While vernal suns shone bright and warm, it grew,

And spread its beauties daily more and more; But when the wind had chang'd to north or east, This tender flow'r could not endure the blast; Nor to protect it, was a shelter plac'd,

Therefore it pin'd, and dy'd away at last.
If gen'rous hands had plac'd this flow'r so fair,
Where from the north it had a shelter found,
And kept it in a mild congenial air,

It long had liv'd and spread its fragrance round.
Sometimes the frail one leaves her native place,
And flies away from ev'ry thing that's dear;
To shun the cruel scorn she cannot face,

She takes her leave, and sheds a parting tear.
If to the capital she takes her way,

Thinking to get into some honest place;
There the vile rake is watching night and day,
To find a country girl with a fair face.
If she unhappily comes in his way,

That jewel virgin modesty once lost;
To his base lust she falls an easy prey,

And lost to shame of this he makes his boast. Abandon'd soon, and cast upon the town,

She's now a nuisance in the public streets; And tho' she often meets a scornful frown, With impudence the passengers she greets. Some heedless youths she with fair speech beguiles, And they with her unhappily turn in ; But soon they rue their yielding to her wiles, For fell disease repays them for their sin. F

Contaminated they become sometimes,
And sorely pain'd thro' intercourse so vile;
Yea, unborn infants suffer thro' those crimes
They were entic'd to, by the harlot's smile.
Revenge sometimes her wicked bosom fills,

Then does she like a Milwood meditate;
To make that sex endure some dreadful ills,
That brought her to her present wretched state.
Thus some, who but for these engrossing ways,
Good, prudent, fruitful wives, long since had been;
And then in comfort would have pass'd their days,-
Now quite abandon'd in the streets are seen.

ARGUMENT.

Inhabitants of cities, and large manufacturing towns, not so hardy, and fit for soldiers or seamen, as rustics bred to the plough, &c. Address to Landowners of princely fortunes; to the Agricultural Societies;-to the Imperial Parliament.-Good effects of dividing the farms, with regard to marriage, population, and habits of industry.—Grati-, tude of the middle and lower classes toward those who shall effect such a glorious change; -more pleasing reflections, and heartfelt satisfaction will flow therefrom, than from contemplating the greatest victories.—Rapturous joy of the rustics anticipated. The lower classes deserve some special favor for their general peaceful demeanor in such extreme distress.-Impossibility of one order of people being happy without the other : illustrated by a simile.-Possible bad, and certain good effects of paying, or not paying attention to the welfare of the lower orders.-Conclusion.

THINGS AS THEY ARE, &c.

A POEM.

BOOK III.

OF this woe-working ruinous policy,

We yet may trace another consequence; Which with the statesman of more weight may be, Than those I've shewn before deriv'd from thence. In former times before these schemes took place, Britain her armies could full well recruit,

With numbers of a healthy hardy race,

With whom a soldier's life would better suit,
Than with those weakly men in cities bred,
Or in our larger manufacturing towns;
Whereto the outcast rustic youth had fled,

When driv'n from house and home by landlord's frowns.

For in our towns and manufactories,

All kinds of wickedness is prevalent;