(Happy beyond the race of man is he Who boasts a heart from greater foibles free,) Still keep the Folly which fo much I love, Nor ever try, with useless Wisdom, kind, To tear this favorite Error from my mind. THE IN In robes of virgin white, the fields inclose; When Beaux, and Belles, their rural feats forego, For the gay feats of ALMACK's and SOнO: When to his confort's wifh the sportsman yields, And quits, for GROSVENOR-SQUARE, the froft bound fields; What time ftout Labor waking rears his head, And jaded Luxury just thinks of bed; Tir'd with the toilfome pleasures of the day, Stretch'd on my couch with weary limbs I lay: Then, Then, as diforder'd flumbers clos'd my eyes, This ftrange fantastic vifion feem'd to rife. Methought my footsteps trod a fpacious plain, Of fize, affembled nations to contain: Expos'd to fight, nor fcreen'd by fheltering wood, Full in the midst a fpacious building stood. In various ornaments, on every part, Had ARCHITECTURE lavifh'd all her art; Here GRECIAN columns GOTHIC ftructures bear, Gay CHINA spreads her painted arches there; Had mix'd old orders, and invented new. High in the dome, on maffy pillars rear'd, And, 1 And,while ten thousand tongues her power proclaim, The vaulted roofs re-echo FASHION's name. Round her a train of bufy nymphs are feen, One moment alters, what the laft had done. And watch the varying motions of her eye; At her command employ their utmost skill, And yield their minds, and bodies, to her will; Lay health, and fame, and fortune, all afide, To follow blindly where her mandates guide. While rofy Health's capricious fingers spread, On her fresh blooming cheeks, a foreign red. Or feal'd her facred charter with their blood, As at this motley fcene, in wild amaze, On every fide with wondering eyes I gaze, Sudden, methought, I heard the clarion's notes; Loud on the wind the martial clamour floats!— VOL. I. H The |