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Poetry.
POETRY .
AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN REED , WHO WAS LOST IN THE BORROWDALE , OCTOBER 31 , 17 8 9 . BY TIIE REV . JOHN HAMPSON .
THE following verses are inscribed to the memory of an amiable young man , who commanded the Borrowdale in the voyage to Botany Bay , and who -villous be regretted by his friends , as an ornament to society , and an honour to his profession . The intimation that he foresaw * his fate is literally true ; for a day or two before he sailed he was observed , for perhaps the first time in his life , to he remarkably dejected and out of spirits : and it is a singular circumstance , that a boy on board the same ship was several nights so disturbed by dreaming of . storms and shipwrecks that he absolutely reiused to go , and by this means saved his life . It is proper to add , that the lines marked ' with inverted commas are a translation , or , if the reader pleases , an imitation of the first part of the Third Ode of Horace .
" // ~ ^ ° > trusty bark , and , dearer to my heart ' OT " Than all that wealth or pleasure can afford , " Back to his Latium bear my better part ; " Nor let these plains deplore their absent lord . " Stedfast as fate his fierce unconquer'd mind , " Than triple brass more firm his mighty soul , " That to the ocean first and raging wind
" Gave the frail plank , and sought the distant pole ; " That , undismay'd , the watry region tried , " While on the lofty deck the hero stood ; " Pleas'd o ' er the subject main secure to ride , " And meet the fury of the boist ' rous flood . " What form of death , what evil should he fear , " Who heardunmov'dth' impetuous billows ?
, , roar " Saw the huge monsters of the deep appear , " And the swift ships retiring from the shore ? " Saw where the South his ancient empire boasts , * ' O ' er sullen Adria , and her gloomy wave ; " And high Acroceramiia guards the coast , " Whose ragged rocks the idle tempests brave ? " In vain did Heav'n the distant lands divide
, " And sever from th' inhospitable main , " If men presumptuous dare the treach ' rous tide , " And sense of danger sink in thirst of gain 1 " So sung the bard of yore , whose tuneful hand On Tyber's banks first wak'd the lyric strain ; So sad Eliza from the northern strand , In softest accents blest her parting swain .
Curst be the wretch that , piercing first the tomb Where long the shining ruin lay confin'd , Saw the vile ore , and from earth ' s hollow womb Four ' il forth the baleful influence on mankind .
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Poetry.
POETRY .
AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN REED , WHO WAS LOST IN THE BORROWDALE , OCTOBER 31 , 17 8 9 . BY TIIE REV . JOHN HAMPSON .
THE following verses are inscribed to the memory of an amiable young man , who commanded the Borrowdale in the voyage to Botany Bay , and who -villous be regretted by his friends , as an ornament to society , and an honour to his profession . The intimation that he foresaw * his fate is literally true ; for a day or two before he sailed he was observed , for perhaps the first time in his life , to he remarkably dejected and out of spirits : and it is a singular circumstance , that a boy on board the same ship was several nights so disturbed by dreaming of . storms and shipwrecks that he absolutely reiused to go , and by this means saved his life . It is proper to add , that the lines marked ' with inverted commas are a translation , or , if the reader pleases , an imitation of the first part of the Third Ode of Horace .
" // ~ ^ ° > trusty bark , and , dearer to my heart ' OT " Than all that wealth or pleasure can afford , " Back to his Latium bear my better part ; " Nor let these plains deplore their absent lord . " Stedfast as fate his fierce unconquer'd mind , " Than triple brass more firm his mighty soul , " That to the ocean first and raging wind
" Gave the frail plank , and sought the distant pole ; " That , undismay'd , the watry region tried , " While on the lofty deck the hero stood ; " Pleas'd o ' er the subject main secure to ride , " And meet the fury of the boist ' rous flood . " What form of death , what evil should he fear , " Who heardunmov'dth' impetuous billows ?
, , roar " Saw the huge monsters of the deep appear , " And the swift ships retiring from the shore ? " Saw where the South his ancient empire boasts , * ' O ' er sullen Adria , and her gloomy wave ; " And high Acroceramiia guards the coast , " Whose ragged rocks the idle tempests brave ? " In vain did Heav'n the distant lands divide
, " And sever from th' inhospitable main , " If men presumptuous dare the treach ' rous tide , " And sense of danger sink in thirst of gain 1 " So sung the bard of yore , whose tuneful hand On Tyber's banks first wak'd the lyric strain ; So sad Eliza from the northern strand , In softest accents blest her parting swain .
Curst be the wretch that , piercing first the tomb Where long the shining ruin lay confin'd , Saw the vile ore , and from earth ' s hollow womb Four ' il forth the baleful influence on mankind .