The wanton Aries first descends, To show the Vigor and the Play, Beginning Love, beginning Love attends, When the young Passion is all-over Joy, He bleats his soft Pain to the fair curled Throng, And he leaps, and he bounds, and loves all the day long.

All day the dusky caravan has flowed In devious trails along the winding road (For many a step their homeward path attends, And all the sons of Abraham are as friends).

Approach, ye minstrels, try the soothing strain, [bb]Diffuse the tuneful lenitives of pain: No sounds, alas! would touch th' impervious ear, Though dancing mountains witness'd Orpheus near; Nor lute nor lyre his feeble pow'rs attend, Nor sweeter musick of a virtuous friend; But everlasting dictates crowd his tongue, Perversely grave, or positively wrong.

Thou nurse of innocence, fair virtue's friend, Silent, tho' rapturous, pleasures thee attend.

60 Yet one grave sage a moment's space attends, And the small city's loftiest point ascends, Wipes the salt dew that trickles down his face, And thus harangues them with the gravest grace Ye foolish nurslings of the summer air!

Last solemn Sabbath saw the Church attend, The Paraclete in fiery pomp descend; 20 But when his wondrous octave roll'd again, He brought a royal infant in his train.

Some trivial slips their daily walk attend, The poor are near at hand, the charge is small, A slight gratuity atones for all."Cowper.

His setting lustre, or his noon-tide blaze, New wonders still thy curious search attend, Begun on earth, in highest Heav'n to end.

"And it seems to me," he said, "that if Æsop had observed this he would have made a fable from it, how the Deity, wishing to reconcile these warring principles, when he could not do so, united their heads together, and from hence whomsoever the one visits the other attends immediately after; as appears to be the case with me, since I suffered pain in my leg before from the chain, but now pleasure seems to have succeeded.

vous I have been waiting for you an attends.