"Say to the tyrant man, whose pride denies "Thy sex a Soul, and bars them from the skies, "That when the date of female worth expires, "And sickening Nature yields her latest fires, "When beams no more the lustre of the eye, "And Death o'er Beauty hails his victory, "To life by Fate recall'd, the Sex assume "Celestial charms, and never-fading bloom; "In roseate bowers recline, or blissful rove "Thro' scenes of boundless joy and rapturous love; "That there, so Heaven ordains, a blooming band "Of youths, obsequious to each Fair's command, "Attentive waits, and, as her fancy wills, "Each task of duty or of love fulfills.— "Then to the peremptory tyrant say: "Who hopes this lot in Heav'n must here obey, "Bow to superior worth, to sense refin❜d, "Bless the benignant sway of womankind, "Hail the fair fabric of an hand divine, "And own the soul that animates the shrine. "Or, driv'n for ever from the realms above, "His soul in vain shall pant for heavenly love.” SONNE T. TO THE RED-BREAST. WHEN that the fields put on their gay attire Silent Thou sitst near brake or river's brim, And meads with slime are sprent, and ways with mire, And now not seldom tun'st, as if for hire, SONNET, WRITTEN AT A FARM." AROUND my porch and lowly casement spread And in my garden 's box-encircled bed Decks my trim fence, 'neath which, by Silence led, I pass my sober moments, far from men, Nor wishing death too soon, nor asking life. I THE PARADOX: OR, NED FRIGHTENED OUT OF HIS WITS. cave ne titubes. Hor. Ep. l. i. ep. 13. EMPTY the flask, discharg'd the score, "For great occasions, cut and dried ;” "Wits like the Continental Aloe, "That for a century lies fallow; "Wits never prodigally wasted; "Like choice conserves, but rarely tasted: Tho' plain appear'd in ev'ry face Yet still, to shew their wits were sound, And sagely, one and all, accost him; "Zounds, NED! I wonder how you lost 'em!" Ah! let them drink their port in For miracles will never cease! peace, And, if NED's loss of wits astound 'em, Zounds!-how they'll wonder when he 's found 'em! |