7HAT time the jocund rofie-bofom'd HOURS W And ZEPHYR mild profusely scatter'd flowers Thr MORN unbarr'd th' ambrofial gates of light, The nightingale no longer fwell'd her throat The And my free'd foul awhile her manfion fled, To try her plumes for immortality. Thro' fields of air, methought, I took my flight, HESPERIAN garden, or CIMMERIAN wafte. On Avon's banks I lit, whofe ftreams appear To wind with eddies fond round SHAKESPEAR's tomb, The year's first feath'ry songsters warble near, And vi'lets breathe, and earliest roses bloom. Here FANCY fat, (her dewy fingers cold Ah! what avails, fhe cry'd, a Poet's name? Let gentle OTWAY, white-rob'd PITY's prieft, For For not to these his genius was confin'd, And the wing'd words that waft the foul to heaven: The fiery glance of th' intellectual eye,. Which on this world's extended furface lie ; O grant, with eager rapture I reply'd, Grant me, great goddess of the changeful eye, To view each Being in poetic pride, To whom thy fon gave immortality. Sweet FANCY fmil'd, and wav'd her myftic rod, As vaffalfprites obey the wizard's charm. First a celestial form (of azure hue Whose mantle, bound with brede ætherial, flow'd To each soft breeze its balmy breath that drew) Swift down the fun-beams of the noon-tide rode. Obedient to the necromantic fway Of an old fage to folitude refign'd, With fenny vapors he obfcur'd the day, Launch'd the long lightning, and let loofe the wind. Ariel in the Tempeft. He whirl'd the tempeft thro' the howling air, Betwixt the fea-green waves and azure sky, Then, like heav'n's mild embassador of love To man repentant, bade the tumult cease, Smooth'd the blue bofom of the realms above, And hush'd the rebel elements to peace, Unlike to this in fpirit or in mien b Another form fucceeded to my view; A two-legg'd brute which Nature made in spleen, Or from the loathing womb unfinish'd drew. Scarce cou'd he fyllable the curfe he thought, Prone were his eyes to earth, his mind to evil, A carnal fiend to imperfection wrought, The mongrel offspring of a Witch and Devil. с Next bloom'd, upon an ancient forest's bound, On the green carpet of th' unbended grass, Fairy-land from the Midfummer night's dream. Thro' these the queen TITANIA pass'd ador'd, Journeying to fee great OBERON her lord Wage the mock battles of a sportive war. Arm'd cap-a-pee forth march'd the fairy king, His threat'ning lance a hornet's horrid sting, Around their chief the elfin hoft appear'd, The fcene then chang'd, from this romantic land, d Were mutt'ring curfes to the troublous wind. Pale Want had wither'd every furrow'd face, Hors'd on three ftaves they pofted to the bourn Of a rough rock, fhagg'd horribly with thorn, Frown'd on the boift'rous waves which rag'd below. d The witches in Macbeth. Deep |