1802.
LINES ON FONTENELLE.
Muse! if thou canst, this picture's truth excel;
Strive to pourtray the soul of Fontenelle:
Him, to whose works, with wit and judgment warm,
Indulgent Nature, gave a magic charm.—
'Twas his to strew with flowers the toilsome road,
Which leads to Science in her dark abode;
And while he touch'd the pastoral reed, to prove,