How could you promife love to me, Why did you swear mine eyes were bright, How could you fay my lips were sweet, And made the scarlet pale? And why did I, young witless maid, That face, alas! no more is fair, Thofe lips no longer red; Dark are mine eyes now clos'd in death, The hungry worm my fifter is, This winding sheet I wear, And cold and weary lafts our night Till that laft morn appear. But hark! the cock has warn'd me hence, A long and laft adieu! Come fee, falfe man, how low fhe lies That died for love of you. Now birds did fing, and morning fmile He hied him to the fatal place 1 Where MARG'RET's body lay, And thrice he call'd on MARG'RET's name, And thrice he wept full fore; Then laid his cheek to the cold earth, And word spake never more. MALLET. WAS when the feas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damfel lay deploring, All on a rock reclin'd: Wide o'er the foaming billows She caft a wifhful look, Her head was crown'd with willows That trembled o'er the brook. Twelve and over Twelve months are gone Why didft thou trust the feas? Ah! what's thy troubled motion The merchant robb'd of treasure To the lofing of my dear? You'll find a richer maiden, How can they say that Nature Do hideous rocks remain ? That lurk beneath the deep, To wreck the wand'ring lover And leave the maid to weep. All All melancholy lying Thus wail'd fhe for her dear, When o'er the white waves ftooping, Then like a lily drooping She bow'd her head and died. GAY. A LL in the Downs the fleet was moor'd, Tell me, ye jovial failors, tell me true WILLIAM, who high upon the yard The cord glides swiftly thro' his glowing hands, So So the fweet lark high pois'd in air O SUSAN, SUSAN, lovely dear, Change as ye lift ye winds, my heart shall be Believe not what the landmen fay, Who tempt with doubts thy conftant mind, Yes, yes, believe them when they tell thee fo, If to fair India's coaft we fail, Tiry eyes are seen in diamonds bright, Thus every beauteous object that I view, Wakes in my foul fome charm of lovely SUE. |