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There mighty Nations fhall enquire their doom, The World's great Oracle in times to come; There Kings shall sue, and fuppliant States be seen Once more to bend before a BRITISH QUEEN.

Thy trees, fair Windfor! now fhall leave their woods,

And half thy forefts rufh into thy floods,

Bear Britain's thunder, and her Crofs difplay, 385 To the bright regions of the rifing day;

Tempt icy feas, where fcarce the waters roll, Where clearer flames glow round the frozen Pole; Or under fouthern fkies exalt their fails,

Led by new ftars, and borne by spicy gales!

390

For me the balm fhall bleed, and amber flow,

The coral redden, and the ruby glow,

The pearly fhell its lucid globe infold,

And Phœbus warm the rip'ning ore to gold.

394

The time fhall come, when free as feas or wind
Unbounded Thames fhall flow for all mankind,

VARIATIONS.

VER. 383, etc. were originally thus:

Now fhall our fleets the bloody Cross display

To the rich regions of the rifing day,

Or those green ifles, where headlong Titan fteeps

His hiffing axle in th' Atlantic deeps:

Tempt icy feas, etc.

NOTES.

VER. 396. Unbounded Thames, etc.] A wish that London

may be made a FREE PORT.

399

Whole nations enter with each swelling tide,
And feas but join the regions they divide;
Earth's diftant ends our glory fhall behold,
And the new world launch forth to feek the old.
Then fhips of uncouth form shall stem the tide,
And feather'd people croud my wealthy fide,
And naked youths and painted chiefs admire
Our speech, our colour, and our ftrange attire!
Oh ftretch thy reign, fair Peace! from shore to fhore,
'Till Conqueft cease, and Slav'ry be no more; 406
'Till the freed Indians in their native groves
Reap their own fruits, and woo their fable loves,
Peru once more a race of Kings behold,
And other Mexico's be roof'd with gold.
Exil'd by thee from earth to deepest hell,
In brazen bonds, fhall barb'rous Discord dwell;
Gigantic Pride, pale Terror, gloomy Care,
And mad Ambition fhall attend her there:
There purple Vengeance bath'd in gore retires, 415
Her weapons blunted, and extinct her fires
There hateful Envy her own snakes shall feel,
And Perfecution mourn her broken wheel:
There Faction roar, Rebellion bite her chain,
And gasping Furies thirst for blood in vain.

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410

420

Here cease thy flight, nor with unhallow'd lays Touch the fair fame of Albion's golden days:

IMITATIONS.

VER. 421. Quo, Mufa, tendis? define pervicax

425

The thoughts of Gods let GRANVILLE's verfe recite,
And bring the scenes of op'ning fate to light;
My humble Mufe, in unambitious ftrains,
Paints the green forefts and the flow'ry plains,
Where Peace defcending bids her olives fpring,
And scatters bleffings from her dove-like wing.
Ev'n I more sweetly pafs my careless days,
Pleas'd in the filent fhade with empty praife; 430
Enough for me, that to the lift'ning fwains
Firft in these fields I fung the fylvan strains.

IMITATION S.

Referre fermones Deorum et

Magna modis tenuare parvis.

Hor.

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ST. CECILIA's D A Y.

M DCC VIII.

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PIECES for MUSIC.