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      No pause , na rest , in all the world appears , Ev ' n live-long patriarchs waste their thousand years . If Babel ' s tower no more with heaven contends , In spiry heights a Nineveh ascends :

      Seein their sires each future nation stray , And or desert , or meet the morning" ray \ Or visjt Lybia ' s sands , or Scytnia ' s snows , And brethren scatter that must soon be foes ; See other kings hold other crowds in chains I

      And Niinrod but the first of monarchs reigns . These suns behold a Cyrus lord of all ; These view young Ammon triumph o ' er the bail : Now kaughty'itoine in martial rigor fro wns , And bears down powerful states , jand treads

      , on crowns ; Bids mighty cities in a flame expire , ^ or dreams of Vandal rage and Gothic fire . Mankind and theirs possess one common thrall ; And , like the gods that sway them , empires fall .

      Some period void of science and of fame , Scarce e ' er exist , or leave behind a name ; Mere sluggish rounds to let succession climb j Obscure and idle expletives of tkne . Loj earth smiles wide , and radiant heaven looks down , All fair , all gay , and urgent to be known Attend , and here are so ^ n delights

      im-- mense , For ev ' ry intellect and ev ' ry sense , Witfo adoration think , with rapture gaze , And hear all nature chaunt her Maker ' s praise .

      With reason stor ed , by love of knowledge iir'd , By dread , awaken'd , and by hope inspir ed , Can we , the product of another ^ hand , No *; whence , uor how , nor why we are , demand ?

      And , not at all , or not aright , employ ed , Behold a length of years , and all a void ? Happy , thrice happy hei whose conscious heart Inquires his purpose , and discerns his part ; Who runs with heed th' involuntary race , Nor lets his lrours reproach him as they

      pass ; Weighs how they steal away , how sure , how fast , And , as he weighs them ^ apprehends the last : Or vacant , or engag ed , our minutes fly ; We may be negligent , but we must die . N ii ^ fc

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      25 £ Poetry .

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      Vienna and Elba—or a New Bond Game . Fools indeed drop the man in their account . And vote the mantle into majesty . Young . Castlereagh of a dukedom dreams , Monarchs and ladies dance - Napoleon matures his schemes , And , lo I he lands in France .

      Strange news !—a courier brought it— - Fro ? n Elba saiPd away f What king or emperor thought it ? Alack ! and well- » -day ! Ye who have heard the tale , Determine , if ye please y To guess ye cannot fail , "Who ' s fox and who are geese * . BREVIS

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      ^—^ ™ The Briton and the Greek . On the Duke of Wellington being a Party to the hasty Declaration at Vienna .

      Duke Wellington , inscribed the first of men , Oa the bright roll of Britain ^ mart ia l story , In luckless hour , the diplomatic pen He seizM , and tarnishM all a soldier ' s glory .

      Not thus the Grecian , fam'd thro ev ry U » .. O ' er Macedonian Philip would prevail ; He scorn'd an idle war of words to wa ? c , > r Tivas his to jight the foe , and not to rail

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      Annus Mirabilis . Mild Louis , still a king in story , Distinguish'd by his transient g lory ; So late for Gallia crossM the main . There to commence his ten months re } h r Yet , wondrous , his decrees appear , At Paris , in our twentieth ^/ beH j&

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      Look before y < m leap . Vis ^ conMii eocpers mole ruit $ ua . *—• Hob . VansHta * t , Stuart , Liverpool , $ « ntj sinner , and a lord ,

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      Would they persuade tbee , dear John Bnttt To rush upon thy sword ? ' Forbear , such suicide to choose Nor bless them for their laboftr * .

      See G alii a , wiser wow , refuse ., To quarrel trith her neighbours And who the fiction will advance To have his sense aftronted , That by the citizens of JFVance , A Bourbon still is wanted

      No , from his slippery height steppM dowa Louis with power may part well * And , rich in jewels of the crown , ' Eat , drink , and sleep , at Hartwell OTIOSUS .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1815, page 252, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1759/page/52/