Benevolence.-Providence. 143 BENEVOLENCE. FROM the low prayer of want and plaint of woe, O never, never turn away thine ear ! Forlorn in this bleak wilderness below, Ah! what were man, fhould Heaven refuse to hear! To others do (the law is not fevere) What to thyself thou wishest to be done. Forgive thy foes; and love thy parents dear, And friends, and native land: nor thofe alone; All human weal.and woe' learn thou to make thine own. BEATTIE. PROVIDENCE. THE holy power that clothes the senseless earth With woods, with fruits, with flowers, and ver dant grafs, Whofe bounteous hand feeds the whole brute creation, Knows all our wants, and has enough to give us. ROWE. 144 Gratitude. True Virtue. GRATITUDE. WHAT is grandeur? what is power? What the bright reward we gain? Sweet mufic's melting fall,—but sweeter yet The still small voice of gratitude. GRAY. TRUE VIRTUE. GREAT minds, like heav'n, are pleas'd with doing good, Tho' the ungrateful subjects of their favours Are barren in return. Virtue does ftill With fcorn the mercenary world regard, Where abject fouls do good, and hope reward. Above the worthless trophies men can raise, She feeks nor honours, wealth, nor airy praise, But with herself, herself the goddess pays. 4 ROWE. LET univerfal candour still, Clear as yon heav'n-reflecting rill, Nor this nor that man's crooked ways 145 AKENSIDE. FORTITUDE. THE gen'rous mind is by its fuff'rings known, But when opprefs'd will upward move, Amidft afflictions. let thy foul be great, YALDEN. "WITH blue cold nofe and wrinkled brow, Traveller, whence comeft thou? From Lapland woods and hills of frost By the rapid rein-deer croft; Where tap'ring grows the gloomy fir, And the ftunted juniper; Where the wild hare and the crow Whiten in furrounding fnow; Where the fhiv'ring huntsmen tear His fur coat from the grim white bears Prowl among the lonely rocks; And tardy funs to deferts drear ORIGINAL. Saow.-Midnight. 147 SNOW. A SHOWER of foft and fleecy rain The univerfal mantle hides the trees, CONGREVE. MIDNIGHT. Now all is hufh'd, as nature were retir'd, |