Like the hallow'd Bard of yore,

Who chaunted in authentic rhymes
The worthies of the good old times,

Ere living vice in verse was varnish'd o'er,
And virtue died without a fong.

Support of friendlefs right, to powerful wrong
A check, behold him in the judgment-seat!
Twice, there, approv'd, in righteousness compleat:
In just awards, how gracious! tempering law
With mercy, and reproving with a winning awe.

ANTIS TROPHE III.

74

Celestial gifts!-Oh, when the nobles meet,

86

By foft alarms, and with a gentle force prevails!

E PODE III.

To fuch perfuafion, willing, yields

The liberal mind, in freedom train'd,
Freedom, which, in crimson'd fields,
By hardy toil our fathers gain'd,

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In

Inheritance of long defcent!

The facred pledge, fo dearly priz'd
By that blefs'd fpirit we lament :
Grief-eafing lays, by grief devis'd,
Plaintive numbers, gently flowing,
Sooth the ferrows to him owing!

STROPHE IV.

Early on his growing heir,

Stamp what time may not impair,
As he grows, that coming years,
Or youthful pleasures, or the vain
Gigantic phantom of the brain

Ambition, breeding monftrous hopes and fears,
Or worthier cares, to youth unknown,
Ennobling manhood, flower of life full-blown,
May never wear the bofom-image faint :

O, let him prove what words but weakly paint,
The lively lovely femblance of his fire,

A model to his fon! that ages may admire !

ANTIS TROPHE IV.

98

302

106

114

While we behold yon wide-spread azure cope,

With burning ftars thick-lufter'd o'er,

Than to enjoy, and to deserve, a store

322

of

Of treafur'd fame, by blamelefs deeds acquir'd,
By all unenvied, and by all defir'd,

Free-gift of men, the tribute of good-will!
Rich in this patrimony fair, increase it still..
E PODE IV.

The fullness of content remains
Above the yet unfathom'd skies,
Where, triumphant, gladnefs reigns,
Where wishes ceafe, and pleafures rife
Beyond all wifh; where bitter tears

For dying friends are never fhed;

Where, fighing, none defire pafs'd years
Recall'd, or wish the future fied.

Mournful meafures, O, relieve me!

Sweet remembrance! ceafe to grieve me..

STROPHE V.

126

130

134

And we are judg'd where favour is not bought.

142

Ry him forewarn'd, thou frantic ifle,

How did the thirft of gold thy fons beguile!

Beneath the specious ruin thousands groan'd,
By him, alas, forewarn'd, by him bemoan'd.

146

Where shall his like, on earth, be found? oh, when Shall I, once more, behold the most belov'd of men! ANTI

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ANTISTROPHE V.

Winning afpect! winning mind!

Soul and body aptly join'd!

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Searching thought, engaging wit,
Enabled to inftru&t, or please,
Uniting dignity with ease,

By nature form'd for every purpose fit,
Endearing excellence!-O, why

Is fuch perfection born, and born to die?
Or do fuch rare endowments ftill furvive,

154

As plants, remov'd to milder regions thrive,
In one eternal fpring? and we bewail

158

The parting foul, new-born to life that cannot fail.

E PODE V.

Where facred friendship, plighted love,

Parental joys, unmix'd with care,
Through perpetual time improve?
Or do the deathlefs bleffed fhare
Sublimer raptures, unreveal'd,
Beyond our weak conception pure?

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TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

WILLIAM PULTENEY, ESQUIRE.

W

MAY 1, 1723.

I.

HO, much distinguish'd, yet is blefs'd?
Who, dignified above the rest,

Does, ftill, unenvied live?

Not to the man whofe wealth abounds,

Nor to the man whofe fame refounds,

Does heaven fuch favour give,
Nor to the noble-born, nor to the strong,
Nor to the gay, the beautiful, or young,

II.

Whom then, fecure of happiness,

Does every eye beholding blefs,
And every tongue commend?

Him, Pulteney, who, poffeffing ftore,
Is not folicitous of more,

Who, to mankind a friend,

Nor envies, nor is envied by, the great,
Polite in courts, polite in his retreat :

III.

Whofe unambitious, active foul,
Attends the welfare of the whole,

When public storms arise,
And, in the calm, a thoufand ways
Diversifies his nights and days,
Still elegantly wife;