May circling years with Joy unmix'd return
And crown with health and peace this natal day
May all that can enliven or adorn
Conspire to aid the gratulating lay.—
Let Aries smooth his blustering brow and smile
Let genial suns unloose the frost bound plain
May vegetation pay the ploughmans toil
And pleasure come with all her laughing train
While for my nancy I a wreath would twine
Blooming and sweet as is a vernal morn
Come then ye muses add your art to mine
And tell the world this day the nymph was born
When virtue truth and innocence unite
To grace the mind that lights a lovely face
The soft asemblage in a form so bright
Pleas'd we behold and lost in wonder gaze.—