The scatter'd gleanings of a feaft My frugal meals fupply: But if thine unrelenting heart That flender boon deny, The chearful light, the vital air, The well-taught philofophick mind Cafts round the world an equal eye, If mind, as ancient fages taught, Still fhifts thro' matter's varying forms, Beware, left, in the worm you crush, A brother's foul you find; Diflodge a kindred mind. Or, if this tranfient gleam of day So may thy hofpitable board With health and peace be crown'd; And every charm of heart-felt ease, Beneath thy roof be found. So, So, when deftruction lurks unseen, And break the hidden fnare. THE INDIAN PHILOSOPHER. 'WH BY DR. WATTS. HY fhould our joys transform to pain? A plague of iron prove? • Good Gods! 'tis ftrange, the chain that binds Millions of hands, fhould leave their minds At fuch a loose from love !' In vain I fought the wond'rous cause; Till deep in thought, within my breast Thrice he conjur'd the murm'ring stream; He fang th' eternal rolling flame; That vital mafs that's ftill the fame, Does all our minds compose: Whence fhap'd in twice ten thousand frames, The mighty Pow'r that form'd the mind, • Then blefs'd the new-born pair: ROM lofty themes, from thoughts that foar'd on high, FR And open'd wond'rous scenes above the sky, My Mufe, defcend! indulge my fond defire; Hear, ye fair daughters of this happy land! With elegance of outward form are join'd; When youth makes fuch bright objects still more bright, 'Tis all of heav'n that we below may view, And all but adoration is your due. Fam'd female virtue did this ifle adorn Ere Ormond, or her glorious queen, was born: When now Maria's pow'rful arms prevail'd, But how will Guilford, her far dearer part, At length, with troubled thought, but look ferene, • Grieve not, my Lord; a crown indeed is loft! A fruitlefs forrow for a lofs fo vain. Nothing is lofs, that virtue can improve To wealth eternal, and return above; Above, where no diftinction fhall be known "Twixt him whom ftorms have fhaken from a throne, • And him who, basking in the fmiles of Fate, Shone forth in all the splendour of the great: Nor can I find the diff'rence here below; I lately was a queen-I ftill am fo, • While |