And destined all the treasure there Moral. "Tis Providence alone fecures In every change both mine and yours: From dangers of a frightful shape; ODE TO APOLLO. On an Ink-glafs almoft dried in the Sun. ATRON of all thofe lucklefs brains, Ah why, fince oceans, rivers, ftreams, Pay tribute to thy glorious beams, Why, stooping from the noon of day, Too covetous of drink, Apollo, haft thou stolen away A poet's drop of ink? Upborne into the viewless air, It floats a vapour now, Impell'd through regions dense and rare By all the winds that blow. Ordain'd perhaps ere summer flies, To form an Iris in the skies, Illuftrious drop! and happy then Phœbus, if fuch be thy defign, Give wit, that what is left may shine The filent A COMPARISON. HE lapfe of time and rivers is the fame, Both speed their journey with a restless ftream; pace, with which they steal away, No wealth can bribe, no prayers perfuade to stay; Alike irrevocable both when past, And a wide ocean fwallows both at laft. A difference ftrikes at length the mufing heart; ANOTHER. Addreffed to a young Lady. WEET ftream, that winds through yon der glade, Apt emblem of a virtuous maid Silent and chafte fhe fteals along, Far from the world's gay bufy throng; With gentle yet prevailing force, Bleffing and bleft where'er she goes, THE POET'S NEW-YEAR'S GIFT. To Mrs. (afterwards Lady) Throckmorton. ARIA! I have every good For thee wish'd many a time, To wish thee fairer is no need, What favour then not yet poffeff'd In wedded love already blest, To thy whole heart's defire? None here is happy but in part: There dwells fome wish in every heart, That wish on fome fair future day, PAIRING TIME ANTICIPATED. A Fable. SHALL not ask Jean Jaques Rousseau* "Tis clear, that they were always able To hold difcourfe, at least in fable; And e'en the child who knows no better A ftory of a cock and bull, Must have a moft uncommon fkull. It chanced then on a winter's day, grove, * It was one of the whimsical speculations of this philosopher, that all fables, which ascribe reason and speech to animals, should be withheld from children, as being only vehicles of deception. But what child was ever deceived by them, or can be, against the evidence of his fenfes ? |