There all the fprightly powers of wit There ev'ry focial virtue sheds Its intellectual ray. But as the fun's refulgent light This mental beam dilates the heart, It harmonizes every thought, And heightens every grace, One glimpse can footh the troubled breaft The heaving figh restrain ! Can make the bed of fickness please, Its power can charm the favage heart, And melt the foul to love. When fweetnefs beams upon the throne In majefty benign, The awful fplendors of a crown, With milder luftre fhine. Who envies none whom chance doth raise, Or vice; who never understood How deepest wounds are given with praise; Nor rules of ftate, but rules of good: Who God doth late and early pray With a well-chofen book or friend! This man is freed from fervile bands O DE ON OF F damask cheeks and radiant eyes, Within the bofom of the fair Superior beauties dwell. There all the fprightly powers of wit There ev'ry focial virtue sheds Its intellectual ray. But as the fun's refulgent light Heav'ns wide expanfe refines; This mental beam dilates the heart, It harmonizes every thought, And heightens every grace, One glimpse can footh the troubled breaft The heaving figh restrain ! Can make the bed of fickness please, Its power can charm the favage heart, The tyrants pity move: To fmiles convert the wildest rage And melt the foul to love. When sweetness beams upon the throne In majefty benign, The awful fplendors of a crown, With milder luftre shine. The influence of this living ray Thus, when the blooming Spring returns Through earth and air, with genial warmth, Etherial mildness reigns. Beneath its bright aufpicious beam's A thousand nameless beauties fpring, Unbounded Charity" difplay's Her fympathizing charms; Almighty love exerts his power, And fpreads with fecret art A foft fenfation through the frame, Nor fhall the ftorms of age, which cloud Each gleam of fenfual joy, And blast the gaudy flower's pride, These bleft effects destroy. When that fair form shall fink in years, Shall length of days defy. ΤΗΣ SWALLOWS. BY JAGO RE yellow Autumn from our plains retir'd, ER And gave to wintry ftorms the varied year, The swallow-race, with forefight clear infpir'd, To southern climes prepar'd their course to steer. On Damon's roof a grave affembly fate; Obferve yon twitt'ring flock, my gentle maid, Obferve and read the wond'rous ways of Heav'n, With us through Summer's genial reign' they ftay'd, And food and lodging to their wants were given. |