To feel, and courage to redrefs her wrongs; To monarchs dignity; to judges sense; To me an unambitious mind, content In the low vale of life, that early felt ARGUMENT OF THE FIFTH BOOK. A frosty morning.-The foddering of cattle.-The woodman and his dog.—The poultry.—Whimsical effects of froft at a waterfall.-The Empress of Ruffia's palace of ice.-Amusements of monarchs.-War, one of them. -Wars, whence-And whence monarchy.-The evils of it.-English and French loyalty contrafted.-The Baftille, and a prifoner there.-Liberty the chief recommendation of this country.-Modern patriotifm queftionable, and why.-The perishable nature of the best buman inftitutions.-Spiritual liberty not perishable.— The flavish state of man by nature.-Deliver him, Deift, if you can.-Grace must do it.-The refpective merits of patriots and martyrs ftated.-Their different treatment.-Happy freedom of the man whom grace makes free.-His relish of the works of God.-Addrefs to the Creator. THE TAS K. BOOK V. THE WINTER MORNING WALK. 'Tis morning; and the sun, with ruddy orb Afcending, fires th' horizon; while the clouds, That crowd away before the driving wind, More ardent as the difk emerges more, Resemble most some city in a blaze, Seen through the leaflefs wood. His flanting ray Slides ineffectual down the fnowy vale, And, tinging all with his own rofy hue, From ev'ry herb and ev'ry spiry blade In fpite of gravity, and fage remark That I myself am but a fleeting fhade, Provokes me to a fmile. With eye afkance |