Can any future honours give
To the victorious monarch's name :
The plenitude of William's fame
Can no accumulated ftores receive.
Shut then, aufpicious God, thy facred gate,
And make us happy, as our king is great.
Be kind, and with a milder hand
Clofing the volume of the finish'd age
(Though noble, 'twas an iron page)
A more delightful leaf expand,
Free from alarms, and fierce Bellona's rage:
Bid the great months begin their joyful round,
By Flora fome, and fome by Ceres crown'd;
Teach the glad hours to fcatter, as they fly,
Soft quiet, gentle love, and endless joy;
Lead forth the years for peace and plenty fam'd,
From Saturn's rule and better metal nam'd.
Secure by William's care let Britain stand;
Nor dread the bold invader's hand:
From adverse shores in fafety let her hear
Foreign calamity, and distant war;
Of which let her, great Heaven, no portion bear!
Betwixt the nations let her hold her fcale,
And, as she wills, let either part prevail :
Let her glad vallies fimile with wavy corn;
Let fleecy flocks her rifing hills adorn ;
Around her coaft let strong defence be spread;
Let fair abundance on her breast be shed;
And heavenly sweets bloom round the Goddess' head!
Where the white towers and ancient roofs did stand,
Remains of Wolfey's or great Henry's hand,
To age now yielding, or devour'd by flame,
Let a young phoenix raise her towering head;
Her wings with lengthen'd honour let her spread ;
And by her greatness fhew her builder's fame:
Auguft and open, as the hero's mind,
Be her capacious courts design'd:
Let every facred pillar bear
Trophies of arms, and monuments of war.
The king fhall there in Parian marble breathe,
His fhoulder bleeding fresh: and at his feet
Difarm'd fhall lie the threatening death:
(For fo was faving Jove's decree compleat).
Behind, that angel fhall be plac'd, whose shield
Sav'd Europe, in the blow repell'd :
On the firm bafis, from his oozy bed,
Boyne fhall raise his laurel'd head;
And his immortal stream be known,
Artfully waving through the wounded stone.
And thou, imperial Windfor, ftand enlarg'd,
With all the monarch's trophies charg'd:
Thou, the fair heaven, that doft the ftars inclofe,
Which William's bofom wears, or hand beftows
On the great champions who fupport his throne,
And virtues nearest to his own.
Round Ormond's knee, thou ty'ft the myftic ftring,
That makes the knight companion to the king.
From glorious camps return'd, and foreign fields,
Bowing before thy fainted warrior's fhrine,
Faft by his great forefather's coats, and shields
Blazon'd from Bohun's or from Butler's line,
He hangs his arms; nor fears those arms should shine
With an unequal ray; or that his deed
With paler glory should recede,
Eclips'd by theirs, or letïen'd by the fame
'. Ev'n of his own maternal Nassau's name.
Thou smiling feest great Dorset's worth confest,
The ray diftinguishing the patriot's breast;
Born to protect and love, to help and please ;
Sovereign of wit, and ornament of peace.
O! long as breath informs this fleeting frame;
Ne'er let me pafs in filence Dorset's name ;
Ne'er cease to mention the continued debt,
Which the great patron only would forget,
And duty, long as life, muft study to acquit.
Renown'd in thy records shall Ca'ndish stand,
Afferting legal power and juft command:
To the great house thy favour shall be shown,
The father's ftar tranfmiffive to the fon.
From thee the Talbot's and the Seymour's race
Inform'd, their fire's immortal fteps fhall trace.
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Happy, may their fons receive
The bright reward, which thou alone canft give!
XXXII.
And if a God these lucky numbers guide;
If fure Apollo o'er the verse prefide;
Jerfey, belov'd by all (for all must feel
The influence of a form and mind,
Where comely grace and conftant virtue dwell,
Like mingled ftreams, more forcible when join'd)—
Jersey fhall at thy altars ftand;
Shall there receive the azure band,
That faireft mark of favour and of fame,
Familiar to the Villiers' name.
Science to raise, and knowledge to enlarge,
Be our great mafter's future charge;
To write his own memoirs, and leave his heirs
High fchemes of government, and plans of wars;
By fair rewards our noble youth to raise
To emulous merit, and to thirst of praise;
To lead them out from cafe ere opening dawn
Through the thick foreft and the diftant lawn,
Where the fleet flag employs their ardent care,
And chaces give them images of war;
To teach them vigilance by false alarms;
Inure them in feign'd camps to real arms;
Practise them now to curb the turning fteed,
Mocking the foe; now to his rapid speed
To give the rein, and in the full career
To draw the certain fword, or fend the pointed fpear.
Let him unite his fubjects hearts,
Planting focieties for peaceful arts;
Some that in nature fhall true knowledge found,
And by experiment make precept found;
Some that to morals fhall recall the age,
And purge from vicious drofs the finking stage;
Some that with care true eloquence shall teach,
And to just idioms fix our doubtful speech;
That from our writers diftant realms may know
The thanks we to our monarch owe;
And schools profess our tongue through every land,
That has invok'd his aid, or bleft his hand.
Let his high power the drooping Muses rear;
The Muses only can reward his care :
'Tis they that guard the great Atrides' spoils;
'Tis they that ftill renew Ulyffes' toils:
To them by smiling Jove 'twas given, to save
Diftinguifh'd patriots from the common grave;
To them, great William's glory to recall,
When ftatues moulder, and when arches fall.
Nor let the Muses, with ungrateful pride,
The fources of their treasure hide :
The Hero's virtue does the ftring infpire,
When with big joy they strike the living lyre.
On William's fame their fate depends;
With him the fong begins; with him it ends.
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