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Nature would droop in everlasting night,
Unblesb'd by Sol, great source of heat and light.
Nature would droop in everlasting night,
Unblesb'd by Sol, great source of heat and light.
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The crafty flatt'rer's wily tongue.
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Some love the clash of hostile arms,
The trumpet's clang, the camp's alarms.
27
Here faithful mem'ry may review
The scenes that time can ne'er renew.
28
Once time is past, we call in vain.
No tears can bring it back again.
29
Wanton in Sol's meridian ray,
Sip nectar from each bloomy sprays
30
Thy glitt'ring pinions charm mine eyes,
Stain'd with bright beauty's brilliant dies.
31
The thought would mar thy present joy,
Mix with thy bliss a base alloy
32
Though blest with friends, with youth, and health,
And all the gay parade of wealth
33
The records of departed worth
To noblest sentiments eive birth.
34
Down in the green sequesier'd shade,
The streamlet pours its clear cascade.
35
Posscss'd of all the charms that grace
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The brightest of the female race.
36
I find in thee a tender friend,
In thee a patron to defend.
37
In ev'ry clime, from pole to pole,
Where wind can blow or billow roll,
Britannia's barks the coast explore,
Waft science, peace, and plenty o'er*
Improving and improv'd, they'd. leara
New charms in wisdom to discern.
30,
You cherish feelings too refin'd,
For him who mingles with mankind.
40
He rises from his sleepless bed,
His soul convuls'd with secret dread;
41
His income regularly spent,
He scarcely sayes to pay his rent
43
A temper affable and kind,
A noble and a gen'rous mind.
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Although L long have rack'd my brains,,
I've nought but labor for my pains.
44
In terrors clad, thy foes suiround,
And hurl thy turrets to the ground*
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Nor blasting envy's tainted gale
Pollutes the pleasures of the vale.
46
She's prompt to shed the pitying tear,
To Mercy and to Virtue dear.
47
A coach and four, to take the air,
Besides a chariot, and a chair.
4&
His head was silver'd o'er with age;
And long experience made him sage.
In summer's beat and water's cold,
He fed his flock, and penn'd the fold.
His hours in cheerful labor flew,
Nor envy nor ambition knew.
His wisdom and his honest fame
Through all the country rais'd his name
49
The shepherd modestly replied:
I ne'er the paths of learning tried;
Nor have I roam'd to foreign parts,
To read mankind, their laws, and arts. . ,.
Who by that search shall wiser grow,
When we ourselves can never know ?
50
The prostrate game a lion spies,
And on the greedy tyrant flies.
51
So shines his light before mankind,
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His actions prove his honest mind.
52
He never needs the screen of lies,
His inward bosom to disguise.
53
Wild fancy forms unnumber'd woes :
To end his life the maniac goes
Forward I rush'd, and seis'd his arm,
And forc'd him back, secure from harm.
54 -- England.
O happy isle ! thy fertile plains
Repay with golden sheaves the swains;
Thy verdant vales, and mountains steep,
Are whiten'd o'er with fleecy sheep.
55
Dear rural scenes! the t>>fted tree,
The flow'ry mead, have charms for me,
That tar exceed the joys of courts,
Where splendid mis'ry oft resorts;
Where grief, disguis'd, like joy appears,
And hollow smiles hide starting tears.
56
Much rather let me stem the tide,
Without a helm my bark to guide. ,
The sport of waves and fickle winds,
Than trust to such capricious minds,
Where whim and passion hold the rein,
And slighted reason pleads in vain.
57
Fond mem'ry o'er thy grave shall give
A tear, to bid thy virtues live.
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Still o'er the genial hours of spring
Fell Discord waves her crimson wing :
O'er bleeding Europe's ravag'd plains,
The fiend, in state terrific, reigns;
Nor oaten pipe, nor past'ral song,
Resounds her waving woods among.
Yet far from Albion's tranquil shores
The storm of desolation roars.
69
Now ev'ry brilliant moment seems
Replete with fancy's airy dreams.
60
Not from the warrior's laurel leaves
The votive garland now she weaves.
61
Beneath thy fost'ring reign benign,
O best of kings! let mercy shine.
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From scene to scene we rove and smile ;
Fond Hope our leader all the while.
We fear no brooding storms of care;
We dread no spell, no murd'rous snare.
Iambic Verses of ten syllables, with a mixture of other
feet besides the Iambus.
63
She points to Honor and her gorgeous train,
But shows not disappointment, want, and pain.
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Bewilder'd Pride the swelling crest uprears,
And causeless Penitence is drown'd in tears.
65
A second Paradise our senses greets,
And Asia wafts us all her world of sweets.
06
Already, see! each schoolboy, 'prentice, clerk,
Assumes the pistol, and demands the Park.
67 ' . '
Nor deem, that all, the tuneful chords who strike,
Are curs'd with base ingratitude alike.
68 -- Canute.
He vainly bade each boist'rous wave retreat,.
Nor tinge the surface of his royal feet.
69
But ah ! how chang'd ! The Muse, that once was gay,
And wanton laugh'd the dancing hours away,
No more shall wa"nder o'er the flow'ry plains,
Or waken Echo with her rural strains.
70
See, most tremendous ! o'er his beardless face,
Th' enormous beaver, cock'd with soldier grace,
Aslant and edgewise confidently hurl'd,
Inviting broils, and braving all the world.
71
Though my dejected spirits pant for breath,
And my soul flutters on the verge of death
72
And why should such (within herself she cried)
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Lock the lost wealth, a thousand want beside?
73
One tranquil eve, when Sol had sunk to rest,
And gilt with splendid tints the glitt'ring west,
Their daily task perfonn'd, this loving pair
Walk'd forth to breathe the pure salubrious air.
74
Friends, country, children, wife, no more restrain;
And fate and nature boast their laws in vain.
75
Flush'd with revenge, each miscreant drew his dart
And plung'd it in the constant Oran's heart.
76
Alas! , Hope's rain-bow visions, how they fade !
How soon the sun-bright landscape sinks in shade
77
Go, seek distress; explore the tents of woe:
Bid the wan cheek with rosy tints to glow.
. 78,
To Eve's fair daughters various virtues fall:
But thou, lov'd charmer, hast exeslfd them all.
79
Blest she descends into the vale of years,
With the lov'd partner of her youthful cares.
80
Smiles oft are fraud fill ; beauty soon decays ;
But the good woman shall inherit praise.
81
Rouse all thy pow'rs, for better use design'd ;
And know thy native dignity of mind.
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Such were the hours, and such the scenes that charm'd:
So nature glow'd, and so her beauties w. arm'd.
83
The glow of youth blooms lovely in his face,
And fills each active limb with manly grace.
84
The wrinkled matron opes her treasur'd store
Of fairy tales and legendary lore.
85
Their tyrant rule has blighted all thy time,
And marr'd the promise of thy early prime.
86
Her love instructs a fair and num'rous race
To share his glories, and supply his place.
87
See, with what calmness, what contempt of breath,
The sons of Newgate hear the doom of death.
88
Why pass in slav'ry here the ling'ring hours,
While Oran dwells in amarantine bow'rs?
Where rivers of delight for ever flow,
And blushing fruits on trees immortal grow ;
Where no rude tempests howl, no storms arise ;
Where suns eternal gild the genial skies,
Unfading flow'rets deck the verdant plains,
And Spring in ga v pi- fusion ever reigns.
89
Fain would the Muse each beauteous plant rehearse,
And sing their glories in immortal verse.
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Oh ! heed not, youth, yon Siren's 'witching lay :
Fly from her tempting accents : fly away.
False are her sounds, her visions vain, though bright-
A flitting rainbow's varied transient light.
91
Each manly sense, each charity refin'd ;
Whate'er illumines or exalts the mind.
92
For wisdom fam'd, for probity renown'd,
She sits in council, with bright honor crown'd.
93
Peace crowns our cities, plenty loads our plains;
And sether rings with gratulating strains.
94
Greater than he who vanquish'd first the main,
The Persian with a million in his train,
Himself soon vanquish'd by the Grecian chief,
And homeward sent in solitary grief.
95. -- Epitaph on ait Infant.
Repose in peace, svveei babe ! this still domain
Gives no admission to the tyrant, pain.
Thy noblest part, thy spotless soul, is flown
To scenes where dread misfortunes are unknown.
96
At length thy long-lost liberty regain :
Tear the strong tie, and break th' inglorious chain
Freed from false hopes, assume thy native pow'rs,
And give to Reason's rule thy future hours.
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To her dominion yield thy trusting soul,
And bend thy wishes to her strong control.
97
Pleas'd have I oft our little babe carees'd,
And view'd him smiling at his mother's breast. -
98
Early she rises, ere bright Phoebus shines,
And to her damsels sep'rate tasks assigns.
99
If to her farm some field contiguous lies,
With care she views it, and with prudence buys.
100
Benignant, from her ever open door,
She feeds the hungry, and relieves the poor.
101
Hope promis'd future bliss without alloy,
And Fancy's pencil pictur'd scenes of joy.
Ah, gilded visions ! fleeting, as they're fair !
How soon those day-dreams vanish'd into air!
102
Yes, Europe's polish'd sons approve the plan
That fetters and enslaves their fellow man. . . .
The wretched captive leaves his native shore,
Ne'er to behold his much-lov'd country more.
103
Soon will misfortune their bright hopes destroy,
And dash with gall the mantling cup of joy.
104
Nature would droop in everlasting night,
Unblesb'd by Sol, great source of heat and light.
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When tyrant Frost his strong dominion holds,
And not a blade expands, a bud unfolds
When gather'd thunders burst abrupt and loud,
And midnight light'ning darts from cloud to cloud,
Or rends, with forceful momentary stroke,
The ivied turret and the giant oak,
Can faint remembrance of meridian mirth
Bedeck with visionary charms the earth ?
106
She calls grim phantoms from the shadowy deep,
And sends her Furies forth to torture sleep.
107. -- The kidnapped Negro Woman.
Excess of grief forbade her tears to flow :
She stood a living monument of woe.
No tender friend was near, with kind relief
To calm the wild extravagance of grief:
No pity could the hapless maiden find :
No scenes of sorrow touch the brutal mind.
Th' inhuman vdlains bore their prize away,
And gain'd the harbour where the vessel lay.
Convey'd on board, she join'd a num'rous band
Of fellow captives, hiiiion'd hand to hand.
108. -- A Slave-Ship.
There husbands, torn from ail their hearts held dear,
In sullen silence drop the fruitless tear.
Fond mothers there, to gloomy grief consigned,
Mourn for the lender babes they left behind.
Heart-cheering hope forsook the horrid place;
And desperation lour'd in ev'ry face.
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The undertakers say, on corses fed,
" Ah! there's no man of value, till he's dead.
110. -- True Beauty.
What is the blooming tincture of the skin,
To peace of mind, and harmony within ?
What the bright sparkling of the finest eye,
To the soft soothing of a calm reply ?
Can comeliness of form, or shape, or air,
With comeliness of words and deeds compare
No! those at first th' unwary heart may gain:
But these, these only, can that heart retain.
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VERSIFICATION.
Lines to be made into Iambic Virses of eight sylla-
bles, orfour feet, with the accent on the second, fourth,
sixth, and eighth syllables: -- each line to make one
verse; and the two lines of each couplet to rhime with
each other.
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And, while I feel thy gracious gifts,
My song shall reveal all thy praise.
112
Bless'd with freedom, at early dawn,
O'er the verdant lawn I wander.
113
Unheard I mourn, I sigh unknown,
Live unfriended, die unpity'd.
114
The fleecy mothers stray'd below ;
And their sportive lambkins play'd round.
11. 5
My friend, thy days flow serenely,
Nor know any interruption.
116
Tke search shall teach thee to prize life,
And make thee good, wise, and grateful.
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117
The flock fly in wild disorder,
And cast a frequent eye behind.
118
At last the contest rose so high,
From words they almost came to blows.
119
Religion's beams shine around thee,
And cheer thy glooms with divine light.
120
Henceforih I go to rural haunts,
Through winter's snow and summer's heat.
121
Thou fly'st to scenes where Joy and Youth
Employ their time with Love and Mirth.
122
With ease jou wear a thousand shapes;
And still you please in ev'ry shape.
123
Leander bow'd to Hero's eyes:
Her cheek glow'd with yielding blushes.
124
The Muse, ever true to merit,
Prepares the meed due to valour.
125
We raise the choral song to thee,
To whom belong sublimer strains.
126
Supine beneath embow'iing shades,
In wine he loves to drown his cares.
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187
The impatient. steed spurns the ground :
The full-ton'd horns sound harmonious.
128
Neither wealth [ pursue, nor pow'r,
Nor hold in view forbidden joys.
129
And will you then conceal this wealth,
For time to steal, or age to rust ?
130
Observant eyes confess her ways:
Pursuing praises bless her steps.
131
The tim'rous breed knew the robber,
And flew o'er the meadow, trembling.
The wolf o'ertook their nimblest speed,
And courteous thus bespoke the dam.
132
The genial hours and fragrant airs"
Were shedding dews arid flow'rs round him :
Aurora pass'd before his wheels;
And last was Hesper's golden lamp.
153
Their board is crown'd with flow'rs by thee; *
Their walks resound with songs by thee;
Their sprightly mornings shine by thee,
And ev'ning hours decline in peace.
* N. B. Thee, thee, terminating two successive lines, will not
make allowable rhime.
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Iambic Verses of eight syllables, with a mixture of
different feet.
134
Repose, sweet babe ! cease thy crying :
For thine's an age of peace and truth.
135
Without another word, this fact
Might afford a useful lesson.
13(i
Ever bound to one dear object,
l ever search around for that.
Thousands bena, Where'er she passes;
And thousand's attend where she moves.
138
The flow'rs, disclos'd in early bloom,
Repos'd upon, her fragrant breast.
139
A mother may forsake her son:
But I will ne'er break my covenant.
140
As a simple swain, one ev'ning,
Attended his flock on the plain,
He chanc'd to spy the shining bow,
Which warns us when a show'r is nigh.
141
From the north if Winter bellow,
The sweet Spring soon comes forth dancing.
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142
Disputes are far too long, though short,
When both are in the wrong alike.
143
Ye great and rich, shut not your hearts
Against the wand'rer at your gate.
144
Must I still complain of thy pow'r,
And arraign thy too partial hand ?
145
But must the kind and the gentle
Find thy fury, undistinguished ?
146
Yet base and cruel I am call'd,
Who seek to release the wretched.
147
The fox, vers'd in deeper cunning,
Rehears'd the beauties of her mind.
148 ">
Now mounting high, now sinking low,
The sailors cry, " We're lost! we're lost! "
149
Who would combine mirth and wisdom,
Should confine his stint to three cups.
150
While I thus prolong my stay here,
The silent night steals alont? , swift.
151
Now toil, thirst, and hunger, combin'd,
To wring her mind, and numb her limbs.
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152
Malur'd to iiappier days, he may
Repay your care with filial love.
153
The cares that fill thy tale, are past:
J bewail my present troubles.
154
But ah ! what dismal and dim shade
Casts o'er the glade this strange horror ?
155
But now the rugged North no more
Pours forth half her population.
156
Through the thick mist of fears and doubts,
How hideous appears Death's fair form !
157
Lovely Health ! divinest maid ! come,
And lead me through the rural shade.
158
Tis he, who still keeps his promise,
Though he sleeps wrapp'd in Death's cold arms.
159
Hovve'er depress'd or exalted,
Be the feeling breast ever mine.
160
Alike, the vain and the foolish
Are strangers to the humane sense.
Fill'd with grief's distressful train, life
Tor ever asks the humane tear.
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162
Oh ! woman! loveliest work of heav'n !
Giv'n for man's solace and delight.
163
Now the eastern breeze, soft rising,
Plays through the quiv'ring trees, rustling.
164
If you scan all nature's system,
Man is the only idle thing.
165
Discourse like this claim'd attention :
Grandeur inflam'd the mother's breast.
166
So saying, he flies on the lamb.
The victim dies beneath his jaws.
167
Each well-known scene now appears dead,
The meadow green, the glassy brook.
168
They soon shall learn humility,
And discern their own emptiness.
. 169
The watchman cried, " Past twelve o' clock :"
The studious lawyer plied his brief.
170
The wretch shook with thrilling horror ;
Pale his look, and loose ev'ry joint.
171
Lend to wiser heads attention,
And from a friend learn this lesson. m
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178 !
Still share my bosom with the Muse,
And soothe corroding care to peace.
, 173
So shall he discern right from wrong,
And learn mercy from oppression.
174
Be thou the vessel's guide, kind heav'n :
Divide the whelming waves for her.
175
Thy kindness knows no ebbing tide :
It flows like some perpetual stream.
176
Tis thine to dwell, sweet modest flow'r !
In the thorny dell, secluded.
177
Carus, worn with pain and sickness,
Sighs for morn, and chides the slow night.
178 . , ,
I raise my song in bolder notes,
To praise the deeds of Hercules.
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The crafty flatt'rer's wily tongue.
26
Some love the clash of hostile arms,
The trumpet's clang, the camp's alarms.
27
Here faithful mem'ry may review
The scenes that time can ne'er renew.
28
Once time is past, we call in vain.
No tears can bring it back again.
29
Wanton in Sol's meridian ray,
Sip nectar from each bloomy sprays
30
Thy glitt'ring pinions charm mine eyes,
Stain'd with bright beauty's brilliant dies.
31
The thought would mar thy present joy,
Mix with thy bliss a base alloy
32
Though blest with friends, with youth, and health,
And all the gay parade of wealth
33
The records of departed worth
To noblest sentiments eive birth.
34
Down in the green sequesier'd shade,
The streamlet pours its clear cascade.
35
Posscss'd of all the charms that grace
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The brightest of the female race.
36
I find in thee a tender friend,
In thee a patron to defend.
37
In ev'ry clime, from pole to pole,
Where wind can blow or billow roll,
Britannia's barks the coast explore,
Waft science, peace, and plenty o'er*
Improving and improv'd, they'd. leara
New charms in wisdom to discern.
30,
You cherish feelings too refin'd,
For him who mingles with mankind.
40
He rises from his sleepless bed,
His soul convuls'd with secret dread;
41
His income regularly spent,
He scarcely sayes to pay his rent
43
A temper affable and kind,
A noble and a gen'rous mind.
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Although L long have rack'd my brains,,
I've nought but labor for my pains.
44
In terrors clad, thy foes suiround,
And hurl thy turrets to the ground*
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Nor blasting envy's tainted gale
Pollutes the pleasures of the vale.
46
She's prompt to shed the pitying tear,
To Mercy and to Virtue dear.
47
A coach and four, to take the air,
Besides a chariot, and a chair.
4&
His head was silver'd o'er with age;
And long experience made him sage.
In summer's beat and water's cold,
He fed his flock, and penn'd the fold.
His hours in cheerful labor flew,
Nor envy nor ambition knew.
His wisdom and his honest fame
Through all the country rais'd his name
49
The shepherd modestly replied:
I ne'er the paths of learning tried;
Nor have I roam'd to foreign parts,
To read mankind, their laws, and arts. . ,.
Who by that search shall wiser grow,
When we ourselves can never know ?
50
The prostrate game a lion spies,
And on the greedy tyrant flies.
51
So shines his light before mankind,
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His actions prove his honest mind.
52
He never needs the screen of lies,
His inward bosom to disguise.
53
Wild fancy forms unnumber'd woes :
To end his life the maniac goes
Forward I rush'd, and seis'd his arm,
And forc'd him back, secure from harm.
54 -- England.
O happy isle ! thy fertile plains
Repay with golden sheaves the swains;
Thy verdant vales, and mountains steep,
Are whiten'd o'er with fleecy sheep.
55
Dear rural scenes! the t>>fted tree,
The flow'ry mead, have charms for me,
That tar exceed the joys of courts,
Where splendid mis'ry oft resorts;
Where grief, disguis'd, like joy appears,
And hollow smiles hide starting tears.
56
Much rather let me stem the tide,
Without a helm my bark to guide. ,
The sport of waves and fickle winds,
Than trust to such capricious minds,
Where whim and passion hold the rein,
And slighted reason pleads in vain.
57
Fond mem'ry o'er thy grave shall give
A tear, to bid thy virtues live.
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Still o'er the genial hours of spring
Fell Discord waves her crimson wing :
O'er bleeding Europe's ravag'd plains,
The fiend, in state terrific, reigns;
Nor oaten pipe, nor past'ral song,
Resounds her waving woods among.
Yet far from Albion's tranquil shores
The storm of desolation roars.
69
Now ev'ry brilliant moment seems
Replete with fancy's airy dreams.
60
Not from the warrior's laurel leaves
The votive garland now she weaves.
61
Beneath thy fost'ring reign benign,
O best of kings! let mercy shine.
6sr
From scene to scene we rove and smile ;
Fond Hope our leader all the while.
We fear no brooding storms of care;
We dread no spell, no murd'rous snare.
Iambic Verses of ten syllables, with a mixture of other
feet besides the Iambus.
63
She points to Honor and her gorgeous train,
But shows not disappointment, want, and pain.
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64
Bewilder'd Pride the swelling crest uprears,
And causeless Penitence is drown'd in tears.
65
A second Paradise our senses greets,
And Asia wafts us all her world of sweets.
06
Already, see! each schoolboy, 'prentice, clerk,
Assumes the pistol, and demands the Park.
67 ' . '
Nor deem, that all, the tuneful chords who strike,
Are curs'd with base ingratitude alike.
68 -- Canute.
He vainly bade each boist'rous wave retreat,.
Nor tinge the surface of his royal feet.
69
But ah ! how chang'd ! The Muse, that once was gay,
And wanton laugh'd the dancing hours away,
No more shall wa"nder o'er the flow'ry plains,
Or waken Echo with her rural strains.
70
See, most tremendous ! o'er his beardless face,
Th' enormous beaver, cock'd with soldier grace,
Aslant and edgewise confidently hurl'd,
Inviting broils, and braving all the world.
71
Though my dejected spirits pant for breath,
And my soul flutters on the verge of death
72
And why should such (within herself she cried)
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Lock the lost wealth, a thousand want beside?
73
One tranquil eve, when Sol had sunk to rest,
And gilt with splendid tints the glitt'ring west,
Their daily task perfonn'd, this loving pair
Walk'd forth to breathe the pure salubrious air.
74
Friends, country, children, wife, no more restrain;
And fate and nature boast their laws in vain.
75
Flush'd with revenge, each miscreant drew his dart
And plung'd it in the constant Oran's heart.
76
Alas! , Hope's rain-bow visions, how they fade !
How soon the sun-bright landscape sinks in shade
77
Go, seek distress; explore the tents of woe:
Bid the wan cheek with rosy tints to glow.
. 78,
To Eve's fair daughters various virtues fall:
But thou, lov'd charmer, hast exeslfd them all.
79
Blest she descends into the vale of years,
With the lov'd partner of her youthful cares.
80
Smiles oft are fraud fill ; beauty soon decays ;
But the good woman shall inherit praise.
81
Rouse all thy pow'rs, for better use design'd ;
And know thy native dignity of mind.
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Such were the hours, and such the scenes that charm'd:
So nature glow'd, and so her beauties w. arm'd.
83
The glow of youth blooms lovely in his face,
And fills each active limb with manly grace.
84
The wrinkled matron opes her treasur'd store
Of fairy tales and legendary lore.
85
Their tyrant rule has blighted all thy time,
And marr'd the promise of thy early prime.
86
Her love instructs a fair and num'rous race
To share his glories, and supply his place.
87
See, with what calmness, what contempt of breath,
The sons of Newgate hear the doom of death.
88
Why pass in slav'ry here the ling'ring hours,
While Oran dwells in amarantine bow'rs?
Where rivers of delight for ever flow,
And blushing fruits on trees immortal grow ;
Where no rude tempests howl, no storms arise ;
Where suns eternal gild the genial skies,
Unfading flow'rets deck the verdant plains,
And Spring in ga v pi- fusion ever reigns.
89
Fain would the Muse each beauteous plant rehearse,
And sing their glories in immortal verse.
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Oh ! heed not, youth, yon Siren's 'witching lay :
Fly from her tempting accents : fly away.
False are her sounds, her visions vain, though bright-
A flitting rainbow's varied transient light.
91
Each manly sense, each charity refin'd ;
Whate'er illumines or exalts the mind.
92
For wisdom fam'd, for probity renown'd,
She sits in council, with bright honor crown'd.
93
Peace crowns our cities, plenty loads our plains;
And sether rings with gratulating strains.
94
Greater than he who vanquish'd first the main,
The Persian with a million in his train,
Himself soon vanquish'd by the Grecian chief,
And homeward sent in solitary grief.
95. -- Epitaph on ait Infant.
Repose in peace, svveei babe ! this still domain
Gives no admission to the tyrant, pain.
Thy noblest part, thy spotless soul, is flown
To scenes where dread misfortunes are unknown.
96
At length thy long-lost liberty regain :
Tear the strong tie, and break th' inglorious chain
Freed from false hopes, assume thy native pow'rs,
And give to Reason's rule thy future hours.
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To her dominion yield thy trusting soul,
And bend thy wishes to her strong control.
97
Pleas'd have I oft our little babe carees'd,
And view'd him smiling at his mother's breast. -
98
Early she rises, ere bright Phoebus shines,
And to her damsels sep'rate tasks assigns.
99
If to her farm some field contiguous lies,
With care she views it, and with prudence buys.
100
Benignant, from her ever open door,
She feeds the hungry, and relieves the poor.
101
Hope promis'd future bliss without alloy,
And Fancy's pencil pictur'd scenes of joy.
Ah, gilded visions ! fleeting, as they're fair !
How soon those day-dreams vanish'd into air!
102
Yes, Europe's polish'd sons approve the plan
That fetters and enslaves their fellow man. . . .
The wretched captive leaves his native shore,
Ne'er to behold his much-lov'd country more.
103
Soon will misfortune their bright hopes destroy,
And dash with gall the mantling cup of joy.
104
Nature would droop in everlasting night,
Unblesb'd by Sol, great source of heat and light.
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105
When tyrant Frost his strong dominion holds,
And not a blade expands, a bud unfolds
When gather'd thunders burst abrupt and loud,
And midnight light'ning darts from cloud to cloud,
Or rends, with forceful momentary stroke,
The ivied turret and the giant oak,
Can faint remembrance of meridian mirth
Bedeck with visionary charms the earth ?
106
She calls grim phantoms from the shadowy deep,
And sends her Furies forth to torture sleep.
107. -- The kidnapped Negro Woman.
Excess of grief forbade her tears to flow :
She stood a living monument of woe.
No tender friend was near, with kind relief
To calm the wild extravagance of grief:
No pity could the hapless maiden find :
No scenes of sorrow touch the brutal mind.
Th' inhuman vdlains bore their prize away,
And gain'd the harbour where the vessel lay.
Convey'd on board, she join'd a num'rous band
Of fellow captives, hiiiion'd hand to hand.
108. -- A Slave-Ship.
There husbands, torn from ail their hearts held dear,
In sullen silence drop the fruitless tear.
Fond mothers there, to gloomy grief consigned,
Mourn for the lender babes they left behind.
Heart-cheering hope forsook the horrid place;
And desperation lour'd in ev'ry face.
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109
The undertakers say, on corses fed,
" Ah! there's no man of value, till he's dead.
110. -- True Beauty.
What is the blooming tincture of the skin,
To peace of mind, and harmony within ?
What the bright sparkling of the finest eye,
To the soft soothing of a calm reply ?
Can comeliness of form, or shape, or air,
With comeliness of words and deeds compare
No! those at first th' unwary heart may gain:
But these, these only, can that heart retain.
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VERSIFICATION.
Lines to be made into Iambic Virses of eight sylla-
bles, orfour feet, with the accent on the second, fourth,
sixth, and eighth syllables: -- each line to make one
verse; and the two lines of each couplet to rhime with
each other.
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And, while I feel thy gracious gifts,
My song shall reveal all thy praise.
112
Bless'd with freedom, at early dawn,
O'er the verdant lawn I wander.
113
Unheard I mourn, I sigh unknown,
Live unfriended, die unpity'd.
114
The fleecy mothers stray'd below ;
And their sportive lambkins play'd round.
11. 5
My friend, thy days flow serenely,
Nor know any interruption.
116
Tke search shall teach thee to prize life,
And make thee good, wise, and grateful.
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117
The flock fly in wild disorder,
And cast a frequent eye behind.
118
At last the contest rose so high,
From words they almost came to blows.
119
Religion's beams shine around thee,
And cheer thy glooms with divine light.
120
Henceforih I go to rural haunts,
Through winter's snow and summer's heat.
121
Thou fly'st to scenes where Joy and Youth
Employ their time with Love and Mirth.
122
With ease jou wear a thousand shapes;
And still you please in ev'ry shape.
123
Leander bow'd to Hero's eyes:
Her cheek glow'd with yielding blushes.
124
The Muse, ever true to merit,
Prepares the meed due to valour.
125
We raise the choral song to thee,
To whom belong sublimer strains.
126
Supine beneath embow'iing shades,
In wine he loves to drown his cares.
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187
The impatient. steed spurns the ground :
The full-ton'd horns sound harmonious.
128
Neither wealth [ pursue, nor pow'r,
Nor hold in view forbidden joys.
129
And will you then conceal this wealth,
For time to steal, or age to rust ?
130
Observant eyes confess her ways:
Pursuing praises bless her steps.
131
The tim'rous breed knew the robber,
And flew o'er the meadow, trembling.
The wolf o'ertook their nimblest speed,
And courteous thus bespoke the dam.
132
The genial hours and fragrant airs"
Were shedding dews arid flow'rs round him :
Aurora pass'd before his wheels;
And last was Hesper's golden lamp.
153
Their board is crown'd with flow'rs by thee; *
Their walks resound with songs by thee;
Their sprightly mornings shine by thee,
And ev'ning hours decline in peace.
* N. B. Thee, thee, terminating two successive lines, will not
make allowable rhime.
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Hcation.
Iambic Verses of eight syllables, with a mixture of
different feet.
134
Repose, sweet babe ! cease thy crying :
For thine's an age of peace and truth.
135
Without another word, this fact
Might afford a useful lesson.
13(i
Ever bound to one dear object,
l ever search around for that.
Thousands bena, Where'er she passes;
And thousand's attend where she moves.
138
The flow'rs, disclos'd in early bloom,
Repos'd upon, her fragrant breast.
139
A mother may forsake her son:
But I will ne'er break my covenant.
140
As a simple swain, one ev'ning,
Attended his flock on the plain,
He chanc'd to spy the shining bow,
Which warns us when a show'r is nigh.
141
From the north if Winter bellow,
The sweet Spring soon comes forth dancing.
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142
Disputes are far too long, though short,
When both are in the wrong alike.
143
Ye great and rich, shut not your hearts
Against the wand'rer at your gate.
144
Must I still complain of thy pow'r,
And arraign thy too partial hand ?
145
But must the kind and the gentle
Find thy fury, undistinguished ?
146
Yet base and cruel I am call'd,
Who seek to release the wretched.
147
The fox, vers'd in deeper cunning,
Rehears'd the beauties of her mind.
148 ">
Now mounting high, now sinking low,
The sailors cry, " We're lost! we're lost! "
149
Who would combine mirth and wisdom,
Should confine his stint to three cups.
150
While I thus prolong my stay here,
The silent night steals alont? , swift.
151
Now toil, thirst, and hunger, combin'd,
To wring her mind, and numb her limbs.
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152
Malur'd to iiappier days, he may
Repay your care with filial love.
153
The cares that fill thy tale, are past:
J bewail my present troubles.
154
But ah ! what dismal and dim shade
Casts o'er the glade this strange horror ?
155
But now the rugged North no more
Pours forth half her population.
156
Through the thick mist of fears and doubts,
How hideous appears Death's fair form !
157
Lovely Health ! divinest maid ! come,
And lead me through the rural shade.
158
Tis he, who still keeps his promise,
Though he sleeps wrapp'd in Death's cold arms.
159
Hovve'er depress'd or exalted,
Be the feeling breast ever mine.
160
Alike, the vain and the foolish
Are strangers to the humane sense.
Fill'd with grief's distressful train, life
Tor ever asks the humane tear.
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162
Oh ! woman! loveliest work of heav'n !
Giv'n for man's solace and delight.
163
Now the eastern breeze, soft rising,
Plays through the quiv'ring trees, rustling.
164
If you scan all nature's system,
Man is the only idle thing.
165
Discourse like this claim'd attention :
Grandeur inflam'd the mother's breast.
166
So saying, he flies on the lamb.
The victim dies beneath his jaws.
167
Each well-known scene now appears dead,
The meadow green, the glassy brook.
168
They soon shall learn humility,
And discern their own emptiness.
. 169
The watchman cried, " Past twelve o' clock :"
The studious lawyer plied his brief.
170
The wretch shook with thrilling horror ;
Pale his look, and loose ev'ry joint.
171
Lend to wiser heads attention,
And from a friend learn this lesson. m
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178 !
Still share my bosom with the Muse,
And soothe corroding care to peace.
, 173
So shall he discern right from wrong,
And learn mercy from oppression.
174
Be thou the vessel's guide, kind heav'n :
Divide the whelming waves for her.
175
Thy kindness knows no ebbing tide :
It flows like some perpetual stream.
176
Tis thine to dwell, sweet modest flow'r !
In the thorny dell, secluded.
177
Carus, worn with pain and sickness,
Sighs for morn, and chides the slow night.
178 . , ,
I raise my song in bolder notes,
To praise the deeds of Hercules.
