T PORK yi ¢ 445 
Lonely my heart, and rugged was the way, 
Yet often pluck’d I, as I pafs’d along, 
- The wild and fimple flow’rs of poefy ; 
And, as befeem’d the wayward fancy’s child, 
Entwin’d each random weed that pleas’d mine eye ! 
Accept the wreath belov’d! itis both wild 
_ And rudely garlanded; yet fcorn not thou 
The humble off’ring, where the fad rue weaves 
*Mid gayer flow’rs its intermingled leaves, 
For I have twin’d the myrtle for thy brow, 
ALONZO THE BRAVE, AND FAIR IMOGINE.—A Romance, 
FROM MR. LEWIS’S NOVEL OF THE MONK. 
WARRIOR fo bold and a virgin fo bright, 
Convers’d as they fat on the green; 
They gaz’d on each other with tender delight ! 
Alonzo the Brave was the name of the knight; 
The maid’s was the fair Imogine. 
“« And oh !” faid the youth, “ fince to-morrow I go 
“ To fight in a far diftant land, 
“ Your tears for my abfence foon leaving to flow, 
“Some other will court you, and you will beftow 
“*On a wealthier fuitor your hand!” 
* Oh huth thefe fufpicions,’ fair Imogine faid, 
‘ Offerfive to love and tome!” 
‘ For if you be living, or if you be dead, 
‘ I {wear by the virgin that none in your ftead 
* Shall hufband of Imogine be. 
‘ If e’er I, by luft or by wealth led. afide, 
_ * Forget my Alonzo the Brave, . 
* God grant that, to punith my falfehood and pride, / 
* Your ghoft at my marriage may fit by my fide ; 
‘ May tax me with perjury, claim me as bride, 
. ‘ And bear me away to the grave !’ 
To Paleftine haften’d the hero fo bold; 
His love fhe lamented him fore:— , 
But fcarce had a twelvemonth elaps’d when, behold, — 
A baron, all cover’d with jewels and gold, 4 
Arriv’d at fair Imogine’s door, 
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His treafure, his prefents, his {pacious domain 
Soon made her untrue to her vows: ‘ 
He dazzled her eves, he bewilder’d her brain; wars 
Me caught her affections, fo light and ‘fo vain, ~*~” 
And carry’d her home as his fpoufe ! 
