Psychomachia (The Battle for the Soul)

Psychomachia (The Battle for the Soul)

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N AzRaM's Life we see a Plan
Ot Faith, accommodate to Man;
Who proy'd, in Ares low Delius,
The parent of the Blessed Line; .
And took an anpler Name of Grace
To ty pify his num rous Race. N
His 45. you'll find, When well apply 4.
In Paith's Concerns your surest Guide.
When to the Mount you see him lead |
The Earneft of the promis'd Seed,

Of sinking Age the darling Son,

Think, in like Cafe, what must be done; |
To God you only must impatt,
What's choicest, best, and next your Heart,
Ev'n us, the faithful PATRIARCH strove,

With many-headed 77 Vice to wage
Eternal War with pious Rage; ;
For till the Spirit does fubdue
The wild, ungovernable Crew
of monstrous Vices, that infest
With Ravage dire the human Breaft,
Oblations, tho? of purest Kind,
Shall ne'er with God Acceptance find.
But Words, he knew, had often fail'd,
Where n Precedents prevail'd ;
And therefore what his Precepts taught,
His thund'ring Arm in Battle wrought.
£ By Chance wbilst Lor, whofe growing Name
Was brighten'd by his Uncle's Fame;
"In Sopow's District did reside,” © ©
That early Source of Ly and Pride,
Confed'rate Kings the State invade,
And Lor and Natives captive made.
The direful Tale strikes ABRaM's Ears,
And fills his Soul with anxious Fears,

That barb'rous Conquerors constrain
His Nephew in a servile Chain.
Breathing Revenge he strait reviews
His menial Servants, and pursues.
The flying Victors, whom a Load

Of Spoil encumber'd on the Road. 2
Old Age itself, with Sword in Hand,
Leads on the firm domeffick Band;

And full of Energy divine,

In pious Arms delights to thine. ;

Th' o'erloaded, straggling Rout of Foes
He beats, disperses, overthrows; _ _.
Redeems the Captives from their Chains,
And plunder'd SoDOM's Spoil regains;
Soft Virgins, whom in Bonds they bore;;
And rural Meglib, a countless Store;
| Much Gold, and costly Suits of Dress,
And houshold Treasures numberless, b |
Then Lor himself, who groaning bond ws 7

Beneath the galling Fetter's Load,

Unloos'd, recover'd once again
The upright Attitude of Man.
ABRAM, who with vindiftive Pow'r
O'ertook the flying Conqueror,
Returns, the glorious Work atchiev'd,
His pious Nephew Lor reliey'd,
Proud, no Barbarian should oppress
The Lineage Heay'n ordain'd to bless. =
As recent from the Field of Fame,
And wide-extended Death he came,
MELcHISEDECK the Hero meets, |
And with cœlestial Viands greets; 5
A royal Prigs, but of what Line
No human Searches can divine;

From what Progenitors he rose,

No Being, but Janovan knows.
Angels, itinerant below,

To see the far-fam'd Patriarch go,

Vouchsafe his humble Board to grace,

And take the Banquet of the Places;

Whilst wond'ring Sarah feels her Womb
To beat with promis'd Life to come,
And, joyful in this Jate Relief,
Regrets the Laugh of Unbelief.

This Map of Life so fair, so true,
For us to imitate he drevw
Like him, we militant must live,

To rebel Thoughts no Respite give;

But always under Armour stand,

And bear the Sword of Faith in Hand; And when a Member would obey Of Las the dire, tyrannick Sway, The Heart's Militia we must send Its moral Freedom to defend. Nor any Want that Soul will find Of Forces of the Bousbold Kind, Who spiritually can explain | What AnRAM's myfick * Niimbers means - „ There are various Expositions of this Passage, but that. of

Ciimans ALEXANDRINUS is the most probable ; he hereby stands the Mystery of Fesus Chrif Cracifed ; the Letter x, 33

re of the Cross, denoteg 300, and the first two Letters in the ame [ngo?g denote 18, in all, 318, the Number of Ana-

CHRIST, of whose generative Source
No Morra comprehends the Course,
Our true High-Prief, will then prepare
'To feast our. Souls with Reav*nly Fare ;
And in our Bosoms will reside,
From Luft and Passion purify'd.
IIlustrious Spirits! Trebly blest!
The holy TziniTyY your Guest!
From that Aliance ye will fink © ,, |
| Fresh Vigour working in the Mind.
The Seeds of Goodness richly sown
In Souls, by Axe unfruigful grown,
And, cultur d by indulgent Skies,
Behold large Crops of Virtue rife. — & +
Then shall your Hearts, like Sarah, bear
A late, but not unworthy Heir,

DN Tov. whose mercies fibver _ to
| 45 Jon helpless mortals, when distrest 2
RS Thou, who art mighty in thy father's
And in thine own indubitable right; *
Stil d his descendant, and yet ü create,

In godbead one, in per son separate,

Fro me, O CHRIST, thy guardian fuccour bring,
And grace the fubje& I presume to sing.

Say, with what arms the human soul expels Fach vice, that harbours in her inmost cells; | What troops she sends the rebel to defeat,

And keep the peace of our internal fate,
When flesh with spirit, thought with thought

And chri iftian minds are made the seat of a 1

For, beav' ny leader, thou wouldst neꝰ er —
Thy flock unarm'd to such outragious foe;

No various virtues on their fide engage
The soul to succour, and her wars to wage;
With wond*rous arts the infant mind you form,
And fence the fortress for the future Storm,
Art always ready, when distress is nigh,
Strength to impart, and prudence to supply,
The hear?”s obscure devices to unfold,
shew whence they rise, and how they 3
That bence thy name with added beams —
And all the #riumph of the war be thine.
To conquest short and easy were the way,
Could we their numbers, and their CHIEFS survey,
That useful work the gracious muse designs,
And ranks both armies in opposing lines ;
"IR Presents each dreadful combatant to fight,
+” Paints all the turns, and fortune of che fight.

The COMBAT of FAITH and IDOLATRY.
IRS T, heav'n-born FaiTH —_—_— Res
The dubious fortune of the war to try;
"Rude was her dress, and un-adorn'd her hair,
Her arms protended, and her shoulders bare;
So sudden was the impulse of her mind,
She left all ;n/fruments of war behind;
And wholly trusting to a dauntless heart,
Neo shield she carried, nor envenom'd dart,
But, steel'd with native prowess, on she goes
To brave che fiercest fury of her foes. 275
When, lo! IporArRT. asham'd to yield.
Accepts the challenge to contest the field
Drunk with the blood of many victims lain,
The bloated monster stalkd along the plain;
Fir d at the fight Faith rises to the blow.
And falls with fury on her frantic foe,
© Whose hoary head, with sacred fillets bound, b
Stunn'd with the shock, comes tumbling to the

Then, treading on her neck, arrests her breath,
And leaves her ling' ring in the pangs of death;
For the pent Air her sobbing lungs contain
Feeds life awhile, and animates her pain.

Loud shout the martyrs who advent*rous came,
By Faith-embold'ned, to the field of fame;
Whence, crown'd with garlands, they e
Array'd in vestments of the tyrian dye.

The COMBAT of CHa8TITY and LUST.

TEXT to the field, rous'd by the war's a-
Fair CHASTITY advanc'd in splendid —

From th? adverse lines a fury shoots in haste,
With flaming torches whizzing round her waste;
From sinful SODOM she deriv'd her birth,
That nest of lust to stock th? infected carthz =
And on the maid the fiend, like lightning flies,
Darting her smoaking torches in her eyes,
Tries ev'ry art the blushing Fair to choak
With screaming sulphur, and encircling smoak.

In thought serene, the virgin stooping low *
Lift a huge stone, and hurls it at her soe;
The rocky fragment, with a tempest Ls,”
Lights on the arm, and snaps the tingling bone; |
The deaden'd nerves no griping pow'r retain, 5
But drop the gying firebrand on the plain. | |

The barlot thus disarm'd, the conqu'ring maid
Forth from her fide unsheaths the shining blade;
Thro? the tough neck the sword a passage found,
And thick corruption issued from the wound,
Which in its course a nauseous stench exhales,
Spreads thro” the air, and taints the ambient gales.

This be thy fate, the Queen proclaims with jo
Thus inoffensi ve on the earth to lie;
No longer shalt thou wave thy flaming brand,
| Hot plagues to scatter o'er a wasted land;
Chrif's lamp alone the hallow'd heart shall fire, ©
And vital light, and vital warmth inspire :
Thou baneful mifchief to the sons of men,
Who could have choughr you'd visit earth

When JopiT#'s arm th* ASSYRIAN's lust sup-
Did you not. feel the dagger in your breast ? 1 |
Did you not both at once resign your breath,
Bleed from one wound, and jointly sink to death?

Illustrious JuDITH ! thy unequall'd name
Succeeding times shall consecrate to fame;
Twas heav'n inspir'd you with so 13
_ ?Twas heay'n assisted, and for me you fought.
But then perhaps beneath the barren shade
Of Jewish rites, which better times portray'd,
When god's own spirit shou'd on earth be born,
And fairer virtues human breasts adorn,

The valiant matron might essay in vain

To fix the period of thy deadly reign:

But now thy empire has fulfill'd its date,

The weak are made the ministers of fate;
Nature amaz'd forsakes her usual road.

Led thro' new paths to generate a god, 3 be

Forth from a virgin's pure, and maiden w 4 | Behold! behold the mighty congueror come!

The #:/ of man, thy old imperial seat, |
Releas'd from thee, assumes a nobler State;

A new alliance is commenc'd with heav'n,

A God to flesh, and flesh to God is giv'n:

vnd'rous conception where extremes unite, And bring full man, full deity to licht. Yet to the form divine no weakness cleaves, But man new graces, and new strength receives;

For after all the heav'nly gifts bestow'd,

The spring of bounty undiminish'd flow'd;

Still in the God unfaded glories shine,

Our nature brighten, and exalt our line,
He still the same, but we become divine.
Here lies my safety, here I put my trust,
And hence my triumph, O infernal Lüst;

Hence 'tis my empire, since the virgin's age,

Mocks thy devices, and defies thy rage;
Thou art the way to hell; thy flatt'ring path
Leads to the chambers of eternal Death *

By thee seduc d. unwary souls begin |

To walk unthougheful in the ways of fin ;
Blindly they enter, by thy soothings led,

Soon grow defibd, and fink among the dead.

| Hence chen to bell. thou fury, speed thy flight, And howl in dungeons of eternal night ;

Or stretch'd at length on some sulphureous

Or roll'd in whirling vortices of flame :
On earth no more uplift thy baleful face,
To teui pt the heroes of the chriftian race ;
Oer them in quiet let Mzss14n reign,
And keep his flock unconscious of a stain.
I Thus spake the maid; and joyful to foresee
The growing blessings of her victory, ,
She seeks the sil ver stream of jon DAN's flood,
To wash the steel, and wipe away the blood,
That of the clotted gore no foul remain
In time the splendor of the sword shou'd stain;
Then walks triumphant to the fair abode,
And bloodless altar of the christian God ;

| Fast by whose fide the naked steel the lay d, Lest rust . tarnish, f in ĩts * the dn,

TheConaTofPaTiBNGE 5 wa Arn.

Wu death thus rag'd in various forms 1
Undaunted PATIENCE still ne 17 0 her

| Still in the same inaftive posture staid, 1
And unconcern'd the work of fate fi urvey'd ; ;
Heard, round her head; the darts, unnumber'd,
Without a groan, a trouble, or a Ab. n
Not far remote infernal Ax RR stood,

Her mouth with Joan, her eyes suffus'd with bed; == 5So swell'd with rage, that each distended vein

3 Could scarce the driving flood of life contain; And fird with madness at the odious fight

4 Of one so peaceful midit the noise of fight, © 4 | Thither, impatient of the conflict, flies, Alfailing her with /pear, voice, Tooks and cer; 5 Words from her mouth in gusbing torrents broke, Andor her head che bristling horse hair shook.

Here, fair spectator, let this mortal dart
Obtain admittance to thy dauntless heart;
But not a groan must thence emission find,

For groans ill-suit a spirit so.re/ign'd.

Thus when the spake, a javelin launch'd _
Whizzes the air, and keeps i its destin'd course, ;
Where the strong cuirass o'er the breast was bound,

But thence repell'd drop'd bloodless to the ground
The prudent Virtue, at the first alarms,

Came well provided with defenfro arms;

A coat of Adamant its rigour | spread

Her shoulders o'er, impenetrably made;

; Hence no assailant can her soul affright,

Nor show'rs of arrows drive her from the fight; :
Wounded the seeks not to annoy the fo,

Assur'd, herself will strike the deadly blow.
When now the savage's efforts were crost,

Her quiver empty'd, and her vigour lost,

| Herselk, with furious Passion, tir'd in vain, * 1 arrow enter d o'er the plain,

She puts all 3 of conquest on her sword,
The only refuge now that arms afford.

Pois d from her ear the broad effulgent blade
Sweeps down impetuous on che meek one's head,
Loud rings the helmet to the rushing stroke,
Back flies the weapon into pieces broke 3

The trusty metal's well concocted frame 3
From heaven's own stores inyulnerable came :
No human force the jointed plates could rend.
But darts recoil, and blows in yain descend.
No limits now the mon/er”'s rage restrain,

1 To sec her hand a Hadeless hilt retain;

Stung with remorse, the tosses it asi de,

f A shameful monument of Fallen pride 3

Nor longer meditates the martial strife,

© Bur'sceks for means to end her wretched life 3 3 Selects a javelin, on the sandy plain,

From heaps of others lately castin vain

Then strikes the inverted shaft of polish'd wood
Deep in the earth; the point erected stood, - ö
Enters her breast, and drinks her vital blood.
Streight tow'rds the baugbry vangquish'd PATI-

And mildly thus her triumph did proclaim;

At length victorious; thus our warg we wage,
Without th* inhuman marks of bloody rage
From discipline, like this, we never part,
For hardy suf *rance is our martial art :
Unmoy'd we stand, and let the 5% go by,
For Passion always, like a hd, will die;
Her fretting spirits into vapours fume, |
Or end, like flames, that will themselves consume.
© Shecewd; chen shot, umwounded, thro? the =
Nobly attended as she pas&d along;
For Jos, still faithful, from his soverejgn's side
No force could seperate, nor threats divide ;
But close he follow'd where she march'd before,
His face displaying all the wounds he bore

And whilst he shew'd, by + peculizs scar,
Each sundry peril he sultain'd in war,
With pleasure told the ruins of his frame,
His glorious spoils, his adversary 8 shame, Eg
The goddess orders all his toils to cease,

2 And kindly lays him in the arms of peace;

With wealth accumulated swells his store, FOR

And yows his substance shall decrease no more.

Safe, and unhurt she then pursues her way,
Thro' hostile lines, where arrows thickest play 3
With ev'ry virtue does by turns appear,

Now aiding in the front, now heart' ning 8. the

Does strength to all without distinction yield.
For without her no virtue keeps the field; 3
Without ber presence ev ry virtue's faint,

And where she's not, you'll never sinda SAINT, _

The COMBAT of PrIDE and HUMILITY.

—_ routed troops, dispers'd on ev'ry

A beadlong coarser flew, at will, wi ith

Rais'd on a Lion's spoil sublime she rode,

The shaggy trappings were the Horse's led "=
But that caparison she ficly chose,

To look from high with scorn upon her foes.
Built on her head, compos'd of plaited hair,

A tow'ry fructure nodded in the air;

| Down from her shoulders, knotted o'er her breast, A swelling canvass bellied for a vest ; |

Round neck and breast a thin embroid'ry flows,

And opening gathers ev'ry wind that blows.
Just like the rider was the bouncing feed,
Scorning restraint, impatient to be free'd ;

Champing his foamy bit, he sought the plain,

Spread broad, and swell'd upon the curbing rein:

The puft VIR ACO, in this monstrous plight,
Between both hosts rode eminent to fight ;

wheels round ber steed, av both with hooks and The adverse lines insultingly defies, wy Which in A wedge, a small but chosen train, | HUMILITY had marshall'd on the plain, In rank a Queen, but wanting foreign aid To j Join thelevies she herself had made; ; Hoes was her firm ally, whose kingdom lies, Far from our Region, i in superior i es. |

Here PRIDE, observing not an arm to wield,
A brandish'd sword, nor clasp 4 splendid shield,
Did thus with foolish scofs, and taunts deride
The mean appearance of the adverse side.
| Base, vagrant tribe ! what 3 ? not deterr'd by
To cope with leaders of such mighty fame FP "0

Wich such a fereil, and ing lorious band

Against an old illustrious race to stand? ?

Who to such mines of wealth have fought their
To cich possessions , and imperial sway 3 ; 1255

rom which the rabble, that Pretender brings,

1 Would dri Ve, if possible, its ancient tings.

| Heavens ! seewhathands would fain a scepter wield, By force ejeft the old, laborious swains, 5 While yet the limbs retain a plastick heat, | And rule the /uture: man without controul.

For pxp subdued him in his first estate,

And reap the'wealth of many a fertile field ;

And seize the land, where flowing bounty reigns.
A I-vain attempt! for, at the natal hour,
O'er all the nan we get unbounded power;

We ftrike th* impression, and we seal his fate;
Shoot all our influence thro* his inmost soul,

Then, with what hope can you this empire claim
From us, who grow and -strengthen 2 — i.
And Mas and Miftress had an equal date:
In nature's infancy, when ADAM fell.
Expell'd from EpRx on this earth to dwell,
Ne yet had naked liv'd; but friendly Pride
"Taught him with leaves that nokeduess to hide.
. From what long exile, from what land un-
Come these Praun to dispute my throne;

This distant hope alleviates present pain,

a There Jus rick, doom doom'd to indigence by fates And Hoxzsrr, who never will be great; Soker, just wither'd to a-shade;z. 2

Why did they not exert an earlier claim,
Lost to all worth, to honour, and to fame?

But vain tradition {till allures them on

With hope of crowns, that mily some time be

And is the trick by which their leaders reign;

Fit bait for minds, whom glory never charms,

Nor sprightly trumpets. animate to arms;

Cold, frozen souls, whom valour never fires;

Whose luke-warm temper nothing great desires;
What feats will CHASTITY's cold nerves per-

In war will PT support a storm? 92
Twixt shame and grief how e —
To see myself opposd by such an host ;. .

5 To see a band of mill: fac d maids advance,

Not bred to combat, nor to poise the lance?

Aud pale-fac'd A8STIEXCE, a pining mad

| With SHAME, thro? whose wan cheeks wi emp-
| Life? q sprightly tide transmits no crimson RE :
* narm'd SIMPLICITY, who may be slain
By ev'ry arrow Hot across the plain Y
HuMiLitr, afraid to look around, =
With eyes still fix d upon the sordid ond;
Such fearfulness an abject soul betrays, 5
That seeks no honour, nor pretends to praise.
With the ignoble blood of such a crew
My sword I'll stain not, nor my hand embrue;
A soe so despicable cannot claim ”
Diginetion, due to military fame :
With such my courser fights; *tis he shall beat
Their heads to earth, and crush them with his
Thus loud she cry'd: then urg'd ber expe
| Loogd ev'ry rein, and drove with headlong
Affur'd the Virtue to the shock would yield; hs
And she remain sole mistress of the field.
But while he flew upon his utmost stretch,
Plumb down he drops i into a latent ditch,

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Which FRAUD, a sister of th' infernal train,
Mischieyous open'd on th* embattled plail ainz
That, i in the conflicts formidable hour, |
The rushing ranks it might at once devour;
And, least some eye the cavern shou'd explore,
With rods, and branches she had bridg'd it ober.
Then cover'd all with cufts of verdabe grass,
That none shou'd hesitate the gulph to pass:

Safe from the lists the queen of meekness 2
Nor once approach'd the ambush that was laid,

From no surmifings i in a fearful mind,

= Of dark contrivances by FR Aup defign'd : go.

| | But PRIDE, high-thron'd upon her fiery horse, W Drives forward blindly, with impetuous force, ; W Brooks no delay, nor at the danger stops,

And down the pit a pondrous ruin drops:

| Pirch'd on her head, with sudden loss of breath, he steed incumbent presses her to death.

Soon as che gentle- minded queen beheld |

The monstrous vanity entirely quell'd,

Forward she came, with slow and solemn pace,

With looks more elevate; but modest grace
Temp'ring the flush of triumph in her face.
And whilst in doubt she stood, her GuARDIAN
Presents a sword, and points the way to *
Seiz 'd by the hair the vanquish'd fiend to light
She drew, and stretch'd her with her face up-
And, while she fervently for mercy dee
Her head dissever'd with the shining blade,
Which, by a lock upheld, on high she bore,

A gastly trophy, all defild with gore.

Ober prostrate PRIDE now Horz declaims se-
Shun all presumption with peculiar care ; 4
God {till will humble the ambitious soul,

And the weak bubble's empty swell controul ; |
The sculptur'd obelisk, the tow'ring wall

The higher rais'd, the proner are to fall.

All supercilious lofty looks despise,
Nor fall to earth, by gazing on the skies:

IT bis far-fam'd' Apothegm remember well,

Which from the mouth of heav'nly wisdom fell,

« He from their seat shall pull the mighty

« And raise the meek. and lowly to a crown.

Amaz'd we saw, upon tho embattled plain,

The huge GoLIAH by a ftripling slain,

A common pebble, from the limpid stream,
Beat down that bulwark of PHILISTIN fame;

Between both armies whilst this son of Pride

Stood like a tow'r, and-/raePs God defy'd,

Brandish'd his beamy spear, and . 5

And strode at large the terror of the field,

To ev'ry eye he, by his fall, did shew

What the mock- armour of a boy can do.

= When yet a child, the pious youth engag'd

nu vin rug's cause, and all her battles wag'd;

: | On me he always cast a longing eyes. :

| | Where, at God's Jeet, I keep my seat on high; |

; | Whither 1 VIRTUE call, and where bestow

f The just rewards for Vick subdued below.

She ceas'd; then shot on golden wings upright,
To regions smiling with unclouded light;
The virtues militant, with wond'ring eyes,

| Pursue her flaming progress to the skies;

' Fain wou'd they follow where she leads the way,
But earthly conflicts till require their stay :
Vice must be vanquish'd ; many trophies won;

Sure then to follow, when their work is done.

The Combat of LUXURY. and SOBRIETY. a N time's last period, to the combat came | 1 A fell lect” Luxury by name;

Th abandon'd wanton, from her early days,

: Despis'd all censure, nor regarded praise ;

Averse from ev'ry good; her only care

With costly odours to perfume her hair;

A soft, sweet voice to melt the captive soul,
And sleepy eyes with languid airs to roll, |

Furnist'd with all habiliments to please, - |

And lead the soul astray from Virtue's ways ;

With softning arts th? enervate mind to ply,.
And ope each avenue of sense to joy
Studious her hours in banquetting to spend,: -
Nor valuing life, where pleasure's not the end.
When morning light o'er earth began to flow,
Alarm'd the heard the martial trumpet blow;
Leaving the brimming bowl, with all her pow'rs,
| Ofer floods of wine, and trodden heaps of flow'rs,
Now lips, now staggers; head and feet betray,
That wine perverts, and these a slippꝰry way.
But when she came within the verge of fight,

She mounts a chariot eminent to sight,

In heavy, pompous state slow-moving on;

All eyes were ravish'd, and all hearts were won :
Strange sort of war ! no misjfve engines throw

.” The pond rows lance; nor sounds the twanging bow : She casts, from baskets, flagrant heaps of flow'rs,

At hostile heads, in aromatich show'rs ? |
Th' exhaling odours soon unman the saint,
On beds of essences reclin'd, and faint : L |

Quick shoots the venom thro? each nerve, and
And Virtue perishes, by roses slain. | _
A death-like stupor the whole host o 'erspreads,

They drop their weapons, and chey hang 2
As on the chariot's radiant frame they gaze,
And their eyes dazzle in the diamond blaze;
Or while the golden traces they behold,
And whirling axletree of solid gold,
Or filver spokes, that emulate the sun,
And in an orb of lucid amber run. |

From rank to rank seditious murmurs fly,
For quick desertion is the gen'ral cry 5

All long to serve the oftentations fool,
And live with Luxuzy, -unbound by rule.

The Ween of Temperance severely mourn'd,
To see her sons to base deserters turn'd,
Her firm allies, who mighty shocks had stood,
Strike to mere shew, and perish without blood.
The crosses s banner, which the princely maid
Noor? in the van, aloft i in air dif] play'd,

Deep in the earth she struck, then staid the lines,
And thus bespoke them for their base designs;
With soft entreaties sharp rebukes allays,

With /hame deters them, and transports with
Whence, whence this rage, which wings oh

Whonks this Wehe of incellefiual hs.

What do you want? whose nod would ye obey ?

What fetters seek ye on your necks to lay?

What ? shall a Aly, or a vi et chain,

Arms so robust, with infamy, constrain ?

For shame, that setters of the flowry kind

Such arms shou'd shackle, and such necks showd q

How will the turban, with a saffron lace, i wad

Become a rough, and military face ?

Or costly ointments'of ARABIA ow

Their odors round a consecrated bead,

Which CHRIS ordain'd with spotless rayate shine

By royal unction, and his seal divine?

Shame! at your heels that wavy trains shou'd IT

And filken vestments wrap each loosen'd limb z .

Those limbs, which Farrz, in earlier times ar-
Wich snowy garbs of curious texture made, *

Endued with mighty prevalence to save N
The soul from in, the body from the grave. |
Hence to the nightly feasts, where goblets shine,
Where stream inebriating draughts of wine ;
Where fill d with trembling hands the cups _
The beds around, and murbled floors below: ”
Is all forgotten? how JeHovan blest
Your fainting fathers in the dreary waste ;
When rocks, obedient to the mystick wand,
Dissol wd to water, and refresh'd the band;
The food of heay'n, on this last age bestow'd,
First round your tents, in morning __ = :
But mightier blessings on this age ensue ;
>Tis CHRIST to them, which was a Tee to you.
Vet you, the guests of heav'n, can LusT entice
From feasts ambrosial to the styes of vice:
Whom neither WRATH, the thunder ofthe field,
Nor old IDoLATRY compell'd to vield, A

A drunken vagrant, by her fraudful arts,

Has sapp'd your virtue, and seduc'd your hearts:
Remember, oh! my fons, your rank, your state 3

Think on your Saviour, and your future fate;
Think on the ancestry, from which-youspring,

Think who's your God, your Saviour, and — 5

Your line from JuDan does to MART run,
Whom God ordain- d to bear his only Son:
Let Davip's battles, and victorious name - |
| Rekindle in your hearts a martial flame;
Let SAMUEL gen'rous sentiments. conveys.
And.cast the spoils of.yvanquish'd foes away 5
To him the guidance of your actions give, |
Nor suffer kings, not circumcis'd, to live;

Such lives, if spar'd, the way to peace will bar, |

And ill-tim'd mercy sow the feeds of war.

| With him twas sin a conquer'd king to fave,

With you not conguest, but submisfow's brave.

If yet to Gd your hearts. obsequious move
With the least force of duty, and of love,

Repent : Repentance always will prevail,
Your guilt annihilate, and pardon seal.
Safe sor a time the sinner walks astray,
If this o'ertakes, and brings him to his way.
A royal youth, by high presumption led,

Trangress'd an order by his father made;
| Rob'd of a golden drop the waxen cell,
The knawing rage of hunger to repel ;
Incurr'd the doom attendant on the deed,
But by repentance say'd his forfeit head:
Repentance, always prevalent when true,
The stubborn father from his purpose drew;
Firm in the way of rigid justice stood,
Nor let the royal axes drink his blood.

Lo! I SoBRIETY, of you secure,

To ev'ry virtue will a palm ensure ;
Will soon the miscreant, and her slaves restrain,
And lead them. captive in a brazen chain;
At CHRIS T's tribunal shall the rebels stand,
And feel the weight of his avenging hand.

No more; but quick the flaming cross she threw
Full in the horse's eyes ; away they flew
Confounded and amarz'd ; scour o'er the plain,
Nor hear the driver, nor obey the rein.

Still in their eyes the flaming cross does glare,
They start, they neigh, they toss their er |
Blindly o'er rock, and precipice they bound;
The giddy rider tumbles to the ground :

Lock'd in the wheel, the makes the chariot lag,
A dead, unwieldy, cumbrous, heavy drag:
Thick clouds of dust her shining tresses foil,
The golden mitre, and the scented oil. |
There, as she roll'd, entangl'd, on the ground,
The 2yeen of Temperance gave the deadly wound:
A rugged stone, which fortune did provide,
The place of better instruments supply'd;
(Unarm'd she took the field ; her only care
The cross's standard in the van to bear)
Full on the mouth with crashing noife it smote,

Beat teeth, and tongue promiscuous down her

Clos -d up che conduit of her vital breaths
And made an hideous speQacle of death;
: | Cramm'd with a mass, it never felt before, |
Of pounded teeth, and fetid clots of gore,
Th? 'o'erburden'd stomach heav'd against the
And cast it, direfully conyuls'd, abroad.

Then thus SOBRIETY in scoffing mood,
Let thy last draught, O Drunktard, 4 —
of thy voluptuous life the clo/ing scene
Be form'd of bitterness, disgust, and pain;
Tortur'd with nauseous reachings may you die,
And real pains, conclude fantastic Foy. |

The hoft of trifles, when their hope was dead, Dispers'd, and broke, in vast confusion fled; Then Mirth, and Petulancy cast away | The noisy rattles of their childish play; With such mock arms they jocund tripp'd around, And wag'd fierce battle with the cymbals sound. 80 Them Love soon follow'd, rapid as the wind,

And left ingloriously his arms behind;

With fear as pale as lovers, when their hearts

Are deeply wounded by his poison'd darts...

Slow-marching PoMe was forc'd to mend her
Spoil'd of her robe, and ribbands in the ON

Of all the shining wreaths, and drops of gold,

Which grace the head, or do the neck enfold;

And all the gems, the dresser's arts unite
To draw fresh lustre from a mingled light,
Now from their stations in disorder tost,

+ Bemoan their beauty, and effulgence lost. Nor tender-footed PLEASURE dar'd to stay,

O'er flinty paths „ and thorns she scour'd away >
A greater terror follow'd in the rear,

Hard'ning her feet the rugged ways to bear.
Where'er the routed Squadrons fly, the road |
With clasps, crowns, fillets, and with 7 = |
Here arms to shed, there arms the hair to press,

And all the fine artillery of dress. 6
But neither victor, nor victorious bands,

Would with the glitt'ring spoil profane their

With look austere the meaneft pass'd it by,
Nor once look'd backward with a wishful eye.

The Conpar 7 AVARICE and Li-

"HEN Ric came, if. ancient fame says

To glean the spoil of the luxurious A
Tuck'd up 2 corner of her robe she bare,
Which deeply bellied, like a sheet, before;
But not content with that, on either side
Deep bags, and pouches in long rows were ty'd;
In them the Harpy stow'd with griping hand
The golden booty scrap'd from heaps of sand;
Still with her 475 concealing close from fight
Whate'er she seiz d, and gather'd with her
CORRUPTION, FAMINE, PERJURY, and Pain,
With the three ers of th' infernal train,
Carr, FRAUD, and Lrins, WATCHFULNESS,

And galtly PALENESS at her heels appear;

Where'er the fiend her baleful influence sheds, -
Crimes spring apace, and murd'rous _—
Like rav'ning Wolves, the terror of the wood, g
They roar for plunder, and they feast on blood. -
A starry helmet o! yon Soldier wears,
That starry helmet soon his life ensnares;
Observe his Comrade seeks a cause of strife,
And takes the jewels with the owner's life.

A belt, with gems adorn'd, has there supprest
The voice of nature in the filial breast;
Has drawn the /on, for sordid hopes of gain,
To spoil the parent, by another slan:
The lust of lucre shoots the flaming brand
Of civil discord thro? a peaceful land,
To dire extremes th* insatiate rage has run;
1 rav'ning parent robs his only son. "3 0

Such scenes of cruelty the Monster W |

And mighty numbers to destruction brought; Hf
Ten thousand ways ten thousand ills conttiyes, ©
To rob deluded * of their ves; N

One she deprives of intellectual light,
And leaves him wand' ring in the shades of nights

No ray of reason to the wretch supplies,”

5 Nor patting staff, that substitute of eyes.

For fronger minds a guilgful bait she lays,

And with imaginary good betrays ;

With fair appearances the sense is won,

And, while they stoop to take, they are undone,
Nor see their danger, till the wounded heart

Sobs sudden. at the ent' rance of the dart.

Let flames enwrap the dome; yet man's desire
Will dive for riches in that flood of fire ;
From pointed flames too covetous to turn;
And love, and lover will together burn. N
Widely spe lords it o' er this earthly ball,
And all, that's mortal, by her hands shall fall; 7

A greater plague was never sent by fate, |
I To banish peace, and multiply debate;
No fiend fo fruitful of destructive schemes

To catch the worldling i in infernal flames.

En God's own priefts, the holy LRvrrx train

( f such traditions ought of truth retain)
While in the Front successful war they wage,
And wake with trumpet's sounds the warrior's
With furious combat AvaRice assail'd, 4 *
And, but for REASON, had too sure prevail d; *
Almighty REASON, wont in arms to shine,
A firm adherent to the prieftly line,
Catch'd on her beamy shield the falling blow,
Her sons protected, and repell'd the foe;
Behind that fence now well-secur'd they stand,
Far from the reach of any hostile hand.
Some feu indeed, who off their guard had been,
Her darts did hit, and gently raz'd the skin.

- Unhurt the rest escap'd the shocks of fight, |

of heart unbroken, and in thought upright. |

The rueful Pes in wild amazement stood,
To see her shafts reverting without blood,

| Andthusorecharg'd with spiteful wrath,exprest

The flood of passion boiling in her breast.

SLOTH thro* our host his drousy pow' r has

Our former vigour, and succels is fled ;

Languid the arm, that slew without 5
And widely ravag d evry buman foul,;
For never nature, by her plastick art,
Gave such hard temper to a carnal heart.
As long contention with our arms to hold,
Unpierc'd, unbroken by almighty gold.

O'er ev'ry temper absolute we reign,

The mild, morose ; the simple, and the vain;
Not only minds devoid of reason's ray

By goldenlights are often drawn astray, _

But ev'n the wise consent to miss their way.

Harlots for gold will practice wanton arts,

And Prudes themselves be found with Tiglding

To us the monarch of the infernal reign .

Owes ev'ry subject, which his floods . 3

From us he got them; by our arms they fell ;

| Wedrove them headlong to the gates of hel},

We the sole cause of all the woe and strife,
Which cast such shadows o'er a mortal life ;
We point the paths, thro? which lost mankind run,
Undoing otkers, and themselves undone.

MWhence is't, our bold resolves now end in

Why ebbs our fortune? why declines our .
The CHRISTIAN now can un-entic*d behold
The charming lustre of refulgent gold ;
Can the bright filver's beauteous form despife,
And look on wealth with undesiring eyes:
Whence this affected scorn ? this proud disdain?
Did not the great ICaR1OT wear my chain?
The princely JuDas, honour'd by his Lord,
Rank'd with his Peers, and feasting at his board,
Yet from his table, on the festal day, =
Io us deserted, and receiy'd our pay;
For thirty pieces a vile contract made, 5
A God, a Saviour, and a Friend betray'd;
And last to strike, and make the compact good,
Himself he hang'd, and blood atton'd for blood

Let J1co « our great atchievements tell, | When Acnan battled, and her bulwarks fell; Wich er ry laurel of the war his own,

For squadrons routed, and a wall oerthrown,
| The conquer*d spoil his congu'ring arm afsail'd,
And gold succeeded, where the sword had fail'd.
Not all the merit his fam'd lineage pleads,
Their faith implicit, and heroick deeds,
Not ev'n che far, chat shone in JuDan's line,
Nor ABRAM trusting in the word divine,
Could wretched Acaan's punishment abate,
Or fave his houshold from their fery fate.
Bure then a race, which takes such pious care
Each word, each action by their fire's to square,
Won't, at the last, be backward to comply,
And keep the same resemblance when they die;
With Justice | now, fince over-match'd in war,
For Juan” s sons I'll bait the /raud/u/ snare ; ;
| For God' 8 Highpriefts will frame the dark design,

1 call they ron, and the facred line)

It matters little how we shape our course
To glorious conquest; be it fraud, or force.
So spake the fiend, and instant on the place

puts off the fury's arms, the fury's face ;

And, in their room, amazing change! 1e

A decent habit, and engaging mien;

A virtue now she outwardly appears,
The very dress, the very visage wears
Of plain F RUGALITY ; her sole delight
To live on little, and preserve her right :
No longer ray*nous on another preys,
But steals, by industry, a virtue's praise.
Thus chang'd, she enters on the field of fame,

Not i in a Vice's, but a Virtues name ;

For snakes assumes old age's snowy hairs,

A well-known emblem of parental cares;

And, in a matron's modest raiment drest,

Seems of a numerous progeny possest. 1
Hence what by rapine, and by then she gaing

Comes from good conduct, and dome/tick pains ;

Hence all her hoardings with penurious care,

| Are Nous savings for a worthy heir.

Whilst thus th* Inpostor play'd her wily arts,

And won the multitude's believing hearts,

In crowds they follow the destructive fiend,

And think; they Yirtue, and her steps attend,

Wilfully swallow ev*ry bait she leaves,

Flock to her call, and glory to be slaves;

The sons of Firtue at th' ambiguous shew

Stood in amaze, and at a loss to know

What part to take, the error how decide,

| Repel the be, or in the Friend confide ;

Wond'rous the mixture, intricate and nice,

Where ends the virtue, and begins the vice!
With grief distracted, from the distant rear,

Came CHARITY, an honest volunteer z

Who, tho*she hindmost rank d, remote from light,

Alone must turn the dubious scale of fight;

Not how with gold de' reharg d, but wholly bare,

: Aud eas d of all [pecuniary care 3

Tho? once on fortune's golden tide the faild,
The spring at length, by frequent running, fail'd; |
But till she views with secret, heart · felt joy.
Her urn exhaulted, and che channel dry
Wisely she parted with her copious store,
To cloath the naked, and relieve the Poor;

Bankrupt on earth, she all in alms had. giy'n,
But rich in FAITH's expectancies from heav'n.

When Av'xIcR saw this thund'ring foe apr |
Her heart beat quick with fate-foreboding lang
A sudden Stupor o'er her senses flies,
And certain death stood obvious to her eyes;
Corruption's arts, and god's enchanting pow'r,
She saw, would fail her in the fatal hour;
| Too well the knew the genius of her foe, 3
How great her scorn for all that's priz'd. belowz |
How, once unloos'd from lucre's galling chains
She vow'd, she never would be caught again.

Here She, whose presence powerfully inclines
The human heart to generous defigns,

Her folding arms around the Miser threw,
And in close durance to her breast she drew ; |
Claspꝰd round the neck one hand's constrin ent
Of Respiration intercepts the course, |
The duct of vital air compressing broke,
And spread pale horror o'er her meagre look;
The-etherial spirit now no more maintains

An open commerce with the lungs and veins,
But life shut up, like lamps without repair
Of wasted vigour by nutritious air, |
In dark corporeal cells now sobs now sighs,
And struggling, panting in its prison dies.
Loos'd from the grasp the body beats the ground,
Unstain'd, unbloody, and without a wound.
The joyful victor, with insulting tread,

- Struts Ger the ruins of the meagre dead, - Unloads the vanquiso'd of the motley spoil, The due reward of military toil; . From tatter'd bags, where moths prolific bred, And plenteously in mouldy pastures fed,

Unnumber'd beaps of rufy coin she dreir,
Rever'd by AV*RICE for their virid huez
With countless masses of unripen'd gold,
Unpurg'd by fire, unshapen in the mould;
All these, obtain'd by Fraud, presery'd with
The tedious work of many a painful year, 15
The great of heart, whom no self interest guides,
Among her poor confederates divides, |
And, as they clos'd her round, with look serene,
And diction mild, bespoke th' attentive train.

Retire, ye Just, from off th* embattled field,

Fearless of danger, when the foe is kill'd: | . Henceforth let war, and madding discord cease, And turn; with safety, to the arms of peace,

Peace is consummate ; if the heart desires 4
No more, than what necessity requires;
Plainnese of dress; a fmple, wholsome fare, |
Repelling hunger, and inclement air ; #
Nature's demands nor here, nor there exceed;
Nor gayly dress, nor delicately feed 3

If lus urges, and you needs must run
Ev'n from the rising, to the setting sun,
Think not a moment, nor a moment stay
For food, or raiment ; but pursue your way.
No'thought beyond the current hour extend,
Nor this day's bus ness with to morrow*s blend;
Each morning sun does /e//-sufficient rise,
And all th* expences of his day supplies.
Behold the wing'd inhabitants of air,
Sumptuous they ea, yet nothing they prepare;
But hourly find, when forth by hunger led,
The cup replenish'd, and the table spread;
Content they cast all farther cares aside,
And in God's bounteous providence confide.
Blush Reason, blush! when ev'n the bird that
So lowly rated that a farthing buys, wy
Esteems itself more worthy of the care
Of God, than Man, who doth his i image bear:
7 zak, inconssstent Man, who now. canst call
Frogs heay . rite, and the Lord of Att;

Anon canst fear this /av"rite will be left
Of raiment deftitute, of food bereft : ©
But learn, tho? late, the ways of truth to scan,
That God, who breath'd the breath of life on
In point of justice, is concern'd to save wo
The breath imparted, and the life he gave.
Terrestrial dainties, chat corrupt and cloy,
Are but poor sources of convivial joy;
To rich repasts does God his Saints invite,
To rich repasts of intellectual light;

Divine, ambrosial nurture, that conveys
| To souls elect a boundless length of days:
To this af pire; on this deyoutly feed;
And trust to God for what your Bodies need.
Her balmy words each anxious heart appeas'd;
Calm'd ev'ry thought, and every grievance
The flush of triumph reafsum'd its place,
And shone unclouded in each virtue's face;

But th* adver se party, smote with so re affright,
Flew off, and plac'd their safety in their flight;

FRAUD false of tongue, and heart-corroding CARRk,
And murd'rous RAPIiNE never known to spare.
Then Peace advanc'd, and Plenty l
And drove grim war, and terror from the field;
Loos'd was each ie and ev'ry belt unbound,
No more was heard the martial e
War's threatning front receiv'd a sester grace,
And ffrutting soldiers learn'd the /tep of peace;
Long robes, pacific garb, flow'd o'er the plain,
And to their sheaths the swords return'd again;
Clear was the air; the clouds of dust were laid,
Which earth had buried in their pitchy shade;
Fresh to the sigbt emerg'd a beauteous scene,
Not bath'd in blood, but deck'd with lively
O'er heav? n the sun diffus'd a brighter 1
Nature reviv'd ; and all the world was gay.
With ev'ry hour new funds of pleasure rise;
First, earth in peace; and next, unfolding skies;
The Son of God, presented to the view,

Holds forth the n and shews their hopes

Points out the distant port, where endless ease ©

Awaits them landed from tempestuous seas.
5 With sil ver trump now CONCORD gave the
Quick parts the host, and line divides from ling,
In sep'rate squadrons there the Horsemen ride;
Here march the Fot in military pride;
O glorious pomp of war! how gay they shin'd,

In spotless vestures of the lucid kind,
Not stain'd by art, but native snowy-white,
Pure as their hearts, to feast the raptur'd fight!
Back to their tents they flock, the war now
And place the Eagles, where they sat before. =o
In joyful strains victorious hymns they sung,
The mountains eccho'd, and the vallies rung.
Such thankful lays the Hebrew race exprest,
Such holy raptures fir'd each tuneful breast, /
| When on che farther:shore secure they stood} | -
And yiew'd the fury of the warring flood; |
Saw the high walls of pendent crystal flow

In rushing mountains on th* embattled:foe 5 —

Saw Aevypt's pride in foaming oceans drown'd,
Where late they march'd, up-born on solid
Saw refluent waves o'erwhelm the sandy 2
And to the fist restore their watry reign.
Enraptur'd thoughts] EHOVAH's deeds inspi re,
JzHovan's deeds were sung on ev'ry lyre;
| Still in the song we see the waves divide,

And form a liquid mound on ey'*ry fide ;

Still, lost in wonder, praise the pow'r hat
The rowling main, and petrify'd the wave.
Thus Virtue's conqu'ring bands essay'd to fing,
Loud notes of triumph to the vocal string 3
And nobly painted, in the mysßtick lay,

The great deliv*rance of a future day.

Scarce to the camp the marching squadrons
Where double valves a narrow entrance 6 |
When; sent by FRAUD, a sudden storm arose, |
And rueful Faftion broke their hop'd repose, 75
Their songs of conquest into sorrow turn,

And leave no cause to triumph, but to mourn.

The Combat of CONCORD: and Dis coRD.

N the hoft's center, with success elate,

L. CoNCoRD enter d thro? the narrow gates

A wily foe did there insidious hide, =
And struck a deadly weapon at her fide ;:

In vain the mail its rigid plates oppos'd,

Bound fast with steel, and to the body clogd's

The fiend espying, where the deepest row |

Olf scales indented seem'd to start below.

Thither conveys th' infinuating dart,

Ruffled the skin, but hit no vital part.

Such sudden strokes awak'ning FaTEs provide

For fond security, and slumb*ring pride;

And this revenge the profligated foe

To baneful DiscorD's black contrivance owe.

For lately banish'd from the rebel host,

With prudent caution,” for they fear'd best |

To our battallions, quick cransform'd, she came

In friendly semblance, anda social name;

The tatter d vesture, which her works display'd, And deadly wand of twining serpents made, She left behind her, where the battle bled, i And with a wreath of olive crown'd her head; = Then join'd in festal hymus the vocal quire, | Where none sung lweetgr, and none shouted | Beneath her robe the dagger she e ee With which, fair COxcoRp, she thy life alaild; _ *Gainst thee alone of all the host intent,

And studioufly on thy destruQion bent;

But fortune lichten d t the malicious blow,

And turn'd remorse and sorrow on the foe.

Some drops of oozing blood, at last, were seen

CoNCORD alarm'd,criesout ; what hostile hand
Lurks in disguise amid our friendly band? :
Who she, that secks my being to destroy, |
And with the sword disturbs our present joy?
To what-effeft have we by combat broke

All pice controuÞ'd, and ey'ry Firtue free'd,
I Pirtue's ruin shall with peace succeed ?
| With fear and tremb' ling, ev'ry eye espy'd >
The blood distilling from the punctur'd fide: * |
- Whey in the countenance an anxious cloud
Singled the Band of murder from the crowd 3 .
In various characters was read her guilt, -
And deep convittion of the blood she spilt ; |
Her hand, when seiz d, with languid tremors shook,
And palencs pleaded guilty in her lk.
Quick in a globe the virtuous h appears
Dran round the ofa Mn with pointed spears,
Whilst allinterrogate. her name, her place,
Her country, office, e enterprize, and race,
What God she warships, and at whose command
She nag d mingled with their holy bad, |
The fend, tho senfible of danger nigh,
Makes no exasion, but this blunt reply + |
Discoxp, and HeREsr's the name I bear, bs

And Private rest, 125 publick * regain'd,

Now Jess, now greater; just as fancy wills;
An innate seu that all exten on fills

Now ene, now wo; BELIAL's my master's name,

And the wide earth the country which I claim.

FAITH, Queen of Virtues, could not long endure

Language so blasphemous, and so impure;

- But to the head the steely shafc she drew,

; Swift to the tongue the whizzing arrow few,

Th' alternate flux of vital air OW
And bound that i»/rument of bell to rest. oY

Then, quick as thought, the mon/fer”s coarse they

And ev'ry virtue does a portion bear;

Dogs some to feast, for vultures some a prey,

While some to fishes, or to sinks convey ; _
The brutal tribes the mangled carcass rend;

And such was HeresY's deserved end: 3 death, like l, 75 the miscreant did betide, She liv'd d. smemb'ring, and disnember d dy'd. -

When now the common weal was ascertain'd,

En the low vulgar were allow'&to please, | Themselves in all the liberties of ease; Safe in the camp each moment to employ | To heal past sorrows with f ucceeding joy.

Next, on a central eminence they place
A double pile, but on one common base ;
The lower part, a fair tribunal, shews
August and spacious; but above it grows,
A narrower edifice; whose top commands
A boundless prospect over seas and lands.
Thither the Queens ascending take their seat,

With equal dignity, and equal tate,
CONCORD and FAITH ; precedence neither take,

But scorn all difference for agreement's sake. | Then thro” the camp their messengers they send, | And summon all their people to attend.

Chearful each mental Jaculty obeys * +

The sov'reign mandate, nor absconding stays 3
Tho? numerous labyrinths the mind supply'd,,
The ling'ring truants in its folds to hide:

. | Fach tent was struck; each cirivis open 127d.

That none tight flumber in the datkfome tide,

The pott /f affentibled with itnpitierite wait;

| Anxiows to know the bus heft of the fate; == Why, when no tnbre the marks of war were scen,

| Concord decreed a cbüntif shou'd convene, =

What for the pubtick good Farrn meant to do,

Amend old edicts, or promulgate ew,

Then CONCORD firkt the ger ral filence broke,
Drew deep attention, and serenely spoke. + .

| Thrice hippy Pireaes ! now complearly blest ! !

| Henceforth confign'd to everlasting rest!

| Kiill true to God, and tothe christian name

Full is ti anötted rheafure of your fime:
Extinet the foe; that would your peace confound,

And beat yotf satred city to the ground ;

| With hostife flames the zoh) place would burn, And all its elorigs into ashes tür. |

Now privite Jendfoip labour to prove,

Fo r pubJith peact 18 built on kr rute lobe;

= Domeftick ruptures thro? a nation run, ; |
And priviite quarrels have whole fates unddonk; ;
Watch ev'fy motion then with jealous cate,
And of gone My bewate 3 ;
For trifling notions friend with friend will pan.
And diff rent renets alienate the heart ;
However oppofite you 75k or write,
| Let christian charity your - souls 1 unite 3 5
Of ev'y life be that the ruling line ; .
For what's dd hastens to dec me.
Twixt God and Man as Jssvs interpostd.
And the wide breach by mediation EY ;
Sharing both natures, both he did combine,
Earth rais'd to heavy n, and mortal to divine;
Thus let, in acts of body and of a,
One spirit govern, and connect our whole.
Love is th? gen'ral law ; the Plants run,
By 1 _ attrafted, round their central sun ;

And, so unbigotted, she all belieues;

Love is the cement of this earthly ball ;

Dissolve that cement, and the whole must fall.
Of no oblation will your God appr oye,

Unless. prefer'd with sanctity and love;

Evo'n on the altar when the victim lies,

Heay*n will rejeC the blazing sacrifice,

If livid flames of wrath within you hide,
And from your brother turn your heart aside:

Nay, should you stand the persecutor's flame,

And bravely suffer for the christian name, 8 Yet in your breast if malice should remain, The groaning martyr burns, and dies in vain :

That little drop of cordial gall will four =
The cup presented to the heav'nly pow'r.
Love, love alone compleats the chriftian plan,
And stamps perfection on the works of man;
Content i in ev*ry station can abide, |
Untoueh'd with envy, and unswell'd with pride;
when injur'd grieves not; readily forgives 3

| With general pardon sure each day to crown, -
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Assume the plumage of the harmless Dove, TS
Mix with the flock, and ape their manners too,

As fondly: Bill; and as uxorious woe;
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The genuine turtle from the spurious for: ©
In woolly softness oft the Wolfi will hide
His savage aspect, and his tawny pride,
And safely, cover'd with the fair disguise,” 1
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4 Fell rage, and flaughter thro” the er” will
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| From them the Heretiets derive their arts,

Thus Aru, and Photinus play'd their Parts;

And thus my suffrances, tho” trivial, shew

What hostile fraud will, undeteQed, do.

No more she utter'd: When her plaintive

Drew groans of sympathy from all the IE ny :

Next FaiTH, to heal their bleeding 1 217

No longer grieve, triumphant o'er your woes: |

Tho? death was slily aim'd at CONCORD's breast,

I timely succour'd, and its force represt :

She too to me will mutual aid afford;

And, join'd with ber, I fear no hostile sword.
But fill one labour there remains to grace

Our past atchieyements; anda work of peace;

Resembling chat, which was in JuDan do done

By warlike Pa vip 's wise, pacifick Son;

The prudent father from the work abstain d.

: For royal Blood his slaught'ring hand distain d:

Aud only hands, of blood unconscious, dare

EreR, and consecrate an Hause of Fray:

Zion with joy beheld the fabrick rise,

And God, descendant from superior cies,
Thither his glory vifible transsate.
And make JERUSALEM his royal seat :
Then did the Al, itinerant besore.

© Obtain a residence, and roam no more.

Here too let us with JuDan's monarch vie. |

And rear a stately structure to the sky
Where God may deign conspicuous to abide,
And o'er the Temples of our Hearts preside z
Say. what avails it, tho? our arms o'erthrew

The rebel race, and quell'd the earth · born crew,

If yet the Son of God, ordain'd to come
Sin to abolish, and reverse our doom,

| Shall, heav'n descended, find no human breast

Adorn'd, and furnifh'd for its heav'oly guest? .
Quick then, ye Sons of God, ye virtuous race,
Proceed to cultivate the works of Peace z
No longer in the tented field appear.

: Poising the shicld, and brandishing the spear *

Of some rich * Fane project the grand design,
Of Peace a monument, for God a shrine. =

Here FAITH her pious exhortation ends,
And, with her Sifer, from the tow'r descends,
Studious by Line to measure ey'ry part,
Confin'd, and govern'd by the rules of art,
Four Fronts with curious symmetry to frame,
That no odd angle shou'd the ftrufture maim:
Three gates are set to catch the morning ray,
Three to the breezes from the western sea;
Three: more are beaten by the northern cold,
And three a southern situation hold:
Not of rude stone, which fossile earth supplies,
The specious portals of each quarter rise;
But folid gems, transpierc'd with artful skill,
The stately arch of ey'ry portal fill;

* The Plan of this Temple is taken from the Description of the \ | New Jerusalem in the 21st Chapter of St. Jobs Revelations. |

In ductile gold, from twelve compartments,

Three to a front, each apo/folick name:

By which the Spirit teaches us to find

A trinal passage to the human mind;

Shews by what channels, by what secret art,

It gains the inmost altar of the heart,

And prompts to pious vows, in ev'ry stage,

Throꝰ the Four seasons of revolving age:

Whether the heat of life, as morning mild,

Warms, with its gentle influence, the child;

Or else, in Tourh's hot veins, it burne and fires

| The soul to fierce, inordinate defires;

Or when, in Man, it temp'rate and sedate,

Mellows the fruits of life with autumn-heat ;
Or when, in Ape, it shoots a feeble ray,

Cold as the North, and scarce affords us day:

At ev'ry front a trinal Pow'r we find, |

Guarding the posts their soy*reign Lord aslign'd,
Three beauteous s pecies of transparent stone

; Each front compos'd, and, in their orders, shone;

From lucid surfaces dart copious rays | ot vivid colours, i in 2 mingled blaze: In one che Chrysolite, with clouded veins | Of sparkling gold, the midgle station gains; And, in fit union with its languid beams, Conjoins the BeryPs, and the Sophire s flames. In this Chalcedons, with their native gloom, Full light from neighbouring Hyatinths assume; | Or, hid with art in splendor not their own, Refled che azure of che Tur quois stone. In that the sanguine Amethyst is laid, | To tinge the Sardonys a watry red; ö And e Faspers, to that quarter born, : Diffuse their splendor, and the whole adorn. E Fair, i in the fourth, the Emerald is ,

_ Vying with nature in a vernal green;

; From ev'ry. point a fylyan splendor fireams, A lucid verdure, and cærulean beams.

| There too, O Chrysoprass, you hold a place,

: Another 3 the shining work to grace; Os.

Stands on sev'n columns of the crystal kind; a O'er which is laid, of one pellueid stone,

A curious capital, i in form a cone 5

Along the base are sinuous Autings wrought,

But rough, and branchy ; of a rustick hue;

And fast by thee, the Topazes unite
A golden lustre, and refreshing light.

The cordage ks as the lab'ring wheels *
The pond'rous' masses of the gems they bats, |
The inmost shrine, for #5, dew'sthronedefigrds

With softest touch, and elegance of thoughts ' *

The same the pearl, which. Fart so high did

And cheaply purchas'd with her whole estate, _
There heav*n-born WisDOM constantly *

And there all national concerns decides,

EnaQts new laws, and publishes a plan

To form, and regulate the life of man:

A sylvan scepter in her hand she bears,

And. tho no sap the sever'd root supplies,
Its verdure fades not, nor the blossom dies :
The show-white lilly, and the russet rose
A twining foliage round the trunk dispose ; 3

All fresh and gay, as in their earthy: beds

They never droop, they never hang their heads.
Such once, of old, in A*RON's hand was seen

For ever blooming in a vernal green B

Still round the arid, unprolifick wood

Unfading leaves; and rural beautics stood. =

Tndulgent Lord ! who didst, in mercy, deign

To aid the poet, and supply the strain,

To thee our thanks we pay in vocal lays,

For vice untunes the heart for #lent praise.

By thee assisted bravely we represt

Th' infidious thoughts, that harbour'd in the breast;

By thee enlight'ned clearly we beheld ® _

The dreadful combats of the carnal field ; 3

da doubtful Fortune hov'ring oer che beart,

| Now take the _ and then che better part, |

= Now sway to Nice, anon to Virtue bend, Now save, now damn, and to perdition send, © Ofc have Ifelt the influence of the God,

When in my foul he fix'd his fair aboe
Did strength to ev*ry faculty impart,

And drive the crowd of rebels from my heart,

But soon these glitt'ring scenes of joy wereo'er,

And vice, and darkness triumph as before;
Wars, horrid wars within my bosom rage, |

And man's ?wo natures furiously engage;

The carnal /rame endeavours to retain

The etherial spirit in e miry chain; The spirit, active as the solar ray, Repels th oppressor, and aspires to day: £ Thus darbness jars incessantly 1 with 260

And Beil natures animatę the sight;

| in Ves great Lord appears on Virtue's

| And ev'ry Virtue is enthron'd i in peace:

| Then quick those tumults of the soul subside; \ 4 No noise igtheard ; all earthly quarr 17 ease, *