Or defp'rate lady near a purling ftream, Or lover pendent on a willow-tree. Mean while I labour with eternal drought, And, reftlefs, wish, and rave, my parched throat Finds no relief, nor heavy eyes repofe: But if a flumber haply does invade My weary limbs, my fancy's ftill awake, In vain, awake I find the fettled thirft Afflictions great! yet greater still remain : The Lilybean fhore, with hideous crush, She She ftrikes rebounding, whence the shatter'd oak, So fierce a fhock unable to withstand, Admits the fea; in at the gaping fide The crowding waves gush with impetuous rage, The mariners, death in their eyes appear, They stare, they lave, they pump, they swear, they pray: (Vain efforts!) Still the batt'ring wayes rush in, Implacable, till, delug'd by the foam, The fhip finks found'ring in the vast abyss. A PIPE A PIPE OF TOBACCO: IN IMITATION OF SIX SEVERAL AUTHORS. Mr. Hawkins Browne, the author of thefe, as I am told, had no good original manner of his own, yet we see how well he fucceeds when he turns an imitator; for the following are rather imitations, than ridiculous parodies. LD battle-array, big with horror, is fled, OLD And olive rob'd Peace again lifts up her head. Sing, ye Muses, Tobacco, the bleffing of peace; Was ever a nation fo bleffed as this? AIR. When fummer funs grow red with heat, Tobacco tempers Phoebus' ire; When wintry ftorms around us beat, Yellow Yellow Autumn, youthful Spring, In thy praises jointly fing. RECITATIVE. Like Neptune, Cæfar guards Virginian fleets, Let foreign climes the vine and orange boast, A I R. Smiling years, that gayly run Round the zodiac, with the fun, Tell, if ever you have feen Realms fo quiet and ferene. で Nor 1 |