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Poztvy . 439
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VERSES WRITTEN ON" A VISIT TO A FRIEND , INT ESSEX , IN" THE summer or J 798 * White-Hall ! not thou through Europe known ' When leagues are made or overthrown ; Who , with thy lVindham s ready pen , Hast killed off many a thousand men 5
When near to Pitt ^ from Fox afar . He erst let slip the dogs of war : No ! thee I hail to whom resort The gentle guests of Virtue ' s court , That never promise to beguile .
Nor hide revenge behind a smile * . Thee Hospitality awaits * To bid the welcome at thy gates : To consecrate thy verdant fields Domestic Peace her altar builds .
And lo ! her priest in yonder grove Tis Friendship , in the garb of love . Then why , from thee a hapless rover So pft condemned thy ardent lover , Say by what fate impelled , he runs To droop beneath meridian suns , Midst brick ^ built piles and smoky towers
Far from the shelter of thy bowers ! Ah me ! too surely I divine His fate is similar to mine ; Dull cares to mimic , or to feel , Till , nearer Fortune ' s giddy wheel . Some golden moment he improve , And fix the dame ' s capricious love .
Yet Sunday , fairest 01 the seven , Though sacred each alike to heav ' n . Invites us from the sordid throng To sage ' s prose or poet ' s song , To virtue ' s banquet , all divide , Where kindred minds delight to join * White-Hall ! now let thy votary share
Large draughts of thy delicious air ; And where , ground the sylvan scene Nature still ' . sports , unrivaU'd Queen ., Oft b | d her choristers import Such strains as mock the rules of art . Hush'd for a day the tedious hum Of Consols , Scrip and Omnium *
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Go fabling Greece , Alcides \ aunt again . His iron Mace ^ how wejik to Luther ' s Pen ! 1 GNOTUS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1811, page 489, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2419/page/41/
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