But not th' endearing springs that fondly move To filial duty, or parental love; Not all the ties that kindred bosoms bind, Nor all in friendship's holy wreaths entwin'd, The gen'rous workings of the patriot soul, These ties, that bids him for his country fall. Guide through the walks of death alone her car, She ne'er disdains the gentle vale of Peace, Or olive shades of philosophic ease, More pleas'd on Isis' silent marge to roam, To read, with Newton's ken, the starry sky, Build the nice structure of the gen'rous Law, CHRISTOPHER BUTSON, NEW COLLEGE. BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF INOCULATION. quibus hunc lenire dolorem Possis, et magnam Morbi deponere partem. LONG had bewail'd Arabia's hapless swains Their groves deserted, and uncultur'd plains: Those happy, plains where Nature ever gay Proclaim'd the presence of perpetual May, Where, in her choicest treasures bright array'd, Luxuriant Nature ev'ry charm display'd, With giant strides a ghastly Plaguea o'erspread, a Small Pox. And breath'd destruction on each fated head; Thence sprang the Fiend, and scourg'd th' afflicted earth: Fiend fierce as this ne'er saw astonish'd time Creep from old Nilus' monster-teeming slime; Check'd in mid pray'r, the pious pilgrim fell; |