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And float amid the liquid noon :

Some lightly o'er the current skim,

Some fhew their gayly-gilded trim

Quick-glancing to the fun.

To Contemplation's fober eyed

Such is the race of Man :

And they that creep, and they that fly,

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-fporting with quick glance

Shew to the fun their waved coats drop'd with gold..

Milton's Paradife Loft, book 7.

While infects from the threshold preach, &c.

M. GREEN, in the Grotto. Dodfley's Mifcellanies, Vol. V. p. 161.

Alike the Bufy and the Gay

But flutter thro' life's little day,

In fortune's varying colours dreft:

Brufh'd by the hand of rough Mischance,

Or chill'd by age, their airy dance

They leave, in dust to rest.

Methinks I hear in accents low

The sportive kind reply:

Poor moralift! and what art thou?

A folitary fly!

Thy Joys no glittering female meets,

No hive haft thou of hoarded sweets,

No painted plumage to display:

On hafty wings thy youth is flown;

Thy fun is fet, thy fpring is gone.

We frolick, while 'tis May.

ODE

O D E.
DE

ON THE DEATH OF A

FAVOURITE CAT,

Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes.

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