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That dims the dawn of being here below;

The future fhone difclos'd, and, in long view,
Bright rifing eras instant rush'd to light.

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They come! great Goddess! I the times behold, "The times our fathers, in the bloody field,

566 "Have earn'd fo dear, and, not with less renown, "In the warm ftruggles of the Senate-fight: "The times I fee! whofe glory to fupply,

"For toiling ages, Commerce round the world 570 "Has wing'd unnumber'd fails, and from each land "Materials heap'd that, well employed, with Rome "Might vie our grandeur, and with Greece our art. "Lo! princes I behold, contriving ftill,

"And still conducting firm some brave design; 575 "Kings! that the narrow joyless circle fcorn, "Burft the blockade of false designing men, "Of treacherous fmiles, of adulation fell, "And of the blinding clouds around them thrown, "Their court rejoicing millions; worth alone, 580 "And virtue, dear to them; their best delight, "In just proportion to give general joy ; "Their jealous care Thy kingdom to maintain; "The public glory theirs; unfparing love "Their endless treafure; and, their deeds their praise, "WithThee they work. Nought can refift Your force; "Life feels it quickening in her dark retreats;

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Strong fpared the blooms of Genius, Science, Art; "His bafhful bonds difclofing Merit breaks;

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"And, big with fruits of glory, Virtue blows 590
"Expanfive o'er the land. Another race
"Of Generous Youth, of Patriot Sires, I fee!
"Not those vain infects fluttering in the blaze
"Of court, and ball, and play; thofe venal fouls,
Corruption's veteran unrelenting bands,
"That, to their vices flaves, can ne'er be free.

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"I fee the fountain's purg'd, whence life derives "A clear or turbid flow; fee the young mind "Not fed impure by Chance, by Flattery fool'd, "Or by Scholaftic Jargon bloated proud,

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But fill'd and nourish'd by the light of Truth: "Then, beam'd thro' fancy the refining ray, "And pouring on the heart, the paffions feel "At once informing light and moving flame; "Till moral, public, graceful action, crowns 605 "The whole. Behold! the fair contention glows, In all that mind or body can adorn,

And form to life. Instead of barren heads, "Barbarian pedants, wrangling fons of pride, "And truth-perplexing metaphysic wits,

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Lo! Juftice, like the liberal light of Heaven, Unpurchas'd shines on all, and from her beam, Appalling guilt, retire the favage crew

"That prowl amid the darkness they themselves 615 "Have thrown around the laws. Opprellion grieves; "See how her Legal Furies bite the lip,

"While Yorks and Talbots their deep fnares detect, And feize fwift Juftice thro' the clouds they raife. "See! focial Labour lifts his guarded head, 620 "And men not yield to government in vain. "From the furé land is rooted ruffian Force, "And, the lewd nurfe of villains, idle Wafte. [bowl, "Lo! raz'd their haunts, down dafh'd their maddening "A nation's poifon! beauteous Order reigns! 625 Manly Submiffion, unimpofing Toil,

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"Trade without guile, Civility that marks,

"From the foul herd of brutal flaves, thy fons, "And fearless Peace. Or fhould affronting War "To flow but dreadful vengeance roufe the juft, 630 ́ Unfailing fields of Freemen I behold!

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"That know, with their own proper arm, to guard "Their own bleft Ifle against a leaguing world.

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Defpairing Gaul her boiling youth restrains, "Diffolv'd her dream of universal sway.

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"The winds and feas are Britain's wide domain, "And not a fail, but by permiffion, fpreads. "Lo! fwarming fouthward on rejoicing funs, "Gay Colonies extend, the calm retreat "Of undeferv'd Diftrefs, the better home "Of those whom bigots chafe from foreign lands:

"Not built on rapine, fervitude, and woe,

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And in their turn fome petty tyrant's prey;
But, bound by focial Freedom, firm they rife;

"Such as, of late, an Oglethorpe has form'd, 645 "And, crowding round, the charm'd Savannah fees. "Horrid with want and mifery, no more "Our streets the tender Paffen ger afflict;

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"Nor fhivering Age, nor Sickness, without friend, "Or home, or bed, to bear his burnig load, "Nor agonizing Infant, that ne'er earn'd "Its guiltless pangs: I fee the ftores profuse, "Which British bounty has to these affign'd, "No more the facrilegious riot fwell "Of Cannibal devourers! Right apply'd,

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"No ftarving wretch the land of Freedom ftains: "If poor, employment finds; if old, demands, "If fick, if maim'd, his miferable due; "And will, if young, repay the fondest care. "Sweet fets the fun of ftormy life, and fweet 660 "The morning fhines, in Mercy's dews array'd. "Lo! how they rise! these families of Heaven! "That! chief *, (but why-ye Bigots!-why so late?) "Where blooms and warbles glad a rising age: "What fmiles of praise ! and, while their song ascends, "The listening seraph lays his lute aside. 666

"Hark! the gay Muses raise a nobler strain, "With active Nature, warm impaffion'd truth,

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"Of various ftring, and heart-felt image, fill'd. 670 66 Behold! I fee the dread delightful school

An hofpital for Foundlings.

"Of temper'd paffions, and of polifh'd life, "Reftor'd, Behold! the well-diffembled scene Calls from embellifh'd eyes the lovely tear,

Or lights up mirth in modeft cheeks again. 675 "Lo! vanith'd Monfter land; lo! driven away "Thofe that Apollo's facred walks profane, "Their wild creation fcatter'd, where a world Unknown to Nature, chaos more confus'd, "O'er the brute fcene its Ouran-Outangs * pours; "Detefted forms! that, on the mind impreft, 681 "Corrupt, confound, and barbarize an age. "Behold! all thine again the Sifter-Arts, "Thy Graces they, knit in harmonious dance : "Nurs'd by the treafure from a nation drain'd 685 "Their works to purchase, they to nobler rouze "Their untam'd genius, their unfette,'d thought; "Of pompous tyrants, and of dreaming Monks, "The gaudy tools and prifoners no more.

"Lo! numerous Domes a Burlington confefs.690 For kings and fenates fit, the Palace fee! "The Temple, breathing a religious awe : "Even fram'd with elegance, the plain retreat, "The private dwelling. Certain in his aim, "Tafte, never idly working, faves expence.

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"See! fylvan fcenes, where Art, alone, pretends "To drefs her miftrefs, and difclofe her charms,

A creature which, of all brutes, moft refembles man.-See Dr. Tyfon's treatife on this animal.

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