To feel, and courage to redress her wrongs; To monarchs dignity, to judges fenfe, To artists ingenuity and skill; To me an unambitious mind, content. In the low vale of life, that early felt A wish 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.Amusements 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 patriotifm 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 respective 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. THE Ꭲ . A S K. BOOK V. THE WINTER MORNING WALK, 'Tis morning; and the fun with ruddy orb Ascending, fires the horizon: while the clouds That crowd away before the driving wind, More ardent as the difk emerges more, Refemble most some 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, In fpite of gravity, and fage remark That I myself am but a fleeting fhade, Provokes me to a finile. With eye askance I view the muscular proportion'd limb |