Excerpt from Poems on Various Subjects Mammon-defpotic King - how great thy fway Thy nod refii'tlefs-m all Mankind obey. Love, Honour, F riendihlp, deaf to Virtue's call, Before thy fhrine, with rev'rence profirate fall Thy glitt'ring beam, warms the pale Coward's heart, And barbs, with deadly ills, the Soldier's dart. Great Chymif't of the mind! Thou canfi tranfmute Nature's pure metal, 'till it forms a brute. Hail, Tyrant of Mankind! Behold thy train! Behold the emblems of thy hellifh reign! Around thy throne, how many woes attend A faithiefs lover, or pretended friend. 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.