Excerpt from The Works of the English Poets, Vol. 26: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical Bereft of choice and fxeedom of the will 5 For native firife in every bol'om reigns, And fecretly an impious war maintains Provoke not this, but let the combat ceafe, And every yielding pallion fue for peace. Would'fi thou, great Jove, thou father of mankind Reveal the Batman for that talk allign'd, The wretched race an end of woes would find. And yet be hold, 0 man, divine thou art, And of the gods celeftial ell'ence part. Nor facred nature is from thee conceal'd, But to thy race her myflic rules xeveal'd. Thefe if to know thou happily attain, Soon [halt than perfect be in all that I ordain. Thy wounded foul to health thou lhalt reflore, An l free from every pain lhc felt before. Abllain, I warn, from meats unclean and foul, So keen thy body pure, (0 free thy loul; So rightly judge; thy teafon fo maintain; Reafon which heaven did for thy guide ordain, Let that belt reafon ever hold the rein. Then if this mortal body thou forfake, And thy glad flight to the pure tether take, Among the gods exalted (halt thou thine, Immortal, incorruptible, divine: T he tyrant death lecure/y 013k thou brave, And leom {ire dark dam/gen of the gra we. 4. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.