Let cottagers and unenlighten'd swainson" veda 308
Revere the laws they dream that Heav'n ordains ;[T
Resort on Sundays to the house of pray's, abbA
And ask, and faney they find, blessings there. A
Themselves, perhaps, when weary they retreat (1
T' enjoy cool nature in a country seat, 99699
T'exchange the centre of a thousand trades, en vi
For clumps, and lawns, and temples, and cascades,
May now and then their velvet cushions take, VT
And seem to pray for good example sake

Judging, in charity no doubt, the townadaA
Pious enough, and having need of nohed yam drug
Kind souls! to teach their tenantry to prizes? oë
What they themselves, without remorse, despise AI
Nor hope have they, nor fear of aught to come, T
As well for them had prophecy been dumb
They could have held the conduct they pursue,
Had Paul of Tarsus liv'd and died a Jew 3
And truth, propos'd to reas'ners wise as they, A
Is a pearl cast-completely cast awaylynas" arbori
They die.Death lends them, pleas'd, and as in

sport,

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All the grim honours of his ghastly court.l: la 30 Far other paintings grace the chamber now, tad vy Where late we saw the mimic landscape gloww2 The busy heralds hang the sable scene dawgnir.iⱭ With mournful scutcheons, and dim lamps between ;

Proclaim their titles to the crowd around,
But they that wore them move not at the sound;
The coronet, plac'd idly at their head,

Adds nothing now to the degraded dead;
And even the star, that glitters on the bier,
Can only say--Nobility lies here...
Peace to all snch-twere pity, to offend,
By useless censure, whom we cannot mend;
Life without hope can close but in despair,

'Twas there we found them, and must leave them there.se

As, when two pilgrims in a forest stray,
Both may be lost, yet each in his own way;
So fares it with the multitudes beguil'd
In vain Opinion's waste and dang❜rous wild;
Ten thousand rove the brakes and thorns among,
Some eastward, and some westward, and all wrong.
But here, alas! the fatal diff'rence lies,

Each man's belief is right in his own eyes;
And he that blames, what they have blindly chose,
Incurs resentment for the love he shows.

Say botanist, within whose province fall
The cedar and the hyssop on the wall,

Of all that deck the lanes, the fields, the bow'rs, What parts the kindred tribes of weeds and flow'rs? Sweet scent, or lovely form, or both combin'd, Distinguish ev'ry cultivated kind;orul rand va

mo

The want of both denotes a meaner breed, aft o
And Chloe from her garland picks the weed. ad A
Thus hopes of ev'ry sort, whatever
er sectorgian voa aiH
Esteem them, sow them, rear them, and protect, T
If wild in nature, and not duly found,
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Gethsemane! in thy dear hallow'd ground, W
That cannot bear the blaze of Scripture light,₫
Nor cheer the spirit, nor refresh the sight,
Nor animate the soul to Christian deeds,
(Oh cast them from thee!) are weeds, arrant weeds.
Ethelred's house, the centre of six ways, butA
Diverging each from each, like equal rays,
Himself as bountiful as April rains, og Jon >1 9vol
Lord paramount of the surrounding plains, H
Would give relief of bed and board to nones H
But guests that sought it in th' appointed ONE
ONE A
And they might enter at his open door,ine of
Ev'n till his spacious hall would hold no more.
He sent a servant forth by ev'ry road, ik veen 11 W
To sound his horn, and publish it abroad,
That all might mark-knight, menial, high, and
low,

An ord'nance it concern'd them much to know.
If after all some headstrong hardy lout
Would disobey, though sure to be shut out,
Could he with reason murmur at his case,
Himself sole author of his own disgrace?bit ad

1.

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No! the decree was just and without flaw;
And be, that made, had right to make, the law;
His sov'reign pow'r and pleasure unrestrain❜d,
The wrong was his, who wrongfully complain'd.
Yet half mankind maintain a churlish strife
the Donor of eternal life,

With Him,

Because the deed, by which his love confirms
The largess he bestows, prescribes the terms.
Compliance with his will your lot ensures,
Accept it only, and the boon is yours.
And sure it is as kind to smile and give,
As with a frown to say, Do this, and live.
Love is not pedlar's trump'ry bought and sold:
He will give freely, or he will withhold;
His soul abhors a mercenary thought,
And him as deeply who abhors it not ;
He stipulates indeed, but merely this,
That man will freely take an unbought bliss,
Will trust him for a faithful gen'rous part,
Nor set a price upon a willing heart.
Of all the ways that seem to promise fair,
To place you where his saints his presence share,
This only can; for this plain cause, express'd
In terms as plain, Himself has shut the rest.
But oh the strife, the bick'ring, and debate,
The tidings of unpurchas'd Heav'n create!
The flirted fan, the bridle and the toss,
All speakers, yet all language at a loss.

From stuceo'd walls smart arguments rebound ga
And beaus, adept in ev'ry thing profoundboð ba
Die of disdain, or whistle off the sound, wed aud
Such is the clamour of rooks, daws, and kites,b▲
Th' explosion of the levell'd tube excitesyns abilą I
Where mould'ring abbey-walls o'erhang the glade,
And oaks coeval spread a mournful shade,von I
The screaming nations, hov'ring in mid air, SAT-
Loudly resent the stranger's freedom there, odW
And seem to warn him never to repeat to grad A
His bold intrusion on their dark retreat.sqqs IL»
Adieu, Vinosa cries, ere yet he sips na doidW
The purple bumper trembling at his lipsjebug 98
Adieu to all morality! if Graceb ny sued) neɗT
Make works a vain ingredient in the case.992 1-
The Christian hope is Waiter, draw the cork T
If I mistake not-Blockhead! with a fork! asdr
Without good works, whatever some may boast,A
Mere folly and delusion-Sir, your toast 9979 M
My firm persuasion is, at least sometimes, Av
That Heav'n will weigh man's virtues and his crimes
With nice attention, in a righteous scale, si batan
And save or damn as these or those prevailigi
I plant my foot upon this ground of trust,
And silence ev'ry fear with-God is just. en sfT.
But if perchance on some dull drizzling day or al
A thought intrude, that says, or seems to say, A
If thus th' important cause is to be tried, tasnoH

ppose the beam should dip on the wrong side;