Then with a tempeft's whirl and wary eye The pond'rous mass finks in the cleaving ground, GRAY OF HIMSELF. TOO poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune; Could love and could hate, fo was thought fomething No very great wit, he believ'd in a God: A poft or a penfion he did not defire, [odd; But left church and state to Charles Townshend and Squire. FINIS. POETICAL WORKS OF JAMES HAMMOND, Esq. CONTAINING HIS LOVE ELEGIES. Though weeping virgins haunt his favour'd urn, The loitering fragrance, will it reach the fkies? SHENSTONE, ELEG. II. GLASGOW: AND SOLD BY ALL THE BOOKSELLERS IN GREAT BRITAIN. MD FAREWEL that Haw Neæra, and Adieu, ye mui Nor ftrive to pai LOVE ELEGIES. "Virginibus puerisque canto.” 1000000 ELEGY I. On bis falling in Love with Neara. FAREWEL that liberty our fathers gave, In vain they gave, their fons receiv'd in vain: I faw Neæra, and her instant slave, Though born a Briton, hugg'd the fervile chain. Her ufage well repays my coward heart, Nor ftrive to paint the wonders of the sphere; Adieu, ye mufes, if the will not hear. |