1 Where nymphs of brightest form appear, Which them at once admire and fear. The scene then chang'd, with bold erected look Her hand call'd out the image of his heart : Our phoenix queen was pourtray'd too fo bright, As in that day she took the crown from facred hands: Before a train of heroines was feen, And her bright foul broke out on ev'ry fide. VIII. Now all those charms, that blooming grace, The well-proportion'd shape, and beauteous face, Shall never more be feen by mortal eyes; In earth the much-lamented virgin lies. Not wit, nor piety could fate prevent; Nor was the cruel deftiny content To finifh all the murder at a blow, To sweep at once her life, and beauty too ; But, like a harden'd felon, took a pride To work more mischievously flow, And plunder'd firft, and then destroy'd. O double facrilege on things divine, Heaven, by the fame disease, did both tranflor As equal were their fouls, fo equal was the 4 IX. Mean-time her warlike brother on the feas His waving streamers to the winds difplays, And vows for his return, with vain devotion, pays. Ah, generous youth, that with forbear, The winds too foon will waft thee here! Slack all thy fails, and fear to come, Alas, thou know'ft not, thou art wreck'd at No more fhalt thou behold thy fister's face, But look aloft, and if thou ken'ft from far X. When in mid-air the golden trump fhall found, When in the valley of Jehofophat, The judging God fhall close the book of fate; For those who wake, and those who fleep: From the four corners of the fky; When finews o'er the fkeletons are spread, Thofe cloth'd with flesh, and life infpires the dead; The facred poets firft fhall hear the found, The way which thou fo well haft learnt below. Upon the DEATH of the EARL of O of DUN.D E E, H last and best of Scots! who didst maintain Thy country's freedom from a foreign reign; New people fill the land now thou art gone, New gods the temples, and new kings the throne. Scotland and thee did each in other live; Nor would't thou her, nor could fhe thee furvive. $ |