STANZAS, 303 Addressed to Lady Hesketh, by a Lady, in returning a Poem of Mr. Cowper's, lent to the Writer, on condition she should neither shew it, nor take a copy. WHAT wonder! if my wavering hand Had dar'd to disobey, When Hesketh gave a harsh command, And Cowper led astray. Then take this tempting gift of thine, Or teach me to forget? More lasting than the touch of art, Cowper's Reply. To be remember'd thus is fame, And in the first degree; So Homer in the memory stor'd Of many a Greecian belle, Was once preserv’d—a richer hoard, But never lodg'd so well! APPENDIX. (No. 2.) TRANSLATIONS of GREEK VERSES. From the Greek of Julianus. A SPARTAN, his companions slain, Alone from battle fled, His mother, kindling with disdain That she had borne him, struck him dead; For courage, and not birth alone, In Sparta, testifies a son! On the same, by Palladas. A SPARTAN 'scaping from the fight, His mother met him in his flight, Upheld a faulchion to his breast, "Thou canst but live to blot with shame "Indelible thy mother's name, "While ev'ry breath that thou shalt draw, "Offends against thy country's law; "But My name-my country-what are they to thee? Suffice it, stranger! that thou see'st a tomb- Another. TAKE to thy bosom, gentle earth, a swain He fill'd with grain the glebe, the rills he led, VOL. II. R R Another. Another. PAINTER, this likeness is too strong, Another. AT three-score winters end I died By Callimachus. Ат morn we placed on his funereal bier Young Melanippus; and at even tide, By her own hand his blooming sister died. Thus Aristippus mourn'd his noble race, Nor son could hope, nor daughter more t' embrace, On Miltiades. MILTIADES! thy valour best (Although in every region known) The men of Persia can attest, Taught by thyself at Marathon.. On ៩ On an Infant. BEWAIL not much, my parents! Me, the prey An infant, in my fifth scarce finish'd year, By Heraclides. IN Cnidus born, the consort I became On the Reed. I Was of late a barren plant, Nor fig, nor grape, nor apple bore, A native of the marshy shore, But gather'd for poetic use, And plung❜d into a sable juice, RR 2 Of |