Fell, ling'ring fell, a victim to despair;

And left the world to wretchedness and me. Pity the sorrows of a poor old man,

Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door ; Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span : Ob!give relief, and Heaven will bless your store.

SECTION III.

Unhappy close of life.
How shocking must thy summons be, O Death!
To bim that is at ease in his possessions !
Who counting on long years of pleasure here,
Is quite unfurnish'd for the world to come!
In that dread moment, how the frantic soul
Raves round the walls of her clay tenement;
Rups to each avenue, and shrieks for help ;
But shrieks in vain ! How wishfully she looks
On all she's leaving, now no longer hers!
A little longer; yet a little longer;
O might she stay to wash away her stains ;
And fit her for her passage! Mournful sight!
Her very eyes weep blood; and ev'ry groan
She heaves is big with horror. But the foe,
Like a staunch inurd'rer, steady to his purpose,
Pursues her close, thro' ev'ry lane of life ;
Nor misses once the track ; but presses on,
Till, forc'd at last to the tremendous verge,
At ooce she sinks to everlasting ruin.-R. BLAIR.

SECTION IV.

Elegy to pity.
Hail, lovely pow'r! whose bosom heaves the sigh,

When fancy paints the scene of deep distress i
Whose tears spontaneous crystallize the eye,

When rigid fate denies the pow'r to bless. Not all the sweets Arabia's gales convey

From flow'ry meals, can with that sight compare'; Not dew-drops glitt'ring in the morning ray,

Seem pear so beauteous as that falling tear. Devoid of fear, the fawns around thee play ;

Emblem of peace, the dove before thee fies; No blood-stain'd traces mark thy blameless way;

Beneatb tby feet oo hapless insect dies.

Come, lovely nymph, and range the mead with me,

To spring the partridge from the guileful foe ; From secret spares the struggling bird to free;

And stop the hand uprais'd to give the blow.
And when the air with heat meridian glows,

And nature droops beneath the conqu’ring gleam,
Let us, slow wand'ring where the current flows,
Save sinking flies that float along the stream,
Or turn to nobler, greater tasks thy care,

To me thy sympathetic gifts impart;
Teach me in friendship’s griefs to bear a share,

And justly boast the gen'rous feeling heart.
Teach me to sooth the helpless orphan’s grief ;

With timely aid the widow's woes assuage ; To mis’ry's moving cries to yield relief ;

And be the sure resource of drooping age. So when the genial spring of life shall fade,

And sinking nature own the dread decay, Some soul congenial then may lend its aid,

And gild the close of life's eventful day.

SECTION V.

Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk, during
his solitary abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez.
I am monarch of all I survey:

My right there is none to dispute ;
From the centre all round to the sea,

I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Oh solitude! where are the charms,

That sages have seen in thy face?
Better dwell in the midst of alarms,

Than reign in this horrible place.
I am out of humanity's reach,

I must finish my journey alone ;
Never hear the sweet music of speech;

I start at the sound of my own.
The beasts that roam over the plain,

My form with indifference see:
They are so unacquainted with man,

Their tameness is shocking to me.

Society, friendship, and love,

Divinely bestow'd upon man, Oh had I the wings of a dove,

How soon would I taste you again! My sorrows I then might assuage

In the ways of religion and truth Might learn from the wisdom of age,

And be cheer'd by the sallies of youth. Religion' what treasure untold .

Resides in that heavenly word!
More precious than silver or gold,

Or all that this earth can afford.
But the sound of the church-going bell

These vallies and rocks never heard ; Ne’er sigh'd at the sound of a knell,

Or smild when a sabhath appear'd. Ye winds that have made me your sport,

Convey to this desolate shore,
Some cordial endearing report

Of a land I shall visit no more.
My friends, do they now and then send

A wish or a thought after me?
O tell me 1 yet have a friend,

Though a friend I am never to see. How fleet is a glance of the mind !

Compar'd with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind,

And the swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land,

In a moment I seem to be there : But, alas ! recollection at hand

Soon hurries me back to despair. But the sea-fowl is gone to her nest,

The beast is laid down in his lair ; Even here is a season of rest,

And I to my cabin repair. There's mercy in every place;

And mercy-encouraging thought ! Gives even affliction a grace,

And reconciles man to his lot.-COWPER. SECTION VI.

Gratitude.
When all thy mercies, O my God!

My rising soul surveys,
Transported with the view, I'm lost

In wonder, love, and praise.
O how shall words, with equal warmth,

The gratitude declare,
That glows within my ravish'd heart?

But ihou canst read it there.
Thy providence my life sustain’d,

And all my wants redrest,
When in the silent womb I lay,

And hung upon the breast.
To all my weak complaints and cries,

Thy mercy lent an ear,
Ere yel my feeble thoughts had learn'd

To form themselves in pray’r.
Unnumber'd comforts to my soul

Thy tender care bestow'd, Before my infant heart conceiv'd

From whom those comforts flow'd.
When, in the slipp’ry paths of youth,

With heedless steps, I ran,
Thine arm, unseen, convey'd me safe,

And led me up to man.
Through hidden dangers, toils, and deaths,

It gently cleard my way; And through the pleasing snares of vice,

More to be fear'd than they. When worn with sickness, oft hast thou

With health renew'd my face ; And when in sins and sorrows sunk,

Reviv'd my soul with grace. Thy bounteous hand, with worldly bliss,

Has made my cup run o'er ;
And, in a kind and faithful friend,

Has doubled all my store.
Ten thousand thousand precious gifts

My daily thanks employ;

Nor is the least a cheerful heart

That tastes those gifts with joy.
Through ev'ry period of my life,

Thy goodness I'll pursue;
And, after death, in distant worlds,

The glorious theme renew.
When nature fails, and day and night

Divide thy works no more,
My ever-grateful heart, O Lord!

Thy mercy shall adore.
Through all eternity, to thee

A joyful song I'll raise,
For 0! eternity's too short
To utter all thy praise.--ADDISON.

SECTION VII,
A man perishing in the snowi from whence reflections are

raised on the miseries of life. As thus the snows arise ; and foul and fierce, All winter drives along the darken'd air; In his own loose-revolving field, the swain Disaster'd stands ; sees other hills aseend, Of unknown joyless brow i and other scenes, Of horrid prospect, shag the trackless plain; Nor finds the river, nor the forest, hid Beneath the formless wild ; but wanders on, From hill to dale, still more and more astray : Impatience fleuncing through the drifted heaps, Stung with the thoughts of home; the thoughts of home Rush on his nerves, and call their vigour forth In many a vain attempt. How sinks his soul ! What black despair, what bòrror fills his heart! When, for the dusky spot, which fancy feign'd His tufted cottage rising through the snow, He meets the roughness of the middle waste, Far from the track, and blest abode of man; While round him night resistless closes fast, And ev'ry tempest howling o'er bis head, Renders the savage wilderness more wild. Then throng the busy shapes into his mind, Of cover'd pite, unfathomably deep, A dire descent, beyond the pow'r of frost ! Of faithless bogs; of precipices huge,