FRAGMENT. OH! thou most fatal of Pandora's train, Nor mark'st thy course with Death's delusive dye, But silent and unnoticed thou dost lie; O'er life's soft springs thy venom dost diffuse, And, while thou givest new lustre to the eye, While o'er the cheek are spread health's ruddy hues, E'en then life's little rest thy cruel power subdues. Oft I've beheld thee in the glow of youth, Hid 'neath the blushing roses which there bloom'd; And dropt a tear, for then thy cankering tooth I knew would never stay, till all consum'd, In the cold vault of death he were entomb'd. But oh! what sorrow did I feel, as swift, Yet soon did languid listlessness advance, And soon she calmly sunk in death's repugnant trance. Even when her end was swiftly drawing near, Even then so beauteous did her form appear, |