Yet after all, could you but love, DORIN DA. Her eyes are like the morning bright, Her breasts like water'd lilies white, Her breath's as sweet as odours blown Where'er she breathes, where'er she sings How happy are the groves; How blest! how much more blest than kings, The Shepherd that she loves. With gentle steps let's beat the ground, In gladsome couples join'd; For joy that your Dorinda's found And every lover kind. TO CHARMING CELIA'S ARMS 1 FLEW. TOM BROWN. Died 1704. With alterations and additions by Burns. To charming Celia's arms I flew Lost in sweet tumultuous joy And bless'd beyond expressing, The whole creation's wealth survey, And fighting monarchs squander. The richest spoils of earth and air, * Burns made the first verse thus : + Pleas'd. The other night with all her charms Fair Celia sunk within my arms + Thro'. § Unequal to my pleasure. [Humility's a heavenly grace, And Modesty's sweet maiden face- She blushing cried,—my Life my dear Give her-but tis too much I fear [These alterations and additions of Burns' are taken from part of a letter of his to George Thomson, which is still unpublished. The verse given in a bracket is wholly Burns' and is very characteristic of him. "The Song," the poet writes, "will suit very well to the tune of Nancy's to the Greenwood gone,' you must not expect all your English Songs to have superlative merit, 'tis enough if they are passable!" Brown's works are full of shrewdness and conceit but his little talent was thrown away on indecency. He lies buried in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey.] LIKE MAY IN ALL HER YOUTHFUL DRESS. Like May in all her youthful dress, Thus while th' enjoyment was but young, But as the sun to west declines, The eastern sky does colder grow; While Love was eager, brisk and warm ON YOUNG OLINDA. When innocence, and beauty meet, By Virtue, ripened from the bud O sacred virtue, tune my voice, To lasting brightness be refin'd, Will last, when all things else decay. AS I WALK'D FORTH ONE SUMMER'S DAY. As I walk'd forth one summer's day, Then o'er the grassy fields she'd walk— Such flowers as gave the sweetest scents Alas! none ever lov'd like me. When she had fill'd her apron full, |