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Of ev'ry fecret grief that fefter'd there:

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Nor did her fond affection on the bed

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And charm away the sense of pain:

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With pledges dear, and with a father's tender

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O beft of wives! O dearer far to me

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Than when thy virgin charms

Were yielded to my arms!

How can my foul endure the lofs of thee?

How in the world, to me a defart

Abandon'd and alone,

grown

Without my fweet companion can I live?
Without thy lovely smile,

The dear reward of ev'ry virtuous toil,

What pleasures now can pall'd ambition give? Ev'n the delightful fenfe of well-earn'd praise Unfhar'd by thee no more my lifeless thoughts could

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BEAUTIES OF THE POETS.

On whom for confolation fhall I call?

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My dear departed love fo much

That none has any comfort to beftow.

My books the best relief

In ev'ry other grief,"

Are now with your idea fadden'd all :

Each fav'rite author we together read,

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My tortur'd memory wounds, and fpeaks of Lucy

dead.

XVIII.

We were the happiest pair of human kind,

The rolling year its varying course perform'd

And back return'd again ;

Another and another smiling came,

And faw our happiness unchang`d remain ;

Still in her golden chain

Harmonious concord did her wishes bind,

Our studies, pleasures, tafte, the fame.
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That all this pleasing fabric love had rais'd
Of rare felicity,

On which ev'n wanton vice with envy gaz'd,

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Nor dare th' all-wise Disposer to arraign

Or against his fupreme decree

With impious grief complain.

That all thy full-blown joys at once should fade Was his most righteous will and be that will

obey'd.

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That heavenly radiance of eternal light,

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Is ev'ry mortal bliss;

Ev'n love itself, if rifing by degrees

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more.

WHILE others fing the fortune of the great,

Empire and arms, and all the pomp of state,
I draw a deeper scene; a scene that yieldsty
A louder trumpet, and more dreadful fields;
The world alarm'd, both earth and heaven o'ers
thrown,

And gasping nature's last tremendous groan;
Death's ancient fceptre broke, the teeming tomb,
The righteous Judge, and man's eternal doom.

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Attend me all ye glorious worlds around 1
O all ye angels, howfoe'er disjoin'd,
Of ev'ry various order, place, and kind,-
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Hear, and affift a feeble mortal's lays;

'Tis your Eternal King Iftrive to praise.

But chiefly thou, Great Ruler! LORD of all 1999 Before whofe throne archangels proftrate fall; If at thy nod, from difcord and from night, Sprang beauty, and yon fparkling worlds of light, Exalt ev'n me; all inward tumults quell; The clouds and darkness of my mind difpel; To my great subject thou my breast inspire, And raife my lab'ring foul with equal fire.

Man, bear thy brow aloft, view ev'ry grace
In God's great offspring, beauteous nature's face:
See spring's gay bloom; see golden autumn's store;
See how earth fmiles, and hear old ocean roar.
Here forefts rife, the mountain's awful pride;
Here rivers measure climes, and worlds divide;
There vallies, fraught with gold's refplendent seeds,
Hold kings, and kingdoms fortunes in their beds: 0
There, to the fkies, aspiring hills ascend,

And into diftant lands their fhades extend.
View cities, armies, fleets; of fleets the pride,
See Europe's law, in Albion's channel ride..
View the whole earth's vaft landscape unconfin',
Or view in Britain all her glories join'd.

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