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APOSTROPHE, TO THE RIVER NITH. [By John Mayne.]

HAIL, gentle stream! for ever dear
Thy rudest murmurs to mine ear!
Torn from thy banks, though far I rove,
Ne'er shall thy bard, where'er he be,
The slave of Poverty and Love,
Without a sigh remember thee!
For there my infant years began,
And there my happiest minutes ran;
And there, to love and friendship true,
The blossoms of affection grew!

Blythe on thy banks, thou sweetest stream
That ever nursed a poet's dream!
Oft have I, in forbidden time,
(If youth could sanctify a crime!)
With hazel-rod, and fraudful fly,
Ensnared thy unsuspecting fry;
In pairs have dragged them from their den,
Till, chaced by lurking fishermen,
Away I've flown, as fleet as wind,
My lagging followers far behind!
And, when the vain pursuit was o'er,
Returned successful as before!

By Francis Hodgson.

"Let Alexander's discontented soul Sigh for another world's increased control! Ill-weav'd ambition has no charm for me, Nor, sordid Avarice, am I slave to thee.

"I only ask twelve thousand pounds a year,

And Curwen's country house on Winder

mere

A beauteous wife, as sensible as fair, And many a friend, and not a single care.

"I am no glutton-no! I never wish
A sturgeon floating in a golden dish—
At the Piazza satisfied to pay
Three guineas for my dinner every day.

"What though shrewd Erskine at the bar we view,

As famed as Crassus, and as wealthy too;
I only ask the eloquence of Fox,
To jump like Ireland, and like Belcher
box;

To act as Garrick did-or any how

Unlike the heroes of the buskin now; To range, like Garnerin, through fields of air,

To win, like V-s, England's richest fair

I only ask these blessings to enjoy,
And every varied talent well employ,
Thy life, Methuselah' or, if not thine,
An immortality of love and wine."

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