To the Memory of GENERAL WOLFE, who was slain at the taking of QUEBEC

Set was the Sun, and from her silver throne With fainter lustre pallid Cynthia shone, O'er the wide world, and round th' etherial plain Old dusky Night had spread her gloomy reign; When Lysidas was by Damaetas found In a dark grove, stretch'd on the dewy ground, In silence first his wonder he express'd, And thus, at length, the mournful Swain address'd.