Gray. Yet ev'n thele bones from infult to protect With uncouth rhymes and fhapelefs fculpture Implores the paffing tribute of a figh. Their name, their years, ipelt by th' unletter'd The place of fame and elegy fupply: And many a holy text around fhe ftrews, For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, On fome fond breaft the parting foul relies, For thou, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd Dead وو Haply fome hoary-headed swain may fay, " " 99 " " There at the foot of yonder nodding beech His liftlefs length at noontide would he ftretch, „And pore upon the brook that babbles by. "Hard by yon wood, now fmiling as in fcorn, »One One morn I mifs'd him on the custom'd hill, „Along the heath and near his fav'rite tree; Another came; nor yet befide the rill, " Nor the lawn, nor at the wood was he. up "The next with dirges due in fad array " Grar. „Slow thro' the church-way path we faw him born. Approach and read (for thou can't read) the Lay, Grav'd on the ftone beneath yon aged thorn!" THE EPITAPH. Here refts his head upon the lap of Earth, Large was his bounty, and his foul fincere, He gain'd from Heav'n ('twas all he wish'd) a friend. No farther feek his merits to disclofe, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bofom of his Father and his God. Beisp. Samml. 4. B. મ Jer Jerningham, Ferning ham. S. B. I. 'S. 83. Folgende Elegie von ihm ist offens bar eine Nachahmung der vorhergehenden von Gray, der sie indeß durch Nührung und leidenschaftliche Schilderung nås her kommt, als durch Schönheit und Harmonie der Spraz che. Sie wurde im J. 1762 zuerst einzeln gedruckt. Man fieht bald, daß unter den Magdalenen reuige gefallene Personen des andern Geschlechts verstanden werden, deren traurige Lage und bedauernswerther Zustand von dem Dichter überaus treffend geschildert wird. Jene Benennung ist in England ziemlich geläufig, seitdem das bekannte Magdalenenspital in London, als Zuflucht jener Unglücklichen, ers richtet ist. See, to your fane the fuppliant nymphs repair, Hark! they awake a folemn plaintive lay, Are thefe the fair (late Pleafure's youthful quire) Appear in all the fplendor of attire? And vie in beauty with the high-born maid? The fmiling fcenes of Pleafure they forfake, For For fober weeds they change their flowing train, Jerningham, Of the pearl bracelet ftrip the graceful arm, Conceal the breaft that glow'd in ev'ry vein, And madden'd' into joy at Love's alarm. No longer now the diamond's dazzling ray Yet Beauty lingers on their mournful brow, No more compare them to the gaudy flow'r, Whose painted foliage wantons in the gale: They look the lily drooping from the fhow'r, Or the pale violet fick'ning in the vale. If fond of empire and of conqueft vain, Once deftitute of counfel, aid, or food, Some who encircled by the great and rich Some on whom Beauty breath'd her radiant While adverse stars all other gifts remov'd; Jerningham. 1 What tho' their youth imbib'd an early ftain, So the young myrtles in Misfortune's day, Tho' white-wing'd Peace protect this calm abode, Still Confcience wakes to rob their foul of rest. See one the tort'ring hour of mem❜ry prove Forgot, deferted in th' extremeft need, Her bufy mind recalls the fatal plain, Which with low lab'ring fteps fhe journey'd o'er, Her mind recalls how at that awful hour How to the covert of a tott'ring fhed, As Night advanc'd, fhe fearfully retir'd, And as around the dark'ning horror spread How |