I see recoil his sable steeds, That bore him swift to salvage deeds, O maid, for all thy love to Britain shown, To thee we build a roseate bower; Thou, thou shalt rule our queen, and share our monarch's throne! 20 25 ODE TO LIBERTY. STROPHE. WHO shall awake the Spartan fife, And call in solemn sounds to life, The youths, whose locks divinely spreading, Like vernal hyacinths in sullen hue, At once the breath of fear and virtue shedding, 5 Applauding Freedom loved of old to view? What new Alcæus, fancy-blest, Shall sing the sword, in myrtles drest, i Alluding to that beautiful fragment of Alcæus : Εν μύρτου κλαδὶ τὸ ξίφος φορήσω, Ανδρα τύραννον Ιππαρχον ἐκαινέτην. At Wisdom's shrine awhile its flame concealing, (What place so fit to seal a deed renown'd?) 10 Till she her brightest lightnings round revealing, It leap'd in glory forth, and dealt her prompted wound! O goddess, in that feeling hour, When most its sounds would court thy ears, Let not my shell's misguided powerk No, Freedom, no, I will not tell How Rome, before thy weeping face, 15 20 When Time his northern sons of spoil awoke, And all the blended work of strength and grace, With many a rude repeated stroke, And many a barbarous yell, to thousand fragments broke. EPODE. Yet, even where'er the least appear'd, Still 'midst the scatter'd states around, 25 Some remnants of her strength were found; 30 * Μὴ μὴ ταῦτα λέγωμες, ἃ δάκρυον ἤγαγε Δηοῖ. Callimach. Ὕμνος εἰς Δήμητρα. How in the great, the labour'd whole, Till they,' whom Science loved to name, (O who could fear it?) quench'd her flame. And lo, an humbler relic laid In jealous Pisa's olive shade! See small Marinom joins the theme, Ah no! more pleased thy haunts I seek, 35 40 45 50 55 Or dwell in willow'd meads more near, The perfect spell shall then avail, ANTISTROPHE. Beyond the measure vast of thought, 60 The works the wizzard time has wrought! The wild waves found another way, 65 70 · The Dutch, amongst whom there are very severe penalties for those who are convicted of killing this bird. They are kept tame in almost all their towns, and particularly at the Hague, of the arms of which they make a part. The common people of Holland are said to entertain a superstitious sentiment, that if the whole species of them should become extinct, they should lose their liberties. • Queen Elizabeth. t This tradition is mentioned by several of our old historians. Some naturalists too have endeavoured to support the probability of the fact by arguments drawn from the correspondent disposition of the two opposite coasts. I do not remember that any poetical use has been hitherto made of it. |