LINES UPON VAUXHALL GARDENS. "When Time, who steals our years away, "Shall steal our pleasures too; "The mem'ry of the past will stay, "And former joys renew." Moore. "Another race succeed to bliss, "And bow the knee, at Fashion's shrine; "From partial Beauty snatch the kiss, "That once was yours, and once was mine." As o'er the past, retentive mem❜ry flies, And former objects of delusion rise; Anthology. 64 LINES UPON VAUXHALL GARDENS. The soft alcove, with each allurement fraught, (Where Hogarth painted, or Roubilliac wrought,*) And oft those shades in London's sultry heat, To jaded commerce lent a cool retreat, When titled wealth, of balls and banquets tir'd, (Now gone, and vanish'd like a rainbow's hue,) As the bright star, or brilliant rocket rose. *The gardens were formerly ornamented with the works of these celebrated artists. LINES UPON VAUXHALL GARDENS. And later yet, tho' now from life retir'd, Recall the belles, our fathers once admir'd; When lamps unnumber'd in the midnight air, While Jews and Gentiles, join'd the mirthful train, "Who led the fashion, or who gave the ton? "No longer courted, and no more carest, "In the cold tomb, they all forgotten rest. "Then, hear the Monarch, thro' each clime renown'd, "Midst all the splendors that his throne surround; "Howe'er, (he sighs,) the mazy web is spun, “All—all—is vanity beneath the sun.” The moral true! yet ere with pleasure cloy'd, By youth's warm tide, and fairy visions buoy'd; VOL. II. F 65 66 LINES UPON VAUXHALL GARDENS. Prophets, and Sages, may harangue in vain, To court the Muses, and the verse to weave ;) "That hush'd in grim repose expects his ev❜ning prey.” UPON THE DEATH OF A GENTLEMAN. "The days of man are but as grass; for he flourisheth as a flower of the "field. "As soon as the wind goeth over it, it is gone; and the place thereof "shall know it no more." 66 My early friends have pass'd away, "The angry dart, who can withstand, "Of sullen Time's unsparing hand?" Psalm ciii. THO' not boasting a proud or historical name, For ages adorning the annals of fame, |