ON A ON A SIMILAR OCCASION. FOR THE YEAR 1793. De sacris autem hac sit una sententia, ut conserventur.-CIC. DE LEG. But let us all concur in this one sentiment, that things sacred be inviolate. HE lives, who lives to God alone, To live to God is to requite But life, within a narrow ring Can life in them deserve the name, Who only live to prove For what poor toys they can disclaim Who, much diseas'd, yet nothing feel; Who deem his house a useless place, Who trample order; and the day, If scorn of God's commands, impress'd Such want it, and that want, uncur'd Sad period to a pleasant course! Yet so will God repay Sabbaths profan'd without remorse, And mercy cast away. INSCRIPTION. FOR THE TOMB OF MR. HAMILTON. PAUSE here, and think: a monitory rhime Consult life's silent clock, thy bounding vein; And many a tomb, like Hamilton's, aloud Exclaims, Prepare thee for an early shroud.' EPITAPH ON A HARE. HERE lies, whom hound did ne'er pursue, Old Tiney, surliest of his kind, Though duly from my hand he took He did it with a jealous look, And, when he could, would bite. His diet was of wheaten bread, On twigs of hawthorn he regal'd, A Turkey carpet was his lawn, His frisking was at ev'ning hours, But most before approaching show'rs, Eight years and five round-rolling moons He thus saw steal away, Dozing out all his idle noons, I kept him for his humour's sake, My heart of thoughts, that made it ache, And force me to a smile. But now beneath his walnut shade EPITAPHIUM ALTERUM. Hic etiam jacet, Qui totum novennium vixit, Puss. Qui præteriturus es, Hunc VOL. II neque canis venaticus, Nec plumbum missile, Nec laqueus, Nec imbres nimii, Confecêre: Tamen mortuus est Et moriar ego. |