Twice thirty annual funs have run their race, Since firft I took thee to my fond embrace; Since first I led thee to the nuptial fhrine, And in our youth thy hand was join'd to mine. Now thefe hoar hairs are crown'd'with So man, when youth in vanity is part, In weak old age, finks to the grave at laft. Intomb'd-he paffes o'er that fated bourn, From which the trav'ller never fhall return: Till Nature be into confufion hurl'd, And ruin reign through all th' expiring world. See how the jovial youngsters fport. and play, Free'd from the labours of the fultry day. Mark yonder rofy girl in auburn drefs, Who romps about in wanton playfulness; Doft thou not, Camela, in her retrace, The ev'ry feature of the Jeffy's face? At this, alas! thy fond maternal eye, Drops a fad tear, thy bofom heaves a figh; No fairer flow'r e'er flourish'd on the lawn, Or fpread its op'ning blushes to the dawn. Short time,alas! did fhe our care employ Our only comfort, and our only joy; For death, fell tyrant, arm'd a deadly blow, And laid our child, our lovely darling,low: Cruel! 'gainst youth and beauty war to wage, And rend the bofom of defpairing age: No pray'rs, no tears, his ruthless hand could stay, Barb'rous! he fnatch'd our only bliss away. But whither did the pledge of mutual love, Our dearest Jeffey, from us then remove? The grave receiv'd her; there in peace fhe lies, Free from all cares, and all anxieties. Why should I ftrive to raise again the grief, To which the hand of time has brought relief; With refignation let us all endure, Thus Damon talk'd, till night eclips'd On the Variation in the Temper- ature of Climates at different of Gr. Brit. by Monf. de Luc, 141 State of the mind on the Tops of of the Motions of Animals with thofe of Plants: By M. Brouf- Anecdotes of Peter Pindar, Efq 161 VoL. VI. N° 33 148 156 Page 170 Speech of Logan, an Indian Chief, Anecdote; from Riefbeck's Tra- rabs of Syria: By M. Volney, 174 Remarks on Rouffeau's EMILIUS 182 An Exercife in the Scotish Dia- |