To these I virtue's steady precepts teach,
With generous principles their minds enrich;
To fly from bafe corruption's gilded bait,
And rather to be good than rich and great;
To ferve their country and their country's friends;
Nor prostitute their votes to fervile ends.
Here on the Thames I oft with pleasure gaze,
Whofe filver ftream in rich meanders ftrays
Thro' flow'ry meadows and delightful plains,
Where Ceres' bounty glads the lab'ring fwains,
There diftant hills adorn'd with lovely groves;
There fhady walks to feaft our mutual loves;
Here bleat the fheep, and there the cattle graze
And shelter'd birds fing their harmonious lays:
The varied scene does nature represent,
As the appear'd when man was innocent.
Here is a welcome to a faithful friend,
With whom my days in tranquil ease I spend,
Talk o'er our troubles päft, and my whole thoughts unbend.
Thus bleft on filken wings life flies away;
Nor wish I now, nor dread my latest day;
For by the change I only can remove
From fading joys below to endless joys above.
ROM the grand tour, thro' Paris, Florence, Rome, The travel'd youth returns accomplish'd home. Learn'd in each goût, and vers'd in ev'ry fashion, He comes to teach and to adorn the nation.
With fmarteft airs he fparkles thro' the town,
And views with fcorn the academick clown;
A modern wit, extreamly read in french,
Can fing, and dance, and dress, and swear, and wench.
Accomplishments like his demand esteem; »
He knows the world,ay, and the world knows him.
On Seeing the LADIES at CRUX-EUSTON WALK in the WOODS by the GROTTO.
UTHORS the world and their dull brains have trac'd,
To fix the ground where paradife was plac'd.
Mind not their learned whims and idle talk,
Here, here's the place, where these bright angels walk.
INSCRIPTION on a GROTTO, the work of nine LADIES,
ERE, fhunning idleness at once and praise,
This radiant pile nine rural fifters raise;
The glittering emblem of each matchlefs dame,
Clean as her foul, and fpotlefs as her frame;
Beauties which nature only can impart,
And fuch a polish as difgraceth art.
But fate difpos'd them in this humble fort,
And hid in desarts what would charm a court.
ORATIO HABACUCI PROPHETÆ.
UDISTIS? an me vox trepidum metu
Lufit JEHOVA? O define triftium
Tandem minarum; parce, judex,
Parce, parens hominum, precamur.
Tu bellicofà corripiens manu
Arcum, et pharetrâ fulgidus aureâ,
Eternus inceffu patebas,
Perque humeros fonuere tela.
Vidi Saboeæ verfam aciem retrò,
Vidi paventes Æthiopum duces,
Cæcofque caftrorum tumultus,
Et trepidum Madianis agmen.
Quâ motus irâ, quâ rabie ferox,
Ignara fifti flumina dividens
Pontumque, junxifti frementes
Acer equos volucremque currum?
Præcelfa vifo te juga montium
Summis tremebant verticibus, tibi
Plaudebat affurgens aquarum
Diluvies, dominumque rauco
Agnovit æquor murmure: te ftupens
Multo decorum lumine conftitit
Sol ipfe defixus, nec ausa est
Luna vago properare curfii.
Te grande genti præfidium tuæ
Senfit remotis barbara finibus
Tellus, & irato profani
Sub pedibus cecidere reges.
Magnum ifta terrorem Ifacidis cohors
Collecta ritu turbinis intulit,
Aufique dementes triumphos
Ifiaci proceres Canopi
Sperare fed quid Memphis inhofpita
Auctore fidens Apide, quid Phari
Contra Jehovam poffit hoftis
Cum fceleris duce fraudulento?
Ipfe ipfe rubri mænia gurgitis
Spumofa raptim tranfiliit Deus,
Curruque fublimis fecundo
Per tumidas equitavit undas.
O quàm minaci murmure territas
Perftrinxit aures? hauriit intimas
Frigus medullas, cor recenti
Subfiliit trepidum pavore,
Torpenfque labris lingua trementibus
Adhæfit. O quis, quis procul ultimiş
Me fiftet oris, et futuro
Proteget eripiens tumultu?
Si nulla verno flore fuperbiat
Ficus, nec uvæ purpura lividos
Ornet per autumnum racemos
Termite fi fterili virentes
Fallant olive; raraque pafcuis
Armenta defint; fi fegetes ager
Mendax recufet, non carebit
Laude Deus folitâ, mearum
Tutela rerum. Non alio duce
Montes in altos tollar, & ocyor
Cervo triumphantes catervas
Effugiam per acuta belli,
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