Thou camest from Eartham, and wilt shade, (If truly I divine,) Some future day the illustrious head Of him who made thee mine. Should Daphne show a jealous frown, Such honour'd brows as they, Thy cause with zeal we shall defend, For why should not the Virgin's friend TO MY COUSIN, ANNE BODHAM, ON RECEIVING FROM HER A NETWORK PURSE, MADE BY HERSELF. MAY 4, 1793. My gentle Anne, whom heretofore, I danced and fondled on my knee, Gold pays the worth of all things here; I, therefore, as a proof of love, The best things kept within it. INSCRIPTION FOR AN HERMITAGE IN THE AUTHOR'S GARDEN. MAY, 1793. THIS cabin, Mary, in my sight appears, TO MRS. UNWIN. MAY, 1793. MARY! I want a lyre with other strings, By seraphs writ with beams of heavenly light, There all thy deeds, my faithful Mary, shine; And, since thou own'st that praise, I spare thee mine. TO JOHN JOHNSON, ON HIS PRESENTING ME WITH AN ANTIQUE BUST OF HOMER, MAY, 1793. KINSMAN beloved, and as a son, by me! Proves dross, when balanced in the Christian scale. TO A YOUNG FRIEND, ON HIS ARRIVING AT CAMBRIDGE WET, WHEN NO RAIN MAY, 1793. IF Gideon's fleece, which drench'd with dew he found, In pledge, perhaps, of favours from on high, A TALE. JUNE, 1793. IN Scotland's realm, where trees are few, Nor even shrubs abound; But where, however bleak the view, For husband there and wife may boast And false ones are as rare almost In Scotland's realm forlorn and bare The spring drew near, each felt a breast They pair'd, and would have built a nest, The heaths uncover'd and the moors Could yield them no retreat. Long time a breeding-place they sought, A ship? could such a restless thing Hush!-silent hearers profit most,— Proved kinder to them than the coast, But such a tree! 'twas shaven deal, Through which the tackle pass'd. Within that cavity aloft Their roofless home they fix'd, Form'd with materials neat and soft, Bents, wool, and feathers mix'd. Four ivory eggs soon pave its floor, With russet specks bedight; The vessel weighs, forsakes the shore, The mother-bird is gone to sea, |