Of fmiling victory that moment won, And Chatham, heart-fick of his country's fhame. They made us many foldiers. Chatham ftill Confulting England's happiness at home, If any wrong'd her. Wolfe, where'er he fought, That his example had a magnet's force, And all were fwift to follow whom all loved. Of old atchievements, and despair of new. Now hoift the fail, and let the ftreamers float That no rude favour maritime invade Ye clarionets, and fofter ftill ye flutes, That winds and waters lull'd by magic founds May May bear us smoothly to the Gallic fhore. True, we have loft an empire-let it pass. And gives his direst foe a friend's embrace. 'Tis gen'rous to communicate your skill To those that need it. Folly is foon learn'd; And, under fuch preceptors, who can fail! There is a pleasure in poetic pains Which only poets know. The shifts and turns, Th' expedients and inventions multiform To which the mind reforts, in chace of terms The mirror of the mind, and hold them faft, Than by the labor and the skill it coft, Are occupations of the poet's mind So pleafing, and that steal away the thought With fuch addrefs, from themes of fad import, That loft in his own mufings, happy man! He feels th' anxieties of life, denied Their wonted entertainment, all retire. Such joys has he that fings. But ah! not fuch, His dangers or escapes, and haply find There leaft amusement where he found the most. But is amusement all? ftudious of long, And yet ambitious not to fing in vain, I would not trifle merely, though the world What vice has it fubdued? whofe heart reclaim'd By By rigour, or whom laugh'd into reform? Alas! Leviathan is not fo tamed: Laugh'd at, he laughs again; and, ftricken hard, That fear no difcipline of human hands. The pulpit therefore (and I name it, fill'd Of its legitimate, peculiar pow'rs) Must stand acknowledg'd, while the world fhall ftand, The most important and effectual guard, Support and ornament of virtue's cause. There ftands the meffenger of truth. There ftands. The legate of the fkies. His theme divine, His office facred, his credentials clear. |