THE

MECHANIC.

BY

FRANCES HARRIET WHIPPLE.

"Where lavish Nature the protecting hand
Of art demanded; shewed him how to raise
His feeble force by the mechanic powers;
To dig the mineral from the vaulted earth;
On what to turn the piercing rage of fire,
On what the torrent and the gathered blast:

Gave the tall, ancient forest to his axe;

Taught him to chip the wood, and hew the stone:

Nor stoppel at barren, bare necessity;

But, still advancing bolder, led him on,

To pomp, to pleasure, elegance and grace,

And bade him be THE LORD OF ALL BELOW."

Thompson.

PROVIDENCE:

PUBLISHED BY BURNETT & KING.

BOSTON:

LITTLE & BROWN. NEW

YORK: D. APPLETON & co.

1842.

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1841, by

BURNETT & KING,

In the Clerk's Office of the District of Rhode Island.