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Thus in our looks some propagation lies, For we make babies in each other's eyes!

TO MRS

TO ROSA.

Does the harp of Rosa slumber?
Once it breathed the sweetest number!
Never does a wilder
song

Steal the breezy lyre along,
When the wind, in odours dying,
Woos it with enamour'd sighing.

Does the harp of Rosa cease?
Once it told a tale of peace
To her lover's throbbing breast-
Then he was divinely blest!
Ah! but Rosa loves no more,
Therefore Rosa's song is o'er;
And her harp neglected lies;
And her boy forgotten sighs.
Silent harp-forgotten lover-
Rosa's love and song are over!

SYMPATHY.

TO JULIA.

-sine me sit nulla Venus.

OUR hearts, my love, were doom'd to be

The genuine twins of Sympathy:
They live with one sensation:
In joy or grief, but most in love,
Our heart-strings musically move,

And thrill with like vibration.

How often have I heard thee say,
Thy vital pulse shall cease to play
When mine no more is moving!
Since, now, to feel a joy alone

Were worse to thee than feeling none:
Such sympathy in loving!

And, oh! how often in those eyes,
Which melting beam'd like azure skies
In dewy vernal weather-
How often have I raptured read
The burning glance, that silent said,
. Now, love, we feel together? »

TO JULIA.

I SAW the peasant's hand unkind From yonder oak the ivy sever; They seem'd in very being twined;

Yet now the oak is fresh as ever.

Not so the widow'd ivy shines:

Torn from its dear and only stay, In drooping widowhood it pines,

And scatters all its blooms away! Thus, Julia, did our hearts entwine,

SULPICIA.

Till Fate disturb'd their tender ties: Thus gay indifference blooms in thine, While mine, deserted, droops and dies!

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And Heaven punishes desires

As much as if the deed were done.

If wishing damns us, you and I

Are damn'd to all our heart's content;

Come then, at least we may enjoy

Some pleasure for our punishment!

TO ROSA.

WRITTEN DURING ILLNESS.

THE wisest soul, by anguish torn,
Will soon unlearn the lore it knew;
And when the shrining casket 's worn,
The gem within will tarnish too.

But love 's an essence of the soul,
Which sinks not with this chain of clay--
Which throbs beyond the chill control

Of withering pain or pale decay.

And surely when the touch of death

Dissolves the spirit's mortal ties, Love still attends the soaring breath, And makes it purer for the skies!

Oh, Rosa! when, to seek its sphere, My soul shall leave this orb of men, That love it found so blissful here

Shall be its best of blisses then!

And, as in fabled dreams of old,

Some airy genius, child of time, Presided o'er each star that roll'd,

And track'd it through its path sublime;

So thou, fair planet, not unled,

Shalt through thy mortal orbit stray; Thy lover's shade, divinely wed, Shall linger round thy wandering way.

Let other spirits range the sky,

And brighten in the solar gem; I'll bask beneath that lucid eye, Nor envy worlds of suns to them!

And oh! if airy shapes may steal

To mingle with a mortal frame, Then, then, my love!--but drop the veil! Hide, hide from Heaven the unholy flame.

No!-when that heart shall cease to beat,

And when that breath at length is free; Then, Rosa, soul to soul we 'll meet, And mingle to eternity.

ANACREONTIQUE.

-—in lacrymas verterat omae merum.

Tin. lib. i, eleg. 5.

PRESS the grape, and let it pour Around the board its purple shower; And while the drops my goblet steep, I'll think-in woe the clusters weep.

Weep on, weep on, my pouting vine!
Heaven grant no tears, but tears of wine.
Weep on; and, as thy sorrows flow,
I'll taste the luxury of woe!

ANACREONTIQUE.

FRIEND of my soul! this goblet sip,
"I will chase that pensive tear;
'T is not so sweet as woman's lip,
But, oh! 't is more sincere.
Like her delusive beam,

'T will steal away thy mind;
But, like affection's dream,

It leaves no sting behind!

Come, twine the wreath, thy brows to shade;
These flowers were cull'd at noon;-

Like woman's love the rose will fade,
But ah! not half so soon!

For, though the flower 's decay'd,
Its fragrance is not o'er;
But once when love's betray'd,

The heart can bloom no more!

- Neither do I condemn thee! go, and sin no more!» ST Joux, chap. viii.

Оn, woman, if by simple wile

Thy soul has stray'd from honour's track, 'T is mercy only can beguile,

By gentle ways, the wanderer back.

The stain that on thy virtue lies,

Wash'd by thy tears may yet decay; As clouds that sully morning skies May all be wept in showers away.

Go go-be innocent, and live

The tongues of men may wound thee sore; But Heaven in pity can forgive,

And bids thee Go, and sin no more!.

LOVE AND MARRIAGE.

Eque brevi verbo ferre perenne malum.-SECUNDUS, eleg. vii.

STILL the question I must parry,

Still a wayward truant prove:
Where I love, must not marry,
Where I marry, cannot love.

Were she fairest of creation,
With the least presuming mind;
Learned without affectation;
Not deceitful, yet refined;

Wise enough, but never rigid;

Gay, but not too lightly free; Chaste as snow, and yet not frigid; Warm, yet satisfied with me:

Were she all this, ten times over, All that Heaven to earth allows, I should be too much her lover Ever to become her spouse.

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