Her waist comprefs'd in his exulting arms, How long the rapture lafts, how foon it fleets, 105 110 115 120 In all the florid grace of youth confest! Thus 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. 145 150 то JOHN POWELL, ESQ BARRISTER AT LAW. N me long abfent, long with anguish fraught, IN 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. As As foon the fun fhall ceafe the world to warm, 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. 10 15 Her, his fole joy! her from his bofom torn, Nature thus ftruck, all reason pleads in vain! Mrs Bridget Jones. 25 30 To To party ftorms is public weal refign'd? Science, from every object round, he draws; From various nature, and from nature's laws. He calls forth ethics from the fabled page. 40 When most he renders all, around him, bleft: 45 Among the learn'd, as learned full as they; 50 Thus fhines thy youth; and thus my friend, elate In blifs as well as worth, is truly great. 55 LON LONDON AND BRISTOL ти DELINEATED. 10 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; 15 20 Councils, * 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. |