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    Two Juvenile Productions of Locke's. 233

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    To The Editor Of The Monthly Repository.

    At p . I' £ of the collection are these English verses on the same subject z If Gtetct with sa much mirth did entertain ( Htt Argo coming laden home again With what loud mirth and triutnph

    shau we greet The wsht approaches of our welcome . fleet ! When of that prize our ships do us possess , Whereof their fleet was but an emblem , . Peace / Whose welcome Voice sounds sweeter

    in our ears Than the loud music of the warbling spheres ; And , ravishing more than those , doth plainly show . That sweetest harmony we to discprd

    owe Each seaman ' s voice , pronouncing peace , doth charm / And seems a Syrens , but that it hat less harm And danger in it , and jet like their ' s doth please

    Above ail other , and make us love the seas . We have heav ' n in this peace ; like souls above , V ' We have nought to do now but admire and love . Glory of war is victory ; but here Both glorious , because neither ' *

    conqueror . It had been less honour if it might be said , They fought with those that could be conquered . , Our reunited seas , like streams that grow , Into one river , do the smoother flow ;

    Where ships no longer grapple , but like those The loving seamen in embraces close . We need no fire-ships now , a nobler tattc Of love doth us protect , whereby our name V

    Thou , sov e reign prince , to both superior far , Guiding in peace the world thou ' st gain'd by war .. From heav ' n we hail tnee , of no mortal race , Who canst alone two deities surpass . * Set the Extract frdni Vox ' s Htistory in M . Rep . vol . iii . 3 x 7 , & .

    To The Editor Of The Monthly Repository.

    Shall shine more glorious , —a flame as pure As those of heav ' n , and shallas long endure : This shall direct our ships , and he that steers Shall not consult heavVs fires , but

    those he bears In his own breast . ] Let Lilly threaten wars * Whilst this conjunction lasts we'll fear no stars . Our ships are now most beneficial

    grown , Since they bring home no spoils but what's their own , . Unto these branchless pines our forward spring

    Owes better fruit than autunin * s wont ( to bring ; Which give not only gems and Indian ore , But add at once whole nations to our

    store . -Nay , if to make a world ' s but to compose The difference of things , and make them close

    In mutual amity , and cause peace to creep Out of the jarring chaos of the deep t Our ships do this ; so that , whilst others take

    Their course about the world , our ' s a world make . J . JLoc ^ e , Student of Gh . Ch . It is creditable to Locke , that his English verses are entirely in praise of peace ; while his classical flattery of the Protector , whom , however , neither Sydney

    nor Milton disdained to serv : e was confined to the comparatively few readers of a learned language * On another point he was distinguished from his co-adjtitors . He never feang his palinodia on the return of the Stuarts , to whom he was indebted for nothing but

    persecution . * R .

    Two Juvenile Productions Of Locke's. 233

    Two Juvenile Productions of Locke ' 233

    *Oz* V, 2 N

    * oz * v , 2 n

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1810, page 233, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02051810/page/17/