And fee, with visionary haste
(Too foon the gay delufion pafl)
Reality remains!

Defpair has feiz'd my captive foul;
And horror drives without controul,
And flackens ftill the reins.*

Ten thousand beauties round me throng;
What beauties, fay, ye nymphs, belong.
To the diftemper'd foul?

I fee the lawn of hideous dye;

The towering elm nods mifery ;
With groans the waters roll.

Ye gilded roofs, Palladian domes,
Ye vivid tints of Perfia's looms,

Ye were for misery made.-
'Twas thus the Man of Sorrow fpoke;
His wayward step then penfive took
Along th' unhallow'd fhade,

Published by JRoach, Woburn Street New Drury Theatre Royal. 1795.

OACH'S BEAUTIES OF THE POETS N? XXIV.

THE CHOICE.

by Dr Churchl.

BEE the ANT and the SPARROW.

by Dr Cotton.

An Efsay upon Satire.
Dryden & Buckingham.

ODE TO MELANCHOLY.

by Mr Ogelvie.

THE OFFICIOUS MESSENGER.

by Mr Sommerville.

&c. &c.

LONDON. Printed by and for I. Roach, at the Britannia Printing Office. Woburn Street, New Drury Theatre Royal July. 1.1795.