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Religion! what treasure untold

Refides in that heav'nly word!

More precious than filver and gold,
Or all that this earth can afford.

But the found of the church going bell
Thefe vallies and rocks never heard,
Ne'er figh'd at the found of a knell,

Or fmil'd when a fabbath appear'd.:

V.

Ye winds that have made me your fport,

Convey to this defolate fhore,

Some cordial endearing report

Of a land I fhall vifit no more,
My friends, do they now and then fend
A wifh or a thought after me?

O tell me I yet have a friend,

Though a friend I am never to fee.
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VI. How

VI.

How fleet is a glance of the mind!
Compar'd with the speed of its flight,
The tempeft itself lags behind,

And the fwift winged arrows of light.
When I think of my own native land,
In a moment I feern to be there;

But alas! recollection at hand

Soon hurries me back to defpair.

VII.

But the fea fowl is gone to her neft,
The beaft is laid down in his lair,

Ev'n here is a season of reft,

And I to my cabin repair.

There is mercy in ev'ry place,

And mercy, encouraging thought!

Gives even affliction a grace,

And reconciles man to his lot.

On

On the Promotion of EDWARD THURLOW, Efq. to the Lord High Chancellorship of England.

I

ROUND Thurlow's head in early youth,

And in his sportive days,

Fair science pour'd the light of truth,

And genius fhed his rays.

II.

See with united wonder, cry'd
Th' experienc'd and the fage,
Ambition in a boy supplied

With all the skill of age.

III.

Difcernment, eloquence, and grace,

Proclaim him born to fway

The balance in the highest place,

And bear the palm away.

IV.

The praise beftow'd was juft and wife,

He sprang impetuous forth,

Secure of conqueft where the prize

Attends fuperior worth.

So the best courfer on the plain
Ere yet he ftarts is known,

And does but at the goal obtain

What all had deem'd his own.

ODE то РЕАСЕ.

I.

COME, peace of mind, delightful guest ! Return and make thy downy neft

Once more in this fad heart;

Nor riches I, nor pow'r pursue,
Nor hold forbidden joys in view,

We therefore need not part.

II.

Where wilt thou dwell if not with me,

From av'rice and ambition free,

And pleafures fatal wiles?

For whom, alas! doft thou prepare
The fweets that I was wont to fhare,

The banquet of thy finiles?

III.

The great, the gay, fhail they partake
The heav'n that thou alone canft make,

And wilt thou quit the ftream

That murmurs through the dewy mead,
The grove and the fequefter'd fhed,

To be a guest with them?

IV.

For thee I panted, thee I priz'd,

For thee I gladly facrific'd

Whate'er I lov'd before,

And fhall I fee thee start away,

And helpless, hopeless, hear thee fay

Farewell! we meet no more?

HUMAN

FRAILTY.

I.

WEAK and irrefolute is man;

The purpose of to-day,

Woven with pains into his plan,

To-morrow rends away.

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