Her air, her manners, all who saw admir’d; Courteous though coy, and gentle though retir’d;the joy of youth and health her eyes display’d, And ease of heart her every look convey’d.

A warm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. Stanzas subjoined to a Bill of Mortality.

His head, Not yet by time completely silver’d o’er, Be spoke him past the bounds of freakish youth, But strong for service still, and unimpair’d.

Alas! They had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy live in realms above; And life is thorny, and youth is vain, And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.

England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.

The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesians dome Outlives in fame the pious fool that raised it.

In my hot youth, when George the Third was king.

And I loved thee, Ocean! And my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy breakers,

And trusted to thy billows for and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane,-as I do here.

All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.

In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As “fail.”