Thus Troy for ten long years her foes withstood, nd daily bleeding bore th' expence of blood: 'ow for thick streets it shows an empty space, r only fill'd with tombs of her own perish'd race, erfelf becomes the fepulchre of what she was. Mycene, Sparta, Thebes of mighty fame, e vanish'd out of substance into name. id Dardan Rome that just begins to rife, Tiber's banks, in time shall mate the skies; idening her bounds, and working on her way; 'n now she meditates imperial fway: t this is change, but she by changing thrives, ke moons new-born, and in her cradle strives fill her infant-horns: an hour shall come hen the round world shall be contain'd in Rome. For thus old faws foretel, and Helenus chifes' drooping fon enliven'd thus; ➡hen Hium now was in a sinking state; d he was doubtful of his future fate: joddefs born, with thy hard fortune Atrive, by never can be loft, and thou alive. y paffage thou shalt free through fire and sword, d Troy in foreign lands fhall be restor❜d. happier fields a rifing town I fee, eater than what e'er was, or is, or e'er fhall be: d heav'n yet owes the world a race deriv'd from thee. ges, and chiefs of other lineage born e city fhall extend, extended shall adorn : But from lulus he muft draw his breath, By whom thy Rome fall rule the conquer'd earth: Which I retain, ere fince in other mould 'Tis time my hard mouth'd courfers to controll, Ill customs by degrees to habits rife, Ill habits foon become exalted vice: What more advance can mortals make in fin So near perfection, who with blood begin? Deaf to the calf that lies beneath the knife, Looks up, and from her butcher begs her life: } eaf to the harmless kid, that ere he dies II methods to procure thy mercy tries, nd imitates in vain thy childrens cries. 'here will he stop, who feeds with hqushold bread, hen eats the poultry which before he fed ? et plow thy fteers; that when they lose their breath o nature, not to thee they may impute their death. et goats for food their loaded udders lend, ad sheep from winter-cold thy fides defend ; And shun the facrilegious taste of blood. These precepts by the Samian fage were taught, Which godlike Numa to the Sabines brought, And thence transferr'd to Rome, by gift his own: A willing people, and an offer'd throne. O happy monarch, fent by heav'n to bless A favage nation with soft arts of peace, R & To teach religion, rapine to restrain, Give laws to luit, and facrifice ordain: Himself a faint, a goddefs was his bride, And all the mufes o'er his afts prefide. HARACTER OF A OOD PARSON; IMITATED FROM CHAU CE, R, AND ENLARGED. Parish-priest, was of the pilgrim-train: An awful, reverend, and religious man. eyes diffus'd a venerable grace, d charity itself was in his face. ch was his foul, though his attire was poor; $ God had cloath'd his own ambassador;) r fuch, on earth, his blefs'd Redeemer bore. fixty years he feem'd; and well might last o fixty more, but that he liv'd too fast; efin'd himself to foul, to curb the sense; nd made almost a fin of abstinence. et, had his afpect nothing of fevere, lut fuch a face as promis'd him fincere. |