MISCELLANIES.
TO THE RIGHT HON.
CHARLES EARL OF ORRERY.
THESE POEMS
Are most humbly dedicated,
By his LORDSHIP'S
Most obliged and most obedient servant,
E. Fenton.
FLORELIO. A PASTORAL.
LAMENTING THE DEATH OF THE LATE
MARQUIS OF BLANDFORD.
Ask not the cause why all the tuneful swains,
Who us'd to fill the vales with tender strains,
In deep despair neglect the warbling reed,
And all their bleating flocks refuse to feed:
Ask not why greens and flow'rs so late appear 5
To clothe the glebe, and deck the springing year;
Why sounds the lawn with loud laments and cries,
And swoln with tears to floods the riv'lets rise:
The fair Florelio now has left the plain,
And is the grief, who was the grace, of ev'ry British swain.
Who us'd to fill the vales with tender strains,
In deep despair neglect the warbling reed,
And all their bleating flocks refuse to feed:
Ask not why greens and flow'rs so late appear 5
To clothe the glebe, and deck the springing year;
Why sounds the lawn with loud laments and cries,
And swoln with tears to floods the riv'lets rise:
The fair Florelio now has left the plain,
And is the grief, who was the grace, of ev'ry British swain.
