So vy'd thy virtues, that could point the way,
So well to govern; yet fo well obey.

Deign one look more! ah! fee thy confort dear
Wishing all hearts, except his own, to chear. 70
Lo! ftill he bids thy wonted bounty flow
To weeping families of worth and woe.
He ftops all tears, however faft they rise,
Save thofe that fill muft fall from grateful eyes,
And, fpite of griefs that fo ufurp his mind,
Still watches o'er the welfare of mankind.

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Count ftill, my Muse (to count, what Muse can
ceafe?)

The works of Public Spirit, freedom, peace!
By them fhall plants, in forefts, reach the skies;
Then lofe their leafy pride, and navies rife.
(Navies, which to invafive foes explain, 35
Heaven throws not round us rocks and feas in vain):
The fail of commerce in each fky afpires,

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Who digs the mine or quarry, digs with glee;
No flave! His option and his gain are free:
Him the fame laws the fame protection yield,
Who ploughs the furrow, or who owns the field.
Unlike, where tyranny the rod maintains
O'er turflefs, leaflefs, and uncultur'd plains,
Here herbs of food and physic plenty showers, 45
Gives fruits to biufh, and colours various flowers.

FREDERIC PRINCE OF WALES. Where fands or ftony wilds once ftarv'd the year,

CONTENTS.

Laughs the green lawn, and nods the golden ear :
White fhine the fleecy race, which fate shall doom
The feaft of life, the treasure of the loom,
On plains now bare shall gardens wave their

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Of refervoirs, and their use; of draining fens, and building bridges, cutting canals, repairing harbours, and ftopping inundations, making rivers While fettling fongfters woo their feather'd loves. navigable, building light-houfes; of agriculture, Where pathlefs woods no grateful openings knew, gardening, and planting for the noblest uses; of Walks tempt the step, and viftas court the view. commerce; of public roads; of public build- See the parterre confefs expanfive day; ings, viz. fquares, ftreets, manfions, palaces, The grot, elufive of the noon-tide ray. courts of juftice, fenate-houses, theatres, hof-Up yon green flope a length of terrace lies, pitals, churches, colleges; the variety of worthies Whence gradual landscapes fade in diftant fkies. produced by the latter; of colonies. The flave-Now the blue lake reflected heaven displays; trade cenfured, &c.

REAT Hope of Britain!-Here the Mufe
effays

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A theme, which, to attempt alone, is praife.
Be Her's a zeal of Public Spirit known!
A princely zeal!-a Spirit all your own!

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Now darkens, regularly-wild, the maze.
Urns, obelifks, fanes, ftatues intervene ;
Now centre, now commence, or end the scene.
Lo, proud alcoves! lo, foft fequefter'd bowers!
Retreats of focial, or of ttudious hours!
Rank above rank her shapely greens afcend; 65
There others natively-grotesque depend.

5 The rude, the delicate, immingled tell
How Art would Nature, Nature Art excel;
And how, while these their rival charms impart,
Art brightens Nature, Nature brightens Art; 7o
Thus, in the various, yet harmonious space,
Blend order, fymmetry, and force, and grace.

Where never Science beam'd a friendly ray,
Where cne vaft blank neglected Nature lay;
From Public Spirit there, by arts employ'd,
Creation, varying, glads the cheerless void,
Hail, arts! where fafety, treasure, and delight,
On land, on wave, in wondrous works unite! 10
Those wondrous works, O Mufe! fucceffive raise,
And point their worth, their dignity, and praife!

What though no ftreams, magnificently play'd,
Rife a proud column, fall a grand cafcade; [15
Through nether pipes, which nobler use renowns,
Lo! ductile rivulets visit distant towns!
Now vanish fens, whence vapours rife no more,
Whofe agueifh influence tainted heaven before.
The folid ifthmus finks a watery space,
And wonders, in new ftate, at naval grace.

When thefe from Public Spirit fmile, we fee
Free-opening gates, and bowery pleasures free;
For fure great fouls one truth can never mifs, 75
Blife not communicated is not bliss.

Thus Public Spirit, liberty, and peace,
Carve, build, and plant, and give the land increase;
From peafant hands imperial works arise,

And British hence with Roman grandeur vies; 80
Not grandeur that in pompous whim appears,
20 That levels hills, that vales to mountains rears;

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That alters nature's regulated grace,
Meaning to deck, but deftin'd to deface.
Though no proud gates, with China's taught to vic,
Magnificently useless strike the eye;
(Ufelefs, where rocks a furer barrier lend,
Where feas encircle, and where fleets defend ;)
What though no arch of triumph is affign'd [90
To laurel'd pride, whofe fword has thinn'd mankind;
Though no vaft wall extends from coast to coaft,
No pyramid afpires, fublimely loft;

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Yet the fafe road through rocks fhall winding tend,
And the firm causeway o'er the clays ascend.
Lo! ftately freets, lo! ample fquares invite
The falutary gale, that breathes delight.
Lo! ftructures mark the charitable foil,
For cafual ill, maim'd valour, feeble toil
Worn out with care, infirmity, and age;
The life here entering, quitting there the stage: 100
The babe of lawless birth, doom'd elfe to moan,
To starve or bleed for errors not his own!
Let the frail mother 'fcape the fame defil'd,
If from the murdering mother 'scape the child!
Oh! guard his youth from fin's alluring voice; 105
From deeds of dire neceffity, not choice!
His grateful hand, thus never harmful known,
Shall on the public welfare build his own.
Thus worthy crafts, which low-born life divide,
Give towns their opulence, and courts their pride
Sacred to pleasure ftructures rife elate,
To that ftill worthy of the wife and great.
Sacred to pleasure then shall piles afcend?
They fhall-when pleasure and instruction blend.
Let theatres from Public Spirit fhine!
Such theatres, as, Athens, once were thine!
See! the gay Mufe of pointed wit poffeft,
Who makes the virtuous laugh, the decent jeft:
What though the mock, the mocks with honest aim,
And laughs each favourite folly into shame,
With liberal light the tragic charms the age:
In folemn-training robes the fills the stage;
There human nature, mark'd in different lines,
Alive in character diftinctly shines.

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At her command the college-roofs afcend
(For Public Spirit ftill is learning's friend.)
Stupendous piles, which useful pomp compleats,
Thus rife Religion's, and thus Learning's feats;
There moral truth and holy science spring,
And give the fage to teach, the bard to fing, 150
There fome draw health from herbs and mineral
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Some fearch the fyftems of the heavenly plains;
Some call from hiftory past times to view,
And others trace old laws, and sketch out new;
Thence faving rights by legislators plann'd, 155
And guardian patriots thence in pire the land.
Now grant, ye powers, one great, one fond defire,
And, granting, bid a new Whitehall aspire!
Far let it lead, by well-pleas'd Thames furvey'd,
The fwelling arch, and stately colonnade;
Bid courts of juftice, senate-chambers join,
Fill various all in one proud work combine!
But now be all the generous Goddess seen,
When most diffus'd the fhines, and most benign!
Ye fons of mifery, attract her view!
Ye fallow, hollow-eyed, and meagre crew!
Such high perfection have our arts attain'd,
That now few fons of toil our arts demand?
Then to the public, to itself, we fear,
Ev'n willing industry grows useless here,
Are we too populous at length confefs'd,
From confluent ftrangers refug'd and redress'd?
Has war fo long withdrawn his barbarous train,
That peace o'erstocks us with the fons of men?
So long has plague left pure the ambient air, 175
That want muft prey on those aisease would spare?
Hence beauteous wretches (beauty's foul disgrace!)
Though born the pride, the shame of human race;
Fair wretches hence, who nightly streets annoy,
Live but themselves and others to destroy. 180
Hence robbers rise, to theft, to murder prone,
First driven by want, from habit defperate grown;
Hence for ow'd trifles oft our jails contain
(Torn from mankind) a miserable train;
Torn from, in fpite of nature's tenderest cries, 185

Quick paffions change alternate on her face; 125 Parental, filial, and connubial ties :

Her diction mufic, as her action grace.
Inftant we catch her terror-giving cares,
Pathetic fighs, and pity-moving tears;
Inftant we catch her generous glow of foul,
Till one great striking moral crowns the whole. 130
Hence in warm youth, by scenes of virtue taught,
Honour exalts, and love expands the thought!
Hence pity, to peculiar grief affign'd,
Grows wide benevolence to all mankind.
Where various edifice the land renowns
There Public Spirit plans, exalts, and crowns.
She chears the manfion with the spacious hall,
Bids painting live along the storied wall;
Seated, the fmiling eyes th' unclofing door,
And much the welcomes all, but most the poor; 140
She turns the pillar, or the arch the bends,
The choir fhe lengthens, or the choir extends;
She rears the tower, whofe height the heavens
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She rears, the rounds, the points the leffening fpire;
VOL. V.

The trader, when on every side distrest,
Hence flies to what expedient frauds fuggeft;
To prop his question'd credit's tottering ftate,
Others he first involves to fhare his fate;
Then for mean refuge must felf-exil'd roam
Never to hope a friend, nor find a home.

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This Public Spirit fees, fhe fees and feels!
Her breaft the throb, her eye the tear reveals;
The patriot throb that beats, the tear that flows 195
For others welfare, and for others woes)—
And what can I (fhe faid) to cure their grief?
Shall I or point out death, or point relief?
Forth fhall I lead them to fome happier foil,
To conqueft lead them, and enrich with spoil? 200
Bid them convulfe a world, make nature groan,
And spill, in shedding others blood, their own
No, no,fuch wars do thou, Ambition wage!
Go fterilize the fertile with thy rage!
Whole nations to depopulate is thine;
To people, culture, and protect, be mine!
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Then range the world, Difcovery!-Straight he | And towns fhall open (all of structure fair!)

To MR. JOHN DYER, A PAINTER, Through those bright features Cæfar's fpirit trace,

ADVISING HIM TO DRAW A CERTAIN

NOBLE AND ILLUSTRIOUS PERSON;

Each conquering sweetness, each imperial grace,
All that is foft, or eminently great,

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In love, in war, in knowledge, or in flate.
Thus fhall your colours, like his worth amaze!
Thus fhall you charm, curich'd with Clio's praise!

OCCASIONED BY SEEING HIS PICTURE OF THE Clear, and more clear, your golden genius fhines,

CELEBRATED CLIO.

NORGIVE an artless, an officious friend,

FWeak, when I judge, but willing to commend;

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Fall'n as I am, by no kind fortune rais'd,
Deprefs'd, obfcur'd, unpity'd, and unprais'd;
Yet, when thefe well-known features I perufe, 5
Some warmth awakes fome embers of a Mufe.
Ye Mufes, Graces, and ye Loves, appear!
Your Queen, your Venus, and your Clio's here!
In fuch pure fires her rifing thoughts refine!
Her eyes with fuch commanding fweetness shine: 10
Such vivid tinctures fure through æther glow,
Stain fummer clouds, or gild the watery bow:
If life Pygmalion's ivory favourite fir'd,
Sure fome enamonr'd God this draught infpir'd!
Or, if you rafhly caught Promethean flame,
Shade the sweet theft, and mar the beauteous frame!
Yet if those cheering lights the prospect fly,
Ah!-let no pleafing view the lofs fupply.
Some dreary den, fome desert wafte prepare,
Wild as my thoughts, or dark as my defpair.
But ftill, my friend, still the sweet object ftays,
Still ftream your colours rich with Clio's rays!
Sure at each kindling touch your canvafs glows!
Sure the full form, inftinct with fpirit, grows!
Let the dull artist puzzling rules explore,
Dwell on the face, and gaze the features o'er;
You eye the foul--there genuine nature find,
You, through the meaning mufcles,ftrike the mind.
Nor can one view fuch boundless power confine,
All Nature opens to an art like thine!
Now rural scenes in fimple grandeur rife!
Vales, hills, lawns, lakes, and vineyards feaft our
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Now halcyon Peace a smiling afpect wears!
Now the red fcene with war and ruin glares!
Here Britain's fleets o'er Europe's feas prefide! 35
There long-loft cities rear their ancient pride;
You from the grave can half redeem the slain,
And bid great Julius charm the world again :
Mark out Pharfalia's, mark out Munda's fray,
And image all the honours of the day

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While my dim lamp of life obfcure declines; 60
Dull'd in damp fhades, it waftes, unfeen, away,'
While yours, triumphant, grows one blaze of day.

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O-NIGHT a patient ear, ye Britons, lend,
And to your great forefathers' deeds attend.
Here, cheaply warn'd, ye bieft defcendants view,
What ills on England, Civil Difcord drew.

To wound the heart, the martial Mufe prepares:
While the red fcene with raging flaughter glares

Here, while a monarch's fufferings we relate,
Let generous grief his ruin'd grandeur wait.
While Second Richard's blood for vengeance calls, ́-
Doom'd for his grandfire's guilt, poor Henry falls. 10
45 In civil jars avenging judgment blows,
And royal wrongs entail a people's woes.
Henry, unvers'd in wiles, more good than great,
Drew on by meeknets his disastrous fate.”

But if new glories moft our warmth excite,
If toils untry'd to noblest aims invite;
Would you in envy'd pomp unrival'd reign,
Oh, let Horatius grace the canvas plain!
His form might ev'n idolatry create,
In lineage, titles, wealth, and worth clate!
Empires to hima might virgin honours owe,
From him arts, arms, and laws, new influence know.
For him kind funs on fruits and grains fhall fhine,
And future gold lie ripening in the mine:
For him fine marble in the quarry lies,
Which, in due ftatues, to his fame fhall rife.

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Thus when you fee this land by faction toft, 15
Her nobles flain, her laws, her freedom loft;
Let this reflection from the action flow,
We ne'er from foreign foes cou'd ruin know.
Oh, let us then inteftine difcord thun,

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