Unsullied rank, and piety sincere.


Lo, here the brutal sot! who drench’d with gin,

Lashes his wither’d nerves to tasteless sin;

Squeals out (with oaths and blasphemies between)

The impious song, the tale, the jest obscene;

And careless views, amidst the barbarous roar,

His few grey hairs strew, one by one, the floor.


Oh! check, a moment check, the obstreperous din