As this part contains a defcription of the establishment of Liberty in Rome, it begins with a view of the Grecian colonies fettled in the fouthern parts of Italy, which with Sicily conftituted the Great Greece of the ancients. With these colonies the fpirit of Liberty, and of republics, fpreads over Italy; to ver. 32. Tranfition to Pythagoras and his philofophy, which he taught through those free ftates and cities; to ver. 71. Amidft the many fmall republics in Italy, Rome the deftined feat of Liberty. Her establishment there dated from the expulfion of the Tarquins. How differing from that in Greece; to ver. 88. Reference to a view of the Roman republic given in the first part of this poem to mark its rife and fall, the peculiar purport of this. During its first ages, the greatest force of Liberty and Virtue exerted; to ver. 103. The fource whence derived the heroic virtues of the RoEnumeration of thefe virtues. Thence their fecurity at home; their glory, fuccefs, and empire, abroad; to ver. 226. Bounds of the Roman empire, geographically defcribed; to ver. 257. The ftates of Greece reftored to Liberty by Titus Quintus Flaminius, the highest inftance of public generofity and beneficence; to ver. 328. The lofs of Liberty in Rome. Its caufes, progrefs, and completion in the death of Brutus; to ver. 485. Rome under the emperors; to ver. 513. From Rome the Goddefs of Liberty goes among the Northern Nations; where, by infufing into them her fpirit and general principles, She lays the ground-work of her future establishments; fends them in vengeance on the Roman empire, now totallyenflaved; and then, with arts and sciences in her train, quits earth during the dark ages; to ver. 550. The celeftial regions, to which Liberty retired, not proper to be opened to the view of mortals. mans. LIBE ERT Y. H PART III. ERE melting mix'd with air th' ideal forms, Each had imbib'd. Befides, to each affign'd Kept Kept an unclofing eye; try'd to fuftain, Or more fublime, the foul infus'd by Me: And strong the battle rose, with various wave, 25 Against the tyrant demons of the land. Thus they their little wars and triumphs knew ; And through great Greece his gentle wisdom taught; Of boundlefs æther; where unnumber'd orbs, Binds circling earths, and world with world unites. 30 35 40 45 Inftructed thence, he great ideas form'd Of the whole-moving, all-informing God, The fun of beings! beaming unconfin'd 50 Light, life, and love, and ever-active power: Whom nought can image, and who best approves The The filent worship of the moral heart, That joys in bounteous heaven, and spreads the joy. And bound his reafon to the sphere of man. That civilize mankind, and laws devis'd 55 60 65 And not a circling form, but rifing whole. 70 On yellow Tyber's bank, almighty Rome, It burn'd in Brutus; the proud Tarquins chac'd, 75 T Here, from the fairer, not the greater, plan 80 O'er |