Away went Gilpin, and away
Went poft-boy at his heels,

The poft-boy's horse right glad to mifs
The lumbering of the wheels.

Six gentlemen upon the road
Thus feeing Gilpin fly,

With poft-boy fcampering in the rear,
They raised the hue and cry:-

Stop thief! ftop thief!-a highwayman!

Not one of them was mute;

And all and each that paffed that way

Did join in the pursuit.

And now the turnpike gates again

Flew open in short space; The toll-men thinking as before

That Gilpin rode a race.

And fo he did, and won it too,

For he got firft to town;

Nor ftopped till where he had got up He did again get down,

Now let us fing, long live the king, And Gilpin long live he;

And, when he next doth ride abroad May I be there to fee!

340 TO THE REV. W. CAWTHORNE UNWIN.

ΤΟ

THE REV. W. CAWTHORNE UNWIN.

I.

UNWIN, I fhould but ill repay

The kindness of a friend,

Whofe worth deferves as warm a lay,

As ever friendship penned,

Thy name omitted in a page,

That would reclaim a vicious age.

II.

An union formed, as mine with thee,

Not rafhly, or in sport,

May be as fervent in degree,

And faithful in its fort,

And may as rich in comfort prove,

As that of true fraternal love.

III.

The bud inferted in the rind,
The bud of peach or rofe,

Adorns, though differing in its kind,
The stock whereon it grows,
With flower as fweet, or fruit as fair,
As if produced by nature there.

TO THE REV. W. CAWTHORNE UNWIN. 34[

IV.

Not rich, I render what I may,
I feize thy name in haste,
And place it in this firft effay,

Left this fhould prove the laft.

"Tis where it should be-in a plan, That holds in view the good of man.

V.

The poet's lyre, to fix his fame,

Should be the poet's heart;
Affection lights a brighter flame
Than ever blazed by art.

No mufes on these lines attend,
I fink the poet in the friend.

END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

T. Benfley, Printer, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London.

Just published,
in four Volumes in Octavo,

A Tranflation of the

ILIAD AND ODYSSEY OF HOMER

into Blank Verse.

By W. CowPER, of the Inner Temple, Esq. The fecond Edition, with so many alterations as nearly entitle it to be called a new Translation.

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