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Moments, when the invincible Force of 

 Truth prevails, ready to fay, 



cruel Fate ! whofe unrekntivg Povp'r 

 Gives Man his fatal Stroke 5 but then the Hour 

 To him uncertain is 5 here let me mufing be^ 

 With Mind unfpotted^ and from Mijchieffree. 

 From thefe hlejl Shades in Triumph let me fiy^ 

 And learn to live in Heavn before I die. 

 Til 'welcome Veath^ nor fear his gloomy End-^ 

 But daily die^ and learn my State to mend. 

 Tet^ oh! dear Shades^ hovp from you fi all I part .<? 

 ^Tisyou^veengrofs^dthe Treafures of my Heart : 

 In you Vve learnt vohafs the [upremejl Good^ 

 And Heav*n Vve found ^ amidjl afilent Wood : 

 Their voe vievo l^ature in her gay Attire 3 

 And there its Author voe with joy admire. 

 When firji great Fhto did the JVorld pojjefs 

 With a true Tajle of its own Happinefs^ 

 In thefe exterior Scenes aright he placd 

 His beauteous Thoughts^ and them he a Ifo graced . 

 With elevated Vievps to Heav'n above. 

 And fix* d his Footfieps in a pie af ant Grove. 

 Great Epicurus could not cure his Mind 

 Without thofe Pleafures. Tully could not find 

 A Place more fuiting to his learned Themes, 

 Than thefrveet Beauties of thefe Isem^rcus Scenes. 

 Virgil and Horace fill the pleafing Luie^ 

 One in his Writiiigs, f other his Sabine, 

 But both their Songs in this were full fublime. 

 Here let me no"^ my for?ner IVip renexv^ 

 And as Tve liv'd, Jo kt me die in you. 



But, 



