Behind fome door, in melancholy thought, Ah me! how much I fear left pride it be! Yet nurs'd with skill, what dazling fruits appear! Or bard fublime, if bard may e'er be fo, AS MILTON, SHAKESPEAR, names that ne'er fhall dye! Tho' now he crawl along the ground fo low, Nor weeting how the mufe fhou'd foar on high, Wifheth, poor ftarv'ling elf! his paper-kite may fly. And And this perhaps, who, cens'ring the defign, And many an epic to his rage fhall yield; But now DAN PHOEBUS gains the middle skie, And liberty unbars her prifon-door; And like a rushing torrent out they fly, And now the graffy cirque han cover'd o'er With boift'rous revel-rout and wild uproar; A thoufand ways in wanton rings they run, Heav'n fhield their fhort-liv'd paftimes, I implore! For well may freedom, erft so dearly won, Appear to British elf more gladfome than the fun. Enjoy, poor imps! enjoy your fportive trade; But most in courts where proud ambition tow❜rs; See See in each fprite fome various bent appear! Thofe faunt'ring on the green, with jocund leer In pastry kings and queens th' allotted mite to spend. Here, as each feafon yields a different ftore, And goofe-b'rie clad in liv'ry red or green; And here of lovely dye, the cath'rine pear, Fine pear! as lovely for thy juice, I ween: O may no wight e'er pennylefs come there, Left fmit with ardent love he pine with hopeless care! See! cherries here, ere cherries yet abound, With thread fo white in tempting pofies ty'd, Scatt'ring like blooming maid their glances round, With pamper'd look draw little eyes afide; And must be bought, tho' penury betide. The plumb all azure and the nut all brown, And here each feafon, do thofe cakes abide, Whofe honour'd names th'inventive city own, Rend'ring thro' Britain's ifle Salopia's praifes known. * * SHREWSBURY cakes. Admir'd Admir'd SALOPIA! that with venial pride Her daughters lovely, and her ftriplings brave: CONTENTS. I. ELEGIES on feveral Occafions. He arrives at his retirement in the country, and takes occa- ELEGY. VIII. He defcribes his vifion to an acquaintance. 41 |