146 ORIGIN OF SOCIETY. CANTO iv. 



With fruits and foliage decks the barren waste, 



And brightens Life with sentiment and taste; 1QO 



Pleased o'er the level and the rule presides, 



The painter's brush, the sculptor's chissel guides, 



With ray ethereal lights the poet's fire, 



Tunes the rude pipe, or strings the heroic lyre : 



Charm'd round the nymph on frolic footsteps move 



The angelic forms of Beauty, Grace, and Love. 



" So dreams the Patriot, who indignant draws 

 The sword of vengeance in his Country's cause; 

 Bright for his brows unfading honours bloom, 

 Or kneeling Virgins weep around his tomb. 200 



So holy transports in the cloister's shade 

 Play round thy toilet, visionary maidl 

 Charm'd o'er thy bed celestial voices sing, 

 And Seraphs hover on enamour'd wing. 



" So HOWARD, MOIRA, BURDETT, sought the cells, 

 Where want, or woe, or guilt in darkness dwells; 



