O DE VI. AFFECTED INDIFFERENCE. YE To THE SAME. I. ES: you contemn the perjur'd maid Or ftoop to love: fince now efteem, II. Yet tell me, Phædria, tell me why, You meant the fair apoftate to upbraid? ODE V. ODE AGAINST SUSPICION. Hfly! 'tis dire Sufpicion's mien ; And, nieditating plagues unfeen, The forcerefs hither bends : Behold her torch in gall imbrued : Behold-her garment drops with blood Of lovers and of friends. Then many a demon will the raise To vex your fleep, to haunt your ways; Raife the dark tempeft of the brain, Through whirlwinds and through night, IV. No more can faith or candor move; But each ingenuous deed of love, Now, 04 Now, fmiling o'er her dark distress, V. Farewel to Virtue's peaceful times: Guilt follows guilt: and where the train VI. "Tis thus to work her baleful power, When care the infirmer bofom wrings, To damp the feats of life. VII. But come, forfake the fcene unblefs'd Come, where with my prevailing lyre VIII. Thron'd in the fun's defcending car, What power unfeen diffuseth far This tenderness of mind? What What genius smiles on yonder flood? IX. O thou, whate'er thy awful name, And half difarm our pains; X. Let univerfal candor ftill, Clear as yon heaven-reflecting rill, Nor this nor that man's crooked ways O DE VI. HYMN TO CHEERFULNESS. HOW thick the fhades of evening clofe! -Alas, in vain I try within While rouz'd by grief these fiery pains Till starting horror shakes the room. As once ('twas in Aftræa's reign) The fragrant Airs and genial Hours Were shedding round him dews and flowers; Before his wheels Aurora pafs'd, And Hefper's golden lamp was last. But, |