And

Await a

Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke:
How jocund did they drive their team afield!
How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke.

Let not ambition mock their useful toil,
Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;

Var. V. 24. Or] Nor. мs. W.
V. 25. Sickle] Sickles. мs. W.

Sacrum et vetustis exstruat lignis focum
Lassi sub adventum viri."

See also Thomson. Winter, 311:

"In vain for him the officious wife prepares
The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm:
In vain his little children, peeping out

Into the mingling storm, demand their sire
With tears of artless innocence."

V. 24.

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"Interea dulces pendent circum oscula nati."
Virg. Georg. ii. v. 523.

So Dryden, ed. Warton, vol. ii. p. 565:

"Whose little arms about thy legs are cast,

And climbing for a kiss prevent their mother's haste." See also Thomson. Liberty, iii. 171, and Ovid. Heroid. Ep. viii. 93. Hom. II. E. 408.

"'Tis mine to tame the stubborn glebe."
Gay. Fabl. p. ii. xv.

Luke.

Lycidas, 27. W. Add With me to drive afield." morn the fattening ewes."

V. 26.
V. 27. "He drove afield."
Dryden. Virg. Eclog. ii. 38.
Luke. "To drive afield by
A. Philips.

V. 28. "But to the roote bent his sturdie stroake,
And made many woundes in the waste oake."
Spenser. February. W. See also Dryden. Georg. iii. 639.
"Labour him with many a sturdy stroke.'

V. 33. " Very like," says the editor, (in a note to the

in his f

assage of Cowley,)" in the expression as well t, to that fine stanza in Gray's Elegy, vol. ii. p. s ed.

y, and strength, and wit, and wealth, and power, heir short flourishing hour;

to see themselves, and smile,

in their pre-eminence a while; o in the same land

ds, rich corn, gay flowers together stand. eath mows down all with an impartial hand." anza is, however, chiefly indebted to some verses d West's Monody on Queen Caroline : ne! what boots us all our boasted power, golden treasure, and our purple state; annot ward the inevitable hour, stay the fearful violence of fate."

Dodsley. Misc. ii. 279. Kippis. Biographia Britannica, vol. iv. p. 429, of Crashaw, written by Hayley, it is said that "literally translated from the Latin prose of in his Danish Antiquities." See Hagthorpe. Glory doth thousands to the grave betray." the roof o' the chamber ith golden cherubims is fretted.'

66

66

Cymbel. act ii. sc. 4. W.

Where through the long-drawn isle and fretted vault
The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. 40

Can storied urn, or animated bust,

Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath?
Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust,
Or flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of death?

Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid

45

Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or wak'd to extasy the living lyre:

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V. 51

V.40. "There let the pealing organ blow,
To the full-voiced quire below,

In service high, and anthem clear."
Il Pens. 163.

W.

V. 41. "Heroes in animated marble frown," Temple of Fame, 73. W. add Virg. Æn. vi. 849. “vivos ducent de marmore vultus." Luke.

V. 43. "But when our country's cause provokes to arms."
Pope. Ode.

V. 44, "And sleep in dull cold marble."

Hen. VIII. act iii. sc. 2. V. 47. "Sunt mihi quas possint sceptra decere manus," Ovid. Ep. v. ver. 86. "Proud names that once the reins of empire held," Tickell. Poem to E. of Warwick, ver. 37.

V. 48." Waken raptures high," Par. Lost, iii. 369. And Lucret. ii. 412: "Mobilibus digitis expergefacta figurant." "Begin the song, and strike the living lyre." Cowley. And Pope. Winds. For. 281:

where Cowley strung

His living harp, and lofty Denham sung." W.
"Rich with the spoils of nature,'

V. 50.

Brown. Rel. Med. p. 27.

wledge to their eyes her ample page with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; 50 nury repress'd their noble rage,

froze the genial current of the soul.

ny a gem of purest ray serene

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ark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: ny a flower is born to blush unseen, vaste its sweetness on the desert air.

lage-Hampden, that, with dauntless breast,

"So just thy skill, so regular my rage."

Pope to Jervas. justly warn'd with your own native rage."

Pope. Prol. to Cato, 43. W. ow hard the task! how rare the godlike rage." Tickell. Prol. (Steele. Misc. p. 70.) "That like to rich and various gems inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep."

Comus, ver. 22.

Young. "Ocean," st. xxiv. > is many a rich stone laid up in the bowells of many a fair pearle in the bosome of the sea, that s seene, nor never shall bee." Bishop Hall. ations, 1. vi. p. 872. See Quart. Rev. No. xxii. Fr. Barberini Poem. p. 148. Máруapa πóλλа укрÚπтει кÚμаot Tóvтoç. and see T. Warton. 234.

"Apavта кεvoμovos Báon. Lycophr. Cass. 1277 Mathias.

"Like roses that in deserts bloom and die." Pope. Rape of the Lock, iv. 157. W.

aberlayne. Pharonida, part ii. b. iv. p. 94: beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent s in unhaunted deserts."

g. Univ. Passion, Sat. v. p. 128:

listant wilds, by human eyes unseen,

ears her flow'rs, and spreads her velvet green;