s the labouring moon,
'Or chace the shade that blots the blazing orb of noon.

XLVIII.

'Many a long lingering year, in lonely isle,
'Stunned with the eternal turbulence of waves,
'Lo, with dim eyes, that never learned to smile,
'And trembling hands, the famished native craves
'Of Heaven his wretched fare: shivering in caves,
'Or scorched on rocks, he pines from day to day;
'But Science gives the word; and lo, he braves
'The surge and tempest, lighted by her ray,
'And to a happier land wafts merrily away.

XLIX.

'And even where Nature loads the teeming plain
'With the full pomp of vegetable store,
'Her bounty, unimproved, is deadly bane:
'Dark woods and rankling wilds, from shore to shore,
'Stretch their enormous gloom; which, to explore,
'Even Fancy trembles, in her sprightliest mood;
'For there, each eyeball gleams with lust of gore,
'Nestles each murderous and each monstrous brood,
'Plague lurks in every shade, and streams from every flood.

L.

'Twas from Philosophy man learned to tame
'The soil, by plenty to intemperance fed.
'Lo, from the echoing axe, and thundering flame,
'Poison, and plague, and yelling rage, are fled.
'The waters, bursting from their slimy bed,
'Bring health and melody to every vale:
'And, from the breezy main, and mountain's head,
'Ceres and Flora, to the sunny dale,
'To fan their glowing charms, invite the fluttering gale.

LI.

'What dire necessities, on every hand,
'Our art, our strength, our fortitude, require!
'Of foes intestine, what a numerous band
'Against this little throb of life conspire!
'Yet Science can elude their fatal ire
'Awhile, and turn aside Death's levelled dart,
'Sooth the sharp pang, allay the fever's fire,
'And brace the nerves once more, and cheer the heart,
'And yet a few soft nights and balmy days impart.

LII.

'Nor less to regulate man's moral frame
'Science exerts her all-composing sway.
'Flutters thy breast with fear, or pants for fame,
'Or pines, to indolence and spleen a prey,
'Or avarice, a fiend more fierce than they?
'Flee to the shade of Academus' grove;
'Whe