What conscience dictates to be done,

Or warns me not to do,
This, teach me more than hell to shun,

That, more than heav'n, pursuc. ,.'
What blessings thy free bounty gives,

Let me not cast away;
For God is paid, when man receives,

T' enjoy is to obey.
Yet not to Earth's contracted span

Thy goodness let me bound,
Or think Thee Lord alone of inan,
When thousand worlds are round

; Let not this weak, unknowing hand

Presume thy bolts to throw,
And deal daarnation round the land,

On each I judge thy foe.....
If I am right, thy grace impart

Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh teach my

heart
To find that better way:
Save me alike from foolish pride,

Or iinpious discontent,
At aught thy wisdomn has deny'd,

Or aught thy goodness lent.
Teach me to feel another's woe,

To hide the fault I see ;
That mercy I to others show,
That
mercy

show to me.) Mean tho' I am, not wholly so,

Since quicken'd by thy breath; O lead me wheresoe'er I

go,
Thro' this day's life or death. ;
This day, be bread and peace my lot:

All else beneath the sun,
Thou know'st if best bestow'd or not, 1
And let thy will be done.

micr7 To thee, whose temple is all space,

Whose altar, earth, sea, skies !ai bagias comod sceni One chorus let all Being raise ! i

All Nature's incense rise !

MENTAL BEAUTY préférable to PERSONÁL.

(VILLAGE CURATE.)
But leave we not the gentle Isabel
Unsung, tho' nature on her cheek no rose
Has planted, and the lily blossom there
Without a rival..Look within, and learn
That nature often on the mind bestows
What she denies the face.-0, she is kiud,
And gives to ev'ry man his proper gift,
To make him needful in the land he lives.
There is not inequality so strange
'Twist man and man, as haughty wits suppose.
The beggar treads upon the monarch's heel
For excellence, and often wears a heart
Of noble temper, under filth and rags:
While he that reigns, in spite of outward pomp,
Is mean and beggarly within, and far outweigh'd
By the offensive lazar at his gate.
Th' unletter'd fool that daily steers the plough,
With vacant head, and heart as unimprov'd
As the dull brute he drives, gives to the world
A necessary good, which all thy pains,
Ingenious Critic, or thy deep research,
Profound Philosopher, thy preaching, Clerk,
Thy prattle, Lawyer, or thy grave demurs,
Costly Physician, hardly shall exceed.
The kingly tulip captivates the eye,
But smelt we loath, while the sweet violet,
That little beauty boasts, hid from the sight
With such a fragranit perfume hits the sense
As makes us love ere we behold.

And so
The gaudy peacock of the feather'd race
The noblest seems, till the sweet note be heard
That nightly cheers the musing poet's ear
Under the thorny brake; and then we grant,
That little Philomel, so unadorn d,
Needs not the aid of plames. So, Isabel,
Internal worth upon thy cheek bestows
A rose's beauty, cho' no rose bé there.
A heart that almost breaks to be rebuk’d,
A mind inform’d, yet fearful to be seen,
Kept by a tongue that never but at borne,
And cautious then, its golden truột betrays-

These are thy charms, and they are charms for me,
And in my eye as sweet a grace bestow,
As matchless beauty, trick'd in airy smiles
And suit of fantasy, what time she trips
With foot inaudible the sprightly round
Of fairy dance, outshining ev'ry star
And planet of the night. And these shall last,
As morning fair and fresh as amaranth,
When all thy triumphs, Beauty, are no more.

DESCRIPTION of a COUNTRY Fair. The happy morning comes, expected long By lads and Jasses. Soon as light appears, The swain is ready in his Sunday frock,', ; And calls on Nell to trip it to the fair. The village bells are up, and jangling loud Proclaim the holiday. The clain'rous drum Calls to the puppet-shew. The groaning horn And twanging trumpet speak the sale begun, Of articles most rare and cheap. Dogs bark Astounded at the noise. Old women laugh, ,} Boys shout, and the grave Doctor mounts

with glee His crowded scaffold, struts, and makes a speech, Maintains the virtue of his salve for corns, His worm-cake and his pills, puffs his koown skill, And shews his kettle, silver knives and forks, Ladle and cream-pòt, and, to crown the whole, The splendid tankard. Andrew grins, and courts The gaping multitude, till Tom and Sue And Abigail and Ned their shoulders shrug, And laugh and whisper, and resolve to sport The solitary shilling. See produc'd Their unwash'd handkerchiefs. Ah!: simple swains, Ah! silly maids, you laugh, but Andrew wins. And what for you but sorrow and remorse, Or box of salve to plaíster disappointment? l'nless the smart of folly may be sooth d By Andrew's merry pranks, the dancing girl, And frolic tumbler. Now the street is fill'd With stalls and booths for gingerbread and beer, Rear'd by enchantment, finish'd in a trice. Amusements here for children of all sorts; For little master's pence, a coach, a drum.

A horse, a wife, a trumpet; dolls for miss,
Fans, cups and saucers, kettles, maids and churns.
For idle school-boys Puncbinello rants,
The juggler shuffles, and the artful daine
Extends her lucky bag. For infants tall, :
Of twenty years and upwards, rueful games,
To whirl the horse-shoe, bowl at the nine-pins,
Game at the dial-plate, drink beer and gill,
Rant, rave, and swear, cudgel, get drunk and fight.
Then comes the ass-race. Let not wisdom frown
If the grave clerk look on, and now and then
Bestow a smile; for we may see, Alcanor,
In this untoward race the ways of life.
Are we not asses all? we start and run,
And eagerly we press to pass the goal,
And all to win a bauble, a lac'd hat.
Was not great Wolsey such? He ran the race
And won the hat. What ranting politician,
What prating lawyer, what ambitious clerk,
But is an ass that gallops for a hat ?
For what do Princes strive, but gilded hats ?
For diadems, whose bare and scanty brims
Will hardly keep the sun-beam from their eyes.
For what do Poets strive? a leafy hat,
Without or crown or brim, which hardly screens.
The empty noddle from the fist of scorn,
Much less repels the critic's thund'ring arm.
And here and there intoxication too
Concludes the race. Who wins the hat, gets drunk.
Who wins a laurel; mitre, cap, or crown,
Is drunk as he. So Alexander fell,
So Haman, Cæsar, Spencer, Wolsey, James.

LIBERTY the chief Recommendation of ENGLAND.

(COW PER) 'Tis Liberty alone that gives the flow'r. Of Meeting life ils lustre and perfume, And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil; hurts the faculties, impedes

&to, Their progress in the road of science;, blinds The eyesight of discov'ry, and, begets,

igail In those that sufler it, a sordid mind

Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit
To be the tenant of man's noble form.
Thee therefore still, blame-worthy as thou art,
With all thy loss of empire, and though squeez'd
By public exigence till annual food
Fails for the craving hunger of the state,
Thee I account still happy, and the chief
Among the nations, seeing thou art free!
My native nook of earth! thy clime is rude,
Replete with vapours, ard disposes much
Al hearts to sadness, and none more than mine;
"Thine imadult'rate manner; are less soft
And plausible than social life requires,
And thou hast reed of disipline and art
To give thee what politer France receives
From Nature's bounty-tliat humare address
And sweetress, without which no pleasure iş
In converse, either starv'd by cold reserve,
Or flush'd with fierce dispute, a senseless brawl;
Yet being free, I love thee: for the sake
Of that one feature can be well content,
Disgraced as thou hast been, poor as thou art,
To seek no sublunary rest bes de.
But once enslav'd, farewel! I could endure
Chains 10 where patiently; and chains at home
Where I am free by birthright, not at all.
Then what were left of roughness in the grain
Of British natures, wanting its excuse
That it belongs to freemen, would disgust
And shock me. I should then, with double pati),
Feel all the rigor of thy fickle cime;
And if I must bewail the blessing lost,
For which our Hampdens and our Sid.eys bled,
I would at least bewail it under skies
Milder, among a people less austere,
In scenes which, having never known me free,
Would not reproach me with the loss I felt.
Do I forebode impossible events,
And tremble at vain dreams? Heay'n grant I may!
But th' age of virtuous politics is past,
And we are deep in that of cold pretence.
Patriots are grown too shrewd to be sincere,
And we too wise to trust them. He that takes
Deep in his soft credulity the stamp