ON CLAUDE PHILLIPS, AN ITINERANT MUSICIAN'. PHILLIPS! whose touch harmonious could remove FOR HOGARTH. THE hand of him here torpid lies grace; Here closed in death the' attentive eyes That saw the manners in the face. Phillips was a traveling fiddler up and down Wales, and greatly celebrated for his performance. POEMATA. [JAN. 20, 21, 1773.] VITÆ qui varias vices Rerum perpetuus temperat Arbiter, Noctis tristitiam qui gelidæ jubet, Obductosque oculos nubibus humidis Et me, cuncta beans cui nocuit dies, Luci reddidit et mihi, Qua te laude, Deus qua prece prosequar? Sacri discipulus libri Te semper studiis utilibus colam: Grates, summe Pater, tuis Recte qui fruitur muneribus, dedit, NUNC dies Christo memoranda nato Gratia Cœli! Christe, da tutam trepido quietam, Annue, Christe, [IN LECTO, DIE PASSIONIS. APR. 13, 1781.] SUMME Deus, qui semper amas quodcunque creâsti; Judice quo, scelerum est pænituisse salus: [IN LECTO. DEC. 25, 1782.] SPE non inani confugis, Peccator, ad latus meum; Quod poscis haud unquam tibi Negabitur solatium. [NOCTE, INTER 16 ET 17 JUNII, 17831.] SUMME Pater, quodcunque tuum' de corpore Numen 3 6 Hoc statuat, precibus' Christus adesse velit: Ingenio parcas, nec sit mihi culpa rogâsse, Qua solum potero parte, placere tibi. The night above referred to by Johnson was that in which a paralytic stroke bad deprived him of his voice; and, in the anxiety he felt lest it should likewise have impaired his understanding, he composed the above lines, and said concerning them, that he knew at the time that they were not good, but then he deemed his discerning this to be sufficient for the quieting the anxiety before mentioned, as it showed him that his power of judging was not diminished. 2 Al. tuæ. 3 Al. leges. 4 Al. statuant. 7 Al. litare. [CAL. JAM. IN LECTO, ANTE LUCEM. 1784.] SUMME dator vitæ, naturæ æterne magister, Causarum series quo moderante fluit, Respice quem subigit senium, morbique seniles, Quem terret vitæ meta propinqua suæ, Respice inutiliter lapsi quem pœnitet ævi; Recte ut pœniteat, respice, magne parens. PATER benigne, summa semper lenitas, [JAN. 18, 1784.] SUMME Pater, puro collustra lumine pectus, In me sparsa manu virtutum semina larga [FEB. 27, 1784.] MENS mea quid quereris? veniet tibi mollior hora, CHRISTIANUS PERFECTUS. QUI cupit in sanctos Christo cogente referri, Cura placere Deo sit prima, sit ultima, sanctæ Sed timeat semper, caveatque ante omnia turbæ Ne stolidæ similis, leges, sibi segreget audax Quas servare velit, leges quas lentus omittat, Plenum opus effugiens, aptans juga mollia collo Sponte sua demens; nihilum decedere summæ Vult Deus,at,qui cuncta dedit tibi,cuncta reposcit. Denique perpetuo contendit in ardua nisu, |