And naked youths and painted chiefs admire Our fpeech, our colour, and our ftrange attire! Oh ftretch thy reign, fair Peace! from shore to shore, 'Till Conquest cease, and Slav'ry be no more; 406 'Till the freed Indians in their native groves Reap their own fruits, and woo their fable loves, Peru once more a race of Kings behold,

And other Mexico's be roof'd with gold.

Exil❜d by thee from earth to deepest hell,

410

In brazen bonds, shall barb'rous Discord dwell;
Gigantic Pride, pale Terror, gloomy Care,
And mad Ambition fhall attend her there :
There purple Vengeance bath'd in gore retires, 415
Her weapons blunted, and extinct her fires :
There hateful Envy her own fnakes shall feel,
And Perfecution mourn her broken wheel:
There Faction roar, Rebellion bite her chain,
And gafping Furies thirst for blood in vain.

420

Here cease thy flight, nor with unhallow'd lays Touch the fair fame of Albion's golden days: The thoughts of Gods let GRANVILLE's verfe recite, And bring the scenes of op'ning fate to light. My humble Muse, in unambitious strains Paints the green forefts and the flow'ry plains,

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VARIATIONS.

425

Where

Or thofe green ifles, where headlong Titan steeps
His hiffing axle in th' Atlantic deeps

Tempt icy feas, etc.

VER. 421.

P.

Quo, Mufa, tendis ? define pervicax®

Referre fermones Deorum et

Magna modis tenuare parvis.

Hor.

Where Peace defcending bids her olives spring,
And scatters bleffings from her dove-like wing.
Ev'n I more fweetly pafs my careless days,
Pleas'd in the filent fhade with empty praife; 430
Enough for me, that to the lift'ning fwains
Firft in thefe fields I fung the fylvan ftrains.

ODE

O N

ST. CECILIA's DAY,

MDCC VIII.

AND OTHER

PIECES for MUSIC

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ODE for MUSIC

ON

ST. CECILIA's DAY.

I.

Efcend, ye Nine! defcend and fing;
inftruments infpire,

Wake into voice each filent ftring,

And sweep the founding lyre!

In a fadly-pleafing strain

Let the warbling lute complain:
Let the loud trumpet found,

"Till the roofs all around

The fhrill echos rebound:

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Ode for Mufic,] 'This is one of the most artful as well as fublime of our Poet's fmaller compofitions. The first ftanza is a description of the various tones and measures in mufic. The fecond relates their power over the feveral paffions in general. The third, their ufe in infpiring the Heroic paffions in particular. The fourth, fifth, and fixth, their power over all nature in the fable of Orpheus's expedition to hell; which fubject of illuftration arofe naturally out of the preceding mention of the Argonautic expedition, where Orpheus gives an example of the ufe of Mufic to infpire the heroic paffions. The feventh and faft concludes in praife of Mufic, and the advantages of the facred above the prophane.