But, without affecting indifference to whatever popular success this work may obtain, I can with sincerity assure you that my principal gratification will arise from the pleasure which your maternal indulgence disposes you to feel on receiving this imperfeet testimony of attachment from, Your dutiful and affectionate son, E. B. IMPEY. DAYLESFORD, А РОЕМ, INSCRIBED TO WARREN HASTINGS, ESQ. For sacred was the pen that wrote, Thy father's friend forget thou not. SCOTT'S Marmion, Introduct. to Cant. 4. DAYLESFORD. ONCE more to Daylesford's hospitable shade Where first my Muse her trembling wings essay'd, Pleas'd I return, while studious to atone The lapse of years irrevocably flown, Imagination takes a wider range, And views the past contrasted with the change. How dear to meditation is the scene! These meadows cloath'd in variegated green, |