THE
POETICAL WORKS
OF
ELIJAH FENTON.
CONTAINING HIS
| MISCELLANIES, | TALES, |
| EPISTLES, | TRANSLATIONS, |
| ODES, | IMITATIONS, |
&c. &c. &c.
A poet bless'd beyond the poets' fate,
Whom Heav'n kept sacred from the proud and great:
Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease,
Content with science in the vale of peace:
Calmly he look'd on either life, and here
Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear;
From Nature's temp'rate feast rose satisfy'd,
Thank'd Heav'n that he had liv'd, and that he dy'd.
POPE.
Whom Heav'n kept sacred from the proud and great:
Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease,
Content with science in the vale of peace:
Calmly he look'd on either life, and here
Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear;
From Nature's temp'rate feast rose satisfy'd,
Thank'd Heav'n that he had liv'd, and that he dy'd.
POPE.
EDINBURG:
At the Apollo Press, by the Martins.
Anno 1779.
