Some weep to share the fame of the deceas'd, They dwell on praises, which they think they share. Some mourn in proof that something they could love. They weep not to relieve their grief, but show. YOUNG. TENTS. (Of an Army, their Effect) Whose are the gilded tents that crowd the way, Where all was waste and silent yesterday ? This city of war which, in a few short hours, Hath sprung up here, as if the magic powers Of Him who, in the twinkling of a star, Built the high pillar'd halls of Chilminar, Had conjur'd up, far as the eye can see, This world of tents and domes and sun-bright armory!. But yester eve, so motionless around So mute was this wide plain, that not a sound Hunting among the thickets, could be heard; The neigh of cavalry-the tinkling throngs War-music, bursting out from time to time TEVIOT. Sweet Teviot! on thy silver tide, The glaring bale-fires blaze no more; As if thy waves, since time was born, MOORE. Which, though it change in ceaseless flow, Is stained with past and present tears. THAMES. And thy stream, O Thames, SCOTT. Large, gentle, deep, majestic, king of floods! The boat, light-skimming, stretch'd its oary wings; From bank to bank increas'd; whence ribb'd with oak, To bear the British thunder, black, and bold, THAMES. THOMSON. My eye, descending from the hill, surveys Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream my theme! Tho' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull; THEOLOGY. DENHAM. (The World a System of) The world's a system of theology, Read by the greatest strangers to the schools, THINGS. (Little, great to Man) YOUNG. Say, should the philosophic mind disdain That good which makes each humbler bosom vain ? Let school-taught pride dissemble all it can, These little things are great to little man. THOUGHT. GOLDSMITH. (Its Difference from Reverie) Thought, to the man that never thinks, may seem As natural as when asleep to dream; But reveries (for human minds will act) Those flimsy webs, that break as soon as wrought, Nor yet the swarms, that occupy the brain, Where dreams of dress, intrigue, and pleasure reign: Nor such as useless conversation breeds, Or lust engenders, and indulgence feeds. Whence, and what are we? to what end ordain'd? COWPER. THOUGHTS. (To be well guarded) Who does the best his circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more. Our outward act, indeed, admits restraint; 'Tis not in things o'er thought to domineer ; Guard well thy thoughts; our thoughts are heard in heaven. On all-important time, thro' every age, Tho' much, and warm, the wise have urg'd; the man Is yet unborn who duly weighs an hour. "I've lost a day"-the prince who nobly cry'd, Had been an emperor without his crown. YOUNG. THOUGHT. (Painful, to be Avoided) But 'tis not thought (for still the soul's employ'd), 'Tis painful thinking, that corrodes our clay. All day the vacant eye without fatigue Strays o'er the heaven and earth; but long intent Just so the mind, with various thought amus'd, Love without hope, and hate without revenge, And spoil the lab'ring functions of their share. The strong built pedant, who, both night and day Feeds on the coarsest fare the schools bestow, THRESHER. ARMSTRONG. Between the upright shafts of whose tall elms COWPER. TIME (Fashionable way of Spending) 1 |