Brushing with hafty steps the dews away, • To meet the fun upon the upland lawn. • There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots fo high, His liftlefs length at noontide would he ftretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by. Hard by yon wood, now fmiling as in fcorn, Mutt'ring his wayward fancies, he would rove, Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn, • Or craz'd with care, or crofs'd in hopelefs love. One morn I mifs'd him on the cuftom'd hill, Along the heath, and near his favourite tree : • Another came ; nor yet befide the rill, • Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he : • The next, with dirges due, in fad array, Slow thro' the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou can't read} the lay, Gray'd on the ftone beneath yon aged thorn,' H The EPITAPH ERE refts his head, upon the lap of A Youth to Fortune and to Fame un known : Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own : Large was his bounty, and his foul fincere, Heav'n did a recompence as largely fend: He gave to Mis'ry, all he had, a tear; He gain'd from Heav'n ('twas all he wish'd) a friend. No farther feek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike † in trembling hope repofe,) The bofom of his Father and his God. +"-paventofa fpe me." Petrarch. San. 114. O DE то MUS I C. Perform'd in the Senate-houfe in CAMBRIDGE, July 1, 1769, at the installation of AUGUSTUS-HENRY Duke of GRAFTON, Chancellor of the Univer fity. Set by Dr. RANDAL, Mufic Profeffor. |