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Which you denied me : was that done like Cassius?
Should I have answer'd Caius Cassius so?

When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous,
To lock such rascal counters from his friends,
Be ready, Gods, with all your thunderbolts (1)
Dash him to pieces!

SHAKSPEARE.

REPUTATION.

To travel far as the wide world extends,
Seeking for objects that deserved their care,
Virtue set forth with two selected friends,
Talent refined, and Reputation fair.

As they went on in their intended round,
Talent spoke first: "My gentle comrades, say
Where each of you may probably be found,
Should accident divide us on the way?

"If torn (she added) from my lov'd allies,
A friendly patronage I hope to find,
Where the fine arts from cultivation rise,
And the sweet muse hath harmonized mankind. "

Says Virtue," Did Sincerity appear (2),
Or meek-eyed Charity among the great,

(1) Thunderbolt, la foudre.

(2) Did sincerity appear, si la sincérité se trouvait.

CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD.

Could I find courtiers from corruption clear,
'Tis among these I'd (1) seek for my retreat.

"Could I find patriots for the public weal (2)
Assiduous, and without their selfish views;
Could I find priests of undissembled zeal,
'Tis among these my residence I'd choose.

"In glitt'ring domes let Luxury reside,
I must be found in some sequester'd cell,
Far from the paths of Avarice or Pride,
Where home-bred Happiness delights to dwell. "

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"Ye (3) may be traced, my gentle friends, 'tis true; But who (says Reputation) can explore

My slipp❜ry steps? Pray keep me in your view:
If once I'm lost, you'll never find me more.

CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD.

Lo (4), the poor Indian! whose untutored mind
Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind;
His soul proud Science never taught to stray
Far as the solar walk or milky way (5);

(1) I'd pour I would. I'd seek, je chercherais.

(2) The public weal, la chose publique, le bonheur de la nation.

(3) Ye pour you; les anciens auteurs se servaient de ce mot pour sujet, et de you pour régime. On le trouve presque partout dans la Bible.

(4) Lo, regardez.

(5) The milky way, la voie lactée.

Yet simple Nature to his hope has given

Behind the cloud-topt (1) hill, an humbler heaven;
Some safer world, in depth of woods embraced,
Some happier island in the watery waste (2),
Where slaves once more their native land behold,
No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold.
To be contents his natural desire;

He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire;
But thinks, admitted to that equal sky,
His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense
Weigh thy opinion against Providence.

POPE.

WE ALL DEPEND ON EACH OTHER.

Heaven forming each on other to depend,
A master, or a servant, or a friend,
Bids each on other for assistance call,
"Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
Wants, frailties, passions, closer still ally
The common interest, or endear the tie.
To these we owe true friendship, love sincere;
Each home-felt (3) joy that life inherits here;
Yet from the same we learn, in its decline,
Those joys, those loves, those interests to resign;
Taught, half by reason, half by mere decay,

(1) Cloud-topt, couronné de nuages.
(2) The watery waste, l'Océan.
(3) Home-felt joy, joie domestique.

THE MANIAC.

To welcome (1) death, and calmly pass away.
Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf,
Not one will change his neighbour with himself.
The learn'd (2) is happy Nature to explore;
The fool is happy that he knows no more;
The rich (2) is happy in the plenty giv'n,

The poor (2) contents him with the care of Heaven.
See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing,
The sot (3) a hero, lunatic (4) a king;
The starving chemist in his golden views
Supremely blest, the poet in his muse.

See some strange comfort (5) every state attend,
And pride bestow'd on all, a common friend :
See some fit passion every age supply;

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

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POPE.

THE MANIAC.

To see the human mind o'erturn'd (6)
Its loftiest heights in ruin laid,

And reason's lamp, which brightly burn'd,
Obscured or quench'd in frenzy's shade;

(1) To welcome, inviter, désirer.

(2) Après les trois adjectifs learned, rich et poor, on sousentend man; autrement il y a solécisme, puisque l'adjectif n'est pas employé substantivement au singulier.

(5) The sot, l'ivrogne.
(4) The lunatic, le fou.
(5) Comfort, agrément.
(6) O'erturned, renversé.

A sight like this may well awake

Our grief, our fear,-for nature's sake (1).

It is a painful humbling thought
To know the empire of the mind,
With wit endow'd, with science fraught (2),
Is fleeting (3) as the passing wind;
And that the richest boon (4) of Heaven
To man is rather LENT than GIVEN.

To-day he sits on Reason's throne,
And bids his subject powers obey ;
Thought, memory, will,—all seem his own,
Come at his bidding (5), list his sway;
To-morrow from dominion hurl'd (6),
Madness pervades the mental world!

LONDON MAgazine.

THE DEATH OF LEONIDAS.

It was the wild midnight—
A storm was on the sky;
The lightning gave its light,

And the thunder echoed by.

(1) For nature's sake, pour le salut de la nature, du genre

humain.

(2) Fraught, doué, chargé, saisi.

(3) Fleeting, passager.

(4) Boon, don, cadeau.

(5) Bidding, ordre.

(6) Hurled, lancé.

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