Yet hither oft a glance from high

They fend of tender fympathy,

To bless the place, where, on their op'ning foul,

First the genuine ardour stole.

'Twas Milton ftruck the deep-ton'd fhell,

And, as the choral warblings round him fwell,

Meek Newton's felf bends from his ftate fublime,

And nods his hoary head, and liftens to the rhyme.

ILI.

"Ye brown o'er-arching groves,

"That Contemplation loves,

"Where willowy Camus lingers with delight!

"Oft at the blush of dawn

"Itrod your level lawn;

Oft woo'd the gleam of Cynthia filver-bright

" In

"In cloisters dim far from the haunts of folly,

"With Freedom by my fide, and foft-ey'd Melancholy."

IV.

But hark! the portals found, and pacing forth,

With folemn steps and flow,

High potentates, and dames of royal birth,

And mitred fathers in long order go:

Great Edward*, with the lilies on his brow

From haughty Gallia torn,

* Edward the Third, who added the fleur de lys of France to

the arms of England. He founded Trinity College.

And

And fad Chatillon *, on her bridal morn

That wept her bleeding love, and princely Clare †,

And Anjou's heroine ‡, and the paler Rofe ||,

The rival of her crown, and of her woes;

* Mary de Valentia, Countess of Pembroke, daughter of Guy de Chatillon, Compte de St. Paul in France; of whom tradition fays, that her husband Audemar de Valentia, Earl of Pembroke, was flain at a tournament on the day of his nuptials. She was the foundress of Pembroke College or Hall, under the name of Aula Mariæ de Valentia.

+ Elifabeth de Burg, Countess of Clare, was wife of John de Burg, fon and heir of the Earl of Ulfter, and daughter of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucefter, by Joan of Acres, daughter of Edward the First. Hence the Poet gives her the epithet of princely.*

She founded Clare Hall.

Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry the Sixth, foundress of Queen's College. The Poet has celebrated her conjugal fidelity in the former Ode.

Elifabeth Widville, wife of Edward the Fourth, (hence called the paler Rofe, as being of the houfe of York). She added to the foundation of Margaret of Anjou.

And

And either Henry * there,.'

The murder'd faint, and the majestic lord,

That broke the bonds of Rome:

(Their tears, their little triumphs o'er,

Their human paffions now no more,

Save Charity, that glows beyond the tomb):

All that on Granta's fruitful plain

Rich ftreams of regal bounty pour'd,

And bade thefe awful fanes and turrets rife

To hail their Fitzroy's feftal morning,. come:

And thus they speak, in foft accord,.

The liquid language of the fkies.

Henry the Sixth and Eighth. The former the founder of King's, the latter the greatest benefactor to Trinity College.

"What

V.

"What is grandeur, what is power?

"Heavier toil, fuperior pain.

"What the bright rewards we gain?

"The grateful memory of the good.

Sweet is the breath of vernal shower,

"The bee's collected treasures sweet,

"Sweet Mufic's melting fall, but sweeter yet

The ftill finall voice of Gratitude."

VI.

Foremost, and leaning from her golden cloud,

The venerable Margaret * see!

"Welcome, my noble fon, (fhe cries aloud),

"To this, thy kindred train, and me:

Countess of Richmond and Derby, the mother of Henry the Seventh; foundrefs of St. John's and Chrift's Colleges.