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FOR THE TOMB OF

MR. HAMILTON.

PAUSE here, and think; a monitory rhime 'Demands one moment of thy fleeting time.

Confult life's filent clock, thy bounding vein, Seems it to fay-Health, here, has long to reign? Haft thou the vigour of thy youth? an eye That beams delight? an heart untaught to figh?Yet fear. Youth, ofttimes, healthful and at ease, Anticipates a day it never fees,

And many a tomb, like Hamilton's, aloud

Exclaims, "Prepare thee for an early shroud!"

THE POPLAR FIELD.

THE poplars are felled, farewell to the shade
And the whispering found of the cool colonnade,
The winds play no longer and fing in the leaves,
Nor Oufe on his bofom their image receives.

Twelve years have elaps'd fince I laft took a view
Of my favourite field and the bank where they grew;
And now in the grafs behold they are laid,
And the tree is my feat that once lent me a fhade.

The blackbird has fled to another retreat,

Where the hazels afford him a screen from the heat; And the scene where his melody charm'd me before, Refounds with his fweet-flowing ditty no more.

My fugitive years are all hasting away,
And I muft ere long lie as lowly as they,

With a turf on my breast and a stone at my head, –
Ere another fuch grove shall arise in its stead.

'Tis a fight to engage me, if any thing can,
To mufe on the perishing pleasures of man;
Though his life be a dream, his enjoyments, I fee,
Have a being lefs durable even than he.

IDEM LATINE REDDITUM.

POPULER cecidit gratiffima copia filvæ,
Conticuêre fufurri, omnifque evanuit umbra.
Nullæ jam levibus fe miscent frondibus auræ
Et nulla in fluvio ramorum ludit imago.

Hei mihi! bis fenos dum luctû torqueor annos
His cogor filvis fuetoque carere receffu,
Cum ferò rediens ftratafque in gramine cernens
Infedi arboribus fub queîs errare folebam.

Ah ubi nunc merulæ cantus? Felicior illum
Silva tegit, duræ nondum permiffa bipenni;
Scilicet exuftos colles campofque patentes
Odit, et indignans et non rediturus abivit..

Sed qui fuccifas doleo fuccidar et ipfe,

Et priùs huic parilis quàm creverit altera filva Flebor, et, exequiis parvis donatus, habebo Defixum lapidem tumulique cubantis acervum.

Tam fubitò periiffe videns tam digna manere
Agnofco humanas fortes et triftia fata-

Sit licèt ipfe brevis, volucrique fimillimus umbræ,
Eft homini brevior citiùfque obitura voluptas.

EPITAPH ON A HARE.

HERE lies, whom hound did ne'er pursue,

Nor fwifter greyhound follow,

Whose foot ne'er tainted morning dew,
Nor ear heard huntsman's hallo',

Old Tiney, furlieft of his kind,
Who, nurs'd with tender care,
And to domeftic bounds confin'd,
Was still a wild Jack-hare.

Though duly from my hand he took
His pittance ev'ry night,

He did it with a jealous look,

And, when he could, would bite.

His diet was of wheaten bread

And milk, and oats, and ftraw;

Thiftles, or lettuces instead,

With fand to fcour his maw.

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