So should my hand a votive temple rear, That undestroy'd should stand. Long should the stately monument proclaim That no ungrateful heart, Goddess! received thy boon. R. The FILBERT. Nay gather not that Filbert, Nicholas, And thou shalt do no murder Nicholas ! To mend the fracture of a filbert shell. There were two great men once amused themselves I. Enough of dangers and of enemies. Hath Nature's wisdom for the worm ordained, Him may the Nut-hatch piercing with strong bill The Squirrel bear, at leisure to be crack'd. As this poor Maggot hath, and when I muse The Maggot knows not, Nicholas methinks To be enkernelled thus: never to hear THEODERIT. SONNET I. Stately yon vessel sails adown the tide Pealing among the echoing rocks resound ; Who sorrows for a child or husband there? Will wake and tremble in her boding prayer? So may her voice be heard, and Heaven be kindGo gallant ship, and be thy fortune fair! S. SONNET II. Beware a speedy friend, the Arabian said, The flower that blossoms earliest fades the first. |