And gaze with fix'd delight: But lo where, funk in deep despair, Her matted treffes madly spread, To every fod, which wraps the dead, Ne'er fhall fhe leave that lowly ground, Proclaim her reign restor❜d : Till William feek the fad retreat, If, weak to foothe fo foft an heart, To dry thy constant tear: If yet, in Sorrow's distant eye, Expos'd and pale thou feeft him lie, Where'er from time thou court'ft relief, The Muse shall still, with focial grief, Even humble Harting's cottag'd vale Shall learn the fad repeated tale, ODE ODE TO EVENING. IF aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May hope, chafte Eve, to foothe thy modeft ear, Thy fprings, and dying gales, O Nymph referv'd, while now the bright hair'd fun Sits in yon western tent, whofe cloudy fkirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed: Now air is hufh'd, fave where the weak-eyed bat, Or where the beetle winds His fmall but fullen horn, As oft he rifes 'midft the twilight path, To breathe fome soften'd ftrain, Whose numbers ftealing thro' thy darkning vale, As mufing flow, I hail Thy genial lov'd return! For when thy folding-ftar arifing fhows Who flept in buds the day, And many a Nymph who wreathes her brows with fedge, And sheds the freshening dew, and lovelier still, The penfive Pleasures sweet Prepare thy fhadowy car. Then let me rove fome wild and heathy scene, Or find fome rain 'midft its dreary dells, Whofe walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or Or if chill bluftring winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut, Views wilds, and fwelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-difcover'd fpires. The gradual dusky veil. While Spring fhall pour his fhowers, as oft he wont, And bathe thy breathing treffes, meekest Eve! While Summer loves to sport Beneath thy lingering light: While fallow Autumn fills thy lap with leaves, Affrights thy fhrinking train, And rudely rends thy robes: So long regardful of thy quiet rule, Shall Fancy, Friendship, Science, fmiling Peace, Thy gentleft influence own, And love thy favourite name! ODE |