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Purfue thee to the peaceful groves,
Where Plato's facred fpirit roves,
In all thy beauties drefs'd.

He bade Iliffus' tuneful ftream
Convey thy philofophic theme
Of perfect, fair, and good :
Attentive Athens caught the found,
And all her lift'ning fons around
In awful filence ftood:

Reclaim'd her wild licentious youth,
Confefs'd the potent voice of Truth,,
And felt its juft controul:

The paffions ceas'd their loud alarms,
And Virtue's foft perfuafive charms
O'er all their fenfes ftole.

Thy breath infpires the Poet's fong,,
The Patriot's free unbias'd tongue,
The Hero's gen'rous ftrife;
Thine are Retirement's filent joys,
And all the sweet engaging ties

Of still domestic life.

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No more to fabled names confin'd,
To the fupreme all-perfect Mind

My thoughts direct their flight :
Wisdom's thy gift, and all her force
From thee, deriv'd eternal fource
Of intellectual light.

O fend her fure, her steady ray,
To regulate my doubtful way,
Thro' life's perplexing road;
The mists of error to control,
And thro' its gloom direct my
To happiness and good.

foul

Beneath her clear difcerning eye
The vifionary fhadows fly

Of Folly's painted show :
She fees thro' ev'ry fair disguise,
That all but VIRTUE'S folid joys
Are vanity and woe.

On

On Mr. NASH'S PICTURE

At full Length, between the Bufts of Sir Ifaac Newton, and Mr. Pope.

HE old Egyptians hid their wit

THE

In hieroglyphic drefs,

To give men pains in search of it,
And please themselves with guess.

Moderns, to hit the self-fame path,
And exercise their part,

Place figures in a room at Bath:
Forgive them God of arts!

Newton, if I can judge aright,
All wisdom does exprefs!

His knowledge gives mankind delight,

Adds to their happiness.

Pope is the emblem of true wit,

The funshine of the mind;

Read

Read o'er his works in search of it,
You'll endless pleasure find.

Nafh represents man in the mass,
Made up of wrong and right;
Sometimes a k-, fometimes an a-;
Now blunt---and now polite.

The picture plac'd the bufts between,
Adds to the thought much strength ::
Wisdom and Wit---are little feen,,
But Folly's at full length..

ADVAN

ADVANTAGES

LIFE.

O man ought to look upon the advantages of life, fuch as riches, honour, power, and the like, as his property, but merely as a truft, which God hath depofited with him to be employed for the use of his brethren; and God will certainly punish the breach of that truft, though the laws of man will not, or rather indeed cannot; becaufe the truft was conferred only by God, who has not left it to any power on earth to decide infallibly, whether a man makes good use of his talents or no, or to punish him where he fails. And therefore God feems to have more particularly taken this matter into his own hands, and will certainly reward or punifh us in proportion to our good or ill performance of it. Now, although the advantages which one man poffeffeth more than another, may, in fome fenfe, be called his property with respect to other men, yet with refpect to God, they are only a truft; which will plainly appear from

hence :

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