Ye nymphs, bind up her silken hair; Ye Zephyrs, fan her panting breast. O haste away, fair maid! and bring LANSDOWNE. DEAR is my little native vale, The ring-dove builds and warbles there; The squirrel leaps from tree to tree, In orange-groves and myrtle-bowers The The shepherd's horn at break of day, Sung in the silent green-wood shade; ROGERS. Nor on beds of fading flowers On awful Virtue's hill sublime Who wins her height must patient climb; Eternal bliss for transient pain. + DALTON. *The supposed scene of this elegant piece is in Italy. + The sentiment in this song, which is introduced in the alteration of Comus for the stage, is borrowed from a noted passage in Hesiod. JUNO'S SONG IN THE JUDGEMENT OF PARIS. LET ambition fire thy mind, Thou wert born o'er men to reign; Not to follow flocks design'd; Scorn thy crook, and leave the plain. Crowns I'll throw beneath thy feet; Joys in circles joys shall meet Let not toils of empire fright, Toils of empire pleasures are; Thou shalt only know delight, All the joy, but not the care. Shepherd, if thou 'It yield the prize, Joyful I'll ascend the skies, CONGREVE. THE wretch condemn'd with life to part Still, still on hope relies; And every pang that rends the heart Bids expectation rise. Hope, like the glimmering taper's light, And still as darker grows the night Emits a brighter ray. GOLDSMITH. O MEMORY! thou fond deceiver, Thou, like the world, th' opprest oppressing, In thee must ever find a foe. GOLDSMITH. WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly, The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, GOLDSMITH. Lucy, I think not of thy beauty; And with that happy smiling face, * For elegant simplicity of language, harmony of versification, and pointed neatness of composition, there are not, perhaps, to be found in the language two more finished stanzas than these, which are introduced in "The Vicar of Wakefield." I see |