HYMN to ADVERSITY. D By the Same. AUGHTER of Jove, relentless Power, The Bad affright, afflict the Beft! The Proud are taught to tafte of pain, When first thy Sire to send on earth What forrow was, thou bad'ft her know, And from her own fhe learn'd to melt at others' woe. Scared at thy frown terrific, fly Self-pleafing Folly's idle brood, Wild Laughter, Noife, and thoughtless Joy, And leave us leisure to be good. Light they disperse, and with them go The fummer Friend, the flatt'ring Foe; By vain Prosperity received, To her they vow their truth, and are again believed. Wisdom in fable garb array'd, Immers'd in rapt'rous thought profound, And Melancholy, filent maid With leaden eye, that loves the ground, Still on thy folemn steps attend: Warm Charity, the gen'ral friend, With justice to herself fevere, And Pity, dropping soft the sadly-pleafing tear. Oh! gently on thy Suppliant's head, Dread Goddess, lay thy chaft'ning hand! Not in thy Gorgon terrors clad, Nor circled with the vengeful Band (As by the Impious thou art feen) With thund'ring voice, and threat'ning mien, With screaming Horror's funeral cry, Despair, and fell Disease, and ghaftly Poverty. Thy form benign, oh Goddefs, wear, Thy philofophic Train be there To foften, not to wound my heart, The gen'rous fpark extinct revive, Exact my own defects to scan, What others are to feel, and know myself a Man. EDU. EDUCATIO N. A POEM: in Two CANTOS. Written in Imitation of the Style and Manner O F SPENSER'S FAIRY QUEEN. Infcribed to Lady LANGHAM, Widow of Sir John LANGHAM, Bart. By GILBERT WEST, Efq; Unum ftudium vere liberale eft, quod liberum facit. Hoc fapientiæ ftudium eft, fublime, forte, magnanimum: cœtera pufilla & puerilia funt.-Plus fcire velle quàm fit fatis intemperantiæ genus eft. Quid, quòd ifla liberalium artium confectatio moleflos, verbofos, intempeftivos, fibi placentes facit, & ideo non dicentes neceffaria, quia fupervacua didicerunt. Sen. Ep. 88. Goodly DISCIPLINE! from heav'n y-fprong! With each bright Virtue that adorns the mind! That doth effay to teach thy treasures how to gain! And THOU, whofe pious and maternal care, To the smooth walks of Truth and Innocence; THOU, most belov'd, most honour'd, most rever'd! And trace the plan of goodly ‡ Nurture o'er, I bring thy modeft virtues into view; And proudly boaft that from thy precious flore, Which erft enrich'd my heart, I drew this facred lore. Nurture, Education. And And thus, I ween, thus fhall I beft repay I labour to diffufe th' important good; 'Till this great truth by all be understood; "That all the pious duties which we owe, "Our parents, friends, our country and our God; "The feeds of every virtue here below, "From Difcipline alone, and early Culture grow. CANTO I. ARGUMENT. The Knight, as to † PÆDîA's house He his young Son conveys, Is fiaid by CUSTOM; with him fights, A And his vain pride difmays. Gentle KNIGHT there was, whose noble deeds O'er Fairy Land by Fame were blazon'd round: For warlike enterprize, and fage ‡ areeds Emong the chief alike was he renown'd; Whence † Padia is a Greek word, fignifying Education. |