Her timbers yet are sound, But Kempenfelt is gone, His victories are o'er; And he and his eight hundred, Shall plough the wave no more. IN SUBMERSIONEM NAVIGII, CUI GEORGIUS REGALE NOMEN, INDITUM. PLANGIMUS fortes. Periêre fortes, Navis, innitens lateri, jacebat, Plangimus fortes. Nimis, heu, caducam Nec sinunt ultrà tibi nos recentes Magne, qui nomen, licèt incanorum, Non hyems illos furibunda mersit, Navitæ sed tum nimium jocosi Ves, quibus cordi est grave opus piumque, Hi quidem (sic Dis placuit) fuêre: ON PEACE. WRITTEN IN THE SUMMER OF 1783, AT THE REQUEST OF LADY AUSTEN, WHO GAVE THE SENTIMENT. Air-"My fond shepherds of late," &c. No longer I follow a sound; No longer a dream I pursue; I have sought thee in splendour and dress, A humble ambition and hope The voice of true wisdom inspires ; 'Tis sufficient, if Peace be the scope, And the summit of all our desires. Peace may be the lot of the mind That seeks it in meekness and love SONG. ALSO WRITTEN AT THE REQUEST OF LADY AUSTEN. Air-"The Lass of Pattie's Mill.” WHEN all within is peace, How nature seems to smile! From morn to dewy eve, With open hand she showers It is content of heart Gives nature power to please; Can make a wintry sky Seem bright as smiling May, The vast majestic globe, So beauteously array'd Is to a mourner's heart A dreary wild at best; THE DISTRESSED TRAVELLERS; OR, LABOUR IN VAIN. A New Song to a Tune never sung before. I SING of a journey to Clifton, We would have perform'd if we could, Poor Mary and me through the mud. Stuck in the mud, Oh it is pretty to wade through a flood! So away we went, slipping and sliding, Go briskly about, But they clatter and rattle, and make such a rout! SHE. "Well! now I protest it is charming; HE. "Pshaw! never mind, "Tis not in the wind, We are travelling south, and shall leave it behind." SHE. "I am glad we are come for an airing, The longer we stay, The longer we may; It's a folly to think about weather or way." SHE. "But now I begin to be frighted, You'll not be the last that will set a foot there." SHE. "Let me breathe now a little, and ponder That terrible lane I see yonder, I think we shall never get through." HE. "So think I: But by the by, We never shall know, if we never should try." SHE. "But should we get there, how shall we get home? Now it is plain That struggling and striving is labour in vain." $6 HE. 'Stick fast there while I go and look—” SHE. 'Don't go away, for fear I should fall!" HE. I have examin'd it every nook, And what you see here is a sample of all. The dirt we have found Would be an estate at a farthing a pound." |