The Sweets of Contentment. THE SWEETS OF CONTENTMENT. No glory I covet, no riches I want, The one thing I beg of kind Heaven to grant, With paffion unruffled, untainted with pride, By reafon my life let me fquare: The wants of my nature are cheaply fupplied; And the reft is but folly and care. The bleffings which Providence freely has lent While sweet meditation and cheerful content In the pleasures the great man's poffeffions difplay, Unenvied I'll challenge my part; For ev'ry fair object my eyes can furvey How 154 The Leopard and the Looking-Glass. How vainly, through infinite trouble and ftrife, The many their labours employ ! Since all that is truly delightful in life Is what all, if they please, may enjoy! THE LEOPARD AND THE LOOKING-GLASS. FIERCE from his lair, forth fprings the fpeckled pard, Thirsting for blood, and eager to destroy. SOMERVILLE. To Winter. TO WINTER. A WRINKLED, crabbed man, they picture thee, Old Winter! feated in thy great arm'd chair, ANTHOLOGY. WINTER! thou hoary venerable fire, All richly in thy furry mantle clad, What thoughts of mirth can feeble age inspire To make thy careful, wrinkled brów fo glad! Now Now I fee the reason plain, Now I fee thy jolly train; Spring, and Summer, next fucceeds; The feafons fpread their rich increase. ROWE, THE WHALE. WARM and buoyant, in his oily mail Gambols, on feas of ice, th' unwieldy whale; Wide waving fins round floating islands urge His bulk gigantic through the troubled surge; With hideous yawn the flying fhoals he feeks, Or clafps with fringe of horn his massy cheeks; Lifts o'er the toffing wave his noftrils bare, And spouts the wat❜ry columns into air; The filvery arches catch the fetting beams, And tranfient rainbows tremble o'er the ftreams. DARWIN, Morning.-Vigour of Mind. MORNING. WISH'D morning's come; and now upon the plains The happy fhepherds leave their homely huts, Their voice, and hid their fellow brutes good morrow: The cheerful birds, too, on the tops of trees OTWAY, VIGOUR OF MIND. THE wife and active conquer difficulties ROWE 159 |