The CONTENTS of PART V.

UTHOR addresses the GODDESS of LIBERTY,

marking the happiness and grandeur of GREAT BRITAIN, as arising from HER influence, to Ver. 885 SHE refumes HER difcourfe, and points out the chief VIRTUES which are necessary to maintain HER ESTA BLISHMENT there; to Ver. 374. Recommends, as ITS laft ornament and finishing, SCIENCES, FINE ARTS, and PUBLIC WORKS. The encouragement of these urg'd from the example of FRANCE, though under a defpotic government; to Ver. 549. The whole concludes with a PROSPECT of future times, given by the GOD. DESS of LIBERTY: this defcribed by the author, as it paffes in VISION before him.

LIBERTY.

PART V.

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ERE interpofing, as the GODDESS paus'd,"Oh bleft BRITANNIA! in THY presence bleft, "THOU guardian of mankind! whence spring, alone, "All human grandeur, happiness and fame: "For toil, by THEE protected, feels no pain; "The poor man's lot with milk and honey flows; "And, gilded with thy rays, even death looks gay. "Let other lands the potent blessing boast "Of more exalting funs. Let Afia's woods, "Untended, yield the vegetable fleece: "And let the little infect-artist form, "On higher life intent, its filken tomb. "Let wondering rocks, in radiant birth, disclose "The various-tinctured children of the fun. "From the prone beam let more delicious fruits "A flavour drink, that in one piercing taste "Bids each combine. Let Gallic vineyards burst "With floods of joy; with mild balfamic juice "The Tuscan olive. Let Arabia breathe "Her fpicy gales, her vital gums diftil. "Turbid with gold, let fouthern rivers flow; "And orient floods draw foft, o'er pearls, their maze. "Let Afric vaunt her treasures; let Peru,

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"Deep in her bowels her own ruin breed, "The yellow traitor that her blifs betray'd,"Unequall'd blifs !-and to unequall'd rage! "Yet nor the gorgeous East, nor golden South, "Nor, in full prime, that new-discover'd world, "Where flames the falling day, in wealth and praise Shall, with BRITANNIA vie, while, GODDESS, fhe 30 "Derives her praise from THEE, her matchless charms. "Her hearty fruits the hand of Freedom own; "And, warm with culture, her thick-clustering fields Prolific teem. Eternal verdure crowns "Her meads; her gardens finile eternal spring. "She gives the hunter horfe, unquell'd by toil, "Ardent, to rush into the rapid chace:

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She, whitening o'er her downs, diffufive, pours "Unnumber'd flocks: fhe weaves the fleecy robe, "That wraps the nations: fhe, to lufty droves, "The richest pasture spreads; and, her's, deep-wave "Autumnal feas of pleafing plenty round. "Thefe her delight: and by no baneful herb, "No darting tyger, no grim lion's glare, "No fierce-defcending wolf, no ferpent roll'd "In fpires immenfe progreffive o'er the land, "Disturb'd. Enlivening these, and cities, full "Of wealth, of trade, of chearful toiling crouds: "Add thriving towns: add villages and farms, "Innumerous fow'd along the lively vale, "Where bold unrival'd peasants happy dwell: "Add ancient feats, with venerable oaks "Embofom'd high, while kindred floods below "Wind thro' the mead; and those of modern hand, "More pompous, add, that splendid shine afar: "Need I her limpid lakes, her rivers name "Where swarm the finny race? Thee, chief, O Thames!

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"On whose each tide, glad with returning fails, "Flows in the mingled harvest of mankind? "And thee, thou Severn, whofe prodigious fwell, 60 "And waves, refounding, imitate the main? "Why need I name her deep capacious ports, "That point around the world? And why her feas? "All ocean is her own, and every land "To whom her ruling thunder ocean bears. "She too the mineral feeds, th' obedient Lead, "The warlike Iron, nor the peaceful lefs, "Forming of life art-civiliz'd the bond; "And that the Tyrian merchant fought of old, "Not dreaming then of BRITAIN's brighter fame. 70 "She rears to Freedom an undaunted race: "Compatriot zealous, hofpitable, kind,.

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"Her's the warm CAMBRIAN: her's the lofty SCOT, "To hardship tam'd, active in arts and arms, "Fir'd with a reftless, an impatient flame,. "That leads him raptur❜d where Ambition calls.: "And ENGLISH MERIT her's; where meet, combin'd, "Whate'er high fancy, found judicious thought, "An ample generous heart, undrooping foul, 80 "And firm tenacious valour can bestow. "Great nurfe of fruits, of flocks, of commerce, SHE! "Great nurse of men! By THEE, O GODDESS, taught, "Her old renown I trace, difclose her fource "Of wealth, of grandeur; and to BRITONS fing "A ftrain the Mufes never touch'd before.

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"But how fhall this THY mighty KINGDOM ftand? "On what unyielding base? how finish'd shine ?” At this HER eye, collecting all its fire, Beam'd more than human; and HER awful voice,

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Majestic thus SHE rais'd-" To BRITONS bear
"This closing strain, and with intenser note
"Loud let it found in their awaken’d ear.”

On VIRTUE can alone MY KINGDOM stand,
On PUBLIC VIRTUE, EVERY VIRTUE JOIN’d.
For, loft this focial cement of mankind,
The greatest empires, by scarce-felt degrees,
Will moulder soft away; till, tottering loose,
They prone at last to total ruin rush.
Unbleft by VIRTUE, Government and League
Becomes a circling junto of the Great,
To rob by law; Religion mild, a Yoke
To tame the stooping soul, a trick of state
To mask their rapine, and to share the prey.
What are without IT Senates, fave a face
Of confultation deep and reafon free,
While the determin'd voice and heart are fold?
What boasted Freedom, fave a founding name?
And what Election, but a market vile

Of flaves self-barter'd? VIRTUE, without THEE,
There is no ruling eye, no nerve, in states;
War has no vigor, and no safety peace:
Even justice warps to party, laws oppress,
Wide thro' the land their weak protection fails,
First broke the balance, and then scorn'd the fword.
Thus nations fink, fociety diffolves;
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Rapine and guile and violence break loose,
Everting life, and turning love to gall;
Man hates the face of man, and Indian woods
And Lybia's hiffing fands to him are tame.

By those THREE VIRTUES be the frame sustain'd
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INTEGRITY IN OFFICE; and o'er all
Supreme, A PASSION FOR THE COMMON-WEAL.

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