GRAY'S WORKS

VOL. IV.

Sonnet,
In vain to me the smiling Mornings
And redning Phabus lifts his gobin Fire
She Birds in

amorous Iuscant

your;
Q, chearful Fields

. resume
These line, alas, for other Notes repine,
et different Object do these lyes require
My lonely Anguish melts Heart, but
And in Breast

, the imperfect Soys
Yet Morning smiles the husy Race to chear

,

expire
And new-born Pleasure brings to happier Men:
The fields to all their monted Tribute bear
To
their little Loves the Birds complain

,
Sfruitlef mourn to him, that cannot hear,
the

I because I weepo isz vain.

And weep

FACSIMILE OF SONNET TO RICHARD WEST.