When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.

Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.

Commerce changes entirely the fate and genius of nations, by communicating arts and opinions, circulating money, and introducing the materials of luxury; she first opens and polishes the mind, then corrupts and enervates both that and the body.

They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.

Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death?

Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.

Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far,-but far above the great.