But days like these, with doubting curs'd, Am I despis'd-I know the worst, If, false, her vows she dare renounce, For oh! that heart must break at once [R. B. SHERIDAN.] Ask's thou "how long my love shall stay, "When all that's new is past?" How long? ah, Delia ! can I say And does that thought affect thee too, Must yield his faithful breath? THE ROSE. [COWPER.] TH E rose had been wash'd, just wash'd in a show'r, The plentiful moisture encumber'd the flow'r, The cups were all fill'd, and the leaves were all wet, And it seem'd, to a fanciful view, To weep for the buds it had left with regret On the flourishing bush where it grew. I hastily seiz'd it, unfit as is was For a nosegay, so dripping and drown'd, And such I exclaim'd, is the pitiless part, This elegant rose, had I shaken it less, Might have bloom'd with its owner awhile, And the tear that is wip'd with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile. SALLY IN OUR ALLEY. [HENRY CAREY.] Or all the girls that are so smart, Her father he makes cabbage-nets, And through the steets does cry 'em; Her mother she sells laces long, To such as please to buy 'em : But sure such folks could ne'er beget So sweet a girl as Sally ! When she is by, I leave my work 1 But, let him bang his belly full, Of all the days that's in the week, I dearly love but one day; And that's the day that comes betwixt To walk abroad with Sally; My master carries me to church, Because I leave him in the lurch, I leave the church in sermon time, And slink away to Sally; She is the darling of my heart And she lives in our alley. When Christmas comes about again, I'll hoard it up, and box it all, I would it were ten thousand pounds, She is the darling of my heart, My master and the neighbours all, A slave, and row a galley; But when my seven long years are out, Oh then I'll marry Sally, Oh then we'll wed, and then we'll bed, But not in our alley. [VANBRUGH.] I SMILE at Love, and all his arts, Once free, and bless'd, as you are now, I trifled with his charms, In pointed at his little bow, And sported with his arms : |