Virtue the guardian of Youth. Down the smooth stream of life the stripling darts, Sunrise. چت But yonder comes the pow'rful king of day, Self-government. May I govern my passions with absolute sway; And grow wiser and better as life wears away. Shepherd. On a mountain, stretch'd beneath a hoary willow. SECTION III. Verses containing Exclamations, Interrogations, and Pa rentheses. Competence. A COMPETENCE is all we can enjoy : Oh! be content, where heav'n can give no more! Reflection essential to Happiness. Much joy not only speaks small happiness, But happiness that shortly must expire. Can joy unbottom'd in reflection stand ? And, in a tempest, can reflection live P Friendship. Can gold gain Friendship? Impudence of hope! 4 Lorenzo! pride repress; nor hope to find Patience. Beware of desp'rate steps. The darkest day (Live till to-morrow) will have pass'd away. Luxury. -O luxury! Bane of elated life, of affluent states, What dreary change, what ruin is not thine! How dost thou lure the fortunate and great! Dreadful attraction! Virtuous activity. Seize, mortals! seize the transient hour; The source of Happiness. Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Placid emotion. Who can forbear to smile with nature? Can Solitude.* O sacred Solitude; divine retreat! * By solitude here is meant, a temporary seclusion from the world, Presume not on To-morrow. In human hearts what bolder thoughts can rise, Dum vivimus vivamus. Whilst we live, let us live. "Live, while you live," the epicure would say, " And seize the pleasures of the present day." " Live while you live," the sacred preacher cries; " And give to God each moment as it flies." Lord! in my views, let both united be; I live in pleasure, when I live to thee ! DODDRIDGE. SECTION IV. VERSES IN VARIOUS FORMS. The Security of Virtue, Intrepid virtue smiles secure, Resignation. And O! by errour's force subdu'd, I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood pigeons breed, But let me that plunder forbear! She will say, 'tis a barbarous deed. brown For he ne'er can be true, she averr'd, Who can rob a poor bird of its 2 daer down. And I lov'd her the more, when I heard Epitaph. Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere; Heav'n did a recompense as largely send : He gave to mis'ry all he had a tear; ; He gain'd from Heav'n ('twas all he wish'd) a friend No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, ('There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God. Joy and Sorrow connected. Still, where rosy pleasure leads, The Golden Mean.. He that holds fast the golden mean, Imbitt'ring all his state. His cloud-capt eminence divide; Moderate Views and Aims Recommended. With passions unrufled, untainted with pride, How vainly, through infinite trouble and strife, Is what all, if they please, may enjoy. 'The tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground : Vast happiness enjoy thy gay allies ! SECTION V. VERSES IN WHICH SOUND CORRESPONDS WITH SIGNIFICATION. Smooth and rough Verse. SOFT is the strain when zephyr gently blows, Slow Motion imitated. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, Swift and easy Motion. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Felling Trees in a Wood. Loud sounds the axe, redoubling strokes on strokes; Headlong. Deep echoing groan the thickets brown * Sensual pleasure |