THE

PLEASURES

OF

MEMORY,

WITH OTHER

POEMS.

BY SAMUEL ROGERS, Esq.

A new and enlarged Edition.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR T. CADELL, JUN. AND W. DAVIES,

IN THE STRAND.

OH could my Mind, unfolded in my page,

Enlighten climes and mould a future age!

There as it glow'd, with noblest frenzy fraught, Dispense the treasures of exalted thought;

To Virtue wake the pulfes of the heart,

And bid the tear of Emulation start!

Oh could it ftill, thro' each fucceeding year,
My life, my manners, and my name endear;
And, when the poet fleeps in filent duft,
Still hold communion with the wife and just !-
Yet fhould this Verfe, my leifure's best resource,
When thro' the world it fteals its fecret course,

Revive but once a generous wish supprest,
Chase but a figh, or charm a care to rest;
In one good deed a fleeting hour employ,
Or flush one faded cheek with honest joy ;
Bleft were my lines, tho' limited their sphere,

Tho' fhort their date, as his who trac'd them here.