worthy of permanently occupying a place among the productions of the Poet. The Translations are omitted for a different reason; as belonging, together with the Homer, to a distinct portion of Cowper's Works. An exception has, however, been made in favour of the elegant Versions of VINCENT BOURNE'S Poems, of which the entire collection will be found in the present volume. On the Death of Mrs. Throckmorton's Bulfinch The Poet's New Year's Gift, to Mrs. Throckmorton.. 58 MINOR POEMS. PART I. YARDLEY OAK. [1791.] SURVIVOR Sole, and hardly such, of all With truth from Heaven, created thing adore, When our forefather Druids in their oaks Of amnesty, the meed of blood divine, Thou wast a bauble once; a cup and ball, Which babes might play with; and the thievish jay, Thy rudiments should sleep the winter through. Sifts half the pleasures of short life away! Thou fell'st mature; and in the loamy clod Didst burst thine egg, as theirs the fabled Twins, And, all the elements thy puny growth Fost'ring propitious, thou becam❜st a twig. Who liv'd, when thou wast such? Oh, couldst thou As in Dodona once thy kindred trees Oracular, I would not curious ask The future, best unknown, but at thy mouth By thee I might correct, erroneous oft, [speak, |