"Men, patriots, chiefs and citizens are form❜d. "That prowl amid the darkness they themselves 615 "Have thrown around the laws. Oppreffion grieves: "See! how her legal Furies bite the lip, "While YORKS and TALBOTS their deep fares detect, "And feize fwift juftice thro' the clouds they raise. "See! focial LABOUR lifts his guarded head, 620 "And men not yield to government in vain. "From the fure land is rooted ruffian force, "And the leud nurse of villains, idle waste ; "Lo! raz'd their haunts, down dash'd their maddening bowl, A nation's poison! beauteous order reigns! "Manly fubmiffion, unimpofing toil, "Trade without guile, civility that marks 625 From the foul herd of brutal flaves THY fons, "And fearless peace. Or should affronting war "To flow but dreadful vengeance rouze the just, 630 "Unfailing fields of Freemen I behold! "That know, with their own proper arm, to guard Their own blest isle against a leaguing world. "Defpairing Gaul her boiling youth restrains, "Diffolv'd her dream of universal Sway : 635 "The winds and feas are BRITAIN'S wide domain; "And not a fail, but by permithon, fpreads. "Lo! fwarining fouthward on rejoicing funs, " Gay COLONIES extend; the calm retreat "Of undeferv'd distress, the better home "Of those whom bigots chafe from foreign lands. "Not built on Rapine, Servitude and Woe, “And in their turn some petty tyrant's prey ; 6.40 "But, "But, bound by social Freedom, firm they rise; "Such as, of late, an OGLETHORPE has form'd, 645 "And, crouding round, the charm'd Savannah fees. "Horrid with want and mifery, no more "Our streets the tender passenger afflict. "Nor fhivering age, nor fickness without friend, "Or home, or bed to bear his burning load, "Nor agonizing infant, that ne'er earn'd "Its guiltlefs pangs, I fee! The ftores, profufe, "Which British bounty has to these assign'd, "No more the facrilegious riot fwell "Of cannibal devourers! Right apply'd, "No ftarving wretch the land of Freedom stains: If poor, employment finds; if old demands, 650 655 "If fick, if maim'd, his miferable.due; “And will, if young, repay the fondest care. "Sweet fets the fun of ftormy life, and sweet 660 "The morning shines, in Mercy's dews array'd. Lo! how they rife! THESE FAMILIES OF HEAVEN! << * That! chief, (but why-ye Bigots! why fo late?) "Where blooms and warbles glad a rifing age: "What fimiles of praise! And, while their fong ascends, "The liftening feraph lays his lute afide. "Hark! the gay MUSES raise a nobler strain, "Of various string, and heart-felt image fill'd. VOL. I. An hofpital for foundlings. 666 670 675 "Thofe "Those that Apollo's facred walks profane: "Their wild creation scatter'd, where a world "Unknown to Nature, Chaos more confus'd, “O'er the brute scene * its Ouran-Dutangs pours; 680 "Detefted forms! that, on the mind impreft, "Corrupt, confound, and barbarize an age. "Behold! all thine again the SISTER-ARTS, "Thy graces they, knit in harmonious dance, "Nurs'd by the treasure from a nation drain'd "Their works to purchase, they to nobler rouze "Their untamed genius, their unfetter'd thought; "Of pompous tyrants, and of dreaming monks, "The gaudy tools, and prisoners, no more. 685 Lo! numerous DOMES a BURLINGTON confefs: "For Kings and Senates fit, the Palace fee! 691 "The Temple breathing a religious awe: "Tafte never idly working, faves.expence. 695 "See! SYLVAN SCENES, where Art, alone, pretends "To dress her Mistress, and disclose her charms: "Such as a POPE in miniature has shown; "A BATHURST o'er the widening + forest spreads; "And fuch as form a RICHMOND, CHISWICK, STOWE. "August, around, what PUBLIC WORKS I fee! 701 "Lo! ftately Streets, lo! fquares that court the breeze, "In fpite of thofe to whom pertains the care, Ingulphing more than founded Roman ways, Lo! ray'd from cities o'er the brighten'd land, 755 "Connecting fea to fea, the folid Road. "Lo! the proud Arch (no vile exactor's stand) * A creature which, of all brutes, most resembles man.-See Dr Tyfon's treatife on this animal. Okely woods, near Cirencester. << With eafy fweep beftrides the chafing flood. "See! long Canals, and deepened Rivers join "Each part with each, and with the circling main 710 "The whole enliven'd ifle. Lo! Ports expand, "Free as the winds and waves, their sheltering arms. "Lo! streaming comfort o'er the troubled deep, « On every pointed coaft the Light-house tow'rs; "And, by the broad imperious Mole repell'd, "Hark! how the baffled ftorm indignant roars." 715 As thick to view THESE VARIED WONDERS role, Shook all my foul with transport, unaffur'd, The VISION broke; and, on my waking eye, Rufh'd the still RUINS of dejected ROME. 720 |