pow

of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to

the duties of their respective offices; and heshall have pow-

er to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the

Such is the pow'r of love in gentle mind

that it can alter all the course of kind.

Yet let us, unreprov'd, mis. spend our Hours,

And to mean Purposes employ our nobler Pow'rs.

They think, if we our Thoughts can but express,

And change the laws of ev'ry land?

Where thou hadst plac'd such pow'r before,

Thou shouldst have made her mercy more.

Nay, had I pow’r, I should

Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell . . .

And change the laws of ev'ry land?

Where thou hadst plac'd such pow'r before,

Thou shouldst have made her mercy more.

O swiftly speed ! let nought thy journey stay :

To guide thee safe each seargreen pow*r I'll pray^ ^

And Eolus, whom winds in caTem'd rocks obey.

Nor force nor fraud could turn my steps aside;

Unaw’d by pow’r, and unappall’d by fear,

With honest thrift I held my honour dear;