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178 What are the showy treasures?

What are the noisy pleasures?

The gay gaudy glare of vanity and art:

The polish'd jewel's blaze

May draw the wond'ring gaze,

And courtly grandeur bright

The fancy may delight,

But never, never can come near the heart.

But did yen see my dearest Chloris

In simplicity's array;

Lovely as yonder sweet opening flower is,

Shrinking from the gaze of day?

O then, the heart alarming,

And all resistless charming,

In love's delightful fetters she chains the willing soul!

Ambition would disown

The world's imperial crown,

Even Avarice would deny

His worshipped deity,

And feel through ev'ry vein Love's raptures roll.

[, with the exception of the first stanza, which belongs to an oldersong, by of Pennycuick, Bart., for nearly fifty years one of the Barons of Exchequer in Scotland. Sir John was much versed in antiquities, and otherwise accomplished. He died in 1755. John Clerk of Eldin, the author of the work on Naval Tactics, was his son, and he was consequently grandfather of the late eccentric Lord Eldin. The song first appeared in "The Charmer," Edinburgh, 1751, Vol. II., but without the last verse, which was afterwards added by the author.]

[ of an old song given in Johnson's Museum, Part II. 1788. The air is old, and was formerly played as a dancing-tune.]

, the dusty miller,

And his dusty coat!

He will win a shilling,

Ere he spend a groat.

Dusty was the coat,

Dusty was the colour;

Dusty was the kiss,

That I gat frae the miller!

Hey, the dusty miller,

And his dusty sack!

Leeze me on the calling

Fills the dusty peck,