Envy may rail; and faction fierce May ftrive: but what, alas, can those I. 2. O nurfe of freedom, Albion, fay, I. 3. To him the Teacher blefs'd, Who fent religion, from the palmy field By Jordan, like the morn to cheer the weft, And lifted up the veil which heaven from earth conceal'd, To Hoadly thus his mandate he addrefs'd: "Go thou; and refcue my difhonor'd law From hands rapacious and from tongues impure: "Let not my peaceful name be made a lure "Fell perfecution's mortal fnares to aid: "Let not my words be impious chains to draw The freeborn foul in more than brutal awe, II. 1. No cold or unperforming hand Was arm'd by heaven with this command. II. 2. Then drew the lawgivers around, From the dread bonds of many an age, And to new habits mould the public mind. II. 3. For not a conqueror's fword, Nor the strong powers to civil founders known, Were his but truth by faithful search explor'd, And focial fenfe, like feed, in genial plenty fown. Wherever it took root, the foul (reftor'd To freedom) freedom too for others. fought. Could longer guard from reason's warfare sage; Nor fynods by the papal Genius taught, Nor St. John's spirit locfe, nor Atterbury's rage. But where shall recompence be found? Yet born to conquer is her power: -O Hoadly, if that favourite hour III. 3. While thus our vows prolong Thy steps on earth, and when by us refign'd Who refcued or preferv'd the rights of human kind, O! not unworthy may thy Albion's tongue Thee ftill, her friend and benefactor, name: O! never, Hoadly, in thy country's eyes, May impious gold, or pleafure's gaudy prize, Make public virtue, public freedom, vile; Nor our own manners tempt us to disclaim That heritage, our nobleft wealth and fame, Which Thou haft kept intire from force and factious IF F rightly tuneful bards decide, That beauty ought not to be tried II. Behold that bright unfullied fmile, Yet (fhe fo artless all the while, We nought but inftant gladness know, But neither mufic, nor the powers As As memory brings it to the eye From fcenes where Amoret was by. Yet not a fatirift could there Or fault or indifcretion find; Nor any prouder sage declare One virtue, pictur'd in his mind, Whofe form with lovelier colours glows Than Amoret's demeanor fhows. V. This fure is beauty's happieft part: O DE IX. AT STUDY. I. WHITHER did my faney fray? By what magic drawn away Have I left my ftudious theme? From this philofophic page, From the problems of the fage, Wandering through a pleasing dream ? II. 'Tis |