III. 3. The verse adorn again * Fierce War, and faithful Love, < And Truth fevere, by fairy Fiction dreft. In bufkin'd measures move • Pale Grief, and pleafing pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast, A voice, as of the cherub-choir, Gales from blooming Eden bear; § And diftant warblings leffen on my ear, That loft in long futurity expire. Fond impious man, thinkft thou yon fan guine cloud, Rais'd by thy breath, has quench'd the orb of day? *Fierce wars and faithful loves fhall moralize my fong. SPENSER'S Proem to the Fairy Queen. + Shakespeare. Milton. The fucceffion of Poets after Milton's time. • To To-morrow he repairs the golden flood, And warms the nations with redoubled ray. Enough for me: with joy I fee The different doom our fates affign. He spoke, and headlong, from the mountain's height, Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night. THE THE FATAL SISTERS. AN O D E. (From the NORSE TONGUE.) To be found in the ORCADES of THERMODUS TORFÆUS; HAFNIE, 1697, Folio; and alfo in BARTHOLINUS, VITT ER ORPIT FYRIR VALFALLI, &C. ADVERTISEMENT. The author once had thoughts (in concert with a friend) of giving A Hiftory of English Poetry: In the Introduction to it he meant to have produced fome fpecimens of the style that reigned in antient times among the neighbouring nations, or thofe who had fubdued the greater part of this island, and were our progenitors: the following three imitations. made a part of them. He afterwards droppcd his defign; especially after he had heard, that it was already in the hands of a person well qualified to do it juftice, both by his taste, and his researches into antiquity. |
