One common stock two lovely roses yields:
Mature by vernal dews, this dares display
Its leaves full-blown, and boldly meets the day
That, folded in its tender nonage lies,
A beauteous bud, nor yet admits the skies.
The following passage, from a Latin version of the Messiah of Pope, by a youth of uncommon genius,[40] exhibits the singular union of ease, animation, and harmony of numbers, with the strictest fidelity to the original.
Lanigera ut cautè placidus regit agmina pastor,
Aera ut explorat purum, camposque virentes;
Amissas ut quærit oves, moderatur euntûm