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But when the mind resigning
Distinction's flattering state,
Prefers, without repining,
Humility of fate;

When wealth's unbounded treasure

Creates no transient care;

When poverty is pleasure,
Be certain love is there.

VII.

THE RICHES OF LOVE.

A Glee for four voices: by R. Cooke.

WRITTEN BY MISS WILLIAMS.

No riches from his scanty store,
My lover could impart ;
He gave a boon I valued more,
He gave me all his heart.

But now, for me, in search of gain,

From shore to shore he flies;

Why wander riches to obtain,

When love is all I prize!

VIII.

HEARTS.

FROM THE OPERA OF LOVE's TRIALS.
BY MR. PRATT.

1

No claim upon an honest heart,
Gold or grandeur can impart,
And the breast that's true to love,
Faithful vows alone can move.

2

What is empire, what a throne?
Hearts were never brib'd, but won;

Riches are too poor to buy

One gentle smile, one tender sigh.

IX.

CONNUBIAL LOVE.

1

THY sacred sweets, Connubial-Love,
Flow from affections much refin'd;
Affections (source of bliss above!)
Mutual, constant, warm and kind.

2

Hail, holy flame! hail, sacred tie!
That binds two gentle souls in one!
On equal wings their troubles fly,
In equal streams their pleasures run:

3

These pleasures from their duties flow;
Hence joys in quick succession come ;
Each day they more enamour'd grow;
And have no wish,-beyond their home.

4

Happy the Youth who finds a Bride,
In sprightly days of Health and Ease:
Whose temper to his own allied,

No knowledge seeks but how to please.

5

A thousand sweets their days attend!

A thousand comforts rise around! Here Husband, Parent, Wife and Friend, In every dearest sense, are found.

X.

CONNUBIAL LOVE.

1

THE love that looks to present joy,
And riots in Seduction's bow'r,

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Came arm'd with Satan to destroy,

And Adam caught in evil hour.*
O let the lay thy youthful bosom move
To dread the horrors of illicit love!

2

But Love that looks to future bliss,
Nor blushes to confess his name,
Taught Adam first the sacred kiss;

And bearing peace from heaven he came.
O let the lay thy youthful bosom move
To woo the blessings of connubial love!

H. K. B.

1800.

XI.

THE GOOD HUSBAND.

BY CHARLOTTE RICHARDSON.

1

YE Fair, who would a partner chuse,
Yet tremble lest your choice be wrong,
For you a Sister's lowly muse

Attempts to pour th' instructive song.

*See Milton. Parad. Lost. B. ix. 1. 494. &c.

2

She bids you shun with cautious care
The sons of vice, a numerous train,
Of all their specious arts beware,
Nor listen to their flatt'ring strain.

3

But he who walks in wisdom's ways, Who makes the law of God his guide, Whose actions speak his Maker's praise, In him you safely may confide.

4

His love through every scene will last,
Nor time his constancy impair,
E'en when the charms of youth are past,
Still in his eyes you will be fair.

5

Like Joshua, he will serve the Lord,
And teach his household so to do,

His rule of life the written word,
Its precepts daily kept in view.

6

If to your mutual earnest prayer

Some pledges of your love be given, With all a Parent's watchful care

He'll train them up as heirs of heaven.

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