To calm the wild disorders of the heart.
She points the arduous heights where glory lies,
And teaches mad ambition to be wise:
In the dark bosom wakes the fair desire,
Draws good from ill, a brighter flame from fire;
Strips black Oppression of her gay disguise,
And bids the hag in native horror rise;
Strikes tow’ring pride and lawless rapine dead,
And plants the wreath on Virtue’s awful head.
Nor boasts the Muse a vain imagin’d pow’r,