Happiness.

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 I m lost
In wonder love and praise

Oh how shall words 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 d 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 feard 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 I ll 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 I ll raise

For Ŏ 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 deserved the port
And tugg d it into view tis won tis lost

Though strong their oar still stronger is their fate
They stike 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.

CHAPTER I.

Containing violations of the Rules of PURITY.
See Vol. 1. p. 294, and the Key, Part 5. Chap. 1.

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.

The naturalness of the thought greatly recommended it.

Wo then apart if wo apo
From mortal man and
The gay rich gres

What are they

Convince m

All th

Vil

Man l

The stren

Know Nature s

.The fur that warms a

While man exclaims see

See man for mine replies a
And just as short of reason

Who thinks all made for one no!

The Almighty from his throne on earr
Nought greater than an honest humble t
An humble heart his residence pronounc d
His second seat

Bliss there is none but unprecarious bliss
That is the gem sell all and purchase that
Why go a begging to contingencies

Not gain d with ease nor safely lov d if gain d

There is a time when toil must be preferr d
Or joy by mistim d fondness is undone
A man of pleasure is a man of pains

Thus nature gives us let it check our pride
The virtue nearest to our vice allied

See the sole bliss Heav n could on all bestow
Which who but feels can taste but thinks can know
Yet poor with fortune and with learning blind
The bad must miss the good untaught will find

Whatever is is right This world tis true
Was made for Cæsar but for Titus too
And which more blest who chain d his country say
Or he whose virtue sigh d to lose a day

The first sure symptom of a mind in health
Is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home.