J40 THE BEE, OR Manjh 2, 



■To the Editor of the Bee. 



On the Birth-day of Br. R of St, , ,from his 



Children, 

 Hail I O hail I aufpicious ^ay, 

 Sorrow hence, let all be gay, — 

 I)ay that gave our father birth, 

 Be thou confecrate to mirth. 



Health, the greatefl blifs below. 

 Health, which to his Ikill we owe j 

 Still thy genial influence flied 

 On his lov'd and honour'd head 



Hear, ye powers above, our prayer, 

 Be that father ftill your care. 

 Him from danger fafely guard. 

 Grant his worth ij:s due reward. — 



Edinburgh 1 n r 



February 'jth 1 790. j ' * 



^0 a foUtary Star in a fiormy Night, 

 Fair wanderer of the nightly fky, 

 Whofe folitary lamp, on high. 

 Dim in its mill obfcurely burns, 

 And all its fillers abfence mourns. 



Hall ! fweetly twinkling, maiden ftar. 

 Who, glancing through the troubl'd air, 

 With mild and foftly trembling eye, 

 I>oft gild the cloud-polluted iky. 



Soi gently charms the melting fair. 

 When in her eye a penfive tear, 



