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That, while fuch virtuous chiefs adorn thy strain

As GREECE and ROME fhall emulate in vain,

ALBION may confecrate thy deathless name,

And found her Epic pride on HAYLEY'S fame.

MR.

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And there falute with proud acclaim

In him who gave that Hill to fame
The Poet and the Friend:

Tell him in his applauding voice

Your EARTHAM's echoing groves rejoice,

And with new pride expand,

Tell him his gifts your votary chear,

For laurel wreaths are doubly dear

From a fraternal hand.

Eartham, Auguft 9, 1782.

VOL. I.

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ELE

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What distant region holds thy fair retreat,

Where no keen look thy footsteps may surprise?

In what lone defert haft thou fix'd thy feat,

Far from the curious fearch of mortal eyes?

Amid the jocund race, fay, art thou found,

Who pafs in mirth the dreary hours of night; Or in the dance with pliant finews bound,

Till fades the taper at AURORA's light?

Ah no! when Reason reaffumes her sway,
And the tamed blood in calmer current flows,
These joys, like fairy visions, melt away,

And leave the bofom prefs'd with serious woes.

power,

Or, doft Thou dwell with regal pomp and
Rever'd and honor'd by the wife and great?

Ten thousand cares on fcepter'd fplendor lower,

And bend the weary monarch with their weight.

Or, fhall we feek Thee through the ranks of war, Where bold Ambition leads her daring train; While the fhrill clarion, founding from afar,

Calls the flow warrior to the purple plain?

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Alas not there!-though conquest grace his fword, Though proudly wave his banners in the air, By legions guarded, the victorious Lord

Shall find no arms to fhield his heart from care.

Doft Thou refide in the gay youth's fond breast, Who bends obedient to the power of love; Who, by the fair one he adores carefs'd,

May all the joys of mutual tranfport prove?—

With paffion fraught, though fmiling now ferene, In foft endearments flow each tender hour;

Too foon, alas! must change the blissful scene, When time's cold blaft fhall blow on beauty's

flower.

And oft, amid the blooming days of youth,
Inconftancy afferts her fickle reign;

Or pale-ey'd Jealoufy, with venom'd tooth,
Cankers the golden links of Hymen's chain.

Al

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