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things,
And
mounts o'er unknown seas with vent'rous wings;
But as, of various
evils that befall
The human race, some portion goes to all;
To him
perhaps the milder lot's assigned
Who feels his consolation in his
mind,
And, lock'd within his bosom, bears about
A mental charm
for every care without.

E'en in the pangs of each domestic grief,
Or
health or vigorous hope affords relief;
And every wound the tortured
bosom feels,
Or virtue bears, or some preserver heals;
Some
generous friend of ample power possess'd;
Some feeling heart, that
bleeds for the distress'd;
Some breast that glows with virtues all

divine;
Some noble RUTLAND, misery's friend and thine.
"Nor say, the Muse's song, the Poet's pen,
Merit the scorn they meet
from little men.
With cautious freedom if the numbers flow,
Not
wildly high, nor pitifully low;
If vice alone their honest aims oppose,

Why so ashamed their friends, so loud their foes?
Happy for men
in every age and clime,
If all the sons of vision dealt in rhyme.
Go
on, then, Son of Vision! still pursue
Thy airy dreams; the world is
dreaming too.
Ambition's lofty views, the pomp of state,
The pride
of wealth, the splendour of the great,
Stripp'd of their mask, their
cares and troubles known,
Are visions far less happy than thy own:

Go on! and, while the sons of care complain,
Be wisely gay and
innocently vain;
While serious souls are by their fears undone,

Blow sportive bladders in the beamy sun,
And call them worlds! and
bid the greatest show
More radiant colours in their worlds below:

Then, as they break, the slaves of care reprove,
And tell them, Such
are all the toys they love."
Footnotes:
{1} Indentation and punctuation as original.
{2} In ancient libraries, works of value and importance were fastened
to their places by a length of chain; and might so be perused, but not
taken away.
{3} See Blackstone's Commentaries, i. 131, 359; iv. 432.
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