<A $JOHNSON><E 1748 A COLLECTION OF POEMS BY
SEVERAL HANDS DODSLEY><P 101>
<T$L$O$N$D$O$N:
$A
$P$O$E$M,
$IN $IMITATION OF THE
$THIRD $SATIRE OF $JUVENAL.
$BY $MR. $SAMUEL $JOHNSON.
((= =@UIS INEPTAE
$TAM PATIENS URBIS, TAM FERREUS UT TENEAT SE?
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$THO' GRIEF AND FONDNESS IN MY BREAST REBEL,
$WHEN INJUR'D $T$H$A$L$E$S BIDS THE TOWN FAREWELL,
$YET STILL MY CALMER THOUGHTS HIS CHOICE COMMEND,
$I PRAISE THE HERMIT, BUT REGRET THE FRIEND,
$WHO NOW RESOLVES, FROM VICE AND $L$O$N$D$N FAR,
$TO BREATHE IN DISTANT FIELDS A PURER AIR,
$AND, FIX'D ON $CAMBRIA'S SOLITARY SHORE,
$GIVE TO $ST. $DAVID ONE TRUE $BRITON MORE.
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$FOR WHO WOULD LEAVE, UNBRIB'D,$HIBERNIA'S LAND,
$OR CHANGE THE ROCKS OF $SCOTLAND FOR THE $STRAND?
$THERE NONE ARE SWEPT BY SUDDEN FATE AWAY,
$BUT ALL WHOM HUNGER SPARES, WITH AGE DECAY:
$HERE MALICE, RAPINE, ACCIDENT, CONSPIRE,
$AND NOW A RABBLE RAGES, NOW A FIRE;
$THEIR AMBUSH HERE RELENTLESS RUFFIANS LAY,
$HERE FALLING HOUSES THUNDER ON YOUR HEAD
$AND HERE A FEMALE ATHEIST TALKS YOU DEAD.
$WHILE $T$H$A$L$E$S WAITS THE WHERRY THAT CONTAINS
$OF DISSIPATED WEALTH THE SMALL REMAINS,
$ON $THAMES'S BANKS, IN SILENT THOUGHT WE STOOD,
$WHERE $GREENWICH SMILES UPON THE SILVER FLOOD:
$STRUCK WITH THE SEAT THAT GAVE $ELIZA BIRTH,
$WE KNEEL, AND KISS THE CONSECRATED EARTH;
$IN PLEASING DREAMS THE BLISSFUL AGE RENEW,
$AND CALL $BRITANNIA'S GLORIES BACK TO VIEW;
$BEHOLD HER CROSS TRIUMPHANT ON THE MAIN,
$THE GUARD OF COMMERCE, AND THE DREAD OF $SPAIN,
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$ERE MASQUERADES DEBAUCH'D, EXCISE OPPRESS'D,
$OR $ENGLISH HONOUR GREW A STANDING JEST.
$A TRANSIENT CALM THE HAPPY SCENES BESTOW,
$AND FOR A MOMENT LULL THE SENSE OF WOE.
$AT LENGTH AWAKING, WITH CONTEMPTUOUS FROWN.
$INDIGNANT $T$H$A$L$E$S EYES THE NEIGHB'RING TOWN.
$WANTS EV'N THE CHEAP REWARD OF EMPTY PRAISE;
$IN THOSE CURST WALLS, DEVOTE TO VICE AND GAIN,
$SINCE UNREWARDED SCIENCE TOILS IN VAIN;
$SINCE HOPE BUT SOOTHS TO DOUBLE MY DISTRESS,
$AND EV'RY MOMENT LEAVES MY LITTLE LESS;
$WHILE YET MY STEDDY STEPS NO STAFF SUSTAINS,
$AND LIFE STILL VIG'ROUS REVELS IN MY VEINS;
$GRANT ME, KIND HEAVEN, TO FIND SOME HAPPIER PLACE,
$WHERE HONESTY AND SENSE ARE NO DISGRACE;
$SOME PLEASING BANK WHERE VERDANT OSIERS PLAY,
$SOME PEACEFUL VALE WITH NATURE'S PAINTINGS GAY;
$WHERE ONCE THE HARRASS'D $BRITON FOUND REPOSE,
$AND SAFE IN POVERTY DEFY'D HIS FOES;
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$SOME SECRET CELL, YE POW'RS, INDULGENT GIVE.
$LET=LIVE HERE, FOR=HAS LEARN'D TO LIVE.
$HERE LET THOSE REIGN, WHOM PENSIONS CAN INCITE
$TO VOTE A PATRIOT BLACK, A COURTIER WHITE;
$EXPLAIN THEIR COUNTRY'S DEAR-BOUGHT RIGHTS AWAY,
$AND PLEAD FOR PIRATES IN THE FACE OF DAY;
$WITH SLAVISH TENETS TAINT OUR POISON'D YOUTH,
$AND LEND A LYE THE CONFIDENCE OF TRUTH.
$LET SUCH RAISE PALACES, AND MANORS BUY,
$COLLECT A TAX, OR FARM A LOTTERY,
$WITH WARBLING EUNUCHS FILL A LICENS'D STAGE,
$AND LULL TO SERVITUDE A THOUGHTLESS AGE.
$HEROES, PROCEED! WHAT BOUNDS YOUR PRIDE SHALL HOLD?
$WHAT CHECK RESTRAIN YOUR THIRST OF POW'R AND GOLD?
$BEHOLD REBELLIOUS VIRTUE QUITE O'ERTHROWN,
$BEHOLD OUR FAME, OUR WEALTH, OUR LIVES YOUR OWN.
$TO SUCH, A GROANING NATION'S SPOILS ARE GIV'N,
$WHEN PUBLICK CRIMES INFLAME THE WRATH OF HEAV'N:
$BUT WHAT, MY FRIEND, WHAT HOPE REMAINS FOR ME,
$WHO START AT THEFT, AND BLUSH AT PERJURY?
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$WHO SCARCE FORBEAR, THO'$B$R$I$T$A$I$N'S $COURT HE SING,
$TO PLUCK A TITLED $POET'S BORROW'D WING;
$A $STATESMAN'S LOGIC UNCONVINC'D CAN HEAR,
$AND DARE TO SLUMBER O'ER THE $GAZETTEER;
$DESPISE A FOOL IN HALF HIS PENSION DREST,
$AND STRIVE IN VAIN TO LAUGH AT $H----Y'S JEST.
$CAN SAP THE PRINCIPLES, OR TAINT THE HEART;
$WITH MORE ADDRESS A LOVER'S NOTE CONVEY,
$OR BRIBE A VIRGIN'S INNOCENCE AWAY.
$WELL MAY THEY RISE, WHILE $I, WHOSE RUSTIC TONGUE
$NE'ER KNEW TO PUZZLE RIGHT, OR VARNISH WRONG,
$SPURN'D AS A BEGGER, DREADED AS A SPY,
$LIVE UNREGARDED, UNLAMENTED DIE.
$FOR WHAT BUT SOCIAL GUILT THE FRIEND ENDEARS?
$WHO SHARES $ORGILIO'S CRIMES, HIS FORTUNE SHARES.
$BU,T THOU  SHOULD TEMPTING VILLAINY PRESENT
$ALL $MARLB'ROUGH HOARDED, OR ALL $VILLIERS SPENT,
$TURN FROM THE GLITT'RING BRIBE THY SCORNFUL EYE,
$NOR SELL FOR GOLD, WHAT GOLD COULD NEVER BUY,
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$THE PEACEFUL SLUMBER, SELF-APPROVING DAY,
$UNSULLIED FAME, AND CONSCIENCE EVER GAY.
$THE CHEATED NATION'S HAPPY FAV'RITES, SEE!
$MARK WHOM THE GREAT CARESS, WHO FROWN ON ME!
$L$O$N$D$O$N! THE NEEDY VILLAIN'S GEN'RAL HOME,
$THE COMMON SHORE OF $PARIS AND OF $ROME;
$WITH EAGER THIRST, BY FOLLY OR BY FATE,
$SUCKS IN THE DREGS OF EACH CORRUPTED STATE.
$FORGIVE MY TRANSPORTS ON A THEME LIKE THIS,
$I CANNOT BEAR A $FRENCH METROPOLIS.
$ILLUSTRIOUS $E$D$W$A$R$D! FROM THE REALMS OF DAY,
$THE LAND OF HEROES AND SAINTS SURVEY;
$NOR HOPE THE $BRITISH LINEAMENTS TO TRACE,
$THE RUSTIC GRANDEUR, OR THE SURLY GRACE,
$BUT SOFT IN THOUGHTLESS EASE, AND EMPTY SHOW,
$BEHOLD THE WARRIOR DWINDLED TO A BEAU ;
$SENSE, FREEDOM, PIETY, REFIN'D AWAY,
$OF $FRANCE THE MIMIC, AND OF $SPAIN THE PREY.
$ALL THAT AT HOME NO MORE CAN BEG OR STEAL,
$OR LIKE A GIBBET BETTER THAN A WHEEL;
$HISS'D FROM THE STAGE, OR HOOTED FROM THE COURT,
$THEIR AIR, THEIR DRESS, THEIR POLITICKS IMPORT;
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$OBSEQUIOUS, ARTFUL, VOLUBLE AND GAY,
$ON $BRITAIN'S FOND CREDULITY THEY PREY.
$NO GAINFUL TRADE THEIR INDUSTRY CAN 'SCAPE,
$THEY SING, THEY DANCE, CLEAN SHOES, OR CURE A CLAP;
$ALL SCIENCES A FASTING $MONSIEUR KNOWS,
$AH! WHAT AVAILS IT, THAT, FROM SLAV'RY FAR,
$I DREW THE BREATH OF LIFE IN $ENGLISH AIR;
$WAS EARLY TAUGHT A $BRITON'S RIGHT TO PRIZE,
$AND LISP THE TALE OF $H$E$N$R$Y'S VICTORIES;
$IF THE GULL'D CONQUEROR RECEIVES THE CHAIN,
$AND FLATTERY SUBDUES WHEN ARMS ARE VAIN.
$STUDIOUS TO PLEASE, AND READY TO SUBMIT,
$THE SUPPLE $GAUL WAS BORN A PARASITE:
$STILL TO HIS INT'REST TRUE, WHERE'ER HE GOES.
$WIT, BRAV'RY, WORTH, HIS LAVISH TONGUE BESTOWS;
$IN EV'RY FACE A THOUSAND GRACES SHINE,
$FROM EV'RY TONGUE FLOWS HARMONY DIVINE.
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$THESE ARTS IN VAIN OUR RUGGED NATIVES TRY,
$STRAIN OUT WITH FAULT'RING DIFFIDENCE A LIE,
$AND GAIN A KICK FOR AUKWARD FLATTERY.
$BESIDES, WITH JUSTICE, THIS DISCERNING AGE
$ADMIRES THEIR WOND'ROUS TALENTS FOR THE STAGE:
$WELL MAY THEY VENTURE ON THE MIMIC'S ART,
$WHO PLAY FROM MORN TO NIGHT A BORROW'D PART;
$PRACTIS'D THEIR MASTER'S NOTIONS TO EMBRACE,
$REPEAT HIS MAXIMS, AND REFLECT HIS FACE;
$WITH EV'RY WILD ABSURDITY COMPLY,
$AND VIEW EACH OBJECT WITH ANOTHER'S EYE;
$TO SHAKE WITH LAUGHTER ERE THE JEST THEY HEAR,
$TO POUR AT WILL THE COUNTERFEITED TEAR,
$AND AS THEIR PATRON HINTS THE COLD OR HEAT,
$TO SHAKE IN DOG-DAYS, IN $DECEMBER SWEAT.
$HOW, WHEN COMPETITORS LIKE THESE CONTEND,
$CAN SURLY VIRTUE HOPE TO FIX A FRIEND?
$SLAVES THAT WITH SERIOUS IMPUDENCE BEGUILE,
$AND LYE WITHOUT A BLUSH, WITHOUT A SMILE;
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$EXALT EACH TRIFLE, EV'RY VICE ADORE,
$YOUR TASTE IN SNUFF, YOUR JUDGMENT IN A WHORE;
$CAN $BALBO'S ELOQUENCE APPLAUD, AND SWEAR
$HE GROPES HIS BREECHES WITH A MONARCH'S AIR.
$FOR ARTS LIKE THESE PREFERR'D, ADMIR'D, CAREST,
$THEY FIRST INVADE YOUR TABLE, THEN YOUR BREAST;
$EXPLORE YOUR SECRETS WITH INSIDIOUS ART,
$WATCH THE WEAK HOUR, AND RANSACK ALL THE HEART;
$THEN SOON YOUR ILL-PLAC'D CONFIDENCE REPAY,
$BY NUMBERS HERE FROM SHAME OR CENSURE FREE,
$ALL CRIMES ARE SAFE, BUT HATED POVERTY.
$THIS, ONLY THIS, THE RIGID LAW PURSUES,
$THIS, ONLY THIS, PROVOKES THE SNARLING MUSE.
$THE  SOBER TRADER AT A TATTER'D CLOAK,
$WAKES FROM HIS DREAM, AND LABOURS FOR A JOKE;
$WITH BRISKER AIR THE SILKEN COURTIERS GAZE,
$AND TURN THE VARIED TAUNT A THOUSAND WAYS.
$OF ALL THE GRIEFS THAT HARRASS THE DISTREST,
$SURE THE MOST BITTER IS A SCORNFUL JEST;
$FATE NEVER WOUNDS MORE DEEP THE GEN'ROUS HEART,
$THAN WHEN A BLOCKHEAD'S INSULT POINTS THE DART.
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$HAS HEAVEN RESERV'D, IN PITY TO THE POOR,
$NO PATHLESS WASTE, OR UNDISCOVER'D SHORE;
$NO PEACEFUL DESART YET UNCLAIM'D BY $S$P$A$I$N?
$QUICK LET US RISE, THE HAPPY SEATS EXPLORE,
$AND BEAR OPPRESSION'S INSOLENCE NO MORE.
$THIS MOURNFUL TRUTH IS EV'RY WHERE CONSEST,
$S$L$O$W $R$I$S$E$S $W$O$R$T$H, $B$Y $P$O$V$E$R$T$Y $D$E$P$R$E$S$T:
$BUT HERE MORE SLOW, WHERE ALL ARE SLAVES TO GOLD,
$WHERE LOOKS ARE MERCHANDISE, AND SMILES ARE SOLD;
$WHERE WON BY BRIBES, BY FLATTERIES IMPLOR'D,
$THE GROOM RETAILS THE FAVOURS OF HIS LORD.
$BUT HARK! TH'AFFRIGHTED CROUD'S TUMULTUOUS CRIES
$ROLL THRO' THE STREETS, AND THUNDER TO THE SKIES;
$RAIS'D FROM SOME PLEASING DREAM OF WEALTH AND POW'R,
$SOME POMPOUS PALACE, OR SOME BLISSFUL BOW'R
$AGHAST YOU START, AND SCARCE WITH AKING SIGHT
$SUSTAIN TH' APPROACHING FIRE'S TREMENDOUS LIGHT;
$SWIFT FROM PURSUING HORRORS TAKE YOUR WAY,
$AND LEAVE YOUR LITTLE ALL TO FLAMES A PREY;
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$THEN THRO' THE WORLD A WRETCHED VAGRANT ROAM,
$FOR WHERE CAN STARVING MERIT FIND A HOME?
$IN VAIN YOUR MOURNFUL NARRATIVE DISCLOSE,
$WHILE ALL NEGLECT, AND MOST INSULT YOUR WOES.
$SHOULD HEAVEN'S JUST BOLTS $ORGILIO'S WEALTH CONFOUND
$AND SPREAD HIS FLAMING PALACE ON THE GROUND,
$SWIFT O'ER THE LAND THE DISMAL RUMOUR FLIES,
$THE LAUREAT TRIBE IN SERVILE VERSE RELATE,
$HOW VIRTUE WARS WITH PERSECUTING FATE;
$WITH WELL-FEIGN'D GRATITUDE THE PENSION'D BAND
$REFUND THE PLUNDER OF THE BEGGER'D LAND.
$SEE! WHILE HE BUILDS, THE GAUDY VASSALS COME,
$AND CROWD WITH SUDDEN WEALTH THE RISING DOME;
$THE PRICE OF BOROUGHS AND OF SOULS RESTORE,
AND RAISE HIS TREASURES HIGHER THAN BEFORE.
$NOW BLESS'D WITH ALL THE BAUBLES OF THE GREAT,
$THE POLISH'D MARBLE, AND THE SHINING PLATE,
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$ORGILLIO SEES THE GOLDEN PILE ASPIRE,
$AND HOPES FROM ANGRY HEAV'N ANOTHER FIRE.
$COULD'ST THOU RESIGN THE PARK AND PLAY CONTENT,
$FOR THE FAIR BANKS OF $SEVERN OR OF $TRENT;
$THERE MIGHT'ST THOU FIND SOME ELEGANT RETREAT,
$SOME HIRELING SENATOR'S DESERTED SEAT;
$AND STRETCH THEY PROSPECTS O'ER THE SMILING LAND,
$THERE PRUNE THY WALKS, SUPPORT THY DROOPING FLOW'RS,
$DIRECT THY RIVULETS, AND TWINE THY BOW'RS
$AND, WHILE THY BEDS A CHEAP REPAST AFFORD,
$DESPISE THE DAINTIES OF A VENAL LORD:
$THERE EV'RY BUSH WITH NATURE'S MUSICK RINGS,
$THERE EV'RY BREEZE BEARS HEATH UPON ITS WINGS;
$ON ALL THY HOURS SECURITY SHALL SMILE,
$AND BLESS THINE EVENING WALK AND MORNING TOIL.
$PREPARE FOR DEATH, IF HERE AT NIGHT YOU ROAM,
$AND SIGN YOUR WILL BEFORE YOU SUP FROM HOME.
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$FOME FIERY SOP, WITH NEW COMMISSION VAIN,
$WHO SLEEPS ON BRAMBLES TILL HE KILLS HIS MAN;
$SOME FROLICK DRUNKARD, REELING FROM A FEAST,
$PROVOKES A BROIL, AND STABS YOU FOR A JEST.
$YET EV'N THESE HEROES, MISCHIEVOUSLY GAY,
$LORDS OF THE STREET, AND TERRORS OF THE WAY;
$FLUSH'D AS THEY ARE WITH FOLLY, YOUTH AND WINE,
$THEIR PRUDENT INSULTS TO THE POOR CONFINE;
$AFAR THEY MARK THE FLAMBEAU'S BRIGHT APPROACH,
$AND SHUN THE SHINING TRAIN, AND GOLDEN COACH.
$IN VAIN, THESE DANGERS PAST, YOUR DOORS YOU CLOSE,
$AND HOPE THE BALMY BLESSINGS OF REPOSE:
$THE MIDNIGHT MURD'RER BURSTS THE FAITHLESS BAR;
$INVADES THE SACRED HOUR OF SILENT REST,
$AND PLANTS, UNSEEN, A DAGGER IN YOUR BREAST.
$SCARCE CAN OUR FIELDS, SUCH CROWDS AT $TYBURN DIE,
$WITH HEMP THE GALLOWS AND THE FLEET SUPPLY.
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$PROPOSE YOUR SCHEMES, YE $SENATORIAN BAND,
$WHOSE $WAYS AND $MEANS SUPPORT THE SINKING LAND;
$LEST ROPES BE WANTING IN THE TEMPTING SPRING,
$TO RIG ANOTHER CONVOY FOR THE K--G.
$A SINGLE JAIL, IN $A$L$F$R$E$D'S GOLDEN REIGN,
$COULD HALF THE NATION'S CRIMINALS CONTAIN;
$FAIR $JUSTICE THEN WITHOUT CONSTRAINT ADOR'D,
$HELD HIGH THE STEADY SCALE, BUT DEEP'D THE SWORD;
$NO SPIES WERE PAID, NO SPECIAL JURIES KNOWN,
$BLEST AGE! BUT AH! HOW DIFF'RENT FROM OUR OWN!
$MUCH COULD $I ADD, == BUT FEE THE BOAT AT HAND,
$THE TIDE RETIRING, CALLS ME FROM THE LAND:
$FAREWEL!=$WHEN YOUTH, AND HEALTH, AND FORTUNE SPENT
$THOU FLY'FT FOR REFUGE TO THE WILDS OF $KENT;
$AND TIR'D LIKE ME WITH FOLLIES AND WITH CRIMES,
$IN ANGRY NUMBERS WARN ST SUCCEEDING TIMES;$IN ANGRY NUMBERS WARN'ST SUCCEEDING TIMES;
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$THEN SHALL THY FRIEND, NOR THOU REFUSE HIS AID,
$STILL FOE TO VICE, FORSAKE HIS $CAMBRIAN SHADE;
$IN VIRTUE'S CAUSE ONCE MORE EXERT HIS RAGE,
$THY SATIRE POINT, AND ANIMATE THY PAGE.
<$E 1755 $A $COLLECTION OF $POEMS IN $FOUR $VOLUMES BY
$SEVERAL $HANDS $DODSLEY>
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<T $T$H$E
$V$A$N$I$T$Y $O$F $H$U$M$A$N $W$I$S$H$E$S.
$T$H$E
TENTH $SATIRE OF $JUVENAL,
$I$M$I$T$A$T$E$D
$B$Y $S$A$M$U$E$L $J$O$H$N$S$O$N.>
$LET OBSERVATION WITH EXTENSIVE VIEW,
$SURVEY MANKIND, FROM $CHINA TO $PERU;
$REMARK EACH ANXIOUS TOIL, EACH EAGER STRIFE,
$AND WATCH THE BUSY SCENES OF CROUDED LIFE;
$THEN SAY HOW HOPE AND FEAR, DESIRE AND HATE,
$O'ERSPREAD WITH SNARES THE CLOUDED MAZE OF FATE,
$WHERE WAV'RING MAN, BETRAY'D BY VENT'ROUS PRIDE,
$AS TREACH'ROUS PHANTOMS IN THE MIST DELUDE,
$SHUNS FANCIED ILLS, OR CHASES AIRY GOOD.
$HOW RARELY REASON GUIDES THE STUBBORN CHOICE,
$RULES THE BOLD HAND, OR PROMPS THE SUPPLIANT VOICE,
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$HOW NATIONS SINK, BY DARLING SCHEMES OPPRESS'D,
$WHEN VENGEANCE LISTENS TO THE FOOL'S REQUEST.
$FATE WINGS WITH EV'RY WISH TH' AFFICTIVE DART,
$EACH GIFT OF NATURE AND EACH GRACE OF ART,
$WITH FATAL HEAT IMPETUOUS COURAGE GLOWS,
$WITH FATAL SWEETNESS ELOCUTION FLOWS,
$IMPEACHMENT STOPS THE SPEAKER'S POW'RFUL BREATH,
$AND RESTLESS FIRE PRECIPITATES ON DEATH.
$BUT SCARCE OBSERV'D THE KNOWING AND THE BOLD.
$FALL IN THE GEN'RAL MASSACRE OF GOLD;
$WIDE-WASTING PEST! THAT RAGES UNCONFIN'D,
$AND CROUDS WITH CRIMES THE RECORDS OF MANKIND,
$FOR GOLD HIS SWORD THE HIRELING RUFFIAN DRAWS,
$FOR GOLD THE HIRELING JUDGE DISTORTS THE LAWS;
$WEALTH HEAP'D ON WEALTH, NOR TRUTH NOR SAFETY BUYS,
$THE DANGERS GATHER AS THE TREASURES RISE.
$LET HIST'RY TELL WHERE RIVAL KINGS COMMAND,
$AND DUBIOUS TITLE SHAKES THE MADDED LAND,
$WHEN STATUTES GLEAN THE REFUSE OF THE SWORD,
$HOW MUCH MORE SAFE THE VASSAL THAN THE LORD,
$LOW SCULKS THE HIND BENEATH THE RAGE OF POW'R,
$AND LEAVES THE WEALTHY TRAYTOR IN THE $TOW'R,
$UNTOUCH'D HIS COTTAGE, AND HIS SLUMBERS SOUND,
$THO' CONFISCATION'S VULTURS  HOVER ROUND.
$THE NEEDY TRAVELLER, FERENC AND GAY,
$WALKS THE WILD HEATH, AND SINGS HIS TOIL AWAY.
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$DOES ENVY SEIZE THEE? CRUSH TH' UPBRAIDING JOY,
$INCREASE HIS RICHES AND HIS PEACE DESTROY,
$NEW FEARS IN DIRE VICISSITUDE INVADE,
$THE RUSTLING BRAKE ALARMS, AND QUIV'RING SHADE,
$NOR LIGHT NOR DARKNESS BRING HIS PAIN RELIEF,
$ONE SHEWS THE PLUNDER, AND ONE HIDES THE THIEF.
$YET STILL ONE GEN'RAL CRY THE SKIES ASSAILS,
$AND GAIN AND GRANDEUR LOAD THE TAINTED GALES;
$FEW KNOW THE TOILING STATESMAN'S FEAR OR CARE,
$ONCE MORE, $DEMOCRITUS, ARISE ON EARTH,
$WITH CHEARFUL WISDOM AND INSTRUCTIVE MIRTH,
$SEE MOTLY LIFE IN MODERN TRAPPINGS DRESS'D,
$AND FEED WITH VARIED FOOLS TH' ETERNAL JEST:
$THOU WHO COULDST LAUGH WHERE WANT ENCHAIN'D CAPRICE,
$TOIL CRUSH'D CONCEIT, AND MAN WAS OF A PIECE;
$WHERE WEALTH UNLOV'D WITHOUT A MOURNER DY'D,
$AND SCARCE A SYCOPHANT WAS FED BY PRIDE;
$WHERE NE'ER WAS KNOWN THE FORM OF MOCK DEBATE,
$OR SEEN A NEW-MADE MAYOR'S UNWIELDY STATE;
$WHERE CHANGE OF FAV'RITES MADE NO CHANGE OF LAWS,
$AND SENATES HEARD BEFORE THEY JUDG'D A CAUSE;
$HOW WOULDST THOU SHAKE AT $BRITAIN'S MODISH TRIBE,
$DART THE QUICK TAUNT, AND EDGE THE PIERCING GIBE?
$ATTENTIVE TRUTH AND NATURE TO DECRY,
$AND PIERCE EACH SCENE WITH PHILOSOPHIC EYE.
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$TO THEE WERE SOLEMN TOYS OR EMPTY SHEW,
$THE ROBES OF PLEASURE AND THE VEILS OF WOE:
$ALL AID THE FARCE, AND ALL THY MIRTH MAINTAIN,
$WHOSE JOYS ARE CAUSELESS, OR WHOSE GRIEFS ARE VAIN.
$SUCH WAS THE SCORN THAT FILL'D THE SAGE'S MIND,
$RENEW'D AT EV'RY GLANCE ON HUMANKIND;
$HOW JUST THAT SCORN ERE YET THY VOICE DECLARE,
$SEARCH EVERY STATE, AND CANVASS EV'RY PRAY'R.
$UNNUMBER'D SUPPLIANTS CROUD $PREFERMENT'S GATE,
$ATHIRST FOR WEALTH, AND BURNING TO BE GREAT;
$DELUSIVE $FORTUNE HEARS TH' INCESSANT CALL,
$THEY MOUNT, THEY SHINE, EVAPORATE, AND FALL.
$ON EV'RY STAGE THE FOES OF PEACE ATTEND,
$HATE DOGS THEIR SLIGHT, AND INSULT MOCKS THEIR END.
$LOVE ENDS WITH HOPE THE SINKING STATESMAN'S DOOR
$POURS IN THE MORNING WORSHIPER NO MORE;
$FOR GROWING NAMES THE WEEKLY SCRIBBLER LIES,
$TO GROWING WEALTH THE DEDICATOR FLIES,
$FROM EVERY ROOM DESCENDS THE PAINTED FACE,
$THAT HUNG THE BRIGHT $PALLADIUM OF THE PLACE,
$AND SMOAK'D IN KITCHENS, OR IN AUCTIONS SOLD,
$TO BETTER FEATURES YIELDS THE FAME OF GOLD;
$FOR NOW NO MORE WE TRACE IN EV'RY LINE
$THE FORM DISTORTED JUSTIFIES THE FALL,
$AND DETESTATION RIDS TH' INDIGNANT WALL.
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$BUT WILL NOT $BRITAIN HEAR THE LAST APPEAL,
$SIGN HER FOES DOOM, OR GUARD HER FAV'RITES ZEAL;
$THROUGH $FREEDOM'S SONS NO MORE REMONSTRANCE RINGS,
$DEGRADING NOBLES AND CONTROULING KINGS;
$OUR SUPPLE TRIBES REPRESS THEIR PATRIOT THROATS,
$AND ASK NO QUESTIONS BUT THE PRICE OF VOTES;
$WITH WEEKLY LIBELS AND SEPTENNIAL ALE,
$SHEIR WITH IS FULL TO RIOT AND TO RAIL.
$IN FULL-BLOWN DIGNITY, FEE $WOLSEY STAND,
$LAW IN HIS VOICE, AND FORTUNE IN HIS HAND,
$TO HIM THE CHURCH, THE REALM, THEIR POW'RS CONSIGN,
$THRO' HIM THE RAYS OF REGAL BOUNTY SHINE,
$STILL TO NEW HEIGHTS HIS RESTLESS WISHES TOW'R,
$CLAIM LEADS TO CLAIM, AND POW'R ADVANCES POW'R;
$TILL CONQUEST UNRESISTED CEAS'D TO PLEASE,
$AND RIGHTS SUBMITTED, LEFT HIM NONE TO SEIZE.
$AT LENGTH HIS SOV'REIGN FROWNS === THE TRAIN OF STATE
$MARK THE KEEN GLANCE, AND WATCH THE SIGN TO HATE.
$WHERE-E'ER HE TURNS HE MEETS A STRANGER'S EYE,
$HIS SUPPLIANTS SCORN HIM, AND HIS FOLLOWERS FLY;
$AT ONCE IS LOST THE PRIDE OF AWEFUL STATE,
$THE GOLDEN CANOPY, THE GLITT'RING PLATE,
$WITH AGE, WITH CARES, WITH MALADIES OPPRESS'D,
$HE SEEKS THE REFUGE OF MONASTIC REST.
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$GRIEF AIDS DISEASE, REMEMBER'D FOLLY STINGS,
$AND HIS LAST SIGHS REPROACH THE FAITH OF KINGS.
$SPEAK THOU, WHOSE THOUGHTS AT HUMBLE PEACE REPINE,
$SHALL $WOLSEY'S WEALTH, WITH $WOLSEY'S END BE THINE?
$OR LIV'ST THOU NOW, WITH SAFER PRIDE CONTENT,
$TRHE WISEST JUSTICE ON THE BANKS OF $TENT?
$FOR WHY DID $WOLSEY NEAR THE STEEPS OF FATE,
$ON WEAK FOUNDATIONS RAISE TH' ENORMOUS WEIGHT?
$WHY BUT TO SINK BENEATH MISFORTUNE'S BLOW,
$WITH LOUDER RUIN TO THE GULPHS BELOW?
$WHAT GAVE GREAT $VILLIERS TO TH' ASSASSIN'S KNIFE,
$AND FIX'D DISEASE ON $HARLEY'S CLOSING LIFE?
$BY KINGS PROTECTED, AND TO KINGS ALLY'D?
$WHAT BUT THEIR WISH INDULG'D IN COURTS TO SHINE,
$AND POW'R TOO GREAT TO KEEP, OR TO RESIGN?
$WHEN FIRST THE COLLEGE ROLLS RECEIVE HIS NAME,
$THE YOUNG ENTHUSIAST QUITS HIS EASE FOR FAME;
$THROUGH ALL HIS VEINS THE FEVER OF RENOWN
$SPREADS FROM THE STRONG CONTAGION OF THE GOWN;
$O'ER $BODLEY'S DOME HIS FUTURE LABOURS SPREAD,
$AND $BACON'S MANSION TREMBLES O'ER HIS HEAD.
$ARE THESE THY VIEWS? PROCEED, ILLUSTRIOUS YOUTH,
$AND VIRTUE GUARD THEE TO THE THRONE OF $TRUTH!
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$YET SHOULD THY SOUL INDULGE THE GEN'ROUS HEAT,
$TILL CAPTIVE $SCIENCE YIELDS HER LAST RETREAT;
$SHOULD $REASON GUIDE THEE WITH HER BRIGHTEST RAY,
$AND POUR ON MISTY $DOUBT RESISTLESS DAY;
$SHOULD NO FALSE $KINDNESS LURE TO LOOSE DELIGHT,
$NOR $PRAISE RELAX, NOR $DIFFICULTY FRIGHT;
$SHOULD TEMPTING $NOVELTY THY CELL REFRAIN
$AND $SLOTH EFFUSE HER OPIATE FUMES IN VAIN;
$SHOULD $BEAUTY BLUNT ON FOPS HER FATAL DART,
$NOR CLAIM THE TRIUMPH OF A LETTER'D HEART;
$SHOULD NO $DISEASE THY TORPID VEINS INVADE,
$NOR $MELANCHOLY'S PHANTOMS HAUNT THY SHADE;
$DEIGN ON THE PASSING WORLD TO TURN THINE EYES,
$AND PAUSE AWHILE FROM LETTERS, TO BE WISE;
$THERE MARK WHAT ILLS THE SCHOLAR'S LIFE ASSAIL,
$TOIL, ENVY, WANT, THE PATRON, AND THE JAIL.
$SEE NATIONS SLOWLY WISE, AND MEANLY JUST,
$TO BURIED MERIT RAISE THE TARDY BUST.
$IF DREAMS YET FLATTER, ONCE AGAIN ATTEND,
$HEAR $LYDIAT'S LIFE, AND $GALILEO'S END.
$NOR DEEM, WHEN LEARNING HER LAST PRIZE BESTOWS
$THE GLITT'RING EMINENCE EXEMPT FROM FOES;
$SEE WHEN THE VULGAR 'SCAPE, DESPIS'D OR AW'D,
$REBELLION'S VENGEFUL TALONS SEIZE ON $LAUD.
$FROM MEANER MINDS, THO' SMALLER FINES CONTENT
$THE PLUNDER'D PALACE OR SEQUESTER'D RENT;
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$MARK'D OUT BY DANGEROUS PARTS HE MEETS THE SHOCK,
$AND FATAL $LEARNING LEADS HIM TO THE BLOCK:
$BUT HEAR HIS DEATH YE BLOCKHEADS, HEAR AND SLEEP.
$THE FESTAL BLAZES, THE TRIUMPHAL SHOW,
$THE RAVISH'D STANDARD, AND THE CAPTIVE FOE,
$THE SENATES'S THANKS, THE GAZETTE'S POMPOUS TALE,
$WITH FORCE RESISTLESS O'ER THE BRAVE PREVAIL.
$SUCH BRIBES THE RAPID $GREEK O'ER $ASIA WHIRL'D
$FOR SUCH THE STEADY $ROMANS SHOOK THE WORLD;
$FOR SUCH IN DISTANT LANDS THE $BRITONS SHINE,
$AND STAIN WITH BLOOD THE $DANUBE OR THE $RHINE;
$THAIS POW'R HAS PRISE, THAT VIRTUE SCARCE CAN WARM,
$TILL FAME SUPPLIES THE UNIVERSAL CHARM.
$YET $REASON FROWNS ON $WAR'S UNEQUAL GAME,
$WHERE WASTED NATIONS RAISE A SINGLE NAME,
$AND MORTGAG'D STATES THEIR GRANDSIRES WREATHS REGRET,
$FROM AGE TO AGE IN EVERLASTING DEBT;
$WREATHES WHICH AT LAST THE DEAR-BOUGHT RIGHT CONVEY
$TO RUST ON MEDALS, OR ON STONES DECAY.
$ON WHAT FOUNDATION STANDS THE WARRIOR'S PRIDE,
$HOW JUST HIS HOPES LET $SWEDISH $CHARLES DECIDE;
$A FRAME OF ADAMANT, A SOUL OF FIRE,
$NO DANGERS FRIGHT HIM, AND NO LABOURS TIRE;
$O'ER LOVE, O'ER FEAR EXTENDS HIS WIDE DOMAIN,
$UNCONQUER'D LORD OF PLEASURE AND OF PAIN;
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$NO JOYS TO HIM PACIFIC SCEPTERS YIELD,
$WAR SOUNDS THE TRUMP, HE RUSHES TO THE FIELD;
$BEHOLD SURROUNDING KINGS THEIR POW'R COMBINE,
$AND ONE CAPITULATE, AND ONE RESIGN;
$PEACE COURTS HIS HAND, BUT SPREADS HER CHARMS IN VAIN;
$THINK NOTHING GAIN'D, HE CRIES, TILL NOUGHT REMAIN,
$ON $MOSCOW'S WALL TILL $GOTHIC STANDARDS FLY,
$AND ALL BE MINE BENEATH THE POLAR SKY.
$THE $MARCH BEGINS IN MILITARY STATE,
$AND NATIONS ON HIS EYE SUSPENDED WAIT;
$STERN $FAMINE GUARDS THE SOLITARY COAST,
$AND $WINTER BARRICADES THE REALMS OF $FROST;
$HE COMES, NOT WANT AND COLD HIS COURSE DELAY;====
$HIDE, BLUSHING $GLORY, HIDE $PULTOWA'S DAY:
$THE VANQUISH'D HERO LEAVES HIS BROKEN BANDS,
$AND SHEWS HIS MISERIES IN DISTANT LANDS;
$WHILE LADIES INTERPOSE, AND SLAVES DEBATE.
$BUT DID NOT $CHANCE AT LENGTH HER ERROR MEND?
$DID NO SUBVERTED EMPIRE MARK HIS END?
$DID RIVAL NONARCHS GIVE THE FATAL WOUND?
$OR HOSTILE MILLIONS PRESS HIM TO THE GROUND?
$HIS FALL WAS DESTIN'D TO A BARREN STRAND,
$A PETTY FORTRESS, AND A DUBIOUS HAND;
$HE LEFT THE NAME, AT WHICH THE WORLD GREW PALE,
$TO POINT A MORAL, OR ADORN A TALE.
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$ALL TIMES THEIR SCENES OF POMPOUS WOES AFFORD,
$FROM $PERSIA'S TYRANT TO $BAVARIA'S LORD.
$IN GAY HOSTILITY, AND BARB'ROUS PRIDE,
$WITH HALF MANKIND EMBATTLED AT HIS SIDE,
$GREAT $XERXES COMES TO SEIZE THE CERTAIN PREY,
$AND STARVES EXHAUSTED REGIONS IN HIS WAY;
$ATTENDANT $FLATT'RY COUNTS HIS MYRIADS O'ER,
$TILL COUNTED MYRIADS SOOTH HIS PRIDE NO MORE;
$FRESH PRAISE IS TRY'D TILL MADNESS FIRES HIS MIND,
$THE WAVES HE LASHES, AND ENCHAINS THE WIND;
$NEW POW'RS ARE CLAIM'D, NEW POW'RS ARE STILL BESTOW'D,
$TILL RUDE RESISTANCE LOPS THE SPREADING GOD;
$THE DARING $GREEKS DERIDE THE MARTIAL SHOW,
$AND HEAP THEIR VALLIES WITH THE GAUDY FOE;
$TH'INSULTED SEA WITH HUMBLER THOUGHTS HE GAINS,
$THROUGH PURPLE BILLOWS AND A FLOATING HOST.
$THE BOLD $BAVARIAN, IN A LUCKLESS HOUR,
$TRIES THE DREAD SUMMITS OF $CESAREAN POW'R,
$WITH UNEXPECTED LEGIONS BURSTS AWAY,
$AND FEES DESENCELESS REALMS RECEIVE HIS SWAY;
$SHORT SWAY! FAIR $AUSTRIA SPREADS HER MOURNFUL CHARMS,
$THE QUEEN, THE BEAUTY, SETS THE WORLD IN ARMS;
$FROM HILL TO HILL THE BEACONS ROUSING BLAZE
$SPREADS WIDE THE HOPE OF PLUNDER AND OF PRAISE;
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$THE FIERCE $CROATIAN, AND THE WILD $HUSSAR,
$AND ALL THE SONS OF RAVAGE CROUD THE WAR;
$THE BAFFLED PRINCE IN HONOUR'S FLATT'RING BLOOM
$OF HASTY GREATNESS FINDS THE FATAL DOOM,
$HIS FOES DERISION, AND HIS SUBJECTS BLAME,
$AND STEALS TO DEATH FROM ANGUISH AND FROM SHAME.
$IN HEALTH, IN SICKNESS, THUS THE SUPPLIANT PRAYS;
$HIDES FROM HIMSELF HIS STATE, AND SHUNS TO KNOW,
$THAT LIFE PROTRACTED IS PROTRACTED WOE.
$TIME HOVERS O'ER IMPATIENT TO DESTROY,
$AND SHUTS UP ALL THE PASSAGES OF JOY:
$IN VAIN THEIR GIFTS THE BOUNTEOUS SEASONS POUR,
$THE FRUIT AUTUMNAL, AND THE VERNAL FLOW'R,
$WITH LISTLESS EYES THE DOTARD VIEWS THE SHORE,
$HE VIEWS, AND WONDERS THAT THEY PLEASE NO MORE;
$NOW PALL THE TASTLESS TEARS, AND JOYLESS WINES,
$AND LUXURY WITH SIGHS HER SLAVE RESIGNS.
$APPROACH, YE MINSTRELS, TRY THE SOOTHING STRAIN,
$AND YIELD THE TUNEFUL LENITIVES OF PAIN:
$NO SOUNDS ALAS WOULD TOUCH TH' IMPERVIOUS EAR,
$THOUGH DANCING MOUNTAINS WITNESS'D $ORPHEUS NEAR;
$NOR LUTE NOR LYRE HIS FEEBLE POW'RS ATTEND,
$NOR SWEETER MUSICK OF A VIRTUOUS FRIEND,
$BUT EVERLASTING DICTATES CROUD HIS TONGUE,
$PERVERSELY GRAVE, OR POSITIVELY WRONG.
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$THE STILL RETURNING TALE, AND LING'RING JEST,
$PERPLEX THE FAWNING NIECE AND PAMPER'D GUEST,
$WHILE GROWING HOPES SCARCE AWE THE GATH'RING SNEER,
$AND SCARCE A LEGACY CAN BRIBE TO HEAR;
$THE WATCHFUL GUESTS STILL HINT THE LAST OFFENCE,
$THE DAUGHTER'S PETULANCE, THE SON'S EXPENCE,
$IMPROVE HIS HEADY RAGE WITH TREACH'ROUS SKILL,
$AND MOULD HIS PASSIONS TILL THEY MAKE HIS WILL.
$UNNUMBER'D MALADIES HIS JOINTS INVADE,
$LAY SIEGE TO LIFE AND PRESS THE DIRE BOCKADE;
$BUT UNEXTINGUISH'D $AV'RICE STILL REMAINS,
$AND DREADED LOSSES AGGRAVATE HIS PAINS;
$HE TURNS, WITH ANXIOUS HEART AND CRIPPLPLED HANDS,
$HIS BONDS OF DEBT, AND MORTGAGES OF LANDS;
$OR VIEWS HIS COFFERS WITH SUSPICIOUS EYES,
$UNLOCKS HIS GOLD, AND COUNTS IT TILL HE DIES.
$BUT GRANT, THE VIRTUES OF A TEMP'RATE PRIME
$BLESS WITH AN AGE EXEMPT FROM SCORN OR CRIME;
$AN AGE THAT MELTS IN UNPERCEIV'D DECAY,
$AND GLIDES IN MODEST $INNOCENCE AWAY;
$WHOSE NIGHT CONGRATULATING $CONSCIENCE CHEERS;
$THE GEN'RAL FAV'RITE AS THE GEN'RAL FRIEND:
$SUCH AGE THERE IS, AND WHO COULD WISH ITS END?
$YET E'N ON THIS HER LOAD $MISFORTUNE SLINGS,
$TO PRESS THE WEARY MINUTES FLAGGING WINGS:
$NEW SORROW RISES AS THE DAY RETURNS,
$A SISTER SICKENS, OR A DAUGHTER MOURNS.
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$NOW KINDRED $MERIT FILLS THE SABLE BIER,
$NOW LACERATED $FRIENDSHIP CLAIMS A TEAR.
$YEAR CHASES YEAR, DECAY PURSUES DECAY,
$STILL DROPS SOME JOY FROM WITH'RING LIFE AWAY;
$NEW FORMS ARISE, AND DIFF'RENT VIEWS ENGAGE,
$SUPERFLUOUS LAGS THE VET'RAN ON THE STAGE
$TILL PITYING $NATURE SIGNS THE LAST RELEASE,
$AND BIDS AFFLICTED WORTH RETIRE TO PEACE.
$BUT FEW THERE ARE WHOM HOURS LIKE THESE AWAIT,
$WHO SET UNCLOUDED IN THE GULPHS OF FATE.
$FROM $LYDIA'S MONARCH SHOULD THE SEARCH DESCEND,
$BY $SOLON CAUTION'D TO REGARD HIS END,
$IN LIFE'S LAST SCENE WHAT PRODIGIES SURPRISE,
$FEARS OF THE BRAVE, AND FOLLIES OF THE WISE?
$FROM $MARLB'ROUGH'S EYES THE STREAMS OF DOTAGE FLOW,
$AND $SWIFT EXPIRES A DRIV'LER AND A SHOW.
$THE TEEMING MOTHER, ANXIOUS FOR HER RACE,
$BEGS FOR EACH BIRTH THE FORTUNE OF A FACE:
$YET $VANE COULD TELL WHAT ILLS FROM BEAUTY SPRING;
$AND $SEDLEY CURS'D THE FORM THAT PLEAS'D A KING.
$YE NYMPHS OF ROSY LIPS AND RADIANT EYES,
$WHOM $PLEASURE KEEPS TOO BUSY TO BE WISE,
$BY DAY THE FROLICK, AND THE DANCE BY NIGHT,
$WHO FROWN WITH VANITY, WHO SMILE WITH ART,
$AND ASK THE LATEST FASHION OF THE HEART,
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$WHAT CARE, WHAT RULES YOUR HEEDLESS CHARMS SHALL SAVE,
$EACH NYMPH YOUR RIVAL, AND EACH YOUTH YOUR SLAVE?
$AGAINST YOUR FAME WITH FONDNESS HATE COMBINES,
$THE RIVAL BATTERS, AND THE LOVER MINES.
$WITH DISTANT VOICE NEGLECTED $VIRTUE CALLS,
$LESS HEARD AND LESS, THE SAINT REMONSTRANCE FALLS;
$TIR'D WITH CONTEMPT, SHE QUITS THE SLIPP'RY REIGN,
$IN CROUD AT ONCE, WHERE NONE THE PASS DEFEND,
$THE HARMLESS $FREEDOM, AND THE PRIVATE $FRIEND.
$THE GUARDIANS YIELD, BY FORCE SUPERIOR PLY'D;
$BY $INT'REST, $PRUDENCE; AND BY $FLATT'RY, $PRIDE.
$NOW $BEAUTY FALLS BETRAY'D, DESPIS'D, DISTRESS'D,
$AND HISSING INFAMY PROCLAIMS THE REST.
$WHERE THEN SHALL $HOPE AND $FEAR THEIR OBJECTS FIND?
$MUST DULL $SUSPENCE CORRUPT THE STAGNANT MIND?
$MUST HELPLESS MAN, IN IGNORANCE SEDATE,
$ROLL DARKLING DOWN THE TORRENT OF HIS FATE?
$MUST NO DISLIKE ALARM, NO WISHES RISE,
$NO CRIES ATTEMPT THE MERCIES OF THE SKIES?
$ENQUIRER, CEASE, PETITIONS YET REMAIN,
$WHICH HEAV'N  MAY HEAR, NOR DEEM RELIGION VAIN.
$STILL RAISE FOR GOOD THE SUPPLICATING VOICE,
$BUT LEAVE TO HEAV'N THE MEASURE AND THE CHOICE.
$SAFE IN HIS POW'R, WHOSE EYES DISCERN AFAR
$THE SECRET AMBUSH OF A SPECIOUS PRAY'R.
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$IMPLORE HIS AID, IN HIS DECISIONS REST,
$SECURE WHATE'ER HE GIVES, HE GIVES THE BEST.
$YET WHEN THE SENSE OF SACRED PRESENCE FIRES,
$AND STRONG DEVOTION TO THE SKIES ASPIRES,
$POUR FORTH THY FERVOURS FOR A HEALTHFUL MIND,
$OBEDIENT PASSIONS, AND A WILL RESIGN'D;
$FOR LOVE, WHICH SCARCE COLLECTIVE MAN CAN FILL;
$SOR PATIENCE FOV'REIGN O'ER TRANSMUTED ILL;
FOR FAITH, THAT PANTING FOR A HAPPIER SEAT,
$COUNTS DEATH KIND $NATURE'S SIGNAL OF RETREA:
$THESE GOODS FOR MAN THE LAWS OF HEAV'N ORDAIN,
$THESE GOODS HE GRANTS, WHO GRANTS THE POW'R TO GAIN;
$WITH THESE CELESTIAL WISDOM CALMS THE MIND,