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poetry. Dec. 26, 
Pleas’d o’er the cradie’s head to gazes 
A smile bedecks Asteria’s face; 
How ev’ry feature charms her sight, 
How ev'ry motion wakes delight! | 
What rising beauties there fhe views, 
The rosy lip, the polifh’d nose, 
The slender eyebrow budding thin, 
The velvet cheek, the dimpling chin. 
Anon the views the sparkling eye, 
The lifted hand, the tuneful cry, 
And hast’ning on threugh years to come, 
She traces out his future doom, 
«¢ Haply he'll plead religion’s cause, 
«© Or weep o'er freedom’s bleeding laws 5 
«* Or feel the poet’s sacred rage, 
** Or trace the dark historic page."* 
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Nor is so sweet the sweetest gale, 
That breathes acrofs the silent vale 
From myrtle grove, or garden’s bloom, 
As is thy sweeter breath’s perfume. ~ 
At Jength fhe breathes the pious pray’r, 
«© Great God! Oh! make my child thy care, 
s¢ And may his future actions be 
*¢ Saeved to virtue, and to thee. 
¢¢ Whatever fortune then betide, 
*¢ Thou fhalt his portion still abide 5 
«© And when his course of life is run, 
Oh! let him wear a never withermg crown.” 
SS 
TO THE FAIR. 
Tuovucu all that’s charming deck the face, 
The glowing cheek, the azure eye, 
Time kills the fair, they fade apace, 
And soon forgot they droop and die. 
But where the throbbing bosom glows, : 
With sacred truth’s unsullied pow’r 5 
There harmlefs wastes the vermil rose, 
There honour braves the stealing howr; 
