The centre movd a circle straight succeeds
Another still and still another spreads
Friend parent neighbour first it will embrace
His country next and next all human race

Wide and more wide th o erflowings of the mind creature in of ev ry kind

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Earth smiles around with boundless bounty bless d And Heav n beholds its image in his breast

Happiness.

Know then this truth enough for man to know
Virtue alone is happiness below

The only point where human bliss stands still
And tastes the good without the fall to ill
Where only merit constant pay receives
Is bless d in what it takes and what it gives
The joy unequall d if its end it gain
And if it lose attended with no pain
Without satiety tho e er so bless d

And but more relish d as the more distress d
The broadest mirth unfeeling folly wears

Less pleasing far than virtue s very tears
Good from each object from each place acquir d

For ever exercis d yet never tir d

Never elated while one man's oppress d

Never dejected while anothers bless d

And where no wants no wishes can remain

Since but to wish more virtue is to gain

Through all eternity to thee
A joyful song Ill raise
For O eternity s too short.
To utter all thy praise

The Voyage of Life.

Self flatter d unexperienc d high in hope

When young

with sanguine cheer and streamers gay

We cut our cable launch into the world

And fondly dream each wind and star our friend

All in some darling enterprise embark d

But where is he can fathom its event

Amid a multitude of artless hands

Ruin s sure perquisite her lawful prize

Some steer aright but the black blast blows hard
And puffs them wide of hope With hearts of proof
Full against wind and tide some win their way
And when strong effort has deserv d the port
And tugg d it into view tis won tis lost
Though strong their oar still stronger is their fate
They strike and while they triumph they expire
In stress of weather most some sink outright

O er them and o er their names the billows close
To morrow knows not they were ever born
Others a short memorial leave behind
Like a flag floating when the bark s ingulf d

It floats a moment and is seen no more

One Cæsar lives a thousand are forgot
Ilow few favour d by ev ry element

With swelling sails make good the promis d port
With all their wishes freighted Yet ev n these

Freighted with all their wishes soon complain
Free from misfortune not from nature free

They still are men and when is man secure
As fatal time as storm The rush of years

Beats down their strength their numberless escapes
In ruin end and now their proud success

But plants new terrors on the victor s brow
What pain to quit the world just made their own.
Their nests so deeply down d and built so high
Too low they build who build beneath the stars