Where sea-gulls haunt, amid the ocean's roar: 'He gains with labour Cornwall's dreary shore. That he may save some portion of renown, 'Nor bear a mean petition through the town, Can we not sell? Cries one," with acres part! ❝ 3 I know whose heir would take it much to heart. "Scarce would his funeral decently pass off:

"At promised pomp the nettled squire would scoff. "What! with impunity the estate impair!"—

But philosophic Gray would little care,

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And, by the forty sages unperplex'd,

Hold, such degenerate wants our nation vex'd

Condidit: Ionio jacet ipse in littore, et unà
Ingentes de puppe Dei: jamque obvia mergis
Costa ratis laceræ. nunc et de cespite vivo

2.

Frange aliquid: largire inopi, ne pictus oberret Cæruleâ in tabulâ. "3 Sed cœnam funeris hæres "Negliget iratus, quòd rem curtaveris: 4urnæ "Ossa inodora dabit; seu spirent cinnama surdum, "Seu ceraso peccent casiæ, nescire paratus. "Túne bona incolumis minuas?" sed Bestius urget 5 Doctores Graios: ita fit, postquam sapere urbi

Since they taught wisdom, who long taught to

dance,

And to ape Reason, was a mode from France.
Then let us fearless look beyond the grave.
But you, strange heir, a word with you I crave.
* Suppose you claim, as mine, this mansion fair
Past to beirs general, or the Lord knows where.
I now would whisper. In the glorious cause
Of Gallic freedom, and of Nature's laws,
' A junto firm, who well their lords obey,
Write of their* sure successes from Vendée :
The prompt Convention every line repeat.
Now sans-culottes in Reason's temple meet.
Gay civic feasts with patriot kisses join;

For soon we read of triumphs on the Rhine.

Cum pipere et palmis, venit nostrum hoc maris expers,
Fœnisecæ crasso vitiârunt unguine pultes.

Hæc cinere ulterior metuas? at tumeus hæres,
Quisquis eris, paulùm à turbà seductior, audi.

O bone, num ignoras? missa est 3 à Cæsare laurus
Insignem ob + cladem Germanæ pubis, et s aris
Frigidus excutitur cinis: ac jam postibus arma,

Of these the stage takes charge, and o'er the scene, Ennobled generals stir the people's spleen.

Rank's ermined train in all their pride advance,

And sovereigns arm'd the warlike pomp enhance. But what are such when Liberty's alarm

Swells her loud voice, and lifts her thundering arm?
She proves her sons, as on this festal night,
Brightest in virtue, boldest in the fight.

Can any doubt of Gallic freedom's bliss?
But, not to keep you, what I mean is this.
"Whoe'er, of oratoric powers, command
The applause, in clubs, of the reforming band,

2 Since the millenium seems no more remote,

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* Shall, on my banker, have a general note—

I mean the needy. Heavens! how pale that face! Nay,' storm not; I can fancy a worse case.

Jam' chlamydas regum, jam lutea gausapa captis,
Essedáque ingentésque locat Cæsonia Rhenos.

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'Dis igitur, Genióque ducis centum paria, 3 ob res Egregiè gestas, induco: quis vetat? aude.

s Væ, nisi connives.

'Suppose I add the libellers to these.

“Good sir,” you say—" reflect sir, if we plac,
"Should you reduce me to your comary E

❝ Gravel, I own, is healthy, clean, and nean,
"Yet too much there, for such demands prevails;
"Which ask a fertile mould that never fails.”

Though now it seem some pretext claims respect,
'Tis plain, whate'er I do, you will object.

Know then, had you and friends no legal right,
Twould be my anxious business, day and night,
To use my power, and' a successor find,
As Prudence, or perhaps Caprice, inclined.
That will I now; nor need I travel long
Ere shines some open aspect in the throng:

1oleum artrocreásque popello

Largior; an prohibes? dic claré. "Non adeò," inquis:
❝ * Exossatus ager juxtà est." Age, si mihi nulla
Jam reliqua ex amitis, patruelis nulla, proneptis
Nulla manet: patrui sterilis matertera vixit,
Déque aviá nihilum superest: 3 accedo Bovillas
Cumque ad Virbi. *præstò est mihi

Some petty freehold's lord shall boast a name
From royal licence, and be raised to fame.
How superciliously you note his birth!
But we are all inhabitants of earth.

⚫ Look on our pedigree; how short appears
That string of ancestors your pride reveres;
And knew we more,' I possibly might see
This honest yeoman is allied to me.
Cousins of every kind I next should trace
To Adam, father of the human race.

* Our tie, you hold, is no conjecture vague:
Then why more plague me than even strangers
plague?

Sit pater, haud promptè, dicam tamen, adde etiam

unum,

Unum etiam: terræ est jam filius: 3 et mihi ritu
Manius hic generis propè major avunculus exit.

* Qui prior es, cur me in decursu lampada poscis ?