P.g. 1. S. Wale del How far your Ye future bards beware moral tales incense the fair. C. Grignion Sculp UCH were the notes, thy once-lov'd Poet fung, SUCH "Till death untimely ftop'd his tuneful tongue. Oh just beheld, and loft! admir'd, and mourn'd! With fofteft manners, gentlest arts, adorn'd! Bleft in each science, bleft in ev'ry strain! Dear to the Mufe, to HARLEY dear-in vain! For him, thou oft haft bid the world attend, (A figh the abfent claims, the dead a tear) Who, careless now, of int'reft, fame, or fate, And fure, if ought below the feats divine In vain to defarts thy retreat is made; The Mufe attends thee to thy filent fhade: Re-judge his acts, and dignify difgrace, When When int'reft calls off all her fneaking train, SEPT. 25, 1721. A. POPE. B 2 HESIOD: |