The works in verse and prose of William Shenstone, Esq: most of which were never before printed . Venus, Venus, here retird^My fober ygws I pay:Not her on Paphian plains admirMThe bold, the pert, the gay. Not her, whofe amorous leer prevaird To bribe the Phrygian boy;Not her who, clad in armour faild. To fave difaftrous TrojF. Frefh rifmg from the foamy tide. She every bofom warms jWhile half withdrawn flie feems to hide> And half reveals, her charms* Learn hence, ye boaftful fons of taftc. Who plan the rural fhade;Leam hence to fliun the vicious wafle Of pomp, at large difplayd. Let fweet
The works in verse and prose of William Shenstone, Esq: most of which were never before printed . Venus, Venus, here retird^My fober ygws I pay:Not her on Paphian plains admirMThe bold, the pert, the gay. Not her, whofe amorous leer prevaird To bribe the Phrygian boy;Not her who, clad in armour faild. To fave difaftrous TrojF. Frefh rifmg from the foamy tide. She every bofom warms jWhile half withdrawn flie feems to hide> And half reveals, her charms* Learn hence, ye boaftful fons of taftc. Who plan the rural fhade;Leam hence to fliun the vicious wafle Of pomp, at large difplayd. Let fweet concealments magic art Your mazy bounds inveft jAnd while the fight unveils a part, Let fancy paint the reft. Let coy refervc with coft unite To grace your wood or field; Ko ray obtrufive pall the fight, In aught you paint, or build. 5 And THE LEASOWES. 371 And far be driven the fumptuous glareOf gold, from Britifli groves; And far the meretricious airOf Chinas vain alcoves. Tis bafliful beauty ever twines The mod coercive chain;Tis (he, that fovreign rule declines, Who bed deferves to VERSES T O Mr. S H E N S T O N E. Written at a Fcrme Ornee, near Birmingham^By the late Lady Luxborough* */ I ^ IS Nature here bids pleafmg fcenes arife,M And wifely gives them Cynthio to revife *To veil each blemifli; brighten every grace;Yet ftill preferve the lovely parents well the bard obeys, each valley tells jThefe lucid flreams, gay meads, and lonely cells modefl art in filence lurks conceald,While nature fhines fo gracefully Ihe triumphant claims the total plan,And, with frefh pride, adopts the work of man. To 374 VERSESTO To William Shenstone, theLEAsowEs,By Mr. Graves of Claverton. Vellem in amicitia fic erraremus! * Hor. SE E! the tall youth, by partial fates decree,To affluence born, and from reflraint fet he feeks the fcenes of gay mall, the rout, the play-houfe, and the court:Soon for fome varnilht nymph of dubious
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