Dick heard, and tweedling, ogling, bridling, Turning short round, strutting and sideling, Attested, glad, his approbation

Of an immediate conjugation.
Their sentiments so well express'd,
Influenc'd mightily the rest,

All pair'd, and each pair built a nest.

But though the birds were thus in haste,
The leaves came on not quite so fast,
And destiny, that sometimes bears
An aspect stern on man's affairs,
Not altogether smil'd on theirs.
The wind, of late breath'd gently forth,
Now shifted east and east by north.
Bare trees and shrubs but ill, you know,
Could shelter them from rain or snow;
Stepping into their nests, they paddled,
Themselves were chill'd, their eggs
addled;

Soon ev'ry father bird and mother

Grew quarrelsome, and peck'd each other,
Parting without the least regret,

Except that they had ever met,

were

And learn'd, in future, to be wiser,

Than to neglect a good adviser.

INSTRUCTION.

Misses! the tale that I relate,
This lesson seems to carry-
Choose not alone a proper mate,
But proper time to marry.

END OF THE FIRST PART.

THE

BEAUTIES

COWPER.

DESCRIPTIVE AND PATHETIC.

PART II.