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At length fair Peace with olive crown'd regains	A
Her lawful throne and to the sacred haunts	B
Of wood or fount the frighted Muse returns	C
Happy the bard who from his native hills	D
Soft musing on a summer's eve surveys	E
His azure stream with pensile woods enclosed	F
Or o'er the glassy surface with his friend	G
Or faithful fair through bordering willows green	H
Wafts his small frigate Fearless he of shouts	I
Or taunts the rhetoric of the watery crew	J
That ape confusion from the realms they rule	K
Fearless of these who shares the gentler voice	L
Of peace and music birds of sweetest song	M
Attune from native boughs their various lay	N
And cheer the forest birds of brighter plume	O
With busy pinion skim the glittering wave	P
And tempt the sun ambitious to display	N
Their several merit while the vocal flute	Q
Or number'd verse by female voice endear'd	R
Crowns his delight and mollifies the scene	H
If solitude his wandering steps invite	S
To some more deep recess for hours there are	T
When gay when social minds to Friendship's voice	L
Or Beauty's charm her wild abodes prefer	U
How pleased he treads her venerable shades	V
Her solemn courts the centre of the grove	W
The root built cave by far extended rocks	X
Around embosom'd how it soothes the soul	Y
If scoop'd at first by superstitious hands	Z
The rugged cell received alone the shoals	A2
Of bigot minds Religion dwells not here	B2
Yet Virtue pleased at intervals retires	C2
Yet here may Wisdom as she walks the maze	E
Some serious truths collect the rules of life	D2
And serious truths of mightier weight than gold	E2
I ask not wealth but let me hoard with care	F2
With frugal cunning with a niggard's art	G2
A few fix'd principles in early life	D2
Ere indolence impede the search explored	H2
Then like old Latimer when age impairs	I2
My judgment's eye when quibbling schools attack	J2
My grounded hope or subtler wits deride	K2
Will I not blush to shun the vain debate	L2
And this mine answer 'Thus 'twas thus I thought	M2
My mind yet vigorous and my soul entire	U
Thus will I think averse to listen more	N2
To intricate discussion prone to stray	N
Perhaps my reason may but ill defend	G
My settled faith my mind with age impair'd	O2
Too sure its own infirmities declare	F2
But I am arm'd by caution studious youth	P2
And early foresight now the winds may rise	Q2
The tempest whistle and the billows roar	N2
My pinnace rides in port despoil'd and worn	R2
Shatter'd by time and storms but while it shuns	S2
The unequal conflict and declines the deep	T2
Sees the strong vessel fluctuate less secure '	U2
Thus while he strays a thousand rural scenes	V2
Suggest instruction and instructing please	W2
And see betwixt the grove's extended arms	X2
An Abbey's rude remains attract thy view	J
Gilt by the mid day sun with lingering step	Y2
Produce thine axe for aiming to destroy	Z2
Tree branch or shade for never shall thy breast	A3
Too long deliberate with timorous hand	B3
Remove the obstructive bough nor yet refuse	C3
Though sighing to destroy that favourite pine	D3
Raised by thine hand in its luxuriant prime	E3
Of beauty fair that screens the vast remains	A
Aggrieved but constant as the Roman sire	U
The rigid Manlius when his conquering son	F3
Bled by a parent's voice the cruel meed	B3
Of virtuous ardour timelessly display'd	B3
Nor cease till through the gloomy road the pile	G3
Gleam unobstructed thither oft thine eye	H3
Shall sweetly wander thence returning soothe	I3
With pensive scenes thy philosophic mind	B3
These were thy haunts thy opulent abodes	A
O Superstition hence the dire disease	A
Balanced with which the famed Athenian pest	B3
Were a short headache were the trivial pain	J3
Of transient indigestion seized mankind	B3
Long time she raged and scarce a southern gale	K3
Warm'd our chill air unloaded with the threats	A
Of tyrant Rome but futile all till she	L3
Rome's abler legate magnified their power	U
And in a thousand horrid forms attired	B3
Where then was truth to sanctify the page	M3
Of British annals if a foe expired	B3
The perjured monk suborn'd infernal shrieks	A
And fiends to snatch at the departing soul	Y
With hellish emulation if a friend	B3
High o'er his roof exultant angels tune	N3
Their golden lyres and waft him to the skies	A
What then were vows were oaths were plighted faith	O3
The sovereign's just the subject's loyal pact	B3
To cherish mutual good annull'd and vain	J3
By Roman magic grew an idle scroll	Y
Ere the frail sanction of the wax was cold	B3
With thee Plantagenet from civil broils	A
The land awhile respired and all was peace	A
Then Becket rose and impotent of mind	B3
From regal courts with lawless fury march'd	B3
The Church's blood stain'd convicts and forgave	P
Bid murderous priests the sovereign frown contemn	J3
And with unhallow'd crosier bruised the crown	J3
Yet yielded not supinely tame a prince	A
Of Henry's virtues learn'd courageous wise	A
Of fair ambition Long his regal soul	Y
Firm and erect the peevish priest exiled	B3
And braved the fury of revengeful Rome	P3
In vain let one faint malady diffuse	A
The pensive gloom which Superstition loves	A
And see him dwindled to a recreant groom	O
Rein the proud palfrey while the priest ascends	A
Was Coeur de Lion blest with whiter days	A
Here the cowl'd zealots with united cries	A
Urged the crusade and see of half his stores	A
Despoil'd the wretch whose wiser bosom chose	A
To bless his friends his race his native land	B3
Of ten fair suns that rode their annual race	A
Not one beheld him on his vacant throne	J3
While haughty Longchamp 'mid his liveried files	A
Of wanton vassals spoil'd his faithful realm	Q3
Battling in foreign fields collecting wide	B3
A laurel harvest for a pillaged land	B3
Oh dear bought trophies when a prince deserts	A
His drooping realm to pluck the barren sprays	A
When faithless John usurp'd the sullied crown	J3
What ample tyranny the groaning land	B3
Deem'd earth deem'd heaven its foe Six tedious years	A
Our helpless fathers in despair obey'd	B3
The papal interdict and who obey'd	B3
The sovereign plunder'd O inglorious days	A
When the French tyrant by the futile grant	B3
Of papal rescript claim'd Britannia's throne	J3
And durst invade be such inglorious days	A
Or hence forgot or not recall'd in vain	J3
Scarce had the tortured ear dejected heard	B3
Rome's loud anathema but heartless dead	B3
To every purpose men nor wish'd to live	R3
Nor dared to die The poor laborious hind	B3
Heard the dire curse and from his trembling hand	B3
Fell the neglected crook that ruled the plain	J3
Thence journeying home in every cloud he sees	A
A vengeful angel in whose waving scroll	Y
He reads damnation sees its sable train	J3
Of grim attendants pencill'd by despair	F2
The weary pilgrim from remoter climes	A
By painful steps arrived his home his friends	A
His offspring left to lavish on the shrine	J3
Of some far honour'd saint his costly stores	A
Inverts his foot step sickens at the sight	B3
Of the barr'd fane and silent sheds his tear	F2
The wretch whose hope by stern Oppression chased	B3
From every earthly bliss still as it saw	A
Triumphant wrong took wing and flew to heaven	J3
And rested there now mourn'd his refuge lost	B3
And wonted peace The sacred fane was barr'd	B3
And the lone altar where the mourners throng'd	B3
To supplicate remission smoked no more	N2
While the green weed luxuriant round uprose	A
Some from their deathbed whose delirious faith	O3
Through every stage of life to Rome's decrees	A
Obsequious humbly hoped to die in peace	A
Now saw the ghastly king approach begirt	B3
In tenfold terrors now expiring heard	B3
The last loud clarion sound and Heaven's decree	L3
With unremitting vengeance bar the skies	A
Nor light the grief by Superstition weigh'd	B3
That their dishonour'd corse shut from the verge	S3
Of hallow'd earth or tutelary fane	J3
Must sleep with brutes their vassals on the field	B3
Unneath some path in marl unexercised	B3
No solemn bell extort a neighbour's tear	F2
No tongue of priest pronounce their soul secure	T3
Nor fondest friend assure their peace obtain'd	B3
The priest alas so boundless was the ill	U3
He like the flock he pillaged pined forlorn	J3
The vivid vermeil fled his fady cheek	V3
And his big paunch distended with th	W3

William Shenstone

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