V.

Then April, with her fifter May,

Shall chafe him from the bowers,
And weave fresh garlands every day,
To crown the fmiling hours.
VI.

And, if a tear, that fpeaks regret
Of happier times, appear,

A glimpse of joy, that we have met,
Shall fhine and dry the tear.

CATHARINA.

ADDRESSED TO MISS STAPLETON.

(NOW MRS. COURTNEY.)

SHE came-fhe is gone-we have metAnd meet perhaps never again;

The fun of that moment is fet,

And feems to have rifen in vain.

Catharina has fed like a dream→→→→
(So vanishes pleasure, alas!)
But has left a regret and efteem,
That will not so suddenly pass.

The last evening ramble we made,
Catharina, Maria, and I,

Our progress was often delayed

By the nightingale warbling nigh.

We paufed under many a tree,

And much he was charmed with a tone

Lefs fweet to Maria and me,

Who had witneffed fo lately her own.

My numbers that day fhe had fung,
And gave them a grace fo divine,

As only her mufical tongue

Could infufe into numbers of mine..

The longer I heard, I esteemed

The work of my fancy the more,

And ev'n to myself never seemed

So tuneful à poet before.

Though the pleasures of London-exceed
In number the days of the year,
Catharina, did nothing impede,
Would feel herself happier here;

For the close woven arches of limes
On the banks of our river I know,
Are fweeter to her many times

Than all that the city can fhow.

So it is, when the mind is endued
With a well-judging tafte from above,
Then, whether embellished or rude,
'Tis nature alone that we love.
The achievements of art may amuse,
May even our wonder excite,
But groves, hills, and vallies, diffufe
A lafting, a facred delight.

Since then in the rural recefs

Catharina alone can rejoice,

May it ftill be her lot to poffefs

The scene of her fenfible choice!

To inhabit a manfion remote

From the clatter of ftreet-pacing steeds, And by Philomel's annual note

To measure the life that she leads.

With her book, and her voice, and her lyre,
To wing all her moments at home,
And with scenes that new rapture inspire
As oft as it fuits her to roam,

She will have juft the life the prefers,
With little to wish or to fear,

And ours will be pleasant as hers,

Might we view her enjoying it here.

THE MORALIZER CORRECTED.

A TALE.

A HERMIT (or if 'chance you hold
That title now too trite and old)
A man, once young, who lived retired
As hermit, could have well defired,
His hours of ftudy clofed at laft,
And finished his concise repaft,
Stoppled his crufe, replaced his book
Within its customary nook,

And, ftaff in hand, fet forth to share
The fober cordial of sweet air,
Like Ifaac, with a mind applied
To ferious thought at evening-tide.
Autumnal rains had made it chill,

And from the trees, that fringed his hill,
Shades flanting at the close of day
Chilled more his elfe delightful way.

Diftant a little mile he fpied

A western bank's ftill funny fide,