Rife crown'd with light, &c. The thoughts that follow to the end of the Poem, are wonderfully elevated, and much above thofe general exclamations of Virgil which make the loftiest parts of his Pollio. Magnus ab integro fæclorum nafcitur ordo! The reader needs only turn to the paffages of Isaiah, as they are cited in the margins of the preceding Eclogue. WINDSOR WINDSOR-FOREST. To the Right Honourable GEORGE Lord LANSDOWN. Non injuffa cano: Te noftræ Vare myricæ VIRG. N WINDSOR-FOREST. To the Right Honourable GEORGE Lord LANSDOWN. T HY forefts, Windfor! and thy green retreats, At once the Monarch's and the Mufe's feats, Invite my lays. Be prefent fylvan Maids! The groves of Eden, vanish'd now fo long, Here 47 Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, And where, tho' all things differ, all agree. Here waving groves a checquer'd fcene difplay, Here in full light the ruffet plains extend; & avi ya saival Ev'n the wild heath difplays her purple dyes, bas La the defert fruitful f And arife, 1: nind el, MO big ¿bapramon allioma)) That crown'd with tufted trees and fpringing corn, rit of later an Alliomib) 1 30M and W Like verdant ifles the fable wafte adorn. Buol & von Difinov, mkI to rakI to 20701 Let India boaft her plants, nor envy we sool ni aoag dool bar, noifgirolab ni svi. [ The weeping amber or the balmy tree, squll Toupe they bright frond vm bron 3.0) While by our Oaks the precious loads are born, And realms commanded which thofe trees adorn. |