Et dives æqua mente-charus omnibus, Ite tituli! meritis beatioribus Aptate laudes debitas! Nec invidebat ille, si quibus favens Placide senex! levi quiescas cespite, Decus sit inditum, nec mortuo THE SAME IN ENGLISH. OUR good old friend is gone, gone to his rest, How once ye loved, and eyed him with respect. He knew no wish that he might blush to speak, And richer than the rich in being so, Obtain'd the hearts of all, and such a meed At length from One,t as made him rich indeed. * He was usher and under-master of Westminster near fifty years, and retired from his occupation when he was near se venty, with a handsome pension from the king. See the note in the Latin copy. Hence then, ye titles, hence, not wanted here Light lie the turf, good Senior! on thy breast, TO MRS. THROCKMORTON, ON HER BEAUTIFUL TRANSCRIPT of horace'S ODE, AD LIBRUM SUUM. [February, 1790.] MARIA, Could Horace have guess'd The honour which you have bestow'd, So elegant, even, and neat, He had laugh'd at the critical sneer Which he seems to have trembled to meet. And sneer, if you please, he had said, A nymph shall hereafter arise, Who shall give me, when you are all dead, The glory your malice denies. Shall dignity give to my lay, Although but a mere bagatelle; And even a poet shall say, Nothing ever was written so well. INSCRIPTION For a Stone erected at the Sowing of a Grove of Oaks at Chillington, the seat of T. Gifford, Esq. 1790. [June, 1790.] OTHER stones the era teil, Which shall longest brave the sky, 1 must moulder and decay, But the years that crumble me Cherish honour, virtue, truth, 12* ANOTHER, For a Stone erected on a similar occasion at the same place in the following year. [June, 1790.] READER! Behold a monument Anno 1791. HYMN, FOR THE USE OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL AT OLNEY. [July, 1790.] HEAR, Lord, the song of praise and pray'r, Thanks for thy Word and for thy Day; And grant us, we implore, Never to waste in sinful play Thy holy Sabbath more. Thanks that we hear-but oh impart To each desire sincere, That we may listen with our heart, And learn as well as hear For if vain thoughts the minds engage Of elder far than we, What hope that at our heedless age Much hope, if thou our spirits take Wisdom and bliss thy word bestows, And be thy mercies show'r'd on those STANZAS On the late indecent Liberties taken with the Remains of the great Milton—Anno 1780. [August, 1790 "ME too, perchance, in future days, *Note by the Editor. This Hymn was written at the request of the Rev. James Bean, then Vicar of Olney, to be sung by the children of the Sunday Schools of that town, after a Charity Sermon, preached at the Parish Church for their benefit, on Sunday, July 31, 1790. |