Gentle his manners, not scornful, nor rude,
For temper in him is allay'd, or subdued:
To all that's benign his religion gives scope,
His Saviour his glory, his pattern, his hope.
Were all men true christians, such virtue elate
E'en evils of nature would greatly abate,
And man might himself Millenium create.
Then would the world become, what it ought to be
A scene of Love and harmless Pleasantry.

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Lines,

ADDRESSED TO THE REV. R. N. F

On his Verses entitled "The Wild Rose."

1

Of little worth is praise to thee,

From one so humble, yet I'm free

To judge a Poet's song;

And pleas'd with fancy, and with grace
Will mark the beauties that I trace,

Nor do thy stanzas wrong.

2

I have no sordid mean desire

To court no favour 1 aspire;

"Man delights not me:"

'Tis mine to judge thy verse alone, And wast thou friendless and forlorn,

Two'd have like eulogy.

3

With native truth, and colouring chaste, I avow thy Wild Rose'grac'd

Poetic imagery:

And had I but a gayer heart,

Thy verse would presently impart

All its best pleasantry.

The Dragon Dame,

AND

THE HAMMER DAME,

A TALE.

1

I SING not ancient chivalry,
Nor do I chaunt some sorry lie,
Though it may strange appear;
A dame I sing, I mourn to tell,
Can curse, and swear, and huff as well
As any Grenadier.

2

The Dragon Dame, for that's the name
On her escutcheon drawn by fame,
Full dread was in the fight;

Her tongue so bold, as I am told,
When it with direst vengeance roll'd,
Belabour'd many a Knight.

3

But as sage Shakspeare makes appear, Two suns can't shine in hemisphere,

So by this tale you'll see :

Two Dames of prowess like in tongue,

That could outring, the bells that rung,

Could never well agree.

4

Another dame there liv'd hard by,

'Twas so decreed by destiny

Of right val'rous name;
Her Lord had crest in chivalry,
A Hammer rampant, so was she,
'Yclep'd the Hammer Dame.

5

It chanc'd one day, as I heard say,
The Dragon Dame met in her way

When she was very cross;

The Hammer Dame who made no stop, Nor even did a curtsey drop,

But both their heads did toss.