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Love only in theit sted took up its 'rest, 
Nature made that thy constant guest, 
And seem’d to form no other passion for thy 
breast. 
This made thy courtesy to all extend, _ 
And thee to the whole universe friend; 
The strangers to thy native soil and thee, 
No strangers to thy love could be: 
‘Whose bounds were wide-as all mortality; 
Thy heart no island was disjoin’d, 
Like thy own nation, from all human kind ; 
But "twas a continent to other cvuuntries 
BEC 
As firm by. love, as they. by earth annext ; = 
Thou scorn’st the map should thy affections 
guide, 
Like theirs who love by dull geography, 
_ Friends to whom but by soil they-are allied : 
Thine reach to allbeside, _ 
To evry member of the world’s.great family 5 
Heaven's kindness only claims a name more 
general, 
\ | Which we the nobler call, 
Whiclt walks’ not earth alone, but is vouch. 
safed to all, 
Theu scem’st corrupted with the very power to 
please ; 
Only to let thee gratify, 
Would bribe and pay thy courtesy 5 : 
Thy kindness by acceptance might be boughr, 
It for no other wages sought ; 
No suitors went-unsatisfied away, 
But left thee more unsatisfied than they; 
Brave Titus! here thy portrait find, 
and view thy rival in a private mind: 
Twas heretofore thy praise, 
By acts of goodsess'to compute thy days, 
Not measur’d by the sun’s -but thy own 
kinder rays 5 
To think each hour out of life’s journal lost, 
Which could not some fresh Sober boast, 
And reckon bounties thy best clepsydras. 
Yet to the happy might this goodness most 
acctue ; 
Somewhat was to the miserable due 5 
‘Thou could’st afhictions from another’s*breast 
translate, 
‘ And foreign grief impropriate$ | 
Whate’er mishap did-a known heart oppress, 
The same did thine as-wretehed make ; 
Like yieiding wax, pole sdid th’ impression 
take, 
And wore its sadness in as lively dress; 
A small misfortune <arce covld reach thy 
ear, 
But made thee give in alms a tears 
Aud when our hearts breath’d their regret in 
sighs, 
Thine with their sinphatal airs would sym- 
pathize, ; 
Throngs of like widiss from its fine fibres 
croud. 
And tel! thy grief for our each ftiefaloud ; 
Such is the secretsweet conspiracy, 
We may between two neighbour-lutes descry; 
If either by unskilful hand. too. rudely bent, 
Its soft complaint in pensive muxmers vent, 
Original Poetry. | 
{March 1, 
‘Untoucht the other's string returns the moany 
And gives an echo to each groan. 
‘bet female frailty in fond tears distil, 
Who think that moisture which they ‘spill 
Can yield relief, 
And shrink the current of another’s: grief 5 
Who hope that’ breath which they in sighs 
convey, — ioe 
Should blow calamities away 3 
Thine did a manlier form express, 
‘And scorn’d to whine at an unhappiness 5 ~ 
Thou thought’st it still the noblest pity to 
redress } 
So friendly angels their relief bestow 
On the unfortunate below : ; 
Such nature in that generous plant’i is fecha, 
Whose every breach. with sea — 
abound 5 
And wounds itself to cure another’s Wanna 
Nor didst thou to thy» foes less ears 
appear, . 
If any durst that title wear; 
They could not offer wrongs so fant 
But what were pardon’d with like haste, _ 
And by thy acts of amnesty defae’d ; 
Had he who wisht the art how to forget, 
Discover'd its new worth in thee, 
He had‘a double value on it set, 
And scorn’d th’ ignobler art of memory : | 
Wo injuries could thee provoke, 
‘Thy softness always dampt the stroke, 
As flints on feather-beds are easiest broke. - 
Be it not thought these: godlike qualities 
Could stand in need of votaries 5 
Which heretofore had chalieng’d: sacvifies 
Each assignation, each converse, 
Gain’d thee some new idolaters ; ee 
Thy sweet obligingness could ade hate, 
And out of it its contrary create 5 
Tts powerful influence made quarrels cease: 
_ And feuds dissolv’d into a friendly peace 5 
Envy resign’d her .force, and mmcingian a 
Spite 
Became thy speedy proselytes. 
Malice could cherish enmity-no more § 
And those, who were thy foes before, 
Now wisht they might adore;. 
Conceive the tender care, 
“OF guardian angels to their charge assign ‘d, 
Or think how dear to heav’n expisiaay martyrs. 
are: 
These are the emblems of thy mind, 
The only types to show how thou wast Gl. 
So gentle was thy pilgrimage beneath, 
Time’s unheard feet scarce make less noises 
Or planets gliding in eternal poise; . 
Life seem’d as calm as its last breath ; 
A still tranquillity so husht thy breast, 
As if some halcyon were its guest, 
And there had built her downy nest 5 
As that unspotted sky, 
Where Nile does want of rain supply, 
Is free from clouds, from storm.is ever: free A 
As that smooth sea, 2 
Which wears the name of Paciat, i 
Still with one even face appears; ~ 
And feels no tides to heave it from its place, 
No waves to alter the fair. form it beara; _ 
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