-O LUXURY! Bane of elated life, of affluent states, What dreary change, what ruin is not thine! How dost thou lure the fortunate and great! VIRTUOUS ACTIVITY. Seize, mortals! seize the transient hour; THE SOURCE OF HAPPINESS. Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, PLACID EMOTION. Who can forbear to smile with nature? Can SOLITUDE* O, sacred solitude! divine retreat! Choice of the prudent! envy of the great! PRESUME NOT ON TO-MORROW. In human hearts what holder thoughts can rise, For numbers this is certain; the reverse Is sure to none. DUM VIVIMUS VIVAMUS (WHILE WE LIVE, LET US LIVE.) "Live while you live," the epicure would say, "And seize the pleasures of the present day." "Live while you live," the sacred preacher cries; "And give to God each moment as it flies." By solitude here is meant, a temporary seclusion from the world.. Lord in my views, let both united be; SECTION IV. Verses in various forms. THE SECURITY OF DODDRINGE. VIRTUE. LET coward guilt, with pallid fear, RESIGNATION. And O! by error's force subdu'd, COMPASSION. I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood pigeons breed But let me that plunder forbear! She will say, 'tis a barbarous deed, For he ne'er can be true she averr'd, Who can rob a poor bird of its young; And I loved her the more, when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. EPITAPH. Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, He gain'd from heaven ('twas all he wish'd) a friend. No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God. JOY AND SORROW CONNECTED. Still, where rosy pleasure leads, The hues of bliss more brightly glow, THE GOLDEN MEAN. He that holds fast the golden mean, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, The tallest pines feel most the power. And spread the ruin round. MODERATE VIEWS AND AIMS RECOMMENDED. With passions unruffled, untainted with pride, The wants of my nature are cheaply supplied; ATTACHMENT TO LIFE. The tree of deepest root is found years, When pain grows sharp, and sickness rages, VIRTUE'S ADDRESS TO PLEASURE. A youth of follies, an old age of cares; Young yet enervate, old yet never wise, Vice wastes their vigour, and their mind impairs. Vain, idle, delicate, in thoughtless, ease, Reserving woes for age, their prime they spend ; All wretched, hopeless, in the evil days, [named. With sorrow to the verge of life they tend. Verses in which sound corresponds with signification. SMOOTH AND ROUGH VERSE. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, SLOW MOTION IMITATED. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, SWIFT AND EASY MOTION' Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. FELLING TREES IN A WOOD. Loud sounds the axe, redoubling strokes on strokes ; Headlong. Deep echoing groan the thickets brown; SOUND OF A BOW-STRING. -The string let fly "Twang'd short and sharp, like the shrill swallow's cry. THE PHEASANT. See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, SCYLLA AND CHARYEDIS. Dire Scylla there a scene of horror forms, And here Charybdis fills the deep with storms. BOISTEROUS AND GENTLE SOUNDS. Two craggy rocks projecting to the main, LABORIOUS AND IMPETUOUS MOTION. With many a weary step, and many a groan, REGULAR AND SLOW MOVEMENT. First march the heavy mules securely slow; O'er hills, o'er dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks, they go. MOTION SLOW AND DIFFICULT. A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. EXTENT AND VIOLENCE OF THE WAVES. The waves behind impel the waves before, PENSIVE NUMBERS. In those deep solitudes and awful cells, BATTLE. -Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord; and the madding wheels SOUND IMITATING RELUCTANCE. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, SECTION VI. CONNUBIAL AFFECTION. THE love that cheers life's latest stage, SWARMS OF FLYING INSECTS. Thick in yon stream of light, a thousand ways, Upward and downward, thwarting and convolv'd, |