ilB POETRT. Oft. 19. 



No more they laugh, no more they mirthful run, 

 Their joys, their fports, and all their woes are donej 

 Some fate adverfe to wilds and deferts fends, . . 

 Far from their country and their little friends. 

 Where pathlefs woods obfcuring half the day, 

 Perplex the Indian in his leaf-ftrewn way, 

 Beneath whofe ftiades fell tygers lurking lye. 

 To feize the prey that wanders heediefs by. 



I, only I, of all the harmlefs train, 

 Amid my native, well known hills remain ; 

 Yet ftill I love to fit beneath the fhade. 

 Or crofs the lawns where once we thoughtlefs (Iray'd ; 

 When milder evening with enfeebl'd ray ' , 



Kemits the buftling labours of the day, 

 And other fwains in noify bands refort. 

 To meet th' affociates of their cuftom'd fport ; 

 Yet ftill I love to take a thoughtful round. 

 Along th' untrodden, ftill remember'd ground. 

 Where high-grown trees oe'rhang with folemn fhade 

 The wild luxuriance of the graffy glade ; 

 And where the tuneful fongllers flutt'ring fly 

 Back through the branches as I wander by, 

 And warbling redbreaft quits his evening fong, 

 To gaze attentive as I mufe along ; 

 Or as I onward come, he flits away. 

 Still lightly hopping on from fpray to fpray. 

 Till at more near approach, he fpreads his wings, 

 Skims through the branches, lights again, and fings. 

 N. B. Should the Editor think a defcription of the ifland«| 

 prefixed, or a few of the following verfes fubjoined, would ren 

 der the thing more complete, it might eafily be done. 

 7'be/e verfes ivill be very acceptable. Edit . 



The Ladfs Choke of a Hujband. 



Ijhou'd e'er it come to pafs, that I 

 A wedded life am doom'd to tiy, 

 Let me in fimple verfe relate 

 My chief cffentials in a mate- 



Firft then, as my peculiar aim, 

 ^Far beyond honour, wealth, or fame) 



