goffipping, fcandal, and chit-chat, into marks of cuckows, parrots and magpies. When I go to the Opera, and obferve the plumes and the performers, the Gabrielli-cum femiviro comitatu-appears like a nightinga furrounded by capons. But when I turn to the boxes, I cannot but agree, that if there is one woman who is acknowledged to be a good wife, a good mother, and a good friend, fuch a woman ought to be confidered as the Bird of Paradise. BY MRS. GREVILLE. OFT I've implor'd the Gods in vain, And pray'd till I've been weary ; For once I'll ftrive my wish to gain, Of Oberon, the Fairy. Sweet airy being, wanton fprite, And oft by Cynthia's filver light Trips gaily o'er the green; If e'er thy pitying heart was mov'd, And for th' Athenian maid, who lov'd, Oh! deign once more t' exert thy pow'r I ask no kind return in love, No tempting charm to please; Nor ease, nor peace, that heart can know, For as diftrefs the foul can wound, 'Tis plain in each degree, Blifs goes but to a certain bound, Beyond, 'tis agony. Then take this treacherous fenfe of mine, Which dooms me ftill to fmart : Which Pleasure can to Pain refine, To Pain new pangs impart ! Oh! hafte to shade the fov'reign balin, The nymph, Indifference, bring. At her approach, fee Hope, fee Fear, With Disappointment in the rear, The tears which Pity taught to flow, The heart which throbb'd for other's woe, The wounds which now each moment bleed, To nights of fweet repofe. Oh, Fairy Elf! but grant me this, And fo may never-fading blifs So may the glow-worm's glimmering light Thy tiny footsteps lead, To fome new region of delight, Unknown to mortal tread! And And be the acorn-goblet fill'd And what of life remains for me TWO LOVE ELEGIES. Arge'itanas mavis babitare Tabernas, Cum tibi, parve liber, fcrinia noftra vacent. MARTIAL. ELEGY I. 'TIS night, dead night; and o'er the plain Darkness extends her ebon ray, While wide along the gloomy scene Deep Silence holds her folemn fway: Throughout the Earth no chearful beam Save where the worm's fantastic gleam And, when the Sun withdraws his rays, Or, chearless, through the defart strays: The |