To Ruin
to ruin all hail! inexorable lord! at whose destru-breathing word, the mightiest empires fall! thy cruel, woe-delighted train, the ministers of grief and pain, a sullen wele, all! with stern-resolv'd, despairing eye, i see each aimed dart; for one has cut my dearest tie, and quivers in my heart. then l, and p, the storm no more i dread; tho' thiing, and blaing, round my devoted head. and thou grim pow'r by life abhorr'd, while life a pleasure afford, oh! hear a wretch's pray'r! nor more i shrink appall'd, afraid; i court, i beg thy friendly aid, to close this se of care! when shall my soul, in silent peace, resign life's joyless day— my weary heart its throbbing cease, ould'ring in the clay? no fear more, no tear more, to stain my lifeless face, enclasped, and grasped, within thy cold embrace!