ON A PLANT OF VIRGIN'S BOWER,

Defigned to cover a Garden-feat.

HRIVE, gentle plant! and weave a
bower

For Mary and for me,

And deck with many a fplendid flower
Thy foliage large and free.

Thou cameft from Eartham, and wilt shade

(If truly I divine)

Some future day the illuftrious head
Of him who made thee mine.

Should Daphne show a jealous frown,
And Envy feize the Bay,
Affirming none fo fit to crown

Such honour'd brows as they,

Thy cause with zeal we shall defend,
And with convincing power;

For why should not the Virgin's friend
Be crown'd with Virgin's Bower?

Spring of 1793.

ON RECEIVING HEYNE'S VIRGIL

FROM MR. HAYLEY.

SHOULD have deem'd it once an effort vain

To fweeten more fweet Maro's match

less strain,

But from that error now behold me free
Since I received him as a gift from thee.

Oct. 1793.

END OF VOL. I.

C. Whittingham, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane.