Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Rorest was fir'd with passion at the sight. Friendship and honor, sunk to Vicat's right: He saw, he lov'd, and burning with desire, Bore the soft maid from brother, sister, sire. Pining with sorrow, Nica faded, died, Like a fair aloe, in its morning pride. This brought the warrior to the bloody mead, And sent to young Rorest the threat'ning reed. He drew his army forth : Oh, need I tell! That Nicou conquer'd, and the lover fell: His breathless army mantled all the plain ; And Death sat smiling on the heaps of slain. The battle ended, with his reeking dart, The pensive Nicou pierc'd his beating heart: And to his mourning valiant warriors cry'd, I, and my sister's ghost are satisfy'd. FEBRUARY. AN ELEGV. Begin, my muse, the imitative lay, Aonian doxies sound the thrumming string ; Atterrpt no number of the plaintive Gay, Let me like midnight cats, or Collins sing. If in the trammels of the doleful line The bounding hail, or drilling rain descend ; Come, brooding Melancholy, pow'r divine, And ev'ry unform'd mass of words amend. Now the rough goat withdraws his curling horns, And the cold wat'rer twirls his circling mop : Swift sudden anguish darts thro' alt'ring corns, And the spruce mercer trembles in his shop. Now infant authors, madd'ning for renown, Extend the plume, and hum about the stage, Procure a benefit, amuse the town, And proudly glitter in a title page. Now, wrapt in ninefold fur, his squeamish grace Defies the fury of the howling storm ; And whilst the tempest whistles round his face, Exults to find his mantled carcase warm. Now rumbling coaches furious drive along, Full of the majesty of city dames, Whose jewels sparkling in the gaudy throng, Raise strange emotions and invidious flames. Now Merit, happy in the calm of place, To mort...
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