Now all unwelcome at his gates The clumsy swains alight, And well he may, for well he knows So in they come- -each makes his leg, "And how does miss and madam do, The little boy and all ?" "All tight and well. And how do you, Good Mr. What-d'ye-call?" The dinner comes, and down they sit, One wipes his nose upon his sleeve, One spits upon the floor, Yet not to give offence or grieve, The punch goes round, and they are dull And lumpish still as ever; Like barrels with their bellies full, At length the busy time begins. One talks of mildew and of frost, Quoth one, "A rarer man than you O why are farmers made so coarse, A kick, that scarce would move a horse, Then let the boobies stay at home; Less trouble taking twice the sum SONNET ADDRESSED TO HENRY COWPER, ESQ. On his emphatical and interesting Delivery of the Defence of Warren Hastings, Esq. in the House of Lords. COWPER, whose silver voice, task'd sometimes hard, Legends prolix delivers in the ears (Attentive when thou read'st) of England's peers, Let verse at length yield thee thy just reward. Thou wast not heard with drowsy disregard, Thou art not voice alone, but hast beside Both heart and head; and couldst with music sweet Of Attic phrase and senatorial tone, Like thy renown'd forefathers, far and wide Thy fame diffuse, praised not for utterance meet Of others' speech, but magic of thy own. C LINES ADDRESSED TO DR. DARWIN, AUTHOR OF "THE BOTANIC GARDEN." Two Poets,* (poets, by report, They best can judge a poet's worth, The pangs of a poetic birth We therefore pleased extol thy song, No envy mingles with our praise, They would they must at thine. But we, in mutual bondage knit With an unjaundiced eye; Alluding to the poem by Mr. Hayley, which accom panied these lines. VOL. VII. N And deem the Bard, whoe'er he be, And howsoever known, Who would not twine a wreath for thee, ON MRS. MONTAGU'S FEATHER-HANGINGS. THE birds put off their every hue The peacock sends his heavenly dyes, But, screen'd from every storm that blows, It boasts a splendour ever new, Safe with protecting Montagu. |