Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TO A FRIEND, WITH AN EMBLEMATICAL PICTURE OF JOT, COPIED FROM A PRINT BY THE AUTHOR. Whilst here my ling'ring days may humbly end, May heartfelt Joy thy precious hours attend ; Still may her smiling looks diffuse that ray, Which brightens thought, and makes our Winter Never—oh never—may her form depart Too far, my friend,—but fix her on thy heart! When each soft stroke shall fade and disappear, Of that faint image, which I give thee here— Know, that I wish thee then that solid bliss, As freely thine, tho' not to frail as this! And own (if e'er thy mem'ry shou'd recall Some heedless word, that from my lips might fall) Say, I aton'd for all my errors past, And faithful Friendship gave thee Joy at last. HOSPITALITY. ADDRBSSED TO A GENTLEMAN OF LIBERAL CHARACTER. In that dark season of the circling year, When gath'ring skies and leafless groves appear, When Nature trembles at the midnight storm, And sees the howling wind her charms deform, When all her treasure—all her boundless store, Her rich luxuriant paintings are no more ! And dismal glooms shall shadow ev'ry place, Where once she revell'd with superior grace ; In that dark season, mournful and forlorn, Can Fancy then the dreary waste adorn ? — Ah, no! the trench'rous maid denies her art, The desolated prospect chills the heart ! Or else to gayer scenes she quickly flies— Magnificence and Pleasure charm her eyes ! And crowded streets, with dazzling torches shine, And ev'ry charm, oh London ! that is thine !— Lut Fancy, know, imperial as thou art, A nobler pow'r than thine may reach the heart; In wintry skies may gild the cheerless day, And chase the intellectual gloom away ; May more than Pleasure, more than crowds present, Fair smiling Harmony and sweet... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.