Where Want fits pining, faint, and ill,
To lend thy kind, unpurchas'd aid,

And hear the exertions of thy fkill
With many a grateful bleffing paid-—

'Tis luxury to the feeling heart,

Beyond what focial hours impart,

Or Nature's beauteous fcenes, or curious works

of Art!

Q

Ó DE IX.

LEAVING BATH, MDCCLXXVI.

ATH! ere I quit thy pleafing scene,

BAT

Thy beachen cliff I'll climb again,
To view thy mountains vivid green,
To view thy hill-furrounded plain:

To fee diftinct beneath the eye,

As in a pictur'd profpect nigh, Those Attic structures fhining white,

That form thy funny crefcent's bend,

Or by thy dufty streets extend,

Or near thy winding river's fite.

Did Commerce these proud piles upraife?

For thee fhe ne'er unfurl'd her fails

HYGEIA gave thy fountains praife,

And Pain and Languor fought thy vales:

But

Oppreffion's power procures

Poverty endures.

hou! thy honeft gain

e with decency sustain;

or Thee, Content, with thought ferene,

Surveys the present changeful scene;
And Piety her view fublime

Extends beyond the realm of Time.

ODE X:

TO J. PAYNE, ESQ. ACCOUNTANT-GENERAL OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND.

FRIEND! to Thee, whofe liberal mind

Was form'd with tafte for joys refin'd,

For all the extended country yields,

Of azure skies and verdant fields
For all that Genius' hand difplays,-

The Painter's forms, the Poet's lays:-
To Thee, restraint to that dull room,

Where funshine never breaks the gloom;

To Thee, restraint to that dull lore

Of books, with numbers cypher'd o'er—

How hard the lot! I fee with pain,

And wish it oft exchang'd in vain.

Yet not for Thee I afk the ftores

Which Rapine rends from foreign fhores,

Nor

Nor those Oppreffion's power procures

From ills that Poverty endures.

Far happier Thou! thy honeft gain

Can life with decency sustain;

For Thee, Content, with thought ferene,

Surveys the present changeful scene;

And Piety her view fublime

Extends beyond the realm of Time.

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