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Revil'd and lov'd, renounc'd and follow'd, Thus, bit by bit, the world is swallow'd; Each thinks his neighbour makes too free, Yet likes a slice as well as he;

With sophistry their sauce they sweeten, Till quite from tail to snout 'tis eaten.

THE LILY AND THE ROSE.

I.

THE nymph must lose her female friend,

If more admir'd than she

But where will fierce contention end,

If flowers can disagree?

II.

Within the garden's peaceful scene

Appear'd two lovely foes,

Aspiring to the rank of queen

The Lily and the Rose.

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III.

The rose soon redden'd into rage,

And, swelling with disdain,

Appeal'd to many a poet's page
To prove her right to reign.

IV.

The Lily's height bespoke command

A fair imperial flow'r;

She seem'd design'd for Flora's hand,

The sceptre of her pow'r.

V.

This civil bick'ring and debate

The goddess chanc'd to hear,

And flew to save, ere yet too late,

The pride of the parterre

VI.

Your's is, she said, the nobler hue,

And your's the statelier mien;

And, till a third surpasses you,
Let each be deem'd a queen.

VII.

Thus, sooth'd and reconcil'd, each seeks

The fairest British fair;

The seat of empire is her cheeks,

They reign united there.

IDEM LATINE REDDITUM.

I.

HEU inimicitias quoties parit æmula forma,

Quam raro pulchræ, pulchra placere potest?

Sed fines ultrà solitos discordia tendit,

Cum flores ipsos bilis et ira movent.

II.

Hortus ubi dulces præbet tacitosque recessûs, Se rapit in partes gens animosa duas;

Hic sibi regales Amaryllis candida cultûs,

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purpureo vindicat ore Rosa.

III.

Ira Rosam et meritis quæsita superbia tangunt, Multaque ferventi vix cohibenda sinû,

Dum sibi fautorum ciet undique nomina vatûm, Jusque suum, multo carmine fulta, probat.

IV.

Altior emicat illa, et celso vertice nutat,

Ceu flores inter non habitura parem, Fastiditque alios, et nata videtur in usûs

Imperii, sceptrum, Flora quod ipse gerat.

V.

Nec Dea non sensit civilis murmura rixæ,
Cui curæ est pictas pandere ruris opes.
Deliciasque suas nunquam non prompta tueri,
Dum licet et locus est, ut tueatur, adest.

VI.

Et tibi forma datur procerior omnibus, inquit,

Et tibi, principibus qui solet esse, color, Et donec vincat quædam formosior ambas, Et tibi reginæ nomen, et esto tibi.

THE NIGHTINGALE AND GLOW-WORM. 339

VII.

His ubi sedatus furor est, petit utraque nympham,

Qualem inter Veneres Anglia sola parit;

Hanc penés imperium est, nihil optant amplius, hujus Regnant in nitidis, et sine lite, genis.

THE

NIGHTINGALE AND GLOW-WORM.

A NIGHTINGALE, that all day long
Had cheer'd the village with his song,
Nor yet at eve his note suspended,
Nor yet when eventide was ended,
Began to feel, as well he might,

The keen demands of appetite;
When, looking eagerly around,
He spied far off, upon the ground,
A something shining in the dark,

And knew the glow-worm by his spark;

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