To M MEMORY. I. OTHER OF WISDOM! thou, whose sway Who bid'ft their ranks, now vanish, now appear, Accept this votive verfe. Thy reign That wake, and thrill thro' every nerve. With clouds of fragrance fill the glade; See modeft Nature bring her fimple stores, * According to a fragment of Afranius who makes Experience and Memory the parents of Wildom Usus me genuit, Mater peperit MEMORIA, ΣΟΦΙΑΝ vocant me Graii, voς SAPIENTIAM. The Paffage is preferved by Aulus Gellius, Lib. XIII. Cap. 8. While every flower in Fancy's clime, Each gem of old heroic Time, Cull'd by the hand of the induftrious Muse, Around thy fhrine their blended beams diffuse. II. Hail, MEM'RY! hail. Behold, I lead She comes, and lo, thy realms expand! Full in the midft, and o'er thy num'rous train There, thron'd fupreme in native state, She calls; ideal groves their fhade extend, Difrobe the trees, and chill the ground, And ready fummers meet her wing'd command. Mid filver clouds, and azure skies See, fportive Zephyrs curl the crisped streams; Thro' fhadowy brakes light glance the fparkling beams: While, near the fecret mofs-grown cave, "That ftands befide the cryftal wave, Sweet |