'Till peace, fair Goddess, spreads her balmy
wings,
And grace benignly lifts the prostrate Kings,
The Kings arise, the gates of Janus close,
" And Britain gives the weary world repose ;
300 " Now casts her eye thro' ev'ry various zone,
" And counts a hundred different climes her own :"
Here, right of conquest pleads a boon to fame,
And here, the sword prescribes the Sovereign's claim.
Not so, endear'd by nature's kindly tie,
305 Belov'd Columba meets her
Parent's eye,
Pleas'd she surveys her darling's fair
domains,
Her fleecy mountains, and her bearded plains,
Where peace and plenty rule with union sway,
Where Britain's genius beams politick day.
IN subsequent parts of his Introduction, among other
just sentiments and true observations respecting the Co-
lonies, he says, That, although, in their more early pe-
riods, the rules of government might be exactly suit-
ed to their conditions, yet, as measures of policy ought
ever to vary with circumstances, that system which
were wife and sufficient at one period would be weak
and defective at another ; therefore, that the consti-
tutions of the Colonies ought to be determined by their
conditions.—He says, That the period of reform in
the