If fo, then Millar's page decrees

Mere Scholars to be barren trees.

But if thefe various reafons fail,
Let my example once prevail.

When to your chamber you repair,
Your property employs my care.
And while you fink in sweet repose,
My faithful eyelids never close.

When hunger prompts the moufe to steal,

Then I difplay my honest zeal;

True to my charge, thefe talons feize

The wretch, who dares purloin your cheese.
Or fhould the thief affault your bread,

I ftrike the audacious felon dead.

Nor fay I fpring at finaller game-
My prowels flaughter'd rats proclaim.
I'm told, your generals often fly,

When danger, and when death are nigh.
Nay, when nor death nor danger's near,
As your court-martials make appear.
When in your service we engage,
We brave the pilfering villain's rage;

Ne'er

Ne'er take advantage of the night,
To meditate inglorious flight;

But stand refolv'd, when foes defy,

To conquer, or to bravely die.

Hence, Bookworm, learn our duty here

Is active life in every sphere.

Know too, there's scarce a brute but can

Inftruct vain fupercilious man.

That our Fortitude and Perfeverance should be proportionate to the Degree and Duration of our Suf

ferings.

W

NEPTUNE and the MARINERS.

HEN fore calamities we feel,

And forrow treads on forrow's heel,

Our courage and our strength, we say,

Are infufficient for the day.

Thus man's a poor dejected elf,

Who fain would run away from felf.

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Yet turn to Germany, you'll find

An Atlas of a human mind!

But here I deviate from my plan,

For Pruffia's king is more than man!
Inferior beings fuit my rhime,

My scheme, my genius, and my time;
Men, birds, and beafts, with now and then
A pagan god, to grace my pen.

A veffel bound for India's coaft,
The merchants confidence and boast,
Puts forth to fea-the gentle deep
Befpeaks its boisterous god afleep.
Three chearful fhouts the failors gave,
And zephyrs curl the shining wave.
A halcyon sky prevails awhile,
The tritons and the nereids fmile.
These omens fairest hopes impress,
And half insure the George success.
What casual ills these hopes destroy!
To change how fubject every joy!
When dangers most remote appear,
Experience proves thofe dangers near.

Thus, boast of health whene'er you please,

Health is next neighbour to disease.

'Tis prudence to suspect a foe,

And fortitude to meet the blow.

In wisdom's rank he ftands the firft,
Who ftands prepar'd to meet the worst.
For lo! unnumber'd clouds arife,

The fable legions spread the skies.
The storm around the vessel raves,

The deep displays a thousand graves.
With active hands and fearless hearts
The failors play their various parts;
They ply the pumps, they furl the fails,
Yet nought their diligence avails.
The tempeft thickens every hour,

And mocks the feats of human pow'r.
The failors now their fate deplore,
Eftrang'd to every fear before.

With wild surprise their eye-balls glare,
Their honeft breafts admit defpair.
All further efforts they decline,

At once all future hopes refign;

And

And thus abandoning their skill,
They give the ship to drive at will.
Strait enter'd with majestic grace,
A form of more than human race,
The god an azure mantle wore,
His hand a forked fceptre bore;

When thus the monarch of the main

How dare you deem your labours vain? Shall man exert himself the less,

Because fuperior dangers prefs?

How can I think your hearts fincere,
Unless you bravely perfevere?

Know, mortals, that when perils rife,

Perils enhance the glorious prize.

But, who deferts himself, fhall be

Deferted by the gods and me.

Hence to your charge, and do your beft, My trident fhall do all the rest.

The mariners their task renew,

All to their deftin'd province flew.

The winds are hufh'd-the fea fubfides, The gallant George in safety rides.