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What though its profpects now appear
So pleasing and refin'd; ·

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Yet groundless hope, and anxious fear,
By turns the busy moments share,
And prey upon the mind.

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The BEARS and BEES. A FABLE.

By the Same.

S two young Bears in wanton mood,

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Forth-iffuing from a neighbouring wood,
Came where th' induftrious Bees had ftor'd
In artful cells their luscious hoard;
O'erjoy'd they feiz'd with eager hafte
Luxurious on the rich repast.
Alarm'd at this the little crew

About their ears vindictive flew.
The beafts unable to fuftain

Th' unequal combat, quit the plain;
Half blind with rage, and mad with pain;
Their native shelter they regain;
There fit, and now discreeter grown,
Too late their rashness they bemoan;
And this by dear experience gain,
That pleasure's ever bought with pain.
So when the gilded baits of vice
Are plac'd before our longing eyes,
With greedy hafte we fnatch our fill,
And fwallow down the latent ill;

But when experience opes our eyes, Į
Away the fancy'd pleasure flies.
It flies, but oh! too late we find

It leaves a real fting behind.

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A FRAG

A FRAGMEN T.

By the Same.

When recent in the womb I lay,

Ere yet my life began,

Thy care preferv'd the fleeping clay,

And form'd it into man.

Oh! may this frame, that rifing grew

Beneath thy plastic hands,

Be ftudious ever to pursue

Whate'er thy will commands.

The foul that moves this earthly load
Thy femblance let it bear;

Nor lofe the traces of the God,

Who ftamp'd his image there. I

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A FABLE after

Monfieur DE LA MOTTE.

By the Same.

FT has it been my lot to mark

A proud, conceited, talking fpark,
With eyes, that hardly serv'd at most
To guard their master 'gainst a poft,
Yet round the world the blade has been
To fee whatever cou'd be feen,
Returning from his finish'd tour,
Grown ten times perter than before;
Whatever word you chance to drop,
The travell'd fool your mouth will ftop,
"Sir, if my judgment you'll allow-
"I've seen-and fure I ought to know--
So begs you'd pay a due fubmiffion,
And acquiefce in his decifion.

Two travellers of fuch a caft;
As o'er Arabia's wild they paft,
And on their way in friendly chat
Now talk'd of this and then of that,
Difcours'd awhile 'mongst other matter
Of the Camelion's form and nature.'

"A ftranger

A ftranger animal, cries one, "Sure never liv'd beneath the fun. "A lizard's body lean and long, « A fifh's head, a ferpent's tongue,

Its tooth with triple claw disjoin'd; "And what a length of tail behind ! "How flow its pace, and then its hue. "Who ever faw fo fine a blue ?”

"Hold there, the other quick replies, " 'Tis green-I faw it with thefe eyes, "As late with open mouth it lay, "And warm'd it in the funny ray; "Stretch'd at its ease the beast I view'd, And faw it eat the air for food.". "I've seen it, Sir, as well as you, "And must again affirm it blue. "At leifure I the beast survey'd "Extended in the cooling fhade."

" 'Tis green, 'tis green, Sir, I affure ye. "Green! cries the other in a fury

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Why, Sir-d'ye think I've loft my eyes ?". " "Twere no great lofs, the friend replies,

For, if they always ferve you thus, "You'll find 'em but of little ufe."

So high at laft the conteft rose,

From words they almoft came to blows:
When luckily came by a third
To him the question they refer'd;

And

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