The lambs with wolves fhall graze the verdant mead, The fteer and lion at one crib fhall meet, г 80 And with their forky tongue shall innocently play. Rife, crown'd with light, imperial Salem rife! 85 Exalt thy tow'ry head, and lift thy eyes! IMITATIONS. VER. 77. The lambs with wolves, etc.] Virg. E. iv. ver. 21. Occidet. "The goats fhall bear to the fold their udders diftended "with milk: nor fhall the herds be afraid of the greatest "lions. The ferpent shall die, and the herb that conceals poifon fhall die." 66 ISAIAH, Ch. xi. ver. 16, 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." P. VER. 85. Rife, crown'd with light, imperial Salem, rife!] The thoughts 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 parts of his Pollio. Magnus ab integro fæclorum nafcitur ordo! P Ch. xi. ver. 6, 7, 8. 1x. ver. 1. 9 Ch. Ivi. ver. 25. - Ch. See, a long race thy spacious courts adorn; And break upon thee in a flood of day. W No more the rifing Sun fhall gild the morn, Nor ev'ning Cynthia fill her filver horn; But loft, diffolv'd in thy fuperior rays, One tide of glory, one unclouded blaze O'erflow thy courts: the Light himself fhall fhine The feas fhall wafte, the fkies in fmoke decay, 105 But fix'd his word, his faving pow'r remains: IMITATION S. -incipient magni procedere menfes ! Afpice, venturo lætentur ut omnia fæclo! etc. The reader needs only to turn to the passages of Isaiah, here cited. P. f Ch. 1x. ver. 4. t Ch. Ix. ver. 3. ▾ Ch. lx. ver. 6. w Ch. lx. ver. 19, 20. * Ch. li. ver 6. and Ch. liv. ver. 10. WINDSOR-FOREST. To the RIGHT HONOURABLE GEORGE Lord LANSDOWN. Non injuffa cano: Te noftræ, Vare, myricæ, VIRG. F 3 |