The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant / Being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers, calculated to eradicate vulgar prejudices and rusticity of manners, improve the understanding, rectify the will, purify the passions, direct the minds of youth to the pursuit of proper objects, and to facilitate their reading, writing, and speaking the English language with elegance and propriety

by John Hamilton Moore

JOY.

Then is Orestes blest! My griefs are fled!
Fled like a dream! Methinks I tread in air!—
Surprising happiness! unlook'd for joy!
Never let love despair! The prize is mine!—
Be smooth, ye seas! and, ye propitious winds,
Blow from Epirus to the Spartan coast!