But fay, my fair, fhould love return;
If I for all my follies mourn,

And once more with thee mine?--Say, would you take my proffer'd hand, And link with me in Hymen's band, And never more repine?

SOPHRONI A.
Euphanor does my love demand,
But as you offer now your hand,
I'll be your wife—with joy;

Tho' he was foft as zephyrs breeze,
And you were rough as stormy feas,
With you I'll live and die.
Bristol, April 10, 1783.

G.

G, jun.
For the EUROPEAN MAGAZINE,
IVE me, in fome fequefter'd grove,
For her, the rural nymph, I love,
To urge the daily toil;
At evening with the fun retire,
And rear our little cottage firé,

And fee our children smile.
With fuch a mate, when tempefts roar,
And lafh the wild waves to the thore,
How (weet to fit the night:
To hear their utmost rage descend,
The roof refound, the foreft rend,

And footh her from affright :-
To fit and fympathize with those,
To with an end to all their woes,'
Lefs happy far than we;

Without a covering for the head!

Or where on earth to flee! Still may our hofpitable door, On fuch a night, at any hour,

Admit the wretch forlorn;-
Admit him to the warmest feat,
Admit him to the fmoaking treat,
And shield him till the morn.

So be our matin thanks inclin'd
To Him, the Power who made us kinds
For what are we alone?

A crew on Error's ocean toft,
And, but for aid fuperior lott,

Prefumptuous in our own!

And give us on that awful day,
When Time thall fweep the worlds away
To meet the throne of Grace;
Without a doubt, without a fear,
To stand and fee, to stand and hear
Our Maker face to face.

S. C.

The following LINES, addreffed to Mr. BARRY, the Artift, on feeing the third picture in his Exhibition, viz. the crowning of the victors at Olympia, is faid to be the extemporaneous compofition of a very recent tranflator of Pindar.

EACH victor crown'd in fam'd Olympia's

To Theban Pindar ow'd his lyric fame;
"Twas he diftributed bright honours meed,
The chariot, wreftler, and victorious fteed,
The ftrong pancratiaft ftruggling on the field,
Or, who the nobler Ceftus dar'd to wield
He fung, in lofty Dithyrambic lays,

And crown'd each champion with harmonious praise.

Renown'd thro' paftoral Sicilia far,

E'en Hiero mounted on triumphal car,
The joys of victory imperfect feels,

Till choral hymns found round his chariot

To crown her fav'rite work gives ev'ry scene,
More pleafing beauties and a milder mien,
With ev'ry partial grace adorns the land,
The fecond Eden of her forming hand.
So the fam'd bird in Egypt's fertile clime,
That feems to brave the fhock of adverse time,
When rigid fate a longer term denies,
Bids from her afhes a new Phoenix rife,
With richer plumage deck'd, and brighter rays,
And fpringing fairer from the parent-blaze.
'Too long eftrang' from thefe tranfporting
views,

With new delight returns the wand'ring mufe,
To her lov'd haunts this farewell vifit pays,
And with their beauties crowns her parting lays.
When the glad morn, in purple fplendor
bright,

Bluthing unbars the orient gates of light,
Beneath the influence of her milder ray,
Soft o'er the dewy landscape let me stray;
Afcend the funny hill, and view around
The fcatter'd wonders of this fairy ground;
Each vivid fcene by Nature's pencil drawn,
The tufted hillock and the velvet lawn;
The fteep abrupt, the deep, o'er-hanging fhade,
The floping meadow and the winding glade;
The ftreams that glitter thro' the opening grove,
The peaceful flocks that o'er the woodland rove;
Not Araby the bleft fuch charms can boast,
Nor breathes more fragrance from her fpicy
coaft,

Nor feign'd Elyfium, tho' renown'd fo long,
Blooms more delightful in poetic fong.

But when bright Phebus gains the middle
fky,

Swift to th' embow'ring thickets let me fly, Plunge in the gloom that fkirts the hill and plain,

And like a zone furrounds the gay demefne,
Where in cool grot, or folitary bow'r,
Lone Meditation wooes the filent hour.
Thefe peaceful haunts no cruel sports invade,
Deform their beauties or profane their fhade;
With careless flight on ev'ry verdant spray,
The feather'd wai b'lers pour the grateful lay;
From hounds efcap'd and unrelenting foes,
The timid hare the lov'd afylum knows,
With fearless step along the covert ftrays,
And on the frequent wand'rer dares to gaze.
When more intenfe prevails the noon-day
heat,

And fearce the fhade affords a cool retreat,
O bear me to the cot's impervious gloom,
Where jes'mines breathe and mingled flow'rets
bloom,

Where the gay spire o'er-tops th' embow'ring trees,

The poplars quiver to the whisp'ring breeze,
And the fair fhrubb'ry's devious paths are feen
In winding mazes o'er the floping green.
Here in this lov'd recefs fecurely laid,
Where no fad cares its peaceful roof invade,

Or by the cool, transparent fream reclin'è, That gently murmurs to the paffing wind, Let me indulge the ferious thought profound, Or view the fweet variety around;

The rugged rocks, where climbing wood-biner

creep,

The mountain's brow that frowns upon the deep,

The fwelling hill and foreft's leafy pride, That float and tremble in the wavy tide: Deep in the hollow glade, with rich perfume The primrofe fmiles and purple vi'lets bloom, Whilst all the flow'ry children of the vale, With lavish incenfe load the fragrant gale. The River-God, that flow'd a rill before, With fresh fupplies here pours his liquid ftore, Glad to adorn this fair, Helperian Seat, Where LEINSTER loves with Nature to retreat,

Swells with a conscious pride his filver flood, Shines in the mead, or gleams between the wood,

O'er the rough rocks now pours the white cafcade,

Or fteals in filent mazes thro' the glade, Charm'd by the varied fcene his courfe delays, And from th' enchanted ground reluctant fa

The glowing prospects of Arcadia's thore, Where lib'ral Nature pours forth all her ftore, And Fancy, fportive maid, delighted roves, Thro' flow'r-embroider'd vales and myrtlegroves,

Transplanted here, beneath lefs genial skies,
In fofter charms and milder luftre rife,
To ev'ry object give a fairer face,
And spread o'er CARTON a fuperior grace.
(To be continued.)

VERSES ON A LADY's HAND.

FINE

By Dr. DE-LA-COUR.

NE as her taper fingers flow my strains, Soft as her hand, and fhining as her veins, Turn'd as her wrift the lines, and (mooth as filk, Feel like her palm, where rofes fwim in milk: Thefe o'er my veríe a warmer thadow shed, And tip her fingers with a painted red, 'I hro' the blue veins in riper moisture flow, And feem to melt with heat the neighb'ring fnow;

The neighb'ring fnow diffolv'd in roses blends,
And with carnation decks her fingers ends:
Between the leaves the flakes of fnow look
bright,

And daify-like are dafh'd with red and white;
Think with what luftre on her lap it lay,
And o'er her apron drew the milky way;
Coarfe look'd the cambrick to a hand to fine,
And shades of lawn are net-work to her skin.
On her fair fingers brilliant diamonds glow,
And burn like tna, between hills of fnow.

MONTHLY

April 5.

Ingin Chrift Church college, Oxford, on

TN digging the foundations of the new build

the spot where formerly ftood Canterbury college, a skeleton, of very large dimensions, was found about three feet under the furface, fuppofed to have lain there upwards of 500 years, as fome filver pence of king Edward the First were found laying clofe to the thigh bone: No coffin, or any other veftige appeared, by which it might be conjectured who was buried there. Something like half-boots were round the bottom of the leg bones, from which, and other circumstances, it is imagined the corpfe was buried in its cloaths. Thefe remains were carefully collected, put in a fhell, and interred in the college chapel.

Extract of a letter from Guernsey, March 28. "I shall now give you an account of the affair of the 104th, fince I believe you will have but an imperfect account of it from other quar

ters.

"That regiment (except the grenadier company) has been quartered all the winter in the citadel, and although they have at all times been rather troublefome to the country people, they had been kept in tolerable order till the arrival of a few difcharged men of the 83d regiment from Portiniouth; but thefe, it feems, by boafting of their own prowefs, and defcribing the impunity with which they, and, in general, the foldiery over all England, had fet the laws at defiance, stirred up a spirit of mutiny, which at last openly broke forth. About the 18th inftant they infifted with their officers that the gates fhould no more be fhut, that they should have liberty to go where they pleafed, and, it being peace, fhould do no more duty; the governor appeafed the tumult, by granting them their demands. However, the fficers, being fitting in the mefs-room after dinner the 21ft, were alarmed by the whittling of musket-balls amongst them, and were forced to creep on their hands to escape the hots, which continued to fly through the doors and windows. They were fome time in this fituation, till, it is faid, fome of the worst of the rioters getting up ftairs into the ba rack-rooms, for the fake of firing down upon them, the ferjeant-major advifed their immediately running off, which they did, the g tes being then providentially open; and although feveral mufkets were fired at them, fortunately efcaped, except two, who hid themfelves in a coal-hole. This was known in town abou eight o'clock in the evening, and at firit it was very much doubted whether the 18th regiment, quartered there, would not join the rebe's, or at least refuse to join in bringing them to order by force. However, to the eternal honour of the regi. ment, they proved untainted with the late unhappy fpirit of mutiny, and turned out to a men; the militia alfo immediately paraded, EUROP. MAG.

and the town regiment was drawn out in as lit tle time as could be conceived, and with the greatest alacrity. The officers belonging to the country regiments fat off with the first fummons; their orders were, for every regiment to defend its own district, and to be ready to join the army on the first order; they accordingly patrolled their own parishes, and turned out without the leaft murmur.

"About eleven o'clock, the governor marched out with the 18th regiment, commanded by Major Mawbey, and the town regi ment of militia; being arrived at the Citadel (without beat of drum) the 18th regiment, with the town grenadiers and light infantry, four pieces of artillery and two howitzers, lined the front under cover of a low hedge, at about 100 yards diftance; four of the militia battalion companies guarded the avenues on one fide, and the four others were in referve. A fummons being fent, a parley enfued, but the mutineers declared they would on no account lay down their arms; feveral ftraggling shots were fired. Meffages continued till about four o'clock, when the governor being on the field at parley with fome of the deputies, a fire began on him, and part of the line, by a party which had advanced out of the walls, and the fire continued along the line, without its being known what part of the enemy had fallied. The artillery being in the rear of the 18th, and pushing up, caufed them to fill on the flanks, and the ground being confined, caufed a momentary confusion, during which feveral ill-directed shots were fired; however this was foon over, and the line put in proper order.

"Soon after this, the four companies in refe ve were ordered to the right, to occupy a commanding ground, and about four o'clock the rioters teeing themfelves furrounde and hearing the whole force of the island was coming against them, marched out and piled their

arms.

"It is remarkable that thefe fellows mountel a regular guard, beat regularly to arms, and kept up garrifon duty as if they had been under command of their own officers.

"The flates of the ifland, it feems, are foon to n cet, to confider of a reward to the 18th's foldiers, for their al crit, in turning out vlunteers on this ociation; a conduct which not only diftingu hes them from almost all the ar my, but which reflects the greatest honour on. the difcipline and abil t'es of cheir officers, and especiaily Moj Ma by, their commander.

The grenadier cop ny of the 104th fhould be distinguished fom the other part of the regiment; they were quartered apart at the Vale Cattle, under their Captain, Fenwick. He had kep to proper a difcipline, that he greatest part ofrel to turn out volunteers against their rebel companions."

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