As beauteous Tweed, and wealth-importing Thames, Flow each the envy of their country's streams: So, lovelieft of her fex, my heav'nly maid Appears, and all their fainter glories fade. 115 MELAENIS, whom love's foft inchantments arm, Replete with charms, and confcious of each charm, Oft on the glaffy stream, with raptur'd eyes, Unhappy fwain, whose wishes fondly ftray, "To flow-consuming fruitless fires a prey! 120 125 130 Say, will thofe fighs and tears for ever flow "In hopeless torment, and determin'd woe? "Our fields, by nature's bounty bleft, as thine "The mellow apple yield, and purple vine; "Thofe too thou lov'ft; their free enjoyment share, "Nor plant vain tedious hopes, and reap despair." ME ME oft Lycisca, in the festive train, 135 Views, as the lightly bounds along the plain : Straight, with diffembled fcorn, away fhe flies; Yet ftill on me obliquely turns her eyes : While, to the mufic of her trembling ftrings, Amidst the dance sweet warbling, thus fhefings: 140 "No tears the just revenge of heav'n can move; "Heav'n's just revenge will punish flighted love. "I've seen a huntsman, active as the morn, "Salute her earliest blush with founding horn; « Pursue the bounding ftag with op'ning cries, 145 "And flight the timid hare, his easy prize : "Then, with the setting fun, his hounds restrain i "Nor bounding stag, nor timid hare, obtain. "I've seen the sportsman latent nets display, "To catch the feather'd warblers of the spray; 150 Defpife the finch that flutter'd round in air, "And court the sweeter linnet to his fnare: "Yet weary, cold, fuccefslefs, leave the plain; "Nor painted finch, nor fweeter linnet, gain. * I've seen a youth the polifh'd pipe admire, 155 " And scorn the simple reed the swains infpire: "The fimple reed yet chears each tuneful swain; "While still unbleft the scorner pipes in vain. "Thus righteous heav'n chastises wanton pride, "And bids intemp'rate infolence fubfide." 160 THUS breathe the am'rous nymphs their fruitless pain, In ears impervious to the fofteft strain. But first with trembling lambs the wolf shall graze; First shall the tiger's fanguine thirst expire, 165 This deftin'd heart ere foft MELAENIS warm. my defires another object know. This infant bofom, yet in love untaught, From CHLOE firft the pleafing ardor caught : CHLOE CHLOE fhall still its faithful empire claim, 175 Its firft ambition, and its latest aim! Till ev'ry with, and ev'ry hope be o'er, PHILAN PHILANTHES: A MONOD Y, Infcribed to Mifs D-----y H-------I ; Occafioned by a series of interefting events which happened at Dumfries on Friday, June 12, 1752, particularly that of her Father's death, Quis defiderio fit pudor, aut modus Tam chari capitis? Præcipe lugubres Cantus MELPOMENE, cui liquidam pater HORAT. |