-"What though not all 



Of mortal offspring can attain the heights 

 Of envied life ; though only few possess 

 Patrician treasures, or imperial state; 

 Yet Nature's care — to all her children just — 

 With richer treasures, and an ampler state, 

 Endows at large whatever happy man 

 Will deign to use them." ***** 



"For him the spring 

 Distils her dews, and from the silken gem 

 Its lucid leaves unfolds; for him the hand 

 Of autumn tinges every fertile branch 

 With blooming gold, and blushes like the morn." 

 • **♦*«< Thus the men 

 Whom Nature's works can eharm, with God himself 

 Hold converse ; grow familiar, day by day. 

 With his conceptions; act upon his plan; 

 And form to his the relish of their souls. "— Akmside, 



