Then if I can a pilot wife procure,

Mayhap I may again hoift forth my fail,

And other hardy voyages endure

Through shelves and shallows: now the adverse gale Gives me fome time to reft, and lond with joy I hail.

HE Owl expires! death gave the dreadful word,

ΤΗ

And lovely Anna weeps her fav'rite bird.

Ye feather'd choir in willing throngs repair,

And footh the forrows of the melting fair;

In

In founds of woe the dear-departed greet,
With cypress ftrew, ye doves, the green retreat;
The fateful raven tolls the paffing-bell,

The folemn dirge be fung by Philomel;

Sir Chanticlear, a chief of hardy race,

Shall guard from kites and daws the facred place.
With your just tears a bard shall mix his own,
And thus, in artless verse, infcribe the stone.

ЕР І Т А Р Н.

NTERR'D within this little space

INT

The bird of wisdom lies;

Learn hence, how vain is every grace,
How fruitless to be wife.

Can mortal stop the arm of Death
Who ne'er compaffion knew?
He* Venus' lover robb'd of breath,
He, Anna's darling flew.

Ah happy bird, to raise those fighs
Which man could ne'er obtain !
Ah happy bird, to cloud thofe eyes

That fir'd each kneeling fwain!

* Adonis.

L 4

Thrice

Thrice blefs'd thy life, her joy, her blifs,
Thrice blefs'd thy happy doom;.

She gave thee many a melting kiss,
She wept upon thy tomb.

ttttttet et

The VANITY of HUMAN WISHES.

L

THE

Tenth Satire of JUVENAL,

a

IMITATED

By Mr. SAMUEL JOHNSON.

ET obfervation with extenfive view,

Survey mankind, from China to Peru;
Remark each anxious toil, each eager ftrife,
And watch the busy scenes of crowded life;
Then say how hope and fear, defire and hate,
O'erfpread with fnares the clouded maze of fate,
Where wav'ring man, betray'd by vent'rous pride,
To tread the dreary paths without a guide;

a Ver. 1-11.

As

As treach'rous phantoms in the mist delude,
Shuns fancied ills, or chases airy good.

How rarely reason guides the stubborn choice,
Rules the bold hand, or prompts the fuppliant voice,
How nations fink, by darling schemes oppress'd,
When vengeance liftens to the fool's request.
Fate wings with every wish th' afflictive dart,
Each gift of nature, and each grace of art,
With fatal heat impetuous courage glows,
With fatal sweetness elocution flows,
Impeachment ftops the speaker's pow'rful breath,
And restless fire precipitates on death.

b But scarce obferv'd the knowing and the bold, Fall in the genʼral massacre of gold;

Wide-wafting pest! that rages unconfin'd,

And crowds with crimes the records of mankind;
For gold his fword the hireling ruffian draws,

For gold the hireling judge diftorts the laws;
Wealth heap'd on wealth, nor truth nor fafety buys,
The dangers gather as the treasures rise.

Let hift'ry tell where rival kings command, And dubious title fhakes the madded land, When statutes glean the refuse of the sword, How much more fafe the vaffal than the lord,

b Ver. 12-22.

Low

Low fculks the hind beneath the rage of pow'r,
And leaves the wealthy traytor in the Tow'r,
Untouch'd his cottage, and his flumbers found,
Though confifcation's vulturs hover round.
The needy traveller, ferene and gay,

Walks the wild heath, and fings his toil away.
Does envy feize thee? crush th' upbraiding joy,
Increase his riches and his peace destroy,
New fears in dire viciffitude invade,

The rustling brake alarms, and quiv'ring shade,
Nor light nor darkness bring his pain relief,
One fhews the plunder, and one hides the thief.
Yet still one gen'ral cry the fkies affails,
And gain and grandeur load the tainted gales;
Few know the toiling ftatefman's fear or care,
Th' infidious rival and the gaping heir.

d

Once more, Democritus, arife on earth, With chearful wifdom and inftructive mirth, See motly life in modern trappings drefs'd, And feed with varied fools th' eternal jeft: Thou who couldft laugh where want enchain'd caprice, Toil crufh'd conceit, and man was of a piece;

Where wealth unlov'd without a mourner dy'd;

And scarce a fycophant was fed by pride;

Ver. 23-27.

Ver. 2855.

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