Away went Gilpin, and away Now mistress Gilpin, when she saw Into the country far away, She pulled out half a crown; And thus unto the youth she said, That drove them to the Bell, This shall be your's when you bring back My husband safe and well. The youth did ride, and soon did meet John coming back amain! Whom in a trice he tried to stop, By catching at his rein; But not performing what he meant, Away went Gilpin, and away Went post boy at his heels, The post-boy's horse right glad to miss Six gentlemen upon the road With post-boy scampering in the rear,* Stop thief! stop thief!a highwayman! And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space; The toll-men thinking as before And so he did, and won it too, For he got first to town; Nor stopped till where he had got up He did again get down. Now let us sing, long live the king, And Gilpin, long live he; And, when he next doth ride abroad, AN EPISTLE. то A PROTESTANT LADY IN FRANCE. MADAM, A STRANGER'S purpose in these lays The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Who found not thorns and briars in his road. But he, who knew what human hearts would prove, In pity to the sinners he designed To rescue from the ruins of mankind, And said, "Go spend them in the vale of tears." Oh salutary streams that murmur there, Ah, be not sad, although thy lot be cast Far from the flock, and in a distant waste! No shepherd's tents within thy view appear, But the chief Shepherd is for ever near; Thy tender sorrows and thy plaintive strain Flow in a foreign land, but not in vain; Thy tears all issue from a source divine, And every drop bespeaks a Saviour thine'Twas thus in Gideon's fleece the dews were found, And drought on all the drooping herbs around. TO THE REV. W. CAWTHORNE UNWIN. I. UNWIN, I should but ill repay Thy name omitted in a page, II. An union formed, as mine with thee, And faithful in its sort, And may as rich in comfort prove, III. The bud inserted in the rind, Adorns, though differing in its kind, |