FAIR Whose heart your charms adores, Fills with his tender vows the plain, And favoring fmiles implores : My Wishes varying from the rest Demand a different boon, And only afk this one request, The mercy of a frown. Ah! far from me thofe witching smiles Those languid eyes remove, Whofe charms my fenfes might surprise, And tempt my heart to Love; VOL. I. D The The chilling frowns of cold difdain I'll patiently endure, Content to bear a tranfient pain Give their dyes to the meadows, their sweets to the gale, From the fun-beam, the fhower, and the foft-falling dew Receive all their treasures of odour, and hue. When Winter extends his tyrannical reign, Fades every gay bloffom that painted the plain, And all the bright offspring of funshine and fhowers Shrink up at the blaft of DECEMBER's ftern hours, Though Love's gentle power can more sweetness difclofe Than the vi'let or woodbine, the jasmine or rose, Yet none of them holds fo precarious perfume, A texture fo tender, fo fleeting a bloom. All it's sweetness it draws like the Daughters of MAY From Pity's foft dew, and from Kindness' mild ray, Like them it will fhrink from the frost of Difdain, But never like them will it bloffom again. S N G. L ET no Shepherd fing to me The stupid praise of Constancy, Nature bids her fubje&s range, All creation's full of change. See the varying hours display Morning, Evening, Night, and Day, See the circling feasons bring Summer, Winter, Autumn, Spring. Shall the river's current full Idly fleep a ftagnate pool, Shall the pedant's mandate bind D 3 1 Thus |