Identifier: columbianmagazin21788phil (find matches)
Title: The Columbian magazine : or, monthly miscellany
Year: 1788 (1780s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia : T. Seddon, W. Spotswood, C. Cist & J. Trenchard
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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( 109 ) The COLUMBIAN PARNASSIAD. On a late Melancholy Event, Feb. 1788. • LONG, piety to fate exclaimd,l^t : Long have 1 feen thy laws, And hcavns, jy impious man defamd,Nor eer withheld applaufe. • Tho ignorance, to prove mc fent, Oblcurd th enquiring; mind,Juitice I ownd, with firm intent, To every lcour_;e rellgnd. When vice by arts detefted throve, Grown hoary in fuccefs;When worth with fortune vainly ftrove, I bletsd not heavn the lefs. * When to the breaft of Lmguine youth Thy dart deftruttive flew,Or ipoild the earth of fpotlefs truth, Did I its havoc rue ? I But come, thou end of all, with art Superior arm my foul,And teach not to condemn a part, But wonder at the whole. * Now firmeft virtue, Fate replied, The trial fad demands.Now lours the itorm, that, roaring wide, Shall break oer weflern lands. •c Where peace her empire fixd of yore, (Sound deeper, human fighs)Ill-boding to the frozen more, Aquarius mall aide. * Two lovers then, to pafs the flream, Will guide th

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