No fierce, unruly Senates, threaten here,
No Axe, no Scaffold, to the View appear,
No Envy, Disappointment, and Despair.
Here, blest Vicissitude! whene'er you please,
You step from Exercise, to learned Ease;
Turn o'er each Classick Page, each Beauty trace,
The Mind unwearied in the pleasing Chace.
Oh! would kind Heav'n such Happiness bestow,
Let Fools, let Knaves, be Masters here below.
Grandeur and Place, those Baits to catch the Wise,
And all their pageant Train, I pity and despise.
No Axe, no Scaffold, to the View appear,
No Envy, Disappointment, and Despair.
Here, blest Vicissitude! whene'er you please,
You step from Exercise, to learned Ease;
Turn o'er each Classick Page, each Beauty trace,
The Mind unwearied in the pleasing Chace.
Oh! would kind Heav'n such Happiness bestow,
Let Fools, let Knaves, be Masters here below.
Grandeur and Place, those Baits to catch the Wise,
And all their pageant Train, I pity and despise.
J. Tracy.
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