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POEMS: 
 
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 FRANCIS TVRANGHAM, M.A. 
 
 MEMBER OF TRINITY-COLLEGE, 
 CAMBRIDGE. 
 
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 (Tweddell. Prs/us. viii.) 
 
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 ' SE quefta materia non e degna, 
 Per effer piu leggieri, 
 
 D'un huom che voglia parer faggio e grave, 
 Scufatelo con quefto ; che P ingegna 
 Con quefti van penlieii 
 Fare il fuo trifto tempo piu foave : 
 Perche altrove non avc 
 Dove voltare il vifo ; 
 Che gli e ilato intercifo 
 Moftrar con altre impiefe altra virtue, 
 Non fendo premio alle fatiche fue. 
 
 (Machiav. Mandrag. Pro!.) 
 
 ON thefe light Jlrains fhould rigid Wifdom frown, 
 And Jcorn a page not lujirous as her own ; 
 Ah ! let her think the Mufe with toys like thefe 
 Sooth'd cheated care, and taught dull life to pleafe l 
 Think that the Bard, by fortune* s hand confined, 
 I J lay'd in a narrow circle of the mind\ 
 "Ran all the courfe affign'd his powers by fate, 
 Andfeized the little— when denied the great. 
 
 Charles Symmoni. 
 
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EMENDANDA. 
 
 p. 15. 1. to.for informs read inftru&s 
 
 20. dele — ~ And, if it fo delight 
 
 The great Reftorer, rear their long-fall'n flirine 
 To loftier height : — 
 
 34. dele the two laft lines, and 
 
 35. — the fix firft 
 
 37. — the feventh and eighth lines 
 
 — 1. fj.read 
 
 And call'd her Cyrus to unfheath his blade 
 
 93* 7* f or acr * s rea, d a ^ ma 
 97. In the motto dele feflis 
 -»— laft line, read Quoque cremes 
 99. 4. read, And you approved 
 
 — 11. — with dull cold Jbiile 
 102. 3. — How faft hisjhadozvy 
 105. 7. for rigidis read frigidis. 
 
ADVERTISEMENT. 
 
 W ITH regard to the following collection of Poems, 
 I have little to premife. The greateft part of them 
 were printed in the latter end of the year 1795, on 
 which account that date is adopted in the title-page ; 
 but other, and (it is trufled) better employments have 
 fufpended their publication. The firft, entitled " The 
 Reftoration of the Jews," obtained the SEATON-prize 
 in the Univerlity of Cambridge in 1-794: the next, 
 "The Deftruftion of Babylon," was an unfuccefsful 
 candidate for it in the enfuing year. 
 
 As implying the pofleflion of fome invaluable friend- 
 fhips, I feel a pride in ftating that the Latin elegiacs 
 p. 71. are by Geo. Caldwell, m. a., and the Englijh 
 lines p. 79., with the three ftanzas fubjoined in a note 
 p. 83., by S.T.Coleridge (both of Jefus College, 
 Cambridge, and both having done but too much honour 
 to the original verfes by their very elegant tranflations) j 
 and that to the Rev. Dr. Symmons, whom no pane- 
 gyric can praife too highly, I am indebted as well for 
 the tranflation of the prefixed Italian motto, as for 
 many judicious corrections pervading the whole 
 work. 
 
 Thatthere aretwotranfgreflionsof Terentianus' canon, 
 " De elemento apxUw 2," in the tranflation of the 
 
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VI ADVERTISEMENT. 
 
 Prologue to Cato (p. 89. 11. 11, 14.) I am not ignorant ; 
 nor do I fully know, whether 1 may adopt in their 
 defence the apology made by Dawes in behalf of thofe 
 writings of Horace, " quae fermoni propiora ipfe eft 
 profeffus." Tothecharge likewife, of the " infinitivutti 
 poeticum iVrinverfu elegiaco," p. 91. 1. 5. (cenfured,as 
 * { non abfolutae prorfus Latinitatis," by the Editor of 
 the laft Mufce Etonenfes) I plead guilty. 
 
 Of the fmaller Englifh compofitions feveral, I fear, 
 contain in themfelves evidence, fuperfeding my own 
 confeflion, that they were written at an early age, and 
 under the ftrong impulfe of youthful feelings ; feelings, 
 which "in life's rofy prime" find admiffion into every 
 bofom, except fuch as are clofed againft them by lefs 
 venial propenfities. 
 
 E certo ogni miojl-udio in quel temp' era, 
 Pur di sfogare il dolorofo core 
 In qualchemodo, non d' acquiflar Jama. 
 I might lay with Menage, Amatorios verfus, pudi- 
 cos licet, hie excufarem, fi meum ejfet exemplum. Sic 
 f crip fit, quicunque verfus fcripfit : et profecld fine Venere 
 frigent carmina. Sed cui non fit venia pofl Cardinalem 
 Perronium, Bertaldum Sagienfem Epifcopum, 
 PoRTiEUM Tironenfem Abbatem ; qui amatoria, qua 
 juvenes fecerant, etiam in ampliffcmo gradu dignitatum 
 conftituti, etiam feniores, publicdre non dubitarunt ? 
 
 (Poem. Praef.) 
 
ADVERTISEMENT. Vll 
 
 It remains only to add that, as a Preface to this Vo- 
 lume, I had long ago prepared afhort *' Account of my 
 Academical Life," in order to obviate any unfavourable 
 inferences, which might otherwife be deduced from my 
 filence upon the fubjefl: of my rejeftion at Trinity-Hall. 
 Such inferences, I am aware, would but too readily 
 obtrude themfelves, even upon many not naturally 
 uncandid, who knew that my moral conduft (in a 
 college, not remarkable for its regularity) had been un- 
 exceptionable ; and that, upon taking my bachelor's 
 degree in 1790, I had obtained the third Wranglerfhip, 
 the fecond Mathematical Prize, and the firft. Claflical 
 Medal. But this would probably be deemed queru- 
 lous ; and the circumftance of my exclufion, 
 whatever were its caufe, has too long appeared 
 to me in the light of a blefling, to demand or to 
 juftify complaint. It has not much, I would 
 hope, diminifhed my utility ; while it has certainly 
 very much promoted my happinefs. Without any 
 oppreflive fenfe of obligation, therefore, to its human 
 contrivers, I feel deeply grateful foritsaccomplifhment 
 to that Providence, whofe judgments are Jar above 
 out of their fight ; and willingly difmus the fubjecl; — 
 perhaps for ever. 
 
 F. W. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 The Restoration of the Jews -~ p. 5. 
 The Destruction of Babylon - 311 
 
 Smaller Poems, viz. 
 To my Father's Memory, - 55. 
 
 The Univerfal Prayer, in Iamb. Trim, et Dim. 57. 
 Horace, Od. 3. lib. 1. paraphrafed, - 63. 
 
 Sonnet, - - - 66. 
 
 Song, - - 67. 
 
 Prize-Epigrams, Cant. Com. Max. Jul. 1787. 69. 
 Ode, - - - 70. 
 
 — tranflated by Geo. Caldwell, m.a. 71. 
 
 Ode, - - - - - 76. 
 
 HendecafyUabi in Bruntonam, - - 78. 
 
 tranflated by S. T.Coleridge, - 79. 
 Prologue to Cato, in Hendecasyll. - ' 85. 
 
 Song by Mrs. Barbauld, in Vers. Eleg. 91. 
 
 Epigram by Mr. Parsons, tranflated - 97. 
 
 — Jekyll, d° . - - ib. 
 
 French Verfes, tranflated - - 99. 
 
 Three Sonnets - - 100. 
 
 Song, addrejfed to a Lady known from Infancy - 103. 
 Verfes on Cornelia - 104. 
 
 ■■ ■ - in Iamb. Senar. 105. 
 
 La naijfance de l' Amour, tranflated by 
 
 W.Wordsworth, - - 107. 
 
THE 
 
 RESTO RATI ON 
 
 JEWS. 
 
 THE SECOND EDITION. 
 
 'Nee numina fedem 
 
 Dcjlituunt. — —— 
 
 Claud. Bell. Get. 508. 
 
BASIL MONTAGU, esquire, 
 
 A TRUE FRIEND 
 (FOR HE HAS BEEN TRIED IN ADVERSITY) 
 
 AND 
 
 AN HONEST MAN; 
 
 THE FOLLOWING POETICAL ATTEMPT 
 
 IS INSCRIBED, 
 
 WITH SENTIMENTS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 MOST SINCERE GRATITUDE , 
 
 AND 
 
 RESPECT, 
 
 BY 
 
 THE AUTHOR, 
 
ARGUMENT. 
 
 Invocation: Hiftoryof the JEWS from the Exodus, underMosEs; 
 
 — and Joshua: — Their general depravation — followed by the 
 Babylonijh; — and the Crucifixion, — by the Roman Invafion : — 
 Their fufferings during, — and after the liege of Jerujalem (by 
 Titus); — and prefent condition .—Their fate different from that 
 of Egypt, — Babylon, — Tyre, — and the four fucceffive Monarchies — 
 
 JlJJyrian, Perfian, Greek, and Roman The queftion examined — 
 
 whether the prophecies, relating to their Restoration, are to 
 be figuratively, — .or literally underftood ; — and reafons afligned for 
 
 adopting the ftrict. interpretation Their return: — The diftinc- 
 
 tion of tribes fuperfeded by the coming of the MESSIAH.. 
 
 Conclufion. 
 
RESTORATION 
 
 JEWS. 
 
 L O that great day — when, link'd in holy bond 
 Fraternal, Idumcea's favour'd tribes 
 Their Salem (hall revifit ; from the duft 
 In prouder ftate to rear the fallen dome, 
 And bid th' afpiring pinnacle o'ertop 
 Its antient elevation — I attune 
 Th' ambitious firing. Thou, Moses (as of yore 
 Through Egypt's parting waves with heaven-lent power 
 Thou bor'ft the chofen multitude, what time 
 His cumber'd wheel along the faithlefs track 
 Bus iris urg'd ; while round his troubled hoft. 
 
8 THE RESTORATION 
 
 Keen was the fword, and more than mortal proof, 
 That Joshua wielded when from their huge cliffs 
 He fwept the Anakim : The Sun flood ftill, 
 His punctual courfe remitting in mid fky ; 
 And night's pale Sovereign check'd her rapid orb, 
 To aid the mighty talk. Before him funk 
 Devoted Canaan, with unhallow'd gore 
 Moiftening the ground : Not infancy its years, 
 Nor kings their purple refcued ; undifcern'd, 
 Amid the common carnage, they expir'd 
 By hoftile hands — unfung, unwept, unknown. 
 
 As fome tall vine, whofe blufhing fruitage glows 
 Beneath the luftre of the noon-tide ray, 
 Long Israel flourifh'd ; 'till, by gradual fhade 
 Darken'd to deepeft crimfon, guilt provok'd 
 Th' OMNIPOTENT's accumulated ire, 
 And urg'd his bolt. Upon the double throne 
 Sat rafh Rebellion, ever prompt to burft 
 
OF THE JEWS. 9 
 
 From duty's guidance : Sion's dames were fair, 
 But frail as fair; fuch, Albion, thine (if thine 
 Rightly the bard hath noted) mirror-taught 
 To roll th' obedient eye, and court the glance 
 Of ftaggering triflers, or with zonelefs waift 
 Roufe the lafcivious fire 2 : There Avarice ground 
 
 2 The following Sonnet was written foon after the poem made 
 its firft appearance ; and, notwithftanding the terrible denunciation 
 of a friend (viz. " that it might perhaps make my peace with one of 
 " the fex, at the expencs of irretrievably offending all the reft") I 
 am unwilling to omit this opportunity of introducing it. 
 
 To MYRA. 
 
 What ! Though of Albion's dames the Poet fung 
 That, frail as fair, with artificial glance 
 They roll'd th' obedient eye ; and 'mid the dance 
 
 Guileful upon the ftaggering tr'ifler hung : 
 
 He then nor knew, fond bard ! the modeft grace 
 Of Myra's frame ; nor haply then divin'd 
 
 That Nature e'er had link'd fo fair a face, 
 In bond harmonious, with fo pure a mind. 
 
 Ah ! Had he ftill in error perfever'd ! 
 
 Still cherilh'd his miftake ! Now doom'd to pine, 
 
 By viewing in that angel form of thine 
 A more than angel's chaftity infpher'd, 
 
 Fatal difcovery ! from thy bright eyes 
 
 And brighter foul he learns his guilt — and dies. 
 
10 THE RESTORATION 
 
 The face of Indigence ; the Slanderer there 
 
 Wove the falfe tale ; and rob'd Devotion paid 
 
 The homage of the lip, intent with prayer 
 
 To mafk or hallow crimes. Then GOD's wak'd wrath, 
 
 Gigantic and impatient of delay, 
 
 Sped its vaffc vengeance from the eaftern fky : 
 
 Onward by Jordan's ftream in mournful line 
 
 The exiles move, with oft-reverted look 
 
 Sadly folicitous once more to view 
 
 Deferted Salem 2 ere her leffening hills 
 
 With dubious image cheat their earnefb fight : 
 
 The haughty Babylonian ftalks around, 
 
 And in proud mockery taunts the patriot tear. 
 
 But happier They, who on the bending tree 
 Hung 'mid the victor's feoffs the filent harp, 
 Than Thofe who ftoop'd beneath the arm of Rome I 
 When feventy funs had fill'd their annual courfe, 
 Chaldaza's vaffals faw the righteous fhrine 
 

 OF THE JEWS. H 
 
 Flame with its wonted incenfe : On their fons, 
 Mark'd out for heavier woe, more fiercely rofe 
 The Flavian Star, and glar'd with redder fires. 
 
 Oh ! Might the Mufe attempt the lofty theme 
 Of Glory's King on Calvary for man 
 Offering Himfelf (nor lefs than He could make 
 Th' accepted facrifice) while Nature mourn'd 
 The monftrous guilt ; and Earth in wild alarm 
 Receiv'd within her agitated breaft 
 Its tranfient Inmate ! — Hopelefs wifh ! Difmay'd 
 From the bold flight fhe turns, nor dares advance 
 Her pinion to the fun : Elfe would fhe fing 
 Th' offence, with all the forrows which enfued ; 
 Sorrows fo merited, that even the Youth 
 Of proverb'd 3 mercy fteel'd his gentle breaft. 
 
 3 Titus, for his humanity denominated Delicia humani generis. 
 Suet, in Tit. i. 
 
12 THE RESTORATION 
 
 Swift as the eagle, 4 minifter of Heaven, 
 He comes ; with meagre Famine 5 in his train, 
 And fire-rob'd Defolation. Faint and pale, 
 In his poor boy th 5 unnatural father fheaths 
 His frantic blade : And, deed of fadder note ! 
 She, whofe proud foot difdain'd the vulgar ground, 6 
 Grafping her infant (with far other joy 
 
 4 The circumftantial agreement of the Mofaic prophecies (par- 
 ticularly Deut. xxviii. 49, 57.) with the events, as detailed by Jose- 
 PHUS in his narrative of the fufferings Curtained by the Jews during 
 the fiege, has not efcaped the obfervation of Biftiop Newton ; who 
 remarks, in his Differtations on the Prophecies, vol. i. p. 102, &c. 
 that, though a great part of thofe predictions was accomplished at the 
 time of the Babylonijh captivity, they were all more amply fulfilled 
 under the Roman invafion. Of the famine indeed of the latter period, 
 the Jcwijli Hiftorian has left us a very dreadful account ; and, from 
 its exact concurrence with prophecy, we know to how much faith 
 it is entitled. 
 
 5 rwaimg yav avo^mv, xai trades 'BTcLreguv, xai (to omrgorarov) 
 fjwttgsg vtimcov E^»^7ra^ov e| avrm tcdv z'OfA.e.Taiv ra<; Tgofas. Joseph. 
 Bell. Jud. v. 10, 3. Twv §■' vtto th Xtjws <$>8iigo{A.£vck>v stara t>jv ttoTuv 
 amigov /c*6v ttnifn to ttXjjSoj. vi. 3. 3. 
 
 6 Deut. xxviii. 56, 57. — A(a ytveq Hai wXutov swum/uof — 
 oTTTrte-aa-a, to /u.ev r\(Marv ^ttTijo-S'iEf TO $S Xoiffov HaTMaTsU-^ag-tt, £ 4' u " 
 X.*ttev. Id. ib. vi. 3. 4. 
 
OF THE JEWS. 19 
 
 Than other days beftow'd) in its young heart 
 
 Plunges the murderous knife, and glows afrefh 
 
 With guilty health. Twice fifty myriads fell — 7 
 
 Happy 8 to lofe in death the maddening fenfe 
 
 Of Hebrew ignominy ! They nor faw 
 
 The Latian fpoiler revel on the wealth 
 
 Of their fack'd fane (as from the holy gold 
 
 For his own Deities with curious zeal 
 
 He culPd the votive gift) nor, 'mid the crafh 
 
 Of finking palaces, with anguifh heard 
 
 The fhriek of female frenzy : Who furviv'd, 
 
 7 Ta>v $■£ a.TtoXvfA.tvaiv Kara ma.crav twv woXfc^xiav (agiOfAos) ftvpaSes 
 hxarov nai tiwa. Id. ib. vi. 
 
 This account is confirmed by Zonaras and Jornandes, who 
 agree in relating that nooooo (men, women, and children) perifhed 
 during the fiege by famine, difeafe, and the fword. Omnes (fays 
 Lipsius in his notes to Tacitus, Hift. V. 13.) undecies ccntena 
 mi Hi a feriijfe obfidione ilia dare tradunt, fame, morbo t ferro. 
 
 8 AXA.' EI&S rtai/TBS ETS&VUXEi^EV, TT^tV TOV Ismail EJCEIVHV WoXiV 
 
 YEja'iv fiiuv xaracrnaTrrofxsvtiv voXifjctiDV, it^a tov vaov tov ayiw iron; 
 ana-ituq t%ogu>guy(/.s,vw. Joseph, vi. 3. 4. and vii. 8, 7. 
 
14 THE RESTORATION 
 
 Doom'd to tranfmit beneath another fun 9 
 Hereditary fervitude, beheld 
 In long fucceflion rifing to the view 
 Unpitied millions deftin'd to bewail 
 Paternal crime and errors not their own. 
 
 Still as the lucid harbinger of day 
 Gives to their anxious eye his courted beam, 
 They figh for evening ; with the eve's wan ftar 
 Comes its peculiar forrow. Numerous ftill 10 
 As fands, which pillow Ocean's hoary head, 
 They thrive by grief and grow beneath the fword. 
 
 9 The attachment of the Jews to their country, fo pathetically 
 defcribed in the hundred and thirty-feventh Pfalm, is confirmed by 
 Tacitus (Hift. V. 13.) — ac, fi transferre fedes cogerentur, major 
 vita metus quant mortis. 
 
 10 Of their prefent numbers Basnace (who has written a 
 hiftory of the Jews, as a fupplement and continuation of the hiftory 
 of Josephus) obfeives — " that it is impoflible indeed to fix it; but 
 " that we have reafon to believe there are ftill near 3000000 of 
 " people who profefs this religion, and (as their phrafe is) are 
 H -witnejfes of the unity of God in all the nations of the world." 
 
OF THE JEWS. 15 
 
 Pail is the fame of Egypt ; whofe pale fon 
 Erft by the midnight lamp, with learned toil 
 Skilful to wind the hieroglyphic maze, 
 Por'd on the treafur'd page by double fate 1 1 
 Denied to future times. With prone defcent 
 Great Babylon is fallen ; amid the duft, 
 Vainly inquifitive, the traveller pries 
 In fruitlefs fearch where Syrian Bel us rear'd 
 His idol form : No human trace around 12 
 Informs his doubtful ftep ; no friendly tone 
 
 11 The library of Alexandria was founded by the firft Ptole- 
 mies, and gradually enlarged to 700000 volumes ; 400000 of which 
 were lodged in that quarter of the city called Bruchion, and the 
 remaining 300000 within the Serapeum. The firft part was cafually 
 deftroyed by fire, when Julius Caesar was making war upon the 
 place; but reftored in number by Antony's munificent prefent, 
 of the Pergamean library, to Cleopatra : the whole were after- 
 wards burnt by the command of Omar the Caliph. 
 
 12 Bifhop Newton proves (vol. i. pp. 174. 177. &c.) by 
 copious extracts from fix or feven modern writers of eminence that 
 the prefent defolate ftate of Babylon, Egypt, Tyre, &c. fulfils, with 
 a melancholy degree of exactnefs, the prophecies of the Old Tefta- 
 ment relative to their ultimate condition. 
 
l6 THE RESTORATION 
 
 Breaks the difaftrous filence. At the hifs 
 
 Of ferpents haply ruftling through the brake, 
 
 As parch'd by tropic fire and wild with thirft 
 
 Their fanguine eye-balls 13 flafh, his finking heart 
 
 Beats with thick, fear : Meanwhile the bittern moans 
 
 In hollow-founding note ; and the lone owl, 
 
 Dufky and flow, with inaufpicious fcream 
 
 Adds horror to the gloom. Beneath the waves 
 
 Old Tyre is whelm'd, and all her revelry : 
 
 Thofe hofts, who barter'd Israel's fons for gold 
 
 (The Traffickers of blood) no more renew 
 
 Th' abhorred merchandize ; no more with glance 
 
 Of keen remark compute the finew's force, 
 
 Or weigh the mufcles of their fellow-man. 
 
 13 Pofiquam exufia palus terreeque ardore dehifcunt, 
 Exjllit injlccum ; et jlammantia lumina torquens 
 Savit agris, aj per que Jit i atque extern tus nejlu. 
 
 Virg. Georg. III. 432, &c. 
 
 jEschyl. Sept. contra Theb. 383. 
 
OF THE JEWS. 17 
 
 And thou bethink thee, Albion, ere too late, 
 
 Queen of the ifles and mart of diftant worlds, 
 
 That thou like Tyre, (with hands as deep in blood, 
 
 Warm from the veins of Africa , and wealth 
 
 By arts more vile and darker guilt acquir'd) 
 
 Shalt meet an equal doom. The day will rife, 
 
 If Juftice flumber not, when thofe proud fhips — 
 
 The grace at once and bulwark of thy coaft, 
 
 That now 'mid baffled tempefts range the globe — 
 
 Unequal to a foe fo oft engag'd, 
 
 So oft fubdued, fhall through their yawning fides 
 
 Receive the viftor main ; and in th' abyfs 
 
 Thy cliffs fhall fink, their chalky tops alone 
 
 Extant above the brine : While, as from far 
 
 Acrofs the wintry wafte the feaman views 
 
 The humid net outfpread, his piteous heart 
 
 (Piteous, though rugged) forrows o'er thy fate. J 4 
 
 14 This traffic is however ftillpatronifed by the BritiJIi Senate ; and 
 its continuance was voted, March 16, 1796, by a majority of — four! ! ! ! 
 c 
 
l8 THE RESTORATION 
 
 With angry beam the conquerors of mankind, 
 Like woe-denouncing comets, blaz'd awhile 
 In evanefcent glory. He, whofe foot 
 Trampled upon Ajfyrid's fubjeft neck, 
 Fled from the Greek : To Rome's imperious race 
 Greece bent the fuppliant knee : The Roman bow'd 
 Before the Goth : On rude Germania's brow 
 Shines Cesar's diadem ; and priefts prefide 
 
 The following lines, by an anonymous writer, upon that event (tran- 
 fcribed from the Cambridge Intelligencer, March 19.) poffefs very 
 confiderable merit : 
 
 Did then the bold Slave rear at laft the fword 
 
 Of vengeance ? Drench'd he deep its thirfty blade 
 
 In the foul bofom of his tyrant Lord ? 
 
 Oh ! Who mail blame him ? Through the midnight fhade 
 
 Still on his tortur'd memoiy rufh'd the thought 
 
 Of every part delight — his native grove, 
 
 Friendfliip's beft joys, and liberty, and love : 
 All loft — for ever ! Then remembrance wrought 
 His foul to madnefs : 'round his reftlefs bed 
 
 Freedom's pale fpedhe ftalk/d, with a ftern fmile 
 
 Pointing the wounds of flavery ; the while 
 She fliook her clanking chains, and hung her head. 
 
 No more he pours to heaven his fuppliant breath, 
 But fweetens with revenge the draught of death. 
 
OF THE JEWS. ig 
 
 Where war's ftern child, his limbs in fteel encas'd, 
 Frown'd fierce defiance on th' embattled world. 
 
 Nor Thou with fceptic arrogance enquire 
 Where Israel's relics reft ; or how, recall'd 
 To repoffeffion of their native feat, 
 His diffipated tribes the glad beheft 
 Shall hear, and how obey : So may' ft thou dare 
 To queftion GOD's omnipotence, and afk 
 How wake the dead. The fame Almighty Word, 
 Which fummon'd into being and diffolv'd 
 The hallow'd polity, in priftine form 
 (At his appointed time) I 5 fhall re-unite 
 
 15 When the times of the Gentiles Jhall be fulfilled (Luke xxi. 24.) 
 
 or — as St. Paul expreffes it — ivhen thefulnefs of the Gentiles JJiall he 
 
 come in, the fulnefs of the Jews alfo Jhall come in, and all Israel 
 
 Jhall be faved (Rom. xi. 12. 25. 26.) that is, fays Newton, II. 70. 
 
 when the times of the four great kingdoms of the Gentiles, according' 
 
 to Daniel's prophecies, fhall be expired, and the fifth kingdom 
 
 (or the kingdom of CHRIST) fhall be fet up in their place ; and the 
 
 • Saints of the Moft High Jhall take the kingdom, and fofjefs the kingdom 
 
 for ever, even for ever and ever (Dan. vii. 18.) 
 
 C 2 
 
20 THE RESTORATION 
 
 Its fcatter'd parts ; and, if it fo delight 
 The great Reftorer, rear their long-fallen fhrine 
 To loftier height : No feebler power may raife 
 The ruin'd pile. This haplefs Julian knew ; 
 
 But thefe prophecies have not yet received their full and entire 
 completion ; our SAVIOUR hath not yet had the uttermofl farts of 
 the earth for his pofjejfion (Pfalm xi. 8.) Jill the ends of the "world 
 have not yet turned unto the Lord (xxii. 27.) Jill people, nations, 
 and languages, have not yttferveil him (Dan. vii. 14.) neither are the 
 Jews yet made an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations (Ifai. 
 lx. 15.) The time is not yet come, when violence Jliall no more be' 
 heard in their land, wafting and dejlru&ion within their borders (18.) 
 GOD's promifes (Ezek. xxxviii. 21. 25. xxxix. 28, 29.) are not yet 
 made good in their full extent ; however, what hath been already 
 accomplifhed is a fufficient pledge and earneft of what is yet to come. 
 We have feen the prediction of Hosea, who prophefied before the 
 captivity of the ten tribes of Israel (iii. 4. 5 ) fulfilled in part, and 
 why mould not we believe that it will be fulfilled in the whole ? 
 1.137,138. 
 
 This event will take place (Newton afterwards obferves, II. 395, 
 &c.) about the time of the fall of the Othman empire (denoted by 
 Ezekiel's Goo and Magoc) and of the Chriftian Antichrist 
 (referred to Dan. xi. 46. and xii. 7.) Then, in the full fenfe 
 of the words, Jhall the kingdoms of this world become the kingdom of 
 our Lord, and of his Christ ; and He Jhall reign for ever and ever 
 (Rev. xi. 15. — See alfo xx. 4. &c. and Dan. vii. 26, a7.) 
 
 About the particulars of that kingdom our prudence and modefty 
 are equally concerned to forbear inquiry ; as they are points which 
 the HOLY SPIRIT hath not thought fit to explain, and of which 
 the perfect comprehenfion may perhaps conftitute a part of the happi- 
 nefs of that period. 
 
OF THE JEWS. 21 
 
 When urg'd by pride the rafh Apoftate toil'd, 
 
 With puny effort, fo perchance to thwart 
 
 MESSIAH'S plan : Him hurl'd from central depths 
 
 By arm divine the conglobated fire 
 
 Repell'd l6 , as oft his daring hand refum'd 
 
 Th' abortive work. Whether (as fome fuppofe 
 
 In light conjecture) the prophetic fong, 
 
 Glittering with eaftern metaphor, expeft 
 
 Its certain end in New Jerusalem — 
 
 Holieft of cities ; or (as others frame 
 
 The furer inference, with fcripture's voice 
 
 Combining circumftance) fhall in the Old 
 
 Meet drift accomplifhment : For ftill I 7 they lack 
 
 1 6 Vid. Julian. Epift. xxv. is^aiajv t<m koivm. 
 
 Ambitiofum quoddam apud Hierofolymam templum, quod pojl multa et 
 interneciva certamina objtdente Vesi' asi ANO pojieaque Tito aogre ejl 
 expugnatum, injlaurare fumptibus cogitabat immodicis : — Metuendi ghbi 
 fiammarum prape fundamenta crebris ajfultibus erumpentes fecere locum, 
 exujlis aliquoties cperantibus, inacceflum ; hocque modo elemento deftina- 
 tiui repellente, cejfavit inceptum. Amm. Marcell. xxiii. I. 
 
 17 Vide Hartley's Obfervations on Man, p. 11. iv. §. 2. Prop. 
 clxxxii. where, befides thefe two arguments in favour of the Resto- 
 ration of the Jews to PaleJIine, viz. 
 
22 THE RESTORATION 
 
 Completion ; Shalmaneser's captives flill, 
 Haply in Arfareth with frequent prayer 
 
 I. That the predictions have never yet been adequately fulfilled of 
 any Jews ; and 
 
 II. That the ten Tribes or Israelites, carried away captive by 
 Shalmaneser (II Kings xviii. 2.) have never yet been reftored at 
 all, he alleges 
 
 III. That a double return feems to be foretold in feveral prophecies; 
 
 IV. That the prophets, who lived ftnce the return from Babylon, 
 have predicted a return in terms fimilar to thofe who went before ; 
 whence it follows that both claffes muft refer to fome Restoration 
 
 yet future ; and, 
 
 V. That the Restoration of the Jews to their own land feems • 
 to be foretold a'.fo in the New Teftament. 
 
 To thefe arguments, drawn from prophecy, he adds fome concurrent 
 evidences fuggefted by their oxijling circumjlances : 
 
 1. That they are yet difintl from all the nations amongft which 
 they refide ; 
 
 2. That they are to be found difperfcd in all the countries of the 
 known world ; 
 
 3. That, having no inheritance of land in any country, their pro- 
 perty (money and jewels, &c.) admits of being eafily transferred to 
 Palejiine ; 
 
 4. That they are treated with contempt and cruelty every where ; 
 
 5. That they correfpond with one another throughout the world 5 
 
 6. That moft of them, by the Rabbinical Hebrew, have an 
 univerfal medium of communication ; and, 
 
 7. That they ftill hope and expecl themfelves to be restored. 
 This Restoration (he fubjoins) may alarm mankind, and open 
 
 their eyes ; while, by affording an opportunity of a careful furvey of 
 Pale/iine, it may prove the genuinenefs and divine authority of the 
 Scriptures. 
 
OF THE JEWS. 23 
 
 Solicit Heaven to guide their wandering foot . 
 
 To human haunt 18 : Still, though difpers'd, diflinft — 
 
 So GOD pronounc'd — by no mild offices 
 
 Of Gentile courtefy attach'd abroad, 
 
 With wealth unfaften'd to an alien foil, 
 
 They ftill articulate Judaea's tones ; 
 
 Still pant in patriot fympathy ; and ftill 
 
 The hope of Restoration gilds the gloom 
 
 Of prefent banifhment : With brighter hues 
 
 Glows the gay vifion 'mid their long dark night, 
 
 And borrows brilliance from furrounding fhade. 
 
 Pistorius, a Norwegian (in his notes and additions to Hart- 
 ley, i. p. 706. &c.) after expreffing his doubts of the deftru&ion of 
 all the prefent powers of the earth " by a fifth Monarchy or Millen- 
 " nium," &c. proceeds to vindicate the expectation of a future 
 general Conversion and gathering of the Jews into the Church of 
 CHRIST ; proving, by many inconteftable arguments, that Rom. 
 xi. 26, cannot be underftood of a [firitual Israel, or as having 
 happened long ago: About their Restoration to Pale/line he is 
 lefs certain. 
 
 18 II Efdr. xiii. 40, 41. 45. &c. 
 
24 THE RESTORATION 
 
 And fee ! They come ! Survey yon fweeping bands ; 
 Countlefs as Perfcan bowmen, who befet 
 Freedom exulting on her Attic rock ; 
 When Afia rous'd her millions to the war, 
 And funk in all her pomp before the foe 
 Her vengeance fondly doom'd. With ranks as full, 
 But with more profperous fates and purer joys 
 Than fwell the warrior's breaft, their deflin'd march 
 The Hebrews bend, from where Hydafpes rolls 
 His ftoried tide ; or cleave with holy prow 
 Th' Atlantic main, whofe confcious furge reveres 
 Its buoyant load. No Spaniard plunderers they, 
 Allur'd by gold (whom will not gold allure ?) 
 With dauntlefs foot to traverfe new-found realms, 
 And plunge the wondering favage in the mine, 
 Where — guiltlefs then-^the unfunn'd mifchief flept : 
 No mad crufaders, by the Roman priefr. 
 Baptiz'd Invincible, with impious zeal 
 To combat Hali's turban'd race ; and wade 
 
OF THE JEWS. 25 
 
 A fecond time to Palejiine through blood : 
 
 But call'd by GOD or from the weftern ftream 
 
 Of Plata, or where Ganges pours his urn, 
 
 In love-knit league they throng. With guardian hand 
 
 MESSIAH, erft their nation's deadlieft hate, 
 f 
 
 Guides the returning hoft ; and high in air 
 Waves the bright enfign of the Crofs, that once 
 Led on th' Imperial Chriftian to the fight, 
 And to his fhrinking legions gave the field. 
 
 Separate no more their tribes : His fcepter'd pride 
 Judah refigns ; and Levi's hallow'd fons 
 Renounce the ephod, prompt in earlier times 
 To purge the public ftain : For now they own 
 Their SHILOH come ; nor longer, idly vain, 
 Affert the ufelefs privilege of birth. 
 
 Then fhall fome patriot bard, to cheer their way, 
 With magic touch explore the trembling firings, 
 
26 THE RESTORATION OF THE JEWS. 
 
 And breathe the facred harmony around ; 
 While, with paft folitude contracting ftill 
 Prefent fociety (fo Iweeter deem'd) 
 He cheats the fummer day of half its hours : 
 Oft, to the harp in tuneful concert join'd, 
 Swells the glad voice ; and oft, as on the ear 
 The mufic falls, they move in meafur'd ftep 
 Refponfive ; while the joyous founds deceive 
 Their lifted foot, and fteal it from its toil. 
 
 Then too, as burfts upon his age-worn fight 
 The dazzling blaze of prophecy fulfill'd, 
 Shall fome rapt Simeon raife the grateful fong 
 And hail th' accomplifhment : " LORD, now difmifs'd 
 " In peace thy fervant fleeps ; his eyes have feen 
 " ISRAEL restor'd, and all thy people blefs'd." 
 
THE 
 
 DESTRUCTI ON 
 
 BAB T LON. 
 
 • Savh 
 
 wr armis 
 
 Luxuria incubuit. 
 
 Juv. Sat. vi. 292. 
 
GEORGE SMITH, esquire, 
 AS A TOKEN 
 
 OF 
 
 GRATITUDE FOR FAVOURS 
 (AT ONCE GREAT AND SEASONABLE) 
 
 WHICH 
 
 THE AUTHOR FEARS 
 
 HE MAY NEVER BE ABLE TO ACKNOWLEDGE 
 IN ANY MORE EFFECTUAL MANNER, 
 
 THE 
 
 FOLLOWING POETICAL ATTEMPT 
 
 IS RESPECTFULLY 
 INSCRIBED. 
 
ARGUMENT. 
 
 Exordium.— —Time of the Deftrudlion of Babylon (feventy years 
 after " the carrying away of the Jews"} — Cyrus conquers Sardis ; 
 
 — and diverts the Euphrates. Belshazzar's Feaft. — The 
 
 army of Medes and Perfians, under the conduct of two Babylonians 
 (Gobryas andGADATAs) enters the city, along the channel of the 
 
 river — The capture — andprefentftate of Babylon. Addrefs 
 
 to Rome, — and London. Conclufion. 
 
DESTRUCTION 
 
 BABYLON. 
 
 AN D art Thou then for ever fet ! Thy ray- 
 No more to rife and gild the front of day, 
 Far-beaming i Babylon ? Thofe maffive gates, 
 Through which to battle rufh'd a hundred fhates ; 
 
 l The claflical reader will not be forry to find a conje&uie of the 
 learned Gilbert Wakefield, on the paffage (Ifai. xiv. 12.) 
 whence this metaphor is taken, tranfcribed from his notes on Virg. 
 Georg. ii. 97. which reflects great credit upon his ingenuity and eru- 
 dition. 
 
 ** Thou that didfl subdue the nations!" 
 
 — Qua proprietate de fielld matutind praedicari poteft, illam subi- 
 cere nationes : Nos fane — quibus Hebrai textus (praefertim in Pro- 
 phetis et Hagiographia) pene infmitas corruptiones, veterum verfiones 
 traftantibus, notare contigit — minime dubitamus errorem fublatere, 
 ab inverfo literarum ordine (ut folet) profluentem ; quod minus illi 
 
32 THE DESTRUCTION 
 
 That cloud-topt wall, along whofe giddy height 
 Cars ftrove with rival cars in fearlefs flight — 
 What ! Could not all protecl: thee ? Ah ! In vain 
 Thy bulwarks frown'd defiance o'er the plain : 
 Fondly in antient majefty elate 
 Thou fat'ft, unconfcious of impending fate : 
 Nor brazen gates, nor adamantine wall, 
 Could fave a guilty people from their fall. 
 
 Was it for this thofe wondrous turrets rofe, 
 Which taught thy feebled youth a fcorn of foes ? 
 
 mirabuntur, qui L. Capelli de his rebus librum evolverunt. Pro 
 voce ]>fy\T]> 1 uae nihili eft, fubftituimus TOID ve * TwW> mittens, 
 qua mittebas ; aut etiam ^7 V^' m ittebarh. Tag 6 emendationis 
 noftrae fautores tibi exhibemus, qui habent o airo?z\\a>-/ eij -ma-yla. to. 
 g&v>i : Hi igitur in exemplaribus fuis legiffe videntur QV)J ^3 ?Vl 
 ri/Ii/TTj 1 ul mittebas per entries gentes. Ad hunc demum 
 modum totam claufulam libentiflimS refingeiemus (et harum rerum 
 sequos aeftimatores fortiter appellamus ; caeteros enim, in Hcbrais 
 Uteris plane hofpites, nihil moiamur nee nucis vitiofae facimus) 
 
 0*1:1 to by "pia vbvn 
 
 qui LUCEM mitteeas per cmnes gentes. 
 Nihil elegantius, aut quod Hebraica: poefis concinnitatem plenius 
 fapiat : nihil denique Propheta maxime fublimi dignius, &c. 
 
OF BABYLON. 
 
 For this that earth her mineral ftores refign'd ; 
 And the wan artifb, child of forrow, pin'd : 
 Deflin'd, as Death crept on with mortal Health, 
 And the flufh'd heftic mimick'd rofy health ; 
 'Mid gafping crowds to ply th' inceflant loom, 
 While morbid vapours linger'd in the gloom ? 
 
 Silent for feventy years, its frame unflrung, 
 On Syrian bough jfudcea's harp had hung : 
 Deaf to their defpots' voice, her tribes no more 
 Wak'd Sum's mufic on a foreign fhore ; 
 But oft, his tide where broad Euphrates rolls, 
 Felt the keen infult pierce their patriot fouls : 
 And ftill, as homeward turn'd the longing eye, 
 Gufh'd many a tear and iffued many a figh. 
 Yet not for ever flows the fruitlefs grief ! 
 Cyrus and Vengeance fly to their relief. 
 
 B 
 
 33 
 
34 THE DESTRUCTION 
 
 Mark where He comes, th' Anointed of the Lord ! 
 And wields with mighty arm his hallow'd fword. 
 Reluftant realms their fullen homage pay, 
 As on the heaven-led hero bends his way : 
 Oppofing myriads prefs the fatal plain. 
 And Sardis bars her two-leav'd brafs in vain ; 
 Her fecret hoards the hoftile bands unfold, 
 And grafp with greedy joy the cavern'd gold. 
 
 Then to new fields they urge their rapid courfe, 
 And rebel ftates augment the fwelling force : 
 Firm to their end 'mid fcenes of rural love, 
 Unfoften'd by thofe fcenes, the viftors move : 
 And, as in lengthening line their ranks expand, 
 Spread wider ruin through the ravag'd land. 
 
 The azure day thus gathering clouds deform, 
 And gradual darknefs fpeaks the coming florm : 
 
OF BABYLON. 35 
 
 Onward with deepen'd hue the tempeft rolls, 
 With deepen'd burft the thunder rends the poles ; 
 Near and more near the forky lightnings gleam, 
 While fudden torrents pour their turbid ftream : 
 So its vaft files the thickening phalanx joins, 
 And troop with troop in gloomier bond combines. 
 
 But Babylon th' approaching war derides, 
 And fhakes the harmlefs battle from her fides. 
 In vain the ram its vigorous fhock applies ; 
 The mines defcend, th' aflailing towers arife : 
 Till Treafon comes the baffled chief to aid, 
 And briefer arts fucceed the long blockade. 
 
 With hardy finew Per/id's labouring hoft 
 Wreft the huge river from his native coaft ; 
 And bid his flood its wonted track forego, 
 Twixt other banks through lands unknown to flow. 
 
36 THE DESTRUCTION 
 
 The tafk is done ; and with obfequious tides 
 Euphrates follows, as a mortal guides : 
 His furgelefs channel, now a pervious vale, 
 Invites the foot where navies fpread the fail ; 
 And foon no barrier, but the eaftern main, 
 Shall bound the conqueror's progrefs or his reign. 
 
 Thus, when from heaving /Etna's reftlefs caves 
 Impetuous Fire precipitates his waves, 
 The flaming ruin rufhes on the plain ; 
 And art and nature rear their mounds in vain. 
 Should fome high-rampir'd town obftruft his courfe, 
 The red invader rifes in his force : 
 Swells with dread increafe o'er the adverfe towers, 
 Then furious on the proflrate city pours ; 
 And fcornful of the check, and proudly free, 
 Extends his blazing triumph to the fea : 
 With refluent ftream the ftraiten'd billows flow, 
 And yield new regions to th' infatiate foe. 
 
OF BABYLON. 37 
 
 Yet naught devoted Babylon alarms ; 
 Domeflic treafon, or a world in arms. 
 'Mid her gay palaces and feftal bowers 
 Flutter'd in fportive maze the rofe-crown'd hours : 
 Loud buift the roar of merriment around, 
 While wanton dance light tripp'd it o'er the ground ; 
 Echoed the fong, and with voluptuous lay 
 The warbling lute beguil'd the foul away : 
 When, bent the long-drawn revelry to fpy, 
 Hufh'd in grim midnight Vengeance hover'd nigh. 
 Nor vain her care ; by wine's foft power fubdued 
 The courtly troop with gladden'd eye fhe view'd : 
 The frantic mob in drunken tumult loft, 
 The drowfy foldier nodding at his poft, 
 The gate unclos'd, the defert wall furvey'd ; 
 And livid fmiles her inward breaft betray'd. 
 
 Quaff then, Belshazza r — quaff, Imperial Boy, 
 The lufcious draught and drain the maddening joy ; 
 
3? THE DESTRUCTION 
 
 To equal riot roufe thy languid board, 
 And bid the Satrap emulate his Lord. 
 With pencil'd lids * } the fcandal of their race, 
 Thy crowded halls a thoufand princes grace : 
 111 on fuch legs the warrior greaves appear, 
 111 by fuch hands is grafp'd the deathful fpear ; 
 Fitter 'mid Syria's harlot train to move, 
 And wage in fafer fields the wars of love. 
 Alternate rang'd (with faces not more fair, 
 Nor hearts more foft) that harlot train is there : 
 The virgin's wifh her half-clos'd eyes impart, 
 And blufhlefs matrons boaft th' adulterous heart ; 
 
 2 — amoi7fjt.riy.ivov xai o$9«X/ua>v vffoypaipn nai %pt»[Aa.T0S Evlpi^si 
 jt. t. X- Xenoph. K. rt. a. 
 
 Ambitiofam hanc ornatus rationem gentes Orientales, in luxum 
 effufiores, excogitlrunt. Ita olim Jezebelem, ut regiam prae fe 
 ferret gravitatem, oculos fuco oinaffe legimus, II Reg. ix. 30. Ad 
 quem locum Lxxir. habent sfiy,fjt,io-a,-ro raj o^BaXyeSf i. e. Jlibio 
 definxit : Hoc enim lapide ideo in pingendis oculis homines decoris 
 nimium ftudiofi utebantur, quod eos non nigravit tantum fed etiam 
 dilatavit: &c. (Hutchinson, ad loc.) — " Ob vim nempe aftri 
 " gendi (fviAimv) contrahebat palpebras, et adeo oculos ipfos dilata- 
 " bat." Zetjn. 
 
OF BABYLON. 
 
 On ardent wing the rank contagion flies, 
 Sigh heaves to ugh and glance to glance replies. 
 Let thefe th' achievements of thy Gods rehearfe, 
 Raife the lewd hymn and pour th' unholy verfe ; 
 Proceed ! With facrilege enhance thy wine ! 
 Let the vafe circle, torn from Salem's fhrine. 
 Empire and wealth for thee unite their charms ; 
 For thee bright beauty fpreads her willing arms : 
 Who fhall control thy raptures, or deftroy? 
 Give then the night, the poignant night, to joy. 
 
 Ha ! Why that ftart ! Thofe horror-gleaming eyes ! 
 That frozen cheek, whence life's warm crimfon flies J 
 That lip, on which th' unfinifh'd accents break ! 
 Thofe hairs, ere£t with life ! Thofe joints, that fhake ! 
 The wondrous hand, which ftamps yon wall with flame, 
 Speaks the fear juft that labours in thy frame ; 
 As round it fheds felf-mov'd the living ray, 
 Which mocks the luftre of thy mimic day. 
 
 39 
 
40 THE DESTRUCTION 
 
 Hafte ! Call thy feers ;• or, if their fkill be vain, 
 Let Daniel's art the threatful lines explain : 
 Hafte ! For the prophet bring the fcarlet veft ; 
 If fo, feduc'd, his words may footh thy breaft. 
 Ah ! no : That phantom with the ftyle of fate 
 Infcribes the doom of thee, thy race, thy ftate. 
 In curfes then, rafh Youth, the hour upbraid ; 
 When firft, by pleafure's meteor beam betray'd, 
 From virtue's path thy heedlefs foot declin'd, 
 And whelm'd in fordid fenfe the devious mind. 
 In vain ! Even now is wrought the deed of death : 
 This moment ends thy glories and thy breath ! 
 Above, beneath thee feafts th' infatiate worm ; 
 Completes the murderer's rage, and diffipates thy form. 
 
 See where, twin fons of Vengeance and Defpair, 
 March Gobryas and Gadatas : Hold, rafh pair; 
 'Tis parricide ! Can nothing then atone 
 Your private wrongs, fave Babylon undone ? 
 
OF BABYLON. 41 
 
 As monarchs fmile or frown, (hall patriot fire 
 
 With docile fervour flourifh or expire ? 
 
 No : When th' infulting Mede is at your gates, 
 
 And your pale country fhakes through all her ftates j 
 
 For her your cherifh'd enmity forego, 
 
 To wreak its fury on the public foe : 
 
 Renounce the hoarded malice of your breaft, 
 
 And only ftruggle — who fhall ferve her beft. 
 
 Hark ! 'Tis the cry of conqueft ! Full and clear 
 Her giant voice invades the ftartled ear ; 
 With death's deep groans the fhouts of triumph rife : 
 The mingled clamour mounts the reddening fides. 
 From ftreet to ftreet the flames infuriate pour, 
 Climb the tall fane and gild the tottering tower : 
 In cumbrous ruin fink patrician piles, 
 And ftrew amid the duft their maffive fpoils ; 
 While, with ftern forms dilating in the blaze, 
 Danger and Terror fwell the dire amaze. 
 
42 THE DESTRUCTION 
 
 Now yield thofe Gods, whom proftrate realms ador'd : 
 Though Gods, unequal to a mortal fword ! 
 In awlefs ftate th' unworfhipp'd idols Hand, 
 And tempt with facred gold the plunderer's hand. 
 
 Now bend thofe groves, whofe Hoping bowers among 
 The Attic warbler trill'd her changeful fong : 
 Their varied green where penfile gardens fpread, 
 And Median foliage lent its grateful fhade : 
 There oft, of courts and courtly fplendour tir'd, 
 The fragrant gale AJfyria's 3 Queen refpir'd ; 
 With blamelefs foot through glades exotic rov'd, 
 And hail'd the fcenes her happier prime had lov'd. 
 
 3 " Amyitis, the wife of Nebuchadnezzar, having been 
 « bred in Media (for flie was the daughter of Astyaces, king 
 « of that country) had been much taken with its mountainous and 
 " woody parts, and therefore defired to have fomething like it at 
 " Babylon; and, to gratify her herein, was the reafon of erecting 
 " this monftrous piece of vanity." 
 
 (Prideaux's Conn, of Hift. of O. and N. Teit. I. p. 102. 
 For an account of thefe hanging gardens, the walls, tower, &c. of 
 Babylon, fee Id. ib. pp. 94— »ic>5. 
 
OF BABYLON. 
 
 43 
 
 Now floops that tower, from whofe broad top the eye 
 Of infant Science pierc'd the midnight fky ; 
 Firft dar'd 'mid worlds before unknown to flray, 
 Scann'd the bright wonders of the milky way ; 
 And, as in endlefs round they whirl'd along, 
 In groups arrang'd and nam'd the lucid throng : 
 Nay, in their glittering afpefts feem'd to fpy 
 The hidden page of human deftiny ! 
 Vain all her ftudy ! In that comet's glare, 
 Which fhook deftruftion from its horrid hair, 
 Of her fage train deep-vers'd in ftellar law 
 Not one his country's haplefc fate forefaw ; 
 No heaven-read prieffc beheld the deepening gloom, 
 Or with prophetic tongue foretold her doom. 
 
 Vocal no more with pleafure's fprightly lay 
 Her fretted roofs fhall Babylon difplay ; 
 No more her nymphs in graceful band (hall join, 
 Or trace with flitting flep the mazy line : 
 
44 THE DESTRUCTION 
 
 But here fhall Fancy heave the penfive figh, 
 
 And moral drops fhall gather in her eye ; 
 
 As 'mid her day-dreams diftant ages rife, 
 
 Glowing with nature's many-colour'd dies : 
 
 Refound the rattling car, th' mnumerous feet, 
 
 And all the tumult of the breathing ftreet ; 
 
 The murmur of the bufy, idle throng ; 
 
 The flow of converfe, and the charm of fong 4 : — 
 
 Starting fhe wakes, and weeps as naught fhe fees 
 
 Save tracklefs marfhes and entangled trees : 
 
 As naught fhe hears, fave where the deathful brake 
 
 Ruftling betrays the terrors of the fnake ; 
 
 Save, of the calual traveller afraid, 
 
 Where the owl fcreaming feeks a dunner fhade ; 
 
 4 Sir Brook Boothby in his Anfwer to Burke, fpeakingof the 
 refle&ions that will fuggeft themfelves upon the view of Verfailhs in 
 its prefent condition, has the following fine paffage : " The filence 
 u will be difturbed by founds, that are no longer heard ; and the 
 " folitude peopled by the brilliant forms, that fhall no longer glide 
 u over its polifhed floors," 
 
OF BABYLON. 45 
 
 Save where, as o'er th' unfteadfaft fen ftie roves, 
 The hollow bittern fhakes th' encircling groves. 
 
 Hear then, proud Rome, and tremble at thy fate ! 
 The hour will come, nor diftant is its date 
 (If right was caught the prophet's myftic ftrain, 
 Which aw-ftruck Patmos echoed o'er the main) 
 The hour, which holy arts in vain would flay, 
 That prone on earth thy gorgeous fpires {hall lay; 
 And, with their vain magnificence, deftroy 
 Thy long illufion of imperial joy. 
 
 And thou, Augufia, hear " in this thy day ;" 
 For once, like thee, loft Babylon was gay : 
 With thee wealth's taint has feiz'd the vital part, 
 As once with her, and gangrenes at the heart. 
 Profufion, Avarice, flying hand in hand. 
 Scatter prolific poifons o'er the land ; 
 
46 THE DESTRUCTION 
 
 The teeming land with noxious life grows warm, 
 And reptile mifchiefs on its furface fwarm : — 
 Like hers, or deaf or faithlefs to the vow 
 Of honeft paffion are thy daughters now : 
 With well-feign'd flame th' obedient maidens wed, 
 If wealth or birth adorn the venal bed 5 ; 
 
 5 — « I underftand that in this ifland of Great Britain, at the time 
 il I am now writing, Birth is the firft virtue and Money the 
 <c fecond : Some indeed may difpute the precedence ; but all will 
 (C allow that one or both are Jine qud nons, without which virtue is 
 " not." Hermspronc, II. p. 205. 
 
 The novel whence this defcription of female intereftednefs is 
 taken, exhibiting Man as he is not, proceeds from the fame pen 
 which about four years ago produced Man as he is : They are both 
 works of extraordinary merit. In this character even their " twenty 
 thoufand fair readers" (notwithstanding the above extract) will, I 
 doubt not, feel themfelves difpofed by the innocent bribery of a 
 more conciliating quotation to concur veiy cordially : 
 
 _ <( \V e are, like unhallowed fatirifts, involving in one promifcuous 
 " cenfure all the fair daughters of men. Let us be more juft. They 
 " are our equals in understanding, our fuperiors in virtue : They 
 'J have foibles, where men have faults ; and faults, where men have 
 " crimes : In the gaiety of converfation it may be allowed (and — 
 " the author might have added — in the fervour of poetry, of which 
 u Synecdoche is a principal figure) at leaft it will be aflumed, to put 
 " the whole for a part, perhaps a fmall part ; but it would be wife in 
 " man, when he makes the errors of woman his contemplation, not 
 " to forget his own." II. p. 175. 
 
OF BABYLON. 47 
 
 Then — ere a fecond moon, more fix'd than they, 
 With changing beam the jointur'd brides furvey — 
 Madly they fly where appetite infpires, 
 Dart the unhallow'd glance and burn with real fires. 
 
 Thy fons like hers, a fickle fluttering train, 
 Th' illuftrious honours of their name profane ; 
 Stake half a province on the doubtful die, 
 And mark the fatal caft without a figh : 
 
 For the fubjoined fonnet on The Corruption of Manners 
 which feems not inappofite to this place, I am indebted to the friend- 
 lhip of C. Marsh, Efq. of the Temple. 
 
 TYRANT of pomp, and pride ! Chill'd by whofe fway 
 
 Youth's bloffoms fade ; and all that fancy wrought 
 
 The towering fabric of exalted thought • 
 
 And human mind, that cleaves to heaven its way : 
 
 Thou fmil'ft, that Britain's nervous race decay ; 
 Tho' once in virtue's brighten: fields they fought, 
 Tho' once their blood a nation's bleffings bought : 
 
 Now, the frail infects of a fummer day, 
 
 They fly regardlefs of the coming ftorms ; 
 
 Thofe ftorms Ihall come ! Nurs'd in yon lurid flcy 
 Soon fhall they fweep away the fickly forms, 
 
 That now diffolv'd in perfum'd flumbers lie : 
 Heedlefs alas ! that, while the fun-beam warms, 
 
 The blaft that chills their little lives is nigh. 
 
48 THE DESTRUCTION 
 
 Their heavier hours th' intemperate bowl beguiles, 
 Wakes the dull blood and lights lafcivious (miles ; 
 Then in the ftews they court th' impure embrace, 
 Drink deep difeafe and mar the future race. 
 
 Far other Britons antient Gallia view'd, 
 When her dead chiefs the plains of Cregy ftrew'd ; 
 Proud of fuch heroes, and by fuch rever'd, 
 In that bleft age far other dames appear'd : 
 Bleft age, return ; thy fternnefs foften'd down, 
 Charm with our better features and thine own ! 
 Come ; but refign thofe glories of the field, 
 The gleaming falchion and the ftoried fhield : 
 Renounce the towery menace of thy brow, 
 Which frown'd defpair on vaflal crowds below ; 
 And true to order, and of all the friend, 
 To varied rank unvarying law extend. 
 Ah ! In the fnowy robe of Peace array 'd, 
 Led by the Virtues of the rural fhade, 
 
OF BABYLON. 49 
 
 Return, and let advancing Time behold 
 Regenerate man, and other years of gold. 
 
 Then (hall no feuds our triple realm divide, 
 No traitor point the dagger at its fide ; 
 But each with patriot toils his hours fhall crown, 
 And in his country's welfare find his own.' 
 
SMALLER POEMS, &c. 
 
 E 2 
 
Tempore quo prtmum veftis mihi tradita pura eft, 
 
 Jucundum cum cetas Jlorida ver agerety 
 Multa fath luji : non eft Dea nefcia noftriy 
 
 Quae dulsem cur is mi feet amaritiem. 
 
 Cathll. Ixvi. i J. 
 
SMALLER POEMS. 
 
 JVLUCH on my early youth I love to dwell," 
 When by my father's fide, a {tripling boy, 
 I paced with fleps unequal ; fain to tell 
 
 Of fome new-pra£tifed game, fome new-bought toy. 
 
 How oft with blifs, which later days deny, 
 My prattling tongue its ftory would repeat ! 
 
 Bounding beneath his tender fmile, how high 
 With blamelefs pride my filial heart would beat ! 
 
 O for thofe hours of extafy again, 
 
 Which thus on life's fweet prime their luftre fhed ! 
 The radiant feafon I invite in vain, 
 
 With fecond beam to gild this orphan head : 
 
 It comes not twice. Nor boots it to repine ; 
 I with his afhes foon may mingle mine. 
 
£4 SMALLER POEMS. 
 
 THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER. 
 
 FATHER of AH ! in every age, 
 In every clime adored ; 
 By faint, by favage, and by fage ; 
 Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! 
 
 Thou Great Firft Caufe, leaft underflood ! 
 
 Who all my fenfe confined 
 To know but this, that Thou art good, 
 
 And that myfelf am blind ; 
 
 Yet gave me, in this dark eflate, 
 
 To know the good from ill ; 
 And binding nature fall in fate, 
 
 Left free the human will. 
 
SMALLER POEMSi 5£\ 
 
 IMITATED. 
 
 Pater Univerfi, faeculis in omnibus 
 
 O culte, et omnes per plagas ; 
 San&ifque di&e, barbaris, fapientibus 
 
 Jehova, Jupiter, Deus ! 
 
 Te, Prima rerum Caufa, mente. confequi 
 
 Eft neminis, nedum meum ; 
 Solum, in tenebris ipfe vix viam regens 
 
 Csecufque, Te agnofco bonum : 
 
 Pravoque quod dederis probum dignofcere ; 
 
 Fatoque naturam ligans 
 Nunquam foluto, liberum fimul homini 
 
 Arbitrium permiferis. 
 
$6 SMALLER POEMS. 
 
 What confcience di&ates to be done, 
 
 Or warns me not to do ; 
 This teach me more than hell to fhun, 
 
 That more than heaven purfue. 
 
 What bleffings thy free bounty gives, 
 
 Let me not cafl; away ; 
 For God is paid, when man receives : 
 
 T' enjoy is to obey. 
 
 Yet not to earth's contracted fpan 
 Thy goodnefs let me bound : 
 
 Or think Thee Lord alone of man, 
 When thoufand worlds are round. 
 
 Let not this weak unknowing hand 
 Prefume thy bolts to throw ; 
 
 And deial damnation 'round the land, 
 On each I judge thy. foe. 
 
SMALLER POEMS. 
 
 Quod fuaferit mihi, quod et diffuaferk 
 
 Praelaga confcientia ; 
 Hoc vel gehennafac, Deus, fugiam magis, 
 
 Illud magis coelo fequar. 
 
 Ouotquot benignitas Tua ingerat, precor, 
 
 Des gratus ut capiam bona : 
 Solvit Deo quicunque enim digne accipit 
 
 Obfequitur is, qui fcit frui. 
 
 Nee Te tamen telluris, ah ! pufillimae, 
 
 Solius adfirmem Patrem : 
 Neve hominibus folis datum Tibi obfequi, 
 
 Tot millia inter orbium. 
 
 Manus haec fuas pohibeat imbellis minas ; 
 
 Neu jaftet impar fulmina 
 In omnium capita, Tui quos duxerim 
 
 Holies, ferox atque infeiens. 
 
 57 
 
^8 SMALLER POEMS.- 
 
 If I am right, thy grace impart 
 Still in the right to flay : 
 
 If I am wrong, O teach my heart 
 To find that better way. 
 
 Save me alike from foolifh pride, 
 
 Or impious difcontent 
 At aught thy wifdom has denied, 
 
 Or aught thy goodnefs lent. 
 
 Teach me to feel another's woe, 
 
 To hide the fault I lee ; 
 That mercy I to others fhow, 
 
 That mercy fhow to me. 
 
 Mean tho 5 I am, not wholly fo, 
 Since quicken'd by thy breath : 
 
 O lead me, wherefoe'er I go, 
 
 Through this day's life or death. 
 
SMALLER POEMS. 59 
 
 Si re&a quam dudum tero, Pater, via eft, 
 
 Tu quaefo eandem fac teram : 
 Erraticus fin divager, refta. meos 
 
 Tu quaefo dirigas pedes. 
 
 Quicquid negarit vel Tua fapientia, 
 
 Vel caritas indulferit ; 
 Hoc ne datum leyem excitet fuperbiam, 
 
 Illud negatum murmura. 
 
 Aliena fac ut ufque defleam mala, 
 
 Aliena peccata ut tegam ; 
 Quamque ipfe casteris adhibuerim, mihi 
 
 Redhibeto mifericordiam. 
 
 Vilis licet fim, non tamen viliflimus, 
 
 Cum fpiritus me alat Tuus: 
 Greffus meos, five hora detur longior, 
 
 Sive ultima adfit, O regas ! 
 
<JO SMALLER POEMS. 
 
 This day be bread and peace my lot ; 
 
 All elfe beneath the fun 
 Thou know 'ft if beft beftow'd, or not ; 
 
 And let thy will be done. 
 
 To Thee, whole temple is all fpace, 
 Whole altar earth, lea, Ikies ; 
 
 One chorus let all beings raife, 
 All nature's incenfe rife ! 
 
 POPE, 
 
SMALLER POEMS. bl 
 
 Panem mihi pacemque lux haec afFerat ; 
 
 De caeteris fecurior, 
 Permitto Tibi quid conveniat expendere, 
 
 Tua ut voluntas deftinet. 
 
 Te, Summe, cui templum omnis aether qua. patet, 
 
 Cui terra mareque ara, et polus; 
 Quo pollet ore quifque certatim canat, 
 
 Natura cunfta concinat ! 
 
&2 SMALLER' POEMS. 
 
 HORAT. OD .3.1ib. i. 
 
 Sic te Divapotens Cypri, 
 
 Sic fratres Heknce, lucida fidera, 
 Ventorumque regat pater, 
 
 Obftriftis aliis prseter jfapyga ; 
 Navis, quae tibi creditum 
 
 Debes Virgilium. finibus Atticis 
 Reddas incolumem precor, 
 
 Et ferves animae dimidium mese. 
 Illi robur et ses triplex 
 
 Circa peftus erat, qui fragilem truci 
 Commifit pelago ratem 
 
 Primus, nee timuit praecipitem Africum 
 Decertantem Aquilonibus, 
 
 Nee trifles Hyadas, nee rabiem Noti; 
 Quo non arbiter Adriee 
 
 Major, tollere ceu ponere vult freta. 
 Quem mortis timuit gradum, 
 
 Qui ficcis oculis monftra natantia, 
 Qui vidit mare turgidum, et 
 
 Infames fcopulos Acroceraunia ? 
 Kequicquam Deus abfeidit 
 
 Pjudens Oceano diflbciabili 
 
SMALLER POEMS. 63 
 
 TO THE POST-CHARIOT OF A FRIEND, 
 GOING ABROAD. 
 
 \J MAY Auriga's * lucid ftar, 
 
 Direct, thee, Chariot, on thy way ; 
 Whofe whirling wheels from England far 
 
 To fouthern climes my friend convey : 
 And may no fhock his eafe invade 
 
 From fnapping fpring, or linch-pin loft ; 
 No crack, fave thofe by pofl-boys made, 
 
 Till Bernard's ice-crown'd cliff be croft. 
 
 Steel were his nerves, his fmews brafs, 
 
 Who firft with vaulting footftep role 
 Sublime-; and from the virgin-pafs 
 
 Look'd down upon eternal fnows : 
 Who, by the raving ftorm unfcared, 
 
 'Mid Alpine precipices ftrode ; 
 The thundering mafs unflinching heard, 
 
 And dauntlefs traced the defperate road. 
 In vain, to chariot-wheels denied, 
 
 The crags their glittering honours raife ; 
 
 * A confiderable ftar in this conftellation, called Capella, is de- 
 figned (one would fuppofe) for the guidance of thofe, who traverfe 
 mountains chiefly known to the goat. 
 
64 SMALLER "POEMS. 
 
 Terras, fi tamen impias 
 
 Non tangenda rates tranfiliunt vada. 
 Audax omnia perpeti 
 
 Gens humana ruit per vetitum nefas : 
 Audax lapeti genus 
 
 Ignem fraude mala gentibus intulit. 
 Pofl ignem astheria domo 
 
 Subdu&um, macies et nova febrium 
 Terris incubuit cohors ; 
 
 Semotique prius tarda neceflitas 
 Leti corripuit gradum. 
 
 Expertus vacuum Dcedalus aera 
 Pennis non homini datis : 
 
 Perrupit Acheronta Herculeus labor. 
 Nil mortalibus arduum eft: 
 
 Ccelum ipfum petimus ftultitia ; neque 
 Per noftrum patimur fcelus 
 
 Iracunda Jovem ponere fulmina. 
 
SMALLER POEMS. 65 
 
 If fkittifh mules may climb their fide, 
 
 And plod fecure the air-hung ways. 
 But man forbidden paths will tread : 
 
 Columbus thus, of Jfapheth fprung, 
 From virtue's fimple fons convey'd 
 
 The fire, whofe name would taint my fong. 
 Hence the fhrunk fhank, and carious bone, 
 
 Accelerate Nature's flow decay; 
 And Death, no longer hobbling on, 
 
 His ancient crutches flings away. 
 Montgolfier thus thro' vacant air, 
 
 Elate on buoyant pinion foar'd ; 
 And Spalding thus, too prompt to dare, 
 
 Old ocean's wreck-ftrew'd bed explored. 
 To wildeft flights wild man afpires : 
 
 Here Paine would fcale th' eternal walls ; 
 And there, as Franklin points his wires, 
 
 Difarm'd th' indignant lightning falls. 
 
66 SMALLER POEMS. 
 
 VV ITH rapid wing our faireft years move on : 
 I figh, my Myra, as again I fing— 
 Our faireft years move on with rapid wing, 
 Till all the lovelinefs of life is gone. 
 
 Few are our joys, and fleeting; ere they fly, 
 Seize their brief grace ! Not diftant is the date 
 
 (Truft me, dear maid) when even thy bloom fliall die, 
 Or fcathedby chance, or chafed" by hurrying fate : 
 
 Too foon that " eye's blue languifh" will expire ; 
 
 And mute too foon will fleep that tuneful tongue, 
 On whofe foft founds entranced attention hung, 
 As with its melody it fhamed the lyre. 
 
 Then, ah ! my Myra, ere thofe charms decay, 
 Give them to love : Even now they hade away ! 
 
 
SMALLER POEMS, 67 
 
 SONG. 
 
 1. 
 
 ij AY, fond lover, is thy mind 
 
 By the gentle Mufe refin'd ? 
 Haft thou fkill to ftrike the lyre 
 With thine own Apollo's fire ? — 
 Think not fo the maid to move ; 
 Hopelefs is a Poet's love : 
 
 Rich and high-born dotards tear 
 From thine arms the venal fair. 
 
 11. 
 Haply health's unborrow'd hues 
 
 O'er thy cheek their bloom diftufe ; 
 
 And thy graceful limbs outvie 
 
 Phidian forms in fymmetry : — 
 
 Ah ! To Albion's fordid train 
 
 Youth and beauty fue in vain : 
 
 Rich and high-born dotards tear 
 
 From thine arms the venal fair. 
 
 F 2 
 
SMALLER POEMS. 
 III. 
 
 Though the Mufe infpire thy bread 
 On thy face though wonder reft, 
 Wildly gazing ; and thy frame 
 Rival Grcecia's proudeft fame ; — - 
 Sigh unheard, unpitied pine, 
 If nor rank nor wealth be thine : 
 Rich and high-born dotards tear 
 From thine arms the venal fair. 
 
SMALLER POEMS. 69 
 
 EPIGRAMS. 
 
 Ou to f/.£ya tu er<, to 3e tv (ttya. 
 
 1. 
 
 Av (Atv " sirn vitpx^ea-aiv zoikotx %it[AEgty<Ti ,' 
 MAKPO$IAE2j Cot tzhi, ax Emy^x^^xQ' «Se<* 
 
 " Tlxvgx yxp xXkx ^xKx Xeyzus T " Eiriy^x^i^xQ' IW, 
 Kai /AEyxX' oc§\x Xixv rvlOoc, ting ovt t\x£ev' 
 
 E;9' ew MsvsXxos Syu, Qv c?£ cW Ollv&atvs, 
 flu xv £[aoi TqxvT-n ygvcrtx ^uga fagoi. 
 * HoM. II. r. 222. -j- Id. ib. 214. 
 
 11. 
 Perlegit Eutrapelus libros male fedulus omnes } 
 
 Nee grave fopito corpore ceflat opus ; 
 Scilicet in fomnis fibi nofte videtur eofdem 
 
 Volvere, quos longa volverat ante die : 
 Definat infelix, magnis neu perftet in aufis ; 
 
 Et, multa ut poflit difcere, pauca legat. 
 
 Cantab rigi.e, in Comitiis Maximis, 
 Jul. 1787. 
 
70 SMALLER POEMS. 
 
 -Deus cradelius urit, 
 
 Quos videt invitos fuccubuifle fibi. 
 
 Tibull. I. viii. 7. 
 
 W HEN firft the firen Beauty's face 
 My wandering eye furvey'd ; 
 
 Unmov'd I faw each fraudful grace, 
 That 'round th' enchantrefs play'd : 
 
 And ftill, with carelefs mien elate, 
 Defied the Paphian's wile ; 
 
 As ambufh'd in a look he fate, 
 Or couch'd beneath a fmile : 
 
 And ftill to rove I madly vow'd 
 
 Along the dangerous way, 
 Secure — where other boafters bow'd 
 
 Before the tyrant's fway. 
 
SMALLER POEMS. 71 
 
 TRANSLATED 
 BY A FRIEND. 
 
 jL/UMINA cum primum (memini) juvenilia ftrinxit 
 
 Virgineo quicquid ludit in ore decus, 
 Tutus ab illecebris veneres mirabar inermes : 
 
 A nobis famam nulla puella tulit. 
 
 Hinc animo audaci nimium vultuque fuperbo 
 
 Spernebam Paphii mollia tela Dei ; 
 Seu rofeo inlidias ftruxit male fidus in ore, 
 
 Seu rifus inter retia texit Amor. 
 
 Saepe quidem dixi, fallacis nefcius aurse, 
 
 Me tuto anguftam pofle tenere viam : 
 Imprudens nimium ! qui me tarn faepe negavi, 
 
 Csetera qui vincit, vincere pofle Deum. 
 
^2 SMALLER POEMS. 
 
 Nor learn'd my breaft to heave the figh, 
 
 Or pour the fecret heart ; 
 Till Myra from her beamy eye 
 
 Difpatch'd th' unerring dart : 
 
 (i Fly, fatal fhaft" (with cruel zeal 
 The confcious murderefs cried) 
 
 " And teach yon haughty boy to feel 
 " The anguifh due to pride." 
 
 To footh the foul-fubduing pain 
 
 Awhile I fondly ftrove ; 
 But combated, alas ! in vain, 
 
 Th' omnipotence of love. 
 
 Then ah ! at length, ftern power, forbear ; 
 
 Thy wrath at length forego : 
 Enough my youth has felt of care, 
 
 Enough has tafted woe ; 
 
SMALLER POEMS. 73 
 
 Nam neque adhuc noram trifles profundere queflus, 
 
 Nee noram querulae tangere fila lyras ; 
 Cum Mir a ex oculis, Phcebd fulguris inflar, 
 
 Mint vindiftae tela miniftra fuse : 
 
 " I, fuge (fatalis clamavit confeia plagae) 
 " I, pete (ait) durum, fida fagitta, latus. 
 
 " Hinc tandem, hinc difcat noflri contemptor oportet 
 u Quae fint foeminea vulnera mifla manu." 
 
 Pectoris ut fasvos poflem fanare dolores, 
 
 Tentavi medica quicquid in arte fuit ; 
 Sed fruftra petii duro me opponere morbo, 
 
 Ah ! medica non eft arte fugandus Amor. 
 
 Improbe, parce, puer, pennato fternere ferro ; 
 
 In me fatales define ferre minas : 
 Prasteritos egi non tam feliciter annos ; 
 
 Experta eft varias noftra juventa vices. 
 
74 SMALLER POEMS. 
 
 Or if, ordain'd by ftubborn fate, 
 
 I drag th' eternal cbain ; 
 Doom'd, as I bend beneath its weight, 
 
 To court relief in vain : 
 
 To Myra equal toil impart, 
 On her thy pang bellow ; 
 
 Thrill with love's agony her heart, 
 And bid her fuffer too. 
 
SMALLER POEMS. 75 
 
 Sin, quae difpenfant mortalia fila, forores 
 
 Impofito prohibent folvere colla jugo ; 
 Si me fata jubent aeternam ferre catenam, , • 
 
 Nee prodeft votis follicitaffe Deos — 
 
 Tu faltem Mir>e parilem, puer, incute plagam ; 
 
 Languefcat, quaefo, vulnere nympha pari : 
 Haec quoque cognofcat quid fit fuccumbere amori, 
 
 Tranfadigatque animas una fagitta duas. 
 
i]6 SMALLER POEMS. 
 
 Quaeritis, unde mihi toties fcribantur amores ? 
 
 Unde meus veniat mollis in ora liber ? 
 Non mi Calliope, non haee mihi cantat Apollo; 
 
 Ingenium nobis ipfa puella facit. 
 
 Propert. II. i. I. 
 
 JDY many forrows pierc'd before, 
 
 In early youth I bow'd ; 
 Nor leaft the pang my bofom bore. 
 
 When love's firft fury glow'd i 
 
 'Till her harfh medicine Defpair, 
 
 Severely kind, apply'd ; 
 Tugg'd at the fhaft with friendly carCj 
 
 And wrung it from my fide : 
 
 Stern is her art, but fare to heal 
 Love's woes (thofe woes abound !) 
 
 If memory with officious zeal 
 Vex not the clofing wound. 
 
SMALLER POEMS. 77 
 
 And fhall again infidious Hope 
 
 With firen voice beguile ? 
 Twice muft I with the terrors cope, 
 
 That throng a woman's fmile ? 
 
 Upon that fair and faithlefs main, 
 
 Where my young heart was toft, 
 Shall I embark — to be again 
 
 In fecond ruin loft ? 
 
 O yes. I reck not, let it come ; 
 
 Love's tempeft I defy : 
 With confcious rafhnefs court my doom, 
 
 And dare — although I die. 
 
78 SMALLER POEMS. 
 
 HENDECASYLLABI. 
 
 AD BRUNTONAM 
 e Grantd exituram. 
 
 JLN OSTRI praefidium et decus theatri, 
 O tu Melpomenes feverioris 
 Certe filia ! Quam decore formse 
 Donavit Cytherea j quam Minerva 
 Duxit per dubiae vias juventas, 
 Per plaufus populi periculofos. 
 Nee lapfam — precor 6 nee in futurum 
 Lapfuram : — fatis at Camoena dignis 
 Quae te commemoret modis ? Acerbos 
 Seu proferre MONIMIAZ dolores, 
 Frater cum vetitos (nefas ! ) ruebat 
 In fratris thalamos parumque cafto 
 Vexabat pede ; five jfULIETTJE 
 Luftantes odio paterno amores 
 
SMALLER POEMS. 79 
 
 TRANSLATED 
 
 BY A FRIEND. 
 
 iVJ-AID of unboaftful charms! whom white-rob'd Truth 
 Right onward guiding through the maze of youth, 
 Forbade the Circe Praife to witch thy foul ; 
 And dafh'd to earth th' intoxicating bowl : 
 Thee meek-ey'd Pity, eloquently fair, 
 Clafp'd to her bofom with a mother's care ; 
 And, as (he lov'd thy kindred form to trace, 
 The flow fmile wander'd o'er her pallid face. 
 
 For never yet did mortal voice impart 
 Tones more congenial to the fadden'd heart : 
 Whether, to roufe the fympathetic glow, 
 Thou poureft lone Monimia's tale of woe ; 
 Or haply cloatheft with funereal vefb 
 The bridal loves that wept in Juliet's breaft. 
 
8o SMALLER POEMS. 
 
 Mavis fingere : te fequuntur Horror, 
 Arrettufque comas Pavor ; viciflim 
 In fletum populus jubetur ire, 
 Et fufpiria perfonant theatrum. 
 
 Mox divinior enitefcis, altrix 
 Altoris vigil et parens parentis : 
 At non Gratia fola vindicabit 
 Paternae columen decufque vitas 
 Natam ; reftat item patri Britanno 
 Etpar EUPHRASIA -puelh*, quamque 
 Ad fcenam pietas tulit paternam. 
 
 O BRUNTONA, cito exitura virgo 
 Et vifu cito fubtrahenda noftro, 
 Breves deliciae dolorque longus ! 
 
 * Quippe quae (claufis in urbe, ob Ducis Cumbrienjts mortem, 
 theatris) in arenam municipalem, ubi pater tunc temporis Judos 
 fcenicos edebat, defcendere non erubuerit. 
 
SMALLER POEMS. 8l 
 
 O'er our chill limbs the thrilling Terrors creep, 
 Th' entranced Paffions their ftill vigil keep ; 
 While the deep fighs, refponfive to the fong, 
 Sound through the filence of the trembling throng. 
 
 But purer raptures lighten'd from thy face, 
 And fpread o'er all thy form an holier grace ; 
 When from the daughter's breafts the father drew 
 The life he gave, and mix'd the big tear's dew. 
 
 Nor was it thine th' heroic ftrain to roll 
 With mimic feelings foreign from the foul : 
 Bright in thy parent's eye we mark'd the tear ; 
 Methought he faid, " Thou art no Aftrefs here ! 
 " A femblance of thyfelf the Grecian dame, 
 " And Brunt on and Euphrasia ftill the fame !" 
 
82 SMALLER POEMS. 
 
 GrefTum fifte parumper, oro ; teque 
 Virtutefque tuas lyra fonandas 
 Tradet Granta fuis viciflim alumnis, 
 
 Cantabrigi^e, hi. Cal. OSi. mdccxc. 
 
SMALLER POEMS. 83 
 
 O foon to feek the city's bufier fcene, 
 Paufe thee awhile, thou chafle-ey'd maid ferene ! 
 'Till Granta's fons from all her facred bowers 
 With grateful hand fhall weave Pierian flowers 
 To twine a fragrant chaplet round thy brow, 
 Enchanting miniilrefs of virtuous woe ! * 
 
 * This tranflation was fent to Mifs Brunton, filler of the lady 
 .(Mrs. Merry) who is the fubjecT: of the original verfes, with the 
 following lines, which I fhall be excufed for inferring : 
 
 That darling of the Tragic Mufe — 
 
 When Wrancham fung her praife, 
 Thalia loft her rofy hues 
 
 And iicken'd at his lays : 
 
 But tranfient was th' unwonted figh ; 
 
 For foon the Goddefs 'fpied 
 A fifter form of mirthful eye, 
 
 And danc'd for joy and cried : 
 
 " Meek Pity's fweeteft child, proud dame, 
 
 u The fates have given to you ! 
 u Still bid your Poet boaft her name ; 
 
 " /have my Brunton too." 
 
 e 2 
 
84 1SMALLER POEMS. 
 
 PROLOGUE to CATO. 
 
 A O wake the foul by tender ftrokes of art, 
 To raife the genius and to mend the heart ; 
 To make mankind, in confcious virtue bold, 
 Live o'er each fcene and be what they behold ; — 
 For this the tragic Mufe firfh trod the ftage, 
 Commanding tears to flream through every age : 
 Tyrants no more their favage nature kept, 
 And foes to virtue wonder'd how they wept. 
 
 Our Author fhuns by vulgar fprings to move 
 The hero's glory, or the virgin's love ; 
 In pitying love we but our weaknefs fhew, 
 And wild ambition well deferves its woe. 
 Here tears fhall flow from a more generous caufe. 
 Such tears as patriots fhed for dying laws : 
 
SMALLER POEMS. 85 
 
 PROLOGUS. 
 
 LJ T fenfus tragica excitaret arte, 
 Mores fingeret, ingenique venam 
 Ditaret ; foret unde, quod videbat, 
 Gens humana ; fibique fifa virtus 
 Scenas confcia permearet omnes ;— 
 Primum fuftinuit gravi cothurno 
 Suras Melpomene indui, et ciere 
 Cunftorum lacrymas : trucem tyrannus 
 Adfpeftum pofuit, genafque furtim 
 Non fuo obflupuit madere fletu. 
 
 Vulgari refugit Poeta pleftro 
 Heroum canere arma (quippe triftis 
 Vices ambitio fuas meretur) 
 Imbelli neque plorat ufque queftu 
 Amores juvenumque virginumque ; 
 Hie fons nobilior : CATO ipfe quales 
 
86 SMALLER POEMS. 
 
 He bids your breafts with antient ardour rife, 
 
 And calls forth Roman drops from Britijh eyes. 
 
 Virtue confefs'd in human fhape he draws ; 
 
 What PLATO thought, and godlike CATO was : 
 
 No common object to your fight difplays, 
 
 But what with pleafure Heaven itfelf furveys ; 
 
 A brave man ftruggling in the florms of fate, 
 
 And greatly falling with a falling ftate ! 
 
 While CATO gives his little fenate laws, 
 
 What bofom beats not in his country's caufe ? 
 
 Who fees him aft, but envies eveiy deed ? 
 
 Who hears him groan, and does not wifh to bleed T 
 
 Even when proud CvESAR 'midft triumphal cars, 
 
 The fpoils of nations and the pomp of wars, 
 
 Ignobly vain and impotently great, 
 
 Shew'd Rome her CATO's figure drawn in ftate; 
 
 As her dead father's reverend image pafs'd, 
 
 The pomp was darken'd and the day o'ercaft : 
 
SMALLER POEMS. 87 
 
 Fudit pro patria ruente, Nofter 
 Educit lacrymas ; furore prifco 
 Accenditque animos, genamque guttis 
 Romanis docet imbui Britannam. 
 Virtus fcilicet hie videnda forma 
 Humana! Hie PLATO mente quod creavit, 
 CATO quod fuit! En, quod ipfe Divum 
 Rex fpeftaculum amaverit, procellis 
 Lu&antem patriae virum ; cadentemque, 
 Hsec cum concideret! Suis CATONEM 
 Dantem jura, quis haud amore flagrat, 
 Ut vidit, patriae ? quis haud agenti 
 Plaudit ? quis fimul et mori, gementem 
 Quicunque audiit, haud avet ? Triumphat 
 Dum CJESAR fpolia inter, atque viftos 
 Oftentat populo duces (fuperbae 
 Heu ! mentis nimium impotenfque faftus) 
 Turba ut forte fui CATONIS ire 
 
88 SMALLER POEMS. 
 
 The triumph ceas'd : Tears gufh'd from every eye ; 
 The world's great viftor pafs'd unheeded by : 
 Her laft good man dejecled Rome ador'd, 
 And honour'd CESAR'S lefs than CATO's fword. 
 
 Britons, attend : Be worth like this approv'd, 
 And fhew you have the virtue to be mov'd. 
 With honeft fcorn the firft fam'd CATO view'd 
 Rome learning arts from Greece, whom fhe fubdued ; 
 Our feene precarioufly fubfifts too long 
 On French tranllation and Italian fong : 
 Dare to have fenfe yourfelves. Affert the ftage ; 
 Be juftly warm'd with your own native rage : 
 Such plays alone fhould pleafe a Britijh ear, 
 As CATO's felf had not difdain'd to hear. 
 
 Pope. 
 
SMALLER POEMS. 89 
 
 Cernunt effigiem, dies tenebris 
 Vifa horrefcere publicifque pompa 
 Defied lacrymis : canente nulla 
 Io voce Triumphe, viftor orbis 
 Solus fecum ovat : ultimum fuorum 
 Mavult Roma dolere ; C^ESARIque 
 Minor gloria quam fuit CATONI. 
 
 Hunc tu foveris : hie tuos, Britanni 
 Quifquis nomine gaudeas, moveto 
 Plaufus. Non potuit CATO ille Major 
 Urbem ferre fcientia inquinatam 
 Grazed j Gallica nos fatis theatra, 
 Fraftasque ex Italo ore cantilenas 
 Ceperunt ; fapiat fibi, atque fcena 
 ^Eflu jam patrio fremat : Britannis 
 Ifthasc fabula convenit, feverus 
 Quam non ipfe CATO audiens ruberet. 
 
QO SMALLER POEMS. 
 
 SONG. 
 
 V_^OME here, fond youth, whoe'er thou be 
 
 That boaft'fl to love as well as me ; 
 And, if thy breaft have felt fo wide a wound, 
 
 Come hither and thy flame approve : 
 
 I'll teach thee what it is to love, 
 And by what marks true paffion may be found. 
 
 •It is to be all bath'd in tears, 
 
 To live upon a fmile for years, * 
 To lie whole ages at a beauty's feet ; 
 
 To kneel, to languifh, to implore, 
 
 And ftill — though fhe difdain — adore : 
 It is to do all this, and think thy fufferings fweet, 
 
 * Shakspeare has given us fimilar chaiadteriftics of this paffion: 
 
 It is to be made all of fighs and tears ; 
 
 It is to be all made of faith and fervice ; 
 
 It is to be made all of fantafy, 
 
 All made of paffion, and all made of wifties ; 
 
 All adoration, duty and obfervance ; 
 
SMALLER POEMS. gi 
 
 Imitated. 
 
 i. 
 Jl ERRE parem noftris qui te, puer, ignibus ignem 
 
 Jaftas — fit caleat quis tamen igne pari ; 
 Infelix, tua vota refer : referam ipfe viciffim, 
 
 Quid fit Amor ; pateat qualibus ille notis. 
 
 Eft — unum in totos rifum depafcier annos ; 
 
 Eft — folvi in lacrymas ; fundere vota, preces : 
 Ante pedes femper volvi et languere puellae ; 
 
 Si fugit ilia, fequi— -fie cupere ufque fequi. 
 
 All humblenefs, all patience and impatience; 
 All purity, all trial, all obfervance. 
 
 As YOU LIKE IT, aft V. fc. 2. 
 
 In a trench writer we find a parallel defcription : 
 Par Jon refpeel I' Amour vraife declare ; 
 C'ejl ltd qui craint, qui fefuit, qui J'egare; 
 Qui d'un regard fait fon fupretne bien, 
 Deftre tout, fret end feu, n'ufe rien -f-. 
 
 t Brama afTai, poco fpera, nulla chiede. 
 
 le Tafe. 
 
9 2 
 
 SMALLER POEMS. 
 
 It is to gaze upon her eyes 
 
 With eager joy and fond furprife — 
 Yet temper'd with fuch chafte and awful fear, 
 
 As wretches feel who wait their doom ; 
 
 Nor muft one ruder thought prefume, 
 Though but in whifpers breath'd, to meet her ear. 
 
 It is to hope, though hope were loft, 
 Though Heaven and earth thy wifhes crofs'd ; 
 
 Though (he were bright as fainted queens above, 
 And thou the leaft and meaneft fwain 
 That folds his flock upon the plain, 
 
 Yet — if thou dar'ft not hope — thou doft not love. 
 
 It is to quench thy joy in tears, 
 
 To nurfe ftrange thoughts and groundlefs fears ; 
 If pangs of jealoufy thou haft not prov'd, 
 
 Though fhe were fonder and more true 
 
 Than any nymph old poets drew, 
 O never dream again that thou haft lov'd. 
 
SMALLER POEMS. 93 
 
 III. 
 
 Eft — in virgineo defixum haerere obtutu ; 
 
 Peftora dum cohibet (ceu peritura) timor, 
 Ne qua forte procax vel ab imo corde fufurrus 
 
 Auriculas ftringat commaculetque genas. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Efl — fpe dimifla, non defperare ; refiflant 
 
 Si votis homines, fi Deus ipfe, tuis : 
 Ilia licet Venerem fuperet, tuque infimus, acris 
 
 Ni te fpes foveat — non tibi notus Amor. 
 
 v. 
 Ell — lacrymas inter gaudere, et gaudia luctu 
 
 Mifcere; eft pafta contremere ufque fide : 
 Namque licet cafta fit caftior ilia Diana, 
 
 Ni fie horrueris — non tibi notus Amor. 
 
94 SMALLER POEMS. 
 
 If, when the darling maid is gone, 
 
 Thou doft not feek to be alone 
 Wrapt in a pleafing trance of tender woe \ 
 
 And mufe and fold thy languid arms, 
 
 Feeding thy fancy on her charms, 
 Thou doft not love — for love is nourifh'd fo. 
 
 If any hopes thy bofom fhare, 
 
 But thofe which love has planted there, 
 Or any cares but his thy breaft enthral ; 
 
 Thou never yet his power haft known : 
 
 Love fits on a defpotic throne, 
 And reigns a tyrant* — if he reigns at all. 
 
 Now, if thou art fo loft a thing, 
 
 Hither thy tender forrows bring ; 
 And prove, whofe patience longeft can endure : 
 
 We'll ftrive whofe fancy fhall be tofs'd 
 
 In dreams of fondeft paffion moft ; 
 For, if thou thus haft lov'd, oh ! never hope a cure. 
 
 Mrs. Barbauld. 
 
 * " The divine right of beauty is the only one an Englijhman 
 u ought to acknowledge, and a pretty woman the only tyrant he 
 " is not authorifed to refill." Jun. 
 
 
SMALLER POEMS. gjj 
 
 VI. 
 
 Dumque abfit — ni percupias tecum effe, viafque 
 
 Saepius ambiguas incomitatus eas — 
 Nefcio quid tenerum meditans et totus in illud, 
 
 Quicquid id eft, raptus — non tibi notus Amor. 
 
 Sique tuum peftus contingat fpefve metufve, 
 Quae tibi non dederit blandus et afper Amor ; 
 
 Hinc procul, erro levis ! nondum urere : cunfta tyrannus 
 Nam regit imperio, cum regit, ifte fero. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Atqui fi fueris, puer, ah ! tam perditus, adfis ; 
 
 Ut, quid uterque gemit, difcere uterque queat : 
 Quifquis enim quamcunque ita perdite amaveris, unquam 
 
 (Crede) medela mali non erit ulla tui. 
 
$6 SMALLER POEMS. 
 
 IMPROMPTU; 
 
 Spoken between the third and fourth a£s of Mrs. Cowley's 
 Tragedy, entitled THE FALL OF SPARTA. 
 
 OO great thy art — that, while we view'd 
 
 Of Sparta's fons the lot fevere, 
 
 We caught the Spartan fortitude ; 
 
 And faw their woes — without a tear. 
 
 Parsons. 
 
 LINES 
 
 Addreffed to Lady Millee, on the Urn at Bath-Eajlon. 
 
 JVLlLLER, the Urn in antient times ('tis faid) 
 Held the collected afhes of the dead ; 
 So thine, the wonder of thefe modern days, 
 Stands open night and day for lifelefs lays : 
 Leave not unfinifh'd then the well-form'd plan, 
 Complete the work thy claflic tafte began ; 
 And oh '. in future, ere thou doft inurn 'em, 
 Remember firft to raife a pile — and burn 'em. 
 
 Jekyll, 
 
smaller poems. 97 
 
 Imitated. 
 
 Tale tuum carmen nobis, divine poeta^ 
 Quale fopor — — 
 
 Virg. Eel. v. 45, 
 
 JL/URA nimis Sparta pingis dum fata mentis. 
 
 Stratofque oftendis, corpora magna, duces ; 
 Virtutem nofmet fpe&ando haurimus et ipfi 
 
 Spartanam, — inque genas lacryma nulla cadit. 
 
 Imitated. 
 
 V^ISSA prius veterum, fie dicitur, Urna recepit ; 
 
 Verfus exfangues nunc eadem Urna capit : 
 Adde, operi folum id reftat quod deficit, ignem ; 
 
 Quoque cremes verfus, fit (precor) ante rogus. 
 
9§ SMALLER POEMS. 
 
 J.LS ne font plus ces jours delicieux, 
 Ou mon amour refpettueux et tendre 
 A votre cceur favoit fe faire entendre ; 
 
 Ou vous m' aimiez, ou nous etions heureux ! 
 
 Vous adorer, vous le dire et vous plaire, 
 Sur vos defirs regler tous mes defirs — 
 C'etoit mon fort, j'y bornois mes plaifirs ; 
 
 Aime de vous, quels vceux pouvois-je faire ? 
 
 Tout eft change : quand je fuis pres de vous, 
 Trifte et fans voix vous n' avez rien a. dire ; 
 
 Si quelquefois je tombe a vos genoux, 
 Vous m' arretez avec un froid fourire, 
 
 Et dans vos yeux s'allume le courroux. 
 
 II fut un tems (vous l'oubliez peut-etre I) 
 Oii j'y trouvois cette molle langueur, 
 
 Ce tendre feu que le defir fait naitre, 
 Et qui furvit au moment de bonheur. 
 Tout eft change, tout — excepte mon coeur ! 
 
smaller poems. 99 
 
 Translated. 
 
 P I.ED is that feafon of delight, 
 
 In which my heart from morn 'till night 
 
 Its fimple ftory joy'd to tell ; 
 
 And you approv'd, and — all was well. 
 
 To love, and in your offer'd ear 
 Breathe (not unheard) the hope-mix'd fear- 
 Such was my happy lot of yore ; 
 Such lot, alas ! is mine no more. 
 
 Now all is chang'd ; if at your feet 
 My tender paflion I repeat, 
 With dull cold fmile you bid me rife ; 
 While anger flafhes from your eyes. 
 
 Thofe eyes once Love and young Defire 
 With fofter radiance could infpire : 
 Mild luftre once their orbs could dart ; 
 Now all is chang'd— except my heart ! 
 
100 SMALLER POEMS. 
 
 ON LEAVING A FAVOURITE RESIDENCE. 
 
 farewell ! And with thee too adieu, 
 
 Joys left as foon as tafted ! They are gone, 
 Even like fbme pleafant dream by hafty dawn 
 Scar'd from the lover's pillow : Fall they flew, 
 
 And long will they be abfent. I meanwhile 
 
 (Sooth'd by the, memory of the white-arm'd maid, 
 With whom among thy moonlight fcenes I ftray'd) 
 
 With melancholy minftrelfy beguile 
 
 The lonely hour. But me whate'er betide, 
 Whether on life's tempeftuous ocean toft 
 Hopelefs I view the ftill-retiring coaft, 
 
 Or my frail bark propitious Tritons guide 
 
 Through fmiling feas — on Her may profperous fate, 
 With its long train of changelefs raptures, wait ! 
 
SMALLER POEMS. 101 
 
 ON THE SAME SUBJECT. 
 
 VJROVES, that of late I lov'd fo well, adieu ! 
 
 Dear to my foul, accept its parting figh : 
 Yet oft fhall Memory your loft (hades review, 
 
 Still fhall you flourilh to her faithful eye. 
 
 There was a time when through your bowers to rove, 
 And with untutor'd fingers touch the lyre ; 
 
 My breaft unvifited of other love, 
 
 Than fuch as Phcsbus and his train infpire, 
 
 Delighted me. Ah ! Time of blifs, return 
 With healing on thy wings I — In vain I cry : 
 
 Deftin'd in hopelefs mifery to mourn, 
 In vain I roam beneath another fky ; 
 
 And 'mid new fcenes the fugitive explore : 
 For joy fhall folace this fad heart no more. 
 
102 SMALLER POEMS. 
 
 WRITTEN AT MATLOCK. 
 
 IVjLATLOCK, as through thy cliff-fprung woods I ro\ 
 (Still paufing, while I mufe on Youth's brief day : 
 How faft his fhadowy raptures fleet away ; 
 
 How oft his heart, that feat of faithful love, 
 
 Is doom'd to love in vain) ray anguifh'd mind 
 
 Sighs to behold in fpiral eddies round 
 Thy foliage, fcatter'd by the wild Northwind, 
 
 With faded verdure ftrew the fallow ground. 
 
 — But 'tis the feafon's wreck : Not unforefeen, 
 The deepening temped howls in Autumn's ear; 
 Me the florin blafted, ere I learn'd to fear 
 
 Its fatal rage, while yet my leaf was green : 
 
 Scarce had my May begun her foft career. 
 When ftern December clos'd the hafly year. 
 
SMALLER POEMS. IO3 
 
 SONG. 
 
 JlN times fo long paft (though I ftill am but young) 
 That I fcarcely their tranfports can trace, 
 
 Enraptur'd I caught the foft lifp of thy tongue ; 
 
 And totter'd — for then I but totter'd — along, 
 To clafp thee in childijh embrace. 
 
 As we grew up together, each day I beheld, 
 
 With feelings unkindled before, 
 Thy yefterday's beauties by new ones excell'd ; 
 Nor, boy as I was, from thofe beauties withheld 
 
 My heart : — Could I offer thee more ? 
 
 Even now, when the fever of youth is gone by, 
 
 And I glow with more temperate fire, 
 Delighted I dwell on thy foul-beaming eye; 
 And, heaving perhaps ftill too ardent a figh, 
 
 Survey thee with chaften'd defire. 
 
 Oh ! come then and give me, dear Maiden, thy charms ; 
 
 For life is alas ! on the wing : 
 Our furjyner ere long will be fled ; in thefe arms 
 Let me fhield thee, my Fair One, from winter's alarms : 
 
 Oh ! liften to love, while 'tis fpring. 
 
104 SMALLER POEMS. 
 
 ADDRESSED TO A LADY, 
 WITH A PRINT OF CORNELIA. 
 
 VV HEN Rome was yet in antient virtue great, 
 Ere tyrant Cesar s had unnerv'd the ftate ; 
 Proud of her toilette's wealth, a modifh Fair 
 The coftly hoard to fam'd Cornelia bare : 
 And, having prefs'd it on her cold furvey, 
 With confcious triumph claim'd a like difplay. 
 Soon as from fchool her boys, the Gracchi, came ; 
 " Behold my jewels (cried the happy Dame) 
 cs Thefe are the gems a mother moft fhould prize, 
 u Thefe glitter brighteft to maternal eyes." 
 Her inmoft foul confounded at the view, 
 The felf-admonifh'd vifitant withdrew. 
 
 Such were the matrons virtuous Rome admir'd : 
 From fuch fprang patriots who, by toils untir'd, 
 Even to the laft defpotic fway defied ; 
 And, vanquifh'd in the noble conflict — died. 
 
 One fuch I could, but may not name (for fhe, 
 Blind to herfelf, would deem it flattery) 
 One who, CoRNELiA-like, each hour employs 
 Sweet labour ! 'mid the fphere of filial joys : 
 To courtiers leaves exhaufted India's ftore ; 
 And, rich in living diamonds, afks no more. 
 
SMALLER POEMS. 105 
 
 TRANSLATED. 
 
 CORNELIA. 
 
 jUiXPERTA nondum Cesarum tyrannidem, 
 Romana ftabat res ; eratque adhuc fui 
 Urbs doraina, cunftas quas fubegerat manu ; 
 Matrona cum gemmas, fuperba oftendere 
 Quas habuit ipfa quippeopes, Cornelia 
 Tulit videndas : Has at ilia paululum 
 Oculo irretorto frigidifque laudibus 
 Dignata, filios ut e ludo domum 
 Cernit reverfos — " En mihi caros (ait) 
 " Solum lapillos ! Nuira matrem tarn juvat 
 " Confpefta gemma, quam fibi quas ipfamet 
 (i Parit." Reprenfa his vocibus matrona abit. 
 
 Talefque Roma, dum manebat libera, 
 Sufpexit ufque fceminas ; quae filios 
 Peperere Gracchos, ftrenuos ob patriam 
 Pugnare pro patriaque item fortes mori. 
 
 Talemque ego hodie nominare fceminam 
 Poflem (fed ilia fors vetaret) quas fuis 
 Impendit omnes, prifca ceu Cornelia, 
 Natis labores ; gemmulifque caeterae 
 Turbae reliftis, ipfa opes vivas habet. 
 
106 SMALLER POEMS. 
 
 i^UAND 1'Amour nacquit a Cy there, 
 
 On intrigua dans le pays ; 
 Venus dit, " Je fuis bonne mere ; 
 
 " C'eft moi, qui nourrirai mon fils." 
 
 Mais 1'Amour malgre fon jeune age, 
 Trop attentif a tant d'appas, 
 
 Preferoit le vafe au breuvage ; 
 Et P enfant ne profitoit pas. 
 
 " Ne faut pas pourtant qu'il patiffe:" 
 Dit Venus, parlant a fa cour ; 
 
 " Que la plus fage le nourriffe : 
 
 " Songez toutes. que c'eft 1'Amour." 
 
SMALLER POEMS. IQ>J 
 
 VV HEN Love was born of heavenly line, 
 What dire intrigues difturb'd Cythera's joy ! 
 Till Venus cried, " A mother's heart is mine; 
 " None but mylelf fhall nurfe my boy." 
 
 But, infant as he was, the child 
 
 In that divine embrace enchanted lay ; 
 
 And, by the beauty of the vafe beguil'd, 
 Forgot the beverage — and pin'd away. 
 
 tl And muft my offspring languifh in my fight ? 
 (Alive to all a mother's pain, 
 The Queen of Beauty thus her court addrefs'd) 
 " No : Let the moft difcreet of all my train 
 " Receive him to her breaft : 
 " Think all, he is the God of young delight." 
 
!08 SMALLER POEMS. 
 
 Alors la Candeur, la Tendresse, 
 La Gaite vinrent s' offrir ; 
 
 Et meme la Delicatesse : 
 
 Nulle n' avoit de quoi le nourrir. 
 
 On penchoit pour la Complaisance, 
 Mais 1' enfant eut ete gate : 
 
 On avoit trop d' experience, 
 Pour fonger a la Volupte, 
 
 Enfin de ce choix d' importance 
 Cette cour ne dec Ida rien : 
 
 Quelqu' une propofa 1' Esperance, 
 Et T enfant s'en trouva fort bien. 
 
 On pretend que la Jouissance, 
 Qui croyoit devoir le nourrir, 
 
 Jaloufe de la pi'eference, 
 
 Guettoit 1' enfant pour s'en faifir. 
 
SMALLER POEMS. IO9 
 
 Then Tenderness, with Candour join'd, 
 And Gaiety the charming office fought ; 
 Nor even Delicacy flay'd behind : 
 But none of thofe fair Graces brought 
 Wherewith to nurfe the child — and ftill he pin'd. 
 Some fond hearts to Compliance feem'd inclin'd ; 
 But fhe had furely fpoil'd the boy : 
 
 And fad experience forbade a thought 
 On the wild Goddefs of Voluptuous Joy. 
 
 Long undecided lay th' important choice, 
 Till of the beauteous court, at length, a voice 
 Pronounc'd the name of Hope : — The confcious child 
 Stretch'd forth his little arms, and fmil'd. 
 
 'Tis faid, Enjoyment (who averr'd 
 
 The charge belong'd to her alone) 
 Jealous that Hope had been preferr'd, 
 
 Laid fnares to make the babe her own. 
 
HO SMALLER POEMS. 
 
 Prenant les traits de 1' Innocence, 
 Pour berccufe elle vint s'offrir ; 
 
 Et la trop credule Esperance 
 Eut le malheur d' y confentir. 
 
 Un jour advint que 1'Esperance ? 
 
 Voulant fe livrer au fommeil, 
 Remit a la fauffe Innocence 
 
 L'enfant jufqu' a. fon reveil. 
 
 Alors la trompeufe Deeffe 
 
 Donna bonbons a pleines mains ; 
 
 L'enfant d'abord fut dans l'ivreffe, 
 Et mourut bientot fur fon fein. 
 
 Anon. 
 
SMALLER POEMS. 113 
 
 Of Innocence the garb fhe took, 
 The blufhing mien, and downcaft look ; 
 
 And came her fervices to proffer : 
 And Hope (what has not Hope believ'd !) 
 By that feducing air deceiv'd, 
 
 Accepted of the offer. 
 
 It happen'd that, to fleep inclin'd, 
 
 Deluded Hope for one fhort hour 
 
 To that falfe Innocence's power 
 Her little charge confign'd. 
 
 The Goddefs then her lap with fweetmeats fill'd ; 
 
 And gave, in handfuls gave, the treacherous ftore : 
 A wild delirium firft the infant thrilPd ; . 
 
 But foon upon her breaft he funk — to wake no more. 
 
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