(In the Manner of Dr. Samuel Johnson.)
Addressed to a Girl in the Temple, 1777.
While the calescent, sanguine flood,
By vile Vulgarity call’d Blood,
Pervades this mortal frame;
Amaz’d at your translucid charms,
You I solicit to these arms,
Tho’ of procacious name!
When in your dim nocturnal rounds,
Erratic from the Temple’s bounds