A red-breast from a neighb'ring tree Ah! ceafe thy piteous plaint, faid fhe; Poor bird! be fure thy death's decreed; Since he, the wretch to whom you plead, Is judge and party too. J. H. THE ANNIVERSARY OF NEPTUNE'S THY MARRIAGE. [NEVER BEFORE PRINTED.] HY influence, love! through ev'ry climate The favage defart and the rural plains; But chicf the briny ocean owns thy fway, play; Hence Hence Venus fprung, emerging from the wave, And warm'd the element from whence fhe came. Ere Sol, refresh'd, from Thetis' lap arose, Or bade Aurora's nymph the dawn disclose, Old Ocean's God quits Amphitrite's bed, And ftrokes night's circling billows from his head; With eye ferene furveys the quiet deep, And fecs his realms within the folds of fleep. Happy the kingdom which the monarch's eye, Thus watchful guards nor fees a danger nigh. To Triton with paternal voice he calls, "Quick lead my finny courfers from their stalls; "As on this day thy father Neptune led "Fair Amphitrite to the nuptial bed; "Her blushing beauties met my eager arms, "And biefs'd my wishes with her virgin charms; "Sated with love, fhe now adorns my fide, "Nor longer knows the fervors of a bride: "But, Triton, thou my mandate straight obey, "Summon the nymphs to grace the nuptial day; "This annual morn a feftival I keep, "To entertain the beauties of the deep, "Whether "Whether upon the dolphin's back they ride, "Tell them, their queen, bright Amphitrite, claims Triton obeys, the vocal fhell he fills, O mufe! their names and dignities relate, And say what seas and rivers grac'd the state. FIRST OCEAN [BRITISH.] The British ocean firft advanced to view, Various the gifts from different climes fhe drew, She comes enriched with iv'ry and gold, With flaves adorn'd, and warlike treasure bold; A fhip of war falutes her as fhe pafs'd, And bends the waving honours of her mast. SECOND OCEAN [ATLANTIC.] From north to fouth the great Atlantic rolls, And with her billows feems to wash the poles; Rich Rich wines and fruits her laden veffels freight, THIRD OCEAN [SOUTH SEA.] The great fouth fea for golden ingots known, A cocoa nut of ample size she gave, Fill'd with rich fugars by a negro flave; FOURTH OCEAN [INDIAN.] The Indian ocean next appear'd in place, FIFTH OCEAN [NORTHERN.] The northern fea displays his icy waves, Rufhing from Lapland's heights and jellied laves; A diadem of ificles he wears, Cloath'd with the fur of white amphibious bears; Το To wind-bound mariners the vends her gales, crews, And in their blood her webbed hands imbrues; RIVERS [THAMES.] The Thames, bright queen of rivers rolls her flood, Not lefs refpected for her mounds of mud; [SEVERN, &c.] Sabrina next presents her filver ftore, And Tweed that washes Caledonia's fhore. Humber his hofpitable flood extends, Receiving Trent and Derwent as his friends. Old Cam whofe ftreams falute the mufes feat, And Tyne where colliers wash their footy feet. FOREIGN RIVERS. Foreign Orentes, Danube, Po, and Rhine, In fpeed contend to rush before the Boyne; |