NUMBER XIV. ODE, By DR. JOSEPH WARTON, In humble Imitation of BROTHER THOMAS. O! FOR the breathings of the Doric ote! O! for the Theban eagle's wing of fire! -From a rude reed,-- That drank the dew of Isis' lowly mead, And wild pipe, fashion'd from the embatted sedge Of my own Cherwell loves to grow: The god-like theme alone Should bear me on its tow'ring wing ; Bear me undaunted to the throne, To view with fix'd and stedfast eye -The delegated majesty Of heav'ns dread lord, and what I see to sing. Like heaven's dread lord, great George his voice can raise, From babes and suckling's mouths to hymn his perfect praise, In poesy's trim rhymes and high resounding phrase. Hence, avaunt! ye savage train, That drench the earth and dye the main With the tides of hostle gore: Who joy in war's terrific charms, Unknown the god-like virtue how to yield, Edward, fell homicide, awaits you there, And Anna's hero, both unskill'd to spare Whene'er the foe their slaught'ring sword withstood. The pious George to white-stoled peace alone His olive sceptre yields, and palm-encircled throne. Or if his high degree On the perturbed sea Or o'er the embattl'd plain On other heads his bolts he hurls. While the regal command He bares his red right hand. In Judah's rebel hour, Let fall the fiery show'r That o'er her parch'd hills desolation spread, And heap'd her vales with mountains of the dead. O'er Schuylkill's cliffs the tempest roars; Or scares the falcon from the fir-cap'd side Sheath the devouring sword! Ah! spare thy subject's blood, and let them live; Hangs on thine for life or death. Sweet is the balmy breath of orient morn, But sweeter yet the voice of royal clemency. The nations to illumine far and wide, And feud and discord, war and strife, subside. His moral sages, all unknown t'untie The wily rage of human policy, Their equal compasses expand, And mete the globe with philosophic hand. In selfish chains the lib'ral minds, O gentle Lansdown! ting'd with thy philanthropy. A lengthen'd line of conquer'd coast, Brunswick, in more saint-like guise A conquest o'er himself, and o'er his progeny. His be the sceptre wreath'd with many a palm— His be the throne with peaceful emblems hung, And mine the laurel'd lyre, to those mild conquests strung! NUMBER XV, 1 PINDARIC, By the RIGHT HON. HERVEY REDMOND, LORD VISCOUNT MOUNTMORRES, Of Castle Morres, of the Kingdom of Ireland, &c. &c. I. AWAKE, Hibernian lyre, awake, O tache their trembling tongue to spake When George was born To grace (by deputy) our Irish throne, North, south, aiste, west, Of Kings the best, 'Sure now he's aquall'd by himself alone; Throughout the astonish'd globe so loud his fame shall ring, The dif themselves shall bare the strains the dumb shall sing. |