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,
In brazen bonds, fhall barb'rous Difcord 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 letGRANVILLE's verfe recite,
And bring the scenes of op'ning fate to light.
My humble Mufe, in unambitious ftrains,
Paints the green forefts and the flow'ry plains,

VER. 421,

IMITATIONS.

Quo, Mufa, tendis? define pervicax
Referre fermones Deorum et

Magna modis tenuare parvis.

410

Har.

425

Where Peace descending bids her olives spring,
And scatters bleffings from her dove-like wing.
Ev'n I more sweetly pafs my careless days,
Pleas'd in the filent shade with empty praise; 430
Enough for me, that to the lift'ning fwains
First in these fields I fung the fylvan strains.

O DE

ΟΝ

ST. CECILIA'S DAY,

MDCC VIII.

AND OTHER

PIECES for MUSIC.

ODE for MUSIC

Ο Ν

ST. CECILIA's DAY.

I.

DEfcend, ye

Nine! defcend and fing;

The breathing inftruments infpire,
Wake into voice each filent ftring,
And sweep the founding lyre!

In a fadly-pleasing strain
Let the warbling lute complain:
Let the loud trumpet sound,

"Till the roofs all around

The fhrill echos rebound:

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REMARKS.

Ode for Mufic.] This is one of the most artful as well as fublime of our Poet's fmaller compofitions. The first stanza expreffes the various tones and measures in mufic. The fecond defcribes their power over the feveral paffions in general. The third explains 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 Argo