OF HIS OWN CHARACTER. [This was written in 1761, and was found in one of his Po Books.] Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to portune; He had not the method of making a fortune Could love, and could hate, so was thought s what odd; NO VERY GREAT WIT, HE BELIEV'D IN A C A Post or a Pension he did not desire, But left Church and State to Charles Towns and Squire. OF IN CHARACTER and was frond in one of his Pocke Books] Sribe, and too proud to i od of making a fortune: hate, so was thought some T, HE BELIEV'D IN A GOD e did not desire, tate to Charles Townshend ATTRIBUTED T MR. GRA WERE NEVER BEFORE C [The first of these (Lyric Stanzas) might which he thought it not necessary to giv With respect to the other three jeux d'e reason for their being anonymously sent f obvious to every Reader.] LYRIC STANZ THYRSIS, when he left me, In the Spring he would retur Ah! what means the op'ning f And the bud that decks the t 'Twas the nightingale that sung 'Twas the lark that upward spr my fears to move my love. for the eccentricities of his character, as for h A Mr. Tyson, of Bene't College, made an et presented it to Mr. Gray, who wrote under i THUS Tophet look'd; so grin fiend, Whilst frighted prelates bow'd, Our mother-church, with half-av SEAT AND RUINS OF A DECEASED NOBLEM AT KINGSGATE, KENT. OLD, and abandon'd by each venal friend Here Hd took the pious resolution To smuggle a few years, and strive to mend A broken character and constitution. On this congenial spot he fix'd his choice; Earl Goodwin trembled for his neighb'ring: Here sea-gulls scream, and cormorants rejoic And mariners, though shipwreck'd, fear to Here reigns the blust'ring North and blighting No tree is heard to whisper, bird to sing; Yet Nature could not furnish out the feast, Art he invokes new terrors still to bring. |