Nor would exchange thy glowing lines, But let me chafe thofe vows away Thofe anxious moments, ill repaid: Bring me the bells, the rattle bring, And bring the whistle that I blew. Then will I muse, and pensive say, While innocence allow'd to wafte!· But ah! for pleasure yield us pain. The PRINCESS ELIZABETH: A BALLAD alluding to a story recorded of her, when she was prifoner at WOODSTOCK, 1554. WI ILL you hear how once repining Great Eliza captive lay? Each ambitious thought refigning, While the nymphs and fwains delighted. "Bred on plains, or born in vallies, Who would ever courts purfue? Malice never taught to treasure, How can they of humble station Which allows them all to love? Love like air is widely given; Power nor chance can these restrain; Peers can no fuch charms difcover, Said to fade when Chloe's near; Hark Hark to yonder milk-maid finging Then had been my fhepherd's heart. Peaceful fleep beneath the grove. Ruftics had been more forgiving; ODE to a young LADY, Somewhat too folicitous about her manner of expreffion. URVEY, my fair! that lucid stream, SURVE Adown the fmiling valley stray; Would art attempt, or fancy dream, To regulate its winding way? Są So pleas'd I view thy fhining hair With native plants enamel'd o'er; To change the bloom thy cheeks difclofe; With fresh vermilion paint the rose. Hark how the wood-lark's tuneful throat excel; Let art constrain the rambling note, And will the, Laura, please fo well? Oh ever keep thy native cafe, By no pedantic law confin'd! For Laura's voice is form'd to please, NANCY of the A VALE. BALL A D. Nerine Galatea ! thymo mihi dulcior Hyblæ! "Candidior cygnis! hederâ formofior albâ !” THE weftern sky was purpled oler And flocks reviving felt no more The fultry heats of day: When When from an hazle's artless bower Soft warbled Strephon's tongue; While weeping maids lament their change, And fadden every grove: But endless bleffings crown the day I faw fair Efham's dale! And every bleffing find its way 'Twas from Avona's banks the maid And every shining glance display'd Soft as the wild-duck's tender young, That floats on Avon's tide; Bright as the water-lily, fprung, And glittering near its fide. Fresh as the bordering flowers, her bloom: Her eye, all mild to view; The little halcyon's azure plume Was never half fo blue. Her shape was like the reed so fleek, So taper, ftrait, and fair; Her dimpled fmile, her blushing cheek, How charming fweet they were! Far |