BOOK.] Chace, 22 j 



Whether by nature form'd, or by long ufe. 

 This artful diver beft can bear the want 

 Of viral air. Unequal is the fight 

 Beneath the whelming element. Yet there 

 He lives not long •, but relpiration needs 

 At proper intervals. Again he vents ; 

 Again the crowd attack. That fpear has pierc*d 

 His neck ; the crimfon waves confefs the wound. 

 Fix'd is the bearded lance, unwelcome gueft 

 Where-e'er he flies; with him it finks beneath. 

 With him it mounts j fure guide to ev'ry foe. 

 Inly he groans, nor can his tender woun.i 

 Bear the cold ftream. Lo ! to yon ledgv bank 

 He creeps difconfolate ; his num'rous foes 

 Surround him, hounds,and men. PiercM thro'and thro*. 

 On pointed fpears they lift him high in air ; 

 Wriggling he hangs, and grins, and bites in vain ; 

 Bid the loud horns, in gaily-warbling ftrains. 

 Proclaim the felon's fate ; he dies, he dies. 



Rejoice, ye fcaly tribes, and leaping dance 

 Above the wave, in (Ign of liberty 

 Reflor'd ; the cruel ryrant is no more. 

 Rejoyce fecure and blefs'd ; did not as yet 

 Remain fome of your own rapacious kind •, 

 And man, fierce man, with all bis various wiles. 



O happy! if ye knew your happy (late, 

 Ye rangers of the fields ; whom nature boon 

 Chears with her fmiles, and ev'ry elea;ent 

 Confpires to blefs. What, if no heroes frown 



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