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Oh! lyre divine, what daring fpirit
Wakes thee now? though he inherit
Nor the pride, nor ample pinion,
That the Theban eagle bear
Sailing with fupreme dominion.
Through the azure deep of air:
Yet oft before his infant eyes would run
Such forms, as glitter in the Mufe's ray
With orient hues, unborrow'd of the fun:
Yet shall he mount, and keep his diftant way
Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate,

Beneath the good how far but far above the great.

Aids moos oprixa delov. Olymp. 2. Pindar compares himself to that bird, and his enemies to ravens that croak and clamour in vain below, while it pursues its flight, regardless of their noife.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

THE following Ode is founded on a tradition current in Wales, that Edward the First, when he compleated the conqueft of that country, ordered all the Bards, that fell into his hands, to be put to death.

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UIN feize thee, ruthless king!

• Confufion on thy banners wait, Though, fann'd by Conqueft's crimson wing, * They mock the air with idle state. Helm, nor t-hauberk's twisted mail, Nor e'en thy virtues, tyrant, fhall avail To fave thy fecret foul from nightly fears, • From Cambria's curfe, from Cambria's tears !'

* Mocking the air with colours idly spread. Shakespeare's King John. +The hauberk, was a texture of fteel ringlets, or rings interwoven, forming a coat of mail, that fat clofe to the body, and adapted itself to every motion.

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Such were the founds, that o'er the * crested pride
Of the first Edward fcatter'd wild dismay,

As down the fteep of † Snowdon's fhaggy fide
He wound with toilfome march his long array.
Stout Glo'fter stood aghast in speechless trance:
To arms! cried § Mortimer, and couch'd his quivering
lance.

I. 2.

On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Rob'd in the fable garb of woe,

With haggard eyes the Poet flood;

(|| Loose his beard, and hoary hair

** Strçam'd, ‹like a meteor, to the troubled air)'

-The crefted adder's pride. Dryden's Indian Queen. + Snowdon was a name given by the Saxons to that mountainous tract, which the Welsh themselves call ›Craigian-eryri it included all the highlands of Caernarvonshire and Merionethfhire, as far caft as the river Conway. R. Hygden, fpeaking of the caftle of Conway, built by King Edward the firft, fays, "Ad

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ortum amnis Conway ad clivum montis Erery;" and Matthew of Westminster, (ad ann. 1283,) "Apud "Aberconway ad pedes montis Snowdonia fecit erigi caftrum forte."

Gilbert de Clare, furnamed the Red, Earl of Gloucefter and Hertford, fon-in-law to King Edward. § Edmond de Mortimer, Lord of Wigmore. They both were Lords-Marchers, whofe lands lay on the borders of Wales, and probably accompanied the king in this expedition.

The image was taken from a well-known picture of Raphaël, representing the Supreme Being in the vifion of Ezekiel there are two of thefe paintings (both believed original,) one at Florence, the other at Paris**Shone, like a meteor, ftreaming to the wind.

Milton's Paradife Loft.

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And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire,
Struck the deep forrows of his lyre.

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Hark, how each giant-oak, and defert cave,
Sighs to the torrent's aweful voice beneath!

O'er thee, oh King! their hundred arms they wave, Revenge on thee in hoarfer murmurs breathe;

Vocal no more, fince Cambria's fatal day,

To high-born Hoel's harp, or foft Llewellyn's lay. I. 3.

'Cold is Cadwallo's tongue,

That hufh'd the ftormy main :

Brave Urien fleeps upon his craggy bed: 'Mountains, ye mourn in vain Modred, whofe magic fong

Made huge Plinlimmon bow his cloud-top'd head. * On dreary Arvon's thore they lie, Smear'd with gore, and ghaftly pale:

Far, far aloof th' affrighted ravens fail;

The famih'd eagle fcreams, and paffes by.

The fhores of Caernarvonfhire oppofite to the inle of Anglesey.

+ Camden and others obferve, that eagles ufed annually to build their aerie among the rocks of Snowdon, which from thence (as fome think) were named by the Welsh Craigian-eryri, or the crags of the eagles. At this day (I am told) the highest point of Snowdon is called The Eagle's Neft. That bird is certainly no ftranger to this ifland, as the Scots, and the people of Cumberland, Weftmoreland, &c. can teftify: it even has built its neft in the Peak of Derbyshire. [See Willoughby's Ornithol. published by Ray.]

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Dear loft companions of my tuneful art,

* Dear, as the light that visits these fad eyes,
́ ́Dear, as the ruddy drops that warm my heart,
Ye died amidst your dying country's cries
No more I weep. They do not sleep.
· On yonder cliffs, a griefly band,

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I fee them fit, they linger yet,

Avengers of their native land:

With me in dreadful harmony they join,

And † weave with bloody hands the tiffue of thy line.'

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"Weave the warp, and weave the woof,
"The winding-fheet of Edward's race.
"Give ample room, and verge enough
"The characters of hell to trace.

"Mark the and mark the night,

year,

"When Severn fhall re-echo with affright

"The fhrieks of death, thro' Berkley's roofs that ring;

"Shrieks of an agonizing King!

"She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs,

*As dear to me as are the ruddy drops,

That vifit my fad heart- SHAKESP. Jul. Cæfar.
See the Norwegian Ode, that follows.

Edward the Second, cruelly butchered in Berkley-
caftle.

Ifabel of France, Edward the Second's adulterous
Queen.

.* That

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