What Sorrows yet may pierce me thro', Too juftly I may fear! Still caring, despairing, Must be my bitter doom; My woes here, fhall close ne'er, II. Happy! ye fons of Busy-life, Who, equal to the bustling strife, No other view regard! Ev'n when the wifhed end's deny'd, Meet ev'ry fad-returning night, And joyless morn the same. You, bustling and juftling, Forget each grief and pain; I, listless, yet restless, Find ev'ry prospect vain. III. How bleft the Solitary's lot, Who, all-forgetting, all-forgot, Within his humble cell, The cavern wild with tangling roots, Beside his crystal well! Or haply, to his ev'ning thought, The ways of men are diftant brought, A faint-collected dream: While praifing, and raising His thoughts to Heaven on high, As wand'ring, meand'ring, He views the folemn sky. IV. Than I, no lonely Hermit plac'd Where never human footstep trac'd, Lefs fit to play the part, The lucky moment to improve, And just to stop, and just to move, With felf-refpecting art: But ah! those pleasures, Loves and Joys, Which I too keenly taste, Or human love or hate; At perfidy ingrate! V.. Oh, enviable, early days, When dancing thoughtless Pleasure's To Care, to Guilt unknown! How ill exchang'd for riper times, Of others, or my own! Ye tiny elves that guiltless sport, Ye little know the ills ye court, The loffes, the croffes, That active man engage; Of dim declining Age! maze, MAN WAS MADE TO MOURN, Ꭺ . I R DIRGE. W I. HEN chill November's furly blast One ev❜ning, as I wand'red forth, Along the banks of AIR E, I spy'd a man, whofe aged step Seem'd weary, worn with care; His face was furrow'd o'er with years, II. Young ftranger, whither wand'reft thou? Began the rev'rend Sage; Does thirst of wealth thy ftep constrain, Or haply, preft with cares and woes, To wander forth, with me, to mourn The miseries of Man. III. The Sun that overhangs yon moors, Where hundreds labour to fupport And ev'ry time has added proofs, That Man was made to mourn. IV. O Man! while in thy early years, How prodigal of time ! U |