ODE X. ON ENVY. BY R. SHEPHERD, D.D. BENEATH yon chain of barren rocks, The brown yew forms a gloomy shade, A dreary wasteful scene. O haste, O fly th' accursed cell, Ev'n now from her infernal dark abyss, Ev'n now the languid mind opprest, Droops under horrors damp and chill, Whilst heaves the sigh from the distended breast, For thou canst lull the gathering storms of Care, Ah strange reverse of honest joys! The pale-ey'd fiend elate Her neighbour's hapless state. For Envy drops the scalding tear, The tenant of some narrow mind, She bids suspicion launch the dart ; That poisons as she probes the wound, Say, Theron, yet shall torpid Fear Shall Envy's menace wrest And quench the noble thirst of fame Fame's eagle wing thy name shall bear O'er black Oblivion's frozen sea, Rank'd with great chiefs of old in immortality. ODE XI. ΤΟ FANCY. BY THE REV. J. MERRICK, M. A. FANCY, whose delusions vain Sport themselves with human brain, And whelm the soul in deepest woe: Dreams and shadows by thee stand, Taught to run at thy command, And along the wanton air Thee, black Melancholy of yore Now like thy sire thou lov'st to seem, Now like thy mother drear and sad, When the night hath reach'd her noon, And list'ning hear, or think I hear. Walks along the holy ground; Then through the gloom alternate break Groans, and the shrill screech-owl's shriek. Lo! the moon hath hid her head, And the graves give up their dead: By me pass the ghastly crowds, Maids, who died with love forlorn, Helpless sires, and matrons old |