XXVI. Ye fpirits of the just and good, O! let your fongs his praise display, XXVII. Praise him, ye meek and humble train, O praise him, 'till ye take your way And reign for ever there. XXVIII. Let us, who now impaffive ftand, While thus we triumph in the flame, An ODE to FAN C Y. By the Same. ANCY, whofe delufions vain FA Sport themselves with human brain; Rival thou of Nature's pow'r, Can'ft, from thy exhauftless store, Bid a tide of forrow flow, And whelm the foul in deepest woe: Or in the twinkling of an eye, Dreams and fhadows by thee ftand, And along the wanton air, Thee, black Melancholy of yore To the swift-wing'd Hermes bore : Now like thy fire thou lov'ft to seem Now like thy mother drear and fad, When the night hath reach'd her noon, And while my outward fenfes fleep, Sudden I ftop, and turn my ear, And lift'ning hear, or think I hear. First a dead and fullen found Walks along the holy ground; Then thro' the gloom alternate break Lo! the moon hath hid her head, And the graves give up their dead: Maids, who died with love forlorn, Helpless Helpless fires and matrons old Slain for fordid thirst of gold, And babes who owe their shorten'd date Each their fev'ral errands go, To haunt the wretch that wrought their woe: From their fight the caitiff flies, And his heart within him dies; While a horror damp and chill Bears itself upon his head. When the early breath of day Hath made the fhadows flee away; Still poffefs'd by thee I rove Bofom'd in the fhelt'ring grove, There, with heart and lyre new ftrung, Meditate the lofty song. And if thou my voice infpire, Nor lightning's blast can e'er devour. While the thrush, unheeded by, Lift'ning to their facred lore, I think on ages long paft o'er, When Truth and Virtue hand in hand Hark! upon my left I hear Now with step alternate bound, And fuch tangled mazes wind As the quick eye can scarce purfue, And wou'd have puzzled that fam'd clue, Which led th' Athenian's unskili'd feet At |