That though man have the wings of the fetterless wind, Of the wantonest air that the north can unbind, Yet if health do not sweeten the blast with her bloom, Unblest is the freedom and dreary the flight, Farewell to the few I have left with regret, May they sometimes recall, what I cannot forget, That communion of heart and that parley of soul, Which has lengthen'd our nights and illumin'd our bowl, When they've ask'd me the manners, the mind or the mien Of some bard I had known or some chief I had seen, Whose glory, though distant, they long had ador'd, Whose name often hallow'd the juice of their board! And still as, with sympathy humble but true, I told them each luminous trait that I knew, They have listen'd, and sigh'd that the powerful stream To think that, whenever my song or my name But, DOUGLAS! while thus I endear to my mind That the faint coming breeze will be fair for our flight, Where the day comes in darkness or shines but to freeze, Where the kind voice of sisters shall steal to my heart, And ask it, in sighs, how we ever could part!— But see!—the bent top-sails are ready to swellTo the boat-I am with thee-Columbia farewell! ΤΟ LADY H———, ON AN OLD RING FOUND AT TUNBRIDGE-WELLS. * Tunnebrige est à la même distance de Londres, que Fontainebleau l'est de Paris. Ce qu'il y a de beau et de galant dans l'un et dans l'autre sexe s'y rassemble au tems des eaux. La "compagnie, &c. &c." See Mémoires de Grammont, Second. Part. Chap. iii. TUNBRIDGE WELLS, AUGUST, 1805. WHEN Grammont grac'd these happy springs, And Tunbridge saw, upon her Pantiles, That ever rul'd these gay, gallant isles ; Like us, by day, they rode, they walk'd, The only different trait is this, Each night they held a coterie, Where every fear to slumber charm'd, Lovers were all they ought to be, And husbands not the least alarm'd! They call'd up all their school-day pranks, And lords shew'd wit, and ladies teeth. As-" Why are husbands like the Mint?" Is just to set the name and print Why is a garden's wilder'd maze "Like a young widow, fresh and fair?" Because it wants some hand to raise The weeds, which "have no business there!" |