Here you will find the Poem Sonnet LXXVI. To A Young Man Entering The World of poet Charlotte Smith
GO now, ingenious youth!--The trying hour Is come: The world demands that thou shouldst go To active life: There titles, wealth, and power, May all be purchased--Yet I joy to know Thou wilt not pay their price. The base control Of petty despots in their pedant reign Already hast thou felt;--and high disdain Of tyrants is imprinted on thy soul-- Not, where mistaken Glory, in the field Rears her red banner, be thou ever found: But, against proud Oppression raise the shield Of patriot daring--So shalt thou renown'd For the best virtues live ; or that denied May'st die, as Hampden or as Sydney died!
