Scared at thy frown terrific, fly
Self-pleafing Folly's idle brood,
Wild Laughter, Noise, and thoughtless Joy,
And leave us leifure to be good.

Light they difperfe, and with them go
The fummer Friend, the flatt'ring Foe;

By vain Profperity receiv'd,

To her they yow their truth, and are again believ'd.

Wisdom in fable garb array'd,

Immers'd in rapt'rous thought profound,

And Melancholy, filent maid

With leaden eye, that loves the ground, Still on thy folemn steps attend:

Warm Charity, the general friend,

With Justice to herself severe,

And Pity, dropping foft the fadly-pleafing tear,

Oh! gently on thy Suppliant's head,

Dread Goddess, lay thy chast'ning hand!

Not in thy Gorgon terrors clad,

Nor circled with the vengeful Band

(As by the Impious thou art feen)

With thund'ring voice, and threat'ning mien,
With screaming Horror's funeral cry,
Despair, and fell Disease, and ghaftly Poverty.

Thy

Thy form benign, oh Goddess, wear,
Thy milder influence impart,
Thy philofophic Train be there

To foften, not to wound my heart,
The generous fpark extinct revive,
Teach me to love, and to forgive,

i Exact my own defects to scan,

What others are to feel, and know myself a man.

i "The many hard confonants (fays Mr. Mafon) which occur in "this line, hurt the ear. Mr. Gray perceived it himfelf, but did not "alter it, as the words themfelves were those which best conveyed his "idea, and therefore did not chufe to facrifice fenfe to found."

EDU.

EDUCATIO N.

А РОЕМ:

IN TWO CANTOSk.

Written in Imitation of the Style and Manner of

SPENSER'S FAIRY QUEEN.

Infcribed to Lady LANGHAM, Widow of Sir JOHN LANGHAM, Bart.

By GILBERT WEST, Efq.

Unum ftudium vere liberale eft, quod liberum facit. Hoc fapientia ftudium eft, fublime, forte, magnanimum: era pufilla & puerilia funt.-Plus feire velle quàm fir fatis intemperantia genus eft. Quid, quod ifta liberalium artium confectatio moleftas, verbofos, intempeftivos, fibi placentes facit, & ideo non dicentes neceffaria, quia fupervacua didicerunt.

SEN. Ep. 88.
Goodly DISCIPLINE! from heaven y-fprong!

Parent of Science, queen of Arts refin'd!
To whom the Graces, and the Nine belong:
O! bid thofe Graces, in fair chorus join'd

* One canto only of this poem was published. The objections that were made to the obfolete words are faid to have occafioned its being left unfinished.

1 Lady Langham was the author's mother.

With

With each bright Virtue that adorns the mind!
O bid the Muses, thine harmonious train,
Who by thy aid erft humaniz'd mankind,
Infpire, direct, and moralize the strain,

That doth effay to teach thy treasures how to gain!

And THOU, whofe pious and maternal care,
The fubftitute of heavenly Providence,
With tenderest love my orphan life did rear,
And train me up to manly strength and sense;
With mildest awe, and virtuous influence,
Directing my unpractis'd wayward feet

To the smooth walks of Truth and Innocence;
Where Happiness heart-felt, Contentment fweet,
Philosophy divine aye hold their bleft retreat;

THOU, most belov'd, most honour'd, most rever'd !
Accept this verfe, to thy large merit due!
And blame me not, if by each tye endear'd,
Of nature, gratitude, and friendship true,
The whiles this moral thefes I pursue,

And trace the plan of goodly

m Nurture o'er, I bring thy modeft virtues into view;

And proudly boast that from thy precious store,

Which erft enrich'd my heart, I drew this facred lore.

m Nurture, Education.

And

And thus, I ween, thus fhall I best repay
The valued gifts, thy careful love bestow'd;
If imitating THEE, well as I may,

I labour to diffufe th' important good,
"Till this great truth by all be understood;
"That all the pious duties which we owe,
"Our parents, friends, our country, and our God;
"The feeds of every virtue here below,
"From Difcipline alone, and early Culture, grow."

CANTO I.

ARGUMENT.

The Knight, as to n PÆDIA's boufe

He his young fon conveys,

Is faid by CUSTOM; with him fights,

And his vain pride difmays.

I.

Gentle KNIGHT there was, whofe noble deeds

A O'er Fairy Land by Fame were blazon'd round

For warlike enterprize, and fage areeds,
Among the chief alike was he renown'd;

a Pædîa is a Greek word, fignifying Education.
d. Areeds, counsels.

Whence