3. Our mutual bond of faith and truth, No time fhall difengage, Those bleffings of our early youth, Shall cheer our latest age. 4. While innocence without difguife, Shall fill the circles of thofe eyes, And mine can read them there, 5. Thofe ills that wait on all below, Shall ne'er be felt by me, Or gently felt, and only so, As being shared with thee. 6. When light'nings flafh among the trees, Or kites are hov'ring near, I fear left thee alone they seize, And know no other fear. 7. 'Tis then I feel myself a wife, And prefs thy wedded fide, Refolv'd an union form'd for life, Death never fhall divide. 8. But oh! if fickle and unchafte (Forgive a tranfient thought) Thou couldst become unkind at laft, And scorn thy prefent lot, 9. No need of light'nings from on high, Or kites with cruel beak, Denied th' endearments of thine eye This widow'd heart would break. 10. Thus fang the fweet fequefter'd bird Soft as the paffing wind, And I recorded what I heard A leffon for mankind. A FAB L E. A raven while with gloffy breaft, Her new-laid eggs fhe fondly prefs'd, Shook the young leaves about her ears, Left the rude blaft fhould fnap the bough, And all her fears were hufh'd together: (For (For ravens though as birds of omen, They teach both conj'rers and old women To tell us what is to befall, Can't prophecy, themselves, at all. The morning came, when neighbour Hodge, Who long had mark'd her airy lodge, And deftin'd all the treasure there A gift to his expecting fair, Clim❜b like a squirrel to his dray, M OR A L. 'Tis providence alone fecures In every change, both mine and your's. From dangers of a frightful fhape, A COMPARISON. THE lapfe of time and rivers is the fame, And a wide ocean fwallows both at laft. Though each resemble each in ev'ry part, A difference ftrikes at length the mufing heart; Streams never flow in vain; where ftreams abound, How laughs the land with various plenty crown'd! But time that should enrich the nobler mind, Neglected, leaves a dreary waste behind. ANOTHER. Addreffed to a YOUNG LADY. SWEET ftream that winds through yonder glade, Apt emblem of a virtuous maid Silent |