Then all acknowledge they are yet opprest.
Our Youth has wandered in his Way and sees
The Village tribe, as he conceives, at ease;
All seeming well their Lot in Life to bear,
Because they know not his peculiar Care.
The very Beggar moves, as if he knew
That he was free his Duties to pursue;
Men, Women, Children, all appear’d to say,
“I know the Part that I must take to-day.”
All this our Youth beheld, and, with a sigh