Poems on Several Occasions In Two Volumes. By Mr. Joseph Mitchell |
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AN ODE ON Mr. W---r's Birth-Day, July 14. |
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AN ODE ON Mr. W---r's Birth-Day, July 14.
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The Day is come—Ye happy Few,When friendly W---r invites,
To Principles of Love be true,
Nor bound the Tide of your Delights.
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Hence, gloomy Thought, and anxious Care!Be hush, black Scandal, Strife, and Noise!
May the dear Youth's succeeding Year
Be usher'd in, with lucky Joys.
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With Pomp unusual, God of Light,Go on, to grace th' auspicious Hours;
Nor shroud thy Beams in sable Night,
'Till Wine has made Elyzium ours.
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Boy, fill the Bowl—The Bowl aloneCan give a Sanction to the Day:
We need no other sacred Stone
To mark the Time, and make us gay.
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I, who peculiar Interest boast,Devote, at once, my Muse and Heart:
My Soul in W---'s is lost,
And his is grown the better Part.
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O may his Mind and Fame improve,'Till hoary Honours grace his Head!
May Merit, now, procure him Love;
And eternize his Memory, dead.
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