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Produce their schemes of alteration,
To work this wondrous reformation.
The useful dome, which fecret stood,
Embofom'd in the yew-tree's wood,
The trav'ller with amazement fees
A temple, Gothic, or Chinese,
With many a bell, and tawdry rag on,
And crefted with a fprawling dragon;
A wooden arch is bent aftride

A ditch of water, four foot wide,
With angles, curves, and zigzag lines,
From Halfpenny's exact defigns.

In front, a level lawn is feen,
Without a fhrub upon the green,"

Where Taste would want its firft great law,

But for the fkulking, fly ha-ha,

By whofe miraculous affiftance,

You gain a profpect two fields distance.
And now from Hyde-Park Corner come
The gods of Athens, and of Rome.
Here fquabby Cupids take their places,
With Venus, and the clumfy Graces:
Apollo there, with aim fa clever,
Stretches his leaden bow for ever;
And there, without the pow'r to fly,
Stands fix'd a tip-toe Mercury. ·

The villa thus completely grac'd,
All own, that Thrifty has a taste;

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And Madam's female friends and cousins,
With common-council men, by dozens,
Flock ev'ry Sunday to the feat,

To ftare about them, and to eat,

HYMN TO ADVERSITY.

BY GRAY.

DAUGHTER of Jove, relentless power!.
Thou tamer of the human breast,
Whose iron fcourge and tort'ring hour,
The bad affright, afflict the best!
Bound in thy adamantine chain,

The proud are taught to tafte of pain;
And purple tyrants vainly groan

With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone.
When first thy fire to fend on earth
Virtue, his darling child, defign'd,
To thee he gave the heav'nly birth,
And bade to form her infant mind.
Stern rugged nurfe! thy rigid lore
With patience many a year fhe bore:

What forrow was, thou bad'ft her know,

And from her own fhe learn'd to melt at others woe.

Scar'd at thy frown terrific, fly
Self-pleafing Folly's idle brood,

Wild laughter, noife, and thoughtless joy,'
And leave us leifure to be good.

Light they difperfe, and with them go

The fummer friend, the flatt'ring foe;

By vain Prosperity receiv'd,

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To her they vow their truth, and are again believ'd, Wisdom in fable garb array'd,

Immers'd in rapt'rous thought profound,

And melancholy, filent maid

With leaden eye, that loves the ground,

Still on thy folemn fteps attend:

Warm Charity, the gen'ral friend,

With Juftice, to herself fevere,

And Pity, dropping foft the fadly-pleafing tear.
Oh, gently on thy fuppliant's head,
Dread Goddess, lay thy chaft'ning hand!

Not in thy gorgon terrors clad,

Nor circled with the vengeful band

(As by the impious thou art feen),

With thund'ring voice, and threat'ning mien,
With fcreaming Horror's funeral cry,

Despair, and fell Difeafe, and ghaftly Poverty.
Thy form benign, oh Goddefs! wear,

Thy milder influence impart,

Thy philofophic train be there,

To foften, not to wound my heart.

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The gen'rous fpark extinct revive,
Teach me to love and to forgive,

Exact my own defects to fcan,

What others are, to feel,and know myself a man.

MESSIA H.

A SACRED ECLOGUE.

BY POP E.

YE nymphs of Solima! begin the song
To heavenly themes fublimer strains belong,
The moffy fountains, and the fylvan fhades,
The dreams of Pindus and th’Aonian maids,
Delight no more-----O thou my voice inspire
Who touch'd Isaiah's hallow'd lips with fire!

Rapt into future times, the Bard begun:
A Virgin fhall conceive, a Virgin bear a fon!
From Jeffe's root behold a branch arise,
Whofe facred flow'r with fragrance fills the fkies:
Th' æthereal Spirit o'er its leaves shall move,
And on its top descends the mystic dove.
Ye heav'ns! from high the dewy nectar pour,
And in foft filence shed the kindly show'r!
The fick and weak the healing plant shall aid,
From storms a fhelter, and from heat a fhade.

All crimes fhall cease, and ancient fraud shall fail; Returning Juftice lift aloft her scale;

Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend,

And white-rob'd Innocence from heav'n descend.
Swift fly the years, and rise the expected morn!
Oh fpring to light, aufpicious Babe ! be born.
See nature haftes her earliest wreaths to bring,
With all the incenfe of the breathing fpring:
See lofty Lebanon his head advance,
See nodding forefts on the mountains dance :
See fpicy clouds from lowly Saron rife,
And Carmel's flow'ry top perfumes the skies!
Hark! a glad voice the lonely defert cheers;
Prepare the way! a God, a God appears!
A God, a God! the vocal hills reply,
The rocks proclaim th' approaching Deity.
Lo, earth receives him from the bending skies!
Sink down, ye mountains! and, ye vallies, rife!
With heads declin'd, ye cedars, homage pay!
Be smooth, ye rocks! ye rapid floods, give way!
The Saviour comes! by ancient bards foretold :
Hear him, ye deaf! and all ye blind, behold!
He from thick films fhall purge the visual ray,
And on the fightless eye-ball pour the day:
'Tis he th' obstructed paths of found shall clear,
And bid new mufic charm the unfolding ear:
The dumb fhall fing, the lame his crutch forego,
And leap exulting like the bounding roe.

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