For there sometimes from London you retire, (When in our boyish days, at early dawn, Currere, nec longas pertimuisse vias. Nunc urbi vicina juvant, facilesque recessus, Et satis est, pigro si licet esse mihi. § Assey and Bewsey Hills, a few miles distant from Billingbear: they rise in Maidenhead-Thicket, and are very visible from Hampstead-Heath. The two following Sonnets were omitted to be inserted before the close of the Original Compositions. SONNET, Written at Bath the 19th of December, 1804. ADDRESSED TO THE NYMPH OF THE SPRING. NYMPH of this Fountain !—not like those of old, To whom the Pagans paid their rites divine, In flow'rets,* blood of kids, and votive wine, In rich libations pour'd-Thee I behold, Arising at His call, on whom alone The Christian's hope reposes. HE with health Regain, unless it flow from Mercy's Throne. Thy palsy'd frame for succour, look above! 66 'Tis only CHRIST can say " TAKE UP THY BED, "AND WALK!" * O Fons Blandusiæ, splendidior vitro Dulci digne mero, non sine floribus, Cras donaberis hædo. HOR. SONNET, ON THE YEAR 1805. ANOTHER YEAR-and no atonement made Inspir'd with HOPE, for MERCY? To my aid, DIVINE RELIGION!-pure and sainted Maid! Thou rather shunn'st; and should Heav'n's chast'ning hand Afflict him, thou dost breathe into his heart, Thy Spirit meek, thy Fervency of Pray'r, T Page vii, line 14, for sub oined, read subjoined. read 1779. 30, 1. 3, for suits, read shoots. 31, l. 1 41, 1. 9, 1. 53, 13, of motto, for leggiardi, read leggiadri. for Latmo's, read Latmos'. for Love and his joys, read Love's rapt'rous joys. 55, l. 1 of note, for turni, read torni. 86, l. 14, for of life's, read of love's. 114, 1. 2, for Sussex, read Suffolk. 128, 1. for read ove. 4, oue, 130, 1. 7, for oue, read ove. 140, 1. 2, for be gliocchi, read begli occhi. 1. for IO, 142, l. 11, for non ha schiso, read schifo. 148, 1. 153, oue, 3, for 1. 8, for ou' anchor, read ov' ancor. 158, 1. 1, for Rossignivol, read Rossignol. 162, 1. 12, for consorto, read conforto. 173, 1. 8, for wafted up, read wafted it up. 175, 1.7, for or lineage, read and lineage. 181, 1. last, for bound 'em, read bound them. 182, 1. 3, for round 'em, read round them. 205, l. 12, for th' envenom'd, read the envenom'd. 222, l. 10, for you'r, read you're. 243, 1. 2 of Latin, for read ore. ora, 244, 1. 13, for great fool, read a great fool. 250, 259, 1. 2 ditto, for ingenio'us, read ingeniosus. 264, 1. 3, for in flow'rets, read with flow'rets. |