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Pil'd on the steep, her blazing faggots burn

To hail the bark that never can return;

And ftill fhe waits, but fcarce forbears to weep
That conftant love can linger on the deep.

And, mark the wretch, whose wand'rings never knew The world's regard, that foothes, though half untrue, 296

Whofe erring heart the lash of forrow bore,

But found not pity when it err'd no more.

Yon friendlefs man, at whofe dejected eye

Th' unfeeling proud one looks—and paffes by ;
Condemn'd on Penury's barren path to roam,
Scorn'd by the world, and left without a home-
Ev'n he, at evening, fhould he chance to ftray,
Down by the hamlet's hawthorn-fcented way,

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Leans oer its humble.
le gate, & thinks the while_

Oh that for me some home like this would smile,
Some hamlet shade, to yield my sickly form,

Health in the breeze, & shelter in the storm.

Published as the Act directs by Longman & Rees, London, 1 July 1800.

Where, round the cot's romantic glade, are seen
The bloffom'd bean-field, and the floping green,
Leans o'er its humble gate, and thinks the while-
Oh! that for me fome home like this would fmile,
Some hamlet fhade, to yield my fickly form,

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Health in the breeze, and fhelter in the ftorm;
There should my hand no ftinted boon affign

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To wretched hearts with forrows fuch as mine

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wifh can foothe unpitied care,

And Hope half mingles with the poor man's pray'r..

Hope! when I mourn, with fympathifing mind, 315

The wrongs of fate, the woes of human kind,

Thy blifsful omens bid my spirit fee

The boundless fields of rapture yet to be;

I watch the wheels of Nature's mazy plan,

And learn the future by the past of man.

Come, bright Improvement! on the car of Time,
And rule the spacious world from clime to clime;
Thy handmaid arts fhall every wild explore,
Trace every wave, and culture every fhore.

On Erie's banks, where tygers fteal along,
And the dread Indian chants a difmal song,
Where human fiends on midnight errands walk,
And bathe in brains the murd'rous tomahawk;
There fhall the flocks on thymy pafture stray,
And fhepherds dance at Summer's op'ning day;
Each wand'ring genius of the lonely glen

Shall start to view the glittering haunts of men ;

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