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Has Fate, beneath the fowler’s form, 
With cruel aim thy blifs annoy’d ? 
Ortruant-boy, intent on harm, 
With favage hand thy young deftroy’d? 
If ’tis thy lot thefe woes to prove, 
Thy plaintive ftrains ftill let me hear 5 
For as thou wail’ft thy injur’d love, 
Ill foothe thy fufferings with a tear. 
Exeter, Feb. 24; 1800. R. H, 
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TO A LADY, ON HER-DEMAND OF A 
PROMISED ODE. 
AN ode, my cear lady ! though fhort be the 
as word, 
So much it imports of high merit, 
That Collins and Gray have not left us a third 
‘To foar with fo daring a fpirit. 
The flights of a bard thus are out of the quef- 
tion, 
Did rhyme more than reafon poffefs me; 
Though as my rafh promife politely you reft 
on, 
I wifh now Apollo would blefs me, 
Then what fhould the verfe be? A moment’s 
too long — 
To puzzle my head with a choice: 
Life and Labours of Spallanzani. 
[April z, 
For her what fo fit as the cadence of fong, 
Who rivals the nightingale’s voice? 
Yet unlike be your ftrain, and your bofom at 
eafe, 
Nor afk the gay world for a fmile, 
While love and content join their efforts to 
pleafe, 
And hope can ev’n forrow beguile ! 
¥es-—quick may you pafs, as my light-frip~ 
ping meafure, 
O’er the troubles of life’s rugged road; 
But long be your ftay in each region of plea~ 
fure, 
Where virtue fhall fix her abode! 
Your cares maya kutband’s affe@ion repay, 
With duty delight may you blend 5 
And when time fteals your bloom, and your 
trefles are grey, 
_ Still greet him the lover and friend ! 
Thus, as poets crown all things, your days I 
would crown. 
With fweet fow’rs that never fhall fade ; 
Such I’ve witnefs’d to charm *midft the glare 
of the town, 
And hafte to enjoy in the fhade, 
J TSR: 


ANECDOTES OF EMINENT PERSONS. 
{ The interefiing and authentic Article relative ta GENERAL WASHINGTON will be 
coacluded 
Account of the LIFE and LABOURS of 
the Celebrated SPALLANZANI, being the 
Tranflation of az ELOGE, delivered by 
JEAN SENEBIER, KEEPER of the LI- 
“BRARY at GENEVA, réad to the so- 
CIETY of NATURAL PHILOSOPHY 
and NATURAL HISTORY of GENEVA, 
Sept. 175 1799+ ; 
N attentively contemplating the afto- 
nifhing progrefs of the fciences, we 
fearch with inquietude after thofe men to 
whom it is indebted. We prefently be- 
hold human vanities upon the theatre; thofe 
bright flambeaux expire which appeared 
to have fome reality there; and the regret 
we then experience covers, witha kind of 
funeral crape, the admiration which before 
we had fo gratefulafenfeof. Such is the 
fad impreffion produced by the death of 
great men ; their lofs diminifhes the cou- 
rage which their genius gave to theage in 
which they lived, by drying up a fountain 
of light that was poured out for it with fo 
much utility ; and itrobs the world of that 
which Nature, who reproduces as faft as 
fhe deftroys, is not.always difpofed to re- 
ftore. However, if the fruits of cenius are 
few in number, it muft be acknowledged 
that their vigorous conftitution eterniles 
in our next. | 
their freflnefs and their flavour; and that 
their imperifhable durability recompenles 
in fome degree the pofterity of thofe whe 
faw them grow, for not having had the 
advantage of gathering them: but thofe 
who knew thole excellent beings, who have 
maintained with them the relations of 
friendfhip and confidence, who were the 
witneffes of their thoughts and of their vir- 
tues, alas! they can only have the remem- 
brance of the paft to aggravate their fuf- 
ferings !—what did I fay? whilft age, in iil- 
vering their hairs, renders new attachments 
more difficult to them, they are forced to 
renounce the fweets of friendfhip ; in the 
inftant of life, too, when they conftitute all 
its happinefs. Sentiments thus painful, 
diétate to me this hiftorical Memoir on my 
friend SPALLANZANI, whom [I tenderly 
cherifhed during twenty-five years, and 
whom I hall regret to the end of my exift- 
ence. Oh! my refpectable friend! thou — 
haft no need of an eulogium, which would 
be below thy merit, and which thy modef=_ 
ty would reject; thy name alone will al+ 
ways be one to thee; thy works have al- 
ready publifhed it throughout the earth, 
they will repeat it through all ages, and 
for thee, thou fhalt {till honour in “a 
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