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here told with great and pathetic beauty. 

 Herfelf and hufband are compared to Or- 

 pheus and Eurydice, to ^Eneas and Creufa. 

 The ftory concludes with a fine verifi- 

 cation of the fcriptural piciure of the ruins 

 of Sodom and Gomorrah. Perhaps it will 

 be found fomewhat inferior to Mafon's 

 paraphrafe of the defolation of Babylon. 

 The reader will compare the paflages, and 

 judge for himfelf. 



BOTANIC GARDEN. 



Oft the lone Pilgrim, that his road forfakes, 



1 

 Marks the wide ruins and the fulphur'd lakes; 



On mouldering piles, amid afphaltic mud, 

 Hears, the hoarfe Bittern where Gomorrah flood ; 

 Recalls th' unhappy pair, with lifted eye, 

 Leans on the cryftal tomb, and breathes the lilent 

 "gh. 



MASON'S ODE ON THE FATE OF 



TYRANNY. 



Where yon proud City flood 

 Now fpreads the ftagnant mud ; 

 And there the Bittern in the fedge'fhall lurk, 



Moaning 



