No, fly me, fly me, far as Pole from Pole; Rife Alps between us! and whole Oceans roll! Ah, come not, write not, think not once of me, Nor share one Pang of all I felt for thee. Thy Oaths I quit, thy Memory refign; Forget, renounce me, hate whate'er was mine. Fair Eyes, and tempting Looks (which yet I view!)

Long lov'd, ador'd Ideas, all adieu !

O Grace ferene! Oh Virtue heav'nly Fair!
Divine Oblivion of low-thoughted Care!
Fresh blooming Hope, gay Daughter of the Sky!
And Faith, our early Immortality!

Enter, each mild, each amicable Gueft;
Receive, and wrap me in eternal Reft!
See in her Cell fad Eloïsa spread,

Propt on fome Tomb, a Neighbour of the dead!
In each low Wind methinks a Spirit calls,
And more than Echoes talk along the Walls.
Here, as I watch'd the dying Lamps around,
From yonder Shrine I heard a hollow Sound..
• Come, Sifter, come! (it faid, or feem'd to fay)
Thy Place is here, fad Sifter, come away!
• Once like thyfelf, I trembled, wept,and pray'd,
• Love's Victim then, tho' now a fainted Maid:
• But all is calm in this eternal Sleep;

• Here Grief forgets to groan, and Love to weep, Ev'n Superftition lofes ev'ry Fear:

For God, not Man, abfolves our Frailties

' here.'

I

I come, I come! prepare your roseate Bow'rs, Celestial Palms, and ever-blooming Flow'rs, Thither, where Sinners may have rest, I go, Where Flames refin'd in Breasts feraphic glow: Thou, Abelard! the laft fad Office pay,

And smooth my Passage to the Realms of Day;
See my Lips tremble, and my Eyeballs roll,
Suck my last Breath, and catch my flying Soul !
Ah no-in facred Vestments may'st thou stand,
The hallow'd Taper trembling in thy Hand,
Present the Cross before my lifted Eye,
Teach me at once, and learn of me to die.
Ah then, thy once lov'd Eloïfa fee!
It will be then no Crime to gaze on me.
See from my Cheek the tranfient Rofes fly!
See the laft Sparkle languish in my Eye!
'Till ev'ry Motion, Pulse, and Breath be o'er;
And ev❜n my
Abelard belov'd no more.
O Death all-eloquent! you only prove

What Duft we doat on,when 'tis Man we love.
Then too, when Fate fhall thy fair Frame

destroy,

(That Cause of all my Guilt, and all my Joy) In Trance extatic may thy Pangs be drown'd, Bright Clouds descend, and Angels watch thee round,

From openingSkies may ftreamingGlories shine, And Saints embrace thee with a Love like mine.

May

May* one kind Grave unite each hapless
Name,

And graft my Love immortal on thy Fame!
Then, Ages hence, when all my Woes are o'er,
When this Rebellious Heart fhall beat no more;
If ever Chance two wand'ring Lovers brings
To Paraclete's white Walls and filver Springs,
O'er the paleMarble shall they join their Heads,
And drink the falling Tear each other sheds ;
Then fadly fay, with mutual Pity mov'd,
"Oh may we never love as these have lov'd!
From the full Choir when loud Hofanna's rife,
And fwell the Pomp of dreadful Sacrifice,
Amid that Scene, if fome relenting Eye
Glance on the Stone where our cold Relicks lie,
Devotion's felf fhall fteal a Thought from Heav'n,
One human Tear fhall drop, and be forgiv'n.
And fure if Fate fome future Bard shall join
In fad Similitude of Griefs to mine,
Condemn'd whole Years in Abfence to deplore,
And image Charms he must behold no more;
Such if there be, who loves fo long, fo well;
Let him our fad, our tender Story tell;
The well-fung Woes will footh my penfive
Ghoft;

He best can paint 'em who shall feel 'em most.

* Abelard and Elisa were interred in the fame Grave, or in Monuments adjoining, in the Monaftery of the Paraclete: He died in the Year 1142, fhe in 1163.

CORESUS

CORESUS and CALLIRRHOE,

A

A TAL E.

Ttend, ye Fair, and learn what Pains await Relentless Beauty, and the Virgin's Hate. Tho' long the Lover, worn with anxious Care, Unpity'd figh, and urge a fruitless Prayer; Yet ftung with late Remorfe the Nymph fhall prove,

And mourn the dire Effects of injur❜d Love.

Where wide outstretch'd the spacious* Patras

lay,

To Phoebus facred, God of Health and Day,
Corefus liv'd, Corefus full of Truth,

The Pride and Envy of the Grecian Youth.
Prieft of the laurell'd Deity, he ferv'd

The Fane, nor from his Charge, incurious, fwery'd.

Comely, and fraught with ev'ry winning Grace,
He feem'd himself the Patron of the Place.
At length a fofter God his Soul poffefs'd,
And all the Wanton revell'd in his Breaft:
Callirrhoe's winning Charms new Warmth in-
spire,

Glow in his Heart, and kindle fierce Defire.

* A City in Greece,

Faireft Attractive of the fairer Kind,

But cold, as nourish'd by the Mountain Hind: With Vows and Tears he told his tender Tale, Nor preffing Vows, nor flowing Tears avail; With haughty Airfhe mock'd his am'rous Grief, Nor deign'd a diftant Profpect of Relief.

With Scorn rejected, foon he ftrove to tame
Th' imperious Gueft, and quench the rifing.
Flame:

Luckless Attempt! unequal in the Strife,
He found it rooted, and a Part of Life.
With Wishes pure, he woo'd her to his Side,
No loose Companion, but a fpotless Bride.
But vain were all his Meafures; ill-advis'd
She deem'd intreating Friends, and Wealth de-
fpis'd.

Thus, 'midft the Horrors of the Tyrrhene Deep,
While circling Winds around her Bosom sweep,
While Waves on Waves fucceeding lend their
Aid,

And rifing, with united Force invade,

Unmov'd, the barb'rous Scylla rears her Head, Proud in her Strength, and stands the Pilot's Dread.

With wakeful Pains and hopelefs Paffion spent, Enquiring, to the golden Shrine he went ; Around the Temple as his Footsteps roam, Indignant Murmurs fill the folemn Dome; Dear to his God, yet no Return ensu'd, No wish'd Return indulg'd the Vow renew'd.

Now