For there sometimes from London you retire,
Pleas'd with the smiling circle round my fire:
And while yon hills that close the distant view,
Recall the pleasures I enjoy'd with you,

(When in our boyish days, at early dawn,
Light as the air we chaced the bounding fawn)
Grateful for every bliss kind Heaven has sent,
I hail the sweet repose of calm content!

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
Crowns thy pure stream, which neither Pow'r nor
Wealth

Regain, unless it flow from Mercy's Throne.
Whoe'er thou art, that dost in sorrow bend

Thy palsy'd frame for succour, look above!
If fervently implor'd, thy SAVIOUR's love
The healing chalice may to thee extend:
Of human aid though proud Presumption talk,

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
For my transgressions! Flying from the task
Of self-examination, can I ask,

Inspir'd with HOPE, for MERCY? To my aid,

DIVINE RELIGION!-pure and sainted Maid!
On Contemplation's Cherub wing, descend;
And to the HOLIEST OF HOLIES bend
My stubborn knee! The Sinner to upbraid,

Thou rather shunn'st; and should Heav'n's chast'ning hand

Afflict him, thou dost breathe into his heart,
If he repent, sweet COMFORT. Then expand
THY SACRED VOLUME! to my soul impart

Thy Spirit meek, thy Fervency of Pray'r,
Thy FAITH, thy TRUTH-and shield me from
DESPAIR!

T

Cruttwell, Printer, St. James's-Street, Bath.

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.
246, 1. last of Latin, for doceat, read doceant.
1. 3 ditto, for nullus, read nullas.

250,

259,

1. 2 ditto, for ingenio'us, read ingeniosus. 264, 1. 3, for in flow'rets, read with flow'rets.