Quicquid negârit vel Tua fapientia,

Vel caritas indulferit ;

Hoc ne datum levem excitet fuperbiam,

Illud negatum murmura.

Aliena fac ut ufque defleam mala,

Aliena peccata ut tegam;

Quamque ipfe cæteris adhibuerim, mihi

Redhibeto mifericordiam.

Vilis licet fim, non tamen viliffimus,

Cùm fpiritus me alat Tuus:

Greffus meos, five hora detur longior,

Sive ultima adfit, O regas!

This day be bread and peace my lot;

All elfe beneath the fun

Thou know'st if best bestow'd, or not;

And let thy will be done.

To Thee, whofe temple is all space,
Whose altar earth, fea, skies;

One chorus let all beings raise,

All nature's incenfe rife!

POPE.

Panem mihi pacemque lux hæc afferat;

De cæteris fecurior,

Permitto Tibi quid conveniat expendere,

Tua ut voluntas deftinet.

Te, SUMME, cui templum omnis æther quà patet,

Cui terra mareque ara, et polus;

Quo pollet ore quifque certatim canat,

Natura cuncta concinat!

HORAT. OD. 3. lib. 1.

Sic te Diva potens Cypri,

Sic fratres Helena, lucida fidera, Ventorumque regat pater, Obftrictis aliis præter Japyga; Navis, quæ tibi creditum

Debes Virgilium, finibus Atticis Reddas incolumem precor,

Et ferves animæ dimidium meæ. Illi robur et æs triplex

Circa pectus erat, qui fragilem truci Commifit pelago ratem

Primus, nec timuit præcipitem Africum Decertantem Aquilonibus,

Nec triftes Hyadas, nec rabiem Noti: Quo non arbiter Adria

Major, tollere ceu ponere vult freta.
Quem mortis timuit gradum,

Qui ficcis oculis monftra natantia,
Qui vidit mare turgidum, et
Infames fcopulos Acroceraunia?
Nequicquam DEUS abfcidit

Prudens Oceano diffociabili

TO THE POST-CHARIOT OF A FRIEND,

GOING ABROAD.

O MAY Auriga's lucid star,

*

Direct thee, Chariot, on thy way;
Whose whirling wheels from England far
To fouthern climes my friend convey:
And may no fhock his ease invade

From fnapping fpring, or linch-pin loft;
No crack, fave those by poft-boys made,
Till Bernard's ice-crown'd cliff be croft.

Steel were his nerves, his finews brass,
Who first with vaulting footstep rose
Sublime; and from the virgin-pafs
Look'd down upon eternal fnows:
Who, by the raving ftorm unscared,
'Mid Alpine precipices strode ;
The thundering mass unflinching heard,
And dauntless traced the defperate road.

In vain, to chariot-wheels denied,

The crags their glittering horrours raise;

* A confiderable ftar in this conftellation, called Capella, is defigned (one would fuppofe) for the guidance of thofe, who traverse mountains chiefly known to the goat.