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For what remains, long habitude, and use,
Will kindness in domestic bands produce:
For custom will a ftrong impreffion leave.
Hard bodies, which the lighteft ftroke receive,
In length of time, will moulder and decay,
And ftones with drops of rain are wash'd away.

VOL. II.

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From the FIFTH BOOK of

LUCRETIU S.

Tum porrò puer, &c.

HUS, like a failor by a tempest hurl'd

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Afhore, the babe is shipwreck'd on the world:

Naked he lies, and ready to expire;

Helpless of all that human wants require;
Expos'd upon unhospitable earth,

From the first moment of his hapless birth.
Straight with foreboding cries he fills the room;
Too true prefages of his future doom.
But flocks and herds, and every favage beast,
By more indulgent nature are increas'd.
They want no rattles for their froward mood,
Nor nurse to reconcile them to their food,
With broken words; nor winter blasts they fear,
Nor change their habits with the changing year:
Nor, for their fafety, citadels prepare,

Nor forge the wicked inftruments of war:
Unlabour'd earth her bounteous treasure grants,

And Nature's lavish hand fupplies their common wants.

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Inscribed to the Earl of Roscommon, on his intended
Voyage to Ireland.

O may th' auspicious queen of love,
And the twin stars the feed of Jove,

And he who rules the raging wind,
To thee, O facred fhip, be kind;
And gentle breezes fill thy fails,
Supplying foft Etefian gales:

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