340 TO THE REV. W. CAWTHORNE UNWIN.

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THE REV. W. CAWTHORNE UNWIN,

I.

UNWIN, I should but ill repay

The kindness of a friend,

Whose worth deferves as warm a lay,

As ever friendship penned,

Thy name omitted in a page,

That would reclaim a vicious age.

II.

An union formed, as mine with thee,

Not rafhly, or in fport,

May be as fervent in degree,

And faithful in its fort,

And may as rich in comfort prove,

As that of true fraternal love.

III.

The bud inferted in the rind,
The bud of peach or rofe,

Adorns, though differing in its kind,
The stock whereon it grows,
With flower as fweet, or fruit as fair,
As if produced by nature there.

TO THE REV. W. CAWTHORNE UNWIN.

IV.

Not rich, I render what I may,

I feize thy name in hafte, And place it in this firft essay,

Left this should prove the laft.

"Tis where it should be-in a plan, That holds in view the good of man,

V.

The poet's lyre, to fix his fame,

Should be the poet's heart;
Affection lights a brighter flame
Than ever blazed by art.

No muses on these lines attend,
I fink the poet in the friend,

END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

T. Benfley, Printer, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London.

341

Just published,
in four Volumes in Octavo,

A Translation of the

ILIAD AND ODYSSEY OF HOMER

into Blank Verse.

By W. CowPER, of the Inner Temple, Efq. The fecond Edition, with so many alterations as nearly entitle it to be called a new Tranflation.

Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-yard,

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