'Stay, oh stay! nor thus forlorn Leave me unbless'd, unpitied, here to mourn : But oh! what solemn scenes on Snowdon's height Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul! All-hail, ye' genuine kings, Britannia's issue, hail! III. 2. Girt with many a baron bold Sublime their starry fronts they rear; And gorgeous dames, and statesmen old In bearded majesty, appear. In the midst a form divine! Her eye proclaims her of the Briton-line; What strings symphonious tremble in the air, III. 3. The verse adorn again Fierce War, and faithful Love, And Truth severe, by fairy Fiction drest. proof she gave of her affection for her lord is well known. The monuments of his regret and sorrow for the loss of her are still to be seen at Northampton, Geddington, Waltham, and other places. k It was the common belief of the Welch nation, that King Arthur was still alive in Fairy-land, and should return again to reign over Britain. Both Merlin and Taliessin had prophesied, that the Welch should regain their sovereignty over this island; which seemed to be accomplished in the house of Tudor. Speed, relating an audience given by Queen Elizabeth to Paul Dzialinski, ambassador of Poland, says, "And thus she, lion-like rising, daunted the malapert orator no less with her stately port and majestical deporture, than with the tartnesse of her princelie checkes.' n Taliessin, Chief of the Bards, flourished in the sixth century. His works are still preserved, and his memory held in high veneration among his countrymen. In buskin'd measures move With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast. Gales from blooming Eden bear; And distant warblings lessen on my ear, That lost in long futurity expire. Fond impious man, think'st thou, yon sanguine cloud, And warms the nations with redoubled ray. Enough for me; with joy I see The different doom our Fates assign. To triumph, and to die, are mine.' He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height, ODE VII. FOR MUSIC.r IRREGULAR. I. "HENCE, avaunt, ('tis holy ground) Comus and his midnight-crew, And Ignorance with looks profound, Servitude that hugs her chain, Nor in these consecrated bowers Let painted Flatt'ry hide her serpent-train in flowers. Nor Envy base, nor creeping Gain Dare the Muse's walk to stain, While bright-eyed Science watches round : Hence, away, 'tis holy ground!" This Ode was performed in the Senate-house at Cambridge, July 1, 1769, at the installation of his Grace Augustus-Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton, chancellor of the University. II. From yonder realms of empyrean day The few, whom Genius gave to shine Through every unborn age, and undiscover'd clime. Yet hither oft a glance from high They send of tender sympathy To bless the place, where on their opening soul "Twas Milton struck the deep-ton'd shell, "Ye brown o'er-arching groves, That Contemplation loves, Where willowy Camus lingers with delight! I trod your level lawn, Oft woo'd the gleam of Cynthia silver-bright In cloisters dim, far from the haunts of Folly, With Freedom by my side, and soft-eye'd Melancholy." IV. But hark! the portals sound, and pacing forth High potentates, and dames of royal birth, And mitred fathers in long order go: Great Edward, with the lilies on his brow From haughty Gallia torn, And sad Chatillon,t on her bridal morn That wept her bleeding love, and princely Clare, • Edward the Third, who added the fleur de lys of France to the arms of England. He founded Trinity College. t Mary de Valentia, Countess of Pembroke, daughter of Guy de Chatillon, Comte de St. Paul in France: of whom tradition says, that her husband Audemar de Valentia, earl of Pembroke, was slain at a tournament on the day of his nuptials. She was the foundress of Pembroke College or Hall, under the name of Aula Mariæ de Valentia. Elizabeth de Burg, Countess of Clare, was wife of John de Burg, son and heir of the Earl of Ulster, and daughter of Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester, by Joan of Acres, daughter of Edward the First. Hence the Poet gives her the epithet of "princely." She founded Clare Hall. And Anjou's" heroine and the paler rose," The murder'd saint, and the majestic, lord, The liquid language of the skies. V. "What is grandeur, what is power? Sweet is the breath of vernal shower, The bee's collected treasures sweet, Sweet music's melting fall, but sweeter yet The still small voice of Gratitude." VI. Foremost, and leaning from her golden cloud, "Welcome, my noble son, (she cries aloud) "A Tudor's fire, à Beaufort's grace. "Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry the Sixth, foundress of Queen's College. The Poet has celebrated her conjugal fidelity in the former Ode: V. epode 2d. line 13th. w Elizabeth Widville, wife of Edward the Fourth (hence called the paler rose, as being of the house of York). She added to the foundation of Margaret of Anjou. * Henry the Sixth and Eighth. The former the founder of King's, the latter the greatest benefactor to Trinity College. Countess of Richmond and Derby; the mother of Henry the Seventh, foundress of St. John's and Christ's colleges. The Countess was a Beaufort, and married to a Tudor: hence the application of this line to the Duke of Grafton, who claims descent from both these families. "Lo, Granta waits to lead her blooming band, Not obvious, not obtrusive, she No vulgar praise, no venal incense flings; She reveres herself and thee. With modest pride to grace thy youthful brow And to thy just, thy gentle hand Submits the fasces of her sway, While spirits blest above and men below Through the wild waves as they roar FROM THE NORSE TONGUE.b Now the storm begins to lower, Hurtles in the darken'd air. a Lord Treasurer Burleigh was chancellor of the University, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. b To be found in the ORCADES of THORMODUS TORFEUS; HAFNIE, 1697, folio and also in BARTHOLINUS. VITT ER ORPIT FYRYR VALFALLI, &c. The design of Mr. Gray in writing this and the three following imitative odes, is given in the Memoirs of his Life. For the better understanding the first of |