VERSES BY ALEXANDER SELKIRK, 215 
LESSON LXXIV. 
VERSES SUPFOSED TO BE WRITTEN BY ALEXANDER BELKIKK 
(BOBINSON  ORUSOR), IN THE ISLAND OF JUAN FERNANDEZ, 
I am monarch of all I survey, 
My right there is none to dispute; 
From the centre all round to the sea, 
I am lord of the fowl and the brute, 
O solitude! where are the charms, 
Which sages have scen in thy face‘ 
Better dweil in the midst of alarms, 
Than reign in this horrible place. 
I am out of humanity’s reach, 
I must finish my journey alone, 
Never hear the sweet music of speech; 
I start at the sound of my own. 
The beasts that roam over the plain, 
My form with indifference see; 
They are so unacquainted with man, 
"heir tameness is shocking to me. 
Society, friendship, and love, 
Divinely bestow’d upon man, 
Oh! had I the wings of a dore, 
How soon would I taste you again, 
My sorrows I then might assauge 
In the ways of religion and truth; 
Might learn from the wisdom of age, 
And be cheer’d bv the sallies of youth