LOVE ELEGY. BY MR. SMALLET. I. Here now are all my flatt'ring dreams of joy! W MONIMIA, my reft; MONIMIA, give my foul her wonted rest ;Since first thy beauty fix'd my roving eye, Heart-gnawing cares corrode my pensive breast! II. Let happy lovers fly where pleasures call, III. For me, no more I'll range th' empurpled mead, Where shepherds pipe, and virgins dance around? Nor wander thro' the woodbine's fragrant fhade, To hear the mufic of the grove resound. IV, I'll feek fome lonely church, or dreary hall, Where fancy paints the glimm'ring taper blue, Where damps hang mould'ring on the ivy'd wall, And sheeted ghosts drink up the midnight dew; V. There leagu'd with hopeless anguish and despair, Then, with a long farewell to love and care, VI. Wilt thou, MONIMIA, fhed a gracious tear Hail to thy living light, Ambrofial morn! all hail thy rofeat ray: That bids each dewy-spangled flowret rise, Bids filver lustre grace yon fparkling tide, That winding warbles down the mountain's fide. II. Away, ye goblins all, Wont the bewilder'd traveller to daunt ; Or shatter'd ruin of a mofs-grown tow'r, III. Away, ye elves, away: Shrink at ambrofial morning's living ray; The cherub Beauty fits on Nature's rustic shrine. O 2 CHORUS II. 1 ODE ON CONTENT. ATHELWOLD, THE HUSBAND OF ELFRIDA, 1S SUPPOSED TO BE I. ABSENT. The turtle tells her plaintive tale, She flutters o'er no fun-fhine mead, But foft fhe trills, amid th' aerial throng, II. Sweet bird! like thine our lay fhall flow, Nor gaily loud, nor fadly flow; For to thy note fedate, and clear, CONTENT ftill lends a lift'ning ear. |