’ , | POETRY. 
THOUGHTS SUGGESTED B¥ READING, 
LINES ADDED By Mr Hastines to Mukie’s Lusrab. 
For the Bee. 
Tw the tenth book of the Lusiad of Camoens, the goddefs predicts to 
Gama the future conquest of the Portuguese in India. After detailing 
the heroic actions of Pacheco, fhe laments his fate in the following 
pafsage, to which Mr Hastings, continuing the predictions to his own 
times, added the succeeding lines, whieh are distinguifhed by inver- 
ted commas. The additional thoughts are marked with single com - 
mas. 
The lofty song, for palenefs o’er herspread, 
The nymph suspends, and bows the languid head ; 
Her faultering words are breath’d in plaintive sighs. 
Ah! Belisarius! injured chief, fhe cries, 
Ah! wipe thy tears ;—in war thy rival see, 
Godlike Pacheco falls despoiled like, thee ; 
In him, in thee, difhonoured virtue bleeds, 
And valour weeps to view her fairest deeds : 
Weeps o'er Pacheco where forelorn he lies, 
Deep in the dungeon’s gloom, and friendlefs dies, 
** Yet fhrink not, gallant Lusian, nor repine 
“* That man’s eternal destiny is thine! 
** Where’er succefs th’ adventrous chief befriends, 
** Fell malice on his parting step attends; 
* On Britain’s candidates for fame await, 
** As now on thee, the stern decrees oi fate. 
“Thus are ambition’s fondest hopes o’erreach’d ; 
“ One dies imprison’d,—and one lives impeach’d.” 
* And, let ambition’s hopes be thus repaid, 
« * Tic kind philanthropist indignant said. 
* Ambition! cursed pest of human kind, 
* Whose cruel vot’ries, impotent and blind, 
* Still hope, through guilt, tranquillity to gain ; 
* Butin its stead find only grief and pain. 
* Vaily they try their guilty heads to hide 
* Amid the dazzling glare oi pomp and pride ; 
* Stern nature still aiserts her sov’reign sway, 
. “ Nor dare they her dread pow’r to disobey. 
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