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Deep in a gloomy grot remote from day,

Where fmiling Comfort never fhew'd her face, Where light ne'er enter'd, fave one rueful ray Discov❜ring all the terrors of the place,

They held damn'd myft'ries with infernal state,
Whilft ghaftly spectres glided flowly by,
The fcritch-owl fcream'd the dying call of fate,
And ravens croak'd their baleful augury.

No human footstep cheer'd the dread abode,
Nor fign of living creature could be feen,
Save where the reptile fnake, or fullen toad,

The murky floor had foil'd with venom green.

Sudden I heard the whirlwind's hollow found,
Each weird fifter vanish'd into smoke.

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Now a dire yell of fpirits underground

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Thro' troubled Earth's wide yawning furface broke ;

When lo! each injur'd apparition rofe;

Aghaft the murd'rer started from his bed;

Guilt's trembling breath his heart's red current froze,
And Horror's dew-drops bath'd his frantic head.

More had I feen-but now the God of day

O'er earth's broad breaft his flood of light had fpread, When Morpheus call'd his fickle dreams away,

And on their wings each bright illufion fled.

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Yet ftill the dear ENCHANTRESS of the brain

My waking eyes with wifhful wand'rings fought,
Whofe magic will controuls th' ideal train,
The ever-reflefs progeny of THOUGHT.

Sweet pow'r, I faid, for others gild the ray
Of Wealth, or Honor's folly-feather'd crown,
Or lead the madding multitude aftray

To grafp at air-blown bubbles of renown.

Me (humbler lot!) let blameless blifs engage,
Free from the noble mob's ambitious ftrife,
Free from the muck-worm mifer's lucrous rage,
In calm Contentment's cottag'd vale of life.

If frailties there (for who from them is free ?)
Thro' Error's maze my devious footsteps lead,
Let them be frailties of humanity,

And my heart plead the pardon of my head.

Let not my reafon impiously require

What heav'n has plac'd beyond its narrow span,
But teach it to fubdue each fierce defire,
Which wars within its own fmall empire, man.

Teach me, what all believe, but few poffefs,
That life's beft fcience is ourselves to know,
The firft of human bleffings is to blefs,

And happiest he who feels another's woe.

Thus

Thus cheaply wife, and innocently great,
While Time's smooth fand fhall regularly pafs,
Each deftin'd'atom's quiet courfe I'll wait,

Nor rafhly break, nor wish to ftop the glass.

And when in death my peaceful ashes lie,

If e'er fome tongue congenial speaks my name,
Friendship shall never blush to breathe a figh,
And great ones envy fuch an honest fame.

INDEX to the Fifth Volume.

R

URAL Elegance: An Ode, 1750

Infcription near a Sheep-cote

Nancy of the Vale. A Ballad

Ode to Indolence, 1750

Ode to Health, 1730

To a Lady of Quality, fitting up her Library, 1738

Upon a Vifit to the fame in Winter, 1748

An irregular Ode after Sickness, 1749

Anacreontic, 1738

Ode. Written 1739

The Dying Kid

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A Simile

The Ceremonial

The Beau to the Virtuofos

Verfes to a Friend

Written at an Inn on a particular Occafion

The Price of an Equipage

A Ballad

The Extent of Cookery

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Slender's Ghoft

The Progrefs of Advice. A common Cafe

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Upon Riddles

57

Verfes to a Writer of Riddles

58

To Lady Fane on her Grotto at Bafilden, 1746

62

The Invifible

Written near Bath, 1755.

The Pepper-box and Salt-feller. A Fable

Verfes to William Shentone, Efq; on receiving a Gilt Pocket

Book, 1751

ib.

63

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Hamlet's Soliloquy, imitated

78

82

Tranfcrib'd from the Rev. Mr. Pixel's Parfonage Garden
near Birmingham, 1757

Malvern Spa, 1757;, Infcribed to Dr. Wall

83

84

Some Reflections upon hearing the Bell toll for the Death of a
Friend

The Robin: An Elegy. Written at the close of Autumn,

1756

An Epitaph

Ut Pictura Poefis

Vacuna

On J. W. ranging Pamphlets

Epithalamium

To a Gentleman, on the Birth-day of his firft Son

On two Friends born on the fame Day

A Winter Thought

Song

Verfes Spoken at Westminster School

A Letter to Sir Robert Walpole

87

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93

95

98

102

104

105

107

110

III

117

An Epifle from the Elector of Bavaria to the French King,

after the Battle of Ramillies

To the Duke of Marlborough

119

130

132

An Ode on Mifs Harriet Hanbury at fix Years old
A Song upon Mifs Harriet Hanbury, addrefs'd to the Rev.

Mr. Birt

134

To Mr. Garnier and Mr. Pearce of Bath. A grateful Ode,
in return for the extraordinary Kindness and Humanity
they fhewed to me and my eldest Daughter, now Lady Effex,
1753

136

Ode to Death. Tranflated from the French of the King of
Pruffia

138

143

The Hymns of Dionyfius: Tranflated from the Greek
A Satire in the Manner of Perfius, in a Dialogue between At-
ticus and Eugenio

147

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