LINES WRITTEN FOR INSERTION IN A COLLECTION OF HANDWRITINGS AND SIGNATURES MADE BY MISS PATTY, SISTER OF HANNAH MORE. MARCH 6, 1792. In vain to live from age to age W. COWPER. EPITAPH ON A FREE BUT TAME REDBREAST, A FAVOURITE OF MARCH, 1792. THESE are not dew-drops, these are tears, And tears by Sally shed For absent Robin, who she fears With too much cause, is dead. One morn he came not to her hand Alarm'd she call'd him, and perplext She therefore raised him here a tomb, Had half a score of coxcombs died, Poor Sally's tears had soon been dried, But Bob was neither rudely bold Nor spiritlessly tame, Nor was, like theirs, his bosom cold, But always in a flame. SONNET TO WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, ESQ. THY Country, Wilberforce, with just disdain, Thou hast achieved a part; hast gain'd the ear Hope smiles, joy springs, and though cold caution pause And weave delay, the better hour is near That shall remunerate thy toils severe By peace for Afric, fenced with British laws. EPIGRAM. (PRINTED IN THE NORTHAMPTON MERCURY.) To purify their wine some people bleed Now lambs and negroes both are harmless things, TO DR. AUSTIN, OF CECIL STREET, LONDON. MAY 26, 1792. AUSTIN! accept a grateful verse from me, And oh! could I command the glittering wealth Were in the power of verse like mine to give, Friend of my friend'! I love thee, though unknown, And boldly call thee, being his, my own. 1 Hayley. SONNET ADDRESSED TO WILLIAM HAYLEY, ESQ. JUNE 2, 1792. HAYLEY, thy tenderness fraternal shown Not more to admire the Bard than love the Man. MARY AND JOHN. IF John marries Mary, and Mary alone, 'Tis a very good match between Mary and John. Should John wed a score, Oh, the claws and the scratches! It can't be a match:-'tis a bundle of matches. |