Allan delin. Caldwall. Sculp 21.1778. Published as the Act directs by Murray N22 Fleet Street. London. ROWN'D with the fickle and the wheaten fheaf, Che AD TURIN, nodding o'er the yellow plain, Comes jovial on; the Doric reed once more, ONSLOW! the Mufe, ambitious of thy name, 15 Devolving Devolving thro' the maze of eloquence Tho' weak of power, yet strong in ardent will, To mix the patriot's with the poet's flame. WHEN the bright Virgin gives the beauteous days, And Libra weighs in equal fcales the year; 20 From heaven's high cope the fierce effulgence shook 25 Of parting Summer, a ferener blue, With golden light enlivened, wide invefts The happy world. Attemper'd funs arife, Sweet-beam'd, and fhedding oft thro' lucid clouds Rich, filent, deep, they ftand; for not a gale A calm of plenty! till the ruffled air Falls from its poife, and gives the breeze to blow. 35 Rent is the fleecy mantle of the sky; The clouds fly different; and the sudden fun By fits effulgent gilds th' illumin'd field, And And black by fits the fhadows fweep along. Unbounded toffing in a flood of corn. 40 THESE are thy bleffings, INDUSTRY! rough power! Whom labour ftill attends, and fweat, and pain; Yet the kind fource of every gentle art, 45 And all the soft civility of life : Raifer of human kind! by Nature cast, Still uncxerted, in th' unconfcious breaft, 50 55 60 Hail, rain, and fnow, and bitter-breathing froft: Then to the fhelter of the hut he fled; And the wild feafon, fordid, pin'd away. For home he had not; home is the resort Of love, of joy, of peace and plenty, where, Even defolate in crowds; and thus his days 65 70 75 Of Art demanded; fhew'd him how to raise His feeble force by the mechanic powers, To dig the mineral from the vaulted earth, On what the torrent, and the gather'd blast ; 80 Gave the tall ancient foreft to his ax; Taught him to chip the wood, and hew the stone, Till by degrees the finish'd fabric rofe; Tore from his limbs the blood polluted fur, And wrapt them in the woolly veftment warm, 85 Or |