Classic Poem

Upon the Same Occasion.

I.

At Friendship's Call my willing Muse,
Assists the Heart-sprung Lay;
And thus with best of Wishes hails
L EANDER'S natal Day!

II.

Hail to the kind auspicious Hour,
That gave your Hero Birth;
But doubly blest that Halcyon Time,
You stamp'd his Fate on Earth!

III.

Who that beholds D IANA'S Face,
Her very Goddess Mein,
But joins with Homage justly due,
To praise his peerless Queen?

IV.

How wou'd my Tongue, with florid Phrase,
Grow wanton in her Charms;
But soft! L EANDER'S happy Fate,
Has doom'd her to his Arms.

V.

Long may you live in blisful State,
I wish it, by my Life;
And when I marry, grant, ye Gods!
Just such a lovely Wife.