There may these gentle guests delight to dwell, And bless the scene they lov'd in life fo well! Oh thou! with whom my heart was wont to share 405 From Reafon's dawn each pleasure and each care; With whom, alas! I fondly hop'd to know Devout yet cheerful, active yet refign'd; Grant me, like thee, whose heart knew no disguise, 415 Whofe blameless wishes never aim'd to rife, F To meet the changes Time and Chance prefent, With modeft dignity and calm content. When thy laft breath, ere Nature funk to reft, Thy meek fubmiffion to thy God exprefs'd; 420 When thy last look, ere thought and feeling fled, A mingled gleam of hope and triumph fhed; What to thy foul its glad affurance gave, Its hope in death, its triumph o'er the grave? The fweet Remembrance of unblemish'd youth, 425 The inspiring voice of Innocence and Truth! Hail, MEMORY, hail! in thy exhaustless mine From age to age unnumber'd treasures fhine! Thought and her fhadowy brood thy call obey, Thy pleasures most we feel, when most alone; The only pleasures we can call our own. 430 Lighter than air, Hope's fummer-vifions die, If but a beam of fober Reafon play, Lo, Fancy's fairy froft-work melts away ! Snatch the rich relics of a well-fpent hour? 435 Thefe, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path a stream of living light; And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest, 440 THE END. NOTES ON THE FIRST PART. NOTE I. Verse 201. So, when the daring fons of Science, &c. HE wept; but the effort that he made to conceal his tears, concurred, with them, to do him honour: he went to the maft-head, waving to the canoes as long as they continued in fight, HAWKESWORTH's Voyages, ii. 181. Another very affecting inftance of local attachment is related of his fellow-countryman Potaveri, who came to Europe with M. de Bougainville. See LES JARDINS, par M. l'Abbé de Lille, chant ii. |