the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth. It has reconciled us to God, and to our.selves, to our duty, and our situation. It is the balm and cordial of the present life, and a sovereign antidote against the fear of death. . . Sed hactenus hæc. Some smaller pieces upon Jess important subjects close the volume. Not one of them, I believe, was written with a view, to publication, but I was unwilling they should be omitted. JOHN NEWTON. Charles Square, Hoxton, February 18, 1782. CONTENTS TO VOL. I. Page ....... 186 Sonnet to Henry Cowper, Esq. .................................... 220 Lines addressed to Dr. Darwin .................................... 221 Pa Mrs. Montagu's Feather-Hangings ...... Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk, during his Abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez .. On the Promotion of Edward Thurlow, Esq., to the Chancellorship of Bogland .................................................. 229 Haman Frailty ...................... On observing some Names of little Note recorded in the Biographia Britannica .................................................... 297 Rirport of an adjudged Case, not to be found in any of the Books.... 238 On the Burning of Lord Mansfield's Library .... The Love of the World :eproved .................................. 219 On the D. ath of Lady Throckmorton's Bulfinch.......... ........ 244 Another, addressed to a young Lady The Poet's New Year's-Gift ........ Pairing Time anticipated, a Fable ............ The Dog and the Water-Lily ............ The Poet, the Oyster, and the Sensitive Plant ...... The Shrabbery .................................................... 269 The Winter Nosegay .............................................. 271 Mutual Forbearance necessary to the Happiness of the Married State 273 The Negro's Complaint .......... Pity for poor Africans ....... The Nightingale and Glow-worm ...... OR , Goldfinch starved to Death in bis The Pineapple and the Bee .................... Horace, Book II, Ode X. .......... A Reflection on the foregoing Ode ..................... Ideen Latine Redditum .......................................... Yotam ............................................................ 300 a. You told me, I remember, glory, built On selfish principles, is shame and guilt ; The deeds, that men admire as half divine, Stark naught, because corrupt in their design. Strange doctrine this! that without scruple tears The laurel, that the very lightning spares; Brings down the warrior's trophy to the dust, And eats into his bloody sword like rust. B. I grant that, men continuing what they are, Fierce, avaricious, proud, there must be war. And never meant the rule should be applied To him, that fights with justice on his side. Let laurels, drench'd in pure Parnassian dews, Reward his mem'ry, dear to ev'ry muse, Who, with a courage of unshaken root, In honour's field advancing his firm fout, Plants it upon the line that Justice draws, Tis to the virtues of such men, man owes But let eternal infamy pursue The wretch to nought but his ambition true, Who, for the sake of filling with one blast The post-horns of all Europe, lays her waste. Think yourself station’d on a tow'ring rock, To see a people scatter'd like a flock, Some royal mastiff panting at their heels, With all the savage thirst a tiger feels; Then view him self-proclaim'd in a gazette Chief monster that has plagu'd the nations yet. The globe and sceptre in such hands misplac'd, Those ensigns of dominion, how disgrac'd ! The glass, that bids man mark the fleeting hour, And Death's own sithe would better speak his poxi'r; Then grace the bony phantom in their stead With the king's shoulderknot and gay cockade; |