Goddess! awake, arise! alas, my fears!
Can powers immortal feel the force of years?
Not thus of old, with ensigns wide unfurl'd,
She rode triumphant o'er the vanquish'd world;
Fierce nations own'd her unresisted might,
And all was ignorance, and all was night.

Oh! sacred age! Oh! times for ever lost!
(The schoolman's glory, and the churchman's boast.)
For ever gone-yet still to fancy new,
Her rapid wings the transient scene pursue,
And bring the buried ages back to view.

High on her car, behold the grandam ride
Like old Sesostris with barbaric pride;

* * a team of harness'd monarchs bend

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Against my sway her pious hand stretch'd out,
And fenc'd with double fogs her idiot rout.
Henry and Minerva.

And so in the Dunciad, b. i. ver. 80 :

"

"All these, and more, the cloud-compelling queen
Beholds thro' fogs that magnify the scene.'
Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen !"
Milt. P. L. i. 330. Luke.

V. 25.

an exquis not have mented t was not d which na quiries,

him?

ED

The sparks

10

With sense

So draw mankind in vain the vital airs,
Unform'd, unfriended, by those kindly cares,
That health and vigour to the soul impart, [heart:
Spread the young thought, and warm the opening
So fond instruction on the growing powers
Of nature idly lavishes her stores,
If equal justice with unclouded face
Smile not indulgent on the rising race,

And scatter with a free, though frugal hand,
Light golden showers of plenty o'er the land:
But tyranny has fix'd her empire there,

They follow

Their judgm The event The soft ret

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15

By fraud el While mutu

To check their tender hopes with chilling fear, 20
And blast the blooming promise of the year.

This spacious animated scene survey,

The social s
Say, the
To different
Here meast

Fix, and in
There indu
Command
Here force

From where the rolling orb, that gives the day,
His sable sons with nearer course surrounds
To either pole, and life's remotest bounds,
How rude so e'er th' exterior form we find,
Howe'er opinion tinge the varied mind,
Alike to all, the kind, impartial heav'n

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Oft o'er t

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And, whe

Var. V. 19. But tyranny has] Gloomy sway have. мs.
V. 21. Blooming] Vernal. мs.

V. 9. "Vitales auras carpis," Virg. Æn. i. 387. Luke. V. 14. "And lavish nature laughs and throws her stores around," Dryden. Virgil, vii. 76. Luke.

66

V. 21. Destroy the promise of the youthful year,"
Pope. Vert. and Pomona, 108. Luke.
V. 36. "On mutual wants, build mutual happiness."
Pope. Ep. iii. 112.
V. 47. "Bellica nubes," Claudiani Laus Seren. 196.

Luke.

"Cim

V. 48. So Claudian calls it, Bell. Getico, 641, brica tempestas." Pope. Hom. Od. 5, 303, "And next a

Their arm

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s of truth and happiness has giv'n: e to feel, with memory to retain, w pleasure, and they fly from pain; ment mends the plan their fancy draws, presages, and explores the cause; turns of gratitude they know, lude, by force repel the foe; ual wishes, mutual woes endear smile, the sympathetic tear.

n, through ages by what fate confin'd t climes seem different souls assign'd? ur'd laws and philosophic ease

mprove the polish'd arts of peace; stry and gain their vigils keep,

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40

The blue-eyed myriads from the Baltic coast.
The prostrate south to the destroyer yields
Her boasted titles, and her golden fields:
With grim delight the brood of winter view
A brighter day, and heav'ns of azure hue;
Scent the new fragrance of the breathing rose,
And quaff the pendent vintage as it grows.
Proud of the yoke, and pliant to the rod,
Why yet does Asia dread a monarch's nod,
While European freedom still withstands

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Must sick'ning vir
Unmanly thought!
What fancied zone

Who, conscious of

By reason's light,
Spite of her frail
O'er Libya's deser
She bids each slu
Another touch, a
Suspends th' infe

60

The stubborn ele

Their little want

65

Th' encroaching tide that drowns her lessening
And sees far off, with an indignant groan, [lands;
Her native plains, and empires once her own?
Can opener skies and suns of fiercer flame
O'erpower the fire, that animates our frame;
As lamps, that shed at eve a cheerful ray,
Fade and expire beneath the eye of day?
Need we the influence of the northern star
To string our nerves and steel our hearts to war?
And, where the face of nature laughs around, 70

Var. V. 55. Heav'ns] Skies. Ms.
V. 56. Scent] Catch. Ms.

"The fair complexion of the blue-eyed warriors of Germany formed a singular contrast with the swarthy or olive hue, which is derived from the neighbourhood of the torrid zone.' Gibbon. Rom. Hist. iii. 337. Ausonius gives them this distinguished feature: "Oculos cœrula, flava comas," De Bissula. 17. p. 341. ed. Tollii. "Carula quis stupuit Germani lumina," Juv. Sat. xiii. 164.

Mirantur nemora et rorantes Sole racemos.' Statius. v. Plin. Nat. H. 1. xiii. c. ii. 1.

V. 54.

V. 56. Milton. Arcades. 32, " And ye, ye breathing roses

of the wood." Luke.

And raise the m

Not but the h
Imbibes a flavou

As various tract
The manners S
An iron-race th

Foes to the ge
For where un
With side-lon
To turn the to

V. 57. Claud makes the Got Quid palmiti collibus uvas, pendentes vitib demia," Virg. V. 66. A Wh

V.91.