ODE TO PITY. Thou, the friend of man affign'd, With balmy hands his wounds to bind, And charm his frantic woe: When first Distress, with dagger keen, Broke forth to waste his deftin'd scene, His wild unfated foe! By Pella's Bard, a magic name, By all the griefs his thought could frame, Receive my humble rite : Long, Pity, let the nations view Thy fky-worn robes of tendereft blue, And eyes of dewy light! But wherefore need I wander wide To old Iliffus' distant side, Deferted Deserted stream, and mute? Wild Arun* too has heard thy ftrains, There first the wren thy myrtles fhed A And while he fung the female heart, Thy turtles mix'd their own. Come, Pity, come, by fancy's aid, Thy temple's pride design: Its fouthern fite, its truth complete In all who view the fhrine. There Picture's toil fhall well relate, How chance, or hard involving fate A river in Suffex, O'er O'er mortal bliss prevail : The bulkin'd Mufe fhall near her ftand, And fighing prompt her tender hand, There let me oft, retir'd by day, There waste the mournful lamp of night, Till, Virgin, thou again delight To hear a British shell! ODE TO FEAR. Hou, to whom the world unknown Twith all With all its shadowy fhapes is fhewn Who feeft appall'd th' unreal fcene, While Fancy lifts the veil between : Ah Fear! ah frantic Fear! I fee, I fee thee near. I know thy hurried step, thy haggard eye! Who ftalks his round, an hideous form, |