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And proudly waving, in his gifted hand. O'er Fancy's worlds, Invention's plastic wand; Fearless and firm, with lightning-eye surveys The clearest heav'n of intellectual rays! Yet, on his course tho' loftiest hopes attend, And kindling raptures aid him to ascend; (While in his mind, with high-born grandeur fraught, Dilate the noblest energies of thought;) Still, from the bliss, ethereal and refin'd, Which crowns the soarings of triumphant mind, At length he flies, to that serene retreat, Where calm and pure, the mild affections meet; Embosom'd there, to feel and to impart, The softer pleasures of the social heart!

Ah! weep for those, deserted and forlorn, From ev'ry tie, by fate relentless torn! See, on the barren coast, the lonely isle, Mark'd with no step, uncheer'd by human smile;