Against the stream the waves secure he trod, 15 His head a chaplet bore, his hand a rod. As on the Rhine, when Boreas' fury reigns, And winter binds the floods in icy chains, Swift shoots the village-maid in rustic play Smooth, without step, adown the shining way, 20 Fearless in long excursion loves to glide, And sports and wantons o'er the frozen tide. So mov'd the Seer, but on no harden'd plain; The river boil'd beneath, and rush'd toward the main. Where fix'd in wonder stood the warlike pair, 25 No common helps, no common guide ye need, For adverse fate the captive chief has hurl'd 35 Scarce had he said, before the warriors' eyes When mountain-high the waves disparted rise; 40 The flood on either hand its billows rears, And in the midst a spacious arch appears. Their hands he seized, and down the steep he led Beneath the obedient river's inmost bed; 45 The watery glimmerings of a fainter day 55 65 And paint the margin of the costly stream, 1738. Æt. 22. POEMATA. HYMENEAL ON THE MARRIAGE OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES. * 4 IGNARÆ nostrûm mentes, et inertia corda, Scilicet ignorant lacrymas, sævosque dolores, Dura rudimenta, et violentæ exordia flammæ; * Printed in the Cambridge Collection, 1736, fol. In this Collection is also a Latin Copy of Hendecasyllables, by Horace Walpole; a short Copy by Thomas Ashton, the friend of Walpole, &c.; and there are some Greek verses by Richard Dawes, the author of Miscellanea Critica." V. 1. Heu, vatum ignaræ mentes!" Virg. Æn. iv. 65. "Teucrûm mirantur inertia corda, " Æn. ix. 55. V. 2. "Sortemque animo miseratus iniquam,” Æn. vi. 332. V. 4. "Dono divûm gratissima serpit," Æn. ii. 269. V. 6. "Nec dulces natos, Veneris nec præmia noris?" Æn. iv. 33. V. 7. "Vide Hor. Od. iv. i. 35. And Pope. Homer, b. xiv. ver. 252: "Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes." And Fairfax. Tasso, iv. 85: "Dumb eloquence, persuading more than speech." 10 Scilicet ignorant, quæ flumine tinxit amaro 15 Tuque Oh! Angliacis, Princeps, spes optima regnis, 20 Ne tantum, ne finge metum: quid imagine captus rem, 25 Affatu fruitur tacito, auscultatque tacentem Immemor artificis calami, risumque, ruboremque V. 10. "Bis flumine corpora tingat," Ovid. Met. xii. 413. V. 11. "Quidquid habent telorum armamentaria coli," Juv. Sat. xiii. 83. V. 12. This line, which is unmetrical, is so printed in the Cambridge Collection; and in Park's edition, without remark. The fault is probably in the author, and not in the printer; as the line is composed of two hemistichs of Virgil; Æn. xii. 336, "Iræque, Insidiæque, Dei comitatus, aguntur; and Æn. iv. 67, “ Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus. Or perhaps a line is omitted, which should intervene. V. 14. This line is from Virgil, Æn. vi. 274: V. 18. "Quos dura premit custodia matrum," Hor. Ep. i. i. 22. 28 Aspicit in fucis, pictæque in virginis ore: Nascere, magna Dies, qua sese AUGUSTA Bri tanno Committat Pelago, patriamque relinquat amœnam; 40 [tanno Nascere, Lux major, qua sese AUGUSTA BriCommittat juveni totam, propriamque dicabit ; V. 22. "Atque animum picturâ pascit inani,” Æn. i. 464. V. 23. "Nec longum tempus et ingens," &c. Virg. Georg. ii. 80. V. 30. “Magnus ab integro sæclorum nascitur ordo,” Virg. Ecl. iv. 5. V. 31. "Commisit pelago ratem," Hor. Od. i. iii. 11 V. 33. " Subitoque accensa furore," Æn. iv. 697. V. 35. "Virum qui sic comitatur euntem?" Æn. vi. 863. V. 36. This line is from Virgil, Æn. iii. 514: "Explorat ventos, atque auribus aëra captat." V. 37. From Virg. Georg. iv. 495: "Crudelia retro Fata vocant. Æn. v. 138: “Laudumque arrecta cupido.” V. 41. "Nascere, præque diem veniens age, Lucifer, almum, Virg. Ecl. viii. 118. V. 42. "Connubio jungam stabili, propriamque dicabo," Virg. Æn. i. 73. |