WRITTEN in Friar's Carfe Hermitage Ode to the Memory of Mrs. of - Hallow E’en, different from that in First Vol. Epistle to Mr. Walter Ruddiman * Lament for James Earl of Glencairn Lines sent to Sir John Whiteford, with the fore- On seeing a wounded Hare a fellow had shot 63 Address to the Shade of Thomson CON T E N T S. Be thou clad in russet weed, Life is but a day at most, As Youth and Love with sprightly dance, feneath thy morning star advance, Pleasure with her firen air May delude the thoughtless pair; Let Prudence bless Enjoyment's cup, Then raptured fip and fip it up. As thy day grows warm and high, As thy shades of evening close, Beck’ning thee to long repose ; As life itself becomes difeafe, Seek the chimney-nook of ease. 1 here ruminate with sober thought ; On all thou'st seen, and heard, and wrought ; And teach the fportive younkers round, Saws of experience, sage and found. Say, man's true, genuinc eftimate, The grand criterion of his fate, Is not, art thou high or low ? Did thy fortune ebb or flow? Did many talents gild thy span? Thus, resigned and quiet, creep } Stranger, go! Heaven be thy guide! Quoth ihe Beadsman of Nith-fide. |