Huic aliquis forfan fenior refpondeat ultro,
Cui niveis albent tempora fparfa comis,
Vidimus hunc quam fæpe micantes roribus herbas
Verrentem rapido, mane rubente, gradu.
Ad rofeum folis properabat fæpius ortum,
Summaque tendebat per juga lætus iter.

Sæpe fub hac fago, radices undique circum
Quæ varie antiquas implicat alta fuas,
Stratus humi meditans medio procumberet æftu,
Luftraretque inhians flebile murmur aquæ.

Sæpius hanc fylvam propter viridesque receffus
Urgeret meditans plurima, lentus iter,
Intentam hic multâ oblectaret imagine mentem,
Mufarumque frequens follicitaret opem.

Jam veluti demens, tacitis erraret in agris,
Aut cujus ftimulat corda repulfus amor.

Mane aderat nuper, tamen hunc nec viderat arbos, Nec juga, nec faliens fons, tacitumve nemus ;

Altera lux oritur; nec apertâ hic valle videtur, Nec tamen ad fagum, nec prope fontis aquam.

Tertia

"The next with dirges due, in fad array, "Slow through the church-yard path we faw him

born,

"Approach and read (for thou can'ft read) the lay, "Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.

THE

Tertia fucceflit-lentoque exangue cadaver
Ecce fepulcrali eft pompa fecuta gradu.
Tu lege, namque potes, cælatum in marmore carmen,
Quod juxta has vepres exhibet ifte lapis.

EPI.

THE EPITAPH.

HERE refts his head upon the lap of earth,

A youth to fortune and to fame unknown,
Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth,
And melancholy mark'd him for her own.

Large was his bounty, and his foul fincere,
Heav'n did a recompence as largely fend:
He gave to mis'ry all he had, a tear,

He gain'd from Heav'n ('twas all he wish'd) a friend.

No farther feek his merits to disclose,
Or draw his frailties from their dread abode,
(There they alike in trembling hope repose)
The bofom of his Father and his God.

SONG,

EPITAPH IU M.

CUI nunquam favit fama aut fortuna fecunda,

Congefto hoc juvenem cefpite fervat humus. Huic tamen arrifit jucunda Scientia vultu, Selegitque, habitans pectora, Cura fibi.

Largus opum fuit, & fincero pectore fretus,
Accepit pretium par, tribuente Deo.

Indoluit miferans inopi, lacrymafque profudit.
-Scilicet id, miferis quod daret, omne fuit.
A cœlo interea fidum acquifivit amicum,

Scilicet id, cuperet quod magis, omne fuit.

Ne merita ulterius defuncti exquirere pergas,
Nec vitia ex facrâ fede referre petas.
Utraque ibi trepidâ pariter fpe condita reftant,
In gremio Patris fcilicet atque Dei.

CAR