TO QUINBUS FLESTRIN,

THE MAN-MOUNTAIN.

A LILLIPUTIAN ODE.

IN amaze

Lost, I gaze.

Can our eyes
Reach thy size?
May my lays
Swell with praise
Worthy thee!
Worthy me!
Muse, inspire
All thy fire!
Bards of old
Of him told,

When they said
Atlas' head

Propp'd the skies.

See! and believe your eyes!

Man and steed.
Troops, take heed;
Left and right
Speed your flight,

Lest an host

Beneath his foot be lost.

Turn'd aside

From his hide,
Safe from wound,
Darts rebound.

From his nose

Clouds he blows!

When he speaks,
Thunder breaks!

When he eats,
Famine threats!

When he drinks,
Neptune shrinks!
Nigh thy ear,
In mid air,

On thy hand

Let me stand,

So shall I,

(Lofty poet!) touch the sky.

My footsteps, as I move with martial grace.

Though 'tis true

Praise is due

To your lay,

Ι

Yet I pray
You'll attend

To a friend.

On

my hand

Should you stand,

If those that soar

Fall the lower,

All Lilliput would your's deplore.

Humbly then,

With little men,

Take your stand
On firm land,

Lest your place
Bring disgrace:

High in air,

Great the care,

To be free

From jeopardy,
Careless found,

You might bound,

Little poet! to the ground.

VERSES,

TO BE PLACED UNDER THE PICTURE OF SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE, ENGLAND'S ARCH-POET:

CONTAINING A COMPLETE CATALOGUE OF HIS WORKS.

SEE who ne'er was, nor will be half read;
Who first sang Arthur 1, then sang Alfred ';
Praised great Eliza3 in God's anger,
Till all true Englishmen cried, Hang her!'
Made William's virtues wipe the bare a—
And hang'd up Marlborough in arras1;
Then hiss'd from earth, grew heavenly quite;
Made every reader curse the light';
Maul'd human wit in one thick satire,
Next, in three books, spoil'd human nature",
Undid creation at a jirk,

And of redemption' made damn'd work.

1 Two heroic poems, in folio, twenty books.

2 Heroic poem, in twelve books.

3 Heroic poem, in folio, ten books.

4 Instructions to Vanderbank, a tapestry weaver. 5 Hymn to the light.

Satire against wit.

Of the nature of man.

8 Creation, a poem, seven books. 9 The Redeemer, another heroic

poem, six books.