There, from the ways of men laid safe ashore,

We smile to hear the distant tempest roar;

There, bless'd with health, with business unperplex'd,

This life we relish, and ensure the next;

There too the muses sport; these numbers free,

Pierian Eastbury! I owe to thee.

There sport the muses; but not there alone:

Their sacred force Amelia feels in town.

Nought but a genius can a genius fit;

A wit herself, Amelia weds a wit: