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IMPROVEMENT OF SCIPIO'S BOAST.
"I HAVE no soldier that would count his life
"Too dear should I require it at his hand;
"He the rough surge would brave—the battle's strife,
"Or from the high rock leap at my command."
This was the boast of Scipio—Christian—hear!
Thou hast a chieftain of more equal laws,
Count not thine ease, or thine existence dear,
If thou may'st win at last His great applause.
THE REPLY OF THE PHILOSOPHER ANAXARCHUS.
IN ancient times a tyrant's wrath decreed,
The hated wise man by his arts to bleed.
He, while the murd'rous blows with rage were dealt,
