The needy cravings of the unportion'd poor

Provoke their jealous wrath; relentlessly

Tenacious of their store, they shut him out,

'Midst desart Famine, and ferocious Beasts,

To guard his life and till the steril soil;

And thus extend the range of human feet.

  Still as Experience, in her tardy school,

Instructs the Shepherd and the Husbandman

To great increase their flocks and herds to rear,

To till the ground, and plant the fruitful tree

In slow progression rising into use,

Nurtur'd by Her the infant Arts appear.

While sage Experience thus teaches Man

The useful and the pleasant Arts of Life,

She in harsh lectures, in the frequent broil,

Enjoins her Pupil still to cultivate

The fatal, necessary Art of War.

  The Artizan, who from metallic ores

Forms the sharp implements to dress the glebe,

And prune the wild luxuriance of the tree; ...

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