EPIG.

To be well off-and feel so! sure is knowledge, To keep so-wisdom! seldom gain'd at College : Sound health requires but little care--much care To reinstate-and boxes of--Pilula fare.

EMBLEM XI.

GENESIS, chap. 1, v. 3.

And God said, Let there be light; and there was light.

I.

In vain thou striv'st, the Power that made, can rule,

Can move, can fix- can delegate-resume

The malign influence of thyself, and fool,

No more shall mar the world or thought entomb—

Behold! religion, peace, and science fair,

Now reign where ignorance and superstition,
Avarice and folly had a share

Of sway—and hurried to perdition.

Thou fail'st to move-yet hop'st to bear away
The wanton World-and once more so regain
Thy power to work—if only for a day—

I tell thee Mammon! that thy hope is vain!
The hold thou hast-too slight to bear-will break,
And greater purchase thou'rt forbid to take.

II.

Dost thou not marvel that thy dainty master,
SATAN! unheeds thy call-nor sends a devil
To help thee stem and strive in thy disaster?
To use his favourite thus is far from civil.
Perchance! he's ill-at-ease and cannot come,
Or paying visits to his debtors?

Or is arrived the dread Millennium?

And he got fast in mighty fetters:

Where for a thousand years, Hell's Majesty
In moody melancholy may solus sit;

Or rave and curse, or contemplate and sigh,
Within the confines of the groundless pit!
'Tis even so!-some work is left for thee-
But all thy power to tempt shall harmless be :
Thou still the thousand years shalt play a part,
But lack the sway thou once hadst o'er the heart.