No figh, no murmur, the wide world shall hear, 45 From ev'ry face he wipes off ev'ry tear. In adamantine chains fhall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound. k The promis'd father of the future age. No more fhall nation against nation rife, And the faine hand that fow'd, fhall reap the field, Τ Sees lilies fpring, and fudden verdure rife; IMITATIONS. VIR. 67. The fwain in barren deserts] Virg. E. iv. ver. 28. Et duræ quercus fudabunt rofcida mella. 59 55 65 "The fields fhall grow yellow with ripened ears, and the red, "grape hall hang upon the wild brambles, and the hard oaks, Shall diftil honey like dew." ISAIAH, Ch. xxxv. ver. 7. "The parched ground shall be come a pool, and the thirty land fprings of water: In the "habitations where dragons lay, fhall be grafs, and reeds and k Ch. ix. ver. 6. n Ch. xxxv. ver. 1. 7. Ch. xxv. ver. 8. 1 Ch. xl. ver. 11. 1 Ch.i. ver. 4. m Ch. lxv, ver, 21, 22. And farts amidst the thirsty wilds to hear To leaflefs fhrubs the flow'ry palms fucceed, 70 75 The P lambs with wolves fha'l graze the verdant mead, The fteer and lion at one crib fhall meet, And with their forky tongue fhall innocently play. 80 IMITATIONS. "rufhes." Ch. lv. ver. 13. " Inftead of the thorn fhall come up "the fir-tree, and infead of the briar, fhall come up the myrtle "tree." VER. 77. The lambs with wolves, etc.] Virg. E. iv. ver. 21. Ipfæ late domum referent diftenta capell Ubera, nec magnos metuent armenta leones- "The goats fhall bear to the fold their udders diftended with "milk nor fhall the herds be afraid of the greatest lions. The ** ferpent fhall die, and the herb that conceals poifon fhall die." ISAIAH, Ch. xi. ver. 6, etc. "The wolf fhall dwell with the "lamb, and the leopard fhall lie down with the kid, and the calf "and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child fhall lead them.-And the lion fhall eat ftraw like the ox. And "the fucking child fhall play on the hole of the afp, and the. "weaned child fhall put his hand on the den of the cockatrice." Ch. xli. ver. 19. and Ch. Iv. ver. 13, P Ch, xi. ver. 6, 7, 8. Ch. lxv. ver. 25. Rife, crown'd with light, imperial 'Salem rise! See a long race thy fpacious courts adorn ; t Walk in thy light, and in thy temple bend; W And feeds of gold in Ophir's mountains glow. 85 90 95 100 105 O'erflow thy courts: the Light himself fhall fhine IMITATIONS. VER. 85. Rife, crown'd with light, imperial Salem, rife!] The th ughts of Ifaiah, which compofe the latter part of the poem, are wonderfully elevated, and much above thofe general exclamations. of Virgil, which make the loftieft part of his Pollio. Magnus ab integro fæclorum nafcitur ordo! incipient magni procedere menfes ! Afpice, venturo lætentur ut omnia fæclo! etc. The reader needs only to turn to the paffages of Isaiah, here cited. Ch. lx. ver. 1. Ch. lx. ver. 6. and Ch. liv. ver, 10. s Ch. lx. ver. 4. Ch, lx, ver. 19, 20, t Ch. lx. ver. 3. × Ch. li, ver. 6. WINDSOR-FOREST. To the Right Honourable GEORGE Lord LANSDOWN. Non injuffa cano: Te noftræ, Vare, myricæ, VIRG. |