Or the contending powers of opposite

Attractions, that impel, and poize, and guide,

The ever-rolling Spheres: Animal War,

The flux of Life, devouring and devour'd,

Ceaseless in every tribe, through Earth, and Air,

And Ocean, transcends my utmost ken.

  From obvious truths my Song has aim'd to shew

That War is an inevitable Ill;

An Ill through Nature's various Realms diffus'd;

An Ill subservient to the General Good.

  With sympathetic sense of human woes

Deeply impress'd, the melancholy Muse

With modesty asserts this mournful Truth:

'Tis not in human wisdom to avert,

Though every feeling heart must sure lament,

The SAD NECESSITY of FATAL WAR.

 ELEGY 

 ON THE ENCLOSURE OF HONINGTON GREEN. 

 [Motives of Enclosure.—Natural Pleasures and humble Convenience lost by it.—Recollections of the Spot.... The Mother.—The Father.—Character of his Mind.—The Widow.... Maternal Cares.—The Green.... It's Beauties and Pleasures.—The Enclosure in general less an object to the Poor.—Under whatever Change the Man will adapt itself.—The new Scene will find it's Admirers.—Pleasures are as the Mind and it's Habits.] 

                 

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