Excerpt from The Lady's Poetical Magazine, or Beauties of British Poetry; 1782, Vol. 3 Each year produces fuch another gucfi, With equal beauty, and with equal love Nor fear the foll'ring parents to provide, (tho' {mall the pittance Fortune has befiow'd) Sufficient nurture for their lovely babes; For well they know the Heav'nly Father fends, For all His children ev'ry thing they need; And foon they learn their little hands to raifc Devout, to how the fupplicating knee, And lifp their ev'ry want to Him who fees The heart fincere, and grants them all they alk. Content, that never leaves the happy pair, Smiling receives what bounteous Heav'n bellows, And never murmurs at the homely fare, But genuine thanks with grateful heart returns, Nor thinks {he can do lefs. - Not fo the great Tho' both the Indies roll their choicelt llores Of fruits and fpices grateful to the tafie, Made richer fiill by art, to give them food And tho' the purple grape, from France, from Spain, And fair Italia's fhore, is frequent prefs'd, To fill their mantling bowl with bev'rage rare; No God they thank, or own - but think it due To their difiinetion favour, deem it none. 0, may the pair my Mufe would fain defcribc, Ne'er with to talle the dainties of the greatl Nor other food receive without due thanks, (if mortal man can give to God due thanks At leal'c, fuch as they ought, and He requires Their pamp'ring viands, and their madd'ning drink, Surcharge the I'd-earns of life, and make them flow In groffer channels whence the tort'ring gout, And other various. Illnefs, take their rife; With thofe unknown, or very rarely found, Where Temperance with ceafelefs care prefides. I' Proceed. 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.