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V.

Bound on a voyage of awful length
And dangers little known,

A ftranger to fuperior ftrength,

Man vainly trufts his own.

VI.

But oars alone can never prevail

To reach the diftant coaft;

The breath of heaven muft fwell the fail,
Or all the toil is loft.

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 fide the Atlantic,

I always held them in the right,

But most fo when moft frantic,

III.

When lawless mobs infult the court,

That man shall be my toaft,

If breaking windows be the fport,
Who bravely breaks the most.

IV.

But oh! for him my fancy culls
The choiceft flowers the bears,

Who conftitutionally pulls

Your house about your ears.

V.

Such civil broils are my delight,

Though fome folks can't endure them,

Who fay the mob are mad outright,

And that a rope muft cure them.
VI.

A rope! I wish we patriots had

Such ftrings 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.

Ou, fond attempt to give a deathlefs lot
To names ignoble, born to be forgot!
In vain, recorded in hiftoric page,
They court the notice of a future age:
1 hofe twinkling tiny luftres of the land
Drop one by one from Fame's neglecting hand;
Lethæan gulphs receive them as they fall,
And dark oblivion foon abforbs them all.

So when a child, as playful children use,
Has burnt to tinder a ftale last year's news,
The flame extinct, he views the roving fire-
There goes my lady, and there goes the squire,
There goes the parfon, oh! illuftrious spark,
And there, fcarce lefs illuftrious, goes the clerk!

REPORT

OF AN ADJUDGED CASE, NOT TO BE FOUND IN
ANY OF THE BOOKS.

I.

BETWEEN Nofe and Eyes a ftrange conteft arofe,
The fpectacles fet them unhappily wrong;
The point in difpute was, as all the world knows,
To which the faid fpectacles ought to belong.

II.

So Tongue was the lawyer, and argued the cause
With a great deal of skill, and a wig full of learning;
While chief baron Ear fat to balance the laws,

So famed for his talent in nicely difcerning.
III.

In behalf of the Nofe it will quickly appear,

And your lordship, he said, will undoubtedly find That the Nofe has had spectacles always in wear, Which amounts to poffeffion time out of mind. IV.

Then holding the fpectacles up to the court-
Your lordship obferves they are made with a ftraddle,
As wide as the ridge of the Nofe is; in short,
Defigned to fit clofe to it, juft like a faddle.

V.

Again, would your lordship a moment fuppofe
('Tis a cafe that has happened, and may be again)
That the vifage or countenance had not a Nose,
Pray who would, or who could, wear spectacles then?
VI.

On the whole it appears, and my argument shows

With a reasoning, the court will never condemn, That the spectacles plainly were made for the Nose, And the Nose was as plainly intended for them.

VII.

Then shifting his fide, (as a lawyer knows how)

He pleaded again in behalf of the Eyes:

But what were his arguments few people know,

For the court did not think they were equally wise. VIII.

So his lordship decreed with a grave folemn tone,

Decifive and clear, without one if or but

That, whenever the Nose put his spectacles on,

By day-light or candle-light-Eyes fhould be fhut!

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