Poems,

one of them I believe was written with a view to publication, bat I was unwilling they thould be omitted.

John Newton.

Charles Square, Hoxton,

February 18, 1782.

TABLE TALK
Progress of Error
Truth
Expoftulation
Hope
Charity
Conversation
Retirement
The Doves
A Fable
A Comparison
Verses, supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk, during

his folitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fernandes
On the Promotion of EDWARD THURLOW, Esq. to the

Lord High Chancellorship of England
Ode to Peace
Human Frailty
The Modern Patriot
On observing some Names of little Note recorded in the

BIOGRAPHIA BRITANNICA

259

261

263

266 267 269

270

272

Page

Report of an adjudged Cafe, not to be found in

the

Books

On the burning of Lord Mansfield's Library, together with

his MSS. by the Mob, in June 1780

On the same

The Love of the World reproved; or, Hypocrisy detexited

The Lily and the Rose

Idem Latine Redditum

The Nightingale and Glow-worm

Votum

On a Goldfinch farved to Death in a Cage

The Pine-Apple and the Bee

Horace, Book the 2d, Ode the 10th

A Refle&tion on the foregoing Ode

Translations from Vincent Bourne

To the Reverend Mr. Newton

Iransation of Prior's Chloe and Euphelia

Boadicea

Heroism

The Poet, the Oyster, and the Sensitive Plant

On the Receipt of my Mother's Pi&ure out of Norfolk

To the Rev. Mr. William Cawthorne Unwin

314

317

323

TABLE TAL K.

Si te fortè meæ gravis uret sarcina charte,
Abjicito.

Hor. Lib. I. Epift. 13.

d. You told me, I remember, glory, built
On selfish principles, is shame and guilt;
The deeds that men admire as half divine,
Stark naught, because corrupt in their design.
Strange doctrine this! that without scruple tears
The laurel that the very lightning spares;
Brings down the warrior's trophy to the dust,
And eats into his bloody sword like rust.

B. I grant that, men continuing what they are,
Fierce, avaricious, proud, there must be war.
And never meant the rule should be applied
To him that fights with justice on his fide.

VOL. I.

Let laurels, drench'd in pure Parnassian dews,
Reward his mem'ry, dear to ev'ry muse,
Who, with a courage of unshaken root,
In honour's field advancing his firm foot,
Plants it upon the line that justice draws,
And will prevail or perish in her cause.
'Tis to the virtues of such men, man owes
His portion in the good that heaven bestows.
And, when recording history displays
Feats of renown, though wrought in ancient days,
Tells of a few stout hearts that fought and died
Where duty plac'd them, at their country's side;
The man that is not mov'd with what he reads,
That takes not fire at their heroic deeds,
Unworthy of the blessings of the brave,
Is base in kind, and born to be a flave.

But let eternal infamy pursue
The wretch to nought but his ambition true,
Who, for the sake of filling with one blast
The post-horns of all Europe, lays her waste.
Think yourself ftation'd on a tow'ring rock,
To see a people scatter'd like a flock,
Some royal mastiff panting at their heels,
With all the favage thirst a tyger feels;

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