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Nymph with wonder saw: First, and then a claw, ny an ardent wish,

d, in vain, to reach the prize.

Le heart can gold despise? t's averse to fish?

us Maid! with looks intent

tretch'd, again she bent,
w the gulf between.
Fate sat by, and smil❜d)
verge her feet beguil❜d,
oled headlong in.

Var. Two beauteous forms.

First edition in Dodsley's Misc.

A Fav'rite has no frie

hence, ve Beautie
, one false step is
And be with caution

Will that tempts you dheedless hearts is

Nor all that glisters

A Fav'rite has no friend!

rom hence, ye Beauties, undeceiv'd, now, one false step is ne'er retriev'd, And be with caution bold.

Not all that tempts your wand'ring eyes nd heedless hearts is lawful prize, Nor all that glisters gold.

first English production of Mr. Gray that appeared in published in folio, by Dodsley, in 1747. About the same alpole's request, Mr. Gray sat for his picture to Echart; 1 paper which he held in his hand, Mr. Walpole wrote Ode; and to intimate his own high and just opinion of oduction, he added this line of Lucan by way of motto: uit populis parvum te, Nile, videre.

Pharsalia, lib. x. l. 296.]

nt spires, ye antique towers,

wn the wat'ry glade,

eful Science still adores

VRY's holy shade (e);

at from the stately brow

SOR's heights th' expanse below e, of lawn, of mead survey,

F, whose shade, whose flowers among he hoary Thames along

r-winding way:

ng Henry the Sixth, founder of the College.

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dle progeny suc
the rolling ci
urge the flying ba

(f) And, redolent of joy
And bees their ho
Dryden's F

momentary bliss bestow,

As waving fresh their gladsome wing, y weary soul they seem to sooth, d, redolent of joy and youth (ƒ), To breathe a second spring.

y, Father THAMES, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race sporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace; ho foremost now delight to cleave, ith pliant arm, thy glassy wave? The captive linnet which enthral? That idle progeny succeed O chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball?

(f) And, redolent of joy and youth.

And bees their honey redolent of spring.

Dryden's Fable on the Pythag. System.

known regions dare descry:

ey run they look behind,

r a voice in every wind,

atch a fearful joy.

is theirs by Fancy fed,

easing when possest; forgot as soon as shed, inshine of the breast: 1xom Health, of rosy hue, it, Invention ever-new, vely Cheer, of Vigour born; ghtless day, the easy night, ts pure, the slumbers light,

y th' approach of morn.

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And Shame that

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That inly gnaws
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