The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.

But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength, The scorn of danger, and united hearts, The surest presage of the good they seek.

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

All truth is precious, if not all divine; and what dilates the powers must needs refine.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold.

It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.