Invocation to Genius.

Genius awaken in this new-born land,

Hold o'er these climes thy sceptre of command;
Here wave thy banners, sound thy trump of Fame,
And give to Glory the Columbian name;
Drive darkness far before thy golden ray
And let us live beneath thy noon of day----
Some native bard O kindle with thy fire!
And bid him pour the torrent of thy lyre,
Unfold thy visions to his searching mind,

Thy wreaths of laurel round his temples bind!

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POWERS OF GENIUS.

PART II.

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Argument.

Education necessary to give Genius its full power and usefulness. Beattie's Edwin described.. Milton. Johnson. Sir William Tones. Subject of Genius. Satire. Genius, though daring, excels also in subjects of the most soft and pleasing kind. Virgil's Eclogues. Petrarch. Gray Cowper. The force of Fiction. Hous seau. Richardson Fielding. Gentis. Purney. Rabolijf?. Female Genius. The varied direction of Genius.