With heads declin'd, ye cedars homage pay; eyes, 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 Then palaces fhall rife; the joyful * Son 70 To leaflefs fhrubs the flow'ring palms fucceed, 75 And od❜rous myrtle to the noifom weed. The lambs with wolves fhall graze the verdant mead, And boys in flow'ry bands the tyger lead; IMITATIONS. The VER.67. The fwain in barren defarts] Virg. E. iv. v. 28. Et dure quercus fudabunt rofcida mella. The fields fhall grow yellow with ripen'd ears, and the red grape fhall hang upon the wild brambles, and the hard aak fhall diftill honey like dew. ISAIAH, Ch. xxxv. v. 7. The parched ground shall become a fool, and the thirsty land fprings of water: In the babitations where dragons lay, Jhall be grafs, and reeds, and rushes. Ch. lv. v. 13. Inftead of the thorn fhall come. up the fir-tree, and inftead of the briar fhall come up the myrtle tree. P. VER. 77. The lambs with wolves, etc.] Virg. E. iv. v. 21. * Ch. lxv. v. 21, 22. Ubera, + Ch. xxxv. V. I, 7. || Ch. xi. v. 6, 7, 8. The fteer and lion at one crib fhall meet, * And harmless serpents lick the pilgrim's feet. Pleas'd the green luftre of the scales survey, 80 And with their forky tongue fhall innocently play. See, a long race thy spacious courts adorn; In IMITATIONS. Ubera, nec magnos metuent armenta leones. Occidet. The goats fhall bear to the fold their udders diftended with milk: nor fhall the herds be afraid of the greatest lions. The ferpent fhall die, and the kerb that conceals poijon shall die, ISAIAH, Ch. xi. v. 16, etc. The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together: and a little child fhall lead them. And the lion shall eat firav like the ox. And the fucking child shall play on the hole of the afp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the den of the cockatrice. P. VER. 85. Rife, crown'd with light, imperial Salem, rife!] The thoughts of Ifaiah, which compofe the latter part of the poem, are wonderfully elevated, and much above thofe general exclamations of Virgil, which make the loftieft parts of his Pollio. Magnus ab integro fæclorum nafcitur ordo! incipient magni procedere menfes ! Afpice, venturo lætentur ut omnia fæclo! etc. The reader needs only to turn to the paffages of Isaiah, here cited. P. * Ch. lxv. v. 25. † Ch. lx. v. 1. Ch. lx.. V. 4, In crouding ranks on ev'ry fide arise, * See barb'rous nations at thy gates attend, Walk in thy light, and in thy temple bend; 90 95 100 O'erflows thy courts: the Light himself shall shine The || feas fhall waste, the skies in smoke decay, 105 * Ch. lx. v. 3. † Ch lx. v. 6. Ch. Ix. v. 19, 20• Ch. li. v. 6. and Ch liv. v. 10. |