'Tis judgment shakes him; there's the fear, He has incurred a long arrear, Pay!-follow Chrift, and all is paid; ON A SIMILAR OCCASION, FOR THE YEAR 1793. De sacris autem hæc sit una sententia, ut conserventur. CIC: DE LEG: But let us all concur in this one fentiment, that things facred be inviolate. He lives who lives to God alone, For other fource than God is none Whence life can be supplied. To live to God is to requite His love as best we may : To make his precepts our delight, But life, within a narrow ring Is falfely named, and no fuch thing, Can life in them deferve the name, Who only live to prove For what poor toys they can disclaim An endless life above? Who, much diseased, yet nothing feel; Have wounds, which only God can heal, Who deem his house an useless place, And ardour in the Chriftian race, Who trample order; and the day, If fcorn of God's commands, impreffed The better part of man, unbleffed Such want it, and that want uncured Sad period to a pleasant courfe! Yet fo will God repay Sabbaths profaned without remorse, And mercy caft away. INSCRIPTION FOR THE TOMB or Mr.. HAMILTON. PAUSE here, and think: a monitory rhime. Confult life's filent clock, thy bounding vein; And many a tomb, like HAMILTON's, aloud Exclaims, "Prepare thee for an early shroud." EPITAPH ON A HARE. HERE lies, whom hound did ne'er pursue, Nor fwifter greyhound follow, Whofe foot ne'er tainted morning dew, Nor e'er heard huntsman's hallo', Old Tiney, furlieft of his kind, Who, nurfed with tender care, And to domeftic bounds confined, Was ftill a wild Jack-hare. Though duly from my hand he took His pittance every night, He did it with a jealous look, And, when he could, would bite. His diet was of wheaten bread And milk, and oats, and ftraw; Thiftles, or lettuces inftead, With fand to fcour his maw. |