Of Jove, thy magic lulls the feather'd king With ruffled plumes, and flagging wing: Quench'd in dark clouds of flumber lie The terror of his beak, and light'nings of his eye. I. 3. 1 Thee the voice, the dance, obey, Temper'd to thy warbled lay. O'er Idalia's velvet-green The rofy-crowned Loves are seen On Cytherea's day With antic sports, and blue-eyed Pleasures, Frisking light in frolic measures; 1 Power of harmony to produce all the graces of motion in the body. Now Now pursuing, now retreating, Now in circling troops they meet: To brisk notes in cadence beating m Glance their many-twinkling feet. Slow melting strains their Queen's approach declare: Where'er she turns the Graces homage pay. With arms fublime, that float upon the air, In gliding state she wins her easy way: O'er her warm cheek, and rifing bofom, move "The bloom of young Defire, and purple light of Love. τη Μαρμαρυγὰς θηεῖτο ποδῶν· θαύμαζε δὲ θυμῷ. HOMER. Od. @. R Λάμπει δ ̓ ἐπὶ πορφυρέησι Παρείησι φῶς ἔρωτος, PHRYNICHUS, apud Athenæum. II. I. • Man's feeble race what Ills await, Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain, Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train, And Death, fad refuge from the storms of Fate! The fond complaint, my Song, difprove, And justify the laws of Jove. Say, has he giv'n in vain the heav'nly Mufe? Night, and all her fickly dews, Her Spectres wan, and Birds of boding cry, He gives to range the dreary fky: • To compenfate the real and imaginary ills of life, the Mufe was given to Mankind by the fame Providence that fends the Day by its chearful prefence to difpel the gloom and terrors of the Night. Till down the eaftern cliffs afar Hyperion's march they spy, and glitt'ring shafts of war. II. 2. 9 In climes beyond the folar' road, Where fhaggy forms o'er ice-built mountains roam, The Muse has broke the twilight-gloom To chear the fhiv'ring Native's dull abode. Or feen the Morning's well-appointed Star Cowley. • Extenfive influence of poetic Genius over the remoteft and most uncivilized nations: its connection with liberty, and the virtues that naturally attend on it. [See the Erfe, Norwegian, and Welch Fragments, the Lapland and American fongs.] "Extra anni folifque vias Virgil. "Tutta lontana dal camin del fole." Petrarch, Canzon 2. And And oft, beneath the od'rous fhade Of Chili's boundless forefts laid, She deigns to hear the favage Youth repeat In loose numbers wildly sweet Their feather-cinctured Chiefs, and dufky Loves. Her track, where'er the Goddess roves, Glory pursue, and generous Shame, Th' unconquerable Mind, and Freedom's holy flame. II. 3.. • Woods, that wave o'er Delphi's fteep, Ifles, that crown th' Ægean deep, Fields, • Progrefs of Poetry from Greece to Italy, and from Italy to England. Chaucer was not unacquainted with the writings of Dante or of |