ODE TO PEACE. OME, peace of mind, delightful guest! Return and make thy downy nest Once more in this sad heart: Nor riches I, nor pow'r pursue, Nor hold forbidden joys in view, We therefore need not part. Where wilt thou dwell if not with me, And pleasure's fatal wiles; For whom, alas! dost thou prepare The great, the gay, shall they partake For thee I panted, thee I prized, HUMAN FRAILTY. EAK and irresolute is man; WE The purpose of to-day, Woven with pains into his plan, The bow well bent and smart the spring, But passion rudely snaps the string, Some foe to his upright intent Finds out his weaker part, Virtue engages his assent, But pleasure winds his heart. 'Tis here the folly of the wise Bound on a voyage of awful length, But oars alone can ne'er prevail The breath of heav'n must swell the sail, REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANY OF THE BOOKS. ETWEEN Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose, BThe spectacles set them unhappily wrong; The point in dispute was, as all the world knows, So the Tongue was the lawyer, and argued the case With a great deal of skill, and a wig full of learning, While Chief Baron Ear sat to balance the laws, So famed for his talent in nicely discerning. In behalf of the Nose, it will quickly appear, And your lordship, he said, will undoubtedly find, That the Nose has had spectacles always in wear, Which amounts to possession time out of mind. Then, holding the spectacles up to the court- Again, would your lordship a moment suppose On the whole it appears, and my argument shows, With a reasoning the court will never condemn, That the spectacles plainly were made for the Nose, And the Nose was as plainly intended for them. Then, shifting his side as a lawyer knows how, For the court did not think they were equally wise. So his lordship decreed with a grave solemn tone, THE LOVE OF THE WORLD REPROVED; TH OR, HYPOCRISY DETECTED. HUS says the prophet of the Turk, There is a part in ev'ry swine, No friend or follower of mine While others at that doctrine rail, Thus, conscience freed from ev'ry clog, You laugh-'tis well-the tale applied While one as innocent regards A snug and friendly game at cards; Some love a concert or a race, And others, shooting and the chase. Reviled and loved, renounced and follow'd, With sophistry their sauce they sweeten, THE LILY AND THE ROSE. TE HE nymph must lose her female friend But where will fierce contention end Within the garden's peaceful scene Aspiring to the rank of queen, |