Oh! lay me where my Rosa lies,
  And love shall o’er the moss-crown’d bed,
When dew-drops leave the weeping skies,
  His tenderest tear of pity shed.

And sacred shall the willow be,
  That shades the spot where virtue sleeps;
And mournful memory weep to see
  The hallow’d watch affection keeps.

Yes, soul of love! this bleeding heart
  Scarce beating, soon its griefs shall cease;
Soon from his woes the suff’rer part,
  And hail thee at the Throne of Peace!

LINES,

WRITTEN IN HORNSEY WOOD.

Oh, ye! who pine, in London smoke immur’d,
With spirits wearied, and with pains uncur’d,
With all the catalogue of city evils,
Colds, asthmas, rheumatisms, coughs, blue-devils! 
Who bid each bold empiric roll in wealth,
Who drains your fortunes while he saps your health,
So well ye love your dirty streets and lanes,
Ye court your ailments and embrace your pains.

And scarce ye know, so little have ye seen,
If corn be yellow, or if grass be green;
Why leave ye not your smoke-obstructed holes
With wholesome air to cheer your sickly souls? 
In scenes where health’s bright goddess ’wakes the breeze,
Floats on the stream, and fans the whisp’ring trees,
Soon would the brighten’d eye her influence speak,
And her full roses flush the faded cheek.

Then, where romantic Hornsey courts the eye
With all the charms of sylvan scenery. 
Let the pale sons of diligence repair,
And pause, like me, from sedentary care;
Here, the rich landscape spreads profusely wide,
And here, embowering shades the prospect hide;

Each mazy walk in wild meanders moves,
And infant oaks, luxuriant, grace the groves: 
Oaks! that by time matur’d, remov’d afar,
Shall ride triumphant, ’midst the wat’ry war;
Shall blast the bulwarks of Britannia’s foes,
And claim her empire, wide as ocean flows!

O’er all the scene, mellifluous and bland,
The blissful powers of harmony expand;
Soft sigh the zephyrs ’mid the still retreats,
And steal from Flora’s lips ambrosial sweets;
Their notes of love the feather’d songsters sing,
And Cupid peeps behind the vest of Spring.

Ye swains! who ne’er obtain’d with all your sighs,
One tender look from Chloe’s sparkling eyes,
In shades like these her cruelty assail,
Here, whisper soft your amatory tale;
The scene to sympathy the maid shall move,
And smiles propitious, crown your slighted love.

While the fresh air with fragrance, Summer fills,
And lifts her voice, heard jocund o’er the hills
All jubilant, the waving woods display
Her gorgeous gifts, magnificently gay! 
The wond’ring eye beholds these waving woods
Reflected bright in artificial floods,
And still, the tufts of clust’ring shrubs between,
Like passing sprites, the nymphs and swains are seen;
’Till fancy triumphs in th’exulting breast,
And care shrinks back, astonish’d! dispossess’d! 
For all breathes rapture, all enchantment seems,
Like fairy visions, and poetic dreams!