Alas! I languish now in deep despair;
O that I could forget my absent fair!”
While these two youths rehears’d their plaintive tale,
A third came stalking o’er a distant dale:
R——n his name, whose anxious looks did show,
His beating bosom much oppress’d with wo.
Of J——y’s charms, he in soft concert sung;
J——y the gay, the beauteous, and the young;
She who of late, with parson F——r stay’d,
In the low station of a dairy-maid.