That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay,
As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away;
While, self-dependent power can time defy,
As rocks resist the billows and the sky.

THE

HERMIT;

A

POEM.

BY

T. PARNELL, D. D.

WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF HIS LIFE

BY GOLDSMITH.

THE

LIFE

OF

THOMAS PARNELL,

D. D.

ARCHDEACON OF

CLOGHER.