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The swift decline of fleeting life that tell!

Ah! can thought their force repel ?— With solemn brow she woos me to her seat,

Where oft 1 met the moralizing maid;
But the dim recess of shade

Explore shall duteous now my feet,
When Pleasure, with seductive mein,
Points her opening paths between,
And holds the goblet o'er whose side
Flows the inspiring juice, and bids me
quaff the tide?

II. 3.

O bear me to your blest retreats,
Your breathing bowers,exhaling sweets,
Where sportive zephyr flutters, shaking
Golden wings, and gently waking
All the myrtle-murmuring grove!
And there with thee my steps shall

rove,

Distant from each mortal care;

There Love shall aim his honied dart,
Thrill, but never wound the heart;
And melting maids, as yielding kind as
fair,

In dalliance dear, and amorous play,
Glancing looks of humid ray,
And sighing odours, as they go,
Shall, with the soul's delicious glow,
Lead me to the rosy bed

For blissful rites their hands have spread:

And ever ceaseless joys amassing, As the moments bright are passing, Attentive forms shall, mocking doom, Strow with oblivious flowers my passage to the tomb!

III. 1.

Long, a stranger to repose,

I prest the thorny couch of thought forlorn;

Yet bleeding with my bosom torn,

I called no power my weary eyes to close,

Jealous of my cherished woes:

And oft when dimly glimmering in her sphere Hung midnight's silent, solitary lamp, Wandering at her season damp,

I paused the torrent's roar to hear; Or when the moon, in fleecy shroud, Shrunk pale behind her fearful cloud, I loved, amid the soul-affrighting hours, To hear the rushing blast that raved among the towers!

III. 2.

Realms of rich delight and joy,

Oh! Pleasure, goddess of these plains, Ne'er changeful turn from thy adoring boy,

But give my hours their fond employ! She smiles, and fresher beauties clothe the scene;

Entrancing musick steals upon the air:
Drooping flower's their bloom repair,
And fling their fragrance round their
queen.

'Tis mine, in wished forgetfulness, The couch of luxury to press, And heaven itself receives me here:But soft! what seraph voice comes solemn on my ear?

III. 3.

"Mistaken youth! and dost thou deem The joys you grasp are not a dream, Thy cheated fancy quick pervading, And, alas! as quickly fading?

Soon the glittering prospect bright Will vanish from thy sickened sight. Touched by Reason's awful ire,

Unveiled appears the specious harm; Guilt remains for Pleasure's charm, And sad remorse for the indulged desire. He finds in harlot-lap carest, Innocence has left the breast.

E'en beneath the flowers concealed, On which thy limbs their langour yield, Care with serpent-form remains To sting the wretch with fiercer pains; And Death, o'er mad excess presiding, Marks his prey, each joy deriding!"The voice was nushed, or heard no more, And all was fled my sight of all that charmed before.

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For see his thin form o'er the favourite bend,

At length I reach secure your blest do. And the Grasshopper mourns for the loss

mains.

of his friend!

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V.

APOSTROPHE, TO THE RIVER NITH. [By John Mayne.]

HAIL, gentle stream! for ever dear
Thy rudest murmurs to mine ear!
Torn from thy banks, though far I rove,
Ne'er shall thy bard, where'er he be,
The slave of Poverty and Love,
Without a sigh remember thee!
For there my infant years began,
And there my happiest minutes ran;
And there, to love and friendship true,
The blossoms of affection grew!

Blythe on thy banks, thou sweetest stream
That ever nursed a poet's dream!
Oft have I, in forbidden time,
(If youth could sanctify a crime!)
With hazel-rod, and fraudful fly,
Ensnared thy unsuspecting fry;

The corse was embalmed at the set of the In pairs have dragged them from their den,

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Till, chaced by lurking fishermen, Away I've flown, as fleet as wind, My lagging followers far behind! And, when the vain pursuit was o'er, Returned successful as before!

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