POETRY. 
avERSES TO SENSIBILITY, ON HEARING THE ATTRIBUTES 
OF THE MUSE RIDICULED. 
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fA oer aad “For the alge, ra 5 7 
*Puridas pueri,doctos et ornate poetasy 
Aurea hec ear) pai pierid@f . Tiputrus: 
I- 
Lr him whom taste and genius have not bles" 
Despise the tender extacies that roll 
In mingled tumults thro’ the poet’s breast, 
And swell to rapture his exalted soul. 
iI. 
Let him whose heart is tuter’d to forego, 
Alike the sounds of pleasure and of pain; 
Let him despise the soul that melts at woe, 
And throbs with pleasure at another’s gain. 
III. 
I envy ’m not dull apathy’s cold blast, 
That chills the slumb’ring pafsions ‘ noble rage" 
And bids, without a sigh, indiff rence cast 
A blot o’er fancy’s and o’er mem’ry’s page. 
Iv. 
But Oh thou parent of the muse I love, 
To me thy magic influence impart; 
And all those sweet vibrations that but move 
To soften and to humanize the heart! 
v. 
"To me let not the joy encircled spring 
Unheeded lead along her smiling train; 
Nor rosy Flora from her glit’’ring wing, 
Profusely fhake Elysian blooms in vain. b 
Vi. 
To me, array’d in summer’s fairest pride, 
- Let not the landscape vainly glow serene 5 
«Nor autumn lavifh round from side to side, 
Her golden harvests o’er the peaceful scene. 
VII. 
Ev’n still be mine the joy sublime, to hail 
The tempests of the fky which winter pours 5 
When rufhing wildly thro’ the detug’d vale, 
From the bleak hill the foaming torrent vours, 
Vill. 
Nor yet, ungrateful, let me e’er eraze 
The blifsful days of peace for ever past 5 
4aNor mem’ry’s busy hand forget to trace 
The hours of joy which flew, alae! how fastq 
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