As well to prove, as to reward the good?
Whence are these torrents then, these billowy feas
Of vice, in which, as is in his proper flood,

The fell leviathan licentious plays,

And upon ship-wreck'd faith, and finking virtue preys?
LXXIX.

To you, ye Noble, Opulent and Great!
With friendly voice I call, and honeft zeal!
Upon your vital influences wait

The health and fickness of the common-weal;
The maladies you cause, yourselves must heal.
In vain to the unthinking harden'd crowd
Will Truth and Reason make their just appeal;
In vain will facred Wifdom cry aloud;

And Justice drench in vain her vengeful fword in blood.
LXXX.

With You must reformation first take place:
You are the head, the intellectual mind
Of this vaft body politic; whose base,.
And vulgar limbs, to drudgery confign'd,
All the rich stores of Science have refign'd
To You, that by the craftsman's various toil,
The fea-worn mariner, and fweating hind,
In
peace and affluence maintain'd, the while
You, for yourselves and them, may drefs the mental foil.

LXXXI. Be.

CLXXXI.

Bethink you then, my children, of the trust
In you repos'd; ne let your heav'n-born mind
Confume in pleasure, or unactive ruft;

But nobly roufe you to the task affign'd,
The godlike task to teach and mend mankind:
Learn that ye may inftruct: to virtue lead
Yourselves the way: the herd will crowd behind,
And gather precepts from each worthy deed:
Example is a leffon, that all men can read.”
LXXXII.

But if (to All or Most I do not speak)
In vain and fenfual habits now grown old,
The ftrong Circaan charm you cannot break,
Not re-affume at will your native mould,
Yet envy not the ftate, you could not hold:
And take compaffion on the rifing age:
In them redeem your crrours manifold;
And, by due difcipline and nurture fage,
In Virtue's lore betimes your docile fons engage.
LXXXIII.

You chiefly, who like me in fecret mourn

The prevalence of CUSTOM lewd and vain;

And you, who, though by the rude torrent borne'
Unwillingly along you yield with pain

Mould, fhape, form.

Το

To his behefts, and act what you disdain,
Yet nourish in your hearts the gen'rous love
Of piety and truth, no more reftrain

The manly zeal; but all your finews move

The present to reclaim, the future race improve!
LXXXIV.

Eftfoons by your joint efforts fhall be quell'd
Yon haughty GIANT, who fo proudly sways
A fceptre by repute alone upheld;

Who where he cannot dictate ftrait obeys.
Accustom❜d to conform his flattering phrase
To numbers and high-plac'd authority,
Your party he will join, your maxims praise,
And drawing after all his menial fry,'
Soon teach the general voice your act to ratify.
LXXXV.

Ne for th' atchievement of this great emprize
The want of means or counsel may ye dread;
From my TWIN-DAUGHTERS' fruitful wombs shall rife
A race of letter'd fages, deeply read':

In Learning's various writ: by whom y-led

Thro' each well-cultur'd plot, each beauteous grove,
Where antique Wisdom whilom wont to tread,

With mingled glee and profit may ye rove,"

And cull each virtuous plant, each tree of knowledge prove.

LXXXVI. Your

LXXXVI.

Yourselves with virtue thus and knowledge fraught Of what, in ancient days of good or great Hiftorians, bards, philosophers have taught; Join'd with whatever elfe of modern date Maturer judgment, search more accurate Discover'd have of Nature, Man, and God, May by new laws reform the time-worn ftate Of cell-bred difcipline, and fmoothe the road That leads thro' Learning's vale to Wisdom's bright abode. LXXXVII.

By you invited to her fecret bow'rs,

'Then fhall PADÎA reascend her throne

With vivid laurels girt, and fragrant flow'rs;
While from their forked mount descending down
Yon fupercilious pedant train shall own
Her empire paramount, ere long by Her
Y-taught a leffon in their schools unknown,

"To Learning's richest treasures to prefer

"The knowledge of the world, and man's great business there." LXXXVIII.

On this prime fcience, as the final end
Of all her difcipline, and nurturing care,
Her eye Pænîa fixing aye fhall bend
Her every thought and effort to prepare

Her

Her tender pupils for the various war,
Which Vice and Folly fhall upon them

wage,

As on the perilous march of life they fare,
With prudent lore fore-arming every age

'Gainft Pleasure's treacherous joys, and Pain's embattled rage. LXXXIX.

Then shall my youthful fons, to Wisdom led,

By fair example and ingenuous praise,

With willing feet the paths of Duty tread;

Through the world's intricate or rugged ways
Conducted by Religion's facred rays;

Whofe foul-invigorating influence

Shall purge their minds from all impure allays
Of fordid selfishness and brutal sense, :

And fwell th' ennobled heart with bleft benevolence.
XC. M

Then alfo fhall this emblematic pile,

By magic whilom fram'd to fympathize

With all the fortunes of this changeful ifle,

Still, as my fons in fame and virtue rise,

Grow with their growth, and to th' applauding fkies
Its radiant cross up-lift; the while, to grace

The multiplying niches, fresh fupplies

Of aworthies fhall fucceed, with equal pace

Aye following their fires in virtue's glorious race.

XCI. Fir'd