The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Parnassian Spring.

The following lines were addressed to a
person who expressed to be under concern
about a future state.

My Friend,

Be still, nor anxious thoughts employ,

Distrust embitters present joy;

On God for all events depend,

Thou can'st not want when God's

thy friend.

Weigh well thy part, and do thy

best,

Leave to Omnipotence the rest:

Sovereign love will ne'er desert,

The humble and the honest heart.

Heav'n may not grant thee all thy

mind,

Yet say not thou that Heav'n's unkind;

God is alike both good and wise,

In what he grants and what denies;

Perhaps what Goodness gives to-day,

To-morrow, Goodness, takes away;

Thou'lt say that troubles intervene,

That sorrows darken half the scene;

True--and thou this consequence

may'st see,

This world was ne'er designed for

thee;

Thou'rt like a passenger below,

That stays perhaps a night or so;

But till his native country lies,

Beyond the boundaries of the skies.

Of

Heav'n ask virtue, wisdom,

health,

But never let thy prayer be wealth;

If food be thine, though little gold,

And raiment to repel the cold;

Such as may nature's wants suffice,

Not what from pride and folly rise.

Watch the motions of thy soul;

A calm conscience crowns the whole:

Add but a friend to all this store,

Can'st thou in reason wish for more;

And if kind Heav'n this comfort

brings,

Tis more than is the lot of kings.