Save me alike from foolish pride
Or impious discontent

At aught thy wisdom has denied
Or aught thy goodness lent

O lost to virtue lost to manly thought
Lost to the noble sallies of the soul
Who think it solitude to be alone

Communion sweet communion large and high
Our reason guardian angel and our God
Then nearest these when others most remote
And all ere long shall be remote but these

Benevolence.

God loves from whole to parts but human soul
Must rise from individual to the whole

Self love but serves the virtuous mind to wake
As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake
The centre mov da circle straight succeeds
Another still and still another spreads

Friend parent neighbour first it will embrace
His country next and next all human race,
Wide and more wide tho erflowings of the mind
Take ev ry creature in of ev ry kind

Earth smiles around with boundless bounty blest
And heav n beholds its image in his breast

Happiness.

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Know then this truth enough for man to know
Virtue alone is happiness below
The only point where human bliss stands still
And tastes the good without the fall to ill
Where only merit constant pay receives
Is blest in what it takes and what it gives
The joy unequall d if its end it gain
And if it lose attended with no pain
Without satiety tho e er so blest

And but more relish d as the more distress d

The broadest mirth unfeeling folly wears
Less pleasing far than virtue s very tears

Good from each object from each place acquir d,
For ever exercis d yet never tir d

Never elated while one man s oppress d

Never dejected while another's blest
And where no wants no wishes can remain.
Since but to wish more virtue is to gain

Gratitude.

When all thy mercies O my God
My rising soul surveys
Transported with the view Im lost
In wonder love and praise

Oh how shall works with equal warmth
The gratitude declare

That glows within my ravish d heart
But thou canst read it there

Thy providence my life sustain d
And all my wants redress d
When in the silent womb I lay
And hung upon the breast

To all my weak complaints and cries
Thy mercy lent an ear

Ere yet my feeble thoughts had learnt
To form themselves in pray r?

Unnumber d comforts to my soul
Thy tender care bestow d
Before my infant heart conceiv d

From whom those comforts flow d

When in the slipp ry paths of youth
With heedless steps I ran

Thine arm unseen convey &me safe
And led me up to man

Through hidden dangers toils and death
It gently clear d my way

And through the pleasing snares of vice
More to be fear d than they

When worn with sickness oft hast thou
With health renew d my face
And when in sin and sorrow sunk
Reviv d my soul with grace

Thy bounteous hand with worldly bliss
Has made my cup run o er
And in a kind and faithful friend
Has doubled all my store

Ten thousand thousand precious gifts
My daily thanks employ
Nor is the least a cheerful heart
That tastes those gifts with joy

Through ev ry period of my life
Thy goodness Ill pursue
And after death in distant worlds
The glorious theme renew

When nature fails and day and night
Divide thy works no more

My ever grateful heart O Lord
Thy mercy shall adore

Through all eternity to thee
A joyful song III raise

For O eternity s too short
To utter all thy praise

The Voyage of life.

Self flatter d unexperienc d high in hope

When young with sanguine cheer and streamers gay We cut our cable launch into the world

And fondly dream each wind and star our friend

All in some darling enterprise embark d
But where is he can fathom its event
Amid a multitude of artless hands
Ruin s sure perquisite her lawful prize

Some steer aright but the black blast blows hard
And puffs them wide of hope With hearts of proof
Full against wind and tide some win their way
And when strong effort has deserv d the port
And tugg d it into view tis won tis lost

Though strong their oar still stronger is their fate
They strike and while they triumph they expire
In stress of weather most some sink outright

O er them and o er their names the billows close
To morrow knows not they were ever born
Others a short memorial leave behind
Like a flag floating when the bark s ingulf d
It floats a moment and is seen no more
One Cæsar lives a thousand are forgot
How few favour d by ev ry element

With swelling sails make good the promis d port
With all their wishes freighted Yet ev n these
Freighted with all their wishes soon complain
Free from misfortune not from nature free
They still are men and when is man secure
As fatal time as storm The rush of years
Beats down their strength their numberless escapes
In ruin end and now their proud success
But plants new terrors on the victor s brow
What pain to quit the world just made their own
Their nests so deeply down d and built so high
Too low they build who build beneath the stars.

PART. V.

EXERCISES TO PROMOTE PERSPICUOUS AND
ACCURATE WRITING.

First, with respect to single words and phrases.

CHAP. I.

Containing violations of the Rules of Purity.
Grammar, p. 250. Key, p. 110.

We should be employed dailily in doing good.
It irks me to see so perverse a disposition.
I wot not who has done this thing.

He is no way thy inferior; and, in this instance, is no ways to blame.

The assistance was welcome, and timelily afforded. For want of employment, he stroamed idly about the fields.

We ought to live soberly, righteously, and godlily in the world.

He was long indisposed, and at length died of the hyp.

That word follows the general rule, and takes the penult accent.

He was an extra genius, and attracted much attention.

The hauteur of Florio was very disgracious, and disgusted both his friends and strangers.

He charged me with want of resolution, in the which he was greatly mistaken.

They have manifested great candidness in all the transaction.