Or is thy judgment by thy heart misled To deem that certain, which thy hopes fuggeft? Whofe cheeks in Hebe's vivid tints are dreft, And with Joy's careless mien, and dimpled smiles imprest? LXXIV. Thy unfufpecting heart how nobly good I know, how fanguine in thy country's cause! How vaft his influence! how wide his sway! Thy felf ere-while by proof didft understand : And can't thou then, O Fairy's Son, demand The throbbings of my heart with speeches bland, The once-dear names of Wealth, and Liberty, and Peace? P Luftihead, ftrong health, vigour. LXXVI. Peace, LXXVI. Peace, Wealth, and Liberty, that nobleft boon, To weak and vicious minds their worth unknown With high-fpiced luxury; whence ftrife, debate, The symptoms of a foul, diseased and bloated state. Ev'n Wit and Genius, with their learned train And ftand As As well to prove, as to reward the good? The fell leviathan licentious plays, And upon fhip-wreck'd faith, and finking virtue preys? To you, ye Noble, Opulent and Great! The health and fickness of the common-weal; And Justice drench in vain her vengeful fword in blood. With You must reformation first take place: You are the head, the intellectual mind Of this vaft body politick; whose base, And vulgar limbs, to drudgery confign'd, All the rich stores of Science have refign'd To You, that by the craftsman's various toil, The fea-worn mariner, and fweating hind, In peace and affluence maintain'd, the while You, for yourselves and them, may drefs the mental foil. LXXXI. Be Bethink you then, my LXXXI. children, of the truft In you repos'd: ne let your heav'n-born mind But nobly roufe you to the task affign'd, The godlike task to teach and mend mankind : But if (to All or Most I do not fpeak) You chiefly, who like me in fecret mourn The prevalence of CUSTOм lewd and vain; And you, who, though by the rude torrent borne Mould, fhape, form. To To his behefts, and act what you difdain, The manly zeal; but all your finews move The prefent to reclaim, the future race improve! Eftfoons by your joint efforts fhall be quell'd Who where he cannot dictate ftrait obeys. Ne for th' atchievement of this great emprize my TWIN-DAUGHTERS' fruitful wombs fhall rife A race of letter'd fages, deeply read In Learning's various writ: by whom y-led Through each well cultur'd plot, each beauteous grove, Where antique Wisdom whilom wont to tread, With mingled glee and profit may ye rove, And cull each virtuous plant, each tree of knowledge prove. LXXXVI. Your |