No;-Soon as from ashore he saw The winged mansion move, Then perching at his consort's side, The seaman with sincere delight For seamen much believe in signs, Hail, honour'd land! a desert where Whom nothing could divide. And ye who, rather than resign Were not afraid to plough the brine In company with man; For whose lean country much disdain We English often show, Yet from a richer nothing gain But wantonness and woe; Be it your fortune, year by year, The same resource to prove, TO WILLIAM HAYLEY, ESQ. JUNE 29, 1793. DEAR architect of fine CHATEAUX in air, Much to my own, though little to thy good, 1 This tale is founded on an article of intelligence which the author found in the Buckinghamshire Herald, for Saturday, June 1, 1793, in the following words. Glasgow, May 23. "In a block, or pulley, near the head of the mast of a gabert, now lying at the Broomielaw, there is a chaffinch's nest and four eggs. The nest was built while the vessel lay at Greenock, and was followed hither by both birds. Though the block is occasionally lowered for the inspection of the curious, the birds have not forsaken the nest. The cock however visits the nest but seldom; while the hen never leaves it, but when she descends to the hull for food." But I am bankrupt now; and doom'd henceforth ON A SPANIEL, CALLED BEAU, KILLING A YOUNG BIRD. JULY 15, 1793. A SPANIEL, Beau, that fares like you, But you have kill'd a tiny bird, Which flew not till to-day, Against my orders, whom you heard. Forbidding you the prey. Nor did you kill that you might eat, And ease a doggish pain, For him, though chased with furious heat, You left where he was slain. Nor was he of the thievish sort, S. C.-10. G SIR, when I flew to seize the bird You cried-forbear!-but in my breast Yet much as nature I respect, And when your linnet on a day, Had flutter'd all his strength away, Well knowing him a sacred thing, Let my obedience then excuse Nor some reproof yourself refuse If killing birds be such a crime, ANSWER ΤΟ STANZAS ADDRESSED TO LADY HESKETH, BY MISS CATHARINE FANSHAWE, IN RETURNING A POEM OF MR. COWPER'S, LENT TO HER ON CONDITION SHE SHOULD NEITHER SHOW IT, NOR TAKE A COPY. 1793. To be remember'd thus is fame, And in the first degree; And did the few like her the same, So Homer, in the memory stored Was once preserved a richer hoard, |