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Throw Egypts by and offer in its stead Offer the crown on Berenices head Id

Falsely luxurious will not man awake And springing from the bed of sloth enjoy The cool the fragrant and the silent hour Thomson

Yet thus it is nor otherwise can be   So far from aught romantic what I sing Young

Thyself first know then love a self there is   Of virtue fond that kindles at her charms Id

How far that little candle throws his beams So shines a good deed in a naughty world Shakspeare

You have too much respect upon the world They lose it that do buy it with much care Id

How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection Id

Canst thou descend from converse with the skies And seize thy brothers throat For what a clod Young

In two short precepts all your business lies Would you be great&mdash;be virtuous and be wise Denham

But sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed What then is the reward of virtue bread Pope

A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters and beneath clear skies Cowper

All but the swellings of the softened heart That waken not disturb the tranquil mind Thomson

Inspiring God who boundless spirit all And unremitting energy pervades Adjusts sustains and agitates the whole Id

Ye ladies for indifferent in your cause I should deserve to forfeit all applause Whatever shocks or gives the least offence To virtue delicacy truth or sense Try the criterion tis a faithful guide Nor has nor can have Scripture on its side. Cowper

EXERCISE VIII.&mdash;SCANNING.
Divide the following into the feet which compose them, and distinguish by marks the long and the short syllables.

Example III.&mdash;Deity. Alone thou sitst above the everlasting hills And all immensity of space thy presence fills: For thou alone art God;&mdash;as God thy saints adore thee; Jehovah is thy name;&mdash;they have no gods before thee.&mdash;G. Brown.

Example IV.&mdash;Impenitence. The impenitent sinner whom mercy empowers, Dishonours that goodness which seeks to restore; As the sands of the desert are water'd by showers. Yet barren and fruitless remain as before.&mdash;G. Brown.

Example V.&mdash;Piety. Holy and pure are the pleasures of piety, Drawn from the fountain of mercy and love; Endless, exhaustless, exempt from satiety, Rising unearthly, and soaring above.&mdash;G. Brown.