RETIREMENT. "Ye, who to wisdom would devote your hours, "And far from riot, far from discord stray! "Look back disdainful on the city's tow'rs, "Where Pride, where Folly point the slipp'ry way. "Pure flows the limpid stream in chrystal tides, "Thro' rocks, thro' dens, and ever verdant vales, "Till to the town's unhallow'd wall it glides, "Where all its purity and lustre fails." ODE TO HOPE. HOPE! lively cheerer of the mind, Come from thy ever ever verdant bow'r - O! bring, attending on thy reign, All thy ideal fairy train, To animate the lifeless clay, And bear my sorrows hence away.. Hence gloomy featur'd black Despair, Nor rend my breast with gnawing care, ·, Let pining Discontentment mourn, ODE TO Hope. O smiling Hope! in adverse hour Where Luxury invites his guests To pall them with his lavish feasts: Health is attendant in thy radiant train, Round her the whisp'ring zephyrs gently play, Behold her gladly tripping o'er the plain, Bedeck'd with rural sweets and garlands gay. ODE TO HOPE. When vital spirits are depress'd, For oft thy friendly aid avails, When all the strength of physic fails. "Nay, even tho' death should aim his dart, Depriv'd of thee must banners fall; Come then, bright Hope! in smiles array'd Revive us by thy quick ning breath, Then shall we never be afraid To walk thro' danger and thro' death. |