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Her waist comprefs'd in his exulting arms,
He ftorms, explores, and rifles all her charms;
Clafps in ecstatic blifs th' expiring fair,
And, thrilling, melting, neftling, riots there.

How long the rapture lafts, how foon it fleets,
How oft it paufes, and how oft repeats;
What joys they both receive and both bestow,
Virgins may guefs, but wives experienc'd know :
From joys, like thefe, (ah, why deny'd to me?)
Sprung a fresh, blooming boy, my fair, from thee.
May he, a new Adonis, lift his creft,

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In all the florid grace of youth confest!
First let him learn to lifp your lover's name,
And, when he reads, here annual read my flame.
When beauty first shall wake his genial fire,
And the firft tingling fenfe excite defire;
When the dear object, of his peace poffeft,
Gains and ftill gains on his unguarded breast :
Then may he fay, as he this verfe reviews,
So my bright mother charm'd the poet's Muse.
His heart thus flutter'd oft 'twixt doubt and fear, 125
Lighten'd with hope, and fadden'd with despair.
Say, on fome rival did fhe fmile too kind?
Ah, read-what jealousy distracts his mind!
Smil'd the on him? He imag'd rays divine,
And gaz'd and gladden'd with a love like mine. 130
How dwelt her praife upon his raptur'd tongue!
Ah!-when the frown'd, what plaintive notes he fung!
And could the frown on him-Ah, wherefore, tell!
On him, whofe only crime was loving well?

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Thus may thy fon his pangs with mine compare ; Then with his mother had been kind as fair. For him may Love the myrtle wreath entwine; Though the fad willow fuits a woe like mine! Ne'er may the filial hope, like me, complain! Ah! never figh and bleed, like me, in vain!— 140 When death affords that peace which love denies, Ah, no!-far other scenes my fate supplies; When earth to earth my lifeless corse is laid, And o'er it hangs the yew or cypress shade: When pale I flit along the dreary coast, An helpless lover's pining plaintive ghost; Here annual on this dear returning day, While feather'd choirs renew the melting lay; May you, my fair, when you these strains shall fee, Jut ipare one figh, one tear, to love and me,

Me, who, in abfence or in death, adore

Thofe heavenly charms I must behold no more.

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JOHN POWELL,

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BARRISTER AT LAW.

N me long abfent, long with anguish fraught,

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In me, though filence long has deaden'd thought,

Yet memory lives, and calls the Mufe's aid,

To fnatch our friendship from oblivion's fhade.

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As foon the fun fhall ceafe the world to warm,
As foon Llannelly's Fair that world to charm,
As grateful fenfe of goodness, true like thine,
Shall e'er defert a breaft fo warm as mine.

When imag'd Cambria ftrikes my memory's eye, (Cambria, my darling fcene!) I, fighing, cry Where is my Powell? dear affociate!-where? To him I would unbofom every care; To him, who early felt, from beauty, pain; Gall'd in a plighted, faithlefs virgin's chain. At length, from her ungenerous fetters, freed, Again he loves! he woos! his hopes fucceed! But the gay bridegroom, ftill by fortune croft, Is, inftant, in the weeping widower loft.

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Her, his fole joy! her from his bofom torn,
What feeling heart, but learns, like his, to mourn? 20
Can nature then, fuch fudden fhocks, fuftain?

Nature thus ftruck, all reason pleads in vain!
Though late, from reafon yet he draws relief,
Dwells on her memory; but difpels his grief.
Love, wealth, and fame (tyrannic passions all !)
No more enflame him, and no more enthral.
He feeks no more, in Rufus' hall, renown;
Nor envies Pelf the jargon of the gown;
But pleas'd with competence, on rural plains,
His wifdom courts that eafe his worth obtains.
Would private jars, which fudden rife, encrease?
His candour fmiles all difcord into peace.

Mrs Bridget Jones.

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To party ftorms is public weal refign'd?
Each steady patriot-virtue fteers his mind.
Calm, on the beach, while maddening billows rave, 35
He gains philofophy from every wave;

Science, from every object round, he draws;

From various nature, and from nature's laws.
He lives o'er every past historic age;

He calls forth ethics from the fabled page.
Him evangelic truth, to thought excites ;
And him, by turns, each claflic Mufe delights.
With wit well-natur'd; wit, that would difdain
A pleasure rifing from another's pain;
Social to all, and most of blifs poffeft,

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When most he renders all, around him, bleft:
To unread 'fquires illiterately gay;

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Among the learn'd, as learned full as they;
With the polite, all, all-accomplish'd eafe,
By nature form'd, without deceit, to please.

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Thus fhines thy youth; and thus my friend, elate

In blifs as well as worth, is truly great.
Me ftill fhould ruthlefs fate, unjust, expofe
Beneath those clouds, that rain unnumber'd woes;
Me, to fome nobler fphere, should fortune raise,
To wealth confpicious, and to laurel'd praise ;
Unalter'd yet be love and friendship mine;
I ftill am Chloe's, and I still am thine.

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LONDON AND BRISTOL

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WO fea-port cities mark Britannia's fame, And thefe from commerce different honours claim. What different honours fhall the Mufes pay, While one infpires and one untunes the lay? Now filver is brightening flows along, Echoing from Oxford fhore each claffic fong; Then weds with Tame; and thefe, O London, fee Swelling with naval pride, the pride of thee! Wide, deep, unfullied Thames, meandering glides And bears thy wealth on mild majestic tides. Thy fhips, with gilded palaces that vie, In glittering pomp, frike wondering China's eye; And thence returning bear, in fplendid state, To Britain's merchants, India's eastern freight. India, her treafures from her western fhores, Due at thy feet, a willing tribute pours; Thy warring navies distant nations awe, And bid the world obey thy righteous law. Thus fhine thy manly fons of liberal mind; Thy change deep-bufied, yet as courts refin'd;

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* The author preferr'd this title to that of LONDON AND BRISTOL COMPARED; which, when he began the piece, he intended to prefix to it.

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