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Rh Amid the mighty uproar, while below The nations tremble, Shakespear looks abroad From some high cliff, superior, and enjoys The elemental war. But Waller longs, All on the margin of some flow'ry stream To spread his careless limbs amid the cool Of plantane shades, and to the list'ning deer The tale of slighted vows and love's disdain Resound soft-warbling all the live-long day: Consenting Zephyr sighs; the weeping rill Joins in his plaint, melodious; mute the groves; And hill and dale with all their echoes mourn. Such and so various are the tastes of men.


 * Oh! blest of heav'n, whom not the languid songs

Of luxury, the Siren! not the bribes Of sordid wealth, nor all the gaudy spoils Of pageant honour can seduce to leave Those ever blooming sweets, which from the store Of nature fair imagination culls To charm th' inliven'd soul! What tho' not all Of