"When the luxuriant Ardour of his Youth / Succeeding Years had tam'd to better Growth, / And seem'd to break the Body's Crust away, / To give th'expanded Mind more Room to play; / Which, in its Evening, open'd on the Sight / Surprizing Beams of full Meridian Light, / As thrifty of its Splendor it had been, / And all its Lustre had reserv'd 'till then."
Upon Reading. Mr. Dryden's Fables. [from Miscellanies in Verse and Prose. By Mr. Jabez Hughes]