See in each sprite some various bent appear !
These rudely carol most incondite lay ;
Those faunt'ring on the green, with jocund leer
Salute the stranger passing on his way;
Some builden fragile tenements of clay;
Some to the standing lake their courses bend,
With pebbles smooth at duck and drake to play ;

Thilk to the huxter's fav'ry cottage tend,
In pastry kings and queens th' allotted mite to spend,

Here, as each season yields a different store,
Each season's stores in order ranged been ;
Apples with cabbage-net y-cover'd o’er,
Galling full sore th' unmoney'd wight, are seen ;
And goose-b’rie clad in liv'ry red or green;
And here of lovely dye, the cath’rine pear,
Fine pear ! as lovely for thy juice, I ween :

O may no wight e’er pennyless come there,
Lest smit with ardent love he pine with hopeless care !

See! cherries here, ere chersies yet abound,
With thread so white in tempting posies ty’d,
Scạtt'ring like blooming maid their glances round,
With pamper'd look draw little eyes aside ;
And must be bought, tho' penury betide.
The plumb all azure and the nut all brown,
And here each season, do those cakes abide,

Whose honour'd names th' inventive city own, Rend'ring thro’ Britain's ise Salopia’s praises known.

Admii'd * SHRSBURY cakes,

Admir'd SaloPIA ! that with venial pride
Eyes her bright form in Severn's ambient wave,
Fam'd for her loyal cares in perils try'd,
Her daughters lovely, and her striplings brave :
Ah! midst the rest, may fowers adorn his grave,
Whofe art did first these dulcet cates display!
A motive fair to learning's imps he gave,

Who chearless o'er her darkling region stray ; 'Till reason's morn arise, and light them on their way.

CON

I 2

E L EGY I.

He arrives at bis retirement in the country, and takes

occasion to expatiate in praise of fimplicity. To a

friend.

E L E GY II.

On posthumous reputation. To a friend.

16

E L EGY III.

On the untimely death of a certain learned acquain-

tance.

18

E L EGY IV.

Ophelia's urn. To Mr. G-

E L EGY

He compares the turbulence of love with the tranquillity

of friendship. To Melissa his friend.

23

E L E-

21

E L E G Y VI.

To a lady on the language of birds.

25

E L E G Y VII.

He describes bis vision to an acquaintance.

27

E L E G Y VIII.

He describes bis early love of poetry, and its consequences.

To Mr. G. 1745.

31

E L EGY IX.

He describes bis distinterestedness to a friend. 34

E L E G Y X.

To fortune, suggesting his motive for repining at ber dis-

pensations.

37

E L EGY XI.

He complains how soon the pleasing novelty of life is over.
To Mr.4-

40
EL EGY XII.

His recantation.

43

E L EGY XIII.

To a friend, on some slight occasion estranged from him. 45

E L EGY XIV.

Declining an invitation to visit foreign countries, be takes

occasion to intimate the advantages of his own. TO

Lord Temple.

47

E L EGY XV.

In memory of a private family in Worcestershire.— 51

E L EGY XVI.

He suggests the advantages of birth to a person of merit,

ard the folly of a superciliousness that is built upon

that fo'e foundation.

E L E-

56