PLEASURES OF MEMORY,

AND

OTHER POEMS,

BY SAMUEL ROGERS, ESQ.

AND THE

PAINS OF MEMORY,

BY ROBERT MERRY.

NEW-YORK;

PUBLISHED BY EVERT DUYCKINCK,

NO. 110 PEARL-STREET.

M.Farlane & Long, printers.

10-27

OH! could my mind, unfolded in my page
Enlighten climes and mould a future age !
There as it glowed, with noblest frenzy fraught,

Dispense the treasure of exalted thought;

To virtue wake the pulses of the heart,

And bid the tear of emulation start!

Oh! could it still, through each succeeding year,

My life, my manners, and my name endear;
And, when the poet sleeps in silent dust,

Still hold communion with the wise and just!....
Yet should this verse, my leisure's best resource,
When through the world it steals its secret course,
Revive but once a generous wish supprest,

Chase but a sigh, or charm a care to rest;

In one good deed a fleeting hour employ,

Or flush one faded cheek with honest joy;

Blest were my lines, though limited their sphere,

Though short their date as his who traced them here.