TO MAJOR ROOKE OF MANSFIELD, ON THE PUBLICATION OF HIS DIURNAL REGISTER OF THE WINDS FOR THE TWO LAST YEARS. OCTOBER, 1796. No gale unlucky may thy fortunes find, O! may ΤΟ CH. CLARKE, Esq. ON HIS REQUEST TO OBTAIN THE AUTHOR'S SIGNATURE WRITTEN WITH HER OWN HAND. (IMPROMPTU.) OUR self-inscrib'd name, as the scroll were a trea sure, When strangers request, in their fanciful pleasure, It flatters the hope that our bark may be scudding From this corporal climate of beef and of pudding, To the high shrine of Fame, where posterity know men, And we deem such request a right prosperous omen. But gales inauspicious oft blow from that region, And for one who attains it they blow back a legion; Then in spite of CLARK's wish, and his brother's kind record, Whose rays from that shrine my pale streamers have checker'd, Its winds will too probably soon blow from leeward, And sink in oblivion's cold waves ANNA SEWARD. 1. 2. Kind record-A Tour through England and Wales was published in 1793, by Edward Clark, Esq. brother to the gentleman whom the above Impromptu addresses. Mr E. Clark's volume is adorned with aquatinta drawings. Lichfield is described there, and very flattering mention made of the Author of this Miscellany, A WARNING EXHORTATION. CELIA, I read thy melting eye; Ah! not from his seducing glance It helps not, it avails not there, Ne'er to the sacred, marriage shrine Thee shall the haughty FLORIO lead; O lost, if still that heart of thine, Long shall thy love-lit eyes be dim Amid the busy scenes of life Proud FLORIO shall thy image lose, Eclipsed by Grandeur's dazzling views; While thou, supine, in lonely shades, O then, in time, from future woes And twine no more the thorny rose 'Mid chains thy juster pride should break! Now, while thou may'st, the bliss dissolve, |