في شهار He speaks. The lake in front becomes a lawn; Drain'd to the last poor item of his wealth, He sighs, departs, and leaves th' accomplish'd plan, And now perhaps the glorious hour is come, He burns with most intense and flagrant zeal, Well-manag'd shall have earn'd it's worthy price, Crape, and cock'd pistol, and the whistling ball: Fish up b From pools and ditches of the commonwealth, Ambition, av'rice, penury incurr'd By endless riot, vanity, the lust As duly as the swallows disappear, The world of wand'ring knights and squires to town. HERE." These are the charms, that sully and eclipse K The hope of better things, the chance to win, O thou, resort and mart of all the Earth, Checker'd with all complexions of mankind, And spotted with all crimes; in whom I see Much that I love, and more that I admire, And all that I abhor; thou freckled fair, That pleasest and yet shock'st me, I can laugh, And I can weep, can hope, and can despond, Feel wrath and pity, when I think on thee! Ten righteous would have sav'd a city once, And thou hast many righteous.-Well for theeThat salt preserves thee; more corrupted else, And erefore more obnoxious, at this hour, Than Sodom in her day had pow'r to be, For whom God heard his Abr'ham plead in vain. ARGUMENT OF THE FOURTH BOOK. The post comes in.-The newspaper is read.-The World contemplated at a distance. Address to Winter.-The rural amusements of a winter evening compared with the fashions ble ones.-Address to evening. A brown study. Fall of snow in the evening.—The Waggoner. poor family piece.-The rural thief.-Public houses,The multitude T of them censured.-The farmer's daughter: what she was what 90 290 she is. The simplicity of country manners almost lost.-Causes of the change. Desertion of the country by the rich++Neglect op magistrates.-The militia principally in fault. The new recruit and his transformation-Reflection on bodies corporate.-The syrural objects natural to all, and never to be totally extinguished. never to be extinguishe of |