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A red-breast from a neighb'ring tree
Beheld his hapless state;

Ah! ceafe thy piteous plaint, faid fhe;
Nor hope to fhun thy fate.

Poor bird! be fure thy death's decreed;
No eloquence will do ;

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
reigns,

The favage defart and the rural plains;
Through ev'ry region of unbounded space,
The feather'd fongfters and the fylvan race,
Through earth and air and fea thy arrows fiý,
Nor mifs the deep receffes of the sky;
Not ev❜n thy mother Venus or her dove
Are fpar'd by thee whofe fhaf.s have wounded
Jove.

But chicf the briny ocean owns thy fway,
Where fport the fea-calves, where the dolphins

play;

Hence

Hence Venus fprung, emerging from the wave,
Which fince inherits what her influence gave;
Her fnowy bolom o'er the flood the rais'd,
The nereids envy'd, as the fea gods prais'd;
Her ruddy blushes kindled all her frame,

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,
"Or in the rivers bathe their snowy side;
"To every filver lake and flood repair,
"Naiads and nereids with cerulean hair;

"Tell them, their queen, bright Amphitrite, claims
"This tributary honour from the streams;
"Their azure treffes let them quick display,
"And paint their charms in honour of the day.”

Triton obeys, the vocal fhell he fills,
The fountains hear him to their diftant hills;
Pleas'd they attend the god of ocean's call,
And grace with deities the ample hall.

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,
And foreign treasures on her commerce wait.

THIRD OCEAN [SOUTH SEA.]

The great fouth fea for golden ingots known,
Attends the state of Amphitrite's throne;
Rich cochineal its fcarlet wealth difplays,
And indico prefents its purple rays;

A cocoa nut of ample size she

gave,

Fill'd with rich fugars by a negro flave;
Rich were her robes of ftate, her train was new,
By Mexico fupported and Peru.

FOURTH OCEAN [INDIAN.]

The Indian ocean next appear'd in place,
In her right hand she held a China vase;
In Perfian perfume as the nymph drew near,
The di'mond jewels glitter'd in her ear.

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;
Which nightly on the fetter'd ocean prowl,
And to the moon their horrid dirges howl;
Here, as old legends tell, o'er frozen tides
Upon a broom the polar forc'refs rides;

Το

To wind-bound mariners the vends her gales,
Or raises ftorms to rend their hapless fails;
Then on the coafts fhe wrecks the wretched

crews,

And in their blood her webbed hands imbrues;
Luxurious feafts upon their reeking gore,
And leaves th' unbury'd carcafe on the shore,

RIVERS [THAMES.]

The Thames, bright queen of rivers rolls her flood,

Not lefs refpected for her mounds of mud;
Wedded to Ifis in connubial loves,
Her currents vifit academic groves.

[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;

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