424 ANNUAL REGISTER, n94» 



' Your hearts, dear girls, so well I know 

 To sympathize at others woe. 

 Of worth so fond, so good, so true, 

 So charm'd with Virtue's ever)' vicwj 

 That I am sure you will enquire 

 What principles such acts inspire ? 

 What faith so fervent and so bright 

 Keeps lives so fully in the right ? 

 Nay, more, my tortur"d soul to vex. 

 The more to Iiarrass and perplex. 

 Of manners kind, demeanour meek, 

 See * Forrester the pulpit seek, 

 (And on St. Peter's very day). 

 Of Rome's fam'd head the prop and stay,^ 

 So candidly his subject treats 

 (How fitted for religious heats). 

 That, with attention's well-pleas'd air, 

 Sarum's good prelate's self might hear. 

 At Wardour then no longer stay. 

 There all we meet will f«ars convey. 

 Then fly, ye coursers, fleet as air, 

 To t Beraerten we must repair, 

 T'am'd long for pastors of good learning. 

 Of great acuteness and discerning. 

 Who in polemics deep and strong, 

 ^ Rome's faith have labour'd to prove wrong ; 



Where Herbert, Norris, Homes, and CokCj, 

 Have giv'n the Catholics some knocks. 

 'Tis this will save ye from the lurch. 

 And keep ye true to mother-church, 



Verses, translatedfrom the Persian, hj sir William Jones. 



HEAR, how yon reed, in ?adly-pleasing tales. 

 Departed bliss and present woe bewails — 

 *' With me, from native banks untimely torn. 

 Love-warbling youths and soft-eyed virgins muorn ! 

 Oil ! let the heart, by fatal absence rent. 

 Feel what I sing, and bleed when I lament ; — 

 Who roams in exile from his parent bow'r, 

 Pants to return, and chides each ling'ring hour! 



• Domestic chaplain to lord Arundel. 



+ Bemerton, near Salisbury. Its incumbents have been 'occasionally very distin- 

 guished persons, as Mr. Herbert the poet, the ideal Norris, the learned Mr. Homes, 

 and the celebrated traveller Mr. Coxc. 



My 



