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The Union: Or, Select Scots and English Poems

The Union: Or, Select Scots and English Poems

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by Mr. Hammond

47 The Tears of Scotland, 1746. 62 An Elegy written in a country church-yard, by Mr. Grey 65 On the Death of Prince Frederic. Written at Paris, by David Lord Viscount Stormont 70 On the same, by Mr. James Clitherow of Oxford 75 Ode on the Approach of Summer, by a Gentleman formerly of the University of Aberdeen 81 A Pastoral in the manner of Spenser, from Theocritus, Idyll. 20. By the same 94 Inscribed on a beautiful Grotto near the Water 96 Love Elegy, by Mr. Smollet 97 A Panegyric on Oxford Ale, by a Gentleman of Trinity College 99 The Progress of Discontent, by the Same. 105 Ode to Arthur Onslow, Esq; 109 Job, Chapter XXXIX. By a Gentleman of Oxford 113 Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson, by Mr. Collins 116 The Child-Birth, in the manner of Gay 119 On a Lady's presenting a Sprig of Myrtle to a Gentleman, by Mr. Hammond 125 To a Young Lady with Fontenelle's Plurality of Worlds 126 Ode on the Fifth of December, by Mr. Christopher Smart 128 Part of the Prologue to Sir David Lyndesay's Dream. Written in the Reign of King James V. 129 Hardyknute, a Fragment 132 Ode. By Dr. Akenside, on Lyric Poetry 147

A POEM IN HONOUR OF

MARGARET

DAUGHTER TO

HENRY VII. OF ENGLAND,

QUEEN TO

JAMES IV. KING OF SCOTS.

BY WILLIAM DUNBAR.

The Thistle and the Rose,
O'er flowers and herbage green,
By Lady Nature chose,
Brave King and lovely Queen.

I.

When March with varying winds was overpast,
And sweet April had with his silver showers
Ta'n leave of Nature with an orient blast,
And lusty May, that mother is of flowers,
Had made the birds begin by tymous hours;
Among the tender odours red and white,
Whose harmony to her was great delight.

II.

In bed at morrow, sleeping as I lay,
Methought Aurora with her ruby ene,
In at my window looked by the day,
And halsit me with visage pale and green;
Upon her hand a lark sang frae the spleen,
"Lovers, awake out of your slumbering.
"See how the lusty morning does upspring."

III.

Methought fresh May before my bed upstood,
In weed depainted of ilk diverse hue,
Sober, benign, and full of mansuetude,
In bright attire of flowers, all forged new,
Of heavenly colour, white, red, brown and blue,
Balmit in dew, and gilt with Phebus' beams,
While all the house illumin'd with her leams.

IV.

Sluggard, she said, awake anon for shame,
And in mine honour something thou go write;
The lark has done, the merry day proclaim,
Lovers to raise with comfort and

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