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Wide o'er the aërial vault extend thy sway,
And o'er the infernal regions void of day.
On thy third reign look down; disclose our fate,
In what new station shall we fix our seat?
When shall we next thy hallow'd altars raise,
And choirs of virgins celebrate thy praise?

HYMN.

TRANSLATION FROM THE LATIN OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER,

THOU art my God, sole object of my love;
Not for the hope of endless joys above;
Not for the fear of endless pains below,
Which they who love thee not must undergo.
For me, and such as me, thou deign'st to bear
An ignominious cross, the nails, the spear :
A thorny crown transpierced thy sacred brow,
While bloody sweats from every member flow.
For me in tortures thou resign'st thy breath,
Embraced me on the cross, and saved me by thy
death.

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And can these sufferings fail my heart to move?
What but thyself can now deserve my love?
Such as then was, and is, my love to thee-
To thee, Redeemer! mercy's sacred spring!
My God, my Father, Maker, and my King!

EPIGRAMS.

ON HOUGH, BISHOP OF WORCESTER.

A BISHOP by his neighbours hated,
Has cause to wish himself translated;
But why should Hough desire translation,
Loved and esteem'd by all the nation?
Yet, if it be the old man's case,

I'll lay my life I know the place:

'Tis where God sent some that adore him, And whither Enoch went before him.

OCCASIONED BY AN INVITATION TO

COURT.

IN the lines that you sent are the Muses and Graces;

You've the nine in your wit, and the three in your faces.

ON THE FEUDS ABOUT HANDEL AND
BONONCINI.

STRANGE! all this difference should be
"Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee!

ON MRS. TOFTS,

A CELEBRATED OPERA SINGER.

So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As had drawn both the beasts and their Orpheus along :

But such is thy avarice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts must have starved, and the poet have died.

THE BALANCE OF EUROPE.

Now Europe's balanced, neither side prevails; For nothing's left in either of the scales.

EPITAPH.

APPLIED TO F. C.

HERE Francis Chartres lies: be civil!
The rest God knows-perhaps the devil.*

EPIGRAM.

You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come : Knock as you please, there's nobody at home.

* Pope also applied this epitaph to Lord Coningsby, thus:Here lies Lord Coningsby,' &c.

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WORKS OF POPE.

EPIGRAM FROM THE FRENCH.

SIR, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool:

But you yourself may serve to show it,
That every fool is not a poet.

EPITAPH ON GAY.

WELL, then, poor Gay lies under ground!
So there's an end of honest Jack.

So little justice here he found,

"Tis ten to one he'll ne'er come back.

ON ONE WHO MADE LONG EPITAPHS.*
FRIEND, for your epitaphs I'm grieved,
Where still so much is said;
One half will never be believed,

The other never read.

ON THE TOASTS OF THE KIT-CAT CLUB,†
ANNO 1716.

WHENCE deathless Kit-Cat' took its name,
Few critics can unriddle:

Some say from 'pastry-cook' it came,

And some from cat' and 'fiddle.'

From no trim beaux its name it boasts,
Grey statesmen, or green wits;

But from his pellmell pack of toasts

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Of old cats' and young 'kits.'

Dr. Robert Friend, head master of Westminster.

+ The Kit-Cat Club, sometimes said to have derived its name from Christopher Kat, a pastry-cook.

ENGRAVED ON THE COLLAR OF A DOG

WHICH I GAVE TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS.

I AM his highness's dog at Kew:
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

TO A LADY,

WITH THE TEMPLE OF FAME.'

WHAT'S fame with men, by custom of the nation, Is call'd, in women, only reputation:

About them both why keep we such a pother? Part you with one, and I'll renounce the other.

ON BENTLEY'S 'MILTON.'

DID Milton's prose, O Charles! thy death defend? A furious foe unconscious proves a friend.

On Milton's verse did Bentley comment? Know, A weak, officious friend becomes a foe.

While he but sought his author's fame to further, The murderous critic has avenged thy murther.

ON A PICTURE OF QUEEN CAROLINE

DRAWN BY LADY BURLINGTON.

PEACE, flattering Bishop!* lying Dean!†
This portrait only paints the Queen.

*Bishop Gilbert.

+ Dr. Alured Clarke

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