[The original poem, of which the above is an imitation, is subjoined:—
HYMN TO ADVERSITY.
BY THOMAS GRAY.
Daughter of Jove, relentless power,
Thou tamer of the human breast,
Whose iron scourge, and torturing hour,
The bad affright, afflict the best!
Bound in thy adamantine chain,
The proud are taught to taste of pain,
And purple tyrants vainly groan,