THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES.

LET Obfervation, with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager ftrife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life; Then say how Hope and Fear, Defire and Hate,

O'erspread with fnares the clouded maze of

fate,

Where wav'ring man, betray'd by vent❜rous

pride,

To tread the dreary paths without a guide:
As treach'rous phantoms in the mist delude,
Shun fancied ills, or chafes airy good;
How rarely reafon guides the ftubborn choice,
Rules the bold hand, or prompts the suppliant
voice.

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THE WARRIOR.

ON what foundation stands the warrior's

pride,

How juft his hopes, let Swedish Charles* decide!

A frame of adamant, a foul of fire,

No dangers fright him, and no labours tire;
O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain,
Unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of pain;
No joys to him pacific fceptres yield,
War founds the trump, he rushes to the field;
Behold furrounding kings their pow'r combine,
And one capitulate, and one resign.

Peace courts his hand, but spreads her charms in vain.

"Think nothing gain'd (he cries) till nought " remain,

"On Moscow's walls till Gothic standards fly, "And all be mine beneath the polar sky."+

* Charles XII. King of Sweden.

He was fhot at the fiege of Frederick fhall, Dec. 1, 1718.

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RELIANCE ON GOD.

WHERE, then, fhall Hope and Fear their objects find?

Muft dull Sufpenfe corrupt the stagnant mind?
Must helpless man, in ignorance fedate,

Roll nothing down the torrent of his fate?
Muft no diflike alarm, no wishes rife,
No cries attempt the mercies of the skies?
Inquirer, cease, petitions yet remain,
Which Heav'n may hear; nor deem religion
vain.

Still raife for good the fupplicating voice,

But leave to Heav'n the measure and the choice.

Safe in his pow'r, whofe eyes difcern afar,
The fecret ambush of a specious prayʼr;

Implore his aid, in his decifions rest,

Secure, whate'er he gives, he gives the best.

FANCY.

FANCY.

FANCY, whose delufions vain
Sport themselves with human brain
Rival thou of Nature's power,
Canft, from thy exhaustless store,
Bid a tide of forrow flow,
And whelm the foul in deepest woe;
Or, in the twinkling of an eye,
Raise it to mirth and jollity.
Dreams and Shadows by thee ftand,
Taught to run at thy command,
And along the wanton air
Flit like empty Goffimer.

FAIRY LAND.

HARK! upon my left I hear
Wild mufic wand'ring in the air.
Led by the found I onward creep,
And thro' the neighb'ring hedge I peep:

There

There I spy the fairy band
Dancing on the level land.
Now with step alternate bound,
Join'd in one continued round;
Now their plighted hands unbind,
And fuch tangled mazes wind,
As the quick eye can scarce pursue,
And would have puzzled that fam'd clue,
Which led th'Athenian's.unfkill'd feet
Through the labyrinth of Crete.
At the near approach of day,

Sudden the. mufic dies away,
Wasting in the sea of air,
And the phantoms disappear.
All (as the glow-worm waxes dim)

Vanish like a morning dream,

And of their revels leave no trace,

Save the ring upon the grass.

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