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Whose pensive ear no wakeful sounds alarm,

Save the lone owl, slow clock, or bellman's drowsy

charm.

Me let the cheerful dance engage,

Swift urg'd along the lighted dome;
While with new warmth the virgin glows,
Her cheek all flush'd with fresher bloom:
Motion and music tenderest thoughts inspire,
And all her yielding soul relents to soft desire.

Let the sage Hermit shun mankind,
With pale-eyed Penitence to dwell,
To freeze at midnight hours of prayer
Within a solitary cell;

Penurious on the verdant herb to sup,

And of the chilling stream to drain his beechen cup.

Be mine, amidst the social band,

The raptures of champaign to taste,
Whose vigorous juice new relish gives
To mutual converse, Reason's feast;
While old Anacreon seems to rise, and say,
"Begone, ye toils of life, ye busy cares, away!"

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ODE XXXIX.

ΤΟ

POVERTY.

BY THE REV. THOMAS PENROSE.

HIE thee hence! thou spectre foul,
Fiend of misery extreme;

Hence! nor o'er yon dwelling scowl
With blasting eye, while to thy haggard scream
The midnight wolf accords his famish'd howl,
And madd'ning wretches loud in agony blaspheme.

Hence!—from the artless bard keep wide aloof-
Fly rather to his hated roof,

Who, deaf to Mercy's soft controul,
Can steel with rugged edge the soul:

Plund'ring, unmov'd the orphan's cry can hear,
Or from the widow'd lip the scanty morsel tear :—
pass him by, the wooer mild

But

Of Genius, friend to all, Nature's ingenuous child.

Constant toil, and coarsest fare,

Long indeed the village hind

In silent apathy may bear,

While o'er his brow Health's rosy wreath is twin'd:

Rash Virgin, to thy pray r I yield:
Lo. Trifingus stands reveald
Blazing like the noon day Sun
Fahime 14th

Humic Aides H.

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London Printed for John Bell British Library Strand Nov. 8** 1791

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JOHN BELL, British-Library, STRAND, Bookseller to His Royal Highness the PRINCE of WALES.

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821.2 B428f

V. 13-15

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