LIVERPOOL, A POEM. 195 To foreign fhores the labour'd products fly, Thofe foreign fhores the wiflr’d exchange fupply; Some kind return the homeward veflel brings, And mutual wealth from mutual traffic fprings. Hence focial life her polifh’d manners drew, Hence every art and every fcience grew; For fcience Hill on cultur’d life attends, And art improves where opulence befriends. Each want removed, each bufy care at reft, Now other wifhes ftimulate the breaft; The thirft of knowledge thirft of wealth fucceeds, Repofing eafe to contemplation leads ; Surrounding objedts feize the vacant mind,— Earth how created, for what end delign’d ; Of matter what the effence or the caufe, How nature works, her principles and laws; What hidden powers the known effedt perform ; How fwells the tide, or what awakes the ftorm ; Whence rolls the thunder, whence defcends the fhow’r ; How vegetation feeds each plant or flower, Or what gives all creation to the fight; What the myfterious qualities of light; How objedts through the eye a paflage find, And carry in their likenefs to the mind. A bolder effort next the ftudent tries, And aims to trace die fcience of the Ikies; Thro’ fpace fublime with daring Newton foars, The vaft expanfe, the boundlels plan explores ; Marks by what laws the complex fyftem rolls, What myftic force the circling orb controls. Or turns, perhaps, his ftudies to his kind, , And fcans the darker mazes of the mind; With Locke unfolds the intellectual plan, The human foul, the myftery of man. APPENDIX