Savage! he would foon diveft Eat thee, bones and all, my boy. LANGHORNE. THE EMMET. THESE emmets how little they are in our eyes! We tread them to duft, and a troop of them dies Without our regard or concern: Yet, as wife as we are, if we went to their school, There's many a fluggard and many a fool A leffon of wisdom might learn. They do n't wear their time out in fleeping or play, But gather up corn in a sunshiny day, And for winter they lay up their stores: They manage their work in fuch regular forms, One would think they forefaw all the frofts and the storms, And fo brought their food within doors. WATTS. The Approach of Winter.-The Lark. 99 THE APPROACH OF WINTER. THE fun far northward bends his annual way, No bird to bird repeats his tuneful call; Save the lone redbreast on the mofs-grown wall. SCOT. THE LARK. SEE how the lark, the bird of day, But when, contented with his height, 100 Sunshine after a Shower. SUNSHINE AFTER A SHOWER. EVER after fummer fhower, When the bright fun's returning power WARTON. Epitaph on a Lap-Dop.-Arabia. EPITAPH ON A LAP-DOG. I NEVER bark'd when out of season; I ne'er infulted weaker brother; Nor wrong'd by force nor fraud another: ΠΟΙ BLACKLOCK. ARABIA. O'ER Arabia's defert fands The patient camel walks, On her cool and fhady hills Down the fruitful dells below. The fragrant myrrh and healing balm Perfume the passing gale; Thick hung with dates the spreading palm Tow'rs o'er the peopled vale. And often o'er the level waste Down falls the fwain with trembling hafte, The gasping cattle die. Shepherd people on the plain Pitch their tents and wander free, Wealthy cities they disdain, Poor-yet bleft with liberty. ORIGINAL. CHEERFULNESS. The honeft heart, whose thoughts are clear Nor court her fickle smile. The greatness that would make us grave Is but an empty thing; What more than mirth would mortals have? The cheerful man's a king! BICKER STAFF. |