Where grows the med'cine for oppressive care?

Where grows it not? th' ingenious Pope replies;

'To make the happy, friend, be good, be wise;

Add only competence to health and peace,

You need no more to perfect happiness.'

O strangers to the sorrows of the mind, [fol. 401.]

The load of ills that oft afflicts mankind!

One chain of woes another still succeeds.

Our friends are martyr'd, and our country bleeds.

Humanity's too weak these ills to bear;