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TIROCINIUM.

Ir is not from his form, in which we trace
Strength joined with beauty, dignity with grace,
That man, the master of this globe, derives
His right of empire over all that lives.

That form indeed, the affociate of a mind
Vaft in its powers, ethereal in its kind,
That form, the labour of almighty skill,
Framed for the service of a free-born will,
Afferts precedence, and bespeaks control,
But borrows all its grandeur from the soul,
Hers is the ftate, the splendour, and the throne,
An intellectual kingdom, all her own.

For her the memory fills her ample page

With truths poured down from every diftant age; For her amaffes an unbounded ftore,

The wisdom of great nations, now no more;

Though laden, not incumbered with her spoil;
Laborious, yet unconscious of her toil;

When copiously supplied, then most enlarged;
Still to be fed, and not to be surcharged.
For her the fancy, roving unconfined,
The prefent muse of every penfive mind,
Works magic wonders, adds a brighter hue
To nature's scenes than nature ever knew.
At her command winds rife and waters roar,
Again the lays them flumbering on the fhore;
With flower and fruit the wilderness supplies,
Or bids the rocks in ruder pomp arife.
For her the judgment, umpire in the ftrife
That grace and nature have to wage through life,
Quick-fighted arbiter of good and ill,

Appointed fage preceptor to the will,
Condemns, approves, and with a faithful voice

Guides the decifion of a doubtful choice.

Το

Why did the fiat of a God give birth

yon fair fun and his attendant earth?

And, when descending he refigns the skies,
Why takes the gentler moon her turn to rife,

Whom ocean feels through all his countless waves,

fhore he laves?

And owns her power on every
Why do the feasons still enrich the year,
Fruitful and young as in their first career?
Spring hangs her infant bloffoms on the trees,
Rocked in the cradle of the western breeze;
Summer in hafte the thriving charge receives
Beneath the shade of her expanded leaves,,
Till autumn's fiercer heats and plenteous dews
Dye them at laft in all their glowing hues.
'Twere wild profufion all, and bootless waste,
Power mifemployed, munificence mifplaced,
Had not its author dignified the plan,
And crowned it with the majesty of man.
Thus formed, thus placed, intelligent, and taught,
Look where he will, the wonders God has wrought,
The wildeft fcorner of his Master's laws

Finds in a fober moment time to pause,
To prefs the important queftion on his heart,

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Why formed at all, and wherefore as thou art?" If man be what he seems, this hour a flave,

The next mere duft and ashes in the grave;
Endued with reafon only to defcry

His crimes and follies with an aching eye;

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