Though patriots flatter, still shall wisdom find Still grants her bliss at Labour's earnest call; And though the rocky crested summits frown, Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails; And honour sinks where commerce long prevails. Hence every state to one lov'd blessing prone, Conforms and models life to that alone. Each to the fav'rite happiness attends, And spurns the plan that aims at other ends; Till carry'd to excess in each domain, This favʼrite good begets peculiar pain. But let us try these truths with closer eyes, That shades the steep, and sighs at every blast. Far to the right, where Appennine ascends, Bright as the summer, Italy extends s; Its uplands sloping deck the mountain's side, While oft some temple's mould'ring tops between Could Nature's bounty satisfy the breast, The sons of Italy were surely blest. Whatever fruits in different climes are found, That proudly rise, or humbly court the ground; Whose bright succession decks the vary'd year; + Stothard del. W.Taylor sculp THE TRAVELLER Here let me sit in sorrow for. Mankind. London: Published March 1.1797, by T.Heptinstall Fleet Street. Page.14. While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand, But small the bliss that sense alone bestows- In florid beauty groves Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted faults through all his manners reign; Though poor, luxurious; though submissive, vain ; Though grave, yet trifling; zealous, yet untrue; And ev'n in penance planning sins anew. All evils here contaminate the mind, That opulence departed leaves behind; For wealth was theirs, not far remov❜d the date, gave, But towns unmann'd, and lords without a slave ; |