Page:Speech of King Robert the Bruce to his troops, to urge them on to fight with King Edward II. and his formidable host, at the ever memorable Battle of Bannockburn, fought on the 25th of June, 1314.pdf/4

 Rage, envy, malice, "tis agreed,

Are passions he that runs may read:

There on the passive forehead make

Impressions that we can't mistake;

Changing the human face divine—

A Nero, for an Antonine.

Evn Socrates himself confessed,

Tho wisdom had reform'd his breast,

No after fludy could efface

The lineaments of vile and base;

Such once he was, and there were fees

Indelille in lock and mien

Proofs that deformity proclaim

Moral sud personal the fame.

These warn the parent to commence

With the first orient dawn of sense,

The work of beauty; now begin

To fow the seeds of grace within

While guiltless of a weed, the soil

With all powers may bless your toil.

First fisial piety impart,

With gratitude inform their heart,

And love for you these rooted there

Shall bloom o'er all their face and air:—

The features melt, and each be deck'd

With lovely meekness and respect.

Let pity be an early theme:

Ah I teach the decent tear to stream

For other's wo: a selfish mind

The whole hard countenance will bind