When WALLER, kindling with celestial rage,
View'd the bright Harley of that wond'ring age,
His pleafing pain he taught the lute to breathe;
The Graces fung, and wove his myrtle wreath.----
His Mufe, by Nature form'd to please the fair,
Or fing of heroes with majestick air,
To melting trains attun'd her voice, and firove
To waken all the tender pow'rs of love.----
The florid and fublime, the grave and gay,
From WALLER'S beams imbibe a purer ray.----
Maker and model of melodious verfe!
Accept thefe votive honours at thy hearfe.

FENTON.

Bell's fecond edition.

VOL. II.

EDINBURG:

AT THE Apollo Prefs, BY THE MARTINS.

Anno 1784.

Tho' poets may of inspiration boast,
Their rage, ill-govern'd, in the clouds is loft.
He that proportion'd wonders can difclofe,
At once his fancy and his judgment fhows.
Chafte moral writing we may learn from hence,
Neglect of which no wit can recompenfe.

Well-founding verfes are the charm we ufe,
Heroick thoughts and virtue to infufe.
Things of deep sense we may in profe unfold,
But they move more in lofty numbers told :----
For rudeft minds with harmony were caught,
And civil life was by the Mufes taught.

POEM TO LORD ROSCOMMON.

EDINBURG:

AT THE Apollo Prefs, BY THE MARTINS.
Anno 1784.