and force to his exertions on every great occafion. It adds double weight to all the abilities of which he is poffeffed. It even fupplies the place of those abilities of which he is defective. They who oppose him are obliged to honour him; they look up to him with a fecret awe, as to one who moves above them in a fuperior sphere; regardless of their good or ill opinion, of their promises or their threatnings: like one of those celestial luminaries, which holds its course through its orbit without being affected by any commotions among the elements below. FATHER CHAPTER VII. FATHER ATHER of all in ev'ry age, In ev'ry clime ador'd, By faint, by favage, and by fage, Thou great Firft Caufe, leaft understood: Yet gave me, in this dark eftate, Left free the human will. What Confcience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, What bleffings thy free bounty gives, For God is paid when Man receives, T' enjoy is to obey. Yet Yet not to earth's contracted fpan Or think thee Lord alone of Man, Let not this weak, unknowing hand If I am right, thy grace impart, Save me alike from foolish pride, Teach me to feel another's wo, Mean though I am, not wholly fo, Oh lead me wherefoe'er I go, This This day be bread and peace my lot And let thy will be done. To thee, whofe temple is all space, One chorus let all being raise ; CHAPTER VIII. Invidious Grave! how doft thou rend in funder Whom love has knit, and sympathy made one; A tie, more stubborn far than nature's band! Friendship! myfterious cement of the foul, Sweet'ner of life, and folder of fociety! I owe thee much. Thou haft deferv'd from me Oft have I prov'd the labours of thy love, Sweet Sweet murmuring! methought the fhrill-tongu'd [thrush Of drefs. Oh! then the longeft fummer's day CHAPTER IX. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds flowly o'er the lea; The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the fight, Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower Beneath |