MUTUAL FORBEARANCE NECESSARY TO THE HAPPINESS OF THE MARRIED STATE. THE lady thus addreffed her spouse→→→ (And raised her voice, and frowned befide) What shall I do to make you hear? Difmifs poor Harry! he replies; Some people are more nice than wife, For one flight trefpass all this ftir? What if he did ride whip and spur, 'Twas but a mile-your favourite horse Will never look one hair the worse. Well, I proteft 'tis past all bearing- Alas! and is domeftic ftrife, Then farewell all, that muft create And tumult, and inteftine war. The love, that cheers life's lateft ftage, Proof against sickness and old age, Preferved by virtue from declenfion, Becomes not weary of attention; . But lives, when that exterior grace, Which firft inspired the flame decays. 'Tis gentle, delicate, and kind, To faults compaffionate or blind, And will with fympathy endure Those evils, it would gladly cure: But angry, coarse, and harsh expreffion Shows love to be a mere profeffion; Proves that the heart is none of his, Or foon expels him if it is. THE NEGRO'S COMPLAINT. FORCED from home and all its pleasures, O'er the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and fold me, But, though theirs they have enrolled me, Still in thought as free as ever, Me from my delights to fever, Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the fame. Why did all-creating Nature Make the plant, for which we toil? Sighs muft fan it, tears muft water, Sweat of ours muft drefs the foil. Think, ye mafters iron-hearted, Lolling at your jovial boards; Think how many backs have smarted For the sweets, your cane affords. Is there, as ye fometimes tell us, Speaking from his throne the sky? Ask him, if your knotted scourges, Matches, blood-extorting fcrews, Are the means, which duty urges Agents of his will to use? Hark! he anfwers-wild tornadoes, Strewing yonder fea with wrecks; Wafting towns, plantations, meadows, Are the voice with which he speaks. He, foreseeing what vexations Afric's fons fhould undergo, Fixed their tyrants' habitations Where his whirlwinds anfwer-no. VOL. I. |