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SECT. II.

EXAMPLES IN POETRY.

Key, p. 105.

Where thy true treasure Gold says not in me
And not in me the Diamond Gold is poor

The scenes of business tell us what are men
The scenes of pleasure What is all beside

Wo then apart if wo apart can be

From mortal man and fortune at our nod
The gay rich great triumphant and august
What are they The most happy strange to say
Convince me most of human misery

All this dread order break for whom for thee
Vile worm O madness pride impiety

Man like the generous vine supported lives
The strength he gains is from th embrace he gives

Know nature s children all divide her care
The fur that warms a monarch warm da bear
While man exclaims see all things for my use
See man for mine replies a pamper d goose
And just as short of reason he must fall
Who thinks all made for one not one for all

The Almighty from his throne on earth surveys
Nought greater than an honest humble heart
An humble heart his residence pronounc d
His second seat

Bliss there is none but unprecarious bliss
That is the gem sell all and purchase that
Why go a begging to contingencies

Not gain d with ease nor safely lov d if gain d
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There is a time when toil must be preferr d
Or joy by mistim d fondness is undone
A man of pleasure is a man of pains

Thus nature gives us let it check our pride
The virtue nearest to our vice allied

See the sole bliss Heav n could on all bestow
Which who but feels can taste but thinks can know
Yet poor with fortune and with learning blind
The bad must miss the good untaught will find

Whatever is is right This world tis true

Was made for Cæsar but for Titus too

And which more blest who chain d his country say Or he whose virtue sigh d to loose a day

The first sure symptom of a mind in health
Is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home

True happiness resides in things unseen
No smiles of fortune ever bless the bad
Nor can her frowns rob innocence of joy

Oh the dark days of vanity while here
How tasteless and how terrible when gone
Gone they ne er go when past they haunt us still

Father of light and life Thou good supreme
O teach me what is good Teach me thyself
Save me from folly vanity and vice

From ev ry low pursuit and feed my soul

With knowledge conscious peace and virtue pure Sacred substantial never fading bliss

If I am right thy grace impart

Still in the right to stay

If I am wrong O teach my heart

To find that better way

Save me alike from foolish pride
Or impious discontent

At aught thy wisdom has denied
Or aught thy goodness lent

O lost to virtue lost to manly thought
Lost to the noble sallies of the soul
Who think it solitude to be alone

Communion sweet communion large and high
Our reason guardian angel and our God
Then nearest these when others most remote
And all ere long shall be remote but these

Benevolence.

God loves from whole to parts but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole

Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake
As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake
The centre mov d a circle straight succeeds
Another still and still another spreads

Friend parent neighbour first it will embrace
His country next and next all human race
Wide and more wide th o erflowings of the mind
Take ev ry creature in of ev ry kind

Earth smiles around with boundless bounty blest
And Heav n beholds its image in his breast

Happiness.

Know then this truth enough for man to know
Virtue alone is happiness below

The only point where human bliss stands still
And tastes the good without the fall to ill
Where only merit constant pay receives
Is blest in what it takes and what it gives
The joy unequall d if its end it gain
And if it lose attended with no pain
Without satiety tho e er so blest

And but more relish d as the more distress d

The broadest mirth unfeeling folly wears
Less pleasing far than virtue s very tears
Good from each object from each place acquir d
For ever exercis d yet never tir d
Never elated while one man s oppress d
Never dejected while anothers blest

And where no wants no wishes can remain
Since but to wish more virtue is to gain

Gratitude.

When all thy mercies O my God
My rising soul surveys
Transported with the view I m lost
In wonder love and praise

Oh how shall words with equal warmth
The gratitude declare

'That glows within my ravish d heart
But thou canst read it there

Thy providence my life sustain d
All my wants redress d
When in the silent womb I lay
And hung upon the breast

To all my weak complaints and cries
Thy mercy lent an ear

Ere yet my feeble thoughts had learnt
To form themselves in pray r

Unnumber d comforts to my soul
Thy tender care bestow d
Before my infant heart conceiv d

From whom those comforts flow d

When in the slipp ry paths of youth
With heedless steps I ran

Thine arm unseen convey d me safe
And led me up to man

Through hidden dangers toils and death
It gently clear d my way

And through the pleasing snares of vice
More to be feard than they

When worn with sickness oft hast thou
With health renew d my face
And when in sin and sorrow sunk
Reviv d my soul with grace

Thy bounteous hand with worldly bliss
Has made my cup run o er
And in a kind and faithful friend
Has doubled all my store

Ten thousand thousand precious gifts
My daily thanks employ
Nor is the least a cheerful heart
That tastes those gifts with joy

Through ev ry period of my life
Thy goodness Ill pursue
And after death in distant worlds
The glorious theme renew

When nature fails and day and night
Divide thy works no more

My ever grateful heart O Lord
Thy mercy shall adore

Through all eternity to thee
A joyful song Ill raise

For O eternity s too short

To utter all thy praise

The voyage of Life.

Self flatter d unexperienc d high in hope

When young with sanguine cheer and streamers gay

We cut our cable launch into the world

And fondly dream each wind and star our friend

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