Pale now thofe lips, where blushing rubies hung,
And mute the charming mufic of her tongue!
Ye virgins fair, your fading charms survey,
She was whate'er your tender hearts can say;
To her sweet memory for ever dear,

Let the green turf receive your trickling tear.
To this fad place your earliest garlands bring,
And deck her grave with firstlings of the Spring."
Let opening rofes, drooping lilies tell,

Like those she bloom'd, and, ah! like these she fell,
In circling wreaths let the pale ivy grow,

And distant

yews a fable fhade bestow;

Round her, ye Graces, conftant vigils keep,

And guard (fair Innocence!) her sacred sleep:

'Till that bright morn shall wake the beauteous clay, To bloom and sparkle in eternal day,

UT PICTURA POESIS.

BY MR, NOURSE, OF ALL-SOULS COLLEGE, OXON, 1741.

S once the Mufe, reclining on her lyre,

A obferv'd her fav'rite bards, a num rous choir;

The confcious pleafure fwell'd her filent breast,
Her fecret pride exulting fimiles confest.

When thus her fifter spoke, whofe care prefides
O'er the mixt pallat, and the pencil guides:
Juft, Goddess, is thy joy, thy train, we own,
Approaches nearer to Apollo's throne.

Foremost in Learning's ranks they fit fublime,
Honour'd and lov'd through every age of time:

Yet let me fay, fome fav'rite fon of mine

Has more than follow'd every fon of thine.
Thy Homer needs not grieve to hear his fame
Exceeds not Raphael's widely-honour'd name.
Raphael like him 'midst ages wrapt in night,
Rofe father of his science to the light;
With matchlefs grace, and majesty divine,
Bade Painting breathe, and live the bold defign;
To the clay-man the heavenly fire apply'd,
And gave it charms to Nature's felf deny❜d.
With judgment, genius, industry, and art,
Does Virgil captivate his reader's heart?
With rival talents my Caracci bleft,

Fires with like tranfport the spectator's breast.
The youthful Lucan, who with rapid force
Urg'd by Pharfalia's field the Mufe's horse,
An equal fire, an equal ftrength of mind,
In Angelo's congenial foul will find:

Whose wild imagination could display

Fierce giants hurl'd from heaven-the world's laft day, With more fuccefs does tender Ovid move

The melting foul to foftnefs and to love,

Than wanton Titian, whofe warm colours flew
That gods themselves the amorous riot know?
Thy grandeur, Paulo, and thy happy stroke,
I proudly own my emulation fpoke,

For I beftow'd them, that the world might fee,
A Horace too of mine arife in thee.

Lo! where Pouffin his magic colours fpreads,
Rife tower'd towns, rough rocks, and flow'ry meads;
What leagues between those azure mountains lie,
(Whofe lefs'ning tops invade the purple sky)
And this old oak, that fhades this hollow way,
Amidst whose windings fheep and oxen stray!
'Tis thus Theocritus his landskip gives,

'Tis thus the speaking picture moves and lives,
Alike in Terence and in Guido's air,

Our praise the height of art and nature share.
In broader mirth if Plautus tread the stage,
With equal humour Hemfkirk's boors engage.

She spoke, with friendly emulation stirr'd,
And Phabus from his throne with pleasure heard.

VACUNA.

VACUNA 2.
UN A

BY DR. SNEYD DAVIES, 1739:

CEPTRE of eafe! whofe calm domain extends

O'er the froze Chronian, or where lagging gales
Fan to Repose the Southern realms. O! whom
More flaves obey than fwarm about the courts
Pekin, or Agra-univerfal queen!

Me haply flumb'ring all a fummer's day,
Thy meanest fubject, often haft thou deign'd
Gracious to vifit. If thy poppy then

Was e'er infus'd into my gifted quill,
If e'er my nodding Muse was blest with pow'r,
To doze the reader with her opiate verse-
Come, goddefs; but be gentle; not as when
On ftudious heads attendant thou art seen
Fast by the twinkling lamp, poring and pale
Immers'd in meditation, fleep's great foe;

a The goddess of Leifure.

b Fellow of King's College Cambridge, afterwards rector of Kingf land in Herefordshire, prebendary of Litchfield, and arch-deacon of Derby. He died February 6, 1769.

Where the clue-guided cafuift unwinds
Perplexities; or Halley from his tower
Converses with the stars: In other guise
Thy prefence I invoke. Serene approach,
With forehead smooth, and faunt'ring gait; put on
The smile unmeaning, or in fober mood
Fix thy flat, mufing, leaden eye: as looks
Simplicius, when he stares and feems to think.
Prompted by thee, Refervo keeps at home,
Intent on books: he when alone applies
The needle's reparation to his hofe,
Or ftudious flices paper. Taught by thee
Dullman takes fnuff, and ever and anon
Turns o'er the page unread. Others more fage,
Place, year, and printer not unnoted, well
Examine the whole frontifpiece, and if
Yet ftricter their enquiry, e'en proceed
To leaves within, and curious there felect
Italics, or confult the margin, pleas'd
To find a hero or a tale: all else,
The obfervation, maxim, inference

Disturb the brain with thought.-It fure were long
To name thy fev'ral vot'ries, Pow'r fupine,
And all thy various haunts. Why fhould I speak
Of coffee-houfe? or where the eunuch plays,

• Edmund Halley the celebrated aftronomer, at that time keeper of Flamfted Houfe. He died January 14, 1742.

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