, heavenly muse, their youthful frays rehearse, in, ye daughters of immortal verse;

alting rocks have own'd the power of drivers listen'd as they flow'd along.

song,

VIDA.

E wave that bore him, backward shrank appal'd.

RACINE.

T Turnus, chief amidst the warrior train, armour towers the tallest on the plain. e Ganges thus, by seven rich streams supplied, mighty mass, devolves in silent pride.

us Nilus pours from his prolific urn,

hen from the fields o'erflow'd, his vagrant streams

So Philomela from the umbrageous wood

In strains melodious mourns her tender brood.
Snatch'd from the nest by some rude Phrygian's
hand,

On some lone bough the warbler takes her stand;
The livelong nights she mourns the cruel wrong,
And hill and dale resound the plaintive song.

FOR as a watchman, from some rock on high,
O'er the wide main extends his boundless eye,
Through such a space of air with thundering sound,
At every leap the immortal coursers bound.

So joys the lion, if a branching deer,

HOM.

Or mountain goat, his bulky prize appear.
In vain the youths oppose, the mastiffs bay,
The lordly savage rends the panting prey.
Thus fond of vengeance, with a furious bound,
In clanging arms he leaps upon the ground.1

HOM.

EAST, west, and south engage with furious sweep,
And from its lowest bed upturn the foaming deep.

VIRG.

THE sail then Boreas rends with hideous cry,
And whirls the maddening billows to the sky.

These lines altered from Pope.

VIRG.

VERSES.'

window, patch'd with paper, lent a ray, - feebly show'd the state in which he lay. sanded floor that grits beneath the tread, humid wall with paltry pictures spread; game of goose was there exposed to view, the twelve rules the royal martyr drew; seasons fram'd with listing, found a place, Prussia's monarch show'd his lamp black face. = morn was cold, he views with keen desire usty grate, unconscious of a fire:

unpaid reckoning on the frieze was scor'd, d five crack'd teacups dress'd the chimney board

t with that face, so servile, and so gay, at welcomes every stranger that can pay; ith sulky eye he smok'd the patient man, en pull'd his breeches tight, and thus began :

Of all the fish that graze beneath the flood, e only ruminates his former food.'2

See Goldsmith's Life, p. 64. ed. 1821. 2 See Goldsm. An. Nat. vol iii. p. 6.

SONG.

choolmasters puzzle their brain

h grammar, and nonsense, and learning, liquor, I stoutly maintain,

es genius a better discerning.

em brag of their heathenish gods, eir Lethes, their Styxes, and Stygians; quis, and their quæs, and their quods, ey're all but a parcel of pigeons.

Toroddle, toroddle, toroll.

a methodist preachers come down,
preaching that drinking is sinful,
ager the rascals a crown,

ey always preach best with a skinful.
when you come down with your pence,
r a slice of their scurvy religion,
eave it to all men of sense,

at you, my good friend, are the pigeon. Toroddle, toroddle, toroll.

come, put the jorum about,

nd let us be merry and clever,
hearts and our liquors are stout,
ere's the three jolly pigeons for ever.

1 See' She stoops to Conquer,' p. 147.