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I fee, I fee, where two fair cities bend
Their ample bow, a new Whitehall afcend!
There mighty Nations shall enquire their doom,
The World's great Oracle in times to come; 380
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 forests rush into thy floods,
Bear Britain's thunder, and her Cross display, 385
To the bright regions of the rifing day;

Tempt icy feas, where scarce the waters roll,
Where clearer flames glow round the frozen Pole;

VARIATIONS.

VER. 383, etc. were originally thus,

Now shall our fleets the bloody Crofs difplay

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. P.

NOTES.

VER. 388. Where clearer flames glow round the frozen Pole.] The Poet is here recommending the advantages of commerce, and therefore the extremities of heat and cold are not reprefented in a forbidding manner as again,

Or under fouthern fkies exalt their fails,

Led by new stars, and borne by spicy gales.

But in the Dunciad, where the mischief of Dulness is described, they are painted in all their inclemencies,

See round the Poles, where keener fpangles fhine,
Where fpices fmoke beneath the burning line.

Or under fouthern fkies exalt their fails,

Led by new stars, and borne by spicy gales! 390
For me the balm shall bleed, and amber flow,
The coral redden, and the ruby glow,

The pearly shell its lucid globe infold,
And Phoebus warm the rip'ning ore to gold. 394
The time shall come, when free as feas or wind
Unbounded Thames fhall flow for all mankind,
Whole nations enter with each fwelling tide,
And seas but join the regions they divide;
Earth's distant ends our glory fhall behold,
And the new world launch forth to feek the old.400
Then ships 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 strange attire!
Oh ftretch thy reign, fair Peace! from shore to
fhore,

"Till Conqueft ceafe, and Slav'ry be no more; 406 "Till the freed Indians in their native groves Reap their own fruits, and woo their fable loves,

NOTES.

VER. 396. Unbounded Thames, etc.] A wish that London may be made a FREE PORT. P.

410

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 shall attend her there:
There purple Vengeance bath'd in goreretires, 415
Her weapons blunted, and extinct her fires:
There hated Envy her own fnakes shall feel,
And Perfecution mourn her broken wheel:
There Faction roar, Rebellion bite her chain,
And gasping Furies thirst for blood in vain. 420
Here cease thy flight, nor with unhallow'd lays
Touch the fair fame of Albion's golden days:
The thoughts of Gods let GRANVILLE's verse
recite,

And bring the scenes of op'ning fate to light.
My humble Muse, in unambitious strains,

Paints the

green forests and the flow'ry plains,

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Where Peace defcending bids her olive fpring, And scatters bleffings from her dove-like wing, Ev'n I more fweetly pass my carelefs days, Pleas'd in the filent fhade with empty praife; 439 Enough for me, that to the lift'ning fwains First in these fields I fung the fylvan strains,

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ST. CECILIA's DAY,

MDCC VIII.

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PIECES for MUSIC.

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