To feel, and courage to redress her wrongs; To monarchs dignity, to judges fenfe, To artifts ingenuity and skill; To me an unambitious mind, content In the low vale of life, that early felt A wifh for eafe and leifure, and ere long 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 Empress 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 buman 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 ftated.—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 disk emerges more, Refemble most 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 In spite of gravity, and fage remark That I myself am but a fleeting fhade, Provokes me to a fiile. With eye askance Of late unfightly and unseen, now shine |