The golden verses of Pythagoras

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i The Golden Perfes of Pythagoras. € © The Golden Verfes of Pythagoras,nl -Choofe out the Man to Virtue, bet inclin’d; :| And think if it be worth thy while to gain, Of all thofe Sorrows that attend Mankind, Him to thy Arms receive, himto-thy.Bofom bind.‘ / E. With Patience bear the Lot to thee aflign’d; Nor think ir Chance, nor murmur at the Load; , Poffet of fuch a Friend}:- preftrye.him. fill’; Nor thwart his Counfels with thy Aubborn wi, For know what Man calls Fortune is from God. In what thou may’ft from Wifdom feek Relief, Pliant to sl} bis Admonirions ‘prove, © And yield to all his Offices of Love: Him from thy Heart, fo true, fa juftly dear, And let her healing Hand affwage the Grief; - Let no rafh Word nor light Offences tear, Yet (till whate’er the Righteous Doom ordains, What Caufe foever multiplies thy Pains, Bear ail thou cant, fill with his Failings ftrive, And to the utmolì (till, -and full forgive; Roufes and urges on the lazy Heart, Let not thofe Pains as Ills be underftood; .For God delights not to affli& the Good. The Reas'ning Art to various Ends apply’d, ‘ Is oft a fure, but oft an erring Guide. Force, to its felf unknown before, vexert. “Thy Judgment therefore found and cool prelerve; ‘For ftrong Neceflity alone explores. The fecret Vigour of our latent Pow’rs, Thy Giut'ony, thy Sloth, thy Luft, thy Rage? From each difhoneft AQ of Shame forbear; Of others, and thy felf, alike beware, Let Rev’rence of thy felf thy Thoughts control; And fweet Perfualion wins the Eafy to believe, When Fools and Liars labour to perfuade, Be dumb, and let the Bablers vainly plead. .. . ; This above all, this Precept chiefly learo,:This nea'ry does, and firft, thy {elf concerns Let not Example, let no foothing Tongue, : And guard the facred Temple of thy Soul. -. And Reafon ev'n thy mesneft Aétions guides > : i -. Prevail upon thee with a Siren’s Song, To do thy Soul's Immortal Effence wrong). Of Good and Ill by Words or Deeds expreft, Choofe for thy felf, and always choofe the bet, For know that Death.is Man’s appointed Doom,Cs o Know that the Day of great Account will come, o ‘When thy paft Life Mall ftriétly be furvey'd, © Fach Word, each Deed be in the Balance laid,, i Nor lightly from thy Refolution fwerve ; " The dazling Pomp of Words does oft deceive, By ufe thy ftronger Appetites affwage, Let Juftice o'er thy Word and Deed prefide, 7 A Revolve the Getter’s Joy and Lofer’s Pain, For what concerns the reft of Humane-kind, :; ©‘ And all the Good and all the IN} moft juftly be repaid, £ | | Let wary Thought each Enterprize forerun, And ponder on thy Task before begun, Left Folly fhou’d the wretchedWork deface, For Wealth, the perifhing, uncertain Good, Ebbing and flowing like the fickle Flood, And mock thy fruitlefs Labours with Difgrace, That knows. no fure, no fix'd: abiding Place, Bus wandring loves from Hand to Hand to pafti - Ag Revolve . Fools.

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“no. The:Golden, Pa of Pythagoras . And free from ev’ry Pain fhe felt before.. Abftain, I warn, from Meats unclean and foul, , So keep thy Body pure, fo free thy Soul; What bounds. the Parts;¿nd what unites the Wholes: | T° How univerfal Natureisthe fame ;5 ” Soon fhalt thou perfect bein all that I ordain, ' È . Thy wounded Soul to Healch thou fhalt reftore, Immortal Gods and mortal Men to know. And rightly judge, inall this wondrous.Frame, | Thefe if to know thou happily attain, et So {hall thy abler:Mind be‘taughc to far, And Wifdominher fecter Ways explore; ' er A To range through Heav’a above and Earth below, So fhalt thow learn what Pow'r does-all control, The Golden Verfes of Pythagoras, | it: So rightly judge 3 thy Reafon, fo, maintain; » * * Reafon which Heav'n did for thy Guide ordain, ‘ = 6 Let that, beft Reafon ever hold the Rein. So. fhalt thou ne'er. thy vain Affections place On Hopes of what fhall never come to. país, Man, ‚wretched Man, thou fhalt be taught to know; | Who bears withinhimfelf-the inborn Caufe of Woc. * Unhappy Race! that never yet could tell, How near their Good and:Rappinefsthey dwell. 7 Then if this mortal Body thou forfake, And thy glad Flight to the pure ther take, ' Among the Gods exalted fhalc thou fhine, : Immortal, Incorruptible, Divine The ‘Tyrant Death fecurely fhalt thou brave, Aad feorn the dark Dominion of the Grave: .. Petter’dia Vice, they. feck not to be free, , The Weight that loads"em makes "em roll on fil= But ftupid; to their own fad Fate agree: Like pond’rous Rolling-ftones, opprefs’d with I. Berefe of-Choice and Freedom of the Will. For native Strife in ev’ry Bofom reigns,. ‘And fecretly.an impious War: maîntains:. Provoke not TH1s, but let the Combat ceafe, And ev’ry yielding Paffion fue for Peace. Wouldft thou, great 7ove, thou Father of -Mankind,. Reveal the Demos for that’ Task affign’d, The wretched Race an End of Woes would find. | And yet be bold,.O-Man, Divine thou art, And of the Gods Celeftial Effence Parto. Nor facred Nature is from thee. conceal’d,. Bat to thy Race. her: myftick. Rules reveal'd. IN Thefe: - THE MIiSCLELLANES ras vista WA Cara Lin SS Resa =