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ORIGINAL POETRY. 
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SONNET 
To an INFANT, named ALEXANDER 
HHORATIO NELSON. 
IN this eventful world we often fee _ 
On men’s affairs the influence of anamé; 
And oft [think on thine, fo dear to fame, 
And ponder on thy future deftiny. 
Brave was the Macedonian chief, but he, 
Through mad ambition, fet the world on 
flame ; 
And brave Aboukir’s hero, void of blame, 
But’ glory’s fnatched from danger on the fea. 
Ah then, dear boy, may Alexander’s fire 
With Nel/on’s intrepidity combine 
Thy foul to form, but may the tuneful 
Nine 
Woo thee in peace’to ftring the Horatian lyre; 
That guilt nor danger may difturb thy reft, 
And old age crowna life fupremely blefs’d! 
Aug. 10, 1800. ALBOIN. 
mE 
VERSES 
On RETIRING from the NEIGHBOURHOOD 
of LONDON. : 
How eafy, Serena, to quit the gay town, 
~~ And exchange fops and flirts for the milk- 
maid and clown, , 
To leave folemn cits, that with energy tell, 
Who died worth a plum, and if ftocks rofe 
or fell! 5 
But the converfe to quit of our Belfham and 
Wakefield, ; i 
And half a fcore names that to rhyme I can’t 
make yield, 
_ Is fure a hard tafe: yet to walk off with you, 
, And our girls and our boys, I can bid them 
adieu ; 
_; And by Providence bleft, to contentment’s 
defire, 
With the poet’s abundance of ¢* meat, cloaths, 
and fire,” 
Can cheerfully hope in our cottage to find 
The tranfport of life and the folace of mind. 
There nature with beauty unborrow’d may 
fhine, 
And read through all feafons fome leGture di- 
vine ; 
Excite the ambition by wifdom purfued, 
And point from his gifts to the giver of good; 
There friends ever welcome glad vifits fhall 
pay 3 
There books fhall the fcience of ages difplay, 
While your happy example awakes my dull 
pow’rs, ; 
With virtue to charge time’s {wift-galloping 
hours ; 
And {pite of ennui, fhould it ever be teazing, 
To give and receive the fweet pleafure of 
pleafing. 
And, O! if unblam’d the fond with I may 
raife 
That felicity prompts, to behold many days, 
Be my manhood’s firft care, and the charm of 
my age, ad 
Your joysto improve, and each forrow afluage 5 
And thus till your deftined probations are paft, 
May I fhare all befide, but ne’er witnefs the 
lattab euyow: sa 
WG. F, Sept, 4. 
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INVOCATION to BACCHUS. | 
HITHER, Bacchus, heav’nly boy, 
| Hither God of focial joy, 
Hither, quick thro’ ether glide, 
Hither, with thy fons prefide 5 
We are vot’ries of thy pow’r, © 
Wifely we enjoy life’s hour 5 
Whilft with thee no care we know}; 
Whilft thefe maffy goblets flow, 
Whilft with gen’rous wine elate 
We exchange our mortal ftate, 
Midft the gods above we rove, 
Quaft thy netar, drink of Jove, 
Ana wand’ring thro’ the Cyprian grove, 
Enjoy the fweets of heav’nly love. 
Bootle, 6th Fuly, 1800. 
J. TR 
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The uNton with 1RELAND applauded, from 
aclear View of much future Parliamentary 
Good. 
AN EPIGRAM. 
HEN Famine, ‘dread hag! fcowl’d over 
over the ftate, f 
And our poor were condemn’d to ftarvation, 
The Commons of England did /imply debate, 
No good could they do for the nation. 
Should roaft-beef prove fcarce, as roaft-beef 
has been, 
When the Union has mingled wife fculls, 
The Union’s advantage mutt clearly be feen,. 
For doubtlefs the Houfe will make bulls. 
With rump or firloin on a Sunday be preft > 
The board of the brave Britith peafant, 
And Liberty’s lamp light each Englithman’s i) 
Breatk, 
Where extinguifh’d it feems for the prefent. 
If true tafte and learning, and genius you'd 
find, > . 
Attend! or your inqueft will fail, 
You may rummage the palace, I’m fure, till 
you’re blind, 
But may meet them ia Dorchefter Gaol. 
Chard, Somerfetfbirey Puttim O’SHAMBLES. 
Mug. 12, 1800. 
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THE PURSUIT OF QUIET. 
In a Series of Elegies, by JOHN DELL, of 
DOVER, iM KENT, now firfi publifbed. Con- 
tinued: from page.14.6. 
ELEGY THE SECOND 
RET of each hope that {weecens life, I rove, 
The fated viétim of no common woe,, 
To feek fair Peace in this fequefter’d grove, 
Peace! the laft refuge of my hopes below! 
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