"Hail, Sifter! hail," the kindred goddefs cries, "No common fuppliant ftands before your eyes.

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You, with whofe living breath the morn is fraught, "Flush the fair cheek, and point the cheerful thought! “Strength, vigour, wit, depriv'd of thee, decline! "Each finer fenfe that forms delight is thine! "Bright funs by thee diffufe a brighter blaze, "And the fresh green a fresher green displays! "Without thee pleasures die, or dully cloy, "And life with thee, howe'er deprefs'd, is joy. 60 "Such thy vaft pow'r!"The deity replies; "Mirth never afks a boon which Health denies; "Our mingled gifts tranfcend imperial wealth; 63 "Health frengthens Mirth, and Mirth infpirits Health. [are mine; "These gales, yon' fprings, herbs, flow'rs, and fun, "Thine is their smile! be all their influence thine."

Euphrofynè rejoins Thy friendship prove : "See the dear fick'ning object of my love! "Shall that warm heart, fo cheerful ev'n in pain, "So form'd to please, unpleas'd itself remain ? 70 "Sifter! in her my smile anew display,

"And all the focial world fhall blefs thy fway."

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Swift as the fpeaks Health spreads the purple wing, Soars in the colour'd clouds, and feds the fpring: Now bland and fweet fhe floats along in air; Air feels, and foft'ning own th' ethereal fair! In fill defcent fhe melts on op'ning flow'rs, And deep impregnates plants with genial show'rs;

The genial fhow'rs, new-rifing to the ray,

Exhale in roseate clouds, and glad the day:
Now in a Zephyr's borrow'd voice she fings,

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Sweeps the fresh dews, and shakes them from her Shakes them embalm'd; or, in a gentle kifs, [wings, Breathes the fure carnest of awak'ning blifs: Sapphira feels it, with a soft surprise,

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Glide thro' her veins, and quicken in her eyes!
Inftant in her own form the goddess glows,
Where, bubbling warm, the min'ral water flows;
Then, plunging, to the flood new virtue gives,
Steeps ev'ry charm, and as fhe bathes it lives!
As from her locks the sheds the vital fhow'r,
""Tis done!" fhe cries," thefe fprings poffefs my
"Let these immediate to thy darling roll

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[pow'r! "Health, vigour, life, and gay-returning foul.

"Thou fmil'ft, Euphrofynè! and confcious fee, 95

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Prompt to thy fmile, how Nature joys with thee. "All is green life! all beauty rofy bright,

"Full Harmony, young Love, and dear Delight! "See vernal Hours lead circling Joys along!

"All fun, all bloom, all fragrance, and all song! roo "Receive thy care! now Mirth and Health.com

bine,

"Each heart shall gladden, and each virtue shine.

Quick to Augufta bear thy prize away,

"There let her smile, and bid a world be gay." 104

LET other poets poorly fing

Their flatt'ries to the vulgar great,

Her airy flight let wand'ring Fancy wing,
And rival Nature's most luxuriant store
To swell some monster's pride, who fhames a state,
Or form a wreath to crown tyrannic Pow'r;
Thou, who inform'dft this clay with active fire,
Do thou, fupreme of Pow'rs! my thoughts refine,
And with thy purelt heat my foul infpire,

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That with Hillarius' worth my verse may shine: 10
As thy lov'd Gideon once fet Ifrael free,
So he with sweet seraphic lays

"Redeems the use of captive poetry,"

Which first was form'd to fpeak thy glorious praise.

H.

Mofes, with an enchanting tongue,

Pharaoh's just overthrow fublimely fung.
When Saul and Jonathan in death were laid,
Surviving David felt the soft'ning fire,
And by the great Almighty's tuneful aid
Wak'd into endless life his mournful lyre.
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Their diff'rent thoughts, met in Hillarius' song,
Roll in one channel more divinely strong:
With Pindar's fire his verse's spirit flies,
"Wafted in charmful mufic thro' the air :"
Unftopp'd by clouds, it reaches to the skies,
And joins with angels' hallelujahs there,

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Flows mix'd, and sweetly strikes th' Almighty's ear. III.

Rebels fhould blush when they his Gideon fee,

That Gideon born to fet his country free.

O that fuch heroes in each age might rise,
Bright'ning thro' vapours like the morning-star,

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Gen'rous in triumph, and in council wife,

Gentle in peace, but terrible in war!

IV.

When Gideon, Oreb, Hyram, Shimron, shine
Fierce in the blaze of war as they engage,

Great Bard! what energy but thine

Could reach the vast description of their rage?

Or when, to cruel foes betray'd,

Sareph and Hamar call for aid,

Loft and bewilder'd in despair,

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How piercing are the hapless lover's cries!
What tender strokes in melting accents rife!

Oh! what a masterpiece of pity's there?
Nor goodly Joafh fhows thy fweetness lefs

When, like kind Heav'n, he frees them from diftrefs!

V.

Hail Thou! whose verse a living image fhines:

In Gideon's character your own you

As there the graceful patriot fhines,

drew;

We in that image bright Hillarius view.

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Let the low crowd, who love unwholesome fare, so When in thy words the breath of angels flows,

Like grofs-fed fpirits fick in purer air,

Their earthy fouls by their dull taste disclose.
Thy dazzling genius fhines too bright,

And they, like spectres, fhun the streams of light; 55
But while in shades of ignorance they stray,

Round thee rays of knowledge play,

"And fhew thee glitt'ring in abftracted day." 58

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OF ST. MARY HALL, OXFORD,

Being prefented by the Hon. Mrs. Knight to the living of Gosfield in Effex.

WHILE by mean arts, and meaner patrons, rise Priests whom the learned and the good defpife, This fees fair Knight, in whose transcendent mind Are wisdom, purity, and truth, enshrin'd.