What eyes but hers, alas, have power to move! And is there magic but what dwells in love? Refound, ye hills, refound my mournful ftrains! I'll fly from thepherds, flocks, and flowery plains. From fhepherds, flocks, and plains, I may remove, Forfake mankind, and all the world-but love! I know thee, Love: on foreign mountains bred, Wolves gave thee fuck, and favage tigers fed. 90 Thou wert from Ætna's burning entrails torn, Got by fierce whirlinds, and in thunder born! Refound, ye hills, refound my mournful lay! Farewell, ye woods, adieu the light of day! One leap from yonder cliffs fhall end my pains; No more, ye hills, no more refound my strains! Thus fung the fhepherds till th' approach of night, The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low fun had lengthen'd every shade. 100 WINTER. THE FOURTH PASTORAL, OR DAPHNE. TO THE MEMORY OF MRS. TEMPEST. 'Tis done, and nature's various charms decay: See gloomy clouds obfcure the cheerful day! 30 Now hung with pearls the dropping trees appear, Their faded honours fcatter'd on her bier. See where, on earth, the flowery glories lie! With her they flourish'd and with her they die. Ah, what avail the beauties nature wore? Fair Daphne's dead, and beauty is no more! For her the flocks refuse their verdant food, The thirsty heifers fhun the gliding flood; The filver fwans her hapless fate bemoan, In notes more fad than when they fing their 40 own; In hollow caves fweet Echo filent lies, No grateful dews defcend from evening skies, VARIATIONS. 50 Ver. 29. Originally thus in the MS. 'Tis done, and nature's chang'd fince you are gone; Behold, the clouds have "put their mourning on." 80 No more the mounting larks, while Daphne fings, | In fome ftill evening, when the whispering breeze Shall, listening in mid air, suspend their wings; No more the birds fhall imitate her lays, Or, hush'd with wonder, hearken from the sprays; 60 Her fate is whifper'd by the gentle breeze, And told in fighs to all the trembling trees; The trembling trees, in every plain and wood, Her fate remurmur to the filver flood: The filver flood, fo lately calm, appears Swell'd with new paffion, and o'erflows with tears; The winds, and trees, and floods, her death deplore, Daphne, our grief! our glory now no more! Above the clouds, above the starry sky! 70 How all things liften, while thy mufe complains! Buch filence waits on Philomela's ftrains, Pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees MESSIAH. A SACRED ECLOGUE. IN IMITATION OF VIRGIL'S POLLIO. ADVERTISEMENT. In reading several paffages of the prophet Isaiah, which foretel the coming of Chrift, and the feli cities attending it, I could not but observe a remarkable parity between many of the thoughts, and those in the Pollio of Virgil. This will not seem surprising, when we reflect, that the Eclogue was taken from a Sibylline prophecy on the same subject. One may judge that Virgil did not copy it line for line; but selected such ideas as best agreed with the nature of Pastoral Poetry, and disposed them in that manner which served most to beautify his piece. I have endeavoured the fame in this imitation of him, though without admitting any thing of my own; since it was written with this particular view, that the reader, by comparing the several thoughts, might see how far the images and descriptions of the prophet are fuperior to those of the poet. But as I fear I have prejudiced them by my management, I shall subjoin the passages of Isaiah, and those of Virgil, under the fame disadvantage of a literal translation. Ye nymphs of Solyma! begin the fong: * Th' Æthereal spirit o'er its leaves fhall move, IMITATIONS. Whofe facred flower with fragrance fills the skies: 10 Irrita perpetua folvent formidine terras,— IMITATIONS. Pacatumque reget patriis virtutibus orbem. "Now the Virgin returns, now the kingdom of Ver. 8. A Virgin fhall conceive-All crimes" Saturn returns, now a new progeny is fent down fhall cease, &c.] "from high heaven. By means of thee, whate"ver relics of our crimes remain, shall be wiped away, and free the world from perpetual fears. "He shall govern the earth in peace, with the vir "tues of his Father." + Cb. xiv. ver. 8. All crimes thall cease, and ancient frauds fhall fail, A God, a God! the vocal hills reply, IMITATIONS. 30 Ifaiah, Ch. vii. ver. 14. "Behold a Virgin "shall conceive and bear a Son-Chap. ix. ver. "6, 7. Unto us a Child is born; unto us a Son "is given; the Prince of Peace: of the increase "of his government, and of his peace, there fhall "be no end: Upon the throne of David, and up" on his kingdom, to order and to establish it, "with judgment and with justice, for ever and " ever." Ver. 13. See nature haftes, &c.] Virg. Ecl. iv. ver. 18. At tibi prima, puer, nullo munuscula cultu, "For thee, O Child, fhall the earth, without "being tilled, produce her early offerings; winding ivy, mixed with Baccar, and Colocaffia with "Imiling Acanthus. Thy cradle shall pour forth "pleafing flowers about thee." Ifaiah, Ch. xxxi. ver. L. "The wilderness and the folitary place fhall be glad, and the defert "fhall rejoice and bloffom as the rofe." Ch. lx. ver. 13. The glory of Lebanon shall come un"to thee, the fir-tree, the pine-tree, and the box “together, to beautify the place of thy fan&u"ary." Ver. 29. Hark! a glad voice, &c. 40 The rocks proclaim th' approaching Deity. IMITATIONS. 50 ба Aggredere, & magnos, (aderit jam tempus) honores," ftraight, and the rough places plain." Ch. iv, Cara deûm foboles, magnum Jovis incrementum ver. 23. "Break forth into finging, ye mountains; "O foreft, and every tree therein, for the Lord "hath redeemed Ifeael." Ver. 67. The fwain in barren deferts] Virg. Molli paulatim flavefcet campus aristå, • Cb. xliii. ver. 18. Cb. lxv. ver. 21, 22. Ch. xxxv. ver. 5, 6. Cb. xl. ver. II. 70 And ftarts, amidft the thirsty wilds to hear * To leaflefs fhrubs the flowery palms fucceed, The lambs with wolves fhall graze the verdant And boys in flowery bands the tiger lead: The smiling infant in his hand fhall take Rife, crown'd with light, imperial * Salem, rife! And harmless serpents lick the pilgrim's feet. 80 Walk in thy light, and in thy temple bend; "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." Ifaiah, Ch. xi. ver. 6, &c. "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 shall eat straw 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." 9,9 See thy bright altars throng'd with proftrate kings, 100 feas fhall wafte, the skies in fmoke decay, |