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V.

But let not man's imperfect views, Prefume to tax wife Nature's laws : 'Tis his with filent joy to use

The indulgence of the fovereign caufe;
Secure that from the whole of things
Beauty and good confummate fprings,
Beyond what he can reach to know,
And that the Providence of heaven
Has fome peculiar bleffing given
To each allotted ftate below.

VI.

Ev'n now how fweet the wintery night
Spent with the old illuftrious dead:
While, by the taper's trembling light,
I fecm the awful courfe to tread;
Where chiefs and legiflators lie,
Whofe triumphs move before my eye,
With every laurel fresh display'd:
While, charm'd, I rove in claffic song,
Or bend to Freedom's fearless tongue,
Or walk the academic fhade.

CON

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