To serve the Publick faithfully, and at the same time please it Proud Modern Learning despises the antient: Schoolmen are nowOh! blind to Joys, that from true Bounty flow,To think those eer repent whose Hearts bestow!Man to his Maker thus best Homage pays,Thus peaceful walks thro Virtues pleasing Ways:Her gentle Image on the Soul imprest,Bids each tempestuous Passion leave the Breast:Thence with her livid Self-devouring SnakesPale Envy flies; her Quiver Slander breaks:Thus falls (dire Scourge of a distracted Age!)The Knave-led, one-eyd Monster, Party Rage.Poor Richard Improved(1758)
_________________Christopher Joel Dandrow