ELE GY V. He compares the turbulence of love with the tranquillity of friendship. FR TO MELISSA his Friend. ROM love, from angry love's inclement reign I pass awhile to friendship's equal skies; Thou, gen'rous maid, reliev'st my partial pain, And chear'ft the victim of another's eyes. 'Tis thou, MELISSA, thou deserv❜ft my care: Ah dear MELISSA! pleas'd with thee to rove, Love is a pleafing, but a various clime! So fmiles immortal MARO's fav'rite shore, And the dry vapour blafts the regions round. Oh Oh blissful regions! oh unrival'd plains! So fmiles the furface of the treacherous main, As o'er its waves the peaceful halcyons play; When foon rude winds their wonted rule regain, And sky and ocean mingle in the fray.. But let or air contend, or ocean rave; **** EL EGY VI. To a lady on the language of birds. HOME then, DIONE, let us range the grove, CON The science of the feather'd choirs explore; My doubt fubfides-'tis no Italian fong, And come, my mufe! that lov'ft the filvan shade; Penfive beneath the twilight fhades I fate, The flave of hopeless vows, and cold disdain! When PHILOMEL addrefs'd his mournful mate, And thus I conftru'd the mellifluent ftrain. Sing on, my bird-the liquid notes prolong, He the fad fource of our complaining knows Yon' plains are govern'd by a peerless maid; Ere while no fhepherd to thefe woods retir'd; Chear'd Chear'd by the fun, the vaffals of his pow'r, ELE G Y VII. He describes his vifion to an acquaintance. Cætera per terras omnes animalia, &c. Ο N diftant heaths, beneath autumnal skies, VIRG. Penfive I faw the circling fhades defcend ; Weary and faint I heard the ftorm arise, While the fun vanifh'd like a faithlefs friend. No kind companion led my steps aright; Then the dull bell had giv'n a pleafing found; While the rude ftorm alone diftrefs'd mine ear. As led by ORWELL'S winding banks I ftray'd, Where tow'ring WOLSEY breath'd his native air; A fudden luftre chas'd the flitting shade, The founding winds were hufh'd, and all was fair. Inftant Inftant a grateful form appear'd confeft; That with the glowing purple ting'd the ground. "Stranger, he faid, amid this pealing rain, Benighted, lonefome, whither wou'dft thou ftray? Does wealth or pow'r thy weary step constrain ? Reveal thy wish, and let me point the way. For know I trod the trophy'd paths of pow'r; I bade low hinds the tow'ring ardour share; Low at my feet the fuppliant peer I saw ; My smile was tranfport, and my frown was fate." Ah me! faid I, nor pow'r I feek, nor gain; A fimple youth, that feels a lover's pain, And, from his friend's condolance, hopes a cure. He, |