Nor you, ye Proud, impute to these the fault, Can ftoried urn, or animated bust Back to its manfion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the filent duft? Or Flatt'ry footh the dull cold ear of Death? Perhaps in this neglected fpot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celeftial fire; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or wak'd to extafy the living lyre. Del Tempio in mezzo, ove l'arcato letto Chiamar pu forfe d' un fepolcro adorno O il cener muto, che di vita è privo, But Ma At Tu ne vitio Gens verte fuperba, quod illis An primas animam in fedes revocare fugacem Fors cor neglectus premit angulus ille repoftum, Ma che? di fotto a quella terra ignuda Forfe una man, che le foggette genti Regger faprebbe, o coll' amabil fuono Sol Dottrina non feo cortefe dono But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page And froze the genial current of the foul. Full many a gem of pureft ray ferene The dark unfathom'd caves of Ocean bear Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the defert air. ; Some village-Hampden that with dauntless breaft E fredda Povertate eftinfe i lumi Pur molte afcofe agli occhi de' mortali E vaghi for nella deferta terra Spuntan non offervati, e in van l'olente Giace Aft ampla his nunquam Doctrina volumina lapfi Sic tegitur late radianti luce ferena Oceani cæcis plurima gemma vadis, Invifufque rubet flos plurimus, atque profufo Defertas redolens implet odore plagas. Rufticus Hampdenus* fors hic, quem pectore vidit Giace ignoto così forfe alla gente E giace in feno dell' ofcuro obblio Contraria forte a lor vietò fecuro Petto moftrar tra le minacce e l' ire, Patriæ Libertatis acerrimus vindex regnante Carolo I. + Poeta infignis & auctor poematis Paradifi Amissi. Patria Tyrannus cædis amantiffimus. O cogli Th' applaufe of lift'ning fenates to command, And read their hift'ry in a nation's eyes, Their lot for bad: nor circumfcrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd Forbad to wade through flaughter to a throne, And fhut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of confcious truth to hide, O cogli ftrali del facondo dire Tra liete grida, e fuon di man con elle O i doni d' ubertà fpargere in quelle Ma fe repreffe in lor deftin nemico Gl' innati germi di virtù, tolfe anco, Far O for |