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He hears the gay, and the diftressful call;
And with unfparing bounty fills them all."
"Obferve the rifing lily's fhowy grace;
Obferve the various vegetable race:

They neither toil, nor ipin, but careless grow;
Yet fee how warm they blush! how bright they
glow!

What regal veftments can with them compare!
What king fo fhining! or what queen fo fair!"
"If, ceafelefs, thus, the fowls of heav'n he feeds;
If o'er the fields fuch lucid robes he spreads;
Will he not care for you, ye faithless, say?
Is he unwife? or, are ye lefs than they ?"

THOMSON.

ELEGY TO PITY.

HAIL, lovely Pow'er! whese bofom heaves the figh,
When fancy paines the fcene of deep distress:
Whofe tears spontaneous cryftallize the eye,
When rigid fate denies the pow'r to blefs.

Not all the fweets Arabia's gales convey

From flow'ry meads, can with that figh compare:

Not dew-drops glitt'ring in the morning ray,
Seem near fo beauteous as that falling tear.

Devoid of fear,. the fawns around thee play;

.

Emblem of peace, the dove before thee flies; No blood-ftain'd traces mark thy blamelefs way, Beneath thy feet no hapless infect dies.

Come, lovely nymph! and range the mead with

me,

To fpring the partridge from the guileless foe, From fecret fnares the ftruggling bird to free, And ftop the hand uprais'd to give the blow.

And when the air with heat meridian glows, And Nature droops beneath the conquering gleam,

Let us, flow wandering where the current flows, Save finking flies that float along the stream.

Or turn to nobler, greater tasks thy care,
To me thy fympathetic gifts impart;

Teach me in Friendship's griefs to bear a share,
And justly boaft the generous feeling heart.

Teach me to foothe the helpless orphan's grief,
With timely aid the widow's woes affuage,

To Mifery's moving cries to yield relief,
And be the fure refource of drooping Age.

So when the general spring of life shall fade,
And finking nature owns the dread decay,
Some foul congenial then may lend its aid,
And gild the close of life's eventful day.

ANON..

TO CONTENTMENT.

SEQUESTER'D far from public life;
From giddy mirth, and noify ftrife;
From headstrong paffions, vain defires ;
From envy, pride, and guilty fires ;
From cares and fears for ever free,
fweet CONTENTMENT, let me live with thee!

Thine are the joys that never fail;
Thine is the placid, conftant gale,
That bids us fmile at frequent shocks
Of dang'rous fyrts, and talent recks;
And fince I crave thy fmiles alone,
Come, in my breast erect thy lucid throne!

GOLCONDA'S gems, and flaming mines,
Where, deep from day, the diamond shines;
PERUVIAN mountains' richaft ore,

And treasures of the golden fhore,
Afford no blifs devoid of thee,

At beft more fair, more fplendid mifery.

The palace deck'd with regal ftate,
The gay parade of all the great,

The laurel wreath, the founding name,
Ambition's wifh, and deathless fame,
Without thee as a conftant guest,
Leave their poffeffors, joylefs and unbleft.

What's thy delight, CONTENTMENT, fay!
With what condition wilt thou stay?
If grandeur often wooes in vain,
Wilt thou adorn the rural plain?

Wilt thou vouchfafe to gild the cot
Where poverty obtains its ftill unenvied lot?

'Tis here I fee thy fplendours beam;
'Tis here thou roll'st thy clearest stream;
'Tis here thou fheddeft, in difguife,
The pureft joys beneath the skies;

And from thy liberal hands here flow

Such fweets as fceptred monarchs never know.

Come, then, inftruct me how to steer,
Through failing fortune and severe !
With thee, the turf-built cot would please--
The flow'ry banks, and fhady trees;
And for thy fimiles, thou nymph divine!
I'd high purfuits, without a figh, refign.

MAVOR.

NOTHING FORMED IN VAIN.

LET no prefuming impious railer tax
Creative Wisdom, as if aught was form'd
In vain, or not for admirable ends.

Shall little haughty Ignorance pronounce
His works unwife, of which the smallest part
Exceeds the narrow vifion of her mind?
As if, upon a full proportion'd dome,
On fwelling columns heav'd, the pride of art!
A critic fly, whofe feeble ray scarce spreads
An inch around, with blind prefumption bold,
Should dare to tax the structure of the whole.
And lives the man, whose univerfal eye
Has fwept at once th' unbounded schemes of
things;

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