Hear then the Muse-Thou short-liv'd race, 

 Urge not your fleeting hours away, 



Crowd not with cares your little space ; 

 Wise is the man who lives his day. 



George Dyer. 



to tliVsort?'''"'""""; "V"'' ""- A—- compares the bride to the red rose; 

 sou, I suppose, wh.ch has an.ong us the common appellation of the Maddens Blush. 



To THEE, the Queen* of nymphs divine, 

 Fairest of all that fairest shine! 

 To THEE, thou blooming young Desire f 

 Who TuVst the world with darts of fire! 

 And oh ! thou Nuptial Power, + to thee 

 Who bear St of life the guardian key ! 

 Breathing my soul in fragrant praise, 

 And weaving wild my votive lays. 

 To thee, Queen! I wake the lyre. 

 To thee, thou blushing young Desire! 

 And oh ! for thee, thou Nuptial Power! 

 Come and illume this genial hour. 

 Look on thy bride, impassion'd boy ! 

 And while thy lambent glance of joy 

 Plays over all her blushing charms. 

 Delay not ; snatch her to thine arms. 

 Before the lovely, trembling prey, 

 Like a young birdhng, wings away. 

 Oh, Statocles! impassion'd youth! 

 Dear to the Queen of amorous truth. 

 And dear to her, whose yielding zone 

 Will soon resign her all thine own ; 

 Turn to Myrilla, turn thine eye. 

 Breathe to Myrilla, breathe thy sigh ! 

 To those bewitching beauties turn. 

 For thee they mantle, flush, and burn !— 

 Not more the Rose, the queen of flowers, 

 Out-blushes all the glow of bowers. 

 Than she unrivall'd bloom discloses. 

 The sweetest Rose, where all are Roses!— 

 Oh ! may the Sun, § benignant, shed 

 His blandest influence o'er thy bed ; 

 And foster there an infant tree, 

 To blush like her, and look like thee. % 



Moore. 



* ^^""'- t Cupid. H- jj m 



:, which was held at the father's house the hr-\A^.. /'' , f ^"', . . § ^P^^'« 



If After the feast, which was held at the father's house th^ K.; i "'' , f "^^"' § Apollo, 



by an the relatious o„ both sides, and a nu.be,- of at.enda'n.s fon 3Ti h'to c^ "' ,"''' " ""^ '"* "' '"' ^™"-"«^' --"P^-d 

 the mamage-chamber, where the bride washed her feet After this ceremnnv th K ^' ' """""• '"' ^^ ""^^ *"« -conducted to 



room ; when the Epithalaminm or Nuptial Song, was sung in honour of the'air T"^'°°'" Tf ' "' ^""" ^''^ ^"^'"'^"'= '^^ *e 

 children. The satne ceremony was also in use among the Jews Zun x)v '''"^^^™"^'"'^'"S "i'h <he wish of the inheritance of 



to the Roso of Sharon. ^ ^ '' ' ""'" ^^^- '^ " ''""g °* 'h'S kind. The bride of Solomon is compared 



