Falce novos creat affidue, pafcitque creatos,
Ah! modo dilectis pafcit nova gaudia mufcis.

Quartam Materies peperit conjuncta Stupori, Nomen Atheia illi, monftrum cui lumen ademptum, Atque aures; cui fenfus abeft; fed mille trifulcæ Qre micant linguæ, refugas quibus inficit auras. Hanc Stupor ipfe parens odit, vicina nefandos Horret fylva fonos, neque furda repercutit Echo. Mendacem natura redarguit ipfa, Deumque

Et cœlum, & terræ, veraciaque Afra fatentur.
Se fimul agglomerans furgit chorus omnis aquarum,
Et puro fublimè fonat grave fulmen olympo.

Fonte ortus Lethæo, ipfius ad oftia templi,
Ire foporifero tendit cum murmure rivus,
Huc potum Stolidos Deus evocat agmine magno:
Crebri adfunt, largifque fitim reftinguere gaudent
Hauftibus, atque iterant calices, certantque ftupendo.
Me, me etiam, clamo, occurrens ;-fed vellicat aurem
Calliope, nocuafque vetat contingere lymphas.

Faft as they rife, fhe feeds with ample ftore

Of once rare flies, but now efteem'd no more.

The fourth dire fhape from mother Matter came, Dulness her fire, and Atheism her name;

In her no glimpfe of facred Senfe appears,
Depriv'd of eyes, and destitute of ears;
And yet she brandishes a thousand tongues,
And blafts the world with air-infecting lungs.
Curs'd by her fire, her very words are wounds,
No grove re-ecchoes the detefted founds.
Whate'er the speaks all nature proves a lye,
The earth, the heav'ns, the ftarry fpangled sky
Proclaim the wife, eternal Deity:

The congregated waves in mountains driven
Roar in grand chorus to the Lord of Heaven;
Thro' fkies ferene the glorious thunders roll,
Loudly pronounce the God, and shake the founding Pole.

A river, murmuring from Lethæan fource,
Full to the fane directs its fleepy courfe ;.
The Pow'r of Dulness, leaning on the brink,
Here calls the multitude of fools to crink.
Swarming they crowd to ftupify the skull,
With frequent cups contending to be dull.
Me, let me tafte the facred ftream, I cry'd,
With out-ftretch'd arm-the Mufe my boon deny'd,
And fav'd me from the fenfe-intoxicating tide.

SOLVI POTEST MECHANICE.

MOMUS, fcurra, procax superûm, quo tempore

Pallas

Exiluit cerebro Jovis, eft pro more jocatus
Nefcio quid ftultum de partu: excanduit irâ
Jupiter, afper, acerba tuens ; " et tu quoque, dixit,.
"Garrule, concipies, fætumq; ex ore profundes :"`
Haud mora, jamque fupinus in aulâ extenditur ingens.
Derifor; dubiâ velantur lumina nocte;

Stertit hians immane ;-e nafo Gallica clangunt
Claffica, Germaniq; fimul fermonis amaror:

Edita vix tandem eft monftrum l'olychafmia, proles.
Tanto digna parente, aviæq; fimillima Nocti.
Illa oculos tentat nequicquam aperire, veterno
Torpida, & horrendo vultum, distorta cachinno.
Emulus hanc Jovis afpiciens, qui fictile vulgus
Fecerat infelix, imitarier arte Prometheus
Audet-nec flammis opus eft cœleftibus: auræ
Tres Stygiæ flatus, nigræ tria pocula Lethes
Mifcet, & innuptæ fufpiria longa puellæ ;
His adipem fuis & guttur conjungit afelli,
Tenfaque cum gemitu fomnifque fequacibus ora..