A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes

On the Death of Mifs J. M.

Oung, fair, and good! ah why should young and fair

You

And good be huddled in untimely grave?

Muft so sweet flow'r fo brief a period have,

- Juft bloom and charm, then fade and disappear?

Yet our's the lofs, who ill, alas! can spare

The bright example, which thy virtues gave;
The guerdon thine, whom gracious heav'n did fave
From longer trial in this vale of care.

Reft then, sweet faint, in peace and honour rest,
While our true tears bedew thy maiden hearse,
Light lie the earth upon thy lovely breast;
And let a grateful heart with grief opprefs'd

To thy dear mem'ry confecrate this verse,
Though all too mean for who deserves the best.

SONNET

To D. WRAY, Efq.

XII.

WRAY, whofe dear friendship in the dawning years

Of undefigning Childhood firft began,

Through Youth's gay morn with even tenor ran, My noon conducted, and my evening cheers,

Rightly doft thou, in whom combin'd appears
Whate'er for Public Life completes the Man,
With active Zeal strike out a larger plan,
No ufclefs friend to Senators and Peers:

Me moderate talents and a small eftate
Fit for Retirement's unambitious fhade,
Nor envy I who near approach the throne:
But joyful fee thee mingle with the Great,
See thy deferts with due diftinction paid,
And praife thy lot, contented with my own.

SONNET

XIII.

To the Right Hon. Mr. ONSLOW a, with the foregoing
SONNETS.

HOU, who fucceffive in that honour'd feat
Prefid'ft, the feuds of jarring Chiefs to 'fwage,
To check the boift'rous force of party rage,
Raise modeft worth, and guide the high debate,

Sometimes retiring from the toils of State,

Thou turn'ft th' inftructive Greek or Roman page,
Or what our British Bards of later age,
In fcarce inferior numbers can relate:

Amid this feaft of Mind, when Fancy's Child,
Sweet SHAKSPEARE, raps the foul to virtuous deed,
When SPENSER, warbling tunes his Doric lays,
Or the first Man from Paradife exil'd

Great MILTON fings, can aught my ruftic reed

Prefume to found, that may deserve thy praise ?

a Arthur Onflow, Esq; Speaker of the House of Commons, afterwards Lord Onflow.