Anger is pride provok'd, (fo felt, so known) Strange! its ftage influence is fo faintly, fhown!! Yet, with what abfent fenfe of all its flame

See we rage meek fire cold

and fury tame!

Bid the face, red'ning, warm'd idea take,

Strait, the foul's wild fires all obftruction break.
Stung, by inflicted thought's imagin'd pain,
Hard heave the mufcles, rolling eye balls ftrain:
'Twixt the clos'd teeth, indignantly, fuppreft,
Or, ftorm-like, loud, out-pours th' unguarded
breaft:

Slack'ning, exclaiming, fwift, flow, reftlefs chan-
ge,

Wings the voic'd tempeft, in its whirlwind range;
Quick turns and ftartings, face, and air, deform;
And thick, fhort, breathings paint the infelt
ftorm.

Nor fea, nor life, eternal Tempest sweeps,
Hufh'd calms fucceed it, and the thunder fleeps:
Such, the foft, filent tide, that floods the mind,
To mov'd Compaffion's pain-touch'd warmth, in-
clin'd:

Aidful idea fprings to pitied woe,

Thence, every quiv'ring finew learns to glow:
Back, from the panting bofom, to the eye,
Kind, figh-wing'd dews in foft fenfation, fly:
So, from earth's op'ning breaft in flow'r-dress'd

May

Steams the fipt fragrance, to the fun's felt
ray;
Lightly fuftain'd, to morn's faint clafpit clings,
Yet, oft (let go) falls back-oft, upward, fprings:
So learn, to fteal foft pity's copied grace;

Languor's moift cloud marks, firft, the mournful

face;

the mufe'ly

Then, hope's kind tenfion warms the

mien,

Dragg'd diff'rent ways, contending contrafts lean;

hill.

Hill. Clafh'd looks, 'gainst movements, paint internal

fight

'Twixt the heart's anguifh, and the help's delight: Then, touch'd attention's hark'ning hufh creeps round:

And breathless mouths devour th' expected found,

Nature loves change - Cold night fucceeds to

morn:

And pity's dark'ning oppofite is fcorn:
Far be this brown- ftretch'd arrogance of air,
From mifery's doomful claim, in fons of care-
Ah! minds (too apt) turn but the look within,
We find prid'es image, there, as fure, as fin!
Yet, with fuch bias, rolls man's will from right,
That search, first, milles, what is most in fight:
Elle, how unneedful, to defcribe a rage,
No player wants power to feel

but on the stage.

Cautious (life's fpeaking picture) wear that
stain, 1

Rightly to fhow, be thine - but not retain!
Scorn is calm, careless, anger, flagg'd of wing,
Brufh'd fense of harmless wrong, too weak to fting
Safe in fufpended power, eas'd warmth difclaims
Exertion and, with flack remifsnefs, flames:
Now fmiles now frowns yet, both, with eye
ferene,

While half- ftrung nerves play fprings of painless
Spleen.

Angels feel wonder, men f'hould dare defpife!
Born to mistakes, and erring out life's ipan,
Man as if heaven were his

Man.

looks down on

Say, then, what wonder is trace its taught caufe:
Mark its true features, and make known its laws:
Wonder is curious doubt, Will's check'd retreat,
Shrinking from danger, it prepares to meet:

Hill.

"Tis fear's half brother, of refembling face,
But fix'd, unwavering, and bound down to place:
Earneft, alarmful gaze, intently keen,

Notes the weigh'd

diftrufts it, feen; As in pale churchyards, gleam'd by filent night, Shou'd fome crofs'd fpectre fhade the moon's dim light,

Shudd'ry, the back'ning blood, revolving fwift, Cloggs the prefs'd heart ftretch'd fibres fail to lift:

Loft, in doubt's hard'ning froft - ftcpt motion lies,
While fenfe climbs, gradual, to the ftaining eyes.

Dher.

Dyer.

Dyer.

Glücklicher noch in der beschreibenden, als in der eis gentlichen didaktischen Dichtungsart war John Dyer, geb. 1700, geft. 1758. Das gråßte seiner Gedichte ist indeß von ́der leztern Gattung, und hat die Ueberschrift: The Fleece, øder, die wolle. Es besteht aus vier Büchern, wovon das erfte die Schafzucht und Ech sichur, das zweite die Gewin nung und Zuberetung der Wolle, das dritte das Verfahren beim Weben und Färben derselben, und das vierte den ens glischen Wolhadel zum Inhalt hat. Die Wahl dieses Gegenstandes war nicht allzu glücklich, und konnte bloß für seis ne Nation durch den Umstand, daß der Wolhandel eins ihrer vornehmten Gewerbe ist, einiges Interesse gewinnen. Der Dichter wußte indeß seinen Gegenstand durch Hülfe seiner bilderreichen Phantasie, und durch einige ganz angenehme Episoden, ftellenweise zu beleben; nur dem Ganzen mans gelt es doch on lebhaft anzichender Kraft; wovon aber freis lich die Schuld mehr dem Subjekt, als dem Dichter beizus messen ist. Zur Probe gebe ich hier den Schluß des ersten Gesanges, worin die Freuden und festlichen Gebräuche bei der Schafschur, besonders in Wales, und am Ufer des Flußses Severn, geschildert werden. --- Vergl. Dusch's Briefe, Th. I. 10. 11.

THE FLEECE, B. I. v. 555. fl.

Now, jolly Swains! the harvest of your cares
Prepare to reap, and feek the founding caves
Of high Brigantium, *) where, by ruddy flames,
Vulcan's ftrong fons, with nervous arm, around
The fteady anvil and the glaring mafs

Clat

*) The caves of Brigantium --- the forges of Sheffield, in Yorkshire, where the fhepherds' fheers, and all edgetools, are made.

Clatter their heavy hammers down by turns,
Flatt'ning the fteel: from their rough hands re-
ceive

The Sharpen'd inftrument that from the flock
Severs the Fleece. If verdant elder fpreads
Her filver flowr's; if humble daifies yield
To yellow crow-foot, and luxuriant grafs
Gay fhearing time approaches. First, howe'er
Drive to the double fold, upon the brim
Of a clear river, gently drive the flock

1

And plunge them one by one into the flood.
Plung'd in the flood, not long the ftruggler finks,
With his white flakes that gliften thro' the tide;
The sturdy ruftic, in the middle wave,
Awaits to feize him rifing; one arme bears
His lifted head above the limpid stream,
While the full clammy Fleece the other laves
Around, laborious, with repeated toil;
And then refigns him to the funny bank,

Where, bleating loud, he shakes his dripping
locks.

Shear them the fourth or fifth return of morn
Left touch of bufy fly-blows wound their fkin.
Thy peaceful fubjects without murmur yield
Their yearly tribute: 'tis the prudent part
To cherish and be gentle, while ye ftrip
The downy vefture from their tender fides.
Prefs not too clofe; with caution turn the points,
And from the head in regular rounds proceed:
But speedy, when ye chance to wound, with

tar

Prevent the wingy fwarm and fcorching heat;
And careful house them, if the low ring clouds
Mingle their ftores tumultuous: thro' the gloom
Then thunder oft' with pond'rous wheels rolls
loud

And breaks the cryftal urns of heav'n; adown
Falls ftreaming rain. Sometimes among the fteeps
Of Cambrian glades (pity the Cambrian giades.)
Faft tumbling brooks on brooks enormous swell

Beisp. Samml. 3. B.

And