Would greet the man who turned him to the wall, VI. Such place hath Deptford, navy-building town, All up the silver Thames, or all adown; Ne Richmond's self, from whose tall front are eyed Vales, spires, meandring streams, and Windsor's towery pride. III.-WALLER. OF A LADY SINGING TO HER LUTE. FAIR charmer, cease, nor make your voice's prize, This vocal wood had drawn the poet too. ΙΟ 1 Old Mr. Johnston, the retired Scotch Secretary of State, who lived at Twickenham.-Carruthers. ON A FAN OF THE AUTHOR'S DESIGN, IN WHICH WAS PAINTED THE STORY OF CEPHALUS AND COME, gentle air! the Æolian shepherd said, At random wounds, nor knows the wound she gives : And pities Procris, while her lover dies. ΙΟ IV. COWLEY. THE GARDEN. FAIN would my muse the flowery treasures sing, Transformed, gazes on himself again. There the green infants in their beds are laid, Here orange trees with blooms and pendants shine, Exceed their promise in the ripened store, 20 30 WEEPING. WHILE Celia's tears make sorrow bright, The sun, next those the fairest light, Thus from the ocean first did rise: And thus through mists we see the sun, These silver drops, like morning dew, Foretell the fervour of the day: So from one cloud soft showers we view ΙΟ The stars that fall from Celia's eye So like a Phaëthon appears, That heaven, the threatened world to spare, V.-E. OF ROCHESTER. ON SILENCE. I. SILENCE! coeval with eternity; Thou wert, ere Nature's self began to be, 'Twas one vast nothing, all, and all slept fast in thee. II. Thine was the sway, ere heaven was formed, or earth, Ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth, Or midwife word gave aid, and spoke the infant forth. III. Then various elements, against thee joined, In one more various animal combined, And framed the clamorous race of busy human-kind. IV. I I The tongue moved gently first, and speech was low, Till wrangling science taught it noise and show, And wicked wit arose, thy most abusive foe. V. But rebel wit deserts thee oft in vain; Lost in the maze of words he turns again, And seeks a surer state, and courts thy gentle reign. VI. Afflicted sense thou kindly dost set free, And routed reason finds a safe retreat in thee. VII. With thee in private modest dulness lies, And in thy bosom lurks in thought's disguise; Thou vanisher of fools, and cheat of all the wise! VIII. Jet thy indulgence is by both confest; Folly by thee lies sleeping in the breast, And 'tis in thee at last that wisdom seeks for rest. IX. Silence the knave's repute, the whore's good name, Thy very want of tongue makes thee a kind of fame. X. But couldst thou seize some tongues that now are free, How Church and State should be obliged to thee! 29 At senate, and at bar, how welcome wouldst thou be ! XI. Yet speech even there, submissively withdraws, From rights of subjects, and the poor man's cause : Then pompous silence reigns, and stills the noisy laws. XII. Past services of friends, good deeds of foes, What favourites gain, and what the nation owes, Fly the forgetful world, and in thy arms repose. XIII. The country wit, religion of the town, The courtier's learning, policy of the gown, Are best by thee expressed; and shine in thee alone. 20 |