,1.0 +"The Nymph beheld the weeping Chief; nor knew,",0.0 +"For what he wept, nor whom she came to view:",0.0 +"The dreadful Warrior, not the Lover, told:",0.0 +"But, when he cast the Helmet from his Head,",1.0 +And through the Gates the blushing Damsel led;,1.0 +"She knew her Lover, clasped him to her Breast,",1.0 +While silent Eloquence her Joy confessed:,1.0 +"The conscious Pains an absent Lover bears,",0.0 +"Despair, fallacious Hope, and anxious Fears,",0.0 +"For want of Words, were painted with their Tears.",1.0 +The joyful Hero thus the Nymph addressed:,0.0 +YOU Gods! and have I then my Charmer found?,0.0 +"Yes! let me clasp thee to my longing Arms,",2.0 +"Drink in thy Breath, and feed upon thy Charms.",0.0 +"As widowed Turtles, roving round the Fields,",0.0 +"Through all the fruitful Stores, which Nature yields,",0.0 +"Cursed in the mid of Plenty, cannot eat;",0.0 +"But starve, lamenting for their absent Mate:",1.0 +Thus have I been with Fame and Riches graced;,0.0 +"Yet wanted thee, to give my Riches Taste.",1.0 +"But say, how came this Wealth I wanted most?",0.0 +What brought my Love to this Barbarian Coast?,3.0 +HE said; and now the joyful Damsel spoke,0.0 +The Dangers which she suffered for his sake;,1.0 +"Shows him the Dame, who found her on the Tide;",1.0 +"PRISCILLA too, who all her Wants supplied:",0.0 +"Then, prostrate, on her Knees before him bends,",1.0 +And begs him to reward her faithful Friends.,1.0 +"The grateful Chief, by native Goodness swayed,",0.0 +"Embraced them both, and soon the Nymph obeyed;",0.0 +"But first before his Royal Master came,",0.0 +And begs he may resign his Post of Fame:,1.0 +"At which the Monarch frowns with awful Eyes,",0.0 +"Till FELIX straight, who saw his Passion rise,",0.0 +"Falls on the Ground, and to his Master shows",1.0 +The various Scene of all his amorous Woes.,4.0 +"This heard, the King resumes his former Grace;",0.0 +"Love tuned his Soul, and smoothed his ruffled Face:",1.0 +"He raised the Hero, bids the Nymph appear;",0.0 +The Nymph approached him with a modest Fear;,1.0 +"Mute, on the Ground awhile he fixed his Eyes;",0.0 +"Then, Is the Force of Love so great? he cries:",0.0 +We falsely Man the World's Commander call;,0.0 +Young AMMON's Self could not thy Power confine;,3.0 +"The World his Subject was, but He was thine.",2.0 +"THEN, smiling, thus he cheered the trembling Fair:",0.0 +"For, since thy Love has conquered Wind and Sea,",0.0 +Let HYMEN straight confirm the Marriage Ties;,1.0 +"THUS said, he crowned the Hero's Martial Care,",1.0 +With Riches far superior to the Fair:,1.0 +"Due Thanks returned, they to PRISCILLA came,",2.0 +In comely Robes the grateful Pair adorn;,0.0 +"With ample Wealth her former Bliss restored,",0.0 +And from the Seas redeemed her Nuptial Lord;,1.0 +"Her Nuptial Lord again enjoys his Wife,",0.0 +Again delightful Freedom crowns his Life;,0.0 +"Till Nature calls him to resign his Breath,",1.0 +"In honourable Age, and peaceful Death.",2.0 +"THIS done, the loving Couple quit the Shore,",0.0 +And joyfully the destined Port explore;,1.0 +And wanton CUPIDS hail them on their Way;,1.0 +"Rough THETIS' Self assumes a pleasing Smile,",1.0 +Glad to return them to their native Soil;,3.0 +"Where sacred HYMEN joined their mutual Hands,",2.0 +"And Heaven, indulgent, blessed their Nuptial Bands.",0.0 +"WITH cautious care, each virtue, trembling claim,",0.0 +Perform each duty that can raise thy name.,0.0 +"Thy alms bestow, thy prayers in public pay,",0.0 +"Restrain thy tongue, each passion must obey.",0.0 +"Weep to a friend, the reigning sins lament,",0.0 +"And, pitying, hate a beauty that can paint.",2.0 +"All meek again ' -- so humble ' -- and so fair,",1.0 +Sure so much goodness must be Heaven's own care;,1.0 +"That breast, no gall, no wormwood ever knows,",3.0 +"Till ' -- enter beauty ' -- brighter than the rose,",1.0 +"No sly disguise her faults to cover over,",1.0 +No mean applause the purport of her soul;,3.0 +"From higher views her mind benevolence shade,",2.0 +The social virtues hand in hand are led.,0.0 +"Modest though knowing brightens on your hand,",3.0 +"And as she brightens, Envy cannot stand.",1.0 +"As night retires at break or dawn of light,",0.0 +Let Falsehood vanish ' -- Truth shine out more bright.,4.0 +"PRECEPT divine! to earth in mercy given,",1.0 +"OH, sacred rule of action, worthy heaven!",1.0 +Whose pitying love ordained the blessed command,2.0 +To bind our nature in a firmer band;,0.0 +"Enforce each human sufferers strong appeal,",2.0 +And teach the selfish breast what others feel;,0.0 +"Wert thou the guide of life, mankind might know",2.0 +A calm exemption from the worst of woe;,1.0 +"No more the powerful would the weak oppress,",1.0 +But tyrants learn the luxury to bless;,1.0 +"Mercy the hand, the cruel heart would move",2.0 +To soften misery by the deeds of love;,1.0 +The impious tongue of falsehood then would cease,3.0 +"To blast, with dark suggestions, virtue's peace;",0.0 +"No more would spleen, or passion banish rest,",0.0 +And plant a pang in fond affection's breast;,0.0 +"With altered looks that slight her starting tear,",0.0 +And words whose coldness kills from lips so dear.,0.0 +"No more the hand she loves would point the dart,",0.0 +Whose hidden sting could wound no other heart;,1.0 +"No more deserted genius then would fly,",1.0 +To breathe in solitude his hopeless sigh;,0.0 +Nor fortune with her partial smile debase,1.0 +"The spirit, rich in intellectual grace;",2.0 +"Who views unmoved, from scenes where grandeur shines,",3.0 +The lonely spot where kindred merit pines;,0.0 +"The soul heaven formed to soar, by woe depressed,",1.0 +Nor heeds the pangs that pierce a generous breast.,2.0 +"Thou, righteous law! whose clear and useful light",0.0 +"Sheds on the mind a ray divinely bright,",0.0 +Condensing in one rule whatever the sage,3.0 +"Bid every heart thy hallowed voice revere,",1.0 +"To Justice sacred, and to Virtue dear.",1.0 +"Adieu to all the splendid Gallantry,",1.0 +"Airy Delights, imaginary Joys,",2.0 +"To all the Follies of my former State,",1.0 +"I'll move no longer in this gaudy Sphere,",1.0 +"Without Concern, I'll leave the glittering Seat;",2.0 +"No, not the softest Sigh shall sound retreat,",0.0 +"Lest Fate should overhear, mistrust my Flight,",0.0 +"Pursue me now, and so undo me quite.",1.0 +"In these soft Shades, I no Misfortune fear,",3.0 +For she will never think to find me here;,1.0 +"My Joys, shall be by her no more betrayed,",2.0 +"I'll cheat her now, in this kind Masquerade;",2.0 +While she in Noise and Crowds does search for me,0.0 +I'll lie serene in safe Obscurity.,1.0 +"A silent Village does more Pleasures yield,",0.0 +Or harmless Sports of the delightful Field;,1.0 +"Then all the pageant Glories of a Throne,",1.0 +Luxurious Pleasures of the wanton Town.,3.0 +"Here is the Copy of lost Paradise,",2.0 +The pure and spotless Quintessence of Bliss:,4.0 +"All the safe Pastimes Mankind can enjoy,",4.0 +"Which Innocence delight, but not destroy:",1.0 +As once in Shades were the retiring Gods:,1.0 +"These sylvan Joys know no surprising Strife,",1.0 +"This is to live, while others spend a Life:",1.0 +"Here is the Summum Bonum of the Earth,",1.0 +Here the renowned Poets had their Birth;,5.0 +"Or hither, from the noisy World retired,",1.0 +"Philosophers of old, in Solitude,",1.0 +Their own resisting Passions first subdued;,0.0 +They knew a Court or City would molest,0.0 +The calm Conceptions of a studious Breast.,3.0 +"To Solitude his unmatched Pen does raise,",4.0 +"How many Monarchs weary of their State,",2.0 +Have quit their Glories for a mean retreat;,1.0 +"Then why's the wondering World amazed at me,",2.0 +For leaving Fraud and Infidelity?,1.0 +The poor mistaken World who places Joys,0.0 +"In splendid Popularity and Noise,",1.0 +"When after all it's Search it must conclude,",0.0 +"Are all its pleasing happy Moments gone,",0.0 +On them each Nymph neglected Favour throws.,2.0 +"They meet Compliance still in every Face,",0.0 +And lodge their Passions in a kind Embrace:,0.0 +"True Love for Counterfeit, and Gold for Lead.",1.0 +"He levels blindly, yet the Mark does hit,",0.0 +"And owes the Victory to Chance, not Wit.",1.0 +But let him conquer ever one Blow be struck;,2.0 +"Proud of my Fate, I would not change my Chains",0.0 +"But he is happy; loves the common Road,",1.0 +"If Phyllis peevish, or unkind does prove,",1.0 +It never disturbs his grave mechanic Love.,2.0 +"A little Joy his languid Flame contents,",0.0 +And makes him easy under all Events.,0.0 +"But when a Passion's noble and sublime,",1.0 +And higher still would every Moment climb;,0.0 +"If it's accepted with a just Return,",2.0 +"The Fire's immortal, will for ever burn;",3.0 +That Saints in Paradise are scarce more blessed.,0.0 +"But I lament my Miseries in vain,",2.0 +"For Delia hears me pitiless, complain.",1.0 +"What Satisfaction can from thence accrue,",1.0 +"Unless her Pity, makes her love me too?",0.0 +"Perhaps she loves, it's but perhaps, I fear,",1.0 +"If she has Scruples that oppose her Will,",1.0 +"I must alas, be miserable still.",1.0 +"Though if she loves, those Scruples soon will fly",1.0 +"For where Love enters, he will rule alone,",2.0 +And suffer no Copartner in his Throne:,1.0 +"And those false Arguments, that would repel",3.0 +"His high Injunctions, teach us to rebel.",0.0 +To cure the Bleeding of his fatal Wound:,1.0 +"If she, who guided the vexatious Dart",2.0 +Resolves to cherish and increase the Smart?,1.0 +"Go Youth, from these unhappy Plains remove,",2.0 +Leave the Pursuit of unsuccessful Love;,2.0 +Tell them the Cruelty of frowning Fate:,1.0 +"Tell them how fair, but tell them how unkind.",1.0 +"And when few Years thou hast in Sorrow spent,",0.0 +"For sure they cannot be of large Extent,",0.0 +"And bless the Minute gives thee Ease, and Death.",0.0 +Here paused the Swain ' -- When Delia driving by,1.0 +"By Love directed, did her Steps convey",0.0 +"He rose to meet her, and thus, trembling, said.",2.0 +And in severe Afflictions beg for Ease;,0.0 +And their Petitions every Day renew;,1.0 +"Grow still more earnest as they are denied,",3.0 +"Till Heaven, those Blessings, they enjoyed before,",1.0 +Not only does return; but gives them more.,0.0 +"OH, do not blame me, Delia! if I press",1.0 +"So much, and with Impatience, for Redress.",2.0 +For they are next intolerable now;,2.0 +"How shall I then support them, when they grow",0.0 +"To an Excess, to a distracting Woe?",2.0 +"Relieve like Heaven, and like the Gods be kind.",0.0 +"Did you perceive the Torments, I endure,",3.0 +"Which you first caused, and you alone can cure:",4.0 +They would your Virgin Soul to Pity move;,0.0 +And pity may at last be changed to Love.,1.0 +"But let them suffer for their Perjury,",2.0 +"And do not punish others Crimes in me,",0.0 +Yours should more kindly use the faithful few,0.0 +Though Innocence too oft incurs the Fate,2.0 +"Of Guilt, and clears it self sometime too late.",2.0 +Your Nature is to Tenderness inclined;,2.0 +"And why to me, to me alone unkind?",2.0 +"A common Love, by other Persons shown,",0.0 +"Meets with a full Return, but mine has none:",1.0 +"Nay scarce believed: though from Deceit as free,",2.0 +"As Angels Flames, can for Archangels be.",2.0 +A Passion feigned at no Repulse is grieved;,0.0 +"But Love sincere, resents the smallest Scorn,",0.0 +"Sometime I please my self, and think you are",1.0 +"Too good, to make me wretched by Despair.",1.0 +"That Tenderness, which in your Soul is placed,",1.0 +Will move you to Compassion sure at last.,1.0 +But when I come to take a serious View,2.0 +To raise in her the least Esteem of me?,1.0 +My Fortune's little; and my Worth is less.,1.0 +Can make Impressions on a generous Mind:,3.0 +There cannot be a nobler Flame than mine.,2.0 +"Perhaps you pity me: I know you must,",1.0 +And my Affection can no more distrust:,3.0 +"But what, Alas! will helpless Pity do?",0.0 +"You pity, but you may despise me too.",2.0 +"Still I am wretched, if no more you give,",2.0 +"The starving Orphan can't on Pity live,",0.0 +"He must receive the Food for which he cries,",0.0 +"Or he consumes; and though much pitied, dies.",3.0 +"My Torments still do with my Passion grow,",2.0 +"The more I love, the more I undergo.",0.0 +But suffer me no longer to remain,3.0 +Beneath the Pressures of so vast a Pain.,1.0 +My Wound requires some speedy Remedy:,1.0 +"Delays are fatal, when Despair's so nigh.",0.0 +"Too much, indeed, for one that loves so well.",2.0 +When will the end of all my Sorrows be?,0.0 +"Can you not love, I'm sure, you pity me?",2.0 +"But if I must new Miseries sustain,",3.0 +"And be condemned to more, and stronger Pain;",0.0 +"I'll not accuse you, since my Fate is such,",0.0 +"I please too little, and I love too much,",3.0 +Excuse the Conduct of a timorous Maid:,3.0 +"Now I'm convinced your Love's sublime and true,",2.0 +Such as I always wished to find in you.,1.0 +"Each kind Expression, every tender Thought",0.0 +A mighty Transport in my Bosom wrought:,0.0 +"And though in secret I your Flame approved,",2.0 +"I sighed and grieved, but durst not own I loved;",0.0 +What Shame will not allow me to confess.,1.0 +"The Youth encompassed with a Joy so bright,",1.0 +Had hardly Strength to bear the vast Delight;,0.0 +"By too sublime an Ecstasy possessed,",1.0 +"He trembled, gazed, and clasped her to his Breast:",1.0 +"Adored the Nymph that did his Pain remove,",0.0 +"Vowed endless Truth, and everlasting Love.",1.0 +"THY Forests, Windsor! and thy green Retreats,",1.0 +"At once the Monarch's and the Muse's Seats,",2.0 +"Invite my Lays. Be present, Sylvan Maids!",0.0 +"Unlock your Springs, and open all your Shades.",0.0 +Granville commands: Your Aid OH Muses bring!,3.0 +What Muse for Granville can refuse to sing?,1.0 +"The Groves of Eden, vanished now so long,",0.0 +"Live in Description, and look green in Song:",3.0 +"These, were my Breast inspired with equal Flame,",3.0 +"Like them in Beauty, should be like in Fame.",0.0 +"Here Hills and Vales, the Woodland and the Plain,",1.0 +"Here Earth and Water seem to strive again,",0.0 +"But as the World, harmoniously confused:",4.0 +"Where Order in Variety we see,",1.0 +"And where, though all things differ, all agree.",1.0 +And part admit and part exclude the Day;,0.0 +As some coy Nymph her Lover's warm Address,1.0 +"Nor quite indulges, nor can quite repress.",1.0 +"There, interspersed in Lawns and opening Glades,",2.0 +Thin Trees arise that shun each others Shades.,1.0 +Here in full Light the russet Plains extend;,1.0 +There wrapped in Clouds the blueish Hills ascend:,0.0 +"Even the wild Heath displays her Purple Dies,",2.0 +"And mid the Desert fruitful Fields arise,",0.0 +"That crowned with tufted Trees and springing Corn,",0.0 +Like verdant Isles the sable Waste adorn.,0.0 +"Let India boast her Plants, nor envy we",4.0 +"The weeping Amber or the balmy Tree,",1.0 +"While by our Oaks the precious Loads are born,",0.0 +And Realms commanded which those Trees adorn.,0.0 +"Not proud Olympus yields a nobler Sight,",1.0 +"Though Gods assembled grace his towering Height,",0.0 +"Than what more humble Mountains offer here,",0.0 +"Where, in their Blessings, all those Gods appear.",0.0 +"See Pan with Flocks, with Fruits Pomona crowned,",1.0 +"Here Ceres' Gifts in waving Prospect stand,",2.0 +"Rich Industry sits smiling on the Plains,",4.0 +"And Peace and Plenty tell, a STUART reigns.",0.0 +"Not thus the Land appeared in Ages past,",0.0 +"A dreary Desert and a gloomy Waste,",1.0 +"To Savage Beasts and The Forest Laws. Savage Laws a Prey,",3.0 +And Kings more furious and severe than they:,3.0 +The lonely Lords of empty Wilds and Woods.,0.0 +"Cities laid waste, they stormed the Dens and Caves",3.0 +"What could be free, when lawless Beasts obeyed,",0.0 +And even the Elements a Tyrant swayed?,3.0 +"In vain kind Seasons swelled the teeming Grain,",1.0 +"Soft Showers distilled, and Suns grew warm in vain;",4.0 +"The Swain with Tears to Beasts his Labour yields,",0.0 +And famished dies amid his ripened Fields.,0.0 +No wonder Savages or Subjects slain,2.0 +Were equal Crimes in a Despotic Reign;,1.0 +But Subjects starved while Savages were fed.,1.0 +"Proud Nimrod first the bloody Chase began,",1.0 +"A mighty Hunter, and his Prey was Man.",1.0 +"Our haughty Norman boasts that barbarous Name,",2.0 +And makes his trembling Slaves the Royal Game.,0.0 +"The levelled Towns with Weeds lie covered over,",1.0 +The hollow Winds through naked Temples roar;,0.0 +Over Heaps of Ruins stalked the stately Hind;,0.0 +"The Fox obscene to gaping Tombs retires,",0.0 +"Awed by his Nobles, by his Commons cursed,",1.0 +"Stretched over the Poor, and Church, his Iron Rod,",3.0 +And treats alike his Vassals and his God.,1.0 +The wanton Victims of his Sport remain.,1.0 +But see the Man who spacious Regions gave,0.0 +"A Waste for Beasts, himself denied a Grave!",0.0 +At once the Chaser and at once the Prey.,1.0 +"Lo Rufus, tugging at the deadly Dart,",1.0 +"Bleeds in the Forest, like a wounded Heart.",0.0 +"Succeeding Monarchs heard the Subjects Cries,",1.0 +Nor saw displeased the peaceful Cottage rise.,0.0 +"Then gathering Flocks on unknown Mountains fed,",7.0 +"Over sandy Wilds were yellow Harvests spread,",0.0 +"The Forests wondered at the unusual Grain,",2.0 +And secret Transports touched the conscious Swain.,0.0 +"Her cheerful Head, and leads the golden Years.",0.0 +"And purer Spirits swell the sprightly Flood,",0.0 +"Now range the Hills, the thickest Woods beset,",1.0 +"Wind the shrill Horn, or spread the waving Net.",3.0 +"When milder Autumn Summer's Heat succeeds,",0.0 +"Before his Lord the ready Spaniel bounds,",0.0 +"Panting with Hope, he tries the furrowed Grounds,",2.0 +"But when the tainted Gales the Game betray,",0.0 +"Secure they trust the unfaithful Field, beset,",2.0 +Till hovering over them sweeps the swelling Net.,2.0 +Thus if small Things we may with great compare,2.0 +"When Albion sends her eager Sons to War,",2.0 +"Pleased, in the General's Sight, the Host lie down",2.0 +"Sudden, before some unsuspecting Town,",2.0 +"See! from the Brake the whirring Pheasant springs,",0.0 +And mounts exulting on triumphant Wings;,1.0 +"Short is his Joy! he feels the fiery Wound,",2.0 +"Flutters in Blood, and panting beats the Ground.",2.0 +"Ah! what avail his glossy, varying Dies,",2.0 +The vivid Green his shining Plumes unfold;,0.0 +"His painted Wings, and Breast that flames with Gold?",0.0 +"Nor yet, when moist Arcturus clouds the Sky,",1.0 +The Woods and Fields their pleasing Toils deny.,0.0 +And trace the Mazes of the circling Hare.,1.0 +"Beasts, taught by us, their Fellow Beasts pursue,",2.0 +And learn of Man each other to undo.,1.0 +"He lifts the Tube, and levels with his Eye;",1.0 +Strait a short Thunder breaks the frozen Sky.,3.0 +"Oft, as in Airy Rings they skim the Heath,",0.0 +"Oft as the mounting Larks their Notes prepare,",0.0 +"They fall, and leave their little Lives in Air.",0.0 +"In genial Spring, beneath the quivering Shade",2.0 +The patient Fisher takes his silent Stand,0.0 +"Intent, his Angle trembling in his Hand;",0.0 +And eyes the dancing Cork and bending Reed.,0.0 +"The silver Eel, in shining Volumes rolled,",0.0 +"And Pikes, the Tyrants of the watery Plains.",3.0 +Now Cancer glows with Phoebus' fiery Car;,3.0 +The Youth rush eager to the Sylvan War;,2.0 +"Swarm over the Lawns, the Forest Walks surround,",3.0 +"Rouse the fleet Heart, and cheer the opening Hound.",5.0 +"The impatient Courser pants in every Vein,",1.0 +"And pawing, seems to beat the distant Plain,",0.0 +"Hills, Vales, and Floods appear already crossed,",1.0 +"And ere he starts, a thousand Steps are lost.",0.0 +"See! the bold Youth strain up the threatening Steep,",1.0 +"Rush through the Thickets, down the Valleys sweep,",1.0 +And Earth rolls back beneath the flying Steed.,1.0 +"Let old Arcadia boast her spacious Plain,",3.0 +"The Immortal Huntress, and her Virgin Train;",2.0 +Nor envy Windsor! since thy Shades have seen,0.0 +"As bright a Goddess, and as chaste a Queen;",1.0 +"Whose Care, like hers, protects the Sylvan Reign,",1.0 +"The Earth's fair Light, and Empress of the Main.",2.0 +"Bathed in the Springs, or sought the cooling Shade;",0.0 +"Here armed with Silver Bows, in early Dawn,",0.0 +"Above the rest a rural Nymph was famed,",0.0 +"The Muse shall sing, and what she sings shall last",0.0 +"Scarce could the Goddess from her Nymph be known,",1.0 +"But by the Crescent and the golden Zone,",2.0 +"She scorned the Praise of Beauty, and the Care;",1.0 +"A Belt her Waste, a Fillet binds her Hair,",5.0 +"A painted Quiver on her Shoulder sounds,",1.0 +And with her Dart the flying Deer she wounds.,1.0 +"It chanced, as eager of the Chase the Maid",1.0 +"Beyond the Forest's verdant Limits strayed,",0.0 +"Pan saw and loved, and furious with Desire",4.0 +Pursued her Flight; her Flight increased his Fire.,0.0 +"Not half so swift the trembling Doves can fly,",0.0 +When the fierce Eagle cleaves the liquid Sky;,2.0 +"Not half so swiftly the fierce Eagle moves,",2.0 +When through the Clouds he drives the trembling Doves;,0.0 +"As from the God with fearful Speed she flew,",1.0 +As did the God with equal Speed pursue.,0.0 +"Now fainting, sinking, pale, the Nymph appears;",1.0 +Now close behind his sounding Steps she hears;,1.0 +"And now his Shadow reached her as she run,",1.0 +His Shadow lengthened by the setting Sun,1.0 +And now his shorter Breath with sultry Air,0.0 +"Pants on her Neck, and fans her parting Hair.",0.0 +"In vain on Father Thames she calls for Aid,",0.0 +Nor could Diana help her injured Maid.,0.0 +"Faint, breathless, thus she prayed, nor prayed in vain;",1.0 +"Ah Cynthia! ah ' -- though banished from thy Train,",2.0 +"Let me, OH let me, to the Shades repair,",2.0 +"My native Shades ' -- there weep, and murmur there.",1.0 +"She said, and melting as in Tears she lay,",1.0 +"In a soft, silver Stream dissolved away.",2.0 +"The silver Stream her Virgin Coldness keeps,",0.0 +"For ever murmurs, and for ever weeps;",1.0 +And bathes the Forest where she ranged before.,0.0 +Oft in her Glass the musing Shepherd spies,0.0 +"The headlong Mountains and the downward Skies,",2.0 +And absent Trees that tremble in the Floods;,0.0 +"In the clear azure Gleam the Flocks are seen,",2.0 +And floating Forests paint the Waves with Green.,0.0 +"Through the fair Scene roll slow the lingering Streams,",4.0 +"Then foaming pour along, and rush into the Thames.",0.0 +"Thou too, great Father of the British Floods!",2.0 +And future Navies on thy Banks appear.,1.0 +"A wealthier Tribute, than to thine he gives.",4.0 +"No Seas so rich, so full no Streams appear,",2.0 +"No Lake so gentle, and no Spring so clear.",3.0 +"Not fabled Po more swells the Poets Lays,",0.0 +"While through the Skies his shining Current strays,",0.0 +To grace the Mansion of our earthly Gods.,1.0 +"Nor all his Stars a brighter Lustre show,",0.0 +Than the fair Nymphs that gild thy Shore below:,2.0 +Might change Olympus for a nobler Hill.,2.0 +"Happy the Man whom this bright Court approves,",4.0 +"Happy next him who to these Shades retires,",0.0 +"Whom Nature charms, and whom the Muse inspires,",0.0 +"Successive Study, Exercise and Ease.",0.0 +"He gathers Health from Herbs the Forest yields,",0.0 +And draws the Aromatic Souls of Flowers.,0.0 +Over figured Worlds now travels with his Eye.,2.0 +"Consults the Dead, and lives past Ages over.",1.0 +"Or wandering thoughtful in the silent Wood,",2.0 +"Attends the Duties of the Wise and Good,",1.0 +"TO observe a Mean, be to himself a Friend,",2.0 +"To follow Nature, and regard his End.",1.0 +"Or looks on Heaven with more than mortal Eyes,",0.0 +"Amid her Kindred Stars familiar roam,",0.0 +"Survey the Region, and confess her Home!",1.0 +"Such was the Life great Scipio once admired,",4.0 +"You sacred Nine! that all my Soul possess,",0.0 +"Bear me, o bear me to sequestered Scenes",1.0 +Or where you Muses sport on Cooper's Hill.,0.0 +"On Cooper's Hill eternal Wreaths shall grow,",0.0 +"While lasts the Mountain, or while Thames shall flow",1.0 +"I seem through consecrated Walks to rove,",0.0 +And hear soft Music die along the Grove;,1.0 +"Led by the Sound I roam from Shade to Shade,",0.0 +Here his first Lays Majestic Denham sung;,3.0 +OH early lost! what Tears the River shed,1.0 +When the sad Pomp along his Banks was led?,3.0 +"His drooping Swans on every Note expire,",0.0 +And on his Willows hung each Muse's Lyre.,2.0 +"Since Fate relentless stopped their Heavenly Voice,",2.0 +"No more the Forests ring, or Groves rejoice;",0.0 +Who now shall charm the Shades where Cowley strung,0.0 +"His living Harp, and lofty Denham sung?",0.0 +"But hark! the Groves rejoice, the Forest rings!",0.0 +Are these revived? or is it Granville sings?,2.0 +"It's yours, my Lord, to bless our soft Retreats,",1.0 +"And call the Muses to their ancient Seats,",1.0 +"To paint anew the flowery Sylvan Scenes,",2.0 +"To crown the Forests with Immortal Greens,",1.0 +"Make Windsor Hills in lofty Numbers rise,",1.0 +And lift her Turrets nearer to the Skies;,1.0 +And add new Lustre to her Silver Star.,2.0 +"Surrey, the Granville of a former Age:",3.0 +"Bold in the Lists, and graceful in the Dance:",0.0 +"In the same Shades the Cupids tuned his Lyre,",3.0 +"To the same Notes, of Love, and soft Desire:",2.0 +"Fair Geraldine, bright Object of his Vow,",4.0 +"Then filled the Groves, as heavenly Myra now.",2.0 +"What Kings first breathed upon her winding Shore,",1.0 +Or raise old Warriors whose adored Remains,1.0 +In weeping Vaults her hallowed Earth contains!,0.0 +"Stretch his long Triumphs down through every Age,",4.0 +The Lilies blazing on the Regal Shield.,1.0 +And leave inanimate the naked Wall;,1.0 +"Still in thy Song should vanquished France appear,",0.0 +And bleed for ever under Britain's Spear.,0.0 +And Palms Eternal flourish round his Urn.,0.0 +"Whom not the extended Albion could contain,",3.0 +"The Grave unites; where even the Great find Rest,",3.0 +And blended lie the Oppressor and the Oppressed!,5.0 +"O Fact accursed! What Tears has Albion shed,",2.0 +"Heavens! what new Wounds, and how her old have bled?",2.0 +"She saw her Sons with purple Deaths expire,",0.0 +Her sacred Domes involved in rolling Fire.,0.0 +"A dreadful Series of Intestine Wars,",1.0 +"In glorious Triumphs, and dishonest Scars.",3.0 +At length great ANNA said ' -- Let Discord cease!,2.0 +"She said, the World obeyed, and all was Peace!",0.0 +Old Father Thames advanced his reverend Head.,1.0 +"His Tresses dropped with Dews, and over the Stream",2.0 +His shining Horns diffused a golden Gleam:,0.0 +"His swelling Waters, and alternate Tides;",3.0 +"The figured Streams in Waves of Silver rolled,",0.0 +And on their Banks Augusta rose in Gold.,1.0 +"Around his Throne the Sea-born Brothers stood,",1.0 +"First the famed Authors of his ancient Name,",4.0 +"The winding Isis, and the fruitful Tame:",1.0 +"Cole, whose clear Streams his flowery Islands lave;",5.0 +"And sullen Mole, that hides his diving Flood;",0.0 +"High in the mid, upon his Urn reclined,",0.0 +The God appeared; he turned his azure Eyes,0.0 +"Then bowed and spoke; the Winds forget to roar,",0.0 +And the hushed Waves glide softly to the Shore.,5.0 +And Harvests on a hundred Realms bestows;,1.0 +"These now no more shall be the Muse's Themes,",1.0 +"Lost in my Fame, as in the Sea their Streams.",0.0 +Let barbarous Ganges arm a servile Train;,3.0 +Be mine the Blessings of a peaceful Reign.,1.0 +No more my Sons shall die with British Blood,0.0 +Safe on my Shore each unmolested Swain,0.0 +"Shall tend the Flocks, or reap the bearded Grain;",0.0 +The shady Empire shall retain no Trace,1.0 +"Of War or Blood, but in the Sylvan Chase,",0.0 +"The Trumpets sleep, while cheerful Horns are blown,",0.0 +And Arms employed on Birds and Beasts alone.,0.0 +Behold! the ascending Villa's on my Side,3.0 +"I see, I see where two fair Cities bend",1.0 +"Their ample Bow, a new White-Hall ascend!",1.0 +"There mighty Nations shall enquire their Doom,",2.0 +The World's great Oracle in Times to come;,2.0 +Once more to bend before a British QUEEN.,0.0 +"Thy Trees, fair Windsor! now shall leave their Woods,",1.0 +"And half thy Forests rush into my Floods,",0.0 +"Bear Britain's Thunder, and her Cross display,",2.0 +To the bright Regions of the rising Day;,3.0 +"Tempt Icy Seas, where scarce the Waters roll,",1.0 +Where clearer Flames glow round the frozen Pole;,1.0 +"Or under Southern Skies exalt their Sails,",0.0 +"Led by new Stars, and born by spicy Gales!",3.0 +"For me the Balm shall bleed, and Amber flow,",1.0 +"The Coral redden, and the Ruby glow,",1.0 +"The Pearly Shell its lucid Globe enfold,",0.0 +And Phoebus warm the ripening Over to Gold.,2.0 +"The Time shall come, when free as Seas or Wind",0.0 +"Unbounded Thames shall flow for all Mankind,",1.0 +And Oceans join whom they did first divide;,1.0 +"Earth's distant Ends our Glory shall behold,",1.0 +And the new World launch forth to seek the Old.,4.0 +"And Feathered People crowd my wealthy Side,",0.0 +While naked Youth and painted Chiefs admire,0.0 +"Our Speech, our Colour, and our strange Attire!",0.0 +"O stretch thy Reign, fair Peace! from Shore to Shore,",1.0 +"Till Conquest cease, and Slavery be no more:",1.0 +Till the freed Indians in their native Groves,3.0 +"Reap their own Fruits, and woo their Sable Loves,",0.0 +"Peru once more a Race of Kings behold,",1.0 +"Exiled by Thee from Earth to deepest Hell,",2.0 +In Brazen Bonds shall barbarous Discord dwell:,2.0 +"Gigantic Pride, pale Terror, gloomy Care,",1.0 +"And mad Ambition, shall attend her there.",0.0 +"There purple Vengeance bathed in Gore retires,",0.0 +"Her Weapons blunted, and extinct her Fires:",1.0 +"There hateful Envy her own Snakes shall feel,",1.0 +And Persecution mourn her broken Wheel:,0.0 +"There Faction roars, Rebellion bites her Chain,",0.0 +And bring the Scenes of opening Fate to Light.,2.0 +"Paints the green Forests and the flowery Plains,",6.0 +"Where Peace descending bids her Olives spring,",0.0 +"Even I more sweetly pass my careless Days,",1.0 +Pleased in the silent Shade with empty Praise;,0.0 +First in these Fields I sung the Sylvan Strains.,0.0 +Collect each atom with a sister's care.,1.0 +And this alone can give my mind relief;,1.0 +"When raised to him ' -- where blessed in God above,",1.0 +Does only truth and virtue still approve;,0.0 +"But back to Earth distracted do I fly,",0.0 +"Pale, lifeless, mangled, there I see him lie!",2.0 +"His streaming Blood! ' -- OH Heaven avert the stroke,",1.0 +Trace every virtue that I might commend.,1.0 +"Thus, when the fatal stroke of Death's designed,",0.0 +"Her own sad requiem sings in languid note,",3.0 +While over the stream the dying echoes float.,2.0 +"But, ah! can youth dwell on the tragic part?",2.0 +"Can I describe the trembling, panting heart?",1.0 +"The pangs, the terrors of a dying state?",1.0 +"Yes ' -- though unskilled, I'll the grim shade pursue,",4.0 +And bring the distant terror to my view;,1.0 +Dwell on the horrors of that gloomy hour;,1.0 +"Death, made familiar, loses half his power.",1.0 +"Foes to reflection, enemies to truth!",3.0 +"And while sad Fancy paints the dismal scene,",1.0 +Where restless ghosts by midnight moons are seen,1.0 +"Stalk over the gloomy grave, Muse! be it thine",4.0 +"To rouse the vain, the giddy, and supine,",1.0 +Who Pleasure's rounds pursue; while young Desire,1.0 +"Wakes the gay dream, and feeds the dangerous fire:",5.0 +"From these I fly ' -- and now, my pensive soul,",1.0 +"Perhaps she calls some lingering, tardy ghost",0.0 +"To smell the world, ere the dread hour be lost",3.0 +"That parts the night from morn. Come, restless souls,",1.0 +Relax from torture; you whom Fate controls,1.0 +"To purge your earthly crimes in liquid fire,",0.0 +"In anguish plunged, till ages shall expire;",0.0 +"This, Rome's grand tenet sin thus washed away,",2.0 +"Presumption, hold! Lo, over yonder misty tomb",1.0 +"Leans a sad spectre, and bemoans the doom",4.0 +Support and guard me in this gloomy hour,0.0 +"Of dread enquiry! ' -- Say, thou wretched soul,",2.0 +"OH teach a young, rash, inexperienced fool,",5.0 +When turned a wanderer from thy house of clay?,1.0 +And to each planetary world repair?,1.0 +To the dark world? Describe that scene of woe,2.0 +"Which thou hast felt, and may I never know!",1.0 +The pangs of death too sure shall be thy own;,1.0 +And Death's cold horrors hover round thy heart;,1.0 +"Thy dying eyes fixed on some darling friend,",2.0 +"One gasp, and deep eternity in view,",1.0 +"The soul shoots forth, and groans a last adieu.",1.0 +"I dare no more ' -- but O! too curious maid,",5.0 +Seek not to pierce impenetrable shade,1.0 +"Rest there, nor farther search, nor question why;",0.0 +Scan not Omnipotence ' -- of that beware;,2.0 +Oft the too curious eye is dimmed by blank despair.,5.0 +"Farewell, poor Ghost! you horrors of the night,",3.0 +"The question unresolved I soon shall know,",1.0 +Then let me haste from this sad scene of woe.,2.0 +"Henceforth, vain Pleasure, I renounce thy joy,",3.0 +"You thoughtless maids who transient dreams pursue,",0.0 +No more my moments must be lost with you;,0.0 +"No more my soul in empty mirth shall share,",0.0 +Or fondly relish pleasures tinged with care.,0.0 +OH teach me to redeem each misspent hour;,5.0 +"In youth the mind's best gifts most strongly shine,",1.0 +Ah! let them not too suddenly decline!,2.0 +"In mercy add a few remaining years,",0.0 +"The grave shall lose its sting, my soul shall lose its fears.",0.0 +MINERVA taught her Arts to human Kind;,0.0 +"With such attractive Charms, and graceful Air,",1.0 +VENUS was judged the Queen of all the Fair:,2.0 +"Such Sense and Beauty to the Painter shone,",1.0 +"He drew Two Goddesses, to finish One.",3.0 +"WHEN from the Shade of Eden's blissful Bowers,",0.0 +"Its Fruit ambrosial and immortal Flowers,",1.0 +"Our general Mother who too soon rebelled,",1.0 +"Was, with the Partner of her Crime, expelled",2.0 +To Fields less fruitful ' -- where the rugged Soil,1.0 +With Thorns and Thistles often paid their Toil;,0.0 +"Where the pale Flowers soon lost their cheerful Hue,",5.0 +"Two Sons the Matron in her Exile bore,",2.0 +Unlike in Feature but their Natures more;,1.0 +"The eldest Youth for Husbandry renowned,",1.0 +Tore up the Surface of the sterile Ground;,1.0 +His nervous Arms for rugged Tasks were formed;,0.0 +His Cheek but seldom with a Smile adorned;,1.0 +"Drops raised by Labour down his Temples run,",2.0 +"His Temples tarnished by the midday Sun,",2.0 +"Robust of Body, and of Soul severe,",1.0 +"Unknown to Pity, and the like to Fear.",1.0 +"Not so his Brother, cast in fairer Mould",0.0 +Was he ' -- and softer than his fleecy Fold;,2.0 +"Fair were his Cheeks that blushed with rosy Die,",0.0 +"Peace dwelled for ever in his cheerful Eye,",1.0 +"Nor Guilt, nor Rage his gentle Spirit knew;",0.0 +"Those were to feed and watch the tender Lamb,",1.0 +"From burning Suns his thirsty Flocks to hide,",0.0 +"'Twas ere rude Hands had reaped the waving Grain,",2.0 +"When Plenty triumphed on the fertile Plain,",1.0 +"That to the Centre of a pleasant Down,",2.0 +First to the Pile unhappy Cain drew nigh.,1.0 +"Choice was his Offering, yet no Sign appeared,",1.0 +"No Flame was seen, nor Voice celestial heard:",1.0 +"Astonished stood the late presumptuous Man,",2.0 +Then came his Brother with a trembling Lamb;,1.0 +His God accepts the Sacrifice sincere;,0.0 +The Flames propitious round the Slain appear;,0.0 +The curling Smoke ascended to the Skies:,1.0 +"This Cain beheld, and rolled his glowing Eyes.",0.0 +"Stung to the Soul, he with his frantic Hand",1.0 +"A Stone uprooted from the yielding Sand,",1.0 +Nor spoke ' -- for Rage had stopped his failing Tongue;,0.0 +The heavy Death impetuous whirled along:,0.0 +This Abel met ' -- his Heart received the Wound;,0.0 +"Amazed he fell, and grasped the bloody Ground.",0.0 +"The gentle Spirit sprung to endless Day,",0.0 +"Pale stood the Brother ' -- to a Statue chilled,",3.0 +A conscious Horror through his Bosom thrilled:,1.0 +"Shocked at the Sight of Murder first begun,",0.0 +"Down the steep Heavens rolled the radiant Sun,",2.0 +"Old Night assuming her appointed Sway,",2.0 +Stretched her black Mantle over the Face of Day:,5.0 +The careful Parents search the Fields around;,0.0 +They call ' -- the Woods roll back an empty Sound.,1.0 +"Within a Forest's solitary Gloom,",0.0 +"Slept gentle Abel in a secret Tomb,",1.0 +And there beneath a Cypress Shade reclined,1.0 +Cain breathed his Sorrows to the rushing Wind:,2.0 +That in the Branches made a doleful Sound;,0.0 +"'Twas Silence else, and horrid Darkness round,",1.0 +When lo! a sudden and a piercing Ray,1.0 +"And then descended on the hallowed Ground,",1.0 +Afflicted Cain that knew not where to fly,0.0 +Gazed on the Vision with distracted Eye:,1.0 +"When thus the Angel ' -- Why these mournful Cries,",0.0 +These loud Complaints that pierce the nightly Skies.,0.0 +"Lie not to Heaven, but directly say,",1.0 +He said ' -- and thus the guilty Wretch returned;,0.0 +"OH sacred Guardian, I for Abel mourned:",2.0 +"I never beheld him since the Day began, ' --",2.0 +But why this Visit to a simple Man?,1.0 +Thy Brother's Blood may slumber in its Tomb:,0.0 +And dare attempt deceiving God most high;,0.0 +"But now thy Doom, OH wretched Mortal hear;",1.0 +"The fleeting Hours nor the rolling Year,",0.0 +"To thee nor Joy, nor cheerful Ease shall bring:",1.0 +"Alike to thee the Winter and the Spring,",2.0 +"Still vexed with Woe, thy heavy Days shall fly",1.0 +Beneath a radiant or a gloomy Sky:,1.0 +"Cursed shalt thou be amid thy vagrant Band,",1.0 +"He ceased ' -- But Cain all prostrate on the Ground,",1.0 +Still in his Ears retained the dreadful Sound:,0.0 +"At length he rose, and trembling thus began;",0.0 +This is too much ' -- too much for mortal Man:,0.0 +"The mighty Debt, OH let me quickly pay,",1.0 +And sweep me instant from the Beams of Day:,1.0 +"The yet unborn, that I am cursed, shall know,",1.0 +And all shall hate me to augment the Blow:,1.0 +"Even my own Sons, if such are given to be",3.0 +"The Death of Abel, shall revenge on me:",0.0 +"Thus he to change the dreadful Sentence tried,",0.0 +"This Mark, OH Cain, I fix upon thy Brow:",1.0 +"And thus by Heaven's mighty Monarch vow,",0.0 +"Who sheds thy Blood, that Criminal shall be",1.0 +Thus be that Mortal who shall tear the Rod,0.0 +Of scorching Vengeance from the Hand of God;,1.0 +That Man may learn to fear the King of Kings:,0.0 +"He said ' -- and waving his immortal Wings,",1.0 +"That instant mingled with the starry Train,",1.0 +And Darkness wrapped the silent Shades again.,0.0 +"Bring, bring the lyre, to usher in the morn;",1.0 +"Delia, the gentlest Maid, to day was born:",4.0 +"And though she twenty summer suns has seen,",1.0 +"Though now among the nymphs of Britain's Queen,",0.0 +Is still the gentlest Maid upon the green.,2.0 +"Without a foe, and worthy every Friend.",0.0 +In one bright calm may each succeeding year,3.0 +"Roll guiltless on, unruffled by a care!",3.0 +Till future Maids of Honour have approved,2.0 +"The grove she haunted, and the stream she loved:",1.0 +That Innocence and Pleasure are the same.,2.0 +"WHERE Kensington high over the neighbouring lands,",6.0 +"'Midst greens and sweets, a regal fabric stands,",1.0 +"And sees each spring, luxuriant in her bowers,",1.0 +"A snow of blossoms, and a wild of flowers,",1.0 +The dames of Britain oft in crowds repair,0.0 +"Here, while the town in damps and darkness lies,",0.0 +"They breathe in sunshine, and see azure skies",3.0 +"Where rich brocades and glossy damasks glow,",0.0 +"Here England's Daughter, darling of the land,",1.0 +"Sometime, surrounded with her virgin band,",2.0 +"Gleams through the shades. She, towering over the rest,",2.0 +"Stands fairest of the fairer kind confessed,",2.0 +And charm a people to her father's side.,1.0 +"Long have these groves to royal guests been known,",0.0 +Ere Norman banners waved in British air;,1.0 +Poured in his Danes; ere elder Julius came;,1.0 +"The scene of wars, and stained with lovers' blood.",0.0 +"You, who through gazing crowds, your captive throng,",0.0 +"Throw pangs and passions, as you move along,",2.0 +"Turn on the left, you fair, your radiant eyes,",0.0 +"Ere heaved your hearts, or shivered through your veins,",2.0 +"Look down attentive on the pleasing dale,",3.0 +And listen to my melancholy tale.,1.0 +"That hollow space, where now in living rows,",0.0 +"But far, far sweeter in its ancient days,",1.0 +"Far sweeter was it, when its peopled ground",2.0 +With fairy domes and dazzling towers were crowned.,2.0 +"Where in the mid those verdant pillars spring,",0.0 +Rose the proud palace of the Elfin king;,4.0 +"For every hedge of vegetable green,",2.0 +"In happier years a crowded street was seen,",1.0 +"Nor all those leaves, that now the prospect grace,",0.0 +Could match the numbers of its pigmy race.,1.0 +"What urged this mighty empire to its fate,",1.0 +A tale of woe and wonder I relate.,1.0 +"When Albion ruled the land, whose lineage came",4.0 +"From Neptune mingling with a mortal dame,",1.0 +Their midnight pranks the sprightly fairies played,1.0 +"On every hill, and danced in every shade.",0.0 +"But, foes to sunshine, most they took delight",1.0 +Or scooped the bosom of the blasted oak;,1.0 +"Or heard, overshadowed by some shelving hill,",3.0 +The distant murmurs of the falling rill.,1.0 +"They, rich in pilfered spoils, indulged their mirth,",3.0 +And pitied the huge wretched sons of earth.,5.0 +"Even now, it's said, the hinds overheard their strain,",3.0 +And strive to view their airy forms in vain;,0.0 +"They to their cells at man's approach repair,",1.0 +The while poor mortals startle at the sound,1.0 +Of unseen footsteps on the haunted ground.,2.0 +"Amid this garden, then with woods overgrown,",3.0 +Stood the loved seat of royal Oberon.,3.0 +From every region to his palace gate,1.0 +"Came peers and princes of the fairy state,",2.0 +"Who, ranked in council round the sacred shade,",0.0 +"From Thame's fair banks, by lofty towers adorned,",3.0 +With loads of plunder oft his chiefs returned:,0.0 +"Hence in proud robes, and colours bright and gay,",3.0 +Shone every knight and every lovely fay.,1.0 +"Hath famed king Pepin and his court surveyed,",2.0 +"May guess, if old by modern things we trace,",0.0 +"By magic fenced, by spell encompassed round,",0.0 +No mortal touched this interdicted ground;,1.0 +"No mortal entered, those alone who came",2.0 +Stolen from the couch of some terrestrial dame:,3.0 +"For oft of babes they robbed the matron's bed,",0.0 +"Was fostered here, the wonder of the wood;",1.0 +"As through the regal dome she sought for prey,",1.0 +Observed the infant Albion where he lay,1.0 +And stole him from the sleeping mother's side.,1.0 +"Ah wretched nymph, to future evils blind!",0.0 +The time shall come when thou shalt dearly pay,2.0 +And all her sorrows doubled shall be thine:,0.0 +"He who adorns thy house, the lovely boy",0.0 +"Who now adorns it, shall at length destroy.",0.0 +Two hundred moons in their pale course had seen,3.0 +And Albion now had reached in youthful prime,2.0 +"To nineteen years, as mortals measure time.",1.0 +Her utmost art to rear the princely boy.,1.0 +"Whence through his veins the powerful juices ran,",2.0 +"Yet still, two inches teller than the rest,",2.0 +His lofty port his human birth confessed;,0.0 +"A foot in height, how stately did he show!",0.0 +How look superior on the crowd below!,1.0 +"A shape so nice, or features half so fair,",0.0 +What elf could boast! or such a flow of hair!,1.0 +"Bright Kenna saw, a princess born to reign,",1.0 +And felt the charmer burn in every vein.,0.0 +"She, heiress to this empire's potent lord,",1.0 +"Praised like the stars, and next the moon adored.",0.0 +"In her high palace languished, void of joy,",2.0 +And pined in secret for a mortal boy.,1.0 +"He too was smitten, and discreetly strove",1.0 +By courtly deeds to gain the virgin's love;,0.0 +"For her he culled the fairest flowers that grew,",2.0 +Ere morning suns had drained their fragrant dew;,1.0 +"He chased the hornet in his midday flight,",1.0 +"When on ripe fruit she cast a wishing eye,",3.0 +Did ever Albion think the tree too high!,3.0 +"He showed her where the pregnant goldfinch hung,",1.0 +"To her the inscription on their eggs he read,",2.0 +"To her he showed each herb of virtuous juice,",3.0 +"Their powers distinguished, and described their use:",3.0 +"All vain their powers alas to Kenna prove,",2.0 +"As when a ghost, enlarged from realms below,",0.0 +"Seeks its old friend to tell some secret woe,",3.0 +"The poor shade shivering stands, and must not break",3.0 +"His painful silence, till the mortal speak;",1.0 +Forbid to utter what her eyes betrayed.,0.0 +"He saw her anguish, and revealed his flame,",1.0 +"The day would fail me, should I reckon over",0.0 +"The sighs they lavished, and the oaths they swore;",1.0 +"In words so melting, that, compared with those,",0.0 +"All in a lawn of many a various hue,",4.0 +A bed of flowers a fairy forest grew;,2.0 +"The still, the secret, silent hour of day,",0.0 +Beneath a lofty tulip's ample shade,0.0 +Sat the young lover and the immortal maid.,6.0 +"They thought all fairies slept, ah luckless pair!",0.0 +Thus all the softness of his soul expressed.,1.0 +' All things are hushed. The sun's meridian rays,2.0 +' Veil the horizon in one mighty blaze;,2.0 +' Nor moon nor star in heaven's blue arch is seen,3.0 +' With kindly rays to silver over the green.,2.0 +' Grateful to fairy eyes; they secret take,2.0 +"' Their rest, and only wretched mortals wake.",0.0 +"' This dead of day I fly to thee alone,",1.0 +"' A world to me, a multitude in one.",1.0 +' When the sky opens and the evening dawns!,3.0 +"' Streight as the pink, that tours so high in air",0.0 +"' Soft as the bluebell! as the daisy, fair",1.0 +"' Blessed be the hour, when first I was conveyed",1.0 +' An infant captive to this blissful shade!,1.0 +"' And blessed the hand that did my form refine,",0.0 +' And shrunk my stature to a match with thine!,1.0 +' Glad I for thee renounce my royal birth;,1.0 +"' Renounce thy kind, and love for love return.",0.0 +"' So from us two, combined by nuptial ties,",1.0 +"' O speak, my love! my vows with vows repay,",0.0 +' And sweetly swear my rising fears away.',0.0 +To whom the shining azure of her eyes,1.0 +"' By all the stars, and first the glorious moon,",2.0 +"' I swear, and by the head of Oberon,",1.0 +' A dreadful oath! no prince of fairy line,1.0 +' Shall ever in wedlock plight his vows with mine.,3.0 +"' Wherever my footsteps in the dance are seen,",2.0 +"' May the keen east-wind blight my favourite flowers,",4.0 +"' Confined whole ages in an hemlock shade,",2.0 +' There rather pine I a neglected maid;,1.0 +"' Than any prince, a prince of fairy line,",0.0 +' In sacred wedlock plight his vows with mine.',1.0 +She ended: and with lips of rosy hue,1.0 +"Dipped five times over in ambrosial dew,",2.0 +"Stifled his words. When from his covert reared,",2.0 +The frowning brow of Oberon appeared.,0.0 +"A sun-flower's trunk was near, whence killing sight!",1.0 +"The monarch issued, half an ell in height:",0.0 +"Full on the pair a furious look he cast,",2.0 +"That through the woodland echoed far and wide,",0.0 +And drew a swarm of subjects to his side.,1.0 +"A hundred chosen knights, in war renowned,",0.0 +Drive Albion banished from the sacred ground;,4.0 +"If fame in arms, with ancient birth combined,",0.0 +"To love and praise can generous souls incline,",2.0 +"Blood, only less than royal, filled thy veins,",1.0 +"Proud was thy roof, and large thy fair domains,",0.0 +"And short-lived Warwick saddened all the shades,",1.0 +Thy dwelling stood; nor did in him afford,1.0 +"For thee a hundred fields produced their store,",1.0 +And by thy name ten thousand vassals swore;,2.0 +"So loved thy name, that, at their monarch's choice,",1.0 +All Fairy shouted with a general voice.,1.0 +That from his bosom heaved the golden vest.,0.0 +"Wide was his range, and populous his clan.",1.0 +"When cleanly servants, if we trust old tales,",2.0 +"Whole heaps of silver tokens, nightly paid",1.0 +Sunk not his stores. With smiles and powerful bribes,2.0 +"And ere the night the face of heaven had changed,",0.0 +Beneath his banners half the fairies ranged.,0.0 +"Meanwhile driven back to earth, a lonely way",1.0 +"A long, long journey, choked with brakes and thorns,",1.0 +"'Twas then a spreading stream, though now its fame",0.0 +"Obscured, it bears the creek's inglorious name,",2.0 +"And creeps, as through contracted bounds it strays,",1.0 +A leap for boys in these degenerate days.,2.0 +"On the clear crystal's verdant bank he stood,",2.0 +"And thrice looked backward on the fatal wood,",2.0 +"And thrice he groaned, and thrice he beat his breast,",0.0 +And thus in tears his kindred gods addressed.,0.0 +"' If true, you watery powers, my lineage came",6.0 +' From Neptune mingling with a mortal dame;,1.0 +"' And urge the god, whose trident shakes the earth,",0.0 +"' To grace his offspring, and assert my birth.'",2.0 +"And, touched with pity for a lover's care,",1.0 +"Shoots to the sea, where low beneath the tides",0.0 +Roused at the news the sea's stern sultan swore,1.0 +"But first the nymph his harbinger he sends,",1.0 +And to her care his favourite boy commends.,1.0 +"As through the Thames her backward course she guides,",1.0 +Along his banks the pygmy legions spread,0.0 +And counts the ocean's god among his sires;,0.0 +"' The ocean's god, by whom shall be overthrown",0.0 +' Styx heard his oath the tyrant Oberon.,1.0 +' Lies Albion: Him the Fates your leader doom.,2.0 +And hopes of vengeance triumphed over love.,0.0 +See now the mourner of the lonely shade,2.0 +"By gods protected, and by hosts obeyed,",1.0 +"A slave, a chief, by fickle Fortune's play,",0.0 +In the short course of one revolving day.,4.0 +"What wonder if the youth, so strangely blessed,",1.0 +Felt his heart flutter in his little breast!,3.0 +He views extended half an acre wide;,0.0 +"More light he treads, more tall he seems to rise,",0.0 +"OH for thy Muse, Mr. ADDISON. great Bard, whose lofty strains",4.0 +In battle joined the Pygmies and the Cranes!,1.0 +"Each gandy knight, had I that warmth divine,",1.0 +Each coloured legion in my verse should shine.,0.0 +"But simple I, and innocent of art,",2.0 +"The tale, that soothed my infant years, impart,",0.0 +"And sing the battles, that my nurse inspired.",0.0 +"Thick rows of spears at once, with sudden glare,",1.0 +"A grove of needles, glitter in the air;",0.0 +"Loose in the wind small ribbon streamers flow,",1.0 +"Dipped in all colours of the heavenly bow,",2.0 +"And the gay host, that now its march pursues,",2.0 +Gleams over the meadows in a thousand hues.,3.0 +"In various robes their silken troops were seen,",2.0 +"The blue, the red, and prophet's sacred green:",0.0 +First stained his maiden sword in Turkish blood.,1.0 +Unseen and silent march the slow brigades,0.0 +"In hopes already vanquished by surprise,",1.0 +"The march concludes; and now in prospect near,",0.0 +"But fenced with arms, the hostile towers appear,",2.0 +"For Oberon, or Druids falsely sing,",0.0 +"Hence in a crescent formed, his legions bright",0.0 +"To charge their foes they march, a glittering band,",2.0 +"Let chiefs imagine, and let lovers guess!",3.0 +"Forth issuing from his ranks, that strove in vain",2.0 +"To cheque his course, athwart the dreadful plain",0.0 +He strides indignant: and with haughty cries,1.0 +To single fight the fairy prince defies.,0.0 +"Nor, sprung from mortals, with immortals vie.",1.0 +"No god stands ready to avert thy doom,",3.0 +"My words are vain ' -- no words the wretch can move,",1.0 +"And sees no danger, while he sees her eyes.",1.0 +"Now from each host the eager warriors start,",0.0 +And furious Albion flings his hasty dart:,4.0 +"'Twas feathered from the bee's transparent wing,",2.0 +And its shaft ended in a hornet's sting;,2.0 +"But, tossed in rage, it flew without a wound,",0.0 +"High over the foe, and guiltless pierced the ground,",3.0 +"Drove through the sevenfold shield, and silken vest,",3.0 +"Roused at the smart, and rising to the blow,",1.0 +"With his keen sword he cleaves his fairy foe,",2.0 +"Sheer from the shoulder to the waist he cleaves,",1.0 +"His useless steel brave Albion wields no more,",3.0 +"But sternly smiles, and thinks the combat over:",0.0 +"So had it been, had aught of mortal strain,",0.0 +Or less than fairy felt the deadly pain.,0.0 +"Gashed and dismembered, easily unite.",4.0 +"Though broke, if cured by some nice virgin's hands,",1.0 +In its old strength and pristine beauty stands;,3.0 +And hold secure the Coffee's sable waves:,0.0 +Rejoin the vital trunk whence first it grew;,0.0 +"And, while in wonder fixed poor Albion stood,",3.0 +Plunged the cursed sabre in his heart's warm blood.,4.0 +"The breast to Kenna sacred and to love,",1.0 +Lie rent and mangled: and the gaping wound,2.0 +Pours out a flood of purple on the ground.,1.0 +"' O Kenna, Kenna, thrice he tried to say,",0.0 +' Kenna farewell:' and sighed his soul away.,3.0 +"The sea's great sire, with looks denouncing war,",3.0 +"The trident shakes, and mounts the pearly carr:",0.0 +And works the madding ocean into storms.,0.0 +"Over foaming mountains, and through bursting tides,",1.0 +"Now high, now low, the bounding chariot rides,",4.0 +"It shoots, and lands him on the destined shore.",1.0 +"Now fixed on earth his towering stature stood,",1.0 +"Hung over the mountains, and overlooked the wood.",5.0 +"The valleys trembled, and the forests shook",1.0 +"The next huge step reached the devoted shade,",3.0 +Where choked in blood was wretched Albion laid:,2.0 +"Where now the vanquished, with the victors joined,",1.0 +Beneath the regal banners stood combined.,0.0 +"The embattled dwarfs with rage and scorn he past,",1.0 +And on their town his eye vindictive cast.,1.0 +"Its deep foundations his strong trident cleaves,",2.0 +And high in air the uprooted empire heaves;,2.0 +"On his broad engine the vast ruin hung,",4.0 +Which on the foe with force divine he flung;,0.0 +"Aghast the legions in the approaching shade,",2.0 +"The inverted spires and rocking domes surveyed,",1.0 +That downward tumbling on the host below,1.0 +Crushed the whole nation at one dreadful blow.,3.0 +"Towers, arms, nymphs, warriors, are together lost,",2.0 +"Such was the period, long restrained by Fate,",3.0 +And such the downfall of the fairy state.,3.0 +"This dale possessed they; and had still possessed,",1.0 +"Had not their monarch, with a father's pride,",1.0 +"Rent from her lord the inviolable bride,",3.0 +"Rash to dissolve the contract sealed above,",3.0 +The solemn vows and sacred bonds of love.,0.0 +"Now, where his elves so brightly danced the round,",0.0 +"No violet breathes, nor daisy paints the ground,",1.0 +"His towers and people fill one common grave,",2.0 +"A shapeless ruin, and a barren cave.",1.0 +Beneath huge hills of smoking piles he lay,1.0 +Stunned and confounded a whole summer's day.,4.0 +"And the dark den where once his empire stood,",2.0 +In every oak a Neptune seemed to rise:,0.0 +"He fled: and left, with all his trembling peers,",0.0 +The long possession of a thousand years.,1.0 +"Through bush, through brake, through groves and gloomy dales,",0.0 +"Through dank and dry, over streams and flowery vales,",5.0 +"Direct they fled; but often looked behind,",0.0 +"Winged with like fear, his abdicated bands",0.0 +Disperse and wander into different lands;,0.0 +"Part did beneath the Peak's deep caverns lie,",2.0 +"Where formidable Neptune never came,",1.0 +And seas and oceans are but known by fame:,1.0 +"Some to dark woods and secret shades retreat,",3.0 +And some on mountains choose their airy seat.,0.0 +"But fly from towns, and dread the courts of kings.",0.0 +"Meanwhile sad Kenna, loath to quit the grove,",2.0 +"Hung over the body of her breathless love,",4.0 +"Tried every art vain arts! to change his doom,",2.0 +And vowed vain vows! to join him in the tomb.,1.0 +What could she do; the Fates alike deny,0.0 +"The dead to live, or fairy forms to die.",0.0 +"Moly the plant, which gods and fairies know,",2.0 +But secret kept from mortal men below.,0.0 +"On his pale limbs its virtuous juice she shed,",4.0 +"And murmured mystic numbers over the dead,",2.0 +When lo! the little shape by magic power,0.0 +"Grew less and less, contracted to a flower;",2.0 +"A flower, that first in this sweet garden smiled,",4.0 +"The newborn plant with sweet regret she viewed,",0.0 +"Its ripened seeds from bank to bank conveyed,",0.0 +"Thus won from death each spring she sees him grow,",1.0 +"And glories in the vegetable snow,",2.0 +Its parent's warmth and spotless name retains;,0.0 +"First leader of the flowery race aspires,",4.0 +"And foremost catches the sun's genial fires,",3.0 +"'Midst frosts and snows triumphant dares appear,",1.0 +"Mingles the seasons, and leads on the year.",4.0 +"Deserted now of all the pygmy race,",0.0 +Nor man nor fairy touched this guilty place.,0.0 +"In heaps on heaps, for many a rolling age,",2.0 +Kenna that gave the neighbouring town its name,4.0 +Proud when she saw the ennobled garden shine,2.0 +With nymphs and heroes of her lover's line.,1.0 +"She vowed to grace the mansions once her own,",0.0 +And picture out in plants the fairy town.,1.0 +"Soft in his fancy drew a pleasing scheme,",0.0 +"With the sweet view the sire of gardens fired,",4.0 +"Attempts the labour by the nymph inspired,",1.0 +"The walls and streets in rows of yew designs,",0.0 +And forms the town in all its ancient lines;,0.0 +"The corner trees he lifts more high in air,",0.0 +And girds the palace with a verdant square;,1.0 +"Nor knows, while round he views the rising scenes,",0.0 +He builds a city as he plants his greens.,1.0 +With a sad pleasure the aerial maid,6.0 +This image of her ancient realm surveyed;,1.0 +"Yet here each moon, the hour her lover died,",0.0 +"Pleased in the shades to head her fairy train,",0.0 +"With lavish charms, perennial summer strays;",2.0 +"Soft mid thy spicy groves the zephyr plays,",1.0 +While far around the rich perfumes are thrown;,0.0 +"Spreads his gay plumes, that catch thy vivid rays;",3.0 +"For thee the gems with liquid lustre blaze,",1.0 +And Nature's various wealth is all thy own.,2.0 +"Those mild gradations, mingling day with night;",0.0 +"Here instant darkness shrouds thy genial bloom,",0.0 +"Nor leaves my pensive soul that lingering light,",0.0 +When musing Memory would each trace resume,1.0 +Of fading pleasures in successive flight.,0.0 +The inanimate to motion; who alone,2.0 +And floods with musical persuasion drew;,1.0 +Than art and nature; for thy tuneful touch,1.0 +"Drove trembling Satan from the heart of Saul,",2.0 +And quelled the evil Angel: ' -- in this breast,0.0 +"Some portion of thy genuine spirit breathe,",3.0 +"And lift me from myself, each thought impure",2.0 +"Banish; each low idea raise, refine,",2.0 +"Enlarge, and sanctify; ' -- so shall the muse",1.0 +"Above the stars aspire, and aim to praise",0.0 +"Her God on earth, as he is praised in heaven.",1.0 +"Framed universal Being, and whose eye",2.0 +"Saw like thyself, that all things formed were good;",2.0 +"Where shall the timorous bard thy praise begin,",2.0 +"Where end the purest sacrifice of song,",0.0 +"Thy prime production, darts upon my mind",0.0 +And fills my soul with gratitude and Thee.,0.0 +"Hail to the cheerful rays of ruddy morn,",0.0 +"The birds, the cattle, and mankind from rest!",2.0 +"Hail to the freshness of the early breeze,",1.0 +Without the aid of yonder golden globe,0.0 +"Lost were the peacock's plumage, to the sight",1.0 +So pleasing in its pomp and glossy glow.,0.0 +"Those pansies, that reclining from the bank,",1.0 +"Might as well change their tripled boast, the white,",3.0 +"The Eastern monarch's garb, even with the dock,",5.0 +The tribes of woodland warblers would remain,0.0 +"Mute on the bending branches, nor recite",1.0 +"The praise of him, who, ever he formed their lord,",3.0 +"Their voices tuned to transport, winged their flight,",0.0 +"And bade them call for nurture, and receive;",1.0 +"And lo! they call; the blackbird and the thrush,",1.0 +"He hears and feeds their feathered families,",0.0 +"He feeds his sweet musicians, ' -- nor neglects",1.0 +The invoking ravens in the greenwood wide;,2.0 +"They mean it all for music, thanks and praise",0.0 +"But not to all, ' -- for hark the organs blow",0.0 +"Their swelling notes round the cathedral's dome,",1.0 +"And grace the harmonious choir, celestial feast",6.0 +"To pious ears, and medicine of the mind;",1.0 +"Join in accordance meet, and with one voice",2.0 +All to the sacred subject suit their song.,0.0 +While in each breast sweet melancholy reigns,1.0 +"The Sun through storied panes surveys with awe,",0.0 +"Here, as her home, from morn to eve frequents",1.0 +The cherub Gratitude; ' -- behold her eyes!,0.0 +"Ecstatic smiles; the incense, that her hands",1.0 +"Is more than voice can tell; to him she sings,",1.0 +"To him who feeds, who clothes, and who adorns,",1.0 +"Who made, and who preserves, whatever dwells",1.0 +"In air, in steadfast earth, or sickle sea.",1.0 +"OH He is good, he is immensely good!",1.0 +"Who all things formed, and formed them all for man;",1.0 +"Who marked the climates, varied every zone,",0.0 +Dispensing all his blessings for the best,1.0 +"In order and in beauty: ' -- rise, attend,",1.0 +"Attest, and praise, you quarters of the world!",1.0 +"Bow down, you elephants, submissive bow",1.0 +"Who is as great, as perfect, and as good",2.0 +"In his less striking wonders, till at length",3.0 +"The eye's at fault, and seeks the assisting glass.",2.0 +"Approach and bring from Araby the blessed,",1.0 +"The fragrant cassia, frankincense, and myrrh,",2.0 +And meekly kneeling at the altar's foot,1.0 +Lay all the tributary incense down.,2.0 +"Stoop, sable Africa, with reverence stoop,",4.0 +And from thy brow take off the painted plume;,3.0 +With golden ingots all thy camels load,0.0 +"TO adorn his temples, hasten with thy spear",2.0 +"And ruined towers, rude rocks, and caverns wide",3.0 +"And thou, fair Indian, whose immense domain",4.0 +"Haste from the West, and with thy fruits and flowers,",1.0 +"Thy mines and medicines, wealthy maid, attend.",2.0 +Is thine; thine therefore be a portion due,2.0 +Of thanks and praise: come with thy brilliant crown,2.0 +And vest of furr; and from thy fragrant lap,1.0 +"But chiefly thou, Europa, seat of Grace",1.0 +"And Christian excellence, his Goodness own,",1.0 +Forth from ten thousand temples pour his praise;,3.0 +Clad in the armour of the living God,1.0 +"With fortitude assume, and over your heart",2.0 +Fair truth's invulnerable breastplate spread;,3.0 +"Then join the general chorus of all worlds,",1.0 +And let the song of charity begin,1.0 +"Thou God of Goodness and of Glory, hear!",1.0 +"Assuming passions to enforce thy laws,",1.0 +Adopting jealousy to prove thy love:,1.0 +"Thou, who resigned humility uphold,",1.0 +Even as the tempest rives the stubborn oak:,1.0 +"Bless all mankind, and bring them in the end",3.0 +"To heaven, to immortality, and THEE!",1.0 +CELESTIAL Muse that on the blissful plain,1.0 +"Art oft invoked, to guide the immortal strain;",2.0 +"Inspired by thee, the firstborn sons of light",2.0 +Hailed the creation in a tuneful flight:,2.0 +"Pleased with thy voice, the spheres began their round,",0.0 +The morning stars danced to the charming sound;,2.0 +"Yet thou hast often left the crystal towers,",0.0 +To visit mortals in their humble bowers.,0.0 +The springs of motion and the seeds of light.,1.0 +"The sun stood still, to hear his radiant birth,",1.0 +With the formation of the balanced earth.,2.0 +"The moon on high checked her nocturnal car,",2.0 +By whose command their towering heads were reared.,0.0 +The flowers their gay original attend;,3.0 +"Their tufted crowns the groves, adoring, bend.",0.0 +"The fountains rose, the streams their course withheld,",0.0 +To hear the ocean's wondrous source revealed.,0.0 +"The birds sit silent on the branches near,",2.0 +"How, from the dust, their great forefather sprung:",2.0 +"A vital call awoke him from the ground,",1.0 +The moving clay obeyed the almighty sound.,2.0 +Thus sung in lofty strains the noble bard;,1.0 +The heavens and earth their own formation heard.,2.0 +"But thou, propitious Muse, a gentler fire",1.0 +When royal Lebanon heard the amorous king,4.0 +The beauties of his loved Egyptian sing:,1.0 +"The sacred lays a mystic sense enfold,",0.0 +And things divine in human types were told.,0.0 +"Disdain not, gentle power, my song to grace,",2.0 +While I the paths of heavenly justice trace;,2.0 +"And twine a blooming garland for the youth,",1.0 +"Let others tell of ancient conquests won,",2.0 +"Heros enslaved to pride, and wild desires",2.0 +"A virgin Muse, a virgin theme requires;",0.0 +"Where vice and wanton beauty quit the field,",0.0 +And guilty loves to steadfast virtue yield.,1.0 +"Jacob, with heaven's peculiar favour blessed,",5.0 +"Leaving the fertile regions of the East,",3.0 +"Where Haran, then a noble city, stood,",0.0 +"Between fair Tigris, and Euphrates flood",2.0 +"From Laban fled, and by divine command",1.0 +Pursued his journey to his native land.,1.0 +"Loaded with wealth, his numerous camels bore",4.0 +"His wives, his children, and his household store;",2.0 +"Of purchased slaves he led an endless train,",0.0 +"The shepherd's art was all his fathers knew,",0.0 +His sons the same industrious life pursue;,2.0 +The God his pious ancestors adored,5.0 +"The almighty God, at Bethel, he implored:",2.0 +"An altar there, with grateful vows he reared,",1.0 +Where twice the radiant vision had appeared;,0.0 +The powers of hell the dreadful omen feared:,2.0 +The raving priests amazing things divine.,0.0 +Around it rose a consecrated wood;,0.0 +And made below uninterrupted night.,5.0 +"Pale tapers hung around in equal rows,",1.0 +The mansion of the sullen king disclose;,1.0 +Seven brazen gates its horrid entrance guard;,0.0 +Within the cries of infant ghosts were heard;,0.0 +"On seven high altars rise polluted fires,",3.0 +While human victims feed the ruddy spires.,0.0 +The native gloom and dismal vaults of hell.,0.0 +"'Twas night, and goblins in the darkness danced,",1.0 +The priests in frantic visions lay entranced;,0.0 +"While here convened the Pagan terrors sat,",0.0 +"In solemn council, and mature debate,",1.0 +Avert the storm impending over their state.,2.0 +"The apostate princes with resentment fired,",2.0 +"Anxious, and bent on black designs, conspired",2.0 +To find out schemes successful to efface,1.0 +"From whence they knew, the long predicted king,",0.0 +The infernal empire's destined foe should spring;,1.0 +"Who conqueror over their vanquished force should tread,",4.0 +And all their captive chiefs in triumph lead.,0.0 +"The affair their deepest policy commands,",2.0 +"And brought them hither, from remotest lands;",1.0 +"And where the Adrian wave, and where the Atlantic roars.",3.0 +With snowy steeds: him at the rising dawn,0.0 +"The Syrian worships from his airy hills,",3.0 +"And like his own resplendent planet fair,",0.0 +"With yellow tresses, and enchanting eyes",1.0 +"Dissembling beauty, would the fiend disguise.",0.0 +"Nor failed a deity of female name,",2.0 +Melita left her Babylonian bowers;,2.0 +"In all the summer's various lustre gay,",2.0 +Detested Orgies to the goddess pay.,1.0 +"These various powers, their various schemes propose",6.0 +Of an alluring mien above the rest,1.0 +Who thus the apostate potentates addressed.,2.0 +"Mankind by willing steps to ruin move,",1.0 +"Their own wild passions their destruction prove,",2.0 +But the most fatal is forbidden love.,2.0 +"Old Jacob boasts a daughter young and fair,",1.0 +"Who lately saw her with her virgin train,",1.0 +"I'll fill his youthful breast with mad desire,",0.0 +"By fraud, or force, his wishes to acquire.",1.0 +"The coming day he does a feast prepare,",0.0 +By me instructed how to hide the snare:,2.0 +"Fair Dinah is his sister's promised guest,",2.0 +Impatient love will soon complete the rest.,0.0 +"To right, with hostile arms, the Hebrew's shame:",0.0 +"Revenge and bloody faction are my care,",1.0 +Attest thy freedom with the Assyrian maids:,5.0 +"Thy voice, applauded in the heavenly groves,",2.0 +Was there devoted to terrestrial loves:,4.0 +"Thy sacred lyre to human subjects strung,",0.0 +"This graced thy hand, a quiver hung behind,",0.0 +Prevailed on numbers of the heavenly powers;,3.0 +"Who vainly had the first probation stood,",0.0 +"Long after I, with my associates, fell;",4.0 +Thy friends enlarged the monarchy of hell;,1.0 +"On softer motives you abhorred the skies,",1.0 +The sons of God thus with the race of man,2.0 +Were mingled; hence the giant stock began.,0.0 +"Our plot requires us now, and if it fail,",1.0 +"I'll, in my turn, the hated tribe assail;",0.0 +Domestic faction may at last prevail.,1.0 +"Joseph, his doting father's life and joy,",2.0 +"This youth, above the rest, excites my fear,",0.0 +Divine presages in his face appear;,5.0 +"His brothers, acted by my powerful fire,",3.0 +Against his envied life shall all conspire.,0.0 +"Joseph removed, old Jacob's greatest prop,",3.0 +"The race shall mourn, in him, their blasted hope.",1.0 +Crowning the double plot with vast applause.,2.0 +And sought with eager eyes the breaking day;,0.0 +"With ardent longings waits the promised hour,",0.0 +And fancies all his wishes in his power;,0.0 +"Sidonia, guiltless of her brother's snares,",3.0 +To grace her lovely Hebrew guest prepares;,0.0 +"Who with her young companions now appears,",0.0 +"Too innocent for nice reserves, or fears.",2.0 +A rosy tincture paints her guiltless face:,0.0 +"Sparkle with life, and dart immortal grace.",2.0 +"Rich orient bracelets, round her snowy arms,",6.0 +"Where, at the pomp of one surprising feast,",1.0 +She meets the luxury of all the East.,1.0 +"The people's customs, and their strange attire;",1.0 +"Till modest rules, and the declining day,",1.0 +"But ah! Too late, she finds herself betrayed",1.0 +"A captive in his treacherous courts retained,",2.0 +"By fraud seduced, and brutal force constrained,",0.0 +In vain with tender sighs he strives to move,0.0 +The injured fair to voluntary love;,1.0 +"The strictest rules of chastity she knew,",1.0 +With all that to her great descent was due;,0.0 +"But what with gentle arts he fails to gain,",0.0 +His wild desires by violence obtain.,1.0 +"The hateful tidings reached her father's ears,",0.0 +And almost sunk his venerable years:,2.0 +"Her brothers rage, and for revenge combine:",1.0 +But guard with secret guile their black design.,0.0 +"The town in feasts consumed the second day,",0.0 +And plunged at night in fearless riot lay.,0.0 +"The restless shepherd's ere the lingering dawn,",0.0 +"Each held his sword, for horrid action drawn:",0.0 +"Surprised the city like a rising flood,",0.0 +"Raged through the streets, and bathed their swords in blood.",0.0 +"The Hebrews, pleased with this successful fate,",1.0 +"Sprung furious on, and forced the palace gate:",2.0 +"Fierce Simeon through the bright apartments flew,",2.0 +"And old and young, without distinction, slew.",0.0 +Was with the charming Israelite retired;,1.0 +"And first by mad insulting Levi found,",0.0 +Without a pause he gave the desperate wound.,0.0 +He said; and down the bleeding victim fell:,1.0 +"His fatal mistress turns away her eyes,",0.0 +"With horror seized, and trembling with surprise.",1.0 +And to their tents the penitent conveyed.,2.0 +But Judah thus defends the hostile act.,0.0 +Our wives and sisters in our sight constrain;,0.0 +"While we, regardless of the shameful stain,",2.0 +"They first entrenched on hospitable trust,",5.0 +And human faith; – our vengeance is but just.,1.0 +"Such justice never mingle with my fame,",1.0 +"Good Israel cries, nor spot my guiltless name!",0.0 +"The realms around, who idol Gods revere,",0.0 +Will this black deed with indignation hear;,2.0 +"And all their policy and rage unite,",2.0 +To blot our odious memory from the light.,3.0 +So hell believed; – but heaven a sacred dread,0.0 +Of Jacob's sons among the nations spread;,0.0 +"While he at Bethel, with a pious flame,",1.0 +"Illustrious Arba built and named the place,",2.0 +The boasted father of the giant race;,1.0 +"For them designed the monstrous plan appeared,",1.0 +To heaven the threatening battlements were reared.,1.0 +"In careless joys and plenty here they live,",0.0 +"Beneath the hill, on which their city stood,",0.0 +Ascended high a venerable wood;,1.0 +"To solemn shades, which gave a secret dread.",0.0 +"Concealed a vaulted structure for the dead,",1.0 +This Abram of the giant nation bought:,1.0 +"The cave, the wood, the springs, and bordering field,",2.0 +"Ephron, their prince, by public contract sealed.",3.0 +Here to their purchased right the shepherd's drive,0.0 +"Their fleecy charge, and unmolested live;",0.0 +"While frequent through the consecrated ground,",1.0 +Inscriptions and old monuments they found.,3.0 +"Wherever celestial visions had appeared,",2.0 +The pious worshippers an altar reared;,1.0 +"The mystic name to mortals long unknown,",0.0 +Was deeply figured on the polished stone;,1.0 +That heavenly powers had there conversed with men.,4.0 +Remote from this a lofty pillar stood;,1.0 +This Jacob to the rural concourse showed;,2.0 +"Here see, he said, the memory retained",1.0 +Of Abram's conquest near Damascus gained.,0.0 +"To distant lands the Eastern rule was spread,",0.0 +And Jordan's banks a yearly tribute paid:,0.0 +"The neighbouring kings, his great allies, engaged;",2.0 +Conquest wherever they turn attends their course.,4.0 +And for the victory his ranks dispose;,2.0 +"But scarce the encounter could be called a fight,",2.0 +So soon the troops of Sodom took their flight:,0.0 +"The coward race, unused to charge a foe,",0.0 +"Some seek the woods, and some a sheltering cave;",2.0 +"Some in the rocks their breath, inglorious, save;",2.0 +"While others, plunging down fair Jordan's tide,",2.0 +From the stern looks of war their faces hide.,2.0 +"The invaders sheath their swords, and scorn to grace",1.0 +With martial deaths the despicable race.,4.0 +"Bera alone and Lot sustained the field,",2.0 +But pressed by numbers were compelled to yield:,1.0 +"These, with the riches of the town, a prey",2.0 +"This Abram heard, and gathered on the plain",5.0 +"A valiant band, his own domestic train:",0.0 +"Brothers, all three from noble Amor sprung.",2.0 +"'Twas night, secure the victor army lies,",1.0 +"Scornful of foes, and fearless of surprise;",3.0 +"Over all the host, and clouds their drowsy heads;",0.0 +"To the high throne of sense soft slumber climbs,",3.0 +"The captives eyes alone its force repelled,",0.0 +Nor to the pleasing violence would yield.,2.0 +"Now near the camp the brave Confederates draw,",0.0 +And by the glimmering fires its posture saw;,3.0 +"The foremost rank, the swift invaders slew,",1.0 +And soon the waking prisoners heard and knew,0.0 +"Abram his nephew, he the rest untied;",1.0 +The sleeping foe avenging swords supplied:,0.0 +"From file to file the fearless brothers pass,",0.0 +And leave them breathless on the purple grass.,1.0 +"The old patriarch feels new life in every vein,",7.0 +"The terror grows, the clash of arms, and cries",0.0 +Of wounded men afflict the ambient skies.,2.0 +And from his eyes the fatal slumber shakes.,1.0 +And madly haste to meet the loud alarm;,0.0 +"But by a force more prevalent outdone,",3.0 +On certain fate with eager steps they run;,0.0 +"Disordered and amazed, they quit the field,",1.0 +"And, raving, to their unknown victors yield.",6.0 +"The morning rose, and with her blushing light",1.0 +The joyful shepherd's seize the abandoned spoils:,2.0 +"And now returning from their martial toils,",1.0 +"A royal priest at Salem Abram meets,",3.0 +"With presents, and a benediction greets",1.0 +"The Hebrew bands: – To heaven he lifts his eyes,",0.0 +"And blessed be that propitious power, he cries,",2.0 +Who walks the crystal circuit of the skies;,1.0 +"Who hears the boasts of mortals with disdain,",1.0 +"His mien was solemn, and his face divine,",1.0 +"His graceful robe, a bright celestial blue,",0.0 +"Trailing behind, a train majestic drew.",2.0 +"The tenth of all great Abram gives the priest,",3.0 +"All pleased, the generous conqueror loudly praised,",4.0 +And to his fame this lasting column raised.,1.0 +To yonder mountains now direct your eyes;,0.0 +For there a brighter scene of glory lies.,1.0 +'Twas there the wondering sun in Abram viewed,3.0 +The noblest height of human fortitude;,0.0 +"The pious man in guiltless sleep lay drowned,",1.0 +When through his ears thundered this fatal sound.,5.0 +"Arise, and Isaac on mine altar lay,",1.0 +With thy own hand the destined victim slay.,1.0 +"He starts, and cries, who can this thought inspire?",1.0 +"The dreadful call again surprised his ears,",0.0 +"He bowed, and at the purple dawn arose,",0.0 +"Astonished long he by the altar stood,",1.0 +Then piled with trembling hands the sacred wood;,0.0 +"Half dead himself; The wondering youth he binds,",3.0 +Who now his sire's severe intention finds.,0.0 +"What thoughts, he asked, my father, have possessed",0.0 +Your soul? what horrid fury fills your breast?,0.0 +Am I to hell a sacrifice designed?,1.0 +Some cruel demon must your reason blind;,0.0 +"The unblemished skies abhor this bloody deed,",1.0 +No human victims on their altars bleed.,2.0 +"It's heaven, the Patriarch said, this fact requires,",3.0 +It's heaven – be witness yonder ethereal fires!,4.0 +"Yet, countless as the stars, from thee must spring",1.0 +"Victorious nations, and the mystic King:",3.0 +"It's past relief – yet by himself he swore,",1.0 +Who from the dead thy relics can restore;,1.0 +"This said, the pious youth resigned his life;",0.0 +"Blessed Abram shook off all paternal strife,",3.0 +And forward thrust the consecrated knife.,0.0 +"As lightning from the skies, an angel broke,",1.0 +And warded with his hand the fatal stroke;,1.0 +"When thus a voice streams downward from above,",2.0 +Breathing divine beneficence and love.,3.0 +"By my great self I swear, to bless thy race",2.0 +While vanquished kings obedient tribute pay.,2.0 +"Here Jacob ends, and to his tent retires;",1.0 +"MEAN time the Pagan deities, displeased",2.0 +"To find the public storms so soon appeased,",0.0 +"Studious attempt by new malicious ways,",1.0 +Among the Hebrews civil jars to raise:,0.0 +And kindling mischief threatens Joseph's life.,0.0 +"The lovely youth, fair Rachel's boasted son,",1.0 +"Completely formed, his seventeenth year begun;",1.0 +"His mother's sparkling eyes, and blooming grace,",0.0 +As poets sung inflamed the queen of love;,0.0 +When the clear streams his rosy blush display.,3.0 +In all his conduct something noble shone,0.0 +Which meant him for a greatness yet unknown.,1.0 +Visions had oft his rising fate foretold:,2.0 +"The last to Jacob thus his lips unfold,",0.0 +"His brothers by: – when sleep had closed mine eyes,",1.0 +A corny field before my fancy flies;,0.0 +Still to my thoughts the yellow crop appears!,0.0 +My brothers with me reaped the bending ears;,1.0 +"Industrious each a single sheaf had bound,",1.0 +"When theirs with sudden motion mine surround,",1.0 +And bowed with prostrate reverence to the ground.,1.0 +"But now my mind of rural business cleared,",0.0 +Above my head a wondrous scene appeared;,0.0 +"The moon and stars at highest noon shone bright,",1.0 +And at my feet with humble homage bend.,0.0 +The shepherd's hear his storey with surprise:,1.0 +"Must we thy vassals be? proud Ashur cries,",1.0 +With rage and threatening malice in his eyes.,0.0 +And black resolves and horrid thoughts inspires.,0.0 +At last young Joseph's murder is designed:,2.0 +Hell with the monstrous treachery combined.,1.0 +"He comes to Dothan, by his father sent,",1.0 +And heaven alone his ruin can prevent.,1.0 +"Their guiltless prey he stands, without defence,",0.0 +"But inborn worth, and fearless innocence.",2.0 +"His brothers' crimes, his father's hoary hairs",0.0 +Were all the subject that alarmed his fears.,0.0 +"The fatal stroke they now prepare to give,",0.0 +"By thus advising, – let your brother live.",0.0 +"A thousand easy methods yet remain,",0.0 +To render all his glorious projects vain;,2.0 +"But till we have determined the design,",2.0 +"To him they yield, and to their tents retire,",2.0 +The fiends below their own success admire.,0.0 +"The night prevails, and draws her sable train,",0.0 +"With silent pace, along the ethereal plain.",4.0 +By fits the dancing stars exert their beams;,0.0 +The silver crescent glimmers on the streams;,1.0 +"The sluggish waters, with a drowsy roar,",1.0 +"And lingering motion, roll along the shore;",0.0 +"Their murmur answers to the rustling breeze,",1.0 +That faintly whispers through the nodding trees;,1.0 +"The peaceful echoes, undisturbed with sound,",0.0 +"Frenzy and faction, love and envy slept;",2.0 +A still solemnity all nature kept;,1.0 +"To God's high throne a winged petition flew,",1.0 +And from the skies commissioned Gabriel drew;,3.0 +"One of the seven, who by appointed turns",3.0 +Before the throne ambrosial incense burns.,1.0 +"A sudden day, returning on the night,",1.0 +"Vanquished the shades, and put the stars to flight;",2.0 +"The enlightened cave receives the shining guest,",1.0 +In all his heavenly pomp divinely dressed;,2.0 +"He greets the youth, and thus his charge expressed.",0.0 +Tomorrow thou must leave rich Jordan's shore.,3.0 +"A great and grateful nation yet unknown,",0.0 +"Saved by thy care, shall thee their patron own;",1.0 +But let thy breast impenetrable prove,1.0 +"To wanton beauty, and forbidden love:",1.0 +The angel mounted on a radiant cloud.,1.0 +"The morning now her lovely face displayed,",0.0 +And with a rosy smile dispelled the shade.,1.0 +"The faction rose, and close in council sat,",0.0 +On means that must determine Joseph's fate;,0.0 +"Nor long they sat, for on the neighbouring road",3.0 +"A train of camels with their spicy load,",1.0 +"Heaven marks the way, the envious brothers cry:",2.0 +"Whatever the ambitious dreamer's thoughts portend,",5.0 +His hopes with these to foreign lands we'll send.,1.0 +Resolved no more his hated face to see.,1.0 +"With looks, which perfect inward anguish tell,",1.0 +"And falling tears, he took this sad farewell.",1.0 +May heavenly justice never avenge this crime!,4.0 +"Be still indulgent to my father's age,",1.0 +His grief for me with flattering hopes assuage.,3.0 +"They hear, they see the anguish of his soul,",1.0 +And scarce their struggling pity can control;,1.0 +"Touched with so sad a scene, they all begin",0.0 +"To feel remorse for this unnatural sin,",3.0 +And half repent: but hate and envy prove,0.0 +"Their victor passions, and repress their love.",1.0 +They form a specious fraud to hide the deed,0.0 +"From their old sire, and in the plot succeed.",3.0 +"Their brother's varied coat they still retained,",0.0 +And with a bleeding kid the vestment stained;,1.0 +Too well the lost old man the relic knows.,2.0 +"After a dismal pause, his sorrow breaks",2.0 +"Its violent way, and this sad language speaks.",2.0 +"My son! – alas, some savage monster's prey!",1.0 +Why have I lived to this detested day?,1.0 +"Why have I lingered thus? I should have died,",0.0 +"When thy more happy mother left my side,",0.0 +I could in thy resembling features trace.,1.0 +Tormenting thought! – OH hide me from the light!,3.0 +Its useless rays afflict my feeble sight:,0.0 +"Come lead me to the solitary grave,",2.0 +Despair and woe that dark retirement crave;,2.0 +"There shall I, stretched upon my dusty bed,",0.0 +"Forget the toils of life, and mingle with the dead.",1.0 +"In vain his friends attempt to bring relief,",0.0 +In vain persuade inexorable grief;,2.0 +"It's deep, and intermingled with his soul,",1.0 +"Nor time, nor counsel can its force control.",1.0 +"MEAN while through savage woods, and deserts vast,",0.0 +The level meads dressed with immortal green;,2.0 +"Between them fertile Nile directs his course,",0.0 +And nobly flows from his immortal source.,1.0 +"Along the borders of the sacred flood,",1.0 +Aspiring groves and stately cities stood:,0.0 +"The sun's devoted city, radiant On,",1.0 +"With roofs embossed, and golden foliage shone;",0.0 +"Raised to its height, as old tradition tells,",0.0 +"By powerful magic, and secured by spells:",3.0 +"Converse with hell, and practise rites impure.",0.0 +"Now mighty pyramids the sight surprise,",2.0 +Its lofty head among surrounding clouds:,0.0 +The fury of the universal flood.,1.0 +And over the fields their lengthening shades extend;,4.0 +"Their compass sacred to the dead remain,",1.0 +Within eternal night and silence reign;,0.0 +"But glaring lamps depending from on high,",1.0 +With sickly gleams the hollow space supply.,0.0 +"Here ancient kings, embalmed with wondrous cost,",0.0 +A long exemption from corruption boast:,1.0 +"In artful figures some are sitting placed,",0.0 +"While others stretched in sleeping postures lie,",0.0 +On folding carpets of imperial die:,3.0 +"Their hovering ghosts, pleased with this mimic pride,",2.0 +"But what prodigious things within were shown,",0.0 +"Were to the Hebrew stranger yet unknown,",1.0 +Astonished at their outward bulk alone.,0.0 +"Their fragrant traffic, with the handsome slave",1.0 +His mind beyond his years composed and grave;,0.0 +"His aspect something spoke divinely great,",1.0 +Something that marked him for a nobler fate.,3.0 +"A generous captain, chief of Pharaoh's bands,",2.0 +"Admiring much the graceful captive, stands,",0.0 +"A sudden friendship in his breast he finds,",0.0 +"Some heavenly being had prepared his thought,",2.0 +And on his heart the kind impression wrought.,1.0 +"Without regret, young stranger, follow me,",2.0 +From servitude this moment thou art free.,1.0 +That answered all the promise of his face.,1.0 +"Fronting the royal house, a structure crowned",2.0 +"Both pleased alike, and equally content.",2.0 +"The seat they reached, when for a costly vest",1.0 +The master called; in this the youth they dressed:,1.0 +"No more disparaged with a slave's attire,",2.0 +"His hair, like palest amber, from his crown",1.0 +In floating curls and shining waves fell down.,2.0 +"Young Paris such surprising charms displayed,",2.0 +"He laid his crook aside, forgot the swain,",0.0 +"Then for his wife the captain bids them send,",0.0 +And shows with boasting joy his purchased friend.,0.0 +"The fair Sabrina, lately made his bride,",0.0 +"Her large black eyes shone with a sprightly fire,",3.0 +And love at every fatal glance inspire.,0.0 +The swarthy lustre of her charming face,1.0 +The full blown lily and the rose disgrace.,2.0 +And curled about her neck in wanton rings.,0.0 +And to her own apartment soon withdrew.,1.0 +"Joseph beloved and happy long remained,",2.0 +"Who now at home grown prosperous, and abroad,",4.0 +"He gives him over his house the full command,",2.0 +Entrusting all his treasures to his hand.,1.0 +Mean time Sabrina feeds within her breast,1.0 +"A secret fire, but shame its rage suppressed,",0.0 +"When first she saw the charming Hebrew's eyes,",0.0 +But through her various arts an inward care,3.0 +"Cyrena found the change, a Syrian maid,",2.0 +"Wellborn, but from her native coasts betrayed:",2.0 +"She saw the change, but led by nicer laws,",0.0 +"Her voice, her easy wit, her eloquence,",1.0 +Could hold the wildest passion in suspense.,0.0 +"Attending oft her mistress to a grove,",1.0 +Their usual walk with pleasing tales she strove,2.0 +"To entertain her thoughts, and charm her grief;",0.0 +Nor failed her arts to give a short relief.,0.0 +"The Syrian pomp, their customs, and their loves:",3.0 +Among the rest Sabrina hears her name,0.0 +And asked her now the storey to relate;,1.0 +"Along the fields their tents the shepherd's spread,",0.0 +"The silent dawn was misty yet and grey,",0.0 +And hoary moisture on the mountains lay.,1.0 +"Intent on rural cares, with early haste,",0.0 +A peasant near a rocky cavern past;,0.0 +"Across his path was raised a mossy bed,",0.0 +Over that a rich embroidered mantle spread;,0.0 +Which fairer than the rosy morning smiled:,1.0 +"The wondering swain forgot his country cares,",2.0 +The royal lands and flocks were made his trust:,0.0 +"He riches still amassed without an heir,",0.0 +"And seeing now the child surpassing fair,",0.0 +He took and bred her with indulgent care;,1.0 +"In nothing he controls her growing years,",1.0 +No cost to please her boundless fancy spares.,1.0 +"When, by revolving moons, successive time",1.0 +"Had brought her beauty to its perfect prime,",2.0 +Presaging marks of majesty were seen:,3.0 +"No mortal ever could boast so fair a face,",3.0 +"Such radiant eyes, and so divine a grace.",1.0 +Her snowy vest a crimson girdle bound:,0.0 +"Thus dressed, she walks a goddess over the plains,",3.0 +"To her the fragrant tribute of the spring,",2.0 +With amorous zeal on bent knees they bring.,4.0 +Heroic Menon owned a fair retreat;,5.0 +"His rank, and early worth, the high command",0.0 +Of all the famed Assyrian force had gained:,2.0 +"In peaceful times the chief whom all admired,",0.0 +"To prove a softer happiness, retired;",1.0 +Proffered with sacred rites his vows to bind:,2.0 +On meaner terms she had his suit denied;,0.0 +"With virtue guarded and a noble pride,",1.0 +"The lover finds success, but all his joys",0.0 +A sudden summons from the king destroys.,1.0 +Himself in arms to meet the foe prepares.,0.0 +"Sad Menon, for his sighs and parting vows:",0.0 +"He cursed his martial charge, and public fame,",0.0 +"She hears the king's command with less surprise,",0.0 +"And, Menon, banish all your care, she cries:",5.0 +"We cannot – it's impossible to part,",2.0 +Love with heroic courage fires my heart.,2.0 +"To follow you through raging seas I'd go,",1.0 +"Over burning deserts, or perpetual snow.",3.0 +"By your example led, I shall not fear",1.0 +"The flying arrow, or the pointed spear;",1.0 +"Pierced with a fatal dart, were Menon by,",2.0 +"The event be what it will, with you I'll run",2.0 +"To certain death, nor any danger shun;",0.0 +"Be witness to my vows, thou radiant sun!",1.0 +"Nor can the adventurous deed my conduct stain,",3.0 +Secure with you the secret shall remain;,1.0 +"I boldly can defy all other eyes,",1.0 +"In threatening armour, and a martial guise.",1.0 +"New pleasure fills the hero's breast, to find",1.0 +"Such beauty, love, and steadfast virtue joined.",1.0 +"A thousand kind transporting things he said,",0.0 +A thousand vows of lasting passion made:,0.0 +"He sent, and dressed himself the smiling fair.",0.0 +"A costly helmet glittered on her head,",1.0 +"A plume of whitest feathers danced above,",0.0 +With every trembling breath of air they move.,0.0 +"The embroidered scarf that over her armour flowed,",3.0 +With dazzling flames of gold and scarlet glowed.,0.0 +"Her hand a javelin shook with mimic pride,",0.0 +A painted quiver rattled by her side.,1.0 +"Her height and mien adorn the warlike dress,",1.0 +More vigorous rays her charming eyes express.,2.0 +With golden trappings bounded through the crowd.,1.0 +"Menon, of Syrian arms the grace and pride,",2.0 +In ranks attend their mighty leader's course.,0.0 +Exalted on his glittering chariot rode.,5.0 +Resolved their fortress bravely to maintain;,1.0 +And oft to flight the Armenian troops compelled:,4.0 +"And fearless in the foremost ranks had fought,",1.0 +"Observed a rock, which over a castle leaned;",2.0 +Believing it from all access secure:,2.0 +She finds a path among the cliffs obscure;,0.0 +Then with a chosen band intrepid gains,0.0 +"The top, and soon the unguarded fort obtains.",2.0 +To her they give the conquest of the day.,2.0 +"All praised the youth, for such she was believed",2.0 +Her bold address each party had deceived;,0.0 +No more the fatal secret strives to hide;,0.0 +"Nor once imagined this unlucky boast,",1.0 +The joy of all his future life must cost.,0.0 +In other terms his gratitude renews.,0.0 +"To Babylon returned, he yet concealed",0.0 +"Too well he with a sad Reflection knows,",2.0 +"What to his counsel, and his sword he owes;",1.0 +These generous ties at first his love oppose:,2.0 +But nothing can the increasing rage restrain;,3.0 +By gentle means he yet his end would gain.,0.0 +"Menon, he said, my wishes to procure,",1.0 +"I'll give thee cities, and a boundless store",1.0 +"Of gold, and precious gems; and for a bride,",1.0 +A blooming princess to the crown allied:,1.0 +"All this, and more, to gain her love I'll give;",0.0 +"Resenting Menon, with a handsome pride,",2.0 +"Refused his offers, and the suit denied.",1.0 +The softer sex he next attempts to gain;,0.0 +She too rejects his passion with disdain.,1.0 +What now avail the glories of the East?,1.0 +"Nor wealth, nor empire can procure his rest.",1.0 +He tries more rigorous means to ease his care;,2.0 +"And threatens thus: – With my desires comply,",1.0 +Or soon prepare to see your hero die.,0.0 +"From Menon this she hides, who less severe",1.0 +Observes her to the amorous king appear:,3.0 +His fondness with the jealous passion grows;,1.0 +The mingled frenzy gives him no repose.,0.0 +"She false! he cries, my fair, enchanting wife!",0.0 +And can I yet protract this wretched life?,1.0 +"This anxious heart, with hopeless grief oppressed,",0.0 +"In death's cold shade shall find perpetual rest,",3.0 +"He said; then all the hostile stars defied,",0.0 +And plunged the fatal weapon in his side.,0.0 +With those loved accents on his lips he dies;,3.0 +"Sunk on the floor she sees her lover bleed,",0.0 +Himself the author of the barbarous deed;,3.0 +"But true to love, and virtue's strictest laws,",0.0 +"She neither knew, nor could suspect the cause.",0.0 +"Seized with a sudden horror and surprise,",1.0 +"And wake the doubtful spark of life, at last.",0.0 +A hollow groan ensues; with feeble sight,0.0 +"A steadfast sorrow in her face appears,",1.0 +Above the soft relief of female tears;,1.0 +"Silent as death, her words no utterance find,",5.0 +To tell the inward anguish of her mind:,1.0 +"A fixed, sedate, and rational despair",1.0 +"Composed her looks, and settled in her air.",0.0 +"In such a sullen calm the billows sleep,",0.0 +So smooth an aspect wears the gloomy deep;,1.0 +"While treacherous winds their gathering breath refrain,",4.0 +The impatient prince with just respect attends,1.0 +"Her ebbing grief, and long his flame suspends;",0.0 +And long her steadfast thoughts relentless prove,1.0 +"To proffered empire, and inviting love;",1.0 +Till fate itself her stubborn heart inclined,0.0 +"To take a crown, by all the stars designed,",0.0 +And fill a sphere proportioned to her mind.,1.0 +"With sovereign rule, and brighter pleasure blessed:",0.0 +But ah! how short a boast has mortal joy?,0.0 +What sudden storms the flattering calm destroy?,2.0 +"What human privilege, what lawless power",2.0 +Can one short day retard the appointed hour?,4.0 +"Thrice through the midnight silence, from the ground,",2.0 +The startled monarch hears a warning sound;,0.0 +And seems to beckon with his airy hands.,1.0 +"A sudden faintness seized his trembling heart,",0.0 +While hasty life retires from every part;,0.0 +"Speechless and pale his eyeballs roll in death,",3.0 +While with reluctant pangs he yields his breath.,1.0 +"The mournful princess to his merit just,",1.0 +With wondrous pomp interred the royal dust:,1.0 +"With marble spires, and pointed arches graced.",0.0 +She bids farewell to love's deceitful flame;,1.0 +"Resolved to leave behind a glorious name,",2.0 +In costly structures of immortal fame.,1.0 +The inward roof with dazzling silver gilded;,0.0 +"The god was fashioned in a wondrous mould,",0.0 +"His sacred utensils were all the same,",3.0 +While fragrant oils in golden sockets flame.,0.0 +Old Babel next with boundless cost she walled;,1.0 +And Babylon the spacious city called;,0.0 +"Its bounds with forts and battlements were crowned,",1.0 +Valleys and levelled hills the vast extent surround:,2.0 +Where fronting ranks of palaces were seen.,1.0 +"With streams, and groves, and painted meads between.",0.0 +"Euphrates in its course the town divides,",0.0 +While through the mid his stately current glides.,0.0 +"Around the place a hundred gates unfold,",0.0 +Through which a hundred glittering chariots rolled;,4.0 +"Which all for state attend the queen's commands,",0.0 +When she her progress makes through distant lands.,1.0 +"Resolved to visit now the neighbouring Medes,",2.0 +"Gay projects here employed her active mind,",2.0 +"Gardens, and seats of pleasure she designed;",3.0 +Luxurious nature with her art combined.,3.0 +"Not far from thence a plain extended lay,",0.0 +"The spreading palm, the cedar, and the pine,",1.0 +Arching above their mingled branches join.,2.0 +While marble bounds confine the crystal tides.,0.0 +"Myrtle, and balm, and flowery Cassia grow.",6.0 +"Prodigious rocks entire were hither brought,",2.0 +Smooth arches through their craggy sides were wrought:,2.0 +"Here artificial hills their summits rear,",0.0 +"In various bloom the valleys stood below,",2.0 +"Cinnamon, Frankincense, and weeping Myrrh.",2.0 +"Shrill birds among the spicy branches sing,",1.0 +Their warbling notes along the valleys ring:,0.0 +The winds and waters with a gentle noise,1.0 +"Double the sound, and answer every voice.",2.0 +"The queen a while had these diversions proved,",1.0 +And then her court to Babylon removed:,0.0 +But ah! what heights of happiness are free,1.0 +"From fickle chance, or certain destiny?",1.0 +The princess finds a swift decay control,0.0 +"Nor struggling nature could its force repel,",0.0 +While heaven and earth the public change foretell.,0.0 +The flattering priests this pleasing answer sent:,2.0 +"That from the Gods she drew her heavenly race,",2.0 +And shortly must the immortal number grace.,2.0 +"Pleased with the glories of her future state,",1.0 +She yields without reluctance to her fate.,1.0 +Cyrena ends her tale; the closing day,0.0 +"STILL with impatient love Sabrina pines,",2.0 +And now to speak the fatal truth designs;,0.0 +"Soothed by her own indulgent hopes, which trace",0.0 +A secret passion in the Hebrew's face.,0.0 +"He sighs, and when he thinks himself alone,",0.0 +"Oft seems some new misfortune to bemoan,",2.0 +"In foreign accents, and a tongue unknown.",1.0 +"Her vanity an explanation found,",1.0 +"And put a sense on every flattering sound,",2.0 +"Forgetful of her nuptial vows and fame,",1.0 +She fondly thus betrays her guilty flame.,0.0 +"If yet my torments are to thee unknown,",3.0 +"If yet my sighs the mystery have not shown,",1.0 +"Insensible, – let this confession prove",3.0 +"The strange excess, and grandeur of my love.",2.0 +"Yet had I still my wild desires suppressed,",0.0 +Had not thine eyes an equal flame confessed.,0.0 +"Let me be punished with the last disdain,",1.0 +Nor once your virtue in my heart accused.,0.0 +"My generous master, – I might say my friend;",3.0 +"Let scandal sink my name, when so unjust",2.0 +"I prove, so false to hospitable trust!",5.0 +Thus with a modest turn he would reclaim,0.0 +"Her amorous frenzy, and conceal her shame;",3.0 +"Nor waits her leave, but hastily withdrew.",1.0 +"Careless her limbs upon a couch she threw,",2.0 +And cursed her folly with a thousand tears;,1.0 +"Of so much grief she pressed to know the cause,",1.0 +At last the secret from her mistress draws.,1.0 +"For you have charms, the youth a human heart.",1.0 +"Your beauty might a savage breast inspire,",0.0 +At sight of you the coldest age takes fire.,2.0 +"Should, at the first address, be nice and coy?",0.0 +"He loves, no doubt, and languishes like you,",2.0 +But fears the ambitious motive to pursue:,3.0 +"Nor shall your utmost wishes want redress,",1.0 +I have a draught that gives divine success;,0.0 +"Nepenthe, which the immortals quaff above;",2.0 +With foreign pomp to seek the royal dame.,0.0 +Allured a goddess of the watery race;,3.0 +"Her chariot set with pearl, the wave divides,",2.0 +Softly along the silver stream she glides.,2.0 +"Her robes with pearl and sparkling rubies shine,",0.0 +Her brighter eyes express a light divine.,0.0 +Nor from her humid bed the blooming day,1.0 +Has ever ascended with a clearer ray.,3.0 +"Allay the winds, and calm the swelling seas.",0.0 +"She leaves her crystal vaults, and coral groves,",0.0 +"Her liquid kingdoms, and immortal loves,",1.0 +"At parting gave him this celestial spell,",1.0 +"My mother from this youth derives her line,",1.0 +"And this she left me, as a gift divine,",2.0 +By all her ancestors preserved with care;,5.0 +One heavenly drop shall banish your despair.,3.0 +"Her flattering nurse's charm she vainly tries,",2.0 +For Joseph still her hateful passion flies:,0.0 +"But obstinate in love to gain her ends,",1.0 +Planted with yew and mournful cyprus round;,2.0 +"Whose shadows every pleasing thought control,",1.0 +And fill with deep anxiety the soul.,1.0 +"Hither black fiends at dead of night advance,",3.0 +"They come, and here nocturnal revels keep.",0.0 +Whose hoary cliffs the clouds long order break.,1.0 +"In hellish banquets, and obscene delights,",1.0 +The cursed assembly here consume the nights.,0.0 +"The sickening moon her feeble light withholds,",1.0 +In sable clouds her argent horns she folds;,0.0 +"The constellations quench their glimmering fire,",2.0 +"Amid these horrors, in his echoing cells,",2.0 +"Passing from room to room, the brazen doors",2.0 +"Resound, as when exploded thunder roars.",1.0 +"The day excluded thence, blue sulphur burns,",1.0 +"The wizard here employs his mighty spells,",0.0 +And great events by divination tells;,0.0 +"Inscribing mystic figures on the ground,",1.0 +And muttering words of an unlawful sound;,3.0 +"Which from their tombs the shivering ghosts compel,",2.0 +And force them future secrets to reveal.,1.0 +"The stars he knew, when adverse, or benign;",2.0 +"When with malignant influence they shine,",2.0 +"Or, darting prosperous rays, to love incline.",2.0 +"The nurse a pleasing answer here obtained,",0.0 +"A third succeeding day shall crown your love,",0.0 +And every amorous star propitious prove.,2.0 +"Sabrina feeds the while her guilty flame,",0.0 +And now the third appointed morning came;,0.0 +The message with reluctance he attends.,2.0 +"Silent she sits; while waiting her commands,",3.0 +Fixed at a formal distance long he stands.,0.0 +"A close contempt, and inward hatred trace;",0.0 +Yet desperate to complete her own disgrace.,1.0 +"Ungrateful youth! she cries, too well I find",1.0 +"By these cold looks, thy unrelenting mind:",2.0 +Pretending some avenging God to fear.,0.0 +"What God, alas! does cruelty command?",1.0 +Or human bliss maliciously withstand?,1.0 +"Such thoughts as these the heavenly powers arraign,",5.0 +"Efface their goodness, and their justice stain.",1.0 +"Would they the generous principle control,",3.0 +Who gave this amorous bias to the soul?,3.0 +"What nature is, they made it: nor can bind",2.0 +With servile laws the freedom of the mind:,1.0 +"Were this our lot, happy the brutal kind,",6.0 +"That unmolested through the forest rove,",1.0 +"Licentious in their choice, and unconfined in love!",0.0 +Virtue! – a mere imaginary thing!,2.0 +"Torment it may, but can no pleasure bring.",3.0 +"Honour! – it's nothing but precarious fame,",3.0 +"For empty breath, for a fantastic name.",1.0 +"Wilt thou my soft entreaties still deny,",0.0 +"Consent at last to love's enchanting joys,",0.0 +While pleasure calls thee with her tempting voice:,1.0 +"These folding curtains shall our bliss conceal,",0.0 +That no intruding eye our theft reveal.,0.0 +"Deluded fair! the noble youth replies,",0.0 +Could we some artful labyrinth devise,0.0 +"To hide our sin, and far from mortal sight",0.0 +"Retire, involved in all the shades of night;",0.0 +Its vengeance would our treachery pursue;,1.0 +"Distinguished plagues would soon our guilt expose,",0.0 +In him a tender lover you must wrong.,1.0 +"For me, where should I hide my hated face,",0.0 +Could I be conscious of a crime so base?,1.0 +"No, let me through the yawning earth descend,",2.0 +Rather than with such insolence offend,2.0 +"The laws of God, and kindness of my friend!",1.0 +"When with a thought so horrid and profane,",1.0 +My faith and spotless loyalty I stain;,1.0 +And bolts of raging thunder strike me dead!,0.0 +"Destroy my peace, and blast my hated name!",0.0 +"These words with such an awful air he spoke,",1.0 +"Celestial virtue sparkling in his look,",0.0 +"His haughty mistress all her hopes resigned,",0.0 +And felt a different frenzy seize her mind:,0.0 +"Assisting fiends the hellish thought suggest,",0.0 +And blot the tender passion from her breast.,1.0 +A crimson scarf with ornamental pride,0.0 +Was over his graceful shoulders loosely tied;,2.0 +"This furiously she snatched, while from the embrace",4.0 +"He frees himself, and quits the hated place.",0.0 +"She called aloud, her voice Cyrena hears,",0.0 +"And of the Hebrew's arrogance complains,",2.0 +"Alarmed at her repeated calls, she said,",1.0 +"The monster left his cursed design, and fled.",0.0 +His scarf the truth confirmed: her lord the while,0.0 +Returns; her words his easy faith beguile:,0.0 +"Blinded with rage he calls the injured youth,",2.0 +"With that undaunted air, and guiltless face?",0.0 +"Hypocrisy so steady and complete,",2.0 +"A villain, cautious as thyself, might cheat;",1.0 +No wonder then thy practised saintly shows,1.0 +My soul entire to thee I did resign;,1.0 +"Except my bed, whatever I had was thine.",3.0 +"In fetters let the ungrateful slave be tied,",2.0 +Some gloomy dungeon shall the monster hide.,0.0 +"Dungeons he said, and chains I can defy,",3.0 +"But would not, cursed with your displeasure, die.",1.0 +This sad reflection aggravates my fate;,0.0 +How shall I bear my generous master's hate?,2.0 +"O stay! at last my vindication hear,",1.0 +My thoughts are all from this injustice clear.,1.0 +Nor one accusing word her fraud reveals.,1.0 +Joseph in ignominious chains is laid.,4.0 +"'TWAS night, and now advanced the solemn hour;",1.0 +"The keeper of the prison, from his tower,",2.0 +"Astonished, sees a form divinely bright,",0.0 +"Smile through the shades, and dissipate the night;",0.0 +It enters where the newcome prisoner lay.,0.0 +"Some God, he cries, who innocence defends,",1.0 +Some God in that propitious light descends.,0.0 +"This stranger sure, whatever the fact can be",3.0 +"Alleged against him, from the guilt is free.",1.0 +"The sacred vision to the youth appears,",1.0 +His spirits with celestial fragrance cheers.,1.0 +"His heavenly smiles would even despair control,",4.0 +And with immortal rapture fill the Soul.,1.0 +"His youthful brows a fair Tiara crowned,",0.0 +"A folding zone his gaudy vestments bound,",0.0 +"Such wings the Arabian Phoenix never wore,",4.0 +Sprinkled with gold and shading purple over.,2.0 +"Beneficent his aspect and address,",3.0 +"His voice might stay the invading sleep of death,",2.0 +While these soft words flow with his balmy breath.,1.0 +"From endless pleasures, and unbounded love,",1.0 +"From painted fields decked with immortal flowers,",2.0 +"From blissful valleys, and ethereal bowers,",3.0 +"I come, commissioned by peculiar grace,",1.0 +With great presages to thy future race.,3.0 +This Gabriel spoke; the pious Hebrew's breast,2.0 +Prophetic flame and power divine confessed;,2.0 +"An awful silence, and profound suspense,",1.0 +Closed the tumultuous avenues of sense;,5.0 +"The heavenly trance, each wandering thought confined,",4.0 +"Collects the operations of the mind,",1.0 +While Gabriel all the inward scene designed.,1.0 +"Before him, raised to high dominion, all",0.0 +His humble brothers in prostration fall;,0.0 +"His joyful eyes again his father see,",0.0 +"Vastly in numbers Jacob's sons increased,",2.0 +"Poor vassals by the Egyptians are distressed,",5.0 +And by a royal tyrant's yoke oppressed:,3.0 +"To heaven they cry, an aid that never fails,",0.0 +"Heaven hears the cry, the potent prayer prevails.",0.0 +"A mighty prophet, by divine command;",1.0 +"Does bold before the raging monarch stand,",0.0 +And brings his great credentials in his hand.,0.0 +Across the ground his wondrous rod he throws;,0.0 +"The rod transformed a moving serpent grows,",0.0 +"Unfolds his speckled train, and over the pavement flows.",2.0 +"A dazzling train of miracles ensue,",1.0 +Which speak the prophet and his mission true.,1.0 +"The springs, the standing lakes, and running flood",0.0 +His powerful word converts to reeking blood;,2.0 +"The wounded billows stain the verdant shore,",0.0 +Advancing slowly with a mournful roar.,1.0 +"Infernal night her sable wings extends,",0.0 +The seer denounces plagues on man and beast;,0.0 +Contagious torments soon the air infest;,1.0 +"Aloud he bids a sudden tempest rise,",0.0 +On rapid wings the storm obedient flies;,2.0 +"The extended skies are rent from pole to pole,",1.0 +"Blue lightnings flash, and dreadful thunders roll.",1.0 +"Nor yet the obdurate king the God reveres,",0.0 +Whom every element obsequious fears;,3.0 +"Till vengeful strokes of power confessed divine,",2.0 +"With clear, but terrible conviction shine.",1.0 +"The night was covered with unusual dread,",1.0 +While every star malignant influence shed.,2.0 +"While, like a flaming meteor, down the skies,",1.0 +With threatening speed the fatal angel flies.,0.0 +"Reluctant justice, with a grace severe,",1.0 +"Sits in his looks, and triumphs in his air.",0.0 +A crested helmet shades his awful brows;,0.0 +And like an evening's ruddy meteor glows.,2.0 +"Destruction, death, and terror on him wait;",1.0 +"Mortal the stroke, invisible the wound,",3.0 +While dying groans with mingled shrieks resound.,1.0 +"From house to house the dreadful rumour runs,",0.0 +While wretched fathers mourn their firstborn sons.,1.0 +"The alarmed Egyptians, at the breaking day,",1.0 +Hurry the sacred multitude away;,2.0 +"But Pharaoh soon his daring sin renews,",0.0 +"The fearful tribes stand trembling on the shore,",2.0 +"The foe behind, a raging sea before.",0.0 +"Their glorious chief extends his powerful wand,",4.0 +And gives the mighty signal from the strand;,1.0 +"The obedient waves the mighty signal take,",3.0 +"And parting, crowd the distant surges back;",0.0 +"On either hand, like crystal hills, they rise;",0.0 +"Between, a wide stupendous valley lies:",0.0 +"With joyful shouts the grateful Hebrews pass,",0.0 +Nor does the hardened foe decline the chase;,0.0 +"Till heaven's command the watery chain dissolves,",4.0 +"While Israel through the desert takes their way,",1.0 +Led by a cloud which marches on by day;,1.0 +Commanded now the sacred tribes remain;,0.0 +"Prepared with mystic rites, to hear with awe",0.0 +"Close bounds the mountain guard from all approach,",1.0 +"Reluctant see appointed morning rise,",0.0 +"While from the ethereal summit God descends,",3.0 +Beneath his feet the starry convex bends.,1.0 +"His radiant form majestic darkness hides,",0.0 +While on a tempest rapid wings he rides.,0.0 +"The trembling earth his awful presence owns,",0.0 +"Each river back his wandering current calls,",2.0 +"And rushing down the subterranean falls,",4.0 +Revealed and bare each sandy channel lies.,0.0 +"Their stately heads the ancient mountains sink,",0.0 +And to a level with the vales would shrink;,2.0 +Beneath the waves would hide their fearful heads.,0.0 +That pressed with awful feet his cloudy height;,0.0 +"Obscured with blackness, shades, and curling smoke,",0.0 +Prodigious lightnings from the darkness broke;,1.0 +The ethereal trumpet sounding loud and high.,3.0 +"Adoring low the pious nation bend,",0.0 +And now the solemn voice of God attend:,0.0 +"The angel shifts the scene, and leaves the rest",0.0 +"Inimitable all, and not to be expressed.",1.0 +"The golden altar, with attending priests,",1.0 +"Their sacred pomp, and instituted vests.",0.0 +The warlike sons of Jacob now obtain:,1.0 +"Before the troops a glorious leader stands,",2.0 +"Thou sun! to lengthen this victorious day,",3.0 +"And thou, fair morn! retard thy hasty flight,",2.0 +"This said, the flying army they pursue,",1.0 +"The promised land entirely gained, they spread",2.0 +But with the night the pleasing vision flies,1.0 +"Gabriel unsealed the youthful prophet's eyes,",1.0 +"His senses from the heavenly trance released,",3.0 +And all the sacred agitation ceased.,0.0 +The thoughtful keeper early to the vault,1.0 +"Descends, and thence the injured prisoner brought;",0.0 +"Treats him with kindness, and a just regard,",1.0 +And gave him all the freedom of the ward.,1.0 +"Of Pharaoh's servants two were here detained,",0.0 +"The steward, who his table did command,",0.0 +With him that filled the royal cup with wine;,1.0 +Suspected both as traitors in design.,0.0 +"Joseph, observing a dejected air",3.0 +"Sat heavy in their eyes, with friendly care",1.0 +Mysterious dreams of the past night they tell.,4.0 +And thus the first: – Methought a bulky vine,5.0 +"With purple grapes, and to my hand incline:",1.0 +"I pressed the tempting fruit without control,",0.0 +Then gave to Pharaoh's hand the flowing bowl.,0.0 +The next begins: – Three canisters replete,2.0 +"Oppressed my drooping head, while birds of prey",0.0 +"Unhappy man! thy dream from God was sent,",0.0 +"The Hebrew said, and full of black portent:",3.0 +"The third returning day shall bring thy doom,",0.0 +When thou a prey to vultures shalt become.,0.0 +"Then to the first, these joyful comments sound;",0.0 +"Before the sun has twice fulfilled his round,",0.0 +"But in the triumph of thy prosperous fate,",3.0 +"Kindly remember my unhappy state,",3.0 +Who by the blackest falsehood here am stayed;,1.0 +To this the man a courtier's promise made.,1.0 +Her bosom with the raging passion burns:,1.0 +And all her former cruelty repents.,1.0 +"By her accused, in chains the captive lies,",1.0 +For whom she fondly languishes and dies.,1.0 +"Tormented, and enraged, she often cursed",2.0 +"A deep remorse, from conscience of her sin,",1.0 +With constant horrors vex her soul within.,0.0 +"Her thoughts ten thousand racking torments feel,",2.0 +Yet in her treacherous crime obdurate still.,2.0 +"Her life and youthful spirits melt away,",0.0 +Her beauty withers with a swift decay:,1.0 +"By day she wildly raves, consumes the night",0.0 +While airy terrors glide before her sight.,0.0 +"Pale ghosts with wide distorted eyeballs stare,",2.0 +"Till forced by fate, and torments more intense,",1.0 +"To vindicate suspected innocence,",2.0 +"And now he comes – insulting death! she cries,",0.0 +Perpetual darkness swims before my eyes.,2.0 +"If there are Gods that human things regard,",1.0 +My monstrous crimes will meet a just reward.,0.0 +O sacred virtue! at thine awful name,0.0 +"I start, and all my former thoughts disclaim;",0.0 +"For thou art no fantastic empty thing,",1.0 +"The world, the boundless universe I'd give,",0.0 +"It's vainly wished! – to some strange realms below,",1.0 +Some dark uncomfortable coasts I go.,1.0 +"She spoke, and gasping in the pangs of death,",0.0 +With lingering agonies resigned her breath:,1.0 +While Joseph by the courtier was forgot;,4.0 +Till fate the period of his freedom brought.,1.0 +"The Egyptian monarch from a short repose,",2.0 +"And troubled visions, with the morning rose.",1.0 +"TO explain the doubtful omens in his breast,",1.0 +He summons every planetary priest:,0.0 +"Their orders, which to different stars belong,",0.0 +"Were soon assembled, a surprising throng;",1.0 +"Sullen their looks, and varied was their vest,",3.0 +A wild Devotion through the whole expressed.,1.0 +"One wore a mantle of a leaden hue,",1.0 +Trailing behind a sweeping length it drew;,2.0 +"Mandrake, and Nightshade, strangely figured over;",2.0 +"A treble twist of serpents curling round,",0.0 +"With some a verdant forest seemed to move,",0.0 +"With panthers, bears, and every savage beast",0.0 +"Expressed in lively colours, some were dressed.",0.0 +On others eagles spread their wings; on some,0.0 +"Appeared the ostrich' hieroglyphic plume,",0.0 +"While others wore a painted crocodile,",0.0 +With all the monstrous progeny of Nile.,1.0 +With budding roses had adorned his hair.,0.0 +"Glittered with pearl, and imitated frost.",2.0 +"Clear fountains, flowery walks, and myrtle groves,",3.0 +"Peacocks with gaudy trains, and shining doves.",1.0 +"The prince with anxious looks relates his dreams,",0.0 +The doubtful sages search their heavenly schemes:,2.0 +"But all their stars were mute, the meaning flies",0.0 +The bearer of the cup did now reflect,1.0 +"On his past danger, and his base neglect;",3.0 +And thus his royal master he addressed:,1.0 +"Be Pharaoh's bounty, and my guilt confessed,",1.0 +"When with my fellow criminal detained,",1.0 +"We by thy justice in the ward remained,",1.0 +"A Hebrew youth, unjustly there confined,",1.0 +"From nightly omens which perplexed the mind,",0.0 +With clear conviction did our lot unfold;,0.0 +"Amid the solemn darkness of the night,",1.0 +His cell was glittered with ethereal light;,3.0 +"Joseph, unfettered, they from prison bring,",3.0 +"By heaven inspired, he stands before the King;",2.0 +Who thus repeats his dream: Methought I stood,5.0 +On the fair borders of our sacred flood:,3.0 +"While, curious, I surveyed the spreading stream,",3.0 +"Seven bulky oxen from the river came,",1.0 +"They proudly ranged, and on the pasture fed;",1.0 +"When just their number rose, of aspect four,",1.0 +"The scene was changed, when springing in my walk,",0.0 +Seven blades of corn adorned one bending stalk,0.0 +Ripened and full; when lo! a second rears,2.0 +"This swallowed greedily the former store,",1.0 +As the lean oxen did the fat before.,2.0 +"I woke with great anxiety oppressed,",1.0 +And for the meaning every God addressed.,1.0 +"The Almighty God over earth and skies supreme,",5.0 +"The youthful prophet cries, has sent this dream",0.0 +"To Pharaoh, which discovers future things;",0.0 +What changes on the world his pleasure brings.,1.0 +"With one intent the sacred vision came,",1.0 +Of both the hidden meaning is the same.,1.0 +The fields with boundless harvest shall be crowned;,0.0 +And leave no remnant of the former store.,2.0 +But that the people and the king may live,1.0 +"This counsel heaven commissions me to give,",1.0 +"That wasteful luxury should be restrained,",1.0 +"Let these against the threatening ill provide,",2.0 +"Lay up the corn, and over the stores preside.",2.0 +"This youth by some propitious power was sent,",2.0 +"The prince replies, our ruin to prevent;",1.0 +"Then bids them an imperial vestment bring,",3.0 +And from his finger draws a costly ring:,1.0 +"And this, he said, a sacred pledge shall be",1.0 +"My power, my kingdom, I to thee resign,",4.0 +The sovereign title only shall be mine;,0.0 +"Our guardian God, our great preserver thou!",3.0 +Should be prepared: white steeds with scarlet reins,1.0 +"The triumph drew; they champ the golden bit,",0.0 +And spurn the dusty ground with airy feet.,0.0 +"On high with princely pomp the youth was placed,",0.0 +"Gay heralds, Bow the knee, before him cry,",1.0 +The crowd adore him as he passes by:,2.0 +"Nor here the royal favours were confined,",2.0 +Great Pharaoh's daughter is his bride designed.,2.0 +"The night had twice in sable triumph reigned,",0.0 +And twice the circling light its empire gained:,0.0 +When from his high apartment Joseph sees,0.0 +"A lofty temple, through the waving trees,",1.0 +"To Isis vowed: He from the gilded dome,",1.0 +"A rosy tincture in her cheeks appears,",0.0 +Lovely as that the blooming morning wears:,1.0 +Her eyes a sprightly blue; her length of hair,0.0 +"Long strings of jet and pearl, in mingled twists,",1.0 +"Her robes were heavenly azure, sprinkled over",2.0 +With stars; a crescent on her breast she wore.,1.0 +"The wounded Hebrew for the virgin sighed,",1.0 +And felt a growing passion yet untried:,0.0 +"Her lovely image, on his mind impressed,",1.0 +Had fixed her empire in his yielding breast.,0.0 +"But o! what anguish did his soul invade,",1.0 +"When he was told, the loved enchanting maid",0.0 +"At Isis' holy shrine devoutly bowed,",0.0 +A virgin priestess to the goddess vowed?,1.0 +"This, this, he cried, must all my hopes confound,",1.0 +"Helpless my grief, incurable my wound!",3.0 +"Mean time the fame uncontradicted goes,",6.0 +That he the Egyptian princess must espouse.,1.0 +"Pained and distressed, he hears the spreading news,",2.0 +"And dreads the offer, which he must refuse,",0.0 +Would in his breast admit no rival flame.,1.0 +"The royal maid no less unhappy proved,",1.0 +And shape exceeded all the tawny race.,0.0 +"His features nobly turned, his piercing eyes",0.0 +Sparkled like stars amid the gloomy skies;,2.0 +"At once they dazzled, and engaged the sight",1.0 +"With awful lustre, and imperious light.",3.0 +"Black as a midnight cloud, his yielding hair",1.0 +In easy curls waves to the gentle air.,2.0 +"The princess, pained with secret discontent,",1.0 +"In vain! the king obstructs her young desires,",0.0 +"His piety sincere, but ill addressed,",1.0 +"While fragrant incense round the temple smokes,",1.0 +"The fiends, in hopes to cross the great design",0.0 +"And awful will of providence divine,",2.0 +"With penalties forbid the king's intent,",1.0 +The Hebrew's future greatness to prevent:,1.0 +And blindly with eternal fate complied:,1.0 +While Joseph's ruin envious hell intends;,2.0 +"His snare, and soon seduce him with her love.",1.0 +"The priest, yet trembling, near the altar stands,",0.0 +And dreads the sacrilege the god commands.,1.0 +"My daughter named! he cries, to Isis vowed",0.0 +"By mystic rites, which no reverse allowed!",0.0 +"It must be so – The gods pronounce it fit,",0.0 +"The priest his will, the king must his submit.",2.0 +"The maid reluctant leaves the holy shrine,",0.0 +But yields obedience to the powers divine.,3.0 +"The gift, as heaven's, the joyful youth regards,",2.0 +"Which thus bright virtue crowns, and sacred truth rewards.",1.0 +In shining circles now advanced their round:,0.0 +And rustic pleasures cheer the banks of Nile.,0.0 +"The Hebrew, late advanced by royal grace,",0.0 +"Still watchful for the public good, with care",2.0 +"Restrains excess, by penalties severe,",1.0 +"While justice, truth, and temperate virtue, reigned",0.0 +Amid the height of plenty through the land:,1.0 +"His prudent sway the grateful people bless,",0.0 +In all the calm serenity of peace.,1.0 +"But soon the smiling years their period run,",2.0 +"Pale famine comes, with her malignant train,",2.0 +"Dries up the springs, and taints the fertile plain:",0.0 +"The trees decay, each flower, and balmy plant",2.0 +"Pine at their roots, and vital humour want:",1.0 +No pearly moisture on the meadow lies;,3.0 +To fan the air no gentle breezes rise.,1.0 +The languid moon sheds from her silent sphere,2.0 +"No cooling dews, the thirsty earth to cheer.",1.0 +A sultry night ensues a scorching day;,0.0 +While dismal signs the fiery clouds display.,2.0 +"Nor Egypt mourns alone her blasted ground,",0.0 +Pale famine stalks through all the regions round:,1.0 +"Withered and bare, the hot contagion feel:",2.0 +"That fertile climate, by peculiar grace,",1.0 +Designed the lot of Abraham's future race.,6.0 +"Where long with peace, and fatal plenty gay,",0.0 +"The pagan princes bore imperial sway,",2.0 +"A stranger, as his great forefathers were:",3.0 +"The common fate he shares, with famine pressed,",0.0 +And for his numerous family distressed:,4.0 +"He sends his sons, by heavenly conduct led,",2.0 +"Domestic wants require their utmost haste,",1.0 +"With soft Assyria, now in all her pride",2.0 +"Of wealth and grandeur, Pharaoh's palace vied:",5.0 +"More honoured still the rising favourite grew,",1.0 +No bounds his royal master's kindness knew:,1.0 +"His graceful person, charming to the sight,",1.0 +"Majestic, yet more mild than morning light:",0.0 +"His virtues, every grateful tongue employ,",0.0 +"The people's boast, their wonder, and their joy.",1.0 +"All private views were to his soul unknown,",1.0 +He made the kingdom's welfare still his own:,1.0 +"His fame to distant countries flies abroad,",0.0 +While Egypt names him as her guardian god.,3.0 +"Assiduous still his officers attend,",1.0 +Where neighbouring states their numerous envoys send:,4.0 +"Who for themselves, and pining race, implore",1.0 +The food of life from his abundant store.,1.0 +"With stern regard each kindred face he views,",0.0 +Their sight the late detested scene renews:,0.0 +Their parting malice and inhuman rage,1.0 +To just revenge his swelling thoughts engage.,0.0 +Long silent in a gloomy pause he stands;,1.0 +"At last their country, business, name, demands.",0.0 +"My lord, thy servants, with a modest grace,",1.0 +Judah replies are all of Hebrew race:,2.0 +"Twelve brothers late, a joyful father's boast,",1.0 +"Till one, by some unhappy chance, was lost;",1.0 +The youngest with his aged sire remains,3.0 +"The darling, which his drooping life sustains:",0.0 +"To purchase corn we come, our falling breath,",0.0 +"An infant race, to save from lingering death.",0.0 +Thy tale he said unfolds its own disguise;,0.0 +"By Pharaoh's sacred life, you all are spies;",0.0 +"Then to the guards with stern command he turns,",0.0 +While yet resentment in his bosom burns;,0.0 +"In close confinement be these men retained,",0.0 +Till we some knowledge of their plot have gained.,2.0 +"With just remorse, and secret horror struck,",0.0 +"The conscious Hebrews at each other look,",0.0 +"In foreign accents, to the guards unknown,",1.0 +"Joseph, not yet withdrawn, their language hears,",2.0 +"O! we are guilty of our brother's blood,",2.0 +Though heaven the intended fratricide withstood:,1.0 +"With unrelenting hate, for sordid gold,",0.0 +"A slave, and such perhaps he still may live;",1.0 +"Almighty God, the monstrous crime forgive!",0.0 +"Unmoved we saw the anguish of his breast,",1.0 +"In mournful looks, and flowing tears expressed:",0.0 +"Unmoved, and lost to nature, virtue, sense,",0.0 +Unmoved we heard his tender eloquence.,1.0 +"Such beauty, innocence, and blooming grace",1.0 +Would have subdued in wilds a savage race.,0.0 +"What caves, what dungeons, should such monsters hide?",0.0 +"We stand condemned, and Heaven is justified.",0.0 +"When Reuben, who the barbarous fact disclaimed,",2.0 +"In these sad terms their former malice blamed,",3.0 +Would Heaven your flowing tears might wash away,0.0 +The bloody stains of that detested day;,0.0 +"Its horror, with eternal grief, I trace;",1.0 +The soft impression of my brother's face,1.0 +"Dwells on my heart, the tragic scene I view,",0.0 +The mournful object is for ever new.,1.0 +"The melting sorrow in his lovely eyes,",0.0 +"While kneeling, pleading all the tender claims",0.0 +"Of kindred blood, he singly called your names,",0.0 +"And one by one invoked – what power I had,",3.0 +Was all employed to save the guiltless lad:,0.0 +"His filial love and goodness, free from art,",2.0 +"Touched every tender motion in my heart,",1.0 +When for his drooping father's hoary age,0.0 +He tried your soft compassion to engage;,1.0 +"Without remorse, you tied the cruel bands;",0.0 +"My soul is wounded with the farewell groan,",2.0 +When to the yawning pit you forced him down.,0.0 +Against such youth and virtue to conspire?,1.0 +"What was his mighty crime? – a childish dream,",0.0 +"His blood's avenged – While here we lie confined,",0.0 +Our wretched offspring are with famine pined.,2.0 +"Their eldest brother's just reproach they own,",0.0 +"And humbly now address the eternal throne,",2.0 +While thrice the day and tedious night return.,2.0 +Mean time the thoughtful regent in his breast,1.0 +The first vindictive motions had suppressed.,0.0 +"When early for the Hebrew train he sends,",1.0 +And kindness in a stern disguise intends;,0.0 +"Conducted to his presence, prostrate all",1.0 +As once their sheaves before his sheaf they fall.,0.0 +The power that sits above the stars I fear,2.0 +He said nor shall you find injustice here:,0.0 +"To prove that you have no clandestine view,",1.0 +"Nor hostile aim, but are to honour true,",2.0 +"One of your kindred number left behind,",1.0 +The attending guards shall as an hostage bind;,2.0 +"Secure from wrong, the captive shall remain,",0.0 +If at set limits you return again:,2.0 +"But be for ever exiles from the place,",2.0 +"Nor ever hope again to see my face,",0.0 +"Unless you bring your youngest brother here,",0.0 +"Be this a proof your words have no disguise,",0.0 +Or you by Pharaoh's sacred life are spies.,1.0 +"Alas, my lord, in tents thy servants sleep,",0.0 +"Engross our humble cares, no martial claims",1.0 +"Disturb our minds, no wild ambitious aims;",1.0 +"Strangers to pompous courts, the flowery fields,",4.0 +"And tuneful grove, to us their pleasures yield;",1.0 +In harmless ease we spend a peaceful life;,0.0 +"Our costliest banquets in some balmy shade,",2.0 +With nature's simple luxury are made;,1.0 +"No dreams of grandeur, no aspiring thought,",5.0 +"Distressed with famine, to this friendly shore",1.0 +"We came, your kind assistance to implore.",1.0 +"This said, they find themselves dismissed at last",0.0 +"With full supplies, and to their country haste.",1.0 +"When scarce arrived before their father's tent,",0.0 +His busy thoughts presaged some sad event;,5.0 +"With temper, every circumstance he hears,",0.0 +"Till the fond prop of his declining years,",3.0 +"His Benjamin was named – that cruel part,",1.0 +No please of reason can its force control.,2.0 +"His hoary head with weighty sorrow pressed,",0.0 +Dejected sunk upon his pensive breast.,0.0 +"The careful travellers now their sacks untied,",2.0 +"Surprised, their coin restored again they spied.",0.0 +"What can these mysteries mean, good Jacob said,",2.0 +What fatal storm is breaking over my head?,2.0 +Why is my life prolonged? of bliss bereft?,0.0 +"Joseph is not: – My single comfort left,",1.0 +"To distant climes an exile you would bear,",2.0 +Against me all these sad events appear;,0.0 +"But know, the flame of life shall quit my heart",0.0 +Ere with the lovely blooming youth I part.,0.0 +"Content we then must sacrifice our lives,",0.0 +"Our guiltless offspring and our tender wives,",2.0 +"Judah replies condemned to perish here,",2.0 +"The man, the mighty ruler of the land,",1.0 +"With eyes to heaven addressed, and lifted hand,",0.0 +"The man protested with a solemn grace,",1.0 +"Not one of us should ever see his face,",1.0 +"Nor other proof our innocence should clear,",1.0 +Unless we brought our youngest brother there.,1.0 +"And why would you that needless truth make known,",1.0 +Or that you had a younger brother own?,0.0 +"The anxious parent said. – Alas! could we,",0.0 +"Reuben replies, the consequence foresee?",3.0 +"Or had the certainty been fully known,",1.0 +"Could we, with specious lies, the fact disown?",0.0 +Conceal our public or domestic state?,1.0 +"Indeed he roughly talked, but still their broke",0.0 +Some secret pity through his fiercest look;,1.0 +"However dark the past events appear,",1.0 +"Wherever with easy state he passed along,",2.0 +His virtues echoed through the shouting throng:,1.0 +"Then why, my honoured sire, these vain delays?",5.0 +Paternal cares a thousand scruples raise;,0.0 +"Our time's elapsed, and we condemned for spies:",1.0 +"Commit your darling to my faithful hand,",1.0 +Of me again the sacred pledge demand.,1.0 +"Two lovely boys, adorned with every grace,",1.0 +Without compassion let them both be slain.,0.0 +Half yielding now he stands – Their household straits,2.0 +"With faltering speech, and anguish in his eyes,",2.0 +"Then go in peace, the vanquished patriarch cries:",1.0 +"Celestial providence your steps attend,",1.0 +And angel guards from every ill defend;,0.0 +"With doubled money for your corn advance,",1.0 +Perhaps the restoration was a chance;,1.0 +"But take some grateful present in your hand,",0.0 +The balmy products of your native land:,1.0 +"And be the eternal Majesty implored,",2.0 +And bring your injured innocence to light:,1.0 +"But know, if mischief should the lad attend,",0.0 +My hoary hairs down to the grave you send.,1.0 +"THEIR father's blessing on their knees they take,",1.0 +"And now to Memphis quick advances make,",0.0 +"Where safe arrived, but fearful of their doom,",1.0 +"To Joseph's steward hastily they come,",1.0 +"Disclose in humble terms their late mistake,",0.0 +And render doubled all the money back.,0.0 +"Your father's God he said your coin restored,",0.0 +"'Twas justly paid, then leads them to his lord.",2.0 +"Their gifts, with prostrate homage, they present;",1.0 +His gracious smiles their rising doubts prevent;,0.0 +"Forgetful of himself, with eager haste,",1.0 +"He forward stepped, and Benjamin embraced:",1.0 +"His heart expands with sympathetic joy,",0.0 +While in his arms he folds the wondering boy;,2.0 +"Fond nature struggles with the vain disguise,",2.0 +A brother sparkles in his radiant eyes:,0.0 +Scarce all his grandeur from the gentle youth,1.0 +With mutual rapture touched conceals the truth;,2.0 +"And half disclosed the kindred soul appears,",0.0 +"Till Joseph flies to hide the swelling tears,",0.0 +"That melting love and soft surprise excite,",0.0 +"But recollected, soon returns in sight.",0.0 +"Conducts them now into a spacious hall,",0.0 +"To luxury inured, with artful care,",1.0 +A splendid banquet instantly prepare;,1.0 +"Embroidered carpets cover all the ground,",0.0 +The gay attendants round the circle bear.,0.0 +"And now, with costly fare and sparkling wine",0.0 +"Of various sorts, the loaded tables shine,",2.0 +"Beneath a glittering canopy of state,",3.0 +With all the bounty of a royal feast,1.0 +He nobly entertains each Hebrew guest:,0.0 +"Their hostage freed the mutual joy completes,",2.0 +"In order placed, they take their destined seats:",0.0 +"With sprightly wines, and social converse gay,",0.0 +In guiltless mirth they spend the fleeting day.,0.0 +"Till rising with the morning's rosy light,",1.0 +"They haste away, with full provisions stored,",0.0 +In every sack as ordered by his lord,1.0 +Their coin the steward secretly conveyed;,1.0 +"Secure the suburbs utmost bounds were past,",1.0 +"When with a feigned concern and anxious haste,",0.0 +"How could you thus, ungrateful and unjust,",1.0 +"Against the rules of hospitable trust,",5.0 +"Combine, the consecrated cup to steal,",0.0 +By which my lord does secret things reveal.,0.0 +"With what strange meaning is thy language fraught,",2.0 +"Surprised, they cry, we're guiltless, even in thought,",1.0 +"And by the immortal God, we dare protest,",1.0 +Such black designs are strangers to our breast.,1.0 +"How should we then abuse thy injured lord,",0.0 +While recent favours yet our thanks compel?,0.0 +Vassals for life thy servants shall remain;,2.0 +"The wretch, convicted of a crime so high,",1.0 +"Content, he said, and searched their burdens round;",0.0 +"With wild despair, their folding vests they rent,",0.0 +And backward to the royal office went.,1.0 +"The regent here, but o! how changed they find,",1.0 +"No more the mild, beneficent and kind,",6.0 +"But fiercely asking, in an altered tone,",0.0 +What wrong is this your guilty hands have done?,1.0 +"You well might know, where dress and learning shine,",0.0 +"A man, like me, must certainly divine.",2.0 +"Prostrate they fall, while Judah for the rest,",3.0 +With mingled sighs their mutual grief expressed.,2.0 +What can I say? – How shall thy servant speak?,0.0 +In what pathetic words my silence break?,0.0 +"What energy of language shall I find,",1.0 +To paint the wild distraction of my mind?,1.0 +"Justice divine, with keen revenge begins",2.0 +To reckon up our lengthened score of sins;,1.0 +Our secret crimes this rigorous stroke demand;,2.0 +"No, – cries the gracious Regent, only he",2.0 +"With whom the cup was found, my slave shall be;",0.0 +"Return in peace, your needless fears resign,",0.0 +"This youth, a public criminal, is mine.",1.0 +"When Judah thus, still gently drawing near",1.0 +"Be pleased, my lord, to lend a gracious ear,",0.0 +"While I the tender circumstance repeat,",0.0 +"Two lovely boys, the pleasure of his life,",2.0 +"The elder Branch, by an untimely death,",1.0 +"Snatched from his arms, long since resigned his breath.",1.0 +"The youngest, who does now his care engage,",0.0 +"The single prop of his declining age,",1.0 +"The constant theme of every pleasing thought,",0.0 +"Your strict command, my lord, has hither brought:",0.0 +Our sire thy servant long refused to grant,2.0 +"And just concern, to clear our injured truth,",0.0 +He to my conduct gave the gentle youth.,1.0 +"But o! what killing anguish pierced his heart,",1.0 +When thus compelled with Benjamin to part:,1.0 +With all the eloquence that filial love,3.0 +Could ever inspire to calm his fears I strove;,2.0 +"But all in vain; on dismal thoughts intent,",0.0 +"If mischief should his blooming life prevent,",0.0 +"My hoary hairs, he said, with grief oppressed,",0.0 +Must to the gloomy grave descend for rest.,0.0 +"And I, unhappy, whither shall I go",1.0 +To shun that dark distracting scene of woe?,0.0 +Deprived of every future joy by me;,0.0 +"For I, with all the arguments I had,",2.0 +"Became myself a surety for the lad,",2.0 +"And must again the precious pledge restore,",0.0 +Or see my aged parent's face no more.,1.0 +"My lord, you seem to have a tender heart,",0.0 +Though sometime forced to act a rigorous part,3.0 +Or let thy servant here a vassal live,0.0 +Condemned no more my native soil to tread.,1.0 +"No longer Joseph could his tears control,",1.0 +"Or hide the soft emotions of his soul,",1.0 +"Relenting signs the watchful Hebrews saw,",0.0 +In haste he bids the attendants all withdraw.,2.0 +"I am your brother Joseph, then he cries,",1.0 +"With tears and melting goodness in his eyes,",0.0 +"The cruel fact, alas, too well they knew,",1.0 +"And, with disordered looks, each other view.",1.0 +He then demands – How fares my honoured sire?,3.0 +Confused and mute they farther off retire;,1.0 +"A guilty shame on every face was spread,",0.0 +"Come near, my brothers, then he mildly said,",0.0 +"Reflect not on yourselves, with thought severe,",1.0 +"It was not you, but God, that sent me here;",0.0 +"His goodness ruled the circumstance and place,",0.0 +To save the stock of Abraham's sacred race;,6.0 +"Five years of cruel famine yet remain,",0.0 +"While, destitute of hope, the careful swain",0.0 +"Shall neither sow nor reap – The burning soil,",0.0 +"But heaven has sent me here, to save your lives,",0.0 +"Your infant offspring, and your tender wives.",2.0 +"The Egyptian king, in every virtue great,",1.0 +"The strength, the power, the wealth of all the land,",2.0 +"Without restraint, are trusted to my hand.",1.0 +"Return, and in my father's ears relate",0.0 +"The plenty, pomp, and grandeur of my state:",2.0 +"Tell him, I long his hoary age to greet,",0.0 +His whole domestic charge shall be my care.,0.0 +Dismiss your fears – This painful silence break!,0.0 +You see a friend! you hear a brother speak!,0.0 +"Behold the tender motions of my heart,",1.0 +"No more disguised with grandeur, or with art!",3.0 +"Regard me well, the kindred features trace,",0.0 +No longer strives the gushing tears to cheque;,1.0 +While nature sits triumphant in his eyes;,0.0 +"Nor less delight transports the gentle youth,",0.0 +"Replete with goodness, innocence and truth;",1.0 +"In mutual sympathy their souls were tied,",3.0 +And more by virtue than by birth allied.,1.0 +"Saluting then the rest, with mild address,",0.0 +He clears their doubts and softens their distress;,1.0 +"Conversing freely, now they quit their fears,",0.0 +"While Pharaoh, pleased, the new adventure hears;",0.0 +"And in his clemency, and royal grace,",1.0 +Commands the viceroy some selected place,0.0 +His father's numerous charge to entertain.,2.0 +"The regent now, impatient of delay,",1.0 +With costly presents sends the men away;,0.0 +But with a sparkling Babylonian vest,3.0 +His youngest friend was graced above the rest.,0.0 +"Make haste, he said, to bring my father down,",2.0 +"Tell him I live, and be my greatness known;",0.0 +Your wives and helpless children to convey;,1.0 +"Nor care to gather up your needless stores,",1.0 +"At Hebron soon their speedy journey ends,",0.0 +The good old man their coming now attends;,1.0 +"Where scarce arrived, at once they all relate",0.0 +The welcome news of Joseph's prosperous state.,2.0 +"Why would you mock my woe with airy schemes,",0.0 +He fainting said of gay fantastic dreams?,0.0 +"But soon the loaded carriages appear,",1.0 +"Recall his life, his drooping spirits cheer.",0.0 +"My Joseph lives! transporting truth he cries,",0.0 +"I'll see his face, and close my aged eyes:",0.0 +"Content, resign these poor remains of breath,",0.0 +And gently rest in the calm shades of death.,2.0 +"With some auspicious Aid you Powers above,",2.0 +Help to support the weight of slighted Love.,2.0 +I ask not Rage to curse the daring Man;,0.0 +"That by Instinctive Power all Women can,",5.0 +But keep me mild as when Love first began.,1.0 +"It's the malignancy of low desire,",2.0 +Without Supply can ever burn the same;,0.0 +Love glows in every Atom of my Frame.,2.0 +"Sparkles in every Thought, flames at my Heart,",3.0 +Like the extensive Soul it does exert;,1.0 +"From his cold Breast no languid warmth I want,",4.0 +"His Fires when at their height to mine are faint,",1.0 +Yet my hard Fate forces this soft Complaint.,3.0 +And we have least when we deserve it most.,2.0 +"O! was I fickle as the restless Wind,",2.0 +"Then for the Charmer I'd no longer mourn,",2.0 +But treat his Negligence with equal Scorn.,1.0 +"He should no more my slighted Favours wear,",1.0 +"But from the sighing Crowd that deaf my Ear,",1.0 +I'd choose some kinder Youth and fix them there.,0.0 +"But o! my tender Soul too weak does prove,",2.0 +Either to change or bear the force of Love;,2.0 +Too sure it's doomed by my relentless Fate,2.0 +That I must love and sink beneath the weight.,0.0 +Would some kind Vision represent to me,1.0 +"How bright thy Streets, Celestial Salem! be;",0.0 +How blessed are those that in thy Temple dwell:,0.0 +How much more bright than before proud Phoebus shed,3.0 +Are those vast Rays the Eternal Sun does spread!,2.0 +"Would Angels me their Admiration show,",1.0 +How fair he looked to the black Sons of men:,2.0 +"Might I, but ah, while clogged with sinful Flesh,",0.0 +In vain I breath out the impatient Wish!,1.0 +"But have a glimpse of those fair Fields of Bliss,",2.0 +"Where dressed in Beams, the shining Saints do move",0.0 +More gay then all the fancied shades of Love:,0.0 +Bright Silver streams the Crystal Waters flow;,1.0 +"Where the true Son of Glory never declines,",5.0 +"Where endless Smiles celestial Faces wear,",0.0 +"No Eye eclipsed with a rebellious Tear,",2.0 +For Grief is an unheard of Stranger there.,2.0 +"Say then, if ought of that blessed place you know,",1.0 +"Describe its Bliss, its dazzling Glories show!",0.0 +"HOW hapless is the applauded Virgin's Lot,",3.0 +"Her GOD forgetting, by her GOD forgot!",1.0 +"Stranger to Truth, unknowing to obey,",3.0 +"In Error nursed, and disciplined to stray;",1.0 +"Sense all her Good, and Passion all her Guide:",0.0 +"Pleasure its Tide, and Flattery lends its Breath,",4.0 +And smoothly waft her to Eternal Death!,1.0 +"Crowd to her Shrine, and tremble at her Feet;",0.0 +"She hears their Vows, Believes their Life and Death",0.0 +Hangs on the Wrath and Mercy of her Breath;,1.0 +"Supreme in fancied State she reigns her Hour,",0.0 +"Herself the Only Object worth her Care,",0.0 +Since all the kneeling World was made for Her.,0.0 +"For Her, Creation all its Stores displays,",1.0 +"The Silkworms labour, and the Diamonds blaze:",2.0 +"Air, Earth, and Sea conspire to tempt her Taste,",3.0 +And ransacked Nature furnishes the Feast.,2.0 +"And Balls, and Theatres, and Courts arise:",1.0 +"Bid the first Cries of infant Reason cease,",3.0 +"Save her from Thought, and lull her Soul to Peace.",0.0 +"Deep sunk in Sense the imprisoned Soul remains,",3.0 +"Nor knows its Fall from GOD, nor feels its Chains:",0.0 +"Unconscious still, sleeps on in Error's Night,",4.0 +"Nor strives to rise, nor struggles into Light:",0.0 +No Pangs experienced of the Second Birth,2.0 +While All the enthralled Creation groans around.,1.0 +"DEAR Agnes, gleamed with joy and dashed with tears,",1.0 +Over us have glided almost sixty years,2.0 +"By those whose eyes long closed in death have been,",2.0 +That dew of morning studs with silvery gem.,2.0 +Then every butterfly that crossed our view,0.0 +"With joyful shout was greeted as it flew,",1.0 +And moth and ladybird and beetle bright,0.0 +"Then as we paddled barefoot, side by side,",1.0 +Seen in the power of early wonderment.,3.0 +"A long perspective to my mind appears,",1.0 +"Looking behind me to that line of years,",3.0 +And yet through every stage I still can trace,0.0 +"And now to what thou art, in comely age,",0.0 +Active and ardent. Let what will engage,3.0 +"Thy present moment, whether hopeful seeds",0.0 +"From the fair flower remove, or ancient lore",4.0 +"In chronicle or legend rare explore,",1.0 +"Or on the parlour hearth with kitten play,",1.0 +"Stroking its tabby sides, or take thy way",2.0 +"To gain with hasty steps some cottage door,",0.0 +"On helpful errand to the neighbouring poor,",3.0 +Thou still art young in spite of time gone by.,2.0 +"Though oft of patience brief and temper keen,",0.0 +"Well may it please me, in life's latter scene,",1.0 +To think what now thou art and long to me hast been.,0.0 +"That thing by me abhorred, and with address",2.0 +In fitful sports the precious time to waste.,0.0 +Thy love of tale and storey was the stroke,1.0 +"At which my dormant fancy first awoke,",0.0 +And ghosts and witches in my busy brain,0.0 +"Arose in somber show, a motley train.",0.0 +"This newfound path attempting, proud was I,",1.0 +"Lurking approval on thy face to spy,",3.0 +"Or hear thee say, as grew thy roused attention,",0.0 +What! is this storey all thine own invention?,0.0 +"Then, as advancing through this mortal span,",2.0 +"Our intercourse with the mixed world began,",2.0 +A truth that from my youthful vanity,2.0 +"Lay not concealed did for the sisters twain,",2.0 +"Wherever we went, the greater favour gain;",3.0 +"While, but for thee, vexed with its tossing tide,",1.0 +I from the busy world had shrunk aside.,1.0 +"And now in later years, with better grace",0.0 +With those whom nearer neighbourhood have made,3.0 +"Or gracious or untoward, have their way.",3.0 +Silent if dull ' -- OH precious privilege!,3.0 +"I sit by thee; or if, culled from the page",1.0 +"Of some huge, ponderous tome which, but thyself,",4.0 +"None ever had taken from its dusty shelf,",4.0 +Thou read me curious passages to speed,3.0 +"The winter night, I take but little heed",0.0 +"And thankless say I cannot listen now,",0.0 +"To these, thy nightly offerings of affection,",2.0 +Drawn from thy ready talent for selection;,1.0 +For still it seemed in thee a natural gift,1.0 +The lettered grain from lettered chaff to sift.,0.0 +"By daily use and circumstance endeared,",0.0 +Things are of value now that once appeared,0.0 +"Of no account, and without notice past,",5.0 +Which over dull life a simple cheering cast;,3.0 +"To hear thy morning steps the stair descending,",0.0 +Thy voice with other sounds domestic blending;,0.0 +"After each stated nightly absence, met",2.0 +"To see thee by the morning table set,",1.0 +Pouring from smoky spout the amber stream,2.0 +"On summer morn, with trowel in thy hand",0.0 +"In furry garment leapt, with spattered feet",0.0 +"Aye even over things like these, soothed age has thrown",3.0 +A sober charm they did not always own.,0.0 +"In magnitude and beauty, which bereft",0.0 +"Of such investment, eye had never perceived.",3.0 +"The change of good and evil to abide,",1.0 +"As partners linked, long have we side by side",1.0 +"Our earthly journey held, and who can say",0.0 +How near the end of our united way?,1.0 +By nature's course not distant; sad and bereft,2.0 +"Will she remain, ' -- the lonely pilgrim left.",1.0 +"If thou art taken first, who can to me",2.0 +"Shall feel such loss, or mourn as I shall mourn?",1.0 +And if I should be fated first to leave,1.0 +"This earthly house, though gentle friends may grieve,",0.0 +"And he above them all, so truly proved",1.0 +"A friend and brother, long and justly loved,",0.0 +"There is no living wight, of woman born,",2.0 +Who then shall mourn for me as thou wilt mourn.,1.0 +"Thou ardent, liberal spirit! quickly feeling",0.0 +The touch of sympathy and kindly dealing,1.0 +"With sorrow or distress, for ever sharing",1.0 +"Accept, dear Agnes, on thy natal day,",2.0 +An unadorned but not a careless lay.,0.0 +Nor think this tribute to thy virtues paid,1.0 +"From tardy love proceeds, though long delayed.",0.0 +The latest spoken still are deemed the best:,0.0 +Few are the measured rhymes I now may write;,0.0 +"And sent the fatal gift, which spread below",0.0 +"Over all the wretched race, contagious woe,",0.0 +"Unhappy man, by Vice and Folly tossed,",0.0 +"Found in the storms of life his quiet lost,",0.0 +"While Envy, Avarice and Ambition, hurled",3.0 +Discord and Death around the warring world;,2.0 +"Then the blessed peasant left his fields and fold,",2.0 +And bartered love and peace for power and gold;,2.0 +"Left his calm cottage and his native plain,",4.0 +"Or, braving danger, in the battle stood,",0.0 +And bathed his savage hands in human blood:,0.0 +"No longer then, his woodland walks among,",1.0 +"The shepherd lad his genuine passion sung,",2.0 +"Or sought at early morn his soul's delight,",0.0 +To deck her flowing hair no more he wove,1.0 +"Bound his own brow with myrtle or with bay,",1.0 +"But broke his pipe, and threw his crook away.",0.0 +"The nymphs forsaken, other pleasures sought;",0.0 +"Then first for gold their venal hearts were bought,",0.0 +"And Nature's blush to sickly Art gave place,",1.0 +And Affectation seized the seat of Grace:,0.0 +"No more Simplicity, by Sense refined,",2.0 +"Or generous Sentiment, possessed the mind;",3.0 +"No more they felt each other's joy and woe,",0.0 +"And Cupid fled, and hid his useless bow.",0.0 +"But with deep grief propitious Venus pined,",2.0 +"Ills, that she knew her empire would disarm,",0.0 +And rob her subjects of their sweetest charm;,1.0 +"And change for lowering frowns, the smile of joy.",2.0 +"Then deeply sighing at the mournful view,",0.0 +She tried at length what heavenly Art could do,1.0 +"To bring back Pleasure to her pensive train,",2.0 +And vindicate the glories of her reign.,2.0 +"A thousand little loves attend the task,",0.0 +"Then shaking from her hair ambrosial dew,",1.0 +"Infused fair Hope, and Expectation new,",1.0 +"And stifled wishes, and persuasive sighs,",1.0 +"And fond belief, and' eloquence of eyes,'",1.0 +"And faltering accents, which explain so well",2.0 +"What studied speeches vainly try to tell,",0.0 +"And more pathetic silence, which imparts",0.0 +"Infectious tenderness to feeling hearts,",1.0 +Soft tones of pity; fascinating smiles;,1.0 +"And brought gay dreams, fantastic visions brought,",1.0 +And waved his wand over the seducing draught.,4.0 +"Then Zephyr came: To him the goddess cried,",1.0 +' Go fetch from Flora all her flowery pride,3.0 +"' To fill my charm, each scented bud that blows,",0.0 +"' Dip in their waters thy celestial wing,",1.0 +' And the soft dew to fill my chalice bring;,2.0 +"' But chiefly tell thy Flora, that to me",0.0 +' That poignant spirit will complete my spell.',1.0 +"And now Apollo lends a ray of fire,",0.0 +"The watchful Graces round the circle dance,",0.0 +"With arms entwined, to mark the work's advance;",0.0 +Tempering his favourite arrows in the flame.,1.0 +"Then Venus speaks, the wavering flames retire,",2.0 +At length the goddess in the helmet's round,0.0 +"A sweet and subtle spirit duly found,",0.0 +"More soft than oil, than either more refined,",0.0 +"And called it Flattery: ' -- balm of female life,",3.0 +"It charms alike the widow, maid and wife;",0.0 +"Clears the sad brow of virgins in despair,",3.0 +And smooths the cruel traces left by Care;,0.0 +By what rude nature is thy charm denied?,2.0 +"Some form seducing still thy whisper wears,",0.0 +"Stern Wisdom turns to thee her willing ears,",2.0 +"And Prudery listens, and forgets her fears.",3.0 +"The rustic nymph, whom rigid aunts restrain,",0.0 +"Condemned to dress, and practise airs in vain,",0.0 +"At thy first summons finds her bosom swell,",2.0 +"While, fired by thee with spirit not her own,",1.0 +"She grows a toast, and rises into ton.",0.0 +"The faded beauty who with secret pain,",0.0 +"Sees younger charms usurp her envied reign,",2.0 +"By thee assisted, can with smiles behold",2.0 +The record where her conquests are enrolled;,2.0 +"And dwelling yet on scenes by memory nursed,",2.0 +"When George the second reigned, or George the first;",0.0 +"She sees the shades of ancient beaux arise,",0.0 +"Who swear her eyes exceeded modern eyes,",0.0 +"When poets sung for her and lovers bled,",1.0 +And giddy Fashion followed as she led.,1.0 +"Departed modes appear in long array,",0.0 +The flowers and flounces of her happier day;,5.0 +"Again her locks the decent fillets bind,",0.0 +And then comparing with a proud disdain,1.0 +"The more fantastic tastes that now obtain,",0.0 +The gayer world that moves round George the third.,0.0 +"Nor thy soft influence will the train refuse,",3.0 +"Who court in distant shades the modest Muse,",0.0 +"Though in a form more pure and more refined,",0.0 +Thy soothing spirit meets the lettered mind;,0.0 +Not Death itself thine empire can destroy;,1.0 +"Towards thee, even then, we turn the languid eye;",0.0 +"Still trust in thee to bid our memory bloom,",3.0 +And scatter roses round the silent tomb.,0.0 +"SO, gentle Destinies, decide the strife;",1.0 +"Ah! spare but hers, and take my hated Life.",1.0 +"Cease, cease, dear Nymph, the Fates ordain not so.",2.0 +"I must; and wish my Epilogue were done,",0.0 +That from this tiresome stage I may be gone.,3.0 +Ah me! ah me! this breaks my feeble heart:,0.0 +"Without the least Reluctance, all below,",0.0 +"Save thee, dear Nymph, I willingly forego:",4.0 +"My Swain, my Mates, my Flocks and Garland too.",0.0 +"In those blessed shades, to which my soul must flee,",2.0 +"Who never reflect on what they left behind,",2.0 +Rapt with the Joys they in Elysium find.,2.0 +"By Silver streams, through blissful shades they rove,",0.0 +Their Pleasures to Eternity improve.,2.0 +There all the Smiling Year is clothed with Green;,0.0 +"No Autumn, but Eternal Spring is seen.",2.0 +There the winged Choir in Loud and Artful strains,4.0 +Transmit their Echo's to the happy Plains:,1.0 +"When he, like me, has bid the World adieu.",0.0 +"There, if her Innocence she still retain,",2.0 +My Philomela I shall clasp again;,1.0 +"And there, when Death shall stop his Noble Race,",1.0 +"But now farewell, my latest Sands are run,",1.0 +And Charon waits impatient to be gone.,1.0 +"Farewell, poor Earth; from thy unhappy shore",3.0 +None ever launched more joyfully before.,2.0 +Alas! why should the Brave and Virtuous fear:,2.0 +And left me in this desert World alone;,0.0 +"Serene, and Glittering to Eternal Light.",3.0 +"More blind than Love, or Chance, relentless Death,",0.0 +"The best the bravest, and faithful Friend alive;",2.0 +Alas! Why rises the unwelcome Sun?,1.0 +"A loss so vast, nor Wretch so cursed as me;",0.0 +"Whom Grief hath wrapped in so condensed a shade,",1.0 +As thy intruding beams shall never invade:,3.0 +And left me Weeping on the Shore alone?,1.0 +"Yet could the Gentle Fair but see me mourn,",0.0 +From that Blessed Place she would perhaps return.,1.0 +And left me in this desert World alone.,0.0 +"For ah! deprived my dearer Life of thee,",2.0 +The World is all a Hermitage to me:,1.0 +"No more together we shall sit or walk,",2.0 +"No more of Pan, or of Elysium talk:",3.0 +"No more, no more shall I the fleeting Day",0.0 +"No more the Noblest height of Friendship prove,",0.0 +"Mourn all you Groves and Streams, mourn every thing,",1.0 +"Tune, Shepherd's, tune your Pipes to Mournful strains;",1.0 +For we have lost the Glory of our Plains.,2.0 +Let every thing a sadder Look put on;,3.0 +"The Female Author who recites to Day,",1.0 +Trusts to her Sex the Merit of her Play.,1.0 +Like Father Bayes securely She sits down:,2.0 +"Pitt, Box and Gallery, Gad! All's our Own.",3.0 +By their Applause the Critics showed their Wit.,1.0 +They tuned their Voices to her Lyric String;,1.0 +"Though they could All do something more, than Sing.",0.0 +But one Exception to this Fact we find;,2.0 +"And now on French, or on Italian Stages,",1.0 +"Are always aimed at Poets, that wear Breeches.",1.0 +Drew a sharp Pen upon a Naked Woman.,3.0 +"The blustering Bully in our neighbouring Streets,",4.0 +Scorns to attack the Female that He meets:,3.0 +"The Hoop secures, whatever it surrounds.",2.0 +"By turns are ruled by Tumult, and by Love:",1.0 +"And while their Sweethearts their Attention fix,",2.0 +Suspend the Din of their damned clattering Sticks.,2.0 +"To You our Author makes Her soft Request,",1.0 +"Who speak the kindest, and who write the best.",1.0 +"Your Sympathetic Hearts She hopes to move,",0.0 +"From tender Friendship, and endearing Love.",1.0 +She hopes from You ' -- Pox take her Hopes and Fears;,2.0 +"By Our full Power of Beauty We think fit,",6.0 +We'll try the Empire You so long have boasted;,1.0 +"And if We are not Praised, We'll not be Toasted.",1.0 +Approve what One of us presents to Night;,2.0 +Or every Mortal Woman here shall write:,0.0 +"Rural, Pathetic, Narrative, Sublime,",3.0 +Female Remarks shall take up all Your Time.,1.0 +"Your Time, poor Souls! we'll take your very Money;",1.0 +Female Third Days shall come so thick upon You.,2.0 +"As long as We have Eyes, or Hands, or Breath,",1.0 +"We'll Look, or Write, or Talk You All to Death.",0.0 +Unless You yield for Better and for Worse:,1.0 +And the Grey Mare will prove the better Horse.,2.0 +"IF prosperous scenes should open on our way,",3.0 +"Friendship has charms to gild the happiest day,",4.0 +Her soothing power has suited balms to heal;,2.0 +"As she recedes, our energies subside,",2.0 +And earth's gay scenes appear a languid void;,1.0 +"Thus drooping flowers when chilled by midnight air,",4.0 +"Contract their leaves, and fold themselves with care;",0.0 +"But when the sun ascends to light the day,",0.0 +They soon expand to catch the vital ray;,0.0 +"But, if the hollow winds and beating rain,",1.0 +"Sweep over the hills, and deluge on the plain;",4.0 +"Denied the genial beam which gave them birth,",0.0 +They then unheeded sink to native earth.,0.0 +WHAT Thought can figure all my vast Distress?,0.0 +"What Words the Anguish of my Soul express,",1.0 +"When to my Rival you resigned your Charms,",1.0 +"And filled his richer, but less faithful Arms?",2.0 +"Loathing the Sun's bright Rays to Shades I fly,",3.0 +"And your dear Name to whispering Zephyrs sigh,",4.0 +The whispering Zephyrs your dear Name reply;,4.0 +"Dark gloomy Groves to raise have been my Care,",1.0 +"Fit Scenes of hopeless Love, and black Despair.",1.0 +And a new Eden rises mid my Tears.,2.0 +There spreading Cedars form a grateful Shade.,0.0 +"Soft gliding Streams, which murmur as they flow,",2.0 +"Come up then, my Beloved! O come and grace",1.0 +"This Spot of Earth, with a young lovely Race.",2.0 +"Let a fair numerous Offspring fill each Shade,",6.0 +"Remember, fair One, that the Age of Man",0.0 +"Is but a thousand Years, and quickly gone:",1.0 +"Beauty, though much admired, yet soon is past,",2.0 +Its transient Glories but some Centuries last:,3.0 +Displayed its growing Branches to the Sight;,1.0 +"Now worn with Age it falls, nor thought of more,",1.0 +Unless some Root its Memory restore:,1.0 +"Think well on this, then haste to make me blessed;",2.0 +"Be happy now, and leave to Fate the rest.",0.0 +"THOU dearest youth, who taught me first to know",0.0 +"What pleasures from a real friendship flow,",4.0 +"Where neither interest nor design have part,",1.0 +But all the warmth is native of the heart;,1.0 +"Joy of my health, and cordial of my pain.",1.0 +"When life seemed failing on her latest stage,",2.0 +"And fell disease anticipated age,",0.0 +"When wasting sickness and afflicted pain,",1.0 +"Forced me reluctant, desperate, to explore",3.0 +"A warmer sun, and seek a milder shore;",0.0 +"Forsook each gay companion of thy youth,",1.0 +"Whatever the prosperous or the great employs,",4.0 +"Business and interest, and love's softer joys,",6.0 +"The weary steps of misery to attend,",3.0 +"To share distress, and make a wretch thy friend,",0.0 +"If over the mountain's snowy height we stray,",2.0 +"Or through the tainted air of Rome's parched plains,",2.0 +"Where Want resides, and Superstition reigns;",0.0 +"And kindly anxious for thy friend alone,",1.0 +Lament his sufferings and forget thy own.,1.0 +"O! would kind Heaven, these tedious sufferings past,",3.0 +"In that loved shade, my youth's delightful seat,",1.0 +"My early pleasure, and my late retreat,",1.0 +"Where lavish Nature's favourite blessings flow,",0.0 +And all the seasons all their sweets bestow;,0.0 +There might I trifle carelessly away,1.0 +"The milder evening of life's clouded day,",2.0 +"From business and the world's intrusion free,",1.0 +"With books, with love, with beauty, and with thee;",1.0 +"Let those who Fortune's shining gifts implore,",0.0 +"And pleasures they can never taste, despise;",1.0 +"Who, while she grants their prayer, their peace destroys.",0.0 +"I envy not the foremost of the great,",2.0 +"Still let him load Ambition's thorny shrine,",1.0 +"Fame be his portion, and contentment mine.",2.0 +"But if the gods, sinister still, deny",6.0 +"Thy hand to close my eyes in death's long night,",1.0 +Thy image to attract their latest sight:,1.0 +"Then to the grave attend thy poet's hearse,",0.0 +And love his memory as you loved his verse.,1.0 +AT first in Vales obscure the Lyre I strung;,0.0 +"Now, leaving these, she ranges over the Plains,",4.0 +"Yet, fresh in Grief, but feebly moves her Wings,",0.0 +"Loved each alike, and were, like Brothers, kind:",2.0 +Great CAROLINE her Royal Bounty showed,1.0 +"When straight his smiling Looks, and cheerful Mien,",0.0 +Proclaimed the Goodness of a gracious QUEEN;,1.0 +"But gloomy Sadness soon his Face possessed,",0.0 +And clouded all the Joys before expressed:,0.0 +The other gay and pleasant still appeared;,0.0 +"Nor grieved for Evils past, nor future feared:",0.0 +"And thus the mournful Tale, alternate, ran.",4.0 +"WHY, COLIN, dost thou wear that pensive Look,",0.0 +"And sighing stand, supported by thy Crook?",1.0 +"Say, from what Cause this Melancholy springs;",0.0 +Or dost thou verify what DAMON sings?,0.0 +"The more he has, the more he still requires:",0.0 +"New Pleasures grow insipid, when enjoyed.",1.0 +"So, when our Sheep on Hills refuse to feed,",0.0 +We straight remove them to the verdant Mead;,1.0 +"And, for that Day, their Pasture seems to please:",1.0 +"The next, they range around the flowery Space;",2.0 +"'TWAS Yesterday a giddy Sheep I viewed,",1.0 +"While one, with burly Horns, secure from Pain,",0.0 +"Ran, enviously, and pushed him down again.",5.0 +"I nor insulted, nor intended Guile;",2.0 +"But tell me, Swain, what wondrous Turn of Fate",0.0 +"What, is thy Harvest blasted on the Ground?",1.0 +Or has the Royal CAROLINA frowned?,0.0 +"You know, my Friend's Misfortunes are my own.",1.0 +"MY Harvest is not blasted on the Ground,",2.0 +Nor has the Royal CAROLINA frowned:,0.0 +"But lately, when the Sun had gaily dressed",0.0 +"The lofty Mountains in a purple Vest,",0.0 +"I early rose, to tend my fleecy Care;",0.0 +"Wet was the Grass, and piercing cold the Air.",0.0 +"My lovely SYLVIA, stay behind, I said,",2.0 +Till I have weaved a Garland for thy Head;,2.0 +"Till I a Bower, with shady Branches, form,",3.0 +"To shun the scorching Ray, or rapid Storm;",0.0 +"And, when the Dew's exhaled, which Night distilled,",0.0 +Bless COLIN with thy Presence in the Field.,2.0 +She answered not; but from her Bosom sent,1.0 +"A deep presaging Sigh, before I went.",4.0 +"The Sun had painted every Object gay,",0.0 +When to the cheerful Field I took my Way;,0.0 +The Thrush and Finch sat chirping on the Thorn;,2.0 +"The Swallows round, in airy Circles, flew;",0.0 +"And, ah! poor COLIN then was joyful too:",1.0 +"But suddenly I saw the Mists arise,",1.0 +While from his airy Height the Lark sunk down,2.0 +The tuneful Birds their joyous Songs denied;,0.0 +"My drooping Heart, which felt unusual Weight,",0.0 +"Shocked with such Omens, ceased almost to beat:",1.0 +"Yet these, said I, portend no Evil, while",3.0 +Inured the lesser Ills of Life to bear.,0.0 +"Thus said, I took my Way to yonder Grove;",1.0 +"And formed, with spreading Boughs, an arched Alcove:",1.0 +"So close I twisted in each pliant Spray,",0.0 +"As might exclude the Wind, or sunny Ray.",0.0 +"With sweetest Flowers I decked the mossy Ground,",2.0 +"Here, when, said I, my SYLVIA comes afield,",2.0 +This grateful Bower a safe Retreat shall yield:,2.0 +"If rainy, here she may the Storms evade;",1.0 +"If fair, the Branches will project a Shade:",1.0 +"Here SYLVIA shall, with COLIN, take her Rest;",1.0 +"And COLIN here, with SYLVIA, shall be blessed.",1.0 +"As thus I spoke, around I cast my Eye,",0.0 +And saw celestial CELIA drawing nigh:,0.0 +I saw; but wondered why her heavenly Mien,2.0 +"Was clouded over, that used to be serene.",2.0 +Nor to Arcadian Shepherd's was so dear.,5.0 +"When CELIA to the rural Shade retires,",1.0 +She every Breast with rising Hope inspires;,0.0 +"The happy Time, and hail the generous Dame:",2.0 +"As languid Plants, which half the Year lie dead,",1.0 +"When Spring approaches, raise their drooping Head.",0.0 +She crossed the Plains with a dejected Air;,1.0 +Her pensive Aspect showed her pious Care;,1.0 +"And, loath unwelcome Tidings to reveal,",1.0 +"Ah poor unhappy Swain! return, return;",0.0 +The sable Clouds foretell a rainy Morn:,0.0 +Nor only is the Day overcast with Gloom;,4.0 +Thy pleasing Hopes are blasted all at home;,0.0 +"Thy SYLVIA, OH! She said, and dropped the rest;",2.0 +But my presaging Heart too rightly guessed:,3.0 +"I silent stood, and spoke my Grief with Tears;",0.0 +"You know, my Heart was firmly linked to hers.",0.0 +"I know, your Hearts are linked in Friendship fast;",0.0 +Long may that mutual Bond of Friendship last:,2.0 +"May HYMEN to you both propitious prove,",1.0 +And Death but late untie the Knot of Love.,0.0 +"The good, the faithful SYLVIA is no more:",1.0 +"That gloomy Morn she, in my Absence, died;",0.0 +And rigid Death the last Farewell denied.,1.0 +Another Loss I could content have born;,0.0 +But must the Loss of SYLVIA always mourn.,2.0 +"My lovely SYLVIA was my softest Theme,",1.0 +"My Song by Day, by Night my pleasing Dream:",0.0 +But now in Sighs I spend the lingering Day;,0.0 +"And, weeping, pass the tardy Night away:",0.0 +Nor does thy Friend indulge a needless Care;,0.0 +"My Loss is great, and just is my Despair.",1.0 +THY Loss and Sorrows equally are great;,1.0 +"But Death's the Law of Nature, fixed by Fate:",0.0 +"Our Flocks, our Herds, our All precarious stands;",2.0 +"And fall we must, when Heaven our Fall commands.",0.0 +YET Flocks and Herds are with Reluctance spared;,1.0 +"And what are Flocks and Herds, with her compared?",1.0 +"But, ah! what Loss was his, compared with mine?",1.0 +"I have a Flute, which DAMON lately made;",0.0 +No Shepherd on a sweeter ever played:,2.0 +"I tuned it Yesterday, and straight a Throng",0.0 +"My listening Ewes, awhile, forsook their Meat;",0.0 +I'll tune again the soft harmonious Lay;,2.0 +"Music, perhaps, may chase thy Cares away.",2.0 +Such Woes as mine would baffle all thy Skill.,1.0 +"Upon his Flute ALEXIS often plays,",0.0 +And strives to charm my Sorrows with his Lays;,1.0 +Upon his Flute ALEXIS plays in vain;,0.0 +"His Lays, though charming, cannot charm my Pain.",0.0 +"The tuneful Birds rejoice on every Spray,",0.0 +"In vain the tuneful Birds rejoice, in vain",0.0 +"WITH cheerful Green the spacious Fields are crowned,",0.0 +"The snowy Blossoms on the Branches shine,",1.0 +"A pleasing Scene to every Eye, but mine!",0.0 +"For neither cheerful Green, that crowns the Field,",0.0 +"Nor snowy Blossoms, which the Branches yield,",0.0 +"Nor Flowers, that spread the painted Meadows over,",3.0 +"Delight my Eyes, now SYLVIA is no more.",2.0 +IT'S more than Time thy mournful Dirge to end;,0.0 +Our fleecy Flocks stand waiting round the Fold;,1.0 +"Damp feel the Dews, the ruffling Breezes cold;",1.0 +And hazy Fogs from marshy Grounds arise:,0.0 +"Then fold thy Sheep, thy anxious Cares remove;",0.0 +"Nor weep on Earth, for her who sings above.",1.0 +THrough every Age some Tyrant Passion reigns:,0.0 +"Now Love prevails, and now Ambition gains",1.0 +"Reason's lost Throne, and sovereign Rule maintains.",3.0 +"Though beyond Love's, Ambition's Empire goes;",1.0 +"For who feels Love, Ambition also knows,",1.0 +And proudly still aspires to be possessed,2.0 +"Of Her, he thinks superior to the rest.",2.0 +"As could be proved, but that our plainer Task",0.0 +"Do's no such Toil, or Definitions ask;",1.0 +"A King, observing how a Shepherd's Skill",1.0 +"Improved his Flocks, and did the Pastures fill,",0.0 +"And the secured and grazing Part attend,",1.0 +"Transfers the Sway, and changed his Wool to Furs.",0.0 +"His just Decrees, and speedily decides;",1.0 +"When his sole Neighbour, while he watched the Fold,",1.0 +"A Hermit poor, in Contemplation old,",0.0 +"Tells him such Heights are levelled in a trice,",0.0 +"And that already sure iT had turned his Brain,",0.0 +Who thought a Prince's Favour to retain.,2.0 +"Nor seemed unlike, in this mistaken Rank,",1.0 +"A Serpent found, which for a Staff he took,",1.0 +And used as such his own but lately broke,1.0 +"Thanking the Fates, who thus his Loss supplied,",2.0 +"Nor marking one, that with amazement cried,",2.0 +Throw quickly from thy Hand that sleeping Ill,2.0 +"A Staff it feels, nor shall my want of Eyes,",0.0 +"Make me believe, I have no Senses left,",3.0 +And through thy Malice be of this bereft;,2.0 +Which Fortune to my Hand has kindly sent,1.0 +"To guide my Steps, and stumbling to prevent.",1.0 +"No Staff, the Man proceeds; but to thy harm",2.0 +"Confirmed it soon, and fastened on his Arm.",1.0 +"Thus wilt thou find, Shepherd believe it true,",5.0 +"Some Ill, that shall this seeming Good ensue;",0.0 +"So proved the Event, and Whisperers now defame",2.0 +"The candid Judge, and his Proceedings blame.",1.0 +"By Wrongs, they say, a Palace he erects,",1.0 +"The Good oppresses, and the Bad protects.",0.0 +"To view this Seat the King himself prepares,",0.0 +"But Moderation, free from each Extreme,",0.0 +While Moderation is the Builder's Theme.,1.0 +"That Wealth he had concealed within a Chest,",0.0 +"Which but attended some convenient Day,",1.0 +"To face the Sun, and brighter Beams display.",0.0 +"No secret Sums to foreign Banks designed,",1.0 +"But humble Marks of an obscure Recess,",1.0 +"Emblems of Care, and Instruments of Peace;",3.0 +"The merry Bagpipe, which, ere fall of Night,",2.0 +Welcome you Monuments of former Joys!,3.0 +"Welcome! to bless again your Master's Eyes,",2.0 +"And draw from Courts, the instructed Shepherd cries.",2.0 +"No more dear Relics! we no more will part,",4.0 +"You shall my Hands employ, who now revive my Heart.",0.0 +"Shall falsely blacken, or seduce to Crimes",1.0 +"Him, whom your honest Industry can please,",1.0 +Who on the barren Down can sing from inward Ease.,1.0 +"With such low Thoughts, and Freedom from Designs,",3.0 +"Forgive me, Sir, and Humane Frailty see,",5.0 +"The Swain replies, in my past State and Me;",2.0 +"All peaceful that, to which I vow return.",0.0 +But who alas! though mine at length I mourn,1.0 +Was ever without the Curse of some Ambition born.,2.0 +"IN this suspense, a thousand bear a part,",1.0 +With hopes and fears alternate to their heart;,3.0 +"With equal mind ' -- wait thy uncertain fate,",2.0 +Let no resentment be thy future aim.,1.0 +"Avert the thought ' -- and in the doubtful hour,",0.0 +Be justice guarded by some heavenly power;,3.0 +Be D ' -- still ' -- and let thy spirit show,1.0 +"Thou art thyself, however this contest go.",3.0 +May each dark page unfold its haggard brow!,1.0 +"To tempt thy care, may each revolving night,",0.0 +"From hence in times to come, adventurous deed!",2.0 +When the black bag and rose no more shall shade,3.0 +"When the full wig thy visage shall enclose,",3.0 +"While tenants, in fee simple, stuff thy coffers.",1.0 +"OH, spread from pole to pole this gracious voice:",1.0 +"Say, every breast of human frame, that proves",1.0 +The boundless force with which a parent loves;,0.0 +"Say, can a mother from her yearning heart",1.0 +Bid the soft image of her child depart?,4.0 +She! whom fond instinct arms with strength to bear,1.0 +All forms of ill to shield that dearest care?,0.0 +"She! who with anguish stung, with madness wild,",0.0 +Will rush on death to save her threatened child;,0.0 +"All selfish feelings banished from her breast,",1.0 +"When her loved infant to her bosom clings,",3.0 +"When round her neck his eager arms he flings,",0.0 +"Breathes to her listening soul his melting sigh,",0.0 +"And lifts, suffused with tears, his asking eye;",0.0 +"Will she, for all ambition can attain,",2.0 +"The charms of pleasure, or the lures of gain,",1.0 +"Betray strong nature's feelings, will she prove",2.0 +Cold to the claims of duty and of love?,1.0 +But should the mother from her yearning heart,1.0 +Bid the soft image of her child depart;,4.0 +"Betray fond nature's energies, and prove",2.0 +Cold to the claims of duty and of love!,1.0 +"Yet never will the GOD, whose word gave birth",2.0 +"Yet, when he formed the vast stupendous whole,",0.0 +Shed his best bounties on the human soul;,4.0 +"Which pity softens, and which virtue charms;",1.0 +"Which feels the pure affections generous glow,",2.0 +"Shares others' joy, and bleeds for others' woe ' --",1.0 +"OH, never will the general FATHER prove",2.0 +"Of man forgetful, man the child of love. ' --",0.0 +When all those planets in their ample spheres,0.0 +"Have winged their course, and rolled their destined years;",0.0 +When the vast sun shall veil his glowing light,3.0 +Deep in the gloom of everlasting night;,0.0 +"When wild destructive flames shall wrap the skies,",0.0 +"When chaos triumphs, and when nature dies,",1.0 +"Man shall alone the wreck of worlds survive,",1.0 +Mid falling spheres immortal man shall live!,1.0 +"That voice which bade the last dread thunders roll,",1.0 +"Shall whisper to the good, and cheer their soul;",1.0 +Where living waters pour their blissful tide;,0.0 +"Where the enlarged, exulting, wondering mind",3.0 +"Shall soar, from weakness and from guilt refined;",1.0 +"Where perfect knowledge, bright with cloudless rays,",1.0 +Shall in immortal bands unite the just;,1.0 +"Devotion raised to rapture breathe her strain,",0.0 +And love in his eternal triumph reign.,1.0 +"Yet still my calmer thoughts his choice commend,",0.0 +"I praise the hermit, but regret the friend;",1.0 +"Who now resolves, from vice and LONDON far,",0.0 +"To breathe in distant fields a purer air,",0.0 +Give to St. David one true Briton more.,5.0 +Or change the rocks of Scotland for the Strand?,1.0 +"There none are swept by sudden fate away,",0.0 +"But all whom hunger spares, with age decay:",0.0 +"And now a rabble rages, now a fire;",0.0 +"Here falling houses thunder on your head,",1.0 +And here a female atheist talks you dead.,3.0 +"Of dissipated wealth the small remains,",0.0 +Where Greenwich smiles upon the silver flood.,0.0 +"We kneel, and kiss the consecrated earth;",0.0 +"In pleasing dreams the blissful age renew,",0.0 +"Behold her cross triumphant on the main,",1.0 +"The guard of commerce, and the dread of Spain.",1.0 +"A transient calm the happy scenes bestow,",0.0 +And for a moment lull the sense of woe.,1.0 +Wants even the cheap reward of empty praise;,3.0 +"In those cursed walls, devote to vice and gain,",3.0 +And every moment leaves my little less;,0.0 +And life still vigorous revels in my veins;,3.0 +"Grant me, kind heaven, to find some happier place,",5.0 +Where honesty and sense are no disgrace;,1.0 +"Some pleasing bank where verdant offers play,",0.0 +Some peaceful vale with nature's painting gay;,0.0 +And safe in poverty defied his foes;,1.0 +"Some secret cell, you powers, indulgent give:",2.0 +"Here let those reign, whom pensions can incite",1.0 +"To vote a patriot black, a courtier white;",4.0 +And plead for pirates in the face of day;,0.0 +"With slavish tenets taint our poisoned youth,",0.0 +And lend a lie the confidence of truth.,1.0 +"Collect a tax, or farm a lottery,",1.0 +And lull to servitude a thoughtless age.,0.0 +"Heroes, proceed! what bounds your pride shall hold?",2.0 +What cheque restrain your thirst of power and gold?,2.0 +"Behold rebellious virtue quite overthrown,",3.0 +"Behold our fame, our wealth, our lives your own.",0.0 +"To such, a groaning nation's spoils are given,",1.0 +When public crimes inflame the wrath of heaven:,0.0 +"Who start at theft, and blush at perjury?",1.0 +To pluck a titled poet's borrowed wing;,1.0 +"Despise a fool in half his pension dressed,",0.0 +"Can sap the principles, or taint the heart;",1.0 +"With more address a lover's note convey,",0.0 +Or bribe a virgin's innocence away.,1.0 +"Well may they rise, while I, whose rustic tongue",1.0 +"Never knew to puzzle right, or varnish wrong,",0.0 +"Spurned as a beggar, dreaded as a spy,",1.0 +"Turn from the glittering bribe thy scornful eye,",2.0 +"Nor sell for gold, what gold could never buy,",0.0 +"Unsullied fame, and conscience ever gay.",0.0 +"Mark whom the great caress, who frown on me.",0.0 +"LONDON! the needy villain's general home,",2.0 +"The common sewer of Paris and of Rome,",3.0 +"With eager thirst, by folly or by fate,",1.0 +Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.,0.0 +"Forgive my transports on a theme like this,",1.0 +The land of heroes and of saints survey;,1.0 +"The rustic grandeur, or the surly grace,",2.0 +"But lost in thoughtless ease, and empty show,",0.0 +Behold the warrior dwindled to a beau;,1.0 +"Sense, freedom, piety, refined away,",2.0 +"Of France the mimic, and of Spain the prey.",1.0 +"All that at home no more can beg or steal,",1.0 +"Hissed from the stage, or hooted from the court,",1.0 +"Their air, their dress, their politics import;",0.0 +On Britain's fond credulity they prey.,1.0 +"No gainful trade their industry can escape,",4.0 +"All sciences a fasting Monsieur knows,",4.0 +"And bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.",0.0 +I drew the breath of life in English air;,0.0 +The supple Gaul was born a parasite:,0.0 +"Still to his interest true, wherever he goes,",2.0 +"Wit, bravery, worth, his lavish tongue bestows;",3.0 +"In every face a thousand graces shine,",0.0 +From every tongue flows harmony divine.,2.0 +And gain a kick for awkward flattery.,1.0 +"Besides, with justice this discerning age",1.0 +Admires their wondrous talents for the stage:,1.0 +Who play from morn to night a borrowed part;,1.0 +"Practised their master's notions to embrace,",3.0 +"Repeat his maxims, and reflect his face;",1.0 +"With every wild absurdity comply,",1.0 +"To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear,",0.0 +"To pour at will the counterfeited tear,",1.0 +"And as their patron hints the cold or heat,",1.0 +Can surly virtue hope to fix a friend?,0.0 +"And lie without a blush, without a smile;",0.0 +"Exalt each trifle, every vice adore,",0.0 +"Your taste in snuff, your judgement in a whore;",0.0 +"For arts like these preferred, admired, caressed,",1.0 +"They first invade your table, then your breast;",0.0 +"Watch the weak hour, and ransack all the heart;",3.0 +"Commence your lords, and govern or betray.",1.0 +"All crimes are safe, but hated poverty.",1.0 +"This, only this, the rigid law pursues,",1.0 +"This, only this, provokes the snarling Muse.",1.0 +"The sober trader at a tattered cloak,",0.0 +"With brisker air the silken courtiers gaze,",2.0 +And turn the varied taunt a thousand ways.,0.0 +Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest;,1.0 +"Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart,",3.0 +Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.,1.0 +No secret island in the boundless main?,1.0 +No peaceful desert yet unclaimed by SPAIN?,1.0 +"Quick let us rise, the happy seats explore,",1.0 +And bear oppression's insolence no more.,2.0 +"This mournful truth is every where confessed,",0.0 +"But here more slow, where all are slaves to gold,",0.0 +"Where looks are merchandise, and smiles are sold;",0.0 +Roll through the streets and thunder to the skies:,1.0 +"Raised from some pleasing dream of wealth and power,",0.0 +"Some pompous palace or some blissful bower,",1.0 +"Aghast you start, and scarce with aching sight",0.0 +Sustain the approaching fire's tremendous light;,4.0 +"Swift from pursuing horrors take your way,",2.0 +And leave your little ALL to flames a prey;,0.0 +For where can starving merit find a home?,0.0 +"In vain your mournful narrative disclose,",1.0 +"While all neglect, and most insult your woes.",0.0 +"And spread his flaming palace on the ground,",1.0 +"Swift over the land the dismal rumour flies,",3.0 +"The laureate tribe in servile verse relate,",2.0 +How virtue wars with persecuting fate;,0.0 +"See! while he builds, the gaudy vassals come,",0.0 +And crowd with sudden wealth the rising dome;,0.0 +The price of boroughs and of souls restore;,2.0 +And raise his treasures higher than before.,1.0 +"Now blessed with all the baubles of the great,",2.0 +"The polished marble, and the shining plate,",1.0 +And hopes from angry heaven another fire.,0.0 +For the fair banks of Severn or of Trent;,3.0 +"And stretch thy prospects over the smiling land,",2.0 +For less than rent the dungeons of the Strand;,1.0 +"There prune thy walks, support thy drooping flowers,",0.0 +"There every bush with nature's music rings,",0.0 +There every breeze bears health upon its wings;,1.0 +"On all thy hours security shall smile,",1.0 +And bless thy evening walk and morning toil.,0.0 +And sign your will before you sup from home.,1.0 +Who sleeps on brambles till he kills his man;,1.0 +"Some frolic drunkard, reeling from a feast,",1.0 +"Provokes a broil, and stabs you for a jest",1.0 +"Lords of the street, and terrors of the way;",1.0 +"Flushed as they are with folly, youth and wine,",1.0 +Their prudent insults to the poor confine;,2.0 +"And shun the shining train, and golden coach.",0.0 +And hope the balmy blessings of repose:,1.0 +"Cruel with guilt and daring with despair,",1.0 +"Invades the sacred hour of silent rest,",0.0 +"And plants, unseen, a dagger in your breast.",0.0 +With hemp the gallows and the fleet supply.,1.0 +Whose ways and means support the sinking land;,0.0 +"Lest ropes be wanting in the tempting spring,",0.0 +Could half the nation's criminals contain;,1.0 +"Fair Justice then, without constraint adored,",1.0 +"No spies were paid, no special juries known,",2.0 +Blessed age! but ah! how different from our own!,2.0 +The tide retiring calls me from the land:,1.0 +"Then shall thy friend, nor thou refuse his aid,",1.0 +"Still foe to vice, forsake his Cambrian shade;",3.0 +"In virtue's cause once more exert his rage,",1.0 +"Thy satire point, and animate thy page.",1.0 +"By a soft murmuring Stream in heat of Day,",4.0 +"Beneath the spreading Willows gloomy Shade,",1.0 +A cool recess by careful Nature made;,0.0 +"There lost in thought, soothing her amorous Pains,",7.0 +"Forgot her Flocks, and business of the Plains.",1.0 +"The Shepherd's wondered that she stayed so long,",0.0 +"Each left his Pipe, and stopped his rural Song",0.0 +"Searching the adjacent Woods and Groves around,",1.0 +The careful Daphne distant Valleys tried,0.0 +And there with Joy the pensive Wanderer spied:,3.0 +Ran to her Arms with a transported Hast,1.0 +"A thousand times, the sighing Nymph embraced.",0.0 +"Tell me, said she, what makes you all neglect,",0.0 +"Nor now from Sun, or Wolves your Sheep protect,",0.0 +"But let them wander over the unbounded Plain,",1.0 +"Scorched by the one, and by the other Slain?",2.0 +Though you may now the greatest numbers Boast,1.0 +Unheeded thus your Flocks will soon be lost.,0.0 +"Nay of your self too, you are careless grown",2.0 +Shun all the Nymphs to Muse in Shades alone:,0.0 +Where smiling once with sporting Lambs you played.,0.0 +"The little Bird you fondly taught to Sing,",0.0 +"Released from Cage, and trusted to its Wing:",1.0 +"You tore each tender Sonnet you have made,",1.0 +Ah! why thus peevish? Can your faithful Heart,2.0 +"No kind Inquirer when with cares oppressed,",1.0 +"I still repose in yours, my wearied Breast;",1.0 +"But I have now, no Secret to reveal,",3.0 +"At the approach of last refreshing Shower,",1.0 +In hast I ran to yonder well fenced Bower;,1.0 +"In the kind shelter too long Sleeping lay,",3.0 +"Or Thief, or Wolf, my Darling stole away.",0.0 +"Do not evade the Truth, but be sincere;",0.0 +"For long ere this, your Eyes did sorrows wear,",2.0 +"Besides, I saw you ere you was awake",1.0 +"Disturbed you slept, with eager accents spoke,",0.0 +"Folded your tender Arms, and Slept again.",2.0 +"Nay, do not blush at the discovered Truth,",1.0 +"Too well I know you Love that charming Youth,",1.0 +"Oft you together, your mixed Flocks did feed,",4.0 +Delight your selves with his harmonious Reed.,3.0 +"If any Stragglers, from your Folds did run;",1.0 +"Each, would the others seek, neglect their own:",0.0 +"O! Name him not; yes, ever sound that Name,",1.0 +For it's in vain to hide the undoing Flame.,3.0 +"I Love, nay rather the bright Youth adore,",3.0 +To tempt the Nymph to his resisting Arms,1.0 +"A Shape so fine, or such a pleasing Mein,",1.0 +"Soft as their Down, and just such lovely Eyes.",1.0 +His every accent has an Air of Love;,1.0 +"A Breath as Sweet, as when the Evening Breeze",0.0 +Salutes us from yonder Grove of spicy Trees;,0.0 +"His lovely Smiles, soft Brightness do display,",1.0 +Like glowing Blushes of the infant Day.,1.0 +"When over the Mountain-tops the blooming Light,",2.0 +"Like Pan himself, the Glory of the Woods,",1.0 +Then who such mighty Charms can ever resist?,2.0 +"Charms like my Love, too great to be expressed.",1.0 +"O fatal Power of Love, that thus can seize",2.0 +"But now a Slave, worse than ever sighed for you,",3.0 +"You dote to Passion; nay, Distraction too.",0.0 +"Tell me, sad softened Nymph, how long your Breast,",3.0 +"Speaking of him, can never think Ages long.",4.0 +"Daphne, you know what time the lovely Swain,",2.0 +"With his Blessed Flocks, has graced our happy Plain:",2.0 +"From the first Hour, he did obliging prove;",2.0 +"I little thought, to pay him back in Love",0.0 +"He within bounds, my wandering Lambs would keep,",6.0 +"When I was weary, gladly Fold my Sheep.",0.0 +"And as I rested, in the verdant Shade,",1.0 +"The listening Shepherd's not far distant stand,",1.0 +"Not Pan's immortal Pipe, could more Inspire,",0.0 +"And taught my listening Soul, the way to Love.",0.0 +"On a fresh Bank, by a clear Fountain side,",4.0 +Where Flora smiled with gaudy vernal Pride.,0.0 +"Phoebus was gone, to Thetis yielding Arms,",2.0 +"Smiled over the Grove, scarce Day it self more Bright,",4.0 +"And through the Boughs, sprinkled the Shade with Light.",6.0 +"There with gay Innocence, supine we sat,",3.0 +But no forewarning Bird told my approaching Fate.,3.0 +I cropped the fragrant Flowers all around;,0.0 +"The various Colours, artfully I placed,",3.0 +"One side, with various Sylvan Nymphs, I graced,",2.0 +And on the other Pan and Flora placed.,1.0 +"Take these, said I; for all the generous Care,",2.0 +"In which, so oft, my Flocks and I did share;",1.0 +I only grieve their number is so small.,1.0 +"He smiled to hear the tender things I said,",0.0 +While grateful looks his pleasing Answers made;,0.0 +"And then half Blushing on his Music played,",2.0 +"Listening; that dear undoing Face I viewed,",1.0 +"To catch each Smile, which kindly was bestowed.",1.0 +"But O! too long, too long I gazing sat;",4.0 +"My Soul, with softening Airs, prepared by Fate,",0.0 +"Took the Impression of that charming Face,",3.0 +"Which, Smiling, darted Glory round the Place:",0.0 +"A thousand Loves in amorous Fires dressed,",2.0 +With one dear look pierced my too ready Breast:,4.0 +"I thought Heaven's Brightness in those radiant Eyes,",2.0 +"And blushed, and fainted at the soft surprise;",0.0 +"Yet hoped the mighty Transport would be over,",0.0 +And the gay Youth but please as heretofore:,2.0 +"But o! you may as soon yonder Mountain move,",7.0 +As raze out the immortal Characters of Love.,2.0 +"Then with what caution should we guard the Breast,",0.0 +And the first glimmering of the Flame resist?,3.0 +"A Flame, so fatal, that it does Destroy,",0.0 +"If all kind Breasts are with such torture moved,",2.0 +"May I never Love, nor ever be be loved?",0.0 +"No; rather let me and my Flocks, be drove",2.0 +"From this fresh Pasture, and delightful Grove;",3.0 +"Where no Shades near, nor useful Waters run;",1.0 +"Fainted with wandering over the fiery Dust,",8.0 +"Famished for Food, Parched up with Heat and Thirst:",2.0 +"I void of all, that can relieve their Wants:",1.0 +Yet I'd endure this piercing Scene of Woe;,1.0 +"Rather then Love, should my gay Breast subdue,",4.0 +"Ah why, would you indulge the fond desire.",2.0 +And not at first Stifle the growing Fire?,3.0 +"At its Approach, with tender warmth were Blessed,",1.0 +"And give such Joys, none would, or can resist.",2.0 +"No Lover yet, could ever of Forecast Boast,",4.0 +"Now with the fondest Flames of Love I burn,",0.0 +Doomed to the certain Curse of no return.,0.0 +"When to the fickle Youth, I owned I loved,",0.0 +"He never returns, to see how mine do fare,",3.0 +"Nor I, nor they, are now no more his Care.",2.0 +"Curse on my Love, which did itself disclose,",0.0 +"By what should keep, I did my Charmer lose;",0.0 +"Now I no more must see his lovely Face,",0.0 +"Hear his enchanting Voice, his melting Lays;",2.0 +"Make the Soul Gay, and every Pulse beat Love.",4.0 +"When the charmed Youth, leaned on my willing Breast,",1.0 +"Spoke things as soft, as the kind Hand he pressed?",3.0 +"But now all's lost, I rage beyond redress,",1.0 +"First, I was cautious to conceal my Flame,",1.0 +Now every Breath repeats his dear Loved Name:,2.0 +"That if the mangled Woods could vocal be,",0.0 +"Each sigh has such a tender Emphasis,",2.0 +"As moves Compassion, in all Breasts but his:",0.0 +"Each Towering Hill, and every humble Grove;",0.0 +"Echoes grown faint, repeating of my sighs:",4.0 +"My Sighs, whose force move every Bough to Mourn,",1.0 +"Oft do I run to the inviting Shade,",1.0 +"Where first his pleasing Smiles, my Soul betrayed;",0.0 +"There lay me down in the dear sacred Place,",3.0 +"Which kindly once, his lovely Form did Grace;",0.0 +"Then weep his Absence; Rage and Rave in vain,",0.0 +For o! I never must be so Blessed again;,1.0 +"I clasp him then in my glad wishing Arms,",2.0 +"Gaze on his Eyes, and feast me with his Charms;",1.0 +"But when awake; I rage to find him gone,",0.0 +Search every Corner of the winding Grove;,2.0 +"Ask every Shade, to give me back my Love.",1.0 +"There silent all, and empty of such Bliss;",1.0 +"In vain I seek for Joys, I'm doomed to miss:",0.0 +"Though Prayers, and Tears, and Gifts, and blooming Love invite.",0.0 +"For still his bright Idea does remain,",0.0 +And every moment Charms me into Pain.,0.0 +Other Youths may moderate Passion move;,2.0 +"Lost to all else, insensible I seem,",1.0 +Forget their number ere they half are told;,0.0 +"I answer all, by sighing of his Name.",1.0 +"Farewell, my Daphne, I must leave thee now,",2.0 +"One pitying Tear, on my sad Fate bestow;",4.0 +"Return thou Glory of the Joyful Grove,",1.0 +"Farewell my once loved Flocks, my rural Store;",2.0 +"That melting Name so often I'll repeat,",1.0 +Till the soft sound dissolve the Knot of Fate.,2.0 +"Cursed by his Absence, Life is tedious grown;",2.0 +Now he shall see what his neglect has done.,1.0 +"While I can gaze, it shall be on his Charms,",0.0 +And though not live; die in those lovely Arms;,1.0 +"I'll sigh my Soul out, at his careless Feet;",0.0 +"Then let one pitying Look but Grace my Death,",2.0 +"I'll Bless the Cause, with my expiring Breath.",1.0 +"Hear me Great Pan, Sylvanus, all you Gods,",2.0 +"Whose sacred Power, protects the Plains and Woods,",2.0 +"Hear my last Prayer; to you I oft did Bow,",2.0 +"With Milk and Honey, made your Altars Flow.",0.0 +Released from Life; but not the Pains of Love.,0.0 +"From Fox and Wolf, preserve his tender Lambs,",0.0 +"Luxuriant Fleeces, tyre their numerous Hands.",4.0 +"And all his rural Wealth, beyond his Wishes thrive.",0.0 +"But above all, you Gods, regard him most,",1.0 +"Shelter him safe, ever any Storm appear,",2.0 +"Now for his Pleasures, Flora thee invoke:",1.0 +"Let my soft Prayers, thy vernal Glories bring,",3.0 +"The Pasture gay, no hurtful Weeds be found,",1.0 +"But Pansies, Hyacinths, over spread the Ground;",2.0 +"Let lofty Cedars and the stately Pine,",2.0 +With mingling Boughs in mutual Shades combine:,2.0 +"Then the delicious Eglantine and Rose,",1.0 +"When Heat or Thirst, to flowing Streams invite,",0.0 +"Birds cheerful Notes, the Woods and Valleys fill,",1.0 +"Which both Invite, and Please the longing Taste.",0.0 +"And all the choicest, still my Love be thine.",0.0 +"And when in Honour, Goddess, to thy Name,",2.0 +"Whether they Pipe, or Dance, or Sing, or Play,",2.0 +"From Shepherd's Hands the welcome Garland wear,",0.0 +For o! I Grudge the Nymphs should come so near,1.0 +And with glad Voices sing the Victor home;,2.0 +"With choicest Flowers strow all the joyful Path,",0.0 +"Gay as his Looks, sweet as his tuneful Breath.",2.0 +Then some kind Nymph the fragrant Pavement take,1.0 +"Let them fresh Mixture with the Cypress have,",4.0 +Then strow them all on my untimely Grave.,1.0 +"They too were Lovers once, though now transformed,",0.0 +"May I like them, to some kind Plant be turned;",1.0 +"My Grave is filled, and graced with what he scorned:",0.0 +"Lest, he relenting, should one Moment grieve,",1.0 +"To save a Sigh, I'd be condemned to Live:",0.0 +"With raging Madness, mourn my absent Bliss,",0.0 +And with my Cries wound every Ear but his.,2.0 +"Here the Nymph fainted with excess of Grief,",3.0 +"And careful Daphne, strove to give Relief.",0.0 +"WHILE born to bring the Muse's happier days,",2.0 +A patriot's hand protects a poet's lays:,2.0 +"While nursed by you she sees her myrtles bloom,",1.0 +"Excuse her doubts, if yet she fears to tell",0.0 +What secret transports in her bosom swell:,0.0 +"With conscious awe she hears the critic's fame,",0.0 +"Hard was the lot those injured strains endured,",0.0 +Fair Fancy wept; and echoing sighs confessed,3.0 +A fixed despair in every tuneful breast.,0.0 +When lingering frosts the ruined seats invade,0.0 +"Where Peace resorted, and the Graces played.",1.0 +"Each rising art by just gradation moves,",0.0 +"Toil builds on toil, and age on age improves:",1.0 +"The Muse alone unequal dealt her rage,",0.0 +And graced with noblest pomp her earliest stage.,2.0 +"A bed incestuous, and a father slain.",1.0 +"With kind concern our pitying eyes overflow,",2.0 +"To Rome removed, with wit secure to please,",0.0 +The Comic sisters kept their native ease.,0.0 +With jealous fear declining Greece beheld,0.0 +Her own Meander's art almost excelled!,3.0 +"Drooped their fair leaves, nor knew the unfriendly soil.",4.0 +"Then deeply skilled in love's engaging theme,",0.0 +"With graceful ease the wanton lyre he strung,",0.0 +Sweet flowed the lays ' -- but love was all he sung.,1.0 +The gay description could not fail to move;,0.0 +"For, led by nature, all are friends to love.",0.0 +"But heaven, still various in its works, decreed",4.0 +The perfect boast of time should last succeed.,1.0 +"Of Tuscan fancy, and Athenian strength:",3.0 +"Yet ah! so bright her morning's opening ray,",2.0 +In vain our Britain hoped an equal day!,0.0 +"No second growth the western isle could bear,",1.0 +At once exhausted with too rich a year.,2.0 +Too nicely Johnson knew the critic's part;,1.0 +Nature in him was almost lost in art.,1.0 +"Of softer mould the gentle Fletcher came,",0.0 +"The next in order, as the next in name.",1.0 +With pleased attention mid his scenes we find,0.0 +"Each glowing thought, that warms the female mind;",1.0 +"Each melting sigh, and every tender tear,",0.0 +The lover's wishes and the virgin's fear.,1.0 +"Drawn by his pen, our ruder passions stand",0.0 +Saw Art's fair empire over her shores advance:,4.0 +"By length of toil a bright perfection knew,",0.0 +"Correctly bold, and just in all she drew.",0.0 +"Breathed the free strain, as Rome and He inspired:",4.0 +And classic judgement gained to sweet Racine,0.0 +"But wilder far the British laurel spread,",0.0 +And wreaths less artful crown our poet's head.,1.0 +Yet He alone to every scene could give,1.0 +"The historian's truth, and bid the manners live.",1.0 +Majestic forms of mighty monarchs rise.,1.0 +"Here gentler Edward claims a pitying sigh,",2.0 +"Yet shall thy throne, unhappy infant, bring",0.0 +No beam of comfort to the guilty king:,2.0 +"In life's last hours, with horror of the deed:",2.0 +When dreary visions shall at last present,0.0 +"Thy vengeful image in the midnight tent,",1.0 +"Thy hand unseen the secret death shall bear,",0.0 +"Blunt the weak sword, and break the oppressive spear.",4.0 +"Wherever we turn, by Fancy charmed, we find",2.0 +Some sweet illusion of the cheated mind.,1.0 +"Oft, wild of wing, she calls the soul to rove",1.0 +"With humbler nature, in the rural grove;",0.0 +And twilight fairies tread the circled green:,1.0 +"Dressed by her hand, the Woods and Valleys smile,",0.0 +"OH more than all in powerful genius blessed,",2.0 +"Come, take thine empire over the willing breast!",3.0 +"Whatever the wounds this youthful heart shall feel,",3.0 +"Thy songs support me, and thy morals heal!",1.0 +"There every thought the poet's warmth may raise,",0.0 +There native music dwells in all the lays.,0.0 +OH might some verse with happiest skill persuade,2.0 +Expressive Picture to adopt thine aid!,1.0 +What wondrous draughts might rise from every page!,0.0 +Where breathing Nature lives in every line:,0.0 +"Chaste and subdued the modest lights decay,",2.0 +"Steal into shades, and mildly melt away.",1.0 +Guard the pale relics of the chief he loved:,4.0 +"Over the cold corpse the warrior seems to bend,",2.0 +"Deep sunk in grief, and mourns his murdered friend!",1.0 +"Still as they press, he calls on all around,",0.0 +"Lifts the torn robe, and points the bleeding wound.",3.0 +"A wrath impatient, and a fiercer air?",1.0 +"Awake to all that injured worth can feel,",0.0 +On his own Rome he turns the avenging steel.,3.0 +See the fond mother mid the plaintive train,3.0 +"Hung on his knees, and prostrate on the plain!",1.0 +"Touched to the soul, in vain he strives to hide",0.0 +"The son's affection, in the Roman's pride:",0.0 +"Over all the man conflicting passions rise,",0.0 +"Rage grasps the sword, while Pity melts the eyes.",1.0 +"Thus, generous Critic, as thy Bard inspires,",4.0 +The sister Arts shall nurse their drooping fires;,0.0 +"Each from his scenes her stores alternate bring,",4.0 +"Blend the fair tints, or wake the vocal string:",3.0 +For poets ever were a careless kind,1.0 +"By thee disposed, no farther toil demand,",2.0 +"But, just to Nature, own thy forming hand.",0.0 +"So spread over Greece, the harmonious whole unknown,",6.0 +Even Homer's numbers charmed by parts alone.,0.0 +"Their own Ulysses scarce had wandered more,",0.0 +By winds and water cast on every shore:,0.0 +"When raised by Fate, some former HANMER joined",0.0 +"And bade, like thee, his Athens ever claim",1.0 +A fond alliance with the Poet's name.,1.0 +"Cambridge adieu! I never shall see thee more,",4.0 +"Not one fresh Drop of thy ambrosial Sense,",4.0 +"I thy fair Colleges no more shall see,",4.0 +"Each Greece, Rome, Athens, in Epitome;",2.0 +"The ancient infant Learning which they taught,",0.0 +Could only here be to Perfection brought;,1.0 +The Gods themselves may hover here and learn;,0.0 +"And if in every Grace they would advance,",1.0 +"To the sacred Vatican no more I come,",2.0 +"Tuned to the solemn strains of general Woe,",0.0 +"Do thou my Muse thy Pious sorrow show,",0.0 +"And let the mighty Consternation prove,",0.0 +"That Grief, though Cold, as much of Heat may move,",0.0 +Hark! how the dismal Trump of busy Fame ' --,0.0 +Does to the worlds unwilling ears proclaim,0.0 +"And Deaths proud Triumph over the Just, and Great;",2.0 +"Not the Dread Call of Heaven at the last Day,",4.0 +"Could more amazing Terror then infuse,",0.0 +"Than Europe shook with, at the wounding News:",0.0 +"Fate by this unexpected loss has shown,",0.0 +The force of Grief before was never known;,0.0 +Even Envy that Injurious Hypocrite:,2.0 +"That, at her Virtues Noon, affirmed it Night,",0.0 +"Now blind with gazing on her Lustre lies,",2.0 +And sheds her Praises at her watering Eyes:,2.0 +"Her murmuring Foes, that thought themselves Oppressed,",2.0 +"For each Religion did its Faith enjoy,",0.0 +"She One defended, but did none destroy,",2.0 +"Unless to bring the day destruction be,",0.0 +When Bigots wander in Obscurity:,1.0 +Yet all Opinions in their Sorrow join:,0.0 +"So Jarring Rivals, when the Fair one dies,",0.0 +Like long loved friends embrace with weeping Eyes.,1.0 +"When Heaven after the Universal Flood,",2.0 +Her Brighter Spirit sure was kept above,0.0 +"As the best Pattern of Immortal Love,",3.0 +"Yet, after Thousands of revolving Years,",1.0 +"But, as the Sun, till in the Westen Skies,",1.0 +"So here on Earth her Virtues shone so bright,",0.0 +Too long a Penance for a Soul so Pure,2.0 +"Alas! she longed her first Abode to see,",0.0 +"And mourned her Absence from Divinity,",2.0 +"And if a stream of Virtue's found below,",1.0 +It must from her the Boundless Ocean flow.,1.0 +"Now though the Sea supplies all Streams, that run,",0.0 +"Yet that it self is guided by the Moon,",1.0 +So was her brighter Soul by strict Devotion.,1.0 +"So Constantly her Pious Vows she paid,",1.0 +"So fixed her thoughts, that even in Dreams she Prayed,",2.0 +"So fast her wants her giving God relieved,",0.0 +Her Prayers were still but thanks for Gifts received:,0.0 +"Her Faith unbounded gave her Reason Law,",0.0 +When this commanded the other stood in Awe:,3.0 +"Religious Discord she might well prevent,",1.0 +For in Example she was Argument.,2.0 +Her Fruitful Soul with Endless Virtue blessed,0.0 +"With Various Flowers was like a Garden dressed,",3.0 +"Where Choice stood unresolved which Scent was best,",3.0 +"Alternate Odours still perfumed the Air,",1.0 +"Occasion was the Season of the Year,",2.0 +Which like the Kind returning Spring revived,0.0 +"Each Good that slept; for though it slept it lived,",1.0 +"One Tree there was, which Cold and Frost could bear,",1.0 +"But, as the Fruit alone commends the Tree,",1.0 +"So did Her Virtues praise her Piety,",1.0 +And this the Needy to their Comfort knew;,2.0 +"For, while She lived, They Charitable grew;",1.0 +"Heaven did but lend the Sums it might bestow,",0.0 +For still She Interest paid to the Poor below;,0.0 +"And if their number did increased appear,",1.0 +"Sometime she from her private Wants would spare,",2.0 +And Trusted Heaven was in Debt to Her.,0.0 +How many Parents have their Children saved,0.0 +From threatening Want by her sure Alms relieved?,2.0 +"What Tribes has she received from hands unknown,",1.0 +"Which She with Joy Adopted, as her own?",1.0 +"Struggling betwixt Nature, and her Babes relief,",6.0 +"Unable to endure the Infants Cry,",1.0 +"And yet it need less able to supply,",2.0 +At length she yields to hard Necessity.,1.0 +Must Absence all our Harmless Love destroy?,0.0 +And dreads to part but more her hopes to loose.,0.0 +"Resolved, at last, she stops her flowing Eyes,",0.0 +"And strait to Court unseen the Babe Conveys,",0.0 +"Secure of Nourishment she leaves it there,",1.0 +And next day finds it in the Nurses Care.,1.0 +"Thus, least hereafter some showed want Relief,",2.0 +"Her Early Pity was preventative,",2.0 +"The Old, who seemed to pine in Cold Despair,",0.0 +"Revived their Hopes, and Crowned them still in her:",0.0 +"He brought from Distant parts the Sick, and Poor,",0.0 +"Who, by some Famed Physicians Art given over,",2.0 +"Swelled with new Hopes, now feel their Pains no more.",4.0 +"At least with greater ease their ach endure,",1.0 +"Half healed by Faith, ere they can reach the Cure,",3.0 +"And as in Tribes the new Believers came,",1.0 +"The Dumb, the Lunatic, the Blind, and Lame,",0.0 +"They Walked, they Saw they Spoke, and praised his Name.",0.0 +"Never did a Life so short more Good produce,",0.0 +"In which each Minute was of Double Use,",0.0 +"So soon she Finished her Appointed task,",1.0 +"That when her hasty Soul arrived above,",0.0 +"She did their equal Joys, and Wonder move,",0.0 +All knew the Place near Gods Right Hand was Hers;,1.0 +But thought it Vacant yet for several Years.,0.0 +"Now though her Charity did Boundless Reign,",1.0 +Yet not the Poor the Greatest Loss sustain:,0.0 +"For She to many a Subsistence left,",2.0 +"Our Grief alas! yet rises in Degree,",0.0 +As those that mourn her do in Quality:,2.0 +"Next to the Poor are those of Noble Arts,",1.0 +Which she encouraged to their best Deserts:,2.0 +"Music, and Poetry, not long ago,",3.0 +"Our Nations Pride, were almost Treason Now,",1.0 +"But that they both our Tides of Grief can move,",0.0 +"As well as heretofore our Joys, or Love.",0.0 +"At Court the Rising Flood of Pious Tears,",0.0 +"Yet Greater still, as does the Loss appears,",0.0 +"Where all like walking Ghosts, in Grief are seen,",0.0 +"For a lost Friend, a Mother and a Queen.",3.0 +"But o! the Rapid Force, that sweeps away",1.0 +"Great Caesars Quiet, and his Cheerful Day!",2.0 +"Now! now! my Muse: let loose thy Streams of Woe,",2.0 +"Let them unbounded, as the Ocean flow,",3.0 +"Swell with big Sighs the Raging Tempest high,",3.0 +"Then mount, and over the distant Danger fly,",2.0 +"And in thy Transient view, survey the Soul,",0.0 +"Whom all around the Angry Billows roll,",0.0 +"Behold the Shipwreck of our Monarchs Joy,",2.0 +Which Thirsty Death in Fields could never Destroy:,2.0 +"Thus Mariners the Seas Abroad over come,",8.0 +Yet sink with all the Fraught in sight of Home.,0.0 +Why! why! You Powers must Bleeding Majesty,3.0 +So vast a Wound receive from Destiny?,1.0 +But must the Loss be doubled on a Throne?,1.0 +Why did you Gild with such a Glorious Sun,3.0 +"His Happy life, and let it set so soon?",0.0 +"The light, that slowly dies leaves sight behind:",1.0 +"But, when it's snatched away, it strikes us Blind;",0.0 +"Without Regret we spare the Absent Day,",0.0 +Resting secure of his Returning Ray;,3.0 +"But when for ever he resigns his Light,",1.0 +"It's worse, than Death to live in such a Night,",1.0 +"In such a Night, who moves is sure to stray,",0.0 +"In such a Night our Guide might loose his way,",0.0 +"And though the unguarded Flock should quite be lost,",1.0 +"The Shepard first is Hurt, and feels the Affliction most,",2.0 +"Thus our Great Master in his Grief has shown,",3.0 +"He loved the life Departed, as his own.",1.0 +"In vain, alas! would weak Philosophy",1.0 +Prescribe us Rules to Govern Passions by:,1.0 +For when a Joy of such Important weight,1.0 +"Is taken out, Grief turns the Ballance strait,",2.0 +"Reason but holds the Scales, and sits to see,",2.0 +"The Joy removed, if it Proportion be:",1.0 +"So though each Thought new sorrow should Create,",2.0 +For what was Obvious to each Common Eye,1.0 +Declared more Virtues did in secret lie,0.0 +"Which from the Darkened world were still concealed,",0.0 +"And to her Mourning Lord alone revealed,",1.0 +"Though from her Orb she gave Promiscuous Light,",3.0 +"Some shortened Rays He kept from Human sight,",0.0 +"And only lets our Dazzled Fancy Rove,",0.0 +"To form the Virtues of her Fruitful Love,",1.0 +"Though Heaven no Offspring from her Bed designed,",1.0 +But Bad her Live the Phoenix of her Kind,1.0 +"Her Soul was Married to her Monarchs Will,",3.0 +"Which he could scarce declare, she would so soon fulfil,",0.0 +"Desire of Pleasing, as the Child of Love,",1.0 +"They Both, like Tender Parents, did approve,",0.0 +"She more of Mothers fondness might express,",0.0 +"He seldom sought it, but never loved it less.",0.0 +"Had such a Bride to Solomon been given,",1.0 +"He never had wandered for his Amorous Heaven,",5.0 +Nor could a Change his Happiness improve.,1.0 +"So firm a Union Nature never made,",0.0 +"In whom we had the sure Foundation laid,",0.0 +"Of a most Perfect, and Immortal Bliss,",2.0 +"Till Death convinced our fancied Happiness,",1.0 +Fondly secure of their Eternal Sway.,3.0 +T'our selves we promised Everlasting Day:,1.0 +"Abroad His Courage, and Her Care at Home,",1.0 +"What could we think of such an Heavenly Pair,",3.0 +But they Immortal as their Actions were,3.0 +"For, till one died, we thought that Heaven was here",1.0 +"All the poor help weak Reason can afford,",5.0 +"To calm the sighs of her afflicted Lord,",1.0 +"Is, when each Nation shall the News receive,",0.0 +"Nay even in Louis She must Nature stir,",4.0 +"If not his Sorrow, yet at least his Fear,",0.0 +"He Dreads, that Hers the Fate of France may prove,",1.0 +"Knowing her Death our Monarchs Soul does move,",3.0 +"Who by this loss secure from Greater Harms,",0.0 +"His Foes regardless now may dare to Arms,",0.0 +He doubts will Double all his Rage Abroad.,0.0 +"Yet hold my Muse, thy wandering Wing retain,",2.0 +"A mournful Thought now lures thee back again,",1.0 +When to the Restless Toils of Horrid War,0.0 +"Our King Inexorable shall repair,",2.0 +"Whom shall he leave, our Guardian Angel Here?",2.0 +Where shall be joyful throw his Laurels down?,1.0 +Whose Grateful Love his Conquests now shall Crown?,1.0 +"Secure of Late we spared our Warlike Prince,",1.0 +"Before our Domestic safety fled from Hence,",2.0 +"Who, while Her Absent Hero led the War,",0.0 +Taught us the Pleasure of Obedience Here.,2.0 +"Yet let him go, and safe return with Spoil,",0.0 +"Our Grief, alas! prevents a Civil Broil,",0.0 +"The Woes we feel Rebellion can't redress,",0.0 +We're Crushed to Concord by our Miseries.,2.0 +"And view the Pious Ruins of thy State,",1.0 +"Assuage the Torrent of our Monarchs Woe,",2.0 +"Which over his Drowning Reason seems to Flow,",2.0 +"Return the Hero's Part that reigned in Thee,",0.0 +"Teach him thy Early Fate, like Thee, to bear,",1.0 +"Let Happy Dreams inform his Restless Mind,",1.0 +"To what Advantage thou hast life resigned,",1.0 +"Give to his Joyful View thy Crowns of Bliss,",0.0 +"And to his Thoughts restore their Wandering Peace,",3.0 +"While to his Sorrows this Relief is Given,",1.0 +"Has lost a Queen on Earth, and gained a Friend in Heaven.",0.0 +"What all despise, and all agree to curse,",0.0 +"I view with pride and joy, an Empty Purse.",0.0 +"When it was full, so was my heart of woe,",1.0 +"I knew not what to do, nor where to go.",0.0 +"I would be generous, but I longed for dress;",1.0 +"Appearing great, I made myself look less.",2.0 +I that no kindred ever dared to claim;,1.0 +Found fifty kind relations of my name.,2.0 +"No more could I complain of friends neglect,",1.0 +And daring falsehood hung around my neck;,1.0 +"Amazed I cried, What means this mighty change;",0.0 +"The forward fool replied, It's nothing strange.",0.0 +"Wretch, take my gold, I said, my greatest curse,",1.0 +"Leave me an honest heart, and empty purse.",0.0 +"WHEN Merit rises like the Prince of Day,",0.0 +Pale Envy turns her aching Eyes away;,1.0 +"Old Storey tells us, on an earthly Plain",2.0 +"Now Fate permits no such familiar Powers,",3.0 +But Shoals of Critics fall in leaden Showers:,0.0 +"These gaze at Wit, as Owls behold the Sun,",0.0 +And curse the Lustre which they fain would shun;,0.0 +"These Beasts of Prey no living worth endure,",1.0 +Nor are the Regions of the Dead secure;,2.0 +Yet shall the Worthy over their Spite prevail;,2.0 +Here lies the Moral ' -- follows next the Tale.,0.0 +"Where Showers seldom wet the burning Sand,",0.0 +"The trembling Panthers from his Fury fly,",1.0 +"Fierce were his Eyes, and dazzling as the Sun;",1.0 +A shining Spear his better Hand supplied:,0.0 +"Thus rudely charming, he was sure to please",2.0 +With graceful Negligence and careless Ease:,1.0 +"He breathed soft Music from his tuneful Tongue,",2.0 +And the wild Tiger listened to his Song:,3.0 +"None guard the Flocks, nor hunt the flying Prey,",1.0 +Till he had finished the enchanting Lay:,2.0 +"Then Sylvan Dames with Wreaths of Laurel bound,",0.0 +His cheerful Temples and with Roses crowned.,1.0 +"But grudging Envy heard the just Applause,",0.0 +And the pale Phantom writhed her haggard Jaws;,2.0 +And hissing Scandals flew across the Plains.,0.0 +"At length his Fame the wondering Sky invades,",2.0 +And reached the Muses in their sacred Shades;,0.0 +"Bright Thalia viewed him with an envious Eye,",4.0 +And thus addressed her Partners of the Sky:,1.0 +' Small are the Praises to our share belong;,1.0 +"' Look down and see on yonder sultry Plain,",0.0 +"' Nor hope to charm the partial Prince of Day,",0.0 +' While heavenly Accents breathe from mortal Clay:,2.0 +"' In vain we keep our radiant Seats on high,",0.0 +Some curse the Youth and some their partial King.,0.0 +"The Dame who saw the infectious Murmurs run,",2.0 +"Rolled her blue Eyes, and thus afresh begun:",3.0 +"' No more the Bays shall to our Share belong,",1.0 +' Shall he exceed the Muses sacred Choir:,1.0 +"' But see, my Sisters: On the Plains below",1.0 +' To the swift Hunters in the Libyan Vale:,4.0 +"' His Darts pursue them, and the Victims die:",1.0 +' And we no more shall dread the rival Song.,0.0 +Here ceased the Dame ' -- the smiling Sisters join:,0.0 +Now had the Sun withdrawn his piercing Eye.,0.0 +And Night assumed the Empire of the Sky:,1.0 +"The Winds were hushed, the Ocean ceased to roar,",0.0 +"And softly murmured by the sandy Shore,",1.0 +"When from Parnassus flew the envious Maid,",4.0 +To seek the Huntress of the lonely Shade:,1.0 +"The fierce Virago on a verdant Plain,",3.0 +"She found, encircled by her sleeping Train;",1.0 +"Where a cool River blessed the fertile Ground,",2.0 +Beneath a Shade the lovely Dian stood,0.0 +"With downcast Eyes, and viewed the rolling Flood;",1.0 +Whose Waves were bright with the reflected Beams,1.0 +Of her own Orb that sparkled on the Streams.,2.0 +"' Hail, Delia, Hail, began the artful Dame",1.0 +' Lives there a Slave whose daring Hand defies,0.0 +' The awful Empress of the nightly Skies?,1.0 +' Though thy choice Herds are by his Arrows slain;,2.0 +"' But the keen Dart overtakes them, and they die.",3.0 +"' His shining Spear arrests the trembling Doe,",0.0 +' But if fair Delia to the Libyan Swain,5.0 +"' Resigns the Freedom of her sacred Plain,",1.0 +"' Let none dispute the Licence of her Will,",2.0 +' And I retire to our tuneful Hill.',1.0 +With flushing Features and disordered Charms,1.0 +"' Shall Man with me dispute the Plain she cries,",1.0 +While kindling Rage inflamed her rolling Eyes,0.0 +' This Hand shall well revenge my slaughtered Deer:,0.0 +"She said: And furious grasped the dreadful Spear,",2.0 +"And over her Shoulder flung the shining Bow,",2.0 +Then breathing Vengeance sought her guiltless Foe.,0.0 +Thoughtless of Ill and sleeping on the Ground;,3.0 +"A deadly Shaft deluded Cynthia drew,",2.0 +And to his Heart the feathered Vengeance flew;,1.0 +"Then the freed Spirit took her airy Way,",2.0 +To Fields of Pleasure and of endless Day.,1.0 +Night's sable Curtain ' -- and the dawning Day,2.0 +Called forth abroad the trusty Bands ' -- Again,1.0 +To chase the Tiger over the Desert Plain;,2.0 +"To search the Caves where kingly Lions roar,",0.0 +And from thick Shades dislodge the bristled Boar:,2.0 +"They search the Shades where crystal Waters fall,",0.0 +"In vain they call, for none, alas! reply:",0.0 +"Approached, the Covert of the slaughtered Swain",1.0 +"Glad they beheld him breathless on the Ground,",3.0 +"And gazed with Rapture on the purple Wound,",1.0 +"When one began ' -- Now bless the friendly Hand,",2.0 +"Behold the Day so oft by us desired,",1.0 +Here lies the Swain whom lately all admired.,0.0 +"This Phoebus saw, as from his blazing Wheels,",1.0 +With his broad Eye he viewed the glittering Fields,4.0 +Behold the Youth whom he had taught to throw,1.0 +"The feathered Arrow from the bounding Bow,",1.0 +He taught the Numbers of enchanting Song.,1.0 +"Now cold and breathless on the dewy Plain,",2.0 +And his worst Foes insulting over the Slain:,4.0 +"Then raged the God that wears the silver Bow,",0.0 +"And his broad Eyes with sparkling Fury glow,",2.0 +"Descended Phoebus in a burning Ray,",0.0 +"And flashing Glories round his Temples play,",0.0 +"Each on his Face the trembling Victims fall,",0.0 +His Shafts dispatch them to the darker Sky:,1.0 +"Learn hence he cried you impious Men, to know,",4.0 +And dread the Power that wears the mortal Bow:,2.0 +"For while I rule the blazing Throne of Day,",0.0 +None wrong my Servants but shall find their Pay;,2.0 +"He said ' -- and raised his Favourite from the Ground,",1.0 +Then smiled the Features: And the gaping Wound,1.0 +"Was seen no more. The glowing Cheeks revive,",1.0 +"Shake off the Stamp of Death, and seem alive;",0.0 +"Instead of Cypress and a mournful Shroud,",1.0 +"Apollo wrapped him in a golden Cloud,",0.0 +Unless to his own Regions of the Day.,2.0 +Where the warm Gore had stained the thirsty Green;,3.0 +"A pleasing Tree arose with slender Stems,",0.0 +That breathed Ambrosia from its opening Gems:,3.0 +Those opening Gems the Virgins used to wear,2.0 +"Now the gay Shrub each happy Climate knows,",3.0 +"By all admired, and it's called the Rose.",0.0 +"THEN, to the snowy Ewe, in thy esteem,",1.0 +The Father of the Flock a Foe must seem;,1.0 +The faithful Turtles to their yielding Mates.,1.0 +"The cheerful Spring, which Love and Joy creates,",0.0 +"That reconciles the World by soft Desires,",0.0 +"And tender Thoughts in every Breast inspires,",0.0 +"To you a hateful Season must appear,",1.0 +"While Love prevails, and all are Lovers here.",0.0 +"Observe the gentle Murmurs of that Dove,",1.0 +"And see, how billing she confirms her Love!",1.0 +"For this, the Nightingale displays her Throat,",2.0 +"And Love, Love, Love, is all her Evening Note.",1.0 +"The very Tigers have their tender Hours,",0.0 +And prouder Lyons bow beneath Love's Powers.,1.0 +"Thou, prouder yet than that imperious Beast,",2.0 +But why should I the Creatures only name,0.0 +"That Sense partake, as Owners of this Flame?",1.0 +"Love farther goes, nor stops his Course at these:",1.0 +"The Plants he moves, and gently bends the Trees.",0.0 +See how those Willows mix their amorous Boughs;,3.0 +But view that Oak; behold his rugged Side:,0.0 +Yet that rough Bark the melting Flame do's hide.,2.0 +"All, by their trembling Leaves, in Sighs declare",0.0 +And tell their Passions to the gathering Air.,3.0 +"Which, had but Love over Thee the least Command,",5.0 +IF slighted Iris can your pity move;,1.0 +If slighted Iris can recall your love;,1.0 +"If ever with joy you heard her softest vow,",2.0 +"Renew the dear idea, hear her now.",0.0 +"You once was faithful, o the tender bliss!",1.0 +"The sweet endearment, and the thrilling kiss!",1.0 +"These witnessed once, when I, for ever true,",1.0 +"And you, untainted by the vice of art,",2.0 +"Yielded to me, in solemn faith, your heart.",1.0 +"O say the cause, the cause I long to find,",0.0 +"You dear deceitful man, why now unkind?",0.0 +For him no pleasures in her vacant arms?,2.0 +"Some rosy blooming maid, whose beating veins",0.0 +"While on her cheeks the deepening blushes rise,",0.0 +"Too fondly trusting, was by you betrayed.",3.0 +"Such were the joys, o, call the scene to mind!",1.0 +"When Iris yielding, all her soul resigned.",0.0 +"Ah! then you swore the accents now I hear,",0.0 +"Your turtles, constant, coo them to my ear",1.0 +"But though unchanged by age, or hoary time,",1.0 +"You slight my ripened charms, my blushing prime.",0.0 +"All fondness, once upon my breast you lay,",0.0 +And sweetly sighed the hasty hours away;,0.0 +"But, ah! how changed my fate, forlorn I'm left,",0.0 +"Whatever was wont to court the roving eye,",3.0 +"Wherever I turn, all Nature's charms seem fled,",3.0 +"Robbed of the prop, where once she fondly clung,",0.0 +"Unchanged alone the mournful yew remains,",0.0 +And mid each varying blast its hue retains;,2.0 +"But, ah! they cannot teach him how to love!",1.0 +"If ever for her you felt the slightest care,",1.0 +"Whenever I die, and die, ah soon I must!",2.0 +"This only favour at your hands I crave,",0.0 +"ACTING, dear Thornton, its perfection draws",4.0 +From no observance of mechanic laws:,1.0 +"No settled maxims of a favourite stage,",2.0 +"No rules delivered down from age to age,",2.0 +"Let players nicely mark them as they will,",2.0 +Can ever entail hereditary skill.,2.0 +"If, amongst the humble hearers of the pit,",2.0 +"Some curious veteran critic chance to sit,",2.0 +"The mind recalls an object held more dear,",0.0 +"And hates the copy, that it comes so near.",0.0 +But gives his mimic no reflected praise.,0.0 +Shall live for ever in the voice of Fame!,0.0 +"It's thine to lead, with more than magic skill,",1.0 +The train of captive passions at thy will;,0.0 +To bid the bursting tear spontaneous flow,2.0 +In the sweet sense of sympathetic woe:,3.0 +When horrors such as thine have murdered sleep;,2.0 +And at the old man's look and frantic stare,1.0 +"It's Lear alarms me, for I see him there.",1.0 +"Nor yet confined to tragic walks alone,",0.0 +The comic muse too claims thee for her own.,2.0 +"With each delightful requisite to please,",1.0 +"Taste, spirit, judgement, elegance, and ease,",2.0 +"Familiar nature forms thy only rule,",0.0 +"With powers so pliant, and so various blessed,",5.0 +"That what we see the last, we like the best.",0.0 +"Not idly pleased, at judgement's dear expense,",0.0 +But burst outrageous with the laugh of sense:,1.0 +It's genius only that can hope to gain.,0.0 +"Lies not in trick, or attitude, or start,",0.0 +Nature's true knowledge is his only art.,4.0 +"The mind untouched, what is it but grimace?",1.0 +"To this one standard make your just appeal,",1.0 +Here lies the golden secret; learn to FEEL.,0.0 +"Or fool, or monarch, happy, or distressed,",1.0 +No actor pleases that is not possessed.,1.0 +"Once on the stage, in Rome's declining days,",0.0 +"When Christians were the subject of their plays,",2.0 +"Ever persecution dropped her iron rod,",0.0 +"And men still waged an impious war with God,",4.0 +"An actor flourished of no vulgar fame,",2.0 +"A noble object for his skill he chose,",1.0 +A martyr dying mid insulting foes;,0.0 +"Resigned with patience to religion's laws,",1.0 +"Filled with the idea of the secret part,",2.0 +"He felt a zeal beyond the reach of art,",0.0 +"While look and voice, and gesture, all expressed",0.0 +"Till as the flame through all his bosom ran,",1.0 +"He lost the actor, and commenced the man:",1.0 +"Professed the faith, his pagan gods denied,",0.0 +"And what he acted then, he after died.",0.0 +"The player's province they but vainly try,",1.0 +"Who want these powers, deportment, voice, and eye.",2.0 +"The critic sight it's only grace can please,",0.0 +No figure charms us if it has not ease.,2.0 +"There are, who think the stature all in all,",1.0 +"Nor like the hero, if he is not tall.",2.0 +"The feeling sense all other want supplies,",0.0 +I rate no actor's merit from his size.,2.0 +"Superior height requires superior grace,",4.0 +And what's a giant with a vacant face?,1.0 +"Theatric monarchs, in their tragic gait,",1.0 +Affect to mark the solemn pace of state.,0.0 +"One foot put forward in position strong,",1.0 +"The other, like its vassal, dragged along.",0.0 +"So grave each motion, so exact and slow,",1.0 +"The mien delights us that has native grace,",0.0 +But affectation ill supplies its place.,0.0 +"However foreign from the poet's art,",2.0 +No tragic hero but admires a start.,2.0 +What though unfeeling of the nervous line;,2.0 +Who but allows his attitude is fine?,1.0 +Till praise dismiss him with her echoing hands!,3.0 +"Resolved, though nature hate the tedious pause,",2.0 +By perseverance to extort applause.,1.0 +"With eager madness bursts the canvas tomb,",0.0 +"The sudden whirl, stretched leg, and lifted staff,",1.0 +"Which please the vulgar, make the critic laugh.",0.0 +"To paint the passion's force, and mark it well,",0.0 +The proper action nature's self will tell:,0.0 +"No pleasing powers distortions ever express,",5.0 +"Disgusts our reason, and the taste confounds.",1.0 +"Of all the evils which the stage molest,",0.0 +I hate your fool who overacts his jest:,3.0 +"Who murders what the poet finely writ,",0.0 +"With shrug, and grin, and gesture out of place,",1.0 +And writes a foolish comment with his face.,1.0 +"With steady face, and sober humorous mien,",2.0 +Filled the strong outlines of the comic scene.,1.0 +"What was writ down, with decent utterance spoke,",2.0 +Betrayed no symptom of the conscious joke;,2.0 +"The very man in look, in voice, in air,",0.0 +"And though upon the stage, appeared no player.",2.0 +But acting words is labour too minute.,0.0 +Grimace will ever lead the judgement wrong;,2.0 +While sober humour marks the impression strong.,2.0 +"Her proper traits the fixed attention hit,",0.0 +And bring me closer to the poet's wit;,1.0 +"With her delighted over each scene I go,",3.0 +To copy features with a mimic's care!,1.0 +"It's a poor skill, which every fool can reach,",2.0 +"Worse as more close, the disingenuous art",2.0 +"When I behold a wretch, of talents mean,",1.0 +"Drag private foibles on the public scene,",2.0 +Forsaking nature's fair and open road,0.0 +"To mark some whim, some strange peculiar mode,",0.0 +"Fired with disgust, I loath his servile plan,",1.0 +"Despise the mimic, and abhor the man.",1.0 +"Go to the lame, to hospitals repair,",5.0 +And hunt for humour in distortions there!,3.0 +Fill up the measure of the motley whim,1.0 +"Then shame at once, to please a trifling age,",0.0 +"Good sense, good manners, virtue, and the stage!",1.0 +"It's not enough the voice be sound and clear,",0.0 +It's modulation that must charm the ear.,0.0 +"When desperate heroines grieve with tedious moan,",5.0 +"And whine their sorrows in a see-saw tone,",1.0 +Can only make the yawning hearers doze.,0.0 +"The voice all modes of passion can express,",1.0 +That marks the proper word with proper stress.,0.0 +"But none emphatic can that actor call,",1.0 +Who lays an equal emphasis on all.,1.0 +"Point every stop, mark every pause so strong,",2.0 +"All affectation but creates disgust,",1.0 +And even in speaking we may seem too just.,4.0 +"Nor proper, Thornton, can those sounds appear",1.0 +Which bring not numbers to thy nicer ear:,1.0 +"In vain for them the pleasing measure flows,",1.0 +Whose recitation runs it all to prose;,0.0 +"Repeating what the poet sets not down,",0.0 +"While pause, and break, and repetition join",0.0 +To make a discord in each tuneful line.,0.0 +Some placid natures fill the allotted scene,2.0 +"With lifeless drone, insipid and serene;",1.0 +And almost crack your ears with rant and roar.,1.0 +"More nature oft and finer strokes are shown,",0.0 +In the low whisper than tempestuous tone.,6.0 +"And Hamlet's hollow voice and fixed amaze,",0.0 +"More powerful terror to the mind conveys,",3.0 +"Than he, who swollen with big impetuous rage,",3.0 +Bullies the bulky phantom off the stage.,3.0 +"He, who in earnest studies over his part,",2.0 +Will find true nature cling about his heart.,1.0 +The modes of grief are not included all,0.0 +In the white handkerchief and mournful drawl;,3.0 +"A single look more marks the internal woe,",2.0 +"Up to the face the quick sensation flies,",1.0 +And darts its meaning from the speaking eyes!,1.0 +"Love, transport, madness, anger, scorn, despair,",1.0 +"And all the passions, all the soul is there.",0.0 +"In vain now sings, now heaves the desperate sigh,",2.0 +If frenzy sit not in the troubled eye.,0.0 +And call the tear fast trickling down my cheek.,2.0 +There is a fault which stirs the critic's rage;,1.0 +A want of due attention on the stage.,1.0 +"I have seen actors, and admired ones too,",3.0 +Whose tongues wound up set forward from their cue;,6.0 +"In their own speech who whine, or roar away,",0.0 +Yet seem unmoved at what the rest may say;,0.0 +"Whose eyes and thoughts on different objects roam,",0.0 +"Divest yourself of hearers, if you can,",1.0 +"And strive to speak, and be the very man.",0.0 +"Who fits above tonight, or who below?",0.0 +"So, amid the harmonious tones of grief or rage,",5.0 +The squeaking Cyrus greets the boxes round;,0.0 +Familiar drops a curtsy to her grace.,1.0 +"To suit the dress demands the actor's art,",0.0 +Yet there are those who over-dress the part.,1.0 +"Black wigs to murderers, feathered hats to kings:",3.0 +Why every devil dance in scarlet hose?,0.0 +"Tell me, nor count the question too severe,",0.0 +Why need the dismal powdered forms appear?,0.0 +And guilt torments him with her scorpion sting;,4.0 +"When keenest feelings at his bosom pull,",0.0 +And fancy tells him that the seat is full;,0.0 +"Why need the ghost usurp the monarch's place,",2.0 +To frighten children with his mealy face?,1.0 +"The king alone should form the phantom there,",1.0 +And talk and tremble at the vacant chair.,0.0 +"When with disordered starts, and horrid cries,",1.0 +"She paints the murdered forms before her eyes,",0.0 +"And still pursues them with a frantic stare,",1.0 +It's pregnant madness brings the visions there.,1.0 +"More instant horror would enforce the scene,",0.0 +"Poet and actor thus, with blended skill,",2.0 +Mould all our passions to their instant will;,2.0 +"It's thus, when feeling Garrick treads the stage,",0.0 +"Oft as I drink the words with greedy ears,",0.0 +"I shake with horror, or dissolve with tears.",1.0 +"OH, never may folly seize the throne of taste,",3.0 +Nor dullness lay the realms of genius waste!,0.0 +No tumbler float upon the bending wire!,1.0 +"More natural uses to the stage belong,",1.0 +"Than tumblers, monsters, pantomime, or song.",0.0 +For other purpose was that spot designed:,1.0 +"To purge the passions, and reform the mind,",1.0 +"To give to nature all the force of art,",0.0 +And while it charms the ear to mend the heart.,0.0 +"Thornton, to thee, I dare with truth commend,",1.0 +The decent stage as virtue's natural friend.,0.0 +"Though oft debased with scenes profane and loose,",0.0 +No reason weighs against it's proper use.,1.0 +"Though the lewd priest his sacred function shame,",2.0 +Religion's perfect law is still the same.,1.0 +"Shall they, who trace the passions from their rise,",1.0 +"Show scorn her features, her own image vice?",2.0 +"Who teach the mind it's proper force to scan,",0.0 +"And hold the faithful mirror up to man,",1.0 +"Shall their profession ever provoke disdain,",3.0 +"Who stand the foremost in the mortal train,",1.0 +"Who lend reflection all the grace of art,",0.0 +And strike the precept home upon the heart?,1.0 +"Yet, hapless artist! though thy skill can raise",1.0 +"The bursting peal of universal praise,",0.0 +"Though at thy beck applause delighted stands,",0.0 +"Know, fame awards thee but a partial breath!",2.0 +Not all thy talents brave the stroke of death.,0.0 +"Poets to ages yet unborn appeal,",3.0 +And latest times the eternal nature feel.,2.0 +"Though blended here the praise of bard and player,",0.0 +"While more than half becomes the actor's share,",0.0 +And sinks the player in the poet's name.,0.0 +"The pliant muscles of the various face,",3.0 +"The mien that gave each sentence strength and grace,",0.0 +"The tuneful voice, the eye that spoke the mind,",0.0 +"Are gone, nor leave a single trace behind.",0.0 +WHEN first the kingdom to thy virtues due,1.0 +Towered in imperial state above the tide;,2.0 +What bright ideas of the new domain,1.0 +Formed the fair prospect of thy promised reign!,4.0 +"And well with conscious joy thy breast might beat,",0.0 +That Albion was ordained thy regal seat:,3.0 +Lo! this the land where Freedom's sacred rage,0.0 +"Here patriot Alfred, stained with Danish blood,",2.0 +"Reared on one base the king's, the people's good:",0.0 +The proudest threats of Gaul's ambitious slaves:,0.0 +Her noblest feats of knightly fame enrolled;,0.0 +"While chiefs, like George, approved in worth alone,",0.0 +"Lo! the famed isle, which hails thy chosen sway,",3.0 +What fertile fields her temperate suns display;,0.0 +"Where Property secures the conscious swain,",1.0 +"And guards, while Plenty gives, the golden grain:",0.0 +"Hence ripe with stores her villages abound,",2.0 +Her airy downs with scattered sheep resound;,1.0 +"To bear her formidable glory far,",1.0 +Behold her opulence of hoarded war!,1.0 +"See, from her ports a thousand banners stream,",0.0 +On every coast her vengeful lightnings gleam!,0.0 +In peaceful majesty her cities stand;,1.0 +"Their firmest fort, a king's parental care.",0.0 +"And OH! blessed queen, if ever the magic powers",3.0 +Of warbled truth have won thy musing hours;,0.0 +And dressed in fairy robes a queen like thee.,0.0 +"Here, boldly marked with every living hue,",0.0 +"But chief, the mournful group of human woes",0.0 +The daring artist's tragic pencil chose;,0.0 +And told the golden ties of wedded love,0.0 +Where Science sits enshrined in roofs sublime ' --,0.0 +OH mark how green her wood of ancient bays,1.0 +"Of these mixed blooms, from that ambrosial bower,",2.0 +"Might catch thy glance, and, rich in Nature's hue,",0.0 +"Thither thyself shall haste, and mildly deign",0.0 +"Pleased in the Muse's nook, with decent pride,",0.0 +"Nor from the shade shall George be long away,",1.0 +With rapt reflection Freedom's favourite race!,0.0 +"But though the generous isle, in arts and arms,",3.0 +"Thus stands supreme, in Nature's choicest charms;",1.0 +One happier blessing still she calls her own;,2.0 +"And, proud a fresh increase of fame to view,",0.0 +Crowns all her glory by possessing you.,2.0 +"While wanderers, destined here on earth to stray,",2.0 +This sacred page will point the better way;,0.0 +"Amend each error, and direct the heart;",1.0 +"Teach, with fair prospects not to be elate,",3.0 +Nor fainting sink beneath the frowns of fate;,0.0 +"Nor ever murmur at what Heaven denies,",0.0 +But think each cross a blessing in disguise.,0.0 +"When pleasure's maze displays alluring charms,",1.0 +"When ills and dangers spread their dire alarms,",0.0 +These lines were by kind Providence designed,3.0 +"To clear illusion, and compose the mind.",1.0 +"Guard me, and guide me with thy kindest care:",1.0 +"Each rising morn sweet gratitude I'll pay,",1.0 +For the dear blessing of this sacred day.,3.0 +"TO print, or not to print ' -- that is the question.",1.0 +Whether it's better in a trunk to bury,2.0 +"And by disclosing, end them. To print, to doubt",1.0 +No more; and by one act to say we end,1.0 +"The headache, and a thousand natural shocks",2.0 +Of scribbling frenzy ' -- it's a consummation,1.0 +Devoutly to be wished. To print ' -- to beam,1.0 +"From the same shelf with Pope, in calf well bound:",3.0 +"For to what class a writer may be doomed,",2.0 +"When he hath shuffled off some paltry stuff,",1.0 +The unwilling poet keep his piece nine years.,2.0 +"For who would bear the impatient thirst of fame,",2.0 +"The pride of conscious merit, and above all,",1.0 +To groan and sweat under a load of wit?,5.0 +"But that the tread of steep Parnassus' hill,",5.0 +"That undiscovered country, with whose bays",1.0 +"Few travellers return, puzzles the will,",6.0 +"And makes us rather bear to live unknown,",0.0 +"Than run the hazard to be known, and damned.",1.0 +Thus critics do make cowards of us all.,3.0 +And thus the healthful face of many a poem,2.0 +"Even Christian slaves, have shook their chains, and gazed",0.0 +With wonder and amazement on thee. Hence,2.0 +"Of Christian slave, a paradox! to you",0.0 +"I do not turn, but leave you to conception",1.0 +"Narrow; with that be blessed, nor dare to stretch",1.0 +Your shackled souls along the course of Freedom.,0.0 +"Lessened by distance; snatch her rustic thought,",2.0 +"Her crude ideas, from their panting state,",1.0 +And let them fly in wide expansion; lend,0.0 +"Thine energy, so little understood",1.0 +"By the rude million, and I'll dare the strain",3.0 +"Obedient to her voice. Alas! my friend,",1.0 +"Strong rapture dies within the soul, while Power",1.0 +"Drags on his bleeding victims. Custom, Law,",0.0 +"You blessings, and you curses of mankind,",3.0 +"What evils do you cause? We feel enslaved,",0.0 +"Yet move in your direction. Custom, thou",2.0 +Wilt preach up filial piety; thy sons,3.0 +Sits full on Inhumanity; the church,3.0 +"Nor fall, but at the cost of human bliss.",0.0 +"Custom, thou hast undone us! led us far",2.0 +"But come, you souls who feel for human woe,",0.0 +"Though dressed in savage guise! Approach, thou son,",0.0 +"Whose heart would shudder at a father's chains,",0.0 +And melt over thy loved brother as he lies,5.0 +"Gasping in torment undeserved. O, sight",3.0 +Horrid and insupportable! far worse,5.0 +"Than an immediate, an heroic death;",4.0 +"Yet to this sight I summon thee. Approach,",1.0 +"Weep over her inky sire! Spare me, thou God",3.0 +"This gloomy wretch, and turn my tearful eye",0.0 +"To more enlightened beings. Yes, my tear",0.0 +Upon the blossom of the morn. My song,1.0 +When Nature swells her woe. Over suffering man,3.0 +"My soul with sorrow bends! Then come, you few",0.0 +"Who feel a more than cold, material essence;",2.0 +"Here you may vent your sighs, till the bleak North",1.0 +"Find its adherents aided. ' -- Ah, no more!",3.0 +"The dingy youth comes on, sullen in chains;",4.0 +"He smiles on the rough sailor, who aloud",2.0 +"Strikes at the spacious heaven, the earth, the sea,",0.0 +In breath too blasphemous; yet not to him,2.0 +"Blasphemous, for he dreads not either: ' -- lost",1.0 +"In dear internal imagery, the soul",1.0 +With eager wildness yet drink in the view,1.0 +"Of his too humble home, where he had left",3.0 +Curse on the toils spread by a Christian hand,2.0 +To rob the Indian of his freedom! Curse,1.0 +On him who from a bending parent steals,0.0 +"His dear support of age, his darling child;",0.0 +"Perhaps a son, or a more tender daughter,",1.0 +"Who might have closed his eyelids, as the spark",2.0 +"Of life gently retired. O, thou poor world!",5.0 +Thou fleeting good to individuals! see,2.0 +"How much for thee they care, how wide they open",1.0 +I know the crafty merchant will oppose,1.0 +"The plea of nature to my strain, and urge",1.0 +His toils are for his children: the soft plea,3.0 +"Dissolves my soul ' -- but when I sell a son,",0.0 +"Thou God of nature, let it be my own!",0.0 +Behold that Christian! see what horrid joy,0.0 +"Lights up his moody features, while he grasps",0.0 +"Away, thou seller of mankind! Bring on",3.0 +Thy daughter to this market! bring thy wife!,1.0 +"Thine aged mother, though of little worth,",1.0 +"With all thy ruddy boys! Sell them, thou wretch,",2.0 +With look of anguish? Is it Nature strains,1.0 +"While I but strike upon thy pitiless ear,",2.0 +"Fearing her rights are violated. ' -- Speak,",3.0 +Astounded the voice of Justice! bid thy tears,2.0 +"The pledges of thy love. O, throw thine arm",1.0 +"Around thy little ones, and loudly plead",0.0 +"Justice will scorn thee in her turn, and hold",2.0 +"Thine act against thy prayer. Why clasp, she cries,",0.0 +"Thou selfish Christian, for thy private woe,",1.0 +Yet cause such pangs to him that is a father?,0.0 +Whence comes thy right to barter for thy fellows?,1.0 +Where are thy statutes? Whose the iron pen,0.0 +That gave thee precedent? Give me the seal,2.0 +"Of virtue, or religion, for thy trade,",2.0 +And I will never upbraid thee; but if force,3.0 +"Superior, hard brutality alone",3.0 +"Become thy boast, hence to some savage haunt,",2.0 +Nor claim protection from my social laws.,1.0 +While his fond mother climbs the hoary rock,2.0 +"With love, fear, hope, holding alternate rage",5.0 +In her too anxious bosom. Dreary main!,2.0 +"Thy murmurs now are riot, while she stands",0.0 +"Listening to every breeze, waiting the step",6.0 +"Too hapless mother, thy indulgent arms",2.0 +"Keeps pace with thee, and mourns. Now over the hill",5.0 +"The bosom of the isle, to where she left",1.0 +"Formed of the polished cane, neglected lies,",0.0 +"No more to vibrate; here the useless dart,",0.0 +"He comes not down the steep, though he had vowed,",2.0 +"The cave's wide entrance, he would swift descend",2.0 +"Had glided by, since to his generous breast",4.0 +"He clasped the tender maid, and whispered love.",0.0 +"O, mutual sentiment! thou dangerous bliss!",5.0 +"So exquisite, that Heaven had been unjust",1.0 +Had it bestowed less exquisite of ill;,3.0 +"When thou art held no more, thy pangs are deep,",1.0 +Thy joys convulsive to the soul; yet all,1.0 +Are meant to smooth uneven road of life.,0.0 +Holding her image to his panting heart;,3.0 +"For her he strained the bow, for her he stripped",2.0 +When with these guiltless trophies he adorned,1.0 +The brow of her he loved. Her gentle breast,1.0 +"With gratitude was filled, nor knew she aught",0.0 +"Of language strong enough to paint her soul,",0.0 +Or ease the great emotion; while her eye,0.0 +And glowed with rapture at his wished return.,0.0 +"Ah, sweet suspense! betwixt the mingled cares",0.0 +"Of friendship, love, and gratitude, so mixed,",0.0 +"That even the soul may cheat herself. ' -- Down, down,",2.0 +"Intruding Memory! bid thy struggles cease,",2.0 +At this soft scene of innate war. What sounds,4.0 +"Be still, fond maid; list to the tardy step",3.0 +"But not to seek his son, who from the deck",1.0 +"Had breathed a last adieu: no, he shuts out",3.0 +"The soft, fallacious gleam of hope, and turns",0.0 +Within upon the mind: horrid and dark,5.0 +"Are his wild, unenlightened powers: no ray",3.0 +"Of forced philosophy to calm his soul,",1.0 +But all the anarchy of wounded nature.,1.0 +"In his bright fancy, far beyond the hills,",2.0 +"Beats quick with stubborn fury, while he doubts",1.0 +"Their justice to his child. Weeping old man,",5.0 +"Hate not a Christian's God, whose record holds",0.0 +"Upon the Indian's helpless neck, and sinks,",2.0 +"Despising comfort, till by grief and age",1.0 +"His angry spirit is forced out. O, guide,",2.0 +"Where the poor Indian, with the sage, is proved",3.0 +"The work of a Creator. Pause not here,",1.0 +"Distracted maid! ah, leave the breathless form,",0.0 +"On whose cold cheek thy tears so swiftly fall,",1.0 +"Too unavailing! On this stone, she cries,",2.0 +"Pointed my eye, while from his gentle tongue",2.0 +"Wrap thee in added horror. O, Despair,",1.0 +"Pursues her, lives in restless thought, and chides",0.0 +"Soft consolation. Banished from his arms,",2.0 +She seeks the cold embrace of death; her soul,0.0 +Escapes in one sad sigh. Too hapless maid!,3.0 +"His sigh, his groan avail not, for they plead",1.0 +"Most weakly with a Christian. Sink, thou wretch,",1.0 +"Profusely poured on thee, while they are left",0.0 +"Neglected to thy mercy. Thus deceived,",1.0 +How doubly dark must be their road to death!,0.0 +Losing the knowledge of his native shore,3.0 +"The sweet luxuriant cane. He strives to please,",2.0 +"Nor once complains, but greatly smothers grief.",0.0 +"His hands are blistered, and his feet are worn,",1.0 +Keen agony to life; while from his breast,3.0 +"The sigh arises, burdened with the name",1.0 +"His limbs grow nervous, strained by willing toil;",1.0 +"And resignation, or a calm despair,",1.0 +Most useful either lulls him to repose.,1.0 +"A Christian renegade, that from his soul",1.0 +"A future punishment, nor hopes for mercy,",1.0 +"Had fled from England, to avoid those laws",1.0 +Which must have made his life a retribution,0.0 +"To violated justice, and had gained,",2.0 +"By fawning guile, the confidence ill placed",2.0 +"With knotted whip, lest fainting nature shun",0.0 +"The task too arduous, while his cruel soul,",2.0 +"Unnatural, ever feeds, with gross delight,",2.0 +"Upon his sufferings. Many slaves there were,",0.0 +"But none who could suppress the sigh, and bend,",0.0 +"The stripes, that from his manly bosom drew",1.0 +"Hope fled his soul, giving her struggles over,",6.0 +And he resolved to die. The sun had reached,1.0 +"Leaning upon his hoe, while memory brought,",4.0 +"His poor fond mother, and his faithful maid:",2.0 +The mental group in wildest motion set,0.0 +"Fruitless imagination; fury, grief,",2.0 +"Alternate shame, the sense of insult, all",3.0 +Conspire to aid the inward storm; yet words,2.0 +"Were no relief, he stood in silent woe.",0.0 +"Gorgon, remorseless Christian, saw the slave",2.0 +"Stand musing, amid the ranks, and, stealing soft",3.0 +"In strongest agony, and with his hoe",2.0 +"Struck the rude Christian on the forehead. Pride,",4.0 +"With hateful malice, seize on Gorgon's soul,",0.0 +And plunged beneath the wave; but near him lay,0.0 +"A planter's barge, whose seamen grasped his hair",3.0 +Dragging to life a wretch who wished to die.,2.0 +"Rumour now spreads the tale, while Gorgon's breath",3.0 +"Even a just defence, and stands prepared.",2.0 +"The planters, conscious that to fear alone",0.0 +"They owe their cruel power, resolve to blend",2.0 +"New torment with the pangs of death, and hold",0.0 +"Their victims high in dreadful view, to fright",0.0 +To share the horrid sight; fuel is placed,3.0 +"In an increasing train, some paces back,",1.0 +"To kindle slowly, and approach the youth,",1.0 +"With more than native terror. See, it burns!",0.0 +"He gazes on the growing flame, and calls",1.0 +"For water, water! The small boon's denied.",2.0 +"Even Christians throng each other, to behold",1.0 +"The different alterations of his face,",1.0 +"As the hot death approaches. O, shame, shame",4.0 +Upon the followers of Jesus! shame,1.0 +And in their sockets strain their scorched balls.,1.0 +"Burn, burn me quick! I cannot die! he cries:",1.0 +"Bring fire more close! The planters heed him not,",1.0 +"Their trembling slaves around. His lips are dry,",0.0 +"His senses seem to quiver, ever they quit",2.0 +"His frame for ever, rallying strong, then driven",2.0 +From the tremendous conflict. Sight no more,2.0 +"Till both escape together. Turn, my muse,",0.0 +"Wrapped in the robe of innocence, to shades",1.0 +"Where pity breathing in the gale, dissolves",0.0 +"The mind, when fancy paints such real woe.",1.0 +"Now speak, you Christians who for gain enslave",1.0 +"In life's short vale; and if there be a hell,",2.0 +"As you believe, to that you thrust her down,",1.0 +"A blind, involuntary victim, where",0.0 +Is your true essence of religion? where,3.0 +"Your proofs of righteousness, when you conceal",2.0 +The knowledge of the Deity from those,2.0 +Who would adore him fervently? Your God,1.0 +"You rob of worshippers, his altars keep",1.0 +"The eager slave, lest he should hope in Jesus.",1.0 +"Is this your piety? Are these your laws,",3.0 +Whereby the glory of the Godhead spreads,2.0 +"Over barbarous climes? You hypocrites, disown",2.0 +"The Christian name, nor shame its cause: yet where",0.0 +"Shall souls like yours find welcome? Would the Turk,",5.0 +"Pagan, or wildest Arab, open their arms",4.0 +Your worse than serpent touch; he frees his slave,0.0 +Your brighter contrast; he condemns the youth,1.0 +For ever to the mine; but ere the wretch,2.0 +"Sinks to the deep domain, the hand of Faith",0.0 +"Bathes his faint temples in the sacred stream,",3.0 +"Bidding his spirit hope. Briton, dost thou",5.0 +"Act up to this? If so, bring on thy slaves",1.0 +To him who died to save them: this alone,2.0 +"Will teach them calmly to obey thy rage,",1.0 +"And deem a life of misery but a day,",1.0 +"To long eternity. Ah, think how soon",1.0 +"Thine head shall on earth's dreary pillow lie,",2.0 +"With thy poor slaves, each silent, and unknown",3.0 +To his once furious neighbour. Think how swift,4.0 +"The sands of time ebb out, for him and thee.",3.0 +"Why groans that Indian youth, in burning chains",2.0 +Strikes from his full meridian on the slave,1.0 +"Whose arms are blistered by the heated iron,",1.0 +"With strongest agony, while life declines",1.0 +From recent amputation. Gracious God!,0.0 +"Over a vile race of Christians, who profane",2.0 +"Thy glorious attributes? Sweep them from earth,",2.0 +Or cheque their cruel power: the savage tribes,2.0 +"Advance, you Christians, and oppose my strain:",1.0 +"Who dares condemn it? Prove from laws divine,",0.0 +"From deep philosophy, or social love,",1.0 +That you derive your privilege. I scorn,2.0 +"The cry of Avarice, or the trade that drains",1.0 +"Her public good, her nation's many wants,",0.0 +"Her sons thrown idly on the beach, forbade",2.0 +To seize the image of their God and sell it: ' --,1.0 +"I'll hear her voice, and Virtue's hundred tongues",0.0 +Shall sound against her. Hath our public good,0.0 +Find their supply in murder? Shall the sons,2.0 +"Of Commerce shivering stand, if not employed",2.0 +Worse than the midnight robber? Curses fall,1.0 +On the destructive system that shall need,1.0 +Such base supports! Does England need them? No;,0.0 +"That from his neighbour steals a slender sum,",3.0 +"Though famine drove him on. Over him the priest,",1.0 +"Beneath the fatal tree, laments the crime,",0.0 +"Approves the law, and bids him calmly die.",0.0 +"Say, does this law, that dooms the thief, protect",0.0 +By hellish force to take it at his will?,0.0 +"Is this an English law, whose guidance fails",1.0 +"When crimes are swelled to magnitude so vast,",0.0 +That Justice dare not scan them? Or does Law,1.0 +Bid Justice an eternal distance keep,2.0 +"From England's great tribunal, when the slave",0.0 +"Calls loud on Justice only? Speak, you few",1.0 +"The fathers of your country! Boast your laws,",1.0 +"Defend the honour of a land so fallen,",0.0 +"That Fame from every battlement is flown,",1.0 +"Hail, social love! true soul of order, hail!",2.0 +"Thy softest emanations, pity, grief,",0.0 +"Lively emotion, sudden joy, and pangs,",2.0 +"Too. deep for language, are thy own: then rise,",2.0 +Thou gentle angel! spread thy silken wings,0.0 +"Over drowsy man, breathe in his soul, and give",1.0 +"To banish Inhumanity. O, loose",2.0 +"The fetters of his mind, enlarge his views,",1.0 +"Break down for him the bound of avarice, lift",3.0 +His feeble faculties beyond a world,1.0 +To which he soon must prove a stranger! Spread,0.0 +"Of future glory; bid them live to Fame,",0.0 +"Whose banners wave for ever. Thus inspired,",0.0 +"All that is great, and good, and sweetly mild,",0.0 +"Shall fill his noble bosom. He shall melt,",1.0 +"Yea, by thy sympathy unseen, shall feel",1.0 +His heart shall heave a sigh; with the old slave,1.0 +Whose head is bent with sorrow he shall cast,1.0 +"His eye back on the joys of youth, and say,",2.0 +"Parental fondness, and the dear returns",1.0 +"Of filial tenderness were thine, till torn",4.0 +"From the dissolving scene. ' -- O, social love,",1.0 +In endless void! thou that in motion first,0.0 +"Quickly assimilating, and restrained",3.0 +By strong attraction; touch the soul of man;,0.0 +"His own by heart-felt sympathy, while wealth",2.0 +Is made subservient to his soft disease.,1.0 +And when thou hast to high perfection wrought,0.0 +"The sun rides glorious amid the cloudless sky,",2.0 +"While over the lake no cooling Zephyrs fly,",3.0 +"But on the liquid glass we dazzled gaze,",1.0 +And fainting ask for shade: lo! where his nest,1.0 +Here the soft turf invites; here magic sounds,3.0 +While Melody from yonder steep wood rebounds,3.0 +"In thrilling cadence sweet. Sure, life can grant",1.0 +No brighter hours than this; and memory oft,4.0 +Shall paint this happiest scene with pencil soft.,2.0 +IT Were both unjust and stupid to refuse,1.0 +"To so much Worth, the Tribute of my Muse;",2.0 +"Though Saints, as well, may those Bright Forms express,",2.0 +That in a Rapture they conceive of Bliss;,1.0 +"As I can give such Wondrous Charms their due,",1.0 +"Or, Dress in Words, my Brighter Thoughts of You:",0.0 +"Charming, and Gay, your Fair Idea seems",2.0 +"As Gay, as if composed of Love and Beams;",1.0 +"Such Heavenly Rays adorn your Lovely Eyes,",2.0 +"That, by Imagination, they surprise,",2.0 +"And, at your Feet, a Female Victim lies:",1.0 +"But how, Fair Nymph, will your Approaches Fire,",3.0 +If Distant Charms such gentle thoughts inspire.,0.0 +"GIFTED of Heaven! who hast, in days gone by,",3.0 +Moved every heart delighted every eye;,1.0 +"While age and youth, of high and low degree,",0.0 +"In sympathy were joined, beholding thee,",2.0 +"As in the Drama's ever changing scene,",0.0 +"No barriers there thy fair domains confined,",2.0 +Thy sovereign sway was over the human mind;,2.0 +"And, in the triumph of that witching hour,",1.0 +Thy lofty bearing well became thy power.,0.0 +"Thy stately form, and high imperial grace;",2.0 +"Thine arms impetuous tossed, thy robe's wide flow,",1.0 +And the dark tempest gathered on thy brow;,3.0 +"What time thy flashing eye and lip of scorn,",0.0 +Down to the dust thy mimic foes have born;,1.0 +The fixed and yearning looks of strong affection;,0.0 +"The active turmoil of a bosom rending,",2.0 +"When pity, love, and honour, are contending:",2.0 +"A lovely, grand, and wondrous sight have seen.",0.0 +"Thy varied accents, rapid, fitful, slow,",0.0 +"Loud rage, and fear's snatched whisper, quick and low;",2.0 +"The burst of stifled love, the wail of grief,",0.0 +"And tones of high command, full, solemn, brief;",1.0 +"The change of voice, and emphasis that threw",1.0 +"Light on obscurity, and brought to view",3.0 +"Common perception, as earth's smallest things",4.0 +"That seemed as if some secret voice, to clear",1.0 +"Whose lines, where nature's brightest traces shine,",0.0 +Alone were worthy deemed of powers like thine:,0.0 +"They who have heard all this, have proved full well",2.0 +"But though time's lengthened shadows over thee glide,",5.0 +"And pomp of regal state is cast aside,",0.0 +"Think not the glory of thy course is spent,",1.0 +"That, to the mental world can never fade,",0.0 +"Till all who have seen thee, in the grave are laid.",0.0 +"Thy graceful form still moves in nightly dreams,",1.0 +"And what thou wert, to the lulled sleeper seems:",3.0 +While feverish fancy oft does fondly trace,2.0 +"Yea; and to many a wight, bereft and lone,",2.0 +"In musing hours, though all to thee unknown,",1.0 +"Soothing his earthly course of good and ill,",2.0 +"And now in crowded room or rich saloon,",0.0 +"Thy stately presence recognised, how soon",0.0 +"On thee the glance of many an eye is cast,",3.0 +In grateful memory of pleasures past!,1.0 +"Pleased to behold thee, with becoming grace,",3.0 +Among the virtuous matrons of our land.,3.0 +"THrough the close covert of the shady grove,",3.0 +"One summer's day it was my chance to rove,",1.0 +"Where, shrouded from the sun's too scorching ray,",2.0 +"Occasion so inviting, who could miss?",1.0 +"Softly I stole, and snatched a sudden kiss.",2.0 +"Startled at first, the rising blush displayed",2.0 +The quick resentment of the ruffled maid;,1.0 +Lively displayed ' -- for soon it over past;,2.0 +Such blushing anger never long did last!,0.0 +Where wrongs ideal solid pleasures breed.,4.0 +"Submissive looks my pardon soon obtained,",0.0 +And pardoned love as soon new boldness gained.,1.0 +"Offending thus, forgiving thus, we lay,",0.0 +Long time entranced with the alternate play;,2.0 +"Till warned, too soon, by envious night, we part:",3.0 +The thrilling joy still flutters round my heart;,1.0 +"Thought still, though fainter, paints the glowing bliss,",1.0 +"But mark the sad effects of casual love,",0.0 +And tread with caution in the shady grove.,0.0 +"In due time, Cloe at my doors appears,",1.0 +A fixed composure on her brow she wears;,1.0 +And guess the cause: close in her lap concealed,1.0 +A lovely twin in either hand she held;,0.0 +"And take, she cried, these pledges of our love,",1.0 +These fruits you planted in the shady grove.,0.0 +"Smooth as the polished ivory of her neck,",1.0 +"Warm as her bosom, white as was her arm,",1.0 +"So smooth were they and white, so soft and warm,",1.0 +"Compliant to my forming hand they grew,",1.0 +"And with their size increased obedience due,",3.0 +"As I direct they take the appointed bent,",3.0 +"With every motion, every beck, consent,",0.0 +"Whatever I want, they reach with ready hand,",3.0 +"Wherever I go, they wait at my command.",3.0 +Now at ease one in my bosom lays;,0.0 +While by my side the other wanton plays;,0.0 +"Now this my hand embraces; to other free,",2.0 +Takes his full swing and plays at liberty.,4.0 +"Before me hand in hand sometime they move,",1.0 +"Emblems of friendship, and united love;",3.0 +Sometime behind my leading steps they trace,1.0 +Still closely knit in brotherly embrace;,2.0 +"Anon on either side as guards attend,",0.0 +"At once adorn me, and at once defend.",1.0 +"Still more and more my love they thus engage,",0.0 +Thus still shall cherish my declining age;,2.0 +"And when the appointed hour of fate shall come,",1.0 +"More lasting far than man's soon fading breath,",1.0 +Their love extends beyond the vale of death;,0.0 +"Till they themselves, like me, are turned to dust.",2.0 +"Whose barren bosom starves her generous birth,",2.0 +Nor genial warmth nor genial juice retains,0.0 +Their roots to feed and fill their verdant veins;,0.0 +"And as in climes, where winter holds his reign,",1.0 +"The soil, though fertile, will not teem in vain,",1.0 +"Forbids her gems to swell, her shades to rise,",0.0 +Nor trusts her blossoms to the churlish skies:,1.0 +"So draw mankind in vain the vital airs,",1.0 +Spread the young thought and warm the opening heart.,5.0 +So fond Instruction on the growing powers,1.0 +"Of nature idly lavishes her stores,",1.0 +"Smile not indulgent on the rising race,",2.0 +And scatter with a free though frugal hand,1.0 +Light golden showers of plenty over the land:,5.0 +"But Tyranny has fixed her empire there,",2.0 +"To cheque their tender hopes with chilling fear,",0.0 +And blast the blooming promise of the year.,1.0 +This spacious animated scene survey,0.0 +"From where the rolling orb, that gives the day,",0.0 +"His sable sons with nearer course surrounds,",0.0 +To either pole and life's remotest bounds.,0.0 +"How rude so ever the exterior form we find,",3.0 +"However opinion tinge the varied mind,",3.0 +Alike to all the kind impartial heaven,0.0 +The sparks of truth and happiness has given:,1.0 +"With sense to feel, with memory to retain,",3.0 +They follow pleasure and they fly from pain;,1.0 +The event presages and explores the cause.,8.0 +"The soft returns of gratitude they know,",0.0 +"By fraud elude, by force repel the foe;",0.0 +"While mutual wishes, mutual woes, endear",4.0 +The social smile and sympathetic tear.,0.0 +"Say then, through ages by what fate confined",1.0 +To different climes seem different souls assigned?,1.0 +Here measured laws and philosophic ease,0.0 +Fix and improve the polished arts of peace.,2.0 +"There Industry and Gain their vigils keep,",1.0 +Command the winds and tame the unwilling deep.,2.0 +Here force and hardy deeds of blood prevail;,0.0 +There languid pleasure sighs in every gale.,0.0 +Oft over the trembling nations from afar,4.0 +"Their arms, their kings, their gods were rolled away.",0.0 +The prostrate south to the destroyer yields,1.0 +Her boasted titles and her golden fields:,1.0 +With grim delight the brood of winter view,0.0 +"A brighter day and heavens of azure hue,",2.0 +"Scent the new fragrance of the breathing rose,",4.0 +"Proud of the yoke and pliant to the rod,",1.0 +"Why yet does Asia dread a monarch's nod,",1.0 +While European freedom still withstands,0.0 +"The encroaching tide, that drowns her lessening lands,",3.0 +And sees far off with an indignant groan,3.0 +Her native plains and empires once her own?,0.0 +Can opener skies and suns of fiercer flame,2.0 +"As lamps, that shed at even a cheerful ray,",2.0 +Fade and expire beneath the eye of day?,2.0 +Need we the influence of the northern star,1.0 +To string our nerves and steel our hearts to war?,0.0 +"And, where the face of nature laughs around,",0.0 +Must sickening Virtue fly the tainted ground?,0.0 +"What fancied zone can circumscribe the Soul,",0.0 +"Who, conscious of the source from whence she springs,",1.0 +"By Reason's light on Resolution's wings,",0.0 +"She bids each slumbering energy awake,",3.0 +"Another touch, another temper take,",0.0 +Suspends the inferior laws that rule our clay:,4.0 +The stubborn elements confess her sway;,1.0 +"Their little wants, their low desires, refine,",0.0 +And raise the mortal to a height divine.,1.0 +Not but the human fabric from the birth,1.0 +"As various tracts enforce a various toil,",4.0 +The manners speak the idiom of their soil.,1.0 +Foes to the gentler genius of the plain:,1.0 +"To brave the savage rushing from the wood,",1.0 +They guard with spirit what by strength they gained;,0.0 +"And while their rocky ramparts round they see,",1.0 +"The rough abode of want and liberty,",1.0 +As lawless force from confidence will grow,1.0 +Insult the plenty of the vales below?,1.0 +"What wonder in the sultry climes, that spread",0.0 +"If with adventurous oar and ready sail,",3.0 +"Or on frail floats to distant cities ride,",2.0 +That rise and glitter over the ambient tide.,4.0 +"WHAT, sir, a month, and not one line afford?",0.0 +It's well: ' -- how finely some folk keep their word!,1.0 +"I own my promise. ' -- But to steal an hour,",1.0 +"' Mid all this hurry ' -- it's not in my power,",1.0 +"Where life each day does one fixed order keep,",2.0 +"Successive journeys, weariness and sleep.",1.0 +"Or if our scheme some interval allows,",2.0 +Some hours designed for thought and for repose;,1.0 +Soon as the scattered images begin,1.0 +In the mind to rally ' -- company comes in:,2.0 +For all the day behind is noise and drink.,0.0 +"Thus life rolls on, but not without regret;",1.0 +"Whenever at morning, in some cool retreat,",2.0 +I walk alone: ' -- it's then in thought I view,0.0 +Some sage of old; it's then I think of you:,0.0 +"Whose breast no tyrant passions ever seize,",1.0 +"Who follow but where judgement points the way,",1.0 +And whom too busy sense never led astray.,4.0 +"Not that you joys with moderation shun,",0.0 +"You taste all pleasures, but indulge in none.",1.0 +"Fired by this image, I resolve anew:",2.0 +"It's reason calls, and peace and joy's in view.",0.0 +How blessed a change! a long adieu to sense:,0.0 +"Alas, how short a reign? ' -- the walk is over,",0.0 +"The dinner waits, and friends some half a score:",0.0 +"At first to virtue firm, the glass I fly;",0.0 +"Till some sly sot, ' -- Not drink the family!",1.0 +Thus gratitude is made to plead for sin;,1.0 +My traitorous breast a party forms within:,2.0 +"And inclination bribed, we never want",0.0 +"Excuse ' -- It's hot, and walking makes one faint.",0.0 +"Now sense gets strength; my bright resolves decay,",2.0 +Like stars that melt at the approach of day:,1.0 +"Thought dies, and even, at last, your image fades away.",3.0 +My head grows warm; all reason I despise:,2.0 +"Today be happy, and tomorrow wise!",2.0 +"Betrayed so oft, I'm half persuaded now,",0.0 +"Surely to fail, the first step is to vow.",4.0 +"Gardens, diversions, friends, relations, air:",2.0 +"For London now, dear London, how I burn!",2.0 +"I must be happy, sure, when I return.",1.0 +"Whoever hopes true happiness to see,",2.0 +"Hopes for what never was, nor ever will be:",2.0 +"The nearest ease, since we must suffer still,",1.0 +"Are they, who dare be patient under ill.",1.0 +"And after pouring round it, strove to play:",0.0 +"Above, below, across, all ways he tries;",0.0 +"He tries in vain, it's discord all and noise:",0.0 +Fretting he threw it by: then thus the lout;,3.0 +"If life does not its harmony impart,",1.0 +"We want not instruments, but have not art.",1.0 +"It's endless to defer our hopes of ease,",1.0 +"Till crosses end, and disappointments cease.",1.0 +"The sage is happy, not that all goes right,",1.0 +"His cattle feel no rot, his corn no blight;",2.0 +"The mind for ease is fitted to the wise,",1.0 +Not so the fool's; ' -- it's here the difference lies:,0.0 +"Their prospect is the same, but various are their eyes.",2.0 +"While Emperors to You commit their Cause,",2.0 +"And ANNA'S Praises crown the vast Applause,",0.0 +"That in ambitious Verse records Your Fights,",0.0 +Fired and transported with a Theme so new:,2.0 +Ten Thousand Wonders opening to my View,2.0 +"Shine forth at once, Sieges and Storms appear,",6.0 +"Rivers of Blood I see, and Hills of Slain;",2.0 +An Iliad rising out of One Campaign.,4.0 +"The Haughty Gaul beheld, with towering Pride,",0.0 +"His ancient Bounds enlarged on every Side,",0.0 +And in the mid of his wide Empire stood;,2.0 +Behind their Everlasting Hills secured;,0.0 +"The rising Danube its long Race began,",2.0 +And half its Course through the new Conquests ran;,2.0 +"Amazed and anxious for her Sovereign's Fates,",2.0 +Germania trembled through a Hundred States;,3.0 +"Great Leopold himself was seized with Fear,",1.0 +"He gazed, and half abandoned to Despair",1.0 +"His Hopes on Heaven, and Confidence in Prayer.",1.0 +"On Her Resolves the Western World relies,",1.0 +"Confiding still, amid its dire Alarms,",0.0 +"Thrice Happy BRITTAIN, from the Kingdoms rent,",2.0 +To sit the Guardian of the Continent!,2.0 +"That sees her Bravest Son advanced so high,",0.0 +And flourishing so near her Prince's Eye;,1.0 +"Or from the Crimes, or Follies of a Court;",2.0 +"On the firm Basis of Desert they rise,",3.0 +"From long tried Faith, and Friendship's Holy Ties:",1.0 +"Her Ornaments in Peace, her Strength in War,",1.0 +"The Nation thanks them with a Public Voice,",1.0 +By Showers of Blessings Heaven approves their Choice;,2.0 +"Envy it self is dumb, in Wonder lost,",2.0 +And Factions strive who shall applaud them most.,0.0 +Soon as soft Vernal Breezes warm the Sky,3.0 +"Her Chief already has his March begun,",0.0 +"Crossing the Provinces Himself had won,",3.0 +Till the Moselle appearing from afar,2.0 +Retards the Progress of the Moving War:,2.0 +"Delightful Stream, had Nature bid her fall",0.0 +"In distant Climes, far from the perjured Gaul;",2.0 +"But now a Purchase to the Sword she lies,",1.0 +"Her Harvests for uncertain Owners rise,",1.0 +"Each Vineyard doubtful of its Master grows,",1.0 +And to the Victor's Bowl each Vintage flows:,1.0 +The discontented Shades of slaughtered Hosts,0.0 +"That wandered on her Banks, her Heroes Ghosts",1.0 +The Vengeance due to their great Deaths was near.,2.0 +Forming the Wondrous Year within his Thought;,2.0 +"The long laborious March he first surveys,",2.0 +"And joins the distant Danube to the Maese,",1.0 +"Such Mountains rise, so many Rivers flow:",0.0 +"The Toil looks lovely in the Heroes Eyes,",1.0 +Big with the Fate of Europe he renews,1.0 +"His dreadful Course, and the proud Foe pursues:",2.0 +"Amid the sultry Gales his Temples beat,",0.0 +"Infected by the burning Scorpion's Heat,",1.0 +Till on the Borders of the Main he finds,2.0 +"Our British Youth, with inborn Freedom bold,",1.0 +"Nations of Slaves, with Tyranny debased,",3.0 +Their Maker's Image more than half defaced,0.0 +"Hourly instructed, as they urge their Toil,",3.0 +Still to the rising Sun they take their Way,0.0 +"Through Clouds of Dust, and gain upon the Day.",0.0 +"With cooling Streams revives the fainting Host,",0.0 +"Over prostrate Towns and Palaces they pass,",1.0 +"Now covered over with Weeds, and hid in Grass",3.0 +Breathing Revenge; while Anger and Disdain,3.0 +"Here shattered Walls, like broken Rocks, from far",0.0 +"Rise up in hideous Views, the Guilt of War,",2.0 +"While here the Vine over Hills of Ruin climbs,",6.0 +Industrious to conceal great Bourbon's Crimes.,4.0 +At length the Fame of England's Hero drew,0.0 +Eugenio to the glorious Interview;,4.0 +"Great Souls by Instinct to each other turn,",2.0 +"Demand Alliance, and in Friendship burn;",1.0 +"A sudden Friendship, while with stretched out Rays",0.0 +"They meet each other, mingling Blaze with Blaze.",0.0 +"Polished in Courts, and hardened in the Field,",2.0 +"Renowned for Conquest, and in Council skilled,",1.0 +Their Courage dwells not in a troubled Flood,0.0 +"Of mounting Spirits, and fermenting Blood;",1.0 +"Lodged in the Soul, with Virtue overruled,",0.0 +"Inflamed by Reason, and by Reason cooled,",1.0 +"In Hours of Peace content to be unknown,",0.0 +And only in the Field of Battle shown:,0.0 +"To Souls like these, in mutual Friendship joined,",3.0 +Heaven dares entrust the Cause of Human kind.,0.0 +"Her Harassed Troops the Hero's Presence warms,",4.0 +While the high Hills and Rivers all around,3.0 +"Doubling their Speed they March with fresh Delight,",1.0 +"Eager for Glory, and require the Fight.",3.0 +"So the staunch Hound the trembling Deer pursues,",2.0 +"And smells his Footsteps in the tainted Dews,",1.0 +"But when the Scent comes warm in every Breeze,",1.0 +"Fired at the near Approach, he shoots away",0.0 +"On his full Stretch, and bears upon his Prey.",2.0 +"The March concludes, the various Realms are past,",2.0 +The Immortal Schellenberg appears at last:,2.0 +"Like Hills the aspiring Ramparts rise on high,",3.0 +"Like Valleys at their Feet the Trenches lie,",0.0 +"Batteries on Batteries guard each fatal Pass,",3.0 +"Threatening Destruction; Rows of hollow Brass,",1.0 +"Tube behind Tube, the dreadful Entrance keep,",3.0 +"Great CHURCHILL owns, charmed with the glorious sight,",5.0 +His March overpaid by such a promised Fight.,3.0 +"The Western Sun now shot a feeble Ray,",1.0 +"And faintly scattered the Remains of Day,",1.0 +"Evening approached, but o what Hosts of Foes",3.0 +Were never to behold that Evening close!,1.0 +"Thickening their Ranks, and wedged in firm Array,",1.0 +The close compacted Britons win their Way;,0.0 +In vain the Cannon their thronged War defaced,2.0 +"With Tracks of Death, and laid the Battle waste,",0.0 +"Still pressing forward to the Fight, they broke",2.0 +"Through Flames of Sulphur, and a Night of Smoke,",1.0 +"Till slaughtered Legions fill the Trench below,",0.0 +"High on the Works the mingling Hosts engage,",0.0 +The Battle kindled into Tenfold Rage,1.0 +With Showers of Bullets and with Storms of Fire,3.0 +"Burns in full Fury, Heaps on Heaps expire,",2.0 +"Whole Nations trampled into Dirt, and bruised,",1.0 +In one promiscuous Carnage lie confused.,2.0 +"How many generous Britons meet their Doom,",2.0 +"New to the Field, and Heroes in the Bloom!",0.0 +"The Illustrious Youths, that left their Native Shore",3.0 +"To March where Britons never marched before,",0.0 +OH Fatal Love of Fame! OH Glorious Heat,4.0 +Only Destructive to the Brave and Great!,3.0 +"After such Toils overcome, such Dangers past,",2.0 +Stretched on Bavarian Ramparts breathe their last.,5.0 +"But hold, my Muse, may no Complaints appear,",0.0 +Nor blot the Day with an ungrateful Tear:,1.0 +"A friendly Light, and shine in Innocence.",1.0 +Plunging through Seas of Blood his fiery Steed,4.0 +"Where ever his Friends retire, or Foes succeed;",2.0 +"Those he supports, these drives to sudden Flight,",1.0 +And turns the various Fortune of the Fight.,3.0 +"To brave the thickest Terrors of the War,",1.0 +Let Nations anxious for thy Life abate,2.0 +"This Scorn of Danger, and Contempt of Fate:",1.0 +Conquest and Peace from thy Victorious Hands;,5.0 +"Kingdoms and Empires in thy Fortune join,",2.0 +By crowded Armies fortified in vain;,0.0 +And see their Camp with British Legions filled.,0.0 +So Belgian Mounds bear on their shattered Sides,2.0 +"The Sea's whole weight, increased with swelling Tides,",1.0 +"But if the rushing Wave a Passage finds,",1.0 +"Enraged by watery Moons, and warring Winds,",2.0 +The trembling Peasant sees his Country round,0.0 +"The few surviving Foes, dispersed in Flight,",0.0 +Till the dark Cope of Night with kind Embrace,2.0 +"Befriends the Rout, and covers their Disgrace.",1.0 +The gay Victorious Army bends its Course;,2.0 +"The Growth of Meadows, and the Pride of Fields,",2.0 +"The Food of Armies, and Support of Wars:",1.0 +"With Magazines of Death, destructive Balls,",0.0 +"The Victor finds each hidden Cavern stored,",0.0 +And turns their Fury on their Guilty Lord.,1.0 +"Deluded Prince! how is thy Greatness crossed,",1.0 +"And all the gaudy Dream of Empire lost,",0.0 +"That proudly set thee on a fancied Throne,",1.0 +And made Imaginary Realms thy own!,0.0 +"Thy Troops, that now behind the Danube join,",0.0 +"Shall shortly seek for Shelter from the Rhine,",1.0 +"Nor find it there: Surrounded with Alarms,",2.0 +"The Gallic Arms in Safety shall advance,",0.0 +"And crowd thy Standards with the Power of France,",3.0 +"Shares thy Destruction, and adorns thy Fall.",3.0 +"Unbounded Courage and Compassion joined,",1.0 +"Tempering each other in the Victor's Mind,",1.0 +"Alternately proclaim him Good and Great,",3.0 +And make the Hero and the Man complete.,1.0 +"By proffered Grace, but long he strove in vain,",0.0 +Till fired at length he thinks it vain to spare,2.0 +"His rising Wrath, and gives a Loose to War.",0.0 +In Vengeance roused the Soldier fills his Hand,0.0 +"With Sword and Fire, and ravages the Land,",1.0 +"A Thousand Villages to Ashes turns,",1.0 +"In crackling Flames a Thousand Harvests burns,",0.0 +"To the thick Woods the woolly Flocks retreat,",2.0 +"Their trembling Lords the common Shade partake,",0.0 +And Cries of Infants sound in every Brake:,0.0 +"The listening Soldier fixed in Sorrow stands,",0.0 +Loath to Obey his Leader's just Commands;,2.0 +"The Leader grieves, by generous Pity swayed,",2.0 +To see his just Commands so well obeyed.,0.0 +But now the Trumpet terrible from far,1.0 +"Confederate Drums in fuller Consort beat,",5.0 +And echoing Hills the loud Alarm repeat:,2.0 +"Unfurl their gilded Lilies in the Wind,",0.0 +"The daring Prince his blasted Hopes renews,",0.0 +And while the thick embattled Host he views,0.0 +"Stretched out in deep Array, and dreadful Length,",0.0 +The fatal Day its mighty Course began,0.0 +That the grieved World had long desired in vain:,3.0 +"States that their New Captivity bemoaned,",1.0 +"Armies of Martyrs that in Exile groaned,",3.0 +"Sighs from the Depth of gloomy Dungeons heard,",0.0 +"And Prayers in Bitterness of Soul preferred,",1.0 +And ANNA'S Ardent Vows at length prevailed;,0.0 +The Day was come when Heaven designed to show,0.0 +His Care and Conduct of the World below.,1.0 +Behold in awful March and dread Array,0.0 +The long Extended Squadrons shape their Way!,0.0 +"Death, in approaching terrible, imparts",2.0 +"An anxious Horror to the Bravest Hearts,",1.0 +"Yet do their beating Breasts demand the Strife,",0.0 +"The British Souls low Images disclaim,",2.0 +The Heat of Vengeance and Desire of Fame,1.0 +"Overlook the Foe, advantaged by his Post,",1.0 +"Lessen his Numbers, and Contract his Host:",3.0 +"That unprovoked they would have feared to pass,",0.0 +When Her proud Foe ranged on their Borders stands.,1.0 +"But OH, my Muse, what Numbers wilt thou find",0.0 +To sing the furious Troops in Battle joined!,2.0 +"The Victor's Shouts and Dying Groans confound,",0.0 +And all the Thunder of the Battle rise.,1.0 +"That, in the Shock of Charging Hosts unmoved,",0.0 +"Amid Confusion, Horror, and Despair,",1.0 +Examined all the Dreadful Scenes of War;,0.0 +"In peaceful Thought the Field of Death surveyed,",0.0 +"To fainting Squadrons sent the timely Aid,",0.0 +"Inspired repulsed Battalions to engage,",3.0 +And taught the doubtful Battle where to rage.,0.0 +So when an Angel by Divine Command,1.0 +"Such as of late over pale Britannia past,",9.0 +Calm and Serene he drives the furious Blast;,4.0 +"Rides in the Whirlwind, and directs the Storm.",2.0 +"The Dread of Europe, and the Pride of France.",1.0 +"The War's whole Art each private Soldier knows,",1.0 +And with a General's Love of Conquest glows;,1.0 +"Proudly He Marches on, and void of Fear",3.0 +Laughs at the shaking of the British Spear;,1.0 +Vain Insolence! with Native Freedom brave,2.0 +"The meanest Briton scorns the highest Slave,",0.0 +"Contempt and Fury fire their Souls by turns,",0.0 +"Each Nation's Glory in each Warrior burns,",0.0 +"Each fights, as in his Arm the important Day",2.0 +And all the Fate of his great Monarch lay:,2.0 +"A Thousand glorious Actions, that might claim",2.0 +"Triumphant Laurels, and Immortal Fame,",1.0 +And Troops of Heroes undistinguished die.,0.0 +"OH Dormer, how can I behold thy Fate,",3.0 +And not the Wonders of thy Youth relate!,1.0 +"How can I see the Gay, the Brave, the Young,",1.0 +"Fall in the Cloud of War, and lie unsung!",0.0 +"In Joys of Conquest he resigns his Breath,",1.0 +"And, filled with England's Glory, smiles in Death.",0.0 +"The Rout begins, the Gallic Squadrons run,",0.0 +Thousands of fiery Steeds with Wounds transfixed,4.0 +"Floating in Gore, with their drowned Masters mixed,",4.0 +"Mid Heaps of broken Spears and Standards lie,",1.0 +"Or where the Sein her flowery Fields divides,",2.0 +Or where the Loire through winding Vineyards glides;,0.0 +"In Heaps the Rolling Billows sweep away,",0.0 +And into Scythian Seas their bloated Corpse convey.,2.0 +"His waving Banners, that so oft had stood",0.0 +"Planted in Fields of Death, and Streams of Blood,",2.0 +"So used the guarded Enemy to reach,",1.0 +"And rise Triumphant in the Fatal Breach,",0.0 +"Or pierce the broken Foe's remotest Lines,",0.0 +The hardy Veteran with Tears resigns.,1.0 +"The Pangs of Rage, of Sorrow, and of Shame,",1.0 +That with mixed Tumult in thy Bosom swelled!,2.0 +"Thine Only Son pierced with a Deadly Wound,",2.0 +"Choked in his Blood, and gasping on the Ground,",1.0 +Thy self in Bondage by the Victor kept!,1.0 +"The Chief, the Father, and the Captive wept.",1.0 +"An English Muse is touched with generous Woe,",2.0 +And in the unhappy Man forgets the Foe.,1.0 +"Blame not the Turns of Fate, and Chance of War;",0.0 +"Give thy Brave Foes their Due, nor blush to own,",3.0 +"The fatal Field by such great Leaders won,",2.0 +The Field whence famed Eugenio bore away,3.0 +With Floods of Gore that from the Vanquished fell,1.0 +"The Marshes stagnate, and the Rivers swell.",2.0 +"Mountains of Slain lie heaped upon the Ground,",3.0 +"In painful Bondage, and inglorious Chains;",3.0 +"Even those who escape the Fetters and the Sword,",3.0 +"Nor seek the Fortunes of a happier Lord,",3.0 +"The distant Battle drives the insulting Gauls,",2.0 +Freed by the Terror of the Victor's Name,1.0 +The rescued States his great Protection claim;,0.0 +And longs to open her obsequious Gates.,3.0 +"The Hero's Breast still swells with great Designs,",1.0 +In every Thought the towering Genius shines:,0.0 +"If to the Foe his dreadful Course he bends,",1.0 +Over the wide Continent his March extends;,3.0 +"Camps are assaulted, and an Army stormed;",3.0 +"If to the Fight his active Soul is bent,",1.0 +The Fate of Europe turns on its Event.,1.0 +"What distant Land, what Region can afford",1.0 +An Action worthy his Victorious Sword;,3.0 +"Where will he next the flying Gaul defeat,",0.0 +To make the Series of his Toils complete?,1.0 +Where the swollen Rhine rushing with all its Force,4.0 +"Divides the Hostile Nations in its Course,",0.0 +"While Each contracts its Bounds, or wider grows,",0.0 +That all the wide extended Plain commands;,0.0 +"Twice, since the War was kindled, has it tried",0.0 +"The Victor's rage, and twice has changed its Side;",0.0 +Have the long Summer on its Walls employed.,3.0 +"Hither our mighty Chief his Arms directs,",2.0 +Hence future Triumphs from the War expects;,2.0 +Carries his Arms still nearer to the Sun:,4.0 +"Fixed on the glorious Action, He forgets",3.0 +"The Change of Seasons, and Increase of Heats:",1.0 +"No Toils are painful that can Danger show,",1.0 +"The roving Gaul, to his own Bounds restrained,",1.0 +"Learns to Encamp within his Native Land,",2.0 +"But soon as the Victorious Host he spies,",3.0 +"From Hill to Hill, from Stream to Stream he flies:",0.0 +Such dire Impressions in his Heart remain,0.0 +"They fly the Conqueror's approaching Fame,",1.0 +That bears the Force of Armies in his Name.,0.0 +Whose boasted Ancestry so high extends,1.0 +"That in the Pagan Gods his Lineage ends,",2.0 +"Comes from afar, in Gratitude to own",2.0 +The great Supporter of his Father's Throne:,1.0 +"What Tides of Glory to his Bosom ran,",1.0 +How were his Eyes with pleasing Wonder fixed,1.0 +"To see such Fire with so much Sweetness mixed,",1.0 +"Such easy Greatness, such a graceful Port,",1.0 +So turned and finished for the Camp or Court!,1.0 +"Achilles thus was formed with every Grace,",0.0 +Thus the great Father of Almighty Rome,4.0 +His Features flushed with an Immortal Bloom,1.0 +In all the Charms of his bright Mother glowed.,2.0 +"Taught by his Counsels, by his Actions warmed,",1.0 +"On Landau with redoubled Fury falls,",2.0 +"Discharges all his Thunder on its Walls,",1.0 +"Over Mines and Caves of Death provokes the Eight,",0.0 +And learns to Conquer in the Hero's sight.,0.0 +"The British Chief, for mighty Toils renowned,",0.0 +"Increased in Titles, and with Conquests crowned,",2.0 +"To Belgian Coasts his tedious March renews,",2.0 +"Clearing its Borders from Usurping Foes,",4.0 +And blessed by rescued Nations as he goes.,1.0 +"Seated on Rocks her proud Foundations shake,",2.0 +"Plants all his Batteries, bids his Cannon roar,",2.0 +And shows how Landau might have fallen before.,2.0 +"Vengeance reserved for his declining Years,",3.0 +"Forgets his Thirst of Universal Sway,",0.0 +And scarce can teach his Subjects to Obey;,1.0 +"His Arms he finds on vain Attempts employed,",0.0 +"The Ambitions Projects of his Race destroyed,",2.0 +"The Work of Ages sunk in One Campaign,",1.0 +And Lives of Millions sacrificed in vain.,0.0 +Such are the Effects of ANNA's Royal Cares:,1.0 +"By Her, Britannia, great in Foreign Wars,",3.0 +And taste the Sweets of English Liberty.,1.0 +But who can tell the Joys of those that lie,1.0 +Within the constant Influence of Her Eye!,1.0 +"Like Heaven's Indulgence, and descend on All,",3.0 +"Make every Subject Glad, and a whole People Blessed.",3.0 +In the smooth Records of a faithful Verse;,0.0 +"That, if such Numbers can over Time prevail,",2.0 +May tell Posterity the wondrous Tale.,1.0 +"When Actions, Unadorned, are faint and weak,",0.0 +Cities and Countries must be taught to speak;,2.0 +"Gods may descend in Factions from the Skies,",3.0 +"Fiction may deck the Truth with spurious Rays,",4.0 +And round the Hero cast a borrowed Blaze.,1.0 +And proudly shine in their own Native Light;,1.0 +"Raised of themselves, their genuine Charms they boast,",4.0 +And those who Paint them truest Praise them most.,1.0 +"While rash, unknowing of Parnassus' Height,",4.0 +"Or veil her Faults, or blindly Each commends:",0.0 +While the just Critics silent Censure show;,0.0 +"Blame this dull Thought, that Diction much too low:",4.0 +"Cautious and trembling now she fears to fly,",2.0 +"You plume her Wings, and bid her boldly try.",0.0 +"Yet blindly wandering, when she aims to rise,",1.0 +You clear the Mist of Error from her Eyes;,1.0 +"Improve the Thought, and aid the lame Design.",0.0 +"Extract the Spirit, bid the Phlegm subside;",0.0 +"Correct, new range, precipitate, confine;",1.0 +"Yours is the Skill, the mean Materials mine",2.0 +"You, her Apollo, gave the Muse her Fire,",1.0 +"Whenever she pleases, it's when you inspire;",4.0 +"Even Pope approved, when you had tuned her Lyre.",1.0 +The Debt of Honour bid me not conceal;,3.0 +"I'll dare your Friendship, and the Truth reveal.",1.0 +"My honest Pride disdains to steal the Bays,",0.0 +"Or, like the Moon, to shine with borrowed Rays.",1.0 +"The greatest Merit that my Muse can show,",0.0 +Is that she stands correct and fair by you.,0.0 +"Not only Fame, but Health to you I owe:",1.0 +"When my Joints trembled, and my Pulse beat low,",4.0 +"When all my Friends had took a parting Sigh,",0.0 +And Tears dropped silent from a Parent's Eye;,2.0 +"Though neither Youth nor Beauty was my Friend,",1.0 +"Nor Gold nor Fame could tempt, yet you attend.",1.0 +"While soft Compassion languished in your Eyes,",0.0 +"And gently breathed in sympathetic Sighs,",0.0 +"Pure Goodness winged your Feet, inspired your Tongue;",3.0 +"Soft were your Accents, but your Reasoning strong.",3.0 +"Heaven bid me live, and you prescribe the Way;",1.0 +"To you, next Heaven, my grateful Thanks I pay.",1.0 +"And now I breathe, and live, and sing anew;",0.0 +"And owe my Breath, and Life, and Song to You",0.0 +Whence these impetuous movements of the breast?,2.0 +"Why beat our hearts, unknowing where to rest?",0.0 +"Pant for the future, yet regret the past?",0.0 +"Can reason, can a stoic's pride control",1.0 +This unremitting sickness of the soul?,1.0 +"Reason! what's that, when lawless Passion rules?",0.0 +"The jest of sense, and jargon of the schools.",1.0 +Some few perhaps have by its lore been taught,1.0 +"To think, and wish, just only what they ought:",0.0 +"Sufficient to themselves, their wants are such,",1.0 +"They neither ask amiss, nor wish too much.",1.0 +"Here freedom dwells, and revels unconfined,",0.0 +"True greatness, wisdom, virtue, hence must rise;",1.0 +"OH Thou! for whom my fancy prunes her wing,",0.0 +"For whom I love to tune the trembling string,",0.0 +"What would we more than wisdom, virtue, ease?",0.0 +"Why reason some, and some why passion rules,",0.0 +"Is because some are wise, and some are fools;",1.0 +"Their reason and their passion still at strife,",1.0 +Like some meek pair in wedlock yoked for life:,2.0 +"In the same interest, tugging different ways,",2.0 +"Blessed state! where this alone is fixed and sure,",3.0 +"To disagree, while sun and moon endure.",1.0 +"Hence listless, weary, sick, chagrined at home,",1.0 +In search of happiness abroad we roam:,1.0 +"And yet the wisest of us all have owned,",1.0 +"There even the poor may taste felicity,",3.0 +If with contentment any such there be.,2.0 +For what's content without a coach and six? ' --,0.0 +"So humble, Fulvia! so deserving too!",3.0 +"Down on your knees again, and beg of fate,",1.0 +"Instead of six, to give your chariot eight.",2.0 +"No matter. ' -- See! the glittering columns rise,",3.0 +"Pile above pile, and emulate the skies.",3.0 +"Fresh cargoes come, fresh longings these create;",6.0 +And what is twenty pieces for a plate?,1.0 +"Debates ensue; he brandishes his cane,",1.0 +"Yields her high soul, and levels with the ground.",4.0 +Cruel! farewell! ' -- were the last words she spoke,4.0 +Few can the stings of Disappointment bear!,0.0 +"One sends a curse to Heaven, and one a prayer;",1.0 +"The pious motive's much the same in both,",0.0 +"In him that swears, and him that fears an oath.",1.0 +"Proceed alike from anguish, pride, despair.",0.0 +"And mad Corvino curses God, and dies.",0.0 +"What joy, cries Cotta in his calm retreat",1.0 +Had I but such an office in the state!,1.0 +"That post exactly suits my active mind,",0.0 +And sure my genius was for courts designed.,1.0 +"Learn to be thankful, and tease Heaven no more.",2.0 +See! how kind Fancy generously supplies,6.0 +What a whole thankless land thy worth denies.,2.0 +"See! how she paints the lovely flattering scene,",2.0 +Of injured merit some aloud complain;,0.0 +"Her marble heart at length to love inclined,",0.0 +His cruel angel grows perversely kind.,0.0 +"What would he more? ' -- One wish remains to make,",0.0 +"That Heaven, in pity, would his angel take.",0.0 +"Oft on events most men miscalculate,",2.0 +"Then call misfortune, what indeed was fate.",0.0 +"We see a little, and presume the rest,",1.0 +And that is always right which pleases best.,0.0 +"Was not his want of conduct, or of cost,",1.0 +For he bribed high; five hundred pieces gave;,4.0 +But ah! hard fate! his patron scorns a knave.,1.0 +"Kind Heaven at length her soft petition heeds,",1.0 +"But one wish gained, a multitude succeeds ' --",2.0 +"She wants an heir, she wants a house in town,",0.0 +"She wants a title, or she wants a gown.",1.0 +"For if her wants continue, who would live?",1.0 +"Sure to be wishing still, is still to grieve;",0.0 +"And proves the man or poor, or much a slave.",0.0 +"Will none the wretched crawling thing regard,",0.0 +"Who stoops so very low, and begs so hard?",0.0 +"You call this meanness, and the wretch despise;",1.0 +"Alas! he stoops to soar, and sinks to rise:",0.0 +"Now on the knee, now on the wing is found,",2.0 +Bless me! the Doctor! ' -- what brings him to court?,2.0 +It is not want; for lo! his comely port.,1.0 +"The lion's lack, and hunger feel, I grant;",0.0 +But they who serve the Lord can nothing want.,1.0 +"Why stands he here then, elbowed to and fro?",1.0 +Has he no care of souls? No work to do?,4.0 +"Go home, good doctor, preach and pray, and give;",1.0 +"By far more blessed this, than to receive. ' --",1.0 +"Alas! the doctor's meek, and much resigned;",0.0 +"So that of debts, repairs, and taxes clear,",0.0 +He hardly saves ' -- two hundred pounds a year.,1.0 +A coach does much an holy life adorn;,0.0 +Then muzzle not the ox who treads the corn.,0.0 +"Enough of these. Now tell us, if you can,",3.0 +"Is there that thing on earth, a happy man?",1.0 +"Well then, the wondrous man I happy call,",0.0 +"Has but few wishes, and enjoys them all.",1.0 +"Blessed in his fame, and in his fortune blessed,",0.0 +No craving void lies aching in his breast.,2.0 +"His passions cool, his expectations low,",0.0 +"Can he feel want, or disappointment know?",2.0 +"Yet if success be to his virtues given,",2.0 +"Can relish that, and leave the rest to Heaven.",0.0 +"What, though for ever with our selves at strife,",1.0 +None wishes to lay down his load of life.,3.0 +Solicits Heaven to add the other score.,0.0 +"To day, indeed, his portion's pain and sorrow;",0.0 +But joy and ease are hoarded for tomorrow.,2.0 +Soft smiling Hope! thou anchor of the mind!,2.0 +How dost thou all our anxious cares beguile!,0.0 +"All fly to thee, thou gentle dawn of peace!",1.0 +"The coward's fortitude, the brave's success,",0.0 +"The lover's ease, the captive's liberty,",1.0 +"Possessed of thee, the weary pilgrim strays",1.0 +"The martyred saint, whom anguish and the rod",1.0 +"Have proved, through thee walks worthy of his God.",3.0 +"In vain are axes, flames, and torturing wheels;",2.0 +"He feels no torment, who no terror feels:",3.0 +"OH full of thee! in quiet may I live,",3.0 +The few remaining moments Heaven shall give!,0.0 +"Friend of my health, and author of my rest!",1.0 +"Through thee, the future cloudless all appears,",1.0 +"A short, but smiling train of happy years.",0.0 +And all beyond the promised land of peace.,0.0 +"No passion's mists, by no false joys misled,",2.0 +"No ties forgot, no duties left unpaid,",2.0 +"No lays unfinished, and no aching head.",3.0 +"Born with a temper much inclined to ease,",0.0 +"Whatever gives me that, is sure to please.",1.0 +I ask not riches; yet alike would fly,0.0 +"This wish however be mine: to live unknown,",1.0 +"In some serene retreat, my time my own,",0.0 +"To all obliging, yet a slave to none.",0.0 +"Content, my riches; silence be my fame;",0.0 +"And you, blessed maid! who all you want possess,",1.0 +"Already to your self your happiness,",2.0 +"OH give me Wisdom, Heaven! and I have all.",1.0 +"IF, dumb too long, the drooping Muse hath stayed,",1.0 +And left her debt to Addison unpaid;,1.0 +"Blame not her silence, Warwick, but bemoan,",1.0 +"And judge, o judge, my bosom by your own,",1.0 +What mourner ever felt poetic fires!,0.0 +"Slow comes the verse, that real woe inspires:",4.0 +"Grief unaffected suits but ill with art,",1.0 +Or flowing numbers with a bleeding heart.,1.0 +"Can I forget the dismal night, that gave",1.0 +My soul's best part forever to the grave!,2.0 +"How silent did his old companions tread,",0.0 +"By midnight lamps, the mansions of the dead,",2.0 +"Through breathing statues, then unheeded things,",1.0 +"Through rows of warriors, and through walks of kings!",1.0 +What awe did the slow solemn knell inspire;,4.0 +"And the last words, that dust to dust conveyed!",2.0 +"While speechless over thy closing grave we bend,",2.0 +"Accept these tears, thou dear departed friend,",0.0 +"O gone for ever, take this long adieu;",0.0 +"And sleep in peace, next thy loved Montagu!",2.0 +"To strew fresh laurels let the task be mine,",1.0 +A frequent pilgrim at thy sacred shrine;,0.0 +"Mine with true sighs thy absence to bemoan,",3.0 +And grave with faithful epitaphs thy stone.,0.0 +"If ever from me thy loved memorial part,",3.0 +May shame afflict this alienated heart;,2.0 +"Of thee forgetful if I form a song,",2.0 +"My grief be doubled, from thy image free,",1.0 +"Oft let me range the gloomy isles alone,",1.0 +Sad luxury! to vulgar minds unknown,2.0 +Along the walls where speaking marbles show,0.0 +What worthies form the hallowed mould below:,0.0 +"Proud names, who once the reins of empire held;",1.0 +In arms who triumphed; or in arts excelled;,1.0 +"Chiefs, graced with scars, and prodigal of blood;",2.0 +"Stern patriots, who for sacred freedom stood;",2.0 +"Just men, by whom impartial laws are given;",0.0 +"And saints, who taught, and led the way to heaven.",0.0 +"Never to these chambers, where the mighty rest,",1.0 +"Since their foundation, came a nobler guest;",2.0 +Nor ever was to the bowers of bliss conveyed,3.0 +"A fairer spirit, or more welcome shade.",1.0 +"In what new region, to the just assigned,",2.0 +Or curious trace the long laborious maze,4.0 +"Of heaven's decrees, where wondering angels gaze?",4.0 +"How Michael battled, and the dragon fell?",1.0 +"Or dost thou warn poor mortals left behind,",1.0 +A task well suited to thy gentle mind?,2.0 +"O, if sometime thy spotless form descend,",2.0 +"To me thy aid, thou guardian genius, lend!",3.0 +"When age misguides me, or when fear alarms,",1.0 +"When pain distresses, or when pleasure charms,",1.0 +And turn from ill a frail and feeble heart;,0.0 +"Lead through the paths thy virtue trod before,",0.0 +"Till bliss shall join, nor death can part us more.",0.0 +"That awful form which, so the heavens decree,",3.0 +"Must still be loved, and still deplored by me",0.0 +"In nightly visions seldom fails to rise,",0.0 +"Or roused by fancy, meet my waking eyes.",0.0 +"If business calls, or crowded courts invite,",0.0 +The unblemished statesman seems to strike my sight;,1.0 +I meet his soul which breathes in Cato there;,1.0 +"If pensive to the rural shades I rove,",1.0 +His shape overtakes me in the lonely grove:,1.0 +"'Twas there of just and good he reasoned strong,",0.0 +"Cleared some great truth, or raised some serious song;",5.0 +"There patient showed us the wise course to steer,",2.0 +A candid censor and a friend sincere;,1.0 +There taught us how to live; and o! too high,2.0 +The price for knowledge taught us how to die.,1.0 +"Thou hill, whose brow the antique structures grace,",5.0 +"Why, once so loved, whenever thy bower appears,",4.0 +Over my dim eyeballs glance the sudden tears!,3.0 +"How sweet were once thy prospects fresh and fair,",0.0 +His image thy forsaken bowers restore;,3.0 +Thy walks and airy prospects charm no more;,1.0 +"From other ills, however fortune frowned,",1.0 +Some refuge in the Muse's art I found;,0.0 +"Reluctant now I touch the trembling string,",0.0 +"Bereft of him, who taught me how to sing;",2.0 +"And these sad accents, murmured over his urn,",4.0 +Betray that absence they attempt to mourn.,1.0 +"O! must I then now fresh my bosom bleeds,",1.0 +And Craggs in death to Addison succeeds,1.0 +"The verse, begun to one lost friend prolong,",2.0 +And weep a second in the unfinished song!,2.0 +"These words divine, which, on his deathbed laid,",2.0 +"To thee, OH Craggs, the expiring sage conveyed,",2.0 +"Nor he survived to give, nor thou to claim.",2.0 +"Swift after him thy social spirit flies,",2.0 +"And close to his, how soon! thy coffin lies.",1.0 +In future tongues: each other's boast! farewell.,1.0 +"Farewell! whom joined in fame, in friendship tried,",1.0 +"No chance could sever, nor the grave divide.",2.0 +"I'm not so great a child, misjudging youth,",1.0 +As be offended at the simple truth.,0.0 +"But since to you the muses lend an ear,",1.0 +Guard your poetic genius by your fear,3.0 +"Of ever offending; and, as fate decrees,",3.0 +"Let thy young heart with native goodness glow,",3.0 +Nor ever disgrace the land from whence you go.,2.0 +"May he who named thee first creation's lord,",1.0 +"Assist thy courage, and direct thy sword,",1.0 +And death approach thee like an infant's sleep.,0.0 +"If doomed to fall amid the fields of fame,",0.0 +May deeds of honour still record your name.,3.0 +"OH, R' -- ! my timid soul would fain aspire",1.0 +To rapture such as thine; to the pure zeal,3.0 +Which fires thy soul in blessed Religion's cause.,0.0 +"Say, can I catch one saint, one glimmering spark,",2.0 +"My faculties, my poverty of thought,",2.0 +"Would ever disappoint the grand design,",0.0 +And render great commissions all abortive.,0.0 +Vain were the hope to save a ruined world!,0.0 +Even Jesu's sufferings never convinced the whole;,2.0 +"Then shall an atom the fixed axis move,",2.0 +"Yet limited thy power; stand forth, you few!",3.0 +"You who would give a lustre to your name,",1.0 +And prove the grand impression of Jehovah;,1.0 +"Who weep, like R' -- , the glory of your God,",1.0 +"Defaced, demolished, beauty trod in dust;",0.0 +"Leave not the wreck deserted on the beach,",1.0 +"Exulting yell, and wring the melting soul:",0.0 +"With ceaseless profanation, taint the air;",0.0 +"Grown old in dark stupidity, he treads,",2.0 +"Fearless, though feeble; on the verge of fate",3.0 +Sin leaves him not; and innate flames of vice,5.0 +Still fiercely burn; the fact exists in will:,1.0 +The last remain of life presents a gloom,0.0 +"Struck with dire horror, loath to hear the sound,",0.0 +The dreadful summons of offended Heaven ' --,1.0 +"The frame which held her. ' -- OH! you better souls,",0.0 +"You nobler few, who slumber in your race,",0.0 +"Though well begun, and forwarded with hope,",1.0 +"The man who firmest stands, nor lend your aid",0.0 +"To save him, as a soul once meant for Heaven?",2.0 +"OH, think! the coming hour will soon be yours;",1.0 +Let not a form which bears your Maker's image,0.0 +"Defeat the end of being: know it's yours,",0.0 +In heavenly tints to dip the infant soul;,2.0 +"To raise the new idea, lift it high,",0.0 +"Pliant as wax, shall wear the mould you give;",2.0 +"And, even beyond the chambers of the grave,",3.0 +"The joyous spirit shall your records bear,",0.0 +To meet your eyes when trembling worlds expire.,0.0 +"What then shall live, or stand in that dread hour,",1.0 +"But acts like these, when panting spirits call",1.0 +For every little test to aid their plea?,0.0 +"May yours resound, supported in the blast",2.0 +"By grateful Infants, and by ripened Man,",1.0 +"To whom you gave perfection. Angels smile,",0.0 +And songs of glory shake the vault of Heaven.,0.0 +"Not to the vain I lift my poor appeal,",0.0 +"Who never yet have dared to own a soul,",0.0 +Or name a Deity with heart-felt joy;,2.0 +"It's to the mind who feels like generous R' -- ,",3.0 +"Whose heart can mourn, whose manly eye can melt,",0.0 +At the dread thought of human souls destroyed.,3.0 +"What pen, though dipped in horror's deepest die,",3.0 +"Assembled in a group? The florid youth,",0.0 +"Robust, impetuous, ardent in his strength,",0.0 +"Lively and bounding as the skipping roe,",3.0 +The blush of beauty blowing on his cheek;,1.0 +"Within, a strong epitome of hell;",1.0 +"There vices rage, and passions wildly roar;",0.0 +"Strong appetites, which never knew restraint,",1.0 +"Scream for indulgence, till the soul distract,",3.0 +Seizes in haste the draught of poisons mixed,2.0 +"When sin began, and ruined nature fell;",0.0 +The dire infusion stronger grows by time;,0.0 +"And still fermenting, sins on sins arise,",0.0 +"In order horrible. Thus ever lost,",2.0 +The poor benighted soul never hopes to light,3.0 +"Or long misused; ah! hapless, hapless state,",0.0 +"Where Immortality itself is sick,",1.0 +And hopes annihilation. Dreadful thought!,0.0 +Poor miserable refuge! poorer still,2.0 +"The soul who hopes to find it. OH, befriend,",0.0 +"Ere it's too late, the tender, budding mind,",3.0 +"Now choked by ignorance; cherish the spark,",5.0 +"To good if nourished, if overwhelmed must die!",2.0 +"You sacred few, who shudder at the sound",0.0 +"Of blasphemy, breathed from the tender lip",2.0 +"Of twelve or fourteen years, nursed up in sin;",3.0 +And gave as the grand stroke of fair Creation:,2.0 +"Her passions soft and gentle; pure her thought,",0.0 +Eyes formed to bend the stubborn breast of man,1.0 +To more than human softness; accents mild,0.0 +When panting in the iron grasp of woe!,0.0 +"OH, she was meant so perfect, fair, and good,",1.0 +"Blessed the fair form, and hailed the joyous hour!",3.0 +"But ah! down, down she sinks, for ever lost,",1.0 +"For ever tarnished, blasted in the bud;",0.0 +"The early falsehood points the flowing tongue,",1.0 +"The smile ost practised, deeply to deceive;",2.0 +"All, all, devoted to eternal shame:",1.0 +"Charming in sin, too oft she meets her fate,",3.0 +"So early, that the most obdurate weeps,",0.0 +And gives that pity she was formed to raise.,1.0 +"Awake, you rich, that sleep! awake to save!",0.0 +"And infants, yet unborn, in choral song,",1.0 +"Shall bless the hand which formed a social father,",0.0 +"A father on whose lip instruction hangs,",1.0 +Who snatches from the burning flame the brand!,1.0 +"The poor illiterate, chilled by freezing want,",2.0 +"Within whose walls pale Penury still sits,",3.0 +"With icy hand impressing every meal,",0.0 +Betwixt his bodily and mental wants;,1.0 +"The soul must go ' -- for hunger loudly pleads,",0.0 +"And Nature will be answered; thus his race,",1.0 +"Enveloped, groping, sink in vulgar toils;",0.0 +To eat and sleep includes the soul's best wish;,1.0 +Fill the vast space for better purpose given.,3.0 +Fain would you to their promised Canaan guide,1.0 +"These wretched wanderers, lead them to their rest,",3.0 +As nursing fathers bear the sucking babe;,0.0 +"Fain would you to the sheltering hive allure,",3.0 +And fix the swarm where endless pleasures flow.,0.0 +"Too much for one weak form; overpowered he sinks,",4.0 +"Yet glories in the flame; and fainting thus,",0.0 +Would lift a world to Heaven. Omniscient Power!,0.0 +Bring forward yet thy seventy elect!,2.0 +"Bid them to thy great mandate fix their seal,",3.0 +"And loudly sound ' -- You chosen, aid my people;",0.0 +"Guide them, I charge you, through the dreary wilds,",1.0 +"Who, mole-like, never saw, nor ever wished it;",0.0 +"OH, tell them, it's in Mercy you are given;",3.0 +"That unto you I gave extensive souls,",1.0 +"Great faculties, and ample means, to save",2.0 +"Souls I thought worth creating. Then rejoice,",3.0 +That you are thus commissioned; opened fair,0.0 +"To you the path of glory, while their souls",1.0 +"Wander in darkness, and despair to find",3.0 +Salvation without help. To you I give,4.0 +The means; then answer well your sacred charge.,0.0 +"Listless, inactive, waiting but the call",3.0 +"Of great Jehovah, listen to his voice,",1.0 +A voice never heard in vain; hark! hark! it sounds,3.0 +"The humble sigh, the infant's early tear,",0.0 +"The husband's stifled, sympathetic groan,",0.0 +"The mother's feelings, more than ever felt,",0.0 +Though born in silence and in pensive mood.,1.0 +Well felt those woes where great Religion sits,1.0 +On the poor group; ' -- be't yours to fix her there.,1.0 +"Your friendly doors, and thus disguised, oft meets",1.0 +"THUS sung the Man, for Wisdom long renowned,",1.0 +What mean these Tears and mournful Numbers round?,0.0 +"Is Death the Cause? Ah! then restrain your Tears,",0.0 +"That stubborn Monarch nor regard nor hears,",1.0 +"And the blessed Shades for whom you vainly mourn,",2.0 +"To these dim Regions would no more return,",3.0 +"Wrapped in bright Visions they no Ills endure,",4.0 +"From Sin, from Danger, and from Death secure:",1.0 +"It's past. The parting Struggles are no more,",2.0 +"They now are landed on the blissful Shore,",1.0 +"Where no pale Fears nor sullen Sorrows dwell,",1.0 +But Joys beyond what mortal Tongues can tell?,0.0 +"Where smiling Hope for ever blooms around,",0.0 +And growing Pleasures that shall know no Bound.,1.0 +When thoughtless Mortals by constraint attend,1.0 +"On the last Moments of their parting Friend,",3.0 +"The Temples watered with a fainting Dew,",1.0 +The Limbs that tremble with convulsive Pain:,1.0 +"Then stand aghast the ignorant and vain,",1.0 +Who shiver at the seeming stern Decree;,0.0 +"But look no farther than their Eyes can see,",2.0 +To Worlds of Glory and eternal Day.,1.0 +"The Pains and Sorrows which the Virtuous know,",2.0 +"Which long had bid the Tears in secret flow,",0.0 +Shall not be lost nor buried in the Ground;,0.0 +But serve to brighten their immortal Crown:,1.0 +"From that great Being they shall find their Pay,",2.0 +Who blessed the rising and the closing Day.,1.0 +"When the pure Spirit from its Prison flies,",3.0 +"Around their Guest the shining Guards attend,",0.0 +And heavenly Harps with heavenly Voices blend.,4.0 +We come to find out Virtue on the Stage;,1.0 +"By a promiscuous Choice it can't be done,",2.0 +Our nicer Fate compels to You alone.,1.0 +That Women can withstand the fatal Snare,1.0 +"In you the ancient Miracle we see,",1.0 +Though here we can boast but of One to Three,1.0 +"Unhurt amid the mighty Flames you move,",0.0 +Of all your Sex Great Albion must prefer,3.0 +"You yielding Nymphs now you have no excuse,",2.0 +For your Defence your softness is expressed,2.0 +With o such Charms! no Woman can resist.,3.0 +"Yes Woman can in this fair Maid we see,",4.0 +Contempt of all their Love and Gallantry;,1.0 +"Wit, Youth and Beauty, does this Lady bless,",1.0 +"While Crowds of Slaves lie sighing at her Feet,",1.0 +She bravely scorns what you would run to meet.,1.0 +Charming as those by whom you were undone:,2.0 +"The Soft, the Gay, the Great, the knowing Man,",0.0 +"Have tried all ways Wit, Wealth, or Passion can,",2.0 +"To gain this Fair who still her Heart secures,",0.0 +What would you give the Scene of Love were yours?,0.0 +"Her Virtue is the greater Miracle,",2.0 +To stand with that by which the Angels fell.,0.0 +"Hail, lovely Maid, who contradicts the times,",1.0 +Your Virtue wears a Vail like others Crimes:,0.0 +"How do your Eyes and Tongue bely your Heart,",0.0 +"When languishing you play the amorous part,",3.0 +"And softly fold your seeming loving Arms,",0.0 +And speak and look a thousand killing Charms?,0.0 +I'd give the World you was in earnest then;,1.0 +"Your pleased Spectators with such Joys you bless,",3.0 +They wish your Virtues or your Charms were less.,1.0 +So peevish was the Edict of the Mayor.,2.0 +"To please our Masters, and his Friends, the Crowd;",1.0 +"Why how now, Andrew! cries his Brother Droll,",2.0 +"Come on, Sir, to our worthy Friends explain,",0.0 +What does Your Emblematic Worship mean?,0.0 +Quoth Andrew; Honest English let Us speak:,1.0 +Learning Thy Talent is; but Mine is Sense.,4.0 +"That busy Fool I was, which Thou art now;",0.0 +"Desirous to correct, not knowing how;",2.0 +"With very good Design, but little Wit,",0.0 +"Blaming or praising Things, as I thought fit.",3.0 +I for this Conduct had what I deserved;,2.0 +"And dealing honestly, was almost starved.",2.0 +"But Thanks to my indulgent Stars, I Eat;",1.0 +Since I have found the Secret to be Great.,1.0 +"OH dearest Andrew, says the humble Droll,",1.0 +"Henceforth may I Obey, and Thou Control:",3.0 +Provided Thou impart Thy useful Skill.,1.0 +"Bow then, says Andrew; and, for once, I will.",3.0 +"Be of your Patron's Mind, whatever He says;",3.0 +Sleep very much; Think little; and Talk less:,4.0 +"Mind neither Good nor Bad, nor Right nor Wrong;",1.0 +"But Eat your Pudding, Slave; and Hold your Tongue.",0.0 +"A Reverend Prelate stopped his Coach and Six,",0.0 +To laugh a little at our Andrew's Tricks.,1.0 +But when He heard him give this Golden Rule;,0.0 +Drive on; He cried This Fellow is no Fool.,2.0 +"YOU told me, I remember, glory built",1.0 +"On selfish principles, is shame and guilt.",1.0 +"The deeds that men admire as half divine,",0.0 +Strange doctrine this! that without scruple tears,6.0 +"The laurel that the very lightning spares,",0.0 +"Brings down the warrior's trophy to the dust,",1.0 +And eats into his bloody sword like rust.,0.0 +"I grant, that men continuing what they are,",2.0 +And never meant the rule should be applied,0.0 +To him that fights with justice on his side.,2.0 +"Reward his memory, dear to every muse,",2.0 +"Who, with a courage of unshaken root,",1.0 +"Plants it upon the line that justice draws,",2.0 +And will prevail or perish in her cause.,1.0 +"Tis to the virtues of such men, man owes",2.0 +"His portion in the good that heaven bestows,",0.0 +And when recording history displays,1.0 +"Feats of renown, though wrought in ancient days,",2.0 +Tells of a few stout hearts that fought and died,1.0 +"The man that is not moved with what he reads,",1.0 +"That takes not fire at their heroic deeds,",2.0 +"Unworthy of the blessings of the brave,",2.0 +"Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.",0.0 +But let eternal infamy pursue,1.0 +"Who, for the sake of filling with one blast",1.0 +"The post horns of all Europe, lays her waste.",2.0 +"Think yourself stationed on a towering rock,",2.0 +"To see a people scattered like a flock,",0.0 +"Some royal mastiff panting at their heels,",0.0 +"With all the savage thirst a tiger feels,",0.0 +"Chief monster that has plagued the nations yet,",1.0 +"The globe and sceptre in such hands misplaced,",0.0 +"The glass that bids man mark the fleeting hour,",1.0 +"And death's own scythe would better speak his power,",0.0 +Then grace the boney phantom in their stead,0.0 +"Cloth the twin brothers in each other's dress,",3.0 +The same their occupation and success.,1.0 +"It's your belief the world was made for man,",1.0 +"Kings do but reason on the self same plan,",2.0 +"Maintaining your's you cannot their's condemn,",2.0 +"Who think, or seem to think, man made for them.",1.0 +"Seldom, alas! the power of logic reigns",4.0 +With much sufficiency in royal brains.,1.0 +"Such reasoning falls like an inverted cone,",3.0 +Wanting its proper base to stand upon.,2.0 +Man made for kings! those optics are but dim,2.0 +"That tell you so ' -- say rather, they for him.",3.0 +"Could they, or would they, reason as they ought.",1.0 +"The diadem with mighty projects lined,",0.0 +"To catch renown by ruining mankind,",2.0 +"Is worth, with all its gold and glittering store,",2.0 +Just what the toy will sell for and no more.,0.0 +"O! bright occasions of dispensing good,",1.0 +"How seldom used, how little understood!",0.0 +"To pour in virtue's lap her just reward,",0.0 +"Keep vice restrained behind a double guard,",1.0 +"To quell the faction that affronts the throne,",0.0 +"To nurse with tender care the thriving arts,",0.0 +Watch every beam philosophy imparts;,2.0 +"To give religion her unbridled scope,",1.0 +To keep the matrimonial bond unstained;,2.0 +His life a lesson to the land he sways;,1.0 +"To touch the sword with conscientious awe,",0.0 +"Nor draw it but when duty bids him draw,",1.0 +"With joy, beyond what victory bestows,",1.0 +"Blessed country! where these kingly glories shine,",1.0 +Blessed England! if this happiness be thine.,3.0 +"Guard what you say, the patriotic tribe",0.0 +"The worth of his three kingdoms I defy,",3.0 +And of all lies be that one poet's boast,1.0 +"Those arts be their's that hate his gentle reign,",1.0 +But he that loves him has no need to feign.,1.0 +Seems to imply a censure on the rest.,3.0 +"Quevedo, as he tells his sober tale,",1.0 +"Asked, when in hell, to see the royal jail,",0.0 +"Approved their method in all other things,",0.0 +"But where, good Sir, do you confine your kings?",1.0 +"There ' -- said his guide, the group is full in view.",0.0 +Indeed? Replied the Don ' -- there are but few.,1.0 +His black interpreter the charge disdained ' --,1.0 +"Few, fellow? There are all that ever reigned.",1.0 +"The guilty and not guilty, both alike.",1.0 +"I grant the sarcasm is too severe,",5.0 +"And we can readily refute it here,",2.0 +And the Sixth Edward's grace the historic page.,4.0 +"King's then at last have but the lot of all,",1.0 +By their own conduct they must stand or fall.,0.0 +"True. While they live, the courtly laureate pays",2.0 +"Adds, as he can, his tributary mite;",1.0 +"A subject's faults, a subject may proclaim,",1.0 +A monarch's errors are forbidden game.,2.0 +"And praised for virtues that they scorn to wear,",0.0 +The fleeting forms of majesty engage,1.0 +"Respect, while stalking over life's narrow stage,",3.0 +"Then leave their crimes for history to scan,",1.0 +"And ask with busy scorn, Was this the man?",1.0 +I pity kings whom worship waits upon,0.0 +"Obsequious, from the cradle to the throne,",2.0 +"Whom education stiffens into state,",0.0 +And death awakens from that dream too late.,2.0 +"O! is servility with supple knees,",2.0 +"Whose trade it is to smile, to crouch, to please;",1.0 +A devil's purpose with an angel's face;,1.0 +Encompassing his throne a few short years;,1.0 +"If the gilded carriage and the pampered steed,",1.0 +That wants no driving and disdains the lead;,2.0 +"If guards, mechanically formed in ranks,",2.0 +"Playing, at beat of drum, their martial pranks;",2.0 +"Shouldering and standing as if struck to stone,",2.0 +While condescending majesty looks on;,2.0 +"If monarchy consist in such base things,",2.0 +"Sighing, I say again, I pity kings!",2.0 +"To be suspected, thwarted, and withstood,",1.0 +"To see a band called patriot for no cause,",3.0 +"But that they catch at popular applause,",1.0 +"Careless of all the anxiety he feels,",3.0 +"Hook disappointment on the public wheels,",2.0 +"With all their flippant fluency of tongue,",1.0 +"Most confident, when palpably most wrong,",2.0 +"If this be kingly, then farewell for me",2.0 +"All kingship, and may I be poor and free.",2.0 +"To be the Table Talk of clubs up stairs,",0.0 +"TO indulge his genius after long fatigue,",1.0 +"For what kings deem a toil, as well they may,",1.0 +To him is relaxation and mere play,3.0 +"But to be rudely censured when they fail,",1.0 +"And in reality to find no friend,",2.0 +"If he indulge a cultivated taste,",1.0 +"His galleries with the works of art well graced,",2.0 +"To hear it called extravagance and waste,",1.0 +"If these attendants, and if such as these,",3.0 +"Must follow royalty, then welcome ease;",1.0 +"However humble and confined the sphere,",2.0 +Happy the state that has not these to fear.,2.0 +"Thus men whose thoughts contemplative have dwelled,",2.0 +"On situations that they never felt,",0.0 +"Of dreaming study and pedantic rust,",1.0 +As if the world and they were hand and glove.,2.0 +"Leave kingly backs to cope with kingly cares,",1.0 +"They have their weight to carry, subjects their's;",1.0 +"Poets, of all men, ever least regret",3.0 +Increasing taxes and the nation's debt.,1.0 +"Could you contrive the payment, and rehearse",2.0 +"No bard, however majestic, old or new,",4.0 +Should claim my fixed attention more than you.,0.0 +Not Brindley nor Bridgewater would essay,2.0 +To turn the course of Helicon that way;,0.0 +"Nor would the nine consent, the sacred tide",0.0 +"To themes more pertinent, if less sublime.",1.0 +"When ministers and ministerial arts,",3.0 +"Patriots who love good places at their hearts,",1.0 +"When Admirals extolled for standing still,",1.0 +Or doing nothing with a deal of skill;,1.0 +"Generals who will not conquer when they may,",0.0 +"Firm friends to peace, to pleasure, and good pay,",2.0 +"When freedom wounded almost to despair,",2.0 +"Though discontent alone can find out where,",1.0 +When themes like these employ the poet's tongue.,1.0 +"Or tell me if you can, what power maintains",3.0 +A Briton's scorn of arbitrary chains?,0.0 +"That were a theme might animate the dead,",0.0 +And move the lips of poets cast in lead.,0.0 +"The cause, though worth the search, may yet elude",0.0 +"Conjecture and remark, however shrewd.",2.0 +Who seek it in his climate and his frame.,1.0 +"Liberal in all things else, yet nature here",3.0 +With stern severity deals out the year.,2.0 +"Winter invades the spring, and often pours",2.0 +"A chilling flood on summer's drooping flowers,",0.0 +"The peasants urge their harvest, ply the fork",0.0 +"With double toil, and shiver at their work,",0.0 +She rears her favourite man of all mankind.,1.0 +"His form robust and of elastic tone,",1.0 +"Proportioned well, half muscle and half bone,",3.0 +Supplies with warm activity and force,1.0 +"A mind well lodged, and masculine of course.",2.0 +"Hence liberty, sweet liberty inspires,",4.0 +And keeps alive his fierce but noble fires.,0.0 +"Patient of constitutional control,",3.0 +"But if authority grow wanton, woe",3.0 +"To him that treads upon his freeborn toe,",1.0 +One step beyond the boundary of the laws,1.0 +Fires him at once in freedom's glorious cause.,2.0 +"Thus proud prerogative, not much revered,",2.0 +"Is seldom felt, though sometime seen and heard;",1.0 +"And in his cage, like parrot fine and gay,",0.0 +"Is kept to strut, look big, and talk away.",1.0 +"Born in a climate softer far than our's,",0.0 +"Not formed like us, with such Herculean powers,",4.0 +"The Frenchman, easy, debonair and brisk,",0.0 +"Give him his lass, his fiddle and his frisk,",1.0 +"Is always happy, reign whoever may,",1.0 +And laughs the sense of misery far away.,2.0 +"He drinks his simple beverage with a gust,",1.0 +"And feasting on an onion and a crust,",2.0 +We never feel the alacrity and joy,3.0 +"With which he shouts and carols, Vive loe Roy,",1.0 +As if he heard his king say ' -- Slave be free.,2.0 +"Thus happiness depends, as nature shows,",2.0 +Less on exterior things than most suppose.,4.0 +"Vigilant over all that he has made,",3.0 +"Kind Providence attends with gracious aid,",2.0 +"Bids equity throughout his works prevail,",2.0 +And weighs the nations in an even scale;,0.0 +"He can encourage slavery to a smile,",2.0 +And fill with discontent a British isle.,1.0 +"Freeman and slave then, if the case be such,",2.0 +"Stand on a level, and you prove too much.",2.0 +"If all men indiscriminately share,",2.0 +As dwell at large in Britain's chartered land.,0.0 +"No. Freedom has a thousand charms to show,",1.0 +"That slaves, however contented, never know.",3.0 +"The mind attains beneath her happy reign,",0.0 +The growth that nature meant she should attain.,0.0 +"The varied fields of science, ever new,",0.0 +"Opening and wider opening on her view,",2.0 +"She ventures onward with a prosperous force,",3.0 +While no base fear impedes her in her course.,1.0 +Stands most revealed before the freeman's eyes;,1.0 +"No shades of superstition blot the day,",1.0 +Liberty chases all that gloom away;,2.0 +"Free to prove all things and hold fast the best,",3.0 +"Learns much, and to a thousand listening minds,",1.0 +Communicates with joy the good she finds.,0.0 +"Courage in arms, and ever prompt to show",2.0 +His manly forehead to the fiercest foe;,1.0 +"Glorious in war, but for the sake of peace,",2.0 +"His spirits rising as his toils increase,",1.0 +"Guards well what arts and industry have won,",2.0 +And freedom claims him for her firstborn son.,2.0 +"Slaves fight for what were better cast away,",1.0 +"The chain that binds them, and a tyrant's sway,",3.0 +"But they that fight for freedom, undertake",1.0 +"The noblest cause mankind can have at stake,",1.0 +"Religion, virtue, truth, whatever we call",3.0 +"A blessing, freedom is the pledge of all.",1.0 +"O liberty! the prisoners pleasing dream,",1.0 +"The poet's muse, his passion and his theme,",1.0 +"Lost without thee the ennobling powers of verse,",3.0 +Heroic song from thy free touch acquires,2.0 +"Its clearest tone, the rapture it inspires;",1.0 +"Place me where winter breathes his keenest air,",0.0 +And I will sing if liberty be there;,2.0 +"Sing where you please, in such a cause I grant",1.0 +"An English Poet's privilege to rant,",1.0 +"But is not freedom, at least is not our's",3.0 +"Too apt to play the wanton with her powers,",2.0 +Spread anarchy and terror all around?,2.0 +Agreed. But would you sell or slay your horse,0.0 +"Or if, when ridden with a careless rein,",2.0 +"He break away, and seek the distant plain?",0.0 +"No. His high mettle under good control,",3.0 +"Gives him Olympic speed, and shoots him to the goal.",3.0 +"Let discipline employ her wholesome arts,",2.0 +"Let magistrates alert perform their parts,",1.0 +"Not skulk or put on a prudential mask,",1.0 +As if their duty were a desperate task;,2.0 +Let active laws apply the needful kerb,1.0 +"To guard the peace that riot would disturb,",0.0 +"And liberty preserved from wild excess,",1.0 +Shall raise no feuds for armies to suppress.,2.0 +"When tumult lately burst his prison door,",0.0 +"And set Plebeian thousands in a roar,",0.0 +"And dared to look his master in the face,",0.0 +"And blazing London seemed a second Troy,",0.0 +"Liberty blushed and hung her drooping head,",2.0 +"Beheld their progress with the deepest dread,",2.0 +"Blushed that effects like these she should produce,",0.0 +"She loses in such storms her very name,",0.0 +"Incomparable gem! thy worth untold,",1.0 +"Betray thee, while professing to defend;",1.0 +You patriots guard it with a miser's care.,4.0 +"Patriots, alas! the few that have been found",1.0 +"Where most they flourish, upon English ground,",5.0 +"And the last left the scene, when Chatham died.",2.0 +"Not so ' -- the virtue still adorns our age,",0.0 +Though the chief actor died upon the stage.,2.0 +Liberty taught him her Athenian strain;,5.0 +"She clothed him with authority and awe,",2.0 +"Spoke from his lips, and in his looks, gave law.",1.0 +"His speech, his form, his action, full of grace,",0.0 +"And all his country beaming in his face,",0.0 +"He stood, as some inimitable hand",1.0 +Would strive to make a Paul or Tully stand.,0.0 +"Her sacred cause, but trembled when he rose,",0.0 +"And every venal stickler for the yoke,",1.0 +Felt himself crushed at the first word he spoke.,4.0 +"Such men are raised to station and command,",1.0 +When providence means mercy to a land.,3.0 +"He speaks, and they appear; to him they owe",2.0 +"Skill to direct, and strength to strike the blow,",2.0 +"To manage with address, to seize with power",1.0 +The crisis of a dark decisive hour.,1.0 +"So Gideon earned a victory not his own,",2.0 +"Poor England! thou art a devoted deer,",3.0 +Beset with every ill but that of fear.,0.0 +"The nations hunt; all mark thee for a prey,",1.0 +"Undaunted still, though wearied and perplexed,",1.0 +"Once Chatham saved thee, but who saves thee next?",2.0 +Alas! the tide of pleasure sweeps along,0.0 +All that should be the boast of British song.,0.0 +"Our ancestry, a gallant christian race,",1.0 +"Patterns of every virtue, every grace,",2.0 +And praised him in the victories he wrought.,1.0 +Now from the dust of ancient days bring forth,1.0 +"Their sober zeal, integrity and worth,",1.0 +Is but the fire without the sacrifice.,1.0 +The stream that feeds the wellspring of the heart,2.0 +"Than virtue quickens with a warmth divine,",1.0 +The powers that sin has brought to a decline.,3.0 +"But measures planned and executed well,",0.0 +"Shifted the wind that raised it, and it fell.",3.0 +And victory refuted all he said.,1.0 +"And yet his judgement was not framed amiss,",1.0 +"Its error, if it erred, was merely this ' --",2.0 +"He thought the dying hour already come,",0.0 +And a complete recovery struck him dumb.,1.0 +"Will be despised and trampled on at last,",1.0 +"Is truth, if history itself be true.",1.0 +"There is a time, and justice marks the date,",1.0 +"That hour elapsed, incurable revolt",1.0 +"Is punished, and down comes the thunderbolt.",1.0 +"If mercy then put by the threatening blow,",2.0 +Must she perform the same kind office now?,2.0 +"May she, and if offended heaven be still",2.0 +"Accessible and prayer prevail, she will.",1.0 +"It's not however insolence and noise,",2.0 +"Will win her visits, or engage her stay,",1.0 +"Can call her smiling down, and fix her here.",1.0 +"But when a country, one that I could name",2.0 +"In prostitution sinks the sense of shame,",0.0 +"When infamous venality grown bold,",3.0 +"Writes on his bosom, to be let or sold;",1.0 +"When perjury, that heaven defying vice,",1.0 +"Sells oaths by tale, and at the lowest price,",1.0 +"Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made,",1.0 +To turn a penny in the way of trade;,0.0 +"When avarice starves, and never hides his face,",2.0 +"Two or three millions of the human race,",4.0 +When profanation of the sacred cause,1.0 +"In all its parts, times, ministry and laws,",2.0 +"Bespeaks a land once christian, fallen and lost",3.0 +"In all that wars against that title most,",0.0 +"What follows next let cities of great name,",3.0 +"And regions long since desolate proclaim,",0.0 +"Nineveh, Babylon, and ancient Rome,",2.0 +"Speak to the present times and times to come,",0.0 +"They cry aloud in every careless ear,",0.0 +"Stop, while you may, suspend your mad career;",1.0 +"OH learn from our example and our fate,",3.0 +Learn wisdom and repentance ever too late.,3.0 +Not only vice disposes and prepares,1.0 +"And bend her polished neck beneath his hand,",0.0 +"A dire effect, by one of nature's laws",1.0 +But providence himself will intervene,1.0 +To throw his dark displeasure over the scene.,2.0 +"All are his instruments; each form of war,",1.0 +"What burns at home, or threatens from afar,",1.0 +"Nature in arms, her elements at strife,",3.0 +"Are but his rods to scourge a guilty land,",1.0 +And waste it at the bidding of his hand.,1.0 +"He gives the word, and mutiny soon roars",2.0 +"In all her gates, and shakes her distant shores,",0.0 +"The standards of all nations are unfurled,",2.0 +"She has one foe, and that one foe, the world.",0.0 +"And if he doom that people with a frown,",2.0 +"And mark them with the seal of wrath, pressed down,",3.0 +"Earth shakes beneath them, and heaven roars above,",1.0 +But nothing scares them from the course they love;,1.0 +To the lascivious pipe and wanton song,3.0 +"That charm down fear, they frolic it along,",1.0 +"With mad rapidity and unconcern,",1.0 +Down to the gulf from which is no return.,1.0 +"They trust in navies, and their navies fail,",1.0 +God's curse can cast away ten thousand sail;,2.0 +"They trust in armies, and their courage dies,",1.0 +"In wisdom, wealth, in fortune, and in lies;",1.0 +"But all they trust in, withers, as it must,",1.0 +"When he commands, in whom they place no trust.",2.0 +"Vengeance at last pours down upon their coast,",3.0 +"A long despised, but now victorious host,",2.0 +Tyranny sends the chain that must abridge,2.0 +"The noble sweep of all their privilege,",0.0 +"Gives liberty the last, the mortal shock,",2.0 +"Slips the slave's collar on, and snaps the lock.",4.0 +"Such lofty strains embellish what you teach,",0.0 +"Mean you to prophecy, or but to preach?",2.0 +I know the mind that feels indeed the fire,0.0 +"The muse imparts, and can command the lyre,",1.0 +"Whatever the theme, that others never feel.",3.0 +"If human woes her soft attention claim,",0.0 +"A tender sympathy pervades the frame,",1.0 +She pours a sensibility divine,1.0 +Along the nerve of every feeling line.,0.0 +"Fire indignation and a sense of scorn,",1.0 +"The strings are swept with such a power, so loud,",3.0 +The storm of music shakes the astonished crowd.,2.0 +"Before the keen enquiry of her thought,",1.0 +"The poet's heart, he looks to distant storms,",0.0 +"He hears the thunder ever the tempest lowers,",2.0 +"And armed with strength surpassing human powers,",0.0 +"Seizes events as yet unknown to man,",2.0 +And darts his soul into the dawning plan.,0.0 +"Hence, in a Roman mouth, the graceful name",0.0 +"Of prophet and of poet was the same,",2.0 +"Hence British poets too the priesthood shared,",1.0 +And every hallowed druid was a bard.,1.0 +"But no prophetic fires to me belong,",1.0 +"I play with syllables, and sport in song.",1.0 +"At Westminster, where little poets strive",3.0 +"Where discipline helps opening buds of sense,",4.0 +I was a poet too ' -- but modern taste,1.0 +"Is so refined and delicate and chaste,",2.0 +"That verse, whatever fire the fancy warms,",1.0 +Without a creamy smoothness has no charms.,1.0 +"Thus, all success depending on an ear,",2.0 +"And thinking I might purchase it too dear,",3.0 +"If sentiment were sacrificed to sound,",1.0 +"And truth cut short to make a period round,",2.0 +"I judged a man of sense could scarce do worse,",0.0 +"Thus reputation is a spur to wit,",2.0 +And some wits flag through fear of losing it.,2.0 +"Give me the line, that ploughs its stately course",0.0 +"Like a proud swan, conquering the stream by force.",2.0 +"That like some cottage beauty strikes the heart,",0.0 +"When labour and when dullness, club in hand,",1.0 +"Beating alternately, in measured time,",3.0 +"Exact and regular the sounds will be,",1.0 +"From him who rears a poem lank and long,",1.0 +"To him who strains his all into a song,",1.0 +"Perhaps some bonny Caledonian air,",2.0 +"Feels himself spent, and fumbles for his brains;",4.0 +"An art contrived to advertise a joke,",0.0 +"So that the jest is clearly to be seen,",1.0 +"Not in the words ' -- but in the gap between,",0.0 +"Manner is all in all, whatever is writ,",4.0 +"The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.",0.0 +"To dally much with subjects mean and low,",0.0 +"Proves that the mind is weak, or makes it so.",0.0 +"Neglected talents rust into decay,",0.0 +"The man that means success, should soar above",0.0 +"Else summoning the muse to such a theme,",3.0 +"As if an eagle flew aloft, and then ' --",1.0 +Stooped from his highest pitch to pounce a wren.,0.0 +Should carve himself a wife in gingerbread.,0.0 +"Ages elapsed ever Homer's lamp appeared,",5.0 +"To carry nature lengths unknown before,",0.0 +"To give a Milton birth, asked ages more.",1.0 +"Thus genius rose and set at ordered times,",1.0 +"Ennobling every region that he chose,",0.0 +"He sunk in Greece, in Italy he rose,",1.0 +"And tedious years of Gothic darkness passed,",1.0 +Then show far off their shining plumes again.,1.0 +Is genius only found in epic lays?,0.0 +"Make their heroic powers your own at once,",3.0 +"These were the chief, each interval of night",2.0 +Was graced with many an undulating light;,2.0 +"A meteor or a star, in these, the sun.",2.0 +While the poor grasshopper must chirp below.,3.0 +"Like him unnoticed, I, and such as I,",3.0 +"Spread little wings, and rather skip than fly,",1.0 +"An ell or two of prospect we command,",1.0 +But never peep beyond the thorny bound,0.0 +In Eden ever yet innocence of heart,3.0 +"Had faded, poetry was not an art;",1.0 +"Language above all teaching, or if taught,",3.0 +"Only by gratitude and glowing thought,",2.0 +"Elegant as simplicity, and warm",4.0 +"Not prompted as in our degenerate days,",3.0 +"By low ambition and the thirst of praise,",1.0 +"Was natural as is the flowing stream,",1.0 +"And yet magnificent, a God the theme.",1.0 +"That theme on earth exhausted, though above",1.0 +"It's found as everlasting as his love,",1.0 +"Man lavished all his thoughts on human things,",1.0 +"The feats of heroes and the wrath of kings,",1.0 +"But still while virtue kindled his delight,",1.0 +"The song was moral, and so far was right.",1.0 +"'Twas thus till luxury seduced the mind,",2.0 +"To joys less innocent, as less refined,",2.0 +"Then genius danced a bacchanal, he crowned",1.0 +"His brows with ivy, rushed into the field",0.0 +"Of wild imagination, and there reeled",1.0 +"The victim of his own lascivious fires,",3.0 +"This Bedlam part; and, others nearer home.",0.0 +"When Cromwell fought for power, and while he reigned",1.0 +"The proud protector of the power he gained,",3.0 +"Religion harsh, intolerant, austere,",1.0 +"Parent of manners like herself severe,",2.0 +Drew a rough copy of the Christian face,4.0 +"Without the smile, the sweetness, or the grace;",1.0 +Judged every effort of the muse a crime;,2.0 +"Verse in the finest mould of fancy cast,",0.0 +Was lumber in an age so void of taste:,0.0 +"But when the second Charles assumed the sway,",0.0 +"And arts revived beneath a softer day,",0.0 +"Then like a bow long forced into a curve,",1.0 +"The mind released from too constrained a nerve,",0.0 +Flew to its first position with a spring,1.0 +That made the vaulted roofs of pleasure ring.,0.0 +Swarmed with a scribbling herd as deep inlaid,1.0 +"From these a long succession, in the rage",1.0 +"Nor ceased, till ever anxious to redress",1.0 +"The abuses of her sacred charge, the press,",2.0 +The muse instructed a well nurtured train,2.0 +"And claim the palm for purity of song,",1.0 +Then decent pleasantry and sterling sense,1.0 +In front of these came Addison. In him,3.0 +"To polish, furnish, and delight the mind.",1.0 +"Then Pope, as harmony itself exact,",1.0 +"In verse well disciplined, complete, compact,",2.0 +Gave virtue and morality a grace,3.0 +"That quite eclipsing pleasure's painted face,",3.0 +"Levied a tax of wonder and applause,",3.0 +Even on the fools that trampled on their laws.,2.0 +"But he his musical finesse was such,",2.0 +"So nice his ear, so delicate his touch",1.0 +"Made poetry a mere mechanic art,",2.0 +And every warbler has his tune by heart.,0.0 +"Her serious mirth, to Arbuthnot and Swift,",5.0 +With droll sobriety they raised a smile,1.0 +"That constellation set, the world in vain",0.0 +Must hope to look upon their like again.,0.0 +"Wit now and then, struck smartly, shows a spark,",2.0 +Sufficient to redeem the modern race,1.0 +From total night and absolute disgrace.,0.0 +While servile trick and imitative knack,0.0 +"Confine the million in the beaten track,",0.0 +"Perhaps some courser who disdains the road,",0.0 +Snuffs up the wind and flings himself abroad.,0.0 +"Contemporaries all surpassed, see one,",2.0 +"Short his career, indeed, but ably run.",2.0 +"Churchill, himself unconscious of his powers,",4.0 +"In penury consumed his idle hours,",1.0 +"And like a scattered seed at random sown,",0.0 +"Lifted at length by dignity of thought,",3.0 +"And dint of genius to an affluent lot,",3.0 +And took too often there his easy nap.,2.0 +"If brighter beams than all he threw not forth,",0.0 +"'Twas negligence in him, not want of worth.",3.0 +"Surly and slovenly and bold and coarse,",3.0 +"Too proud for art, and trusting in mere force,",2.0 +"Spendthrift alike of money and of wit,",2.0 +"Always at speed and never drawing bit,",1.0 +"He struck the lyre in such a careless mood,",1.0 +"And so disdained the rules he understood,",1.0 +"The laurel seemed to wait on his command,",1.0 +He snatched it rudely from the muses hand.,1.0 +"Forms, opens and gives scent to every flower,",3.0 +She fills profuse ten thousand little throats,1.0 +"And charms the woodland scenes and wilds unknown,",0.0 +But seldom as if fearful of expense,2.0 +"Harmony, strength, words exquisitely sought,",5.0 +"Fancy that from the bow that spans the sky,",0.0 +"Brings colours dipped in heaven that never die,",1.0 +"A soul exalted above earth, a mind",5.0 +"Skilled in the characters that form mankind,",2.0 +"And as the sun in rising beauty dressed,",1.0 +"And marks, whatever clouds may interpose,",1.0 +"Ever yet his race begins, its glorious close,",2.0 +"An eye like his to catch the distant goal,",1.0 +"Or ever the wheels of verse begin to roll,",2.0 +Like his to shed illuminating rays,0.0 +"On every scene and subject it surveys,",1.0 +"Thus graced the man asserts a poet's name,",1.0 +And the world cheerfully admits the claim.,3.0 +Pity! Religion has so seldom found,2.0 +"The flowers would spring wherever she deigned to stray,",2.0 +And every muse attend her in her way.,0.0 +"Virtue indeed meets many a rhyming friend,",5.0 +"And many a compliment politely penned,",3.0 +"Religion weaves for her, and half undressed,",1.0 +"Stands in the desert shivering and forlorn,",3.0 +"The shelves are full, all other themes are sped,",0.0 +"Hackneyed and worn to the last flimsy thread,",4.0 +"And loathsome ribaldry has done his worst,",1.0 +Fancy has sported all her powers away,4.0 +"In tales, in trifles, and in children's play,",1.0 +"And it's the sad complaint, and almost true,",2.0 +"Whatever we write, we bring forth nothing new.",4.0 +"Touched with a coal from heaven assume the lyre,",0.0 +"And tell the world, still kindling as he sung,",2.0 +"With more than mortal music on his tongue,",1.0 +"That he who died below, and reigns above",0.0 +"Inspires the song, and that his name is love.",0.0 +"For after all, if merely to beguile",1.0 +"By flowing numbers and a flowery style,",3.0 +"Which now and then sweet poetry may cure,",2.0 +Or if to see the name of idol self,1.0 +"To float a bubble on the breath of fame,",1.0 +"Prompt his endeavour, and engage his aim,",3.0 +"Debased to servile purposes of pride,",1.0 +How are the powers of genius misapplied?,3.0 +"The gift whose office is the giver's praise,",2.0 +"To trace him in his word, his works, his ways,",0.0 +"Mankind to share in the divine delight,",2.0 +"Distorted from its use and just design,",1.0 +"To make the pitiful possessor shine,",1.0 +Proof of a trifling and a worthless mind.,1.0 +"If flattery, folly, lust employ the pen,",2.0 +"If acrimony, slander and abuse,",1.0 +"With all that fancy can invent to please,",1.0 +"Adorn the polished periods as they fall,",1.0 +One Madrigal of their's is worth them all.,2.0 +To dash the pen through all that you proscribe.,1.0 +"No matter ' -- we could shift when they were not,",3.0 +And should no doubt if they were all forgot.,2.0 +With those hoarse sounds the rushing waters pour.,2.0 +"Like thee, congenial bird! my steps explore",1.0 +"The bleak lone sea-beach, or the rocky dale, ' --",3.0 +"And shun the orange bower, the myrtle vale,",2.0 +"I love the ocean's broad expanse, when dressed",0.0 +When the smooth currents on its placid breast,3.0 +"Flow calm, as my past moments used to flow;",7.0 +"Or when its troubled waves refuse to rest,",0.0 +And seem the symbol of my present woe.,1.0 +"Survey mankind, from China to Peru;",2.0 +"Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife,",0.0 +And watch the busy scenes of crowded life;,0.0 +"Then say how hope and fear, desire and hate,",0.0 +To tread the dreary paths without a guide;,0.0 +"As treacherous phantoms in the missed delude,",2.0 +"Shuns fancied ills, or chases airy good.",1.0 +"How rarely reason guides the stubborn choice,",0.0 +"How nations sink, by darling schemes oppressed,",0.0 +When vengeance listens to the fool's request.,1.0 +"Each gift of nature, and each grace of art,",1.0 +"With fatal heat impetuous courage glows,",0.0 +"With fatal sweetness elocution flows,",0.0 +"Impeachment stops the speaker's powerful breath,",2.0 +Fall in the general massacre of gold;,1.0 +And crowds with crimes the records of mankind;,2.0 +"Wealth heaped on wealth, nor truth nor safety buys,",1.0 +The dangers gather as the treasures rise.,1.0 +"Let history tell where rival kings command,",1.0 +"When statues glean the refuse of the sword,",3.0 +"How much more safe the vassal than the lord,",1.0 +"Low skulks the hind beneath the rage of power,",1.0 +"And leaves the wealthy traitor in the Tower,",0.0 +Though confiscation vultures hover round.,0.0 +"The needy traveller, serene and gay,",1.0 +"Walks the wild heath, and sings his toil away.",3.0 +"Increase his riches and his peace destroy,",1.0 +"New fears in dire vicissitude invade,",6.0 +"The rustling brake alarms, and quivering shade,",2.0 +"Nor light nor darkness bring his pain relief,",0.0 +"One shows the plunder, and one hides the thief.",1.0 +And gain and grandeur load the tainted gales;,5.0 +The insidious rival and the gaping heir.,4.0 +"With cheerful wisdom and instructive mirth,",1.0 +And feed with varied fools the eternal jest:,2.0 +"Toil crushed conceit, and man was of a piece;",2.0 +Where wealth unloved without a mourner died;,0.0 +"Where never was known the form of mock debate,",2.0 +"Dart the quick taunt, and edge the piercing gibe?",3.0 +"Attentive truth and nature to decry,",1.0 +And pierce each scene with philosophic eye.,0.0 +"To thee were solemn toys or empty show,",1.0 +The robes of pleasure and the veils of woe:,1.0 +"All aid the farce, and all thy mirth maintain,",0.0 +"Such was the scorn that filled the sage's mind,",1.0 +Renewed at every glance on humankind;,0.0 +"How just that scorn ere yet thy voice declare,",1.0 +"They mount, they shine, evaporate, and fall.",0.0 +"On every stage the foes of peace attend,",0.0 +"Hate dogs their flight, and insult mocks their end.",2.0 +"For growing names the weekly scribbler lies,",0.0 +"From every room descends the painted face,",0.0 +"That hung the bright Palladium of the place,",1.0 +"And smoked in kitchens, or in auctions sold,",1.0 +To better features yields the frame of gold;,0.0 +For now no more we trace in every line,1.0 +"Heroic worth, benevolence divine:",1.0 +"The form distorted justifies the fall,",0.0 +"But will not Britain hear the last appeal,",1.0 +Degrading nobles and controlling kings;,1.0 +"Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats,",2.0 +And ask no questions but the price of votes;,2.0 +Their wish is full to riot and to rail.,1.0 +"Law in his voice, and fortune in his hand:",0.0 +"To him the church, the realm, their powers consign,",3.0 +"Through him the rays of regal bounty shine,",1.0 +"Still to new heights his restless wishes tower,",3.0 +"Claim leads to claim, and power advances power;",3.0 +"And rights submitted, left him none to seize.",0.0 +At length his sovereign frowns ' -- the train of state,0.0 +"Mark the keen glance, and watch the sign to hate.",3.0 +"Wherever he turns he meets a stranger's eye,",2.0 +"At once is lost the pride of awful state,",0.0 +"The golden canopy, the glittering plate,",3.0 +"The regal palace, the luxurious board,",3.0 +"The liveried army, and the menial lord.",3.0 +"With age, with cares, with maladies oppressed,",1.0 +He seeks the refuge of monastic rest.,1.0 +"Grief aids disease, remembered folly stings,",1.0 +And his last sighs reproach the faith of kings.,2.0 +The wisest justice on the banks of Trent?,1.0 +On weak foundations raise the enormous weight?,2.0 +"Why but to sink beneath Misfortune's blow,",1.0 +With louder ruin to the gulfs below?,1.0 +"What murdered Wentworth, and what exiled Hyde,",3.0 +"By kings protected, and to kings allied?",1.0 +"What but their wish indulged in courts to shine,",0.0 +"And power too great to keep, or to resign?",4.0 +The young enthusiast quits his ease for fame;,3.0 +Through all his veins the fever of renown,1.0 +Spreads from the strong contagion of the gown;,1.0 +"Are these thy views? proceed illustrious youth,",3.0 +And virtue guard thee to the throne of Truth!,1.0 +"Yet should thy soul indulge the generous heat,",2.0 +Till captive Science yields her last retreat;,0.0 +"Should Reason guide thee with her brightest ray,",1.0 +"Should no false Kindness lure to loose delight,",1.0 +"Nor Praise relax, nor Difficulty fright;",0.0 +"Should tempting Novelty thy cell refrain,",1.0 +Nor claim the triumph of a lettered heart;,1.0 +"Should no Disease thy torpid veins invade,",0.0 +"Yet hope not life from grief or danger free,",0.0 +Nor think the doom of man reversed for thee:,0.0 +"Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes,",0.0 +"And pause awhile from letters, to be wise;",1.0 +"There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,",0.0 +"Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.",2.0 +To buried merit raise the tardy bust.,0.0 +"If dreams yet flatter, once again attend,",0.0 +The glittering eminence exempt from woes;,3.0 +"See when the vulgar escape, despised or awed,",2.0 +Rebellion's vengeful talons seize on Laud.,0.0 +"From meaner minds, though smaller fines content",0.0 +The plundered palace or sequestered rent;,1.0 +"Marked out by dangerous parts he meets the shock,",2.0 +And fatal Learning leads him to the block:,1.0 +"Around his tomb let Art and Genius weep,",1.0 +"But hear his death, you blockheads, hear and sleep.",0.0 +"Such bribes the rapid Greek over Asia whirled,",3.0 +For such the steady Romans shook the world;,1.0 +"For such in distant lands the Britons shine,",1.0 +And stain with blood the Danube or the Rhine;,1.0 +"This power has praise, that virtue scarce can warm,",2.0 +Till fame supplies the universal charm.,0.0 +"Yet Reason frowns on War's unequal game,",0.0 +"Where wasted nations raise a single name,",0.0 +From age to age in everlasting debt;,0.0 +"To rust on medals, or on stones decay.",1.0 +How just his hopes let Swedish Charles decide;,1.0 +"A frame of adamant, a soul of fire,",1.0 +"Over love, over fear extends his wide domain,",3.0 +"War sounds the trump, he rushes to the field;",2.0 +"Behold surrounding kings their power combine,",0.0 +"And one capitulate, and one resign;",3.0 +"Peace courts his hand, but spreads her charms in vain;",1.0 +And all be mine beneath the polar sky.,1.0 +"The march begins in military state,",0.0 +And nations on his eye suspended wait;,1.0 +"Stern Famine guards the solitary coast,",1.0 +And Winter barricades the realm of Frost;,0.0 +"He comes, not want and cold his course delay; ' --",0.0 +"The vanquished hero leaves his broken bands,",0.0 +And shows his miseries in distant lands;,1.0 +"Condemned a needy supplicant to wait,",1.0 +"While ladies interpose, and slaves debate.",0.0 +But did not Chance at length her error mend?,0.0 +Did no subverted empire mark his end?,0.0 +Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound?,1.0 +Or hostile millions press him to the ground?,1.0 +"His fall was destined to a barren strand,",1.0 +"A petty fortress, and a dubious hand;",3.0 +"He left the name, at which the world grew pale,",1.0 +"To point a moral, or adorn a tale.",1.0 +"In gay hostility, and barbarous pride,",3.0 +"With half mankind embattled at his side,",1.0 +"Great Xerxes comes to seize the certain prey,",1.0 +And starves exhausted regions in his way;,0.0 +"Fresh praise is tried till madness fires his mind,",1.0 +"New powers are claimed, new powers are still bestowed,",6.0 +"The daring Greeks deride the martial show,",0.0 +And heap their valleys with the gaudy foe;,1.0 +"The insulted sea with humbler thoughts he gains,",1.0 +A single skiff to speed his flight remains;,0.0 +The encumbered oar scarce leaves the dreaded coast,2.0 +Through purple billows and a floating host.,1.0 +"The bold Bavarian, in a luckless hour,",1.0 +"With unexpected legions bursts away,",0.0 +"Short sway! fair Austria spreads her mournful charms,",4.0 +"The queen, the beauty, sets the world in arms;",0.0 +From hill to hill the beacons rousing blaze,0.0 +Spreads wide the hope of plunder and of praise;,2.0 +"The fierce Croatian, and the wild Hussar,",4.0 +And all the sons of ravage crowd the war;,0.0 +"Of hasty greatness finds the fatal doom,",0.0 +"His foes derision, and his subjects blame,",1.0 +And steals to death from anguish and from shame.,1.0 +"Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know,",2.0 +That life protracted is protracted woe.,1.0 +"Time hovers over, impatient to destroy,",4.0 +And shuts up all the passages of joy:,1.0 +"The fruit autumnal, and the vernal flower,",1.0 +"He views, and wonders that they please no more;",1.0 +And Luxury with sighs her slave resigns.,1.0 +"Approach, you minstrels, try the soothing strain,",0.0 +"No sounds alas would touch the impervious ear,",5.0 +"Though dancing mountains witness Orpheus near,",1.0 +"Nor lute nor lyre his feeble powers attend,",2.0 +"Nor sweeter music of a virtuous friend,",3.0 +"But everlasting dictates crowd his tongue,",1.0 +Perversely grave or positively wrong.,1.0 +"The still returning tale, and lingering jest,",0.0 +"Perplex the fawning niece and pampered guest,",0.0 +"While growing hopes scarce awe the gathering sneer,",3.0 +And scarce a legacy can bribe to hear;,1.0 +"The daughter's petulance, the son's expense,",1.0 +"Improve his heady rage with treacherous skill,",2.0 +And mould his passions till they make his will.,1.0 +"Lay siege to life and press the dire blockade,",2.0 +And dreaded losses aggravate his pains;,0.0 +"He turns, with anxious heart and crippled hands,",0.0 +"His bonds of debt, and mortgages of lands;",1.0 +"Or views his coffers with suspicious eyes,",1.0 +"But grant, the virtues of a temperate prime",1.0 +Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime;,0.0 +And glides in modest innocence away;,1.0 +Whose night congratulating Conscience cheers;,0.0 +"The general favourite, as the general friend;",1.0 +"Such age there is, and who could wish its end?",1.0 +"Yet even on this her load Misfortune flings,",1.0 +To press the weary minutes flagging wings:,0.0 +"New sorrow rises as the day returns,",2.0 +"Now kindred Merit fills the sable bier,",1.0 +"Year chases year, decay pursues decay,",1.0 +Still drops some joy from withering life away;,3.0 +"New forms arise, and different views engage,",1.0 +"Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage,",3.0 +"Till pitying Nature signs the last release,",2.0 +And bids afflicted worth retire to peace.,0.0 +"But few there are whom hours like these await,",3.0 +"By Solon cautioned to regard his end,",1.0 +"In life's last scene what prodigies surprise,",2.0 +"Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise?",1.0 +Begs for each birth the fortune of a face:,1.0 +Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring;,0.0 +"You nymphs of rosy lips and radiant eyes,",0.0 +"Whom Pleasure keeps too busy to be wise,",2.0 +"Whom Joys with soft varieties invite,",1.0 +"By day the frolic, and the dance by night,",1.0 +"Who frown with vanity, who smile with art,",1.0 +"And ask the latest fashion of the heart,",1.0 +"Each nymph your rival, and each youth your slave?",1.0 +"Against your fame with fondness hate combines,",0.0 +"The rival batters, and the lover mines.",1.0 +"With distant voice neglected Virtue calls,",0.0 +And Pride and Prudence take her seat in vain.,0.0 +"In crowd at once, where none the pass defend,",0.0 +"The harmless Freedom, and the private Friend.",1.0 +"The guardians yield, by force superior plied;",4.0 +"By Interest, Prudence; and by Flattery, Pride.",3.0 +"Now beauty falls betrayed, despised, distressed,",1.0 +And hissing Infamy proclaims the rest.,1.0 +Must dull Suspense corrupt the stagnant mind?,0.0 +"Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate,",1.0 +"Must no dislike alarm, no wishes rise,",1.0 +No cries attempt the mercies of the skies?,2.0 +"Enquirer, cease, petitions yet remain,",0.0 +"Which heaven may hear, nor deem religion vain.",0.0 +But leave to heaven the measure and the choice.,1.0 +"Safe in his power, whose eyes discern afar",2.0 +The secret ambush of a specious prayer.,2.0 +"Implore his aid, in his decisions rest,",1.0 +"Secure whatever he gives, he gives the best.",3.0 +"Yet when the sense of sacred presence fires,",0.0 +"And strong devotion to the skies aspires,",1.0 +"Obedient passions, and a will resigned;",4.0 +"For love, which scarce collective man can fill;",0.0 +"For faith that panting for a happier seat,",3.0 +Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat:,3.0 +"These goods for man the laws of heaven ordain,",0.0 +"These goods he grants, who grants the power to gain;",2.0 +"With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind,",1.0 +And makes the happiness she does not find.,1.0 +"TO thee, dear rover, and thy vanquished friends,",3.0 +"The health she wants, thy gentle Chloe sends;",0.0 +"Though much you suffer, think I suffer more,",0.0 +Worse than an exile on my native shore.,2.0 +"Companions in your master's flight you roam,",0.0 +"Forever near the royal out-law's side,",2.0 +"You share his fortunes, and his hopes divide;",1.0 +"On glorious schemes, and thoughts of empire dwell,",2.0 +And with imaginary titles swell.,1.0 +"The passive doctrine, and the right divine",1.0 +The strength of armies? or the force of prayer?,1.0 +Does he from heaven or earth his hopes derive?,0.0 +From saints departed? or from priests alive?,1.0 +And beads drop useless through the zealot's hand;,2.0 +"Heaven to our vows may future kingdoms owe,",0.0 +But skill and courage win the crowns below.,0.0 +"Ere to thy cause, and thee, my heart inclined,",1.0 +"Or love to party had seduced my mind,",0.0 +"In female joys I took a dull delight,",1.0 +"But now, with fears and public cares possessed,",0.0 +"The church, the church, forever breaks my rest.",0.0 +"And sift the news of every foreign shore,",0.0 +"Studious to find new friends, and new allies;",2.0 +What armies march from Sweden in disguise;,0.0 +"How Spain prepares her banners to unfold,",1.0 +"And Rome deals out her blessings, and her gold:",3.0 +"Then over the map my finger taught to stray,",2.0 +Cross many a region marks the winding way;,3.0 +"From sea to sea, from realm to realm I rove,",0.0 +And grow a mere geographer by love.,1.0 +"But still Avignon, and the pleasing coast",2.0 +"That holds Thee banished, claims my care the most;",0.0 +And span the distance that between us lies.,0.0 +"Let not our James, though foiled in arms, despair,",0.0 +While on his side he reckons half the fair:,0.0 +In Britain's lovely isle a shining throng,0.0 +"War in his cause, a thousand beauties strong.",0.0 +The unthinking victors vainly boast their powers;,1.0 +"Be theirs the musket, while the tongue is ours.",0.0 +"We reason with such fluency and fire,",2.0 +And from our judges vindicate the laws.,2.0 +"Then mourn not, hapless prince, thy kingdoms lost,",0.0 +"A crown, though late, thy sacred brow may boast;",0.0 +"Heaven seems through us thy empire to decree,",2.0 +"Those who win hearts, have given their hearts to thee.",3.0 +"Hast thou not heard that, when profusely gay,",0.0 +"In loathsome wormwood, and repenting rue?",2.0 +"What whig but trembled, when our spotless band",0.0 +"Who can forget what fears the foe possessed,",1.0 +"When cross the plain he spied a marching wood,",0.0 +"Till near at hand, a gleam of swords betrayed",0.0 +The youth of Kent beneath its wandering shade.,2.0 +May find that we have nails as well as eyes.,1.0 +"The female bands, OH prince by Fortune crossed,",2.0 +At least more courage than thy men may boast;,1.0 +"With all their poles the guardians of the night,",1.0 +"And born, with screams of triumph, to their side",1.0 +The leader's staff in all its painted pride.,0.0 +Nor fears the hawker in her warbling note,0.0 +"Though red with stripes, and recent from the thong,",1.0 +"Sore smitten for the love of sacred song,",2.0 +"The tuneful sisters still pursue their trade,",0.0 +"Poor Trott attends, forgetful of a fare,",2.0 +And hums in concert over his empty chair.,2.0 +"Mean while, regardless of the royal cause,",2.0 +His sword for James no brother sovereign draws.,1.0 +"The Pope himself surrounded with alarms,",1.0 +"And though he hears his darling son's complaint,",1.0 +And into ready money coins his gods.,0.0 +Scarce keeps his own hereditary snows;,1.0 +"The pheasant now may perch, the hare may rove:",0.0 +"The adventurous knight, now quits the sylvan war:",4.0 +Or grunt secure beneath the chestnut shade.,1.0 +That trusted Orleans with imperial sway,3.0 +"Far over the Alps our helpless monarch sends,",3.0 +And such the terrors of the Brunswick race!,2.0 +"Was it for this the sun's whole lustre failed,",2.0 +And sudden midnight over the noon prevailed!,3.0 +For this did heaven display to mortal eyes,1.0 +Aerial knights and combats in the skies?,3.0 +And Thames driven backward showed his secret bed!,2.0 +Even our own prodigies against us turn!,2.0 +OH portents construed on our side in vain!,1.0 +Let never Tory trust eclipse again!,1.0 +"Run clear, you fountains! be at peace, you skies!",1.0 +"And, Thames, henceforth to thy green borders rise!",3.0 +"To Rome then must the royal wanderer go,",2.0 +"His life in sloth inglorious must he wear,",1.0 +"One half in luxury, and one in prayer?",2.0 +The proffered purple and the hat may please.,1.0 +"Shall he, whose ancient patriarchal race",0.0 +"To mighty Nimrod in one line we trace,",0.0 +"In solemn conclave sit, devoid of thought,",1.0 +And poll for points of faith his trusty vote!,0.0 +"Be summoned to his stall in time of need,",1.0 +And with his casting suffrage fix a creed!,1.0 +"Shall he in robes on stated days appear,",0.0 +And English heretics curse once a year!,1.0 +"Garnet and Faux shall he with prayers invoke,",2.0 +And beg that Smithfield piles once more may smoke!,1.0 +"Forbid it heaven! my soul, to fury wrought,",0.0 +Turns almost Hanoverian at the thought.,3.0 +"From James and Rome I feel my heart decline,",0.0 +"Yet still his share thy rival will contest,",1.0 +And still the double claim divides my breast:,0.0 +"The fate of James with pitying eyes I view,",2.0 +"To James my passions and my weakness guide,",1.0 +But reason sways me to the victor's side.,1.0 +"Though grieved I speak it, let the truth appear;",0.0 +"You know my language, and my heart, sincere.",1.0 +In vain did falsehood his fair fame disgrace;,3.0 +"What force had falsehood, when he showed his face!",1.0 +In vain to war our boastful clans were led;,0.0 +"Heaps driven on heaps, in the dire shock they fled:",3.0 +"France shuns his wrath, nor raises to our shame",2.0 +A second Dunkirk in another name:,0.0 +"In Britain's funds their wealth all Europe throws,",0.0 +And up the Thames the world's abundance flows:,1.0 +"Spite of feigned fears, and artificial cries,",3.0 +The pious town sees fifty churches rise:,1.0 +"The hero triumphs as his worth is known,",1.0 +And sits more firmly on his shaken throne.,1.0 +To my sad thought no beam of hope appears,4.0 +Through the long prospect of succeeding years;,3.0 +"The son aspiring to his father's fame,",1.0 +Shows all his sire: another and the same.,3.0 +"He blessed in lovely Carolina's arms,",0.0 +"With pain and joy at strife, I often trace",0.0 +The mingled parents in each daughter's face;,0.0 +"Half sickening at the sight, too well I spy",2.0 +The father's spirit through the mother's eye:,1.0 +"In vain new thoughts of rage I entertain,",1.0 +And strive to hate their innocence in vain.,1.0 +OH princess! happy by thy foes confessed!,2.0 +Blessed in thy husband! in thy children blessed!,0.0 +"As they from thee, from them new beauties horn,",3.0 +"Transplanted to each court, in times to come,",1.0 +And smooth the frowns of Bourbon's haughty race.,0.0 +The fair descendents of thy sacred bed,1.0 +"Till like their mother plant, ten thousand stand",1.0 +In verdant arches on the fertile land;,1.0 +"Beneath her shade the tawny Indians rove,",2.0 +Or hunt at large through the wide echoing grove.,4.0 +"OH thou, to whom these mournful lines I send,",0.0 +"My promised husband, and my dearest friend;",1.0 +And blood has drenched the Scottish fields in vain;,0.0 +"Must I be wretched, and thy flight partake?",1.0 +"If not to Brunswick, OH return to me!",0.0 +Prostrate before the victor's mercy bend:,2.0 +"What spares whole thousands, may to thee extend.",3.0 +"Should blinded friends thy doubtful conduct blame,",0.0 +"Say, these invite thee to approach his throne,",3.0 +"The world, convinced, thy reasons will approve;",1.0 +WITH what attractive charms this goodly frame,0.0 +Of nature touches the consenting hearts,1.0 +Of mortal men; and what the pleasing stores,0.0 +"To deck the poet's, or the painter's toil;",1.0 +"Thou, smiling queen of every tuneful breast,",0.0 +Indulgent FANCY! from the fruitful banks,1.0 +"Of Avon, whence thy rosy fingers cull",0.0 +Fresh flowers and dews to sprinkle on the turf,4.0 +"Where Shakespeare lies, be present: and with thee",2.0 +"Let FICTION come, upon her vagrant wings",1.0 +"And, by the glances of her magic eye,",2.0 +"Combining each in endless, fairy forms,",0.0 +Her wild creation. Goddess of the lyre,1.0 +"Which rules the accents of the moving sphere,",1.0 +"Wilt thou, eternal HARMONY! descend,",2.0 +And join this festive train? for with thee comes,1.0 +"The guide, the guardian of their lovely sports,",1.0 +"Majestic TRUTH; and where TRUTH deigns to come,",1.0 +Her sister LIBERTY will not be far.,1.0 +"The wandering footsteps of the youthful bard,",2.0 +New to your springs and shades: who touch his ear,0.0 +With finer sounds: who heighten to his eye,1.0 +"The bloom of nature, and before him turn",1.0 +Oft have the laws of each poetic strain,0.0 +"Lay this prime subject, though importing most",2.0 +A poet's name: for fruitless is the attempt,3.0 +"By dull obedience and the kerb of rules,",1.0 +For creeping toil to climb the hard ascent,0.0 +Of high Parnassus. Nature's kindling breath,1.0 +Must fire the chosen genius; nature's hand,0.0 +Exulting over the painful steep to soar,2.0 +High as the summit: there to breathe at large,1.0 +Immortal sons of praise. These flattering scenes,2.0 +To this neglected labour court my song;,1.0 +"To paint the finest features of the mind,",1.0 +And to the most subtle and mysterious things,4.0 +"Of nature and the muses bids explore,",1.0 +"The fair poetic region, to detect",1.0 +"Culled from the laureate vale's profound recess,",2.0 +From heaven my strains begin; from heaven descends,0.0 +"The flame of genius to the human breast,",1.0 +"And love and beauty, and poetic joy",1.0 +And inspiration. Ere the radiant sun,0.0 +"Sprung from the east, or amid the vault of night",2.0 +"Ere mountains, woods, or streams adorned the globe;",1.0 +Or wisdom taught the sons of men her lore;,0.0 +"The radiant sun, the moon's nocturnal lamp,",0.0 +"The mountains, woods and streams, the rolling globe,",0.0 +"Of days, on them his love divine he fixed,",1.0 +"His admiration: till in time complete,",1.0 +"What he admired and loved, his vital smile",1.0 +Unfolded into being. Hence the breath,0.0 +"Of life informing each organic frame,",0.0 +"Hence the green earth, and wild resounding waves;",3.0 +Hence light and shade alternate; warmth and cold;,6.0 +"And clear autumnal skies and vernal showers,",0.0 +And all the fair variety of things.,1.0 +But not alike to every mortal eye,0.0 +Is this great scene unveiled. For since the claims,2.0 +The active powers of man; with wise intent,2.0 +The hand of nature on peculiar minds,1.0 +"Imprints a different bias, and to each",1.0 +Decrees its province in the common toil.,0.0 +"To some she taught the fabric of the sphere,",1.0 +The golden zones of heaven: to some she gave,0.0 +"To weigh the moment of eternal things,",1.0 +"Of time, and space, and fate's unbroken chain,",0.0 +And will's quick impulse: others by the hand,2.0 +"She led over vales and mountains, to explore",3.0 +What healing virtue swells the tender veins,0.0 +Of herbs and flowers; or what the beams of morn,1.0 +"In balmy tears. But some, to higher hopes",0.0 +Were destined; some within a finer mould,0.0 +"She wrought, and tempered with a purer flame.",1.0 +To these the sire omnipotent unfolds,4.0 +"The world's harmonious volume, there to read",3.0 +The transcript of himself. On every part,2.0 +They trace the bright impressions of his hand:,1.0 +"In earth or air, the meadow's purple stores,",0.0 +"The moon's mild radiance, or the virgin's form",2.0 +"Blooming with rosy smiles, they see portrayed",2.0 +"The mind supreme. They also feel her charms,",0.0 +"Of Titan's ray, with each repulsive string",0.0 +"Consenting, sounded through the warbling air",1.0 +"To certain species of external things,",1.0 +Attune the finer organs of the mind:,1.0 +"So the glad impulse of congenial powers,",2.0 +"The grace of motion, or the bloom of light,",1.0 +From nerve to nerve: all naked and alive,1.0 +They catch the spreading rays: till now the soul,0.0 +"At length discloses every tuneful spring,",0.0 +"To that harmonious movement from without,",3.0 +Diffuses its enchantment: fancy dreams,1.0 +And vales of bliss: the intellectual power,2.0 +"Bends from his awful throne a wondering ear,",2.0 +"And smiles: the passions gently soothed away,",0.0 +"Sink to divine repose, and love and joy",2.0 +"Alone are waking; love and joy, serene",0.0 +"As airs that fan the summer. OH! attend,",0.0 +"Whoever thou art whom these delights can touch,",2.0 +Whose candid bosom the refining love,1.0 +"Of nature warms, OH! listen to my song;",2.0 +"And I will guide thee to her favourite walks,",2.0 +"And teach thy solitude her voice to hear,",0.0 +"Know then, whatever of nature's pregnant stores,",4.0 +Whatever of mimic art's reflected forms,3.0 +With love and admiration thus inflame,0.0 +"The powers of fancy, her delighted sons",3.0 +To three illustrious orders have referred;,2.0 +"The poet's tongue confesses; the sublime,",1.0 +"The wonderful, the fair. I see them dawn!",1.0 +"I see the radiant visions, where they rise,",0.0 +More lovely than when Lucifer displays,2.0 +"His beaming forehead through the gates of morn,",1.0 +To lead the train of Phoebus and the spring.,1.0 +Amid the vast creation; why ordained,0.0 +"Through life and death to dart his piercing eye,",0.0 +With thoughts beyond the limit of his frame;,1.0 +But that the Omnipotent might send him forth,2.0 +"In sight of mortal and immortal powers,",1.0 +"As on a boundless theatre, to run",2.0 +The great career of justice; to exalt,1.0 +To shake each partial purpose from his breast;,1.0 +"And through the mists of passion and of sense,",2.0 +And through the tossing tide of chance and pain,1.0 +"Of truth and virtue, up the steep ascent",1.0 +"Of nature, calls him to his high reward,",1.0 +The applauding smile of heaven? Else wherefore burns,5.0 +"And mocks possession? wherefore darts the mind,",0.0 +"Majestic forms? impatient to be free,",1.0 +Proud of the strong contention of her toils;,1.0 +Proud to be daring? Who but rather turns,0.0 +"To heaven's broad fire his unconstrained view,",4.0 +Shoots round the wide horizon to survey,1.0 +The Nile or Ganges roll his wasteful tide,0.0 +"Through mountains, plains, through empires black with shade,",0.0 +And continents of sand; will turn his gaze,1.0 +"And this diurnal scene, she springs aloft",1.0 +Through fields of air; pursues the flying storm;,0.0 +Sweeps the long tract of day. Then high she soars,3.0 +"The blue profound, and hovering over the sun,",2.0 +Bend the reluctant planets to absolve,3.0 +She darts her swiftness up the long career,1.0 +Of devious comets; through its burning signs,3.0 +Exulting circles the perennial wheel,3.0 +"Of nature, and looks back on all the stars,",2.0 +"Whose blended light, as with a milky zone,",1.0 +Invests the orient. Now amazed she views,3.0 +"Beyond this concave heaven, their calm abode;",0.0 +"Has travelled the profound six thousand years,",2.0 +Nor yet arrives in sight of mortal things.,0.0 +She plunges; soon overwhelmed and swallowed up,4.0 +In that immense of being. There her hopes,1.0 +Rest at the fated goal. For from the birth,1.0 +"Of mortal man, the sovereign Maker said,",0.0 +"That not in humble or in brief delight,",1.0 +"Not in the fading echoes of renown,",1.0 +"Powers purple robes, or pleasure's flowery lap,",5.0 +The soul should find enjoyment: but from these,1.0 +"Turning disdainful to an equal good,",3.0 +"Through all the ascent of things enlarge her view,",1.0 +"Till every bound at length should disappear,",0.0 +And infinite perfection close the scene.,1.0 +"Call now to mind what high, capacious powers",1.0 +Lie folded up in man; how far beyond,2.0 +"The praise of mortals, may the eternal growth",3.0 +"Of nature to perfection half divine,",1.0 +Expand the blooming soul? What pity then,0.0 +"Her tender blossom; choke the streams of life,",0.0 +And blast her spring! Far otherwise designed,1.0 +Almighty wisdom; nature's happy cares,0.0 +Witness the sprightly joy when aught unknown,2.0 +"Strikes the quick sense, and wakes each active power",3.0 +To brisker measures: witness the neglect,1.0 +"Of all familiar prospects, etc.",4.0 +"With transport once; the fond, attentive gaze",0.0 +Of young astonishment; the sober zeal,1.0 +"Of age, commenting on prodigious things.",5.0 +In every breast implanting this desire,1.0 +With unremitted labour to pursue,2.0 +"Those sacred stores that wait the ripening soul,",0.0 +"To paint its power? For this, the daring youth",1.0 +"Breaks from his weeping mother's anxious arms,",0.0 +In foreign climes to rove: the pensive sage,0.0 +"The virgin follows, with enchanted step,",1.0 +"The mazes of some wild and wondrous tale,",1.0 +"The wishes of the youth, when every maid",1.0 +"With envy pined. Hence finally, by night",2.0 +"Breathing astonishment! of witching rhymes,",3.0 +And evil spirits; of the deathbed call,2.0 +"To him who robbed the widow, and devoured",2.0 +Of deeds in life concealed; of shapes that walk,0.0 +"At dead of night, and clank their chains, and wave",0.0 +At every solemn pause the crowd recoil,0.0 +"Gazing each other speechless, and congealed",3.0 +"With shivering sighs: till eager for the event,",5.0 +Each trembling heart with grateful terrors quelled.,0.0 +"But lo! disclosed in all her smiling pomp,",0.0 +Where BEAUTY onward moving claims the verse,0.0 +"In thy immortal praise, OH form divine,",2.0 +"The regal dome, and thy enlivening ray",3.0 +"The mossy roofs adore: thou, better sun!",0.0 +"Love, and harmonious wonder, and delight",5.0 +Poetic. Brightest progeny of heaven!,1.0 +How shall I trace thy features? where select,0.0 +The roseate hues to emulate thy bloom?,0.0 +"Haste then, my song, through nature's wide expanse,",0.0 +"Whatever bright spoils the florid earth contains,",4.0 +"Whatever the waters, or the liquid air,",4.0 +To deck thy lovely labour. Wilt thou fly,0.0 +"Wherever his fingers touch the fruitful grove,",2.0 +The branches shoot with gold; wherever his step,2.0 +"Marks the glad soil, the tender clusters glow",3.0 +As with the blushes of an evening sky?,2.0 +"Or wilt thou rather stoop thy vagrant plume,",0.0 +Where gliding through his daughter's honoured shades.,2.0 +They played in secret on the shady brink,1.0 +With ancient Pan: while round their choral steps,0.0 +Young hours and genial gales with constant hand,1.0 +"Showered blossoms, odours, showered ambrosial dews,",5.0 +To thee nor Tempe shall refuse; nor watch,1.0 +Thy smiling treasures to the green recess,1.0 +Where young Dione stays. With sweetest airs,1.0 +"Thy graceful footsteps; hither, gentle maid,",1.0 +Incline thy polished forehead: let thy eyes,0.0 +And may the fanning breezes waft aside,1.0 +"Thy radiant locks, disclosing as it bends",1.0 +With airy softness from the marble neck,1.0 +"Where winning smiles and pleasure sweet as love,",0.0 +"With sanctity and wisdom, tempering blend",3.0 +"Of nature, and her kind parental care,",1.0 +With each admiring virgin to my lyre,1.0 +"Should throng attentive, while I point on high",0.0 +"That wakes in Zephyr's arms the blushing May,",1.0 +"Moves onward; or as Venus, when she stood",2.0 +"Fresh from the deep, and conscious of her form,",1.0 +"With fond acclaim attend her over the waves,",2.0 +"Of youths and virgins, who through all the maze",0.0 +This charm of beauty; if the pleasing toil,1.0 +"Can yield a moment's respite, hither turn",0.0 +I do not mean to wake the gloomy form,0.0 +To damp your tender hopes; I do not mean,0.0 +To fright you from your joys: my cheerful song,1.0 +"With better omens calls you to the field,",1.0 +"And warm as you. Then tell me, for you know,",2.0 +Does beauty ever deign to dwell where health,0.0 +And active use are strangers? Is her charm,1.0 +"Confessed in aught, whose most peculiar ends",0.0 +Are lame and fruitless? Or did nature mean,1.0 +This awful stamp the herald of a lie;,1.0 +"To hide the shame of discord and disease,",1.0 +And catch with fair hypocrisy the heart,1.0 +"Of idle faith? OH no! with better cares,",1.0 +"The indulgent mother, conscious how infirm",2.0 +"Her offspring tread the paths of good and ill,",1.0 +"By this illustrious image, in each kind",3.0 +Still most illustrious where the object holds,2.0 +"Its native powers most perfect, she by this",1.0 +"Of streams delicious to the thirsty soul,",1.0 +"And every charm of animated things,",0.0 +"Are only pledges of a state sincere,",1.0 +"The integrity and order of their frame,",3.0 +"When all is well within, and every end",0.0 +"Accomplished. Thus was beauty sent from heaven,",0.0 +"In this dark world: for truth and good are one,",3.0 +"And beauty dwells in them, etc.",3.0 +"With like participation. Wherefore then,",0.0 +OH sons of earth! would you dissolve the tie?,2.0 +"OH wherefore, with a rash, imperfect aim,",2.0 +Seek you those flowery joys with which the hand,2.0 +Of lavish fancy paints each flattering scene,2.0 +"Where beauty seems to dwell, nor once enquire",0.0 +"Where is the sanction of eternal truth,",1.0 +"To save your search from folly? Wanting these,",1.0 +"Lo! beauty withers in your void embrace,",1.0 +And with the glittering of an idiot's toy,4.0 +Did fancy mock your vows. Nor let the gleam,0.0 +"Of youthful hope that shines upon your hearts,",0.0 +Be chilled or clouded at this awful task,0.0 +And truth eternal. Though the poisonous charms,3.0 +"Of baleful superstition, guide the feet",0.0 +"Of servile numbers, through a dreary way",1.0 +"To their abode, through deserts, thorns and mire;",1.0 +And leave the wretched pilgrim all forlorn,0.0 +"To muse, at last, amid the ghostly gloom",0.0 +"Of graves, and hoary vaults, and cloistered cells;",0.0 +Attune the dreadful workings of his heart;,1.0 +Yet be not you dismayed. A gentler star,2.0 +"Where wisdom talked with her Athenian sons,",3.0 +Then should my powerful voice at once dispel,2.0 +"Of those whom nature charms, through blooming walks,",1.0 +"Through fragrant mountains and poetic streams,",1.0 +Led by their winged Genius and the choir,3.0 +"Proceed exulting to the eternal shrine,",3.0 +"The undivided partners of her sway,",1.0 +"With good and beauty reigns. OH let not us,",1.0 +"Lulled by luxurious pleasure's languid strain,",4.0 +OH let not us a moment pause to join,1.0 +Will to my invocation breathe anew,1.0 +"The tuneful spirit; then through all our paths,",0.0 +Never shall the sound of this devoted lyre,1.0 +"Be wanting; whether on the rosy mead,",1.0 +"When summer smiles, to warn the melting heart",0.0 +Against the torrent and the stubborn hill,1.0 +"To urge bold virtue's unremitted nerve,",2.0 +And wake the strong divinity of soul,1.0 +That conquers chance and fate; or whether struck,0.0 +"For sounds of triumph, to proclaim her toils",1.0 +"Upon the lofty summit, round her brow",0.0 +"To trace her hallowed light through future worlds,",0.0 +And bless heaven's image in the heart of man.,2.0 +"Thus with a faithful aim have we presumed,",1.0 +"Adventurous, to delineate nature's form;",9.0 +"Whether in vast, majestic pomp arrayed,",2.0 +"Or dressed for pleasing wonder, or serene",1.0 +"To trace the rising lustre of her charms,",1.0 +"From their first twilight, shining forth at length",4.0 +"Of colours mingling with a random blaze,",3.0 +Does beauty dwell. Then higher in the line,0.0 +"And variation of determined shape,",1.0 +Where truth's eternal measures mark the bound,0.0 +"Of circle, cube, or sphere. The third ascent",0.0 +Unites this varied symmetry of parts,1.0 +"Shines in the concave of its azure bed,",1.0 +Then more attractive rise the blooming forms,0.0 +Through which the breath of nature has infused,0.0 +Her genial power to draw with pregnant veins,2.0 +In fruit and seed prolific: thus the flowers,0.0 +And such the stately tree which autumn bends,1.0 +With blushing treasures. But more lovely still,1.0 +"Is nature's charm, where to the full consent",1.0 +"Of complicated members, to the bloom",1.0 +"Life's holy flame and piercing sense are given,",1.0 +And active motion speaks the tempered soul:,0.0 +So moves the bird of Juno; so the steed,1.0 +And faithful dogs with eager airs of joy,0.0 +Salute their fellows. Thus does beauty dwell,0.0 +"There most conspicuous, even in outward shape,",4.0 +Where dawns the high expression of a mind:,1.0 +"To that eternal origin, whose power,",1.0 +"Through all the unbounded symmetry of things,",2.0 +This endless mixture of her charms diffused.,1.0 +"MIND, MIND alone, bear witness, earth and heaven!",2.0 +The living fountains in itself contains,0.0 +"Looks then abroad through nature, to the range",2.0 +Wheeling unshaken through the void immense;,3.0 +"And speak, OH man! does this capacious scene",2.0 +With half that kindling majesty dilate,1.0 +"As when Brutus rose, etc.",2.0 +Amid the crowd of patriots; and his arm,1.0 +"When guilt brings down the thunder, called aloud",1.0 +"And bade the father of his country, hail!",1.0 +"For lo! the tyrant prostrate on the dust,",1.0 +And Rome again is free? ' -- Is aught so fair,0.0 +"In all the dewy landscapes of the spring,",2.0 +"In the bright eye of Hesper or the morn,",4.0 +"In nature's fairest forms, is aught so fair",0.0 +As virtuous friendship? as the candid blush,3.0 +Of him who strives with fortune to be just?,2.0 +The graceful tear that streams for other's woes?,0.0 +"Or the mild majesty of private life,",3.0 +Of innocence and love protect the scene?,1.0 +Where nature works in secret; view the beds,0.0 +"Of mineral treasure, and the eternal vault",3.0 +That bounds the hoary ocean; trace the forms,0.0 +Of atoms moving with incessant change,1.0 +Their elemental round; behold the seeds,0.0 +"Of being, and the energy of life",2.0 +Then to the secrets of the working mind,1.0 +Attentive turn; from dim oblivion call,2.0 +"Break through time's barrier, and overtake the hour",4.0 +That saw the heavens created: then declare,2.0 +If aught were found in those external scenes,1.0 +To move thy wonder now. For what are all,0.0 +"The forms which brute, unconscious matter wears,",1.0 +"Greatness of bulk, or symmetry of parts?",3.0 +"Not reaching to the heart, soon feeble grows",2.0 +"The superficial impulse; dull their charms,",0.0 +"Not so the moral species, or the powers",1.0 +Of genius and design; the ambitious mind,3.0 +There sees herself: by these congenial forms,1.0 +Her features in the mirror. For of all,1.0 +"The inhabitants of earth, to man alone",2.0 +Creative wisdom gave to lift his eye,0.0 +To truth's eternal measures; thence to frame,0.0 +"The sacred laws of action and of will,",1.0 +"Discerning justice from unequal deeds,",1.0 +And temperance from folly. But beyond,2.0 +"This energy of truth, whose dictates bind",2.0 +"To deck the honoured paths of just and good,",2.0 +Has added bright imagination's rays:,6.0 +Where virtue rising from the awful depth,1.0 +Where virtue rising from the awful depth.,1.0 +"Of truth's mysterious bosom, etc.",6.0 +The unadorned condition of her birth;,1.0 +"And dressed by fancy in ten thousand hues,",1.0 +"Assumes a various feature, to attract,",3.0 +"The hearts of men. Amid his rural walk,",0.0 +The ingenuous youth whom solitude inspires,3.0 +"With purest wishes, from the pensive shade",1.0 +That wakes her lyre to some indulgent theme,0.0 +Of harmony and wonder: while among,1.0 +"The herd of servile minds, her strenuous form",2.0 +"Indignant flashes on the patriot's eye,",3.0 +And through the rolls of memory appeals,2.0 +"To ancient honour; or in act serene,",0.0 +"Yet watchful, raises the majestic sword",1.0 +"Of public power, from dark ambition's reach",2.0 +To guard the sacred volume of the laws.,1.0 +Genius of ancient Greece! whose faithful steps,2.0 +Of nature and of science; nurse divine,1.0 +Of all heroic deeds and fair desires!,0.0 +OH! let the breath of thy extended praise,2.0 +Inspire my kindling bosom to the height,1.0 +"Presumptuous counted, if, amid the calm",3.0 +I steal impatient from the sordid haunts,1.0 +"Of strife and low ambition, to attend",1.0 +"Thy sacred presence in the sylvan shade,",0.0 +"Such in thy mien, thy warm, exalted air,",0.0 +"As when the Persian tyrant, foiled and stung",0.0 +And at the lightning of thy lifted spear,1.0 +"Crouched like a slave. Bring all thy martial spoils,",1.0 +"Thy palms, thy laurels, thy triumphal songs,",1.0 +"Of civil wisdom, thy heroic youth",1.0 +Warm from the schools of glory. Guide my way,0.0 +"Where oft enchanted with Socratic sounds,",1.0 +In gentler murmurs. From the blooming store,1.0 +Transplant some living blossoms to adorn,1.0 +The springs of ancient wisdom; while I join,0.0 +Of nature; while to my compatriot youth,3.0 +"I point the high example of thy sons,",1.0 +And tune to Attic themes the British lyre.,0.0 +WHEN shall the laurel and the vocal string,1.0 +"Aspire to ancient praise? Alas! how faint,",0.0 +How slow the dawn of beauty and of truth,1.0 +Breaks the reluctant shades of Gothic night,2.0 +Which yet involve the nations! Long they groaned,0.0 +"Tempestuous pouring from her frozen caves,",4.0 +"Blasted the Italian shore, and swept the works",1.0 +Of liberty and wisdom down the gulf,2.0 +Each muse and each fair science pined away,1.0 +"The sordid hours: while foul, barbarian hands",2.0 +And chained the soaring pinion down to earth.,1.0 +"At last the Muses rose, etc.",2.0 +"And wildly warbling scattered, as they flew,",1.0 +"Of dire ambition, etc.",5.0 +From public aims and from the busy walk,1.0 +"Of civil commerce, drove the bolder train",0.0 +"Of penetrating science to the cells,",1.0 +Where studious ease consumes the silent hour,2.0 +"Thus from their guardians torn, the tender arts, etc.",4.0 +"Of mimic fancy and harmonious joy,",3.0 +To priestly domination and the lust,1.0 +"Of lawless courts, their amiable toil",1.0 +"For three inglorious ages have resigned,",2.0 +Was tuned for slavish paeans at the throne,0.0 +To bind belief; while on their prostrate necks,1.0 +The sable tyrant plants his heel secure.,0.0 +"When freedom's ample fabric, fixed at length",0.0 +"In full proportion, once more shall extend",0.0 +To all the kindred powers of social bliss,2.0 +"A common mansion, a parental roof.",1.0 +"Embrace the smiling family of arts,",1.0 +The Muses and the Graces. Then no more,2.0 +"Shall vice, distracting their delicious gifts",1.0 +"To aims abhorred, with high distaste and scorn",0.0 +"Turn from their charms the philosophic eye,",0.0 +"Of public care or intellectual toil,",2.0 +Alone by footsteps haughty and severe,2.0 +In gloomy state be trod: the harmonious Muse,4.0 +And her persuasive sisters then shall plant,1.0 +"Their sheltering laurels over the bleak ascent,",4.0 +And shed their flowers along the rugged way.,2.0 +"Armed with the lyre, already have we dared",0.0 +And teach the Muse her lore; already strove,0.0 +While tempering this deep argument we sang,5.0 +We hasten to recount the various springs,2.0 +Their grateful influence to the prime effect,1.0 +"The complicated joy. The sweets of sense,",0.0 +"Do they not oft with kind accession flow,",0.0 +"So while we taste the fragrance of the rose,",1.0 +Glows not her blush the fairer? While we view,0.0 +Of summer yielding the delicious draught,1.0 +Of cool refreshment; over the mossy brink,2.0 +"Shines not the surface clearer, and the waves",1.0 +With sweeter music murmur as they flow?,1.0 +Nor this alone; the various lot of life,3.0 +Oft from external circumstance assumes,2.0 +A moment's disposition to rejoice,1.0 +"Would pass unheeded. Fair the face of spring,",0.0 +"When rural songs and odours wake the morn,",3.0 +To every eye; but how much more to his,1.0 +Round whom the bed of sickness long diffused,0.0 +"Its melancholy gloom! how doubly fair,",0.0 +"Warm at his bosom, from the springs of life",1.0 +Chasing oppressive damps and languid pain!,2.0 +"Or shall I mention, where celestial truth",0.0 +"For man loves knowledge, and the beams of truth",2.0 +"More welcome touch his understanding's eye,",3.0 +"Than all the blandishments of sound, his ear,",1.0 +Than all of taste his tongue. Nor ever yet,0.0 +"To me have shone so pleasing, as when first",2.0 +The hand of science pointed out the path,1.0 +Involves the orient; and that trickling shower,0.0 +Piercing through every crystalline convex,2.0 +Recoil at length where concave all behind,0.0 +The internal surface of each glassy orb,2.0 +Repels their forward passage into air;,0.0 +That thence direct they seek the radiant goal,0.0 +"From which their course began; and, as they strike",1.0 +"Assume a different lustre, through the breed",1.0 +"Or shall we touch that kind access of joy,",1.0 +"That springs to each fair object, while we trace,",0.0 +"Disposing every part, and gaining still",0.0 +The lamp of science through the jealous maze,1.0 +"Whether in wonders of the rolling deep,",3.0 +You scan the counsels of their author's hand.,1.0 +"The flame of passion, through the struggling soul",1.0 +"The object of its rapture, vast of size,",1.0 +What? like a storm from their capacious bed,1.0 +"The sounding seas overwhelming, when the might",3.0 +"Of these eruptions, working from the depth",2.0 +"Of man's strong apprehension, shakes his frame",1.0 +Even to the base; from every naked sense,1.0 +Of pain or pleasure dissipating all,0.0 +"Opinion's feeble coverings, and the veil",1.0 +To hide the feeling heart? Then nature speaks,0.0 +"Her genuine language, and the words of men,",3.0 +"Big with the very motion of their souls,",1.0 +"Declare with what accumulated force,",0.0 +The impetuous nerve of passion urges on,2.0 +The native weight and energy of things.,1.0 +"Nor shows of good the thirsty sense allure,",0.0 +"From passion's power alone, etc.",4.0 +Of daily impulse keeps the elastic powers,2.0 +By that collision all the fine machine:,0.0 +"Else rust would rise, and foulness, by degrees",2.0 +For ceaseless motion and a round of toil.,1.0 +"' -- But say, does every passion men endure",0.0 +Thus minister delight? That name indeed,2.0 +Becomes the rosy breath of love; becomes,0.0 +"The radiant smiles of joy, the applauding hand",2.0 +Of admiration: but the bitter shower,1.0 +"That sorrow sheds upon a brother's grave,",0.0 +"But the dumb palsy of nocturnal fear,",3.0 +Or those consuming fires that gnaw the heart,1.0 +"Of panting indignation, find we there",0.0 +"To move delight? ' -- Then listen, while my tongue",0.0 +The unaltered will of heaven with faithful awe,2.0 +Within his learnt mind whatever the schools,6.0 +OH faithful nature! dictate of the laws,3.0 +Which govern and support this mighty frame,1.0 +Of universal being. Oft the hours,0.0 +"From morn to eve have stole unmarked away,",0.0 +"While mute attention hung upon his lips,",0.0 +As thus the sage his awful tale began.,0.0 +When spotless youth with solitude resigns,0.0 +"To sweet philosophy the studious day,",3.0 +"What time pale autumn shades the silent eve,",1.0 +And much of mortal man my thought revolved;,0.0 +"That hour, OH long beloved and long deplored!",3.0 +"Nor all thy lover's, all thy father's tears",0.0 +Availed to snatch thee from the cruel grave;,1.0 +As with the hand death. At once the shade,4.0 +"More horrid nodded over me, and the winds",1.0 +"As midnight storms, the scene of human things",1.0 +"Appeared before me; deserts, burning sands,",0.0 +"Where the parched adder dies; the frozen south,",2.0 +And desolation blasting all the west,0.0 +"Of superstition there infect the skies,",1.0 +And turn the sun to horror. Gracious heaven!,0.0 +"What is the life of man? Or cannot these,",1.0 +Not these portents thy awful will suffice?,4.0 +"That propagated thus beyond their scope,",0.0 +They rise to act their cruelties anew,1.0 +"In my afflicted bosom, thus decreed",1.0 +"The universal sensitive of pain,",1.0 +The wretched heir of evils not its own!,0.0 +A flashing torrent of celestial day,1.0 +Burst through the shadowy void. With slow descent,2.0 +"A purple cloud came floating through the sky,",2.0 +"And poised at length within the circling trees,",0.0 +Hung obvious to my view: till opening wide,4.0 +"Its lucid orb, a more than human form",0.0 +"Emerging leaned majestic over my head,",2.0 +And instant thunder shook the conscious grove.,0.0 +"Then melted into air the liquid cloud,",0.0 +And all the shining vision stood revealed.,0.0 +"Flowed the transparent robe, around his waist",2.0 +Collected with a radiant zone of gold,1.0 +"I read his office high and sacred name,",0.0 +Genius of human kind. Appalled I gazed,2.0 +"Displeasure, tempered with a mild concern,",1.0 +"Looked down reluctant on me, and his words",4.0 +Like distant thunders broke the murmuring air.,2.0 +"Vain are thy thoughts, OH child of mortal birth,",1.0 +And impotent thy tongue. Is thy short span,2.0 +Capacious of this universal frame?,1.0 +Dost thou aspire to judge between the lord,1.0 +Of nature and his works? to lift thy voice,1.0 +Against the sovereign order he decreed,1.0 +"Of tenderness innate and social love,",1.0 +Holiest of things! by which the general orb,1.0 +Was drawn to perfect union and sustained,2.0 +From everlasting? Hast thou felt the pangs,0.0 +"Of softening sorrow, of indignant zeal",1.0 +"So grievous to the soul, as thence to wish",1.0 +The ties of nature broken from thy frame;,1.0 +"That so thy selfish, unrelenting heart",0.0 +"May cease to mourn its lot, no longer then",1.0 +The wretched heir of evils not its own?,0.0 +OH fair benevolence of generous minds!,4.0 +OH man by nature formed for all mankind!,2.0 +"He spoke; abashed and silent I remained,",1.0 +"Before his presence, though my secret soul",1.0 +Disdained the imputation. On the ground,1.0 +I fixed my eyes; till from his airy couch,1.0 +"He stooped sublime, and touching with his hand",1.0 +"My dazzled forehead, Raise thy sight, he cried,",0.0 +And let thy sense convince thy erring tongue.,0.0 +"I looked, and lo! the former scene was changed;",0.0 +"For verdant alleys and surrounding trees,",1.0 +"A solitary prospect, wide and wild,",0.0 +"Of hills with many a shaggy forest mixed,",2.0 +With many a sable cliff and glittering stream.,4.0 +"Washed from the naked roots of oak and pine,",0.0 +The crumbling soil; and still at every fall,0.0 +"They reached a grassy plain, which from the skirts",1.0 +"Of that high desert spread her verdant lap,",1.0 +"And drank the gushing moisture, where confined",0.0 +Clearer than glass it flowed. Autumnal spoils,2.0 +"Luxuriant spreading to the rays of morn,",3.0 +As in a sylvan theatre enclosed,1.0 +That flowery level. On the river's brink,3.0 +"I spied a fair pavilion, which diffused",0.0 +Its floating umbrage amid the silver shade,2.0 +"Between two parting cliffs his golden orb,",1.0 +"And poured across the shadow of the hills,",1.0 +"On rocks and floods, a yellow stream of light",0.0 +That cheered the solemn scene. My listening powers,0.0 +"Were awed, and every thought in silence hung,",0.0 +And wondering expectation. Then the voice,2.0 +"Of that celestial power, the mystic show",2.0 +"Declaring, thus my deep attention called.",0.0 +"Inhabitant of earth, etc.",3.0 +"The gracious ways of providence to learn,",1.0 +Receive my sayings with a steadfast ear ' --,2.0 +"Know then, the sovereign spirit of the world,",1.0 +Within his own deep essence he beheld,2.0 +The circling bounds of happiness unite;,2.0 +"Which filled himself, he raised his plastic arm,",0.0 +And sounded through the hollow depth of space,1.0 +"The strong, creative mandate. Strait arose",1.0 +Effusive kindled by his breath divine,3.0 +Through endless forms of being. Each inhaled,0.0 +"From him its portion of the vital flame,",2.0 +"In measure such, that from the wide complex",2.0 +He too beholding in the sacred light,0.0 +"Of his essential reason, all the shapes",1.0 +Of action propagated through the sum,1.0 +"Of possible existence, he at once,",2.0 +"Down the long series of eventful time,",3.0 +"So fixed the dates of being, so disposed,",1.0 +"To every living soul of every kind,",0.0 +"The field of motion and the hour of rest,",1.0 +"That all conspired to his supreme design,",3.0 +To universal good: with full accord,0.0 +"Answering the mighty model he had chose,",2.0 +That lay from everlasting in the store,0.0 +"Of his divine conceptions. Nor content,",2.0 +By one exertion of creating power,2.0 +"His goodness to reveal; through every age,",1.0 +"Through every moment up the tract of time,",1.0 +Of happiness and virtue has adorned,1.0 +"To men, to angels, to celestial minds,",1.0 +For ever leads the generations on,1.0 +To higher scenes of being; while supplied,0.0 +"From day to day by his enlivening breath,",3.0 +Inferior orders in succession rise,2.0 +"As bodies to their proper centre move,",1.0 +As the poised ocean to the attracting moon,5.0 +"Obedient swells, and every headlong stream",3.0 +"So all things which have life aspire to GOD,",0.0 +"The sun of being, boundless, unimpaired,",0.0 +Centre of souls! Nor does the faithful voice,2.0 +Of nature cease to prompt their eager steps,0.0 +From granting to the task proportioned aid;,1.0 +That in their stations all may persevere,1.0 +"To climb the ascent of being, and approach",3.0 +For ever nearer to the life divine.,1.0 +"Of man, and where the will supreme ordained",1.0 +"Along the shady brink, in this recess",0.0 +To wear the appointed season of his youth;,3.0 +"The high communion of superior minds,",3.0 +Of consecrated heroes and of gods.,1.0 +Nor did the sire omnipotent forget,3.0 +His tender bloom to cherish; nor withheld,1.0 +Celestial footsteps from his green abode.,2.0 +"He sent whom most he loved, the sovereign fair,",0.0 +"The effluence of his glory, whom he placed",1.0 +Before his eyes for ever to behold;,1.0 +The goddess from whose inspiration flows,1.0 +"The toil of patriots, the delight of friends;",3.0 +"Without whose work divine, in heaven or earth,",0.0 +"Nor hope, nor praise, nor honour. Her the sire",0.0 +"Gave it in charge to rear the blooming mind,",0.0 +"The folded powers to open, to direct",3.0 +"The growth luxuriant of his young desires,",1.0 +And from the laws of this majestic world,2.0 +To teach him what was good. As thus the nymph,0.0 +"Her daily care attended, by her side",1.0 +"With constant steps her gay companion stayed,",0.0 +That cheer alike the hearts of mortal men,0.0 +And powers immortal. See the shining pair!,2.0 +"Behold, where from his dwelling now disclosed,",1.0 +They quit their youthful charge and seek the skies.,0.0 +"I looked, and on the flowery turf there stood,",3.0 +"Between two radiant forms, a smiling youth",1.0 +Whose tender cheeks displayed the vernal flower,0.0 +"His bashful eyes, and on his polished brow",1.0 +Sat young simplicity. With fond regard,2.0 +"He viewed the associates, as their steps they moved;",2.0 +"The younger chief his ardent eyes detained,",0.0 +With mild regret invoking her return.,1.0 +Bright as the star of evening she appeared,1.0 +"And smiles eternal, from her candid eyes,",1.0 +Flowed like the dewy lustre of the morn,1.0 +Effusive trembling on the placid waves.,3.0 +The spring of heaven had shed its blushing spoils,0.0 +To bind her sable tresses: full diffused,0.0 +Her yellow mantle floated in the breeze;,0.0 +And in her hand she waved a living branch,0.0 +"Rich with immortal fruits, of power to calm",4.0 +To chase the cloud of sadness. More sublime,0.0 +The heavenly partner moved. The prime of age,2.0 +"Composed her steps. The presence of a god,",1.0 +"From each majestic motion darted awe,",0.0 +"Devoted awe! till, cherished by her looks",1.0 +"Benevolent and meek, confiding love",1.0 +To filial rapture softened all the soul.,2.0 +Free in her graceful hand she poised the sword,0.0 +Of chaste dominion. An heroic crown,1.0 +Displayed the old simplicity of pomp,1.0 +"White as the sunshine streams through vernal clouds,",1.0 +Her stately form invested. Hand in hand,0.0 +"Gleamed round their path; celestial sounds were heard,",0.0 +Distilled around them; till at once the clouds,1.0 +"Their airy veil, and left a bright expanse",0.0 +Afflicted vision plunged in vain to scan,0.0 +What object it involved. My feeble eyes,2.0 +"Endured not. Bending down to earth I stood,",1.0 +"With dumb attention. Soon a female voice,",1.0 +"As watery murmurs sweet, or warbling shades,",2.0 +With sacred invocation thus began.,0.0 +Father of gods and mortals! whose right arm,3.0 +"With reins eternal guides the moving heavens,",0.0 +I seek to finish thy divine decree.,1.0 +With frequent steps I visit yonder seat,0.0 +"Of man, thy offspring; from the tender seeds",2.0 +"Of justice and of wisdom, to evolve",2.0 +Till thy conducting hand shall raise his lot,1.0 +"The temple of thy glory. But not me,",2.0 +"Not my directing voice he oft requires,",1.0 +"Or hears delighted: this enchanting maid,",1.0 +"He loves, OH father! absent, her he craves;",2.0 +"And but for her glad presence ever joined,",4.0 +I deem uncertain; and my daily cares,1.0 +Still farther aided in the work divine.,1.0 +She ceased; a voice more awful thus replied.,0.0 +"OH thou! in whom for ever I delight,",1.0 +"Fairer than all the inhabitants of heaven,",3.0 +Best image of thy author! far from thee,2.0 +"Be disappointment, or distaste, or blame;",1.0 +"Who soon or late shalt every work fulfil,",1.0 +And no resistance find. Is man refuse,0.0 +To harken to thy dictates; or allured,3.0 +"By meaner joys, to any other power",0.0 +"That joy which he pursues he never shall taste,",2.0 +That power in whom delights never behold.,7.0 +"Go then once more, and happy be thy toil;",0.0 +Go then! but let not this thy smiling friend,1.0 +"Partake thy footsteps. In her stead, behold!",1.0 +With thee the son of Nemesis I send;,2.0 +The fiend abhorred! whose vengeance takes account,0.0 +Of sacred order's violated laws.,1.0 +"See where he calls thee, burning to be gone,",1.0 +Fierce to exhaust the tempest of his wrath,3.0 +"On yonder devoted head. But thou, my child,",3.0 +"Control his cruel frenzy, and protect",1.0 +Thy tender charge. That when despair shall grasp,0.0 +Then he may learn to love the gracious hand,0.0 +"Alone sufficient in that hour of ill,",0.0 +To save his feeble spirit; then confess,0.0 +When all the plagues that wait the deadly will,1.0 +"Of this avenging daemon, all the storms",1.0 +"Of night infernal, serve but to display",1.0 +The energy of thy superior charms,4.0 +"With mildest awe triumphant over his rage,",2.0 +And shining clearer in the horrid gloom.,0.0 +"Here ceased that awful voice, and soon I felt",0.0 +The cloudy curtain of refreshing eve,1.0 +"Was closed once more, from that immortal fire",1.0 +"Sheltering my eyelids. Looking up, I viewed",3.0 +A vast gigantic spectre striding on,1.0 +"Through murmuring thunders and a waste of clouds,",3.0 +With dreadful action. Black as night his brow,0.0 +Relentless frowns involved. His savage limbs,0.0 +"With sharp impatience violent he writhed,",1.0 +As through convulsive anguish; and his hand,2.0 +In madness to his bosom; while his eyes,1.0 +"Rained bitter tears, and bellowing loud he shook",3.0 +The void with horror. Silent by his side,1.0 +No stain of darkness mingled with the beam,2.0 +Upon the riverbank; and now to hail,0.0 +The unsuspecting inmate of the shade.,2.0 +"As when a famished wolf, that all night long",1.0 +"Had ranged the Alpine snows, by chance at morn",1.0 +Sees from a cliff incumbent over the smoke,2.0 +"Of some lone village, a neglected kid",2.0 +That strays along the wild for herb or spring;,0.0 +"And thinks he tears him: so with tenfold rage,",2.0 +The monster sprung remorseless on his prey.,1.0 +Amazed the stripling stood; with panting breast,0.0 +Feebly he poured the lamentable wail,5.0 +"Of helpless consternation, struck at once,",0.0 +And rooted to the ground. The queen beheld,1.0 +Advanced to save him. Soon the tyrant felt,0.0 +"Her awful power. His keen, tempestuous arm",5.0 +Had aimed the deadly blow: then dumb retired,0.0 +"Folds with a mother's arms the fainting boy,",0.0 +"Then grasps his hand, and cheers him with her tongue.",1.0 +"OH wake thee, rouse thy spirit! Shall the spite",1.0 +"While I, thy friend and guardian, am at hand",1.0 +To rescue and to heal? OH let thy soul,2.0 +"Is ever good for all; and if for all,",1.0 +Then good for thee. Nor only by the warmth,2.0 +"And soothing sunshine of delightful things,",2.0 +Do minds grow up and flourish. Oft misled,1.0 +"Of reason wander through a fatal road,",1.0 +Far from their native aim: as if to lie,1.0 +"Inglorious in the fragrant shade, and wait",1.0 +"Were all the end of being. Ask thyself,",0.0 +This pleasing error did it never lull,0.0 +Thy wishes? Has thy constant heart refused,0.0 +The silken fetters of delicious ease?,1.0 +"Within this dwelling, did not thy desires",1.0 +"Hang far below that measure of thy fate,",2.0 +"Which I revealed before thee? and thy eyes,",2.0 +"Impatient of my counsels, turn away",1.0 +"Know then, for this the everlasting sire",1.0 +"Deprives thee of her presence, and instead,",2.0 +This horrid visage hither to pursue,1.0 +My steps; that so thy nature may discern,2.0 +"Its real good, and what alone can save",0.0 +Thy feeble spirit in this hour of ill,0.0 +From folly and despair. OH yet beloved!,2.0 +Let not this headlong terror quite overwhelm,4.0 +Thy scattered powers; nor fatal deem the rage,2.0 +"Of this tormentor, nor his proud assault,",3.0 +"While I am here to vindicate thy toil,",1.0 +Above the generous question of thy arm.,3.0 +"Brave by thy fears, and in thy weakness strong,",0.0 +"This hour he triumphs; but confront his might,",1.0 +"And dare him to the combat, then with ease",1.0 +To bondage and to scorn: while thus inured,1.0 +"By watchful danger, by unceasing toil,",1.0 +"The immortal mind, superior to his fate,",2.0 +"Amid the outrage of external things,",2.0 +"Firm as the solid base of this great world,",1.0 +"Rests on his own foundations. Blow, you winds!",0.0 +You waves! you thunders! roll your tempest on;,1.0 +"Shake, you old pillars of the marble sky!",4.0 +"Be loosened from their seats; yet still serene,",1.0 +"And ever stronger as the storms advance,",1.0 +"Firm through the closing ruin holds his way,",0.0 +Where nature calls him to the destined goal.,1.0 +So spoke the goddess; while through all her frame,0.0 +In every motion kindling wrath divine,0.0 +To seize who listened. Vehement and swift,1.0 +As lightning fires the aromatic shade,0.0 +"Her inspiration catch his fervid soul,",0.0 +"Then let the trial come! and witness thou,",1.0 +If terror be upon me; if I shrink,1.0 +"To meet the storm, or falter in my strength",0.0 +"That I am fearful and infirm of soul,",1.0 +As late thy eyes beheld: for thou hast changed,1.0 +"My languid powers to bear me boldly on,",3.0 +Through toil or peril: only do not thou,0.0 +"Forsake me; OH be thou for ever near,",1.0 +"That I may listen to thy sacred voice,",1.0 +And guide by thy decrees my constant feet.,1.0 +"But say, for ever are my eyes bereft?",1.0 +"Appear again to charm me? Thou, in heaven!",1.0 +OH thou eternal arbiter of things!,3.0 +Be thy great bidding done: for who am I,2.0 +To question thy appointment? Let the frowns,1.0 +Of this avenger every morn overcast,6.0 +"The cheerful dawn, and every evening damp",0.0 +With double night my dwelling; I will learn,1.0 +His hateful presence: but permit my tongue,1.0 +"One glad request, and if my deeds may find",1.0 +"Thy awful eye propitious, OH restore",0.0 +"This lonely seat, and bless me with her smiles.",1.0 +With which that furious presence had involved,2.0 +"The ambient air, a flood of radiance came",2.0 +"Flew diverse, and amid the blue serene",2.0 +And to her wondering audience thus begun.,5.0 +"Lo! I am here to answer to your vows,",1.0 +And be the meeting fortunate! I come,1.0 +With joyful tidings; we shall part no more ' --,2.0 +Hark! how the gentle Echo from her cell,1.0 +"Talks through the cliffs, and murmuring over the stream",4.0 +Repeats the accent; we shall part no more.,3.0 +"The father has beheld you, while the might",0.0 +Of that stern foe with bitter trial proved,1.0 +Your equal doings: then for ever spoke,0.0 +"The high decree: that thou, celestial maid!",1.0 +However that grisly phantom on thy steps,4.0 +"May sometime dare intrude, yet never more",1.0 +"Shalt thou descending to the abode of man,",5.0 +She ended; and the whole romantic scene,1.0 +"Flew like the pictures of a morning dream,",1.0 +When sunshine fills the bed. A while I stood,1.0 +Perplexed and giddy; till the radiant power,1.0 +"Who bade the visionary landscape rise,",1.0 +"As up to him I turned, with gentlest looks",3.0 +"Preventing my enquiry, thus began.",3.0 +There let thy soul acknowledge its complaint,1.0 +"How blind, how impious! There behold the ways",4.0 +"Of heaven's eternal destiny to man,",3.0 +"For ever just, benevolent and wise:",1.0 +"That VIRTUE'S awful steps, however pursued",3.0 +"By vexing fortune and intrusive PAIN,",1.0 +"Should never be divided from her chaste,",1.0 +"Her fair attendant, PLEASURE. Need I urge",0.0 +Thy tardy thought through all the various round,1.0 +"Of this existence, that thy softening soul",1.0 +At length may learn what energy the hand,1.0 +Of virtue mingles in the bitter tide,0.0 +"Of passion swelling with distress and pain,",1.0 +To mitigate the sharp with gracious drops,0.0 +"Of cordial pleasure? Ask the faithful youth,",0.0 +Why the cold urn of her whom long he loved,2.0 +So often fills his arms; so often draws,0.0 +"His lonely footsteps at the silent hour,",1.0 +To pay the mournful tribute of his tears?,1.0 +"OH! he will tell thee, that the wealth of worlds",0.0 +Should never seduce his bosom to forego,3.0 +"That sacred hour, when stealing from the noise",1.0 +"With virtue's kindest looks his aching breast,",0.0 +And turns his tears to rapture ' -- Ask the crowd,0.0 +"To climb the neighbouring cliffs, when far below",2.0 +The cruel winds have hurled upon the coast,0.0 +Some helpless bark; while sacred pity melts,0.0 +"The general eye, or terror's icy hand",3.0 +While every mother closer to her breast,1.0 +"Catches her child, and pointing where the waves",2.0 +"Foam through the shattered vessel, shrieks aloud",0.0 +"As now another, dashed against the rock,",0.0 +"Over all that edge of pain, the social powers",0.0 +To this their proper action and their end?,2.0 +"' -- Ask thy own heart; when at the midnight hour,",1.0 +Slow through that studious gloom thy pausing eye,2.0 +Led by the glimmering taper moves around,2.0 +The sacred volumes of the dead: the songs,1.0 +"Of heaven and earth surveys the immortal page,",2.0 +"Even as a father blessing, while he reads,",1.0 +"The praises of his son. If then thy soul,",1.0 +"Spurning the yoke of these inglorious days,",5.0 +Mix in their deeds and kindle with their flame;,1.0 +"Say, when the prospect blackens on thy view,",1.0 +"When rooted from the base, heroic states",1.0 +Mourn in the dust and tremble at the frown,0.0 +"' -- when the pious band, etc.",2.0 +"Of youths who fought for freedom and their sires,",1.0 +"Usurps the throne of justice, turns the pomp",1.0 +"Of public power, the majesty of rule,",3.0 +"The sword, the laurel, and the purple robe,",1.0 +"To slavish empty pageants, to adorn",1.0 +"A tyrant's walk, and glitter in the eyes",2.0 +"Of patriots and of chiefs, the awful bust",1.0 +"Of regal envy, strew the public way",0.0 +"With hallowed ruins; when the muse's haunt,",0.0 +The marble porch where wisdom wont to talk,0.0 +"With Socrates or Tully, hears no more,",1.0 +"Save the hoarse jargon of contentious monks,",4.0 +Or female superstition's midnight prayer;,3.0 +"Tears the destroying scythe, with surer blow",2.0 +To sweep the works of glory from their base;,1.0 +Hisses the gliding snake through hoary weeds,2.0 +Thus widely mournful when the prospect thrills,1.0 +"Thy beating bosom, when the patriot's tear",2.0 +"Starts from thine eye, and thy extended arm",1.0 +Of him who sits amid the gaudy herd,1.0 +"Of mute barbarians bending to his nod,",3.0 +"And says within himself, I am a king,",1.0 +Intrude upon mine ear? ' -- The baleful dregs,0.0 +"Of these late ages, this inglorious draught",5.0 +"Of servitude and folly, have not yet,",0.0 +Blessed be the eternal ruler of the world!,2.0 +"WHAT wonder therefore, since endearing ties",1.0 +Of passion link the universal kind,0.0 +"Of man so close, what wonder if to search",1.0 +This common nature through the various change,3.0 +"Of sex, and age, and fortune, and the frame",1.0 +"Of each peculiar, draw the busy mind",0.0 +And all the teeming regions of the south,1.0 +"Hold not a quarry, to the curious flight",3.0 +"Of knowledge, half so tempting or so fair,",1.0 +As man to man. Nor only where the smiles,0.0 +Of love invite; nor only where the applause,2.0 +Of cordial honour turns the attentive eye,2.0 +On virtue's graceful deeds. For since the course,0.0 +Of things external acts in different ways,0.0 +"On human apprehensions, as the hand",1.0 +Of nature tempered to a different frame,1.0 +"The images of things, but paint in all",1.0 +"Their genuine hues, the features which they wore",2.0 +"In nature; there opinion will be true,",2.0 +And action right. For action treads the path,0.0 +"In which opinion says he follows good,",0.0 +Or flies from evil; and opinion gives,1.0 +"Report of good or evil, as the scene",1.0 +"Was drawn by fancy, lovely or deformed:",1.0 +"Thus her report can never there be true,",3.0 +"Where fancy cheats the intellectual eye,",2.0 +"Is there a man, who at the sound of death,",1.0 +"Sees ghastly shapes of terror conjured up,",2.0 +"And fearful prayers, and plunging from the brink",1.0 +"Of light and being, down the gloomy air,",1.0 +"An unknown depth? Alas! in such a mind,",5.0 +If no bright forms of excellence attend,2.0 +The image of his country; nor the pomp,2.0 +"Of justice on her throne, nor aught that wakes",1.0 +The conscious bosom with a patriot's flame;,3.0 +"Will not opinion tell him, that to die,",0.0 +"Or stand the hazard, is a greater ill",1.0 +Than to betray his country? And in act,2.0 +Will he not choose to be a wretch and live?,1.0 +Here vice begins then. From the enchanting cup,1.0 +"Which fancy holds to all, the unwary thirst",1.0 +That sheds a baleful tincture over the eye,2.0 +"Of reason, till no longer he discerns,",3.0 +And only guides to err. Then revel forth,0.0 +A furious band that spurn him from the throne;,3.0 +And all is uproar. Thus ambition grasps,1.0 +The empire of the soul: thus pale revenge,2.0 +Watch to overturn the barrier of the laws,1.0 +That keeps them from their prey: thus all the plagues,2.0 +"The wicked bear, or over the trembling scene",2.0 +"The tragic muse discloses, under shapes",0.0 +Stole first into the mind. Yet not by all,1.0 +Those lying forms which fancy in the brain,0.0 +"Engenders, are the kindling passions driven",1.0 +"To guilty deeds; nor reason bound in chains,",0.0 +That vice alone may lord it: oft adorned,0.0 +"With solemn pageants, folly mounts his throne,",0.0 +She wheels her giddy empire. ' -- Lo! thus far,1.0 +"Unbend her serious measure, and reveal",4.0 +"Each would outstrip the other, each prevent",0.0 +"Our careful search, and offer to your gaze,",1.0 +My curious friends! and let us first arrange,2.0 +In proper orders your promiscuous throng.,3.0 +"Behold the foremost band, etc.",3.0 +"Illustrious forms of excellence and good,",3.0 +That scorn the mansion. With exulting hearts,1.0 +They spread their spurious treasures to the sun;,3.0 +And bid the world admire! but chief the glance,0.0 +"In number boundless as the blooms of spring,",1.0 +"Behold their glaring idols, empty shades",0.0 +"By fancy gilded over, and then set up",1.0 +And rags of mouldy volumes. Some elate,0.0 +"Of costly frame, and gay Phoenician robes",0.0 +"There stands a female form; to her, with looks",2.0 +"Of earnest import, pregnant with amaze,",1.0 +"He talks of deadly deeds, of breaches, storms,",0.0 +"Breaks off, and smiles to see her look so pale,",0.0 +And asks some wondering question of her fears.,3.0 +"Others of graver mien; behold, adorned",2.0 +"And bending oft their sanctimonious eyes,",2.0 +Ambassadors of heaven! Nor much unlike,1.0 +"Is he whose visage, in the lazy missed",1.0 +"That mantles every feature, hides a brood",0.0 +"And dark portents of state. Ten thousand more,",2.0 +"Prodigious habits and tumultuous tongues,",4.0 +"Then comes the second order, etc.",4.0 +On some retired appearance which belies,0.0 +That justice else would pay. Here side by side,0.0 +"I see two leaders of the solemn train,",2.0 +"Approaching: one a female, old and grey,",2.0 +Pale as the cheeks of death; yet still she stuns,0.0 +The sickening audience with a nauseous tale;,1.0 +"How many youths her myrtle chains have worn,",0.0 +How many virgins at her triumphs pined!,0.0 +Yet how resolved she guards her cautious heart;,1.0 +And man's seducing tongue! The other seems,0.0 +And sordid all his habit; peevish want,0.0 +"Grins at his heels, while down the gazing throng",1.0 +"The vanity of riches, the contempt",2.0 +"Of pomp and power. Be prudent in your zeal,",2.0 +You grave associates! let the silent grace,2.0 +Of her who blushes at the fond regard,1.0 +"Her charms inspire, more eloquent unfold",1.0 +Whose eye regards not his illustrious pomp,3.0 +"And ample store, but as indulgent streams",1.0 +To cheer the barren soil and spread the fruits,0.0 +"Of joy, let him by juster measure fix",2.0 +The price of riches and the end of power.,1.0 +"Another tribe succeeds, etc.",2.0 +The images of some peculiar things,1.0 +"With brighter hues resplendent, and portrayed",1.0 +With features nobler far than ever adorned,5.0 +Their genuine objects. Hence the fevered heart,2.0 +Pants with delirious hope for tinsel charms;,4.0 +"Hence oft obtrusive on the eye of scorn,",2.0 +Untimely zeal her witless pride betrays;,0.0 +"And serious manhood, from the towering aim",2.0 +"Of wisdom, stoops to emulate the boast",0.0 +"Of childish toil. Behold yonder mystic form,",6.0 +"Bedecked with feathers, insects, weeds and shells!",1.0 +"Bent his fixed eye on heaven's eternal fires,",5.0 +When first the order of that radiant scene,1.0 +"Swelled his exulting thought, than this surveys",3.0 +"Next him a youth, with flowers and myrtles crowned,",2.0 +"To win her coy regard: adieu, for him,",0.0 +The dull engagements of the bustling world!,1.0 +"And hope, and action! for with her alone,",2.0 +"By streams and shades, to steal the sighing hours,",0.0 +"Is all he asks, and all that fate can give!",0.0 +"Thee, dreaded censor! oft have I beheld",1.0 +Bewildered unawares: alas! too long,1.0 +Flushed with thy comic triumphs and the spoils,1.0 +Of sly derision! till on every side,1.0 +"Hurling thy random bolts, offended truth",2.0 +Assigned thee here thy station with the slaves,1.0 +Of folly. Thy once formidable name,3.0 +"Shall grace her humble records, and be heard",1.0 +In scoffs and mockery bandied from the lips,3.0 +"Of all the vengeful brotherhood around,",0.0 +So oft the patient victims of thy scorn.,1.0 +Of all the muse's empire hath assigned,0.0 +"The fields of folly, hither each advance",0.0 +Your sickles; here the teeming soil affords,0.0 +Its richest growth. A favourite brood appears;,0.0 +"In whom the daemon, with a mother's joy,",1.0 +"Views all her charms reflected, all her cares",0.0 +At full repaid. You most illustrious band!,2.0 +"And order's vulgar bondage, never meant",0.0 +"For souls sublime as yours, with generous zeal",3.0 +"Pay vice the reverence virtue long usurped,",4.0 +And yield deformity the fond applause,1.0 +"Which beauty wont to claim; forgive my song,",0.0 +It shuns the unequal province of your praise.,3.0 +"Advance reluctant, and with faltering feet",3.0 +"Whom fancy chills with visionary fears,",0.0 +"Of shame, of evil, or of base defect,",1.0 +His humbler habit: here the trembling wretch,0.0 +At every dream of danger: here subdued,0.0 +"Of old, unfeeling vice, the abject soul",0.0 +Who blushing half resigns the candid praise,0.0 +And hears with sickly smiles the venal mouth,0.0 +"Of gay derision bends her hostile aim,",0.0 +Is that where shameful ignorance presides.,1.0 +"Beneath her sordid banners, lo! they march,",0.0 +Like blind and lame. Whatever their doubtful hands,3.0 +"Attempt, confusion strait appears behind,",0.0 +"And troubles all the work. Through many a maze,",2.0 +"Perplexed they struggle, changing every path,",0.0 +Overturning every purpose; then at last,0.0 +"Sit down dismayed, and leave entangled scene",2.0 +Of folly in the mind; and such the shapes,1.0 +In which she governs her obsequious train.,3.0 +Though every scene of ridicule in things,0.0 +To lead the tenor of my devious lay;,3.0 +"Through every swift occasion, which the hand",0.0 +What were it but to count each crystal drop,1.0 +Which morning's dewy fingers on the blooms,1.0 +"' -- suffice it to have said, etc.",3.0 +Wherever the power of ridicule displays,4.0 +"Some stubborn dissonance of things combined,",1.0 +"Strikes on the quick observer: whether pomp,",0.0 +"Or praise, or beauty mix their partial claim",0.0 +"Where sordid fashions, where ignoble deeds,",0.0 +"Where foul deformity are wont to dwell,",1.0 +"Or whether these with violation loathed,",2.0 +"The charms of beauty, or the boast of praise.",1.0 +"Ask we for what fair end, etc.",3.0 +"These grateful stings of laughter, from disgust",1.0 +"The tardy steps of reason, and at once",1.0 +By this prompt impulse urge us to depress,4.0 +The giddy aims of folly? Though the light,1.0 +"At length unfolds, through many a subtle tie,",2.0 +How these uncouth disorders end at last,2.0 +Conscious how dim the dawn of truth appears,2.0 +To thousands; conscious what a scanty pause,0.0 +Of humble life affords for studious thought,2.0 +To scan the maze of nature; therefore stamped,1.0 +"The glaring scenes with characters of scorn,",1.0 +"As broad, as obvious to the passing clown,",1.0 +As to the lettered sage's curious eye.,3.0 +Such are the various aspects of the mind ' --,3.0 +Attain that secret harmony which blends,1.0 +OH! teach me to reveal the grateful charm,2.0 +"Diffuses, to behold, in lifeless things,",1.0 +Of thought and passion. Mark the sable woods,0.0 +That shade sublime yonder mountain's nodding brow;,6.0 +With what religious awe the solemn scene,0.0 +Commands your steps! as if the reverend form,1.0 +Move to your pausing eye! Behold the expanse,2.0 +"Of yonder gay landscape, where the silver clouds",1.0 +Flit over the heavens before the sprightly breeze:,5.0 +"The aerial shadows; on the curling brook,",2.0 +And on the shady margin's quivering leaves,6.0 +With quickest lustre glancing: while you view,0.0 +"The prospect, say, within your cheerful breast",0.0 +Plays not the lively sense of winning mirth,0.0 +"Of social converse, to the inspiring tongue",3.0 +"Moves all obsequious? Whence is this effect,",3.0 +This kindred power of such discordant things?,3.0 +Or flows their semblance from that mystic tone,1.0 +To which the newborn mind's harmonious powers,2.0 +At first were strung? Or rather from the links,1.0 +For when the different images of things,1.0 +"By chance combined, have struck the attentive soul",2.0 +"With deeper impulse, or connected long,",1.0 +Have drawn her frequent eye; however distinct,3.0 +"The external scenes, yet oft the ideas gain",3.0 +"From that conjunction an eternal tie,",1.0 +And sympathy unbroken. Let the mind,1.0 +"Recall one partner of the various league,",3.0 +"Immediate, lo! the firm confederates rise,",2.0 +And each his former station strait resumes:,0.0 +"One movement governs the consenting throng,",1.0 +"And all at once with rosy pleasure shine,",0.0 +"'Twas thus, if ancient fame the truth unfold,",1.0 +"Its mystic virtue, and at first conspired",1.0 +With fatal impulse quivering to the pole;,1.0 +"Rolled its broad surge betwixt, and different stars",3.0 +"The former friendship, and remembered still",1.0 +The alliance of their birth: whatever the line,5.0 +"Which one possessed, nor pause, nor quiet knew",1.0 +"Such is the secret union, when we feel",1.0 +"A song, a flower, a name at once restore",2.0 +"Guiding the wanton fancy to her scope,",3.0 +"To temples, courts or fields; with all the band",0.0 +"Of painted forms, of passions and designs",1.0 +"Attendant: whence, if pleasing in itself,",0.0 +The prospect from that sweet accession gains,1.0 +Redoubled influence over the listening mind.,4.0 +"By these mysterious ties, etc.",5.0 +Of memory her ideal train preserves,6.0 +"Entire; or when they would elude her watch,",1.0 +Of dark oblivion; thus collecting all,2.0 +"The various forms of being to present,",3.0 +"Before the curious aim of mimic art,",2.0 +Their largest choice: like spring's unfolded blooms,0.0 +"May taste at will, from their selected spoils",2.0 +To work her dulcet food. For not the expanse,1.0 +With fairer semblance; not the sculptured gold,0.0 +"Propitious viewed, and from his genial star",1.0 +Shed influence to the seeds of fancy kind;,2.0 +"The seal of nature. There alone unchanged,",1.0 +Her form remains. The balmy walks of May,0.0 +There breathe perennial sweets: the trembling chord,2.0 +"Melodious; and the virgin's radiant eye,",1.0 +"Superior to disease, to grief, and time,",3.0 +"Endowed with all that nature can bestow,",1.0 +The child of fancy oft in silence bends,0.0 +"Over these mixed treasures of his pregnant breast,",3.0 +With conscious pride. From them he oft resolves,1.0 +To frame he knows not what excelling things;,0.0 +And win he knows not what sublime reward,0.0 +Of praise and wonder. By degrees the mind,1.0 +Feels her young nerves dilate: the plastic powers,3.0 +Labour for action: blind emotions heave,1.0 +"From earth to heaven he rolls his daring eye,",0.0 +"From heaven to earth. Anon ten thousand shapes,",1.0 +Fleet swift before him. From the womb of earth,2.0 +From ocean's bed they come: the eternal heavens,2.0 +He marks the rising phantoms. Now compares,0.0 +"Their different forms; now blends them, now divides;",1.0 +"Opposes, ranges in fantastic bands,",0.0 +"And infinitely varies. Hither now,",1.0 +With endless choice perplexed. At length his plan,0.0 +Begins to open. Lucid order dawns;,0.0 +And as from Chaos old the jarring seeds,1.0 +Of nature at the voice divine repaired,0.0 +"Each to its place, till rosy earth unveiled",0.0 +"Her fragrant bosom, and the joyful sun",1.0 +Sprung up the blue serene; by swift degrees,0.0 +"Emerges. Colours mingle, features join,",3.0 +And lines converge: the fainter parts retire;,0.0 +The fairer eminent in light advance;,1.0 +And every image on its neighbour smiles.,2.0 +"A while he stands, and with a father's joy",1.0 +"Into its proper vehicle, etc.",3.0 +"The fair conception; which embodied thus,",0.0 +"And permanent, becomes to eyes or ears",1.0 +"An object ascertained: while thus informed,",0.0 +"The various organs of his mimic skill,",3.0 +"The shadowy picture and impassioned verse,",3.0 +Beyond their proper powers attract the soul,2.0 +"By that expressive semblance, while in sight",0.0 +Of nature's great original we scan,1.0 +"The lively child of art; while line by line,",0.0 +And feature after feature we refer,1.0 +To that sublime exemplar whence it stole,0.0 +Betwixt them wavering hangs: applauding love,2.0 +Doubts where to choose; and mortal man aspires,0.0 +To tempt creative praise. As when a cloud,0.0 +"Enclosed and obvious to the beaming sun,",1.0 +With equal flames present on either hand,0.0 +"The radiant visage: Persia stands at gaze,",0.0 +Appalled; and on the brink of Ganges waits,1.0 +"To which the fragrance of the south shall burn,",1.0 +The unfeeling vulgar mocks the boon divine:,1.0 +"And harsh austerity, from whose rebuke",2.0 +"Young love and smiling wonder shrink away,",1.0 +"Abashed and chill of heart, with sager frowns",0.0 +"Condemns the fair enchantment. On, my strain,",1.0 +"Perhaps even now some cold, fastidious judge",6.0 +"Casts a disdainful eye; and calls my toil,",2.0 +"And calls the love and beauty which I sing,",0.0 +"The dream of folly. Thou grave censor! say,",2.0 +Of dullness hang too heavy on thy sense,2.0 +To let her shine upon thee? So the man,1.0 +"Whose eye never opened on the light of heaven,",2.0 +"Of the gay, coloured radiance flushing bright",2.0 +Over all creation. From the wise be far,1.0 +"Descend so low; but rather now unfold,",0.0 +"If human thought could reach, or words unfold,",0.0 +"By what mysterious fabric of the mind,",3.0 +Result from airy motion; and from shape,1.0 +The lovely phantoms of sublime and fair.,1.0 +By what fine ties hath GOD connected things,1.0 +When present in the mind; which in themselves,0.0 +"Have no connection? Sure the rising sun,",0.0 +With equal brightness and with equal warmth,1.0 +Might roll his fiery orb; nor yet the soul,2.0 +"Thus feel her frame expanded, and her powers",2.0 +Like a young conqueror moving through the pomp,5.0 +"Of some triumphal day. When joined at eve,",0.0 +Through all its tones the symphony pursue;,1.0 +Nor yet this breath divine of nameless joy,0.0 +"Mild as the breeze, yet rapturous as the song?",1.0 +But were not nature still endowed at large,1.0 +"With all which life requires, though unadorned",0.0 +With such enchantment? Wherefore then her form,1.0 +So exquisitely fair? her breath perfumed,4.0 +Informed at will to raise or to depress,2.0 +The impassioned soul? and whence the robes of light,1.0 +Which thus invest her with more lovely pomp,1.0 +"Than fancy can describe? Whence but from thee,",2.0 +"With every food of life to nourish man,",0.0 +By kind illusions of the wondering sense,3.0 +The goodly prospect; and with inward smiles,1.0 +"To the full choir of water, air, and earth;",4.0 +"Nor heeds the pleasing error of his thought,",1.0 +"Nor doubts the painted green or azure arch,",0.0 +Nor questions more the music's mingling sounds,0.0 +"Than space, or motion, or eternal time:",1.0 +So sweet he feels their influence to attract,3.0 +"Of care, and make the destined road of life",0.0 +"Delightful to his feet. So fables tell,",1.0 +"The adventurous hero, bound on hard exploits,",4.0 +"Of some kind sage, the patron of his toils,",2.0 +A visionary paradise disclosed,0.0 +"Amid the dubious wild: with streams, and shades,",2.0 +"And airy songs, the enchanted landscape smiles,",3.0 +"What then is taste, but these internal powers",1.0 +To each fine impulse? a discerning sense,2.0 +"Of decent and sublime, with quick disgust",1.0 +"In species? This, nor gems, nor stores of gold,",1.0 +"Nor purple state, nor culture can bestow;",1.0 +"But GOD alone, when first his active hand",0.0 +Imprints the secret bias of the soul.,1.0 +"He, mighty parent! wise and just in all,",0.0 +"Free as the vital breeze or light of heaven,",0.0 +Reveals the charms of nature. Ask the swain,0.0 +Who journeys homeward from a summer day's,1.0 +"Long labour, why, forgetful of his toils",2.0 +"The sunshine gleaming as through amber clouds,",2.0 +"Beyond the power of language, will unfold",3.0 +"The form of beauty smiling at his heart,",0.0 +How lovely! how commanding! But though heaven,2.0 +In every breast hath sown these early seeds,0.0 +"Of love and admiration, yet in vain,",0.0 +"Without fair culture's kind parental aid,",1.0 +"Without enlivening suns, and genial showers,",2.0 +"And shelter from the blast, in vain we hope",1.0 +"The tender plant should rear its blooming head,",0.0 +Or yield the harvest promised in its spring.,0.0 +Nor yet will every soil with equal stores,0.0 +"His will, obsequious, whether to produce",4.0 +The olive or the laurel. Different minds,1.0 +Incline to different objects: one pursues,1.0 +"Another sighs for harmony, and grace,",1.0 +And gentlest beauty. Hence when lightning fires,2.0 +"The arch of heaven, and thunders rock the ground;",0.0 +"And ocean, groaning from the lowest bed,",1.0 +Heaves his tempestuous billows to the sky;,6.0 +"Amid the mighty uproar, while below",1.0 +"From some high cliff, superior, and enjoys",4.0 +OH! how I long my careless limbs to lay,0.0 +"With amorous airs my fancy entertain, etc.",4.0 +"While in the park I sing, the listening deer",0.0 +"Attend my passion and forget to fear, etc.",3.0 +All on the margin of some flowery stream,3.0 +To spread his careless limbs amid the cool,0.0 +The tale of slighted vows and love's disdain,0.0 +Consenting Zephyr sighs; the weeping rill,0.0 +And hill and dale with all their echoes mourn.,0.0 +Such and so various are the tastes of men.,2.0 +"O! blessed of heaven, whom not the languid songs",0.0 +"Of luxury, the Siren! not the bribes",1.0 +"Of sordid wealth, nor all the gaudy spoils",0.0 +To charm the enlivened soul! What though not all,2.0 +Of mortal offspring can attain the heights,2.0 +Of envied life; though only few possess,0.0 +Patrician treasures or imperial state;,3.0 +"Yet nature's care, to all her children just,",0.0 +"The princely dome, the column and the arch,",1.0 +"The breathing marbles and the sculptured gold,",1.0 +"His tuneful breast enjoys. For him, the spring",1.0 +"Its lucid leaves unfolds: for him, the hand",1.0 +With blooming gold and blushes like the morn.,0.0 +Each passing hour sheds tribute from her wings;,4.0 +And still new beauties meet his lonely walk;,1.0 +From all the tenants of the warbling shade,1.0 +"Ascends, but whence his bosom can partake",1.0 +"Fresh pleasure only: for the attentive mind,",4.0 +"By this harmonious action on her powers,",4.0 +Becomes herself harmonious: wont so long,2.0 +In outward things to meditate the charm,0.0 +"Of sacred order, soon she seeks at home",0.0 +"To find a kindred order, to exert",1.0 +"Within herself this elegance of love,",1.0 +"Refine at length, and every passion wears",0.0 +On nature's form where negligent of all,1.0 +"These lesser graces, she assumes the port",1.0 +Of that eternal majesty that weighed,1.0 +"The world's foundations, if to these the mind",2.0 +Exalt her daring eye; then mightier far,2.0 +"Will be the change, and nobler. Would the forms",0.0 +Of servile custom cramp her generous powers?,2.0 +"Would sordid policies, the barbarous growth",3.0 +"Lo! she appeals to nature, to the winds",3.0 +The elements and seasons: all declare,1.0 +For what the eternal maker has ordained,1.0 +The powers of man: we feel within ourselves,2.0 +"His energy divine: he tells the heart,",1.0 +"He meant, he made us to behold and love",1.0 +"Of life and being; to be great like him,",1.0 +Beneficent and active. Thus the men,2.0 +"Whom nature's works can charm, with GOD himself",0.0 +"Hold converse; grow familiar, day by day,",1.0 +With his conceptions; act upon his plan;,1.0 +"And form to his, the relish of their souls.",2.0 +"IF void of Art my languid Verse appears,",0.0 +"Forgive, OH FREIND, the Bard, who sings in Tears:",1.0 +"Rude are the Lays, which only Grief adorns;",0.0 +"And dull the Muses, when APOLLO mourns;",0.0 +To see her favourite Priest his Charge resign.,0.0 +"Yet why should Grief debase his glorious Name,",2.0 +"Or blast the Bays, his Merits justly claim?",0.0 +No venal View his noble Temper sways;,1.0 +"He quits with Honour, what he kept with Praise.",0.0 +"As some wise Leader, in successful Wars,",1.0 +"Worn out with Age, and covered over with Scars,",2.0 +"Resigns the Post, he bravely long sustained,",0.0 +"Nor seek new Laurels, to adorn thy Brows;",2.0 +"Review thy Toils, and see what polished Peers",1.0 +"Honour thy forming Hand, and studious Cares:",2.0 +"Confess the Mould, in which his Mind was cast:",0.0 +"PELHAM, in whose capacious Soul we find",2.0 +"The Scholar, Statesman, and the Patriot joined.",3.0 +"Nor shall the tender Plants, which round thee stand,",0.0 +Ever prove ungrateful to the Planter's Hand;,2.0 +"Their Branches flourish, and the Fruits ascend;",1.0 +"While pleasing Hope with Expectation smiles,",0.0 +"To reap the future Product of thy Toils,",1.0 +"Intent to see thy Pupils shining forth,",0.0 +Whose Actions soon shall better speak thy Worth;,0.0 +"When in the Train of Senators they come,",1.0 +Refined with all the Arts of Greece and Rome;,0.0 +"While, in each Act, their prudent Counsels show",0.0 +"Their Master's Loyalty, and Learning too.",1.0 +"Thus have thy Precepts made thy Province shine,",1.0 +"LAUGHS not the heart, when Giants, big with pride,",0.0 +"Assume the pompous port, the martial stride;",0.0 +"Over arm Herculean heave the enormous shield,",3.0 +Vast as a weaver's beam the javelin wield;,0.0 +And dare to single combat ' -- What? ' -- A Fly.,0.0 +"AND laugh we less, when Giant names, which shine",0.0 +Established as it were by right divine;,2.0 +"Critics whom every captive art adores,",2.0 +To whom glad Science pours forth all her stores;,2.0 +"Who high in lettered reputation sit,",0.0 +"With partial rage rush forth, ' -- O! shame to tell! ' --",1.0 +To crush a bard just bursting from the shell?,1.0 +GREAT are his perils in this stormy time,0.0 +"Around vast surges roll, winds envious blow,",4.0 +And jealous rocks and quicksands lurk below.,1.0 +"Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends;",2.0 +He hurts me most who lavishly commends.,1.0 +LOOK through the world ' -- in every other trade,0.0 +The same employment's cause of kindness made;,0.0 +At least appearance of good will creates;,2.0 +And every fool puffs off the fool he hates:,2.0 +"Cobblers with cobblers smoke away the night,",2.0 +And in the common cause even players unite.,4.0 +"Authors, alone, with more than savage rage,",2.0 +Unnatural war with brother authors wage.,2.0 +The pride of Nature would as soon admit,0.0 +Competitors in empire as in wit.,2.0 +"And, less than greatest, would not be at all.",0.0 +"Overrun with wit, and destitute of sense,",0.0 +"If any novice in the rhyming trade,",0.0 +With lawless pen the realms of verse invade;,0.0 +"Abused with praise, and flattered into wit;",0.0 +"Where in lethargic majesty they reign,",1.0 +And what they won by dullness still maintain;,0.0 +Never was Lie made which was not welcome there. ' --,4.0 +The polished falsehood's into public brought.,0.0 +And reputation bleeds in every word.,0.0 +"A CRITIC was of old a glorious name,",3.0 +Whose sanction handed merit up to fame:,1.0 +Beauties as well as faults he brought to view:,2.0 +No servile rules drew sickly taste aside;,2.0 +"Secure he walked, for Nature was his guide.",1.0 +"But now, O strange reverse! our Critics bawl",0.0 +"Conscious of guilt, and fearful of the light,",3.0 +They lurk enshrouded in the veil of night:,0.0 +"WHEN first my Muse, perhaps more bold than wise,",0.0 +"Bad the rude trifle into light arise,",3.0 +Vain thought! A Critic's fury knows no bound;,2.0 +Nor can we hope he will a stranger spare,2.0 +Who gives no quarter to his friend VOLTAIRE.,2.0 +"UNHAPPY Genius! placed, by partial Fate,",0.0 +With a free spirit in a slavish state;,2.0 +"Where the reluctant Muse, oppressed by kings,",1.0 +"The bigot's furious zeal, and tyrant's scorn.",4.0 +"Thus, when the Julian tyrant's pride to swell",2.0 +The vanquished chief escaped from CAESAR's hand,0.0 +So large an empire on so small a base?,1.0 +"In what retreat, inglorious and unknown,",3.0 +Did Genius sleep when Dullness seized the throne?,0.0 +"Whence, absolute now grown, and free from awe,",1.0 +She to the subject world dispenses law.,1.0 +"Without her licence, not a letter stirs;",0.0 +And all the captive criss cross row is hers.,1.0 +"Opinions gave, but gave his reasons too.",0.0 +Our great Dictators take a shorter way ' --,0.0 +Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say?,1.0 +"Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason,",1.0 +"In such a state as their's, is downright treason.",2.0 +"True judgement, now, with Them alone can dwell;",2.0 +"Dull superstitious readers they deceive,",2.0 +"Who pin their easy faith on critic's sleeve,",0.0 +"And, knowing nothing, every thing believe!",0.0 +Shoot into Giants? ' -- We may thank ourselves.,2.0 +The Calf ourselves have fashioned we adore.,1.0 +"But let true Reason once resume her reign,",1.0 +This God shall dwindle to a Calf again.,1.0 +"FOUNDED on arts which shun the face of day,",2.0 +By the same arts they still maintain their sway.,2.0 +"Wrapped in mysterious secrecy they rise,",4.0 +"And, as they are unknown, are safe and wise.",2.0 +"At whomsoever aimed, however severe",3.0 +"Prudence forbid that step. ' -- Then all might know,",2.0 +And on more equal terms engage the foe.,1.0 +"But now, what Quixote of the age would care",3.0 +"To wage a war with dirt, and fight with air?",0.0 +"By interest joined, the expert confederates stand,",2.0 +And play the game into each other's hand.,0.0 +"The vile abuse, in turn by all denied,",0.0 +Is bandied up and down from side to side:,2.0 +"It flies ' -- hey! ' -- presto! ' -- like a juggler's ball,",3.0 +Till it belongs to nobody at all.,2.0 +"ALL men and things they know, themselves unknown,",0.0 +And publish every name ' -- except their own.,0.0 +Nor think this strange ' -- secure from vulgar eyes,0.0 +The nameless author passes in disguise.,0.0 +"But veteran critics are not so deceived,",2.0 +If veteran critics are to be believed.,1.0 +"Once seen they know an author evermore,",1.0 +Nay swear to hands they never saw before.,1.0 +"They, by the writing, found the writers out.",2.0 +And all the ACTOR stares you in the face.,0.0 +"By COLMAN that was written. ' -- On my life,",1.0 +The strongest symptoms of the JEALOUS WIFE.,1.0 +"That little disingenuous piece of spite,",3.0 +"CHURCHILL, a wretch unknown, perhaps might write.",2.0 +"How does it make judicious readers smile,",0.0 +When authors are detected by their style:,2.0 +"Though every one who knows this author, knows",1.0 +He shifts his style much oftener than his clothes?,1.0 +"WHENCE could arise this mighty critic spleen,",0.0 +"What had I done, that angry HEAVEN should send",0.0 +"The bitterest Foe, where most I wished a Friend?",2.0 +"Oft hath my tongue been wanton at thy name,",0.0 +For me let hoary FIELDING bite the ground,2.0 +"Which, with more justice blooms upon thine own.",0.0 +But he who wrote the Life of TOMMY THUMB.,1.0 +The author wrote as man never wrote before?,3.0 +"Who can so often in his cause engage,",0.0 +"While horrors rise, and tears spontaneous flow",2.0 +At tragic Have! and no less tragic O!?,2.0 +His NERVOUS WEAKNESS all to praise agree;,0.0 +"And then, for sweetness, who so sweet as he?",0.0 +Too big for utterance when sorrows swell,2.0 +The too big sorrows flowing tears must tell:,1.0 +"But when those flowing tears shall cease to flow,",0.0 +"Why, ' -- then the voice must speak again you know.",0.0 +"Never did I colours high in air advance,",3.0 +With patches here and there like Joseph's coat.,1.0 +"Me humbler themes befit: Secure, for me,",0.0 +Let Playwrights smuggle nonsense duty free:,2.0 +And frisk and frolic over the fairy ground:,2.0 +"Secure, for me, thou pretty little fawn",1.0 +Through the green umbrage of the enchanted grove:,5.0 +THE Stage I chose ' -- a subject fair and free ' --,0.0 +It's yours ' -- it's mine ' -- it's Public Property.,2.0 +All Common Exhibitions open lie,0.0 +For Praise or Censure to the Common Eye.,1.0 +Hence Monthly Critics earn their Daily Bread.,1.0 +"This is a general tax which all must pay,",1.0 +"From those who scribble, down to those who play.",3.0 +"Actors, a venal crew, receive support",2.0 +"From public bounty, for the public sport.",1.0 +"To clap or hiss, all have an equal claim,",0.0 +All join for their subsistence; all expect,1.0 +"Free leave to praise their worth, their faults correct.",1.0 +"When active PICKLE Smithfield stage ascends,",0.0 +The three days wonder of his laughing friends;,2.0 +"Each, or as judgement, or as fancy guides,",1.0 +Betwixt a Merry Andrew and a Player?,1.0 +"THE strolling tribe, a despicable race,",4.0 +"Like wandering Arabs, shift from place to place.",2.0 +"Vagrants by law, to justice open laid,",2.0 +"They tremble, of the beadle's lash afraid,",1.0 +"And fawning cringe, for wretched means of life,",0.0 +"The mighty monarch, in theatric sack,",0.0 +Carries his whole regalia at his back;,2.0 +"His royal consort heads the female band,",6.0 +Bearing a future prince on either side.,2.0 +No choice musicians in this troop are found,1.0 +To varnish nonsense with the charms of sound;,1.0 +"No swords, no daggers, not one poisoned bowl;",2.0 +"No lightning flashes here, no thunders roll;",2.0 +No guards to swell the monarch's train are shown;,2.0 +The monarch here must be an host ALONE.,0.0 +"No solemn pomp, no slow procession here;",2.0 +"BY need compelled to prostitute his art,",0.0 +The varied actor flies from part to part;,0.0 +"And, strange disgrace to all theatric pride,",0.0 +His character is shifted with his side.,2.0 +"Question and Answer he by turns must be,",3.0 +Like that small wit in MODERN TRAGEDY;,2.0 +"Who, to support his fame, ' -- or fill his purse, ' --",1.0 +"Like gypsies, least the stolen brat be known,",0.0 +"Defacing first, then claiming for his own.",1.0 +"In shabby state they strut, and tattered robe;",0.0 +"The scene a blanket, and a barn the globe.",1.0 +"Content with humble profit, humble praise.",0.0 +The strolling pageant hero treads in air:,0.0 +"Pleased for his hour he to mankind gives law,",2.0 +And snores the next out on a truss of straw.,1.0 +"BUT if kind Fortune, who we sometime know",3.0 +"In mood propitious should her favourite call,",0.0 +"On royal stage in royal pomp to bawl,",0.0 +"Forgetful of himself he rears the head,",1.0 +"With gods and goddesses behind the scenes,",1.0 +"On this great stage the World, no monarch ever",3.0 +DOES it more move our anger or our mirth,1.0 +"To see these THINGS, the lowest sons of earth,",0.0 +To rule in Letters and preside in Taste.,1.0 +"The TOWN's decisions they no more admit,",2.0 +Themselves alone the ARBITERS of Wit;,1.0 +And scorn the jurisdiction of that COURT,1.0 +To which they owe their being and support.,1.0 +"Actors, like monks of old, now sacred grown,",3.0 +Must be attacked by no fools but their own.,2.0 +"LET the Vain Tyrant sit amid his guards,",3.0 +"And, for a Playhouse Freedom lose their own;",2.0 +"The freeborn Muse with liberal spirit sings,",0.0 +"Bow down, you Slaves; before these Idols fall;",0.0 +"Never will I flatter, cringe, or bend the knee",1.0 +"To those who, Slaves to ALL, are Slaves to ME.",1.0 +"ACTORS, as Actors, are a lawful game;",3.0 +The poet's right; and Who shall bar his claim?,0.0 +"If to the subject world they still give laws,",2.0 +"If they in cellar or in garret roar,",2.0 +"And Kings one night, are Kings for evermore;",0.0 +"Shall not bold Truth, even there, pursue her theme,",2.0 +"Or if, well worthy of a better fate,",3.0 +They rise superior to their present state;,1.0 +"If, with each social virtue graced, they blend",1.0 +The gay companion and the faithful friend;,1.0 +"If they, like PRITCHARD, join in private life",1.0 +The tender parent and the virtuous wife;,3.0 +"Shall not our Verse their praise with pleasure speak,",0.0 +Though Mimics bark and Envy split her cheek?,0.0 +No honest worth's beneath the Muse's praise;,1.0 +No greatness can above her censure raise:,2.0 +"Station and wealth, to Her, are trifling things;",3.0 +"She stoops to Actors, and she soars to Kings.",1.0 +"IS there a man, in vice and folly bred,",1.0 +"Whom ties nor human, nor divine, can bind;",1.0 +"Alien to GOD, and foe to all mankind;",2.0 +"Who spares no character; whose every word,",2.0 +"Bitter as gall, and sharper than the sword,",3.0 +"Whose tongue, on earth, performs the work of Hell?",0.0 +"If there be such a monster, the REVIEWS",1.0 +Shall find him holding forth against Abuse.,0.0 +Attack Profession! ' -- it's a deadly breach! ' --,1.0 +The Christian laws another lesson teach: ' --,0.0 +"Unto the end should charity endure,",3.0 +"As devils, to serve their purpose, Scripture quote.",2.0 +"THE Muse's office was by HEAVEN designed,",1.0 +"To please, improve, instruct, reform mankind;",1.0 +To make dejected Virtue nobly rise,0.0 +Above the towering pitch of splendid Vice;,0.0 +"To make pale Vice, abashed, her head hang down,",3.0 +And trembling crouch at Virtue's awful frown.,0.0 +"Now armed with wrath, she bids eternal shame;",1.0 +With strictest justice brands the villain's name:,0.0 +Now in the milder garb of Ridicule,0.0 +"She sports, and pleases while she wounds the Fool.",0.0 +"Her shape is often varied; but her aim,",1.0 +"To prop the cause of Virtue, still the same.",0.0 +"In praise of Mercy let the guilty bawl,",0.0 +When Vice and Folly for Correction call;,1.0 +"Silence the mark of weakness justly bears,",2.0 +"BUT if the Muse, too cruel in her mirth,",2.0 +"If wantonly she deviate from her plan,",1.0 +And quits the Actor to expose the Man;,1.0 +"Ashamed, she marks that passage with a blot,",1.0 +"Though Judgement join to consecrate the strain,",0.0 +"If curious numbers will not aid afford,",3.0 +Nor choicest music play in every word?,0.0 +"Verses must run, to charm a modern ear,",2.0 +"From all harsh, rugged interruptions clear:",1.0 +"Soft let them breathe, as Zephyr's balmy breeze;",1.0 +Smooth let their current flow as summer seas;,1.0 +Perfect then only deemed when they dispense,1.0 +A happy tuneful vacancy of sense.,1.0 +"Italian fathers thus, with barbarous rage,",2.0 +Fit helpless infants for the squeaking stage;,2.0 +"Deaf to the calls of pity, Nature wound,",0.0 +"Henceforth farewell then, feverish thirst of fame;",4.0 +Farewell the longings for a Poet's name;,2.0 +Perish my Muse; ' -- a wish above all severe,4.0 +"To him who ever held the Muses dear,",1.0 +The generous roughness of a nervous line.,3.0 +OTHERS affect the stiff and swelling phrase;,2.0 +Their Muse must walk in stilts and strut in stays:,0.0 +"The sense they murder, and the words transpose,",1.0 +Lest Poetry approach too near to Prose.,2.0 +"See, tortured Reason how they pare and trim,",2.0 +"Parent of harmony in English verse,",3.0 +"Whose tuneful Muse in sweetest accent flows,",1.0 +"IN polished numbers, and majestic sound,",1.0 +"Where shall thy rival, POPE, be ever found?",0.0 +"But while each line with equal beauty flows,",0.0 +"Nature, through all her works, in great degree,",1.0 +Borrows a blessing from VARIETY.,4.0 +Music itself her needful aid requires,2.0 +"To rouse the soul, and wake our dying fires.",0.0 +"Still in one key, the Nightingale would tease:",1.0 +"Still in one key, not BRENT would always please.",0.0 +"HERE let me bend, great DRYDEN, at thy shrine,",1.0 +Thou dearest name to all the tuneful nine.,0.0 +"What if some dull lines in cold order creep,",2.0 +And with his theme the poet seems to sleep?,1.0 +"Still when his subject rises proud to view,",0.0 +With equal strength the poet rises too.,0.0 +Thought still springs up and rises out of thought;,2.0 +"Numbers, ennobling numbers in their course,",2.0 +"In varied sweetness flow, in varied force;",0.0 +"The powers of Genius and of Judgement join,",3.0 +And the Whole Art of Poetry is Thine.,1.0 +A sacred muse should consecrate her Pen;,0.0 +Priests must not hear nor see like other Men;,0.0 +Far higher themes should her ambition claim;,2.0 +"WHILE, with mistaken zeal, dull bigots burn,",2.0 +Let REASON for a moment take her turn.,2.0 +What if a man delight to pass his time,0.0 +Or sometime boldly venture to the Play?,2.0 +"No two on earth in one thing can agree,",3.0 +All have some darling singularity.,1.0 +"Women and men, as well as girls and boys,",2.0 +Are but a better kind of toys for kings.,1.0 +"In things indifferent, REASON bids us choose,",0.0 +Whether the Whim's a MONKEY or a MUSE.,3.0 +"When they make use of this word REASON, mean,",5.0 +"I know not; but, according to my plan,",2.0 +"Equally formed to rule in age and youth,",2.0 +The Friend of Virtue and the Guide to Truth.,1.0 +"To HER I bow, whose sacred power I feel;",3.0 +To HER decision make my last appeal;,1.0 +"Condemned by HER, applauding worlds, in vain,",1.0 +Should tempt me to resume the Pen again:,0.0 +"By HER absolved, my course I'll still pursue:",1.0 +"If REASON's for me, GOD is for me too.",2.0 +"NO Tomb alas! A distant plain thy grave,",1.0 +"OH Indian, stop! ' -- this sacred ' -- field not tread;",3.0 +Or learn each virtue ' -- that adorned the dead.,0.0 +"Whatever a friend, a brother, son, could claim;",3.0 +All that ' -- was generous ' -- he deserved the name;,3.0 +Though adverse fate! too oft attacks the best.,2.0 +"In change reverse ' -- his mind sustained the test,",0.0 +"Not proud to show, or fawn on Fortune's smiles.",0.0 +"A spirit gentle, far above all wiles.",0.0 +His merit justly ' -- claims the greenest bays.,0.0 +By love transmitted in much sweeter lays.,0.0 +"SHUT, shut the door, good John! fatigued I said,",1.0 +"All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out:",4.0 +"Fire in their eye, and Papers in their hand,",0.0 +"They rave, recite, and madden round the land.",0.0 +"What Walls can guard me, or what Shades can hide?",1.0 +"By land, by water, they renew the charge,",1.0 +"They stop the Chariot, and they board the Barge.",1.0 +"No place is sacred, not the Church is free,",1.0 +"Then from the Mint walks forth the Man of Rhyme,",1.0 +"Happy! to catch me, just at Dinner-time.",2.0 +"Is there a Parson, much bemused in Beer,",1.0 +Who pens a Stanza when he should engross?,0.0 +With desperate Charcoal round his darkened walls?,1.0 +"Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain.",1.0 +"Arthur, whose giddy Son neglects the Laws,",2.0 +"And curses Wit, and Poetry, and Pope.",1.0 +"Friend to my Life, which did not you prolong,",1.0 +The World had wanted many an idle Song,2.0 +"Or which must end me, a Fool's Wrath or Love?",2.0 +"A dire Dilemma! either way I'm sped,",0.0 +"If Foes, they write, if Friends, they read me dead.",0.0 +"Seized and tied down to judge, how wretched I!",1.0 +"Who can't be silent, and who will not lie;",2.0 +"To laugh, were want of Goodness and of Grace,",1.0 +"And to be grave, exceeds all Power of Face.",3.0 +"I sit with sad Civility, I read",1.0 +"With honest anguish, and an aching head;",1.0 +"And drop at last, but in unwilling ears,",0.0 +"This saving counsel, Keep your Piece nine years.",1.0 +"Lulled by soft Zephyrs through the broken Pane,",4.0 +Obliged by hunger and Request of friends:,1.0 +"The Piece you think is incorrect? why take it,",1.0 +"My Friendship, and a Prologue, and ten Pound.",3.0 +I want a Patron; ask him for a Place.,1.0 +"Dare you refuse him? Curl invites to dine,",2.0 +"He'll write a Journal, or he'll turn Divine.",1.0 +"Bless me! a Packet. ' -- It's a stranger sues,",1.0 +"A Virgin Tragedy, an Orphan Muse.",1.0 +"If I approve, Commend it to the Stage.",2.0 +"There thank my Stars my whole Commission ends,",0.0 +"The Players and I are, luckily, no friends.",3.0 +"All my demurs but double his attacks,",2.0 +"At last he whispers Do, and we go snacks.",1.0 +"Glad of a quarrel, strait I clap the door,",0.0 +"Sir, let me see your works and you no more.",1.0 +"It's sung, when Midas' Ears began to spring,",0.0 +"Midas, a sacred Person and a King",3.0 +"His very Minister who spied them first,",1.0 +"I'd never name Queens, Ministers, or Kings;",2.0 +"Keep close to Ears, and those let Asses prick,",3.0 +Tis nothing ' -- Nothing? if they bite and kick?,2.0 +"The truth once told, and wherefore should we lie?",1.0 +"The Queen of Midas slept, and so may I.",1.0 +"You think this cruel? take it for a rule,",1.0 +No creature smarts so little as a Fool.,2.0 +"Pit, Box and Gallery in convulsions hurled,",3.0 +"Who shames a Scribbler? break one cobweb through,",2.0 +"Destroy his Fib, or Sophistry; in vain,",1.0 +The Creature's at his dirty work again;,0.0 +Proud of a vast Extent of flimsy lines.,0.0 +"Whom have I hurt? has Poet yet, or Peer,",0.0 +No Names ' -- be calm ' -- learn Prudence of a Friend:,3.0 +"I too could write, and I am twice as tall,",1.0 +"Of all mad Creatures, if the Learnt are right,",2.0 +A Fool quite angry is quite innocent;,4.0 +"Trust me, it's ten times worse when they repent.",2.0 +"One dedicates, in high Heroic prose,",0.0 +And ridicules beyond a hundred foes;,0.0 +"And, more abusive, calls himself my friend.",0.0 +"This prints my Letters, that expects a Bribe,",0.0 +"And others roar aloud, Subscribe, subscribe.",0.0 +"There are, who to my Person pay their court,",0.0 +"I cough like Horace, and though lean, am short,",1.0 +"Ammon's great Son one shoulder had too high,",4.0 +"Go on, obliging Creatures, make me see",2.0 +"All that disgraced my Betters, met in me:",0.0 +"Say for my comfort, languishing in bed,",1.0 +Just so immortal Maro held his head:,1.0 +"And when I die, be sure you let me know",0.0 +Great Homer died three thousand years ago.,2.0 +Why did I write? what sin to me unknown,1.0 +"Dipped me in Ink, my Parent's, or my own?",1.0 +"As yet a Child, nor yet a Fool to Fame,",0.0 +"I left no Calling for this idle trade,",2.0 +"No Duty broke, no Father disobeyed.",2.0 +"The Muse but served to ease some Friend, not Wife,",0.0 +"To help me through this long Disease, my Life,",1.0 +"And teach, the Being you preserved, to bear.",1.0 +"But why then publish? Granville the polite,",1.0 +"And knowing Walsh, would tell me I could write;",1.0 +"The Courtly Talbot, Somers, Sheffield read,",0.0 +With open arms received one Poet more.,0.0 +"Happy my Studies, when by these approved!",3.0 +"Happier their Author, when by these beloved!",2.0 +"From these the world will judge of Men and Books,",1.0 +While pure Description held the place of Sense?,0.0 +"Like gentle Damon's was my flowery Theme,",3.0 +Yet then did Gildon draw his venal quill;,0.0 +"I wished the man a dinner, and sat still:",2.0 +Yet then did Dennis rave in furious fret;,2.0 +"I never answered, I was not in debt:",1.0 +"If want provoked, or madness made them print,",0.0 +I waged no war with Bedlam or the Mint.,2.0 +Did some more sober Critics come abroad?,0.0 +"If wrong, I smiled; if right, I kissed the rod.",0.0 +"And all they want is spirit, taste, and sense.",0.0 +"Comma's and points they set exactly right,",2.0 +"The Wight who reads not, and but scans and spells,",1.0 +"Such piecemeal Critics some regard may claim,",1.0 +Pretty! in Amber to observe the forms,3.0 +"Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms;",0.0 +"The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare,",0.0 +But wonder how the Devil they got there?,3.0 +Were others angry? I excused them too;,1.0 +Well might they rage; I gave them but their due.,1.0 +"A man's true merit it's not hard to find,",2.0 +"But each man's secret standard in his mind,",1.0 +"This, who can gratify? for who can guess?",0.0 +"Who turns a Persian Tale for half a crown,",0.0 +"He, who still wanting though he lives on theft,",2.0 +"Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left:",2.0 +"And he, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning,",2.0 +"Means not, but blunders round about a meaning:",0.0 +"It is not Poetry, but Prose run mad:",3.0 +"All these, my modest Satire bid translate,",1.0 +"And owned, that nine such Poets made a Tate.",0.0 +"How did they fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe?",0.0 +"How did they swear, not Addison was safe.",1.0 +Peace to all such! but were there One whose fires,2.0 +"Blessed with each Talent and each Art to please,",1.0 +"And born to write, converse, and live with ease:",0.0 +"Should such a man, too fond to rule alone,",1.0 +"Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne,",1.0 +"View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes,",0.0 +And hate for Arts that caused himself to rise;,0.0 +"And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer;",5.0 +"Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,",2.0 +"Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;",0.0 +"Alike reserved to blame, or to commend,",1.0 +"A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend,",3.0 +And so obliging that he never obliged;,3.0 +"Like Cato, give his little Senate laws,",0.0 +And sit attentive to his own applause;,1.0 +"While Wits and Templers every sentence raise,",3.0 +And wonder with a foolish face of praise.,1.0 +"Who but must laugh, if such a man there be?",1.0 +"Who would not weep, if Atticus were he!",1.0 +What though my Name stood rubric on the walls?,2.0 +"Or plastered posts, with Claps in capitals?",1.0 +"Or smoking forth, a hundred Hawkers load,",0.0 +On Wings of Winds came flying all abroad?,1.0 +I sought no homage from the Race that write;,2.0 +"I kept, like Asian Monarchs, from their sight:",2.0 +"No more than Thou, great GEORGE! a Birthday Song.",5.0 +To spread about the Itch of Verse and Praise;,0.0 +"Nor at Rehearsals sweat, and mouthed, and cried,",0.0 +With Handkerchief and Orange at my side:,1.0 +"Fed with soft Dedication all day long,",4.0 +Horace and he went hand in hand in song.,4.0 +"His Library, where Busts of Poets dead",5.0 +"Received of Wits an undistinguished race,",0.0 +"Who first his Judgement asked, and then a Place:",0.0 +"Much they extolled the Pictures, much the Seat,",1.0 +"And flattered every day, and some days eat:",1.0 +"To some a dry Rehearsal was assigned,",1.0 +And others harder still he paid in kind.,0.0 +May some choice Patron bless each grey goose quill!,2.0 +"So, when a Statesman wants a Day's defence,",0.0 +"Or Envy holds a whole Week's war with Sense,",1.0 +Or simple Pride for Flattery makes demands;,2.0 +"Blessed be the Great! for those they take away,",1.0 +"And those they leave me ' -- For they left me GAY,",2.0 +"Left me to see neglected Genius bloom,",0.0 +Neglected die! and tell it on his Tomb;,1.0 +Of all thy blameless Life the sole Return,0.0 +"To see what Friends, or read what Books I please;",0.0 +"There let me live my own, and die so too,",0.0 +To live and die is all I have to do!,0.0 +"Above a Patron, though I condescend",1.0 +Sometime to call a Minister my Friend:,2.0 +"I was not born for Courts or great Affairs,",1.0 +"I pay my Debts, believe, and go to Prayers,",0.0 +"Can sleep without a Poem in my head,",0.0 +"Nor know, if Dennis be alive or dead.",0.0 +"Why am I asked, what next shall see the light?",0.0 +Heavens! was I born for nothing but to write?,2.0 +Has Life no Joys for me? or to be grave,2.0 +"Have I no Friend to serve, no Soul to save?",4.0 +I found him close with Swift ' -- Indeed? no doubt,1.0 +"It's all in vain, deny it as I will.",1.0 +"No, such a Genius never can lie still,",2.0 +And then for mine obligingly mistakes,2.0 +"Poor guiltless I! and can I choose but smile,",3.0 +"That tends to make one worthy Man my foe,",0.0 +"Give Virtue scandal, Innocence a fear,",2.0 +"But he, who hurts a harmless neighbour's peace,",2.0 +"Insults fallen Worth, or Beauty in distress,",1.0 +"Who loves a Lie, lame slander helps about,",1.0 +"Who writes a Libel, or who copies out:",2.0 +"The Fop whose pride affects a Patron's name,",0.0 +"Yet absent, wounds an Author's honest fame;",0.0 +"And show the Sense of it, without the Love;",1.0 +"Who has the Vanity to call you Friend,",1.0 +Yet wants the Honour injured to defend;,4.0 +"Who tells whatever you think, whatever you say,",6.0 +"And, if he lies not, must at least betray:",1.0 +And sees at Cannons what was never there:,1.0 +"Who reads but with a Lust to misapply,",2.0 +"Make Satire a Lampoon, and Fiction, Lie.",2.0 +"A Lash like mine no honest man shall dread,",2.0 +But all such babbling blockheads in his stead.,0.0 +"Let Paris tremble ' -- What? that Thing of silk,",1.0 +Satire or Shame alas! can Paris feel?,1.0 +Who breaks a Butterfly upon a Wheel?,0.0 +"Yet let me flap this Bug with gilded wings,",0.0 +This painted Child of Dirt that stinks and stings;,0.0 +"Whose Buzz the Witty and the Fair annoys,",1.0 +"Yet Wit never tastes, and Beauty never enjoys,",3.0 +In mumbling of the Game they dare not bite.,1.0 +"Eternal Smiles his Emptiness betray,",1.0 +"Whether in florid Impotence he speaks,",3.0 +"Half Froth, half Venom, spits himself abroad,",2.0 +"In Puns, or Politics, or Tales, or Lies,",0.0 +"A trifling Head, and a corrupted Heart!",1.0 +"A Cherub's face, a Reptile all the rest;",0.0 +"Beauty that shocks you, Parts that none will trust,",2.0 +"Wit that can creep, and Pride that licks the dust.",0.0 +"Nor proud, nor servile, be one Poet's praise",0.0 +"That, if he pleased, he pleased by manly ways;",0.0 +"That Flattery, even to Kings, he held a shame,",4.0 +And thought a Lie in Verse or Prose the same:,0.0 +"That not for Fame, but Virtue's better end,",0.0 +"He stood the furious Foe, the timid Friend,",2.0 +"Laughed at the loss of Friends he never had,",0.0 +"The dull, the proud, the wicked, and the mad;",1.0 +The Morals blackened when the Writings escape;,2.0 +"A Friend in Exile, or a Father, dead;",2.0 +"The Whisper that to Greatness still too near,",1.0 +"Perhaps, yet vibrates on his SOVEREIGN'S Ear ' --",2.0 +"Welcome for thee, fair Virtue! all the past:",4.0 +"For thee, fair Virtue! welcome even the last!",4.0 +"But why insult the Poor, affront the Great?",0.0 +"A Knave's a Knave, to me, in every State,",1.0 +"Alike my scorn, if he succeed or fail,",1.0 +"Knight of the Post corrupt, or of the Shire,",1.0 +"If on a Pillory, or near a Throne,",2.0 +"He gain his Prince's Ear, or lose his own.",0.0 +"Yet soft by Nature, more a Dupe than Wit,",0.0 +"Foe to his Pride, but Friend to his Distress:",1.0 +"He lashed him not, but let her be his Wife:",0.0 +"And write whatever he pleased, except his Will;",3.0 +"Let the Two Curls of Town and Court, abuse",3.0 +"Hard as thy Heart, and as thy Birth Obscure,",1.0 +Yet why? that Father held it for a rule,1.0 +"That harmless Mother thought no Wife a Whore, ' --",1.0 +"If there be Force in Virtue, or in Song.",2.0 +While yet in Britain Honour had Applause,2.0 +"Each Parent sprung ' -- What Fortune, pray? ' -- Their own,",0.0 +"Born to no Pride, inheriting no Strife,",5.0 +"Nor marrying Discord in a Noble Wife,",2.0 +"Stranger to Civil and Religious Rage,",3.0 +"No Courts he saw, no Suits would ever try,",2.0 +"No Language, but the Language of the Heart.",3.0 +"By Nature honest, by Experience wise,",3.0 +Healthy by Temperance and by Exercise:,3.0 +"His Life, though long, to sickness past unknown,",0.0 +"His Death was instant, and without a groan.",1.0 +"O grant me thus to live, and thus to die!",0.0 +Who sprung from Kings shall know less joy than I.,1.0 +OH Friend! may each Domestic Bliss be thine!,1.0 +"Me, let the tender Office long engage",0.0 +"With lenient Arts extend a Mother's breath,",0.0 +"Explore the Thought, explain the asking Eye,",0.0 +And keep a while one Parent from the Sky!,1.0 +"On Cares like these if Length of days attend,",1.0 +"May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my Friend,",0.0 +"Preserve him social, cheerful, and serene,",1.0 +And just as rich as when he served a QUEEN!,0.0 +"Whether that Blessing be denied, or given,",2.0 +"Thus far was right, the rest belongs to Heaven.",1.0 +"CAN the fond Mother from herself depart,",3.0 +"Can she forget the darling of her heart,",2.0 +"The little darling whom she bore and bred,",0.0 +"Nursed on her knees, and at her bosom fed?",0.0 +"To whom, she seemed her every thought to give,",0.0 +"And in whose life alone, she seemed to live?",0.0 +"Yes, from herself, the mother may depart,",3.0 +"She may forget the darling of her heart,",2.0 +"The little darling, whom she bore and bred,",0.0 +"Nursed on her knees, and at her bosom fed,",0.0 +"To whom she seemed her every thought to give,",0.0 +"And in whose life alone, she seemed to live;",0.0 +"But I cannot forget, while life remains,",1.0 +"And pours her current through these swelling veins,",0.0 +"While Memory offers up at Reason's shrine,",3.0 +"Flesh of her flesh, and of her bone the bone,",1.0 +And dash the smiling babe against a stone?,0.0 +And dash the smiling babe against a stone;,0.0 +"But I, forbid it Heaven, but I can never",2.0 +"The love of GOTHAM, from this bosom tear,",1.0 +Can never so far true Royalty pervert,4.0 +"From its fair course, to do my people hurt.",2.0 +"With how much ease, with how much confidence,",3.0 +"As if, superior to each grosser sense,",2.0 +"Reason had only, in full power arrayed,",5.0 +"To manifest her Will, and be obeyed,",1.0 +"Men make resolves, and pass into decrees",1.0 +The motions of the Mind! with how much ease,2.0 +"In such resolves, does passion make a flaw,",1.0 +"And bring to nothing, what was raised to law.",0.0 +"The dangers, and the sweets of power, unknown,",3.0 +"Pleased, though I scarce know why, like some young child,",2.0 +"Whose little senses each new toy turns wild,",2.0 +"How do I hold sweet dalliance with my crown,",2.0 +"And wanton with dominion, how lay down,",3.0 +"Without the sanction of a precedent,",2.0 +Rules of most large and absolute extent;,0.0 +"Rules, which from sense of public virtue spring,",0.0 +"And, all at once, commence a PATRIOT KING.",2.0 +"But, for the day of trial is at hand,",1.0 +And the whole fortunes of a mighty land,3.0 +"Must from my Good, or Evil Conduct flow,",0.0 +"Will I, or can I, on a fair review,",3.0 +"As I assume that name, deserve it too?",1.0 +"Have I well weighed the great, the noble part",3.0 +"I'm now to play? Have I explored my Heart,",1.0 +"That labyrinth of fraud, that deep, dark cell,",1.0 +"Where, unsuspected even by me, may dwell",1.0 +Ten thousand follies? Have I found out there,1.0 +"What I am fit to do, and what to bear?",0.0 +"Have I traced every passion to its rise,",3.0 +Nor spared one lurking seed of treacherous vice?,2.0 +"Have I, familiar with my nature grown,",2.0 +And am I fairly to myself made known?,4.0 +A PATRIOT KING ' -- Why it's a name which bears,2.0 +"The more immediate stamp of Heaven, which wears",2.0 +"The nearest, best resemblance we can show",1.0 +"Of God above, through all his works below.",0.0 +"To still the voice of discord in the land,",0.0 +"To make weak faction's discontented band,",1.0 +"Detected, weak, and crumbling, to decay,",1.0 +"Like different bodies, with one soul informed,",1.0 +"To make a nation, nobly raised above",0.0 +"All meaner thoughts, grow up in common love;",2.0 +"That sacred balance, temperate, yet bold,",1.0 +"With such an equal hand, that those who fear",2.0 +"May yet approve, and own my justice clear;",0.0 +"To be a Common Father, to secure",1.0 +"The weak from violence, from pride the poor;",1.0 +"Vice, and her sons, to banish in disgrace,",0.0 +"To make Corruption dread to show her face,",0.0 +"To bid afflicted Virtue take new state,",1.0 +"And be, at last, acquainted with the great;",1.0 +"Of all Religions to elect the best,",1.0 +Nor let her priests be made a standing jest;,0.0 +"Rewards for Worth, with liberal hand to carve,",0.0 +"To love the Arts, nor let the Artists starve;",0.0 +"To make fair Plenty through the realm increase,",2.0 +"Give Fame in War, and happiness in Peace,",2.0 +"To see my people virtuous, great and free,",2.0 +"And know that all those blessings flow from me,",0.0 +"OH it's a joy too exquisite, a thought",2.0 +"It's a great, glorious task, for Man too hard,",5.0 +"But not less great, less glorious the reward,",5.0 +"The best reward which here to Man is given,",0.0 +"It's more than Earth, and little short of Heaven;",0.0 +A task if such comparison may be,2.0 +"The same in nature, differing in degree,",0.0 +"Like that which God, on whom for aid I call,",0.0 +"Performs with ease, and yet performs to all.",0.0 +"How much do they mistake, how little know",1.0 +"Of kings, of kingdoms, and the pains which flow",1.0 +"From royalty, who fancy that a crown",1.0 +"With outside show, and vain appearance caught",1.0 +"They look no farther, and, by Folly taught,",2.0 +One of the many cares which lurk behind.,1.0 +"The gem they worship, which a crown adorns,",0.0 +Nor once suspect that crown is lined with thorns.,0.0 +"Would we one moment use her piercing eye,",0.0 +"Then should we learn what woe from grandeur springs,",2.0 +"And learn to pity, not to envy kings.",0.0 +"The villager, born humbly and bred hard,",4.0 +"Content his wealth, and Poverty his guard,",1.0 +"In action simply just, in conscience clear,",0.0 +"By guilt untainted, undisturbed by fear,",0.0 +"His means but scanty, and his wants but few,",1.0 +"Labour his business and his pleasure too,",2.0 +"Enjoys more comforts in a single hour,",0.0 +Than ages give the Wretch condemned to Power.,0.0 +"Called up by health, he rises with the day,",1.0 +"And goes to work, as if he went to play,",1.0 +"Whistling off toils, one half of which might make",2.0 +"Against heat and cold, which make us cowards faint,",3.0 +"Hardened by constant use, without complaint",2.0 +"He bears, what we should think it death to bear;",1.0 +"Short are his meals, and homely is his fare;",1.0 +Nor asks for sauce where appetite stands cook.,1.0 +When the dews fall and when the Sun retires,2.0 +"Behind the Mountains, when the village fires,",0.0 +"At distance catch, and fix his longing eye,",0.0 +"Which, seasoned with Good Humour, his fond Bride",2.0 +Against his return is happy to provide.,3.0 +"Then, free from care, and free from thought, he creeps",0.0 +"Into his straw, and till the morning sleeps.",1.0 +"Not so the King ' -- with anxious cares oppressed,",0.0 +"A glorious Wretch, he sweats beneath the Weight",2.0 +"Of Majesty, and gives up ease for state.",1.0 +"Even when his smiles, which, by the fools of pride,",1.0 +Are treasured and preserved from side to side,1.0 +"Fly round the court, even when, compelled by form,",4.0 +"He seems most calm, his soul is in a storm!",0.0 +"CARE, like a spectre, seen by him alone,",1.0 +"With all her nest of vipers, round his throne",0.0 +"By day crawls full in view; when Night bids sleep,",2.0 +"Sweet nurse of Nature, over the senses creep,",3.0 +"When Misery herself, no more complains,",2.0 +"And slaves, if possible, forget their chains,",1.0 +"Though his sense weakens, though his eye grows dim,",4.0 +"That rest which comes to all, comes not to him.",1.0 +"Even at that hour, CARE, tyrant CARE, forbids,",3.0 +The dew of sleep to fall upon his lids;,0.0 +From night to night she watches at his bed;,0.0 +"Now, as one moped, sits brooding over his head,",5.0 +"Anon she starts, and, born on raven's wings,",0.0 +"Thrice hath the Moon, who governs this vast ball,",2.0 +"Who rules most absolute over me, and all,",5.0 +"To whom, by full conviction taught to bow,",0.0 +"Thrice hath she lost her form, and thrice renewed.",0.0 +"Since blessed be that season, for before",1.0 +"I was a mere, mere mortal, and no more,",4.0 +"One of the herd, a lump of common clay,",1.0 +"Informed with life, to die and pass away",0.0 +"With full and ample power, became my own;",2.0 +"Thrice hath she lost her form, and thrice renewed,",0.0 +"Since Sleep, kind Sleep, who like a friend supplies",1.0 +"Nor, if my toils are answered with success,",2.0 +And I am made an instrument to bless,2.0 +"Theirs be the benefit, the labour mine.",2.0 +"Mindful of that high rank in which I stand,",2.0 +"Of millions Lord, sole ruler in the land,",1.0 +"Let me, and Reason shall her aid afford,",0.0 +"Rule my own spirit, of myself be lord.",2.0 +"With an ill grace that monarch wears his crown,",2.0 +"Who, stern and hard of nature, wears a frown",0.0 +"Against faults in other men, yet all the while,",3.0 +Meets his own vices with a partial smile.,1.0 +How can a king yet on record we find,2.0 +"Such kings have been, such curses of mankind",2.0 +"Enforce that law, against some poor subject elf,",1.0 +Which Conscience tells him he hath broke himself?,1.0 +Can he some petty rogue to Justice call,1.0 +"For robbing one, when he himself robs all?",3.0 +"Must not, unless extinguished, Conscience fly",0.0 +"Into his cheek, and blast his fading eye,",0.0 +"To scourge the oppressor, when the State, distressed",2.0 +"And sunk to ruin, is by him oppressed?",2.0 +Against himself does he not sentence give?,1.0 +"Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound",0.0 +Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.,1.0 +"All envy power in others, and complain",3.0 +Of that which they would perish to obtain.,1.0 +"Nor can those spirits, turbulent and bold,",2.0 +"Not to be awed by threats, nor bought with gold,",0.0 +"Be hushed to peace, but when fair, legal sway,",1.0 +"Makes it their real interest to obey,",3.0 +"When kings, and none but fools can then rebel,",0.0 +"Not less in Virtue, than in Power excel.",3.0 +"Be that my object, that my constant care,",0.0 +And may my Soul's best Wishes centre there.,3.0 +"Be it my task to seek, nor seek in vain,",0.0 +"Not only how to live, but how to reign,",2.0 +"And, to those Virtues which from Reason spring,",1.0 +"And grace the Man, join those which grace the King.",2.0 +"First for strict duty bids my care extend,",3.0 +"And reach to all, who on that care depend,",0.0 +"Bids me with servants keep a steady hand,",0.0 +And watch over all my proxies in the land,2.0 +First and that method Reason shall support,0.0 +"Before I look into, and purge my Court,",0.0 +"Before I cleanse the stable of the state,",1.0 +Let me fix things which to myself relate.,4.0 +"That done, and all accounts well settled here,",1.0 +"In Resolution firm, in Honour clear,",1.0 +"Tremble you Slaves, who dare abuse your trust,",2.0 +"Who dare be Villains, when your King is Just.",0.0 +"Are there, amongst those officers of State,",2.0 +"To whom our sacred power we delegate,",2.0 +"Who hold our Place and Office in the Realm,",0.0 +"Who, in our name commissioned, guide the Helm,",0.0 +"Are there, who, trusting to our love of ease,",2.0 +"Oppress our subjects, wrest out just decrees,",0.0 +"And make the laws, warped from their fair intent,",2.0 +"To speak a language which they never meant,",0.0 +"Are there such Men, and can the fools depend",2.0 +On holding out in safety to their end?,2.0 +"Can they so much, from thoughts of danger free,",1.0 +And live a stranger where I ought to rule?,0.0 +"What, to myself and to my State unjust,",2.0 +"Shall I from ministers take things on trust,",2.0 +"And, sinking low the credit of my throne,",1.0 +"Shall I, most certain source of future cares,",0.0 +"Not use my Judgement, but depend on their's,",1.0 +"Have nothing but the Name of being great,",1.0 +"Attend at councils, which I must not weigh,",0.0 +"Do, what they bid; and what they dictate, say,",1.0 +Only to be a royal Cypher there?,2.0 +Perish the thought ' -- it's Treason to my throne ' --,3.0 +"And who but thinks it, could his thoughts be known,",0.0 +"Shall rise in arms, and against my crown rebel.",2.0 +"The wicked Statesman, whose false heart pursues",1.0 +"A train of Guilt, who acts with double views,",0.0 +"And wears a double face, whose base designs",0.0 +"Strike at his Monarch's throne, who undermines",1.0 +"Even while he seems his wishes to support,",1.0 +"Who seizes all departments, packs a court,",0.0 +Maintains an agent on the Judgement Seat,1.0 +"To screen his crimes, and make his frauds complete,",0.0 +"New models armies, and around the throne",2.0 +"Will suffer none but creatures of his own,",1.0 +"Against the light to shut his master's eye,",0.0 +"To keep him cooped, and far removed from those,",0.0 +"Who, brave and honest, dare his crimes disclose,",0.0 +"Nor ever let him in one place appear,",0.0 +"Where Truth, unwelcome Truth, may wound his Ear.",0.0 +"Attempts like these, well weighed, themselves proclaim,",2.0 +"And, while they publish, balk their Author's aim.",0.0 +"Kings must be blind, into such snares to run,",0.0 +"Or worse, with open eyes must be undone.",0.0 +"The minister of Honesty and Worth,",2.0 +"Demands the Day to bring his actions forth,",0.0 +Calls on the Sun to shine with fiercer rays,0.0 +And braves that trial which must end in praise.,0.0 +"None fly the Day, and seek the shades of Night,",1.0 +But those whose actions cannot bear the Light;,1.0 +"None wish their King in Ignorance to hold,",2.0 +But those who feel that knowledge must unfold,1.0 +"Their hidden Guilt, and, that dark missed dispelled",1.0 +"By which their places and their lives are held,",1.0 +"Confusion wait them, and, by Justice led,",1.0 +In vengeance fall on every traitor's head.,1.0 +"Aware of this, and cautioned against the pit",3.0 +"Where Kings have oft been lost, shall I submit",1.0 +"And rust in chains like these? Shall I give way,",1.0 +And while my helpless subjects fall a prey,0.0 +"To power abused, in Ignorance sit down,",4.0 +"When stern REBELLION, if that odious name",3.0 +"Justly belongs to those, whose only aim",3.0 +"Is to preserve their Country, who oppose",1.0 +"Who only seek their own, and found their Cause",0.0 +"In due regard for violated laws,",1.0 +"When stern REBELLION, who no longer feels,",1.0 +"Nor fears Rebuke, a nation at her heels,",0.0 +"A nation up in arms, though strong not proud,",1.0 +"Knocks at the Palace gate, and, calling loud",0.0 +"For due redress, presents, from Truth's fair pen,",1.0 +"A list of wrongs, not to be born by men,",1.0 +"How must that King be humbled, how disgrace",1.0 +"All that is royal, in his name and place,",0.0 +"Who, thus called forth to answer, can advance",2.0 +No other plea but that of IGNORANCE.,2.0 +"A vile defence, which, was his All at stake,",1.0 +The meanest subject well might blush to make;,0.0 +"A filthy source, from whence Shame ever springs;",1.0 +"A Stain to all, but most a Stain to Kings.",0.0 +"The Soul, with great and manly feelings warmed,",0.0 +"Panting for Knowledge, rests not till informed,",3.0 +"And shall not I, fired with the glorious zeal,",3.0 +"Feel those brave passions, which my subjects feel,",3.0 +Or can a just excuse from Ignorance flow,3.0 +"To Me, whose first, great duty is ' -- To KNOW.",3.0 +"Hence IGNORANCE ' -- thy settled, dull, blank eye",3.0 +"Would hurt me, though I knew no reason why ' --",2.0 +Hence IGNORANCE ' -- thy slavish shackles bind,2.0 +"The freeborn Soul, and lethargy the mind ' --",1.0 +"Of thee, begot by PRIDE, who looked with scorn",1.0 +"On every meaner match, of thee was born",1.0 +"That grave Inflexibility of Soul,",1.0 +"Which Reason can't convince, nor Fear control,",0.0 +"Which neither arguments, nor prayers can reach,",1.0 +And nothing less than utter Ruin teach ' --,0.0 +"Hence IGNORANCE ' -- hence to that depth of Night,",3.0 +May wound thine eye ' -- hence to some dreary cell,2.0 +"Where Monks with Superstition love to dwell,",0.0 +"And with the Heads of colleges reside,",2.0 +"And if no mate for kings, no mate for me.",3.0 +"Come STUDY, like a torrent swelled with rains,",1.0 +"Which, rushing down the mountains, over the plains",3.0 +"Spreads horror wide, and yet, in horror kind,",1.0 +"Come STUDY ' -- painful though thy course and slow,",2.0 +Thy real worth by thy effects we know ' --,4.0 +"Parent of Knowledge, come ' -- not Thee I call,",3.0 +"Who, grave and dull, in college or in hall,",1.0 +"Dost fit, all solemn sad, and moping weigh",0.0 +"Nor, in one hand, fit emblem of thy trade,",2.0 +"A Hornbook, gilded and lettered, call I Thee,",3.0 +"Who dost in form preside over A, B, C ' --",6.0 +"Nor, Siren though thou art, and thy strange charms,",2.0 +"Do I call Thee, who through a winding maze,",0.0 +"A labyrinth of puzzling, pleasing ways,",0.0 +"Dost lead us at the last to those rich plains,",1.0 +"Where, in full glory, real SCIENCE reigns.",6.0 +"Fair though thou art, and lovely to mine eye,",1.0 +Though full rewards in thy possession lie,1.0 +"Though was I stationed in an humbler place,",1.0 +"I could be ever happy in thy sight,",0.0 +"Toil with thee all the day, and through the night",1.0 +"Toil on from watch to watch, bidding my eye,",5.0 +"Fast riveted on SCIENCE, sleep defy,",2.0 +"Yet, such the hardships which from empire flow",0.0 +"Must I thy sweet society forego,",1.0 +And to some happy rival's arms resign,1.0 +"Those charms, which can alas! no more be mine.",2.0 +"No more, from hour to hour, from day to day,",0.0 +"Shall I pursue thy steps, and urge my way",1.0 +"Where eager love of SCIENCE calls, no more",1.0 +Attempt those paths which Man never trod before.,3.0 +"No more, the mountain scaled, the desert crossed,",0.0 +"Losing myself, nor knowing I was lost,",4.0 +"Travel through woods, through wilds, from Morn to Night,",2.0 +"From Night to Morn, yet travel with delight,",1.0 +"And having found thee, lay me down content,",0.0 +"Own all my toil well paid, my time well spent.",2.0 +Farewell you MUSES too ' -- for such mean things,2.0 +Must not presume to dwell with mighty Kings ' --,0.0 +Farewell you MUSES ' -- though it cuts my heart,2.0 +"Even to the quick, we must for ever part.",1.0 +When the fresh Morn bade lusty Nature wake;,4.0 +"Tuned their soft pipes; when from the neighbouring bloom,",3.0 +"Sipping the dew, each Zephyr stole presume;",2.0 +"Deceived the way, and clipped the wings of Time,",0.0 +"Over hill, over dale! how often laughed to see,",3.0 +"Yourselves made visible to none but me,",2.0 +"The clown, his Work suspended, gape and stare,",0.0 +And seem to think that I conversed with Air!,1.0 +"When the Sun, beating on the parched soil,",4.0 +"Seemed to proclaim an interval of toil,",3.0 +"And things most used to labour, wished for rest,",0.0 +"How often, underneath a reverend oak,",0.0 +"Where safe, and fearless of the impious stroke",4.0 +Where with capricious fingers FANCY wove,1.0 +"Her fairy bower, while NATURE all the while",2.0 +"How we held converse sweet! how often laid,",3.0 +"Fast by the Thames, in HAM'S inspiring shade,",0.0 +"Amongst those Poets, which make up your train,",2.0 +"And, after death, pour forth the sacred Strain,",1.0 +"Have I, at your command, in verse grown grey,",3.0 +"Put not impaired, heard DRYDEN tune that lay,",2.0 +"Which might have drawn an Angel from his sphere,",1.0 +And kept him from his office listening here.,1.0 +"When dreary NIGHT, with MORPHEUS in her train,",0.0 +"Led on by SILENCE to resume her reign,",1.0 +"With Darkness covering, as with a robe,",1.0 +"This scene of Levity, blanked half the globe,",2.0 +"How oft, enchanted with your heavenly strains,",3.0 +"Which stole me from myself, which in soft chains",2.0 +"Of Music bound my soul, how oft have I,",0.0 +"Sounds more than human floating through the Sky,",1.0 +"Attentive sat, while NIGHT, against her Will.",0.0 +"Transported with the harmony, stood still!",3.0 +"Have I, when gone, still thought the Muses there,",2.0 +"Still heard their Music, and, as mute as death,",2.0 +"Sat all attention, drew in every Breath,",1.0 +"Lest, breathing all too rudely, I should wound,",2.0 +And mar that magic excellence of sound:,1.0 +"Then, Sense returning with return of Day,",1.0 +"Such my Pursuits, and such my Joys of yore,",2.0 +"Such were my Mates, but now my Mates no more.",2.0 +"Would never haunt the cottage of the Poor,",1.0 +Would never stoop to wound my homespun lays,1.0 +"With some few Friends, and some small share of Praise,",1.0 +"Beneath Oppression, undisturbed by Strife,",0.0 +In Peace I trod the humble vale of Life.,0.0 +"Farewell these scenes of ease, this tranquil state;",1.0 +Welcome the troubles which on Empire wait.,2.0 +"Light toys from this day forth I disavow,",4.0 +"They pleased me once, but cannot suit me now;",0.0 +"To common Men all common things are free,",0.0 +"Called to a throne, and over a mighty land",2.0 +"Ordained to rule, my head, my heart, my hand",0.0 +"Are all engrossed, each private view withstood,",0.0 +And tasked to labour for the Public Good;,1.0 +"Be this my study, to this one great end",2.0 +"May every thought, may every action tend.",0.0 +"Let me the page of History turn over,",3.0 +"What faithful pens of former times have wrote,",0.0 +"Of former kings; what they did worthy note,",1.0 +"What worthy blame, and from the sacred tomb",1.0 +"Where righteous Monarchs sleep, where laurels bloom",1.0 +"Unhurt by Time, let me a garland twine,",2.0 +"Which, robbing not their Fame, may add to mine.",0.0 +Nor let me with a vain and idle eye,1.0 +"Glance over those scenes, and in a hurry fly",3.0 +"Quick as a Post which travels day and night,",0.0 +"Nor let me dwell there, lured by false delight,",0.0 +"And, into barren theory betrayed,",1.0 +Forget that Monarchs are for action made.,2.0 +"When amorous SPRING, repairing all his charms,",1.0 +"Calls Nature forth from hoary Winter's arms,",1.0 +"Where, like a Virgin to some lecher sold,",1.0 +"When the weak Flower, which, shrinking from the breath",6.0 +"Of the rude North, and, timorous of Death,",3.0 +"To its kind Mother Earth for shelter fled,",2.0 +"And on her bosom hid its tender head,",1.0 +"Peeps forth afresh, and, cheered by milder skies,",1.0 +"The Hive is up in arms ' -- expert to teach,",3.0 +"Nor, proudly, to be taught unwilling, each",1.0 +Seems from her fellow a new zeal to catch;,2.0 +"Strength in her limbs, and on her wings dispatch,",1.0 +"The BEE goes forth; from herb to herb she flies,",1.0 +"With treasured sweets, robbing those Flowers, which left,",6.0 +"Find not themselves made poorer by the theft,",3.0 +"Their scents as lively, and their looks as fair,",1.0 +As if the pillager had not been there.,2.0 +"Never does she flit on Pleasure's silken Wing,",3.0 +"Never does she, loitering, let the bloom of Spring",2.0 +Of some fair Flower indulge untimely rest.,3.0 +"Never does she, drinking deep of those rich dews",1.0 +"Which Chemist Night prepared, that faith abuse",0.0 +"Due to the hive, and, selfish in her toils,",0.0 +To her own private use convert the spoils.,1.0 +"Love of the Stock first called her forth to roam,",1.0 +And to the Stock she brings her booty Home.,1.0 +"Be this my Pattern ' -- As becomes a King,",1.0 +"Let me fly all abroad on Reason's wing,",2.0 +"Let mine eye, like the Lightning, through the Earth",1.0 +"Run to and fro, nor let one deed of Worth,",0.0 +"In any Place and Time, nor let one Man",0.0 +"Whose actions may enrich Dominion's plan,",1.0 +"Escape my Note; be all, from the first day",1.0 +"Of Nature to this hour, be all my prey.",1.0 +"From those, whom Time at the desire of Fame",2.0 +"Hath spared, let Virtue catch an equal flame;",1.0 +"From those, who not in mercy, but in rage,",1.0 +"And, imitating Heaven, draw Good from Ill.",0.0 +Nor let these great researches in my breast,0.0 +"A monument of useless labour rest,",1.0 +"No ' -- let them spread ' -- the effects let GOTHAM share,",5.0 +"And reap the harvest of their Monarch's care,",2.0 +"Be other Times, and other Countries known,",0.0 +Only to give fresh Blessings to my own.,4.0 +"Let me and may that God to whom I fly,",1.0 +"In this great Hour, that glorious God of Truth,",5.0 +"Through whom I reign, in mercy to my youth,",1.0 +"Assist my weakness, and, direct me right,",1.0 +"From every speck which hangs upon the Sight,",0.0 +"Purge my mind's eye, nor let one cloud remain",3.0 +To spread the shades of error over my Brain,2.0 +"Try Men and Things; let me, as Monarchs ought,",4.0 +"Examine well on what my Power depends,",2.0 +"What are the general Principles, and Ends",1.0 +"Of Government, how Empire first began,",1.0 +And wherefore Man was raised to reign over Man.,3.0 +"Let me consider, as from one great Source",4.0 +"We see a thousand rivers take their course,",0.0 +"Dispersed, and into different channels led,",0.0 +"Yet by their Parent still supplied and fed,",0.0 +"That Government, though branched out far and wide,",1.0 +In various Modes to various lands applied,4.0 +"However it differs in its outward frame,",3.0 +"The same her view, though different her plan,",1.0 +"Her grand and general view, the Good of Man.",0.0 +"Let me find out, by Reason's sacred beams,",0.0 +"What System in itself most perfect seems,",1.0 +To all the purposes of general use;,1.0 +"Let me find too, where, by fair Reason tried,",4.0 +"It fails, when to Particulars applied,",2.0 +"Why in that mode all Nations do not join,",0.0 +"And, chiefly, why it cannot suit with mine.",0.0 +Let me the gradual Rise of empires trace,2.0 +Then for when human things have made their way,0.0 +"To Excellence, they hasten to decay",2.0 +"Let me, while Observation lends her clue,",0.0 +"Step by Step, to their quick Decline pursue,",0.0 +Enabled by a chain of Facts to tell,1.0 +"Not only how they rose, but how they fell.",2.0 +"Which in all States from common causes grow,",0.0 +"But likewise those, which by the will of Fate,",3.0 +"On each peculiar mode of Empire wait,",0.0 +"Which in its very Constitution lurk,",0.0 +"Too sure at last, to do its destined work;",1.0 +"Let me, forewarned, each Sign, each System learn,",2.0 +"That I my people's danger may discern,",1.0 +"Ever it's too late wished Health to reassure,",3.0 +"And, if it can be found, find out a cure.",2.0 +"Let me though great, grave Brothers of the gown,",2.0 +"Preach all Faith up, and preach all Reason down,",1.0 +"Making those jar, whom Reason meant to join,",2.0 +And vesting in themselves a right divine,0.0 +"Let me, through Reason's glass, with searching eye,",0.0 +"Into the depth of that Religion pry,",0.0 +Which Law hath sanctioned; let me find out there,0.0 +"What's Form, what's Essence; what, like vagrant Air,",0.0 +"We well may change; and what, without a crime,",0.0 +Cannot be changed to the last Hour of Time.,2.0 +"Nor let me suffer that outrageous zeal,",0.0 +"Which, without knowledge, furious Bigots feel,",6.0 +"The Times have been, when priests have dared to tread,",0.0 +"Proud and insulting, on their Monarch's head,",4.0 +"Out of the World they banished common sense,",1.0 +"When some soft King, too open to deceit,",5.0 +"Easy and unsuspecting, joined the cheat,",2.0 +"Duped by mock Piety, and gave his name",4.0 +"Fear not, my People, where no cause of fear",1.0 +"Can justly rise ' -- Your King secures you here,",0.0 +"Your King, who scorns the haughty prelate's nod,",0.0 +"Nor deems the voice of priests, the voice of God.",0.0 +Let me though Lawyers may perhaps forbid,1.0 +"Their Monarch to behold what they wish hid,",2.0 +Would have their trade a mystery remain,1.0 +"Let me, disdaining all such slavish awe,",2.0 +Dive to the very bottom of the Law;,1.0 +"Let me the weak, dead letter left behind",1.0 +"Search out the Principles, the Spirit find,",1.0 +"Till, from the parts, made master of the whole,",3.0 +I see the Constitution's very Soul.,0.0 +"Let me though Statesmen will no doubt resist,",2.0 +And to my eyes present a fearful lift,1.0 +"Of men, whose wills are opposite to mine,",1.0 +"Of men, great men, determined to resign",2.0 +"Let me with firmness, which becomes a King,",0.0 +"Conscious from what a source my actions spring,",1.0 +"Determined not by worlds to be withstood,",0.0 +"Unravel all low Ministerial scenes,",3.0 +"Destroy their jobs, lay bare their ways and means,",1.0 +And track them step by step; let me well know,3.0 +"And why one Man of merit is forgot,",1.0 +"Let me in Peace, in War, Supreme preside,",0.0 +And dare to know my way without a Guide.,0.0 +"Let me though Dignity, by nature proud,",1.0 +"Retires from view, and swells behind a cloud,",0.0 +"As if the Sun shone with less powerful ray,",6.0 +"Less Grace, less Glory, shining every day;",2.0 +"Though when she comes forth into public sight,",1.0 +"Unbending as a Ghost, she stalks upright,",2.0 +"With such an air as we have often seen,",2.0 +"And often laughed at in a tragic queen,",0.0 +"Let me all vain parade, all empty pride,",0.0 +"All terrors of Dominion laid aside,",1.0 +"All ornament, and needless helps of art,",1.0 +"All those big looks, which speak a little Heart",3.0 +Know which few Kings alas! have ever known,0.0 +"Destroys all fear, bids Love with Reverence live,",3.0 +And gives those Graces Pride can never give.,0.0 +"Let the stern Tyrant keep a distant state,",3.0 +"And, hating all Men, fear return of Hate,",1.0 +"Conscious of Guilt, retreat behind his throne,",2.0 +"Let all my Subjects have access to Me,",1.0 +Be my ears open as my heart is free;,3.0 +"In full, fair tide, let Information flow,",2.0 +"That evil is half cured, whose cause we know.",2.0 +"And thou, where ever thou art, thou wretched Thing,",2.0 +"Who art afraid to look up to a King,",1.0 +"Lay by thy fears ' -- make but thy grievance plain,",2.0 +"And, if I not redress thee, may my Reign",2.0 +Close up that very Moment ' -- to prevent,1.0 +"The course of JUSTICE, from her fair intent,",1.0 +"In vain my nearest, dearest friend shall plead,",0.0 +"In vain my mother kneel ' -- my soul may bleed,",0.0 +"But must not change ' -- When JUSTICE draws the dart,",0.0 +"It's mine to give it force, to give it aim ' --",1.0 +"I know it Duty, and I feel it Fame.",1.0 +"MADE to engage all hearts, and charm all eyes:",2.0 +"Though meek, magnanimous; though witty, wise;",1.0 +"Polite, as all her life in courts had been;",0.0 +"Yet good, as she the world had never seen;",1.0 +"The noble fire of an exalted mind,",1.0 +With gentle female tenderness combined.,2.0 +"Her Speech was the melodious voice of Love,",3.0 +Her Song the warbling of the vernal Grove;,1.0 +"Her Eloquence was sweeter than her Song,",2.0 +Her Form each beauty of her mind expressed.,1.0 +Her Mind was Virtue by the Graces dressed.,1.0 +The only Tribute pitying Love can pay.,2.0 +"Though vain the Hope thine Anguish to assuage,",1.0 +"Charm down Desire, or calm fierce Passion's Rage;",3.0 +"Relief to offer, if I can't relieve;",1.0 +"Near thy sick Couch with fond Concern to attend,",5.0 +"Poor hapless Youth! what Words can ease thy Pain,",1.0 +"When Reason pleads, and Wisdom cries in vain!",0.0 +"Can feeble Verse impetuous Nature guide,",0.0 +Or stem the Force of blind Affection's Tide?,0.0 +"Reason, you cry, and Duty are my Foes:",3.0 +"Religion's Dictates ineffectual prove,",3.0 +"What art Thou, Love? Thou strange mysterious Ill,",2.0 +"From careless Sloth thy dull Existence flows,",0.0 +And feeds the Fountain whence itself arose:,0.0 +"Silent its Waves with baleful Influence roll,",4.0 +"Damp the young Mind, and sink the aspiring Soul",4.0 +"Poison its Virtues, all its Powers restrain,",4.0 +And blast the Promise of the future Man.,1.0 +"To Thee, cursed Fiend, the captive Wretch consigned,",2.0 +"His Passions rampant, and his Reason blind,",1.0 +And place a Foolish Idol in its Throne:,0.0 +"At thy Desire he bids a Creature shine,",1.0 +He decks a Worm with Attributes Divine;,0.0 +"Hers to Angelic Beauties dares prefer,",2.0 +Angels are painted fair to look like Her!,2.0 +Adores the Idol that Himself has made:,0.0 +"From her Almighty Breath his Doom receives,",1.0 +"Dies by her Frown, as by her Smile he lives.",1.0 +"To her he bows, from her expects his Fate,",2.0 +"Heaven in her Love, Damnation in her Hate.",0.0 +"Where Lust lights up a black, polluted Flame;",1.0 +"Where Sighs impure, as impious Incense rise,",3.0 +"Himself the Priest, his Heart the Sacrifice:",0.0 +And thus GOD's Sacred Word his Horrid Prayer supplies.,1.0 +"Centre of All Perfection, Source of Bliss,",2.0 +"In whom thy Creature lives and moves and is,",0.0 +"Save, or I perish! hear my humble Prayer,",0.0 +Spare thy poor Servant ' -- OH in Mercy spare.,3.0 +"Thou art my Joy, on Thee depends my Trust,",1.0 +"Hide not thy Face, nor frown me into Dust.",0.0 +"Send forth thy Breath, and raised again I see",1.0 +"My Joy, my Life, my Final Bliss in Thee.",0.0 +"For Thee I Am: for Thee I All resign,",2.0 +"Be Thou my One thing Needful, Ever Mine!",5.0 +Nor wound with Rant profane the Christian Ear:,0.0 +"A just Abhorrence in my Friend I see,",0.0 +"He starts from Love, when Love's Idolatry.",1.0 +"Give me thy Heart, if the Creator cries,",1.0 +"It's given the Creature, What bold Wretch replies?",3.0 +"Not so my Friend ' -- he wakes, he breathes again,",0.0 +And Reason takes once more the slackened Rein.,1.0 +"In vain rebellious Nature claims a Part,",0.0 +"When Heaven requires, he gives up All his Heart:",0.0 +"For Love Divine no Partnership allows,",1.0 +And Heaven averse rejects divided Vows,0.0 +Nor lets her Power exceed Omnipotence.,3.0 +"Commands his GOD, Cut off the offending Hand?",4.0 +"He hears, Obedient to his GOD's Command:",1.0 +"He tears, and casts the bleeding Orb away.",0.0 +"Victorious now to Nobler Joys aspires,",4.0 +"His Bosom, touched with more than Earthly Fires:",0.0 +"He leaves rough Passion for calm Virtue's Road,",3.0 +"Gives Earth for Heaven, and quits a Worm for GOD.",1.0 +"To some cool shade Philander haste away,",4.0 +So softly plays among the bordering trees.,2.0 +"Beneath yonder spreading elm let's rest a while,",6.0 +And with our songs the tedious hours beguile:,3.0 +OH Damon! how insipid is thy theme?,3.0 +Nor can the fairest nymph enslave my heart;,1.0 +This gewgaw train can never my thoughts employ;,2.0 +Such would dispel but can't augment my joy.,0.0 +"I'll sing the beauties of the breathing spring,",1.0 +The treasures Autumn to my barns will bring.,1.0 +"To notes of transport ever tune my reed,",0.0 +While on the plains my numerous flocks I feed.,2.0 +Let Damon's breast such trivial joys disdain;,3.0 +"What though my barns were with abundance stored,",1.0 +And generous nectar ever graced my board?,2.0 +"OH Delia! sweeter than the opening dawn,",4.0 +More bright than rays that cheer the dewy lawn.,0.0 +"Her sparkling eye the orient gem outshines,",3.0 +"In easy curls, waves gently in the air.",1.0 +Her coral lips ambrosial sweets retain;,0.0 +She rivals Juno in her air and mien;,0.0 +"She far exceeds what ancient painters drew,",0.0 +Such excellence might grace a prince's arms;,1.0 +Yet this must yield to her interior charms.,3.0 +In her fair bosom virtue bears the sway;,2.0 +"Truth, innocence, and modesty combine",3.0 +"Hold, hold, dear Damon, sure too much is said;",3.0 +"Recount her virtues, and, with partial eyes,",1.0 +Admire in her what others would despise.,1.0 +"A sad delirium sure has seized thy brain,",2.0 +"Which makes thee fancy what the poets feign,",0.0 +"Of love, and such like vain fantastic whims,",1.0 +"It's wild chimera all, and idle dreams.",0.0 +And dost thou doubt of such a thing as love?,1.0 +"If once thy breast, like mine, the smart should prove,",1.0 +"More than is painted by the poet's art,",1.0 +In genuine colours will affect thy heart.,3.0 +But wherefore now contemn my rural lays?,0.0 +"Does she thy favours treat with disrespect,",3.0 +Which makes thee now all other maids neglect!,0.0 +"Lucretia still appears in all her charms,",0.0 +"What she possesses yields most solid joy,",1.0 +"Since bags of wealth buy pleasures never can cloy,",3.0 +These beauties catch; they set my heart on fire;,0.0 +"Her farm, her flocks, are all I do admire:",0.0 +"Her darts are powerful, of a yellowish hue,",3.0 +"Her striking beauty in full bloom appears,",1.0 +At the dull period of full fifty years:,6.0 +"Then Delia will no admiration claim,",2.0 +But dear Lucretia ever is the same.,1.0 +"For this you love her; now I truly find,",1.0 +That none but gilded cords your heart can bind;,0.0 +Nor wit nor beauty can obtain your vow;,1.0 +Vain would the attempts of either be to hold,1.0 +"My amorous heart, without the force of gold:",2.0 +"Beauty an empty trifle still I deem,",2.0 +"A childish toy, unworthy of esteem.",1.0 +Its gaudy foliage may attract the eye;,1.0 +But as the tulip it will fade and die:,2.0 +But men of sense can ruby lips despise.,0.0 +"And what is wit? a giddy fluttering thing,",2.0 +Which can no real satisfaction bring.,1.0 +"A thousand ills attend his wretched life,",0.0 +Whose dear companion is a witty wife:,1.0 +"Still she is right, and ever in the wrong,",0.0 +Such elocution dwells upon her tongue.,0.0 +"But if assisted by the Muse's skill,",2.0 +He sure may dread the poison of her quill;,1.0 +"She with keen satire lashes all around,",1.0 +And with the rest her husband feels the wound.,1.0 +"Should poverty, by sudden threats alarm,",1.0 +Can wit with all its power now prove a charm?,3.0 +"The fairest flowers Parnassus ere could boast,",3.0 +Yield to the treasures of the golden coast.,1.0 +"The maid who comes fraught with that precious over,",2.0 +"Brings virtue, wit, and beauty all in store;",1.0 +"This gives the pallid cheek a crimson glow,",0.0 +The tawny skin the tincture of the snow.,1.0 +This makes the dwarf complete in every part:,0.0 +She wounds most sure who throws the golden dart.,0.0 +"Short of one foot, distorted of one eye,",1.0 +"Struck by its lustre, no defects I spy.",0.0 +Thus does Philander waste his wits to prove,4.0 +A happy marriage destitute of love.,0.0 +"Gold, cursed gold, the bane of every bliss,",1.0 +"Thy summum bonum, all thy happiness.",1.0 +"Say, to what purpose do thy words avail?",0.0 +Beauty and wit to give us joy may fail.,2.0 +"Wit cease to please, and beauty may decay,",2.0 +Riches make wings and swiftly fly away;,3.0 +"Deprived of all, what will Philander say?",2.0 +"But to secure thee of thy darling's charms,",2.0 +"Go to the mines, and lodge within her arms;",0.0 +"Enfold thy mistress in a fond embrace,",0.0 +For ever banished from the shepherd race.,1.0 +Nor quit thy mansion till thou breathe thy last:,1.0 +Such sordid souls no social joys should taste.,1.0 +"Blessed with my Delia on this happy plain,",1.0 +"Where peace and pleasure in perfection reign,",0.0 +"I'll more serenely pass life's hours away,",1.0 +"Than without her, though crowned with princely sway.",1.0 +To please my charmer all my care shall be;,0.0 +Can I be wretched when she smiles on me?,1.0 +"But we must go, our fleecy charge attend.",1.0 +"The maid whose real charms the heart can hold,",3.0 +Must not be deemed one whit the worse for gold.,0.0 +"WIth swelling thoughts fixed on his great intent,",2.0 +And to his radiant Father's Palace came;,1.0 +On Stately Pedestals erected high,1.0 +Above the Convex of the utmost Sky:,3.0 +"Its Glorious Front, dazzled, yet pleased the sight,",4.0 +"The entrance, all divinely decked, was wrought,",0.0 +Beyond the invention of a humane thought;,6.0 +"With various figures exquisite and bold,",3.0 +As the Amazing Novelties they told.,2.0 +"Here awful Neptune rises from the deep,",1.0 +Around the peaceful Billows seem to sleep:,0.0 +And raise a Silver Tempest as they glide:,1.0 +"Wide from the Shore a pleasant scene of Land,",0.0 +With careless Beauty did it self expand:,0.0 +"Here Mountains, Valleys, Springs, and Sacred Groves,",0.0 +Had here their Rural Palaces and Lawns.,1.0 +"Here sat in Purple the Bright God of Day,",2.0 +"Smooth were his Cheeks, most lovely eyes, his brows",0.0 +"Adorned with rays, and his own sacred boughs:",1.0 +"Around, the days, the months, and years attend,",0.0 +"While, at his feet, the crooked Ages bend:",0.0 +"Stood smiling by, clad in a Flowery Vest:",5.0 +"Summer, with Ears of Corn, her temples bound,",2.0 +And Autumn with Luxuriant Clusters crowned:,3.0 +"His Aspect horrid, and congealed his blood.",2.0 +"Surrounded thus with Majesty and State,",1.0 +"Amazed! demands, What urged his enterprise?",0.0 +And what great Embassy could bring him to the Skies?,3.0 +"Monarch of Light, the doubtful Youth returns,",1.0 +Whose absence Life it self and Nature mourns:,0.0 +"Most splendid Ruler of the welcome Day,",1.0 +If bolder I may speak ' -- if before ' -- if before,3.0 +"' -- Then grant a certain sign, that may on Earth",1.0 +"Resolve the questioned grandeur of my Birth,",2.0 +And back he casts the radiant Energy,1.0 +And doubt no longer my Paternal rights;,2.0 +"For, by my Clymene, by the Intense delights",2.0 +"That gave thee Birth, so ' -- now choose a sign,",3.0 +And by the Dark Infernal Lake it's thine.,1.0 +Straight the ambitious youth demands the sway,2.0 +"Of his hot Steeds, and Chariot of the Day.",3.0 +"Amazed, the lucent Deity shook his head,",2.0 +"Revolving his Tremendous Oath, and said;",1.0 +"Kerb my fierce Steeds, and pass the Intemperate Zone?",6.0 +"So hard and difficult, the ascent of day",3.0 +Scarce with fresh Horses vanquish I the way:,4.0 +"With horror, on the distant Earth at Noon,",1.0 +The steep Descent; from thence we swiftly roll:,0.0 +"Even Lovely Thetis sees my Fall with dread,",0.0 +Though every Night she expects me to her Bed.,3.0 +From the encountering Motions of the Stars;,4.0 +Scarce our Immortal Efforts stem their force:,2.0 +"Betwixt the Bulls sharp horns then lies thy course,",1.0 +"The Ghastly Crab, and Leo's dreadful Jaws.",0.0 +"Expect no Groves, nor Flowery Mansions there,",4.0 +"Nor Gods, nor Nymphs; but Monsters every where,",0.0 +"Then let a Father's timely Care persuade,",0.0 +"Be wise, and urge no more this fatal Sign;",1.0 +"Alas, my Grief, too sadly, speaks thee Mine.",1.0 +Or Treasures which in upper Air abide;,0.0 +"And, by my former Sacred Oath, it's thine.",1.0 +"But the hot Youth, fixed on his rash design,",1.0 +"With such an Enterprise, the more inflamed",1.0 +"His anxious Father's Oath, now boldly claimed,",1.0 +Who forced to yield. The nimble hours soon brought,1.0 +"By crafty Vulcan, and the Cyclops Art,",2.0 +Bright as those Lucid Tracts in which they rolled:,0.0 +And twinkling sparks of wondrous coloured Lights.,0.0 +"But now Aurora from her Eastern Bed,",1.0 +"Had, over the Expanse her Dewy Mantle spread,",1.0 +The Sickly Moon the Hemisphere resigns;,0.0 +"And, with her Waning, Lucifer declines.",2.0 +"The Dawning grew more fair and ruddy still,",0.0 +"With Sacred Compounds his fierce Orb alleys,",3.0 +Then crowns the Joyful Hero with his Rays:,1.0 +"With tender Speeches cautioned thus the while,",0.0 +"Let not Presumption thy fond Thoughts beguile,",3.0 +"To give my hot unruly Steeds their course,",0.0 +"But use the Reins, with utmost care and force,",1.0 +"Along a beaten, broad, and oblique way,",3.0 +"Far from the Poles, now lies the Road of Day.",1.0 +"Avoid the Altar, and the hissing Snake,",1.0 +"Both opposite, betwixt them keep the Track;",2.0 +"Observe a careful distance from the Skies,",1.0 +Lest thou affront the awful Deities;,2.0 +"Nor near the Earth approach, the mean is best;",0.0 +To Destiny with hope I leave the rest.,1.0 +Resigns her Empire to the expected Light.,2.0 +"Take up the Reins; or yet, or yet be wise,",0.0 +"Undaunted, leaps into the Blazing Seat;",0.0 +"Pleased with his glorious charge, nor doubts his Skill",2.0 +"Aloud the Immortal Steeds begin to Neigh,",2.0 +"And strike their Fiery Hoofs, and make new Day;",3.0 +As through she clouds they cut their sparkling way:,1.0 +And finding now the Reeling Chariot fraught,2.0 +"Its feeble Cheques, and trembling Guide disdain;",0.0 +"And, all disordered, careless of their way,",1.0 +"Through Paths unknown to Sol himself, they stray:",0.0 +Implored more Temperate Quarters in the Main,0.0 +"With Heat revived, see the fierce Serpent roll,",3.0 +Though fixed his Station near the Frozen Pole.,0.0 +"A nimble pace; untried before by them,",0.0 +"Black horror now, and aggravating fear,",1.0 +Through all his Conscious thoughts triumphant were:,1.0 +"He Cursed his Pride, conspicuous Seat, and Birth,",2.0 +"Unknown to Gods and Men, would please him now;",0.0 +"So, all confused, the hopeless Pilot Raves,",0.0 +"And yields, at last, to the relentless Waves.",1.0 +What can he do? much of the Glowing East,1.0 +That dangerous Fall; nor one clear Track can fined,4.0 +In Heaven; nor call his Horses Names to mind:,0.0 +"Who now near where the dreadful Scorpion lay,",2.0 +"Proud of the Reins, which from his trembling hands",1.0 +"Now faintly drop, no obstacle withstands",3.0 +Their furious course; but through the blazing Sky,3.0 +"They foam, and rave, and all disordered fly.",0.0 +"Below, her own Diana from afar,",1.0 +"With wonder, views her radiant Brothers Car:",0.0 +"The exhaled Earth down to its Centre dry,",3.0 +"Wants Juice, her fainting Products to supply:",2.0 +"Assaulted with the too prevailing rays,",1.0 +"In fatal Flames, whole Towns and Mountains blaze:",1.0 +Of pleasant Ida into Cinders drop:,0.0 +"Parnassus, smoke up to the darkened Sky:",2.0 +Her kindling Grove; fair Aphrodites mourns.,1.0 +"With Ossa, in the conflagration shine:",0.0 +"Despair within, and Terror all without,",0.0 +"Gasping, and saint, still hurried round, nor more,",3.0 +"Though propped by Fate, a Mortal could have bore:",0.0 +"They say, the Ethiopians now with heat",2.0 +And all the wasted Fountains sadly ring,0.0 +"Euphrates, Torrents, half exhausted are.",1.0 +"The Muses Mourn; their Swans, who, as they die",1.0 +"In Charming Notes, breath their own Elegy:",3.0 +"Deep, in his utmost Subterranean Bed,",4.0 +"Earth cracks, to Hell descend the hated beams,",1.0 +And Plague the howling Ghosts with worse extremes:,0.0 +The exhausted Ocean leaves a Field of Sand;,1.0 +Nor does vexed Neptune one cool Wave command.,3.0 +"He has lost his share of the grand Monarchy,",4.0 +"The Lovely Sisters melt upon the Rocks,",0.0 +"In scalding streams, to keep themselves alive.",0.0 +"As much the Goddess of the Earth distressed,",1.0 +With trembling Lips the King of Gods addressed;,0.0 +"If thou the Groaning World's Destruction mean,",1.0 +If thou the cause of this Calamity;,3.0 +Or if it's some less potent God then thee:,2.0 +Have I for this thy Sacred Victims fed,1.0 +"Those Altars, which with thy bright Temples smoke,",2.0 +And lo the Mighty Poles begin to fume;,0.0 +"But, fainting here, she stopped, and shrinks her head",0.0 +Below the gloomy Lodgings of the Dead.,1.0 +"Too fond of Glory, had this Mischief done:",1.0 +"To view the dreadful flames; then mounts on high,",0.0 +"From whence he used to shade the sultry Air,",0.0 +And with kind Showers the Parched Earth to cheer:,4.0 +"But throws his Floodgates open now in vain,",1.0 +And pressed the light transparent clouds for Rain:,0.0 +"At which incensed, his ruddy Thunder glows,",1.0 +Nor durst the God of beams himself oppose.,0.0 +"See the winged Vengeance now, see where it breaks,",4.0 +On the rash cause of those lamented Wrecks;,3.0 +To the scorched Earth from his affected Throne:,3.0 +"So strike the Gallic Tyrant, that has hurled",0.0 +As guilty flames through the complaining World.,1.0 +"And all his Aims, and all his Hopes defeat.",0.0 +"Awhile suspend your violence, and waft",1.0 +"Safe over the unruffled main; let every thought,",3.0 +"Which may disquiet, and alarm my breast,",2.0 +"Be absent now; that, dispossessed of care,",0.0 +"And free from every tumult of the mind,",1.0 +"With each disturbing passion hushed to peace,",0.0 +"I may pour all my spirit on the theme,",1.0 +"Which opens now before me, and demands",1.0 +"Beyond the clouds, the fleecy robes of heaven,",0.0 +"Disdains all objects but the golden sun,",1.0 +And sails exulting through the blaze of day;,1.0 +"So, while her wing attempts the boldest flight,",0.0 +"Rejecting each inferior theme of praise,",2.0 +"Fair seat of wealth and freedom, thee my Muse",2.0 +"Shall celebrate, OH London: thee she hails.",2.0 +"Thou loved abode of Commerce, last retreat,",0.0 +Whence she contemplates with a tranquil mind,0.0 +Her various wanderings from the fated hour,3.0 +"Illustrious nymph, that named the fertile plains",2.0 +"Along the sounding main extended far,",0.0 +"Which flowery Carmel with its sweet perfumes,",1.0 +"Her from the bottom of the watery world,",4.0 +"As once she stood, in radiant beauties graced,",0.0 +"To mark the heaving tide, the piercing eye",0.0 +"The God ascending rushes to the beach,",1.0 +Nine times her monthly progress had renewed,2.0 +"There paced with painful steps the barren sands,",0.0 +"A solitary mourner, and the surge,",1.0 +"Which gently rolled beside her, now no more",1.0 +"With placid eyes beholding, thus exclaimed.",0.0 +"You fragrant shrubs and cedars, lofty shade,",0.0 +"Which crown my native hills, you spreading palms,",0.0 +"That rise majestic on these fruitful meads,",1.0 +"And you, who bear the endearing name of friends,",3.0 +"Bent down with pain and anguish on thy sands,",1.0 +"She ceased, when sudden from the enclosing deep",3.0 +"A crystal car emerged, with glittering shells,",2.0 +"And blushing coral decked, whose ruddy glow",0.0 +Mixed with the watery lustre of the pearl.,3.0 +"A smiling band of sea-born nymphs attend,",1.0 +Who from the shore with gentle hands convey,0.0 +The lucid chariot place. As there with dread,3.0 +"All mute, and struggling with her painful throes",1.0 +Were silent round her; not a zephyr dared,0.0 +"To wanton over the cedar's branching top,",2.0 +Nor on the plain the stately palm was seen,1.0 +"But all was hushed and motionless around,",1.0 +Along the level azure by the strength,1.0 +"Glides over the brow of darkness, and appears",4.0 +The livid ruins of a falling star.,1.0 +"While it was now the infancy of time,",1.0 +"With all the nymphs, whose secret care had nursed",0.0 +The eldest Bacchus. From the flowery shore,3.0 +While on its sloping sides ascends the pride,0.0 +"Half round a spacious lawn at length expands,",0.0 +"With azure, purple, and ten thousand dies,",2.0 +From its resplendent fragments beaming round;,1.0 +Nor less irradiate colours from beneath,2.0 +As down the perforated rock the sun,1.0 +Pours his meridian blaze! revered abode,4.0 +"Glow on the mead, and spicy shrubs perfume",0.0 +Which breathes incessant there; while every bird,1.0 +Of tuneful note his gay or plaintive song,0.0 +"Blends with the warble of meandering streams,",3.0 +"Soon as the wondrous infant sprung to day,",0.0 +"Earth rocked around; with all their nodding woods,",1.0 +"And streams reverting to their troubled source,",1.0 +"Mysterious Ammon, from his hollow cell",3.0 +"To earth, and sea, the mighty birth proclaimed.",0.0 +A newborn power behold! whom Fate hath called,2.0 +The Gods' imperfect labour to complete,1.0 +This wide creation. She in lonely sands,1.0 +"The barren sea shall people, and the wilds",1.0 +Of dreary nature shall with plenty cloth;,0.0 +And with endearing intercourse unite,2.0 +"Remotest nations, scorched by sultry suns,",0.0 +"Wherever the joyous vine disdains to grow,",2.0 +"The fruitful olive, or the golden ear;",1.0 +To every climate shall the gifts supply,0.0 +The heavenly prophet ceased. Olympus heard.,2.0 +The ocean's lord to honour in his child;,0.0 +When over his offspring smiling thus began,3.0 +To thee I give the empire of the main.,2.0 +"From where the morning breathes its eastern gale,",0.0 +"To the undiscovered limits of the West,",1.0 +Thy sire's obsequious billows shall extend,2.0 +Thy universal reign. Minerva next,0.0 +"With wisdom blessed her, Mercury with art,",1.0 +"Majestic Phoebus, over the infant long",2.0 +"In contemplation pausing, thus declared",0.0 +"Thee with divine invention I endow,",2.0 +"That secret wonder, Goddess, to disclose,",1.0 +"By which the wise, the virtuous, and the brave,",1.0 +Shall pass recorded to the verge of time.,1.0 +"Her years of childhood now were numbered over,",1.0 +When to her mother's natal soil repaired,0.0 +"The new divinity, whose parting step",1.0 +"Her sacred nurses followed, ever now",0.0 +To her alone inseparably joined;,2.0 +To spread their hoarded blessings round the world;,0.0 +"Thy all enlivening progress over the globe,",5.0 +"From one, like thee, distinguished but the gifts",3.0 +From the dire vase released the imprisoned woes.,2.0 +"In horrid rocks, and solitary woods,",0.0 +The helpless wanderer man forlorn and wild,2.0 +"The deep foundations, where the future pride",0.0 +"Of mightiest cities rose, and over the main",4.0 +Then all the latent and mysterious powers,3.0 +"For man, still urging thy inventive mind,",2.0 +"Which lifts the ennobled spirit near to heaven,",2.0 +"Laws, learning, wisdom, nature's works revealed",1.0 +"Of Virtue sounding from the historic roll,",3.0 +"The philosophic page, and poet's song.",0.0 +Now solitude and silence from the shores,2.0 +"Barbarity is polished, infant arts",1.0 +"His waves extends, embracing Egypt round,",0.0 +"Thus, when Pygmalion from Phoenician Tyre",3.0 +"Had banished freedom, with disdainful steps",1.0 +"Indignant Commerce, turning from the walls",1.0 +"Herself had raised, her welcome sway enlarged",0.0 +"Among the nations, spreading round the globe",0.0 +"Of sumptuous Corinth, and the ample round",3.0 +The irreversible decrees of heaven,1.0 +To far more northern regions had ordained,0.0 +Thy lasting seat; in vain the imperial port,4.0 +Receives the gathered riches of the world;,1.0 +In vain whole climates bow beneath its rule;,1.0 +Behold the toil of centuries to Rome,1.0 +"What though the potent Hanseatic league,",0.0 +"The sad remembrance; what though, led through climes",0.0 +"And seas unknown, with thee the adventurous sons",3.0 +"Beneath thy smiles, and thou propitious there",2.0 +"Till from the sandy mouths of echoing Rhine,",3.0 +With sudden roar the angry voice of war,0.0 +"Lo! in bright arms a bold militia stood,",3.0 +"The snowy ridge of Apennine, the fields",0.0 +And rapid Ebro gathering all their powers,2.0 +To crush this daring populace. The pride,1.0 +Of fiercest kings with more inflamed revenge,0.0 +And Rome's stern offspring none hath ever surpassed,4.0 +"For liberty, or death. At once the thought",1.0 +"And ardent, Goddess, thou dost speed to save",1.0 +"The generous people. Not the vernal showers,",2.0 +"Distilling copious from the morning clouds,",1.0 +"Descend more kindly on the tender flower,",1.0 +"Newborn and opening on the lap of Spring,",3.0 +"Than on this rising state thy cheering smile,",1.0 +"And animating presence; while on Spain,",0.0 +"Prophetic thus, thy indignation broke.",0.0 +Disgrace of Europe! for inhuman deeds,1.0 +And insolence renowned! what demon led,1.0 +"Thee first to plough the undiscovered surge,",0.0 +"With more than savage thirst of blood the arts,",0.0 +"By me for gentlest intercourse ordained,",3.0 +"For mutual aids, and hospitable ties",6.0 +"From shore to shore? Or, that pernicious hour,",0.0 +"Was heaven disgusted with its wondrous works,",1.0 +That to thy fell exterminating hand,0.0 +"The immense Peruvian empire it resigned,",4.0 +"The smiling fields of Europe, and extend",1.0 +Thy bloody shackles over these happy seats,2.0 +"Of liberty? Presumptuous nation, learn,",3.0 +"From this dire period shall thy glories fade,",1.0 +"Even those, whom now thy impious pride would bind",4.0 +"In servile chains, hereafter shall support",0.0 +Thy weakened throne; when heaven's afflicting hand,2.0 +Thy insolence and cruelty remain.,2.0 +"Thus with her clouded visage, wrapped in frowns,",0.0 +"The Goddess threatened, and the daring train",1.0 +"Despising fortune, from repeated foils",1.0 +"More fierce, and braving Famine's keenest rage,",0.0 +"On tributary Java, and the shores",1.0 +"Their fragrant stores of cinnamon resigned,",1.0 +Their spicy groves. And OH whatever coast,1.0 +"The Belgians trace, wherever their power is spread,",4.0 +"Still thither be extended thy renown,",2.0 +"OH William, pride of Orange, and adored",2.0 +"Thy virtues, which disdaining life, or wealth,",0.0 +"Or empire, whether in thy dawn of youth,",0.0 +"Thy glorious noon of manhood, or the night,",4.0 +Besides the public owned. And dear to fame,0.0 +"Your laurel strow around this hero's urn,",0.0 +"Whom fond Minerva graced with all her arts,",0.0 +"Alike in letters and in arms to shine,",1.0 +With massacre yet reeking from the streets,2.0 +"With Famine his companion, won, subdued",1.0 +"In outward form, with patient virtue stood",0.0 +Superior to despair; the heavenly Nine,5.0 +His suffering soul with great examples cheered,0.0 +Who with melodious praise to noblest deeds,3.0 +With animating verse the Spartan hopes;,0.0 +"Whose sacred brows the tragic ivy twined,",0.0 +Mixed with the warrior's laurel; all surpassed,0.0 +Among the mightiest on the brightest roll,1.0 +"Of fame they shone, by splendid wealth and power",0.0 +Graced and supported; thus a genial soil,2.0 +"Affords it strength to flourish, till at last",1.0 +It rears amid the proudest of the grove.,1.0 +Yet here the eternal sates thy last retreat,1.0 +"Deny, a mightier nation they prepare",3.0 +"For thy reception, sufferers alike",2.0 +By the unremitted insolence of power,2.0 +"From reign to reign, nor less than Belgium known",0.0 +"For bold contention oft on crimson fields,",0.0 +"To circumscribe, or conquering to depose",3.0 +"The joy of freedom, dread of treacherous kings,",2.0 +"The destined mistress of the subject main,",1.0 +"Thy presence, Goddess. It was now the time,",1.0 +"The sacred senate, and with impious feet",4.0 +"Tread on the powers of magistrates and laws,",2.0 +"While every arm was chilled with cold amaze,",0.0 +"Of pale Iberia, of submissive Gaul,",3.0 +"OH ever faithful, vigilant, and brave,",2.0 +"The Goddess drew, where grateful she bestowed",1.0 +"The unbounded empire of her father's floods,",2.0 +"And chose thee, London, for her chief abode,",1.0 +"Pleased with the silver Thames, its gentle stream,",0.0 +"Overlook his lucid bosom; pleased with thee,",0.0 +"Thou nurse of arts, and thy industrious race;",3.0 +"Pleased with their candid manners, with their free",1.0 +And zeal for knowledge; hence the opening mind,2.0 +Of blind Opinion; Merit hence is heard,0.0 +"Amid its blushes, dawning arts arise,",0.0 +"The gloomy clouds, which ignorance or fear",1.0 +"Spread over the paths of Virtue, are dispelled,",4.0 +"Servility retires, and every heart",1.0 +"With public cares is warmed; thy merchant's hence,",0.0 +"Illustrious city, thou dost raise to fame:",3.0 +From earliest annals down to Sir John Barnard. Barnard's times!,4.0 +"And, OH! if like that eloquence divine,",1.0 +"And her insulted majesty he poured,",2.0 +"These humble measures flowed, then too thy walls",0.0 +"His lyre, and pays his grateful song to thee,",0.0 +"Continue still to hear my vows, and bless",0.0 +"My honourable industry, which courts",3.0 +No other smile but thine; for thou alone,3.0 +"Nor yet exclude contemplative repose,",1.0 +But to my dwelling grant the solemn calm,1.0 +"Of learnt leisure, never to reject",3.0 +"The visitation of the tuneful Maids,",1.0 +"Who seldom deign to leave their sacred haunts,",0.0 +And grace a mortal mansion; thou divide,1.0 +"And, all devoted to my midnight lamp,",2.0 +"Even now, when Albion over the foaming breast",4.0 +"I grasp the sounding shell, prepared to sing",0.0 +"Celestial fires descending on my breast,",1.0 +"Why, though derived from Neptune, though revered",2.0 +"Among the nations, by the Gods endowed,",1.0 +Thou never yet from eldest times hast found,0.0 +One permanent abode; why oft expelled,1.0 +Thy wandering steps; why London late hath seen,2.0 +"The Ethereal Train, in honour to thy sire,",3.0 +"Showered on thy birth their blended gifts, the Power",1.0 +"Thy sons relinquished arms, on other arts",0.0 +"Intent, and still to mercenary hands",0.0 +"The sword entrusting, vainly deemed, that wealth",0.0 +"Could purchase lasting safety, and protect",1.0 +"Were passed, their long impenetrable snows",1.0 +"And dreary torrents; swollen with Roman dead,",2.0 +"Enlarged, while still undisciplined, dismayed,",1.0 +Her head commercial Carthage bowed at last,0.0 +To military Rome: the unaltered will,3.0 +"Of heaven in every climate hath ordained,",0.0 +"The sword, and steel shall ever conquer gold.",0.0 +Then from thy sufferings learn; the auspicious hour,2.0 +Now smiles; our wary magistrates have armed,1.0 +"Our hands; thou, Goddess, animate our breasts",0.0 +"That once again, in bright battalions ranged,",0.0 +Our thousands and ten thousands may be seen,3.0 +Of wild Ambition. Mark the Swedish hind;,0.0 +"He, on his native soil should danger lour,",1.0 +Would rise to arms; and other fields and chiefs,0.0 +The admiration of the northern world:,1.0 +"Securely resting on her faithful shield,",1.0 +"Looks down with scorn on spacious realms, which groan",0.0 +"In servitude around her, and, her sword",1.0 +"The Austrian eagle, and imperious Gaul:",5.0 +"Over hills of slain by ardent Rupert led,",0.0 +"Whose dreaded standard Victory had waved,",1.0 +"Till then triumphant, there with noblest blood",1.0 +From their gored squadrons died the restive spear,2.0 +"Shall we be now more timid, when behold,",0.0 +"The blackening storm now gathers round our heads,",1.0 +And England's angry Genius sounds to arms?,0.0 +"For thee, remember, is the banner spread;",2.0 +The naval tower to vindicate thy rights,3.0 +Will sweep the curling foam; the thundering bomb,2.0 +"For thee our dire volcano's of the main,",2.0 +"Impregnated with horror, soon will pour",5.0 +Their flaming ruin round each hostile fleet:,0.0 +"Thou then, great Goddess, summon all thy powers,",1.0 +"Arm all thy sons, thy vassals, every heart",0.0 +"You mariners of Britain, chosen train",1.0 +"Of Liberty and Commerce, now no more",2.0 +Of injured Albion; to her foes present,1.0 +The seas and clouds: though long in silence hushed,0.0 +Hath slept the British thunder; though the pride,1.0 +Of weak Iberia hath forgot the roar;,2.0 +"Soon shall her ancient terrors be recalled,",0.0 +Anon shall visit your triumphant isle.,1.0 +And that perpetual safety may possess,3.0 +"Over this illustrious city, teach her sons",3.0 +To wield the noble instruments of war;,1.0 +And let the great example soon extend,0.0 +"Through every province, till Britannia sees",3.0 +Her docile millions fill the martial plain.,0.0 +"Then, whatsoever our terrors now suggest",2.0 +Of desolation and the invading sword;,3.0 +"A newborn isthmus from the British deep,",1.0 +And to its parent continent rejoined,2.0 +"His powerful crescent with the hostile Gaul,",3.0 +"And that new Cyrus of the conquered East,",2.0 +"The Ganges and Euphrates, could advance",1.0 +"For children, parents, friends, for England fired,",0.0 +"Her liberty, her honour, should sustain",3.0 +The immense array; thus even the lightest thought,4.0 +"Must die the moment, that auspicious Mars",0.0 +Her sons shall bless with discipline and arms;,1.0 +"That exiled race, in superstition nursed,",1.0 +With distant gaze despairing shall behold,0.0 +"Still from their abdicated sway estranged,",0.0 +"Priests, ignorance, and bonds; with watchful step",2.0 +"Gigantic Terror, striding round our coast,",0.0 +"Shall shake his gorgon aegis, and the hearts",1.0 +"Our angry fleets, when insolence and wrongs",1.0 +"To arms awaken our vindictive power,",1.0 +Shall bear the hideous waste of ruthless war;,2.0 +"But liberty, security, and fame",2.0 +Shall dwell for ever on our chosen plains.,1.0 +"IT'S strange, the Miser should his Cares employ",0.0 +To gain those Riches he can never enjoy:,3.0 +"Is it less strange, the Prodigal should waste",3.0 +His Wealth to purchase what he never can taste?,2.0 +"Not for himself he sees, or hears, or eats;",1.0 +"Artists must choose his Pictures, Music, Meats:",2.0 +"He buys for Topham Drawings and Designs,",1.0 +"For Fountain Statues, and for Curio Coins,",3.0 +"And Books for Mead, and Rarities for Sloan.",1.0 +Think we all these are for himself? no more,2.0 +Than his fine Wife my Lord or finer Whore.,2.0 +Only to show how many Tastes he wanted.,2.0 +"Some Daemon whispered, Knights should have a Taste.",0.0 +"Heaven visits with a Taste the wealthy Fool,",1.0 +"A standing Sermon! at each Year's expense,",0.0 +"Oft have have you hinted to your Brother Peer,",1.0 +"A certain Truth, which many buy too dear:",1.0 +"Something there is, more needful than Expense,",2.0 +And something previous even to Taste ' -- It's Sense;,4.0 +"Good Sense, which only is the Gift of Heaven,",1.0 +"And though no Science, fairly worth the Seven.",2.0 +"A Light, which in yourself you must perceive;",0.0 +"To build, to plant, whatever you intend,",2.0 +"To rear the Column, or the Arch to bend,",1.0 +"In all, let Nature never be forgot.",1.0 +"Consult the Genius of the Place in all,",1.0 +"That tells the Waters or to rise, or fall,",1.0 +"Or helps the ambitious Hill the Heavens to scale,",4.0 +"Or scoops in circling Theatres the Vale,",1.0 +"Calls in the Country, catches opening Glades,",2.0 +"Joins willing Woods, and varies Shades from Shades,",1.0 +"Now breaks, or now directs, the intending Lines;",3.0 +"Paints as you plant, and as you work, Designs.",1.0 +"Begin with Sense, of every Art the Soul,",0.0 +"Parts answering Parts, shall slide into a Whole,",3.0 +"Spontaneous Beauties all around advance,",2.0 +"Start, even from Difficulty, strike, from Chance;",3.0 +Nature shall join you; Time shall make it grow,2.0 +"Without it, proud Versailles! thy Glory falls,",0.0 +"Lo! Bridgman comes, and floats them with a Lake:",2.0 +"Or cut wide Views through Mountains to the Plain,",2.0 +"The Wood supports the Plain; the Parts unite,",1.0 +And strength of Shade contends with strength of Light;,0.0 +He finds at last he better likes a Field.,0.0 +"Or sat delighted in the thickening Shade,",0.0 +And see the stretching Branches long to meet!,0.0 +"His Son's fine Taste an opener Vista loves,",3.0 +"One boundless Green or flourished Carpet views,",0.0 +The thriving Plants ignoble Broomsticks made,1.0 +Now sweep those Allies they were born to shade.,2.0 +"Yet hence the Poor are clothed, the Hungry fed;",0.0 +"Health to himself, and to his Infants Bread",3.0 +Thy charitable Vanity supplies.,2.0 +Another Age shall see the golden Ear,0.0 +"Deep Harvests bury all thy Pride has planned,",1.0 +"Where all cry out, What Sums are thrown away!",0.0 +"So proud, so grand, of that stupendous Air,",0.0 +Soft and Agreeable come never there.,5.0 +"Greatness, with Timon, dwells in such a Draught",3.0 +"To compass this, his Building is a Town,",2.0 +Who but must laugh the Master when he sees?,0.0 +"A puny Insect, shivering at a Breeze!",2.0 +Two Cupids squirt before: A Lake behind,1.0 +"His Gardens next your Admiration call,",0.0 +"On every side you look, behold the Wall!",0.0 +"No pleasing Intricacies intervene,",2.0 +No artful Wildness to perplex the Scene:,2.0 +"Grove nods at Grove, each Ally has a Brother,",1.0 +And half the Platform just reflects the other.,1.0 +"The suffering Eye inverted Nature sees,",0.0 +"Trees cut to Statues, Statues thick as Trees,",3.0 +"With here a Fountain, never to be played,",1.0 +"Behold! my Lord advances over the Green,",2.0 +"Smit with the mighty pleasure, to be seen:",1.0 +But soft ' -- by regular approach ' -- not yet ' --,1.0 +His Study? with what Authors is it stored?,2.0 +"In Books, not Authors, curious is my Lord;",1.0 +"To all their dated Backs he turns you round,",0.0 +"For all his Lordship knows, but they are Wood.",1.0 +"For Lock or Milton it's in vain to look,",1.0 +These Shelves admit not any Modern book.,0.0 +That summons you to all the Pride of Prayer:,1.0 +"Light Quirks of Music, broken and uneven,",2.0 +Make the Soul dance upon a Jig to Heaven.,3.0 +"On painted Ceilings you devoutly stare,",1.0 +"On gilded Clouds in fair expansion lie,",0.0 +And bring all Paradise before your Eye.,0.0 +"To Rest, the Cushion, and soft Dean invite,",2.0 +Who never mentions Hell to Ears polite.,0.0 +A hundred Footsteps scrape the marble Hall:,1.0 +Is this a Dinner? this a Genial Room?,2.0 +"A solemn Sacrifice, performed in State,",0.0 +"You drink by Measure, and to Minutes eat.",1.0 +"Sick of his civil Pride, from Morn to Eve;",0.0 +"I curse such lavish Cost, and little Skill,",0.0 +"And swear, no Day was ever past so ill.",1.0 +"You show us, Rome was glorious, not profuse,",2.0 +And pompous Buildings once were things of use.,0.0 +"Just as they are, yet shall your noble Rules",1.0 +"Fill half the Land with Imitating Fools,",1.0 +"Who random Drawings from your Sheets shall take,",1.0 +And of one Beauty many Blunders make;,1.0 +Load some vain Church with old Theatric State;,3.0 +"Reverse your Ornaments, and hang them all",1.0 +"And laced with bits of Rustic, it's a Front:",1.0 +"Shall call the Winds through long Arcades to roar,",0.0 +Proud to catch cold at a Venetian door;,3.0 +"And if they starve, they starve by Rules of Art.",1.0 +"Yet thou proceed; be fallen Arts thy care,",1.0 +"Erect new Wonders, and the Old repair,",2.0 +And be whatever Vitruvius was before:,5.0 +"Till Kings call forth the Idea's of thy Mind,",4.0 +"Proud to accomplish what such hands designed,",2.0 +"And Temples, worthier of the God, ascend;",1.0 +"Bid the broad Arch the dangerous Flood contain,",5.0 +The Mole projected break the roaring Main;,0.0 +"Back to his bounds their subject Sea command,",0.0 +And roll obedient Rivers through the Land:,3.0 +"These are Imperial Works, and worthy Kings.",3.0 +"He, like the world, his ready visit pays",0.0 +"Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe,",0.0 +And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.,1.0 +From short as usual and disturbed repose,3.0 +I wake: how happy they who wake no more!,2.0 +"Yet that were vain, if dreams infest the grave.",0.0 +"I wake, emerging from a sea of dreams",1.0 +"From wave to wave of fancied misery,",1.0 +"At random drove, her helm of reason lost:",0.0 +"Though now restored, iT is only change of pain,",0.0 +"The Day too short for my distress; and Night,",2.0 +"Even in the zenith of her dark domain,",1.0 +Her leaden sceptre over a slumbering world.,4.0 +"Silence, how dead! and darkness, how profound!",3.0 +"Nor eye, nor listening ear, an object finds;",0.0 +Creation sleeps. IT is as the general pulse,1.0 +"Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause;",1.0 +An awful pause! prophetic of her end.,1.0 +And let her prophecy be soon fulfilled:,1.0 +Fate! drop the curtain; I can lose no more.,3.0 +Silence and Darkness! solemn sisters! twins,2.0 +"From ancient Night, who nurse the tender thought",0.0 +"To reason, and on reason build resolve,",1.0 +"That column of true majesty in man,",3.0 +Assist me: I will thank you in the grave;,1.0 +The grave your kingdom: there this frame shall fall,1.0 +A victim sacred to your dreary shrine.,1.0 +"Primeval Silence, when the morning stars,",0.0 +"Exulting, shouted over the rising ball; ' --",2.0 +"OH Thou, whose Word from solid darkness struck",0.0 +"That spark, the sun! strike wisdom from my soul;",2.0 +"My soul, which flies to Thee, her trust, her treasure,",1.0 +"As misers to their gold, while others rest.",0.0 +"Through this opaque of Nature and of soul,",2.0 +"This double night, transmit one pitying ray,",2.0 +"To lighten and to cheer. OH lead my mind,",2.0 +"A mind that fain would wander from its woe,",1.0 +Lead it through various scenes of life and death;,2.0 +And from each scene the noblest truths inspire.,1.0 +Nor less inspire my conduct than my song:,1.0 +"Teach my best reason, reason; my best will",5.0 +Teach rectitude; and fix my firm resolve,1.0 +"On this devoted head, be poured in vain.",1.0 +The bell strikes one. We take no note of time,3.0 +But from its loss. To give it then a tongue,1.0 +"Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke,",1.0 +It is the knell of my departed hours.,2.0 +Where are they? With the years beyond the flood.,1.0 +It is the signal that demands dispatch:,1.0 +How much is to be done! My hopes and fears,0.0 +"Start up alarmed, and over life's narrow verge",5.0 +A dread eternity! how surely mine!,2.0 +"And can eternity belong to me,",2.0 +Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?,3.0 +"How poor, how rich, how abject, how august,",2.0 +"How complicate, how wonderful is man!",1.0 +How passing wonder He who made him such!,1.0 +Connexion exquisite of distant worlds!,1.0 +Distinguished link in being's endless chain!,0.0 +Midway from nothing to the Deity!,3.0 +"A beam ethereal, sullied and absorbed!",3.0 +Dim miniature of greatness absolute!,1.0 +An heir of glory! a frail child of dust!,2.0 +Helpless immortal! insect infinite!,4.0 +"A worm! a god! ' -- I tremble at myself,",1.0 +"And in myself am lost! At home a stranger,",1.0 +"Thought wanders up and down, surprised, aghast,",3.0 +And wondering at her own. How reason reels!,1.0 +"OH what a miracle to man is man,",1.0 +Triumphantly distressed! what joy! what dread!,1.0 +Alternately transported and alarmed!,4.0 +What can preserve my life? or what destroy?,1.0 +An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave;,2.0 +Legions of angels can't confine me there.,2.0 +It's past conjecture; all things rise in proof:,1.0 +"While over my limbs Sleep's soft dominion spread,",3.0 +What though my soul fantastic measures trod,0.0 +Over fairy fields; or mourned along the gloom,0.0 +"Or scaled the cliff; or danced on hollow winds,",0.0 +"With antic shapes, wild natives of the brain?",2.0 +"Her ceaseless flight, though devious, speaks her nature",2.0 +"Active, aerial, towering, unconfined,",2.0 +Unfettered with her gross companion's fall.,1.0 +Even silent Night proclaims my soul immortal:,0.0 +Even silent Night proclaims eternal day.,0.0 +"Dull sleep instructs, nor sport vain dreams in vain.",2.0 +Why then their loss deplore that are not lost?,1.0 +Why wanders wretched thought their tombs around,0.0 +In infidel distress? Are angels there?,1.0 +They live! they greatly live a life on earth,0.0 +Of tenderness let heavenly pity fall,4.0 +"On me, more justly numbered with the dead.",2.0 +"This is the desert, this the solitude:",1.0 +"How populous, how vital is the grave!",2.0 +"This is creation's melancholy vault,",1.0 +"The land of apparitions, empty shades!",0.0 +"All, all on earth is shadow, all beyond",0.0 +"How solid all, where change shall be no more!",0.0 +"This is the bud of being, the dim dawn,",3.0 +"The twilight of our day, the vestibule:",2.0 +"Life's theatre as yet is shut, and Death,",2.0 +"This gross impediment of clay remove,",1.0 +And make us embryos of existence free.,2.0 +From real life but little more remote,2.0 +"Is he, not yet a candidate for light,",1.0 +"The future embryo, slumbering in his sire.",5.0 +"Embryos we must be till we burst the shell,",0.0 +"Yonder ambient azure shell, and spring to life,",2.0 +The life of gods OH transport! and of man.,2.0 +Yet man fool man! here buries all his thoughts;,1.0 +"Prisoner of earth, and penned beneath the moon,",1.0 +To fly at infinite; and reach it there,1.0 +"On life's fair tree, fast by the throne of God.",3.0 +What golden joys ambrosial clustering glow,2.0 +"In His full beam, and ripen for the just,",4.0 +Where momentary ages are no more!,2.0 +"Where Time, and Pain, and Chance, and Death expire!",0.0 +"To push eternity from human thought,",1.0 +And smother souls immortal in the dust?,0.0 +"A soul immortal, spending all her fires,",0.0 +"Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness,",5.0 +"At aught this scene can threaten, or indulge,",1.0 +"Resembles ocean into tempest wrought,",0.0 +"To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.",1.0 +Where falls this censure? It overwhelms myself.,3.0 +"How, like a worm, was I wrapped round and round",0.0 +"In silken thought, which reptile Fancy spun,",0.0 +Till darkened Reason lay quite clouded over,1.0 +"With soft conceit of endless comfort here,",0.0 +Nor yet put forth her wings to reach the skies!,1.0 +Night visions may befriend as sung above:,2.0 +Our waking dreams are fatal. How I dreamt,1.0 +Of things impossible! could sleep do more?,1.0 +Of joys perpetual in perpetual change!,4.0 +Of stable pleasures on the tossing wave!,1.0 +Eternal sunshine in the storms of life!,1.0 +With gorgeous tapestries of pictured joys!,1.0 +"Joy behind joy, in endless perspective!",5.0 +"Till at Death's toll, whose restless iron tongue",1.0 +"Calls daily for his millions at a meal,",2.0 +"Starting I woke, and found myself undone.",3.0 +The spider's most attenuated thread,2.0 +"Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie",2.0 +On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.,0.0 +OH you blessed scenes of permanent delight!,4.0 +Full above measure! lasting beyond bound!,5.0 +A perpetuity of bliss is bliss.,1.0 +"Could you, so rich in rapture, fear an end,",0.0 +"That ghastly thought would drink up all your joy,",0.0 +Safe are you lodged above these rolling spheres;,0.0 +The baleful influence of whose giddy dance,1.0 +Sheds sad vicissitude on all beneath.,3.0 +"Here teems with revolutions every hour,",0.0 +And rarely for the better; or the best,2.0 +More mortal than the common births of fate.,1.0 +"Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep",0.0 +Strikes empires from the root; each Moment plays,2.0 +His little weapon in the narrower sphere,2.0 +"Of sweet domestic comfort, and cuts down",2.0 +Implicit treason to Divine decree!,1.0 +A bold invasion of the rights of Heaven!,1.0 +"I clasped the phantoms, and I found them air.",1.0 +"OH had I weighed it ere my fond embrace,",0.0 +What darts of agony had missed my heart!,1.0 +Death! great proprietor of all! iT is thine,3.0 +"To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.",1.0 +The sun himself by thy permission shines;,1.0 +"And, one day, thou shalt pluck him from his sphere.",2.0 +"Amid such mighty plunder, why exhaust",0.0 +Thy partial quiver on a mark so mean?,1.0 +Thy shaft flew thrice; and thrice my peace was slain;,1.0 +"And thrice, ere thrice yonder moon had filled her horn.",4.0 +OH Cynthia! why so pale? dost thou lament,3.0 +"How wanes my borrowed bliss! from Fortune's smile,",1.0 +"Precarious courtesy! not Virtue's sure,",3.0 +"In every varied posture, place, and hour,",0.0 +How widowed every thought of every joy!,0.0 +"Thought, busy thought! too busy for my peace!",3.0 +"Led softly by the stillness of the night,",3.0 +"Led like a murderer, and such it proves!",2.0 +Strays wretched rover! over the pleasing past;,3.0 +And finds all desert now; and meets the ghosts,0.0 +Of my departed joys; a numerous train!,3.0 +I rue the riches of my former fate;,1.0 +I tremble at the blessings once so dear;,0.0 +And every pleasure pains me to the heart.,1.0 +Yet why complain? or why complain for one?,0.0 +"Hangs out the sun his lustre but for me,",1.0 +The single man? Are angels all beside?,0.0 +I mourn for millions: iT is the common lot;,1.0 +"In this shape, or in that, has Fate entailed",0.0 +"The mother's throes on all of woman born,",0.0 +"Not more the children, than sure heirs, of Pain.",2.0 +"War, Famine, Pest, Volcano, Storm, and Fire,",1.0 +"Wrapped up in triple brass, besiege mankind.",1.0 +"Here, plunged in mines, forgets a sun was made.",0.0 +Are hammered to the galling oar for life;,1.0 +"And plough the winter's wave, and reap despair.",0.0 +"Some, for hard masters, broken under arms,",2.0 +"In battle lopped away, with half their limbs,",0.0 +"If so the tyrant, or his minion, doom.",2.0 +"Want, and incurable Disease, fell pair!",4.0 +On hopeless multitudes remorseless seize,0.0 +"At once, and make a refuge of the grave.",1.0 +How groaning hospitals eject their dead!,5.0 +What numbers groan for sad admission there!,1.0 +Solicit the cold hand of Charity!,3.0 +"To shock us more, ' -- solicit it in vain!",1.0 +You silken sons of Pleasure! since in pains,0.0 +"Happy, did sorrow seize on such alone!",3.0 +"Not Prudence can defend, or Virtue save;",1.0 +"And punishment the guiltless; and alarm,",2.0 +"Through thickest shades, pursues the fond of peace.",0.0 +"Man's caution often into danger turns,",1.0 +"And his guard, falling, crushes him to death.",3.0 +Not Happiness itself makes good her name;,2.0 +Our very wishes give us not our wish.,0.0 +How distant oft the thing we dote on most,0.0 +"From that for which we dote, felicity!",1.0 +The smoothest course of nature has its pains;,0.0 +"And truest friends, through error, wound our rest.",0.0 +"Without misfortune, what calamities!",1.0 +"And what hostilities, without a foe!",1.0 +Nor are foes wanting to the best on earth.,3.0 +"But endless is the list of human ills,",1.0 +And sighs might sooner fail than cause to sigh.,0.0 +"Rocks, deserts, frozen seas, and burning sands;",1.0 +"Wild haunts of monsters, poisons, stings, and death!",1.0 +"Such is earth's melancholy map! But, far",2.0 +More sad! this earth is a true map of man.,2.0 +So bounded are its haughty lord's delights,1.0 +"To Woe's wide empire; where deep troubles toss,",2.0 +And threatening fate wide opens to devour.,2.0 +"What then am I, who sorrow for myself?",3.0 +"In age, in infancy, from others' aid",1.0 +Is all our hope; to teach us to be kind:,1.0 +"That Nature's first, last lesson to mankind:",3.0 +The selfish heart deserves the pain it feels.,0.0 +"More generous sorrow, while it sinks, exalts;",2.0 +And conscious virtue mitigates the pang.,0.0 +"Nor Virtue, more than Prudence, bids me give",0.0 +"Swollen thought a second channel; who divide,",0.0 +"They weaken too, the torrent of their grief.",1.0 +How sad a sight is human happiness,1.0 +To those whose thought can pierce beyond an hour!,1.0 +"OH thou, whatever thou art, whose heart exults!",4.0 +"Let thy pride pardon, what thy nature needs,",3.0 +The salutary censure of a friend.,1.0 +Thou happy wretch! by blindness art thou blessed;,0.0 +Thy pleasure is the promise of thy pain.,2.0 +"Misfortune, like a creditor severe,",1.0 +But rises in demand for her delay;,1.0 +"She makes a scourge of past prosperity,",1.0 +"To sting thee more, and double thy distress.",1.0 +"Lorenzo, Fortune makes her court to thee.",0.0 +"Thy fond heart dances, while the siren sings.",1.0 +Dear is thy welfare; think me not unkind;,1.0 +"I would not damp, but to secure, thy joys.",1.0 +Think not that fear is sacred to the storm:,1.0 +Stand on thy guard against the smiles of Fate.,0.0 +Is Heaven tremendous in its frowns? Most sure;,0.0 +And in its favours formidable too:,3.0 +"Its favours here are trials, not rewards;",0.0 +"A call to duty, not discharge from care;",0.0 +And should alarm us full as much as woes;,0.0 +Awake us to their cause and consequence;,2.0 +"Over our scanned conduct give a jealous eye,",2.0 +"And make us tremble, weighed with our desert;",0.0 +"Awe Nature's tumult, and chastise her joys,",2.0 +"Lest, while we clasp, we kill them; nay, invert",0.0 +To worse than simple misery their charms.,1.0 +"Revolted joys, like foes in civil war,",0.0 +"Like bosom friendships to resentment soured,",1.0 +Beware what earth calls happiness; beware,2.0 +"All joys, but joys that never can expire.",1.0 +"Who builds on less than an immortal base,",1.0 +"Fond as he seems, condemns his joys to death.",0.0 +Dissolved the charm; the disenchanted earth,1.0 +Lost all her lustre. Where her glittering towers?,2.0 +"Her golden mountains, where? All darkened down",1.0 +To naked waste; a dreary vale of tears:,0.0 +"The great magician's dead! Thou poor, pale piece",1.0 +"Of outcast earth, in darkness! what a change",1.0 +"From yesterday! Thy darling hope so near,",0.0 +"Thy glowing cheek! ambition, truly great,",0.0 +"Of virtuous praise. Death's subtle seed within,",3.0 +"Sly, treacherous miner! working in the dark,",3.0 +"The worm to riot on that rose so red,",1.0 +Man's foresight is conditionally wise;,4.0 +Lorenzo! wisdom into folly turns,0.0 +Oft the first instant its idea fair,4.0 +The present moment terminates our sight;,0.0 +"Clouds, thick as those on doomsday, drown the next;",3.0 +"Time is dealt out by particles; and each,",1.0 +"Ere mingled with the streaming sands of life,",2.0 +By Fate's inviolable oath is sworn,1.0 +"Deep silence, where eternity begins.",2.0 +"By Nature's law, what may be, may be now,",0.0 +In human hearts what bolder thought can rise,0.0 +Than man's presumption on tomorrow's dawn?,2.0 +Where is tomorrow? In another world.,2.0 +For numbers this is certain; the reverse,2.0 +"Is sure to none; and yet on this Perhaps,",1.0 +As on a rock of adamant we build,2.0 +Not even Philander had bespoke his shroud.,4.0 +Nor had he cause; a warning was denied:,1.0 +"How many fall as sudden, not as safe!",0.0 +"As sudden, though for years admonished home!",1.0 +Of human ills the last extreme beware;,0.0 +"Be wise today, iT is madness to defer;",1.0 +Next day the fatal precedent will plead;,1.0 +"Thus on, till wisdom is pushed out of life.",2.0 +Procrastination is the thief of time;,1.0 +"Year after year it steals, till all are fled,",1.0 +And to the mercies of a moment leaves,2.0 +The vast concerns of an eternal scene.,1.0 +"If not so frequent, would not this be strange?",1.0 +"That iT is so frequent, this is stranger still.",2.0 +"Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears",1.0 +"The palm, That all men are about to live,",2.0 +For ever on the brink of being born.,1.0 +All pay themselves the compliment to think,1.0 +They one day shall not drivel; and their pride,1.0 +"On this reversion takes up ready praise,",1.0 +At least their own; their future selves applauds;,0.0 +How excellent that life they never will lead!,3.0 +"That lodged in Fate's, to wisdom they consign;",1.0 +The thing they can't but purpose they postpone.,1.0 +IT is not in folly not to scorn a fool;,0.0 +And scarce in human wisdom to do more.,1.0 +"All promise is poor dilatory man,",2.0 +"And that through every stage: when young, indeed,",0.0 +"In full content we sometime nobly rest,",1.0 +"At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;",0.0 +"Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;",1.0 +"At fifty, chides his infamous delay,",1.0 +Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve;,3.0 +And why? Because he thinks himself immortal.,0.0 +All men think all men mortal but themselves;,7.0 +"Themselves, when some alarming shock of Fate",0.0 +Strikes through their wounded hearts the sudden dread.,0.0 +"But their hearts wounded, like the wounded air,",2.0 +"Soon close; where passed the shaft, no trace is found.",2.0 +"As from the wing no scar the sky retains,",2.0 +"The parted wave no furrow from the keel,",2.0 +So dies in human hearts the thought of death.,0.0 +Even with the tender tear which Nature sheds,1.0 +"Over those we love, we drop it in their grave.",1.0 +Can I forget Philander? That were strange.,1.0 +"OH my full heart! ' -- But should I give it vent,",2.0 +"The longest night, though longer far, would fail,",0.0 +And the lark listen to my midnight song.,4.0 +And call the stars to listen: every star,0.0 +"Yet be not vain; there are who thine excel,",2.0 +"And charm through distant ages. Wrapped in shade,",0.0 +"Prisoner of darkness! to the silent hours,",2.0 +"How often I repeat their rage divine,",1.0 +"Or, Milton, thee! Ah! could I reach your strain!",1.0 +"Man, too, he sung: immortal man I sing:",1.0 +Oft bursts my song beyond the bounds of life;,1.0 +What now but immortality can please?,1.0 +"OH had he pressed his theme, pursued the track",0.0 +Which opens out of darkness into day;,1.0 +"OH had he mounted on his wing of fire,",1.0 +"Soared where I sink, and sung immortal man;",0.0 +"How had it blessed mankind, and rescued me!",2.0 +The soft affections round my heart will play;,0.0 +"Still must I feel, for so the Fates ordain,",1.0 +Nor can one adverse blast be spent in vain;,2.0 +"But hope, even now, would show me brighter hours,",2.0 +Inventive fancy deck her chosen bowers;,0.0 +And bid each gentle virtue guard the scene;,0.0 +"There tender friendship's animating ray,",0.0 +Without one selfish passion's base allay;,0.0 +"And health, and peace, and genius she bestows,",1.0 +And all the fairyland with pleasure glows;,0.0 +"The Muses, Loves, and Graces, sport around,",0.0 +No pain or sorrow treads the hallowed ground;,1.0 +"Delusion all ' -- reason denies her aid,",4.0 +"Touches the landscape, and its beauties fade,",2.0 +"Thus spoke the tongue where earth too deeply charmed,",2.0 +Thus felt the heart by strong affections warmed;,1.0 +"Let earth for brighter prospects be resigned,",1.0 +And firmer hope bestow a calmer mind.,0.0 +"WELCOME, sweet time of buds and bloom, renewing",3.0 +"The earliest objects of delight, and wooing",3.0 +The notice of the grateful heart! for then,1.0 +"From the cleft soil, like babes from cradle peeping,",2.0 +"Like chickens in their downy coats, just freeing",0.0 +"From the chipped shell, their newfound active being;",3.0 +Half from the bursting chrysalis appearing.,0.0 +Right welcome to the sight and to the mind!,3.0 +Now many a thing that pretty is delays,4.0 +The wanderer's steps beneath the sun's soft rays.,1.0 +"Gay daffodils, bent over the watery gleam,",6.0 +Doubling their flickered image in the stream;,1.0 +The woody nook where bells of brighter blue,0.0 +"The lane's high sloping bank, where pale primrose",2.0 +With hundreds of its gentle kindred blows;,1.0 +And speckled daisies that on uplands bare,0.0 +"Man looks on nature with a grateful smile,",2.0 +"Now urchins range the brake in joyous bands,",1.0 +"In mead or glen to pick the choicest sweets,",0.0 +"She takes her sunning in the grassy mead,",0.0 +"Stoops down with eager look and finds, well pleased,",1.0 +"Such herbs, as in a chest or bible squeezed,",0.0 +"In former days were deemed, by folks of sense,",0.0 +"A fragrant wholesome virtue to dispense,",1.0 +With other winter stores were duly hung.,0.0 +"But not alone in simple scenes like these,",0.0 +"In wicker basket grouped to lure the sight,",0.0 +They stop and tempt full many a wistful wight.,3.0 +"Flowers though they be by artful culture bred,",1.0 +"By fetid manure cherished, gorgeous, bright,",5.0 +"And tulips streaked with colours rich and mellow,",3.0 +"Yet still they whisper something to the heart,",1.0 +Which feelings kind and gentle thoughts impart.,0.0 +Gay sight! that oft a touch of pleasure gives,1.0 +"Even to the saddest, rudest soul that lives ' --",1.0 +And cracks his whip and treads the rugged streets,0.0 +The sickly child from nursery window spies,2.0 +Will for a time his listless mind engage.,1.0 +"Laying her patch-work or her netting by,",3.0 +"And from the parlour window casts her eye,",1.0 +Then sends across the way her tiny maid;,0.0 +"Between fair ornaments of china ware,",2.0 +"Each visitor with wonder to excite,",2.0 +"Who looks and smiles, and lauds the motley sight.",0.0 +"That even to the prison's wretched thrall,",1.0 +Those simple gems of nature will recall,1.0 +"Yonder narrow window, through whose iron grate",1.0 +"A squalid countenance is dimly traced,",1.0 +Gazing on flowers in broken pitcher placed,4.0 +"Upon the sooty sill and withering there,",1.0 +"On storied stands and gilded tripods bloom,",1.0 +"Whose learnt names suit not my simple rhyme,",1.0 +"I speak not! lovely as they are, we find",2.0 +They visit more the senses than the mind.,1.0 +"Their nurture comes not from the clouds of heaven,",1.0 +"And, in return for daily care, with faint",0.0 +And sickly sweetness hall and chamber taint.,0.0 +I will not speak of those; we feel and see,2.0 +"They have no kindred, our own Spring! with thee.",2.0 +"Welcome, sweet season! though with rapid pace",4.0 +"Thy course is run, and we can scarcely grace",1.0 +"Thy joyous coming with a grateful cheer,",1.0 +We soon must bid our fleeting friend farewell.,1.0 +"Ladies, to Night your Pity I implore",3.0 +"For One, who never troubled You before:",2.0 +"And comes to Town, to let Us Moderns know,",0.0 +How Women loved two thousand Years ago.,1.0 +"If that be all, said I, even burn your Play:",0.0 +"IN gad! We know all that, as well as They:",0.0 +"Firm in his Seat, and running his Career;",1.0 +"Our Souls would kindle with as generous Flames,",3.0 +And every dear Hippolytus be blessed.,1.0 +"Are even as good, as any Two of Theirs;",1.0 +And if Hippolytus can but contrive,3.0 +To buy the gilded Chariot; John can drive.,2.0 +"Now of the Bustle You have seen to Day,",1.0 +Something at least in Justice should be said:,2.0 +But this Hippolytus so fills One's Head ' --,2.0 +Her awkward Love indeed was oddly fated:,0.0 +She and her Poly were too near related:,3.0 +"And yet that Scruple had been laid aside,",0.0 +If honest Theseus had but fairly died:,1.0 +"But when He came, what needed He to know,",1.0 +"There was no harm, You see; or grant there were:",2.0 +She might want Conduct; but He wanted Care.,0.0 +"'Twas in a Husband little less than rude,",0.0 +"He should have sent a Night or two before,",0.0 +That He would come exact at such an Hour:,1.0 +Then He had turned all Tragedy to Jest;,1.0 +Found every Thing contribute to his Rest;,2.0 +And Spouse alone impatient for her Dear.,1.0 +"But if these gay Reflections come too late,",2.0 +If your more serious Judgement must condemn,3.0 +The dire Effects of her unhappy Flame:,1.0 +"Yet, You chaste Matrons, and You tender Fair,",3.0 +Let Love and Innocence engage your Care:,2.0 +My spotless Flames to your Protection take;,1.0 +"THE days of Man are doomed to Pain and Strife,",0.0 +Quiet and Ease are Foreign to our Life;,3.0 +"No satisfaction is, below, sincere",2.0 +But long the fickle wayward British Isle,0.0 +Did with false Mirth and Joy it self beguile;,3.0 +"But a chill Damp, and Faintness seize on all,",2.0 +"Their usual Luxury all Orders leave,",3.0 +"From distant homes the Pitying Nations come,",2.0 +A Mourning World to attend her to her Tomb:,3.0 +"First in Her Thoughts, and Earliest in Her care;",1.0 +"All hand in hand with common Friendly Woe,",0.0 +"In Poverty, our Native State, they go:",1.0 +"Some whom unstable Errors did engage,",0.0 +"By Luxury in Youth, to need in Age:",1.0 +"Some who had Virgin Vows for Wedlock broke,",1.0 +"And where, they help expected, found a Yoke;",0.0 +Others who labour with the double Weight,1.0 +Pierced with their Infants deafening sobs for Food;,0.0 +"Then to a Dagger ran, with threatening Eyes",0.0 +"But in the thought they stopped, their Looks they tore,",0.0 +"The Innocents their Parent's Love forgive,",1.0 +"Smile at their Fate, nor know they are to live:",1.0 +"These modest wants had never been understood,",2.0 +"None on their State now cast a Pitying Eye,",3.0 +"Hear their Complaints, or will their Want supply;",3.0 +"Not only to Her Grave, but to their own;",2.0 +"That were relief, but coming Days they mourn,",1.0 +"Oppressed with Life, and fearful to return.",1.0 +"With Dread concern, the Awful Senate came,",0.0 +"Their Grief, as all their Passions, is the same.",1.0 +"The next Assembly dissipates our Fears,",0.0 +The Stately Mourning Throng of British Peers;,0.0 +"There, is each Member skilled, and able known",1.0 +For every weighty Purpose of a Throne;,1.0 +"TO adorn, or to defend their Native Isle,",2.0 +"For to the Foe is certain Vengeance sent,",1.0 +"When Heroes suffer, and the Brave lament;",1.0 +"To one their every Character may fall,",2.0 +"Summer's, the implicit Man that speaks them all,",1.0 +With all the Arts of Learnt Assemblies fraught;,0.0 +"Ready his Wit, his Language Free and Pure,",2.0 +"His Judgement Quick and Sudden, yet mature;",0.0 +"He can their different Powers at once dispense,",3.0 +So justly is he formed to speak their Sense:,1.0 +"But now Dumb Sorrow represents them more,",1.0 +"Then ever his Powerful Eloquence before,",5.0 +"Though when his Lips with their known Rhetoric flow,",4.0 +"The World's as silent, as himself is now.",1.0 +"Now all are Past, yonder Wondrous Man appears,",6.0 +We yield to Gay Distress and comely Tears:,0.0 +"Villars! a Name designed by Nature Chief,",2.0 +"TO invite to Joy, or reconcile to Grief.",1.0 +"The Gross of Men were to course Uses Born,",2.0 +"But Heaven made them Creation to adorn,",3.0 +"With mixed disturbed Delight by all is seen,",0.0 +"Rage, Pity, and Disdain at once we trace,",2.0 +In the distracted Beauties of his Face;,2.0 +"We measure his each Step, each Motion Scan,",1.0 +The Grief of Woman! but the Strength of Man!,1.0 +"To such an Heighth his swollen Afflictions grow,",3.0 +HE inspires the Steed he leads with Humane Woe;,4.0 +And now laments what was before his Pride:,1.0 +"No more at Voice of Warring Music bounds,",0.0 +He feels New Passion as the Trumpet sounds;,2.0 +"Nor knows what Power, his Courage stole away,",2.0 +But heaves into big Sighs when he would Neigh.,2.0 +Here at a stand our wearied Sorrow seems,0.0 +"Racked with new Forms, and tortured with Extremes;",4.0 +"Ever this sad Triumph past we found relief,",2.0 +Continued anguish lost the sense of Grief;,0.0 +"But still the Chariot fainting force supplied,",2.0 +"Anew we all revived, anew we died;",0.0 +"Grief did all bounds ambitiously deny,",1.0 +"Swelled every Breast, and melted every Eye.",1.0 +Lo! Death himself! See him Triumphant ride!,3.0 +Lo! the Grim Being moves with sullen Pride;,3.0 +"His Jaws are glutted for the ensuing Year,",3.0 +"He'll shun our Cities, and our Armies spare:",1.0 +"The Ladies placed on high with looks deject,",0.0 +With down intended looks our Souls direct.,1.0 +"Gold, Purple, Tissue, Crowns Enchant the sight,",1.0 +"And move our Grief, that used to give Delight:",0.0 +"There drowsy Gems, their Nature know no more,",1.0 +"But gather Darkness now, as Light before;",0.0 +"Too faint to express, even the Departed Queen.",7.0 +"No Mortal Beauty yet recalls an Eye,",1.0 +The nearest Mourners pass neglected by;,1.0 +"But as the Ladies March, the lengthening row",3.0 +Inspires a more familiar Kindly Woe:,0.0 +"One Universal Face their Passion wears,",0.0 +"In Her Affliction takes an abject State,",1.0 +"Something so humbly Low, yet very Great;",2.0 +"No single Cause so different Grief could send,",1.0 +"She Weeps as Subject, Servant, and a Friend:",1.0 +"To close the Pomp the Fair Attendant Maids,",0.0 +Appear true Angels dressed like fancied Shades;,1.0 +"Sadly they Charm, and dismally they Please:",3.0 +The glittering Miseries of Humane Life.,6.0 +Would ever believe this were that very Queen;,3.0 +"That very Queen, whom Heaven so lately gave",0.0 +"A Crown, in the same Place where, now, a Grave!",2.0 +"I see Her yet, Nature and Fortune's Pride,",2.0 +"A Sceptre Graced her Hand, a King her Side,",0.0 +"Celestial Youth and Beauty did impart,",0.0 +Prophetic Vision to the coldest Heart:,1.0 +"We saw her Children should succeed her sway,",0.0 +And future Monarchs round her Table Play.,1.0 +"She unconcerned and careless all the while,",0.0 +"With easy Majesty, and Humble State,",1.0 +"Smiles at the trifle Power, and knows its date.",2.0 +"What being proved so furiously inclined,",3.0 +"For that She each Day assumed, each Night resigned?",0.0 +"So short a Period to Her Glories given,",1.0 +"The Crime of Fate, and the reproach of Heaven!",1.0 +The Wide Capacious Palace of the Dead;,1.0 +"The Glaring Lamps disturb their usual Night,",2.0 +They half awakened with the intruding Light.,3.0 +"They think her Pile, their Resurrection Day.",0.0 +"In Her his Vital Heat, his Glory lies,",0.0 +"In Her the Monarch lived, in Her he Dies.",1.0 +"One was their Soul while he secured Her rest,",2.0 +War's Hardships: seemed Luxurious to his Breast:,2.0 +"And he Abroad, no Peace repose could yield;",2.0 +She felt the distant Dangers of the Field.,1.0 +"No form of State makes the Great Man forego,",4.0 +"The task due to Her Love, and to His Woe;",3.0 +"Since his kind frame can't the large suffering bear,",4.0 +"For to the mighty loss we now receive,",1.0 +The next Affliction were to see him Grieve.,1.0 +"There, MARY, undisturbed in quiet Sleep,",0.0 +"None shall Profane the Urn thy Ashes keep,",1.0 +"Till, time's no more, by all thou shalt be read,",1.0 +And be a Monument to thy Neighbour dead;,2.0 +And snatch thy Eternal Virtue from the Grave.,3.0 +"NOw gentle sleep my willing Eyes had closed,",1.0 +And this gay Scene the smiling God imposed;,2.0 +"Methought I in a Myrtle shade was placed,",1.0 +"My Tresses curled, my Brows with Laurel graced",0.0 +"Fresh was the Air, serenely bright the Day,",0.0 +"Active my Thoughts, my Lyre was in my hand,",2.0 +And once more Theron did my Voice command;,0.0 +Once more the charming Hero did inspire,0.0 +My daring Muse with an Heroic Fire;,1.0 +"The smiling Cupids softly fluttered round,",0.0 +"Till animated with the generous sound,",3.0 +"Like fighting Gods, each shook his Dart and frowned.",0.0 +"The listening streams enchanted with my Song,",1.0 +Scarce drove their still preceding waves along;,1.0 +"Whilst over and over complaisant echo bears,",5.0 +Through every cavern the immortal Airs;,1.0 +To snatch the tuneful Numbers from my Tongue;,1.0 +And the pleased Graces crowded round to hear their Darling Sung.,2.0 +"The Queen of Beauty, and her Doves, stood by,",3.0 +"When I, to please the Lovely Deity,",1.0 +"Told her, what Looks, what Eyes, and Smiles he had,",0.0 +Not her own Charms more fatally betrayed:,1.0 +"At every strain the wounded Goddess sighs,",0.0 +"Strains, sweet and powerful, as her own fair Eyes.",3.0 +"Then, smiling, towards her own bright Orb she flew,",1.0 +"And, with her, all the Sanguine Visions drew.",1.0 +"Long has the Warrior's, and the Lover's Fire,",1.0 +And justly too the World might long approve,0.0 +The Praise of Heroes and of virtuous Love;,3.0 +"Had Tyrants not usurped the Hero's Name,",1.0 +Nor low Desires debased the Lover's Flame;,0.0 +"Guiltless of Sense, or Elegance, or Wit.",3.0 +Far different Themes We in thy Verses view;,1.0 +"Themes, in themselves, alike sublime, and new:",1.0 +The highest Bliss the Mind can taste below;,0.0 +"To ease those Wants, with which the Wretched pine;",0.0 +And imitate Beneficence divine:,1.0 +"And, but for Thee, almost unknown to Song.",4.0 +"Such wise Reflections in thy Lays are shown,",0.0 +"So Elegant, and so Refined, thy Praise,",2.0 +"No florid Toys, in pompous Numbers dressed;",1.0 +"Whenever thy Muse designs the Heart to move,",2.0 +"The melting Reader must, with Tears, approve;",0.0 +"It's not to wound, but to instruct, She writes.",1.0 +"Which shades their Ashes till the final Doom,",1.0 +"The dire Effects of vicious Writings view,",0.0 +How would they mourn to think what might ensue!,0.0 +"Blush at their Works, for no one End designed,",0.0 +"But to embellish Vice, and taint the Mind!",1.0 +But Terrors wait on Talents misapplied.,0.0 +Shall never give her Soul one conscious Pain;,0.0 +"To latest Times shall melt the hardened Breast,",0.0 +"And raise her Joys, by making others blessed.",0.0 +"These Works, which Modesty concealed in Night,",1.0 +"Born, by your Taste, the Arbiters of Sense:",1.0 +"Long may your Taste, and long your Empire stand,",0.0 +"To Honour, Wit, and Worth, from every Land.",2.0 +O! could my conscious Muse but fully trace,0.0 +"How much her Heart, from low Desires refined;",0.0 +"How much her Works, the Transcript of her Mind;",2.0 +"Her tender Care, and Grief for the Distressed;",1.0 +Her Soul so formed for every social Care;,0.0 +"A Friend so generous, ardent, and sincere;",3.0 +How would you triumph in yourselves to find,0.0 +"To find her Breast with every Grace inspired,",0.0 +Whom first You only for her Lays admired.,1.0 +"Thus the great Father of the Hebrew State,",4.0 +Who watched for wearied Strangers at his Gate;,0.0 +"The Good He thought conferred on Men unknown,",0.0 +He found to more exalted Beings shown.,0.0 +Let their bright Flames revive again in me.,3.0 +"Inspire my Breast while I his Praise rehearse,",1.0 +Whose worth deserves thy own immortal Verse;,0.0 +"He is all Goodness, Mercy, Justice, Truth,",1.0 +Has all the Charms without the vice of Youth.,0.0 +"These are the Native Beauties of his Soul,",2.0 +While every Art and Grace adorns the whole:,0.0 +"Obliging is his Mein, his Judgement strong,",1.0 +A flowing Wit directs his pleasing Tongue;,0.0 +"And each enchanting Accent which we hear,",1.0 +Like airs Divine Transport the listening Ear.,0.0 +Could with more Sweetness or more force inspire:,1.0 +"O! what Infernal Magic Mortals bind,",0.0 +"That his instructive Voice can't move the Mind,",2.0 +And calm the raging Follies of Mankind.,2.0 +"The passive Stones obeyed less powerful Sound,",3.0 +For in their heaps was no resisting Atoms found;,0.0 +"Not greater Pride or Joys did Ammon move,",0.0 +"Then are the Transports my blessed Soul attend,",2.0 +"With his own Arts, to Heal and Charm Mankind;",2.0 +"Fain would I still pursue my wondrous Song,",0.0 +"But o! too fast the bright Ideas throng,",2.0 +"So when with greatest Zeal we Heaven accost,",0.0 +"We utter least, where it deserves the most.",1.0 +WHAT am I? how produced? and for what end?,2.0 +Whence drew I being? to what period tend:,3.0 +"Am I the abandoned orphan of blind chance,",3.0 +Dropped by wild atoms in disordered dance?,3.0 +"Or from an endless chain of causes wrought,",1.0 +"And of unthinking substance, born with thought?",1.0 +"By motion which began without a cause,",0.0 +"Supremely wise, without design or laws?",2.0 +"Am I but what I seem, mere flesh and blood;",2.0 +"The purple stream that through my vessels glides,",1.0 +"Dull and unconscious flows, like common tides:",3.0 +"The pipes through which the circling juices stray,",0.0 +"Are not that thinking I, no more than they:",2.0 +"This frame compacted with transcendent skill,",1.0 +"Of moving joints obedient to my will,",2.0 +"Waxes and wastes; I call it mine, not me.",2.0 +"The mansion changed, the tenant still remains;",0.0 +"And from the fleeting stream, repaired by food,",1.0 +"Distinct, as is the swimmer from the flood.",2.0 +"What am I then, sure, of a nobler birth.",2.0 +"By parents right, I own as mother, earth;",0.0 +"But claim superior lineage by my SIRE,",3.0 +"Essence divine, with lifeless clay allayed,",2.0 +"By double nature, double instinct swayed;",0.0 +"With look erect, I dart my longing eye,",0.0 +"Seem winged to part, and gain my native sky;",1.0 +"I strive to mount, but strive, alas! in vain,",0.0 +"Now with swift thought I range from pole to pole,",3.0 +View worlds around their flaming centres roll:,1.0 +"What steady powers their endless motions guide,",2.0 +"I trace the blazing comet's fiery trail,",2.0 +And weigh the whirling planets in a scale:,0.0 +"Some glittering trifle offered to my view,",3.0 +"A gnat, an insect, of the meanest kind,",2.0 +Erase the newborn image from my mind;,1.0 +"Vile as the grinning mastiff at my gate,",0.0 +"Calls off from heavenly truth this reasoning me,",3.0 +"And tells me, I'm a brute as much as he.",1.0 +"My soul above the starry vault I raise,",0.0 +"Lured by some vain conceit, or shameful lust,",0.0 +"I flag, I drop, and flutter in the dust.",0.0 +"The towering lark thus from her lofty strain,",2.0 +"Stoops to an emmet, or a barley grain.",1.0 +"By adverse gusts of jarring instincts tossed,",1.0 +"I rove to one, now to the other coast;",0.0 +"To bliss unknown my lofty soul aspires,",0.0 +My lot unequal to my vast desires.,1.0 +As amongst the hinds a child of royal birth,1.0 +Finds his high pedigree by conscious worth;,4.0 +"Pity him, beasts! you by no law confined,",4.0 +Are barred from devious paths by being blind;,2.0 +"While man, through opening views of various ways",4.0 +"Confounded, by the aid of knowledge strays;",1.0 +"Too weak to choose, yet choosing still in haste,",1.0 +One moment gives the pleasure and distaste;,1.0 +"Bilked by past minutes, while the present cloy,",3.0 +The flattering future still must give the joy:,2.0 +"Not happy, but amused upon the road,",1.0 +"And like you thoughtless of his last abode,",1.0 +Whether next sun his being shall restrain,2.0 +"To endless nothing, happiness or pain.",1.0 +"Around me, lo, the thinking thoughtless crew,",0.0 +Bewildered each their different paths pursue;,0.0 +"Of them I ask the way; the first replies,",1.0 +Thou art a god; and sends me to the skies:,1.0 +"There fix thy lot, thy bliss and endless rest:",0.0 +"Between these wide extremes the length is such,",0.0 +I find I know too little or too much.,3.0 +"Almighty Power, by whose most wise command,",1.0 +"Helpless, forlorn, uncertain here I stand;",2.0 +"Take this faint glimmering of thyself away,",6.0 +Or break into my soul with perfect day!,1.0 +"This said, expanded lay the sacred text,",0.0 +"The balm, the light, the guide of souls perplexed.",0.0 +Thus the benighted traveller that strays,3.0 +"Through doubtful paths, enjoys the morning rays;",0.0 +"The nightly missed, and thick descending dew,",0.0 +"Parting, unfold the fields, and vaulted blue.",2.0 +"OH Truth divine! enlightened by thy ray,",2.0 +"I grope and guess no more, but see my way;",1.0 +And told me what those mystic tokens meant;,0.0 +"Marks of my birth, which I had worn in vain,",1.0 +Too hard for worldly sages to explain.,2.0 +"Unskilled my twofold nature to divide,",2.0 +"One nursed my pleasure, and one nursed my pride:",1.0 +"Those jarring truths which human art beguile,",0.0 +Thy sacred page thus bids me reconcile.,1.0 +"Offspring of God, no less thy pedigree,",3.0 +"What thou once wert, art now, and still may be,",0.0 +"Thy God alone can tell, alone decree;",0.0 +"With the bare power to sin, since free of will:",4.0 +"For who has power to walk, has power to rove:",4.0 +And wisdom short of infinite may swerve.,1.0 +"Left thy Creator, and the realms of light;",3.0 +Disdained his gentle precept to fulfil;,2.0 +And thought to grow a god by doing ill:,0.0 +"Though by foul guilt thy heavenly form defaced,",4.0 +"In nature changed, from happy mansions chased,",0.0 +"Too faint to mount, yet restless to aspire;",2.0 +"Angel enough to seek thy bliss again,",2.0 +And brute enough to make thy search in vain.,0.0 +"The creatures now withdraw their kindly use,",0.0 +"Some fly thee, some torment, and some seduce;",0.0 +"Thy lust, thy curiosity, thy pride,",1.0 +"Return and seek thy Father, and thy God:",1.0 +"Yet think not to regain thy native sky,",1.0 +Born on the wings of vain philosophy;,1.0 +Mysterious passage! hid from human eyes;,2.0 +"Let humble thoughts thy wary footsteps guide,",2.0 +"COUNT all the flowers that deck the meadow's side,",2.0 +When Flora flourishes in newborn pride;,1.0 +Count all the sparkling orbits in the sky;,0.0 +"Count all the foliage of the lofty trees,",1.0 +That fly before the bleak autumnal breeze;,0.0 +Count all the dewy blades of verdant grass;,0.0 +Count all the drops of rain that softly pass,0.0 +Count all the sands upon the breaking shore;,0.0 +"Count all the minutes since the world began,",0.0 +Count all the troubles of the life of man;,1.0 +OH Warrior! whence thy rustic arms and dress?,1.0 +An exile ah! and Corsica thy place:,2.0 +"Yes, stay, and on these flowery banks to dwell,",4.0 +Yet soon I hope thou better days shalt see.,1.0 +Yes; sure a time when Briton's sons shall rise;,1.0 +See their white canvas spreading over thy seas;,5.0 +When they shall boldly soon thy right assert.,0.0 +"But here, in peace, OH! Warrior, end the night!",1.0 +"I shrink at war! how many heroes slain,",0.0 +"Of friends and kindred, on some distant plain!",1.0 +"I shrink at war! how many nymphs like me,",0.0 +"But let no tear the general joy, to night,",1.0 +"No, not a sigh, the general joy to blight.",0.0 +"Generous Caesar, virtuous Cato,",4.0 +"Generous nymph, do music touch thee?",2.0 +"As Merchant's whose sunk Trade, and ebbing Stocks",1.0 +"Fear every Storm, and dread the lurking Rocks,",1.0 +"Then careless hug themselves, and sleep secure;",0.0 +"They hear of Wrecks, and fear no inward Pain,",1.0 +"So, would your Smiles protect the fearful Muse,",0.0 +The vulgar Praise I would with Scorn refuse.,0.0 +"By you approved, condemned by all beside,",1.0 +"I'd court my Fate, and swell with careless Pride.",0.0 +"Since novel Treats our modern Gusts pursue,",0.0 +I hoped at least to please by something new.,0.0 +"The Muse long sought the Woods, and mossy Caves,",1.0 +"Despised the Seas, and feared the rolling Waves,",0.0 +"The flowery Meadows, and the whispering Trees",4.0 +"Have oft been sung, and will hereafter please.",1.0 +"In ancient Verse described their Sweets convey,",0.0 +"But the vast unseen Mansions of the Deep,",5.0 +"Where secret Groves with liquid Amber weep,",0.0 +"And gild the Azure with a brighter red,",1.0 +Nor partial Falsehoods stain the guilty Page.,1.0 +"She loves no pompous Sound, or lofty Strain,",1.0 +"Or soars to Sense obscure with awkward Pain,",0.0 +And humbly modest only asks to Dive.,0.0 +"Joys free, and undisturbed, and endless Loves",1.0 +"The Triton seeks, and every Nymph approves.",0.0 +"But should the harmless Pen have no Regard,",0.0 +Your Name like sacred Spells that charm when heard,0.0 +"From blasting Tongues secures the tender Bard,",0.0 +"And beg, you would not scorn the humble Song:",0.0 +Men dare not censure even when they ought,1.0 +"BOAST of proud Shropshire, Oxford's lasting shame,",4.0 +"Eternal war with dullness born to wage,",0.0 +"The Bigot's Scourge, of Democrats the Pride;",0.0 +"Accept this lay; and to thy Brother, Friend,",1.0 +"The broad posteriors of thy brawny prose,",1.0 +"And sing, by thee inspired, in tuneful strain,",3.0 +The blessed return of Saturn's golden reign!,0.0 +"O had I, silly swain, the force and fire",0.0 +"Could I, ascending on the wing of sound,",2.0 +"Pleased with the grand, the lofty and profound,",1.0 +"Rise above mortal ken in rapturous glow,",8.0 +"Could I, for ever studious to refine,",3.0 +"Prank with my pearly phrase each pretty line,",0.0 +"Or like an empty Bottle, deep immersed,",0.0 +"Whence Bubbles after Bubbles bustling burst,",0.0 +"Amused to view my noisy nothings swell,",0.0 +In the sweet vanity of thought excel;,3.0 +"Now bursting over the bounds of vulgar Rhyme,",3.0 +Gracefully great and terribly sublime;,3.0 +With all the clattering clang of modern song;,0.0 +"I'd hail the progress of those blissful days,",2.0 +"Shall brighten Nature's face, shall drive the Moles",0.0 +"Of blinking Error to their secret holes,",1.0 +And bid a new Creation rise to light!,0.0 +"Proceed, great days! and bring, o! bring to view",1.0 +"Things strange to tell! Incredible, but true!",2.0 +"Behold, behold, the Golden Age appears:",0.0 +"Skip, skip, you Mountains! Forests lend your Ears!",1.0 +Shall British wool be taught to blush and lie;,0.0 +"But all our pastures glow with purple Rams,",0.0 +And swell with fattening grass his monstrous size;,0.0 +"No more trot round and round the groaning field,",0.0 +But tons of Beef our loaded Thickets yield!,0.0 +With tedious toil to whirl the frothy Churn;,2.0 +"But from the Hedges shall her Dairy fill,",1.0 +As pounds of Butter in big drops distil!,1.0 +"And sometime blessings, oftener plagues received,",3.0 +"Shouted a Miracle, when on the ground",4.0 +"By no dry crusts shall Infidels be fed,",2.0 +Our soil producing Butter to our Bread!,1.0 +"See reverend Thames, who God of Rivers reigns,",1.0 +"And winds meandering through our richest plains,",1.0 +"Once in a week like Gentlemen to live,",1.0 +"Resign his majesty of mud, and stream",1.0 +"See Tallow Candles tip the modest Thorn,",1.0 +Candles of Wax the prouder Elm adorn!,2.0 +See the dull Clown survey with stupid stare,3.0 +"While fluids, which a wondrous change betray,",0.0 +"Ooze from the vernal bud, the summer spray,",0.0 +"Differing from animals alone in name,",2.0 +As Botanists already half exclaim.,1.0 +"See plants, susceptible of joy and woe,",2.0 +"Feel all we feel, and know whatever we know!",3.0 +"View them like us inclined to watch or sleep,",1.0 +"Like us to smile, and, ah! like us to weep!",0.0 +"Like us behold them glow with warm desire,",1.0 +"Then, o! you fair, if through the shady grove",1.0 +"Musing on absent Lovers you should rove,",3.0 +Or only hear perchance the western breeze,5.0 +"Steal murmuring through the animated Trees,",2.0 +"Beware, beware, lest to your cost you find",1.0 +"The Bushes dangerous, dangerous too the Wind,",4.0 +"Lest, ah! too late with shame and grief you feel",1.0 +What your fictitious Pads would ill conceal!,1.0 +"While Plants turn Animals, Man, happy Man,",3.0 +"Bane to our bliss, no more the wrinkled face",1.0 +"But see the reigning Toast half kind, half coy,",2.0 +"Her Rivals' envy, and her Lover's Joy,",1.0 +"Skilled to allure, to charm us, and beguile,",3.0 +In all the bloom of Eighty sit and smile!,0.0 +Drive Boys of future Centuries mad with love;,3.0 +"The Marriage Table its degrees extend,",1.0 +"And to our great, great Grandmother ascend.",7.0 +"Poor POPE, who grieved that Life could scarce supply",1.0 +"More than to look about him, and to die,",1.0 +"Had he but flourished in these Halcyon days,",2.0 +"Might long have bid Life's little Candle blaze,",1.0 +"Happy the Poet's lot, who can prolong,",3.0 +And live himself to see his swelling name,0.0 +"Roll, like a Snowball, gathering all its fame!",2.0 +"Happy, thrice happy he, who at his will",4.0 +Can drink of Life's sweet cup his constant fill;,1.0 +"Symptoms, which lean Consumption indicate,",2.0 +"A sure specific can procure with ease,",1.0 +Rich Cream and Butter from his herd of Trees:,2.0 +"His body load with fat, his mind with spleen,",0.0 +"Converted now into a real Rump,",1.0 +"And, blessed with an accommodating maw,",1.0 +"Devour the luscious bit, red, recent, raw!",3.0 +"Now rise, my Muse, and, warm with rapture, dart",1.0 +"From Men to Manners, Fancy to the Heart.",1.0 +Transporting sight! to view the Sons of Pride,0.0 +"Their little heads with shame and sorrow hide,",0.0 +"Ranks and Distinctions cease, all reeking lie",2.0 +In the mean muck of low Equality!,4.0 +"Who never learnt like British Bears to dance,",0.0 +"And, while their Premier's humdrum Bagpipes sound,",4.0 +"Led by the nose, jog growling round and round;",1.0 +"But more like Monkeys, airy, light, and gay,",0.0 +Pleased on your Master's head to skip and play;,0.0 +"You pious Atheists, Moralists, who deem",3.0 +"The Christian's Heaven and Hell an idle Dream,",0.0 +Delighted to deride all vulgar fears,1.0 +With manly Scorn and Dignity to tread,1.0 +"Who, foes to Power Despotic, dare defy",2.0 +"Dreading for present crimes no future rod,",3.0 +"O how my Eyes with tears ecstatic fill,",1.0 +"What new felt transports through my bosom thrill,",1.0 +When I behold you with gigantic blow,2.0 +"The pigmy pride of Royalty lay low,",2.0 +With pikes and guns this moral dogma teach ' --,0.0 +Virtue consists in nudity of Breech!,3.0 +Soon shall we view no more the glittering Things,3.0 +And deemed their lovely lustre all their own!,0.0 +"No more the Despot view, whose mighty nods",0.0 +"Shook nature, and proclaimed him God of Gods;",2.0 +"Drunk with applause who raised his rolling Eyes,",2.0 +"And seemed, whenever he moved, to tread the skies!",2.0 +"Despised, detested, all shall wing their flight,",0.0 +"And sink, no more to rise, in endless night!",1.0 +Behold a minor Monarch in his Stall!,0.0 +"No circling Gold his royal brow surrounds,",1.0 +A Yard of Room his sphere of Action bounds;,0.0 +"His sole ambition and his prime pursuit,",1.0 +"With skill a Shoe to patch, to stitch a Boot!",0.0 +Nor deem his fate severe! The time may come,0.0 +"When many a pious King in Christendom,",3.0 +"Dashed from his throne, and made Dame Fortune's Fool,",1.0 +And untaxed Plenty crowns the fruitful plains!,5.0 +Lay on our largest sheaves his greedy hand;,0.0 +Fright into Gothic Ignorance the world:,2.0 +"But Truth and Light shall come, with hostile rage,",0.0 +To drive the holy Vandal off the stage.,1.0 +Proud Superstition turn her vanquished tail;,1.0 +"No zealous Minister the Church befriend,",2.0 +Lo! Babylon is fallen! That mystic ' --,3.0 +"That Sink of Wickedness, is now no more!",2.0 +"Great Babylon is fallen! Shout, shout, you Meads!",4.0 +"And, o! you Cornfields, wave your happy heads!",2.0 +And with your Dams in loudest Baas rejoice!,1.0 +"Prolific Ducks, quack mid the mighty noise!",1.0 +"Hens, more prolific, cackle out your joys!",2.0 +"And you, o! Swine, lift up your little Eyes,",3.0 +"Stretch your triumphant throats, and strive to make",2.0 +"Yet, Winter! art thou welcome to my eye:",1.0 +"Thee here I hail, though terrors round thee wait,",0.0 +And winds tempestuous howl along the sky.,3.0 +But shall I then so soon forget the days,0.0 +When Crees led me through her wheaten mines!,2.0 +"When autumn plucked me, with his tawny hand,",1.0 +"So soon forget, when up the yielding pole",1.0 +"When Summer, waving high her crown of hay,",0.0 +"I must forget them ' -- and thee too, OH Spring!",2.0 +"For, now prepared to quit the enchanting scenes,",2.0 +"Cold, weeping Winter! I come all to thee.",3.0 +"Hail to thy rolling clouds, and rapid storms!",0.0 +Though they deform fair Nature's lovely face:,4.0 +"Hail to thy winds, that sweep along the earth!",0.0 +Though trees they root up from their solid base.,1.0 +Where is the spice kiss of the southern gale!,2.0 +"Where the wild rose, that smiled upon the thorn,",3.0 +"The mountain flower, and lily of the vale!",3.0 +"How gloomy it's to cast the eye around,",1.0 +"The velvet path grown rough with clotting showers,",1.0 +And every field deprived of every sheaf!,0.0 +Alone to travel in the dead of night!,0.0 +"No twinkling star to gild the arch of heaven,",1.0 +No moon to lend her temporary light:,1.0 +"To see the lightning spread its ample sheet,",0.0 +"Discern the wild waste through its liquid fire,",2.0 +As time itself and nature would expire:,0.0 +"And yet, OH Winter! has thy poet seen",1.0 +"Thy face as smooth, and placid as the Spring,",1.0 +"Has felt, with comfort felt, the beam of heaven,",0.0 +And heard thy valleys and thy woodlands ring.,1.0 +"What time the sun with burnished locks arose,",0.0 +"The long lost charms of nature to renew,",2.0 +"When pearls of ice bedecked the grassy turf,",0.0 +And tree-tops floated in the silver dew.,1.0 +Father of heaven and earth! this change is thine:,2.0 +"By thee the Seasons in gradation roll,",1.0 +Thou great omniscient Ruler of the world!,1.0 +Thou Alpha and Omega of the whole!,2.0 +Here humbly bow we down our heads to thee!,1.0 +"It's ours the voice of gratitude to raise,",0.0 +Thine to diffuse thy blessings over the land;,3.0 +Thine to receive the incense of our praise.,3.0 +"Pure if it rises from the conscious heart,",1.0 +With thee for ever does the symbol live;,1.0 +"Though small for all thy love is man's return,",0.0 +How soft the morn! how sweet the early day!,0.0 +What blooming tints the opening clouds display!,2.0 +And cloud the brightness of the purest skies.,1.0 +"In blushing spring the budding leaves may fall,",0.0 +"And you, you fair, receive an early call;",1.0 +Ah! Caroline! how promising thy bloom!,1.0 +"How changed, how sad, how sunk in sorrow's gloom!",0.0 +"How fair thy prospects! charming maid, how bright,",0.0 +Which death relentless veils in endless night;,0.0 +Chilled that soft friendship which thy bosom warmed.,2.0 +"Why did not pitying powers thy virtue save,",4.0 +Preserve our hopes from disappointment's grave?,0.0 +"Formed with each grace that could enrich the mind,",0.0 +"With wit, with sentiment, and sense refined;",1.0 +"The gentlest soul informed her glowing breast,",2.0 +"The softest mercy, purity, and truth,",1.0 +"Adorned her name, gave lustre to her youth:",2.0 +"Heaven, that with virtue did her heart endow,",0.0 +Sent her a pattern for her sex below.,1.0 +"You fair companions of her opening bloom,",3.0 +"Weep over her dust, and profit at her tomb;",3.0 +She once was all the human kind adore;,0.0 +"Now view her relics, and be vain no more.",3.0 +"Her easy manners, her distinguished worth!",1.0 +"Silent and cold as yonder pale marble bust,",5.0 +"And shall no more thy friends behold thy face,",0.0 +No more be charmed by thy persuasive grace!,1.0 +"And shall no more thy accents cheer the maid,",0.0 +"Who now invokes thy loved, thy honoured shade?",1.0 +"Transporting hope! in realms of brightest day,",0.0 +"Thy soul shall gain that spark, that quickening ray,",2.0 +Ecstatic thought! in those bright realms above,2.0 +I'll hail thy virtues with an angel's love;,1.0 +"When a few fleeting years shall set me free,",0.0 +"My soul, unshackled, then shall fly to thee;",0.0 +"But if on earth I longer must reside,",1.0 +O! then blessed Caroline be still my guide!,1.0 +"And should thy spirit know what passes here,",0.0 +"Be that, sweet maid, thy sacred, soft employ,",1.0 +Till she shall meet thee for eternal joy.,2.0 +"And cruel parents teach, to Read and Write!",0.0 +What need of letters? Wherefore should we spell?,0.0 +Why write our names? A mark will do as well.,0.0 +"He reigns, vain monarch, over a barren spot,",3.0 +"While in the vale of Ignorance below,",1.0 +"Over crabbed authors life's gay prime to waste,",4.0 +"To cramp wild genius in the chains of taste,",1.0 +"To bear the slavish drudgery of schools,",1.0 +"Beneath the weight of solemn toys to groan,",0.0 +"Sleep over books, and leave mankind unknown,",2.0 +"To praise each senior blockhead's threadbare tale,",1.0 +"And laugh till reason blush, and spirits fail,",0.0 +"Manhood with vile submission to disgrace,",2.0 +"And cap the fool, whose merit is his Place;",1.0 +"VICE CHANCELLORS, whose knowledge is but small,",3.0 +"And CHANCELLORS, who nothing know at all,",1.0 +"When Learning was the certain road to praise,",1.0 +"When Nobles, with a love of Science blessed,",1.0 +Approved in others what themselves possessed.,0.0 +"But Now, when DULLNESS rears aloft her throne,",0.0 +"When LORDLY Vassals her wide Empire own,",2.0 +"When Wit, seduced by Envy, starts aside,",0.0 +"What Now should tempt us, by false hopes misled,",2.0 +"That Crown withheld, which They in triumph wore?",1.0 +It's an affront to those who have it not.,1.0 +"In some it causes hate, in others fear,",0.0 +"Instructs our Foes to rail, our Friends to sneer.",0.0 +Forgets the little which he learnt at School;,0.0 +"The Elder Brother, to vast fortunes born,",2.0 +Looks on all Science with an Eye of Scorn;,1.0 +And younger Sons are stupid as the Heir.,1.0 +"Genius is vile, and Learning out of date.",3.0 +Is this ' -- OH Death to think! is this the Land,3.0 +"Where Merit and Reward went hand in hand,",2.0 +By whom they saw their glorious deeds renewed;,2.0 +"Where Poets, true to Honour, tuned their lays,",3.0 +"Is this the Land, where, on our SPENCER'S tongue,",2.0 +"Where JOHNSON rigid gravity beguiled,",1.0 +While Reason through her Critic fences smiled;,1.0 +And wondered at the Work herself had made?,0.0 +"Is this the Land, where, mindful of her charge",2.0 +"And Office high, fair Freedom walked at large;",1.0 +"Where, finding in our Laws a sure defence,",0.0 +"She mocked at all restraints, but those of Sense;",1.0 +"Where, health and honour trooping by her side,",4.0 +She spread her sacred empire far and wide;,0.0 +"Pointed the Way, Affliction to beguile,",3.0 +"And bade the Face of Sorrow wear a smile,",0.0 +"Bade those, who dare obey the generous call,",2.0 +"Enjoy her blessings, which GOD meant for all?",1.0 +"Is this the Land, where, in some Tyrant's reign,",3.0 +"When a weak, wicked Ministerial train,",4.0 +"The tools of power, the slaves of interest, planned",2.0 +"Gave up our liberties, and sold our laws;",1.0 +"When Power was taught by Meanness where to go,",2.0 +Nor dared to love the Virtue of a foe;,1.0 +"To the foul heart her sores Corruption spread,",2.0 +"Her iron arm when stern Oppression reared,",0.0 +"And Virtue, from her broad base shaken, feared",2.0 +"The scourge of Vice; when, impotent and vain,",1.0 +"Is this the Land, where, in those worst of times,",1.0 +The hardy Poet raised his honest rhymes,0.0 +"In guilty blushes on the villain's cheek,",1.0 +"Bade Power turn pale, kept mighty rogues in awe,",5.0 +"And made them fear the Muse, who feared not Law?",0.0 +"How do I laugh, when men of narrow souls,",0.0 +"Whom folly guides, and prejudice controls;",1.0 +"Who, one dull drowsy track of business trod,",2.0 +"Who, breathing by one musty set of rules,",1.0 +"Dote from the birth, and are by system fools;",1.0 +"Who, formed to dullness from their very youth,",1.0 +"Lies of the day prefer to Gospel truth,",0.0 +"Pick up their little knowledge from Reviews,",1.0 +And lay out all their stock of faith in news:,0.0 +"How do I laugh, when Creatures, formed like these,",0.0 +"Whom Reason scorns, and I should blush to please,",1.0 +"Rail at all liberal arts, deem verse a crime,",1.0 +"And hold not Truth, as Truth, if told in rhyme?",0.0 +"By slow degrees, and course of office, drawn",0.0 +"In mood and figure at the helm to yawn,",0.0 +Too mean the worst of curses Heaven can send,1.0 +"To have a foe, too proud to have a friend,",1.0 +"Erring by form, which Blockheads sacred hold,",2.0 +"Never making new faults, and never mending old,",3.0 +"Rebukes my Spirit, bids the daring Muse",0.0 +Subjects more equal to her weakness choose;,1.0 +Nor dare to traffic in ambitious strains;,0.0 +"Bids her, indulging the poetic whim",3.0 +Or dance with MASON on the first of May?,1.0 +"All sacred is the name and power of Kings,",3.0 +All States and Statesmen are those mighty Things,1.0 +Were never made for Poets to control.,1.0 +"I tell thee, Wretch, search all Creation round,",1.0 +"In Earth, in Heaven, no Subject can be found",0.0 +Our God alone except above whose weight,0.0 +"The Poet cannot rise, and hold his State.",0.0 +The blessed Saints above in numbers speak,2.0 +"The praise of God, though there all praise is weak;",1.0 +In Numbers here below the Bard shall teach,0.0 +Virtue to soar beyond the Villain's reach;,2.0 +"And raise his voice beyond the trumpet's note,",0.0 +"Should an afflicted Country, awed by men",1.0 +"Of slavish principles, demand his pen.",1.0 +"This is a great, a glorious point of view,",3.0 +"Fit for an English Poet to pursue,",1.0 +"Undaunted to pursue, though, in return,",1.0 +His writings by the common Hangman burn.,1.0 +"How do I laugh, when men, by fortune placed",0.0 +"Above their Betters, and by rank disgraced,",1.0 +"Who found their pride on titles which they stain,",0.0 +"And, mean themselves, are of their Fathers vain,",1.0 +"Who would a bill of privilege prefer,",1.0 +"And treat a Poet, like a Creditor,",1.0 +And curse the storm they know must break on them?,0.0 +"What, shall a reptile Bard, a wretch unknown,",0.0 +"Without one badge of merit, but his own,",1.0 +"Great Nobles lash, and Lords, like common men,",1.0 +"What's in this name of Lord, that we should fear",1.0 +To bring their vices to the public ear?,1.0 +Quick as the tide which swells a Monarch's veins?,1.0 +"Monarchs, who wealth and titles can bestow,",2.0 +Cannot make Virtues in succession flow.,1.0 +"The censure of the Muse, deserve her Love,",1.0 +"Act as thy Birth demands, as Nobles ought;",0.0 +"Look back, and by thy worthy Father taught,",2.0 +"Follow his steps, and be his Virtue's heir.",2.0 +"But if, regardless of the road to Fame,",2.0 +"You start aside, and tread the paths of shame.",0.0 +"If such thy life, that should thy Sire arise,",3.0 +"The sight of such a Son would blast his eyes,",1.0 +"Would make him curse the hour which gave Thee birth,",0.0 +"Would drive him, shuddering, from the face of earth",1.0 +"Once more, with shame and sorrow, amongst the dead",2.0 +In endless night to hide his reverend head;,0.0 +"If such thy life, though Kings had made thee more",1.0 +"Than ever King a scoundrel made before,",0.0 +"Nay, to allow thy pride a deeper spring,",2.0 +"Though God in vengeance had made Thee a King,",2.0 +"Taking on Virtue's wing her daring flight,",2.0 +"The Muse should drag thee trembling to the light,",1.0 +"Probe thy foul wounds, and lay thy bosom bare",3.0 +To the keen question of the searching air.,3.0 +"Gods! with what pride I see the titled slave,",0.0 +"Who smarts beneath the stroke which Satire gave,",1.0 +"Aiming at ease, and with dishonest art",3.0 +Striving to hide the feelings of his heart!,3.0 +"How do I laugh, when, with affected air,",1.0 +"Scarce able through despite to keep his chair,",2.0 +"While on his trembling lip pale anger speaks,",1.0 +And the chafed blood flies mounting to his cheeks,5.0 +"He talks of Conscience, which good men secures",0.0 +"From all those evil moments guilt endures,",0.0 +"And seems to laugh at those, who pay regard",1.0 +"The mind of man, must always make her way,",0.0 +"Nor to a bosom, with discretion fraught,",2.0 +Is all her malice worth a single thought.,0.0 +"The Wise have not the will, nor Fools the power",1.0 +"To stop her headstrong course; within the hour,",1.0 +"Left to herself, she dies; opposing Strife,",2.0 +"All things her prey, and every man her aim,",0.0 +"I can no patent for exemption claim,",3.0 +Nor would I wish to stop that harmless dart,0.0 +"Which plays around, but cannot wound my heart:",0.0 +"Though pointed at myself, be SATIRE free;",2.0 +"To Her it's pleasure, and no pain to Me.",3.0 +"Dissembling Wretch! hence to the Stoic school,",2.0 +"And there amongst thy brethren play the fool,",1.0 +"Lives there a Man, whom SATIRE cannot reach?",1.0 +"Lives there a Man, who calmly can stand by,",2.0 +And see his conscience ripped with steady eye?,0.0 +"When SATIRE flies abroad on Falsehood's wing,",1.0 +"Short is her life indeed, and dull her sting;",0.0 +"But when to Truth allied, the wound she gives",0.0 +"Sinks deep, and to remotest ages lives.",2.0 +"When in the tomb thy pampered flesh shall rot,",0.0 +"And even by friends thy memory be forgot,",4.0 +"Still shalt Thou live, recorded for thy crimes,",2.0 +"Hast Thou no feeling yet? Come, throw off pride,",3.0 +And own those passions which Thou shalt not hide.,0.0 +"S, who, from the moment of his birth,",2.0 +"Made human Nature a reproach on earth,",2.0 +"Who never dared, nor wished behind to stay,",0.0 +"When Folly, Vice, and Meanness led the way,",0.0 +"Would blush, should he be told, by Truth and Wit,",1.0 +"Those actions, which he blushed not to commit;",1.0 +"Men the most infamous are fond of fame,",1.0 +"And those who fear not guilt, yet start at shame.",1.0 +"But whither runs my zeal, whose rapid force,",0.0 +"Turning the brain, bears Reason from her course,",4.0 +"Carries me back to times, when Poets, blessed",2.0 +"With courage, graced the Science they professed;",1.0 +"When They, in Honour rooted, firmly stood",1.0 +"The bad to punish, and reward the good;",1.0 +"When, to a flame by Public Virtue wrought,",0.0 +"And dared expose those slaves, who dared support",0.0 +"A Tyrant plan, and called themselves a Court.",0.0 +Ah! What are Poets now? as slavish those,1.0 +"Who deal in Verse, as those who deal in Prose.",1.0 +"Is there an Author, search the Kingdom round,",1.0 +"In whom true worth, and real Spirit's found?",3.0 +"The Slaves of Booksellers, or doomed by Fate",5.0 +"Some, dead to shame, and of those shackles proud",1.0 +"Which Honour scorns, for slavery roar aloud,",3.0 +Why turns you villain pale? why bends his eye,0.0 +"Inward, abashed, when MURPHY passes by?",3.0 +"Dost Thou sage MURPHY for a blockhead take,",3.0 +Who wages war with vice for Virtue's sake?,0.0 +"He shifts his sails, and catches every wind.",0.0 +"His soul the shock of interest can't endure,",0.0 +"Give him a pension then, and sin secure.",0.0 +"Bid Virtue crouch, bid Vice exalt her horn,",2.0 +"Bid Cowards thrive, put honesty to flight,",3.0 +"MURPHY shall prove, or try to prove it right.",2.0 +"Into my breast, and flatter to betray;",1.0 +"Or, if those tricks are vain, if wholesome doubt",1.0 +"Detects the fraud, and points the Villain out,",1.0 +"Bribe those who daily at my board are fed,",0.0 +And make them take my life who eat my bread;,0.0 +"On Authors for defence, for praise depend;",1.0 +"Pay him but well, and MURPHY is thy friend.",1.0 +"He, He shall ready stand with venal rhymes",1.0 +"To varnish guilt, and consecrate thy crimes,",0.0 +"To make corruption in false colours shine,",2.0 +"And damn his own good name, to rescue thine.",1.0 +"And Vice no longer rains down showers of gold,",3.0 +"Expect no mercy; facts, well grounded, teach,",2.0 +"MURPHY, if not rewarded, will impeach.",3.0 +"What though each man of nice and juster thought,",0.0 +"He never can be a Friend, who stoops so low",1.0 +"What though, with thine together linked, his name",1.0 +"Must be with thine transmitted down to shame,",2.0 +"To every manly feeling callous grown,",0.0 +"Rather than not blast thine, he'll blast his own.",1.0 +"To open the fountain, whence Sedition springs,",2.0 +"To slander Government, and libel Kings,",1.0 +"With Freedom's name to serve a present hour,",0.0 +"Though born, and bred to arbitrary power,",0.0 +"To talk of WILLIAMS with insidious art,",2.0 +"While a vile STUART'S lurking in his heart,",1.0 +"And, while mean Envy rears her loathsome head,",1.0 +"Flattering the living, to abuse the dead,",2.0 +The Pillory dare to name; the whole intent,2.0 +"Of that Parade was Fame, not Punishment,",1.0 +"And that old, staunch Whig BEARDMORE standing by,",4.0 +Can in full Court give that report the lie.,2.0 +"With rude unnatural jargon to support,",3.0 +"Half Scotch, half English, a declining Court,",3.0 +"And prove, beyond dispute, that black is white,",0.0 +"Make Vice and Virtue differ but in name,",2.0 +"To prove that Chains and Freedom are but one,",1.0 +"That to be saved must mean to be undone,",0.0 +"Is there not GUTHRIE? Who, like him, can call",2.0 +"All Opposites to proof, and conquer all?",1.0 +He calls forth living waters from the rock;,2.0 +He calls forth children from the barren stock;,2.0 +"He, far beyond the springs of Nature led,",0.0 +Makes Women bring forth after they are dead;,3.0 +"He, on a curious, new, and happy plan,",3.0 +"And, to complete the whole, most strange, but true,",1.0 +"By some rare magic, makes them fruitful too,",1.0 +"Dost Thou contrive some blacker deed of shame,",1.0 +"Something which Nature shudders but to name,",3.0 +"Something which makes the Soul of man retreat,",2.0 +And the lifeblood run backward to her seat?,5.0 +"Dost Thou contrive, for some base private end,",2.0 +"Some selfish view, to hang a trusting friend,",0.0 +"To lure him on, even to his parting breath,",1.0 +"And promise life, to work him surer death?",0.0 +"Behold, a Parson at thy Elbow stands,",1.0 +"Lowering damnation, and with open hands",2.0 +The Atheist Chaplain of an Atheist Lord.,5.0 +"Bred to the Church, and for the gown decreed,",1.0 +Before it was known that I should learn to read;,1.0 +"Though that was nothing, for my Friends, who knew",1.0 +"What mighty Dullness of itself could do,",1.0 +"Never designed me for a working Priest,",3.0 +"But hoped, I should have been a DEAN at least;",0.0 +"Condemned like many more, and worthier men,",2.0 +"To whom I pledge the service of my pen,",1.0 +"Condemned while proud, and pampered Sons of Lawn,",0.0 +"Crammed to the throat, in lazy plenty yawn",0.0 +"To pray, and starve on forty pounds a year;",0.0 +"My Friends, who never felt the galling load,",0.0 +While Virtue to my conduct witness bears,1.0 +"In throwing off that gown, which FRANCIS wears.",1.0 +"What Creature's that, so very pert and prim;",0.0 +"So gentle, yet so brisk; so wondrous sweet,",0.0 +"Who looks, as he the Lord's rich vineyard trod,",2.0 +And by his Garb appears a man of God?,1.0 +"Trust not to looks, nor credit outward show;",0.0 +Suffice it that the wretch from SODOM came.,0.0 +"His tongue is deadly ' -- from his presence run,",1.0 +Unless thy rage would wish to be undone.,0.0 +"No ties can hold him, no affection bind,",1.0 +And Fear alone restrains his coward mind;,0.0 +"Free him from that, no Monster is so fell,",2.0 +Nor is so sure a bloodhound found in hell.,1.0 +"Are only worn to pave Fraud's easier way,",3.0 +Attend his Church ' -- his plan of doctrine view ' --,0.0 +"The Preacher is a Christian, dull but true;",1.0 +That plan of doctrine's never thought of more;,0.0 +"CHRIST is laid by neglected on the shelf,",3.0 +And the vile Priest is Gospel to himself.,3.0 +"OXFORD, if OXFORD had not sunk in same,",2.0 +"Ere this, had damned to everlasting shame",0.0 +"To Virtue lost, to Vice alone he wakes,",0.0 +"Are these the Arts, which Policy supplies?",2.0 +"Are these the steps, by which grave Churchmen rise?",2.0 +"Forbid it, Heaven; or, should it turn out so,",0.0 +"Let Me, and Mine, continue mean and low.",1.0 +"Such be their Arts, whom Interest controls;",1.0 +"And will, though poor without, have peace within.",1.0 +"SO stream the sorrows that embalm the brave,",0.0 +So pure the views which classic duty pays,0.0 +OH Pitt! if chosen strains have power to steal,3.0 +"Might hope to charm thy manly mind, intent",0.0 +"On patriot plans which ancient Freedom drew,",2.0 +With skill united have conspired to twine.,2.0 +Thy conscious heart shall hail with just applause,0.0 +Her blameless offering to the shrine of kings:,1.0 +"Thy tongue well tutored in historic lore,",1.0 +Can speak her office and her use of yore:,1.0 +For such the tribute of ingenuous praise,4.0 +"Such were the palms, in isles of old renown,",1.0 +She culled to deck the guiltless monarch's crown;,1.0 +Pleased in the radiance of the regal name,1.0 +"For, taught like ours, she dared with prudent pride,",0.0 +Obedience from dependence to divide:,4.0 +"Though princes claimed her tributary lays,",0.0 +With truth severe she tempered partial praise;,0.0 +"Conscious she kept her native dignity,",3.0 +"Bold as her flights, and as her numbers free.",1.0 +"And sure if ever the Muse indulged her strains,",2.0 +"With just regard, to grace heroic reigns,",0.0 +Where could her glance a theme of triumph own,0.0 +"At whose firm base, thy steadfast soul aspires",2.0 +To wake a mighty nation's ancient fires:,0.0 +"Aspires to baffle faction's specious claim,",2.0 +"Rouse England's rage, and give her thunder aim:",1.0 +"Once more the main her conquering banners sweep,",2.0 +"Thy fixed resolve renews each fair decree,",0.0 +"That made, that kept of yore, thy country free.",1.0 +"Called by thy voice, nor deaf to war's alarms,",0.0 +Its willing youth the rural empire arms:,0.0 +Flamed in the van of many a baron bold.,2.0 +"Nor thine the pomp of indolent debate,",2.0 +"Nor frigid caution cheques thy free design,",0.0 +Nor stops thy stream of eloquence divine:,1.0 +"For thine the privilege, on few bestowed,",2.0 +"To feel, to think, to speak for public good.",0.0 +In vain Corruption calls her venal tribes;,0.0 +"One common cause, one common end prescribes;",0.0 +"Nor fear nor fraud, or spares or screens the foe,",0.0 +"OH Pitt, while honour points thy liberal plan,",4.0 +"And over the minister exalts the man,",3.0 +"Isis congenial greets thy faithful sway,",2.0 +Nor scorns to bid a statesman grace her lay;,0.0 +"For science still is justly fond to blend,",0.0 +"With thine, her practise, principles, and end.",2.0 +"It's not for her, by false connections drawn,",1.0 +Each native effort of the feeling breast,1.0 +"To friends, to foes, in servile fear, suppressed:",0.0 +It's not for her to purchase or pursue,2.0 +"More useful toils her studious hours engage,",2.0 +And fairer lessons fill her spotless page:,0.0 +"Beneath ambition, but above disgrace,",1.0 +"To rear her arched roofs in regal guise,",3.0 +And lift her temples nearer to the skies;,1.0 +"Princes and prelates stretched the social band,",2.0 +"To form, diffuse, and fix her high command:",0.0 +"Lo, this her genuine lore. ' -- Nor thou refuse",3.0 +This humble present of no partial muse,2.0 +"From that calm bower, which nursed thy thoughtful youth",3.0 +In the pure precepts of Athenian truth:,5.0 +Where first the form of British Liberty,1.0 +Beamed in full radiance on thy musing eye:,3.0 +"That form, whose mien sublime, with equal awe,",0.0 +In the same shade unblemished Somers saw:,3.0 +Where once for well she loved the friendly grove,0.0 +Which every classic Grace had learnt to rove,0.0 +The blessings of her visionary reign;,1.0 +"That reign, which now no more an empty theme,",1.0 +"But crowns at last, beneath a George's smile,",0.0 +"Which, only yet our Groves, and Fountains know:",0.0 +"That, when my Death shall through the Plains be told,",1.0 +"To everyone, who shall my Storey find",0.0 +Beneath whose Shade the bleeding Body lay:,0.0 +"That, when by chance she shall be led that way,",0.0 +Over my sad Grave the haughty Nymph may go.,2.0 +And the proud Triumph of her Beauty show,3.0 +And yet at length she may but O! alas!,2.0 +"I fear, too high my flattering Hopes do soar",3.0 +Yet she at length may my sad Fate deplore;,3.0 +"May weep me Dead, may over my Tomb recline",2.0 +"And sighing, wish were he alive and Mine!",1.0 +"Go on; for well I do thy Speech attend,",0.0 +"Being now a Child, or but a Youth at most,",1.0 +When scarce to reach the blushing Fruit I knew,0.0 +Which on the lowest bending Branches grew;,0.0 +"Still with the dearest, sweetest, kindest Maid",0.0 +"Young as myself, at childish Sports I played.",3.0 +"The Fairest, sure, of all that Lovely Kind,",0.0 +Who spread their golden Tresses to the Wind;,1.0 +Whose Flocks and Herds so numerous do appear;,2.0 +"Warmth of all Hearts, and Pride of every Grove.",0.0 +"With Her I lived, no Turtles ever so fond.",4.0 +"Our Houses met, but more our Souls were joined.",0.0 +"Together Nets for Fish, and Fowl we laid;",0.0 +Together through the spacious Forest strayed;,1.0 +"Pursued with equal Speed the flying Deer,",0.0 +And of the Spoils there no Divisions were.,2.0 +"But while I from the Beasts their Freedom won,",1.0 +"Alas! I know not how, my Own was gone.",1.0 +"Which filled, at last, each corner of my Breast;",1.0 +"As from a Root, though scarce discerned so small,",1.0 +"A Plant may rise, that grows amazing tall.",0.0 +"And from her Eyes took in full Draughts of Love,",3.0 +"Yet in the end such Bitterness would yield,",1.0 +"That oft I sighed, ere yet I knew the cause,",1.0 +"And was a Lover, ere I dreamt I was.",1.0 +"But O! at last, too well my State I knew;",2.0 +"And now, will show thee how this Passion grew.",1.0 +"Then listen, while the pleasing Tale I tell.",0.0 +"STILL were the Groves, and venerable Night",1.0 +"Over half the Globe had cast her gloomy Veil,",0.0 +When by a Taper's solitary Gleam,4.0 +Sat musing Mira pensive and alone;,2.0 +"Revived the Pictures of departed Friends,",1.0 +Whose pleasing Forms she must behold no more.,1.0 +"Forgotten Woe, that for a time had slept,",1.0 +"Rose into Life, and like a Torrent poured",1.0 +"On her faint Soul, which sunk beneath its Rage:",2.0 +"At length soft Slumber kindly intervened,",1.0 +And closed those Eyelids that were drenched in Tears;,1.0 +"But restless Fancy that was waking still,",0.0 +Led my deluded Spirit on the Wing,3.0 +To pictured Regions and imagined Worlds.,1.0 +"I seemed transported to a gloomy Land,",1.0 +Whose Fields had never known the cheerful Sun:,0.0 +"A heavy Mist hung in the frowning Sky,",1.0 +"No feathered Warblers cheered the mourning Groves,",1.0 +Nor blushing Flowers adorned the barren Ground:,2.0 +"I gazed around the solitary Coast,",0.0 +"When lo a Nymph with solemn Air approached,",0.0 +"Whose Dress was careless and her Features grave,",1.0 +Her Voice was broken and her Hearing dull:,1.0 +"She spoke but seldom, yet at last she told",0.0 +"Me in a Whisper, that her Name was Thought;",0.0 +"And more, she offered, with a friendly Air,",1.0 +To lead me safely through the dreary Gloom:,1.0 +"Over Beds of Night-Shade and through Groves of Yew,",2.0 +The Trees were baleful Cypress; and a few,1.0 +Tall Pines that murmured to the rushing Wind:,2.0 +"Here dwelled the Natives, mournful as the Place",1.0 +Or sunk in real or imagined Woe;,2.0 +"Complaining Sounds were heard on every Side,",0.0 +"Some mourned a Child that in its Bloom expired,",0.0 +And some a Brother's or a Parent's Fate:,1.0 +"And some were wretched, though they knew not why.",1.0 +"But as we reached the Centre of the Place,",2.0 +Complaints were heard more piercing than before:,1.0 +"The gathering Fogs grew thicker over our Heads,",5.0 +"And a cold Horror thrilled our wounded Souls,",2.0 +"And thus we travelled, pensive beyond measure,",1.0 +Through Paths half covered with perplexing Thorns;,2.0 +"At length we found two Rows of aged Firs,",1.0 +"This solitary Vista opening wide,",2.0 +Disclosed the Palace of its mournful Queen:,1.0 +"Before the Gate was placed a frightful Guard,",0.0 +Who served as Porters to the gloomy Dome:,1.0 +"Here, stretched upon a miserable Couch,",1.0 +Lay pining Sickness with continual Groans;,4.0 +"And by her Side, arrayed in filthy Weeds",1.0 +Sat quaking Poverty with ghastly stare:,2.0 +"His Presence seemed to aggravate her Pain,",0.0 +"For when she cast her languid Eyes on him,",0.0 +She hid her Face and raised a fearful Cry.,0.0 +"There Disappointment like a Statue stood,",1.0 +With Eyes dejected and with Visage pale:,1.0 +"Her heaving Bosom seemed to swell with Anguish,",0.0 +And in her Hand she grasped a broken Reed:,0.0 +"Here, in the Garb of Piety, we saw",1.0 +Proud Error frowning with a Look severe:,2.0 +"Doubt at his Elbow bore a Rod of Snakes,",1.0 +"And held a Cup filled to the Brim with Tears,",2.0 +Overrun with Hemlock and with gloomy Fern:,2.0 +"Perpetual Night hung over the dismal Walls,",5.0 +"Through folding Doors of Ebony we came,",1.0 +"Into a winding Passage hung with black,",0.0 +"For ever dark ' -- possessed by flitting Shades,",0.0 +"By waking Fancies, and by frightful Dreams",1.0 +Where the sad Empress Melancholy reigned;,2.0 +The musing Matron sat upon a Throne,0.0 +And for her Canopy an aged Yew,2.0 +Spread over her Head its venerable Arms:,4.0 +"Her careless Robe was of a sable Hue,",1.0 +And on her Shoulders flowed her slighted Hair:,1.0 +Her Lips were closed with an eternal Silence;,1.0 +Her Arms were folded and her Head reclined;,1.0 +"On either Side her pale Attendants stood,",0.0 +Seemed on the Point to close her dying Eyes:,0.0 +And her cold Bosom half forgot to heave.,2.0 +Despair whose Garments by herself were torn,1.0 +Was marked with Wounds that Time can never heal:,0.0 +"With desperate Hand she struck her bleeding Breast,",0.0 +"With ghastly Figures was the Cave adorned,",1.0 +And left the horrid Mansion far behind;,0.0 +Where the brown Forests cast an awful Gloom:,2.0 +"At length the floating Clouds began to part,",0.0 +And left behind them Streaks of cheerful Azure;,0.0 +"Our Path grew smooth and widened to the view,",2.0 +Until it opened on a spacious Field;,1.0 +"A Field whose Charms no Painter ever could reach,",2.0 +Though he should borrow from the Poet's Heaven;,1.0 +Speckled with Flowers of a delicious Die.,5.0 +"Here crystal Lakes were bordered round with Trees,",0.0 +Where Blossoms flourished in eternal Spring;,0.0 +But still are blessed with Fruits that never decay:,2.0 +"Perpetual Sunshine crowned the gaudy Hills,",3.0 +And the fair Valleys were with Plenty gay.,3.0 +"A Path there was, trod over the spicy Field,",4.0 +"Which led the Wanderer to a blissful Shade,",1.0 +Whose Fence was made of balmy Eglantine;,0.0 +"Where the fair Plane overlooked the Myrtle Shrub,",1.0 +And flowering Orange that perfume the Air;,2.0 +"Here flew in Throngs the soft aerial Choir,",5.0 +Whose glittering Necks like polished Amber shone:,2.0 +"We passed delighted through ambrosial Paths,",1.0 +And Bowers move with Jessamine and Rose;,1.0 +In Gales that tasted of immortal Sweets.,1.0 +"At length the parting Trees broke into Form,",1.0 +"And with a Circle bound a charming Plain,",1.0 +Her Mien was graceful and her Features fair;,1.0 +"Continual Smiles dwelled on her dimpled Cheeks,",2.0 +"Her Hair was bound beneath a shining Crown,",0.0 +"Her Robes were Azure bright with golden Stars,",0.0 +And in her Hand she held a silver Lute.,0.0 +"On either Side her royal Sisters sat,",0.0 +"Both lovely, as herself, though not so gay;",2.0 +The eldest had a Face divinely fair;,0.0 +"Calm was her Look, with Lips prepared for smiling,",0.0 +She often raised her thankful Eyes to Heaven;,0.0 +Her Form was easy and her Name Content:,1.0 +The other much the youngest was arrayed,1.0 +In Virgin Robes white as unsullied Snow;,2.0 +"Her thoughtless Smiles would tame a Tiger's Rage,",0.0 +A Lamb whose Neck was circled with a Band,1.0 +"Of new blown Roses at her Feet was laid,",1.0 +Thus ever blessed sat Innocence the fair.,3.0 +"Behind these Sisters stood a shining Train,",0.0 +Prosperity the first was climbing up,2.0 +A stately Pyramid of painted Marble;,1.0 +From whose high Top she reached a brilliant Crowd:,1.0 +"Then with an Air that spoke a joyful Heart,",0.0 +Looked down with Pleasure on the Plain below.,1.0 +"Gay Wealth the next, in her embroidered Vest,",2.0 +Shone like the Entrails of the eastern Mine;,2.0 +"Her Hair was plaited thick with sparkling Gems,",3.0 +And in her Hand she bore a golden Wand.,0.0 +"Health, like a Sylvan Huntress clothed in Green,",0.0 +"Her Air was masculine, and swift her Motion;",1.0 +Her Cheeks were ruddy; and her large black Eyes,2.0 +"These were the Natives of this happy Land,",2.0 +The Sight of whom so filled my glowing Breast,0.0 +With Ecstasy that I awoke: And thus,2.0 +"Their Glories vanished, and were seen no more.",2.0 +"AUthor of life and light, Great Power above!",5.0 +"Parent of all, whose very self is love!",1.0 +Shall flattering reason make a faint essay,2.0 +To paint one spark of thy eternal ray?,1.0 +"Not all the years that in creation roll,",0.0 +Not all the finer organs of the soul;,1.0 +"The heart of man grows speechless in thy praise,",1.0 +"While angels, lost in silent wonder, gaze.",0.0 +"To wake the world, we view thy piercing eye;",0.0 +"The tuneful lark, elated, leaves her nest,",0.0 +The sun's warm lustre beaming on her breast:,2.0 +Through worlds untold the morning hymns resound,1.0 +"Tell me fair Nymph who justly had designed,",3.0 +A charming Youth to suit your equal Mind;,0.0 +"What did seduce you thus to match with one,",0.0 +Whom if by Nature made she'll scarcely own?,0.0 +"For formed so many Centuries ago,",1.0 +"I think the way to do his Reverence right,",2.0 +"Your blooming Youth his Age beyond decay,",0.0 +Who spite of Virtue will your Fame betray.,1.0 +"What strong Persuasions made you thus to wed,",0.0 +"Sure iT was no earthly Gain that charmed you to't,",2.0 +Nothing but hopes of Heaven should make me do't:,2.0 +Dispatching Martyrdom I would not miss;,1.0 +"To be secured, could I but escape from this.",1.0 +"With all the stench he suffered when he died,",0.0 +Is a just Emblem of so yoked a Bride.,2.0 +And did entice you to his trembling Arms:,1.0 +"Kind amorous Glances from his hollow Eyes,",4.0 +Did your gay Breast with rapturous Joys surprise,5.0 +"Ah! who can blame to see a yielding Maid,",0.0 +By all these blooming Charms to Love betrayed.,0.0 +The tempting Softness in such Beauties dressed.,0.0 +"The bright Idea soon dissolves in Air,",0.0 +And in it's room the Picture of Despair.,1.0 +"A moving Skeleton he seems to be,",1.0 +"Worth Observation, hang him up therefore",2.0 +"In Gresham College, and I'll ask no more.",2.0 +"FAR in a Wild, unknown to public View,",0.0 +From Youth to Age a reverend Hermit grew;,0.0 +"The Moss his Bed, the Cave his humble Cell,",0.0 +"His Food the Fruits, his Drink the crystal Well:",0.0 +"Remote from Man, with God he passed the Days,",0.0 +"Prayer all his Business, all his Pleasure Praise.",0.0 +"A Life so sacred, such serene Repose,",1.0 +"Seemed Heaven it self, till one Suggestion rose;",2.0 +"That Vice should triumph, Virtue Vice obey,",0.0 +"His Hopes no more a certain Prospect boast,",1.0 +And all the Tenor of his Soul is lost:,1.0 +So when a smooth Expanse receives impressed,0.0 +"Calm Nature's Image on its watery Breast,",4.0 +"Down bend the Banks, the Trees depending grow,",0.0 +And Skies beneath with answering Colours glow:,2.0 +"But if a Stone the gentle Scene divide,",1.0 +"Swift ruffling Circles curl on every side,",1.0 +"And glimmering Fragments of a broken Sun,",3.0 +"Banks, Trees, and Skies, in thick Disorder run.",1.0 +"To clear this Doubt, to know the World by Sight,",0.0 +Whose Feet came wandering over the nightly Dew,5.0 +And fixed the Scallop in his Hat before;,0.0 +"Then with the Sun a rising Journey went,",0.0 +"Sedate to think, and watching each Event.",0.0 +And long and lonesome was the Wild to pass;,1.0 +"But when the Southern Sun had warmed the Day,",0.0 +A Youth came posting over a crossing Way;,3.0 +"Then near approaching, Father Hail! he cried,",0.0 +"And Hail, my Son, the reverend Sire replied;",2.0 +"Words followed Words, from Question Answer flowed",1.0 +And Talk of various kind deceived the Road;,2.0 +"Till each with other pleased, and loath to part,",0.0 +While in their Age they differ; join in Heart:,0.0 +"Thus stands an aged Elm in Ivy bound,",1.0 +Now sunk the Sun; the closing Hour of Day,1.0 +Nature in silence bid the World repose:,2.0 +When near the Road a stately Palace rose:,0.0 +"There by the Moon through Ranks of Trees they pass,",1.0 +"It chanced the noble Master of the Dome,",1.0 +Still made his House the wandering Stranger's home:,3.0 +"Yet still the Kindness, from a Thirst of Praise,",1.0 +Proved the vain Flourish of expensive Ease.,4.0 +The Pair arrive: the Liveried Servants wait;,0.0 +Their Lord receives them at the pompous Gate.,0.0 +"The Table groans with costly Piles of Food,",0.0 +"Then led to rest, the Day's long Toil they drown,",1.0 +"Deep sunk in Sleep, and Silk, and Heaps of Down.",1.0 +"At length it's Morn, and at the Dawn of Day,",0.0 +Along the wide Canals the Zephyrs play;,0.0 +And shake the neighbouring Wood to banish Sleep.,2.0 +"Up rise the Guests, obedient to the Call,",1.0 +' An early Banquet decked the splendid Hall;,0.0 +"Rich luscious Wine a golden Goblet graced,",1.0 +Which the kind Master forced the Guests to taste.,2.0 +"Then pleased and thankful, from the Porch they go,",1.0 +"And, but the Landlord, none had cause of Woe;",2.0 +His Cup was vanished; for in secret Guise,1.0 +"Disordered stops to shun the Danger near,",0.0 +"Then walks with Faintness on, and looks with Fear:",1.0 +"So seemed the Sire; when far upon the Road,",2.0 +The shining Spoil his wiley Partner showed.,0.0 +"He stopped with Silence, walked with trembling Heart,",0.0 +"And much he wished, but durst not ask to part:",0.0 +"Murmuring he lifts his Eyes, and thinks it hard,",1.0 +That generous Actions meet a base Reward.,2.0 +"While thus they pass, the Sun his Glory shrouds,",0.0 +The changing Skies hang out their sable Clouds;,2.0 +"A Sound in Air presaged approaching Rain,",5.0 +And Beasts to covert scud a cross the Plain.,0.0 +"Warned by the Signs, the wandering Pair retreat,",2.0 +To seek for Shelter at a neighbouring Seat.,2.0 +"'Twas built with Turrets, on a rising Ground,",2.0 +"And strong, and large, and unimproved around;",0.0 +"Its Owner's Temper, timorous and severe,",3.0 +"Unkind and gripping, caused a Desert there.",1.0 +"As near the Miser's heavy Doors they drew,",3.0 +Fierce rising Gusts with sudden Fury blew;,1.0 +"The nimble Lightning mixed with Showers began,",2.0 +"Here long they knock, but knock or call in vain,",0.0 +"Driven by the Wind, and battered by the Rain.",2.0 +"At length some Pity warmed the Master's Breast,",0.0 +"'Twas then, his Threshold first received a Guest",1.0 +"Slow creaking turns the Door with jealous Care,",1.0 +And half he welcomes in the shivering Pair;,2.0 +"One frugal Faggot lights the naked Walls,",0.0 +Each hardly granted served them both to dine;,0.0 +"And when the Tempest first appeared to cease,",0.0 +A ready Warning bid them part in Peace.,0.0 +With still Remark the pondering Hermit viewed,2.0 +"In one so rich, a Life so poor and rude;",0.0 +"And why should such, within himself he cried,",1.0 +Lock the lost Wealth a thousand want beside?,3.0 +"But what new Marks of Wonder soon took place,",2.0 +In every settling Feature of his Face!,1.0 +When from his Vest the young Companion bore,0.0 +"That Cup, the generous Landlord owned before,",3.0 +And paid profusely with the precious Bowl,1.0 +"But now the Clouds in airy Tumult fly,",0.0 +The Sun emerging opens an azure Sky;,2.0 +"A fresher green the smelling Leaves display,",0.0 +"And glittering as they tremble, cheer the Day:",1.0 +"The Weather courts them from the poor Retreat,",1.0 +And the glad Master bolts the wary Gate.,2.0 +"While hence they walk, the Pilgrim's Bosom wrought,",0.0 +With all the Travel of uncertain Thought;,1.0 +"His Partner's Acts without their Cause appear,",0.0 +"'Twas there a Vice, and seemed a Madness here:",0.0 +Lost and confounded with the various Shows.,5.0 +Now Night's dim Shades again involve the Sky;,2.0 +"Again the Wanderers want a Place to lie,",2.0 +"Again they search, and find a Lodging nigh.",0.0 +"The Soil improved around, the Mansion neat,",0.0 +"And neither poorly low, nor idly great:",0.0 +"It seemed to speak its Master's turn of Mind,",0.0 +"Content, and not for Praise, but Virtue kind.",0.0 +Hither the Walkers turn with weary Feet,2.0 +"Then bless the Mansion, and the Master greet:",1.0 +"Their greeting fair bestowed, with modest Guise,",0.0 +"The courteous Master hears, and thus replies:",2.0 +"Without a vain, without a grudging Heart,",0.0 +"To Him who gives us all, I yield a part;",1.0 +"From Him you come, for Him accept it here,",2.0 +"A frank and sober, more than costly Cheer.",0.0 +"He spoke, and bid the welcome Table spread,",0.0 +"Then talked of Virtue till the time of Bed,",1.0 +"When the grave Household round his Hall repair,",1.0 +"Warned by a Bell, and close the Hours with Prayer.",0.0 +At length the World renewed by calm Repose,0.0 +"Before the Pilgrims part, the Younger crept,",0.0 +"Near the closed Cradle where an Infant slept,",2.0 +"And writhed his Neck: the Landlord's little Pride,",1.0 +"OH strange Return! grew black, and gasped, and died.",2.0 +Horror of Horrors! what! his only Son!,2.0 +How looked our Hermit when the Fact was done?,0.0 +"And breathe blue Fire, could more assault his Heart.",1.0 +"Confused, and struck with Silence at the Deed,",0.0 +"He flies, but trembling fails to fly with Speed.",0.0 +His Steps the Youth pursues; the Country lay,0.0 +"Perplexed with Roads, a Servant showed the Way:",0.0 +A River crossed the Path; the Passage over,0.0 +Was nice to find; the Servant trod before;,0.0 +"Long arms of Oaks an open Bridge supplied,",1.0 +And deep the Waves beneath the bending glide.,0.0 +"The Youth, who seemed to watch a Time to sin,",0.0 +"Approached the careless Guide, and thrust him in;",0.0 +"Plunging he falls, and rising lifts his Head,",2.0 +"Then flashing turns, and sinks among the Dead.",0.0 +"Wild, sparkling Rage inflames the Father's Eyes,",1.0 +"He bursts the Bands of Fear, and madly cries,",0.0 +"Detested Wretch ' -- But scarce his Speech began,",0.0 +When the strange Partner seemed no longer Man:,3.0 +His youthful Face grew more serenely sweet;,1.0 +"His Robe turned white, and flowed upon his Feet;",1.0 +Fair rounds of radiant Points invest his Hair;,1.0 +"And Wings, whose Colours glittered on the Day,",4.0 +Wide at his Back their gradual Plumes display.,2.0 +And moves in all the Majesty of Light.,1.0 +"Though loud at first the Pilgrim's Passion grew,",0.0 +"Sudden he gazed, and wist not what to do;",2.0 +"Surprise in secret Chains his words suspends,",0.0 +And in a Calm his settling Temper ends.,0.0 +"Thy Prayer, thy Praise, thy Life to Vice unknown,",0.0 +In sweet Memorial rise before the Throne:,2.0 +"These Charms, Success in our bright Region find,",2.0 +"And force an Angel down, to calm thy Mind;",1.0 +"For this commissioned, I forsook the Sky,",2.0 +"Nay, cease to kneel ' -- Thy fellow Servant I.",2.0 +"Then know the Truth of Government Divine,",1.0 +And let these Scruples be no longer thine.,2.0 +"The Maker justly claims that World he made,",0.0 +In this the Right of Providence is laid;,1.0 +Its sacred Majesty through all depends,1.0 +On using second Means to work his Ends:,0.0 +"It's thus, withdrawn in State from human Eye,",0.0 +"The Power exerts his Attributes on high,",2.0 +"Your Actions uses, not controls your Will,",0.0 +And bids the doubting Sons of Men be still.,0.0 +"What strange Events can strike with more Surprise,",0.0 +"Yet taught by these, confess the Almighty Just,",3.0 +"The Great, Vain Man, who fared on costly Food,",1.0 +Whose Life was too luxurious to be good;,1.0 +"And forced his Guests to morning Draughts of Wine,",0.0 +"Has, with the Cup, the graceless Custom lost,",0.0 +"And still he welcomes, but with less of Cost.",1.0 +"The mean, suspicious Wretch, whose bolted Door,",0.0 +Never moved in Duty to the wandering Poor;,3.0 +"With him I left the Cup, to teach his Mind",1.0 +"That Heaven can bless, if Mortals will be kind.",1.0 +"Conscious of wanting Worth, he views the Bowl,",2.0 +And feels Compassion touch his grateful Soul.,0.0 +"Thus Artists melt the sullen Oar of Lead,",1.0 +With heaping Coals of Fire upon its Head;,0.0 +"In the kind Warmth the Metal learns to glow,",3.0 +"And loose from Dross, the Silver runs below.",0.0 +"Long had our pious Friend in Virtue trod,",0.0 +"Child of his Age for him he lived in Pain,",1.0 +And measured back his Steps to Earth again.,0.0 +"But God, to save the Father, took the Son.",0.0 +"To all but thee, in Fits he seemed to go,",1.0 +"The poor fond Parent humbled in the Dust,",1.0 +Now owns in Tears the Punishment was just.,2.0 +"But how had all his Fortune felt a Wrack,",0.0 +Had that false Servant sped in Safety back?,1.0 +"This Night his treasured Heaps he meant to steal,",0.0 +And what a Fund of Charity would fail!,1.0 +"Thus Heaven instructs thy Mind: This Trial over,",1.0 +"Depart in Peace, resign, and sin no more.",1.0 +"Thus looked Elisha, when to mount on high,",2.0 +His Master took the Chariot of the Sky;,1.0 +The fiery Pomp ascending left the View;,2.0 +"The Prophet gazed, and wished to follow too.",0.0 +"The bending Hermit here a Prayer begun,",0.0 +"Lord! as in Heaven, on Earth thy Will be done.",0.0 +"Then gladly turning, sought his ancient place,",0.0 +And passed a Life of Piety and Peace.,1.0 +"OUR regal seat to Edward fallen a prey,",2.0 +Our Chief's insulted corpse his victim lay;,0.0 +Our ruined land no monument could raise;,2.0 +Long ages hence her hero still she'll mourn;,1.0 +Still her brave sons with emulation burn.,3.0 +"His spirit guarding still our native place,",0.0 +Proclaims this mandate to his latest race:,2.0 +Let sacred truth bid living fame be thine;,2.0 +Never trust for honour to a sculptured shrine.,0.0 +"Those modest merits marbles never impart,",2.0 +Love writes them deepest on the human heart.,2.0 +"Thus mid thy race did their loved Henry dwell,",3.0 +Whose dust shall mix thy memory with Tell A famous Swiss chief:,2.0 +"Truth, honour, spirit animate that form,",1.0 +"Which beauty, grace, and symmetry adorn.",1.0 +"Here that rich blossom dropped, scarce fairly blown;",2.0 +"The friend, the husband, father we bemoan!",1.0 +"Dear youth, thy name to latest time descends,",1.0 +Where gentle virtues made mankind thy friends.,1.0 +From no vain marble need you borrow fame;,2.0 +"Truth, love and friendship, here embalm thy name.",1.0 +In tears we mourn the body laid to rest;,0.0 +She hails thy spotless soul' mid angels blessed.,1.0 +"How soft the pause! the notes melodious cease,",2.0 +Which from each feeling could an echo call;,0.0 +Rest on your oars; that not a sound may fall,0.0 +To interrupt the stillness of our peace:,1.0 +Yet glowing with the sun's departed beams.,1.0 +Through the blue heavens the cloudless moon pours streams,5.0 +"Of pure resplendent light, in silver streaks",0.0 +"Reflected on the still, unruffled lake.",1.0 +"The Alpine hills in solemn silence frown,",1.0 +And now once more that soothing strain awake!,1.0 +"O, ever to my heart, with magic power,",1.0 +Shall those sweet sounds recall this rapturous hour!,5.0 +"OH Friend too dearly loved, OH name adored!",3.0 +"In vain a powerful duty bids us part,",2.0 +Thou still art present to this bleeding heart.,1.0 +Could the light breeze beyond the mountains bear,3.0 +"The sighs of anguish, and the silent tear;",1.0 +"Could my sad thoughts be present to thy mind,",1.0 +"Where thy idea with my life is twined,",2.0 +And well deserve the heart I have possessed.,0.0 +"Dull lingering time creeps sad and slowly on,",3.0 +"Health fades, and youth with all its charms are gone:",1.0 +Where hope's enchanting voice was never heard;,0.0 +"Yet restless wishes, ever anxious cares,",0.0 +"All she can feel who loves, and who despairs,",0.0 +"Were fair delights, compared to that dark hour,",1.0 +"When doubt shall whisper,' thou art loved no more.'",2.0 +"OH let me sink in earth, that pang to save,",1.0 +And escape distraction in the friendly grave!,1.0 +"By the won lustre of the moon's pale beam,",4.0 +"This agitated heart at peace is laid,",0.0 +Each quivering nerve and throbbing pulse at rest;,2.0 +"I mark the mourning train, I hear the knell,",0.0 +Which bids the busy world a last farewell:,1.0 +"Then, clad in weeds of woe, I see thee come,",0.0 +"For calumny shall slumber over the tomb,",3.0 +And frowning virtue shall forgive the tear,0.0 +Which falls on lost affection's sacred bier.,0.0 +With quick and troubled step I hear thee tread,0.0 +The dreary chambers of the silent dead;,1.0 +A gleaming torch directs thy eager eyes,0.0 +"I see thy bosom heave, I hear thy bursting sighs,",0.0 +"The grief thy fancied form before me wears,",0.0 +"Gives comfort to my heart, though steeped in tears;",2.0 +Such misery has charms for souls like mine;,1.0 +"Thus to be loved, in anguish and despair,",1.0 +Is bliss beyond the joys a giddy world can share.,0.0 +Immortal Bard! thou Favourite of the Nine!,1.0 +"Enriched by Peers, advanced by Caroline!",0.0 +Remembering you yourself was lately so;,2.0 +Accept these Lines: Alas! what can you have,1.0 +"From her, who ever was, and's still a Slave?",2.0 +No Learning ever was bestowed on me;,2.0 +My Life was always spent in Drudgery:,1.0 +"And not alone; alas! with Grief I find,",0.0 +"Oft have I thought as on my Bed I lay,",1.0 +"Our first Extraction from a Mass refined,",1.0 +Could never be for slavery designed;,1.0 +Till Time and Custom by Degrees destroyed,1.0 +That happy State our Sex at first enjoyed.,0.0 +"When Men had used their utmost Care and Toil,",1.0 +Their Recompense was but a Female Smile;,2.0 +"When they by Arts or Arms were rendered Great,",0.0 +"They, in those Days, unto our Sex did bring",5.0 +"And as from us their Being they derive,",2.0 +They back again should all due Homage give.,1.0 +Unto our Shrine still offered up their Lays:,4.0 +"But now, alas! that Golden Age is past,",0.0 +We are the Objects of your Scorn at last.,1.0 +"And you, great Duck, upon whose happy Brow",2.0 +"The Muses seem to fix their Garland now,",0.0 +In your late Poem boldly did declare,2.0 +"And of your annual Task have much to say,",3.0 +"Boasting your daily Toil, and nightly Dream,",2.0 +And let our hapless Sex in Silence lie,0.0 +"Forgotten, and in dark Oblivion die;",3.0 +"But on our abject State you throw your Scorn,",1.0 +"And Women wrong, your Verses to adorn.",1.0 +As if our Sex but little Work could do:,1.0 +"This makes the honest Farmer smiling say,",0.0 +He'll seek for Women still to make his Hay;,0.0 +For if his Back be turned the Work they mind,1.0 +"As well as Men, as far as he can find.",1.0 +"For my own Part, I many a Summer's Day",3.0 +"Have spent in throwing, turning, making Hay;",0.0 +"But never could see, what you have lately found,",1.0 +Our Wages paid for sitting on the Ground.,1.0 +"It's true, that when our Morning's Work is done,",0.0 +"And all our Grass exposed unto the Sun,",5.0 +"While that his scorching Beams do on it shine,",1.0 +As well as you we have a Time to dine:,1.0 +"I hope, that since we freely toil and sweat",0.0 +"That over, soon we must get up again,",2.0 +And nimbly turn our Hay upon the plain:,0.0 +"Nay, rake and row it in, the Case is clear;",1.0 +Or how should Cocks in equal Rows appear?,1.0 +"I find, that you to hear us talk are grieved:",1.0 +"In this, I hope, you do not speak your Mind,",0.0 +"For none but Turks, that ever I could find,",1.0 +"Have Mutes to serve them, or did ever deny",3.0 +"Their Slaves, at Work, to chat it merrily.",1.0 +"Since you have Liberty to speak your Mind,",1.0 +"And are to talk, as well as we, inclined,",2.0 +"Like you, enjoy that pleasing Liberty?",2.0 +"What! would you Lord it quite, and take away",0.0 +The only Privilege our Sex enjoy?,1.0 +"When Evening does approach, we homeward high,",0.0 +And our domestic Toils incessant ply:,1.0 +Against your coming Home prepare to get,0.0 +"Our Work all done, Our House in order set;",0.0 +"Bacon and Dumpling in the Pot we boil,",2.0 +"Our Beds we make, our Swine we feed the while;",0.0 +"Then wait at Door to see you coming Home,",0.0 +And set the Table out against you come:,1.0 +"Early next Morning we on you attend,",4.0 +"Our Children dress and feed, their Clothes we mend",0.0 +"And in the Field our daily Task renew,",0.0 +Soon as the rising Sun has dried the Dew.,0.0 +"When Harvest comes, into the Field we go,",0.0 +And help to reap the Wheat as well as you;,0.0 +Or else we go the Ears of Corn to glean;,0.0 +"But in the Work we freely bear a Part,",0.0 +"And what we can, perform with all our Heart.",1.0 +"To get a Living we so willing are,",2.0 +"Our tender Babes unto the Field we bear,",5.0 +"And wrap them in our Clothes to keep them warm,",0.0 +While round about we gather up the Corn;,1.0 +"And often unto them our Course do bend,",1.0 +"To keep them save, that nothing them offend:",1.0 +"Our Children that are able bear a share,",0.0 +"When Night comes on, unto our Home we go,",3.0 +"Our Corn we carry, and our Infant too;",1.0 +Weary indeed! but it's not worth our while,3.0 +"Once to complain, or rest at every Style;",2.0 +"We must make haste, for when we home are come,",1.0 +We find again our Work but just begun:,0.0 +"So many Things for our Attendance call,",1.0 +"Had we ten Hands, we could employ them all.",3.0 +"Our Children put to Bed, with greatest Care",0.0 +We all Things for your coming home prepare:,0.0 +"You sup, and go to Bed without Delay,",0.0 +And rest yourselves till the ensuing Day;,2.0 +"While we, alas! but little Sleep can have,",1.0 +"Yet, without fail, soon as Daylight does spring,",2.0 +"We in the Field again our work begin,",0.0 +"And there, with all our Strength, our Toil renew,",1.0 +Till Titan's golden Rays have dried the Dew;,0.0 +"Then home we go unto our Children dear,",5.0 +"Dress, feed, and bring them to the Field with Care.",2.0 +"Were this your Case, you justly might complain",1.0 +That Day nor Night you are secure from Pain;,1.0 +"Those mighty Troubles which perplex your Mind,",0.0 +"Thistles before, and Females come behind",3.0 +"Would vanish soon, and quickly disappear,",0.0 +"Were you, like us, encumbered thus with Care.",2.0 +What you would have of us we do not know:,1.0 +We oft take up the Corn that you do mow;,3.0 +"We cut the Peas, and always ready are",1.0 +In every Work to take our proper Share;,0.0 +"And from the Time that Harvest does begin,",1.0 +"Until the Corn be cut and carried in,",0.0 +That we have hardly ever Time to Dream.,0.0 +"The Harvest ended, Respite none we find;",0.0 +The hardest of our Toil is still behind:,1.0 +"Hard Labour we most cheerfully pursue,",2.0 +"And out, abroad, a Chairing often go:",1.0 +"Of which I now will briefly tell in part,",0.0 +What fully to describe is past my Art;,1.0 +"So many Hardships daily we go through,",2.0 +"I boldly say, the like you never knew.",0.0 +When bright Orion glitters in the Skies,0.0 +"In Winter Nights, then early we must rise;",1.0 +"The Weather never so bad, Wind, Rain, or Snow,",3.0 +"Our Work appointed, we must rise and go;",1.0 +"While you on easy Beds may lie and sleep,",0.0 +Till Light does through your Chamber Windows peep,1.0 +"When to the House we come where we should go,",1.0 +"How to get in, alas! we do not know:",2.0 +Overcome with Sleep; we standing at the Door,0.0 +"Oppressed with Cold, and often call in vain,",0.0 +Ever to our Work we can admittance gain:,2.0 +"But when from Wind and Weather we get in,",2.0 +Briskly with Courage we our Work begin;,3.0 +"Heaps of fine Linen we before us view,",4.0 +Which must be washed with utmost Skill and Care;,1.0 +"With Holland Shirts, Ruffles and Fringes too,",5.0 +"Fashions, which our Forefathers never knew.",3.0 +"For several Hours here we work and slave,",0.0 +Before we can one Glimpse of Daylight have;,2.0 +"We labour hard before the Morning's past,",0.0 +Because we fear the Time runs on too fast.,3.0 +"At length bright Sol illuminates the Skies,",1.0 +And summons drowsy Mortals to arise;,1.0 +"Then comes our Mistress to us without fail,",4.0 +"And in her Hand, perhaps, a Mug of Ale",0.0 +"To cheer our Hearts, and also to inform",1.0 +Herself what Work is done that very Morn;,0.0 +"Lays her Commands upon us, that we mind",2.0 +"Her Linen well, nor leave the Dirt behind:",0.0 +"Nor this alone, but also to take Care",3.0 +"To save her Soap, and sparing be of Fire;",0.0 +"Tells us her Charge is great, nay furthermore,",1.0 +Her Clothes are fewer than the Time before:,1.0 +"Now we drive on, resolved our Strength to try,",2.0 +And what we can we do most willingly;,2.0 +"Until with Heat and Work, it's often known,",0.0 +"Not only Sweat, but Blood runs trickling down",2.0 +Our Wrists and Fingers; still our Work demands,0.0 +"Now Night comes on, from whence you have Relief,",1.0 +"But that, alas! does but increase our Grief;",1.0 +"With heavy Hearts we often view the Sun,",0.0 +Fearing he'll set before our Work is done;,2.0 +"For either in the Morning, or at Night,",1.0 +We piece the Summers Day with Candlelight.,0.0 +"Though we all Day with Care our Work attend,",1.0 +"When Evening's come, you homeward take your Way,",0.0 +"We, till our Work is done, are forced to stay;",1.0 +"And after all our Toil and Labour past,",0.0 +"For all our Pains, no Prospect can we see",2.0 +"Attend us, but Old Age and Poverty.",3.0 +The Washing is not all we have to do:,1.0 +We oft change Work for Work as well as you.,1.0 +"Our Mistress of her Pewter does complain,",1.0 +And it's our part to make it clean again.,1.0 +"This Work, though very hard and tiresome too,",2.0 +Is not the worst we hapless Females do:,1.0 +"When Night comes on, and we quite weary are,",4.0 +We scarce can count what falls unto our Share;,5.0 +Brought in to make complete our Slavery.,1.0 +"Though early in the Morning it's begun,",1.0 +On Brass and Iron we our Strength must spend;,1.0 +Our tender Hands and Fingers scratch and tear:,0.0 +"All this, and more, with Patience we must bear,",1.0 +Coloured with Dirt and Filth we now appear;,2.0 +"Are quite obscured, and altogether lost.",0.0 +Once more our Mistress sends to let us know,0.0 +"She wants our Help, because the Beer runs low:",1.0 +"Then in much haste for Brewing we prepare,",1.0 +"The Vessels clean, and scald with greatest Care;",0.0 +Often at Midnight from our Bed we rise,1.0 +At other Times even that will not suffice;,3.0 +"Our Work at Evening oft we do begin,",0.0 +"Water we pump, the Copper we must fill,",3.0 +"Or tend the Fire; for if we ever stand still,",2.0 +"But to rehearse all Labour is in vain,",2.0 +Of which we very justly might complain:,0.0 +"For us, you see, but little Rest is found;",1.0 +"Our Toil increases as the Year runs round,",2.0 +Bottomless Tubs of Water they must fill.,3.0 +So the industrious Bees do hourly strive,3.0 +To bring their Loads of Honey to the Hive;,1.0 +And poorly recompense their Toil and Pains.,0.0 +"If Heaven the grateful Liberty would give,",1.0 +That I might choose my Method how to live;,1.0 +"And all those Hours propitious Fate should lend,",0.0 +"In blissful Ease, and Satisfaction spend.",0.0 +"Near some fair Town, I'd have a private Seat.",1.0 +"Built Uniform, not little, nor too great:",3.0 +Better if on a rising Ground it stood;,1.0 +"On this side Fields, on that a neighbouring Wood,",4.0 +"It should within, no other Things contain,",1.0 +"But what were Useful, Necessary, Plain:",0.0 +The needless Pomp of Gaudy Furniture.,1.0 +"A little Garden, grateful to the Eye,",1.0 +On whose delicious Banks a stately Row,0.0 +"At the End of which a silent Study placed,",0.0 +Should be with all the Noblest Authors Graced.,0.0 +"Horace, and Virgil, in whose mighty Lines",2.0 +"Immortal Wit, and Solid Learning shines.",0.0 +Who all the Turns of Love's soft Passion knew;,1.0 +He that with Judgement reads his charming Lines,0.0 +"In which strong Art, with stronger Nature joins,",0.0 +Must grant his Fancy does the best Excel;,0.0 +"His Thoughts so tender, and Expressed so well.",1.0 +"With all those Moderns, Men of steady Sense,",0.0 +"Esteemed for Learning, and for Eloquence.",2.0 +"In some of these, as Fancy should Advise,",1.0 +I'd always take my Morning Exercise:,0.0 +"For sure no Minutes bring us more Content,",1.0 +"Than those in Pleasing, Useful Studies spent.",1.0 +"I'd have a Clear, and Competent Estate,",1.0 +"That I might Live Gently, but not Great.",2.0 +"As much as I could moderately spend,",2.0 +"A little more, sometime to Oblige a Friend.",3.0 +"Too much at Fortune, they should Taste of Mine;",1.0 +And all that Objects of true Pity were,3.0 +Should be Relieved with what my Wants could spare.,0.0 +"For that, our Maker has too largely given,",1.0 +"Should be returned, in Gratitude to Heaven.",0.0 +A frugal Plenty should my Table spread;,0.0 +"With Healthy, not Luxurious Dishes Fed:",2.0 +"Enough to Satisfy, and something more",0.0 +"To Feed the Stranger, and the Neighbouring Poor.",3.0 +"Strong Meat indulges Vice, and Pampering Food",3.0 +"Creates Diseases, and inflames the Blood.",1.0 +"But what's sufficient to make Nature strong,",2.0 +"And the bright Lamp of Life continue long,",2.0 +"I'd freely take, and as I did Possess,",1.0 +"I'd have a little Vault, but always stored",0.0 +"With the best Wines, each Vintage could afford.",2.0 +"By making all our Spirits Debonair,",0.0 +"Throws off the Lees, the Sediment of Care.",1.0 +"But as the greatest Blessing Heaven lends,",1.0 +"So, but too oft, the Grapes refreshing Juice",2.0 +"Does many Mischievous Effects produce,",1.0 +"My House should no such rude Disorders know,",0.0 +As from high Drinking consequently flow.,2.0 +"Nor would I use what was so kindly given,",1.0 +"If any Neighbour came, he should be free,",2.0 +"Used with Respect, and not uneasy be,",2.0 +"In my Retreat, or to himself or me.",2.0 +"What Freedom; Prudence, and right Reason give,",2.0 +All Men may with Impunity receive:,2.0 +"For what's forbidden us, it's Death to touch.",1.0 +"That Life might be more comfortable yet,",1.0 +"And all my Joys refined, sincere, and great;",0.0 +"I'd choose two Friends, whose Company would be",2.0 +A great Advance to my Felicity.,2.0 +"Discreet, and Men, as well as Books, have known.",0.0 +"Brave, generous, witty, and exactly free",4.0 +"From loose Behaviour, or Formality.",2.0 +"Airy, and prudent, merry, but not light;",3.0 +"Quick in discerning, and in judging right.",2.0 +"Secret they should be, faithful to their Trust;",2.0 +"In reasoning cool, strong, temperate, and just.",4.0 +"Obliging, open, without huffing, brave,",5.0 +"Brisk in gay Talking, and in sober, grave.",3.0 +"Close in Dispute, but not tenacious, tried",1.0 +"By solid Reason, and let that decide.",2.0 +"Not prone to Lust, Revenge, or envious Hate;",2.0 +"Strangers to Slander, and sworn Foes to Spite:",4.0 +"Not quarrelsome, but stout enough to fight.",1.0 +"As dying Martyrs, to their Maker too.",1.0 +"In their Society, I could not miss",2.0 +"A permanent, sincere, substantial Bliss.",1.0 +"For who would so much Satisfaction loose,",0.0 +"As witty Nymphs, in Conversation, give,",0.0 +"Near some obliging, modest Fair to live;",0.0 +Which in a Man's we cannot hope to find:,0.0 +"That by a secret, but a powerful Art,",2.0 +"Winds up the Springs of Life, and does impart",0.0 +"Fresh Vital Heat, to the transported Heart.",2.0 +I'd have her Reason all her Passions sway;,0.0 +"Easy in Company, in private gay:",3.0 +"Coy to a Fop, to the deserving free,",1.0 +"Still constant to her self, and just to me.",2.0 +"A Soul she should have, for great Actions fit;",2.0 +"Prudence, and Wisdom to direct her Wit:",3.0 +"Courage to look bold Danger in the Face,",3.0 +"No Fear, but only to be proud, or base:",2.0 +"Quick to advise, by an Emergence pressed,",3.0 +"To give good Counsel, or to take the best.",1.0 +"I'd have the Expression of her Thoughts be such,",2.0 +"She might not seem reserved, nor talk too much;",1.0 +That shows a want of Judgement and of Sense:,1.0 +"Her Conduct Regular, her Mirth Refined,",1.0 +"Averse to Vanity, Revenge, and Pride,",1.0 +In all the Methods of Deceit untried.,1.0 +"So faithful to her Friend, and good to all,",1.0 +No Censure might upon her Actions fall:,1.0 +"Then would even Envy be compelled to say,",0.0 +"To this Fair Creature I'd sometime retire,",4.0 +Her Conversation would new Joys inspire;,1.0 +"Give Life an Edge so keen, no surly Care",2.0 +"Would venture to Assault my Soul, or dare",1.0 +Near my Retreat to hide one secret Snare.,1.0 +"I'd seldom, and with Moderation, taste.",1.0 +"For Highest Cordials all their Virtue loose,",0.0 +"By a too frequent, and too bold an Use:",4.0 +And what would Cheer the Spirits in Distress;,0.0 +"Ruins our Health, when taken to Excess.",3.0 +"I'd be concerned in no Litigious Jar,",0.0 +"Beloved by all, not vainly Popular,",1.0 +Whatever Assistance I had Power to bring,6.0 +"Whenever they Called, I'd readily afford",3.0 +"My Tongue, my Pen, my Counsel, or my Sword.",1.0 +"Law Suits I'd shun, with as much studious Care,",4.0 +As I would Dens where hungry Lions are:,2.0 +And rather put up Injuries; than be,1.0 +"I value Quiet at a Price too great,",1.0 +To give for my Revenge so dear a Rate:,1.0 +"For what do we by all our Bustle gain,",0.0 +"If Heaven a Date of many Years would give,",0.0 +"Thus I'd in Pleasure, Ease, and Plenty live.",0.0 +"And as I near approached the Verge of Life,",1.0 +"Some kind Relation, for I'd have no Wife",2.0 +"Should take upon him all my Worldly Care,",0.0 +While I did for a better State prepare.,0.0 +Then I'd not be with any Trouble vexed;,0.0 +Nor have the Evening of my Days perplexed.,1.0 +"But by a silent, and a peaceful Death,",2.0 +"Without a Sigh, resign my Aged Breath:",0.0 +"And when committed to the Dust, I'd have",1.0 +"Few Tears, but Friendly dropped into my Grave.",0.0 +Then would my Exit so propitious be;,1.0 +"All Men would wish to Live, and Die, like Me.",0.0 +"At my low Cottage, on a cheerful Morn,",3.0 +When slanting Beams did every Scene adorn;,0.0 +"By Goodness prompted, native of their Breasts,",1.0 +Sir Harry and my Lady were my Guests.,3.0 +"My Treat was homely, and my Table small,",1.0 +"My Cloth and Dishes clean, and that was all:",0.0 +"For thus it suited to my low Estate,",1.0 +"Humorous our Talk, and innocently gay;",2.0 +"Our Subjects various; Manners, Men, and Play,",2.0 +"And Love, and Wedlock; This our favourite Theme,",2.0 +And each to their own Fancy formed the Scheme:,1.0 +"Maid! said Sir Harry, come, it's Time to wed;",2.0 +By Sympathy choose C' -- to be your Head.,2.0 +Two Bodies so exactly paired! it's plain,2.0 +"Heaven made the Match, and destined him the Man.",1.0 +My Lady offered me her Farmer's Son.,1.0 +Sir Harry positive for C' -- alone.,2.0 +"Soon I accepted, either was my Choice;",3.0 +Most Votes shall carried. ' -- Mine's a neutral Voice.,0.0 +"So I may wed, I'm not exceeding nice;",1.0 +"My humble Wishes, Sir, no higher rise,",1.0 +"Than that the Man be honest, free from Vice;",0.0 +Improved by Learning both of Books and Men;,0.0 +"True to his Country, and fair Virtue's Cause;",2.0 +His Fortune equal to himself and me.,1.0 +This Praise to C' -- his Friends allow is due;,0.0 +"And Part, dear Farmer, I believe of you.",2.0 +"The P' -- , absent, could not speak his Mind;",2.0 +"But the young Farmer, complaisant and kind,",6.0 +"Bowed, smiled, and drank my Health. An Omen fair!",1.0 +"But, ah! a young and fairer Maid was there;",0.0 +"I fear my Rival's Charms, I fear her Art,",0.0 +"Each serve to move, and both to win his Heart.",0.0 +Thus far in Mirth. ' -- But now for steady Truth;,1.0 +I'm climbed above the Scale of fickle Youth.,0.0 +"From Pain of Love I'm perfectly at Ease,",1.0 +My Person Nature never formed to please.,0.0 +"Friendship's the sweetest Joy in human Life,",2.0 +It's that I wish ' -- and not to be a Wife.,0.0 +"Thus, Madam, your Command I have obeyed",2.0 +Your Goodness will accept my humble Lays;,1.0 +"Content with this, I seek no better Praise.",2.0 +"Rough as the Road on which I gave them Birth,",0.0 +"Dull as the clouded Morn, or barren Heath.",0.0 +"Vainly I wish, o could I tune my Song",2.0 +"Sweet as your Name, and as your Virtue strong!",1.0 +"With Pleasure I'd the grateful Theme pursue,",1.0 +"But, I despair ' -- And humbly bid, Adieu.",1.0 +"THE cock warm roosting amid his feathered mates,",3.0 +"Now lifts his beak and snuffs the morning air,",1.0 +"Stretches his neck and claps his heavy wings,",2.0 +"Gives three hoarse crows, and glad his task is done,",2.0 +"Low chuckling turns himself upon the roost,",1.0 +Then nestles down again into his place.,1.0 +"Beneath his home-made coverings, coarse but warm,",3.0 +"Locked in the kindly arms of her who spun them,",1.0 +Dreams of the gain that next year's crop should bring;,1.0 +"Or at some fair, disposing of his wool,",1.0 +"Fills his skin purse with store of tempting gold,",3.0 +"Now wakes from sleep at the unwelcome call,",2.0 +And finds himself but just the same poor man,1.0 +He hears the blast against his window beat,0.0 +"And wishes to himself he were a laird,",2.0 +That he might lie abed. It may not be:,0.0 +He rubs his eyes and stretches out his arms;,1.0 +"Then, most unwillingly creeps from his lair,",2.0 +"With rueful face he blows the smothered fire,",0.0 +"First sees that all be right among his cattle,",1.0 +"Flutters round walls, and roof, to find some hole",2.0 +"Then whirling over his head, the heavy flail",2.0 +"Descends with force upon the jumping sheaves,",0.0 +While every rugged wall and neighbouring cot,2.0 +The family cares call next upon the wife,1.0 +To quit her mean but comfortable bed.,1.0 +"And first she stirs the fire and fans the flame,",0.0 +Then from her heap of sticks for winter stored,0.0 +"Thick fly the red sparks upward to the roof,",3.0 +"On goes the seething pot with morning cheer,",0.0 +"For which some little wistful folk await,",0.0 +"The cheery light that blazes on the wall,",1.0 +"Their busy mother knows not where to turn,",0.0 +Her morning's work comes now so thick upon her.,1.0 +"One she must help to tie his little coat,",1.0 +"When all is over, out to the door they run",1.0 +Each with some little project in his head.,0.0 +"In hopes to find some poor unwary bird,",0.0 +"While one, less active, with round rosy cheeks,",3.0 +"Spreads out his purple fingers to the fire,",1.0 +And peeps most wishfully into the pot.,1.0 +But let us leave the warm and cheerful house,0.0 +"To view the bleak and dreary scene without,",0.0 +And mark the dawning of a Winter day.,1.0 +"Lurid and red, while growing gradual shades",4.0 +Of pale and sickly light spread over the sky.,3.0 +Then slowly from behind the southern hills,1.0 +"Enlarged and ruddy comes the rising sun,",0.0 +Shooting askance the hoary waste his beams,2.0 +And deepen every valley with a shade.,1.0 +"The crusted window of each scattered cot,",1.0 +"The icicles that fringe the thatched roof,",2.0 +"All keenly glance, new kindled with his rays;",2.0 +And even the rugged face of scowling Winter,2.0 +Looks somewhat gay. But only for a time,3.0 +"He shows his glory to the brightening earth,",1.0 +Then hides his face behind a sullen cloud.,0.0 +"The birds now quit their holes and lurking sheds,",1.0 +"Most mute and melancholy, where through night,",0.0 +"All nestling close to keep each other warm,",0.0 +In downy sleep they had forgot their hardships;,0.0 +"But not to chant and carol in the air,",0.0 +"Or lightly swing upon some waving bough,",0.0 +And merrily return each other's notes;,1.0 +"No; silently they hop from bush to bush,",2.0 +"Can find no seeds to stop their craving want,",1.0 +"Then bend their flight to the low smoking cot,",2.0 +"Chirp on the roof, or at the window peck,",0.0 +To tell their wants to those who lodge within.,1.0 +"The poor lank hare flies homeward to his den,",3.0 +But little burdened with his nightly meal,1.0 +"A wretched scanty portion, snatched in fear;",0.0 +"And fearful creatures, forced abroad by hunger,",0.0 +Are now to every enemy a prey.,1.0 +"And to the house returns, where for him wait",2.0 +"His smoking breakfast and impatient children,",1.0 +"Who, spoon in hand, and ready to begin,",1.0 +Towards the door cast many an eager look,3.0 +"Then round they sit, a cheerful company;",1.0 +"All quickly set to work, and with heaped spoons",1.0 +The faithful dog stands by his master's side,2.0 +Wagging his tail and looking in his face;,2.0 +"While humble puss pays court to all around,",1.0 +But the laborious sit not long at table;,3.0 +The grateful father lifts his eyes to heaven,0.0 +"Him and his little ones does daily feed,",1.0 +Then rises satisfied to work again.,0.0 +The varied rousing sounds of industry,1.0 +"Who scolds to keep her maidens to their work,",1.0 +But hark! the sportsman from the neighbouring hedge,3.0 +Up from her cards or wheel the maiden starts,1.0 +"And hastens to the door; the housewife chides,",2.0 +"Yet runs herself to look, in spite of thrift,",0.0 +And all the little town is in a stir.,0.0 +"Strutting before, the cock leads forth his train,",3.0 +Reminds the farmer of his morning's service.,1.0 +His grateful master throws a liberal handful;,1.0 +"They flock about it, while the hungry sparrows,",0.0 +"Perched on the roof, look down with envious eye,",4.0 +"Then, aiming well, amid the feeders light,",0.0 +"And seize upon the feast with greedy bill,",0.0 +"But at a distance, on the leafless tree,",1.0 +"All woe-begone, the lonely blackbird sits;",0.0 +The cold north wind ruffles his glossy feathers;,6.0 +"Full oft he looks, but dare not make approach,",1.0 +Then turns his yellow beak to peck his side,0.0 +And claps his wings close to' his sharpened breast.,2.0 +"The wandering fowler from behind the hedge,",3.0 +"And firing wantonly, as at a mark,",1.0 +That oft hath echoed to his summer's song.,1.0 +Are driven from their stalls to take the air.,1.0 +How stupidly they stare! and feel how strange!,1.0 +"They open wide their smoking mouths to low,",0.0 +"But scarcely can their feeble sound be heard,",1.0 +"Then turn and lick themselves, and step by step,",0.0 +"Move, dull and heavy, to their stalls again.",2.0 +In scattered groups the little idle boys,0.0 +With purple fingers moulding in the snow,0.0 +"Their icy ammunition, pant for war;",0.0 +"And drawing up in opposite array,",2.0 +"Each tiny hero tries his growing strength,",0.0 +"After short race, shoot rapidly along,",5.0 +Trip up each other's heels and on the surface,1.0 +They cease not till the sun hath run his course,1.0 +"And threatening clouds, slow rising from the north,",2.0 +Spread leaden darkness over the face of heaven;,3.0 +"Then by degrees they scatter to their homes,",2.0 +"Some with a broken head or bloody nose,",0.0 +Cures all their troubles with a bit of bread.,1.0 +Chill blows the blast and drives the snow in wreaths;,1.0 +"Now every creature looks around for shelter,",1.0 +"And whether man or beast, all move alike",0.0 +"Towards their homes, and happy they who have",1.0 +"Lo, over the frost a reverend form advances!",3.0 +"His hair white as the snow on which he treads,",2.0 +"Whose feeble body bending over a staff,",2.0 +"Shows still that once it was the seat of strength,",2.0 +Though now it shakes like some old ruined tower.,1.0 +"Clothed indeed, but not disgraced with rags,",0.0 +He still maintains that decent dignity,1.0 +Which well becomes those who have served their country.,0.0 +With tottering steps he gains the cottage door:,2.0 +"The wife within, who hears his hollow cough,",0.0 +"The child looks up to mark the stranger's face,",2.0 +"And, seeing it enlightened with a smile,",2.0 +Holds out his tiny hand to lead him in.,0.0 +"Round from her work, the mother turns her head,",0.0 +But only asks a little to relieve,1.0 +The gentle matron brings the ready chair,0.0 +"And bids him sit to rest his weary limbs,",0.0 +And warm himself before her blazing fire.,0.0 +"The children full of curiosity,",1.0 +"Flock round, and with their fingers in their mouths",1.0 +"Stand staring at him, while the stranger, pleased,",1.0 +Takes up the youngest urchin on his knee.,1.0 +"Proud of its seat, it wags its little feet,",0.0 +But soon a change comes over the soldier's face;,3.0 +"His thoughtful mind is turned on other days,",0.0 +"When his own boys were wont to play around him,",0.0 +Who now lie distant from their native land,2.0 +In honourable but untimely graves:,3.0 +"He feels how helpless and forlorn he is,",1.0 +"And big, round tears course down his withered cheeks.",2.0 +"In comes the wearied master of the house,",1.0 +"And marks with satisfaction his old guest,",2.0 +"In the chief seat, with all the children round him.",2.0 +"His honest heart is filled with manly kindness,",0.0 +"He bids him stay and share their homely meal,",0.0 +And take with them his quarters for the night.,2.0 +"The aged wanderer thankfully accepts,",3.0 +"And by the simple hospitable board,",6.0 +"When all are satisfied, about the fire",0.0 +They draw their seats and form a cheerful ring.,0.0 +The thrifty housewife turns her spinning wheel;,1.0 +"The husband, useful even in his hour",0.0 +"Or plaits stored rushes, which with after skill",1.0 +"Into a basket formed may do good service,",0.0 +With eggs or butter filled at fair or market.,0.0 +"Some idle neighbours now come dropping in,",4.0 +Draw round their chairs and widen out the circle;,1.0 +"And every one in his own native way,",1.0 +Does what he can to cheer the social group.,1.0 +"Each tells some little storey of himself,",1.0 +That constant subject upon which mankind,3.0 +"Whether in court or country, love to dwell.",2.0 +"How, at a fair, he saved a simple clown",0.0 +From being tricked in buying of a cow;,1.0 +Or laid a bet on his own horse's head,1.0 +"Against his neighbour's bought at twice his price,",3.0 +Which failed not to repay his better skill;,1.0 +Or on a harvest day bound in an hour,2.0 +"More sheaves of corn than any of his fellows,",1.0 +"Though ever so stark, could do in twice the time;",2.0 +"And first kiss of the bonny bride, though all",2.0 +"But chiefly the good man, by his own fire,",2.0 +"Hath privilege of being listened to,",2.0 +Nor dare a little prattling tongue presume,0.0 +"Though but in play, to break upon his storey.",1.0 +The children sit and listen with the rest;,1.0 +"The careful mother, ever on the watch,",1.0 +"And ever pleased with what her husband says,",0.0 +"Gives it a gentle tap upon the fingers,",0.0 +"His tale of war and blood. They gaze upon him,",0.0 +And almost weep to see the man so poor,1.0 +"So bent and feeble, helpless and forlorn,",1.0 +Who has undaunted stood the battle's brunt,0.0 +"While roaring cannons shook the quaking earth,",0.0 +"Thus passes quickly on the evening hour,",2.0 +"Till sober folks must needs retire to rest,",0.0 +"Then all break up, and, by their several paths,",1.0 +"High homeward, with the evening pastime cheered",3.0 +"From city theatre's gay scenic show,",2.0 +Or crowded ball-room's splendid moving maze.,1.0 +"But where the song and storey, joke and gibe",0.0 +"So lately circled, what a solemn change",0.0 +"The sound of psalms, by mingled voices raised",0.0 +"A pleasing notice gives that, those whose sires",1.0 +"In former days on the bare mountain's side,",2.0 +"At peril of their lives, in their own form",2.0 +In peace and safety in their own quiet home,0.0 +Are ' -- as in quaint and modest phrase is termed,1.0 +"But long accustomed to observe the weather,",1.0 +The farmer cannot lay him down in peace,1.0 +Till he has looked to mark what bodes the night.,1.0 +"He lifts the latch, and moves the heavy door,",0.0 +"Sees wreaths of snow heaped up on every side,",3.0 +And black and dismal all above his head.,0.0 +"Anon the norther blast begins to rise,",0.0 +"He hears its hollow growling from afar,",1.0 +"Which, gathering strength, rolls on with doubled might",2.0 +And raves and bellows over his head. The trees,2.0 +"And, thankful for the roof that covers him,",2.0 +"Thy long and ample deck, ' -- where scattered lie,",0.0 +"Where dogs and children through the crowd are straying,",1.0 +"And on his bench apart the fiddler playing,",1.0 +"Seems, on the glassy waves, a floating fair.",0.0 +Towers from this clustering group thy pillared mast;,3.0 +"The dense smoke, issuing from its narrow vent,",2.0 +"Is to the air in curly volumes sent,",1.0 +"Trails, like a writhing serpent, far behind.",0.0 +"Beneath, as each merged wheel its motion plies,",1.0 +"And newly parted from the noisy fray,",1.0 +"Then far diverged, in many a lustrous line",2.0 +Still does thy careless helmsman onward steer;,1.0 +As if the stroke of some magician's wand,1.0 +Had lent thee power the ocean to command.,3.0 +"What is this power which thus within thee lurks,",2.0 +"And all unseen, like a masked giant works?",2.0 +"Even that which gentle dames at morning tea,",0.0 +"From silver urn ascending, daily see",0.0 +With the soft fragrance of an infant's breath:,3.0 +That which within the peasant's humble cot,0.0 +Which cur and cat and rosy urchins share;,0.0 +"What time, with bellowing din, exploded forth,",2.0 +"It decks the midnight of the frozen north,",2.0 +To gaze upon the sight with wondering eyes.,2.0 +Thou hast to those in populous city penned,3.0 +"A bright remembrance never to be destroyed,",2.0 +"That proves to them a treasure long enjoyed,",1.0 +I fain would hail thee with a grateful mind.,1.0 +"Now, seated at their ease, may glide along,",1.0 +"At their own beauty in the neither deep,",0.0 +Over drooping birch and rowen red that lave,0.0 +Their fragrant branches in the glassy wave:,0.0 +They who on higher objects scarce have counted,0.0 +"May view within their near, distinctive ken",0.0 +The rocky summits of the lofty Ben;,1.0 +Or see his purple shoulders darkly lower,0.0 +Through the dim drapery of a summer shower.,3.0 +"Where, spread in broad and fair expanse, the Clyde",0.0 +"Or from his cupboard chased a hungry rat,",1.0 +Or valiantly with fearful threatening shakes,1.0 +"The eyes that have no fairer outline seen,",2.0 +"Than chimney walls with slated roofs between,",0.0 +"Which hard and harshly edge the smoky sky,",0.0 +"Over which the cloud's broad shadow swiftly glides,",1.0 +Into the pearly missed of ocean's verge.,0.0 +"Eyes which admired that work of sordid skill,",1.0 +"The storied structure of a cotton mill,",1.0 +"Of marshaled pillars on fair Ireland's coast,",2.0 +"Or broken ranks that to the main descend,",1.0 +"Like Pharaoh's army on the Red Sea shore,",2.0 +"Who deep and deeper sunk, to rise no more.",1.0 +"Rover at will on river, lake, and sea,",0.0 +"Offspring of Watt, that philosophic sage,",1.0 +Who in the heraldry of science ranks,1.0 +"For genius usefully employed, whose fame",1.0 +"Dearer to fancy, to the eye more fair",1.0 +"Are the light skiffs, that to the breezy air",1.0 +Unfurl their swelling sails of snowy hue,0.0 +Upon the moving lap of ocean blue:,0.0 +"As the proud swan on summer lake displays,",2.0 +"With plumage brightening in the morning rays,",0.0 +"Her fair pavilion of erected wings,",1.0 +They change and veer and turn like living things.,0.0 +"With ample store of shrouding, sails and mast",0.0 +To brave with manly skill the winter blast,0.0 +"Did great Columbus cross the western seas,",0.0 +What yet the course of ages had concealed:,0.0 +"In such as these, on high adventure bent",1.0 +To such as these are hardy seamen found,1.0 +"As with the ties of kindred feeling bound,",1.0 +"Boasting, while cans of cheering grog they sip,",2.0 +The varied fortunes of our gallant ship:,1.0 +Ere yet the reign of lettered lore began.,0.0 +"In very truth, compared to these, thou art",1.0 +"In working weeds arrayed of homely grey,",0.0 +"Opposed to gentle nymph or lady gay,",0.0 +To whose free robes the graceful right is given,1.0 +To play and dally with the winds of heaven.,1.0 +"Beholding thee, the great of other days",1.0 +"And modern men with all their altered ways,",0.0 +"Across my mind with hasty transit gleam,",0.0 +Like fleeting shadows of a feverish dream:,4.0 +"Half sad, half proud, half angry, and half pleased.",7.0 +HOw well these frozen Floods now Represent,1.0 +"Though Hurricanes should rage, they could not now",0.0 +So much as curl the solid Water's Brow;,0.0 +Proud Fleets whose stubborn Cables scarce withstood,1.0 +"The impetuous shock of the Unstable Flood,",2.0 +In watery Ligaments are now restrained,3.0 +More strict than when in binding OH oz detained.,3.0 +"But though their Services at present fail,",2.0 +Our selves without the aid of Tide or Gale,0.0 +"From every creek to every point we Rove,",0.0 +"Than Fish beneath us, or than Fowl above.",1.0 +"Might I enquire the Reasons of my Fate,",4.0 +"Did I, in prosperous Days, despise the Poor,",2.0 +Was not my Soul poured out for the Distressed?,3.0 +Did I not vindicate the Poor oppressed?,1.0 +Did not the Orphan's Cry with me prevail?,1.0 +Did I not weep the Woes I could not heal?,0.0 +Why do I feel the Oppressor's Iron Rod?,5.0 +"OH Thou, whose Mercy does to All extend,",0.0 +"Say, shall my Sorrows never, never, end?",0.0 +"Let not my Tears for ever, fruitless, flow;",0.0 +"Commiserate a Wretch, overwhelmed with Woe;",3.0 +No longer let Distress my Bosom tear:,1.0 +OH shield me from the Horrors of Despair!,3.0 +"Forgive me, Madam, that I thus impart",0.0 +"Oft, when my wearied Eyes can weep no more,",1.0 +And view with Joy those Pictures of your Mind;,1.0 +"With Pleasure on the loved Resemblance gaze,",1.0 +With transient Images of past Delight;,1.0 +"Delightful Forms! why will you fleet away,",1.0 +And leave me to the Terrors of the Day?,2.0 +In vain from Reason I expect Relief;,1.0 +For sad Reflection doubles every Grief.,0.0 +Some of my Friends in Death's cold Arms I see;,1.0 +"Others, though, living, yet are dead to me?",2.0 +"Of Friends, and Children both, I am bereft,",1.0 +And soon must lose the only Blessing left;,0.0 +"A Husband formed for Tenderness and Truth,",1.0 +"The loved, the kind Companion of my Youth;",1.0 +"With him, through various Storms of Fate I passed;",3.0 +Relentless Fate! ' -- And must we part at last?,0.0 +"OH King of Terrors, I invoke thy Power;",2.0 +O! stand between me and that dreadful Hour;,1.0 +O! shield me from it! ' -- Hide me in the Grave!,1.0 +"FEW people know it, yet, dear sir, it's true,",1.0 +Man should have somewhat evermore to do.,1.0 +"But surely better such by far, than none;",1.0 +"The perfect drone, the quite impertinent,",2.0 +"Whose life at nothing aims, but ' -- to be spent;",1.0 +Such heaven visits for some mighty ill:,1.0 +"It's sure the hardest labour, to sit still.",2.0 +"Who sin, for want of something else to do.",0.0 +"And to be blessed indeed, needs only move.",2.0 +"For want of this, with pain he lives away,",1.0 +Dull till his double bottle does him right:,0.0 +While spleen and headache seize on all the rest.,1.0 +Racking their brains with visionary ills.,2.0 +What endless quarrels at the present age!,0.0 +"How many blame! how often may we hear,",1.0 +"Such vice! ' -- well, sure, the last day must be near!",2.0 +"TO avoid such wild, imaginary pains,",1.0 +"Dispatch, dear friend! move, labour, sweat, run, fly!",3.0 +Do aught ' -- but think the day of judgement nigh.,0.0 +With them no earthly thing is ever right.,2.0 +"TO expect to alter to their taste, were vain;",2.0 +"For who can mend so fast, as they complain?",1.0 +"Whatever you do, shall be a crime with such;",2.0 +"As hedgehogs prick you, go which side you will.",1.0 +O! pity these whenever you see them swell!,3.0 +Folks call them cross ' -- poor men! they are not well.,3.0 +"Like wines that die, unless upon the fret.",0.0 +"The fellow's nothing in the earth to do,",0.0 +But to sit quit and be scolded to.,3.0 +All largely on the scapegoat slave are poured.,2.0 +"This drains his rage; and though to John so rough,",1.0 +"As for myself, whom poverty prevents",3.0 +From being angry at so great expense;,0.0 +"Who, should I ever be inclined to rage,",0.0 +"For want of slaves, war with myself must wage;",3.0 +"Must rail, and hear; chastising, be chastised:",0.0 +"I choose to labour, rather than to fret:",1.0 +"What's rage in some, in me goes off in sweat.",0.0 +"If times are ill, and things seem never worse;",1.0 +"Men, manners to reclaim, ' -- I take my horse.",2.0 +"One mile reforms them, or if aught remain",1.0 +Thus on myself in toils I spend my rage:,3.0 +I pay the fine; and that absolves the age.,0.0 +"Sometime, still more to interrupt my ease,",1.0 +"I take my pen, and write ' -- such things as these:",0.0 +"Which though all other merit be denied,",0.0 +Show my devotion still to be employed.,2.0 +"Add too, though writing be itself a curse,",1.0 +"Since who do nothing else, are sure to rail;",0.0 +"Man should be suffered thus to play the fool,",0.0 +"To keep from hurt, as children go to school.",0.0 +You should not rhyme in spite of nature? ' -- True;,0.0 +"Yet sure it's greater trouble, if you do;",1.0 +"Who writes the hardest, writes with most success.",0.0 +"Thus for myself, and friends, I do my part;",3.0 +Promoting doubly the painstaking art:,2.0 +"First to myself, it's labour to compose;",4.0 +"To read such lines, is drudgery to those.",1.0 +STAY YOUR RUDE STEPS! whose throbbing breasts enfold,3.0 +For you no Nymphs their sparkling vases pour;,2.0 +"Unmarked by you, light Graces swim the green,",2.0 +"And hovering Cupids aim their shafts, unseen.",0.0 +Of Taste and Virtue lights with purer day;,0.0 +Whose finer sense each soft vibration owns,0.0 +With sweet responsive sympathy of tones;,1.0 +"To meet the sun, and shuts it to the storm; ' --",1.0 +"My fountains murmur, and my zephyrs breathe;",1.0 +"Slow slides the painted snail, the gilded fly",1.0 +"Smooths his fine down, to charm thy curious eye;",2.0 +"On twinkling fins my pearly nations play,",0.0 +"To Love's sweet notes attune the listening dell,",1.0 +"And, if with Thee some hapless Maid should stray,",1.0 +"O, lead her timid steps to yonder glade,",0.0 +"There, as meek Evening wakes her temperate breeze,",2.0 +"And moon-beams glimmer through the trembling trees,",2.0 +The weeping rocks shall number tear for tear;,0.0 +Sings to the Night from her accustomed thorn;,1.0 +While at sweet intervals each falling note,2.0 +"Winds of the North! restrain your icy gales,",0.0 +Nor chill the bosom of these happy vales!,1.0 +"Hence in dark heaps, you gathering Clouds, revolve!",5.0 +"Disperse, you Lightnings! and, you Mists, dissolve!",1.0 +"' -- Hither, emerging from you orient skies,",2.0 +BOTANIC GODDESS! bend thy radiant eyes;,0.0 +"Over these soft scenes assume thy gentle reign,",2.0 +"Pomona, Crees, Flora in thy train;",3.0 +And with thy silver sandals print the dews;,1.0 +And wave thy emerald banner stared with gold.,0.0 +"Thus spoke the GENIUS, as He stepped along,",2.0 +And bade these lawns to Peace and Truth belong;,0.0 +Down the steep slopes He led with modest skill,2.0 +"The willing pathway, and the truant rill,",2.0 +"Stretched over the marshy vale yonder willowy mound,",8.0 +"Where shines the lake amid the tufted ground,",0.0 +"Raised the young woodland, smoothed the wavy green,",3.0 +And gave to Beauty all the quiet scene. ' --,0.0 +"She comes! ' -- the GODDESS! ' -- through the whispering air,",3.0 +"Bright as the morn, descends her blushing car;",0.0 +"The golden bits with flowery studs are decked,",2.0 +And knots of flowers the crimson reins connect. ' --,2.0 +"And now on earth the silver axle rings,",0.0 +And the shell sinks upon its slender springs;,2.0 +"Light from her airy seat the Goddess bounds,",0.0 +"Fair Spring advancing calls her feathered quire,",0.0 +And tunes to softer notes her laughing lyre;,0.0 +"And arms her Zephyrs with the shafts of Love,",1.0 +"Play round her graceful footsteps, as she treads;",2.0 +"On winnowing wings, and waft her golden hair;",2.0 +"Blue NYMPHS emerging leave their sparkling streams,",1.0 +And FIERY FORMS alight from orient beams;,3.0 +"First the fine Forms her dulcet voice requires,",3.0 +Which bathe or bask in elemental fires;,0.0 +"From the pale sphere of every twinkling star,",2.0 +"From each nice poor of ocean, earth, and air,",1.0 +"With eye of flame the sparkling hosts repair,",0.0 +"Like motes, that tenant the meridian ray. ' --",3.0 +So the clear Lens collects with magic power,2.0 +The countless glories of the midnight hour;,2.0 +"Stars after stars with quivering lustre fall,",3.0 +"Pleased, as they pass, she counts the glittering bands,",2.0 +And stills their murmur with her waving hands;,1.0 +"And now to these, and now to those, she turns.",2.0 +"Pierced with your silver shafts the throne of Night,",0.0 +And charmed young Nature's opening eyes with light;,3.0 +Called from the rude abyss the living world.,0.0 +"' -- LET THERE BE LIGHT! proclaimed the ALMIGHTY LORD,",2.0 +Astonished Chaos heard the potent word; ' --,0.0 +And the mass starts into a million suns;,2.0 +"Earth's round each sun with quick explosions burst,",0.0 +And second planets issue from the first;,1.0 +"Bend, as they journey with projectile force,",1.0 +"' -- Onward they move amid their bright abode,",2.0 +"Space without bound, THE BOSOM OF THEIR GOD!",4.0 +To brighter regions born on broader wing;,0.0 +Form the vast concave of exterior sky;,4.0 +"With airy lens the scattered rays assault,",0.0 +The rapid Fireball through the midnight air;,1.0 +"Dart from the North on pale electric streams,",0.0 +"' -- OR rein the Planets in their swift careers,",0.0 +Gilding with borrowed light their twinkling spheres;,3.0 +The won stars glimmering through its silver train;,2.0 +"Gem the bright Zodiac, stud the glowing pole,",6.0 +Reluctant fires in dread suspension sleep;,0.0 +And glad with genial warmth the incumbent land.,2.0 +"With curious bill, and feeds her callow brood;",2.0 +"Warmth from her tender heart eternal springs,",0.0 +"Over shining oceans ray volcanic light,",0.0 +And Beauty beams amid tremendous fire.,0.0 +"Descending VENUS sought the dark abode,",0.0 +"With jointed mail their fairy limbs overwhelm,",3.0 +"With radiant eye She viewed the boiling over,",0.0 +"Admired their sinewy arms, and shoulders bare,",2.0 +"And ponderous hammers lifted high in air,",2.0 +"With smiles celestial blessed their dazzled sight,",0.0 +And Beauty blazed amid infernal night.,0.0 +"On Earth's cold bosom, as the Sun retires,",2.0 +Confine with folds of air the lingering fires;,0.0 +"So, warmed and kindled by meridian skies,",3.0 +"And viewed in darkness with dilated eyes,",1.0 +"' -- Touched by his orient beam, responsive rings",3.0 +"The living lyre, and vibrates all it's strings;",0.0 +And holy echoes swell the adoring song.,2.0 +Which dance and glimmer over the marshy mead;,2.0 +And tip with silver all her saffron flowers;,0.0 +"From leaf to leaf conduct the virgin light,",0.0 +"Star of the earth, and diamond of the night.",1.0 +"You bid in air the tropic Beetle burn,",0.0 +"Round the bright oar, the kindling prow alarm;",3.0 +"Or arm in waves, electric in his ire,",0.0 +"Onward his course with waving tail he helms,",2.0 +"Vindictive leaves the argent fields above,",0.0 +And charmed the Savage from his native wood;,1.0 +"You, while amazed his hurrying Hordes retire",2.0 +"Taught, the first Art! with piny rods to raise",0.0 +"By quick attrition the domestic blaze,",1.0 +"Fan with soft breath, with kindling leaves provide,",3.0 +And list the dread Destroyer on his side.,1.0 +"Hissed the dread snakes, and flamed in burnished gold;",3.0 +"Flashed on her brandished arm the immortal shield,",2.0 +And Terror lightened over the dazzled field.,2.0 +And give new wonders to the Chemist's hand;,2.0 +"On tepid clouds of rising steam aspire,",0.0 +"With boundless spring elastic airs unfold,",0.0 +By fierce collision from the flint and steel;,1.0 +So the chaste heart of some enchanted Maid,2.0 +"Shines with insidious light, by Love betrayed;",4.0 +"Round her pale bosom plays the young Desire,",2.0 +"Metallic veins, and part the dross from over;",0.0 +With sylvan coal in whirling mills combine,0.0 +"Through wiry nets the black diffusion strain,",0.0 +"Lit by the brilliant spark, from grain to grain",0.0 +Runs the quick fire along the kindling train;,3.0 +"Starts the red flame, and Death pursues the flash. ' --",3.0 +"Fear's feeble hand directs the fiery darts,",3.0 +"Guilt with pale brow the mimic thunder owns,",3.0 +Bade round the youth explosive STEAM aspire,0.0 +"In gathering clouds, and winged the wave with fire;",2.0 +"Bade with cold streams the quick expansion stop,",3.0 +Pressed by the ponderous air the Piston falls,2.0 +"Wields his large limbs, and nodding shakes the earth.",3.0 +Lifts with strong arm her dark reluctant waves;,3.0 +"Drags her dark coals, and digs her shining oars. ' --",3.0 +"Next, in close cells of ribbed oak confined,",3.0 +"Gale after gale, He crowds the struggling wind;",1.0 +"The imprisoned storms through brazen nostrils roar,",1.0 +"Fan the white flame, and fuse the sparkling over.",3.0 +Here high in air the rising stream He pours,0.0 +There the vast millstone with inebriate whirl,4.0 +On trembling floors his forceful fingers twirl.,0.0 +"Whose flinty teeth the golden harvests grind,",0.0 +"The lengthening bars, in thin expansion squeeze;",2.0 +"The tawny plates, the new medallions round;",0.0 +"The Harp, the Lily and the Lion join,",1.0 +And GEORGE and BRITAIN guard the sterling coin.,0.0 +"Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;",3.0 +"' -- Fair crews triumphant, leaning from above,",2.0 +Shall wave their fluttering kerchiefs as they move;,3.0 +And armies shrink beneath the shadowy cloud.,2.0 +"Waved his vast mace in Virtue's cause sublime,",3.0 +"Awed, served, protected, and amazed mankind. ' --",3.0 +Climbed round the cradle of the sleeping God;,1.0 +"And shrieks of fair attendants trembling round,",0.0 +Next in red torrents from her sevenfold heads,3.0 +And drags the roaring River to his course;,1.0 +Binds with loud bellowing and with hideous yell,6.0 +"The monster Bull, and threefold Dog of Hell.",1.0 +And tears his gaping jaws with sinewy arms;,2.0 +And with strong grasp the struggling Giant strains;,2.0 +"Back falls his fainting head, and clammy hair,",1.0 +"Where breathing flames through brazen lips he fled,",0.0 +"Last with wide arms the solid earth He tears,",3.0 +"Piles rock on rock, on mountain mountain rears;",1.0 +"Crests with opposing towers the splendid scene,",4.0 +And Etna thunders over the insurgent waves.,1.0 +"From the warm cushion, and the whirling glass;",3.0 +"Beard the bright cylinder with golden wire,",4.0 +"So, born on brazen talons, watched of old",0.0 +The sleepless dragon over his fruits of gold;,2.0 +"Bright beamed his scales, his eyeballs blazed with ire,",2.0 +And his wide nostrils breathed enchanted fire.,2.0 +"Approach attracted, and recede repelled;",1.0 +"OR, if on wax some fearless Beauty stand,",1.0 +And touch the sparkling rod with graceful hand;,0.0 +"Through her fine limbs the mimic lightnings dart,",2.0 +And flames innocuous eddy round her heart;,2.0 +Blue rays diverging from her bristling hair;,2.0 +While some fond Youth the kiss ethereal sips.,3.0 +And soft fires issue from their meeting lips.,2.0 +So round the virgin Saint in silver streams,0.0 +"You crowd in coated jars the denser fire,",0.0 +"Pierce the thin glass, and fuse the blazing wire;",3.0 +Or dart the red flash through the circling band,2.0 +"Of dancing arteries, and of tingling veins,",1.0 +And Life clings trembling on her tottering throne. ' --,4.0 +"So from dark clouds the playful lightning springs,",2.0 +"Celestial tears, and breathed ethereal sighs!",2.0 +"Flash follows flash, the warning corks recede;",1.0 +Near and more near He eyed with fond amaze,0.0 +"Then burst the steel, the dart electric sped,",0.0 +And the bold Sage lay numbered with the dead! ' --,5.0 +NYMPHS! on that day YOU shed from lucid eyes,0.0 +"Bade his bold arm invade the lowering sky,",5.0 +"And seize the tiptoe lightnings, ere they fly;",1.0 +"Over the young Sage your mystic mantle spread,",2.0 +"Quick over his knee the triple bolt He bent,",3.0 +"Snapped with illumined hands each flaming shaft,",2.0 +"His tingling fingers shook, and stamped, and laughed;",0.0 +"Bright over the floor the scattered fragments blazed,",3.0 +And Gods retreating trembled as they gazed;,1.0 +"The immortal Sire, indulgent to his child,",4.0 +"Bowed his ambrosial locks, and Heaven relenting smiled.",2.0 +"And with phosphoric Acid dies the blood,",2.0 +And lead the soft combustion round the heart;,0.0 +"Life's holy lamp with fires successive feed,",1.0 +"From the crowned forehead to the prostrate weed,",3.0 +From Earth's proud realms to all that swim or sweep,1.0 +The yielding either or tumultuous deep.,4.0 +"You swell the bulb beneath the heaving lawn,",0.0 +"Brood the live seed, unfold the bursting spawn;",3.0 +"Nurse with soft lap, and warm with fragrant breath",3.0 +"Youth's vivid eye with living light adorn,",1.0 +"Burst, and disclosed the cradle of the world;",3.0 +"IMMORTAL LOVE, his bow celestial strung; ' --",0.0 +"Over the wide waste his gaudy wings unfold,",2.0 +"Beam his soft smiles, and wave his curls of gold; ' --",3.0 +"With silver darts He pierced the kindling frame,",0.0 +"And, while tumultuous joy her bosom warms,",3.0 +"Waves her white hand, and calls her hosts to arms,",3.0 +"Unite, ILLUSTRIOUS NYMPHS! your radiant powers,",3.0 +Call from their long repose the VERNAL HOURS.,0.0 +"Chafe his won cheeks, his ruffled plumes repair,",3.0 +And wring the rain-drops from his tangled hair.,2.0 +"Blaze round each frosted rill, or stagnant wave,",0.0 +"Break his white towers, and pierce his crystal mail;",5.0 +And chain him howling to the Northern Bear.,1.0 +From the pale regions of the icy North;,3.0 +"Waves his broad tail, and opens his ribbed mouth,",5.0 +And seeks on winnowing fin the breezy South;,3.0 +"From towns deserted rush the breathless hosts,",0.0 +"Swarm round the hills, and darken all the coasts;",0.0 +"Boats follow boats along the shouting tides,",1.0 +"Now the bold Sailor, raised on pointed toe,",3.0 +"The bloodstained surges circling over his head,",3.0 +And bears the iron tempest on his back.,1.0 +"X On wings of flame, ETHEREAL VIRGINS! sweep",2.0 +"Over Earth's fair bosom, and complacent deep;",2.0 +"Thaw the thick blood, which lingers in its veins;",3.0 +"Melt with warm breath the fragrant gums, that bind",3.0 +"And as in air the laughing leaflets play,",1.0 +"NYMPHS! with sweet smile each opening flower invite,",7.0 +And on its damask eyelids pour the light.,2.0 +"So shall my pines, Canadian wilds that shade,",2.0 +"Where no bold step has pierced the tangled glade,",1.0 +"With shadowy isles and continents of wood,",3.0 +"Or bear her thunders over the conquered main,",2.0 +"Shout, as you pass, inhale the genial skies,",0.0 +Shake from their candied trunks the tinkling rhyme;,0.0 +"With bursting buds their wrinkled barks adorn,",0.0 +"Deep strike their roots, their lengthening tops revive,",3.0 +"And all my world of foliage wave, alive.",0.0 +"Marks with quick pen, in lines unseen portrayed,",3.0 +And all the future Group exists concealed;,0.0 +"Hills vales and woods in bright succession rise,",1.0 +And all the living landscape charms his eyes.,1.0 +And with his kindling tresses scorch the air;,1.0 +"With points of flame the shafts of Summer arm,",0.0 +And burn the beauties he designs to warm; ' --,1.0 +And clad in glory to the Fair returned;,1.0 +And resting lightnings gild the car of Night;,0.0 +"His blazing form the dazzled Maid admired,",0.0 +"Met with fond lips, and in his arms expired; ' --",2.0 +"Leave on your left the red volcanic light,",0.0 +"Her golden chair, and gems her sapphire zone;",2.0 +Where with vast convolution DRACO holds,2.0 +"Over half the skies his neck enormous rears,",0.0 +And with immense meanders parts the BEARS;,1.0 +"Onward, the kindred BEARS with footstep rude",3.0 +"Dance round the Pole, pursuing and pursued.",1.0 +"There in her azure coif and starry stole,",0.0 +"Grey TWILIGHT sits, and rules the slumbering Pole;",4.0 +"Bends the pale moon-beams round the sparkling coast,",1.0 +"There, NYMPHS! alight, array your dazzling powers,",0.0 +With sudden march alarm the torpid Hours;,0.0 +"Hinge the strong helms, and catch the frozen gales;",3.0 +"The winged rocks to feverish climates guide,",4.0 +Where fainting Zephyrs pant upon the tide;,0.0 +And answering echoes shake the kindred shores;,2.0 +And in her silver girdle binds her isles;,0.0 +"A thousand kingdoms with prolific waves,",1.0 +"In steamy channels to the fervid main,",1.0 +"While swarthy nations crowd the sultry coast,",0.0 +"Drink the fresh breeze, and hail the floating Frost,",3.0 +"NYMPHS! veiled in missed, the melting treasures steer,",1.0 +And cool with arctic snows the tropic year.,0.0 +So from the burning Line by Monsoons driven,6.0 +Clouds sail in squadrons over the darkened heaven;,3.0 +And ocean cools beneath the moving shade.,0.0 +"Kneel with parched lip, and bending from it's brink",4.0 +From dripping palm the scanty river drink;,0.0 +And high in air the electric flame collect.,2.0 +"The blazing day, and sail in wilds of cloud;",0.0 +"Each silvery Flower the streams aerial quaff,",6.0 +"Bow her sweet head, and infant Harvest laugh.",3.0 +"Rolled his red eyes amid the scorching air,",3.0 +And slaughtered offerings pressed the piles of wood;,0.0 +And famished armies crowd the dusty ground;,0.0 +And withered famine swept the desert earth. ' --,0.0 +Who calls thy name in agony of prayer;,1.0 +Lo! I alone survive of all thy train! ' --,2.0 +"O send from heaven thy sacred fire, ' -- and pour",0.0 +"Over the parched land the salutary shower, ' --",2.0 +"So shall thy Priest thy erring flock recall, ' --",0.0 +"And speak in thunder, THOU ART LORD OF ALL. ' --",1.0 +"Fire the wet wood, the sacred bull consume;",3.0 +"Winged from the sea the gathering mists arise,",2.0 +And floating waters darken all the skies;,0.0 +"The King with shifted reins his chariot bends,",2.0 +And wide over earth the airy flood descends;,2.0 +"With mingling cries dispersing hosts applaud,",0.0 +And shouting nations own THE LIVING GOD.,0.0 +"The GODDESS ceased, ' -- the exulting tribes obey,",2.0 +"Start from the soil, and win their airy way;",0.0 +The vaulted skies with streams of transient rays,0.0 +"Shine, as they pass, and earth and ocean blaze.",0.0 +"So from fierce wars when lawless Monarch's cease,",3.0 +"Red rockets rise, loud cracks are heard on high,",2.0 +"And showers of stars rush headlong from the sky,",3.0 +"Burst, as in silver lines they hiss along,",0.0 +And the quick flash unfolds the gazing throng.,2.0 +AND NOW THE GODDESS with attention sweet,1.0 +"Turns to the GNOMES, that circle round her feet;",0.0 +"Orb within orb approach the marshaled trains,",3.0 +And pigmy legions darken all the plains;,0.0 +"Thrice shout with silver tones the applauding bands,",3.0 +"Bow, ere She speaks, and clap their fairy hands.",1.0 +Bends it's green blades in undulating rows;,3.0 +And rustling harvests bow their golden heads.,0.0 +"I GNOMES! YOUR bright forms, presiding at her birth,",3.0 +Clung in fond squadrons round the newborn EARTH;,2.0 +"When high in either, with explosion dire,",1.0 +"The whirling Sun this ponderous planet hurled,",2.0 +And gave the astonished void another world.,2.0 +Descending torrents into oceans rolled;,0.0 +And fierce attraction with relentless force,1.0 +Bent the reluctant wanderer to it's course.,3.0 +"The Spring's fair forehead, and with golden horns;",2.0 +"Where yet the Lion climbs the ethereal plain,",4.0 +And shakes the Summer from his radiant mane;,1.0 +"Where Libra lifts her airy arm, and weighs,",0.0 +"Poised in her silver balance, nights and days;",0.0 +"YOUR ardent troops pursued the flying sphere,",0.0 +Circling the starry girdle of the year;,2.0 +"And decked her shores with corals, pearls, and shells.",0.0 +"Sweet breathed the zephyrs, just perceived and lost;",1.0 +"Round the bright zodiac danced the vernal hours,",5.0 +"And Peace, the Cherub, dwelled in mortal bowers!",0.0 +"Charmed the blue sisterhood with playful wiles,",4.0 +Bright rose the Goddess like the Star of morn;,1.0 +"When with soft fires the milky dawn He leads,",3.0 +And wakes to life and love the laughing meads; ' --,0.0 +"Round her fair brow, her golden locks she wrung;",3.0 +"Over the smooth surge on silver sandals stood,",2.0 +And looked enchantment on the dazzled flood. ' --,1.0 +"The bright drops, rolling from her lifted arms,",2.0 +"In slow meanders wander over her charms,",2.0 +"Seek round her snowy neck their lucid track,",0.0 +"Pearl her white shoulders, gem her ivory back,",3.0 +"Round her fine waist and swelling bosom swim,",3.0 +And star with glittering brine each crystal limb. ' --,2.0 +"At Earth's firm centre, and distend her shell,",2.0 +"Saw at each opening cleft the furnace glow,",2.0 +And seas rush headlong on the gulfs below. ' --,3.0 +GNOMES! how you shrieked! when through the troubled air,1.0 +Roared the fierce din of elemental war;,3.0 +"When rose the continents, and sunk the main,",1.0 +And Earth's huge sphere exploding burst in twain. ' --,1.0 +"Dimpled with vales, with shining hills embossed,",2.0 +GNOMES! how you trembled! with the dreadful force,1.0 +"When, as her Line in slower circles spun,",0.0 +"And her shocked axis nodded from the sun,",3.0 +With dreadful march the accumulated main,2.0 +"Swept her vast wrecks of mountain, vale, and plain;",3.0 +"And, while new tides their shouting floods unite,",2.0 +"And hail their Queen, fair Regent of the night;",2.0 +"Chained to one centre whirled the kindred spheres,",0.0 +And marked with lunar cycles solar years.,0.0 +"From the loose summits of each shattered hill,",3.0 +And fill with liquid chalk the mass below.,0.0 +"His languid limbs, and rests a thousand years;",0.0 +"With careless grace, and unaffected ease;",0.0 +"Onward with loftier step APOLLO spring,",4.0 +"Wave her triumphant wings, and conquer Time;",2.0 +"With grace delight us, and with beauty warm;",1.0 +Age after age; and with filtration fine,2.0 +"Oft in wide lakes, around their warmer brim",3.0 +In hollow pyramids the crystals swim;,1.0 +"Shoot their white forms, and harden into rocks.",3.0 +With crystal walls a gorgeous city shines;,0.0 +"Their hoary course, and glittering domes ascend;",2.0 +"Impetuous fountains burst their headlong way,",1.0 +"The pale lamp glimmering through the sculptured ice,",2.0 +"With wild reverted eyes fair LOTTA stands,",1.0 +"And spreads to Heaven, in vain, her glassy hands;",0.0 +"Cold dews condense upon her pearly breast,",1.0 +And the big tear rolls lucid down her vest.,5.0 +"Rear their white towers, and wave their golden vanes;",5.0 +And the bright vault returns the mingled blaze.,2.0 +"And with prismatic crystals gems the earth,",1.0 +"And veils in crimson clouds the yielding Fair,",0.0 +"Indignant Fire the treacherous courtship flies,",3.0 +"Waves his light wing, and mingles with the skies.",4.0 +"Left, on her silver wheels, the GOD of Fire;",0.0 +"Met with fond lips, with wanton arms entwined.",3.0 +"' -- Indignant VULCAN eyed the parting Fair,",0.0 +And watched with jealous step the guilty pair;,0.0 +"Over his broad neck a wiry net he flung,",2.0 +"Quick as he strode, the tinkling meshes rung;",0.0 +The immortal toil to lime illicit love;,1.0 +"Steel were the knots, and steel the twisted thong,",0.0 +"He hung, unseen, the inextricable woof. ' --",2.0 +And lock the embracing Lovers on their bed;,3.0 +"Fierce with loud taunts vindictive VULCAN springs,",3.0 +"Tries all the bolts, and tightens all the strings,",0.0 +"Claps his rude hands, and calls the festive Gods. ' --",3.0 +' -- With spreading palms the alarmed Goddess tries,5.0 +"To veil her beauties from celestial eyes,",1.0 +And bids her Loves untie the obdurate chains;,0.0 +"Soft swells her panting bosom, as she turns,",2.0 +And her flushed cheek with brighter blushes burns.,2.0 +Attendant Nymphs with bashful eyes askance,0.0 +Steal of entangled MARS a transient glance;,2.0 +"Surrounding Gods the circling nectar quaff,",0.0 +"Gaze on the Fair, and envy as they laugh.",1.0 +"Till with wide lungs the panting bellows blow,",2.0 +"Strokes follow strokes, the sparkling ingot shines,",1.0 +"Flows the red slag, the lengthening bar refines;",5.0 +"Cold waves, immersed, the glowing mass congeal,",1.0 +The polished rods with powers magnetic arm;,2.0 +With points directed to the polar stars,1.0 +In one long line extend the tempered bars;,3.0 +"Then thrice and thrice with steady eye he guides,",0.0 +And over the adhesive train the magnet slides;,1.0 +"The obedient Steel with living instinct moves,",3.0 +And veers for ever to the pole it loves.,1.0 +"King of the prow, the ploughshare, and the sword!",1.0 +"True to the pole, by thee the pilot guides",1.0 +"His steady helm amid the struggling tides,",0.0 +"Braves with broad sail the immeasurable sea,",2.0 +"Cleaves the dark air, and asks no star but Thee. ' --",4.0 +"Intrusive forests quit the cultured ground,",0.0 +Over restless realms when scowling Discord flings,0.0 +"Her snakes, and loud the din of battle rings;",0.0 +"Expiring Strength, and vanquished Courage feel",0.0 +Or winged with fire over Earth's fair bosom blow;,1.0 +Or sink on Ocean's bed in countless Sands.,0.0 +"Hence silvery Selenite her crystal moulds,",3.0 +"His cubic forms phosphoric Fluor prints,",5.0 +"Soft cobweb clouds transparent Onyx spreads,",2.0 +And playful Agates weave their coloured threads;,0.0 +Masked in new shapes forsook his realms above. ' --,3.0 +And playful LEDA smooths his glossy plumes;,0.0 +"Then glides a silver Serpent, treacherous guest!",2.0 +And fair OLYMPIA folds him in her breast;,2.0 +And pleased he moves along the flowery grounds;,2.0 +Dips in the lucid flood his ivory hoof;,0.0 +"While her fond train with beckoning hands deplore,",5.0 +"Strain their blue eyes, and shriek along the shore;",3.0 +"Beneath her robe she draws her snowy feet,",0.0 +"Round his raised neck her radiant arms she throws,",3.0 +"Her yellow tresses wave on wanton gales,",0.0 +And high in air her azure mantle sails.,0.0 +"' -- Onward He moves, applauding Cupids guide,",2.0 +And skim on shooting wing the shining tide;,0.0 +"Surround the timorous Beauty, as she swims,",3.0 +"Hail the fair fugitive, and shout her name;",4.0 +"Soft echoes warble, whispering forests nod,",3.0 +And conscious Nature owns the present God.,0.0 +"' -- Changed from the Bull, the rapturous God assumes",2.0 +"Immortal youth, with glow celestial blooms,",0.0 +"Whence Kings and Heroes own illustrious birth,",2.0 +"With yielding flakes successive forms reveal,",0.0 +And change obedient to the whirling wheel.,1.0 +"Formed the gay tea-pot, and the pictured plate;",1.0 +"Smeared her huge dragons with metallic hues,",4.0 +"Bade on wide hills her porcelain castles glare,",5.0 +And glazed Pagodas tremble in the air.,0.0 +Round each fair form in lines immortal trace,1.0 +GNOMES! as you now dissect with hammers fine,0.0 +"And pleased on WEDGWOOD ray your partial smile,",1.0 +"Through finer sieves, and falls in whiter showers;",0.0 +"The biscuit hardens, the enamel shines;",1.0 +"Each nicer mould a softer feature drinks,",0.0 +"The bold Cameo speaks, the soft Intaglio thinks.",5.0 +"Whether, OH Friend of art! the gem you mould",2.0 +"Rich with new taste, with ancient virtue bold;",3.0 +From Britain's sons imploring to be free;,1.0 +"Or with fair HOPE the brightening scenes improve,",2.0 +Or bid Mortality rejoice and mourn,1.0 +"Sits HUMANKIND in hieroglyphic state,",1.0 +"While with inverted torch, and swimming eyes,",1.0 +"Sinks the fair shade of MORTAL LIFE, and dies.",3.0 +There the pale GHOST through Death's wide portal bends,3.0 +"Guides on broad wing, with torch uplifted lights;",5.0 +"IMMORTAL LIFE, her hand extending, courts",0.0 +"The lingering form, his tottering step supports;",2.0 +"Beneath, in sacred robes the PRIESTESS dressed,",0.0 +"With pointing finger guides the initiate youth,",3.0 +"Whether, OH Friend of Art! your gems derive",2.0 +"Or bid from modern life the Portrait breathe,",0.0 +Each fair medallion over the wrecks of age;,2.0 +"Nor Time shall mar; nor steel, nor fire, nor fire, nor rust",0.0 +Touch the hard polish of the immortal bust.,6.0 +And stars of gold the sparkling Pyrite blends;,0.0 +"Where, nursed in night, incumbent Tempest shrouds",0.0 +"Besieged with iron points his airy cell,",0.0 +And pierced the monster slumbering in the shell.,1.0 +"Immortal FRANKLIN watched the callow crew,",0.0 +"And stabbed the struggling Vampires, ere they flew.",0.0 +"Her heroes slain awhile COLUMBIA mourned,",2.0 +And crowned with laurels LIBERTY returned.,1.0 +"The Warrior, LIBERTY, with bending sails",1.0 +"Firm as he steps, along the shouting lands,",0.0 +Lo! Truth and Virtue range their radiant bands;,1.0 +"Sad Superstition wails her empire torn,",1.0 +"Art plies his oar, and Commerce pours her horn.",0.0 +"Inglorious slept, unconscious of his chains;",4.0 +Round his large limbs were wound a thousand strings,3.0 +"Over his closed eyes a triple veil was bound,",2.0 +And steely rivets locked him to the ground;,1.0 +"His folded limbs, and hems in marble walls.",0.0 +"The flimsy bonds, and round and round him gazed;",0.0 +"Starts up from earth, above the admiring throng",2.0 +"Lifts his Colossal form, and towers along;",4.0 +"High over his foes his hundred arms He rears,",3.0 +"Ploughshares his swords, and pruning hooks his spears;",2.0 +"Calls to the Good and Brave with voice, that rolls",0.0 +Like Heaven's own thunder round the echoing poles;,4.0 +"Gives to the winds his banner broad unfurled,",0.0 +And gathers in its shade the living world!,0.0 +And tawny Copper shoots her azure veins;,0.0 +"Zinc lines his fretted vault with sable over,",1.0 +The living Silver rolls its ponderous waves;,2.0 +"Long threads of netted gold, and silvery darts,",3.0 +"Inlay the Lazuli, and pierce the Quartz; ' --",4.0 +"' -- Whence roofed with silver beamed PERU, of old,",0.0 +And hapless MEXICO was paved with gold.,0.0 +Heavens! on my sight what sanguine colours blaze!,2.0 +"When Avarice, shrouded in Religion's robe,",2.0 +"Sailed to the West, and slaughtered half the globe;",0.0 +"While Superstition, stalking by his side,",1.0 +"For sacred truths announced her frenzied dreams,",0.0 +And turned to night the sun's meridian beams. ' --,2.0 +"Hear, o, BRITANNIA! potent Queen of isles,",4.0 +"On whom fair Art, and meek Religion smiles,",0.0 +"Spreads his wide arms, and lifts his eyes to Thee;",3.0 +"With hunger pale, with wounds and toil oppressed,",0.0 +ARE WE NOT BRETHREN? sorrow chokes the rest; ' --,1.0 +' -- AIR! bear to heaven upon thy azure flood,1.0 +Their innocent cries! ' -- EARTH! cover not their blood!,3.0 +And urge the vengeance over the guilty wretch. ' --,2.0 +"And, drunk with fury, swelled the Nile with blood;",0.0 +And poured destruction through her hundred gates;,1.0 +"In dread divisions marched the marshaled bands,",0.0 +"And swarming armies blackened all the lands,",0.0 +"Slow as they passed, the indignant temples frowned,",2.0 +Low curses muttering from the vaulted ground;,2.0 +"Burst from each pyramid expiring groans,",1.0 +And darker shadows stretched their lengthened cones. ' --,1.0 +"GNOMES! as they marched, You hid the gathered fruits,",0.0 +"The bladed grass, sweet grains, and mealy roots;",1.0 +Retained the locusts in their earthy beds;,0.0 +Stayed with vindictive hands the scanty rill. ' --,2.0 +"Loud over the camp the Fiend of Famine shrieks,",3.0 +"Calls all her brood, and champs her hundred beaks;",0.0 +And twilight swims upon the shuddering sand;,3.0 +"Perched on her crest the Griffin Discord clings,",0.0 +And Giant Murder rides between her wings;,0.0 +"Blood from each clotted hair, and horny quill,",0.0 +And showers of tears in blended streams distil;,2.0 +"Darts from above, and tears at each fell swoop",3.0 +With iron fangs the decimated troop.,0.0 +"And the live desert pants, and heaves beneath;",3.0 +"Tinged by the crimson sun, vast columns rise",1.0 +"' -- Long ranks in vain their shining blades extend,",1.0 +"Wheel in wide circle, form in hollow square,",2.0 +"And now they front, and now they fly the war,",0.0 +"Pierce the deaf tempest with lamenting cries,",4.0 +"' -- GNOMES! over the waste YOU led your myriad powers,",5.0 +"Clouds follow clouds, and mountains mountains urge;",1.0 +"Wave over wave the driving desert swims,",1.0 +"Man mounts on man, on camels camels rush,",1.0 +"Hosts march over hosts, and nations nations crush, ' --",1.0 +"Wheeling in air the winged islands fall,",3.0 +And one great earthy Ocean covers all! ' --,2.0 +"To earth, and listened to the groans below, ' --",1.0 +"Grim HORROR shook, ' -- awhile the living hill",1.0 +"Heaved with convulsive throes, ' -- and all was still!",2.0 +Shrink with soft sympathy for human care;,4.0 +"Beneath the waving grass, and nodding corn;",0.0 +Stared with bright points the mimic zodiac shines;,4.0 +Born on fine wires amid the pictured skies,3.0 +"Round the dwarf earth the pearly moon is rolled,",3.0 +With spears and helmets glittering round the coasts;,1.0 +"Thick as the hairs, which rear the Lion's mane,",0.0 +"Watch, where proud Surges break their treacherous mounds,",4.0 +And bid indignant Ocean stay his rage.,0.0 +Or melt with acid airs the marble crags;,0.0 +"Crown the green summits with adventurous flocks,",6.0 +And charm with novel flowers the wondering rocks.,4.0 +And high on Alps his crimson banner waved;,0.0 +"Wide over her weeping vales destruction hurled,",3.0 +And shook the rising empire of the world.,1.0 +"X Go, gentle GNOMES! resume your vernal toil,",1.0 +"Seek my chill tribes, which sleep beneath the soil;",3.0 +"Spread the dark mould, white lime, and crumbling sands;",4.0 +"Each bursting bud with healthier juices feed,",2.0 +"Emerging scion, or awakened seed.",1.0 +Streaks with white clouds the golden floods of boil;,3.0 +"Through each nice valve the mingling currents glide,",1.0 +"Nerve the strong arm, and tinge the blushing cheek.",3.0 +"Green swells the germ, impatient for its birth;",2.0 +"Guard from rapacious worms its tender shoots,",2.0 +And drive the mining beetle from its roots;,1.0 +The kneeling Saint in holy anguish mourned; ' --,0.0 +"PETER, arise! with cheering voice He calls,",2.0 +"Locks, bolts, and chains his potent touch obey,",1.0 +And pleased he leads the dazzled Sage to day.,0.0 +"XI. YOU! whose fine fingers fill the organic cells,",3.0 +"With virgin earth, of woods and bones and shells;",0.0 +"And sinks to earth, its cradle and its tomb,",1.0 +"GNOMES! with nice eye the slow solution watch,",3.0 +"With fostering hand the parting atoms catch,",2.0 +"Join in new forms, combine with life and sense,",3.0 +"Bowed his bright locks, and, fated from his birth",4.0 +"To change eternal, mingled with the earth; ' --",1.0 +"With darker horror shook the conscious wood,",0.0 +"Groaned the sad gales, and rivers blushed with blood;",3.0 +"Breathed the soft sigh, and poured the tender tear. ' --",3.0 +"Clad with new form, with finer sense combined,",3.0 +And lit with purer flame the ethereal mind.,4.0 +And shines and charms with renovated bloom. ' --,0.0 +"While wondering Loves the bursting grave surround,",2.0 +"And edge with meeting wings the yawning ground,",0.0 +"Stretch their fair necks, and leaning over the brink",5.0 +"View the pale regions of the dead, and shrink;",4.0 +"Long with broad eyes ecstatic BEAUTY stands,",3.0 +"Then with loud shriek the panting Youth alarms,",3.0 +My Life! my Love! and springs into his arms.,0.0 +"The GODDESS ceased, ' -- the delegated throng",0.0 +Over the wide plains delighted rush along;,2.0 +"Hosts follow hosts, and troops succeed to troops;",1.0 +"Scarce bears the bending grass the moving freight,",1.0 +Flit the soft shadows over the waving vale;,4.0 +"Shade follows shade by laughing Zephyrs drove,",1.0 +AGAIN the GODDESS speaks! ' -- glad Echo swells,1.0 +"' -- Thick as the dews, which deck the morning flowers,",0.0 +"Rise, as she turns, and whiten all the lands.",0.0 +"And steer the shadowy treasure over the land,",4.0 +"Through vernal skies the gathering drops diffuse,",2.0 +YOUR lucid bands condense with fingers chill,0.0 +And in each bubbling fountain rise to day.,0.0 +"NYMPHS! YOU then guide, attendant from their source,",1.0 +"Float in bright squadrons by the willowy brink,",5.0 +"Who hides her fine form in the passing lymph,",1.0 +Eyes her soft smiles reflected in the air;,3.0 +Their silken limbs amid the dashing wave;,0.0 +"Pluck the pale primrose bending from its edge,",5.0 +Or feed the golden harvests on their side;,1.0 +"Shove the slow barge, or whirl the foaming mill.",3.0 +OR lead with beckoning hand the sparkling train,2.0 +"Feeds each fine nerve, each slender hair pervades,",3.0 +"The skins bright snow with living purple shades,",1.0 +"Laughs on the lips, and lightens in the eyes.",0.0 +"From each fair feature, and proportioned limb,",2.0 +Joined in one trunk with deeper tint return,0.0 +To the warm concave of the vital urn.,0.0 +"Of scale and shell, which Ocean overwhelms;",0.0 +"As Night's pale Queen her rising orb reveals,",1.0 +"Urge on the sounding shores their crystal course,",0.0 +"Restrain their fury, or direct their force.",1.0 +Firm to his rock with silver cords suspend,0.0 +And teach the unwieldy Sturgeon to betray. ' --,3.0 +"Waves in red spires the living lures, and draws",3.0 +"Eyes with grim joy the twinkling shoals beset,",3.0 +"With oars and gems adorn her coral cell,",0.0 +"Harnessed with gossamer, the loitering prow;",5.0 +Of oil effusive lull the waves to sleep.,4.0 +"YOU stay the flying bark, concealed beneath,",0.0 +"Vast watery walls in rapid circles spin,",3.0 +Down his deep den the whirling vessel draws;,2.0 +The booming waters murmuring over the mast.,4.0 +While cloudless suns meridian glories shed,2.0 +"From skies of silver round his hoary head,",0.0 +"NYMPHS! YOUR thin forms pervade his glittering piles,",5.0 +"His roofs of crystal, and his glassy ails;",1.0 +Or chained on mossy couches wake and weep;,0.0 +"Rush into day, in foamy torrents shine,",1.0 +And swell the imperial Danube or the Rhine. ' --,5.0 +"His realms inglorious with diminished waves,",3.0 +Sees dancing slaves insult his martial plains;,1.0 +"Parts with chill stream the dim religious bower,",3.0 +"And classic domes, that tremble on his sides;",1.0 +"Sighs over each broken urn, and yawning tomb,",3.0 +And mourns the fall of LIBERTY and ROME.,1.0 +His tropic mountains in a night of clouds;,0.0 +"High over his head the beams of SIRIUS glow,",5.0 +"And, Dog of Nile, ANUBIS barks below.",6.0 +NYMPHS! YOU from cliff to cliff attendant guide,0.0 +In headlong cataracts the impetuous tide;,3.0 +Or lead over wastes of Abyssinian sands,3.0 +"' -- Her long canals the sacred waters fill,",0.0 +And edge with silver every peopled hill;,0.0 +"Gigantic SPHINX in circling waves admire,",0.0 +And MEMNON bending over his broken lyre;,3.0 +And towns and temples laugh amid the deep.,0.0 +"Over isles and oceans sheds a sanguine light,",0.0 +"When, at his base entombed, with bellowing sound",2.0 +"Poured from red nostrils, with her scalding breath,",4.0 +A boiling deluge over the blasted heath;,2.0 +"And, wide in air, in misty volumes hurled",0.0 +Contagious atoms over the alarmed world;,2.0 +In pearly showers the parsimonious rill;,4.0 +"Through the cleft roof, ambitious for the skies,",3.0 +"In vaulted hills condense the tepid steams,",0.0 +And pour to HEALTH the medicated streams.,0.0 +' -- So in green vales amid her mountains bleak,1.0 +And calls HYGEIA to her sainted wells.,2.0 +And light with radiant eyes her realms of over;,0.0 +"In gay undress the fairy legion roams,",0.0 +"Their dripping palms in playful malice fill,",0.0 +Or taste with ruby lip the sparkling rill;,0.0 +"Crowd round her baths, and, bending over the side,",2.0 +"Dip with gay fear the shuddering foot undressed,",5.0 +"Or cleave with brandished arms the lucid stream,",0.0 +And Echo's sweet responsive voice prolongs,0.0 +The dulcet tumult of their silver tongues. ' --,1.0 +"Round each fair Nymph her dropping mantle clings,",1.0 +Fair arts of Greece triumphant in his train;,1.0 +"Lo! as he steps, the column pile ascends,",0.0 +"The blue roof closes, or the crescent bends;",2.0 +"New woods aspiring cloth their hills with green,",1.0 +"Smooth slope the lawns, the grey rock peeps between;",2.0 +"Relenting Nature gives her hand to Taste,",0.0 +And Health and Beauty crown the laughing waste.,0.0 +"With playful force arrest them as they pass,",1.0 +Round their translucent forms at once they fling,1.0 +"In fleecy clouds their fluttering wings extend,",2.0 +Or from the skies in lucid showers descend;,3.0 +And Ocean's hundred arms enfold the earth.,0.0 +"Over her fair limbs a veil of light she spread,",2.0 +And bound a starry diadem on her head;,0.0 +"Long braids of pearl her golden tresses graced,",1.0 +"' -- Slow rolls the Cyprian car in purple pride,",3.0 +"Climbs the green slopes, the nodding woods pervades,",3.0 +"Burns round the rocks, or gleams amid the shades. ' --",0.0 +"Glad ZEPHYR leads the train, and waves above",1.0 +"Reverts his smiling face, and pausing flings",0.0 +And azure eyes are seen through every chink.,0.0 +And rests the fork upon the quivering string;,2.0 +"Points his arch eye aloft, with fingers strong",3.0 +Trails a long line of lustre through the skies;,4.0 +"Tis done! he shouts, the mighty Monarch feels!",0.0 +And with loud laughter shakes the silver wheels;,2.0 +"Bends over the car, and whirling, as it moves,",4.0 +"Melts with soft sighs, with kindling rapture burns;",3.0 +"And leaves my Goddess, like a blooming bride,",0.0 +"Her gorgeous palaces, and amaranth bowers,",6.0 +"He said; and, leading from her ivory seat",1.0 +"The blushing Beauty to his lone retreat,",1.0 +And rests the crimson cushions upon clouds. ' --,3.0 +"Earth feels the grateful influence from above,",4.0 +"Sighs the soft Air, and Ocean murmurs love;",3.0 +"Her lucid cataracts, and her bubbling springs;",0.0 +"Through peopled vales the liquid silver guides,",0.0 +"YOU with nice ear, in tiptoe trains, pervade",3.0 +Dim walks of morn or evening's silent shade;,1.0 +"Join the lone Nightingale, her woods among,",4.0 +And tune their echoing waterfalls to love;,2.0 +"Or catch, attentive to the distant roar,",1.0 +The pausing murmurs of the dashing shore;,1.0 +"Or, as aloud she pours her liquid strain,",1.0 +"Hangs over his glossy sides her silver feet,",3.0 +"Gives to his slimy lips the slackened reins,",0.0 +"Lifts to the star of Eve her eye serene,",0.0 +"Her beryl locks, and parts the waving curls,",0.0 +"Thrilled by the dulcet accents, as she sings,",1.0 +The rippling wave in widening circles rings;,2.0 +Night's shadowy forms along the margin gleam,3.0 +"With pointed ears, or dance upon the stream;",0.0 +"The Moon transported stays her bright career,",0.0 +And maddening Stars shoot headlong from the sphere.,3.0 +"Late as YOU floated on your silver shells,",1.0 +Where by tall groves his foamy flood he steers,3.0 +"Through ponderous arches over impetuous wears,",4.0 +"Sighed in his gales, and murmured in his tides,",0.0 +"Printing with graceful step his spangled plain,",2.0 +"Explored his twinkling swarms, that swim or fly,",0.0 +"Sweet bud of Spring! how frail thy transient bloom,",1.0 +"Fine film, she cried, of Nature's fairest loom!",1.0 +Soon Beauty fades upon its damask throne! ' --,1.0 +"' -- Unconscious of the worm, that mined her own! ' --",2.0 +"Won the warm cheek, and mute the tender tongue,",3.0 +"Spread round his pillow all your secret spells,",0.0 +"Pierced all your springs, and opened all your wells. ' --",0.0 +"As now on grass, with glossy folds revealed,",0.0 +"Glides the bright serpent, now in flowers concealed;",5.0 +"Far shine the scales, that gild his sinuous back,",1.0 +So with strong arm immortal BRINDLEY leads,2.0 +"His long canals, and parts the velvet meads;",0.0 +"Winding in lucid lines, the watery mass",4.0 +"Mines the firm rock, or loads the deep morass,",3.0 +"With rising locks a thousand hills alarms,",0.0 +"Flings over a thousand streams its silver arms,",3.0 +"And Plenty, Arts, and Commerce freight the waves.",0.0 +"Adorn his tomb! ' -- o, raise the marble bust,",0.0 +"While on the top MECHANIC GENIUS stands,",0.0 +"Counts the fleet waves, and balances the lands.",4.0 +X NYMPHS! YOU first taught to pierce the secret caves,4.0 +Bade with quick stroke the sliding piston bear,3.0 +"Pressed by the incumbent air the floods below,",1.0 +"Through opening valves in foaming torrents flow,",2.0 +"Foot after foot with lessened impulse move,",1.0 +And rising seek the vacancy above. ' --,1.0 +"So when the Mother, bending over his charms,",2.0 +"Throws the thin kerchief from her neck of snow,",4.0 +"Her soft embraces, and endearing tones,",1.0 +To lull your infant in maternal arms;,0.0 +The soothing kiss and milky rill deny,0.0 +"To the sweet pouting lip, and glistening eye! ' --",2.0 +"So soft no pillow, as his Mother's breast! ' --",2.0 +"' -- Thus charmed to sweet repose, when twilight hours",2.0 +"Shed their soft influence on celestial bowers,",6.0 +"The Cherub, Innocence, with smile divine",1.0 +"XI. From dome to dome when flames infuriate climb,",1.0 +"Sweep the long street, invest the tower sublime;",5.0 +"Gild the tall vanes amid the astonished night,",5.0 +While with vast strides and bristling hair aloof,3.0 +Pale Danger glides along the falling roof;,1.0 +And Giant Terror howling in amaze,0.0 +Moves his dark limbs across the lurid blaze.,3.0 +"In iron cells condensed the airy spring,",0.0 +"' -- On the fierce flames the shower impetuous falls,",4.0 +And sudden darkness shrouds the shattered walls;,0.0 +"Steam, smoke, and dust in blended volumes roll,",1.0 +And Night and Silence repossess the Pole. ' --,0.0 +"Where were you, NYMPHS! in those disastrous hours,",1.0 +"Why did you linger in your wells and groves,",0.0 +"When thy fair Daughters with unheeded screams,",3.0 +The trembling Nymph on bloodless fingers hung,0.0 +"Eyes from the tottering wall the distant throng,",2.0 +"With ceaseless shrieks her sleeping friends alarms,",0.0 +Drops with singed hair into her lover's arms. ' --,3.0 +"The illumined Mother seeks with footsteps fleet,",2.0 +"Where hangs the safe balcony over the street,",7.0 +"Wrapped in her sheet her youngest hope suspends,",0.0 +And panting lowers it to her tiptoe friends;,2.0 +"Again she hurries on affection's wings,",1.0 +"And now a third, and now a fourth, she brings;",0.0 +Over burning bars indignant Emma trod.,0.0 +"Even on the day when Youth with Beauty wed,",1.0 +The flames surprised them in their nuptial bed; ' --,0.0 +"Seen at the opening sash with bosom bare,",2.0 +The blushing Beauty with disordered charms,1.0 +Round her fond lover winds her ivory arms;,2.0 +"Beat, as they clasp, their throbbing hearts with fear,",0.0 +And many a kiss is mixed with many a tear; ' --,4.0 +Round their pale limbs the ineffectual shower! ' --,5.0 +And Love and Virtue sunk amid the fire! ' --,0.0 +"With piercing screams afflicted strangers mourn,",0.0 +And their white ashes mingle in their urn.,2.0 +"The shine of welfare, or the shade of woe;",2.0 +"Who with soft lips salute returning Spring,",3.0 +And hail the Zephyr quivering on his wing;,1.0 +"Chase the white fog, which floods the vale below;",3.0 +"Melt the thick snows, that linger on the lands,",4.0 +"Guard the coy blossom from the pelting shower,",4.0 +"So should young SYMPATHY, in female form,",3.0 +"Life's sinking wrecks with secret sighs deplore,",1.0 +"And bleed for others' woes, Herself on shore;",0.0 +"Bare her warm heart, her virgin arms expand,",3.0 +"Charm with kind looks, with tender accents cheer,",3.0 +Or prop with firmer staff the steps of Age;,0.0 +"The lifted arm of mute Despair arrest,",0.0 +And snatch the dagger pointed to his breast;,1.0 +"' -- Sound, NYMPHS OF HELICON! the trump of Fame,",1.0 +"Bind round her polished brow the civic bay,",0.0 +And drag the fair Philanthropist to day. ' --,1.0 +"So from secluded springs, and secret caves,",1.0 +"Cools the parched vale, the sultry mead divides,",3.0 +And towns and temples star his shadowy sides.,2.0 +Pierce with sharp spades the tremulous peat beneath;,5.0 +"So flowers shall rise in purple light arrayed,",2.0 +And blossomed orchards stretch their silver shade;,0.0 +And Labour sleep amid the waving gold.,0.0 +Thus when young HERCULES with firm disdain,2.0 +"To valiant toils his forceful limbs assigned,",0.0 +"And gave to Virtue all his mighty mind,",0.0 +And Famine danced upon the shining floods.,0.0 +And dashed with lifted club the watery Pest;,2.0 +And to his course the bellowing Fiend repelled.,3.0 +"His lengthened form, with scales of silver burned;",0.0 +"Firm round his neck, the hissing monster grasped;",0.0 +"With starting eyes, wide throat, and gaping teeth,",1.0 +"And now a Bull, amid the flying throng",0.0 +"With silver hoofs the flowery meadows spurned,",3.0 +"Rolled his red eye, his threatening antlers turned.",3.0 +Then with quick bound his bent knee he fixed,3.0 +"High on his neck, the branching horns betwixt,",0.0 +"Strained his strong arms, his sinewy shoulders bent,",5.0 +And from his curled brow the twisted terror rent.,4.0 +"Link their soft hands, and rear with pausing toil",3.0 +The golden trophy on the furrowed soil;,1.0 +And give to PLENTY her prolific horn.,1.0 +"The tremulous pearl, that glitters to the morn;",3.0 +"Or where cold dews their secret channels lave,",1.0 +"And Earth's dark chambers hide the stagnant wave,",1.0 +"OH, pierce, YOU NYMPHS! her marble veins, and lead",1.0 +Her gushing fountains to the thirsty mead;,1.0 +"Wide over the shining vales, and trickling hills",3.0 +So shall my peopled realms of Leaf and Flower,0.0 +"Exult, inebriate with the genial shower;",0.0 +"Dip their long tresses from the mossy brink,",4.0 +With tufted roots the glassy currents drink;,0.0 +"Shade your cool mansions from meridian beams,",6.0 +"Thus where the veins their confluent branches bend,",2.0 +And milky eddies with the purple blend;,1.0 +Seeks through the vital mass its shining course;,0.0 +In living network all its branching threads;,1.0 +"Maze within maze its tortuous path pursues,",5.0 +"Winds into glands, inextricable clues;",3.0 +"Steals through the stomach's velvet sides, and sips",2.0 +The silver surges with a thousand lips;,1.0 +"Fills each fine poor, pervades each slender hair,",3.0 +"League after league, through many a lingering day,",3.0 +Steer the swart Caravans their sultry way;,3.0 +"Over sandy wastes on gasping camels toil,",0.0 +"If from lone rocks a sparkling rill descend,",2.0 +"Over the green brink the kneeling nations bend,",2.0 +"Bathe the parched lip, and cool the feverish tongue,",5.0 +And the clear lake reflects the mingled throng.,2.0 +"THE GODDESS PAUSED, ' -- the listening bands awhile",0.0 +"Still seem to hear, and dwell upon her smile;",1.0 +Then with soft murmur sweep in lucid trains,2.0 +"To each bright stream on silver sandals glide,",1.0 +"Reflective fountain, and tumultuous tide.",4.0 +Their glittering network over the autumnal lawn;,4.0 +From blade to blade connect with cordage fine,0.0 +"The unbending grass, and live along the line;",2.0 +"Piles high his snows, and floors his seas with glass;",1.0 +"While many a Month, unknown to warmer rays,",2.0 +Marks its slow chronicle by lunar days;,4.0 +"Leave the white soil, and rush upon the main;",3.0 +And win in easy curves their graceful way;,0.0 +"On step alternate born, with balance nice",4.0 +"Hang over the gliding steel, and hiss along the ice.",3.0 +"Contending swarms on bending branches cling,",0.0 +"So round the GODDESS, ere she speaks, on high",0.0 +"Quivering in air their painted plumes expand,",1.0 +And coloured shadows dance upon the land.,1.0 +And guide their streaming arrows to the Line;,1.0 +"While in warm floods ecliptic breezes rise,",1.0 +"You bid Monsoons on Indian seas reside,",2.0 +"And veer, as moves the sun, their airy tide;",0.0 +"While southern gales over western oceans roll,",3.0 +"YOUR playful trains, on sultry islands born,",0.0 +Turn on fantastic toe at eve and morn;,2.0 +Earth's green pavilions and encircling deep.,2.0 +"OR in itinerant cohorts, born sublime",2.0 +"Over waving Autumn bend your airy ring,",0.0 +Or waft the fragrant bosom of the Spring.,1.0 +Over the bright plains her dewy lustre showers;,2.0 +Till from her sable chariot Eve serene,3.0 +Drops the dark curtain over the brilliant scene;,5.0 +"Over Earth's green lap, or shoots amid her lakes,",1.0 +"Hand linked in hand on buoyant step they rise,",1.0 +"Whence in bright floods the VITAL AIR expands,",1.0 +And with concentric spheres involves the lands;,1.0 +"Pervades the swarming seas, and heaving earth's,",0.0 +"Fills the fine lungs of all that breathe or bud,",2.0 +"Warms the new heart, and dies the gushing blood;",3.0 +"With Life's first spark inspires the organic frame,",3.0 +"And, as it wastes, renews the subtle flame.",1.0 +"So pure, so soft, with sweet attraction shone",0.0 +Beneath a moving shade of fruits and flowers,0.0 +"With lifted torch he lights the festive train,",0.0 +"Sublime, and leads them in his golden chain;",0.0 +"Joins the fond pair, indulgent to their vows,",4.0 +And hides with mystic veil their blushing brows.,0.0 +"Round their fair forms their mingling arms they fling,",3.0 +"Meet with warm lip, and clasp with rustling wing. ' --",3.0 +And Love and Beauty rule the willing world.,0.0 +The poisoned javelin balanced in his hand; ' --,0.0 +"Fierce on blue streams he rides the tainted air,",3.0 +"Points his keen eye, and waves his whistling hair;",3.0 +"While, as he turns, the undulating soil",0.0 +"Wide over the West when born on headlong gales,",4.0 +"Dark as meridian night, the Monster sails,",4.0 +"Howls high in air, and shakes his curled brow,",2.0 +"With webbed feet over midnight meadows creeps,",3.0 +"YOU meet CONTAGION issuing from afar,",3.0 +And dash the baleful conqueror from his car;,1.0 +And bathes in human gore his armed wheels.,1.0 +"Looked through the missed and shook his clotted hair,",0.0 +"Over shrinking nations steered malignant clouds,",0.0 +"Each fervid sigh seemed shorter than the last,",2.0 +"And starting Friendship shunned her, as she passed.",1.0 +' -- With weak unsteady step the fainting Maid,0.0 +"Seeks the cold garden's solitary shade,",3.0 +And prints with lifeless limbs her leafy bed.,0.0 +"Shades her from winds, and shelters her from dews,",1.0 +"Extends on tapering poles the canvas roof,",2.0 +And binds his kerchief round her aching brows;,0.0 +With pale and languid smiles the grateful Fair,0.0 +"Applauds his virtues, and rewards his care;",1.0 +Mourns with wet cheek her fair companions fled,3.0 +"On timorous step, or numbered with the dead;",3.0 +"Calls to its bosom all its scattered rays,",0.0 +"Breasted with struggling arms the tossing wave,",2.0 +And sunk benighted in the watery grave.,2.0 +"Less bold, TOBIAS claimed the nuptial bed,",1.0 +Where seven fond Lovers by a Fiend had bled;,4.0 +And shed gay visions over the sleeping pair;,3.0 +And with his keener arrows conquered DEATH.,1.0 +"Taught with sweet smiles, responsive to their prayer,",4.0 +' -- How up exhausted tubes bright currents flow,2.0 +"Of liquid silver from the lake below,",1.0 +"Weigh the long column of the incumbent skies,",6.0 +"' -- How, as in brazen pumps the pistons move,",1.0 +"Rare and more rare expands the fluid thin,",0.0 +And Silence dwells with Vacancy within. ' --,1.0 +So in the mighty Void with grim delight,0.0 +Primeval Silence reigned with ancient Night.,0.0 +"Outstretched his buoyant ball with airy spring,",0.0 +And bore the Sage on levity of wing; ' --,1.0 +"Fair mounts the light balloon, by Zephyr driven,",1.0 +"Parts the thin clouds, and sails along the heaven;",3.0 +"Higher and yet higher the expanding bubble flies,",2.0 +"Lights with quick flash, and bursts amid the skies. ' --",3.0 +And DEATH receives him in his sable arms! ' --,0.0 +Sunk hapless ICARUS on unfaithful wings;,5.0 +"His scattered plumage danced upon the wave,",0.0 +"Struck in their coral towers the pausing bell,",2.0 +As sits the Sage with Science by his side;,1.0 +"To his charmed eye in gay undress appear,",2.0 +How nitrous Gas from iron ingots driven,0.0 +Drinks with red lips the purest breath of heaven;,3.0 +And the pure ETHER marries with the MINE.,3.0 +Led with unwary step her virgin trains,2.0 +"Sudden, unseen amid the twilight glade,",3.0 +"Rushed gloomy DIS, and seized the trembling maid. ' --",1.0 +"Clung round the struggling Nymph, with piercing cries,",0.0 +"Pursued the chariot, and invoked the skies; ' --",3.0 +"Pleased as he grasps her in his iron arms,",0.0 +"The wheels descending rolled in smoky rings,",0.0 +Infernal Cupids flapped their demon wings;,0.0 +"Earth with deep yawn received the Fair, amazed,",3.0 +And far in Night celestial Beauty blazed.,0.0 +"Ribbed with strong oak, and barred with bolts of brass,",3.0 +"Buoyed with pure air shall endless tracks pursue,",2.0 +"Then shall BRITANNIA rule the wealthy realms,",2.0 +"Part his blue plains, and people all his rocks.",3.0 +"Deep, in warm waves beneath the Line that roll,",3.0 +"Onward, through bright meandering vales, afar,",4.0 +"With harnessed necks the pearly flood disturb,",0.0 +"Stretch the silk rein, and champ the silver kerb;",3.0 +' -- Oft shall she weep beneath the crystal waves,0.0 +Mingling in death the Brave and Good behold,1.0 +"With slaves to glory, and with slaves to gold;",1.0 +"Her sighs shall breathe, her sorrows dew their hearse. ' --",0.0 +"He cried, and clasped them to his aching heart. ' --",1.0 +"' -- Dashed in dread conflict on the rocky grounds,",0.0 +"Crash the shocked masts, the staggering wreck rebounds;",6.0 +"Through gaping seams the rushing deluge swims,",0.0 +"Climbs their white shoulders, buoys their streaming hair,",5.0 +"Each with loud sobs her tender sire caressed,",3.0 +And gasping strained him closer to her breast! ' --,1.0 +"' -- Stretched on one bier they sleep beneath the brine,",0.0 +The fine vibrations of the aerial tide;,3.0 +"Join in sweet cadences the measured words,",3.0 +Or stretch and modulate the trembling cords.,1.0 +"Or brought in combinations, deep and clear,",0.0 +Immortal harmony to HANDEL's ear. ' --,1.0 +"You with soft breath attune the vernal gale,",2.0 +"Or wake the loud tumultuous sounds, that dwell",3.0 +"You melt in dulcet chords, when Zephyr rings",0.0 +"When rapt CECILIA lifts her eye sublime,",0.0 +"Over her white teeth in tuneful accents flow,",2.0 +"And form the tender sighs, that kindle love!",0.0 +And shakes delirious rapture from the strings;,3.0 +"Slow as the pausing Monarch stalks along,",0.0 +"Soft Nymphs on timid step the triumph view,",1.0 +"With pointed ears the alarmed forest starts,",5.0 +And Love and Music soften savage hearts.,0.0 +"Calls the red tempest round the guilty head,",3.0 +"Fierce at his nod assume vindictive forms,",0.0 +"Poured his swollen heart, defied the living GOD,",0.0 +Urged with incessant shouts his glittering powers;,4.0 +"Round her sad altars pressed the prostrate crowd,",2.0 +"Loud shrieks of matrons thrilled the troubled air,",1.0 +And trembling virgins rent their scattered hair;,0.0 +"High in the mid the kneeling King adored,",0.0 +"Raised his pale hands, and breathed his pausing sighs,",3.0 +"And fixed on Heaven his dim imploring eyes, ' --",0.0 +"Thine the wide earth, bright sun, and starry zone,",4.0 +That twinkling journey round thy golden throne;,0.0 +"Thine is the crystal source of life and light,",1.0 +And thine the realms of Death's eternal night.,1.0 +"O, bend thine ear, thy gracious eye incline,",0.0 +"Insults our offerings, and derides our vows, ' --",1.0 +"O! strike the diadem from his impious brows,",2.0 +"Tear from his murderous hand the bloody rod,",2.0 +"And teach the trembling nations, THOU ART GOD! ' --",1.0 +"Onward you floated over the ethereal road,",5.0 +"Gave the soft South with poisonous breath to blow,",5.0 +And rolled the dreadful whirlwind on the foe! ' --,2.0 +"Man falls on Man, on buckler buckler rings;",1.0 +"Groan answers groan, to anguish anguish yields,",1.0 +"' -- High rears the Fiend his grinning jaws, and wide",1.0 +"Spans the pale nations with colossal stride,",4.0 +Make the green children of the Spring your care!,4.0 +"Grant the charmed talisman, the chain, that binds,",4.0 +"Rhyme the pale Dawn, or veiled in flaky showers",3.0 +"Meet with soft kiss, and mingle in the skies,",3.0 +"Autumn and Spring in lively union blend,",1.0 +And from the skies the Golden Age descend.,1.0 +"Over twelve degrees his ribs gigantic bend,",0.0 +"Huge fields of air his wrinkled skin receives,",1.0 +"From panting gills, wide lungs, and waving leaves;",1.0 +"Then with dread throes subsides his bloated form,",3.0 +"His shriek the thunder, and his sigh the storm.",1.0 +Oft high in heaven the hissing Demon wins,1.0 +"Steers with expanded eye and gaping mouth,",2.0 +"Spreads over the shuddering Line his shadowy limbs,",7.0 +And Frost and Famine follow as he swims. ' --,1.0 +And mould the Monster to your gentle sway;,1.0 +"Charm with soft tones, with tender touches cheque,",3.0 +"Bend to your golden yoke his willing neck,",0.0 +"With silver kerb his yielding teeth restrain,",0.0 +"Bend over discordant climes his eye serene,",3.0 +"With Lapland breezes cool Arabian vales,",3.0 +"Earth's wondering Zones the genial seasons share,",3.0 +And nations hail him MONARCH OF THE AIR.,1.0 +"Each vaulted womb of husk, or pod, or shell;",0.0 +"Feed with sweet juices, cloth with downy hair,",3.0 +Hang the bright squadrons of the twinkling Night;,4.0 +"Ten thousand marshaled stars, a silver zone,",1.0 +"Suns call to suns, in lucid clouds conspire,",1.0 +"' -- Roll on, YOU STARS! exult in youthful prime,",0.0 +"Flowers of the sky! you too to age must yield,",1.0 +Frail as your silken sisters of the field!,1.0 +"Star after star from Heaven's high arch shall rush,",3.0 +"Suns sink on suns, and systems systems crush,",1.0 +"Headlong, extinct, to one dark centre fall,",3.0 +And Death and Night and Chaos mingle all!,0.0 +"Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame,",2.0 +"And soars and shines, another and the same.",1.0 +Life's golden threads in endless circles wind;,1.0 +"And, as they burst, the living flame unfold.",1.0 +The Oak's vast branches in its milky veins;,1.0 +Traced with nice pencil on the small design.,4.0 +"The young Narcissus, in it's bulb compressed,",0.0 +Cradles a second nestling on its breast;,3.0 +"Grain within grain successive harvests dwell,",3.0 +And boundless forests slumber in a shell.,0.0 +"Long winding meads, and intermingled bowers,",1.0 +"And glimmering wheel, which rolls and foams below,",2.0 +In one bright point with nice distinction lie,3.0 +Planned on the moving tablet of the eye.,1.0 +"' -- So, fold on fold, Earth's wavy plains extend,",1.0 +"And, sphere in sphere, its hidden strata bend; ' --",0.0 +"Over restless oceans, and impatient lands,",1.0 +"LIFE buds or breathes from Indus to the Poles,",2.0 +On Earth's cold bosom its descending root;,2.0 +"With Pith elastic stretch its rising stem,",0.0 +"Part the twin Lobes, expand the throbbing Gem;",3.0 +"Clasp in your airy arms the aspiring Plume,",2.0 +"Fan with your balmy breath its kindling bloom,",0.0 +"Each widening scale and bursting film unfold,",2.0 +"Swell the green cup, and tint the flower with gold;",5.0 +Bursts into life the Monster of the Nile;,2.0 +"The Brain's fine floating tissue swells, and spreads;",1.0 +"Nerve after nerve the glistening spine descends,",1.0 +"The red Heart dances, the Aorta bends;",2.0 +"Through each new gland the purple current glides,",1.0 +"Edge over edge expands the hardening scale,",1.0 +"High on the flood with speckled bosom swims,",0.0 +"Call with sweet whisper, in each gale that blows,",3.0 +Unveil the bashful Violet's tremulous head;,2.0 +"While from her bud the playful Tulip breaks,",0.0 +And young Carnations peep with blushing cheeks;,0.0 +Bid the closed Petals from nocturnal cold,4.0 +"The virgin Style in silken curtains fold,",0.0 +And wave in light their iridescent hues;,0.0 +To the mild breezes their prolific dust;,3.0 +"Or bend in rapture over the central Fair,",2.0 +"Point their green gems, their barren shoots protrude;",3.0 +So shall each germ with new prolific power,0.0 +"Closed in the Style the tender pith shall end,",0.0 +The smoother Rind its soft embroidery spread,2.0 +In vaulted Petals over their fertile bed;,2.0 +"While the rough Bark, in circling mazes rolled,",3.0 +Forms the green Cup with many a wrinkled fold;,5.0 +"Firm round the callow germ, a Floral Guard.",0.0 +"Stint the young germ, the tender blossom stain;",3.0 +"Pith pressed to pith, and rind applied to rind,",1.0 +"So shall the trunk with loftier crest ascend,",2.0 +And wide in air its happier arms extend;,2.0 +"Thus when in holy triumph Aaron trod,",0.0 +And offered on the shrine his mystic rod;,1.0 +"First a new bark its silken tissue weaves,",3.0 +New buds emerging widen into leaves;,1.0 +And blush and tremble round the living wand.,0.0 +"Fright the green Locust from his foamy bed,",4.0 +Arrest the snail upon his slimy road;,0.0 +So where the Hummingbird in Chili's bowers,0.0 +"Seeks, where fine pores their dulcet balm distil,",3.0 +"Hide her fine form, and mask her blushing charms;",3.0 +"In ambush sly the mimic warrior lies,",1.0 +First in one point the festering wound confined,2.0 +"Then climbs the branches with increasing strength,",1.0 +"Spreads as they spread, and lengthens with their length;",1.0 +Runs in white lines along the lucid field;,3.0 +"Crack follows crack, to laws elastic just,",1.0 +And the frail fabric shivers into dust.,2.0 +"Screen with thick leaves the Jasmine as it blows,",4.0 +And shake the white rhyme from the shuddering Rose;,4.0 +While Amaryllis turns with graceful ease,0.0 +"Her blushing beauties, and eludes the breeze. ' --",1.0 +"Thin clouds of Gossamer in air display,",2.0 +And hide the vale's chaste Lily from the ray;,2.0 +"Bends all her leaves, and braves the sultry hour; ' --",0.0 +"Shield, when cold Hesper sheds his dewy light,",2.0 +And wastes on night's dull eye a blaze of charms.,1.0 +"Her fragrant flowers, her graceful foliage bend;",2.0 +"Hang round the Orange all her silver bells,",0.0 +"Bud after bud her polished leaves unfold,",1.0 +And load her branches with successive gold.,1.0 +So the learnt Alchemist exulting sees,3.0 +"Drop after drop, with just delay he pours",1.0 +"Slow shoot, at length, in many a brilliant mass",3.0 +Metallic roots across the netted glass;,0.0 +"Branch after branch extend their silver stems,",1.0 +For her the unnamed progeny of spring;,6.0 +"Attendant Nymphs her dulcet mandates hear,",1.0 +"And nurse in fostering arms the tender year,",2.0 +"With milder gales, and steep with warmer showers.",0.0 +"Delighted Thames through tropic umbrage glides,",0.0 +"And flowers antarctic, bending over his tides;",4.0 +And calls the sons of science to his vales.,1.0 +In one bright point admiring Nature eyes,3.0 +"The fruits and foliage of discordant skies,",1.0 +One tranquil hour the ROYAL PARTNERS steal;,0.0 +"Through glades exotic pass with step sublime,",0.0 +"With beauty blossomed, and with virtue blazed,",1.0 +"Sweet blooms the Rose, the towering Oak expands,",1.0 +The Grace and Guard of Britain's golden lands.,0.0 +Attend the radiant chariot of the morn;,1.0 +"Lead the gay hours along the ethereal hight,",7.0 +And on each dun meridian shower the light;,5.0 +"To climes, that shudder in the polar ray,",0.0 +"From zone to zone pursue on shifting wing,",0.0 +The bright perennial journey of the spring;,3.0 +"Fruits, whose fair forms in bright succession glow",3.0 +"Gilding the Banks of Arno, or of Po;",3.0 +"Each leaf, whose fragrant steam with ruby lip",0.0 +"Each spicy rind, which sultry India boasts,",2.0 +"Roots whose bold stems in bleak Siberia blow,",5.0 +And gem with many a tint the eternal snow;,3.0 +"Barks, whose broad umbrage high in either waves",2.0 +"Wide over the rill, that bubbles from his roots;",4.0 +"Beneath whose arms, protected from the storm",1.0 +"Call with loud voice the Sisterhood, that dwell",4.0 +"Stamp with charmed foot, convoke the alarmed Gnomes",6.0 +"Each from her sphere with beckoning arm invite,",2.0 +"Curled with red flame, the Vestal Forms of light.",3.0 +"Close all your spotted wings, in lucid ranks",0.0 +"Press with your bending knees the crowded banks,",0.0 +"Lead round her breezy coasts thy guardian trains,",2.0 +"Her nodding forests, and her waving plains;",1.0 +And with thy airy temple crown her isle!,1.0 +"The GODDESS ceased, ' -- and calling from afar",1.0 +"The wandering Zephyrs, joins them to her car;",3.0 +"Mounts with light bound, and graceful, as she bends,",4.0 +"On whispering wheels the silver axle slides,",2.0 +"Climbs into air, and cleaves the crystal tides;",1.0 +"Burst from its pearly chains, her amber hair",0.0 +"Streams over her ivory shoulders, buoyed in air;",4.0 +"Swells her white veil, with ruby clasp confined",3.0 +"Round her fair brow, and undulates behind;",3.0 +"' -- HERE her sad Consort, stealing through the gloom",5.0 +"Of murmuring cloisters, gazes on her tomb;",3.0 +"Sexton! o, lay beneath this sacred shrine,",2.0 +"When Time's cold hand shall close my aching eyes,",1.0 +"O, gently lay this wearied earth of mine,",0.0 +"So shall with purer joy my spirit move,",0.0 +"When the last trumpet thrills the caves of Death,",2.0 +"Catch the first whispers of my waking love,",4.0 +And drink with holy kiss her kindling breath.,0.0 +"The spotless Fair, with blush ethereal warm,",2.0 +"Shall hail with sweeter smile returning day,",0.0 +"Rise from her marble bed a brighter form,",0.0 +And win on buoyant step her airy way.,0.0 +"Shall bend approved, where beckoning hosts invite,",2.0 +"On clouds of silver her adoring knee,",1.0 +"TORN from the fruitful spot on which I grew,",0.0 +"Pains more afflicting, as from man they flow,",2.0 +From parent man! for birth to man I owe.,0.0 +Sometime asunder split from end to end;,1.0 +Now doomed the rage of drying fires to try:,1.0 +"There while in double torment scorched and drowned,",1.0 +Last their fierce hate its utmost effort tries,4.0 +With all Barbarian pomp of sacrifice.,2.0 +Over my white locks the sacred flower is spread,4.0 +While on the fatal block is placed my head.,0.0 +Yet with fixed constancy I bear my doom;,3.0 +And constancy at last will overcome.,1.0 +"From all my trials I return at length,",1.0 +"My worth increased, my beauty, and my strength.",1.0 +"The suffering martyr thus in torment dies,",1.0 +In sainted state more glorious to arise.,3.0 +"And now I reassume my native state,",1.0 +"My torturers now beneath their burden sweat,",0.0 +"Slaves in their turn to me, and think it pride",1.0 +If on their subject necks I deign to ride.,1.0 +"Yet still my filial duty I retain,",3.0 +"Still to mankind a friend, I daily shed",3.0 +My warmest blessings on his parent head;,1.0 +"Around him still with fond embraces twine,",0.0 +"Nor quit him ever till he to rest repairs,",1.0 +And every morn renew my constant cares.,0.0 +Ready alike on rich and poor to wait;,2.0 +I suit myself to every different state.,1.0 +"With priest in whitish dress arrayed I shine,",0.0 +Emblem of purity and truth divine.,3.0 +"His solemn face the doctor owes to me,",0.0 +"His solemn face, to which he owes his fee.",0.0 +"At bench, or bar, I add a dignity",1.0 +"To the upright sentence, or rhetoric plea;",5.0 +"Hence without me no judge explains the laws,",3.0 +In fullest floods my bounty showers on them,1.0 +"Profuse, descending to the garment's hem.",1.0 +Gorgeous in silken garb I grace the beau;,2.0 +And all around ambrosial fragrance throw;,0.0 +"When to the camp the valiant warriors lead,",0.0 +"Gorgonian terrors to each mien I add,",3.0 +And still their weakest part with care I shade.,0.0 +"NOTHING, dear Madam, nothing is more true,",4.0 +Than a short Maxim much approved by you;,2.0 +The Lines are these: We by Experience know,4.0 +Within ourselves exists our Bliss or Woe.,0.0 +"Though round our Heads the Goods of Fortune roll,",0.0 +"Dazzle they may, but cannot cheer the Soul.",1.0 +"Content, the Fountain of eternal Joy,",1.0 +"Can Riches purchase, or can Want destroy?",1.0 +"No. Born of Heaven, its Birth it will maintain,",2.0 +"Say, who can buy what never yet was sold?",0.0 +"No Wealth can bribe her, nor no Bonds can hold:",3.0 +"Sometime she deigns to shine in lofty Halls,",1.0 +But found more frequent in a Cottage Walls;,0.0 +"Her Flight from thence too often is decreed,",2.0 +Then Poverty is doubly cursed indeed.,1.0 +"Content and Bliss, which differ but in Name,",1.0 +"Alike their Natures and their End the same,",1.0 +Fast bound together in eternal Chains.,1.0 +"This as the End ' -- The other, as the Means,",2.0 +"Will never divide. But who enjoys the one,",2.0 +Must find the other ere the setting Sun.,0.0 +Then where? Ah where do these fair Sisters fly?,4.0 +Beneath the northern or the southern Sky.,1.0 +"Courts do they love? The Senate or the Town,",1.0 +Or the still Village and the healthful Down.,4.0 +"To none of these, alas, are they confined,",2.0 +But the still Bosom and the virtuous Mind.,5.0 +Whose stubborn Passions wage continual War.,2.0 +"Who cannot call that ravaged Heart his own,",0.0 +Where Vice and Virtue struggle for the Throne.,1.0 +See Rage appearing in that hostile Frown:,1.0 +"Now Fears distract him and now Pleasures drown,",3.0 +Now turns to Heaven with repentant Tears:,2.0 +But the next Hour at his Chaplain sneers:,1.0 +"This day a Beast, the next a reasoning Man:",2.0 +"Behold him right, then envy, if you can,",1.0 +Pale Livia too ' -- Who pants beneath the weight,3.0 +Of irksome Jewels and afflicting State;,1.0 +"Whose Glass and Pillow do her Time divide,",0.0 +At once oppressed with Sickness and with Pride.,1.0 +"The shapely Stays her aching Ribs confine,",0.0 +"Yet not a Joy the tortured Wretch can feel,",0.0 +Beyond Ixion on his rolling Wheel.,1.0 +"See restless Cloe, fond to be admired,",4.0 +"When first her Eyelids open on the Day,",2.0 +"With eager haste she gobbles down her Tea,",1.0 +"And to the Park commands her rolling Wheels,",1.0 +Yet sighs and wishes for the rural Fields:,1.0 +"Then back to Cards and Company she flies,",1.0 +Then for the Charms of melting Music dies.,0.0 +"At Eve the Play, Assembly, or the Ball:",1.0 +"She hates them singly, yet would grasp them all:",0.0 +"With languid Spirits and appalled Desires,",1.0 +She to her Closet and her Book retires.,2.0 +But Solitude offends the sprightly Fair;,0.0 +"Then to her Chamber and her Couch she flies,",1.0 +Where gilded Chariots swim before her Eyes.,2.0 +"In vain for Sleep she folds her weary Arms,",0.0 +Who would be Cloe to enjoy her Charms?,2.0 +"In yonder Path Sir Thrifty we behold,",2.0 +With Beaver drooping and with Garments old;,1.0 +"Whose dirty Linen shows no Mark of Pride,",1.0 +Nor sparkling Laces deck his slender Side;,0.0 +"Whose heavy Soul a saucy Wit would swear,",0.0 +Was made exactly to his easy Chair.,1.0 +"Whose tasteless Senses ask for nothing new,",0.0 +Whose Meals are temperate and whose pleasures few:,1.0 +Is this Man blessed? ' -- He may be so. ' -- But when?,2.0 +"Why, when his Thousands rise to number ten,",0.0 +"From ten to twenty, and from twenty ' -- Hold,",1.0 +To one round Million of bright Sterling Gold;,3.0 +"Not there we stop, for Avarice will crave",1.0 +"Till it shall meet with its grand Cure, the Grave.",3.0 +With Eyes that charm and Reason that inspires;,0.0 +"Youth, Wealth, and Friends, to gild her shining Days,",1.0 +The poor Man's Blessing and the rich Man's Praise.,3.0 +"With Judgement sound and touched by no extreme,",0.0 +"Speech gently flowing and a Soul serene,",2.0 +"For ever pleasing and for ever true,",1.0 +"By all admired, envied by a few:",1.0 +"Then she is happy, though beneath the Sky,",1.0 +"Hold, not so hasty: ' -- Let her Husband die.",0.0 +Since undisturbed it seldom lasts a Day:,0.0 +May weed before his short-lived Journey's done.,1.0 +"We crave, we grasp, but loath the tasted Joy:",0.0 +"Nor Wealth nor Beauty, Friend's nor Fortune's Smile,",0.0 +"Can bless our Moments, though they may beguile:",2.0 +"Nor Wit with Happiness can often grow,",1.0 +"A helpless Friend, if not an arrant Foe.",0.0 +Where then? OH where shall Happiness be found?,1.0 +"Say, shall we search the rolling World around,",0.0 +Or to the Centre drive our piercing Eye?,1.0 +"Cease, busy Fool: Is Happiness thy Care?",2.0 +"Pierce thy own Breast, and thou wilt find it there:",1.0 +"Drive thence the Passions, and the Guilt expel,",2.0 +And call fair Virtue to the polished Cell.,2.0 +Call soft Content with all her smiling Train;,1.0 +"Peace for thy Health, and Patience for thy Pain:",1.0 +"Then not till then, OH Man, thy Heart shall know",1.0 +"Bliss so adored, but seldom found below.",2.0 +"Pardon, much honoured Fair! this humble lay,",1.0 +Nor scorn the tribute Gratitude may pay;,0.0 +"No rapturous Muse ever warmed my rustic breast,",3.0 +Nor dare I own the bright exalted guest:,0.0 +"Far flies the Muse where radiant Science reigns,",1.0 +"Inspires the soul, and elevates her strains;",0.0 +"Then rapture, melody, and sense conspire,",1.0 +"Far let her fly ' -- if Gratitude be mine,",1.0 +Her voice shall match the whole harmonious Nine;,2.0 +"Nor pauses short of the Celestial Throne,",1.0 +"There loudly sounds ' -- a voice by Mercy given,",0.0 +"While echoes vibrate through the vaults of Heaven,",1.0 +"There sounds your name, while listening Angels bend",0.0 +In that great day when mingled nations stand ' --,1.0 +"Your plaudit high, who prop their infant days;",0.0 +"Whose voice has called them from the depths of woe,",1.0 +"Suppressed the sigh, forbade the tear to flow?",0.0 +"Low on the earth, by anguish crushed, I lay ' --",0.0 +"I mourned the night, nor hailed the coming day,",0.0 +"When bright Aurora tipped the Eastern skies,",0.0 +Hearts blessed with plenty bade the Goddess rise;,1.0 +"Not so with me ' -- to Misery resigned,",2.0 +On her cold lap my wretched head reclined;,2.0 +"Around, grim horrors take their ghastly stand,",1.0 +"And Famine executes her dire command,",0.0 +"Not for my own, but for my infants' woes:",1.0 +"The Stoic's sullen gloom had filled my soul,",0.0 +"Forbade the sigh, and checked the tears that roll;",0.0 +"Her charge as lost; homeward to Heaven she flies,",5.0 +"OH, dismal Fiend! to thee I give the world,",2.0 +"From all its joys, and shadowy visions hurled;",2.0 +"The contest over, eternal worlds are mine,",2.0 +"Young CHLOE, CUPID, and ALEXIS played:",2.0 +"LOVE's Goddess, with her Doves, sat looking on;",4.0 +"And, smiling, nodded to her wanton Son:",1.0 +Her wanton Son his keenest Arrow drew;,0.0 +"Swift, to the Swain, the pointed Weapon flew.",0.0 +"Inflexible to Love, the Shepherd stood,",1.0 +"Repelled the Shaft, and mocked the baffled God;",0.0 +"Till CHLOE raised her Eyes with killing Art,",0.0 +And shot him with a more pernicious Dart:,1.0 +"Yours is the Victory, ALEXIS cries;",2.0 +"SAY, reverend man, why mid this stormy night",1.0 +"Alas! I would assist thee, though unknown.",1.0 +Rash youth! that GOD which robbed my eyes of sight,1.0 +Darts through my mind a ray of sacred light:,0.0 +"The winds I heed not, nor the lashing shower,",1.0 +"My sinewy frame is firm, my soaring mind has power.",2.0 +"'Twas Heaven's fierce fire which swept my eyes away,",4.0 +Yet strong ideas rooted in my brain,0.0 +"Form there an universe, which does contain",0.0 +"Those images which Nature's hand displays,",1.0 +"The heavenly arch, the morning's glowing rays;",2.0 +And all the grandeur of this glorious world!,3.0 +"But, ah! how wild drives on the rapid storm,",2.0 +Dashing the rain against thy reverend form!,2.0 +"Yonder swelling river, foaming towards the main,",0.0 +Smokes mid the advancing waves and falling rain:,2.0 +"OH, father! my young soul is shook within;",3.0 +O! let me lead you from this horrid scene.,1.0 +"I yield; ' -- but let not fear thy mind deform,",1.0 +Hark! it's GOD'S voice which urges on the storm;,4.0 +He to this world of elements gave form.,3.0 +"But broke the harmony, and bade them rage;",1.0 +"He meant not happiness should join with ease,",1.0 +But varied joys and pains should all the world engage.,0.0 +"Patience, my Lord, a virtue rare, I grant;",2.0 +"And what, I fear, the wisest of us want:",1.0 +"Easy the task in Action to excel,",3.0 +The soul's last trial lies in suffering well.,1.0 +"From fear, or shame what specious acts proceed!",0.0 +And worldly aims oft prompt the shining deed.,1.0 +"Look but on half the boasted things we do,",0.0 +"And praise, or profit is the point in view.",1.0 +"From these, what crops of virtue bless the land!",1.0 +"With these, how oft the mower fills his hand!",1.0 +"Prompted by these the knave we oft regard,",1.0 +While suffering virtue is her own reward;,1.0 +"But granting nobler motives to the few,",4.0 +And same or interest not the point in view;,0.0 +"And praise, or pity even for virtue's sake;",2.0 +"Yet that soft temper of the generous mind,",4.0 +"That very breast, benevolent and kind,",1.0 +"That noble sense, which feels what others feel,",0.0 +"Which you, my Lord, who know it, best can tell;",0.0 +"Itself oppressed, can least resistance show,",0.0 +"But pines, or sinks beneath its proper woe.",0.0 +"In different views their trials, tempers scan,",0.0 +"Even Swift can weep, and Clayton is a man.",1.0 +"Superior faculties avail not here,",3.0 +The same nice nerve which vibrates to the brain,2.0 +"Its sense of pleasure, gives as quick its pain:",0.0 +"And all the difference betwixt the fool and wise,",1.0 +"In their sensations, and perceptions lies.",2.0 +"The Man of Wit in many parts is sore,",0.0 +"Touch but a Genius, and he smarts all over.",1.0 +"The Fool feels little, for he little knows.",2.0 +"The downright Ass is passive, mild, and tame,",1.0 +"By blows or kindness urged, is still the same:",0.0 +"His stoic breast no kindling passions prove,",1.0 +"Kick him you may, but you can never move.",2.0 +"OH envied creature! who nor feels or fears,",1.0 +"Who all things suffers, all things bravely bears.",2.0 +"Whom neither Hope, or Fear, or Shame can move,",0.0 +"Nor kindling mounts to Rage, or melts to Love.",0.0 +"His pleasures always equal, flowing, full,",0.0 +For ever patient and for ever dull!,1.0 +"If then from Wisdom half our pains arise,",0.0 +"The greatest good proud Science can bestow,",2.0 +"But learnt the latest, is ' -- Our selves to know.",1.0 +"Yet after all their search, the wise complain,",0.0 +This very knowledge irritates their pain.,0.0 +In vain you tell me of the stoic train:,1.0 +And would sustain them in the dreadful Field,0.0 +More than a thousand Bodies of Reserve.,1.0 +And what could more convince the impatient Troops,2.0 +Than sudden and determinate Recourse,5.0 +To the decisive Vengeance of the Field.,2.0 +"Urged by these powerful Motives to Dispatch,",3.0 +Where the Bavarian and the Gallic Troops,2.0 +"Lie with the utmost Skill of Art entrenched,",1.0 +"Upon possessing which the great Success,",0.0 +Of this illustrious Enterprise depends:,3.0 +There he the Orders for the fierce Assault,2.0 +"Issues, with cheerful Majesty serene,",3.0 +"From ardent Temper, or from glowing Rage,",1.0 +"Provoked by mortal Wrongs, or Fear of Shame.",0.0 +But here remote from Fear or Rage behold,0.0 +Who leads the Squadrons that appear in Arms,0.0 +"For Liberty at once, and spotless Faith,",1.0 +The two great Causes of the Earth and Sky.,2.0 +That no Man can with fixed Regards survey,1.0 +"The dazzling Front of Death, or of the Sun.",1.0 +For as an Eagle with a steadfast Eye,3.0 +Which streaming with impetuous Flood of Light,1.0 +"Exposed to Gallic and Bavarian Fire,",3.0 +"He all his cheerful Majesty maintains,",1.0 +"His Orders to exact Advantage gives,",1.0 +Commanding all the Movements of his Soul,1.0 +With independent and with Lordly Power.,1.0 +"He who himself thus absolutely rules,",1.0 +Seems by wise Nature framed for martial Sway;,3.0 +"His shouting Troops exalt him to the Sky,",1.0 +"Him they all imitate, him all admire.",1.0 +"On pointed Cannon they have run before,",1.0 +"Here they do more, and hushed and passive stand",0.0 +"While their invincible Brigades are formed,",2.0 +Awaiting what Commands their wondrous Chief,0.0 +"Of the Bavarian Cannon tears their Ranks,",3.0 +Troubling whole Squadrons with the Tyrant Rage,3.0 +"Of missionary Thunder, they mean while",2.0 +"Who by no Rage, no Fury are sustained,",5.0 +"The Frenzy that on Brutal Courage waits,",0.0 +"Unmoved, unshaken keep the dangerous Posts",2.0 +Which were assigned them by their dread Commander.,2.0 +"The Friends and dear Companions of their Toils,",1.0 +Those whom they cherish equal to themselves,1.0 +"Torn from their Sides without Concern they see,",0.0 +A nobler Care possesses all their Souls;,2.0 +Themselves too torn they from themselves behold,2.0 +"Their mangled Trunks divided from their Limbs,",1.0 +Even for themselves no Grief no Pity show;,3.0 +"They see the King of Terrors in their View,",0.0 +"They see him stalking near with hideous Stride,",2.0 +"Threatening to grasp their Hearts with Iron Gripe,",1.0 +OH Greatness worthy Greece or Ancient Rome!,1.0 +"For his dear Thebes, for his great Cause concerned,",4.0 +"Regardless of his Blood, regardless of his Life.",2.0 +"And they, like him, would think themselves too blessed",1.0 +To see their Party Victors ever they expire;,1.0 +"If any show Concern, it's only Fear",0.0 +Least they should fall before their General's Voice,0.0 +"Allows them to discharge the impetuous Fire,",2.0 +That now penned inward chokes their generous Hearts;,3.0 +"Thrice happy if permitted, even in Death,",3.0 +To be the Instruments employed by Fate,1.0 +"To bestow Freedom on the Christian World,",6.0 +And on their Country never dying Fame.,1.0 +"But what are they unable to perform,",2.0 +"They who appeared so calm, so meek before,",0.0 +"Are now all Rage, all storming Fury grown.",0.0 +"Now from their flaming Eyes red Lightning flies,",1.0 +"While in their Arms the avenging Thunder roars,",2.0 +"And now of dying they can think no more,",2.0 +Their General's fatal Order is to kill.,1.0 +"His Voice they as the Voice of Fate regard,",1.0 +And as the Ministers of Fate themselves.,2.0 +Rushing like sounding Waters they assault,3.0 +"The strong Retrenchments, so with bellowing Sound,",3.0 +"He Billows upon Billows storming pours,",5.0 +"Which rise, and swell, and rage, and foam, and roar;",0.0 +"Till the victorious Tenth at last comes on,",4.0 +Overwhelming all with dismal Inundation.,0.0 +"In vain the Foe outrageously resists,",2.0 +"Which to the English sounds the Voice of Fame,",0.0 +That to immortal Glory calls them on.,1.0 +"Now all War's Godhead rages in their Breasts,",4.0 +O the transporting Fury! Has the World,1.0 +An Enemy that can resist them now?,2.0 +In vain grim Death in his most hideous Shape;,4.0 +"Whom all his Terrors, all his Plagues sustain.",0.0 +"The undaunted English turn him on the Foe,",2.0 +And in a dreadful Tone cries out my Friends;,2.0 +"These are my Friends, my Benefactors these,",2.0 +"I follow you, and all your Steps attend,",1.0 +Fortune and Fate are on the Conqueror's Side.,5.0 +"Impetuous now they rush conducting Fate,",0.0 +For what must not submit to Fate or them?,0.0 +And Fire and Water to confound them League.,1.0 +Behind them conquering Death in fiery Cart,4.0 +"Drives on, and urges furiously the Chase,",3.0 +"And then he gaping with a hideous Yawn,",3.0 +And roaring swallows down his impious Prey.,4.0 +"Britannia, Let thy Joy salute the Skies,",2.0 +"And to thy Maker tuneful Praise return,",1.0 +And thy great General's Conduct he inspired.,3.0 +And that immortal Field will cry aloud,0.0 +And thy great General's Conduct was Divine.,3.0 +"And thou too with thy Maker's Praise resound,",1.0 +"Thou who wert charmed with the Transporting Sight,",1.0 +Swallowed whole Legions with a hideous Roar;,6.0 +To be the blissful Spot that frees the World;,0.0 +"And for thy mighty Bliss thy Maker praise,",1.0 +"For thou to all Posterity art blessed,",2.0 +"The winding Danube curls his amorous Arms,",2.0 +"No Length of Days thy Glory shall deface,",1.0 +Nor ever Darkness of the Night obscure.,1.0 +"All times, all Nations thee shall happy call,",1.0 +"By whom all times, all Nations shall be blessed,",0.0 +Thy Sons above the Race of Men be blessed!,0.0 +"As they their executing Circuit go,",1.0 +Fly from thy blissful Borders far away!,0.0 +Thou who hast made the happy Nations free!,0.0 +And pour you Heavens into her lovely Lap,2.0 +Your sweetest and your most refreshing Dews!,1.0 +"That flowing Plenty all her Days may crown,",0.0 +And when from Heaven the murdering Angel comes,2.0 +To visit with consuming Plagues the Earth;,1.0 +May he behold upon thy blissful Soil,1.0 +"The Stains of Gallic and Bavarian Blood,",3.0 +And passing by revere the sacred Ground!,1.0 +"And thou, OH sacred, OH Majestic Day,",2.0 +That ever Fate begat on fertile time;,0.0 +"Still as thy Light revolves OH sacred Day,",1.0 +Resounding with thy Maker's Praise return!,1.0 +For highly has thy Maker honoured thee,0.0 +Above all Days of the revolving Year!,1.0 +"His Praise then in a thousand Tongues resound,",1.0 +Let Millions of glad Voices raise it high!,3.0 +"So may thy Halcyon Hours drive smoothly on,",7.0 +Illustrious far above the rest of Days!,2.0 +On thee may thy bright Sire profusely pour,6.0 +A double Portion of his flowing Gold!,1.0 +With all the Rapture of transporting Song!,1.0 +"And let the World forget the sprightly May,",1.0 +The Day accomplishing the Joyful Spring,1.0 +"For Freedom is more joyful than the Spring,",2.0 +Let never any Cloud thy Lustre stain,1.0 +And never any Grief pollute thy Joy!,0.0 +May Grief and Care and Pain at thy Approach,1.0 +As from descending Angels disappear!,1.0 +Accomplish every Act begun on thee!,0.0 +Thee may great Minds for mighty Actions choose!,2.0 +"Thou wert ordained to accomplish wondrous things,",3.0 +Thy happy Influence once before preserved,2.0 +At least a while delayed its dismal Fate.,0.0 +"'Twas upon thee the Carthaginian Chief,",2.0 +"Making the World's aspiring Tyrants yield,",2.0 +Vanquished proud Rome at Canne's fatal Field.,2.0 +Which of them should enslave the vanquished World.,0.0 +"On one side to oppress immortal Liberty,",3.0 +"To make her wing her Flight from Earth to Heaven,",0.0 +"Her divine Sister, on the other side,",6.0 +The Intent was solidly to fix her here,2.0 +"In lasting Peace, and make of Earth a Heaven;",0.0 +"And never two more powerful Armies met,",2.0 +"Than that which strove to drive thee from below,",1.0 +"And that, OH Goddess, which maintained thy Power.",1.0 +On the Oppressors' side the Hostile French,4.0 +With the Bavarian Squadrons now were joined.,3.0 +"Hardy and rough, and fit for Bloody Fields,",2.0 +And Victory had raised their Spirits high.,2.0 +"And now the Memory of past Success,",1.0 +"And Hope of future Empire fired his Soul,",2.0 +And the wild Prospect of his flaming Towers,3.0 +"Stung him, till frantic with his Rage he roared'",1.0 +And called on Heaven and Hell for dire Revenge.,0.0 +"The French were all of Gallic Troops the Flower,",0.0 +"Experienced and Victorious were their Chiefs,",4.0 +Soldiers and Chiefs inured to vast Success:,2.0 +And claiming Right to Conquest and Renown,1.0 +From long Possession; with their dearest Blood,1.0 +Resolved their lofty Title to defend.,1.0 +"By long Success presumptuous grown and vain,",2.0 +Aspiring to the Conquest of the World;,2.0 +Believed by all the Nations and themselves,1.0 +"Proud of their Junction with Bavarian Powers,",3.0 +"Which they with so much Hazard, so much Toil,",2.0 +"From which the Empire sure Destruction waits,",0.0 +And all the Christian World perpetual Bonds.,2.0 +But OH how vain are human Hopes and Fears!,0.0 +"How blind is the poor Providence of Man,",3.0 +And what a Fool to the Designs of Fate!,1.0 +"The dreadful Moment comes upon the Wing,",0.0 +"When they who make this Junction now their Boast,",0.0 +"Their Pride, their Hope, their Joy, their Ecstasy,",1.0 +When they whole conquered Provinces would give,3.0 +"That this accursed Junction never had been,",5.0 +"When that which now deludes their glorious Minds,",2.0 +"With the vain Hope of Empire and of Fame,",3.0 +"To bring them down from their aspiring Flight,",2.0 +"For now the conquering English are in view,",3.0 +"For what to them can be impossible,",2.0 +"A Conquest gained, when scarce their March was over;",0.0 +"A March like what great Philip's greater Son,",1.0 +"Or the first Caesar, took to win the World;",2.0 +"A March almost incredible to those,",2.0 +"A March so swift that it prevented Fame,",1.0 +For such Dispatch transcends the Germans Thought;,1.0 +At which their listless Nations look amazed.,0.0 +They gazing seem the English to regard,1.0 +As if descended to their Aid from Heaven;,2.0 +"Whose Squadrons the Confederate force compose,",3.0 +Than a Bright Star that all at once appears,1.0 +"Who gazing cry it's sent express from Heaven,",0.0 +To change the Fortune of the Universe.,1.0 +The Nations in the British Squadrons Eyes,0.0 +Divine Presage of Victory behold.,6.0 +"Full of their Islands noble Pride they march,",0.0 +"Full of their fierce Forefathers conquering Fire,",3.0 +Esteem themselves invincible alone;,1.0 +Believing firmly that to conquer France,0.0 +"Is but their old Hereditary Right,",1.0 +"Who then were wont to triumph over France,",0.0 +Even when they were a People fierce and free;,1.0 +"When for their Country and their Friends they fought,",1.0 +Fought for their dear Relations and themselves.,1.0 +"How must they then disdain to yield to those,",0.0 +Who to support a Grizzly Tyrants Pride,1.0 +"Against their Country and their Friends contend,",1.0 +Against their dear Relations and themselves?,1.0 +"That for their Parts they fight for Justice, Truth,",0.0 +"For God, and for Celestial Liberty.",2.0 +"That Fate the first Occasion now presents,",0.0 +When they the Foe may in the Field surprise,0.0 +Without oppressing Numbers on their Side;,1.0 +"Whom they resolve like Englishmen to attack,",6.0 +That is like Men resolved to overcome or die.,0.0 +That now the Eyes of all the Christian World,0.0 +Are on this great decisive Action bent;,1.0 +That all the Christian World expects from them,0.0 +Deeds worthy of the Champions of Mankind,4.0 +"Against oppressing Tyrants, Beasts more wild",0.0 +To render Europe yet more waste than her;,0.0 +That they must fight like Heroes who support,0.0 +"The Glory of their conquering Ancestors,",3.0 +And those of other sinking Realms restore;,1.0 +"Who vindicate their own undoubted Rights,",1.0 +And those of all Posterity defend.,2.0 +They under their heroic Leader march,1.0 +"To such a Height no mortal Force can soar,",2.0 +And now the Inspiration leaves my Soul.,0.0 +Or if I must with feeble Wings essay,1.0 +"And thou the brightest Angel of the Sky,",2.0 +With whose enchanting Beauties all the Host,0.0 +"Of Heaven above, all Heavenly Minds below",2.0 +"Are charmed, with whom the great Creator's charmed!",1.0 +"Eternal Fame! Thee Goddess I invoke,",1.0 +"For nothing without thy Aid was ever produced,",4.0 +"Or great or fair in Earth or Heaven above,",0.0 +"So the great Maker willed, and made it Fate",2.0 +"Descend bright Goddess to my Aid, descend",2.0 +TO infuse a Beam of thy Celestial Fire,2.0 +"Into my Soul, and raise my adventurous Song.",4.0 +"If with thy Beauties all my Soul is fired,",1.0 +"If all that wretched Mortals here call great,",1.0 +I sacrifice to Liberty and thee;,1.0 +For thou with all thy Hundred Eyes wert by,1.0 +Thou Goddess with thy own Celestial Trump,1.0 +"When at the Immortal Blast the Powers above,",3.0 +Looked wondering from the Battlements of Heaven.,3.0 +"And shouting filled the eternal Realms with Joy,",2.0 +To see bold Man the Cause of Heaven maintain;,1.0 +The Souls of British Heroes from the Sky,1.0 +"Upon the Glories of that Field looked down,",3.0 +"Thither their Eyes the Conquering Edwards bent,",2.0 +On that magnanimous Henry wondering gazed.,4.0 +"All charmed to see their times of Gold return,",0.0 +All charmed to see bright Victory descend.,2.0 +And perch upon an English General's Plume.,0.0 +The Red Cross Champion looked transported down,4.0 +And there looked down the blissful Souls of those,0.0 +Who in the same immortal Cause expired,0.0 +"To see great Marlborough do what he had done,",2.0 +Had but the false Bavarian been his Foe.,1.0 +The preexisting Souls of future Kings,0.0 +"On that important Field looked down, on which",2.0 +Their future Right and future Power depends.,2.0 +"Mean while the Sun, the World's great Eye and Soul,",1.0 +That no invidious Cloud might intercept,2.0 +"Which showed a nobler Sight than all the World's,",2.0 +And all the Space immense that with one Kenn,1.0 +"He views, could all afford him, when it showed",0.0 +In the great Cause of Liberty and Truth.,4.0 +The Nations here below had all their Eyes,0.0 +"Intent upon that Field, on whose Event",0.0 +"Depended all their Freedom, all their Peace.",0.0 +The very Elements attend in Truce,1.0 +"The dreadful Issue, silent were the Winds,",1.0 +"All Nature in all others Parts had Peace,",0.0 +Discord had now no Leisure to attend,4.0 +"For there were all her Stygian Snakes employed,",1.0 +"Who shaped like Falcons waiting for their Prey,",1.0 +"So that both Earth, and Heaven, and Hell below,",1.0 +"Times present, past, and future, all appeared",1.0 +To be concerned on that important Day.,0.0 +"But hark! The Goddess gives the dreadful Charge,",0.0 +"I hear the enchanting Sound, I feel its Magic Power,",2.0 +"That Sound can like the last Angelic Trump,",1.0 +From their eternal Mansions rouse the Dead;,1.0 +"That Magic Sound brings future times in view,",1.0 +"And makes the past return, that mighty Sound,",0.0 +"Swift as the Movement of quick Thought, transports",2.0 +The Hearer to the World's remotest Ends.,1.0 +"I feel, I feel even now that I am rapt",4.0 +"Do you see how the tempestuous Squadrons move,",4.0 +Like Clouds with Thunder charged along the Plain!,0.0 +O the transporting Sight! The noble Sound!,1.0 +And the impatient Champions eager Shouts.,3.0 +The Trumpets roar! The Thunder of the Drum!,1.0 +How Danube rears his hoary Head aghast!,0.0 +"The adjacent Forrest frightfully surveys,",2.0 +"The adjacent Forests darts a dreadful Gloom,",1.0 +And on his Flood with double Horror frowns.,1.0 +"On to the Attack the thundering Squadrons move,",3.0 +"The very Heavens above them seem to smoke,",2.0 +And the resounding Earth beneath them shakes;,1.0 +The noble Rage of Battle fires the Plain:,0.0 +Me too the noble Fury has inspired,0.0 +"Their Actions worthy the recording Muse,",1.0 +"The Daughter of Celestial Memory,",2.0 +And the immortal Mother of Renown.,2.0 +"Eternal Fame, thy Summons I obey,",1.0 +"Like them thy Charge, great Goddess, I obey.",2.0 +"Do thou, great Goddess, thou my numerous Song",5.0 +"Accompany with that Angelic Trump,",2.0 +"Whose Sound by all the listening Globe is heard,",0.0 +And to the World's remotest times descends.,1.0 +No more the impatient Warriors eager Shouts.,1.0 +"For now the Cannon thunders through the Plain,",1.0 +And drowns all dreadful Noises in its own;,0.0 +"The moving Squadrons are no longer seen,",2.0 +The very Earth and Heavens are seen no more.,2.0 +"For Earth and Heavens seem all involved in Night,",2.0 +A Night of Dust and of tumultuous Smoke;,4.0 +"Or hid in Brightness of tempestuous Flames,",4.0 +Too dazzling to be pierced by mortal Eyes.,2.0 +But now the Goddess with Celestial Light,1.0 +"Dispels the Mist that veiled these mortal Eyes,",0.0 +And now through Clouds of stormy Dust I see,0.0 +"Through curling Smoke, through dazzling Flames I see;",0.0 +"Say, Goddess, what heroic Forms are those,",1.0 +Who the bold Britons lead impetuous on;,3.0 +"Who between them and Danger interpose,",0.0 +And shield them with their very Breasts from Fate:,1.0 +At once in Danger foremost and Renown;,2.0 +And frankly offering up their noble Hearts,1.0 +A great unblemished Sacrifice to thee.,0.0 +"How each looks worthy of his high Command,",2.0 +Each looks as if on his heroic Deeds,2.0 +The Fate depended of this dreadful Day.,1.0 +"Ay, now their Shapes distinctly I discern,",2.0 +And thou with all thy Hundred Tongues wilt spread,1.0 +Hail Race of Heroes! British Worthies Hail!,1.0 +"Hail noble Churchill, Lumley, Villars, Wood!",1.0 +"Hail thou, the foremost in the dire Assault,",1.0 +"Brave Cuts, the Lightning of the British Thunder",2.0 +Those are the immortal Heroes whose Commands,1.0 +"The freeborn English joyfully obey,",1.0 +"Upon their Eyes the fierce Battalions gaze,",0.0 +"And from their Beams derive a glorious Fire,",3.0 +"Now after them they move impatient on,",3.0 +Impatient for the horrid Shock they earn;,1.0 +"Now meet the French and we with hideous Noise,",4.0 +"In Thunder, Lightning, and in Iron Hail.",1.0 +Assist you bright Spectators of the Sky!,4.0 +The Cause of Justice and of Truth support!,1.0 +The Cause of all the Christian World defend!,0.0 +Ah miserable me! The immortal Powers,2.0 +"Either against their own great Cause declare,",3.0 +Or else blind Fortune governs all below.,1.0 +"And false Ambition wins, OH dismal Sight!",1.0 +As fought like these should ever know repulse!,1.0 +Can they from such Heroic Chiefs retire!,2.0 +OH can they poorly yield in such a Cause!,1.0 +"No, see they Rally with a noble Fire,",2.0 +"And Shame grown Fury to the Charge returns,",2.0 +"I must do Justice here, a braver Foe",0.0 +"The French undaunted all their Fury meet,",0.0 +"And all with double Fury they repel,",1.0 +"And drive the English Horse like Lightning back,",0.0 +See how once more confounded they retire!,3.0 +"Lament the Honour of Britannia lost,",4.0 +The wretched Fate of Liberty lament.,1.0 +OH fond Imagination! Vain Conceit!,1.0 +"Immortal is the Date of Liberty,",2.0 +And Britain's Honour never can be lost:,4.0 +For see where now Heroic Marlborough comes!,2.0 +"Comes to maintain them, to revenge them comes.",3.0 +See where the dusty Squadrons he collects,1.0 +That with his dire Artillery are fraught!,1.0 +"With what exalted Air he leads them on,",0.0 +"Terror before him marches, Fame behind,",2.0 +"And Conquest like the Austrian Eagle shaped,",2.0 +Over his Head flies towering to the Skies.,4.0 +With such Majestic Air in Ancient Days,1.0 +Vindictive Thunder on the impious World.,4.0 +"Death his August Appearance sees from far,",2.0 +"TO attack him mounts upon a fiery Globe,",3.0 +"But as more near the Grizzly Monarch draws,",0.0 +And then his fiery Thunderbolt he shoots,2.0 +"Into the Earth, and all its Entrails tears;",0.0 +"About the Hero casts a Mount of Clay,",0.0 +"And buries him almost alive with Hast,",2.0 +To shun him sacred to eternal Fame.!,1.0 +"The Squadrons all with shuddering Horror shake,",2.0 +"And Ruin from that dreadful Moment wait,",1.0 +"He in that dreadful Moment is alone,",1.0 +Fearless and calmly of them all takes Care.,4.0 +An Intrepidity so like their own,2.0 +Charms all the bright Spectators of the Sky;,6.0 +"The Squadrons now redouble all their Rage,",0.0 +And catch Heroic Fortitude from him.,0.0 +"Their Flame rekindled rages in their Breasts,",0.0 +"Unanimous they to the Charge return,",2.0 +With Resolution never seen before;,0.0 +"Each Champions with the Fate of Nations big,",1.0 +"All, All resolve to conquer or to die,",1.0 +"Ay now, even now, the dreadful Moment comes",1.0 +On which the Destiny of Men depends;,1.0 +"Their Hearts even burst with Rage, their noble Hearts",2.0 +"That utterly disdain, that utterly abhor",2.0 +The inglorious Thoughts of Flight or foul Retreat.,3.0 +"In missionary Death they trust no more,",1.0 +But in their Hands they carry hideous Fate.,2.0 +"Now, now, with all their Might, with all their Souls",1.0 +"They rush on Death and Wounds, their dismal Way",0.0 +"Or brandishing aloft the horrid Edge,",1.0 +"Like ripened Corn the adverse Squadrons mow,",1.0 +"Extending them in Heaps upon the Plain,",1.0 +The adverse Squadrons can no longer bear,3.0 +"Their fatal Weapons or their fatal Eyes,",1.0 +"Or their victorious Cries, but Slaughter some,",3.0 +"Some Pain and Anguish seize, Confusion all.",0.0 +"And now in Heaps they fall, in Crowds they fly;",0.0 +And to the Stars is England's Glory raised.,1.0 +"Victoria the transported Britons cry,",3.0 +"Both Heaven and Earth, and Gods, and Men are charmed,",1.0 +"And Phebus with redoubled Glory shines,",1.0 +Danube transported drives his rapid Flood,2.0 +"With double Fury by his echoing Shores,",3.0 +O Joy! o Rapture never to be born!,1.0 +The Victors rushing tear their trembling Rear;,0.0 +"Shouting they rage, and raging they pursue;",3.0 +"A dismal Joy is on their rattling Tongues,",1.0 +Fate in their Arms and Fury in their Eyes.,0.0 +Now Discord stalking with Gigantic Stride,2.0 +"Wades through a Crimson Stream of torrent Gore,",0.0 +"And hideous is the Face of Slaughter now,",1.0 +"And yet even now when all the conquering Troops,",2.0 +"Soldiers and Chiefs are all even wild with Joy,",2.0 +All frantic with the Transport of their Rage.,2.0 +"Their great Commanders calm, he who before",0.0 +"Lord of himself in universal Joy,",2.0 +"Serenely doubts for all; yet his the Praise,",0.0 +"The Glory of the immortal Day is his,",3.0 +"He to a Pitch of human Glory raised,",1.0 +To which no Subject ever rose before;,1.0 +And by this great deciding Moment made,1.0 +"Darling of Nations, and Mankinds Delight,",4.0 +"The Roman Empires Ornament and Fame,",1.0 +"The everlasting Blessing of the Good,",1.0 +E'n in this great deciding Moment he,1.0 +"The impetuous Movements of his Soul commands,",2.0 +Commands himself with more imperious Sway,2.0 +Than even the meanest Warrior of his Troops;,3.0 +"To no unruly Transport he gives way,",2.0 +"To all Attacks remains invincible,",1.0 +And stands the noble Conqueror of himself;,3.0 +For now his Genius whispers him within,1.0 +That while the Day is doubtless on his Side,1.0 +"Heroic Eugene is severely pressed,",4.0 +"Tames the wild Horrors of his frantic Waves,",4.0 +"So mighty Marlborough with a Word, a Nod",1.0 +"The Fury of his Conquering Troops restrains,",3.0 +"E'n raging Madness hears that awful Voice,",1.0 +And in a Moment sinks into a Calm;,0.0 +"That Voice the stormy King of Terrors hears,",0.0 +"He hears that Voice, and in midway arrests",1.0 +His furious Arm descending to destroy.,3.0 +And as the Hero with a Breath can calm,2.0 +"The raging Storm in forty thousand Breasts,",0.0 +"Again like stormy Seas they waving roll,",0.0 +"And rise, and foam with far resounding Roar,",0.0 +"And tenfold Joy, and tenfold Rage succeeds.",2.0 +"For on the Spur the blissful News arrives,",1.0 +That happy Eugene no Support requires;,5.0 +"That conquering Eugene making vast Efforts,",7.0 +"Efforts which never will be forgot by Fame,",4.0 +"A Third time rallied his disordered Troops,",2.0 +And turned Confusion back upon the Foe.,0.0 +"Again great Marlborough gives the fatal Word,",3.0 +"Again the Goddess gives the dreadful Charge,",0.0 +And the victorious Squadrons of the left,4.0 +Again fall on with terrifying Cries.,2.0 +"Conquest before, now great Revenge they seek,",3.0 +"The French astonished, all Resistance loose,",0.0 +"All Resolution, Courage, Order, Thought.",0.0 +"Their Squadrons now confounded, all disband,",0.0 +"Each for himself takes sordid Care alone,",2.0 +Sure Ruin both to Armies and to States.,2.0 +"The Victors with immortal Rage pursue,",1.0 +"That sweeps whole People, and lays Nations waste.",3.0 +"See this you proud aspiring Tyrants, see,",0.0 +And the just Judgements of the avenging God!,4.0 +"That fall by Hundreds, and by Thousands fly.",1.0 +How is Ambition fallen! How in his Turn,2.0 +"Are these the Brave, the Invincible? Are these",4.0 +The Royal Household of the immortal King?,4.0 +"Are these the Bands so proud of Triumphs past,",1.0 +So vain upon the Hopes of those to come?,1.0 +And with the Spoils of conquered Nations big?,1.0 +Are these the Giants who their Tyrant swelled,1.0 +With the fond Hope of universal Sway?,2.0 +How they fly! How they fall! How they tremble! How they die!,1.0 +"An Iron Tempest galls them in the Flank,",0.0 +And the fierce Victor with ten thousand Swords,4.0 +Insulting hangs upon their broken Rear.,0.0 +"Before them Danube rises on their Flight,",1.0 +"And loudly for Revenge, Revenge he roars,",1.0 +"Arresting their precipitated Flight,",1.0 +"He strikes them backward with his stormy Brow,",1.0 +Or with his angry Voice their guilty Souls he scares.,1.0 +But tenfold Horror drives them headlong on!,3.0 +"Down, down ten thousand take the fatal Leap,",2.0 +"And plunge among the Waves; the Danube raves,",0.0 +"And calls his stormy Billows to the Spoil,",1.0 +His stormy Billows to the mighty Spoil,1.0 +"Drive on, advancing with a hideous Roar.",5.0 +"Ten thousand Warriors rolling in the Flood,",1.0 +"Horses and Men reversed mid scattered Arms,",3.0 +"Drive one another drowning to the Abyss,",5.0 +And with tremendous Prospect strike the Eye.,1.0 +"The very Victors grow with Horror chill,",0.0 +"Shake at the dire Catastrophe they cause,",1.0 +"And tremble at the Terrors of a Scene,",1.0 +"Such as no no Nation of the World, no Age",3.0 +Since the great Hebrews wondrous Passage saw.,2.0 +"To my weak Mind the Force, the immortal Force,",4.0 +"To paint with lively Strokes the dismal Scene,",0.0 +"To paint the Cries, the Shrieks, the dying Groans,",0.0 +"The Grief, the Rage, the Fury of their Fear,",1.0 +"And all the Horrors of their baleful Eyes,",1.0 +"And all the Astonishment, the Amazement of their Souls,",5.0 +In which Messiah with his Thunders armed,1.0 +Drove down the infernal Tyrants warring Host,1.0 +Not Michael Angelo's stupendous Work;,0.0 +Where the last dreadful Doom sends guilty Souls,3.0 +Down to eternal Punishments in Hell;,2.0 +"Hell seizes them, Hell meets them on the Way,",4.0 +"For in their Air and in their Looks is Hell,",0.0 +And endless Torments in their Baleful Eyes.,1.0 +"Thus fell the French before the Victor's Wrath,",1.0 +"They who had stood so many Storms of War,",0.0 +Yet still unshaken kept their Ground in all.,0.0 +"That graced the winding Margin of the Flood,",1.0 +"The Tempest saw their Strength, and sighed, and past them by.",0.0 +"Came lately bellowing over the Western Main,",5.0 +"That with immortal Fury on them fell,",2.0 +That made them tremble at impending Fate;,0.0 +"And rent at once their sturdy Trunks in twain,",0.0 +"Or twisted up their Roots, and whirled them in the Air.",1.0 +"That tore their lofty Branches down from Heaven,",1.0 +"Down they came rushing with a fatal Groan,",3.0 +"And with their mangled Trunks his Channel piled,",1.0 +Till Devastation choked the encumbered Stream.,2.0 +"OH Conquering Death, like Sampson, blind though strong,",3.0 +Which noble Marlborough was ordained by Fate,3.0 +And to the Heroic Father given the Son.,3.0 +But Blanford in his early Bloom was snatched,0.0 +To make the Glory of the Sire complete;,3.0 +"Had noble Blandford still remained below,",0.0 +"He was good, so charming and so great,",1.0 +So worthy all the Fathers fond Desire;,0.0 +The invidious World might have pretended then,3.0 +For private Ends to make his Offspring great;,1.0 +"Now clearly for his Country and his Queen,",3.0 +"For Liberty, and for the World he acts.",2.0 +Thou too great Queen by whose auspicious Care,1.0 +And Wisdom these astonishing Events,2.0 +"And for the World, for Children thou hast none,",2.0 +O Royal Gloucester had but cruel Death,0.0 +"Permitted thee to see this wondrous Day,",1.0 +And roused the Hero in thy Blooming Breast!,0.0 +"Attended with the Flower of British Youth,",3.0 +While France had trembled at thy conquering Arms;,2.0 +"Once more had France an English Sovereign owned,",0.0 +"Once more had Spain its rightful Monarch seen,",0.0 +Placed by a British Hero on his Throne.,1.0 +For thee Britannia mourns like Royal Ann;,3.0 +"Thy Fate thy Mother's Happiness impaired,",1.0 +But it has raised her Glory to the Stars;,2.0 +The Wonders which she every Day performs:,0.0 +"Moved by the noblest Motives she performs,",1.0 +"Now for her Country and the World she acts,",1.0 +"For Liberty the Darling Cause of Earth,",1.0 +For spotless Faith the darling Cause of Heaven.,0.0 +"Her Children all were snatched away in thee,",0.0 +OH fond Mistake! Whatever the best of Queens,4.0 +"Performs, she does it for her Children all,",1.0 +Her happy People are her Children now.,1.0 +"And o so good, so excellent is she",2.0 +"So tender of their Happiness and Fame,",2.0 +"So watchful over their Rights, so studious of their Peace,",3.0 +To all extending her impartial Care;,1.0 +"So grateful and so dutiful are they,",2.0 +Such Love as Heaven of Human Hearts requires;,0.0 +"That Fame is doubtful which she most shall praise,",0.0 +The Children's Duty or the Mother's Care.,1.0 +The very Best of tender Mothers she.,1.0 +"And not the fancied Mother of the Gods,",1.0 +"Great Queen, could boast a more Heroic Race;",1.0 +And as that fancied Mother of the Gods,2.0 +Was charmed at Sight of her immortal Sons.,1.0 +What glorious Sight can more delight thy Soul,2.0 +Than Conquest which thy Subjects Bliss ensures,0.0 +"Thy Glory, and the World's Felicity?",2.0 +A Sight that for thy Zeal has stronger Charms,1.0 +Than all the World's vain Greatness can supply.,2.0 +See there thy conquering Heroes who before,2.0 +"Were like to Gods, now equal to the Worm,",2.0 +All low and prostrate as the vanquished now;,1.0 +"Humbling themselves before the God of Hosts,",1.0 +"Offering to him the Glory and the Praise,",2.0 +"The Sacrifice most worthy of the God,",1.0 +"The Almighty God of War, the God of great Revenge.",1.0 +"WHEN foes insult, and prudent friends dispense,",0.0 +"Oft with thee, LLOYD, I steal an hour from grief,",0.0 +And in thy social converse find relief.,0.0 +"The mind, of solitude, impatient grown,",0.0 +Loves any sorrows rather than her own.,2.0 +"LET slaves to business, bodies without soul,",4.0 +"Important blanks in Nature's mighty roll,",0.0 +"We NIGHT prefer, which heals or hides our care.",0.0 +"ROGUES justified and by success made bold,",3.0 +"Freely may bask in fortune's partial ray,",2.0 +And spread their feathers opening to the day;,1.0 +But threadbare Merit dares not show the head,1.0 +Till vain Prosperity retires to bed.,1.0 +"Misfortunes, like the Owl, avoid the light;",0.0 +The sons of CARE are always sons of NIGHT.,0.0 +"THE Wretch bred up in Method's drowsy school,",2.0 +"Whose only merit is to err by rule,",1.0 +"Who never through heat of blood was tripping caught,",2.0 +"Nor guilty deemed of one eccentric thought,",1.0 +Whose soul directed to no use is seen,2.0 +"Which, clockwork like, with the same equal pace,",3.0 +"Still travels on through life's insipid space,",2.0 +Turns up his eyes to think that there should be,0.0 +Among God's creatures too such things as we.,1.0 +Which kindly give him grace to keep good hours.,0.0 +Good hours ' -- Fine words ' -- but was it ever seen,2.0 +That all men could agree in what they mean?,2.0 +"FLORIO, who many years a course hath run",1.0 +"In downright opposition to the sun,",2.0 +"The uncertain term no settled notion brings,",2.0 +But still in different mouths mean different things.,1.0 +"Each takes the phrase in his own private view,",1.0 +"With PRUDENCE it is ten, with FLORIO two.",3.0 +"Go on, you fools, who talk for talking sake,",0.0 +Without distinguishing distinctions make;,1.0 +"Shine forth in native folly, native pride,",1.0 +Make yourselves rules to all the world beside;,1.0 +"Reason, collected in herself disdains",2.0 +"The slavish yoke of arbitrary chains,",0.0 +"Steady and true each circumstance she weighs,",2.0 +Nor to bare words inglorious tribute pays.,4.0 +"Men of sense live exempt from vulgar awe,",3.0 +And Reason to herself alone is law.,1.0 +That freedom she enjoys with liberal mind,1.0 +Which she as freely grants to all mankind.,1.0 +"No idol titled name her reverence stirs,",3.0 +"No hour she blindly to the rest prefers,",2.0 +LET the sage DOCTOR think him one we know,4.0 +"With scraps of ancient learning overflow,",0.0 +In all the dignity of wig declare,1.0 +"The fatal consequence of midnight air,",2.0 +"Undermine life, and sap the walls of health.",3.0 +"For me let GALEN moulder on the shelf,",3.0 +"I'll live, and be physician to myself.",2.0 +"While soul is joined to body, whether fate",0.0 +Allot a longer or a shorter date;,1.0 +"I'll make them live, as brother should with brother,",0.0 +And keep them in good humour with each other.,0.0 +"THE surest road to health, say what they will,",1.0 +Is never to suppose we shall be ill.,1.0 +Most of those evils we poor mortals know,2.0 +From doctors and imagination flow.,1.0 +"Hence to old women with your boasted rules,",4.0 +"Stale traps, and only sacred now to fools;",1.0 +"One medicine, as one hour, for all mankind.",2.0 +IF RUPERT after ten is out of bed,1.0 +"The fool next morning can't hold up his head,",2.0 +What reason this which me to bed must call,2.0 +Whose head thank heaven never aches at all?,1.0 +"In different courses different tempers run,",0.0 +"He hates the Moon, I sicken at the sun.",0.0 +"Wound up at twelve, at noon his clock goes right,",1.0 +"Mine better goes, wound up at twelve at night.",2.0 +"The galling sneer, the supercilious frown,",2.0 +"The strange reserve, the proud affected state",0.0 +Of upstart knaves grown rich and fools grown great.,3.0 +No more that abject wretch disturbs my rest,0.0 +And scarce sees rags an inch beyond his nose.,1.0 +But from a crowd can single out his grace,2.0 +And cringe and creep to fools who strut in lace.,0.0 +WHETHER those classic regions are surveyed,3.0 +"Where we in earliest youth together strayed,",2.0 +"Where hand in hand we trod the flowery shore,",2.0 +"Though now thy happier genius runs before,",2.0 +"When we conspired a thankless wretch to raise,",3.0 +Who once for Reverend merit famous grown,0.0 +"Gratefully strove to kick his MAKER down,",3.0 +"Or if more general arguments engage,",2.0 +"The court or camp, the pulpit, bar, or stage,",0.0 +"And lawyers, who were never bred at all,",0.0 +"Our pity move, or exercise our mirth,",0.0 +"Our rambling thoughts with easy freedom stray,",0.0 +"A gainer still thy friend himself must find,",0.0 +"His grief suspended, and improved his mind.",1.0 +"While vice beneath imagined horrors mourns,",0.0 +"And conscience plants the villains couch with thorns,",0.0 +"Impatient of restraint, the active mind,",1.0 +"No more by servile prejudice confined,",1.0 +And darts through Nature at a single glance.,0.0 +"Then we our friends, our foes, ourselves, survey,",0.0 +And see by NIGHT what fools we are by DAY.,1.0 +STRIPPED of her gaudy plumes and vain disguise,0.0 +See where Ambition mean and loathsome lies!,1.0 +Reflection with relentless hand pulls down,3.0 +"In vain he tells of battles bravely won,",0.0 +"Of nations conquered, and of Worlds undone;",1.0 +"Triumphs like these but ill with Manhood suit,",1.0 +And sink the conqueror beneath the brute.,1.0 +But if in searching round the world we find,1.0 +"Some generous youth, the Friend of all mankind,",3.0 +"In terrors only at the guilty head,",0.0 +"Whose mercies, like Heaven's dew, refreshing fall",2.0 +"In general love and charity to all,",1.0 +"Pleased we behold such worth on any throne,",2.0 +And doubly pleased we find it on our own.,1.0 +"THROUGH a false medium things are shown by day,",4.0 +"Pomp, wealth, and titles judgement lead astray.",1.0 +How many from appearance borrow state,2.0 +Whom NIGHT disdains to number with the Great!,1.0 +Snuff up vile incense from a fawning crowd?,0.0 +"While in his beam surrounding clients play,",0.0 +"Like insects in the sun's enlivening ray,",3.0 +"Talking himself into a little God,",2.0 +"And ruling empires with a single nod,",1.0 +"Who would not think, to hear him law dispense,",0.0 +"That he had Interest, and that they had sense?",1.0 +Injurious thought! beneath NIGHT's honest shade,3.0 +"When pomp is buried and false colours fade,",3.0 +Plainly we see at that impartial hour,2.0 +"Them dupes to pride, and him the tool of power.",1.0 +"GOD help the man, condemned by cruel fate",1.0 +"Much sorrow shall he feel, and suffer more",0.0 +"By slavish methods must he learn to please,",0.0 +"Supple to every wayward mood strike sail,",3.0 +"To Nature dead he must adopt vile art,",1.0 +"And wear a smile, with anguish in his heart.",0.0 +"A sense of honour would destroy his schemes,",2.0 +And conscience never must speak unless in dreams.,2.0 +"Cold looks, forbidding frowns, contemptuous sneers,",3.0 +"When he at last expects, good easy man,",0.0 +"Steps cross his hopes, the promised boon denies,",1.0 +"Too resolute, from Nature's active heat,",1.0 +"Too proud to flatter, too sincere to lie,",1.0 +"Too plain to please, too honest to be great;",3.0 +"Give me, kind Heaven, an humbler, happier state:",5.0 +"Far from the place where men with pride deceive,",0.0 +"Where rascals promise, and where fools believe;",1.0 +"Far from the walk of folly, vice and strife,",0.0 +"Calm, independent, let me steal through life,",1.0 +Nor one vain wish my steady thoughts beguile,2.0 +"Unfit for greatness, I her snares defy,",1.0 +And look on riches with untainted eye.,1.0 +Content shall place us far above them all.,0.0 +SPECTATORS only on this bustling stage.,3.0 +We see what vain designs mankind engage.,1.0 +And one old folly brings forth twenty new.,3.0 +"Perplexed with trifles through the vale of life,",1.0 +"Man strives against man, without a cause for strife;",4.0 +"Armies embattled meet, and thousands bleed,",2.0 +For some vile spot which cannot fifty feed.,1.0 +"Squirrels for nuts contend, and, wrong or right,",2.0 +"For the world's empire kings ambitious fight,",2.0 +"A NUT, a WORLD, a SQUIRREL, and a KING.",1.0 +"BRITONS, like Roman spirits famed of old,",2.0 +Are cast by Nature in a PATRIOT mould;,2.0 +"No private joy, no private grief they know,",2.0 +"Inglorious ease like ours, they greatly scorn:",2.0 +All would be deemed even from the cradle fit,5.0 +To rule in politics as well as wit.,0.0 +Start up God bless us! statesmen all at once.,3.0 +"HIS mighty charge of souls the priest forgets,",0.0 +"The rake his mistress, and the fop himself,",1.0 +"While thoughts of higher moment claim their care,",0.0 +And their wife heads the weight of kingdoms bear.,2.0 +"And boast an equal, or a greater zeal.",1.0 +"From nymph to nymph the state infection flies,",0.0 +"Swells in her breast, and sparkles in her eyes.",0.0 +Envy and twenty other faults beside.,2.0 +No more their little fluttering hearts confess,2.0 +"A passion for applause, or rage for dress;",1.0 +Or lose one thought on monkeys or on beaux.,1.0 +Nor thinks of scandal while she talks of news.,0.0 +"Ten thousand mighty nothings in his face,",1.0 +"By situation as by nature great,",1.0 +"With nice precision parcels out the state,",1.0 +"Proves and disproves, affirms and then denies,",2.0 +"Objects himself, and to himself replies,",1.0 +"Wielding aloft the Politician rod,",2.0 +"Makes P' -- by turns a devil and a god,",2.0 +Maintains even to the very teeth of power,5.0 +"The same thing right and wrong in half an hour,",1.0 +"Now all is well, now he suspects a plot,",2.0 +"And plainly proves, WHATEVER IS, IS NOT.",2.0 +And deals out empires as he deals out thread.,1.0 +"His useless scales are in a corner flung,",0.0 +To pass through life as easy as we can.,1.0 +Nor stirs my curiosity nor spleen.,1.0 +Secrets of state no more I wish to know,2.0 +Thanks to our fortune we pay none at all.,2.0 +Lament those hardships which we cannot feel.,0.0 +"His GRACE, who smarts, may bellow if he please,",1.0 +"But must I bellow too, who sit at ease?",0.0 +"By custom safe the poet's numbers flow,",0.0 +Free as the light and air some years ago.,0.0 +No statesman ever will find it worth his pains,3.0 +"Burdens like these vile earthly buildings bear,",3.0 +No tribute's laid on Castles in the Air.,1.0 +"LET then the flames of war destructive reign,",0.0 +And ENGLAND's terrors awe imperious SPAIN;,2.0 +Let every venal clan and neutral tribe,1.0 +"Learn to receive conditions, not prescribe;",2.0 +And tax on tax with doubled burden rise;,0.0 +"Exempt we sit, by no rude cares oppressed,",1.0 +"And, having little, are with little blessed.",1.0 +"All real ills in dark oblivion lie,",3.0 +"And joys, by fancy formed, their place supply.",0.0 +"NIGHT's laughing hours unheeded slip away,",1.0 +"THUS have we lived, and while the fates afford",0.0 +"Plain Plenty to supply the frugal board,",2.0 +"While MIRTH, with DECENCY his lovely bride,",1.0 +Their welcome visit pay; while HEALTH attends,0.0 +"The narrow circle of our chosen Friends,",1.0 +"Thus WILL we live, though in our teeth are hurled",0.0 +"PRUDENCE, of old a sacred term, implied",2.0 +But now in general use is known to mean,0.0 +"The sense perverted we retain the name,",1.0 +Hypocrisy and Prudence are the same.,2.0 +"A TUTOR once, more read in men than books,",0.0 +"A kind of crafty knowledge in his looks,",0.0 +His favourite Pupil in these words addressed:,0.0 +By all mankind a prodigy esteemed?,2.0 +Be this thy rule; be what men prudent call;,1.0 +"PRUDENCE, almighty PRUDENCE gives thee all.",2.0 +"Keep up appearances; there lies the test,",3.0 +The world will give thee credit for the rest.,1.0 +"Outward be fair, however foul within;",3.0 +"Sin if thou wilt, but then in secret sin.",0.0 +"This maxim's into common favour grown,",3.0 +Vice is no longer vice unless it's known.,3.0 +"But vice is virtue, when it's well concealed.",0.0 +"Should raging passions drive thee to a whore,",1.0 +"Stay out all night, but take especial care",0.0 +That PRUDENCE bring thee back to early prayer.,0.0 +"As one with watching and with study faint,",2.0 +"Reel in a drunkard, and reel out a saint.",2.0 +"WITH joy the youth this useful lesson heard,",0.0 +"And in his memory stored each precious word,",2.0 +"Successfully pursued the plan, and now,",1.0 +"Room for my LORD ' -- VIRTUE, stand by and bow.",2.0 +"To mask, but not amend a vicious heart?",0.0 +"Shall lukewarm caution and demeanour grave,",3.0 +For wise and good stamp every supple knave?,1.0 +"Gild fair their names and states with empty forms,",1.0 +"Because, disdaining ill, she hates disguise;",0.0 +"Because she frankly pours forth all her store,",1.0 +"Seems what she is, and scorns to pass for more?",1.0 +"To flatter others, or deny myself,",2.0 +"Might the whole world be placed within my span,",3.0 +"I would not be that THING, that PRUDENT MAN.",0.0 +"WHAT, cries Sir PLIANT, would you then oppose",1.0 +"Yourself, alone, against an host of foes?",0.0 +"Let not conceit, and peevish lust to rail,",1.0 +Above all sense of interest prevail.,1.0 +"Throw off for shame this petulance of wit,",1.0 +"Be wise, be modest, and for once submit:",1.0 +"Too hard the task against multitudes to fight,",7.0 +"You must be wrong, the WORLD is in the right.",0.0 +WHAT is this WORLD? a term which men have got,0.0 +"To signify, not one in ten knows what;",1.0 +"A term, which with no more precision passes",2.0 +To point out herds of men than herds of asses;,0.0 +"In common use no more it means we find,",1.0 +Than many fools in same opinions joined.,0.0 +CAN numbers then change Nature's stated laws?,1.0 +Can numbers make the worse the better cause?,0.0 +"Vice must be vice, virtue be virtue still,",3.0 +Though thousands rail at good and practise ill.,0.0 +Because vast nations on his part engage?,2.0 +Though to support the rebel CAESAR's cause,1.0 +"Tumultuous legions arm against the laws,",3.0 +"Though Scandal would OUR PATRIOT's name impeach,",2.0 +"And rails at virtues which she cannot reach,",0.0 +What honest man but would with joy submit,0.0 +"To bleed with CATO, and retire with PITT?",1.0 +"STEADFAST and true to virtue's sacred laws,",1.0 +"Unmoved by vulgar censure or applause,",1.0 +"Let the WORLD talk, my Friend; that WORLD we know",3.0 +"Which calls us guilty, cannot make us so.",0.0 +"Assert the rights, or quit the name of man.",0.0 +"Consider well, weigh strictly right and wrong;",1.0 +"Resolve not quick, but once resolved be strong.",0.0 +"In spite of Dullness, and in spite of Wit,",1.0 +Rather stand up assured with conscious pride,2.0 +"Alone, than err with millions on thy side.",1.0 +"THOU who shalt stop, where Thames' translucent wave",1.0 +"Shines a broad mirror through the shadowy cave,",6.0 +"Where lingering drops from mineral roofs distil,",0.0 +"And pointed crystals break the sparkling rill,",0.0 +And latent metals innocently glow:,1.0 +Approach. Great NATURE studiously behold!,4.0 +And eye the mine without a wish for gold.,1.0 +"Where British sighs from dying WYNDHAM stole,",0.0 +"Let such, such only, tread this sacred floor,",0.0 +"Who dare to love their country, and be poor.",1.0 +"Painter, thou hast performed what Man can do,",2.0 +"Bold are thy Strokes, and delicate each Touch,",1.0 +But still the Beauties of her Face are such,1.0 +As cannot justly be described; though all,0.0 +Confess it's like the bright Original.,1.0 +"In her, and in thy Picture, we may view",1.0 +"The utmost Nature, or that Art can do,",2.0 +"Each is a Masterpiece, designed so well",0.0 +"That future Times may strive to parallel,",0.0 +But neither Art nor Nature's able to excel.,1.0 +"From tread of lawless feet, the hallowed ground,",0.0 +"With deeper darkness prints the shades of night,",0.0 +"In garb deranged and loose, with scattered hair,",0.0 +"His bosom open to the nightly air,",1.0 +"Alas, how cold thy home, how low thou art,",0.0 +Who wert the pride and mistress of my heart!,1.0 +"The fallen leaves now rustling over thee pass,",3.0 +"And over thee waves the dank and dewy grass,",2.0 +How narrow is the space where thou must dwell.,2.0 +"Chill rain, and drifting snow, and summer's heat;",1.0 +"Each passing season's rub, for woe is me!",0.0 +Or gloom or sunshine is the same to thee.,2.0 +"Ah Mary! lovely was thy slender form,",1.0 +And bright thy cheerful brow that knew no storm.,1.0 +"Thy steps were graceful on the village green,",1.0 +Each youngster slacked his speed to see thee pass.,0.0 +"At early milking tuneful was thy lay,",1.0 +And sweet thy homeward song at close of day;,0.0 +"But sweeter far, and every youth's desire,",0.0 +Thy cheerful converse by the evening fire.,1.0 +"No song of thine shall ever more be heard,",2.0 +"And they full soon will trip it on the green,",3.0 +"Around the evening fire with little care,",0.0 +"And when the sober parting hour comes round,",0.0 +"Will to their rest retire, and slumber sound.",1.0 +"But Basil cannot rest; his days are sad,",0.0 +And long his nights upon the weary bed.,0.0 +"Yet still in broken dreams thy form appears,",0.0 +And still my bosom proves a lover's fears.,0.0 +I guide thy footsteps through the tangled wood;,2.0 +I catch thee sinking in the boisterous flood;,0.0 +I shield thy bosom from the threatened stroke;,1.0 +I clasp thee falling from the headlong rock;,2.0 +"But ere we reach the dark and dreadful deep,",0.0 +"High heaves my troubled breast, I wake and weep.",1.0 +"At every wailing of the midnight wind,",2.0 +Thy lowly dwelling comes into my mind.,0.0 +"When rain beats on my roof, wild storms abroad,",2.0 +I think upon thy bare and beaten sod;,0.0 +"I hate the comfort of a sheltered home,",1.0 +"OH Mary! loss of thee hath fixed my doom,",2.0 +"This world around me is a weary gloom,",1.0 +"Dull heavy musings lead my mind astray,",1.0 +"I cannot sleep by night, nor work by day.",0.0 +"Or wealth or pleasure dullest hinds inspire,",0.0 +"Let happier friends divide my farmer's stock,",3.0 +"Cut down my grain, and shear my little flock;",0.0 +For now my only care on earth will be,0.0 +"Here every Sunday morn to visit thee,",2.0 +And in the holy Church with heart sincere,0.0 +And humble mind our worthy Curate hear;,0.0 +"He best can tell, when earthly woes are past,",0.0 +The surest way to meet with thee at last.,1.0 +"I'll thus a while a weary life abide,",0.0 +Till wasting time hath laid me by thy side;,1.0 +"For now on earth there is no place for me,",2.0 +Nor peace nor slumber till I rest with thee.,1.0 +"Loud from the lofty spire, with piercing knell,",0.0 +"Solemn and awful, tolled the parish bell,",2.0 +That Churchyard ground be trod by mortal feet.,1.0 +"The wailing lover started at the sound,",0.0 +And raised his head and cast his eyes around.,0.0 +"The gloomy pile in strengthened horror lowered,",0.0 +Large and majestic every object towered;,2.0 +"Dun through the gloom, they showed like forms unknown,",0.0 +And past him skimmed the bat with flapping wing.,0.0 +"The fears of nature woke within his breast,",0.0 +"And sped his way the Churchyard wall to gain,",1.0 +Then checked his fear and stopped and would remain.,0.0 +But shadows round a deeper horror wear;,1.0 +A deeper silence falls upon his ear;,0.0 +"His fluttering heart recoils, he turns again.",2.0 +"With hasty steps he measures back the ground,",0.0 +And leaps with summoned force the Churchyard bound;,1.0 +"Then home, with shaking limbs and quickened breath,",0.0 +His footsteps urges from the place of death.,2.0 +"In Dress and Scandal, Gallantry and Play;",1.0 +"Who through new Scenes of Pleasure hourly run,",3.0 +While Life's important Business is undone;,1.0 +"Look here, when guilty Conquests make you vain,",1.0 +"And see, how sad Remorse shuts up the Scene.",2.0 +"If future Bliss, or Misery, must flow",1.0 +"From what the Heart delights in here below,",0.0 +"Think how these Habits, rooted in the Breast,",0.0 +Will fit you for a Commerce with the Blessed.,2.0 +"You Politicians, who, in Courts to shine,",0.0 +"Who, void of Virtue, anxious to be great,",1.0 +"Would rise, though on the Ruins of the State;",2.0 +See Providence defeating all your Schemes:,2.0 +And dashes all with unforeseen Events.,0.0 +"Yet the shortsighted Atheist dares advance,",4.0 +These wondrous Changes are the Work of Chance.,1.0 +"Not so this pious, penetrating Dame,",0.0 +Who to the sacred Fountain traced the Stream:,0.0 +"Who, in a Court, find Leisure to be wise;",2.0 +"Humane and humble, pious and sincere;",1.0 +"Who walk, untainted, through infectious Air;",1.0 +"The Paths of Wisdom, early trod by you!",0.0 +"I, who am destined to a low Estate,",1.0 +Free from the Vanities that vex the Great;,1.0 +Blessed with a Happiness to Courts unknown;,1.0 +"For I, thank Heaven, may call my Hours my own:",2.0 +"OH may I pass those Hours in such a Way,",0.0 +"As may prepare me for the last, great Day!",3.0 +"When the Arch-Angel calls ' -- Arise, you Dead.",2.0 +"When all the haughty, pompous Sons of Dust,",0.0 +Who here in fleeting Treasures placed their Trust;,0.0 +"Who here, to their Confusion largely quaffed",1.0 +"Till drunk with Blessings, they despised their God,",1.0 +"Arraigned his Wisdom, and defied his Rod;",1.0 +"Too late shall find, that Arm they durst oppose,",1.0 +Can pour eternal Vengeance on his Foes.,1.0 +"Reflect, my Soul, that Day is drawing near;",0.0 +"And timely think, what was thy Business here.",1.0 +"OH Thou, whose Arm, reached down from Heaven to save,",1.0 +So lately snatched me from the opening Grave;,3.0 +"Who bowed thine Ear, nor let me sue in vain,",0.0 +"Relieved my Sickness, and removed my Pain;",1.0 +"In hallowed Strains, OH, teach my Soul to soar,",1.0 +To celebrate the Mercies I adore!,1.0 +"To Thee alone to dedicate my Lays,",1.0 +"Who heard my Vows, and added to my Days!",1.0 +"Watch over my Heart, fix every Duty there,",5.0 +And make Eternity my only Care.,1.0 +"'TWAS at the Time, when new returning Light,",0.0 +With welcome Rays begins to cheer the Sight;,0.0 +"When grateful Birds prepare their Thanks to pay,",0.0 +And warble Hymns to hail the dawning Day;,0.0 +And from their fleecy Sides first shake the silver Dew.,2.0 +"'Twas then that Amaryllis, Heavenly Fair,",2.0 +"Wounded with Grief, and wild with her Despair,",3.0 +"Forsook her Myrtle Bower and Rosy Bed,",2.0 +"Who had a Heart so hard, that heard her Cries",0.0 +And did not weep? Who such relentless Eyes?,1.0 +"And dumb Distress and new Compassion show,",0.0 +As taught by her to taste of Human Woe.,1.0 +"Nature her self attentive Silence kept,",2.0 +And Motion seemed suspended while she wept;,0.0 +"The rising Sun restrained his fiery Course,",2.0 +And rapid Rivers listened at their Source;,0.0 +"Even Echo feared to catch the flying Sound,",0.0 +Lest Repetition should her Accents drown;,0.0 +"The very Morning Wind withheld his Breeze,",0.0 +"As if the gentle Zephyr had been dead,",1.0 +"No Voice, no whispering Sigh, no murmuring Groan,",7.0 +Presumed to mingle with a Mother's Moan;,1.0 +"Her Cries alone her Anguish could express,",0.0 +All other Mourning would have made it less.,0.0 +"Hear me, she cried, you Nymphs and Sylvan Gods,",0.0 +"Hear my Distress, and lend a pitying Ear,",4.0 +Hear my Complaint ' -- you would not hear my Prayer;,2.0 +"The Loss which you prevented not, deplore,",1.0 +"Have I not Cause, you cruel Powers, to mourn?",2.0 +Lives there like me another Wretch forlorn?,1.0 +"Tell me, thou Sun that round the World dost shine,",0.0 +Hast thou beheld another Loss like mine?,1.0 +"You Winds, who on your Wings sad Accents bear,",2.0 +"And catch the Sounds of Sorrow and Despair,",1.0 +"Such weight of Woe, such deadly Sighs before?",0.0 +"The wretched Load is laid of Human Race,",0.0 +Dost thou not feel thy self with me oppressed?,1.0 +Lie all the Dead so heavy on thy Breast?,1.0 +When hoary Winter on thy shrinking Head,1.0 +Do I not pierce thee with more freezing Pains;,1.0 +"But why to thee do I relate my Woe,",2.0 +"Thou cruel Earth, my most remorseless Foe?",0.0 +Eternal Winter should his Horror shed?,0.0 +"Though all thy Nerves were numbed with endless Frost,",0.0 +And all thy Hopes of future Spring were lost;,0.0 +To me what Comfort can the Spring afford?,2.0 +"Can all the Rains that fall from weeping Skies,",0.0 +"No, never! never! ' -- Say then, rigid Earth,",1.0 +What is to me thy everlasting Dearth?,1.0 +"Though never Flower again its Head should rear,",2.0 +Though never Tree again should Blossom bear;,0.0 +"Though never Grass should cloth the naked Ground,",0.0 +Nor ever healing Plant or wholesome Herb be found.,0.0 +"Nor wholesome Herb was found, nor healing Plant,",0.0 +"In vain I searched the Valleys, Hills and Plains;",0.0 +"But withered Leaves alone appeared to view,",0.0 +Or poisonous Weeds distilling deadly Dew.,2.0 +"And if some naked Stalk, not quite decayed,",1.0 +"Soon as I reached to crop the tender Shoot,",0.0 +A shrieking Mandrake killed it at the Root.,1.0 +Who at the Prodigy astonished stood.,1.0 +"Well I remember what sad Signs you made,",3.0 +What Showers of unavailing Tears you shed;,2.0 +"How each ran fearful to his mossy Cave,",2.0 +"For then the Air was filled with dreadful Cries,",0.0 +"Phantoms, and Fiends, and wandering Fires appeared,",4.0 +"The Forest shook, and flinty Rocks were cleft,",0.0 +"With frantic Grief overflowing fruitful Ground,",3.0 +Where many a Herd and harmless Swain was drowned.,2.0 +"While I forlorn and desolate was left,",1.0 +"Of every Help, of every Hope bereft;",0.0 +"To every Element exposed I lay,",1.0 +"For thee these Hands were wrung, these Hairs were torn;",1.0 +"For thee my Soul to sigh shall never leave,",1.0 +"These Eyes to weep, this throbbing Heart to heave.",0.0 +"To mourn thy Fall I'll fly the hated Light,",0.0 +And hide my Head in Shades of endless Night:,0.0 +"For thou were Light, and Life, and Health to me;",1.0 +The Sun but thankless shines that shows not thee.,0.0 +"Wert thou not Lovely, Graceful, Good and Young?",1.0 +"The Joy of Sight, the Talk of every Tongue?",0.0 +Did ever Branch so sweet a Blossom bear?,0.0 +Or ever early Fruit appear so fair?,0.0 +Did ever Youth so far his Years transcend?,0.0 +And every Muse prepared thy future Praise.,0.0 +"For thee the busy Nymphs stripped every Grove,",2.0 +"But now, ah dismal Change! the tuneful Throng",0.0 +"Their pleasing Task the weeping Virgins leave,",0.0 +"There let me fall, there, there lamenting lie,",1.0 +"There grieving grow to Earth, despair, and die.",0.0 +"This said, her loud Complaint of force she ceased,",0.0 +Excess of Grief her faltering Speech suppressed.,2.0 +"Along the Ground her colder Limbs she laid,",0.0 +"Then from her swimming Eyes began to pour,",0.0 +Of softly falling Rain a Silver Shower;,0.0 +"Her loosely flowing Hair, all radiant bright,",0.0 +"As if the Sun had of his Beams been shorn,",2.0 +And cast to Earth the Glories he had worn.,1.0 +"A Sight so lovely sad, such deep Distress",0.0 +"No Tongue can tell, no Pencil can express.",3.0 +"And now the Winds, which had so long been still,",0.0 +Began the swelling Air with Sighs to fill;,0.0 +"Like Images of Ice, while she complained,",2.0 +Now loosed their Streams; as when descending Rains,1.0 +Roll the steep Torrents headlong over the Plains.,6.0 +"The prone Creation, who so long had gazed,",0.0 +"Began to roar and howl with horrid Yell,",0.0 +"Dismal to hear, and terrible to tell;",3.0 +"Nothing but Groans and Sighs were heard around,",2.0 +And Echo multiplied each mournful Sound.,0.0 +When all at once an universal Pause,0.0 +"Of Grief was made, as from some secret Cause.",1.0 +"The Balmy Air with fragrant Scents was filled,",0.0 +As if each weeping Tree had Gums distilled.,1.0 +"Such, if not sweeter, was the rich Perfume",2.0 +"As if the Arabian Bird her Nest had fired,",3.0 +And on the spicy Pile were new expired.,1.0 +"And now the Turf, which late was naked seen,",0.0 +Was sudden spread with lively springing Green;,0.0 +"And Amaryllis saw, with wondering Eyes,",2.0 +"A flowery Bed, where she had wept, arise;",2.0 +"Thick as the pearly Drops the Fair had shed,",0.0 +The blowing Buds advanced their Purple Head;,0.0 +"From every Tear that fell, a Violet grew,",0.0 +"And thence their Sweetness came, and thence their mournful Hew.",0.0 +"Remember this, you Nymphs and gentle Maids,",1.0 +When Solitude you seek in gloomy Shades;,0.0 +"Or walk on Banks where silent Waters flow,",0.0 +For there this lonely Flower will love to grow.,3.0 +To crop the Stalks and take them softly up.,1.0 +"When in your snowy Necks their Sweets you wear,",0.0 +"Give a soft Sigh, and drop a tender Tear:",3.0 +"And bless his peaceful Grave, where first they grew.",0.0 +"OH Thou whose friendship is my joy and pride,",1.0 +"Whose virtues warm me, and whose precepts guide;",2.0 +"Thou, to whom greatness rightly understood,",1.0 +Is but a larger power of being good;,3.0 +Does not thy secret soul desire retreat?,0.0 +Dost thou not wish the task of glory done,0.0 +Thy busy life at length might be thy own;,0.0 +"That to thy loved Philosophy resigned,",1.0 +"Is to reflect at ease on glorious pains,",3.0 +And calmly to enjoy what Virtue gains.,1.0 +"Not him I praise, who from the world retired,",1.0 +"By no enlivening generous passion fired,",4.0 +And gently bids his active powers decay;,2.0 +And shuns Renown as much as Infamy:,1.0 +"But blessed is he, who exercised in cares,",1.0 +To private Leisure public Virtue bears;,0.0 +"Who tranquil ends the race he nobly run,",0.0 +And decks Repose with trophies Labour won.,0.0 +And crowns propitious his declining head:,1.0 +"In his retreats their harps the Muses string,",1.0 +"Friendship and Truth on all his moments wait,",2.0 +Pleased with Retirement better than with State;,5.0 +"And round the bower where humbly great he lies,",2.0 +"Fair olives bloom, or verdant laurels rise.",1.0 +So when thy Country shall no more demand,1.0 +The needful aid of thy sustaining hand;,1.0 +When Peace restored shall on her downy wing,1.0 +Secure Repose and careless Leisure bring;,0.0 +"Then to the shades of learnt ease retired,",3.0 +"The world forgetting, by the world admired,",1.0 +"Among thy books and friends, thou shalt possess",0.0 +Contemplative and quiet happiness;,2.0 +"Pleased to review a life in honour spent,",4.0 +And painful merit paid with sweet content.,0.0 +"Though wisdom calm, and science feed thy soul;",0.0 +"One dearer bliss remains to be possessed,",2.0 +That only can improve and crown the rest ' --,1.0 +"Permit thy friend this secret to reveal,",1.0 +Which thy own heart perhaps would better tell;,0.0 +The point to which our sweetest passions move;,0.0 +"Is to be truly loved, and fondly love.",1.0 +"Friend to our health, and author of our rest,",1.0 +"Bids every gloomy vexing passion fly,",1.0 +And tunes each jarring string to harmony.,1.0 +Even while I write; the name of Love inspires,0.0 +"More pleasing thoughts, and more enlivening fires;",2.0 +And every tender verse more sweetly flows.,0.0 +Dull is the privilege of living free;,1.0 +Our hearts were never formed for Liberty:,1.0 +Can best defend them from consuming care.,1.0 +"In vain to groves and gardens we retire,",1.0 +And nature in her rural works admire;,0.0 +"Though grateful these, yet these but faintly charm,",2.0 +"They may Delight us, but can never Warm.",2.0 +"May some fair eyes, my friend, thy bosom fire",1.0 +With pleasing pangs of ever gay desire;,0.0 +"And teach thee that soft science, which alone",1.0 +Still to thy searching mind rests slightly known.,1.0 +"Thy soul, though great, is tender and refined,",1.0 +"To friendship sensible, to love inclined;",1.0 +Against the entrance of so sweet a guest.,1.0 +"Hear what the inspiring Muses bid me tell,",1.0 +For Heaven shall ratify what they reveal.,1.0 +"A chosen bride shall in thy arms be placed,",0.0 +With all attractive charms of beauty graced;,0.0 +"Whose wit and virtue shall thy own express,",0.0 +Distinguished only by their softer dress:,1.0 +"Thy greatness she, or thy retreat shall share,",2.0 +"Sweeten tranquillity, or soften care:",3.0 +"Her smiles the taste of every joy shall raise,",0.0 +And add new pleasure to renown and praise;,2.0 +"Till charmed you own the truth my verse would prove,",0.0 +That Happiness is near allied to Love.,1.0 +"IT'S past: dear venerable shade, farewell!",3.0 +Thy blameless life thy peaceful death shall tell.,0.0 +Clear to the last thy setting orb has run;,0.0 +"Pure, bright, and healthy like a frosty sun:",1.0 +And late old age with hand indulgent shed,1.0 +"For Heaven prolonged her life to spread its praise,",0.0 +And blessed her with a Patriarch's length of days.,4.0 +"The truest praise was hers, a cheerful heart,",1.0 +"Prone to enjoy, and ready to impart.",3.0 +"An Israelite indeed, and free from guile,",0.0 +She showed that piety and age could smile.,1.0 +"Religion had her heart, her cares, her voice;",0.0 +"'Twas her last refuge, as her earliest choice.",6.0 +To holy Anna's spirit not more dear,0.0 +"The church of Israel, and the house of prayer.",1.0 +Her spreading offspring of the fourth degree,2.0 +"Filled her fond arms, and clasped her trembling knee.",3.0 +"Matured at length for some more perfect scene,",1.0 +"Her hopes all bright, her prospects all serene,",0.0 +"Each part of life sustained with equal worth,",0.0 +"And not a wish left unfulfilled on earth,",1.0 +Within her childrens' arms she dropped to rest.,0.0 +"Farewell! thy cherished image, ever dear,",1.0 +Shall many a heart with pious love revere:,2.0 +"Long, long shall mine her honoured memory bless,",5.0 +Who gave the dearest blessing I possess.,1.0 +"POOR, fond deluded heart! wilt thou again",2.0 +"Of treacherous Pleasure? Ah, deceived too long,",3.0 +Cease now at length to throb with wishes vain!,1.0 +"Ah, cease her paths bewildering to explore!",3.0 +Betrayed so oft! yet recollect the woe,0.0 +Which waits on disappointment; taught to know,0.0 +"By sad experience, wilt thou not give over",2.0 +"To rest, deluded, on the fickle wing",1.0 +"Which Fancy lends thee in her airy flight,",0.0 +"But to seduce thee to some giddy height,",2.0 +And leave thee there a poor forsaken thing.,1.0 +"Hope warbles once again, Truth pleads in vain,",2.0 +And my charmed soul sinks vanquished by her strain.,5.0 +WHat mighty genius thus excites my Breast,0.0 +With flames too great to manage or resist;,2.0 +"And prompts my humbler Muse at once to Sing,",0.0 +Unequal Task the Hero and the King.,1.0 +O were the potent inspiration less!,1.0 +"But now I neither can its force control,",1.0 +Nor paint the great Ideas of my Soul:,1.0 +"Even so the Priests Inspired, left half the Mind",4.0 +"Or, like himself, the Warlike Prince to dress;",1.0 +"Or, speak him Acting in the dreadful Field,",0.0 +As Brave Exploits as e'r the Sun beheld;,1.0 +"Secure, and Threatening as a Martial God,",1.0 +Among the thickest of his Foes he Rode;,1.0 +"And, like an Angry Torrent forced his way",0.0 +Through all the Horrors that in Ambush lay:,1.0 +Or at the Boyne describe him as he stood,1.0 +"Resolved, upon the edges of the Flood:",1.0 +"On, on, Great William; for no Breast but Thine,",4.0 +Was ever urged with such a Bold Design:,1.0 +Indulge the Motions of this Sacred Heat;,1.0 +For none but thee can wield a thought so great.,1.0 +The Noblest Weight that e'r the River Bore.,0.0 +"And, Rising, did him Homage as he passed:",1.0 +And all the shapes of Death and Horror ' --,0.0 +No more ' -- ah stay ' -- though in a cause so good;,0.0 +It's pity to expend that Sacred Blood.,1.0 +"Why wilt thou thus the boldest Dangers seek,",0.0 +And foremost through the Hostile Squadrons break?,2.0 +Why wilt thou thus so bravely venture all?,0.0 +"That Guard him, and are pleased, the Task is yours.",1.0 +All the Ill Fate that threatens him oppose;,4.0 +"Confound the Forces of his Foreign Foes,",1.0 +And Treacherous Friends less generous then those;,4.0 +"May Heaven success to all his Actions give,",0.0 +"And long, and long, and long, let WILLIAM live:",1.0 +"Tell how thy pleasing STOWE employs thy Time,",0.0 +"Or Stratagems of War, or Schemes of State?",1.0 +"Dost thou recall to Mind with Joy, or Grief,",1.0 +"Whose slightest Trophy raised in each Campaign,",0.0 +"Does thy remembrance rising warm thy Heart,",1.0 +"Or dost thou grieve indignant, now to see,",0.0 +The fruitless End of all thy Victory?,0.0 +"To see the Audacious Foe, so late subdued,",2.0 +"Dispute those Terms for which so long they sued,",0.0 +"As if BRITANNIA now were sunk so low,",3.0 +Be far that Guilt! be never known that Shame!,0.0 +"That ENGLAND should retract her rightful Claim,",0.0 +"Or ceasing to be dreaded and adored,",2.0 +"Stain with her Pen the Lustre of her Sword,",1.0 +Or dost thou give the Winds a far to blow.,0.0 +"And fix thy Mind alone on rural Scenes,",0.0 +"To turn the levelled Lawns to liquid Plains,",0.0 +"And force the latent Springs to lift their Heads,",0.0 +"On watery Columns, Capitals to rear,",3.0 +That mix their flowing Curls with upper Air.,0.0 +"Or dost Thou, weary grown, these Works neglect,",0.0 +"But catch the morning Breeze from fragrant Meads,",0.0 +"For Nature bountiful in thee has joined,",2.0 +"A Person pleasing with a worthy Mind,",1.0 +"Not given the Form alone, but Means, and Art,",2.0 +"To draw the Eye, or to allure the Heart,",1.0 +"Poor were the Praise in Fortune to excel,",1.0 +Yet want the Way to use that Fortune well.,0.0 +"While thus adorned, while thus with Virtue crowned,",0.0 +"At Home in Peace, Abroad in Arms renowned,",0.0 +"Graceful in Form, and winning in Address",2.0 +"While well you think, what aptly you express,",1.0 +"A Table free, and eloquently neat.",1.0 +What can be added more to mortal Bliss?,0.0 +What can he want who stands possessed of this?,0.0 +What can the fondest wishing Mother more,0.0 +Of Heaven attentive for her Son implore?,1.0 +"And yet a Happiness remains unknown,",1.0 +Or to Philosophy revealed alone;,2.0 +"Thy flowing Hopes, and Pleasure turns to Pain.",0.0 +"Should Hope, and Fear thy Heart alternate tear,",4.0 +"Or Love, or Hate, or Rage, or anxious Care,",0.0 +"Whatever Passions may thy Mind infest,",2.0 +Where is that Mind which Passions never molest?,2.0 +"Amid the Pangs of such intestine Strife,",1.0 +"Still think the present Day, the last of Life;",1.0 +"Defer not till to Morrow to be wise,",2.0 +"Or should to Morrow chance to cheer thy Sight,",0.0 +How grateful will appear her dawning Rays!,1.0 +"Who thus can think and who such thoughts pursues,",0.0 +"Content may keep his Life, or calmly lose;",0.0 +"When Leisure from Affairs will give thee Leave,",1.0 +"Come, see thy Friend, retired without Regret,",1.0 +"Forgetting Care, or striving to forget;",1.0 +In easy Contemplation soothing Time,0.0 +"Not so robust in Body, as in Mind,",2.0 +"Not wondering at the World's new wicked Ways,",2.0 +"Compared with those of our Forefathers Days,",3.0 +"For Virtue now is neither more or less,",0.0 +And Vice is only varied in the Dress;,0.0 +"Believe it, Men have ever been the same,",0.0 +"And all the Golden Age, is but a Dream.",1.0 +"TO fill my rising Song with sacred Fire,",0.0 +"You tuneful Nine, you sweet Celestial Quire!",0.0 +"The dreadful Toils of raging Mars I write,",0.0 +"The Springs of Contest, and the Fields of Fight;",1.0 +"How threatening Mice advanced with warlike Grace,",1.0 +And waged dire Combats with the croaking Race.,2.0 +"These equal Acts an equal Glory claim,",0.0 +And thus the Muse records the Tale of Fame.,0.0 +"Once on a Time, fatigued and out of Breath,",1.0 +"And just escaped the stretching Claws of Death,",0.0 +"A Gentle Mouse, whom Cats pursued in vain,",0.0 +"Hung over a Brink, his eager Thirst to cool.",3.0 +And dipped his Whiskers in the standing Pool;,0.0 +When near a courteous Frog advanced his Head;,2.0 +"What art thou, Stranger? What the Line you boast?",0.0 +What Chance hath cast thee panting on our Coast?,1.0 +"With strictest Truth let all thy Words agree,",1.0 +"If worthy Friendship, proffered Friendship take,",0.0 +"Range over my Palace, in my Bounty share,",3.0 +And glad return from hospitable Fare.,5.0 +"This silver Realm extends beneath my Sway,",0.0 +"And me, their Monarch, all its Frogs obey.",1.0 +"Where by the nuptial Bank that paints his Side,",0.0 +"Thee too, thy Form, thy Strength, and Port proclaim",0.0 +"Then trace thy Line, and Aid my guessing Eyes.",0.0 +"Thus ceased the Frog, and thus the Mouse replies.",1.0 +"Known to the Gods, the Men, the Birds that fly",0.0 +"Through wild Expanses of the midway Sky,",2.0 +"My Mother she, and Princess of the Plains",2.0 +"Born where a Cabin lifts its airy Shed,",0.0 +From what Foundation can a Friendship grow?,1.0 +These curling Waters over thy Palace roll;,2.0 +But Man's high Food supports my Princely Soul.,1.0 +In vain the circled Loaves attempt to lie,0.0 +"In vain the Tripe that boasts the whitest Hue,",0.0 +"In vain the gilded Bacon shuns my View,",0.0 +"In vain the Cheeses, Offspring of the Pale,",2.0 +"And as in Arts I shine, in Arms I fight,",1.0 +"Mixed with the bravest, and unknown to Flight.",1.0 +"Though large to mine the humane Form appear,",4.0 +"Sly to the Bed with silent Steps I go,",0.0 +"Attempt his Finger, or attack his Toe,",1.0 +"Sleeping he feels, and only seems to feel.",2.0 +"Grim Owls with Talons armed, and Cats with Claws,",1.0 +"And that false Trap, the Den of silent Fate,",1.0 +Where Death his Ambush plants around the Bait:,1.0 +"The potent Warriors of the tabby Vest,",1.0 +"If to the dark we fly, the Dark they trace,",1.0 +"Nor can the crimson Radish charm my Sight,",1.0 +Which not a Mouse of any Taste can bear.,0.0 +"As thus the downy Prince his Mind expressed,",0.0 +His Answer thus the croaking King addressed.,0.0 +"We sport in Water, or we dance on Land,",1.0 +"And born amphibious, Food from both command.",2.0 +"But trust thy self where Wonders ask thy View,",0.0 +"And safely tempt those Seas, I'll bear thee through:",0.0 +"Ascend my Shoulders, firmly keep thy Seat,",0.0 +"And reach my marshy Court, and feast in State.",0.0 +"He said, and bent his Back; with nimble Bound",0.0 +"Then wondering floats, and sees with glad Survey",2.0 +The winding Banks resembling Ports at Sea.,0.0 +"But when aloft the curling Water rides,",0.0 +"His Thoughts grow conscious of approaching Woe,",2.0 +"His idle Tears with vain Repentance flow,",0.0 +Thick beats his Heart with unaccustomed Fears;,1.0 +"He sighs, and chilled with Danger, longs for Shore:",0.0 +"His Tail extended forms a fruitless Oar,",0.0 +And thus bemoaned him from the dreadful Lake.,1.0 +"So passed Europa through the rapid Sea,",1.0 +And safe in Crete deposed his lovely Load.,0.0 +Ah safe at last! may thus the Frog support,0.0 +My trembling Limbs to reach his ample Court.,0.0 +"As thus he sorrows, Death ambiguous grows,",2.0 +And darts with active Rage along the Waves.,0.0 +"Confused, the Monarch sees his hissing Foe,",0.0 +And dives to shun the sable Fates below.,0.0 +"Forgetful Frog! The Friend thy Shoulders bore,",0.0 +"Unskilled in Swimming, floats remote from Shore.",0.0 +"He grasps with fruitless Hands to find Relief,",0.0 +"Plunging he sinks, and struggling mounts again,",2.0 +"And sinks, and strives, but strives with Fate in vain.",0.0 +"The weighty Moisture clogs his hairy Vest,",0.0 +And thus the Prince his dying Rage expressed.,0.0 +"Nor thou, that flings me floundering from thy Back,",2.0 +"As from hard Rocks rebounds the shattering Wrack,",6.0 +Pursued by Vengeance on the swiftest Wing:,1.0 +"At Land thy Strength could never equal mine,",1.0 +"At Sea to conquer, and by Craft, was thine.",1.0 +"But Heaven has Gods, and Gods have searching Eyes:",0.0 +"This said, he sighing gasped,' and gasping died.",0.0 +"As on the flowery Brink he passed the Day,",3.0 +"Loud shrieks the Mouse, his Shrieks the Shores repeat;",1.0 +The nibbling Nation learn their Hero's Fate:,0.0 +"Grief, dismal Grief ensues; deep Murmurs sound,",2.0 +"From Lodge to Lodge the sacred Heralds run,",0.0 +To fix their Council with the rising Sun;,1.0 +And winds his lengthening Court beneath the Plains;,2.0 +"Supine he lies! the silent Waters stand,",0.0 +"Slow rose the Sovereign, heaved his anxious Breast,",1.0 +"And thus, the Council filled with Rage, addressed.",0.0 +"It's mine the private Grief, the public, yours.",2.0 +"Three warlike Sons adorned my nuptial Bed,",2.0 +"Three Sons, alas, before their Father dead!",1.0 +"Our next, an Engine fraught with Danger drew,",0.0 +"Dire Arts assist the Trap, the Fates decoy,",0.0 +"Rouse all the War, my Friends! avenge the Deed,",0.0 +"And bleed that Monarch, and his Nation bleed.",1.0 +"His Words in every Breast inspired Alarms,",2.0 +And careful Mars supplied their Host with Arms.,0.0 +Faced with the Plunder of a Cat they flayed:,1.0 +The Lamp's round Boss affords their ample Shield;,0.0 +Large Shells of Nuts their covering Helmet yield;,1.0 +"And over the Region, with reflected Rays,",3.0 +Dreadful in Arms the marching Mice appear;,2.0 +"The wondering Frogs perceive the Tumult near,",2.0 +"Forsake the Waters, thickening form a Ring,",0.0 +"And ask, and harken, whence the Noises spring.",0.0 +"When near the Crowd, disclosed to public View,",0.0 +"The sacred Herald's Sceptre graced his Hand,",0.0 +And thus his Words expressed his King's Command.,0.0 +"You Frogs! the Mic with Vengeance fired, advance,",2.0 +And decked in Armour shake the shining Lance:,0.0 +Extends incumbent on the watery Plain.,3.0 +"Then arm your Host, the doubtful Battle try;",0.0 +Lead forth those Frogs that have the Soul to die.,1.0 +"The Chief retires, the Crowd the Challenge hear,",0.0 +"Much they resent, yet much their Monarch blame,",1.0 +"Who rising, spoke to clear his tainted Fame.",0.0 +"OH Friends, I never forced the Mouse to Death,",1.0 +"He, vain of Youth, our Art of Swimming tried'",0.0 +"To Vengeance now by false Appearance led,",0.0 +They point their Anger at my guiltless Head.,0.0 +"But wage the rising War by deep Device,",0.0 +And turn its Fury on the crafty Mice.,1.0 +Your King directs the Way; my Thoughts elate,0.0 +"With Hopes of Conquest, form Designs of Fate.",0.0 +"Where high the Banks their verdant Surface heave,",0.0 +"And the steep Sides confine the sleeping Wave,",2.0 +"There, near the Margin, clad in Armour bright,",0.0 +Sustain the first impetuous Shocks of Fight:,0.0 +"Then, where the dancing Feather joins the Crest,",0.0 +Let each brave Frog his obvious Mouse arrest;,5.0 +"Each strongly grasping, headlong plunge a Foe,",1.0 +Till countless Circles whirl the Lake below;,0.0 +Down sink the Mice in yielding Waters drowned;,0.0 +Loud flash the Waters; and the Shores resound:,3.0 +"The Frogs triumphant tread the conquered Plain,",0.0 +And raise their glorious Trophies of the slain.,3.0 +"He spoke no more, his prudent Scheme imparts",1.0 +"Green was the Suit his arming Heroes chose,",0.0 +"Around their Legs the Greaves of Mallows close,",0.0 +"Green were the Beets about their Shoulders laid,",0.0 +"Formed of the varied Shells the Waters yield,",0.0 +Their glossy Helmets glistened over the Field:,2.0 +With upright Order pierced the ambient Air.,3.0 +"Thus dressed for War, they take the appointed Height,",3.0 +A Solemn Council called the brazen Gates,0.0 +"The Sire superior leans, and points to show",4.0 +What wondrous Combats Mortals wage below:,5.0 +"How strong, how large, the numerous Heroes stride!",2.0 +What Length of Lance they shake with warlike Pride!,1.0 +"What eager Fire, their rapid March reveals!",0.0 +So the fierce Centaurs ravaged over the Dales;,6.0 +"And so confirmed, the daring Titans rose,",1.0 +"Heaped Hills on Hills, and bid the Gods be Foes.",1.0 +"This seen, the Power his sacred Visage rears,",2.0 +"He casts a pitying Smile on worldly Cares,",2.0 +"And asks what heavenly Guardians take the List,",4.0 +"Or who the Mice, or who the Frogs assist?",0.0 +Then thus to Pallas. If my Daughter's Mind,1.0 +"Have joined the Mice, why stays she still behind;",0.0 +"And sure Attendance round thine Altar pay,",0.0 +"Where while the Victims gratify their Taste,",0.0 +They sport to please the Goddess of the Feast.,1.0 +"Thus spoke the Ruler of the spacious Skies,",2.0 +"But thus, resolved, the blue-eyed Maid replies.",1.0 +"In vain, my Father! all their Dangers plead,",0.0 +"To such, thy Pallas never grants her Aid.",1.0 +And rob my crystal Lamps of feeding Oil.,0.0 +"Ills following Ills but what afflicts me more,",3.0 +"The Web was curious, wrought with Art divine;",2.0 +"Along the Loom the purple Warp I spread,",0.0 +"Cast the light Shoot, and crossed the silver Thread;",3.0 +"In this their Teeth a thousand Breaches tear,",0.0 +"The Gods, that use no Coin, have none to give.",1.0 +Neglected Learning gains no Wealth below.,1.0 +"For late, when all the Conflict ceased at Night,",0.0 +"When spent with glorious Toil, I left the Field,",2.0 +And sunk for Slumber on my swelling Shield;,1.0 +"Lo from the Deep, repelling sweet Repose,",0.0 +"Devoid of Rest, with aching Brows I lay,",0.0 +Till Cocks proclaimed the crimson Dawn of Day.,0.0 +Let heavenly Blood or what for Blood may flow,3.0 +"Adorn the Conquest of a meaner Foe,",1.0 +"Some daring Mouse may meet the wondrous Odds,",0.0 +"Though Gods oppose, and brave the wounded Gods.",0.0 +"Over gilded Clouds reclined, the Danger view,",0.0 +And be the Wars of Mortals Scenes for you.,0.0 +"So moved the blue-eyed Queen; her Words persuade,",1.0 +"NOW Front to Front the marching Armies shine,",1.0 +"Halt ever they meet, and form the lengthening Line:",5.0 +"The Chiefs conspicuous seen and heard afar,",2.0 +Give the loud Signal to the rushing War;,4.0 +"Their dreadful Trumpets deep mouthed Hornets sound,",1.0 +And rolls low Thunder through the troubled Sky.,2.0 +"The luckless Warrior filled with generous Flame,",2.0 +Stood foremost glittering in the Post of Fame;,3.0 +"The Mouse fell thundering, and the Target rung;",2.0 +"Prone to the Ground he sinks his closing Eye,",0.0 +And soiled in Dust his lovely Tresses lie.,0.0 +The missive Spear within the Bosom past;,0.0 +"Death's sable Shades the fainting Frog surround,",1.0 +And Life's red Tide runs ebbing from the Wound.,3.0 +"Transfix, and quiver in his panting Heart;",0.0 +For boastful Speech and Turbulence of Sound;,1.0 +"Deep through the Belly pierced, supine he lay,",0.0 +And breathed his Soul against the Face of Day.,0.0 +"A Victor triumph, and a Friend expire;",1.0 +"With heaving Arms a rocky Fragment caught,",0.0 +"A Warrior versed in Arts, of sure Retreat,",0.0 +But Arts in vain elude impending Fate;,0.0 +"Full on his sinewy Neck the Fragment fell,",2.0 +And over his Eyelids Clouds eternal dwell.,3.0 +"Striding advanced, and took no wandering Aim;",5.0 +And near the vanquished Mouse the Victor dies;,0.0 +"Long bred to Banquets, less inured to Fights,",1.0 +And wildly floundering flashes up the Deep;,3.0 +"Gasping he rolls, a purple Stream of Blood",2.0 +"Through the wide Wound the rushing Entrails throng,",2.0 +"Prince of the Mice that haunt the flowery Vales,",2.0 +"Lost to the milky Fares and rural Seat,",0.0 +He came to perish on the Bank of Fate.,1.0 +"Drops the green Target, springing quits the Foe,",3.0 +"Glides through the Lake, and safely dives below.",0.0 +"Through breaking Ranks, and leads the dreadful Day.",0.0 +His Parents fed him on the savage Boar;,1.0 +"Till fallen in Death he lies, a shattering Stone",4.0 +"Sounds on the Neck, and crushes all the Bone,",0.0 +And from his Nostrils bursts the gushing Brain.,1.0 +"A blameless Frog, whom humbler Life delights;",0.0 +"And downward plunging, sinks his Soul to Death.",0.0 +Scarce he so great whose Loss provoked the War,0.0 +"His freckled Corpse before the Victor fell,",0.0 +His Soul indignant fought the Shades of Hell.,0.0 +"Heaved with both Hands a monstrous Mass of Mud,",3.0 +"The Cloud obscene over all the Hero flies,",5.0 +"Enraged, and wildly sputtering, from the Shore",1.0 +"A Stone immense of Size the Warrior bore,",0.0 +Asks ten degenerate Mice of modern Days.,3.0 +Full on the Leg arrives the crushing Wound;,0.0 +"Deep through the Belly run the pointed Reed,",0.0 +And on the Pile his reeking Entrails bore.,1.0 +Creeps from the desperate Dangers of the Plain;,1.0 +And where the Ditches rising Weeds supply,0.0 +"To spread their lowly Shades beneath the Sky,",0.0 +There lurks the silent Mouse relieved from Heat,0.0 +"But where the Foot around its Ankle plies,",0.0 +"Halts to the Pool, a safe Retreat to find,",0.0 +And trails a dangling Length of Leg behind.,0.0 +"The Mouse still urges, still the Frog retires,",1.0 +And half in Anguish of the Flight expires:,1.0 +Betwixt the Fortunes of contending Kings:,1.0 +"Lank, harmless Frog! with Forces hardly grown,",1.0 +"He darts the Reed in Combats not his own,",2.0 +"Hangs at the Point, and drops upon the Field.",0.0 +Now nobly towering over the rest appears,3.0 +"A gallant Prince that far transcends his Years,",0.0 +"Pride of his Sire, and Glory of his House,",3.0 +And more a Mars in Combat than a Mouse:,1.0 +"His Action bold, robust his ample Frame,",0.0 +"The Warrior singled from the fighting Crowd,",1.0 +"Then strutting near the Lake, with Looks elate;",0.0 +To all its Nations threats approaching Fate.,0.0 +"And such his Strength, the Silver Lakes around",1.0 +"To Frogs that perish, than to human Race,",1.0 +"Felt soft Compassion rising in his Soul,",1.0 +"And shook his sacred Head, that shook the Pole.",0.0 +Then thus to all the gazing Powers began,2.0 +"The Sire of Gods, and Frogs, and Mice, and Man,",2.0 +What Seas of Blood I view! what Worlds of slain!,0.0 +An Iliad rising from a Day's Campaign!,3.0 +Soon will the Frogs loquacious Empire end.,0.0 +"Let dreadful Pallas winged with Pity fly,",1.0 +And make her AEgis blaze before his Eye:,0.0 +Arrests his raging Rival of the War.,1.0 +"He ceased, reclining with attentive Head,",1.0 +When thus the glorious God of Combats said.,4.0 +"With all the Terrors of her hissing Shield,",1.0 +"Nor Mars himself, though Mars in Armour bright",0.0 +"Ascend his Car, and wheel amid the Fight;",0.0 +Or change the Fortunes of the bleeding War.,1.0 +"Let all go forth, all Heaven in Arms arise,",3.0 +Or launch thy own red Thunder from the Skies.,2.0 +"Such ardent Bolts as flew that wondrous Day,",0.0 +"When Heaps of Titans mixed with Mountains lay,",0.0 +"Deep lengthening Thunders run from Pole to Pole,",3.0 +"And headlong darts it at the distant Ground,",1.0 +"And Frogs, the Dwellers in the Waters, quake.",0.0 +"Yet still the Mice advance their dread Design,",0.0 +"And the last Danger threats the croaking Line,",2.0 +"Poured from the neighbouring Strand, deformed to View,",2.0 +"They march, a sudden unexpected Crew!",0.0 +"Strong Suits of Armour round their Bodies close,",1.0 +In wheeling Marches turned oblique they go;,0.0 +From out the Flesh their Bones by Nature stand;,1.0 +"Broad spread their Backs, their shining Shoulders rise;",1.0 +With nervous Cords their Hands are firmly braced;,0.0 +Their round black Eyeballs in their Bosom placed;,1.0 +On eight long Feet the wondrous Warriors tread;,1.0 +And either end alike supplies a Head.,0.0 +"These, mortal Wits to call the Crabs, agree,",0.0 +The Gods have other Names for Things than we.,0.0 +"Here, short of Feet, deprived the Power to fly,",2.0 +"There, without Hands, upon the Field they lie.",4.0 +"Wrenched from their Holds, and scattered all around,",0.0 +"Helpless Amazement, Fear pursuing Fear,",2.0 +And mad Confusion through their Host appear:,1.0 +Or creep concealed in vaulted Holes below.,0.0 +But down Olympus to the Western Seas,2.0 +"Was fought, and ceased, in one revolving Sun.",1.0 +"Dear Dick, how ever it comes into his Head,",3.0 +"Believes, as firmly as He does his Creed,",1.0 +"That You and I, Sir, are extremely great;",3.0 +"Though I plain Mat, You Minister of State.",3.0 +"One Word from Me, without all doubt, He says,",1.0 +Would fix his Fortune in some little Place.,0.0 +"Thus better than My self, it seems, He knows,",2.0 +How far my Interest with my Patron goes;,1.0 +"And answering all Objections I can make,",3.0 +Still plunges deeper in his dear Mistake.,1.0 +"From this wild Fancy, Sir, there may proceed",3.0 +"One wilder yet, which I foresee, and dread;",1.0 +"That I, in Fact, a real Interest have,",3.0 +"Which to my own Advantage I would save,",1.0 +"And, with the usual Courtier's Trick, intend",3.0 +"To serve My self, forgetful of my Friend.",1.0 +"To shun this Censure, I all Shame lay by;",3.0 +And make my Reason with his Will comply;,2.0 +That of two Evils I have chose the least.,3.0 +"So, Sir, with this Epistolary Scroll,",1.0 +"Him you will find in Letters, and in Laws",2.0 +"Warm in the Glorious Interest You pursue,",3.0 +"And, in one Word, a Good Man and a True.",0.0 +"My trembling Muse, with awful Duty press,",0.0 +"Since meanest Slaves, to Altars may repair,",1.0 +"With sacred Rites, of Sacrifice and Prayer.",0.0 +"Heaven takes the Incense, if it is sincere,",3.0 +"Freely as if the Great, had offered there,",2.0 +"Blessed with such hopes, my Muse, with Prostrate Zeal,",0.0 +Dare at the Feet of her great Sovereign kneel;,3.0 +"Not for your Glory, but Divinity.",2.0 +"Never shone so Bright, till you had put it on;",1.0 +"You, who have condescended to a Throne.",0.0 +"Greatness and Goodness, are consistent Things:",3.0 +"Your Subjects modest Merits your regard,",1.0 +As makes a Sanctuary of your Court.,1.0 +"All your Retinue, so reformed appear,",2.0 +"As if the Golden Age, were Blooming here;",1.0 +"Fixed like the Sun, superior you dispense,",3.0 +"On all the under World, your blissful Influence.",1.0 +"The Graces in your smiles, with Grandeur move,",3.0 +And form an Air of Majesty and Love:,1.0 +"Heaven be propitious to my Monarch's Arms,",2.0 +"And make them as Victorious, as her Charms,",2.0 +"With your fair Hand, their boasted Greatness awe.",2.0 +"Why are we barred, or why I Woman made,",0.0 +"Whose Sex forbids to Fight, and to Invade,",1.0 +"Or give my Queen, more than my wish for Aid?",1.0 +"Will strait turn Amazon, but speak the Word;",1.0 +"Scarce can I kerb, my eager loyal Soul,",0.0 +"For you I'd fight, Mankind from Pole to Pole,",2.0 +"Till all the Kingdoms, in one Empire meet,",0.0 +Then lay the Crown at your Imperial Feet.,3.0 +"And hug the Chains, which made them Slaves to you;",0.0 +"May you in Peace, long Rule your Native Land,",2.0 +"And the just Terror, of Ambition stand:",2.0 +May every Subject you protect; Profess,1.0 +"As much as I, and dare to act no less.",2.0 +"For sure, whatever You do, wherever You are,",4.0 +"It's all but one good Work, one constant Prayer:",1.0 +"To raise her Notes to that sublime Degree,",0.0 +Which suits a Song of Piety and Thee.,1.0 +"The Force of Sin, may stop the Rage of Hell:",0.0 +"The crying Voice, to bid the World repent.",0.0 +Thee Youth shall study; and no more engage,2.0 +Their flattering Wishes for uncertain Age;,3.0 +"No more with fruitless Care, and cheated Strife",0.0 +Chace fleeting Pleasure through this Maze of Life;,2.0 +"Finding the wretched All They here can have,",2.0 +"But present Food, and but a future Grave:",1.0 +"Each, great as Philip's Victor Son, shall view",0.0 +"This abject World, and weeping, ask a New.",0.0 +"Decrepit Age shall read Thee, and confess,",1.0 +"Shall bless thy Words, their wounded Souls Relief,",0.0 +The Drops that sweeten their last Dregs of Life:,2.0 +"Shall look to Heaven, and laugh at all beneath;",0.0 +"Own Riches gathered, Trouble; Fame, a Breath;",0.0 +"And Life an Ill, whose only Cure is Death.",0.0 +"Wit may admire, and lettered Pride be taught:",2.0 +"Easy in Words thy Style, in Sense sublime:",2.0 +On it's blessed Steps each Age and Sex may rise:,2.0 +"It's like the Ladder in the Patriarch's Dream,",1.0 +"It's Foot on Earth, it's Height above the Skies.",0.0 +"Diffused it's Virtue, boundless is it's Power:",1.0 +"It's Public Health, and Universal Cure:",0.0 +"Of Heavenly Manna, it's a second Feast,",3.0 +"A Nation's Food, and all to every Taste.",0.0 +To it's last Height mad Britain's Guilt was reared:,4.0 +And various Death for various Crimes She feared:,4.0 +With your kind Work her drooping Hopes revive:,2.0 +"You bid Her read, repent, adore, and live:",0.0 +You wrest the Bolt from Heavens avenging Hand;,2.0 +"Stop ready Death, and save a sinking Land.",1.0 +OH! save Us still; still bless Us with thy Stay:,3.0 +"OH! want thy Heaven, till We have learnt the Way:",2.0 +Refuse to leave thy destined Charge too soon:,1.0 +OH! live; and let thy Works urge our Belief;,3.0 +Live to explain thy Doctrine by thy Life;,3.0 +"Grow ripe in Years, and old in Piety;",2.0 +"Till Christians, yet unborn, be taught to die.",1.0 +"Then in full Age, and hoary Holiness",2.0 +"Retire, great Teacher, to thy promised Bliss:",2.0 +"Untouched thy Tomb, uninjured be thy Dust,",0.0 +As thy own Fame among the future Just;,1.0 +Till in last Sounds the dreadful Trumpet speaks:,1.0 +Till Judgement calls; and quickened Nature wakes:,0.0 +"Till through the utmost Earth, and deepest Sea",2.0 +"Our scattered Atoms find their destined Way,",0.0 +In haste to cloth their Kindred Souls again;,0.0 +"Perfect our State, and build immortal Man:",0.0 +"To Paths of Joy, and Tracts of endless Light",0.0 +"Lead up all those who heard Thee, and believed:",1.0 +"'Midst thy own Flock, great Shepherd, be received;",1.0 +And glad all Heaven with Millions Thou hast saved.,1.0 +"From dreary scenes low prostrate on the ground,",2.0 +Where anguish rages with a gloom profound;,1.0 +"Where poverty in every form appears,",1.0 +"To chill a wretched prisoner with fears,",1.0 +"A spirit fled; the brave, undaunted mind",0.0 +"Smiled at despair, and left its load behind;",1.0 +"O! Henry, must thou undistinguished lie,",0.0 +"And will no friend whom all those virtues made,",1.0 +Pay a just tribute to thy parting shade?,1.0 +"Yes, I'm that friend; accept the pitying tear,",2.0 +The kindest offering of an heart sincere;,1.0 +"O! take it then from her you once approved,",1.0 +"I'll guard thy memory, and indulge my woe;",3.0 +"How hard thy fate! from peace, from pleasure torn,",0.0 +"Doomed to imprisonment, in want to mourn;",3.0 +"On the damp earth exposed, thy gallant breast",2.0 +"With sickness, anguish, pining care oppressed;",0.0 +"Too proud for pity, conscious of the past,",2.0 +"Forgot, unheeded even to the last,",1.0 +"No gentle hand thy later wants relieved,",1.0 +Nor cordial drop thy closing lips received,0.0 +A man in whom the virtues did reside:,0.0 +"You brave companions of his happier days,",3.0 +O! aid my feeble voice to speak his praise;,0.0 +"He once was leader of a chosen band,",1.0 +And carried conquest through a foreign land;,1.0 +"Loved by his equals, to his soldiers dear,",1.0 +"To each forgiving, to himself severe",1.0 +"Till death, more kind than country, friends, or king,",0.0 +Sheltered his sorrows with his fable wing:,3.0 +"Pardon, you brave! long, long did you protect",4.0 +That injured worth his country did neglect;,0.0 +"Then join with me the kind embalming tear,",1.0 +"And may thy rest be sweet, thou good and brave!",1.0 +Bright honour rear her standard over thy grave;,3.0 +"And though no marble may adorn the spot,",3.0 +A name so honoured cannot be forgot;,2.0 +"Dear to the soldier, by the good approved,",1.0 +"Sacred to friends, and by relations loved.",3.0 +"And O! blessed spirit! gracious and benign,",3.0 +Over all my ways O! let thy influence shine:,2.0 +"And be my guardian, comforter, and friend:",3.0 +"Direct the good, the shafts of ill repel,",0.0 +Till I shall bid each earthly bliss farewell;,2.0 +Then may thy spirit welcome mine above,1.0 +"With waving Locks, and thin transparent Robe,",0.0 +"Whoever would catch this Dame, must swiftly ride.",2.0 +"Mark, how she seems to Fly, and with her bears,",1.0 +All that is worth a busy Mortal's Cares:,0.0 +"The gilded Air about her Statue shines,",1.0 +As if the Earth had lent it all her Mines;,1.0 +"At random Here a Diadem she slings,",0.0 +"And There a scarlet Hat with dangling Strings,",1.0 +And to ten Thousand Fools ten Thousand glorious Things.,5.0 +"Shall I then stay at Home, Dull and Content",2.0 +"No, I'll to Horse, to Sea, to utmost Isles,",1.0 +But I'll encounter her propitious Smiles:,2.0 +And scarce the few Paternal Acres keep.,0.0 +"Farewell, replied his Friend, may you advance,",2.0 +And grow the Darling of this Lady Chance:,1.0 +"While I indeed, not courting of her Grace,",2.0 +"Shall dwell content, in this my Native Place,",1.0 +Hoping I still shall for your Friend be known:,2.0 +"But if too big for such Acquaintance grown,",3.0 +"I shan't be such a fond mistaken Sot,",1.0 +To think Remembrance should become my Lot;,0.0 +"When you Exalted, have your self Forgot.",1.0 +"Nor me Ambitious ever shall you find,",1.0 +"Or hunting Fortune, who, they say, is Blind:",0.0 +"But if her Want of Sight should make her Stray,",1.0 +"She should be Welcome, if she came this Way.",1.0 +It's very like the Undertaker cried,0.0 +That she her Steps to these lost Paths should guide:,2.0 +"But I lose Time, while I such Thoughts deride.",1.0 +"Away he goes, with Expectation cheered,",0.0 +"But when his Course he round the World had steered,",0.0 +"And much had born, and much had hoped and feared,",0.0 +Yet could not be informed where he might find,1.0 +This fickle Mistress of all Humankind:,1.0 +"He quits at length the Chase of flying Game,",0.0 +He there encounters the uncertain Dame;,2.0 +"Who lighting from her gaudy Coach in haste,",1.0 +To him her eager Speeches thus addressed.,1.0 +"Fortune behold, who has been long pursued,",2.0 +"That Hither I am fled to shun their Suits,",1.0 +And by free Choice conclude their vain Disputes;,2.0 +"While I the Owner of this Mansion bless,",1.0 +"Though rightly charged as something Dark of Sight,",0.0 +"Yet Merit, when it's found, is my Delight;",1.0 +"To make me Sport, as I beheld them strive,",1.0 +"Scrambling amongst the Vigorous and Young,",2.0 +All striving to obtain me right or wrong:,1.0 +Showed me a Farce in the contending World.,1.0 +"Thou wert deluded, while with Ship, or Steed,",1.0 +"And by laborious Toil, and endless Pains,",3.0 +"While He alone my real Favourite rises,",5.0 +"And neither courts, nor yet my Gifts despises.",0.0 +THOUGH to Antiquity the Praise we yield,2.0 +Of pleasing Arts; and Fable's earliest Field,2.0 +Own to be fruitful Greece; yet not so clean,0.0 +And from the Lands of vast Invention come,1.0 +"Daily new Authors, with Discoveries home.",6.0 +"This curious Piece, which I shall now impart,",2.0 +Rivals and Heirs to the Horatian Lyre:,3.0 +"Who meeting him, one Day, free and alone,",3.0 +For still their Thoughts were to each other known,1.0 +"Thus asked his Aid ' -- Some useful Counsel give,",1.0 +"Thou who, by living long, hast learnt to live;",0.0 +Whose Observation nothing can escape;,1.0 +"Tell me, how I my course of Life shall shape:",1.0 +"You know my Birth, my Talents, my Estate:",1.0 +"Shall I with these content, all Search resign,",1.0 +"Or in the Court, or Camp, advancement gain?",0.0 +The World's a mixture of Delight and Pain:,1.0 +"I need not ask, to what my Genius tends,",0.0 +"But would content the World, the Court, my Friends.",0.0 +"How vain the Attempt will prove in him, that tries,",3.0 +"Learn from a Fable, I have somewhere found,",2.0 +Before I answer all that you propound.,1.0 +"A Miller and his Son the Father old,",1.0 +The Boy about some fifteen Years had told,1.0 +"Designed their Ass to sell, and for the Fair,",1.0 +"Some distance off, accordingly prepare.",2.0 +"But lest she in the walk should lose her Flesh,",1.0 +"And not appear, for Sale, so full and fresh,",0.0 +Her Feet together tied; between them two,0.0 +"Till those, who met them bearing thus the Ass,",1.0 +"Cried, Are these Fools about to act a Farce?",0.0 +Surely the Beast however it seem to be,5.0 +Is not the greatest Ass of all the Three.,0.0 +"The Miller in their Mirth his Folly finds,",0.0 +"And though her grumbling showed, she liked much more",1.0 +"The lazy way, she travelled in before,",0.0 +He minds her not; but up the Boy he sets,1.0 +"Thus on they jog, when of Three Men that passed.",2.0 +"The eldest thinking Age to be disgraced,",0.0 +"Called to the Youth, ho! you, young Man for shame!",3.0 +"Come down, lest Passengers your Manners blame,",1.0 +"And say, it ill becomes your tender Years",0.0 +"Truly, the Gentlemen are in the right,",3.0 +"The Miller cries, and makes the Boy alight;",0.0 +"Then forward slides himself into his place,",0.0 +"And with a Mind content, renews his pace:",1.0 +"But much he had not gained upon his way,",0.0 +"Partial to Youth to one another cried,",3.0 +"He rides alone, and dangling in the Seat,",0.0 +"Hangs like a Calf thrown up, across the Beast.",2.0 +"Replied, he was too Old for Veal to pass,",2.0 +"But after more on him, and on his Ass,",1.0 +"He stands convinced, and takes his Son again",0.0 +"To ride at ease himself, still next the Mane.",1.0 +"The next they met, cried ' -- Are these Fellows mad",2.0 +"Sure, at the Fair, they for her Skin may trade.",1.0 +"The Miller, whom this most of all provokes,",0.0 +"Swears by his Cap, he shows his want of Brains,",0.0 +"Who thus to please the World, bestows his Pains",0.0 +"However we'll try, if this weighed may be done;",3.0 +"And off he comes, and fetches down his Son.",2.0 +"Behind they walk, and now the Creature drive,",0.0 +But could no better in their Purpose thrive;,1.0 +"Nor escape a Fellow's Censure, whom they meet,",1.0 +"That cries, to spare the Ass they break their Feet;",0.0 +"Trudge in the Dirt, and batter out their Shoes;",1.0 +"As if to burden her they were afraid,",3.0 +"And Men for Beasts, not Beasts for Men were made.",0.0 +"The Proverb right, the Cart before the Horse.",0.0 +"The Miller, finding things grow worse and worse,",1.0 +"Cries out, I am an Ass, it is agreed,",2.0 +"And so are all, who would in this succeed.",2.0 +"I'll neither heed, but follow my own Mind,",1.0 +"Take my own Counsel, how my Beast to sell.",1.0 +"This he resolved, and did it, and did well.",2.0 +"For you, Sir, Follow Love, the Court, the War;",2.0 +"Live single all your Days, or take a Wife;",1.0 +"THY justice, heavenly King! and that great day,",3.0 +"When Virtue, long abandoned and forlorn,",1.0 +I sing adventurous. ' -- But what eye can pierce,1.0 +The vast immeasurable realms of space,0.0 +Over which Messiah drives his flaming car,0.0 +"Firstborn of heaven, to judge assembled worlds,",1.0 +"Clothed in celestial radiance! Can the Muse,",2.0 +"Her feeble wing all damp with earthly dew,",0.0 +Chant songs of triumph to their Maker's praise? ' --,2.0 +"Yet will I strive to sing, albeit unused",2.0 +To tread poetic soil. What though the wiles,1.0 +Of Fancy me enchanted never could lure,2.0 +To rove over fairy lands; to swim the streams,2.0 +Or climb her mountain tops; yet will I raise,1.0 +My feeble voice to tell what harmony,1.0 +Sweet as the music of the rolling spheres,1.0 +May hope her promised crown; that Vice may dread,0.0 +"Vengeance, though late; that reasoning Pride may own",4.0 +"That divine particle, which God's own breath",7.0 +"Inspired into the mortal mass, shall rest",2.0 +"Annihilate, till Duration has unrolled",3.0 +"In laws, in rites, in manners disagree,",1.0 +"With one consent expect another world,",1.0 +"Have feigned a paradise of mirth and love,",0.0 +"Banquets, and blooming nymphs? Or rather tell,",2.0 +"Where never Science reared her sacred torch,",0.0 +"Is placed a friendly monitor, that prompts,",1.0 +"Informs, directs, encourages, forbids?",1.0 +"Tell, why on unknown evil grief attends,",5.0 +Or joy on secret good? Why conscience acts,0.0 +"With tenfold force, when sickness, age, or pain,",1.0 +Stands tottering on the precipice of Death?,3.0 +Or why such horror gnaws the guilty soul,0.0 +Of dying sinners; while the good man sleeps,1.0 +"Peaceful and calm, and with a smile expires?",3.0 +"Look round the world, with what a partial hand",0.0 +The scale of bliss and misery is sustained!,3.0 +Beneath the shade of cold obscurity,1.0 +"Pale Virtue lies! no arm supports her head,",2.0 +"No friendly voice speaks comfort to her soul,",3.0 +"But, in their stead, Contempt and rude Disdain",0.0 +Insult the banished wanderer: on she goes,1.0 +"Neglected and forlorn: Disease, and Cold,",1.0 +"And Famine, worst of ills, her steps attend:",0.0 +"Yet patient, and to heaven's just will resigned,",3.0 +"She never is seen to weep, or heard to sigh.",2.0 +Where flushed with all the insolence of wealth,1.0 +Sits pampered Vice! For him the Arabian gale,4.0 +For him pour nectar from the purple vine;,3.0 +Nor think for these he pays the tribute due,1.0 +"To heaven: of heaven he never names the name,",0.0 +He points his jest obscene. Yet buxom Health,0.0 +And wilt thou never repay? Shall good and ill,2.0 +Be carried undistinguished to the land,1.0 +Where all things are forgot? ' -- Ah! no; the day,2.0 +"Will come, when Virtue from the cloud shall burst",1.0 +That long obscured her beams; when Sin shall fly,0.0 +Back to her native hell; there sink eclipsed,0.0 +"In penal darkness; where nor star shall rise,",0.0 +Nor ever sunshine pierce the impervious gloom.,5.0 +"On that great day the solemn trump shall sound,",1.0 +That trump which once in heaven on man's revolt,0.0 +Then shall the assembled nations of the earth,2.0 +"Unite; Egyptians, Babylonians, Greeks,",3.0 +"Names famed of old: or who of later age,",1.0 +"Chinese and Russian, Mexican and Turk,",1.0 +"Drink Ganges' sacred stream. At once shall rise,",1.0 +Whom distant ages to each other's sight,1.0 +Had long denied; before the throne shall kneel,0.0 +"Some great progenitor, while at his side",1.0 +Stands his descendant through a thousand lines.,3.0 +"Whatever their nation, and whatever their rank,",7.0 +With equal eye the God of all shall see;,0.0 +And judge with equal love. What though the great,1.0 +With costly pomp and aromatic sweets,0.0 +Embalmed his poor remains; or through the dome,1.0 +"A thousand tapers shed their gloomy light,",0.0 +While solemn organs to his parting soul,1.0 +Dost thou discern him from that lowly swain,2.0 +Long lay neglected? ' -- All at once shall rise;,1.0 +"But not to equal glory: for, alas!",1.0 +Some wail their fatal birth. ' -- First among these,3.0 +Behold the mighty murderers of mankind;,2.0 +They who in sport whole kingdoms slew; or they,1.0 +Who to the tottering pinnacle of power,3.0 +Waded through seas of blood! How will they curse,3.0 +The madness of ambition; how lament,2.0 +Who sunk an aged father to the grave:,1.0 +Slighted a brother's sufferings: ' -- Here are they,2.0 +"Who from the infant virgin tore her dower,",0.0 +And eat the orphan's bread: ' -- who spent their stores,0.0 +In selfish luxury; or over their gold,3.0 +Prostrate and pale adored the useless heap. ' --,2.0 +Who mixed the poisonous bowl; ' -- or broke the ties,2.0 +Of hospitable friendship: ' -- and the wretch,5.0 +Whose listless soul sick with the cares of life,2.0 +Rushed in with insult rude. How would they joy,1.0 +"Once more to visit earth; and, though oppressed",1.0 +"With all that Pain and Famine can inflict,",1.0 +Pant up the hill of life? Vain wish! the Judge,1.0 +"Pronounces doom eternal on their heads,",1.0 +Perpetual punishment. Seek not to know,4.0 +What punishment! for that the Almighty Will,3.0 +Has hid from mortal eyes: and shall vain man,1.0 +With curious search refined presume to pry,2.0 +"Into thy secrets, Father! No: let him",2.0 +"With humble patience all thy works adore,",0.0 +"But who are they, who bound in tenfold chains",2.0 +Stand horribly aghast? This is the crew,3.0 +"Who strove to pull Jehovah from his throne,",1.0 +And in the place of heaven's Eternal King,2.0 +Set up the phantom Chance. For them in vain,1.0 +Alternate seasons cheered the rolling year;,2.0 +"In vain the sun over herb, tree, fruit, and flower",4.0 +"Shed genial influence, mild; and the pale moon",4.0 +Repaired her waning orb. ' -- Next these is placed,1.0 +And against the impenetrable walls of heaven,4.0 +Planted his feeble battery. By these stands,3.0 +The arch Apostate: he with many a wile,3.0 +Exhorts them still to foul revolt. Alas!,0.0 +"No hope have they from black despair, no ray",2.0 +Shines through the gloom to cheer their sinking souls:,0.0 +In agonies of grief they curse the hour,1.0 +When first they left Religion's onward way.,0.0 +These on the left are ranged: but on the right,2.0 +"A chosen band appears, who fought beneath",0.0 +"The banner of Jehovah, and defied",2.0 +"Satan's united legions. Some, unmoved",2.0 +"At the grim tyrant's frown, over barbarous climes",6.0 +Sad servitude! in chains and dungeons pined;,1.0 +Or racked with all the agonies of pain,1.0 +Breathed out their faithful lives. Thrice happy they,2.0 +Whom heaven elected to that glorious strife! ' --,3.0 +Entailed their just reward. Thou amongst these,2.0 +Fostering fair Genius bad the Poet's hand,2.0 +"Bring annual offerings to his Maker's shrine,",4.0 +Shalt find the generous care was not in vain. ' --,3.0 +"Here is that favourite band, whom mercy mild,",0.0 +"God's best loved attribute, adorned; whose gate",4.0 +Stood ever open to the stranger's call;,2.0 +"Who fed the hungry, to the thirsty lip",1.0 +Reached out the friendly cup; whose care benign,0.0 +From the rude blast secured the pilgrim's side;,2.0 +Who heard the widow's tender tale; and shook,0.0 +The galling shackle from the prisoner's feet;,1.0 +"Who each endearing tie, each office knew",0.0 +"OH Charity, thou nymph divinely fair!",2.0 +Sweeter than those whom ancient Poets bound,1.0 +The Graces! How shall I essay to paint,2.0 +"Thy charms, celestial maid; and in rude verse",1.0 +"For thee nor rankling envy can infect,",2.0 +To see the sinner as a verdant tree,1.0 +Spread his luxuriant branches over the stream;,6.0 +"While like some blasted trunk the righteous fall,",0.0 +"Prostrate, forlorn. When prophecies shall fail,",3.0 +"When tongues shall cease, when knowledge is no more,",2.0 +And this great day is come; thou by the throne,3.0 +"Bear me, OH bear me on thy soaring wing,",2.0 +"Conduct my steps, safe from the fiery gulf",4.0 +And dark abyss where Sin and Satan reign!,0.0 +"But, can the Muse, her numbers all too weak,",2.0 +Tell how that restless element of fire,1.0 +"Shall wage with seas and earth intestine war,",0.0 +And deluge all creation? Whether so,1.0 +"Some think the comet, as through fields of air",1.0 +"Lawless he wanders, shall rush headlong on",5.0 +Thwarting the Ecliptic where the unconscious earth,4.0 +"Attract her long reluctant; or the caves,",1.0 +"Pour streams of liquid fire; while from above,",3.0 +Rains fierce combustion. ' -- Where are now the works,1.0 +"Of art, the toil of ages? Where are now",0.0 +"Those lofty pyramids, which high in air",1.0 +"Reared their aspiring heads, to distant times",2.0 +Tell me where Athens raised her towers? ' -- Where Thebes,1.0 +Opened her hundred portals? ' -- Tell me where,2.0 +And awed the tributary world to peace? ' --,0.0 +"Show me the rampart, which over many a hill,",4.0 +"Through many a valley stretched its wide extent,",2.0 +"Raised by that mighty monarch, to repel",1.0 +"The roving Tartar, when with insult rude",1.0 +"But what is mimic Art? Even Nature's works,",2.0 +"Seas, meadows, pastures, the meandering streams,",5.0 +And everlasting hills shall be no more.,0.0 +"Overhang the Atlantic Surge. ' -- Nor that famed cliff,",3.0 +"Through which the Persian steered with many a sail,",2.0 +Over half the wide Aegean. ' -- Where are now,0.0 +And from the Black Sea to the Ocean stream,3.0 +That hill on which the faithful Patriarch's Ark,1.0 +Which seven long months had voyaged over its top,5.0 +"First rested, when the Earth with all her sons,",1.0 +"As now by streaming cataracts of fire,",0.0 +"Are vanished and dissolved; no trace remains,",2.0 +No mark of vain distinction: heaven itself,1.0 +Sinks in the universal ruin lost. ' --,0.0 +No more shall planets round their central sun,0.0 +Move in harmonious dance; no more the moon,3.0 +Hang out her silver lamp; and those fixed stars,1.0 +Which oft the Tuscan with his optic glass,1.0 +"Called from their wondrous height, to read their names",0.0 +"And magnitude, some winged minister",4.0 +Shall quench; and surest sign that all on earth,0.0 +"Such is that awful, that tremendous day,",1.0 +Whose coming who shall tell? for as a thief,1.0 +"Unheard, unseen, it steals with silent pace",0.0 +Through night's dark gloom. ' -- Perhaps as here I sit,1.0 +"Soon shall the hand be checked, and dumb the mouth",0.0 +"But find me wrapped in meditations high,",0.0 +"OH Everlasting King! to thee I kneel,",2.0 +To thee I lift my voice. With fervent heat,1.0 +"Melt all you elements? And thou, high heaven,",2.0 +"Think on the best, the noblest of thy works;",1.0 +"Think on thine own bright Image! Think on him,",1.0 +Who died to save us from thy righteous wrath;,1.0 +And mid the wreck of worlds remember man!,0.0 +"THese trophies, STANHOPE, of the lovely dame,",1.0 +"Once the bright object of a monarch's flame,",1.0 +"Who with such just propriety can wear,",1.0 +"As thou, the darling of the gay and fair?",2.0 +"See every friend to wit, politeness, love,",1.0 +With one consent thy sovereign's choice approve!,2.0 +"Herself, and GARTER, both were surely thine.",1.0 +That with its wearisome but needful length,1.0 +"He comes, the herald of a noisy world,",1.0 +"With spattered boots, strapped waist, and frozen locks,",1.0 +News from all nations lumbering at his back.,1.0 +"Yet careless what he brings, his one concern",1.0 +"Is to conduct it to the destined inn,",1.0 +And having dropped the expected bag ' -- pass on.,4.0 +"He whistles as he goes, lighthearted wretch,",2.0 +Cold and yet cheerful: messenger of grief,1.0 +"Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some,",1.0 +To him indifferent whether grief or joy.,1.0 +"Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks,",3.0 +With tears that trickled down the writers cheeks,1.0 +"Fast as the periods from his fluent quill,",1.0 +"Or nymphs responsive, equally affect",1.0 +"His horse and him, unconscious of them all.",3.0 +But o the important budget! ushered in,1.0 +"Or do they still, as if with opium drugged,",3.0 +Snore to the murmurs of the Atlantic wave?,3.0 +"Or do we grind her still? the grand debate,",0.0 +"The popular harangue, the tart reply,",1.0 +The logic and the wisdom and the wit,2.0 +And the loud laugh ' -- I long to know them all;,2.0 +"I burn to set the imprisoned wranglers free,",2.0 +And give them voice and utterance once again.,2.0 +"Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast,",1.0 +"Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,",1.0 +"Throws up a steamy column, and the cups",1.0 +"That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,",2.0 +So let us welcome peaceful evening in.,0.0 +"Not such his evening, who with shining face",0.0 +"Sweats in the crowded theatre, and squeezed",1.0 +Out scolds the ranting actor on the stage.,1.0 +"Nor his, who patient stands till his feet throb",2.0 +"And his head thumps, to feed upon the breath",2.0 +"Of patriots bursting with heroic rage,",3.0 +"' This folio of four pages, happy work!",6.0 +Inquisitive attention while I read,1.0 +"Fast bound in chains of silence, which the fair,",1.0 +"Though eloquent themselves, yet fear to break,",1.0 +What is it but a map of busy life,1.0 +Its fluctuations and its vast concerns?,1.0 +Here runs the mountainous and craggy ridge,1.0 +"That tempts ambition. On the summit, see,",1.0 +The seals of office glitter in his eyes;,0.0 +"He climbs, he pants, he grasps them. At his heels,",0.0 +"Close at his heels a demagogue ascends,",0.0 +"And wins them, but to lose them in his turn.",1.0 +The modest speaker is ashamed and grieved,1.0 +"TO engross a moment's notice, and yet begs,",2.0 +"Begs a propitious ear for his poor thoughts,",3.0 +"Sweet bashfulness! it claims, at least, this praise,",2.0 +The dearth of information and good sense,1.0 +In which all comprehension wanders lost;,0.0 +"While fields of pleasantry amuse us there,",1.0 +The rest appears a wilderness of strange,1.0 +"But gay confusion, roses for the cheeks",1.0 +"And lilies for the brows of faded age,",1.0 +"Heaven, earth, and ocean plundered of their sweets,",1.0 +"Sermons and city feasts and favourite airs,",2.0 +"At his own wonders, wondering for his bread.",1.0 +Tis pleasant through the loopholes of retreat,4.0 +To peep at such a world. To see the stir,1.0 +Of the great Babel and not feel the crowd.,3.0 +To hear the roar she sends through all her gates,0.0 +"At a safe distance, where the dying sound",2.0 +Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.,6.0 +Thus sitting and surveying thus at ease,2.0 +"The globe and its concerns, I seem advanced",1.0 +"To some secure and more than mortal height,",0.0 +"It turns submitted to my view, turns round",2.0 +With all its generations; I behold,1.0 +The tumult and am still. The sound of war,1.0 +"Has lost its terrors before it reaches me,",3.0 +Grieves but alarms me not. I mourn the pride,2.0 +"And avarice that make man a wolf to man,",3.0 +Hear the faint echo of those brazen throats,4.0 +"By which he speaks the language of his heart,",1.0 +"And sigh, but never tremble at the sound.",0.0 +"From flower to flower, so he from land to land;",3.0 +"The manners, customs, policy of all",1.0 +And spreads the honey of his deep research,1.0 +"He travels and I too. I tread his deck,",1.0 +"Discover countries, with a kindred heart",1.0 +"Suffer his woes and share in his escapes,",3.0 +"While fancy, like the finger of a clock,",1.0 +"Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.",4.0 +"O Winter! ruler of the inverted year,",3.0 +"Thy scattered hair with sleet like ashes filled,",0.0 +"Thy breath congealed upon thy lips, thy cheeks",0.0 +"Than those of age; thy forehead wrapped in clouds,",1.0 +"A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne",1.0 +"A sliding car indebted to no wheels,",2.0 +But urged by storms along its slippery way;,0.0 +"Shortening his journey between morn and noon,",6.0 +And hurrying him impatient of his stay,4.0 +Down to the rosy West. But kindly still,1.0 +Compensating his loss with added hours,2.0 +"Of social converse and instructive ease,",1.0 +And gathering at short notice in one group,3.0 +"The family dispersed, and fixing thought",1.0 +Not less dispersed by day light and its cares.,2.0 +"I crown thee King of intimate delights,",0.0 +And all the comforts that the lowly roof,0.0 +"Of undisturbed retirement, and the hours",1.0 +Of long uninterrupted evening know.,4.0 +No ratt'ling wheels stop short before these gates.,2.0 +No powdered pert proficient in the art,1.0 +"Of sounding an alarm, assaults these doors",1.0 +Till the street rings. No stationary steeds,4.0 +"The silent circle fan themselves, and quake.",0.0 +"But here the needle plies its busy task,",0.0 +Wrought patiently into the snowy lawn,2.0 +"Follow the nimble finger of the fair,",3.0 +With most success when all besides decay.,0.0 +"The poet's or historian's page, by one",1.0 +Made vocal for the amusement of the rest;,5.0 +"The sprightly lyre, whose treasure of sweet sounds",2.0 +The touch from many a trembling chord shakes out;,4.0 +"And in the charming strife triumphant still,",0.0 +"Beguile the night, and set a keener edge",0.0 +On female industry; the threaded steel,2.0 +"The volume closed, the customary rites",0.0 +Of the last meal commence. A Roman meal.,2.0 +Such as the mistress of the world once found,3.0 +"Delicious, when her patriots of high note,",2.0 +"Perhaps by moonlight, at their humble doors,",1.0 +And under an old oak's domestic shade,2.0 +"Enjoyed, spare feast! a radish and an egg.",2.0 +"Discourse ensues, not trivial, yet not dull,",3.0 +Nor such as with a frown forbids the play,1.0 +"Of fancy, or proscribes the sound of mirth.",1.0 +"Nor do we madly, like an impious world,",3.0 +"Who deem religion frenzy, and the God",1.0 +"That made them an intruder on their joys,",2.0 +"Start at his awful name, or deem his praise",0.0 +A jarring note. Themes of a graver tone,2.0 +"Exciting oft our gratitude and love,",0.0 +"That calls the past to our exact review,",2.0 +"The dangers we have escaped, the broken snare,",2.0 +"The disappointed foe, deliverance found",0.0 +Fruits of omnipotent eternal love.,3.0 +O evenings worthy of the Gods! exclaimed,1.0 +"The Sabine bard. O evenings, I reply,",5.0 +"As more illumined and with nobler truths,",2.0 +"That I and mine and those we love, enjoy.",2.0 +Is winter hideous in a garb like this?,1.0 +"Needs he the tragic fur, the smoke of lamps,",0.0 +"To thaw him into feeling, or the smart",1.0 +"Call comedy, to prompt him with a smile?",3.0 +Stealing a side long glance at a full house,4.0 +"The slope of faces from the floor to the roof,",1.0 +"Relaxed into an universal grin,",0.0 +Sees not a countenance there that speaks a joy,1.0 +Half so refined or so sincere as ours.,3.0 +"Cards were superfluous here, with all the tricks",3.0 +That idleness has ever yet contrived,1.0 +"Time as he passes us, has a dove's wing,",2.0 +"But the world's time, is time in masquerade.",2.0 +"With motley plumes, and where the peacock shows",1.0 +"And spades, the emblem of untimely graves.",1.0 +"What should be, and what was an hourglass once",1.0 +Well does the work of his destructive scythe.,1.0 +Thus decked he charms a world whom fashion blinds,1.0 +"To his true worth, most pleased when idle most,",2.0 +Whose only happy are their wasted hours.,1.0 +"Even misses, at whose age their mother's wore",0.0 +"Of womanhood, sit pupils in the school",1.0 +"Placed at some vacant corner of the board,",1.0 +"Learn every trick, and soon play all the game.",2.0 +"But truce with censure. Roving as I rove,",1.0 +"Where shall I find an end, or how proceed?",1.0 +"As he that travels far, oft turns aside",2.0 +"Which seen delights him not; then coming home,",0.0 +"Describes and prints it, that the world may know",0.0 +How far he went for what was nothing worth;,0.0 +So I with brush in hand and pallet spread,1.0 +"With colours mixed for a far different use,",6.0 +"Paint cards and dolls, and every idle thing",1.0 +"Come evening once again, season of peace,",6.0 +"Return sweet evening, and continue long!",2.0 +Treads on thy sweeping train; one hand employed,0.0 +In letting fall the curtain of repose,1.0 +"On bird and beast, the other charged for man",0.0 +With sweet oblivion of the cares of day;,1.0 +"Like homely featured night, of clustering gems,",2.0 +A star or two just twinkling on thy brow,1.0 +Suffices thee; save that the moon is thine,2.0 +"No less than hers, not worn indeed on high",2.0 +"With ostentatious pageantry, but set",1.0 +"With modest grandeur in thy purple zone,",2.0 +Or make me so. Composure is thy gift.,2.0 +And whether I devote thy gentle hours,1.0 +"To books, to music, or the poets toil,",1.0 +Or twining silken threads round ivory reels,0.0 +"When they command whom man was born to please,",1.0 +"I slight thee not, but make thee welcome still.",0.0 +With lights by clear reflection multiplied,0.0 +"From many a mirror, in which he of Gath",3.0 +"Whole without stooping, towering crest and all,",4.0 +My pleasures too begin. But me perhaps,1.0 +The glowing hearth may satisfy awhile,0.0 +"The shadow to the ceiling, there by fits",2.0 +So spent in parlour twilight; such a gloom,2.0 +"Suits well the thoughtful or unthinking mind,",2.0 +"The mind contemplative, with some new theme",2.0 +"Laugh you, who boast your more mercurial powers",2.0 +"That never feel a stupor, know no pause",1.0 +"Nor need one. I am conscious, and confess",2.0 +"Fearless, a soul that does not always think.",2.0 +Me oft has fancy ludicrous and wild,1.0 +"Soothed with a waking dream of houses, towers,",0.0 +"In the red cinders, while with poring eye",2.0 +"I gazed, myself creating what I saw.",1.0 +Nor less amused have I quiescent watched,1.0 +The sooty films that play upon the bars,0.0 +"Pendulous, and foreboding in the view",3.0 +"Though still deceived, some strangers near approach.",0.0 +It's thus the understanding takes repose,0.0 +And sleeps and is refreshed. Meanwhile the face,2.0 +Conceals the mood lethargic with a mask,1.0 +"Of deep deliberation, as the man",1.0 +"Were tasked to his full strength, absorbed and lost.",2.0 +"Thus oft reclined at ease, I lose an hour",1.0 +"At evening, till at length the freezing blast",1.0 +"That sweeps the bolted shutter, summons home",0.0 +"The recollected powers, and snapping short",2.0 +The glassy threads with which the fancy weaves,0.0 +"Her brittle toys, restores me to myself.",1.0 +"How calm is my recess, and how the frost",1.0 +"Raging abroad, and the rough wind, endear",4.0 +The silence and the warmth enjoyed within.,1.0 +I saw the woods and fields at close of day,0.0 +"Though faded, and the lands where lately waved",1.0 +"The golden harvest, of a mellow brown,",1.0 +I saw far off the weedy fallows smile,3.0 +By flocks fast feeding and selecting each,2.0 +His favourite herb; while all the leafless groves,0.0 +"That skirt the horizon wore a sable hue,",2.0 +Scarce noticed in the kindred dusk of eve.,1.0 +"Tomorrow brings a change, a total change!",1.0 +"Which even now, though silently performed",1.0 +Of universal nature undergoes.,0.0 +Fast falls a fleecy shower. The downy flakes,3.0 +Assimilate all objects. Earth receives,0.0 +"Gladly the thickening mantle, and the green",3.0 +"And tender blade that feared the chilling blast,",0.0 +Escapes unhurt beneath so warm a veil.,0.0 +"In such a world, so thorny, and where none",1.0 +"It seems the part of wisdom, and no sin",2.0 +"Against the law of love, to measure lots",0.0 +"With less distinguished than ourselves, that thus",1.0 +"We may with patience bear our moderate ills,",2.0 +"Ill fares the traveller now, and he that stalks",4.0 +In ponderous boots beside his reeking team.,2.0 +"The wain goes heavily, impeded sore",2.0 +By congregated loads adhering close,0.0 +To the clogged wheels; and in its sluggish pace,2.0 +"The toiling steeds expand the nostril wide,",0.0 +While every breath by respiration strong,0.0 +"Forced downward, is consolidated soon",2.0 +"Upon their jutting chests. He, formed to bear",0.0 +"The pelting brunt of the tempestuous night,",4.0 +"One hand secures his hat, save when with both",1.0 +"He brandishes his pliant length of whip,",1.0 +"Resounding oft, and never heard in vain.",0.0 +"On happy! and in my account, denied",2.0 +That sensibility of pain with which,1.0 +"Refinement is endued, thrice happy thou.",3.0 +"Thy frame robust and hardy, feels indeed",0.0 +"The piercing cold, but feels it unimpaired.",0.0 +The learnt finger never need explore,2.0 +"Thy vigorous pulse, and the unhealthful East,",3.0 +"That breathes the spleen, and searches every bone",0.0 +"Of the infirm, is wholesome air to thee.",1.0 +"Thy days roll on exempt from household care,",3.0 +"That drag the dull companion to and fro,",1.0 +"Yet show that thou hast mercy, which the great",1.0 +"With needless hurry whirled from place to place,",0.0 +"Humane as they would seem, not always show.",1.0 +"Poor, yet industrious, modest, quiet, neat,",3.0 +"Such claim compassion in a night like this,",0.0 +And have a friend in every feeling heart.,0.0 +"Warmed, while it lasts, by labour, all day long",1.0 +"They brave the season, and yet find at eve",1.0 +"But dying soon, like all terrestrial joys.",2.0 +"The few small embers left she nurses well,",1.0 +"And crowded knees sit cowering over the sparks,",5.0 +"Retires, content to quake, so they be warmed.",1.0 +"The man feels least, as more inured than she",1.0 +"To winter, and the current in his veins",1.0 +Yet he too finds his own distress in theirs.,3.0 +"The taper soon extinguished, which I saw",0.0 +Dangled along at the cold fingers end,4.0 +"Just when the day declined, and the brown loaf",1.0 +Sleep seems their only refuge. For alas!,2.0 +"Where penury is felt the thought is chained,",1.0 +And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.,3.0 +With all this thrift they thrive not. All the care,0.0 +"Ingenious parsimony takes, but just",0.0 +"Saves the small inventory, bed and stool,",3.0 +"Skillet and old carved chest from public sale,",3.0 +"They live, and live without extorted alms",0.0 +"From grudging hands, but other boast have none",0.0 +"Nor comfort else, but in their mutual love.",2.0 +"I praise you much, you meek and patient pair,",0.0 +For you are worthy; choosing rather far,1.0 +"And eaten with a sigh, than to endure",2.0 +The rugged frowns and insolent rebuffs,1.0 +"Of knaves in office, partial in the work",0.0 +Of distribution; liberal of their aid,1.0 +"To wear a tattered garb however coarse,",1.0 +Whom famine cannot reconcile to filth;,0.0 +"These ask with painful shyness, and refused",1.0 +"Because deserving, silently retire.",1.0 +But be you of good courage. Time itself,1.0 +"Shall much befriend you. Time shall give increase,",0.0 +And all your numerous progeny well trained,4.0 +"But helpless, in few years shall find their hands,",0.0 +And labour too. Meanwhile you shall not want,1.0 +"What conscious of your virtues we can spare,",2.0 +Nor what a wealthier than ourselves may send.,2.0 +"I mean the man, who when the distant poor",0.0 +"Need help, denies them nothing but his name.",1.0 +But poverty with most who whimper forth,1.0 +"Their long complaints, is self inflicted woe,",0.0 +Now goes the nightly thief prowling abroad,6.0 +For plunder; much solicitous how best,1.0 +"He may compensate for a day of sloth,",0.0 +By works of darkness and nocturnal wrong.,1.0 +"To better deeds, he bundles up the spoil",1.0 +"An asses burden, and when laden most",1.0 +"And heaviest, light of foot steals fast away.",3.0 +Nor does the boarded hovel better guard,0.0 +The well stacked pile of riven logs and roots,1.0 +From his pernicious force. Nor will he leave,2.0 +In unsuspecting pomp. Twitched from the perch,2.0 +He gives the princely bird with all his wives,0.0 +"To his voracious bag, struggling in vain,",6.0 +And loudly wondering at the sudden change.,1.0 +Did pity of their sufferings warp aside,1.0 +"His principle, and tempt him into sin",1.0 +"For their support, so destitute. But they",1.0 +"Neglected pine at home, themselves, as more",0.0 +"Exposed than others, with less scruple made",2.0 +O for a law to noose the villain's neck,1.0 +Who starves his own. Who persecutes the blood,0.0 +"He gave them in his children's veins, and hates",0.0 +And wrongs the woman he has sworn to love.,1.0 +"Pass where we may, through city or through town,",2.0 +Village or hamlet of this merry land,3.0 +Conducts the unguarded nose to such a whiff,3.0 +There sit involved and lost in curling clouds,0.0 +"Of Indian fume, and guzzling deep, the boor,",2.0 +The lackey and the groom. The craftsman there,2.0 +"All learnt, and all drunk. The fiddle screams",0.0 +Its wasted tones and harmony unheard:,1.0 +"Fierce the dispute whatever the theme. While she,",5.0 +"Perched on the signpost, holds with even hand",1.0 +"A weight of ignorance, in that, of pride,",1.0 +And smiles delighted with the eternal poise.,3.0 +Dire is the frequent curse and its twin sound,1.0 +"As ornamental, musical, polite,",1.0 +"Like those which modern senators employ,",1.0 +"Whose oath is rhetoric, and who swear for fame.",1.0 +"Behold the schools in which plebeian minds,",0.0 +"Once simple, are initiated in arts",3.0 +But none with readier skill! tis here they learn,2.0 +The road that leads from competence and peace,1.0 +"Society grown weary of the load,",3.0 +"Shakes her encumbered lap, and casts them out.",2.0 +But censure profits little. Vain the attempt,2.0 +"To advertise in verse a public pest,",0.0 +That like the filth with which the peasant feeds,0.0 +"His hungry acres, stinks and is of use.",1.0 +The excise is fattened with the rich result,2.0 +Of all this riot. And ten thousand casks,2.0 +"For ever dribbling out their base contents,",1.0 +"Touched by the Midas finger of the state,",1.0 +Bleed gold for Ministers to sport away.,2.0 +Drink and be mad then. It's your country bids.,1.0 +"Gloriously drunk obey the important call,",3.0 +"Her cause demands the assistance of your throats,",3.0 +"You all can swallow, and she asks no more.",2.0 +Would I had fallen upon those happier days,4.0 +That poets celebrate. Those golden times,0.0 +"And those Arcadian scenes that Maro sings,",4.0 +"And Sydney, warbler of poetic prose.",1.0 +"That felt their virtues. Innocence it seems,",1.0 +"From courts dismissed, found shelter in the groves.",1.0 +The footsteps of simplicity impressed,3.0 +"And manners profligate were rarely found,",0.0 +"Observed as prodigies, and soon reclaimed.",1.0 +Vain wish! those days were never. Airy dreams,1.0 +Sat for the picture. And the poet's hand,1.0 +"Imparting substance to an empty shade,",1.0 +Imposed a gay delirium for a truth.,1.0 +Grant it. I still must envy them an age,1.0 +"Impossible, when virtue is so scarce",2.0 +"That to suppose a scene where she presides,",2.0 +No. We are polished now. The rural lass,0.0 +"Whom once her virgin modesty and grace,",1.0 +"So dignified, that she was hardly less",1.0 +Is seen no more. The character is lost.,2.0 +"And ribbons streaming gay, superbly raised",5.0 +"And magnified beyond all human size,",0.0 +For more than half the tresses it sustains;,1.0 +"Her elbows ruffled, and her tottering form",4.0 +Ill propped upon French heels; she might be deemed,2.0 +But that the basket dangling on her arm,1.0 +Interprets her more truly of a rank,2.0 +"No longer blushing for her awkward load,",2.0 +Her train and her umbrella all her care.,1.0 +The town has tinged the country. And the stain,1.0 +The worse for what it soils. The fashion runs,0.0 +"Down into scenes still rural, but alas!",2.0 +Scenes rarely graced with rural manners now.,1.0 +Time was when in the pastoral retreat,1.0 +The unguarded door was safe. Men did not watch,2.0 +Of midnight murder was a wonder heard,2.0 +"With doubtful credit, told to frighten babes.",0.0 +"See that your polished arms be primed with care,",0.0 +And the first alarm of the cock's shrill throat,1.0 +"May prove a trumpet, summoning your ear",1.0 +To horrid sounds of hostile feet within.,0.0 +Even daylight has its dangers. And the walk,2.0 +Of other tenants than melodious birds,3.0 +"Or harmless flocks, is hazardous and bold.",1.0 +Lamented change! to which full many a cause,3.0 +"The course of human things from good to ill,",0.0 +"From ill to worse, is fatal, never fails.",0.0 +"Increase of power begets increase of wealth,",2.0 +"Wealth luxury, and luxury excess;",3.0 +"That seizes first the opulent, descends",1.0 +"To the next rank contagious, and in time",2.0 +Taints downward all the graduated scale,1.0 +"Of order, from the chariot to the plough.",2.0 +"The rich, and they that have an arm to cheque",0.0 +"The licence of the lowest in degree,",1.0 +Desert their office; and themselves intent,1.0 +"On pleasure, haunt the capital, and thus,",1.0 +To all the violence of lawless hands,1.0 +Resign the scenes their presence might protect.,0.0 +"Authority herself not seldom sleeps,",1.0 +"Though resident, and witness of the wrong.",2.0 +The plump convivial parson often bears,2.0 +"The magisterial sword in vain, and lays",2.0 +His reverence and his worship both to rest,1.0 +On the same cushion of habitual sloth.,5.0 +"Perhaps timidity restrains his arm,",1.0 +"Himself enslaved by terror of the band,",1.0 +The audacious convict whom he dares not bind.,1.0 +"Perhaps, though by profession ghostly pure,",1.0 +"He too may have his vice, and sometime prove",1.0 +"Less dainty than becomes his grave outside,",3.0 +In lucrative concerns. Examine well,1.0 +"Propitious, pays his tribute, game or fish,",0.0 +But faster far and more than all the rest,0.0 +"A noble cause, which none who bears a spark",0.0 +"Of public virtue, ever wished removed,",0.0 +Works the deplored and mischievous effect.,3.0 +The heart of merit in the meaner class.,0.0 +Arms through the vanity and brainless rage,1.0 +"Of those that bear them in whatever cause,",2.0 +"Seem most at variance with all moral good,",1.0 +And incompatible with serious thought.,4.0 +"The clown, the child of nature, without guile,",3.0 +"But his own simple pleasures, now and then",1.0 +"A wrestling match, a foot-race, or a fair,",2.0 +"Sheepish he doffs his hat, and mumbling swears",2.0 +"To do he knows not what. The task performed,",0.0 +"That instant he becomes the sergeant's care,",2.0 +"His pupil, and his torment, and his jest.",3.0 +"His awkward gait, his introverted toes,",0.0 +"Bent knees, round shoulders, and dejected looks,",2.0 +"Procure him many a curse. By slow degrees,",2.0 +"He yet by slow degrees puts off himself,",2.0 +"Grows conscious of a change, and likes it well.",2.0 +"He stands erect, his slouch becomes a walk,",0.0 +"He steps right onward, martial in his air",1.0 +His form and movement; is as smart above,1.0 +As meal and larded locks can make him; wears,0.0 +Returns indignant to the slighted plough.,1.0 +He hates the field in which no fife or drum,1.0 +"Attends him, drives his cattle to a march,",1.0 +And sighs for the smart comrades he has left.,1.0 +But with his clumsy port the wretch has lost,1.0 +His ignorance and harmless manners too.,1.0 +"To swear, to game, to drink, to show at home",0.0 +"The great proficiency he made abroad,",1.0 +"TO astonish and to grieve his gazing friends,",2.0 +"To break some maiden's and his mother's heart,",1.0 +"To be a pest where he was useful once,",1.0 +"Are his sole aim, and all his glory now.",2.0 +Man in society is like a flower,2.0 +Blown in its native bed. It's there alone,1.0 +His faculties expanded in full bloom,2.0 +"Shine out, there only reach their proper use.",0.0 +"Beneath one head for purposes of war,",1.0 +"Like flowers selected from the rest, and bound",3.0 +"And bundled close to fill some crowded vase,",0.0 +"Fades rapidly, and by compression marred",3.0 +"Hence chartered boroughs are such public plagues,",3.0 +"In all their private functions, once combined",0.0 +"Become a loathsome body, only fit",0.0 +"For dissolution, hurtful to the main.",1.0 +"Hence merchant's, unimpeachable of sin",2.0 +"Against the charities of domestic life,",3.0 +"Their nature, and disclaiming all regard",1.0 +"For mercy and the common rights of man,",1.0 +"Build factories with blood, conducting trade",2.0 +"At the sword's point, and dying the white robe",5.0 +Of innocent commercial justice red.,1.0 +"Hence too the field of glory, as the world",2.0 +"With all the majesty of its thundering pomp,",3.0 +"Enchanting music and immortal wreaths,",1.0 +"For folly, gallantry for every vice.",1.0 +"But slighted as it is, and by the great",2.0 +"Abandoned, and, which still I more regret,",1.0 +Infected with the manners and the modes,2.0 +"It knew not once, the country wins me still.",0.0 +"I never framed a wish, or formed a plan",0.0 +"That flattered me with hopes of earthly bliss,",1.0 +But there I laid the scene. There early strayed,1.0 +"My fancy, before yet liberty of choice",3.0 +"Had found me, or the hope of being free.",1.0 +"My very dreams were rural, rural too",0.0 +The firstborn efforts of my youthful muse,2.0 +Before yet her ear was mistress of their powers.,1.0 +No bard could please me but whose lyre was tuned,2.0 +To Nature's praises. Heroes and their feats,1.0 +"Fatigued me, never weary of the pipe",1.0 +The rustic throng beneath his favourite beech.,0.0 +Then Milton had indeed a poet's charms.,0.0 +"New to my taste, his Paradise surpassed",0.0 +The struggling efforts of my boyish tongue,1.0 +To speak its excellence; I danced for joy.,1.0 +I marvelled much that at so ripe an age,0.0 +"Engaged my wonder, and admiring still",1.0 +"And still admiring, with regret supposed",1.0 +The joy half lost because not sooner found.,1.0 +"Pathetic in its praise, in its pursuit",1.0 +"Determined, and possessing it at last",2.0 +"Ingenious Cowley! and though now, reclaimed,",1.0 +"By modern lights from an erroneous taste,",3.0 +I cannot but lament thy splendid wit,1.0 +"Entangled in the cobwebs of the schools,",2.0 +"I still revere thee, courtly though retired,",1.0 +"Not unemployed, and finding rich amends",0.0 +For a lost world in solitude and verse.,2.0 +It's born with all. The love of Nature's works,0.0 +"Is an ingredient in the compound, man,",2.0 +Infused at the creation of the kind.,2.0 +"And though the Almighty Maker, has throughout",1.0 +"Discriminated each from each, by strokes",0.0 +And touches of his hand with so much art,1.0 +"Diversified, that two were never found",0.0 +"Twins at all points ' -- yet this obtains in all,",1.0 +That all discern a beauty in his works,0.0 +And all can taste them. Minds that have been formed,0.0 +"And tutored, with a relish more exact,",1.0 +"But none without some relish, none unmoved.",0.0 +It is a flame that dies not even there,2.0 +"Where nothing feeds it. Neither business, crowds,",0.0 +Whatever else they smother of true worth,3.0 +"The glimpse of a green pasture, how they cheer",3.0 +"The citizen, and brace his languid frame!",1.0 +"Even in the stifling bosom of the town,",1.0 +"A garden in which nothing thrives, has charms",0.0 +Of nightshade or valerian grace the well,4.0 +He cultivates. These serve him with a hint,1.0 +"Is still the livery she delights to wear,",3.0 +Though sickly samples of the exuberant whole.,5.0 +The prouder sashes fronted with a range,1.0 +"Of orange, myrtle, or the fragrant weed",1.0 +"Of rural scenes, compensating his loss",5.0 +"By supplemental shifts, the best he may?",0.0 +"To range the fields and treat their lungs with air,",0.0 +Yet feel the burning instinct: overhead,0.0 +Suspend their crazy boxes planted thick,0.0 +And watered duly. There the pitcher stands,1.0 +"A peep at nature, when he can no more.",0.0 +Hail therefore patroness of health and ease,3.0 +And harmless pleasures in the thronged abode,0.0 +"Of multitudes unknown, hail rural life!",1.0 +Address himself who will to the pursuit,2.0 +"I shall not add myself to such a chase,",2.0 +"Thwart his attempts, or envy his success.",3.0 +Some must be great. Great offices will have,2.0 +Great talents. And God gives to every man,3.0 +"The virtue, temper, understanding, taste,",0.0 +"That lifts him into life, and lets him fall",0.0 +Just in the niche he was ordained to fill.,1.0 +To the deliverer of an injured land,2.0 +"He gives a tongue to enlarge upon, an heart",2.0 +"To feel, and courage to redress her wrongs;",1.0 +"To monarchs dignity, to judges sense,",2.0 +To artists ingenuity and skill;,2.0 +"In the low vale of life, that early felt",3.0 +"A wish for ease and leisure, and before long",2.0 +Found here that leisure and that ease I wished.,1.0 +"QUEEN of expression! on whose potent aid,",3.0 +"Dramatic Genius waits to be displayed,",0.0 +"For though presiding over that awful cell, The Passions.",3.0 +Where radiant angels or dread demons dwell;,2.0 +"Of thee she asks, to draw them forth to light,",1.0 +"To win the ear, and fascinate the sight;",0.0 +And lose a while its tragic scenes for thine;,0.0 +"The spell which now pervades the weeping hours,",0.0 +"Ah! could he loose the icy bonds of death,",0.0 +"And catch of fame, this hour; a living breath;",0.0 +Nor think she paid for years of want and woe;,0.0 +"By hope revived forget their present pains,",0.0 +"Though cold neglect now blasts their rising bays,",1.0 +"Some future Siddons shall redeem their fame,",0.0 +And stamp IMMORTAL their neglected name;,1.0 +The actor's ' -- different to the poet's fate!,1.0 +"COME near, you nations! and give ear, OH earth!",3.0 +"You distant isles, and continents remote,",1.0 +Wherever dispersed beneath the vast expanse,2.0 +"Of heaven's high roof, attend! Attend, and hear",3.0 +"Your doom tremendous ratified above,",0.0 +"Sad retribution of enormous guilt,",2.0 +"Which calling loud for justice and revenge,",1.0 +"Flew swift as light up to the throne of God,",2.0 +And pulled down dire destruction on the earth.,1.0 +"The mighty God, with all his thunder armed,",0.0 +Will cast abroad the terrors of his wrath;,1.0 +And shower down vengeance on the guilty land.,3.0 +"The Lord of hosts amid a night of clouds,",0.0 +"And with the majesty of darkness crowned,",2.0 +Hurled down impetuous fury swift as thought,2.0 +To ravage all the boundless universe.,0.0 +"As when a blustering wind rolls from the north,",2.0 +And shakes all autumn with the driving blast;,1.0 +So shall the fury of the Omnipotent,4.0 +"Destroy the nations, and confound their arms,",1.0 +"Swords, shields, and spears, and all the powers of war;",3.0 +"With eager speed rush over the embattled ranks,",2.0 +And through the thick battalions urge its way.,1.0 +"In wasting desolation, ruin wide.",0.0 +"Destructive slaughter, ghastly to behold,",1.0 +"Dire specimen of wrath omnipotent,",2.0 +"Shall march tremendous over the burdened earth,",2.0 +"Oppressed, and conscious of unusual weight,",1.0 +Shrinking beneath the heavy load of death.,2.0 +"The purple piles, and mountains of the slain,",1.0 +Each slaughtered corps shall breath a pestilence;,1.0 +And wide around diffuse the scents of death.,0.0 +The eternal hills shall float in seas of blood;,1.0 +And mountains vanish in the crimson tide.,0.0 +Nature's huge volume shall be folded up,4.0 +"Drop from the heavens like autumnal leaves,",0.0 +"Or the ripe fig, when sultry Sirius reigns;",4.0 +Shall roll incessant over the astonished world.,1.0 +"Death and destruction threatening all below,",2.0 +"Shall draw the curtains of eternal night,",1.0 +"And spread confusion hideous over the earth,",4.0 +"As when the embryo world ere time began,",4.0 +"Of jarring discord, and disorder lay.",1.0 +"The sun, amazed to see the wild obscure,",0.0 +No more with radiant light shall gild the skies;,0.0 +No more diffusing his all genial beams,2.0 +On the high mountains spread the shining morn;,2.0 +"But downwards flaming through the vast immense,",1.0 +"Shall hide his glory in eternal night,",0.0 +Thus in loud thunder speaks the Almighty Sire ' --,4.0 +"In copious slaughter will I take my sword,",3.0 +The Lord shall hasten from the lofty skies;,1.0 +Destruction on his awful footsteps waits;,2.0 +"Death stalks before, ruin on every side",5.0 +Proclaims the terror of an angry God.,1.0 +"The ravenous sword, pampered with reeking gore,",4.0 +"Drunk with the blood of half the rebel world,",0.0 +Shall feel the smart of heaven's avenging rod.,2.0 +"The great, the small, the oppressor, and the oppressed,",5.0 +Shall join promiscuous in the common heap;,1.0 +And one vast ruin shall involve them all.,2.0 +"The silver streams, that shine along the plain,",0.0 +"And chide their banks, and tinkle as they run,",1.0 +"Shall stop, and stagnate to a sable pool;",2.0 +"And, black with mud, unconscious of a tide,",2.0 +"No more shall charm the sense, or lull the soul,",0.0 +Or in soft murmurs die upon the ear:,1.0 +"But in crude streams and deadly stench exhale,",1.0 +"Rapacious flames, in pyramids of fire,",1.0 +"Advancing over the horizontal plain,",2.0 +"Shall be a lonely desert, waste and wild;",0.0 +Within whose silent confines none shall dwell;,1.0 +Nor ever more be heard the harmonious voice,4.0 +"Of warbling birds, that heretofore were wont",0.0 +"In vocal choir to animate the grove,",2.0 +And from the shady covert of the trees,2.0 +Dispense sweet music to the listening vale:,2.0 +Double the native horrors of the night;,3.0 +"These with the cormorants shall dwell therein,",2.0 +"God shall extend, and bare his thundering arm;",3.0 +And with confusion circumscribe the land.,1.0 +"Where are the nobles, and the mighty chiefs,",1.0 +That in soft ease their silken moments waste;,1.0 +"To whom their prostrate vassals throng in crowds,",0.0 +"Striving who first shall awful homage pay,",2.0 +And adoration! Them shall they invoke;,2.0 +"But all in vain; their names shall be no more,",0.0 +"But in their stead more worthy savages,",1.0 +"Those regal domes, and towering palaces,",1.0 +"That high in clouds exalt their impious heads,",3.0 +"Home to the distant ken a dazzling blaze,",0.0 +"Thorns shall surround, and nettles grow within:",1.0 +Ivy shall creep along the painted walls:,2.0 +And brambles vile entwine the empty throne.,0.0 +"While beasts from different climes, joyous to find",5.0 +"A place of rest to man alone denied,",0.0 +Shall take possession of the gilded domes:,1.0 +"The ostrich and his mate, and dragons huge",1.0 +"Shall sport, and revel in the dreary waste.",0.0 +"Upon the chimney tops perch ominous,",2.0 +"While songs obscene the silent hours disturb,",0.0 +"Shall in loud shrieks their sad presages tell,",5.0 +"Shall unmolested solitude enjoy,",0.0 +And desolation make more desolate.,0.0 +"The universal slaughter, shall come forth",1.0 +"From the high mountain, and the humble vale,",3.0 +"Croaking in hideous concert, as they fly,",3.0 +Darkening the heavens with their ghastly train;,2.0 +"And glut their hungry jaws with human prey,",0.0 +Not one of these shall fail; none want her mate;,2.0 +"But shall for ever, such the Lord's decree,",1.0 +"A time like this, a busy, bustling time,",1.0 +"Suits ill with writers, very ill with rhyme:",1.0 +And mightier madness cheques the flowing song:,2.0 +"Or, should we force the peaceful Muse to wield",0.0 +"Her feeble arms amid the furious field,",2.0 +"Poor is her anger, and her friendship vain;",1.0 +"And oft the foes who feel her sting, combine,",0.0 +Till serious vengeance pays an idle line:,2.0 +"Death to themselves, and to their foes but smart.",3.0 +"Hard then our fate: if general themes we choose,",0.0 +"Neglect awaits the song, and chills the Muse;",0.0 +"Or should we sing the subject of the day,",1.0 +Tomorrow's wonder puffs our praise away.,1.0 +When all found readers who could find a rhyme;,1.0 +"Green grew the bays on every teeming head,",1.0 +"Sing, drooping Muse, the cause of thy decline;",2.0 +"Alas! new charms the wavering many gain,",3.0 +And rival sheets the reader's eye detain;,0.0 +"A daily swarm, that banish every Muse,",0.0 +"Come flying forth, and mortals call them News:",1.0 +"For these, unread, the noblest volumes lie;",1.0 +"In vain for fame, and sink, unseen, to fate.",0.0 +The smoothest numbers for the harshest prose;,1.0 +"Let us, with generous scorn, the taste deride,",2.0 +And sing our rivals with a rival's pride.,1.0 +"You gentle poets, who so oft complain",0.0 +That pity only cheques your growing spite,0.0 +"To erring man, and prompts you still to write;",0.0 +"That your choice works on humble stalls are laid,",3.0 +Or vainly grace the windows of the trade;,1.0 +"Be you my friends, if friendship ever can warm",2.0 +"Think of the common cause wherein we go,",0.0 +Like gallant Greeks against the Trojan foe;,0.0 +"Nor let one peevish chief his leader blame,",0.0 +"Till, crowned with conquest, we regain our fame;",1.0 +And let us join our forces to subdue,1.0 +This bold assuming but successful crew.,1.0 +"I sing of News, and all those vapid sheets",0.0 +"Whatever their name, whatever the time they fly,",6.0 +"Damp from the press, to charm the reader's eye:",0.0 +"For, soon as Morning dawns with roseate hue,",0.0 +The Herald of the morn arises too;,1.0 +"Post after Post succeeds, and, all day long,",2.0 +"When evening comes, she comes with all her train",0.0 +"Of Ledgers, Chronicles, and Posts again,",1.0 +"Like bats, appearing, when the sun goes down,",2.0 +From holes obscure and corners of the town.,1.0 +"Oh! like my subject could my song delight,",0.0 +"The crowd at Lloyd's one poet's name should raise,",0.0 +And all the Alley echo to his praise.,1.0 +"In shoals the hours their constant numbers bring,",0.0 +Like insects waking to the advancing spring;,4.0 +Which take their rise from grubs obscene that lie,0.0 +"In shallow pools, or thence ascend the sky:",0.0 +To die before the next revolving morn.,0.0 +In the first visit of a winter's frost;,3.0 +"While these remain, a base but constant breed,",1.0 +Whose swarming sons their short-lived sires succeed;,1.0 +"No changing season makes their number less,",1.0 +Nor Sunday shines a sabbath on the press!,2.0 +"Then lo! the sainted Monitor is born,",1.0 +Whose pious face some sacred texts adorn:,0.0 +"As artful sinners cloak the secret sin,",0.0 +To veil with seeming grace the guile within;,0.0 +"So Moral Essays on his front appear,",2.0 +But all is carnal business in the rear;,0.0 +"Not so, my little flock! your preacher fly,",0.0 +Nor waste the time no worldly wealth can buy;,1.0 +But let the decent maid and sober clown,0.0 +"This day, at least, on nobler themes bestow,",3.0 +"But, Sunday past, what numbers flourish then,",1.0 +"Diurnal most, some thrice each week affords,",0.0 +"Some only once, ' -- OH avarice of words!",2.0 +"When thousand starving minds such manna seek,",0.0 +To drop the precious food but once a week.,0.0 +"Endless it were to sing the powers of all,",2.0 +"Their names, their numbers; how they rise and fall:",1.0 +"Rush to the head, and poison where they please:",0.0 +"Like idle flies, a busy, buzzing train,",0.0 +"That genial soil receives the fruitful store,",0.0 +"And there they grow, and breed a thousand more.",1.0 +"Now be their arts displayed, how first they choose",0.0 +"A cause and party, as the bard his muse;",1.0 +And through the town their dreams and omens fly:,1.0 +Disjointed scraps of fate involved in doubt;,0.0 +"So idle dreams, the journals of the night,",1.0 +"Are right and wrong by turns, and mingle wrong with right. ' --",0.0 +"Some champions for the rights that prop the crown,",1.0 +"Some sturdy patriots, sworn to pull them down;",2.0 +"Some neutral powers, with secret forces fraught,",2.0 +"Wishing for war, but willing to be bought:",3.0 +"While some to every side and party go,",0.0 +"Shift every friend, and join with every foe;",1.0 +"This side and that, the foes of both alike;",0.0 +"Feared for their force, and courted for their crimes.",1.0 +"Chief to the prosperous side the numbers sail,",2.0 +"Fickle and false, they veer with every gale;",2.0 +"As birds that migrate from a freezing shore,",2.0 +"In search of warmer climes, come skimming over,",1.0 +Some bold adventurers first prepare to try,2.0 +The doubtful sunshine of the distant sky;,2.0 +But soon the growing Summer's certain sun,0.0 +"Wins more and more, till all at last are won:",0.0 +"So, on the early prospect of disgrace,",2.0 +Fly in vast troops this apprehensive race;,3.0 +"Instinctive tribes! their failing food they dread,",0.0 +"And buy, with timely change, their future bread.",0.0 +"Such are our guides: how many a peaceful head,",3.0 +"Born to be still, have they to wrangling led!",1.0 +"How many an honest zealot stolen from trade,",4.0 +"With clews like these they thread the maze of state,",1.0 +"These oracles explore, to learn our fate;",1.0 +"Pleased with the guides who can so well deceive,",1.0 +Who cannot lie so fast as they believe.,1.0 +"Oft lend I, loath, to some sage friend an ear,",2.0 +For we who will not speak are doomed to hear;,0.0 +"While he, bewildered, tells his anxious thought,",1.0 +"Infectious fear from tainted scribblers caught,",0.0 +"Or idiot hope; for each his mind assails,",2.0 +Or gives dull comments on the speech he maims:,2.0 +"Where rector, doctor, and attorney pause,",1.0 +"First on each parish, then each public cause:",0.0 +"Indited roads, and rates that still increase;",0.0 +"The murmuring poor, who will not fast in peace;",2.0 +"Election zeal and friendship, since declined;",0.0 +"A tax commuted, or a tithe in kind;",1.0 +The Dutch and Germans kindling into strife;,0.0 +Dull port and poachers vile! the serious ills of life.,3.0 +"Here comes the neighbouring Justice, pleased to guide",2.0 +"His little club, and in the chair preside.",0.0 +"In private business his commands prevail,",1.0 +On public themes his reasoning turns the scale;,2.0 +"And, in or out, his party triumphs here.",1.0 +"Nor here the infectious rage for party stops,",1.0 +"Our weekly journals over the land abound,",2.0 +"The village, too, the peaceful, pleasant plain,",0.0 +Breeds the Whig farmer and the Tory swain;,4.0 +"Brookes' and St. Alban's boasts not, but, instead,",4.0 +"Hither, with all a patriot's care, comes he",3.0 +Who owns the little hut that makes him free;,0.0 +Whose yearly forty shillings buy the smile,0.0 +"Of mightier men, and never waste the while;",2.0 +"Who feels his freehold worth, and looks elate,",1.0 +A little prop and pillar of the state.,1.0 +"Here he delights the weekly news to con,",1.0 +And mingle comments as he blunders on;,2.0 +"To swallow all their varying authors teach,",2.0 +"To spell a title, and confound a speech:",1.0 +"Till with a muddled mind he quits the news,",1.0 +And claims his nation's licence to abuse;,1.0 +"Then joins the cry, That all the courtly race",0.0 +Are venal candidates for power and place;,3.0 +"Yet feels some joy, amid the general vice,",0.0 +"These are the ills the teeming Press supplies,",1.0 +"Not there the wise alone their entrance find,",0.0 +Imparting useful light to mortals blind;,0.0 +"But, blind themselves, these erring guides hold out",2.0 +Alluring lights to lead us far about;,0.0 +"Here Slander shoots unseen, whenever she will;",1.0 +"Here Fraud and Falsehood labour to deceive,",2.0 +"And Folly aids them both, impatient to believe.",1.0 +"Such, sons of Britain! are the guides you trust;",1.0 +"So wise their counsel, their reports so just! ' --",1.0 +"Yet, though we cannot call their morals pure,",0.0 +"Their judgement nice, or their decisions sure;",1.0 +"Merit they have to mightier works unknown,",3.0 +"A style, a manner, and a fate their own.",1.0 +"We, who for longer fame with labour strive,",0.0 +Are pained to keep our sickly works alive;,0.0 +"Studious we toil, with patient care refine,",1.0 +Nor let our love protect one languid line.,0.0 +"Severe ourselves, at last our works appear,",0.0 +"When, ah! we find our readers more severe;",0.0 +"For, after all our care and pains, how few",0.0 +"Acquire applause, or keep it if they do! ' --",3.0 +"Not so these sheets, ordained to happier fate,",2.0 +"Praised through their day, and but that day their date;",1.0 +Their careless authors only strive to join,0.0 +As many words as make an even line;,0.0 +As many lines as fill a row complete;,0.0 +As many rows as furnish up a sheet:,1.0 +"From side to side, with ready types they run",0.0 +"The measure's ended, and the work is done;",1.0 +"O, born with ease, how envied and how blessed!",1.0 +Your fate today and your tomorrow's rest.,2.0 +"To you all readers turn, and they can look",2.0 +"Pleased on a paper, who abhor a book;",0.0 +"Those who never deigned their Bible to peruse,",1.0 +Would think it hard to be denied their News;,0.0 +"Sinners and saints, the wisest with the weak,",3.0 +"Here mingle tastes, and one amusement seek;",1.0 +"This, like the public inn, provides a treat,",0.0 +Where each promiscuous guest sits down to eat;,2.0 +"And such this mental food, as we may call",2.0 +"Something to all men, and to some men all.",2.0 +"Next, in what rare production shall we trace",0.0 +Such various subjects in so small a space?,1.0 +As the first ship upon the waters bore,2.0 +Incongruous kinds who never met before;,2.0 +"Or as some curious virtuoso joins,",4.0 +"In one small room, moths, minerals, and coins,",5.0 +"To serpents, toads, and all the reptile race",0.0 +"So here, compressed within a single sheet,",0.0 +"Great things and small, the mean and mighty meet,",1.0 +Yet here a private man may place his own;,0.0 +"And, where he reads of Lords and Commons, he",1.0 +Add next the amusement which the motley page,1.0 +Affords to either sex and every age:,0.0 +"Lo! where it comes before the cheerful fire, ' --",0.0 +Damps from the press in smoky curls aspire,0.0 +Ere we can read the wonders that ensue:,0.0 +"Then eager every eye surveys the part,",0.0 +That brings its favourite subject to the heart;,1.0 +"Grave politicians look for facts alone,",1.0 +And gravely add conjectures of their own:,1.0 +"The sprightly nymph, who never broke her rest.",0.0 +"For tottering crowns, or mighty lands oppressed,",2.0 +"For songs and suits, a birthday, or a ball:",2.0 +The keen warm man overlooks each idle tale,4.0 +"For Moneys wanted, and Estates on Sale;",1.0 +"While some with equal minds to all attend,",0.0 +"Pleased with each part, and grieved to find an end.",0.0 +"So charm the News; but we, who far from town",1.0 +"Wait till the postman brings the packet down,",1.0 +"Once in the week, a vacant day behold,",0.0 +"That day arrives; no welcome post appears,",1.0 +But the dull morn a sullen aspect wears:,3.0 +"To talk of headaches, and complain of boil;",2.0 +Nor feast the body while the mind must fast.,0.0 +"Not music so commands, nor so the Muse:",2.0 +"But the sick mind, of this disease possessed,",3.0 +"Now sing, my Muse, what various parts compose",3.0 +These rival sheets of politics and prose.,0.0 +"First, from each brother's hoard a part they draw,",0.0 +A mutual theft that never feared a law;,2.0 +"Whatever they gain, to each man's portion fall,",4.0 +"And read it once, you read it through them all:",1.0 +"For this their runners ramble day and night,",1.0 +To drag each lurking deed to open light;,0.0 +"For daily bread the dirty trade they ply,",0.0 +"Coin their fresh tales, and live upon the lie:",3.0 +"Like bees for honey, forth for news they spring, ' --",0.0 +Industrious creatures! ever on the wing;,3.0 +"Home to their several cells they bear the store,",0.0 +"Culled of all kinds, then roam abroad for more.",0.0 +No duel dooms the fiery youth to bleed;,3.0 +Where rival peers contend to please the fair;,0.0 +"When, with new force, she aids her conquering eyes,",5.0 +"And beauty decks, with all that beauty buys;",0.0 +"Quickly we learn whose heart her influence feels,",4.0 +Whose acres melt before her glowing wheels.,0.0 +"To these a thousand idle themes succeed,",1.0 +"Deeds of all kinds, and comments to each deed.",1.0 +"That rise or fall, by causes known to few;",0.0 +Promotion's ladder who goes up or down;,2.0 +"Who wed, or who seduced, amuse the town;",0.0 +What newborn heir has made his father blessed;,0.0 +"What heir exults, his father now at rest;",0.0 +"So grows the work, and now the printer tries",0.0 +"His powers no more, but leans on his allies.",0.0 +"When lo! the advertising tribe succeed,",0.0 +"Pay to be read, yet find but few will read;",0.0 +"And chief the illustrious race, whose drops and pills",4.0 +Have patent powers to vanquish human ills:,2.0 +"These, with their cures, a constant aid remain,",1.0 +To bless the pale composer's fertile brain;,0.0 +"Fertile it is, but still the noblest soil",1.0 +"Requires some pause, some intervals from toil;",1.0 +And they at least a certain ease obtain,1.0 +"I too must aid, and pay to see my name",0.0 +Hung in these dirty avenues to fame;,0.0 +"Nor pay in vain, if aught the Muse has seen,",0.0 +"And sung, could make these avenues more clean;",0.0 +"Could stop one slander ere it found its way,",0.0 +And gave to public scorn its helpless prey.,0.0 +"By the same aid, the Stage invites her friends,",2.0 +And kindly tells the banquet she intends;,1.0 +"With Siddons weep, or laugh with Abingdon;",1.0 +"Pleased in fictitious joy or grief, to see",1.0 +The mimic passion with their own agree;,1.0 +To steal a few enchanted hours away,0.0 +"From self, and drop the curtain on the day.",1.0 +"But who can steal from self that wretched wight,",0.0 +"Whose darling work is tried, some fatal night?",0.0 +"Most wretched man! when, bane to every bliss,",0.0 +Then groans succeed; nor traitors on the wheel,1.0 +"Can feel like him, or have such pangs to feel.",1.0 +Nor end they here: next day he reads his fall,0.0 +In every paper; critics are they all:,1.0 +And hears again the catcalls of the night.,2.0 +Such help the stage affords: a larger space,0.0 +Is filled by puffs and all the puffing race.,0.0 +"Now all the province of that tribe invade,",1.0 +And we abound in quacks of every trade.,1.0 +"The simple barber, once an honest name,",0.0 +"Cervantes founded, Fielding raised his fame:",0.0 +On whose soft cheek his own cosmetic blooms;,1.0 +"Here he appears, each simple mind to move,",1.0 +"And advertises beauty, grace and love.",0.0 +"' -- Come, faded belles, who would your youth renew,",1.0 +And learn the wonders of Olympian dew;,3.0 +"Restore the roses that begin to faint,",0.0 +Nor think celestial washes vulgar paint;,0.0 +"Your former features, airs, and arts assume,",0.0 +"Come, battered beaux, whose locks are turned to grey,",1.0 +And crop Discretion's lying badge away;,0.0 +"No female eye the fair deception sees,",2.0 +Not Nature's self so natural as these.,1.0 +"Such are their arts, but not confined to them,",1.0 +The Muse impartial must her sons condemn:,0.0 +"For they, degenerate! join the venal throng,",3.0 +And puff a lazy Pegasus along:,1.0 +"More guilty these, by Nature less designed",1.0 +For little arts that suit the vulgar kind.,0.0 +"That barbers' boys, who would to trade advance,",1.0 +Paints The true old original Blue Boar! ' --,5.0 +"These are the arts by which a thousand live,",1.0 +"Where Truth may smile, and Justice may forgive: ' --",1.0 +"But when, amid this rabble rout, we find",0.0 +"Packet or Post, and points their merit out;",3.0 +"Who advertises what reviewers say,",0.0 +With sham editions every second day;,0.0 +"Who dares not trust his praises out of sight,",1.0 +But hurries into fame with all his might;,0.0 +"Although the verse some transient praise obtains,",1.0 +Contempt is all the anxious poet gains.,0.0 +"Now Puffs exhausted, Advertisements past,",1.0 +Their Correspondents stand exposed at last;,0.0 +"These are a numerous tribe, to fame unknown,",3.0 +Who for the public good forego their own;,0.0 +Wooing the printer for admission here;,3.0 +Whose generous souls can condescend to pray,2.0 +For leave to throw their precious time away.,0.0 +"To vex and maul a ministerial race,",2.0 +Can thy stern soul refuse the champion place?,4.0 +"How he has sent them to thy brothers round,",2.0 +And still the same unkind reception found:,0.0 +"At length indignant will he damn the state,",1.0 +"Turn to his trade, and leave us to our fate.",1.0 +"These Roman souls, like Rome's great sons, are known",1.0 +"Thus Milo, could we see the noble chief,",1.0 +Yet fights the public battles twice a day:,0.0 +"Last in these ranks, and least, their art's disgrace,",0.0 +"Scribblers who court contempt, whose verse the eye",2.0 +"Disdainful views, and glances swiftly by:",1.0 +"This Poet's Corner is the place they choose,",1.0 +A fatal nursery for an infant Muse;,1.0 +"Unlike that Corner where true Poets lie,",1.0 +"These cannot live, and they shall never die;",1.0 +"Hapless the lad whose mind such dreams invade,",2.0 +And win to verse the talents due to trade.,0.0 +Keep down the evil spirit and be wise;,1.0 +"Follow your calling, think the Muses foes,",2.0 +"I know your day-dreams, and I know the snare",2.0 +"Hid in your flowery path, and cry Beware!",2.0 +"Thoughtless of ill, and to the future blind,",3.0 +"Here you may nameless print your idle rhymes,",0.0 +And read your firstborn work a thousand times;,1.0 +"Printed, and praised, in every magazine:",2.0 +And your dark pages please the enlightened age. ' --,4.0 +"Alas! what years you thus consume in vain,",0.0 +Ruled by this wretched bias of the brain!,1.0 +Go! to your desks and counters all return;,0.0 +"Trade, and be rich; or, should your careful sires",0.0 +"Should love of fame your youthful heart betray,",0.0 +"Pursue fair fame, but in a glorious way,",3.0 +"Of all the good that mortal men pursue,",0.0 +"The Muse has least to give, and gives to few;",0.0 +"With smiles and hopes, till youth and peace are gone;",0.0 +"Then, wed for life, the restless wrangling pair",0.0 +"Forget how constant one, and one how fair:",2.0 +"Meanwhile, Ambition, like a blooming bride,",1.0 +Brings power and wealth to grace her lover's side;,3.0 +"And though she smiles not with such flattering charms,",4.0 +The brave will sooner win her to their arms.,1.0 +"Then wed to her, if Virtue tie the bands,",1.0 +"Her court, her senate, or her arms adorn,",1.0 +And let her foes lament that you were born:,1.0 +"Or weigh her laws, their ancient rights defend,",0.0 +"Though hosts oppose, be theirs and Reason's friend;",1.0 +"Armed with strong powers, in their defence engage,",5.0 +And rise the Thurlow of the future age.,1.0 +"MOURN, Judah, mourn beneath the silent Sky,",1.0 +And pierce the Deserts with thy midnight Cry.,2.0 +"See Zion, conscious of her failing Powers,",2.0 +Heaves from her Base and shakes the nodding Bowers.,0.0 +And Matrons strike their widowed Breasts in vain;,0.0 +"From Street to Street the howling Mourners fly,",0.0 +Fear on their Brows and Horror in their Eye.,0.0 +"For why, her Peers are washed with purple Gore:",0.0 +Her Princes and her Monarch is no more:,3.0 +"Whom not the sacred Diadem could shield,",0.0 +But served to swell the Horrors of the Field.,1.0 +"But why, amongst the Heathen doomed to fall?",0.0 +"Is this, alas, the End of mighty Saul?",1.0 +"Mourn, mourn, in Silence lest Philistia hear,",4.0 +Nor let our Foes behold the streaming Tear.,0.0 +But OH my Friend ' -- Ah there my Sorrows swell,1.0 +Denied the Blessing of a sad Farewell?,2.0 +"Whose ruddy Cheeks confessed their early Prime,",0.0 +Nor his smooth Brows had felt the Stroke of Time.,2.0 +"He was my Soul's best Pleasure while alive,",2.0 +And is he blasted? ' -- then do I survive?,2.0 +"Ah no, it's Death and aggravated Woe.",0.0 +"You Nations, mourn ' -- if such a thing could be,",1.0 +"Till Nature too should learn to grieve, like me:",0.0 +"You smiling Dames, your gaudy Robes resign,",0.0 +"Go, hide your slighted Beauties from the Sun,",2.0 +While down your Cheeks the streaming Sorrows run.,0.0 +"Still let your Eyeballs waste their humid Store,",2.0 +And still repeat ' -- Your Monarch is no more!,2.0 +Nor let thy Hills behold the Beams of Light.,0.0 +"Let the gay Sun to thee his Rays deny,",2.0 +And there my Friend received the mortal Wound.,1.0 +WHY dost thou still give way to such Despair,2.0 +"Too just, alas! the weighty Causes are",2.0 +"And of all Plants the secret Virtue tells,",1.0 +"Knows, with what healing Gifts our Spring a bound",0.0 +And of each Bird explains the mystic Sound;,1.0 +"'Twas He, even He! my wretched Fate foretold",1.0 +"Who, while his Smiles attract the easy View,",0.0 +"Drops flattering Words, soft as the falling Dew;",3.0 +"Whose outward Form all friendly still appears,",0.0 +"Though Fraud and Daggers in his Thoughts he wears,",0.0 +"If He it is, that bids thy Love despair,",1.0 +I hope the happier End of all thy Care.,2.0 +So far from Truth his vain Predictions fall.,0.0 +"And in these Shades the false Impostor met,",0.0 +"On all his studied Speeches still relied,",0.0 +"Nor feared to err, while led by such a Guide:",1.0 +"When on a Day, that Business and Delight",1.0 +"My Steps did to the Neighbouring Town invite,",3.0 +"Which stands upon that rising Mountain's side,",0.0 +"And from our Plains this River do's divide,",1.0 +"He checked me thus ' -- Be warned in time, My Son,",0.0 +Whose gay Inhabitants thou shalt behold,1.0 +"Courtiers, that will thy rustic Garb despise,",2.0 +"But above all, that Structure see thou fly,",1.0 +To shun that Path be thy peculiar Care.,1.0 +"I ask, what of that Place the Dangers are:",2.0 +"To which he soon replies, there shalt thou meet",0.0 +"Who subtly will thy solid Sense bereave,",1.0 +And a false Gloss to every Object give.,2.0 +"Brass to thy Sight as polished Gold shall seem,",0.0 +And Glass thou as the Diamond shalt esteem.,1.0 +"Huge Heaps of Silver to thee shall appear,",2.0 +"Which if approached, will prove but shining Air.",1.0 +"The very Walls by Magic Art are wrought,",0.0 +And Repetition to all Speakers taught:,1.0 +"Not such, as from our Echoes we obtain,",2.0 +Which only our last Words return again;,2.0 +"But Speech for Speech entirely there they give,",1.0 +"And often add, beyond what they receive.",1.0 +"There downy Couches to false Rest invite,",2.0 +"The Lawn is charmed, that faintly bars the Light.",0.0 +"No gilded Seat, no ivory Board is there,",2.0 +"While, farther to abuse thy wondering Eyes,",3.0 +Strange antic Shapes before them shall arise;,1.0 +"Fantastic Fiends, that will about thee flock,",1.0 +"And all they see, with Imitation mock.",0.0 +"Transformed into a Flame, a Stream, a Tree;",0.0 +Till by a burning Sigh dissolved again.,1.0 +Thus spoke the Wretch; but could not shake my Mind.,1.0 +"My way I take, and soon the City find,",0.0 +"Where above all that lofty Fabric stands,",0.0 +"Which, with one View, the Town and Plains commands.",0.0 +"Here was I stopped, for who could quit the Ground,",0.0 +That heard such Music from those Roofs resound!,2.0 +Music! beyond the Swan's expiring Throat;,2.0 +"Beyond the softest Voice, that charms the Grove,",0.0 +"My Ear I thought too narrow for the Art,",2.0 +Nor fast enough conveyed it to my Heart:,1.0 +When in the Entrance of the Gate I saw,1.0 +"A Man Majestic, and commanding Awe;",1.0 +"Yet tempered with a Carriage, so refined",2.0 +"That undetermined was my doubtful Mind,",1.0 +"Whether for Love, or War, that Form was most designed.",2.0 +"With such a Brow, as did at once declare",1.0 +"A gentle Nature, and a Wit severe;",1.0 +"To view that Palace me he asked to go,",1.0 +"Though Royal He, and I Obscure and Low.",2.0 +"But the Delights my Senses there did meet,",2.0 +"No rural Tongue, no Swain can ever repeat.",4.0 +"Celestial Goddesses, or Nymphs as Fair,",1.0 +"In unveiled Beauties, to all Eyes appear",5.0 +"Sprinkled with Gold, as glorious to the View,",3.0 +"As young Aurora, decked with pearly Dew;",0.0 +"Bright Rays dispensing, as along they passed,",2.0 +And with new Light the shining Palace graced.,2.0 +"Even humble Me their Harmony inspired,",2.0 +"My Breast expanded, and my Spirits fired.",1.0 +"Rude Pastoral now, no longer I rehearse,",5.0 +But Heroes crown with my exalted Verse.,1.0 +"Of Arms I sung, of bold adventurous Wars;",2.0 +"And though brought back by my too envious Stars,",6.0 +"Yet kept my Voice and Reed those lofty Strains,",0.0 +And sent loud Music through the wondering Plains:,4.0 +And now to ruin Both at once designed.,0.0 +"And suddenly so clogged, and hoarse I was,",1.0 +"That all our Shepherd's, at the Change amazed,",0.0 +"When He it was, my luckless Path had crossed,",1.0 +"By whose dire Look, my Skill awhile was lost.",0.0 +"This have I told, to raise thy Hopes again,",0.0 +"And render, by distrust, his Malice vain.",1.0 +Agreed a while to leave the boundless Main;,0.0 +"And near the Shore unseen they chose to kiss,",0.0 +"There, all that Love could yield, the Youth enjoyed;",0.0 +"She looked, and sighed; his Lips she gently pressed;",0.0 +"Then murmuring fell, and slept upon his Breast;",2.0 +"While pleasing Dreams past Scenes of Love repeat,",1.0 +And cooling Breezes fan the Summer's Heat.,0.0 +"Thus as she lay entranced, the wanton Air",0.0 +"Played on her Mouth, and sported with her Hair;",1.0 +"The Boy less kind, thus as she sleeping lay,",3.0 +"Will curse that Beauty, which they now adore.",0.0 +"The ebbing Tide had left the sandy Plain,",0.0 +"Sad Thoughts, and black Despair pierced through her Soul,",3.0 +With Tears she saw the distant Billows roll.,0.0 +"She found her self forsaken, and alone,",1.0 +"The Triton absent, and the Water gone.",1.0 +"Grievous she moaned her Fate, and weeping said,",2.0 +"Is thus my Love, my easy Love betrayed?",0.0 +"Such Scorn we may expect, nay we deserve,",3.0 +When wanton Souls from steady Virtue swerve.,0.0 +"When Love was ceased, you might have shown your Hate;",0.0 +"The Waves are false, and you are false as they.",1.0 +"By both betrayed, with gnawing Hunger pined,",0.0 +"Nor trust the Youth, nor trust the hated Shore.",0.0 +"Farewell you distant Waves; you I forgive,",2.0 +"When he, who loved so much, yet could deceive.",0.0 +"And shining Pearls, that grow in rocky Cells,",0.0 +Around my Neck the perjured Melvin hung.,0.0 +"Farewell, you Songs, that once were thought to please,",1.0 +My Voice shall calm no more the listening Seas.,1.0 +Unhappy Fate of the soft yielding Maid!,2.0 +"Whoever loves, is sure to be betrayed.",0.0 +"Thus the despairing Nymph complained alone,",2.0 +When kinder Sleep again with calm Surprise,0.0 +"Soothed all her Pain, and closed her willing Eyes,",0.0 +And now returning Waves by slow degrees,0.0 +"Move on the Beach, and stretch the widened Seas.",0.0 +"Melvin approaches with the rising Tide,",3.0 +"The Sea was near, and the lost Lover found.",2.0 +"Ah! do I now, or did I dream before,",0.0 +"Cries the fond Nymph, when on the barren Shore",1.0 +"Left by the Sea, and you so long I mourned;",1.0 +"How were you gone, or whence are you returned?",2.0 +Vain Dreams replied the wily Youth deceive,1.0 +"Your wandering Thoughts, and false Impressions leave.",2.0 +"He said, and kissed the Nymph; she kissed again:",0.0 +"He pressed her close, and she forgot her Pain.",1.0 +"In vain to me the smiling mornings shine,",1.0 +Or cheerful fields resume their green attire:,0.0 +My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine;,1.0 +And in my breast the imperfect joys expire.,2.0 +"Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer,",0.0 +And newborn pleasure brings to happier men:,2.0 +To warm their little loves the birds complain.,0.0 +"I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear,",1.0 +And weep the more because I weep in vain.,0.0 +"OF warring senators, and battles dire,",1.0 +And Caledonian earls in concert scratch;,2.0 +"A group of heroes, occupied the round,",0.0 +Long in the rolls of infamy renowned.,1.0 +"Circling the table all in silence sat,",1.0 +"Now storming castles of the newest taste,",2.0 +And granting articles to forts of past;,1.0 +Now swallowing bitter draughts of Prussian beer;,3.0 +"His sons, like asses, to one centre draw.",1.0 +"Inflated Discord heard, and left her cell,",0.0 +With all the horrors of her native hell:,1.0 +"She, on the soaring wings of genius fled,",1.0 +And waved the pen of Junius round her head.,1.0 +"Beneath the table, veiled from sight, she sprung,",0.0 +Whose interest winds his conscience as his clock:,1.0 +"Been evident, and infamous in song.",2.0 +A toast demanded: Madoc swift arose.,0.0 +"His sanguine fork a murdered pigeon pressed,",0.0 +His knife with deep incision sought the breast.,0.0 +"Upon his lips the quivering accents hung,",2.0 +And too much expedition chained his tongue.,0.0 +"When thus he sputtered: All the glasses fill,",0.0 +From whom the royal blood of Madoc springs.,0.0 +"Madoc, undoubtedly of Arthur's race,",3.0 +You see the mighty monarch in his face:,0.0 +Demands this proper homage of the board.,1.0 +My pony Scrub can sires more valiant trace ' --,0.0 +The mangled pigeon thunders on his face;,1.0 +"His opening mouth the melted butter fills,",2.0 +"Furious he started, rage his bosom warms;",1.0 +"Thou vulgar imitator of the great,",1.0 +His shadow body to the table bends:,1.0 +"In these degenerate days, for three a meal:",3.0 +"In ancient times, as various writers say,",2.0 +"An alderman or priest, eat three a day.",2.0 +His stretching muscles and the mountain flies.,1.0 +"Swift, as a cloud that shadows over the plain,",3.0 +It flew and scattered drops of oily rain.,0.0 +"In opposition to extended knives,",1.0 +"Senseless he falls upon the sandy ground,",2.0 +Pressed with the steamy load that ooze around.,0.0 +"And now confusion spread her ghastly plume,",0.0 +And faction separates the noisy room.,0.0 +"That opens to a courtiers paradise,",3.0 +Injustice up the rocky hill of law:,1.0 +"From whose humanity the laurels sprung,",1.0 +To Fortune thus addressed his private prayer:,0.0 +Six Russian frigates at thy shrine shall burn;,1.0 +Nine rioters shall bleed beneath thy feet;,2.0 +And hanging cutters decorate each street.,0.0 +"The goddess smiled, or rather smoothed her frown,",0.0 +And shook the triple feathers of her crown:,1.0 +Instilled a private pension in his soul.,0.0 +"With rage inspired, he seized a Gallic roll:",2.0 +"His bursting arm the missive weapon threw,",0.0 +"High over his rival's head it whistling slew,",3.0 +Received it on his ear and kissed the ground.,1.0 +To play the minister's or felon's part:,1.0 +A slave to venal slaves; a tool to tools:,0.0 +The representative to knaves and fools.,1.0 +"See, while her nodding aldermen are spread,",1.0 +With beef and ven'son their attention draws:,1.0 +"They drink, they eat, then sign the mean address;",0.0 +"Say, could their humble gratitude do less?",0.0 +Red lightnings flashing in his dancing eyes.,1.0 +And elevates for furious fight his hands:,2.0 +"One pointed fist, his shadowed corps defends",0.0 +"Now fired with anguish and inflamed by pride,",4.0 +"But Fortune, or some higher power, or god",3.0 +Oblique extended forth a sable rod:,0.0 +The hardened serpent intercepts his way:,0.0 +"He fell, and falling with a lordly air,",1.0 +Crushed into atoms the judicial chair.,2.0 +Revenge in every bloody feature glows.,0.0 +Dropping Manilla sauces on his curls:,3.0 +The burning pepper sparkles in his eyes:,0.0 +"Glows brighter red, the glory of the spoil.",2.0 +"The victors thunder, and the vanquished howl.",1.0 +"Stars, garters, all the implements of show,",2.0 +"That decked the powers above, disgraced below.",2.0 +"Nor swords, nor mightier weapons did they draw,",2.0 +For all were well acquainted with the law.,1.0 +"Our heroes, like Lord George could scold and write.",1.0 +A rusty link of ministerial chain;,2.0 +A living glory of the present reign.,1.0 +"Versed in the arts of ammunition bread,",0.0 +From the same line as royal Madoc sprung;,2.0 +"Occurred, the object of his bursting ire,",1.0 +And on his nose received the weapon dire:,1.0 +Overflows his garter with a purple flood.,1.0 +When ladies scream and greasy butchers roar:,0.0 +He kissed his own dear lady in the dark.,1.0 +"The lineal representative of kings,",3.0 +"A carving weapon seized, and up he springs:",1.0 +"A weapon long in cruel murders stained,",0.0 +"But Fortune, Providence, or what you will,",1.0 +To lay the rising scenes of horror still;,0.0 +"Loud as the mob's reiterated yell,",0.0 +Whose every action is of trifles made:,1.0 +The blood which will from civil discord flow:,1.0 +"Who swells each grievance, lengthens every tax,",0.0 +Blind to the ripening vengeance of the axe.,1.0 +"With eye of pity, saw the dreary fray:",0.0 +"Amid the greasy horrors of the fight,",1.0 +He trembled for his suit of virgin white.,1.0 +"Fond of his eloquence, and easy flow",1.0 +"He mounts the table, but through eager haste,",1.0 +"The burning liquid penetrates his shoe,",0.0 +Like bullets outward perforate the breast;,0.0 +Shall luscious turtle without surfeit kill.,5.0 +A custard pudding trembled on his tongue:,1.0 +"And, Ah! Misfortunes seldom come alone,",0.0 +"Headlong he falls, propelled by thickening bangs.",1.0 +"The prince of trimmers, for his magic famed,",1.0 +"Bursting with rage, a weighty bottle caught,",2.0 +"With crimson blood and vital spirits fraught,",0.0 +"Upon his front the stubborn vessel sounds,",0.0 +Back from his harder front the bottle bounds:,0.0 +"He fell. The royal Madoc rising up,",1.0 +A greater adept than Agrippa sound;,4.0 +"Oft as his phantom reasons intervened,",0.0 +"In languid attitudes a truce desired,",0.0 +Long was the bloody fight; confusion dire,0.0 +Has hid some circumstances from the lyre:,1.0 +"Suffice it, that each hero kissed the ground,",0.0 +"Who stretching his authoritative hand,",1.0 +Loudly thus issued forth his dread command.,3.0 +"In the King's name, let hostile vengeance cease!",4.0 +The fallen unmolested leave the ground.,0.0 +"What fury, nobles, occupies your breast;",0.0 +What patriots spirits has your minds possessed.,2.0 +"Nor honorary gifts, nor pensions, please,",0.0 +"How? Wist you not what ancient sages said,",0.0 +"The council quarrels, and the poor have bread.",1.0 +Be every thought of enmity at rest:,1.0 +"Divide it and be friends again, he said:",1.0 +The council god returned; and discord fled.,0.0 +"Of haughty man, his passions to control,",1.0 +"His pride at once to humble and to please,",1.0 +"And join the dignity of life with ease,",1.0 +"Be now my theme. OH thou, whom Nature's hand",2.0 +"Framed for this best, this delicate command,",1.0 +"At the same time to speak and to persuade,",4.0 +"WYNDHAM, with diligence awhile attend,",3.0 +Nor scorn the instructions of an older friend;,3.0 +Who when the world's great commerce shall have joined,1.0 +"The deep reflection, and the strength of mind,",1.0 +"To the bright talents of thy youthful state,",3.0 +In turn shall on thy better lessons wait.,1.0 +"Whence comes it, that in every art we see",0.0 +Many can rise to a supreme degree;,3.0 +"Yet in this art, for which all seem designed",0.0 +"By nature, scarcely one complete we find?",1.0 +By the strong springs alone of selfish love:,0.0 +"Yet among all the species, is there one,",1.0 +"Whom with more caution than ourselves, we shun?",1.0 +Go none but for the profit or the sport?,3.0 +"If so, why comes each soul fatigued away,",1.0 +And curses the dull puppets same dull play;,3.0 +"Yet, unconvinced, is tempted still to go?",0.0 +It's that we find at home our greatest foe.,0.0 +And reason good why solitude we flee;,0.0 +"Yet, such our inconsistency of mind,",1.0 +"We court society, and hate mankind.",2.0 +"This is too learnt, too prudent, or too wise;",6.0 +And that we for his ignorance despise:,2.0 +"A voice perhaps our ear shall harshly strike,",0.0 +Then strait even wit itself shall raise dislike;,1.0 +"Our eye may by some feature be annoyed,",1.0 +Behold at once a character destroyed:,1.0 +"He'll ridicule no friend, though out of hearing:",2.0 +"Another warmed with zeal, offends our eyes,",0.0 +Because he holds the mirror up to vice.,1.0 +"No wonder then, since fancies wild as these",1.0 +"Can move our spleen, that real faults displease.",3.0 +"When Flavia entertains us with her dreams,",3.0 +"And interest that can brother hearts divide,",0.0 +"In their imagined forms our eyesight hit,",2.0 +"Of an old maid, a poet, peer or cit;",2.0 +And cheque the torrent of each boiling vein?,1.0 +Yes. She can still do more; view passion's slave,1.0 +"With mind serene, indulge him, and yet save.",1.0 +"Scans every man, and every man awry;",1.0 +"That reigning passion, which through every stage",0.0 +"Of life, still haunts us with unceasing rage.",2.0 +"No quality so mean, but what can raise",2.0 +And thinks he carries his excuse in lace:,1.0 +"With a round cap, that shows a fine turned ear:",2.0 +The lowest jest makes Delia laugh to death;,1.0 +From the gilded coach with four laced slaves behind;,1.0 +Does all this pomp and state proceed from merit?,0.0 +Mean thought! he deems it nobler to inherit:,3.0 +"Freemason, rake or wit, it's just the same,",1.0 +"The charm is hence, he has gained himself a name.",0.0 +"Yet, spite of all the fools that pride has made,",0.0 +It's not on man an useless burden laid;,0.0 +"Pride has ennobled some, and some disgraced;",1.0 +"It hurts not in itself, but as it's placed;",1.0 +"When right, its view knows none but virtue's bound;",1.0 +"When wrong, it scarcely looks one inch around.",0.0 +Mark! with what care the fair one's critic eye,0.0 +"Scans over her dress, nor let's a fault slip by;",5.0 +Each rebel hair must be reduced to place,0.0 +"With tedious skill, and tortured into grace;",2.0 +"Betty must over and over the pins dispose,",6.0 +And the whole frame is fitted to express,3.0 +True. But let's wait upon this fair machine,3.0 +From the lone closet to the social scene;,3.0 +"There view her loud, affected, scornful, sour,",0.0 +"What means she, at one instant to disgrace,",1.0 +"The work is ruined, that was raised by pride.",0.0 +"Yet of all tempers, it requires least pain,",2.0 +"Could we but rule ourselves, to rule the vain.",0.0 +"The prudent is by reason only swayed,",1.0 +With him each sentence and each word is weighed;,2.0 +The gay and giddy can alone be caught,1.0 +By the quick lustre of a happy thought;,3.0 +"The prodigal, unless you rob yourself;",1.0 +"The lewd will shun you, if your wife prove chaste;",2.0 +"The jealous, if a smile on his be cast;",2.0 +"The steady or the whimsical will blame,",2.0 +"The peevish, sullen, shrewd, luxurious, rash,",2.0 +"Will with your virtue, peace, or interest, clash;",1.0 +"But mark the proud man's price, how very low!",1.0 +"It's but a civil speech, a smile, or bow.",1.0 +"In social life to gain immortal fame,",0.0 +"Observe the various passions of mankind,",4.0 +"General, peculiar, single or combined:",2.0 +"How youth from manhood differs in its views,",1.0 +And how old age still other paths pursues;,4.0 +"How freedom now a lovely face shall wear,",0.0 +Now shock us in the likeness of a bear;,2.0 +"How jealousy in some resembles hate,",1.0 +"In others, seems but love grown delicate;",2.0 +"How modesty is often pride refined,",1.0 +And virtue but the canker of the mind;,2.0 +"How love of riches, grandeur, life, and fame,",5.0 +"Wear different shapes, and yet are still the same.",1.0 +"But not our passions only disagree,",1.0 +In taste is found as great variety:,1.0 +His lady hates to death the odious sound:,2.0 +"Yet both love music, though in different ways;",2.0 +"He in a kennel, she at opera's.",1.0 +"A florist shall, perhaps, not grudge some hours,",0.0 +To view the colours in a bed of flowers;,0.0 +"He passes on, and only cries, it's fine.",1.0 +"The mouldy fragment of an author lost,",1.0 +"A globe, a fine laced head, a china jar,",1.0 +"A mistress, or a fashion, that is new,",1.0 +"Have each their charms, though felt but by a few.",1.0 +"Then study each man's passion and his taste,",2.0 +"The first to soften, and indulge the last:",1.0 +"Not like the wretch, who beats down virtue's fence,",0.0 +And deviates from the paths of common sense;,0.0 +The very weakness we with grief behold.,1.0 +"Passions are common to the fool and wise,",3.0 +And all would hide them under art's disguise;,0.0 +"For so avowed, in others, is their shame,",2.0 +"None hates them more, than he who has the same.",1.0 +"But taste seems more peculiarly our own,",2.0 +And every man is fond to make his known;,0.0 +Proud of a mark he fancies is designed,1.0 +By nature to advance him over his kind;,3.0 +"And where he sees that character impressed,",1.0 +With joy he hugs the favourite to his breast.,1.0 +"But the main stress of all our cares must lie,",2.0 +To watch ourselves with strict and constant eye:,0.0 +"To mark the working mind, when passion's course",0.0 +"Begins to swell, and reason still has force;",0.0 +Observe the moments when they first subside;,0.0 +For he who hopes a victory to win,2.0 +"Over other men, must with himself begin;",1.0 +"Else like a town by mutiny oppressed,",1.0 +"And they alone, who in themselves oft view",2.0 +"Man's image, know what method to pursue.",2.0 +"All other creatures keep in beaten ways,",0.0 +Man only moves in an eternal maze:,2.0 +"He lives and dies, not tamed by cultivation,",0.0 +"The wretch of reason, and the dupe of passion;",1.0 +"Curious of knowing, yet too proud to learn;",2.0 +"More prone to doubt, than anxious to discern:",1.0 +Mistaking still the pleasing for the true;,1.0 +"Foe to restraints approved by general voice,",2.0 +"Of rest impatient, yet in love with ease;",0.0 +"Disdaining by the vulgar to be awed,",2.0 +Yet never pleased but when the fools applaud:,0.0 +"By turns severe, indulgent, humble, vain;",0.0 +A trifle serves to lose him or to gain.,1.0 +"Then grant this trifle, yet his vices shun,",0.0 +"This for each humour every shape could take,",1.0 +"Even virtue's own, though not for virtue's sake;",0.0 +"At Athens rakish, thoughtless, full of fire,",0.0 +"In Asia gay, effeminate and lewd;",1.0 +"While the rough Roman, virtue's rigid friend,",2.0 +Could not to save the cause he died for bend:,0.0 +He more indulged a passion than subdued.,1.0 +Behold him bending at his idol's feet;,0.0 +"Humble, not mean; disputing, and yet sweet;",3.0 +Without a rival studious to be loved;,1.0 +"For ever fearful, though not always witty,",1.0 +And never giving cause for hate or pity:,0.0 +"These are his arts, such arts as must prevail,",1.0 +"And what he does to gain a vulgar end,",0.0 +"Shall we neglect, to make mankind our friend?",2.0 +Good sense and learning may esteem obtain;,1.0 +"Humour and wit a laugh, if rightly taken:",0.0 +Fair virtue admiration may impart;,2.0 +"It moulds the body to an easy grace,",1.0 +And brightens every feature of the face:,1.0 +And adds persuasion to the finest sense.,1.0 +"Yet this, like every disposition, has",0.0 +"Fixed bounds, over which it never ought to pass;",1.0 +"When stretched too far, its honour dies away,",4.0 +"Its merit sinks, and all its charms decay;",0.0 +"Among the good it meets with no applause,",0.0 +"And to its ruin the malicious draws,",2.0 +"A slave to all, who force it, or entice,",1.0 +"It falls by chance in virtue or in vice,",1.0 +"It's true, in pity for the poor it bleeds,",1.0 +"It clothes the naked, and the hungry feeds;",1.0 +"It cheers the stranger, nay its foes defends,",0.0 +But then as oft it injures its best friends.,2.0 +"Study with care Politeness, that must teach",2.0 +"In vain Formality, with matron mien,",1.0 +"Distorted themselves, and give all others pain:",2.0 +"She moves with easy, though with measured pace,",1.0 +"And shows no part of study, but the grace.",2.0 +"Yet even by this man is but half refined,",1.0 +"It's but a varnish that is quickly tossed,",1.0 +Whenever the soul in passion's sea is lost.,2.0 +"Would you both please and be instructed too,",3.0 +Watch well the rage of shining to subdue;,2.0 +"Hear every man upon his favourite theme,",1.0 +And ever be more knowing than you seem.,1.0 +"The lowest genius will afford some light,",1.0 +Or give a hint that had escaped your sight.,0.0 +"Doubt, till he thinks you on conviction yield,",1.0 +And with fit questions let each pause be filled:,2.0 +"And the most knowing will with pleasure grant,",2.0 +But are not therefore fit for all alike;,2.0 +"They charm the lively, but the grave offend,",1.0 +And raise a foe as often as a friend;,1.0 +"That cheer the strong, and pain the weakly sight.",0.0 +"If a bright fancy therefore be your share,",3.0 +Let judgement watch it with a guardian's care;,4.0 +"It's like a torrent apt to overflow,",0.0 +Unless by constant government kept low;,2.0 +"Or else, like trees, when suffered wild to shoot,",0.0 +"It turns to affectation and grimace,",2.0 +"As like to wit, as dullness is to grace.",1.0 +Yet memory oft no less requires the bit:,3.0 +"How many, hurried by its force away,",1.0 +For ever in the land of gossips stray?,0.0 +"Usurp the province of the nurse to lull,",2.0 +Without her privilege for being dull?,1.0 +Without regard to use or symmetry:,1.0 +"Heaps bricks on bricks, and fancies it's to build.",2.0 +"A storey should, to please, at least seem true,",1.0 +"The wise will sleep, and leave applause to fools.",0.0 +"But others, more intolerable yet,",1.0 +"Heavy by memory made, and what's the worst,",4.0 +"At secondhand, as often as at first.",1.0 +"And can even patience hear, without disdain,",0.0 +The maiming register of sense once slain?,2.0 +"Some know no joy like what a word can raise,",1.0 +Hauled through a language's perplexing maze;,0.0 +"Till on a mate, that seems to agree, they light,",3.0 +"Like man and wise, that still are opposite;",0.0 +"Not lawyers at the bar play more with sense,",1.0 +"Than they on every subject, great or small,",1.0 +"At clubs, or councils, at a church, or ball;",0.0 +Then cry we rob them of their tributes due:,1.0 +Alas! how can we laugh and pity too?,1.0 +"While others to extremes as wild will run,",1.0 +"When the brisk glass to freedom does entice,",3.0 +And rigid wisdom is a kind of vice.,1.0 +Never frown where sense may innocently smile.,1.0 +"Cramp not your language into logic rules,",0.0 +"Nor let your learning always be discerned,",0.0 +But choose to seem judicious more than learnt.,0.0 +"Quote seldom, and then let it be, at least,",2.0 +"But lest, disguised, your eye it should escape,",1.0 +"Know, pedantry can put on every shape:",2.0 +"For when we deviate into terms of art,",2.0 +"Unless constrained, we act the pedant's part.",0.0 +No matter of what kind the subject be.,2.0 +"From laws of nations down to laws of dress,",1.0 +"For statesmen have their cant, and belles no less.",1.0 +Nature but few does for that task design:,1.0 +"It's in the ablest hand a dangerous tool,",2.0 +But never fails to wound the meddling fool:,0.0 +"For all must grant, it needs no common art",1.0 +"To keep men patient, when we make them smart.",1.0 +"For taste decrees what's low, and what's sublime:",0.0 +"And what might charm today, or over a glass,",2.0 +"Perhaps at court, or next day, would not pass.",0.0 +"And formed by nature to be kicked and fed,",1.0 +All persons right or wrong with random wit.,0.0 +"Our wise forefathers, born in sober days,",1.0 +Resigned to fools the tart and witty phrase;,0.0 +"The motley coat gave warning for the jest,",2.0 +"But we from high to low all strive to sneer,",1.0 +"Will all be wits, and not the livery wear.",2.0 +Of all the qualities that help to raise,1.0 +"In men the universal voice of praise,",0.0 +"Whether in pleasure or in use they end,",3.0 +"It's a transparent veil that helps the sight,",1.0 +And lets us look on merit with delight:,1.0 +"In others, it's a kindly light, that seems",1.0 +To gild the worst defects with borrowed beams.,1.0 +"Yet, it's but little that its form be caught,",0.0 +Unless its origin be first in thought:,1.0 +"Else rebel nature will reveal the cheat,",2.0 +And the whole work of art at once defeat.,2.0 +"The praise you take, although it be your due,",1.0 +"Will be suspected, if it come from you:",1.0 +"For each man, by experience taught, can tell",4.0 +"In sober sadness, and without design,",1.0 +"For some will slyly arrogate a vice,",0.0 +That from excess of virtue takes its rise,1.0 +"The world cries out, why does he hither come?",2.0 +Let him do penance for his sins at home.,1.0 +"No part of conduct asks for skill more nice,",1.0 +"Though none more common, than to give advice:",1.0 +"Misers themselves in this will not be saving,",1.0 +"Unless their knowledge makes it worth the having,",0.0 +"But if consulted, use sincerity;",2.0 +"Too sacred is the welfare of a friend,",4.0 +To give it up for any selfish end.,1.0 +"But use one caution, sift him over and over,",2.0 +"To find if all be not resolved before,",0.0 +"If such the case, in spite of all his art,",1.0 +Some word will give the soundings of his heart;,1.0 +"That serves him not, and may his friendship lose?",1.0 +"Yet still on truth bestow this mark of love,",0.0 +Never to commend the thing you can't approve.,1.0 +"No art she knows, in native whiteness dressed,",0.0 +"Her thoughts all pure, and therefore all expressed:",1.0 +She takes from error its deformity;,2.0 +"And without her, all other virtues die.",1.0 +"Bright source of goodness! to my aid descend,",2.0 +"Watch over my heart, and all my words attend:",3.0 +"If still thou deign to set thy foot below,",0.0 +"Among a race quite polished into show,",1.0 +"Who grants to all all favours, but her heart:",0.0 +"Perverts the end of charming, for the fame;",1.0 +"To fawn, her business; to deceive, her aim:",1.0 +"She smiles on this man, tips the wink on that,",2.0 +"Gives one a squeeze, another a kind pat;",2.0 +"Now jogs a foot, now whispers in an ear;",2.0 +"Till the kind thing, the company throughout,",3.0 +Distributes all its pretty self about;,0.0 +"While all are pleased, and wretched soon or late,",0.0 +"All but the wise, who see and shun the bait.",0.0 +"And rigid virtue sometime will allow,",2.0 +"You stretch the truth in favour of a friend,",0.0 +Be sure it ever aim at some good end;,0.0 +"To cherish growing virtue, vice to shame,",0.0 +And turn to noble views the love of fame:,0.0 +"By sense or truth, be every passion's bawd.",0.0 +"Be rarely warm in censure, or in praise;",1.0 +Few men deserve our passion either ways:,0.0 +"For half the world but floats betwixt good and ill,",0.0 +"As chance disposes objects, these the will:",1.0 +"It's but a see-saw game, where virtue now",2.0 +"Mounts above vice, and then sinks down as low.",2.0 +"Besides the wise still hold it for a rule,",2.0 +"To trust that judgement most, that seems most cool:",0.0 +"For all that rises to hyperbole,",1.0 +"Proves that we err, at least in the degree.",1.0 +"But if your temper to extremes should lead,",2.0 +Always upon the indulging side exceed;,3.0 +"For though to blame most lend a willing ear,",1.0 +Yet hatred ever will attend on fear:,1.0 +"And when a neighbour's dwelling blazes out,",4.0 +The world will think it's time to look about.,0.0 +Let not the curious from your bosom steal,1.0 +"Secrets, where Prudence ought to set her seal;",2.0 +"Yet be so frank and plain, that at one view,",0.0 +"In other things, each man may see you through:",0.0 +"For if the mask of policy you wear,",2.0 +"The honest hate you, and the cunning fear.",1.0 +"Would you be well received wherever you go,",2.0 +Remember each man vanquished is a foe.,2.0 +"Resist not, therefore, with your utmost might,",3.0 +"He, for each triumph you shall thus decline,",2.0 +Shall give ten opportunities to shine:,2.0 +"He sees, since once you owned him to excel,",1.0 +That it's his interest you should reason well;,1.0 +"As blustering B' -- y to a brother scholar,",2.0 +"Yet by degrees, inure him to submit,",2.0 +"But chiefly against trifling contests guard,",5.0 +It's here submission seems to man most hard:,0.0 +Who undertook to kick against his mule.,0.0 +"But those who will not by instruction learn,",1.0 +"How fatal trifles prove, let storey warn.",1.0 +"Lived each for each, as each for each would die;",0.0 +"Like objects pleased them, and like objects pained;",1.0 +'Twas but one soul that in two bodies reigned.,1.0 +"They plied the cheerful, but still temperate glass,",2.0 +When lo! a doubt is raised about a word:,0.0 +A doubt that must be ended by the sword:,1.0 +"One falls a victim, mark, OH man, thy shame,",1.0 +"For his two tomes of words, though half his own?",2.0 +"For what remains of failings without end,",3.0 +"Morals must some, and some the laws must mend.",0.0 +"While others in such monstrous forms appear,",0.0 +"No caution to avoid them they demand,",3.0 +"If faith to some philosophers be given,",1.0 +"Man, that great lord of earth, that heir of heaven,",3.0 +"Savage at first, inhabited the wood,",3.0 +"No social home he knew, no friendship's tie,",2.0 +"Selfish in good, in ill without ally;",0.0 +"Till some in length of time, of stronger nerve,",0.0 +"And greater cunning, forced the rest to serve",0.0 +"One common purpose, and, in nature's spite,",1.0 +Brought the whole jarring species to unite.,5.0 +"But might we not with equal reason say,",0.0 +"That every single particle of clay,",1.0 +"Which forms our body, was at first designed",1.0 +"Can this be said, and can it be allowed",2.0 +'Twas with its powers for no one end endowed?,2.0 +"If so; we own that man, at first, by art",1.0 +Was soothed to act in social life a part.,0.0 +"It's true, in some the seeds of discord seem",0.0 +"But that no more hurts nature's general course,",2.0 +Than matter found with a repelling force.,1.0 +"Turn we awhile on lonely man our eyes,",2.0 +And see what frantic scenes of folly rise:,0.0 +"Of animated plaster, wood, and stone,",0.0 +And mighty cures by sainted sinners done.,0.0 +"Permit me, Muse, still farther to explore,",2.0 +And turn the leaves of superstition over;,0.0 +"Where wonders upon wonders ever grow,",5.0 +"Chaos of zeal and blindness, mirth and woe;",2.0 +That hot from hell roar at a finger burned;,1.0 +St Anthony. And hell broke loose to make another laugh;,3.0 +"One monk, not knowing how to spend his time,",1.0 +"Increases the large catalogue of sins,",4.0 +"And where the sober finish, there begins.",1.0 +"Of death eternal his decree is past,",1.0 +"For the first crime, as fixed as for the last.",3.0 +"While that, as idle, and as pious too,",1.0 +Compounds with false religion for the true;,1.0 +Weighs all the niceties of forms and modes;,1.0 +"And makes the rugged paths so smooth and even,",0.0 +"The taylor now cuts out, and men grow good.",3.0 +Because he fancies virtue dwells with dirt:,0.0 +While all concur to take away the stress,0.0 +Anxious each paltry relic to preserve,3.0 +"Of him, whose hungry friends they leave to starve,",1.0 +"Strangers to joys, familiar grown with pains;",2.0 +To all the means of virtue they attend,1.0 +"With strictest care, and only miss the end.",0.0 +"Can scripture teach us, or can sense persuade,",1.0 +That man for such employments ever was made?,3.0 +Far be that thought! but let us now relate,0.0 +"A character as opposite, as great,",2.0 +"In him, who living gave to Athens fame,",0.0 +"He taught what they neglected, common sense.",1.0 +"He, over mankind; all Athens was his school.",4.0 +"Great lords, and wits, in their own eyes still greater,",3.0 +With him grew wise; unknowing they were taught;,3.0 +"He spoke like them, though not like them he thought:",1.0 +"Nor wept, nor laughed, at man's perverted state;",0.0 +"But left to women this, to idiots that.",2.0 +Or crowned with roses at the jovial feast;,2.0 +"Insulted by a peevish, noisy wife,",1.0 +"Sublime with ease, with condescension strong!",0.0 +"Yet scorned to flatter vice, or virtue blame;",0.0 +"Nor changed to please, but pleased because the same;",0.0 +"Still unaffected, cheerful, mild, and good.",1.0 +"Behold one pagan, drawn in colours faint,",1.0 +"Outshine ten thousand monks, though each a saint!",2.0 +"Here let us fix our foot, hence take our view,",1.0 +And learn to try false merit by the true.,2.0 +The dregs of fancy cloud its purest vein;,0.0 +But circulation betwixt mind and mind,5.0 +"Extends its course, and renders it refined.",1.0 +"When warm with youth we tread the flowery way,",2.0 +"All nature charms, and every scene looks gay;",1.0 +"Each object gratifies each sense in turn,",0.0 +"While now for rattles, now for nymphs we burn;",0.0 +"Enslaved by friendship's or by love's soft smile,",2.0 +"We never suspect, because we mean no guile:",3.0 +"Till, flushed with hope from views of past success,",0.0 +We lay on some main trifle all our stress;,1.0 +"When lo! the mistress or the friend betrays,",1.0 +And the whole fancied cheat of life displays:,2.0 +Stunned with an ill that from ourselves arose;,1.0 +"For instinct ruled, when reason should have chose;",0.0 +"We fly for comfort to some lonely scene,",1.0 +"Victims henceforth of dirt, and drink, and spleen.",3.0 +"But let no obstacles that cross our views,",2.0 +Pervert our talents from their destined use;,1.0 +"For, as upon life's hill we upwards press,",2.0 +Our views will be obstructed less and less.,0.0 +"Be all false delicacy far away,",2.0 +Lest it from nature lead us quite astray;,1.0 +"And for the imagined vice of human race,",1.0 +"Destroy our virtue, or our parts debase;",1.0 +"Since God with reason joins to make us own,",0.0 +That it's not good for man to be alone.,0.0 +"Relentless Winter rules with savage sway, ' --",0.0 +"Where the shrill Polar winds, as wild they blow,",2.0 +"Shall this recording pillar long descry,",1.0 +And give the sod a tear where BARLOW lies ' --,1.0 +He who was simply great and nobly wise.,0.0 +"Here, led by patriot zeal, he met his doom,",2.0 +"And found, amid the frozen wastes, a tomb;",0.0 +"Far from his native soil the patriot fell,",2.0 +Far from that Western World he sung so well!,0.0 +"Nor she, so long beloved! nor she was nigh,",2.0 +"To catch the dying look, the parting sigh!",0.0 +"She who, the hopeless anguish to beguile,",1.0 +In fond memorial rears the funeral pile!,4.0 +Shall mourn the moments that return no more;,1.0 +"While, bending over the broad Atlantic wave,",2.0 +Sad fancy hovers on the distant grave.,2.0 +"To foreign notes while others tune the lyre,",0.0 +Me let a freeborn English Muse inspire:,0.0 +"Unskilled in all the graces of her art,",1.0 +She boasts of nothing but an honest heart;,1.0 +"To Oxford's Sons resigns the verdant bays,",0.0 +"And neither asks, nor yet despises praise.",0.0 +"Inured to dangers, and despising ease ' --",1.0 +Such were the illustrious Heroes of thy Race!,4.0 +Such was Nassau! and we with Pleasure see,1.0 +Our guardian Genius rise again in Thee.,2.0 +"Thee Britain hails, and with a generous Pride",3.0 +Auspicious Match! ' -- may Heaven indulgent shed,0.0 +Its choicest blessings round the genial bed!,0.0 +Hail wedded Love! perpetual source of peace;,3.0 +"The Calm, where restless Passion sinks to Ease.",0.0 +"When hearts united thus each other claim,",0.0 +How sweet the friendship! and how soft the flame!,1.0 +"Wealth, Honour, Empire far behind are thrown,",1.0 +And all the World's well lost for Thee alone.,2.0 +"Hence those endearing Interests of life,",3.0 +"The Father, Son, the Brother, and the Wife:",1.0 +"Here Love extended runs through different names,",0.0 +The fruitful fountain of ten thousand streams.,2.0 +"Thrice happy Princess! bright with every grace,",1.0 +"Blessed shalt Thou be, and blessed in all thy Race:",1.0 +"For, like the royal Stock from whence you came,",0.0 +A chosen Offspring shall extend your fame;,1.0 +"And nations, yet unborn, shall bless your name.",1.0 +"Here then, young Hero! fix thine eyes, and see,",1.0 +"Fearless as William, and as Maurice wise.",3.0 +"And as their Forms in gay procession glide,",1.0 +Thy generous heart shall beat with noble pride;,2.0 +"Pleased that such prospects on thy Virtues wait,",1.0 +"Pleased that thy Race succeeding times shall bless,",0.0 +"And give to warring nations Laws, and Peace.",0.0 +Fair as the Blossoms of the smiling Spring;,1.0 +That served to shade her glowing Cheeks beneath:,0.0 +"How would that Brow, which never knew to frown,",0.0 +"For, by the lustre of her shining Eyes,",2.0 +"Those graceful Limbs though clad in humble Green,",0.0 +"Would suit a Princess, nor disgrace a Queen:",1.0 +"Yet a plain Crook adorned her snowy Hands,",3.0 +"Her Task it was, those tender Lambs to lead,",1.0 +Over the tall Mountain on the fertile Mead:,3.0 +"Where the clear Fountains gently murmur by,",3.0 +"Her Flute and Song delude the tedious Day,",2.0 +And her soft Hours calmly glide away.,1.0 +"In Smiles the Fair One viewed the rising Sun,",0.0 +In Smiles beheld him when his Race was done:,0.0 +"And when his Beams had bid the Fields adieu,",0.0 +And the damp Meadows shone with pearly Dew;,2.0 +"Penned in their Fold she leaves her wanton Care,",0.0 +And to her home returns the happy Fair:,1.0 +"'Twas a low Cottage, humble as their Fate,",4.0 +Where an old Father met her at the Gate:,2.0 +A Name much valued by each honest Swain:,1.0 +"On whose grave Brow were seen the Marks of Time,",1.0 +No more his Cheeks confessed their healthy Prime:,0.0 +Dim were his Eyes: Those Eyeballs that had seen,1.0 +And she alone his Comfort and his Care.,2.0 +"Their little House was placed beneath a Hill,",0.0 +Whose Verge was watered by a streaming Rill:,1.0 +"The Stranger here no gilded Spires saw,",2.0 +For this low Roof was thatched with humble Straw;,2.0 +Nor Venice Glass to sparkle in the Sun:,0.0 +"Full South it looked and seldom knew the Shade,",1.0 +"Where by the Sun this careful Peasant knew,",0.0 +"A little Orchard too was planted nigh,",0.0 +And the cool River rolled its Waters by:,3.0 +Where the pleased Heron prunes her dabbled Wing.,2.0 +Whose Slaves approach him with a bending Knee;,1.0 +No midnight Revels break his loved Repose;,2.0 +"No dark Intrigue for open Vengeance calls,",1.0 +Nor Envy dwelled within his peaceful Walls:,0.0 +But his calm Days in one smooth Circle run;,4.0 +"He blessed the rising and declining Sun,",1.0 +A Stranger both to Sickness and to Sin:,1.0 +"'Twas Health without and Happiness within,",2.0 +And his fond Soul upon her Music hung:,2.0 +"Like him no Parent loved his darling Care,",2.0 +And smoothed the Pillows for his weary Head:,1.0 +"With her his Moments gently glide away,",1.0 +Who dressed in Smiles the Evening and the Day.,1.0 +"Hear this, you great Ones, whose unwieldy Store",1.0 +Is still embittered with a Wish for more;,1.0 +"Who strive to climb on Fortune's slippery Hill,",0.0 +And swallow Ruin in a golden Pill.,0.0 +"But learn from hence that Happiness can dwell,",1.0 +With a plain Peasant in his humble Cell:,2.0 +"She loves the Village and the harmless Hind,",1.0 +With a clear Conscience and a cheerful Mind;,3.0 +For Bliss which only is with Virtue found.,1.0 +"When wealthy, proud, or titled fools expire,",0.0 +"Those splendid trifles which the vain admire,",0.0 +May strike the eye ' -- but seldom reach the heart;,0.0 +"Though gaudy trappings did not grace his birth,",0.0 +"And undistinguished, save, by honest worth,",0.0 +"Nor humble fortune, monument can raise;",1.0 +"Though his low grave can boast no featured bust,",3.0 +Celestial guardians watch his sleeping dust;,2.0 +"And Heaven hath spared his memory one friend,",1.0 +Who knew his goodness ' -- viewed his peaceful end;,0.0 +"Then thou pure spirit deign one glance to see,",2.0 +How sweet the task to utter truth of thee;,0.0 +"And thou sad mourner, take it from my hands,",3.0 +This boon thy friendship from my pen demands;,1.0 +"Nor mourn thy want of power to save his name,",2.0 +"By means, which only wealth or pride can claim.",0.0 +"Accuse not fate, but vanity despise,",1.0 +"His humble ashes will as safely rise,",1.0 +And claim as just a title to the skies,1.0 +As those whose marbled history proclaim,2.0 +The only title they ever had to fame.,2.0 +"He knew no guile, to please his chief delight,",1.0 +Serene his conscience ' -- his intentions right;,1.0 +"His sentiments superior to his state,",2.0 +Too noble minded for his lowly fate;,2.0 +"Since upon earth none are from error free,",1.0 +Why should I blush to own a fault in thee?,0.0 +Nor once remembered want might visit home;,0.0 +"In this wise age, well practised how to save,",5.0 +Wealth will condemn what generous pity gave;,4.0 +"Give her, what oft thy little store did spare.",0.0 +"Presumptuous pen! be calm foreboding mind,",2.0 +The first of beings is will reward unfold.,3.0 +And now dear mourner will you condescend,2.0 +To accept this offering from a constant friend?,2.0 +"Ah! cease to weep thy sainted partner's fate,",0.0 +"Must now condemn the tender flowing tear,",0.0 +"Wonder who loved so well, could wish him here;",2.0 +"Or could thy sorrow, could thy pining grief,",0.0 +"Restore thy husband, or bring thee relief,",3.0 +"Could gushing tears recall the spirit fled,",0.0 +Or bursting sighs awake the sleeping dead;,0.0 +"Or could thy mourning bring him back to woes,",0.0 +Say ' -- could thy love disturb his sweet repose?,0.0 +"Ah no! in realms of bliss remote from pain,",0.0 +"He waits the hour, to reunite again;",0.0 +"But be reminded, deem it not severe,",0.0 +It's the reward of patient suffering here;,1.0 +"Farewell, my friend! in Heaven's gracious time,",1.0 +"Where boundless joy awaits the truly good,",0.0 +And no rude storm can ever more intrude.,1.0 +HARK! from the battlements of yonder tower,1.0 +The solemn bell has tolled the midnight hour!,1.0 +To probe the bosom top severely tried!,0.0 +"O! ever cease, my pensive thoughts, to stray",0.0 +Through the bright fields of Fortune's better day;,2.0 +"When youthful Hope, the music of the mind,",1.0 +"Yet, can I cease, while glows this trembling frame,",0.0 +In sighs to speak thy melancholy name!,0.0 +I hear thy spirit wail in every storm!,0.0 +In midnight shades I view thy passing form!,1.0 +"Pale as in that sad hour, when doomed to feel,",1.0 +"Deep in thy perjured heart, the bloody steel!",0.0 +Demons of Vengeance! you at whose command,3.0 +Or horror damp the purpose of my soul?,1.0 +"No! my wild heart sat smiling over the plan,",6.0 +Till Hate fulfilled what baffled Love began!,0.0 +"One tender pang, to generous Nature true,",2.0 +"Half mingling pity with the gall of scorn,",2.0 +"Condemn this heart, that bled in love forlorn!",0.0 +Delighted idols of a gaudy train!,1.0 +"Ill can your blunter feelings guess the pain,",0.0 +"When the fond faithful heart, inspired to prove",4.0 +"Friendship refined, the calm delight of love,",2.0 +"Feels all its tender strings with anguish torn,",0.0 +And bleeds at perjured Pride's inhuman scorn!,0.0 +"Say, then, did pitying Heaven condemn the deed,",2.0 +"Long had I watched thy dark foreboding brow,",0.0 +What time thy bosom scorned its dearest vow!,0.0 +"Sad, though I wept the friend, the lover changed,",0.0 +"Still thy cold look was scornful, and estranged,",4.0 +"Till from thy pity, love, and shelter thrown,",1.0 +First gave to wrath unlimited control!,2.0 +Adieu the silent look! the streaming eye!,0.0 +Long slumbering Vengeance wakes to better deeds;,3.0 +"He shrieks, he falls, the perjured Lover bleeds!",0.0 +"Now the last laugh of agony is over,",4.0 +"And pale in blood he sleeps, to wake no more!",1.0 +It's done! the flame of hate no longer burns;,1.0 +Why does my soul this gush of anguish feel?,0.0 +"Trembling and faint, I drop the guilty steel!",1.0 +Cold on my heart the hand of terror lies;,0.0 +And shades of horror close my languid eyes! ' --,0.0 +"A friend long true, a once fond lover fell! ' --",2.0 +"Where Love was fostered, could not Pity dwell?",0.0 +Unhappy youth! while yonder pale crescent lows,3.0 +"To watch on silent Nature's deep repose,",0.0 +"Thy sleepless spirit, breathing from the tomb,",1.0 +Soon may this fluttering spark of vital flame,2.0 +Forsake its languid melancholy frame!,0.0 +"Soon may these eyes their trembling lustre close,",0.0 +"Where, lulled to slumber, Grief forgets to mourn!",0.0 +"Behold fair Bath her stately front advance,",1.0 +"The hills that rise in rich profusion round,",0.0 +"With gardens decked, or splendid villas crowned!",0.0 +"There Health and Pleasure hand in hand appear,",0.0 +"Deep in their mossy cells beneath these hills,",0.0 +"There various springs their mineral virtues blend,",1.0 +And warm in salutary streams descend;,0.0 +"These streams to mortals balmy health restore,",0.0 +"Here languid nymphs regain the bloom of May,",0.0 +Here cripples dance and hurl the crutch away.,0.0 +"Hither, with lavish hand, fresh peasants bring",3.0 +The fruits of Autumn and the flowers of Spring;,2.0 +"While lowing herds from richest pastures, pour",0.0 +"Each bird of various plume that haunts the wood,",2.0 +"Or wings the heath, or dives the liquid flood,",0.0 +Contiguous coasts or neighbouring streams supply.,4.0 +"Thus Art and Nature join in friendly strife,",0.0 +To shower on Bath the blandishments of life.,3.0 +TO enjoy with temperate use the gifts of heaven!,1.0 +"The infernal arts of Scandal, Cards, and Dice;",1.0 +"The vagrant herds that every street infest,",0.0 +"And Insolence, with vigorous care suppressed;",3.0 +"Did no base miscreants, to themselves unjust,",4.0 +By mean exactions liberal minds disgust;,0.0 +And Bath possess the riches of the land.,1.0 +"Unequal, lost to the aspiring claim,",1.0 +"My soul too narrow, and too low my state;",3.0 +"Stella! soar on, to nobler objects true,",1.0 +Pour out your soul with your loved Montagu;,2.0 +"But, ah! should either have a thought to spare,",0.0 +"Slight, trivial, neither worth a smile or tear,",3.0 +"And each, aspiring, seeks her native skies;",0.0 +"When Fancy wakes the soul to ecstasy,",1.0 +"And the rapt mind is touched with Deity,",3.0 +"Quick let me from the hallowed spot retire,",2.0 +Where sacred Genius lights his awful fire.,0.0 +"Crushed as I am, by Fortune's adverse power,",2.0 +I hail the joys which wait thy happier hour;,2.0 +On which the nameless sweets of wit are hung;,0.0 +"What bliss the friendship of the wise to share,",1.0 +"Of soul superior, and of virtues rare!",1.0 +"Where Genius in familiar converse sits,",0.0 +"Where great ideas, fed by Fancy, glow,",0.0 +"Where pointed thought in polished diction dressed,",0.0 +With every grace assaults the yielding breast;,0.0 +"OH, powers of Genius! even the Miser's heart,",5.0 +"In the sweet transport, bears a transient part;",3.0 +"He thrills, unconscious whence his pleasures come,",1.0 +Who never had dreamt of rapture but at home;,3.0 +"But, ah! the slight impression quickly dies,",0.0 +Or on the noxious surface floating lies;,1.0 +The momentary virtue never was brought,2.0 +His hardened spirit only knows to shun,0.0 +"The lore of wisdom, and the genial sun",1.0 +"Then fly, cold wretch, to thy congenial cell,",2.0 +And quit the haunts where sweet sensations dwell.,0.0 +"How has your bounty cheered my humble state,",0.0 +"Still shall I, eager, wait your wished return,",0.0 +"Which gratitude can waft from souls sincere,",0.0 +"Each warm return to generous bounty due,",2.0 +Shall warm my heart for you and Montagu.,1.0 +"Blessed pair! OH, had not souls like your's been given,",2.0 +The stupid Atheist well might doubt a Heaven;,2.0 +"Convinced, he now deserts his gloomy stand,",0.0 +Owns Mind the noblest proof of a creating hand.,2.0 +"But could he those superior wonders find,",3.0 +"Which form and actuate your nobler mind,",1.0 +"How would the Heathen, struck with vast surprise,",0.0 +"Atoms deny, while spirit filled his eyes.",2.0 +"COME, fair Dorinda, and, while Beauty glows",2.0 +"Warm on thy lovely cheek, auspicious come,",0.0 +And animate my song! OH may I gaze,2.0 +"On every charm, and from each shining grace",1.0 +Catch inspiration! let thy genius aid,1.0 +"The flow harmonious, while the enchanted Muse",2.0 +"Relates the charms, which over the yielding heart",2.0 +"In all its gay attire, the Virgin's cheek",2.0 +"Flushes with beauty, and adorns her brow",3.0 +"The snowy hue, while over her shining neck",2.0 +"Dart kindling flame: majestic on she moves,",2.0 +"Conscious of native worth, and smiling love",2.0 +"Alluring. Hither, you! whose hardened hearts",1.0 +"Never felt a lover's pangs, ah! hither come,",0.0 +"To feel the force of Beauty: here survey,",0.0 +Which from the dawn of time over Nature held,3.0 +Her soft domain. Since first the vital spark,0.0 +"To conscious being, the fair female form",3.0 +"Dazzled his eye, and through his panting breast",3.0 +"Then Beauty reigned, and formed the sacred tie",0.0 +"Fled on the wings of Love: here Innocence,",1.0 +"By Beauty heightened, over the human pair",2.0 +"Their choicest influence shed. Nor Beauty less,",2.0 +"Through long succeeding ages, over the heart",2.0 +Her conquest held; devoted man attests,0.0 +"Of Music, thrilling the enchanting note,",1.0 +"He prostrate falls, the fond distracted prey",0.0 +So Nature wills; and while increasing strength,0.0 +"Braces the nerves, and through the swelling veins",3.0 +"Still reigns in man, to polish and refine",2.0 +"His barbarous mind: nor, till the soothing flame",3.0 +"Has seized his heart, and thawed his frozen soul,",0.0 +Ever can he relish the sublime delight,2.0 +"Of social transport, nor consenting feel",1.0 +"The sympathetic bliss, nor taste the sweets",0.0 +"Of hallowed Friendship, nor affected hear",1.0 +"The voice of Woe, as oft she vents her moan",0.0 +"Of Charity, the generous flow of soul,",3.0 +"These are not his, who never yet has felt",0.0 +"The pangs of Love, over whom the enchanting power",5.0 +"Of Beauty never reigned, whose sullen breast",0.0 +Which panting lovers know; but all his soul,0.0 +To breathe the warm benevolence of Love.,1.0 +"And graceful flourish mid the shining throng,",0.0 +"While life flies joyous, and your youthful years",2.0 +"Roll placid on, before the radiant throne",2.0 +Of Beauty kneel. Whatever warms the breast,1.0 +"With noble purpose, what informs the heart",0.0 +"To melt, and moulds you into social man,",0.0 +"Derives new fire, and taught by her oft paints",2.0 +"The visionary scene, and touches all",0.0 +"The springs of passion: hers each winning grace,",1.0 +"Bending to earth beneath the weight of years,",2.0 +"With wrinkled front, and venerable hair,",1.0 +Melts at her fair approach; he feels warm blood,1.0 +"Run through his withered veins, erect he lifts",0.0 +"His hoary head, and on his aged brow",1.0 +"All rural nature hears, and starts amazed",0.0 +"Saw sleeping Beauty, on the grassy bank,",2.0 +"Reclined at ease, and careless beaming round",0.0 +"Her charms attractive, while upon her face",0.0 +"Played all the laughing loves; surprised he gazed,",0.0 +And felt a thousand transports shoot along,0.0 +"His shivering nerves: now his unfeeling heart,",4.0 +"Unused to pant, with soft emotion heaves;",0.0 +"He trembling viewed, and all his soul was Love.",0.0 +"Of Nature, you arrayed in all the charms",1.0 +"Of vernal youth, flushed on your comely cheek",2.0 +"To you resigns his heart, and eager sighs",1.0 +"Low at your feet, and tells the moving tale",0.0 +"Of plaintive love: how, sleepless, on his couch",1.0 +"He counts the tedious hours, or slumbering starts",4.0 +Before his eyes; how busy Fancy paints,0.0 +"Luxuriant floating, as you graceful move",3.0 +In all the airs of love; and while he grasps,0.0 +"The imagined form, how lost in empty air",1.0 +The fair illusion flies: how taste forgets,0.0 +"The poignant relish, and the spicy gale",1.0 +"He wanders pensive to the lonely shade,",1.0 +While sympathetic glides the weeping rill,0.0 +"In many currents by, and there to thought",2.0 +"Devotes the gloomy hour, complaining oft,",0.0 +"In tender strains, how fair Amanda scorns",0.0 +"His melting heart, how slights the mournful tale",0.0 +"Of fond, despairing love; nor here can long",0.0 +"Indulge his woe, but restless with the crowd",1.0 +"Impatient mingles, solace there to find,",1.0 +Amid the tumult of a maddening world:,1.0 +"Still haunts the phantom, still his bosom burns",1.0 +"With unremitted pain, and Love resumes",1.0 +"His tyrant empire: how his altered looks,",1.0 +His quivering limbs; how wrapped in awful gloom,2.0 +Frail sickening nature pines away in woe. ' --,1.0 +"OH gently then, you lovely conquerors! use",3.0 +"To raise from abject plight the fainting slave,",0.0 +"And on his tortured soul, propitious, pour",1.0 +The balm of Hope; and now delighted taste,0.0 +"Love's fond delights, while Passion eager pants",1.0 +"In every vein, and warms your glowing breasts",0.0 +With fairy prospects of transporting joys.,1.0 +"Nor, gay Amanda, though, with sighs, to you",1.0 +In softly swelling strains: yet let not these,0.0 +Dilate your heart; nor look with scornful air,0.0 +"On the gay rivals, who with you contest",2.0 +"'Midst the soft circles, where indulgent flow",3.0 +"The soothing hours; where Music gently wakes,",0.0 +Spreads through the melting throng. For Beauty still,0.0 +"By Taste is proved, by her capricious law",1.0 +It blooms or withers. You! who long have held,1.0 +"Of Damon never reigned; while he, subdued",1.0 +"By bright Amanda, sighs his soul away",0.0 +In unavailing moan. Far from your breast,2.0 +Be banished Pride; the high assuming air,0.0 +Ill suits the brow where Tenderness and Love,2.0 +Should dwell distinguished: nor can Reason judge,1.0 +"Whose charms superior shine; some dazzling grace,",2.0 +"Still nameless, flashes on the admiring eye.",4.0 +"Beyond description, fairer than her sex,",1.0 +"To me, Dorinda seems: how darts her eye",1.0 +"Gracefully careless, falls her auburn hair!",2.0 +"Her mien how soft! Can the pure mountain snow,",2.0 +"Adores his blooming bride; she fairer, she",1.0 +A thousand radiant graces in her train,0.0 +Alluring dance. Each nameless charm is hers;,0.0 +In every look and smile. Not varied more,0.0 +"The human face, with different features stamped",0.0 +"By Nature's forming hand, than Taste which views,",0.0 +"In objects different, various beauties glow.",2.0 +"OH while you glory in your youthful prime,",0.0 +"Of Praise; in that soft season, when the breast",1.0 +A strange enchantment feels; when Pleasure pants,0.0 +In every vein; and sparkles in the eye,0.0 +Superfluous Health; then guard your rebel hearts,2.0 +"Against seducing Love. Suspend, you fair!",0.0 +"These softer cares, and listen, while the Muse",0.0 +Rises superior to the fading glare,3.0 +"Of mortal charms, and now essays to touch",0.0 +"The heart, and open to the enraptured soul",3.0 +"More lasting Beauty, moral and divine,",1.0 +"Which grows in age, nor at the pale approach",0.0 +"For ever blossoms. Hail! bright Virtue, hail!",1.0 +"Propitious come, inspire my glowing breast",0.0 +"To sing of thee! Without thee, what are all",1.0 +"Of youth, or charms, which for a moment spread",1.0 +"Their visionary bloom, but withering die,",2.0 +Nor leave remembrance of their fancied worth!,1.0 +"Fair Virtue comes, and in her radiant train",1.0 +"Ten thousand beauties wait: behold she comes,",1.0 +"Attend her voice, sweet as the solemn sounds",2.0 +"Of cherubs, when they strike their golden harps",0.0 +"With more enduring bliss: kindled by her,",4.0 +"The generous bosom breathes the social sire,",2.0 +And beats responsive to the woes of man.,1.0 +"Now native Peace, and Harmony divine,",2.0 +Dwell in the soul: to Reason's powerful law,2.0 +"Struggling Corruption owns, nor dares assault",1.0 +A heart confirmed by her: and now the fame,1.0 +Of Nature conquered by the informing voice,3.0 +"Of Reason, through celestial mansions flies",1.0 +On wings angelic: through the winding paths,2.0 +"Of life, fair Prudence guides, and points the road",1.0 +To Happiness and Peace; while in the breast,1.0 +Untainted Innocence and Freedom reign.,1.0 +"These are the charms of Virtue, these will bloom",2.0 +"More lovely seems, she looks with added grace,",0.0 +"Their blossoms wither, but perpetual spring",2.0 +"Here shed her influence; while a showy world,",1.0 +"Its varnish losing, shall deceive no more,",1.0 +"And Nature, sickening at approaching fate,",0.0 +Shall sink beneath its doom. Whatever adorns,3.0 +"The female breast, whatever can move the soul",4.0 +"With fervent rapture, every winning grace,",0.0 +"And mild endearment, tenderness and love",1.0 +"With elocution sweet, and all the flow",0.0 +"Of soft persuasion, while the sensual heart",2.0 +"Refines, and feels fair Virtue dawning there.",2.0 +The charms of Virtue. While you restless seek,0.0 +"The phantom Pleasure, where Indulgence plays",0.0 +"Through her enchanting maze, the illusive form",3.0 +"Conceals Destruction. While, with eager hope,",0.0 +"And mad Impatience, in a fond embrace",0.0 +Her latent venom through your tortured nerves.,1.0 +"Then wakes Remorse; and, see! on yonder throne,",0.0 +"With woes surrounded, fell Disease displays",0.0 +"Shakes all her horrors: Anguish, downcast Shame,",1.0 +"Succeed, and on the discontented brow",1.0 +The tottering fabric falls! the shades of death,2.0 +"And, deeper yet, the gloom of black despair ' --",0.0 +A darkness to be felt! ' -- involves the soul!,1.0 +"OH, dread this complicated curse! and turn,",1.0 +"With holy horror, from the paths of Vice!",1.0 +The joys of Youth; she with complacent smile,1.0 +Views you light fluttering; she the social band,4.0 +"Joins cheerful, and benevolent implores",3.0 +"Lo! rosy Youth holds forth her pictured scene,",2.0 +Her gay creation paints: high swells the breast,1.0 +"In glittering grandeur, walks the enraptured swain:",3.0 +He spreads his glories to the admiring eye.,3.0 +"Of Beauty kindled, with assiduous care,",1.0 +"And fond submission, to the cheerful haunts",1.0 +"Of Mirth he leads you, and while wandering over",3.0 +"Enchanted ground, oft tells the pleasing tale",1.0 +Persuasive: gently flow the smiling hours,0.0 +"In social converse, innocently gay.",1.0 +"Come, Nature, best informer! kindly lead",1.0 +"Along the flowery walk, trod by the feet",2.0 +And safe conduct us to the bower of bliss!,3.0 +"To breathe love's purer flame, graceful improves",6.0 +"Each varied motion, beams the expressive eye,",2.0 +And gives to Beauty all her power to charm.,2.0 +OH! let her influence fill the different scenes,3.0 +Of joy and love ' -- whether we careless stray,5.0 +"Along the painted mead, where fragrance blends",0.0 +"Her thousand sweets; or tread the lengthened walk,",0.0 +"While Music cheers the soul, and vistas green",0.0 +"Rise to the view, and pour their fresh delights",0.0 +On the bewildered eye; or if we move,2.0 +"Or slow or sprightly, while the lover feels",0.0 +Unusual transports rush upon his soul,0.0 +"In admiration lost. Ah! here, you fair,",0.0 +"You yield your hand, with palpitations quick",0.0 +Breathes the warm wish of kind consenting love.,3.0 +"Far from the bosom of the tender fair,",1.0 +"Where love alone should dwell, fly base deceit,",1.0 +Nor stain with perfidy the sacred shrine.,1.0 +"In yonder walk, amid her rivals, decked",0.0 +In yellow robes resplendent? how she moves,1.0 +"With practised air, and darts her meaning glance",0.0 +Amid the throng! Thrown prostrate at her feet,1.0 +"The lover pleads, nor she the lover hears;",1.0 +But swollen with pride of conquest scornful smiles.,2.0 +"Yet if aroused, and conscious of his wrongs,",2.0 +"He bids the last adieu, she yet in store",0.0 +"Her blooming cheek, and on her coral lip",1.0 +The lover still her own. With streaming eyes,0.0 +"Again he views her, and his yielding heart",1.0 +"She, nor by pity moved, nor gratitude,",1.0 +"Nor awful virtue, to the sighing slave",1.0 +"Resigns her heart ' -- there Vanity still dwells,",2.0 +"Love is not hers, she never tastes the sweets",0.0 +"Of mutual rapture, mutual fond esteem,",4.0 +Nor knows the charms of truth; her bosom beats,0.0 +"Ambition's train! vex her aspiring soul,",2.0 +And Disappointment leaves its baleful sting.,0.0 +Be this her portion! let her still possess,0.0 +"The splendid scene, and deck the exulting fair",2.0 +"In all your fancied pomp! ' -- Nor envy her,",1.0 +"You faithful few, whom the celestial grace",1.0 +"Of truth inspired! for, while she eager grasps",1.0 +"Her fond embrace, and fleet in empty air.",0.0 +The fair Amanda knows no practised guile,1.0 +To captivate the soul: sweet innocence,2.0 +"And truth are hers, and beauty unadorned,",1.0 +And shows her bright in every virgin charm.,0.0 +"Her eyes no conquests seek, nor beats her breast",2.0 +"She, only conscious of her virgin worth,",1.0 +"Heaves Nature's sighs, and, dressed in Nature's grace,",1.0 +"All lovely seems, and moves attractive on",1.0 +"Each bosom flutters, while the lovely maid",0.0 +"Nor scornful looks, nor with consenting smile",1.0 +Bids Admiration all its incense pour,2.0 +"Modest Reserve oft sits, forbidding all",3.0 +Love's wanton hopes. The fair Amanda thus,1.0 +"On every charm, and at a distance sigh.",0.0 +Yet while the season of your blooming youth,1.0 +"Glides gently on, and liberal Nature showers",2.0 +OH! then let Science on your easy hours,3.0 +Serenely steal: oft when the busy scene,1.0 +"Shuts on your eyes, and Solitude invites",0.0 +"To Meditation, let her mild infuse",0.0 +Her sweet instruction: she the soul exalts,1.0 +"To dignity; for when, with knowledge blessed,",1.0 +"Fair Beauty smiles upon the blushing brow,",1.0 +Her soft persuasion wins the yielding heart,0.0 +"Her eloquence divine, the tuneful flow",1.0 +"Of sweetest periods, warbling from the lips",3.0 +"While Beauty triumphs, owns her boundless sway.",0.0 +"Oft let me wander through the green retreat,",2.0 +"Where Meditation dwells, and roses shed",0.0 +Its crystal waters roll: to crown my bliss,0.0 +"Let sweet Ardelia come, on her attends",4.0 +"Each mild engaging grace, each nameless charm",0.0 +"Beams all its beauties, and the soul by her",1.0 +Is charmed to rapture; she the mind informs,1.0 +"With knowledge, which from her persuasive tongue",1.0 +Alluring streams; while Music lends its voice,0.0 +"Soft in her train, to breathe into her breast",0.0 +"The inspiring genius; she in melting lays,",2.0 +"Sweet as herself, in the warm bosom wakes",4.0 +The fond delights of love. Here let us join,0.0 +"To sing of Nature, as we pleased survey",1.0 +"The moving page, where glows poetic flame",0.0 +"Through all the fairy regions, or oft fly",2.0 +"With Milton, boundless, through ethereal worlds.",3.0 +"Roll over our heads, and mark the changing scenes",3.0 +"Of Nature, dressed in his immortal lays",1.0 +Who sung the Seasons. Thus may gentle hours,0.0 +"In sweet improvement pass, and still return",0.0 +"Auspicious; for with thee, the beating heart",2.0 +"Feels fond emotion, and the soul dissolves",2.0 +In speechless transport of increasing joy.,1.0 +"Your youthful brows, and over the verdant paths",2.0 +"Of gently gliding life, you graceful sweep,",0.0 +Arrayed in purple pride; as on your breast,1.0 +"The diamond shines, and in your floating train",0.0 +"The ruby glows, and emeralds around",1.0 +Beset the flying robe; while dazzling thus,0.0 +"In orient pomp, forgive if yet the Muse",3.0 +The evening veil over all the glittering show.,5.0 +"In vernal glory, wide diffusing round",0.0 +"Their blossoms forth, and flourish in their May,",0.0 +In Nature's livery clad; but when the sun,2.0 +"Beams in his pride, they droop their blushing heads,",0.0 +"Their blossoms wither, and their varied tints",1.0 +"Fade with his sultry rays. Behold, you fair,",0.0 +"Your gay delusions, read in Nature's book",0.0 +"Their transitory life, how quickly fleets",0.0 +"The dream of pleasure, at the pale approach",0.0 +Of death grim blasting all your pictured hopes.,1.0 +"Joy flushed her brow, and Expectation swelled",1.0 +Her beating bosom; Love its tribute paid,0.0 +Beheld complacent the indulging pair.,1.0 +The pangs of love; her wishes winged their flight,0.0 +To future periods; in idea all,2.0 +Life's softest blessings revealed in her heart.,3.0 +"Oft did the lovers court the lonely shade,",0.0 +In Nature's warmth: thrown on the flowery lap,4.0 +"Of the fresh earth, where roses blush around,",2.0 +"They breathed their mutual vows, and tasted all",2.0 +"Dear hapless fair, amid her warmest hopes,",1.0 +When Fancy figured all the tender scene,0.0 +"Of mutual rapture, she devoted fell",3.0 +The mournful victim of the conquering hand,3.0 +"Of unrelenting Death: he dread approached,",0.0 +And Nature trembled at his ghastly mien.,0.0 +"Her Damon now, in moving strains, laments,",0.0 +And sadly pensive to her sacred tomb,1.0 +"He oft repairs, there drops a lover's tear,",0.0 +While fond Remembrance opens all the scene,0.0 +In visionary bloom once more to blaze,1.0 +The phantom glides in air: all Nature wears,0.0 +To him a face of woe; the valleys round,1.0 +"So Beauty fades, so fleets its showy life,",0.0 +Of rich array. Yet while the pensive muse,0.0 +"Touches the springs of grief, may no dark gloom",2.0 +"Overwhelm your souls, for innocence survives",1.0 +To bloom eternal: and while life invites,1.0 +"To view its gayer scenes, amid the pomp",0.0 +"Of radiant courts, still cheerful move along",1.0 +"Its flowery walks, and lead with jovial heart",4.0 +The laughing moments on; for Beauty shines,1.0 +"First in the gaudy circles, and commands",1.0 +"Excel in every virtue, manly brave",0.0 +"Amid the alarms of fate, generous, sincere,",6.0 +"By glory kindled, may her virgins too,",1.0 +"His purple wings, and over the sacred couch",2.0 +"His azure mantle spread, as down you sink",1.0 +The hallowed rapture: thus may peaceful life,0.0 +"Flow undisturbed, nor jarring feud invade",1.0 +"Your happy hours. And you, gay circles, now",4.0 +"Forgive the Muse, which daring thus has sung",0.0 +To the delightful theme; yet Beauty charmed,1.0 +"My soul, and poured into my glowing breast",0.0 +"Her fascination, led me through the maze",1.0 +"She courts your smiles, yours is her pleasing song.",1.0 +"To you she warbles, and devoted pays",2.0 +"But chief indulgent, mid the shining throng,",0.0 +Will fair Dorinda smile; she first inspired,0.0 +"My heart with Love, to her my early Muse",1.0 +"Sweet flow my numbers on her judging ear,",2.0 +And steal persuasive to her virgin breast.,1.0 +"Not from obliging, but obliged Field;",3.0 +"Since mighty Barns does Compliment thee so,",1.0 +The World will sure some little Pride allow.,0.0 +Can grace the Acts of an Heroic Prince;,1.0 +Whose approbation is sufficient Fame.,1.0 +What need was there to send it by a Friend?,2.0 +"Sent by a Foe my Rage you had beguiled,",0.0 +And for its sake I had been reconciled.,1.0 +"How should your Fancy be enriched by me,",0.0 +Thou pregnant Author of best Poetry.,3.0 +"The fruitful Fields do stock the Barns each Year,",0.0 +My barren Muse cannot allow it here:,0.0 +"She is but Poor, and been so long retired,",1.0 +She could not write until by you Inspired.,1.0 +"Heaven has not given Woman highest Wit,",0.0 +But you good Nature to speak well of it;,3.0 +"I wish I did deserve the Praise you give,",0.0 +Then like your Verse I should Immortal live;,0.0 +"But thus I take your Lines they speak to me,",0.0 +"Not what I am, but what I ought to be.",1.0 +"Thou, to whose Eyes I bend; at whose Command,",1.0 +"I take the sprightly Reed, and sing, and play;",0.0 +"Bright Cloe, Object of my constant Vow,",1.0 +Wilt thou awhile unbend thy serious Brow?,4.0 +"Wilt thou with Pleasure hear Thy Lover's Strains,",0.0 +And with one Heavenly Smile overpay His Pains?,3.0 +Though since her Youth three hundred Years have rolled.,1.0 +"At Thy Desire, She shall again be raised;",1.0 +And her reviving Charms in lasting Verse be praised.,1.0 +"No longer Man of Woman shall complain,",1.0 +"That He may Love, and not be Loved again:",0.0 +"That We in vain the fickle Sex pursue,",0.0 +Who change the Constant Lover for the New.,1.0 +"Whatever has been writ, whatever said",2.0 +"Of Female Passion feigned, or Faith decayed;",1.0 +"Henceforth shall in my Verse refuted stand,",1.0 +"Be said to Winds, or writ upon the Sand.",0.0 +And while my Notes to future Times proclaim,0.0 +OH fairest of the Sex! be Thou my Muse:,3.0 +Deign on my Work thy Influence to diffuse.,3.0 +Let me partake the Blessings I rehearse;,3.0 +"And grant me Love, the just Reward of Verse.",0.0 +And as Her Son has to My Bosom dealt,2.0 +"That constant Flame, which faithful Henry felt:",0.0 +OH let the Storey with Thy Life agree;,2.0 +Let Men once more the bright Example see;,1.0 +"What Emma was to Him, be Thou to Me.",2.0 +"Nor send Me by thy Frown from Her I love,",2.0 +"Distant and sad, a banished Man to rove.",2.0 +"With mingled Waves, for ever, flow the Same:",0.0 +"In Times of Yore, an ancient Baron lived;",1.0 +"Great Gifts bestowed, and great Respect received.",1.0 +"When dreadful Edward, with successful Care,",1.0 +Led his free Britons to the Gallic War;,4.0 +"This Lord had Headed his appointed Bands,",1.0 +In firm Allegiance to his King's Commands.,1.0 +"Has brought back his Paternal Coat, enlarged",3.0 +"With a new Mark, the Witness of his Toil;",3.0 +And no inglorious part of Foreign Spoil.,2.0 +"From the loud Camp retired, and noisy Court,",2.0 +"In Honourable Ease and Rural Sport,",2.0 +"The Remnant of his Days, He safely past;",1.0 +"Nor found they Lagged too slow, nor Flew too fast.",2.0 +He made his Wish with his Estate comply;,1.0 +"Joyful to Live, yet not afraid to Die.",2.0 +"One Child He had, a Daughter chaste and fair;",0.0 +"His Age's Comfort, and his Fortune's Heir.",1.0 +"Who gave the Virgin Birth, had born the Name.",0.0 +The Name the indulgent Father doubly loved;,2.0 +For in the Child the Mother's Charms improved.,0.0 +"Yet, as when little, round his Knees She plaid;",0.0 +The Friends and Tenants took the fondling Word;,0.0 +"As still they please, who imitate their Lord",0.0 +Usage confirmed what Fancy had begun:,2.0 +The mutual Terms around the Lands were known;,2.0 +"As with her Stature, still her Charms increased;",1.0 +Through all the Isle her Beauty was confessed.,1.0 +"Who Fairest is esteemed, where all are Fair?",1.0 +"From distant Shires repair the noble Youth,",0.0 +"And find, Report, for once, had lessened Truth.",0.0 +"By Wonder first, and then by Passion moved,",0.0 +They came; they saw; they marvelled; and they loved.,1.0 +"By public Praises, and by secret Sighs,",1.0 +"In Tilts and Tournaments the Valiant strove,",1.0 +"In gentle Verse, the Witty told their Flame,",0.0 +"Useless their Strength, and impotent their Wit.",3.0 +"Great Venus only must direct the Dart,",1.0 +Which else will never reach the Fair one's Heart;,0.0 +"Spite of the Attempts of Force, and soft Effects of Art.",1.0 +Great Venus must prefer the happy One:,2.0 +"And Emma, of Mankind, must Love but Him alone.",3.0 +"While These, in Public, to the Castle came,",1.0 +And by their Grandeur justified their Flame:,5.0 +More secret Ways the careful Henry takes;,0.0 +"In borrowed Name, and false Attire, arrayed,",3.0 +Henry on Foot pursues the bounding Beast.,2.0 +And graceful at his Side his Horn he wears.,0.0 +"Still to the Glade, where She has bent her Way,",1.0 +With knowing Skill he drives the future Prey.,0.0 +"Bids her decline the Hill, and shun the Brake;",2.0 +And shows the Path her Steed may safest take.,0.0 +Directs her Spear to fix the glorious Wound;,2.0 +"Pleased, in his Toils, to have her Triumph Crowned:",0.0 +And blows her Praises in no common Sound.,1.0 +Upon his Wrist the towering Merlin stands;,0.0 +"Practised to rise, and stoop, at her Commands.",3.0 +"And when Superior now the Bird has flown,",2.0 +And headlong brought the tumbling Quarry down:,2.0 +His downcast Eye reveals his inward Woes.,1.0 +"And by his Look and Sorrow is expressed,",2.0 +"And, with his jolly Pipe, delights the Groves.",1.0 +"Or to admire, or emulate his Song:",1.0 +"While, with soft Sorrow, he renews his Lays,",3.0 +"With dutiful Respect, and studious Fear,",3.0 +Lest any careless Sound offend her Ear.,0.0 +With the fond Maids in Palmistry he deals:,3.0 +"They Tell the Secret first, which he Reveals:",1.0 +"Says who shall Wed, and who shall be Beguiled;",0.0 +"What Groom shall Get, and Squire maintain the Child.",0.0 +But when bright Emma would her Fortune know;,1.0 +"With trembling Awe, he gazes on her Eye;",1.0 +"And in soft Accents, forms the kind Reply;",1.0 +"That She shall prove as Fortunate as Fair,",1.0 +Now oft had Henry changed his sly Disguise;,1.0 +"Oft had found Means alone to see the Dame,",3.0 +And at her Feet to breath his amorous Flame;,2.0 +"And oft, the Pangs of Absence to remove",1.0 +"By Letters, soft Interpreters of Love:",1.0 +Till Time and Industry the mighty Two,1.0 +That bring our Wishes nearer to our View,1.0 +Received his Vows with no reluctant Ear;,0.0 +"That Venus had confirmed her equal Reign,",0.0 +"While Cupid smiled, by kind Occasion blessed,",0.0 +"And, with the Secret kept, the Love increased;",1.0 +The amorous Youth frequents the silent Groves;,3.0 +He loves: it's true; and is beloved again:,1.0 +Great are his Joys: but will they long remain?,1.0 +Emma with Smiles receives his present Flame;,2.0 +"But smiling, will She ever be the same?",1.0 +Beautiful Looks are ruled by fickle Minds;,2.0 +And Summer Seas are turned by sudden Winds.,0.0 +Another Love may gain her easy Youth:,0.0 +Time changes Thought; and Flattery conquers Truth.,3.0 +OH impotent Estate of human Life!,2.0 +Where Hope and Fear maintain eternal Strife:,0.0 +Where fleeting Joy does lasting Doubt inspire;,0.0 +"And most We Question, what We most Desire.",0.0 +"Amongst thy various Gifts, great Heaven, bestow",3.0 +Bitter Ingredients in; nor pall the Draught,3.0 +Hardly enjoys the pleasurable Taste;,3.0 +Or deems it not sincere; or fears it cannot last.,0.0 +"With Wishes raised, with Jealousies oppressed",1.0 +Alternate Tyrants of the Human Breast,3.0 +By one great Trial He resolves to prove,2.0 +"The Faith of Woman, and the Force of Love.",1.0 +"He'll fix his Hope, of future Joy secure;",0.0 +"But if the Fair one, as he fears, is frail;",2.0 +"Light fly her Merits, and her Faults prevail;",2.0 +"His Mind He vows to free from amorous Care,",2.0 +"The latent Mischief from his Heart to tear,",1.0 +"Resume his Azure Arms, and shine again in War.",0.0 +"South of the Castle, in a verdant Glade,",0.0 +A spreading Beach extends her friendly Shade:,0.0 +Here oft the Nymph His breathing Vows had heard:,0.0 +Here oft Her Silence had Her Heart declared.,0.0 +And genial Life informed the verdant Woods;,0.0 +"Had half expressed, and half concealed his Flame",0.0 +Upon This Tree: and as the tender Mark,1.0 +"Grew with the Year, and widened with the Bark:",1.0 +"Venus had heard the Virgin's soft Address,",2.0 +"That, as the Wound, the Passion might increase.",0.0 +"As potent Nature shed her kindly Showers,",0.0 +And decked the various Mead with opening Flowers;,4.0 +Upon This Tree the Nymph's obliging Care,0.0 +Which as with gay Delight the Lover found;,0.0 +"Pleased with his Conquest, with her Present crowned,",1.0 +"Glorious through all the Plains He oft had gone,",1.0 +And to each Swain the Mystic Honour shown;,2.0 +"The Gift still praised, the Giver still unknown.",1.0 +"His secret Note the troubled Henry writes,",0.0 +To the known Tree the Lovely Maid invites:,2.0 +"Imperfect Words and dubious Terms express,",2.0 +"That He must something to Her Ear commend,",1.0 +"On which Her Conduct, and His Life depend.",1.0 +Soon as the Fair one had the Note received;,0.0 +The remnant of the Day alone She grieved:,1.0 +"For different This from every former Note,",1.0 +"Which Venus dictated, and Henry wrote;",4.0 +Which told her all his future Hopes were laid,0.0 +"Which always blessed her Eyes, and owned her Power;",0.0 +"And bid her oft Adieu, yet added more.",0.0 +"Now Night advanced. The House in Sleep were laid,",1.0 +"The Nurse experienced, and the prying Maid;",1.0 +"And last That Sprite, which does incessant haunt",0.0 +"The Lover's Steps, the ancient Maiden Aunt.",0.0 +"To her dear Henry Emma wings her Way,",2.0 +With quickened Pace repairing forced Delay.,0.0 +"For Love, fantastic Power, that is afraid",2.0 +"Undaunted then, over Cliffs and Valleys strays;",2.0 +"Not Argus with his hundred Eyes shall find,",1.0 +Where Cupid goes; though He poor Guide is blind.,2.0 +"The Maiden first arriving, sent her Eye,",0.0 +"To ask, if yet it's Chief Delight were nigh:",0.0 +"With Fear, and with Desire, with Joy, and Pain",1.0 +"She sees, and runs to meet Him on the Plain.",1.0 +But o! his Steps proclaim no Lover's Haste:,2.0 +On the low Ground his fixed Regards are cast:,2.0 +"With Ease, alas! we Credit what we Love:",0.0 +His painted Grief does real Sorrow move,3.0 +In the afflicted Fair; Down her Cheek,1.0 +Trickling the genuine Tears their Current break.,3.0 +Attentive stood the mournful Nymph: the Man,0.0 +Broke Silence first: the Tale alternate ran.,5.0 +"Sincere OH tell me, hast thou felt a Pain,",1.0 +"Emma, beyond what Woman knows to feign?",2.0 +Has Thy uncertain Bosom ever strove,1.0 +"Hast Thou now dreaded, and now blessed his Sway;",4.0 +"By turns averse, and joyful to obey?",1.0 +"As Reason yielded, and as Love prevailed?",1.0 +"His killing Pleasure, his Ecstatic Smart,",1.0 +And heavenly Poison thrilling through thy Heart?,3.0 +"If so, with Pity view my wretched State;",1.0 +"At least deplore, and then forget my Fate:",0.0 +"To some more happy Knight reserve thy Charms,",0.0 +"And only, as the Sun's revolving Ray",1.0 +Brings back each Year this melancholy Day;,1.0 +"Permit one Sigh, and set apart one Tear,",0.0 +To an abandoned Exile's endless Care.,1.0 +"For Me, alas! Outcast of Human Race,",2.0 +"Love's Anger only waits, and dire Disgrace:",1.0 +These trembling Feet by Justice are pursued:,1.0 +"Fate calls aloud, and hastens me away;",2.0 +A shameful Death attends my longer Stay;,0.0 +"And I this Night must fly from Thee and Love,",2.0 +Condemned in lonely Woods a banished Man to rove.,0.0 +"What is our Bliss, that changes with the Moon;",1.0 +"If Love, alas! be Pain; the Pain I bear,",0.0 +"No Thought can figure, and no Tongue declare.",3.0 +"Never faithful Woman felt, nor false one feigned",0.0 +"The Flames, which long have in my Bosom reigned:",0.0 +"The God of Love himself inhabits there,",1.0 +"With all his Rage, and Dread, and Grief, and Care,",0.0 +"His Compliment of Stores, and total War.",1.0 +OH! cease then coldly to suspect my Love;,2.0 +"And let my Deed, at least, my Faith approve.",0.0 +Nor Day nor Night shall interrupt my Care:,0.0 +No future Storey shall with Truth upbraid,2.0 +Nor to hard Banishment shall Henry run;,3.0 +While careless Emma sleeps on Beds of Down.,0.0 +"Friend to thy Pain, and Partner of thy Woe:",1.0 +"For I attest fair Venus, and her Son,",3.0 +"That I, of all Mankind, will love but Thee alone.",2.0 +"And take good heed, what Men will think and say;",0.0 +Her Father's House and civil Life forsook;,0.0 +"That full of youthful Blood, and fond of Man,",0.0 +She to the Woodland with an Exile ran.,3.0 +"Reflect, that lessened Fame is never regained;",2.0 +"And Virgin Honour once, is always stained:",3.0 +"Timely advised, the coming Evil shun:",2.0 +"Better not do the Deed, than weep it done.",0.0 +No Penance can absolve our guilty Fame;,2.0 +"Nor Tears, that wash out Sin, can wash out Shame.",0.0 +Then fly the sad Effects of desperate Love;,0.0 +And leave a banished Man through lonely Woods to rove.,0.0 +"Absolve with Coldness, or with Spite accuse:",1.0 +"Fair Truth, at last, her radiant Beams will raise;",1.0 +And Malice vanquished heightens Virtue's Praise.,0.0 +Let then thy Favour but indulge my Flight;,2.0 +OH! let my Presence make thy Travels light;,1.0 +And potent Venus shall exalt my Name,0.0 +Nor from that busy Demon's restless Power,1.0 +"Will ever Emma other Grace implore,",0.0 +"Than that this Truth should to the World be known,",1.0 +"That I, of all Mankind, have loved but Thee alone.",2.0 +With active Force repel the sturdy Foe?,0.0 +"When the loud Tumult speaks the Battle nigh,",2.0 +And winged Deaths in whistling Arrows fly;,3.0 +"Wilt Thou, though wounded, yet undaunted stay,",0.0 +"Perform thy Part, and share the dangerous Day?",2.0 +"Then, as thy Strength decays, thy Heart will fail;",0.0 +"Thy Limbs all trembling, and thy Cheeks all pale:",1.0 +"With fruitless Sorrow Thou, inglorious Maid,",3.0 +Wilt weep thy Safety by thy Love betrayed:,1.0 +"Then to thy Friend, by Foes overcharged, deny",3.0 +"Thy little useless Aid, and Coward fly:",0.0 +Then wilt thou curse the Chance that made Thee love,0.0 +"A banished Man, condemned in lonely Woods to rove.",0.0 +"And great in Arms, and foremost in the War,",1.0 +"Could Thirst of Vengeance, and Desire of Fame",1.0 +Excite the Female Breast with Martial Flame?,1.0 +"More hardy Virtue, and more generous Fire?",3.0 +"Near Thee, mistrust not, constant I'll abide,",2.0 +"And fall, or vanquish, fighting by thy Side.",1.0 +"Though my Inferior Strength may not allow,",3.0 +"That I should bear, or draw the Warrior Bow;",0.0 +"With ready Hand I will the Shaft supply,",1.0 +And joy to see thy Victor Arrows fly.,0.0 +"Touched in the Battle by the Hostile Reed,",1.0 +To stop the Wounds my finest Lawn I'd tear;,0.0 +"Wash them with Tears, and wipe them with my Hair:",1.0 +"Blessed, when my Dangers and my Toils have shown,",1.0 +"That I, of all Mankind, could love but Thee alone.",2.0 +"Those Limbs, in Lawn and softest Silk arrayed,",0.0 +"When chilled by adverse Snows, and beating Rain,",1.0 +"When with hard Toil We seek our Evening Food,",3.0 +"Berries and Acorns, from the neighbouring Wood;",5.0 +"And find among the Cliffs no other House,",1.0 +But the thin Covert of some gathered Boughs;,3.0 +Wilt Thou not then reluctant send thine Eye,0.0 +Around the dreary Waste; and weeping try,0.0 +"Though then, alas! that Trial be too late",1.0 +"To find thy Father's Hospitable Gate,",5.0 +"And Seats, where Ease and Plenty brooding sat?",0.0 +"Those Seats, whence long excluded Thou must mourn:",1.0 +"That Gate, for ever barred to thy Return:",1.0 +"And hate a banished Man, condemned in Woods to rove?",0.0 +"Thy Rise of Fortune did I only wed,",0.0 +From it's Decline determined to recede?,2.0 +"Did I but purpose to embark with Thee,",1.0 +On the smooth Surface of a Summer's Sea;,3.0 +While gentle Zephyrs play in prosperous Gales;,2.0 +"But would forsake the Ship, and make the Shore,",0.0 +"No, Henry, no: One Sacred Oath has tied",1.0 +Our Loves; One Destiny our Life shall guide;,1.0 +"Nor Wild, nor Deep our common Way divide.",0.0 +"To beat the Woods, and rouse the bounding Prey;",0.0 +"The Cave with Moss and Branches I'll adorn,",1.0 +"And cheerful sit, to wait my Lord's Return.",0.0 +"I'll fetch quick Fuel from the neighbouring Wood,",3.0 +"And strike the sparkling Flint, and dress the Food:",0.0 +The choicest Herbs I to Thy Board will bring;,1.0 +And draw Thy Water from the freshest Spring:,1.0 +"And when at Night with weary Toil oppressed,",0.0 +"Watchful I'll guard Thee, and with Midnight Prayer",4.0 +Weary the Gods to keep Thee in their Care;,2.0 +"If Thou hast Health, and I may bless the Day.",2.0 +"My Thought shall fix, my latest Wish depend",0.0 +"On Thee, Guide, Guardian, Kinsman, Father, Friend:",5.0 +By all these sacred Names be Henry known,0.0 +"That She, of all Mankind, could love but Him alone.",2.0 +Shall in the Wildness of the Wood prepare:,1.0 +"Must leave the Habit, and the Sex behind.",1.0 +No longer shall thy comely Tresses break,1.0 +"Or sit behind thy Head, an ample Round,",0.0 +In graceful Breeds with various Ribbon bound:,2.0 +"No longer shall the Bodice, aptly laced,",1.0 +"From thy full Bosom to thy slender Waste,",3.0 +"That Air and Harmony of Shape express,",1.0 +"Fine by Degrees, and beautifully less:",3.0 +"Nor shall thy lower Garments artful Pleat,",0.0 +"Arm their chaste Beauties with a modest Pride,",4.0 +And double every Charm they seek to hide.,0.0 +"Cropped off and lost, scarce lower than Thy Ear",2.0 +"Licentious, and to common Eyesight free:",2.0 +"And with a bolder Stride, and looser Air,",1.0 +"Mingled with Men, a Man Thou must appear.",2.0 +"Nor Solitude, nor gentle Peace of Mind,",0.0 +"Mistaken Maid, shalt Thou in Forests find:",2.0 +"It's long, since Cynthia and her Train were there;",1.0 +Or Guardian Gods made Innocence their Care.,4.0 +Vagrants and Outlaws shall offend Thy View;,3.0 +"For such must be my Friends; a hideous Crew,",2.0 +"By adverse Fortune mixed in Social Ill,",1.0 +"Trained to assault, and disciplined to kill:",3.0 +"Their common Loves, a lewd abandoned Pack,",0.0 +The Beadle's Lash still flagrant on their Back;,2.0 +"By Sloth corrupted, by Disorder fed,",1.0 +"Made bold by Want, and prostitute for Bread:",1.0 +"With such must Emma hunt the tedious Day,",3.0 +"Assist their Violence, and divide their Prey:",3.0 +"With such She must return at setting Light,",1.0 +"Thy Ear, inured to charitable Sounds,",1.0 +"And pitying Love, must feel the hateful Wounds",2.0 +"Of Jest obscene, and vulgar Ribaldry,",1.0 +"And Blasphemy, sad Comrade of Despair.",4.0 +"Now, Emma, now the last Reflection make,",1.0 +No middle Object to thy Choice is given.,2.0 +"Or yield thy Virtue, to attain thy Love;",1.0 +"Or leave a banished Man, condemned in Woods to rove.",0.0 +OH Grief of Heart! that our unhappy Fates,2.0 +Force Thee to suffer what thy Honour hates:,1.0 +Mix Thee amongst the Bad; or make Thee run,2.0 +"Too near the Paths, which Virtue bids Thee shun.",0.0 +Yet with her Henry still let Emma go;,1.0 +"With Him abhor the Vice, but share the Woe:",1.0 +And sure My little Heart can never err,0.0 +Amid the worst; if Henry still be there.,0.0 +Our outward Act is prompted from within;,1.0 +By her own Choice free Virtue is approved;,3.0 +Nor by the Force of outward Objects moved.,1.0 +"In a small Isle, amid the widest Seas,",3.0 +Triumphant Constancy has fixed her Seat:,1.0 +"Their Flattery She rejects, nor fears their Threat.",3.0 +For Thee alone these little Charms I dressed;,1.0 +"Condemned them, or absolved them by thy Test.",2.0 +"In comely Figure ranged, my Jewels shone,",0.0 +"Or negligently placed, for Thee alone:",2.0 +For Thee again they shall be laid aside:,1.0 +"The Woman, Henry, shall put off her Pride",2.0 +"For Thee: my Clothes, my Sex exchanged for Thee,",1.0 +I'll mingle with the People's wretched Lee;,1.0 +OH Line extreme of human Infamy!,2.0 +"Wanting the Scissors, with these Hands I'll tear",3.0 +If that obstructs my Flight this load of Hair.,0.0 +"Black Soot, or yellow Walnut shall disgrace",2.0 +"These Nails with Scratches shall deform my Breast,",1.0 +"Lest by my Look, or Colour be expressed",3.0 +"Yet in this Commerce, under this Disguise,",1.0 +"Lost to the World, let Me to Him be known:",3.0 +"My Fate I can absolve; if He shall own,",1.0 +"That leaving all Mankind, I love but Him alone.",2.0 +OH wildest Thought of an abandoned Mind!,2.0 +"Name, Habit, Parents, Woman left behind,",1.0 +Wild to the Woods with Me: Said Emma so?,3.0 +Or did I dream what Emma never said?,0.0 +OH guilty Error! and OH wretched Maid!,3.0 +Whose roving Fancy would resolve the same,0.0 +"With Him, who next should tempt her easy Fame;",0.0 +And blow with empty Words the susceptible Flame.,4.0 +Now why should doubtful Terms thy Mind perplex?,0.0 +"Confess thy Frailty, and avow the Sex:",1.0 +No longer loose Desire for constant Love,1.0 +"Mistake; but say, it's Man, with whom Thou longest to rove.",2.0 +"Are there not Poisons, Racks, and Flames, and Swords;",1.0 +"Yet what could Swords or Poison, Racks or Flame,",0.0 +"And fall these Sayings from that gentle Tongue,",1.0 +"Where civil Speech, and soft Persuasion hung;",0.0 +"Whose artful Sweetness and harmonious Strain,",3.0 +"Courting my Grace, yet courting it in vain,",3.0 +"Called Sighs, and Tears, and Wishes to it's Aid;",2.0 +"Produce my Action to severest Light,",1.0 +"And tax my open Day, or secret Night.",0.0 +Did ever my Tongue speak my unguarded Heart,4.0 +"Did ever my Eye One inward Thought reveal,",2.0 +"Which Angels might not hear, and Virgins tell?",0.0 +"And hast Thou, Henry, in my Conduct known",0.0 +"One Fault, but That which I must ever own,",0.0 +"That I, of all Mankind, have loved but Thee alone?",2.0 +Each Man is Man; and all Our Sex is One.,0.0 +False are our Words; and fickle is our Mind:,1.0 +Nor in Love's Ritual can We ever find,2.0 +"Vows made to last, or Promises to bind.",2.0 +"By Nature prompted, and for Empire made,",1.0 +Alike by Strength or Cunning We invade:,1.0 +When armed with Rage We march against the Foe;,0.0 +When fired with Passion We attack the Fair;,3.0 +Our Falsehood and our Arms have equal Use;,2.0 +"As they our Conquest, or Delight produce.",2.0 +The only Boon departing Love can give.,0.0 +"To be less Wretched, be no longer True:",2.0 +"Forget the Present Flame, indulge a New.",0.0 +Ask for his Vow; but hope not for his Truth.,1.0 +The next Man and the next Thou shalt believe,0.0 +"Will pawn his Gods, intending to deceive;",1.0 +"Will kneel, implore, persist, overcome, and leave.",6.0 +Hence let Thy Cupid aim his Arrows right;,1.0 +"Be Wise and False, shun Trouble, seek Delight,",1.0 +"Change Thou the first, nor wait Thy Lover's Flight.",0.0 +"I saw Thee Young, and Fair; pursued the Chase",0.0 +"Of Youth, and Beauty: I another saw",1.0 +"Fairer, and Younger: yielding to the Law",3.0 +"More Youth, more Beauty: Blessed Vicissitude!",2.0 +My active Heart still keeps it's pristine Flame;,1.0 +"The Object altered, the Desire the same.",1.0 +This Younger Fairer pleads her rightful Charms:,0.0 +With present Power compels me to her Arms.,3.0 +"And much I fear, from my subjected Mind",1.0 +"That Years may roll, ever in Her turn the Maid",4.0 +Shall weep the Fury of my Love decayed;,1.0 +"And weeping follow Me, as Thou dost now,",2.0 +Nor can the wildness of thy Wishes err,2.0 +Cupid averse rejects divided Vows.,2.0 +"Then from thy foolish Heart, vain Maid, remove",1.0 +"And leave me, with the Fair, at large in Woods to rove.",1.0 +Are we in Life through one great Error led?,3.0 +"Is each Man perjured, and each Nymph betrayed?",2.0 +Of the Superior Sex art Thou the worst?,3.0 +Am I of Mine the most completely Cursed?,1.0 +"Yet let me go with Thee; and going prove,",1.0 +"From what I will endure, how much I love.",1.0 +"This potent Beauty, this Triumphant Fair,",1.0 +"This happy Object of our different Care,",1.0 +"Her let me follow; Her let me attend,",3.0 +A Servant: She may scorn the Name of Friend.,1.0 +"What She demands, incessant I'll prepare:",2.0 +My busy Diligence shall deck Her Board;,1.0 +"For there, at least, I may approach my Lord.",2.0 +His Servant's Absence; with dejected Eyes,1.0 +"Far I'll recede, and Sighs forbid to rise.",2.0 +Yet when increasing Grief brings slow Disease;,1.0 +"And ebbing Life, on Terms severe as these,",0.0 +Will have it's little Lamp no longer fed;,1.0 +Rescue my poor Remains from vile Neglect:,2.0 +And decent Emblem; and at least persuade,1.0 +"This happy Nymph, that Emma may be laid,",1.0 +"Where Thou, dear Author of my Death, where She",3.0 +"One pious Sigh, reflecting on my Death,",1.0 +"And the sad Fate which She may one Day prove,",3.0 +"And Thou forsworn, Thou cruel, as Thou art,",2.0 +"Thou sure must give one Thought, and drop one Tear",0.0 +"To Her, whom Love abandoned to Despair;",2.0 +"To Her, who dying, on the wounded Stone",2.0 +"Bid it in lasting Characters be known,",1.0 +"That, of Mankind, She loved but Thee alone.",4.0 +"And Thou, bright Maid, believe Me, while I swear;",2.0 +"No Time, no Change, no future Flame shall move",5.0 +OH Powerful Virtue! OH Victorious Fair!,5.0 +At least excuse a Trial too severe:,0.0 +"Receive the Triumph, and forget the War.",1.0 +"No banished Man, condemned in Woods to rove,",1.0 +"No perjured Knight desires to quit thy Arms,",1.0 +"Henry, thy Henry with Eternal Truth,",3.0 +Illustrious Earl: Him terrible in War,3.0 +And trembling fled before the British Lord.,0.0 +For she amid his spacious Meadows flows;,2.0 +Inclines her Urn upon his fattened Lands;,0.0 +And sees his numerous Herd imprint her Sands.,2.0 +"And Thou, my Fair, my Dove, shalt raise thy Thought",2.0 +To Greatness next to Empire; shalt be brought,0.0 +With solemn Pomp to my Paternal Seat;,1.0 +Where Peace and Plenty on Thy Word shall wait.,1.0 +And while the Priests accuse the Bride's Delay;,0.0 +Myrtles and Roses shall obstruct Her Way.,2.0 +Friendship shall still Thy Evening Feasts adorn;,2.0 +And blooming Peace shall ever bless Thy Morn.,0.0 +Succeeding Years their happy Race shall run;,0.0 +And Age unheeded by Delight come on;,3.0 +While yet Superior Love shall mock his Power:,2.0 +"And when old Time shall turn the fated Hour,",1.0 +"That Heaven of Softness, and that Seat of Rest",1.0 +"You Doubts and Fears, and All that know to move",0.0 +"Tormenting Grief, and All that trouble Love,",1.0 +"Scattered by Winds recede, and wild in Forests rove.",2.0 +OH Day the fairest sure that ever rose!,1.0 +"Sire of her Joy, and Source of her Delight;",2.0 +"OH! winged with Pleasure take thy happy Flight,",1.0 +And give each future Morn a Tincture of thy White.,1.0 +"Henry, my Henry, will He never rove?",3.0 +"Will He be ever Kind, and Just, and Good?",1.0 +And is there yet no Mistress in the Wood?,2.0 +"None, none there is: The Thought was rash and vain;",2.0 +"A false Idea, and a fancied Pain.",1.0 +"Doubt shall for ever quit my strengthened Heart,",0.0 +"Nor other Inmate shall inhabit there,",2.0 +"But soft Belief, young Joy, and pleasing Care.",1.0 +"Hence let the Tides of Plenty ebb and flow,",1.0 +And Fortune's various Gale unheeded blow.,2.0 +"Her present Favour cautious I'll embrace,",4.0 +"Secure of Mind I'll obviate her Intent,",2.0 +And unconcerned return the Goods She lent.,0.0 +"Nor Happiness can I, nor Misery feel,",4.0 +From any Turn of her Fantastic Wheel:,1.0 +"Friendship's great Laws, and Love's superior Powers",5.0 +Must mark the Colour of my future Hours.,0.0 +From the Events which Thy Commands create,2.0 +I must my Blessings or my Sorrows date;,1.0 +Yet while with close Delight and inward Pride,0.0 +Which from the World my careful Soul shall hide,0.0 +"I see Thee, Lord and End of my Desire,",1.0 +Exalted high as Virtue can require;,1.0 +"With Power invested, and with Pleasure cheered;",3.0 +"Sought by the Good, by the Oppressor feared;",1.0 +"Loaded and blessed with all the affluent Store,",4.0 +Which human Vows at smoking Shrines implore;,0.0 +Grateful and humble grant Me to employ,3.0 +"My Life, subservient only to thy Joy;",3.0 +And at my Death to bless thy Kindness shown,0.0 +"To Her, who of Mankind could love but Thee alone.",4.0 +"While thus the constant Pair alternate said,",4.0 +Joyful above them and around them played,3.0 +"Smiling They clapped their Wings, and low They bowed:",2.0 +To choose propitious Shafts; a precious Store:,0.0 +"That when their God should take his future Darts,",0.0 +"To strike however rarely constant Hearts,",1.0 +"His happy Skill might proper Arms employ,",0.0 +"All tipped with Pleasure, and all winged with Joy:",1.0 +"And Those, They vowed, whose Lives should imitate",1.0 +"These Lovers Constancy, should share their Fate.",1.0 +The Queen of Beauty stopped her bridled Doves;,0.0 +Approved the little Labour of the Loves;,1.0 +Was proud and pleased the mutual Vow to hear;,2.0 +And to the Triumph called the God of War:,1.0 +"Soon as She calls, the God is always near.",0.0 +"Now Mars, she said, let Fame exalt her Voice;",2.0 +Nor let thy Conquests only be her Choice:,1.0 +But when She sings great Edward from the Field,2.0 +"Returned, the Hostile Spear and Captive Shield",0.0 +"And when, as prudent Saturn shall complete",0.0 +"The Years designed to perfect Britain's State,",1.0 +To sing Her Favourite Anna's wondrous Reign;,0.0 +Old Rufus' Hall unequal to his Spoils;,2.0 +The British Soldier from his high Command,1.0 +"Glorious, and Gaul thrice Vanquished by his Hand:",3.0 +Let Her at least perform what I desire;,1.0 +With second Breath the Vocal Brass inspire:,0.0 +"And tell the Nations in no Vulgar Strain,",1.0 +"What Wars I manage, and what Wreaths I gain.",1.0 +And when Thy Laurels at my Feet are cast;,0.0 +Renowned for Truth let all Thy Sons appear;,1.0 +And constant Beauty shall reward their Care.,0.0 +"Mars smiled, and bowed; the Cyprian Deity",4.0 +Turned to the glorious Ruler of the Sky:,3.0 +"And Thou, She smiling said, Great God of Days",2.0 +"And Verse, behold my Deed; and sing my Praise.",0.0 +"As on the British Earth, my Favourite Isle,",1.0 +"Thy gentle Rays and kindest Influence smile,",2.0 +"Through all her laughing Fields and verdant Groves,",0.0 +Proclaim with Joy these memorable Loves.,1.0 +"From every annual Course let One great Day,",3.0 +To celebrated Sports and Floral Play,0.0 +"Be set aside; and, in the softest Lays",0.0 +"Of Thy Poetic Sons, be solemn Praise,",1.0 +"SIDDONS! the Muse, for many a joy refined,",4.0 +"Feelings which ever seem too swiftly fled,",3.0 +"For those delicious tears she loves to shed,",1.0 +Around thy brow the wreaths of praise would bind;,0.0 +But can her feeble notes thy praise unfold?,1.0 +Repeat the tones each changing passion gives?,0.0 +"Or mark where nature in thy action lives, ' --",0.0 +"Where, in thy pause, she speaks a pang untold?",0.0 +"When fierce ambition steels thy daring breast,",0.0 +When from thy frantic look our glance recedes?,0.0 +"Or, o, divine enthusiast! when, oppressed",3.0 +"By mournful love, that eye of softness pleads?",0.0 +"The sunbeam all can feel, but who can trace",1.0 +"The instant light, and catch the radiant grace?",0.0 +"IS it to me, this sad lamenting strain:",1.0 +Are heaven's choicest gifts bestowed in vain?,0.0 +"Your love rewarded, gratified your pride:",0.0 +Yet leaving her ' -- it's me that you pursue,3.0 +"Without one single charm, but being new.",0.0 +How vile is man! how I detest their ways,1.0 +"Of artful falsehood, and designing praise!",2.0 +"Tasteless, an easy happiness you slight,",3.0 +"Ruin your joy, and mischief your delight.",3.0 +Why should poor pug the mimic of your kind,2.0 +"Wear a rough chain, and be to box confined?",2.0 +"Some cup, perhaps, he breaks, or tears a fan, ' --",0.0 +"Not bound by vows, and unrestrained by shame,",0.0 +"Nor that your art can be successful here,",0.0 +The already plundered need no robber fear:,2.0 +Too well secured against a second love.,1.0 +"Once, and but once, that devil charmed my mind;",0.0 +"To reason deaf, to observation blind;",0.0 +I idly hoped what cannot love persuade!,0.0 +"Slow to distrust, and willing to believe,",3.0 +"Long hushed my doubts, and did myself deceive:",2.0 +But o! too soon ' -- this tale would ever last;,2.0 +"Sleep, sleep, my wrongs, and let me think them past.",1.0 +"For you, who mourn with counterfeited grief,",1.0 +"And ask so boldly like a begging thief,",0.0 +"May soon some other nymph inflict the pain,",0.0 +You know so well with cruel art to feign.,0.0 +"Though long you sported have with Cupid's dart,",0.0 +"You may see eyes, and you may feel a heart.",2.0 +"So the brisk wits, who stop the evening coach,",2.0 +Laugh at the fear that follows their approach;,1.0 +"With idle mirth, and haughty scorn despise",0.0 +"The passenger pale cheek, and staring eyes:",2.0 +"But seized by Justice, find a fright no jest,",1.0 +And all the terror doubled in their breast.,0.0 +"And all the Cavern shakes! far off, far off,",3.0 +The God approaches. Hark! He knocks: the Gates,0.0 +Feel the glad Impulse: and the severed Bars,0.0 +Submissive clink against their brazen Portals.,0.0 +"From native Silence, carol Sounds harmonious?",1.0 +"Begin, young Men, the Hymn: let all your Harps",2.0 +"Break their inglorious Silence; and the Dance,",5.0 +"In mystic Numbers trod, explain the Music.",0.0 +Purge the contagious Spots of Human Weakness:,2.0 +Impure no Mortal can behold Apollo.,2.0 +"In Youth with happy Nuptials, and in Age",1.0 +"With silver Hairs, and fair Descent of Children;",0.0 +"So lay Foundations for aspiring Cities,",1.0 +And bless your spreading Colonies Increase.,1.0 +His fatal Arrows. Silent Nature stands;,0.0 +"And Seas subside, obedient to the Sound",1.0 +"In fruitless Sorrow persevere, or weep",1.0 +Even through the Phrygian Marble. Hapless Mother!,3.0 +Whose Fondness could compare her Mortal Offspring,1.0 +Against the Deity it's hard to strive.,1.0 +"He that resists the Power of Ptolemy,",3.0 +Resists the Power of Heaven: for Power from Heaven,4.0 +Derives; and Monarchs rule by Gods appointed.,1.0 +The Ditty still unfinished; and the Day,1.0 +"Various, and Matter copious of your Songs.",2.0 +And Theme of Verse perpetual. From his Robe,1.0 +"Flows Light ineffable: his Harp, his Quiver,",2.0 +His Feet are shod; how rich! how beautiful!,1.0 +Beneath his Steps the yellow Mineral rises;,0.0 +And Earth reveals her Treasures. Youth and Beauty,0.0 +Eternal deck his Cheek: from his fair Head,1.0 +"Perfumes distil their Sweets; and cheerful Health,",0.0 +With lavish Hand diffuses Scents Ambrosial.,0.0 +"Inspired by Thee, composes Verse Immortal.",3.0 +"Taught by thy Art Divine, the sage Physician",0.0 +"Eludes the Urn; and chains, or exiles Death.",1.0 +"Now dropped their Twofold Burdens. Blessed the Cattle,",2.0 +"But, Phoebus, Thou to Man beneficent,",4.0 +"With Emblematic Skill, and mystic Order,",0.0 +Where gates should open; or where Walls should compass:,1.0 +While from thy childish Pastime Man received,1.0 +"The future Strength, and Ornament of Nations.",1.0 +"Flew on the Right before the People, marking",0.0 +The Country destined the auspicious Seat,1.0 +"Whose Oath is sure, and Promise stands Eternal.",0.0 +"Phoebus, great King? for different are Thy Names,",4.0 +"As Thy kind Hand has founded many Cities,",2.0 +Or dealt benign Thy various Gifts to Man.,2.0 +"Thrice by Thy gracious Guidance was transported,",1.0 +"Thy annual Feasts, kind God, and bless thy Altars",3.0 +Our great Forefathers taught their Sons to worship.,1.0 +"The yellow Crocus there, and fair Narcissus",1.0 +To deck Thy Temple; till returning Spring,1.0 +Diffuses Nature's various Pride; and Flowers,2.0 +"Innumerable, by the soft Southwest",3.0 +"Opened, and gathered by Religious Hands,",3.0 +Perpetual Fires shine hallowed on Thy Altars.,6.0 +"The warlike Libyans clad in Armour, lead",3.0 +"The Dance, with clanging Swords and Shields They beat",0.0 +The dreadful Measure: in the Chorus join,0.0 +"Their Women, Brown but Beautiful: such Rites",1.0 +"Fond of the Maid, auspicious to the City,",1.0 +"To draw the Bow, to slay the shaggy Lion,",0.0 +And stop the spreading Ruin of the Plains.,1.0 +"Happy the Nymph, who honoured by Thy Passion,",2.0 +Was aided by thy Power! The monstrous Python,3.0 +"Durst tempt Thy Wrath in vain: for dead He fell,",1.0 +"To thy great Strength, and golden Arms unequal.",2.0 +"Another, and another Dart; The People",1.0 +"And Health of Man, gracious Thy Mother bore Thee.",5.0 +Envy Thy latest Foe suggested thus:,2.0 +Like Thee I am a Power Immortal; therefore,4.0 +Those Poets who write little? Vast and Great,1.0 +Is what I Love: The far extended Ocean,0.0 +Spurned Envy with His Foot; and thus the God:,2.0 +"Assyrian River, copious runs, but Muddy;",4.0 +And carries forward with his stupid Force,1.0 +"Polluting Dirt; His Torrent still augmenting,",1.0 +"Studious to have their Offerings well received,",1.0 +"Pour Streams select, and Purity of Waters.",2.0 +"Io! Apollo, mighty King, let Envy",3.0 +Administers to my ambitious Thirst,2.0 +"Genuine, and with soft Murmurs gently rilling",3.0 +"Down the Mountains, where Thy Daughters haunt.",0.0 +"SEE Winter comes, to rule the varied year,",1.0 +"Sullen, and sad, with all his rising train,",2.0 +"These, that exalt the soul to solemn thought,",0.0 +"Pleased have I, in my cheerful morn of life,",0.0 +"When nursed by careless Solitude I lived,",0.0 +"And sung of Nature with unceasing joy,",1.0 +Pleased have I wandered through your rough domain;,1.0 +"Heard the winds roar, and the big torrent burst;",5.0 +"Or seen the deep, fermenting tempest brewed",0.0 +Till through the lucid chambers of the south,2.0 +"Looked out the joyous Spring, looked out, and smiled",2.0 +"To thee, the patron of her first essay,",2.0 +"The muse, OH Wilmington! renews her song.",2.0 +Since has she rounded the revolving Year;,1.0 +"Then swept over Autumn with the shadowy gale,",4.0 +"Rolled in the doubling storm, she tries to soar;",0.0 +To swell her note with all the rushing winds;,0.0 +To suit her sounding cadence to the floods;,1.0 +"As is her theme, her numbers wildly great:",1.0 +Thrice happy! could she fill thy judging ear,1.0 +"With bold description, and with manly thought.",1.0 +For thee the Graces smooth; thy softer thoughts,1.0 +The Muses tune; nor art thou skilled alone,0.0 +"In awful schemes, the management of states,",1.0 +And how to make a mighty people thrive:,1.0 +But equal goodness; sound integrity;,1.0 +"Amid a sliding age; and burning strong,",0.0 +"A steady spirit, regularly free;",1.0 +"These, each exalting each, the statesman light",0.0 +"Into the patriot; and, the public hope",1.0 +"And eye to thee converting, bid the muse",1.0 +Record what envy dares not flattery call.,2.0 +"When Scorpio gives to Capricorn the sway,",4.0 +And fierce Aquarius fouls the inverted year;,3.0 +"Retiring to the verge of heaven, the sun",1.0 +Scarce spreads over other the dejected day.,2.0 +"Faint are his gleams, and ineffectual shoot",2.0 +"His struggling rays, in horizontal lines,",0.0 +"Through the thick air; as at dull distance seen,",3.0 +"Weak, won, and broad, he skirts the southern sky;",1.0 +"And, soon descending, to the long dark night,",2.0 +"Light, life, and joy the dubious day forsake.",3.0 +"Involve the face of things. Thus Winter falls,",1.0 +"A heavy gloom oppressive over the world,",2.0 +"Through nature shedding influence malign,",1.0 +"The soul of man dies in him, loathing life,",1.0 +And black with horrid views. The cattle droop,0.0 +"The conscious head; and over the furrowed land,",2.0 +Sighs the sad genius of the coming storm;,4.0 +"And up among the loose, disjointed cliffs,",1.0 +"And fractured mountains wild, the brawling brook,",0.0 +"Then comes the father of the tempest forth,",1.0 +Striding the gloomy blast. First rains obscure,3.0 +"Dash on the mountain's brow, and shake the woods,",0.0 +That grumbling wave below. The unsightly plain,2.0 +"The day's fair face. The wanderers of heaven,",2.0 +"Each to his home, retire; save those that love",2.0 +"To take their pastime in the troubled air,",1.0 +Or ruminate in the contiguous shade.,3.0 +"Thither the household, feathery people crowd,",3.0 +"The crested cock, with all his female train,",1.0 +Recounts his simple frolic: much he talks.,0.0 +"Without, and rattles on his humble roof.",1.0 +"Wide over the brim, with many a torrent swelled,",5.0 +"Tumbling through rocks abrupt, and sounding far;",1.0 +"Then over the sanded valley floating spreads,",2.0 +"Calm, sluggish, silent; till again constrained,",2.0 +"Betwixt two meeting hills it bursts away,",1.0 +"Where rocks, and woods overhang the turbid stream;",3.0 +"There gathering triple force, rapid, and deep,",7.0 +"It boils, and wheels, and foams, and thunders through.",1.0 +Nature! great parent! whose continual hand,5.0 +"How mighty, how majesty are thy works!",3.0 +With what a pleasing dread they swell the soul!,0.0 +That sees astonished! and astonished sings!,1.0 +"You too, you winds! that now begin to blow,",0.0 +"With boisterous sweep, I raise my voice to you.",0.0 +"Where are your stores, you subtle beings! say,",0.0 +"Where your aerial magazines reserved,",2.0 +Against the day of tempest perilous?,1.0 +"Hushed in dead silence, sleep you when it's calm?",2.0 +"Late in the lowering sky, red, fiery streaks",5.0 +Begin to flush about; the reeling clouds,0.0 +"Stagger with dizzy poise, as doubting yet",2.0 +"Which master to obey: while rising slow,",1.0 +Wears a won circle round her sullied orb.,3.0 +The stars obtuse emit a shivering ray;,2.0 +Snatched in short eddies plays the fluttering straw;,4.0 +"Eat into caverns by the restless wave,",2.0 +"Then issues forth the storm, with mad control,",0.0 +And the thin fabric of the pillared air,3.0 +"Overturns at once. Prone, on the passive main,",2.0 +"Descends the ethereal force, and with strong gust",5.0 +"Through the loud night, that bids the waves arise,",2.0 +"Lashed into foam, the fierce, conflicting brine",1.0 +"Seems, as it sparkles, all around to burn.",0.0 +"Meantime whole oceans, heaving to the clouds,",3.0 +"And in broad billows rolling gathered seas,",1.0 +"Surge over surge, burst in a general roar,",2.0 +"And anchored navies from their stations drive,",1.0 +Wild as the winds athwart the howling waste,0.0 +Of mighty waters. Now the hilly wave,0.0 +"Straining they scale, and now impetuous shoot",2.0 +"Into the secret chambers of the deep,",1.0 +"Emerging thence again, before the breath",0.0 +"And dart on distant coasts; if some sharp rock,",1.0 +"Or sand insidious break not their career,",3.0 +And in loose fragments fling them floating round.,1.0 +"To land the tempest bears; and over the cliff,",2.0 +The mountain growls; and all its sturdy sons,0.0 +Stoop to the bottom of the rocks they shade.,1.0 +"Lone on its midnight side, and all aghast,",1.0 +"And, often falling, climbs against the blast.",0.0 +"Low waves the rooted forest, vexed, and sheds",1.0 +"Dashed down, and scattered, by the tearing wind's",1.0 +"Assiduous fury, its gigantic limbs.",1.0 +"Thus struggling through the dissipated grove,",2.0 +The whirling tempest raves along the plain;,0.0 +"And on the cottage thatched, or lordly roof,",1.0 +"For entrance eager, howls the savage blast.",0.0 +"Then too, they say, through all the burdened air,",0.0 +"Long groans are heard, shrill sounds and distant sighs,",2.0 +"That, uttered by the Demon of the night,",2.0 +Warn the devoted wretch of woe and death.,2.0 +"All Nature reels. Till Nature's KING, who oft",0.0 +"Amid tempestuous darkness dwells alone,",3.0 +"Walks dreadfully serene, commands a calm;",2.0 +"Then straight air, sea, and earth are hushed at once.",1.0 +"As yet, it's midnight deep. The weary clouds,",1.0 +"Now, while the drowsy world lies lost in sleep,",1.0 +"Let me associate with the serious Night,",4.0 +"Let me shake off intrusive cares of day,",2.0 +And lay the meddling senses all aside.,0.0 +"And now, you lying vanities of life!",1.0 +Where are you now! and what is your amount?,1.0 +"Sad, sickening thought! and yet deluded Man,",1.0 +"A scene of crude disjointed visions past,",0.0 +Father of light and life! thou GOOD SUPREME!,2.0 +OH teach me what is good! teach me THYSELF!,3.0 +"Save me from folly, vanity, and vice,",1.0 +From every low pursuit! and feed my soul,0.0 +"With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure;",0.0 +"From all the livid east, or piercing north,",0.0 +Thick clouds ascend; in whose capacious womb,1.0 +Heavy they roll their fleecy world along;,2.0 +And the sky saddens with the gathered storm.,3.0 +"Through the hushed air the whitening shower descends,",4.0 +"Fall broad, and wide, and fast, dimming the day,",6.0 +With a continual flow. Sudden the fields,5.0 +"It's brightness all; save where the new snow melts,",2.0 +"Bow their hoar Heads. And, ere the languid sun",3.0 +"Faint from the west emits his evening ray,",0.0 +"Stands covered over with snow, and then demands",3.0 +"Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around",0.0 +"The winnowing store, and claim the little boon",2.0 +"His shivering fellows, and to trusted man",3.0 +His annual visit pays. New to the dome,4.0 +"On the warm hearth, and hopping over the floor",4.0 +"Eyes all the smiling Family askance,",1.0 +"Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare,",2.0 +"Though timorous of heart, and hard beset",1.0 +"By death in various forms, dark snares, and dogs,",3.0 +"Eye the bleak heaven, and next the glistening earth,",2.0 +"With looks of dumb despair; then sad, dispersed,",0.0 +"Now, shepherd's, to your helpless charge be kind,",2.0 +"Baffle the raging year, and fill their pens",2.0 +"With food at will; lodge them below the storm,",2.0 +"And watch them strict: for from the bellowing east,",3.0 +"In one wide waft, and over the hapless flocks,",5.0 +"Hid in the hollow of two neighbouring hills,",4.0 +"The valley to a shining mountain swells,",1.0 +"As thus the snows arise; and foul, and fierce,",0.0 +All winter drives along the darkened air;,0.0 +"Nor finds the river, nor the forest, hid",1.0 +Beneath the white abrupt; but wanders on,1.0 +"From hill to dale, still more and more astray:",1.0 +Stung with the thoughts of home; the thoughts of home,0.0 +In many a vain effort. How sinks his soul!,4.0 +"What black despair, what horror fills his heart!",0.0 +"His tufted cottage rising through the snow,",1.0 +"He meets the roughness of the middle waste,",1.0 +"Far from the tract, and blessed abode of man:",0.0 +"And every tempest, howling over his head,",2.0 +Renders the savage wilderness more wild.,3.0 +"Then throng the busy shapes into his mind,",0.0 +"A dire descent! beyond the power of frost,",2.0 +"Smoothed up with snow; and, what is land unknown,",0.0 +"What water, of the still unfrozen eye,",1.0 +"In the loose marsh, or solitary lake,",3.0 +Where the fresh fountain from the bottom boils.,3.0 +These cheque his fearful steps; and down he sinks,1.0 +"Beneath the shelter of the shapeless drift,",1.0 +"Thinking over all the bitterness of death,",1.0 +Mixed with the tender anguish nature shoots,0.0 +"Through the wrung bosom of the dying man,",3.0 +"His wife, his children, and his friends unseen.",1.0 +"In vain his little children, peeping out",1.0 +"Nor wife, nor children more shall he behold,",1.0 +"Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve,",0.0 +The deadly winter seizes; shuts up sense;,0.0 +"Lays him along the snows, a stiffened corpse,",2.0 +"Ah little think the gay licentious proud,",0.0 +"Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround;",3.0 +"They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth,",0.0 +"And wanton, often cruel, riot waste;",0.0 +"Ah little think they, while they dance along,",0.0 +"How many feel this very moment, death",0.0 +And all the sad variety of pain.,1.0 +"How many sink in the devouring flood,",3.0 +"Or more devouring flame. How many bleed,",2.0 +By shameful variance betwixt man and man.,4.0 +"Shut from the common air, and common use",0.0 +Of their own limbs. How many drink the cup,1.0 +"Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread",0.0 +"With all the fiercer tortures of the mind,",1.0 +"Unbounded passion, madness, guilt, remorse;",0.0 +"Whence tumbled headlong from the height of life,",2.0 +They furnish matter for the tragic muse.,1.0 +"Even in the vale, where Wisdom loves to dwell,",0.0 +"With Friendship, Peace, and Contemplation joined,",0.0 +"How many, racked with honest passions, droop",0.0 +In deep retired distress. How many stand,0.0 +"Around the deathbed of their dearest friends,",2.0 +"Like wailing pensive ghosts awaiting theirs,",1.0 +And point the parting pang. Thought but fond man,3.0 +"Of these, and all the thousand nameless ills,",1.0 +"That one incessant struggle render life,",1.0 +"One scene of toil, of anguish, and of fate,",1.0 +"Vice in his high career would stand appalled,",0.0 +"The conscious heart of Charity would warm,",1.0 +And his wide wish Benevolence dilate;,3.0 +"The social tear would rise, the social sigh;",0.0 +"And into clear perfection, gradual bliss,",2.0 +"Refining still, the social passions work.",0.0 +"And here can I forget the generous few,",2.0 +Into the horrors of the gloomy jail?,1.0 +"Where Sickness pines; where Thirst and Hunger burn,",0.0 +And poor Misfortune feels the lash of Vice.,0.0 +"While in the land of liberty, the land",1.0 +"Whose every street, and public meeting glows",0.0 +"With open freedom, little tyrants raged:",0.0 +Snatched the lean morsel from the starving mouth;,4.0 +"Even robbed them of the last of comforts, sleep;",1.0 +"The freeborn Briton to the dungeon chained,",1.0 +"Or, as the lust of cruelty prevailed,",2.0 +At pleasure marked him with inglorious stripes;,3.0 +"And crushed out lives, by various nameless ways,",2.0 +"That for their country would have toiled, or bled.",0.0 +"When Justice, and when Mercy led the way,",1.0 +"Dragged the detected monsters into light,",2.0 +"Wrenched from their hand Oppression's iron rod,",0.0 +And bade the cruel feel the pains they gave.,0.0 +"Yet stop not here, let all the land rejoice,",0.0 +"And make the blessing unconfined, as great.",0.0 +"Much still untouched remains; in this rank age,",1.0 +Much is the patriot's weeding hand required.,2.0 +"The toils of law, what dark insidious men",2.0 +And lengthen simple justice into trade,0.0 +"O glorious were the day! that saw these broke,",1.0 +And every man within the reach of right.,0.0 +"Yet more outrageous is the season still,",1.0 +"A deeper horror, in Siberian wilds;",2.0 +And in his airy hall the loud misrule,0.0 +Of driving tempest is for ever heard.,1.0 +"There through the ragged woods absorbed in snow,",1.0 +"Sole tenant of these shades, the shaggy bear,",2.0 +"With dangling ice all horrid, stalks forlorn;",0.0 +He makes his bed beneath the drifted snow;,0.0 +Hardens his heart against assailing want.,2.0 +While tempted vigorous over the marble waste.,4.0 +"On sleds reclined, the furry Russian sits;",0.0 +A shining kingdom in a winter's day.,0.0 +"Where nature in stupendous rain lies,",1.0 +"And from the leaning rock, on either side,",1.0 +"Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave!",1.0 +Assembling wolves in torrent troops descend;,0.0 +"And, pouring over the country, bear along,",2.0 +"Press him to earth, and pierce his mighty heart.",0.0 +Nor can the bull his awful front defend.,1.0 +Or shake the murdering savages away.,3.0 +"Rapacious, at the mother's throat they fly",0.0 +And tear the screaming infant from her breast.,1.0 +"Even beauty, force divine! at whose bright glance",1.0 +"The generous lion stands in softened gaze,",2.0 +"Here bleeds, a hapless, undistinguished prey.",0.0 +"The country be shut up, lured by the scent,",2.0 +"The shrouded body from the tomb; over which,",4.0 +"In the wild depth of Winter, while without",3.0 +"The ceaseless winds blow ice, be my retreat,",2.0 +"Between the groaning forest and the shore,",1.0 +"Beat by a boundless multitude of waves,",0.0 +"A rural, sheltered, solitary, scene;",0.0 +"Where ruddy fire and beaming tapers join,",0.0 +And hold high converse with the mighty dead;,2.0 +"Sages of ancient time, as gods revered,",2.0 +"As gods beneficent, who blessed mankind",4.0 +"Roused at the inspiring thought, I throw aside",1.0 +"Before my wondering eyes. ' -- First Socrates,",3.0 +Whose simple question to the folded heart,1.0 +"Severely good; and him of rugged Rome,",1.0 +Who wept the brother while the tyrant bled.,0.0 +"Scipio, the human warrior, gently brave;",1.0 +"Who soon the race of spotless glory ran,",0.0 +"And, warm in youth, to the poetic shade,",1.0 +"With friendship, and philosophy, retired.",2.0 +"Who, single raised their country into fame.",0.0 +"Thousands behind, the boast of Greece and Rome,",2.0 +"Whom Virtue owns, the tribute of a verse",1.0 +Demand; but who can count the stars of heaven?,0.0 +Who sing their influence on this lower world?,1.0 +"But see who yonder comes! in sober state,",0.0 +"Fair, mild, and strong, as is a vernal sun:",2.0 +"Great Homer too appears, of daring wing,",1.0 +"Parent of song! and equal by his side,",3.0 +"The British muse; joined hand in hand they walk,",1.0 +"Taught by the Graces, whose enchanting touch",0.0 +Shakes every passion from the various string;,4.0 +First of your kind! society divine!,1.0 +"Still visit thus my nights, for you reserved,",2.0 +And mount my soaring soul to deeds like yours.,0.0 +"Silence, thou lonely power! the door be thine;",4.0 +"See on the hallowed hour that none intrude,",0.0 +"Learning digested well, exalted faith,",3.0 +"Or from the muses hill will Pope descend,",1.0 +"To raise the sacred hour, to make it smile,",0.0 +And with the social spirit warm the heart:,1.0 +"For though not sweeter his own Homer sings,",2.0 +Yet is his life the more endearing song.,0.0 +Thus in some deep retirement would I pass,1.0 +"Or blithe, or solemn, as the theme inspired:",1.0 +"With them would search, if this unbounded frame",2.0 +"Of nature rose from unproductive night,",0.0 +"Or sprung eternal from the eternal Cause,",3.0 +"Its springs, its laws, its progress and its end.",2.0 +Would gradual open on our opening minds;,5.0 +"In full perfection, to the astonished eye.",3.0 +Thence would we plunge into the moral world;,0.0 +"Which, though more seemingly perplexed, moves on",3.0 +"In higher order; fitted, and impelled,",1.0 +In universal good. Historic truth,0.0 +"Point us how empire grew, revolved, and fell,",0.0 +"In scattered states; what makes the nations smile,",0.0 +"Improves their soil, and gives them double suns;",0.0 +"And why they pine beneath the brightest skies,",0.0 +"In nature's richest lap. As thus we talked,",0.0 +"Our hearts would burn within us, would inhale",0.0 +"That portion of divinity, that ray",2.0 +"Of purest heaven, which lights the glorious flame",2.0 +"Of patriots, and of heroes. But if doomed,",2.0 +"In powerless humble fortune, to repress",3.0 +"Then, even superior to ambition, we",6.0 +Would learn the private virtues; how to glide,1.0 +"Through shades and plains, along the smoothest stream",0.0 +"Of rural life: or snatched away by hope,",0.0 +With earnest eye anticipate those scenes,0.0 +"Of happiness, and wonder; where the mind,",1.0 +"In endless growth and infinite ascent,",1.0 +"Rises from state to state, and world to world.",2.0 +"And when with these the serious soul is foiled,",3.0 +"We, shifting for relief, would play the shapes",1.0 +Of frolic fancy; and incessant form,1.0 +"Yet rapid still renewed, and poured immense",0.0 +"Into the mind, unbounded without space:",3.0 +"The great, the new, the beautiful; or mixed,",1.0 +"Whence vivid Wit, and Humour, droll of face,",3.0 +"While well attested, and as well believed,",1.0 +Till superstitious horror creeps over all.,3.0 +"Or, frequent in the sounding hall, they wake",0.0 +"The simple joke that takes the shepherd's heart,",0.0 +"Easily pleased; the long loud laugh, sincere;",3.0 +"The leap, the slap, the haul; and, shook to notes",0.0 +"Of native music, the respondent dance.",1.0 +"The city swarms intense. The public haunt,",0.0 +"Full of each theme, and warm with mixed discourse,",3.0 +Hums indistinct. The sons of riot flow,2.0 +"Down the loose stream of false enchanted joy,",2.0 +To swift destruction. On the rankled soul,1.0 +The gaming fury falls; and in one gulf,0.0 +"Friends, families, and fortune headlong sink.",3.0 +"Rises the dance along the lighted dome,",2.0 +"Mixed, and evolved, a thousand sprightly ways.",2.0 +"The circle deepens; rained from radiant eyes,",0.0 +Dread over the scene the ghost of Hamlet stalks;,3.0 +Steals over the cheek: or else the comic Muse,3.0 +"Holds to the world the picture of itself,",1.0 +And raises sly the fair impartial laugh.,0.0 +"Clear frost succeeds; and through the blue serene,",2.0 +"Killing infectious damps, and the spent air",3.0 +Storing afresh with elemental life.,2.0 +Close crowds the shining atmosphere; and binds,1.0 +"Our strengthened bodies in its cold embrace,",0.0 +"Where sits the soul, intense, collected cool,",0.0 +"Bright as the skies, and as the season keen.",1.0 +All nature feels the renovating force,0.0 +Of Winter only to the thoughtless eye,1.0 +"Draws in, abundant vegetable soul,",3.0 +"Amazing, open to the shepherd's gaze,",1.0 +"What art thou, Frost? and whence are thy keen stores",1.0 +Whom even the illusive fluid cannot fly?,1.0 +"Is not thy potent energy, unseen,",1.0 +"Like double wedges, and diffused immense",1.0 +"Through water, earth and either? Hence at eve,",0.0 +"Steamed eager from the red horizon round,",2.0 +"With the still rage of Winter deep suffused,",2.0 +"An icy gale, oft shifting, over the pool",3.0 +"Breathes a blue film, and in its mid career",2.0 +"Arrests the bickering stream. The loosened ice,",2.0 +"Fast grows, or gathers round the pointed stone,",1.0 +"A crystal pavement, by the breath of heaven",1.0 +"Cemented firm; till seized from shore to shore,",0.0 +"Loud rings the frozen earth, and hard reflects",1.0 +"A double noise; while, at his evening watch,",0.0 +The heifer lows; the distant waterfall,0.0 +"Swells in the breeze, and, with the hasty tread",1.0 +"Of traveller, the many sounding plain",1.0 +"Shakes from afar. The full ethereal round,",3.0 +"Infinite worlds disclosing to the view,",3.0 +"Shines out intensely keen; and, all one cope",2.0 +"Of starry glitter, glows from pole to pole.",0.0 +"From pole to pole the rigid influence falls,",2.0 +"Through the still night, incessant, heavy, strong,",2.0 +And seizes nature fast. It freezes on;,1.0 +"Till morn, late rising over the drooping world,",3.0 +The various labour of the silent night:,2.0 +"Prone from the dripping eave, and dumb cascade,",0.0 +"Whose idle torrents only seem to roar,",0.0 +"Where transient hues, and fancied figures rise;",0.0 +The liquid kingdom all to solid turned;,0.0 +"A livid tract, cold gleaming on the morn;",2.0 +"And by the frost refined the whiter snow,",1.0 +"Of early shepherd, as he pensive seeks",1.0 +"His pining flock, or from the mountain-top,",1.0 +"Pleased with the slippery surface, swift descends.",0.0 +"While every work of man is laid at rest,",0.0 +"Fond over the river rush, and shuddering view",5.0 +"The city pours her thousands, swarming all,",0.0 +"From every quarter; and, with him who slides;",2.0 +"Or skating sweeps, swift as the winds, along,",2.0 +"In circling poise; or else disordered falls,",0.0 +"While the laugh rages round; from end to end,",2.0 +"But soon elapsed. The horizontal sun,",0.0 +"Broad over the south, hangs at his utmost noon;",4.0 +"The mountain still his azure gloss maintains,",0.0 +Nor feels the feeble touch. Perhaps the vale,0.0 +"Or from the forest falls the clustered snow,",1.0 +"Thunders the sport of those, who, with the gun,",2.0 +"And dog impatient bounding at the shot,",0.0 +"Worse than the season, desolate the fields;",0.0 +"And, adding to the ruins of the year,",2.0 +"Distress the footed, or the feathered game.",1.0 +The mockery of Winter: should our eye,1.0 +Astonished shoot into the frozen zone;,0.0 +"And, failing gradual, life at last goes out.",3.0 +Snows swell on snows amazing to the sky;,2.0 +"And icy mountains there, on mountains piled,",1.0 +"Seem to the shivering sailor from afar,",3.0 +"Shapeless, and white, an atmosphere of clouds.",2.0 +"Projected huge, and horrid, over the main,",2.0 +"Alps frown on Alps; or rushing hideous down,",2.0 +"As if old Chaos was again returned,",3.0 +"Shake the firm pole, and make an ocean boil.",3.0 +"Whence heaped abrupt along the howling shore,",0.0 +And into various shapes as fancy leans,2.0 +"Worked by the wave, the crystal pillars heave,",0.0 +"Swells the blue portico, the gothic dome",3.0 +"Shoots fretted up; and birds, and beasts, and men,",2.0 +"Rise into mimic life, and sink by turns.",1.0 +The restless deep itself cannot resist,0.0 +The binding fury; but in all its rage,1.0 +"Of tempest taken by the boundless frost,",1.0 +"Is many a fathom to the bottom chained,",3.0 +"And bid to roar no more: a bleak expanse,",1.0 +"Of every life, that from the dreary months",1.0 +Flies conscious southward. Miserable they!,2.0 +"Who, here entangled in the gathering ice,",2.0 +Take their last look of the descending sun;,4.0 +"While, full of death, and fierce with tenfold frost,",1.0 +"The long long night, incumbent over their head,",3.0 +"As with first prow, What have not Britons dared!",1.0 +"He for the passage sought, attempted since",1.0 +"So much in vain, and seeming to be shut",1.0 +By jealous nature with eternal bars.,1.0 +And to the stony deep his idle ship,1.0 +"Immediate sealed, he with his hapless crew,",3.0 +"Each full exerted at his several task,",0.0 +Froze into statues; to the cordage glued,1.0 +"The sailor, and the pilot to the helm.",2.0 +"Hard by these shores, the last of mankind live;",1.0 +"And, scarce enlivened by the distant sun,",1.0 +Here Human Nature just begins to dawn.,0.0 +"Deep from the piercing season sunk in caves,",0.0 +"They wear the tedious gloom. Immersed in furs,",2.0 +"Lie the gross race. Nor sprightly jest, nor song,",3.0 +"Nor tenderness they know; nor ought of life,",1.0 +Beyond the kindred bears that stalk without.,0.0 +Faint on their fields where Winter reigns alone,0.0 +"Blow blustering from the south. The frost subdued,",2.0 +"Gradual, resolves into a trickling thaw.",1.0 +"Spotted the mountains shine; loose sleet descends,",3.0 +"And floods the country round. The rivers swell,",0.0 +"Impatient for the day. Broke from the hills,",3.0 +"Over rocks and woods, in broad brown cataracts,",1.0 +"Is left one slimy waste. Those sullen seas,",0.0 +Beneath the shackles of the mighty north;,1.0 +And hark! the lengthening roar continuous runs,4.0 +And piles a thousand mountains to the clouds.,1.0 +"That, lost amid the floating fragments, moors",0.0 +"Beneath the shelter of an icy isle,",1.0 +"While night overwhelms the sea, and horror looks",1.0 +More horrible. Can human force endure,1.0 +"The roar of winds and waves, the crush of ice,",0.0 +"Now ceasing, now renewed with louder rage,",1.0 +And in dire echoes bellowing round the main.,1.0 +"More to embroil the deep, Leviathan,",2.0 +"And his unwieldy train, in horrid sport,",1.0 +Tempest the loosened brine; while through the gloom;,3.0 +"Far, from the bleak inhospitable shore,",1.0 +"Loading the winds, is heard the hungry howl",2.0 +"Of famished monsters, there awaiting wrecks.",1.0 +Looks down with pity on the fruitless toil,1.0 +"Of mortals lost to hope, and lights them safe,",0.0 +Through all this dreary labyrinth of fate.,0.0 +"It's done! ' -- dread Winter has subdued the year,",1.0 +And reigns tremendous over the desert plains.,2.0 +How dumb the tuneful! Horror wide extends,0.0 +"His solitary empire. Here, fond man!",1.0 +"Behold thy pictured life; pass some few years,",1.0 +"Thy flowering Spring, thy Summer's ardent strength,",1.0 +"And pale concluding Winter comes at last,",0.0 +"And shuts the scene. Ah! whither now are fled,",0.0 +Of happiness? those longings after fame?,1.0 +Those restless cares? those busy bustling days?,0.0 +"Lost between good and ill, that shared thy life?",0.0 +"All now are vanished! Virtue sole survives,",0.0 +His guide to happiness on high. ' -- And fee!,1.0 +"It's come, the glorious morn! the second birth",2.0 +"Of heaven, and earth! Awakening nature hears",2.0 +"In every heightened form, from pain and death",0.0 +"For ever free. The great eternal scheme,",0.0 +"Involving all, and in a perfect whole",1.0 +"Uniting, as the prospect wider spreads,",1.0 +To reason's eye refined clears up apace.,2.0 +"You vainly wise! you blind presuming! now,",0.0 +"Confounded in the dust, adore that Power,",0.0 +"And Wisdom oft arraigned: see now the cause,",1.0 +"Why unassuming Worth in secret lived,",0.0 +"And died, neglected: why the good man's share",1.0 +"In life was gall, and bitterness of soul:",1.0 +"Why the lone widow, and her orphans pined,",3.0 +"In starving solitude; while Luxury,",1.0 +"In palaces, lay prompting his low thought,",4.0 +"And Moderation fair, wore the red marks",3.0 +You noble few! who here unbending stand,1.0 +"Beneath life's pressure, yet a little while,",1.0 +And what you reckon evil is no more;,2.0 +And one unbounded SPRING encircle all.,1.0 +"OF strange events I sing, and portents dire;",1.0 +The wondrous themes a reverent ear require;,2.0 +"Though strange the tale, the faithful Muse believe,",0.0 +And what she says with pious awe receive.,0.0 +"When hunger rages with despotic power,",1.0 +When the lean student quits his Hebrew roots,2.0 +"For the gross nourishment of English fruits,",3.0 +And throws unfinished airy systems by,1.0 +"For solid pudding and substantial pie,",1.0 +"When hungry poets the glad summons own,",2.0 +And leave spare fast to dine with Gods alone;,1.0 +"Our sober meal dispatched with silent haste,",0.0 +Then urged by thirst we cast impatient eyes,0.0 +"Where deep, capacious, vast, of ample size,",0.0 +"The tankard stood, replenished to the brink",1.0 +"But lo! a sudden prodigy appears,",1.0 +And our chilled hearts recoil with startling fears;,2.0 +"Its yawning mouth disclosed the deep profound,",0.0 +And in low murmurs breathed a sullen sound;,1.0 +Cold drops of dew did on the sides appear;,2.0 +"No finger touched it, and no hand was near;",3.0 +"At length the indignant vase its silence broke,",2.0 +"First heaved deep hollow groans, and then distinctly spoke.",2.0 +Have I survived to these degenerate times?,3.0 +"And mid the circle lift my honest face,",0.0 +"White over with froth, like Etna crowned with snow,",3.0 +Where Crees mingled with her golden store,2.0 +"The dulcet reed the Western islands boast,",0.0 +And often journeyed round the ample board:,0.0 +"The portly Alderman, the stately Mayor,",1.0 +And all the furry tribe my worth declare;,0.0 +"To me retreating with the setting sun,",2.0 +"Deep draughts imbibed, and conquered land and sea,",1.0 +And overthrew the pride of France by me.,0.0 +The clay for such an office nature gave;,1.0 +"The nobler metal claims more generous use,",4.0 +And mine should flow with more exalted juice.,1.0 +"Did I for this my native bed resign,",1.0 +"Was I for this with violence torn away,",3.0 +And dragged to regions of the upper day?,1.0 +"For this the rage of torturing furnace bore,",3.0 +From foreign dross to purge the brightening over?,0.0 +"For this have I endured the fiery test,",4.0 +And was I stamped for this with Britain's lofty crest?,2.0 +Which doomed me to a Presbyterian's power;,4.0 +Whose slender meal is shorter than their grace;,1.0 +Whose moping sons no jovial orgies keep;,3.0 +Where evening brings no summons but to sleep;,2.0 +"No Carnival is even Christmas here,",2.0 +"Bear me, you powers! to some more genial scene,",1.0 +To own no inspiration but from me.,2.0 +"Or to some spacious mansion, Gothic, old,",1.0 +"There oft exhausted, and replenished oft,",1.0 +O! let me still supply the eternal draught;,2.0 +"Till care within the deep abyss be drowned,",0.0 +And thought grows giddy at the vast profound.,1.0 +"More had the goblet spoke, but lo! appears",0.0 +An ancient Sybil furrowed over with years;,1.0 +With sudden damp the conscious vessel struck;,0.0 +"Chilled at her touch its mouth it slowly closed,",0.0 +"Yet still low murmurs creep along the ground,",1.0 +And the air vibrates with the silver sound.,3.0 +BROTHER beloved! if health shall smile again,2.0 +Upon this wasted form and fevered cheek;,0.0 +Well may thy brow the placid glow retain,0.0 +"Of sweet content, and thy pleased eye may speak",2.0 +"To utter what this heart can feel, ah! vain",0.0 +"Were the attempt! Yet, kindest friends, as over",1.0 +"My couch you bend, and watch with tenderness",1.0 +The being whom your cares could even restore,2.0 +"From the cold grasp of death; say, can you guess",3.0 +The feelings which this lip can never express?,2.0 +"WHILE fogs along the Thames' damp margin creep,",1.0 +And cold winds through his leafless willows sweep;,3.0 +"And fairy elves, whose summer sport had been",0.0 +"To foot it lightly on the moonlight green,",2.0 +"Now, hooded close, in many a cowering form,",5.0 +Troop with the surly spirits of the storm;,1.0 +"While by the blazing fire, with saddled nose,",0.0 +"The sage turns over his leaves of tedious prose,",5.0 +Like tangled seaweed on the vexed shore,3.0 +"Of patchwork, netting, fringe, a strange and motley store;",1.0 +"While all, attempting many a different mode,",2.0 +"Would from their shoulders hitch time's heavy load,",1.0 +To wrestle with a long November night. ' --,1.0 +Some grave fastidious friend with angry eyes,2.0 +"Scowling severe, No more the phrase abuse;",3.0 +"So shod, indeed there had been some excuse;",0.0 +"Where taste and learning kept a favourite seat,",0.0 +Where gothic arches with a solemn shade,1.0 +Should over the thoughtful mind their influence spread;,4.0 +"Where pictures, vases, busts, and precious things",0.0 +"Still speak of sages, poets, heroes, kings,",1.0 +"On which the stranger looks with pensive gaze,",0.0 +And thinks upon the worth of other days:,0.0 +"Like foolish children, in their mimic play,",0.0 +"With paltry farce and all its bastard train,",0.0 +"Grotesque and broad, such precincts to profane!",2.0 +"It is a shame! ' -- But no, I will not speak,",2.0 +"But he who over our heads those arches bent,",3.0 +"And stored these relics dear to sentiment,",1.0 +"More mild than you with grave pedantic pride,",1.0 +Would not have ranged him on your surly side.,1.0 +"But now to you, who on our frolic scene",0.0 +"Have looked well pleased, and gentle critics been;",1.0 +"Nor would our homely humour proudly spurn,",3.0 +"To you the good, the gay, the fair I turn,",1.0 +And thank you all. ' -- If here our feeble powers,0.0 +"Should these remembered scenes in fancy live,",1.0 +"And to some future minutes pleasure give,",1.0 +"And we're repaid and happy ' -- ay, and wise.",1.0 +"Who says we are not, on his somber birth",0.0 +And heavy sit the nightmare on his breast!,2.0 +WHO by retirement to these sacred groves,2.0 +"Impregnate fancy, and on thought divine",1.0 +Build harmony ' -- If sudden glow your breast,2.0 +"With inspiration, and the rapturous song",3.0 +Bursts from a mind unconscious whence it sprang:,1.0 +"' -- Know that the sisters of these hallowed haunts,",1.0 +"Are still attendant on the lonely bard,",1.0 +Who step by step these silent woods among,0.0 +"Wanders contemplative, lifting the soul",6.0 +"From lower cares, by every whispering breeze",2.0 +Tuned the poetic mood; and fill the mind,2.0 +"To cheque the rising follies of the age,",1.0 +May well be deemed the Province of the Stage.,1.0 +"Here, while their gentle breasts indignant burn,",0.0 +Here Fashion's offspring may some moral learn.,2.0 +Though not for want of game so far we stray.,0.0 +"When here in vain on Beaux our Beauties smile,",0.0 +"Enraged they vow to quit the tasteless Isle,",0.0 +"And, though against venal love they loudly rail,",5.0 +"Who, while their feeble frames scarce stand the gale,",1.0 +Explore the beauties of each living bale.,1.0 +"To you, you Fair, belongs the important cause,",3.0 +"For, if from the East this fashion we import,",2.0 +"Were this the case, should some rich Heiress start,",2.0 +"Whose countless thousands charm each throbbing heart,",0.0 +The fond enraptured youth who wished to win her,0.0 +Must even go flirt with Christie or with Skinner.,4.0 +"The Peer, by adverse dice compelled to wed,",1.0 +"May ask his friend, Pray where bought you your rib?",3.0 +"And, as your courtship I am somewhat slow in,",4.0 +I got her at the hammer ' -- Just a going.,0.0 +"For Love alone exchange the generous heart,",2.0 +"On your support our anxious Bard relies,",1.0 +And hopes to take his plaudits from your eyes;,1.0 +"For, if your critic frowns do not confound him,",1.0 +He smiles at all the Nabobs that surround him.,0.0 +"Of heaven itself, great attribute of God!",1.0 +"By thee sustained, the unbounded spirit runs,",3.0 +"And uncontrolled creates, supports, forgives:",0.0 +"No power, or time, or space his will withstood;",4.0 +Almighty! endless! infinite in good!,1.0 +"If so, why not communicate the bliss,",1.0 +And let man know what this great blessing is?,4.0 +"As thy Creator's, in extent, the same!",3.0 +Unless his other attributes were joined,0.0 +"To poise the will, and regulate the mind,",1.0 +"Goodness to aim, and wisdom to direct,",3.0 +The maker knows his work; nor judged it fit,0.0 +To trust the rash resolves of human wit:,0.0 +"Which prone to hurt, too blind to help, is still",1.0 +"Alike pernicious, mean it good or ill.",0.0 +Would burst a system in experiments;,1.0 +"Sparrows and cats indeed no more should fear,",3.0 +But Saturn tremble in his distant sphere:,0.0 +"Give thee but footing in another world,",0.0 +"Say, Archimedes, where should we be hurled?",2.0 +Would burn a globe to light him drunk to bed:,0.0 +The sullen might when malice boiled within,0.0 +Strike out the stars to intimate his spleen:,0.0 +"Nature's chief spring had broke, and all been lost.",0.0 +"Nor less destructive would this licence prove,",0.0 +Though thy breast flamed with universal love.,2.0 +In vain were thy benevolence of soul;,2.0 +Soon would thy folly disconcert the whole.,0.0 +But flowers and sunshine drain the weary year:,3.0 +No clouds should sully the clear face of day;,3.0 +"Spare the frail guilty, ' -- to eat up the good:",5.0 +"In their defence, rise, sacred Justice, rise!",2.0 +"Awake the thunder sleeping in the skies,",0.0 +Sink a corrupted city in a minute:,2.0 +' -- Woe! to the righteous ten who may be in it.,0.0 +"Pick out the bad, and sweep them all away!",0.0 +"' -- So leave their babes, to cats and dogs a prey.",0.0 +"Such power without God's wisdom and his will,",4.0 +Were only an omnipotence of ill.,2.0 +Suited to man can we such power esteem!,5.0 +"Fiends would be harmless, if compared with him.",1.0 +"His essence follows, and his throne of heaven;",1.0 +His very unity. Proud wretch! shall he,2.0 +"How wide, such lust of liberty confounds!",1.0 +"Would less content thee, prudent mark the bounds!",0.0 +"Those which the almighty Monarch first designed,",1.0 +When his great image sealed the human mind;,2.0 +When to the beasts the fruitful earth was given;,0.0 +"To fish the ocean, and to birds their heaven;",1.0 +"And all to man: whom full creation, stored,",0.0 +"Received as its proprietor, and lord.",2.0 +When trees and streams were made a general good;,0.0 +When all to all belonged; ere power was told,3.0 +"By numbered troops, or wealth by counted gold:",0.0 +"Ere kings, or priests, their tyranny began;",2.0 +OH halcyon state! when man begun to live!,3.0 +"A blessing, worthy of a god to give!",1.0 +"The heavenly characters, correct and true.",3.0 +"All useful knowledge, from that source, supplied;",1.0 +"No blindness sprung from ignorance, or pride:",2.0 +"All proper blessings, from that hand, bestowed;",1.0 +The quickening passions gave a pleasing zest;,2.0 +While thankful man submitted to be blessed.,1.0 +"Simplicity, was wisdom; temperance, health:",1.0 +"Obedience, power; and full contentment, wealth.",4.0 +So happy once was man! till the vain elf,1.0 +"Shook off his guide, and set up for himself.",1.0 +"He scorns protection, raging to be free.",1.0 +"Shrinks with the blast, or melts before the heat:",0.0 +"And blindly wanders, as his fancy leads,",1.0 +"To starve on wastes, or feast on poisonous weeds.",2.0 +Now to the savage beasts an obvious prey;,2.0 +"Or crafty men, more savage still than they:",0.0 +No less imprudent to his breast to take,2.0 +"Equally fatal, whether on the Nile,",3.0 +"Or in the city, weeps the crocodile.",0.0 +Nor yet less blindly deviates learnt pride;,2.0 +"In Aetna burned, or drowned amid the tide:",0.0 +Boasts of superior sense; then raves to see,4.0 +When contradicted fools less wise than he.,1.0 +Mates with his great Creator; vainly bold,0.0 +"To make new systems, or to mend the old.",2.0 +"Shapes out a Deity; doubts, then denies:",2.0 +"And drunk with science, curses God and dies.",0.0 +"Not heavenly wisdom, only, is withheld,",3.0 +"Rises the satisfied, but temperate guest:",2.0 +"Cast wild abroad, no happy mean preserves;",2.0 +"Toils life away upon the stubborn plain,",1.0 +TO extort from thence the slow reluctant grain;,1.0 +"The slow reluctant grain, procured today,",0.0 +His less industrious neighbour steals away:,2.0 +Till sword and cannon spread the ruin round;,0.0 +For time and art but bring from bad to worse:,0.0 +"Unequal lots succeed unequal force,",0.0 +"Each lot a several curse. Hence rich, and poor:",1.0 +"This pines, and dies neglected at the door;",0.0 +And take full vengeance for the poor's distress.,2.0 +No more the passions are the springs of life;,1.0 +"But seeds of vice, and elements of strife:",1.0 +"Love, social love, to extend to all designed,",3.0 +"Back to its fountain flows; to self, confined.",0.0 +Source of misfortunes; the fond husband's wrong;,4.0 +The mischief spreads; when vengeance for the lust,1.0 +"Hence, Troy, thy fate! the blood of thousands spilt,",1.0 +And orphans mourning for unconscious guilt.,2.0 +"Thus love destroys, for kinder purpose given;",1.0 +And man corrupts the blessings meant by heaven;,0.0 +"Ambition makes us slaves, and avarice poor.",2.0 +"What arts the wild disorder shall control,",0.0 +And render peace with virtue to the soul?,1.0 +"Give passion ears, and blinded error eyes?",1.0 +"Arm the weak hand with conquest, and protect",4.0 +"From guile, the heart too honest to suspect?",2.0 +"For this, mankind, by sad experience taught,",4.0 +Again their safety in dependence sought:,0.0 +"Pressed to the standard, sued before the throne;",0.0 +And durst rely on wisdom not their own.,0.0 +"The priests were mortal, and mere men the kings.",2.0 +"What aid from monarchs, mighty to enslave?",2.0 +"What good from teachers, cunning to deceive?",1.0 +And faith usurps imperial reason's sway.,3.0 +"Let civil Rome, from faithful records, tell",1.0 +What royal blessings from her Nero fell.,1.0 +"When those, preferred all grievance to redress,",2.0 +Bought of their prince a licence to oppress;,1.0 +"Starve in the harvest, in the vintage thirst!",0.0 +"In vain for help the insulted matron cries,",2.0 +'Twas death in husbands to have ears and eyes:,2.0 +"Fatal were beauty, virtue, wealth, or fame:",2.0 +No man in aught a property could claim;,2.0 +"No, not his sex: strange arts the monster tried;",1.0 +"Unhurt by foes proud Rome for ages stands,",1.0 +"Secure from all, but her protector's hands.",2.0 +"Recall your powers, you Romans, back again;",2.0 +"Naked and scorned, see where the abject flies!",2.0 +"Next holy Rome, thy happiness declare;",1.0 +While peace and truth watch round the sacred chair.,1.0 +Peace! ' -- which from racks and persecution flows!,0.0 +Mysterious truths! ' -- which every sense oppose!,2.0 +That man makes God the enlightened fathers teach.,3.0 +"Men, blind and partial, need a light divine:",1.0 +"Which popes new trim, and teach it how to shine.",2.0 +"Rude nature dreads accusing guilt, unknown",1.0 +"The balmy doctrine, that dead saints atone:",1.0 +"The careful pontiff, merciful to save,",1.0 +Hoards up a fund of merit from the grave;,1.0 +"And righteous hands the equal balance hold,",0.0 +Nor weigh it out but to just sums of gold.,1.0 +"Sole judge, he deals his pardon, or his curse;",2.0 +Not heaven itself the sentence can reverse:,1.0 +"Graced with his sceptre, awful with his rod,",1.0 +This man of sin usurps the seat of God;,1.0 +"And quits to saints his incense, and his skies:",2.0 +"No more the object of our fears, or hope;",1.0 +"The creature, and the vassal of the pope.",2.0 +The bloodstained sword from the fell tyrant wrest!,3.0 +' -- So sink in brutish ignorance again.,1.0 +Is there no medium? must we victims fall,3.0 +"To one man's LUST, or to the RAGE of all?",2.0 +"Is reason doomed a certain slave to be,",0.0 +"To our blind PASSIONS, or a priest's DECREE?",3.0 +Hail happy Albion! whose distinguished plains,3.0 +"This temperate mean, so dearly earned, maintains!",0.0 +"The strength and prudence of the realm collect,",1.0 +Each yields to all; that each may thence receive,0.0 +"The full assistance, which the whole can give.",0.0 +"For this, thy patriots lawless power withstood,",5.0 +And bought their children's charter with their blood;,1.0 +"While reverend years, and various lettered age,",2.0 +"Not one alone the various judgement sways,",3.0 +But prejudice the general voice obeys:,1.0 +Asserting truth with brave contempt of life.,0.0 +O OXFORD! let delivered Briton know,0.0 +From thy famed seats her several blessings flow.,2.0 +"In thee prepared for council, or for fights,",2.0 +"When, tried as gold, saints, from thy tottering pyres,",4.0 +May age to age record thy gathering fame!,2.0 +Brave advocates of liberty and truth!,2.0 +In fair succession rise to bless the realm!,0.0 +"Fathers in church, and statesmen at the helm!",2.0 +"Wilt thou by no authority be awed,",1.0 +"If they oblige not, nor will they protect.",3.0 +"You fear no God; ' -- convinced by what you say,",1.0 +"Knaves praise your wit, and swear your lands away.",1.0 +"Corrupt not wives, erase it if you will;",1.0 +"The injured husband blots out, ' -- do not kill.",0.0 +"From God his sabbaths steal, for sport, not need;",0.0 +"Why hangs the wretch, who steals thy purse for bread?",0.0 +"Go, crown the people, and subject the king;",2.0 +And every atom to its lord restore:,1.0 +"As mixed with knaves, or fools, the weak, or brave,",0.0 +"A dupe, a plague, a tyrant, or a slave.",1.0 +What shall I do; how hit the happy mean,0.0 +"Betwixt blind submission, and unruly spleen?",4.0 +"And great its use, though not for ever right.",0.0 +"What though some think implicit faith be due,",0.0 +"Disdain a guide, and guess the time of day?",0.0 +"They guess so lucky, or their parts so great,",1.0 +"They come on all affairs, but just too late;",1.0 +"You neither choose. Nor travelling through the street,",1.0 +Correct its hand by every one you meet;,1.0 +"Yet scruple not, if you should find at one",1.0 +"It points to six, to set it by the SUN.",1.0 +Nor vainly hope for happiness complete;,1.0 +"Some bounds imperfect natures must include,",0.0 +And vice and weakness feel defects of good.,0.0 +Nor is it blind necessity alone:,2.0 +"And in that wisdom satisfied may trust,",0.0 +"In its restraints, as merciful, as just.",2.0 +By these thy selfish passions it corrects;,2.0 +By these from wrong thy weakness it protects;,2.0 +"Some faults permitted, as the scourge of thine.",1.0 +"Absurd the wish of all men, if expressed;",2.0 +"Why then should we complain, or thankless live,",2.0 +Because not blessed with more than God can give?,0.0 +"Would you be safe from others? it's but due,",1.0 +That others also should be safe from you.,0.0 +"Each claims the exclusive privilege, to wrong.",3.0 +When ceaseless faction must embroil the mad;,0.0 +How patriot Cromwell fights for liberty!,3.0 +"He shifts the yoke, then calls the nation free.",0.0 +He cannot bear a monarch on the throne;,1.0 +But vindicates his right ' -- to rule alone.,0.0 +And Tindal wisely would extinguish hell.,0.0 +"OH sage device, to set the conscience free",1.0 +From dread! he winks; then says that heaven can't see.,1.0 +Both blindly plan the paradise of fools;,1.0 +"Peace without laws, and virtue without rules.",6.0 +"Full of the Roman let the schoolboy quote,",1.0 +Gods! shall he tremble at a mortal's nod!,0.0 +His generous soul disdains the tyrant's rod.,4.0 +"Forced to submit, at last he tastes the fruit;",2.0 +Would thy young soul be like the Roman free?,1.0 +From Romans paint thy form of LIBERTY:,1.0 +The goddess offers gifts from either hand;,0.0 +"Bend, and submit beneath the stroke of this.",2.0 +Deprived the precious privilege to drown;,1.0 +Greatly he claims a right to his undoing;,3.0 +"The chains that hold him, hold him from his ruin.",1.0 +Kindly proceed; strict discipline dispense;,4.0 +"Or knave to wrong, or madman to destroy?",2.0 +Will thy denial prove that thou art none!,2.0 +"Blind to their good, to be instructed loath,",0.0 +"If no superior force the will control,",3.0 +Wild and destructive projects fire our brains;,2.0 +"We all are madmen, and demand our chains.",1.0 +"Know your own sphere, content to be a man;",0.0 +"Well pleased, to be as happy as you can:",2.0 +"Lose not all good, by shunning ills in vain;",0.0 +It's wiser to enjoy than to complain.,2.0 +Some evils must attend imperfect states;,0.0 +But discontent new worlds of ills creates.,2.0 +"Hush thy complaints, nor quarrel with thy God;",3.0 +"If just the stroke, approve and kiss the rod.",0.0 +"By man if injured, turn thy eyes within;",0.0 +"Then heaven acquit: and with regard to man,",1.0 +Coolly the amount of good and evil scan;,1.0 +"If greater evils wait the wished redress,",0.0 +Grieve not that thou art free to choose the less.,0.0 +"Unknown to courts, ambition's thirst subdued,",0.0 +"In life's still shade, which no man's envy draws,",2.0 +"In fortune's round, as on the globe I know",1.0 +"No top, no bottom, no where high or low;",2.0 +"Wherever stationed, heaven in prospect still,",0.0 +"That points to me, the zenith of her wheel.",2.0 +In such bad times be easy? most absurd!,3.0 +And these bad times have left me free to eat it:,2.0 +"My taxes, gladly paid, their nature shift;",0.0 +"If just, cheap purchase; if unjust, a gift:",2.0 +Nor knows ambition any rank so great;,0.0 +"My servants, kings, and ministers of state!",1.0 +"They watch my couch, my humble roof defend;",0.0 +"Their toil the means, my happiness the end.",1.0 +"My freedom to complete, convinced I see",1.0 +"The. Ibid. will, conformed to thy celestial voice,",3.0 +Knows no restraint! for duty is her choice:,2.0 +"As kind corrections, pledges of thy love;",1.0 +"In every change, whatever stage I run,",1.0 +My daily wish succeeds; THY WILL BE DONE.,0.0 +"Hail, widow! ample cause hast thou to bless",2.0 +"That happy state, which others term distress,",0.0 +"There shall recorded stand thy pious deed,",0.0 +The mite bestowed of which thyself had need.,0.0 +"Such was thy charity, thy faith, thy love,",2.0 +The gift was registered in heaven above.,1.0 +"What though the rich, whose coffers overflowed,",0.0 +"With ostentation their vain alms bestowed,",2.0 +"'Twas but a part from that abundance given,",0.0 +"AS once the Muse, reclining on her lyre,",1.0 +"The conscious pleasure swelled her silent breast,",0.0 +Her secret pride exulting smiles confessed.,0.0 +"When thus her sister spoke, whose care presides",0.0 +"Over the mixed palate, and the pencil guides,",3.0 +"Just, Goddess, is thy joy, thy train, we own,",1.0 +Honoured and loved through every age of time:,0.0 +"Yet let me say, some favourite son of mine",0.0 +Has more than followed every son of thine.,0.0 +Thy Homer needs not grieve to hear his fame,0.0 +"Raphael like him mid ages wrapped in night,",2.0 +Rose father of his science to the light;,3.0 +"Bade Painting breathe, and live the bold design;",1.0 +"To the clay-man the heavenly fire applied,",4.0 +And gave it charms to Nature's self denied.,0.0 +"With judgement, genius, industry and art,",1.0 +Does Virgil captivate his reader's heart?,0.0 +With rival talents my Caracci blessed,1.0 +Fires with like transport the spectator's breast.,2.0 +"An equal fire, an equal strength of mind,",0.0 +In Angelo's congenial soul will find:,0.0 +Whose wild imagination could display,0.0 +Fierce giants whirled from heaven ' -- the world's last day.,2.0 +The melting soul to softness and to love;,1.0 +"Than wanton Titian, whose warm colours show",2.0 +That gods themselves the amorous riot know?,2.0 +"Thy grandeur, Paulo, and thy happy stroke,",6.0 +"I proudly own my emulation spoke,",0.0 +"For I bestowed them, that the world might see,",1.0 +A Horace too of mine arise in thee.,1.0 +"Lo! where Poussin his magic colours spreads,",3.0 +"Rise towered towns, rough rocks, and flowery meads:",4.0 +"What leagues between those azure mountains lie,",0.0 +Whose lessening tops invade the purple sky,2.0 +"And this old oak, that shades this hollow way,",2.0 +It's thus the speaking picture moves and lives.,0.0 +Our praise the height of art and nature share.,0.0 +"In broader mirth if Plautus tread the stage,",0.0 +"She spoke, with friendly emulation stirred,",0.0 +And Phoebus from his throne with pleasure heard.,1.0 +To tell the Storey of her Misery?,2.0 +"Where, but to faithful Celia, in whose Mind",0.0 +"I fear these Lines will scarce be understood,",0.0 +"Blurred with incessant Tears, and writ in Blood:",2.0 +"But if you can the mournful Pages read,",1.0 +"The sad Relation shows you such a Deed,",1.0 +As all the Annals of the Infernal Reign,3.0 +"Shall strive to equal, or exceed, in vain.",1.0 +Whose Cruelty has caused a Sea of Tears:,2.0 +"Filled each lamenting Town with Funeral Sighs,",3.0 +"Deploring Widows Shrieks, and Orphans Cries.",0.0 +"At every Health the horrid Monster quaffed,",0.0 +"Drunk with excess of Blood, and Wine, to Bed,",2.0 +O cursed Place! ' -- I can no more command,4.0 +"My Pen, Shame and Confusion shake my Hand:",2.0 +"But I must on, and let my Celia know,",0.0 +"How barbarous are my Wrongs, how vast my Woe.",1.0 +"To meet the brave, betrayed, unhappy Man, The Duke of Monmouth.",0.0 +"My Husband, fatally uniting, went;",1.0 +"But when the Battle was by Treachery won,",3.0 +"The Chief, and all, but his false Friend, undone:",2.0 +"Though in the Tumult of that desperate Night,",1.0 +"He escaped the dreadful Slaughter of the Flight,",2.0 +"In all the murdering Qualities of Hell,",3.0 +"Each secret Place so regularly beat,",1.0 +They soon discovered his unsafe Retreat.,1.0 +To sure Destruction hurry them away.,1.0 +To glut himself with fresh supplies of Blood.,0.0 +"Our Friends, by powerful Intercession, gained",2.0 +"A short Reprieve, but for three Days obtained,",2.0 +To try all ways might to Compassion move,1.0 +"The Savage General, but in vain they strove.",1.0 +"When I perceived that all Addresses failed,",1.0 +"And nothing over his stubborn Soul prevailed,",2.0 +"Distracted almost, to his Tent I flew,",2.0 +To make the last Effort what Tears could do.,4.0 +"Low on my Knees I fell, then thus began:",0.0 +"Great Genius of Success, thou more than Man!",2.0 +And carried Conquest round the trembling World.,0.0 +"Still may the brightest Glories Fame can lend,",0.0 +"Your Sword, your Conduct, and your Cause attend.",1.0 +"Here now, the Arbiter of Fate you sit,",1.0 +"O pity the unfortunate, and give",2.0 +"And take the little all, that we possess:",1.0 +"Content, nay pleased to beg, or earn my Bread,",1.0 +"The fall of such a Youth no lustre brings,",2.0 +"To him whose Sword performs such wondrous things,",1.0 +"As saving Kingdoms, and supporting Kings.",1.0 +"That Triumph only with true Grandeur shines,",3.0 +"Took not more Pleasure to subdue, than spare:",1.0 +"And since in Battle you can greater be,",1.0 +"That over, be'nt less merciful than he.",2.0 +"Ignoble Spirits by Revenge, are known,",1.0 +And cruel Actions spoil the Conqueror's Crown:,2.0 +In future Histories fill each mournful Page,0.0 +"With Tales of Blood, and Monuments of Rage:",1.0 +"And while his Annals are with Horror read,",1.0 +"Men curse him living, and detest him dead.",2.0 +"O, do not sully with a sanguine Die,",1.0 +And Fate on all your Expeditions smile;,0.0 +"Die the best Soldier, and the happiest Man.",6.0 +"None can the Turns of Providence foresee,",1.0 +Or what their own Catastrophe may be;,1.0 +"That Mercy they may want, should always show,",1.0 +"For in the Chance of War, the slightest thing",0.0 +"May lose the Battle, or the Victory bring.",1.0 +Should in cool Blood his Captive Sacrifice?,1.0 +"He that with Rebel Arms to fight is led,",0.0 +"He had no Malice, though he has the Fault.",2.0 +"Vengeance Divine, though for the greatest Crime,",3.0 +But rarely strikes the first or second time:,0.0 +"Who spares the guilty, he has Power to kill.",3.0 +"When proud Rebellions would unhinge a State,",0.0 +"And wild Disorders in a Land create,",0.0 +"It's requisite, the first Promoters should",1.0 +"Put out the Flames, they kindled, with their Blood:",1.0 +"But sure it's a degree of Murder, all",1.0 +"That draw their Swords, should undistinguished fall:",0.0 +"And since a Mercy must to some be shown,",0.0 +"For as none guilty has less Guilt than he,",3.0 +So none for Pardon has a fairer Plea.,0.0 +"When David's General had won the Field,",2.0 +"And Absalom, the loved ungrateful, killed,",1.0 +"The Trumpets sounding made all Slaughter cease,",0.0 +And misled Israelites returned in Peace.,5.0 +"The Action past, where so much Blood was spilt,",1.0 +We hear of none arraigned for that Day's Guilt:,1.0 +"But all concludes with the desired Event,",1.0 +"The Monarch Pardons, and the Jews Repent.",1.0 +"As great Examples your high Courage warms,",2.0 +And to illustrious Deeds excites your Arms:,3.0 +"So when you Instances of Mercy view,",1.0 +They should inspire you with Compassion too:,1.0 +"For he that emulates the truly Brave,",1.0 +"Would always conquer, and should always save.",1.0 +"Madam, his Life depends upon my Will,",2.0 +"For every Rebel, I can spare, or kill:",1.0 +"Go see your Husband, bid him not despair;",1.0 +"His Crime is great, but you are wondrous Fair.",1.0 +"When anxious Miseries the Soul amaze,",1.0 +And dire Confusion in our Spirits raise;,0.0 +Upon the least appearance of Relief,1.0 +"Our Hopes revive, and mitigate our Grief.",0.0 +"Impatience makes our Wishes earnest grow,",0.0 +Which through false Optics our Deliverance show.,3.0 +For while we fancy Danger does appear,0.0 +"Most at a distance, it is oft too near:",2.0 +"And many times secure from obvious Foes,",2.0 +I thought the end of all my Sorrows nigh;,0.0 +With Eagerness he raised his drooping Head.,1.0 +"O, fly my Dear, this guilty place, he cried,",0.0 +"The Refuse of the Damned, and Mob of Hell:",1.0 +"The Air they breath, is every Atom cursed,",0.0 +"In Rapes and Murders, they alone delight,",1.0 +"Act them indeed, but scorn they should be named,",2.0 +And seems to merit that high Station too.,1.0 +"Nothing but Rage, and Lust inspire his Breast,",2.0 +"When told you went to intercede for me,",0.0 +It threw my Soul into an Agony.,1.0 +Not that I would not for my Freedom give,0.0 +"What's requisite, or do not wish to live:",1.0 +"But for my Safety I can never be base,",3.0 +Or buy a few short Years with long Disgrace,0.0 +For me exposed to an eternal Shame.,2.0 +"With Ignominy to preserve my Breath,",1.0 +"Is worse, by infinite Degrees, than Death.",1.0 +"With Honour I'll descend into the Grave,",2.0 +"For though Revenge and Malice both combine,",1.0 +As both to fix my Ruin seem to join,0.0 +"I can die just, and I'm resolved I will.",1.0 +"But what is Death, we so unwisely fear?",1.0 +"The equal Lot of Poverty and State,",1.0 +Which all partake of by a certain Fate.,1.0 +"Who ever the Prospect of Mankind surveys,",4.0 +"At diverse Ages, and by diverse Ways,",7.0 +"Will find them from this noisy Scene retire,",1.0 +"Some the first Minute that they breath, expire.",0.0 +"Others perhaps survive to talk, and go,",2.0 +"But die, before they Good or Evil know.",0.0 +"Here one to Puberty arrives, and then",1.0 +Returns lamented to the Dust again:,1.0 +"Another there, maintains a longer Strife",1.0 +With all the powerful Enemies of Life;,3.0 +"He drops into the dark, and disappears.",0.0 +"I'm young indeed, and might expect to see",0.0 +"Times future long, and late Posterity.",2.0 +"It's what with Reason I should wish to do,",1.0 +"If to be old, were to be happy too.",2.0 +But since substantial Grief so soon destroys,0.0 +"The Gust of all imaginary Joys,",0.0 +"Or more for Life, than it can merit, give.",1.0 +"Beyond the Grave stupendous Regions lie,",0.0 +The boundless Realms of vast Eternity;,1.0 +"Where Minds, removed from earthly Bodies dwell;",0.0 +"But who their Government, or Laws can tell?",1.0 +"What's their Employment till the final Doom,",2.0 +And Time's eternal Period shall come?,1.0 +"Thus much the sacred Oracles declare,",1.0 +"That all are blessed, or miserable there:",1.0 +"None good expire too soon, none bad too late.",4.0 +"For my own part, with Resignation still",1.0 +"Let him recall the Breath, from him I drew,",3.0 +"When he thinks fit, and when he pleases too.",2.0 +"The way of dying is my least Concern,",1.0 +That will give no Disturbance to my Urn:,4.0 +"If to the Seats of Happiness I go,",2.0 +There end all possible Returns of Woe:,1.0 +"And when to those blessed Mansions I arrive,",3.0 +With pity I'll behold those that survive.,1.0 +"And leave me to my Innocence, and Fate.",2.0 +I'll see the Event of this important Night:,3.0 +Some strange Presages in my Soul forebode,2.0 +"The worst of Miseries, or the greatest Good.",1.0 +"Few Hours will show the utmost of my Doom,",2.0 +"A joyful Safety, or a peaceful Tomb.",1.0 +If gracious Heaven will suffer me to die.,1.0 +"If I survive, it's but to be undone.",2.0 +"Who will support an injured Widow's Right,",1.0 +"From sly Injustice, or oppressive Might?",1.0 +"Protect her Person, or her Cause defend?",1.0 +"She rarely wants a Foe, or finds a Friend,",0.0 +Tis best to go beyond the reach of Ill:,1.0 +"And those can have no reason to repent,",3.0 +But to a World of everlasting Bliss,1.0 +"Why would you go, and leave me here in this?",0.0 +"It's a dark Passage, but our Foes shall view,",3.0 +"I'll die as calm, though not so brave as you:",0.0 +"That my Behaviour to the last may prove,",2.0 +Your Courage is not greater than my Love.,2.0 +"With trembling, but impatient Steps I went,",1.0 +"A Thousand Horrors thronged into my Breast,",0.0 +"By sad Ideas, and strong Fears possessed.",2.0 +"Wherever I passed, the glaring Lights would show",2.0 +"Fresh Objects of Despair, and Scenes of Woe.",2.0 +"Here, in a Crowd of drunken Soldiers, stood",0.0 +"And at his Feet, just through the Body run,",1.0 +"Struggling for Life, was laid his only Son;",1.0 +"By whose hard Labour he was daily fed,",1.0 +"Dividing still with pious Care, his Bread.",0.0 +"And while he mourned with Floods of aged Tears,",0.0 +"The barbarous Mob, whose Rage no limit knows,",3.0 +With blasphemous Derision mocked his Woes.,1.0 +"And drowned in Tears, a mournful Widow sat.",0.0 +High in the Boughs the murdered Father hung;,0.0 +"Beneath, the Children round their Mother clung;",0.0 +"For all they had to live upon, was Grief:",0.0 +"A Sorrow so intense, such deep Despair,",1.0 +"No Creature merely Human, long could bear.",1.0 +"First in her Arms her weeping Babes she took,",0.0 +"And with a Groan, did to her Husband look!",2.0 +"Then leaned her Head on their's, and sighing cried,",1.0 +From this sad Spectacle my Eyes I turned;,3.0 +"Where Sons their Fathers, Maids their Lovers mourned;",0.0 +"Friends for their Friends, Sisters for Brothers wept;",4.0 +"Prisoners of War in Chains, for Slaughter kept.",1.0 +"Each every Hour did the black Message dread,",3.0 +"Which should declare, the Person loved was dead.",0.0 +"Then I beheld, with brutal Shouts of Mirth,",1.0 +"A comely Youth, and of no common Birth,",2.0 +"To Execution led, who hardly bore",0.0 +"The Wounds in Battle, he received before;",1.0 +"And as he passed, I heard him bravely cry,",1.0 +"I neither wish to live, nor fear to die.",0.0 +"At the cursed Tent arrived, without delay",3.0 +They did me to the General convey;,2.0 +"Madam! by fresh Intelligence I find,",3.0 +And my Commission is express to spare,2.0 +None that so deeply in Rebellion are.,1.0 +"New Measures therefore it's in vain to try,",3.0 +"No Pardon can be granted, he must Die.",3.0 +"Must, or I hazard all, which yet I'd do,",0.0 +"To be obliged in one Request by you,",1.0 +"Be Mine this Night, I'll set your Husband free",0.0 +"Soldiers are rough, and cannot hope success",2.0 +"By supple Flattery, and by soft Address;",1.0 +"Gains an Ascendant over the Ladies Hearts,",4.0 +But I can no such whining methods use;,1.0 +"Consent, he Lives; he Dies, if you refuse.",1.0 +"Amazed at this demand, said I, the brave,",3.0 +"Upon ignoble Terms, disdain to save;",0.0 +"For generous Victors, as they scorn to do",3.0 +"Dishonest Things, scorn to propose them too.",2.0 +"Mercy, the brightest Virtue of the Mind,",3.0 +Should with no devious Appetite be joined:,4.0 +"For if when exercised, a Crime it cost,",1.0 +The intrinsic Lustre of the Deed is lost.,2.0 +"Great Men their Actions of a piece should have,",2.0 +"Heroic all, and each entirely Brave:",2.0 +From the nice Rules of Honour none should swerve;,3.0 +"Done because good, without a mean reserve.",2.0 +"The Crimes, new charged on the unhappy Youth",2.0 +"May have Revenge, and Malice, but no Truth.",2.0 +"Suppose the Accusation justly brought,",0.0 +"And it's the Glory of a noble Mind,",2.0 +"In full Forgiveness not to be confined,",0.0 +"Your Prince's Frowns, if you have cause to fear,",1.0 +This Act will more Illustrious appear;,1.0 +"Though his excuse can never be withstood,",1.0 +Perhaps the hazard's more than you express;,1.0 +"The Glory would be, were the danger less.",1.0 +"For he, that to his prejudice will do",1.0 +"A noble Action, and a generous too,",3.0 +"Deserves to wear a more resplendent Crown,",0.0 +"Than he, that has a thousand Battles won.",0.0 +"Do not invert Divine Compassion so,",1.0 +"As to be Cruel, or no Mercy show!",5.0 +"Of what Renown can such an Action be,",1.0 +"Which Saves my Husband's Life, but Ruins me?",1.0 +Though if you finally resolve to stand,2.0 +"Upon so vile, inglorious a Demand,",3.0 +He must submit; if it's my Fate to mourn,1.0 +"His Death, I'll bathe with virtuous Tears his Urn.",2.0 +Your Courage and your Virtue shall be tried:,1.0 +"But to prevent all prospect of a Flight,",2.0 +"Surrounded with so innocent a Throng,",2.0 +The Night must pass delightfully along:,1.0 +"And in the Morning, since you will not give",1.0 +"What I require, to let your Husband live,",1.0 +"You shall behold him sigh his latest Breath,",0.0 +And gently swing into the Arms of Death.,0.0 +"His Fate he merits, as to Rebels due,",1.0 +And yours will be as much deserved by you.,1.0 +"O, Celia, think! so far as Thought can show,",0.0 +"What Pangs of Grief, what Agonies of Woe,",1.0 +At this dire Resolution seized my Breast!,0.0 +"By all things sad, and terrible possessed.",2.0 +For all my Prayers were to a Tiger made;,1.0 +"A Tiger! worse; for it's beyond dispute,",1.0 +"No Fiend's so cruel as a Reasoning Brute,",3.0 +"Encompassed thus, and hopeless of Relief,",1.0 +With all the Squadrons of despair and Grief:,1.0 +"Ruin ' -- it was not possible to shun,",2.0 +"What could I do, O! What would you have done?",0.0 +"The Hours that passed, till the black Morn returned,",2.0 +With Tears of Blood should be for ever mourned.,0.0 +"When to involve me with consummate Grief,",2.0 +"Beyond Expression, and above Belief,",1.0 +"Madam, the Monster cried, that you may find",3.0 +"Step to the Door, I'll show you such a Sight,",1.0 +Shall overwhelm your Spirits with Delight.,1.0 +"Does not that Wretch, who would Dethrone his King.",0.0 +"You need not now an injured Husband dread,",0.0 +"Living he might, he'll not upbraid you Dead.",2.0 +"'Twas for your sake, I seized upon his Life,",0.0 +He would perhaps have scorned so Chaste a Wife.,0.0 +To keep that Secret none alive should know.,0.0 +"Cursed of all Creatures, for compared with thee,",1.0 +"The Devils, said I, are dull in Cruelty.",0.0 +"OH may that Tongue eternal Vipers breed,",0.0 +"In Fires too hot for Salamanders dwell,",3.0 +The burning Earnest of a hotter Hell.,1.0 +May that vile Lump of execrable Lust,5.0 +"Corrupt alive, and rot into the Dust.",0.0 +"And the worst Torments that the Damned should share,",1.0 +In thine own Person all united bear.,0.0 +"OH Celia, OH my Friend! what Age can show",1.0 +"Sorrows like mine, so exquisite a Woe?",1.0 +"Indeed it does not infinite appear,",1.0 +Because it can't be everlasting here;,0.0 +"But it's so vast, that it can never increase,",3.0 +"And so confirmed, it never can be less.",2.0 +"TO vex thy Soul with these unjust alarms,",1.0 +"Or think a breast so young and soft as mine,",0.0 +Could before resist such charming eyes as thine?,0.0 +"Not love thee! witness all you powers above,",2.0 +"That know my heart to what excess I love,",0.0 +I who never knew what serious passion meant.,2.0 +"At once inspired and fixed my roving heart,",2.0 +"And now I languish out my life for thee,",1.0 +"Silent as night, and pensive as a dove,",3.0 +"Through shades more gloomy than my thoughts I rove,",1.0 +"With downcast eyes as languishing an Air,",2.0 +"The Emblem I of Love, and of Despair.",2.0 +"TO speak for GOD, to sound Religion's Praise,",0.0 +Of sacred Passions the wise Warmth to raise;,2.0 +"TO infuse the Contrite wish to Conquest nigh,",6.0 +And point the Steps mysterious as they lie;,1.0 +"To seize the Wretch in full Career of Lust,",0.0 +"Who would not bless for This the Gift of Speech,",1.0 +And in the Tongue's Beneficence be rich?,1.0 +But who must talk? Not the mere modern Sage,2.0 +Who suits the softened Gospel to the Age;,1.0 +"Who never to raise degenerate Practise strives,",4.0 +But brings the Precept down to Christian's Lives.,2.0 +"Not He, who Maxims from cold Reading took,",2.0 +And never saw Himself but through a Book:,1.0 +"Not He, who Hasty in the Morn of Grace,",0.0 +Soon sinks extinguished as a Comet's Blaze.,2.0 +"Deaf to the Sense, who stuns us with the Sound:",1.0 +"But He, who Silence loves; and never dealt",1.0 +"Guilty you speak, if subtle from within",3.0 +"If unresolved to choose the Better Part,",1.0 +"Your forward Tongue belies your languid Heart,",0.0 +"But then speak safely, when your peaceful Mind",1.0 +"Sprung from his Light your Words, and issuing by his Will.",2.0 +Till Certain Inspiration loose your Tongue:,0.0 +"Express the Precept runs, Do good to all;",1.0 +"Nor adds, Whenever you find an inward Call.",2.0 +"It's GOD commands: no farther Motive seek,",1.0 +"Speak or without, or with Reluctance speak:",3.0 +"To Love's Habitual Sense by Acts aspire,",2.0 +"Discoveries immature of Truth decline,",2.0 +Nor prostitute the Gospel Pearl to Swine.,0.0 +"If spurned by some, where weak on Earth you lie,",0.0 +"If judged a Cheat or Dreamer, where you fly;",0.0 +"To the pert Reasoner if you speak at all,",3.0 +"Expose not Truths Divine to Reason's Rack,",0.0 +"Give him his own beloved Ideas back,",0.0 +"Your Notions till they look like His, dilute;",2.0 +Blind he must be ' -- but save him from Dispute!,1.0 +"And Things begin to show us what they are,",0.0 +More free to such your true Conceptions tell;,1.0 +Yet grafted them on the Arts where they excel.,2.0 +If Paths of various Learning they have traced;,3.0 +"If their cool Judgement longs, yet fears to fix:",2.0 +"Fire, Erudition, Hesitation mix.",0.0 +All Rules are dead: it's from the Heart you draw,1.0 +"A State of Thinking in your Manner show,",0.0 +Others their Lightness and each inward Fault,3.0 +"Quench in the Stillness of your deeper Thought,",1.0 +"Let all your Gestures fixed Attention draw,",0.0 +And wide around diffuse infectious Awe;,0.0 +"Present with GOD by Recollection seem,",0.0 +"Yet present, by your Cheerfulness, with Them.",1.0 +"Without Elation Christian Glories paint,",0.0 +Nor by fond amorous Phrase assume the Saint.,4.0 +"Greet not frail Men with Compliments untrue,",4.0 +"With smiles to Peace confirmed and Conquest due,",0.0 +"There are who watch to adore the Dawn of Grace,",3.0 +"Kind, humble Souls! They with a right good Will",2.0 +Admire his Progress ' -- till he stands stock still.,3.0 +"Speak but to Thirsty Minds of things Divine,",0.0 +"Who strong for Thought, are free in yours to join.",1.0 +"The Busy from his Channel parts with Pain,",1.0 +"Where all, except the Love, is low and flat.",0.0 +Not one Address will different Tempers fit.,1.0 +"The Grave and Gay, the Heavy and the Wit.",1.0 +Wits will sift you; and most Conviction find,0.0 +"Where least it's urged, and seems the least designed.",0.0 +Slow Minds are merely passive; and forget,2.0 +"Truths not inculcated: to these repeat,",3.0 +"Avow your Counsel, nor abstain from Heat.",1.0 +"Some gentle Souls, to gay Indifference true,",0.0 +"Nor hope, nor fear, nor think the more for you.",0.0 +"Let Love turn Babbler here, and Caution sleep,",2.0 +"Blush not for shallow Speech, nor muse for deep;",0.0 +"These to your Humour, not your Sense attend,",1.0 +"It's not the Advice that sways them, but the Friend.",2.0 +"Others have large Recesses in their Breast,",2.0 +With pensive Process all they hear digest:,1.0 +"For all you say will sink, and every Seed will grow.",0.0 +"At first Acquaintance press each Truth severe,",0.0 +"Let harshest Doctrines all your Words engross,",1.0 +And Nature bleeding on the Daily Cross.,1.0 +"Then to yourself the Ascetic Rule enjoin,",1.0 +To others stoop surprisingly benign;,1.0 +"Pitying, if from Themselves with Pain they Part,",2.0 +If stubborn Nature long holds out the Heart.,2.0 +"The more you urge them, you prevail the less;",1.0 +"Let Speech lay by its Roughness to oblige,",2.0 +Your speaking Life will carry on the Siege:,1.0 +"By your Example struck, to GOD they strive",1.0 +"To live, no longer to Themselves alive.",2.0 +"TO ensure the Conquest, seem to quit the Field:",1.0 +Large in your Grants; be their Opinion shown:,1.0 +"Approve, amend ' -- and wind it to your own.",1.0 +"Couch in your Hints, if more resigned they hear,",0.0 +"Both what they will be soon, and what they are:",1.0 +"Pleasing These Words now to their conscious Breast,",2.0 +The anticipating Voice hereafter blessed.,1.0 +"Convictions keen, and Zeal of Prayer infuse.",0.0 +"Let them love Rules; till freed from Passion's Reign,",3.0 +Till blameless Moral Rectitude they gain.,0.0 +The loftier Charms and Energy display,3.0 +And all the Grandeur of the Inner Man.,1.0 +"Previous to Nature's Death, and second Life:",1.0 +"Struck by their own inclement piercing Eye,",0.0 +"Their feeble Virtues blush, subside and die;",0.0 +"They view the Scheme that mimic Nature made,",0.0 +"A fancied Goodness, and Religion's Shade;",1.0 +"With angry Scorn they now reject the whole,",0.0 +"Till Indignation sleeps away to Faith,",0.0 +And GOD's own Power and Peace take root in sacred Wrath.,3.0 +Aim less to Teach than Love. The Work begun,1.0 +"Love to your Friend a Second Office owes,",0.0 +"Into his Soul call down the Eternal Beam,",4.0 +"And longing ask to spend, and to be spent for Him.",1.0 +HER even lines her steady temper show;,0.0 +"Neat as her dress, and polished as her brow;",1.0 +"Strong as her judgement, easy as her air;",1.0 +"Correct though free, and regular though fair:",1.0 +And the same graces over her pen preside,4.0 +That form her manners and her footsteps guide.,2.0 +OH wretch! hath Madness cured thy dire Despair?,1.0 +Yes ' -- All thy Sorrows now are light as Air:,0.0 +"No more you mourn your once loved Husband's Fate,",1.0 +Who bravely perished for a thankless State.,1.0 +For rolling Years thy Piety prevailed;,1.0 +"At length, quite sunk ' -- thy Hope, thy Patience failed:",1.0 +"Distracted now you tread on Life's last Stage,",1.0 +Nor feel the Weight of Poverty and Age:,1.0 +"How blessed in this, compared with those, whose Lot",2.0 +"Dooms them to Miseries, by you forgot!",2.0 +"Now, wild as Winds, you from your Offspring fly,",3.0 +Or fright them from you with distracted Eye;,2.0 +"Rove through the Streets; or sing, devoid of Care,",0.0 +"Sink into Sleep, an Emblem of the Dead,",2.0 +"A Stone thy Pillow, the cold Earth thy Bed.",2.0 +"OH tell it not; let none the Storey hear,",2.0 +Lest Britain's Martial Sons should learn to fear:,0.0 +"And when they next the hostile Wall attack,",0.0 +"Feel the Heart fail, the lifted Arm grow slack;",4.0 +"And pausing cry ' -- Though Death we scorn to dread,",0.0 +"Our Orphan Offspring, must they pine for Bread?",1.0 +See their loved Mothers into Prisons thrown;,3.0 +"And, unrelieved, in iron Bondage groan?",0.0 +"BRITAIN, for this impending Ruin dread;",3.0 +Their Woes call loud for Vengeance on thy Head:,2.0 +"Nor wonder, if Disasters wait your Fleets;",1.0 +"Be timely wise; arrest the uplifted Hand,",2.0 +Ere Pestilence or Famine sweep the Land.,2.0 +"WELL, if it be my time to quit the Stage,",0.0 +Adieu to all the Follies of the Age!,1.0 +"I die in Charity with Fool and Knave,",1.0 +Secure of Happiness beyond the Grave.,1.0 +"And paid for all my Satires, all my Rhymes:",1.0 +"The Poet's Hell, its Tortures, Fiends and Flames,",0.0 +"To this were Trifles, Toys, and empty Names.",1.0 +"With foolish Pride my Heart was never fired,",0.0 +"Nor the vain Itch admire, or be admired;",2.0 +I hoped for no Commission from his Grace;,1.0 +Yet went to COURT! ' -- the Devil would have it so.,1.0 +"But, as the Fool, that in reforming Days",1.0 +"Would go to Mass in jest, as Storey says",0.0 +"Could not but think, to pay his Fine was odd,",0.0 +"Such was my Fate; whom Heaven adjudged as proud,",1.0 +"As prone to Ill, as negligent of Good,",1.0 +"As deep in Debt, without a thought to pay,",0.0 +"As vain, as idle, and as false, as they",1.0 +"Who live at Court, for going once that Way!",0.0 +"Scarce was I entered, when behold! there came",0.0 +A Thing which Adam had been posed to name;,0.0 +"Noah had refused it lodging in his Ark,",0.0 +Where all the Race of Reptiles might embark:,0.0 +"Nay, all that lying Travellers can feign.",1.0 +"This Thing has travelled, speaks each Language too,",0.0 +And knows what's fit for every State to do;,0.0 +"Of whose best Phrase and courtly Accent joined,",2.0 +He forms one Tongue exotic and refined.,1.0 +"The Doctor's Wormwood Style, the Hash of Tongues,",1.0 +"The whole Artillery of the Terms of War,",1.0 +"These I could bear; but not a Rogue so civil,",1.0 +Whose Tongue can compliment you to the Devil.,2.0 +"A Tongue that can cheat Widows, cancel Scores,",2.0 +"He spies me out. I whisper, gracious God!",1.0 +What Sin of mine could merit such a Rod?,2.0 +That all the Shot of Dullness now must be,0.0 +"Well met he cries and happy sure for each,",1.0 +"For I am pleased to learn, and you to teach;",2.0 +"What Speech esteem you most? ' -- The King's, said I,",2.0 +"But the best Words? ' -- OH Sir, the Dictionary.",4.0 +You miss my aim; I mean the most acute,0.0 +"And perfect Speaker? ' -- Onslow, past dispute.",1.0 +"But Sir, of Writers? ' -- Swift, for closer Style,",0.0 +And Ho ' -- y for a Period of a Mile.,3.0 +"Why yes, it's granted, these indeed may pass;",1.0 +"Nay troth, the Apostles, though perhaps too rough",4.0 +Had once a pretty Gift of Tongues enough.,0.0 +Yet these were all poor Gentlemen! I dare,2.0 +"Thus others Talents having nicely shown,",1.0 +He came by soft Transition to his own:,1.0 +"Till I cried out, You prove yourself so able,",0.0 +"For had they found a Linguist half so good,",0.0 +I make no question but the Tower had stood.,3.0 +"Obliging Sir! I love you, I profess,",1.0 +But wish you liked Retreat a little less;,0.0 +"Spirits like you, believe me, should be seen,",2.0 +"And like Ulysses visit Courts, and Men.",0.0 +"So much alone, to speak plain Truth between us",1.0 +"But as for Courts, forgive me if I say,",2.0 +No Lessons now are taught the Spartan way:,1.0 +"Though in his Pictures Lust be full displayed,",0.0 +"And though the Court show Vice exceeding clear,",2.0 +"None should, by my Advice, learn Virtue there.",3.0 +"At this, entranced, he lifts his Hands and Eyes,",1.0 +O it's the sweetest of all earthly things,2.0 +"To gaze on Princes, and to talk of Kings!",1.0 +"Then happy Man who shows the Tombs! said I,",2.0 +He dwells amid the Royal Family;,0.0 +"He, every Day, from King to King can walk,",0.0 +"Of all our Harries, all our Edwards talk,",0.0 +"And get by speaking Truth of Monarchs dead,",1.0 +"What few can of the living, Ease and Bread.",1.0 +"Lord! Sir, a mere Mechanic! strangely low,",1.0 +And coarse of Phrase ' -- your English all are so.,0.0 +"How elegant your Frenchman? ' -- Mine, d'ye mean?",2.0 +"I have but one, I hope the Fellow's clean.",1.0 +"O! Sir, politely well! nay, let me die,",1.0 +"Not Sir, my only ' -- I have better still,",1.0 +"Wild to get loose, his Patience I provoke,",4.0 +"Mistake, confound, object, at all he spoke.",0.0 +"But as coarse Iron, sharpened, mangles more,",2.0 +"And Itch most hurts, when angered to a Sore;",1.0 +"So when you plague a Fool, it's still the Curse,",0.0 +You only make the Matter worse and worse.,0.0 +He past it over; put on an easy Smile,0.0 +"He asks, What News? I tell him of new Plays.",1.0 +"Between each Drop it gives, stays half a Minute;",1.0 +Loath to enrich me with too quick Replies,4.0 +"By little, and by little, drops his Lies.",1.0 +"When the Queen frowned, or smiled, he knows; and what",3.0 +A subtle Minister may make of that?,1.0 +"Who sins with whom? who got his Pension Rug,",0.0 +Or quickened a Reversion by a Drug?,2.0 +"And whether to a Bishop, or a Whore?",2.0 +"Who, having lost his Credit, pawned his Rent,",0.0 +Is therefore fit to have a Government?,2.0 +"Who in the Secret, deals in Stocks secure,",0.0 +"And cheats unknowing Widow, and the Poor?",1.0 +"Who makes a Trust, or Charity, a Job,",1.0 +And gets an Ac of Parliament to rob?,4.0 +"Why Turnpikes rose, and why no Cit, nor Clown",2.0 +"Can gratis see the Country, or the Town?",1.0 +And last which proves him wiser still than all,0.0 +"I puke, I nauseate, ' -- yet he thrusts in more;",0.0 +"Like a big Wife at sight of loathsome Meat,",3.0 +"Ready to cast, I yawn, I sigh, I sweat:",2.0 +"Swears every Place entailed for Years to come,",1.0 +In sure Succession to the Day of Doom:,1.0 +"He names the Price for every Office paid,",0.0 +"And says our Wars thrive ill, because delayed;",1.0 +"Nay hints, it's by Connivance of the Court,",3.0 +"Than mine, to find a Subject stayed and wise,",1.0 +Already half turned Traitor by surprise.,2.0 +"As in the Pox, some give it, to get free;",1.0 +"And quick to swallow me, methought I saw",4.0 +One of our Giant Statutes open its Jaw!,3.0 +"In that nice Moment, as another Lie",2.0 +"Away he flies. He bows, and bows again;",0.0 +And close as Umbra joins the dirty Train.,0.0 +When half his Nose is in his Patron's Ear.,0.0 +I blessed my Stars! but still afraid to see,0.0 +"All the Court filled with stranger things than he,",3.0 +"Run out as fast, as one that pays his Bail",1.0 +"And dreads more Actions, hurries from a Jail.",1.0 +"Bear me, some God! o quickly bear me hence",0.0 +"To wholesome Solitude, the Nurse of Sense:",0.0 +"Here Contemplation prunes her ruffled Wings,",0.0 +And the free Soul looks down to pity Kings.,1.0 +"Here still Reflection led on sober Thought,",0.0 +"Which Fancy coloured, and a Vision wrought.",1.0 +"A Vision Hermits can to Hell transport,",1.0 +And bring even me to see the Damned at Court.,3.0 +"Saw such a Scene of Envy, Sin, and Hate.",0.0 +"Base Fear becomes the Guilty, not the Free;",1.0 +"Shall I, the Terror of this sinful Town,",1.0 +"Care, if a liveried Lord or smile or frown?",0.0 +"Who cannot flatter, and detest who can,",1.0 +"OH my fair Mistress, Truth! Shall I quit thee,",3.0 +"The busy, idle Blockheads of the Ball,",1.0 +"Hast thou, OH Sun! beheld an emptier sort,",5.0 +Than such as swell this Bladder of a Court?,2.0 +It ought to bring all Courtiers on their backs.,1.0 +"Such painted Puppets, such a varnished Race",1.0 +"No wonder some Folks bow, and think them Kings.",2.0 +"And now the British Youth, engaged no more",1.0 +"At Fig's or White's, with Felons, or a Whore,",1.0 +"Pay their last Duty to the Court, and come",4.0 +As the fair Fields they sold to look so fine.,2.0 +"Our Court may justly to our Stage give Rules,",2.0 +And why not Players strut in Courtiers Clothes?,2.0 +"For these are Actors too, as well as those:",1.0 +"Wants reach all States; they beg but better dressed,",1.0 +And all is splendid Poverty at best.,1.0 +"He boarding her, she striking sail to him.",1.0 +For both the Beauty and the Wit are bought.,1.0 +"The Presence seems, with things so richly odd,",0.0 +"Adjust their Clothes, and to Confession draw",1.0 +"Each idle Atom, or erroneous Straw;",3.0 +"What Terrors would distract each conscious Soul,",0.0 +"Convicted of that mortal Sin, a Hole!",1.0 +"Thus finished and corrected to a hair,",3.0 +"With Band of Lily, and with Cheek of Rose,",1.0 +"Sweeter than Sharon, in immaculate trim,",4.0 +Neatness itself impertinent in him.,3.0 +"Let but the Ladies smile, and they are blessed;",1.0 +"Prodigious! how the Things Protest, Protest:",1.0 +"Nature made every Fop to plague his Brother,",3.0 +Whose Air cries Arm! whose very Look's an Oath:,1.0 +"What though his Soul be Bullet, Body Buff?",0.0 +"Like battering Rams, beats open every Door;",3.0 +"And with a Face as red, and as awry,",2.0 +Has yet a strange Ambition to look worse:,2.0 +"Confounds the Civil, keeps the Rude in awe,",0.0 +As Men from Jails to Execution go;,0.0 +"And lined with Giants, deadlier than them all:",1.0 +"And shake all over, like a discovered Spy.",2.0 +Courts are no match for Wits so weak as mine;,3.0 +"Charge them with Heaven's Artillery, bold Divine!",4.0 +"From such alone the Great Rebukes endure,",1.0 +It's mine to wash a few slight Stains; but theirs,2.0 +"To deluge Sin, and drown a Court in Tears.",0.0 +"In time to come, may pass for Holy Writ.",0.0 +The smirking daisy and the cowslip tall,1.0 +"May walk the mead, or wander near the brook;",0.0 +The liquid mirror may reflect the tree,1.0 +"Their fluttering tenants, crowding cliff and spray,",2.0 +"May the green curtain tight and closely draw,",2.0 +"To hide the habitation, wove with care,",0.0 +And all the fostering secrecy of love.,3.0 +"The gilded insect basking in the sun,",1.0 +"Fanned by his light, and many a coloured wing,",2.0 +Now shows with how much care Nature adorns,4.0 +Her smallest work. What are all these to me!,1.0 +My thoughts from pleasure and from former joys,1.0 +Start wild away; Amusement's silver cords,1.0 +Bind on the fancy no one form of bliss;,0.0 +"I try to lose myself, but still pursued",1.0 +"By Fear, I only fly to agony of mind,",1.0 +"There lose the sight of all but one sad grief,",1.0 +"Hangs low the head, where Beauty soft had wove",1.0 +"Those sweet entanglements that hold the eye,",1.0 +And through her silken veil would fondly show,1.0 +The various workings of the virtuous soul;,5.0 +"The heart looked through, and spread along the face",2.0 +The sentimental trait that marked the mind.,0.0 +"Compassion oft would bud into a tear,",0.0 +Would drop like gall from the satiric tongue.,1.0 +"Worth she approved, however mean arrayed;",3.0 +And greatness could not charm but by the soul.,1.0 +Her accents fell with such a melting sound,1.0 +"On every word that clothed her modest thought,",0.0 +That sweet Expression told the careless heart,0.0 +Whenever she spoke she could not speak in vain!,2.0 +Your eye from hers would learn a mode of speech,1.0 +"Which, when she pleased, could useless make the ear,",0.0 +"And ere the sentence left its hallowed cave,",0.0 +Would tell what thought was venturing next abroad.,2.0 +Nor had Disguise in all her face or soul,0.0 +One place to hide her poor and artful head;,0.0 +And honest Friendship at the portal stood,0.0 +To point or tell you what was done within.,0.0 +"It's not for me to hold the aching head,",1.0 +"And cordials in my hands and eyes to bear,",0.0 +"To cheer her longer with a ray of hope,",1.0 +"And promise Ease, that wanders with Tomorrow;",2.0 +And ere the wish be formed the wish foresee;,0.0 +To me such happiness must never belong!,4.0 +"Myself who tax the tenderness of friends,",2.0 +"Else, else this drooping, withering plant had long,",3.0 +OH Father of the Universe! it's thou,2.0 +For these continued grateful let us be;,1.0 +"If taken from us, let us firm believe",1.0 +Let us submit.   But o! if it's thy will,4.0 +"To save my friend, and hold her yet in life,",0.0 +OH God of Heaven! how thankful shall I be.,1.0 +"If not, let me, all humble, strive to yield,",0.0 +Assured that thou hast everlasting store,1.0 +Of endless bliss for every soul like hers;,0.0 +"For true religion purified her heart, ' --",0.0 +"Ran through the current of her blameless life,",0.0 +And made it one continued hymn to Thee!,1.0 +"To names ignoble, born to be forgot!",0.0 +"In vain recorded in historic page,",0.0 +"They court the notice of a future age,",1.0 +And dark oblivion soon absorbs them all.,2.0 +"So when a child, as playful children use,",0.0 +"Has burned to tinder a stale last year's news,",3.0 +"The flame extinct, he views the roving fire,",0.0 +"There goes the parson, o! illustrious spark,",3.0 +"And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.",4.0 +"WHY weeps the Genius of the arid waste,",1.0 +Can beings pure like thee of sorrow taste ' --,1.0 +Those next to Angel ever breathe a sigh!,0.0 +That the dear privilege to feel ' -- to sigh ' --,3.0 +"To bid the tear from sacred pity flow,",0.0 +"Where the preeminence that Angels boast,",2.0 +"If coldly conscious, in eternal rest",0.0 +The keenest feelings of the human mind,1.0 +"Exist more keenly in the angelic frame,",3.0 +"More elevated, poignant, and refined ' --",1.0 +As earth's more sordid than ethereal flame.,3.0 +Wonder not therefore that an Angel's brows,1.0 +"Thus drooping, should no cheering lustre shed;",2.0 +But give attention ' -- so thy fate allows!,1.0 +While I record the woes for which it fled.,2.0 +"Behold this plain, stretched by Creation's hand,",2.0 +When each chaotic element aroused,1.0 +Sprung forth elastic at the dread command ' --,1.0 +"Fled to its home, and there obedient housed.",3.0 +Guiltless the moments of this plain have run;,3.0 +"Each closing year, and summer's happy prime,",0.0 +In sweet simplicity its hours have spun.,1.0 +"And verdant carpet softly spread between,",0.0 +"Mark, where light fairies nightly trip their rounds,",2.0 +"And birds of solitude flit musing by,",2.0 +"And sometime too the bird that sweetly sings,",1.0 +Chants forth its pleasures to the lucid sky; ' --,2.0 +"While in the blushing chambers of the west,",1.0 +"A thousand tender dies their tints prepare,",0.0 +"Which rapidly the horizon round invest,",3.0 +Streaming prismatic glories through the air!,3.0 +"That russet mountain, on whose farthest side",1.0 +"The modest beams of morn first ever play,",1.0 +"Till from its top the ardent sun looks down,",3.0 +"Owns in its riven base a cavern dank,",0.0 +"Where oozing, filtered drops of doubtful green,",0.0 +"Hardened, suspended, hang like willows lank,",3.0 +In that resplendent grove a hermit read,0.0 +"Mysterious nature's laws that never swerve,",2.0 +"His life, the virtues and religion led",1.0 +To sanctify the space you now observe.,1.0 +"Here, rapt in SECOND SIGHT he frequent saw",0.0 +"The future scene appear, and fade away;",0.0 +"His country groan beneath the feudal law,",0.0 +"Or glut with power, the tyrant of the day:",3.0 +"Watching each turn, and shadings of its fate,",3.0 +At length with pride he saw his Scotland give,0.0 +"Monarchs, to wear its rival's splendid crown;",1.0 +"Blessed in THE UNION, saw each kingdom live ' --",0.0 +Bound in one Empire ' -- tasting one Renown!,1.0 +"Sacred, to visions grand like these, was kept",3.0 +"The varied circle this horizon bounds,",1.0 +"And when with Seers long past, the Hermit slept,",1.0 +"And horrid war her crimson flag unfurled,",0.0 +"And dread rebellion, with its sanguine hand,",1.0 +"'Twas thus this hallowed spot misfortune spared,",1.0 +"Nor war nor misery in its precincts dwelled,",2.0 +"No cry of woe its peaceful boundaries scared,",1.0 +No mother by her bleeding offspring knelt.,3.0 +"Did turbid clans ever press this mossy heath,",3.0 +"'Twas not with hostile thoughts, nor vows of death,",0.0 +"They came not here to conquer, but to yield.",1.0 +"Here hath the oath of mutual peace been bound,",2.0 +"Here melting Chiefs their melting foes embrace,",0.0 +"And all the sounds that martial joy breathes round,",1.0 +"But rolling years have drawn their veil between,",0.0 +"Nay ages, born of ages, past away,",1.0 +"Since the soft calm which blessed this modest green,",3.0 +While vice and shame their haunts at distance keep;,0.0 +"Unknown alike to violence, and fear,",1.0 +"Here terrors shrink not, and no sorrows weep.",2.0 +But now approaches fast the hour of change;,0.0 +Here shall no more the feathery fairies range ' --,2.0 +"The late nocturnal revel, was their last!",1.0 +"See, quick advance the numerous motley crowd,",3.0 +"Mechanics, Pedants, Traders pour along;",0.0 +"Their joy breaks forth in carols rude and loud,",1.0 +"The verdant face of this once happy plain,",2.0 +"That evil first, and then an endless train,",0.0 +Follow the footsteps of yonder graceful Fair!,2.0 +"The future Town, submissive to their will,",1.0 +"Rises from Earth, and spreads its skirts around ' --",2.0 +"O! that the marble, in its quarry still,",0.0 +"With it, the social evils all rush in,",2.0 +"The opposing passions that distract mankind,",2.0 +Nor will one petty vice remain behind.,1.0 +"Slander, and avarice, and penury scant,",5.0 +"The proud man's scorn, the rich man's sturdy mien,",2.0 +"All haste to form the varied, wretched scene.",0.0 +And shall the mighty woes of hapless love,0.0 +"Already sure, the dismal sounds I hear,",0.0 +"The broken vow accused, the rending sigh ' --",0.0 +"Rent from all joy, she only knew to die!",0.0 +Yonder a robber skulks; a murderer here!,3.0 +Haste and reflect within thy secret bower ' --,2.0 +"Ponder the change, and be thy grief sincere!",2.0 +"Here paused the Genius! Age bent low its head,",1.0 +Its hoary tresses floating on the wind;,1.0 +"O bright Intelligence! then firmly said,",1.0 +Permit a mortal to unveil his mind.,1.0 +"Sad is your prophecy, and o too sure",2.0 +Fate will its utmost latitude fill up;,3.0 +"Each promised ill it's fixed we must endure,",0.0 +And drink from sorrow's still replenished cup; ' --,0.0 +"But not unmixed the bitter draught shall flow,",0.0 +"And over it, joys their downy mantle fling.",2.0 +"The social blessings too will haste along,",0.0 +"And on the spot where vice shall lead its train,",1.0 +Illustrious virtues eagerly shall throng.,3.0 +"Yonder rude circuit, where the obtrusive fern",5.0 +"In sullen vegetation chills the glance,",0.0 +A few revolving halcyon months shall turn,2.0 +And every slight impurity absorb:,1.0 +"There from the loom the costly web be brought,",1.0 +"There the rich damask spread its fruit and flowers,",2.0 +"For royal tables, and for halls of state:",1.0 +"There the transparent lawn display its powers,",1.0 +"To soften beauty, and new charms create.",2.0 +"Proud Manchester will here her fame divide,",2.0 +"Her varied works, her fashion, and her taste;",1.0 +"The stripe so well disposed, the glowing bloom",0.0 +"Go MANCHESTER, and weep thy slighted loom ' --",3.0 +Shall foreign prows be pointed to our shores;,1.0 +"Pouring its tribute, for our native stores.",3.0 +"Thus blessed, this village shall some unborn age",2.0 +"Behold a city, graced with many a dome;",2.0 +"Of note in commerce, and of arts the stage,",1.0 +"Where taste industrious, never shall want a home.",4.0 +"If here the craving miser heaps his gold,",0.0 +And frowns upon the shivering needy wretch;,2.0 +"Here shall benevolence her charger hold,",1.0 +"And pity, wide her fostering arms outstretch.",2.0 +Soft elegance shall bid around us rise,2.0 +"The spell all feel, but never can describe,",1.0 +"Scarce tangible by thought, the pen it flies,",2.0 +"Pride cannot catch it, nor importance bribe; ' --",2.0 +"But formed of all, the charming phantom rose,",0.0 +"Adorns each time and place with graces fit,",0.0 +But in domestic hours supremely glows!,2.0 +To spread the fascinating sweet around?,0.0 +"When through the Sex, great Nature beauty shared,",1.0 +"Who knows not, here the richest gift was found?",0.0 +"Thus, though disastrous love should find a grave,",2.0 +"Or mourn the violated vow of bliss,",1.0 +"Yet here shall faithful Love the maiden save,",0.0 +And parents cheer her with the nuptial kiss.,1.0 +"The song of rapture shall the bridegroom pour,",1.0 +"As oft he wanders through the sunny glades,",1.0 +And brides shall bless the sacred binding hour;,0.0 +Whispering their transports in the secret shades;,1.0 +"For shades SHALL be, where now the thistle red",0.0 +Spreads over the heath its slender prickly stalks;,3.0 +"For Nature's self to Commerce ever yields,",0.0 +"Commerce, whose power each hemisphere adorns ' --",4.0 +"Yes, that blessed power will here exert her force,",4.0 +"And wooing sterile nature to its arms,",1.0 +And native moors conceal with foreign charms.,0.0 +But happier still! LEARNING shall raise the pile,4.0 +Designed the fret of ages to withstand;,1.0 +"Within, the classic scholar form his style,",0.0 +And pour instruction through the listening land.,1.0 +Ah! from its walls some future sage may burst,0.0 +To charm or awe the centuries to come;,1.0 +"Spreading our glory round the distant skies,",2.0 +And mark us ENVIED by more happy climes.,1.0 +"Platonic ethics, system plain, and true,",0.0 +Shall there be honoured in the tutored mind.,0.0 +"A HUME! ' -- a second HUME from thence may shine,",0.0 +"In lustre like the first, but o his heart",1.0 +"Shall humbly melt before Religion's shrine,",0.0 +And prompt his talents to a better part!,1.0 +A ROBERTSON shall bid the copious stream,3.0 +"Dark ages make with light reverted gleam,",1.0 +"To bless a famished people spends its wealth,",0.0 +Pours out itself to renovate their blood ' --,2.0 +By Heaven supplied with future stores of health.,0.0 +"A polished STUART too will then be known,",0.0 +To scatter roses over the slandered Fair;,2.0 +"To bind the cypress round the riven crown,",0.0 +"And steal our tears, for miseries so rare!",1.0 +"First, in the climax of the literate few,",3.0 +"Who from the mould of time still bright arise,",1.0 +And every rapid century keep in view.,2.0 +"And ah! while future Bayes luxuriant spread,",2.0 +Shall not the Myrtle in our gardens glow?,0.0 +"Yes; while the laurel crowns the manly head,",0.0 +"Is poured the pitying, melancholy note!",2.0 +Thus the sad Nightingale throughout the night,4.0 +Her fond complaint rings through the leafy grove;,2.0 +"Be found, amid some distant frozen waves,",0.0 +"Shall bloom like that Corsica., she from oblivion saves.",4.0 +"Perchance that Isle, convulsive nature tore",2.0 +"When the proud marbles which adorned its shore,",2.0 +"Were dashed on rocks, and made the billows' sport.",0.0 +"When the mad mother, and the swallowed child,",3.0 +"The tottering palace, and the tower prone,",3.0 +"Gave at one view, ruin so vast and wild,",5.0 +As chills the quickened flesh almost to stone.,1.0 +Mid the Norwegian seas an island sprung ' --,3.0 +And all its grandeur by her muse be sung!,1.0 +"She'll lift the veil of time, and show us how,",0.0 +"What, the vast prospects of the unborn NOW",4.0 +"And all its figures, in her magic glass.",0.0 +She'll show that land which when beneath the skies,0.0 +"Of soft Italia, bloomed in scented flowers,",0.0 +"Painted its surface with the richest dies,",3.0 +"And burst in hills, and gave its shade in bowers; ' --",0.0 +"She'll show it then, divest of every sweet",0.0 +That once endeared it to the eye of taste;,1.0 +No soft embroidery over the snowy waste.,5.0 +That roar when rigid winds become more bland ' --,0.0 +"No gentle hill, but mountains vast she'll show,",1.0 +"Where wild volcanoes from their summits glow,",1.0 +And give the plains beneath an awful charm.,0.0 +"Arcades and temples, perhaps her muse will sing,",2.0 +"But not of marble formed, nor part for part ' --",0.0 +Nature will here the noble sculpture bring,1.0 +"Wildly magnificent, not cramped by art.",3.0 +"The arrested cataract a dome will form,",2.0 +"And rapid torrents bound, in pillars rise,",0.0 +Their capitals be sculptured from a storm ' --,2.0 +"On these the polar sun will pour its beams,",1.0 +"Now strong, now fading into fainter gleams ' --",2.0 +"And then at once, a ruddy blaze infuse.",0.0 +"No colder genius on its utmost stretch,",3.0 +"Recoils, and wishes for familiar hours;",1.0 +"And gladly yields to common life, its powers.",0.0 +Who draw from nature with a skill so true?,1.0 +"In every varying mode it stands confessed,",2.0 +"A power peculiar, all her portraits fill.",2.0 +"When lines are bold and strong, a vulgar pen",0.0 +May take the sketch; it asks no mighty skill,1.0 +But human nature in its faintest die,0.0 +Burney detects; drags it to open day ' --,4.0 +"And bids it glare, with truth's pervading ray.",0.0 +"The huddled beings of the common mass,",1.0 +"Who to themselves appear of equal sort,",1.0 +"Touched by her spear, they sudden spring to sight,",0.0 +But not new formed ' -- she shows them as they are;,2.0 +"She moulds no character, but gives the light",2.0 +"Which makes them clear, as Herschel sees a star!",0.0 +"Yes, such as these, thy plain may one day boast:",2.0 +"Laurels will then surround our lettered coast,",2.0 +"And here, the muses from Parnassus range.",2.0 +"Unknown, and useless in the general scale,",0.0 +"Slumbering its ages in ignoble rest,",1.0 +"Scorned, or unheeded in the historic tale,",4.0 +"Shall hence assume a rank, confess a name ' --",0.0 +"Nor hid a barren disregarded spot,",0.0 +"But living in the breath of future fame,",0.0 +"Thus stopped the Sage; ' -- the Genius paused awhile,",1.0 +"First raised her eye with a celestial smile,",2.0 +"Which seemed to promise she would mourn no more,",2.0 +Then in sweet tone ' -- O man of snowy years!,1.0 +"It's truth inspires thee, and her force I own;",1.0 +And bad my fading joys again be blown.,0.0 +"Never gives a misery, but he sends a cure;",1.0 +In the same fields which poisonous herbs endure.,5.0 +"To thee I leave the bliss which just men know,",2.0 +"Over thy white tresses they shall ever flow,",3.0 +And cheer the anxious moments of thy end!,1.0 +"Then darting upwards as the Sage adored,",1.0 +"A blushing radiance marked the path she soared,",0.0 +Till lost amid the blaze of azure day!,0.0 +"SOLEMN is night, when Silence holds her reign,",2.0 +And the hushed winds die on the heaving main;,1.0 +"When no short gleam of scattered light appears,",1.0 +Then those whom inward cares deprive of rest,0.0 +Pour forth the secret sorrows of the breast.,2.0 +From whence young HENRY breathed his thoughtful song;,1.0 +"Pacing the deck, he threw his eyes around",2.0 +"The patient winds scarce whistled over the waist,",3.0 +The burning waves the vessel's prow embraced;,0.0 +With northern meteors trembling through the sky.,3.0 +"Eternal Power! he cried, with justice fraught,",2.0 +"O! teach a wretch to kerb each stubborn thought,",0.0 +"Whose passions reason's powers no more restrain,",2.0 +Grown wanton mid intolerable pain.,2.0 +My faithful heart by strong affection torn;,0.0 +"A willing exile on the dangerous main,",4.0 +"And, tortured by imagination, burn;",1.0 +"Sighs in a natural cadence close each song,",0.0 +And tones of anguish vibrate on my tongue.,1.0 +"All is now hushed, still as the silent grave,",1.0 +"The breeze scarce swells the smooth unruffled wave,",1.0 +"Which glittering with celestial lustre bright,",3.0 +Reflects the spangled heaven's ethereal light:,4.0 +"O! how sublime this tract, for man designed!",1.0 +Vast the perceptions of his rapid mind!,3.0 +"Strongly to earth his young affections cling,",2.0 +While Fancy waves her bright and various wing;,2.0 +"But soon each hope of earthly bliss is crossed,",0.0 +"Nipped in the bud, or in possession lost;",0.0 +"Blushing, our empty wishes we survey,",3.0 +When we our passions with their motives weigh.,1.0 +"Deeply I feel this still and solemn hour,",2.0 +Impressed with GOD'S immeasurable power;,0.0 +And thoughts immense pour in wherever I turn.,3.0 +"How much man errs, whose soul, with thought sublime,",1.0 +Looks on towards endless bliss through boundless time!,0.0 +"When he to earthly passions gives dire sway,",1.0 +Or mourns those joys which of themselves decay!,1.0 +"THE Strawberry blooms upon its lowly bed,",2.0 +Plant of my native soil! ' -- the Lime may fling,0.0 +"More potent fragrance on the zephyr's wing,",1.0 +"The milky Cocoa richer juices shed,",0.0 +"But not, like thee, to fond remembrance bring",0.0 +The vanished hours of life's enchanting spring;,0.0 +Short calendar of joys for ever fled!,2.0 +"Where, veiled in leaves, thy fruit of rosy hue",0.0 +Lurked on its pliant stem with modest grace.,0.0 +"But ah! when thought would later years renew,",0.0 +"Alas, successive sorrows crowd the space!",0.0 +"In this soft Amorous Age now Love is grown,",5.0 +"And the fond Beau loves his half score aday,",4.0 +The Ladies too almost as Vain as they;,1.0 +"Spare me, you cruel Powers, let me not prove,",0.0 +The only Victim of a lasting Love.,1.0 +"I had my share three tedious Years a Slave,",2.0 +"When spite of Vows he proved unjust at last,",0.0 +"In distant Shades contending Months I past,",0.0 +"Thought I could see the Youth at my return,",1.0 +With gay Indifference and Unconcern.,1.0 +"I longed to know the Temper of my Heart,",1.0 +And see if Passion could outlive desert;,1.0 +"But this my Curiosity has won,",2.0 +To know alas! I am again undone:,1.0 +"I thought my self with Resolution blessed,",0.0 +But the soft Gods came crowding to my Breast.,5.0 +"The sporting Boys delight in Amorous Pain,",2.0 +And flocked in hast to Revel here again;,0.0 +And every Spark revives with fresh desire:,0.0 +"I Gaze and Sigh, and wish I'm just the same,",0.0 +As the first Transports of my blooming Flame.,0.0 +"Almighty Love thy Power to me is known,",1.0 +Without new Tortures I'll thy Godhead own;,3.0 +"But if I'm doomed to Love may my Fate be,",1.0 +Rather than him to love each Face I see.,1.0 +"Tis Sin against the custom of the Nation,",2.0 +"To love but one and all this while with Passion,",1.0 +I'd rather be the shifting Fool in Fashion.,0.0 +"Then if I'm tortured with Variety,",2.0 +I shan't be blamed for Nonconformity.,1.0 +"I Am, cried Apollo, when Daphne he wooed,",4.0 +"And panting for breath, the coy virgin pursued,",6.0 +"When his wisdom, in manner most ample, expressed",6.0 +"Nor for lays, nor sweet song, the fair fugitive stays:",5.0 +"I'm the god of the harp ' -- stop, my fairest ' -- in vain;",4.0 +"Nor the harp, nor the harper, could fetch her again.",2.0 +"Thou fond god of wisdom, then alter thy phrase,",7.0 +"Bid her view thy young bloom, and thy ravishing rays,",4.0 +"Tell her less of thy knowledge, and more of thy charms,",2.0 +"And, my life for't, the damsel shall fly to thy arms.",4.0 +"Shine forth, You Planets, with distinguished Light,",2.0 +As when You hallowed first this Happy Night:,0.0 +"Again transmit your Friendly Beams to Earth,",0.0 +"And Thou, propitious Star, whose sacred Power",1.0 +"Presided over the Monarch's Natal Hour,",3.0 +"Thy Radiant Voyages for ever run,",1.0 +"Yielding to none but Cynthia, and the Sun:",3.0 +With Thy fair Aspect still illustrate Heaven:,3.0 +Kindly preserve what Thou hast greatly given:,3.0 +Thy Influence for thy Anna We implore:,2.0 +Prolong One Life; and Britain asks no more.,1.0 +"Than to be Great in War, and Good in Peace:",1.0 +"For Thought no higher Wish of Bliss can frame,",1.0 +Than to enjoy that Virtue Still the Same.,1.0 +"Entire and sure the Monarch's Rule must prove,",3.0 +And Orders that which We should first Desire:,1.0 +Our vanquished Wills that pleasing Force obey:,0.0 +Her Goodness takes our Liberty away:,1.0 +And haughty Britain yields to Arbitrary Sway.,0.0 +"Let the young Austrian then Her Terrors bear,",4.0 +"Great as He is, Her Delegate in War:",1.0 +That in these Dreadful Isles a Woman Reigns.,0.0 +While the Bright Queen does on Her Subjects shower,1.0 +The gentle Blessings of Her softer Power;,1.0 +"Gives sacred Morals to a vicious Age,",2.0 +"To Temples Zeal, and Manners to the Stage;",1.0 +"Bids the chaste Muse without a Blush appear,",3.0 +And Wit be that which Heaven and She may hear.,1.0 +Minerva thus to Perseus lent Her Shield;,2.0 +"Secure of Conquest, sent Him to the Field:",1.0 +The Hero acted what the Queen ordained:,0.0 +Mean time amid Her Native Temples sat,1.0 +"Taught them in Laws and Letters to excel,",1.0 +"In Acting justly, and in Writing well.",1.0 +"Thus while She did Her various Power dispose,",4.0 +"The World was freed from Tyrants, Wars, and Woes:",0.0 +"Virtue was taught in Verse, and Athen's Glory rose.",2.0 +"Shall I be one, of those obsequious Fools,",3.0 +"That square there lives, by Customs scanty Rules;",0.0 +"Condemned for ever, to the puny Curse,",1.0 +"That all the business of my Life must be,",1.0 +"And round a Circle, of nice visits Dance,",2.0 +Nor for my Life beyond the Chalk advance:,1.0 +"The Devil Censure, stands to guard the same,",0.0 +"So when my Friends, in a facetious Vein,",1.0 +"With Mirth and Wit, a while can entertain;",0.0 +"Though never so pleasant, yet I must not stay,",2.0 +"If a commanding Clock, bids me away:",3.0 +"But with a sudden start, as in a Fright,",1.0 +"I must be gone indeed, it's after Eight.",0.0 +"Sure these restraints, with such regret we bear,",3.0 +"That dreaded Censure, can't be more severe,",0.0 +"Which has no Terror, if we did not fear;",2.0 +"I'll not be scared, from Innocent delight:",1.0 +"Whatever is not vicious, I dare do,",4.0 +"I'll never to the Idol Custom bow,",1.0 +Unless it suits with my own Humour too.,1.0 +"Some boast their Fetters, of Formality,",2.0 +"Fancy they ornamental Bracelets be,",2.0 +"To their dull fulsome Rules, I'd not be tied,",2.0 +For all the Flattery that exalts their Pride:,2.0 +"I lose my Jest, cause Women must not speak.",1.0 +"A little China, to advance the Show,",1.0 +"My Prayer Book, and seven Champions, or so.",1.0 +"My Pen if ever used employed must be,",0.0 +"And what is necessary amongst the rest,",2.0 +"My daring Pen, will bolder Sallies make,",0.0 +"And like my self, an unchecked freedom take;",5.0 +"Not chained to the nice Order of my Sex,",3.0 +And with restraints my wishing Soul perplex:,1.0 +"I'll blush at Sin, and not what some call Shame,",1.0 +"Secure my Virtue, slight precarious Fame.",2.0 +"This Courage speaks me, Brave, it's surely worse,",0.0 +"To keep those Rules, which privately we Curse:",1.0 +"And I'll appeal, to all the formal Saints,",1.0 +With what reluctance they endure restraints.,1.0 +"Thou, on whom all my worldly Joys depend,",0.0 +Accept these Numbers; and with Pleasure hear,1.0 +"While conscious Virtue takes the Muse's Part,",0.0 +"Glows on thy Cheek, and warms thy generous Heart.",2.0 +And Rows of Diamonds recommend the Fair;,0.0 +"Charmed with her Pride, and Luxury of Dress:",1.0 +"Far other Joys thy just Ambition move,",1.0 +To cherish and reward a Husband's Love;,1.0 +"To slight vain Titles, in Retreat to shine,",1.0 +"Shun public Praise, and call a Poet thine.",2.0 +"And know, you Fair, a Poet can supply,",1.0 +"When the vain Business of your Lives is over,",3.0 +"And the Glass frightens, whom it charmed before;",2.0 +"When not a Trace remains of what you were,",0.0 +And not a Compliment salutes your Ear;,1.0 +"Without one Virtue, to redeem Respect,",1.0 +"Without one Beauty, to forbid Neglect;",1.0 +The gloomy Setting of a Life misspent;,1.0 +Who gave up Show for Happiness and Fame.,1.0 +"OH! If the Muse, not uninspired, divine,",2.0 +Thy bright Example shall for ever shine;,0.0 +"Teach the wise Virgin, where to fix her Choice,",3.0 +And weigh no Marriage by the common Voice;,2.0 +"To yield with Dignity, reject with Grace;",1.0 +Nor tyre the Lover with a tedious Chase:,3.0 +"With Ease to conquer, and with Ease retain,",1.0 +"Brighten Prosperity, or soften Pain:",3.0 +"Live to her Husband, Family, and Friend:",1.0 +"Through varying Life her various Virtues prove,",4.0 +"Honour her Portion here, and Bliss above.",0.0 +"Say, What Persuasion, or what Arts of mine,",2.0 +Could gain a Passage to a Soul like thine?,1.0 +"Where Female Softness, Strength of Reason meet,",1.0 +"A piercing Judgement, and a Wit discreet;",1.0 +"Where every Passion, every Duty, knows",0.0 +"Its proper Bounds, and not unlicensed flows.",0.0 +One doubtful Act remains unjustified,0.0 +"Could You so err, or I deserve so well?",1.0 +"Instruct me thou the happy Art to steer,",1.0 +And still with Modesty thy Conduct clear;,1.0 +So in thy Praises may the World agree;,1.0 +Nor load with Vanity the Muse and Me.,1.0 +"With Song still ushered shall the Morn arise,",1.0 +So the First Man descending Angels saw.,2.0 +"Speaking, or silent, OH! secure to charm,",2.0 +"To win with Wisdom, or with Beauty warm:",1.0 +"Form thy soft Accents, and compose thy Air.",4.0 +"I saw, and heard; nor heard, nor saw, unmoved,",0.0 +"Unknowing, or I durst not know, I loved.",1.0 +"What thence I suffered, let high Heaven declare,",1.0 +"Pitying my Grief, propitious to my Prayer.",2.0 +"Heaven tried my Passion, and pronounced it true:",1.0 +"Hence I emboldened, and hence softer You.",5.0 +"Yet oft withheld, and faltering oft with Pain,",2.0 +"My Tongue half utters, what my Eyes explain,",1.0 +"Nor prone to flatter, nor to Virtue blind;",1.0 +"Not void of Knowledge, and to learn inclined;",1.0 +"Boasting a Father honest, wise, and good;",2.0 +"Such long observed, and by long Converse shown,",1.0 +"My Temper, Manners, and my Failings known:",1.0 +"You trust my Vows, and pity Love sincere;",0.0 +"Haste to relieve, and smile away my Fear;",2.0 +"Give all you can, and all the rest forsake,",1.0 +"The noblest Sacrifice, that Love could make!",0.0 +Of what Avail the Use of Wealth to Thee?,0.0 +"For what you bring, and what you leave behind!",0.0 +"Is there a Man in Science not unread,",1.0 +"In simple Neatness elegantly bred,",1.0 +"Of what or Health or Nature asks, possessed,",0.0 +"Received by all, and by his Friends caressed,",2.0 +"False and insidious can the Fair pursue,",3.0 +"Taught by the Muse such abject Souls to hate,",0.0 +Nor seek superfluous Vanities of Life:,3.0 +Degenerate Thought! Let slanderous Tongues assail;,5.0 +"Spread all their Poison, all their Rage prevail;",0.0 +"So gracious Heaven restore thee, to enjoy",1.0 +"What Love could leave, but Wisdom could employ.",0.0 +Meanwhile my Delia manifests her Worth;,1.0 +The Loss of Riches calls her Prudence forth:,0.0 +Behold her now with Dignity descend;,1.0 +"And low, but necessary, Cares attend;",0.0 +"Cheerful, what Fortune not allows, resign;",2.0 +"And, harder still, her Charities confine:",1.0 +"But Heaven in secret sees the kind Intent,",0.0 +"Each Act of Pity, or of Bounty, meant;",1.0 +Heaven sees in secret; but in open Day,1.0 +"Will crown thy Merit, and thy Praise display.",1.0 +"Though small thy Store, not Millions could suffice,",0.0 +To furnish all thy liberal Thought supplies.,0.0 +"Obscured her Worth, her Genius half depressed!",0.0 +"Or hears the Widow's, and the Orphan's Song!",1.0 +Now visionary Temples rise around;,1.0 +"And half thy Empire, GEORGE, is sacred Ground.",0.0 +"From Thee, my Delia, from thy watchful Care,",2.0 +"My Little lasts; my Little, Friends can share:",0.0 +"Poor if I am, within my Fortune poor.",1.0 +"Smile on, my Fair, though cautious, void of Fear,",0.0 +"Wise to shun Sorrows, or prepared to bear.",4.0 +"Who copies Thee, shall never fail to find,",1.0 +"'Midst Clouds and Storms, the Sunshine of the Mind:",3.0 +"Blessed in Retirement, Competence, and Love,",4.0 +"Below all Envy, and all Vice above,",1.0 +"Crowned with Content, I only burn to show,",2.0 +Hopeless to recompense how much I owe.,2.0 +"OH born with Genius, and with Learning filled,",2.0 +In every Rule of happy Writings skilled;,0.0 +"Whom Beauties strike, false Ornaments offend;",2.0 +Who weigh with Care each Author's Scope and End;,0.0 +"And oft, where others damn, the most admire;",0.0 +"So shallow Wits, with bolder Folly, blame,",0.0 +This Verse you know me free from faulty Pride,0.0 +Approve; and Fame shall sanctify my Lays:,1.0 +Suppress; yet Love my grateful Labour pays.,0.0 +"Two nymphs to whom the powers of verse belong,",3.0 +"Alike ambitious to excel in song,",1.0 +"With equal sweetness sang alternate strains,",4.0 +And courteous echo told the listening plains;,2.0 +"That of her lover sung, this of her friend;",1.0 +"OH Love, soft sovereign, ruler of the heart!",3.0 +"Deep are thy wounds, and pleasing is the smart;",1.0 +"Cold hearts are warmed, and hard ones melt away.",2.0 +Through every scene of temporal bliss is there,2.0 +A greater blessing than a friend sincere?,1.0 +"His beauty holds me faster than his arms,",1.0 +"My heart is in a flood of pleasures tossed,",0.0 +But certain omens of a future smart?,1.0 +"In friendship we more solid comforts find,",1.0 +"It cheers the heart, nor leaves a sting behind.",0.0 +Surely no lark in spring was ever so glad,3.0 +"To see the morn, as I to see my lad;",1.0 +And every other joy gives place to love.,1.0 +OH happy I! with such a friend to live!,3.0 +Our joys united double pleasure give;,0.0 +"All that is lovely in my swain I find,",0.0 +But am to all his imperfections blind;,1.0 +"What have I said? I surely do him wrong,",0.0 +No imperfections can to him belong.,3.0 +"The faithful friend sees with impartial eyes,",2.0 +"Blind to all faults, the eager lover sues,",0.0 +"Then Daphne from beneath a hawthorn sprung,",2.0 +Where she attentive sat to hear the song;,1.0 +"Her breast was conscious of the tender glow,",1.0 +"That faithful friends, in mutual friendship know;",2.0 +"Her tender heart, by love's impulses moved,",0.0 +"With emulation fired, the conscious maid",2.0 +Thus to the fair contending virgins said.,0.0 +"Blessed Celia, happy in a lover dear;",1.0 +"Blessed Sylvia, happy in a friend sincere;",3.0 +"But surely I am doubly blessed to find,",1.0 +"At once a friend sincere, and lover kind;",0.0 +And who in love can bear a greater sway,0.0 +"THUS Tapestry of old, the Walls adorned,",2.0 +Ere noblest Dames the artful Shuttle scorned:,1.0 +And scarce the Immortal Work was judged the Best.,2.0 +"But all the Fame, that from the Field was brought,",1.0 +"Employed the Loom, where the kind Consort wrought:",1.0 +"While sharing in the Toil, she shared the Fame,",0.0 +And with the Heroes mixed her interwoven Name.,1.0 +"No longer, Females to such Praise aspire,",3.0 +And seldom now We rightly do admire.,0.0 +"So much, All Arts are by the Men engrossed,",1.0 +And Our few Talents unimproved or crossed;,1.0 +"Even I, who on this Subject would compose,",2.0 +"Correctly followed in each Shade, and Fold",0.0 +"Should prudently from the Attempt withdraw,",2.0 +But Inclination proves the stronger Law:,0.0 +"These hardy Flights, while his Designs I view;",1.0 +"My burdened Thoughts, which labour for a Vent,",1.0 +"Of SERGIUS first, upon his lofty Seat,",2.0 +With due Regard our Observations treat;,0.0 +"Contracts his pensive Brow into a Frown,",0.0 +With Looks inquisitive he seeks the Cause,1.0 +Why Nature acts not still by Natures Laws.,0.0 +"'Twas but a Moment, since the Sorcerer's Sight",0.0 +"Received the Day, and blazed infernal Light:",0.0 +"Throughout the Extension of his ample Sway,",3.0 +"No Fact, like this, the Roman could survey,",1.0 +"Who, with spread Hands, invites Mankind to gaze,",4.0 +"To share his Wonder every one combines,",1.0 +"By different Aspects shown, and different Signs.",1.0 +"A comely Figure, near the Consul placed,",0.0 +"To Others seems imparting what he saw,",0.0 +And shows the Wretch with reverential Awe:,0.0 +"While a more eager Person next we find,",0.0 +Viewing the Wizard with a Sceptic's Mind;,3.0 +"Who his fixed Eyes so near him do's apply,",2.0 +"We think, enlivening Beams might from them fly,",2.0 +"The radial Sparks, but lately checked and tame,",2.0 +"But dire Surprise the Enquiry do's succeed,",4.0 +"While full Conviction in his Face we read,",0.0 +"And He, who questioned, now deplores the Deed.",1.0 +"To sacred PAUL a younger Figure guides,",0.0 +"With seeming Warmth, which still in Youth presides;",0.0 +"And pointing forward, Elder Men directs,",0.0 +"In Him, to note the Cause of these Effects,",0.0 +Upon whose Brow do's evidently shine,2.0 +"While sad and solemn, suited to their Years,",1.0 +"Each venerable Countenance appears,",2.0 +"Where, yet we see Astonishment revealed,",1.0 +Though by the Aged often it's concealed;,2.0 +"Who the Emotions of their Souls disguise,",1.0 +Lest by admiring they should seem less Wise.,3.0 +Whose Blindness almost strikes the Poet dumb;,1.0 +"And while She vainly to Describe thee seeks,",1.0 +"The Pen but traces, where the Pencil speaks.",0.0 +"Of Darkness to be felt, our Scriptures write,",1.0 +As Night it self were sunk into thy Veins:,0.0 +"Nor by the Eyes alone thy Loss we find,",1.0 +And failing seem all Parts through One important Want.,1.0 +"O! mighty RAPHAEL, justly sure renowned!",6.0 +Since in thy Works such Excellence is found;,1.0 +Who thus can paint the Negatives of Life;,1.0 +"And Deprivation more expressive make,",0.0 +"Than the most perfect Draughts, which Others take.",2.0 +"In some, Amazement by Extremes is shown,",1.0 +"Who viewing his closed Lids, extend their Own.",2.0 +"Nor can, by that, enough their Thoughts express,",1.0 +Which opening Mouths seem ready to confess.,4.0 +"Enfeebled seem their Instruments of smart,",1.0 +When keener Words can swifter Ills impart.,0.0 +"Thou, BARNABAS, though Last, not least our Care,",1.0 +"Acknowledging the Omnipotent Decree,",4.0 +Yet soft Compassion in thy Face we see:,0.0 +"While lifted Hands implore a kind Relief,",0.0 +Though no Impatience animates thy Grief;,0.0 +"But mild Suspense and Charity benign,",1.0 +Do all the excesses of thy Looks confine.,5.0 +"Thus far, our slow Imagination goes:",1.0 +"Expand the Scene, and open to our Sight",1.0 +What to his nicer Judgement gives Delight;,0.0 +"Nor owns a Relish, but for Things sublime:",1.0 +"Then, would the Piece fresh Beauties still present,",1.0 +Nor Length of Time would leave the Eye content:,0.0 +"As Moments, Hours; as Hours the Days would seem,",0.0 +"Observing here, taught to observe by HIM.",2.0 +WHAT Pictures now shall wanton Fancy bring?,0.0 +And sinks supine in Winter's frozen Arms.,0.0 +But northern Breezes whistle through the Sky.,1.0 +But the froze Crystal wraps the leafless Spray:,2.0 +"Brown look the Meadows, that were late so fine,",2.0 +And caped with Ice the distant Mountains shine;,0.0 +"The silent Linnet views the gloomy Sky,",0.0 +"Skulks to his Hawthorn, nor attempts to fly:",2.0 +Then heavy Clouds send down the feathered Snow;,2.0 +"The Shepherd sighs, but not his Sighs prevail;",0.0 +To the soft Snow succeeds the rushing Hail;,2.0 +And these white Prospects soon resign their room,2.0 +Shun the cold Rains and bless the kinder Snow;,3.0 +"While the faint Travellers around them see,",3.0 +Here Seas of Mud and there a leafless Tree:,1.0 +"No budding Leaves nor Honeysuckles gay,",1.0 +"The Lark sits mournful as afraid to rise,",2.0 +And the sad Finch his softer Song denies.,2.0 +Who to her Sighs return a mournful Low;,0.0 +And her sharp Nose hangs dropping over the Pail.,6.0 +"With Garments trickling like a shallow Spring,",0.0 +"And his wet Locks all twisted in a String,",2.0 +And rails at Win'fred creeping over the Fire.,2.0 +"Say gentle Muses, say, is this a Time",2.0 +"While the chilled Blood, that hath forgot to glide,",3.0 +Steals through its Channels in a lazy Tide:,0.0 +"And how can Phoebus, who the Muse refines,",1.0 +Smooth the dull Numbers when he seldom shines.,3.0 +The strain of empty joy. ' -- Life and its joys,2.0 +"This solemn hour, when Silence rules the world,",0.0 +And wearied Nature makes a general pause!,0.0 +"With silent glance, I seek the shadowy vale",2.0 +Of Death. ' -- Deep in a murky cave's recess,1.0 +By shelving rocks and intermingled horrors,0.0 +Of yew' and cypress' shade from all intrusion,0.0 +"At his right hand, nearest himself in place",3.0 +With fatal industry and cruel care,1.0 +And tipping every shaft with venom drawn,0.0 +From her infernal store: around him ranged,1.0 +In terrible array and strange diversity,2.0 +"Of uncouth shapes, stand his dread Ministers:",5.0 +"Foremost Old Age, his natural ally",2.0 +"And firmest friend: next him diseases thick,",1.0 +A motley train; Fever with cheek of fire;,5.0 +"Consumption won; Palsy, half warm with life,",6.0 +"In darkness, and the Sickness that destroys",1.0 +"Horrid to tell, attentive wait; and, when",2.0 +"Sudden rush forth to execute his purpose,",3.0 +And scatter desolation over the Earth.,2.0 +"Of Misery wait, and mark their future prey!",2.0 +This Creature Man? why wake the unconscious dust,3.0 +If this the Lot of Being! ' -- Was it for this,3.0 +Thy Breath divine kindled within his breast,5.0 +The vital flame? For this was thy fair image,3.0 +For this dominion given him absolute,3.0 +"Over all thy creatures, only that he might reign",0.0 +Supreme in woe? From the blessed source of Good,2.0 +Could Pain and Death proceed? Could such foul Ills,1.0 +The impious thought! God never made a Creature,3.0 +But what was good. He made a living Man:,0.0 +The Man of Death was made by Man himself.,0.0 +"Forth from his Maker's hands he sprung to life,",0.0 +"Fresh with immortal bloom; No pain he knew,",3.0 +"No fear of death, no cheque to his desires",3.0 +Save one command. That one command which stood,3.0 +"Betwixt him and ruin, the test of his obedience,",4.0 +Urged on by wanton curiosity,1.0 +He broke. ' -- There in one moment was undone,1.0 +The fairest of God's works. The same rash hand,3.0 +"That plucked in evil hour the fatal fruit,",0.0 +And Death and all the family of Pain,1.0 +To prey upon Mankind. Young Nature saw,2.0 +"The monstrous crew, and shook through all her frame.",0.0 +"The troubled air, and formed a veil of clouds",0.0 +That wont before with admiration fond,0.0 +"To gaze at Man, and fearless crowd around him,",0.0 +"Now fled before his face, shunning in haste",6.0 +"The infection of his misery. He alone,",5.0 +"Who justly might, the offended Lord of Man,",2.0 +"Turned not away his face, he full of pity",1.0 +"That best, that greatest comfort in affliction",0.0 +"The countenance of God, and through the gloom",2.0 +"Shot forth some kindly gleams, to cheer and warm",1.0 +The offender's sinking soul. Hope sent from Heaven,6.0 +A happier scene of things; the Promised Seed,2.0 +"Trampling upon the Serpent's humbled crest,",2.0 +"Death of his sting disarmed, and the dank grave",1.0 +No more the limit but the gate of life.,1.0 +"Cheered with the view, Man went to till the ground",2.0 +From whence he rose; sentenced indeed to toil,5.0 +"As to a punishment, yet even in wrath",3.0 +So merciful is Heaven this toil became,1.0 +"The solace of his woes, the sweet employ",1.0 +Against disease and Death. ' -- Death though denounced,2.0 +"Was yet a distant Ill, by feeble arm",0.0 +"Of Age, his sole support, led slowly on.",2.0 +"Not then, as since, the short-lived sons of men",1.0 +Flocked to his realms in countless multitudes;,0.0 +Scarce in the course of twice five hundred years,1.0 +One solitary ghost went shivering down,2.0 +"Through the sequestered vale of rural life,",1.0 +The venerable Patriarch guileless held,7.0 +The tenor of his way; Labour prepared,2.0 +"His simple fare, and Temperance ruled his board.",0.0 +He sunk to sudden rest; gentle and pure,5.0 +As breath of evening Zephyr and as sweet,1.0 +"Alert and vigorous as He, to run",2.0 +"He stemmed the tide of time, and stood the shock",0.0 +Of ages rolling harmless over his head.,2.0 +"At life's meridian point arrived, he stood,",2.0 +And looking round saw all the valleys filled,1.0 +"To leave his race thus scattered over the Earth,",3.0 +Along the gentle slope of life's decline,0.0 +"He bent his gradual way, till full of years",2.0 +He dropped like mellow fruit into his grave.,0.0 +"Such in the infancy of time was Man,",1.0 +"So calm was life, so impotent was Death.",1.0 +"OH had he but preserved these few remains,",1.0 +"These shattered fragments of lost happiness,",3.0 +Snatched by the hand of heaven from the sad wreck,1.0 +"Great even in ruin; though fallen, yet not forlorn;",7.0 +"Though mortal, yet not every where beset",0.0 +"With Death in every shape! But He, impatient",1.0 +"Brought Death into the world, And Man himself",1.0 +And multiplied destruction on mankind.,2.0 +"Her hands in blood, and taught the Sons of Men",0.0 +"To make a Death which Nature never made,",0.0 +"And God abhorred, with violence rude to break",2.0 +"The thread of life ere half its length was run,",1.0 +And rob a wretched brother of his being.,1.0 +"With joy Ambition saw, and soon improved",0.0 +"By subtle fraud to snatch a single life,",0.0 +"To sat the lust of power; more horrid still,",2.0 +"Became its boast. ' -- One Murder made a Villain,",0.0 +Millions a Hero. ' -- Princes were privileged,4.0 +Ah! why will Kings forget that they are Men?,1.0 +And Men that they are brothers? Why delight,1.0 +In human sacrifice? Why burst the ties,0.0 +"Of Nature, that should knit their souls together",0.0 +In one soft bond of amity and love?,4.0 +"Yet still they breathe destruction, still go on",2.0 +"New pains for life, new terrors for the grave,",3.0 +Of universal Empire growing up,1.0 +"From universal ruin. ' -- Blast the design,",2.0 +"Great God of Hosts, nor let thy creatures fall",1.0 +"Yet say, should Tyrants learn at last to feel,",0.0 +And the loud din of battle cease to roar;,2.0 +"Her olive branch, and give the world repose,",0.0 +"Would Death be foiled? Would health, and strength, and youth",0.0 +"Defy his power? Has he no arts in store,",2.0 +No other shafts save those of war? ' -- Alas!,3.0 +"Even in the smile of Peace, that smile which sheds",0.0 +"A heavenly sunshine over the soul, there basks",5.0 +Peace its ten thousands: In the embattled plain,5.0 +"Though Death exults, and claps his raven wings,",0.0 +"Yet reigns he not even there so absolute,",1.0 +"So merciless, as in yonder frantic scenes",1.0 +"Of midnight revel and tumultuous mirth,",5.0 +"Where, in the intoxicating draught concealed,",1.0 +"Or couched beneath the glance of lawless Love,",0.0 +Means to be blessed ' -- But finds himself undone.,0.0 +Down the smooth stream of life the Stripling darts,2.0 +"Gay as the morn; bright glows the vernal sky,",1.0 +"Hope swells his sails, and Fancy steers his course;",1.0 +Safe glides his little bark along the shore,1.0 +Where Virtue takes her stand; but if too far,1.0 +"He launches forth beyond Discretion's mark,",0.0 +"Blot his fair day, and plunge him in the deep.",3.0 +To lie like gallant Howe mid Indian wilds,4.0 +"A breathless corpse, cut off by savage hands",2.0 +"In earliest prime, a generous sacrifice",4.0 +To Freedom's holy cause; than so to fail,1.0 +"Tern immature from life's meridian joys,",3.0 +"Yet die even thus, thus rather perish still,",2.0 +"You Sons of Pleasure, by the Almighty stricken,",3.0 +"Than ever dare though oft, alas! you dare",0.0 +"To lift against yourselves the murderous steel,",2.0 +"To wrest from God's own hand the sword of Justice,",0.0 +"Through every region of delight, nor left",1.0 +"One joy to gild the evening of thy days,",1.0 +"Though life seem one uncomfortable void,",3.0 +"Guilt at thy heels, before thy face despair,",0.0 +"Yet gay this scene, and light this load of woe,",0.0 +"Compared with thy hereafter. Think, OH think,",2.0 +"And ere thou plunge into the vast abyss,",0.0 +"Pause on the verge awhile, look down and see",2.0 +Thy future mansion. ' -- Why that start of horror?,0.0 +From thy slack hand why drops the uplifted steel?,4.0 +"The wretch, that with his crimes all fresh about him",1.0 +"Rushes irreverent, unprepared, uncalled,",4.0 +"Into his Maker's presence, throwing back",0.0 +With insolent disdain his choicest gift?,1.0 +"Live then, while Heaven in pity lends thee life,",0.0 +And think it all too short to wash away,1.0 +The scarlet of thy crimes. So shalt thou find,1.0 +"Death when he comes, not wantonly invite",1.0 +His lingering stroke. Be it thy sole concern,1.0 +"With innocence to live, with patience wait",1.0 +"The appointed hour; too soon that hour will come,",5.0 +"Though Nature run her course; But Nature's God,",0.0 +"Without thy aid, can shorten that short span,",1.0 +"And quench the lamp of life. ' -- OH when he comes,",1.0 +Roused by the cry of wickedness extreme,1.0 +To Heaven ascending from some guilty land,1.0 +Now ripe for vengeance; when he comes arrayed,1.0 +In all the terrors of Almighty wrath;,1.0 +"Forth from his bosom plucks his lingering Arm,",0.0 +And on the miscreants pours destruction down!,4.0 +Who can abide his coming? Who can bear,1.0 +His whole displeasure? In no common form,1.0 +"Death then appears, but starting into Size",1.0 +"Enormous, measures with gigantic stride",1.0 +"The astonished Earth, and from his looks throws round",3.0 +All Nature lends her aid. Each Element,1.0 +"Arms in his cause. Open fly the doors of Heaven,",6.0 +"The fountains of the deep their barriers break,",3.0 +"Above, below, the rival torrents pour,",0.0 +"And drown Creation, or in floods of fire",1.0 +"Descends a livid cataract, and consumes",3.0 +"An impious race. ' -- Sometime when all seems peace,",4.0 +"Wakes the grim whirlwind, and with rude embrace",1.0 +"Sweeps nations to their grave, or in the deep",2.0 +On some sad desert shore! ' -- At dead of night,1.0 +In sullen silence stalks forth Pestilence:,2.0 +Contagion close behind taints all her steps,1.0 +No sound is heard; but soon her secret path,1.0 +Is marked with desolation; heaps on heaps,0.0 +"Promiscuous drop: No friend, no refuge near;",4.0 +"All, all, is false and treacherous around,",1.0 +"All that they touch, or taste, or breathe, is Death.",0.0 +But ah! what means that ruinous roar? why fail,2.0 +These tottering feet? ' -- Earth to its centre feels,2.0 +"Through all its pillars, and in every poor,",1.0 +"Precipitating domes, and towns, and towers,",0.0 +The work of ages. Crushed beneath the weight,0.0 +"Of general devastation, millions find",0.0 +One common grave; not even a widow left,2.0 +"To wail her sons: the house, that should protect,",0.0 +"If there he flies for help, with sudden yawn",1.0 +"Starts from beneath him. ' -- Shield me, gracious Heaven!",2.0 +"OH snatch me from destruction! If this Globe,",3.0 +"This solid Globe, which thine own hand hath made",1.0 +"So firm and sure, if this my steps betray;",1.0 +If my own mother Earth from whence I sprung,1.0 +Rise up with rage unnatural to devour,3.0 +"Her wretched offspring, whither shall I fly?",1.0 +From horrors such as these! ' -- At thy good time,1.0 +Let Death approach; I reck not ' -- let him but come,1.0 +"In genuine form, not with thy vengeance armed,",2.0 +Too much for Man to bear. OH rather lend,1.0 +"Thy kindly aid to mitigate his stroke,",0.0 +"And at that hour when all aghast I stand,",0.0 +"A trembling Candidate for thy compassion,",2.0 +"On this World's brink, and look into the next;",2.0 +When my soul starting from the dark unknown,3.0 +"Casts back a wishful look, and fondly clings",1.0 +"To her frail prop, unwilling to be wrenched",3.0 +"And all the lovely relatives of life,",1.0 +Then shed thy comforts over me; then put on,1.0 +The gentlest of thy looks. Let no dark Crimes,3.0 +In all their hideous forms then starting up,3.0 +"Plant themselves round my couch in grim array,",0.0 +"Sense of past guilt, and dread of future woe.",3.0 +"Far be the ghastly crew! and in their stead,",0.0 +Let cheerful Memory from her purest cells,2.0 +Lead forth a goodly train of Virtues fair,1.0 +"Cherished in earliest youth, now paying back",5.0 +"With tenfold usury the pious care,",2.0 +And pouring over my wounds the heavenly balm,4.0 +"Of conscious innocence. ' -- But chiefly, Thou,",2.0 +"To bleed for Man, to teach him how to live,",1.0 +"And, o! still harder Lesson! how to die,",3.0 +Disdain not Thou to smooth the restless bed,1.0 +Of Sickness and of Pain. ' -- Forgive the tear,1.0 +"That feeble Nature drops, calm all her fears,",1.0 +"Wake all her hopes, and animate her faith,",0.0 +Till my rapt Soul anticipating Heaven,2.0 +"Springs into Liberty, and Light, and Life.",3.0 +"A mind unmoved by every vulgar fear,",0.0 +In a false world that dares to be sincere;,3.0 +Wise without art; without ambition great;,2.0 +"Though firm, yet pliant; active, though sedate;",1.0 +"With all the richest stores of Learning fraught,",0.0 +Yet better still by native Prudence taught;,0.0 +Can pity frailties it could never feel;,1.0 +"That, when Misfortune sued, never sought to know",4.0 +"What sect, what party, whether friend or foe;",0.0 +"That, fixed on equal Virtue's temperate laws,",0.0 +"Despises calumny, and shuns applause;",1.0 +Would for another think this praise designed.,1.0 +"In vain, with mimic Skill, my Pencil tries",0.0 +"To paint the Life, that sparkles in those Eyes.",0.0 +"What Art, what Rules of Symmetry can trace",1.0 +"That Air of Wit, that Bloom, and modest Grace?",0.0 +What soft Degrees of Shade or Light express,0.0 +"The inward Worth, those speaking Looks confess?",0.0 +"It's more than Beauty here, that charms the Sight,",0.0 +And gives our Souls an elegant Delight:,1.0 +"Were Virtue seen to mortal Eyes, she'd wear",0.0 +"Those peaceful Smiles, and that engaging Air.",0.0 +WHat if serenely blessed with Calms I swam,1.0 +Not all the wealth that lavish Chance could give,0.0 +My soul from Death could one short Hour reprieve.,2.0 +When from my Heart the wandering Life must move,2.0 +No Cordial all my useless Gold could prove.,1.0 +"What though I plunged in Joys so deep and wide,",0.0 +If I for an uncertain Lease of this,2.0 +Sold the fair hopes of an eternal bliss?,4.0 +What if invested with the Royal State,2.0 +"Of dazzling Queens, adored by Kings I sat?",0.0 +Yet when my trembling Soul's dislodged would be,0.0 +No Room of State within the Grave for me.,1.0 +Should promise many a flattering Year to come:,4.0 +Advancing Time would all its Glory mar.,0.0 +"What if the Muses loudly sang my Fame,",0.0 +The barren Mountains echoing with my Name?,1.0 +An envious puff might blast the rising Pride.,2.0 +And all its bright conspicuous Lustre hide.,2.0 +If over my Relics Monuments they raise,3.0 +"And fill the World with Flattery, or with Praise,",1.0 +"What would they all avail, if sink I must,",0.0 +"My Soul to endless shades, my Body to the dust?",1.0 +As musing pensive in my silent home,0.0 +"I hear far off the sullen ocean's roar,",2.0 +"Where the rude wave just sweeps the level shore,",3.0 +"Or bursts upon the rocks with whitening foam,",0.0 +I think upon the scenes my life has known;,0.0 +"On days of sorrow, and some hours of joy;",1.0 +Both which alike time could so soon destroy!,2.0 +And now they seem a busy dream alone;,0.0 +While on the earth exists no single trace,1.0 +"Of all that shook my agitated soul,",0.0 +As on the beach new waves for ever roll,2.0 +And fill their past forgotten brother's place:,0.0 +"But I, like the worn sand, exposed remain",3.0 +To each new storm which frets the angry main.,1.0 +"From too exalted, or too mean a State:",2.0 +"For in both these, we may expect to find",1.0 +"A creeping Spirit, or a haughty Mind.",1.0 +"Who moves within the Middle Region, shares",0.0 +"Let her Extraction with true Lustre shine,",4.0 +"If something brighter, not too bright for thine.",1.0 +"Her Education liberal, not great,",1.0 +"Neither Inferior, nor above her State.",5.0 +"Let her have Wit, but let that Wit be free",0.0 +"From Affectation, Pride, and Pedantry:",1.0 +"Too little is as dangerous, as too much.",3.0 +Unless where yours does to a Fault incline.,0.0 +"The least Disparity in this destroys,",2.0 +"Her Person amiable, strait, and free",1.0 +"From natural, or chance Deformity.",2.0 +"Let not her Years exceed, if equal thine,",1.0 +"Her Fortune competent, and if thy Sight",2.0 +"Can reach so far, take care it's gathered right.",1.0 +Do not aspire to Riches in excess;,0.0 +"For that which makes our Lives delightful prove,",0.0 +"Is a genteel Sufficiency, and Love.",2.0 +"And fanning zephyrs among the branches play,",2.0 +"Where varied beauties deck the verdant groves,",0.0 +Let us recount the storey of our loves.,3.0 +"Say, dear Almeda, why this pensive mood,",1.0 +The cause of this to Flavia I'll reveal:,4.0 +It is a youth whose power I can't conceal.,3.0 +When artful Cupid gave the killing dart.,0.0 +Nor access find to my enraptured breast;,2.0 +And spend my hours in sighs till he return.,1.0 +You kindle into rapture at his name;,0.0 +"Be wise in time, and guard against a flame,",0.0 +"Which cherished, hopeless, will your charms efface,",1.0 +And rob your features of each blooming grace.,1.0 +"The softening charms and pleasing art of love,",0.0 +"Witness you rural walks and verdant vales,",2.0 +"While he, unskilled in flattery, did impart,",3.0 +"In flowing strains, the dictates of his heart.",2.0 +"Blind was my passion, long it bore the sway,",0.0 +Suppressed at last by the enlivening ray,3.0 +"To my relief, in an auspicious hour,",2.0 +With opened eyes I did the charmer view;,0.0 +"Deaf to his accents, from his presence flew.",1.0 +"Observe, my precepts are with prudence fraught,",2.0 +Bid southern breezes ever cease to blow;,1.0 +"Say to the flowers, no more your fragrance yield,",0.0 +Nor Crees crown with joy the fertile field;,2.0 +"Bid Phoebus cease to gild the opening morn,",3.0 +And Cynthia be of all her beauty shorn:,1.0 +Would these obedient as thy vassals prove?,2.0 +"No more can I, dear Flavia, cease to love.",6.0 +"A youth possessed of every moving art,",0.0 +"When he appears, to cheer the drooping plain,",1.0 +"And when in softest strains he tunes his lay,",0.0 +"Each shepherd, envious, throws his lute away.",2.0 +"In him all radiant virtues are combined,",1.0 +True greatness centres in a humble mind;,1.0 +Firm fortitude and soft compassion rest.,1.0 +"Nor can the gods on mortals more bestow,",1.0 +A bright example of their works below.,1.0 +"I may be silent, but can't love him less.",3.0 +"Enough is said, Almeda dear, to prove",0.0 +No fault is seen in those we truly love.,2.0 +"The son of Venus, by a magic art,",1.0 +Extremely happy in their own mistake.,0.0 +"Yet never by the youth have wounded been,",1.0 +"Yet were he, as you paint him, thus complete,",1.0 +"Sure young men's minds still subject are to change,",2.0 +Though from our plains he were not doomed to range.,2.0 +"A change of scenes may, with distorted brows,",1.0 +Pour swift contempt on all your former vows.,1.0 +"But let indifference lodge within your breast,",0.0 +"The more his charms, the surer he'll succeed",1.0 +"Among powerful rivals, whom you now may dread.",5.0 +"I know his charms the gentlest dame might move,",2.0 +But he'll admit no rival in his love:,2.0 +"My image still remains within his breast,",0.0 +True to that hour I first my love confessed.,0.0 +"Diffuse into my heart its soft relief,",0.0 +Dispel my fears and dissipate my grief.,0.0 +"I'll say the youth, for me by heaven designed,",1.0 +"So smoothly shall the seasons glide along,",0.0 +"Then shall my pleasure as my love abound,",1.0 +"So may you sing, and sigh your years away,",1.0 +"With flattering hope, perched on the feeble spray",2.0 +"Of such as would essay your love to gain,",1.0 +"Till his own choice, or some disaster show,",1.0 +Your promised pleasures vanished like the snow.,0.0 +"Your charms are fled, no lover then in view,",1.0 +The paths of discontent you will pursue.,2.0 +"Or for Alonzo sigh when it's too late,",2.0 +And with reluctance meet your destined fate.,1.0 +This will your slighted lovers laugh to see,1.0 +Almeda then a maiden old will be.,0.0 +"The paths you paint I will not tread alone,",1.0 +While Flavia lives I shall be sure of one.,2.0 +"Then hand in hand we'll smooth the rugged way,",0.0 +"Why should we sigh? In smiles we will contend,",1.0 +And laugh at what we have no power to mend.,3.0 +"Should fate deprive me of my darling swain,",1.0 +"Some braver youth perhaps may grace the plain,",0.0 +"And make me happy by the nuptial band,",1.0 +When cheerfully he gives his heart and hand.,1.0 +I'll call my own sad destiny the best.,2.0 +"I'll bliss the fate I oft have sought to shun,",0.0 +And scorn the fool who would to wedlock run.,1.0 +See Nature now in contrast with thy grief;,2.0 +"Their notes are cheerful, nor with sighs depressed;",1.0 +In his absence it's painful to live.,4.0 +And Almeda will ever be true.,4.0 +AH! Bright Unknown! you know not what you ask!,0.0 +Angels would bend beneath the unequal Task.,4.0 +Who would not leap Life's Barriers to be there?,2.0 +"Yet see a Glimpse, all, Heaven permits to see,",0.0 +And learn the rest from Faith and Ecstasy.,1.0 +"The Paradise of God, those happy seats which cost",0.0 +Far more than that fair Eden we have lost;,2.0 +"Exceeds luxuriant Fancies richest dress,",2.0 +Where Father Adam with his Newborn Bride,1.0 +"Walked careless, walked and loved, nor Want, nor Sin,",1.0 +"Nor jealous Rage, nor cursed tormenting Hopes",1.0 +Their Sacred Verge approaching could we pierce,0.0 +"As the blind Bard, with intellectual sight",4.0 +"Through those first happy Mortals Sylvan shade,",2.0 +With generous Juice invited the blessed Pair,4.0 +"To taste, nor fear to die; were all the Springs",0.0 +That from some easy Mountains mossy side,0.0 +"Or hoary Rock ran gently murmuring,",2.0 +"A thousand Flour's upon the bending Banks,",0.0 +"A thousand Birds upon the fragrant Trees,",0.0 +"And Eve her self all smiling joined the Quire,",0.0 +With blissful Hymns of chaste and holy Love,0.0 +Were these and more united to compose,2.0 +"A Barren Wilderness, nay worse, a World.",2.0 +"' -- Not Reasons self, a Ray of the divine",1.0 +"In sinful mortal mould, although it trace,",1.0 +"And builds on Sense with well poised Argument,",2.0 +"Not that can tell us what we there shall see,",1.0 +"Or have or know, or do, or ever be.",0.0 +"Nay though with nobler Faiths more perfect Glass,",2.0 +"We look beyond the Crystal starry Worlds,",0.0 +"And from Life's dungeon wish the glimmering Light,",4.0 +"Coasters of Heaven we beat along the shore,",2.0 +"Some Creeks and Landmarks found, but know no more.",2.0 +"The glorious City of the eternal King,",5.0 +"Yet of celestial Growth we bear away,",1.0 +"Some rich immortal Fruit, Joy, Peace and Love,",1.0 +"Knowledge and Praise, Vision and pure Delight,",4.0 +"There, there is Heaven, it's he who makes it so,",2.0 +"The Soul can hold no more, for God is all,",1.0 +"He only equals its capacious Grasp,",1.0 +"He only over fills to spaces infinite,",1.0 +Ah! who can follow? ' -- That shall only those,1.0 +Who with intrepid Breasts the World oppose.,1.0 +"Tear out the glittering Snake, though never so close it twine,",4.0 +And part with mortal Joys for Joys Divine.,0.0 +"BESIDE a spreading elm, from whose high boughs",1.0 +"Like knotted tufts the crow's light dwelling shows,",1.0 +"And sleepy Comrade in the sun is laid,",1.0 +More grateful to the cur than neighbouring shade:,3.0 +And leaned upon his flail in thoughtful mood.,0.0 +"His ruddy cheeks that wear their deepest hue,",0.0 +"A careful lad, nor slack at labour, show.",0.0 +"Nor scraping chickens chirping in the straw,",0.0 +"Nor croaking rook overhead, nor chattering daw,",5.0 +"Nor grunting sow that in the furrow feeds,",0.0 +Nor sudden breeze that stirs the quaking leaves,0.0 +"And makes disturbance among the scattered sheaves,",2.0 +"At early milking over the meadow born,",3.0 +The neatest maid that ever in linen gown,2.0 +Bore cream and butter to the market town;,2.0 +The tightest lass that ever at wake or fair,2.0 +"Since Easter last had Robin's heart possessed,",0.0 +And many a time disturbed his nightly rest.,2.0 +"Full oft returning from the loosened plough,",2.0 +"He slacked his pace, and knit his careful brow;",0.0 +Would muse with arms across at cooling door.,0.0 +"His mind thus bent, with downcast eyes he stood,",2.0 +His soul over many a soft remembrance ran,4.0 +And muttering to himself the youth began.,3.0 +Ah! happy is the man whose early lot,1.0 +Hath made him master of a furnished cot;,1.0 +"Who trains the vine that round his window grows,",0.0 +And after setting sun his garden hoes;,0.0 +"Whose wattled pales his own enclosure shield,",0.0 +"Wherever he goes, to church or market town,",2.0 +"With more respect he and his dog are known,",1.0 +"And takes each tempting gewgaw in his hands,",0.0 +"And buys at will or ribbons, gloves, or beads,",1.0 +And willing partners to the green he leads:,1.0 +"And o! secure from toils that cumber life,",1.0 +He makes the maid he loves an easy wife.,0.0 +"And share his lot, whatever the chances be,",3.0 +Who hath no dower but love to fix on thee?,1.0 +"I pulled the blossoms from the bending tree,",1.0 +And some to Susan gave and some to thee;,0.0 +"Thine were the fairest, and thy smiling eye",2.0 +"The difference marked, and guessed the reason why.",0.0 +"When on that holiday we rambling strayed,",0.0 +And passed Old Hodge's cottage in the glade;,1.0 +I wished the Cot and Nelly made for me;,0.0 +"And well, methought, thy very eyes revealed,",4.0 +"When, artful, once I sought my love to tell,",0.0 +"And spoke to thee of one who loved thee well,",1.0 +Yet secret pleasure in thy looks I spied.,0.0 +"Now at a distance on the neighbouring plain,",3.0 +"With creaking wheels slow comes the harvest wain,",1.0 +"High on its shaking load a maid appears,",0.0 +"Over field and fence he scours, and furrow wide,",2.0 +"While tracks of trodden grain and tangled hay,",0.0 +"Though the ripe fig, pride of the garden gay,",1.0 +Touched by the sun's too fervid beam decay;,1.0 +"Though fairer vines the raging whirlwind blast,",1.0 +And olives useless on the heap are cast;,1.0 +"Yet still to Thee, Jehovah! Power supreme!",3.0 +"My guide, my only hope, and constant theme!",0.0 +"I lisp the feeble strain, and bow the knee,",0.0 +And own incessant Strength belongs to Thee!,0.0 +"OH let thy Love with rapture fill my breast,",1.0 +"At this lone hour, when Nature silent lies,",3.0 +"And Cynthia, solemn, aids the rising scene,",2.0 +"And, listless, drops his galling chain to earth;",0.0 +"OH! let swift Fancy plume her ruffled wing,",2.0 +"Where thy mild form, relaxed in guiltless sleep,",3.0 +"Forgets to think, to feel; may dreams of bliss",0.0 +"Lull thy soft sense, nor paint the scene of woe,",3.0 +"I lately told; think not my spirit near,",1.0 +"Light airy shade, that would elude thine eye,",1.0 +"And shrink to nothing, conscious of thy worth.",1.0 +"Invoke thy Muse, and hail thy song sublime.",0.0 +"Great Queen of Sorrows, in majestic weed,",1.0 +"Lend me her pen, and guide my rustic hand,",0.0 +"To draw soft pity from the Tragic Tale,",2.0 +Where goading misery drives her ploughshare deep;,2.0 +Teach me to paint the tremors of the soul,1.0 +"In sorrow's deepest tints; assist the sigh,",0.0 +That eye where pity tips the pointed beam,0.0 +With treble softness ' -- O! that eye is hers.,1.0 +"The hoary hermit, chilled by frigid rules,",0.0 +"And dies an age that he may live for ever,",1.0 +"Would sudden stop, forgetful of the past,",1.0 +"Nor heed the future, listening to her song;",1.0 +"Her song, least part, her soaring spirit shares",1.0 +"An early Heaven, anticipates her bliss,",0.0 +And basks in suns that never warmed the earth;,0.0 +"Newtonian systems lag her rapid flight,",2.0 +"And, eager, grasps creations yet to be.",0.0 +"You busy World! what are your cobweb toils,",2.0 +"To raise a bubble, which in air dissolves;",0.0 +"You toil an age to grasp the shining dust,",0.0 +"Death trips your heels, you throw it to the wind:",2.0 +"She'll teach thy eye in mental maze to creep,",0.0 +"Timid and trembling, to explore the past;",3.0 +"Alarmed by her, the monitor within",2.0 +"Shall aid thy search, and bring thyself to view.",0.0 +Examine deep; that secret arbitrator,0.0 +"That deeply gores the breast for meals eternal,",0.0 +"Still struggle, restless; sink to depths profound,",1.0 +Nor ever own a thought beneath immortal;,0.0 +"As such Jehovah views thee in the dust,",1.0 +As such he'll waft thee to the plains of Heaven.,2.0 +"What's Death? Like infants sick of senseless toys,",0.0 +We sink to rest ' -- awake to love and joy;,0.0 +"Who lived to virtue, and who owned a God.",1.0 +"But, ah! too daring theme ' -- Stella, assist!",6.0 +"My humble spirit waits your social hand,",0.0 +Whose friendly beckon points to realms of bliss;,0.0 +"See, Stella soars, nor heeds my plaintive note,",1.0 +And bids me fix where Science never dawned;,0.0 +"Hard, hard command! and yet I will obey;",2.0 +"Unaided, unassisted, will deplore",1.0 +"That learning, Heaven's best gift, is lost to me.",3.0 +Like the poor beetle creep my hours away;,2.0 +"The journey closed, I shoot the gulf unknown,",0.0 +"To find a home, perhaps ' -- a long lost mother.",1.0 +And tear each fibre of my bursting heart.,1.0 +"Ah! dear supporter of my infant mind,",1.0 +Whose nobler precept bade my soul aspire,2.0 +To more than tinsel joy; the filial tear,2.0 +Shall drop for thee when pleasure loudest calls.,1.0 +"Rose high with wildest roar; no voice was heard,",2.0 +"For see, from the dark caverns of the deep,",3.0 +Their grisly forms arise; the crown of Death,0.0 +Shone horribly resplendent. See! they seize,2.0 +Which hourly met their grasp: Ah! spare her yet.,0.0 +"Quick let me clasp her to my panting heart,",2.0 +And bear her swiftly over the beating wave.,2.0 +"My feeble arm; inexorable Death,",2.0 +"Why wilt thou tear her from me? O! she dies,",1.0 +Though V' -- 's dear name had lent a feeble glow,4.0 +"To her pale cheek, ' -- she owns him, and expires.",3.0 +"Tremendous stroke! this is thy pastime, Fate:",2.0 +"If shrinking atoms thus thy vengeance feel,",0.0 +What the grand stroke of final dissolution?,3.0 +"Believe me, gentle friend, I could complain;",0.0 +"When Heaven afflicts, none should oppose the plea,",1.0 +For who shall hold the arm that thus has wrecked me?,0.0 +"Despair never heard, but loathing left the soul;",4.0 +Dire fiend! whom sounds of joy could never allure;,2.0 +Beyond the gloomy chambers of the grave;,1.0 +"Speak loudly to my late corrected soul,",2.0 +That sure reward awaits the blameless mind;,0.0 +"Else will I give the strenuous struggle over,",2.0 +"Deny a V' -- as delegate of Heaven,",0.0 +"Throw up your Angel mind, as painted shade,",0.0 +"Or notion strong from early precept caught,",1.0 +And this side Jordan every hope shall fix:,2.0 +"Nor will I lose, thus humbled as I am,",3.0 +"Not worth completion, or the Artist's hand,",1.0 +To add a something more. Such is the mind,1.0 +And bid it pant for more than earthly bliss.,0.0 +Then show Heaven's opening glories to my eyes;,4.0 +"Which pierced old Chaos to his depth profound,",2.0 +While all his native horrors stood revealed.,0.0 +"Yet more I ask ' -- Ah, Stella! aid my pen",0.0 +"To paint the grateful rapture, to describe",1.0 +"How the big heart, exulting, scarcely beats,",2.0 +And joy too vast oppresses all the frame!,1.0 +And all her slackened faculties relax.,1.0 +"Thought hardly dares to touch it; softening time,",1.0 +"And frequent pauses, give it strength of growth,",0.0 +"Even to oppression. O, delightful pain!",2.0 +My soul wants firm support. The gloomy joy,1.0 +"Has lost its relish; grand mistake of fools,",0.0 +In sullen self absorbed! Lo! far estranged,1.0 +"Where riches blazed upon a murky soul,",0.0 +And served to light its errors to the world;,1.0 +"And, hardening by encounter, deep I sunk",1.0 +"Abstracted ' -- Scorn and Silence led the way,",1.0 +No matter whither: ' -- The too gaudy Sun,3.0 +Shines not for me; no bed of Nature yields,4.0 +Her varied sweets; no music wakes the grove;,1.0 +Its tender stalk to cheer my coming hour;,0.0 +"That heart which once had joined the laughing train,",0.0 +Nor once suspected thus to feel the gripe,0.0 +To agonies more exquisite than Death;,2.0 +"That is ' -- to live. OH, Nature! shriek no more,",2.0 +I have no answer for thy thrilling voice;,2.0 +"Go, melt the soul, less frozen in her powers,",2.0 +And bid her weep over miseries not her own;,4.0 +"Hold up the fainting babe who sighs its wants,",0.0 +Which age and woe bend tremulous to earth;,2.0 +"Whose lamp, now quivering in the socket, calls",2.0 +"In haste for aid, never finds it, and goes out.",3.0 +"Plead thou for those, but never talk of aid",1.0 +"For miseries like mine, which mock relief.",2.0 +"Thus desperately I reasoned, madly talked ' --",2.0 +"Thus horrid as I was, of rugged growth,",3.0 +"She feels what Nature taught; I, wilder far,",0.0 +Opposed her dictates ' -- but my panting soul,2.0 +"Now shivers in the agony of change,",2.0 +As insects tremble in the doubtful hour,1.0 +"Of various tints, its fondly cherished pride;",2.0 +"Stella, how strong thy gentle argument!",3.0 +"By the convinced, I scorn the iron lore,",1.0 +In thy mild rhetoric dwells a social love,4.0 +"Beyond my wild conceptions, optics false!",0.0 +Through which I falsely judged of polished life.,0.0 +"This is the sullen curse of surly souls,",1.0 +To disbelieve the virtues which they feel not.,1.0 +"Ah, Stella! I'm a convert; thou hast tuned",2.0 +My rusting powers to the bright strain of joy:,4.0 +My chilled ideas quit their frozen pole,0.0 +"Of blank Despair, and, gently ushered in",0.0 +"By grateful Rapture, meet thy genial warmth:",0.0 +"It's more than joy, or joy to an extreme;",1.0 +"Then teach my honest heart to feel more faint,",0.0 +"More moderate in her grateful change, or lend",0.0 +"Fair Elocution, who the Mimic aids,",1.0 +Yet in its wildness charming to excess,1.0 +"To souls like thine, distasteful to the vain,",2.0 +Who relish nothing honest; nothing love,0.0 +"But flattering strains, tricked out with every art",2.0 +"Of gaudy Eloquence, and trim Deceit.",1.0 +"LET not that Day in circling Moments run,",0.0 +When first these Eyes beheld the odious Sun:,2.0 +"Let his gay Beams forsake the mourning Fields,",3.0 +And starting backward roll his flaming Wheels;,0.0 +"Let trembling Mortals gaze in vain for Light,",1.0 +Cursed be the Day and doubly cursed the Night:,0.0 +To the sad Skies be every Star denied;,2.0 +"While scorching Plagues on quivering Meteors ride,",4.0 +"Let the black Air no melting Music know,",4.0 +But ring with Horror and Complaints of Woe:,1.0 +"Through the grim Shade let grisly Terrors run,",4.0 +And weeping Sorrows that abhor the Sun:,0.0 +And dreadful Echos shake the hideous Gloom;,2.0 +The lowering East pour down a lashing Storm;,2.0 +Nor through her Gates admit the struggling Morn:,1.0 +"Let the dark Hours no lively breaking see,",4.0 +Because they gave these ceaseless Tears to me.,0.0 +"As others have, alas! why could not I",0.0 +"Yield my short Being, and an Infant die?",4.0 +Why was a Mother's Care indulged to me?,0.0 +And why supported on her friendly Knee?,1.0 +"Why did I in her tender Bosom grow,",0.0 +A fostered Subject of impending Woe?,1.0 +This bleeding Heart would know no smarting Pain;,1.0 +"Then lasting Sleep would seal my shaded Eyes,",0.0 +Where frozen Pride and conquered Vengeance lies;,0.0 +"There weary Slaves forgotten Rest may find,",0.0 +And injured Orphans leave their Tears behind;,0.0 +"Thrice happy Rest, OH why to me denied!",3.0 +"Life still will hover round despairing Slaves,",1.0 +"Who slight her Favours, and would court their Graves;",0.0 +"Death gliding by us, shows his grizzly Charms;",2.0 +But the coy Phantom mocks our reaching Arms:,2.0 +"He flies the Dungeons of entreating Woe,",1.0 +And strikes the Prosperous with unwelcome Blow:,3.0 +"To blooming Youth his partial Arrows fly,",0.0 +"To meet the fatal Shaft, and only wish to die.",0.0 +"When Darkness sits as Regent of the Skies,",1.0 +"And round my Bed redoubled Horrors rise,",0.0 +Till Night grows hideous with my constant Cries:,2.0 +"My tortured Limbs with ceaseless Pangs are torn,",0.0 +But yet I live to see returning Morn:,0.0 +"The piercing Sun thrusts in a spiteful Ray,",1.0 +To wound my Eyelids with unwelcome Day.,2.0 +"The Prince of Ills to every Wretch but me,",0.0 +"Plays with the Torments of my struggling Heart,",2.0 +And over my Bosom shakes his lingering Dart.,2.0 +"OH! sacred Judge, when will thy Wrath be done?",2.0 +Why do I live to scare the wondering Sun?,2.0 +"Let not thy Mercy spare my wounded Clay,",0.0 +And nourished only with continual Tears;,3.0 +"Of pining Sickness and distorting Pain,",1.0 +And wild Impatience leading on Despair.,1.0 +Did I with Crimes profane my Days of Rest?,0.0 +Did ever Presumption swell my rising Breast?,2.0 +Did guilty Flame my tainted Soul surprise?,0.0 +Or Snares of Beauty catch my wandering Eyes?,2.0 +"If ever Injustice swelled my spreading Lands,",2.0 +If ever Oppression stained my guiltless Hands;,2.0 +"Then let my God his flaming Vengeance throw,",0.0 +"Renew my Plagues, and double every Woe.",0.0 +Did ever my Servants of their Lord complain?,3.0 +Did humble Rhetoric ever plead in vain?,2.0 +In vain to me did helpless Widows cry?,1.0 +Or at my Gate neglected Orphans lie?,0.0 +And with my own the fostered Infants grew.,1.0 +Was ever my Portals barred against the Poor?,2.0 +Did not the Stranger bless my friendly Door?,0.0 +"Though cold and hungry in my Courts he mourned,",0.0 +Joyful and full the smiling Wretch returned.,2.0 +"When every Good obeyed my lordly Will,",1.0 +Did I by Fraud my glittering Coffers fill?,2.0 +Did I by Fraud increase the tempting Store?,0.0 +Or dote too fondly on the shining Over?,2.0 +Did restless Envy in my Bosom roll?,0.0 +Or lurking Malice blot my tainted Soul?,0.0 +"No ' -- this fond Heart has bled for distant Woe,",3.0 +And learnt Compassion for a sinking Foe.,1.0 +Did ever my Soul from its Creator run,3.0 +"To painted Idols, or the beaming Sun?",1.0 +"Or to the Moon my wavering Senses yield,",3.0 +"Yet stay, presumptuous Wretch, nor urge too far",3.0 +Thy doubtful Sentence at the dreadful Bar:,0.0 +"What melting Rhetoric, or what potent Friend,",1.0 +At Heaven's Tribunal shall thy Cause defend?,2.0 +"Where smothered Evils, hid from mortal Eye,",0.0 +"Thorns in his Path, and Labour on his Brow,",1.0 +"Could he a vain Fantastic Nymph have seen,",0.0 +"In all her Airs, in all her antic Graces,",0.0 +"Her various Fashions, and more various Faces;",5.0 +"How had it posed that Skill, which late assigned",0.0 +Just Appellations to Each several Kind!,1.0 +A right Idea of the Sight to frame;,1.0 +"Thou! to whom nature variously imparts,",4.0 +"The gift of conquering, and of keeping hearts,",1.0 +"Smile on the lay ' -- nor deem the Tale too long,",1.0 +"Which, but for Thee, had yet remained unsung.",1.0 +So may some chosen Youth hereafter view,1.0 +"All Rachel's Graces bloom in Thee anew,",1.0 +"And love, like Jacob, tenderly and true.",1.0 +"Far in the East, as Sacred Writ records,",0.0 +"Dwelled Laban, rich in sundry flocks and herds;",1.0 +"His dwellings large, and fertile was his land,",1.0 +And numerous servants waited his command;,3.0 +"The fruitful lawn, the hill, the levelled down,",1.0 +"Far as the eye could stretch, were all his own:",0.0 +"And where he journeyed, there he left a name.",1.0 +"Two only Daughters to his age remained,",2.0 +"And Leah one, and one was Rachel named.",2.0 +Time had from Leah rifled every grace ' --,0.0 +"But blooming beauty, dwelled on Rachel's face.",0.0 +"She led the flocks, or tripped it to the fife",1.0 +"When summer suns burned fiercely over their heads,",3.0 +"Or when the merry pipe rejoiced the vale,",0.0 +"Cheerful and blithe she passed the day along,",2.0 +And every valley echoed with her song.,1.0 +"Their talk by day, their vision in the night;",0.0 +"Whenever they feasted on their homely cheer,",3.0 +"No mirth was heard, if Rachel was not there:",2.0 +"Amongst all their rural sports She still was seen,",0.0 +"And foremost at the feast, as on the green.",2.0 +"Her Fame and Charms soon reached young Jacob's ear,",2.0 +"But ere his friends and family he leaves,",1.0 +His Father's Blessing on his head he craves.,1.0 +His hopes succeeded by a thousand fears;,1.0 +"The mingled passions take up all his soul,",0.0 +And vast events within his bosom roll.,0.0 +"As on he journeyed far into the East,",1.0 +"Fatigued himself, his camels wanting rest,",0.0 +"Not far away, with pleasure he beheld",1.0 +"A spacious well, amid a fruitful field;",0.0 +Of these he asked their country and their name:,2.0 +From Haran they replied thy servants came.,1.0 +"And know you Laban? lives he, can you tell?",1.0 +"He lives, my Lord; thy servants know him well:",0.0 +"His numerous flocks in yonder valley stray,",2.0 +"And with them, lo! his daughter comes this way.",1.0 +"When Jacob saw the Maid, his beating breast",0.0 +The power of Love and radiant eyes confessed.,2.0 +"Quick through his veins the generous pleasure flowed,",2.0 +"Around his heart the softening passions crept,",0.0 +"He gazed he sighed, he wondered, and he wept;",1.0 +"Then seized her hand, and kissed her rosy cheek,",0.0 +And trembling from his lips the accents break.,1.0 +"When Rachel heard his family and name,",1.0 +"Their common stock, the tribe from whence she came;",0.0 +"With decent haste, exulting over the plain,",2.0 +"She, with the tidings, to her Father ran.",2.0 +"Meanwhile her harmless flock neglected stray,",1.0 +Or round the Well in expectation lay:,0.0 +"These Jacob watered, could he well do less?",0.0 +"When Laban heard the tidings, forth he went",0.0 +"To meet, and welcome Jacob to his tent.",1.0 +My joy cried Laban let my actions speak;,1.0 +"A kind embrace, and friendly welcome take,",0.0 +"Now mirth and feasting through the house were found,",2.0 +And the brisk bowl to Jacob's health went round.,3.0 +"Each in the general joy affects his share,",0.0 +"And none seemed pensive, but the Patriarch's Heir.",3.0 +"He oft on Rachel gazes, oft approves,",0.0 +"And much he muses, for as much he loves:",1.0 +All night her pleasing image soothed his mind;,0.0 +"He found her fair, and hoped to prove her kind.",0.0 +"Soon as the rosy morn unveiled the light,",0.0 +"Jacob arose, and blessed the newborn day,",2.0 +"Then sought the flock, where Rachel led the way.",0.0 +"And now he guides them to the flowery hill,",3.0 +Or drives them skipping to the distant rill:,1.0 +At noon secures them from the scorching heat;,1.0 +"With Rachel near him, Jacob's toil is sweet.",0.0 +He pours the song to harmony and Love.,1.0 +Or sighs his passion to the murmuring stream;,3.0 +"Jacob! whom now she views with partial eye,",2.0 +"Nor were their thoughts to Love alone confined,",1.0 +To mutual vows instructive talk they joined.,2.0 +And each the splendid witness of a God! ' --,1.0 +"Their signs and seasons they observe with care,",1.0 +And mark their influence on the earth and air:,1.0 +"Which threats their flocks, or which destroys their vines,",0.0 +"And which with good, or baleful aspect shines.",1.0 +Thus passed their time. When Laban now beheld,1.0 +"His flocks increase, his vines more clusters yield;",0.0 +"Pleased with his growing wealth, he strait prepares",0.0 +To offer some reward for Jacob's cares.,0.0 +"Jacob, whose heart nor gold nor gems could move,",2.0 +Looked with disdain on all ' -- but Rachel's Love;,2.0 +And thus replied. If gracious Laban means,0.0 +"Or to reward my past, or future pains;",1.0 +And give me lovely Rachel for a Wife.,1.0 +"I ask no dower my fortunes to improve,",2.0 +Rich in possession of my Rachel's Love.,2.0 +"Bargain for Love, and sell their vows for gold;",2.0 +"But let not Rachel, like her sheep, be sold.",0.0 +"Rachel! whose beauty softens every breast,",2.0 +Whose worth outweighs the treasures of the East!,2.0 +"The toil looks pleasing, when so well repaid.",1.0 +"Laban consents, and Jacob joys to find",2.0 +"The Sire as courteous as the Daughter kind,",3.0 +"His upright heart, as yet, no guile could see;",2.0 +"He thought men honest, as they seemed to be.",2.0 +"That Rachel should reward her Jacob's cares,",0.0 +When with united hearts they join to bless,1.0 +"Laban prepares a banquet, and invites",3.0 +To hail the Bride; with presents in their hands;,0.0 +"A flowing mantle lovely Rachel wore,",0.0 +"Embossed with gems, with gold embroidered over;",0.0 +"She gave the health, She welcomed every guest,",0.0 +And seemed to all the Mistress of the Feast.,1.0 +"But when the sun withdrew his kindling beams,",0.0 +And the last ray danced faintly on the streams;,5.0 +"No more the youthful power of Love confessed,",2.0 +"Observed how Leah often looked askance,",0.0 +"And cast on Rachel many an envious glance,",4.0 +Himself the willing wayward damsel led,0.0 +"To Rachel's Place, and seized the bridal bed.",0.0 +"But when the morn appeared, and by his side",1.0 +Jacob beheld his unexpected Bride;,2.0 +The tasteless Leah to my nuptial bed?,1.0 +And dost thou thus reward my honest care?,0.0 +"How God has blessed thee since, let Me proclaim.",2.0 +Have or thy Ewes or Goats once cast their Young?,1.0 +"That which was torn of beasts I brought thee not,",0.0 +"I bare the loss, nor hast thou suffered aught.",0.0 +"Thus, thus I was; for Thee my sleep I lost,",2.0 +"Endured the summer's sun, and winter's frost.",0.0 +I served for Rachel ' -- but for Leah mourn.,1.0 +"Laban replied, What though, young man, I led",4.0 +"My firstborn Leah to thy arms, and bed;",2.0 +"To give the younger first ' -- yet both are thine,",0.0 +"These hard conditions of his happiness,",2.0 +"Source of his woes, and partner of his care ' --",1.0 +"Yet all his trials well did he sustain,",1.0 +"And Rachel shared, or softened every pain,",0.0 +Till Heaven at length confirmed Her all his own;,0.0 +"When, to their mutual joy, She bare a son,",2.0 +"While from thy pulp a healing balsam flows,",0.0 +Whose power the suffering wretch from pain can free:,2.0 +My pensive footsteps ever turn to thee!,1.0 +"Since oft, while musing on my lasting woes,",1.0 +Symbol of Friendship dost thou seem to me;,2.0 +For thus has Friendship cast her soothing shade,0.0 +"Thus sought to heal the wounds which Love has made,",1.0 +And temper bleeding sorrow's sharp excess!,0.0 +Ah! not in vain she lends her balmy aid ' --,0.0 +The agonies she cannot cure are less!,1.0 +"MAN on the dubious waves of error tossed,",2.0 +"His ship half foundered and his compass lost,",2.0 +"Sees far as human optics may command,",2.0 +"A sleeping fog, and fancies it dry land:",2.0 +"Pants for it, aims at it, enters it, and dies.",1.0 +"Deceitful views of future bliss, farewell!",1.0 +He reads his sentence at the flames of hell.,0.0 +Hard lot of man! to toil for the reward,2.0 +"Of virtue, and yet lose it ' -- wherefore hard?",1.0 +"He that would win the race, must guide his horse",0.0 +"Obedient to the customs of the course,",2.0 +"Grace leads the right way, if you choose the wrong,",3.0 +"Take it and perish, but restrain your tongue;",1.0 +"Charge not, with light sufficient and left free,",2.0 +"O how unlike the complex works of man,",1.0 +"No clustering ornaments to clog the pile,",4.0 +"From ostentation as from weakness free,",1.0 +Majestic in its own simplicity.,1.0 +"Inscribed above the portal, from afar",1.0 +"Conspicuous as the brightness of a star,",2.0 +"Legible only by the light they give,",3.0 +"Too many shocked at what should charm them most,",1.0 +Despise the plain direction and are lost.,1.0 +"Heaven on such terms! they cry with proud disdain,",0.0 +"Incredible, impossible, and vain ' --",2.0 +"Rebel because it's easy to obey,",1.0 +And scorn for its own sake the gracious way.,1.0 +"These are the sober, in whose cooler brains",1.0 +Some thought of immortality remains;,1.0 +"The rest too busy or too gay, to wait",3.0 +"On the sad theme, their everlasting state,",2.0 +"Sport for a day and perish in a night,",0.0 +The foam upon the waters not so light.,0.0 +Who judged the Pharisee? What odious cause,2.0 +Exposed him to the vengeance of the laws?,2.0 +"Had he seduced a virgin, wronged a friend,",1.0 +Or stabbed a man to serve some private end?,0.0 +Was blasphemy his sin? Or did he stray,1.0 +From the strict duties of the sacred day?,3.0 +Sit long and late at the carousing board?,2.0 +Such were the sins with which he charged his Lord,1.0 +"No ' -- the man's morals were exact, what then?",4.0 +'Twas his ambition to be seen of men;,3.0 +His virtues were his pride; and that one vice,1.0 +"He wore them as fine trappings for a show,",3.0 +"A praying, synagogue frequenting beau.",5.0 +Mark what a sumptuous Pharisee is he!,2.0 +"His radiant glories, azure, green, and gold;",0.0 +"He treads as if some solemn music near,",1.0 +"His measured step were governed by his ear,",1.0 +"And seems to say, you meaner fowl, give place,",1.0 +Though he too has a glory in his plumes.,0.0 +"He, christian like, retreats with modest mien,",0.0 +And shines without desiring to be seen.,1.0 +"The plea of works, as arrogant and vain,",1.0 +Heaven turns from with abhorrence and disdain;,2.0 +"Not more affronted by avowed neglect,",1.0 +"What is all righteousness that men devise,",1.0 +"But Christ as soon would abdicate his own,",0.0 +As sloop from heaven to sell the proud a throne.,0.0 +"His dwelling a recess in some rude rock,",2.0 +"In shirt of hair and weeds of canvas dressed,",0.0 +"And sore tormented long before his time,",1.0 +"His prayer preferred to saints that cannot aid,",0.0 +"His praise postponed, and never to be paid,",1.0 +"See the sage hermit by mankind admired,",5.0 +"With all that bigotry adopts, inspired,",1.0 +"Wearing out life in his religious whim,",3.0 +Till his religious whimsy wears out him.,1.0 +"His works, his abstinence, his zeal allowed,",1.0 +"You think him humble, God accounts him proud;",0.0 +"Of all his conduct, this the genuine sense ' --",3.0 +"Have purchased heaven, and prove my title good.",0.0 +"Turn eastward now, and fancy shall apply",1.0 +To your weak sight her telescopic eye.,2.0 +"His voluntary pains, severe and long,",1.0 +"Would give a barbarous air to British song,",2.0 +"Nor grand inquisitor could worse invent,",2.0 +Your sentence and mine differ. What's a name?,1.0 +"If sufferings scripture no where recommends,",0.0 +Devised by self to answer selfish ends,0.0 +"The truth is if the truth may suit your ear,",1.0 +And prejudice have left a passage clear,1.0 +"Pride has attained its most luxuriant growth,",3.0 +And poisoned every virtue in them both.,0.0 +Pride may be pampered while the flesh grows lean;,1.0 +Humility may cloth an English Dean;,1.0 +"Not all the plenty of a Bishop's board,",1.0 +"His palace, and his lackeys, and, my Lord!",2.0 +"More nourish pride, that condescending vice,",0.0 +"It thrives in misery, and abundant grows",3.0 +In misery fools upon themselves impose.,2.0 +But why before us Protestants produce,1.0 +An Indian mystic or a French recluse?,3.0 +"Their sin is plain, but what have we to fear,",0.0 +Reformed and well instructed? You shall hear.,1.0 +"Yonder ancient prude, whose withered features show",0.0 +"She might be young some forty years ago,",0.0 +"Her head erect, her fan upon her lips,",0.0 +"Her eyebrows arched, her eyes both gone astray",2.0 +"To watch yonder amorous couple in their play,",4.0 +"Duly at clink of bell, to morning prayers.",2.0 +"To thrift and parsimony much inclined,",0.0 +She yet allows herself that boy behind;,0.0 +"The shivering urchin, bending as he goes,",3.0 +"With slipshod heels, and dew drop at his nose,",2.0 +"His predecessors coat advanced to wear,",0.0 +"Carries her bible tucked beneath his arm,",2.0 +And hides his hands to keep his fingers warm.,0.0 +"She, half an angel in her own account,",0.0 +"Doubts not hereafter with the saints to mount,",2.0 +"Though not a grace appears on strictest search,",0.0 +"But that she fasts, and item, goes to church.",0.0 +"Conscious of age she recollects her youth,",2.0 +"And tells, not always with an eye to truth,",1.0 +"Who spanned her waist, and who, wherever he came,",2.0 +And drank the little bumper every day.,0.0 +"In faithful memory she records the crimes,",3.0 +"Laughs at the reputations she has torn,",1.0 +And holds them dangling at arms length in scorn.,1.0 +"Such are the fruits of sanctimonious pride,",3.0 +Of malice fed while flesh is mortified.,0.0 +"Take, Madam, the reward of all your prayers,",2.0 +"Your portion is with them: nay, never frown,",3.0 +"But, if you please, some fathoms lower down.",2.0 +Artist attend ' -- your brushes and your paint ' --,3.0 +Produce them ' -- take a chair ' -- now draw a Saint.,1.0 +O sorrowful and sad! the streaming tears,1.0 +"Is this a Saint? Throw tints and all away,",2.0 +"True piety is cheerful as the day,",3.0 +Will weep indeed and heave a pitying groan,2.0 +"For others woes, but smiles upon her own.",0.0 +What purpose has the King of Saints in view?,0.0 +Why falls the gospel like a gracious dew?,0.0 +"To call up plenty from the teeming earth,",1.0 +Or curse the desert with a tenfold dearth?,2.0 +Is it that Adam's offspring may be saved,3.0 +"From servile fear, or be the more enslaved?",0.0 +"Or bind them faster on, and add still more?",2.0 +"The freeborn Christian has no chains to prove,",1.0 +"Or if a chain, the golden one of love;",2.0 +"No fear attends to quench his glowing fires,",1.0 +What fear he feels his gratitude inspires.,0.0 +"Shall he for such deliverance freely wrought,",1.0 +"His masters interest and his own combined,",1.0 +Prompt every movement of his heart and mind;,2.0 +"Thought, word, and deed, his liberty evince,",2.0 +His freedom is the freedom of a Prince.,2.0 +"Man's obligations infinite, of course",2.0 +"His life should prove that he perceives their force,",1.0 +"His utmost he can render is but small,",3.0 +The principle and motive all in all.,1.0 +"You have two servants ' -- Tom, an arch, sly rogue,",2.0 +"Genteel in figure, easy in address,",0.0 +"Moves without noise, and swift as an express,",4.0 +"Reports a message with a pleasing grace,",1.0 +Expert in all the duties of his place:,1.0 +"Say, on what hinge does his obedience move?",3.0 +Has he a world of gratitude and love?,0.0 +"Reduce his wages, or get rid of her,",2.0 +"Tom quits you, with, your most obedient Sir ' --",4.0 +"The dinner served, Charles takes his usual stand,",3.0 +"Watches your eye, anticipates command,",2.0 +"Sighs if perhaps your appetite should fail,",2.0 +"And if he but suspects a frown, turns pale;",3.0 +"Consults all day your interest and your ease,",1.0 +"Richly rewarded if he can but please,",4.0 +"And proud to make his firm attachment known,",0.0 +To save your life would nobly risque his own.,2.0 +"Now, which stands highest in your serious thought?",4.0 +"Charles, without doubt, say you ' -- and so he ought;",2.0 +"One act that from a thankful heart proceeds,",1.0 +Excels ten thousand mercenary deeds.,1.0 +"Thus heaven approves as honest and sincere,",2.0 +"The work of generous love and filial fear,",4.0 +"Even at your side, Sir, and before your eyes,",2.0 +"And pleased at heart because on holy ground,",0.0 +"Reproach a people with his single fall,",1.0 +Whence springs the conduct that offends you so.,0.0 +"See where it smokes along the sounding plain,",0.0 +"Peal upon peal redoubling all around,",3.0 +"Shakes it again and faster to the ground,",3.0 +"Now flashing wide, now glancing as in play,",3.0 +Swift beyond thought the lightnings dart away;,2.0 +"Ere yet it came the traveller urged his steed,",2.0 +"And hurried, but with unsuccessful speed,",1.0 +"Now drenched throughout, and hopeless of his case,",2.0 +"He drops the rein, and leaves him to his pace;",1.0 +"Some mansion neat and elegantly dressed,",1.0 +"By some kind hospitable heart possessed,",3.0 +"Offer him warmth, security and rest;",3.0 +"Think with what pleasure, safe and at his ease,",0.0 +"He hears the tempest howling in the trees,",0.0 +"What glowing thanks his lips and heart employ,",0.0 +While danger past is turned to present joy.,0.0 +"So fares it with the sinner when he feels,",1.0 +"A growing dread of vengeance at his heels,",0.0 +"His conscience like a glassy lake before,",0.0 +"Lashed into foaming waves begins to roar,",1.0 +"Asserts the rights of his offended Lord,",1.0 +And death or restitution is the word;,1.0 +"The last impossible, he fears the first,",1.0 +"And having well deserved, expects the worst",0.0 +"Then welcome refuge, and a peaceful home,",1.0 +O for a shelter from the wrath to come!,2.0 +"Crush me you rocks, you falling mountains hide,",0.0 +Or bury me in oceans angry tide ' --,1.0 +The scrutiny of those all seeing eyes,2.0 +"I dare not ' -- and you need not, God replies;",1.0 +"The remedy you want I freely give,",1.0 +"The book shall teach you, read, believe and live:",0.0 +"It's done ' -- the raging storm is heard no more,",1.0 +"Mercy receives him on her peaceful shore,",3.0 +"And justice, guardian of the dread command,",1.0 +Drops the red vengeance from his willing hand.,4.0 +"A soul redeemed demands a life of praise,",0.0 +"Hence the complexion of his future days,",3.0 +And the world's hatred as its sure effect.,3.0 +"Their own dear virtue, their unshaken trust.",2.0 +They never sin ' -- or if as all offend,1.0 +"Some trivial slips their daily walk attend,",2.0 +"The poor are near at hand, the charge is small,",0.0 +"For though the Pope has lost his interest here,",1.0 +"And pardons are not sold as once they were,",1.0 +Than some grave sinners upon English ground:,6.0 +"That plea refuted, other quirks they seek,",0.0 +"Mercy is infinite and man is weak,",3.0 +"The future shall obliterate the past,",0.0 +And heaven no doubt shall be their home at last.,1.0 +"Come then ' -- a still, small whisper in your ear,",1.0 +He has no hope that never had a fear;,1.0 +"And he that never doubted of his state,",2.0 +He may perhaps ' -- perhaps he may ' -- too late.,2.0 +"The path to bliss abounds with many a snare,",2.0 +"Learning is one, and wit, however rare:",2.0 +"The Frenchman first in literary fame,",0.0 +Mention him if you please ' -- Voltaire? The same,1.0 +"With spirit, genius, eloquence supplied,",1.0 +"Lived long, wrote much, laughed heartily and died:",8.0 +"An infidel in health, but what when sick?",0.0 +"O then, a text would touch him at the quick:",0.0 +"View him at Paris in his last career,",0.0 +"Exalted on his pedestal of pride,",2.0 +"And fumed with frankincense on every side,",0.0 +"He begs their flattery with his latest breath,",1.0 +"Content though mean, and cheerful, if not gay,",1.0 +"Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night",1.0 +"Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light;",2.0 +"She for her humble sphere by nature fit,",1.0 +"Has little understanding, and no wit,",2.0 +"Receives no praise, but though her lot be such,",2.0 +"Just knows, and knows no more, her bible true,",1.0 +"A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew,",0.0 +"And in that charter reads with sparkling eyes,",0.0 +Her title to a treasure in the skies.,1.0 +O happy peasant! O unhappy bard!,1.0 +"His the mere tinsel, hers the rich reward;",3.0 +"He praised perhaps for ages yet to come,",0.0 +She never heard of half a mile from home;,0.0 +"He lost in errors his vain heart prefers,",2.0 +She safe in the simplicity of hers.,2.0 +"Not many wise, rich, noble, or profound",2.0 +"In science, win one inch of heavenly ground;",2.0 +"The poor should gain it, and the rich should not?",1.0 +"One pleasure lost, lose heaven without regret;",1.0 +"Regret would rouse them and give birth to prayer,",2.0 +"Prayer would add faith, and faith would fix them there.",1.0 +"Not that the Former of us all in this,",1.0 +"Or aught he does, is governed by caprice,",1.0 +"The supposition is replete with sin,",1.0 +And bears the brand of blasphemy burned in.,2.0 +"Not so ' -- the silver trumpet's heavenly call,",2.0 +"Sounds for the poor, but sounds alike for all;",0.0 +"Kings are invited, and would kings obey,",3.0 +No slaves on earth more welcome were than they:,2.0 +"But royalty, nobility, and state,",2.0 +It's open and you cannot enter ' -- why?,1.0 +"Because you will not, Conyers would reply ' --",1.0 +And he says much that many may dispute,1.0 +"O blessed effect of penury and want,",1.0 +"The seed sown there, how vigorous is the plant!",3.0 +"No soil like poverty for growth divine,",2.0 +As leanest land supplies the richest wine.,0.0 +"Earth gives too little, giving only bread,",2.0 +To nourish pride or turn the weakest head:,0.0 +"To them, the sounding jargon of the schools,",2.0 +"Seems what it is, a cap and bells for fools:",1.0 +"The light they walk by, kindled from above,",1.0 +Shows them the shortest way to life and love:,0.0 +"They, strangers to the controversial field,",1.0 +"And never checked by what impedes the wise,",0.0 +You have much cause for envy ' -- but not all;,1.0 +"We boast some rich ones whom the gospel sways,",1.0 +And one that wears a coronet and prays;,1.0 +"How readily upon the gospel plan,",1.0 +That question has its answer ' -- what is man?,0.0 +"Sinful and weak, in every sense a wretch,",2.0 +An instrument whose chords upon the stretch,1.0 +"And strained to the last screw that he can bear,",1.0 +Yield only discord in his maker's ear:,1.0 +"Once the blessed residence of truth divine,",4.0 +"But made long since like Babylon of old,",1.0 +"And she, once mistress of the realms around,",3.0 +"Now scattered wide and no where to be found,",2.0 +"By native power and energy her own,",3.0 +"As nature at her own peculiar cost,",0.0 +Restore to man the glories he has lost.,1.0 +"Go bid the winter cease to chill the year,",1.0 +"Replace the wandering comet in his sphere,",2.0 +But what is man in his own proud esteem?,1.0 +"Hear him, himself the poet and the theme;",3.0 +"A monarch clothed with majesty and awe,",1.0 +His mind his kingdom and his will his law.,2.0 +"Grace in his mien and glory in his eyes,",0.0 +"Supreme on earth and worthy of the skies,",1.0 +"Strength in his heart, dominion in his nod,",0.0 +"So sings he, charmed with his own mind and form,",1.0 +"The song magnificent, the theme a worm:",1.0 +"Himself so much the source of his delight,",1.0 +His maker has no beauty in his sight:,1.0 +"See where he sits contemplative and fixed,",1.0 +"Pleasure and wonder in his features mixed,",2.0 +"His passions tamed and all at his control,",1.0 +How perfect the composure of his soul!,4.0 +Complacency has breathed a gentle gale,1.0 +"Over all his thoughts, and swelled his easy sail:",0.0 +"Adorn his intellects as well as shelves,",0.0 +And teach him notions splendid as themselves:,1.0 +"The bible only stands neglected there,",1.0 +"Though that of all most worthy of his care,",1.0 +"And like an infant, troublesome awake,",1.0 +Is left to sleep for peace and quiet sake.,0.0 +"What shall the man deserve of human kind,",0.0 +"Whose happy skill and industry combined,",1.0 +Shall prove what argument could never yet,1.0 +"The praises of the libertine professed,",1.0 +"The worst of men, and curses of the best.",1.0 +"Where should the living, weeping over his woes,",2.0 +"The dying, trembling at their awful close,",0.0 +"Where the betrayed, forsaken and oppressed,",2.0 +"The thousands whom the world forbids to rest,",0.0 +Where should they find those comforts at an end,0.0 +The scripture yields or hope to find a friend?,0.0 +"Sorrow might muse herself to madness then,",2.0 +"And seeking exile from the sight of men,",2.0 +"Bury herself in solitude profound,",2.0 +Grow frantic with her pangs and bite the ground.,2.0 +"Flies to the tempting pool or felon knife,",0.0 +"The jury meet, the coroner is short,",1.0 +And lunacy the verdict of the court:,2.0 +"Reverse the sentence, let the truth be known,",0.0 +Such lunacy is ignorance alone;,2.0 +"They knew not, what some bishops may not know,",1.0 +That scripture is the only cure of woe:,1.0 +"That field of promise, how it flings abroad",1.0 +Its odour over the Christians thorny road;,4.0 +"Feels herself happy amid all her grief,",5.0 +"Forgets her labour as she toils along,",1.0 +"Weeps tears of joy, and bursts into a song.",1.0 +But the same word that like the polished share,1.0 +"O that unwelcome voice of heavenly love,",2.0 +"Sad messenger of mercy from above,",3.0 +"How does it grate upon his thankless ear,",0.0 +Crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear!,2.0 +"His will and judgement at continual strife,",3.0 +"In vain he points his powers against the skies,",2.0 +"In vain he closes or averts his eyes,",1.0 +Truth will intrude ' -- she bids him yet beware ' --,2.0 +"Though various foes against the truth combine,",2.0 +Pride above all opposes her design;,3.0 +"Pride, of a growth superior to the rest,",1.0 +"Swells at the thought, and kindling into rage,",0.0 +Would hiss the cherub mercy from the stage.,1.0 +"And is the soul indeed so lost, she cries,",1.0 +"Fallen from her glory and too weak to rise,",3.0 +"Torpid and dull beneath a frozen zone,",2.0 +Has she no spark that may be deemed her own?,1.0 +Grant her indebted to what zealots call,3.0 +"Grace undeserved, yet surely not for all ' --",1.0 +"Some beams of rectitude she yet displays,",0.0 +"Some love of virtue and some power to praise,",3.0 +"Assert the skies, and vindicate her due.",1.0 +"Bore on his branch luxuriant then, and rude,",1.0 +"Fruits of a blighted size, austere and crude,",0.0 +"Then conscious of her meritorious zeal,",3.0 +"To justice she may make her bold appeal,",1.0 +"And leave to mercy with a tranquil mind,",1.0 +"Hear then how mercy slighted and defied,",1.0 +Retorts the affront against the crown of pride.,2.0 +"Perish the virtue, as it ought, abhorred,",3.0 +And the fool with it that insults his Lord.,0.0 +"Is not for you, ' -- the righteous need it not.",1.0 +"Herself from morn to night, from night to morn,",0.0 +"Her own abhorrence, and as much your scorn,",1.0 +"The gracious shower, unlimited and free,",3.0 +"Shall fall on her, when heaven denies it thee.",1.0 +"Of all that wisdom dictates, this the drift,",2.0 +"That man is dead in sin, and life a gift.",0.0 +"Is virtue then, unless of christian growth,",0.0 +"Mere fallacy, or foolishness, or both,",3.0 +"Ten thousand sages lost in endless woe,",1.0 +For ignorance of what they could not know?,1.0 +"That speech betrays at once a bigot's tongue,",0.0 +Charge not a God with such outrageous wrong.,1.0 +"Truly not I ' -- the partial light men have,",1.0 +"My creed persuades me, well employed may save,",0.0 +"Shall find the blessing, unimproved, a curse.",0.0 +"Let heathen worthies whose exalted mind,",1.0 +"Left sensuality and dross behind,",2.0 +"Possess for me their undisputed lot,",1.0 +"Not blind by choice, but destined not to see.",0.0 +Their fortitude and wisdom were a flame,1.0 +"Celestial, though they knew not whence it came,",1.0 +Derived from the same source of light and grace,2.0 +That guides the christian in his swifter race;,0.0 +"Their judge was conscience, and her rule their law,",1.0 +"That rule pursued with reverence and with awe,",1.0 +"Led them, however faltering, faint and slow,",5.0 +"From what they knew, to what they wished to know;",0.0 +"But let not him that shares a brighter day,",1.0 +"Prefer the twilight of a darker time,",2.0 +And deem his base stupidity no crime;,2.0 +"The wretch that slights the bounty of the skies,",1.0 +"Shall find them rated at their full amount,",0.0 +The good he scorned all carried to account.,1.0 +"Thunder and earthquake and devouring flame,",6.0 +"Life for obedience, death for every flaw.",4.0 +When the great sovereign would his will express.,3.0 +He gives a perfect rule; what can he less?,2.0 +And guards it with a sanction as severe,2.0 +"As vengeance can inflict, or sinners fear:",1.0 +"Else his own glorious rights he would disclaim,",2.0 +And man might safely trifle with his name:,1.0 +He bids him glow with unremitting love,0.0 +"To all on earth, and to himself above;",1.0 +"Condemns the injurious deed, the slanderous tongue,",6.0 +"Brings not alone, the more conspicuous part,",3.0 +"His conduct to the test, but tries his heart.",1.0 +"Hark! universal nature shook and groaned,",1.0 +"Rouse all your courage at your utmost need,",1.0 +"Now summon every virtue, stand and plead.",1.0 +"What, silent? Is your boasting heard no more?",2.0 +"Had shed immortal glories on your brow,",1.0 +That all your virtues cannot purchase now.,0.0 +All joy to the believer! He can speak ' --,2.0 +"Trembling yet happy, confident yet meek.",2.0 +"Since the dear hour that brought me to thy foot,",3.0 +"And cut up all my follies by the root,",1.0 +"I never trusted in an arm but thine,",0.0 +"Nor hoped, but in thy righteousness divine:",1.0 +"Were but the feeble efforts of a child,",2.0 +"However performed, it was their brightest part,",4.0 +That they proceeded from a grateful heart:,2.0 +Forgive their evil and accept their good;,1.0 +I cast them at thy feet ' -- my only plea,0.0 +"Is what it was, dependence upon thee;",3.0 +"While struggling in the vale of tears below,",0.0 +"That never failed, nor shall it fail me now.",0.0 +"MY dear companion, and my faithful friend!",1.0 +If Orpheus taught the listening oaks to bend;,2.0 +And hear my grateful harp resound thy praise?,1.0 +"True, thou art spruce and fine, a very beau;",0.0 +"But what are trappings, and external show?",1.0 +Once I beheld thee far less trim and gay;,3.0 +"Ragged, disjointed, and to worms a prey;",3.0 +The safe retreat of every lurking mouse;,0.0 +"Derided, shunned; the lumber of my house!",1.0 +"Thy robe, how changed from what it was before!",1.0 +"Thy velvet robe, which pleased my sires of yore!",0.0 +Tis thus capricious Fortune wheels us round;,1.0 +Aloft we mount ' -- then tumble to the ground.,1.0 +"Yet grateful then, my constancy I proved;",1.0 +I knew thy worth; my friend in rags I loved!,0.0 +"I loved thee, more; nor like a courtier, spurned",2.0 +"My benefactor, when the tide was turned.",0.0 +"With conscious shame, yet frankly, I confess,",1.0 +That in my youthful days ' -- I loved thee less.,0.0 +"Where vanity, where pleasure called, I strayed;",1.0 +And every wayward appetite obeyed.,0.0 +"Myself; and how, this world: she bade me rise",2.0 +"My bliss, and lodged me in thy soft embrace.",0.0 +Here on thy yielding down I sit secure;,1.0 +"And, patiently, what heaven has sent, endure;",1.0 +From all the futile cares of business free;,0.0 +"Not fond of life, but yet content to be:",0.0 +Here mark the fleeting hours; regret the past;,0.0 +"And seriously prepare, to meet the last.",3.0 +And all the malice of the storm defies:,1.0 +"With ease of body blessed, and peace of mind,",0.0 +"On his great voyage, to the world unknown.",3.0 +"Hail, modest Author, who obscure dost lie,",1.0 +But to prevent our fond Idolatry;,2.0 +"And does commit with so much Industry,",2.0 +Their Names in Folio to Posterity.,3.0 +Swell a great Volume with as great Expense;,4.0 +"Nay, choose the best in thy small Tract we see,",3.0 +A thousand of them in Epitome;,2.0 +"Our way of Study is by Contemplation,",1.0 +Revolving Thoughts in the mind by dull Succession,0.0 +How could you write in Words so like your Thought;,0.0 +"Truths so Divine in so refined a Style,",3.0 +Sure Angels view with a consenting Smile:,2.0 +"Let the bold Atheist read thy Noble Line,",5.0 +In every Leaf he'll see a Power Divine.,2.0 +"Not long Disputes confounding the intent,",1.0 +"Had Hobs but seen it, that bold daring Man,",1.0 +Himself had burned his own Leviathan.,1.0 +"What sceptic Scruples can in Man be raised,",1.0 +But by your Conquering Truths may be appeased?,3.0 +Usurp what Heaven does sure on you confer.,2.0 +"The careful Student need not any more,",0.0 +"Waste Purse and Time to turn great Volumes over,",2.0 +"Your well fraught Book in which all Truths agree,",1.0 +Will be itself sufficient Library.,3.0 +FRiend COLIN! well overtook. I have of late,4.0 +"Observed thy cheerful Mien, and airy Gait:",0.0 +"Say, what auspicious Change, since other Day,",1.0 +When by thy lonely Cot I took my Way?,0.0 +And every Look did gloomy Cares disclose:,0.0 +Whose generous Bounty has removed my Woe?,2.0 +"I thought, the gracious CAROLINA's Name,",0.0 +"Ere this, had filled the sounding Trump of Fame.",0.0 +THAT gracious Name the World is bound to bless;,0.0 +"But, COLIN, say, has she removed thy Care?",1.0 +"I'm happy, when thy Happiness I hear.",1.0 +"Born in a Cot, and bred to till the Earth;",1.0 +Forced at their frugal Hands my Bread to get:,0.0 +"But when my Wants to CAROLINE were known,",0.0 +She blessed me with a Pasture of my own.,2.0 +This makes new Pleasures in my Bosom glow;,1.0 +These joyful Looks I to her Bounty owe.,1.0 +"AND may kind Heaven reward that gracious QUEEN,",2.0 +Who to thy Wants has so propitious been!,1.0 +"Yet, though her Bounty has thy Wants supplied,",0.0 +Let not her Bounty ever exalt thy Pride;,2.0 +"But keep an humble Mind, a grateful Heart;",0.0 +Her Favours far exceed thy own Desert:,2.0 +Heaven moved the Goodness of the Royal Dame;,1.0 +And Heaven and She thy Gratitude must claim.,1.0 +"WHEN me she first into her Favour took,",1.0 +The Letters in the Staff may wear away;,0.0 +Those written in my Soul shall never decay.,2.0 +SO may thy little Flock increase their Tale;,1.0 +So may thy Field of Pasture never fail;,1.0 +"May Heaven and She, in just Proportion, still",1.0 +"Or smile, or frown, as thou art good, or ill.",0.0 +"MAY hungry Foxes kill my tender Lambs,",0.0 +"Elude my Hopes, and never fill the Pail;",0.0 +"In short, to make my Curse the more complete,",0.0 +Though it's the only Thing I dread and hate,1.0 +May Heaven and Heavenly CAROLINE remove,2.0 +"Their Smiles, if COLIN ever ungrateful prove.",2.0 +THY Thanks and Prayers her generous Soul will please;,2.0 +"A Tribute justly due, and paid with Ease:",0.0 +Sometime a Song perhaps she may require;,2.0 +"When in an abject, low, laborious State,",2.0 +"Sunk deep in Cares, and pressed beneath their Weight;",1.0 +In Sonnets COLIN charmed away his Pains:,0.0 +"OH Friend! too well you know, my simple Strains",2.0 +"Yet, since Great CAROLINA thinks no Scorn,",2.0 +"Henceforth I'll strive to raise my Voice sublime,",1.0 +And with her Royal Name adorn my Rhyme;,1.0 +"I'll on each verdant Mountain sing her Praise,",1.0 +And vocal Groves shall echo to my Lays;,1.0 +Nor ever drop the pleasing glorious Theme.,2.0 +"THEN, since we're met, where friendly Branches spread,",0.0 +And trembling Leaves diffuse a cooling Shade;,0.0 +"Since, on the Sprays, the Thrush and Finch rejoice,",0.0 +"Invoke thy Muse, and tune thy rural Voice.",0.0 +"ANOTHER Day my rural Voice I'll raise,",0.0 +Another Day the Muse shall tune her Lays:,0.0 +"But now, alas! such crowding Joys I find,",0.0 +No Words can speak the Transports of my Mind.,2.0 +"Would PHOEBUS warm me with poetic Fire,",1.0 +"As Great ELIZA shone in SPENCER's Line,",0.0 +The Greater CAROLINA should in mine;,0.0 +"Then would I emulate the tuneful Throng,",0.0 +"Be still fond Youth, and cease the rueful Noise,",1.0 +"The Shepherd's ruder Pipe, or Sailors Crowd",0.0 +"As sweetly echoes, and almost as loud.",2.0 +"Rail on, poor Melvin, and with Envy swell,",4.0 +When with alternate Loves they cheer the smiling Plains.,2.0 +"Begin, if thou art skilled in tuneful Lay,",1.0 +Now whispering Breezes gentle Sounds convey.,3.0 +"The noisy Winds in bolted Caves are pressed,",0.0 +And now the Halcyon builds her wavering Nest.,4.0 +"I have observing past through different Climes,",0.0 +"Can fix the Seasons, and adjust the Times,",1.0 +"And know what Stars, when they oppose or meet",1.0 +"Will cause or stormy Winds, or falling Sleet.",0.0 +"I know far distant Isles in Northern Seas,",1.0 +"Where Birds from Insects grow, and hang on Trees.",1.0 +The Moon commands the Waves. Her changing Face,0.0 +"Disturbs the whole, and stirs the watery Mass;",2.0 +"But there are Seas, which no such Influence know,",3.0 +"Though now it's calm, I know those Magic Spells",0.0 +Can raise the sleeping Winds from rocky Cells:,0.0 +"The lowering Heaven looks then with sadder Hue,",2.0 +"And dismal Storms, and frightful Wreaks ensue.",0.0 +"When fatal Rocks have split the broken Ship,",0.0 +"And shrieking Mortals sink into the Deep,",0.0 +And buoys the floating Wretch amid the angry Waves.,2.0 +On yonder Rock I tuned the passive Air,0.0 +"The wanton Dolphins joyous danced around,",0.0 +"Spouting the Waves, and frisked at every Sound.",2.0 +"I came, and she glad of the kind Surprise",0.0 +To me her Tears and Glances are no more,3.0 +Than crackling Bottles on the frothy Shore.,1.0 +"Take heed, you Birds; for an unwelcome Guest",2.0 +"Will steal the speckled Eggs, and give the Prey",0.0 +"To a kind Nymph, that sports in yonder Bay.",2.0 +"Measured the sandy Plain, will come no more:",3.0 +"Ah! would she love, I could even live ' -- on Shore.",0.0 +While to our watery Home we ever are confined.,3.0 +"Who want a Voice to sing, or ' -- to complain,",1.0 +"Though mute your selves, yet you in Shoals will throng,",1.0 +"While softer Breezes breath in Whispers round,",0.0 +And every Wave breaks with a pleasing Sound.,2.0 +And cuts the liquid Air with moistened Wings;,0.0 +"Who burns amid the Waves, and pines for Heat.",0.0 +"Those gilded Flyers still in Danger move,",0.0 +"Pursued by Fish below, by Birds above:",0.0 +"In a dark mossy Cave, and clasped him round;",2.0 +"In vain to fright with different Forms he strove,",0.0 +"I held him fast, and he foretold my Love.",1.0 +"She kissed, and vowed, She never would forget:",0.0 +"But they shall nothing lose by what I stole,",1.0 +"Made of a Swordfish, and embossed around:",2.0 +"When I bestow it on the amorous Maid,",4.0 +You Gods! I envy not the happy Pair.,0.0 +"Like Cuttlefish, she hid her self in Ink.",0.0 +"I hate the skittish Fair, that flies when wooed,",0.0 +"For if they see him, they by seeing die",2.0 +"But we those Dangers seek, we ought to shun,",1.0 +"And court our Fate, and strive to be undone.",0.0 +"By a false Dress, and counterfeited Shape;",2.0 +So wanton Nymphs awhile with awkward Pride,0.0 +"Deny that Passion, which they cannot hide.",0.0 +"Love will revenge on those, who love inspire,",3.0 +"And they must heat themselves, who others set on fire.",1.0 +"When ebbing Tides have emptied half the Deep,",0.0 +Or move in tuneful Sounds the circling Air.,0.0 +"But, Triton, were no Lover to be caught,",3.0 +"Melvin, a Sail comes brisk before the Wind.",3.0 +"Cease then the Song, and may the Nymph be kind:",1.0 +"For should we thus appear in Human Form,",0.0 +Health and sweet converse with the muse he loves!,0.0 +"As flow spontaneous, like the native springs.",1.0 +"But ah! what airy forms around me rise,",0.0 +The russet mountain glows with richer dies!,0.0 +"In circling dance a pigmy crowd appear,",0.0 +And hark! an infant voice salutes my ear.,0.0 +"Mortal, thy aim we know, thy task approve,",2.0 +"For us what verdant carpets has he spread,",1.0 +Where nightly we our mystic mazes tread!,1.0 +"For us each shady grove and rural seat,",1.0 +"His falling streams, and flowing numbers sweet.",0.0 +That every Fairy of our sprightly train,1.0 +"Resorts, to bless the woodland, and the plain;",1.0 +"There oft with thought sublime we bless the swain,",0.0 +"Nor we inspire, nor he attends in vain.",2.0 +"Go, simple rhymer, bear this message true,",1.0 +The truths that Fairies dictate none shall rue.,1.0 +Content thyself no longer that thy lays,1.0 +"By others fostered, lend to others praise;",0.0 +The welcome treasures of thy polished muse;,1.0 +"Collect the flowers that own thy valued name,",0.0 +"Never can thy morals, taste, or verse engage",1.0 +"More solid fame, than in this happier age;",2.0 +"When sense, when virtue's cherished by the throne,",1.0 +And each illustrious privilege their own.,3.0 +"The entrusted mandates of your fairy state,",3.0 +"Visit these wilds again with nightly care,",2.0 +"In healthy plight, to fill the copious pail;",2.0 +My sheep be penned with safety in the dale;,0.0 +My poultry fear no robber in the roost;,1.0 +My linen more than common whiteness boast;,0.0 +"WEary, at last, of the Pindaric way,",3.0 +"To Fable I descend with soft Delight,",1.0 +"To fill my Page, and rid my Thoughts of Care,",0.0 +"As they to Birds and Beasts new Gifts impart,",2.0 +"And Teach, as Poets should, while they Divert.",1.0 +"But here, the Critic bids me cheque this Vein.",0.0 +"Fable, he cries, though grown the affected Strain,",4.0 +"But dies, as it was born, without Regard or Pain.",1.0 +Who seeks to purchase Fame by childish Tales.,0.0 +"Then, let my Verse, once more, attempt the Skies,",1.0 +"The easily persuaded Poet cries,",1.0 +Since meaner Works you Men of Taste despise.,0.0 +"The Walls of Troy shall be our loftier Stage,",2.0 +Our mighty Theme the fierce Achilles Rage.,0.0 +"The Strength of Hector, and Ulysses Arts",1.0 +"Shall boast such Language, to adorn their Parts,",1.0 +"As neither Hobbes, nor Chapman could bestow",0.0 +"Amid her Towers, the dedicated Horse",3.0 +"Shall be received, big with destructive Force;",2.0 +"Till Men shall say, when Flames have brought her down.",0.0 +"Is this the way to please the Men of Taste,",1.0 +"I'm sick of Troy, and in as great a Fright,",0.0 +"When some dull Pedant would her Wars recite,",1.0 +"As was soft Paris, when compelled to Fight.",2.0 +"To Shades and Springs shall we awhile repair,",1.0 +"The Muse demands, and in that milder Air",0.0 +"Whose folded Arms still press upon his Heart,",1.0 +And deeper drive the too far entered Dart?,1.0 +While Phillis with a careless pleasure reigns,1.0 +"The Joy, the Grief, the Envy of the Plains;",1.0 +"Heightens the Beauty of the verdant Woods,",3.0 +And softens all the Murmurs of the Floods.,1.0 +"O! stun me not with these insipid Dreams,",1.0 +"The Eternal Hush, the Lullaby of Streams.",1.0 +"Which still, he cries, their even Measures keep,",0.0 +"Till both the Writers, and the Readers sleep.",1.0 +"To show us private, or the public Faults.",1.0 +"We'll praise the Weapon, as we like the Stroke,",1.0 +"Apply to Thousands, what of One you write.",1.0 +"Then, must that single Stream the Town supply,",0.0 +And all the Rest of Helicon be dry?,0.0 +"And when so many choice Productions swarm,",0.0 +Must only Satire keep your Fancies warm?,1.0 +"While even there, you praise with such Reserve,",2.0 +Though never so liberally we Authors carve.,3.0 +"Happy the Men, whom we divert with Ease,",3.0 +"GReat child of nature, well you play your part,",1.0 +Yet nature sure would need a little art.,0.0 +"Your head's too giddy, and your blood too warm.",3.0 +"For instance now, when men are making love,",0.0 +"They bill and coo, as gentle as the dove;",1.0 +"But you, all foaming like a savage bear,",1.0 +Attempt with blustering cries to move the fair.,2.0 +"How inconsistent, vain unthinking boy,",0.0 +"To rage a tyrant, while you look a toy.",0.0 +"You gain applause ' -- good faith, I grant it true,",0.0 +Nothing like roaring charms the vulgar crew.,2.0 +"But men, whose judgement's rather more acute,",0.0 +"Astonished stare, with indignation mute.",0.0 +OH Under various sacred names adored!,3.0 +Author of nature! whose unbounded sway,2.0 +And legislative power all things obey!,2.0 +To thee from all thy mortal offspring due;,2.0 +"From thee we came, from thee our being drew;",2.0 +"Whatever lives and moves, great Sire! is thine,",3.0 +Embodied portions of the soul divine.,1.0 +"Therefore to thee will I attune my string,",3.0 +And of thy wondrous power for ever sing.,3.0 +"That round this earthly sphere incessant move,",0.0 +"Through all this boundless world admit thy sway,",0.0 +Such is the awe impressed on nature round,1.0 +When through the void thy dreadful thunders sound.,0.0 +"Astonished worlds, hear, tremble, and adore.",2.0 +"Thus paramount to all, by all obeyed,",1.0 +Ruling that reason which through all conveyed,2.0 +"Supreme, unbounded, universal Lord.",0.0 +Is ought performed without thy aid divine;,0.0 +"Vice is the act of man, by passion tossed,",0.0 +And profit by the malice of thy foes:,2.0 +"So blending good with evil, fair with foul,",0.0 +As thence to model one harmonious whole:,3.0 +One universal law of truth and right;,0.0 +But wretched mortals shun the heavenly light;,2.0 +"And, though to bliss directing still their choice,",1.0 +"Hear not, or heed not reason's sacred voice,",0.0 +That common guide ordained to point the road,0.0 +That leads obedient man to solid good.,2.0 +"Thence quitting virtue's lovely paths they rove,",1.0 +As various objects various passions move.,4.0 +Some through opposing crowds and threatening war,1.0 +"Some, bent on wealth, pursue with endless pain",0.0 +"Oppressive, sordid, and dishonest gain:",1.0 +"Thou, from whose bounty all good gifts descend,",1.0 +Do thou from ignorance mankind defend!,2.0 +"The clouds of vice and folly, OH control;",0.0 +And shed the beams of wisdom on the soul!,1.0 +Thy justice rules this universal frame.,0.0 +That honoured with a portion of thy light,1.0 +"With honorary songs and grateful lays,",0.0 +"And hymn thy glorious works with ceaseless praise,",2.0 +The proper task of man: and sure to sing,0.0 +"Of nature's laws, and nature's mighty king",0.0 +Is bliss supreme. Let gods with mortals join!,1.0 +The subject may transport a breast divine.,1.0 +"How narrow are our prospects, how confined!",2.0 +"With universal vanity possessed,",1.0 +We fondly think our own ideas best:,0.0 +Our tottering arguments are ever strong;,3.0 +What philosophic Sage of pride austere,0.0 +Can lend conviction an attentive ear?,1.0 +What pattern of humility and truth,2.0 +Can bear the jeering ridicule of youth?,0.0 +What blushing Author ever ranked his Muse,0.0 +"Dull Penny, nodding over his wooden lyre,",3.0 +"All in the language of Apostles cry,",1.0 +"If Angels contradict me, Angels lie?",0.0 +"As all have intervals of ease and pain,",1.0 +So all have intervals of being vain;,1.0 +"But some of folly never shift the scene,",0.0 +Or let one lucid moment intervene;,0.0 +Incessant madding for a system toy,1.0 +The greatest of Creations blessings cloy;,1.0 +"Their senses dosing a continual dream,",3.0 +They hang enraptured over the hideous scheme:,4.0 +"So virgins tottering into ripe three score,",3.0 +Their greatest likeness in baboons adore.,0.0 +"When you advance new systems, first unfold",2.0 +The various imperfections of the old;,3.0 +"Prove Nature hitherto a gloomy night,",2.0 +"It's not enough you think your system true,",0.0 +The busy world would have you prove it too:,0.0 +"Then, rising on the ruins of the rest,",2.0 +Plainly demonstrate your ideas best.,2.0 +Many are best; one only can be right,3.0 +Though all had inspiration to indite.,1.0 +"Some this unwelcome truth perhaps would tell,",1.0 +Writers on Rolls of Science long renowned,2.0 +In one fell page are tumbled to the ground.,4.0 +Would you the honour of a Priest mistrust,0.0 +An excommunication proves him just.,0.0 +And saddle all his faults on Nature's back.,0.0 +His Lordship has six thousand pounds a year;,1.0 +"In gaming solitude he spends the nights,",0.0 +He fasts at Arthur's and he prays at White's;,1.0 +Whilst the poor Curate in his rusty gown,3.0 +Trudges unnoticed through the dirty town.,3.0 +"If God made order, order never made",1.0 +These nice distinctions in the preaching trade.,0.0 +"The servants of the Devil are revered,",2.0 +And Bishops pull the Fathers by the beard.,1.0 +"Yet in these horrid forms Salvation lives,",0.0 +These are Religions representatives;,2.0 +Yet to these idols must we bow the knee ' --,0.0 +"Excuse me, Broughton, when I bow to thee.",0.0 +"But sure Religion can produce at least,",1.0 +One Minister of God ' -- one honest Priest.,1.0 +"Search Nature over, procure me, if you can,",4.0 +"The fancied character, an honest Man",1.0 +"A man of sense, not honest by constraint",1.0 +"For fools are canvas, living but in paint",1.0 +"All orders of mankind are fools, or knaves:",2.0 +"In the first attribute by none surpassed,",3.0 +Imagination may be too confined;,1.0 +Few see too far; how many are half blind?,3.0 +How are your feeble arguments perplexed,2.0 +To find out meaning in a senseless text?,0.0 +"You rack each metaphor upon the wheel,",1.0 +And words can philosophic truths conceal.,0.0 +You realise to prove your system best.,1.0 +Your zeal for Scripture hath devoured your sense?,2.0 +"Apply the glass of reason to your sight,",1.0 +"Think for yourself, for all mankind are free;",3.0 +We need not Inspiration how to see.,1.0 +"If Scripture contradictory you find,",1.0 +"Be Orthodox, and own your senses blind.",0.0 +"How blinded are their optics, who aver,",3.0 +What Inspiration dictates cannot err.,1.0 +"Whence is this boasted Inspiration sent,",0.0 +"Which makes us utter truths, we never meant?",0.0 +"Which couches systems in a single word,",0.0 +"At once depraved, abstruse, sublime, absurd.",0.0 +"What Moses tells us might perhaps be true,",0.0 +As he was learnt in all the Egyptians knew.,2.0 +"But to assert that Inspiration's given,",1.0 +"The Copy of Philosophy in Heaven,",2.0 +"Strikes at Religions root, and fairly fells",1.0 +What vulgar errors are with truths combined.,1.0 +"Your tortured truths, which Moses seemed to know,",0.0 +He could not unto Inspiration owe;,0.0 +"For if from God one error you admit,",2.0 +How dubious is the rest of Holy Writ?,1.0 +What knotty difficulties fancy solves?,0.0 +"The Heavens irradiate, and the Earth revolves;",2.0 +But here Imagination is allowed,1.0 +"From the same word we different meanings quote,",2.0 +As David wears a many coloured coat.,0.0 +"OH Inspiration, ever hid in night,",1.0 +Reflecting various each adjacent light;,2.0 +If Moses caught thee in the parted flood;,0.0 +If David found thee in a sea of blood;,0.0 +On loaded asses bearing off thy spoil;,1.0 +Say had not Broughton Inspiration too?,0.0 +"Such rank absurdities debase his line,",1.0 +I almost could have sworn he copied thine.,2.0 +Reason and arrogance but poorly suit.,3.0 +Infallibility is not for men.,1.0 +"Be not too positive, though in the right.",2.0 +"What man of sense would value vulgar praise,",0.0 +"Though pointed fingers mark the Man of Fame,",0.0 +And literary Grocers chant your name;,0.0 +With ornamental flowers and gilded lines;,2.0 +Though youthful Ladies who by instinct scan,0.0 +"The Natural Philosophy of Man,",2.0 +"Can every reason of your work repeat,",1.0 +As sands in Africa retain the heat:,1.0 +Yet cheque your flowing pride: Will all allow,0.0 +"Some may with seeming arguments dispense,",1.0 +Your theory is certainly untrue;,2.0 +"On Reason and Newtonian rules he proves,",3.0 +How distant your machine from either moves.,1.0 +"But my objections may be reckoned weak,",2.0 +As nothing but my mother tongue I speak;,1.0 +Else would I ask; by what immortal Power,0.0 +All Nature was dissolved as in an hour.,1.0 +"How, when the earth acquired a solid state,",2.0 +"And rising mountains saw the waves abate,",0.0 +"Each particle of matter sought its kind,",1.0 +All in a strata regular combined?,1.0 +When instantaneously the liquid heap,3.0 +"Hardened to rocks, the barriers of the deep,",3.0 +Why did not earth unite a stony mass;,1.0 +Since stony filaments through all must pass?,1.0 +"If on the wings of air the planets run,",1.0 +Why are they not impelled into the sun?,0.0 +"Philosophy, nay common sense, will prove",2.0 +"If the diurnal motion of the air,",2.0 +Revolves the planets in their destined sphere;,0.0 +How are the moons from falling headlong held?,2.0 +And who will give Eternity the lie?,1.0 +"I own the awful truth, that God made all,",1.0 +And by his fiat worlds and systems fall.,1.0 +But study Nature; not an atom there,1.0 +Will unassisted by her powers appear;,3.0 +"The fiat, without agents, is, at best,",6.0 +"Some fancy God is what we Nature call,",0.0 +"Being itself material, all in all.",3.0 +"The fragments of the Deity we own,",2.0 +No agents could assist Creations birth:,1.0 +"We trample on our God, for God is Earth.",1.0 +"How lofty must Imagination soar,",0.0 +To reach absurdities unknown before?,1.0 +From the Moons orb a novelty of thought.,3.0 +"Thou hast one excellence, of railing well.",1.0 +"Who settle Hebrew points, and scold in prose.",0.0 +"OH Learning, where are all thy fancied joys",1.0 +Thy empty pleasures and thy solemn toys?,1.0 +Proud of thy own importance; though we see,1.0 +Thou offspring illegitimate of Pain.,2.0 +You claim the preference to men of sense?,1.0 +Banter his English in a Latin song.,2.0 +"Their native Language, but declaim in Greek.",1.0 +"If in his jests a discord should appear,",0.0 +A dull lampoon is innocently clear.,1.0 +Is this the boasted justice of your schools?,2.0 +Instruction sees his latent beauties rise;,0.0 +"His gold is bullion, yours debased with brass,",1.0 +His thunders rattle through the listening street:,1.0 +"You rigid Christians, formally severe,",1.0 +"Blind to his charities, his oaths you hear;",1.0 +Observe his virtues: Calumny must own,1.0 +A noble soul is in his actions shown;,0.0 +"Though dark this bright original you paint,",1.0 +The Muse will go where Merit leads the way;,0.0 +"The Owls of Learning may admire the night,",1.0 +"Still Admonition presses to my pen,",2.0 +The infant Muse would give advice to Men.,0.0 +Owns no superior in the paths of fame?,2.0 +"In springs, in mountains, strata's, mines, and rocks,",0.0 +"But o! how lofty your ideas roar,",2.0 +The short adventures of the pretty shells;,1.0 +"The doors fly open, instantly he draws",2.0 +Sage Natural Philosophers adore,3.0 +"But see! the purple stream begins to play,",0.0 +To show how fountains climb the hilly way.,0.0 +Hark what a murmur echoes through the throng.,1.0 +Gods! that the pretty trifle should be wrong!,0.0 +Experience in the voice of Reason tells,1.0 +Above its surface water never swells.,0.0 +See what a triumph sits upon his brow:,0.0 +"And can the poor applause of things like these,",1.0 +"Whose souls and sentiments are all disease,",1.0 +"Raise little triumphs in a man like you,",1.0 +The laughter of his tributary wits;,1.0 +"Ruling the noisy multitude with ease,",2.0 +Empties his pint and sputters his decrees.,3.0 +"NOW had the archangel trumpet, raised sublime",6.0 +"Above the walls of heaven, begun to sound;",0.0 +Shook with celestial noise; the almighty host,4.0 +"Hot with pursuit, and reeking with the blood",3.0 +Pause at the known command of sounding gold.,0.0 +The impenetrable folds on brazen hinge,2.0 +Roll creaking horrible; the din beneath,2.0 +Then through the solid gloom with nimble wing,0.0 +They cut their shining traces up to light;,1.0 +"Returned upon the edge of heavenly day,",2.0 +"Where thinnest beams play round the vast obscure,",1.0 +And with eternal gleam drive back the night.,2.0 +"They find the troops less stubborn, less involved",1.0 +"In crime and ruin, barred the realms of peace,",0.0 +Shades every face with horror; conscious guilt,1.0 +"Rolls in the livid eye-ball, and each breast",2.0 +Shakes with the dread of future doom unknown.,0.0 +It's here the wide circumference of heaven,2.0 +"Opens in two vast gates, that inward turn",3.0 +"Voluminous, on jasper columns hung",1.0 +By geometry divine: they ever glow,2.0 +"With living sculptures, that arise by turns",0.0 +To give succeeding argument their place;,1.0 +"In holy hieroglyphics on they move,",1.0 +"The gaze of journeying angels, as they pass",3.0 +"Oft looking back, and held in deep surprise.",1.0 +Here stood the troops distinct; the cherub guard,0.0 +Harmonious; for a vocal spirit sits,1.0 +"Within each hinge, and, as they onward drive,",1.0 +"With symphony melodious, such as spheres",2.0 +Involved in tenfold wreaths are said to sound.,1.0 +Out flows a blaze of glory; for on high,1.0 +"Towering advanced the moving throne of God,",1.0 +Vast and majestic; on each radiant side,3.0 +The pointed rays slope glittering; at the foot,2.0 +"Glides a full tide of day, that onward pours,",3.0 +"In liquid torrents through the black abyss,",1.0 +Sparkling among reluctant shapes which thence,1.0 +Over the vast mountain's ridge the burning waves,2.0 +Sweeping the glowing plains down to the sea;,3.0 +To give the fire its course; thus Chaos wild,1.0 +Hissing recoils to let in floods of light.,2.0 +"Above the throne, the ideas heavenly bright",4.0 +"Of past, of present, and of coming time",1.0 +An endless landscape of created things,2.0 +"To sight celestial, where angelic eyes",1.0 +"Are lost in prospect; for the shiny range,",1.0 +Boundless and various in its bosom bears,3.0 +"With steadfast eyes, till more arise to view,",1.0 +And farther inward scenes start up unknown.,2.0 +"About the throne, and as it moves, proceed",1.0 +"In numerous order, to celestial song.",3.0 +"Above, the symphony of mellow flutes;",1.0 +"And harps, by flying angels gently touched,",0.0 +The solemn sounds in harmony divine;,1.0 +"Such as might tune new worlds, and give the laws",2.0 +"To globes on high, and the just figure guide",1.0 +Of planets forming all their airy dance.,0.0 +"Below, the blazing wheels drive bounding over",1.0 +The starry pavement; stars and hills of light,0.0 +Double their glories where the chariot rolls,4.0 +"Down to its steadfast axis, groans throughout",2.0 +"Under the burning tracts, till now it rests",2.0 +Upon the gaping brink of heaven; and there,0.0 +"With open pomp, fills the vast empty space.",3.0 +Silence ensues; a deep and awful pause,2.0 +"More terrible, all expectation held",1.0 +In horror: now wrath imminent amazed,2.0 +"With dreadful precipice, to all it seems",1.0 +More formidable near; then from the throne,2.0 +"A vocal thunder rolled the sense of God,",0.0 +"Majestically long, repugnant all",1.0 +To princes' customs here; their judgements flash,2.0 +"On guilt, with words concise, and sudden blaze.",0.0 +Set wide the fate of things; that all around,1.0 +Might take full prospects of their coming doom.,2.0 +Servants of God! and Virtues great in arms;,2.0 +"We approve your faithful works, and you return",2.0 +Blessed from the dire pursuit of rebel foes;,0.0 +"Resolved, obdurate, they have tried the force",5.0 +"Of this right hand, and known Almighty power;",2.0 +"Transfixed with lightning down they sunk, they fell",1.0 +"Into the fiery gulf, and deep they plunge",2.0 +"Below the burning waves, to hide their heads",0.0 +In shelter from my vengeance bellowing hence,3.0 +"More fierce, and scorching with more dreadful fires.",1.0 +"There let them find their doom, that durst defy",0.0 +"Omnipotence, and slight his proffered grace;",1.0 +"Rolling in flames, and never to find a dawn",4.0 +Can find no ease; while fierce their boiling rage,1.0 +With endless pain; not one repentant thought,1.0 +"Shall cool the breast, but proud in horrid crime,",0.0 +"But you commissioned by commands divine,",2.0 +"Have wisely filled your trust, and closed them all",0.0 +"Within the fervid lake, lest any roam",0.0 +"Into the dark abyss to shun their doom,",0.0 +And in the womb immense of things unborn,1.0 +Should seek annihilation; you must rise,1.0 +Among the shining virtues more sublime;,0.0 +"For you, you guilty throng! that lately joined",1.0 +"In this sedition, since seduced from good,",1.0 +"And caught in trains of guile, by spirits malign,",2.0 +"Superior in their order; you accept,",2.0 +"Trembling, my heavenly clemency and grace.",4.0 +"You shall emerge to light, and humbly here",0.0 +If your own virtue second my decree:,2.0 +"But all must have their manes first below,",3.0 +"So stands the eternal fate, but smoother yours",3.0 +"Than what lost angels feel; nor can our reign,",2.0 +"Without just dooms, the peace of heaven secure;",0.0 +For forms celestial new erect in glory,0.0 +"Would totter, dazzled with the heights of power,",1.0 +Did not the nerves of justice fix their sight.,0.0 +"See, where below in Chaos wondrous deep",1.0 +"A speck of light dawns forth, and thence throughout",1.0 +"There swiftly turns the burning eddy round,",0.0 +Absorbing all crude matter near its brink;,1.0 +"Which next, with subtle motions, takes the form",0.0 +"I please to stamp, the seed of infant worlds",0.0 +"All now in embryo, but ere long shall rise",2.0 +"Variously scattered in this vast expanse,",1.0 +Of outward circles brush the heavenly gates.,2.0 +The middle point a globe of curling fire,0.0 +"Shall hold, which round it sheds its genial heat;",0.0 +Wherever I kindle life the motion grows,2.0 +And infinite vicissitudes shall roll,2.0 +"About the restless centre; for I rear,",1.0 +"In those meanders turned, a dusty ball,",1.0 +"Deformed all over with woods, whose shaggy tops",2.0 +"Enclose eternal mists, and deadly damps",0.0 +"Hover within their boughs, to choke the light;",2.0 +"Impervious scenes of horror, till reformed",3.0 +"To fields, and grassy dales, and flowery meads,",2.0 +By your continual pains. The torrid zone,3.0 +"Here fries with constant heat, the swarthy world;",0.0 +"And dusty mountains, tumbled by the winds,",1.0 +Stretch their uncertain heaps; no less the frost,3.0 +"At either end shall rage, and high shall raise",0.0 +"Of desert nature, and the eternal piles",3.0 +"Load all the dreary coast, and thick in ice,",0.0 +"Arm either pole, that yearly peeps askance",1.0 +"On coming light, but feels no gentle ray",1.0 +And chill again by turns; for both extremes,0.0 +Make their incursions here; and this my will,3.0 +"Of fighting atoms, where hot, moist, and dry,",1.0 +Wage an eternal war with dismal roar;,2.0 +"The dismal roar breaks smoothly on the ground,",2.0 +"Sacred to horror, and eternal night:",3.0 +"Here Silence sits, whose visionary shape",0.0 +And in dark fumes reclines his drowsy head;,1.0 +"An urn he holds, from whence a lake proceeds,",0.0 +"Hither compelled, each soul must drink long draughts",3.0 +"Of those forgetful streams, till forms within.",1.0 +And all the great ideas fade and die:,0.0 +For if vast thought should play about a mind,2.0 +"Fluttering and beating in the mournful cage,",1.0 +It soon would break its grates and wing away:,0.0 +"It's therefore my decree, the soul return",2.0 +"Naked from off this beach, and perfect blank,",2.0 +To visit the new world; and strait to feel,2.0 +"Itself, in crude consistence closely shut,",0.0 +The dreadful monument of just revenge;,1.0 +On fleeting matter all imprisoned round,0.0 +"Here anger, vast ambition, and disdain,",1.0 +"And all the haughty movements rise and fall,",0.0 +As storms of neighbouring atoms tear the soul;,2.0 +"And hope, and love, and all the calmer turns",0.0 +"Of easy hours, in their gay gilded shapes,",3.0 +"With sudden run, skim over deluded minds,",3.0 +"As matter leads the dance; but one desire,",1.0 +"Unsatisfied, shall mar ten thousand joys.",1.0 +"The rank of beings, that shall first advance,",0.0 +Drink deep of human life; and long shall stay,1.0 +"On this great scene of cares. From all the rest,",2.0 +"That longer for the destined body wait,",1.0 +Less penance I expect; and short abode,2.0 +In those pale dreary kingdoms will content:,3.0 +"Each has his lamentable lot, and all,",3.0 +"On different racks, abide the pains of life.",0.0 +The pensive spirit takes the lonely grove:,0.0 +"Nightly he visits all the sylvan scenes,",2.0 +"Where far remote, a melancholy moon",0.0 +"Raising her head, serene and shorn of beams,",2.0 +"To make more awful darkness. Starry lights,",0.0 +"Hung up on high, shed round them as they burn",2.0 +A pale sad influence; and they gild the plains,2.0 +"With doubtful rays, which strike within the shades",0.0 +A trembling lustre and uncertain light.,1.0 +"The SAGE shall haunt this solitary ground,",0.0 +"And view the dismal landscape, limned within",1.0 +"In horrid shades, mixed with imperfect light.",2.0 +"Contracted through the cranny of an eye,",2.0 +"Shoots up faint languid beams, to that dark seat,",4.0 +"Wherein the soul bereaved of native fire,",0.0 +"Sits intricate, in misty clouds obscured,",2.0 +"Even from itself concealed, and there presides",2.0 +"Over jarring images with reason's sway,",1.0 +Which by his ordering more confounds their form;,2.0 +"The more he strives to appease, the more he feels",2.0 +"Impetuous, and the thick revolving thoughts",1.0 +"Encountering thoughts, image on image turned,",4.0 +"A Chaos of wild science, where sometime",3.0 +"The clashing notions strike out casual light,",0.0 +Which soon must perish and be lost again,1.0 +"In the thick darkness round it. Now, he tries",2.0 +"With all his might to raise some weighty thought,",0.0 +"Of me, of fate, or of the eternal round,",2.0 +Of fleeting images he draws in vain,1.0 +To wondrous length; for still the turning maze,0.0 +"Eludes his art its end flies far away,",1.0 +Returning oft on the same beaten thought.,2.0 +"For much of good he talks, and life serene,",0.0 +"Of happiness denied, the dismal waste",1.0 +"Stubborn in anguish; idle wisdom all,",2.0 +"Diversion in himself, but with deep thoughts",1.0 +"The ashes off, revives the brand of care.",1.0 +"Hence far removed, a different noisy race",1.0 +"In cities full and frequent take their seat,",0.0 +"With swelling hopes of gain, that raise within",0.0 +"A tempest, and, driven onward by success,",3.0 +Can find no bounds. For creatures of a day,2.0 +Stretch their wide cares to ages; full increase,3.0 +"Starves the penurious soul, while empty sound",5.0 +"Fills the ambitious; that shall ever shrink,",2.0 +"Pining with endless cares, while this shall swell",3.0 +"Here shines the hero, out he fiercely leads",1.0 +"A martial throng, his instruments of rage,",1.0 +"To fill the world with death, and thin mankind.",1.0 +"Ambition drives, and round the world he roams,",0.0 +Marking his way with blood; the dreadful noise,2.0 +Begets a fame; and all the breath he leaves,0.0 +"Is spent in his false praise, and vainly bloats",2.0 +The tyrant's soul; while high his kingdoms rise,2.0 +"In fleeting pomp, hovering over their gaudy wings",5.0 +Beneath his haughty reign; and all his slaves,0.0 +"Under his yoke shall groan, and scarce shall groan",2.0 +Without a crime. Here torturing engines roar,2.0 +"With human voice disguised; earth, water, fire,",1.0 +Are made dire elements of cruelty!,2.0 +"Subservient to his lust, and power to kill;",3.0 +"Yet shall the herd endure, nor dare to break",0.0 +United their imaginary chain;,1.0 +"While their great monarch chills with equal fears,",2.0 +No less a slave than they. Each rumour shakes,2.0 +"The haughty purple, dark and cloudy cares",0.0 +"Involve the awful throne, that stands erect,",0.0 +"Balanced on the wild people's tempered rage,",4.0 +And fortified with dangerous arts of power.,2.0 +But death shall shift those scenes of misery;,1.0 +"Then doubtful titles kindle up new wars,",2.0 +"About the camp, and drums and trumpets' sound",0.0 +Prepare a solemn way to grizzly war;,0.0 +"Erect their shining heads, and round the field",0.0 +A harvest's scene of formidable death;,1.0 +"Then joins the horrid shock, whose bellowing burst",2.0 +"Torments the shattered air, and drowns the groans",1.0 +Of men below that roll in certain death.,0.0 +"These are the mortal sports, the tragic plays",1.0 +By man himself embroiled; the dire debate,0.0 +"Make the waste desert seem serene and mild,",3.0 +"Where savage nature in one common lies,",0.0 +"By homely cots possessed; all squalid, wild,",0.0 +"And feel their share of hunger, care, and pain,",0.0 +Cheated by flying prey; and now they tear,2.0 +Their panting flesh; and now with nails unclean,0.0 +They tug their shaggy beards; and deeply quaff,0.0 +"Of human woe, even when they rudely sip",3.0 +"Enjoyed with trembling, and in danger sought.",1.0 +But where the appointed limits of a law,2.0 +"Fences the general safety of the world,",3.0 +"No greater quiet reigns; for wanton man,",1.0 +In giddy frolic easily leaps over,2.0 +"Revenge, and lust, and all the hideous train",2.0 +To endless shapes of woe. Here misers mourn,1.0 +"Departed gold, and their defrauded heirs",1.0 +"Of punishment and crime deform the world,",2.0 +And give no rest to man; with pangs and throes,1.0 +He enters on the stage; prophetic tears,1.0 +And infant cries prelude his future woes;,1.0 +"And all is one continued scene of grief,",1.0 +Till the sad sable curtain falls in death.,2.0 +But that last act shall in one moment close,1.0 +Of doubt and darkness; pain shall crack the strings,0.0 +Afraid to leap into the opening gulf,2.0 +"Of future fate, till all the banks of clay",0.0 +Fall from beneath his feet: in vain he grasps,2.0 +The shattered reeds that cheat his easy wish.,0.0 +Reason is now no more; that narrow lamp,2.0 +Which with its sickly fires would shoot its beams,0.0 +"To distances unknown, and stretch its rays",1.0 +"Askance my paths, in deepest darkness veiled",0.0 +It burns a dismal light; the expiring flame,2.0 +"Is choked in fumes, and parts in various doubt.",2.0 +Then the gay glories of the living world,3.0 +"Shall cast their empty varnish, and retire",1.0 +Out of his feeble view; and rising shade,1.0 +Sit hovering over all nature's various face.,5.0 +"Music shall cease, and instruments of joy",3.0 +Shall fail that sullen hour; nor can the mind,1.0 +"Attend their sounds, when fancies swim in death,",0.0 +Confused and crushed with cares: for long shall seem,0.0 +"The dreary road, and melancholy dark,",0.0 +That leads he knows not where. Here empty space,0.0 +"All being: yonder sooty demons glare,",0.0 +Of wild imagination dance and play,0.0 +Before his eyes obscure; till all in death,0.0 +"Shall vanish, and the prisoner, now enlarged,",1.0 +Regains the flaming borders of the sky.,1.0 +"Approve the high decree, and loud they sing",0.0 +"Eternal justice; while the guilty troops,",0.0 +"Sad with their doom, but sad without despair,",0.0 +"For penance, and the destined body, wait.",1.0 +"You mighty Nine, suspend your sacred Fire,",0.0 +Strong Grief like Love can coldest Breasts inspire;,1.0 +For every line can Boast an ardent Tear.,0.0 +"In numbers fail, my Sighs shall speak the rest;",0.0 +"Yet with a Pious hast, my humble Tribute bring",0.0 +"Of Grief immense, an equal Theme of Praise,",0.0 +But o! what Pen can worthy Trophies raise.,1.0 +"Great William now our Annals proudest Boast,",1.0 +"When at Seneff, he stemmed the impetuous Strife,",3.0 +And Laurels flourished in the Bloom of Life.,0.0 +"Nor did his Triumphs end where they begin,",1.0 +Heaven gave fresh Scenes to act his Glories in;,1.0 +"They fought to win the World, he to defend.",1.0 +"He hazards all, to save the sinking Land;",0.0 +"Not Winter Seas the generous Prince restrain,",2.0 +"No threatening Danger terror can afford,",2.0 +When Justice calls for his avenging Sword.,1.0 +"Boldly he marched to dare the oppressing Foe,",4.0 +"Nor Conquest feared, when Heaven directs the Blow;",0.0 +"It's Orange comes, they know the Field is lost.",0.0 +"None dare approach the mighty Victor's Face,",1.0 +But such as safely sue for his Embrace;,2.0 +"With blooming Palms the regal Seat obtained,",0.0 +Calls forth the Hero from his short repose;,2.0 +"Not thirst of Empire, Mankind to enslave,",2.0 +"Nor fights so much to Conquer, as to save:",1.0 +"Led by a tenderness his Courage moves,",1.0 +"With Pride great Neptune bears the Royal freight,",1.0 +"And look from him, as Heaven their Nations fate.",1.0 +"The undaunted Warrior like the God of Arms,",1.0 +Shines through the Field and every Soldier warms.,0.0 +"In vain the Boyne would Victory delay,",1.0 +Nor can its Streams their generous Heat allay;,3.0 +"Boldly they Plunge the bright propitious Flood,",2.0 +"The amphibious Squadrons charge upon their Foes,",3.0 +"But with united force the Fight pursue,",1.0 +Till Laurels load the daring Monarch's brow.,1.0 +"Soon as the Land was safe his Weapons cease,",0.0 +"With his victorious Hand, he sealed their Peace;",3.0 +"Mourn all you injured Realms your helpless Cause,",0.0 +"That mighty Arm, lies useless in the Grave.",1.0 +Unite your Tears and swell and gentle Boyne;,1.0 +"With Pride her Streams are conscious of his Fame,",1.0 +And all her wondering Banks with Joy resound the same.,3.0 +"But when your flowing Eyes declare his Death,",0.0 +She will no more her sporting Waters heave;,0.0 +"But sadly sink into her mournful Cell,",0.0 +"In subterranean Murmurs hast to tell,",3.0 +And swells the Ocean with their flowing Tears:,1.0 +"Wearied with long Attendance on the Court,",3.0 +"Eternal King! if here in vain I cry,",0.0 +Where shall the Fatherless and Widow fly?,1.0 +"How blessed are they, who sleep among the Dead,",1.0 +Nor hear their Children's piercing Cries for Bread!,0.0 +"When your loved Offspring gives your Soul Delight,",4.0 +Reflect how mine are irksome to my Sight:,2.0 +"OH think, how must a wretched Mother grieve,",1.0 +Who hears the Want she never can relieve!,1.0 +"An Evil preys upon my helpless Son,",0.0 +How many Ways the Wretched are undone!,1.0 +"Cruel Distemper! to assault his Sight,",1.0 +"And rob him of his only Joy, the Light!",1.0 +"His Anguish makes my wearied Eyes overflow,",3.0 +No friendly Voice my lonely Mansion cheers;,1.0 +All fly the Infection of the Widow's Tears:,3.0 +"Even those, whose Pity eased my Wants with Bread,",1.0 +"Are now, OH sad Reverse! my greatest Dread.",1.0 +"My mournful Storey will no more prevail,",2.0 +And every Hour I dread a dismal Jail:,0.0 +"I start at each imaginary Sound,",0.0 +And Horrors have encompassed me around.,1.0 +"Tremble, you Daughters, who at Ease recline,",2.0 +Lest you should know a Misery like mine.,2.0 +"You now, unmoved, can hear the Wretched moan;",0.0 +"And feel no Wants, yourselves oppressed by none;",1.0 +"Fly from the Sight of Woes you will not share,",1.0 +And leave the helpless Orphan to despair.,1.0 +"But know, that dreadful Hour is drawing near,",0.0 +To you no more the Wretched shall complain;,0.0 +"Who never hears the Wretched sigh in vain,",0.0 +Herself distressed till she relieves their Pain.,1.0 +"This Fame reports, fair Carteret, of you;",2.0 +This blessed Report encouraged me to sue.,1.0 +Nor let your Mercy fail in me alone!,1.0 +"So at the last Tribunal will I stand,",1.0 +"With my poor Orphans, placed on either Hand;",2.0 +For at His Bar the Widow's Tears prevail,0.0 +"That she, who made the Fatherless her Care,",1.0 +The Fullness of celestial Joys may share;,1.0 +"That she a Crown of Glory may receive,",1.0 +"Who snatched me from Destruction, and the Grave.",2.0 +"ON thy carved sides, where many a vivid die",4.0 +"In easy progress leads the wandering eye,",3.0 +"A distant nation's manners we behold,",1.0 +"Who over the rail of garden arbour lean,",2.0 +"In listless ease; and rocks of arid brown,",0.0 +"On whose sharp crags, in gay profusion blown,",1.0 +"The little verdant plate, where with his mate",1.0 +"The golden pheasant holds his gorgeous state,",0.0 +"With gaily crested pate and twisted neck,",0.0 +"While, by its margin moored, the little boat",0.0 +Does with its oars and netted awning float:,0.0 +"A scene in short all soft delights to take in,",0.0 +"With straight small spout, that from thy body fair,",2.0 +"Diverges with a smart vivacious air,",1.0 +A goodly vessel of the olden times.,1.0 +But far less pleasure yields this fair display,1.0 +"Than that enjoyed upon thy natal day,",0.0 +"An urchin group in silent wonder gazing,",0.0 +"Stood and beheld, as, touched with magic skill,",2.0 +"The whirling clay swift fashioned to his will, ' --",2.0 +"Complete before their eyes, and grinned for joy;",0.0 +"And curtailed words of praise, like ting, tongue, too!",5.0 +"Beneath his humble shed, this fair array",0.0 +"Of pictured forms upon thy surface gay,",0.0 +But speed me on my way with quickened pace.,1.0 +"Packed in a chest with others of thy kind,",1.0 +"The sport of waves and every shifting wind,",0.0 +"The passing of the Line to swell thy fame,",1.0 +With as good observation of the thing,2.0 +As some of those who in a hammock swing.,0.0 +"And now thou be seen in Britain's polished land,",0.0 +Held up to public view in waving hand,0.0 +"Of boastful auctioneer, while dames of pride",0.0 +"With all thy train of vassal cups around thee,",0.0 +Could dwell on for a week with fresh delight.,1.0 +Our pleased imagination now portrays,0.0 +"The glory of thy high official days,",1.0 +"When thou on board of rich japan wert set,",0.0 +Round whose supporting table gaily met,0.0 +"At close of eve, the young, the learnt, the fair,",0.0 +And even philosophy and wit were there.,3.0 +"Whose ample cell supplied thy liquid store,",0.0 +"Beneath whose base the sapphire flame was burning,",2.0 +"Though richly chased and burnished it might be,",1.0 +"Was yet, confessed, subordinate to thee.",0.0 +The climax of thy glory was attained!,3.0 +Back from her elevated elbow fell,1.0 +"And gentle rounding of her lily arm,",1.0 +The eyes of wistful sage or beau to charm ' --,0.0 +A sight at other times but dimly seen,0.0 +"With pleasing toil, red glowed her dimpled cheek,",1.0 +"Bright glanced her eyes beneath her forehead sleek,",1.0 +"And as she poured the beverage, through the room",2.0 +"Was spread its fleeting, delicate perfume.",1.0 +Then did bright wit and cheerful fancy play,1.0 +With all the passing topics of the day.,1.0 +"So delicate, so varied and so free",2.0 +"Was the heart's pastime, then inspired by thee,",3.0 +"That goblet, bowl or flask could boast no power",1.0 +"Of high excitement, in their reigning hour,",0.0 +"Compared to thine; ' -- red wildfire of the fen,",2.0 +To summer moonshine of some fairy glen.,2.0 +For what of earthly happiness may last!,1.0 +"May fragrant tea from menial hands afford,",2.0 +"Which, poured in dull obscurity hath been,",1.0 +"From pot of vulgar ware, in nook unseen,",0.0 +"And pass in hasty rounds our eyes before,",0.0 +Thou in thy graceful state art seen no more.,1.0 +"Enjoy amid the tangled, giddy maze,",0.0 +Their languid eye ' -- their listless air betrays.,0.0 +What though at times we see a youthful fair,0.0 +"By white clothed board her watery drug prepare,",3.0 +"At further corner of a noisy room,",1.0 +"Where only casual stragglers deign to come,",0.0 +"Again hath auctioneer thy value praised,",0.0 +"Again have rival bidders on thee gazed,",1.0 +"But not the gay, the young, the fair, I trow!",0.0 +"No; sober connoisseurs, with wrinkled brow",1.0 +"And spectacles on nose, thy parts inspect,",1.0 +And by grave rules approve thee or reject.,2.0 +"For all the bliss which china charms afford,",0.0 +My lady now has ceded to her lord.,1.0 +"For all the trimmings, flounces, beads and lace,",0.0 +The thousand needful things that needs must grace,0.0 +Her daily changed attire. ' -- And now on shelf,2.0 +"Like moody statesman in his rural den,",0.0 +"From power dismissed ' -- like prosperous citizen,",5.0 +From shop or change set free ' -- untoward bliss!,4.0 +"WHILE in the fortunes of the gay and great,",1.0 +"The glare of courts, and luxury of state;",1.0 +"All that the meaner covet and deplore,",1.0 +"The pomp of wealth, and insolence of power:",1.0 +"While in these various scenes of gilded life,",2.0 +"Of fraud, ambition, policy, and strife;",1.0 +And every face the mask of every heart;,0.0 +"While with such different objects entertained,",0.0 +"I speculate on human joys and woes,",0.0 +Till from my pen the verse spontaneous flows;,3.0 +"But to a friend? ' -- and to what friend but you,",2.0 +"Safe, just, sincere, indulgent, kind and true?",1.0 +"Disdain not then these trifles to attend,",1.0 +"Nor fear to blame, nor study to commend.",1.0 +"Say, where false notions erring I pursue,",3.0 +And with the plausible confound the true:,2.0 +Correct with all the freedom that I write;,0.0 +And guide my darkened reason with thy light.,1.0 +"Thee partial heaven has blessed, profusely kind,",0.0 +"With wit, with judgement, and a taste refined,",1.0 +"Thy fancy rich, and thy observance true,",1.0 +"Rare blessings! and to few divided known,",2.0 +But given united to thyself alone.,3.0 +"Instruction are thy words, and lively truth,",1.0 +"The school of age, and the delight of youth.",1.0 +"When men their various discontents relate,",2.0 +And tell how wretched this our mortal state;,1.0 +"That life is but diversified distress,",1.0 +"The lot of all, and hardly more or less;",0.0 +"That kings and villagers have each their share,",1.0 +"These pinched with mean, and those with splendid care;",1.0 +"That seeming pleasure is intrinsic woe,",1.0 +Who often grudges what is never possessed;,2.0 +"Say, are we thus oppressed by Nature's laws,",0.0 +"Or of our miseries, ourselves the cause?",2.0 +"Sure oft, unjustly, we impute to Fate",2.0 +A thousand evils which ourselves create;,0.0 +"Complain that life affords but little joy,",0.0 +And yet that little foolishly destroy.,1.0 +"We cheque the pleasures that too soon subside,",1.0 +And break the current of too weak a tide.,3.0 +"Like Atalanta, golden trifles chase,",0.0 +And balk that swiftness which might win the race;,0.0 +"For life has joys adapted to each stage,",1.0 +"Love for our youth, ambition for our age.",1.0 +"When young would govern, and when old would please,",1.0 +"Covets the fruits his autumn should bestow,",2.0 +Nor tastes the fragrance while the blossoms blow.,0.0 +His appetite unanswered by his power:,2.0 +Receives with loathing to her venal charms:,1.0 +"He rakes the ashes, when the fire is spent,",0.0 +"Nor gains fruition, though he gains consent.",1.0 +"If thus untimely all her gifts are sought,",0.0 +And in the winter would the harvest reap?,0.0 +"Listen to Nature, and pursue her bent,",3.0 +"And still their power with their ambition weighed,",3.0 +"Gain what they can, but never force a trade:",1.0 +"A thousand joys her happy followers prove,",2.0 +"Health, plenty, rest, society, and love.",2.0 +"To us alone, in fatal ignorance proud,",3.0 +To deviate from her dictates it's allowed:,2.0 +"That boasted gift our reason to believe,",1.0 +"Or let caprice, in reason's garb, deceive.",0.0 +To us the noble privilege is given,2.0 +Of wise refining on the will of heaven.,2.0 +"More than we can, lose what we might obtain.",1.0 +"Will the wise elephant desert the wood,",3.0 +To imitate the whale and range the flood?,0.0 +"Or will the mole her native earth forsake,",1.0 +In wanton madness to explore the lake?,1.0 +"Yet man, whom still ideal profit sways,",4.0 +"Than those less prudent, and more blind than these,",3.0 +"Herds range the fields, the feathered kind the grove,",1.0 +"Choose, woo, caress, and with promiscuous love,",3.0 +"As taste and nature prompt, adhere, or rove;",0.0 +"They meet with pleasure, and with ease they part,",1.0 +For beasts are only coupled by the heart.,1.0 +"The body still accompanies the mind,",1.0 +"And when this wanders, that is unconfined:",0.0 +"The love that joined the sated pair once fled,",1.0 +"They change their haunts, their pasture, and their bed.",1.0 +"The natural cement passed, an artful chain:",4.0 +"The effect of passion ceases with the cause,",2.0 +"To no dull rules of custom they submit,",2.0 +"Like us they cool, but when they cool, they quit.",0.0 +"Nor find we in the wood, the sea, or plain,",0.0 +One ever elected over the rest to reign.,4.0 +"If any rule, it's force that gives the law,",0.0 +"Do they, like us, a pageant idol raise,",0.0 +"Swollen with false pride, and flattered by false praise?",4.0 +"Do they their equal, sometime less, revere?",1.0 +"At once detest and serve, despise and fear?",0.0 +To strength inferior do they bend the knee?,1.0 +With ears and eyes of others hear and see?,0.0 +Or ever vest a mortal god with power,0.0 +To do those wrongs they afterwards deplore?,1.0 +"These institutions are of man alone,",1.0 +Marriage and monarchy are both our own.,3.0 +"Public oppression, and domestic strife,",3.0 +"Are ills which we ourselves annexed to life,",1.0 +"God never made a husband, king, or wife.",1.0 +"Boast then, o man! thy profitable gain,",1.0 +Here would I launch into the various field,2.0 +Of all the cares our prejudices yield;,1.0 +"What multiplied examples might be told,",0.0 +"Of pains they give, and joys that they withhold?",1.0 +"When to credulity tradition preaches,",2.0 +And ignorance practises what error teaches!,4.0 +"Would any feathered maiden of the wood,",1.0 +"When lust and hunger called, its force resist?",0.0 +"In abstinence, or chastity persist?",2.0 +"And cry,' If heaven's intent was understood,",2.0 +' These tastes were only given to be withstood.',2.0 +"Or would they wisely both these gifts improve,",0.0 +"And eat when hungry, and when amorous love?",3.0 +"Yet superstition, in religion's name,",0.0 +"With future punishment and present shame,",1.0 +"Can fright weak woman from her lover's arms,",2.0 +Who weeps with mutual pain her useless charms;,2.0 +"While she, poor wretch! consumed in secret fires,",3.0 +"Till beauty fades, and inclination dies,",0.0 +"But are these ills, the ills which heaven designed?",1.0 +"Are we unfortunate, or are we blind?",3.0 +"If in possession of our wishes cursed,",1.0 +"If we make miseries, what were blessings meant,",3.0 +And benefits convert to punishment?,2.0 +When in the spring the wise industrious bees,2.0 +"Collect the various bloom from fragrant trees,",2.0 +"Extract the liquid sweet of every flower,",0.0 +And cull the garden to enrich their store:,1.0 +"Should any pedant bee of all the hive,",0.0 +"And say, that he by inspiration knows,",1.0 +"The sacred, tempting, interdicting rose,",0.0 +"By heaven's command, though sweetest, useless grows:",2.0 +"Think you the fool would ever be obeyed,",0.0 +And that the lie would grow into a trade?,0.0 +"Even Turks would answer, no ' -- and yet, we see",0.0 +"To these, how many proofs I yet could add,",1.0 +That man's superior sense is being mad?,2.0 +"That none, refining, their true interest view,",2.0 +"But for the substance, still the shade pursue.",1.0 +"That oft perverse, and prodigal of life,",1.0 +Our power and will at everlasting strife,1.0 +"We waste the present for the future hour,",1.0 +"Or foolishly regretful of the past,",2.0 +The good which yet remains neglect to taste.,0.0 +"Nor need I any foreign proof to bring,",0.0 +Myself an instance of the truths I sing.,2.0 +"While in a court, repugnant to my taste,",1.0 +"From my loved friend these precious hours I waste,",2.0 +"Why do I vainly here thy absence mourn,",0.0 +And not anticipate thy wished return?,0.0 +"Why stay my passage to those happy fields,",1.0 +Where fate in thee my every pleasure yields?,1.0 +"Fortune allows the blessings I refuse,",3.0 +"And even this moment, were my heart to choose;",3.0 +"And not on paper think, but think aloud:",0.0 +"With thy loved converse fill the shortened day,",3.0 +"And by mean, sanguine views of interest swayed,",2.0 +"Lament a grievance which I might redress,",0.0 +And wish that happiness I might possess.,1.0 +"A person who in London lived of late,",0.0 +"By dire misfortune Sunk in his Estate,",1.0 +"From good esteem reduced to low degree,",0.0 +His credit turned to Abject Poverty;,1.0 +"No comfort left to Sweeten human life,",1.0 +"But faithful counsels of a virtuous Wife,",3.0 +Who under Fortune's frowns would often try,0.0 +All means to show her love and constancy;,1.0 +"While he with heavy heart would oft lament,",0.0 +"Her present Straits, her Ample Fortune Spent,",0.0 +She ever Strove to free his mind from care.,0.0 +Her Eldest Daughter being as it's Said,1.0 +"In bloom of Youth, a fair and comely Maid,",0.0 +"Was sent unto a Country friend that She,",4.0 +The downfall of her Parents might not See.,2.0 +"A Noble Lord of good Estate lived nigh,",1.0 +"And on this lovely Beauty cast his Eye,",1.0 +"The chaste behaviour of this Graceful Dame,",1.0 +"He her addressed his lawful Bride to be,",1.0 +"And to the same she did at length agree,",1.0 +And to betray her sought a lucky time:,1.0 +"While both with different ends themselves amuse,",0.0 +From London came the most unwelcome News.,0.0 +Her tender Parents were deprived of all,1.0 +Their worldly Store; her Sorrows were not small,1.0 +"At their dire Fate; When to complete her woes,",1.0 +Her Lover does his base design disclose.,0.0 +"A Mistress he must have, he wants no Wife,",2.0 +Proposed four Hundred Pounds a year for life,1.0 +"At her command, and if she will comply,",3.0 +Her Father's debts he'll likewise satisfy:,1.0 +"Thus like the Cursed Serpent tempting Eve,",4.0 +He laid a Golden Bait her to deceive.,1.0 +"But here his hopes and promises were vain,",1.0 +"The Fair one left him with a brave disdain,",1.0 +Such Virtue in her Spotless breast Did reign;,0.0 +"Though their misfortune grieved her tender heart,",1.0 +"Her noble Soul abhors his treacherous Part,",2.0 +"To the designing Lord She bade Adieu,",1.0 +Nor would Admit another Interview.,0.0 +Chagrined and vexed the Spark resolved to try,0.0 +"Another Plot for to waylay her by,",2.0 +"Dispatched a Messenger without delay,",1.0 +"To hear what her perplexed Friends would say,",3.0 +To gain his end by their Authority.,2.0 +"By cruel Fate, her Father's forced from home,",0.0 +"The Letter to her Mother's Hands did come,",1.0 +"His flattering lines she then perused over,",7.0 +"His Vile proposals did afflict her more,",0.0 +Then all her sad disasters heretofore:,0.0 +"She from his Servant her intent concealed,",2.0 +"And to her Virtuous Child her mind revealed,",3.0 +"To this effect. My dearest Girl, Said She,",3.0 +"A Gentleman of wealth and high degree,",1.0 +"A wicked heart and base insulting mind,",0.0 +"He takes advantage of our mean Estate,",1.0 +"And Strives to make our Sorrows more complete,",0.0 +"He thinks our present wants to Satisfy,",0.0 +"We will betray our Child to Infamy,",2.0 +"Heaven forbid, that we so vile Should be",1.0 +By Sin and Shame to Shift of poverty!,1.0 +The Power above some other way will find,2.0 +"To ease our woe, or give us peace of mind",0.0 +"Dear Child, my will already is resigned!",3.0 +As Worldly grandeur to thyself and Friends;,4.0 +For Virtue's loss can never make amends;,0.0 +"Therefore I charge thee take a Special care,",1.0 +"Refuse the Bait, and So avoid the snare;",1.0 +Let not a foolish pity take a place,0.0 +"Within thy breast, true Virtue to deface,",2.0 +"Our case is not so bad as you may fear,",1.0 +From me in time you better News may hear;,1.0 +"And have already, better News to Send",0.0 +"The Minute just now past, I have received",1.0 +A Debt long due by which I am relieved;,2.0 +"For Several days before I freely own,",0.0 +"All views of comfort and support were gone,",1.0 +What little I could raise I did dispose,1.0 +"To thy Dear Father, partner of my woes,",3.0 +Who at this present time is torn from me,0.0 +I hope he'll Soon regain his liberty;,1.0 +"It's not to grieve thee I these things relate,",1.0 +"Most patiently I bear my instant Fate,",1.0 +"Thee not to make my Sufferings yet more great,",0.0 +"It's our Misfortune not our fault, that we",1.0 +"Are at this time involved in Poverty,",1.0 +And Providence may yet us reinstate,1.0 +"To the affluence we enjoyed of late,",3.0 +Without accepting terms so vile and base;,0.0 +"Heaven preserve, my Child, from Such disgrace!",1.0 +"These lines she sent with care and Speed I hear,",0.0 +By his false Servant to her Daughter Dear,3.0 +"Anxious for the Event, shaking with fear.",8.0 +He to his Master did the Same convey,1.0 +Such Snares were laid her virtue to betray.,1.0 +"He opened it, but much surprised to find",1.0 +"Whom pinching wants nor Golden Bribes could move,",0.0 +To favour him in his illegal love:,1.0 +"Reflecting on his Enterprise with Shame,",1.0 +"Applauds her choice and found himself to blame,",0.0 +"His reason prompts him, that it would be in vain,",0.0 +Content or peace of mind thereby to gain;,1.0 +"Resolved thenceforth to quit attempts So base,",1.0 +"The Letter sealed with nicest art and care,",0.0 +"To See his Love he does himself prepare,",0.0 +And by it got admittance to the Fair.,2.0 +"While She her Mother's Letter did peruse,",0.0 +"Her lovely face, he with attention views:",1.0 +"Her piercing Sorrows caused her eyes to flow,",0.0 +"The deep concern that in her breast took place,",1.0 +"Heightened her charms, improved each blooming grace",2.0 +Her deep distress and noble constancy.,1.0 +"For all his former folly to atone,",1.0 +"Assured her on his honour she should find,",1.0 +"In him, a Faithful friend and Husband kind;",0.0 +And to London he sent the Second time.,2.0 +"Implores her Mother's pardon for his crime,",1.0 +Pleads his Misfortune that he did not know,2.0 +"Their Family, and therefore used them So,",2.0 +"Not only begged Excuse for what he had done,",0.0 +But wished to be accepted as a Son.,1.0 +"This Letter by his Steward to her he Sent,",2.0 +And in Short time in Person thither went.,2.0 +"Her happy Parents were to Wealth restored,",1.0 +By the Assistance of this Generous Lord:,4.0 +"Married Amanda was and lived a happy life,",3.0 +"He a kind Husband, she a Virtuous Wife.",5.0 +"THE LARK, while she her Gratitude to prove,",1.0 +Shuts not his Ear against the SPARROWS Lays;,0.0 +Fear not the Dictates of my Soul to own;,1.0 +"The less of Art, the more of Love is shown:",0.0 +And let my Zeal my Want of Skill excuse.,0.0 +"HAIL! Hero born to rule, and reconcile",1.0 +"Our pure Religion, long the Mark of Rome,",0.0 +"Delightful Liberty, with Fears half dead,",2.0 +"Hears the glad Noise, and rears her pleasing Head;",3.0 +"Her slackened Nerves their former Strength regain,",0.0 +"SO Cruel Faction tore Rome's ancient State,",1.0 +And all her Glories seemed the Sport of Fate;,0.0 +"When by Adoption Trajan took the Reins,",1.0 +And taught her Drooping Eagles how to soar.,1.0 +"YOU Sir, like him, the British Throne ascend;",1.0 +May equal Victories your Reign attend.,1.0 +When round the Continent the Trump of Fame,1.0 +"Did Britain's Glory in your Right proclaim,",0.0 +Sent up their Prayers impending Fates to ward;,0.0 +"Rolled his Glad Eyes, and stretched his Paws again.",3.0 +"BY your famed Justice, and your prudent Sway,",3.0 +"France shall be taught to Love, or to Obey;",1.0 +"While YOU the Right of Liberty assert,",1.0 +And all the Ills of broken Faith avert;,0.0 +Before her Champions mid her Ruins die.,2.0 +"PROPHETIC Sages had this Day in View,",0.0 +And named our PATRON as a Type of You:,1.0 +"So Men to Oracles had once Regard,",1.0 +"THE swelling Waves, which often heretofore",0.0 +"Our yet loved King, the Glorious WILLIAM, bore,",3.0 +"Proud in conveying his Adopted Son,",2.0 +"Part with Regret, and murmur as they run.",3.0 +WELLCOME great Guardian of our British Land;,3.0 +Receive the Nation rescued by thy Hand.,1.0 +"A wicked Race of Men, for private Ends,",0.0 +"Had raised her baffled Foes, and sunk her Friends,",0.0 +"Dispersed her Strength, and Royal ANN betrayed",0.0 +While in the Sunshine of her Smiles they played;,2.0 +"The Ruin rolled too fast for her to stem,",2.0 +Whose greatest Weakness was her Choice of Them:,1.0 +"Who owned its Power, and kept their Vows to YOU,",2.0 +"Came to our Aid, reversed our lowering Fate,",2.0 +And by thy destined ARM retrieved the State.,1.0 +"HAIL great Deliverer, much loved MONARCH Hail!",4.0 +"No more shall France, no more shall Rome prevail:",1.0 +"By Heavens Decree, YOU and your Issue stand",3.0 +Sure Signs of future Safety to this Land.,2.0 +"So when the Almighty caused the Floods to cease,",1.0 +He fixed his Bow in Token of the Peace.,1.0 +"Once more I wake; and at the destined hour,",0.0 +"Punctual as lovers to the moment sworn,",3.0 +"OH, lost to virtue, lost to manly thought,",1.0 +"Lost to the noble sallies of the soul,",1.0 +Who think it solitude to be alone!,0.0 +Communion sweet! communion large and high!,0.0 +"Our reason, guardian angel, and our God!",3.0 +"Then nearest these, when others most remote;",1.0 +"And all, ere long, shall be remote but these.",1.0 +"How dreadful then to meet them all alone,",0.0 +"Now woo them, wed them, bind them to thy breast:",2.0 +"To win thy wish, creation has no more.",1.0 +"Or if we wish a fourth, it is a friend ' --",2.0 +But friends how mortal! dangerous the desire.,3.0 +And reeling through the wilderness of joy;,2.0 +"Where Sense runs savage, broke from Reason's chain,",1.0 +"And sings false peace, till smothered by the pall.",2.0 +"My fortune is unlike, unlike my song,",1.0 +Unlike the deity my song invokes.,1.0 +And modestly forego thine own! OH thou,1.0 +"Say, why not Cynthia, patroness of song?",3.0 +"As thou her crescent, she thy character,",3.0 +Assumes: still more a goddess by the change.,2.0 +"Are there demurring wits, who dare dispute",1.0 +This revolution in the world inspired?,0.0 +"In silent hour, address your ardent call",0.0 +For aid immortal; less her brother's right.,0.0 +"She, with the spheres harmonious, nightly leads",3.0 +"A strain for gods, denied to mortal ear.",0.0 +"Transmit it heard, thou silver queen of heaven!",0.0 +"With higher gust, fair Portland of the skies?",2.0 +"Is that the soft enchantment calls thee down,",0.0 +Come; but from heavenly banquets with thee bring,3.0 +"The soul of song, and whisper in mine ear",0.0 +The theft divine; or in propitious dreams,0.0 +For dreams are thine transfuse it through the breast,2.0 +"If, like thy namesake, thou art ever kind.",2.0 +"And kind thou wilt be, kind on such a theme;",1.0 +"A theme so like thee, a quite lunar theme,",2.0 +"Soft, modest, melancholy, female, fair!",2.0 +"A theme that rose all pale, and told my soul",0.0 +IT was night; on her fond hopes perpetual night;,5.0 +"A night which struck a damp, a deadlier damp",2.0 +Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes;,1.0 +They love a train; they tread each other's heel:,0.0 +"Her death invades his mournful right, and claims",0.0 +The grief that started from my lids for him;,1.0 +"Or shares it ere it falls. So frequent Death,",0.0 +"Sorrow he more than causes, he confounds;",2.0 +"For human sighs his rival strokes contend,",0.0 +And make distress distraction. OH Philander!,0.0 +What was thy fate? A double fate to me;,0.0 +Portent and pain! a menace and a blow!,3.0 +"Like the black raven hovering over my peace,",4.0 +Not less a bird of omen than of prey.,1.0 +"It called her tender soul by break of bliss,",0.0 +"From the first blossom, from the buds of joy;",3.0 +And young as beautiful! and soft as young!,1.0 +And gay as soft! and innocent as gay!,1.0 +And happy if aught happy here as good!,2.0 +"For fortune fond had built her nest on high,",0.0 +"Like birds quite exquisite of note and plume,",2.0 +"Transfixed by Fate, who loves a lofty mark,",0.0 +"How from the summit of the grove she fell,",2.0 +Extinguished in the wonders of her song!,1.0 +"Still melting there, and with voluptuous pain",5.0 +OH to forget her! thrilling through my heart!,3.0 +"Song, beauty, youth, love, virtue, joy! this group",2.0 +"Of bright ideas, flowers of paradise,",2.0 +"Kneel, and present it to the skies; as all",1.0 +We guess of heaven: and these were all her own.,1.0 +And she was mine; and I was ' -- was most blessed ' --,3.0 +Gay title of the deepest misery!,3.0 +As bodies grow more ponderous robbed of life;,2.0 +"Good lost weighs more in grief, than gained in joy.",1.0 +"Like blossomed trees overturned by vernal storm,",3.0 +And will not the severe excuse a sigh?,2.0 +Scorn the proud man that is ashamed to weep;,3.0 +Our tears indulged indeed deserve our shame.,0.0 +"You that ever lost an angel, pity me!",1.0 +"Soon as the lustre languished in her eye,",0.0 +Dawning a dimmer day on human sight;,2.0 +"And on her cheek, the residence of Spring,",2.0 +"Pale Omen sat, and scattered fears around",1.0 +"On all that saw; and who would cease to gaze,",0.0 +"That once had seen? with haste, parental haste,",0.0 +"I flew, I snatched her from the rigid north,",1.0 +And bore her nearer to the Sun: the Sun,1.0 +"As if the Sun could envy checked his beam,",1.0 +Regret beheld her drooping than the bells,1.0 +"Of lilies! fairest lilies, not so fair!",0.0 +Queen lilies! and you painted populace,3.0 +"Who dwell in fields, and lead ambrosial lives;",0.0 +"In morn and evening dew your beauties bathe,",0.0 +"And drink the sun; which gives your cheeks to glow,",0.0 +"Which often cropped your odours, incense meet",1.0 +To thought so pure! You lovely fugitives!,1.0 +Why not smile at him too? You share indeed,0.0 +"His sudden pass, but not his constant pain.",0.0 +But what his glowing passions can engage;,1.0 +And glowing passions bent on aught below,0.0 +"Must, soon or late, with anguish turn the scale;",0.0 +"And anguish, after rapture, how severe!",1.0 +"Rapture? Bold man, who tempts the wrath Divine,",3.0 +"By plucking fruit denied to mortal taste,",0.0 +"While here, presuming on the rights of heaven!",1.0 +Lorenzo? At thy friend's expense be wise:,0.0 +Lean not on earth; iT will pierce thee to the heart;,1.0 +A broken reed at best; but oft a spear;,0.0 +"On its sharp point Peace bleeds, and Hope expires.",4.0 +"Turn, hopeless thought! turn from her: ' -- Thought, repelled,",3.0 +"Resenting rallies, and wakes every woe.",2.0 +"Snatched ere thy prime, and in thy bridal hour!",1.0 +"And when kind Fortune, with thy lover, smiled!",2.0 +And when blind man pronounced thy bliss complete!,1.0 +"And on a foreign shore, where strangers wept!",1.0 +"Strangers to thee, and, more surprising still,",1.0 +"Strangers to kindness, wept; their eyes let fall",3.0 +"Inhuman tears; strange tears, that trickled down",2.0 +"A tenderness that called them more severe,",1.0 +In spite of Nature's soft persuasion steeled.,0.0 +"While Nature melted, Superstition raved:",0.0 +That mourned the dead; and this denied a grave.,1.0 +Their sighs incensed; sighs foreign to the will!,3.0 +"While sinful flesh relented, spirit nursed",0.0 +The sainted spirit petrified the breast;,0.0 +Denied the charity of dust to spread,1.0 +Over dust! a charity their dogs enjoy.,1.0 +With pious sacrilege a grave I stole;,1.0 +With impious piety that grave I wronged;,3.0 +Short in my duty; coward in my grief!,0.0 +"More like her murderer than friend, I crept",1.0 +"In midnight darkness, whispered my last sigh.",3.0 +I whispered what should echo through their realms;,1.0 +"Nor writ her name, whose tomb should pierce the skies.",0.0 +"Presumptuous fear! how durst I dread her foes,",2.0 +While Nature's loudest dictates I obeyed?,2.0 +"Pardon necessity, blessed shade! Of grief",4.0 +And indignation rival bursts I poured;,0.0 +"Kindled at man, while I his God adored;",1.0 +Stamped the cursed soil; and with humanity,5.0 +Glows my resentment into guilt? What guilt,2.0 +Can equal violations of the dead?,2.0 +The dead how sacred! sacred is the dust,1.0 +"He deigned to wear, who hung the vast expanse",0.0 +"With azure bright, and clothed the sun in gold.",0.0 +When every passion sleeps that can offend;,1.0 +When strikes us every motive that can melt;,0.0 +"Then, spleen to dust? the dust of innocence?",1.0 +An angel's dust? ' -- This Lucifer transcends:,1.0 +"When he contended for the patriarch's bones,",3.0 +"IT was not the strife of malice, but of pride;",1.0 +"The strife of pontiff pride, not pontiff gall.",0.0 +Far less than this is shocking in a race,2.0 +Most wretched but from streams of mutual love;,3.0 +"And, but for love divine, this moment lost,",1.0 +Man hard of heart to man! of horrid things,1.0 +"Most horrid! amid stupendous, highly strange!",2.0 +Yet oft his courtesies are smoother wrongs;,1.0 +"What then his vengeance? Hear it not, you stars!",0.0 +Overwhelming turrets threaten ere they fall;,0.0 +"Ruin from man is most concealed when near,",2.0 +And sends the dreadful tidings in the blow.,0.0 +Is this the flight of fancy? Would it were!,1.0 +"Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings, but himself,",1.0 +"That hideous sight, a naked human heart.",2.0 +Fired is the muse? and let the muse be fired:,1.0 +"Who not inflamed, when what he speaks he feels,",0.0 +"And in the nerve most tender, ' -- in his friends?",0.0 +Shame to mankind! Philander had his foes:,3.0 +"He felt the truths I sing, and I in him:",0.0 +"Are sunk in thee, thou recent wound of heart!",1.0 +"Which bleeds with other cares, with other pangs;",0.0 +"Pangs numerous, as the numerous ills that swarmed",4.0 +"Over thy distinguished fate, and, clustering there",2.0 +"Thick as the locust on the land of Nile,",1.0 +"Made death more deadly, and more dark the grave.",2.0 +"Reflect, if not forgot my touching tale,",0.0 +What strong Herculean virtue could suffice? ' --,2.0 +Or is it virtue to be conquered here?,2.0 +And each tear mourns its own distinct distress;,1.0 +"And each distress, distinctly mourned, demands",0.0 +"Of grief still more, as heightened by the whole.",2.0 +A grief like this proprietors excludes:,2.0 +They make mankind the mourner; carry sighs,1.0 +Far as the fatal Fame can wing her way;,0.0 +"Down their right channel, through the vale of death.",3.0 +"Where darkness, brooding over unfinished fates,",2.0 +"With raven wing incumbent, waits the day",0.0 +"That subterranean world, that land of ruin!",3.0 +"Fit walk, Lorenzo, for proud human thought!",3.0 +"Balsamic truths, and healing sentiments,",1.0 +Of all most wanted and most welcome here.,1.0 +"My soul, the fruits of dying friends survey;",0.0 +Expose the vain of life; weigh life and death;,1.0 +Give death his eulogy; thy fear subdue;,2.0 +"And labour that first palm of noble minds,",1.0 +A manly scorn of terror from the tomb.,1.0 +As poets feigned from Ajax' streaming blood,0.0 +"Arose, with grief inscribed, a mournful flower;",0.0 +Let wisdom blossom from my mortal wound.,2.0 +"And first, of dying friends; what fruit from these?",0.0 +It brings us more than triple aid; an aid,0.0 +"Our dying friends come over us like a cloud,",2.0 +That glare of life which often blinds the wise.,0.0 +"Our dying friends are pioneers, to smooth",0.0 +Our rugged pass to death; to break those bars,0.0 +Of terror and abhorrence Nature throws,1.0 +Cross our obstructed way; and thus to make,2.0 +"Welcome, as safe, our port from every storm.",2.0 +Each friend by Fate snatched from us is a plume,3.0 +"Plucked from the wing of human vanity,",1.0 +"Which makes us stoop from our aerial heights,",2.0 +"And, damped with omen of our own decease,",1.0 +"Just skim earth's surface, ere we break it up,",1.0 +"Over putrid pride to scratch a little dust,",0.0 +And save the world a nuisance. Smitten friends,0.0 +Are angels sent on errands full of love;,0.0 +"For us they languish, and for us they die:",3.0 +"And shall they languish, shall they die, in vain?",0.0 +"Ungrateful, shall we grieve their hovering shades,",0.0 +Which wait the revolution in our hearts?,0.0 +"Shall we disdain their silent, soft address;",1.0 +"Their posthumous advice, and pious prayer?",1.0 +"Senseless, as herds that graze their hallowed graves,",2.0 +"Tread under foot their agonies and groans,",2.0 +"Frustrate their anguish, and destroy their deaths?",2.0 +Lorenzo! no; the thought of death indulge;,0.0 +"Give it its wholesome empire! let it reign,",0.0 +"Its reign will spread thy glorious conquests far,",3.0 +"Auspicious era! golden days, begin!",0.0 +"The thought of death shall, like a god, inspire.",0.0 +And why not think on death? Is life the theme,0.0 +And song of every joy? Surprising truth!,0.0 +To wave the numerous ills that seize on life,2.0 +"As their own property, their lawful prey;",2.0 +"Ere man has measured half his weary stage,",1.0 +"His luxuries have left him no reserve,",1.0 +And in the tasteless present chews the past;,0.0 +"Disgusted chews, and scarce can swallow down.",1.0 +"Like lavish ancestors, his earlier years",6.0 +"Live ever here, Lorenzo? ' -- Shocking thought!",1.0 +"So shocking, they who wish disown it too;",1.0 +"Disown from shame what they from folly crave,",1.0 +"Live ever in the womb, nor see the light?",1.0 +To tread our former footsteps? pace the round,1.0 +"Eternal? to climb life's worn, heavy wheel,",3.0 +"Which draws up nothing new? to beat, and beat",0.0 +The beaten track? to bid each wretched day,0.0 +"The former mock? to surfeit on the same,",1.0 +And yawn our joys? or thank a misery,1.0 +"For change, though sad? to see what we have seen?",1.0 +"To taste the tasted, and at each return",1.0 +Less tasteful? over our palates to decant,4.0 +"Another vintage? strain a flatter year,",0.0 +"Through loaded vessels, and a laser tone?",1.0 +"Crazy machines, to grind earth's wasted fruits!",3.0 +The rational foul kennels of excess!,4.0 +"Trembling each gulp, lest Death should snatch the bowl.",1.0 +Such of our fine ones is the wish refined!,3.0 +So would they have it. Elegant desire!,1.0 +Why not invite the bellowing stalls and wilds?,2.0 +But such examples might their riot awe.,1.0 +"Through want of virtue, that is, want of thought,",0.0 +"Though on bright thought they father all their flights,",2.0 +To what are they reduced? To love and hate,1.0 +The same vain world; to censure and espouse,2.0 +Each moment of each day; to flatter bad,1.0 +"Through dread of worse; to cling to this rude rock,",1.0 +"Barren, to them, of good, and sharp with ills,",1.0 +"And hourly blackened with impending storms,",1.0 +"And infamous for wrecks of human hope, ' --",1.0 +"Scared at the gloomy gulf, that yawns beneath.",0.0 +"Such are their triumphs, such their pangs of joy!",2.0 +"IT is time, high time, to shift this dismal scene.",1.0 +"This hugged, this hideous state, what art can cure?",2.0 +"One only; but that one, what all may reach, ' --",1.0 +"And, what will more surprise, Lorenzo! gives",0.0 +"To life's sick, nauseous iteration, change;",1.0 +And straightens Nature's circle to a line.,1.0 +"A languid, leaden iteration reigns,",0.0 +"And ever must, over those whose joys are joys",3.0 +"But what those seasons, from the teeming earth,",1.0 +Make their days various; various as the dies,6.0 +"On the dove's neck, which wanton in his rays.",2.0 +"On lightened minds, that bask in Virtue's beams,",0.0 +Nothing hangs tedious; nothing old revolves,5.0 +"In that for which they long, for which they live.",0.0 +"Their glorious efforts, winged with heavenly hope,",4.0 +Each rising morning sees still higher rise;,1.0 +"To worth maturing, new strength, lustre, fame;",1.0 +"Rolling beneath their elevated aims,",2.0 +Makes their fair prospect fairer every hour;,3.0 +Advancing virtue in a line to bliss;,0.0 +"Virtue, which Christian motives best inspire!",2.0 +"And bliss, which Christian schemes alone insure!",0.0 +"And shall we then, for Virtue's sake, commence",0.0 +"A truth it is few doubt, but fewer trust,",1.0 +He sins against this life who slights the next.,0.0 +What is this life? How few their favourite know!,0.0 +"Fond in the dark, and blind in our embrace,",1.0 +By passionately loving life we make,1.0 +"And, dreaming, take our passage for our port.",1.0 +"Life has no value as an end, but means;",3.0 +"An end deplorable, a means divine!",1.0 +"A nest of pains: when held as nothing, much.",0.0 +"Then iT is the seat of comfort, rich in peace;",1.0 +"In prospect richer far; important, awful!",0.0 +Not to be mentioned but with shouts of praise!,1.0 +Not to be thought on but with tides of joy!,1.0 +The mighty basis of eternal bliss!,1.0 +"Where now, Lorenzo, life's eternal round?",0.0 +Have I not made my triple promise good?,0.0 +Vain is the world; but only to the vain.,1.0 +"To what compare we then this varying scene,",2.0 +"Whose worth ambiguous rises, and declines,",3.0 +"Waxes, and wanes? In all propitious, Night",2.0 +Assists me here. Compare it to the Moon;,1.0 +"Dark in herself, and indigent; but rich",2.0 +In borrowed lustre from a higher sphere.,2.0 +"Overshadowed, mourns a deep eclipse of joy;",0.0 +"Her joys, at brightest, pallid to that font",1.0 +"Nor is that glory distant. OH, Lorenzo!",1.0 +A good man and an angel! these between,1.0 +How thin the barrier! What divides their fate?,2.0 +"Perhaps a moment, or perhaps a year:",1.0 +"Or if an age, it is a moment still;",2.0 +Then be what once they were who now are gods;,1.0 +"Be what Philander was, and claim the skies.",0.0 +Starts timid Nature at the gloomy pass?,1.0 +The soft transition call it; and be cheered:,1.0 +"Such it is often, and why not to thee?",2.0 +"To hope the best is pious, brave, and wise;",0.0 +"Compare the rivals, and the kinder crown.",1.0 +"Strange competition! ' -- True, Lorenzo! strange!",1.0 +So little life can cast into the scale.,0.0 +Death gives her wings to mount above the spheres.,1.0 +"Through chinks, styled organs, dim life peeps at light;",2.0 +"Death bursts the involving cloud, and all is day;",2.0 +"All eye, all ear, the disembodied power.",1.0 +Death has feigned evils Nature shall not feel,2.0 +"Life, ills substantial, Wisdom cannot shun.",1.0 +"Is not the mighty mind, that son of heaven,",0.0 +"By tyrant life dethroned, imprisoned, pained?",0.0 +Is Death then guiltless? How he marks his way,1.0 +"With dreadful waste of what deserves to shine, ' --",0.0 +"Art, genius, fortune, elevated power!",0.0 +"I grant, Lorenzo, this indictment just:",1.0 +"The sage, peer, potentate, king, conqueror, ' --",3.0 +"Death humbles these; more barbarous life, the man.",4.0 +"Death, of the spirit infinite, divine.",1.0 +Death has no dread but what frail life imparts;,4.0 +Nor life true joy but what kind Death improves.,2.0 +"No bliss has life to boast, till Death can give",1.0 +"Far greater; life's a debtor to the grave, ' --",2.0 +"Dark lattice, letting in eternal day.",1.0 +Lorenzo! blush at fondness for a life,1.0 +"Which sends celestial souls on errands vile,",0.0 +"To cater for the sense; and serve at boards,",1.0 +"Where every ranger of the wilds, perhaps",1.0 +"Each reptile, justly claims our upper hand.",0.0 +"Luxurious feast! a soul, a soul immortal,",2.0 +Lorenzo! blush at terror for a death,1.0 +"Which gives thee to repose in festive bowers,",1.0 +"And more than angels share, and raise, and crown,",0.0 +"What need I more? OH Death, the palm is thine.",1.0 +"Then welcome, Death, thy dreaded harbingers,",1.0 +"Age and Disease: Disease, though long my guest, ' --",2.0 +"That plucks my nerves, those tender strings of life;",0.0 +"Which, plucked a little more, will toll the bell",0.0 +That calls my few friends to my funeral;,1.0 +"Where feeble Nature drops, perhaps, a tear,",0.0 +"While Reason and Religion, better taught,",1.0 +"Congratulate the dead, and crown his tomb",0.0 +It binds in chains the raging ills of life:,0.0 +"Lust and Ambition, Wrath and Avarice,",3.0 +"Are not immortal too, OH Death! is thine.",1.0 +Our day of dissolution! ' -- name it right;,0.0 +"IT is our great payday; iT is our harvest, rich",3.0 +"And ripe. What, though the sickle, sometime keen,",2.0 +Just scars us as we reap the golden grain?,1.0 +"More than thy balm, OH Gilead, heals the wound.",6.0 +"Birth's feeble cry, and Death's deep dismal groan,",2.0 +"For mighty gain: the gain of each, a life!",0.0 +"But OH, the last the former so transcends,",1.0 +"Life dies, compared; Life lives beyond the grave.",2.0 +"And feel I, Death, no joy from thought of thee?",1.0 +"Death, the great counsellor, who man inspires",5.0 +"With every nobler thought, and fairer deed!",3.0 +"Death, the deliverer, who rescues man!",4.0 +"Death, that absolves my birth; a curse without it!",1.0 +"Rich Death, that realises all my cares,",2.0 +"Toils, virtues, hopes; without it, a chimera!",2.0 +"Death, of all pain the period, not of joy!",1.0 +"Joy's source and subject still subsist unhurt, ' --",1.0 +"One in my soul, and one in her great Sire;",3.0 +Though the four winds were warring for my dust.,3.0 +"Yes, and from winds, and waves, and central night,",0.0 +"Though prisoned there, my dust too I reclaim,",3.0 +"To dust when drop proud Nature's proudest spheres,",1.0 +And live entire. Death is the crown of life:,0.0 +"Were death denied, poor man would live in vain;",1.0 +"Were death denied, to live would not be life;",0.0 +"Were death denied, even fools would wish to die.",4.0 +Death wounds to cure: we fall; we rise; we reign!,1.0 +"Spring from our fetters; fasten in the skies,",0.0 +Where blooming Eden withers in our sight:,0.0 +Death gives us more than was in Eden lost.,2.0 +This King of Terrors is the Prince of Peace.,1.0 +"When shall I die to vanity, pain, death?",2.0 +When shall I die? ' -- when shall I live for ever?,0.0 +"As when a traveller, a long day passed",2.0 +"In painful search of what he cannot find,",0.0 +"At night's approach, content with the next cot,",1.0 +"Then cheers his heart with what his fate affords,",0.0 +"And chants his sonnet to deceive the time,",1.0 +Till the due season calls him to repose:,3.0 +"Thus I, long travelled in the ways of men,",3.0 +"And dancing, with the rest, the giddy maze",1.0 +Where Disappointment smiles at Hope's career;,0.0 +At length have housed me in an humble shed;,0.0 +"Where, future wandering banished from my thought,",3.0 +"And waiting patient the sweet hour of rest,",2.0 +I chase the moments with a serious song.,3.0 +"When age, care, crime, and friends embraced at heart",1.0 +"Torn from my bleeding breast, and Death's dark shade,",1.0 +"Which hovers over me, quench the ethereal fire,",5.0 +"One labour more indulge! then sleep, my strain!",0.0 +"Where night, death, age, care, crime, and sorrow cease;",2.0 +"To bear a part in everlasting lays,",0.0 +"Though far, far higher set, ' -- in aim, I trust,",1.0 +"Has not the Muse asserted pleasures pure,",0.0 +"Like those above, exploding other joys?",1.0 +"Weigh what was urged, Lorenzo, fairly weigh;",0.0 +"And tell me, hast thou cause to triumph still?",0.0 +"Thy smile's sincere, not more sincere can be",0.0 +The sick in body call for aid: the sick,0.0 +"And when at worst, they dream themselves quite well.",1.0 +"To know ourselves diseased, is half our cure.",0.0 +"When Nature's blush by custom is wiped off,",2.0 +"The curse of curses is, our curse to love;",1.0 +"To triumph in the blackness of our guilt,",1.0 +"As Indians glory in the deepest jet,",2.0 +And throw aside our senses with our peace.,1.0 +"But, grant no guilt, no shame, no least alloy;",4.0 +"Grant joy and glory, quite unsullied, shone;",1.0 +"No joy, no glory, glitters in thy sight,",2.0 +"But, through the thin partition of an hour,",2.0 +I see its sables wove by Destiny;,1.0 +And that in sorrow buried; this in shame;,1.0 +"Her whisper, echoes her eternal peal.",1.0 +Where the prime actors of the last Year's scene?,4.0 +How many sleep who kept the world awake,0.0 +With lustre and with noise! Has Death proclaimed,1.0 +"A truce, and hung his sated lance on high?",0.0 +"IT is brandished still, nor shall the present Year",0.0 +"Be more tenacious of her human leaf,",1.0 +Or spread of feeble life a thinner fall.,0.0 +But needless monuments to wake the thought;,1.0 +"Though in a style more florid, full as plain",0.0 +"What are our noblest ornaments, but Deaths",1.0 +"Our fathers grace, or rather haunt, the scene.",0.0 +Joy peoples her pavilion from the dead.,3.0 +Professed Diversions! cannot these escape?,1.0 +Far from it: these present us with a shroud;,2.0 +We ransack tombs for pastime; from the dust,3.0 +Call up the sleeping hero; bid him tread,0.0 +The scene for our amusement. How like gods,2.0 +"We sit; and, wrapped in immortality,",1.0 +"Their fate deploring, to forget our own!",1.0 +"But legacies in blossom? Our lean soil,",3.0 +"Luxuriant grown, and rank in vanities,",3.0 +"From friends interred beneath, a rich manure!",1.0 +"Like other worms, we banquet on the dead;",1.0 +"Like other worms, shall we crawl on, nor know",0.0 +"Our present frailties, or approaching fate?",1.0 +Lorenzo! such the glories of the world!,2.0 +What is the world itself? thy world? ' -- A grave.,0.0 +Where is the dust that has not been alive?,0.0 +"The spade, the plough, disturb our ancestors;",3.0 +From human mould we reap our daily bread.,0.0 +"The globe around Earth's hollow surface shakes,",1.0 +And is the ceiling of her sleeping sons.,2.0 +Over devastation we blind revels keep;,2.0 +Whole buried towns support the dancer's heel.,1.0 +"Winds scatter, through the mighty void, the dry;",2.0 +And the freed spirit mounts on wings of fire;,2.0 +"As Nature, wide, our ruins spread: man's death",1.0 +Inhabits all things but the thought of man!,2.0 +"Nor man alone; his breathing bust expires,",0.0 +His tomb is mortal; empires die. Where now,0.0 +"The Roman? Greek? They stalk, an empty name!",0.0 +Yet few regard them in this useful light;,0.0 +Though half our learning is their epitaph.,1.0 +"When down thy vale, unlocked by midnight thought,",1.0 +OH Death! I stretch my view; what visions rise!,1.0 +"What triumphs, toils imperial, arts Divine,",2.0 +"In withered laurels, glide before my sight!",0.0 +"With human agitation, roll along",0.0 +"The melancholy ghosts of dead renown,",0.0 +"Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause,",3.0 +"All point at earth, and hiss at human pride,",0.0 +"But, OH Lorenzo, far the rest above,",0.0 +"Of ghastly nature and enormous size,",1.0 +"One form assaults my sight, and chills my blood,",0.0 +And shakes my frame. Of one departed world,1.0 +"And dismal seaweed crown her! Over her urn,",3.0 +"And bloated sons; and, weeping, prophecies",1.0 +"But, like Cassandra, prophecies in vain;",1.0 +"In vain, to many; not, I trust, to thee.",0.0 +"The great decree, the counsel of the Skies?",1.0 +"Deluge and Conflagration, dreadful powers!",2.0 +Prime ministers of Vengeance! Chained in caves,2.0 +"Apart, or, such their horrid rage for ruin,",1.0 +"In mutual conflict would they rise, and wage",1.0 +"Eternal war, till one was quite devoured.",1.0 +But not for this ordained their boundless rage,1.0 +"When Heaven's inferior instruments of wrath,",5.0 +"War, Famine, Pestilence, are found too weak",3.0 +"To scourge a world for her enormous crimes,",1.0 +"These are let loose, alternate; down they rush,",1.0 +"Swift and tempestuous, from the eternal throne,",5.0 +"With irresistible commission armed,",1.0 +"The world, in vain corrected, to destroy,",1.0 +And ease Creation of the shocking scene.,1.0 +The fate of Nature; as for man her birth.,1.0 +"Earth's actors change Earth's transitory scenes,",2.0 +And make Creation groan with human guilt.,0.0 +"But not of waters! At the destined hour,",0.0 +"By the loud trumpet summoned to the charge,",3.0 +"See, all the formidable sons of Fire,",1.0 +"Eruptions, Earthquakes, Comets, Lightnings, play",1.0 +Their various engines; all at once disgorge,2.0 +Their blazing magazines; and take by storm,0.0 +This poor terrestrial citadel of man.,2.0 +"Their melted mass, as rivers once they poured;",0.0 +Stars rush; and final Ruin fiercely drives,1.0 +Her ploughshare over Creation! ' -- while aloft,2.0 +"More than astonishment, if more can be!",2.0 +Than ever was thought by man! Far other stars!,3.0 +"Stars animate, that govern these of fire.",2.0 +"Far other Sun! ' -- A Sun, OH how unlike",3.0 +The Babe at Bethlehem! How unlike the Man,2.0 +That groaned on Calvary! Yet He it is;,2.0 +That Man of sorrows! OH how changed! What pomp!,0.0 +"In grandeur terrible, all heaven descends!",5.0 +"And gods, ambitious, triumph in His train.",0.0 +"A swift archangel, with his golden wing,",2.0 +"As blots and clouds, that darken and disgrace",1.0 +"The scene Divine, sweeps stars and suns aside.",1.0 +"And now, all dross removed, Heaven's own pure day,",5.0 +"Full on the confines of our either, flames:",1.0 +"While dreadful contrast! far how far! beneath,",0.0 +"Expanding wide, and roaring for her prey.",1.0 +"Lorenzo, welcome to this scene; the last",1.0 +The most supine; this snatches man from death.,0.0 +"Rouse, rouse, Lorenzo, then, and follow me,",2.0 +"Where Truth, the most momentous man can hear,",0.0 +I find my inspiration in my theme;,0.0 +The grandeur of my subject is my Muse.,2.0 +"At midnight, when mankind is wrapped in peace,",4.0 +"And worldly Fancy feeds on golden dreams,",0.0 +"To give more dread to man's most dreadful hour,",0.0 +"At midnight, iT is presumed, this pomp will burst",2.0 +From tenfold darkness; sudden as the spark,2.0 +"From smitten steel; from nitrous grain, the blaze.",0.0 +"Man, starting from his couch, shall sleep no more;",3.0 +The day is broke which never more shall close!,0.0 +"Above, around, beneath, amazement all!",0.0 +Terror and glory joined in their extremes!,3.0 +"Our GOD in grandeur, and our world on fire!",2.0 +All Nature struggling in the pangs of death!,0.0 +Dost thou not hear her? Dost thou not deplore,0.0 +"Her strong convulsions, and her final groan?",1.0 +Where are we now? Ah me! the ground is gone,1.0 +"Provide more firm support, or sink for ever!",0.0 +Where? How? From whence? Vain hope! it is too late!,2.0 +"Where, where, for shelter, shall the guilty fly,",0.0 +When consternation turns the good man pale?,1.0 +Great day! for which all other days were made;,1.0 +"For which earth rose from chaos, man from earth;",1.0 +"And an eternity, the date of gods,",2.0 +"Great day of dread, decision, and despair!",2.0 +"Lets go its eager grasp, and drops the world;",1.0 +And catches at each reed of hope in heaven.,0.0 +At thought of thee! ' -- And art thou absent then?,1.0 +"Lorenzo, no; iT is here! ' -- it is begun: ' --",0.0 +"The dread tribunal, and forestalls our doom;",1.0 +"Forestalls; and, by forestalling, proves it sure.",2.0 +Why on himself should man void judgement pass?,2.0 +Is idle Nature laughing at her sons?,0.0 +"Who Conscience sent, her sentence will support,",1.0 +And GOD above assert that God in man.,0.0 +Thrice happy they that enter now the court,2.0 +What hero like the man who stands himself;,0.0 +Who dares to meet his naked heart alone;,0.0 +"Who hears, intrepid, the full charge it brings,",2.0 +Resolved to silence future murmurs there?,1.0 +"The coward flies; and, flying, is undone.",1.0 +Art thou a coward? No! The coward flies;,0.0 +"Thinks, but thinks slightly; asks, but fears to know;",3.0 +"Asks, What is truth? with Pilate; and retires;",1.0 +"Dissolves the court, and mingles with the throng;",1.0 +"Asylum sad from reason, hope, and heaven!",0.0 +"Shall all but man look out, with ardent eye,",2.0 +For that great day which was ordained for man?,2.0 +OH day of consummation! mark supreme,1.0 +"If men are wise of human thought! nor least,",0.0 +Or in the sight of angels or their KING!,1.0 +"Angels, whose radiant circles, height over height,",5.0 +"Order over order, rising, blaze over blaze,",3.0 +"As in a theatre, surround this scene,",1.0 +"Intent on man, and anxious for his fate:",1.0 +"Angels look out for thee; for thee, their LORD,",2.0 +To vindicate His glory; and for thee,2.0 +"Creation universal calls aloud,",0.0 +To Nature's renovation brighter charms.,0.0 +"Shall man alone, whose fate, whose final fate,",0.0 +"Hangs on that hour, exclude it from his thought?",1.0 +"I think of nothing else; I see, I feel it!",0.0 +"All Nature, like an earthquake, trembling round!",1.0 +"All deities, like summer's swarms, on wing!",1.0 +All basking in the full meridian blaze!,2.0 +"The volume opened, opened every heart!",0.0 +A sunbeam pointing out each secret thought!,2.0 +"For guilt no plea! to pain, no pause, no bound!",3.0 +"Inexorable all, and all extreme!",2.0 +"Nor man alone; the foe of God and man,",0.0 +"And rears his brazen front, with thunder scarred;",0.0 +"Receives his sentence, and begins his hell.",1.0 +"All vengeance past, now, seems abundant grace:",1.0 +"Like meteors in a stormy sky, how roll",1.0 +His baleful eyes! He curses whom he dreads;,0.0 +And deems it the first moment of his fall.,3.0 +IT is present to my thought! ' -- And yet where is it?,1.0 +Angels can't tell me; angels cannot guess,3.0 +The period; from created beings locked,3.0 +In darkness. But the process and the place,3.0 +Are less obscure: for these may man enquire.,1.0 +"Say, thou Great Close of human hopes and fears,",3.0 +"Great Key of hearts, Great Finisher of fates,",3.0 +"Great End, and Great Beginning! Say, where art thou?",1.0 +"Art thou in time, or in eternity?",1.0 +"Nor in eternity, nor time, I find thee.",1.0 +"These, as two monarchs, on their borders meet,",1.0 +"As in debate, how best their powers allied",1.0 +"May swell the grandeur, or discharge the wrath,",4.0 +Of HIM whom both their monarchies obey.,2.0 +Time ' -- this vast fabric for him built and doomed,4.0 +With him to fall now bursting over his head;,4.0 +"His lamp, the sun, extinguished ' -- from beneath",1.0 +The frown of hideous darkness calls his sons,2.0 +"From their long slumber; from Earth's heaving womb,",4.0 +To second birth. Contemporary throng!,0.0 +"Roused at one call, upstarting from one bed,",6.0 +"Pressed in one crowd, appalled with one amaze,",1.0 +"He turns them over, Eternity, to thee.",3.0 +Then as a king deposed disdains to live,0.0 +He falls on his own scythe; nor falls alone;,1.0 +"His greatest foe falls with him; Time, and he",2.0 +"Who murdered all Time's offspring, Death, expire.",2.0 +TIME was! ETERNITY now reigns alone!,4.0 +"Awful Eternity, offended queen!",3.0 +And her resentment to mankind how just!,3.0 +"With kind intent soliciting access,",2.0 +How often has she knocked at human hearts!,0.0 +"Rich to repay their hospitality,",3.0 +"How often called, and with the voice of God!",1.0 +"Yet bore repulse, excluded as a cheat,",1.0 +"A dream, a cheat, now, all things but her smile.",3.0 +"For, lo! her twice ten thousand gates, thrown wide",2.0 +As thrice from Indus to the frozen pole ' --,1.0 +"With banners streaming as the comet's blaze,",1.0 +Sonorous as immortal breath can blow ' --,3.0 +"Of light, of darkness; in a middle field,",0.0 +"Wide as Creation, populous as wide!",3.0 +A neutral region! there to mark the event,3.0 +"Of that great drama, whose preceding scenes",1.0 +"Detained them close spectators, through a length",4.0 +"Of ages, ripening to this grand result;",1.0 +"Who now, pronouncing sentence, vindicates",0.0 +"The rights of Virtue, and His own renown.",1.0 +"ETERNITY, the various sentence past,",3.0 +"The deed predominant, the deed of deeds!",1.0 +"Which makes a hell of hell, a heaven of heaven!",0.0 +"The goddess, with determined aspect, turns",2.0 +Deep driving every bolt on both their fates.,1.0 +"Then, from the crystal battlements of heaven,",1.0 +"Ten thousand thousand fathom; there to rust,",2.0 +And never unlock her resolution more.,2.0 +"Returns, in groans, the melancholy roar.",0.0 +OH how unlike the chorus of the Skies!,3.0 +"OH how unlike those shouts of joy, that shake",2.0 +The whole ethereal! How the concave rings!,1.0 +"Nor strange, when deities their voice exalt;",1.0 +"And louder far than when Creation rose,",0.0 +"So well accomplished, so divinely closed!",1.0 +As meet in glory rising over the rest!,2.0 +"No fancied God, a GOD indeed, descends,",1.0 +To solve all knots; to strike the moral home;,0.0 +To throw full day on darkest scenes of time;,1.0 +"To clear, commend, exalt, and crown the whole.",0.0 +"Hence, in one peal of loud, eternal praise,",0.0 +The charmed spectators thunder their applause;,5.0 +"And worlds celestial, is there found on earth",1.0 +"A peevish, dissonant, rebellious string,",1.0 +"Which jars in the grand chorus, and complains?",5.0 +"Censure on thee, Lorenzo, I suspend,",4.0 +And turn it on myself; how greatly due!,2.0 +"All, all is right, by God ordained or done;",0.0 +And who but God resumed the friends He gave?,0.0 +And have I been complaining then so long?,0.0 +"Who, without Pain's advice, would ever be good?",3.0 +"Who, without Death, but would be good in vain?",2.0 +"Pain is to save from pain; all punishment,",1.0 +"To make for peace; and Death, to save from death;",0.0 +"And second death, to guard immortal life;",0.0 +"To rouse the careless, the presumptuous awe,",3.0 +And turn the tide of souls another way;,0.0 +"By the same tenderness Divine ordained,",3.0 +"A fairer Eden, endless, in the skies.",0.0 +Heaven gives us friends to bless the present scene;,0.0 +"Resumes them, to prepare us for the next.",2.0 +All evils natural are moral goods:,1.0 +"All discipline, indulgence, on the whole.",2.0 +None are unhappy: all have cause to smile,2.0 +But such as to themselves that cause deny.,2.0 +Our faults are at the bottom of our pains;,1.0 +"Error, in act or judgement, is the source",3.0 +"Of endless sighs: we sin, or we mistake;",1.0 +"And Nature tax, when false Opinion stings.",0.0 +"Let impious Grief be banished, Joy indulged;",1.0 +"But chiefly then, when Grief puts in her claim.",1.0 +"Joy from the joyous frequently betrays,",1.0 +"Oft lives in vanity, and dies in woe.",2.0 +"Joy, amid ills, corroborates, exalts;",3.0 +IT is joy and conquest; joy and virtue too.,0.0 +A noble fortitude in ills delights,0.0 +"Heaven, earth, ourselves; iT is duty, glory, peace.",0.0 +Affliction is the good man's shining scene!,2.0 +Prosperity conceals his brightest ray;,1.0 +"As Night to stars, Woe lustre gives to man.",1.0 +"Heroes in battle, pilots in the storm,",2.0 +"And Virtue in calamities, admire.",1.0 +"An evergreen that stands the northern blast,",0.0 +IT is a prime part of happiness to know,5.0 +How much unhappiness must prove our lot;,1.0 +A part which few possess! I'll pay life's tax,1.0 +"Without one rebel murmur from this hour,",1.0 +Nor think it misery to be a man;,1.0 +"Who thinks it is, shall never be a god:",1.0 +"Some ills we wish for, when we wish to live.",0.0 +"Presumptuous, blasphemous, absurd, and false!",3.0 +The triumph of my soul is ' -- that I am;,1.0 +And therefore that I may be ' -- What? Lorenzo!,2.0 +"Look inward, and look deep, and deeper still;",3.0 +In golden veins through all eternity!,1.0 +"Ages, and ages, and succeeding still",3.0 +"New ages, where this phantom of an hour,",2.0 +"Which courts, each night, dull slumber, for repair,",2.0 +"Shall wake, and wonder, and exult, and praise,",1.0 +"And fly through infinite, and all unlock;",1.0 +"And, if deserved, by Heaven's redundant love",3.0 +"Made half adorable itself, adore;",2.0 +And find in adoration endless joy!,0.0 +"Where thou, not master of a moment here,",1.0 +"Frail as the flower, and fleeting as the gale,",3.0 +With all a kind Omnipotence can pour.,1.0 +"Since Adam fell, no mortal, uninspired,",1.0 +"Has ever yet conceived, or ever shall,",0.0 +"How kind is GOD, how great if good is Man.",0.0 +"No man too largely from Heaven's love can hope,",4.0 +From man full many! Numerous is the race,2.0 +"Of blackest ills, and those immortal too,",1.0 +Begot by Madness on fair Liberty;,3.0 +"Guarded with terrors reaching to this world,",3.0 +And covered with the thunders of Thy law;,2.0 +"Whose threats are mercies, whose injunctions guides,",0.0 +"Assisting, not restraining, Reason's choice;",0.0 +"Whose sanctions, unavoidable results",1.0 +"Thus, an indulgent father warns his sons,",2.0 +Do this; fly that; ' -- nor always tells the cause;,0.0 +"Pleased to reward, as duty to his will,",3.0 +A conduct needful to their own repose.,1.0 +"Great GOD of wonders! if, Thy love surveyed,",2.0 +"Aught else the name of wonderful retains,",2.0 +"What rocks are these, on which to build our trust?",1.0 +Thy ways admit no blemish; none I find;,1.0 +Or this alone ' -- that none is to be found.,2.0 +"Who, like a demon, murmuring, from the dust,",1.0 +Dares into judgement call her Judge. ' -- Supreme!,1.0 +"For all I bless Thee; most, for the severe;",1.0 +"Her death Lucia. ' -- my own at hand ' -- the fiery gulf,",5.0 +That flaming bound of wrath omnipotent!,1.0 +It thunders; ' -- but it thunders to preserve;,2.0 +It strengthens what it strikes; its wholesome dread,0.0 +Averts the dreaded pain; its hideous groans,2.0 +Great Source of good alone! How kind in all!,1.0 +"Thus, in thy world material, Mighty Mind!",2.0 +The rough and gloomy challenges our praise.,1.0 +The winter is as needful as the spring;,2.0 +"The thunder, as the sun; a stagnate mass",2.0 +"To Nature's health, than purifying storms.",0.0 +The dread volcano ministers to good;,1.0 +Its smothered flames might undermine the world.,0.0 +"Comets good omens are, when duly scanned;",3.0 +"And, in their use, eclipses learn to shine.",0.0 +Man is responsible for ills received!,3.0 +"Those we call wretched are a chosen band,",3.0 +"Compelled to refuge in the right, for peace.",0.0 +"Amid my list of blessings infinite,",1.0 +Stand this the foremost ' -- that my heart has bled.,1.0 +IT is Heaven's last effort of goodwill to man;,5.0 +"When pain can't bless, Heaven quits us in despair.",2.0 +"Who fails to grieve, when just occasion calls,",0.0 +"Or grieves too much, deserves not to be blessed;",2.0 +"Inhuman, or effeminate, his heart:",2.0 +Reason absolves the grief which Reason ends.,2.0 +"May Heaven never trust my friend with happiness,",1.0 +"Till it has taught him how to bear it well,",2.0 +By previous pain; and made it safe to smile!,2.0 +"Such smiles are mine, and such may they remain;",2.0 +"Nor hazard their extinction, from excess.",2.0 +My change of heart a change of style demands;,0.0 +"The Consolation cancels the Complaint,",1.0 +And makes a convert of my guilty song.,1.0 +"A panting traveller some rising ground,",1.0 +"Some small ascent, has gained; he turns him round,",0.0 +"And measures with his eye the various vale,",3.0 +"The fields, woods, meads, and rivers he has passed;",2.0 +"Endeared by distance, nor affects more toil:",1.0 +"Thus I, though small indeed is that ascent",0.0 +"The Muse has gained, review the paths she trod,",1.0 +"Various, extensive, beaten but by few;",2.0 +"And, conscious of her prudence in repose,",1.0 +"Pause; and with pleasure meditate an end,",0.0 +Though still remote; so fruitful is my theme.,1.0 +"Through many a field of moral and Divine,",3.0 +The Muse has strayed; and much of sorrow seen,0.0 +In human ways; and much of false and vain;,0.0 +"Which none, who travel this bad road, can miss.",2.0 +Over friends deceased full heartily she wept;,2.0 +Of love Divine the wonders she displayed;,1.0 +Proved man immortal; showed the source of joy;,1.0 +The grand tribunal raised; assigned the bounds,0.0 +"Of human grief: in few, to close the whole,",0.0 +"The moral Muse has shadowed out a sketch,",1.0 +"Of most our weakness needs believe or do,",0.0 +"In this our land of travel, and of hope,",1.0 +"For peace on earth, or prospect of the skies.",1.0 +What then remains? ' -- Much! much! a mighty debt,0.0 +"To be discharged: these thoughts, OH Night! are thine;",1.0 +"From thee they came, like lovers' secret sighs,",1.0 +"While others slept. So Cynthia, poets feign,",2.0 +"In shadows veiled, soft sliding from her sphere,",3.0 +"Than I of thee. ' -- And art thou still unsung,",1.0 +"Beneath whose brow, and by whose aid, I sing?",1.0 +Immortal Silence! ' -- Where shall I begin?,1.0 +Where end? or how steal music from the spheres,3.0 +And fated to survive the transient sun!,1.0 +By mortals and immortals seen with awe!,1.0 +A starry crown thy raven brow adorns;,0.0 +"An azure zone, thy waist; clouds, in Heaven's loom",3.0 +"Wrought through varieties of shape and shade,",3.0 +"In ample folds of drapery Divine,",1.0 +"Thy flowing mantle form, and, heaven throughout,",0.0 +Inspiring aspect! claim a grateful verse;,1.0 +"And, like a sable curtain starred with gold,",0.0 +"And what, OH man! so worthy to be sung?",2.0 +What more prepares us for the songs of heaven?,1.0 +Creation of archangels is the theme!,3.0 +"What, to be sung, so needful? What so well",0.0 +Celestial joys prepares us to sustain?,1.0 +"The soul of man, HIS face designed to see",0.0 +"Who gave these wonders to be seen by man,",1.0 +Has here a previous scene of objects great,2.0 +On which to dwell; to stretch to that expanse,0.0 +"Of thought, to rise to that exalted height",0.0 +"Of admiration, to contract that awe,",1.0 +"And give her whole capacities that strength,",1.0 +Which best may qualify for final joy.,0.0 +"The more our spirits are enlarged on earth,",1.0 +The deeper draught shall they receive of heaven.,1.0 +Heaven's KING! whose face unveiled consummates bliss;,7.0 +Redundant bliss! which fills that mighty void,0.0 +The whole creation leaves in human hearts!,0.0 +"Rapt in sweet contemplation of these fires,",3.0 +And set his harp in concert with the spheres!,1.0 +While of Thy works material the supreme,3.0 +"I dare attempt, assist my daring song.",0.0 +"Loose me from earth's enclosure, from the sun's",1.0 +Contracted circle set my heart at large;,0.0 +"Eliminate my spirit, give it range",0.0 +Through provinces of thought yet unexplored;,1.0 +"Teach me, by this stupendous scaffolding,",2.0 +"Creation's golden steps, to climb to THEE.",0.0 +"Teach me with Art great Nature to control,",2.0 +And spread a lustre over the shades of night.,2.0 +Feel I Thy kind assent? and shall the sun,0.0 +"Be seen at midnight, rising in my song?",1.0 +"Lorenzo! come, and warm thee: thou whose heart,",1.0 +"Whose little heart, is moored within a nook",0.0 +"Of this obscure terrestrial, anchor weigh.",3.0 +"I am thy pilot, I thy prosperous gale.",4.0 +Gainful thy voyage through yonder azure main;,4.0 +"Main without tempest, pirate, rock, or shore;",6.0 +Thy travels dost thou boast over foreign realms?,3.0 +Thou stranger to the world! thy tour begin;,1.0 +Thy tour through Nature's universal orb.,0.0 +"Nature delineates her whole chart at large,",4.0 +"On soaring souls, that sail among the spheres;",0.0 +"Who circles spacious Earth, then travels here,",0.0 +Shall own he never was from home before!,1.0 +"Come, my Prometheus, Night the Eighth. from thy pointed rock",2.0 +"We'll innocently steal celestial fire,",1.0 +And kindle our devotion at the stars;,1.0 +"A theft that shall not chain, but set thee free.",0.0 +"Above the northern nests of feathered Snows,",0.0 +"The brew of Thunders, and the flaming forge",1.0 +That forms the crooked Lightning; above the caves,2.0 +And tune their tender voices to that roar,1.0 +"Which soon, perhaps, shall shake a guilty world;",0.0 +"Above misconstrued omens of the sky,",9.0 +"Thy soul, till now, contracted, withered, shrunk,",0.0 +Will blossom here; spread all her faculties,2.0 +"Stars teach as well as shine. At Nature's birth,",1.0 +"Thus their commission ran, ' -- Be kind to man.",2.0 +"Where art thou, poor benighted traveller!",1.0 +"The stars will light thee, though the moon should fail.",1.0 +"Where art thou, more benighted, more astray",0.0 +In ways immoral? The stars call thee back;,2.0 +"And, if obeyed their counsel, set thee right.",1.0 +"IT is Nature's system of divinity,",2.0 +And every student of the night inspires.,1.0 +"IT is elder Scripture, writ by GOD'S own hand;",0.0 +"Lorenzo, with my radius the rich gift",3.0 +Of thought nocturnal! I'll point out to thee,3.0 +Its various lessons; some that may surprise,3.0 +"Little, perhaps, expected in her school,",2.0 +"Nor thought to grow on planet, or on star.",1.0 +"Bulls, lions, scorpions, monsters, here we feign:",3.0 +"Ourselves more monstrous, not to see what here",0.0 +Exists indeed ' -- a lecture to mankind!,2.0 +What read we here? ' -- The existence of a GOD?,2.0 +"Yes: and of other beings, man above;",0.0 +"Natives of either, sons of higher climes!",2.0 +Eternity is written in the skies.,1.0 +And whose eternity? Lorenzo! thine:,2.0 +"Mankind's eternity. Nor Faith alone,",2.0 +Virtue grows here; here springs the sovereign cure,0.0 +"Of almost every vice; but chiefly thine, ' --",2.0 +"Wrath, pride, ambition, and impure desire.",2.0 +"Though not on morals bent: Ambition, Pleasure,",0.0 +"Those tyrants I for thee so lately fought,",2.0 +Afford their harassed slaves but slender rest.,5.0 +"Thou, to whom midnight is immoral noon;",3.0 +"Not by thy climate, but capricious crime,",1.0 +"In thy nocturnal rove, one moment halt,",1.0 +Betwixt stage and stage of riot and cabal;,4.0 +"And lift thine eye if bold an eye to lift,",0.0 +If bold to meet the face of injured Heaven,0.0 +"To yonder stars: for other ends they shine,",0.0 +And thus be made accomplices in guilt.,1.0 +"Why from yonder arch, that Infinite of space,",1.0 +"At the first glance, in such an overwhelm",1.0 +"Of Wonderful, on man's astonished sight",1.0 +Rushes Omnipotence? ' -- To kerb our pride;,3.0 +"Our reason rouse, and lead it to that Power",1.0 +"Whose love lets down these silver chains of light,",1.0 +"To draw up man's ambition to Himself,",1.0 +And bind our chaste affections to His throne.,1.0 +"Thus the three virtues, least alive on earth,",3.0 +"And welcomed on heaven's coast with most applause, ' --",2.0 +The planets of each system represent,1.0 +Kind neighbours; mutual amity prevails;,4.0 +"Sweet interchange of rays, received, returned;",1.0 +"Enlightening, and enlightened! All, at once,",1.0 +None sins against the welfare of the whole;,3.0 +Affords an emblem of millennial love.,3.0 +"Nothing in Nature, much less conscious being,",3.0 +Was ever created solely for itself:,3.0 +Thus man his sovereign duty learns in this,1.0 +Material picture of benevolence.,4.0 +"And know, of all our supercilious race,",2.0 +"Thou most inflammable, thou wasp of men!",1.0 +"Man's angry heart, inspected, would be found",1.0 +As rightly set as are the starry spheres;,1.0 +"IT is Nature's structure, broke by stubborn Will,",1.0 +Wilt thou not feel the bias Nature gave?,0.0 +"They chase our double darkness; Nature's gloom,",0.0 +And kinder still! our intellectual night.,2.0 +"And see, Day's amiable sister sends",2.0 +"Her invitation, in the softest rays",0.0 +"Of mitigated lustre; courts thy sight,",0.0 +Which suffers from her tyrant brother's blaze.,1.0 +"Night grants thee the full freedom of the skies,",6.0 +Nor rudely reprimands thy lifted eye;,0.0 +With gain and joy she bribes thee to be wise.,1.0 +"Night opens the noblest scenes, and sheds an awe",3.0 +"Which gives those venerable scenes full weight,",2.0 +"While light peeps through the darkness like a spy,",1.0 +And Darkness shows its grandeur by the light.,2.0 +"Nor is the profit greater than the joy,",2.0 +"If human hearts at glorious objects glow,",2.0 +And admiration can inspire delight.,1.0 +"What speak I more than I, this moment, feel?",1.0 +With pleasing stupor first the soul is struck;,0.0 +Stupor ordained to make her truly wise!,2.0 +"Then into transport starting from her trance,",1.0 +With love and admiration how she glows!,1.0 +"This gorgeous apparatus, this display,",1.0 +"This ostentation of creative power,",1.0 +"This theatre, ' -- what eye can take it in?",1.0 +"By what Divine enchantment was it raised,",1.0 +For minds of the first magnitude to launch,2.0 +"In endless speculation, and adore?",1.0 +"One sun by day, by night ten thousand shine;",1.0 +And light us deep into the DEITY;,1.0 +"OH what a confluence of ethereal fires,",5.0 +"Streams to a point, and centres in my sight!",0.0 +"My heart, at once, it humbles and exalts;",1.0 +"Lays it in dust, and calls it to the skies.",1.0 +"Who sees it, and can stop at what is seen?",1.0 +Material offspring of Omnipotence!,5.0 +"Work worthy Him who made it! worthy praise,",2.0 +"All praise, praise more than human! nor denied",2.0 +"Thy praise Divine! ' -- But though man, drowned in sleep,",2.0 +"Withholds his homage, not alone I wake;",1.0 +"Bright legions swarm unseen, and sing, unheard",1.0 +"By mortal ear, the glorious Architect,",2.0 +In this His universal temple hung,0.0 +"That shed religion on the soul; at once,",1.0 +The temple and the preacher! OH how loud,1.0 +"It calls Devotion, genuine growth of Night!",2.0 +Devotion! daughter of Astronomy!,2.0 +"True, all things speak a GOD; but, in the small,",3.0 +"Men trace out Him; in great, He seizes man;",2.0 +"Seizes, and elevates, and raps, and fills",2.0 +"Tell me, you stars, you planets, tell me, all",0.0 +"What are these sons of wonder? Say, proud arch,",1.0 +"Within whose azure palaces they dwell,",1.0 +Built with Divine ambition! in disdain,2.0 +Of limit built! built in the taste of Heaven!,1.0 +A meet apartment for the DEITY? ' --,2.0 +"Not so; that thought alone thy State impairs,",0.0 +And makes an universe an orrery.,1.0 +"But when I drop mine eye, and look on man,",0.0 +"Thy right regained, thy grandeur is restored,",4.0 +OH Nature! wide flies off the expanding round.,5.0 +"As when whole magazines at once are fired,",1.0 +The smitten air is hollowed by the blow;,1.0 +"Thus but far more the expanding round flies off,",3.0 +"And leaves a mighty void, a spacious womb,",0.0 +"Thy luminaries triumph, and assume",1.0 +"Divinity themselves. Nor was it strange,",2.0 +"From ages dark, obtuse, and steeped in sense;",0.0 +"For, sure, to sense they truly are Divine,",1.0 +"Nay, turned it into virtue. Such it was",2.0 +In those who put forth all they had of man,1.0 +"But, weak of wing, on planets perched; and thought",0.0 +"What was their Highest, must be their Adored.",1.0 +"But they how weak, who could no higher mount!",2.0 +"And are there then, Lorenzo, those to whom",2.0 +"And, if incomprehensible is joined,",2.0 +Who dare pronounce it madness to believe?,1.0 +Why has the mighty Builder thrown aside,0.0 +All measure in His work; stretched out His line,2.0 +"So far, and spread amazement over the whole?",2.0 +"Then, as He took delight in wide extremes,",0.0 +"Deep in the bosom of His universe,",1.0 +"Dropped down that reasoning mite, that insect, man,",3.0 +"To crawl, and gaze, and wonder, at the scene? ' --",0.0 +That man might never presume to plead amazement,2.0 +For disbelief of wonders in Himself.,0.0 +Shall God be less miraculous than what,1.0 +His hand has formed? Shall mysteries descend,1.0 +"More obvious than created, to the grasp",4.0 +Of human thought? The more of wonderful,1.0 +"Is heard in Him, the more we should assent.",1.0 +"Could we conceive Him, GOD He could not be;",1.0 +"Or He not GOD, or we could not be men.",1.0 +A GOD alone can comprehend a GOD:,0.0 +"Man's distance, how immense! On such a theme,",3.0 +"Know this, Lorenzo, seem it never so strange,",4.0 +Nothing can satisfy but what confounds;,2.0 +And every star sheds light upon thy Creed.,1.0 +"These stars, this furniture, this cost of Heaven,",1.0 +But thine eye tells thee the romance is true.,3.0 +"The moral emanations of the skies,",1.0 +Has the Great Sovereign sent ten thousand worlds,3.0 +"To tell us He resides above them all,",1.0 +And dare Earth's bold inhabitants deny,2.0 +A moment's audience? Turn we? nor will hear,3.0 +"From whom they come, or what they would impart",0.0 +"Their grandeur to man's eye? Lorenzo, rouse!",4.0 +"Let thought, awakened, take the lightning's wing,",1.0 +"And glance from east to west, from pole to pole.",0.0 +"Who sees, but is confounded or convinced,",2.0 +"Renounces Reason, or a GOD adores?",1.0 +Mankind was sent into the world to see:,1.0 +Sight gives the science needful to their peace;,2.0 +Or wound thy patience amid logic thorns?,5.0 +A make to man directive of his thought;,1.0 +"A make set upright, pointing to the stars,",3.0 +"As who should say, Read thy chief lesson there.",4.0 +"Too late to read this manuscript of heaven,",1.0 +"When, like a parchment scroll, shrunk up by flames,",2.0 +"Lesson how various! Not the God alone,",3.0 +"I see His ministers; I see, diffused",1.0 +"Of various offices, of various plume,",5.0 +"Azure, green, purple, pearl, or downy gold,",3.0 +"Listening to catch the Master's least command,",1.0 +And fly through Nature ere the moment ends;,0.0 +By Pagan and by Christian! Over each sphere,2.0 +"Presides an angel, to direct its course,",1.0 +"And feed, or fan, its flames; or to discharge",1.0 +Other high trusts unknown. For who can see,3.0 +"Such pomp of matter, and imagine Mind,",1.0 +"For which alone Inanimate was made,",1.0 +"More sparingly dispensed? that nobler son,",2.0 +"As much in excellence above mankind,",2.0 +As above earth in magnitude the spheres.,5.0 +"These, as a cloud of witnesses, hang over us;",4.0 +In a thronged theatre are all our deeds;,3.0 +"On every beam we see, to walk with men.",0.0 +Awful reflection! strong restraint from ill!,2.0 +"Yet, here, our virtue finds still stronger aid",1.0 +From these ethereal glories Sense surveys.,3.0 +"Something, like magic, strikes from this blue vault:",3.0 +With just attention is it viewed? We feel,1.0 +Nature herself does half the work of man.,2.0 +"Seas, rivers, mountains, forests, deserts, rocks,",1.0 +"From Nature's structure, or the scoop of Time;",1.0 +"If ample of dimension, vast of size,",1.0 +Of solemn thought enthusiastic heights,0.0 +Even these infuse. ' -- But what of Vast in these?,1.0 +Nothing: or we must own the skies forgot.,1.0 +Much less in Art. ' -- Vain Art! thou pigmy power!,0.0 +"How dost thou swell, and strut, with human pride,",0.0 +Thy watery columns squirted to the clouds!,3.0 +Where three days' travel left us much to ride;,1.0 +"Gazing on miracles by mortals wrought,",3.0 +"Arches triumphal, theatres immense,",3.0 +Or temples proud to meet their gods halfway!,1.0 +Yet these affect us in no common kind.,2.0 +What then the force of such superior scenes?,3.0 +"Enter a temple, it will strike an awe:",3.0 +What awe from this the DEITY has built?,2.0 +"A good man seen, though silent, counsel gives:",1.0 +The touched spectator wishes to be wise:,5.0 +"In a bright mirror His own hands have made,",3.0 +Here we see something like the face of GOD.,2.0 +"Seems it not then enough to say, Lorenzo,",0.0 +"To man abandoned, Hast thou seen the skies?",0.0 +"And yet, so thwarted Nature's kind design",0.0 +"By daring man, he makes her sacred awe",0.0 +"That guard from ill his shelter, his temptation",1.0 +Celestial Art's intent. The trembling Stars,0.0 +See Crimes gigantic stalking through the gloom,2.0 +"With front erect, that hide their head by day,",0.0 +And making night still darker by their deeds.,2.0 +"Slumbering in covert till the shades descend,",2.0 +"The miser earth's his treasure; and the thief,",1.0 +Now Plots and foul Conspiracies awake;,2.0 +"And, muffling up their horrors from the moon,",2.0 +"Havoc and devastation they prepare,",3.0 +And kingdoms tottering in the field of blood.,1.0 +What shall I do? suppress it? or proclaim? ' --,1.0 +"Why sleeps the thunder? Now, Lorenzo, now,",0.0 +His best friend's couch the rank adulterer,2.0 +"Ascends secure, and laughs at gods and men.",0.0 +"Preposterous madmen, void of fear or shame,",0.0 +Lay their crimes bare to these chaste eyes of Heaven;,5.0 +Yet shrink and shudder at a mortal's sight.,0.0 +Were moon and stars for villains only made?,0.0 +No; they were made to fashion the Sublime,1.0 +"Of human hearts, and wiser make the wise.",0.0 +"Those ends were answered once, when mortals lived",0.0 +In theory sublime. OH how unlike,3.0 +"Those vermin of the night, ' -- this moment sung,",1.0 +"Who crawl on earth, and on her venom feed! ' --",1.0 +"Those ancient sages, human stars! they met",0.0 +Their brothers of the skies at midnight hour;,2.0 +"Their counsel asked; and, what they asked, obeyed.",0.0 +They took their nightly round through radiant paths,0.0 +To tread in their bright footsteps here below;,3.0 +To walk in worth still brighter than the skies.,2.0 +There they contracted their contempt of Earth;,2.0 +Of hopes eternal kindled there the fire;,1.0 +"There, as in near approach, they glowed, and grew",1.0 +"More worth to men, more joyous to themselves.",1.0 +"The zodiac of their learnt, illustrious lives.",2.0 +"In Christian hearts, OH for a Pagan zeal!",2.0 +How monstrous this in morals! Scarce more strange,1.0 +"Would this phenomenon in Nature strike, ' --",1.0 +"A sun that froze her, or a star that warmed!",1.0 +What taught these heroes of the moral world?,1.0 +"And Pagan tutors are thy taste. ' -- They taught,",1.0 +That narrow views betray to misery:,1.0 +That wise it is to comprehend the whole:,1.0 +"That Virtue rose from Nature, pondered well,",0.0 +The single base of Virtue built to heaven:,0.0 +That GOD and Nature our attention claim:,1.0 +"That Nature is the glass reflecting GOD,",1.0 +"As by the sea reflected is the Sun,",2.0 +Too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere:,2.0 +That Mind immortal loves immortal aims:,0.0 +That boundless Mind affects a boundless space:,0.0 +"That vast surveys, and the Sublime of things,",1.0 +"The soul assimilate, and make her great:",0.0 +"That, therefore, Heaven her glories, as a fund",2.0 +"Of inspiration, thus spreads out to man.",2.0 +Such are their doctrines; such the Night inspired.,2.0 +And what more true? What truth of greater weight?,0.0 +The Soul of man was made to walk the skies;,0.0 +Delightful outlet of her prison here!,2.0 +"Of toys terrestrial, she can rove at large;",1.0 +"In full proportion let loose all her powers,",1.0 +Nor as a stranger does she wander there;,2.0 +"But, wonderful herself, through wonder strays;",1.0 +"Contemplating their grandeur, finds her own;",3.0 +"Dives deep in their economy Divine,",4.0 +"Sits high in judgement on their various laws,",4.0 +"And, like a master, judges not amiss.",0.0 +"Hence greatly pleased, and justly proud, the Soul",1.0 +Grows conscious of her birth celestial; breathes,2.0 +And feels herself at home among the stars;,0.0 +"As Earth the body, since the Skies sustain",0.0 +"The soul with food, that gives immortal life,",0.0 +"Call it the noble pasture of the Mind,",1.0 +And riots through the luxuries of thought.,2.0 +"Call it the garden of the DEITY,",2.0 +"Blossomed with stars, redundant in the growth",2.0 +"Of fruit ambrosial, moral fruit to man.",0.0 +"Call it the breastplate of the true High Priest,",3.0 +"In points of highest moment, right response;",0.0 +Thus have we found a true astrology:,1.0 +Thus have we found a new and noble sense,0.0 +In which alone stars govern human fates.,1.0 +OH that the stars as some have feigned let fall,1.0 +"Bloodshed and havoc on embattled realms,",2.0 +And rescued monarchs from so black a guilt!,2.0 +Bourbon! this wish how generous in a foe!,3.0 +For mighty conquests on a needle's point?,2.0 +"Instead of forging chains for foreigners,",0.0 +"How glorious then appears the mind of man,",2.0 +When in it all the stars and planets roll!,0.0 +And what it seems it is; great objects make,1.0 +"Great minds, enlarging as their views enlarge;",2.0 +"Dazzled, overpowered, with the delicious draught",3.0 +"From thought to thought, inebriate, without end!",1.0 +"I meet the DEITY in every view,",1.0 +OH that I could but reach the tree of life!,0.0 +"For here it grows, unguarded from our taste;",1.0 +No flaming sword denies our entrance here;,1.0 +"Would man but gather, he might live for ever.",1.0 +"Lorenzo, much of moral hast thou seen.",0.0 +Of curious arts art thou more fond? Then mark,2.0 +"The mathematic glories of the skies,",1.0 +"In number, weight, and measure, all ordained.",0.0 +Are left to finish his aerial towers:,4.0 +Here deep impress; and claim it for their own.,1.0 +Use rivals Beauty; Art contends with Power;,1.0 +The great Economist adjusting all,1.0 +"To prudent pomp, magnificently wise.",1.0 +"How rich the prospect, and for ever new!",1.0 +And newest to the man that views it most;,1.0 +For newer still in infinite succeeds.,1.0 +"Then, these aerial racers, OH how swift!",2.0 +Spirit alone can distance the career.,3.0 +Orb above orb ascending without end!,6.0 +"Circle in circle, without end, enclosed!",7.0 +Wheel within wheel; Ezekiel! like to thine!,2.0 +"Like thine, it seems a vision or a dream;",1.0 +"Though seen, we labour to believe it true!",1.0 +"Of worlds, that laugh at Earth! immensely great!",0.0 +Immensely distant from each other's spheres!,1.0 +What then the wondrous space through which they roll?,0.0 +"Through this illustrious chaos to the sight,",4.0 +"Worlds, ever thwarting, never interfere.",1.0 +"What knots are tied! How soon are they dissolved,",1.0 +And set the seeming married planets free!,0.0 +"They rove for ever, without error rove;",5.0 +In motion all! yet what profound repose!,0.0 +"What fervid action, yet no noise! as awed",1.0 +To silence by the presence of their LORD:,2.0 +"Or hushed, by His command, in love to man,",1.0 +"And bid let fall soft beams on human rest,",2.0 +"They dance, they sing eternal jubilee,",0.0 +Eternal celebration of His praise.,1.0 +"But, since their song arrives not at our ear,",0.0 +Their dance perplexed exhibits to the sight,1.0 +Fair hieroglyphic of His peerless power.,2.0 +"The circles intricate, and mystic maze,",1.0 +Weave the grand cipher of Omnipotence;,5.0 +"To gods, how great! how legible to man!",1.0 +Leaves so much wonder greater wonder still?,0.0 +Where are the pillars that support the skies?,0.0 +"The incumbent load? What magic, what strange art,",2.0 +Who would not think them hung in golden chains?,0.0 +"And so they are, ' -- in the high will of Heaven,",1.0 +"Which fixes all; makes adamant of air,",2.0 +Imagine from their deep foundations torn,1.0 +"The most gigantic sons of Earth, the broad",0.0 +"And, light as down, or volatile as air,",2.0 +In time and measure exquisite; while all,1.0 +"The winds, in emulation of the spheres,",1.0 +"Tune their sonorous instruments aloft,",3.0 +"The concert swell, and animate the ball:",0.0 +"Would this appear amazing? What then worlds,",1.0 +"In a far thinner element sustained,",3.0 +"And acting the same part, with greater skill,",2.0 +"More rapid movement, and for noblest ends?",1.0 +"More obvious ends to pass, are not these stars",2.0 +"On which angelic delegates of Heaven,",1.0 +"At certain periods, as the Sovereign nods,",1.0 +Discharge high trusts of vengeance or of love;,2.0 +"To cloth, in outward grandeur, grand design,",5.0 +"You Citizens of air! what ardent thanks,",1.0 +Is due from man indulged in such a sight!,1.0 +"A sight so noble, and a sight so kind!",1.0 +It drops new truths at every new survey!,1.0 +"Feels not Lorenzo something stir within,",1.0 +That sweeps away all period? As these spheres,1.0 +"Measure duration, they no less inspire",5.0 +"The boundless space, through which these rovers take",0.0 +"Of boundless time. Thus by kind Nature's skill,",3.0 +"Eternity, finds entrance at the sight:",2.0 +"And an eternity for man ordained,",2.0 +"Or these his destined midnight counsellors,",2.0 +"The stars, had never whispered it to man.",1.0 +"Nature informs, but never insults, her sons.",4.0 +Could she then kindle the most ardent wish,1.0 +To disappoint it? ' -- That is blasphemy.,1.0 +"Thus of thy Creed a second article,",1.0 +"Momentous as the existence of a GOD,",4.0 +Is found as I conceive where rarely sought:,1.0 +"Here, then, Lorenzo! on these glories dwell;",1.0 +"Nor want the gilded, illuminated roof,",2.0 +That calls the wretched gay to dark delights.,0.0 +Assemblies? ' -- This is one divinely bright;,2.0 +"Range through the fairest, and the Sultan scorn.",1.0 +"He, wise as thou, no crescent holds so fair",2.0 +And thinks the Moon is proud to copy him.,1.0 +"Look on her, and gain more than worlds can give, ' --",1.0 +A mind superior to the charms of power.,1.0 +Thou muffled in delusions of this life!,1.0 +"Can yonder Moon turn Ocean in his bed,",1.0 +"From side to side, in constant ebb and flow,",0.0 +And purify from stench his watery realms?,2.0 +And fails her moral influence? Wants she power,2.0 +"From stagnating on earth's infected shore,",4.0 +And purge from nuisance his corrupted heart?,1.0 +Fails her attraction when it draws to heaven?,2.0 +"Minds elevate, and panting for Unseen,",2.0 +"The life of life, the zest of worldly bliss.",0.0 +All else on earth amounts ' -- to what? To this:,0.0 +Bad to be suffered; blessings to be left:,1.0 +Earth's richest inventory boasts no more.,2.0 +Of higher scenes be then the call obeyed.,0.0 +In midway flight Imagination tyres;,1.0 +"So great the pleasure, so profound the plan!",1.0 +"A banquet this, where men and angels meet,",1.0 +"Eat the same manna, mingle earth and heaven.",3.0 +How distant some of these nocturnal suns!,1.0 +"To doubt, if beams, set out at Nature's birth,",2.0 +Are yet arrived at this so foreign world;,1.0 +Though nothing half so rapid as their flight.,1.0 +"An eye of awe and wonder let me roll,",0.0 +In such a scene? in such an ocean wide,1.0 +"Of deep astonishment? where depth, height, breadth,",2.0 +Are lost in their extremes; and where to count,1.0 +"Now go, Ambition! boast thy boundless might",1.0 +In conquest over the tenth part of a grain.,2.0 +"And yet Lorenzo calls for miracles,",1.0 +To give his tottering faith a solid base.,2.0 +Why call for less than is already thine?,2.0 +Thou art no novice in theology:,2.0 +"What is a miracle? ' -- IT is a reproach,",2.0 +"IT is an implicit satire, on mankind;",4.0 +"To common sense, great Nature's course proclaims",1.0 +"A DEITY: when mankind falls asleep,",2.0 +"A miracle is sent, as an alarm,",2.0 +"To wake the world, and prove Him over again,",2.0 +"By recent argument, but not more strong.",1.0 +"Or Nature's laws to fix, or to repeal?",1.0 +"To make a Sun, or stop his mid career?",0.0 +"Warmed, and astonished, at his evening ray?",2.0 +"Great things are these; still greater, to create.",8.0 +From Adam's bower look down through the whole train,2.0 +"They do not, cannot, more amaze the mind",0.0 +"If duly weighed, if rationally seen,",1.0 +"If seen with human eyes. The brute, indeed,",0.0 +The course of Nature is the art of GOD.,1.0 +"For say, could Nature Nature's course control?",0.0 +"But, miracles apart, who sees HIM not,",1.0 +"Nature's Controller, Author, Guide, and End?",2.0 +Who turns his eye on Nature's midnight face,1.0 +"But must enquire ' -- What hand behind the scene,",2.0 +"What arm almighty, put these wheeling globes",0.0 +"Who bowled them flaming through the dark profound,",1.0 +"Numerous as glittering gems of morning dew,",3.0 +"Or sparks from populous cities in a blaze,",2.0 +"And set the bosom of old Night on fire,",2.0 +"Peopled her desert, and made Horror smile?",4.0 +"Or, if the military style delights thee,",1.0 +"Appoints their posts, their marches, and returns,",1.0 +"These veteran troops, their final duty done,",0.0 +"If ever disbanded? HE, whose potent word,",3.0 +"Like the loud trumpet, levied first their powers",2.0 +"In Night's inglorious empire, where they slept",2.0 +"In beds of darkness, armed them with fierce flames,",1.0 +"Arranged and disciplined, and clothed in gold;",1.0 +"And called them out of Chaos to the field,",2.0 +OH let us join this army! Joining these,2.0 +Will give us hearts intrepid at that hour,0.0 +When brighter flames shall cut a darker night;,0.0 +When these strong demonstrations of a GOD,3.0 +"Shall hide their heads, or tumble from their spheres,",1.0 +And one eternal curtain cover all!,1.0 +"A more enlightened eye, and read the stars,",0.0 +To man still more propitious; and their aid,2.0 +Though guiltless of idolatry implore;,2.0 +Nor longer rob them of their noblest name.,1.0 +In your fair calendar distinctly marked!,3.0 +"Since that authentic, radiant register,",1.0 +"Though man inspects it not, stands good against him;",1.0 +"Since you, and years, roll on, though man stands still;",2.0 +"Teach me my days to number, and apply",1.0 +My trembling heart to wisdom; now beyond,0.0 +All shadow of excuse for fooling on.,2.0 +Age smooths our path to Prudence; sweeps aside,1.0 +The snares keen Appetite and Passion spread,1.0 +To catch stray souls; and woe to that grey head,2.0 +Whose folly would undo what Age has done!,0.0 +"Aid, then, aid, all you stars! ' -- Much rather, THOU,",1.0 +"This exquisite machine, with all its wheels,",1.0 +"Life's rapid and irrevocable flight,",3.0 +With such an index fair as none can miss,1.0 +"Who lifts an eye, nor sleeps till it is closed.",1.0 +"Open mine eye, dread DEITY! to read",4.0 +The tacit doctrine of Thy works; to see,1.0 +"Things as they are, unaltered through the glass",2.0 +"Of worldly wishes. Time, Eternity!",1.0 +Set them before me; let me lay them both,2.0 +"In equal scale, and learn their various weight.",2.0 +Let Time appear a moment as it is:,2.0 +"Turn on my soul, and strike it into heaven.",0.0 +When shall I see far more than charms me now?,1.0 +Gaze on creation's model in Thy breast,2.0 +"Unveiled, nor wonder at the transcript more?",1.0 +"When this vile foreign dust, which smothers all",2.0 +"That travel Earth's deep vale, shall I shake off?",1.0 +"When shall my Soul her incarnation quit,",5.0 +Obtain her apotheosis in THEE?,2.0 +"Dost think, Lorenzo, this is wandering wide?",3.0 +No: iT is directly striking at the mark:,1.0 +To wake thy dead devotion was my point;,1.0 +"Which to a temple turn an universe,",0.0 +"Fill us with great ideas full of heaven,",0.0 +"In every storm that either frowns or falls,",0.0 +What an asylum has the soul in prayer!,1.0 +"And what a fane is this, in which to pray!",0.0 +And what a GOD must dwell in such a fane!,1.0 +OH what a Genius must inform the skies!,0.0 +Cold and untouched amid these sacred fires?,2.0 +"OH you nocturnal sparks, you glowing embers,",2.0 +"On heaven's broad hearth! who burn, or burn no more,",4.0 +So long possessed; and bring him back to man.,0.0 +Pride in thy parts provokes thee to contest,0.0 +"Truths which, contested, put thy parts to shame.",1.0 +Too strait aught great or generous to receive!,5.0 +Filled with an atom! filled and fouled with self!,0.0 +"Lie suffocated there! or they alone,",3.0 +"Reason apart, would wake high hope; and open,",3.0 +"Where Order, Wisdom, Goodness, Providence,",1.0 +"Their endless miracles of love display,",1.0 +And promise all the truly great desire.,0.0 +"The mind that would be happy, must be great;",0.0 +Great in its wishes; great in its surveys.,1.0 +Extended views a narrow mind extend;,0.0 +"Push out its corrugate, expansive make,",0.0 +"Which, ere long, more than planets shall embrace.",1.0 +A man of compass makes a man of worth:,0.0 +"Divine contemplate, and become Divine.",7.0 +"As man was made for glory and for bliss,",1.0 +"Open thy bosom, set thy wishes wide,",2.0 +Admit the boundless theatre of thought,1.0 +From nothing up to GOD; which makes a man.,1.0 +"Take GOD from Nature, nothing great is left;",1.0 +"Man's mind is in a pit, and nothing sees;",1.0 +"Man's heart is in a jakes, and loves the mire.",1.0 +Emerge from thy profound; erect thine eye;,1.0 +See thy distress; how close art thou besieged!,3.0 +"Besieged by Nature, the proud sceptic's foe!",2.0 +"Enclosed by these innumerable worlds,",2.0 +"Sparkling conviction on the darkest mind,",2.0 +As in a golden net of Providence,1.0 +"How art thou caught, sure captive of Belief!",2.0 +"From this thy blessed captivity what art,",2.0 +"What blasphemy to reason, sets thee free?",1.0 +This scene is Heaven's indulgent violence:,3.0 +But faith in GOD imposed and pressed on man?,0.0 +"Spite of these numerous awful witnesses,",3.0 +And doubt the deposition of the Skies?,1.0 +OH how laborious is thy way to ruin!,3.0 +Laborious? IT is impracticable quite;,3.0 +"To sink beyond a doubt, in this debate,",1.0 +"With all his weight of wisdom, and of will,",1.0 +GOD is a Spirit; spirit cannot strike,0.0 +These gross material organs; GOD by man,2.0 +"As much is seen as man a GOD can see,",0.0 +In these astonishing exploits of power.,3.0 +"What order, beauty, motion, distance, size!",0.0 +How complicate in their Divine police!,1.0 +"Apt means, great ends, consent to general good! ' --",2.0 +"Each attribute of these material gods,",3.0 +"So long and that with specious please adored,",0.0 +And leads in triumph the whole mind of man.,2.0 +"Lorenzo, this may seem harangue to thee;",1.0 +Such all is apt to seem that thwarts our will.,0.0 +And dost thou then demand a simple proof,0.0 +"Unskilled, or disinclined, to read it there?",0.0 +"Since iT is the basis, and all drops without it,",2.0 +"Take it, in one compact, unbroken chain.",1.0 +Such proof insists on an attentive ear;,1.0 +"IT will not make one amid a mob of thoughts,",3.0 +"And, for thy notice, struggle with the world.",2.0 +Retire; the world shut out; thy thoughts call home;,3.0 +Lock up thy senses; let no passion stir;,1.0 +Wake all to Reason; let her reign alone:,0.0 +"Then, in thy soul's deep silence, and the depth",2.0 +"Of Nature's silence, midnight, thus enquire,",1.0 +"As I have done, ' -- and shall enquire no more.",0.0 +In Nature's channel thus the questions run: ' --,0.0 +What am I? and from whence? ' -- I nothing know,1.0 +"But that I am; and, since I am, conclude",2.0 +But what eternal? ' -- Why not human race?,0.0 +And Adam's ancestors without an end? ' --,5.0 +"Can every part depend, and not the whole?",0.0 +Yet grant it true: new difficulties rise:,1.0 +I'm still quite out at sea; nor see the shore.,2.0 +Would want some other father; ' -- much design,0.0 +"Is seen in all their motions, all their makes;",0.0 +Design implies intelligence and art:,1.0 +That can't be from themselves ' -- or man; that art,1.0 +"Man scarce can comprehend, could man bestow?",1.0 +"And nothing greater, yet allowed, than man. ' --",0.0 +"Who motion, foreign to the smallest grain,",1.0 +Shot through vast masses of enormous weight?,4.0 +Who bid brute matter's restive lump assume,1.0 +"Such various forms, and gave it wings to fly?",2.0 +"Has matter innate motion? Then each atom,",5.0 +Asserting its indisputable right,4.0 +"To dance, would form a universe of dust.",0.0 +Has matter none? Then whence these glorious forms,2.0 +"Has matter more than motion? Has it thought,",0.0 +"Judgement, and genius? Is it deeply learnt",3.0 +"In mathematics? Has it framed such laws,",0.0 +"Which but to guess, a Newton made immortal? ' --",0.0 +"If so, how each sage atom laughs at me,",2.0 +"If art to form, and counsel to conduct,",1.0 +"And that with greater far than human skill,",0.0 +Resides not in each block ' -- a GODHEAD reigns!,1.0 +"Grant, then, invisible, eternal MIND;",2.0 +"That granted, all is solved. But, granting that,",0.0 +Draw I not over me a still darker cloud?,4.0 +Grant I not that which I can never conceive?,2.0 +A Being without origin or end! ' --,6.0 +"Hail, human liberty! There is no GOD. ' --",3.0 +"Subsist it must, in GOD, or human race:",0.0 +"If in the last, how many knots beside,",0.0 +"Where, chosen, still subsist ten thousand more?",1.0 +"Reject it where, that chosen, all the rest,",0.0 +"Dispersed, leave Reason's whole horizon clear?",1.0 +"This is not Reason's dictate; Reason says,",2.0 +Close with the side where one grain turns the scale.,2.0 +What vast preponderance is here! Can Reason,1.0 +With louder voice exclaim ' -- Believe a GOD?,0.0 +And Reason heard is the sole mark of man.,2.0 +What things impossible must man think true,2.0 +On any other system! And how strange,1.0 +To disbelieve through mere credulity!,2.0 +"If in this chain Lorenzo finds no flaw,",1.0 +Let it for ever bind him to belief.,1.0 +And where the link in which a flaw he finds?,0.0 +"And if a GOD there is, that GOD how great!",2.0 +"How great that Power, whose providential care",2.0 +"Of Nature universal threads the whole,",0.0 +"And hangs Creation, like a precious gem,",0.0 +"That little gem, how large! A weight let fall",1.0 +"From a fixed star, in ages can it reach",3.0 +"This distant earth? Say, then, Lorenzo, where,",1.0 +Where ends this mighty building? Where begin,0.0 +The suburbs of creation? Where the wall,1.0 +Whose battlements look over into the vale,4.0 +"Say, at what point of space JEHOVAH dropped",0.0 +"His slackened line, and laid His balance by;",1.0 +"Weighed worlds, and measured Infinite, no more?",3.0 +Where rears His terminating pillar high,0.0 +In characters illustrious as the sun? ' --,2.0 +"I stand, the plan's proud period; I pronounce",4.0 +The work accomplished; the Creation closed:,1.0 +"Shout, all you gods! nor shout, you gods, alone;",0.0 +"Of all that lives, or, if devoid of life,",1.0 +"That rests, or rolls, you heights and depths, resound!",1.0 +"Resound! resound! you depths and heights, resound!",3.0 +Hard are those questions? ' -- Answer harder still.,0.0 +"Is this the sole exploit, the single birth,",2.0 +"The solitary son, of Power Divine?",2.0 +"Or has the Almighty FATHER, with a breath,",2.0 +Impregnated the womb of distant space?,5.0 +"Has He not bid, in various provinces,",3.0 +Of Night primeval; barren now no more?,1.0 +"And dance, as motes, in His meridian ray;",3.0 +"That ray withdrawn, benighted, or absorbed",1.0 +In that abyss of horror whence they sprung;,0.0 +"While Chaos triumphs, repossessed of all",0.0 +Chaos! of Nature both the womb and grave!,2.0 +Is this extravagant? ' -- No; this is just;,3.0 +"If iT is an error, iT is an error sprung",2.0 +"From noble root, high thought of the MOST HIGH.",2.0 +But wherefore error? Who can prove it such? ' --,0.0 +He that can set Omnipotence a bound.,1.0 +Can man conceive beyond what God can do?,0.0 +Nothing but quite impossible is hard.,3.0 +"He summons into being, with like ease,",1.0 +"A whole creation, and a single grain.",1.0 +Speaks He the word? a thousand worlds are born!,0.0 +And in what space can His great fiat fail?,2.0 +"Condemn me not, cold critic! but indulge",2.0 +The warm imagination. Why condemn?,0.0 +Why not indulge such thoughts as swell our hearts,0.0 +With fuller admiration of that Power,1.0 +Who gives our hearts with such high thoughts to swell?,2.0 +Why not indulge in His augmented praise?,1.0 +"Darts not His glory a still brighter ray,",2.0 +"The less is left to Chaos, and the realms",1.0 +"Of hideous Night, where Fancy strays aghast,",2.0 +"And, though most talkative, makes no report?",3.0 +Still seems my thought enormous? Think again: ' --,1.0 +Experience self shall aid thy lame belief.,2.0 +Glasses ' -- that revelation to the sight! ' --,3.0 +Have they not led us deep in the disclose,1.0 +"If then, on the reverse, the mind would mount",1.0 +"In magnitude, what mind can mount too far,",1.0 +"To keep the balance, and Creation poise?",1.0 +Defect alone can err on such a theme.,1.0 +"What is too great, if we the Cause survey?",2.0 +"Stupendous ARCHITECT! Thou, Thou art all!",0.0 +"My soul flies up and down in thoughts of Thee,",3.0 +And finds herself but at the centre still!,0.0 +"I AM, Thy name! existence, all Thine own!",1.0 +"Creation's nothing; flattered much, if styled",0.0 +"The thin, the fleeting atmosphere of GOD.",0.0 +OH for the voice ' -- of what? of whom? What voice,0.0 +"Can answer to my wants, in such ascent",2.0 +As dares to deem one universe too small?,1.0 +"Tell me, Lorenzo! for now Fancy glows,",4.0 +"Fired in the vortex of Almighty power,",1.0 +"Of universal Nature, as a speck,",1.0 +Like fair Britannia in our little ball;,1.0 +"Exceeding fair, and glorious, for its size,",1.0 +In Fancy for the fact beyond us lies,1.0 +"Too small for notice, in the vast of being;",1.0 +Severed by mighty seas of unbuilt space,3.0 +From other realms; from ample continents,1.0 +"Of higher life, where nobler natives dwell;",3.0 +"Less northern, less remote from DEITY,",2.0 +Glowing beneath the line of the Supreme;,3.0 +"Where souls in excellence make haste, put forth",3.0 +Luxuriant growths; nor the late autumn wait,4.0 +"Of human worth, but ripen soon to gods?",0.0 +Yet why drown Fancy in such depths as these?,1.0 +"Return, presumptuous rover, and confess",3.0 +"The bounds of man, nor blame them as too small.",1.0 +Enjoy we not full scope in what is seen?,1.0 +Full ample the dominions of the Sun!,3.0 +"Full glorious to behold! How far, how wide,",4.0 +"Lavish of lustre, throws his beams about him,",2.0 +"Farther and faster than a thought can fly,",3.0 +And feeds his planets with eternal fires!,1.0 +"This Heliopolis, by Greater far",1.0 +"Than the proud tyrant of the Nile, was built;",3.0 +"And He alone, who built it, can destroy.",2.0 +"Beyond this city, why strays human thought?",1.0 +"One Wonderful, enough for man to know!",1.0 +"One Infinite, enough for man to range!",1.0 +OH what voluminous instruction here!,2.0 +What page of wisdom is denied him? None;,1.0 +If learning his chief lesson makes him wise.,2.0 +Nor is instruction here our only gain:,1.0 +"There dwells a noble pathos in the skies,",0.0 +How eloquently shines the glowing pole!,1.0 +"With what authority it gives its charge,",1.0 +"Though silent, loud! heard earth around; above",1.0 +The planets heard; and not unheard in hell:,0.0 +"Hell has her wonder, though too proud to praise.",2.0 +"Is Earth, then, more infernal? Has she those",0.0 +"Who neither praise, Lorenzo, nor admire?",1.0 +Never asked the moon one question; never held,0.0 +Least correspondence with a single star;,2.0 +Never reared an altar to the queen of heaven,1.0 +Walking in brightness; or her train adored.,3.0 +"Engrossed his whole devotion; stars malign,",0.0 +"Which make their fond astronomer run mad,",2.0 +"Darken his intellect, corrupt his heart;",2.0 +Cause him to sacrifice his fame and peace,0.0 +"To momentary madness, called delight.",0.0 +"The lifted hand to Luna, or poured out",2.0 +Divine Instructor! Thy first volume this,3.0 +For man's perusal! all in CAPITALS!,1.0 +In moon and stars Heaven's golden alphabet!,3.0 +Who reads can understand. IT is unconfined,0.0 +To Christian land or Jewry; fairly writ,0.0 +In language universal to MANKIND:,2.0 +"A language lofty to the learnt, yet plain",1.0 +"To those that feed the flock, or guide the plough,",1.0 +Or from its husk strike out the bounding grain:,3.0 +A language worthy the Great MIND that speaks!,2.0 +Preface and comment to the sacred page!,3.0 +"Which oft refers its reader to the skies,",1.0 +"And Scripture's self a fragment, that unread.",2.0 +Stupendous book of wisdom to the wise!,1.0 +"Stupendous book! and opened, Night, by thee.",0.0 +"By thee much opened, I confess, OH Night!",3.0 +Yet more I wish; but how shall I prevail?,2.0 +"Say, gentle Night, whose modest, maiden beams",1.0 +"Give us a new creation, and present",1.0 +The world's great picture softened to the sight;,2.0 +"Nay, kinder far, far more indulgent still,",2.0 +"Say, thou, whose mild dominion's silver key",0.0 +"Worlds beyond number, worlds concealed by day",2.0 +Behind the proud and envious star of noon!,2.0 +"The mighty Potentate, to whom belong",0.0 +I gaze around; I search on every side: ' --,0.0 +OH for a glimpse of HIM my soul adores!,1.0 +"As the chased heart, amid the desert waste,",2.0 +Pants for the living stream; for HIM who made her,1.0 +"So pants the thirsty soul, amid the blank",0.0 +Where blazes His bright court? Where burns His throne?,2.0 +"His grand pavilion, sacred Fame reports",0.0 +"The sable curtains drawn. If not, can none",0.0 +"Who travel far, discover where He dwells?",0.0 +A star His dwelling pointed out below.,1.0 +"And thou, Orion, of still keener eye!",3.0 +And bring them out of tempest into port!,1.0 +On which hand must I bend my course to find Him?,0.0 +These courtiers keep the secret of their KING;,3.0 +"I wake whole nights, in vain, to steal it from them.",2.0 +"I wake; and, waking, climb Night's radiant scale,",1.0 +From sphere to sphere; the steps by Nature set,0.0 +"For man's ascent, at once to tempt and aid;",0.0 +"To tempt his eye, and aid his towering thought,",0.0 +Till it arrives at the Great Goal of all.,3.0 +"From earth, as from my barrier, I set out.",2.0 +How swift I mount! Diminished earth recedes;,0.0 +I pass the moon; and from her further side,1.0 +Pierce heaven's blue curtain; strike into Remote;,4.0 +"Where, with his lifted tube, the subtle sage",0.0 +"His artificial airy journey takes,",0.0 +And to celestial lengthens human sight.,1.0 +"I pause at every planet on my road,",1.0 +"Their foreheads fair to shine. From Saturn's ring,",1.0 +"In which of earth's an army might be lost,",0.0 +With the bold comet take my bolder flight,2.0 +"Amid those sovereign glories of the skies,",1.0 +"Of independent, native lustre proud!",0.0 +"The souls of systems, and the lords of life,",1.0 +Through their wide empires! ' -- What behold I now?,2.0 +"A wilderness of wonders burning round,",1.0 +Where larger suns inhabit higher spheres?,0.0 +"Nor halt I here; my toil is but begun,",0.0 +"Tis but the threshold of the DEITY,",3.0 +Nor is it strange; I built on a mistake:,2.0 +"The grandeur of His works, whence Folly sought",1.0 +"For aid, to Reason sets His glory higher;",0.0 +"Who built thus high for worms, mere worms to Him,",2.0 +"OH where, Lorenzo, must the Builder dwell?",1.0 +If human thought can keep its station here.,0.0 +"Where am I? Where is Earth? Nay, where art thou,",1.0 +OH Sun? ' -- Is the Sun turned recluse? ' -- And are,4.0 +His boasted expeditions short to mine?,0.0 +"To mine, how short! On Nature's Alps I stand,",1.0 +"A thousand systems, as a thousand grains!",1.0 +"So much a stranger, and so late arrived,",1.0 +"How can man's curious spirit not enquire,",4.0 +"What are the natives of this world sublime,",1.0 +"OH you, as distant from my little home",1.0 +"Far from my native element I roam,",1.0 +In quest of New and Wonderful to man.,1.0 +"What province this of His immense domain,",2.0 +"Whom all obeys? Or mortals here, or gods?",0.0 +"A colony from heaven? or only raised,",1.0 +"By frequent visit from heaven's neighbouring realms,",4.0 +"To secondary gods, and half Divine?",0.0 +"Whatever your nature, this is past dispute, ' --",4.0 +"Far other life you live, far other tongue",2.0 +"You talk, far other thought, perhaps, you think,",1.0 +Than man. How various are the works of God!,1.0 +And absolute? or Sense in arms against her?,0.0 +Have you two lights? or need you no revealed?,2.0 +Enjoy your happy realms their golden age?,0.0 +Our Eve's fair daughters prove their pedigree.,2.0 +"And ask their Adams, Who would not be wise?",0.0 +"Or, if your mother fell, are you redeemed?",2.0 +"Is this your final residence? If not,",2.0 +"Change you your scene, translated? or by death?",1.0 +"And if by death, what death? ' -- Know you disease?",3.0 +"Or horrid war? ' -- With war, this fatal hour,",0.0 +"Europa groans so call we a small field,",1.0 +"And, hanging up the quiver Nature gave him,",1.0 +"As slow of execution, for dispatch",1.0 +Sends forth imperial butchers; bids them slay,3.0 +"Their sheep, the silly sheep they fleeced before,",0.0 +And toss him twice ten thousand at a meal.,1.0 +"With you, can rage for plunder make a GOD,",1.0 +And bloodshed wash out every other stain? ' --,1.0 +"But you, perhaps, can't bleed: from matter gross",2.0 +Your spirits clean are delicately clad,1.0 +"Unloaded, uninfected: how unlike",1.0 +The lot of man! How few of human race,0.0 +Of hardy conflict over? or are you still,1.0 +Raw candidates at school? And have you those,2.0 +"But what are we? You never heard of man,",1.0 +Or earth; the Bedlam of the universe!,1.0 +"Of holiness, where Reason is pronounced",2.0 +"Infallible; and thunders, like a god;",1.0 +"Even there, by saints the demons are outdone:",3.0 +"What these think wrong, our saints refine to right;",3.0 +And kindly teach dull Hell her own black arts:,2.0 +"Satan, instructed, over their morals smiles. ' --",4.0 +"But this how strange to you, who know not man!",2.0 +Has the least rumour of our race arrived?,3.0 +"Called here Elijah, in his flaming car?",1.0 +"Passed by you the good Enoch, on his road",2.0 +"To those fair fields, whence Lucifer was hurled;",3.0 +"Who brushed, perhaps, your sphere, in his descent,",1.0 +"Stained your pure crystal either, or let fall",5.0 +A short eclipse from his portentous shade?,1.0 +OH that the fiend had lodged on some broad orb,1.0 +"Athwart his way, nor reached his present home!",0.0 +"Then blackened earth with footsteps fouled in hell,",1.0 +"Nor washed in ocean, as from Rome he passed",1.0 +"To Britain's isle; too, too conspicuous there!",2.0 +But this is all digression. Where is He,1.0 +That over heaven's battlements the felon hurled,1.0 +"To groans, and chains, and darkness? Where is He",0.0 +Who sees Creation's summit in a vale?,0.0 +"He whom, while man is MAN, he can't but seek;",0.0 +"And, if he finds, commences more than man?",1.0 +OH for a telescope His throne to reach!,0.0 +"Tell me, you learnt on earth, or blessed above!",0.0 +"You searching, you Newtonian angels! tell,",3.0 +"Where your great Master's orb? His planets, where?",2.0 +"Those conscious satellites, those morning stars,",0.0 +"Firstborn of DEITY! from Central Love,",2.0 +"By veneration most profound, thrown off;",2.0 +By sweet attraction no less strongly drawn;,1.0 +"Past thought illustrious, but with borrowed beams;",3.0 +"In still approaching circles, still remote,",0.0 +Revolving round the sun's eternal Sire?,0.0 +"Or sent, in lines direct, on embassies",1.0 +To nations ' -- in what latitude? ' -- Beyond,0.0 +Terrestrial thought's horizon. ' -- And on what,3.0 +High errands sent? ' -- Here human effort ends;,1.0 +And leaves me still a stranger to His throne.,1.0 +Full well it might! I quite mistook my road;,1.0 +Born in an age more curious than devout;,3.0 +"More fond to fix the place of heaven or hell,",0.0 +"Than studious this to shun, or that secure.",1.0 +"IT is not the curious, but the pious, path",1.0 +"That leads me to my point: Lorenzo, know,",1.0 +"Without or star or angel for their guide,",1.0 +"Who worship GOD shall find Him. Humble Love,",0.0 +"And not proud Reason, keeps the door of heaven;",1.0 +"Love finds admission, where proud Science fails.",2.0 +Man's science is the culture of his heart;,3.0 +And not to lose his plummet in the depths,0.0 +"Of Nature, or the more profound of GOD:",1.0 +"Either to know, is an attempt that sets",3.0 +The wisest on a level with the fool.,2.0 +"Past doubt, is deep philosophy above:",2.0 +"Higher degrees in bliss archangels take,",3.0 +"As deeper learnt; the deepest, learning still.",0.0 +"For, what a thunder of Omnipotence",2.0 +So might I dare to speak is seen in all!,0.0 +"In man, in earth, in more amazing skies!",0.0 +"Teaching this lesson, Pride is loath to learn: ' --",2.0 +"Not deeply to discern, not much to know,",1.0 +Mankind was born to wonder and adore.,2.0 +And is there cause for higher wonder still,1.0 +Than that which struck us from our past surveys?,1.0 +Yes; and for deeper adoration too.,0.0 +"From my late airy travel unconfined,",2.0 +"Have I learnt nothing? ' -- Yes, Lorenzo, this: ' --",3.0 +Each of these stars is a religious house;,1.0 +"I saw their altars smoke, their incense rise,",1.0 +A seminary fraught with future gods.,0.0 +"Nature all over is consecrated ground,",4.0 +Teeming with growths immortal and Divine.,3.0 +Leaves nothing waste; but sows these fiery fields,3.0 +"With seeds of Reason, which to Virtues rise",0.0 +"Beneath His genial ray; and, if escaped",1.0 +"When grown mature, are gathered for the skies.",1.0 +"And is devotion thought too much on earth,",2.0 +"When beings, so superior, homage boast,",3.0 +"But wherefore more of planets, or of stars?",1.0 +"Ethereal journeys, and, discovered there,",4.0 +"Ten thousand worlds, ten thousand ways devout,",2.0 +"All Nature sending incense to The Throne,",2.0 +"Opening the solemn sources of my soul,",2.0 +"My flowing numbers over the flaming skies,",2.0 +"Nor see, of fancy or of fact what more",1.0 +"Invites the Muse, ' -- here turn we, and review",1.0 +"Our past nocturnal landscape wide: ' -- then say,",1.0 +"Say then, Lorenzo! with what burst of heart,",2.0 +"The whole, at once, revolving in his thought,",0.0 +"Must man exclaim, adoring, and aghast! ' --",1.0 +OH what a Root! OH what a branch is here!,1.0 +OH what a Father! what a family!,0.0 +"Worlds, systems, and creations! ' -- and creations,",3.0 +"The filial cluster, infinitely spread",3.0 +"In glowing globes, with various being fraught;",2.0 +"Or, shall I say? for who can say enough?",0.0 +"A constellation of ten thousand gems,",2.0 +"And OH! of what dimensions, of what weight!",1.0 +"Set in one signet, flames on the right hand",1.0 +Of Majesty Divine! The blazing seal,1.0 +"Indelible, His sovereign attributes,",1.0 +"Omnipotence and Love! that passing bound,",1.0 +And this surpassing that. Nor stop we here,1.0 +"For want of power in GOD, but thought in Man.",2.0 +"Even this, acknowledged, leaves us still in debt:",1.0 +"If greater aught, that greater all is Thine,",0.0 +Dread SIRE! ' -- Accept this miniature of Thee;,3.0 +"And pardon an attempt from mortal thought,",1.0 +"Ideas not absurd, distend the thought",0.0 +Of feeble mortals! nor of them alone!,2.0 +The fullness of the DEITY breaks forth,3.0 +"Think, then, OH think, nor ever drop the thought,",3.0 +"How low must man descend, when gods adore!",0.0 +"Have I not, then, accomplished my proud boast?",2.0 +"Did I not tell thee, we would mount, Lorenzo,",1.0 +And kindle our devotion at the stars?,1.0 +And have I failed? And did I flatter thee?,1.0 +Lorenzo! mirth how miserable here!,1.0 +"Swear by the stars, by HIM who made them, swear,",1.0 +"Thy heart, henceforth, shall be as pure as they!",1.0 +"Then thou, like them, shalt shine; like them, shalt rise",2.0 +"From low to lofty, from obscure to bright,",1.0 +"By due gradation, Nature's sacred law.",0.0 +"The stars, from whence? ' -- Ask Chaos: he can tell.",2.0 +These bright temptations to idolatry,2.0 +From darkness and confusion took their birth;,1.0 +Sons of deformity! From fluid dregs,3.0 +And then to spheres opaque; then dimly shone;,0.0 +Then brightened; then blazed out in perfect day.,3.0 +Nature delights in progress; in advance,3.0 +"From worse to better: but, when minds ascend,",1.0 +Progress in part depends upon themselves.,0.0 +Heaven aids exertion; greater makes the great;,0.0 +The voluntary little lessens more.,1.0 +"OH be a man, and thou shalt be a god,",0.0 +"OH thou, ambitious of disgrace alone,",3.0 +"Schooled by the skies, and pupil of the stars!",1.0 +"Rank coward to the fashionable world,",3.0 +Art thou ashamed to bend thy knee to Heaven?,1.0 +"Cursed fume of pride, exhaled from deepest hell!",1.0 +Pride in religion is man's highest praise.,3.0 +"Bent on destruction, and in love with death!",3.0 +"Were half so sad as one benighted mind,",1.0 +"Which gropes for happiness, and meets despair.",1.0 +"How, like a widow in her weeds, the Night,",0.0 +"Amid her glimmering tapers, silent sits!",2.0 +"How sorrowful, how desolate, she weeps",1.0 +"Perpetual dews, and saddens Nature's scene!",2.0 +"A scene more sad Sin makes the darkened soul,",1.0 +"All comfort kills, nor leaves one spark alive.",0.0 +"Though blind of heart, still open is thine eye:",2.0 +"Of matter's grandeur, know, one end is this,",5.0 +"To tell the rational who gazes on it, ' --",3.0 +"Though that immensely great, still greater He",2.0 +"Whose breast capacious can embrace and lodge,",1.0 +"Unburdened, Nature's universal scheme;",0.0 +Can grasp Creation with a single thought;,1.0 +Creation grasp; and not exclude its SIRE:,0.0 +"To guard the important, yet depending, fate",2.0 +Of being brighter than a thousand suns:,1.0 +One single ray of thought outshines them all.,0.0 +"And if man hears obedient, soon he'll soar",4.0 +"Superior heights, and on his purple wing,",3.0 +"Rising, where thought is now denied to rise,",2.0 +Look down triumphant on these dazzling spheres.,3.0 +"Why then persist? ' -- No mortal ever lived,",1.0 +"But, dying, he pronounced when words are true",1.0 +The whole that charms thee absolutely vain;,0.0 +"Vain, and far worse! ' -- Think thou with dying men;",1.0 +OH condescend to think as angels think!,1.0 +OH tolerate a chance for happiness!,2.0 +"Our nature such, ill choice insures ill fate;",3.0 +"And hell had been, though there had been no God.",1.0 +"Dost thou not know, my new astronomer,",1.0 +"Earth, turning from the sun, brings night to man?",3.0 +"Man, turning from his God, brings endless night;",3.0 +"Amend no manners, and expect no peace.",3.0 +"How deep the darkness! and the groan, how loud!",1.0 +"Though in his ear, and levelled at his heart,",0.0 +For think not thou hast heard all this from me;,2.0 +My song but echoes what great Nature speaks.,1.0 +"What has she spoken? Thus the goddess spoke,",0.0 +Thus speaks for ever: ' -- Place at Nature's head,1.0 +"A Sovereign, which over all things rolls His eye,",3.0 +"Extends His wing, promulgates His commands,",5.0 +"But, above all, diffuses endless good;",3.0 +"To whom, for sure redress, the wronged may fly,",0.0 +"The vile for mercy, and the pained for peace;",1.0 +"By whom the various tenants of these spheres,",3.0 +"Diversified in fortunes, place, and powers,",0.0 +"Raised in enjoyment, as in worth they rise,",2.0 +Arrive at length if worthy such approach,1.0 +And present joy looks forward on increase;,2.0 +And that on more; no period! every step,3.0 +"A double boon, a promise and a bliss.",1.0 +How easy sits this scheme on human hearts!,0.0 +"Passion is pleased, and Reason asks no more:",3.0 +"IT is rational, iT is great! ' -- But what is thine?",1.0 +"Leaves us quite naked both of help and hope,",3.0 +"Sinking from bad to worse; few years, the sport",2.0 +"Of Fortune; then, the morsel of Despair.",1.0 +What's vice? ' -- Mere want of compass in our thought.,1.0 +"Religion, what? ' -- The proof of commonsense.",0.0 +"How art thou hooted, where the least prevails!",0.0 +Is it my fault if these truths call thee fool?,3.0 +Can neither shame nor terror stand thy friend?,0.0 +And art thou still an insect in the mire?,1.0 +"How, like thy guardian angel, have I flown;",2.0 +Snatched thee from earth; escorted thee through all,1.0 +"The ethereal armies; walked thee, like a god,",3.0 +On either hand; clouds thrown beneath thy feet;,1.0 +Close cruised on the bright paradise of God;,5.0 +And almost introduced thee to The Throne!,2.0 +"And art thou still carousing, for delight,",1.0 +And then subsiding into final gall?,0.0 +"To beings of sublime, immortal make,",1.0 +How shocking is all joy whose end is sure!,1.0 +"Such joy more shocking still, the more it charms!",0.0 +"And dost thou choose what ends ere well begun,",1.0 +And infamous as short? And dost thou choose,1.0 +"Thou, to whose palate glory is so sweet",2.0 +"Not of poor bigots only, but thy own?",3.0 +"For I have peeped into thy covered heart,",1.0 +And seen it blush beneath a boastful brow;,0.0 +"Conscience is but disabled, not destroyed.",3.0 +"OH thou most awful being, and most vain!",1.0 +"Thy will, how frail! how glorious is thy power!",2.0 +Though dread Eternity has sown her seeds,1.0 +Of bliss and woe in thy despotic breast;,1.0 +"Though heaven and hell depend upon thy choice,",0.0 +"A butterfly comes across, and both are fled.",3.0 +Is this the picture of a rational?,2.0 +"This horrid image, shall it be most just?",0.0 +"Lorenzo! no: it cannot, shall not, be,",0.0 +If there is force in reason; or in sounds,2.0 +"Chanted beneath the glimpses of the moon,",3.0 +"A magic, at this planetary hour,",0.0 +"When slumber locks the general lip, and dreams",0.0 +Through senseless mazes hunt souls uninspired.,1.0 +Attend ' -- the sacred mysteries begin ' --,1.0 +"Hear, and I'll raise thy spirit from the dust,",1.0 +While the stars gaze on this enchantment new;,4.0 +"Enchantment, not infernal, but Divine!",1.0 +"By Silence, Death's peculiar attribute;",0.0 +"By Darkness and by Silence, sisters dread!",1.0 +And raise ideas solemn as the scene!,1.0 +"By NIGHT, and all of Awful, Night presents",0.0 +To Thought or Sense! of Awful much to both,0.0 +"The goddess brings! By these her trembling fires,",1.0 +Sacred to thoughts immaculate and pure!,3.0 +"By these bright orators, that prove, and praise,",3.0 +"And press thee to revere, the DEITY;",2.0 +"Perhaps, too, aid thee, when revered awhile,",1.0 +"To reach His throne; as stages of the soul,",1.0 +"Through which, at different periods, she shall pass,",1.0 +"Refining gradual, for her final height,",1.0 +And purging off some dross at every sphere!,1.0 +By this dark pall thrown over the silent world!,6.0 +"By the world's kings, and kingdoms, most renowned,",2.0 +From short ambition's zenith set for ever;,0.0 +"By the long list of swift mortality,",3.0 +"From Adam downward to this evening knell,",1.0 +"And shocks her with a hundred centuries,",2.0 +"Round Death's black banner thronged, in human thought!",1.0 +"By thousands, now resigning their last breath,",2.0 +And calling thee ' -- wert thou so wise to hear!,2.0 +By tombs over tombs arising; human earth,2.0 +"Ejected, to make room for ' -- human earth;",2.0 +Which makes poor man's humiliation proud;,1.0 +"Boast of our ruin, triumph of our dust!",1.0 +By the damp vault that weeps over royal bones;,2.0 +"And the pale lamp that shows the ghastly dead,",2.0 +"More ghastly, through the thick incumbent gloom!",1.0 +"By visits if there are from darker scenes,",2.0 +"The gliding spectre, and the groaning grove!",1.0 +"By groans and graves, and miseries that groan",1.0 +"Senseless to pains of death, from pangs of guilt!",2.0 +"And thunder's last discharge, great Nature's knell!",4.0 +"By second Chaos, and eternal Night! ' --",1.0 +Be wise: ' -- Nor let Philander blame my charm;,3.0 +"Love to the living, duty to the dead.",1.0 +"For know, I'm but executor: he left",2.0 +This moral legacy! I make it over,1.0 +By his command: Philander hear in me;,2.0 +"And Heaven in both. ' -- If deaf to these, OH hear",1.0 +For his sake ' -- love thyself. Example strikes,2.0 +All human hearts; a bad example more;,0.0 +More still a father's; that insures his ruin.,0.0 +"The unnatural parent of his miseries,",5.0 +Is this the blessing of so fond a father?,2.0 +"If careless of Lorenzo, spare, OH spare",2.0 +Let passion do what nobler motive should;,4.0 +"Let love, and emulation, rise in aid",1.0 +To reason; and persuade thee to be ' -- blessed.,2.0 +This seems not a request to be denied;,1.0 +Yet such the infatuation of mankind!,3.0 +IT is the most hopeless man can make to man.,1.0 +"Shall I, then, rise in argument and warmth,",1.0 +"But, OH, I faint! my spirits fail! Nor strange!",0.0 +"To which my great Creator's glory called,",4.0 +And calls ' -- but now in vain. Sleep's dewy wand,1.0 +"Has stroked my drooping lids, and promises",1.0 +Wont to return with our returning peace,3.0 +"Will pay, ere long, and bless me with repose.",2.0 +"Haste, haste, sweet stranger, from the peasant's cot,",3.0 +"Whence sorrow never chased thee! With thee bring,",1.0 +"Not hideous visions, as of late; but draughts",3.0 +"Man's rich restorative; his balmy bath,",2.0 +"The various movements of this nice machine,",3.0 +Which asks such frequent periods of repair.,3.0 +Sleep winds us up for the succeeding dawn;,3.0 +"Fresh we spin on, till sickness clogs our wheels,",0.0 +"Or Death quite breaks the spring, and motion ends.",1.0 +"Thou, whose broad eye the future and the past",2.0 +Joins to the present; making one of three,1.0 +"And, though invisible, for ever seen!",2.0 +"And seen in all, the great and the minute!",0.0 +"Each globe above, with its gigantic race,",1.0 +"Each flower, each leaf, with its small people swarmed,",4.0 +Those puny vouchers of Omnipotence!,2.0 +"To the first thought that asks, From whence? declare",2.0 +"Their common source. Thou Fountain, running over",0.0 +In rivers of communicated joy!,1.0 +"Say, by what name shall I presume to call",1.0 +"Him I see burning in these countless suns,",2.0 +"As Moses, in the bush? Illustrious Mind!",2.0 +"The whole creation less, far less, to Thee,",1.0 +Than that to the creation's ample round.,1.0 +"Heaves underneath the thought, too big for birth!",2.0 +"Of Nature, that luxuriant growth of GOD!",2.0 +"First Father of effects, that progeny",3.0 +Of endless series! where the golden chain's,0.0 +"Last link admits a period, who can tell?",2.0 +Father of all that is or heard or hears!,1.0 +Father of all that is or seen or sees!,1.0 +Father of all that is or shall arise!,1.0 +Father of this immeasurable mass,3.0 +"Opaque or lucid, rapid or at rest,",1.0 +"Minute, or passing bound! in each extreme,",0.0 +Of like amaze and mystery to man.,1.0 +Father of these bright millions of the night!,5.0 +"Of which the least full Godhead had proclaimed,",2.0 +Is appellation higher still Thy choice?,0.0 +Father of matter's temporary lords!,2.0 +"With various measures, and with various modes",5.0 +"Of instinct, reason, intuition; beams",0.0 +"More pale or bright, from day Divine, to break",0.0 +"Of all created spirit; beams, that rise",0.0 +"Each over other in superior light,",2.0 +Of next approach to Godhead. Father fond,1.0 +Far fonder than ever bore that name on earth,3.0 +Of intellectual beings! beings blessed,2.0 +With powers to please Thee; not of passive ply,2.0 +To laws they know not! beings lodged in seats,0.0 +Of this imperial palace for Thy sons;,4.0 +"Though boundless, habitation, planned by Thee;",0.0 +Whose several clans their several climates suit;,0.0 +"Or, OH! indulge, Immortal King! indulge",0.0 +"A title, less august indeed, but more",5.0 +"Endearing; ah! how sweet in human ears,",0.0 +"Sweet in our ears, and triumph in our hearts!",0.0 +Father of Immortality to man!,3.0 +A theme that lately set my soul on fire. ' --,0.0 +"And Thou the next, yet equal! Thou, by whom",2.0 +"That blessing was conveyed, far more! was bought,",2.0 +Ineffable the price! by whom all worlds,1.0 +"Were made, and one redeemed! illustrious Light,",3.0 +"From light illustrious! Thou, whose regal power,",1.0 +"Finite in time, but infinite in space,",2.0 +"And, OH! the friend of man! beneath whose foot,",0.0 +"And by the mandate of whose awful nod,",3.0 +"All regions, revolutions, fortunes, fates,",0.0 +"Of high, of low, of mind and matter, roll",0.0 +"Through the short channels of expiring Time,",3.0 +"Calm or tempestuous, as thy Spirit breathes,",4.0 +"The glorious Third! distinct, not separate!",2.0 +"Beaming from both, with both incorporate!",2.0 +And strange to tell! incorporate with dust!,0.0 +"By condescension, as Thy glory, great,",1.0 +"Enshrined in man! of human hearts, if pure,",0.0 +Divine inhabitant! the tie Divine,1.0 +"Of Heaven with distant earth! by whom, I trust,",0.0 +"To Thee, to them ' -- To whom? Mysterious power!",3.0 +"Number in unity! our joy, our dread!",3.0 +The triple bolt that lays all wrong in ruin!,0.0 +"That animates all right, the triple Sun!",0.0 +"Absconding yet demonstrable, Great God!",4.0 +"Greater than greatest, better than the best!",3.0 +"Or stronger still to speak it with Thine own,",1.0 +"Where Thou, from all eternity, hast dwelled,",1.0 +Beyond archangel's unassisted ken;,1.0 +From far above what mortals highest call;,0.0 +"From elevation pinnacle; look down,",2.0 +"Through ' -- what? Confounding interval! through all,",1.0 +"Through hierarchies from hierarchies detached,",6.0 +"Round various banners of Omnipotence,",4.0 +With endless change of rapturous duties fired;,2.0 +"All clustering at the call, to dwell in Thee;",1.0 +"Through this wide waste of worlds; this vista vast,",2.0 +All sanded over with suns! suns turned to night,3.0 +"On a poor breathing particle in dust,",3.0 +"Or, lower, ' -- an immortal in his crimes.",1.0 +"His crimes forgive; forgive his virtues too, ' --",0.0 +"Nor let me close these eyes, which never more",0.0 +"May see the sun, though night's descending scale",0.0 +In Thy displeasure dwells eternal pain:,1.0 +"Pain, our aversion; pain, which strikes me now:",2.0 +"And, since all pain is terrible to man,",1.0 +"Though transient, terrible; at Thy good hour,",2.0 +"Gently, ah! gently, lay me in my bed,",2.0 +"By Nature, near; still nearer by Disease!",2.0 +"Till then, be this an emblem of my grave!",1.0 +Let it outcry the boy at Philip's ear;,3.0 +"That tongue of death, that herald of the tomb!",1.0 +And when the shelter of Thy wing implored,1.0 +"My senses, soothed, shall sink in soft repose;",0.0 +"OH sink this truth still deeper in my soul,",2.0 +"Suggested by my pillow, signed by Fate,",1.0 +"First, in Fate's volume, at the page of Man: ' --",2.0 +"Man's sickly soul, though turned and tossed for ever",1.0 +"Here in full trust, hereafter in full joy;",2.0 +"On Thee, the promised, sure, eternal down",2.0 +"Of spirits, toiled in travel through this vale.",1.0 +"For ' -- Love almighty! Love almighty! Sing,",0.0 +"Exult, Creation! Love almighty reigns!",0.0 +"That death of death, that cordial of despair!",1.0 +Thou God and mortal! thence more God to man!,0.0 +"Man's theme eternal, man's eternal theme!",1.0 +"Uninjured from our praise can He escape,",2.0 +"The heaven of heavens, to kiss the distant earth?",2.0 +"Against the cross, Death's iron sceptre breaks;",1.0 +From famished Ruin plucks her human prey;,0.0 +Throws wide the gates celestial to his foes;,2.0 +"Their gratitude, for such a boundless debt,",1.0 +"And, if deep human guilt in payment fails,",2.0 +"As deeper guilt, prohibits our despair,",1.0 +What words are these? ' -- And did they come from heaven?,1.0 +And were they spoke to man? to guilty man?,1.0 +What are all mysteries to love like this?,1.0 +"The songs of angels, all the melodies",1.0 +"Of choral gods, are wafted in the sound;",0.0 +"Heal and exhilarate the broken heart,",2.0 +Though plunged before in horrors dark as night:,0.0 +Nor wait we dissolution to be blessed.,1.0 +"This final effort of the moral Muse,",1.0 +How justly titled! The Consolation. Nor for me alone;,4.0 +"For all that read! What spirit of support,",1.0 +"What heights of Consolation, crown my song!",0.0 +"Then farewell, NIGHT! Of darkness now no more:",2.0 +"Joy breaks, shines, triumphs; iT is eternal day.",5.0 +"Of a few evils, paid with endless joys?",1.0 +"My soul! henceforth, in sweetest union join",1.0 +"The two supports of human happiness,",1.0 +"Which some erroneous think can never meet, ' --",2.0 +"True taste of life, and constant thought of death;",1.0 +"The thought of death, sole victor of its dread!",2.0 +"Hope be thy joy, and probity thy skill;",1.0 +"Thy Patron, He whose diadem has dropped",1.0 +"And leave the racers of the world their own,",1.0 +"Their feather, and their froth, for endless toils:",1.0 +They part with all for that which is not bread;,0.0 +"They mortify, they starve, on wealth, fame, power;",1.0 +And laugh to scorn the fools that aim at more.,0.0 +"How must a spirit, late escaped from earth, ' --",0.0 +"Look back, astonished, on the ways of men,",2.0 +Whose lives' whole drift is to forget their graves!,2.0 +"And when our present privilege is passed,",1.0 +"To scourge us with due sense of its abuse,",3.0 +The same astonishment will seize us all.,1.0 +"What then must pain us, would preserve us now.",0.0 +Lorenzo! iT is not yet too late; Lorenzo!,2.0 +"Seize Wisdom, ere iT is torment to be wise;",2.0 +"That is, seize Wisdom, ere she seizes thee.",3.0 +"For what, my small philosopher, is Hell?",1.0 +"IT is nothing but full knowledge of the Truth,",3.0 +"When Truth, resisted long, is sworn our foe,",0.0 +And calls Eternity to do her right.,1.0 +"Thus, Darkness aiding intellectual light,",3.0 +"And sacred Silence whispering truths Divine,",2.0 +"And truths Divine converting pain to peace,",0.0 +"And shot, ambitious of unbounded scenes,",1.0 +"Beyond the flaming limits of the world,",1.0 +"Of Fancy, when our hearts remain below?",0.0 +"IT is pride to praise her, penance to perform.",1.0 +"To more than words, to more than worth of tongue,",0.0 +Lorenzo! rise at this auspicious hour:,1.0 +"When, like a falling star, the ray Divine",0.0 +Glides swift into the bosom of the just;,2.0 +"And just are all, determined to reclaim;",1.0 +"Which sets that title high, within thy reach.",0.0 +Awake then; thy Philander calls; awake!,4.0 +Thou who shalt wake when the creation sleeps;,2.0 +"When, like a taper, all these suns expire;",0.0 +"When Time, like him of Gaza, in his wrath,",1.0 +"Plucking the pillars that support the world,",2.0 +In Nature's ample ruins lies entombed;,0.0 +"And Midnight, universal Midnight, reigns.",2.0 +"AWAKE my Muse, prepare a loftier theme:",2.0 +The winding valley and the dimpled stream,1.0 +"Delight not all; quit, quit the verdant field,",1.0 +And try what dusty streets and alleys yield.,0.0 +"Where Avon wider flows, and gathers fame,",0.0 +"A town there stands, and Warwick is its name,",1.0 +"For useful arts, entitled once to share",0.0 +Nor less for feats of chivalry renowned,1.0 +When her own Guy was with her laurels crowned.,1.0 +And binds in silken bonds her feeble race.,0.0 +"No busy artisans their fellows greet,",2.0 +No loaded carriages obstruct the street;,2.0 +"Last of the toiling race there lived a pair,",0.0 +"Bred up in labour, and inured to care,",1.0 +"To sweep the streets their task from sun to sun,",0.0 +And seek the nastiness that others shun.,1.0 +"More plodding hind, or dame, you never shall see,",1.0 +"As at their door they sat one summer's day,",0.0 +"His gentle mate the plaintive lay returned,",0.0 +And thus alternately their grief they mourned.,5.0 +Alas! was ever such fine weather seen!,2.0 +"How dusty are the roads, the streets how clean!",1.0 +"Empty my cart how long, and idle I?",3.0 +"Once other days, and different fate we knew,",1.0 +"That something had to carry, I to do.",1.0 +"Now even at best the times are none so good,",3.0 +But it's hard work to scrape a livelihood.,2.0 +"The cattle in the stalls resign their life,",0.0 +"And balk the shambles, and the bloody knife.",1.0 +And turnpikes threaten to complete my doom.,2.0 +"Well! for the turnpike, that will do no hurt,",2.0 +"The roads, they say, are ned much the better for't.",0.0 +For sure the cattle did our door befriend.,0.0 +"Oft have I praised them as they stalked along,",1.0 +"Their fat the butchers pleased, but me their dung.",1.0 +See what a little dab of dirt is here!,0.0 +"But yields all Warwick more, OH tell me where?",1.0 +"Heaps upon heaps, and loads on loads have been:",3.0 +Till my diminished house was hid from view.,1.0 +"The growing mount I viewed with joyful eyes,",0.0 +And marked what each load added to its size.,2.0 +"Wrapped in its fragrant steam we often sat,",0.0 +And to its praises held delightful chat.,1.0 +"Nor did I ever neglect my mite to pay,",2.0 +To swell the goodly heap from day to day;,0.0 +Till I scarce hobbled over my furrowed room:,4.0 +"For this I squat me on my hams each night,",2.0 +And mingle profit sweet with sweet delight?,0.0 +"A cabbage once I bought, but small the cost,",0.0 +Nor do I think the farthing all was lost:,0.0 +"Again you sold its well digested store,",1.0 +To dung the garden where it grew before.,0.0 +"And at the scavenger's employment sneered,",2.0 +"Yet then at night content I told my gains,",0.0 +And thought well paid their malice and my pains.,2.0 +Why toils the merchant but to swell his store?,1.0 +Why craves the wealthy landlord still for more?,1.0 +"Why will our gentry flatter, trade, and lie,",0.0 +"Why pack the cards, and ' -- what d'ye called the die?",0.0 +"All, all the pleasing paths of gain pursue,",0.0 +"And wade through thick and thin, as we folk do.",0.0 +"Sweet is the scent that from advantage springs,",1.0 +And nothing dirty that good interest brings.,0.0 +"It's this that cures the scandal, and the smell,",2.0 +The rest ' -- even let our learnt betters tell.,6.0 +"When goody Dobbins called me filthy bear,",0.0 +And named the kennel and the ducking chair:,1.0 +"Clean was my gown on Sundays, though not fine,",2.0 +"A slut in silk or kersey is the same,",1.0 +Nor sweetest always is the finest dame.,1.0 +"Thus wailed they pleasure past, and present cares,",1.0 +While the starved hog joined his complaint to theirs.,3.0 +To still his grunting different ways they tend,0.0 +"STILL as the circling months successive climb,",0.0 +"With lingering footsteps, up the steep of time,",2.0 +"Bleak February frowns in his return,",2.0 +"For me he still a mournful aspect wears,",2.0 +And still receives the tribute of my tears.,1.0 +"Are not the ills enough which time supplies,",0.0 +To cheque the dawning comforts in their rise?,0.0 +"Must memory too the present evils aid,",2.0 +And tinge with darker hues life's deepening shade?,1.0 +"Must woes on woes accumulated roll,",0.0 +And cloud with care the sunshine of the soul?,2.0 +Our thread of life with misery entwined;,1.0 +"Capricious fortune's sport, or passion's slave;",0.0 +"Till peace takes root, and blossoms on the grave.",2.0 +"Can I forget the days of anxious pain,",1.0 +When that dear angel form I watched in vain?,1.0 +"When those loved eyes were closed, to wake no more?",4.0 +"Ah, no! revolving years in vain depart,",0.0 +The traces still remain upon my heart!,0.0 +"When lost in grief, my eyes refused a tear,",0.0 +"Instinctive fondness sought his silent bier,",0.0 +"Hope whispered,' sure he sleeps,' I wildly pressed",1.0 +"The lovely image to my aching breast,",1.0 +And felt the fearful chill of nature's awful rest.,0.0 +"Now I can weep, and oft in thought recall",0.0 +"The closing scene, the coffin, and the pall.",1.0 +"The solemn knell of death, I heard it toll;",0.0 +How heavily it struck my wounded soul!,1.0 +But fond affection lingers in the gloom;,0.0 +Near the dim lamp that glimmers over the tomb,5.0 +"She graves with trembling hand the mournful rhyme,",0.0 +"Where memory recalls departed time,",1.0 +"Brings back in one short hour the dream of years,",4.0 +And sprinkles on the grave a mother's tears.,1.0 +IN a Large stately Cave of old the Court,2.0 +"Interred the dear Remains of Damon lay,",1.0 +Converted now to their Original clay.,3.0 +"Each wishing Nymph the living Swain approved,",0.0 +Their mutual Passion's Kindling Flame was more,2.0 +Then ere Inspired Consenting Hearts before;,2.0 +"But was with time Improved to that Degree,",1.0 +"Their linked Affections Fate could not divorce,",0.0 +Nor Rigorous Death restrain their Intercourse:,2.0 +"Her Damon's Dust, and even that Dust Loved Her.",1.0 +"Perpetual Watch, and over his Ashes wept;",4.0 +"She planted there, the Branch took Root and grew.",2.0 +"This Cave to the Suns Rays Access denied,",3.0 +"No Rain or Dew the thirsting Plant Supplied,",1.0 +"Yet still it sprang, by Love's Miracu'lous Power,",3.0 +For the Ashes still Glowed with their Old Amour,3.0 +"This Heat and Moisture kept the Plant Alive,",0.0 +"And Tempering still each other, made it Thrive.",2.0 +"TOo great your Power, and too soft my Breast:",3.0 +The charming Inspiration to resist:,1.0 +"But O in what bold Strain shall I begin,",3.0 +To breathe the unusual Potent Instinct in?,2.0 +"Such pleasing looks, in mid of Spring, adorn",0.0 +"But, What are these dull Metaphors to you?",3.0 +"Or, What is all, my Fancy has in view?",0.0 +"A Form more fine, more accurately wrought,",1.0 +Was never conceived by a Poetic Thought?,3.0 +"So mild your eyes, so beautiful and bright,",1.0 +"With such a gentle look, and such an air;",2.0 +"So lovely, so exceeding sweet, and fair,",1.0 +"To us, the Heavenly Messengers appear:",4.0 +"While Man too feeble for their bright extremes,",2.0 +"DEAR chestnut bower, I hail thy secret shade,",4.0 +"Image of tranquil life! escaped yonder throng,",8.0 +"Who weave the dance, and swell the choral song;",0.0 +And all the summer's day have wanton played:,0.0 +I bless thy kindly gloom in silence laid:,0.0 +What though no prospects gay to thee belong;,3.0 +"Which they, whose perfumed tresses roses braid,",4.0 +"Dispersing fear. Their sunny bank more bright,",0.0 +"And on their circled green more sweets abound,",1.0 +"Over these dark boughs with harmless music sound,",2.0 +"And though no lively pleasures here are found,",2.0 +"PRINCES, my fair, unfortunately great,",3.0 +"Whenever the public calls, are doomed to sly",2.0 +"Domestic bliss, and break the private tie.",0.0 +"Fame pays with empty breath the toils they bear,",1.0 +And love's soft joys are changed for glorious care;,3.0 +"Yet conscious virtue, in the silent hour,",0.0 +Rewards the hero with a noble dower.,1.0 +"For this alone I dared the roaring sea,",1.0 +"Yet more, for this I dared to part with thee.",1.0 +"But while my bosom feels the nobler flame,",1.0 +"Though virtue's awful form my soul approves,",0.0 +"It's thine, thine only, Zara, that it loves.",1.0 +"A private lot had made the claim but one,",0.0 +"The prince alone must love, for virtue, shun.",0.0 +"Ah! why distinguished from the happier crowd,",3.0 +To me the bliss of millions disallowed?,1.0 +"Why was I singled for imperial sway,",3.0 +Since love and duty point a different way?,0.0 +"Fixed the dread voyage, and the day decreed,",4.0 +"Too well my memory can these scenes renew,",2.0 +"We met to sigh, to weep our last adieu.",0.0 +"That conscious palm, beneath whose towering shade",0.0 +So oft our vows of mutual love were made;,2.0 +"Where hope so oft anticipated joy,",0.0 +And planned of future years the best employ;,0.0 +"That palm was witness to the tears we shed,",1.0 +"When that fond hope, and all those joys were fled.",1.0 +"Thy trembling lips, with trembling lips, I pressed,",0.0 +And held thee panting to my panting breast.,1.0 +"Our sorrow, grown too mighty to sustain,",2.0 +"Now snatched us, fainting, from the sense of pain.",2.0 +"Together sinking in the trance divine,",0.0 +"I caught thy fleeting soul, and gave thee mine!",0.0 +OH! blessed oblivion of tormenting care!,5.0 +OH! why recalled to life and to despair?,2.0 +"The dreadful summons came, to part ' -- and why?",0.0 +Why not the kinder summons but to die?,1.0 +"To die together were to part no more,",2.0 +"To land in safety on some peaceful shore,",1.0 +"Where love's the business of immortal life,",1.0 +And happy spirits only guess at strife.,0.0 +If in some distant land my prince should find,0.0 +"Some nymph more fair, you cried, as Zara kind ' --",0.0 +Mysterious doubt! which could at once impart,2.0 +"Relief to mine, and anguish to thy heart.",2.0 +"Still let me triumph in the fear expressed,",1.0 +The voice of love that whispered in thy breast;,0.0 +"Nor call me cruel, for my truth shall prove",0.0 +'Twas but the vain anxiety of love.,1.0 +"Torn from thy fond embrace, the strand I gain,",0.0 +Where mourning friends inflict superfluous pain;,2.0 +"My father there his struggling sighs suppressed,",1.0 +"And in dumb anguish clasped me to his breast,",2.0 +"Then sought, concealed the conflict of his mind,",1.0 +"If, when the gracious gods my son restore,",0.0 +"These eyes shall sleep in death, to wake no more;",1.0 +"If then these limbs, that now in age decay,",0.0 +"Round my green tomb perform the sacred rite,",3.0 +"Assume my throne, and let thy yoke be light;",0.0 +"From lands of freedom glorious precepts bring,",3.0 +And reign at once a father and a king.,1.0 +"How vainly proud, the arrogantly great",1.0 +"Subject alike, the peasant and the king,",1.0 +"From guilt and fraud, that strikes in silence sure,",0.0 +"No shield can guard us, and no arms secure.",3.0 +"By these, my fair, subdued, thy prince was lost,",1.0 +A naked captive on a barbarous coast.,3.0 +"Nurtured in ease, a thousand servants round,",2.0 +"My wants prevented, and my wishes crowned,",1.0 +On downy feet my moments danced away.,0.0 +"Wherever I passed, a shouting people crowd;",2.0 +"No fears intruded on the joys I knew,",2.0 +"Each man my friend, my lovely mistress you.",1.0 +"What dreadful change! abandoned and alone,",1.0 +The shouted prince is now a slave unknown;,0.0 +"To watch his eye, no bending courtiers wait,",3.0 +No hailing crowds proclaim his regal state;,1.0 +"To turn, from morn to eve, a burning soil.",0.0 +"Fainting beneath the sun's meridian heat,",4.0 +"Roused by the scourge, the taunting jest I meet:",0.0 +"Thanks to thy friends, they cry, whose care recalls",0.0 +"A prince to life, in whom a nation falls!",0.0 +"From corners gleaned, and even by dogs disdained;",2.0 +"At night I mingled with a wretched crew,",1.0 +Who by long use with woe familiar grew;,3.0 +"Of manners brutish, merciless, and rude,",1.0 +"They mocked my sufferings, and my pangs renewed;",1.0 +"In groans, not sleep, I passed the weary night,",0.0 +And rose to labour with the morning light.,1.0 +"Yet, thus of dignity and ease beguiled,",1.0 +"Thus scorned and scourged, insulted and reviled,",2.0 +"If Heaven with thee my faithful arms had blessed,",1.0 +"And filled with love my intervals of rest,",1.0 +"Short though they were, my soul had never known",1.0 +One secret wish to glitter on a throne;,1.0 +"A monarch, still beyond a monarch blessed,",0.0 +"Thy love my diadem, my throne thy breast;",0.0 +"My courtiers, watchful of my looks, thy eyes,",3.0 +"Should shine, persuade, and flatter, and advise;",1.0 +"Thy voice my music, and thy arms should be ' --",1.0 +Ah! not the prison of a slave in me!,1.0 +"Could I with infamy content remain,",1.0 +And wish thy lovely form to share my chain?,0.0 +"Could this bring ease? forgive the unworthy thought,",5.0 +And let the love that sinned atone the fault.,0.0 +"Could I, a slave, and hopeless to be free,",1.0 +Thy blooming beauties could these arms embrace?,0.0 +"No: rather blast me lightnings, whirlwind tear,",2.0 +And drive these limbs in atoms through the air;,1.0 +"Rather than this, OH! curse me still with life,",4.0 +And let my Zara smile a rival's wife:,0.0 +"Be mine alone the accumulated woe,",3.0 +Nor let me propagate my curse below.,0.0 +"But, from this dreadful scene, with joy I turn;",1.0 +"To trust in Heaven, of me let Zara learn.",4.0 +"The wretch, the sordid hypocrite, who sold",0.0 +"His charge, an unsuspecting prince, for gold,",0.0 +"That Justice marked, whose eyes can never sleep,",0.0 +"The generous crew their port in safety gain,",2.0 +"And tell my mournful tale, nor tell in vain;",0.0 +"The king, with horror of the atrocious deed,",3.0 +"In haste commanded, and the slave was freed.",1.0 +"Burns for my wrongs, her king restores her fame:",0.0 +"Propitious gales, to Freedom's happy shore",0.0 +"Waft me triumphant, and the prince restore;",3.0 +"Whatever is great and gay around me shine,",3.0 +"Here knowledge too, by piety refined,",1.0 +Sheds a blessed radiance over my brightening mind;,5.0 +"From earth I travel upward to the sky,",1.0 +"I learn to live, to reign, yet more, to die.",0.0 +"OH! I have tales to tell, of love divine ' --",0.0 +Such blissful tidings! they shall soon be thine.,1.0 +"I long to tell thee, what, amazed, I see,",0.0 +"What habits, buildings, trades, and polity!",1.0 +How art and nature vie to entertain,0.0 +"In public shows, and mix delight with pain.",0.0 +"With mimic skill, in borrowed names, was shown;",1.0 +"An Indian chief, like me, by fraud betrayed,",2.0 +And partner in his woes an Indian maid.,2.0 +"I can't recall the scenes, it's pain too great,",1.0 +"And, if recalled, should shudder to relate.",2.0 +"To write the wonders here, I strive in vain;",0.0 +Each word would ask a thousand to explain.,1.0 +"The time shall come, OH! speed the lingering hour!",1.0 +"When placed beside thee in the cool alcove,",1.0 +"The frequent kiss shall interrupt the tale,",0.0 +"And looks shall speak my sense, though language fail.",0.0 +"Then shall the prodigies, that round me rise,",1.0 +Fill thy dear bosom with a sweet surprise;,4.0 +"Then all my knowledge to thy faithful heart,",1.0 +"With danger gained, securely I'll impart.",1.0 +The alternate sense of pleasure and distress;,3.0 +And wing thy fancy swift from place to place.,0.0 +"Yet where, alas! has flattering thoughts conveyed",2.0 +"Which hostile barks infest, and storms control.",0.0 +"And hostile barks, and storms, are God's domain:",0.0 +My life in safety over the roaring tide;,2.0 +"Farewell! thy prince still lives, and still is free:",2.0 +"Farewell! hope all things, and remember me.",4.0 +"Where the sharp rocks, in distant horror seen,",3.0 +Drive the white currents through the spreading green;,4.0 +"Where the loud Tiger, pawing in his rage,",2.0 +"Stretched on the sand, two panting Warriors lay,",1.0 +In all the burning torments of the day;,2.0 +Their bows were broken at the roaring stream:,0.0 +"Where daily lightnings plough the sandy ground,",0.0 +Where rising deserts whirled in circles fly.,0.0 +Swifter than hunted Wolves they urge the race;,2.0 +"Their lessening forms elude the straining eye,",2.0 +Upon the plumage of Macaws they fly.,1.0 +"Let us return, and strip the reeking slain",2.0 +Leaving the bodies on the burning plain.,3.0 +Put the loud thunder of their arms aside.,4.0 +"Fast as the streaming rain, I poured the dart,",0.0 +Hurling a whirlwind through the trembling heart:,2.0 +"But now my lingering feet revenge denies,",0.0 +Death winged the arrow; Death impelled the stroke.,1.0 +"See, piled in mountains, on the sanguine sand",2.0 +The blasted of the lightnings of thy hand.,2.0 +"Search the brown desert, and the glossy green;",0.0 +"The Children of the Wave, whose pallid race",1.0 +"Views the faint sun, display a languid face,",3.0 +"From the red fury of thy justice fled,",3.0 +Swifter than torrents from their rocky bed.,3.0 +Fear with a sickened silver tinged their hue:,0.0 +"The guilty fear, when vengeance is their due.",1.0 +"Rouse not Remembrance from her shadowy cell,",4.0 +Nor of those bloody sons of mischief tell.,1.0 +What distant region holds thee from my arms?,1.0 +"Soft as the cooling murmur of the gales,",1.0 +"Majestic as the many coloured Snake,",1.0 +Trailing his glories through the blossomed brake;,3.0 +"Swift as the arrow, hasting to the breast,",1.0 +"The sun sat lowering in the Western sky,",2.0 +The swelling tempest spread around the eye;,0.0 +Catching the breathing whispers of the wind:,3.0 +Swift from the wood a prowling Tiger came;,0.0 +"Dreadful his voice, his eyes a glowing flame;",2.0 +"Pierced his rough armour, but escaped his heart;",4.0 +"He fled, though wounded, to a distant waste,",1.0 +I urged the furious flight with fatal haste;,2.0 +"He fell, he died ' -- spent in the fiery toil,",3.0 +"Impelled by Love, I winged the airy way;",0.0 +"In the deep valley and the mossy plain,",3.0 +The pallid shadows of the azure waves,2.0 +"The dusk slow vanished from the hated lawn,",2.0 +I gained a mountain glaring with the dawn.,1.0 +"There the full sails, expanded to the wind,",3.0 +"Struck horror and distraction in my mind,",2.0 +In common slavery drags the hated chain.,2.0 +Should aught the thunder of my arm assuage?,1.0 +With vengeance shall be never satisfied:,0.0 +I'll strew the beaches with the mighty dead,1.0 +And tinge the lily of their features red.,1.0 +"Roughly salute my ear, enraged I'll fly;",2.0 +Send the sharp arrow quivering through the heart,4.0 +"Nor heed the shining steel or noisy smoke,",0.0 +"Since to distinguish Merit is thy Care,",2.0 +"Let me, unequal to the Task, excite",3.0 +"Numbers, like thine, should call his Virtues forth;",0.0 +Poetic Mirrors should be true to Worth;,0.0 +"Disdaining to reflect those glittering Rays,",3.0 +"Which flow from Pomp, or from Ambition's Blaze.",1.0 +"From Scenes of Woe, unmoved, while Others fly,",0.0 +And silent enters through the lonely Door;,1.0 +"Fair Plenty in his Train, and Joy, and Health,",1.0 +"Seeking Distress, as Others seek for Wealth;",2.0 +"With God like Pity every Prayer receives,",0.0 +"Where Sickness reigns, he, to his utmost Power,",2.0 +Softens the Anguish of each dismal Hour:,3.0 +"He smooths the rugged Brow of anxious Care,",0.0 +"While Libertines on Vice their Wealth employ,",0.0 +He makes the Widow's Heart to sing for Joy:,0.0 +Orphans no more their Parents lost complain;,0.0 +Nor for this Life alone would he provide;,2.0 +Nor on Morality alone depends;,2.0 +But to the noblest Heights of Faith ascends:,1.0 +Still in the Temple were his Vows addressed:,1.0 +"Though he in Virtue's Paths, delighted, trod,",1.0 +"Studious to please, and imitate his God;",1.0 +"The hallowed Altar, grateful, he surveyed,",1.0 +And there his lowly Adoration paid.,1.0 +"See the pale, childless Miser hoard up Wealth,",3.0 +"And, trembling, snatch an anxious View by Stealth;",0.0 +"Amass the shining Over with guilty Care,",2.0 +"Who longs, impatient, for the solemn Toll,",1.0 +"And spends, profuse, what Avarice had stored;",1.0 +"By Fortune's sudden Smiles to Madness fired,",0.0 +"He wastes on every Vice, what Guilt acquired.",0.0 +"So dwells on Mountain-Tops the Northern Snow,",0.0 +Till hotter Suns more vigorous Beams display;,2.0 +"Sudden, from high, resounding Torrents flow,",2.0 +Impetuous rushing on the Vales below;,1.0 +"Overwhelm the Harvest of the pining Swain,",1.0 +"And curse with Floods, which should have blessed the Plain.",0.0 +A numerous Offspring graced his nuptial Bed:,3.0 +And yet those Motives to paternal Care,1.0 +"Studious to draw down Blessings on his Race,",2.0 +"Over the parched Earth it spreads its ample Course,",2.0 +"Profuse of Good, but, modest, hides its Source.",0.0 +"Ask not, to what his Charities amount;",1.0 +"You vain Pretenders to superior Sense,",3.0 +When you the social Duties recommend;,0.0 +"Heightened by Faith, see every Virtue's Force;",3.0 +"By Faith, their surest Sanction, noblest Source.",0.0 +"Loudly you boast a more than Christian Zeal,",2.0 +"The mighty Heroes of your Tribe survey,",1.0 +Their every hidden Excellence display;,1.0 +"Or dead, or living, set their Virtues forth;",0.0 +"Freethinkers, Moralists, on you I call,",3.0 +"My Soul this Homage, to thy Virtue pays:",1.0 +"Attempts those Paths, which abler Feet refuse;",0.0 +"In distant Climes thy Virtue she admires,",1.0 +In distant Climes thy Worth her Strain inspires.,0.0 +"Long to thy Tomb the Wretched shall repair,",0.0 +And to thy Ashes pay a silent Tear;,1.0 +"Shall to the Traveller thy Worth relate,",1.0 +And Emulation through the World create:,1.0 +"Ages to come shall celebrate thy Fame,",2.0 +"And Orphans, yet unborn, shall bless thy Name.",1.0 +"When the firm Basis of the Earth gives Way,",4.0 +And Nature's Self shall feel her last Decay;,0.0 +"When those, who from the Wretched turned their Eye.",0.0 +"Too late relenting, shall for Mercy cry;",1.0 +"The Thousands thou hast fed, shall, in thy Praise,",1.0 +Thy modest Worth shall veil itself no more;,1.0 +"OH CELIA! You, whose Rays of friendly Fire,",2.0 +"Constant as those of Nature, never expire;",3.0 +"If in your Breast no weighty Cares you find,",1.0 +Nor better Thoughts employ your generous Mind;,2.0 +"I sing of Friendship, and I sing to You:",1.0 +"Friendship! a Theme, which all Mankind profess,",3.0 +"No Virtue more admire, none practise less;",2.0 +"To love one Day, as if to hate the next.",1.0 +"They change, forsake, as serves their selfish Ends,",0.0 +Nor are their Dresses varied more than Friends.,1.0 +"YOU therefore, who are worthy Friendship's Name,",1.0 +"And cherish in your Breast the genuine Flame,",2.0 +"Attend to what a faithful Muse imparts,",0.0 +"Though young in Life, that Life has made her know,",0.0 +A friendly Aspect oft conceals a Foe;,1.0 +"That, though so many seeming Friends abound,",0.0 +"WHEN first you strive a faithful Friend to find,",0.0 +Explore the secret Motives of his Mind;,1.0 +"Before you know, what Passion rules him most:",0.0 +Till he has tried the Temper of his Steed;,2.0 +"So cheque the Reins of Friendship, till you prove,",1.0 +"What sways the Person, Interest, or Love.",1.0 +"Beware of him, who sells you for a Jest;",2.0 +"But, most of all, beware the leaky Breast:",0.0 +"Who hopes to keep his Wine the Season round,",0.0 +Must first be sure his Cask is sweet and sound,0.0 +"Nor should a formal Fool your Friendship claim,",0.0 +Let Knaves and Fools in kindred Vices join;,1.0 +"Choose you a Friend, where Sense and Virtue shine;",0.0 +"Whose Passions move by Reason's Rule alone,",0.0 +"Much better, if agreeing with your own.",2.0 +The Heart and Lion at a Distance keep;,0.0 +"Wolves company with Wolves, and Sheep with Sheep:",2.0 +"So we, by Nature's sympathetic Powers,",1.0 +"Most love those Tempers, that resemble ours.",0.0 +"YET, if it be too difficult to find",2.0 +Among the virtuous Few select the best;,2.0 +"And such is he, whose Failings are the least:",2.0 +"Let him a modest Freedom always claim,",0.0 +"To praise your Virtues, or your Vices blame;",1.0 +For Friends may often kindly be severe;,0.0 +"The Best sometime each other may control,",2.0 +Yet not destroy the Harmony of Soul.,1.0 +"Rough Notes in Music never should be found,",1.0 +Except adapted to improve the Sound.,1.0 +"WHEN mutual Faith the friendly Knot has tied,",2.0 +"And when that mutual Faith is truly tried,",2.0 +Prey not upon yourself; nor be oppressed,1.0 +"With conscious Pains, that struggle in your Breast:",0.0 +"For, as the Flames, in Aetna closely penned,",1.0 +"Thus in the Soul uneasy Thoughts confined,",0.0 +"For want of Passage, rack the suffering Mind.",0.0 +Unveil your Bosom to your other Part;,1.0 +"Your Friend shall share the Burden of your Heart,",1.0 +"Alleviate every Ill your Soul sustains,",5.0 +"Double your Pleasures, and divide your Pains.",3.0 +"BE zealous for your Friends, whenever you know",3.0 +Their Reputation censured by a Foe;,1.0 +Nor with a faint Excuse degrade your Friends;,1.0 +Or are they justly censured for a Crime?,2.0 +"In private chide all Failings which you find,",0.0 +In public praise the Beauties of their Mind;,1.0 +"Place all their Virtues in the clearest Light,",0.0 +"Omit their Faults, or touch them very slight;",0.0 +"Contract a Blemish, heighten every Grace.",0.0 +"NEITHER let Passion, Pride, or private Ends,",3.0 +"Or changing Fortune, make you change your Friends.",0.0 +"Or, at the best, ill Judgement, when he chose.",1.0 +"Some Persons with themselves so disagree,",2.0 +"With each new Day, new Resolutions come,",2.0 +"Expel the former, and usurp their Room:",2.0 +"Succeeding Billows thus the foremost throng,",1.0 +"Tides roll on Tides, and Waves urge Waves along.",2.0 +"Not but we may with a new Friend engage,",3.0 +Before we see an old one quit the Stage;,0.0 +"Yet should not think the new our old exceeds,",0.0 +"One Maxim will in Wine and Friendship hold,",1.0 +Alike the better both for being old.,0.0 +And still obey whatever a Friend commands?,3.0 +Aid him to gain what he unjustly craves?,1.0 +"No ' -- Leave the Man, who Truth and Virtue leaves.",1.0 +"To ruin Thousands, that himself might rise;",0.0 +It's Friendship to the World to be his Foe.,1.0 +To pardon him were to yourself unjust:,2.0 +Never acquires its native Whiteness more;,4.0 +"So he who breaks his Faith, will never obtain",3.0 +"Your Credit, nor his Innocence again.",2.0 +"And, if the Balm of Counsel work a Cure,",1.0 +"Overlook the Failure: All offend, that live;",0.0 +"Let Foes resent a Trespass, Friends forgive.",1.0 +"Yet let the pardoned Friend not, many times,",0.0 +"Proceed in Folly, and repeat his Crimes.",1.0 +"Though purest Gold a vast Extent will bear,",0.0 +"Yet purest Gold will break, if stretched too far:",1.0 +But who can pardon the persisting Fool?,1.0 +"To cool our Love, and quench the friendly Fire,",0.0 +"Vile Avarice assumes the greatest Power,",2.0 +A God which base ignoble Souls adore:,0.0 +"To pleasure him, a Tide of broken Vows",1.0 +"Yet, never satisfied, he craves for more;",0.0 +"Who worships him, will break the friendly Bands,",1.0 +"Whenever the sordid, selfish God commands.",2.0 +"OTHERS there are, induced by Thirst of Praise,",3.0 +And even the greatest Men this Passion sways,2.0 +"Nor is it wonder these desert their Friends,",2.0 +"Since all are Foes, who will not serve their Ends:",1.0 +"For wild Ambition like a Torrent roars,",0.0 +"Swells over the Banks, and foams along the Plains.",3.0 +Not but we may an honest Fame embrace;,1.0 +"Nay, Friends should aid us in the glorious Chase.",3.0 +"Man has some Principle of heavenly Fire,",3.0 +"That warms his Breast, and prompts him to aspire;",1.0 +"Wakes him to Actions of superior Kind,",3.0 +And keeps alive the Faculties of Mind;,1.0 +"For Sloth begets a Lethargy of Soul,",1.0 +As want of Motion taints the clearest Pool:,0.0 +"We blow that native Spark into a Flame,",0.0 +What Bands of Nature can restrain its Course?,1.0 +What friendly Offices suppress its Force?,1.0 +The worst of Children to the best of Sires!,1.0 +"Deep, through his Brothers Blood, he wades his Way,",0.0 +And leaps over Gratitude to Regal Sway.,2.0 +"Young CAESAR's Tutor by his Pupil dies,",2.0 +While TULLY falls by him he helped to rise;,1.0 +"Friends, Fathers, Brothers, Uncles, yield to Fate,",1.0 +"OH! grant me, gracious Heaven, wherever I go,",3.0 +"To be a faithful Friend, or generous Foe;",2.0 +"Nor let me pant so much for empty Praise,",0.0 +As to obtain it by dishonest Ways;,2.0 +"Nor ruin others Fame, to raise my own.",0.0 +"HE who is only learnt in Books, will find",0.0 +"A harder Lesson, when he learns Mankind;",1.0 +"A Volume gilded over with smiling Art,",2.0 +Where few can read the Meaning of the Heart.,1.0 +"One would suspect the Man who still commends,",0.0 +"Who, like the Sharper in the Roman Play,",0.0 +"Bends here or there, which way his Lord's inclined,",1.0 +As Reeds submit to every different Wind.,0.0 +"Nor is it strange such Parasites prevail,",1.0 +When greedy Ears devour their flattering Tale:,4.0 +"Detest the Wretch, who never can Courage find",2.0 +To speak the genuine Dictates of his Mind;,1.0 +"But, like the Sirens sweet, pernicious Song,",0.0 +At once would charm and ruin with his Tongue.,1.0 +"YET some there are, in social Bands allied,",1.0 +"Who, with blunt Truths, err on the other Side;",1.0 +"OH! never flatter even a Monarch's Pride,",4.0 +"Nor, with the Sternness of a Cynic, chide;",2.0 +"Let gentle Cautions show, the Motive's Love:",1.0 +"But rather hint the Fault, before you blame.",0.0 +It's not enough your Admonition's just;,0.0 +"Friends should allure, and charm us into Sense;",1.0 +"Loves mild Instruction, but abhors the rough:",2.0 +As Fruits and Flowers improve with gentle Rain;,2.0 +"But fade, if rapid Storms overflow the Plain.",3.0 +"SOME Men are Friends, when Fortune fills the Sails,",0.0 +"But quit the tottering Ship, and make to Shore,",2.0 +"When Storms descend, and adverse Surges roar.",1.0 +"Long as in Credit, Power, or Place you stand,",2.0 +"Their fawning, formal Friendship you command:",1.0 +"With twenty Squeezes, and a hundred Bows,",1.0 +"As many Compliments, as many Vows,",1.0 +"They swear your Interest shall be their own,",0.0 +And wish the Time to make it better known;,0.0 +"Which foam, and neigh, and proudly spurn the Grass,",0.0 +"Intent to run; but droop their jaded Crest,",0.0 +"And fail you most, when most you want their Haste.",0.0 +"WE make a Prostitute of Friendship's Name,",0.0 +"And yet there are, of this polite Degree,",2.0 +Who treat you still with forced Civility;,1.0 +"In each obliging Art so well refined,",0.0 +"Though ever false, they never seem unkind.",0.0 +Not that my Muse would Decency offend;,1.0 +"Nor shines it less, with Truth and Virtue joined,",0.0 +Than comely Features with a noble Mind:,1.0 +"But those, whose Friendships most in Speeches dwell,",1.0 +"Neglect the Fruit, and trifle with the Shell.",1.0 +"True Friendship more intrinsic Worth affords,",1.0 +Defined by Actions better than by Words;,1.0 +"A warm Affection, that can never cool,",0.0 +"Concord of Mind, and Music of the Soul;",2.0 +"Which tunes the jarring Strings of Life to Love,",0.0 +"Shows Men below, how Angels live above.",1.0 +"There are in Friendship such attractive Charms,",2.0 +It draws Esteem from those it never warms.,1.0 +The People's Praises with fictitious Love!,1.0 +"When on the Stage two doubtful Princes strive,",1.0 +"Each seeking Death, to keep his Friend alive:",0.0 +"Faithful, yet fraudulent, resolves to die:",3.0 +"ORESTES now displays the friendly Cheat,",0.0 +"Invites the threatening Sword, and courts his Fate.",0.0 +"Moved with their generous Love, the Audience rose;",4.0 +With social Flame each changing Bosom glows;,0.0 +"All feel the sacred Power of Friendship's Laws,",2.0 +"And the Stage rocks, and thunders with Applause.",3.0 +"Though rather Men of Wit, than Men of Sense",0.0 +Whose Counsel is; Be not engaged too far;,2.0 +The greatest Friendship brings the greatest Care:,0.0 +Our own Concerns have Plagues enough in Store;,0.0 +"Who joins in Friendship, only makes them more:",0.0 +"The Cares and Troubles, which your Friend endures,",0.0 +Are all by Sympathy adopted yours.,2.0 +"Mere Quacks, who turn even Health into Disease;",5.0 +"And but the darkest Side of Friendship find,",1.0 +To all its radiant Beams and Beauties blind.,0.0 +"Two faithful Friends, in any State, may gain",1.0 +"Comfort to heighten Joy, or lessen Pain:",2.0 +"If weighty Cares the pensive Mind invade,",0.0 +They make the Burden light with mutual Aid;,2.0 +"If Profit, or if Pleasure cheers the Soul,",1.0 +"The Blessing's common, each enjoys the whole:",0.0 +"If Business calls them to some distant Place,",1.0 +"Each keeps the other's Image in his Breast,",0.0 +As Wax preserves the Form a Seal impressed.,0.0 +"HAIL, sacred Friendship! by whose cheering Ray",2.0 +"All Joys increase, without it fade away:",0.0 +"Aided by Friendship, shines with double Light.",2.0 +"This you, OH CELIA! by Experience find,",5.0 +Whose nuptial Friend lives always in your Mind:,1.0 +His loved Idea from your tender Breast:,1.0 +Your friendly Flame admits of no Decays;,0.0 +And makes your bridal Lamp much brighter blaze.,0.0 +"That faint, pale, languid Lamp, in Age, expires,",1.0 +Except it's fed with Friendship's constant Fires:,0.0 +These to the Winter of our Years extend;,2.0 +"And, when the Lover cools, they warm the Friend.",0.0 +"When all the transient Joys of Youth are over,",0.0 +When all the Charms of Beauty charm no more;,1.0 +Surviving Friendship gives us fresh Supplies,0.0 +"Of lasting Bliss, and more substantial Joys;",0.0 +"Which sweeten all the Troubles Age has brought,",0.0 +And make the Dregs of Life a cordial Draught.,0.0 +"They saw, and seized him as he sleeping lay:",1.0 +"Anxious for Flight, now flashing Flame he seems,",3.0 +Now softly glides away in melting Streams.,1.0 +"But they fast held him, till he smiling said;",2.0 +"With Songs, nay more than Songs you shall be paid.",1.0 +"To sing of Truths unknown, unheard before,",0.0 +"While all the Sea was still, and Winds were heard no more.",1.0 +"He sung the World's first Birth, and wondrous Frame,",1.0 +How Bodies all from one great Fluid came.,2.0 +"Of different Parts composed, a liquid Mass",0.0 +Incessant moved in the unbounded Space:,1.0 +The Essence of a Fluid is confessed,2.0 +"To move, and to be solid is to rest",2.0 +"And as they flow, all Fluids ever bend",1.0 +"To fly around, and to a Circle tend;",1.0 +Thus a true Chaos did at first arise,3.0 +"But finer Atoms were more free to move,",1.0 +And with the sluggish Parts too active strove,2.0 +Till they had pressed them down from those above:,3.0 +"'Twas then unsullied Light did first appear,",1.0 +"At length by tedious time, and slow Degrees",2.0 +"By Motion thrust from it, and settled here;",1.0 +"Then first the Ocean knew his constant place,",0.0 +It's Motion makes when different Bodies meet,0.0 +"What Gravity we call, and pressing Weight,",1.0 +While restless Fluids ever drive below,0.0 +"Bodies more solid, or ' -- that move too slow.",4.0 +"Long rolled the Sea, before the Earth appeared,",1.0 +"An earthy Scum, which gathering still increased;",2.0 +"But here intrinsic Fluids still remain,",0.0 +And hardest Mettle will its Flux regain.,1.0 +"Whenever dissolved the Parts their Freedom know,",2.0 +And with new Joy again they love to flow.,2.0 +"He sung, how Heaven displeased with earthy Man,",0.0 +Disturbed the Seas; how all the Mass began,0.0 +"To move enraged; The Motion thus increased,",0.0 +The sinking Earth down to the Centre pressed;,1.0 +"Such was the ancient Deluge, when the Flood",1.0 +"Poured over the Plains, and on the Mountains stood;",4.0 +That solid Bodies to the Centre reach.,1.0 +"Ever Land was seen, the Ocean had its Birth,",0.0 +"That Knowledge now is at the best no more,",1.0 +But a Research of what we knew before.,1.0 +"The Soul as yet to no dull Body joined,",1.0 +"The native Beams are sullied and obscured,",1.0 +"Till roused at length by Thought, and studious Care,",2.0 +Like latent Sparks with sudden Light they glare.,0.0 +"Gladly the conscious Mind the Hint pursues,",2.0 +And rising Images with Wonder views;,1.0 +"Now finds she long before Existence had,",1.0 +And that those Truths were rather found than made.,0.0 +Thus Science grafted do's on Ignorance grow;,3.0 +"Men lose to find, and turn unwise to know.",1.0 +Folly their fancied Knowledge do's create;,2.0 +"The greatest Hardship this of human Fate,",1.0 +"With Pain they learn, what they with Ease forgot.",1.0 +"The God thus ended his mysterious Lay,",4.0 +"When ruddy to the Waves, sunk the declining Day.",3.0 +ON closing flowers when genial gales diffuse,2.0 +The fragrant tribute of refreshing dews;,1.0 +"Charmed by the murmurs of the quivering shade,",3.0 +"And calmly musing through the twilight way,",2.0 +In pensive mood I framed the Doric lay.,0.0 +"When lo! from opening clouds, a golden gleam",2.0 +"And from the wave arose its guardian queen,",3.0 +Known by her sweeping stole of glossy green;,0.0 +"While in the coral crown that bound her brow,",0.0 +Was wove the Delphic laurel's verdant bough.,0.0 +"From her loose hair the dropping dew she pressed,",2.0 +And thus mine ear in accents mild addressed.,0.0 +"No more, my son, the rural reed employ,",0.0 +To the dear Muse afflicted Freedom calls:,2.0 +"When Freedom calls, and Oxford bids thee sing,",0.0 +Why stays thy hand to strike the sounding string?,0.0 +"While thus, in Freedom's and in Phoebus' spite,",1.0 +"The venal sons of slavish Cam, unite;",1.0 +"To shake yonder towers, when Malice rears her crest,",5.0 +Shall all my sons in silence idly rest?,0.0 +"Still sing, OH Cam, your favourite Freedom's cause;",2.0 +"Still boast of Freedom, while you break her laws:",1.0 +What though your gentle Mason's plaintive verse,0.0 +"Soft as my stream, in tuneful numbers flow?",0.0 +"Yet strove his Muse, by Fame or Envy led,",0.0 +To tear the laurels from a sister's head? ' --,1.0 +To blot the beauties of thy whiter page;,1.0 +And blasts the vernal bloom of half thy bays.,0.0 +Each pompous fool of Fortune and of Fame:,1.0 +Prolific parent of each bowing dean:,1.0 +"Be hers each prelate of the pampered cheek,",1.0 +Nor dare to know the patriot from the peer;,1.0 +"No longer charmed by Virtue's golden lyre,",1.0 +"Where Cam, slow winding through the breezy reeds,",2.0 +With kindly wave his groves of laurel feeds.,0.0 +"It's ours, my son, to deal the sacred bay,",0.0 +"Where Honour calls, and Justice points the way;",1.0 +And snatch a gift beyond the reach of kings.,0.0 +"Still nor enjoys, nor asks the smile of power.",2.0 +"Though Persecution wave her iron wing,",0.0 +"These destined seats be mine, exulting cries;",1.0 +"On Isis still each gift of Fortune waits,",0.0 +"The front erect, and high majestic gait:",0.0 +"My Gothic spires in ancient grandeur rise,",3.0 +"Who but would mourn to British virtue dear,",0.0 +What patriot could refuse the manly tear!,2.0 +What British Marius could refrain to weep,2.0 +"Over mighty Carthage fallen, a prostrate heap!",2.0 +Auspicious shone in Isis' happy plain;,0.0 +Beneath its Attic roofs received the nine;,0.0 +"Mute was the voice of joy and loud applause,",0.0 +"What freeborn crowds adorn the festive day,",0.0 +Nor blushed to wear my tributary bay!,0.0 +"While, as we loudly hailed the chosen few,",0.0 +Rome's awful senate rushed upon our view!,1.0 +"OH may the day in latest annals shine,",0.0 +"That made a Beaufort, and an Harley mine:",2.0 +"The pomp of guiltless state, the patriot toil,",2.0 +To hold short dalliance with the tuneful nine.,2.0 +"Then Music left her golden sphere on high,",0.0 +And bore each strain of triumph from the sky:,1.0 +"Swelled the full song, and to my chiefs around",2.0 +"In gentler eddies played my wanton wave,",0.0 +And all my reeds their softest whispers gave;,0.0 +"Each lay with brighter green adorned my bowers,",0.0 +And breathed a fresher fragrance on my flowers.,1.0 +"But lo! at once the swelling concerts cease,",0.0 +"And crowded theatres are hushed in peace,",1.0 +"See, on yonder Sage how all attentive stand,",0.0 +"To catch his darting eye, and waving hand.",0.0 +"Skilled to pronounce what noblest thoughts inspire,",2.0 +He blends the speaker's with the patriot's fire;,3.0 +"Bold to conceive, nor timorous to conceal,",5.0 +"What Britons dare to think, he dares to tell.",0.0 +"It's his alike the ear and eye to charm,",1.0 +"To win with action, and with sense to warm;",1.0 +"Bids happier days to Albion be restored,",5.0 +Bids ancient Justice rear her radiant sword;,1.0 +"From me, as from my country, wins applause,",1.0 +"While arms like these my steadfast sages wield,",2.0 +While mine is Truth's impenetrable shield;,1.0 +"Say, shall the puny champion fondly dare",2.0 +"To wage with force like this, scholastic war?",1.0 +With all the rage of pedant impotence?,1.0 +"Say, shall I suffer this domestic pest,",1.0 +Thus in the stately ship that long has bore,0.0 +"Britain's victorious cross from shore to shore,",4.0 +"By chance, beneath her close sequestered cells,",0.0 +"Some low-born worm, a lurking mischief dwells;",1.0 +"Eats his blind way, and saps with secret toil",3.0 +The deep foundations of the watery pile.,3.0 +"Reared her tall mast, and framed her knotty side;",3.0 +"In vain the thunder's martial rage she stood,",3.0 +With each fierce conflict of the stormy flood;,0.0 +"More sure the reptile's little arts devour,",0.0 +"You venerable bowers, you seats sublime,",3.0 +Clad in the mossy vest of fleeting time;,0.0 +"At once the pride of learning and defence,",1.0 +"Where ancient Piety, a matron hoar,",1.0 +Still seems to keep the hospitable door;,6.0 +"You cloisters pale, that lengthening to the sight,",1.0 +Still step by step to musings mild invite;,1.0 +"You high arched walks, where oft the bard has caught",1.0 +"The glowing sentiment, the lofty thought;",1.0 +"You temples dim, where pious duty pays",0.0 +"Lo! your loved Isis, from the bordering vale,",6.0 +With all a mother's fondness bids you hail! ' --,0.0 +"Nurse of each brave pursuit, each generous aim,",2.0 +By Truth exalted to the throne of Fame!,1.0 +"Like Greece in science and in liberty,",2.0 +"Even now, confessed to my adoring eyes,",1.0 +In awful ranks thy sacred sons arise;,0.0 +That in thy gardens green its fragrance breathed.,0.0 +"Tuning to knightly tale his British reeds,",2.0 +"His hoary head overlooks the gazing choir,",3.0 +And beams on all around celestial fire:,0.0 +"With graceful step see Addison advance,",2.0 +The sweetest child of Attic elegance:,1.0 +"To all, but his beloved embrace, denied,",1.0 +"See Locke leads Reason, his majestic bride:",3.0 +"See sacred Hammond, as he treads the field,",2.0 +"All who, beneath the shades of gentle Peace,",0.0 +"Who taught with truth, or with persuasion moved;",1.0 +"Who soothed with numbers, or with sense improved;",1.0 +"Who told the powers of reason, or refined,",3.0 +"All, all that strengthened or adorned the mind;",1.0 +"Each priest of Health, who mixed the balmy bowl,",0.0 +"All crowd around, and echoing to the sky,",1.0 +"Hail, Oxford, hail! with filial transport cry.",3.0 +"And see you solemn band! with virtuous aim,",2.0 +'Twas theirs in thought the glorious deed to frame:,2.0 +"With pious plans each musing feature glows,",0.0 +"Lo! these the leaders of thy patriot line,",3.0 +These from thy source the fires of Freedom caught:,1.0 +How well thy sons by their example taught!,1.0 +While in each breast the hereditary flame,2.0 +"Nor all the toils of thoughtful Peace engage,",0.0 +It's thine to form the hero as the sage.,2.0 +"With lilies crowned, the spoils of bleeding France,",0.0 +Edward ' -- the Muses in you hallowed shade,2.0 +Bound on his tender thigh the martial blade:,0.0 +"Bade him the steel for British Freedom draw,",0.0 +And Oxford taught the deeds that Cressy saw.,0.0 +"And see, great father of the laureate band,",4.0 +"And genial influence of my seasons mild,",1.0 +"Hither of yore forlorn, forgotten maid",3.0 +The Muse in prattling infancy conveyed;,1.0 +"From Gothic rage the helpless virgin bore,",0.0 +And fixed her cradle on my friendly shore:,1.0 +"Soon grew the maid beneath his fostering hand,",3.0 +Soon poured her blessings over the enlightened land.,2.0 +"Where first his pious care ordained her seat,",0.0 +"Lo! now on high she dwells in Attic bowers,",1.0 +And proudly lifts to heaven her hundred towers.,0.0 +"Adorned with manners, and advanced with laws:",1.0 +"He bade relent the Briton's savage heart,",0.0 +"And formed his soul to social scenes of art,",0.0 +Elate the long procession he surveys:,1.0 +"Joyful he smiles to find, that not in vain",2.0 +"Himself he marks in each ingenuous breast,",2.0 +With all the founder in the race expressed:,0.0 +"With rapture views, fair Freedom still survive",1.0 +"Such seen, as when the goddess poured the beam",0.0 +Unsullied on his ancient diadem,1.0 +"She plumes her wings, and rests her weary feet;",0.0 +"That here at last she takes her favourite stand,",0.0 +"Here deigns to linger, ere she leave the land.",0.0 +And every low idea to control;,1.0 +"To form the manners, to enrich the mind,",1.0 +"To guide each passion, and to read mankind:",2.0 +"To dress expression, and refine the thought;",1.0 +"To act with dignity, converse with ease,",1.0 +And teach that happy art ' -- the way to please:,0.0 +"To human kind thy genius sure was given,",0.0 +"Though now in darkness death thine eye hath closed,",0.0 +"Enlightened ignorance shall bless thy name,",1.0 +"Abandoned Day, why dost thou now appear?",0.0 +"Art now no festival Cause, I no Bride:",4.0 +"In thee no more must the glad Music sound,",2.0 +"But with sad Cypress dressed, not Myrtle crowned;",2.0 +Never graced again with joyful Pageantry:,1.0 +The once glad Youth that did so honour thee,1.0 +"Is now no more; with him thy Triumph's lost,",2.0 +He always owned thee worthy of his Boast.,1.0 +I learnt at last to celebrate thee too;,0.0 +"Though it was long before I could be content,",1.0 +To yield you more than formal Compliment;,1.0 +I then perhaps might have enjoyed thee still:,0.0 +"When my reluctant Soul did Fate obey,",1.0 +"And trembling Tongue with the sad Rites complied,",2.0 +"With timorous Hand the amazing Knot I tied,",3.0 +While Vows and Duty checked the doubting Bride.,0.0 +"At length my reconciled and conquered Heart,",0.0 +"Wishes thee still that celebrated Day,",2.0 +Than the sad Relic of Solemnity;,4.0 +"May the Sun's Rays never be to thee allowed,",2.0 +"But let him double every thick wrought Cloud,",1.0 +And wrap himself in a retiring Shroud;,1.0 +"Let unmixed Darkness shade the gloomy Air,",6.0 +"Till all our sable Horizon appear,",4.0 +"With me thy abdicated State deplore,",1.0 +IN Death's great library here laid aside,6.0 +"This volume lies neglected and despised,",1.0 +"Yet rests in hope, by heavenly art applied,",2.0 +"To reappear, corrected and revised,",1.0 +"Improved by its first Author's perfect hand,",3.0 +"In Heaven's fair catalogue it firm shall stand,",3.0 +"COntending kings, and fields of death, too long",1.0 +"Have been the subject of the British song,",1.0 +"Exhausted themes! A gentle note I raise,",0.0 +And sing returning Peace in softer lays.,0.0 +"Their fury quelled, and martial rage allayed,",0.0 +I wait our heroes in the sylvan shade:,0.0 +And warring powers in friendly leagues combined;,2.0 +"While ease and pleasure make the nations smile,",0.0 +"Who, thirty rolling years, had oft withheld",0.0 +The Suede and Saxon from the dusty field;,1.0 +"Completely formed, to heal the Christian wounds,",0.0 +"To name the kings, and give each kingdom bounds;",0.0 +"The face of ravaged nature to repair,",1.0 +"By leagues to soften earth, and heaven by prayer;",0.0 +"To gain by love, where rage and slaughter fail,",0.0 +"Had scattered plagues over stubborn Pharaoh's land,",3.0 +"Now spread an host of locusts round the shore,",1.0 +Now turned Nile's fattening streams to putrid gore;,2.0 +And sudden almonds shot from Aaron's rod.,0.0 +"To whom, as chief, the hopes of peace we owe,",0.0 +"For next to thee, the man whom kings contend",1.0 +"To style companion, and to make their friend,",1.0 +With joyful pride accepts the second place,0.0 +"From Britain's isle, and Isis' sacred spring",0.0 +"One hour, o! listen while the muses sing.",0.0 +"Though ministers of mighty monarchs wait,",2.0 +"With beating hearts, to learn their masters' fate,",0.0 +"Nor think the world, thy charge, neglected stands;",0.0 +"The blissful prospects, in my verse displayed,",0.0 +"May lure the stubborn, the deceived persuade,",1.0 +"Even thou to peace shalt speedier urge the way,",4.0 +And more be hastened by this short delay.,1.0 +"The haughty Gaul, in ten campaigns overthrown,",6.0 +Now ceased to think the western world his own.,1.0 +"Oft had he mourned his boasting leaders bound,",0.0 +"In vain with powers renewed he filled the plain,",2.0 +"Made timorous vows, and bribed the saints in vain;",3.0 +"As oft his legions did the fight decline,",0.0 +"At feasts he starts, and seems dethroned in dreams;",0.0 +"On glory past reflects with secret pain,",0.0 +"On mines exhausted, and on millions slain.",1.0 +"To her his crowns and infant race commends,",1.0 +"Who grieves her fame with christian blood to buy,",0.0 +Nor asks for glory at a price so high.,0.0 +"At her decree the war suspended stands,",1.0 +And Britain's heroes hold their lifted hands:,0.0 +"Their open brows no threatening frowns disguise,",1.0 +But gentler passions sparkle in their eyes.,0.0 +"The Gauls, who never in their courts could find",0.0 +"Such tempered fire with manly beauty joined,",0.0 +"In forms so fierce their fearful fancies drew,",0.0 +At whose dire names ten thousand widows pressed,1.0 +Their helpless orphans clinging to the breast.,1.0 +"In silent rapture each his foe surveys,",0.0 +"They vow firm friendship, and give mutual praise.",5.0 +"Brave minds, however at war, are secret friends,",5.0 +Their generous discord with the battle ends;,3.0 +"In peace they wonder whence dissension rose,",0.0 +And ask how souls so like could ever be foes.,1.0 +And scattered armies seek their native land.,0.0 +"The hardy veteran, proud of many a scar,",2.0 +"Who hoped to share his friend's illustrious doom,",2.0 +"And in the battle find a soldier's tomb,",0.0 +"Leans on his spear to take his farewell view,",1.0 +And sighing bids the glorious camp adieu.,2.0 +"You generous fair, receive the brave with smiles,",2.0 +"Overpay their sleepless nights, and crown their toils;",0.0 +"Soft beauty is the gallant soldier's due,",2.0 +"For you they conquer, and they bleed for you.",2.0 +"The nations dread your eyes, and kings despair",0.0 +"Of chiefs so brave, till they have nymphs so fair.",1.0 +"See the fond wife, in tears of transport drowned,",3.0 +"Hugs her rough lord, and weeps over every wound;",3.0 +"Hangs on the lips, that fields of blood relate,",0.0 +"Near the full bowl he draws the fancied line,",3.0 +"And marks feigned trenches in the flowing wine,",1.0 +"Then sets the invested fort before her eyes,",2.0 +And mines that whirled battalions to the skies;,1.0 +"His little listening progeny turn pale,",2.0 +And beg again to hear the dreadful tale.,0.0 +Such dire achievements sings the bard that tells,0.0 +"Where whole brigades one champion's arms overthrow,",2.0 +And cleave a giant at a random blow;,0.0 +"The goblin's fury, and the dragon's flame.",1.0 +"Our eager youth to distant nations run,",0.0 +To visit fields their valiant fathers won;,0.0 +Till far Germania shows her blasted face.,2.0 +"The exulting Briton asks his mournful guide,",1.0 +Where his hard fate the lost Bavaria tried;,5.0 +"He points to Blenheim, once a vulgar name;",1.0 +Here Malb'rough turned the fortune of the field;,1.0 +"The Gauls thrice started back, and trembling stood;",1.0 +"But plunged amid the waves, a desperate throng;",0.0 +And drove the current to its distant head.,0.0 +"A warlike courser on the canvas stands,",2.0 +"Such as on Landen bleeding Ormond bore,",1.0 +"If chance a generous steed the work behold,",2.0 +And hints of glory fire the Briton's soul;,0.0 +"In fancied fights he sees the troops engage,",0.0 +And all the tempest of the battle rage.,1.0 +"Charm me, you powers, with scenes less nobly bright,",3.0 +"Far humbler thoughts the inglorious muse delight,",5.0 +Content to see the horrors of the field,1.0 +"By ploughshares levelled, or in flowers concealed.",3.0 +"Over shattered walls may creeping ivy twine,",0.0 +"And grass luxuriant cloth the harmless mine,",3.0 +"Tame flocks ascend the breach without a wound,",1.0 +"Or crop the bastion, now a fruitful ground;",0.0 +"While shepherd's sleep, along the rampart laid,",0.0 +"Or pipe beneath the formidable shade,",1.0 +"Who was the man? Oblivion blast his name,",2.0 +"Who, fond of lawless rule, and proudly brave,",0.0 +First sunk the filial subject to a slave;,2.0 +In guiltless blood the sacred ermine stained;,0.0 +"Laid schemes for death, to slaughter turned his heart,",1.0 +And fitted murder to the rules of art.,1.0 +"Ah! cursed ambition, to thy lures we owe",1.0 +All the great ills that mortals bear below.,3.0 +"Cursed by the hind, when to the spoil he yields",1.0 +"Cursed by the maid, torn from her lover's side,",2.0 +"When left a widow, though not yet a bride:",1.0 +"By mothers cursed, when floods of tears they shed,",0.0 +And scatter useless roses on the dead.,1.0 +O sacred Bristol! then what dangers prove,0.0 +"Then, mixed with rubbish by the brutal foes,",1.0 +"In vain the marble breathes, the canvas glows;",0.0 +To shades obscure the glittering sword pursues,2.0 +"A voice, like thine alone, might then assuage",1.0 +"The warrior's fury, and control his rage;",1.0 +"To hear thee speak might the fierce Vandal stand,",2.0 +And fling the brandished fabre from his hand.,1.0 +"The drum's harsh music, and the cannon's roar;",2.0 +"Let the steeled Turk be deaf to matrons' cries,",3.0 +"To death grey heads and smiling infants doom,",1.0 +Nor spare the promise of the pregnant womb;,1.0 +"Over wasted kingdoms spread his wide command,",0.0 +Her guiltless glory just Britannia draws,2.0 +"From pure religion, and impartial laws:",1.0 +And holds in equal scales the rival kings:,0.0 +"Her generous sons in choicest gifts abound,",2.0 +"Alike in arms, alike in arts renowned.",0.0 +"As when sweet Venus, so the fable sings",2.0 +"With smiles she sees the threatening billows rise,",0.0 +"Light, over the deep, with fluttering Cupids crowned,",5.0 +The pearly couch and silver turtles bound;,0.0 +Her tresses shed ambrosial odours round.,0.0 +Amid the world of waves so stands serene,0.0 +"In vain the nations have conspired her fall,",2.0 +"Her trench the sea, and fleets her floating wall;",0.0 +Have only waves and hurricanes to fear.,0.0 +"What bold invader, or what land oppressed",1.0 +"But much her arms, her justice more prevailed?",0.0 +"Whose sceptre waving, with one shout rush forth",2.0 +In swarms the harnessed millions of the north;,1.0 +"Through realms of ice pursued his tedious way,",2.0 +"To court our friendship, and our fame survey!",1.0 +"And round his empire spread the learnt store,",1.0 +"TO adorn old realms is more than new to raise,",2.0 +"His bands now march in just array to war,",1.0 +And Caspian gulfs unusual navies bear;,2.0 +And wondering Volga hears the muses sing.,2.0 +Did not the painted kings of India greet,2.0 +"Chiefs who full bowls of hostile blood had quaffed,",3.0 +"Whose haughty brows made savages adore,",2.0 +"Nor bowed to less than stars, or sun before:",0.0 +And adds four monarchs to the Christian name.,3.0 +Blessed use of power! OH virtuous pride in kings!,6.0 +"And like his bounty, whence dominion springs!",0.0 +"Which over new worlds makes heaven's indulgence shine,",6.0 +"Well bought with all that those sweet regions hold,",3.0 +"With groves of spices, and with mines of gold.",1.0 +"Fearless our merchant now pursues his gain,",2.0 +And roams securely over the boundless main.,2.0 +"Now over his head the polar bear he spies,",3.0 +"Now swells his canvas to the sultry line,",2.0 +"Where fumes of incense glad the southern seas,",1.0 +And wafted citron scents the balmy breeze.,0.0 +"Here nearer suns prepare the ripening gem,",0.0 +"And here the over, whose melted mass shall yield",2.0 +On faithful coins each memorable field;,1.0 +"Which mixed with medals of immortal Rome,",1.0 +"May clear disputes, and teach the time to come.",0.0 +"In comely wounds shall bleeding worthies stand,",0.0 +"And if the muse, OH Bristol, might decree,",2.0 +"Here Granville noted by the lyre should be,",1.0 +"The lyre for Granville, and the cross for thee.",1.0 +"So patriots merit, and so monarchs praise.",4.0 +"Over distant times such records shall prevail,",0.0 +"When English numbers, antiquated, fail:",0.0 +"A trifling song the muse can only yield,",0.0 +"To sweet retirements see them safe conveyed,",0.0 +And raise their battles in the rural shade.,0.0 +"Begin, my muse, and softly touch the string:",0.0 +Here Henry loved; and Chaucer learnt to sing.,0.0 +"Where kings of old concealed forgot the throne,",0.0 +And beauty was content to shine unknown;,1.0 +"Where love and war by turns pavilions rear,",0.0 +"The wearied champion lull in soft alcoves,",3.0 +The noblest boast of thy romantic groves.,1.0 +"Oft, if the muse presage, shall he be seen",2.0 +In dreams be hailed by heroes' mighty shades;,2.0 +And hear old Chaucer warble through the glades:,2.0 +Over the famed echoing vaults his name shall bound;,4.0 +And hill to hill reflect the favourite sound.,0.0 +"Here, here at least thy love for arms give over,",1.0 +"Nor, one world conquered, fondly wish for more.",2.0 +Vice of great souls alone! OH thirst of fame!,4.0 +"The muse admires it, while she strives to blame;",0.0 +"Thy toils be now to chase the bounding deer,",0.0 +And wear each dreadful image from thy breast;,1.0 +"With pleasure, by thy conquests shalt thou see",2.0 +"Thy Queen triumphant, and all Europe free;",1.0 +"No cares henceforth shall thy repose destroy,",4.0 +"Sweet solitude! when life's gay hours are past,",2.0 +"However we range, in thee we six at last;",3.0 +Tossed through tempestuous seas the voyage over,5.0 +"Pale we look back, and bless the friendly shore.",3.0 +"Our own strict judges, our past life we scan,",3.0 +And ask if glory hath enlarged the span;,0.0 +"If bright the prospect, we the grave defy,",1.0 +"Trust future ages, and contented die.",2.0 +To view the pomp of this triumphant dome;,1.0 +And Bourbon's woes shall fill the storied wall;,0.0 +"Banners that oft have waved on conquered walls,",2.0 +"And trumps, that drowned the groans of gasping Gauls.",0.0 +"Fair dames shall oft, with curious eye, explore",3.0 +"The costly robes that slaughtered generals wore,",0.0 +"And Gaul's fair flowers, in human crimson died.",3.0 +Shall mark the burnished steel that hangs on high;,0.0 +"Shall gaze transported on its glittering charms,",3.0 +And reach it struggling with unequal arms;,1.0 +"By signs the drum's tumultuous sound request,",3.0 +"So, in the painter's animated frame,",0.0 +Or join their strength to heave his ponderous shield;,2.0 +"Thus, the rude tempest of the field overblown,",7.0 +Shall whiter rounds of smiling years roll on:,2.0 +"Our victors, blessed in peace, forget their wars,",0.0 +"Enjoy past dangers, and absolve the stars.",2.0 +"You honoured shades, whom widowed Albion mourns?",5.0 +"If your thin forms yet discontented moan,",2.0 +And haunt the mangled mansions once your own;,0.0 +"Behold what flowers the pious muses strow,",2.0 +"And tears, which in the mid of triumph flow;",0.0 +"Cypress and bays your envied brows surround,",2.0 +"Your names the tender matron's heart shall wound,",0.0 +And the soft maid grow pensive at the sound.,4.0 +"Accept, great Anne, the tears their memory draws,",3.0 +Who nobly perished in their sovereign's cause:,1.0 +Vast price of blood on each victorious day!,3.0 +Lamented triumphs! when one breath must tell,0.0 +"That Marlborough conquered, and that Dormer fell.",3.0 +"Great Queen! whose name strikes haughty monarchs pale,",3.0 +"Whose arm like mercy wounds, decides like fate,",0.0 +On whose decree the nations anxious wait;,0.0 +"Shall over the main to far Peru command,",2.0 +"So vast a tract whose wide domain shall run,",0.0 +Its circling skies shall see no setting sun.,1.0 +"Thee, thee an hundred languages shall claim,",2.0 +And savage Indians swear by Anna's name;,2.0 +"The line and poles shall own thy rightful sway,",0.0 +And thy commands the severed globe obey.,1.0 +Round the vast ball thy new dominions chain,3.0 +"The watery kingdoms, and control the main;",3.0 +Across the seas a formidable line;,1.0 +"The sight of adverse Gaul we fear no more,",2.0 +"But pleased see Dunkirk, now a guiltless shore.",1.0 +"In vain great Neptune tore the narrow ground,",1.0 +"Her giant Genius takes a mighty stride,",0.0 +And sets his foot beyond the encroaching tide;,2.0 +"On either bank the land its master knows,",0.0 +And in the mid the subject ocean flows.,0.0 +"So near proud Rhodes, across the raging flood,",1.0 +"Stupendous form! the vast Colossus stood,",0.0 +A whole hour's sail scarce reach the farther side,3.0 +"Betwixt his brazen thighs, in loose array,",0.0 +Ten thousand streamers on the billows play.,2.0 +"To Britain's empire, owns her ancient lord.",0.0 +"Rich in the blood which swelled that patriot's veins,",2.0 +"Who boldly faithful met his sovereign's frown,",1.0 +And scorned for gold to yield the important town.,2.0 +"A fort so dreadful to our English shore,",1.0 +"Whose vast expenses to such sums amount,",1.0 +That the taxed Gaul scarce furnished out the account:,7.0 +Its weakest ramparts are the rocks and main;,2.0 +"His boast great Louis yields, and cheaply buys",1.0 +Sees the new glories of the British crown:,4.0 +"Ah! may they never provoke thee to the fight,",3.0 +"Nor foes more dreadful than the Gauls invite,",1.0 +"Soon may they hold the olive, soon assuage",0.0 +"Their secret murmurs, nor call forth thy rage",2.0 +Thy realm the sea over their precarious land.,6.0 +"Scorned worth to raise, and vice in robes chastise;",1.0 +"To dry the orphan's tears, and from the bar",1.0 +"Chase the bribed judge, and hush the wordy war;",3.0 +And turn God's fury from an impious age.,5.0 +Blessed change! the soldier's late destroying hand,1.0 +Shall rear new temples in his native land;,1.0 +"Mistaken zealots shall with fear behold,",0.0 +And beg admittance in our sacred fold;,0.0 +"On her own works the pious Queen shall smile,",1.0 +And turn her cares upon her favourite isle.,0.0 +"So the keen bolt a warrior angel aims,",2.0 +"He bears a tempest on his sounding wings,",1.0 +"At length, heaven's wrath appeased, he quits the war,",1.0 +"To roll his orb, and guide his destined star,",0.0 +"To shed kind fate, and lucky hours bestow,",1.0 +And smile propitious on the world below.,1.0 +"Around thy throne shall faithful nobles wait,",0.0 +"These guard the church, and those direct the state,",1.0 +"To Bristol, graceful in maternal tears,",0.0 +"The church her towery forehead gently rears,",2.0 +"She begs her pious son to assert her cause,",2.0 +"Defend her rights, and reinforce her laws,",0.0 +"With holy zeal the sacred work begin,",0.0 +To bend the stubborn and the meek to win.,1.0 +"Our Oxford's earl in careful thought shall stand,",0.0 +"To raise his Queen, and save a sinking land,",0.0 +"He marks, and makes the golden world our own:",0.0 +"The sacred watch lay curled in many a fold,",3.0 +The sleepless guardian wasted life away.,2.0 +"Beneath the peaceful olives, raised by you,",0.0 +Her ancient pride shall every art renew;,0.0 +"The arts with you, famed Harcourt, shall defend,",3.0 +"With piercing eye some search where nature plays,",0.0 +"Whence health from herbs; from seeds how groves begun,",0.0 +How vital streams in circling eddies run.,0.0 +"Some teach, why round the sun the spheres advance,",0.0 +In the fixed measures of their mystic dance:,3.0 +"How tides, when heaved by pressing moons, overflow,",3.0 +"In happy chains our daring language bound,",0.0 +"Shall sport no more in arbitrary sound,",1.0 +And longs to weep when flowing Rowe commands:,0.0 +Britain's Spectators shall their strength combine,1.0 +"To mend our morals, and our taste refine,",1.0 +"Fight virtue's cause, stand up in wit's defence,",3.0 +"Win us from vice, and laugh us into sense.",0.0 +"Nor, Prior, hast thou hushed the trump in vain,",0.0 +"New tales shall now be told; if right I see,",1.0 +The soul of Chaucer is restored in thee.,1.0 +"Garth, in majestic numbers, to the stars",2.0 +"Like the young spreading laurel, Pope, thy name",2.0 +"Shoots up with strength, and rises into fame;",0.0 +"With Phillips shall the peaceful valleys ring,",0.0 +And Britain hear a second Spenser sing;,0.0 +"He too, from whom attentive Oxford draws",0.0 +"Rules for just thinking, and poetic laws,",1.0 +"The strictest critic, and the kindest friend.",1.0 +"Even mine, a bashful Muse, whose rude essays",1.0 +"Scarce hope for pardon, not aspire to praise,",1.0 +"Cherished by you in time may grow to fame,",1.0 +"Fired with the views this glittering scene displays,",3.0 +Where sacred Isis rolls her ancient stream;,0.0 +"Where learning blooms, while fame and worth preside,",0.0 +"Where the fifth Henry arts and arms was taught,",2.0 +"The seat of sages, and the nurse of kings.",1.0 +"Here thy commands, OH Lancaster, inflame",3.0 +My eager breast to raise the British name;,0.0 +"Urge on my soul, with no ignoble pride,",0.0 +To woo the Muse whom Addison enjoyed;,1.0 +"Pursue at distance, and his steps adore.",1.0 +"SAY, lovely Nymphs! who fly from rural Sweets,",1.0 +"To noisy Crowds, thick Air, and smoky Streets,",1.0 +"Do Balls, or Plays, your graceful Steps invite?",0.0 +"Can Balls, or Plays, like Richmond Groves, delight?",0.0 +To charm your listening Ear with varied Strains;,0.0 +"No fragrant Gales refresh the sickening Fields,",1.0 +No cheerful flowery Scenes the City yields:,3.0 +"Shall cloud the Graces, that adorn your Face;",0.0 +"While those bright Eyes, like sullied Gems, appear,",3.0 +NOR will you only Change of Beauty find;,1.0 +Illusive Scenes will mock your pensive Mind:,0.0 +"And read a Page in SHERLOCK, or in ' -- GAY;",2.0 +"Perhaps your Thoughts, transported, here may rove,",0.0 +"And, to your Mind, present the blissful Grove:",1.0 +"Or trace the verdant Mead, as heretofore:",0.0 +"When at the Door, the rural Vision flies;",0.0 +"Bid The Footman. ROBERT call a Chair, and go to Church.",0.0 +"TO Thee rude Warrior, whom we once admired,",2.0 +"And thought thy Actions spoke Thee half inspired,",0.0 +"While Justice held the Ballance of thy Cause,",1.0 +And every Language sounded thy Applause:,1.0 +"But since Ambition and Revenge prevails,",1.0 +"Thy Glories languish, and our Wonder fails;",1.0 +"To Thee a Woman sends with Generous Care,",3.0 +"FAME now a Tale of fresher Date has told,",1.0 +Beyond thy mad Romantic Feats of Old:,0.0 +"But we, who know the Genius of our Isle,",2.0 +"At their Report, and thy Invasion smile.",2.0 +ARE not our Dames in every Climate famed?,0.0 +"Are not our Youth in foreign Fields admired,",0.0 +"And shall those Fair ones, who the Morning pass,",1.0 +"Consulting that dear Friend to Love, the Glass;",1.0 +"To set the Favourite, and the Patch to place;",1.0 +"To bow, and glance it, with becoming Grace",1.0 +"To melt the Hero's Heart and charm his Eyes,",0.0 +Fall to thy Gothic Rage a Sacrifice?,0.0 +"No, to thy Terror learn, our British Youth",0.0 +"Each would as soon consent thy Cause to aid,",0.0 +As yield the Fair to whom his Vows are paid.,0.0 +"Unlike the Passive Females of thy Land,",2.0 +The Arbitrators of the War we stand.,1.0 +"At Flirt of Fan, our armed Legions fly,",3.0 +"And they who dare offend, must dare to die.",1.0 +"We know thy daring Heart is nursed in Blood,",0.0 +Wild as the fiercest Savage of the Wood;,1.0 +"With Fame like this, in Northern Slaughter shine,",1.0 +"Rough as the frozen Bear, thy neighbouring Sign:",2.0 +"By Love, as well as Arms our Monarchs Reign;",1.0 +"Can we our GEORGE and His loved RACE disown,",3.0 +To find thy barren Chastity a Throne?,1.0 +And dream of Conquests thou shalt never make;,3.0 +Nor risque thy Life to purchase certain Scorn;,2.0 +The dismal Consequence of such a Friend:,2.0 +"Begin to tremble at the Truths they hear,",0.0 +And vow their Champions shall for GEORGE declare:,1.0 +"They fear thy Taste should lead young James astray,",1.0 +"In his Excuse they still would have to tell,",1.0 +"Though War's his Foe, He loves exceeding well;",0.0 +His Surgeon proves Hereditary Right.,0.0 +BUT if by thy Example he should grow,3.0 +"Cold as thy Rocks of Ice, and Hills of Snow:",0.0 +"Should he clean Linen hold in dire Disgrace,",2.0 +Rudely with dirty Thumbs his Butter spread;,2.0 +"Banish the generous Juice of Grapes away,",4.0 +And with small acid Tiff his Thirst allay;,2.0 +"Swallow lean hasty Meals of Tasteless Roots,",3.0 +"And Eat, and Drink, and Live and Reign in Boots;",0.0 +"Should he, like thee regardless of the Fair,",3.0 +"Lie down to Sleep, and only wake to War;",0.0 +"Could He in Arms, like Gallant Brunswick, Shine,",0.0 +"Yet would His Female Friends His Cause decline,",1.0 +CONSULT thy Safety; send no Armies forth,1.0 +Beyond the Confines of thy frozen North:,2.0 +"Since of our British Fair this Truth is told,",0.0 +"We love the Chaste, but we abhor the Cold:",1.0 +"But if thy daring Folly will proceed,",2.0 +"Fate drives thee forward, and thy Fall's decreed.",2.0 +"EACH lovely Toast her Hero's Soul inspires,",0.0 +"Urges the War, and wakes his Martial Fires:",2.0 +Think but what Terrors will thy Spirits seize,1.0 +When thou shalt face such Enemies as these;,4.0 +"With Warlike Air, the embroidered Chiefs appear,",3.0 +"From Snowy Shirts, at least changed twice a Day.",1.0 +"And Victory waits upon the Wings of Love,",0.0 +Our Sexes Softness is to thee unknown;,2.0 +"What by a Look, or one kind Kiss is done!",2.0 +"Thou, who a Stranger art to Love's Delight,",0.0 +Overthrew the Grand Monarch in Ten Campaigns:,1.0 +Will these give way before Thy Vandal Host,2.0 +"No, these for Liberty, and Beauty draw,",1.0 +And all around the Neighbouring Tyrants awe:,2.0 +"These Cock, take Snuff, invoke the darling Fair,",1.0 +"AIM then no more, fond Prince, at George's Throne,",3.0 +"Wake from the flattering Dream, and guard thy own,",2.0 +"In every Element alike we Reign,",1.0 +And launch our ready Squadrons on the Main:,1.0 +"Reigns in their Wooden Worlds, from Pole to Pole;",0.0 +"Fearless of Danger, cut their conquering Way,",4.0 +And from invading Tyrants scour the Sea.,1.0 +Than brave these dreadful Masters of the Deep:,1.0 +"Beneath their Cannons roar, thy Flags must fall,",0.0 +"ORFORD presides, and these are Britons all.",3.0 +"These, bold as Lyons, will the Fight maintain,",1.0 +"Or drive thee back, or sink thee in the Main:",0.0 +"Though Boisterous as the Winds at Sea they roar,",1.0 +"The Engagement past, the tender Thoughts return,",1.0 +"But when their Country calls, Her strongest Foes defy.",0.0 +"THESE hoist their Sails, and wait thy Coming over,",0.0 +Never hope to see thy Native Sweden more.,0.0 +How wilt thou dare these Hearts of Oak to meet,0.0 +Should Young Augustus deign to lead the Fleet?,0.0 +"Augustus! He! who striding over the Slain,",3.0 +"The Boy, whose Cause forsaken now by all,",0.0 +Calls for a Madman to prevent his Fall.,2.0 +"Unlike the Princes of a Former Race,",1.0 +"He'll Face the Battle, and will force Success.",1.0 +By His Example taught to Conquer Kings.,1.0 +Dealing amongst his Chiefs thy Forfeit Land;,2.0 +"PARDON, great Duke, if Britain's style delights;",3.0 +Or if the Imperial title more invites;,3.0 +"Pardon, great Prince, the failings of a Muse,",4.0 +"That dares not hope for more than your excuse,",1.0 +"Forced at a distance to attempt your praise,",1.0 +"And sing your victories in mournful lays,",2.0 +"To cast in shadows, and allay the light,",2.0 +"That wounds, with nearer rays, the dazzled sight,",0.0 +Nor durst in a direct and open strain,1.0 +"In towering verse let meaner heroes grow,",1.0 +"And to elaborate lines their greatness owe,",1.0 +"Your actions, owned by every nation, want",0.0 +"Praises, no greater than a foe may grant.",4.0 +"To lasting peace and liberty restored,",1.0 +"Allow her weary champion a retreat,",3.0 +To his loved country and his rising seat?,3.0 +"Where your soft partner, far from martial noise,",2.0 +Your cares shall sweeten with domestic joys:,1.0 +"Your conquests she with doubtful pleasure hears,",2.0 +And in the mid of every triumph fears;,0.0 +"Betwixt her queen and you divides her life,",1.0 +"A friend obsequious, and a faithful wife.",1.0 +Hail Woodstock! hail you celebrated glades!,2.0 +"Grow fast you woods, and flourish thick you shades!",1.0 +"You rising towers for your new lord prepare,",4.0 +"The general's arms as far the king's overpower,",3.0 +As this new structure does surpass the bower.,2.0 +"The spacious compass, and the stately height;",1.0 +"The painted gardens, in their flower prime,",0.0 +"And if the Muse would second the design,",2.0 +"Mean as they are, should in my numbers shine,",1.0 +"There live, the joy and wonder of our isles,",1.0 +"In charms might vie, and every blooming grace;",0.0 +"But blessed with equal virtues had she been,",0.0 +"Whom your high merit, and their own, prefers",3.0 +To all the worthiest beds of England's peers.,2.0 +"Thus the great eagle, when heaven's wars are over,",5.0 +"And the loud thunder has forgot to roar,",2.0 +To his forsaken mate and shades returns;,1.0 +"On some proud tree, more sacred than the rest,",2.0 +With curious art he builds his spacious nest;,1.0 +"In the warm sun lies basking all the day,",4.0 +"THOU dearest Object of my fondest Love,",1.0 +What Words can speak the Misery I prove?,1.0 +"Doomed as I am by my relentless Fate,",2.0 +"To bear the worst of dreaded Ills, your Hate.",0.0 +"Loved though thou wert, in every Action just,",1.0 +Have I not wronged thee by unkind Distrust?,1.0 +"Believed thee false, when Love and Truth were thine,",0.0 +And all the tender Joys of Friendship mine?,1.0 +"Wretch that I am, my fatal Crime I know,",1.0 +And merit all the Anger you can show.,1.0 +"Do hate me, loath me, drive me from your Breast,",1.0 +"That Seat of Softness, Innocence, and Rest!",1.0 +"Fly my loathed Sight, and curse me with your Scorn.",4.0 +"But o! though Anger should each Grace transform,",1.0 +And change to Roughness every smiling Charm:,0.0 +"Though those bright Eyes where Love and Sweetness shine,",2.0 +Should with the coldest Glances look on mine:,0.0 +"Though that harmonious, that enchanting Tongue,",2.0 +"Where all the Force of soft Persuasion hung,",0.0 +"Chide me in cruel Sounds, with Fury warmed,",0.0 +And wound the Ears it has so often charmed:,0.0 +"Still would I bear it all, with Patience bear,",0.0 +And whisper to my Soul your Triumph there.,2.0 +"But sure, in Pity to my tender Pains,",1.0 +Some Spark of Friendship in thy Breast remains:,0.0 +"To that I'll sue, the languid Flame to raise,",0.0 +And wake the sleeping Passion to a Blaze:,1.0 +"Try every Art thy Anger to control,",2.0 +And watch each yielding Moment in thy Soul;,0.0 +"Some tender Fit of Softness in thy Breast,",0.0 +"When Love's awake, and Anger charmed to Rest.",0.0 +For sure my Flavia cannot always prove,2.0 +Deaf to the tender Prayers and Tears of Love.,0.0 +"O teach me, thou fair Softness, to atone",3.0 +"With thy own Sweetness thy just Rage disarm,",2.0 +"Direct me how to make my Vows believed,",1.0 +"To move thy Pity, and thy Love retrieve.",1.0 +"The Heart which you, and only you possess.",2.0 +"THE Mimic's ductile features claim my lays,",0.0 +"Changed to a thousand shapes, a thousand ways:",0.0 +Who with variety of arts puts on,4.0 +"All other persons, and throws off his own;",2.0 +"Whose looks well disciplined his will obey,",3.0 +"Bloom at command, or at command decay:",1.0 +"Nor blush, my Muse, those changes to impart,",1.0 +"But who, Apollo, all the arts can trace,",0.0 +For lo! in sight the various artist comes;,2.0 +Lo! how in beauty and in health he blooms:,1.0 +"Its smoothest charms triumphant youth supplies,",0.0 +"Laughs in his cheques, and sparkles in his eyes.",0.0 +"But sudden see, the scene is snatched away,",0.0 +See each inverted feature in decay;,1.0 +"His muscles all relaxed, his face overgrown,",3.0 +Rough and embossed with wrinkles not his own.,2.0 +He trails his dangling legs: the wondering train,2.0 +Laugh at the solemn conduct of his cane;,1.0 +"Rapt through the scenes of life, he drops his prime;",0.0 +A cripple sixty years before his time;,0.0 +"Runs in a moment all his stages over,",0.0 +"Now he a venerable judge appears,",1.0 +And the long garb of lazy purple wears;,2.0 +"His mien, his habit, and address the same:",1.0 +"Puns from the law, or quibbles out of Coke;",1.0 +"With settled air, and most judicious face,",0.0 +"Nods over the cushion, counsel, and the case;",4.0 +"Catches a period, and drops down again.",5.0 +"And now his hearers in their turn to lull,",0.0 +"Talks of old times; commends their loyal zeal,",3.0 +"Their wholesome statutes, discipline, and ale;",1.0 +"On different themes bestows one common praise,",0.0 +"The Thames, the streets, the king, and king's highways.",1.0 +"You see him quit the bench, and strait appear",0.0 +An huge old gouty counsel at the bar;,1.0 +"Bawl for his client, wrest the tortured laws",0.0 +"From their true sense, and mould them to the cause;",3.0 +"In solemn form harangue the listening crowd,",0.0 +And hem and cough emphatically loud;,1.0 +"Blessed art indeed! and glorious eloquence,",4.0 +Where empty noise supplies the want of sense.,0.0 +"For meaning, signs, and motions he affords,",1.0 +And interjections for the want of words.,1.0 +"What face, but you adopt into your own!",1.0 +"At the least hint, fictitious crowds you raise,",3.0 +And multiply yourself ten thousand ways:,1.0 +A fool's or doctor's person you sustain;,1.0 +The next resume yourself and sense again.,0.0 +"Am I deceived? or by some sudden slight,",2.0 +"Quick the transition, and unseen the art!",3.0 +"Pale and entirely changed in every part,",4.0 +"His shortened visage, and fantastic dress,",1.0 +The mad fantastic to the life express;,1.0 +"Cropped to the quick, and circling round his ears;",0.0 +"That rounded face the Mimic here proclaim,",0.0 +"How very different, yet how still the same!",0.0 +His frantic silence muttering ere he speaks:,2.0 +"Protracted hums the solemn farce begin,",0.0 +And groans and pauses interrupt the scene;,0.0 +"As each in just succession comes and goes,",0.0 +"Worked to its pitch, the spirit stronger grows,",0.0 +"Now quick and rapid, and in rage more loud,",2.0 +A storm of nonsense bursts upon the crowd:,0.0 +"His hand and voice proclaim the general doom,",0.0 +"While this the hourglass shakes, and that the room.",2.0 +"On nature's ruins all his doctrines dwell,",0.0 +And throw wide open every gate of hell.,1.0 +A thousand other shapes he wears with grace;,0.0 +A thousand more varieties of face:,1.0 +"But who, in every shape, can count him over,",0.0 +Who multiplies his person every hour?,0.0 +"What Muse his flying features can pursue,",1.0 +Or keep his wandering countenance in view?,3.0 +"Had I a thousand mouths, a thousand tongues,",0.0 +Who shifts his person and his face at will;,1.0 +A crowd himself; a multitude in one.,0.0 +What the Muse sings: to You the Song is due;,2.0 +"To You, in whom with Joy we see combined",0.0 +"True Royal Greatness, and an humble Mind.",2.0 +"If Goodness can this bold Address forgive,",1.0 +"Nursed by your Smiles, my humble Rhymes shall live.",0.0 +"To sing the Town, where balmy Waters flow,",0.0 +"My Muse aspires; while conscious Blushes rise,",2.0 +"She dares to raise her Voice, and stretch her Wings.",0.0 +"Not the famed Springs, which gave Poetic Fire,",0.0 +"Had nobler Virtues, or could more inspire.",2.0 +"Shall raise my Numbers, and defend my Fame.",1.0 +"Long ere the Roman Eagle hither flew,",1.0 +"And, from their Use, assigned the Town its Name.",1.0 +"Thus He, who of Man's Fall divinely sings,",2.0 +"Tells from old Records, wrote of Gothic Kings.",3.0 +"The Romans well this ancient Storey knew,",0.0 +Safe from the Ruin of a thousand Years.,1.0 +These salutary Streams alone can boast,0.0 +Their Virtues not in thrice five Ages lost.,1.0 +"The floating Waters, from their hidden Source,",1.0 +"The flowing Sulphur meets dissolving Steel,",0.0 +"And heat in Combat, till the Waters boil:",1.0 +"United then, enrich the healing Stream,",0.0 +"Health to the Sick they give, and to the Waters, Fame.",1.0 +"Thus oft contending Parties rage and hate,",1.0 +"Malignant both, and push each other's Fate;",0.0 +They join in Friendship for the Public Good.,1.0 +"White Leprosy, of old Egyptian Race;",2.0 +The shaking Palsy; Rheumatism lame;,0.0 +"With many dreadful Ails, without a Name.",0.0 +Fatal Effects of Luxury and Ease!,3.0 +"We drink our Poison, and we eat Disease;",1.0 +"Indulge our Senses at our Reason's Cost,",0.0 +"Till Sense is Pain, and Reason's hurt, or lost.",0.0 +"Not so, OH Temperance bland! when ruled by thee,",2.0 +His Veins not boiling from the Midnight Feast;,2.0 +For which their grateful Thanks the whole Creation pay!,0.0 +All but the human Brute; It's he alone,1.0 +Whose Deeds of Darkness fly the rising Sun.,0.0 +"It's to thy Rules, OH Temperance! we owe",3.0 +All Pleasures which from Health and Strength can flow:,0.0 +"Unmixed, untainted Joys, without Remorse,",0.0 +"Our Waters wash those numerous Ills away,",2.0 +And grant the trembling Wretch a longer Day.,0.0 +OH may returning Health more Wisdom give!,2.0 +Let Death's Approaches teach us how to live.,2.0 +"If but one Leper cured, makes Jordan's Stream,",2.0 +"In Sacred Writ, a venerable Theme,",1.0 +"Where Sick, by Thousands, do their Health renew?",0.0 +"The Mineral Steams which from the Baths arise,",1.0 +"When Fevers bore an epidemic Sway,",0.0 +"While Death abroad dealt Terror, and Despair,",2.0 +The Plague but gently touched within their Sphere.,0.0 +"Blessed Source of Health, seated on rising Ground,",6.0 +With friendly Hills by Nature guarded round;,0.0 +"From Eastern Blasts, and sultry South secure;",0.0 +"The Air's balsamic, and the Soil is pure.",1.0 +What boundless Prospects from yonder towering Height,2.0 +"Of Hills, and Plains, and Valleys strike the Sight!",0.0 +"Towns, Rivers, Villas, Flocks and Herds appear,",1.0 +And all the various Products of the Year.,3.0 +"Thence view the pendant Rock's majestic Shade,",1.0 +That speaks the Ruins conquering Time has made:,2.0 +"Whether the Egg was by the Deluge broke,",3.0 +Or Nature since has felt some other Shock;,0.0 +"A gay Delusion, if it be a Dream.",1.0 +"The shattered Rocks and Strata seem to say,",0.0 +"Nature is old, and tends to her Decay:",3.0 +"Yet lovely in Decay, and green in Age,",0.0 +"Her Beauty lasts her, to her latest Stage.",1.0 +"Wisdom immense contrived the wondrous Ball,",2.0 +"And Form sprung forth, obedient to his Call.",2.0 +"He fixed her Date, and bid the Planet run",0.0 +Her annual Race around the central Sun:,2.0 +"He bid the Seasons, Days, and Nights return,",0.0 +"Till the penned Fires which at the Centre burn,",1.0 +Shall the whole Globe to one huge Cinder turn.,5.0 +"Then, like a Phoenix, she again shall rise,",1.0 +And the New World be peopled from the Skies;,3.0 +"Then Vice, and all her Train of Ills shall cease,",0.0 +And Truth shall reign with Righteousness and Peace.,1.0 +"Beneath the Hills, a peopled Island seems;",0.0 +"An ancient Abbey in its Centre stands,",0.0 +"When Holy Craft supreme did guide the Helm,",0.0 +"The artful Priest amazed the gaping Crowd,",0.0 +And sacred Truth was veiled in mystic Cloud;,0.0 +When living Saints for true Devotion bled;,0.0 +And Rites profane were offered to the Dead;,1.0 +"When Idol Images Devotion drew,",1.0 +And Idol Gods were worshipped as the true;,1.0 +In Stone to represent the Eternal Mind!,2.0 +Witness the Saints and Angels on the Wall!,3.0 +"Welcome, fair Liberty, and Light divine!",4.0 +"Yet wider spread your Wings, and brighter shine;",0.0 +"Dart livelier Beams on every British Soul,",3.0 +And scatter slavish Darkness to the Pole.,1.0 +Now for pure Worship is the Church designed;,4.0 +OH that the Muse could say to that confined!,0.0 +"Even there, by meaning Looks, and cringing Bows,",1.0 +"Fly hence, Profane, nor taint this Sacred Place;",1.0 +And pompous Monuments secure the Trust:,1.0 +"There Montague, the Noble Prelate, lies,",0.0 +With pious Hands uplifted to the Skies:,4.0 +"A Virgin here enjoys eternal Fame,",0.0 +"The spacious Portico demands my Song,",0.0 +"Where Beaux, and Belles appear, a shining Throng!",0.0 +"To take a cordial Draught, and cheer the Soul,",0.0 +"Like Homer's Gods, when Nectar crowned the Bowl.",0.0 +"Correct the Fabric, simple, neat, and plain,",0.0 +"But innocently white, it's proud to show,",1.0 +"The Baths adjoining form two ample Squares,",1.0 +Around the Walls the Roman Art appears;,0.0 +"Niches and Arches there the Bathers find,",3.0 +"A Shelter from the Rain, and blustering Wind.",3.0 +Whose noble Virtues give them King and Queen's Bath. Royal Names.,1.0 +"Cross Bath. Not far from hence, a Bath of gentler Heat,",1.0 +The tender Virgin finds a safe Retreat,0.0 +"From Sights indecent, and from Speeches lewd,",1.0 +"Just in the mid a Marble Cross there stands,",0.0 +"Devoid itself of Power to heal our Woes,",2.0 +"Yet, decked with monumental Crutches, shows",0.0 +"What mighty Cures this wondrous Pool has done,",0.0 +And these the Trophies from Diseases won.,2.0 +"The Sailor thus, on foaming Billows tossed,",0.0 +"His Ship, and Ship-Mates in the Tempest lost,",1.0 +"Did some kind God's assisting Power implore,",3.0 +"And when, by Aid Divine, he reached the Shore,",0.0 +"Strait to the Temple of the God he flew,",1.0 +"And near the dropping Garment, on the Wall",1.0 +"He wrote, with grateful Praise, the moving Tale.",0.0 +"West Gate. Through yonder high arched Gate on either Hand,",2.0 +"In comely Order, Rows of Buildings stand;",0.0 +"See Squares, and Hospitals, and Temples rise,",6.0 +From whence let pure Devotion pierce the Skies.,1.0 +"A Fountain flows, which stately Walls surround,",0.0 +"Where Herds were wont to drink the cooling Spring,",0.0 +And Birds on bending Branches used to sing.,0.0 +"Leaving the West, I guide my View around,",2.0 +"Where the Remains of many an hundred Year,",3.0 +"In reverend Ruins, on the Walls appear,",1.0 +Here Hercules attentive Eye demands;,0.0 +And there a Shepherd and his youthful Dame;,2.0 +"These Monuments, and more, are known to Fame.",1.0 +"Hence view the Grove; it forms a verdant Square,",1.0 +See the Trees wanton in the Eastern Air;,3.0 +And lofty Buildings shade in Noon of Day.,0.0 +"To future Times this Monument shall show,",1.0 +"How much all Britons, and all Belgians owe,",1.0 +To Springs which saved from Death the Great Nassau.,4.0 +"Heroes like William, ready to defend",3.0 +"Fair Liberty oppressed, and trampled Laws,",2.0 +Or die with Pleasure in the glorious Cause.,2.0 +"What less than this can Prophecy divine,",2.0 +When William's Blood is mixed with George's Line?,0.0 +"Nor think, OH Nash, the Muse forgets thy Praise,",1.0 +Enough for thee this Monument to raise:,2.0 +"What greater Honour can thy Pride receive,",0.0 +Than that Thy Name with great Nassau shall live?,4.0 +Now stately Rooms for Pleasure change the Scene;,1.0 +"Where Music warbles, and the Dancers bound,",1.0 +There blooming Virgins kindle amorous Fires;,2.0 +And there the God of Wit with Verse inspires.,1.0 +Employs those Hours which Dancing cannot kill;,0.0 +"There Miss soon learns the Language of the Eyes,",2.0 +"The witless Beau looks soft, and swears he dies;",1.0 +And who can think so fine a Lover lies?,0.0 +And all Mankind's Epitome you view.,2.0 +"But fly, my Muse, fly this enchanting Place,",2.0 +"Nor Man, through all his Pleasures, dare to trace.",0.0 +"There rest secure, amid the Wise, and Great:",0.0 +"Heroes of ancient, and of modern Song,",3.0 +"The bending Shelves in comely Order throng,",0.0 +"Hither, you Nymphs, attend the leading Muse,",2.0 +"Their Maxims learn, their Precepts be your Guide.",1.0 +"One Hour thus spent, more solid Joys shall give,",3.0 +"Than the gay Idler knows, or Fools conceive:",2.0 +"Of Hills enclosed, and Meadows ever green,",1.0 +"Descend to Walks, betwixt Limes in adverse Rows,",2.0 +"A cool Recess, the Muses chosen Seat,",0.0 +"The lovely Landscape, and the silent Stream,",2.0 +"Inspire the Poet, and present the Theme.",1.0 +"Round the green Walk the River glides away,",3.0 +"And fan the Leaves, and cool the scorching Ray:",0.0 +"And craggy Hills, irregular and rude!",1.0 +Where Nature sports romantic: Hence is seen,0.0 +"The new made Road, and wonderful Machine,",2.0 +A Rock its Burden of a Mountain's Weight.,1.0 +"Hail, mighty Genius! born for Great Designs,",1.0 +"TO adorn your Country, and to mend the Times;",2.0 +"Virtue's Exemplar in degenerate Days,",3.0 +"All who love Virtue, love to speak your Praise:",1.0 +"You chide the Muse that dares your Virtues own,",0.0 +"And, veiled with Modesty, would live unknown;",1.0 +"An honest Muse, no Prostitute for Gain,",1.0 +"Interest may court her, but shall court in vain:",2.0 +"But ever pleased to set true Worth in View,",1.0 +"Yours shall be seen, and will, by All but You.",1.0 +"Prophetic here, the Muse shall build thy Seat,",0.0 +"Great like thy Soul, in every Part complete:",0.0 +"On this fair Eminence the Fabric stands,",3.0 +The finished Labour of a thousand Hands;,1.0 +"The Hill, the Dale, the River, Groves and Fields,",0.0 +"Vary the Landscape, which thy Prospect yields;",2.0 +Yet scorn alone to gratify the Sight;,0.0 +"Beneath the Load the tender Branch shall bend,",0.0 +And the rich Juice regale its Master's Friend.,2.0 +"Thy Taste refined appears in yonder Wood,",0.0 +"Not Nature tortured, but by Art improved:",1.0 +"Where covered Walks with open Vista's meet,",0.0 +"An Area here, and there a shady Seat.",2.0 +A thousand Sweets in mingled Odours flow,1.0 +"From blooming Flowers, which on the Borders grow.",0.0 +"In numerous Streams the murmuring Waters thrill,",4.0 +"Uniting all, obedient to thy Will;",2.0 +"Till by thy Art, in one Canal combined,",2.0 +They through the Wood in various Mazes wind;,3.0 +"From thence the foaming Waves fall rapid down,",2.0 +"In bold Cascades, and lash the rugged Stone.",0.0 +"But here their Fury lost, the calmer Scene",0.0 +"Delights the softer Muse, and Soul serene;",0.0 +"An ample Bason, Centre of the Place,",1.0 +"Its glassy Face, from every Ruffle free,",0.0 +Reflects the Image of each neighbouring Tree;,3.0 +"On which the feathered Choir, melodious, throng,",4.0 +"By Love inspired, unite in tuneful Song;",3.0 +"Their tuneful Song the echoing Woods resound,",3.0 +"And falling Waters add a solemn Sound,",0.0 +Sure this the Muses haunt; it's hallowed Ground!,0.0 +"Here could the Muse for ever spend her Days,",0.0 +"And chant, in humble Rhymes, the Owner's Praise,",0.0 +"Unjustly jealous of her faithful Swain,",1.0 +While he expects the kind Return in vain.,1.0 +How from the Quarries. Mountain's rocky Sides he drew,1.0 +A thousand shining Palaces to view:,1.0 +"Temples, and Hospitals in every Land,",4.0 +"From Age to Age, his Monuments shall stand.",1.0 +"Envy itself shall die, and fickle Fame,",2.0 +"When he is dead, do Justice to his Name.",1.0 +"Could I, like tuneful Pope, command the Nine;",0.0 +"Did my Verse flow, and as it flows, refine;",2.0 +"Thus would I sing; but OH, with Grief I find",0.0 +My feeble Pen but faintly paints my Mind!,0.0 +"Myself unequal to the great Design,",2.0 +The Task to abler Poets I resign.,1.0 +"For anxious Thought, and sighing Lovers made",0.0 +"Revolving lay upon his wretched State,",0.0 +And the hard Usage of too partial Fate;,4.0 +"Thus the sad Youth complained, once happy Swain",4.0 +Now the most abject Shepherd of the Plain:,1.0 +"Those peaceful Days, and pleasurable Nights;",1.0 +Which gaily made the Dancing Minutes flee?,0.0 +"Dispersed, and banished from my troubled Breast?",1.0 +Nor leave me one short Interval of Rest.,3.0 +"Why do I prosecute a hopeless Flame,",0.0 +"And play in Torment, such a losing Game;",2.0 +All things conspire to make my Ruin sure;,2.0 +When Wounds are Mortal they admit no Cure.,2.0 +"But Heaven sometime does a miraculous thing,",5.0 +When our last Hope is just upon the Wing;,3.0 +"And in a Moment drives those Clouds away,",0.0 +Whose sullen Darkness hid a glorious Day.,2.0 +"Why was I born, or why do I survive,",1.0 +"To be made wretched only, kept alive?",1.0 +"Fate is too cruel in the harsh Decree,",1.0 +"That I must live, yet live in Misery.",1.0 +"Pleased with a people, honest, brave and free,",0.0 +While every step conducts me nearer home.,0.0 +From cliff to cliff in foaming eddies tossed;,0.0 +"On the rude mountain's barren breast he rose,",2.0 +In Po's broad wave now hurries to be lost.,3.0 +"His shores, neat huts and verdant pastures fill,",1.0 +And hills where woods of pine the storm defy;,0.0 +Where shade and beauty tempted to repose;,1.0 +"Within a grove, by mountains circled round,",0.0 +"By rocks overhung, my rustic seat I chose.",1.0 +"Advancing thence, by gentle pace and slow,",0.0 +"Unconscious of the way my footsteps pressed,",3.0 +"Sudden, supported by the hills below,",3.0 +' Mid towering cliffs and tracts of endless cold,1.0 +"The industrious path pervades the rugged stone,",3.0 +"No haunt of man the weary traveller greets,",3.0 +"No vegetation smiles upon the moor,",1.0 +"Yet let not these rude paths be coldly traced,",3.0 +"Let not these wilds with listless steps be trod,",0.0 +"Here fragrance scorns not to perfume the waste,",1.0 +"His humble board the holy man prepares,",0.0 +"And simple food, and wholesome lore bestows,",0.0 +"Extols the treasures that his mountain bears,",0.0 +And paints the perils of impending snows.,1.0 +"And silent bends, where tottering ruins wait.",2.0 +"Yet' mid those ridges,' mid that drifted snow,",1.0 +Can nature deign her wonders to display;,1.0 +And gems of crystal sparkle to the day.,1.0 +"Here too, the hoary mountain's brow to grace,",0.0 +"Five silver lakes, in tranquil state are seen;",1.0 +"That, escaped from bondage, rolls the rocks between.",0.0 +"And, with the Rhine, Germanic climes explore;",1.0 +"Her stream I marked, and saw her wildly move",0.0 +"Down the bleak mountain, through her craggy shore.",3.0 +"My weary footsteps hoped for rest in vain,",1.0 +"For steep on steep, in rude confusion rose;",0.0 +That promised shelter and foretold repose.,1.0 +"Its margin gay, with flocks and cattle spread;",0.0 +And guard from snow each dwelling's jutting shed.,0.0 +"Sweet vale! whose bosom wastes and cliffs surround,",1.0 +Let me awhile thy friendly shelter share!,2.0 +Emblem of life! where some bright hours are found,3.0 +Calm ' -- till it tumbles over the frowning height.,2.0 +We view the fearful pass ' -- we wind along,0.0 +The path that marks the terrors of our way ' --,1.0 +"The torrent pours, and breathes its glittering spray.",2.0 +"The neat, though wooden hamlets, deck the vale,",0.0 +"But though no more amid those scenes I roam,",2.0 +My fancy long each image shall retain ' --,0.0 +While nature's varied beauties deck its side;,0.0 +"Here, rocks and woods its narrow waves enclose,",0.0 +"And there, its spreading bosom opens wide.",1.0 +"Where Tell directed the avenging dart,",1.0 +"With well strung arm, that first preserved his child,",1.0 +Then winged the arrow to the tyrant's heart.,3.0 +"Behold another hallowed chapel stand,",0.0 +"Where three Swiss heroes, lawless force withstood,",1.0 +And stamped the freedom of their native land.,1.0 +"Their liberty required no rites uncouth,",3.0 +"Her rule was gentle and her voice was truth,",1.0 +"By social order formed, by laws restrained.",0.0 +"With nature's charms combined, adorns the way,",0.0 +"And well earned wealth improves the ready soil,",1.0 +"Proud Alps arise, and copious rivers flow;",3.0 +"Oft on thy rocks the wondering eye shall gaze,",2.0 +"There, nature's hand her boldest work displays,",0.0 +"Here, bliss domestic beams on every cheek.",0.0 +Hope of my life! dear Children of my heart!,2.0 +"That anxious heart, to each fond feeling true,",1.0 +"To You still pants each pleasure to impart,",3.0 +And more ' -- o transport ' -- reach its Home and You.,0.0 +Though false as various be the boasted claim:,1.0 +"The ambitious miser swells his boundless store,",1.0 +And bids profusion bribe him into fame.,0.0 +"Sneers at weak justice, and defies the arrest;",5.0 +She dwells exulting on the tongues of kings;,1.0 +"She wakes the Muse to flight, and plumes her wings;",0.0 +The soldier views her in the shining blade;,0.0 +The pedant mid the lumber in his head.,0.0 +"She to fell Treason the disguise can lend,",3.0 +And sheath her sword remorseless in a friend:,0.0 +Reared on the tombs of Truth and Honesty;,1.0 +"Pretend to hear, and to obey the call.",1.0 +"Where fix we then? ' -- Each boasting thus his own,",0.0 +"Say, does true Honour dwell with all, or none?",1.0 +"The truth, my Lord, is clear: ' -- though impious pride",3.0 +"Still does the Goddess, in her form divine,",0.0 +Over each grim idol eminently shine;,2.0 +"Arrayed in lasting majesty, is known",1.0 +"But how explored? ' -- Take reason for your guide,",3.0 +Nor view her with the jaundiced eye of pride.,1.0 +"Of what is wrong or right, or false or true;",0.0 +Objects too near deceive the observer's eye;,5.0 +Examine those which at a distance lie.,1.0 +"' Mid the tall column's, and gay order's pride;",5.0 +"But towards the destined point your sight remove,",0.0 +"And this shall lessen still, and that improve,",1.0 +"New beauties gain upon your wondering eyes,",3.0 +And the fair Whole in just proportions rise.,2.0 +Where the due length of ages lies between:,3.0 +"This separates pride from greatness, show from worth,",2.0 +"Points out what merits praise, what merits blame,",0.0 +"Sinks in disgrace, or rises into fame.",1.0 +"Come then, from past examples let us prove",0.0 +"What raises hate, contempt, esteem, or love.",0.0 +"Wild is the purpose, and the fruitless aim,",1.0 +Like a vile prostitute to bribe fair Fame;,3.0 +"You pyramids, that once could threat the skies,",1.0 +To latest age your founder's pride proclaim;,0.0 +Record the tyrant's greatness; tell his name;,2.0 +Are sunk in dust: the boasting title gone:,0.0 +"Pride's trophies swept by Time's devouring flood,",3.0 +"The inscription want, to tell where once they stood.",1.0 +"But could they rival Nature, Time defy,",0.0 +Yet what record but Vice or Vanity?,1.0 +"His the true glory, though his name unknown,",3.0 +"Not his, whose wild command fair art obeyed,",1.0 +"While folly dictated, or passion swayed.",4.0 +"No: spite of greatness, pride and vice are seen,",1.0 +"Shameful in pomp, conspicuously mean.",3.0 +In vain each gilded turret rears its head;,0.0 +"In vain thy Lord commands the streams to fall,",0.0 +"Extends the view, and spreads the smooth canal,",0.0 +And cries of orphans haunt him in the shade.,0.0 +Mistaken man! by crimes to hope for fame?,0.0 +"Succeeding times, and ages yet unborn,",1.0 +Shall view the guilty scenes with honest scorn;,0.0 +"Disdain each beauty thy proud folly planned,",2.0 +"Next, view the Hero in the embattled field:",2.0 +"Who fights not to destroy, but save mankind:",2.0 +See WILLIAM'S sword a tyrant's pride disarm:,3.0 +"Say, which to human kind are friends or foes;",0.0 +Conquest unjust can never command applause;,4.0 +"It's not the victory charms you, but the cause:",1.0 +"Not Caesar's self can feign the patriot's part,",2.0 +Nor his false virtues hide his poisoned heart:,2.0 +"But round thy brows the willing laurels twine,",0.0 +"Yes: truly glorious, only great is he,",3.0 +"Who conquers, or who bleeds for liberty.",2.0 +"Like baleful comets flaming in the skies,",0.0 +At destined times the appointed scourges rise;,2.0 +"A while in streaming lustre sweep along,",0.0 +And fix in wonder's gaze the admiring throng;,2.0 +"But reason's eye detects the spurious ray,",2.0 +And the false blaze of glory dies away.,2.0 +Now all the aerial cells of wit explore;,2.0 +"Search all the deep recesses of the mind,",5.0 +"Alas, nor wit nor science this can boast,",1.0 +"Oft dashed with error, oft in caprice lost!",4.0 +Transient as bright the short-lived bubbles fly!,3.0 +"And modes of wit, and modes of science die.",0.0 +His glory with his whirlpools vanish all!,2.0 +"See folly, wit ' -- and weakness, wisdom stain, ' --",1.0 +And Villars witty ' -- Bacon wise in vain!,0.0 +"Oft vice corrupts what sense and parts refine,",1.0 +"This, fashion's slave; as that, the slave of wit.",0.0 +"In vain fair Genius bids the laurel shoot,",1.0 +The deadly worm thus eating at the root:,1.0 +"Corroded thus, the greenest wreaths decay,",0.0 +"Quick as autumnal leaves, the laurels fade,",2.0 +"Where then is found TRUE HONOUR, heavenly fair?",6.0 +"Ask, LONSDALE, ask your heart ' -- she dictates there.",4.0 +Yes: it's in VIRTUE: ' -- That alone can give,0.0 +"On virtue's basis only fame can rise,",0.0 +"To stand the storms of age, and reach the skies:",0.0 +"Arts, conquest, greatness, feel the stroke of fate,",1.0 +"Shrink sudden, and betray the incumbent weight;",4.0 +And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.,0.0 +"It's Virtue only can the bard inspire,",1.0 +Beams strong: still Virtue feeds the flame divine;,2.0 +"Wherever she treads she leaves her footsteps bright,",3.0 +"These shed the lustre over each sacred name,",2.0 +These gild each humble verse in modest GAY;,0.0 +And glow and warm in POPE'S immortal line.,0.0 +Nor less the sage must live by Virtue's aid;,0.0 +And truth and virtue differ but in name:,1.0 +"Like light and heat ' -- distinguished, yet the same.",0.0 +To truth and virtue the ascent is sure;,1.0 +The wholesome stream implies the fountain pure;,0.0 +To taste the spring we oft essay in vain:,0.0 +"Deep lies the source, too short is reason's chain;",2.0 +"But those the issues of pure truth we know,",3.0 +Which in clear strength through virtue's channel flow:,1.0 +"Error in vain attempts the foul disguise,",2.0 +Still tasted in the bitter wave of vice;,1.0 +Drawn from the springs of Falsehood all confess,1.0 +Each baleful drop that poisons happiness;,1.0 +And the rank dregs of Hobbes and Mandeville.,2.0 +Detested names! yet sentenced never to die;,2.0 +"Bask in the beam that winged them, for a day:",1.0 +With strength renewed shall from her ashes rise.,1.0 +"See, how the lustre of the ATHENIAN SOCRATES. sage",6.0 +Shines through the lengthened gloom of many an age!,2.0 +"Virtue alone so wide the beam could spread,",2.0 +And throw the lasting glory round his head.,0.0 +And light up nature into certain day!,0.0 +And in each atom found the ruling God.,0.0 +Whose lives confirmed whatever their reason taught!,3.0 +At once to enlighten and persuade mankind!,4.0 +Hail names revered! which time and truth proclaim,1.0 +The first and fairest in the list of fame.,0.0 +"Kings, statesmen, patriots, thus to glory rise;",3.0 +"On virtue grows their fame, or soon it dies;",0.0 +"But grafted on the vigorous stock, it's seen",3.0 +"Brightened by age, and springs in endless green:",2.0 +"Pride, folly, vice may blossom for an hour,",2.0 +"By heats unnatural pushed to sudden growth,",2.0 +They sicken at the inclement blasts of truth;,2.0 +"Shook by the weakest breath that passes by,",1.0 +"It's Virtue only that shall grow with time,",0.0 +"Smile on the faggot, and defy its fire!",1.0 +How great in exile HYDE and TULLY shone!,1.0 +"Nor borrowed blaze it asks, nor fortune's beam;",1.0 +"Affliction's gloom but makes it still more bright,",0.0 +As the clear lamp shines clearest in the night.,4.0 +As different stars with different glories burn;,0.0 +Yet all partake the some celestial fire.,0.0 +"See then heaven's endless bounty, and confess,",1.0 +Which gives in Virtue fame and happiness!,1.0 +"See mankind's folly, who the boon despise,",2.0 +And grasp at pain and infamy in Vice!,1.0 +"Not so the man who moved by Virtue's laws,",0.0 +"Reveres himself ' -- and gains, not seeks applause;",0.0 +"Still swayed by what is fit, and just, and true,",1.0 +Who gives to all whatever to all is due;,2.0 +"Snatches the highest praise, ' -- and is of none:",3.0 +"While round and round the veering patriots roll,",2.0 +"Unshaken points to Truth, as to his pole;",1.0 +Over rumour's narrow orbit soars to fame:,3.0 +"Unmoved while malice barks, or envy howls,",0.0 +Walks firm to virtue through the scoffs of fools;,2.0 +Him Virtue crowns with wreaths that never decay;,2.0 +And glory circles him with endless day.,1.0 +Such he who deep in VIRTUE roots his fame;,1.0 +"OVERWHELMED with pleasure at the joyful news,",0.0 +"Begin, OH Servant of the Sacred Nine!",2.0 +And echo joy through every nervous line:,0.0 +My Baker's well! ' -- O words of sweet delight!,0.0 +"Now! now! my Muse, soar up the Olympic height.",5.0 +"What wondrous numbers can the Goddess find,",1.0 +"I leave it to a Goddess more divine,",1.0 +"Of manners gentle, yet a friend to truth,",0.0 +"With age not peevish, nor yet vain in youth:",1.0 +"Brave, yet humane, and blameless though severe;",2.0 +"His speech was open, and his heart sincere:",1.0 +"Most loved the Soldier, more the Man admired.",0.0 +"A Queen his Mistress, Queen Anne.. and his Friend, Mankind;",3.0 +"Such once was Hill ' -- and various though his lot,",1.0 +"Say, noble Youth, thou Glory of the Stage,",2.0 +Gay soft Delight of the admiring Age;,2.0 +Could have obliged you with Heroics too?,1.0 +"To purchase your Esteem they all agreed,",1.0 +Like him employed ill suiting your Degree;,3.0 +"In his Disguise he rural Conquests won,",2.0 +But you brave Youth have greater Wonders done;,2.0 +"Your Power by neither Sex can be withstood,",2.0 +Your own are all obliged and ours subdued,0.0 +"Wit Fortune, Beauty for your Voice contest,",2.0 +Each with your Approbation would be blessed;,0.0 +"For the charmed Nymphs desire as much to please,",2.0 +"As did the three contending Goddesses,",1.0 +"That blessed young Paris in the myrtle Grove,",1.0 +"They would appear all eager of Success,",1.0 +"But are more cautious, cause their Charms less,",2.0 +And entertained you in a Masquerade;,0.0 +"But beg you would not take the Niceness ill,",0.0 +"May the soft Riddle never be explained,",2.0 +Lest the neglected blush to be disdained;,1.0 +"Should they divide; their Charms would be too small,",2.0 +Were they Celestial; You would merit all.,2.0 +"Yes, lovely Youth, those mightier Charms of thine,",3.0 +"Deserve not only what, but all that is divine:",1.0 +"Before Nature formed you, she in you designed",3.0 +Perfection far beyond all human Kind:,0.0 +"But scorned Materials from her common Store,",1.0 +Traversed her pregnant Universe all over;,0.0 +Picked up each softer Atom as she went;,1.0 +"Thus richly furnished she the Work began,",2.0 +"With utmost Care did every Charm increase,",1.0 +"Dipped her nice Pencil in the liquid Light,",3.0 +"Varnished the whole, till Gods themselves less bright,",3.0 +"Each Deity deceived with what was done,",1.0 +Bestowed some Gift and thought you was his own:,1.0 +"So liberally they gave; in you we see,",2.0 +No Wonder our weak Sex is charmed to love,3.0 +That Form which might the pleasing Object prove,0.0 +Of all the wishing Female Court above:,1.0 +"Tis they alone must for your Heart contend,",3.0 +"Your triple Nymph no farther does pretend,",1.0 +Than to adore the Glories they commend;,2.0 +"They are resolved they will remain entire,",2.0 +Not run the Hazard of dilated Fire;,1.0 +And they neglecting charm to more than Love.,1.0 +They know your Worth; so the deserving three,1.0 +"Will join, and be one Delia to thee;",1.0 +"Let one Idea fill thy grateful Breast,",2.0 +By Silvia if thy charming Self be meant;,1.0 +If Friendship be thy Virgin Vows Extent;,0.0 +"Hers my Esteem shall be, my Passion Thine.",2.0 +When for Thy Head the Garland I prepare;,1.0 +And when my choicest Songs Thy Worth proclaim;,0.0 +My Heart shall own the Justice of Her Cause;,1.0 +And Love himself submit to Friendship's Laws.,0.0 +"But if beneath thy Numbers soft Disguise,",1.0 +If Amaryllis breathes thy secret Pains;,0.0 +And thy fond Heart beats Measure to thy Strains:,5.0 +"The Flame propitious, and the Lover kind:",1.0 +"May Venus long exert her happy Power,",0.0 +"And make thy Beauty, like thy Verse, endure:",0.0 +May every God his friendly Aid afford;,0.0 +But if by chance the Series of thy Joys,2.0 +Permit one Thought less cheerful to arise;,2.0 +"Who loving much, who not beloved again,",0.0 +"THOUGH strength of genius, by experience taught,",3.0 +"Gives thee to sound the depth of human thought,",0.0 +"To trace the various workings of the mind,",3.0 +And rule the secret springs that rule mankind;,1.0 +"Rare gift! yet, Walpole, wilt thou condescend",2.0 +"Can aught of use impart, though void of skill,",0.0 +And raise attention by sincere good will:,1.0 +"For friendship sometime want of parts supplies,",1.0 +The heart may furnish what the head denies.,0.0 +"As, when the rapid Rhine over swelling tides,",3.0 +"To grace old Ocean's coast, in triumph rides,",1.0 +"Though rich in source, he drains a thousand springs,",0.0 +"So thou shalt hence absorb each feeble ray,",2.0 +Each dawn of meaning in thy brighter day;,0.0 +Since no mean interest shall profane the Muse;,1.0 +"No malice wrapped in truth's disguise offend,",1.0 +No flattery taint the freedom of a friend.,4.0 +"When first a generous mind surveys the great,",2.0 +"And views the crowds that on their fortune wait,",1.0 +"Pleased with the show, though little understood,",0.0 +"He only seeks the power, to do the good:",1.0 +And gratitude still springs when bounty flows;,1.0 +"That every grant sincere affection wins,",0.0 +"And where our wants have end, our love begins.",0.0 +"But they who long the paths of state have trod,",1.0 +"Which crammed, yet craving, still their gates besiege,",0.0 +"It's easier far to give, than to oblige.",3.0 +"This of thy conduct seems the nicest part,",1.0 +"To give to fair assent a fairer face,",0.0 +Or soften a refusal into grace.,1.0 +"But few there are, that can be freely kind,",0.0 +"Hence some whenever they would oblige, offend,",3.0 +"And while they make the fortune, lose the friend:",0.0 +"For great men want not what to give, but how.",1.0 +"The race of men that follow courts, it's true,",0.0 +"Think all they get, and more than all, their due;",0.0 +"Still ask, but never consult their own deserts,",3.0 +"And measure by their interest, not their parts.",1.0 +From this mistake so many men we see,1.0 +But ill become the thing they wish to be:,0.0 +"Hence discontent and fresh demands arise,",2.0 +"More power, more favour in the great man's eyes",2.0 +"All feel a want, though none the cause suspects,",0.0 +But hate their patron for their own defects.,1.0 +"Such none can please, but who reforms their hearts,",0.0 +"And when he gives them places, gives them parts.",0.0 +May sell their favours at too dear a rate.,3.0 +"When merit pines while clamour is preferred,",2.0 +And long attachment waits among the herd;,0.0 +"When no distinction, where distinction's due,",0.0 +Marks from the many the superior few;,2.0 +"When strong cabal constrains them to be just,",0.0 +"And makes them give at last, because they must;",0.0 +"What neither friendship gives, nor merit buys.",0.0 +"The man who justly over the whole presides,",2.0 +"Knows when to stop with grace, and when advance,",0.0 +"But thinks how little gratitude is owed,",0.0 +"When favours are extorted, not bestowed.",2.0 +"When safe on shore ourselves, we see the crowd",0.0 +"Through such a tumult it's no easy task,",3.0 +"Surrounded thus, and giddy with the show,",1.0 +It's hard for great men rightly to bestow;,2.0 +"From hence so few are skilled in either case,",0.0 +"To ask with dignity, or give with grace.",1.0 +"Sometime the great, seduced by love of parts,",1.0 +"Consult our genius, but neglect our hearts;",1.0 +"Pleased with the glittering sparks that genius flings,",2.0 +They lift us towering on the eagle's wings:,1.0 +"Mark out the flights by which themselves begun,",0.0 +"And teach our dazzled eyes to bear the sun,",0.0 +"Till we forget the hand that makes us great,",1.0 +"And grow to envy, not to emulate.",0.0 +"To emulate a generous warmth implies,",2.0 +To reach the virtues that make great men rise;,2.0 +"But envy wears a mean malignant face,",0.0 +"And aims not at their virtues, but their place.",1.0 +"By which superior power is still implied,",4.0 +"And while it helps the fortune, hurts the pride.",0.0 +"Slight is the hate neglect or hardships breed,",0.0 +"But those who hate from envy, hate indeed.",1.0 +"Since so perplexed the choice, whom shall we trust?",1.0 +"The man by no mean fears or hopes controlled,",1.0 +"Who serves thee from affection, not for gold!",1.0 +"We love the honest, and esteem the brave,",1.0 +"No show of parts the truly wise seduce,",1.0 +To think that knaves can be of real use.,1.0 +"The man who contradicts the public voice,",0.0 +"And strives to dignify a worthless choice,",0.0 +"Attempts a task that on the choice reflects,",1.0 +And lends us light to point out new defects.,0.0 +"One worthless man that gains what he pretends,",1.0 +"And since no art can make a counter pass,",0.0 +"Or add the weight of gold to mimic brass,",0.0 +"When princes to bad over their image join,",4.0 +They more debase the stamp than raise the coin;,0.0 +"Be thine that care, true merit to reward,",2.0 +And gain that good; nor will the task be hard.,1.0 +"Souls found alike so quick by nature blend,",1.0 +An honest man is more than half thy friend.,0.0 +"Him no mere views, no haste to rise, shall sway,",2.0 +"Thy choice to sully, or thy trust betray.",1.0 +"Ambition here shall at due distance stand,",1.0 +Nor is wit dangerous in an honest hand:,3.0 +"Besides, if failings at the bottom lie,",0.0 +He views those failings with a lover's eye.,1.0 +"Though small his genius, let him do his best,",0.0 +Our wishes and belief supply the rest:,1.0 +"Let others barter servile faith for gold,",1.0 +His friendship is not to be bought or sold.,2.0 +"Fierce opposition he unmoved shall face,",2.0 +"Modest in favour, daring in disgrace;",1.0 +"To share thy adverse fate alone pretend,",1.0 +"In power a servant, out of power a friend.",5.0 +"Here pour thy favours in an ample flood,",0.0 +Indulge thy boundless thirst of doing good.,0.0 +Nor think that good alone to him confined;,1.0 +Such to oblige is to oblige mankind.,3.0 +"If thus thy mighty master's steps thou trace,",0.0 +"The brave to cherish, and the good to grace,",1.0 +"Long shalt thou stand from rage and faction free,",1.0 +And teach us long to love the king and thee;,0.0 +"Or fall a victim, dangerous to the foe,",1.0 +And make him tremble when he strikes the blow;,0.0 +"While honour, gratitude, affection join,",1.0 +"To deck thy close, and brighten thy decline.",1.0 +"Illustrious doom! the great when thus displaced,",2.0 +"With friendship guarded, and with virtue graced,",1.0 +"In awful ruin, like Rome's senate, fall",1.0 +The prey and worship of the wondering Gaul.,3.0 +"No doubt to genius some reward is due,",1.0 +"When truth and genius for thy choice contend,",1.0 +"Though both have weight, when in the balance cast,",0.0 +"Let probity be first, and parts the last.",2.0 +"And cheque the growth of folly and deceit,",1.0 +"When party rage shall drop through length of days,",0.0 +"And calumny be ripened into praise,",1.0 +Then future times shall to thy worth allow,1.0 +"That fame, which envy would call flattery now.",3.0 +"Thus far my zeal, though for the task unfit,",2.0 +Has pointed out the rocks where others split:,1.0 +"By that inspired, though stranger to the Nine,",3.0 +"And negligent of any fame but thine,",1.0 +"I take that friendly, but superfluous part,",3.0 +That acts from nature what I teach from art.,0.0 +"They seem to plain, and every Puff's a Sigh.",0.0 +"Tears follow Sighs, and now the rainy Floods",1.0 +In mournful Streams descend from melting Clouds.,0.0 +"Too well I know, Tears are provoked by Sighs;",3.0 +"Grief swells the heaving Breast; then upward flies,",1.0 +And bursting vents it self through weeping Eyes.,0.0 +"When Myra frowns, I sudden Showers divine,",2.0 +"The Clouds are hers, but all the Drops are mine.",1.0 +What lively Colours paint the shining Bow?,3.0 +"But ah! how soon its waning Glories fail,",0.0 +"Such Beauty is, so flux, so quickly gone;",1.0 +"Myra will soon be scorned, and hardly known;",2.0 +"When with won Lips her Eyes look faint, and dead,",4.0 +And all the Cupids of her Cheeks are fled.,1.0 +No kind Amusement can my Thoughts remove:,2.0 +"My Soul is fixed, and all the Theme is Love.",0.0 +Her rising Cheeks set round with flowing Hair,1.0 +"Like the bright Moon in dewy Nights appear,",3.0 +When circling Halo's guard her from the Sight,1.0 +"Of meaner Stars, and shine with borrowed Light.",1.0 +"Her Lips, that dear, soft, pouting juicy Pair",1.0 +"Invite to Love, and yet deny the Bliss,",0.0 +"Kisses invite, but they refuse to kiss.",3.0 +"It's Parent rudely kills, spoils every Grace,",1.0 +When once the Nymph yields up her envied Charms,2.0 +"She grows unwieldy, and her Cheeks look pale;",2.0 +"So Flowers by handling fade, so all their Colours fail.",3.0 +"Since Beauty fades, why should the Nymph be coy?",0.0 +Snatch then with eager Hast the fleeting Joy.,0.0 +"In spite of wrinkled Age, and eating Time",0.0 +Still shall I know that Beauty once was mine.,0.0 +"When Action's past, I'll on Reflection live,",1.0 +And the Remembrance shall the Bliss revive;,1.0 +"Such, luscious Food will ever leave a Taste.",0.0 +Fate cannot reach the Pleasure that is past.,1.0 +"When the sad soul, by care and grief oppressed,",3.0 +"Looks round the world, but looks in vain for rest;",0.0 +Where shall affliction from itself retire?,1.0 +Where fade away and placidly expire?,1.0 +Alas! we fly to silent scenes in vain;,0.0 +"Care veils in clouds the sun's meridian beam,",3.0 +"Sighs through the grove, and murmurs in the stream;",0.0 +In vain the body breathes a purer air:,0.0 +"He dreads the tempest, but invokes the breeze;",1.0 +On the smooth mirror of the deep resides,3.0 +"Reflected woe, and over unruffled tides",2.0 +The ghost of every former danger glides.,0.0 +"Thus, in the calms of life, we only see",0.0 +A steadier image of our misery;,4.0 +But lively gales and gently clouded skies,0.0 +Disperse the sad reflections as they rise;,1.0 +And busy thoughts and little cares avail,0.0 +"To ease the mind, when rest and reason fail.",0.0 +"When the dull thought, by no designs employed,",3.0 +"Dwells on the past, or suffered or enjoyed,",1.0 +"We bleed anew in every former grief,",0.0 +And joys departed furnish no relief.,0.0 +"Not Hope herself, with all her flattering art,",1.0 +Can cure this stubborn sickness of the heart:,1.0 +"The soul disdains each comfort she prepares,",1.0 +And anxious searches for congenial cares;,1.0 +"Those lenient cares, which, with our own combined,",1.0 +"By mixed sensations ease the afflicted mind,",2.0 +"And steal our grief away, and leave their own behind;",0.0 +A lighter grief! which feeling hearts endure,0.0 +"Without regret, nor even demand a cure.",2.0 +"But what strange art, what magic can dispose",1.0 +The troubled mind to change its native woes?,0.0 +"Or lead us willing from ourselves, to see",1.0 +"Others more wretched, more undone than we?",2.0 +"This, Books can do; ' -- nor this alone; they give",1.0 +"New views to life, and teach us how to live;",2.0 +"Fools they admonish, and confirm the wise:",3.0 +Their aid they yield to all: they never shun,0.0 +"The man of sorrow, nor the wretch undone:",1.0 +"Unlike the hard, the selfish, and the proud,",1.0 +"Nor tell to various people various things,",4.0 +"But show to subjects, what they show to kings.",0.0 +"Come, Child of Care! to make thy soul serene,",1.0 +Approach the treasures of this tranquil scene;,1.0 +"Survey the dome, and, as the doors unfold,",1.0 +"The soul's best cure, in all her cares, behold!",1.0 +Where mental wealth the poor in thought may find,0.0 +See here the balms that passion's wounds assuage;,0.0 +"See coolers here, that damp the fire of rage;",1.0 +The chronic habits of the sickly soul;,1.0 +"And round the heart and over the aching head,",2.0 +Mild opiates here their sober influence shed.,4.0 +"Now bid thy soul man's busy scenes exclude,",2.0 +And view composed this silent multitude: ' --,0.0 +"Silent they are ' -- but, though deprived of sound,",2.0 +Here all the living languages abound;,1.0 +"Here all that live no more; preserved they lie,",1.0 +In tombs that open to the curious eye.,3.0 +"Blessed be the gracious Power, who taught mankind",2.0 +To stamp a lasting image of the mind!,1.0 +"Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds may sing,",2.0 +"Their mutual feelings, in the opening spring;",3.0 +But Man alone has skill and power to send,2.0 +The heart's warm dictates to the distant friend;,3.0 +"It's his alone to please, instruct, advise",1.0 +"Ages remote, and nations yet to rise.",2.0 +"When Joy forgets to smile and Care to weep,",0.0 +"And Fear and Guilt partake the balm of rest,",0.0 +Why then denies the studious man to share,2.0 +"Man's common good, who feels his common care?",1.0 +"Because the hope is his, that bids him fly",1.0 +"Night's soft repose, and sleep's mild power defy;",4.0 +Delightful prospect! when we leave behind,0.0 +A worthy offspring of the fruitful mind!,2.0 +"Which, born and nursed through many an anxious day,",2.0 +"Shall all our labour, all our care repay.",0.0 +"Yet all are not these births of noble kind,",0.0 +Not all the children of a vigorous mind;,3.0 +But where the wisest should alone preside,0.0 +"The weak would rule us, and the blind would guide;",1.0 +"Nay, man's best efforts taste of man, and show",2.0 +The poor and troubled source from which they flow:,0.0 +"Where most he triumphs, we his wants perceive,",1.0 +And for his weakness in his wisdom grieve.,1.0 +But though imperfect all; yet wisdom loves,1.0 +"This seat serene, and virtue's self approves: ' --",0.0 +"Here come the grieved, a change of thought to find;",0.0 +The curious here to feed a craving mind;,1.0 +Here the devout their peaceful temple choose;,1.0 +"With awe, around these silent walks I tread;",0.0 +These are the lasting mansions of the dead: ' --,2.0 +These are the tombs of such as cannot die!,2.0 +"Crowned with eternal fame, they sit sublime,",2.0 +And laugh at all the little strife of time.,0.0 +"Hail, then, immortals! you who shine above,",2.0 +"And you the common people of these skies,",2.0 +A humbler crowd of nameless deities;,1.0 +Whether it's yours to lead the willing mind,1.0 +"Or whether, led by Science, you retire,",1.0 +Lost and bewildered in the vast desire;,2.0 +"Whether the Muse invites you to her bowers,",3.0 +And crowns your placid brows with living flowers;,0.0 +The noblest road to happiness below;,1.0 +Or men and manners prompt the easy page,0.0 +To mark the flying follies of the age:,1.0 +"Whatever good you boast, that good impart;",1.0 +Inform the head and rectify the heart.,0.0 +"Lo, all in silence, all in order stand,",0.0 +"See yonder, ranged in more frequented rows,",3.0 +"While undistinguished trifles swell the scene,",0.0 +The last new play and frittered magazine.,1.0 +"Thus it's in life, where first the proud, the great,",0.0 +"Heavy and huge, they fill the world with dread,",2.0 +"Are much admired, and are but little read:",1.0 +"The commons next, a middle rank, are found;",0.0 +Professions fruitful pour their offspring round;,1.0 +"And last, of vulgar tribes a countless crowd.",0.0 +"First, let us view the form, the size, the dress;",1.0 +"For these the manners, nay the mind express;",1.0 +On the broad back the stubborn ridges rolled,2.0 +Where yet the title stands in tarnished gold;,0.0 +A painful candidate for lasting fame:,1.0 +"No idle wit, no trifling verse can lurk",2.0 +In the deep bosom of that weighty work;,3.0 +"No playful thoughts degrade the solemn style,",1.0 +Nor one light sentence claims a transient smile.,2.0 +"Hence, in these times, untouched the pages lie,",0.0 +And slumber out their immortality:,2.0 +"They had their day, when, after all his toil,",0.0 +"His morning study, and his midnight oil,",2.0 +"At length an author's one great work appeared,",2.0 +"By patient hope, and length of days, endeared:",0.0 +Expecting nations hailed it from the press;,1.0 +"Princes and kings received the ponderous gift,",4.0 +And ladies read the work they could not lift.,0.0 +"Rules even the wisest, and in learning rules;",4.0 +And reigns triumphant over her mother's foes.,2.0 +Lie all neglected like the Birthday Ode.,2.0 +"No readers now invade their still retreat,",1.0 +"Like ancient beauties, they may now discard",1.0 +"Chains, bolts, and locks, and lie without a guard.",1.0 +"Our patient fathers trifling themes laid by,",2.0 +"Till, every former note and comment known,",0.0 +They marked the spacious margin with their own:,1.0 +Minute corrections proved their studious care;,2.0 +"The little index, pointing, told us where;",0.0 +"Bibles, with cuts and comments, thus go down:",4.0 +Even light Voltaire is numbered through the town:,1.0 +"From men of study, and from men of straw;",1.0 +"Pamphlets and plays, and politics and rhymes:",2.0 +"But though to write be now a task of ease,",1.0 +"The task is hard by manly arts to please,",0.0 +When all our weakness is exposed to view,1.0 +And half our judges are our rivals too.,1.0 +"Amid these works, on which the eager eye",0.0 +"Delights to fix, or glides reluctant by,",1.0 +"When all combined, their decent pomp display,",0.0 +Where shall we first our early offering pay? ' --,0.0 +"To thee, Divinity! to thee, the light",3.0 +"And guide of mortals, through their mental night;",1.0 +By whom we learn our hopes and fears to guide;,0.0 +"To bear with pain, and to contend with pride;",1.0 +"When grieved, to pray; when injured, to forgive;",1.0 +And with the world in charity to live.,2.0 +"Not truths like these inspired that numerous race,",5.0 +"But questions nice, where doubt on doubt arose,",0.0 +"For dubious meanings, learnt polemics strove,",2.0 +And wars on faith prevented works of love;,0.0 +"The brands of discord far around were hurled,",0.0 +And holy wrath inflamed a sinful world: ' --,0.0 +"Dull though impatient, peevish though devout,",3.0 +"With wit disgusting, and despised without;",1.0 +"Saints in design, in execution men,",1.0 +"Peace in their looks, and vengeance in their pen.",0.0 +Spirits of spleen from yonder pile alight;,2.0 +"Spirits who prompted every damning page,",2.0 +"Lo! how they stretch their gloomy wings around,",0.0 +And lash with furious strokes the trembling ground!,2.0 +"They pray, they fight, they murder, and they weep, ' --",1.0 +"Wolves in their vengeance, in their manners sheep;",0.0 +"Too well they act the prophet's fatal part,",1.0 +Denouncing evil with a zealous heart;,1.0 +"And each, like Jonah, is displeased if God",1.0 +"Repent his anger, or withhold his rod.",1.0 +And Zeal sleeps soundly by the foes she fought;,2.0 +"Here all the rage of controversy ends,",0.0 +Sleeps with the fiercest of his Arian foes;,3.0 +And thin partitions angry chiefs divide;,0.0 +"Here wily Jesuits simple Quakers meet,",2.0 +"And close beside, a mystic, maudlin race,",0.0 +Lie Crumbs of Comfort for the Babes of Grace.,2.0 +Against her foes Religion well defends,0.0 +"Her sacred truths, but often fears her friends;",0.0 +"If learnt, their pride, if weak, their zeal she dreads,",0.0 +"And their hearts' weakness, who have soundest heads:",2.0 +"But most she fears the controversial pen,",0.0 +"Who the blessed Gospel's peaceful page explore,",2.0 +Only to fight against its precepts more.,3.0 +"Near to these seats, behold yonder slender frames,",6.0 +All closely filled and marked with modern names;,0.0 +"Where no fair science ever shows her face,",1.0 +"Few sparks of genius, and no spark of grace;",2.0 +And stretch their widening wings ten thousand strong;,3.0 +Some in close fight their dubious claims maintain;,3.0 +"Some skirmish lightly, fly and fight again;",0.0 +"Their end the same, though various in their way.",1.0 +"When first Religion came to bless the land,",0.0 +Her friends were then a firm believing band;,0.0 +"To doubt was then to plunge in guilt extreme,",0.0 +And all was gospel that a monk could dream;,0.0 +"For Fear to guide, and visions to control:",1.0 +"But now, when Reason has assumed her throne,",0.0 +"She, in her turn, demands to reign alone;",0.0 +"Rejecting all that lies beyond her view,",0.0 +"And, being judge, will be a witness too:",0.0 +"Insulted Faith then leaves the doubtful mind,",0.0 +"To seek for truth, without a power to find:",2.0 +"Ah! when will both in friendly beams unite,",1.0 +"Next to the seats, well stored with works divine,",1.0 +"An ample space, Philosophy! is thine;",1.0 +"Our reason's guide, by whose assisting light",0.0 +We trace the moral bounds of wrong and right;,0.0 +"Our guide through nature, from the sterile clay,",1.0 +"IT is thine, the great, the golden chain to trace,",1.0 +"Which runs through all, connecting race with race.",0.0 +"Save where those puzzling, stubborn links remain,",0.0 +Which thy inferior light pursues in vain: ' --,3.0 +How vice and virtue in the soul contend;,0.0 +"How widely differ, yet how nearly blend;",0.0 +"What various passions war on either part,",2.0 +"And now confirm, now melt the yielding heart:",1.0 +"How Fancy loves around the world to stray,",0.0 +While Judgement slowly picks his sober way;,0.0 +"The stores of memory, and the flights sublime",1.0 +"Of genius, bound by neither space nor time; ' --",0.0 +"All these divine Philosophy explores,",2.0 +"Till, lost in awe, she wonders and adores.",1.0 +"From these, descending to the earth, she turns,",2.0 +"And matter, in its various form, discerns;",2.0 +"IT is hers the lightning from the clouds to call,",2.0 +And teach the fiery mischief where to fall.,2.0 +"Yet more her volumes teach, ' -- on these we look",1.0 +As abstracts drawn from Nature's larger book:,0.0 +"Here, first described, the torpid earth appears,",0.0 +"And next, the vegetable robe it wears;",2.0 +"Where flowery tribes, in valleys, fields, and groves,",2.0 +"Nurse the still flame, and feed the silent loves;",3.0 +"Loves, where no grief, nor joy, nor bliss, nor pain,",3.0 +"But as the green blood moves along the blade,",2.0 +The bed of Flora on the branch is made;,1.0 +"Where, without passion, love instinctive lives,",4.0 +"And gives new life, unconscious that it gives.",2.0 +"Advancing still in Nature's maze, we trace,",0.0 +"In dens and burning plains, her savage race;",0.0 +"With those tame tribes who on their lord attend,",1.0 +"And find, in man, a master and a friend;",1.0 +"Man crowns the scene, a world of wonders new,",1.0 +"A moral world, that well demands our view.",0.0 +"This world is here; for, of more lofty kind,",1.0 +These neighbouring volumes reason on the mind;,3.0 +They paint the state of man ere yet endued,1.0 +"With knowledge; ' -- man, poor, ignorant, and rude;",2.0 +"Then, as his state improves, their pages swell,",0.0 +"And all its cares, and all its comforts, tell:",0.0 +"Here we behold how inexperience buys,",3.0 +"At little price, the wisdom of the wise;",1.0 +"Without the troubles of an active state,",1.0 +"Without the cares and dangers of the great,",1.0 +"Without the miseries of the poor, we know",1.0 +"What wisdom, wealth, and poverty bestow;",1.0 +"We see how reason calms the raging mind,",0.0 +And how contending passions urge mankind:,2.0 +"Some, won by virtue, glow with sacred fire;",0.0 +"Some, lured by vice, indulge the low desire;",0.0 +"While others, won by either, now pursue",0.0 +"The guilty chase, now keep the good in view;",1.0 +"For ever wretched, with themselves at strife,",1.0 +"They lead a puzzled, vexed, uncertain life;",0.0 +Which transient virtue seeks to cure in vain.,0.0 +"While thus engaged, high views enlarge the soul,",1.0 +"New interests draw, new principles control:",3.0 +"Nor thus the soul alone resigns her grief,",0.0 +But here the tortured body finds relief;,0.0 +"Her subtle gin, that not a fly escapes!",0.0 +"To war with death, and stop his flying dart;",0.0 +"To trace the source whence the fierce contest grew,",1.0 +And life's short lease on easier terms renew;,3.0 +To calm the frenzy of the burning brain;,1.0 +To heal the tortures of imploring pain;,1.0 +"Or, when more powerful ills all efforts brave,",2.0 +"To ease the victim no device can save,",0.0 +And smooth the stormy passage to the grave.,1.0 +"But man, who knows no good unmixed and pure,",1.0 +Oft finds a poison where he sought a cure;,1.0 +And cloud the science they pretend to clear:,1.0 +"Scourges for sin, the solemn tribe are sent;",2.0 +"Like fire and storms, they call us to repent;",1.0 +"But storms subside, and fires forget to rage.",0.0 +These are eternal scourges of the age:,2.0 +IT is not enough that each terrific hand,0.0 +Spreads desolation round a guilty land;,1.0 +"But trained to ill, and hardened by its crimes,",1.0 +Their pen relentless kills through future times.,0.0 +"Say you, who search these records of the dead ' --",1.0 +"Who read huge works, to boast what you have read;",2.0 +"Can all the real knowledge you possess,",4.0 +"Or those ' -- if such there are ' -- who more than guess,",2.0 +"Atone for each impostor's wild mistakes,",3.0 +And mend the blunders pride or folly makes?,0.0 +"What thought so wild, what airy dream so light,",0.0 +That will not prompt a theorist to write?,1.0 +"What art so prevalent, what proof so strong,",1.0 +That will convince him his attempt is wrong?,2.0 +"One in the solids finds each lurking ill,",0.0 +Nor grants the passive fluids power to kill;,2.0 +"A learnt friend some subtler reason brings,",3.0 +"Absolves the channels, but condemns their springs;",1.0 +"The subtle nerves, that shun the doctor's eye,",0.0 +Escape no more his subtler theory;,1.0 +Lends a fair system to these sons of art;,4.0 +"The vital air, a pure and subtle stream,",0.0 +"Serves a foundation for an airy scheme,",3.0 +"Assists the doctor, and supports his dream.",1.0 +"Some have their favourite ills, and each disease",0.0 +Is but a younger branch that kills from these:,1.0 +One to the gout contracts all human pain;,1.0 +He views it raging in the frantic brain;,0.0 +"Finds it in fevers all his efforts mar,",0.0 +"Bilious by some, by others nervous seen,",1.0 +Rage the fantastic demons of the spleen;,3.0 +And every symptom of the strange disease,1.0 +With every system of the sage agrees.,1.0 +"You frigid tribe, on whom I wasted long",0.0 +"The tedious hours, and never indulged in song;",4.0 +Who promised knowledge you could not impart;,1.0 +"You sons of fiction, clad in stupid prose;",0.0 +"You treacherous leaders, who, yourselves in doubt,",2.0 +"Light up false fires, and send us far about; ' --",3.0 +"Still may yonder spider round your pages spin,",0.0 +"Subtle and slow, her emblematic gin!",2.0 +"Buried in dust and lost in silence, dwell,",2.0 +"Most potent, grave, and reverend friends ' -- farewell!",1.0 +"Near these, and where the setting sun displays,",0.0 +"Through the dim window, his departing rays,",3.0 +And spread their guardian terrors round the land;,2.0 +"Yet, as the best that human care can do,",0.0 +"Is mixed with error, oft with evil too,",0.0 +"Skilled in deceit, and practised to evade,",2.0 +"Knaves stand secure, for whom these laws were made,",1.0 +"And justice vainly each expedient tries,",2.0 +"While art eludes it, or while power defies.",3.0 +"Ah! happy age, the youthful poet sings,",0.0 +When the free nations knew not laws nor kings;,2.0 +"When all were blessed to share a common store,",0.0 +"And none were proud of wealth, for none were poor;",0.0 +"No thirst of empire, no desire of gain;",1.0 +"No proud great man, nor one who would be great,",2.0 +Drove modest merit from its proper state;,2.0 +"Nor into distant climes would Avarice roam,",2.0 +To fetch delights for Luxury at home:,1.0 +"Bound by no ties which kept the soul in awe,",3.0 +"They dwelled at liberty, and love was law!",1.0 +"Mistaken youth! each nation first was rude,",0.0 +"To whom no joys of social life were known,",1.0 +None felt a care that was not all his own;,1.0 +Bowed to a little tyrant's stern control;,2.0 +"A slave, with slaves his monarch's throne he raised,",1.0 +And in rude song his ruder idol praised;,1.0 +The meaner cares of life were all he knew;,0.0 +"Bounded his pleasures, and his wishes few:",3.0 +"But when by slow degrees the Arts arose,",0.0 +"When Commerce, rising from the bed of ease,",1.0 +"Ran round the land, and pointed to the seas;",1.0 +"When Emulation, born with jealous eye,",0.0 +"And Avarice, lent their spurs to industry;",3.0 +"Then one by one the numerous laws were made,",3.0 +"To kerb the insolence of rude command,",1.0 +"To awe the bold, to yield the wronged redress,",0.0 +"Like some vast flood, unbounded, fierce, and strong,",1.0 +"The laws are formed, and placed on every side:",0.0 +"Whenever it breaks the bounds by these decreed,",3.0 +"New statutes rise, and stronger laws succeed;",1.0 +"More and more gentle grows the dying stream,",0.0 +"Till, like a miner working sure and slow,",0.0 +"Luxury creeps on, and ruins all below;",2.0 +"The basis sinks, the ample piles decay;",0.0 +The stately fabric shakes and falls away;,0.0 +"Primeval want and ignorance come on,",2.0 +"But Freedom, that exalts the savage state, is gone.",0.0 +"Next, History ranks; ' -- there full in front she lies,",0.0 +And every nation her dread tale supplies;,2.0 +With sceptic queries marks the passing page;,0.0 +"Records of old nor later date are clear,",0.0 +"Too distant those, and these are placed too near;",4.0 +"There time conceals the objects from our view,",1.0 +Here our own passions and a writer's too:,1.0 +"Yet, in these volumes, see how states arose!",0.0 +Guarded by virtue from surrounding foes;,3.0 +"Their virtue lost, and of their triumphs vain,",1.0 +Lo! how they sunk to slavery again!,1.0 +A nation grows too glorious to be blessed;,2.0 +"Conspicuous made, she stands the mark of all,",2.0 +And foes join foes to triumph in her fall.,1.0 +"Thus speaks the page that paints ambition's race,",1.0 +"The monarch's pride, his glory, his disgrace;",2.0 +"The headlong course, that maddening heroes run,",1.0 +"How soon triumphant, and how soon undone;",1.0 +"How slaves, turned tyrants, offer crowns to sale,",1.0 +And each fallen nation's melancholy tale.,0.0 +"Lo! where of late the Book of Martyrs stood,",0.0 +"Old pious tracts, and Bibles bound in wood;",1.0 +"There, such the taste of our degenerate age,",3.0 +Stand the profane delusions of the Stage:,3.0 +"Yet virtue owns the Tragic Muse a friend,",0.0 +"Fable her means, morality her end;",3.0 +"For this she rules all passions in their turns,",1.0 +"And now the bosom bleeds, and now it burns;",0.0 +"Pity with weeping eye surveys her bowl,",2.0 +"Her anger swells, her terror chills the soul;",0.0 +"She makes the vile to virtue yield applause,",0.0 +And own her sceptre while they break her laws;,0.0 +"For vice in others is abhorred of all,",1.0 +And villains triumph when the worthless fall.,0.0 +"Not thus her sister Comedy prevails,",1.0 +"Who shoots at Folly, for her arrow fails;",1.0 +"Folly, by Dullness armed, eludes the wound,",2.0 +And harmless sees the feathered shafts rebound;,0.0 +"Unhurt she stands, applauds the archer's skill,",0.0 +"Laughs at her malice, and is Folly still.",1.0 +"Yet well the Muse portrays, in fancied scenes,",0.0 +"What pride will stoop to, what profession means;",0.0 +How formal fools the farce of state applaud;,0.0 +How caution watches at the lips of fraud;,0.0 +The wordy variance of domestic life;,3.0 +"The snares for innocence, the lie of trade,",1.0 +And the smooth tongue's habitual masquerade.,4.0 +"With her the Virtues too obtain a place,",1.0 +"Each gentle passion, each becoming grace;",0.0 +"Its easy pleasure, its substantial good;",1.0 +"The happy thought that conscious virtue gives,",0.0 +"And all that ought to live, and all that lives.",0.0 +"And awful grandeur in their form are seen,",2.0 +Now in disgrace: what though by time is spread,2.0 +Polluting dust over every reverend head;,3.0 +"What though beneath yonder gilded tribe they lie,",5.0 +And dull observers pass insulting by:,1.0 +"Forbid it shame, forbid it decent awe,",0.0 +"What seems so grave, should no attention draw!",0.0 +"Come, let us then with reverend step advance,",1.0 +And greet ' -- the ancient worthies of Romance.,1.0 +"Hence, you profane! I feel a former dread,",2.0 +A thousand visions float around my head:,0.0 +Hark! hollow blasts through empty courts resound,2.0 +And shadowy forms with staring eyes stalk round;,3.0 +"See! moats and bridges, walls and castles rise,",1.0 +"Ghosts, fairies, demons, dance before our eyes;",1.0 +"Lo! magic verse inscribed on golden gate,",1.0 +And bloody hand that beckons on to fate: ' --,1.0 +"And who art thou, thou little page, unfold?",0.0 +"Say, does thy lord my Claribel withhold?",0.0 +"Go tell him straight, Sir Knight, thou must resign",2.0 +The captive queen; ' -- for Claribel is mine.,0.0 +"Away he flies; and now for bloody deeds,",0.0 +"Black suits of armour, masks, and foaming steeds;",1.0 +"Dukes, lords, and knights in long procession move,",1.0 +Released from bondage with my virgin love: ' --,1.0 +"She comes! she comes! in all the charms of youth,",0.0 +"Ah! happy he who thus, in magic themes,",1.0 +"Over worlds bewitched, in early rapture dreams,",0.0 +"Where wild Enchantment waves her potent wand,",0.0 +"Where doubtful objects strange desires excite,",0.0 +And Fear and Ignorance afford delight.,1.0 +"But lost, for ever lost, to me these joys,",1.0 +My busied mind from tales and madrigals;,1.0 +"My doughty giants all are slain or fled,",0.0 +"And all my knights ' -- blue, green, and yellow ' -- dead!",1.0 +"No more the midnight fairy tribe I view,",1.0 +"Even the last lingering fiction of the brain,",3.0 +"The churchyard ghost, is now at rest again;",1.0 +And all these wayward wanderings of my youth,1.0 +"Fly Reason's power, and shun the light of Truth.",3.0 +"With Fiction then does real joy reside,",3.0 +Is it then right to dream the sirens sing?,1.0 +Or mount enraptured on the dragon's wing?,1.0 +"No; iT is the infant mind, to care unknown,",1.0 +That makes the imagined paradise its own;,2.0 +"Soon as reflections in the bosom rise,",2.0 +"The tear and smile, that once together rose,",0.0 +Are then divorced; the head and heart are foes:,0.0 +And Pain and Prudence make and mar the man.,0.0 +"While thus, of power and fancied empire vain,",2.0 +With various thoughts my mind I entertain;,2.0 +"While books, my slaves, with tyrant hand I seize,",0.0 +Pleased with the pride that will not let them please;,1.0 +"Sudden I find terrific thoughts arise,",2.0 +And sympathetic sorrow fills my eyes;,0.0 +"For, lo! while yet my heart admits the wound,",0.0 +I see the Critic army ranged around.,0.0 +Foes to our race! if ever you have known,1.0 +A father's fears for offspring of your own;,2.0 +"If ever, smiling over a lucky line,",2.0 +"You thought the sudden sentiment divine,",1.0 +With rage as sudden dashed the stanza out; ' --,1.0 +"If, after fearing much and pausing long,",0.0 +And from the crusty critics of those days,2.0 +Implored the feeble tribute of their praise;,1.0 +"Remember now the fears that moved you then,",0.0 +"And, spite of truth, let mercy guide your pen.",1.0 +Lie waiting all around them to oppose!,2.0 +What treacherous friends betray them to the fight!,3.0 +What dangers threaten them! ' -- yet still they write:,1.0 +"A hapless tribe! to every evil born,",0.0 +"Whom villains hate, and fools affect to scorn:",0.0 +"Strangers they come, amid a world of woe,",2.0 +And taste the largest portion ere they go.,0.0 +"Pensive I spoke, and cast mine eyes around;",2.0 +"The roof, methought, returned a solemn sound;",4.0 +"Each column seemed to shake, and clouds, like smoke,",0.0 +From dusty piles and ancient volumes broke;,0.0 +"Gathering above, like mists condensed they seem,",1.0 +"Like flowing robes they now appear, and twine",0.0 +Round the large members of a form divine;,3.0 +"His silver beard, that swept his aged breast,",0.0 +"His piercing eye, that inward light expressed,",0.0 +"Were seen, ' -- but clouds and darkness veiled the rest.",0.0 +"Fear chilled my heart: to one of mortal race,",2.0 +How awful seemed the Genius of the place!,1.0 +"Like him I stood, and wrapped in thought profound,",0.0 +When from the pitying power broke forth a solemn sound: ' --,5.0 +"Care lives with all; no rules, no precepts save",4.0 +"The wise from woe, no fortitude the brave;",1.0 +Grief is to man as certain as the grave:,1.0 +But showers of sorrow are the lot of all:,3.0 +"Partial to talents, then, shall Heaven withdraw",2.0 +"The afflicting rod, or break the general law?",1.0 +"Shall he who soars, inspired by loftier views,",4.0 +Life's little cares and little pains refuse?,1.0 +Shall he not rather feel a double share,0.0 +"Of mortal woe, when doubly armed to bear?",0.0 +Hard is his fate who builds his peace of mind,0.0 +On the precarious mercy of mankind;,5.0 +"Who hopes for wild and visionary things,",0.0 +"But as, of various evils that befall",3.0 +"The human race, some portion goes to all;",0.0 +"To him perhaps the milder lot's assigned,",1.0 +Who feels his consolation in his mind;,0.0 +"And, locked within his bosom, bears about",0.0 +A mental charm for every care without.,0.0 +"Even in the pangs of each domestic grief,",0.0 +Or health or vigorous hope affords relief;,2.0 +"And every wound the tortured bosom feels,",0.0 +"Or virtue bears, or some preserver heals;",0.0 +"Some generous friend, of ample power possessed;",4.0 +"Some feeling heart, that bleeds for the distressed;",1.0 +Some breast that glows with virtues all divine;,0.0 +"Nor say, the Muse's song, the Poet's pen,",0.0 +Merit the scorn they meet from little men.,2.0 +"With cautious freedom if the numbers flow,",1.0 +"Not wildly high, nor pitifully low;",1.0 +"If vice alone their honest aims oppose,",0.0 +"Why so ashamed their friends, so loud their foes?",1.0 +If all the sons of vision dealt in rhyme.,0.0 +"Go on, then, Son of Vision! still pursue",0.0 +Thy airy dreams; the world is dreaming too,0.0 +"Ambition's lofty views, the pomp of state,",0.0 +"Stripped of their mask, their cares and troubles known,",0.0 +Are visions far less happy than thy own:,2.0 +"Go on! and, while the sons of care complain,",0.0 +Be wisely gay and innocently vain;,1.0 +"While serious souls are by their fears undone,",3.0 +And call them worlds! and bid the greatest show,0.0 +More radiant colours in their worlds below:,0.0 +"And tell them, Such are all the toys they love.",1.0 +"To form some Beauty by a new Receipt,",1.0 +"Truth, Innocence, Good Nature, Look serene;",2.0 +"Picked the Demure, the Awkward, and the Coy;",3.0 +The Graces from the Court did next provide,1.0 +"Breeding, and Wit, and Air, and Decent Pride;",2.0 +These Venus cleansed from every spurious Grain,2.0 +"Then called the happy Composition, Floyd.",0.0 +"THERE is in souls a sympathy with sounds,",2.0 +And as the mind is pitched the ear is pleased,1.0 +"With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave.",0.0 +Some chord in unison with what we hear,1.0 +"Is touched within us, and the heart replies.",1.0 +How soft the music of those village bells,1.0 +Falling at intervals upon the ear,3.0 +"In cadence sweet! now dying all away,",1.0 +Clear and sonorous as the gale comes on.,3.0 +With easy force it opens all the cells,0.0 +Where memory slept. Wherever I have heard,3.0 +And with it all its pleasures and its pains.,2.0 +"Such comprehensive views the spirit takes,",0.0 +That in a few short moments I retrace,2.0 +As in a map the voyager his course,1.0 +"Short as in retrospect the journey seems,",0.0 +It seemed not always short; the rugged path,0.0 +And prospect oft so dreary and forlorn,1.0 +Moved many a sigh at its disheartening length.,6.0 +"Yet feeling present evils, while the past",0.0 +"Faintly impress the mind, or not at all,",2.0 +"How readily we wish time spent revoked,",2.0 +"That we might try the ground again, where once",0.0 +Through inexperience as we now perceive,1.0 +We missed that happiness we might have found.,1.0 +"Some friend is gone, perhaps his son's best friend",1.0 +"A father, whose authority, in show",1.0 +"When most severe, and mustering all its force,",1.0 +Was but the graver countenance of love.,2.0 +"Whose favour like the clouds of spring, might lower",0.0 +"And utter now and then an awful voice,",0.0 +"But had a blessing in its darkest frown,",0.0 +Threatening at once and nourishing the plant.,2.0 +"We loved, but not enough the gentle hand",0.0 +That reared us. At a thoughtless age allured,0.0 +"By every gilded folly, we renounced",1.0 +That converse which we now in vain regret.,0.0 +How gladly would the man recall to life,0.0 +"The boy's neglected sire! a mother too,",2.0 +"That softer friend, perhaps more gladly still",0.0 +Might he demand them at the gates of death.,1.0 +Sorrow has since they went subdued and tamed,0.0 +"The playful humour, he could now endure,",0.0 +Himself grown sober in the vale of tears,1.0 +And feel a parent's presence no restraint.,0.0 +But not to understand a treasure's worth,1.0 +"Till time has stolen away the slighted good,",2.0 +"Is cause of half the poverty we feel,",1.0 +"And makes the world the wilderness it is,",1.0 +"The few that pray at all pray oft amiss,",1.0 +"Would urge a wiser suit, than asking more.",0.0 +"The night was winter in his roughest mood,",0.0 +The morning sharp and clear. But now at noon,0.0 +"Upon the southern side of the slant hills,",1.0 +"And where the woods fence off the northern blast,",2.0 +The season smiles resigning all its rage,0.0 +And has the warmth of May. The vault is blue,1.0 +"Without a cloud, and white without a speck",0.0 +"Again the harmony comes over the vale,",4.0 +And through the trees I view the embattled tower,3.0 +Whence all the music. I again perceive,1.0 +"The soothing influence of the wafted strains,",1.0 +And settle in soft musings as I tread,2.0 +"The walk still verdant under oaks and elms,",1.0 +The roof though movable through all its length,1.0 +"As the wind sways it, has yet well sufficed,",2.0 +And intercepting in their silent fall,0.0 +"The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me.",0.0 +"No noise is here, or none that hinders thought.",1.0 +With slender notes and more than half suppressed.,0.0 +"Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light",0.0 +"From spray to spray, wherever he rests he shakes",2.0 +That tinkle in the withered leaves below.,0.0 +Stillness accompanied with sounds so soft,3.0 +Charms more than silence. Meditation here,0.0 +May think down hours to moments. Here the heart,0.0 +"May give an useful lesson to the head,",1.0 +And learning wiser grow without his books.,0.0 +"Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one,",3.0 +Have oft times no connexion. Knowledge dwells,1.0 +"In heads replete with thoughts of other men,",0.0 +Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.,3.0 +"Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass,",3.0 +"The mere materials with which wisdom builds,",1.0 +Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place,1.0 +Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich.,3.0 +"Knowledge is proud that he has learnt so much,",2.0 +Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.,3.0 +Holds an unthinking multitude enthralled.,2.0 +Some to the fascination of a name,1.0 +Surrender judgement hoodwinked. Some the style,1.0 +"Of error, leads them by a tune entranced.",1.0 +"The insupportable fatigue of thought,",2.0 +And swallowing therefore without pause or choice,5.0 +"Defies the cheque of winter, haunts of deer,",0.0 +And lanes in which the primrose before her time,2.0 +"Peeps through the moss that clothes the hawthorn root,",1.0 +"Deceive no student. Wisdom there, and truth,",2.0 +"Not shy as in the world, and to be won",1.0 +"By slow solicitation, seize at once",0.0 +"The roving thought, and fix it on themselves.",1.0 +What prodigies can power divine perform,3.0 +"More grand, than it produces year by year,",1.0 +And all in sight of inattentive man?,0.0 +"Familiar with the effect we slight the cause,",3.0 +"And in the constancy of nature's course,",1.0 +"The regular return of genial months,",1.0 +"And renovation of a faded world,",1.0 +How would the world admire! but speaks it less,0.0 +"An agency divine, to make him know",1.0 +His moment when to sink and when to rise,0.0 +"Age after age, than to arrest his course?",2.0 +"All we behold is miracle, but seen",2.0 +"So duly, all is miracle in vain.",1.0 +Where now the vital energy that moved,1.0 +"While summer was, the pure and subtle lymph",1.0 +Of leaf and flower? It sleeps; and the icy touch,2.0 +A cold stagnation on the intestine tide.,3.0 +"But let the months go round, a few short months,",2.0 +And all shall be restored. These naked shoots,0.0 +"Shall put their graceful foliage on again,",1.0 +"Shall boast new charms, and more than they have lost.",2.0 +Shall publish even to the distant eye,1.0 +And throwing up into the darkest gloom,1.0 +Of neighbouring cypress or more sable yew,3.0 +"Her silver globes, light as the foamy surf",2.0 +That the wind severs from the broken wave.,3.0 +"The lilac various in array, now white,",4.0 +"With purple spikes pyramidal, as if",1.0 +"Studious of ornament, yet unresolved",3.0 +"Which hue she most approved, she chose them all.",0.0 +But well compensating their sickly looks,4.0 +Of flowers like flies clothing her slender rods,3.0 +"Though leafless well attired, and thick beset",0.0 +With blushing wreaths investing every spray.,0.0 +Yellow and bright as bullion unalloyed,5.0 +"Her blossoms, and luxuriant above all",2.0 +"The jasmine, throwing wide her elegant sweets,",2.0 +The deep dark green of whose unvarnished leaf,1.0 +The bright profusion of her scattered stars. ' --,1.0 +"These have been, and these shall be in their day.",0.0 +"Shall be dismantled of its fleecy load,",1.0 +And flush into variety again.,1.0 +"From dearth to plenty, and from death to life,",1.0 +Is Nature's progress when she lectures man,1.0 +"The grand transition, that there lives and works",0.0 +"A soul in all things, and that soul is God.",0.0 +"The beauties of the wilderness are his,",2.0 +That make so gay the solitary place,0.0 +Where no eye sees them. And the fairer forms,2.0 +"That cultivation glories in, are his.",0.0 +"He sets the bright procession on its way,",1.0 +And marshals all the order of the year.,1.0 +"He marks the bounds which winter may not pass,",1.0 +And blunts his pointed fury. In its case,0.0 +"Russet and rude, folds up the tender germ",2.0 +"Uninjured, with inimitable art,",2.0 +And before one flowery season fades and dies,3.0 +Designs the blooming wonders of the next.,1.0 +Some say that in the origin of things,1.0 +"When all creation started into birth,",0.0 +The infant elements received a law,1.0 +From which they swerve not since. That under force,0.0 +"Of that controlling ordinance they move,",1.0 +"And need not his immediate hand, who first",3.0 +"Prescribed their course, to regulate it now.",0.0 +"Thus dream they, and contrive to save a God",2.0 +"The stress of a continual act, the pain",3.0 +"Of unremitted vigilance and care,",2.0 +As too laborious and severe a task.,3.0 +"So man, the moth, is not afraid it seems",0.0 +"To span Omnipotence, and measure might",1.0 +"That knows no measure, by the scanty rule",2.0 +"And standard of his own, that is to day,",1.0 +"And is not, before tomorrow's sun go down.",3.0 +But how should matter occupy a charge,1.0 +"Dull as it is, and satisfy a law",1.0 +"So vast in its demands, unless impelled",1.0 +"To ceaseless service by a ceaseless force,",1.0 +And under pressure of some conscious cause?,1.0 +"The Lord of all, himself through all diffused,",0.0 +Sustains and is the life of all that lives.,1.0 +Nature is but a name for an effect,1.0 +Whose cause is God. He feeds the secret fire,0.0 +"By which the mighty process is maintained,",2.0 +"Who sleeps not, is not weary; in whose sight",1.0 +"Whose work is without labour, whose design",5.0 +And whose beneficence no charge exhausts,2.0 +"That were not, and commending as they would",3.0 +"To each some province, garden, field, or grove.",0.0 +But all are under one. One spirit ' -- His,2.0 +"Who wore the plaited thorns with bleeding brows,",3.0 +Rules universal nature. Not a flower,1.0 +"But shows some touch in freckle, streak or stain,",0.0 +"And bathes their eyes with nectar, and includes",1.0 +"In grains as countless as the seaside sands,",2.0 +The forms with which he sprinkles all the earth.,0.0 +Happy who walks with him! whom what he finds,2.0 +Or what he views of beautiful or grand,1.0 +"In Nature, from the broad majestic oak",1.0 +"To the green blade that twinkles in the fun,",2.0 +Prompts with remembrance of a present God.,3.0 +"His presence who made all so fair, perceived,",1.0 +Makes all still fairer. As with him no scene,4.0 +"Is dreary, so with him all seasons please.",2.0 +"Though winter had been none, had man been true,",0.0 +"And earth be punished for its tenant's sake,",1.0 +Yet not in vengeance; as this smiling sky,1.0 +"So soon succeeding such an angry night,",1.0 +"And these dissolving snows, and this clear stream",2.0 +"Recovering fast its liquid music, prove.",2.0 +Who then that has a mind well strung and tuned,1.0 +"To contemplation, and within his reach",1.0 +"A scene so friendly to his favourite task,",1.0 +His host of wooden warriors to and fro,1.0 +"As fixed as marble, with a forehead ridged",1.0 +"And furrowed into storms, and with a hand",1.0 +"Trembling, as if eternity were hung",3.0 +In balance on his conduct of a pin?,2.0 +Who pant with application misapplied,0.0 +"To trivial toys, and pushing ivory balls",2.0 +"Across the velvet level, feel a joy",0.0 +"Akin to rapture, when the bauble finds",0.0 +Its destined goal of difficult access.,2.0 +"Nor deems he wiser him, who gives his noon",1.0 +"The polished counter, and approving none,",1.0 +Or promising with smiles to call again.,1.0 +"Nor him, who by his vanity seduced",1.0 +And soothed into a dream that he discerns,1.0 +"The difference of a Guido from a daub,",2.0 +Frequents the crowded auction. Stationed there,2.0 +"As duly as the Langford of the show,",2.0 +"With glass at eye, and catalogue in hand,",0.0 +And tongue accomplished in the fulsome cant,0.0 +"He notes it in his book, then raps his box",0.0 +"Swears it's a bargain, rails at his hard fate",1.0 +That he has let it pass ' -- but never bids.,0.0 +"The sun proceeds, I wander. Neither missed,",0.0 +"Nor freezing sky, nor sultry, checking me,",1.0 +"A cheap but wholesome salad from the brook,",1.0 +These shades are all my own. The timorous hare,2.0 +Grown so familiar with her frequent guest,3.0 +Drawn from his refuge in some lonely elm,0.0 +"That age or injury has hollowed deep,",1.0 +"To frisk awhile, and bask in the warm sun,",1.0 +"The squirrel, flippant, pert, and full of play.",0.0 +"He sees me, and at once, swift as a bird",1.0 +Ascends the neighbouring beech; there whisks his brush,2.0 +"And perks his ears, and stamps and scolds aloud,",0.0 +"The heart is hard in nature, and unfit",1.0 +"For human fellowship, as being void",0.0 +"Of sympathy, and therefore dead alike",2.0 +"To love and friendship both, that is not pleased",1.0 +"With sight of animals enjoying life,",1.0 +Nor feels their happiness augment his own.,1.0 +The bounding fawn that darts across the glade,0.0 +"When none pursues, through mere delight of heart,",0.0 +And spirits buoyant with excess of glee;,1.0 +"The horse, as wanton and almost as fleet,",2.0 +"Then stops and snorts, and throwing high his heels",0.0 +Starts to the voluntary race again;,1.0 +The total herd receiving first from one,0.0 +"That leads the dance, a summons to be gay,",1.0 +"Though wild their strange vagaries, and uncouth",5.0 +"Their efforts, yet resolved with one consent",1.0 +To give such act and utterance as they may,2.0 +To ecstasy too big to be suppressed ' --,2.0 +"These, and a thousand images of bliss,",2.0 +With which kind nature graces every scene,1.0 +"Where cruel man defeats not her design,",1.0 +"Impart to the benevolent, who wish",2.0 +"All that are capable of pleasure, pleased,",1.0 +"A far superior happiness to theirs,",3.0 +The comfort of a reasonable joy.,2.0 +"Who formed him, from the dust his future grave,",1.0 +When he was crowned as never king was since.,0.0 +"God set the diadem upon his head,",1.0 +And angel choirs attended. Wondering stood,2.0 +All happy and all perfect in their kind,2.0 +"The creatures, summoned from their various haunts",3.0 +"To see their sovereign, and confess his sway.",1.0 +"Vast was his empire, absolute his power,",0.0 +Or bounded only by a law whose force,1.0 +"And own, the law of universal love.",0.0 +"No cruel purpose lurked within his heart,",1.0 +And no distrust of his intent in theirs.,1.0 +"So Eden was a scene of harmless sport,",1.0 +Where kindness on his part who ruled the whole,1.0 +"Begat a tranquil confidence in all,",1.0 +"And fear as yet was not, nor cause for fear.",0.0 +"But sin marred all. And the revolt of man,",2.0 +"That source of evils not exhausted yet,",0.0 +Was punished with revolt of his from him.,2.0 +"Garden of God, how terrible the change",3.0 +"Thy groves and lawns then witnessed! every heart,",0.0 +"Each animal of every name, conceived",1.0 +"A jealousy and an instinctive fear,",2.0 +"And conscious of some danger, either fled",1.0 +"Precipitate the loathed abode of man,",0.0 +"Or growled defiance in such angry sort,",0.0 +As taught him too to tremble in his turn.,0.0 +Thus harmony and family accord,3.0 +Were driven from Paradise; and in that hour,2.0 +The seeds of cruelty that since have swelled,0.0 +"To such gigantic and enormous growth,",2.0 +Were sown in human nature's fruitful soil.,0.0 +Hence date the persecution and the pain,2.0 +That man inflicts on all inferior kinds,2.0 +"To gratify the frenzy of his wrath,",1.0 +"Or his base gluttony, are causes good",3.0 +"And just in his account, why bird and beast",1.0 +"Should suffer torture, and the streams be died",1.0 +With blood of their inhabitants impaled.,2.0 +Earth groans beneath the burden of a war,2.0 +"Not satisfied to prey on all around,",0.0 +"Adds tenfold bitterness to death, by pangs",3.0 +"Needless, and first torments before he devours.",5.0 +Now happiest they that occupy the scenes,2.0 +"The most remote from his abhorred resort,",1.0 +Whom once as delegate of God on earth,0.0 +"They feared, and as his perfect image loved.",2.0 +"The wilderness is theirs with all its caves,",2.0 +"And howl and roar as likes them, uncontrolled,",0.0 +Nor ask his leave to slumber or to play.,1.0 +Woe to the tyrant if he dare intrude,1.0 +Within the confines of their wild domain;,2.0 +The lion tells him ' -- I am monarch here ' --,1.0 +"And if he spare him, spares him on the terms",2.0 +"Of royal mercy, and through generous scorn",3.0 +"In measure as by force of instinct drawn,",1.0 +"Or by necessity constrained, they live",2.0 +"These at his crib, and some beneath his roof,",0.0 +They prove too often at how dear a rate,1.0 +"He sells protection. Witness, at his foot",0.0 +Under dissection of the knotted scourge.,1.0 +"Witness, the patient ox, with stripes and yells",2.0 +"Driven to the slaughter, goaded as he runs",2.0 +"To madness, while the savage at his heels",0.0 +Laughs at the frantic sufferers fury spent,2.0 +Upon the guiltless passenger overthrown.,2.0 +"He too is witness, noblest of the train",1.0 +With unsuspecting readiness he takes,1.0 +"His murderer on his back, and pushed all day",1.0 +With bleeding sides and flanks that heave for life,0.0 +So little mercy shows who needs so much!,0.0 +"Does law, so jealous in the cause of man,",0.0 +Denounce no doom on the delinquent? None.,2.0 +"He lives, and over his brimming beaker boasts",2.0 +As if barbarity were high desert,2.0 +"Of the poor brute, seems wisely to suppose",5.0 +"But many a crime, deemed innocent on earth,",4.0 +"Is registered in heaven, and these no doubt,",2.0 +"Have each their record, with a curse annexed.",1.0 +"Man may dismiss compassion from his heart,",3.0 +But God will never. When he charged the Jew,0.0 +"The young, to let the parent bird go free,",1.0 +Proved he not plainly that his meaner works,0.0 +"Are yet his care, and have an interest all,",0.0 +"All, in the universal father's love.",0.0 +"On Noah, and in him on all mankind",3.0 +The charter was conferred by which we hold,1.0 +"The flesh of animals in fee, and claim",1.0 +"Over all we feed on, power of life and death.",2.0 +"But read the instrument, and mark it well.",1.0 +"Can find no warrant there. Feed then, and yield",3.0 +Thanks for thy food. Carnivorous through sin,1.0 +"Feed on the slain, but spare the living brute.",0.0 +"The Governor of all, himself to all",1.0 +"So bountiful, in whose attentive ear",1.0 +Plead not in vain for pity on the pangs,1.0 +That claims forbearance even for a brute.,1.0 +"And prophet as he was, he might not strike",2.0 +"The blameless animal, without rebuke,",1.0 +"Saved him, or the unrelenting seer had died.",1.0 +He sees that human equity is slack,1.0 +"To interfere, though in so just a cause,",0.0 +And makes the task his own. Inspiring dumb,0.0 +And helpless victims with a sense so keen,1.0 +"Of injury, with such knowledge of their strength,",2.0 +That oft the beast has seemed to judge the man.,0.0 +"An ancient, not a legendary tale,",0.0 +By one of sound intelligence rehearsed,2.0 +"If such, who plead for Providence, may seem",2.0 +In modern eyes shall make the doctrine clear.,0.0 +Where England stretched towards the setting sun,0.0 +"Narrow and long, overlooks the western wave,",2.0 +"He journeyed, and his chance was as he went,",2.0 +To join a traveller of far different note,4.0 +"Evander, famed for piety, for years",2.0 +"Deserving honour, but for wisdom more.",0.0 +Fame had not left the venerable man,1.0 +"A stranger to the manners of the youth,",2.0 +Whose face too was familiar to his view.,4.0 +"Their way was on the margin of the land,",2.0 +Over the green summit of the rocks whose base,3.0 +"Beats back the roaring surge, scarce heard so high.",2.0 +The charity that warmed his heart was moved,1.0 +"Gentle, and affable, and full of grace,",3.0 +As fearful of offending whom he wished,1.0 +"Much to persuade, he plied his ear with truths",1.0 +"Not harshly thundered forth or rudely pressed,",0.0 +"But like his purpose, gracious, kind, and sweet.",0.0 +"And dost thou dream, the impenetrable man",3.0 +"Exclaimed, that me, the lullabies of age",1.0 +"Can cheat, or move a moment's fear in me?",0.0 +"Mark now the proof I give thee, that the brave",1.0 +Need no such aids as superstition lends,0.0 +To steel their hearts against the dread of death.,0.0 +"He spoke, and to the precipice at hand",2.0 +Of such a gulf as he designed his grave.,2.0 +But though the felon on his back could dare,2.0 +"The dreadful leap, more rational his steed",1.0 +"Declined the death, and wheeling swiftly round",0.0 +"Or before his hoof had pressed the crumbling verge,",1.0 +"Baffled his rider, saved against his will.",2.0 +"By medicine well applied, but without grace",5.0 +The heart's insanity admits no cure.,2.0 +Enraged the more by what might have reformed,0.0 +"His horrible intent, again he sought",1.0 +"Destruction with a zeal to be destroyed,",1.0 +But still in vain. The providence that meant,1.0 +"And now, his prowess proved, and his sincere",1.0 +His rage grew cool; and pleased perhaps to have earned,1.0 +"So cheaply the renown of that attempt,",1.0 +"His road, deriding much the blank amaze",0.0 +"Of good Evander, still where he was left",2.0 +"Fixed motionless, and petrified with dread.",2.0 +So on they fared; discourse on other themes,6.0 +"Ensuing, seemed to obliterate the past,",3.0 +"And tamer far for so much fury shown,",1.0 +As is the course of rash and fiery men,3.0 +The rude companion smiled as if transformed.,1.0 +An unsuspected storm. His hour was come.,0.0 +The impious challenger of power divine,5.0 +"Was now to learn, that heaven though slow to wrath,",0.0 +Is never with impunity defied.,2.0 +"His horse, as he had caught his master's mood,",1.0 +"Snorting, and starting into sudden rage,",2.0 +"Rushed to the cliff, and having reached it, stood.",0.0 +At once the shock unseated him. He flew,1.0 +"Sheer over the craggy barrier, and immersed",6.0 +"Deep in the flood, found, when he sought it not,",1.0 +"The death he had deserved, and died alone.",0.0 +So God wrought double justice; made the fool,1.0 +The victim of his own tremendous choice,1.0 +And taught a brute the way to safe revenge.,0.0 +I would not enter on my list of friends,1.0 +Though graced with polished manners and fine sense,2.0 +Yet wanting sensibility the man,1.0 +Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.,2.0 +An inadvertent step may crush the snail,0.0 +"That crawls at evening in the public path,",0.0 +"But he that has humanity, forewarned,",2.0 +"Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.",0.0 +"The creeping vermin, loathsome to the sight,",1.0 +"And charged perhaps with venom, that intrudes",0.0 +A visitor unwelcome into scenes,1.0 +"Sacred to neatness and repose, the alcove,",4.0 +A necessary act incurs no blame.,1.0 +Not so when held within their proper bounds,0.0 +Or take their pastime in the spacious field.,1.0 +There they are privileged. And he that hunts,2.0 +"Or harms them there, is guilty of a wrong,",2.0 +"Disturbs the economy of nature's realm,",3.0 +"Who when she formed, designed them an abode.",1.0 +"The sum is this: if man's convenience, health,",1.0 +"Or safety interfere, his rights and claims",0.0 +"Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs.",1.0 +"Else they are all ' -- the meanest things that are,",0.0 +"As free to live and to enjoy that life,",1.0 +"As God was free to form them at the first,",0.0 +Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.,0.0 +"You therefore who love mercy, teach your sons",2.0 +To love it too. The springtime of our years,2.0 +"By budding ills, that ask a prudent hand",0.0 +"To cheque them. But alas! none sooner shoots,",2.0 +"If unrestrained, into luxuriant growth,",2.0 +"Than cruelty, most devilish of them all.",3.0 +"Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule",2.0 +And righteous limitation of its act,1.0 +By which heaven moves in pardoning guilty man;,2.0 +"And he that shows none, being ripe in years,",2.0 +And conscious of the out'rage he commits,5.0 +"Shall seek it, and not find it in his turn.",1.0 +"Distinguished much by reason, and still more",2.0 +"By our capacity of grace divine,",2.0 +"From creatures that exist but for our sake,",1.0 +"Which having served us, perish, we are held",1.0 +"Accountable, and God, some future day,",1.0 +Will reckon with us roundly for the abuse,4.0 +Of what he deems no mean or trivial trust.,3.0 +"Superior as we are, they yet depend",2.0 +"Not more on human help, than we on theirs.",1.0 +"Their strength, or speed, or vigilance, were given",1.0 +In aid of our defects. In some are found,0.0 +"Such teachable and apprehensive parts,",1.0 +"And read with such discernment, in the ports",1.0 +"And figure of the man, his secret aim,",1.0 +That oft we owe our safety to a skill,1.0 +"We could not teach, and must despair to learn.",0.0 +"But learn we might, if not too proud to stoop",1.0 +"And useful quality, and virtue too,",1.0 +Rarely exemplified among ourselves.,2.0 +"Attachment never to be weaned, or changed",1.0 +"By any change of fortune, proof alike",0.0 +"Fidelity, that neither bribe nor threat",1.0 +"Can move or warp, and gratitude for small",0.0 +"And trivial favours, lasting as the life,",3.0 +And glistening even in the dying eye.,0.0 +Man praises man. Desert in arts or arms,1.0 +"Patiently present at a sacred song,",1.0 +O wonderful effect of music's power!,1.0 +For was it less? What heathen would have dared,1.0 +And hang it up in honour of a man!,1.0 +"Much less might serve, when all that we design",1.0 +"Is but to gratify an itching ear,",1.0 +And give the day to a musician's praise.,1.0 +Remember Handel? who that was not born,1.0 +"Deaf as the dead to harmony, forgets,",1.0 +"Or can, the more than Homer of his age?",2.0 +Yes ' -- we remember him. And while we praise,3.0 +"A talent so divine, remember too",1.0 +That His most holy book from whom it came,0.0 +"Was never meant, was never used before",0.0 +"But hush! ' -- the muse perhaps is too severe,",0.0 +And with a gravity beyond the size,2.0 +"Less impious than absurd, and owing more",2.0 +To want of judgement than to wrong design.,1.0 +"So in the chapel of old Ely House,",2.0 +"When wandering Charles, who meant to be the third,",2.0 +"Had fled from William, and the news was fresh,",1.0 +"The simple clerk but loyal, did announce,",0.0 +"And eke did rear right merrily, two staves,",3.0 +Sung to the praise and glory of King George.,2.0 +"When time hath somewhat mellowed it, and made",2.0 +"The idol of our worship while he lived,",1.0 +"The God of our idolatry once more,",3.0 +Shall have its altar; and the world shall go,1.0 +In pilgrimage to bow before his shrine.,1.0 +"The theatre too small, shall suffocated",2.0 +"Its squeezed contents, and more than it admits",1.0 +"Shall sigh at their exclusion, and return",2.0 +"Shall stuff his shoulders with king Richard's bunch,",2.0 +"Or wrap himself in Hamlet's inky cloak,",0.0 +"And strut, and storm and straddle, stamp and stare,",0.0 +The show the world how Garrick did not act.,0.0 +"He drew the Liturgy, and framed the rites",1.0 +"And solemn ceremonial of the day,",1.0 +And called the world to worship on the banks,1.0 +Of Avon famed in song. Ah pleasant proof!,0.0 +That piety has still in human hearts,1.0 +"Some place, a spark or two not yet extinct.",0.0 +"The mulberry tree was hung with blooming wreaths,",2.0 +"The mulberry tree stood centre of the dance,",4.0 +"Supplied such relics, as devotion holds",1.0 +"Still sacred, and preserves with pious care.",2.0 +"' -- Man praises man. The rabble all alive,",1.0 +"Swarm in the streets. The statesman of the day,",1.0 +"Some shout him, and some hang upon his car",1.0 +To gaze in's eyes and bless him. Maidens wave,1.0 +"Their kerchiefs, and old women weep for joy.",2.0 +Why? what has charmed them? Hath he saved the state,0.0 +No. Does he purpose its salvation? No.,1.0 +"Enchanting novelty, that moon at full,",1.0 +That finds out every crevice of the head,1.0 +"That is not sound and perfect, hath in theirs",1.0 +"Wrought this disturbance. But the wane is near,",3.0 +And his own cattle must suffice him soon.,1.0 +"Thus idly do we waste the breath of praise,",1.0 +"And dedicate a tribute, in its use",0.0 +"And just direction, sacred, to a thing",1.0 +"Doomed to the dust, or lodged already there.",1.0 +Encomium in old time was poet's work.,1.0 +But poets having lavishly long since,2.0 +"Exhausted all materials of the art,",1.0 +The task now falls into the public hand.,1.0 +"And I, contented with an humble theme,",2.0 +"The vale of nature, where it creeps and winds",0.0 +"Among her lovely works, with a secure",1.0 +"Of poetry not lost, if verse of mine",1.0 +"May stand between an animal and woe,",1.0 +And teach one tyrant pity for his drudge.,1.0 +The groans of nature in this neither world,0.0 +"Which heaven has heard for ages, have an end.",0.0 +"Foretold by prophets, and by poets sung",1.0 +"Whose fire was kindled at the prophets lamp,",0.0 +"The time of rest, the promised sabbath comes.",0.0 +Fulfilled their tardy and disastrous course,1.0 +Over a sinful world. And what remains,2.0 +"Of this tempestuous state of human things,",4.0 +Is merely as the working of a sea,2.0 +"Before a calm, that rocks itself to rest.",0.0 +"For he whose car the winds are, and the clouds",2.0 +The dust that waits upon his sultry march,0.0 +"When sin hath moved him, and his wrath is hot,",1.0 +Shall visit earth in mercy; shall descend,0.0 +"Propitious, in his chariot paved with love,",2.0 +And what his storms have blasted and defaced,1.0 +"For man's revolt, shall with a smile repair.",1.0 +Not to be wronged by a mere mortal touch;,3.0 +"Nor can the wonders it records, be sung",2.0 +"To meaner music, and not suffer loss.",1.0 +"But when a poet, or when one like me,",1.0 +Happy to rove among poetic flowers,2.0 +"Though poor in skill to rear them, lights at last",0.0 +"On some fair theme, some theme divinely fair,",1.0 +Such is the impulse and the spur he feels,1.0 +"To give it praise proportioned to its worth,",1.0 +"That not to attempt it, arduous as he deems",2.0 +"The labour, were a task more arduous still.",3.0 +"O scenes surpassing fable, and yet true,",1.0 +Scenes of accomplished bliss! which who can see,2.0 +"Though but in distant prospect, and not feel",2.0 +His soul refreshed with foretaste of the joy?,1.0 +And cloth all climes with beauty; the reproach,1.0 +"Laughs with abundance, and the land once lean,",4.0 +"Or fertile only in its own disgrace,",0.0 +"The various seasons woven into one,",3.0 +"And that one season an eternal spring,",1.0 +"The garden fears no blight, and needs no fence",2.0 +"For there is none to covet, all are full.",1.0 +"Of the same grove, and drink one common stream.",2.0 +Antipathies are none. No foe to man,2.0 +Lurks in the serpent now. The mother sees,0.0 +And smiles to see her infant's playful hand,0.0 +"Stretched forth to dally with the crested worm,",2.0 +"To stroke his azure neck, or to receive",1.0 +"All creatures worship man, and all mankind",1.0 +"One Lord, one Father. Error has no place;",1.0 +"That creeping pestilence is driven away,",3.0 +The breath of heaven has chased it. In the heart,0.0 +"No passion touches a discordant string,",2.0 +But all is harmony and love. Disease,1.0 +"Holds its due course, nor fears the frost of age.",3.0 +"One song employs all nations, and all cry",1.0 +"Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us",3.0 +The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks,1.0 +"Shout to each other, and the mountain tops",1.0 +"From distant mountains catch the flying joy,",0.0 +"Till nation after nation taught the strain,",0.0 +"Behold the measure of the promise filled,",1.0 +"See Salem built, the labour of a God!",2.0 +Bright as a sun the sacred city shines;,0.0 +All kingdoms and all princes of the earth,2.0 +Flock to that light; the glory of all lands,1.0 +"Flows into her, unbounded is her joy",3.0 +And endless her increase. Thy rams are there,1.0 +And Saba's spicy groves pay tribute there.,2.0 +"Praise is in all her gates. Upon her walls,",0.0 +"And in her streets, and in her spacious courts",0.0 +Is heard salvation. Eastern Java there,1.0 +And worships. Her report has travelled forth,1.0 +To see thy beauty and to share thy joy,1.0 +"Saw never, such as heaven stoops down to see.",2.0 +"Perfect, and all must be at length restored.",0.0 +"Haste then, and wheel away a shattered world",0.0 +A sight to which our eyes are strangers yet,0.0 +"A world that does not dread and hate his laws,",0.0 +And suffer for its crime. Would learn how fair,1.0 +"The creature is that God pronounces good,",1.0 +How pleasant in itself what pleases him.,1.0 +"Here every drop of honey hides a sting,",0.0 +"Worms wind themselves into our sweetest flowers,",1.0 +"Derives from heaven, pure as the fountain is",1.0 +Is sullied in the stream; taking a taint,5.0 +"From touch of human lips, at best impure.",0.0 +O for a world in principle as chaste,2.0 +As this is gross and selfish! over which,1.0 +Custom and prejudice shall bear no sway,4.0 +"That govern all things here, shouldering aside",3.0 +"The meek and modest truth, and forcing her",1.0 +To seek a refuge from the tongue of strife,1.0 +"In nooks obscure, far from the ways of men.",2.0 +"Where violence shall never lift the sword,",1.0 +"Nor cunning justify the proud man's wrong,",1.0 +Leaving the poor no remedy but tears.,4.0 +"Where he that fills an office, shall esteem",0.0 +The occasion it presents of doing good,2.0 +More than the perquisite. Where law shall speak,1.0 +"Seldom, and never but as wisdom prompts",3.0 +And equity; not jealous more to guard,1.0 +"Where fashion shall not sanctify abuse,",1.0 +With lean performance ape the work of love.,0.0 +"Come then, and added to thy many crowns",1.0 +"Receive yet one, the crown of all the earth,",1.0 +Thou who alone art worthy! it was thine,1.0 +"By ancient covenant before nature's birth,",3.0 +"And thou hast made it thine by purchase since,",2.0 +And overpaid its value with thy blood.,1.0 +Thy saints proclaim thee king; and in their hearts,0.0 +Dipped in the fountain of eternal love.,1.0 +Thy saints proclaim thee king; and thy delay,1.0 +"Gives courage to their foes, who, could they see",2.0 +"Would creep into the bowels of the hills,",0.0 +And flee for safety to the falling rocks.,1.0 +"Of its own taunting question asked so long,",1.0 +Where is the promise of your Lord's approach?,1.0 +"The infidel has shot his bolts away,",0.0 +"Till his exhausted quiver yielding none,",1.0 +And aims them at the shield of truth again.,0.0 +"The veil is rent, rent too by priestly hands,",1.0 +"That hides divinity from mortal eyes,",1.0 +And all the mysteries to faith proposed,1.0 +"As useless, to the moles and to the bats.",2.0 +"They now are deemed the faithful and are praised,",1.0 +"Who constant only in rejecting thee,",1.0 +"Deny thy Godhead with a martyr's zeal,",2.0 +And quit their office for their errors sake.,1.0 +Blind and in love with darkness! yet even these,3.0 +"Thy name, adoring, and then preach thee man.",1.0 +So fares thy church. But how thy church may fare,1.0 +"The world takes little thought; who will may preach,",2.0 +And what they will. All pastors are alike,2.0 +"To wandering sheep, resolved to follow none.",2.0 +"Two gods divide them all, pleasure and gain.",3.0 +"For these they live, they sacrifice to these,",1.0 +And in their service wage perpetual war,2.0 +"With conscience and with thee. Lust in their hearts,",1.0 +"And mischief in their hands, they roam the earth",0.0 +"To prey upon each other; stubborn, fierce,",0.0 +Thy prophets speak of such; and noting down,2.0 +"The features of the last degenerate times,",2.0 +"Receive yet one, as radiant as the rest,",2.0 +"Thy word fulfilled, the conquest of a world.",1.0 +"He is the happy man, whose life even now",4.0 +Shows somewhat of that happier life to come.,3.0 +Who doomed to an obscure but tranquil state,1.0 +"Is pleased with it, and were he free to choose,",1.0 +"Would make his fate his choice. Whom peace, the fruit",0.0 +"Of virtue, and whom virtue, fruit of faith,",1.0 +Prepare for happiness; bespeak him one,1.0 +Content indeed to sojourn while he must,0.0 +"Below the skies, but having there his home.",1.0 +The world overlooks him in her busy search,2.0 +Of objects more illustrious in her view;,1.0 +And occupied as earnestly as she,1.0 +"She scorns his pleasures, for she knows them not;",1.0 +"He seeks not hers, for he has proved them vain.",1.0 +He cannot skim the ground like summer birds,0.0 +"Pursuing gilded flies, and such he deems",1.0 +"Therefore in contemplation is his bliss,",2.0 +"Whose power is such, that whom she lifts from earth",1.0 +"She makes familiar with a heaven unseen,",1.0 +And shows him glories yet to be revealed.,0.0 +"Oft water fairest meadows, and the bird",3.0 +"That flutters least, is longest on the wing.",1.0 +"Ask him indeed, what trophies he has raised,",3.0 +Or what achievements of immortal fame,1.0 +"He purposes, and he shall answer ' -- none.",2.0 +"And there obtains fresh triumphs over himself,",4.0 +The laurels that a Caesar reaps are weeds.,0.0 +That as she sweeps him with her whistling silks,1.0 +"Scarce deigns to notice him, or if she see",3.0 +"Deems him a cypher in the works of God,",0.0 +Of which she little dreams. Perhaps she owes,0.0 +"Her sunshine and her rain, her blooming spring",2.0 +"When Isaac like, the solitary saint",0.0 +"And think on her, who thinks not for herself.",2.0 +"Of little worth, and idler in the best,",0.0 +"If author of no mischief and some good,",3.0 +He seek his proper happiness by means,1.0 +"That may advance, but cannot hinder thine.",2.0 +"Nor though he tread the secret path of life,",1.0 +"Engage no notice, and enjoy much ease,",2.0 +"Receiving benefits, and rendering none.",3.0 +"His sphere though humble, if that humble sphere",1.0 +"Shine with his fair example, and though small",1.0 +"His influence, if that influence all be spent",2.0 +"In soothing sorrow and in quenching strife,",1.0 +From which at least a grateful few derive,0.0 +"Some taste of comfort in a world of woe,",0.0 +Then let the supercilious great confess,2.0 +The state beneath the shadow of whose vine,1.0 +"He sits secure, and in the scale of life",0.0 +"Holds no ignoble, though a slighted place.",2.0 +"The man whose virtues are more felt than seen,",1.0 +"Must drop indeed the hope of public praise,",0.0 +"But he may boast what few that win it can,",1.0 +"That if his country stand not by his skill,",1.0 +At least his follies have not wrought her fall.,0.0 +Polite refinement offers him in vain,1.0 +"Her golden tube, through which a sensual world",2.0 +"Draws gross impurity, and likes it well,",2.0 +Because that world adopts it. If it bear,1.0 +"The stamp and clear impression of good sense,",1.0 +"And be not costly more than of true worth,",1.0 +"He puts it on, and for decorum sake",2.0 +Can wear it even as gracefully as she.,3.0 +"She judges of refinement by the eye,",2.0 +"He by the test of conscience, and a heart",2.0 +Not soon deceived; aware that what is base,0.0 +"No polish can make sterling, and that vice",4.0 +"Though well perfumed and elegantly dressed,",1.0 +"Is but a garnished nuisance, fitter far",1.0 +For cleanly riddance than for fair attire.,1.0 +"So life glides smoothly and by stealth away,",2.0 +More golden than that age of fabled gold,1.0 +Renowned in ancient song; not vexed with care,0.0 +"Or stained with guilt, beneficent, approved",5.0 +"Of God and man, and peaceful in its end.",0.0 +So glide my life away! and so at last,1.0 +"My share of duties decently fulfilled,",1.0 +"May some disease, not tardy to perform",1.0 +"Its destined office, yet with gentle stroke,",0.0 +Dismiss me weary to a safe retreat,1.0 +Beneath the turf that I have often trod.,1.0 +"It shall not grieve me, then, that once when called",0.0 +"To dress a Sofa with the flowers of verse,",3.0 +"I played awhile, obedient to the fair",1.0 +"With that light task, but soon to please her more",1.0 +"Whom flowers alone I knew would little please,",2.0 +"To palates that can taste immortal truth,",0.0 +"Insipid else, and sure to be despised.",0.0 +But all is in his hand whose praise I seek.,0.0 +"In vain the poet sings, and the world hears,",1.0 +"If he regard not, though divine the theme.",2.0 +"It's not in artful measures, in the chime",0.0 +And idle tinkling of a minstrel's lyre,1.0 +"To charm his ear, whose eye is on the heart.",1.0 +"Whose frown can disappoint the proudest strain,",0.0 +Whose approbation ' -- prosper even mine.,1.0 +"And verse a tribute sacred to the fair,",1.0 +"For, what they were of old, is HARLEY now.",1.0 +"From OXFORD'S house, in these dull busy days,",2.0 +"Alone we hope for patronage, or praise;",1.0 +Beneath his roof with are ever sure to find,0.0 +Reward sufficient for the world's neglect,1.0 +"Charms to inspire, and goodness to protect;",3.0 +"Your eyes with rapture animate our lays,",0.0 +"Formed for our glory and support, you seem,",1.0 +"Our constant patron he, and you our theme.",2.0 +Where should poetic homage then be paid?,0.0 +"Where every verse, but at your feet be laid?",0.0 +"A double right you to this empire bear,",1.0 +"As first in beauty, and as OXFORD'S heir.",1.0 +Illustrious maid! in whose sole person joined,3.0 +"Every perfection of the fair we find,",2.0 +Without one foible of her sex to hide;,1.0 +"Her cheeks, and wit as piercing as her eyes.",1.0 +"O HARLEY! could but you these lines approve,",1.0 +"These children sprung from idleness, and love,",1.0 +Could they but ah how vain is the design!,1.0 +"OH CHESTERFIELD! My Patron and my Pride,",2.0 +"Noble by Birth, by Liberal Arts refined;",2.0 +"Delight of Heaven, and Darling of Mankind!",2.0 +"The public Patriot, and the private Friend;",1.0 +"To kerb the Oppressor, and the Oppressed defend.",5.0 +"The Muse's Silence, if, hereafter mute,",1.0 +She quits her former Toils for future Ease;,0.0 +And cheques that Genius which perhaps might please.,0.0 +"When all Men's Works can climb the Stage, but mine:",1.0 +"When, in my stead, behold! a motley Herd",0.0 +Dramatic Ornaments of this our Age:,2.0 +"My small Attempts to please were then approved,",0.0 +And not for every trifling Farce removed.,0.0 +"Booth ever showed me Friendship and Respect,",2.0 +And Wilks would rather forward than reject.,1.0 +Would oft Solicit me for something New.,1.0 +"Now, Younger Rulers Younger Authors take,",1.0 +"Not for their Merit, but for Cheapness sake.",1.0 +Steal a new Ballad FARCE from some old PLAY;,4.0 +To mangled Scraps of many an Ancient Tune,2.0 +"The jaded Players with equal haste rehearse,",2.0 +"Till Sing Song limps, to Horrid! Hobbling Verse.",1.0 +"Though Blunder follows Blunder, Line by Line,",0.0 +The' Squire is taught to think it's wondrous Fine!,0.0 +"It suits his Taste, he gives his plaudit Voice,",0.0 +And shows his Understanding in his Choice.,0.0 +"Framing Conceptions both of Men and Things,",2.0 +"Sir Figg, grand Master of the double Sneer,",3.0 +"A Friendly Aspect, an Infernal Heart:",2.0 +"The Mischievous, the Busy Go between",1.0 +"In Public, seem to contradict and jar;",0.0 +"But yet, in Private, like dear Friends caress,",1.0 +"And form Designs, poor Players to distress.",2.0 +Woe to the Stage! if once their Schemes Succeed;,0.0 +Actors will then be Abject Slaves indeed:,1.0 +"Poets had better lay their Pens aside,",2.0 +"Who, Vain and Partial, keep Old Authors down,",2.0 +So lately honoured with so much Applause?,0.0 +"My little Ballads still on every Tongue,",0.0 +Nor can severest Censure trace one Line.,1.0 +"That tends to Vice, in any Verse of mine.",0.0 +"To please and yet instruct is all my Aim,",0.0 +"Whose utmost Views are to corrupt the Taste,",2.0 +"And, quite estranged to any Sense of Shame,",0.0 +Make Women speak what Rakes would blush to name;,1.0 +"Then, in Excuse, plead Nothing else goes down;",3.0 +A wretched Compliment upon the Town!,1.0 +"Wretched as false ' -- The Town's not so depraved,",3.0 +Were Authors and were Actors less enslaved:,1.0 +"Could one good Piece be suffered to appear,",1.0 +The Town would gladly lend a candid Ear;,0.0 +"Prefer pure Nature and the simple SCENE,",2.0 +To all the Monkey Tricks of Harlequin:,1.0 +"The Man of Taste proves this Assertion true,",2.0 +We want what's rational as well as New.,1.0 +"That Rules Dramatic, Humour, Taste and Wit,",3.0 +Must to that Monster Pantomime submit:,0.0 +"Yet Pantomime, in all its Grandeur dressed,",2.0 +"Then, farewell Stage! be Business now my Boast,",1.0 +With what was Irksome once Delighted most;,0.0 +"Pleased and contented with my little Store,",3.0 +I scorn to prostitute my Muse for more.,0.0 +"Alas! What Fame, what Gain can I propose,",1.0 +When others Father fast as I compose?,1.0 +"To such a pitch is pert Presumption grown,",1.0 +It's well if this Poor Piece be thought my own.,2.0 +"So when, long since, in simple Sonnet Lays,",0.0 +"Though rude the Numbers, yet the Subject moved;",0.0 +Immortal ADDISON the Song approved;,1.0 +"Then Prejudice with Envy did combine,",1.0 +So common Fame did various Authors choose,2.0 +"Till POPE, who ever proved to Truth a Friend,",0.0 +Displayed me in a more conspicuous Light.,2.0 +"To mention more would prove a needless Task,",0.0 +Can nothing Good or New proceed from me?,0.0 +"What have I done, injurious to Mankind,",2.0 +My Works must be to other Men assigned?,0.0 +"Well! let them go, I all my Right resign,",1.0 +"Entirely Easy, had they never been mine:",2.0 +I see my Error ever it proves too late.,3.0 +With Magazines of Projects in my Crown:,0.0 +"Like other Men, I walk a common Pace,",0.0 +Nor run through London one continued Race;,1.0 +"But know When, Where and What I am to do,",1.0 +"Thrice welcome, Sweet Tranquillity of Mind!",2.0 +I now a Treasure in Contentment find;,0.0 +"Can labour or relax when ever I please,",3.0 +"Of all a Moderate Man can wish possessed,",2.0 +"Beneath the Sacred Sanction of whose Name,",1.0 +"I build my present Peace, my future Fame.",0.0 +"For rural love and contemplation made,",0.0 +Waft round your sweets! and open all your flowers!,0.0 +"Do thou, OH MANCHESTER! protect the song;",3.0 +The Muse's care does to the learnt belong:,1.0 +"Grateful alike Muse, Subject, Author, bow,",3.0 +And hail the source whence all their pleasures flow.,0.0 +"These plains that annual pour their sweets for thee,",2.0 +Thanks to thy bounty yield a part to me:,0.0 +"And Ease, fair Virtue's, and the Poet's friend,",2.0 +"Through your indulgence, on my steps attend.",2.0 +Impervious to the sun's most potent ray,1.0 +Yonder lofty elms their arched heads display;,3.0 +"From far the traveller sees their summit rise,",2.0 +Scarce half distinguished from the neighbouring skies;,4.0 +"But oft surveying as he onward goes,",1.0 +Greener and fairer still the object grows;,2.0 +"Till underneath their shade, at ease reclined,",0.0 +He leaves the labour of the day behind;,1.0 +"Soft breezes cool him from surrounding bowers,",2.0 +And Nature bland her gay profusion pours.,0.0 +What will not daring man attempt for gain?,0.0 +"A royal navy, hovering in the wind:",0.0 +"Yards, sails, and streamers crowd the whispering air,",3.0 +And all the glories of the deep appear.,1.0 +Nor less impervious that extended shade,2.0 +"By reverend oaks, the growth of ages, made;",0.0 +"Save where wide avenues that shade divide,",2.0 +And show the woodland in its utmost pride.,1.0 +"Here let the huntsman wind the echoing horn,",2.0 +"Cheer his swift steed, and wake the rosy morn;",3.0 +"Let dogs and men in noisy concert join,",1.0 +And sportsmen call the harmony divine:,1.0 +"The Muse delights not, fond of pensive ease,",0.0 +"In dissipation, or pursuits like these.",1.0 +"And thou, sweet Thrush! prolong thy amorous tale,",4.0 +"No leaden death I bring, no toils for thee,",2.0 +"Unbend the bow, and kerb an iron age!",1.0 +"Whatever laws shortsighted man may make,",2.0 +"Who cannot give, can have no power to take:",3.0 +"He, and he only, who could life bestow,",1.0 +May call his blessing from the realms below.,1.0 +"Stain their fierce claws, or dip their tongue in gore;",3.0 +"This does not equal human beasts of prey,",0.0 +"What they for hunger, we for pleasure slay:",1.0 +Nor is this thirst of blood to man confined;,1.0 +See S a savage of the fairer kind!,2.0 +"Pardon me, You! whose nobler tears can flow",2.0 +For aught that suffers misery below;,1.0 +"Who shrink to rob the insect of its hour,",2.0 +Or bruise its offspring in the opening flower:,3.0 +"Your form, your fears were by great Heaven designed",2.0 +"When Nature fair from her Creator sprung,",1.0 +"The sylvan scene, blessed seat! to man was given,",1.0 +The richest bounty of indulgent Heaven.,1.0 +To Peace then sacred be the shady grove!,0.0 +Be there no murmurs heard ' -- but those of love:,3.0 +"Love, fled from noise and cities, haunts the glade,",1.0 +"The falling fountains, and the silent shade,",1.0 +"Breathes in each gale, and blossoms in each flower.",0.0 +What bosom can resist the power divine?,3.0 +"Too feeble that, which now the Muse inspires,",1.0 +"And, with her own, admits still warmer fires.",2.0 +"Here, here I felt the soft infection rise,",0.0 +"Pant at the breast, and languish in the eyes,",0.0 +"When Mira to my humble cot was led,",1.0 +"Love's willing victim, to an husband's bed;",2.0 +"And now still feel, in smoother channels, run",1.0 +"Those streams, that rapid passion first begun:",0.0 +"Esteem, affection, friendship never decline:",2.0 +Nor are her virtues less for being mine.,2.0 +"Let Rome her fettered monks to cells withdraw,",1.0 +And force her own against great Nature's law:,1.0 +"Drag blooming virgins useless from mankind,",3.0 +"And give to lust, what was for love designed:",1.0 +Where sinful celibacy binds no more.,2.0 +"Now sultry Phoebus, far from Thetis' bed",1.0 +And wander deep within the silent grove!,0.0 +"Or, if too potent there his beams invade,",3.0 +OH! let me tread those limes more cooling shade!,1.0 +"That shade which shall your kind protection gain,",0.0 +And Brown himself provoke the axe in vain.,0.0 +"In milder climes, and blessed with cloudless skies,",0.0 +"Where constant seasons glad the neighbouring plains,",2.0 +"Where rough December, envious of her power,",1.0 +From gentle May oft plucks the tender flower:,2.0 +"Where clearest morn to cloudy noon gives way,",1.0 +And stormy eve excludes the hopeful day:,0.0 +"From storms a shelter, and from heat a shade.",1.0 +"In gardening great the improvement of the age,",3.0 +"Half murdered hollies meet with one wound more,",1.0 +But yet the axe may drive the edge too far:,1.0 +"Brown not with Nature, yet with climes may war:",0.0 +"Use or convenience oft put in their claim,",3.0 +And rise to faults good judges dare not blame;,0.0 +Nor can true taste and elegance reside,3.0 +Where order and gradation are denied.,2.0 +The cloistered mansions of our fathers stood:,1.0 +"And heard, though felt not, the rude tempest beat:",2.0 +"But damps pervaded oft the gloomy hall,",0.0 +Fond of extremes and wiser sure than they!,2.0 +"We drive walls, trees, damps, arms, and all away:",2.0 +Nor dare to keep the golden mean in view.,0.0 +"But see! the sun the steep of heaven descends,",0.0 +And yonder kind cloud her golden curtain lends:,3.0 +"Let me, you Walks! your flowery maze pursue,",2.0 +And on one plain the world's whole tribute view.,2.0 +"That tribute, Commerce, which we owe to thee,",0.0 +And ancient Asia breathes her sweet perfume:,0.0 +And British roses crown the flowery field.,2.0 +AUTHOR OF GOOD! how are thy blessings shed!,2.0 +"On man's, on thereby man's, much honoured head!",2.0 +"From glowing India to the frozen pole,",1.0 +"Thy Providence supplies, protects the whole:",1.0 +"Nor are thy gifts at random thrown abroad,",1.0 +Or undistinguished carelessly bestowed;,1.0 +"For, while the whole in general blessings share,",0.0 +"Yonder spreading fig, that first from India came,",2.0 +A kind protection from the northern skies:,1.0 +"And various realms this one grand truth declare,",4.0 +"Who feels the extremes of Nature, feels her care:",2.0 +Their secret treasures to the fruitful spring;,1.0 +"Pour fostering stores into the weary earth,",3.0 +And call more gay reviving Nature forth.,0.0 +And on benighted nations pour the day:,1.0 +"For thee the roses bloom, the violets spread,",1.0 +"Brisk through the thicket trips the spotted fawn,",0.0 +"Those oaks, the future sovereigns of the sea,",1.0 +"Stretch wide their boughs, and cloth their heads for thee.",1.0 +"Bloom fresh, you sacred Guardians of our isle!",2.0 +"War's rage is over, and Peace now deigns to smile:",4.0 +"Here stand the graceful monarchs of the wood,",2.0 +Nor unprovoked attempt the swelling flood:,0.0 +Their songs divine beneath your reverend shade:,0.0 +"Enriched with trade and commerce not their own,",0.0 +"By meanest arts, which courage sought in vain,",0.0 +"Then, then indignant quit the fertile shore,",0.0 +"When hapless England felt a tyrant's sway,",2.0 +"And that fierce tyrant fell to lust a prey,",1.0 +"From short-lived grandeur, and divided bed:",4.0 +"Oppression spread her horrors over the plain,",2.0 +"For not the fragrant breath of rosy morn,",0.0 +Can to the broken heart lost pleasure bring.,2.0 +"In England then the sons of Freedom slept,",0.0 +And drooping Virtue over their ashes wept:,2.0 +"In vain for right the royal stranger cried,",0.0 +That right his slaves enjoyed her lord denied:,0.0 +Her sorrows spread along this silent vale;,0.0 +"Till Fate in pity called her to the shore,",1.0 +Where lust and tyranny oppress no more.,2.0 +"Thrice happy change! where royal virtue grieved,",1.0 +The aged and the orphan are relieved;,1.0 +"And thankful widows crowd the opened door,",0.0 +Where weeping majesty complained before.,1.0 +OH Britons! if to pagan powers you bow,4.0 +Be smiling Liberty adored by you!,1.0 +"Where mad Oppression waves her iron wand,",0.0 +There Truth and Justice quit the wasted land:,0.0 +"But where the people feel a father's sway,",0.0 +"As Rome felt once, and Britain feels today",1.0 +"There Justice equal with the Sovereign reigns,",1.0 +"When they, who govern with the governed join,",1.0 +"And, without faction, all their force combine;",5.0 +"Not the loud cannon, nor the ocean's roar,",3.0 +"That beats with angry waves the sounding shore,",0.0 +"Can crush contending hosts, or awe them more.",0.0 +"Fair Union gently reared the parent tree,",1.0 +That stretched so wide her boughs for Hawke and thee.,0.0 +"And thus united, subject of my lays!",1.0 +"Who left their fields to guard the the threatened shore,",0.0 +"And though no annals to their race shall tell,",3.0 +"The soul resolved that waited firm the foe,",0.0 +"And in his bosom braved the impending blow,",2.0 +"Or conquered for his native fields, or bled,",1.0 +"But lo! my Muse! the humid drops descend,",0.0 +"And parting shepherd's to the hamlets tend,",1.0 +"OH! quit the task those beauties to display,",2.0 +That fairer spring with each returning day!,0.0 +"So Reynolds thus, presuming on his art,",1.0 +"To trace those charms, my Lord! that win your heart,",0.0 +"Sees softer smiles whenever he lifts his eye,",3.0 +That bid him throw his baffled pencil by.,1.0 +"WHERE gentle Avon winds its silver stream,",0.0 +"There Lucy first the vernal air inhaled,",0.0 +And spent beneath its roof her infant years.,0.0 +Nor heaved a murmuring sigh for pomp or wrath;,2.0 +Her Parents' toil to ease was all her care.,0.0 +"Their cott, with three small fields, was all their store;",1.0 +"This little all, by labour, not by fraud",0.0 +And ever did their frugal wants supply.,0.0 +"To Nature, not to Art, her charms she owed;",0.0 +"By all the hamlet were those charms confessed,",1.0 +"Still had she lived, and still had happy been,",0.0 +Had honour been young Edward's constant guide:,3.0 +"But Edward, tutored long in Fashion's school,",0.0 +"Lord of each pleasing art, each winning grace,",0.0 +By Lucy guided to the classic shade.,1.0 +"Beneath its ancient boughs he wooed the Nymph,",0.0 +"Ere the sad Maid, by hapless love betrayed,",3.0 +"For once resemble HEAVEN, and pardon Her,",1.0 +If ever You for HEAVEN's pardon hope;,1.0 +"For crimes You have, though not from Love they spring,",0.0 +"And had young Edward sought your cold embrace,",1.0 +Then you like Lucy might have loved and fallen.,0.0 +"Sad Lucy once possessed, her arms he left",1.0 +"And twice two years on transatlantic shores,",1.0 +"Edward, false Edward, spent, ere he returned",5.0 +For three long years her fate she sorely mourned;,1.0 +"The fourth, no longer able to endure",2.0 +"The pangs of hope delayed, and blasted fame,",0.0 +And deeply mourned a sister's hapless fate.,0.0 +"His guilty steps he bent, and sought his Fair,",0.0 +"He met the Sexton grim, who, jeering, said,",0.0 +"Guided by the pale Moon trembling he went,",3.0 +"But, ah! no Lucy there sad Edward found:",3.0 +"Full long entranced in grief he speechless stood,",1.0 +"From this said tale one moral may we learn,",3.0 +"That Virtue's paths alone are paths of peace,",0.0 +And that the man who these pure paths shall quit,2.0 +For Pleasure's gilded halls and roseate bowers,2.0 +Through life's long course will never true bliss attain.,4.0 +"THE potent Lord, that this bright villa planned,",2.0 +Exhibits here a Paradise regained;,0.0 +"Whatever of Fruits the Trees, of Birds the Air,",3.0 +In blissful union are collected here:,1.0 +"All with such harmony disposed, as shows,",1.0 +That in the mid the Tree of Knowledge grows.,0.0 +"DEAR friend, for thee, through every changing year,",2.0 +Unchanged affection draws the tie more near;,0.0 +"Treasure most precious, dearest to the heart,",3.0 +Increased in value as the rest depart.,1.0 +"Though kindred bonds may break, and love must fade,",0.0 +Friendship still brightens in the deepening shade.,3.0 +"Time, silent and unseen, pursues his course,",2.0 +"When age, like winter, comes to chill the soul:",0.0 +Who bears the flowers and fruit of life away.,2.0 +"Sudden to cease, or gently to decline,",3.0 +"OH, Power of Mercy! may the lot be mine:",4.0 +"Let me not linger on the verge of fate,",1.0 +Nor weary duty to its utmost date;,2.0 +"Losing, in pain's impatient gloom confined,",2.0 +"Freedom of thought, and dignity of mind;",3.0 +"Till pity views untouched the parting breath,",0.0 +And cold indifference adds a pang to death.,0.0 +"Yet if to suffer long my doom is past,",0.0 +Let me preserve this temper to the last:,3.0 +"OH let me still from self my feelings bear,",1.0 +"Nor sadden at the smile which joy bestows,",0.0 +Though far from me her beam ethereal glows:,3.0 +"Let me remember, in the gloom of age,",2.0 +To smile at follies happier youth engage;,2.0 +"See them fallacious, but indulgent spare",3.0 +The fairy dreams experience cannot share.,2.0 +"Nor view the rising morn with jaundice eye,",0.0 +Because for me no more the sparkling moments fly.,0.0 +And take vain pride to Publish thy own shame!,2.0 +What can thy Patron Vice enough Confer,0.0 +"And, Rot the Tongue that Pleads in his Defence.",1.0 +"WHy sigh you so, What Grievance can annoy,",2.0 +"A Nymph like you? Alas, why sighs my Joy?",1.0 +"My Philomela, why dost bend thy Head,",0.0 +"Hast lost thy Pipe, or is thy Garland dead?",1.0 +"Thy flocks are fruitful, flowery all thy Plain;",1.0 +"Unfriendly thus, when I expect Relief,",1.0 +Thou dost abuse my Love: How should I guess,0.0 +"The unknown Reason of thy Tears, unless",6.0 +"Thy Birds are fled, or else the Winds have blown,",0.0 +"This stormy Night, your tallest Cypress down?",1.0 +"Thy Shepherd's true, or I had named him first.",1.0 +"Ah! were he so, I would contemn the rest.",1.0 +Why dost thou fear it? Not a truer Swain,0.0 +Before drove his Sheep to this frequented Plain.,3.0 +"Like thee in Ignorance, how blessed were I?",1.0 +"Curse on his Charms; accursed the unlucky day,",2.0 +He sought by chance his wandered flocks this way;,0.0 +"When gay and careless, leaning on my Crook,",1.0 +"My roving Eyes this fatal Captive took,",0.0 +Well I remember yet with what a grace,2.0 +The Youthful Conqueror made his first address;,2.0 +"How soft his Tongue, how very soft his Eyes.",0.0 +"When spite of all my Natural Disdain,",1.0 +I fell a Victim to the smiling Swain!,1.0 +"Ah, how much blessed, how happy had I been,",0.0 +Had I his lovely killing Eyes never seen!,3.0 +"My harmless flocks, and as much pleasure reaped,",1.0 +"In being all I hoped to be, as they,",0.0 +Whose awful Nods subjected Nations sway.,0.0 +The Shepherd's made it all their care to gain,0.0 +"My heart, which knew no passion but disdain,",2.0 +"Till this Young Swain, the Pride of all our Grove,",2.0 +Into my soul infused the bane of Love.,0.0 +"When nature speaks, and sorrow drops a tear?",0.0 +Within your walls my happiness I found,1.0 +"Luxuriant flourish, like the plants around:",2.0 +"Blithe as the birds that perch on yonder spray,",0.0 +"In joyous notes, I poured the willing lay.",0.0 +"Beneath your roof there humble lines had birth,",0.0 +Whose honoured Patrons now lie low in earth;,2.0 +"Or born by Fate far from their native shore,",2.0 +With smiles auspicious glad my heart no more.,1.0 +"Here youth and beauty, innocence and love,",1.0 +"Here honoured Age to all around did show,",1.0 +That virtue's paths alone can bliss bestow:,0.0 +"Here moral lessons spoke from every part,",0.0 +And peace and kindness wrote them on my heart.,1.0 +"Hoary inhabitants around the place,",3.0 +"Whose faithful services obtained that grace,",1.0 +"' Mid every comfort rural life affords,",1.0 +"Shower prayers and blessings, on its former Lords.",1.0 +"To you the young are taught to lift the eye,",1.0 +"Blessed in a lot left nothing to desire,",2.0 +"Those happy scenes did future hopes inspire,",0.0 +"That thus my life in careless ease might run,",0.0 +My age supported by my master's son;,1.0 +"In him, that goodness, and those virtues find,",1.0 +Which grateful numbers meet in you combined.,1.0 +"Wherever I turn, lamented tombs appear,",2.0 +Or parting sails extort the bitter tear!,0.0 +To distant realms the darling child too gone;,1.0 +"OH guard him heaven, and let me weep alone!",1.0 +"For every tear, let countless blessings fall",1.0 +"Forgive, fair nymph, the dictates of despair;",3.0 +"Grief flies, for comfort, to the tender fair.",2.0 +"The good and great, we fondly think have powers,",0.0 +Can charm to ease our sad and anxious hours:,0.0 +"The friends I mourn, alas! were doubly thine!",1.0 +And grant that shelter they no more can give.,2.0 +That wakes up anguish in a heart at ease!,0.0 +"For their dear sakes my prayers are ever thine,",3.0 +Nor can I more were your protection mine.,3.0 +Who still through bleeding ages struggled hard,0.0 +To hold a generous undiminished state;,2.0 +The fort of freedom; that amid the waves,0.0 +"Stands like a rock of adamant, and dares",1.0 +The wildest fury of the beating storm.,1.0 +"And are there yet, in this late sickly age",3.0 +"Such bold exalted spirits? Men whose deeds,",0.0 +"To the bright annals of old GREECE opposed,",4.0 +And dim the lustre of her fairest page.,1.0 +And glows the flame of LIBERTY so strong,1.0 +"In this lone speck of earth! this spot obscure,",3.0 +"Shaggy with woods, and crusted over with rock,",4.0 +By slaves surrounded and by slaves oppressed!,1.0 +What then should BRITONS feel? should they not catch,1.0 +And kindle at a fire so like their own?,0.0 +Such were the working thoughts which swelled the breast,1.0 +And views beyond the narrow beaten track,0.0 +"By trivial fancy trod, he turned his course",2.0 +"To animated forms of patriot zeal,",2.0 +"Warm in the living majesty of virtue,",1.0 +"Elate with fearless spirit, firm, resolved,",0.0 +I trace the pictured landscape; while I kiss,1.0 +With pilgrim lips devout the sacred soil,0.0 +"And pointed cliffs, which hear the chafing deep",0.0 +Incessant foaming round their shaggy sides:,0.0 +"Hail to thy winding bays, thy sheltering ports",2.0 +Their hospitable arms to every sail:,4.0 +"Thy numerous streams, that bursting from the cliffs",3.0 +With grateful murmur: on the fearful edge,1.0 +"Of the rude precipice, thy hamlets brown",3.0 +"Scarce seen, amongst the craggy hanging cliffs",1.0 +Seem like an eagle's nest aerial built:,5.0 +"Thy swelling mountains, brown with solemn shade",0.0 +"Of various trees, that wave their giant arms",2.0 +"Over the rough sons of freedom; lofty pines,",2.0 +"And spreading chestnut, with each humbler plant,",2.0 +"And shrub of fragrant leaf, that clothes their sides",0.0 +"Extracts her golden dews: the shining box,",0.0 +"The prickly juniper, and the green leaf",2.0 +Which feeds the spinning worm; while glowing bright,0.0 +"Beneath the various foliage, wildly spreads",2.0 +And thy own native laurel crowns the scene.,1.0 +"Hail to thy savage forests, awful, deep:",0.0 +"Thy tangled thickets, and thy crowded woods,",1.0 +"And wilder gaze, as conscious of the power",1.0 +That loves to reign amid the lonely scenes,0.0 +"Fenced in with guardian rocks, whose quarries teem",2.0 +"With shining steel, that to the cultured fields",1.0 +And sunny hills which wave with bearded grain,0.0 +"Defends their homely produce. LIBERTY,",1.0 +"The mountain goddess, loves to range at large",0.0 +"Amid such scenes, and on the iron soil",1.0 +Prints her majestic step: for these she scorns,3.0 +"And bowers that breathe of bliss: for these, when first",3.0 +"Reared its fair front, she marked it for her own,",4.0 +"And with her spirit warmed: her genuine sons,",3.0 +"A broken remnant, from the generous stock",3.0 +The sacred fire through many a barbarous age:,4.0 +"Whom, nor the iron rod of cruel Carthage,",0.0 +"Nor the dread sceptre of imperial Rome,",5.0 +"They rose superior, bursting from their chains",3.0 +"And claimed man's dearest birthright, LIBERTY:",3.0 +"And long, through many a hard unequal strife",2.0 +Maintained the glorious conflict; long withstood,2.0 +"With single arm, the whole collected force",0.0 +"Of haughty Genoa, and ambitious Gaul:",3.0 +"And shall withstand it, trust the faithful Muse.",0.0 +"It is not in the force of mortal arm,",0.0 +"Scarcely in fate, to bind the struggling soul",2.0 +"Against oppression; breathing great revenge,",0.0 +"Careless of life, determined to be free.",3.0 +"Born to exalt his own, and give mankind",3.0 +"A glimpse of higher natures: just, as great;",0.0 +"The soul of counsel, and the nerve of war;",1.0 +"Of high unshaken spirit, tempered sweet",0.0 +Whom heaven in some propitious hour endowed,0.0 +With every purer virtue: gave him all,0.0 +"That lifts the hero, or adorns the man.",1.0 +Gave him the eye sublime; the searching glance,0.0 +As with a beam from heaven; on his brow,1.0 +"Serene, and spacious front, set the broad seal",3.0 +Of dignity and rule; then smiled benign,1.0 +"On this fair pattern of a God below,",3.0 +"High wrought, and breathed into his swelling breast",1.0 +The large ambitious wish to save his country.,0.0 +"The man devoted to the public, stands",1.0 +In the bright records of superior worth,4.0 +"A step below the skies: if he succeed,",1.0 +"The first fair lot which earth affords, is his;",1.0 +"And if he falls, he falls above a throne.",1.0 +When such their leader can the brave despair?,1.0 +Freedom the cause and PAOLI the chief.,4.0 +"Success to your fair hopes! a British muse,",2.0 +"Though weak and powerless, lifts her fervent voice,",2.0 +And breathes a prayer for your success. O could,1.0 +"She scatter blessings as the morn sheds dews,",2.0 +To drop upon your heads! but patient hope,0.0 +"Must wait the appointed hour; secure of this,",2.0 +That never with the indolent and weak,2.0 +Will freedom deign to dwell; she must be seized,0.0 +By that bold arm that wrestles for the blessing:,2.0 +It's heaven's best gift and must be bought with blood.,2.0 +"When the storm thickens, when the combat burns,",2.0 +And pain and death in every horrid shape,0.0 +Then virtue triumphs; then her towering form,0.0 +"And bolder tone, exulting, rides the storm,",0.0 +And joys amid the tempest: then she reaps,0.0 +And higher relish than meridian suns,3.0 +"Can ever ripen; fair, heroic deeds,",0.0 +"And balmy airs, and vernal suns, and showers",0.0 +That feed and ripen minds; it's toil and danger;,0.0 +And wrestling with the stubborn gripe of fate;,1.0 +"And war, and sharp distress, and paths obscure",0.0 +And dubious. The bold swimmer joys not so,4.0 +"To feel the proud waves under him, and beat",2.0 +The generous courser does not so exult,3.0 +"To toss his floating mane against the wind,",0.0 +"And neigh amid the thunder of the war,",1.0 +As virtue to oppose her swelling breast,1.0 +Like a firm shield against the darts of fate.,3.0 +And when her sons in that rough school have learnt,1.0 +"To smile at danger, then the hand that raised",0.0 +"Shall hush the storm, and lead the shining train",0.0 +Of peaceful years in bright procession on.,1.0 +"Then shall the shepherd's pipe, the muse's lyre,",0.0 +With loud acclaim and hymns of cordial praise,0.0 +Shall hail their high deliverers; every name,2.0 +"To virtue dear be from oblivion snatched,",3.0 +"And placed among the stars: but chiefly thine,",1.0 +"Thine, PAOLI, with sweetest sound shall dwell",2.0 +"On their applauding lips; thy sacred name,",1.0 +"Endeared to long posterity, some muse,",1.0 +"More worthy of the theme, shall consecrate",1.0 +"To after ages, and applauding worlds",1.0 +"So vainly wished, so fondly hoped the Muse:",0.0 +"Too fondly hoped: The iron fates prevail,",1.0 +"Less vanquished than overwhelmed, by numbers crushed,",3.0 +"Admired, unaided fell. So strives the moon",0.0 +"In dubious battle with the gathering clouds,",5.0 +Storms rolled on storms involve the face of heaven,1.0 +And quench her struggling fires. Forgive the zeal,0.0 +"That, too presumptuous, whispered better things",2.0 +And read the book of destiny amiss.,1.0 +Not with the purple colouring of success,3.0 +Is virtue best adorned: the attempt is praise.,2.0 +"There yet remains a freedom, nobler far",1.0 +Beyond the proud oppressor's cruel grasp,1.0 +Worthy of Gods: The freedom of the mind.,3.0 +"Wherever you go, some Actions still we hear,",2.0 +Which make the Goodness of your Mind appear.,1.0 +"Hibernia early saw those Seeds of Worth,",3.0 +"In your fair Breast, which now shoot nobly forth;",4.0 +"Foresaw the Hopes you gave, matured by Time,",1.0 +"Though to the Height of all your Wishes blessed,",1.0 +Yet still your Sighs can rise for the Distressed:,1.0 +"So young, so good! Georgina, it's thy Fate,",2.0 +How does thy Manner to thy Words impart,1.0 +"Some wondrous Power to gain upon the Heart,",2.0 +"Engaging All! ' -- Beneficence we see,",1.0 +"Though fair Herself, yet owing Charms to Thee:",0.0 +"OH fitted Thou for Spencer's Race, who scorn",2.0 +To think they only for Themselves were born!,1.0 +"SHALL the great Soul of Newton quit this earth,",3.0 +"To mingle with his stars; and every muse,",1.0 +"Astonished into silence, shun the weight",0.0 +"But what can man? ' -- Even now the sons of light,",3.0 +Hail his arrival on the coast of bliss.,3.0 +"Yet am not I deterred, though high the theme,",2.0 +"And sung to harps of angels, for with you,",1.0 +"Ethereal Flames! ambitious, I aspire",3.0 +In Nature's general symphony to join.,1.0 +And what new wonders can you show your guest!,2.0 +"Who, while on this dim spot, where mortals toil",3.0 +"Clouded in dust, from Motion's simple laws,",2.0 +"Could trace the secret hand of Providence,",1.0 +"Have you not listened while he bound the Suns,",0.0 +And Planets to their spheres! the unequal task,3.0 +Of human kind till then. Oft had they rolled,0.0 +"Over erring Man the year, and oft disgraced",0.0 +"The pride of schools, before their course was known",0.0 +"Full in its causes and effects to him,",1.0 +"Romantic schemes, defended by the din",1.0 +"Of specious words, and tyranny of names;",1.0 +"But, bidding his amazing mind attend,",1.0 +And with heroic patience years on years,1.0 +"And shine, of all his race, on him alone.",1.0 +"And what the triumphs of old Greece and Rome,",2.0 +"By his diminished, but the price of boys",2.0 +In some small fray victorious! when instead,3.0 +Of shattered parcels of this earth usurped,2.0 +"Of cruelty and Blood, Nature herself",6.0 +"Stood all subdued by him, and open laid",2.0 +Her every latent glory to his view.,1.0 +"All intellectual eye, our solar Round",2.0 +"First gazing through, he by the blended power",3.0 +Of Gravitation and Projection saw,1.0 +The whole in silent harmony revolve.,1.0 +"From unassisted vision hid, the Moons",0.0 +By him in all their mingled tracts were seen.,0.0 +"He also fixed the wandering Queen of Night,",2.0 +"Whether she wanes into a scanty orb,",2.0 +"Or, waxing broad, with her pale shadowy light,",4.0 +In a soft deluge overflows the sky.,2.0 +"Adjusted to the mutual Main, and taught",3.0 +Why now the mighty mass of water swells,0.0 +And the full river turning; till again,3.0 +A yellow waste of idle sands behind.,0.0 +"Then breaking hence, he took his ardent flight",0.0 +"Through the blue Infinite; and every Star,",3.0 +Which the clear concave of a winter's night,0.0 +Or such as farther in successive skies,1.0 +"To fancy shine alone, at his approach",1.0 +"Blazed into Suns, the living centre each",1.0 +"Of an harmonious system: all combined,",3.0 +Which draws the stone projected to the ground.,1.0 +OH Wisdom truly perfect! thus to call,2.0 +"From a few causes such a scheme of things,",2.0 +"Effects so various, beautiful, and great,",3.0 +"An universe complete! and, OH beloved",0.0 +"He, first of men, with awful wing pursued",0.0 +"Till, to the forehead of our evening sky",2.0 +"Returned, the blazing wonder glares anew,",0.0 +And over the trembling nations shakes dismay.,2.0 +The heavens are all his own; from the wild rule,2.0 +To their first great simplicity restored.,3.0 +The schools astonished stood; but found it vain,0.0 +"To keep at odds with demonstration strong,",0.0 +"Of truth. At once their pleasing visions sled,",0.0 +"With the gay shadows of the morning mixed,",1.0 +"When Newton rose, our philosophy sun.",4.0 +"The aerial flow of Sound was known to him,",2.0 +"From whence it first in wavy circles breaks,",0.0 +Till the touched organ takes the meaning in.,2.0 +"Nor could the darting Beam, of speed immense,",0.0 +"Escape his swift pursuit, and measuring eye.",2.0 +"Even Light itself, which every things displays,",0.0 +"Shone undiscovered, till his brighter mind",2.0 +"And, from the whitening undistinguished blaze,",1.0 +"Collecting every ray into his kind,",0.0 +Sprung vivid forth; the tawny Orange next;,1.0 +And next delicious Yellow; by whose side,1.0 +"Then the pure Blue, that swells autumnal skies,",3.0 +"Ethereal played; and then, of sadder hue,",2.0 +Died in the fainting Violet away.,1.0 +"These, when the clouds distil the rosy shower,",0.0 +Shine out distinct down the watery bow;,4.0 +While over our heads the dewy vision bends,2.0 +"Delightful, melting on the fields beneath.",1.0 +"Did ever poet image ought so fair,",0.0 +"Dreaming in whispering groves, by the hoarse brook!",5.0 +"Or prophet, to whose rapture heaven descends!",1.0 +"Even now the setting sun and shifting clouds,",0.0 +"Seen, Greenwich, from thy lovely heights, declare",1.0 +"Where the green islands of the happy shine,",3.0 +He stemmed alone; and to the source involved,1.0 +"His lights at equal distances, to guide",1.0 +His high discoveries sing? when but a few,2.0 +How shall the muse then grasp the mighty theme?,0.0 +What wonder thence that his Devotion swelled,1.0 +"Responsive to his knowledge! for could he,",2.0 +"The finished University of things,",1.0 +"In all its order, magnitude, and parts,",0.0 +"Say, you who best can tell, you happy few,",0.0 +"Who saw him in the softest lights of life,",0.0 +"O speak the wondrous man! how mild, how calm,",0.0 +"How greatly humble, how divinely good;",1.0 +How firm established on eternal truth;,1.0 +"Fervent in doing well, with every nerve",2.0 +"Still pressing on, forgetful of the past,",3.0 +And panting for perfection: far above,1.0 +"Those little cares, and visionary joys,",0.0 +That so perplex the fond impassioned heart,1.0 +"This, Conduit, from thy rural hours we hope;",1.0 +"As through the pleasing shade, where Nature pours",1.0 +"Her every sweet, in studious ease you walk;",2.0 +"The social passions smiling at thy heart,",0.0 +That glows with all the recollected sage.,0.0 +"You who, unconscious of those nobler flights",3.0 +"That reach impatient at immortal life,",0.0 +"Of Being dare contend, say, can a soul",2.0 +"Of such extensive, deep, tremendous powers,",1.0 +"Enlarging still, be but a finer breath",1.0 +"Of spirits dancing through their tubes awhile,",1.0 +And then for ever lost in vacant air?,0.0 +"Solemn as when some awful change is come,",1.0 +Sound through the world ' -- It's done! ' -- The measure's full;,0.0 +"That build the towering pyramid, the proud",1.0 +"By ruthless ruin, and whatever supports",4.0 +"The worshipped name of hoar antiquity,",1.0 +Down to the dust! what grandeur can you boast,3.0 +"While Newton lifts his column to the skies,",1.0 +Beyond the waste of time ' -- Let no weak drop,2.0 +Be shed for him. The virgin in her bloom,1.0 +"Cut off, the joyous youth, and darling child,",0.0 +"These are the tombs that claim the tender tear,",1.0 +That now he wanders through those endless worlds,1.0 +OH Britain's boast! whether with angels thou,7.0 +Who joy to see the honour of their kind;,0.0 +"Or whether, mounted on cherubic wing,",1.0 +"Comparing things with things, in rapture lost,",0.0 +"And grateful adoration, for that light",1.0 +From Light Himself; O look with pity down,1.0 +"On humankind, a frail erroneous race!",2.0 +Exalt the spirit of a downward world!,1.0 +"Over thy dejected country chief preside,",1.0 +"And be her Genius called! her studies raise,",0.0 +"Correct her manners, and inspire her youth.",1.0 +"For, though depraved and sunk, she brought thee forth,",1.0 +And glories in thy name; she points thee out,0.0 +"To all her sons, and bids them eye thy star:",0.0 +"When Time shall be no more, thy sacred dust",0.0 +THE glittering colours of the day are fled;,2.0 +"Come! and over earth thy wandering lustre shed,",2.0 +"Thy deepest shadow, and thy softest light;",1.0 +"To me congenial is the gloomy grove,",2.0 +When with faint light the sloping uplands shine;,3.0 +"That gloom, those pensive rays alike I love,",0.0 +Whose sadness seems in sympathy with mine!,1.0 +"But most for this, pale orb! thy beams are dear,",2.0 +"That while I pour the unavailing tear,",0.0 +"And mourn that hope to me in youth is lost,",1.0 +"Thy light can visionary thoughts impart,",0.0 +"Thy bowers our theatres, thy mind our throne!",3.0 +Hail! to thy leisure to be wisely great.,1.0 +"Fettered by duties and to forms enslaved,",3.0 +How timely have thy years a remnant saved!,0.0 +"To taste that freedom which thy sword maintained,",0.0 +"So Scipio Carthage fallen resigned his plume,",4.0 +"OH greatly blessed! whose evening sweetest shines,",1.0 +"While free reflection with reverted eye,",1.0 +"Divides life well: the largest part, long known",2.0 +Resumes dominion and escapes control;,1.0 +"Moves with a grandeur, monarchs wish in vain,",3.0 +"Above all fears, storms, dangers, hopes or pain;",1.0 +"A glance sometime from thy safe summit show,",3.0 +And see the dusty world look dim below:,1.0 +Through the dark throng discern huge slaves of pride,3.0 +Shouldering unheeded Happiness aside;,2.0 +And dignified with all the dirt of fame;,0.0 +"Then with a smile superior, turn away,",2.0 +"Wind through thy mazes to serene delight,",1.0 +And from the bursting bubbles shade thy sight.,1.0 +"Moving like light, all piercing, though not loud;",3.0 +"The Muse shall find thee in thy blessed retreat,",0.0 +"Fresh as thy lakes, may all thy pleasures flow!",0.0 +"And breezy like thy groves, thy passions blow!",0.0 +"Wide as thy fancy, be thy spreading praise!",0.0 +"And long and lovely as thy walks, thy days!",1.0 +"My dear Maria, my long absent friend,",2.0 +"If you can spare one moment to attend,",2.0 +"The plaintive strains of your Belinda hear,",1.0 +"Who is your friend, and as yourself sincere.",1.0 +"When you were here, I smiled throughout the day,",0.0 +"But now, alas! I can no pleasure know,",2.0 +The tedious hours of absence move so slow;,2.0 +"I secret mourn, not daring to complain,",1.0 +"Still seeking for relief, but seek in vain.",2.0 +"When I walk forth to take the morning air,",3.0 +"I quickly to some rising hill repair,",1.0 +"From whence I may survey your village spire,",1.0 +"Then sigh to you, and languish with desire.",2.0 +"At sultry noon retiring to the groves,",1.0 +"From shade to shade, pleased with the vain delight,",2.0 +Imagination brings you to my sight;,1.0 +"Fatigued I sink into my painted chair,",0.0 +"My garden claims one solitary hour,",0.0 +When sober evening closes every flower;,0.0 +"The drooping lily my resemblance bears,",1.0 +While I am absent from the sight of you.,1.0 +"When on my couch reclined my eyes I close,",0.0 +The God of Sleep refuses me repose;,1.0 +"I' rise half dressed, and wander to and fro",3.0 +"Along my room, or to my window go:",1.0 +"Enraptured I behold the moon shine clear,",2.0 +While falling waters murmur in my ear;,0.0 +"My thoughts to you then in a moment fly,",0.0 +"Thus every scene a gloomy prospect wears,",1.0 +"It's you, Maria, and it's only you,",3.0 +"Come to my groves; command the birds to sing,",0.0 +And over the meadows bid fresh daisies spring.,4.0 +"No! rather come and chase my gloom away,",1.0 +"That I may sing like birds, and look like daisies gay.",0.0 +"True Grief, like Love, without thee can inspire.",2.0 +"Moderate Sorrows may be told with Art,",3.0 +But the Distractions of my troubled Heart,2.0 +"With sad Confusion I must needs express,",1.0 +"To take the Young, the Witty, and the Fair,",1.0 +Could no less Feast serve thy luxurious Jaws?,5.0 +Would not the old or discontented do?,0.0 +Those whom Misfortune forced to wish for you.,0.0 +No those I by experience find you fly;,3.0 +"Guide me, some Friend, if I have any one,",2.0 +Dark as the Grave of the once lovely Maid;,2.0 +"I can no more gaze on that charming Face,",0.0 +"Hear that sweet Voice, nor have one dear Embrace;",2.0 +"View that soft Air and Mien, and sport and play,",3.0 +"You pleasant Walks whom she so oft did grace,",1.0 +"Keep on your dismal Hue, let not the Spring",1.0 +"Put on your fresh Attire, nor Summer bring.",2.0 +"The less gay verdant Look you Birds be still,",1.0 +"Each lofty Tree hang down your stately Head,",2.0 +But let your naked Boughs be ever joined,0.0 +In murmuring Sorrows with the sighing Wind:,3.0 +"No Blow, no Wind to move the yielding Bough,",2.0 +My louder Sighs will do that Office now.,0.0 +"Keep back your force you Springs that grace the Woods,",1.0 +My Tears alone will swell you into Floods:,0.0 +"And all too little for the Friend I grieve,",2.0 +Now she is gone it's not worth while to live.,0.0 +"Dead to all purposes of good, or ill,",1.0 +"His only vice in no good action lies,",0.0 +And his sole virtue is his want of vice.,3.0 +"Business he deems too hard, trifles too easy,",6.0 +And doing nothing finds himself too busy.,1.0 +"Silence he cannot bear, noise is distraction,",4.0 +"Noise kills with bustle, silence with reflection;",2.0 +"No want he feels, ' -- what has he to pursue?",2.0 +"To him it's less to suffer, than to do.",2.0 +"The busy world's a fool, the learnt a sot,",0.0 +And his sole hope to be by all forgot:,2.0 +"Wealth is procured with toil, and kept with fear,",2.0 +Knowledge by labour purchased costs too dear;,3.0 +"Friendship's a clog, and family a jest,",3.0 +A wife but a bad bargain at the best;,2.0 +"Honour a bubble, subject to a breath,",1.0 +"Thus all the wise esteem, he can despise,",1.0 +"And caring not, it's he alone is wise:",1.0 +"Yet, all his wish possessing, finds no rest,",1.0 +"And only lives to know, he never can be blessed.",1.0 +Or throw my woes against the face of Heaven?,0.0 +And rob each coming hour of softened Peace.,0.0 +What then? Is Fate to blame? I chose distress;,0.0 +Free will was mine; I might have still been happy,1.0 +"I knew the struggles of a wounded mind,",1.0 +"Knew all the terrors of conflicting passion,",1.0 +"Infectious mists upon my senses hang,",0.0 +"The dire contagion creeps through all my frame,",0.0 +"Seizes my heart, and drinks my spirit up.",3.0 +"Ah! fatal poison, whither dost thou tend?",0.0 +"There needs no more; the world to me is lost,",2.0 +"I sicken at the Sun, and fly his beams,",0.0 +And pensive shuns the morn. The deep recess,0.0 +Suits well. It's here I find a gloomy rest;,1.0 +"It's here the fool's loud clatter leaves me still,",1.0 +Nor force unwilling answers to their tale:,1.0 +"But, ah! this gloom, this lethargy of thought,",1.0 +Yields not repose; I sigh the hour away;,1.0 +"The next rolls on, and leaves me still oppressed.",0.0 +"With all their great events, and minute trifles,",0.0 +"Haste, with redoubled speed, bring on the hour,",4.0 +"SHort was their stay, of high descent they sprung,",0.0 +Peace over each scene ' -- peace over the pleasant fields;,6.0 +No shades! to me ' -- more pleasure ever yields.,2.0 +Over all thy minds ' -- the passions calmly flow;,0.0 +As Leven's! stream tranquil ' -- to whence we go.,4.0 +"Thank Heaven, I knew thee not! I never shall feel",2.0 +The keen regret thy drooping friends sustain;,0.0 +And this due tribute to thy memory bring;,5.0 +"Not that thy noble birth provokes my song,",0.0 +Or claims such offering from the Muses shrine;,1.0 +"Thy unaffected manners, all unstained",0.0 +"With pride of power, and insolence of wealth;",3.0 +"Thy probity, benevolence, and truth,",2.0 +"Best inmates of man's soul! for ever lost,",4.0 +"Cropped like fair flowers in Life's meridian bloom,",7.0 +Fade undistinguished in the silent grave.,1.0 +"OH BEDFORD! ' -- pardon, if a Muse unknown,",2.0 +"Smit with thy heart-felt grief, directs her way",1.0 +"To Sorrow's dark abode, where thee she views,",1.0 +"Thee, wretched fire, and pitying, hears thee mourn",2.0 +"Why did he bless my life? ' -- Fond parent, cease;",1.0 +Count not his virtues over. ' -- Hard task! ' -- Call forth,2.0 +Thy firm hereditary strength of mind.,0.0 +"Lo! where the shade of thy great ancestor,",1.0 +"Famed RUSSEL, stands, and chides thy vain complaint;",1.0 +"His philosophic soul, with patience armed",0.0 +And christian virtue braved the pangs of death:,0.0 +"Admired, beloved, he died; if right I deem",0.0 +Not more lamented than thy virtuous Son.,3.0 +Yet calm thy mind; so may the lenient hand,1.0 +"Of Time, all soothing Time, thy pangs assuage,",0.0 +"Heal thy sad wound, and close thy days in peace.",3.0 +"See where the object of his filial love,",3.0 +"His mother, lost in tears, laments his doom!",0.0 +"Of heavenly consolation, OH! one drop,",2.0 +"Just are thy ways, and righteous thy decrees,",1.0 +For tender faithful love? this sad return,0.0 +"For innocence and truth? Was it for this,",2.0 +"By Virtue and the smiling Graces led,",1.0 +Fair types of long succeeding years of joy,1.0 +"So soon to fade and die? Yet OH! reflect,",0.0 +Chaste partner of his life! you never deplored,4.0 +Condition worse than death! the sacred torch,0.0 +Burned to the last its unremitted fires!,1.0 +"The conscious thought of every duty paid,",0.0 +This sweet reflection shall support thy mind:,0.0 +"Be this thy comfort. ' -- Turn thine eyes awhile,",0.0 +Nor with that lifeless picture feed thy woe;,1.0 +Turn yet thine eyes; see how they court thy smiles;,2.0 +Dwell on their looks; and trace his image there.,1.0 +"And OH! since Heaven, in pity to thy loss,",1.0 +"For thee one future blessing has in store,",1.0 +Cherish that tender hope. ' -- Hear Reason's voice;,3.0 +"Hushed be the storms that vex thy troubled breast,",0.0 +And angels guard thee in the hour of pain.,0.0 +"Accept this ardent prayer; a Muse forgive,",0.0 +"Who for thy sorrows draws the pensive sigh,",0.0 +"She tuned her comic rhymes to mirth and joy,",0.0 +"To plaintive strains, yet by soft Pity led,",2.0 +"' GIVE over your Whims, says my considerate Friend;",7.0 +' Retrieve the fleeting Hours you idly spend:,0.0 +"' Blind to Advice, incorrigible, vain,",3.0 +' You follow Fancy and her laughing Train;,1.0 +' Your thoughtless Days in swift Delusion fly:',0.0 +"So let them go, says unconverted I,",2.0 +The drowsy World is slumbering just like me.,1.0 +"See on soft Beds the Hero sleeps secure,",3.0 +Till War comes thundering at his trembling Door;,2.0 +"The lulled Projector builds aerial Towers,",5.0 +And rolls smooth Rivers through enchanted Bowers.,2.0 +"What monstrous Phantoms in that Trance are born,",0.0 +Or some lean Poet aims at an Estate;,2.0 +Or when the good believing Man depends,0.0 +On the slight Promise of his courtly Friends;,3.0 +"Should those awake they to their Cost would find,",2.0 +These are but Shadows of a sleeping Mind.,3.0 +"Few real Pleasures are on Earth possessed,",2.0 +And Mortals only in their Dreams are blessed;,0.0 +"Some younger Vanity succeeds the first,",1.0 +And the last Folly often proves the worst:,2.0 +"No: While the rest in fruitless Cares are hurled,",0.0 +Let me enjoy my visionary World:,2.0 +"To this glad Bosom hug the dear Mistake,",2.0 +"If Dreams are Blessings, who would wish to wake?",0.0 +"OH You, the MONARCH's Bliss, the Muse's Friend!",1.0 +Accept the Tribute Duty bids me send:,0.0 +It's what the Bard should long before have paid;,0.0 +"But fearful to aspire, has long delayed.",1.0 +PHOEBUS alone can PHOEBUS' Chariot guide;,4.0 +"The Youth who dared to drive it, daring, died.",0.0 +My humble Muse can humble Subjects treat;,0.0 +"Yet, warm with Gratitude, would fain display",0.0 +"Her Zeal to You, on this auspicious Day.",2.0 +"To You! whose gracious Goodness plumes her Wings,",1.0 +"By whom she lives, by whom inspired, she sings:",2.0 +Long may she celebrate your sacred BIRTH;,0.0 +"Long may You stay from Heaven, to bless the Earth;",0.0 +To cheer the Royal Sovereign of our ISLE;,1.0 +"Increase his Joys, or soften all his Toil;",0.0 +"Who now, while Death in purple Triumph reigns,",0.0 +And sanguine Floods pollute the distant Plains;,0.0 +"Watchful over Britain's Fate, employs his Care,",0.0 +"Or wisely to avert, or bravely meet the War.",1.0 +OH glorious QUEEN! by Nature formed to bring,3.0 +"Let proud Oppressors', who abuse their Power,",3.0 +Hear groaning Subjects curse their natal Hour:,1.0 +"You, on that happy Hour, may justly feast",1.0 +Your Soul with Thoughts of making Thousands blessed;,0.0 +"WHAT though the Muse old Annals should explore,",1.0 +"Mark all our Queens, and trace their Virtues over?",0.0 +"Where could she find so much exalted Sense,",0.0 +"Nobly employed, like yours, in Truth's Defence?",3.0 +"You strive to make the Seeds of Virtue grow,",0.0 +"To spread the Light, which Heaven revealed below:",0.0 +"Yet, free from superstitious Zeal, incline",0.0 +To make the Rays of Moral Goodness shine;,0.0 +"Supporting those, who, firm to Truth, defend",1.0 +"That first fixed Law, on which all Laws depend.",1.0 +"BENEATH your Influence, Art and Science rear",1.0 +"Their sacred Heads, and flourish by your Care:",1.0 +"This Truth let Oxford's pompous Dome proclaim,",1.0 +Which boasts the Honour of a Queen's College. Royal Name.,2.0 +"Lately your Bard surveyed the graceful Scene,",2.0 +Rising with Bounties of a generous QUEEN!,5.0 +"OH! had the Muse there fledged her infant Wing,",0.0 +And early tasted of that learnt Spring;,1.0 +"She then had soared in more heroic Lays,",0.0 +In more majestic Numbers sung your Praise;,0.0 +"But fearful now, must quit the glorious Theme,",2.0 +Must leave the Architect to speak your Fame:,0.0 +"His Art shall there another Athens show,",1.0 +And there another Guardian PALLAS You.,4.0 +With frequent Visits cursed his Patient's Bed;,0.0 +"How chimed his Pulse, and how he took his Rest:",1.0 +"If shuddering Cold by Burnings was pursued,",3.0 +In like proportion doubles his Complaint;,1.0 +"Now swooning Sweats he begs him to allay,",2.0 +"Now give his Lungs more liberty to play,",2.0 +And take from emptied Veins these scorching Heats away:,0.0 +"Or if he saw the Danger did increase,",1.0 +"To warn him fair, and let him part in Peace.",0.0 +"My Life for yours, no Hazard in your Case",2.0 +"The Quack replies; your Voice, your Pulse, your Face,",0.0 +"Good Signs afford, and what you seem to feel",0.0 +"With kindled Rage, more than Distemper, burns",1.0 +"The suffering Man, who thus in haste returns:",0.0 +"With which you cheat poor Females of their Lives,",3.0 +"While Men dispute not, so it rid their Wives.",1.0 +"My Flesh consumes, I perish by degrees:",1.0 +"And as through weary Nights I count my Pains,",1.0 +"No Rest is left me, and no Strength remains.",3.0 +"All for the Better, Sir, the Quack rejoins:",0.0 +Exceeding promising are all these Signs.,1.0 +Was never in Sickness thought a Mark of Harm.,2.0 +The want of Strength is for the Better still;,1.0 +Even with this Gust of Passion I am pleased;,2.0 +"Then shakes, as he some formal Storey tells,",1.0 +Nor will with the least Sustenance dispense.,5.0 +"The Better; for, where Appetite endures,",1.0 +"Meats intermingle, and no Medicine cures.",5.0 +"The Stomach, you must know, Sir, is a Part ' --",3.0 +"But, sure, I feel Death's Pangs about my Heart.",1.0 +Nay then Farewell! I need no more attend,4.0 +The Quack replies. A sad approaching Friend,0.0 +"Questions the Sick, why he retires so fast;",3.0 +"And, while all Symptoms towards my Cure agree,",0.0 +"Am, for the Better, Dying as you see.",2.0 +"Yourself so changed, so great a change in me.",0.0 +"With shame I own it, I was once your slave,",1.0 +Adored myself the beauties which I gave;,1.0 +"Gave thy form grace, and lustre to thine eye:",4.0 +"Thy tongue, thy fingers I their magic taught,",1.0 +And spread the net in which myself was caught.,1.0 +"So pagan priests first form and dress the wood,",1.0 +Then prostrate fall before the senseless God.,0.0 +"But now, cursed woman, thy last sentence hear:",3.0 +"I called thy beauty forth, I bid it disappear.",0.0 +"I'll strip thee of thy borrowed plumes; undress,",2.0 +And show thee in thy native ugliness.,1.0 +"Those eyes have shone by me, by me that chin",1.0 +The seat of wanton Cupids long has been:,0.0 +"You fires, go out ' -- you wanton Cupids, fly ' --",0.0 +Of every beam disarm her haggard eye:,0.0 +It's I recall you; my known voice obey ' --,3.0 +"SAY, why these Sighs that in thy Bosom rise?",0.0 +Why on the Ground are fixed thy streaming Eyes?,0.0 +"Still let this Bosom swell with aching Woe,",1.0 +And from my Eyes the streaming Sorrows flow.,1.0 +"But O! the Cause ' -- See Clouds are gathering round,",3.0 +And Zephyrs wait to catch the mournful Sound;,0.0 +The sickening Trees all shed their blooming Store,0.0 +And blot those Features that were late so fair.,0.0 +No more alas! ' -- no more the tuneful Swain,2.0 +Shall with soft Numbers charm the listening Plain.,2.0 +No more his Flute shall greet the dawning Spring;,0.0 +Nor to his Hand rebound the trembling String.,1.0 +No meaner Swain amongst the worthy few?,1.0 +The Flower of Shepherd's and the Muses Pride?,3.0 +"None knew like him the heavenly Notes to swell,",3.0 +And moral Tales in pleasing Numbers tell.,0.0 +"You solemn Winds that whistle through the Glade,",1.0 +"Or rudely bluster in the darker Shade,",0.0 +"Go bear our Sorrows to the distant Shore,",2.0 +"Vain are our Sighs, our Tears as vainly flow,",0.0 +And each sad Bosom swells with fruitless Woe!,1.0 +"As northern Blasts destroy the Autumn Store,",0.0 +Crop all the Beauties of the early Spring;,1.0 +Around his Tomb these willing Hands shall twine,0.0 +"On his cold Grave a Laurel I bestow,",3.0 +Which late did in my Father's Garden grow:,0.0 +"May some good Angel guard the sacred Ground,",0.0 +Guilt stings my soul with many a deadly dart;,3.0 +"OH! that I never, never, had betrayed,",0.0 +"Why did I all her rising charms eclipse,",0.0 +"You smiling fair of Edin', hate my sight,",0.0 +"For I, accursed, shall hate the dawning light.",1.0 +And ruined Jessie never shall smile again!,2.0 +But since on earth no punishment is given,2.0 +I'll go and dare the punishments of Heaven!,1.0 +"To Heaven did I say; no, no, to hell;",1.0 +For crimes far less than mine the angels fell.,2.0 +"And on my grave let this inscription lie,",3.0 +"MOTHER of musings, Contemplation sage,",2.0 +"On which, in calmest meditation held,",0.0 +And drifting hail descend; or if the skies,1.0 +Whence gazing steadfast on the spangled vault,2.0 +"Of fleets encountering, that in whispers low",1.0 +"Remote from man, conversing with the spheres!",1.0 +"To ruined seats, of twilight cells and bowers,",1.0 +"Where thoughtful Melancholy loves to muse,",0.0 +Her favourite midnight haunts. The laughing scenes,1.0 +"Of purple Spring, where all the wanton train",0.0 +Of Smiles and Graces seem to lead the dance,0.0 +"Ambrosial blooms and flowers, no longer charm;",3.0 +"Tempe, no more I court thy balmy breeze,",0.0 +"Oft let me sit, at twilight hour of eve,",2.0 +Where through some western window the pale moon,2.0 +"While sullen sacred silence reigns around,",0.0 +"Of flaunting ivy, that with mantle green",0.0 +Invests some wasted tower. Or let me tread,2.0 +"In neighbouring walk of pines, where mused of old",2.0 +The cloistered brother: through the gloomy void,1.0 +That far extends beneath their ample arch,0.0 +"As on I pace, religious horror wraps",1.0 +My soul in dread repose. But when the world,0.0 +"Of taper dim, shedding a livid glare",5.0 +Over the won heaps; while airy voices talk,2.0 +Along the glimmering walls: or ghostly shape,2.0 +"At distance seen, invites with beckoning hand",2.0 +"I start: lo, all is motionless around!",2.0 +Roars not the rushing wind; the sons of men,0.0 +And every beast in mute oblivion lie;,2.0 +All nature's hushed in silence and in sleep.,1.0 +"OH then how fearful is it to reflect,",2.0 +"That through the still globe's awful solitude,",1.0 +No being wakes but me! till stealing sleep,2.0 +My drooping temples bathes in opiate dews.,2.0 +"Nor then let dreams, of wanton folly born,",1.0 +My senses lead through flowery paths of joy;,2.0 +But let the sacred Genius of the night,1.0 +"Such mystic visions send, as Spenser saw,",0.0 +When in abstracted thought he first conceived,1.0 +"All heaven in tumult, and the Seraphim",1.0 +"Come towering, armed in adamant and gold.",2.0 +"Let others love soft summer's evening smiles,",2.0 +"As, listening to the distant waterfall,",1.0 +"Then, when the sullen shades of evening close,",0.0 +"The dying embers scatter, far remote",0.0 +"Resound with festive echo, let me sit,",1.0 +Blessed with the lowly cricket's drowsy dirge.,0.0 +Then let my thought contemplative explore,1.0 +"This fleeting state of things, the vain delights,",0.0 +"The fruitless toils, that still our search elude,",0.0 +As through the wilderness of life we rove.,2.0 +This sober hour of silence will unmask,1.0 +"That charmed cup, which Reason's mintage fair",1.0 +"Eager we taste, but in the luscious draught",2.0 +Forget the poisonous dregs that lurk beneath.,2.0 +"Few know that elegance of soul refined,",1.0 +Whose soft sensation feels a quicker joy,0.0 +"Can ever afford. Thus Eloise, whose mind",4.0 +"Had languished to the pangs of melting love,",1.0 +"Reclined, she watched the tapers of the dead;",1.0 +"Or through the pillared isles, amid pale shrines",2.0 +"As through the mazes of the festive ball,",2.0 +"She floats amid the silken sons of dress,",0.0 +And shines the fairest of the assembled fair.,3.0 +And the blessed regent of the golden day,3.0 +"How oft my wishes ask the night's return,",0.0 +That best befriends the melancholy mind!,0.0 +"Hail, sacred Night! thou too shalt share my song!",2.0 +With rhymes uncouth the bloody cauldron bless;,1.0 +"Though Murder won, beneath thy shrouding shade",0.0 +"Of secret slaughter, while by one blue lamp",1.0 +As all benighted in Arabian wastes,2.0 +He hears the wilderness around him howl,1.0 +"With roaming monsters, while on his hoar head",1.0 +Yet more delightful to my pensive mind,1.0 +"Even then, in youthful prime of opening May,",1.0 +When from the portals of the saffron east,1.0 +"She sheds fresh roses, and ambrosial dews.",2.0 +"When dropping wet she comes, and clad in clouds,",0.0 +"Blackening the landscape's face, that grove and hill",1.0 +Hail not the sullen gloom; the waving elms,0.0 +"That hoar through time, and ranged in thick array,",0.0 +"Enclose with stately row some rural hall,",0.0 +Of rooks rejoicing on their airy boughs;,1.0 +"While to the shed the dripping poultry crowd,",0.0 +"Hangs over the crackling blaze, nor tempts the storm;",3.0 +Fixed in the unfinished furrow rests the plough:,1.0 +Rings not the high wood with enlivening shouts,4.0 +And deepest sadness wraps the face of things.,0.0 +"Through POPE'S soft song though all the Graces breathe,",1.0 +And happiest art adorn his Attic page;,2.0 +"Yet does my mind with sweeter transport glow,",0.0 +"As at the root of mossy trunk reclined,",0.0 +I see deserted Una wander wide,0.0 +"Upon the bosom bright of silver Thames,",0.0 +"Launches in all the lustre of brocade,",1.0 +And coldly strikes the mind with feeble bliss.,0.0 +"Is there a pleasure like the pensive mood,",1.0 +"OH tell how rapturous the joy, to melt",2.0 +"The uncertain step along the midnight mead,",2.0 +"And pour your sorrows to the pitying moon,",3.0 +By many a slow trill from the bird of woe,2.0 +"The solemn dullness of the tedious world,",3.0 +While Fancy grasps the visionary fair:,0.0 +And now no more the abstracted ear attends,4.0 +"The water's murmuring lapse, the entranced eye",4.0 +Or heifer rustling through the brake alarms,1.0 +"Familiar to my soul, ever since the form",4.0 +"By frolic Zephyr's hand, her tender cheek",0.0 +"Graceful she lifts, and blushing from her bower,",3.0 +"The genial globe, first met my dazzled sight:",1.0 +"These are delights unknown to minds profane,",1.0 +And which alone the pensive soul can taste.,0.0 +"The tapered choir, at the late hour of prayer,",3.0 +"Oft let me tread, while to the according voice",2.0 +"Far in sequestered isles of the deep dome,",2.0 +"There lonesome listen to the sacred sounds,",1.0 +"Which, as they lengthen through the Gothic vaults,",1.0 +"Nor when the lamps expiring yield to night,",0.0 +"And solitude returns, would I forsake",1.0 +"The solemn mansion, but attentive hear",1.0 +Measuring Time's flight with momentary sound.,2.0 +Nor let me fail to cultivate my mind,0.0 +"Queen of the stately step, and flowing pall.",0.0 +"Her joys incestuous, and polluted love:",1.0 +Now let soft Juliet in the gaping tomb,2.0 +"Print the last kiss on her true Romeo's lips,",4.0 +Pour the misguided threats of jealous rage.,2.0 +By soft degrees the manly torrent steals,0.0 +From my swollen eyes; and at a brother's woe,0.0 +To me far happier seems the banished Lord,4.0 +"Who pines all lonesome, in the chambers hoar",0.0 +"Of some high castle shut, whose windows dim",1.0 +"That crown the solitary dome, arise;",0.0 +"Far heard along the inhospitable wastes,",4.0 +"Even he far happier seems than is the proud,",5.0 +In ease and luxury the laughing hours.,1.0 +"With feeble bliss, and but allure the sight,",1.0 +Nor rouse with impulse quick the unfeeling heart.,2.0 +Amid whose umbrage green her silver head,0.0 +"Lay forth their purple store, and sunny vales",1.0 +"In prospect vast their level laps expand,",0.0 +"Yet feels the hoary Hermit truer joys,",0.0 +As from the cliff that over his cavern hangs,3.0 +He views the piles of fallen Persepolis,3.0 +"Here, like a blasted oak, ascends the clouds;",0.0 +The dwellings once of elegance and art.,1.0 +"Here temples rise, amid whose hallowed bounds",0.0 +"Spires the black pine; while through the naked street,",1.0 +"Here columns heaped on prostrate columns, torn",0.0 +"Far as the sight can pierce, appear the spoils",0.0 +"Where, with his brother Horror, Ruin sits.",0.0 +"OH come then, Melancholy, queen of thought!",1.0 +"OH come with saintly look, and steadfast step,",2.0 +Though amid her train the dimpled Hebe bare,2.0 +"Though Venus, mother of the Smiles and Loves,",1.0 +"What though it's hers to calm the lowering skies,",3.0 +And at her presence mild the embattled clouds,2.0 +"Disperse in air, and over the face of heaven",2.0 +"Yet are these joys that Melancholy gives,",0.0 +Than all her witless revels happier far;,2.0 +"From thee began, auspicious maid, my song,",1.0 +With thee shall end: for thou art fairer far,2.0 +"Hail, queen divine! whom, as tradition tells,",2.0 +There soon the sage admiring marked the dawn,0.0 +Of solemn musing in your pensive thought;,0.0 +"For when a smiling babe, you loved to lie",0.0 +Oft deeply listening to the rapid roar,2.0 +"DOWN sunk the sun, nor shed one golden ray,",0.0 +But rising mists shut in the lowering day:,3.0 +"The rising moon a bloody meteor seemed,",2.0 +"And, scarce observed, the muffled planets gleamed;",0.0 +"The winds were hushed in silence most profound,",0.0 +And night's dim shades hung heavily around.,3.0 +Led over the marshy plains his fiery horse;,5.0 +"Involving treacherous mists delude his sight,",2.0 +While lost he wandered through the dreary night.,1.0 +"With speed his blood grew warm, his pulses beat,",1.0 +The spirits to his panting heart retreat;,1.0 +"Where tyrant fear with thrilling horror pressed,",0.0 +Till now a stranger to his daring breast.,1.0 +"His eager pace is checked by dangerous swamps,",2.0 +"Alone, his active mind conspired with fear,",2.0 +And fancied forms impregnated the air:,5.0 +"Lightly he stepped, of every sound afraid,",2.0 +"And often startled by the steed he led,",1.0 +"Clearing the clouds, a sudden gust arose,",2.0 +"Sighed through the woods, and shook the watery boughs",2.0 +"Which free, impetuous over the meadows broke;",3.0 +"In bounding circles strove to heave along,",0.0 +"Clogged amid the slimy mud, and fiercely strong;",0.0 +"Then plunged, and smothered in a quagmire dies.",3.0 +"Grief pierced the youth, while idle terrors flew,",1.0 +And gloomy fancies melted from his view.,1.0 +For rising winds had swept the misty night,0.0 +And over the earth a varying light bestowed.,4.0 +"Mourning his generous friend, while sad he stood,",4.0 +"The sound of feet he heard, and turning, viewed",0.0 +"Near him a man, quick passing over the plain,",3.0 +"His aspect peaceful, and his vestments plain;",2.0 +"So thin, he looked the image of decay,",1.0 +And closely wrapped to keep night's chills away.,1.0 +Tempts him through damps to trust the midnight air?,1.0 +"Say rather, he replied, what cause had led",2.0 +"Thy daring feet to cross this dangerous mead,",2.0 +"Bury the traveller, and delude the sight? -",5.0 +But well I know the pass and I will set thee right.,1.0 +"Overjoyed, the youth his proffered aid embraced,",0.0 +"Tells how amid fogs, bewildered in his course,",5.0 +He amongst the marshes lost his faithful horse;,1.0 +"Then names his destined journey, and the road,",1.0 +"Which he, mistaking, had unwary trod.",1.0 +The path so intricate I scarce can guide;,1.0 +And deign beneath my humble roof to stay;,0.0 +Soon as tomorrow shall return to light,3.0 +"My son shall tend thy steps, and set thee right.",0.0 +Onward together as their course they speed,3.0 +The youth recounts the virtues of his steed;,1.0 +For mid his warmth he traced a mind he loved.,0.0 +"Quitting the plains, they pass where awful stood,",2.0 +"Grown thick with age, a wild majestic wood,",1.0 +"Where lofty trees their solemn branches spread,",0.0 +And winds loud whistling sung around their head;,1.0 +And bright the moon her awful visage showed:,0.0 +"Rugged and long the way, and late the night,",2.0 +But pleasing converse made the journey light.,0.0 +"Beguiling time, the elder thus begun,",0.0 +While native sweetness on his accents hung:,1.0 +"Say, youth, to what profession art thou bred?",1.0 +"By glory fired, or by the Muses led?",1.0 +Or does philosophy thy mind pervade?,1.0 +Or seek you riches in the world of trade?,0.0 +"Glory, replied the youth, has spread its charms;",2.0 +"I caught its rays, and chose to follow arms;",0.0 +And took the brightest road that led to fame.,0.0 +And what is fame? the senior calm replies;,0.0 +"Distinctly speak, that I may prove thee wise.",1.0 +"The soul of mighty deeds, whose fires impart,",0.0 +Beams which through length of ages glorious dart.,2.0 +Yet be not dazzled while thou dost aspire;,0.0 +Though those whom Fame mid her bright glories place,4.0 +"Shine forth examples to the human race,",2.0 +"Whose every act the crowd with transports view,",0.0 +"And indiscriminate their paths pursue,",2.0 +"Whether their tract a noble end displays,",2.0 +"But be it thine to cheque ambition's flame,",1.0 +And closely link with justice love of fame;,0.0 +"Which shining with intrinsic lustre bright,",1.0 +With virtue's beams will dart the immortal light.,2.0 +"Heroes too long, of human glory proud,",3.0 +Insatiable have drenched the world with blood;,1.0 +Detested race! yet oft I feel the fire,0.0 +"Which urged them on, and mental strength admire;",1.0 +"For, wanting strength, none ever can reach the heights",3.0 +"Where Virtue sits, and Genius wings her flights;",0.0 +"But monstrous crimes in soils luxuriant grow,",2.0 +Strong powers ill governed sink us deep below.,4.0 +To individuals different tasks assigned:,2.0 +"No more the appetites absorb our cares,",0.0 +"The polished arts with active fancy rise,",0.0 +And Nature's mazes draw our wondering eyes;,2.0 +"Genius finds wider scope, and mounting high",3.0 +Exploring truth dawns with divinity!,3.0 +"But shame, deep shame to the inventive mind,",2.0 +"Amid heavenly studies still to blood inclined,",5.0 +"And, hunting not our food, we hunt mankind!",1.0 +"Through air, the pregnant earth, and vast profound;",0.0 +"Where latent truths, evading common view,",0.0 +Open pure lessons to the thinking few;,4.0 +"Who, truly wise, while fiercer passions die,",0.0 +Learn the frail state of their mortality.,5.0 +"The finer arts my admiration claim,",0.0 +As inoffensive paths to boundless fame;,1.0 +Whose searching eye the heavens and earth explores!,2.0 +"Its rapid flight nor space nor time can bound,",0.0 +"The world of spirits, or the powers of sound.",3.0 +"Nor does the painter vain exert his art,",0.0 +"Who, tracing Nature through each varying part,",3.0 +"Arrests the strongest passions in their course,",0.0 +And gives us time ot contemplate their force.,1.0 +"Friend to such arts as Nature's works portray,",0.0 +No stormy passions cloud my evening ray:,1.0 +Sorrow in vain has strove to break a heart,2.0 +Whose wishes never for simple truth depart;,2.0 +And from these lights my inward comforts flow;,1.0 +"For, while my reason Nature's ways explores,",0.0 +"Religion strengthens, and my soul adores!",1.0 +"They now had reached the confines of the wood,",2.0 +"To which they bend; the shining moon was gone,",0.0 +And scattered stars beamed through the heavens alone.,4.0 +"Soft at the door his stick the sire applies,",2.0 +"Which opening quick, light glanced against their eyes:",3.0 +His children ran with eager arms to embrace,2.0 +"Anxious to know what cause could him detain,",3.0 +"Answering by turns, in pleasing tones he greets,",1.0 +"His daughters tend him with assiduous care,",1.0 +And cheerful smiles domestic joys declare;,0.0 +And education's power their mien confessed.,2.0 +"His eldest son the youthful stranger greets,",0.0 +"While he, with smiles, his happy chance repeats;",0.0 +"Two younger boys obey their sister's word,",1.0 +The instructive partner of his rugged way:,2.0 +"Wasted by care, he viewed the placid sire,",2.0 +His large light eyes still beamed with mental fire;,2.0 +"His lips, though pale, with genial smiles could glow;",0.0 +"His manners simple, but his thoughts refined,",1.0 +Nor elegance was wanting to his mind.,2.0 +"His guest he welcomes, and with pleasing voice",1.0 +Prays him to share his board and homely joys:,0.0 +Then round the table threw a happy look.,0.0 +As he observes the family by turns,2.0 +"His fine eyes sparkle, and his bosom burns;",2.0 +"The elder youth, more silent than the rest,",1.0 +Seemed with the recent marks of grief impressed.,0.0 +"One daughter near her father took her place,",0.0 +Filial affection beaming in her face;,1.0 +"Her features plain, her cheeks no roses die,",1.0 +"But feeling, sense, and purity combine,",1.0 +"A powerful charm, and with expression shine:",3.0 +"Amid her sister's locks the Graces stray,",0.0 +"Softened her eyes, and flushed her cheeks like May.",2.0 +"Which filial love, good sense, and beauty graced;",2.0 +"Unwilling he at last retired to rest,",1.0 +With love for the whole family impressed.,3.0 +Soon as the beams which chase the glowing dawn,0.0 +"Played over the hills, and marked distinct the morn,",3.0 +"He sprung from rest, all eager to survey",1.0 +The mansion where so many virtues lay:,0.0 +"Delighted he beheld the blessed retreat,",1.0 +Which Autumn with her ripening tributes crowned.,1.0 +"The elder youth he met, absorbed in thought,",0.0 +"Perturbed within, irregular his pace,",1.0 +"Striving to pass unseen, he met his eyes,",2.0 +Nor could his heaving breast repress deep sighs.,1.0 +Sacred he deemed the feelings of the heart.,3.0 +"The other, following, said, With shame I glow,",2.0 +"Serene my father each affliction bears,",0.0 +"Fallen low from state and envied happiness,",1.0 +Deeply does grief this sanguine heart impress;,2.0 +"Bitter remorse amid sad reflections rise,",5.0 +And joy in vain would shine to glad these eyes;,0.0 +"But listen, while my faltering lips impart",2.0 +What may excuse this weakness of my heart;,2.0 +"Just woke from madness, thought astonished turns,",0.0 +"Feels the dire hand of fate, and inward burns: -",0.0 +"There stood a fabric, deeply wrapped in woods,",0.0 +Which from the hills in rapid torrents gushed,0.0 +"Amid the dark trees, and down the valleys rushed;",2.0 +"The ruined walls were round with ivy spread,",0.0 +And gloomy shades wild Gothic grandeur shed.,4.0 +"The awful ocean's wondrous space was nigh,",0.0 +"In meditation lost, these scenes I sought;",0.0 +"Here mused, here read; the Muses courted here,",0.0 +And strove to draw them from their tuneful sphere:,1.0 +"Thus fired, my genius boundless scope employed,",3.0 +"Glanced over all nature, and her works enjoyed.",4.0 +My mother ever honoured be her name!,0.0 +Warmed by whose force my spirit burst to flame;,0.0 +"Whose stronger passions, chastened by our sire,",1.0 +Still fill her children's pulses with her fire,2.0 +"Listened, while I its various beauties told,",2.0 +And sought the Gothic structure to behold;,1.0 +"Her breast maternal in my joys took part,",1.0 +My feelings were congenial to her heart;,2.0 +"At her request we went, nor marked on high",1.0 +A threatening storm which gathered over the sky.,2.0 +"I led my mother through the devious wood,",3.0 +"To where, involved with trees, the fabric stood;",0.0 +"With equal awe she viewed the solemn place,",0.0 +While warmly I romantic dreams retrace;,1.0 +"Nature, in her still warm, diffused the fire",3.0 +Which in her youth loud woke the harmonic lyre.,3.0 +"I saw her charmed, and warmly urged her stay,",0.0 +"To blend her wisdom with my youthful lay,",1.0 +Devoting to her son the the instructive day.,2.0 +"When from her lips a forced consent I drew,",0.0 +"I caught her words, and for refreshments flew;",1.0 +"While she within the tottering castle stays,",3.0 +"And all the grandeur of the scene surveys,",1.0 +"Stupendous clouds were rolling over the heaven,",2.0 +"Strong rushed large torrents, by quick eddies driven.",4.0 +OH never pardoned folly! far I went:,1.0 +"Pleased with myself, while partial praise I sought,",3.0 +The best of mothers vanished from my thought;,1.0 +"Till roused by a tremendous storm, which broke",1.0 +"Through the vast heavens, and my remembrance woke.",5.0 +"Strong gathered through the trees the whirling gale,",2.0 +"Blew bleak a while, then whistled in the vale;",1.0 +"Then on it came, and with redoubled force",1.0 +Strove mid contending trees to wing its course;,1.0 +"Driven back again, loud roaring it complains,",2.0 +Or blustering thunders over the neighbouring plains:,6.0 +"Wildly I heard the stormy ocean roar,",2.0 +Wave dashed on wave flew bellowing to the shore;,3.0 +"Precipitate I flew, with fears oppressed.",0.0 +"The storm with tenfold fury still persists,",1.0 +Scarce the strong oak its dreadful power resists;,5.0 +"Uprooted, torn, the mangled wood lies bare:",1.0 +Nor could my friend my hasty steps pursue;,0.0 +"As I advance the overwhelming tide arose,",1.0 +"Deluged the plains, and round in surges flows;",2.0 +"So fierce the winds, my feet were scarcely stayed,",0.0 +While through encroaching waters on I wade;,2.0 +"My pulses with strong agitation beat,",2.0 +While present death with thousand horrors threat.,0.0 +"And art thou, OH my mother! amid this storm?",2.0 +What from the winds shall guide thy sacred form?,0.0 +Perhaps already has conspired thy death!,2.0 +"Four times I fell, mid gushing waters thrown,",2.0 +"Born on by tides, or dashed against huge stones;",1.0 +"Yet strong necessity had given me force,",3.0 +"And, spite of obstacles, I speed my course:",1.0 +"When near advanced I stopped, and dared not go,",0.0 +Arrested by foreboding sense of woe.,1.0 +"I called aloud on her who speaks no more,",1.0 +Aloud the angry torrents thundering roar!,2.0 +"Still nearer on, I trembling called again;",2.0 +"Still roared the winds, and still my voice was vain!",1.0 +"Mad with despair, wild towards the spot I rush,",3.0 +Where all around the bellowing torrents gush;,2.0 +"No trace of Gothic arch or roof remains,",1.0 +By winds and waters swept along the plains.,0.0 +"Deep the contending elements resound,",4.0 +"While, lost to thought, my frantic brain turns round:",1.0 +"Still seeking what I knew I could not find,",1.0 +Myself I felt the cause; - grief and dismay,3.0 +"Rushed on my brain, and snatch my sense away:",0.0 +"My friend preserved my life, a thankless load,",0.0 +And bore me to my father from the wood;,2.0 +"I knew not how he found me, or where sought,",2.0 +For long suspended were the powers of thought.,3.0 +"I view my father, though worn down by care,",2.0 +And sanguine hopes by penury suppressed:,1.0 +"Loaded with wealth, his stranded ships were lost;",2.0 +"Winged with our fate one storm relentless blew,",0.0 +"Conspired our ruin, and each hope overthrew;",5.0 +"Yet strong within, to every ill resigned,",0.0 +Unfold the joys of immortality!,1.0 +"Active in all his duties here below,",0.0 +Strong perseverance blunts the edge of woe.,1.0 +"With industry he heaps our little stores,",1.0 +And still great Nature's ample page explores;,1.0 +"TO instruct the children in his Maker's ways,",1.0 +And show how all by slow degrees decays;,0.0 +"That though on earth GOD'S hand is strong impressed,",1.0 +Yet higher hopes should fill the human breast.,0.0 +O! blessed example of a pious mind!,1.0 +And with strong sympathy the youth surveyed:,3.0 +"Mysterious do thy ways, OH GOD! appear,",2.0 +"But, born to suffer, man must learn to bear.",0.0 +"Divinely pour religion through the soul,",1.0 +For that alone the passions can control!,1.0 +"Each stood absorbed, till summoned to repair",1.0 +"Then, walking slow, wiped the hot tears away.",3.0 +Strong to his mind their loss and patience rose:,0.0 +"Then amid the family he took his place,",1.0 +And charmed beheld the younger daughter's grace:,0.0 +"More sweet she looks by day, the lovely die",0.0 +"Her azure eyes shot forth a lucid ray,",1.0 +"An anxious wish warm kindled in his breast,",1.0 +Its noble fire his guileless eyes confessed;,0.0 +"A pleased remembrance of his wealth arose,",1.0 +His breast benevolent with rapture glows.,1.0 +"Lingering he strove to lengthen out his stay,",2.0 +And tore himself at last by force away;,0.0 +But first the sire's permission did obtain,0.0 +To visit this delightful spot again;,1.0 +"When friendship strengthening, into union grew,",2.0 +And happier scenes unfolded to their view.,3.0 +"MY Muse, once more, thy aid I humbly claim;",1.0 +Refuse not now to grace my rustic lays.,0.0 +Johnston or Pope might well befit the theme,2.0 +How dares my humble hand assume so high?,0.0 +"No common character inspires my song,",2.0 +His growing fame long since has reached the sky:,1.0 +All I can say but does his virtues wrong;,0.0 +Let then my blundering pen in silence rest;,2.0 +"Lo, silent admiration paints them best.",1.0 +"By cottage door where playful children run,",0.0 +"Where over an earthen seat the thorn is bent,",2.0 +"His bonnet all awry, his gathered brow,",0.0 +His hanging lip and lengthened visage show,0.0 +A mind but ill at ease. With motions strange,0.0 +His listless limbs their wayward postures change;,0.0 +While many a crooked line and curious maze,4.0 +And to himself low spoke the moody youth.,2.0 +"Who every Sunday morn to please her sight,",1.0 +"Who for her pleasure keeps his pockets bare,",0.0 +"Whose field or orchard tempts, with all her pride,",0.0 +At little cost may win her for his bride!,1.0 +"And I astonished sat with hanging head,",1.0 +"Cold grew my shrinking frame, and loose my knee,",1.0 +While every neighbour's eye was fixed on me.,3.0 +"Ah Sue! when last we worked at Hodge's hay,",0.0 +And still at me you mocked in wanton play ' --,1.0 +"When at old Hobb's you sung that song so gay,",1.0 +"' Sweet William,' still the burden of the lay, ' --",2.0 +"I little thought, alas! the lots were cast,",0.0 +"And had, when last we tripped it on the green,",1.0 +Ere yet another scanty month was flown,1.0 +To see thee wedded to the hateful clown;,1.0 +"But did these shapely limbs resemble thine,",1.0 +"I'd stay at home and tend the household gere,",1.0 +Nor on the green with other lads appear.,1.0 +"And round thy barn thick stand the sheltered stacks,",1.0 +"But did such features coarse my visage grace,",0.0 +I'd never budge the bonnet from my face.,1.0 +Yet let it be; it shall not break my ease!,0.0 +He best deserves who does the maiden please.,0.0 +"Such silly cause no more shall give me pain,",1.0 +Nor ever maiden cross my rest again.,0.0 +"Such grizzled suitors with their taste agree,",1.0 +And the black fiend may have them all for me!,2.0 +"Hoarse lads, and children shrill, and yelping hounds.",1.0 +"Straight every housewife at her door is seen,",2.0 +And pausing hedgers on their mattocks lean.,1.0 +"At every narrow lane and alley's mouth,",0.0 +"A bridal band tricked out in colours gay,",3.0 +"With minstrels blithe before to cheer the way,",0.0 +"From clouds of curling dust that onward fly,",0.0 +"As in their way they hold so gaily on,",1.0 +"Caps, beads, and buttons, glancing to the sun,",2.0 +Some maiden jogs and vents the ready jest;,0.0 +"While village toast the passing belles deride,",0.0 +And sober matrons marvel at their pride.,0.0 +"But William, head erect with settled brow,",0.0 +In sullen silence viewed the passing show;,0.0 +"And oft he scratched his pate with careless grace,",0.0 +And scorned to pull the bonnet over his face;,2.0 +"But did with steady look unaltered wait,",0.0 +"Then turned him to his cot with visage flat,",1.0 +Where honest Lightfoot on the threshold sat.,3.0 +"Up leapt the kindly beast his hand to lick,",0.0 +And for his pains received an angry kick.,1.0 +Loud shuts the door with harsh and thundering din;,3.0 +The echoes round their circling course begin.,0.0 +"From cot to cot, church tower, and rocky dell,",3.0 +"Lured me to seek thee through thy flowery plains,",3.0 +"Taught from thy sparkling cup full joys to sip,",1.0 +"And suck sweet poison from thy velvet lip,",2.0 +"Was Reason silent, and did Conscience sleep?",1.0 +And fancy daylight in thy meteor gleams;,3.0 +"Think all was happiness, that smiled like joy,",1.0 +And with dear purchase seize each glittering toy?,4.0 +"Till roused at length, deep rankling in my heart,",1.0 +I felt the latent anguish of thy dart!,1.0 +"O, let the young and innocent beware,",1.0 +Nor think uninjured to approach thy snare!,1.0 +"By fight infected, and by truce undone.",1.0 +"Secure, at distance let her shores be past,",0.0 +"Whose sight can poison, and whose breath can blast.",1.0 +"Contentment blooms not on her glowing ground,",1.0 +And round her splendid shrine no peace is found.,1.0 +"If once enchanted by her magic charms,",1.0 +"If once they touch the limits of her realm,",1.0 +"Offended Principle resigns the helm,",1.0 +"And once discarded, she returns no more.",2.0 +Thus the charmed mariner on every side,4.0 +Eyes the rich carpet of the varied hue,4.0 +And plains luxuriant opening to his view:,3.0 +"Now the steep banks with towering forests crowned,",3.0 +Clothed to the margin of the sloping ground;,1.0 +"Where with full foliage bending over the waves,",4.0 +"And now smooth, level lawns of deeper green",1.0 +"Between the opening groves such prospects glow,",2.0 +"As Art with mimic hand can never bestow,",2.0 +"While lavish Nature wild profusion yields,",0.0 +Flings with fantastic hand in every gale,2.0 +"Ten thousand blossoms over each velvet vale,",3.0 +Far from the painter's hand or sage's eye.,0.0 +"From cloudless suns perpetual lustre streams,",2.0 +And swarms of insects glisten in their beams.,1.0 +"Spread nil their canvas, and no warnings hear.",3.0 +"See, on the edge of the clear liquid glass",2.0 +"The wondering beasts survey them as they pass,",3.0 +"And fearless bounding over their native green,",2.0 +"Adorn the landscape, and enrich the scene;",2.0 +Deceitful calms deal subtle death around;,1.0 +"Even as they gaze their vital powers decay,",3.0 +"Till quite extinct the animating fire,",0.0 +"Pale, ghastly victims, they at last expire.",2.0 +"Painter, the utmost of thy Judgement show,",2.0 +"Exceed even Titan, and great Angelo;",6.0 +With all the liveliness of Thought express,1.0 +"Her Charms thy Colours, and thy Art excels.",0.0 +"Others, less Fair, may from thy Pencil have",2.0 +"Graces, which sparing Nature never gave:",2.0 +"Such as will pose thy famous Art, and Thee:",1.0 +"So great, so many in her Face unite,",1.0 +"So well proportioned, and so wondrous bright;",1.0 +"No human Skill can ever express them all,",3.0 +But must do wrong to fair Original.,1.0 +"An Angel's Hand alone the Pencil fits,",0.0 +"To mix the Colours, when an Angel sits.",0.0 +"Thy Picture may as like Dorinda be,",1.0 +As Art of Man can paint a Deity;,1.0 +"And justly may perhaps, when she withdraws,",2.0 +"Excite our Wonder, and deserve Applause:",1.0 +"No Art can equal, what's by Nature done.",0.0 +The Picture fairer than the Person drew:,1.0 +"He took the best that Nature could impart,",0.0 +And made it better by his powerful Art.,2.0 +"But had he seen that bright surprising Grace,",0.0 +"Vain had been all the Essays of his Skill,",1.0 +She must have been confessed the fairest still.,0.0 +"Heaven in a Landscape may be wondrous fine,",2.0 +"And look as bright as painted Light can shine,",0.0 +But still the real Glories of that place,4.0 +All Art by infinite Degrees surpass.,1.0 +Whose rustic zeal each patriot bosom warms;,2.0 +"Pursue the glorious task, the pleasing toil,",2.0 +"Extend the Farmer's care to human kind,",0.0 +"Manure the heart, and cultivate the mind;",0.0 +"There plant religion, reason, freedom, truth,",0.0 +And sow the seeds of virtue in our youth:,0.0 +"Let no rank weeds corrupt, or brambles choke,",2.0 +And shake the vermin from the British oak;,1.0 +"From northern blasts protect the vernal bloom,",0.0 +And guard our pastures from the wolves of Rome.,1.0 +And reap the harvest of immortal fame!,1.0 +"I Rural life enjoy, the town's your taste,",0.0 +"In this we differ, twins in all the rest.",0.0 +"Now when the Mall's forlorn, the beaux and belles",0.0 +"Say, will not CLOE for awhile withdraw",2.0 +Sure at this homely hut one may contrive,1.0 +"Awhile not only to exist, but live;",1.0 +"For not dull landscapes here my thoughts engross,",1.0 +"No, the same appetite that courts infuse,",3.0 +"Haunts in retreat, and to the shade pursues.",2.0 +Here all my care are to receive and pay,1.0 +"Visits, my studies a romance or play.",3.0 +"Walks or a ride, nay church serves well enough.",2.0 +To wed the only daughter of a squire.,1.0 +"Cards have their turn, to kill a tedious hour,",2.0 +"For oft the captain, fresh from town, bestows",0.0 +A friendly week upon his friend my spouse.,0.0 +"Then gaily glide the days on downy feet,",0.0 +For sure the captain has prodigious wit;,0.0 +"OH I could hear his sweet discourse for ever,",5.0 +"Oft far and wide for new delights I range,",1.0 +"True sex, and constant to the love of change.",2.0 +"Is there within ten miles a troop reviewed,",2.0 +"An auction of old goods, an interlude",2.0 +There to be seen I have an urgent call.,1.0 +And THOMAS mounts the box in livery coat.,2.0 +And yet these scenes are town in miniature,0.0 +"Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid,",2.0 +And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed:,0.0 +"Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease,",4.0 +"Seats of my youth when every sport could please,",0.0 +Where humble happiness endeared each scene;,1.0 +"How often have I paused on every charm,",0.0 +"The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm,",0.0 +"The decent church that topped the neighbouring hill,",2.0 +"The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade,",1.0 +For talking age and whispering lovers made;,2.0 +"How often have I blessed the coming day,",0.0 +"And all the village train, from labour free,",0.0 +Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree;,0.0 +"While many a pastime circled in the shade,",3.0 +The young contending as the old surveyed;,1.0 +And slights of art and feats of strength went round;,1.0 +The dancing pair that simply sought renown,0.0 +By holding out to tyre each other down;,2.0 +"These were thy charms, sweet village; sports like these,",2.0 +With sweet succession taught even toil to please;,3.0 +"These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed,",4.0 +These were thy charms ' -- But all these charms are fled.,1.0 +"Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn:",0.0 +"Amid thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen,",4.0 +And desolation saddens all thy green;,0.0 +"One only master grasps the whole domain,",0.0 +And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain:,0.0 +"No more thy glassy brook reflects the day,",0.0 +"Along thy glades, a solitary guest,",0.0 +"Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all,",2.0 +"And trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand,",2.0 +"Far, far away thy children leave the land.",1.0 +"Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,",1.0 +"Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;",0.0 +"Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade;",3.0 +"A breath can make them, as a breath has made:",1.0 +"When once destroyed, can never be supplied.",0.0 +When every rood of ground maintained its man;,0.0 +"For him light Labour spread her wholesome store,",2.0 +"Just gave what life required, but gave no more;",1.0 +"His best companions, innocence and health,",1.0 +"And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.",3.0 +But times are altered; trade's unfeeling train,0.0 +"Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain;",1.0 +"Along the lawn, where scattered hamlets rose,",0.0 +"And every want to luxury allied,",1.0 +And every pang that folly pays to pride.,0.0 +"These gentle hours that plenty bade to bloom,",0.0 +"Those calm desires that asked but little room,",0.0 +"Those healthful sports that graced the peaceful scene,",0.0 +"Lived in each look, and brightened all the green;",0.0 +"These far departing seek a kinder shore,",0.0 +And rural mirth and manners are no more.,2.0 +"Sweet AUBURN! parent of the blissful hour,",2.0 +Thy glades forlorn confess the tyrant's power.,2.0 +"Here as I take my solitary rounds,",0.0 +"Amid thy tangling walks, and ruined grounds,",0.0 +"And, many a year elapsed, return to view",2.0 +"Where once the cottage stood, the hawthorn grew,",1.0 +"Here, as with doubtful, pensive steps I range,",0.0 +"Trace every scene, and wonder at the change,",1.0 +"Remembrance wakes with all her busy train,",0.0 +"Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.",0.0 +"In all my wanderings round this world of care,",1.0 +"I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown,",0.0 +Amid these humble bowers to lay me down;,2.0 +"My anxious day to husband near the close,",0.0 +And keep life's flame from wasting by repose;,2.0 +"I still had hopes, for pride attends us still,",0.0 +"Around my fire an evening group to draw,",0.0 +"And tell of all I felt, and all I saw:",0.0 +"And, as an hare whom hounds and horns pursue,",1.0 +"Pants to the place from whence at first she flew,",0.0 +Here to return ' -- and die at home at last.,1.0 +"OH blessed retirement! friend to life's decline,",3.0 +Retreats from care that never must be mine.,0.0 +"How blessed is he who crowns in shades like these,",1.0 +A youth of labour with an age of ease;,1.0 +"Who quits a world where strong temptations try,",0.0 +"And since it's hard to combat, learns to fly.",0.0 +"Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep;",3.0 +No surly porter stands in guilty state,1.0 +To spurn imploring famine from his gate;,1.0 +"But on he moves to meet his latter end,",1.0 +Angels around befriending virtue's friend;,2.0 +"While resignation gently slopes the way,",0.0 +"And all his prospects brightening to the last,",1.0 +His heaven commences ere the world be past!,0.0 +"Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close,",0.0 +Up yonder hill the village murmur rose;,0.0 +"There as I past with careless steps and slow,",1.0 +The mingling notes came softened from below;,2.0 +The playful children just let loose from school;,1.0 +"The watch-dog's voice that bayed the whispering wind,",3.0 +And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind:,2.0 +"These all in soft confusion sought the shade,",0.0 +And filled each pause the nightingale had made.,1.0 +"But now the sounds of population fail,",0.0 +No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale;,1.0 +"All but yonder widowed, solitary thing,",0.0 +"She, wretched matron, forced, in age, for bread,",0.0 +"To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn;",0.0 +"She only left of all the harmless train,",0.0 +The sad historian of the pensive plain.,1.0 +And still where many a garden flower grows wild;,3.0 +"There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,",1.0 +The village preacher's modest mansion rose.,0.0 +"A man he was, to all the country dear,",1.0 +And passing rich with forty pounds a year;,0.0 +"Remote from towns he ran his godly race,",0.0 +"Nor ever had changed, nor wished to change his place,",2.0 +By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour;,3.0 +More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.,1.0 +"His house was known to all the vagrant train,",0.0 +"He child their wanderings, but relieved their pain:",3.0 +"The long remembered beggar was his guest,",1.0 +Whose beard descending swept his aged breast;,0.0 +"The ruined spendthrift, now no longer proud,",2.0 +"Claimed kindred there, and had his claims allowed;",2.0 +"The broken soldier kindly bade to stay,",0.0 +"Sat by his fire, and talked the night away;",0.0 +"Wept over his wounds, or tales of sorrow done,",3.0 +"Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won.",2.0 +"Pleased with his guests, the good man learnt to glow,",1.0 +And quite forgot their vices in their woe;,0.0 +"Careless their merits, or their faults to scan,",3.0 +His pity gave ere charity began.,2.0 +"Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride,",3.0 +And even his failings leaned to virtue's side;,2.0 +"But in his duty prompt at every call,",0.0 +"He watched and wept, he prayed and felt, for all,",0.0 +"And, as a bird each fond endearment tries",1.0 +"Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.",0.0 +"Beside the bed where parting life was laid,",0.0 +"And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed,",0.0 +"The reverend champion stood. At his control,",3.0 +Despair and anguish sled the struggling soul;,0.0 +"Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise,",0.0 +And his last faltering accents whispered praise.,4.0 +"At church, with meek and unaffected grace,",0.0 +His looks adorned the venerable place;,1.0 +"Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,",0.0 +"And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.",0.0 +"The service past, around the pious man,",0.0 +With ready zeal each honest rustic ran;,0.0 +"Even children followed with endearing wile,",1.0 +"And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile;",1.0 +"His ready smile a parent's warmth expressed,",0.0 +"Their welfare pleased him, and their cares distressed;",2.0 +But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven:,2.0 +"As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form,",1.0 +"Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,",1.0 +"Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread,",0.0 +Eternal sunshine settles on its head.,2.0 +"There, in his noisy mansion skilled to rule,",0.0 +The village master taught his little school:,0.0 +"A man severe he was, and stern to view,",1.0 +"I knew him well, and every truant knew;",0.0 +The day's disasters in his morning face;,0.0 +"Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee,",1.0 +"At all his jokes, for many a joke had he;",2.0 +"Full well the busy whisper circling round,",1.0 +Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned:,0.0 +"Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught,",1.0 +The love he bore to learning was in fault.,1.0 +The village all declared how much he knew;,0.0 +"'Twas certain he could write, and cypher too:",2.0 +"Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage,",3.0 +And even the storey ran that he could gauge;,3.0 +"In arguing too, the parson owned his skill,",2.0 +"For even though vanquished, he could argue still;",3.0 +"While words of learnt length, and thundering sound,",5.0 +"And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew,",0.0 +That one small head could carry all he knew.,3.0 +But past is all his fame. The very spot,0.0 +"Where many a time he triumphed, is forgot.",3.0 +"Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high,",0.0 +"Where once the signpost caught the passing eye,",1.0 +"Where village statesmen talked with looks profound,",0.0 +And news much older than their ale went round.,2.0 +Imagination fondly stoops to trace,0.0 +"The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor,",1.0 +The varnished clock that clicked behind the door;,0.0 +"The chest contrived a double debt to pay,",0.0 +"A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day;",0.0 +"The pictures placed for ornament and use,",1.0 +"The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose;",0.0 +"The hearth, except when winter chilled the day,",0.0 +"With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay;",2.0 +"Ranged over the chimney, glistened in a row.",3.0 +Reprieve the tottering mansion from its fall!,3.0 +"Obscure it sinks, nor shall it more impart",0.0 +An hour's importance to the poor man's heart;,4.0 +Thither no more the peasant shall repair,1.0 +To sweet oblivion of his daily care;,1.0 +"No more the farmer's news, the barber's tale,",0.0 +"Relax his ponderous strength, and lean to hear;",2.0 +The host himself no longer shall be found,1.0 +"Nor the coy maid, half willing to be pressed,",5.0 +Shall kiss the cup to pass it to the rest.,1.0 +"Yes! let the rich deride, the proud disdain,",1.0 +These simple blessings of the lowly train;,1.0 +"To me more dear, congenial to my heart,",2.0 +"One native charm, than all the gloss of art.",0.0 +"Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play,",2.0 +"The soul adopts, and owns their firstborn sway;",1.0 +"Lightly they frolic over the vacant mind,",4.0 +"But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade,",3.0 +"With all the freaks of wanton wealth arrayed,",0.0 +"And, even while fashion's brightest arts decoy,",2.0 +"You friends to truth, you statesmen, who survey",0.0 +"The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay,",1.0 +"It's yours to judge, how wide the limits stand",1.0 +Between a splendid and an happy land.,1.0 +And shouting Folly hails them from her shore;,1.0 +"Hoards, even beyond the miser's wish abound,",4.0 +And rich men flock from all the world around.,1.0 +Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a name,1.0 +That leaves our useful products still the same.,0.0 +Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride,0.0 +Takes up a space that many poor supplied:,0.0 +"Space for his lake, his parks extended bounds,",0.0 +"The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth,",0.0 +Has robbed the neighbouring fields of half their growth;,2.0 +"His seat, where solitary sports are seen,",0.0 +Indignant spurns the cottage from the green;,1.0 +"Around the world each needful product flies,",0.0 +For all the luxuries the world supplies.,1.0 +"While thus the land adorned for pleasure all,",0.0 +"As some fair female unadorned and plain,",2.0 +"Secure to please while youth confirms her reign,",0.0 +"Slights every borrowed charm that dress supplies,",2.0 +Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes:,1.0 +"But when those charms are past, for charms are frail,",0.0 +"When time advances, and when lovers fail,",1.0 +"She then shines forth, solicitous to bless,",2.0 +In all the glaring impotence of dress;,1.0 +"Thus fares the land, by luxury betrayed,",2.0 +In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed;,0.0 +"It vistas strike, its palaces surprise;",1.0 +"While, scourged by famine from the smiling land,",1.0 +The mournful peasant leads his humble band;,0.0 +"And, while he sinks without one arm to save,",0.0 +"The country blooms ' -- a garden, and a grave.",1.0 +"Where then, ah, where shall poverty reside,",1.0 +To escape the pressure of contiguous pride?,4.0 +"If to some common's fenceless limits strayed,",1.0 +"He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade,",0.0 +"Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,",0.0 +If to the city sped ' -- what waits him there?,1.0 +To see profusion that he must not share;,0.0 +"To pamper luxury, and thin mankind;",2.0 +"To see each joy the sons of pleasure know,",0.0 +"Here, while the courtier glitters in brocade,",2.0 +There the pale artist plies the sickly trade;,2.0 +"The dome where Pleasure holds her midnight reign,",1.0 +Here richly decked admits the gorgeous train;,0.0 +"Tumultuous grandeur crowds the blazing square,",5.0 +"The rattling chariots clash, the torches glare;",2.0 +Sure scenes like these no troubles ever annoy!,7.0 +Sure these denote one universal joy!,2.0 +"Are these thy serious thoughts? ' -- Ah, turn thine eyes",3.0 +"She once, perhaps, in village plenty blessed,",0.0 +Has wept at tales of innocence distressed;,1.0 +"Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,",0.0 +Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn;,1.0 +"Now lost to all, her friends, her virtue fled,",1.0 +"And pinched with cold, and shrinking from the shower,",1.0 +"With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour,",0.0 +"When idly first, ambitious of the town,",1.0 +She left her wheel and robes of country brown.,0.0 +Do thy fair tribes participate her pain?,3.0 +"Even now, perhaps, by cold and hunger led,",0.0 +At proud men's doors they ask a little bread!,1.0 +"Ah! no. To distant climes, a dreary scene,",0.0 +"Where half the convex world intrudes between,",1.0 +"To torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,",0.0 +"Far different there from all that charmed before,",2.0 +The various terrors of that horrid shore:,3.0 +"Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray,",0.0 +And fiercely shed intolerable day;,1.0 +But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling;,0.0 +Where the dark scorpion gathers death around;,4.0 +"Where, at each step, the stranger fears to wake",0.0 +The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake;,1.0 +"Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey,",0.0 +"And savage men, more murderous still than they;",2.0 +Mingling the ravaged landscape with the skies.,3.0 +"Far different these from every former scene,",2.0 +"The cooling brook, the grassy vested green,",0.0 +"The breezy covert of the warbling grove,",1.0 +That only sheltered thefts of harmless love.,0.0 +That called them from their native walks away;,1.0 +"When the poor exiles, every pleasure past,",4.0 +"Hung round their bowers, and fondly looked their last,",2.0 +"And took a long farewell, and wished, in vain,",1.0 +For seats like these beyond the western main;,1.0 +"And, shuddering still to face the distant deep,",2.0 +"Returned and wept, and still returned to weep.",0.0 +"The good old sire, the first prepared to go",3.0 +"To newfound worlds, and wept for others woe;",1.0 +"But for himself, in conscious virtue brave,",1.0 +He only wished for worlds beyond the grave.,0.0 +"The fond companion of his helpless years,",1.0 +"Silent went next, neglectful of her charms,",3.0 +And left a lover's for her father's arms.,1.0 +And blessed the cot where every pleasure rose;,0.0 +"And kissed her thoughtless babes with many a tear,",2.0 +"And clasped them close, in sorrow doubly dear;",0.0 +While her fond husband strove to lend relief,2.0 +"OH luxury! Thou cursed by heaven's decree,",4.0 +How ill exchanged are things like these for thee!,1.0 +"How do thy potions with insidious joy,",3.0 +Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy!,1.0 +"Kingdoms by thee, to sickly greatness grown,",1.0 +"At every draught more large and large they grow,",0.0 +A bloated mass of rank unwieldy woe;,0.0 +"Till sapped their strength, and every part unsound,",0.0 +"Down, down they sink, and spread a ruin round.",1.0 +"Even now the devastation is begun,",1.0 +And half the business of destruction done;,1.0 +I see the rural virtues leave the land:,0.0 +Down where yonder anchoring vessel spreads the sail,2.0 +"That idly waiting flaps with every gale,",0.0 +"Downward they move, a melancholy band,",2.0 +"Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand.",0.0 +"Contented Toil, and hospitable Care,",5.0 +"And Piety with wishes placed above,",1.0 +"And steady Loyalty, and faithful Love.",1.0 +Still first to fly where sensual joys invade;,3.0 +"Unfit in these degenerate times of shame,",3.0 +"To catch the heart, or strike for honest fame;",0.0 +"Dear charming nymph, neglected and decried,",2.0 +"My shame in crowds, my solitary pride;",0.0 +"Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe,",0.0 +"Thou guide by which the nobler arts excel,",2.0 +"Thou nurse of every virtue, fare thee well:",0.0 +"Farewell, and OH! wherever thy voice be tried,",3.0 +Or winter wraps the polar world in snow;,0.0 +"Still let thy voice, prevailing over time,",1.0 +"And slighted truth with thy persuasive strain,",1.0 +Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain;,1.0 +"Teach him that states of native strength possessed,",0.0 +"Though very poor, may still be very blessed;",0.0 +As rocks resist the billows and the sky.,1.0 +"LET those love now, who never loved before,",3.0 +"Let those who always loved, now love the more.",1.0 +"The Spring, the new, the warb'ling Spring appears,",0.0 +The youthful Season of reviving Years;,1.0 +"The feathered Nation choose their tuneful Mates,",0.0 +The Trees grow fruitful with descending Rain,2.0 +And dressed in differing Greens adorn the Plain.,0.0 +Through Walks that winding run within the Groves;,0.0 +"And ties their meeting Tops with Wreaths of Flowers,",0.0 +From Nature's powerful Dictates draws her own.,3.0 +"Let those love now; who never loved before,",3.0 +'Twas on that Day which saw the teeming Flood,0.0 +"Swell round, impregnate with celestial Blood;",2.0 +"The mid was left a void Expanse of Blue,",0.0 +"There Parent Ocean worked with heaving Throes,",0.0 +"Let those love now, who never loved before,",3.0 +"Let those who always loved, now love them more.",1.0 +"She paints the purple Year with varied show,",0.0 +"Tips the green Gem, and makes the Blossom glow.",3.0 +"She makes the turgid Buds receive the Breeze,",0.0 +"Expand to Leaves, and shade the naked Trees.",0.0 +"When gathering damps the misty Nights diffuse,",2.0 +She sprinkles all the Morn with balmy Dews;,0.0 +"Bright trembling Pearls depend at every spray,",1.0 +"And kept from falling, seem to fall away.",0.0 +"A glossy Freshness hence the Rose receives,",0.0 +And blushes sweet through all her silken Leaves;,0.0 +"The Drops descending through the silent Night,",1.0 +"While Stars serenely roll their golden Light,",0.0 +"Close till the Morn, her humid Veil she holds;",0.0 +"Soon will the Morning blush: You Maids! prepare,",0.0 +"It's Venus' Plant: The Blood fair Venus shed,",1.0 +Over the gay Beauty poured immortal Red;,2.0 +From Love's soft Kiss a sweet Ambrosial Smell,1.0 +Was taught for ever on the Leaves to dwell;,1.0 +"From Gems, from Flames, from orient Rays of Light",3.0 +The richest Lustre makes her Purple bright;,0.0 +"Through all her Sweets the rifling Lover flies,",0.0 +"And as he breathes, her glowing Fires arise.",1.0 +"Sends the gay Nymphs, and sends her tender Love.",3.0 +And shall they venture? is it safe to go?,1.0 +"While Nymphs have Hearts, and Cupid wears a Bow?",0.0 +"Yes safely venture, it's his Mother's Will;",3.0 +"His Torch extinct, his Quiver useless hung,",0.0 +"And yet, you Nymphs, beware, his Eyes have Charms,",0.0 +A Virgin Train complete with modest Airs:,0.0 +"' Chaste Delia! grant our Suit! or shun the Wood,",1.0 +' Nor stain this sacred Lawn with savage Blood.,0.0 +"' Venus, OH Delia! if she could persuade,",4.0 +"' Would ask thy Presence, might she ask a Maid.",0.0 +With Songs prolong the pleasurable Rites:,1.0 +"Or seek by Pairs the Covert of the Grove,",1.0 +Here dancing Crees shakes her golden Sheaves:,3.0 +Here Wit's enchanting God in Laurel crowned,0.0 +"And Delia, Huntress Delia, shun the Plain.",0.0 +"Gay with the Bloom of all her opening Year,",2.0 +And there presides; and there the favourite Band,2.0 +Her smiling Graces share the great Command.,0.0 +"With all the Pride the lavish Season sheds,",0.0 +"Now all thy Colours, all thy Fragrance yield,",0.0 +To fill the Presence of the gentle Court,1.0 +"From every Quarter rural Nymphs resort,",0.0 +"From Woods, from Mountains, from their humble Vales,",1.0 +From Waters curling with the wanton Gales.,1.0 +"Pleased with the joyful Train, the laughing Queen",0.0 +In Circles seats them round the Bank of green;,0.0 +"And' lovely Girls, she whispers guard your Hearts;",0.0 +"' My Boy, though stripped of Arms, abounds in Arts.",0.0 +"Let tender Grass in shaded Allys spread,",1.0 +Let early Flowers erect their painted Head.,3.0 +"That Day, old Either wedded Earth in green.",1.0 +"The Vernal Father bid the Spring appear,",0.0 +"In Clouds he coupled to produce the Year,",1.0 +"The Sap descending over her Bosom ran,",2.0 +And all the various sorts of Soul began.,2.0 +"By Wheels unknown to Sight, by secret Veins",0.0 +"Distilling Life, the fruitful Goddess reigns,",0.0 +"Through all the lovely Realms of native Day,",0.0 +"Through all the circled Land, and circling Sea;",0.0 +And ever fixed the mystic Ways of Birth.,0.0 +"She won Lavinia for her warlike Son,",2.0 +"She gave to Mars the Maid, whose honoured Womb",1.0 +Swelled with the Founder of immortal Rome.,1.0 +And taught our vigorous Youth the Means to wed.,2.0 +"Hence sprung the Romans, hence the Race divine",1.0 +Through which great Caesar draws his Julian Line.,1.0 +In rural Seats the Soul of Pleasure reigns;,0.0 +The Life of Beauty fills the rural Scenes;,0.0 +Even Love if Fame the Truth of Love declare,0.0 +"Some pleasing Meadow pregnant Beauty pressed,",1.0 +"She laid her Infant on its flowery Breast,",3.0 +"From Nature's Sweets he sipped the fragrant Dew,",0.0 +"He smiled, he kissed them, and by kissing grew.",1.0 +"Now Bulls over Stalks of Broom extend their Sides,",1.0 +"And now the Goddess bids the Birds appear,",0.0 +"Raise all their Music, and salute the Year:",1.0 +"Then deep the Swan begins, and deep the Song",0.0 +Runs over the Water where he sails along;,3.0 +"While Philomela tunes a treble Strain,",0.0 +And from the Poplar charms the listening Plain.,1.0 +"We fancy Love expressed at every Note,",0.0 +"It melts, it warbles, in her liquid Throat.",0.0 +But sings for Pleasure as for Grief before.,1.0 +"And still her Graces rise, her Airs extend,",0.0 +How long in coming is my lovely Spring?,1.0 +"And when shall I, and when the Swallow sing?",0.0 +"Sweet Philomela cease, ' -- Or here I sit,",1.0 +And silent lose my rapturous Hour of Wit:,2.0 +"It's gone, the Fit retires, the Flames decay,",0.0 +My tuneful Phoebus flies averse away.,0.0 +"But once was silent, and that once undone.",1.0 +SOME of my Friends for Friends I must suppose,0.0 +"All, who, not daring to appear my foes,",1.0 +"Feign great good will, and, not more full of spite",1.0 +Some of my Friends so lavishly I print,1.0 +"As more in sorrow than in anger, hint",1.0 +Though that indeed will scarce admit a doubt,0.0 +"That I shall run my stock of Genius out,",1.0 +"My no great stock, and, publishing so fast,",2.0 +Must needs become a Bankrupt at the last.,0.0 +"Which, rich in disposition, pays his toil",0.0 +"More than a hundred fold, which swells his store",0.0 +"Even to his wish, and makes his barns run over,",2.0 +"By long Experience taught, who teaches best,",2.0 +"The Land, allowed its losses to repair,",1.0 +"Refreshed, and full in strength, delights to wear",0.0 +"A second Youth, and to the Farmer's eyes",1.0 +"Bids richer crops, and double harvests rise.",1.0 +"Nor think this practise to the earth confined,",1.0 +It reaches to the culture of the Mind.,2.0 +"The Mind of Man craves rest, and cannot bear,",1.0 +"Though next in power to Gods, continual care.",4.0 +Genius himself nor here let Genius frown,3.0 +"Which the most slight observer scarce could miss,",0.0 +"He might have flourished twenty years, or more,",0.0 +Though now alas! poor Man! worn out in four.,3.0 +"Recovered from the vanity of youth,",2.0 +"I feel, alas! this melancholy truth,",0.0 +"Thanks to each cordial, each advising Friend,",0.0 +"And am, if not too late, resolved to mend,",2.0 +"Resolved to give some respite to my pen,",1.0 +"Apply myself once more to Books, and Men,",2.0 +"View what is present, what is past review,",1.0 +And my old stock exhausted lay in new.,2.0 +"For twice six moons let winds, turned Porters, bear",3.0 +"This oath to Heaven for twice six moons I swear,",1.0 +"No Muse shall tempt me with her Siren lay,",2.0 +Nor draw me from improvement's thorny way.,1.0 +Who in my hearing shall a Rhyme commend.,0.0 +"It cannot be ' -- Whether I will, or no,",3.0 +"Such as they are, my thoughts in measure flow.",1.0 +"Convinced, determined, I in prose begin,",1.0 +"But before I write one sentence, Verse creeps in,",2.0 +And taints me through and through; by this good light,2.0 +"In Verse I talk by day, I dream by night;",0.0 +"If now and then I curse, my curses chime,",0.0 +"Nor can I pray, unless I pray in rhyme.",1.0 +"Even now I err, in spite of Common Sense,",0.0 +"Rest then my Friends ' -- spare, spare your precious breath,",1.0 +"On your grave lessons I cannot subsist,",3.0 +"Rest then my Friends, nor, hateful to my eyes,",1.0 +"Let Envy, in the shape of Pity, rise",1.0 +"To blast me ever my time; with patience wait,",2.0 +It's no long interval propitious Fate,2.0 +"Shall glut your pride, and every Son of phlegm",0.0 +Find ample room to censure and condemn.,2.0 +"Read some three hundred lines, no easy task;",3.0 +But probably the last that I shall ask,2.0 +"And give me up for ever; wait one hour,",1.0 +"Nay not so much, Revenge is in your power,",0.0 +"And You may cry, ever Time hath turned his glass,",5.0 +Lo! what We prophesied is come to pass.,0.0 +"Let Those, who Poetry in Poems claim,",1.0 +"Or not read this, or only read to blame;",0.0 +"Let Those, who are by fiction's charms enslaved,",0.0 +"Let Those, who love a little gall in rhyme,",0.0 +"Postpone their purchase now, and call next time;",0.0 +"Let Those, who, void of Nature, look for art,",0.0 +"Take up their money, and in peace depart;",1.0 +"Here is no lie, no gall, no art, no force,",3.0 +"Mean are the words, and such as come of course,",1.0 +The Subject not less simple than the lay;,2.0 +"Far from Me now be every tuneful Maid,",0.0 +"I neither ask, nor can receive their aid.",1.0 +"Pegasus turned into a common hack,",2.0 +"Alone I jog, and keep the beaten track,",0.0 +Nor would I have the Sisters of the hill,1.0 +"Absent, but only absent for a time,",3.0 +"Let Them caress some dearer son of Rhyme,",5.0 +"Let Them, as far as Decency permits,",1.0 +"Without suspicion, play the fool with Wits,",0.0 +"Against Fools be guarded; it's a certain rule,",4.0 +"Let Them, though modest, GREY more modest woo;",0.0 +"Let Them with FRANKLIN, proud of some small Greek,",1.0 +"Make Sophocles, disguised, in English speak;",2.0 +Let Them with GLOVER over Medea doze;,2.0 +"While He, fine feeling creature, all in tears,",2.0 +"Melts as they melt, and weeps with weeping Peers;",0.0 +"Let Them with simple WHITEHEAD, taught to creep",1.0 +"Let Them with BROWNE contrive, no vulgar trick,",1.0 +"To cure the dead, and make the living sick;",0.0 +Let Them in Charity to MURPHY give,1.0 +"Some old French piece, that he may steal and live;",2.0 +"Let Them with antic FOOTE subscriptions get,",0.0 +"Thus, or in any better way They please,",0.0 +"With these great Men, or with great Men like these,",3.0 +Let Them their appetite for laughter feed;,0.0 +I on my Journey all Alone proceed.,1.0 +"If fashionable grown, and fond of power",1.0 +"Let Them forge lies, and histories for HUME;",4.0 +"Let Them with HOME, the very Prince of verse,",0.0 +Let Them with OGILVIE spin out a tale,2.0 +"Of rueful length; Let Them plain things obscure,",3.0 +"Debase what's truly rich, and what is poor",0.0 +Make poorer still by jargon most uncouth;,2.0 +"Born of false Taste, with Fancy like a Child",3.0 +"Not knowing what It cries for running wild,",0.0 +"With bloated Style, by Affectation taught,",0.0 +"With much false Colouring, and little Thought,",2.0 +"With Phrases strange, and Dialect decreed",0.0 +"By Reason never to have passed the Tweed,",1.0 +"With Words, which Nature meant each other's foe,",0.0 +"Forced to compound whether they will or no,",1.0 +"With such materials, Let Them, if They will,",4.0 +"To prove at once their pleasantry and skill,",1.0 +"Build up a Bard to war against Common Sense,",4.0 +By way of Compliment to Providence;,2.0 +"Let Them with ARMSTRONG, taking leave of Sense,",1.0 +"Read musty lectures on Benevolence,",3.0 +"Or conn the pages of his gaping Day,",1.0 +"Where all his former Fame was thrown away,",0.0 +"Where all, but barren labour, was forgot,",1.0 +And the vain stiffness of a Lettered SCOT;,3.0 +"Let Them with ARMSTRONG pass the term of light,",1.0 +But not one hour of darkness; when the Night,0.0 +"Suspends this mortal coil, when Memory wakes,",2.0 +"A deep revenge, when, by Reflection led,",1.0 +"She draws his curtains, and looks comfort dead,",2.0 +Let every Muse be gone; in vain He turns,1.0 +"And tries to pray for sleep; an Aetna burns,",0.0 +A more than Aetna in his coward breast;,0.0 +"And Guilt, with vengeance armed, forbids him rest.",0.0 +"Though soft as Plumage from young Zephyr's wing,",2.0 +"His couch seems hard, and no relief can bring.",1.0 +"No Good Man can deserve, no brave Man bear.",4.0 +"EARLY the sun his radiant axle guides,",2.0 +Sloping his steep course with the Pleiades;,2.0 +"Thou the mild offspring of their warm embrace,",1.0 +"O lovely May, and these thine heritage,",3.0 +"Is thy adorning, than the sunny glow",2.0 +"Of eastern ruby, ill assorted grace",0.0 +By me; though not among the sons of men,1.0 +"Or feels more lively, Nature's varied boon.",0.0 +For though confined in the city walls,1.0 +"To dwell with busy Care, and with him watch",1.0 +"The call of Interest, is my lot affixed,",1.0 +"Far happier seems to me the peasant's life,",4.0 +Vacant of thought can muse of what around,2.0 +"Strikes his rapt eye with beauty, or his ear",4.0 +"With pleasing song, than if a golden mine",2.0 +"Disclosed its boundless treasures, but condemned",1.0 +Bereaved of every pleasure Nature gives,0.0 +"Each plain but heart-felt rapture, what is wealth?",1.0 +In artful mazes we but toil for bliss:,1.0 +"True Pleasure dwells not in the arched roof,",2.0 +She sings no carol to the midnight ball;,3.0 +The loaded board and Bacchus' flustering draughts,0.0 +"In vain are tried, for ah she dwells not there!",0.0 +"The russet plain; there prompts the virgin's song,",0.0 +"Breathes the brisk carol from the cottage reed,",4.0 +"Strikes the quick tabor glad with echoing pulse,",5.0 +And animates the village holiday.,0.0 +Nor then alone but when his honest labour,0.0 +"Calls the good swain, she early joins his step;",0.0 +For the mild radiance of the opening dawn,5.0 +"Of hill and dale, hoar forest, flowering heath,",3.0 +"Rich harvest, verdant meadow, where the stream",2.0 +"To Pleasure's ear most grateful, thousand birds,",3.0 +"Lark, linnet, thrush, and thou of all the grove",2.0 +Art rising to hymn out thy morning song.,2.0 +"Thou too at eve, when all his labour over,",0.0 +"And seeks with weary step his rest at home,",0.0 +Best prelude to the peace his cottage gives.,1.0 +There at the door his numerous offspring watch,3.0 +"Their sire's return, and eager run to tell",0.0 +"The tiding of his coming, while his dame",1.0 +"Plies her glad evening care, to deck the board",3.0 +"Of Luxury, and fittest to refresh",2.0 +Gives its due relish to the simple fare.,4.0 +"What are to this the proud luxurious feasts,",3.0 +Of East and Western worlds must be explored,0.0 +To strike the sickly palate's feeble sense,0.0 +"With faint delight? O what are all our joys,",0.0 +"Even those of monarchs, to the thousand beauties",3.0 +That strike the rapt soul of the rudest hind?,2.0 +Can Art's best mimicry their form express?,2.0 +Can rich Loraine mix up the glowing tint,2.0 +Bright as Aurora? Can he form a shade,3.0 +To strike the fancy with a gloom so solemn,1.0 +At twilight hour affords? Can savage Rosa,1.0 +"With aught so wildly noble fill the mind,",0.0 +As where the ancient oak in the wood's depth,1.0 +The woodman with fell axe has lowered the pride,4.0 +"Of many a tall tree, he deserted stands",4.0 +"A barren trunk, while rude winds howl around,",1.0 +And dreary torrents lash his naked limbs?,0.0 +"The livid lightnings flash, and elements",1.0 +Such scenes awake Imagination's powers,6.0 +To sacred thought; such Rosa cannot paint;,0.0 +It's his alone to show the shattered trunk:,1.0 +"The dreary rain, these mock the pencil's power.",0.0 +"To so serene a temper, as the flight",2.0 +Though there Enchantment strike the magic chord,1.0 +"Transport the mind, as when at dusk of eve",0.0 +From the hoar battlement the lone owl's cry,4.0 +"To the near wood, where in the devious path",3.0 +"Retired Fancy wanders, on her ear",1.0 +"The faint sound murmurs, strait the distant low",1.0 +"She hears, while oft the roving Zephyr's tread",0.0 +"Rustling alarms her, and the measured step",3.0 +"Of the slow steer, who brushes through the thicket",3.0 +"To seek his food, beats duly regular.",2.0 +"As on he wanders, through the opening bower",4.0 +He sees the pale moon rising; clouds on clouds,1.0 +"Piled mountainous awhile obstruct her beam,",2.0 +"And hark its bell now tolls the minute knell,",1.0 +"Walks slowly forward, while the snowy pall",1.0 +Passes with awful pace along the glade.,2.0 +"Can sound the slow knell, echo to the note",2.0 +"And mark the funeral step with pausing cadence,",2.0 +"And music can no more, where is the tower",2.0 +Whose faint beam glimmers on the snowy pall?,2.0 +Where are the rocky clouds from whence she breaks?,0.0 +"Yet do not these, does not the rustling breeze",0.0 +The musing mind with calm and holy rapture?,0.0 +And can the city by the utmost force,3.0 +"Forgive the thoughtless Muse, for she has led me",1.0 +"To talk of pleasing horror, and the bliss",1.0 +Which melancholy gives; you cannot form,0.0 +"Amid the circling follies, which urge on",2.0 +"Your laughing hours, perhaps you cannot form",0.0 +"A notion of these joys, and with a taunt",2.0 +"Of high contempt, despise the wild enthusiasm.",0.0 +"A poor and outcast king, nor blame the winds",1.0 +"Whose keen tooth seized his age, nor chide the elements",2.0 +"Tore the proud garments from his shivering trunk,",6.0 +And the fierce lightnings fired his maddening brain?,4.0 +Have you not then felt horror? Would you not,3.0 +And be the poor king's host? ' -- Have you not wished,2.0 +Or live beneath the shelter of some oak,1.0 +"With melancholy Jaques? Tell me, why then",2.0 +You looked on wealth and greatness with a scorn?,1.0 +Why but because the Muse with native strength,1.0 +Can only boast in the most warm description,1.0 +"A faint resemblance, nor has she such force",2.0 +To strike as Nature has. Alas! her voice,0.0 +But wakes remembrance of our absent bliss;,1.0 +"But only prompts our sigh, that we must dwell",1.0 +"Confined in the full city, distant far",2.0 +"From every scene of rural innocence,",1.0 +"Whose woods, whose shades, whose storms, or funerals,",1.0 +Even raise a sense of pleasure. What can then,0.0 +"The brighter views, what can the happy hour",1.0 +That gives the blushing bride to the true arms,1.0 +"Provokes the village mirth, and from his soul",1.0 +"Enjoys the spousal of his boy, who scarce",1.0 +Overcome with rapture can himself conduct,1.0 +"Each due right were neglected, and the guests",4.0 +"Each maiden with her youth breathe sport and joy,",2.0 +Save the still happier pair: their greater bliss,5.0 +"Fills the whole breast, nor leaves a vacant place",3.0 +For lighter mirth. Unnoticed speaks the pipe:,0.0 +They hear no sound but the endearing voice,2.0 +Of mutual love: they do not mark the joy,2.0 +"In every face around; for their attention,",1.0 +"Fixed on each other, watches every glance",0.0 +"Observes bright Hesper dart his pointed ray,",1.0 +When riding high mild Cynthia pours serene,3.0 +"Her steady beam. O tell me, when compared",0.0 +"Fetter two venal souls, by interest called",3.0 +Of holy Hymen? ' -- On the village plain,1.0 +Promotes unnatural union; but the flame,3.0 +That first united glows throughout their life,0.0 +"Cheers drooping Age, who smiling sees his offspring",2.0 +Step forth to claim the joys he celebrates,1.0 +"With annual hospitality, what time",3.0 +The circling year brings round the happy day,1.0 +"That showered down blessings on him, when it gave",3.0 +"Then blooming young, now hoary, but her heart",2.0 +Unchanged by time; for still the same desire,0.0 +"Each woe he feels, reigns unabated there.",2.0 +"His social roof receives each welcome guest,",0.0 +"His open heart diffuses round his pleasure,",0.0 +"For these sincere delights, the pageant pomp,",1.0 +"The rich array, the courtly formal speech",0.0 +The glittering levee? Happier Reason deems,4.0 +"Viewed in each light the simple village life,",0.0 +"Than all that courtiers wish, or kings bestow.",2.0 +Kings cannot give a boon of so rich price,2.0 +"As are thy smiles, OH lovely Health! and thou",2.0 +"Shunning the tumult, to the rural green",3.0 +Stands on the southern slope of the fresh hill,1.0 +"Thy temple, from whose roof the eglantine",1.0 +"Sits thy good priestess Ease, administering",1.0 +To Exercise who up the gentle slope,1.0 +By moderate footing moves the holy cup,2.0 +"Of Temperance, nymph of the crystal spring",0.0 +That dwells beneath thy altar; and from thence,1.0 +"Warbling with gentle lapse joins the full stream,",4.0 +That winding wild delays its silver course,0.0 +"In the rich mead, whose bank the peasant oft",3.0 +"Bright virgin, thee of all the Powers who range",3.0 +"The rural plain, I woo with constant vow",0.0 +Most ardent! Deign around my temples bind,0.0 +With thy rich glow. Then undisturbed the mind,2.0 +"Musing pursues its holy meditation,",2.0 +"And rapt in trance, can trace a thousand gifts",0.0 +Showered by the gracious hand of Nature's King,1.0 +To deck the various field. The wondering eye,4.0 +Roams over the fair creation; then to heaven,3.0 +"With holy transport, there directs its view",1.0 +"From whence its blessings flow, and the rapt voice",1.0 +"The rapid gusts of passion, which or pride,",0.0 +"Or folly, or the thousand varying forms",3.0 +"Of courtly affectation ever raise,",0.0 +"Here all subside, and the composed breast",2.0 +"Expands with love, and to its utmost power",2.0 +"Diffuses blessings to mankind, nor fears",2.0 +The offered bounties of the generous heart.,3.0 +"Blessed be the day, and doubly blessed the hour,",0.0 +"Gave her fond hand, and owned her constant love:",3.0 +Though since that hour already thrice the sun,0.0 +From every sign has seen our growing bliss;,0.0 +And though thy smile of unaffected love,1.0 +"Adds joy to every joy, and charms to ease",1.0 +The brow of Care; though thou art all that heaven,0.0 +"Could give in woman, tenderness, and truth,",1.0 +"And all my heart ever wished, when warmest Fancy",3.0 +Formed the fond future view of household bliss;,4.0 +"Yet happier still perhaps our lot had been,",2.0 +"My faithful vow, and we had never heard",1.0 +"Of town or city life; a Marian thou,",1.0 +Contented we had passed Life's little day.,2.0 +They would move on with joy; and when at noon,0.0 +"Firm Manhood called us forth to till the soil,",3.0 +"We would be ready, nor refuse the task,",1.0 +Due tribute to the public; till at eve,3.0 +"To welcome ease, our best skill then employed",1.0 +At our own home; attentive there to thatch,1.0 +"The chinks which Time had made, and to root up",0.0 +Each foul weed that deformed our little plot.,1.0 +"This business over, calm we should attend",0.0 +The approaching hour of our eternal rest;,2.0 +"And when it came, born to our peaceful grave",2.0 +By the plain villager; what though no tomb,4.0 +Of sculptured marble called the passing eye,0.0 +"To read our storey, yet the cottage tear",0.0 +"Should on our ashes fall, and the good heart",1.0 +Overflow sincerely for a neighbour lost:,2.0 +Upon our bier the virgin troop would hang,0.0 +Green turf should deck our grave; and every year,1.0 +In springtime would some friendly hand with care,1.0 +"Bind the fresh briar around, to guard the place",5.0 +From the rude insult of the careless step;,0.0 +"And faithful Memory to late time record,",2.0 +We were the happiest pair of human kind.,3.0 +"Ladies, this Entertainment we have shown,",3.0 +"Has not been rightly suited, I must own.",1.0 +"Heroic Virtue should have been displayed,",0.0 +And Homage to heroic Virtue paid.,1.0 +Low Comedy supplies but mean Delight;,2.0 +"Some Heroine should have graced our Scenes Tonight,",1.0 +"First Fortune's Favours, then her Frowns to feel,",1.0 +"Unmoved, unshaken, on her tottering Wheel;",3.0 +"With Wisdom blessed by Heaven's peculiar Care,",2.0 +"Too great to be elated, or despair;",2.0 +"A lovely Form, and an excelling Mind,",1.0 +"Revered by All, Delight of every Eye,",0.0 +"Humane and humble, when exalted high;",0.0 +"From Princes sprung, and gloriously allied,",2.0 +"Whose Soul, superior to all earthly State,",1.0 +Shines with new Lustre mid the Storms of Fate.,3.0 +"Then had the Audience wept her Woes anew,",2.0 +And owned the Poet was prophetic too;,1.0 +"Would such a Heroine give us, in Your Grace.",2.0 +"THeir Name is Legion, grinning from a far",1.0 +"Against the Throne, who wage unequal War;",0.0 +"Though nearer, on perpetual Guard, attends",3.0 +A far more numerous Host of brighter Friends:,2.0 +"Around our Prince, Heavens Care, the sacred Band",3.0 +With fiery Arms in firm Battalions stand:,2.0 +But Wrath and Terror to his hardened Foe.,1.0 +"See the black Phalanx melt, they melt away,",3.0 +"Behold their Leaders, decked in horrid State,",0.0 +Nor wonder why they Heaven and Caesar hate.,0.0 +"First mark their haughty General, armed complete",1.0 +In Plates of glowing Steel! it's Lucifer the great!,1.0 +See his proud Standard over his Tent enlarged!,5.0 +"With bloated Toads, an odious Bearing, charged.",2.0 +"The ancient Arms which once his Shield adorned,",0.0 +"Lawless and Lewd, a baffled blasted band,",2.0 +Each holds a kindled Pamphlet in his hand.,0.0 +"These make the Gross, the rest we may despise,",1.0 +"Retailers they of Treason, and of Lies",3.0 +"Ah were there none but these, who would not be",0.0 +Proud and Ambitious of their Enmity!,4.0 +"Which hover yet, and scarce know which to join.",1.0 +"No black, no ugly marks of Sin disgrace",2.0 +"Their nobler Forms, no malice in their Face:",4.0 +"Their Plumes just scorched, too near allied to Hell.",1.0 +"What mad mistaken bravery draws them in,",2.0 +How can they still their fallen Prince esteem?,1.0 +"When false to Heaven, why are they true to him?",0.0 +OH! must they sink! a glorious Starry Race!,2.0 +"They are almost too good, for that sad place.",2.0 +"That waits their Fall: It must not, cannot be,",0.0 +"If err we do, we'll err with Charity,",1.0 +Father! they may be Saved! we'll join with Thee!,1.0 +"OH AUTUMN! how I love thy pensive air,",2.0 +"Thy yellow garb, thy visage sad and dun!",0.0 +"Bursts through thy fogs, that gathering round him, dare",1.0 +"Obscure his beams, which, though enfeebled, dart",1.0 +"On the cold, dewy plains a lustre bright:",2.0 +"Their deep, low murmurs to my soul impart",2.0 +"A solemn stillness, while they seem to speak",0.0 +"Of Spring, of Summer now for ever past,",0.0 +Which shall ere long their soothing quiet break:,1.0 +"Here, when for faded joys my heaving breast",0.0 +Outstretched in all the luxury of ease,1.0 +"Their lip was tempted by each kindly breeze,",1.0 +That waved the branch to proffer acorns fair;,0.0 +"While out the hollowed root, with sweets inlaid,",1.0 +The murmuring bee her dainty hoard betrayed.,2.0 +"Its sturdy side did brave the nipping wind,",0.0 +Where many a creeping ewe might gladly rest;,2.0 +Warm comfort here to all and every kind;,1.0 +But ah! in luckless day what mischief began,2.0 +"Mid fell debate, and maddening revelry,",2.0 +"When tipsy Bacchus had bewitched Pan,",1.0 +For sober swain so thankless never might be;,0.0 +This goodly tree did shadow too much ground.,0.0 +"With much despite they aim its overthrow,",0.0 +Nor trust their flocks to shelter beneath its side;,2.0 +"It drops chill venom on our ewes, they cry,",2.0 +And subtle serpent at its root does lie.,0.0 +"Now to the ground its lofty head does bow,",0.0 +"On high Olympus next mine tree I'll place,",0.0 +"My thoughts could win their upward way to thee,",0.0 +"And there a while in lofty regions prove,",1.0 +The purifying glow of holy love!,0.0 +"The solemn dome of night is over my head,",2.0 +Where countless stars in grand array are spread ' --,0.0 +"Thy mighty host, that to our wondering eyes",3.0 +One maze of glory is; while somber lies,1.0 +"Of many a land, where many a motley race,",4.0 +"With all their worldly care, in sleep are leapt.",0.0 +"OH, might my soul, in adoration rapt,",0.0 +"With steady power! Alas, this may not be!",2.0 +"My thoughts are twilight birds, in seasons rare,",1.0 +"That skim and rise, and flit in neither air;",0.0 +"That wheel, and turn, and cross, and soar, and swoop,",0.0 +"Their weary wings, which may no more sustain",2.0 +"Such flight, and high to murky haunts again.",0.0 +"Pity my weakness, nor as sin be laid",3.0 +As the abiding treasure of my heart ' --,2.0 +"Inmates, who rarely from their cell depart,",2.0 +May oft within me kindle true devotion;,0.0 +"And, moving as a meteor of the night,",2.0 +"Be for a passing, glorious moment bright, ' --",2.0 +"A moment, uttering in words of fire,",1.0 +There Mortimer resigns his darling Care;,1.0 +To happy Portland gives the blooming Fair.,0.0 +Where had the Parent's Prayer like Favour found?,1.0 +"Where soared so high, as from that sacred Ground?",1.0 +"At such a Sight superior Beings pleased,",2.0 +With lenient arts extend a mother's breath.,0.0 +"WHEN blooming beauty in the noon of power,",0.0 +"While offered joys demand each sprightly hour,",0.0 +With all that pomp of charms and winning mein,0.0 +Which sure to conquer needs but to be seen;,1.0 +"When she, whose name the softest love inspires,",0.0 +"To the hushed chamber of disease retires,",3.0 +"To watch and weep beside a parent's bed,",0.0 +"Catch the faint voice, and raise the languid head,",3.0 +What mixed delight each feeling heart must warm!,0.0 +An angel's office suits an angel's form.,0.0 +Thus the tall column graceful rears its head,3.0 +Whose stately piles and arches yet display,0.0 +The venerable graces of decay:,2.0 +Thus round the withered trunk fresh shoots are seen,1.0 +To shade their parent with a cheerful green.,1.0 +"More health, dear maid! thy soothing presence brings",1.0 +"Than purest skies, or salutary springs:",0.0 +"That voice, those looks such healing virtues bear,",0.0 +Thy sweet reviving smiles might cheer despair;,0.0 +"On the pale lips detain the parting breath,",2.0 +And bid hope blossom in the shades of death.,1.0 +"Beauty, like thine, could never reach a charm",0.0 +"So powerful to subdue, so sure to warm.",3.0 +"On her loved child behold the mother gaze,",2.0 +"In weakness pleased, and smiling through decays,",1.0 +And leaning on that breast her cares assuage;,1.0 +How soft a pillow for declining age!,1.0 +"For this, when that fair frame must feel decay,",3.0 +You fates protract it to a distant day,1.0 +"Nor that commanding glance strike through the heart,",2.0 +"When meaner beauties shall have leave to shine,",0.0 +"And crowds divide the homage lately thine,",1.0 +Not with the transient praise those charms can boast,0.0 +Shall thy fair fame and gentle deeds be lost:,3.0 +"Some pious hand shall thy weak limbs sustain,",2.0 +And pay thee back these generous cares again;,2.0 +"Thy name shall flourish by the good approved,",1.0 +"Thy memory honoured, and thy dust beloved.",2.0 +"SAY, dearest friend, how roll thy hours away?",1.0 +What pleasing study cheats the tedious day?,2.0 +Dost thou the sacred volumes oft explore,0.0 +"Where virtue by the charms of wit refined,",1.0 +"How different from our modern guilty art,",1.0 +Which pleases only to corrupt the heart;,1.0 +"Whose cursed refinements odious Vice adorn,",2.0 +And teach to honour what we ought to scorn!,0.0 +Dost thou in sage Historians joy to see,2.0 +How Roman Greatness rose with Liberty;,1.0 +"How the same hands that tyrants durst control,",2.0 +Their empire stretched from Atlas to the Pole;,1.0 +Till wealth and conquest into slaves refined,0.0 +The proud luxurious masters of mankind?,4.0 +"Dost thou in lettered Greece each charm admire,",0.0 +"Each grace, each virtue Freedom could inspire;",0.0 +Yet in her troubled states see all the woes,1.0 +And all the crimes that giddy Faction knows;,0.0 +"Till rent by parties, by Corruption sold,",1.0 +"She sunk beneath a mitigated doom,",0.0 +"Does calm Philosophy her aid impart,",1.0 +"To guide the passions, and to mend the heart?",1.0 +"Taught by her precepts, hast thou learnt the end",1.0 +To which alone the wise their studies bend;,0.0 +For which alone by nature were designed,1.0 +The powers of thought ' -- to benefit mankind?,4.0 +"Not like a cloistered drone, to read and doze,",0.0 +"In undeserving, undeserved repose;",0.0 +But reason's influence to diffuse; to clear,3.0 +The enlightened world of every gloomy fear;,1.0 +"Those pedant chains that clog the freeborn mind,",0.0 +Happy who thus his leisure can employ!,3.0 +He knows the purest hours of tranquil joy;,0.0 +Nor lost to social Virtue's pleasing care;,0.0 +Those who will float on the tempestuous main.,4.0 +So Locke the days of studious quiet spent;,2.0 +So Boyle in wisdom found divine content;,0.0 +The virtuous slave of Louis and of Rome.,3.0 +"Good Dr. HOUGH. Wor'ster thus supports his drooping age,",1.0 +"He, who in youth a tyrant's frown defied,",2.0 +"Her boldest champion then, and now her mildest guide.",1.0 +OH generous warmth! OH sanctity divine!,5.0 +"To emulate his worth, my friend, be thine:",0.0 +Learn from his life the duties of the gown;,1.0 +"Learn not to flatter, nor insult the crown;",1.0 +Nor raise the Church a rival to the State:,1.0 +"To Error mild, to Vice alone severe,",0.0 +Seek not to spread the law of Love by Fear.,0.0 +"The priest, who plagues the world, can never mend:",0.0 +No foe to Man was ever to God a friend:,3.0 +"Let reason and let virtue faith maintain,",3.0 +"All force but theirs is impious, weak, and vain.",2.0 +"Me other cares in other climes engage,",0.0 +"Cares that become my birth, and suit my age;",1.0 +"In various knowledge to improve my youth,",3.0 +"And conquer Prejudice, worst foe to Truth;",2.0 +"By foreign arts domestic faults to mend,",0.0 +"Enlarge my notions, and my views extend;",1.0 +"The useful science of the world to know,",1.0 +"Which books can never teach, or pedants show.",0.0 +"A nation here I pity, and admire,",1.0 +"Whom noblest sentiments of glory fire,",1.0 +"Yet taught by custom's force, and bigot fear,",0.0 +"To serve with pride, and boast the yoke they bear:",0.0 +"Whose Nobles born to cringe, and to command,",1.0 +"In courts a mean, in camps a generous band;",2.0 +From each low tool of power content receive,3.0 +"Those laws, their dreaded arms to Europe give.",0.0 +"Whose people vain in want, in bondage blessed,",0.0 +"Though plundered, gay; industrious, though oppressed;",3.0 +"With happy follies rise above their fate,",0.0 +The jest and envy of each wiser state.,1.0 +Yet here the Muses deigned awhile to sport,0.0 +"Here Boileau strong in sense, and sharp in wit,",1.0 +"Who from the ancients, like the ancients writ,",0.0 +"Permission gained inferior vice to blame,",2.0 +By flattering incense to his Master's fame.,1.0 +"Here Moliere, first of comic wits, excelled",3.0 +Whatever Athenian theatres beheld;,6.0 +"By keen, yet decent satire skilled to please,",1.0 +"With morals mirth uniting, strength with ease.",0.0 +Now sweet Racine with milder influence move,3.0 +The softened heart to Pity and to Love.,1.0 +With mingled pain and pleasure I survey,1.0 +The pompous works of arbitrary sway;,0.0 +"Proud palaces, that drained the subject store,",2.0 +Raised on the ruins of the oppressed and poor;,3.0 +"Where even mute walls are taught to flatter state,",3.0 +"With more delight those pleasing shades I view,",0.0 +"Where, sick of glory, faction, power and pride,",2.0 +"Sure judge how empty all, who all had tried",1.0 +And life's great scene in quiet Virtue closed.,1.0 +With shame that other famed retreat I see,0.0 +"Adorned by Art, disgraced by Luxury St. Cloud.;",2.0 +In the wild riot of unbounded power.,3.0 +Stained the mad table and the guilty grove.,4.0 +"With these amusements is thy friend detained,",2.0 +Pleased and instructed in a foreign land;,2.0 +Yet oft a tender wish recalls my mind,0.0 +From present joys to dearer left behind:,3.0 +"OH native isle, fair Freedom's happiest feat!",4.0 +At thought of thee my bounding pulses beat;,1.0 +"At thought of thee my heart impatient burns,",1.0 +And all my country on my soul returns.,1.0 +"When kiss with pious love the sacred earth,",0.0 +"That gave a BURLEIGH, or a RUSSEL birth?",1.0 +"When, in the shade of laws, that long have stood,",0.0 +"Propped by their care, or strengthened by their blood,",1.0 +"Of fearless independence wisely vain,",0.0 +The proudest slave of Bourbon's race disdain?,0.0 +"Yet o! what doubt, what sad presaging voice",4.0 +"Whispers within, and bids me not rejoice;",2.0 +"Bids me contemplate every state around,",5.0 +"Bids their lost rights, their ruined glories see;",3.0 +"And tells me, These, like England, once were Free.",1.0 +"Awake, My Muse! once more thyself display,",1.0 +"Since thou hast lived to See this happy day,",0.0 +Great George the Third Adorns the British Throne;,1.0 +Whose blooming Youth in Virtue's paths hath Spent,0.0 +Presages wonders from his Government:,4.0 +"As if the Glories of his Royal line,",2.0 +"Auspicious Heaven protect him all his days,",0.0 +"And crown his Brows with never fading Bays,",0.0 +"Let the Diadem sit easy on his Head,",2.0 +His Enemies be filled with fear and dread!,1.0 +"If Heaven will bless, none shall his Arms withstand,",1.0 +"His floating Fleets by Sea, or Troops by Land.",0.0 +"Let my thoughts roam beyond the British flood,",3.0 +To trace the Lustre of the Germane Blood.,4.0 +Our Annals will in future Ages Shine,1.0 +"From whence our Liberty and safety Springs,",1.0 +"In the Succession of three Noble Kings,",3.0 +"By Heaven sent to save our Native lands,",0.0 +"Kind Providence does even further Smile,",2.0 +Bringing Fair Charlotte to this happy Isle;,4.0 +To join our King and mingle hearts and hands,0.0 +"Serene and August Pair, hence may you be,",2.0 +"Blessed from above with true felicity,",3.0 +"Let length of days attend at your right hand,",2.0 +"And at your left, let wealth and honour stand;",2.0 +"May you Enlarge the Royal Family,",1.0 +And many Children's Children live to See.,0.0 +And may we never want one of your line,2.0 +"To grace the Throne, while Sun and Moon does shine",0.0 +"May you to high and low a pattern be,",1.0 +"Of conjugal love and fidelity,",4.0 +"And So encourage Virtue all your days,",1.0 +That Echoing Fame may sound abroad your Praise,2.0 +"In every place where Phoebus darts his rays,",0.0 +"And as your Years, so may your joys increase",2.0 +Flourish and pass your Days in health and peace;,2.0 +And when you have run your race be crowned on high,0.0 +In Endless bliss to all Eternity.,1.0 +"Blessed be the Man! his Memory at least,",1.0 +"Who found the Art, thus to unfold his Breast;",2.0 +And taught succeeding Times an easy way,0.0 +Their secret Thoughts by Letters to convey;,1.0 +"To baffle Absence, and secure Delight,",1.0 +"Which, till that Time, was limited to Sight.",1.0 +"The parting Farewell spoke, the last Adieu,",1.0 +"The lessening Distance past, then loss of View,",2.0 +"The Friend was gone, which some kind Moments gave,",1.0 +"And Absence separated, like the Grave.",0.0 +"The Wings of Love were tender too, till then",0.0 +"No Quill, thence pulled, was shaped into a Pen",2.0 +"Over such he reigned, whom Neighbourhood had joined,",3.0 +"When for a Wife the youthful Patriarch sent,",1.0 +"The Camels, Jewels, and the Steward went,",0.0 +"But not a Line, that might the Lover show.",0.0 +The Rings and Bracelets wooed her Hands and Arms;,0.0 +"But had she known of melting Words, the Charms",0.0 +"That under secret Seals in Ambush lie,",1.0 +"To catch the Soul, when drawn into the Eye,",0.0 +"The Fair Assyrian had not took this Guide,",1.0 +Nor her soft Heart in Chains of Pearl been tied.,2.0 +"Joseph had known his wretched Father's State,",2.0 +"Before a Famine, which his Life pursues,",0.0 +"Had sent his other Sons, to tell the News.",0.0 +"O! might I live to see an Art arise,",0.0 +"As this to Thoughts, indulgent to the Eyes;",2.0 +"That the dark Powers of distance could subdue,",4.0 +"And make me See, as well as Talk to You;",0.0 +"That tedious Miles, nor Tracts of Air might prove",2.0 +"Bars to my Sight, and shadows to my Love!",2.0 +"Yet were it granted, such unbounded Things",1.0 +"And ask an Art, to help us to Embrace.",1.0 +"And shivering Nature to his Sceptre yields,",3.0 +"Dejected Earth is stripped of all her Pride,",0.0 +And skulking Flowers in her Bosom hide;,0.0 +"Through naked Groves afflicted Warblers fly,",0.0 +And Storms of Hail come rattling through the Sky:,2.0 +"But when soft April lifts her downy Wing,",1.0 +"And calls the blushing Infants of the Spring,",1.0 +And laughing Nature paints the gaudy Plain;,0.0 +And the fair Primrose drinks the Morning Dew;,4.0 +"Again revive their Beauty and their Smell,",1.0 +But Man once blasted takes a long Farewell.,2.0 +"Ah silly Muse! thy fond Complaints give over,",1.0 +"No Charms of Verse can win the heavenly Mind,",3.0 +Back to the slighted Case she left behind;,0.0 +"Like his grand Numbers, and as sweetly flow.",3.0 +"His Name shall last to warm a distant Age,",0.0 +"For his bright Lines are by their Lustre known,",2.0 +Even Homer shines with Beauties not his own:,0.0 +"Filled with Ideas that but dimly shine,",2.0 +"Read over the Charms of his instructive Pen,",4.0 +And blushing Envy checked her burning Tongue:,0.0 +"Happy are those, though Grief their Hours attend,",1.0 +Whom once he honoured with the Name of Friend;,0.0 +Whose pleasing Thoughts at least may ponder over,0.0 +"The smiling Days, that shall return no more:",1.0 +"Even we condemned at distance to admire,",2.0 +"Ah! who shall now our rustic Thoughts refine,",0.0 +And to grave Sense and solid Learning join,2.0 +"Wit ever sparkling, and the Sweets of Rhyme?",2.0 +"Farewell, you Themes, which none but he can sing,",2.0 +And sylvan Scenes that wear eternal Spring;,0.0 +"Fair Nymphs, that in his fairer Paintings glow,",1.0 +"But hush, sad Muse, thy dull Complaint give over:",2.0 +"Hence sigh in secret, and his Loss deplore,",2.0 +"Go, humble lines, and tenderly impart",2.0 +The dearest wishes of a grateful heart;,1.0 +But neither tongue nor pen can ever reveal,2.0 +The warm emotions I must ever feel;,1.0 +"Then fancy all thy own kind lips would say,",1.0 +Think all esteem ' -- love ' -- gratitude can pay.,2.0 +"Had I the sweetness of an angel's tongue,",1.0 +"The charm of numbers, and the power of song,",3.0 +"Harmonious grace should flow in every line,",2.0 +When offering gratitude at friendship's shrine,0.0 +"But since no muse will deign to aid this lay,",1.0 +"Let feeling dictate, and let truth display;",4.0 +"O! formed with all that can the heart endear,",0.0 +"A temper generous, and a soul sincere,",1.0 +"With kind acceptance grace the offered line,",0.0 +Where true regard and friendship mildly shine;,0.0 +"Then take, my Arthur, from these trembling hands,",1.0 +The trifling tribute which thy love demands.,0.0 +Auspicious hour! when nature framed thy mind,0.0 +To bless and dignify the human kind;,0.0 +"Gave thee a heart to feel for others woe,",0.0 +A generous tear for worth depressed to flow;,2.0 +"Impressed thy soul with virtue's sacred laws,",0.0 +"Soft emanation sparkling in thine eyes,",1.0 +Like those bright worlds that shine in evening's skies;,3.0 +"But what I think thee, cannot be expressed,",0.0 +My future conduct will unfold it best;,1.0 +"Each rising morning, and each evening's close,",1.0 +"I'll ask of Heaven thy undisturbed repose,",0.0 +And joy salute thee each returning day.,0.0 +"And should again thy country claim thine arm,",0.0 +"To guard our rights, or shield our land from harm,",0.0 +"Amid the din of war, and martial strife,",0.0 +"With all the softness in a female's power,",1.0 +"No frown should cloud my brow, I'd happy be,",1.0 +"Nay feel it pleasure, being shared with thee;",1.0 +Or should which Heaven avert some fated blow,0.0 +"Come armed with power to lay my Arthur low,",3.0 +"Fate would be kind to guide me to my rest,",1.0 +"My dearest home, my soldier's faithful breast,",0.0 +"To clasp his fainting form, close his dead eye,",3.0 +"Bless his loved name, and breathe my latest sigh:",3.0 +"Never even in death my Arthur I'll resign,",3.0 +"Be all his sufferings, all his sorrows mine;",1.0 +"But should some sweet retirement be thy fate,",1.0 +"Far from ambition's path, far from the great,",4.0 +"To humble shades contented I'll descend,",1.0 +"With thee, my husband, my protecting friend;",2.0 +"The cheerful day serenely will I fit,",1.0 +"Learn from thy goodness, and admire thy wit;",1.0 +"While I delighted in my blessed employ,",1.0 +For hours of innocence are hours of joy,1.0 +"And when the evening warns thee to thy rest,",1.0 +Peaceful repose upon thy faithful breast:,2.0 +"Thus rich in innocence, secure from wrong,",2.0 +We'll bless the moments as they glide along;,1.0 +"The blessed above will view our peaceful fate,",0.0 +And smile to see an emblem of their state;,1.0 +"We'll live in innocence, in triumph die.",1.0 +From perfect bliss O! deign me thy regard;,2.0 +"And if such worth can need my humble prayer,",1.0 +O! make my Arthur thy distinguished care;,1.0 +"Let thy good angels all his steps await,",0.0 +And shield his bosom from the storms of fate;,1.0 +"Around his couch let nightly guardians' tend,",1.0 +And from each unseen ill my love defend!,3.0 +"But in this erring, ever varying scene,",2.0 +"O! thou great Power, omnipotent and wise!",5.0 +And when arrives that last important hour,0.0 +"When the last spark of vital spirit fails,",3.0 +"And peaceful conscience over death prevails,",0.0 +"Thou best of Beings! all our steps uphold,",0.0 +"To smooth the passage heavenly scenes unfold,",2.0 +"And safely bear our fainted spirits high,",0.0 +To some bright mansion in our native sky:,1.0 +"Thus may our guiltless pleasures ever bloom,",0.0 +And rise superior over the silent tomb.,4.0 +"WHAT shall I say to fix thy wavering mind,",2.0 +"To chase thy doubts, and force thee to be kind?",1.0 +"What weight of argument can turn the scale,",1.0 +If intercession from a lover fail?,1.0 +By what shall I conjure thee to obey,3.0 +"This tender summons, nor prolong thy stay?",1.0 +If unabated in this constant breast,0.0 +That passion burns which once thy vows professed;,0.0 +"If absence has not chilled the languid flame,",0.0 +"Indulge those transports, and no more control",2.0 +The dictates of thy fond consenting soul;,1.0 +"By no vain scruple be thy purpose swayed,",1.0 +And only Love implicitly obeyed:,1.0 +"Let inclination this debate decide,",2.0 +"Nor be thy prudence, but thy heart thy guide:",1.0 +"It's virtue to indulge, it's wisdom to improve:",2.0 +"For think how few the joys allowed by Fate,",0.0 +"How mixed the cup, how short their longest date!",0.0 +How onward still the stream of pleasure flows!,0.0 +That no reflux the rapid current knows!,3.0 +Not even thy charms can bribe the ruthless hand,2.0 +"Of rigid Time, to stay his ebbing sand;",0.0 +"Fair as thou art, that beauty must decay;",0.0 +The night of age succeeds the brightest day:,0.0 +"That cheque where Nature's sweetest garden blows,",0.0 +"Her whitest lily, and her warmest rose;",1.0 +"Those eyes, those meaning ministers of Love,",1.0 +"Who, what thy lips can only utter, prove;",0.0 +"These must resign their lustre, those their bloom,",1.0 +And find with meaner charms one common doom:,0.0 +"Pass but a few short years, this change must be;",1.0 +Nor one less dreadful shalt thou mourn in me:,2.0 +"For though no chance can alienate my flame,",2.0 +"While thine to feed the lamp, shall burn the same,",0.0 +"Yet shall the stream of years abate that fire,",0.0 +And cold esteem succeed to warm desire:,0.0 +Nor feel a joy beyond what I can tell.,1.0 +And intercept what Time would else allow;,0.0 +"If pain should pall my taste to all thy charms,",0.0 +Or Death himself should tear me from thy arms;,1.0 +The precious squandered hours of health and youth?,0.0 +"Come then, my love, nor trust the future day,",0.0 +"Live while we can, be happy while we may:",1.0 +And what is happiness but mutual love?,3.0 +"Our time is wealth no frugal hand can store,",1.0 +"All our possession is the present hour,",2.0 +"And he who spares to use it, ever poor.",1.0 +The golden now is all that we can boast;,0.0 +And that like snow at once is grasped and lost.,0.0 +"Haste, wing thy passage then, no more delay,",2.0 +But to these eyes their sole delight convey.,1.0 +"Not thus I languished for thy virgin charms,",1.0 +"When first surrendered to these eager arms,",1.0 +"When first admitted to that heaven, thy breast,",1.0 +To mine I strained that charming foe to rest;,1.0 +"How leaps my conscious heart, while I retrace",1.0 +The dear idea of that strict embrace?,1.0 +"When on thy bosom quite entranced I lay,",0.0 +"While half reluctant you, and half resigned,",1.0 +"Amid fears, wishes, pain and pleasure joined,",1.0 +"Now holding off, now growing to my breast,",4.0 +"I pant, I sicken for that scene again;",1.0 +"My senses ach, I can no word command,",3.0 +"Farewell, thou only joy on earth I know,",1.0 +And all that man can taste of heaven below.,0.0 +"When every eye that knew no cause to weep,",1.0 +"And peaceful minds were hushed in pleasing sleep,",0.0 +"Two virgin nymphs, whom Love had left forlorn,",1.0 +"Never closed their weeping eyes, from eve to morn:",0.0 +"Their sorrows were not to each other known,",2.0 +"Alike they mourned, and silent was their moan;",1.0 +"Awhile they wept, till one the silence broke;",1.0 +"Say, gentle maid, whence spring thy anxious fears?",1.0 +What inward sorrows prompt thy gushing tears?,0.0 +"True to my trust, and faithful from the heart;",1.0 +"My grief, I will suspend awhile to hear",1.0 +"Thy tale, and shed a sympathetic tear.",0.0 +And will not Daphne then her grief impart?,1.0 +"To tell the sorrow, is to ease the heart.",1.0 +"The plaintive sounds shall die along the vales,",0.0 +And neighbouring hills resound the moving tales.,3.0 +"A shepherd's absence I am doomed to mourn,",1.0 +While rigid fate forbids him to return;,1.0 +"Perhaps, like me, he mourns his forced delay,",1.0 +Perhaps some fairer maid may tempt his stay;,0.0 +"A while, with flattering gales of hope I steer,",2.0 +"Young Collin did my yielding heart subdue,",1.0 +"A forester he was, and he was true;",2.0 +He vowed his heart from me should never rove;,1.0 +"I heard with joy, and gave him love for love:",0.0 +"But my dear swain, my Collin's dead, and I",2.0 +"Now live, but only to despair, and die.",2.0 +"That climb the hills, or traverse over the plains;",2.0 +"His radiant eyes beam forth a milder ray,",1.0 +"Than the fair star, that leads the dawning day;",2.0 +As the dear swain that makes those flocks his care.,2.0 +"My forester was comely to behold,",2.0 +His looks were pleasing as the tale he told;,1.0 +"The frock he wore, was of a fresher green",1.0 +"Than the gay forests, where he oft was seen;",2.0 +"As the tall fir, that over the forest reigns.",4.0 +"How swift the seasons fly throughout the year,",0.0 +How oft the spring returns without my dear;,0.0 +"One happy hour with him, would far overpay",1.0 +All I have suffered by his long delay.,1.0 +"No gloomy phantom has my joys overcast,",4.0 +My hopes are withered by a deadly blast;,1.0 +"See the surrounding woods, how every tree",2.0 +"Has dropped its leaves, and seems to mourn with me;",0.0 +Yet I can never hope to see my love.,0.0 +"And hopes, through thee, instruct a barbarous Land,",3.0 +"Where Folly, dressed ten thousand various Ways,",3.0 +"The Bar, the Playhouse, and the Pulpit sways;",2.0 +Yet to my Verse thy kind Attention lend;,0.0 +"Pardon the Poet, and indulge the Friend.",3.0 +"From Noise, and Nonsense, and vain Laughter free,",2.0 +"I steal a thoughtful Hour, and give to thee;",0.0 +"Who taught me first to reverence Sense, and Truth;",2.0 +"Virtue to praise; and boldly Vice deride,",2.0 +With all the Pomp of Fashion on her Side.,1.0 +"Behold the Scene a motley Tribe compose,",0.0 +"Wives, Widows, Maids, and intermingled Beaux,",1.0 +"All Orders, Ages, in one League unite,",1.0 +And to dear Passage consecrate the Night!,2.0 +Now the Dice rattle in the sounding Box;,3.0 +Now groans the Table with repeated Knocks;,2.0 +While every Bosom beats with Hope or Fear.,0.0 +"She sweeps the Board ' -- The Fop, with ardent Gaze,",0.0 +Admires the Beauty that her Arm displays.,0.0 +While Cynthia frets and raves at Fortune's Spite?,2.0 +"Fled from her Cheek are every Love and Grace,",0.0 +And all the Fury threatens in her Face:,0.0 +"Distracted, lost, with Grief and Rage overcome,",3.0 +"She quits the Dice, and flies to storm at home.",0.0 +"When I a Curse implore, may courteous Fate",2.0 +With such a Consort curse the Man I hate!,4.0 +"But is there One amongst the Many found,",2.0 +"Adorned with Modesty, with Reason crowned;",1.0 +"Who treads the slippery Paths of Youth with Care,",0.0 +And uninfected breathes in tainted Air?,0.0 +"If such there be, kind Heaven, afford thy Aid,",2.0 +And soften to my Wish the virtuous Maid!,3.0 +See the Belle flutter with the sprightly Beau!,4.0 +"They trip it on the light, fantastic Toe:",1.0 +"Nor Words, nor Sighs, their amorous Thoughts impart;",2.0 +"They dance, and glitter at each other's Heart!",0.0 +"With honest Scorn survey yonder various Crowd,",4.0 +"Of supple Slaves, or Lords of Titles proud!",0.0 +"Yet some there are, with Worth and Wisdom blessed.",1.0 +"Who scorn to boast their great Forefather's Rays,",3.0 +"Shine of themselves, and mingle Blaze with Blaze.",2.0 +"And such is Orrery; whose generous Mind,",4.0 +"Still prone to Pity, feels for human Kind.",1.0 +"A Zeal for Piety inflames his Breast,",1.0 +Grandeur and Ease his every Action guide;,0.0 +"Add sprightly Wit, by prudent Laws confined,",1.0 +"A Judgement sober, and by Books refined:",1.0 +"Add that the Muses every Charm dispense,",0.0 +"To tune his Voice, and beautify the Sense.",0.0 +"Love of fair Fame, and fan the sacred Fire!",3.0 +"Dare to have Taste, and urge thy glorious Toil,",2.0 +"To teach the Unknowing, and to please a Boyle.",3.0 +"By my abandoned Muse, I'm not inspired,",1.0 +"Provoked by Malice, and with Rage I'm fired.",1.0 +"Fly, fly, my Muse from my distracted Breast,",2.0 +"Who ever has thee, must be with Plagues possessed:",0.0 +"Fool that I was, ever to solicit you,",3.0 +"Who make not only Poor, but wretched too.",0.0 +"Happy I lived, for almost Eight years time,",3.0 +"On my then pleased, unwary Innocence,",2.0 +I scarce have had one happy Moment since.,0.0 +"Cannot enough advance my threatening Mind,",0.0 +"Passion, that common Rage, I here refuse,",2.0 +"Call Hell itself, to curse my Torturing Muse;",3.0 +"Not the calm Author of blessed Poetry,",5.0 +"There let her sit, with her Infernal Chime,",1.0 +"May their Parnassus, like Vesuvius burn,",4.0 +"May Stuff like Hopkin's Rhyme, degrade their Fame,",0.0 +"May they despised, sad and neglected sit,",3.0 +Be never thought upon by Men of Wit.,0.0 +"May all the Ills a fond Imperious Dame,",2.0 +"Wishes the Man that dare reject her Flame,",2.0 +"Light upon him, that does commit the Crime,",0.0 +"Nothing like that, to Dangers can expose,",1.0 +"May none be Happy, but what write in Prose.",1.0 +"That yielded first, to his Fantastic Rule;",1.0 +"With Bells at Feet, and in nice measures Dance.",1.0 +"Let pregnant Heads, but think of Poetry,",2.0 +"Fancy shall make a Prodigy of Wit,",3.0 +"Which soon, as born, shall run upon its Feet:",0.0 +"Was all the learnt Ancients Courage dead,",3.0 +"That Wit, in Fetters, is tame Captive led?",2.0 +"Had Some opposed, when Rhyme at first grew bold,",1.0 +"Then her Defeat, not Triumphs had been told?",1.0 +"But now the Plague is grown so populous,",1.0 +It's hard to stop the universal Curse.,0.0 +"Doubtless, they are mistaken who have told",3.0 +"Plurality of Plagues, She only hurled",1.0 +"Out Verse alone, and that has damned the World.",0.0 +"Curses, in vain, on Poets I bestow;",3.0 +"I'm sure, the greatest is, that they are so;",2.0 +From trifling torturing wretched Poetry.,3.0 +"Studious the busy Moments to deceive,",2.0 +"That fleet between the Cradle and the Grave,",1.0 +When mortal Man resigns his transient Breath;,0.0 +The Body only I give over to Death.,4.0 +"The Parts dissolved, and broken Frame I mourn:",0.0 +"What came from Earth, I see to Earth return.",0.0 +"Nor can Change vanquish, nor can Death control.",3.0 +Glad I release it from it's Partner's Cares;,3.0 +And bid good Angels waft it to the Stars.,1.0 +"Then in the flowing Bowl I drown those Sighs,",0.0 +"Which, Spite of Wisdom, from our Weakness rise.",1.0 +And offer to the now immortal Friend.,1.0 +"But if opposed to what my Thoughts approve,",1.0 +On it's dark Side if Thou the Prospect take;,2.0 +"In total Death suppose the Mortal lie,",0.0 +"No new Hereafter, nor a future Sky:",2.0 +Yet bear thy Lot content; yet cease to grieve:,0.0 +"The little Time Thou hast, betwixt Instant Now",5.0 +"And Fate's Approach, is All the Gods allow:",0.0 +And of this little hast Thou ought to spare,1.0 +"The Moments past, if Thou art wise, retrieve",1.0 +With pleasant Memory of the Bliss they gave.,1.0 +The present Hours in present Mirth employ;,0.0 +And bribe the Future with the Hopes of Joy.,1.0 +"The Future few or more, how ever they be",1.0 +"Be now cut off, betwixt the Grave and Thee.",3.0 +Child of the Sun! illustrious Summer comes,2.0 +"In pride of youth, and felt through Nature's depth.",0.0 +"He comes, attended by the sultry Hours,",1.0 +"While, from his ardent look, the turning Spring",0.0 +Where scarce a sunbeam wanders through the gloom;,2.0 +Of haunted stream that by the roots of oak,1.0 +And sing the glories of the circling year.,1.0 +"Come, Inspiration! from thy hermit seat",2.0 +"By mortal seldom found: may fancy dare,",0.0 +"Shot on surrounding heaven, to steal one look,",2.0 +"Creative of the poet, every power",1.0 +Exalting to an ecstasy of soul.,2.0 +In whom the human graces all unite:,1.0 +"Pure light of mind, and tenderness of heart;",2.0 +"Genius, and wisdom; the gay social sense,",4.0 +"For Britain's glory, Liberty, and Man;",1.0 +And teach me to deserve thy best applause.,1.0 +Were first the unwieldy planets launched along,2.0 +"Amid the flux of many thousand years,",0.0 +"That oft has swept the busy race of men,",0.0 +"To night and day, with the delightful round",1.0 +"Of Seasons, faithful; not eccentric once:",0.0 +"So poised, and perfect is the vast machine.",2.0 +"When now no more the alternate Twins are fired,",3.0 +Short is the doubtful empire of the night;,1.0 +"And soon, observant of approaching day,",1.0 +"And, from before the lustre of her face,",2.0 +"White break the clouds away. With tardy step,",1.0 +"Brown night retires. Young day pours in apace,",4.0 +"The dripping rock, the mountain's misty top",0.0 +"Swell on the eye, and brighten with the dawn.",1.0 +Blue through the dusk the smoking currents shine;,0.0 +And from the bladed field the fearful hare,1.0 +Limps awkward; while along the forest glade,1.0 +"The wild deer trip, and often turning gaze",1.0 +And thick around the woodland hymns arise.,0.0 +"His mossy cottage, where with Peace he dwells;",0.0 +And from the crowded fold in order drives,1.0 +"Falsely luxurious, will not man awake,",3.0 +"And, starting from the bed of sloth, enjoy",1.0 +"The cool, the fragrant, and the silent hour,",1.0 +"To meditation due, and sacred song.",0.0 +And is there ought in sleep can charm the wise?,1.0 +"To lie in dead oblivion, losing half",2.0 +The fleeting moments of too short a life?,2.0 +Total extinction of the enlightened soul!,5.0 +"Or else to feverish vanity alive,",3.0 +"Who would in such a gloomy state remain,",0.0 +"Longer than nature craves; when every Muse,",2.0 +"And every blooming Pleasure wait without,",0.0 +"But yonder comes the powerful king of day,",2.0 +"Rejoicing in the east. The lessening cloud,",2.0 +"The kindling azure, and the mountain's brim",1.0 +He looks in boundless majesty abroad;,1.0 +"And sheds the shining day, that burnished plays",0.0 +"On rocks, and hills, and towers, and wandering streams,",4.0 +"Of all material beings first, and best!",2.0 +Efflux divine! Nature's resplendent robe!,7.0 +Without whose vesting beauty all were wrapped,0.0 +"In whose wide circle worlds of radiance lie,",1.0 +"Who would the blessings, first and last, recount,",0.0 +"As soon might number, at the height of noon,",0.0 +"The rays that radiate from thy cloudless sphere,",0.0 +A universal glory darting round.,0.0 +"It's by thy secret, strong, attractive force,",1.0 +Thy system rolls entire; from the far bourn,2.0 +"Of Mercury, lost in excessive blaze.",2.0 +Informer of the planetary train!,1.0 +"They would be brute, uncomfortable mass,",1.0 +How many forms of being wait on thee!,0.0 +"Reflected various, various colours rise:",4.0 +The freshening mantle of the youthful year;,1.0 +The wild embroidery of the watery vale;,3.0 +"With all that cheers the sense, and charms the heart.",0.0 +"The branching grove thy lusty product stands,",0.0 +"Diffused, and deep; to quench the summer noon,",0.0 +"And crowd a shade for the retreating swain,",1.0 +When on his russet fields you look direct.,0.0 +"Fruit is thy bounty too, with Juice replete,",0.0 +"Acid, or mild; and from thy ray receives",3.0 +"By thee concocted blushes; and, by thee",2.0 +"Fully matured, into the verdant lap",2.0 +Of Industry the mellow plenty falls.,1.0 +Extensive harvests wave at thy command;,1.0 +"And the bright ear, consolidate by thee,",2.0 +"Even Winter speaks thy power; whose every blast,",2.0 +"Overcast with tempest, or severely sharp",1.0 +"With breathing frost, is eloquent of thee,",1.0 +And makes us languish for thy vernal gleams.,1.0 +"Shot to the bowels of the teeming earth,",0.0 +The ripening over confesses all thy power.,2.0 +Hence Labour draws his tools; hence waving War,2.0 +Flames on the day; hence busy Commerce binds,1.0 +The round of nations in a golden chain;,0.0 +"And hence the sculptured palace, sumptuous, shines",2.0 +"In dark retirement, forms the lucid stone;",2.0 +"Collected light, compact; that polished bright,",0.0 +"And all its native lustre let abroad,",0.0 +"At thee the ruby lights his deepening glow,",0.0 +"A bleeding radiance, grateful to the view.",1.0 +With thy own smile the yellow topaz burns.,2.0 +"When first she gives it to the southern gale,",1.0 +"Than the green emerald shows. But, all combined,",2.0 +Thick through the whitening opal play thy beams;,0.0 +"Or, flying several from its surface, form",1.0 +"A trembling variance of revolving hues,",3.0 +"The very dead creation, from thy touch,",1.0 +"Assumes a mimic life. By thee refined,",1.0 +"Projecting horror on the blackened flood,",1.0 +Softens at thy return. The desert joys,2.0 +"Wildly, through all his melancholy bounds.",1.0 +"Reflects, from every fluctuating wave,",0.0 +"A glance extensive as the day. But these,",1.0 +"And all the much transported muse can sing,",0.0 +"Are to thy beauty, dignity, and use,",2.0 +"Unequal far, great delegated source,",1.0 +"Of light, and life, and grace, and joy below!",0.0 +"How shall I then attempt to sing of him,",0.0 +"Invested deep, dwells awfully retired",2.0 +"From mortal eye, or angel's purer ken;",0.0 +"Whose single smile has, from the first of time,",1.0 +"Filled, overflowing, all those lamps of heaven,",1.0 +That beam for ever through the boundless sky:,1.0 +"But, should he hide his face, the astonished sun,",2.0 +"And all the extinguished stars, would loosening reel,",3.0 +"Wide from their spheres, and chaos come again.",0.0 +"And yet, was every faltering tongue of man,",2.0 +Almighty Poet! silent in thy praise;,0.0 +"And all the full harmonic universe,",0.0 +"Would vocal, or expressive, thee attest,",2.0 +"The cause, the glory, and the end of all!",1.0 +To me be nature's volume wide displayed;,1.0 +"And to peruse the broad illumined page,",1.0 +"Pensive I muse, or with the rising day",3.0 +"And morning mists, that hovered round the hills",0.0 +"The face of nature shines, from where earth seems,",1.0 +"Half in a blush of clustering roses lost,",2.0 +"By sharp degrees, his burning influence reigns",2.0 +"On man, and beast, and herb, and tepid stream.",0.0 +When fevers revel through their azure veins.,1.0 +"But one, the follower of the sun, they say,",2.0 +Sad when he sets shuts up her yellow leaves.,2.0 +"Weeping all night; and, when he warm returns,",2.0 +"Home, from his morning task, the swain retreats;",0.0 +His flock before him stepping to the fold:,1.0 +"The cheerful cottage then expecting food,",0.0 +"The food of innocence, and health! The daw,",1.0 +"That the calm village, in their verdant arms,",2.0 +"Sheltering, embrace direct their lazy flight;",1.0 +"All the hot noon, till cooler hours arise.",3.0 +"And, in a corner of the buzzing shade,",1.0 +"Attacks the nightly thief, and one exults",1.0 +"Live in her lay, and flutter through her song,",1.0 +"Not mean, though simple; to the sun allied,",1.0 +"From him their high descent, direct, they draw.",1.0 +"Lighter, and full of life. From every chink,",2.0 +"And secret corner, where they slept away",0.0 +"Swarming, they pour: green, speckled, yellow, grey,",3.0 +"Black, azure, brown; more than the assisted eye",2.0 +Of poring virtuoso can discern.,2.0 +Ten thousand forms! Ten thousand different tribes!,2.0 +People the blaze. To sunny waters some,2.0 +By fatal instinct fly; where on the pool,1.0 +"Are snatched immediate by the springing Trout,",1.0 +Often beguiled. Some through the greenwood glade,4.0 +"Delight to stray; there lodged, amused, and fed,",0.0 +"In the fresh leaf. Luxurious, others make",5.0 +"The meads their choice, and visit every flower,",0.0 +And every latent herb; but careful still,0.0 +"To shun the mazes of the sounding bee,",1.0 +"As over the blooms he sweeps. Some to the house,",3.0 +"The fold, and dairy, hungry, bend their flight;",0.0 +"Oft, inadvertent, by the boiling stream",2.0 +"With powerless wings around them wrapped, expire.",2.0 +"A constant death; where, gloomily retired,",1.0 +"The villain spider lives, cunning, and fierce,",5.0 +Mixture abhorred! Amid a mangled heap,2.0 +"Of carcasses, in eager watch he sits,",1.0 +Overlooking all his waving snares around.,0.0 +"The prey at last ensnared, he dreadful darts,",0.0 +"With rapid glide, along the leaning line;",0.0 +"And, fixing in the fly his cruel fangs,",0.0 +"Strides backward grimly pleased: the fluttering wing,",3.0 +"And ask the helping, hospitable hand.",5.0 +Echoes the living surface of the ground;,3.0 +To him who muses through the woods at noon;,2.0 +"Or drowsy shepherd, as he lies reclined,",1.0 +"Creative Wisdom, as if ought was formed",1.0 +"In vain, or not for admirable ends.",1.0 +"Shall little, haughty ignorance pronounce",1.0 +His works unwise; of which the smallest part,0.0 +Exceeds the narrow vision of his mind?,1.0 +"Thus on the concave of a sounding dome,",1.0 +"On swelling columns heaved, the pride of art!",0.0 +Wanders a critic fly; his feeble ray,2.0 +"Extends an inch around, yet blindly bold",0.0 +He dares dislike the structure of the whole.,1.0 +"And lives the man, whose universal eye",0.0 +Has swept at once the unbounded scheme of things;,2.0 +"Marked their dependence so, and firm accord,",3.0 +"The mighty chain of beings, lessening down",1.0 +From Infinite Perfection to the brink,2.0 +"Of dreary Nothing, desolate abyss!",0.0 +Beheld the glories of the little world?,1.0 +"Till then alone let zealous praise ascend,",1.0 +"And hymns of heavenly wonder, to that Power,",3.0 +"Whole wisdom shines as lovely on our minds,",2.0 +"Thick in yonder stream of light, a thousand ways,",0.0 +Till Winter sweeps them from the face of day.,1.0 +"Which the hard hand of Industry has wrought,",4.0 +"The human insects glow; by Hunger fed,",1.0 +"And cheered by toiling Thirst, they roll about",0.0 +"From toy to trifle, vanity to vice;",1.0 +"Till blown away by Death, Oblivion comes",2.0 +"Behind, and strikes them from the book of life.",1.0 +Now swarms the village over the jovial mead;,5.0 +"The rustic youth, brown with meridian toil,",4.0 +"Blown by prevailing suns, the blooming maid,",2.0 +Her kindled graces burning over her cheek.,2.0 +"Trail the long rake, or with the fragrant load",2.0 +"Overcharged, amid the soft oppression roll.",0.0 +"Advancing broad, or wheeling round the field,",0.0 +"They spread the tawny Harvest to the sun,",1.0 +"Rises the russet haycock thick behind,",3.0 +"In order gay. While heard from dale to dale,",0.0 +"Of happy labour, love, and social glee.",0.0 +"It's raging noon; and, vertical, the sun",1.0 +Shoots through the expanding air a torrid gleam.,1.0 +"Over heaven and earth, far as the darted eye",2.0 +"Can pierce, a dazzling deluge reigns; and all",0.0 +From pole to pole is undistinguished blaze.,0.0 +"Down to the dusty earth the sight, overpowered,",4.0 +"Stoops for relief; but thence ascending streams,",2.0 +And keen reflection pain. Burned to the heart,2.0 +Adds a new fever to the sickening soul:,4.0 +And over their slippery surface wary treads,2.0 +"The foot of thirsty pilgrim, often dipped",0.0 +"In a cross rill, presenting to his wish",4.0 +Echo no more returns the sandy sound,2.0 +"Of sharpening scythe; the mower, sinking, heaps",0.0 +"Over him the humid hay, with flowers perfumed;",3.0 +And scarce a chirping grasshopper is heard,5.0 +"Split to the centre, sweats at every poor.",0.0 +The very streams look languid from afar;,2.0 +"Or, through the fervid glade, impetuous hurl",1.0 +Into the shelter of the crackling grove.,1.0 +And on my throbbing temples potent thus,1.0 +"Beam not so hard! Incessant still you flow,",0.0 +"And still another fervent flood succeeds,",0.0 +"Poured on the head profuse. In vain I sigh,",0.0 +"And restless turn, and look around for night;",0.0 +Night is far off; and hotter hours approach.,0.0 +Who can endure! the too resplendent scene,1.0 +And double objects dance; unreal sounds,1.0 +Sing deep around; a weight of sultry dew,1.0 +"Misgiving, horror lays his heavy hand.",0.0 +Beneath the whole collected shade reclines:,0.0 +"Sits coolly calm; while all the world without,",1.0 +"Unsatisfied, and sick, tosses in noon.",4.0 +"Emblem instructive of the virtuous man,",5.0 +"Amid a jarring world, with vice inflamed.",0.0 +"Welcome, you shades! you bowery thickets, hail!",4.0 +You lofty pines! you venerable oaks!,1.0 +"You ashes wild, resounding over the steep!",2.0 +"Delicious is your shelter to the soul,",2.0 +"Cold through the nerves, your pleasing comfort glides;",0.0 +And life shoots swift through every lightened limb.,1.0 +"The vocal grove, now fretting over a rock,",3.0 +"Now scarcely moving through a reedy pool,",2.0 +"Now starting to a sudden stream, and now",2.0 +A various group the herds and flocks compose;,2.0 +Rural confusion! On the grassy bank,3.0 +"Half in the flood, and often bending sip",0.0 +"The strong laborious ox, of honest front,",2.0 +"Returning still. Amid his subjects safe,",0.0 +Thrown round his head on downy moss sustained;,0.0 +Of angry hornets fasten on the herd;,1.0 +"In search of lavish stream. Tossing the foam,",5.0 +"They scorn the keeper's voice, and scour the plain,",3.0 +Through all the bright severity of noon;,1.0 +"Oft in this season too the horse provoked,",0.0 +"Darts on the gloomy flood, with steady eye,",0.0 +"And heart estranged to fear: his nervous chest,",0.0 +"Luxuriant, and erect, the seat of strength!",3.0 +He takes the river at redoubled draughts;,0.0 +Still let me pierce into the midnight depth,2.0 +"Of yonder grove, of wildest, largest growth;",0.0 +"Nods over the mount beneath. At every step,",3.0 +"Solemn, and slow, the shadows blacker fall,",3.0 +"And all is awful, silent gloom around.",0.0 +"These are the haunts of meditation, these",2.0 +"Ecstatic felt, and, from this world retired,",1.0 +"Conversed with angels, and immortal forms,",1.0 +Of virtue struggling on the brink of vice;,1.0 +"In waking whispers, and repeated dreams,",1.0 +For future trials fated to prepare;,1.0 +"To prompt the Poet, who devoted gives",0.0 +"Of dying Saints; and from the Patriot's breast,",3.0 +"Backward to mingle in detested war,",2.0 +But foremost when engaged to turn the death;,1.0 +"Daily, and nightly, zealous to perform.",3.0 +"Shook sudden from the bosom of the sky,",3.0 +"A thousand shapes or glide athwart the dusk,",0.0 +"Or stalk majestic on. Aroused, I feel",1.0 +"A sacred terror, and severe delight,",1.0 +"Those accents murmured in the abstracted ear,",3.0 +"Pronounce distinct. Be not of us afraid,",1.0 +"The, same our Lord, and laws, and great pursuit.",0.0 +"Once some of us, like thee, through stormy life,",1.0 +"This holy calm, this harmony of mind,",1.0 +"Then fear us not; but with responsive song,",1.0 +"Oft in these dim recesses, undisturbed",5.0 +"By noisy folly, and discordant vice,",1.0 +"Of nature sing with us, and nature's God.",1.0 +"And frequent at the middle waste of night,",0.0 +"Or all day long, in deserts still, are heard,",1.0 +"Around, or underneath, aerial sounds,",5.0 +"Sent from angelic harps, and voices joined.",3.0 +"A happiness bestowed by us, alone,",2.0 +"On contemplation, or the hallowed ear",1.0 +"Thus up the Mount, in visionary muse,",0.0 +"I stray, regardless whither; till the stun",1.0 +Of a near fall of water every sense,1.0 +"I stand aghast, and view the broken scene.",0.0 +Smooth to the shaggy brink a spreading flood,0.0 +"Rolls fair and placid; till collected all,",2.0 +"In one big glut, as sinks the shelving ground,",3.0 +"The impetuous torrent, tumbling down the steep,",2.0 +Thunders and shakes the astonished country round.,3.0 +"Now a blue watery sheet; anon dispersed,",5.0 +"A hoary missed; then gathered in again,",0.0 +"This way, and that tormented; dashing thick,",1.0 +And restless roaring to the humble vale.,1.0 +"Darts a green lustre, trembling through the trees;",4.0 +"Invited from the rock, to whose dark cliff",2.0 +"And, giving full his bosom to the blaze,",1.0 +"Gains on the sun; while all the feathery race,",2.0 +"Deep in the thicket; or, from bower to bower",3.0 +"Responsive, force an interrupted strain.",0.0 +Short interval of weary woe! again,2.0 +"The sad idea of his murdered mate,",1.0 +A louder song of sorrow through the grove.,1.0 +"Beside the dewy border let me sit,",0.0 +All in the freshness of the humid air;,1.0 +By flowering umbrage shaded; where the bee,2.0 +"Strays diligent, and with the extracted sweet",3.0 +Of honeysuckle loads his little thigh.,0.0 +And what a various prospect lies around!,2.0 +"Of hills, and vales, and woods, and lawns, and spires,",0.0 +"And towns betwixt, and gilded streams; till all",0.0 +"Happy Britannia! where the Queen of arts,",3.0 +"Walks through the land of Heroes, unconfined",0.0 +"Rich is the soil, and merciful the skies;",1.0 +Thy streams unfailing in the summer's drought;,0.0 +With golden waves; and on thy mountains flocks,1.0 +Bellow the blackening herds in lusty droves.,2.0 +"Against the mower's scythe. On every hand,",3.0 +"Thy villas shine. Thy country teems with wealth,",0.0 +"And Property assures it to the swain,",2.0 +Full are thy cities with the Sons of art;,1.0 +"And trade, and joy, in every busy street,",0.0 +"Mingling are heard: even Drudgery himself,",5.0 +"As at the car he sweats, or dusty hews",0.0 +"Where rising masts an endless prospect yield,",0.0 +"With labour burn, and echo to the shouts",1.0 +"Of hurried sailor, as he hearty waves",1.0 +"His last adieu, and loosening every sheet,",2.0 +Resigns the spreading vessel to the wind.,1.0 +"Bold, firm, and graceful, are thy generous youth,",4.0 +"Scattering the nations where they go; and first,",1.0 +"Mild are thy glories too, as over the plans",2.0 +Of thriving peace thy thoughtful sires preside;,0.0 +"In genius, and substantial learning high;",1.0 +"For every virtue, every worth renowned,",0.0 +Yet like the mustering thunder when provoked;,2.0 +"The dread of tyrants, and the sole resource",4.0 +Of such as under grim oppression groan.,1.0 +"Thy sons of glory many! thine a More,",1.0 +"A Drake, who made thee mistress of the deep,",1.0 +And bore thy name in thunder round the world.,0.0 +Then flamed thy spirit high; but who can speak,0.0 +The numerous worthies of the maiden reign?,3.0 +"In Raleigh mark their every glory mixed,",0.0 +"Raleigh, the scourge of Spain! whose breast with all",2.0 +"The sage, the patriot, and the hero burned.",1.0 +"The warrior fettered, and at last resigned,",1.0 +To glut the vengeance of a vanquished foe.,1.0 +"Then deep through fate his mind retorted saw,",0.0 +"Yet found no times, in all the long research,",1.0 +"So glorious, or so base, as those he proved,",2.0 +"In which he conquered, and in which he bled.",1.0 +"Who stemmed the torrent of a downward age,",1.0 +"To slavery prone; and bade thee rise again,",2.0 +In all thy native pomp of Freedom fierce.,0.0 +"Nor can the muse the gallant Sidney pass,",1.0 +"The plume of war! with every laurel crowned,",0.0 +"The lover's myrtle, and the poet's bay.",1.0 +"Nor him of later name, firm to the cause",3.0 +"Of Liberty, her rough determined friend,",1.0 +The British Brutus; whose united blood,0.0 +"With Russel, thine, thou patriot wise, and calm,",3.0 +Stained the sad annals of a giddy reign;,4.0 +In loose inglorious sloth. High thy renown,4.0 +"In Sages too, far as the sacred light",2.0 +"Thine is a Bacon formed of happy mould,",1.0 +"When Nature smiled, deep, comprehensive, clear,",1.0 +"Exact, and elegant; in one rich soul,",2.0 +"Who scanned his nature with a brother's eye,",1.0 +"His weakness prompt to shade, to raise his aim,",0.0 +"To touch the finer movements of the mind,",1.0 +And with the moral Beauty charm the heart.,1.0 +"What need I name thy Boyle, whose pious search",0.0 +"Still sought the great Creator in his works,",1.0 +"By sure experience led? And why thy Locke,",2.0 +Who made the whole internal world his own?,0.0 +"Let comprehensive Newton speak thy fame,",1.0 +"In all philosophy. For solemn song,",1.0 +And every greatly amiable muse,1.0 +Of elder ages in thy Milton met?,0.0 +"His was the treasure of two thousand years,",3.0 +"Unlimited, and various, as his Theme;",2.0 +Astonishing as Chaos; as the bloom,2.0 +Of blowing Eden fair; soft as the talk,2.0 +"Of our grand Parents, and as Heaven sublime.",3.0 +"May my song soften as, thy daughters, I,",4.0 +"Britannia, hail! for beauty is their own,",3.0 +"The feeling heart simplicity of life,",1.0 +"Shaped by the hand of Harmony; the cheek,",1.0 +"Where the live crimson, through the native white",3.0 +"And every nameless grace; the parted lip,",0.0 +"Breathing delight; and, under flowing jet,",2.0 +"And by the soul informed, when, dressed in love,",1.0 +She sits high smiling in the conscious eye.,1.0 +"Island of bliss! amid the subject seas,",2.0 +"That thunder round thy rocky coasts, set up,",2.0 +"At once the wonder, terror, and delight,",1.0 +Of distant nations; whose remotest shore,0.0 +Can soon be shaken by thy naval arm;,1.0 +"Not to be shook thyself, but all assaults",0.0 +OH Thou! by whose almighty Nod the scale,0.0 +"Of empire rises, or alternate falls,",3.0 +"Send forth the saving Virtues round the land,",1.0 +"In bright patrol: white Peace, and social Love;",1.0 +"On gentle deeds, and shedding tears through smiles;",0.0 +"Undaunted Truth, and Dignity of mind;",1.0 +"Courage composed, and keen; sound Temperance,",3.0 +"Healthful in heart and look; clear Chastity,",4.0 +Disordered at the deep regard she draws;,0.0 +"Rough Industry; Activity untried,",3.0 +"With copious life informed, and all awake:",2.0 +"While, in the radiant front, superior shines",2.0 +"That first paternal Virtue, public Zeal,",0.0 +"Who casts over all an equal, wide survey,",1.0 +To sing her praises in ambitious verse;,0.0 +"While, slightly to recount, I simply meant,",1.0 +"Kingdoms on which, direct, the flood of day",2.0 +"Oppressive falls, and gives the gloomy hue,",0.0 +"And feature gross; or worse, to ruthless deeds,",0.0 +"Won jealousy, red rage, and fell revenge,",3.0 +"Although the treasures of the sun be theirs,",2.0 +"Rocks rich in gems, and mountains big with mines;",1.0 +"His amber wave; while on his balmy banks,",1.0 +"Or in the spicy Abyssinian vales,",1.0 +"The citron, orange, and pomegranate, drink",2.0 +"Intolerable day, yet in their coats",1.0 +"A cooling juice contain. Peaceful beneath,",5.0 +Leans the huge elephant; and in his shade,4.0 +And birds of bolder note rejoice around.,0.0 +"And oft amid their aromatic groves,",0.0 +"Touched by the torch of noon, the gummy bark,",0.0 +"Instant, so swift the ruddy ruin spreads,",2.0 +A cloud of incense shadows all the land;,2.0 +"And, over a thousand thundering trees at once,",4.0 +Riots with lawless rage the running blaze:,2.0 +And doubling blend the circulating waves,0.0 +"Of flame tempestuous; or directly on,",5.0 +But other views await; where heaven above,0.0 +"Glows like an arch of brass; and all below,",0.0 +Abandoned by the vanished brook; like one,1.0 +Of fading fortune by his treacherous friend.,3.0 +"Such are thy horrid deserts, Barca; such",2.0 +"Continuous rising often with the blast,",3.0 +"Shook by the south into the darkened air,",0.0 +Falls in new hilly kingdoms over the waste.,4.0 +Hence late exposed if distant fame says true,2.0 +A smothered city from the sandy wave,1.0 +"Fresh woods, reclining herds, and silent flocks,",1.0 +"For by the nitrous penetrating salts,",1.0 +"Mixed copious with the sand, pierced, and preserved,",4.0 +"The streets, in various attitudes surprised",2.0 +"By sudden fate, and live on every face",0.0 +"The passions caught, beyond the sculptor's art.",0.0 +Delighted even in death; and each for each,2.0 +"Feeling alone, with that expressive look,",2.0 +Which perfect Nature only knows to give.,1.0 +"Fond over his weeping wife, and infant train",3.0 +"Aghast, and trembling, though they know not why.",1.0 +"The stiffened vulgar stretch their arms to heaven,",0.0 +With horror starting; while in council deep,0.0 +"As when old Rome, beneath the raging Gaul,",1.0 +"Sunk her proud turrets resolute on death,",3.0 +Around the Forum sat the grey divan,0.0 +"Of Senators, majestic, motionless,",2.0 +Dressed like the falling fathers of mankind;,2.0 +"Amazed, and shivering, from the solemn sight",1.0 +"The red barbarians shrunk, and deemed them Gods.",2.0 +It's here that Thirst has fixed his dry domain;,0.0 +"And walks his wide, malignant round, in search",0.0 +"Triumphant sits, who for a single cruise",1.0 +Of unavailing water paid so dear:,0.0 +Nor could the gold his hard associate save.,1.0 +"Here the green serpent gathers up his train,",3.0 +"Progressive, rattles through the withered brake;",1.0 +"But mighty mischief, on the unguarded swain",3.0 +"And foul misdeed, when the pure day has shut",3.0 +"His sacred eye. The rabid tiger then,",0.0 +"In dire divan, surround their shaggy King,",0.0 +"Majestic, stalking over the burning sand,",2.0 +With planted step; while an obsequious crowd,3.0 +Of grinning forms at humble distance wait.,0.0 +"By supreme hunger smit, and thirst intense,",5.0 +At once their mingling voices raise to Heaven;,0.0 +"And with imperious and repeated roars,",4.0 +"Unhappy he! who from the first of joys,",2.0 +"Society, cut off, is left alone",2.0 +"Amid this world of death. Ceaseless he sits,",5.0 +"Sad on the jutting eminence, and views",1.0 +"The rolling main, that ever toils below;",0.0 +"Still fondly forming in the farthest verge,",1.0 +"At evening, to the setting sun he turns",1.0 +"A mournful eye, and down his dying heart",1.0 +And hiss continual through the tedious night.,3.0 +"And haughty Caesar, Liberty retired,",1.0 +And all the green delights of Italy;,1.0 +"When for them she must bend the servile knee,",1.0 +And fawning take the blessings once her own.,0.0 +"What need I mention those inclement skies,",1.0 +"Where frequent, over the sickening city, Plague,",2.0 +"The fiercest son of Nemesis divine,",1.0 +"Collects a close, incumbent night of death;",0.0 +"Uninterrupted by the living winds,",3.0 +Forbid to blow a wholesome breeze; and stained,0.0 +"With many a mixture, by the sun suffused,",3.0 +Of angry aspect? Princely Wisdom then,1.0 +"Of drooping Justice, ineffectual, falls",2.0 +"The sword, and balance. Mute the voice of Joy;",0.0 +And hushed the murmur of the busy world.,1.0 +"And ranged at open noon by beasts of prey,",0.0 +And birds of bloody beak. The sullen door,0.0 +"No visit knows, nor hears the wailing voice",1.0 +"And relatives endeared for many a year,",3.0 +"Savaged by woe, forget the social tie,",2.0 +The close engagement of the kindred heart;,1.0 +"And, sick in solitude, successive die,",0.0 +"The scene of desolation, wide around,",0.0 +"Denying all retreat, the grim guards stand,",1.0 +And give the flying wretch a better death.,0.0 +"Much of the force of foreign Summers still,",0.0 +"Of growling hills that shoot the pillared flame,",0.0 +"Of earthquake, and pale famine, could I sing;",6.0 +But equal scenes of horror call me home.,0.0 +"Where sleep the mineral generations, drawn.",0.0 +"Steam, and fermenting in yonder baleful cloud,",4.0 +"Dread through the dun expanse, save the dull sound,",3.0 +"That from the mountain, previous to the storm,",1.0 +"Prone, to the lowest vale, the aerial tribes",2.0 +Dares wing the dubious dusk. In rueful gaze,3.0 +"Cast a deploring eye; by man forsook,",2.0 +Or seeks the shelter of the downward cave.,1.0 +"It's dumb amaze, and listening terror all;",0.0 +When to the quicker eye the livid glance,0.0 +"And, by the powerful breath of God inflate,",3.0 +The thunder raises his tremendous voice;,1.0 +"The lightnings flash a larger curve, and more",0.0 +The noise astounds: till over head a sheet,0.0 +"Of various flame discloses wide, then shuts",2.0 +"And opens wider, shuts and opens still",0.0 +"Follows the loosened, aggravated roar,",2.0 +"Enlarging, deepening, mingling, peal on peal",0.0 +"Down comes a deluge of sonorous hail,",4.0 +"In the white, heavenly magazines congealed;",4.0 +"Ragged, and fierce, or in red whirling balls,",3.0 +"And strikes the shepherd, as he shuddering sits,",3.0 +"Presaging ruin, mid the rocky clift.",2.0 +His live dejected posture still remains;,0.0 +"His russet singed, and rent his hanging hat;",0.0 +Against his crook his sooty cheek reclined;,0.0 +"The talk of future ages; and, below,",1.0 +A lifeless group the blasted cattle lie:,0.0 +"Here the soft flocks, with that same harmless look,",4.0 +The guiltless cottage; and the haughty dome,1.0 +"Stoops to the base. In one immediate flash,",3.0 +"The forest falls; or, flaming out, displays",1.0 +"Scared is the mountain's brow; and from, the cliff",1.0 +"Tumbles the smitten rock. The desert shakes,",2.0 +"And gleams, and grumbles, through his deepest dens.",1.0 +And yet not always on the guilty head,1.0 +Falls the devoted flash. Young Celadon,3.0 +"With equal virtue formed, and equal grace,",0.0 +"The same, distinguished by their sex alone:",1.0 +"Hers the mild lustre of the blooming morn,",3.0 +And his the radiance of the risen day.,2.0 +"They loved. But such their guileless passion was,",2.0 +As in the dawn of time alarmed the heart,0.0 +"'Twas friendship, heightened by the mutual wish,",4.0 +"The enchanting hope, and sympathetic glow,",1.0 +"To love, each was to each a dearer self;",2.0 +Supremely happy in the awakened power,4.0 +"Of given joy. Alone, amid the shades,",0.0 +Still in harmonious intercourse they lived,3.0 +"The rural day, and talked the flowing heart,",0.0 +"Thus passed their life, a clear united stream,",1.0 +"The tempest caught them on the tender walk,",1.0 +"Of the big gloom, on Celadon her eye",2.0 +"Fell tearful, wetting her disordered cheek.",2.0 +"In vain assuring love, and confidence",1.0 +"In heaven repressed her fear; it grew, and shook",0.0 +Her frame near dissolution. He perceived,1.0 +"The unequal conflict, and as angels look",2.0 +"On dying saints, his eyes compassion shed,",0.0 +"With love illumined high. Fear not, he said,",1.0 +"And inward storm! He, who yonder skies involves",0.0 +"In frowns of darkness, ever smiles on thee,",0.0 +With full regard. Over thee the secret shaft,5.0 +"Which thunders terror through the conscious heart,",1.0 +"It's safety to be near thee sure, and thus",1.0 +"To clasp perfection! From his void embrace,",1.0 +"Mysterious heaven! that moment, in a heap",2.0 +"But who can paint the lover, as he stood,",1.0 +"Struck by severe amazement, hating life,",2.0 +"Speechless, and fixed in all the death of woe!",2.0 +"For ever silent, and for ever sad.",1.0 +As from the face of heaven the shattered clouds,1.0 +"Tumultuous rove, the interminable blue,",5.0 +"Delightful swells into the general arch,",0.0 +That copes the nations. Nature from the storm,1.0 +Shines out afresh; and through the lightened air,3.0 +"A higher lustre and a clearer calm,",1.0 +"Of danger past, a glittering robe of joy,",2.0 +"Set off abundant by the level ray,",3.0 +"It's beauty all, and grateful song around,",0.0 +"And shall the hymn be marred by thankless man,",0.0 +Should lead the chorus of this lower world?,1.0 +"Shall ho, so soon forgetful of the hand",1.0 +"That hushed the thunder, and expands the sky,",1.0 +"After the tempest puff his idle vows,",2.0 +"And a new dance of vanity begin,",3.0 +Scarce ever the pant forsake the feeble heart?,3.0 +"Cheered by the setting beam, the sprightly youth",0.0 +A sandy bottom shows. A while he stands,0.0 +To meditate the blue profound below;,0.0 +Then plunges headlong down the circling flood.,2.0 +"At each short breathing by his lip repelled,",2.0 +"With arms and legs according well, he makes,",0.0 +"While, from his polished sides, a dewy light",0.0 +"Runs out the rambling dale that Damon sat,",0.0 +"Thoughtful, and fixed in philosophic muse:",2.0 +"Damon, who still amid the savage woods,",2.0 +"And lonely lawns, the force of beauty scorned,",0.0 +"Firm, and to false philosophy devote.",1.0 +"The brook ran babbling by; and sighing weak,",2.0 +The breeze among the bending willows played:,1.0 +Warm in their cheek the sultry season glowed;,0.0 +"And, robbed in loose array, they came to bathe",0.0 +Their fervent limbs in the refreshing stream.,1.0 +"Another Pallas Musidora seemed,",1.0 +A surer conquest of the sliding heart.,1.0 +"And all one softness, melted on the sense.",1.0 +"Nor Paris panted stronger, when aside",0.0 +"Cast unconfined, and gave him all their charms,",1.0 +"Than, Damon, thou, the stoic now no more,",2.0 +"And slender foot, the inverted silk they drew;",2.0 +"And, through the parting robe, the alternate breast,",2.0 +"When from their naked limbs of glowing white,",0.0 +"And fair exposed they stood, shrunk from themselves;",2.0 +With fancy blushing; at the doubtful breeze,0.0 +"Aroused, and starting, like the fearful fawn.",0.0 +"Her full proportions such, and bashful so",2.0 +Bends ineffectual from the roving eye.,2.0 +Then to the flood they rushed; the plunging fair,0.0 +The parted flood with closing waves received;,0.0 +"Flushing afresh, a mellow lustre shed:",2.0 +As shines the lily through the crystal mild;,1.0 +"Puts on a warmer glow. In various play,",2.0 +But ill concealed; and now with streaming locks,0.0 +Rising again; the latent Damon drew,2.0 +"Such draughts of love and beauty to the soul,",1.0 +"As put his harsh philosophy to flight,",1.0 +"And Musidora fixing in his heart,",1.0 +This is the purest exercise of health.,1.0 +Of accident disastrous. Hence the limbs,1.0 +"Knit into force; and the same Roman arm,",3.0 +"That rose victorious over the conquered earth,",4.0 +"First learnt, while tender, to subdue the wave.",2.0 +"Receives a secret, sympathetic aid.",0.0 +"Low walks the sun, and broadens by degrees,",2.0 +"Just over the verge of day. The rising clouds,",2.0 +"That shift perpetual in his vivid train,",1.0 +Unfold the hidden riches of his ray;,1.0 +And chase a change of colours round the sky.,0.0 +"It's all one blush from east to west! and now,",0.0 +Now half immersed; and now a golden curve,1.0 +"Gives one faint glimmer, and then disappears.",4.0 +"For ever running an enchanted round,",1.0 +"Passes the day, deceitful, tedious, void;",4.0 +"This moment hurrying all the impassioned soul,",2.0 +"The next in nothing lost. It's so to him,",1.0 +A sight of horror to the cruel wretch;,1.0 +"Who, rolling in inhuman pleasure deep,",0.0 +The whole day long has made the widow pine;,1.0 +And snatched the morsel from her orphan's mouth.,1.0 +"To give his dogs. But to the tuneful mind,",1.0 +"Who makes the hopeless heart to sing for joy,",0.0 +"Diffusing kind beneficence around,",1.0 +To him the long review of ordered life,2.0 +"Is inward rapture, only to be felt.",1.0 +A thousand Shadows at her beck. First This,3.0 +She sends on earth; then That of deeper die,0.0 +"Steals soft behind; and then a Deeper still,",1.0 +"In circle following circle, gathers round,",2.0 +To close the face of things. A fresher breeze,0.0 +"Begins to wave the wood, and stir the stream,",0.0 +Sweeping with shadowy gust the fields of corn;,4.0 +"His folded flock secure, the shepherd home",0.0 +"The Beauty, whom perhaps his witless heart,",0.0 +"Of cordial glances, and obliging deeds.",1.0 +"Onward they pass, over many a panting height,",4.0 +"At fall of eve the fairy people throng,",0.0 +"In various game, and revelry to pass",3.0 +But far about they wander from the grave,1.0 +Against himself to lift the hated hand,0.0 +"Of violence; by men cast out from life,",3.0 +"And after death, to which they drove his hope,",0.0 +Into the broad way side. The ruined tower,1.0 +"Is also shunned; whose hoary chambers hold,",0.0 +"Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge,",0.0 +"Twinkles a moving gem. On Evening's heel,",2.0 +"In mantle dun. A faint erroneous ray,",2.0 +"Glanced from the imperfect surfaces of things,",2.0 +Flings half an image on the straining eye.,2.0 +"While wavering woods, and villages, and streams,",3.0 +"And rocks, and mountain-tops, that long retained",0.0 +"The ascending gleam, are all one swimming scene,",1.0 +Doubtful if seen: whence sudden Vision turns,2.0 +"To heaven; where Venus, in the sterry front,",0.0 +"Shines eminent; and from her genial rise,",3.0 +"Sheds influence on earth, to love, and life,",2.0 +And every form of vegetation kind.,0.0 +Across the sky; or horizontal dart,0.0 +"Over half the nations, in a minute's space,",0.0 +"And silence, ever the various talk begin.",4.0 +"The vulgar stare; amazement is their joy,",1.0 +"With piercing eye, into the latent cause;",0.0 +Nor can she swallow what she does not see.,1.0 +"With thee, serene Philosophy! with thee,",2.0 +"And thy high praises, let me crown my song!",2.0 +"Effusive source of evidence, and truth!",3.0 +"A lustre shedding over the ennobled mind,",1.0 +New to the dawning of celestial day.,1.0 +"Hence through her nourished powers, enlarged by thee,",2.0 +"She soaring spurns, with elevated pride,",0.0 +"The tangling mass of cares, and low desires,",0.0 +"The heights of Science, and of Virtue gains,",1.0 +Where all is calm and clear; with Nature round,0.0 +"Or in the starry regions, or the abyss,",3.0 +"The chain of causes and effects to Him,",1.0 +Possesses Being; while the Last receives,0.0 +"And every beauty, delicate or bold,",1.0 +"Obvious or more remote, with livelier sense,",3.0 +"Tutored by thee, hence Poetry exalts",5.0 +Her voice to ages; and informs the page,1.0 +"With music, image, sentiment, and thought,",1.0 +"Never to die! the treasure of mankind,",4.0 +Without thee what were unassisted man?,0.0 +"A savage roaming through the woods and wilds,",1.0 +"And elegance of life. Nor home, nor joy",1.0 +"Domestic, mixed of tenderness and care,",1.0 +"Nor moral excellence, nor social bliss,",1.0 +"Nor law were his; nor property; nor swain,",2.0 +To turn the furrow; nor mechanic hand,1.0 +"Hardened to toil; nor sailor bold; nor trade,",2.0 +Mother severe of infinite delights!,3.0 +Whose horrid circle had made human life,1.0 +"Ours are the plans of policy, and peace;",1.0 +"Ply the tough oar, Philosophy directs,",4.0 +"Of urgent heaven, invisible, the sails",1.0 +"Swells out, and bears the inferior world along.",4.0 +Nor to this evanescent speck of earth,1.0 +"Poorly confined, the radiant tracts on high",2.0 +Are her exalted range; intent to gaze,1.0 +"Creation through; and, from that full complex",2.0 +"Of the sole Being right, who spoke the word,",2.0 +"And nature moved complete. With inward view,",0.0 +Thence on the ideal kingdom swift she turns,5.0 +"Her eye; and instant, at her virtual glance,",2.0 +The obedient phantoms vanish or appear;,4.0 +"Compound, divide, and into order shift,",0.0 +"Each to his rank, from plain perception up",1.0 +To notion quite abstract; where first begins,0.0 +"The world of spirits, action all, and life",0.0 +"Immediate, and unmixed. But here the cloud,",3.0 +"So wills Eternal Providence, sits deep.",2.0 +"Enough for us we know that this dark state,",2.0 +"In wayward passions lost, and vain pursuits,",0.0 +"This infancy of being, cannot prove",1.0 +The final issue of the works of God;,1.0 +And ever rising with the rising mind.,1.0 +"Has generous Thoughts of Liberty inspired,",3.0 +"On You submissive waits, with Hopes assured,",1.0 +"By whom the mighty Blessing stands secured,",0.0 +"And all the Glories, that our Age adorn,",0.0 +Are promised to a People yet unborn.,2.0 +No longer shall the widowed Land bemoan,1.0 +"A broken Lineage, and a doubtful Throne;",1.0 +And count the Pledges of her future Peace.,1.0 +OH Born to strengthen and to grace our Isle!,2.0 +"While You, fair PRINCESS, in your Offspring smile",3.0 +"Supplying Charms to the succeeding Age,",1.0 +Each Heavenly Daughter's Triumphs we presage;,4.0 +"Already see the Illustrious Youths complain,",4.0 +And pity Monarchs doomed to sigh in vain.,1.0 +"Thou too, the Darling of our fond Desires,",1.0 +"Whom Albion, opening wide her Arms, requires,",4.0 +"Shalt quell the Fierce, and captivate the Fair,",1.0 +OH England's younger Hope! in whom conspire,1.0 +"The Mother's Sweetness, and the Father's Fire!",1.0 +"For Thee perhaps, even Now, of Kingly Race",5.0 +"Some dawning Beauty bloom's in every Grace,",0.0 +"Some CAROLINA, to Heaven's Dictates true,",3.0 +"Thy inborn Worth with conscious Eyes shall see,",1.0 +And slight the Imperial Diadem for Thee.,4.0 +"Pleased with the Prospect of successive Reigns,",1.0 +The tuneful Tribe no more in daring Strains,1.0 +"Shall vindicate, with pious Fears oppressed,",1.0 +"Endangered Rights, and Liberty Distressed:",1.0 +"To milder Sounds each Muse shall tune the Lyre,",0.0 +"And Gratitude, and Faith to Kings inspire,",0.0 +"And Filial Love; bid impious Discord cease,",3.0 +"Or rise Ambitious in more lofty Lays,",0.0 +"And teach the Nation their new Monarch's Praise,",3.0 +"Meanwhile, Bright PRINCESS, who, with graceful Ease",2.0 +"And native Majesty, are formed to please,",1.0 +"Behold those Arts with a propitious Eye,",1.0 +"Then shall they Triumph, and the British Stage",1.0 +"Improve her Manners, and refine her Rage,",1.0 +"More noble Characters expose to view,",1.0 +And draw her finished Heroines from You.,4.0 +"Nor You the kind Indulgence will refuse,",2.0 +Through distant Times the lovely Dame conveys.,0.0 +"The Queen still shines, because the Poet sung.",1.0 +"Even all those Graces, in your Frame combined,",0.0 +The common Fate of Mortal Charms may find;,0.0 +"Content Our short-lived Praises to engage,",2.0 +"The Joy and Wonder of a Single Age,",1.0 +Unless some Poet in a lasting Song,0.0 +"To late Posterity their Fame prolong,",1.0 +And see Your Beauty with their Fathers' Eyes.,1.0 +"EXPRESSION, child of soul! I fondly trace",0.0 +"The painter's pencil, catch thy sacred fire,",0.0 +And beauty wakes for thee her touching grace!,1.0 +"When horror cheques thy tear, thy struggling sigh,",0.0 +"When frenzy rolls in thy impassioned eye,",1.0 +Nor ever let my shuddering fancy hear,2.0 +"The wasting groan, or view the pallid look",0.0 +"Of him Chatterton. the muses loved, when hope forsook",1.0 +"His spirit, vainly to the muses dear!",1.0 +"For, charmed with heavenly song, this mournful breast",2.0 +Laments the power of verse could give despair no rest.,3.0 +In double poison ' -- I shall soon arrive,1.0 +"At the blessed island, where no tigers spring",3.0 +"Thrice in each moon; where rivers smoothly glide,",0.0 +Nor thundering torrents whirl the light canoe,2.0 +Down to the sea; where my forefathers feast,3.0 +"Daily on hearts of Spaniards! ' -- OH my son,",2.0 +"I feel the venom busy in my breast,",0.0 +"Approach, and bring my crown, decked with the teeth",2.0 +"The virgins of the sun; and, dire to tell!",1.0 +"I marked the spot where they interred this traitor,",2.0 +"And once at midnight stole I to his tomb,",2.0 +A prey to poisonous flies. Preserve this crown,2.0 +With sacred secrecy: if ever returns,3.0 +"Where, as I hunted late; I hapless lost her,",0.0 +Cherish her age. Tell her I never have worshipped,4.0 +With those that eat their God. And when disease,1.0 +"Preys on her languid limbs, then kindly stab her",0.0 +"With thine own hands, nor suffer her to linger,",2.0 +"Like christian cowards, in a life of pain.",0.0 +Tell me you partial Power that wound our Hearts,2.0 +"Let Nymph and Swain be warmed with equal Fires,",1.0 +Sure you delight to see us fondly crave,2.0 +"Those Joys, some other thankless Wretch must have.",0.0 +"Thus Love the sacred source of Unions crossed,",1.0 +And we perplexed with what should please us most.,1.0 +But am too much concerned not to complain.,3.0 +"Tis I alone, that can his Joys complete.",3.0 +"Yet with proud Scorn his dying Sighs repay,",3.0 +Find all my Softness forced another way.,0.0 +Nor have a Thought but what's entirely his:,1.0 +"Careless of me, he does for Cloe pine,",2.0 +Who slights him; and to Damon does resign.,1.0 +"Gods! tis too hard all Love yet all must part,",2.0 +By some nice Touch turn every other Heart;,2.0 +"But if too cruel to redress us all,",2.0 +"Grant I may please like her, or else she love like me;",1.0 +"For either way will ease my grateful Breast,",0.0 +"TRUE Son of Phoebus, Heir to his Tuneful Quill,",1.0 +"His murdering Arrows, and his healing Skill:",3.0 +"Thy Bills his Medicines are, his Lyre thy Song,",1.0 +"Thine Heart his Quiver, and his Bow thy Tongue:",1.0 +For Schism prevails no more; we love to see,3.0 +Our Words and Lines in Couplings well agree,0.0 +Nor do we thus abhor Conformity.,1.0 +Hymns may be soft and smooth and comely Dressed,0.0 +A Lyric Ode submits to Godly Notes;,1.0 +Harmonious Words no more offend our Throats.,3.0 +"The Spirit, Freedom flows in tuneful Lines,",0.0 +"And Conscience feels the Pleasure, nor complains",1.0 +While pure Devotion sings and ANNE the Indulgent Reigns.,2.0 +"Then, Sir, Submit with Joy thine Iron Style",0.0 +To the soft Polish of a gentle File;,3.0 +The Courteous Muse shines brightest; and it's fit,4.0 +SPEED to his Lute in Artful Numbers sings,0.0 +Melodious; till his Angry Bow he brings,1.0 +"Why boast, OH arrogant, imperious man,",4.0 +Perfection so exclusive? are thy powers,2.0 +"Unknown to woman, if she greatly dares",1.0 +"To use the powers assigned her? Active strength,",2.0 +"The boast of animals, is clearly thine;",2.0 +That female virtues teach; and poor the height,1.0 +Which female wit obtains. The theme unfolds,1.0 +"Its ample maze, for Montagu befriends",0.0 +"The puzzled thought, and, blazing in the eye",0.0 +"Of boldest Opposition, strait presents",0.0 +"The soul's best energies, her keenest powers,",2.0 +"Clear, vigorous, enlightened; with firm wing",4.0 +"Swift she overtakes his Muse, which spread afar",3.0 +Its brightest glories in the days of yore;,0.0 +"Lo! where she, mounting, spurns the steadfast earth,",1.0 +"And, failing on the cloud of science, bears",1.0 +She swift detects amid their dark retreats;,0.0 +"Regains the trophies, bears in triumph back",0.0 +The pilfered glories to a wondering world.,5.0 +"So Stella boasts, from her the tale I learnt;",1.0 +"With pride she told it, I with rapture heard.",1.0 +"OH, Montagu! forgive me, if I sing",2.0 +Thy wisdom tempered with the milder ray,1.0 +"Of soft humanity, and kindness bland:",1.0 +"So wide its influence, that the bright beams",2.0 +"Reach the low vale where mists of ignorance lodge,",5.0 +"Strike on the innate spark which lay immersed,",4.0 +Unwelcome is the first bright dawn of light,2.0 +"To the dark soul; impatient, she rejects,",3.0 +"Confused, afraid of the intruding guest;",1.0 +"Disturbed, unwilling to receive the beam,",1.0 +Which to herself her native darkness shows.,1.0 +The effort rude to quench the cheering flame,0.0 +"Was mine, and even on Stella could I gaze",3.0 +"With sullen envy, and admiring pride,",1.0 +"Till, doubly roused by Montagu, the pair",0.0 +"Conspire to clear my dull, imprisoned sense,",2.0 +And chase the mists which dimmed my visual beam.,2.0 +"Oft as I trod my native wilds alone,",0.0 +"Strong gusts of thought would rise, but rise to die;",1.0 +"The portals of the swelling soul, never opened",4.0 +"By liberal converse, rude ideas strove",0.0 +"Awhile for vent, but found it not, and died.",0.0 +"Majestic ocean, flowery vales, gay groves,",3.0 +To all the transport the rapt sense can bear;,2.0 +"But all expired, for want of powers to speak;",2.0 +"All perished in the mind as soon as born,",0.0 +"Such timid rapture as young See the Minstrel. Edwin seized,",2.0 +"When his lone footsteps on the Sage obtrude,",1.0 +"Whose noble precept charmed his wondering ear,",3.0 +"When the bright Moralist, in softness dressed,",3.0 +"Opens all the glories of the mental world,",1.0 +"Deigns to direct the infant thought, to prune",2.0 +"Of feeble fancy, bid idea live,",0.0 +"Woo the abstracted spirit from its cares,",4.0 +And gently guide her to the scenes of peace.,1.0 +"Mine was that balm, and mine the grateful heart,",2.0 +"Which breathes its thanks in rough, but timid strains.",0.0 +"O! formed by nature, and refined by art,",1.0 +"With charms to win, and sense to fix the heart!",0.0 +"Thy crowd of captives, and descend to me?",1.0 +"Content in shades obscure to waste thy life,",0.0 +"OH! listen while thy summers are my theme,",2.0 +"In some small hamlet on the lonely plain,",2.0 +"Or where high Windsor, thick with greens arrayed,",1.0 +"Waves his old oaks, and spreads his ample shade,",3.0 +Fancy has figured out our calm retreat;,3.0 +Already round the visionary seat,0.0 +"Our limes begin to shoot, our flowers to spring,",1.0 +"The brooks to murmur, and the birds to sing.",1.0 +"Thou nameless lawn, and village yet unseen?",0.0 +"Where sons, contented with their native ground,",1.0 +"And the tanned peasant, and his ruddy bride,",3.0 +"Were born together, and together died.",1.0 +"'Midst gardens here my humble pile shall rise,",1.0 +With sweets surrounded of ten thousand dies;,2.0 +"All savage where the embroidered gardens end,",2.0 +The haunt of echoes shall my woods ascend;,0.0 +"And o! if heaven the ambitious thought approve,",2.0 +"A rill shall warble cross the gloomy grove,",0.0 +"Gush down the steep, and glitter through the glade.",1.0 +What cheering scents those bordering banks exhale!,2.0 +How loud that heifer lows from yonder vale!,0.0 +"That thrush, how shrill! his note so clear, so high,",0.0 +He drowns each feathered minstrel of the sky.,1.0 +"Or fetch the fluttering partridge from the skies,",3.0 +"Nor shall thy hand disdain to crop the vine,",0.0 +"Or rob the beehive of its golden hoard,",2.0 +"Sometime my books by day shall kill the hours,",1.0 +"While from thy needle rise the silken flowers,",0.0 +"And, thou by turns to ease my feeble sight,",1.0 +"Resume the volume, and deceive the night.",1.0 +"O! when I mark thy twinkling eyes oppressed,",0.0 +"Soft whispering, let me warn my love to rest;",3.0 +"Then watch thee, charmed, while sleep locks every sense,",1.0 +And to sweet heaven commend thy innocence.,3.0 +"Thus reigned our fathers over the rural fold,",3.0 +"Wise, hale, and honest, in the days of old;",1.0 +"Till courts arose, where substance pays for show,",0.0 +The ear that wears them hears a fool each night:,0.0 +"Mark how the embroidered colonel sneaks away,",1.0 +To shun the withering dame that made him gay;,2.0 +"That knave, to gain a title, lost his fame;",0.0 +That raised his credit by a daughter's shame;,1.0 +"Fond man, as all his sorrows were too few,",3.0 +Acquires strange wants that nature never knew.,3.0 +"And sleeps perverse, the cheerful suns away;",0.0 +Round his closed sight the gorgeous curtain slide;,3.0 +"Fruits, ere their time, to grace his pomp must rise,",1.0 +"For this are nature's gentle calls withstood,",1.0 +"The voice of conscience, and the bonds of blood;",1.0 +"This wisdom thy reward for every pain,",1.0 +And this gay glory all thy mighty gain.,2.0 +"Fair phantoms wooed and scorned from age to age,",1.0 +"And yet, just curse on man's aspiring kind,",0.0 +"Prone to ambition, to example blind,",3.0 +"Our children's children shall our steps pursue,",0.0 +And the same errors be for ever new.,2.0 +"Mean while, in hope a guiltless country swain,",0.0 +"Hail humble shades, where truth and silence dwell!",1.0 +"Farewell ambition, once my darling flame!",1.0 +"My days, though numbered, shall be all my own.",0.0 +"Here shall they end, OH might they twice begin,",1.0 +And all be white the fates intend to spin.,0.0 +"Bonds for the Mouse, first who the tiny thief",1.0 +"In prison closed vexatious ' -- fatal wiles,",0.0 +Inspire the Song; and amongst the Cambrian Hills,4.0 +Whom lowly themes and humble verse delight.,0.0 +Wherever his lust innate of spoil led on;,4.0 +"Felt his fell tooth, while safe in nimble speed",3.0 +"Evasive, he in every dainty dish",1.0 +"But every feast wailed the domestic foe,",2.0 +"Nor doors robust, to save the luscious cates:",0.0 +"Through walls, and bars, and doors he eats his way",0.0 +"Thus wailed the helpless world the general foe,",1.0 +Most stimulate the curious taste of Mouse:,2.0 +"The fate of common cheese, he undermines",0.0 +And hollows with reiterated tooth,1.0 +And raged ' -- Revenge and grief distract their minds ' --,0.0 +"What should they do? They foam, they gnash their teeth,",0.0 +"And over their pendant rocks in fury rove,",2.0 +Restless with rage ' -- for Nature prone to rage,2.0 +Burst into sudden flame ' -- that men would deem,1.0 +It is decreed ' -- Rage prompts them to revenge,3.0 +"What art the cautious felon to ensnare,",1.0 +"Nor to the house defence, nor in distress",1.0 +Oft had the Cat placed at the cavern's mouth,2.0 +Kept wary watch ' -- In vain ' -- The little Mouse,1.0 +"In little bulk secure, advantage great",0.0 +Over a Giant Foe! if chance he spy,2.0 +"Her watching at his door intent on prey,",0.0 +"Inward he flies, his serpentine recess",2.0 +"Pursues, and caves impervious to Cat:",1.0 +"Nor dares again thrust out his head in air,",2.0 +"Nor form new sallies, till the siege be raised,",2.0 +And danger with the watchful foe withdrawn.,1.0 +"We may compare, when Roman JULIUS sought",1.0 +"To join the Britons to the world subdued,",1.0 +Eluded his vain toil. ' -- To their retreat,3.0 +"At once a nation vanished; in their rocks,",0.0 +' Mid circling ruin; and of conquest though,3.0 +"Their long, unbroken lineage hence they boast,",2.0 +"Thus did the Mouse, by custom tutored, oft",0.0 +Had hope from their confederate of the war:,1.0 +"When strait, on the utmost frontiers of their Land,",2.0 +"Of her divided mitre, of whose walls",2.0 +Behold a Council summonsed. From each side,1.0 +"See Nobles, Fathers, and the vulgar throng",2.0 +Whose length of beard oft from his native hills,2.0 +"The goat with envy eyed; his hands, his face",0.0 +"Broken with years, against a post reclined,",2.0 +By Cambrian backs still shaken in the mid,3.0 +"Stood visible to all, and with deep tone",3.0 +"These words precipitating, guttural spoke.",2.0 +"Of open war we treat not, but sly theft ' --",1.0 +"No foreign foe, but a too inmate guest",3.0 +That heavier evil summons us to meet.,3.0 +"The tyrant Mouse? Rouse, awful Fathers, rouse;",1.0 +By counsel end these horrors; and if aught,1.0 +"Of hope remain, now lend propitious aid:",1.0 +"So shall your glory grow, your names be known",0.0 +"He spoke, and strait the fragments, mouldy scraps,",0.0 +"Now thirst of dire revenge, now lust of fame",2.0 +And every brain is hammering on a TRAP.,1.0 +"Of TAFFY famed, far more for wit renowned:",1.0 +"Cambria never bred his peer, whether at forge,",6.0 +Or council; Senator and Blacksmith He.,3.0 +"Thus began the Sage ' -- Should Cheese, our Nation's boast,",0.0 +"In Cambria be extinct, I fear our hinds",2.0 +"Would mourn their whole meals sunk, and Nobles grieve",1.0 +"Against the monsters can prevail, we'll try",1.0 +"If this mechanic hand, if craft, deceit,",1.0 +Can aught advantage: in a foe none asks,1.0 +"All fix on TAFFY their expecting eyes,",1.0 +"All in glad murmurs speak their promised joy,",1.0 +"Wait whence the bliss; question, and burn to know.",5.0 +"Scratching his head, as British heads demand,",2.0 +"He ghastly smiled, and strait with freer air",0.0 +"Proceeded thus ' -- When wearied, at the close",0.0 +"Bold and pursuing, as I guess, the trail,",3.0 +Which unconnected Cheese recent exhaled,5.0 +"From out my viscous jaws, stole down my mouth",3.0 +"My very entrails, strait their crude contents",0.0 +"When sudden roused from sleep, in his retreat",1.0 +"I betwixt my teeth the felon snapped, and bound",1.0 +Vainly rebellious in the biting chain.,2.0 +"Instructed thus that Mouse might be enthralled,",0.0 +"In my revolving mind, and such restraints,",2.0 +As the late captive of my jaws suggests.,3.0 +The chain of causes acts! the Mouse himself,0.0 +And for the wounds he gave himself prescribes.,1.0 +Blush not by such a master to improve;,2.0 +"These said, homeward he his. The applauding throng",4.0 +"Accompany his rout, and to his toil",2.0 +Propitious omens beg. Each to his house,1.0 +Glad harbinger of this expected birth,3.0 +While to the Gods for glad event they bend,0.0 +The matron's hand dances the embryo cheese.,6.0 +"TAFFY mean while with head, and hand, and heart,",0.0 +"Plies his great work, with PALLAS' aid divine",3.0 +The MOUSE-TRAP builds. A wonderful machine,2.0 +Now stood confessed; and form till then unknown,1.0 +The Tragi-comic edifice endued.,1.0 +"Now smile, sweet Muse, and to our sight disclose",3.0 +The infant fabric; each particular,1.0 +"Dilate, and join them in the finished pile.",0.0 +Of oblong form twin planks of wood compose,1.0 +The base and roof; a wiry palisade,0.0 +"Fences each side, on whose small columns raised",3.0 +The fabric stands: the insi'dious gate invites,4.0 +"Depending from a slender thread, the vast",1.0 +"Such is the thread of life, spun by the FATES",3.0 +To Mouse and Man ' -- All on a thread depend.,1.0 +Amid the level roof shoots up a mast,2.0 +"Erect, in whose cleft head a slender beam",1.0 +"Transverse inserted plays, and on each side",1.0 +Extends its poised arms; whose one extreme,3.0 +"Exalts. Within, let through a slender bore,",2.0 +A wire depends that fluctuates with a touch;,0.0 +"The lower part is cramped into a hook,",0.0 +Tenacious of the bait; while the upper gripes,1.0 +But soon as ever it feels the foe to have touched,2.0 +"The fatal food, the loosened portal strait",0.0 +"TAFFY with treason clothes, and turns to death",2.0 +"The very food of Mouse: but, that his cheese",0.0 +"More fragrant may from far the Foe invite,",1.0 +"Toasts the fell bait, and strengthens the perfume.",4.0 +"And now appeared the memorable night,",1.0 +When on his bed TAFFY his limbs fatigued,5.0 +"The frolic Mice, a tribe audacious they",1.0 +"Safe in the covert of the silent night,",1.0 +"Now sport abroad: when one, a leader Mouse,",2.0 +"The hostile ambush seeks, led by the scent",3.0 +Of toasted cheese delicious. The Grate resists,2.0 +"His swift career, and entrance first denies ' --",0.0 +"But he, to suffer such severe repulse",2.0 +"Indignant, round the wiry fortress scours,",0.0 +"A pass explores; and entered now the lines,",0.0 +"Impassable again, of all his wish",1.0 +"At length possessed, the deadly bait secures,",0.0 +"Feasts on his ruin, and enjoys his fate.",1.0 +"TAFFY, whom strait the pendulous door, scarce dropped,",5.0 +"Now on his elbow propped, now from his bed",3.0 +"Skipping triumphant, fired with thirst to know",4.0 +What newcome guest. The Mouse ridiculous,1.0 +"Rages within, batters with front and foot,",7.0 +"Proves with his head each wiry interval,",1.0 +And wears with raging tooth his iron hold.,0.0 +"Horrid, and shakes his waving bonds, the sport",2.0 +"Of circling dogs; he flings about his foam,",0.0 +And on his front erect the bristles stare.,1.0 +In every ear the novel tale was rife ' --,0.0 +"Nor wonder, for the Ass, his solemn wont",1.0 +"Relaxed, nor mindful of his late slow pace,",2.0 +The mountain climbs more wanton than the kid:,1.0 +"Thence with sonorous din from rusty throat,",2.0 +"The Cambrian Herald simulating, thrice",2.0 +"And utmost limits wandering wild that night,",3.0 +"She scratched the windows with her ominous beak,",3.0 +"Grating harsh dissonance, and sung in shrieks",4.0 +In swarms condensed rush down; and whom the walls,2.0 +"For their prophetic bard, MERLIN; and whom",6.0 +"The crowded ring, his raging prey insults.",0.0 +"Vain are thy efforts ' -- fixed thy doom of death,",0.0 +"On this my altar the first victim thou,",4.0 +To die with memorable blood the frame.,1.0 +No hope remains: thy flight these wiry posts,1.0 +"Inexorable bar ' -- Dread, wicked wight,",3.0 +The fate thy merits ask; for these thy bonds,1.0 +"Scarce had he spoke, when from the sunny thatch,",1.0 +"She basks luxurious, winking in soft ease,",3.0 +Down leaped the playful Cat. ' -- Her swift approach,0.0 +"The captive eyes, and pricks his ears, and stiff",0.0 +"Of freedom only in his prison fixed,",0.0 +Tenacious by his feet ' -- At length he drops,1.0 +And savage kisses on her struggling foe,1.0 +Denotes the Victor's joy; her body moves,0.0 +Prone on the earth intent the destined Mouse;,0.0 +"To tear him limb from limb. The Mouser thus,",0.0 +"Witty in tyranny, with various art",4.0 +"Wanton barbarity enjoys: but now,",3.0 +"Conceals her rage, but over her trembling prey",2.0 +"Like the starved lion hangs, and growling tears",2.0 +"His gory entrails, and convulsive limbs.",1.0 +"The circling crowd, soon as his hated blood",2.0 +"Sprinkled they spy, fill with glad shouts the air;",5.0 +"And ECHO, tenant of the Cambrian hills,",3.0 +"To the neighbouring stars the loud acclaim ascends,",2.0 +"TAFFY, for ever live ' -- Even to this day",6.0 +Thy gift the Cambrian celebrates; and Thee,2.0 +Commemorates each circling year. The land,0.0 +Each joyful head crowns redolent with Leek.,2.0 +"THE sons of man, by various passions led,",2.0 +The paths of business or of pleasure tread;,1.0 +"The florist views his dear carnation rise,",0.0 +"The lover sees, unmoved, each gaudy streak,",0.0 +"While some grow pale over Newton, Locke, or Boyle,",1.0 +"Miss reads romances, and my lady Hoyle;",2.0 +"Thus inclination binds her fetters strong,",1.0 +"And, just as judgement marks, we're right or wrong.",0.0 +"Fair are those hills where sacred laurels grow,",0.0 +Ruled by the power who draws the golden bow;,2.0 +"But see how few attain the dangerous road,",2.0 +How few are born to feel the inspiring god!,2.0 +"Yet all, to reach the arduous summit try,",2.0 +"Among the rest, your friend attempts to climb,",0.0 +"The midnight bard, reciting to his bell,",2.0 +"Who breaks our rest, and tolls the muses knell,",0.0 +"As he a Raphael, who, on alehouse sign,",2.0 +"Seats his bold George in attitude so quaint,",3.0 +That none can tell the dragon from a saint.,1.0 +"Reckon each sand in wide New-market plain,",3.0 +"Mount yonder blue vault, and count the starry train;",4.0 +But numbers never can comprehend the throng,2.0 +Of retail dealers in the art of song.,1.0 +"Like summer flies they blot the solar ray,",0.0 +"And, like their brother insects, live a day.",1.0 +"To know my wants, yet wage unequal war?",0.0 +"I own I am; and dabbling thus in rhyme,",1.0 +"Write off the raging fit, and all is well.",0.0 +"And yet, perhaps, to lose my time this way",0.0 +Is better far than some misspend the day.,0.0 +What ward can tax me with a deed unjust?,1.0 +"Some few except, whom pride and folly blind,",0.0 +"I found them chaff, and give them to the wind",1.0 +"Like a poor bird, and one of meanest wing,",2.0 +"Around my cage I flutter, hop, and sing.",0.0 +"Unlike in this my brothers of the bays,",2.0 +"I sue for pardon, and they hope for praise;",1.0 +"And when for verse I find my genius warm,",0.0 +"Like infants sent to school, I keep from harm.",0.0 +"Cleaves the parched earth, and sinks the silver Thames;",3.0 +"A poet he, and singing all his trade",1.0 +"Tears his small throat, I brave the sultry ray,",3.0 +"Thrice blessed the man, who, shielded from the beam,",2.0 +Sings lays melodious to the sacred stream;,2.0 +"Thrice blessed the stream, who views his banks of flowers,",1.0 +"Crowned with the Muse's or imperial towers,",3.0 +"Health to my friend, and to his partner, peace,",1.0 +"A good long life, and moderate increase;",1.0 +"May Dulwich garden double treasures share,",1.0 +"Fan the dear innocent; you fairies, keep",4.0 +"Nor in the cradle, while your tricks you play,",0.0 +"However chance may chalk his future fate,",1.0 +"Or doom his manhood to be rich or great,",2.0 +"Is not our care; o, let the guiding power",0.0 +"Decide that point, who rules the natal hour;",0.0 +"Nor shall we seek, for knowledge to enrich,",1.0 +"The Delphic tripod, or your Norwood witch.",2.0 +"But Tucker doubts, and if not rich, he cries,",1.0 +How can the boy reward the good and wife?,1.0 +"Give him but gold, and merit never shall freeze,",1.0 +But rise from want to affluence and ease:,1.0 +The patriot's bust shall speak the sculptor's art;,2.0 +"The Muse he may admire, but never reward.",3.0 +"All this I grant; but does it follow then,",0.0 +That parts have drawn regard from wealthy men?,0.0 +Did Gay receive the tribute of the great?,1.0 +"No, let his tomb be witness of his fate:",2.0 +The rich of all times ever were alike.,2.0 +"See him, whose lines in a fine frenzy roll,",2.0 +"He comes to tear, to harrow up the soul;",1.0 +My eyeballs darken at excess of light;,1.0 +"How my heart dances to his magic strain,",3.0 +"It's his to rouse, to calm, to cure, to wound;",1.0 +"To mould the yielding bosom to his will,",1.0 +"Oppressed by fortune, all her ills he bore,",0.0 +"Hear this you Muses, and be vain no more.",2.0 +"Yet what availed his sweet descriptive power,",0.0 +"The fairy warrior, or enchanted bower?",1.0 +"Loved by the learnt Sir Walter Raleigh. shepherd of the main,",2.0 +"If still you doubt, consult some well known friend,",1.0 +"Let Ellis speak, to him you oft attend,",2.0 +"Known by the God, by all the Muses known.",0.0 +"Where tower his hills, where stretch his lengths of vale,",2.0 +"Say, where his heifers load the smoky pail?",0.0 +"O may this grateful verse my debt repay,",1.0 +"If aught I know, he showed the arduous way;",2.0 +"Since then I scribbled, and must scribble still,",1.0 +His word was once a sanction to my will;,1.0 +"And I'll persist till he resume the pen,",1.0 +"Then shrink contented, and never rhyme again.",2.0 +"Yet, ere I take my leave, I have to say,",0.0 +"That while in sleep my senses wasted lay,",0.0 +"Worked on my drowsy lids, and formed a dream;",0.0 +"Then to my lines a due attention keep,",0.0 +"For oft when poets dream, their readers sleep.",0.0 +"On a wide champion, where the surges beat",3.0 +Over which a yew her baleful branches spread;,0.0 +"No village cur here bayed the cloudless moon,",1.0 +"No golden sunshine cheered the hazy noon,",2.0 +"But ghosts of men by love of gold betrayed,",0.0 +In silence glided through the dreary shade.,1.0 +"There sat pale Grief in melancholy state,",1.0 +"And brooding Care was trusted with the gate,",1.0 +An old man lay in golden fillet bound;,4.0 +"His eyes were fiery red, his shoulders bare;",2.0 +"Down furrowed cheeks hot tears had worn their way,",1.0 +"A weighty ingot in his hand he pressed,",0.0 +Nor seemed to feel the viper at his breast.,0.0 +"Lay minted coinage, and historic gold; Medals.",5.0 +And streams of silver formed a precious flood.,0.0 +"On nails, suspended rows of pearls were seen,",0.0 +Who joy luxurious swelling all her soul,2.0 +Quaffed the vast price of empires in her bowl.,3.0 +"As seas voracious swallow up the land,",1.0 +"As raging flames eternal food demand,",0.0 +"Nor shall we wonder when his name I tell,",0.0 +"'Twas Avarice, the eldest born of hell.",2.0 +"But, hark! what noise breaks in upon my tale,",1.0 +"Be hushed each sound, and whisper every gale;",0.0 +"You croaking rooks your noisy flight suspend,",0.0 +Guessed I not right how all my toil would end?,0.0 +My heavy rhymes have jaded Tucker quite;,0.0 +"He yawns ' -- he nods ' -- he snores. Good night, good night.",0.0 +"To dream of Dinners, but to feed on Praise;",1.0 +"Receive this Counsel, ever your Flights begin,",2.0 +From one long practised in the darling Sin.,2.0 +"Yet, Friend, be careful; it's a dangerous Sea:",3.0 +Where though some few may reach the happy Land,0.0 +Numbers are wrecked upon the treacherous Sand:,4.0 +Nor once indulge them in a thirst of Praise;,0.0 +"For Fame, like Fortune, proud, yet wanton too",0.0 +Is pleased to fly and make the Wretch pursue;,0.0 +"Frowns on her Slaves, but to the careless Mind",1.0 +That slights her Favours she is always kind.,0.0 +Would you the Ladies should approve your Song?,0.0 +Or blooming Daphne more divinely fair;,0.0 +And tag each Stanza with a bleeding Heart:,1.0 +"Tell them of Rocks where Tears eternal flow,",0.0 +Dissolved to Fountains by a Lover's Woe:,1.0 +And Sighs much stronger than a southern Breeze.,1.0 +"Perhaps the Fair, whom for a Theme you choose,",1.0 +"Sunk down her Cheeks, or drawn her Lips awry?",0.0 +"No matter how the twisted Features stand,",2.0 +"Though her dim Eyeballs roll within her Head,",4.0 +Like two grey Bullets in a Verge of red;,1.0 +"Do you the Levee of his Grace attend,",1.0 +"And like most Poets should you want a Friend,",0.0 +Make not his Worth the Measure of your Song;,1.0 +"But learn his Humour, and you can't be wrong:",0.0 +Perhaps this Maxim may offend the wise;,1.0 +"But you must flatter, if you mean to rise:",2.0 +"Observe what Passions in his Bosom roll,",0.0 +And watch the secret Motions of his Soul:,1.0 +"Mind what false Guard has left a Breach within,",3.0 +"For some choice Folly, or some darling Sin:",2.0 +"These you must hide ' -- but draw his Virtues nigh,",1.0 +Lest the rude Picture shock the gazing Eye.,2.0 +And look you find no Pimps nor Tailors there:,2.0 +Shut up the Peasants in their mouldy Graves:,0.0 +Arthur's round Table will supply your Need.,3.0 +No more ' -- for I as many Teachers do,1.0 +Show my own Folly by instructing you;,2.0 +And you perhaps disdain my wholesome Rules;,1.0 +So saucy Pupils count their Masters Fools:,0.0 +"But should your Pride the common Track refuse,",0.0 +Still you may scribble on; and in the End,1.0 +"Be just as rich as ' -- Sir, your humble Friend.",0.0 +"NO Cautions of a Matron, Old and Sage",2.0 +"But forth the Offspring of her Bed would go,",2.0 +"Nor reason gave, but that he would do so.",0.0 +"Much Counsel was, at parting, thrown away,",1.0 +"Who followed him with utmost reach of Sight,",2.0 +"Then, lost in Tears, and in abandoned Plight,",0.0 +"Turned to her mournful Cell, and bid the World Good-Night.",0.0 +"In little time the Vagrant homeward brought,",0.0 +"Raised in his Mind, and mended in his Dress,",0.0 +"Who the Bel-air did every way confess,",3.0 +"Had learnt to flower his Wigg, nor brushed away",2.0 +"The falling Meal, that on his Shoulders lay;",1.0 +"Took Snuff, and could the Government reform.",2.0 +"The Mother, weeping from Maternal Love,",1.0 +"To see him thus prodigiously improve,",1.0 +"Expected mighty Changes too, within,",0.0 +"And Wisdom to avoid the Cat, and Gin.",1.0 +"Whom did you chiefly note, Sweetheart, quoth she,",3.0 +Of all the Strangers you abroad did see?,1.0 +"Who graced you most, or did your Fancy take?",0.0 +"The younger Rat then cursed a noisy Rake,",0.0 +That barred the best Acquaintance he could make;,1.0 +"And scared him so, he trembled every Part;",1.0 +"Nor to describe him, scarce could have the Heart",1.0 +"High on his Feet quoth he himself he bore,",2.0 +"And terribly, in his own Language, swore;",2.0 +"A feathered Arm came out from either Side,",2.0 +"Which loud he clapped, and Combatants defied,",4.0 +And certainly his Head with Wounds was sore;,1.0 +"For That, and both his Cheeks a Sanguine Colour wore.",1.0 +"Near Him there lay the Creature I admired,",1.0 +And for a Friend by Sympathy desired:,2.0 +"His Make, like Ours, as far as Tail and Feet,",0.0 +With Coat of Furr in parallel do meet;,0.0 +"Yet seeming of a more exalted Race,",1.0 +"A purring Sound composed his gentle Mind,",0.0 +"Whose soft, contracted Paw lay calmly still,",1.0 +"As if unused to prejudice, or kill.",2.0 +"I paused a while, to meditate a Speech,",0.0 +And now was stepping just within his reach;,0.0 +"When that rude Clown began his hectoring Cry,",3.0 +"And made me for my Life, and from the Attempt to fly.",2.0 +"To scour the Plain, and be of Life afraid.",0.0 +"Thou base, degenerate Seed of injured Rats,",2.0 +"At this expense of Time, and Travel know?",1.0 +"Alas! that swearing, staring, bullying Thing,",2.0 +Who serves the early Household for a Clock.,2.0 +"And We his Oats, and Barley often steal,",1.0 +"Nor sear, he should revenge the pilfered Meal:",1.0 +"While that demure, and seeming harmless Puss",0.0 +"Be here, my Son, content to Dress and Dine,",0.0 +And neighbouring Vermin with false Gloss outshine,5.0 +"To learn a paltry Song, or antic Dance;",0.0 +"With Mysteries, from Shops and Tailors wrecked",1.0 +But what may prejudice their Native Land;,1.0 +"Whose Troops are raising, or whose Fleet is manned,",1.0 +"Never moves their Thoughts, nor do they understand",0.0 +"Might keep at home, and brood on Sloth and Ease:",0.0 +"While Others, more adapted to the Age,",1.0 +"May vigorously in Warlike Feats engage,",4.0 +"And live on foreign Spoils, or dying thin the Stage.",0.0 +"YOUR shape, your lips, your eyes are still the same,",0.0 +Still the bright object of my constant flame;,0.0 +"But where is now the tender glance, that stole",0.0 +With gentle sweetness my enchanted soul?,1.0 +"Kind fears, impatient wishes, soft desires,",1.0 +"Each melting charm that love alone inspires,",0.0 +"These, these are lost; and I behold no more",3.0 +"The maid, my heart delighted to adore.",1.0 +"Yet still unchanged, still doting to excess,",2.0 +I ought but dare not try to love you less;,0.0 +But not unpunished shall your change remain;,0.0 +"For you, cold maid, whom no complaints can move,",2.0 +"Were far more blessed, when you like me could love.",0.0 +"IN this small work, all nature's wonders see,",3.0 +The softened features of philosophy.,2.0 +"In truth by easy steps you here advance,",0.0 +"Truth is diverting, as the best romance.",3.0 +"Long had these arts to sages been confined,",0.0 +"None saw their beauty, till by poring blind;",2.0 +"By studying spent, like men that cram too full,",3.0 +"The gay and airy smiled to see them grave,",0.0 +"Justly they thought they might those arts despise,",2.0 +"Which made men sullen, ere they could be wise.",1.0 +"Brought down to sight, with ease you view them here;",0.0 +"Though deep the bottom, yet the stream is clear.",0.0 +Your fluttering sex still valued science less;,3.0 +Careless of any but the arts of dress.,3.0 +Their useless time was idly thrown away,0.0 +"On empty novels, or some newborn play;",1.0 +"The best, perhaps, a few loose hours might spare",1.0 +With mingling blazes shed a flood of light:,0.0 +Each nymph with cold indifference saw them rise;,0.0 +"None thought the stars were suns so widely sown,",1.0 +"None dreamt of other worlds, besides our own.",1.0 +"Well might they boast their charms, when every fair",0.0 +Thought this world all; and hers the brightest here.,1.0 +"Ah! quit not the large thoughts this book inspires,",3.0 +For those thin trifles which your sex admires:,2.0 +"Assert your claim to sense, and show mankind,",1.0 +That reason is not to themselves confined.,2.0 +"Who thought so greatly of her eyes before,",1.0 +"Bid her read this, and then be vain no more.",1.0 +"How poor even you, who reign without control,",3.0 +If we except the beauties of your soul!,2.0 +"Should all who see you, see you with my eyes;",1.0 +Were no sick blasts to make that beauty less;,1.0 +"Could you be what I think, what all confess:",0.0 +It's but a narrow space those charms engage;,1.0 +"The island only, and not half an age!",1.0 +"SWEET, placid Spirit! blessed, supremely blessed,",3.0 +"Whose life was tranquil, and whose end was rest;",1.0 +"It's not for thee our general tears shall flow,",1.0 +"Our loss is selfish, selfish is our woe:",1.0 +"We mourn a common parent, common friend,",0.0 +"Centre, round whom thy children loved to bend:",0.0 +"Where hands divided, met again to move",0.0 +In one sweet circle of united love:,3.0 +"So prompt to aid, and share the sufferer's part;",0.0 +"The liberal hand, the kindly patient ear,",0.0 +"The graceful form, yet lovely in decay,",0.0 +"The lip of tenderness that soothed the sad,",1.0 +And loved to bid the innocent be glad;,1.0 +"The gently, softening, reconciling word,",0.0 +"The ever cheerful, hospitable board:",5.0 +"The unassuming wisdom, pious prayers,",0.0 +"The still renewed, prolonged, maternal cares:",0.0 +"All ' -- all are lost! ' -- of thee, blessed Saint, bereft,",2.0 +"We mourn, to whom impoverished life is left:",0.0 +"Mourn for ourselves! Secure thy lot must be,",1.0 +With those who pure in heart their God shall see.,1.0 +"TO me his sighs, to me are all his vows,",2.0 +"We burn alike, but o the distant bliss,",1.0 +A view of that my greatest torment is;,2.0 +Such heated crimes as yet did never rest,0.0 +"Within my Soul, must now unjustly keep",0.0 +"Me from my Heaven would they may sink as deep,",1.0 +"As that black Chaos whence they sprung, and leave",1.0 +Those mortals wretched which they now deceive.,0.0 +"Return, brave Youth! suspend thy Martial Fire,",1.0 +"Nor, like great Berwick, in the Field expire.",1.0 +Illustrious Exile! thou art gone at last;,2.0 +"Thy Toils, and various Dangers now are past:",2.0 +Is now poured out on hostile Germane Plains:,5.0 +"But though in Dust thy mortal Part be laid,",1.0 +"Though to a foreign Prince's Service tied,",1.0 +"You lived with Glory, and with Glory died.",1.0 +"MUSE, look not back, nor vainly mourn the Fate,",1.0 +Which robbed Britannia of an Arm so great.,1.0 +On the sad Scene may Princes turn their Eye;,2.0 +And from Oppression's fatal Footsteps fly;,2.0 +"Of arbitrary Power the Danger see,",2.0 +To British Monarchs the forbidden Tree;,2.0 +"Which, like the first, forbid by Power divine,",2.0 +"Hurts not themselves alone, but taints their Line.",1.0 +Nor yet by War alone exalt thy Name;,0.0 +Give Science her hereditary Claim:,2.0 +"Return, brave Youth! your longing Country grace;",1.0 +"Think what you owe Britannia, and your Race.",1.0 +Whoever thou art whom chance or choice may bring,1.0 +"To these fair groves of venerable shade,",3.0 +"The group of tall elms and the silver spring,",2.0 +Blame not the man who these his choice has made.,1.0 +"Hast thou not heard, that in a venal age",0.0 +Wise Scipio from the walls of Rome retired;,2.0 +"And scenes the oftener viewed, the more admired.",2.0 +"Silent, like him, oft let me range the wood,",3.0 +Winds through delightful meads its crystal way:,2.0 +While days of tranquil Solitude are mine!,0.0 +"Muse of my Spenser, who so well could sing",0.0 +"The passions all, their bearings and their ties;",1.0 +"Who could in view those shadowy beings bring,",2.0 +"And with bold hand remove each dark disguise,",2.0 +"Wherein love, hatred, scorn, or anger lies:",1.0 +"Guide him to Fairyland, who now intends",0.0 +"That way his flight; assist him as he flies,",1.0 +"To mark those passions, Virtue's foes and friends,",0.0 +"Yes! they appear, I see the fairy train!",2.0 +And who that modest nymph of meek address?,0.0 +"Not Vanity, though loved by all the vain;",1.0 +"Not Hope, though promising to all success;",1.0 +"Not Mirth, nor Joy, though foe to all distress;",0.0 +"Thy birth relate, thy soothing arts confess;",0.0 +"IT is not in thy mild nature to refuse,",6.0 +"Dwelled, in the house of Care, a sturdy swain;",0.0 +Looked to the pittance that repaid his toil,0.0 +And to a master left the mingled joy,1.0 +And anxious care that followed his employ:,1.0 +"Sullen and patient he at once appeared,",3.0 +"As one who murmured, yet as one who feared;",2.0 +"The attire was coarse that clothed his sinewy frame,",5.0 +"Rude his address, and Poverty his name.",3.0 +"In that same plain a nymph, of curious taste,",3.0 +A cottage planned with all her skill had placed;,0.0 +"Strange the materials, and for what designed",3.0 +"The various parts, no simple man might find;",3.0 +"What seemed the door, each entering guest withstood,",2.0 +What seemed a window was but painted wood;,1.0 +"But by a secret spring the wall would move,",1.0 +And daylight drop through glassy door above:,1.0 +"IT was all her pride, new traps for praise to lay,",1.0 +And all her wisdom was to hide her way;,1.0 +"In small attempts incessant were her pains,",1.0 +"Now, whether fate decreed this pair should wed,",1.0 +And blindly drove them to the marriage bed;,1.0 +Or whether love in some soft hour inclined,1.0 +But both disposed to wed ' -- and wed they were.,0.0 +"Yet, though united in their fortune, still",1.0 +Their ways were diverse; varying was their will;,7.0 +"Nor long the maid had blessed the simple man,",0.0 +"Wretch that I am! since to thy fortune bound,",1.0 +"What plan, what project, with success is crowned?",1.0 +"I, who a thousand secret arts possess,",0.0 +Who every rank approach with right address;,0.0 +"Thence gifts and gains collecting, great and small,",1.0 +For want like thine ' -- a bog without a base ' --,1.0 +"It craves for ever, and is ever void: ' --",1.0 +"Wretch that I am! what misery have I found,",2.0 +Since my sure craft was to thy calling bound!,2.0 +"Scowling contempt, how pitiful this pride!",3.0 +"What are these specious gifts, these paltry gains,",0.0 +But base rewards for ignominious pains?,2.0 +"With all thy tricking, still for bread we strive,",0.0 +"Thine is, proud wretch! the care that cannot thrive;",2.0 +"By all thy boasted skill and baffled hooks,",0.0 +"No more than I for my poor deeds am paid,",3.0 +"Whom none can blame, will help, or dare upbraid.",1.0 +"Call this our need, a bog that all devours, ' --",0.0 +"Gaudy and mean, and serving to betray",3.0 +"Who know it not, some useless beauties see, ' --",0.0 +But ah! to prove it was reserved for me.,1.0 +"Unhappy state! that, in decay of love,",0.0 +Permits harsh truth his errors to disprove;,2.0 +"While he remains, to wrangle and to jar,",2.0 +"Is friendly tournament, not fatal war;",1.0 +"Love in his play will borrow arms of hate,",1.0 +"And by his power the desperate weapons thrown,",3.0 +Become as safe and pleasant as his own;,1.0 +"But left by him, their natures they assume,",2.0 +"And fatal, in their poisoning force, become.",2.0 +"Time fled, and now the swain compelled to see",1.0 +New cause for fear ' -- Is this thy thrift? quoth he,3.0 +To whom the wife with cheerful voice replied: ' --,0.0 +"Thou moody man, lay all thy fears aside,",1.0 +"A daughter promise, promise wealth and fame;",0.0 +"Born with my features, with my arts, yet she",1.0 +"Shall patient, pliant, persevering be,",0.0 +And in thy better ways resemble thee.,1.0 +"The fairies round shall at her birth attend,",0.0 +"The friend of all in all shall find a friend,",0.0 +And save that one sad star that hour must gleam,2.0 +"On our fair child, how glorious were my dream!",3.0 +"This heard the husband, and, in surly smile,",1.0 +"Aimed at contempt, but yet he hoped the while:",1.0 +"For as, when sinking, wretched men are found",1.0 +To catch at rushes rather than be drowned;,1.0 +"So on a dream our peasant placed his hope,",1.0 +And found that rush as valid as a rope.,1.0 +"Swift fled the days, for now in hope they fled,",1.0 +When a fair daughter blessed the nuptial bed;,2.0 +She looked so pleasing and so softly smiled;,1.0 +"Those smiles, those looks, with sweet sensations moved",0.0 +"And now the fairies came with gifts, to grace",0.0 +"So mild a nature, and so fair a face.",1.0 +That holds in easy chains the human heart;,0.0 +"They gave her skill to win the stubborn mind,",0.0 +"To make the suffering to their sorrows blind,",1.0 +"To bring on pensive looks the pleasing smile,",0.0 +And Care's stern brow of every frown beguile.,1.0 +Whose more enlivening smile the charming gifts repaid.,2.0 +"Now Fortune changed, who, were she constant long,",2.0 +Would leave us few adventures for our song.,1.0 +Envy his name: ' -- his fascinating eye,2.0 +From the light bosom drew the sudden sigh;,2.0 +"He dwelled with man, that he might curse mankind;",2.0 +"Like the first foe, he sought the abode of Joy,",4.0 +"Grieved to behold, but eager to destroy;",3.0 +"Round blooming beauty, like the wasp, he flew,",0.0 +"Soiled the fresh sweet, and changed the rosy hue;",3.0 +"The wise, the good, with anxious heart he saw,",0.0 +"And here a failing found, and there a flaw;",1.0 +"Discord in families iT was his to move,",4.0 +"Distrust in friendship, jealousy in love;",1.0 +"He told the poor, what joys the great possessed,",0.0 +The great ' -- what calm content the cottage blessed;,0.0 +Till their slow friendship perished in their pride.,2.0 +"Such was the fiend, and so secure of prey,",2.0 +"Scornful he smiled, but felt no more than scorn:",3.0 +"For why, when Fortune placed her state so low,",0.0 +In useless spite his lofty malice show?,0.0 +"Why, in a mischief of the meaner kind,",1.0 +"To swear, by vows that even the wicked tie,",2.0 +"The nymph should weep her varied destiny,",1.0 +"That every gift, that now appeared to shine",0.0 +"In her fair face, and make her smiles divine,",3.0 +"Should all the poison of his magic prove,",1.0 +"And they should scorn her, whom she sought for love.",1.0 +"His spell prepared, in form an ancient dame,",0.0 +"A fiend in spirit, to the cot he came;",1.0 +"There gained admittance, and the infant pressed",1.0 +Muttering his wicked magic to his breast;,2.0 +"And thus he said: ' -- Of all the powers, who wait",1.0 +"Was I, alone, despised or worthless, found,",1.0 +"Weak to protect, or impotent to wound?",3.0 +"See then thy foe, regret the friendship lost,",0.0 +"And learn my skill, but learn it at your cost.",0.0 +"Know, then, OH child! devote to fates severe",3.0 +"The good shall hate thy name, the wise shall fear;",0.0 +"Wit shall deride, and no protecting friend",1.0 +"Thy shame shall cover, or thy name defend.",1.0 +"Thy gentle sex, who, more than ours, should spare",0.0 +"A humble foe, will greater scorn declare;",0.0 +"The base alone thy advocates shall be,",0.0 +Or boast alliance with a wretch like thee.,1.0 +"He spoke, and vanished, other prey to find,",0.0 +And waste in slow disease the conquered mind.,0.0 +"The parents wept, and sought their infant's bed:",0.0 +Despair alone the father's soul possessed;,0.0 +But hope rose gently in the mother's breast;,1.0 +For well she knew that neither grief nor joy,0.0 +"Pained without hope, or pleased without alloy;",4.0 +"And while these hopes and fears her heart divide,",0.0 +A cheerful vision bade the fears subside.,0.0 +She saw descending to the world below,1.0 +"An ancient form, with solemn pace and slow.",0.0 +"Daughter, no more be sad the phantom cried,",0.0 +Success is seldom to the wise denied;,1.0 +"Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way:",1.0 +"Why art thou grieved? Be rather glad, that he,",0.0 +"Who hates the happy, aims his darts at thee;",0.0 +"Serenely blessed, and shall to joy arise.",0.0 +"For, grant that curses on her name shall wait,",1.0 +"So Envy wills, and such the voice of Fate,",1.0 +"Yet if that name be prudently suppressed,",1.0 +"For what are names? and where agree mankind,",1.0 +In those to persons or to acts assigned?,1.0 +Have they the titles or the praise from all?,1.0 +"Not so, but others will the brave disdain",1.0 +"As rash, and deem the sons of wisdom vain;",0.0 +And the same deed attract contempt and love.,2.0 +"So all the powers who move the human soul,",2.0 +"With all the passions who the will control,",1.0 +"' Have various names ' -- One given by Truth Divine,",4.0 +"As Simulation thus was fixed for mine,",0.0 +"My secret counsels, now as art despise;",0.0 +"One hour, as just, those counsels they embrace,",1.0 +"And spurn, the next, as pitiful and base.",1.0 +"Thee, too, my child, those fools as Cunning fly,",0.0 +Who on thy counsel and thy craft rely;,1.0 +"That worthy craft in others they condemn,",1.0 +"But iT is their prudence, while conducting them.",2.0 +"Be Flattery, then, thy happy infant's name,",1.0 +"Let all be true that Envy dooms, yet all,",0.0 +"Not on herself, but on her name, shall fall;",2.0 +"While she thy fortune and her own shall raise,",1.0 +"And decent Truth be called, and loved as, modest Praise.",0.0 +"OH happy child! the glorious day shall shine,",3.0 +"When every ear shall to thy speech incline,",1.0 +Thy words alluring and thy voice divine:,1.0 +"The sullen pedant and the sprightly wit,",1.0 +To hear thy soothing eloquence shall sit;,1.0 +"That Truth inspires, and they must honour thee.",1.0 +"Envy himself shall to thy accents bend,",3.0 +"When thou shalt call him Virtue's jealous friend,",3.0 +Whose bosom glows with generous rage to find,2.0 +How fools and knaves are flattered by mankind.,2.0 +"The sage retired, who spends alone his days,",0.0 +And flies the obstreperous voice of public praise;,2.0 +"The vain, the vulgar cry, ' -- shall gladly meet,",0.0 +And bid thee welcome to his still retreat;,1.0 +"A man to glory dead, to peace consigned.",0.0 +"OH Fame! he'll cry for he will call thee Fame,",2.0 +"From thee I fly, from thee conceal my name;",2.0 +"But thou shalt say, Though Genius takes his flight,",2.0 +"He leaves behind a glorious train of light,",2.0 +And hides in vain: ' -- yet prudent he that flies,1.0 +"Yes, happy child! I mark the approaching day,",3.0 +When warring natures will confess thy sway;,1.0 +"When thou shalt Saturn's golden reign restore,",2.0 +And vice and folly shall be known no more.,1.0 +"Pride shall not then in humankind have place,",0.0 +"Changed by thy skill, to Dignity and Grace;",1.0 +"While Shame, who now betrays the inward sense",0.0 +"Avarice shall thenceforth prudent Forecast be,",3.0 +"The lavish tongue shall honest truths impart,",0.0 +"The lavish hand shall show the generous heart,",2.0 +"And Indiscretion be, contempt of art:",0.0 +"Folly and Vice shall then, no longer known,",3.0 +"Be, this as Virtue, that as Wisdom, shown.",0.0 +"Then shall the Robber, as the Hero, rise",1.0 +To seize the good that churlish law denies;,0.0 +"Throughout the world shall rove the generous band,",2.0 +And deal the gifts of Heaven from hand to hand.,0.0 +"In thy blessed days no tyrant shall be seen,",4.0 +Thy gracious king shall rule contented men;,0.0 +"In thy blessed days shall not a rebel be,",1.0 +"Such powers are thine, that man by thee shall wrest",2.0 +The gainful secret from the cautious breast;,1.0 +"Nor then, with all his care, the good retain,",0.0 +But yield to thee the secret and the gain.,2.0 +In vain shall much experience guard the heart,2.0 +Against the charm of thy prevailing art;,1.0 +"Admitted once, so soothing is thy strain",1.0 +"It comes the sweeter, when it comes again;",0.0 +"And when confessed as thine, what mind so strong",1.0 +Softener of every ill! of all our woes,1.0 +The balmy solace! friend of fiercest foes!,0.0 +"Begin thy reign, and like the morning rise!",0.0 +"Bring joy, bring beauty, to our eager eyes;",3.0 +"Break on the drowsy world like opening day,",2.0 +"From thee all prospects shall new beauties take,",2.0 +It's thine to seek them and it's thine to make;,2.0 +"On the cold fen I see thee turn thine eyes,",2.0 +"The enraptured lord the improving ground surveys,",3.0 +"And for his Eden asks the traveller's praise,",1.0 +"I see thee breathing on the barren moor,",1.0 +That seems to bloom although so bleak before;,1.0 +"Or the pied daisy smile below the ling,",2.0 +"They shall new charms, at thy command, disclose,",2.0 +And none shall miss the myrtle or the rose.,1.0 +"Gale from the bog shall yield Arabian balm,",2.0 +And the grey willow wave a golden palm.,4.0 +"I see thee smiling in the pictured room,",0.0 +"Now breathing beauty, now reviving bloom;",1.0 +"There, each immortal name it's thine to give,",1.0 +"To graceless forms, and bid the lumber live.",0.0 +"There make for Rubens and for Reynolds place,",1.0 +"And all the pride of art shall find, in her, disgrace.",1.0 +Delight of either sex! thy reign commence;,0.0 +And to the sickening soul thy cheering aid dispense.,1.0 +Queen of the mind! thy golden age begin;,0.0 +"Let all be fair without, let all be calm within.",1.0 +"The vision fled, the happy mother rose,",0.0 +"Kissed the fair infant, smiled at all her foes,",3.0 +And Flattery made her name: ' -- her reign began:,2.0 +"Her own dear sex she ruled, then vanquished man;",1.0 +"A smiling friend, to every class she spoke,",0.0 +"Assumed their manners, and their habits took;",1.0 +"Her, for her humble mien, the modest loved;",1.0 +Her cheerful looks the light and gay approved;,0.0 +"The just beheld her, firm; the valiant, brave;",0.0 +"Her mirth the free, her silence pleased the grave;",0.0 +"Zeal heard her voice, and, as he preached aloud,",2.0 +"Which some refuse to pay, but none to hear:",0.0 +"Shame fled her presence; at her gentle strain,",1.0 +"Care softly smiled, and guilt forgot its pain;",1.0 +"The wretched thought, the happy found, her true,",0.0 +The learnt confessed that she their merits knew;,1.0 +The rich ' -- could they a constant friend condemn?,1.0 +The poor believed ' -- for who should flatter them?,1.0 +"Thus on her name though all disgrace attend,",0.0 +OH while along the stream of Time thy Name,1.0 +"Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame;",0.0 +"Say, shall my little bark attendant sail,",0.0 +"Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale?",1.0 +FATE gave the word; the cruel arrow sped;,1.0 +And POPE lies numbered with the mighty dead!,2.0 +"Resigned he fell superior to the dart,",1.0 +"You mourn: but BRITAIN, lulled in rest profound,",0.0 +"Exulting Dullness eyed the setting light,",0.0 +"And flapped her wing, impatient for the night:",1.0 +"Roused at the signal, Guilt collects her train,",0.0 +And counts the triumphs of her growing reign:,1.0 +To blast the laurel that surrounds his tomb.,0.0 +"But You, OH WARBURTON! whose eye refined",3.0 +Can see the greatness of an honest mind;,1.0 +"Can see each virtue and each grace unite,",2.0 +"You visit oft his awful page with care,",0.0 +And view that bright assemblage treasured there;,1.0 +"You trace the chain that links his deep design,",0.0 +And pour new lustre on the glowing line.,2.0 +"Yet deign to hear the efforts of a Muse,",1.0 +"Whose eye, not wing, his ardent flight pursues;",0.0 +Intent from this great archetype to draw,2.0 +"SATIRE'S bright form, and fix her equal law;",3.0 +And reverence HIS and SATIRE'S generous end.,3.0 +"In every breast there burns an active flame,",0.0 +"The love of glory, or the dread of shame:",1.0 +"The passion ONE, though various it appear,",4.0 +"As brightened into hope, or dimmed by fear.",0.0 +"The charms of praise the coy, the modest woo,",0.0 +"And only fly, that glory may pursue:",1.0 +Bends even reluctant hermits at her feet:,3.0 +"Haunts the proud city, and the lowly shade,",4.0 +And sways alike the sceptre and the spade.,1.0 +"Thus heaven in pity wakes the friendly flame,",1.0 +To urge mankind on deeds that merit fame:,1.0 +"But man, vain man, in folly only wise,",1.0 +Rejects the manna sent him from the skies:,1.0 +"With rapture hears corrupted passion's call,",0.0 +Still proudly prone to mingle with the stall.,2.0 +"As each deceitful shadow tempts his view,",0.0 +In quest of glory plunges deep in vice;,0.0 +He forfeits every praise he pants to gain.,0.0 +Thus still imperious Nature plies her part;,3.0 +And still her dictates work in every heart.,1.0 +"Each power that sovereign Nature bids enjoy,",2.0 +"Man may corrupt, but man can never destroy.",4.0 +"The passions rage, obstructed in their course;",0.0 +"Swell to new heights, forbidden paths explore,",3.0 +And drown those virtues which they fed before.,0.0 +"Our worst of evils, is perverted shame.",1.0 +"Beneath this load what abject numbers groan,",0.0 +The entangled slaves to folly not their own!,1.0 +We seek our virtues in each other's breast;,0.0 +"Blind to ourselves, adopt each foreign vice,",1.0 +"Each fool to low ambition, poorly great,",0.0 +"And but for shame, like SYLLA, quit the field:",1.0 +"The daemon Shame paints strong the ridicule,",1.0 +And whispers close the world will call you fool.,0.0 +"Behold, yonder wretch, by impious fashion driven,",8.0 +"By weakness strong, and bold through fear alone,",0.0 +"Faith, Justice, heaven itself now quit their hold,",2.0 +"Hence blind to truth, relentless Cato died:",1.0 +Fell by that honour which was meant its aid.,0.0 +"When passions born her friends, revolt, her foes.",0.0 +Hence SATIRE'S power: it's her corrective part,4.0 +To calm the wild disorders of the heart.,1.0 +"She points the arduous height where glory lies,",2.0 +And teaches mad ambition to be wise:,1.0 +"In the dark bosom wakes the fair desire,",2.0 +"Draws good from ill, a brighter flame from fire;",0.0 +"Strips black Oppression of her gay disguise,",2.0 +And bids the hag in native horror rise;,0.0 +"Nor boasts the Muse a vain imagined power,",0.0 +Though oft she mourn those ills she cannot cure.,0.0 +"The worthy court her, and the worthless fear;",1.0 +"Who shun her piercing eye, that eye revere.",0.0 +"Her awful voice the vain and vile obey,",0.0 +And every foe to wisdom feel her sway.,0.0 +"Smarts, pedants, as she smiles, no more are vain;",3.0 +And Dullness wonders while she drops her quill.,0.0 +Alluding to these lines of Mr. Pope;,1.0 +"In the nice bee what art so subtly true,",3.0 +From poisonous herbs extracts a healing dew.,2.0 +From poisonous Vice she draws a healing dew:,2.0 +"Weak are the ties that civil arts can find,",0.0 +To quell the ferment of the tainted mind:,1.0 +"Cunning evades, securely wrapped in wiles;",2.0 +"The stream of vice impetuous drives along,",0.0 +"Too deep for policy, for power too strong.",3.0 +"Even fair Religion, native of the skies,",1.0 +"Scorned by the crowd, seeks refuge with the wise;",2.0 +"The crowd with laughter spurns her awful train,",0.0 +"And Mercy courts, and Justice frowns in vain.",0.0 +But SATIRE'S shaft can pierce the hardened breast:,0.0 +She plays a ruling passion on the rest:,1.0 +"Undaunted mounts the battery of his pride,",1.0 +"When fell Corruption, by her vassals crowned,",1.0 +Derides fallen Justice prostrate on the ground;,5.0 +"Swift to redress an injured people's groan,",2.0 +Bold SATIRE shakes the tyrant on her throne;,2.0 +"Powerful as death, defies the sordid train,",1.0 +"But with the friends of Vice, the foes of SATIRE,",2.0 +Well may they dread the Muse's fatal skill;,0.0 +Well may they tremble when she draws her quill:,0.0 +"Bids Vice and Folly take their natural shapes,",1.0 +Till all the daemon starts up from the toad.,1.0 +"OH sordid maxim, formed to screen the vile,",1.0 +"In frowns arrayed her beauties stronger rise,",0.0 +When love of virtue wakes her scorn of vice:,0.0 +"Where justice calls, it's cruelty to save;",1.0 +Who combats Virtue's foe is Virtue's friend;,6.0 +Then judge of SATIRE'S merit by her end:,1.0 +"To guilt alone her vengeance stands confined,",0.0 +The object of her love is all mankind.,2.0 +"Scarce more the friend of man, the wise must own,",0.0 +"This to chastise, as that to bless, was given;",1.0 +Alike the faithful ministers of heaven.,1.0 +Oft on unfeeling hearts the shaft is spent:,2.0 +"Though strong the example, weak the punishment.",3.0 +"They least are pained, who merit Satire most;",1.0 +Of fools and knaves already dead to shame?,0.0 +Oft SATIRE acts the faithful surgeon's part;,1.0 +"Generous and kind, though painful is her art:",2.0 +"With caution bold, she only strikes to heal,",0.0 +Though folly raves to break the friendly steel.,0.0 +"Then sure no fault impartial SATIRE knows,",2.0 +"Kind, even in vengeance kind, to Virtue's foes.",3.0 +"Whose is the crime, the scandal too be theirs:",0.0 +"DARE nobly then: but conscious of your trust,",2.0 +"As ever warm and bold, be ever just:",0.0 +Nor court applause in these degenerate days:,2.0 +The villain's censure is extorted praise.,1.0 +"But chief, be steady in a noble end,",0.0 +And show mankind that truth has yet a friend.,1.0 +"It's mean for empty praise of wit to write,",0.0 +"To brand a doubtful folly with a smile,",1.0 +"Or madly blaze unknown defects, is vile:",0.0 +"It's doubly vile, when but to prove your art,",1.0 +You fix an arrow in a blameless heart.,0.0 +"Thou fiend accursed, thou murderer of fame!",1.0 +"That name, than liberty, than life more dear!",1.0 +"Or what repay thy guilt, but endless scorn!",0.0 +"And know, immortal truth shall mock thy toil:",0.0 +Immortal truth shall bid the shaft recoil;,0.0 +"With rage retorted, wing the deadly dart;",0.0 +And empty all its poison in thy heart.,0.0 +"With caution, next, the dangerous power apply;",4.0 +An eagle's talon asks an eagle's eye:,0.0 +"Let SATIRE then her proper object know,",1.0 +"And ere she strike, be sure she strikes a foe.",0.0 +"Before whose altar Virtue oft hath bled,",0.0 +And oft a destined victim shall be led:,0.0 +And own the idiot guide for once is true;,2.0 +"Who therefore smiled, because they saw a fool;",1.0 +"We therefore see a fool, because we smile.",1.0 +Truth in her gloomy cave why fondly seek?,0.0 +And courts the spruce freethinker and the beau.,2.0 +But all can read the language of grimace.,2.0 +Shall work Herculean wonders through the land:,3.0 +"Bound in the magic of her cobweb chain,",2.0 +"You, mighty WARBURTON, shall rage in vain,",1.0 +And lend the informing clue to erring man:,2.0 +"No more shall Reason boast her power divine,",2.0 +Truth's sacred fort the exploded laugh shall win;,3.0 +"But you, more sage, reject the inverted rule,",3.0 +That Truth is ever explored by Ridicule:,2.0 +She throws a dazzling glare alike on all;,0.0 +"As the gay prism but mocks the flattered eye,",4.0 +Beware the mad adventurer: bold and blind,2.0 +"She hoists her sail, and drives with every wind;",0.0 +"Deaf as the storm to sinking Virtue's groan,",0.0 +"Nor heeds a friend's destruction, or her own.",1.0 +"Bear to the wind, or stem the furious tide;",2.0 +"Then mirth may urge, when reason can explore,",1.0 +"This point the way, that waft us glad to shore.",0.0 +"Though distant times may rise in SATIRE'S page,",0.0 +Yet chief it's hers to draw the present age:,1.0 +And judge the reigning manners by the past:,1.0 +"Bid Britain's heroes awful shades! arise,",1.0 +"Point back to minds ingenuous, actions fair,",3.0 +Till the sons blush at what their fathers were:,2.0 +Or chastity was carted for the whore;,2.0 +"Vice fluttered, in the plumes of freedom dressed;",1.0 +Or public spirit was the public jest.,1.0 +"Be ever in a just expression bold,",0.0 +Yet never degrade fair SATIRE to a scold:,5.0 +"Let no unworthy mien her form debase,",1.0 +"But let her smile, and let her frown with grace:",0.0 +"Nor while she preaches modesty, obscene.",1.0 +"Deep let her wound, not rankle to a sore,",2.0 +And keener lustre sparkles in her eyes.,0.0 +Then be your line with sharp encomiums graced:,0.0 +Dart not on Folly an indignant eye:,1.0 +Who ever discharged artillery on a fly?,3.0 +"Deride not Vice: absurd the thought and vain,",0.0 +To bind the tiger in so weak a chain.,0.0 +"Nay more: when flagrant crimes your laughter move,",0.0 +The knave exults: to smile is to approve.,1.0 +"The Muse' labour then success shall crown,",3.0 +"When Folly feels her smile, and Vice her frown.",0.0 +"Know next what measures to each theme belong,",1.0 +And suit your thoughts and numbers to your song:,1.0 +"On wing proportioned to your quarry rise,",1.0 +"And stoop to earth, or soar among the skies.",0.0 +"Free the expression, simple be the verse.",2.0 +In strains familiar sing the midnight toil,1.0 +Patriots and chiefs whose deep design invades,1.0 +And carries off the captive king of ' -- spades!,1.0 +And gaily graceful sport along the line;,0.0 +And smile each affectation into sense.,0.0 +"Not so when Virtue by her guards betrayed,",1.0 +"Spurned from her throne, implores the Muse's aid;",0.0 +"Indignant Hymen veils his hallowed fires,",0.0 +When rank Adultery on the genial bed,1.0 +"When private faith and public trust are sold,",0.0 +And traitors barter liberty for gold;,1.0 +"When fell Corruption dark and deep, like Fate,",0.0 +Saps the foundation of a sinking state:,3.0 +"Then warmer numbers glow through SATIRE'S page,",0.0 +And all her smiles are darkened into rage:,0.0 +Not lofty EPIC soars a nobler flight:,1.0 +Then keener indignation fires her eye;,0.0 +"Then flash her lightnings, and her thunders fly;",1.0 +"Wide and more wide her flaming bolts are hurled,",0.0 +Till all her wrath involves the guilty world.,0.0 +"Yet SATIRE oft assumes a gentler mien,",1.0 +And beams on Virtue's friends a look serene:,0.0 +"She wounds reluctant, pours her balm and joy,",0.0 +Glad to commend where merit strikes her eye.,2.0 +"But tread with cautious step this dangerous ground,",2.0 +Truth be your guide: disdain Ambition's call;,0.0 +"And if you fall with truth, you greatly fall.",1.0 +It's Virtue's native lustre that must shine:,0.0 +The poet can but set it in his line:,1.0 +And who unmoved with laughter can behold,1.0 +"Let real merit then adorn your lays,",1.0 +"And all your wit, your most distinguished art",0.0 +"But makes us grieve, you want an honest heart.",0.0 +Nor think the Muse by SATIRE'S law confined:,0.0 +"She yields description of the noblest kind,",1.0 +And paint the purple evening in the line:,0.0 +Her daring thought essays a higher plan;,0.0 +"Her hand delineates passion, pictures man.",4.0 +"And great the toil, the latent soul to trace,",0.0 +"To paint the heart, and catch internal grace;",0.0 +"By turns bid vice or virtue strike our eyes,",1.0 +Now bid a Wolsey or a Cromwell rise;,2.0 +"Now with a touch more sacred and refined,",1.0 +"Here sweet or strong may every colour flow,",1.0 +"Here let the pencil warm, the canvas glow:",0.0 +"Of light and shade provoke the noble strife,",0.0 +And wake each striking feature into life.,0.0 +"THROUGH ages thus hath SATIRE keenly shined,",1.0 +"The friend to truth, to virtue, and mankind:",2.0 +"Yet the bright flame from virtue never had sprung,",4.0 +And man was guilty ere the poet sung.,0.0 +"Truth saw her honest spleen with new delight,",1.0 +"And bade her wing her shafts, and urge their flight.",0.0 +"First on the sons of Greece she proved her art,",0.0 +And conscious villains trembled as he raged.,1.0 +For SATIRE'S bow resigned the sounding lyre:,0.0 +"Each arrow polished in his hand was seen,",0.0 +"And as it grew more polished, grew more keen.",1.0 +"His art, concealed in studied negligence",1.0 +"Politely sly, cajoled the foes of sense:",0.0 +"He seemed to sport and trifle with the dart,",1.0 +"But while he sported, drove it to the heart.",1.0 +Big with a ripe exuberance of thought:,1.0 +And lashed corruption with a calm disdain.,1.0 +"More ardent eloquence, and boundless rage",1.0 +"His mighty numbers awed corrupted Rome,",0.0 +And swept audacious greatness to its doom;,1.0 +"The headlong torrent thundering from on high,",2.0 +Rent the proud rock that lately braved the sky.,3.0 +"But lo! the fatal victor of mankind,",2.0 +Swollen Luxury! ' -- Pale Ruin stalks behind!,2.0 +"As countless insects from the northeast pour,",3.0 +"To blast the spring, and ravage every flower:",0.0 +So barbarous millions spread contagious death:,2.0 +The sickening laurel withered at their breath.,0.0 +Beneath whose baleful dews the poppy sprung.,0.0 +"No longer Genius wooed the Nine to love,",1.0 +But Dullness nodded in the Muses' grove:,1.0 +Nor aught was held so dangerous as sense.,1.0 +"At length, again fair Science shot her ray,",1.0 +"Dawned in the skies, and spoke returning day.",0.0 +"Now SATIRE, triumph over thy flying foe,",3.0 +"Now load thy quiver, string thy slackened bow!",1.0 +"It's done ' -- See, great ERASMUS breaks the spell,",1.0 +And wounds triumphant Folly in her cell!,0.0 +"In vain the solemn cowl surrounds her face,",0.0 +"Vain all her bigot cant, her sour grimace",0.0 +"With shame compelled her leaden throne to quit,",0.0 +And own the force of reason urged by wit.,0.0 +"'Twas then plain DONNE in honest vengeance rose,",3.0 +He mid an age of puns and pedants wrote,0.0 +"With genuine sense, and Roman strength of thought.",2.0 +"Ere Britain saw the foul revolt commence,",1.0 +And treacherous Wit began her war with Sense.,2.0 +"Then arose a shameless, mercenary train,",0.0 +Whom latest time shall view with just disdain:,0.0 +"A race fantastic, in whose gaudy line",0.0 +"Wit's shattered mirror lies in fragments bright,",1.0 +"Reflects not nature, but confounds the sight.",1.0 +'Twas all his praise to say the oddest thing.,0.0 +"Proud for a jest obscene, a patron's nod,",0.0 +The extremes of wit and meanness joined in thee!,1.0 +"Flames that could mount, and gain their kindred skies,",0.0 +Low creeping in the putrid sink of vice:,1.0 +"A Muse whom Wisdom wooed, but wooed in vain,",0.0 +"The pimp of power, the prostitute to gain:",2.0 +"Wreaths, that should deck fair Virtue's form alone,",1.0 +"And genius rise, a monument of shame!",1.0 +More happy France: immortal BOILEAU there,2.0 +Supported genius with a sage's care:,1.0 +"Him with her love propitious SATIRE blessed,",2.0 +And breathed her airs divine into his breast:,0.0 +"Fancy and sense to form his line conspire,",2.0 +"But see, at length, the British Genius smile,",0.0 +And centres every poet's power in one:,0.0 +Each Roman's force adorns his various page;,2.0 +"Gay smiles, collected strength, and manly rage.",1.0 +"Despairing Guilt and Dullness loath the sight,",0.0 +In this clear mirror with delight we view,3.0 +"Each image justly fine, and boldly true:",0.0 +"Here Vice, dragged forth by Truth's supreme decree,",1.0 +With modest joy surveys her form divine.,0.0 +"But o, what thoughts, what numbers shall I find,",1.0 +But faintly to express the poet's mind!,1.0 +Unless he dip his pencil in the ray?,0.0 +"Who paint a god, unless the god inspire?",0.0 +"What catch the lightning, but the speed of fire?",1.0 +"So, mighty POPE, to make thy genius known,",0.0 +"All power is weak, all numbers ' -- but thy own.",3.0 +"Each Muse for thee with kind contention strove,",1.0 +"With watchful fondness over thy cradle hung,",2.0 +"Attuned thy voice, and formed thy infant tongue.",0.0 +"Next, to her bard majestic Wisdom came;",0.0 +The bard enraptured caught the heavenly flame:,2.0 +"With taste superior scorned the venal tribe,",2.0 +"Whom fear can sway, or guilty greatness bribe;",0.0 +"Sport with the stream, and trifle in the gale:",0.0 +Thy mighty voyage was creation's round;,1.0 +"Intent new worlds of wisdom to explore,",2.0 +And bless mankind with Virtue's sacred store;,1.0 +And pour a moral transport over the heart.,2.0 +"Fantastic wit shoots momentary fires,",1.0 +"And like a meteor, while we gaze, expires:",1.0 +"Like the blue lightning, while it shines, destroys:",2.0 +"But genius, fired by truth's eternal ray,",2.0 +"Burns clear and constant, like the source of day:",1.0 +"Like this, its beam prolific and refined",1.0 +And opens all the virtues into bloom.,0.0 +"This praise, immortal POPE, to thee be given:",1.0 +Thy genius was indeed a gift from heaven.,1.0 +Reason and wit with strength collected shine:,2.0 +"Lost, nobly lost, in truth's superior blaze.",3.0 +Did FRIENDSHIP ever mislead thy wandering Muse?,4.0 +That friendship sure may plead the great excuse:,0.0 +"That sacred friendship which inspired thy song,",2.0 +"Fair in defect, and amiably wrong.",3.0 +It's almost virtue when it flows from love.,1.0 +Light her pale lamp at your immortal fire?,3.0 +"Or if, OH WARBURTON, inspired by YOU,",4.0 +"By You inspired, on trembling pinion soar,",3.0 +"In her bold numbers chain the tyrant's rage,",4.0 +"If such her fate, do thou, fair Truth, descend,",3.0 +And watchful guard her in an honest end:,0.0 +"Kindly severe, instruct her equal line",2.0 +"To court no friend, nor own a foe but thine.",1.0 +But if her giddy eye should vainly quit,1.0 +"Thy sacred paths, to run the maze of wit;",0.0 +If her apostate heart should ever incline,1.0 +To offer incense at Corruption's shrine;,2.0 +"Urge, urge thy power, the black attempt confound,",3.0 +And dash the smoking censer to the ground.,1.0 +That guilt is doomed to sink in infamy.,1.0 +"O for a lodge in some vast wilderness,",3.0 +"Where rumour of oppression and deceit,",2.0 +Of unsuccessful or successful war,1.0 +"Might never reach me more. My ear is pained,",0.0 +My soul is sick with every day's report,0.0 +Of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.,2.0 +"There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart,",2.0 +It does not feel for man. The natural bond,0.0 +Of brotherhood is severed as the flax,1.0 +That falls asunder at the touch of fire.,0.0 +He finds his fellow guilty of a skin,1.0 +"Not coloured like his own, and having power",0.0 +"TO enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause",2.0 +Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.,3.0 +Lands intersected by a narrow frith,2.0 +Make enemies of nations who had else,2.0 +Like kindred drops been mingled into one.,1.0 +"Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys;",2.0 +"And worse than all, and most to be deplored",0.0 +"Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat",1.0 +"With stripes, that mercy with a bleeding heart",1.0 +Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast.,1.0 +"Then what is man? And what man seeing this,",2.0 +"And having human feelings, does not blush",0.0 +"And hang his head, to think himself a man?",0.0 +"I would not have a slave to till my ground,",1.0 +"To carry me, to fan me while I sleep,",1.0 +"And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth",0.0 +"No: dear as freedom is, and in my heart's",2.0 +I had much rather be myself the slave,1.0 +"And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him.",1.0 +We have no slaves at home. ' -- Then why abroad?,1.0 +And they themselves once ferried over the wave,4.0 +"That parts us, are emancipate and loosed.",1.0 +Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs,2.0 +"Receive our air, that moment they are free,",1.0 +They touch our country and their shackles fall.,1.0 +"And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then,",1.0 +And let it circulate through every vein,0.0 +Of all your empire. That where Britain's power,0.0 +"Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too.",1.0 +"Sure there is need of social intercourse,",0.0 +Benevolence and peace and mutual aid,3.0 +"Between the nations, in a world that seems",0.0 +And by the voice of all its elements,2.0 +"Let slip with such a warrant to destroy,",3.0 +"Have kindled beacons in the skies, and the old",0.0 +And crazy earth has had her shaking fits,0.0 +"More frequent, and foregone her usual rest.",6.0 +"Is it a time to wrangle, when the props",1.0 +"And pillars of our planet seem to fail,",1.0 +To wait the close of all? But grant her end,0.0 +"More distant, and that prophecy demands",2.0 +"Still they are frowning signals, and bespeak",1.0 +"Or heals it, makes it languish or rejoice.",1.0 +"To what no few have felt, there should be peace,",0.0 +And brothers in calamity should love.,1.0 +Alas for Sicily! rude fragments now,2.0 +Lie scattered where the shapely column stood.,1.0 +Her palaces are dust. In all her streets,1.0 +The voice of singing and the sprightly chord,1.0 +Are silent. Revelry and dance and show,1.0 +While God performs upon the trembling stage,0.0 +"Of his own works, his dreadful part alone.",1.0 +How does the earth receive him? ' -- With what signs,1.0 +"Pours she not all her choicest fruits abroad,",0.0 +"Her sweetest flowers, her aromatic gums,",2.0 +Disclosing paradise wherever he treads?,2.0 +She quakes at his approach. Her hollow womb,1.0 +And fiery caverns roars beneath his foot.,2.0 +"The hills move lightly and the mountains smoke,",2.0 +"Of elevation down into the abyss,",3.0 +His wrath is busy and his frown is felt.,1.0 +"The rocks fall headlong and the valleys rise,",3.0 +And mortal nuisance into all the air.,0.0 +"What solid was, by transformation strange",1.0 +"Grows fluid, and the fixed and rooted earth",2.0 +"Tormented into billows heaves and swells,",1.0 +Sucks down its prey insatiable. Immense,1.0 +"The tumult and the overthrow, the pangs",1.0 +And agonies of human and of brute,2.0 +"Multitudes, fugitive on every side,",7.0 +And fugitive in vain. The sylvan scene,1.0 +"Migrates uplifted, and with all its soil",5.0 +"A new possessor, and survives the change.",1.0 +"To an enormous and overbearing height,",3.0 +"Not by a mighty wind, but by that voice",1.0 +"Which winds and waves obey, invades the shore",0.0 +Possessed an inland scene. Where now the throng,1.0 +That pressed the beach and hasty to depart,1.0 +"Looked to the sea for safety? They are gone,",1.0 +"A prince with half his people. Ancient towers,",0.0 +"And roofs embattled high, the gloomy scenes",0.0 +Where beauty oft and lettered worth consume,0.0 +"Life in the unproductive shades of death,",0.0 +"Fall prone; the pale inhabitants come forth,",3.0 +And happy in their unforeseen release,0.0 +The terrors of the day that sets them free.,1.0 +"Who then that has thee, would not hold thee fast",0.0 +"Freedom! whom they that lose thee, so regret,",1.0 +"That even a judgement making way for thee,",2.0 +"Seems in their eyes, a mercy, for thy sake.",1.0 +Such evil sin hath wrought; and such a flame,1.0 +"Kindled in heaven, that it burns down to earth,",1.0 +And in the furious inquest that it makes,2.0 +"On God's behalf, lays waste his fairest works.",1.0 +"The very elements, though each be meant",1.0 +"The minister of man, to serve his wants,",1.0 +"Conspire against him. With his breath, he draws",3.0 +A plague into his blood. And cannot use,0.0 +"Life's necessary means, but he must die.",2.0 +Storms rise to overwhelm him: or if stormy winds,2.0 +"Rise not, the waters of the deep shall rise,",1.0 +"And needing none assistance of the storm,",1.0 +"Shall roll themselves ashore, and reach him there.",0.0 +"The earth shall shake him out of all his holds,",1.0 +"Or make his house his grave. Nor so content,",0.0 +"Shall counterfeit the motions of the flood,",1.0 +And drown him in her dry and dusty gulfs.,0.0 +"What then ' -- were they the wicked above all,",3.0 +"Moved not, while their's was rocked like a light skiff,",1.0 +"The sport of every wave? No: none are clear,",1.0 +And none than we more guilty. But where all,2.0 +"Stand chargeable with guilt, and to the shafts",3.0 +"Of wrath obnoxious, God may choose his mark.",0.0 +"May punish, if he please, the less, to warn",1.0 +"The more malignant. If he spared not them,",1.0 +Tremble and be amazed at thine escape,3.0 +Happy the man who sees a God employed,2.0 +Resolving all events with their effects,0.0 +"And manifold results, into the will",0.0 +And arbitration wise of the Supreme.,1.0 +"Did not his eye rule all things, and intend",3.0 +The least of our concerns since from the least,2.0 +The greatest oft originate could chance,0.0 +"Find place in his dominion, or dispose",4.0 +"One lawless particle to thwart his plan,",1.0 +"Then God might be surprised, and unforeseen",0.0 +The smooth and equal course of his affairs.,1.0 +"In nature's tendencies, oft overlooks,",2.0 +"And having found his instrument, forgets",1.0 +"Or disregards, or more presumptuous still",2.0 +Denies the power that wields it. God proclaims,2.0 +His hot displeasure against foolish men,5.0 +That live an atheist life. Involves the heaven,2.0 +And gives them all their fury. Bids a plague,0.0 +"Kindle a fiery boil upon the skin,",4.0 +"And taints the golden ear. He springs his mines,",0.0 +"Forth steps the spruce philosopher, and tells",2.0 +And principles; of causes how they work,2.0 +"By necessary laws their sure effects,",0.0 +Of action and reaction. He has found,2.0 +"The source of the disease that nature feels,",1.0 +And bids the world take heart and banish fear.,1.0 +Thou fool! will thy discovery of the cause,2.0 +Suspend the effect or heal it? Has not God,2.0 +"Still wrought by means since first he made the world,",1.0 +And did he not of old employ his means,0.0 +To drown it? What is his creation less,1.0 +Than a capacious reservoir of means,1.0 +"Formed for his use, and ready at his will?",0.0 +"Or ask of whomsoever he has taught,",1.0 +"And learn, though late, the genuine cause of all.",2.0 +"England, with all thy faults, I love thee still",1.0 +My country! and while yet a nook is left,1.0 +"Where English minds and manners may be found,",1.0 +"Be fickle, and thy year, most part, deformed",1.0 +"With dripping rains, or withered by a frost,",1.0 +I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies,0.0 +"And fields without a flower, for warmer France",2.0 +"To shake thy senate, and from heights sublime",1.0 +Of patriot eloquence to flash down fire,3.0 +"Upon thy foes, was never meant my task;",0.0 +"But I can feel thy fortunes, and partake",2.0 +Thy joys and sorrows with as true a heart,1.0 +"Thy follies too, and with a just disdain",1.0 +"Should England prosper, when such things, as smooth",0.0 +And love when they should fight; when such as these,2.0 +Presume to lay their hand upon the ark,0.0 +Of her magnificent and awful cause?,2.0 +Time was when it was praise and boast enough,0.0 +That we were born her children. Praise enough,0.0 +"To fill the ambition of a private man,",3.0 +The hope of such hereafter. They have fallen,2.0 +"Each in his field of glory: One in arms,",1.0 +And one in council. Wolfe upon the lap,1.0 +"Of smiling victory that moment won,",2.0 +They made us many soldiers. Chatham still,0.0 +"Consulting England's happiness at home,",1.0 +Secured it by an unforgiving frown,2.0 +"If any wronged her. Wolf, wherever he fought,",2.0 +"Put so much of his heart into his act,",0.0 +"That his example had a magnet's force,",1.0 +And all were swift to follow whom all loved.,0.0 +Those suns are set. O rise some other such!,1.0 +"Or all that we have left, is empty talk",0.0 +"Of old achievements, and despair of new.",1.0 +"Now hoist the sail, and let the streamers float",1.0 +Upon the wanton breezes. Strew the deck,0.0 +"With lavender, and sprinkle liquid sweets,",1.0 +The nose of nice nobility. Breathe soft,2.0 +That winds and waters lulled by magic sounds,0.0 +May bear us smoothly to the Gallic shore.,1.0 +"True, we have lost an empire ' -- let it pass.",0.0 +"True, we may thank the perfidy of France",1.0 +"That picked the jewel out of England's crown,",0.0 +And let that pass ' -- 'twas but a trick of state.,2.0 +"A brave man knows no malice, but at once",3.0 +"Forgets in peace, the injuries of war,",1.0 +And gives his direst foe a friend's embrace.,0.0 +"And shamed as we have been, to the very beard",1.0 +"Braved and defied, and in our own sea proved",3.0 +"Too weak for those decisive blows, that once",2.0 +"Insured us mastery there, we yet retain",1.0 +"Some small preeminence, we justly boast",1.0 +"Go then, well worthy of the praise you seek,",3.0 +"And show the shame you might conceal at home,",0.0 +"In foreign eyes! ' -- be grooms, and win the plate,",0.0 +Where once your nobler fathers won a crown! ' --,3.0 +It's generous to communicate your skill,3.0 +To those that need it. Folly is soon learnt.,2.0 +There is a pleasure in poetic pains,1.0 +"Which only poets know. The shifts and turns,",0.0 +"To which the mind resorts, in chase of terms",0.0 +"Though apt, yet coy, and difficult to win ' --",1.0 +TO arrest the fleeting images that fill,2.0 +"The mirror of the mind, and hold them fast,",1.0 +A faithful likeness of the forms he views;,1.0 +"That each may find its most propitious light,",0.0 +"And shine by situation, hardly less,",0.0 +"Than by the labour and the skill it cost,",2.0 +Are occupations of the poet's mind,1.0 +"So pleasing, and that steal away the thought",1.0 +"With such address, from themes of sad import,",1.0 +"That lost in his own musings, happy man!",1.0 +"He feels the anxieties of life, denied",3.0 +"Such joys has he that sings. But ah! not such,",1.0 +"Or seldom such, the hearers of his song.",2.0 +"Fastidious, or else listless, or perhaps",5.0 +Aware of nothing arduous in a task,1.0 +"They never undertook, they little note",0.0 +There least amusement where he found the most.,0.0 +"But is amusement all? studious of song,",4.0 +"And yet ambitious not to sing in vain,",0.0 +"I would not trifle merely, though the world",1.0 +Be loudest in their praise who do no more.,0.0 +"Yet what can satire, whether grave or gay?",1.0 +"It may correct a foible, may chastise",2.0 +"The freaks of fashion, regulate the dress,",0.0 +What vice has it subdued? whose heart reclaimed,1.0 +Alas! Leviathan is not so tamed.,1.0 +"Laughed at, he laughs again; and stricken hard,",0.0 +That fear no discipline of human hands.,2.0 +"The pulpit therefore and I name it, filled",2.0 +"With solemn awe, that bids me well beware",0.0 +With what intent I touch that holy thing,0.0 +I say the pulpit in the sober use,0.0 +Of its legitimate peculiar powers,2.0 +"Must stand acknowledged, while the world shall stand,",0.0 +Support and ornament of virtue's cause.,1.0 +There stands the messenger of truth. There stands,1.0 +"The legate of the skies. His theme divine,",1.0 +"His office sacred, his credentials clear.",1.0 +"By him, the violated law speaks out",4.0 +"Its thunders, and by him, in strains as sweet",2.0 +"As angels use, the gospel whispers peace.",0.0 +And armed himself in panoply complete,1.0 +"Of heavenly temper, furnishes with arms",3.0 +"Bright as his own, and trains by every rule",0.0 +"Of holy discipline, to glorious war,",3.0 +The sacramental host of God's elect.,0.0 +Are all such teachers? would to heaven all were!,0.0 +But hark ' -- the Doctor's voice ' -- fast wedged between,1.0 +"Inspires the news, his trumpet. Keener far",0.0 +"Than all invective is his bold harangue,",1.0 +While through that public organ of report,1.0 +"He hails the clergy; and defying shame,",1.0 +Announces to the world his own and theirs.,1.0 +"He teaches those to read, whom schools dismissed,",1.0 +"And emphasis in score, and gives to prayer",1.0 +The adagio and andante it demands.,4.0 +He grinds divinity of other days,1.0 +Down into modern use; transforms old print,1.0 +"To zig-zag manuscript, and cheats the eyes",1.0 +Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. ' --,3.0 +Are there who purchase of the Doctor's ware!,2.0 +"O name it not in Gath! ' -- it cannot be,",0.0 +That grave and learnt Clerks should need such aid.,1.0 +"He doubtless is in sport, and does but droll,",1.0 +"Assuming thus a rank unknown before,",0.0 +"I venerate the man, whose heart is warm,",0.0 +"Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life",1.0 +"Coincident, exhibit lucid proof",1.0 +That he is honest in the sacred cause.,0.0 +"To such I render more than mere respect,",1.0 +Whose actions say that they respect themselves.,1.0 +"But loose in morals, and in manners vain,",1.0 +"In conversation frivolous, in dress",1.0 +"Extreme, at once rapacious and profuse,",1.0 +"Frequent in park, with lady at his side,",1.0 +"Ambling and prattling scandal as he goes,",2.0 +"But rare at home, and never at his books",0.0 +"And well prepared by ignorance and sloth,",1.0 +By infidelity and love oF the world,1.0 +To his own pleasures and his patron's pride. ' --,2.0 +Preserve the church! and lay not careless hands,0.0 +"Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul",2.0 +"Were he on earth, would hear, approve, and own,",1.0 +Paul should himself direct me. I would trace,2.0 +"I would express him simple, grave, sincere;",0.0 +"And plain in manner. Decent, solemn, chaste,",0.0 +And natural in gesture. Much impressed,2.0 +"Himself, as conscious of his awful charge,",1.0 +And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds,0.0 +"May feel it too. Affectionate in look,",1.0 +"And tender in address, as well becomes",0.0 +A messenger of grace to guilty men.,1.0 +Behold the picture! ' -- Is it like? ' -- Like whom?,1.0 +The things that mount the rostrum with a skip,1.0 +"And then skip down again. Pronounce a text,",2.0 +"Cry, hem; and reading what they never wrote",1.0 +"Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work,",2.0 +And with a well bred whisper close the scene.,2.0 +"In man or woman, but far most in man,",2.0 +And most of all in man that ministers,1.0 +"And serves the altar, in my soul I loath",0.0 +All affectation. It's my perfect scorn;,2.0 +Object of my implacable disgust.,2.0 +What! ' -- will a man play tricks; will he indulge,2.0 +A silly fond conceit of his fair form,1.0 +"And just proportion, fashionable mien",1.0 +And pretty face in presence of his God?,1.0 +"As with the di'mond on his lily hand,",2.0 +And play his brilliant parts before my eyes,0.0 +When I am hungry for the bread of life?,1.0 +"He mocks his Maker, prostitutes and shames",0.0 +"His noble office, and instead of truth",1.0 +"Displaying his own beauty, starves his flock.",1.0 +"And start theatric, practised at the glass.",0.0 +I seek divine simplicity in him,1.0 +"Who handles things divine; and all beside,",0.0 +"Though learnt with labour, and though much admired",1.0 +To me is odious as the nasal twang,2.0 +"Misled by custom, strain celestial themes",0.0 +"Some, decent in demeanour while they preach,",0.0 +"That task performed, relapse into themselves,",0.0 +"And having spoken wisely, at the close",0.0 +"Grow wanton, and give proof to every eye ' --",3.0 +Forth comes the pocket mirror. First we stroke,1.0 +"Then with an air, most gracefully performed,",1.0 +Fall back into our seat; extend an arm,1.0 +"And lay it at its ease with gentle care,",0.0 +"With handkerchief in hand, depending low.",1.0 +"The better hand more busy, gives the nose",0.0 +"With opera glass to watch the moving scene,",0.0 +Now this is fulsome; and offends me more,1.0 +Than in a churchman slovenly neglect,1.0 +"May be indifferent to her house of clay,",1.0 +And slight the hovel as beneath her care;,1.0 +"But how a body so fantastic, trim,",2.0 +"And quaint in its deportment and attire,",2.0 +Can lodge an heavenly mind ' -- demands a doubt.,2.0 +"He that negotiates between God and man,",3.0 +"As God's ambassador, the grand concerns",1.0 +"Of judgement and of mercy, should beware",1.0 +Of lightness in his speech. It's pitiful,1.0 +"To court a grin, when you should woo a soul;",1.0 +"To break a jest, when pity would inspire",0.0 +Pathetic exhortation; and to address,3.0 +"The skittish fancy with facetious tales,",1.0 +When sent with God's commission to the heart.,1.0 +So did not Paul. Direct me to a quip,1.0 +"Or merry turn in all he ever wrote,",0.0 +"And I consent you take it for your text,",2.0 +"Your only one, till sides and benches fail.",1.0 +"No: he was serious in a serious cause,",3.0 +And understood too well the weighty terms,1.0 +That he had taken in charge. He would not stoop,2.0 +"To conquer those by jocular exploits,",3.0 +"O, popular applause! what heart of man",1.0 +Is proof against thy sweet seducing charms?,0.0 +The wisest and the best feel urgent need,2.0 +Of all their caution in thy gentlest gales;,2.0 +"But swelled into a gust ' -- who then, alas!",0.0 +And craving poverty; and in the bow,1.0 +"Is oft too welcome, and may much disturb",2.0 +The bias of the purpose. How much more,2.0 +"Poured forth by beauty splendid and polite,",2.0 +In language soft as adoration breathes?,0.0 +Ah spare your idol! think him human still.,0.0 +"Charms he may have, but he has frailties too,",1.0 +"Dote not too much, nor spoil what you admire.",1.0 +"Of light divine. But Egypt, Greece, and Rome",0.0 +"Drink, when we choose it, at the fountain head.",0.0 +"With hurtful error, prejudice, and dreams",1.0 +"Illusive of philosophy, so called,",2.0 +But falsely. Sages after sages strove,0.0 +"In vain, to filter off a crystal draught",1.0 +"Pure from the lees, which often more enhanced",0.0 +Intoxication and delirium wild.,3.0 +In vain they pushed enquiry to the birth,1.0 +"And springtime of the world, asked, whence is man?",3.0 +Why formed at all? And wherefore as he is?,1.0 +Where must he find his Maker? With what rites,1.0 +"Adore him? Will he hear, accept, and bless?",1.0 +Or does he sit regardless of his works?,1.0 +Has man within him an immortal seed?,1.0 +Or does the tomb take all? If he survive,2.0 +"Knots worthy of solution, which alone",2.0 +A Deity could solve. Their answers vague,1.0 +"And all at random, fabulous and dark,",1.0 +Left them as dark themselves. Their rules of life,0.0 +"Defective and unsanctioned, proved too weak",2.0 +"To bind the roving appetite, and lead",0.0 +Blind nature to a God not yet revealed.,2.0 +"It's Revelation satisfies all doubts,",0.0 +"Explains all mysteries, except her own,",1.0 +"And so illuminates the path of life,",1.0 +"That fools discover it, and stray no more.",2.0 +"My man of morals, nurtured in the shades",0.0 +"Is Christ the abler teacher, or the schools?",1.0 +"If Christ, then why resort at every turn",0.0 +"To Athens or to Rome, for wisdom short",1.0 +"Of man's occasions, when in him reside",1.0 +"How oft when Paul has served us with a text,",1.0 +"Has Epictetus, Plato, Tully preached!",0.0 +"Men that if now alive, would sit content",0.0 +"Preach it who might. Such was their love of truth,",1.0 +"And thus it is. The pastor, either vain",1.0 +"By nature, or by flattery made so, taught",3.0 +"Absurdly, not his office, but himself;",1.0 +"Or unenlightened, and too proud to learn,",2.0 +"Or vicious, and not therefore apt to teach,",2.0 +Perverting often by the stress of lewd,1.0 +"And loose example, whom he should instruct,",0.0 +Exposes and holds up to broad disgrace,2.0 +"The noblest function, and discredits much",1.0 +The brightest truths that man has ever seen.,0.0 +"For ghostly counsel, if it either fall",1.0 +"With show of love, at least with hopeful proof",0.0 +Of some sincerity on the giver's part;,2.0 +"And mode of its conveyance, by such tricks",2.0 +"The pulpit to the level of the stage,",2.0 +Drops from the lips a disregarded thing.,0.0 +"The weak perhaps are moved, but are not taught;",1.0 +While prejudice in men of stronger minds,1.0 +"Takes deeper root, confirmed by what they see.",1.0 +A relaxation of religions hold,1.0 +"Soon follows, and the kerb of conscience snapped,",2.0 +The laity run wild. ' -- But do they now?,2.0 +"Note their extravagance, and be convinced.",3.0 +"As nations ignorant of God, contrive",1.0 +"A wooden one, so we, no longer taught",3.0 +"By monitors that mother church supplies,",1.0 +Now make our own. Posterity will ask,2.0 +If ever posterity see verse of mine,4.0 +What was a monitor in George's days?,1.0 +"My very gentle reader, yet unborn,",1.0 +"Of whom I needs must augur better things,",0.0 +Since heaven would sure grow weary of a world,2.0 +"Productive only of a race like us,",1.0 +A monitor is wood. Plank shaven thin.,2.0 +We wear it at our backs. There closely braced,0.0 +"And neatly fitted, it compresses hard",1.0 +"The prominent and most unsightly bones,",1.0 +And binds the shoulders flat. We prove its use,0.0 +"A form not now gymnastic as of yore,",1.0 +"From rickets and distortion, else, our lot.",1.0 +"But thus admonished we can walk erect,",1.0 +One proof at least of manhood; while the friend,1.0 +"Sticks close, a Mentor worthy of his charge.",2.0 +"And by caprice as multiplied as his,",1.0 +"Just please us while the fashion is at full,",1.0 +"That waits to dress us, arbitrates their date,",0.0 +Surveys his fair reversion with keen eye;,2.0 +"Finds one ill made, another obsolete,",3.0 +"This fits not nicely, that is ill conceived,",0.0 +With our expenditure defrays his own.,2.0 +Through every change that fancy at the loom,0.0 +"Exhausted, has had genius to supply,",1.0 +"And studious of mutation still, discard",3.0 +For monstrous novelty and strange disguise.,1.0 +"We sacrifice to dress, till household joys",1.0 +"And comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry,",1.0 +"And keeps our larder lean. Puts out our fires,",2.0 +"And introduces hunger, frost, and woe,",0.0 +Where peace and hospitality might reign.,1.0 +"What man that lives and that knows how to live,",0.0 +Would fail to exhibit at the public shows,2.0 +"A form as splendid as the proudest there,",2.0 +Though appetite raise outcries at the cost?,2.0 +"A man oF the town dines late, but soon enough",1.0 +"With reasonable forecast and dispatch,",3.0 +"You think perhaps, so delicate his dress,",1.0 +His daily fare as delicate. Alas!,1.0 +"He picks clean teeth, and busy as he seems",2.0 +"With an old tavern quill, is hungry yet.",2.0 +"With magic wand. So potent is the spell,",1.0 +"Unless by heaven's peculiar grace, escape.",2.0 +"There we grow early grey, but never wise.",2.0 +"There form connexions, and acquire no friend.",2.0 +Solicit pleasure hopeless of success;,1.0 +Waste youth in occupations only fit,1.0 +"For second childhood, and devote old age",3.0 +To sports which only childhood could excuse.,1.0 +There they are happiest who dissemble best,3.0 +Their weariness; and they the most polite,2.0 +Who squander time and treasure with a smile,1.0 +Though at their own destruction. She that asks,1.0 +"And hates their coming. They, what can they less?",2.0 +"Make just reprisals, and with cringe and shrug",2.0 +"And bow obsequious, hide their hate of her.",2.0 +"All catch the frenzy, downward from her Grace",1.0 +"And gild our chamber ceilings as they pass,",1.0 +To her who frugal only that her thrift.,1.0 +"May feed excesses she can ill afford,",1.0 +Finds a cold bed her only comfort left.,3.0 +"Wives beggar husbands, husbands starve their wives,",1.0 +On fortune's velvet altar offering up,1.0 +Their last poor pittance. Fortune most severe,1.0 +"Of goddesses yet known, and costlier far",3.0 +And it's a fearful spectacle to see,2.0 +So many maniacs dancing in their chains.,5.0 +They gaze upon the links that hold them fast,0.0 +"Then shake them in despair, and dance again.",0.0 +Now basket up the family of plagues,3.0 +"By forgery, by subterfuge of law,",1.0 +By tricks and lies as numerous and as keen,1.0 +As the necessities their authors feel;,2.0 +"Then cast them closely bundled, every brat",0.0 +At the right door. Profusion is its sire.,4.0 +"In character, has littered all the land,",1.0 +And bred within the memory of no few,1.0 +A people such as never was till now.,2.0 +It is a hungry vice: ' -- it eats up all,1.0 +"That gives society its beauty, strength,",1.0 +"Convenience, and security, and use.",2.0 +"Makes men mere vermin, worthy to be trapped",3.0 +"Of union, and converts the sacred band",1.0 +"That holds mankind together, to a scourge.",2.0 +"Prepares it for its ruin. Hardens, blinds,",1.0 +And warps the consciences of public men,1.0 +Till they can laugh at virtue; mock the fools,1.0 +"That trust them; and in the end, disclose a face",0.0 +That would have shocked credulity herself,1.0 +Since all alike are selfish ' -- why not they?,0.0 +"This does Profusion, and the accursed cause",4.0 +"Of such deep mischief, has itself a cause.",2.0 +"In colleges and halls, in ancient days,",1.0 +"When learning, virtue, piety and truth",1.0 +"Were precious, and inculcated with care,",4.0 +There dwelled a sage called Discipline. His head,2.0 +"But strong for service still, and unimpaired.",0.0 +"His eye was meek and gentle, and a smile",1.0 +"Played on his lips, and in his speech was heard",0.0 +"Paternal sweetness, dignity, and love.",1.0 +The occupation dearest to his heart,1.0 +Was to encourage goodness. He would stroke,2.0 +The head of modest and ingenuous worth,3.0 +"That blushed at its own praise, and press the youth",1.0 +Close to his side that pleased him. Learning grew,0.0 +"Beneath his care, a thriving vigorous plant;",2.0 +"The mind was well informed, the passions held",0.0 +"Subordinate, and diligence was choice.",1.0 +"If ever it chanced, as sometime chance it must,",3.0 +"The limits of control, his gentle eye",1.0 +"Grew stern, and darted a severe rebuke;",2.0 +"His frown was full of terror, and his voice",1.0 +Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe,3.0 +"But discipline, a faithful servant long,",1.0 +Declined at length into the vale of years;,0.0 +"A palsy struck his arm, his sparkling eye",0.0 +"Grew tremulous, and moved derision more",2.0 +"Than reverence, in perverse rebellious youth.",2.0 +So colleges and halls neglected much,1.0 +"Their good old friend, and Discipline at length",2.0 +"Overlooked and unemployed, fell sick and died.",1.0 +"Then study languished, emulation slept,",0.0 +And virtue fled. The schools became a scene,0.0 +"Of solemn farce, where ignorance in stilts,",1.0 +"His cap well lined with logic not his own,",1.0 +"With parrot tongue performed the scholar's part,",0.0 +"Then compromise had place, and scrutiny",1.0 +And he was competent whose purse was so.,2.0 +"A dissolution of all bonds ensued,",1.0 +Of headstrong youth were broken; bars and bolts,1.0 +"Forgot their office, opening with a touch;",1.0 +Till gowns at length are found mere masquerade;,1.0 +A mockery of the world. What need of these,1.0 +"With belted waist and pointers at their heels,",0.0 +"Than in the bounds of duty? what was learnt,",0.0 +"If aught was learnt in childhood, is forgot,",2.0 +Is squandered in pursuit of idle sports,0.0 +"And vicious pleasures. Buys the boy a name,",0.0 +"That sits a stigma on his father's house,",1.0 +And cleaves through life inseparably close,1.0 +"The lewd vain world that must receive him soon,",1.0 +Add to such erudition thus acquired,0.0 +Where science and where virtue are professed?,2.0 +"They may confirm his habits, rivet fast",1.0 +"His folly, but to spoil him is a task",2.0 +That bids defiance to the united powers,3.0 +"Of fashion, dissipation, taverns, stews.",0.0 +The children crooked and twisted and deformed,3.0 +"Through want of care, or her whose winking eye",1.0 +The nurse no doubt. Regardless of her charge,2.0 +She needs herself correction. Needs to learn,0.0 +"That it is dangerous sporting with the world,",3.0 +"With things so sacred as a nation's trust,",1.0 +"The nurture of her youth, her dearest pledge.",1.0 +All are not such. I had a brother once. ' --,0.0 +Peace to the memory of a man of worth;,1.0 +"A man of letters, and of manners too.",1.0 +"Of manners sweet as virtue always wears,",0.0 +"By more than one, themselves conspicuous there.",2.0 +"Some minds are tempered happily, and mixed",1.0 +With such ingredients of good sense and taste,2.0 +"Of what is excellent in man, they thirst",1.0 +"With such a zeal to be what they approve,",2.0 +"That no restraints can circumscribe them more,",0.0 +Nor can example hurt them. What they see,1.0 +Of vice in others but enhancing more,1.0 +The charms of virtue in their just esteem.,0.0 +"If such escape contagion, and emerge",2.0 +"Pure, from so foul a pool, to shine abroad,",0.0 +"And give the world their talents and themselves,",1.0 +Small thanks to those whose negligence or sloth,3.0 +"Exposed their inexperience to the snare,",1.0 +See then! the quiver broken and decayed,1.0 +In which are kept our arrows. Rusting there,1.0 +"In wild disorder and unfit for use,",1.0 +What wonder if discharged into the world,1.0 +"They shame their shooters with a random flight,",1.0 +"Their points obtuse, and feathers drunk with wine.",0.0 +Well may the church wage unsuccessful war,1.0 +"Have we not tracked the felon home, and found",0.0 +"His birthplace and his dam? the country mourns,",2.0 +"Mourns, because every plague that can infest",6.0 +"Society, and that saps and worms the base",1.0 +"Of the edifice that policy has raised,",2.0 +"Swarms in all quarters; meets the eye, the ear,",0.0 +Profusion breeds them. And the cause itself,1.0 +Of that calamitous mischief has been found.,2.0 +Stand up unconscious and refute the charge.,4.0 +So when the Jewish Leader stretched his arm,0.0 +"And waved his rod divine, a race obscene",0.0 +"Spawned in the muddy beds of Nile, came forth",1.0 +Were covered with the pest. The streets were filled;,1.0 +"The croaking nuisance lurked in every nook,",0.0 +"Nor palaces nor even chambers escaped,",3.0 +"And the land stank, so numerous was the fry.",3.0 +"THIS seems a spot to pensive sorrow dear,",0.0 +"Gloomy the shade which yields this ancient yew,",2.0 +Sacred the seat of Death! soothed while I view,3.0 +"Thy hills, OH Malvern, proudly rising near,",1.0 +And every stone whose rudely sculptured form,0.0 +Hath braved the rage of many a winter's storm.,2.0 +"Pleased with the melancholy scene, each loss",0.0 +"Once more I weep; and wish this grave were thine,",0.0 +"Poor, lost, lamented friend! that over thy clay",3.0 +"For once this last, sad tribute I might pay,",2.0 +"And, with my tears, to the cold tomb resign",3.0 +"Each hope of bliss, each vanity of life,",1.0 +Assist me to prepare the sounding lyre!,1.0 +"Like her I sing, soft, sensible, and fair,",2.0 +Let the smooth numbers warble in the air;,3.0 +"Can Beauty, Virtue, Sense, demand the Song;",0.0 +"Look then on Clarke, and see them all unite;",1.0 +"Rest here, my Muse, not soar above thy sphere,",0.0 +"Kings might pay adoration to the fair,",3.0 +"Enchanting, full of joy, peerless in face and air.",5.0 +"Pleased with the promised Glories which he lost,",0.0 +"And in your Form, confess the greater Boast.",0.0 +"Had he been blessed but with your soft Address,",1.0 +His Love had never known such ill Success;,0.0 +"Had half your Charms in the true Borgia been,",2.0 +We never his mourning Tragedy had seen.,3.0 +Would so much Gallantry and Sweetness spare.,1.0 +"In vain Historians and Poets too,",1.0 +"A rugged Virtue and the chance of War,",1.0 +Did bless their Hero's with that Character;,2.0 +"The Antiquated Shade the Poets seize,",0.0 +And tune the Soul to what a pitch they please:,0.0 +"With artful Notes they grace each noble Line,",0.0 +But your soft touch gives it an air Divine.,1.0 +"What pains they take for Praise while you with ease,",1.0 +Transport with that which they scarce hoped could please?,2.0 +"And more than Royal State through Rome they rode,",0.0 +"Both praised and feared and thought almost a God,",2.0 +"When fettered Kings did grace the Victory,",0.0 +Mid all their dazzling Pomp looked less than thee.,1.0 +"If Gods their Glories would expose to view,",0.0 +"With awe my soul the wreck of Nature views,",0.0 +The storm amid the echoing mountain hears;,2.0 +"The sighs of Autumn, mingling with my tears,",1.0 +Mourn the sad ravages which time pursues.,4.0 +"Hear the wild roar of the tempestuous blast,",7.0 +Whirling the forest leaves to distant air!,2.0 +"See blooming flowers in scattered fragments cast,",3.0 +While torrents pouring thunder on the ear!,1.0 +"The sun's bright beam in dreary winter lost,",1.0 +"My youthful charms fade beneath my burning eyes,",3.0 +A raging sorrow sweeps without control,0.0 +Those germs of genius which alone inspire:,0.0 +"The sensual passions which consumed my soul,",2.0 +"Long lightnings glance still from my streaming eyes,",3.0 +Though vain around the fiery circles roll;,2.0 +Virtue and pleasure vanish from my soul;,3.0 +The transient shadow of my glory flies.,1.0 +"Impassioned strains my trembling lips rehearse,",0.0 +"Echoing my soul the numbers pierce the skies,",1.0 +I seem delusions thus my mind impair,0.0 +"Bursts into sound, and floats upon the air,",1.0 +"Till memory bursts on my deluded heart,",3.0 +Mingling discordant strains of deep despair.,1.0 +"Distracting thoughts upon my spirit pour,",0.0 +Such passions mingle with each bitter shower!,1.0 +A father's image meets my troubled breast;,0.0 +Ah! wandering heart! how bitterly distressed!,3.0 +"Consuming flames will soon thy strength overpower,",3.0 +"And thou abandoned die, with guilt oppressed.",1.0 +"I Came, great bard, to gaze upon thy shrine,",1.0 +And over thy relics wait the inspiring Nine:,4.0 +The weeping Muses must their vigils keep:,0.0 +And with poetic trophies grace his urn:,1.0 +Have placed the shield and martial trumpet here;,0.0 +"Fancy had decked the consecrated ground,",2.0 +And now my bold romantic thought aspires,0.0 +"Then catch some sound to bear delighted home,",0.0 +"Or stretched beneath thy myrtle's fragrant shade,",0.0 +"With dreams ecstatic hovering over my head,",2.0 +"And with thyself, perhaps, the long procession end.",1.0 +I came ' -- but soon the phantoms disappeared;,0.0 +"Far other scenes, than wanton Hope had reared;",1.0 +"No fairy rites, no funeral pomp I found;",4.0 +The spot where once thy mausoleum stood:,0.0 +Hardly the form remained; a nodding dome,2.0 +'Twas such a scene as gave a kind relief,0.0 +"No musing, soft complacency of thought:",2.0 +"Even the last, mournful graces of decay:",3.0 +"Oblivion, hateful goddess, sat before,",2.0 +"No silver harps I heard, no Muse's voice,",2.0 +But birds obscene in horrid notes rejoice:,0.0 +"Fancy recoiled, and with his tinsel train,",3.0 +The warm ambitious hopes of airy youth;,0.0 +"Severe Reflection came, and frowning Truth:",0.0 +"Away each glittering gay idea fled,",2.0 +"And bade a melancholy train succeed,",0.0 +"That formed, or seemed to form, a mournful call",0.0 +In feeble echoes muttering round the wall.,1.0 +"Her happy shores, the seats of joy and ease,",0.0 +"Their favourite mansions once, no longer please:",1.0 +"No longer, as of old, in transport lost,",2.0 +The sisters rove along the enchanted coast;,2.0 +And loath the fields that were their darling theme:,1.0 +The tuneful names themselves once fondly gave,1.0 +"To every swelling hill, and mossy cave,",0.0 +"So pleasing then, are only heard with sighs;",0.0 +And each sad echo bids their sorrow rise.,1.0 +"Yet Nature smiles, as when their Virgil sung,",0.0 +Nor mid a fairer scene his lyre was strung;,0.0 +"Still bloom the sweets of his elysium here,",3.0 +And the same charms in every grove appear.,2.0 +But ah! in vain indulgent suns prevail;,0.0 +Health and delight in every balmy gale,2.0 +Are wafted now in vain: small comfort bring,1.0 +To weeping eyes the beauties of the spring.,1.0 +"To groaning slaves those fragrant meads belong,",0.0 +"Where Tully dictated, and Maro sung.",4.0 +"Long since, alas! those golden days are flown,",1.0 +Where here each Science wore its proper crown;,0.0 +"Pale Tyranny had laid their altars low,",2.0 +And rent the laurel from the Muse's brow:,1.0 +What wonder then mid such a scene to see,2.0 +The Arts expire with bleeding Liberty?,1.0 +"Pensive and sad, each fair angelic form",3.0 +"Far other views the poet's thought engage,",1.0 +Can misery bid the imagination glow?,3.0 +Or genius brighten mid domestic woe?,0.0 +Horace had wept beneath the Alban vine.,2.0 +"And sighs, regardless of the wreaths he wears.",1.0 +Did ever Want and Famine sweetly sing?,0.0 +"Lo! stern Oppression lifts her iron rod,",1.0 +"Black Desolation, and destructive War,",2.0 +"Rise at the signal, and attend her car.",1.0 +Where now are all the nymphs that blessed the plains?,0.0 +"The songs of love, of liberty and peace,",1.0 +Are heard no more; the dance and tabor cease:,1.0 +Dire shapes appear in every opening glade;,2.0 +"Is this the queen of realms, for arts renowned?",1.0 +"This captive maid, that weeps upon the ground!",0.0 +Alas! how changed! ' -- dejected and forlorn!,1.0 +The mistress of the world become the scorn!,1.0 +"And Ignorance, dark ally of barbarous War:",4.0 +"She, at the usurping Vandal's dread command,",3.0 +Displays her gloomy banner over the land:,2.0 +Beneath its chilling shade neglected lies,0.0 +While on some ruined temple's broken wall,0.0 +Sad Architecture sits; and sees with shame,1.0 +Misshapen piles usurp her injured name:,1.0 +"Music and Verse, unhappy twins! belong",2.0 +"The gathering deluge swells on every side,",2.0 +"Floats every Virtue, from its basis torn:",2.0 +"And every laurel fades, and every bay.",0.0 +"All is confused, no traces now are seen",2.0 +To show what wretched Italy has been.,1.0 +"Thus once Vesuvius, crowned with circling wood,",3.0 +Perpetual Spring clothed the fair mountain's side;,4.0 +"And what is now thy terror, was thy pride.",1.0 +Sudden the imprisoned flames burst forth; and laid,2.0 +"Now deep in ashes sinks the myrtle bower,",1.0 +Who could help laughing at a sight so odd?,1.0 +"Just such a monster, Sirs, pray think before you,",1.0 +When you behold one man both Whig and Tory.,2.0 +"Not more extravagant are drunkards dreams,",1.0 +And freeborn Britons may their party choose:,1.0 +"For dove and dragon, elephant and fawn?",1.0 +"Begin like patriots, and like courtiers end.",3.0 +"Some love to roar, the constitution's broke,",0.0 +And others on the nation's debts to joke;,1.0 +"Some rail, they hate a commonwealth so much,",0.0 +"Whatever the subject be, against the Dutch;",3.0 +"While others, with more fashionable fury,",2.0 +"Begin with turnpikes, and conclude with Fleury.",2.0 +Declaimed against importing Irish cattle:,0.0 +"But you, from whatever side you take your name,",5.0 +"Like Anna's motto, always be the same.",0.0 +"Parties from quaint denominations flow,",2.0 +"The low are said to rake Fanatics parts,",0.0 +Caution and fear to highest faults have run;,2.0 +"In pleasing both the parties, you please none.",2.0 +"These peep in hats, while those with buttons play,",1.0 +And make me think it Repetition day;,0.0 +"There knights haranguing hug a neighbouring post,",2.0 +And are but quorum orators at most.,2.0 +"Sooner than thus my want of sense expose,",2.0 +"Take care your subjects artfully to choose,",2.0 +"Wrap up your poison well, nor fear to say",0.0 +What was a lie last night is truth today.,1.0 +Let Abel Roper your ambition raise.,2.0 +"To lie fit opportunity observe,",2.0 +Saving some double meaning in reserve;,2.0 +If you can quibble on Sir Robert's name.,3.0 +"New terms let war or traffic introduce,",2.0 +"Coin words: in coining never mind common sense,",5.0 +Provided the original be French.,2.0 +King Edward's words are now no words at all.,2.0 +Did aught our predecessors genius cramp?,0.0 +Sure every reign may have its proper stamp.,1.0 +What alteration does a century make?,2.0 +"Kings and comedians are all mortal found,",3.0 +What's not destroyed by Time's devouring hand?,2.0 +"Pease, cabbages, and turnips once grew, where",3.0 +"Such piles of buildings now rise up and down,",2.0 +London itself seems going out of town.,4.0 +Think we that modern words eternal are?,1.0 +"Hereafter will be called, by some plain man,",2.0 +"A wig, a watch, a pair of stays, a fan.",0.0 +"To things themselves if time such change affords,",0.0 +Can there be any trusting to our words?,2.0 +"And how with party madness to engage,",2.0 +The Jacobite's ridiculous opinion,1.0 +"Is still a secret, and the world's in doubt.",1.0 +Applied king David's psalms to state affairs.,1.0 +"Some certain tunes to politics belong,",0.0 +Can I be said the rules oF the House to know?,1.0 +Nor ever address his Majesty in rhyme;,3.0 +"An Act of Parliament's a serious thing,",3.0 +Begins with year of Lord and year of King;,0.0 +"Keeps close to form, in every word is strict,",1.0 +When it would pains and penalties inflict.,1.0 +"Soft words, OH you petitioners of Kent!",4.0 +Should send sweet language from a tuneful throat.,2.0 +And Roman thoughts by Attic style inspire;,0.0 +He knows from tedious wranglings to beguile,3.0 +The serious house into a cheerful smile;,2.0 +When the great patriot paints his anxious fears,4.0 +"For England's safety, I am lost in tears.",1.0 +"But when dull speakers strive to move compassion,",1.0 +"I pity their poor hearers, not the nation:",2.0 +"Unless young members to the purpose keep,",2.0 +"I fall a laughing, or I fall asleep.",1.0 +Is not the tongue an index to the soul?,1.0 +"Laugh not in time of service to your God,",1.0 +"Nor bully, when in custody oF the rod;",1.0 +"Look grave, and be from jokes and grinning far,",1.0 +When brought to sue for pardon at the bar:,0.0 +"Their climes are distant, though one cause unites",1.0 +Give the two universities a friend;,4.0 +"To George the second, give all English hearts.",0.0 +And factions yet unheard of introduce;,0.0 +"And if you dare attempt a thing so new,",1.0 +Make to itself the flying squadron true.,2.0 +But funds and national accounts are hard:,1.0 +"Safer on common topics to discourse,",4.0 +"On these each coffeehouse will lend a hint,",1.0 +Besides a thousand things that are in print.,1.0 +"But steal not word for word, nor thought for thought,",0.0 +"Go not too far, nor follow every length:",3.0 +"Leave room for change, turn with a grace about,",3.0 +"And swear you left them, when you found them out.",0.0 +"And talk like Colonel Titus, not like Lane.",0.0 +"Sun, moon, and stars, and dragons, saints, and kings:",1.0 +"But Titus said, with his uncommon sense,",1.0 +I hear a lion in the lobby roar;,0.0 +"Say, Mr. Speaker, shall we shut the door",1.0 +"And keep him there, or shall we let him in",1.0 +To try if we can turn him out again?,2.0 +"And call their private cry, the public voice.",0.0 +And the whole balance proves a pound of candles;,2.0 +"As if Paul's cupola were brought to bed,",2.0 +"After hard labour, of a small pin's head.",2.0 +And some from Julius Caesar's days begin.,0.0 +"A cunning speaker can command his chops,",1.0 +"And when the house is not in humour, stops;",1.0 +"In falsehood probability employs,",2.0 +Nor his old lies with newer lies destroys.,2.0 +"In matters suited to your taste engage,",1.0 +Remembering still your quality and age.,1.0 +"Thy task be this, young knight, and hear my song,",2.0 +What politics to every age belong.,0.0 +"Boys should learn Latin for Prince William's sake,",4.0 +And girls Louisa their example make.,1.0 +"To range the fields, than in the house debate;",0.0 +"If in one chase he can two horses kill,",2.0 +"Loud in his wine, in women not over nice,",2.0 +He damns his uncles if they give advice;,1.0 +But had much rather never vote at all.,0.0 +And lofty thoughts on some lord's daughter fix;,1.0 +"With men in power strict friendship we pursue,",4.0 +With some considerable post in view.,1.0 +"A man of forty years to change his note,",0.0 +"One way to speak, and other way to vote;",0.0 +"Careful his tongue in passion to command,",3.0 +"Avoids the bar, and speaker's reprimand.",0.0 +"Afraid to use it, or the funds to trust;",1.0 +"When stocks are low he wants the heart to buy,",0.0 +And through much caution sees them rise too high;,2.0 +"Tories were Tories then, and Whigs were Whigs.",2.0 +"Alas! this is a lamentable truth,",3.0 +"We lose in age, as we advance in youth:",1.0 +"I laugh when twenty will like eighty talk,",1.0 +"When pockets suffer, and when anger burns;",1.0 +OH thing surpassing faith! knight strives with knight,2.0 +"The bailiff's self is sent for in that case,",0.0 +And all the witnesses had face to face.,1.0 +"Selected members soon the fraud unfold,",0.0 +In full committee of the house it's told;,1.0 +"The incredible corruption is destroyed,",3.0 +"Should not too often speak, nor speak too long:",2.0 +"It's his the young and modest to espouse,",2.0 +"And see none draw, or challenge in the house:",1.0 +"It's his old hospitality to use,",3.0 +And three good printers for the house to choose;,1.0 +"To let each representative be heard,",1.0 +And take due care the chaplain be preferred;,1.0 +"And when he spies his member, make his point.",0.0 +"The country trumpet, and perhaps a drum;",1.0 +"Now when a burgess new elect appears,",0.0 +"Harangues the mob, and is as wise and great,",1.0 +As the most mystic oracle of state.,2.0 +"His beef was fat, and his october good;",1.0 +"Drank to their sons, their wives, their daughters kissed;",0.0 +"But when strong beer their freeborn hearts inflames,",1.0 +"They sell him bargains, and they call him names.",1.0 +Thus it is deemed in English nobles wise,0.0 +To stoop for no one reason but to rise.,1.0 +OH all you judges learnt in the law;,0.0 +"A judge by bribes as much himself degrades,",0.0 +"Let not your looks affected words disgrace,",0.0 +Nor join with silver tongue a brazen face;,0.0 +And the mad rant of tragedy avoid.,3.0 +"Just in your thoughts, in your expression clear,",1.0 +"Neither too modest, nor too bold appear.",5.0 +"He speaks most easy, who has studied most.",0.0 +"A vile reflection, or a bawdy joke:",1.0 +"Called to the house of lords, of this beware,",1.0 +It's what the bishops' bench will never bear.,0.0 +"Among the commons is such freedom shown,",1.0 +"They lash each other, and attack the throne;",1.0 +But what agreed in sound and clashed in sense.,0.0 +"Thrice happy he! how great that speaker's praise,",2.0 +Whose every period looked an hundred ways.,2.0 +What then? we now with just abhorrence shun,0.0 +"The trifling quibble, and the schoolboy's pun;",1.0 +"Though no great connoisseur, I make a shift",1.0 +Just to find out a Durfey from a Swift;,1.0 +"I can discern with half an eye, I hope,",1.0 +"By mob was pelted half a morning's space,",0.0 +"The Censor then improved the listening isle,",0.0 +And held both parties in an artful smile.,1.0 +"A scribbling crew now pinching winter brings,",1.0 +"That spare no earthly nor no heavenly things,",5.0 +"Nor church, nor state, nor treasurers, nor kings.",1.0 +"And for defying scripture, law, and crown,",1.0 +"Woolston should pay his fine, and lose his gown.",2.0 +They jar in every article from Spain;,1.0 +"A war these threaten, those a peace maintain:",1.0 +"Though lie they will, to give them all their due,",1.0 +"In foreign matters, and domestic too.",1.0 +"Enquire all day, and harken all the night.",2.0 +Might soon exceed the intelligence of France:,3.0 +"To be outdone old England should refuse,",2.0 +"As in her arms, so in her public news:",0.0 +"But truth is scarce, the scene of action large,",0.0 +And correspondence an excessive charge.,1.0 +"Unless for Newgate, or for Bedlam sit;",1.0 +"Let pamphleteers abusive satire write,",2.0 +To show a genius is to show a spite:,1.0 +"That author's work will never be reckoned good,",2.0 +"I write, and yet humanity profess:",1.0 +"Though nothing can delight a modern judge,",1.0 +"I love the king, the queen, and royal race:",0.0 +"I like the government, but want no place",2.0 +"Too low in life to be a justice I,",2.0 +"And for a constable, thank God, too high:",4.0 +"Was never in a plot, my brain's not hurt;",0.0 +"I politics to poetry convert,",1.0 +"Be furnished, in the first place, with a head:",2.0 +And stuffed with precedents of former reigns:,0.0 +"But acts still wiser, if he speaks by note:",2.0 +"Learn well his lesson, and never fear mistakes;",3.0 +"He must instructions and credentials draw,",1.0 +"Pay well the army, and protect the law:",2.0 +"But first help brothers, sons, and cousins too.",1.0 +And the twelve judges' salary increase.,3.0 +"He must oblige old friends and new allies,",1.0 +And find out ways and means for fresh supplies.,0.0 +"He must the weavers grievances redress,",1.0 +And merchant's wants in merchant's words express.,0.0 +Should call our histories for party plays;,1.0 +To the earl of Essex or the queen of Scots?,1.0 +"Hence was the student forced at Greek to grudge,",0.0 +If he would be a bishop or a judge.,1.0 +Till promised places of men still alive:,2.0 +How old is such a one in such a post?,1.0 +The archbishop and the master of the rolls?,4.0 +"Neither is young, and one's as old as Paul's.",3.0 +"Will men that ask such questions, publish books",0.0 +"Like learnt Hooker's, or chief justice Coke's?",3.0 +And never say too little or too much.,3.0 +"On trivial matters flourishes are wrong,",3.0 +Motions for candles never should be long:,2.0 +"Or if you move in case of sudden rain,",1.0 +"To shut the windows, speak distinct and plain.",0.0 +"Unless you talk good English, downright sense,",1.0 +Can you be understood by sergeant Spence?,1.0 +"Or truth's half sister, probability:",2.0 +And swears it is so dull he cannot stay:,1.0 +"When rakes begin on blasphemy to border,",1.0 +Bromley and Hanmer cry aloud ' -- to order.,2.0 +"The point is this, with manly sense and ease",1.0 +"TO inform the judgement, and the fancy please.",2.0 +"Praise it deserves, nor difficult the thing,",3.0 +"At once to serve one's country, and one's king.",1.0 +Who never mistook a word in sense or sound?,2.0 +"Not blundering, but persisting is the fault;",4.0 +"Clerks may mistake; considering who it's from,",4.0 +"But let me tell you I'll not take his part,",1.0 +If every Thursday he date Die Mart,3.0 +"Of sputtering mortals, it's the fatal curse,",3.0 +By mending blunders still to make them worse.,0.0 +And stare if Wyndham should be nodding caught.,0.0 +Should the committee chance to sit till two.,1.0 +"Some best at distance, some when we are near.",1.0 +My landlord's party from his sign is known:,2.0 +"Some Buchanan's, the Pope's head some like best,",2.0 +The Devil tavern is a standing jest.,1.0 +"Duly returned, and from petition sure,",3.0 +Stick to your friends in whatsoever you say;,2.0 +But it's in politics no way at all.,2.0 +"A Trimmer's what both parties turn to sport,",3.0 +"By country hated, and despised at court.",1.0 +"Who would in earnest to a party come,",1.0 +"Must give his vote not whimsical, but plumb.",1.0 +"There is no medium; for the term in vogue,",3.0 +"On either side is, honest man, or rogue.",0.0 +"Can it be difficult our minds to show,",2.0 +"Where all the difference is, yes, or no?",1.0 +Without hard study dare physicians kill?,1.0 +"Can he that never read statutes or reports,",5.0 +"Give chamber counsel, or urge law in courts?",3.0 +Nor fears on nicest subjects to debate.,1.0 +A knight of eighteen hundred pounds a year ' --,1.0 +"Who minds his head, if his estate be clear?",1.0 +"Sure he may speak his mind, and tell the house,",0.0 +He matters not the government a louse.,1.0 +"But in the house, before your tongue runs on,",2.0 +"Consult sir James, lord William's dead and gone.",2.0 +"Words to recall is in no member's power,",3.0 +One single word may send you to the Tower.,1.0 +"Thrice every year in ancient Egbert's reign,",2.0 +"For impious treason hence no room was left,",3.0 +"For murder, for polygamy, or theft:",2.0 +Now wholesome laws young senators bring in,4.0 +"Against goals, attorneys, bribery, and gin.",4.0 +"Since such the nature of the British state,",1.0 +"The power of parliament so old and great,",3.0 +"You squires and Irish lords, it's worth your care",2.0 +"To be returned for city, town, or shire,",0.0 +"By sheriff, bailiff, constable, or mayor.",1.0 +"A man of substance, or a man of sense:",1.0 +"But never any member feats will do,",0.0 +"Sense is required the depth of things to reach,",2.0 +And money gives authority to speech.,1.0 +"From Fig's new theatre he'll miss a night,",2.0 +"Though cocks, and bulls, and Irish women fight:",0.0 +"Nor sultry sun, nor storms of soaking rain,",0.0 +The man of business from the house detain:,1.0 +"Nor speaks he for no reason but to say,",3.0 +"I am a member, and I spoke today.",2.0 +Because some speak that have less sense than I.,1.0 +May wonders in a trading borough do:,1.0 +"Turn their two former members into sport,",3.0 +But at a feast it's difficult to know,1.0 +"The man that swears he will the poll secure,",1.0 +"And pawns his soul that your election's sure,",1.0 +"Suspect that man: beware, all is not right,",1.0 +"Would say, I cannot help you, or I can:",1.0 +"To spend your money, sir, is all a jest;",0.0 +"Matters are settled, set your heart at rest:",2.0 +"That sends one member high, and other low.",0.0 +"But if his good advice you would not take,",1.0 +"Leave you of mighty interest to brag,",1.0 +And poll two voices like sir Robert Fag.,2.0 +That will too oft unwary knights bewitch.,3.0 +"Sat thrice, but spoke not once, in parliament;",2.0 +"Men that have votes, and women that have none;",0.0 +"Cobblers and smiths extol the ensuing choice,",4.0 +"And drunken tailors boast their right of voice,",0.0 +"So leeches stick, nor quit the bleeding wound,",0.0 +"Who knows what Heavens Decree for Man designed,",2.0 +Or what's the certain Doom of human kind?,0.0 +"Who knows his former, or his future State,",1.0 +And Secrets teeming in the Womb of Fate?,0.0 +"While we still judge amiss, and still for nothing toil.",3.0 +"He finds his own Defects, who thinks the most;",0.0 +"That Reason makes us wretched, which we boast,",0.0 +And Men are always prudent to their Cost.,1.0 +"The flowery Pastures, and the budding Trees,",3.0 +"Is fondly proud, admires his fancied home,",0.0 +And thinks that all were made for him alone;,1.0 +And gives a sovereign Sway; that all things must,0.0 +"Obey his Will, and gratify his Lust.",1.0 +"While he forgets the Ocean's watery Mass,",3.0 +Whose boundless Depths the scanty Earth surpass;,0.0 +Where thousand different kinds of living Forms,0.0 +"Lie hid in the Abyss, and brave the distant Storms.",3.0 +And thousands more as beautiful as these,1.0 +Unknown to us may sport in distant Seas.,1.0 +Who then would vainly strive with curious Pride,2.0 +"To find what Heaven has to our Search denied,",0.0 +When ignorant of our home we cannot guess,1.0 +"At half the Store, and Riches we possess?",1.0 +Better would humbly we our selves contain,3.0 +"Within our reach, and not indulge our Pain.",0.0 +"When once the Soul shall quit this earthly Case,",0.0 +And naked Forms as in themselves they were,0.0 +Nature will then unlock her secret Store:,2.0 +The Vail of Sense shall hide her Face no more.,1.0 +"Mean while enough we are allowed to enjoy,",4.0 +Loose not too much the Reins to wild Desire:,0.0 +How Nature sports her self in antic kinds.,0.0 +"A thousand different Forms we hourly view,",0.0 +And through moist Paths the flying Shoals pursue.,2.0 +Who can with all his painful Search declare,0.0 +Or how in hardened Shell by shining Streams,1.0 +The Shark with pointed Teeth is armed for Prey;,0.0 +"He breaks through all, and clears the liquid Way;",0.0 +"With fastened Lips supply their daily need,",0.0 +And with a Mouth unarmed they clinging feed.,1.0 +"Is half so lasting, or so close as his.",1.0 +The Urchins are by Nature fenced around;,1.0 +"None dares approach; for with a Touch they wound,",2.0 +"Wrapped up within themselves they guarded lie,",2.0 +And to their own Embrace for Safety fly.,1.0 +"He leaves the Hook, and takes the easy Bait.",0.0 +"Seizes my Heart, but still secures her own.",2.0 +Fish vainly curious will each Year retire,2.0 +"To fresher Streams, and novel Floods admire,",0.0 +"Fools to exchange their Waves, and native Deep",2.0 +For noisy Brooks that over the Pebbles creep.,2.0 +"A tasteless River, or a shallow Stream.",1.0 +In softer Words they find a surer Fate.,0.0 +"Who then will dare approach the Sirens Tongue,",0.0 +"Her Voice overtakes him, and in vain he flies.",2.0 +"Is always false; and to his Bride unjust,",1.0 +"And not content over all the Sea to range,",0.0 +"And thus pollute himself with daily Change,",0.0 +"They each still fix to one, and seek no other Fair.",3.0 +The bearded Prawn's a lively Instance made,0.0 +"Of mutual Kindness, and of friendly Aid.",3.0 +"He the gay Pearl attends with studious Care,",4.0 +And in the common Prey commands a share.,0.0 +For Wit but seldom will with Beauty dwell,1.0 +"But the sly Prawn can secret Signs convey,",2.0 +"And with a Touch forewarns to seize the Prey,",1.0 +"While the deceitful Rays, and spangled Sight",1.0 +Pleasures indulged repented are too late,4.0 +And they like us to Beauty owe their Fate.,0.0 +"I see a Nymph, who in the liquid Maze",0.0 +"Now sporting dives, and with a Dolphin plays,",2.0 +"When she appears, I need no other Theme",2.0 +"To make my daily Care, or nightly Dream.",0.0 +"To take up every Thought, and fill the Soul.",0.0 +"Ah! might these Arms entwine that world of Love,",0.0 +In vain Researches I'd no longer rove;,2.0 +"Thus pleased, I'd be content to know no more,",2.0 +Or to forget even what I knew before.,5.0 +Happily ignorant I would despise,3.0 +The curious Learning of the vainly Wise.,3.0 +"A Thriving Merchant, who no Loss sustained",1.0 +In little time a mighty Fortune gained.,0.0 +Nor foundering Vessel sunk with its own Weight,3.0 +"No Wreck at Sea, nor in the Public Banks.",1.0 +"A loft he sails, above the Reach of Chance,",0.0 +"And do's in Pride, as fast as Wealth, advance.",0.0 +"And rich in Purse, concludes her Person Great.",0.0 +"Then it's with Her an undisputed Case,",1.0 +The finest Petticoat must take the Place.,0.0 +"Her Rooms, anew at every Christening dressed,",0.0 +"The best Japan, and clearest China Ware",0.0 +"Or cost withheld, though awkwardly employed.",1.0 +"How comes this Wealth? a Country Friend demands,",0.0 +Who scarce could live on Product of his Lands.,1.0 +"How is it that, when Trading is so bad",2.0 +"That some are Broke, and some with Fears run Mad,",1.0 +"You can in better State yourself maintain,",1.0 +And your Effects still unimpaired remain!,3.0 +"My Industry, he cries, is all the Cause;",1.0 +"And better speed, who better Bargains make.",0.0 +And therefore sent no Vessel out that way:,3.0 +"My busy Factors prudently I choose,",1.0 +And in straight Bonds their Friends and Kindred noose:,1.0 +"At Home, I to the Public Sums advance,",1.0 +"No more than for the Rocks, and Shelves in Charts:",1.0 +"My own sufficiency creates my Gain,",1.0 +"Raised, and secured by this unfailing Brain.",3.0 +"Some through the want of Skill, and some of Care,",0.0 +"Were lost, or back returned without their Fare.",0.0 +"From bad to worse, each Day his State declined,",0.0 +"Till leaving Town, and Wife, and Debts behind,",0.0 +To his Acquaintance at the Rural Seat,1.0 +"He Skulks, and humbly sues for a Retreat.",1.0 +"Whence comes this Change, has Wisdom left that Head,",0.0 +His Friend demands where such right Schemes were bred?,2.0 +"What Frenzy, what Delirium mars the Scull,",2.0 +"Which filled the Chests, and was it self so full?",1.0 +"Here interrupting, sadly he Replied,",1.0 +To Providence I attribute my Loss.,1.0 +When Prosperous Days around him spread their Beams:,2.0 +"But, if revolved to opposite Extremes,",2.0 +"Still his own Sense he fondly will prefer,",1.0 +"And Providence, not He, in his Affairs must Err!",3.0 +"SOON as the Iron Age on Earth began,",0.0 +And Vice found easy Entrance into Man;,1.0 +"A silken Robe she wore, of various Hue,",2.0 +Its Colour changing with each different View:,3.0 +"Studious to cheat, and eager to beguile,",2.0 +"But mimicked TRUTH in vain; the varying Vest,",2.0 +"To every searching Eye, the Fiend confessed.",0.0 +AT length she saw celestial TRUTH appear:,0.0 +"Serene her Brow, and cheerful was her Air;",1.0 +"Her silver Locks with shining Fillets bound,",0.0 +With Laurel Wreaths her peaceful Temples crowned:,0.0 +"And, over her Arms, a radiant Mantle cast:",2.0 +"With decent Negligence, it hung behind;",1.0 +"Thus TRUTH advanced, unknowing of Deceit;",2.0 +"HAIL, charming Maid, bright as the Morning Star,",3.0 +"It's thine to weigh the World in equal Scales,",1.0 +"And chide the conscious Soul, when Vice prevails,",0.0 +"Dispensing Justice with impartial Hand,",1.0 +The mightiest Powers submit to thy Command:,5.0 +"Even Gods themselves, though in their Actions free,",0.0 +"Consult, resolve, and act, as you decree:",1.0 +Advised with thee to form the heavenly Frame:,3.0 +"As TRUTH approved, he bad the Fabric rise,",0.0 +And spread the azure Mantle of the Skies;,1.0 +"Placed every Planet in its proper Sphere,",1.0 +"Nor rolls this Orb too wide, nor that too near ' --",1.0 +"But why thus walk we, mindless of our Ease,",2.0 +Exposed beneath the Sun's meridian Blaze?,2.0 +"Better retire, and shun the scorching Ray,",2.0 +Till fanning Zephyrs cool our Evening Way.,0.0 +And tuneful Birds their sylvan Notes apply;,0.0 +"See fragrant Shrubs along the Borders grow,",1.0 +And waving Shades beneath the Poplar Bough;,0.0 +"All these invite us to the River's Side,",2.0 +"To bathe our Limbs, and sport within the Tide:",0.0 +"So cool the Stream, the flowery Banks so sweet,",2.0 +Nor can a short Diversion cheque your Haste;,1.0 +Fresh Strength will soon succeed such welcome Rest:,1.0 +"As rapid Currents, held awhile at Bay,",0.0 +With swifter Force pursue their liquid Way.,0.0 +"So spoke the Phantom; and, with friendly Look",1.0 +"Supporting what she said, approached the Brook:",0.0 +"And, in an evil Hour, the Voice obeyed.",0.0 +"Both, at the crystal Stream arrived, unbound",0.0 +Their different Robes; both cast them to the Ground:,2.0 +"The Fiend, upon the Margin, lingering stood;",0.0 +The naked Goddess leapt into the Flood:,0.0 +"Sporting, she swims the liquid Surface over,",2.0 +Her own infernal Robe far left behind.,1.0 +"Straight she aspires above her former State,",4.0 +And gains Admittance to the Rich and Great:,1.0 +"Nay, such her daring Pride, that some report,",0.0 +"When thus equipped, she boldly went to Court:",0.0 +"There spoke and looked with such a graceful Air,",1.0 +Mistaken FAME pronounced her Wise and Fair.,0.0 +"To deal in Wounds, and Deaths, in Darts, and Flames;",0.0 +He prefaced all his lewd Attempts with Love;,0.0 +"And Fraud prevailed, where Reason could not move.",0.0 +"At length she mingled with the learnt Throng,",2.0 +And tuned the Muse's mercenary Song.,0.0 +She taught the subtle Reasoner not to yield;,1.0 +"Instructed how to puzzle each Dispute,",1.0 +"Now, at the Bar, she played the Lawyer's Part;",0.0 +And shaped out Right and Wrong by Rules of Art:,0.0 +"Now, in the Senate, raised her pompous Tone;",0.0 +"Talked much of Public Good, but meant her Own.",0.0 +"Oft to the Olympian Field she turned her Eyes,",3.0 +"In Schools and Temples too she claimed a Share,",0.0 +"DELUDED TRUTH observed the Fraud too late,",1.0 +Nor knew she to repair a Loss so great:,1.0 +"In vain her heavenly Robes she, sighing, seeks;",2.0 +"In vain she tears the Laurel from her Hair,",1.0 +"Weep fragrant Dews, and hang their drooping Heads;",1.0 +"The sylvan Choirs, as conscious of her Pains,",1.0 +Deplore her Loss in melancholy Strains.,0.0 +Detested Sight! Nor longer now she mourns;,0.0 +"But, Grief to Rage transformed, with Anger burns:",0.0 +"Into the Stream, the hellish Robe she tossed;",0.0 +"And scorned a Habit, so unlike the lost.",1.0 +"None, but the Wise and Virtuous, see her Face:",2.0 +"From Cities far she modestly retreats,",1.0 +"From busy Scenes of Life, to peaceful Seats;",0.0 +"Is chiefly found in lonely Fields and Cells,",0.0 +"Where Silence reigns, and Contemplation dwells.",0.0 +And seems TRUTH's Self to all unwary Eyes;,1.0 +"Triumphs and thrives, in Power, and Wealth, and Fame;",4.0 +And builds her Glory on her Rival's Name;,1.0 +"WHY, to our Wonder, in this Place is seen,",0.0 +"May we demand, what Terrors seize your Breast,",1.0 +"Or, why your Steps are to this House addressed,",1.0 +Where your unguarded Person stands exposed,1.0 +"To secret Foes, within its Walls enclosed?",0.0 +Can it be thought that you remit that Hate?,2.0 +No more! but Both observe what I relate:,1.0 +"Not, that I mean recalling Times of Blood",0.0 +"To make you Judges of the Paths I trod,",1.0 +"When to the emptied Throne I boldly rose,",0.0 +"'Twas Heavens Decree, that I should thus succeed,",4.0 +"Whose following Favour justifies the Deed,",2.0 +Extending my unlimited Command,2.0 +From Sea to Sea over the obedient Land:,6.0 +"While your Jerusalem all Peace enjoys,",2.0 +"Nor now the encroaching Philistine destroys,",2.0 +"Nor wandering Arab his Pavilion spreads,",3.0 +"Near Jordan's Banks, nor wastes his flowery Meads.",2.0 +"The great Assyrian, Terror of your Kings,",3.0 +"Who bought his Friendship with their holiest Things,",3.0 +"Yields that a Sister, of his powerful Race,",3.0 +"Should sway these Realms, and dignify the Place.",0.0 +"Nor need we add the late insulting Foe,",0.0 +"And sinks beneath the Load of conscious Fears,",0.0 +When in Samaria he my Actions hears.,1.0 +"He sees me unmolested, sixed, and pleased;",0.0 +"At least, till now thus glorious was my State;",2.0 +"But something's threatened from relaxing Fate,",1.0 +"And the last Night, which should have brought me Rest,",1.0 +Has all these great Ideas dispossessed.,0.0 +"A Dream, a Vision, an apparent View",1.0 +"Hangs on my pensive Heart, and bears it down",0.0 +"More than the weight of an objected Crown,",1.0 +My Mother be the Name with Reverence spoke!,2.0 +"Ere cheerful Day through horrid Shades had broke,",1.0 +"Approached my Bed, magnificent her Dress,",1.0 +"Nor seemed her Face to have refused that Art,",0.0 +"Which, in despite of Age, does Youth impart,",0.0 +Or to be vanquished even in Nature's way.,3.0 +"Thus all arrayed, in such defying Pride",2.0 +"To me she spoke, these Accents to me came:",2.0 +"Thou worthy Daughter of my soaring Fame,",1.0 +"Though with a more transcendent Spirit filled,",1.0 +"Though struggling Powers attempt thy Life to shield,",2.0 +"The Hebrew's God O, tremble at the sound!",0.0 +"Shall Thee and Them, and all their Rights confound.",1.0 +"A pitying Groan concludes, no Word of Aid.",3.0 +My Arms I thought to throw about the Shade,0.0 +"Of that loved Parent, but my troubled Sight",2.0 +"Nor ought presented, but a heap of Bones,",1.0 +"For which fierce Dogs contended on the Stones,",2.0 +"With Flakes of mangled Flesh, that quivering still",2.0 +Proclaimed the Freshness of the suffered Ill;,1.0 +Appeared as in that memorable Fall ' --,1.0 +"Sure, Dreams like these, are for Prevention given.",2.0 +"SEE, Silvia, see the sparkling Lamp of Day;",3.0 +From our fond Eyes he draws the trembling Ray:,2.0 +"The curling Clouds pursue his shortening Beams,",0.0 +"From marshy Vales unhealthy Fogs arise,",0.0 +And drooping Flowers their Evening Incense yield.,3.0 +"On every Leaf the pearly Drops appear,",0.0 +And Nature weeps an universal Tear.,0.0 +"So will it be when those fair Suns of thine,",3.0 +"By Fate eclipsed, their cheerful Beams resign:",0.0 +But cannot strip the Radiance from thy Soul.,1.0 +"Amid the Stars, in spite of Fate or Time,",0.0 +The Charms of Silvia shall eternal shine.,2.0 +"If worth departed ever deserved a tear,",2.0 +"Sacred to merit, pay the tribute here;",2.0 +"A tender mother, and a virtuous wife,",3.0 +A noble pattern of unsullied life;,1.0 +"Honoured in age, loved and admired in youth,",2.0 +Here rest in peace thy piety and truth.,1.0 +"The Christian virtues in her bosom reigned,",0.0 +"The widow blessed her charitable dome,",1.0 +And wandering orphans found a sheltering home;,4.0 +"More than her little power allowed, she gave,",2.0 +Nor ever knew that virtue how to save;,1.0 +"The bright example of a virtuous mind,",3.0 +Is all the dower this parent left behind;,0.0 +"Few were her comforts in this varying state,",2.0 +A painful pilgrimage her weary fate;,1.0 +"Few were her joys on earth while doomed to dwell,",0.0 +"So smiling died, and softly said, I'm well.",0.0 +Fair fainted shade! forgive this starting tear;,1.0 +"A hapless daughter still would wish thee here,",0.0 +"But heaven, more just, more gracious, deemed it hard,",0.0 +"That worth like thine should wait a late reward,",1.0 +"So gently moved thee to that peaceful shore,",1.0 +"Where pleasure reigns, and anguish is no more.",2.0 +"Sweet be thy rest, dear venerated clay!",1.0 +Whose guardian care once watched my erring way;,3.0 +"Ere thy pure spirit gained its native skies,",3.0 +"Supremely blessed thy mourning daughter, I,",3.0 +"By thee taught how to live, and how to die;",1.0 +"And by thine own example, showed the way,",1.0 +In that clear path thy shining virtues made;,1.0 +"OH thou! so tried in sad affliction's school,",0.0 +That made the Christian Leader's life thy rule.,0.0 +"By still revering, imitating thee!",1.0 +"Serene with kindred saints, in purest air,",0.0 +Now smile in triumph at thy late despair.,1.0 +"The Royal youth I sing, whose sister's charms",0.0 +Inspired his heart with love; a latent love,2.0 +"He passed the hapless hours, while in his breast",0.0 +"The aspiring passion, yet by virtue swayed,",1.0 +"It's proper limits knew. I love, said he,",2.0 +Whom do I love? my sister ' -- ah; my sister;,0.0 +"Can I my misplaced passion gratify,",5.0 +"And bring disgrace on her? No, sweetest maid,",2.0 +I am thy brother; it's a brother's part,2.0 +Thy honour to protect and not destroy.,2.0 +And every citizen a victim fell,1.0 +"Shall I forego this high prerogative,",2.0 +And plunge myself and sister into ruin?,1.0 +An act that even an heathen would degrade.,2.0 +"My very blood, and stops my panting breath.",0.0 +"Better my loved companions pass my grave,",2.0 +"And shed a tear to think I died so young,",0.0 +Than shun me living as a vile reproach,1.0 +"To nature, royalty, and Israel.",1.0 +"Already I perceive my strength to fail,",1.0 +"Perhaps death's not far off. ' -- OH welcome guest,",4.0 +"OH thou, that hast the powers of life and death,",2.0 +A spacious land I see on every side,0.0 +Blessed with fertility; the cultured vales,3.0 +"It fires not my ambition, all I ask",2.0 +Is one small spot of earth to lay me down,2.0 +"Beneath the turf, forgetting and forgot,",1.0 +"A small request, and yet though small, denied.",0.0 +Struggling with life I sigh for death in vain.,1.0 +"Again my passions rise, again rebel;",0.0 +I still must live and live in misery.,1.0 +Doubtless some happy rival will be crowned,3.0 +Behold her decked in bridal robes to bless,0.0 +A rival; it's too much; ' -- I cannot bear,2.0 +"Even to suppose it, I'll from court retire;",2.0 +"My gay companions now are irksome grown,",0.0 +And all my pleasures are transformed to pains.,1.0 +"My sister's cheering smiles, that once conveyed",0.0 +As I can scarce endure. Again I feel,1.0 +My spirits sink; O! welcome fading sickness!,0.0 +"I'll cherish thee and aid thee with my sighs,",2.0 +"To still this heart, that now rebellious beats",0.0 +Against my reason's strongest argument.,1.0 +"Her fairer virtues keep me still in awe,",0.0 +Forbidding my aspir'ing love to soar.,4.0 +"With sweet simplicity she smiles, secure",1.0 +"In innocence, commanding my respect,",2.0 +And this command I must ' -- I will obey;,2.0 +"But fly her presence, lest some hapless smile",1.0 +"Inflame my soul, and I in passions frenzy",1.0 +Should act against my final resolution,0.0 +Till saddening sorrow sinks me to the grave.,1.0 +"Thus, to himself complaining, he resolved,",3.0 +Nor sought a confidant to share his grief.,0.0 +"To the most base and most ignoble acts,",1.0 +"Not even suspecting, that beneath the cloak",2.0 +It's serpent head. Yet still the youth from him,0.0 +"By forcing smiles to veil his grief; nor knew,",0.0 +"How little they resemble those, that spring",2.0 +From gentle impulses of hearts at ease.,1.0 +"Quickly discerned the grief, he strove to hide.",2.0 +"A King's son now, ' -- a King in time may be.",1.0 +"Was it in probability, that I",2.0 +"Should be a King, the very contemplation",0.0 +Would shut my soul to sorrow. O! the thought,1.0 +"Aspire as much to greatness, I could plot",1.0 +Surprising stratagems. But he poor Prince,2.0 +"Has long imbibed such close contracted notions,",0.0 +As bar his path to honour. Like a maid.,0.0 +"He talks of virtue, weeps at others woes,",0.0 +"Yet talks of greatness too; it's in the soul,",0.0 +"He says, all greatness dwells; it's not the crown,",0.0 +"That makes his father great, but it's his virtues;",1.0 +"And those alone he wishes to inherit,",2.0 +"Thereby to gain dominion over himself,",3.0 +Springs in his soul some change of sentiment;,1.0 +"And he his principles, so long retained,",2.0 +"Loath to renounce, may want a friend to prompt,",2.0 +And urge him to the attainment of his will.,2.0 +Then who so fit for such a talk as I?,1.0 +"I'm great in his esteem, have free access",2.0 +"To him at all times; but, if now I'm slack,",0.0 +By some more forward to promote his wish.,1.0 +"I'll to him straight, in these cool evening hours",3.0 +"Into his private garden he retires,",1.0 +"Sighs to the winds, and to the moon complains.",1.0 +"But I must him approach with seeming awe,",2.0 +"As fearful to disturb his solitude,",1.0 +And with a gentle flow of soothing words,1.0 +"Insinuate myself into his soul,",2.0 +Beneath the thickest solitary shade,0.0 +"Was wandering, lost in melancholy mood,",2.0 +"So deep in thought, he never perceived the approach",4.0 +"Then smiled, as usual, as his friend drew near,",2.0 +Who thus the Royal youth addressed ' -- O! why,0.0 +"Dost thou, a King's son, pine in discontent?",2.0 +"To crown thy soul with peace? Thy father's kind,",0.0 +Too fond and too indulgent to refuse,2.0 +"A friend, unworthy of thy confidence?",2.0 +Have I ever been unfaithful to my trust?,1.0 +Or has some jealous whisperer imposed,0.0 +"Upon my Royal friend's credulity,",1.0 +"Half lost in thought, the Prince made no reply.",2.0 +"But, recollecting, took his hand and said;",0.0 +Why weeps my Prince? what sorrow wounds thy heart?,0.0 +"Then seems returning, then he onward goes",0.0 +"Resolved to urge his full confession, lest",1.0 +"Some other should be made his confidant,",0.0 +"And he discarded, lose the Prince's favour.",1.0 +"As he to hear, and thus his speech began.",1.0 +"OH friend, I love ' -- I love thee as my friend,",2.0 +"And such thou art, the sharer of my joys;",2.0 +"All my delights were doubled, shared with thee.",1.0 +But now a strange dilemma has befallen me;,1.0 +I would not speak it to an ear but thine;,1.0 +My reason almost fails to be my guide.,1.0 +"This passion, O! this wild rebellious passion,",1.0 +"And, if suppressed, still strengthens in the stalk.",2.0 +"So let it strengthen, till, too strong for me,",2.0 +"Never let the secret pass thy lips, for I",0.0 +"So much respect and honour her I love,",0.0 +That for the richest diadem on earth,0.0 +I would not give her pain; her heart's so prone,0.0 +"To pity, it would burst in grief for me,",1.0 +Did she but know the half I feel for her.,0.0 +"And tears of sympathy replied; kind Prince,",2.0 +"Distrust me not, thy confidence I claim;",1.0 +Shall David's meanest subjects smile secure,0.0 +"Beneath his prudent equitable sway,",1.0 +Their least complaints regarded? and his son,1.0 +"Discover it my friend, for I despair.",2.0 +Love is a flame those waters cannot quench;,0.0 +Nor is there any cure short of enjoyment.,3.0 +Till the kind earth receive me; for can I?,3.0 +I cannot ' -- O! I cannot injure her.,2.0 +This timorous tenderness but ill becomes,3.0 +"A Royal Prince, the hope of Israel,",0.0 +"The son of David; think but who thou art,",0.0 +Whose dreaded name through all the nations round,0.0 +"Strikes terror to his enemies, and fills",3.0 +The grateful hearts of all his friends with joy;,0.0 +"Whose tongues with pleasure tell his mighty deeds,",0.0 +And virgins celebrate his fame in songs;,0.0 +"Like some fair captive maid, snatched from the arms",3.0 +"Of her fond lover. OH my Royal friend,",2.0 +"Better ten thousand injured virgins mourn,",3.0 +Than David's son thus live inglorious.,2.0 +The just proportion of ingredients used.,3.0 +"A sickness feigned might veil the deep design,",0.0 +And put her in thy power; by this excuse,3.0 +"Will keep the secret, to preserve her fame.",1.0 +"After a little pause the youth replied,",2.0 +It shall be so; ' -- but yet I doubt ' -- I fear ' --,0.0 +"If I ' -- I'll think no more of consequences,",2.0 +"I am determined ' -- yes, it shall be so.",1.0 +Thus to himself his Royal friend derides.,2.0 +"In time the kingdom will be his, and I,",2.0 +"In fact, shall reign, though he the title bears.",1.0 +"That time might be anticipated, but",1.0 +To seize a tempting crown within his reach;,0.0 +"But should it gently fall upon his head,",0.0 +"Perhaps he'll wear it, if some bolder hand",1.0 +When these precise ones once extend beyond,2.0 +"The bounds their narrow minds have circumscribed,",0.0 +"With calmness will transact the very things,",1.0 +"Which but to mention, ere they launched so far,",0.0 +"So saying, he retired to take repose,",1.0 +The common blessing graciously diffused,1.0 +"Through Nature, to refresh her wearied sons;",1.0 +"The rising day, rejoicing in the light.",0.0 +"From Ammon's wasted cities, with the crown",1.0 +"Whose insolence had caused his overthrow,",1.0 +The conquering King of Israel returned,3.0 +In glorious triumph to Jerusalem;,4.0 +There from exhausting toils of bloody war,1.0 +"In safety to repose his wearied soul,",1.0 +And taste the sweets of calm domestic bliss.,0.0 +"Subsided, and the sacred rites performed",1.0 +"Of general praises with the harp and song,",1.0 +"A captive now to dangerous sickness lies,",2.0 +While life and death dispute their doubtful right.,0.0 +"The pious King laid down his harp, the song",2.0 +"Unfinished, and with anxious haste repaired",1.0 +Quite unsuspected. How could he suspect,3.0 +A fraud of such sort in a virtuous son?,2.0 +Full oft a partial parent overlooks,1.0 +"An obvious fault, or by affection blind",3.0 +Discerns it not; but here no cause appeared,1.0 +"TO awake suspicion, for his languid eyes",2.0 +And pallid cheeks gave signals of disease.,2.0 +"While thus the son in feeble tone complained,",0.0 +"The tender father stooping low to hear, ' --",0.0 +"I'm very sick, and whatsoever food",0.0 +"My servants here prepare, gives me disgust.",2.0 +Prepares a cake delicious to my taste;,1.0 +Was she permitted to attend me here.,2.0 +"The King with fond solicitude retired,",0.0 +And speedily dispatched a messenger,2.0 +"And there administer, with friendly aid,",2.0 +Whatever his sickly appetite demands.,3.0 +"The hour had passed, at which the royal maid",0.0 +"Came from her closet, splendidly attired;",1.0 +"Her hair with precious sparkling gems beset,",0.0 +Faint mimics of her more illustrious eyes.,4.0 +"About her neck a shining golden chain,",0.0 +"And over her loosely thrown, in careless folds,",2.0 +"A various coloured robe, which, as she moved,",3.0 +"Trailed on the ground, or fluttered in the wind.",0.0 +Thus all the virgin daughters of the King,1.0 +"Soon as the sun had drank the morning dew,",0.0 +Into her garden walked the lovely fair;,0.0 +"Not like a proud imperious haughty Queen,",2.0 +"With tossing head and scornful eyes, that glared",0.0 +"Malignant, scattering discontent around,",3.0 +And vain in fancied greatness. Greater she,1.0 +"In inoffensive modesty, and bright",2.0 +"In virtue, as the rays that gild the morn,",1.0 +Their various sweets to fill the garden air.,2.0 +"Pleased with the grateful smell, she skips about",0.0 +"From flower to flower, and cautiously selects",5.0 +"Which never yet inflamed by vicious thought,",0.0 +"Or by unreasonable rebukes depressed,",2.0 +"Had felt a secret pang, or learnt to sigh.",0.0 +"But o! how happy for the mortal race,",2.0 +That from their eyes the future is obscured;,1.0 +Did we but know the secret ills that wait,0.0 +"In darkness to surprise us, what would be",1.0 +"Our life, but one sad scene of misery?",3.0 +All present pleasures would be bitter made,0.0 +By aggravating thoughts of ills to come.,0.0 +But blind to future things the present bless.,0.0 +The heart with sense of Providence impressed,1.0 +"Overflows with gratitude, and conscious joy.",0.0 +"Such joy now filled the royal fair one's breast,",1.0 +"With tidings, that a message had arrived",0.0 +"Straight from the King, declaring his desire,",1.0 +"Would go, and dress him cakes, for he is sick.",1.0 +The King's command she instantly obeyed;,1.0 +Her sweeping garments gently brushed the flowers;,0.0 +"Whisks over the forest, and some shattering leaves",6.0 +Fall gently rustling through the shrubs beneath.,2.0 +"Then, gathering up her robe, she onward sprang,",1.0 +Or some cursed intervening accident,2.0 +"Delays, perhaps prevents her coming. Thus",0.0 +"Doubts, fears, and wild impatience in his breast",1.0 +With all the feelings of a tender sister;,1.0 +But not a thought of vile licentious love,0.0 +"But turning, wiped her tears, suppressed her grief,",0.0 +"Wisdom has power, like the meridian fun,",6.0 +To hide all other brightness in its glare;,0.0 +"But virgin modesty, with winning smiles,",1.0 +Shines a perpetual morning. So she shone,5.0 +"Serenely mild, nor knew her power to please.",2.0 +But o! the graceful dignity of virtue,2.0 +"The feebly good with emulation fires,",0.0 +And strikes the very libertines with awe.,0.0 +Staggered his purpose. ' -- First he paused; then thus,2.0 +This fairest of the fair? I cannot ' -- no ' --,1.0 +I'll let her go untouched. But then must I,0.0 +"At last some wine he snatched, and eager drank",0.0 +"To drown his scruples, and to fire his soul.",1.0 +"Such aid the most abandoned oft require,",0.0 +When unsuspecting innocence at once,1.0 +"Tempts and forbids, more powerfully forbids,",3.0 +Than the persuasive eloquence of speech.,2.0 +"But the defence, which innocence can boast",2.0 +"With tears and mild entreaties, is but weak,",1.0 +"When love and wine unite their frantic powers,",1.0 +"And leaving virtue fainting in the rear,",0.0 +To lawless outrage falls the unwilling prey.,3.0 +"Heaven gave to man superior strength, that he",2.0 +"But he that dares pervert this given blessing,",1.0 +"To ruin and destroy their innocence,",2.0 +"Shall feel pursuing vengeance, nor escape",1.0 +"Her rod uplifted, nor avert the stroke.",5.0 +"Conviction's sword shall pierce him, and remorse",1.0 +"With all the tortures of the mind assail,",1.0 +Till he a victim falls to grim despair;,1.0 +Except repentance timely to his aid,1.0 +"While her attendant hope extends a ray,",1.0 +"To point where mercy spreads her healing wings,",0.0 +"Nor even with this is vengeance satisfied,",1.0 +"She'll still pursue with some external ills,",0.0 +"An outcast of society he roams,",3.0 +Alike discarded by his friends and foes;,1.0 +Perhaps assassination proves his end.,0.0 +Inflamed with hatred more than once with love.,0.0 +"Frantic with keen remorse and conscious guilt,",2.0 +Came to congratulate him; but the Prince,3.0 +"Shot from his eyes a keen malignant glance,",0.0 +"That spoke displeasure, and with threatening hand",1.0 +"Upheld, thus in an angry tone began:",1.0 +Nor ever dare approach my presence more.,0.0 +"Stepped back, and bowing with respectful awe,",2.0 +"Said, ' -- OH my Prince, why am I thus discarded?",2.0 +"I still remain thy well affected friend,",0.0 +"Ready to ' -- prompt me, interrupts the Prince",2.0 +To do some greater crime than I have done.,0.0 +"Abandon thy base principles, and learn",3.0 +It's virtue only constitutes a friend.,0.0 +"I'll hear no more of thee, replied the Prince;",2.0 +What were the pains I felt to those I feel?,1.0 +"An hell within me burns, and deep remorse,",0.0 +"That never dying worm, now gnaws my soul;",1.0 +"And thou, my instigator. Villain, flee,",1.0 +Lest this my crime I complicate with murder.,1.0 +Shall murder crown thy crime young man? ' -- it shall;,1.0 +"But thou the murdered, ' -- not the murderer.",2.0 +"I'll hence to Absalom, the brother kind",1.0 +Of this fair injured maid; he doubtless will,3.0 +"Avenge her wrongs, and show himself a brother.",0.0 +"He has a noble, calm, undaunted spirit;",0.0 +"Deliberately resolute, and fit",1.0 +"Shall not be slack to aggravate the crime,",0.0 +"And urge him on, or aid him, if required.",2.0 +But I must veil my real sentiments,6.0 +"With counterfeited sorrow, and observe",1.0 +"Each secret movement of his varying soul,",3.0 +"Returning from the fields, where he had been",1.0 +"In careless attitude, and smiled to see",0.0 +"With solitary gait, approached, then turned",0.0 +"Aside, as if to shun the Royal youth;",1.0 +"Which Absalom perceiving, stopped his mule,",1.0 +"And leaning on his neck, with courteous air",3.0 +"What mean those solemn looks, that downcast eye?",1.0 +Now peace and plenty bless our happy land:,1.0 +To every individual; but thou,1.0 +At this late hour; the day is in decline;,3.0 +"The shepherd's to their folds have led their flocks,",1.0 +"And to their peaceful homes are hastening. Come,",1.0 +"Return with me, my friend, nor farther go;",1.0 +"If ought distress thee, hide it not from me,",0.0 +I have an heart to feel for the distressed;,1.0 +An hand too ever ready to revenge,2.0 +The wrongs imposed by violence and injustice,3.0 +"Smile and be happy, said the Royal youth;",0.0 +"And rising from his leaning posture, looked",1.0 +"So gracefully endearing and so kind,",2.0 +"It's not for me to smile, most noble Prince,",1.0 +"Name but the villain, vengeance on his head",1.0 +Shall instant fall; this hand shall strike the blow.,0.0 +"Thy surface, and not groan? Whoever he be,",2.0 +The miscreant shall not see tomorrow' sun.,1.0 +Recall the fatal sentence; tis too much,1.0 +"To raise thine hand against a brother's life,",0.0 +"Thine elder brother ' -- Brother, said the Prince,",0.0 +And is it possible my brother thus,2.0 +"OH virtue, where dost thou reside, if not",2.0 +It cancels all the duty that I owe him;,0.0 +"Henceforth shall intercourse between us cease,",1.0 +"This purpose of my soul; ' -- I'll be thy friend,",1.0 +"Said Absalom. ' -- Then, onward as he passed,",3.0 +"O! happy I, no sooner have I lost",2.0 +"The favour of one Prince, but I have gained",1.0 +Another; Absalom is more aspiring;,1.0 +But pants to rule; he has a kingly spirit.,0.0 +"Once in his garden, as I lay concealed,",1.0 +"I heard him in soliloquy, O! to reign ' --",1.0 +To wield a sceptre and establish laws;,1.0 +"O! did the people seek to me for judgement,",1.0 +"And Princes wait for my decisive voice,",1.0 +Ere they the cause determined; could I hear,0.0 +"The loud applauding multitude exclaim,",0.0 +"Assume the kingdom ' -- Be it so, and I",1.0 +"Will be his ready agent, if he please,",1.0 +"To aid his plots, or form them. O! how sweet",1.0 +"The counsel that is framed to please our wills,",0.0 +How readily adopted; how despised,2.0 +"That which is adverse, be it ever so good.",2.0 +"But dear, dear self stands first in the account",3.0 +I pay external homage. If to me,1.0 +"This Absalom proves too imperious,",3.0 +"I'll aid the King, and keep myself secure.",1.0 +"All schemes and plots; then smiling as he went,",1.0 +With eager pace he hastened to his home.,1.0 +Of Absalom; but artfully he hides,2.0 +"The struggling passions; a composure feigned,",1.0 +Sits on his countenance with placid ease;,1.0 +"His servants there in readiness attend,",2.0 +Each anxious to receive the first command;,1.0 +The unwelcome greetings of imperious Lords.,4.0 +"Too oft do masters, void of judgement, cheque,",1.0 +"Which otherwise a servant's zeal would mark,",0.0 +Nor make distinction between good and bad;,2.0 +"But Absalom, with nicest judgement, scans",1.0 +"Is slowly cautious, and exactly just;",1.0 +"Though affable and courteous, yet he never",2.0 +"But with great dignity is nobly kind,",3.0 +"Reigns in their hearts, and by enlivening smiles",3.0 +"Encouraged, they spontaneously attend,",4.0 +"And love completes their servitude with joy,",0.0 +"So now, as always at their lord's approach,",0.0 +A secret transport thrilled through every heart.,0.0 +"The gate one opened, one received the mule,",1.0 +Tripped lightly over the pavement; and those eyes,4.0 +"Which ever spread serenity around,",1.0 +"Sparkled with seeming pleasure till he came,",3.0 +In the most striking attitude of woe;,0.0 +One trembling hand supported; the other hid,2.0 +"Among the fragments of her robe, which she",1.0 +In the first agonies of her grief had torn.,3.0 +"He stopped, turned pale; then in his changing face",1.0 +"Resentment flushed, and sorrow swelled his heart,",0.0 +"But like a torrent, which breaks down a bank",2.0 +"New raised to stop its course, so burst his grief",1.0 +Through all his feigned composure. In his arms,0.0 +"He clasped the grieving fair, and mutual tears",2.0 +"Proclaimed the anguish of their burdened hearts,",1.0 +"But though his sorrow thus had burst its bounds,",1.0 +"Revenge in ambush lurked, while thus the Prince",1.0 +"With soothing words his sister thus addressed, ' --",0.0 +I know the sad occasion of thy woe;,1.0 +"At length the power of speech returned, the fair",2.0 +"Heaved a deep sigh, and thus her moan began, ' --",3.0 +More cruel than the murderers deadly blow!,2.0 +Perhaps some years ' -- perhaps a day ' -- an hour:,0.0 +"But he that robs a woman of her honour,",2.0 +Robs her of more than life; ' -- a brother too,0.0 +"Still aggravates the guilt. ' -- OH purity,",3.0 +"Thou first of female charms, to thee we owe",2.0 +"Of this deprived, our most presumptuous claim",3.0 +Is cool compassion. OH dejected state!,0.0 +"That humble homage we receive from men,",1.0 +"In such proportion as our virtue fails,",2.0 +"More precious than fine gold or rubies, ' -- far",2.0 +"Which like gay meteors but excite our gaze,",4.0 +Then fade away. But this preeminence,2.0 +"No more I boast; now stamped with infamy,",2.0 +"That due respect, that deference ever paid",0.0 +To my exalted state shall hence be changed,1.0 +To scorn: though by the dignity of birth,2.0 +"Protected from low insult, can I escape",3.0 +"Or, the more humbling pity of the proud?",2.0 +Such moving strains in Absalom called forth,2.0 +"Who thus consoled her grief, ' -- thou never shalt be",0.0 +"Abandoned to the scorn of taunting dames,",1.0 +Who triumph in the downfall of the fair.,2.0 +My home be ever thine; in me behold,2.0 +"Thy guardian, brother, friend, companion kind.",2.0 +"IT shall be my earliest and my latest care,",1.0 +"Expect from me. His sister gave her hand,",1.0 +An earnest of conformity ' -- he pressed,2.0 +"The given pledge; her grateful heart replied, ' --",0.0 +"OH brother, always kind, now doubly so,",3.0 +"To open thy friendly arms in this distress,",3.0 +And take me to protection: I accept,2.0 +"Thy offered boon. Farewell, you courtly scenes;",1.0 +But here recluse and tranquil ever' bide;,1.0 +The internal calm of an untainted mind.,2.0 +"That God which raised my father to the throne,",1.0 +"And still protects him with his powerful arm,",3.0 +Shall be my all in all. To him I'll pray,1.0 +"Shall fire my theme, and fill my heavenly song.",2.0 +Now solemn evening drew her silent veil,1.0 +"Over smiling nature, and the pious King",1.0 +To the great sole dispenser of all good,3.0 +"To bless his son, and soon restore his health.",0.0 +"He scarce had ended prayer, when tidings came",0.0 +"Eager to learn, thus instantly replied,",4.0 +Go send him hither; welcome to my soul,2.0 +He doubtless comes to bring me news of him.,0.0 +"Is well! returned the astonished King, is well!",2.0 +"It's but few hours since I myself him saw,",4.0 +"Because I know he loves thee; go now to him,",2.0 +"Go act a friendly part, go comfort him,",3.0 +I can inform thee of the whole device,2.0 +"Of his pretended sickness. Then the King, ' --",1.0 +"I'll hear thee; ' -- but take heed thou slander not,",2.0 +"Nor censure him unjustly, on thy life.",2.0 +'Twas but a feint to lure his sister there,1.0 +"To his embraces, and he has succeeded.",2.0 +What do I hear? replied the King; my son,0.0 +With indignation flashing from his eyes;,1.0 +Forth from his house he rushed with hasty steps,0.0 +"Never ventured once to raise his downcast eyes,",1.0 +But speechless and confounded stood to hear,1.0 +His sharp rebuke; when thus the King began: ' --,0.0 +What hast thou done? Where are thy princely virtues,0.0 +Inculcated so long? Now blasted all.,3.0 +"The first in virtue, as the first in birth.",1.0 +"How can a Prince, himself debased with crimes,",1.0 +Aspire to judge and punish wicked men?,0.0 +"In which of all my sons can I confide,",1.0 +"Thou bitter herb, ' -- thou blemish of my honour;",1.0 +How can I brook this foul disgrace? Must I,1.0 +"For ever bear confusion in my face,",0.0 +"And blush for thee, thou worse than enemy?",2.0 +And bursting into tears withdrew. ' -- The King,0.0 +"Returned with anger burning in his breast,",0.0 +Mingled with sorrow for his daughter's wrongs;,3.0 +"My daughter! O! my daughter! he exclaimed,",2.0 +I would avenge thy wrongs; but o! if I,1.0 +"Avenge my daughter, I destroy my son.",1.0 +"Then, all a father's tenderness prevailed,",1.0 +"He wept, ' -- his wrath subsided and he paused,",1.0 +His own past failings rising in his mind;,1.0 +His guilty love for Bathsheba ' -- he sighed,4.0 +"Her murdered husband; shuddering at the thought,",1.0 +"But suffering and forbearance. ' -- Then the King,",1.0 +"As if the stroke came from the hand of Heaven,",3.0 +"Fell prostrate to the earth, submitting thus:",2.0 +"Righteous art thou, OH Lord, and all thy judgements just,",2.0 +"Doubled by the before displeasure of the King,",4.0 +"Sat down and wept, while tears supplied their streams.",0.0 +"Then rising, walked about with restless steps,",0.0 +And thus in bitter agonies complained:,1.0 +"What am I now, and where? Of late I pined",0.0 +"In hopeless love, yet then I had some stay,",0.0 +"An heart-felt innocence, that could support",2.0 +And cheer the drooping spirits. But alas!,1.0 +"Virtue has left me now, and I'm exposed;",3.0 +"Exposed to what? to what, alas! I know not;",0.0 +"It's Hell itself bursts in upon my soul,",1.0 +And pours forth all its torments. ' -- Terrors! Death!,2.0 +Where art thou gone? for ever banished hence.,0.0 +"Arise you thickest mists, you darkest clouds",0.0 +"Overcast those twinkling stars. OH sable night,",1.0 +"Wrap me in deepest shades, nor let a beam",0.0 +Of penetrating light expose me more;,0.0 +Darkness is fitted to the guilty mind,3.0 +That shrinks and starts at every glimmering ray.,2.0 +But o! it is not in the power of darkness,3.0 +To hide the hated self from self; within,0.0 +"A sacred light perpetually shines,",1.0 +"That vainly struggles to compose the mind,",1.0 +"But peace, the guest of innocence alone,",1.0 +"Takes an eternal leave when guilt intrudes,",2.0 +And now has took eternal leave of me.,0.0 +Ah! wretched me! O! curse on vicious friends!,1.0 +"My father still had smiled on me with joy,",1.0 +Nor had I trembled at his chiding frowns;,0.0 +"Absalom would have called me brother still,",1.0 +"But now he'll own me not. ' -- This slight is just,",0.0 +And this the least part of my punishment;,4.0 +For inward guilt has yet severer pangs.,1.0 +"So wandered he, complaining half the night,",1.0 +"Then sought for rest in sleep, but sought in vain:",0.0 +Terrific dreams invade his wished repose.,0.0 +"He sleeps, starts, wakes; ' -- then sleeps and starts again;",1.0 +"And rises soon, but not to meet the morn",0.0 +The loss of that sweet calm that ever dwells,1.0 +Within the guiltless breast; and in the world,0.0 +Dwells no one more entitled to the bliss,2.0 +He therefore more severely feels the loss,1.0 +For having tasted in its first degree,0.0 +The peaceful path of virtue to pursue,1.0 +"Grasping at shadows of felicity,",4.0 +Till overtaken by her evil train,1.0 +"Of shame, remorse, confusion, and despair?",1.0 +While in the avenging hand of Absalom,2.0 +"Death lurking lies. ' -- The ambitious Prince, resolved",3.0 +"At once to avenge his sister, and remove",3.0 +"An obstacle betwixt him and the crown,",2.0 +With unremitting vigilance attends,1.0 +"The destined youth, and steal away his life.",0.0 +His dreaded presence; not with dread of death;,0.0 +"That few can brave, deterred the timid youth.",0.0 +Two years within the breast of Absalom,2.0 +"Revenge in ambush lurked, while in his face",1.0 +The mildest gentleness and sweetness played:,1.0 +While on earth's teeming surface gaily smiles,2.0 +"Overturn the mountains, and the crumbling mould",1.0 +Buries the blooming beauties that it bore:,2.0 +So he unable longer to contain,2.0 +Determined by some bold and desperate stroke,1.0 +"Consulted, who thus readily advised: ' --",2.0 +"Assume the friend, ' -- entice him to thine house;",1.0 +The credulous youth will never suspect a fraud.,4.0 +"Now is the time, now comes the yearly feast",1.0 +When shepherd's fleece their flocks: make him thy guest,2.0 +With all thy brothers: when with mirth and wine,0.0 +"His heart's elate, how easy will it be",1.0 +To give the final blow. With lowering brow,2.0 +"Adopted, and a sullen gloom overcast",4.0 +His lively features. Stern as that grim Lord,1.0 +"That through the forest takes his fearless way,",0.0 +With high deportment Absalom retired.,1.0 +"Returning summer now came smiling on,",2.0 +Exciting every peaceful breast to mirth;,0.0 +"Awoke his grief, and from his couch he rose",1.0 +"Ere yet the approaching day began to dawn,",1.0 +While the full moon reigned mistress of the night.,5.0 +"Sleep on, you sons of innocence and ease,",1.0 +As from his window high he cast a look,1.0 +"Over the silent streets, for not a voice",2.0 +Disturbed the solemn hour sleep on ' -- sleep on:,0.0 +"So was I wont to sleep away the night,",1.0 +"Rise with the morn, and in the day rejoice:",0.0 +"But now in morn or night, or sleep or' wake,",0.0 +I feel no joy. O that I could forget,1.0 +"I once was happy! O that this one step,",2.0 +"One erring step, should kill my peace for ever.",0.0 +"OH moon, I blush beneath thy silver beams;",1.0 +"A modest virgin, innocent and fair,",1.0 +Strikes terror to my soul: to me she seems,3.0 +Exalted high above my fallen state:,0.0 +"If such an one I venture to approach,",2.0 +"I instantly recoil, and justly pay",1.0 +A secret adoration to the breast,1.0 +Of innocence; for O! what parity,3.0 +Can there subsist betwixt innocence and guilt?,6.0 +Harrow the heart and aggravate the sense:,2.0 +But yet that aggravation poised against,0.0 +"The pangs of guilt, is of but little weight:",1.0 +"The world offended may again be won,",1.0 +"When the heart, firmly steeled with innocence,",3.0 +And smiles at powerless envy. ' -- But alas!,3.0 +"To me returns, whether of day or night,",6.0 +Aid sharp reflection and new point its spears.,3.0 +Now waking birds in cheerful concert join.,1.0 +Their every note proclaims them innocent.,1.0 +The Prince retires with melancholy steps,0.0 +"Into his garden, where recluse and still",0.0 +"Beneath the arching boughs of shady trees,",0.0 +"With head declined and arms locked round his breast,",1.0 +"Till interrupted by a messenger,",2.0 +"Who, with due deference approaching near,",3.0 +"Thus spoke: OH Prince, I come from Absalom,",3.0 +"Thee, with thy Royal brothers, to partake",2.0 +"The feast, and spend with him the day in mirth.",1.0 +Surprise and pleasure rushed into his heart,0.0 +"At such an unexpected invitation,",0.0 +"Which he accepted, nor did hesitate",2.0 +That fearless trusts itself to every arm,0.0 +That opens to receive it. With quick step,2.0 +"He paces to and fro; his bosom glows,",1.0 +And thus anticipates the expected bliss.,2.0 +OH joyful day when I again shall meet,2.0 +"My dear offended brother, whom so long",0.0 +Greatly exceeds my most adventurous hope:,4.0 +"Forgetful of my faults, he kindly now",1.0 +"Invites me to his house, without reproach",1.0 +Or intimation of my late misdeeds.,1.0 +"Yes, my good brother, I will be thy guest ' --",1.0 +My grateful heart overflows; I now could fall,3.0 +"Down at thy feet, and from thy hand receive",1.0 +"In humble strain and true repentant heart,",0.0 +"All day and night, till in the morning fair,",0.0 +"The foremost of the princely cavalcade,",2.0 +Now Absalom with secret pleasure sees,2.0 +Assiduously in comely dress arrayed,1.0 +"His lovely person, lovely in extreme:",0.0 +His peer in beauty; for from head to foot,1.0 +"No blemish, no deformity was seen,",2.0 +"But well proportioned limbs, and features fair,",0.0 +That gives to beauty power. The conscious Prince,2.0 +Omitted no external ornament,1.0 +"That might, if possible, such gifts improve:",1.0 +"But looking at his spotless hands, he said, ' --",0.0 +Must these be died in blood? a brother's blood?,0.0 +"No, I have servants, they shall give the blow.",1.0 +"Then to and fro he through his chamber stalked,",1.0 +Revolving in his mind the consequence,1.0 +"Of opening his design. He paused, he thought",3.0 +"His servants might refuse ' -- or worse, betray.",0.0 +"At length he says, ' -- I'm wrong to censure them;",1.0 +I'll trust them now. Then called he those he loved:,1.0 +"They came. He says, You have done all things well",1.0 +"According to my order for this feast,",2.0 +"But on your cares I can so well depend,",2.0 +That whatsoever is given to your charge,3.0 +You true and faithful; therefore I make choice,3.0 +Of you for my accomplices this day:,3.0 +"It's not intended for a day of mirth,",1.0 +"As it appears, and must as yet appear",1.0 +"Be you prepared, and when I give the word,",1.0 +His servants tremble at the dire command.,0.0 +"Why tremble you? said Absalom, fear not,",4.0 +It's I command you ' -- all the deed is mine;,1.0 +"You are but instruments within my grasp,",2.0 +"In taking vengeance for the atrocious crime,",3.0 +Let all that guilt be mine: since justice sleeps,1.0 +"In his fond father's hand, it's right that I",2.0 +"Assume the power, and on his impious head",3.0 +Us to evade the storm that will ensue:,2.0 +"Soon as the wound is given, we'll mount and flee;",2.0 +"Swift as the sweeping winds we'll over the hills,",2.0 +"And leave the King to bury him, and mourn.",1.0 +"His servants, more by love than duty bound,",0.0 +All bowed obedient to his sovereign will.,2.0 +And faltering voice thus ventured to address,4.0 +"The offended brother: ' -- OH my Absalom,",2.0 +"Forgive, he said ' -- and interrupting tears",0.0 +"Pleading more powerfully than eloquence,",4.0 +And in his feeling soul a conflict raised,0.0 +Betwixt his brother's life and sister's fame:,0.0 +He silent paused; but in his breast revenge,0.0 +Was too deep rooted by a two year's growth,3.0 +For one soft moment to eradicate:,3.0 +I did not send for thee to weep and mourn;,1.0 +Today I have a feast; this prosperous year,2.0 +Increasing flocks increase the shepherd's joy:,0.0 +"Rejoice with me, my brother, and be glad.",2.0 +"Then did he warmly press his hand, and point",0.0 +"Then fat him down, forgot his grief and smiled.",1.0 +"Wine in profusion sparkled in the bowls,",1.0 +Inspiring social mirth; they freely quaffed;,0.0 +Lest it relax his stern determination;,1.0 +"Pressing on all the intoxicating cup,",2.0 +"Till mirth predominates, and every heart",0.0 +Expands with social freedom; Absalom,1.0 +Then gives the fatal word; his servants plunge,0.0 +"The destined dart, and from the Prince's side",1.0 +"In consternation those whom vengeance spared,",1.0 +Each trembling for his life; confused they fled:,1.0 +"Mingling with gore, the wine in currents flowed;",1.0 +"While, rolling in the flood, the murdered Prince",0.0 +"Alone, in all the agonies of woe,",1.0 +"Groaned out his soul, and closed his eyes in death.",0.0 +"A Muse expiring, who with earliest voice,",2.0 +"Now on her death bed, the last homage pays,",3.0 +"OH Queen, to thee; accept her dying lays.",2.0 +"To warble one note more, and singing dies.",2.0 +"Hail mighty Queen, whose powerful smiles alone",3.0 +Command obedience and secure the throne.,3.0 +"Contending parties, and Plebeian rage,",1.0 +Had puzzled Loyalty for half an age:,1.0 +Conquering our hearts you end the long dispute;,1.0 +All who have eyes confess you absolute;,0.0 +"To Tory doctrines even Whigs resign,",0.0 +And in your person own the right divine.,0.0 +"Thus sung the Muse, in her last moments fired",3.0 +"With CAROLINA'S praise, and then expired.",0.0 +Throws a faint gleam upon the troubled waves;,3.0 +"Their foaming tops, as they approach the shore",1.0 +And the broad surf that never ceasing breaks,2.0 +"Of the pale Sun, that with reluctance gives",3.0 +"To this cold northern Isle, its shortened day.",2.0 +Alas! how few the morning wakes to joy!,0.0 +How many murmur at oblivious night,2.0 +For leaving them so soon; for bearing thus,1.0 +"Their fancied bliss the only bliss they taste!,",0.0 +On her black wings away! ' -- Changing the dreams,7.0 +"That soothed their sorrows, for calamities",2.0 +And every day brings its own sad proportion,2.0 +"For doubts, diseases, abject dread of Death,",0.0 +"That views the day star, but to curse his beams.",2.0 +"Yet He, whose Spirit into being called",0.0 +This wondrous World of Waters; He who bids,1.0 +"The wild wind lift them till they dash the clouds,",2.0 +"And speaks to them in thunder; or whose breath,",2.0 +"Low murmuring over the gently heaving tides,",5.0 +"When the fair Moon, in summer night serene,",3.0 +"Their undulating surface; that great Power,",1.0 +"Who, governing the Planets, also knows",1.0 +In these incumbent cliffs; He surely means,1.0 +"To us, his reasoning Creatures, whom He bids",3.0 +"Acknowledge and revere his awful hand,",1.0 +"Nothing but good: Yet Man, misguided Man,",1.0 +"Mars the fair work that he was bid enjoy,",1.0 +And makes himself the evil he deplores.,1.0 +"How often, when my weary soul recoils",0.0 +"From proud oppression, and from legal crimes",1.0 +"For such are in this Land, where the vain boast",2.0 +"Of equal Law is mockery, while the cost",1.0 +Of seeking for redress is sure to plunge,1.0 +The already injured to more certain ruin,2.0 +"And the wretch starves, before his Counsel pleads",2.0 +Guard from the strong South West; where round their base,1.0 +"The Beach wide flourishes, and the light Ash",3.0 +There do I wish to hide me; well content,0.0 +"If on the short grass, strewn with fairy flowers,",2.0 +I might repose thus sheltered; or when Eve,2.0 +"In Orient crimson lingers in the west,",6.0 +"Gain the high mound, and mark these waves remote",3.0 +"Lucid though distant, blushing with the rays",3.0 +"For I have thought, that I should then behold",1.0 +"And less affected then, by human woes",0.0 +I witnessed not; might better learn to bear,0.0 +"Those that injustice, and duplicity",2.0 +"For never yet could I derive relief,",1.0 +"When my swollen heart was bursting with its sorrows,",1.0 +"From the sad thought, that others like myself",3.0 +Live but to swell affliction's countless tribes!,0.0 +' -- Tranquil seclusion I have vainly sought;,3.0 +"Peace, who delights in solitary shade,",1.0 +"No more will spread for me her downy wings,",1.0 +"Was doomed to heave the still rebounding rock,",0.0 +"Onward I labour; as the baffled wave,",2.0 +"With the next breath of wind, to fail again. ' --",1.0 +"That not the Cot sequestered, where the briar",0.0 +Scarce seen amid the forest gloom obscure!,1.0 +"Or more substantial farm, well fenced and warm,",1.0 +"By dark firs shaded, or the aspiring pine,",4.0 +Close by the village Church with care concealed,0.0 +"By verdant foliage, lest the poor man's grave",2.0 +"Should mar the smiling prospect of his Lord,",1.0 +"Where offices well ranged, or dovecote stocked,",2.0 +"Or any of the buildings, new and trim",1.0 +"With windows circling towards the restless Sea,",0.0 +"Which ranged in rows, now terminate my walk,",1.0 +"Can shut out for an hour the spectre Care,",1.0 +"That from the dawn of reason, follows still",0.0 +"Unhappy Mortals, till the friendly grave",1.0 +"Behold, in witness of this mournful truth,",1.0 +"A group approach me, whose dejected looks,",0.0 +Sad Heralds of distress! proclaim them Men,2.0 +Banished for ever and for conscience sake,3.0 +"From their distracted Country, whence the name",1.0 +"Of Freedom misapplied, and much abused",0.0 +"By lawless Anarchy, has driven them far",3.0 +To wander; with the prejudice they learnt,2.0 +"That Germane spoilers, through that pleasant land",5.0 +"Of War and Vengeance; yet unhappy Men,",0.0 +"Whatever your errors, I lament your fate:",4.0 +"Upon the barrier of the rock, and seem",1.0 +Some fortunate reverse that never comes;,1.0 +Who in a moping cloister long consumed,0.0 +"This life inactive, to obtain a better,",1.0 +"From his hard pallet with the midnight bell,",4.0 +"And to renounce God's works, would please that God.",2.0 +"And now the poor pale wretch receives, amazed,",1.0 +"The pity, strangers give to his distress,",1.0 +"Because these strangers are, by his dark creed,",2.0 +Condemned as Heretics ' -- and with sick heart,1.0 +"Another, of more haughty port, declines",1.0 +The aid he needs not; while in mute despair,0.0 +"His high indignant thoughts go back to France,",1.0 +"Dwelling on all he lost ' -- the Gothic dome,",1.0 +"Where, amid clouds of incense, he held forth",3.0 +To kneeling crowds the imaginary bones,2.0 +And still with more than living Monarchs' pomp,1.0 +Surrounded; was believed by mumbling bigots,1.0 +"To hold the keys of Heaven, and to admit",1.0 +Whom he thought good to share it ' -- Now alas!,0.0 +"He, to whose daring soul and high ambition",1.0 +"The World seemed circumscribed; who, wont to dream",1.0 +"Who trod on Empire, and whose politics",1.0 +"Were not beyond the grasp of his vast mind,",1.0 +"By disbelief, and rites unorthodox,",0.0 +"The object of compassion ' -- At his side,",1.0 +"Lighter of heart than these, but heavier far",5.0 +"Than he was wont, another victim comes,",1.0 +"Which, sanguine as he is, he does not feel,",2.0 +And so he cheats the sad and weighty pressure,1.0 +"Of evils present; ' -- Still, as Men misled",0.0 +"By early prejudice so hard to break,",1.0 +I mourn your sorrows; for I too have known,1.0 +Involuntary exile; and while yet,2.0 +"England had charms for me, have felt how sad",2.0 +"It is to look across the dim cold sea,",2.0 +Between us and the dear regretted land,1.0 +We call our own ' -- as now you pensive wait,0.0 +"On this bleak morning, gazing on the waves",3.0 +That seem to leave your shore; from whence the wind,0.0 +"Is loaded to your ears, with the deep groans",2.0 +"Of martyred Saints and suffering Royalty,",1.0 +While to your eyes the avenging power of Heaven,4.0 +Appears in awful anger to prepare,1.0 +"The storm of vengeance, fraught with plagues and death.",0.0 +"Even he of milder heart, who was indeed",2.0 +"The simple shepherd in a rustic scene,",0.0 +"Taught to the barefoot peasant, whose hard hands",2.0 +Submission to the Lord for whom he toiled;,1.0 +"Enforced religious patience, when, at times,",0.0 +On their indignant hearts Power's iron hand,6.0 +Too strongly struck; eliciting some sparks,2.0 +Of the bold spirit of their native North;,3.0 +"Even these Parochial Priests, these humbled men,",3.0 +Whose lowly undistinguished cottages,1.0 +"Witnessed a life of purest piety,",3.0 +"While the meek tenants were, perhaps, unknown",3.0 +"Each to the haughty Lord of his domain,",1.0 +"The poor and pious Priest, as with slow pace",1.0 +He glided through the dim arched avenue,2.0 +Which to the Castle led; hoping to cheer,5.0 +The last sad hour of some laborious life,3.0 +That hastened to its close ' -- even such a Man,5.0 +Becomes an exile; staying not to try,1.0 +"By temperate zeal to cheque his maddening flock,",0.0 +"Who, at the novel sound of Liberty",1.0 +"Ah! most intoxicating sound to slaves!,",0.0 +"Start into licence ' -- Lo! dejected now,",1.0 +"The wandering Pastor mourns, with bleeding heart,",2.0 +"His erring people, weeps and prays for them,",0.0 +To Heaven for souls entrusted to his care. ' --,1.0 +"A softer form reclines; around her run,",0.0 +"Her gay unconscious children, soon amused;",1.0 +"Who pick the fretted stone, or glossy shell,",0.0 +Or crimson plant marine: or they contrive,1.0 +"The fairy vessel, with its ribbon sail",1.0 +"And gilded paper pennant: in the pool,",0.0 +"Left by the salt wave on the yielding sands,",2.0 +They launch the mimic navy ' -- Happy age!,0.0 +"Alas! too long a victim to distress,",2.0 +"Their Mother, lost in melancholy thought,",0.0 +Lulled for a moment by the murmurs low,1.0 +"Of sullen billows, wearied by the task",1.0 +"Of having here, with swollen and aching eyes",2.0 +"Fixed on the grey horizon, since the dawn",0.0 +"From her dear native land, now yields awhile",3.0 +"In waking dreams, that native land again!",0.0 +"Versailles appears ' -- its painted galleries,",1.0 +"Where, by long mirrors multiplied, the crowd",2.0 +"Paid willing homage ' -- and, united there,",3.0 +Beauty gave charms to empire ' -- Ah! too soon,4.0 +"From the gay visionary pageant roused,",2.0 +"See the sad mourner start! ' -- and, drooping, look",3.0 +With tearful eyes and heaving bosom round,0.0 +"Urged by the rising wind, unheeded foam",0.0 +Near her cold rugged seat: ' -- To call her thence,2.0 +"Cheques, but conceals not quite, the martial air,",2.0 +"And that high consciousness of noble blood,",2.0 +Which he has learnt from infancy to think,1.0 +Exalts him over the race of common men:,2.0 +"Nursed in the velvet lap of luxury,",1.0 +"And fed by adulation ' -- could he learn,",0.0 +That worth alone is true Nobility?,1.0 +"Displays distinguished merit, is a Noble",1.0 +"Of Nature's own creation! ' -- If even here,",2.0 +"If in this land of highly vaunted Freedom,",0.0 +Can it be relished by the sons of France?,2.0 +"Men, who derive their boasted ancestry",2.0 +"From the fierce leaders of religious wars,",3.0 +Accustomed to regard the splendid trophies,1.0 +Of Heraldry that with fantastic hand,2.0 +"Mingles, like images in feverish dreams,",5.0 +"With painted puns, and visionary shapes;,",0.0 +"See not the simple dignity of Virtue,",1.0 +Has dwelled amid the artificial scenes,0.0 +"Of populous City, deems that splendid shows,",2.0 +"The Theatre, and pageant pomp of Courts,",1.0 +Are only worth regard; forgets all taste,0.0 +For Nature's genuine beauty; in the lapse,2.0 +"Of gushing waters hears no soothing sound,",1.0 +"Nor listens with delight to sighing winds,",1.0 +"Nor gazes pleased on Ocean's silver breast,",0.0 +While lightly over it sails the summer clouds,2.0 +"Reflected in the wave, that, hardly heard,",0.0 +"Flows on the yellow sands: so to his mind,",1.0 +That long has lived where Despotism hides,0.0 +"His features harsh, beneath the diadem",0.0 +"Of worldly grandeur, abject Slavery seems,",7.0 +"If by that power imposed, slavery no more:",8.0 +"And hides the ugly rivets with her flowers,",1.0 +"The glitter of the chains, forget their weight.",1.0 +"Feel all the horrors of the fatal change,",1.0 +"When their ephemeral greatness, marred at once",3.0 +As a vain toy that Fortune's childish hand,2.0 +Leaves them exposed to universal scorn,2.0 +For having nothing else; not even the claim,2.0 +"To honour, which respect for Heroes past",2.0 +"Allows to ancient titles; Men, like these,",0.0 +"Sink even beneath the level, whence base arts",4.0 +And know that they deserve the woes they feel.,1.0 +"Over these bleak russet downs; where, dimly seen,",2.0 +The solitary Shepherd shivering tends,2.0 +"Him, whom in song the Poet's fancy crowns",0.0 +"Whom no abode receives, no parish owns;",1.0 +"Roving, like Nature's commoners, the land",3.0 +That boasts such general plenty: if the sight,1.0 +"A while, suspend your murmurs! ' -- here behold",0.0 +The strange vicissitudes of fate ' -- while thus,1.0 +"The exiled Nobles, from their country driven,",2.0 +"Whose richest luxuries were their's, must feel",2.0 +"More poignant anguish, than the lowest poor,",1.0 +"Of base corruption, who, in quick ascent",0.0 +"Giddy with pride, and as you rise, forgetting",3.0 +"The dust you lately left, with scorn look down",2.0 +On those beneath you though your equals once,2.0 +"In fortune, and in worth superior still,",3.0 +"They view the eminence, on which you stand,",1.0 +"With wonder, not with envy; for they know",1.0 +"The means, by which you reached it, have been such",0.0 +"As, in all honest eyes, degrade you far",0.0 +Reluctant pleads for what your pride denies;,0.0 +You pampered Parasites! whom Britons pay,0.0 +For forging fetters for them; rather here,1.0 +Study a lesson that concerns you much;,2.0 +"And, trembling, learn, that if oppressed too long,",2.0 +"The raging multitude, to madness stung,",0.0 +"Will turn on their oppressors'; and, no more",1.0 +By sounding titles and parading forms,1.0 +"Bound like tame victims, will redress themselves!",3.0 +"Not only all your pomp may disappear,",0.0 +"But, in the tempest lost, fair Order sink",1.0 +"Her decent head, and lawless Anarchy",1.0 +Overturn celestial Freedom's radiant throne; ' --,0.0 +"As now in Gallia; where Confusion, born",0.0 +"Of party rage and selfish love of rule,",0.0 +Sully the noblest cause that ever warmed,2.0 +"The infernal passions; Vengeance, seeking blood,",1.0 +"Pollute the immortal shrine of Liberty,",3.0 +"Respect is due to principle; and they,",1.0 +"Who suffer for their conscience, have a claim,",1.0 +"Whatever that principle may be, to praise.",4.0 +To them the bonds of honour; who resigned,3.0 +"Their country to preserve them, and now seek",2.0 +In England an asylum ' -- well deserve,1.0 +"To find that every prejudice forgot,",1.0 +"Which pride and ignorance teaches, we for them",3.0 +"Feel as our brothers; and that English hearts,",1.0 +"Of just compassion ever own the sway,",0.0 +"As truly as our element, the deep,",2.0 +Obeys the mild dominion of the Moon ' --,1.0 +This they have found; and may they find it still!,2.0 +"By Reason's generous potency subdued,",3.0 +In acts of pure humanity! ' -- May thine,1.0 +Be still such bloodless laurels! nobler far,1.0 +"Or of more recent growth, those well bestowed",1.0 +"Amid the thunder of a warring world,",1.0 +Illustrious rather from the crowds he saved,3.0 +"From flood and fire, than from the ranks who fell",1.0 +"Like incense rising to the Throne of Heaven,",2.0 +"Far better justify the pride, that swells",1.0 +"Of Victory from a thousand brazen throats,",1.0 +Has by our brave Compatriots thinned the world.,2.0 +"Lights her pale crescent even at noon, has made",5.0 +"Four times her revolution; since with step,",1.0 +"Pensive I took my solitary way,",2.0 +"Not my own wayward destiny alone,",1.0 +"Hard as it is, and difficult to bear!",2.0 +But in beholding the unhappy lot,1.0 +"Of wild disastrous Anarchy, are thrown,",1.0 +"To see, perhaps, no more their native land,",1.0 +"Where Desolation riots: They, like me,",1.0 +"From fairer hopes and happier prospects driven,",2.0 +"Shrink from the future, and regret the past.",1.0 +"But on this Upland scene, while April comes,",1.0 +"With fragrant airs, to fan my throbbing breast,",0.0 +"Fain would I snatch an interval from Care,",1.0 +That weighs my wearied spirit down to earth;,1.0 +"Courting, once more, the influence of Hope",1.0 +For Hope still waits upon the flowery prime,3.0 +As here I mark Spring's humid hand unfold,1.0 +"The early leaves that fear capricious winds,",0.0 +"While, even on sheltered banks, the timid flowers",2.0 +"Give, half reluctantly, their warmer hues",2.0 +"That, startled, darts across the narrow path;",0.0 +"But quickly reassured, resumes his task,",0.0 +Or adds his louder notes to those that rise,1.0 +From yonder tufted brake; where the white buds,1.0 +Of the first thorn are mingled with the leaves,3.0 +Of that which blossoms on the brow of May.,1.0 +"Since, on my native hills, I learnt to gaze",0.0 +On these delightful landscapes; and those years,3.0 +"Have taught me so much sorrow, that my soul",1.0 +Feels not the joy reviving Nature brings;,0.0 +"But, in dark retrospect, dejected dwells",1.0 +"On human follies, and on human woes. ' --",1.0 +"What is the promise of the infant year,",1.0 +"To those, who shrink from horrors such as War",2.0 +"Back on the past they throw their mournful looks,",0.0 +"And see the Temple, which they fondly hoped",0.0 +"Reason would raise to Liberty, destroyed",3.0 +"Flushed with hot blood, the Fiend of Discord sits",3.0 +In savage triumph; mocking every plea,0.0 +"Of policy and justice, as she shows",2.0 +"The headless corpse of one, whose only crime",1.0 +"Was being born a Monarch ' -- Mercy turns,",0.0 +"From spectacle so dire, her swollen eyes;",1.0 +"And Liberty, with calm, unruffled brow",1.0 +"Magnanimous, as conscious of her strength",2.0 +"Her righteous cause with carnage, and resigns",1.0 +To Fraud and Anarchy the infuriate crowd. ' --,4.0 +What is the promise of the infant year,1.0 +"To those, who while the poor but peaceful hind",0.0 +"Pens, unmolested, the increasing flock",2.0 +"Survey, in neighbouring countries, scenes that make",2.0 +"The sick heart shudder; and the Man, who thinks,",2.0 +Blush for his species? There the trumpet's voice,1.0 +Drowns the soft warbling of the woodland choir;,4.0 +"Beneath the flowering thorn, are stained with blood.",2.0 +"The hope of cultivation; gives to Fiends,",0.0 +"The blasted land ' -- There, taunting in the van",0.0 +"Famine, and Sword, and Fire, crouch for employment. ' --",4.0 +"Crouch for employment. ' -- Lo! the suffering world,",2.0 +"Torn by the fearful conflict, shrinks, amazed,",0.0 +"From Freedom's name, usurped and misapplied,",1.0 +"And, cowering to the purple Tyrant's rod,",3.0 +Deems that the lesser ill ' -- Deluded Men!,0.0 +Or catalogue the thousands that have bled,0.0 +"Resisting her; or those, who greatly died",2.0 +Martyrs to Liberty ' -- revert awhile,3.0 +"To the black scroll, that tells of regal crimes",2.0 +Committed to destroy her; rather count,1.0 +Beneath a single despot; or who gave,1.0 +Their wasted lives for some disputed claim,0.0 +O! polished perturbation! ' -- golden care!,0.0 +So strangely coveted by feeble Man,1.0 +"To lift him over his fellows; ' -- Toy, for which",2.0 +"Unfortunate his lot, whose luckless head",1.0 +"And who, by custom's laws, obtains from thee",0.0 +"Hereditary right to rule, unchecked,",0.0 +It promised to protect ' -- Unhappy France!,1.0 +"If ever thy lilies, trampled now in dust,",2.0 +"By voluntary hands; and Freemen, such",2.0 +"As England's self might boast, unite to place",1.0 +"The guarded diadem on his fair brow,",1.0 +Where Loyalty may join with Liberty,2.0 +To fix it firmly. ' -- In the rugged school,0.0 +"Of stern Adversity so early trained,",1.0 +"His future life, perchance, may emulate",5.0 +The darling of his people; who revered,1.0 +"The Warrior less, than they adored the Man!",1.0 +"But never may Party Rage, perverse and blind,",2.0 +"And base Venality, prevail to raise",1.0 +"To public trust, a wretch, whose private vice",0.0 +Makes even the wildest profligate recoil;,3.0 +The laws of Nature and Humanity!,2.0 +"Wading, beneath the Patriot's specious mask,",4.0 +To empire through a stream of kindred blood ' --,1.0 +Innocent prisoner! ' -- most unhappy heir,2.0 +"Of fatal greatness, who art suffering now",0.0 +For all the crimes and follies of thy race;,1.0 +"Better for thee, if over thy baby brow",3.0 +The regal mischief never had been held:,0.0 +"Then, in an humble sphere, perhaps content,",0.0 +"Of chestnut, pine, and oak: as on these hills",2.0 +"Is yonder little thoughtless shepherd lad,",0.0 +"Who, on the slope abrupt of downy turf",0.0 +"While, half forgetful of his simple task,",1.0 +"Hardly his lengthening shadow, or the bells'",4.0 +"To the brown fallows in the vale beneath,",1.0 +"Where nightly it is folded, from his sport",2.0 +Recall the happy idler. ' -- While I gaze,0.0 +"On his gay vacant countenance, my thoughts",3.0 +"Compare with his obscure, laborious lot,",3.0 +"Thine, most unfortunate, imperial Boy!",3.0 +"The savage howl of Murder, as it seeks",1.0 +"Thy wretched Mother, petrified with grief,",0.0 +"Views thee with stony eyes, and cannot weep! ' --",0.0 +"Ah! much I mourn thy sorrows, hapless Queen!",0.0 +"For every fault, to which Prosperity",1.0 +"Betrayed thee, when it placed thee on a throne",1.0 +"Where boundless power was thine, and thou wert raised",2.0 +High as it seemed above the envious reach,2.0 +"Of destiny! Whatever thy errors were,",5.0 +Be they no more remembered; though the rage,3.0 +"Of Party swelled them to such crimes, as bade",1.0 +Compassion stifle every sigh that rose,0.0 +For thy disastrous lot ' -- More than enough,2.0 +"Thou hast endured; and every English heart,",0.0 +"Even those, that highest beat in Freedom's cause,",1.0 +"Disclaim as base, and of that cause unworthy,",1.0 +"The Vengeance, or the Fear, that makes thee still",1.0 +"From sad experience, more than I, to feel",2.0 +More dear to thee than life! But eminence,2.0 +"Of misery is thine, as once of joy;",2.0 +"And, as we view the strange vicissitude,",3.0 +"We ask anew, where happiness is found? ' --",1.0 +"Alas! in rural life, where youthful dreams",0.0 +"See the Arcadia that Romance describes,",4.0 +Not even Content resides! ' -- In yonder low hut,3.0 +"Of clay and thatch, where rises the grey smoke",2.0 +"From the first dawn of twilight, till the Sun",3.0 +"Sinks in the rosy waters of the West,",1.0 +Finds that with poverty it cannot dwell;,1.0 +"For bread, and scanty bread, is all he earns",0.0 +"For him and for his household ' -- Should Disease,",2.0 +"And from the Parish the reluctant dole,",2.0 +"Dealt by the unfeeling farmer, hardly saves",1.0 +The lingering spark of life from cold extinction:,0.0 +"Then the bright Sun of Spring, that smiling bids",2.0 +"Crept from his pallet, the emaciate wretch",2.0 +"Attempt, with feeble effort, to resume",1.0 +"Some heavy task, above his wasted strength,",0.0 +Turning his wistful looks how much in vain!,2.0 +"To the deserted mansion, where no more",2.0 +"The owner gone to gayer scenes resides,",0.0 +"Who made even luxury, Virtue; while he gave",3.0 +The scattered crumbs to honest Poverty. ' --,1.0 +"But, though the landscape be too oft deformed",3.0 +"By figures such as these, yet Peace is here,",2.0 +"And over our valleys, clothed with springing corn,",2.0 +"No hostile hoof shall trample, nor fierce flames",3.0 +Gradual the laughing May's luxuriant shade;,3.0 +"For, by the rude sea guarded, we are safe,",3.0 +And feel not evils such as with deep sighs,2.0 +"The Emigrants deplore, as they recall",2.0 +"The Summer past, when Nature seemed to lose",0.0 +"With seasons all reversed, destructive War.",0.0 +"Shuddering, I view the pictures they have drawn",2.0 +"By famine, and his rider by the sword.",2.0 +"The moping clouds sailed heavy charged with rain,",1.0 +"And bursting over the mountains misty brow,",2.0 +"Where, through the sullen evening's lurid gloom,",0.0 +"Rising, like columns of volcanic fire,",3.0 +"The waste of water; and the wind, that howled",1.0 +"Along its troubled surface, brought the groans",0.0 +"Of plundered peasants, and the frantic shrieks",1.0 +"Of mothers for their children; while the brave,",1.0 +"To pity still alive, listened aghast",5.0 +"To these dire echoes, hopeless to prevent",1.0 +"The evils they beheld, or cheque the rage,",1.0 +"Which ever, as the people of one land",2.0 +"Meet in contention, fires the human heart",1.0 +"With savage thirst of kindred blood, and makes",0.0 +Man lose his nature; rendering him more fierce,2.0 +Than the gaunt monsters of the howling waste.,3.0 +"Oft have I heard the melancholy tale,",0.0 +"These Exiles tell ' -- How Hope impelled them on,",1.0 +"Reckless of tempest, hunger, or the sword,",3.0 +"Till ordered to retreat, they knew not why,",1.0 +"From all their flattering prospects, they became",3.0 +Of gallant Loyalty ' -- At every turn,1.0 +"Shame and disgrace appeared, and seemed to mock",2.0 +"Their scattered squadrons; which the warlike youth,",1.0 +"As the last act of friendship, from the hand",3.0 +"Of some brave comrade, to receive the blow",3.0 +That freed the indignant spirit from its pain.,3.0 +"To a wild mountain, whose bare summit hides",3.0 +Are dark with woods; where the receding rocks,1.0 +"Are worn by torrents of dissolving snow,",1.0 +"A wretched Woman, pale and breathless, flies!",0.0 +"And, gazing round her, listens to the sound",1.0 +Of hostile footsteps ' -- No! it dies away:,1.0 +"Nor noise remains, but of the cataract,",2.0 +"Or surly breeze of night, that mutters low",0.0 +"Among the thickets, where she trembling seeks",0.0 +All she could rescue of the innocent group,3.0 +That yesterday surrounded her ' -- Escaped,1.0 +"Almost by miracle! Fear, frantic Fear,",3.0 +"Winged her weak feet: yet, half repentant now",3.0 +"Her headlong haste, she wishes she had stayed",2.0 +The lawless soldier's victims ' -- Hark! again,0.0 +"The driving tempest bears the cry of Death,",0.0 +"And, with deep sullen thunder, the dread sound",4.0 +Of cannon vibrates on the tremulous earth;,3.0 +"While, bursting in the air, the murderous bomb",2.0 +"Glares over her mansion. Where the splinters fall,",4.0 +"Like scattered comets, its destructive path",1.0 +"Is marked by wreaths of flame! ' -- Then, overwhelmed",0.0 +"Beneath accumulated horror, sinks",0.0 +"The desolate mourner; yet, in Death itself,",2.0 +"True to maternal tenderness, she tries",3.0 +To save the unconscious infant from the storm,4.0 +This last dear object of her ruined hopes,2.0 +"From prowling monsters, that from other hills,",0.0 +"More inaccessible, and wilder wastes,",1.0 +"Lured by the scent of slaughter, follow fierce",0.0 +"Contending hosts, and to polluted fields",1.0 +Add dire increase of horrors ' -- But alas!,2.0 +The Mother and the Infant perish both! ' --,1.0 +"The feudal Chief, whose Gothic battlements",1.0 +"Frown on the plain beneath, returning home",0.0 +"From distant lands, alone and in disguise,",0.0 +"Gains at the fall of night his Castle walls,",0.0 +"But, at the vacant gate, no Porter sits",1.0 +To wait his Lord's admittance! ' -- In the courts,0.0 +"The fatal truth, he shudders as he goes",1.0 +"Through the mute hall; where, by the blunted light",1.0 +He sees that devastation has been there:,0.0 +"Then, while each hideous image to his mind",3.0 +"Rises terrific, over a bleeding corpse",4.0 +Stumbling he falls; another interrupts,1.0 +"His staggering feet ' -- all, all who used to rush",2.0 +With joy to meet him ' -- all his family,0.0 +Lie murdered in his way! ' -- And the day dawns,2.0 +"On a wild raving Maniac, whom a fate",2.0 +So sudden and calamitous has robbed,2.0 +Of reason; and who round his vacant walls,1.0 +"Such are thy dreadful trophies, savage War!",1.0 +"And evils such as these, or yet more dire,",2.0 +"Which the pained mind recoils from, all are thine ' --",3.0 +"The purple Pestilence, that to the grave",2.0 +"Sends whom the sword has spared, is thine; and thine",1.0 +The Widow's anguish and the Orphan's tears! ' --,1.0 +Woes such as these does Man inflict on Man;,1.0 +"And by the closet murderers, whom we style",2.0 +"Wise Politicians, are the schemes prepared,",2.0 +"Depopulate her kingdoms, and consign",1.0 +To tears and anguish half a bleeding world! ' --,0.0 +"O! could the time return, when thoughts like these",0.0 +"Illuminating hills, and woods, and fields,",0.0 +Gave to my infant spirits ' -- Memory come!,2.0 +"And from distracting cares, that now deprive",1.0 +"Such scenes of all their beauty, kindly bear",0.0 +"My fancy to those hours of simple joy,",1.0 +I played; unconscious then of future ill!,1.0 +"The birch with silver rind, and fairy leaf,",0.0 +"Into the shallow current, to procure",1.0 +"The willow herb of glowing purple spikes,",1.0 +"Or flags, whose swordlike leaves concealed the tide,",1.0 +"Such as, collected by the shepherd girls,",2.0 +And mark the arrival of propitious May. ' --,4.0 +"How little dreamt I then the time would come,",0.0 +When the bright Sun of that delicious month,3.0 +"Should, from disturbed and artificial sleep,",1.0 +"To terror and to tears! ' -- Attempting still,",1.0 +"To save my children from the overwhelming wrongs,",1.0 +That have for ten long years been heaped on me! ' --,1.0 +"As the Law lent its plausible disguise,",3.0 +Pursuing my faint steps; and I have seen,3.0 +"Friendship's sweet bonds which were so early formed,",1.0 +And once I fondly thought of amaranth,0.0 +And fail; as these green fan-like leaves of fern,2.0 +"Yet there are those, whose patient pity still",1.0 +With lenient hands to bind up every wound,0.0 +"My wearied spirit feels, and bid me go",0.0 +"To conscious rectitude the rugged path,",0.0 +"That leads at length to Peace! ' -- Ah! yes, my friends",0.0 +Peace will at last be mine; for in the Grave,1.0 +"Is Peace ' -- and pass a few short years, perchance",0.0 +"A few short months, and all the various pain",3.0 +"I now endure shall be forgotten there,",1.0 +"And no memorial shall remain of me,",2.0 +"Shall lose its poignancy, as you reflect",2.0 +What complicated woes that grave conceals!,0.0 +"But, if the little praise, that may await",2.0 +"The Mother's efforts, should provoke the spleen",0.0 +The dust that cannot hear them; be it yours,0.0 +"To vindicate my humble fame; to say,",1.0 +"That, not in selfish sufferings absorbed,",1.0 +"I gave to misery all I had, my tears.",1.0 +"And if, where regulated sanctity",2.0 +"Was seldom heard, that yet my prayer was made",0.0 +To him who hears even silence; not in domes,1.0 +"Of human architecture, filled with crowds,",0.0 +"But on these hills, where boundless, yet distinct,",1.0 +"Even as a map, beneath are spread the fields",1.0 +"His bounty clothes; divided here by woods,",0.0 +"And there by commons rude, or winding brooks,",1.0 +"While I might breathe the air perfumed with flowers,",0.0 +"And gaze on clouds above me, as they sailed",1.0 +When bickering arrows of electric fire,3.0 +Flash on the evening sky ' -- I made my prayer,0.0 +In unison with murmuring waves that now,3.0 +As the bright arch above; for all to me,2.0 +Declare omniscient goodness; nor need I,1.0 +"My wonder or my praise, when every leaf",1.0 +"That Spring unfolds, and every simple bud,",0.0 +More forcibly impresses on my heart,2.0 +His power and wisdom ' -- Ah! while I adore,3.0 +"That goodness, which designed to all that lives",0.0 +"Some taste of happiness, my soul is pained",1.0 +By the variety of woes that Man,2.0 +For Man creates ' -- his blessings often turned,0.0 +"Misled by Superstition, has destroyed",0.0 +More than Ambition; and the sacred flame,2.0 +"Of Liberty becomes a raging fire,",1.0 +When Licence and Confusion bid it blaze.,1.0 +"From thy high throne, above yonder radiant stars,",6.0 +OH Power Omnipotent! with mercy view,4.0 +"This suffering globe, and cause thy creatures cease,",0.0 +"With savage fangs, to tear her bleeding breast:",0.0 +"Restrain that rage for power, that bids a Man,",2.0 +"Himself a worm, desire unbounded rule",0.0 +Over beings like himself: Teach the hard hearts,3.0 +"Of rulers, that the poorest hind, who dies",0.0 +"Is equal to the imperious Lord, that leads",5.0 +His disciplined destroyers to the field. ' --,2.0 +"May lovely Freedom, in her genuine charms,",2.0 +"Aided by stern but equal Justice, drive",2.0 +"Of Pride, Oppression, Avarice, and Revenge,",3.0 +That ruin what thy mercy made so fair!,0.0 +"These desultory lines lament, regain",0.0 +Their native country; private vengeance then,0.0 +"To public virtue yield; and the fierce feuds,",1.0 +"May even as storms, that agitate the air,",2.0 +"Serve, all tremendous as they are, to fix",3.0 +"The reign of Reason, Liberty, and Peace!",1.0 +"Out from the injured Canvas, Kneller, strike",1.0 +These Lines too faint: the Picture is not like.,2.0 +"Exalt thy Thought, and try thy Toil again:",0.0 +"Wherever it points, denouncing Death: below",2.0 +"Draw routed Squadrons, and the numerous Foe",4.0 +"Falling beneath, or flying from His Blow:",3.0 +"Till weak with Wounds, and covered over with Blood,",2.0 +"Which from the Patriot's Breast in Torrents flowed,",2.0 +"But stumbles over the Heap, His Hand had slain.",2.0 +"And now exhausted, bleeding, pale He lies;",0.0 +"Stern Vengeance yet, and Hostile Terror stand:",1.0 +His Front yet threatens; and His Frowns command:,1.0 +The Gallic Chiefs their Troops around Him call;,0.0 +"Fear to approach Him, though they see Him fall. ' --",3.0 +"OH Kneller, could Thy Shades and Lights express",1.0 +The perfect Hero in that glorious Dress;,3.0 +And Palms for Thee beneath His Laurels grow:,1.0 +In spite of Time Thy Work might ever shine;,0.0 +"Matures my present, and shall bound my last!",1.0 +Why will you break the Sabbath of my days?,1.0 +Now sick alike of Envy and of Praise.,2.0 +"Public too long, ah let me hide my Age!",3.0 +"Our Generals now, retired to their Estates,",1.0 +"Hang their old Trophies over the Garden gates,",5.0 +"A Voice there is, that whispers in my ear,",1.0 +"It's Reason's voice, which sometime one can hear",2.0 +"Friend Pope! be prudent, let your Muse take breath,",2.0 +And never gallop Pegasus to death;,1.0 +"Lest stiff, and stately, void of fire, and force,",0.0 +"You limp, like Blackmore, on a Lord Mayor's horse.'",4.0 +"Farewell then Verse, and Love, and every Toy,",1.0 +The rhymes and rattles of the Man or Boy:,1.0 +"What right, what true, what fit, we justly call,",0.0 +"To lay this harvest up, and hoard with haste",1.0 +"What every day will want, and most, the last.",0.0 +"But ask not, to what Doctors I apply?",2.0 +"Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I:",5.0 +"As drives the storm, at any door I knock,",0.0 +"And house with Montagne now, or now with Lock.",5.0 +"Sometime a Patriot, active in debate,",3.0 +"Mix with the World, and battle for the State,",1.0 +"Still true to Virtue, and as warm as true:",2.0 +"Back to my native Moderation slide,",0.0 +And win my way by yielding to the tIED.,1.0 +"Long, as to him who works for debt, the Day,",1.0 +Long as the Night to her whose love's away;,1.0 +"Long as the Year's dull circle seems to run,",1.0 +"So slow the unprofitable Moments roll,",3.0 +That lock up all the Functions of my soul;,1.0 +That keep me from Myself; and still delay,2.0 +Life's instant business to a future day:,2.0 +"That task, which as we follow, or despise,",2.0 +"The eldest is a fool, the youngest wise;",1.0 +"Which done, the poorest can no wants endure,",2.0 +"And which not done, the richest must be poor.",0.0 +"Late as it is, I put my self to school,",1.0 +"And feel some comfort, not to be a fool.",0.0 +"Weak though I am of limb, and short of sight,",1.0 +"Far from a Lynx, and not a Giant quite,",0.0 +"To keep these limbs, and to preserve these eyes.",1.0 +"Not to go back, is somewhat to advance,",5.0 +And Men must walk at least before they dance.,0.0 +"Say, does thy blood rebel, thy bosom move",0.0 +"With wretched Avarice, or as wretched Love?",1.0 +"Know, there are Words, and Spells, which can control",1.0 +Between the Fits this Fever of the soul:,1.0 +"Know, there are Rhymes, which fresh and fresh applied",0.0 +"Slave to a Wife or Vassal to a Punk,",1.0 +All that we ask is but a patient Ear.,1.0 +"It's the first Virtue, Vices to abhor;",3.0 +And the first Wisdom to be Fool no more.,4.0 +"As want of figure, and a small Estate.",1.0 +"To either India see the Merchant fly,",2.0 +Scared at the spectre of pale Poverty!,3.0 +"See him, with pains of body, pangs of soul,",0.0 +"Burn through the Tropic, freeze beneath the Pole!",0.0 +"Wilt thou do nothing for a nobler end,",2.0 +"Nothing, to make Philosophy thy friend?",3.0 +"To stop thy foolish views, thy long desires,",0.0 +And ease thy heart of all that it admires?,1.0 +"Here, Wisdom calls: Seek Virtue first! be bold!",1.0 +"As Gold to Silver, Virtue is to Gold.",1.0 +"And then let Virtue follow, if she will.",2.0 +"This, this the saving doctrine, preached to all,",1.0 +To him who notches Sticks at Westminster.,4.0 +"BARNARD in spirit, sense, and truth abounds.",0.0 +"A Pension, or such Harness for a slave",2.0 +"BARNARD, thou art a Cit, with all thy worth;",0.0 +"Yet every child another song will sing,",0.0 +"Virtue, brave boys! it's Virtue makes a King.",3.0 +"Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass;",1.0 +"Compared to this, a Minister's an Ass.",2.0 +"And say, to which shall our applause belong,",1.0 +"This new Court jargon, or the good old song?",3.0 +"The modern language of corrupted Peers,",1.0 +"Who counsels best? who whispers, Be but Great,",0.0 +"With Praise or Infamy, leave that to fate;",2.0 +"Get Place and Wealth, if possible, with Grace;",2.0 +"If not, by any means get Wealth and Place.",1.0 +And foremost in the Circle eye a King.,1.0 +"Or he, who bids thee face with steady view",1.0 +"Proud Fortune, and look shallow Greatness through:",4.0 +"And, while he bids thee, sets the Example too?",2.0 +That less admires the Palace than the Park;,1.0 +"Faith I shall give the answer Reynard gave,",0.0 +"I cannot like, Dread Sir! your Royal Cave;",1.0 +"Because I see by all the Tracks about,",0.0 +"Full many a Beast goes in, but none comes out.",5.0 +"Send her to Court, you send her to her Grave.",1.0 +"Well, if a King's a Lion, at the least",0.0 +"Can they direct what measures to pursue,",2.0 +Who know themselves so little what to do?,0.0 +"Alike in nothing but one Lust of Gold,",1.0 +"Just half the land would buy, and half be sold:",0.0 +"Or cross, to plunder Provinces, the Main:",1.0 +"Some keep Assemblies, and would keep the Stews;",1.0 +"While with the silent growth of ten per Cent,",0.0 +In Dirt and darkness hundreds stink content.,0.0 +"Of all these ways, if each pursues his own,",0.0 +"Satire be kind, and let the wretch alone.",1.0 +"But show me one, who has it in his power",0.0 +To act consistent with himself an hour.,1.0 +"Sir Job sailed forth, the evening bright and still,",2.0 +No place on earth he cried like Greenwich hill!,1.0 +"Up starts a Palace, lo! the obedient base",4.0 +"Slopes at its foot, the woods its sides embrace,",0.0 +The silver Thames reflects its marble face.,0.0 +"Now let some whimsy, or that Devil within",4.0 +Which guides all those who know not what they mean,1.0 +But give the Knight or give his Lady spleen;,0.0 +"Away, away! take all your scaffolds down,",2.0 +At amorous Flavio is the Stocking thrown?,3.0 +That very night he longs to lie alone.,0.0 +"The Fool whose Wife elopes some thrice a quarter,",0.0 +For matrimonial Solace dies a martyr.,2.0 +Transform themselves so strangely as the Rich?,1.0 +"Well, but the Poor ' -- the Poor have the same itch:",1.0 +"They change their weekly Barber, weekly News,",0.0 +"Discharge their Garrets, move their Beds, and run",0.0 +They know not whither in a Chaise and one;,0.0 +"Grow sick, and damn the Climate ' -- like a Lord,",1.0 +"My Wig all powder, and all snuff my Band;",1.0 +"You laugh, if Coat and Breeches strangely vary,",3.0 +"White Gloves, and Linen worthy Lady Mary!",1.0 +"Is half so incoherent as my Mind,",2.0 +"When each Opinion with the next at strife,",1.0 +One ebb and flow of follies all my Life,0.0 +"I plant, root up, I build, and then confound,",2.0 +"Turn round to square, and square again to round;",0.0 +"You never change one muscle of your face,",1.0 +"You think this Madness but a common case,",1.0 +"Nor once to Chancery, nor to The Doctor of Bedlam. Hales apply;",4.0 +"Yet hang your lip, to see a Seam awry!",0.0 +Careless how ill I with myself agree;,4.0 +"Kind to my dress, my figure, not to Me.",0.0 +"Is this my Guide, Philosopher, and Friend?",2.0 +"This, He who loves me, and who ought to mend?",1.0 +"Who ought to make me what he can, or none,",1.0 +"That Man divine whom Wisdom calls her own,",0.0 +"Great without Title, without Fortune blessed,",11.0 +"Rich even when plundered, honoured while oppressed,",5.0 +"Loved without youth, and followed without power,",8.0 +"At home though exiled, free, though in the Tower.",1.0 +"In short, that reasoning, high, immortal Thing,",2.0 +Nay half in Heaven ' -- except what's mighty odd,1.0 +"While some affect the Sun, and some the Shade,",0.0 +"Some flee the City, some the Hermitage;",1.0 +"Their Aims as various, as the Roads they take",1.0 +In Journeying through Life; the Task be mine,1.0 +To paint the gloomy Horrors of the Tomb;,1.0 +"Appointed Place of Rendezvous, where all",0.0 +Eternal King! whose potent Arm sustains,0.0 +"The Keys of Hell and Death. The Grave, dread Thing!",1.0 +"Dark as was Chaos, before the Infant Sun",2.0 +"Was rolled together, or had tried his Beams",1.0 +Athwart the Gloom profound! The sickly Taper,0.0 +And only serves to make thy Night more irksome.,0.0 +"Well do I know thee by thy trusty Yew,",1.0 +Beneath the won cold Moon as Fame reports,1.0 +"Embodied thick, perform their mystic Rounds.",0.0 +See yonder Hallowed Fane! the pious Work,1.0 +"Of Names once famed, now dubious or forgot,",5.0 +And buried mid the Wreck of things which were:,0.0 +There lie interred the more illustrious Dead.,3.0 +"Till now, I never heard a sound so dreary:",0.0 +"Doors creak, and Windows clap, and Night's foul Bird",2.0 +"And tattered Coats of Arms, send back the Sound",1.0 +"Laden with heavier Airs, from the low Vaults",5.0 +"Pass and repass, hushed as the Foot of Night.",4.0 +"I'll hear no more, it makes one's Blood run chill.",2.0 +"Quite round the Pile, a Row of Reverend Elms,",0.0 +Long lashed by the rude Winds: Some rift half down,3.0 +That scarce two Crows could lodge in the same Tree.,2.0 +"Strange Things, the Neighbours say, have happened here:",4.0 +"Wild Shrieks have issued from the hollow Tombs,",2.0 +"Dead Men have come again, and walked about,",1.0 +When it draws near to Witching Time of Night.,0.0 +"Whistling aloud to bear his Courage up,",3.0 +And lightly tripping over the long flat Stones,3.0 +"With Nettles skirted, and with moss overgrown,",4.0 +That tell in homely Phrase who lie below;,0.0 +"Sudden! he starts, and hears, or thinks he hears",2.0 +The Sound of something purring at his Heels:,0.0 +"Full fast he flies, and dares not look behind him,",1.0 +Till out of Breath he overtakes his Fellows;,4.0 +"Who gather round, and wonder at the Tale",0.0 +"Of horrid Apparition, tall and ghastly,",0.0 +"That walks at Dead of Night, or takes his Stand",0.0 +Sad Sight! slow moving over the prostrate Dead:,4.0 +"Listless, she crawls along in doleful Black,",2.0 +"While Bursts of Sorrow gush from either Eye,",0.0 +Prone on the lowly Grave of the Dear Man,1.0 +"In barbarous Succession, musters up",2.0 +"Tenacious of its Theme. Still, still she thinks",2.0 +"She sees him, and indulging the fond Thought,",3.0 +"Clings yet more closely to the senseless Turf,",1.0 +Nor heeds the Passenger who looks that Way.,1.0 +"Whom Love has knit, and Sympathy made one;",2.0 +A Tie more stubborn far than Nature's Band!,0.0 +Friendship! Mysterious Cement of the Soul!,3.0 +Sweetener of Life! and Solder of Society!,3.0 +"I owe thee much. Thou hast deserved from me,",0.0 +"Far, far beyond what I can ever pay.",2.0 +And the warm Efforts of the gentle Heart,3.0 +Anxious to please. O! when my Friend and I,2.0 +Hid from the vulgar Eye; and sat us down,0.0 +In grateful Errors through the Underwood,1.0 +Mended his Song of Love; the sooty Blackbird,2.0 +"Mellowed his Pipe, and softened every Note:",2.0 +"The Eglantine smelled sweeter, and the Rose",2.0 +Assumed a Die more deep; while every Flower,0.0 +Of Dress. O! then the longest Summer's Day,0.0 +"Seemed too, too much in Haste: Still the full Heart",3.0 +Too exquisite to last. Of Joys departed,2.0 +"Not to return, how painful the Remembrance!",2.0 +And every smirking Feature from the Face;,1.0 +Branding our Laughter with the Name of Madness.,3.0 +Where are the Jesters now? the Men of Health,3.0 +Whose every Look and Gesture was a Joke,1.0 +To gather up her Face into a Smile,1.0 +"Before she was aware? Ah! Sullen now,",1.0 +"And Dumb, as the green Turf that covers them!",3.0 +Who the Tiara at his Pleasure tore,1.0 +From Kings of all the then discovered Globe;,0.0 +And had not Room enough to do it's Work?,0.0 +And crammed into a Space we blush to name.,0.0 +Proud Royalty! how altered in thy Looks?,2.0 +"How blank thy Features, and how won thy Hue?",1.0 +Son of the Morning! whither art thou gone?,0.0 +And the majestic Menace of thine Eyes,2.0 +"Felt from afar? Pliant and powerless now,",9.0 +"Or Victim tumbled flat upon its Back,",0.0 +"Mute, must thou bear the Strife of little Tongues,",0.0 +"But only hoped for in the peaceful Grave,",0.0 +Of being unmolested and alone.,1.0 +"In Mode and Form, even to a very Scruple;",4.0 +O cruel Irony! These come too late;,2.0 +"And only mock, whom they were meant to honour.",1.0 +"But lies as soft, and sleeps as sound as He.",0.0 +Sorry Preeminence of high Descent,3.0 +Stately and slow; and properly attended,3.0 +"By the whole Sable Tribe, that painful watch",2.0 +"The sick Man's Door, and live upon the Dead,",1.0 +By letting out their Persons by the Hour,2.0 +"To mimic Sorrow, when the Heart's not sad.",0.0 +In Glory scarce exceed. Great Gluts of People,1.0 +"Midst all the gorgeous Figures you exhibit,",1.0 +"Why is the Principal concealed, for which",1.0 +You make this mighty Stir? It's wisely done:,0.0 +What would offend the Eye in a good Picture,1.0 +The Painter casts discreetly into Shades.,0.0 +Below the Envy of the Private Man!,1.0 +Pursues thee even to Death; nor there stops short.,3.0 +Strange Persecution! when the Grave itself,1.0 +"Absurd! to think to overreach the Grave,",0.0 +And from the Wreck of Names to rescue ours!,1.0 +The best concerted Schemes Men lay for Fame,1.0 +Die fast away: Only themselves die faster.,7.0 +Supply their little feeble Aids in vain.,0.0 +"The tapering Pyramid! the Egyptian's Pride,",5.0 +And Wonder of the World! whose spiky Top,1.0 +"Has wounded the thick Cloud, and long outlived",3.0 +The angry Shaking of the Winter's Storm;,1.0 +"Shattered with Age, and furrowed over with Years,",3.0 +"The mystic Cone, with Hieroglyphics crusted,",0.0 +Gives Way. O! lamentable Sight! at once,4.0 +With calm deliberate Malice wastes them:,0.0 +"Worn on the Edge of Days, the Brass consumes,",0.0 +"Unsteady to the Steel, gives up its Charge.",3.0 +"Ambition! half convicted of her Folly,",1.0 +Who swam to Sovereign Rule through Seas of Blood;,0.0 +"Who ravaged Kingdoms, and laid Empires Waste;",2.0 +"Thinned States of half their People, and gave up",3.0 +"Vain Thought! to hide them from the general Scorn,",2.0 +That haunts and dogs them like an injured Ghost,0.0 +Implacable. Here too the petty Tyrant,1.0 +"Of scant Domains Geographer never noticed,",2.0 +"And well for neighbouring Grounds, of Arm as short;",2.0 +"Who fixed his Iron Talons on the Poor,",1.0 +And griped them like some Lordly Beast of Prey;,0.0 +"Deaf to the forceful Cries of gnawing Hunger,",0.0 +"As if a Slave was not a Shred of Nature,",1.0 +Of the same common Nature with his Lord:,3.0 +"Shakes Hands with Dust, and calls the Worm his Kinsman;",2.0 +Nor pleads his Rank and Birthright. Under Ground,1.0 +"Grossly familiar, Side by Side consume.",2.0 +Above the common Level of our Kind;,1.0 +Beauty! thou pretty Plaything! dear Deceit!,3.0 +"And gives it a new Pulse, unknown before!",2.0 +"The Grave discredits thee: Thy Charms expunged,",1.0 +"Thy Roses faded, and thy Lilies soiled;",1.0 +What hast thou more to boast of? Will thy Lovers,1.0 +"Flock round thee now, to gaze and do thee Homage?",0.0 +"Coarse Fare and Carrion please thee full as well,",3.0 +And leave as keen a Relish on the Sense.,1.0 +Look! how the Fair One weeps! the conscious Tears,0.0 +Works hard to put a Gloss on its Distress.,2.0 +"Strength too! thou surly, and less gentle Boast",3.0 +A Fit of common Sickness pulls thee down,0.0 +What Groan was that I heard? Deep Groan indeed!,1.0 +"From yonder Bed it comes, where the strong Man,",1.0 +Beats thick! his roomy Chest by far too scant,2.0 +To give the Lungs full Play! What now avail,1.0 +"See! how he tugs for Life, and lays about him,",0.0 +Mad with his Pain! Eager he catches hold,4.0 +"Of what comes next to Hand, and grasps it hard,",0.0 +Just like a Creature drowning! Hideous Sight!,2.0 +"O! how his Eyes stand out, and stare full ghastly!",4.0 +"Shoots like a burning Arrow cross his Bowels,",0.0 +And drinks his Marrow up. Heard you that Groan?,2.0 +"Unconscious of his Strength, to play the Coward,",2.0 +And flee before a feeble Thing like Man;,0.0 +"That knowing well the Slackness of his Arm,",1.0 +"With Study pale, and Midnight Vigils spent,",1.0 +And travelling through the boundless Length of Space,1.0 +"That roll with regular Confusion there,",2.0 +In Ecstasy of Thought. But Ah! proud Man!,2.0 +Great Heights are hazardous to the weak Head:,3.0 +"Soon, very soon, thy firmest Footing fails;",1.0 +"Where nor Device, nor Knowledge ever came.",1.0 +And cannot tell his Ail to Passers by.,1.0 +Great Man of Language! whence this mighty Change?,1.0 +"This dumb Despair, and drooping of the Head?",1.0 +"Though strong Persuasion hung upon thy Lip,",0.0 +And sly Insinuation's softer Arts,0.0 +In Ambush lay about thy flowing Tongue;,1.0 +"Rest, like a weary Cloud, upon thy Breast",0.0 +"Unceasing. Ah! Where is the lifted Arm,",1.0 +"The Strength of Action, and the Force of Words,",1.0 +With all the lesser Ornaments of Phrase?,1.0 +"Ah! fled for ever, as they never had been!",1.0 +"Razed from the Book of Fame: Or more provoking,",0.0 +"Insults thy Memory, and blots thy Tomb",1.0 +"Enough to rouse a Dead Man into Rage,",1.0 +And warm with red Resentment the won Cheek.,2.0 +"Here! the great Masters of the healing Art,",3.0 +"Where are thy boasted Implements of Art,",1.0 +"Nor Hill, nor Vale, as far as Ship could go,",0.0 +Escaped thy rifling Hand: From stubborn Shrubs,0.0 +"And vexed them in the Fire: Nor Fly, nor Insect,",1.0 +But why this Apparatus? Why this Cost?,0.0 +"Tell us, thou doughty Keeper from the Grave!",1.0 +"Where are thy Recipe's and Cordials now,",2.0 +With the long List of Vouchers for thy Cures?,3.0 +Looks not more silly when the Cheat's found out.,2.0 +"From Back and Belly too, their proper Cheer;",0.0 +"Eased of a Tax, it irked the Wretch to pay",0.0 +Nor tedious Bills of Charges and Repairs.,3.0 +"But Ah! Where are his Rents, his Comings in?",0.0 +"Robbed of his Gods, what has he left behind!",0.0 +O! Cursed Lust of Gold! when for thy Sake,3.0 +"The Fool throws up his Interest in both Worlds,",3.0 +"First starved in this, then damned in that to come.",1.0 +"How shocking must thy Summons be, OH Death!",1.0 +To him that is at Ease in his Possessions;,1.0 +"Who counting on long Years of Pleasure here,",2.0 +"In that dread Moment, how the frantic Soul",2.0 +"Raves round the Walls of her Clay Tenement,",4.0 +"Runs to each Avenue, and shrieks for Help,",0.0 +But shrieks in vain! How wishfully she looks,1.0 +"A little longer, yet a little longer,",0.0 +"O! might she stay, to wash away her Stains,",0.0 +And fit her for her Passage! Mournful Sight!,1.0 +Her very Eyes weep Blood; and every Groan,1.0 +"She heaves is big with Horror: But the Foe,",1.0 +"Like a staunch Murderer steady to his Purpose,",5.0 +"Pursues her close through every Lane of Life,",0.0 +"Nor misses once the Track, but presses on;",1.0 +"Till forced at last to the tremendous Verge,",1.0 +At once she sinks to everlasting Ruin.,0.0 +Sure! it's a serious Thing to Die! My Soul!,2.0 +"What a strange Moment must it be, when near",2.0 +"Thy Journey's End, thou hast the Gulf in View!",0.0 +To tell what's doing on the other Side!,1.0 +"Nature runs back, and shudders at the Sight,",3.0 +For part they must: Body and Soul must part;,2.0 +Fond Couple! linked more close than wedded Pair.,1.0 +"This wings its Way to its Almighty Source,",1.0 +"The Witness of its Actions, now its Judge:",1.0 +Like a disabled Pitcher of no Use.,3.0 +"If when Men died, at once they ceased to Be,",1.0 +Returning to the barren Womb of Nothing,1.0 +"Reel over his full Bowl, and when it's drained,",3.0 +"Fill up another to the Brim, and laugh",3.0 +"By stealing out of Being, when he pleased,",1.0 +"And by what Way; whether by Hemp, or Steel:",3.0 +Death's thousand Doors stand open. Who could force,2.0 +Or blame him if he goes? Sure! he does well,2.0 +"That helps himself as timely as he can,",1.0 +"When able. But if there is an Hereafter,",3.0 +"And suffered to speak out, tells every Man;",4.0 +Then must it be an awful Thing to die:,0.0 +"More horrid yet, to die by one's own Hand.",1.0 +That makes her the Reproach of neighbouring States.,3.0 +Forbid it Heaven! Let not upon Disgust,2.0 +With Blood of its own Lord. Dreadful Attempt!,3.0 +To rush into the Presence of our Judge!,1.0 +"As if we challenged him to do his worst,",2.0 +And mattered not his Wrath. Unheard of Tortures,0.0 +Must be reserved for such: These herd together;,1.0 +"The Common Damned shun their Society,",3.0 +And look upon themselves as Fiends less foul.,1.0 +"Our Time is fixed, and all our Days are numbered;",0.0 +"How long, how short, we know not: This we know,",1.0 +"Duty requires we calmly wait the Summons,",2.0 +Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give Permission:,0.0 +"Those only are the Brave, that keep their Ground,",1.0 +And keep it to the last. To run away,1.0 +Is but a Coward's Trick: To run away,1.0 +"From this World's Ills, that at the very worst",1.0 +"Will soon blow over, thinking to mend ourselves",3.0 +"By boldly venturing on a World unknown,",1.0 +And plunging headlong in the dark; it's Mad:,1.0 +No Frenzy half so desperate as this.,2.0 +"Tell us! you Dead! Will none of you, in Pity",1.0 +"To those you left behind, disclose the Secret?",1.0 +O! that some courteous Ghost would blab it out!,2.0 +"What it's You are, and We must shortly be.",2.0 +That does its Work by Halves. Why might you not,0.0 +Tell us what it's to Die? Do the strict Laws,1.0 +Of your Society forbid your speaking,2.0 +Upon a Point so nice? I'll ask no more;,1.0 +"Enlightens but yourselves: Well, ' -- it's no Matter;",4.0 +"A very little Time will clear up all,",0.0 +"And make us learnt as you are, and as close.",1.0 +"Death's Shafts fly thick! Here falls the Village Swain,",2.0 +And there his pampered Lord! The Cup goes round;,2.0 +And who so artful as to put it by?,1.0 +It's long since Death had the Majority;,2.0 +Yet strange! the Living lay it not to Heart.,0.0 +"See! yonder Maker of the Dead Man's Bed,",3.0 +"Digs through whole Rows of Kindred and Acquaintance,",4.0 +"But well he knew its Owner, and can tell",1.0 +Some Passage of his Life. Thus Hand in Hand,2.0 +The Sot has walked with Death twice Twenty Years;,1.0 +"And yet never Younker on the Green laughs louder,",2.0 +"None sings a merrier Catch, or lends a Hand",3.0 +"More willing to his Cup. Poor Wretch! he minds not,",2.0 +That soon some trusty Brother of the Trade,1.0 +Shall do for him what he has done for Thousands.,0.0 +"On this Side, and on that, Men see their Friends",1.0 +"Drop off, like Leaves in Autumn; yet launch out",2.0 +"Into fantastic Schemes, which the long Livers,",2.0 +Could scarce have Leisure for! Fools that we are!,2.0 +"Never to think of Death, and of Ourselves",3.0 +At the same Time! As if to learn to Die,2.0 +The very first swollen Surge shall sweep us in.,3.0 +"Think we, or think we not, Time hurries on",2.0 +"Yet treads more soft than ever did Midnight Thief,",2.0 +"That slides his Hand under the Miser's Pillow,",5.0 +"Savage and Tame, and full of Dead Men's Bones?",3.0 +"The very Turf on which we tread, once lived;",1.0 +To cover our own Offspring: In their Turns,2.0 +They too must cover theirs. It's here all meet!,1.0 +"Men of all Climes, that never met before;",0.0 +"And of all Creeds, the Jew, the Turk, and Christian.",1.0 +"Here the proud Prince, and Favourite yet prouder,",5.0 +"His Sovereign's Keeper, and the People's Scourge,",2.0 +Are huddled out of Sight. Here lie abashed,1.0 +"The great Negotiators of the Earth,",1.0 +"And celebrated Masters of the Ballance,",1.0 +"Deep read in Stratagems, and Wiles of Courts:",2.0 +Here the overloaded Slave flings down his Burden,2.0 +"With all his Guards and Tools of Power about him,",2.0 +"Mocks his short Arm, and quick as Thought escapes",3.0 +"Where Tyrants vex not, and the Weary rest.",1.0 +"Here the warm Lover leaving the cool Shade,",4.0 +"The Telltale Echo, and the babbling Stream,",2.0 +"Time out of Mind the favourite Seats of Love,",0.0 +Fast by his gentle Mistress lay him down,0.0 +"Ever while that stood aloof, as shy to meet,",0.0 +"Of a Span long, that never saw the Sun,",2.0 +"Nor pressed the Nipple, strangled in Life's Porch.",1.0 +Here is the Mother with her Sons and Daughters;,1.0 +"The barren Wife; and long demurring Maid,",0.0 +Not to be come at by the willing Hand.,1.0 +"The sober Widow, and the young green Virgin,",2.0 +"Cropped like a Rose, before it's fully blown,",0.0 +Or half its Worth disclosed. Strange Medley here!,1.0 +Here garrulous Old Age winds up his Tale;,3.0 +"Whose every Day was made of Melody,",1.0 +"Here are the Wise, the Generous, and the Brave;",1.0 +"The Just, the Good, the Worthless, the Profane,",1.0 +"The supple Statesman, and the Patriot stern;",3.0 +"The Wrecks of Nations, and the Spoils of Time,",1.0 +With all the Lumber of Six Thousand Years.,2.0 +Poor Man! how happy once in thy first State!,2.0 +"When yet but warm from thy great Maker's Hand,",2.0 +"He stamped thee with his Image, and well pleased",3.0 +Smiled on his last fair Work. Then all was well.,1.0 +"Sound was the Body, and the Soul serene;",1.0 +"Like two sweet Instruments never out of Tune,",4.0 +"That play their several Parts. Nor Head, nor Heart,",0.0 +Offered to ache: Nor was there Cause they should;,3.0 +"For all was pure within: No fell Remorse,",1.0 +"Nor anxious Castings up of what might be,",1.0 +Alarmed his peaceful Bosom: Summer Seas,0.0 +"Show not more smooth, when kissed by Southern Winds",0.0 +The generous Soil with a luxuriant Hand,5.0 +"Offered the various Produce of the Year,",3.0 +And every Thing most perfect in its Kind.,1.0 +Blessed as the pleasing Dreams of Holy Men;,0.0 +"But fugitive like those, and quickly gone.",2.0 +O! slippery State of Things! What sudden Turns?,0.0 +"What strange Vicissitudes, in the first Leaf",2.0 +"Of Man's sad History? Today most Happy,",2.0 +How scant the Space between these vast Extremes!,0.0 +Thus fared it with our Sire: Not long he enjoyed,4.0 +His Paradise! Scarce had the happy Tenant,1.0 +"Of the fair Spot due Time to prove its Sweets,",4.0 +Or sum them up; when strait he must be gone,1.0 +Never to return again. And must he go?,1.0 +Of erring Man? Like one that is condemned,2.0 +"Fain would he trifle Time with idle Talk,",0.0 +And parley with his Fate. But it's in vain.,2.0 +Not all the lavish Odours of the Place,0.0 +"Offered in Incense can procure his Pardon,",2.0 +Or mitigate his Doom. A mighty Angel,0.0 +"With flaming Sword forbids his longer Stay,",0.0 +One last and farewell Round. At once he lost,1.0 +"His Glory and his God. If mortal now,",1.0 +"And sorely maimed, No Wonder! Man has sinned.",1.0 +"Sick of his Bliss, and bent on new Adventures,",0.0 +Evil he would needs try: Nor tried in vain.,3.0 +Dreadful Experiment! Destructive Measure!,3.0 +"Where the worst Thing could happen, is Success.",4.0 +Alas! too well he sped: The Good he scorned,1.0 +"Not to return; or if it did, its Visits",2.0 +"Like those of Angels short, and far between:",0.0 +"Admitted once into its better Room,",0.0 +"Grew loud and mutinous, nor would be gone;",2.0 +"Saw the rash Error, which he could not mend:",3.0 +"An Error fatal not to him alone,",1.0 +"But to his future Sons, his Fortune's Heirs.",1.0 +Inglorious Bondage! Human Nature groans,2.0 +And its vast Body bleeds through every Vein.,2.0 +What Havoc hast thou made? Foul Monster Sin!,1.0 +Greatest and first of Ills! The fruitful Parent,2.0 +Of Woes of all Dimensions! But for thee,1.0 +Sorrow had never been. All noxious Thing!,2.0 +Are kindly circumscribed and have their Bounds.,0.0 +"The fierce Volcano, from its burning Entrails",1.0 +"Marrs the adjacent Fields for some Leagues round,",2.0 +"Buries whole Tracts of Country, threatening more;",3.0 +But that too has its Shore it cannot pass.,0.0 +More dreadful far than these! Sin has laid waste,1.0 +"Not here and there a Country, but a World:",2.0 +Dispatching at a wide extended Blow,0.0 +Entire Mankind; and for their Sakes defacing,2.0 +A whole Creation's Beauty with rude Hands;,2.0 +And marking all along its Way with Ruin.,0.0 +"Accursed Thing! O, where shall Fancy find",2.0 +"A proper Name to call thee by, expressive",1.0 +Of all thy Horrors? Pregnant Womb of Ills!,0.0 +That Toads and Serpents of most deadly Kind,1.0 +"Of every Size and Symptom, racking Pains,",0.0 +"And bluest Plagues, are thine! See! how the Fiend",0.0 +"Shapes out new Work of great uncommon Daring,",3.0 +"Here let me pause! and drop an honest Tear,",0.0 +"One Burst of filial Duty, and Condolence,",3.0 +"Over all those ample Deserts Death hath spread,",0.0 +Unheard of Epicure! without a Fellow!,0.0 +Some Intervals of Abstinence are sought,2.0 +"This, less than this, might gorge thee to the full!",2.0 +"Like One, whole Days defrauded of his Meals,",4.0 +"On whom lank Hunger lays her skinny Hand,",1.0 +"Famine, and War, were not thy Caterers!",3.0 +"But know! that Thou must render up thy Dead,",2.0 +And with high Interest too? They are not thine;,2.0 +"But only in thy Keeping for a Season,",1.0 +Till the Great promised Day of Restitution;,2.0 +"And rouse the long, long Sleepers into Life,",1.0 +"Then must thy Gates fly open, and reveal",2.0 +"The Mines, that lay long forming under Ground,",1.0 +"And pure as Silver from the Crucible,",2.0 +"That twice has stood the Torture of the Fire,",1.0 +"And Inquisition of the Forge. We know,",1.0 +"The Son of God, thee foiled. Him in thy power",0.0 +"And, shaking off thy Fetters, soon retook",1.0 +"Those Spoils, his voluntary Yielding lent.",1.0 +And showed himself alive to chosen Witnesses,1.0 +"Had not a Scruple left. This having done,",0.0 +"Climb the Aerial Heights, and glide along",2.0 +Athwart the severing Clouds: But the faint Eye,3.0 +"Flung backwards in the Chase, soon drops its Hold;",2.0 +"Disabled quite, and jaded with pursuing.",1.0 +Heaven's Portals wide expand to let him in;,0.0 +Nor are his Friends shut out: As some great Prince,4.0 +"But for his Train: It was his Royal Will,",3.0 +"That where He is, there should his Followers be.",2.0 +Death only lies between! A gloomy Path!,1.0 +Made yet more gloomy by our Coward Fears!,1.0 +"Start we at transient Hardships, in the Way",0.0 +"That leads to purer Air, and softer Skies,",0.0 +And a never Setting Sun? Fools that we are!,1.0 +"But strait our Wish revoke, and will not go.",1.0 +"So have I seen upon a Summer's Even,",0.0 +How wishfully he looks! To stem the Tide,1.0 +"This Moment resolute, next unresolved:",1.0 +"At last! he dips his Foot; but as he dips,",1.0 +"His Fears redouble, and he runs away",1.0 +"Of all the Flowers, that paint the further Bank,",2.0 +And smiled so sweet of late. Thrice welcome Death!,1.0 +That after many a painful bleeding Step,2.0 +"Conducts us to our Home, and lands us safe",1.0 +Our Bane turned to a Blessing! Death disarmed,2.0 +Loses her Fullness quite: All Thanks to him,2.0 +Who scourged the Venom out. Sure! the last End,3.0 +Of the Good Man is Peace. How calm his Exit!,1.0 +Yet like the Sun seems larger at his Setting!,1.0 +"High in his Faith and Hopes, look! how he reaches",2.0 +While the glad Gates of Sight are wide expanded,3.0 +"To let new Glories in, the first fair Fruits",2.0 +"To have has Passport signed, and be dismissed!",1.0 +Rests too in Hope of meeting once again,1.0 +"Its better Half, never to sunder more.",5.0 +Nor shall it hope in vain: The Time draws on,2.0 +"Whether on Land, or in the spacious Sea,",2.0 +Inviolate: And faithfully shall these,2.0 +Make up the full Account; not the least Atom,2.0 +"Embezzled, or mislaid, of the whole Tale.",2.0 +Each Soul shall have a Body ready furnished;,0.0 +And each shall have his own. Hence you Profane!,2.0 +"Ask not, how this can be? Sure the same Power",4.0 +"That reared the Piece at first, and took it down,",0.0 +"Can reassemble the loose scattered Parts,",2.0 +And put them as they were. Almighty God,2.0 +Has done much more; nor is his Arm impaired,1.0 +"Through Length of Days: And what he can, he will:",1.0 +His Faithfulness stands bound to see it done.,3.0 +"When the dread Trumpet sounds, the slumbering Dust,",4.0 +"And every Joint possess it's proper Place,",0.0 +"With a new Elegance of Form, unknown",3.0 +To its first State. Nor shall the conscious Soul,2.0 +Mistake its Partner; but amid the Crowd,1.0 +"Singling its other Half, into its Arms",1.0 +"With Haste runs over every different Room,",1.0 +In Pain to see the whole. Thrice happy Meeting!,1.0 +"Nor Time, nor Death, shall ever part them more.",0.0 +"We make the Grave our Bed, and then are gone.",0.0 +"Thus at the Shut of Even, the weary Bird",2.0 +"Leaves the wide Air, and in some lonely Brake",2.0 +OH MY lamented TALBOT! while with Thee,2.0 +And drew the inspiring Breath of Ancient Arts;,2.0 +Ah! little thought she her returning Verse,1.0 +Should sing our Darling Subject to thy Shade.,1.0 +"And does the Mystic Veil, from mortal Beam,",0.0 +"Involve those Eyes where every Virtue smiled,",0.0 +And all the FATHER'S candid Spirit shone?,0.0 +"The Light of Reason, pure, without a Cloud;",0.0 +"Full of the generous Heart, the mild Regard;",2.0 +But to the Death of mighty Nations turned,1.0 +"My Strain, be there absorbed the Private Tear.",1.0 +"MUSING, I lay; warm from the sacred Walks,",2.0 +Where at each step Imagination burns:,0.0 +"Ten thousand Wonders rolling in my thought,",1.0 +"Tread the blessed Ground by more than mortals trod,",2.0 +And see those Skies that breathed the Roman Soul.,0.0 +"Lies a vast Monument once glorious Rome,",7.0 +The Tomb of Empire! Ruins! that efface,0.0 +"Whatever, of finished, modern Pomp can boast.",3.0 +"Led me anew over all the solemn Scene,",7.0 +Still in the Mind's pure eye more solemn dressed.,1.0 +"When strait, methought, the fair majestic POWER",3.0 +"Of LIBERTY appeared. Not, as of old,",2.0 +"Extended in her hand the Cap, and Rod,",0.0 +"But her bright Temples bound with British Oak,",2.0 +Sublime her Port. Loose over her Shoulder flowed,3.0 +An Island Goddess now; and her high care,1.0 +"The Queen of Isles, the Mistress of the Main.",1.0 +My heart beat filial transport at the sight;,2.0 +"And, as she moved to speak, the awakened Muse",3.0 +"Listened intense. A while she looked around,",2.0 +"And then, her Sighs repressing, thus began.",0.0 +But ah how changed! the falling poor Remains,0.0 +"Look back through time; and from the gloom disclosed,",2.0 +"Painting my words, behold the scattered Scene.",2.0 +The Great Republic see! that glowed sublime,0.0 +With the mixed Freedom of a thousand States;,3.0 +"See busy Millions swarming all the Land,",1.0 +"With Cities thronged, and teeming Culture high:",0.0 +"For on her freeborn Sons then Nature smiled,",1.0 +And poured the Plenty that belongs to Men.,0.0 +"Behold, the Country cheering, Villas rise,",0.0 +In lively Prospect; by the secret lapse,1.0 +"Of Brooks now lost, and Streams renowned in Song:",1.0 +Of her brown Hills that breathe the scented gale:,2.0 +Or in the spacious Neighbourhood of Rome;,3.0 +"Or downwards spreading to the sunny shore,",1.0 +"Waved from the main, where Alba draws the Breeze.",0.0 +"See distant Mountains leave their Valleys dry,",1.0 +"And over the proud Arcade their Tribute pour,",2.0 +To lave Imperial Rome. For ages laid,2.0 +"From sea to sea, her Public Roads behold:",0.0 +"With Legions flaming, or with Triumph green.",1.0 +"Full in the Centre of these wondrous Works,",1.0 +"While Tombs of Heroes consecrate the way,",0.0 +The Pride of Earth! Rome in her Glory see!,1.0 +"All Head to counsel, and all Heart to act:",1.0 +Ere low Corruption taught the Servile Herd,1.0 +"To know a Master's voice. Astonished, mark",0.0 +"Her Forum, earnest, popular, and loud,",1.0 +"As they the Private Father greatly quelled,",1.0 +Stood up the Public Fathers of the State.,1.0 +See Justice judging there in Human Shape.,2.0 +"Hark how with Freedom's voice it thunders high,",0.0 +"Her Tribes, her Census see; her Generous Troops,",2.0 +"Whose Pay was Glory, and whose best Reward",1.0 +Free for their Country and for ME to die;,2.0 +Ere Mercenary Murder grew a Trade.,1.0 +"Mark, as the purple Triumph waves along,",0.0 +The highest Pomp and lowest Fall of Life.,0.0 +"Her Festive Games, the School of Heroes, see;",0.0 +"Her Circus, ardent with contending Youth;",1.0 +"Her Streets, her Temples, Palaces, and Baths,",1.0 +And of a Race by Plastic Virtue marked.,1.0 +"While Sculpture lives around, and Asian Hills",0.0 +Lend their best Stores to heave the pillared Dome:,3.0 +All that to Roman Grandeur the soft Touch,3.0 +"To paint this Sun, this Centre of Mankind;",2.0 +"Where every Virtue, Glory, Treasure, Art,",0.0 +"Attracted strong, in heightened lustre met.",0.0 +"A Land in all, in Government, and Arts,",1.0 +"In Virtue, Genius, Heaven and Earth reversed.",0.0 +"Proofs of a People, whose heroic Aims",0.0 +Soared far above the little selfish sphere,1.0 +Of doubting modern Life; who but inflamed,1.0 +"With Classic Zeal, the consecrated Scenes",0.0 +"Of Men and Deeds to trace, the Wonder, Theme,",0.0 +And Model of Mankind; unhappy Land!,2.0 +"Would trust thy Wilds, and Cities loose of sway?",0.0 +"Are these the Vales, that once exulting States",1.0 +"In their warm bosom fed? The Mountains these,",3.0 +"I bred to Glory? These dejected Towns,",1.0 +"Sordid, and mean, where Life can scarce subsist,",2.0 +"The Scenes of Ancient Opulence, and Pomp?",1.0 +"Come! by whatever Sacred Name disguised,",3.0 +"OPPRESSION, come! and in thy works rejoice!",0.0 +"See razed the enlivening Village, Farm, and Seat.",4.0 +"First Rural Toil, by thy rapacious hand",2.0 +"Robbed of his poor Reward, resigned the Plough;",0.0 +"It's thine entire. The lonely Swain himself,",3.0 +Who loves at large along the grassy Downs,0.0 +"His flocks to pasture, Thine abhorrent flies.",1.0 +"Far as the sickening Eye can sweep around,",0.0 +"It's all one Desert, desolate, and grey,",0.0 +Of rotting Ages taints the passing Gale.,0.0 +"Beneath the baleful Blast the City pines,",0.0 +"Beneath it mourns the solitary Road,",0.0 +Rolled in rude Mazes over the abandoned Waste;,3.0 +"While Ancient Ways, engulfed, are seen no more.",1.0 +"To Humankind! Thy Mountains too, profuse",0.0 +"There on the breezy Brow, where thriving States,",1.0 +"And famous Cities once, to the pleased Sun,",1.0 +"Far other Scenes of rising Culture spread,",1.0 +"Pale shine thy ragged Towns. Neglected round,",1.0 +"Each Harvest pines; the livid, lean Produce",0.0 +"Of heartless Labour: while thy hated Joys,",0.0 +"Not proper Pleasure, lift the lazy hand.",0.0 +"Better to sink in Sloth the Woes of life,",2.0 +Than wake their rage with unavailing Toil.,0.0 +Hence drooping Art almost to Nature leaves,2.0 +"Of yellow Crees, thin the radiant Blush",3.0 +"To weedy wildness run, no Rural Wealth,",1.0 +Such as Dictators fed the Garden pours.,1.0 +"Crude the wild Olive flows, and foul the Vine;",3.0 +"Streams Life, and Joy, save in the Muse's bowl.",2.0 +"Draw the bright thread in vain, and idly toil.",3.0 +"In vain, forlorn in wilds, the Citron blows;",0.0 +And flowering Plants perfume the desert gale.,2.0 +And long a stranger to the Hero's brow.,1.0 +Nor half thy Triumph this: cast from brute Fields,3.0 +Into the Haunts of Men thy ruthless eye.,0.0 +There buxom Plenty never turns her horn;,0.0 +"The Grace and Virtue of exterior Life,",3.0 +"No clean Convenience reigns; even Sleep itself,",5.0 +"Least delicate of Powers, reluctant there",5.0 +Lays on the Bed impure his heavy head.,0.0 +"Thy horrid Walk! dead, empty, unadorned,",1.0 +See Streets whose Echos never know the voice,1.0 +And Art mechanic at his various task,2.0 +"Of Occupation void, as void of Hope;",0.0 +"Hope the glad Ray, glanced from ETERNAL GOOD,",3.0 +"That Life enlivens, and exalts it's Powers,",1.0 +With views of Fortune ' -- Madness all to them!,0.0 +"By Thee relentless seized their better Joys,",1.0 +"To the soft aid of cordial Airs they fly,",2.0 +"A kind Oblivion breathing over their Woes,",4.0 +And Love and Music melt their Souls away.,0.0 +"From feeble Justice see how rash Revenge,",0.0 +"Trembling, the Ballance snatches; and her Sword,",2.0 +"See where GOD'S Altar nursing Murder stands,",2.0 +With the red touch of dark Assassins stained.,2.0 +"But chief let Rome, the mighty City! speak",1.0 +"Behold Her rise amid the lifeless Waste,",0.0 +Expiring Nature all corrupted round;,0.0 +"Winds his waste stores, and sullen sweeps along.",3.0 +"Mark how the Temple glares; and, artful dressed,",0.0 +"Mark how the Palace lifts a lying front,",0.0 +"Of Misery, whose melancholy walls",1.0 +Seem its voracious Grandeur to reproach.,6.0 +"Within the City Bounds, the Desert see.",0.0 +"See the rank Vine over subterranean roofs,",4.0 +"Indecent, spread; beneath whose fretted gold",0.0 +"It once exulting flowed. The People mark,",0.0 +"Inexorably firm, just, generous, brave,",3.0 +"Afraid of nothing but unworthy Life,",1.0 +"Elate with Glory, an Heroic Soul",1.0 +Known to the Vulgar Breast: behold them now,0.0 +"A thin despairing Number, all subdued,",0.0 +"The Slaves of Slaves, by Superstition fooled,",0.0 +"By Vice unmanned and a licentious Rule,",1.0 +"In Guile ingenious, and in Murder brave.",1.0 +"Thy Sons, OPPRESSION, are; and such were MINE.",2.0 +And by the Tempest of two thousand Years,3.0 +"Continual shaken, let my Ruins vie.",2.0 +"These Roads that yet the Roman hand assert,",0.0 +Beyond the weak repair of modern Toil;,0.0 +"These fractured Arches, that the chiding Stream",0.0 +No more delighted hear; these rich Remains,1.0 +"Of Marbles now unknown, where shines imbibed",0.0 +Mysterious marked with dark Egyptian Lore;,2.0 +These endless Wonders that this Via Sacra. Sacred Way,0.0 +"From these too drawn, mine is thy every Boast:",2.0 +Over the live canvas emanating breathed.,2.0 +"What would you say, you Conquerors of Earth!",1.0 +"Could you the Country see, with Seas of blood,",0.0 +"And the dread Toil of ages, won so dear;",2.0 +"Your Pride, your Triumph, your supreme Delight!",1.0 +"For whose Defence oft, in the doubtful hour,",1.0 +"You rushed with rapture down the gulf of Fate,",1.0 +"Of Death ambitious! till by awful Deeds,",1.0 +"Virtues, and Courage, that amaze Mankind,",3.0 +The Queen of Nations rose; possessed of all,0.0 +"That Nature, Art, and Glory could bestow:",0.0 +"What would you say, deep in the last Abyss",1.0 +"Thus to behold her sunk? Your crowded Plains,",2.0 +Void of their Cities; unadorned your Hills;,0.0 +"Your lawless Floods, and your abandoned Streams;",1.0 +These could you know? these could you love again?,0.0 +"Content, Poetic Ease, and Rural Joy,",0.0 +Soon bursting into Song: while through the Groves,2.0 +"In many a tortured Stream, you mused along?",2.0 +"And could you deem yonder naked Hills, that form,",3.0 +On the gay Land to lavish all their Stores;,2.0 +"How changed, how vacant, VIRGIL, wide around,",0.0 +"By black Vesuvius thundering over the Coast,",6.0 +"His midnight Earthquakes, and his mining Fires,",3.0 +"Than by Despotic Rage: that inward gnaws,",1.0 +"A native Foe; a foreign, tears without.",0.0 +First from your flattered CAESARS This begun;,1.0 +That the dire Soul of HANNIBAL disarmed;,1.0 +Her banks all beaming with the Pride of Rome:,1.0 +"No generous Vines now bask along the Hills,",4.0 +"With Baths and Temples mixed, no Villas rise;",1.0 +Draw the cool murmurs of the breathing Deep:,4.0 +No spreading Ports their sacred Arms extend:,1.0 +"No mighty Moles the big intrusive Storm,",1.0 +"From the calm Station, roll resounding back.",2.0 +"An almost total Desolation sits,",1.0 +"A dreary Stillness, saddening over the Coast;",2.0 +Rejoicing Crowds inhaled the balm of Peace;,0.0 +"And where, with Crees, Bacchus wont to hold",3.0 +"A genial Strife: Her youthful Form, robust,",0.0 +"Even Nature yields; by Fire, and Earthquake rent:",1.0 +Whole stately Cities in the dark Abrupt,1.0 +"Swallowed at once, or vile in rubbish laid,",2.0 +A nest for Serpents; from the red Abyss,1.0 +"The Sea recovering his usurped Domain,",4.0 +And poured triumphant over the buried Dome.,2.0 +"And more than GREECE, or ROME, my steady Reign;",0.0 +"The Land where, King and People equal bound",0.0 +"By guardian Laws, my fullest Blessings flow;",2.0 +The dread of Tyrants! burns in every breast:,0.0 +"Learn hence, if such the miserable fate",3.0 +"Of an heroic Race, the Masters once",1.0 +"Of Humankind; what, when deprived of ME,",0.0 +"How grievous must be thine? In spite of Climes,",1.0 +"To higher Powers; in spite of happy Soils,",2.0 +"And sustenance of life: could Life itself,",1.0 +"Subsist with thee? Against depressing Skies,",1.0 +"Or every Harvest storing in thy Ports,",0.0 +"Profuse of all, to plough the dreadful Wave?",0.0 +"Here paused the GODDESS. By the Pause assured,",1.0 +In trembling accents thus I moved my Prayer.,0.0 +"O first, and most benevolent of Powers!",1.0 +"Against despotic Pride, and Rage, and Lust,",0.0 +To shield Mankind; to raise them to assert,2.0 +"Teach me thy lowest Subject, but in Zeal",1.0 +"Yielding to none, the PROGRESS OF THY REIGN,",3.0 +And with a Strain from THEE enrich the Muse.,2.0 +"For thy proud Slave, alone; her Patron Thou,",3.0 +"Though narrow Life her Lot, and Private Shade:",0.0 +Or to thy open or thy secret Foes;,2.0 +Sink in oblivion with the nameless Crew!,2.0 +Vermin of State! to thy overflowing Light,2.0 +"That owe their Being, yet betray thy Cause.",0.0 +"Then, condescending kind, the HEAVENLY POWER",2.0 +"Returned. ' -- What here, suggested by the Scene,",1.0 +"I slight unfold, record, and sing at home,",0.0 +"In that blessed Isle, where so we Spirits move",1.0 +With one quick effort of my Will I am.,4.0 +"There Truth, unlicensed, walks; even Kings themselves",3.0 +"Invite her forth, the Monarchs of the Free!",2.0 +"That gay Security, that Pride of Rule;",1.0 +"Fixed on my Rock, there an Indulgent Race",1.0 +Over BRITONS wield the Sceptre of the Heart:,1.0 +"And, mixing Worth with Worth, the ROYAL PAIR",0.0 +To steady Justice yielding Goodness join.,0.0 +Nor sets the Prospect in this pleasing view;,0.0 +"While there, to finish what his Sires began,",0.0 +"A PRINCE behold! for ME who burns sincere,",1.0 +Even with a Subject's Zeal. He my great Work,2.0 +"The Touch, the Graces and the Muses owe.",1.0 +For BRITAIN'S Glory swells his panting Breast;,0.0 +"His Pride to let the smiling Heart abroad,",0.0 +"Through Clouds of Pomp, that but conceal the Man;",1.0 +To please his Pleasure; Bounty his Delight;,1.0 +And all the Soul of TITUS dwells in Him.,0.0 +"Hail glorious Theme! But how alas! shall Verse,",4.0 +"From the crude Stores of mortal Language drawn,",2.0 +"How faint and tedious, sing, what, piercing deep,",2.0 +The GODDESS flashed at once upon my Soul.,0.0 +"For, clear Precision all, the Tongue of Gods",0.0 +Is Harmony itself; to every Ear,1.0 +"Familiar known, like Light to every Eye.",0.0 +"Mean time disclosing Ages, as She spoke,",2.0 +In dread Succession poured their Empires forth;,0.0 +"Scene after Scene, the Human Drama spread;",1.0 +And still embodied Picture rushed to sight.,0.0 +O THOU! to whom the Muses owe their flame;,1.0 +"The striking Force, the Lightning of thy Thought,",1.0 +"While I, to nobler than Poetic Fame",2.0 +"Aspiring, thy Commands to BRITONS bear.",1.0 +THe Artful hand of Nature never displayed,2.0 +"More skill, then when your Charming Self was made:",0.0 +Think you her boasted Masterpiece to be;,0.0 +"While that Bright Soul that Heaven has placed within,",1.0 +"But since I on my Lyre can touch no String,",2.0 +"Equal to those great Merits, I would Sing,",5.0 +"Hopeless, to give such mighty Charms their due,",2.0 +I'll leave the World to Brighter Thoughts of you.,0.0 +"All praise is foreign, but of true desert,",1.0 +"Yet may a maid for love of praise contend,",0.0 +May not she strive around her sacred shrine,0.0 +"To strew the path with many a fragrant flower,",2.0 +And sweetly decorate the playful hour?,0.0 +"To tempt even Time to loiter on his way,",3.0 +And feel a wish to lengthen out the day?,1.0 +"Could we not Worth and Pleasure reconcile,",0.0 +Why wears the sun that universal smile?,0.0 +Fountain of life! to him all power is given,5.0 +To gild and ornament the works of heaven;,1.0 +"Its various gems to tinge with varying dies,",4.0 +"And with new beauty strike the admiring eyes,",4.0 +While deeper shadows gently fall behind,1.0 +To heighten objects that draw near the mind.,1.0 +To draw the curtain of a future sky;,1.0 +Nor see the cloud that some sad hour may shed,1.0 +In floods of sorrow over the drooping head;,2.0 +"The present hour is all that man can boast,",0.0 +And happy they who love the stranger most.,1.0 +"In future prospects let fond hearts rejoice,",1.0 +Hear then the present hour's small whispering voice.,5.0 +When soft Persuasion winds the ear around;,0.0 +Hark! how she sings: ' -- Trust not the coming day;,1.0 +The flowers of Autumn meet not those of May;,3.0 +"The present hour in present mirth employ,",0.0 +And bribe the future with the hope of joy!,1.0 +"Hope still can please mid scenes of deep distress,",2.0 +"Can change the mourning to a fancy dress,",1.0 +"Can tread through brake, through thicket, and through thorn,",1.0 +"Without a mantle, or a garment torn.",1.0 +What though the Palace in our distant view,0.0 +The erring guide may never conduct us to;,1.0 +The potent spell shall shed its mists around,0.0 +And mimic views swim over the fairy ground;,3.0 +"Stealing from thought the disappointment past,",2.0 +By prospects opening fairer than the last;,3.0 +And teach this heart most firmly to believe!,1.0 +"The ills of life spring up wherever we tread,",4.0 +Wherever we walk the Gorgon rears her head;,2.0 +"With spells surrounded should the traveller go,",2.0 +And wear a charm for every sting of woe;,0.0 +"Hope, Love, and Friendship furnish not a few,",1.0 +"Friendship, with cordials in her hands and eyes,",2.0 +"The want of health, the want of ease supplies;",0.0 +"The want of all things firmly may be born,",2.0 +If from the foot she draws the rankling thorn;,1.0 +"If she supplies the balm the wound shall close,",1.0 +And weary eyelids sink in calm repose.,1.0 +"Sacred to her the ills of life bow down,",3.0 +Kneel at her shrine and her mild empire own;,3.0 +"Then to the heart in different forms are sent,",0.0 +"First seem Submission, and next grow Content,",2.0 +All tend to strengthen and restore the mind:,1.0 +"The mind restored can see the change of things,",0.0 +In equal fetters bind the throne of kings;,0.0 +"All nature find submitted to one law, ' --",1.0 +A certain portion of predestined woe.,2.0 +"But to give ease to man's distracted frame,",2.0 +The healing goddess watchful Friendship came;,0.0 +"To feel the sudden downcast of an eye,",2.0 +And long before anticipate a sigh;,0.0 +"To see what would the present calm destroy,",0.0 +When fond Remembrance paints some long lost joy.,1.0 +"The long lost joy, if never to return,",2.0 +Asks the sad heart to cling around its urn;,3.0 +"But listening Friendship hears the low request,",0.0 +And silent guards the inroad of the breast;,2.0 +"By slow degrees draws back the present scene,",1.0 +"Till gayer thoughts come gliding in between,",1.0 +"Till Hope again her flattering tints lets fall,",3.0 +"That lend some comfort, and that promise all.",1.0 +Such was the cordial that kind heaven bestowed,2.0 +"When the dire cup with every ill overflowed,",3.0 +"One drop of hope clung to the poisoned side,",2.0 +"Or man had bowed his languid head, and died.",0.0 +"Those cordial drops to stay the trembling hand,",0.0 +"Shall we against heaven essay an impious skill,",5.0 +If by some other means we cure the ill?,1.0 +If love of praise should tempt us to endure,1.0 +With patient calm those ills we cannot cure; ' --,0.0 +"Should prove the stimulus, and lead the way",1.0 +"To noble actions, ' -- should the Censor say",0.0 +No merit follows ' -- though great good ensue?,3.0 +"If you are served, sure it is good to you!",3.0 +"And actions guarded by the sense of shame,",1.0 +Will struggle hard to bear an honest name.,0.0 +"For me, I own, that hope of praise can charm",1.0 +"This little heart, and all its feelings warm;",0.0 +"Can bid me throw the selfish wish aside,",0.0 +And for a weaker frame than mine provide:,2.0 +"Not but compassion may, to me unknown,",3.0 +Give praise that merit which was all her own.,1.0 +"If custom is to man the foster nurse,",1.0 +"Strengthens good habits, and makes bad men worse,",5.0 +"May I not hope, whatever is the cause,",3.0 +Custom may teach me to deserve applause!,3.0 +"Grafted on stocks inferior to the fruit,",3.0 +The apple tasted we forget the root.,1.0 +"The love of praise this privilege may claim,",1.0 +And rank as equal with the fear of shame.,1.0 +"Both have their use; ' -- the one is to impel,",2.0 +"The other to restrain, or cheque, or quell,",1.0 +"The rising Passions as they grow too loud,",2.0 +"To raise the humble, and depress the proud.",1.0 +"If then to good or ill our passions tend,",0.0 +Why not conduct them to their proper end?,1.0 +"Virtue, too plain to strike voluptuous sight,",5.0 +"Barely can touch the heart with true delight,",2.0 +"Were man but perfect, and his judgement true;",2.0 +"But as it is, even she herself must bend,",2.0 +And ask assistance from a humble friend.,1.0 +"If man, proud man! although the lord of all,",2.0 +"Now on his fellows, now his creatures call, ' --",0.0 +"Assistance wants, however high his sphere,",1.0 +"So Virtue found, when she forsook the sky,",1.0 +Passions must oft her better aid supply;,2.0 +"And Love of Praise the foremost passion came,",1.0 +"And claimed, and won, the loudest trump of Fame;",0.0 +"If not for this our virtuous deeds might tyre, ' --",3.0 +Praise fans the flames of the celestial fire;,2.0 +"And watchful keeps it glowing in the breast,",0.0 +At once to melt and purify the rest.,0.0 +"Her everlasting glow of blushing red,",0.0 +"The conscious tinge steals over the crimson cheek,",3.0 +And leaves a blush for every wish to speak;,0.0 +"The mind thus checked grows dubious of its powers,",3.0 +"If cold despair the rising genius quell,",0.0 +"The wish to please will soon forsake the heart,",0.0 +And one by one the talents all depart;,1.0 +"Had this blessed wish stood foremost of the throng,",2.0 +"OH! had sweet Praise but met them on their way,",4.0 +"Each thorny path revealed the blushing rose,",0.0 +"By Reason hated, and by Fancy feared;",1.0 +"A flattering painter, that with nicest art",2.0 +Hides each defect of judgement and of heart;,3.0 +"Sees little virtues swell before his eye,",1.0 +As man through glasses sees the smallest fly!,0.0 +"As foes to Virtue, nearly are allied;",1.0 +"I mean, when each extreme affects our end,",0.0 +And to one purpose both the feelings tend.,1.0 +"What matters it, if Virtue droop her head,",1.0 +From what contagion the dire sickness spread;,2.0 +"Whether from Pride the malady first sprung,",4.0 +"For me, may fate, propitious to my prayer,",2.0 +"Still give a friend to see things as they are,",3.0 +"To chide my errors, and my worth approve,",1.0 +With all the encouragement of partial love;,2.0 +"So shall this wish rise warmest in my breast,",1.0 +"To bless another as myself am blessed, ' --",2.0 +"To please ' -- to serve ' -- to animate, and cheer,",0.0 +And prove that Praise can turn reformer here!,0.0 +"See, the bright Sun renews his annual Course,",5.0 +"OH might the Fates thy vital Thread prolong,",0.0 +"And make thy Life immortal, as thy Song!",1.0 +"Less Lustre waits the God, when he refines",2.0 +The ripening Metal in Peruvian Mines;,2.0 +"Brightens the Crystal with transparent Day,",3.0 +Or points the Di'mond with its sparkling Ray;,1.0 +"Than when, delighted, he thy Soul inspires,",1.0 +"Informs thy Judgement, and thy Fancy fires;",1.0 +"Assists thee striking out some bold Design,",1.0 +"In common as His Rays on all descend,",1.0 +"So You the Great delight, the Poor befriend:",1.0 +"As Heat productive His bright Beams bestow,",2.0 +"So, warm with Life, your powerful Numbers flow:",2.0 +"As He from Clouds bursts forth divinely bright,",2.0 +So Envy sets You in a fairer Light:,0.0 +One Thing disturbs the wondrous Harmony;,1.0 +"With faded Light the Winter Sun appears,",0.0 +While You shine brighter in Decline of Years.,2.0 +And for the raven's glossy black assumes,1.0 +"Loose scattered hairs around my temples stray,",1.0 +And spread the mournful shade of sickly grey:,0.0 +"I bend beneath the weight of broken years,",0.0 +The season now invites me to retire,1.0 +"To homely scenes of calm domestic peace,",0.0 +"A poet's leisure, and an old man's ease;",2.0 +To wear the remnant of uncertain life,1.0 +In the fond bosom of a faithful wife;,3.0 +"In safe repose my last few hours to spend,",0.0 +Nor fearful nor impatient of their end.,2.0 +Nor tempt again the dangers of the main;,1.0 +"Thus the proud steed, when youthful glory fades,",3.0 +"And creeping age his stiffening limbs invades,",0.0 +"Lies stretched at ease on the luxuriant plain,",4.0 +And dreams his morning triumphs over again:,2.0 +"The hardly veteran from the camp retires,",1.0 +And sees his stormy day serenely close.,0.0 +My shattered bark must plough an unknown sea.,3.0 +"Forced from my native seats and sacred home,",0.0 +"With trembling knees over unknown hills I go,",8.0 +Stiff with blue ice and heaped with drifted snow:,3.0 +"Pale suns there strike their feeble rays in vain,",1.0 +Which faintly glance against the marble plain;,0.0 +"His idle urn sealed up, forgets to roar;",2.0 +"Stern winter in eternal triumph reigns,",1.0 +"My failing eyes the weary waste explore,",0.0 +"The savage mountains and the dreary shore,",1.0 +And vainly look for scenes of old delight;,0.0 +No loved familiar objects meet my sight;,1.0 +"No long remembered streams, or conscious bowers,",1.0 +Wake the gay memory of youthful hours.,4.0 +"I fondly hoped, content with learnt ease,",1.0 +"In every scene some favourite spot to trace,",0.0 +And meet in all some kind domestic face;,0.0 +"To stretch my limbs upon my native soil,",0.0 +"Resign my breath where first that breath I drew,",0.0 +And sink into the spot from whence I grew.,0.0 +But if my feeble age is doomed to try,1.0 +"Unusual seasons and a foreign sky,",1.0 +And taste the healing balm of milder air;,0.0 +And pitch my tent beneath the eye of day.,0.0 +"Could not the winter in my veins suffice,",0.0 +Without the added rage of Scythian skies?,2.0 +"The snow of time my vital heat exhaust,",0.0 +"And hoary age, without Sarmatian frost?",0.0 +"You tuneful maids! who once, in happier days,",2.0 +"Beneath the myrtle grove inspired my lays,",2.0 +"Where seek your footsteps on this savage shore,",2.0 +Whose ruder echoes never were taught to bear,2.0 +The poet's numbers or the lover's care?,1.0 +Yet storm and tempest are of ills the least,1.0 +Which this inhospitable land infest:,3.0 +"Society than solitude is worse,",1.0 +And man to man is still the greatest curse.,0.0 +"A savage race my fearful steps surround,",0.0 +Practised in blood and disciplined to wound;,3.0 +"Unknown alike to pity as to fear,",1.0 +"Hard as their soil, and as their skies severe.",1.0 +"Skilled in each mystery of direst art,",1.0 +They arm with double death the poisoned dart:,0.0 +"The lurking dagger at their side hung low,",1.0 +Leaps in quick vengeance on the hapless foe:,3.0 +"No steadfast faith is here, no sure repose;",3.0 +An armed truce is all this nation knows:,2.0 +"The rage of battle works, when battles cease;",0.0 +And wars are brooding in the lap of peace.,0.0 +"Since CAESAR wills, and I a wretch must be,",1.0 +Let me be safe at least in misery!,1.0 +"To my sad grave in calm oblivion steal,",4.0 +Nor add the woes I fear to all I feel!,0.0 +"Yet here, forever here, your bard must dwell,",0.0 +Who sung of sports and tender loves so well.,0.0 +Here must he live: but when he yields his breath,0.0 +OH let him not be exiled even in death!,3.0 +"Lest mixed with Scythian shades, a Roman ghost",2.0 +Wander on this inhospitable coast.,4.0 +"To thee, dear wife, some friend with pious care",2.0 +"Then wilt thou weep to see me so return,",1.0 +And with fond passion clasp my silent urn.,2.0 +"OH cheque thy grief, that tender bosom spare,",1.0 +"Hurt not thy cheeks, nor soil thy flowing hair.",0.0 +"Press the pale marble with thy lips, and give",4.0 +"One precious tear, and bid my memory live:",2.0 +"The silent dust shall glow at thy command,",1.0 +And the warm ashes feel thy pious hand.,2.0 +"Mid the dread sound of groans and clank of chains,",3.0 +"Where life is death, and day perpetual night,",2.0 +Say! Shall a wretch like me presume to write?,1.0 +"A wretch cut off from every social tie,",2.0 +"Expelled from life, yet not allowed to die,",0.0 +"At once, from wife, from children torn away",0.0 +"By those, who make calamity their prey;",2.0 +Can such a wretch with trembling hand assay,4.0 +"His mansion and companions to portray,",2.0 +"Which mock all sorrow, and make language faint,",2.0 +"Where murderers dire lie shackled to the ground,",6.0 +And innocence and guilt alike are bound!,1.0 +Yet could I to my sad companions gain,1.0 +"O were my lines in Heaven's own language dressed,",3.0 +"Expand each heart, and make each eye overflow,",3.0 +"Yet though no poet's fire inspires my pen,",2.0 +"I write to Christians and I write to Men,",1.0 +I write to those if Heaven direct it so,1.0 +"Whose hearts dilate at every human woe,",0.0 +To those whose charity with healing hand,2.0 +"Diffuses health and blessings over the land,",2.0 +"Who condescend to search the hidden cells,",0.0 +"Where pining want in silent anguish dwells,",0.0 +"There, in obedience to their Lord divine,",1.0 +"They bind the wound, and pour in oil and wine!",0.0 +"What joys they feel, who follow such a guide!",1.0 +"Joys! which exceed all human worldly pride,",1.0 +"Joys! which even death itself cannot destroy,",0.0 +For then they enter on their Master's joy!,1.0 +O did the proud and selfish but believe,1.0 +"How far more blessed to give, than to receive!",1.0 +Did but the slaves of pomp and grandeur know,3.0 +What streams of comfort from their wealth might flow!,1.0 +"Waters! as pure as morning dews, which rise",2.0 +"From lofty mountains till they reach the skies,",1.0 +"Descending thence, as tender drops of rain,",0.0 +"They cheer each valley, and each thirsty plain;",1.0 +"So when in gratitude the widow's prayer,",0.0 +"To Heaven ascend, an offering pure and neat,",0.0 +"A blessed memorial and an odour sweet,",2.0 +"Recorded stands, from thence they tenfold pour",1.0 +"Their precious ointment, as the grateful shower!",1.0 +"Ah me! what means that shriek, that horrid yell,",0.0 +"Those bitter oaths, which sink the soul to hell?",0.0 +"Say, lost companions, in this dread abode",1.0 +Do you never think of an offended God?,1.0 +"TO obtain that pardon, which the world denies?",1.0 +"Ah! sue for mercy with your latest breath,",1.0 +And trembling ask for pardon after death.,0.0 +"No, No, I'll curse not even that fatal morn,",3.0 +Which saw me to this loathsome prison born;,1.0 +"Snatched from my homely bed, where long I'd lain",0.0 +"Struggling with sickness, poverty and pain,",2.0 +Did frequent comfort with my sorrows blend;,1.0 +For near my couch the partner of my care,1.0 +"Would anxious watch, and bid me not despair,",0.0 +"While she with life and strength, by Heaven supplied,",0.0 +"Could yield that help, sickness to me denied,",6.0 +By which our helpless children long were fed:,0.0 +"She bade me hope by industry set free,",2.0 +"No gripping landlord need we dread to see,",2.0 +"She taught me to suppress the rising sigh,",1.0 +And checked the tear when starting from mine eye;,1.0 +"And with her infants clothes sustained my head,",1.0 +"While at my feet those infants playful smiled,",0.0 +And by their prattle oft my pains beguiled! ' --,1.0 +"Ah! helpless babes, ah! wretched, dearest wife!",0.0 +"More loved by me than liberty, or life,",2.0 +"No more thy soothing voice now charms mine ear,",1.0 +"And gently whispers that no danger's near,",1.0 +"No more my playful infants cheer my sight,",0.0 +Here all is horror and perpetual night!,3.0 +"Hope can no longer now suppress my sighs,",3.0 +Or cheque the tears when streaming from mine eyes.,1.0 +"Still, still I feel that pang, which rent my heart,",1.0 +"Still do I hear thy screams when forced apart,",0.0 +"Still view thy pallid face, all bathed in tears,",1.0 +"My children's cries still vibrate in mine ears,",1.0 +"Still feel them cling around my trembling knees,",1.0 +"While on their helpless parent bailiffs seize,",0.0 +"Still, still I hear my wife, my children call ' --",1.0 +"Have patience, patience, and we'll pay thee all!",1.0 +"Nor tears, nor prayers, nor innocence could plead!",1.0 +"O! had thine heart one spark of pity known,",0.0 +"Come! see thy captive! view his wretched state,",1.0 +And show some mercy ere it be too late;,1.0 +His feeble frame to strength and health restore?,0.0 +"O could he liberty and strength regain,",1.0 +To pay thy debt he every nerve would strain!,0.0 +Will grief and anguish aid the wretched wife,0.0 +In earning food to save each infant's life?,0.0 +Ah! rather will not frenzy and despair,2.0 +Deprive those infants of a mother's care?,1.0 +I hear her vent her agony of soul.,1.0 +"Yet let not thoughts like these distract my brain,",1.0 +"Thoughts, which heap woe on woe, and pain on pain;",3.0 +"No! rather let me, with imploring eye,",2.0 +"To Him, who calls the weary and oppressed,",2.0 +"Who, though forlorn and helpless here I lie,",1.0 +"Without one pitying friend or comfort nigh,",2.0 +"Some heart, replete with love, to whom it's given",0.0 +"Those bounties to dispense, which flow from Heaven!",1.0 +IT is not from his form in which we trace,0.0 +"Strength joined with beauty, dignity with grace,",2.0 +"That man, the master of this globe, derives",1.0 +His right of empire over all that lives.,0.0 +"That form indeed, the associate of a mind",2.0 +"Vast in its powers, ethereal in its kind,",3.0 +"That form, the labour of almighty skill,",1.0 +"Framed for the service of a freeborn will,",2.0 +"Asserts precedence, and bespeaks control,",6.0 +But borrows all its grandeur from the soul.,2.0 +"An intellectual kingdom, all her own.",2.0 +"For her, the memory fills her ample page",3.0 +"With truths poured down from every distant age,",2.0 +"The wisdom of great nations, now no more,",3.0 +"Though laden, not encumbered with her spoil,",1.0 +"Laborious, yet unconscious of her toil,",4.0 +"When copiously supplied, then most enlarged,",1.0 +"For her, the fancy roving unconfined,",1.0 +"The present muse of every pensive mind,",0.0 +"Works magic wonders, adds a brighter hue",1.0 +"To nature's scenes, than nature ever knew,",0.0 +"At her command, winds rise and waters roar,",2.0 +"Again she lays them slumbering on the shore,",1.0 +"With flower and fruit the wilderness supplies,",3.0 +Or bids the rocks in ruder pomp arise.,0.0 +"For her, the judgement, umpire in the strife,",4.0 +"That grace and nature have to wage through life,",0.0 +"Condemns, approves, and with a faithful voice",1.0 +Guides the decision of a doubtful choice.,3.0 +Why did the fiat of a God give birth,2.0 +"To yonder fair sun and his attendant earth,",4.0 +"And when descending he resigns the skies,",1.0 +"Why takes the gent'ler moon her turn to rise,",3.0 +"Whom ocean feels through all his countless waves,",0.0 +"Why do the seasons still enrich the year,",0.0 +Fruitful and young as in their first career?,2.0 +"Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees,",2.0 +"Rocked in the cradle of the western breeze,",1.0 +Summer in haste the thriving charge receives,2.0 +"Beneath the shade of her expanded leaves,",1.0 +Die them at last in all their glowing hues ' --,0.0 +"Had not its author dignified the plan,",0.0 +And crowned it with the majesty of man.,2.0 +"Thus formed, thus placed, intelligent, and taught",3.0 +"Look where he will, the wonders God has wrought",1.0 +"Finds in a sober moment time to pause,",0.0 +"To press the important question on his heart,",3.0 +"Why formed at all, and wherefore as thou art?",1.0 +"If man be what he seems, this hour a slave,",0.0 +"The next mere dust and ashes in the grave,",1.0 +Endued with reason only to descry,1.0 +"His crimes and follies with an aching eye,",1.0 +"With passions, just that he may prove with pain",1.0 +"The force he spends against their fury, vain,",0.0 +And if soon after having burned by turns,2.0 +"With every lust with which frail nature burns,",1.0 +"His being end where death dissolves the bond,",0.0 +"The tomb take all, and all be blank beyond,",1.0 +"Then he, of all that nature has brought forth",1.0 +"And useless while he lives, and when he dies,",0.0 +Brings into doubt the wisdom of the skies.,2.0 +"Truths that the learnt pursue with eager thought,",0.0 +"Proving at last, though told in pompous strains,",2.0 +A childish waste of philosophic pains;,0.0 +"But truths on which depends our main concern,",0.0 +"That it's our shame and misery not to learn,",1.0 +Shine by the side of every path we tread,0.0 +"With such a lustre, he that runs may read.",2.0 +"It's true, that if to trifle life away",1.0 +"Down to the sunset of their latest day,",3.0 +"Were all that heaven required of human kind,",0.0 +"And all the plan their destiny designed,",1.0 +"What none could reverence all might justly blame,",1.0 +And man would breathe but for his Maker's shame.,1.0 +"But reason heard, and nature well perused,",0.0 +At once the dreaming mind is disabused.,1.0 +"If all we find possessing earth, sea, air,",1.0 +"Reflect his attributes who placed them there,",0.0 +"Fulfil the purpose, and appear designed",1.0 +"It's plain, the creature whom he chose to invest",2.0 +"With kingship and dominion over the rest,",3.0 +"Fit for the power in which he stands arrayed,",0.0 +"That first or last, hereafter if not here,",1.0 +"He too might make his author's wisdom clear,",0.0 +Suffer his justice in a world to come.,2.0 +"To prove a consequence by none denied,",1.0 +That we are bound to cast the minds of youth,0.0 +"That taught of God they may indeed be wise,",1.0 +In early days the conscience has in most,0.0 +"A quickness, which in later life is lost,",0.0 +"Preserved from guilt by salutary fears,",0.0 +"Or, guilty, soon relenting into tears.",0.0 +"Too careless often as our years proceed,",2.0 +"What friends we sort with, or what books we read,",1.0 +Our parents yet exert a prudent care,0.0 +"To feed our infant minds with proper fare,",0.0 +And wisely store the nursery by degrees,3.0 +"With wholesome learning, yet acquired with ease.",2.0 +Neatly secured from being soiled or torn,2.0 +"Beneath a pane of thin translucent horn,",0.0 +A book to please us at a tender age,0.0 +"It's called a book, though but a single page",1.0 +"Which children use, and parsons ' -- when they preach.",0.0 +"Through moral narrative, or sacred text,",1.0 +"And learn with wonder how this world began,",1.0 +"Points, which unless the Scripture made them plain,",1.0 +The wisest heads might agitate in vain.,0.0 +"Back to the season of life's happy spring,",2.0 +"I pleased remember, and while memory yet",2.0 +"Holds fast her office here, can never forget,",3.0 +"Sweet fiction and sweet truth alike prevail,",3.0 +"Whose humorous vein, strong sense, and simple style,",3.0 +"Speaking in parables his slighted word,",3.0 +"I name thee not, lest so despised a name",1.0 +"Should move a sneer at thy deserved fame,",2.0 +Yet even in transitory life's late day,3.0 +"That mingles all my brown with sober grey,",0.0 +"Revere the man, whose Pilgrim marks the road",0.0 +And guides the Progress of the soul to God.,2.0 +"The man approving what had charmed the boy,",0.0 +"Would die at last in comfort, peace, and joy,",0.0 +And not with curses on his art who stole,1.0 +The gem of truth from his unguarded soul.,1.0 +"By kind tuition on his yielding breast,",1.0 +"The youth now bearded, and yet pert and raw,",2.0 +"Regards with scorn, though once received with awe,",0.0 +And warped into the labyrinth of lies,0.0 +"That babblers, called philosophers, devise,",1.0 +"Replete with dreams, unworthy of a man.",1.0 +"Touch but his nature in its ailing part,",0.0 +"Assert the native evil of his heart,",1.0 +"Rise in his forehead, and seem rank enough;",2.0 +"As God's expedient to retrieve his loss,",3.0 +And hates it with the malice of a Jew.,2.0 +How weak the barrier of mere nature proves,4.0 +Opposed against the pleasures nature loves!,0.0 +"She longs to yield, no sooner wooed than won.",1.0 +Try now the merits of this blessed exchange,2.0 +Of modest truth for wits eccentric range.,0.0 +"' Time was, he closed as he began the day",1.0 +"With decent duty, not ashamed to pray.",0.0 +"The practise was a bond upon his heart,",1.0 +"A pledge he gave for a consistent part,",1.0 +A power confessed so lately on his knees.,3.0 +"But now, farewell all legendary tales,",1.0 +"The shadows fly, philosophy prevails,",2.0 +"Prayer to the winds and caution to the waves,",1.0 +"Religion makes the free by nature slaves,",0.0 +"Priests have invented, and the world admired",2.0 +"Resumes her powers, and spurns the clumsy fraud,",2.0 +The meteor of the gospel dies away.,1.0 +"Whose only care, might truth presume to speak,",0.0 +"A mother's lectures and a nurse's care,",1.0 +"But sound religion sparingly enough,",1.0 +Our early notices of truth disgraced,1.0 +"Lascivious, headstrong, or all these at once,",2.0 +"For loose expense and fashionable waste,",1.0 +"Should prove your ruin, and his own at last,",1.0 +"Train him in public with a mob of boys,",1.0 +"Childish in mischief only and in noise,",3.0 +"There shall he learn before sixteen winter's old,",3.0 +"That authors are most useful, pawned or sold,",1.0 +"That pedantry is all that schools impart,",1.0 +"But taverns teach the knowledge of the heart,",1.0 +"Shall win his heart and have his drunken praise,",0.0 +"Schools, unless discipline where doubly strong,",5.0 +Detain their adolescent charge too long.,1.0 +The management of Tiro's of eighteen,3.0 +"Is difficult, their punishment obscene.",2.0 +"The stout tall Captain, whose superior size",3.0 +"The minor heroes view with envious eyes,",2.0 +"Becomes their pattern, upon whom they fix",2.0 +"Their whole attention, and ape all his tricks.",2.0 +"His pride that scorns to obey or to submit,",3.0 +"With them is courage, his effrontery wit.",4.0 +"Robbery of gardens, quarrels in the streets,",1.0 +"Transport them, and are made their favourite themes.",1.0 +"A kindred spark, they burn to do the like.",0.0 +"Thus half accomplished, before he yet begin",3.0 +"To show the peeping down upon his chin,",1.0 +And as maturity of years comes on,2.0 +"Made just the adept that you designed your son,",2.0 +"TO insure the perseverance of his course,",2.0 +"And give your monstrous project all its force,",0.0 +"Send him to college. If he there be tamed,",2.0 +"Or in one article of vice reclaimed,",1.0 +Where no regard of ordinances is shown,3.0 +"Or looked for now, the fault must be his own.",0.0 +"Some sneaking virtue lurks in him no doubt,",1.0 +Nor gambling practises can find it out.,2.0 +"Such youths of spirit, and that spirit too",1.0 +"You nurseries of our boys, we owe to you.",1.0 +"Though from ourselves the mischief more proceeds,",1.0 +For public schools it's public folly feeds.,0.0 +"The slaves of custom and established mode,",1.0 +"To follow foolish precedents, and wink",0.0 +"With both our eyes, is easier than to think,",1.0 +And such an age as ours balks no expense,4.0 +"Except of caution and of commonsense,",1.0 +"Else sure, notorious fact and proof so plain",3.0 +Would turn our steps into a wiser train.,0.0 +I blame not those who with what care they can,0.0 +"Or if I blame, it's only that they dare",1.0 +Promise a work of which they must despair.,2.0 +"Went with him, and saw all the game he played?",1.0 +Yes ' -- you are conscious; and on all the shelves,1.0 +"Your pupils strike upon, have struck yourselves.",0.0 +"Or if by nature sober, you had then",2.0 +"Boys as you were, the gravity of men,",2.0 +"You knew at least, by constant proofs addressed",0.0 +"To ears and eyes, the vices of the rest.",1.0 +"But you connive at what you cannot cure,",1.0 +"And evils not to be endured, endure,",0.0 +"Lest power exerted, but without success,",3.0 +Should make the little you retain still less.,2.0 +You once were justly famed for bringing forth,0.0 +"Undoubted scholarship and genuine worth,",2.0 +A glory bright as that of all the signs,0.0 +"Peace to them all, those brilliant times are fled,",0.0 +And no such lights are kindling in their stead.,0.0 +"As set the midnight riot in a blaze,",1.0 +"And seem, if judged by their expressive looks,",1.0 +Deeper in none than in their surgeons books.,2.0 +"Say muse for education made the song,",1.0 +No muse can hesitate or linger long,1.0 +"What causes move us, knowing as we must",1.0 +"To send our sons to scout and scamper there,",1.0 +While colts and puppies cost us so much care?,1.0 +"Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise,",1.0 +"The scene is touching, and the heart is stone",1.0 +"That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.",0.0 +"The little ones unbuttoned, glowing hot,",0.0 +"Playing our games, and on the very spot,",3.0 +"As happy as we once, to kneel and draw",1.0 +"To pitch the ball into the grounded hat,",0.0 +"Or drive it devious with a dex'trous pat,",1.0 +The pleasing spectacle at once excites,1.0 +"Such recollection of our own delights,",1.0 +"That viewing it, we seem almost to obtain",4.0 +Our innocent sweet simple years again.,2.0 +"Whence first we started into life's long race,",1.0 +"Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway,",1.0 +"We feel it even in age, and at our latest day.",2.0 +Hark! how the sire of chits whose future share,2.0 +"Of classic food begins to be his care,",0.0 +"With his own likeness placed on either knee,",1.0 +"Indulges all a father's heart-felt glee,",1.0 +"And tells them as he strokes their silver locks,",1.0 +That they must soon learn Latin and to box;,2.0 +"Then turning, he regales his listening wife",1.0 +"With all the adventures of his early life,",2.0 +"In bilking tavern bills and spouting plays,",0.0 +"What shifts he used detected in a scrape,",0.0 +"What sums he lost at play, and how he sold",1.0 +"Watch, seals, and all, till all his pranks are told.",1.0 +"He gives the local bias all its sway,",0.0 +"Resolves that where he played his sons shall play,",0.0 +And destinies their bright genius to be shown,5.0 +Just in the scene where he displayed his own.,1.0 +The meek and bashful boy will soon be taught,0.0 +"To be as bold and forward as he ought,",1.0 +"The rude will scuffle through with ease enough,",1.0 +Great schools suit best the sturdy and the rough.,3.0 +"Ah happy designation, prudent choice,",0.0 +"The event is sure, expect it and rejoice!",2.0 +"Soon see your wish fulfilled in either child,",1.0 +"The great indeed, by titles, riches, birth,",0.0 +"Are best disposed of, where with most success",0.0 +"They may acquire that confident address,",4.0 +"Those habits of profuse and lewd expense,",1.0 +"That scorn of all delights but those of sense,",1.0 +"Which though in plain plebeians we condemn,",1.0 +With so much reason all expect from them.,1.0 +"But families of less illustrious fame,",3.0 +"Whose chief distinction is their spotless name,",1.0 +"Must shine by true desert, or not at all,",0.0 +"What dream they of, that with so little care",0.0 +"They risk their hopes, their dearest treasure there?",1.0 +They dream of little Charles or William graced,0.0 +"They see the attentive crowds his talents draw,",2.0 +They hear him speak ' -- the oracle of law.,1.0 +"The father who designs his babe a priest,",0.0 +And while the playful jockey scours the room,2.0 +"Briskly, astride upon the parlour broom,",2.0 +In fancy sees him more superbly ride,2.0 +"Events improbable and strange as these,",1.0 +"Which only a parental eye foresees,",1.0 +A public school shall bring to pass with ease.,0.0 +But how? resides such virtue in that air,1.0 +As must create an appetite for prayer?,0.0 +And will it breathe into him all the zeal,1.0 +To take the lead and be the foremost still,1.0 +In all true worth and literary skill?,1.0 +"The knowledge of the world, and dull of thought!",1.0 +Not to be found by poring on a book.,1.0 +"Small skill in Latin, and still less in Greek,",3.0 +"Is more than adequate to all I seek,",0.0 +"Let erudition grace him or not grace,",2.0 +"I give the bauble but the second place,",1.0 +Subsist and centre in one point ' -- a friend.,0.0 +"A friend, whatever he studies or neglects,",4.0 +"Shall give him consequence, heal all defects,",2.0 +"His intercourse with peers, and sons of peers ' --",0.0 +In that bright quarter his propitious skies,2.0 +"Your Lordship and your Grace, what school can teach",1.0 +A rhetoric equal to those parts of speech?,3.0 +Sweet interjections! if he learn but those?,2.0 +The parson knows enough who knows a Duke. ' --,0.0 +"In barbarous prostitution of your son,",3.0 +Pressed on his part by means that would disgrace,0.0 +"And ending, if at last its end be gained,",1.0 +It may succeed; and if his sins should call,2.0 +"For more than common punishment, it shall.",1.0 +"The wretch shall rise, and be the thing on earth",0.0 +"Least qualified in honour, learning, worth,",4.0 +"To occupy a sacred, awful post,",0.0 +In which the best and worthiest tremble most.,2.0 +"The royal letters, are a thing of course,",1.0 +"A king that would, might recommend his horse,",0.0 +"And Deans no doubt and Chapters, with one voice",2.0 +"As bound in duty, would confirm the choice.",0.0 +"Behold your Bishop! well he plays his part,",0.0 +"Christian in name, and Infidel in heart,",2.0 +"Ghostly in office, earthly in his plan,",2.0 +"Dumb as a senator, and as a priest",2.0 +"To live estranged from God his total scope,",0.0 +"And his end sure, without one glimpse of hope.",2.0 +"But fair although and feasible it seem,",2.0 +Depend not much upon your golden dream;,0.0 +For Providence that seems concerned to exempt,3.0 +"The hallowed bench from absolute contempt,",0.0 +"Still keeps a seat or two for worth and grace,",1.0 +"And therefore it's, that, though the sight be rare,",2.0 +"Though fair in promise, permanent and sound.",1.0 +New situations give a different cast,1.0 +"Of habit, inclination, temper, taste,",0.0 +"And he that seemed our counterpart at first,",1.0 +"Young heads are giddy, and young hearts are warm,",3.0 +And make mistakes for manhood to reform.,2.0 +Whose scent and hues are rather guessed than known.,0.0 +"Each dreams that each is just what he appears,",1.0 +When disposition like a sail unfurled,0.0 +Shows all its rents and patches to the world.,1.0 +"If therefore, even when honest in design,",3.0 +"A boyish friendship may so soon decline,",1.0 +"With just abhorrence of so mean a part,",1.0 +Than set your son to work at a vile trade,1.0 +For wages so unlikely to be paid.,2.0 +"That are of chief and most approved report,",0.0 +To such base hopes in many a sordid soul,4.0 +"Owe their repute in part, but not the whole.",2.0 +"Unquestioned, though the jewel be but glass,",1.0 +"Ranks as a virtue, and is yet a vice,",1.0 +"Or rather a gross compound, justly tried,",2.0 +"Of envy, hatred, jealousy, and pride,",1.0 +And Emulation is its specious name.,1.0 +Boys once on fire with that contentious zeal,1.0 +"Feel all the rage that female rivals feel,",1.0 +The spirit of that competition burns,1.0 +"With all varieties of ill by turns,",1.0 +"Each vainly magnifies his own success,",0.0 +"Resents his fellows, wishes it were less,",1.0 +"Exults in his miscarriage if he fail,",2.0 +"Deems his reward too great if he prevail,",4.0 +"Less for improvement, than to tickle spite.",3.0 +"The spur is powerful, and I grant its force,",1.0 +"It pricks the genius forward in its course,",0.0 +"Allows short time for play, and none for sloth,",1.0 +"And felt alike by each, advances both,",0.0 +"But judge where so much evil intervenes,",1.0 +"The end, though plausible, not worth the means.",1.0 +"Weigh, for a moment, classical desert",1.0 +"Against an heart depraved and temper hurt,",0.0 +"Hurt too perhaps for life, for early wrong",1.0 +"Done to the nobler part, affects it long,",3.0 +If you can crown a discipline that draws,2.0 +"Connection formed for interest, and endeared",1.0 +"By selfish views, thus censured and cashiered,",2.0 +"Doomed to a no less ignominious fate,",3.0 +"The props of such proud seminaries fall,",2.0 +"Great schools rejected then, as those that swell",2.0 +"Beyond a size that can be managed well,",1.0 +"Shall royal institutions miss the bays,",0.0 +And small academies win all the praise?,2.0 +"Force not my drift beyond its just intent,",0.0 +I praise a school as Pope a government;,1.0 +"So take my judgement in his language dressed,",0.0 +"Whatever is best administered, is best.",4.0 +"Few boys are born with talents that excel,",0.0 +But all are capable of living well.,1.0 +"Then ask not, whether limited or large,",1.0 +"But, watch they strictly, or neglect their charge?",1.0 +"If anxious only that their boys may learn,",0.0 +"While Morals languish, a despised concern,",1.0 +"The great and small deserve one common blame,",0.0 +"Different in size, but in effect the same.",1.0 +"Much zeal in virtue's cause all teachers boast,",0.0 +"Therefore in towns and cities they abound,",2.0 +"For there, the game they seek is easiest found,",3.0 +"Though there, in spite of all that care can do,",1.0 +Traps to catch youth are most abundant too.,3.0 +"Keen in pursuit, and vigorous to retain,",4.0 +"Your son come forth a prodigy of skill,",2.0 +Claims more than half the praise as his due share;,1.0 +"But if with all his genius he betray,",2.0 +"Not more intelligent, than loose and gay,",1.0 +"Such vicious habits as disgrace his name,",1.0 +"Threaten his health, his fortune, and his fame,",3.0 +Though want of due restraint alone have bred,0.0 +"The symptoms that you see with so much dread,",1.0 +"The whole reproach, the fault was all his own.",0.0 +O it's a sight to be with joy perused,1.0 +"By all whom sentiment has not abused,",1.0 +"Newfangled sentiment, the boasted grace",2.0 +"Of those who never feel in the right place,",2.0 +"A sight surpassed by none that we can show,",1.0 +"A father blessed with an ingenuous son,",3.0 +Father and friend and tutor all in one.,2.0 +"How? turn again to tales long since forgot,",1.0 +"He will not blush that has a father's heart,",1.0 +"To take in childish plays a childish part,",0.0 +But bends his sturdy back to any toy,0.0 +"That youth takes pleasure in, to please his boy;",1.0 +Then why resign into a stranger's hand,0.0 +"A task as much within your own command,",0.0 +That God and nature and your interest too,1.0 +Seem with one voice to delegate to you?,0.0 +Why hire a lodging in a house unknown,0.0 +"This second weaning, needless as it is,",1.0 +How does it lacerate both your heart and his!,3.0 +"Notch after notch, till all are smoothed away,",1.0 +With what intense desire he wants his home.,0.0 +But though the joys he hopes beneath your roof,1.0 +Bid fair enough to answer in the proof,1.0 +"Harmless and safe and natural as they are,",3.0 +A disappointment waits him even there:,1.0 +"Arrived, he feels an unexpected change,",0.0 +"He blushes, hangs his head, is shy and strange,",0.0 +"No longer takes, as once, with fearless ease",1.0 +"His favourite stand between his father's knees,",0.0 +"But seeks the corner of some distant seat,",1.0 +"And eyes the door, and watches a retreat,",1.0 +"And least familiar where he should be most,",0.0 +Feels all his happiest privileges lost.,3.0 +Alas poor boy! ' -- the natural effect,1.0 +Of love by absence chilled into respect.,0.0 +"Say, what accomplishments at school acquired",2.0 +Unless thy conscious heart acknowledge ' -- none.,0.0 +"None that in thy domestic snug recess,",1.0 +"He had not made his own with more address,",0.0 +"Though some perhaps that shock thy feeling mind,",0.0 +"And better never learnt, or left behind.",0.0 +"By no kind arts his confidence again,",2.0 +That here begins with most that long complaint,0.0 +"Of filial frankness lost, and love grown faint,",3.0 +"Which, oft neglected in life's waning years,",1.0 +A parent pours into regardless ears.,0.0 +Like caterpillars dangling under trees,0.0 +"By slender threads, and swinging in the breeze,",0.0 +"The boughs in which are bred the unseemly race,",2.0 +So numerous are the follies that annoy,1.0 +"' The mind and heart of every sprightly boy,",0.0 +"Imaginations noxious and perverse,",1.0 +Which admonition can alone disperse.,1.0 +"The encroaching nuisance asks a faithful hand,",1.0 +"Patient, affectionate, of high command,",3.0 +To cheque the procreation of a breed,1.0 +Sure to exhaust the plant on which they feed.,2.0 +It's not enough that Greek or Roman page,0.0 +Even in his pastimes he requires a friend,2.0 +"To warn, and teach him safely to unbend,",2.0 +"Over all his pleasures gently to preside,",1.0 +"Watch his emotions and control their tide,",3.0 +"And levying thus, and with an easy sway,",3.0 +"A tax of profit from his very play,",1.0 +TO impress a value not to be erased,1.0 +"On moments squandered else, and running all to waste.",0.0 +And seems it nothing in a father's eye,0.0 +That unimproved those many moments fly?,0.0 +"And is he well content, his son should find",1.0 +No nourishment to feed his growing mind,2.0 +"But conjugated verbs, and nouns declined?",0.0 +For such is all the mental food purveyed,4.0 +Who feed a pupils intellect with store,0.0 +"Of syntax truly, but with little more,",2.0 +"Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock,",1.0 +"Machines themselves, and governed by a clock.",1.0 +Perhaps a father blessed with any brains,0.0 +"Would deem it no abuse or waste of pains,",0.0 +"TO improve this diet at no great expense,",2.0 +To lead his son for prospects of delight,1.0 +"To some not steep, though philosophic height,",0.0 +Thence to exhibit to his wondering eyes,5.0 +"Yonder circling worlds, their distance, and their size,",1.0 +And the harmonious order of them all;,4.0 +"To show him in an insect or a flower,",2.0 +"Such microscopic proofs of skill and power,",0.0 +"As hid from ages passed, God now displays",1.0 +To combat Atheists with in modern days;,1.0 +"To spread the earth before him, and commend",1.0 +With designation of the fingers end,1.0 +"Its various parts to his attentive note,",3.0 +Thus bringing home to him the most remote;,2.0 +To teach his heart to glow with generous flame,2.0 +"Caught from the deeds of men of ancient fame,",0.0 +"And more than all, with commendation due",0.0 +"To set some living worthy in his view,",0.0 +Whose fair example may at once inspire,1.0 +A wish to copy what he must admire.,0.0 +"Though solid, not too weighty for his years,",2.0 +"Sweet in itself, and not forbidding sport,",1.0 +"When health demands it, of athletic sort,",1.0 +"Would make him what some lovely boys have been,",0.0 +"And more than one perhaps that I have seen,",2.0 +Of the mere schoolboy's lean and tardy growth.,2.0 +"Art thou a man professionally tied,",1.0 +"With all thy faculties elsewhere applied,",2.0 +Too busy to intend a meaner care,2.0 +"Than how to enrich thyself, and next, thine heir;",1.0 +"Or art thou as though rich, perhaps thou art",1.0 +"But poor in knowledge, having none to impart ' --",2.0 +"Behold that figure, neat, though plainly clad,",0.0 +"His sprightly mingled with a shade of sad,",1.0 +"Not of a nimble tongue, though now and then",0.0 +"Heard to articulate like other men,",2.0 +"No jester, and yet lively in discourse,",4.0 +"His phrase well chosen, clear, and full of force,",1.0 +"And his address, if not quite French in ease,",2.0 +"Not English stiff, but frank and formed to please,",0.0 +"Low in the world because he scorns its arts,",0.0 +"A man of letters, manners, morals, parts,",0.0 +"Wise for himself and his few friends alone,",3.0 +"In him, thy well appointed proxy see,",0.0 +"Armed for a work too difficult for thee,",2.0 +"Prepared by taste, by learning, and true worth,",2.0 +"To form thy son, to strike his genius forth,",0.0 +"Beneath thy roof, beneath thine eye to prove",0.0 +"The force of discipline when backed by love,",1.0 +"To double all thy pleasure in thy child,",0.0 +"Safe under such a wing, the boy shall show",2.0 +"No spots contracted among grooms below,",6.0 +By footman Tom for witty and refined.,1.0 +There ' -- in his commerce with the liveried herd,1.0 +Lurks the contagion chiefly to be feared.,3.0 +For since so fashion dictates all who claim,1.0 +"An higher than a mere plebeian fame,",1.0 +"Find it expedient, come what mischief may,",5.0 +"To entertain a thief or two in pay,",0.0 +"And they that can afford the expense of more,",4.0 +"Some half a dozen, and some half a score,",1.0 +Great cause occurs to save him from a band,2.0 +"So sure to spoil him, and so near at hand,",1.0 +"A point secured, if once he be supplied",0.0 +With some such Mentor always at his side.,0.0 +Are such men rare? perhaps they would abound,2.0 +"Were occupation easier to be found,",1.0 +"Were education, else so sure to fail,",0.0 +"Conducted on a manageable scale,",2.0 +"And schools that have outlived all just esteem,",1.0 +"But having found him, be thou duke or earl,",0.0 +"In all good faculties beneath his care,",1.0 +"Respect, as is but rational and just,",2.0 +A man deemed worthy of so dear a trust.,2.0 +"Despised by thee, what more can he expect",1.0 +"From youthful folly, than the same neglect?",1.0 +A flat and fatal negative obtains,1.0 +"That instant, upon all his future pains;",2.0 +"His lessons tyre, his mild rebukes offend,",0.0 +And all the instructions of thy son's best friend,3.0 +"Are a stream choked, or trickling to no end.",4.0 +"Doom him not then to solitary meals,",0.0 +"But recollect that he has sense, and feels.",1.0 +"And, that possessor of a soul refined,",1.0 +"An upright heart and cultivated mind,",1.0 +"His post not mean, his talents not unknown,",0.0 +He deems it hard to vegetate alone.,0.0 +"And if admitted at thy board he sit,",1.0 +"Account him no just mark for idle wit,",0.0 +Offend not him whom modesty restrains,2.0 +"From repartee, with jokes that he disdains,",1.0 +"Much less transfix his feelings with an oath,",1.0 +"Nor frown, unless he vanish with the cloth. ' --",1.0 +"And trust me, his utility may reach",2.0 +"To more than he is hired or bound to teach,",3.0 +Through reverence of the censor of thy son.,2.0 +"But if thy table be indeed unclean,",1.0 +"Foul with excess, and with discourse obscene,",4.0 +"And thou a wretch, whom, following her old plan",3.0 +"And stood the test, perhaps on the wrong side,",1.0 +That any thing but vice could win thy love;,0.0 +"Who, just when industry begins to snore,",1.0 +And thrice in every winter throngs thine own,0.0 +"With half the chariots and sedans in town,",3.0 +"Not very sober though, nor very chaste;",1.0 +"Or is thine house, though less superb thy rank,",1.0 +"If not a scene of pleasure, a mere blank,",2.0 +"Hear nature plead, show mercy to thy son.",3.0 +"Saved from his home, where every day brings forth",1.0 +"Some mischief fatal to his future worth,",1.0 +"Find him a better in a distant spot,",0.0 +"Within some pious pastor's humble cot,",0.0 +"Where vile example your's I chiefly mean,",1.0 +May never more be stamped upon his breast,0.0 +"Where early rest makes early rising sure,",1.0 +"Disease or comes not, or finds easy cure,",2.0 +"Prevented much by diet neat and plain,",0.0 +"Or if it enter, soon starved out again.",3.0 +Where all the attention of his faithful host,2.0 +"Discreetly limited to two at most,",1.0 +"May raise such fruits as shall reward his care,",0.0 +And not at last evaporate in air.,0.0 +"Where stillness aiding study, and his mind",1.0 +"Serene, and to his duties much inclined,",1.0 +"Not occupied in day-dreams, as at home,",2.0 +"Of pleasures past or follies yet to come,",0.0 +His virtuous toil may terminate at last,2.0 +In settled habit and decided taste.,1.0 +Whom care and cool deliberation suit,0.0 +"Not better much, than spectacles a brute,",1.0 +"Who if their sons some slight tuition share,",0.0 +"Deem it of no great moment, whose, or where,",1.0 +"Too proud to adopt the thoughts of one unknown,",3.0 +And much too gay to have any of their own.,2.0 +"But courage man! methought the muse replied,",5.0 +"Mankind are various, and the world is wide;",2.0 +"The ostrich, silliest of the feathered kind,",1.0 +"And formed of God without a parent's mind,",0.0 +Forgetful that the foot may crush the trust;,0.0 +"And while on public nurseries they rely,",3.0 +"Not knowing, and too oft not caring why,",2.0 +"Irrational in what they thus prefer,",1.0 +"No few, that would seem wise, resemble her.",2.0 +But all are not alike. Thy warning voice,0.0 +"May here and there prevent erroneous choice,",3.0 +"And some perhaps, who, busy as they are,",1.0 +"Yet make their progeny their dearest care,",1.0 +Whose hearts will ache once told what ills may reach,1.0 +"Their offspring left upon so wild a beach,",1.0 +Will need no stress of argument to enforce,4.0 +The expedience of a less adventurous course.,4.0 +"The rest will slight thy counsel, or condemn,",1.0 +But they have human feelings. Turn to them.,1.0 +"To you then, tenants of life's middle state,",3.0 +"Securely placed between the small and great,",0.0 +"Two thirds of all the virtue that remains,",1.0 +"Who wise yourselves, desire your sons should learn",0.0 +Your wisdom and your ways ' -- to you I turn.,2.0 +"Look round you on a world perversely blind,",1.0 +"See what contempt is fallen on human kind,",3.0 +"Great titles, offices, and trusts disgraced,",2.0 +"Long lines of ancestry renowned of old,",2.0 +"Surpassed in frenzy by the mad at large,",1.0 +"See great commanders making war a trade,",1.0 +"Great lawyers, lawyers without study made,",6.0 +"Churchmen, in whose esteem their blessed employ",2.0 +"Is odious, and their wages all their joy,",1.0 +Who far enough from furnishing their shelves,1.0 +"With gospel lore, turn infidels themselves,",2.0 +"See womanhood despised, and manhood shamed",2.0 +"With infamy too nauseous to be named,",3.0 +"Else coarse and rude in manners, and their tongue",2.0 +"On fire with curses and with nonsense hung,",1.0 +"Their breath a sample of last night's regale,",2.0 +"All these, and more like these, were bred at schools.",1.0 +"And if it chance, as sometime chance it will,",2.0 +"Such rare exceptions shining in the dark,",0.0 +"Prove rather than impeach the just remark,",2.0 +Serves but to show how black is all beside.,0.0 +Now look on him whose very voice in tone,2.0 +"Just echos thine, whose features are thine own,",2.0 +"And stroke his polished cheek of purest red,",0.0 +"And say, my boy, the unwelcome hour is come,",2.0 +"When thou, transplanted from thy genial home",2.0 +"Must find a colder soil and bleaker air,",0.0 +And trust for safety to a stranger's care;,1.0 +"What character, what turn thou wilt assume",1.0 +"From constant converse with I know not whom,",1.0 +"Who there will court thy friendship, with what views,",1.0 +"Though much depends on what thy choice shall be,",0.0 +"And while the dreadful risque foreseen, forbids,",4.0 +"Free too, and under no constraining force,",1.0 +"Unless the sway of custom warp thy course,",0.0 +"Lay such a stake upon the losing side,",0.0 +Merely to gratify so blind a guide?,2.0 +"Turn him adrift upon a rolling sea,",2.0 +"Nor say, go thither, conscious that there lay",4.0 +"Of natural pity, send him not to school.",0.0 +"No ' -- Guard him better; Is he not thine own,",2.0 +"Thyself in miniature, thy flesh, thy bone?",0.0 +That since thy strength must with thy years elope;,1.0 +And thou wilt need some comfort to assuage,1.0 +"That then, in recompense of all thy cares,",0.0 +"Thy child shall show respect to thy grey hairs,",1.0 +"Befriend thee of all other friends bereft,",1.0 +And give thy life its only cordial left?,0.0 +"Aware then how much danger intervenes,",1.0 +"To compass that good end, forecast the means.",1.0 +"His heart, now passive, yields to thy command;",2.0 +Secure it thine. Its key is in thine hand.,1.0 +"If thou desert thy charge and throw it wide,",1.0 +"Nor heed what guests there enter and abide,",1.0 +Complain not if attachments lewd and base,1.0 +"Supplant thee in it, and usurp thy place.",2.0 +But if thou guard its sacred chambers sure,1.0 +"From vicious inmates and delights impure,",2.0 +"Either his gratitude shall hold him fast,",2.0 +"And keep him warm and filial to the last,",1.0 +"Or if he prove unkind, as who can say",1.0 +"But being man, and therefore frail, he may",1.0 +"One comfort yet shall cheer thine aged heart,",0.0 +"However he slight thee, thou hast done thy part.",3.0 +Pull down the schools ' -- what! ' -- all the schools in the land?,0.0 +"Deserves an answer similar, or none.",1.0 +"And feed him well and give him handsome pay,",0.0 +"Merely to sleep, and let them run astray?",2.0 +"Survey our schools and colleges, and see",1.0 +"From education, as the leading cause,",1.0 +"Thence the prevailing manners take their cast,",2.0 +"Extravagant or sober, loose or chaste.",1.0 +"And though I would not advertise them yet,",1.0 +"Nor write on each ' -- This Building to be Let,",1.0 +Unless the world were all prepared to embrace,2.0 +"Yet backward as they are, and long have been,",2.0 +"To cultivate and keep the MORALS clean,",0.0 +"Forgive the crime I wish them, I confess,",1.0 +"Or better managed, or encouraged less.",1.0 +"Ladies, your servant, this indeed is kind",3.0 +To come to one so much distressed in mind;,1.0 +"Since Friday last, the day poor Pompey died,",1.0 +"Well, dearest Madam, talk no more of that,",2.0 +"Nothing is like a game at cards, and chat,",1.0 +To ease the mind; I'm sure I found it so,0.0 +When poor Sir Simon died; you all well know,2.0 +How very much relieved I was by play;,1.0 +When morn was over I began the day.,1.0 +"Come ladies, then it's best to lose no time,",2.0 +"Pray, ladies, take your places as you choose;",2.0 +In every seat I know I'm sure to lose.,0.0 +"To lose! dear Ma'am, I think to leave off play,",1.0 +"Such cards I sat with all the other day,",0.0 +"Ladies, your stakes, We play our usual rate.",4.0 +"Sir, you have passed, I now may show my cards;",0.0 +"Indeed! this way the cards are sure to go,",0.0 +"Whatever game I play, or high or low.",1.0 +The other night I lost at Lady Vole's,0.0 +This night I'm like to lose three times that sum;,1.0 +I take a king if no one plays alone.,0.0 +"Madam, I do; I'll not sit like a drone",2.0 +"Might I have took a king I'd had it clear,",0.0 +But some folks cards will always play severe.,1.0 +"Severe indeed! Sure mine the hardest case is,",2.0 +"And now, the first time I could take a king,",2.0 +"I sometime get a hand, but never play;",1.0 +"I'll mark you up, dear Ma'am, the usual way.",4.0 +"And if you all give leave, my trump I'll name;",2.0 +One hand without a trump! now hard they lie.,1.0 +"Madam, you have your game, no trump is in.",2.0 +"Yes, Ma'am, because this hand of course must win.",1.0 +"But one poor hand, and now six fish have paid.",3.0 +I wonder how your next door neighbour does;,2.0 +"I heard last week he lost his only son,",1.0 +"Yes, and his wife is dying. What is done?",0.0 +Upon my life my cards get worse and worse.,1.0 +"I'm quite surprise, I'm really called this time.",0.0 +For is not called I'd been a bitter foe.,1.0 +"Let's see those cards, I know not how they go.",2.0 +"Ladies, I think the vole's at your command,",3.0 +At least I can't prevent it by my hand.,1.0 +"My dearest Ma'am, I fear it's all in vain,",0.0 +Can you forgive me? May I now declare.,2.0 +"Madam, proceed; this is not quite so fair.",3.0 +"How could it ever be won, and you to lead?",2.0 +My Lady Poole did well to bid us play.,0.0 +"Indeed, I think so too; she drew me in;",0.0 +Yet sure the chance was great that we should win.,1.0 +"By no means, Ma'am; your play I can't excuse;",1.0 +"I'm sadly wronged, for I could not refuse.",1.0 +"Well, Ladies, please to lay your money down,",2.0 +"The pool's my constant care, it's always known;",0.0 +"Now this may turn my luck, and I may thrive.",1.0 +"Poor Mr. Carder was without a fish,",2.0 +"I know not who is rich, I'm sure I'm poor,",0.0 +"Indeed, dear Ma'am, you see I'm quite undone;",1.0 +This fine lone hand some of my debts will settle;,2.0 +It's but my due to ride on my own cattle.,2.0 +"It's very lucky, Mrs. Fret, for you,",0.0 +But with these losses what am I to do?,2.0 +"I wish with all my heart the pool was out,",0.0 +For I'm engaged to Lady Racket's rout.,1.0 +"The pool is out, upon my word I win.",1.0 +"O no, I took that out an hour ago;",1.0 +"I'm sure, Sir, you will witness it was so.",3.0 +I just have lost three guineas by the night.,2.0 +Our only man ' -- 'twas an unlucky seat.,2.0 +The cards tonight have not run very high.,1.0 +"Ladies, your humble servant, Sir, good bye.",2.0 +"Dissolved in Sleep near a complaining Stream,",1.0 +My Fancy strove with an important Dream.,1.0 +Methought I was with Violence born away,3.0 +"Through a dark Vault, whose Cavern did convey",2.0 +"To Death's sad Courts; the brazen Gates I past,",1.0 +Which on my entrance were again made fast.,2.0 +"The dismal Cell with horror I surveyed,",1.0 +"For dead men's Bones in Piles were round me laid,",1.0 +And Skulls of largest size the Pavement made.,0.0 +"The Sun to this dark Mansion darts no Ray,",3.0 +But glimmering Lamps make an imperfect Day:,4.0 +"By their faint Light I searched the Cave around,",2.0 +And in each Nook amazing Objects found.,0.0 +"In a long Row stood Glasses stored with Sand,",4.0 +Which of some Mortals years the Tale contained:,0.0 +The Number of whose years the Hourglass held.,2.0 +And cut the slender Thread of Life in Twain;,0.0 +"Then down the Tablet dropped t'a stream below,",2.0 +"A while it floated till born Underground,",2.0 +'Twas in the Abyss of deep Oblivion drowned.,3.0 +But o the Pangs and Agonies that rent,2.0 +My panting Breast to find my Glass near spent!,0.0 +The Tragic Scene begins Forgive me Fate,0.0 +That thy occult Proceedings I Relate.,2.0 +"Strait was I summoned to receive my Doom,",1.0 +For Death with horrid Grace approached the Room,0.0 +"Arrayed majestic in a mourning Robe,",0.0 +"A Dart his Sceptre, and a Skull his Globe.",1.0 +"He sat, the Attendants on his Person stood,",3.0 +"Diseases next were placed a numerous Train,",2.0 +"No sooner were my scattered Thoughts restored,",2.0 +But I with mental Prayers Heavens Aid implored;,1.0 +Then thus with hollow Voice the Tyrant spoke ' --,0.0 +"Thy Charge is deep, but for thy self Reply,",1.0 +O I am Guilty and deserve to Die!,2.0 +"Too oft Transgressed, too rarely did Repent;",2.0 +"Some Vices Heaven Assisting I suppressed,",1.0 +And lasting War proclaimed with all the Rest;,0.0 +By Passions oft surprised and Captive led.,0.0 +"But are this Courts Proceedings so severe,",2.0 +That Youth can Challenge no Indulgence Here?,0.0 +Perhaps my Skill and Courage had improved:,0.0 +"Mortal thy Doom already is decreed,",3.0 +The Judge replied and Sentence must proceed!,0.0 +This Court's Records with Instances abound,1.0 +"Of Younger Brows than Thine with Laurel crowned,",1.0 +"Approach you Ministers of Fate, and bear",1.0 +"In Liquid Flames of Sulphur let him roll,",0.0 +"Thus let him howl Eternity Away,",2.0 +Refreshed with no short Glimpse of Heavenly Day.,3.0 +Confusion now my Tortured Bosom filled;,0.0 +"Monstrous of Shape, of Size, Prodigious Tall.",2.0 +"In this Distress behold a Heavenly Ray,",3.0 +Around me did his cheerful Light display.,0.0 +"The Lamps grew pale and shrunk into their Case,",1.0 +The haughty Tyrant's Self confused appeared;,2.0 +"Amongst the dead Bones a rattling Noise was heard,",3.0 +"As Summoned to the Universal Doom,",1.0 +Not daring yet to hope Relief I spied,0.0 +While Thus in Charming Language He began.,1.0 +"Rejoice my charge, for from Heavens Court I come",0.0 +With gracious Orders to Revoke thy Doom.,1.0 +Thy Virtue's Race imperfectly begun.,1.0 +"But Heaven in Pity to thy sickly Pace,",1.0 +Or on my Wing thy lingering Spirit convey,3.0 +To Blissful Mansions of Eternal Day.,1.0 +"To Heaven and Him my Humblest Thanks I paid,",3.0 +And begged to be to those glad Seats conveyed;,2.0 +But first admit the Lot of all Mankind,1.0 +"And Leave said He that Load of Earth behind,",2.0 +"Prisoners Absolved, less gladly quit their Chain",2.0 +Than I this Flesh that did my Spirit detain.,3.0 +"But when my Soul her naked Self Surveyed,",0.0 +"She Blushed and sought to cover her Disgrace,",1.0 +Retreating back into her Fleshy case.,0.0 +"And straight with Hyssop dipped in Sacred Blood,",0.0 +Those Blemishes that stained my Soul before:,1.0 +"Thought of New Worlds my Mind had so engrossed,",4.0 +That all Remembrance of the Old it Lost:,1.0 +That Body too which once I fondly thought,0.0 +Could never be from my Remembrance wrought,1.0 +"Had now quite escaped my Memory, till I spied",2.0 +The pale and Lifeless Engine by my side.,1.0 +Bless me said I what ghastly thing lies there?,2.0 +"Was this the Mansion where so many a year,",3.0 +I lingered betwixt successive Hope and Fear?,2.0 +"Taught it to Cringe, and in just measures move?",0.0 +"The thing that lately did in Business sweat,",0.0 +That talked so much of being Rich and Great!,0.0 +"That sought with Verse to make its Love renowned,",0.0 +And hoped ere long to see its Passion Crowned;,1.0 +"Behold where the designing Machine lies,",4.0 +Prey to those Insects it did once Despise.,2.0 +Suppose that Body now lay covered over,1.0 +"To Curl those Locks, or Kiss that ghastly Face?",0.0 +"Why is the Corpse so long detained from Ground,",0.0 +Tis more than Time those Hands and Feet were bound;,0.0 +"Close the dull Eyes, support the falling Chin,",3.0 +"Go, let the Funeral Peal be Rung aloud,",3.0 +And in some Nook the Useless Lumber crowed.,0.0 +"Insulting Thus I spoke, and more had said,",0.0 +But was by my Assistant Angel stayed;,2.0 +"My Charge, said he, these gloomy shades withdrawn",2.0 +Behold of Everlasting Day the Dawn:,0.0 +Conferred on Souls when first they arrive the Place,2.0 +The Blissful Throng are met to welcome Thee,1.0 +To their fair World of Immortality.,3.0 +"Such was the Blow given by the Hebrew Guide,",6.0 +"The Waters there Congealed and stood in Walls,",1.0 +The Building here like breaking Water falls.,0.0 +"But now the parting Stones brought Heaven in View,",1.0 +When Fatal Chance! my rapturous Dream withdrew,2.0 +"The grateful slumber from my Temples fell,",1.0 +"Round me I viewed the Grove, and thought it Hell;",0.0 +Aloud I called my Guide! Obligingly,1.0 +But the false Vision fled without Reply.,2.0 +"SPIRIT of strength! to whom in wrath it's given,",2.0 +"Behold the somber robes whose gathering folds,",2.0 +Thy secret majesty conceal. Their skirts,1.0 +"Spread on mid air move slow and silently,",5.0 +"Advancing clouds from every point of heaven,",0.0 +"Grandly dilated, cloth the fields of air,",2.0 +Spirit of strength! it is thy awful hour;,3.0 +"The wind of every hill is laid to rest,",0.0 +And far over sea and land deep silence reigns.,3.0 +"Wild creatures of the forest homeward high,",2.0 +"Pride in the lordly palace is put down,",2.0 +While in his humble cot the poor man sits,1.0 +"With all his family round him hushed and still,",0.0 +In awful expectation. On his way,1.0 +The traveller stands aghast and looks to heaven.,2.0 +"On the horizon's verge thy lightning gleams,",1.0 +And the first utterance of thy deep voice,4.0 +Is heard in reverence and holy fear.,1.0 +"From nearer clouds bright burst more vivid gleams,",1.0 +As instantly in closing darkness lost;,1.0 +"A streaming cataract of flame appears,",1.0 +"To meet a neither fire from earth cast up,",2.0 +Commingling terribly; appalling gloom,1.0 +"A general blaze, and from the war of clouds,",1.0 +"Red, writhing falls the embodied bolt of heaven.",3.0 +"Then swells the roiling peal, full, deepening, grand,",1.0 +"And in its strength lifts the tremendous roar,",2.0 +"With mingled discord, rattling, hissing, growling;",0.0 +"Crashing like rocky fragments downward hurled,",2.0 +In awful majesty the explosion bursts,3.0 +Wide and astounding over the trembling land.,4.0 +"Mountain, and cliff, repeat the dread turmoil,",3.0 +"And all to man's distinctive senses known,",0.0 +"Peal after peal, succeeds with waning strength,",1.0 +And hushed and deep each solemn pause between.,0.0 +And round the stricken corpse shrill shrieks of horror rise.,1.0 +"Now rattling hailstones, bounding as they fall",3.0 +"To earth, spread motley winter over the plain,",3.0 +And roll their distant grumbling far away:,0.0 +"Who from a Race of noble Heroes came,",0.0 +And added Lustre to its ancient Fame:,1.0 +But with inferior Brightness to her own;,4.0 +"Which she refined to that sublime Degree,",1.0 +The greatest Mortal could not greater be.,0.0 +"Her tender Years with Innocence were clad,",1.0 +In the Retinue of her Virtues stood:,0.0 +"And at the final Period of her Breath,",1.0 +She crowned her Life with a propitious Death;,1.0 +That no Occasion might be wanting here,0.0 +"To make her Virtues famed, or Joys sincere.",0.0 +"Two noble Lords her Genial Bed possessed,",1.0 +"A Wife to both, the dearest, and the best.",1.0 +"Oxford submitted in one Year to Fate,",2.0 +For whom her Passion was exceeding great.,1.0 +"And him she loved with so intense a Mind,",2.0 +"That living, like a Father she obeyed,",1.0 +"Dying, as to a Son, left all she had.",2.0 +"When a Step-Mother, she soon soared above",4.0 +"The common Height, even of Maternal Love.",4.0 +She did her numerous Family command,3.0 +"With such a tender Care, so wise a Hand,",1.0 +She seemed no otherwise a Mistress there,2.0 +"But when to all she had Example showed,",0.0 +"How to be Great, and Humble, Chaste and Good,",1.0 +"Her Soul for Earth too excellent, too high,",3.0 +"Flew to its Peers, the Princes of the Sky.",1.0 +"WHERE heavenly precept bright example taught,",3.0 +"And truths divine, a clear conviction wrought;",0.0 +"Aided by that persuasive eloquence,",3.0 +"The charm of language, and the force of sense.",1.0 +"When death has silenced that instructive speech,",0.0 +Nor more that tongue important truths shall teach;,0.0 +In characters no time or change erase.,2.0 +"The muse her mournful tribute humbly pays,",0.0 +For ever true to friends of former days:,0.0 +"Returning health seemed lighting up his eye,",2.0 +And raised his drooping friends to transient joy;,0.0 +To fair humanity he gave his name.,1.0 +"' If this, the latest act from me required,",2.0 +"' The last is good,' he said, and ' -- he expired.",1.0 +"So set the Christian, so his glories rise,",1.0 +As summers suns descend in azure skies.,0.0 +Too mighty such monopoly of Fame;,3.0 +Yet not to birth alone did HOMER owe,0.0 +"His wondrous worth; what EGYPT could bestow,",0.0 +"With all the schools of GREECE and ASIA joined,",0.0 +Enlarged the immense expansion of his mind.,3.0 +"Tower equal heights. But happier STRATFORD, thou",3.0 +"More than all EGYPT, GREECE, or ASIA taught.",0.0 +"WHAT ken mine eyes, enchanted? man of ease,",0.0 +"In elbow chair, and under brow of thought",1.0 +"Intense, on some great matter fixed, no doubt:",2.0 +What mean the myrmidons on either hand,1.0 +"Spread far and wide, on table, desk, and stool,",1.0 +"Variety of troops, white, purple, pied,",2.0 +"And grey, and blue's battalion trim; and who",0.0 +"Gay edged with gold; of various garb, and tongue,",3.0 +"Of Turk and Nadir, nodding opposite",0.0 +"With sable shield, and arms opaque, advance",0.0 +"Divinity polemic, sober rage,",1.0 +Yet deadly! and can rage in minds divine,1.0 +"Cowl beats off cowl, and mitre mitre knocks.",1.0 +Vengeance demure; and there devoutly fierce,3.0 +Not far behind with her divided troops,1.0 +"Comes Policy, with democratic shouts",2.0 +"On one hand, on the other loud acclaim",0.0 +"For power hereditary, and right divine:",4.0 +"Brutus and Nimrod, libertines, and slaves,",2.0 +Who next with aspect sage and parchment waved,1.0 +Voluminous come on? I know their beards,2.0 +"Historic, see the style acute, with which",0.0 +"And as he cleaves the pyramid, apply",2.0 +"Their puny prop. Hence annals, journals hence,",1.0 +"And memoirs, doubtful truth, and certain lies,",1.0 +"And tales, and all the magazines of war.",0.0 +"What Muse, OH Poetry, can pass unsung",2.0 +"Thy flowing banners, and gay tent, adorned",2.0 +With airy trophies? or would leave thy name,1.0 +"All these, and more came flocking; ' -- but await",2.0 +"The dread commander's voice, and dare no more",1.0 +"The sedentary chief, in studious mood,",2.0 +"And deep revolve, darts his experienced eye.",4.0 +The posture of the field; from rank to rank,1.0 +"Posting succinct. He gives the word, which way",2.0 +"The squadrons to advance, where wheel their course.",1.0 +"Vanguard to right and left. Forthwith the bands,",2.0 +"As at the sound of trump, obedient move",2.0 +In perfect phalanx. Each their station knows,1.0 +"First to its place spontaneous Verse repairs,",2.0 +"Knowing the call, and practised to obey",3.0 +"Her claws, contracted to make room for Scot",2.0 +"And Tom. Aquinas, slumbering side by side;",2.0 +"All, all, in order due and silence, look",0.0 +A modern convocation. History lies,0.0 +"Which when the marshal, from his easy chair",1.0 +"Thoughtful, and thus the assembled leaves bespoke.",3.0 +"Hear me, you listening books. First I direct",2.0 +Submission to your lord and faith entire.,1.0 +On parchment? See the volume; look at me.,0.0 +Did I not mark you as the Prussian late,1.0 +His subjects badge of service when required?,0.0 +"It's well, ' -- and let me next, you flimsy peers,",0.0 +"Live peaceful, as by me together tied",3.0 +In bands of strictest amity: should then,1.0 +Your master lend you to some neighbouring state,3.0 +"Your first allegiance pure, and cheerful home",0.0 +"Return, when summoned by your natural prince.",1.0 +"And dust inglorious; know your birth and end,",2.0 +"For rags you were, and must to rags return.",1.0 +"BY Rufus' hall, where Thames polluted flows,",0.0 +"Provoked, the Genius of the river rose,",1.0 +"Given herds, and flocks, and villages increase,",1.0 +And fed a richer than the Golden Fleece?,1.0 +"Have I, you merchant's, with each swelling tide,",1.0 +Lent you the fruit of every nation's toil?,0.0 +"Made every climate your's, and every soil?",2.0 +"Yet pilfered from the poor, by gaming base,",0.0 +Yet must a Wooden Bridge my waves disgrace?,0.0 +"Tell not to foreign streams the shameful tale,",0.0 +And be it published in no Gallic vale.,1.0 +"He said; ' -- and plunging to his crystal dome,",1.0 +White over his head the circling waters foam.,3.0 +WHY quits Miranda thus life's busy scene?,1.0 +Why seeks she now the Convent's gloom serene?,0.0 +"Can, then, this giddy world no pleasure give,",1.0 +That here the fair Miranda scorns to live?,0.0 +Prefer the gloomy Convent's hallowed walls?,0.0 +"Ah, stay! and let mankind adore these charms,",1.0 +"While now she smiling reads my uncouth lay,",1.0 +"Though vulgar souls may wonder at my choice,",0.0 +May dare to censure with a common voice;,1.0 +"Yet I'm resolved, since in those shades no fools",2.0 +It's only in the dear sequestered cell,0.0 +"Where peace is found, and where the virtues dwell;",0.0 +"Contented there my future days I'll spend,",1.0 +"There taught, in hope and triumph meet my end:",0.0 +"While some pale trembling lamp shall ever burn,",1.0 +"Thus speaks in accents soft the pensive maid,",1.0 +"Who to the blaze of day prefers the shade,",0.0 +"Who wisely shuns what Folly pleasure calls,",0.0 +And flies for refuge to a Convent's walls.,1.0 +"Reluctant, I must own it's Nature's voice,",1.0 +That calls Miranda to so sad a choice:,1.0 +"For, oft at eve I have seen the pensive maid",0.0 +"Hanging enraptured over some moving tale,",4.0 +While pleased she heard the plaintive warbler's wail.,1.0 +"If then, Miranda, you the Veil assume;",1.0 +If you will seek the Convent's mournful gloom;,1.0 +"And the sad tale no abler Bard inspire,",4.0 +"Be mine the task to tune the plaintive lyre,",0.0 +"If verse like mine eternal fame could give,",1.0 +"Thy name, Miranda, should for ever live.",0.0 +"THESE Lines I send, impatient of your Stay,",1.0 +"To you, my Lord, who kill me with Delay;",2.0 +"Yet crave not any Answer back, beside",0.0 +"Yourself, the best of Answers to your Bride.",1.0 +"Is ruined now, with dire, consuming Flames;",0.0 +"Though scarcely Troy, nor all her King could boast,",0.0 +"Was worth the Trouble, which her Ruin cost.",0.0 +"OH! had lewd PARIS sunk beneath the Tide,",2.0 +"When, over the Seas, he sought the Spartan Bride;",2.0 +"I had not then accused the lingering Day,",0.0 +"Nor weaved, to charm the tedious Night away;",2.0 +"Nor in the Bed, deserted and forlorn,",1.0 +"WHENEVER of Dangers in your Camp I heard,",2.0 +"Those Dangers threatened you, I always feared:",1.0 +"For Love, like mine, no cold Indifference bears;",2.0 +"It feeds on timorous Thoughts, and anxious Cares.",2.0 +"I fancied, furious Trojans round thee came;",2.0 +"I wept, because his Craft no better sped:",1.0 +"My fearful Heart, like frigid Ice, was chilled;",0.0 +"Lest flattering Fame my doubtful Ears should cheat,",2.0 +"But Heaven, propitious to my chaste Desire,",1.0 +"Preserved you safe, and Troy consumed with Fire.",0.0 +And on their smoking Altars Offerings burn;,1.0 +"Their useless Arms they consecrate to Peace,",0.0 +"Each youthful Bride some pleasing Gift affords,",0.0 +Resound the vanquished Fates of ruined Troy:,1.0 +"The wondering Sages crowd around to hear,",2.0 +The trembling Girls admire the Tales of War:,0.0 +"The Wives stand listening, while their Husbands tell,",1.0 +"One stains a Table with the purple Draught,",1.0 +"And shows the furious Battles, which you fought;",2.0 +"Paints, with the Wine, which from the Glass he pours,",1.0 +"Camps, Rivers, Hills, and all the Trojan Towers:",1.0 +"ACHILLES pitched his Tent, ULYSSES there:",1.0 +"Here mangled HECTOR, dreadful in his Fall,",0.0 +"To seek his Father, brought me this Report",1.0 +"In Sleep, became a Victim to your Sword;",1.0 +"But, OH! ULYSSES, you too boldly dare;",2.0 +"Too fearless, through the Camp of Foes you rove,",2.0 +"Mindful of Wiles, forgetful of your Love;",3.0 +"Slaying so many in the gloomy Night,",2.0 +"One Friend alone, to aid you in the Fight.",0.0 +Among the midnight Terrors of the Foe;,2.0 +"Fondly of me you formerly have thought,",2.0 +"With Prudence acted, and with Caution fought.",1.0 +"Heaven knows, with Fear my trembling Bosom beat,",0.0 +To hear my Son your daring Deeds relate;,0.0 +"As when they stood, if I am robbed of thee,",1.0 +"To others, who, with captive Oxen, toil",0.0 +"While Phrygian Fields, grown fat with native Blood,",3.0 +"While verdant Harvests hide their ruined Wall,",0.0 +"I mourn my absent Lord, who wrought its Fall;",0.0 +"Nor can I know the Land, where you reside,",2.0 +"WHATEVER Sailors on our Coast appear,",2.0 +Hopeful to find some Tidings of my Dear,3.0 +"I fly to them, and ask them over and over,",3.0 +If ever they saw you on some foreign Shore?,3.0 +"Then to their Hands a Letter I impart,",1.0 +"To give it you, the Partner of my Heart;",2.0 +"If Chance, or Destiny should ever prove",1.0 +So kind to lead them to my absent Love.,1.0 +"But sought in vain, we heard no true Report:",1.0 +We sent to ask the Spartans too; but they,0.0 +"Knew not the Climate, where you, lingering, stay.",0.0 +OH! had APOLLO saved his sacred Town ' --,1.0 +You Gods! why did I ever wish it down?,0.0 +"If that were standing, and ULYSSES there,",2.0 +"I nothing, but the Chance of War, should fear:",1.0 +I should not then be singly cursed to cry;,0.0 +"Others would fear the War, no less than I.",3.0 +"Nor know I what to hope, or what to fear;",0.0 +"Yet fearing all, that Fancy can suggest,",1.0 +"Upon the Land whatever Dangers reign,",1.0 +I fear those Dangers make you there remain;,1.0 +"Upon the Seas whatever Storms increase,",1.0 +I fear those Storms detain you on the Seas.,1.0 +"While thus my foolish Thoughts uncertain rove,",0.0 +Perhaps you revel with a foreign Love;,1.0 +"Perhaps you ridicule your Bride at home,",0.0 +"Suspicious Thoughts! that vex my jealous Mind,",0.0 +"If cruel Fate did not obstruct the Way,",0.0 +My Lord would never make so long Delay.,0.0 +"Your long Delay my Father often blames,",0.0 +And often chides me for my constant Flames:,1.0 +My constant Flames shall ever true remain;,0.0 +"Let Fathers chide, and Suitors court in vain.",1.0 +"At length my Sire, who finds he can't remove",2.0 +"My Faith from you, nor shake my settled Love,",1.0 +Yet still a Crowd of Suitors tease my Ears;,0.0 +"From various Realms they come to seek your Crown,",2.0 +"And feast, and reign securely in your Throne:",0.0 +"All bent on Love, and Robbers of the State,",1.0 +"And All, by your pernicious Absence, great!",1.0 +"Slaughters your Lambs, to grace the Suitor's Board:",2.0 +For how can Three resist so many Foes?,1.0 +"Your feeble Wife, your Father worn with Age,",0.0 +"Your tender Son, too weak to cheque their Rage;",1.0 +"For whom they lately crafty Ambush laid,",1.0 +And menaced Death on his devoted Head;,1.0 +"When, mocking all their Stratagems, he crossed",1.0 +"OH! may the Gods extend his vital Date,",0.0 +"And guard his Life, till ours submit to Fate:",0.0 +So may he close our Eyes with decent Care;,1.0 +"Such is your Servant's, such his Nurse's Prayer.",2.0 +"SINCE then your aged Father, feeble grown,",0.0 +"Amid your Foes, cannot defend your Crown;",0.0 +"Your Wife, too weak to chase the Foes away,",1.0 +"Your Son, too young to bear the Regal Sway;",1.0 +"Haste, haste, ULYSSES, to your Royal Seat;",2.0 +For you alone can cure our troubled State:,1.0 +"Think of your Son, who wants you to inspire",1.0 +His Soul with all the Virtues of his Sire:,1.0 +"Think, on the Brink of Fate your Father lies:",0.0 +"Return, my Lord, return and close his Eyes:",0.0 +"Think of your faithful Wife, whose youthful Face,",0.0 +"At your Departure, blushed with blooming Grace:",1.0 +But now I blush with blooming Grace no more;,1.0 +"Tears, for your Absence, cloud my Beauty over.",0.0 +"OH! may you soon return, before I prove",0.0 +"An ancient Dame, unworthy of your Love.",1.0 +"WHEN Envy saw yonder Gothic structure rise,",3.0 +She viewed the fabric with malignant eyes:,1.0 +"With grief she gazes on the antique wall,",4.0 +"Gloomy, not dark, and cheerful, though not gay;",3.0 +"Where to the whole, each part proportion bears,",0.0 +"And all around, a pleasing aspect wears.",1.0 +"Towards the study then her footsteps tend,",1.0 +"Where columns rise, and sculptured arches bend:",0.0 +"Here soothing Melancholy holds her seat,",0.0 +And Contemplation seeks the loved retreat.,0.0 +The garden next displays a magic scene,0.0 +"Each various season, various gifts bestows,",4.0 +"Woods, hills, and streams, in sweet confusion lie.",1.0 +"The silver Thames, as he pursues his way,",1.0 +"Seems here to loiter, and prolong his stay.",1.0 +She weeps to find she cannot but approve:,1.0 +Thus the cursed fiend her impious woes expressed:,3.0 +Am I in vain the foe to all thy race?,1.0 +'Twas I that wrought thy patriot sire's disgrace;,2.0 +"In vain I strove to blot his honoured name,",1.0 +"Brighter it shines, restored by endless fame:",2.0 +"And must another Walpole break my rest,",1.0 +"And must thy praises, my repose molest?",1.0 +"It's thine, by various talents, still to please,",3.0 +"To plan with judgement, execute with ease;",0.0 +"With equal skill, to build, converse and write,",0.0 +"To charm the mind, and gratify the sight.",0.0 +"Ah! could I but these battlements overthrow,",3.0 +And lay this monument of genius low?,1.0 +"But vain the wish, for art and nature join",0.0 +To add perfection to the fair design:,1.0 +"It must proceed, for so the fates decree,",1.0 +"Thousands that view it shall the work despise,",2.0 +And thousands more shall view it with my eyes;,1.0 +The candid and the wise alone shall give:,1.0 +"Taste, though much talked of, is confined to few,",1.0 +IMPRIMIS ' -- My departed Shade I trust,1.0 +To Heaven ' -- My Body to the silent Dust;,1.0 +"My Name to public Censure I submit,",1.0 +To be disposed of as the World thinks fit;,2.0 +"My Vice and Folly let Oblivion close,",2.0 +The World already is overstocked with those;,2.0 +To those who think they had enough before.,1.0 +Bestow my Patience to compose the Lives,1.0 +Of slighted Virgins and neglected Wives;,1.0 +My cool Reflection to unthinking Youth;,1.0 +"To surly Husbands, as their Needs require;",1.0 +And first discharge my Funeral ' -- and then,1.0 +Of blasted Laurel on my Hearse recline;,1.0 +"Let some grave Wight, that struggles for Renown,",4.0 +With gentle Step precede the solemn Train;,0.0 +A broken Flute upon his Arm shall lean.,0.0 +"Six comic Poets may the Corpse surround,",2.0 +"And All Freeholders, if they can be found:",3.0 +"Then follow next the melancholy Throng,",0.0 +"As shrewd Instructors, who themselves are wrong.",0.0 +"The Politician, whom no Mortal heeds,",1.0 +"The silent Lawyer, chambered all the Day,",0.0 +And the stern Soldier that receives no Pay.,3.0 +"But stay ' -- the Mourners should be first our Care,",0.0 +And widowed Husbands over their Garlick cry.,2.0 +"All this let my Executors fulfil,",3.0 +"Who was, when she these Legacies designed,",1.0 +"In Body healthy, and composed in Mind.",1.0 +Thy various Seasons in their author's mind.,2.0 +"Spring opens her blossoms, various as thy Muse,",4.0 +"And, like thy soft compassion, sheds her dews.",0.0 +"Summer's hot drought in thy expression glows,",3.0 +Who tastes the meaning purpose of thy strains.,1.0 +Winter ' -- but that no semblance takes from thee:,3.0 +That hoary season yields a type of me.,0.0 +"Shattered by time's bleak storms I withering lay,",5.0 +"Leafless, and whitening in a cold decay!",2.0 +Bless the short sunshine which thy pity lent.,1.0 +"Let other Ministers, Great Anne, require;",3.0 +And partial fall Thy Gift to their Desire.,1.0 +"To the fair Portrait of my Sovereign Dame,",3.0 +"To That alone, eternal be my Claim.",0.0 +"My bright Defender, and my dread Delight,",1.0 +If ever I found Favour in Thy Sight;,2.0 +If all the Pains that for Thy Britain's Sake,1.0 +"My past has took, or future Life may take,",0.0 +"Be grateful to my Queen; permit my Prayer,",1.0 +And with This Gift reward my total Care.,1.0 +"Will Thy indulgent Hand, fair Saint, allow",2.0 +The Boon? and will Thy Ear accept the Vow?,1.0 +"That in despite of Age, of impious Flame,",3.0 +"And eating Time, Thy Picture like Thy Fame",0.0 +Entire may last; that as their Eyes survey,2.0 +"Her Brow thus smooth, Her Look was thus serene;",1.0 +"When to a Low, but to a Loyal Hand",1.0 +"The mighty Empress gave Her high Command,",0.0 +"That He to Hostile Camps, and Kings should haste,",0.0 +To speak Her Vengeance as Their Danger past;,1.0 +"To say, She Wills detested Wars to cease;",0.0 +"She cheques Her Conquest, for Her Subjects Ease;",1.0 +And bids the World attend Her Terms of Peace.,0.0 +"Thee, Gracious Anne, Thee present I adore,",1.0 +"Thee, Queen of Peace ' -- If Time and Fate have Power",0.0 +Higher to raise the Glories of thy Reign;,3.0 +From his dire food the grisly felon raised,0.0 +"Beget the traitor's infamy, whom thus",4.0 +At once give loose to utterance and to tears.,2.0 +' I know not who thou art nor on what errand,1.0 +"Sent hither; but a Florentine my ear,",2.0 +My wrongs and from them judge of my revenge.,2.0 +"' That I did trust him, that I was betrayed",1.0 +That I advise thee; that which yet remains,1.0 +"To thee and all unknown a horrid tale,",1.0 +"The bitterness of death, I shall unfold.",1.0 +"Attend, and say if he have injured me.",2.0 +"' Through a small crevice opening, what scant light",4.0 +That grim and antique tower admitted since,7.0 +"Of me the Tower of Famine hight, and known",3.0 +To many a wretch already began the dawn,4.0 +"To send. The while I slumbering lay, a sleep",2.0 +Opened the dark veil of fate. I saw methought,5.0 +"The deadliest: he their chief, the foremost he",3.0 +Flashed to pursue and cheer the eager cry.,2.0 +"Nor long endured the chase: the panting sire,",0.0 +"Of strength bereft, his helpless offspring soon",1.0 +"Overtaken beheld, and in their trembling flanks",2.0 +' The morn had scarce commenced when I awoke:,1.0 +My children they were with me sleep as yet,2.0 +"Gave not to know their sum of misery,",1.0 +But yet in low and uncompleted sounds,0.0 +"I heard them wail for bread. O! thou art cruel,",1.0 +Or thou dost mourn to think what my poor heart,2.0 +"Where are thy tears? Too soon they had aroused them,",1.0 +"Sad with the fears of sleep, and now the hour",0.0 +"Of timely food approached; when, at the gate",0.0 +"Below, I heard the dreadful clank of bars",0.0 +And fastening bolts. Then on my children's eyes,1.0 +"Speechless my sight I fixed, nor wept, for all",2.0 +"Within was stone. They wept, unhappy boys,",0.0 +They wept; and first my little dear Anselmo,0.0 +"Cried,' Father, why do you gaze so sternly?",1.0 +What would you have?' Yet wept I not or answered,0.0 +"All that whole day or the succeeding night,",2.0 +Till a new sun arose with weakly gleam,2.0 +"And won, such as might entrance find within",1.0 +That house of woe. But o! when I beheld,2.0 +"My sons, and in four faces saw my own",1.0 +"Despair reflected, either hand I gnawed",0.0 +"For anguish, which they construed hunger. Straight",5.0 +"Arising all they cried,' Far less shall be",1.0 +"Our sufferings, sir, if you resume your gift;",0.0 +These miserable limbs with flesh you clothed;,1.0 +Take back what once was yours.' I swallowed down,3.0 +"My struggling sorrow, nor to heighten theirs.",2.0 +"That day and yet another, mute we sat",0.0 +"Quick to devour me? Yet a fourth day came,",4.0 +"In vain my help, expired; ere the sixth morn",3.0 +"Had dawned, my other three before my eyes",0.0 +Died one by one. I saw them fall; I heard,1.0 +Their doleful cries. For three days more I groped,1.0 +About among their cold remains for then,0.0 +"On their dear names, that heard me now no more;",3.0 +"The fourth, what sorrow could not, famine did.'",0.0 +He finished; then with unrelenting eye,0.0 +"Askance he turned him, hasty to renew",1.0 +"The hellish feast, and rent his trembling prey.",0.0 +"IN vain you Murmur, we have served the Lord,",1.0 +"As vainly listened to his flattering word,",3.0 +"He has forgot, or spoke not as he meant;",1.0 +Else why are we thus Idly penitent?,8.0 +"You call the haughty blessed, erecting those",1.0 +"And own, nay, almost boast themselves my foes,",2.0 +Whose crimes would were I not a God command,1.0 +The scarlet bolts from my unwilling hand;,1.0 +"Then they that feared my great and awful name,",0.0 +"The only sew that dared oppose the stream,",0.0 +"Unmoved against the vulgar torrent stood,",0.0 +"In spite of numbers resolutely good,",0.0 +"But saw me still illustrious through the same,",1.0 +"And loved and spoke, spoke often of my name,",2.0 +"As oft I closely listened, nor shall they",1.0 +"When all their pious services I'll own,",1.0 +"For in my records I shall find them down,",1.0 +Their brows I'll Crown with wreaths of victory;,0.0 +While Mon and Angels stand spectators by;,4.0 +"A loud I'll then, aloud proclaim them mine,",0.0 +And amongst my brightest treasures they shall shine,2.0 +"Their frailty with more tenderness, than before",3.0 +"A father did his only son's I'll spare,",0.0 +"Who were the wise, the only thinking men;",0.0 +"Then you shall nothing but derision meet,",1.0 +"And leave the restless Waves for constant Hills,",0.0 +The wanton Muse the meaner Thorn prefers,0.0 +"To Coral Twigs, and Amber's costly Tears;",0.0 +"Haste to the Sea, and court the rolling Floods.",0.0 +"No loved Amusements here but soon will cloy,",1.0 +"The dearest Bliss becomes a worthless Toy,",0.0 +And we must shift our Pleasures to enjoy.,2.0 +"Sick of the Town, I left the busy Place,",0.0 +Are whispering Nothing in attentive Ear;,2.0 +"Where Knaves strange Lies invent, and Fools retail,",2.0 +And home-made Treason find in Foreign Mail:,1.0 +"And Scandals, oft disproved, are still revived;",0.0 +"Imagined Ills in frightful Shapes appear,",0.0 +While present Evils we with Patience bear;,1.0 +"Phantoms, and empty Forms are feared the most,",2.0 +"As those who scorned the Man, yet dread the Ghost.",1.0 +"No longer plagued with Faction, Spleen and Noise,",1.0 +"How happy, when I viewed the calm Retreat,",0.0 +"In wanton Rounds the lingering Waters play,",0.0 +And by their circling Streams prolong the grateful Stay.,1.0 +"Bright was the Moon, and her reflected Beams",1.0 +Spangled the dewy Leaves with trembling Gleams;,2.0 +What waking Lovers acted here below.,0.0 +"Careless I walked, where prowling Beasts had made",2.0 +"A Path, that led through a lone silent Glade.",2.0 +"The Moon, with doubtful Rays, deceived the Sight,",0.0 +And waving Boughs gave an uncertain Light.,2.0 +"When my chilled Spirits sunk with sudden Fear,",2.0 +"A Central void amid surrounding Shade,",0.0 +"With hollow vaulted Cells, and rising Heaps",0.0 +In which by Day the wearied Badger sleeps.,0.0 +"Thick thorny Brakes grew round the lonesome Place,",2.0 +And twining Boughs enclosed the middle Space.,0.0 +And here I saw blessed with a kinder Fate,2.0 +Down pensive leaned her Head; no ruddy Streaks,1.0 +"Cast on the Ground her withered Garland lay,",0.0 +"The rural Powers confessed their meaner Lays,",2.0 +"To strain rich Must, and press the racy Draught;",1.0 +"Since he is gone, the Trees are all decayed,",0.0 +"The pensive Owner mourns the tedious Weeks,",2.0 +"And wants the generous Bowl, that paints the flushing Cheeks.",2.0 +"Men led by Sense, and partial to themselves,",2.0 +"But who can know intelligible Race,",1.0 +When Fairies ride fixed in his twisted Mane.,1.0 +"And I, you Gods, have wondrous Circles seen,",1.0 +"And friendly Powers, that human Arts improve,",2.0 +"Direct their Counsels, and their Actions guide;",1.0 +"The grateful Muse shall your Assistance own,",1.0 +"And tell of heavenly Forms, as yet unknown;",2.0 +"Blessed Beings, whom no earthly Fetters bind,",2.0 +Nor to the pressing Weight of Clay confined!,1.0 +"No pale Disease, nor Change of coming Years.",1.0 +Clad like Autumnal Leaves in yellowish Green.,3.0 +"Her round plump Cheeks a deeper Purple died,",1.0 +Such as ripe Fruits boast on their Sunny Side.,1.0 +"Cheerful she smiled, and thus the Elfin said:",2.0 +And buzzing round the Leaves incessant move;,0.0 +"While the Day lasts, the worthless Creatures play,",3.0 +"And mourn the Evening Dusk, and wing their silent Way.",0.0 +"But Forrest Nymphs prefer the peaceful Night,",0.0 +"When solemn Gloom, and dewy Seats invite.",0.0 +"Not half so happy as the watchful Beasts,",1.0 +"Who silent leave their Dens, and secret Home,",0.0 +And on the Prey intent through all the Forrest roam.,1.0 +"The raging Sun with his too scorching Beams,",2.0 +"Burns up the Herb, and lessens all the Streams;",0.0 +"But the kind Moon reflects a milder Ray,",2.0 +And makes a Night more lovely than the Day;,1.0 +"Nor darts fierce Flames, but innocently Bright",2.0 +"Leaves all the Fire, and gives the purer Light;",0.0 +"But gentle Drops, fresh Dews, and pleasing Gales.",1.0 +"So Woman is but rougher Man refined,",1.0 +"Now falling Drops like shining Pearls are seen,",1.0 +"Refreshing Moisture cools the thirsty Mead,",0.0 +"Day always is the same, but wanton Night",1.0 +Boasts a more grateful Change of harmless Light.,0.0 +That stud with burnished Gold the shaded Green.,0.0 +These little wandering Comets never shed,2.0 +"Their shining Tails foretell no falling State,",1.0 +"Nor future Dearth, nor sad Disease create.",0.0 +"Sweep glaring through the Dusk, and strike the wondering Eyes.",4.0 +"In oblique Tracks the Meteors blaze around,",5.0 +"And skim the Surface of the marshy Ground,",1.0 +"The liquid Drops, that ooze from weeping Trees,",0.0 +And sparkling Stones with Starlike Lustre please;,1.0 +"And what it wants in Moisture, gains in Light.",0.0 +"While ripened Fruits, and milder Seasons last,",0.0 +"And only empty Clouds the Skies overcast,",3.0 +"Nymphs in lone Deserts chant the rural Lay,",3.0 +Till the winged Hours bring on returning Day.,3.0 +"And rattling Hail, or fleecy Snows descend;",0.0 +"When conscious Birds, who know succeeding Times,",0.0 +"Haste from the Cold, and seek for milder Climes.",0.0 +The Elfin Powers who can at Pleasure leave,0.0 +"Aerial Bodies, and new Forms receive",4.0 +"Cast off their Vehicles, and freed from Sense,",1.0 +"Nor dread the Storms, nor Cold, when too intense.",0.0 +"The earthy Gnomes, and Fairy Elves are seen",0.0 +Digging in lowest Mines with busy Men;,2.0 +"There labour on the fruitless Work intent,",1.0 +"Nature, as yet, is but imperfect seen,",2.0 +"The Flowers look gay, but lovely Autumn treats",3.0 +"With ripened Beauties, and substantial Sweets;",1.0 +"Nor wants its Flowers, while Poppies grace the Corn,",2.0 +And azure Cups the waving Fields adorn.,0.0 +"Fruits loved by rustic Tastes, of pleasing Show,",1.0 +"On the wild Hedge, and scented Briar grow.",2.0 +"Fly with the Wind, and on the Ground are spread.",1.0 +"Ripe mellow Heaps from every Tree are shook,",1.0 +And bending Corn expects the sharpened Hook;,0.0 +"Soon will the nodding Sheaves be born away,",0.0 +"But oft cursed Fiends quit their infernal Home,",3.0 +"And hated Guests in gloomy Forests roam,",0.0 +And little Birds shrink closer in their Nests.,1.0 +"Earth would be Heaven, if we might here enjoy",1.0 +"Pleasures unmixed, and leave the base Alloy.",3.0 +"The greatest Good has its attending Ill,",1.0 +"So teeming Autumn boasts her luscious Fruits,",0.0 +"And Plants of grateful Taste, and healing Roots.",0.0 +"With shining Berries, and with spreading Leaves;",1.0 +"Too well you know, that Beauty often kills:",1.0 +"Swift through the Bones the spreading Venom flies,",0.0 +"A deadly Sleep hangs on the closing Eyes,",2.0 +And the lost Wretch at length in raging Frenzy dies.,2.0 +"To Bacchus Sacred all, and prone to Love,",0.0 +They show what Fuel must the Flame improve;,0.0 +"Love, blind himself, the Mark would hardly know,",1.0 +"But Bacchus takes the Aim, and sets the Bow.",0.0 +"Autumnal Days a constant Medium boast,",2.0 +"Nor chap the Ground with Heat, nor dry with Frost.",0.0 +"Nature on all her finished Labour smiles,",1.0 +And the glad Peasant reaps the grateful Spoils;,2.0 +"Winds shake the ripened Seeds on Parent Earth,",1.0 +And thus impregnate for succeeding Birth.,1.0 +"The tufted God with future Harvest swells,",0.0 +"While weighty Seeds fall from their native Cells,",2.0 +Far from their Homes are born by sweeping Winds;,0.0 +"The Atoms fly, wafted on every Breeze,",5.0 +"Herbs of strange Forms on highest Rocks are found,",3.0 +And spreading Fern runs over the barren Ground.,3.0 +"Nor love as once to see the handed Bowls,",0.0 +Shall teach the Swain enrich the barren Field;,0.0 +"The Prophets Inspiration never ends,",0.0 +But with a double Portion still descends.,1.0 +"Poets, like rightful Kings, can never die,",2.0 +"Heavens Sacred Ointment will the Throne supply,",1.0 +"So tuneful Insects fed by Morning Dew,",1.0 +Who in warm Meads the daily Song renew;,1.0 +"True Poets they laugh at approaching Want,",3.0 +"But soon bleak Colds the wanton Throng surprise,",1.0 +"And yet returning Heat, and sultry Days,",0.0 +"The Goddess will not long forget her Care,",1.0 +No more shall blasting Winds the Harvest grieve,0.0 +Or blighted Buds autumnal Hopes deceive.,0.0 +While loaded Branches groan beneath their Weight.,0.0 +"As from salt Waves are drawn the sweeter Rains,",2.0 +"And cheerful Streams, that swell the fattened Plains,",0.0 +Grafted on Crabs the fairest Apples grow.,2.0 +"Bitters and Sweets in the same Cup are thrown,",4.0 +"She Nature aids, and is the Sylvan Power,",1.0 +"That shapes the Leaf, and paints the woody Flower.",0.0 +And drowsy Poppies are in Scarlet clad:,1.0 +And the drained Subject can afford no more.,3.0 +"Nor Cuddy now, nor Colin would engage;",0.0 +"In ancient Times the Shepherd's Song would please,",0.0 +"When pious Kings enjoyed the Shepherd's Ease,",0.0 +And Monarchs sat beneath the shadowing Trees.,3.0 +But cursed Ambition still increased with Power;,0.0 +And craving Passions a new Life began;,2.0 +"The peaceful Woods were not so soon forgot,",0.0 +"Reason, when free, and undisturbed, approves",2.0 +The pleasing Pensiveness of thoughtful Groves:,1.0 +"To imitate, at least, the rural Shade.",0.0 +"All that is calm, and inoffensive hate;",1.0 +"Guilt must prevail, and Bloodshed never cease;",2.0 +Nations are said to be undone by Peace.,2.0 +"Too well you know, who oft unseen repair",1.0 +"In Closets sit, and unsuspected hear",0.0 +"What the great Vulgar feign, and little fear.",2.0 +"The yawning Peasant, and disturbs the Beast,",1.0 +"Through Streets, and noisy Crowds they range unknown,",0.0 +When Serpents Teeth were sown in furrowed Earth;,0.0 +"Inflamed with Rage, and prone to mutual Hate,",2.0 +War now commences in itself a Good;,1.0 +"Quacks know no other Cure but letting Blood,",2.0 +"And not a Lancet, but a Cordial wants.",1.0 +"Those who could wish all Temples shut beside,",0.0 +"Never think the Gates of Janus set too wide,",1.0 +"For endless Slaughter, as a Blessing pray,",1.0 +"Farewell the humble Muse, and Shepherd's peaceful Lay.",1.0 +"She said, and all the Nymphs with Sorrow heard,",0.0 +"When clad in shining Robes, an heavenly Form appeared.",2.0 +"A leavy Crown adorned her radiant Head,",0.0 +"Majestic were her Looks, and thus the Elfin said:",1.0 +"Observe their Steps, and watch the hated Fiend.",0.0 +When wearied Damon lies in thoughtless Sleep;,0.0 +"The same, whose Influence aids unsettled State,",2.0 +And gladly hastens on the Work of Fate.,1.0 +"Rome's second King enjoyed a Fairy Dame,",1.0 +To lonely Woods the Royal Pupil came;,0.0 +"Rome all her Grandeur owed, and future Pride.",4.0 +"Blessed Powers, and Beings of the highest Rank,",4.0 +"Nor love the flowing Stream, nor flowery Bank.",2.0 +"Scorns the base Earth, and was for Heaven designed.",2.0 +"And here in Wilds, and woody Mazes roam.",0.0 +"Mysteries disclose, and tell the secret Art.",1.0 +"Sung with the Nymphs, and danced the pleasing Round.",0.0 +But vulgar Thoughts confound celestial Forms,0.0 +"With envious Fiends, who raise destructive Storms;",2.0 +"And harmless Elves that scuttle over the Plain,",2.0 +"Mortals to Earth, and mean Delights inclined,",2.0 +No Pleasure in abstracted Notions find.,2.0 +Unused to higher Truths will not believe,0.0 +"Ought can exist, but what their Eyes perceive;",1.0 +"Few are the Happy those, who their blessed Guardians know.",6.0 +I know the lasting Joys of coming Years.,0.0 +"The Loyal Patriot, and his Schemes direct.",1.0 +"All do not hate the Plain, nor fly the Woods;",0.0 +"Fields have their Lovers, and the Groves their Gods.",1.0 +"Reward the Song, nor scorn the meaner Style;",0.0 +"Each bleeding Tree shall tell the Shepherd's Flame,",0.0 +And in its Wounds preserve the growing Name.,0.0 +"The Birds on every Bough will listening throng,",0.0 +"And noisy, strive to drown the envied Song.",0.0 +"Echo to distant Rocks shall waft the Tale,",2.0 +And reach with borrowed Sounds the lowest Vale;,1.0 +"While the glad Lambs pursue the circling Round,",3.0 +"Frisk wanton, and over grassy Ridges bound.",3.0 +"Would He again the better Choice approve,",1.0 +"Would he a grateful Guest to Woods repair,",0.0 +And private Ease prefer to public Care;,0.0 +"The Nymphs would learn his Song, their own forget,",0.0 +"Peace from neglected Pipes will wipe the Dust,",2.0 +When useless Arms are doomed to eating Rust.,0.0 +Or fright the Triton from his loved Embrace.,1.0 +And Nymphs frequent the long deserted Woods.,1.0 +"All to their Streams, or to their Shades return.",1.0 +"When Civil Wars disturbed the Roman State,",0.0 +And Brutus hastened on his juster Fate;,1.0 +"The Swain was injured, and his Song forgot,",1.0 +"But when Octavius had the Nations freed,",1.0 +And every Realm its rightful Lord obeyed;,0.0 +"The God looked down on the neglected Groves,",3.0 +"And deigned to hear of Peace, and softer Loves;",0.0 +"Fields and their Owners were with Leisure blessed,",1.0 +"So first the Mountain Tops are touched with Light,",0.0 +And from the gloomy Vales the Swain invite;,1.0 +"While Mists below, and intervening Clouds",0.0 +Cast a deep Dusk on all the frowning Woods.,2.0 +"The shaded Meadows view, with Envy, round",1.0 +"But soon the spreading Rays expanded move,",0.0 +"And streaming like a Deluge from above,",1.0 +"By foreign Wars intestine Factions thrive,",0.0 +Tumultuous Hurry an Advantage gives,4.0 +"Both to the little, and the greater Thieves.",1.0 +"A guilty Act is in Confusion hid,",0.0 +When busy Times a nicer Search forbid;,0.0 +"So crafty Fish are of clear Streams afraid,",2.0 +"And hide in Eddies, which themselves have made.",0.0 +"Touched with the Rose the jetty Beetle dies,",0.0 +Whose private Gains by public Loss increase.,0.0 +"When noisy Storms pour on the dropping Leaves,",2.0 +"The pensive Lark retires, and silent grieves;",0.0 +"For then a grateful Prey the horned Snail,",1.0 +"Designing Men the public Welfare hate,",1.0 +Who cannot rise but on a ruined State.,1.0 +"Base Souls will always keep their native Stain,",1.0 +"The Worm, when once become a spotted Fly,",0.0 +And feeds with Pleasure on its native Dung.,1.0 +"But steady Patriots will just Schemes pursue,",1.0 +Nor fear the Rage of a discarded Few.,1.0 +"Old Crimes repeat, and baffled Plots revive.",1.0 +"Eternal Infamy rewards their Pains,",1.0 +"And though the Flames put out, the Stench remains.",3.0 +"What specious coloured Fraud, or secret Snare",0.0 +"Can St. John's Prudence escape, or Oxford's Care?",3.0 +"Diseases oft prove fatal, when concealed,",1.0 +"Try to pull down, what they could never rebuild;",2.0 +"But when intent to spring the sudden Mine,",1.0 +One Cicero can blast the great Design.,0.0 +"So when black Storms cast up the boiling Deep,",1.0 +"The Shepherd, who the watery Conflict hears",2.0 +"Shuddering at distance, for his Pasture fears;",2.0 +"Thinks with himself, when will the Tumult cease,",3.0 +Or what kind Power can warring Floods appease?,3.0 +"The Trident grasp, and nod their reedy Heads;",0.0 +"The Waves rebuked, fear to approach the Shore,",2.0 +"And all is hushed, and Winds are heard no more.",1.0 +"Peace guides her Steps, as St. John leads the Way,",2.0 +And all her little Loves around him play:,0.0 +"When he arrived, France the first time confessed",4.0 +"Unwilling owned Britannia has her Charms,",1.0 +"And is as strong in Eloquence, as Arms.",2.0 +"When St. John speaks, Who would refuse to hear?",1.0 +"Mars smooths his Brow, and Pallas drops her Spear.",1.0 +"A thousand Graces on his Lips are hung,",1.0 +"When wild Suspicions cause distracting Hate,",0.0 +"Like falling Drops it softens, and it cools;",1.0 +And to unwilling Breast a Passage finds;,1.0 +"Nervous, yet smooth, the Heart it gently steals,",2.0 +"Like Wine it sparkles, but like Oil it heals.",1.0 +"He with his Country shares one common Fate,",1.0 +"All St. John love, but who Britannia hate.",3.0 +"Not Gallus once in Woods was so beloved,",1.0 +Whose luckless Flame the Nymphs to pity moved.,0.0 +With partial Hand its doubled Gifts bestows:,0.0 +"While common Souls, like coarser Stuffs laid by,",2.0 +Are not prepared to take the brighter Die.,0.0 +Whose viscous Sweets the meaner Shrub refuse;,0.0 +"And every neighbouring Tree neglected grieves,",2.0 +But willing spreads in vain its tasteless Leaves.,0.0 +"St. John the Woods, and breezy Forrest loves,",1.0 +"New Beauties show themselves to nearer Views,",1.0 +"Thousands escape hid in the pressing Throng,",3.0 +"Whose fading Beauties pass without Regard,",0.0 +"What learnt Song will Nature's Care impart,",1.0 +The numerous Natives of the sheltering Wood,5.0 +"Avoid their Dangers, or procure their Food?",1.0 +"What Verse has told, how smaller Rivals wage",0.0 +"Unequal War, and with the Toad engage?",1.0 +"And hung on silken Threads, the Foe surprise;",0.0 +"Spit on the poisonous Wretch more deadly Bane,",2.0 +"Who deeply wounded, feels the raging Pain.",0.0 +While he scarce trails along his tortured Limbs;,3.0 +"But careful will the healing Plantain find,",1.0 +Plantain to undeserving Creatures kind,2.0 +And now the bloated Wretch with innate Poison swells.,5.0 +"Or how the speckled Snakes their Prey surprise,",1.0 +And with hot Fennel rub their weaker Eyes;,2.0 +"They, when the Bloom of warmer Spring begins,",0.0 +"Brandish the Tongue, and raise the azure Crest.",2.0 +"Ants prudent bite the Ends of hoarded Wheat,",1.0 +Lest growing Seeds their future Hopes defeat;,0.0 +"And when they conscious scent the gathering Rains,",2.0 +The deepest Caverns of their puny Hill;,1.0 +"There lie secure, and hug their treasured Goods,",0.0 +"A thousand Kinds unknown in Forests breed,",0.0 +"And bite the Leaves, and notch the growing Weed;",0.0 +"Have each their several Laws, and settled States,",0.0 +"And constant Sympathies, and constant Hates;",1.0 +"Their changing Forms no artful Verse describes,",1.0 +Or how fierce War destroys the wandering Tribes.,4.0 +"How prudent Nature feeds her various Young,",2.0 +Has been if not untold at least unsung.,0.0 +While prouder Men the little Ant despise.,0.0 +"But though the Bulky Kinds are easy known,",1.0 +Yet Nature's Skill is most in Little shown;,0.0 +"Whose borrowed Sight the curious Searcher aid,",3.0 +"And show, what Heaven to common View denies",0.0 +"Strange puny Shapes, unknown to vulgar Eyes.",1.0 +"Wafted on Winds, and not perceived when nigh;",2.0 +"Unseen they sweep along the grassy Plains,",0.0 +"But to those Seers in Northern Isles confined,",1.0 +"Inured to Cold, and hardened by the Wind,",1.0 +"No flitting Elf the subtle Eye escapes,",1.0 +"Men Nature in her secret Work behold,",1.0 +"With Pleasure trace the Threads of stringy Roots,",0.0 +The various Textures of the ripening Fruits;,3.0 +"And Animals, that careless live at ease,",1.0 +"To whom the Leaves are Worlds, the Drops are Seas.",0.0 +"If to the finished Whole so little goes,",1.0 +"How small the Parts, that must that Whole compose!",0.0 +"Matter is infinite, and still descends:",3.0 +Man cannot know where lessening Nature ends.,3.0 +"The azure Die, which Plums in Autumn boast,",0.0 +"That handled fades, and at a Touch is lost,",0.0 +Of fairest Show is all a living Heap;,0.0 +And round their little World the lovely Monsters creep.,0.0 +"Who would on Colour dote, or pleasing Forms,",3.0 +"If Beauty, when discovered, is but Worms?",1.0 +"When the warm Spring puts forth the opening Bud,",3.0 +"But when the Summer Days dilate the Gem,",0.0 +"Stretch out the Leaves, and fix the growing Stem,",0.0 +"They die unknown, and numerous Kinds succeed,",2.0 +"That bask in Flowers, or eat the ranker Weed;",2.0 +"Wanton in sultry Heat, and keep their Place,",2.0 +"But though a thousand Themes invite the Muse,",1.0 +Yet Greater Subjects will from Mean excuse;,1.0 +"They claim the grateful Song, whose prudent Care",0.0 +"One civil Rage alarmed the trembling Woods,",0.0 +"Wars felled the Trees, and spreading Havoc made;",1.0 +The Nymphs could hardly find a sheltering Shade.,2.0 +"Now, with less frightful Sounds the Fields are blessed;",3.0 +"Faction that Hydra is no longer feared,",4.0 +"Her Heads are lopped, and all the Wounds are seared;",0.0 +"When innovating Schemes successful prove,",0.0 +"They do but fasten, what they would remove.",0.0 +"So restless Winds would fly without Restraint,",0.0 +"Sweep down the Corn, and bend the growing Plant;",0.0 +"But taller Trees withstand their giddy Haste,",0.0 +And break the Fury of the coming Blast;,1.0 +"They angry tear the Leaves, and blight the Fruit,",0.0 +"But strengthen while they shake, and fix the spreading Root.",0.0 +"Be still, you Aspen Boughs, nor restless scare,",0.0 +"With busy trembling Leaves, the listening Hare;",0.0 +"And cease, you Insects, who, to Plants unkind,",1.0 +"Or gnaw the Root, or bite the softer Rind;",0.0 +"Silent attend, while I Britannia bless,",5.0 +And sing the future Joys of lasting Peace.,0.0 +Victoria long her fruitless Labour mourned;,2.0 +Without Effect her annual Work returned.,2.0 +Philippi made the Roman Power his own.,1.0 +"Swift as a Ray shot from the Rising Sun,",2.0 +But Conquest now is stopped by every Fort;,0.0 +"Bloodshed is cheap, and War becomes a Sport;",1.0 +"In vain the Captains fall, the Heroes bleed;",0.0 +Fresh Victims to the Sacrifice succeed.,2.0 +"So doubtful Hills the wearied Pilgrim sees,",0.0 +And flattering Prospects give a fancied Ease;,2.0 +"That Summit gained, far distant Mountains rise,",1.0 +"Ten Years could Hector coming Fate retard,",0.0 +Yet waving Heaps as ancient Ballads tell,0.0 +The doubtful Ruins of Old Troy conceal;,2.0 +"Transfer no Kingdom, and no King dethrone.",3.0 +"But pitying ANNA ends the fruitless Toil,",2.0 +From Her the injured States expect Redress;,1.0 +"She, who maintained the War, must make the Peace.",0.0 +"She gives the Power, whatever Side prevails,",3.0 +"Wherever the Balance is, She holds the Scales.",3.0 +"To Her they all commit their Common Cause,",1.0 +"She sets their Limits, and confirms their Laws;",1.0 +"Portions divides, and gives to each his Share,",2.0 +"The Right of Birth, or the Reward of War.",1.0 +"All must the just impartial Hand acquit,",0.0 +Made the rude Chaos own a greater God;,3.0 +"The blended Elements, that long had strove,",1.0 +Would not so ready join in mutual Love:,2.0 +"But, first, the purer Parts their Places took,",0.0 +And subtle Fire the meaner Mass forsook.,0.0 +"While Seas were loath to be by Shores confined,",0.0 +Or Earth to have the lowest Place assigned.,0.0 +"ANNA has long enriched the Powers allied,",3.0 +"Their Want of Treasure, and of Troops supplied;",1.0 +"Yet they, as wronged, with awkward State complain,",0.0 +"So wanton Children sport in careless Play,",0.0 +"And slumbering lie, or toy the Hours away;",2.0 +"Yet cry, and murmur, if they are not fed.",2.0 +"But swollen with bloated Pride, and Mighty grown,",2.0 +"New Conquests seek, and deem the Worlds their own.",2.0 +"Content their Wishes, or suffice their Wants.",1.0 +"So when fierce Rains wash down the lessened Hills,",1.0 +"The swift united Streams haste to the Plain,",2.0 +And swampy Meads the gathering Waters drain:,2.0 +"Each neighbouring Hill, and every rising Mound",2.0 +Barrens itself enrich the lower Ground.,2.0 +Sunk in their Slime the marshy Vales below,0.0 +"Their subject State they confident deny,",1.0 +"Cease, you unthinking Hills, and strive no more",3.0 +To swell ungrateful Bogs with a too lavish Store.,2.0 +"The Foreign Realms, whom Anna's Arms sustained,",0.0 +"Now boast of Power, as they before complained.",4.0 +In softer Words conceals the guilty Flame;,0.0 +And adds to moving Words more moving Tears.,0.0 +But if the Fair refuse with juster Pride,1.0 +"And prudent Scorn, what ought to be denied;",0.0 +"And rudely threatens, whom he once adored.",0.0 +"But none will long the offered Peace refuse,",0.0 +"Lest what was conquered, they as certain lose.",1.0 +Victoria sees not there her favourite Host.,2.0 +"The Germane Chief retired, nor could pursue",4.0 +"None can the Rise or Fall of Empires know,",0.0 +"Where Power now ebbs, it may as sudden flow.",2.0 +"Gallia has oft, and oft has haughty Spain,",2.0 +"Indulged their Hopes of universal Reign,",0.0 +And in revolving Years may oft again.,0.0 +"The Gods awhile seem to design no less,",3.0 +"And smiling, flatter Princes with Success.",1.0 +"By wondrous Turns the heavenly Powers are known,",4.0 +And baffled Schemes superior Guidance own.,2.0 +"Heaven has set Bounds to every rising State,",1.0 +And Kingdoms have their Barriers fixed by Fate.,2.0 +"An Infant will the Gallic Prince succeed,",1.0 +The Sword is sheathed; No more the Nations bleed.,1.0 +"That Kingdom hardly can itself defend,",1.0 +"Though lengthened Wars may a Distrust create,",1.0 +And sow the spreading Seeds of vulgar Hate;,0.0 +"Again they may a stricter Union prove,",1.0 +"And join in mutual Aid, and mutual Love.",4.0 +"Nor shall the British Line Insurance need,",0.0 +"For Monarchy is Heaven's peculiar Care,",3.0 +But Foreign Aid is worse than Civil War.,0.0 +And a pretended Reason to invade;,2.0 +"The easy Britains the false Friend believed,",2.0 +And with fond Joy the hostile Troops received.,2.0 +"And now the British Fleets in Southern Seas,",0.0 +"Tossed with fresh Gales the wanton Streamers flow,",3.0 +"Nor dread the Storms above, nor Rocks below.",0.0 +"The Powers protect, who rule the restless Sea,",2.0 +"The Nymphs shall hide no more from human Sight,",1.0 +"The harmless Elves, in every Meadow seen,",1.0 +Will dance at Midday on the public Green.,2.0 +"Beneath one Tree, and sport in rustic Wit;",0.0 +"In the same Shade alternate Songs repeat,",3.0 +"But now the Huntsman takes his usual Round,",1.0 +While listening Foxes hear unwelcome Sound;,0.0 +"And early Peasants, who prevent the Day,",0.0 +"For see ' -- the grayish Edge of Dawn appears,",0.0 +Night her Departure mourns in dewy Tears.,2.0 +"The Goblins vanish, and the Elfin Queen",1.0 +"Nature's unwilling to be roused so soon,",3.0 +And Earth looks Pale on the declining Moon;,2.0 +"The Bats a doubtful Kind begin their Sleep,",0.0 +"The coming Day the conscious Insects grieve,",1.0 +Streaking with viscous Slime the shining Dew;,2.0 +"In some close Shade a friendly Covert find,",1.0 +And Parent Earth receives the reptile Kind.,0.0 +"Guilt, and the Day disturb the wily Snakes,",0.0 +And Urchins hide their Theft in thorny Brakes.,0.0 +"All fly the Sun, and seek a cool Retreat,",0.0 +"Nor envy buzzing Swarms, who joy in scorching Heat.",0.0 +"She said, and sudden all the Elfin Fair",0.0 +"But thou, OH Wyndham, who dost not disdain",2.0 +"The Shepherd's Gift, nor scorn the rural Strain;",0.0 +"Though to no pompous Sound the Ear inclines,",2.0 +While the mean Sense is propped by stronger Lines,3.0 +With pleasing Look the fearful Bard receive;,0.0 +You bad him first the humble Cottage leave;,0.0 +"Ready to praise, and willing to excuse,",3.0 +You gave Assurance to the bashful Muse.,1.0 +How would I now describe a generous Mind,2.0 +"Improved by Study, and by Courts refined?",1.0 +But you ah! too resolved will not allow,1.0 +"The Verse to tell, what Men already know;",0.0 +"Envy itself their Conduct must approve,",2.0 +Though you in this unkind deny the Bard,2.0 +"The only Subject can his Pains reward,",1.0 +For Goddesses will sing of whom they please;,1.0 +"Long will the grateful Woods your Name repeat,",0.0 +"O blessed BRITANNIA! in THY Presence blessed,",1.0 +"THOU Guardian of Mankind! whence spring, alone,",2.0 +"All human Grandeur, Happiness and Fame:",6.0 +"For Toil, by THEE protected, feels no Pain;",2.0 +The poor Man's Lot with Milk and Honey flows;,1.0 +"And, gilded with Thy Rays, even Death looks gay.",5.0 +Let other Lands the potent Blessings boast,1.0 +"On higher Life intent, it's silken Tomb.",0.0 +"Let wondering Rocks, in radiant Birth, disclose,",3.0 +From the prone Beam let more delicious Fruits,3.0 +Bids each combine. Let Gallic Vineyards burst,3.0 +"With Floods of Joy, with mild balsamic Juice",0.0 +The Tuscan Olive. Let Arabia breathe,2.0 +"Her spicy Gales, her vital Gums distil.",0.0 +"Turbid with Gold, let southern Rivers flow;",3.0 +"And orient Floods draw soft, over Pearls, their Maze.",2.0 +"Deep in her Bowels her own Ruin breed,",0.0 +"The yellow Traitor that her Bliss betrayed, ' --",0.0 +"Yet nor the gorgeous East, nor golden South,",0.0 +"Where flames the falling Day, in Wealth and Praise,",0.0 +"Shall with BRITANNIA vie, while, GODDESS, she",4.0 +Her hearty Fruits the Hand of Freedom own;,0.0 +Her Meads; her Gardens smile eternal Spring.,0.0 +"Ardent, to rush into the rapid Chase:",2.0 +"That wraps the Nations: She, to lusty Droves,",1.0 +Autumnal Seas of pleasing Plenty round.,0.0 +"No darting Tiger, no grim Lion's Glare,",2.0 +"In Spires immense progressive over the Land,",2.0 +"Disturbed. Enlivening These, add Cities, full",4.0 +"Of Wealth, of Trade, of cheerful toiling Crowds:",0.0 +"Add thriving Towns: add Villages and Farms,",3.0 +"Add ancient Seats, with venerable Oaks",2.0 +"Wind through the Mead; and Those of modern Hand,",1.0 +"More pompous, add, that splendid shine afar:",0.0 +"On whose each Tide, glad with returning Sails,",2.0 +Flows in the mingled Harvest of Mankind?,2.0 +"And thee, thou Severn, whose prodigious Swell,",1.0 +"And Waves, resounding, imitate the Main?",0.0 +"Why need I name her deep capacious Ports,",0.0 +That point around the World? And why her Seas?,0.0 +"All Ocean is her own, and every Land",1.0 +To whom her ruling Thunder Ocean bears.,0.0 +"She too the Mineral feeds: the obedient Lead,",4.0 +Not dreaming then of BRITAIN's brighter Fame.,0.0 +She rears to Freedom an undaunted Race:,1.0 +"Compatriot zealous, hospitable, kind,",7.0 +"Hers the warm CAMBRIAN: Hers the lofty SCOT,",3.0 +"To Hardship tamed, active in Arts and Arms,",5.0 +"Fired with a restless an impatient Flame,",2.0 +"And ENGLISH MERIT Hers; where meet, combined,",1.0 +"Whatever high Fancy, sound judicious Thought,",4.0 +"Great Nurse of Fruits, of Flocks, of Commerce, SHE!",2.0 +"Great Nurse of Men! by THEE, OH GODDESS, taught,",3.0 +"Her old Renown I trace, disclose her Source",0.0 +"Of Wealth, of Grandeur, and to BRITONS sing",2.0 +A Strain the Muses never touched before.,0.0 +But how shall this THY mighty KINGDOM stand?,0.0 +On what unyielding Base? how finished shine?,0.0 +"At this HER Eye, collecting all it's Fire,",0.0 +"Beamed more than human; and HER awful Voice,",1.0 +"Majestic, thus SHE raised ' -- To BRITONS bear",0.0 +Loud let it sound in their awakened Ear.,2.0 +"On VIRTUE can alone MY KINGDOM stand,",1.0 +"On PUBLIC VIRTUE, EVERY VIRTUE JOINED.",0.0 +"For, lost this social Cement of Mankind,",3.0 +"Will moulder soft away; till, tottering loose,",2.0 +They prone at last to total Ruin rush.,0.0 +To rob by Law; Religion mild a Yoke,0.0 +"To tame the stooping Soul, a Trick of State",0.0 +"Of Consultation deep and Reason free,",0.0 +While the determined Voice and Heart are sold?,1.0 +"What boasted Freedom, save a sounding Name?",0.0 +"And what Election, but a Market vile",1.0 +"There is no ruling Eye, no Nerve, in States;",3.0 +"Even Justice warps to Party, Laws oppress,",0.0 +"Wide through the Land their weak Protection fails,",0.0 +"First broke the Ballance, and then scorned the Sword.",2.0 +"Thus Nations sink, Society dissolves;",2.0 +"Man hates the Face of Man, and Indian Woods",3.0 +"By those THREE VIRTUES be the Frame sustained,",2.0 +Of BRITISH FREEDOM: INDEPENDENT LIFE;,0.0 +"INTEGRITY IN OFFICE; and, over all",3.0 +To that of Life and an immortal Soul!,1.0 +The Life of Life! that to the Banquet high,1.0 +And sober Meal gives taste; to the bowed Roof,2.0 +"Of public Freedom, hail, thou secret Source!",0.0 +"Whose Streams, from every Quarter confluent, form",2.0 +"MY better Nile, that nurses human Life.",0.0 +"The private Field looks gay, with Nature's Wealth",1.0 +"Abundant flows, and blooms with each Delight",0.0 +"That Nature craves. It's happy Master there,",1.0 +"The ONLY FREE-MAN, walks his pleasing Round:",1.0 +"Firm Resolution; Goodness, blessing all",1.0 +"That can rejoice; Contentment, surest Friend;",1.0 +"And, still fresh Stores from Nature's Book derived,",1.0 +"These cheer his rural, and sustain or fire,",1.0 +"When into Action called, his busy Hours.",0.0 +"Economy and Taste, combined, direct",1.0 +Secure his little Kingdom. Nor can Those,1.0 +"Whom Fortune heaps, without these Virtues, reach",0.0 +"That Truce with Pain, that animated Ease,",0.0 +Which make the soundest Bliss of Man below:,0.0 +"But, lost beneath the Rubbish of their Means,",1.0 +"And drained by Wants to Nature all unknown,",0.0 +"Though rich, are Beggars, and, though noble, Slaves.",1.0 +"Lo! damned to Wealth, at what a gross Expense,",1.0 +"They purchase Disappointment, Pain and Shame.",0.0 +"Instead of hearty hospitable Cheer,",5.0 +See! how the Hall with brutal Riot flows;,0.0 +"While in the foaming Flood, fermenting, steeped,",0.0 +Mark! those disgraceful Piles of Wood and Stone;,2.0 +"And Nature by presumptuous Art oppressed,",3.0 +The woodland Genius mourns. See! the full Board,3.0 +"That steams Disgust, and Bowls that give no Joy:",1.0 +"No Truth invited there, to feed the Mind;",2.0 +With those retained by Vanity to scare,2.0 +Repose and Friends. To tyrant Fashion mark!,0.0 +"Led an eternal Round of lying Hope,",2.0 +"Dashed over the Town, a miserable Wreck!",4.0 +"Then to adore some warbling Eunuch turned,",1.0 +With Midas' Ears they crowd; or to the Buzz,1.0 +"Their Scorn of Nature, at the Tragic Scene",0.0 +"But, chief, behold! around the rattling Board,",0.0 +"The civil Robbers ranged; and even the Fair,",2.0 +"The tender Fair, each Sweetness laid aside,",0.0 +"At some sacked City. Thus dissolved their Wealth,",1.0 +"Without one generous Luxury dissolved,",3.0 +At the thronged Leave bends the venal Tribe:,1.0 +"Each smooth as Those that mutually deceive,",4.0 +And for their Falsehood each despising each;,2.0 +"Wide flies the withered Shower, and leaves him bare.",3.0 +Is he who can his Virtue boast alone!,0.0 +BRITONS! be firm! ' -- nor let Corruption sly,2.0 +The Steel of BRUTUS burst the grosser Bonds,0.0 +By Caesar cast over ROME; but still remained,3.0 +"The soft enchanting Fetters of the Mind,",1.0 +"Unfounded, FREEDOM is a Morning Dream,",1.0 +Forbid it HEAVEN! that ever I need urge,1.0 +INTEGRITY IN OFFICE on MY Sons;,2.0 +Inculcate common Honour ' -- not to rob. ' --,4.0 +"And whom? ' -- the gracious the confiding Hand,",1.0 +"That lavishly rewards; the toiling Poor,",1.0 +Whose Cup with many a bitter Drop is mixed;,2.0 +"The Guardian Public; every Face they see,",2.0 +"And every Friend; nay, in Effect, themselves.",1.0 +"As, in familiar Life, the Villain's Fate",0.0 +"Admits no Cure; so, when a desperate Age",1.0 +"At This arrives, I the devoted Race",2.0 +"Indignant spurn, and hopeless soar away.",0.0 +"But, ah too little known to modern Times!",1.0 +Be not the noblest Passion past unsung;,0.0 +"That Ray peculiar, from UNBOUNDED LOVE",1.0 +DEVOTION TO THE PUBLIC. Glorious Flame!,3.0 +"Profusely scattered through the blue Immense,",1.0 +"From Thee their Lustre drew? since, taught by Thee,",1.0 +"Pain grew luxurious, and even Death Delight?",2.0 +"OH wilt Thou never, in thy long Period, look,",5.0 +"With Blaze direct, on this MY last Retreat?",1.0 +"It's not enough, from Self right understood",1.0 +"Reflected, that thy Rays inflame the Heart:",0.0 +"Though VIRTUE not disdains Appeals to Self,",0.0 +"Dreads not the Trial; all her Joys are true,",0.0 +"Foes to Corruption, to it's Wages Friends,",3.0 +"Or those whom private Passions, for a while,",2.0 +"Beneath MY Standard list, can they suffice",1.0 +To raise and fix the Glory of MY REIGN?,1.0 +An active Flood of universal Love,0.0 +And seizes every Being: Stronger then,0.0 +"It tends to Life, whatever the kindred Search",3.0 +"Of Bliss allys: then, more collected still,",4.0 +"It urges Humankind: a Passion grown,,",0.0 +"The Comely, Grand and Tender. Without This,",2.0 +"This moral Gravitation, rushing prone",0.0 +"To press the public Good, MY System soon,",0.0 +"Traverse, to several selfish Centres drawn,",0.0 +Will reel to Ruin: while for ever shut,0.0 +"From sordid Self shoot up no shining Deeds,",3.0 +"None of those ancient Lights, that gladden Earth,",0.0 +"To just Ambition, VIRTUE's quickening Fire!",2.0 +"Filled up with Actions animal and mean,",1.0 +A dull Gazette! The impatient Reader scorns,2.0 +The poor historic Page; till kindly comes,0.0 +"Oblivion, and redeems a People's Shame.",3.0 +"GREECE shone in Genius, Science, and in Arts,",2.0 +And ROME in Virtues dreadful to be told!,1.0 +"To live was Glory then! and charmed Mankind,",1.0 +"True, a corrupted State, with every Vice",2.0 +"And every Meanness foul, this Passion damps.",0.0 +"The Wretch abandoned to relentless Self,",1.0 +Equally vile if Miser or Profuse?,3.0 +"Powers not of GOD, assiduous to corrupt?",1.0 +Delirious Faction bellowing loud MY Name?,4.0 +"A Race resolved on Bondage, fierce for Chains,",0.0 +MY sacred Rights a Merchandise alone,0.0 +"By Deeds, a Horror to Mankind, prepared,",2.0 +As were the Dregs of Romulus of old?,2.0 +A People struggling with their Fate must rouse,1.0 +"The Hero's Throb. Nor can a Land, at once,",1.0 +Be lost to Virtue quite. How glorious then!,1.0 +"Fit Luxury for Gods! to save the Good,",2.0 +"Protect the Feeble, dash bold Vice aside,",1.0 +"Depress the Wicked, and restore the Frail.",1.0 +"Posterity, besides, the Young are pure,",1.0 +And Sons may tinge their Father's Cheek with Shame.,0.0 +Should then the Times arrive which HEAVEN avert!,0.0 +"That BRITONS bend unnerved, not by the Force",1.0 +"Of Arms, more generous, and more manly, quelled,",1.0 +"In Part bestowed, to bribe them to give All.",0.0 +"With Party raging, or immersed in Sloth,",1.0 +"By such as tremble at the stiffening Gale,",1.0 +Or darker Prospect! scarce one Gleam behind,0.0 +Disclosing should the broad corruptive Plague,0.0 +"Breathe from the City to the farthest Hut,",1.0 +"The severed People fire, inflame their Wants,",0.0 +"And their luxurious Thirst, so gathering Rage,",5.0 +"That, were a Buyer found, they stand prepared",0.0 +To sell their Birthright for a cooling Draught.,2.0 +Should shameless Pens for plain Corruption plead;,0.0 +"Should Public Virtue grow the Public Scoff,",0.0 +"Till Private, failing, staggers through the Land:",1.0 +"Till round the City loose mechanic Want,",0.0 +Nor from it's Fury sleeps the Vale in Peace;,1.0 +"Nay, till to lowest Deeds the Highest stoop;",0.0 +"And those, on whom the vernal Showers of HEAVEN",3.0 +"A Power to live to Nature and Themselves,",3.0 +"In sick Attendance wear their anxious Days,",0.0 +"Meantime, perhaps, Profusion flows around,",1.0 +"The Waste of War, without the Works of Peace;",0.0 +No Mark of Millions in the Gulf absorbed,1.0 +Of roused Corruption still demanding more.,0.0 +"That very Portion, which by faithful Skill",0.0 +Employed might make the smiling Public rear,0.0 +"Her ornamented Head, drilled through the Hands",2.0 +"Of mercenary Tools, serves but to nurse",2.0 +Leaves starved each Work of Dignity and Use.,2.0 +"I paint the worst. But should these Times arrive,",0.0 +"If any nobler Passion yet remain,",3.0 +"Let all MY Sons all Parties fling aside,",0.0 +"Despise their Nonsense, and together join;",1.0 +"Exerted full, from every Quarter shine,",0.0 +"Moral, or Intellectual, more intense",4.0 +"By giving glows. As on pure Winter's Eve,",2.0 +"In thick Profusion poured, shine out immense,",2.0 +"Each casting vivid Influence on each,",1.0 +"From Pole to Pole a glittering Deluge plays,",2.0 +"And Worlds above rejoice, and Men below.",0.0 +But why to BRITONS this superfluous Strain? ' --,3.0 +"And ready Bounty, wont to dwell with them. ' --",0.0 +"Nor only wont ' -- Wide over the Land diffused,",3.0 +In many a blessed Retirement still they dwell.,4.0 +"To softer Prospect turn we now the View,",0.0 +"That lend MY FINISHED FABRIC comely Pride,",0.0 +Grandeur and Grace. Of sullen Genius he!,1.0 +Cursed by the Muses! by the Graces loathed!,1.0 +Who deems beneath the Public's high Regard,0.0 +These last enlivening Touches of MY Reign.,3.0 +"A Nation be; let Trade enormous rise,",1.0 +"Let East and South their mingled Treasure pour,",1.0 +"Till, swelled impetuous, the corrupting Flood",1.0 +Burst over the City and devour the Land:,6.0 +"Yet These neglected, These recording Arts,",2.0 +"Wealth rots, a Nuisance; and, oblivious, sunk,",4.0 +That Nation must another Carthage lie.,0.0 +"If not by Them, on monumental Brass,",1.0 +"Impressed, Renown had left no Trace behind:",1.0 +"In vain, to future Times, the Sage had thought,",0.0 +"The Legislator planned, the Hero found",0.0 +"They rouse Ambition, they the Mind exalt,",1.0 +"Give great Ideas, lovely Forms infuse,",1.0 +"Delight the general Eye, and, dressed by Them,",0.0 +The moral Venus glows with double Charms.,0.0 +"SCIENCE, MY close Associate, still attends",4.0 +"Wherever I go. Sometime, in simple Guise,",3.0 +"Direct; or, sometime, in the pompous Robe",1.0 +"Of Fancy dressed, She charms Athenian Wits,",2.0 +"With XENOPHON, sometime, in dire Extremes,",2.0 +Nor on the treacherous Seas of giddy State,3.0 +"And the Gale tempts to new Pursuits of Fame,",2.0 +"Sometime, with SCIPIO, She collects her Sail,",4.0 +"And seeks the blissful Shore of rural Ease,",0.0 +And saves awhile from Caesar sinking ROME.,0.0 +"Such the kind POWER, whose piercing Eye dissolves",4.0 +"Each mental Fetter, and sets Reason free;",2.0 +"For ME inspiring an enlightened Zeal,",2.0 +The more tenacious as the more convinced,1.0 +"How happy Freemen, and how wretched Slaves.",1.0 +"To BRITONS not unknown, to BRITONS full",0.0 +"The GODDESS spreads her Stores, the secret Soul",0.0 +To them the Treasures of a balanced World.,2.0 +"But FINER ARTS save what the MUSE has sung,",1.0 +"In daring Flight, above all modern Wing",0.0 +"Neglected droop the Head; and PUBLIC WORKS,",0.0 +"Broke by Corruption into private Gain,",2.0 +"Not ornament, disgrace, not serve, destroy.",1.0 +"Shall BRITONS, by their own JOINT WISDOM ruled",2.0 +"Beneath one ROYAL HEAD, whose vital Power",0.0 +"Connects, enlivens and exerts the WHOLE;",1.0 +"In FINER ARTS, and PUBLIC WORKS, shall They",0.0 +"To Gallia yield? ' -- yield to a Land that bends,",2.0 +"Depressed, and broke, beneath the Will of One?",1.0 +"Or tyrant Passions, or Ambition, prompt,",1.0 +"Drains from it's thirsty Bounds the Springs of Wealth,",0.0 +"Or into Dungeons Arts, when They, their Chains,",1.0 +All other Licence scorn but TRUTH's and MINE.,0.0 +"O shame to think! shall BRITONS, in the Field",0.0 +"By giddy Power, betrayed, and flattered Pride,",2.0 +"To grasp unbounded Sway; while, swarming round,",0.0 +His Armies dared all Europe to the Field;,1.0 +"To hostile Hands while Treasure flowed profuse,",0.0 +"And, that great Source of Treasure, Subjects' Blood,",1.0 +"Inhuman squandered, sickened every Land;",0.0 +"From BRITAIN, chief, while MY superior Sons,",3.0 +"In Vengeance rushing, dashed his idle Hopes,",0.0 +"Even then, as in the golden Calm of Peace,",0.0 +"What PUBLIC WORKS, at home, what ARTS arose!",0.0 +What various SCIENCE shone! what GENIUS glowed!,2.0 +"Through Mountains piercing, and uniting Seas;",1.0 +"The Land where social Pleasure loves to dwell,",0.0 +"Of the fierce Demon, Gothic Duel, freed;",2.0 +The Robber from his farthest Forest chased;,1.0 +"The turbid City cleared, and, by Degrees,",1.0 +"Into sure Peace the best Police refined,",1.0 +"And SCIENCE, by despotic Bounty blessed,",1.0 +"Restoring ancient Taste, how BOILEAU rose.",1.0 +"The trembling Stage. In elegant RACINE,",1.0 +How the more powerful though more humble Voice,2.0 +"Not scattered wild, and native Humour, graced,",1.0 +"And, more for Glory than the small Reward,",1.0 +How Emulation strove. How their pure Tongue,1.0 +Almost obtained what was denied their Arms.,2.0 +"From Rome, awhile, how PAINTING, courted long,",0.0 +"With POUSSIN came; Ancient Design, that lifts",5.0 +"A fairer Front, and looks another Soul.",0.0 +"The famed and only Picture, easy, gives,",0.0 +"Refined her Touch, and, through the shadowed Piece,",1.0 +All the live Spirit of the Painter poured.,3.0 +"How lavish Grandeur blazed; the barren Waste,",5.0 +"Astonished, saw the sudden Palace swell,",0.0 +And Fountains spout amid it's arid Shades.,0.0 +"For Leagues, bright Vistas opening to the View,",2.0 +How Forests in majestic Gardens smiled.,0.0 +"How menial Arts, by their gay Sisters taught,",4.0 +"Wove the deep Flower, the blooming Foliage trained",5.0 +"In joyous Figures over the silky Lawn,",2.0 +"These Laurels, LOUIS, by the Droppings raised",1.0 +"And, green through future Times, shall bind thy Brow;",0.0 +"Wither abhorred, or in Oblivion lost.",4.0 +"And stole a deeper Root, by the full Tide",1.0 +"How had they branched luxuriant to the Skies,",1.0 +"In BRITAIN planted, by the potent Juice",1.0 +"Of Freedom swelled? Forced is the Bloom of ARTS,",2.0 +"A false uncertain Spring, when Bounty gives,",0.0 +"Weak without ME, a transitory Gleam.",0.0 +"Fair shine the slippery Days, enticing Skies",1.0 +"Till ARTS, betrayed, trust to the flattering Air",4.0 +Their tender Blossom: ' -- then malignant rise,0.0 +"That, blasting Merit, often cover Courts:",0.0 +Diffuse his warm Beneficence around;,1.0 +"But when with ME IMPERIAL BOUNTY joins,",3.0 +Wide over the Public blows eternal Spring;,3.0 +While mingled Autumn every Harvest pours,0.0 +"Of every Land; whatever Invention, Art,",3.0 +Creating Toil and Nature can produce.,1.0 +"Here ceased the GODDESS; and HER ardent Wings,",1.0 +"Dipped in the Colours of the heavenly Bow,",2.0 +"Stood waving Radiance round, for sudden Flight",1.0 +"Prepared, when thus, impatient, burst my Prayer.",0.0 +O forming Light of Life! O better Sun!,0.0 +"Sun of Mankind! by whom the cloudy North,",2.0 +When shall we call these ancient Laurels Ours?,0.0 +"And when THY WORK complete? Strait with HER Hand,",2.0 +"Celestial red, SHE touched my darkened Eyes.",0.0 +"As at the Touch of Day the Shades dissolve,",0.0 +"So quick, methought, the misty Circle cleared,",4.0 +That dims the Dawn of Being here below:,0.0 +"The Future shone disclosed, and, in long View,",1.0 +THEY come! GREAT GODDESS! I the TIMES behold!,2.0 +"The TIMES our Fathers, in the bloody Field,",0.0 +"Have earned so dear, and, not with less Renown,",0.0 +"The TIMES I see! whose Glory to supply,",1.0 +"For toiling Ages, Commerce round the World",0.0 +"Might vie our Grandeur, and with GREECE our Art.",2.0 +And still conducting firm some brave Design;,0.0 +"Burst the Blockade of false designing Men,",3.0 +"Of treacherous Smiles, of Adulation fell,",2.0 +And of the blinding Clouds around them thrown:,1.0 +"Their Court rejoicing Millions; Worth, alone,",0.0 +"And Virtue dear to them; their best Delight,",1.0 +"In just Proportion, to give general Joy;",2.0 +Their jealous Care THY KINGDOM to maintain;,1.0 +The public Glory Theirs; unsparing Love,1.0 +Their endless Treasure; and their Deeds their Praise.,1.0 +Life feels it quickening in her dark Retreats:,2.0 +"Strong spread the Blooms of Genius, Science, Art;",1.0 +His bashful Bounds disclosing Merit breaks;,0.0 +"And, big with Fruits of Glory, Virtue blows",0.0 +Expansive over the Land. Another Race,2.0 +Not those vain Insects fluttering in the Blaze,5.0 +"Of Court and Ball and Play; those venal Souls,",0.0 +"Corruption's veteran unrelenting Bands,",0.0 +"That, to their Vices Slaves, can never be free.",1.0 +I see the FOUNTAIN's purged! whence Life derives,0.0 +A clear or turbid Flow; see the young Mind.,3.0 +"Not fed impure by Chance, by Flattery fooled,",2.0 +"Or by scholastic Jargon bloated proud,",1.0 +But filled and nourished by the Light of Truth.,1.0 +"Then beamed through Fancy the refining Ray,",1.0 +"And pouring on the Heart, the Passions feel",1.0 +At once informing Light and moving Flame;,0.0 +"' Till moral, public, graceful Action crowns",0.0 +"The Whole. Behold! the fair Contention glows,",0.0 +"In all that Mind or Body can adorn,",1.0 +"And form to Life. Instead of barren Heads,",0.0 +"Barbarian Pedants, wrangling Sons of Pride,",2.0 +"Men, Patriots, Chiefs and Citizens are formed.",4.0 +"Lo! JUSTICE, like the liberal Light of Heaven,",1.0 +"Appalling Guilt, retire the savage Crew,",0.0 +That prowl amid the Darkness they themselves,1.0 +"Have thrown around the Laws. Oppression grieves,",0.0 +"While YORKS and TALBOTS their deep Snares detect,",2.0 +And seize swift Justice through the Clouds they raise.,2.0 +"See! social LABOUR lifts his guarded Head,",1.0 +And Men not yield to Government in vain.,1.0 +"And, the lewd Nurse of Villains, idle Waste;",2.0 +"Lo! razed their Haunts, down dashed their maddening Bowl,",1.0 +"Trade without Guile, Civility that marks",4.0 +"From the foul Herd of brutal Slaves THY Sons,",2.0 +And fearless Peace. Or should affronting War,0.0 +"To slow but dreadful Vengeance rouse the Just,",0.0 +Unfailing Fields of Freemen I behold!,1.0 +"That know, with their own proper Arm, to guard",1.0 +"Despairing Gaul her boiling Youth restrains,",0.0 +Dissolved her Dream of Universal Sway:,0.0 +The Winds and Seas are BRITAIN's wide Domain;,0.0 +"And not a Sail, but by Permission, spreads.",1.0 +"Lo! swarming southward on rejoicing Suns,",2.0 +Gay COLONIES extend; the calm Retreat,2.0 +"Of undeserved Distress, the better Home",0.0 +Of Those whom Bigots chase from foreign Lands.,1.0 +"And, in their turn, some petty Tyrant's Prey;",2.0 +"But, bound by social Freedom, firm they rise;",0.0 +"Such as, of late, an OGLETHORPE has formed,",1.0 +"And, crowding round, the charmed Savannah fees.",0.0 +"Horrid with Want and Misery, no more",4.0 +Our Streets the tender Passenger afflict.,1.0 +"Nor shivering Age, nor Sickness without Friend,",5.0 +"Or Home, or Bed to bear his burning Load,",0.0 +"It's guiltless Pangs, I see! The Stores, profuse,",0.0 +"Which British Bounty has to These assigned,",1.0 +No more the sacrilegious Riot swell,0.0 +No starving Wretch the Land of Freedom stains:,1.0 +"If poor, Employment finds; if old demands,",0.0 +"If sick, if maimed, his miserable Due;",1.0 +"And will, if young, repay the fondest Care.",1.0 +"Sweet sets the Sun of stormy Life, and sweet",1.0 +Lo! how they rise! THESE FAMILIES OF HEAVEN!,1.0 +Where blooms and warbles glad a rising Age:,0.0 +"What Smiles of Praise! And, while their Song ascends,",0.0 +"With active Nature, warm impassioned Truth,",0.0 +"Engaging Fable, lucid Order, Notes",0.0 +"Of various String, and heart-felt Image filled.",3.0 +Behold! I see the dread delightful School,0.0 +"Of tempered Passions, and of polished Life,",1.0 +"Calls from embellished Eyes the lovely Tear,",2.0 +Or lights up Mirth in modest Cheeks again.,0.0 +"Their wild Creation scattered, where a World",0.0 +"Unknown to Nature, Chaos more confused,",0.0 +"Detested Forms! that, on the Mind impressed,",1.0 +"Thy Graces They, knit in harmonious Dance.",4.0 +"Nursed by the Treasure, from a Nation drained",1.0 +"Of pompous Tyrants, and of dreaming Monks,",1.0 +"The gaudy Tools, and Prisoners, no more.",0.0 +Lo! Numerous DOMES a BURLINGTON confess:,4.0 +The Temple breathing a religious Awe;,1.0 +"Even framed with Elegance the plain Retreat,",1.0 +"The private Dwelling. Certain in his Aim,",0.0 +"Taste, never idly working, saves Expense.",1.0 +"See! SYLVAN SCENES, where Art, alone, pretends",1.0 +"To dress her Mistress, and disclose her Charms:",1.0 +Such as a POPE in Miniature has shown;,1.0 +"And such as form a RICHMOND, CHISWICK, STOWE.",1.0 +"August, around, what PUBLIC WORKS I see!",2.0 +"Lo! stately Streets, lo! Squares that court the Breeze.",2.0 +"In spite of Those to whom pertains the Care,",1.0 +"Engulfing more than founded Roman Ways,",0.0 +"Lo! rayed from Cities over the brightened Land,",3.0 +"Connecting Sea to Sea, the Solid Road.",0.0 +"See! long Canals, and deepened Rivers join",1.0 +"Each Part with each, and with the circling Main",1.0 +"The whole enlivened Isle. Lo! Ports expand,",1.0 +"Free as the Winds and Waves, their sheltering Arms.",2.0 +"Lo! streaming Comfort over the troubled Deep,",3.0 +On every pointed Coast the Light-house towers;,1.0 +"And, by the broad imperious Mole repelled,",3.0 +Hark! how the baffled Storm indignant roars.,0.0 +"As thick to View THESE VARIED WONDERS rose,",0.0 +"The VISION broke; And, on my waking Eye,",1.0 +Rushed the still RUINS of dejected ROME.,4.0 +"Remote from Strife, from urban Throngs, and Noise.",0.0 +Here dwells my Soul amid domestic Joys:,0.0 +No rattling Coaches serious Thoughts annoy;,3.0 +"Wrapped up in all the Sweets of rural Ease,",0.0 +"The Mind, in peaceful Solitude, has Room",0.0 +"To range in Thought, and ramble far from home,",0.0 +"Others may court the Joys which Princes give,",2.0 +"While I, in sacred Silence, truly live.",0.0 +"And from the bosom of yonder dropping cloud,",3.0 +"While music wakes around, veiled in a shower",1.0 +"Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.",3.0 +"With unaffected grace; or walk the plain,",0.0 +With INNOCENCE and MEDITATION joined,1.0 +"In soft assemblage, listen to my song,",1.0 +That thy own Season paints; when NATURE all,0.0 +"Is blooming, and benevolent like thee.",2.0 +"AND see where surly WINTER passes off,",1.0 +"His blasts obey, and quit the howling hill,",0.0 +"The shattered forest, and the ravaged vale:",1.0 +"While softer gales succeed, at whose kind touch,",1.0 +"Dissolving snows in livid torrents lost,",0.0 +The mountains lift their green heads to the sky.,2.0 +"As yet the trembling year is unconfirmed,",0.0 +"And WINTER oft at eve resumes the breeze,",0.0 +To shake the sounding marsh; or from the shore,1.0 +"The Plovers theirs, to scatter over the heath,",3.0 +And sing their wild notes to the listening waste.,2.0 +And the bright BULL receives him. Then no more,2.0 +"The expansive atmosphere is cramped with cold,",1.0 +"Lifts the light clouds sublime, and spreads them thin,",3.0 +FORTH fly the tepid airs; and unconfined,1.0 +"Relenting nature, and his lusty steers,",1.0 +Lies in the furrow loosened from the frost.,1.0 +"They lend their shoulder, and begin their toil,",1.0 +"Cheered by the simple song, and soaring lark.",0.0 +Meanwhile incumbent over the shining share,3.0 +"The master leans, removes the obstructing clay,",2.0 +WHITE through the neighbouring fields the sour stalks,2.0 +"With measured step, and liberal throws the grain",0.0 +Into the faithful bosom of the Ground.,1.0 +"The harrow follows harsh, and shuts the scene.",0.0 +"BE gracious, HEAVEN! for now laborious man",2.0 +"Has done his due. You fostering breezes, blow!",2.0 +"You softening dews, you tender showers, descend!",2.0 +"Into the perfect year! Nor, you who live",2.0 +"In luxury and ease, in pomp and pride,",1.0 +Think these lost themes unworthy of your ear.,4.0 +"'Twas such as these the rural MARO sung,",1.0 +"To the full ROMAN court, in all its height",2.0 +Of elegance and taste. The sacred plough,1.0 +"Employed the kings and fathers of mankind,",2.0 +"In ancient times. And some, with whom compared",0.0 +"Have held the scale of justice, shook the lance",0.0 +"Of mighty war, then with descending hand,",1.0 +"Unused to little delicacies, seized",1.0 +"The plough, and greatly independent lived.",0.0 +"YOU generous BRITONS, cultivate the plough!",2.0 +"And over your hills, and long withdrawing vales,",2.0 +"Let AUTUMN spread his treasures to the sun,",2.0 +"Luxuriant, and unbounded. As the sea,",4.0 +"Far through his azure, turbulent extent,",1.0 +"Your empire owns, and from a thousand shores",1.0 +"So with superior boon may your rich soil,",4.0 +"Exuberant, nature's better blessings pour",2.0 +"Over every land, the naked nations cloth,",0.0 +"NOR through the lenient air alone, this change",1.0 +His force deep darting to the dark retreat,2.0 +"Of vegetation, sets the steaming power",0.0 +"At large, to wander over the verdant earth,",2.0 +"In various hues, but chiefly thee, gay GREEN!",4.0 +Thou smiling NATURE's universal robe!,0.0 +United light and shade! where the sight dwells,1.0 +"And swells, and deepens to the cherished eye.",1.0 +"Put forth their buds, unfolding by degrees,",2.0 +"Till the whole leafy forest stands displayed,",2.0 +"While the deer rustle through the twining brake,",3.0 +And the birds sing concealed. At once arrayed,2.0 +"In all the colours of the flushing year,",0.0 +"The garden glows, and fills the liberal air",0.0 +With lavish fragrance; while the promised fruit,0.0 +Within its crimson folds. Now from the town,2.0 +"Oft let me wander over the dewy fields,",3.0 +"Where freshness breathes, and dash the lucid drops",0.0 +"From the bent bush, as through the fuming maze",2.0 +Or taste the smell of dairy; or ascend,1.0 +"Some eminence, AUGUSTA, in thy plains,",1.0 +And see the country far diffused around,0.0 +"Travels from joy to joy, and hid beneath",2.0 +"The fair profusion, yellow AUTUMN spies.",0.0 +IF brushed from RUSSIAN wilds a cutting gale,0.0 +"Rise not, and scatter from his foggy wings",1.0 +"Untimely frost; before whose baleful blast,",0.0 +"For oft engendered by the hazy north,",1.0 +Keen in the poisoned breeze; and wasteful eat,0.0 +"Through buds, and bark, into the blackened Core,",0.0 +"Their eager way. A feeble race! scarce seen,",1.0 +Save by the prying eye? yet famine waits,0.0 +"On their corrosive course, and kills the year.",1.0 +"Sometime over cities as they steer their flight,",2.0 +"Gazed by the astonished crowd, the horrid shower",1.0 +And blazing straw before his orchard burns;,0.0 +"Till, all involved in smoke, the latent foe",0.0 +From every cranny suffocated falls;,0.0 +"Or onions, steaming hot, beneath his trees",0.0 +"Exposes, fatal to the frosty tribe:",1.0 +"Nor, from their friendly task, the busy bill",1.0 +Of little trooping birds instinctive scares.,0.0 +"THESE are not idle philosophic dreams,",1.0 +Full NATURE swarms with life. The unfaithful fen,3.0 +In putrid steams emits the livid cloud,0.0 +"Of Pestilence. Through subterranean Cells,",4.0 +Earth animated heaves. The flowery leaf,3.0 +"Wants not its soft inhabitants. The stone,",1.0 +"Hard as it is, in every winding poor",1.0 +"The downy orchard, and the melting pulp",1.0 +Of mellow fruit the nameless nations feed,0.0 +Of evanescent Insects. Where the pool,1.0 +"Each liquid too, whether of acid taste,",5.0 +"Potent, or mild, with various forms abounds.",4.0 +"Nor is the lucid stream, nor the pure air,",2.0 +"Though one transparent vacancy they seem,",2.0 +Devoid of theirs. Even animals subsist,1.0 +"On animals, in infinite descent;",2.0 +"And all so fine adjusted, that the loss",0.0 +Of the least species would disturb the whole.,2.0 +And to the curious gives the amazing scenes,4.0 +Of lessening life; by WISDOM kindly hid,2.0 +"From eye, and ear of man: for if at once",1.0 +"The worlds in worlds enclosed were pushed to light,",0.0 +"Seen by his sharpened eye, and by his ear",1.0 +"When silence sleeps over all, be stunned with noise.",3.0 +"THE Northeast spends his rage, and now shut up",3.0 +"Within his iron caves, the effusive South",2.0 +"Warms the wide air, and over the void of heaven",5.0 +Breathes the big clouds with vernal showers distended.,5.0 +"Along the loaded sky, and mingling thick",0.0 +Sits on the horizon round a settled gloom.,1.0 +"Oppressing life, but lovely, gentle, kind,",0.0 +"And full of every hope, and every joy,",0.0 +The wish of nature. Gradual sinks the breeze,2.0 +"Is heard to quiver through the closing woods,",1.0 +"Forgetful of their course. It's silence all,",1.0 +And pleasing expectation. Herds and flocks,0.0 +And wait the approaching sign to strike at once,2.0 +"And forests seem, expansive, to demand",1.0 +The promised sweetness. Man superior walks,2.0 +"Amid the glad creation, musing praise,",0.0 +And looking lively gratitude. At last,0.0 +"The clouds consign their treasures to the fields,",1.0 +"It's scarce to patter heard, the stealing shower,",0.0 +"But who can hold the shade, while HEAVEN descends",0.0 +"In universal bounty, shedding herbs,",0.0 +"And fruits, and flowers, on NATURE's ample lap?",2.0 +"Imagination fired prevents their growth,",2.0 +Looks out illustrious from amid the flush,5.0 +The rapid radiance instantaneous strikes,2.0 +"The illumined mountain through the forest streams,",2.0 +"Shakes on the floods, and in a yellow missed,",0.0 +"Far smoking over the interminable plain,",3.0 +"Full swell the woods; their every music wakes,",1.0 +Mixed in wild consort with the warbling brooks,0.0 +"The hollow lows responsive from the vales,",1.0 +Whence blending all the sweetened zephyr springs.,0.0 +"Shoots up immense! and every hue unfolds,",2.0 +"In fair proportion running from the red,",1.0 +"Here, mighty NEWTON, the dissolving clouds",1.0 +"Are, as they scatter round, thy numerous prism,",3.0 +"The various twine of light, by thee pursued",3.0 +"Through the white mingling maze. Not so the swain,",3.0 +"He wondering views the bright enchantment bend,",2.0 +"Delightful, over the radiant fields, and runs",2.0 +To catch the falling glory; but amazed,1.0 +"Then vanish quite away. Still night succeeds,",1.0 +"A softened shade, and saturated earth",0.0 +"Awaits the morning beam, to give again,",0.0 +The blooming blessings of the former day.,1.0 +"THEN spring the living herbs, profusely wild,",0.0 +Of BOTANIST to number up their tribes;,2.0 +Whether he steals along the lonely dale,2.0 +"In silent search; or through the forest, rank",1.0 +"Bursts his blind way; or climbs the mountain rock,",3.0 +With such a liberal hand has NATURE flung,1.0 +"Their seeds abroad, blown them about in winds,",2.0 +BUT who their virtues can declare? Who pierce,1.0 +With vision pure into these secret stores,0.0 +"Of life, and health, and joy? The food of man",0.0 +"While yet he lived in innocence, and told",1.0 +"A stranger to the savage arts of life,",1.0 +"The lord, and not the tyrant of the world.",1.0 +"And up they rose as vigorous as the sun,",2.0 +"Mean time the song went round; and dance, and sport,",2.0 +Wisdom; and friendly talk successive stole,2.0 +Their hours away. While in the rosy vale,0.0 +"Love breathed his infant sighs, from anguish free,",1.0 +"Replete with bliss, and only wept for joy.",0.0 +"Nor yet injurious act, nor surly deed",2.0 +Was known among these happy sons of heaven;,0.0 +For reason and benevolence were law.,2.0 +Harmonious nature too looked smiling on.,4.0 +"Clean shone the skies, cooled with eternal gales,",3.0 +And balmy spirit all. The youthful sun,0.0 +Shot his best rays; and still the gracious clouds,3.0 +"Which when, emergent from the gloomy wood,",1.0 +"The glaring lion saw, his horrid heart",0.0 +For music held the whole in perfect peace:,1.0 +"Soft sighed the flute; the tender voice was heard,",1.0 +Warbling the joyous heart; the woodlands round,1.0 +Applied their quire; and winds and waters flowed,0.0 +THIS to the POETS gave the golden age;,1.0 +"When, as they sung in elevated phrase,",0.0 +"With every thing. Spontaneous harvests waved,",2.0 +Still in a sea of yellow plenty round.,0.0 +Burst into floods of wine. The knotted oak,1.0 +Shook from his boughs the long transparent streams,0.0 +"In blooming ease, and from brown labour free,",2.0 +"Save what the copious gathering, grateful gave.",4.0 +"Silent, and soft, the milky maze devolved.",2.0 +"Shone through the mead, in native purple clad,",0.0 +Or milder saffron; and the dancing lamb,1.0 +The vivid crimson to the sun disclosed.,1.0 +"Nothing had power to hurt the savage soul,",4.0 +Drove on the fleecy partners of his play:,1.0 +While from the flowery brake the serpent rolled,2.0 +"His fairer spires, and played his pointless tongue.",0.0 +"BUT now whatever these gaudy fables meant,",3.0 +"And the white minutes which they shadowed out,",3.0 +"Are found no more amid those iron times,",1.0 +Those dregs of life! in which the human mind,0.0 +"Has lost that harmony ineffable,",2.0 +Which warms the soul of happiness; and all,1.0 +Is off the poise within; the passions all,1.0 +"Have burst their bounds; and reason half extinct,",0.0 +"Or impotent, or else approving, sees",1.0 +"The foul disorder. Anger storms at large,",0.0 +Without an equal cause; and fell revenge,0.0 +Supports the falling rage. Close envy bites,1.0 +"Full of frail fancies, loosens every power.",3.0 +"Even love itself is bitterness of soul,",1.0 +A pleasing anguish pining at the heart.,0.0 +"Of life impatient, into madness swells;",0.0 +Or in dead silence wastes the weeping hours.,1.0 +"These, and a thousand mixed emotions more,",1.0 +"Formed infinitely various, vex the mind",4.0 +"Cold, and averting from our neighbour's good;",3.0 +"Then dark disgust, and malice, winding wiles,",0.0 +"Convulsive wrath, and thoughtless fury, quick",0.0 +"Is deemed, vindictive, to have changed her course.",1.0 +"HENCE in old time, they say, a deluge came;",3.0 +"The imprisoned deep around, impetuous rushed,",1.0 +"With ruin inconceivable, at once",1.0 +"Into the gulf, and over the highest hills",2.0 +"Till, from the centre to the streaming clouds,",2.0 +"THE SEASONS since, as hoar TRADITION tells,",0.0 +Have kept their constant chase; the WINTER keen,0.0 +Poured out his waste of snows; and SUMMER shot,0.0 +Greened all the year; and fruits and blossoms blushed,0.0 +Clear was the temperate air; an even calm,0.0 +"Perpetual reigned, save what the zephyrs bland",2.0 +Breathed over the blue expanse; for then nor storms,3.0 +"Were taught to blow, nor hurricanes to rage;",0.0 +"Swelled in the sky, and sent the lightning forth:",0.0 +"While sickly damps, and cold autumnal fogs,",0.0 +Sat not pernicious on the springs of life.,2.0 +"But now, from clear to cloudy, moist to dry,",0.0 +"And hot to cold, in restless change revolved,",0.0 +The fleeting shadow of a winter's sun.,1.0 +AND yet the wholesome herb neglected dies,0.0 +"Although the pure, exhilarating soul",1.0 +"By HEAVEN infused, along its secret tubes.",0.0 +"Is now become the lion of the plain,",1.0 +"And worse. The wolf, who from the nightly fold",1.0 +"Nor wore her warming fleece: nor has the steer,",0.0 +"At whose strong chest the deadly tiger hangs,",1.0 +"Ever ploughed for him. They too are tempered high,",1.0 +"With hunger stung, and wild necessity,",1.0 +Nor lodges pity in their shaggy breasts.,0.0 +"But MAN, whom NATURE formed of milder clay,",0.0 +"With every kind emotion in his heart,",0.0 +And taught alone to weep; while from her lap,1.0 +"She pours ten thousand delicacies, herbs,",2.0 +"And fruits, as numerous as the drops of rain,",1.0 +"And beams that gave them birth: shall he, fair form!",1.0 +"Who wears sweet smiles, and looks erect on heaven,",1.0 +"Ever stoop to mingle with the prowling herd,",1.0 +"And dip his tongue in blood? The beast of prey,",0.0 +"It's true, deserves the fate in which he deals.",0.0 +"Him, from the thicket, let the hardy youth",1.0 +"Provoke, and foaming through the awakened woods",3.0 +"With every nerve pursue. But you, you flocks,",1.0 +"What have you done? You peaceful people, what,",0.0 +"To merit death? You, who have given us milk",2.0 +"In luscious streams, and lent us your own coat",1.0 +Against the winter's cold? Whose usefulness,1.0 +"In living only lies? And the plain ox,",1.0 +"That harmless, honest, guileless animal,",1.0 +"In what has he offended? He, whose toil,",3.0 +"With all the pomp of harvest; shall he bleed,",0.0 +And wrestling groan beneath the cruel hands,0.0 +Even of the clowns he feeds? And that perhaps,1.0 +"To swell the riot of the gathering feast,",3.0 +Won by his labour? Thus the feeling heart,0.0 +"Would tenderly suggest: but it's enough,",2.0 +"In this late age, adventurous to have touched,",4.0 +"High HEAVEN beside forbids the daring strain,",1.0 +"Whose wisest will has fixed us in a state,",1.0 +That must not yet to pure perfection rise.,0.0 +BUT yonder breathing prospect bids the muse,0.0 +Will be to what I gaze; for who can paint,0.0 +"Like NATURE? Can IMAGINATION boast,",1.0 +"Amid his gay creation, hues like hers?",0.0 +"And lay them on so delicately fine,",2.0 +"And lose them in each other, as appears",1.0 +In every bud that blows? If fancy then,0.0 +Unequal fails beneath the lovely task;,0.0 +Ah what shall language do? Ah where find words,1.0 +Tinged with so many colours? And whose power,0.0 +"To life approaching, may perfume my lays",1.0 +"With that fine oil, these aromatic gales,",1.0 +"Come then, you virgins, and you youths, whose hearts",1.0 +"Steals blushing on, together let us walk",2.0 +"The morning dews, and gather in their prime",0.0 +And the white bosom that improves their sweets.,2.0 +"SEE, where the winding vale her lavish stores,",0.0 +"The latent rill, scarce oozing through the grass",2.0 +Of growth luxuriant; or the humid bank,1.0 +"The gummy moisture shines; new lustre lends,",1.0 +"Refreshes ail the dale. Long let us walk,",1.0 +Where the breeze blows from yonder extended field,5.0 +Of blossomed beans: ARABIA cannot boast,2.0 +"A fuller gale of joy than, liberal, thence",0.0 +"Nor is the meadow worthless of our foot,",3.0 +"The negligence of NATURE, wide, and wild;",1.0 +"Where undisguised by mimic ART, she spreads",0.0 +Unbounded beauty to the boundless eye.,1.0 +"It's here that their delicious task the bees,",1.0 +"In swarming millions, tend. Around, athwart,",0.0 +"This way, and that, the busy nations fly,",0.0 +"Cling to the bud, and with inserted tube,",1.0 +"Its soul, its sweetness, and its manna suck.",1.0 +"Has taught: and oft, of bolder wing, he dares",0.0 +And yellow loads him with the luscious spoil.,1.0 +AT length the finished garden to the view,1.0 +"Its vistas opens, and its alleys green.",1.0 +"Snatched through the verdant maze, the hurried eye",0.0 +Distracted wanders; now the bowery walk,2.0 +"Of covert close, where scarce a speck of day",0.0 +"Falls on the lengthened gloom, protracted darts;",0.0 +"Now meets the bending sky, the river now",1.0 +"The forest running round, the rising spire,",0.0 +"And in yonder mingled wilderness of flowers,",1.0 +"The daily, primrose, violet darkly blue,",1.0 +"Peculiar powdered with a shining sand,",1.0 +The varied colours run; and while they BREAK,2.0 +"On the charmed FLORIST's eye, he curious stands,",4.0 +"Of potent fragrance, nor narcissus white,",1.0 +"Infinite numbers, delicacies, smells,",3.0 +"With hues on hues expression cannot paint,",0.0 +"The breath of NATURE, and her endless bloom.",1.0 +"HAIL, MIGHTY BEING! UNIVERSAL SOUL",1.0 +"Of heaven and earth! ESSENTIAL PRESENCE, hail!",0.0 +To THEE I bend the knee; to THEE my thoughts,2.0 +Hast the great whole into perfection touched.,3.0 +"By THEE, the various vegetative tribes,",3.0 +"By THEE disposed into congenial soils,",1.0 +"Stands each attractive plant, and sucks, and swells",1.0 +The juicy tide; a twining mass of tubes.,0.0 +"And lively fermentation, mounting, spreads",0.0 +"To higher life, with equal wing ascend,",0.0 +"My panting Muse; and hark, how loud the woods",0.0 +"Into my varied verse! while I deduce,",1.0 +"From the first note the hollow cuckoo sings,",3.0 +"The symphony of SPRING, and touch a theme",1.0 +"Unknown to fame, THE PASSION OF THE GROVES.",1.0 +"JUST as the spirit of love is sent abroad,",2.0 +"Warm through the vital air, and on their hearts",1.0 +"Harmonious seizes, the gay troops begin,",4.0 +"In gallant thought, to plume the painted wing;",0.0 +"The soft infusion prevalent, and wide,",1.0 +"Than, all alive, at once their joy overflows",3.0 +"Ever yet the shadows fly, he mounted sings",1.0 +"Amid the dawning clouds, and from their haunts",1.0 +"Bending with dewy moisture, over the heads",4.0 +Are prodigal of harmony. The thrush,2.0 +"Superior heard, run through the sweetest length",2.0 +Of notes; when listening PHILOMELA deigns,0.0 +"To let them joy, and purposes, in thought",1.0 +"Elate, to make her night excel their day.",0.0 +The blackbird whistles from the thorny brake;,1.0 +"Poured out profusely, silent. Joined to these",2.0 +"Thousands beside, thick as the covering leaves",4.0 +"And each harsh pipe, discordant heard alone,",1.0 +A melancholy murmur through the whole.,1.0 +This waste of music is the voice of love;,1.0 +"Which even to birds, and beasts, the tender arts",2.0 +Of pleasing teaches. Hence the glossy kind,0.0 +Try every winning way inventive love,1.0 +"Can dictate, and in fluttering courtship pour",4.0 +"Their little souls before her. Wide around,",0.0 +"Respectful, first in airy rings they rove,",0.0 +Of their regardless charmer. Should she seem,1.0 +"Their colours burnish, and by hope inspired",3.0 +They brisk advance; then on a sudden struck,1.0 +Retire disordered; then again approach;,0.0 +"And throwing out the last efforts of love,",6.0 +"In fond rotation spread the spotted wing,",0.0 +And shiver every feather with desire.,1.0 +"They haste away, each as their fancy leads,",1.0 +"Pleasure, or food, or secret safety prompts;",2.0 +"That NATURE's great command may be obeyed,",0.0 +Nor all the sweet sensations they perceive,1.0 +"Nestling repair, and to the thicket some;",3.0 +Some to the rude protection of the thorn,1.0 +"Offers its kind concealment to a few,",3.0 +"Their food its insects, and its moss their nests.",2.0 +Others apart far in the grassy dale,3.0 +Their humble texture weave. But most delight,0.0 +"Steep, and divided by a babbling brook,",3.0 +When for a season fixed. Among the roots,0.0 +"Of hazel, pendant over the plaintive stream,",2.0 +"They frame the first foundation of their domes,",1.0 +"But hurry hurry through the busy air,",1.0 +"The slimy pool, to build his hanging house",0.0 +Ingeniously intent. Oft from the back,3.0 +Of herds and flocks a thousand tugging bills,0.0 +"Steal from the barn the straw; till soft, and warm,",0.0 +"Clean, and complete, their habitation grows.",2.0 +"As thus the patient dam assiduous sits,",0.0 +"Not to be tempted from her tender task,",1.0 +"Or by sharp hunger, or by smooth delight,",3.0 +"Though the whole loosened Spring around her blows,",2.0 +"High on opponent bank, and ceaseless sings",2.0 +The tedious time away; or else supplies,2.0 +To pick the scanty meal. The appointed time,2.0 +"With pious toil fulfilled, the callow young",0.0 +"Warmed, and expanded into perfect life,",3.0 +"Their brittle bondage break, and come to light,",0.0 +"A helpless family, demanding food",1.0 +"With constant clamour. O what passions then,",0.0 +What melting sentiments of kindly care,1.0 +Seize the new parents' hearts? Away they fly,3.0 +"The most delicious morsel to their young,",1.0 +"Which equally distributed, again",2.0 +"The search begins. So pitiful, and poor,",1.0 +A gentle pair on providential HEAVEN,0.0 +"Cheque their own appetites, and give them all.",0.0 +"NOR is the courage of the fearful kind,",2.0 +"Nor is their cunning less, should some rude foot",2.0 +Their woody haunts molest; stealthy aside,5.0 +Into the centre of a neighbouring bush,3.0 +"They drop, and whirring thence alarmed, deceive",0.0 +The rambling schoolboy. Hence around the head,1.0 +"Her sounding flight, and then directly on",1.0 +The hot pursuing spaniel far astray.,0.0 +"BE not the muse ashamed, here to bemoan",1.0 +"Her brothers of the grove, by tyrant man",1.0 +"Inhuman caught, and in the narrow cage",0.0 +"From liberty confined, and boundless air.",1.0 +"Dull are the pretty slaves, their plumage dull,",0.0 +"Ragged, and all its brightening lustre lost;",1.0 +Nor is that luscious wildness in their notes,1.0 +"That warbles from the beech. O then desist,",1.0 +You friends of harmony! this barbarous art,2.0 +"Win on your hearts, or piety persuade.",1.0 +BUT let not chief the nightingale lament,1.0 +"Her ruined care, too delicately framed",2.0 +To brook the harsh confinement of the cage.,1.0 +"Oft when returning with her loaded bill,",2.0 +"The astonished mother finds a vacant nest,",1.0 +By the hard hand of unrelenting clowns,2.0 +"Robbed, to the ground the vain provision falls;",0.0 +Can bear the mourner to the poplar shade;,1.0 +"Where, all abandoned to despair, she sings",1.0 +"Her sorrows through the night; and, on the bough",2.0 +Takes up again her lamentable strain,6.0 +"Of winding woe, till wide around the woods",0.0 +"Sigh with her song, and with her wail resound.",2.0 +AND now the feathered youth their former bounds,0.0 +"Ardent disdain, and weighing oft their wings,",2.0 +Demand the free possession of the sky.,1.0 +"But this glad office more, and then dissolves",2.0 +"Parental love at once; for needless grown,",0.0 +"It's on some evening, sunny, grateful, mild,",1.0 +"With yellow lustre bright, that the new tribes",1.0 +"Visit the spacious heavens, and look abroad",4.0 +"On NATURE's common, far as they can see,",1.0 +"Or wing, their range, and pasture. Over the boughs",2.0 +"Dancing about, still at the giddy verge",3.0 +"In loose libration stretched, the void abrupt",0.0 +Trembling refuse: till down before them fly,2.0 +Or push them off. The surging air receives,1.0 +Winnow the waving element. On ground,2.0 +Farther and farther on the lengthening flight;,5.0 +"Till vanished every fear, and every power",0.0 +"Roused into life, and action in the void",1.0 +And once rejoicing never know them more.,0.0 +"HIGH from the summit of a craggy cliff,",1.0 +"Hung over the green sea, grudging at its base,",4.0 +"The royal eagle draws his young, resolved",0.0 +"As burnished day, they up the blue sky wind,",2.0 +"Leaving dull sight below, and with fixed gaze",4.0 +"AND should I wander to the rural fear,",1.0 +"Whose aged oaks, and venerable gloom,",1.0 +"Invite the noisy rook; with pleasure there,",1.0 +I might the various polity survey,3.0 +Of the mixed household kind. The careful hen,4.0 +"Calls all her chirping family around,",1.0 +"Fed, and defended by the fearless cock,",3.0 +"Graceful, and crows defiance. In the pond,",2.0 +"Gives out his snowy plumage to the gale,",1.0 +"Bears forward fierce, and beats you from the bank,",2.0 +"Protective of his young. The turkey nigh,",1.0 +And swims in floating majesty along.,1.0 +"Over the whole homely scene, the cooing dove",2.0 +"Flies thick in amorous chase, and wanton rolls",3.0 +WHILE thus the gentle tenants of the shade,1.0 +"Indulge their purer loves, the rougher world",0.0 +And fierce desire. Through all his lusty veins,0.0 +"Of pasture sick, and negligent of food,",1.0 +"Scarce seen, he wades among the yellow broom,",1.0 +While over his brawny back the rambling sprays,2.0 +"Dejected wanders, nor the enticing bud",3.0 +"Crops, though it presses on his careless sense:",1.0 +"For, wrapped in mad imagination, he",1.0 +A rival gored in every knotty trunk.,0.0 +"Such should he meet, the bellowing war begins;",2.0 +"Their eyes flash fury; to the hollowed earth,",2.0 +"Whence the sand flies, they mutter bloody deeds,",3.0 +And groaning vast the impetuous battle mix:,2.0 +"While the fair heifer, redolent, in view",3.0 +"Stands kindling up their rage. The trembling steed,",2.0 +"With this hot impulse seized in every nerve,",3.0 +"Nor hears the rein, nor heeds the sounding whip;",0.0 +"Blows are not felt; but tossing high his head,",0.0 +"Attracted strong, all wild, he bursts away;",0.0 +"Over rocks, and woods, and craggy mountains flies,",0.0 +"The headlong torrents foaming down the hills,",2.0 +Turns in black eddies round: Such is the force,3.0 +Are the broad monsters of the boiling deep:,3.0 +"They flounce, and tumble in unwieldy joy.",0.0 +"Dire were the strain, and dissonant, to sing",1.0 +Amid the thoughtless fury of her heart;,1.0 +"And all the terrors of the LIBYAN swain,",3.0 +"Roam the resounding waste in fiercer bands,",2.0 +And growl their horrid loves. But this the theme,1.0 +"I sing, transported, to the BRITISH fair,",1.0 +"Where sits the shepherd on the grassy turf,",1.0 +"Inhaling, healthful, the descending sun.",1.0 +"Invites them forth; when swift the signal given,",0.0 +That runs around the hill; the rampart once,0.0 +"Of iron war, in ancient barbarous times,",2.0 +Lost in eternal broil; ever yet she grew,5.0 +"Where WEALTH and COMMERCE lift their golden head,",0.0 +"Illustrious watch, the wonder of a world!",3.0 +"WHAT is this MIGHTY BREATH, you curious say,",2.0 +"Which, in a language rather felt than heard,",0.0 +"These arts of love diffuses? What, but GOD?",0.0 +"Inspiring GOD! who boundless spirit all,",0.0 +"And unremitted energy pervades,",2.0 +"He ceaseless works alone, and yet alone",0.0 +"Seems not to work, with such perfection framed",1.0 +"Is this complex, amazing scheme of things.",1.0 +"But though concealed, to every purer eye",1.0 +The informing author in his work appears;,1.0 +"His grandeur in the heavens: the sun, and moon,",3.0 +"Whether that fires the day, or falling, this",3.0 +"Pours out a lucid softness over the night,",2.0 +"Are but a beam from him. The glittering stars,",4.0 +"By the deep ear of meditation heard,",2.0 +Still in their midnight watches sing of him.,1.0 +"He nods a calm. The tempest blows his wrath,",0.0 +Roots up the forest and overturns the main.,2.0 +The thunder is his voice; and the red flash,2.0 +His speedy sword of justice. At his touch,0.0 +"The mountains flame. He takes the solid earth,",0.0 +"And rocks the nations. Nor in these alone,",2.0 +In every common instance GOD is seen;,0.0 +And to the man who casts his mental eye,1.0 +Abroad unnoticed wonders rise. But chief,0.0 +"In thee, boon SPRING, and in thy softer scenes,",0.0 +"The SMILING GOD appears; while water, earth,",0.0 +"Profusely thus in tenderness, and joy.",1.0 +"When heaven and earth, as if contending, vie",1.0 +"To raise his being, and serene his soul,",1.0 +"The stormy passions in his bosom roll,",0.0 +"While every gale is peace, and every grove",0.0 +"Of flowing SPRING, you sordid sons of earth,",0.0 +Or only lavish to yourselves; away.,1.0 +"But come, you generous breasts, in whose wide thought,",3.0 +"Of all his works, CREATIVE BOUNTY, most,",0.0 +"Divinely burns; and on your open front,",1.0 +"And liberal eye, sits, from his dark retreat",2.0 +"Inviting modest want. Nor only fair,",0.0 +And easy of approach; your active search,1.0 +The lonely heart with unexpected good.,0.0 +For you the roving spirit of the wind,2.0 +Blows SPRING abroad; for you the teaming clouds,1.0 +Descend in buxom plenty over the world;,2.0 +"And the sun spreads his genial blaze for you,",2.0 +"You flower of human race! In these green days,",3.0 +The whole creation round. Contentment walks,0.0 +"The sunny glade, and feels an inward bliss",0.0 +"Spring over his mind, beyond the power of kings",5.0 +To purchase. Pure serenity apace,1.0 +"Induces thought, and contemplation still.",0.0 +"By small degrees the love of nature works,",0.0 +And warms the bosom; till at last arrived,1.0 +"To rapture, and enthusiastic heat,",1.0 +"We feel the present DEITY, and taste",1.0 +"The joy of GOD, to see a happy world.",0.0 +"By which all beings are adjusted, each",1.0 +"In endless circulation, that inspires",0.0 +"This universal smile. Thus the glad skies,",3.0 +"The wide rejoicing earth, the woods, the streams,",0.0 +"With every LIFE they hold, down to the flower",1.0 +"Waved over the shepherd's slumber, touch the mind",3.0 +The glittering spirits in a flood of day.,2.0 +"HENCE from the virgin's cheque, a fresher bloom",0.0 +"Shoots, less and less, the live carnation round;",1.0 +Her lips blush deeper sweets; she breathes of youth;,1.0 +"The shining moisture swells into her eyes,",0.0 +In brighter flow; her wishing bosom heaves,0.0 +"Her veins, and all her yielding soul is love.",0.0 +"From the keen gaze her lover turns away,",2.0 +"Full of the dear ecstatic power, and sick",2.0 +Be greatly cautious of your sliding hearts;,1.0 +"Dare not the infectious sigh; the pleading eye,",1.0 +"In meek submission dressed, deject, and low,",0.0 +"But full of tempting guile. Let not the tongue,",1.0 +"Prompt to deceive, with adulation smooth,",2.0 +"While evening draws her crimson curtains round,",0.0 +Trust your soft minutes with betraying man.,4.0 +"AND let the aspiring youth beware of love,",2.0 +"Of the smooth glance beware; for it's too late,",3.0 +When on his heart the torrent softness pours.,0.0 +Then wisdom prostrate lies; and fading fame,0.0 +Dissolves in air away: while the fond soul,1.0 +"Is wrapped in dreams of ecstasy, and bliss;",1.0 +Still paints the illusive form; the kindling grace;,2.0 +EVEN present in the very lap of love,0.0 +"Inglorious laid; while music flows around,",2.0 +"Perfumes, and oils, and wine, and wanton hours,",0.0 +Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears,0.0 +"Shoots through the conscious heart; where honour still,",1.0 +And great design against the oppressive load,2.0 +"Of luxury, by fits, impatient heave.",1.0 +"BUT absent, what fantastic pangs aroused,",0.0 +"Rage in each thought, by restless musing fed,",0.0 +"Chill the warm cheek, and blast the bloom of life?",3.0 +"Neglected fortune flies; and sliding swift,",0.0 +"Prone into ruin, fall his scorned affairs.",1.0 +To weeping fancy pines; and yonder bright arch,1.0 +All nature fades extinct; and she alone,1.0 +"Heard, felt, and seen, possesses every thought,",1.0 +"Fills every sense, and pants in every vein.",1.0 +"Books are but formal dullness, tedious Friends,",2.0 +"And sad amid the social band he sits,",0.0 +Lonely and inattentive. From the tongue,3.0 +"The unfinished period falls: while, born away",3.0 +"On swelling thought, his wafted spirit flies",0.0 +To the vain bosom of his distant fair;,3.0 +"And leaves the semblance of a lover, fixed",1.0 +"In melancholy site, with head declined,",0.0 +"Shook from his tender trance, and restless runs",0.0 +Where the dun umbrage over the falling stream,4.0 +Romantic hangs; there through the pensive dusk,1.0 +Indulging all to love: or on the bank,1.0 +"Thrown, amid drooping lilies, swells the breeze",4.0 +"With sighs unceasing, and the brook with tears.",1.0 +"Thus in soft anguish he consumes the day,",3.0 +"Nor quits his deep retirement, till the moon",1.0 +"Peeps through the chambers of the fleecy east,",1.0 +"Enlightened by degrees, and in her train",1.0 +"Leads on the gentle hours; then forth he walks,",0.0 +"Beneath the trembling languish of her beams,",1.0 +"To mingle woes with his: or while the world,",1.0 +"And all the sons of care, lie hushed in sleep,",1.0 +"And, sighing to the lonely taper, pours",1.0 +Meant for the moving messenger of love;,1.0 +"Where rapture burns on rapture, every line",0.0 +With rising frenzy fired. But if on bed,1.0 +"Delirious flung, sleep from his pillow flies.",2.0 +"All night he tosses, nor the balmy power",1.0 +In any posture finds; till the grey morn,1.0 +"Exhausted nature sinks a while to rest,",0.0 +"Still interrupted by distracted dreams,",2.0 +"That over the sick imagination rise,",2.0 +And in black colours paint the mimic scene.,1.0 +"Just as he, credulous, his thousand cares",1.0 +"Begins to lose in blind oblivious love,",2.0 +"Snatched from her yielded hand, he knows not how,",0.0 +"With desolation brown, he wanders waste,",0.0 +"In night and tempest wrapped; or shrinks aghast,",0.0 +"Back, from the bending precipice; or wades",1.0 +"The turbid stream below, and strives to reach",0.0 +"Wild as a Bacchanal she spreads her arms,",1.0 +"But strives in vain, born by the outrageous flood",4.0 +"Then a weak, wailing lamentable cry",6.0 +"Is heard, and all in tears he wakes, again",0.0 +To tread the circle of revolving woe.,1.0 +"These are the charming agonies of love,",2.0 +Whose misery delights. But through the heart,2.0 +"Should jealousy its venom once diffuse,",1.0 +"It's then delightful misery no more,",2.0 +"But agony unmixed, incessant rage,",1.0 +Love's paradise. You fairy prospects then,1.0 +"You beds of roses, and you bowers of joy,",3.0 +"Internal vision taints, and in a night",0.0 +Of livid gloom imagination wraps.,0.0 +"Of funny features, and of ardent eyes",1.0 +"A clouded aspect, and a burning cheek,",2.0 +"Where the whole poisoned soul, malignant, sits,",2.0 +And frightens love away. Ten thousand fears,1.0 +"Invented wild, ten thousand frantic views",1.0 +"Of horrid rivals, hanging on the charms",1.0 +"For which he melts in fondness, eat him up",0.0 +"With fervent anguish, and consuming pine.",1.0 +"Deceitful pride, and resolution frail,",0.0 +"Giving a moment's ease. Reflection pours,",2.0 +"Afresh, her beauties on his busy thought,",1.0 +"Strait the fierce storm involves his mind anew,",3.0 +"Flames through the nerves, and boils along the veins;",0.0 +While anxious doubt distracts the tortured heart;,0.0 +For even the sad assurance of his fears,3.0 +"Were peace to what he feels. Thus the warm youth,",3.0 +"Whom love deludes into his thorny wilds,",0.0 +"His brightest aims extinguished all, and all",0.0 +His lively moments running down to waste.,1.0 +BUT happy they! the happiest of their kind!,2.0 +"Whom gentler stars unite, and in one fate",1.0 +"Their hearts, their fortunes, and their beings blend.",1.0 +"It's not the coarser tie of human laws,",0.0 +"Unnatural oft, and foreign to the mind,",3.0 +"That binds their peace, but harmony itself,",1.0 +Perfect esteem enlivened by desire,1.0 +"Ineffable, and sympathy of soul,",2.0 +"Thought meeting thought, and will preventing will,",3.0 +"Can answer love, and render bliss secure.",0.0 +"To bless himself, from sordid parents buys",0.0 +"The loathing virgin, in eternal care,",0.0 +"Let barbarous nations, whose inhuman love",3.0 +"Is wild desire, fierce as the suns they feel;",0.0 +Let eastern tyrants from the light of heaven,2.0 +"Of a mere, lifeless, violated form:",3.0 +"And equal transport, free as nature, live,",0.0 +"Disdaining fear; for what's the world to them,",0.0 +"Its pomp, its pleasure, and its nonsense all!",1.0 +Who in each other clasp whatever fair,1.0 +"High fancy forms, and lavish hearts can wish,",1.0 +"Something than beauty dearer, should they look",2.0 +The richest bounty of indulgent HEAVEN.,1.0 +"Meantime a smiling Offspring rises round,",2.0 +"And mingles both their graces. By degrees,",1.0 +"The human blossom blows; and every day,",0.0 +"Soft as it rolls along, shows some new charm,",2.0 +"The father's lustre, and the mother's bloom.",1.0 +"Then infant reason grows apace, and calls",0.0 +For the kind hand of an assiduous care:,3.0 +"Delightful task! to rear the tender thought,",0.0 +"To teach the young idea how to shoot,",1.0 +"To pour the fresh instruction over the mind,",2.0 +"To breathe the inspiring spirit, and to plant",3.0 +The generous purpose in the glowing breast.,2.0 +O speak the joy! you whom the sudden tear,0.0 +"Surprises often, while you look around,",0.0 +"And nothing strikes your eye but sights of bliss,",0.0 +"All various nature pressing on the heart,",3.0 +"Obedient fortune, and approving HEAVEN.",3.0 +"And thus their moments fly. The seasons thus,",0.0 +Still find them happy; and consenting SPRING,2.0 +Sheds her own rosy garland on their head:,1.0 +"Till evening comes at last, cool, gentle, calm;",1.0 +"When after the long vernal day of life,",2.0 +"Together, down they sink in social sleep.",1.0 +"AH, Love! ere yet I knew thy fatal power,",1.0 +"As on the sultry zone the torrid rays,",1.0 +"Calm was my bosom as this silent hour,",1.0 +"When over the deep, scarce heard, the zephyr strays,",3.0 +Nor from the orange shakes its odorous flower: ' --,3.0 +"But ah! since Love has all my heart possessed,",0.0 +"Disturbed, and wild as ocean's troubled breast,",0.0 +When the hoarse tempest of the night is there!,3.0 +"Yet my complaining spirit asks no rest,",2.0 +This bleeding bosom cherishes despair.,1.0 +"Nature! thou active Principle, whose depths",3.0 +The curious mind would willingly explore;,3.0 +The jarring atoms of a various world!,3.0 +"Never reached, by Faith, thy first stupendous cause.",0.0 +Immediate emanation of a God!,3.0 +"Thou shalt aspire, when Gratitude assists,",0.0 +And bid it live beyond the wreck of worlds.,0.0 +"For her let Fancy pierce the deep abyss,",2.0 +"Dart through the liquid element, and tread",1.0 +"The shelly pavement, dazzling with the glare",1.0 +"Of varied hues; the lively coral here,",0.0 +Here the pale pearl; the lovely vivid green,3.0 +"Of brilliant onyx, and the sapphire's blue.",1.0 +"Norwegian toils, and, stung by Fear, descends",1.0 +"More swift than eagles mount meridian heights,",2.0 +"Feels rapture added to the joy of life,",2.0 +"While Neptune, from his floating couch, thus speaks:",2.0 +"Portland my deep dominions dares explore,",2.0 +Nor here alone the Naturalist pursues,1.0 +For her the bold adventurer shall dare,2.0 +"The golden serpent in Arabian wilds,",2.0 +Has filled with sulphur; tread once hallowed earth,1.0 +"First hailed with grateful joy, and fearless press",1.0 +The Caspian wave: for her the rover seeks,3.0 +The scattered remnants of a ruined world.,1.0 +"But that the surge yonder planet would overwhelm,",5.0 +"The roots of Ocean would I throw to land,",0.0 +And all my gems should meet her generous eye;,2.0 +Would shrink each coward wave beneath his fellow.,0.0 +"In sweet exchange; magnificently good,",1.0 +And bid each future minute fly in peace.,0.0 +"Thus spoke the God, the listening surges catch",1.0 +"And, since his absence, Melody has mourned.",1.0 +"PROUD of her ancient Race, Britannia shows",2.0 +"Where, in her Wales, another Eden glows,",0.0 +"And all her Sons, to Truth, and Honour dear,",1.0 +Prove they deserve the Paradise they share.,2.0 +"Fair as its meads, and liberal as its streams;",1.0 +With half the youth of Cambria at her feet;,1.0 +"Stream over her form, and lighten in her face;",3.0 +While Sense and Virtue's blended influence dart,2.0 +"Boast the fair Virtues, and the radiant Loves,",4.0 +"Floats through thy vales, thy mansions, and thy bowers;",1.0 +"Her hallowed temple there Religion shows,",1.0 +"In ancient days, when Gothic Art displayed",0.0 +"Whose nameless charms the Dorian claims efface,",2.0 +"Then plied, with curious skill, now rarely shown,",3.0 +"The adorning chisel, over the yielding stone.",3.0 +But as those Graces which alone delight,1.0 +"With their fine forms the captivated sight,",2.0 +Must not aspire to emulate the Art,0.0 +"That, while it charms the eye, pervades the heart,",0.0 +"See Gothic Elegance the palm resigns,",2.0 +When Art in intellectual greatness shines.,2.0 +"Within these holy Walls, she lives, she reigns.",0.0 +"Hears the LAST TRUMPET thrill its murky gloom,",3.0 +"With smile triumphant over DEATH, and Time,",0.0 +"Lifts the rapt eye, and rears the form sublime.",3.0 +Fair modern Science over the Arts of yore;,3.0 +"As SCULPTURE speaks, and heavenly MUSIC breathes,",2.0 +"SAY, dearest Stella, why this pensive Air?",1.0 +"Tell me, OH tell thy Sorrows and thy Care;",4.0 +"Why thy Lips tremble, and thy Cheeks are pale?",3.0 +Why heaves thy Bosom with a mournful Gale?,1.0 +"Let not thy Eyes for distant Evils flow,",0.0 +Nor rack thy Bosom with prophetic Woe:,1.0 +"Imagined Ills deceive our aching Eyes,",0.0 +"As lengthened Shades appear of monstrous Size,",0.0 +"Though pictured Joy deludes our panting Souls,",0.0 +When round the Heart its smiling Phantom rolls;,0.0 +The gay Impostor mocks our reaching Arms;,0.0 +"Yet while it lasts, the pleasing Vision charms:",0.0 +"Not so Distrust, her gloomy Forehead rears;",1.0 +She brings cold Anguish and a crowd of Fears:,2.0 +Expel this Fury from your guiltless Breast.,1.0 +"The wise and mighty Guardian of Mankind,",2.0 +"And though no Pearls should in our Potion fall,",1.0 +Let us be cheerful while he spares the Gall:,0.0 +Yet Peace alone can bless your equal Days.,0.0 +"But coldly viewed or quickly thrown aside,",0.0 +See cringing Merit at the Gates of Pride;,1.0 +In Youth neglected as in Age despised:,1.0 +"Behold the Scorn, as late the Dread of all",0.0 +The Politician from his Glory fall:,1.0 +"He whose sly Genius could a Kingdom rule,",1.0 +Shall have his Exit hissed by every Fool:,0.0 +With aching Bosom and a streaming Eye,1.0 +"Who in his Age must to Oppression bow,",1.0 +And yield his Laurels to a younger Brow:,1.0 +Those Laurels shall the proud Successor wear,0.0 +A while; then strip and leave them to his Heir.,1.0 +Whose meaner Talents never were made to shine:,2.0 +"Our Good and Ill, our Vice and Virtue falls",0.0 +Within the compass of domestic Walls:,1.0 +"To those small Limits be thy Views confined,",2.0 +And bless thy Cottage with an humble Mind.,1.0 +"Look not at Joys that dazzle from afar,",1.0 +"For all Degrees their Days of Anguish know,",0.0 +And the most happy have a taste of Woe:,1.0 +He swells the Load who murmurs and complains:,1.0 +For all things vary: And who sits to day,2.0 +Her grateful tribute of harsh numbers brings,2.0 +Nor all the beauties of the world's vast round,2.0 +"United, will as sweet as her be found.",2.0 +Her worth alone will deify my days.,0.0 +Enchanting creature! Charms so great as thine,0.0 +May all the beauties of the day outshine.,2.0 +Thy taking graces captivate the heart.,0.0 +"OH for a Muse that shall ascend the skies,",0.0 +"To sing the sparkling eye, the portly grace,",0.0 +The thousand beauties that adorn the face,0.0 +Might court the world to rush at once to arms.,0.0 +"While the fair Goddess, native of the skies,",3.0 +"OH now, whilst yet I sound the tuneful lyre,",1.0 +I feel the thrilling joy her hands inspire;,0.0 +And rolls my passions with the purple flood.,1.0 +My pulse beat high: my throbbing breast's on fire,1.0 +In sad variety of wild desire.,1.0 +Words are too weak thy mighty worth to paint;,3.0 +"Thou art my substance, and I am thy shade.",2.0 +"Possessed of thee, I joyfully would go",2.0 +"Through the loud tempest, and the depth of woe.",3.0 +"From thee alone my being I derive,",2.0 +"Since hired for Life, thy Servile Muse must sing",2.0 +"Successive Conquests, and a glorious King;",4.0 +Must of a Man Immortal vainly boast;,0.0 +"And bring him Laurels, whatsoever they cost:",2.0 +"What Turn wilt Thou employ, what Colours lay",2.0 +"On the Event of that Superior Day,",3.0 +In which one English Subject's prosperous Hand,2.0