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Ev'n e'er the Planter's life has paft its prime, 



Will Albion's garden frown an Indian wild. 340 



Forboding Fears avaunt ! be ours to urge 

 Each prefent purpofe by what favoring means 

 May work its end defign'd. Why deprecate 

 The change that waits on fublunary things, 

 Sad lot of their exiftence ? fhall we paufe 345 



To give the charm of Water to our fcene, 

 Becaufe the congregated rains may fwell 

 Its tide into a flood ? becaufe yon Sun 

 Now mounts the Lion - y to his burning noon 

 Impells him j fhaking from his fiery mane 3 50 



A heat may parch its channel; O, ye caves, 

 Deepen your dripping roofs ! this feverifh hour * 

 Claims all your coolnefs. In your humid cells 

 Permit me to forget the Planter's toil 3 



* Thefe lines were, written in June, 1778, when it wa remarkably hot 

 weather. 



And, 



