O bloom of youth, O tender charms
Well-buried in a dotard's arms!

O equal price of beauty fold!

VII.

Cease then to gaze with looks of love:
Bid her adieu, the venal fair:

Unworthy she your bliss to prove;

Then wherefore fhould the prove your care? No lay your myrtle garland down;

:

And let a while the willow's crown

With luckier omens bind your hair.

VIII.

O juft efcap'd the faithlefs main,

Though driven unwilling on the land;
To guide your favor'd steps again,
Behold your better genius ftand:
Where Truth revolves her page divine,
Where Virtue leads to Honor's fhrine,
Behold, he lifts his awful hand.

IX.

Fix but on these your ruling aim,
And Time, the fire of manly care,
Will Fancy's dazzling colors tame
A foberer drefs will Beauty wear :
Then shall Esteem by Knowledge led
Inthrone within your heart and head
Some happier love, some truer fair.

O DE VI.

AFFECTED INDIFFERENCE.

YE

TO THE SAME.

I.

ES: you contemn the perjur'd maid
Who all your favorite hopes betray'd:
Nor, though her heart fhould home return,
Her tuneful tongue its falfehood mourn,
Her winning eyes your faith implore,
Would you her hand receive again,
Or once diffemble your difḍain,
Or listen to the fyren's theme,

Or ftoop to love: fince now efteem,
And confidence, and friendship, is no more.

II.

Yet tell me, Phædria, tell me why,
When fummoning your pride you try
To meet her looks with cool neglect,
Or cross her walk with flight refpect,
(For fo is falsehood beft repaid)
Whence do your cheeks indignant glow?
Why is your struggling tongue so flow?
What means that darkness on your brow?
As if with all her broken vow

You meant the fair apoftate to upbraid?

ODE

O DE V.

AGAINST SUSPICION.

H fly! 'tis dire Sufpicion's mien ; And, meditating plagues unfeen, The forceress hither bends: Behold her torch in gall imbrued : Behold-her garment drops with blood Of lovers and of friends.

II.

Fly far! Already in your eyes
I fee a pale fuffusion rife;

And foon through every vein,

Soon will her fecret venom spread,
And all your heart and all your head
Imbibe the potent stain.

III.

Then many a demon will the raise
To vex your sleep, to haunt your ways;
While gleams of loft delight

Raife the dark tempeft of the brain,
As lightning fhines across the main

Through whirlwinds and through night.

IV.

No more can faith or candor move ;
But each ingenuous deed of love,

Which reason would applaud,

04

Now,

Now, fmiling o'er her dark distress,
Fancy malignant strives to dress
Like injury and fraud.

V.

Farewel to Virtue's peaceful times:
Soon will you stoop to act the crimes
Which thus you ftoop to fear:

:

Guilt follows guilt: and where the train
Begins with wrongs of fuch a stain,
What horrors form the rear!

VI.

'Tis thus to work her baleful power, Sufpicion waits the fullen hour

Of fretfulness and ftrife,

When care the infirmer bofom wrings,
Or Eurus waves his murky wings

To damp the feats of life.

VII.

But come, forfake the fcene unblefs'd
Which first beheld your faithful breast
To groundless fears a prey :

Come, where with my prevailing lyre
The skies, the streams, the groves conspire
To charm your doubts away.

VIII.

Thron'd in the fun's descending car,

What power unfeen diffuseth far

This tenderness of mind?

What

What genius fmiles on yonder flood?
What god, in whispers from the wood,
Bids every thought be kind?

IX.

O thou, whate'er thy awful name,
Whose wisdom our untoward frame
With focial love restrains;
Thou, who by fair affection's ties
Giv'ft us to double all our joys

And half disarm our pains;

X.

Let univerfal candor still,

Clear as yon heaven-reflecting rill,
Preferve my open mind;

Nor this nor that man's crooked ways
One fordid doubt within me raise
To injure human kind.

O DE VI.

HYMN TO CHEERFULNESS.

H

OW thick the shades of evening close!

How pale the sky with weight of snows!

Hafte, light the tapers, urge the fire,

And bid the joỳless day retire.

Alas, in vain I try within

To brighten the dejected scene,