Here, labouring muse! those glorious chiefs relate,

That turned the doubtful scale of David's fate;

The rest of that illustrious band rehearse,

Immortalized in laureled Asaph's verse:

Hard task! yet will not I thy flight recall;

View heaven, and then enjoy thy glorious fall.

First write Bezaliel,[395] whose illustrious name

Forestals our praise, and gives his poet fame.

The Kenites rocky province his command,

A barren limb of fertile Canaan's land;