Behold the brightest of the race, Ah! where is now the fupple train, And rated his productions more Than treafures of Peruvian ore ? Good Christians! they with bended knees The The cup of forrow from their lips, Hence! peace, ye wretches, who revile And, if the colours be not fainter, But, O! that He, who gave him breath, Dread arbiter of life and death; That He, the moving foul of all, And crown him with triumphant meeds, In manfions of unbroken reft, The bright republick of the blefs'd! With living light of light refin'd; Yet, while he drags the fad remains So Pilgrims, with devout complaints, INSCRIPTION intended for a MONUMENT. 1765. SAY, to the Drapier's vast unbounded fame, What added honours can the Sculptor give? None. - "Tis a fanction from the Drapier's name EPIGRAM Occafioned by the above INSCRIPTION. WHICH gave the Drapier birth two realms contend; And each afferts her Poet, Patriot, Friend: Her mitre jealous Britain may deny; That lofs Iernia's laurel fhall fupply: Through life's low vale, she, grateful, gave him bread; Her vocal ftones fhall vindicate him dead. 1766. B. N. CONTENTS CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUM E. ON Stella's Birth-day, March 13, 1726. Page 1 Horace, Book I. Ode XIV. infcribed to Ireland. 4 Advice to the Grub-street Verfe-writers. To a Lady, who defired the Author to write some The Furniture of a Woman's Mind. Clever Tom Clinch going to be hanged. |