There  Study  shall  with  Solitude  recline  ;
And  Friendship  pledge  me  to  his  fellow-swains ;
And  Toil  and  Temperance  sedately  twine
The  slender  cord  that  fluttering  life  sustains :
And  fearless  Poverty  shall  guard  the  door  ;
And  Taste  unspoil'd  the  frugal  table  spread  ;
And  Industry  supply  the  humble  store  ;
And  Sleep  unbribed  his  dews  refreshing  shed  :
White-mantled  Innocence,  ethereal  sprite,
Shall  chase  far  off  the  goblins  of  the  night :
And  Independence  o'er  the  day  preside,
Propitious  power  !  my  patron  and  my  pride.
L  L  s


ANONYMOUS.
SONG.
FROM  THS  SOAMROCK,  OR  HIBBRNIAN  CBOBttXB.
DUBLIN,   1772.
Belinda's  sparkling  eyes  and  wit

Do  various  passions  raise  ;
And,  like  the  lightning,  yield  a  bright.
But  momentary  blaze.
£liza*s  mUder,  gentler  sway.
Her  conquests  fairly  won,
Shall  last  till  life  and  time  decay,

Eternal  as  the  sun.
Thus  the  wild  flood  with  deaf 'ning  roar
Bursts  dreadful  from  on  high ;

But  soon  its  empty  rage  is  o*er,
And  leaves  the  channel  dry :


While  the  pure  stream,  which  still  and  slow

Its  gentler  current  brings,
Through  every  change  of  time  shall  flow

With  unexhausted  springs.
EPIGRAM  ON  TWO  MONOPOLISTS.
PROM  THR  RAMR.
Bone  and  Skin,  two  Millers  thiu.
Would  starve  us  all,  or  near  it  ;

But  be  it  known  to  Skin  and  Bone,
That  Flesh  and  Blood  can't  bear  it*.
C*  This  i«  by  Byrom,  the  author  of  Phoebe,  a  F^uioial ;
•ee  ante,  p.  445w]


I;


JOHN    CUNNINGHAM.
