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The oft-heard jeft in vain he fhall reveal,
For now alas, the jeft he cannot feel.

But ruddy damfels o'er thy tomb shall bend,

And confcious weep for their and virtue's friend : The milk-maid fhall reject the fhepherd's fong, And cease to carol as fhe toils along:

All Auburn fhall bewail the fatal day,

When from her fields, their pride was snatch'd away;
And even the matron of the creffy lake

In piteous plight, her palfied head shall shake,
While all adown the furrows of her face

Slow fhall the lingering tears each other trace,

And, Oh my child! feverer woes remain,
To all the houseless, and unfhelter'd train :
Thy fate shall fadden many an humble guest,
And heap fresh anguifh on the beggar's breaft.
For dear wert thou to all the fons of pain;
To all that wander, forrow, or complain.
Dear to the learned, to the fimple dear,
For daily bleffings mark'd thy virtuous year;
The rich receiv'd a moral from thy head,
And from thy heart the ftranger found a bed.

Distress

Distress came always fmiling from thy door;
For God had made the agent to the poor;
Had form'd thy feelings on the nobleft plan,
To grace at once, the Poet, and the Man.

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DARK as the night, which now in dunnest robe,

Afcends her zenith, o'er the filent globe;
Sad melancholy wakes, awhile to tread,

With folemn step, the mansions of the dead :
Led by her hand, o'er this yet recent shrine
I forrowing bend; and here effay to twine
The tributary wreath of laureat bloom,
With artless hands, to deck a poet's tomb;

The tomb where Goldsmith fleeps. Fond hopes,

adieu !

No more your airy dreams fhall mock
Here will I learn ambition to controul,
And each afpiring paffion of the foul:

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E'en now, methinks, his well-known voice I hear,

When late he meditated flight from care,
When as imagination fondly hied

To scenes of fweet retirement, thus he cried.

"Ye fplendid fabricks, palaces and towers,
"Where diffipation leads the giddy hours,
"Where pomp, disease, and knavery refide,
"And folly bends the knee to wealthy pride;
"Where luxury's purveyors learn to rise,

"And worth, to want a prey, unfriended dies;
"Where warbling Eunuchs glitter in brocade,
"And hapless Poets toil for fcanty bread:

Farewel! to other scenes I turn my eyes,
"Embofom'd in the vale where Auburn lies,
"Deferted Auburn, thofe now ruin'd glades,

"Forlorn, yet ever dear and honour'd shades. "There though the Hamlet boasts no smiling train,

"Nor fportful paftime circling on the plain; "No needy villains proul around for prey,

"No flanderers, no fycophants betray;

"No gaudy foplings fcornfully deride'

"The fwain, whofe humble pipe is all his pride. "There will I fly to feek that soft repose,

Which folitude contemplative beftows:

. Yet,

"Yet, oh fond hope! perchance there still remains "One lingering friend behind, to blefs the plains; "Some hermit of the dale, infhrined in ease,

Long loft companion of my youthful days; "With whose sweet converfe in his social bower, "I oft may chide away fome vacant hour; "To whose pure fympathy, I may impart “Each latent grief, that labours at my heart, “Whate’er I felt, and what I saw, relate, "The sholes of luxury, the wrecks of state; "Those bufy scenes, where science wakes in vain,

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"In which I fhar'd, ah! ne'er to share again.

"But whence that pang? does nature now rebel?

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Why faulters out my tongue the word farewel?

"Ye friends! who long have witness'd to my toil, “And seen me ploughing in a thankless soil, "Whofe partial tendernefs hufh'd every pain, "Whose approbation made my bosom vain : ""Tis you, to whom my foul divided hies

"With fond regret, and half unwilling flies;

Sighs forth her parting wifhes to the wind,

"And lingering leaves her better half behind.

"Can I forget the intercourse I shar'd,

"What friendship cherish'd, and what zeal endear'd?

"Alas!

"Alas! remembrance ftill must turn to you,

"And to my latest hour, protract the long adieu. "Amid the woodlands, wherefoe'er I rove,

"The plain, or fecret covert of the grove,

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Imagination fhall fupply her ftore

"Of painful bliss, and what she can restore;
"Shall ftrew each lonely path with flowrets gay,
"And wide as is her boundless empire ftray.
"On eagle pinions traverse earth, and skies,
"And bid the loft and distant objects rise.
"Here, where encircled o'er the floping land
"Woods rife on woods, shall Aristotle stand;

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Lyceum round the godlike man rejoice,

"And bow with reverence to wisdom's voice. "There, spreading oaks shall arch the vaulted dome, "The Champion, there, of liberty, and Rome, "In attick eloquence fhall thunder laws, "And uncorrupted fenates fhout applause. "Not more extatic vifions rapt the foul

"Of Numa, when to midnight grots he ftole, "And learnt his lore, from virtue's mouth refin'd, "To fetter vice, and harmonize mankind.

"Now ftretch'd at ease beside some fav'rite stream,

"Of beauty, and enchantment will I dream;

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