ODE to HYMEN
BY PETER PINDAR
GOD of ten million charming things,
Of whom our Milton To divinely lings,
Oner dove-ui I'd to a devil ot a wife—
Hymen, how comes it that I am so flighted ?
Whv with thy myft'ries aw I not delighted,
Which I have try'd to peep on half my life ?
God ot the down-clad chains, dispel the mist—
O put me fpcedily upon thy lift !
A civil lift, like that of Kings, I'm told,
Bringing in swelling bags ot glorious gold !
What hnve I done to lose thy good opinion ?
Agamft thee was 1 ever known to rail;
And (ay, (abusing thus thy sweet dominion)
11 Curie me! if thi» Boy's trap ftiall catcil my tail ?"
PJo! no!—I praise thy knot with bellowing bieath,
Which, like Jack Ketch's, seldom Hips till death.
* Lo! 'mtdftthe hollow-founding vault of night,
Deep coughing by the taper's lonely light,
The hopeless He&ic rolls his eyeballs, sighing :
" Sleep on," he cries, and drops the tend'reft tear;
Then kifTcs his wife's cherub cheek so dear :
" Blest be thy (lumbers, Love ! tho I am dying,
Ah ! whillt thou flcepctt with the fwectell bieath,
I pump, for life, the putrid well of death !
I feel of fate's hard hand th' oppteflive pow'r;
I count the iron tongue ot ev'ry hour,
That fcems in Fancy's startled car to fay —
Soon mull thou wander from ihy wife away.
" Dread found ! too folc mn for the foul to bear,
Murm'ring deep melancholy on my ear :
And fullen —lingering, as if loth to part,
And cafe the teirors of my fainting heart.
Yet, tho I pant for life, sleep thou, my dove,
Eor well thy constancy deserves my love."
And, lo! all young and beauteous, by his fide,
His fofi, frelh blooming, incenfe-breathmg Bride,
Whose check the dream of rapt'rous kiflls warms,
Anticipates her spouse's wilh so good ;
Feels love's wild ardours tingling through her blood,
And panis amidst a Jecond husband's arms ;
Now opes her eves, and, turning round her head,
" Wonders the filthy fellow is not dead!"
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box, containing four clocks and one dozen teftainents; 1 ditio
containing one bottle green cloth coat, one Itriped veit and
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30s. feifcy coppers; 1 keg containing a large bible, with other
f nail hooks;. 1 box containing 447 real oltiirh feathers, some i.f
'hem large and elegant, and of different colours; 2 barrels rye
meal, branded Stout and Imlay; t barrel pork, 1 ream paper, and
j dozen plile-boards. Stolen at the fame time, a large Bat'teau
wiih black fides.
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