To feel, and courage to redress her wrongs; To monarchs dignity, to judges fense, To artists ingenuity and skill; To me an unambitious mind, content In the low vale of life, that early felt THE ARGUMENT of the FIFTH Book. A frosty morning.-The foddering of cattle.—The woodman and his dog.-The poultry.-Whimsical effects of froft at a waterfall.—The Emprefs of Ruffia's palace of ice.-Amufements of monarchs.-War, one of them. -Wars, whence—And whence monarchy.—The evils of it.-English and French loyalty contrafted.-The Baftile, and a prifoner there.-Liberty the chief recommendation of this country.-Modern patriotism queftionable, and why.-The perishable nature of the best human inftitutions-Spiritual liberty not perishable.— The flavish state of man by nature. - Deliver him, Deift, if you can.-Grace must do it.-The refpective merits of patriots and martyrs fiated.-Their different treatment.- Happy freedom of the man whom grace makes free. His relifh of the works of God.-Addrefs to the Creator. 'Tis morning; and the fun with ruddy orb Afcending, fires the horizon; while the clouds That crowd away before the driving wind, More ardent as the difk emerges more, Refemble moft fome city in a blaze, Seen through the leaflefs wood. His flanting ray Slides ineffectual down the fnowy vale, And tinging all with his own rofy hue, From ev'ry herb and ev'ry spiry blade Mine, fpindling into longitude immense, In fpite of gravity, and fage remark That I myself am but a fleeting fhade, Provokes me to a fimile. With eye afkance |