Printed for John Bell British Library Strand London,Feb71782.

THE

POETICAL WORKS

O F

MARK AKENSIDE.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

Genius of ancient Greece! whose faithful steps

Have led us to these awful solitudes

Of Nature and of Science; Nurse rever'd
of gen'rous counsels and heroic deeds!

O let some portion of thy matchless praise
Dwell in my breast, and teach me to adorn
This unattempted theme !--- Let me

With blameless hand from thy unenvious fields
Transplant some living blossoms to adorn
My native clime---while to my compatriot youth
I point the great example of thy sons,

And tune to Attic themes the British lyre.

PLEAS OF IMAG. ENLARGED.

Come, AKENSIDE! come with thine Attic urn,
Fill'd from Ilissus by the Naiad's hand:

Thy harp was tun'd to Freedom. Strains like thine,
When Asia's lord bor'd the huge mountain's side
And brid'd the sea, to battle rous'd the tribes
Of ancient Greece.

ANONYM.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF JOHN BELL,

BRITISH LIBRARY, STRAND,

BOOKSELLER TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS
THE PRINCE OF WALES.

1793.