To feel, and courage to redrefs 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 wish for ease and leifure, and ere long

Found here that leifure and that ease I wished.

THE TASK.

BOOK V.

ARGUMENT OF THE FIFTH BOOK.

A frosty morning.-The foddering of cattle.-The woodman and his dog.-The poultry-Whimsical effects of frost at a waterfall.-The Empress of Russia's palace of ice.-Amusements of monarchs.— War, one of them.-Wars, whence.-And whence monarchy. The evils of it.-English and French loyalty contrasted.-The Bastile and a prisoner there.-Liberty the chief recommendation of this country.-Modern patriotism questionable, and why.-The perishable nature of the best human institutions. Spiritual liberty not perishable.—The slavish state of man by nature.--Deliver him, Deist, if you can. Grace must do it.-The respective merits of patriots and martyrs stated.Their different treatment.-Happy freedom of the man whom grace makes free.-His relish of the works of God.-Address to the Creator.

THE TASK.

BOOK V.

THE WINTER MORNING WALK.

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 snowy vale,
And, tinging all with his own rofy hue,
From every herb and every spiry blade
Stretches a length of fhadow o'er the field.
Mine, fpindling into longitude immense,
In fpite of gravity, and fage remark
That I myfelf am but a fleeting shade,