So be it-brand with ev'ry name
Of burning infamy his heart;
But let his country bear the shame,
And feel the iron at her heart.

I cannot coldly pass him' by,

Stript, wounded, left by thieves half dead; Nor see an infant Lazarus lie

At rich men's gates, imploring bread.

A frame as sensitive as mine;

Limbs moulded in a kindred form;

A soul degraded, yet divine,

Endear to me my brother worm.

He was my equal at his birth,

A naked, helpless, weeping child; And such are born to thrones on earth, On such hath ev'ry mother smil'd.

My equal he will be again,

Down in that cold oblivious gloom, Where all the prostrate ranks of men Crowd without fellowship the tomb.

My equal in the Judgment Day,

He shall stand up before the throne,

When ev'ry veil is rent away,

And good and evil only known.

And is he not mine equal now

Am I less fall'n from God and truth

Though "Wretch" be written on his brow,
And leprosy consume his youth?

Binding on man, of woman born,
In her own Court I'll plead his cause,
Arrest the doom and share the scorn.

Yes, let the scorn that haunts his course,
Turn on me like a trodden snake,
And hiss and sting me with remorse,
If I the fatherless forsake."

AKENSIDE.

"THE Pleasures of Imagination," a production that would do honour to the poetical genius of any age or nation, was published in 1744, when Akenside was in his twenty-third year. The poem was received with great applause, and advanced its author to poetical fame. It is said, that when it was shewn to Pope in manuscript, by Dodsley, to whom it had been offered for a greater sum than he was inclined to give, he advised the bookseller not to make a niggardly offer, for the author of it was no every-day writer.

It also has been surmised, that this poem, and some others, were written prior to his going to

Edinburgh in 1739, in his eighteenth year. Mr. (afterwards Bishop) Warburton severely attacked this poem, not on account of its poetry, but for some remarks which the author had introduced on the nature and objects of ridicule; and it was vindicated by an anonymous friend, since known to be Mr. Jeremiah Dyson.

On his return from Leyden, (where he studied physic, and had obtained the degree of Doctor in that faculty, in 1744,) Akenside settled as physician at Northampton; thence he removed to Hampstead, where he continued about two years and a half; and finally settled in London, where his friend, Mr. Dyson, allowed the Poet £300 per annum, to maintain his rank as a physician. His medical reputation and practice gradually increased; he was chosen Fellow of the Royal Society, appointed Physician to St. Thomas's Hospital, admitted, by mandamus, to the degree of Doctor in Physic in the University of Cambridge, elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London; and, upon the establishment of the Queen's Household, he was advanced to the rank of one of her Majesty's Physicians.

Notwithstanding the acknowledged abilities