WILLIAM COLLINS. 1720-1756.
In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong.
Ode to Simplicity.
Well may your hearts believe the truths I tell:
'T is virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.[389:4]
Oriental Eclogues. 1, Line 5.
How sleep the brave who sink to rest
By all their country's wishes bless'd!
Ode written in the year 1746.
By fairy hands their knell is rung;[389:5]