Aequor? Non tibi sunt integra lintea: 7 Non Dî, quos iterum pressa voces malo. 8 Quamvis Pontica pinus,

Silvae filia nobilis,

Jactes et genus et nomen inutile; 9 Nil pictis timidus navita puppibus Fidit:-10 tu, nisi ventis

Debes ludibrium, cave.

11 Nuper sollicitum quae mihi taedium, 12 Nunc desiderium, curaque non levis,

13 Interfusa nitentes

Vites aequora Cycladas.

STANZAS,

WRITTEN IN THE COUNTRY.

SCENES of delight! where many a day Has passed on rapid pinions by, Why turn I from your charms away, Or view them only with a sigh?

Why have ye lost for me those joys, That once were to my heart so dear, When from a crowded city's noise

I brought a hermit's feelings here?

Ye are the same:-as green your trees,
As richly do your blossoms glow,
As sweet a fragrance fills your breeze,
As pure your winding rivers flow.

Yet I-how changed a heart is mine!
I heedless of your beauties rove,
While doomed, at distance doomed to pine
From her whose smile is life and love.

Stanzas in imitation of the most approved

writers of Love-Verses

A Pastoral Love-Ditty

20

A Parting Address to the Inhabitants of

the Island of Elba

I swore I loved, and true I swore

Well-I have found my heart again

Ah! lovely maiden, do not slight

36

44