The Cuckoo. The little children flocking came And chafed his frozen hands in theirs, A comfortable mefs prepares. Their kindness cheered his drooping foul, The children too began to figh, 3 ORIGINAL. THE CUCKOO. HAIL, beauteous ftranger of the wood, Now heaven repairs thy yernal feat, And woods thy welcome fing. The Cuckoo. Soon as the daify decks the green Delightful vifitant! with thee I hail the time of flowers, When heaven is filled with mufic fweet Of birds among the bowers. The schoolboy wandering in the wood Soon as the pea puts on the bloom, Sweet bird, thy bower is ever green, Thy fky is ever clear; hou haft no forrow in thy song, No winter in thy year! A ! THE BLIND BOY. O SAY, what is that thing call'd light, You talk of wondrous things you fee; My day or night myself I make And could I always keep awake 'With heavy fighs I often hear You mourn my hapless woe; But fure with patience I can bear A lofs I ne'er can know. The Shalf man, the great mafter of all, Forbid it, fair gratitude's call! Forbid it, devotion and love! The Lord, who fuch wonders could raife, My foul fhall be wrapt in my God! ORATORIO OF ABEI THE FLY. Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Thine's a fummer, mine 's no more Though repeated to threefcore; Threescore fummers, when they're gone, Will appear as short as one. O! could I fly, I'd fly with thee;- LOGAN. THE GRASSHOPPER. HAPPY infect! what can be B 3 |