IN Where flowly winds the flealing wave! The year's best sweets fhall duteous rife To deck its Poet's fylvan grave! II. In yon deep bed of whisp'ring reeds That he, whofe heart in forrow bleeds, May love thro' life the foothing fhade. The harp of EOLUS, of which Lee a description in the CASTLE OF INDOLENCE. III. Then maids and youths fhall linger here, To hear the Woodland Pilgrim's knell. IV. Remembrance oft fhall haunt the shore And oft fufpend the dashing oar To bid his gentle spirit rest! V. And oft as Ease and Health retire To breezy lawn, or foreft deep, The friend fhall view yon whitening fpire, VI. But Thou, who own'ft that earthly bed, Or tears, which Love and Pity fhed That mourn beneath the gliding fail! RICHMOND Church. VII. VII. Yet lives there one, whofe heedlefs eye Shall fcorn thy pale fhrine glimm'ring near? With him, sweet bard, may Fancy die, And Joy defert the blooming year. VIII. But thou, lorn ftream, whose fullen tide Now waft me from the green hill's fide IX. And fee, the fairy valleys fade, Dun Night has veil'd the folemn view! X. * The genial meads affign'd to blefs • Mr. Thomson refided in the neighbourhood of Richmond fometime before his death, |