lavater’s 
too 
But as defcriptions of this kind feldom afford 
novelty fufliciently agreeable to the bulk of plain 
folks, however difpofed they may be to reflecf 
Upon their journey through life, if we cannot drew 
over with flowers the little way that the gentle 
reader has to pafs with us, leb him fmile, at lead, 
on our endeavours to keep up a flow of fpirits, by 
defcrlbing in poetry that enlivening efFedf of elec- 
tricity, — the ftrong fenfation which forms the chief 
fubjeft of this FXfay. Nor need we rove in fancy 
to France or Italy in feardi of as lively a fccne as 
ever Titian drew. 
0\ INNOCENT KISSES. 
fn merry days of youth my heart v.ould yield 
'I’o Beauty, when Diana took the field ; 
Tn rural innocence to run a race, 
Or fliare the toils and pleafures of the chace 
With growing Nymphs, from whom I chofe the belt. 
Like Venus, frniling in the flreara undrelt ; 
For ^Iter hunting it was then the mode 
For girls and boys to batlie befide the road. 
There my delight was, playing on the flute. 
Far from thofe Irenes where Bacchus grows a brute j 
Proud a,s my loyal friend of Orange-grove, 
1 thought no treafure equal to my love ; 
r'earful ! gaz’d, in hlence, like a fool 
Wi'.o law the Dee embracing Bala Pool ; 
But, born a bard, whole foul enjoy’d the light,. 
1 {poke for favour thus, with hopes, till night 
Bathe on, my Pamela, the clock ftrikes live. 
To quickeft fenfe of feeling be alive ; 
Conceal 
