POE M S, Chiefly of the LYRIC Kind, In THREE BOOK S. SACRED I. TO DEVOTION and PIETY. II. TO VIRTUE, HONOUR, and FRIENDSHIP. III. To the MEMORY of the Dead. ' By I. WATTS, D. D. -Si non Uraniê Lyram "Cœleftem cohibet, nec Polyhymnia HOR. Od. I. initat. Αθάνατον μὲν πρῶτα Θεὸν, νόμῳ ὡς διάκειται, PYTHAG, Aur, Cap. RECOMMENDATORY VERSES. On Reading Mr. WATTS's Poems, facred to Piety and Devotion. EGARD the man who in feraphic lays, RE And flowing numbers, fings his Maker's praise : He needs invoke no fabled Mufe's art, The heavenly fong comes genuine from his heart, Thrice happy man! whofe foul, and guiltless breast, Ev'n whilft imprifon'd in this mortal clay. To Mr. WATTS, on his Poems. To murmuring ftreams, in tender strains, My penfive Muse no more Of love's enchanting force complains, No more MIRTILLO'S fatal face His eyes, his air, and youthful grace, No gay ALEXIS in the grove I burn with an immortal love, Seraphic heights I feem to gain, While, WATTS, to thy celeftial strain, Surpriz'd, I liften still. The gliding ftreams their courfe forbear, The bending foreft lends an ear; With fuch a graceful harmony And echo to thy fong. Far Far as the diftant regions, where The beauteous morning fprings, And scatters odours through the air, From her refplendent wings; Unto the new-found realms, which fee The latter fun arise, When, with an easy progrefs, he Rolls down the nether fkies. July, 1706. PHILOMELA. To Mr. WATTS, on reading his Hora Lyrica. HAIL, heaven-born Mufe! that with celeftial flame, To gain thy native kies. No common theme To guide the wandering fouls to heavenly blifs, |