Matilda, stop thy course of virtuous rage, And spare from satire this unthankful age. The world, while fashion dictates moral law, While gold repairs where nature feels a flaw, While nobler passions sink as time decays, And love forgets its fears, and fame is praise, The world unmov’d, will hear thy eloquence, The diction flatter, but reject the sense. R****. New-York, 1779. * * * * * _For the +New-York Weekly Magazine+._ ELEGY, Addressed to a Young Lady on Transcribing for Her a Poem on the Death of Two Unfortunate Lovers. If o’er the lover’s melancholy bier Unbidden sorrow from thine eyes should flow, Check not the tender sympathising tear, Nor blush to soften at another’s woe. Indulge the tender luxury of grief, Melt at those pangs which nipp’d their springing bloom, And (soon as flattering hope deny’d relief,) Consign’d them early victims to the tomb. The heart insensible to woe like this, Demands no caution to secure its case, Alike depriv’d of every social bliss, No wit can warm it, and no beauty please. Yet while the soft emotion is admir’d, Thro’ which thy virtues with mild radiance shine, Forgive the pain thy danger has inspir’d. The sigh----lest Emma’s fate should e’er be thine! Ah! let it teach thee--nor be too secure---- That love, tho’ virtuous, may thy praise destroy, That death’s dire dart may fix thy ruin sure, And blast for ever all thy hopes of joy. While this reflection dwells upon thy mind, The wish truth dictates, sure thou wilt approve, Long may thy heart its bliss in freedom find, And dread the soft delusive pow’r of love. ELEGIOGRAPHUS. New-York, June 24, 1796. NEW-YORK: _+Printed by JOHN BULL, No. 115, Cherry-Street+, where every Kind of Printing work is executed with the utmost Accuracy and Dispatch.--+Subscriptions+ for this +Magazine+ (at 2s. per month) are taken in at the Printing-Office, and by E. MITCHELL, Bookseller, No. 9, Maiden-Lane._ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * _UTILE DULCI._ THE NEW-YORK WEEKLY MAGAZINE; or, Miscellaneous Repository. +Vol. II.+] +Wednesday, July 27, 1796.+ [+No. 56.+ [[For sources, see the end of the e-text.]] _+View+ of the STARRY HEAVENS._