So may propitious heav'n your journey speed,
Prolong your days, and all your vows fucceed.

Mov'd with the pray'r the kind Porfenna staid,
Too nobly-minded to refuse his aid,

And, prudence yielding to fuperior grief,
Leap'd from his fteed, and ran to his relief;
Remov'd the weight, and gave the pris'ner breath,
Juft choak'd, and gasping on the verge of death.
Then reach'd his hand, when lightly with a bound
The grizly spectre vaulting from the ground,
Seiz'd him with sudden gripe, th' astonish'd prince
Stood horror-ftruck, and thoughtless of defence.

O king of Ruffia, with a thund'ring found
Bellow'd the ghaftly fiend, at length thou'rt found.
Receive the ruler of mankind, and know,

My name is Time, thy ever-dreaded foe.
These feet are founder'd, and the wings you fee
Worn to the pinions in pursuit of thee;
Through all the world in vain for ages fought,
But Fate has doom'd thee now, and thou art caught.
Then round his neck his arms he nimbly caft,
And feiz'd him by the throat, and grasp'd him fast;
'Till forc'd at length the foul forfook its seat,
And the pale breathless corfe fell bleeding at his feet.

Scarce had the curfed fpoiler left his prey, When, fo it chanc'd, young Zephyr pass'd that way; Too late his prefence to affift his friend,

A fad, but helpless witness of his end.

He chafes, and fans, and ftrives in vain to cure
His streaming wounds; the work was done too fure.
Now lightly with a foft embrace uprears

The lifeless load, and bathes it in his tears;
Then to the blifsful feats with speed conveys,
And graceful on the moffy carpet lays

With decent care, close by the fountain's fide,
Where first the princess had her phoenix spied.
There with sweet flow'rs his lovely limbs he ftrew'd,
And gave a parting kifs, and fighs and tears beftow'd.
To that fad folitude the weeping dame,

Wild with her lofs, and fwoln with forrow, came.
There was she wont to vent her griefs, and mourn
Those dear delights that muft no more return.
Thither that morn with more than ufual care
She fped, but oh what joy to find him there!
As just arriv'd, and weary with the way,
Retir'd to foft repose her hero lay.

Now near approaching she began to creep
With careful steps, loth to difturb his fleep;

'Till quite o'ercome with tenderness she flew,
And round his neck her arms in transport threw.
But, when she found him dead, no tongue can tell
The pangs fhe felt; fhe fhriek'd, and fwooning fell.
Waking, with loud laments fhe pierc'd the skies,
And fill'd th' affrighted foreft with her cries.
That fatal hour the palace gates fhe barr'd,
And fix'd around the coaft a stronger guard;
Now rare appearing, and at distance seen,
With crowds of black misfortunes plac'd between;
Mischiefs of every kind, corroding care,

And fears, and jealousies, and dark despair.
And fince that day (the wretched world must own
These mournful truths by fad experience known)
No mortal e'er enjoy'd that happy clime,
And every thing on earth fubmits to Time.

The EVER-GRE E N.

WHEN tepid breezes fann'd the air,

And violets perfum❜d the glade,

Pensive and grave my charming fair
Beneath yon fhady lime was laid.

Flourish, faid I, thofe favour'd boughs,
And ever footh the pureft flames!
Witness to none but faithful vows!
Wounded by none but faithful names!

Yield every tree that crowns the grove

To this which pleas'd my wandering dear!
Range where you will, ye bands of love,
Ye still shall seem to revel here.

Lavinia fmil'd- and whilft her arm
Her fair reclining head fuftain'd,
Betray'd she felt fome fresh alarm;

And thus the meaning fmile explain'd.

When

When fummer funs fhine forth no more,
Will then this lime its fhelter yield?
Protect us when the tempefts roar,

And winter drives us from the field?

Yet faithful then the fir fhall laft

I smile, she cry'd, but ah! I tremble, To think when my fair season's past,

Which Damon then will most resemble.

ANS WE R.

100 tim'rous maid, can time or chance

A pure ingenuous mind controul?

O lay afide that tender glance,

That melts my frame, that kills my foul!

Were but thy outward charms admir'd,

Frail origin of female fway!

My flame like other flames infpir'd,

Might then like other flames decay :

But