Fate steals along with silent tread, A COMPARISON. THE lapse of time and rivers is the same, And a wide ocean swallows both at last. A difference strikes at length the musing heart; 230 THE POET'S NEW-YEAR'S GIFT. ANOTHER.. ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG LADY. SWEET Stream, that winds thro' yonder glade, Apt emblem of a virtuous maid— Silent and chaste she steals along, Far from the world's gay busy throng; With gentle yet prevailing force, THE POET'S NEW-YEAR'S GIFT. ΤΟ MRS. (NOW LADY) THROCKMORTON. MARIA! I have every good. For thee wished many a time, Both sad, and in a cheerful mood, To wish thee fairer is no need, What favour then not yet possessed In wedded love already blest, None here is happy but in part: There dwells some wish in every heart, That wish, on some fair future day, ODE TO APOLLO. ON AN INK-GLASS ALMOST DRIED IN THE SUN. PATRON of all those luckless brains, That to the wrong side leaning Ah why, since oceans, rivers, streams, Pay tribute to thy glorious beams, Why, stooping from the noon of day, Upborne into the viewless air, It floats a vapour now, Impelled through regions dense and rare, By all the winds that blow. Ordained perhaps ere summer flies, To form an Iris in the skies, Illustrious drop! and happy then Phoebus, if such be thy design, To place it in thy bow, Give wit, that what is left may shine PAIRING TIME ANTICIPATED. A FABLE. I SHALL not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau (Tis clear that they were always able A story of a cock and bull, Must have a most uncommon skull. In many an orchard, copse, and grove, And with much twitter and much chatter, At length a Bulfinch, who could boast * It was one of the whimsical speculations of this philosopher, that all fables which ascribe reason and speech to animals should be withheld from children, as being only vehicles of deception. But what child was ever deceived by them, or can be, against the evidence of his senses? |