ARGUMENT OF THE FIFTH BOOK. Afrofly morning.-The foddering of cattle.-The woodman and his dog.-The poultry.-Whimfical effects of froft at a waterfall.-The Empress of Ruffia's palace of ice.-Amusements of monarchs.— War, one of them.-Wars, whence.—And whence monarchy.-The evils of it.-English and French loyalty contrafted.-The Baftile, and a prifoner there.-Liberty the chief recommendation of this country.-Modern patriotism questionable, and why.-The perishable nature of the best human inftitutions.-Spiritual liberty not perishable.—The flavish state of man by nature.-Deliver him, Deift, if you can.-Grace muft do it.-The respective merits of patriots and martyrs flated.-Their dif ferent treatment.-Happy freedom of the man whom grace makes free.-His relifh of the works of God. -Address to the Creator. THE TASK. BOOK V. THE WINTER MORNING WALK. "TIS Is morning; and the fun, with ruddy orb Afcending, fires the horizon; while the clouds, That crowd away before the driving wind, More ardent as the difk emerges more, Refemble most some city in a blaze, Seen through the leafless wood. His flanting ray And, tinging all with his own rofy hue, Provokes me to a smile. With eye afkance I view the muscular proportioned limb Smooth as a wall the upright remnant stands, With fuch undeviating and even force |