The Poetical Works of Henry Brooke ... In Four Volumes Octavo. Revised and corrected by the Original Manuscript With a Portrait of the Author, and His Life By Miss Brooke. The Third Edition |
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AIR XXXIV.
Duet between Justice and Jack.I
Arise, arise! arise!Each shape, and sort, and size
Of Honesty, where ye lye,
Unheeded, on dank or dry;
From cottages, shades, and sheds, to court,
My brothers of worth, and want, resort!
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For Virtue dawns a new born day!
Arise to labour, &c.
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To court, to court repair;Tho' destitute, poor, and bare;
And yet unskill'd in aught
That Euclid or Machiavel taught.
By naked probity, you acquire
A garb beyond the silk of Tyre;
And more than talents, and more than art,
Is furnish'd in an upright heart!
Chorus.
And more than, &c.
III
Let jolity e'en devourHis interval of an hour;
Yet, pity his transient roar,
For list—and he laughs no more!
The purest pleasures that guilt can bring,
Are like the tickling of a sting;
The tickling leaves no sweet behind;
The sting remains, and stabs the mind!
Chorus.
The tickling leaves, &c.
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But Virtue, in the breast,Composes her halcyon nest;
And sooths and smooths each storm,
That wou'd the fair seat deform;
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To cordial jolity, cordial glee!
The fountain of all that's blest and bright;
Of orient pleasure, of orient light!
Chorus.
The fountain, &c.
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And, from this mental dawn,O'er village, and lake, and lawn;
New radiance shall expand,
To brighten each dusky land;
While Truth, from this approving stage,
Shall beam through every act, and age!
CHORUS.
While Truth from this approving stage,
Shall beam through ev'ry act, and age.
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