• SCENE---TOMHANICK.


    1780.


    SUSANNA.

    Eliza, rise, the orient glows with day,

    Already Phosphor darts his amber ray;

    The fainting planets vanish from the skies,

    Distinct already all the prospects rise;

    Begin our walk, but cheer the lonely way

    With music,...

  • (Designed for the use of her daughter and niece when very young)


    LUCIA.

    Come, my Delia, by this spring

    Nature's bounties let us sing,

    While the popler's silver shade

    O'er our lambkins is display'd.


    DELIA.

    See how she has deck'd the ground

    Op'ning flow'rets blush around...