But when, with brighter flames bespread, The Muse shall seek the deepest grove, The Fawns and Satyrs all around, The genuine Bard shall these descry, No vulgar ear, no vulgar eye, Shall see their haunts, shall hear her song. But let them hail that hallow'd hour, The sweetest theme, in sweetest strain, Him Glory deck'd with deathless meed. I Then now, when Eve with chaster light And by each dear and sacred stream, How Innocence with virgin fáce, No more in riot orgies dwell. And Contemplation's spirit clear, FROM THE GERMAN OF LESSING. I ASK'D my fair, one happy day, Laura, Lesbia, Delia, Doris, Dorimene or Lucrece ? Ah replied my gentle fair, Beloved, what are names but air? PHILADELPHIA. HARLEY. THE PANSY. WHEN the young Spring her feather'd train recalls, C. SNEYD EDGEWORTH. MELANCHOLY. WE HEN the tempest howls rough thro' the dark wither'd grove, And the rude blasts of Winter all Nature deform; Amid the dire scenes unappall'd I could rove, And rest undisturb'd by the rage of the storm. Yet why, when the wild winds of Winter are flown, When hush'd to repose are the waves on the sea; When Spring o'er the earth her green mantle has thrown, And the sweet voice of Gladness is heard from each tree; When all the fair objects that earth can bestow, When the blushes of morn tinge the clouds of the east, I seek the lone cave on the wave-beaten shore Where the sea-bird screams wild as she starts from her nest, And the loud-sounding surge in the hollow rocks roar: I mark the tall cliff, hoary, rugged, and bare, That rears its broad breast in the midst of the waves, Where the mermaid, they say, often combs her dark hair, And sings o'er the sailors that rest in their graves. When the sun sinks behind the high hills of the west, And compare all my joys to the sun's setting beam. I see with regret where the hawthorn once stood, And the yellow furze blossom'd, the marks of the plough, Yet pleas'd I behold the rock shatter'd and rude, And view with delight the bleak mountain's bare brow. Beneath the green elm waving dark in the air, Oft I sit while the moon lights her lamp in the skyAh! why must I tell that my Peggy sleeps there, And that there all my hopes and my happiness lye? ARBROATH, W. A. EPIGRAM, FROM LESSING, On a Volume of Epigrams. POINT in his foremost epigram is found: |