T800.] 
PEACE AND SHEPHERD,» 
Low in a deep fequefter’d vale, 
Whence Alpine heights afcend, 
A beauteous nymph, in pilgrim garb, 
Is feen her fteps to bend. 
Her olive garland drops with gore ; 
Her fcatter’d treffes torn, 
Her bleeding breaft, her bruifed feet 
~ Belpeak a maid forlorn. 
¢6 From bower, and hall, and palace driven 
To thefe lone wilds 1 flee, a8 
My name is Peace, 1 love the cot; 
O thepherd, fhelter me!” , - 
 €6 O beauteous pilgrim, why doft thow 
From bower and palace flee ? 
So foft thy voice, fo fweet thy look, 
Sure all would fhelter thee.” 
€¢ Like Noah’s dove no reft I find; 
' The din of battle roars 
Where once my fteps I lovd to print 
Along the myrtle fhores. 
For ever in my frighted ears 
The favage war-whoop founds 5 
And, like a panting hare, I fly 
Before the op’ning hounds.” 
<¢ Pilgrim, thofe fpiry groves among 
The manfions thou may’ft fee, 
‘Where cloiftered faints chaunt holy hymns, 
Sure fuch would thelter thee *”” 
Literary and Philfophical Intelligence. 
- © Thofe roofs with trophied banners 
There martial hymns refound; [{tream, 
And, thepherd, oft from crofier’d hands 
This breaft has felt a wound.” © 
‘¢ Ah! gentle Pilgrim, glad would f 
Thofe tones for ever hear ! 
With thee to fhare my fcanty lot, 
That lot to me were dear. 
' § But lo, along the vine-clad fteep, 7% 
‘The gleam of armour fhines ; 
His fcatter’d flock, his ftraw-roof’d hut 
The helplefs {wain refigns. 
¢¢ And now the fmouldering flames 
= Their lurid light I fee ; [afpire 5 
{ hear the human wolves approach; 
I cannot fhelter thee.” 
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INSCRIPTION DESIGNED FOR A VILLAG# 
SPRING. 
C ALM is the tenor of my way, 
Not hurried on with furious hafte, 
Nor rais’d aloft in proud difplay : 
Pure too the tribute of my urn, 
With conftant flow, not idle wafte, 
Offering to him who fends the rain i 
By ferving Man the beft return. 
A courfe like mine, thy trial o’er, 
Thofe living waters will attain, 
Which he who drinks fhall thirft no more, 


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