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OF

HIS OWN CHARACTER.

[This was written in 1761, and was found in one of his Po

Books.]

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to

portune;

He had not the method of making a fortune Could love, and could hate, so was thought s what odd;

NO VERY GREAT WIT, HE BELIEV'D IN A C A Post or a Pension he did not desire,

But left Church and State to Charles Towns and Squire.

OF

IN CHARACTER

and was frond in one of his Pocke Books]

Sribe, and too proud to i

od of making a fortune: hate, so was thought some

T, HE BELIEV'D IN A GOD e did not desire, tate to Charles Townshend

ATTRIBUTED T

MR. GRA

WERE NEVER BEFORE C

[The first of these (Lyric Stanzas) might which he thought it not necessary to giv With respect to the other three jeux d'e reason for their being anonymously sent f obvious to every Reader.]

LYRIC STANZ

THYRSIS, when he left me,

In the Spring he would retur Ah! what means the op'ning f

And the bud that decks the t 'Twas the nightingale that sung 'Twas the lark that upward spr

Spare the honour of my love.

my fears to move

my love.

for the eccentricities of his character, as for h A Mr. Tyson, of Bene't College, made an et presented it to Mr. Gray, who wrote under i

THUS Tophet look'd; so grin

fiend,

Whilst frighted prelates bow'd,
friend.

Our mother-church, with half-av
Blush'd as she bless'd her grimly
Hosannas rung thro' Hell's treme
And Satan's self had thoughts of

SEAT AND RUINS OF A DECEASED NOBLEM

AT KINGSGATE, KENT.

OLD, and abandon'd by each venal friend

Here Hd took the pious resolution To smuggle a few years, and strive to mend A broken character and constitution.

On this congenial spot he fix'd his choice; Earl Goodwin trembled for his neighb'ring: Here sea-gulls scream, and cormorants rejoic And mariners, though shipwreck'd, fear to

Here reigns the blust'ring North and blighting

No tree is heard to whisper, bird to sing; Yet Nature could not furnish out the feast,

Art he invokes new terrors still to bring.

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