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Thus glide the foft numbers along,
And he fancies no fhepherd his peer;
-Yet I never should envy the fong,
Were not Phyllis to lend it an ear.
VII.

Let his crook be with hyacinths bound,
So Phyllis the trophy despise;

Let his forehead with laurels be crown'd,
So they shine not in Phyllis's eyes.
The language that flows from the heart
Is a stranger to Paridel's tongue;
-Yet may she beware of his art,
Or fure I must envy the song.

IV.

DISAPPOINTMENT.

I.

E fhepherds give ear to my lay,

YE

And take no more heed of my fheep

They have nothing to do, but to stray;
I have nothing to do, but to weep.
Yet do not my folly reprove;

She was fair -and my paffion begun
She fmil'd --and I could not but love;

She is faithlefs

and I am undone.

II. Perhaps

II.

Perhaps I was void of all thought;
Perhaps it was plain to foresee,
That a nymph fo compleat would be fought
By a swain more engaging than me.
Ah! love every hope can inspire:
It banishes wisdom the while;

And the lip of the nymph we admire
Seems for ever adorn'd with a smile.
III.

She is faithlefs, and I am undone;

Ye that witness the woes I endure,

Let reafon inftruct you to fhun

What it cannot instruct you to cure. Beware how ye loiter in vain

Amid nymphs of an higher degree:

It is not for me to explain

How fair, and how fickle they be.
IV.

Alas! from the day that we met,

What hope of an end to my woes?

When I cannot endure to forget
The glance that undid my repofe.

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Yet time may diminish the pain:

The flow'r, and the fhrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her pleasure in vain,

In time may have comfort for me. :

V.

The sweets of a dew-fprinkled rofe,

The found of a murmuring stream, The peace which from folitude flows, Henceforth fhall be Corydon's theme. High transports are fhewn to the fight,

But we are not to find them our own;

Fate never bestow'd such delight,
As I with my Phyllis had known.

VI.

O ye woods, spread your branches apace;
To your deepest receffes I fly;

I would hide with the beasts of the chace;
I would vanish from every eye.

Yet

my reed fhall refound through the grove With the fame fad complaint it begun;

How the fmil'd, and I could not but love;

Was faithlefs, and I am undone

INDEX

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INDEX to the Fourth Volume.

LEGY written in a Country | Addrefs of the Statues at Stowe to
Church-yard Page 5

Hymn to Adverfity
Education, a Poem
Penshurst

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To the Hon. Wilmot Vaughan,
Efq; in Wales
Epiftle to Sir Tho. Hanmer 73

Song

Elegy to Mifs D-w-d

Anfwer to ditto

Monimia to Philocles

Flora to Pompey

Arifbe to Marius Jun:
Roxana to Ufbeck

Epilogue

216

Lord Cobham
Ode on the Death of Mr. Pel-

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ham

218

57

70

The Revenge of America

Verses written at Montauban in
France 1750

224

225

The dying Indian

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Ode on Mr. Weft's Tranflation

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of Pindar

228

85

Pleafures of Melancholy

231

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Sonnet

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To Lady H-v-y

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On Sir Robert Walpole's Birth-

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The Lawyer's Farewell to his
Mufe

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Verfes written in Coke upon
Littleton

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Solitude, an Ode

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The Link, a Ballad
The Squire of Dames
On the Death of a Lady's Owl

Vanity of Human Wishes
Tears of old May-day

The Benedicite

166

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253

254

266

Ode on the Death of a favourite
Bulfinch

270

168

184

Martial, Lib. VI. Ep. 34. 272
Progrefs of Difcontent

273

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The Fire-fide

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Song for Ranelagh

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206 To a Child of five Years old 286
Father Francis's Prayer 287
Poets and News-writers Petition

Verfes written in a Garden

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Anfwer to a Love Letter

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Anfiver to a Lady who advised
Retirement

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