In yon gloomy, grotto laid, O hover round the virtuous fage: Nor let one figh for his own fuff'rings rise; Each human fuff'ring fills his fympathizing eyes. VI. Venus from Æneas' fide With fuccessful efforts try'd To extract th' envenom'd dart, That baffled wife Iapis' art, If thus, HYGEIA, thou couldst prove Now on thy favour'd HEBERDEN bestow Thy choiceft healing pow'rs, for Pallas asks them now. VII. What though, banish'd from the fight, To the hero's troubled fight, Ranks on ranks tumultuous rose Of flying friends and conqu❜ring foes; He only panted to obtain A laurel wreath for thoufands flain; On nobler views intent, the SAGE's mind Pants to delight, inftruct, and humanise mankind. Author of Clariffa. A VER XXXXX A VERNAL ODE. Sent to his Grace the Lord Archbishop of CANTERBURY, March 12, 1754. By FRANCIS FAWKES, A. M. B I. RIGHT God of day, whofe genial power Revives the buried feed, That spreads with foliage every bower, With verdure every mead, Bid all thy vernal breezes fly, Diffusing mildness through the sky; Give the soft season to our drooping plains, Sprinkled with rofy dews, and falutary rains. II. Enough has Winter's hand fevere Hurl'd all his terrors round, Chill'd the fair dawning of the year, The frozen fcenes will melt away; And, mix'd in sprightly dance, the blooming Hours Will 'wake the drowsy Spring, and Spring awake the [flowers. III. Let III. Let Health, gay daughter of the skies, And scatter pleasures as she flies Where Surry's downs extend; There HERRING wooes her friendly power, To heal that shepherd all her balms employ, Ah me! that Virtue's godlike friends So foon are claim'd by Fate! Lo! * PELHAM to the grave defcends, The bulwark of the ftate: When will fair Truth his equal find Among the best of human kind? Long be the fatal day with mourning kept! AUGUSTUS figh'd fincere, and all the worthy wept. V. Thy delegate, kind heaven, reftore To health, and fafely keep; Let good AUGUSTUS figh no more, No more the worthy weep: The Right Honourable Henry Pelham, Efq; died on the 6th of March 1754. J And And still upon the royal head The riches of thy bleffings fhed: Establish'd with his counsellors around, Long be his profp'rous reign, and all with glory crown'd. An AUTUMNAL ODE. Y By the Same. I. ET once more, glorious God of day, While beams thine orb ferene, O let me warbling court thy ftay The cold, inclement days of Winter cheer, And make th' Autumnal months the mildeft of the year. Ere II. yet the ruffet foliage fall, I'll climb the mountain's brow, My friend, my Hayman, at thy call, To view the scene below: How sweetly pleafing to behold Forests of vegetable gold! How How mix'd the many-chequer'd shades between The tawny mellowing hue, and the gay vivid green! III. How fplendid all the fky! how ftill! How mild the dying gale! How soft the whispers of the rill So tranquil Nature's works appear, As if, the Summer's Labour past, she chose Such is of well-fpent life the time, Man verging gradual from his prime, Meets facred Peace at laft: His flowery Spring of pleasures o'er, He gains pacific Autumn, meek and bland, V. For yet awhile, a little while, Involv'd in wint'ry gloom, And lo! another Spring shall smile, Then |