"Tis done, 'tis done—the iron hand of pain, With ruthless fury and corrosive force, Racks every joint, and seizes every vein : He sinks, he groans, he falls a lifeless corse. Tho' once so sweet, so lovely to the eye: Torn from the earth, a mighty ruin lie, Now let the stream of fond affection flow ; ; With solem pause yon Church-yard's gloom survey, While Sorrow's sighs and tears of Pity tell How just the moral of the Poet's lay[75]. O’er his green grave, in Contemplation's guise, Oft let the pilgrím drop a silent tear : Oft let the shepherd's tender accents rise, Big with the sweets of each revolving year: Till prostrate Time adore his deathless name, Fix'd on the solid base of adamantine fame. [75] Elegy in a Country Church-Yard. EPITAPH ON MR. GRAY's MONUMENT, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. BY MR. MASON. NO more the Grecian Muse unrivall’d reigns, • To Britain let the nations homage pay ! She boasts a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of GRAY. FINIS. [The articles thus * marked have never appeared in any other Collection of Mr. Gray's Works.] he Author - - - - 3 ODES. ON the Spring . . MISCELLANIES. Church-Vard SUPPLEMENT. Page Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude - 127 An imitation from the Gododin - - 1132 Translation of a passage from Statius - 133 The First Scene of a Tragedy - - - 135 The Alliance of Education and Government 152 Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West 158 Epitaph on Sir William Williams - - 160 Impromptu, suggested by a View of the Seat and Ruins of a deceased Nobleman · 167 POEMS Addressed to, and in Memory of, Mr. Gray. *Upon his Odes, by David Garrick, Esq. • 175 Ode on the backwardness of Spring - 177 *On the Death of Mr. Gray - - - 179 *Another; by Lord Carlisle - - - 182 *Lines to the Memory of Mr. Gray, by Mr. *Fragment on the Death of Mr. Gray *Stanzas on the same Occasion, by a Lady - 196 The Tears of Genius - - - - 198 BENJAMIN JOHNSON, PRINTER. |