IV.

"Tis here the folly of the wise

Through all his art we view;

And, while his tongue the charge denies,

His conscience owns it true.

V.

Bound on a voyage of awful length

And dangers little known,

A stranger to superior strength,

Man vainly trusts his own.

VI.

But oars alone can ne'er prevail

To reach the distant coast;

The breath of heaven must swell the sail,

Or all the toil is lost.

THE MODERN PATRIOT.

I.

REBELLION is my theme all day;

I only wish 'twould come

(As who knows but perhaps it may?)

A little nearer home.

II.

Yon roaring boys, who rave and fight

On t'other side the Atlantic,

I always held them in the right,

But most so when most frantic.

III.

When lawless mobs insult the court,

That man shall be my toast,

If breaking windows be the sport,

Who bravely breaks the most.

IV.

But oh! for him my fancy culls

The choicest flowers she bears,

Who constitutionally pulls

Your house about your ears.

V.

Such civil broils are my delight,

Though some folks can't endure them,

Who say the mob are mad outright,

And that a rope must cure them.

VI.

A rope! I wish we patriots had

Such strings for all who need 'emWhat! hang a man for going mad?

Then farewell British freedom.

ON OBSERVING

SOME NAMES OF LITTLE NOTE

RECORDED IN THE

BIOGRAPHIA BRITANNICA.

Он, fond attempt to give a deathless lot

To names ignoble, born to be forgot!

In vain, recorded in historic page,

They court the notice of a future age:

Those twinkling tiny lustres of the land
Drop one by one from Fame's neglecting hand;
Lethæan gulphs receive them as they fall,

And dark oblivion soon absorbs them all.
So when a child, as playful children use,
Has burnt to tinder a stale last year's news,

The flame extinct, he views the roving fire-
There goes my lady, and there
goes the squire,

There goes the parson, ob! illustrious spark,

And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk!

REPORT

OF AN ADJUDGED CASE NOT TO BE FOUND

IN ANY OF THE BOOKS.

I.

BETWEEN Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose, The spectacles set them unhappily wrong;

The point in dispute was, as all the world knows, To which the said spectacles ought to belong.

II.

So tongue was the lawyer, and argued the cause

With a great deal of skill, anda wig full of learning; While chief baron Ear sat to balance the laws, So famed for his talent in nicely discerning.

III.

In behalf of the Nose it will quickly appear,

And your lordship, he said, will undoubtedly find That the Nose has had spectacles always in wear,

Which amounts to possession time out of mind.