72 THE FABLES OF FLORA. 



From him * whose gay and graceful brow 

 Fair-handed Hume with roses binds. 



We'll learn to breathe the tender vow. 

 Where slow the fairy Fortha winds. 



And, oh! that hef whose gentle breast 

 In Nature's softest mould was made. 



Who left her smiling works imprest 

 In characters that cannot fade. 



That he might leave his lowly shrine. 

 Though softer there the Seasons fall — 



They come, the sons of verse divine. 

 They come to Fancy's magic call. 



■" What airy sounds invite 



"My steps, not unieluctant, from ihe depth 

 " Of Shene's delightful groves? Reposing there 



* William Hamilton of Bangour. t Thomson. 



