PRIDE OF CHINA. 

 Melia azedarach. 



Dissension. Alas ' how light a cause may move 



Dissension, between hearts that love ! 



A something, light as air a look, 

 A word unkind, or wrongly taken 

 Oh ! love, that tempest never shook, 

 A breath, a touch like this, hath shaken. 



Moore. 



Answer. 



Though light cause may move 

 Dissensions between hearts that love, 

 Is it not true, a cause as light, 

 May sever'd hearts again unite 

 In truer, kindlier, harmony, 



Than felt before ? , 



Anon. 



PRIMROSE, Evening. 



CEnothera. 



Inconstancy. Is there, kind heaven ! no constancy in man ? 



No steadfast truth, no generous fixed affection, 

 That can bear up against a selfish world ? 

 No, there is none. 



Thomson's Tancred and Sigismunda. 



Were man 



But constant, he were perfect : that one error 

 Fills him with faults ; makes him run through all sins : 

 Inconstancy falls off, ere it begins same. 



Oh ! swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon, 



That monthly changes in her circled orb, 1 



Lest that thy love prove, likewise, variable. Shaks. 



PRIMROSE, Rose coloured. Unpatronised Be thou the first true merit to befriend, 



Primula. 



merit. His praise is lost who waits till all commend. . Pope. 



Ah me ! full sorely is my heart forlorn, 

 To think how modest worth neglected lies ; 

 While partial fame doth with her blasts adorn 

 Such deeds alone, as pride and pomp disguise, 

 Deeds of ill sort, and mischievous emprise. 



Shenstone. 



But own I must, in this perverted age, 

 Who most deserve, can't always most engage ; 

 So far is worth from making glory sure, 

 It often hinders what it should procure. . 



Young. 



UnrivalPd as thy merit, be thy fame ! 



Tickell. 



