light?
When such your genius, who shall dare to write?
In pure respect, I give my rhyming o'er,
And, to commend you most, commend no more.

Adieu, whoe'er thou art! on death's pale coast
Erelong I'll talk thee o'er with Dryden's ghost;
The bard will smile. A last, a long farewell!
Henceforth I hide me in my dusky cell;
There wait the friendly stroke that sets me free,
And think of immortality and thee--
My strains are number'd by the tuneful Nine;
Each maid presents her thanks, and all present thee mine.

VERSES

Sent by Lord Melcombe to Dr. Young, Not Long Before His Lordship's
Death.(68)

Kind companion of my youth,
Lov'd for genius, worth, and truth!
Take what friendship can impart,
Tribute of a feeling heart;
Take the muse's latest spark,(69)
Ere we drop into the dark.
He, who parts and virtue gave,
Bad thee look beyond the grave
Genius soars, and virtue guides;
Above, the love of God presides.
There's a gulf 'twixt us and God;
Let the gloomy path be trod:
Why stand shivering on the shore?
Why not boldly venture o'er?
Where unerring virtue guides,
Let us have the winds and tides:
Safe, through seas of doubts and fears,
Rides the bark which virtue steers.

The End

FOOTNOTES

1 The Duke of Marlborough.

2 Westminster Abbey.

3 Founders of New College, Corpus Christi, and All Souls, in Oxford;
of all which the author was a member.

4 Here she embraces them.

5 Val. Max.

6 Horace.

7 A famous statue.

8 A famous tailor.

9 This refers to the first satire.

10 The name of a tulip.

11 Letters sent to the author, signed Marcus.

12 Milton.

13 A Danish dog of the Duke of Argyle.

14 Lap-dog.

15 Shakespeare.

16 ----Solem quis dicere falsum
Audeat?

Virg.

17 Shakespeare.

18 Milton.

19 Amphitryon.

20 The king in danger by sea.

21 Hom. Il. lib. I.

22 Ecce Deus ramum Lethaeo rore madentem, &c.

Virg.

23 A new fund for Greenwich hospital, recommended from the throne.

24 Written soon after King George