Page:Poems (Barbauld).djvu/35



Dulci digne mero!

F trange events I ing, and portents dire; The wond'rous themes a reverent ear require: Tho' trange the tale, the faithful Mue believe, And what he ays with pious awe receive.

'Twas at the olemn, ilent, noon-tide hour, When hunger rages with depotic power, When the lean tudent quits his Hebrew roots For the gros nourihment of Englih fruits, And throws unfinih'd airy ytems by For olid pudding and ubtantial pye, When