THE

Imparadis'd, blest denizons, ye dwell;
Or Dorovernia's awful tow'rs ye love :
Or plough Tunbridgia's salutiferou, hills

Industrions, and with draughts chalybiate heal'd,
HOP-GARDEN.

Confess divine Hygeia's blissful seat;

The Muse demands your presence, ere she tune
A GEORGIC.

Her monitory voice; observe her well,
And catch the wholesome dictates as they fall.

'Midst thy paternal acres, farmer, say
IN TWO BOOKS.

Has gracious Heav'n bestow'd one field, that

basks Me quoque Parnassi per Jubicra culmina

Its loamy bosom in the mid-day Sun, raptat Laudis amor: studium sequor insanabile ratis,

Emerging gently from the abject vale,

Nor yet obnoxious to the wind, secure
Ansus non operam, non formidare poetse
Nomen, adoratum quondam, nunc pæne procaci

There shalt thou plant thy hop. This soil, per

[haps, Monstratum digito. -Van. PRÆD. Rusr.

Thou'lt say, will fill my garners. Be it so.
BOOK THE FIRST,

But Ceres, rural goddess, at the best

Meanly supports her vot'ry', enough for her,
The land that answers best the farmer's care, If ill-persuading bunger she repell,
And silvers to maturity the hop :

And kcep the soul from fainting : to enlarge,
When to inhume the plants; to turn the glebe; To glad the heart, to sublimate the mind,
And wed the tendrils to th' aspiring poles : And wing the flagging spirits to the sky,
Under what sign to pluck the crop, and how Require th' united influence and aid
To cure, and in capacious sacks infold,

Of Bacchus, god of hops, with Ceres join'd.
I teach in verse Miltonian. Smile the Muse, 'Tis he shall generate the buxom beer.
And meditate an honour to that land

Theu on one pedestal, and hand in hand,
Where first I breath’d, and struggled into life, Sculptur'd in Parian stone (so gratitude
Impatient, Cantium, to be call'd thy son. Indites) let the divine co-partners rise.

Oh! cou'd I emulate skilled Sydney's Muse, Stands eastward in thy field a wood ? tis well. Thy Sydney, Cantium--He, from court retird, Esteem it as a bulwark of thy wealth,

: Penshurst's sweet Elysium sang delight, And cherish all its branches; tho' we'll grant, sung transport to the soft-responding streams Its leaves umbrageous may intercept of Medway, and enliven'd all her groves : The morning rays, and envy some small share While ever near him, goddess of the green,, Of Sol's beneficence to th' infant germ. Fair Pembroke' sat and smil'd immense ap- | Yet grudge not that:when whistling Eurus comes, plause.

With all his worlds of insects in thy lands With vocal fascination charm'd the hours, To hyemate, and monarchize o'er all Unguarded left Heav'n's adamantine gate, Thy vegetable riches, then thy wood And to bis lyre, swift as the winged sounds Shall ope it's arms expansive, and embrace That skim the air, danc'd unperceiv'd away. The storm reluctant, and divert its rage. Hlad I such pow'r, no peasants humble toil Armies of animalcules urge their way Shou'd e’er debase my lay: far nobler themes, In vain: the ventilating trees oppose The high achievements of thy warrior kings Their airy march. They blacken distant plains. Shou'd raise my thoughts, and dignify my song. This site for thy young nursery obtain'd, But I, young rustic, dare not leave my cot, Thou hast begun auspicious, if the soil Por su enlarg'd a sphere-ah! Muse beware, (As sung before) be loamy; this the hop Lest the loud larums of the braying trump, Loves above others, this is rich, is deep, Lest the deep drum shou'd drown thy tender Is viscous, and tenacious of the pole. reed,

Yet maugre all its native worth, it may And mar its puny joints: me, lowly swain, Be meliorated with warm compost. See ! Every unshaven arboret, me the lawns,

Yon craggy mountain?, whose fastidious head
Me the voluminous Medway's silver wave, Divides the star-set hemisphere above,
Content inglorious, and the hopland shades ! And Cantium's plains beneath ; the Apennine
Yeomen and countrymen, attend my song: Of a free Italy, whose chalky sides
Whether you shiver in the marshy Wealdų, With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay,
Egregious shepherds of unnumber'd flocks, Still captivate the eye, while at his feet
Whose fleeces, poison’d into purple, deck The silver Medway glides, and in her breast
All Europe's kings : or in fair Madum's vale Views the reflected landscape, charm'd she views

And murmurs louder ecstasy below.
Sister to sir Philip Sydney.

Here let us rest a while, pleas'd to behold
-Πυλαι μυκον ερανε ας εχον Ωραι. ΗοΜ. Ε.

Thall beautiful horizon's wide expanse, 3 Rure mihi, & 'rigui placeant in vallibus

Far as the eagle's ken. Here tow'ring spires

First catch the eye, and turn the thoughts to amnes, Flumina amem, sylvasque in glorius !

Heav'n.

VIRG. GEORO. 2. 6 Canterbury. 4 Commonly, but improperly called, the Wild. 7 Boxley-Hin, which extends through great 5 Maidstone,

part of Kent,

. lets green

The lofty elms in humble majesty

Illustrious parent of the best of men !
Bend with the breeze to shade the solemn groves, For thee Antiquity's thrice sacred springs
And spread an holy darkness; Ceres there Placidly stagnant at their fountain head,
Shines in ber golden vesture. Here the meads I rashly dare to trouble (if from thence
Enricb'd by Flora's dædal hand, with pride I aught for thy utility can drain)
Expose their spotted verdure. Nor are you, And in thy towns adopt th' Ascræan muse.
Poinona, absent; you 'midst hoary leaves

Hail heroes, hail invaluable gems,
Swell the vermilion cherry; and on yon trees

Fav'rites of Heav'n! to whom the general doom
Suspend the pippin's palatable gold.

Is all remitted, who alone possess
There old Sylvanus in that moss-grown grot.

Of Adam's sons fair Eden-rest ye here,
Dwells with his wood-nymphs: they with chap- Nor seek an earthly good above the hop;

A good! untasted by your ancient kings,
And russet mantles oft bedight, aloft

And to your very sires almost unknown.
From yon bent oaks, in Medway's bosom fair In those biest days when great Eliza reign'd
Wonder at silver bleak, and prickly pearch, O'er the adoring nation, when fair peace
That swiftly throʻ their floating forests glide. Or spread an unstain'd olive round the land,
Yet not even these these ever varied scenes Or laureli'd war did teach our winged fleets
Of wealth and pleasure can engage my eyes

To lord it o'er the world, when our brave sires
Toerlook the lowly hawthorn, if from thence

Drank valour from uncauponated beer ;
The thrush, sweet warbler, chants th' unstudied The hop (before an interdicted plant,
lays

Shun'd like fell aconite) began to hang
Which Phæbus' self, vaulting from yonder cloud Its folded foscles from the golden vine,
Refulgent, with enliv'ning ray inspires.

And bloom'd a shade to Cantium's sunny shores
But neither tow'ring spires, nor lofty elms,

Delightsome, and in cheerful goblets faught
Nor golden Ceres, nor the meadows green,

Potent, what time Aquarius' urn impends
Nor orchats, nor the russet mantled nymphs

To kill the dulsome day-potent to quench
Which to the murmurs of the Medway dance, The Syrian ardour, and autumnal ills
Nor sweetly warbling thrush, with half those To heal with mild potations ; sweeter far
charms

Than those which erst the subtile Hengist 9 mix'd
Attract my eyes, as yonder hop-land close, Tintbrall voluptuous Vortigern. He, with love
Joint-work of Art and Nature, which reminds

Emasculate and wine, the toils of war
The Muse, and 10 her theme the wand'rer calls. Neglected, and to dalliance vile and sloth

Here then with pond'rous vehicles and teams Emancipated, saw th' incroaching Saxons
Thy rustics send, and from the caverns deep

With unaffected eyes; his hand which ought Command them bring the chalk : thence to the T have shook the spear of justice, soft and kiln

smooth, Convey, and temper with Vulcanian fires. Play'd ravishing divisions on the lyre : Soon as 'tis form'd, thy lime with bounteous hand This Hengist markd, and (for curs'd insolence C'er all thy lands disseminate ; thy lands Soon fattens on impunity! and rises Which first have felt the softening spade, and Briareus from a dwarf) fair Thanet gain'd. drank

Nor stopt he here; but to immense attempts
The strength’ning vapours from nutritious marl. Ambition sky-aspiring led him on

This done, select the choicest hop, l' insert Adventrous. He an only daughter rear'd,
Fresh in the opening glebe. Say then, my Muse, Roxena, matchless maid! nor reard in vain.
Its various kinds, and from th’ effete and vile, Her eagle-ey'd callidity, deceit,
The eligible separate with care.

And fairy fiction rais'd above her sex,
The noblest species is by Kentish wights

And furnish'd with a thousand various wiles
The Master-hop yclep’d. Natyre to him Preposterous, more than female ; wondrous fair
Has giv'n a stouter stalk, patient of cold, She was, and docile, which her pions nurse
Or Phæhus er'n in youth, his verdant blood Observ'd, and early in each female fraud
In brisk saltation circulates and flows

Her 'gan initiate: well she knew to smile,
Indesinently vigorous : the next

Whene'er vexation galld her; did she weep?
Is arid, fetid, infecund, and gross,

'Twas not sincere, the fountains of her eyes
Significantly styl’d the Fryar: the last

Play'd artificial streams, yet so well forc'd
Is calld the Savage, who in ev'ry wood,

They look'd like nature ; for ev'n art to her
And ev'ry hedge unintroduc'd intrudes.

Was natural, and contrarieties
When such the merit of the candidates,

Seem'd in Roxena congruons and allied.
Easy is the election; but, my friend,

Such was she, when brisk Vortigern bebeld,

She perceividt,
Wouldst thou ne'er fail, to Kent direct thy way, Ill-fated prince! and lov'd her.

Soon she perceiv'd her conquest; soon she told,
Where no one shall be frustrated that seeks
Ought that is great or good. Hail, Cantium, With hasty joy transported, her old sire.
bail !

The Saxon inly smil'd, and to his isle

The willing prince invited, but first bad
Ollastrious parent of the finest fruitss,

The nymph prepare the potions; such as fire

The blood's meandering rivulets, and depress
* Salve magna parens frugum, Saturnia tellus
Magna virûm; tibi res antiquæ laudis & artis
Ingredior, sanctos ausus recludere fontes,

9 See the following story told at large in LamAscræumque cano Ronana per oppida carmen,

barde's Peranıbulation of Kent.

VIRG. Georg. 2

cave

To love the soul. Lo! at the moon of night Thy young plants will uplift, their virgin aring Thrice Hecate invok'd the maid_and thrice They'll stretch, and, marriageable, claim the The goddess stoop'd assent ; forth from a cloud

pole. These in a splendid cup of hurnish'd gold

Nor frustrate thou their wishes, so thou may'st
She stoop'd, and gave the filters power to charm. | Expect an hopeful issue, jolly Mirth,
The lovely sorceress mix'd, and to the prince

Sister of taleful Momus, tune ul Song,
Health, peace and joy propin'd, but to herself And fat Good-nature with her honest face.
Mutter'd dire exorcisms, and wish'd effect But yet in the novitiate of their love,
To th' love-creating draught: lowly she bow'd And tenderness of youth suffice small shoots
Fawning insinuation blard, that might

Cut from the widow'd willow, nor provide
Deceive Laertes' son; her lucid orbs

Poles insurmountable as yet. 'Tis then Shed copiously the oblique rays; her face

When twice bright Phoebus' vivifying ray, Like modest . Luna's shone, but not so pale,

Twice the cold touch of winter's icy hand, And with no borrow'd lustre; on her brow They've felt; 'tis then we feel sublimer props. Smild fallacy, while summoning each grace, 'Tis then the sturdy woodman's axe from far Kneeling she gave the cup. The prince (for Resounds, resounds, and hark! with hollow who !

groans Who cou'd have spur'd a suppliant so divine ?) Down tumble the big trees, and rushing roll Drank eager, and in ecstacy devonr'd

O'er the crush'd crackling brake, while in his Th' ambrosial perturbation; mad with love He clasp'd her, and in hymeneal bands

Forlorn, dejected, 'mielst the weeping Dryads At once the nymph demanded and obtain'd. Laments Sylvanus for his verdant care. Now Hengist, all his ample wish fulfillid,

The ash or willow for thy ise select, Exulted ; and from Kent th' uxorious prince Or storm enduring chesmut; but the oak, Exterminated, and usurp'd his seat.

Unfit for this employ, for nobler ends Long did he reign; but all-deroaring time Reserve untouch'd ; she when by time maturd, Has raz'd his palace walls— Perchance on them Capscious of some Lritish demi-god, Grows the green hop, and o'er bis crumbled bust Vernon, or Warren, shall with rapid wing In spiral twines ascends the scautile pole. - Infuriate, like Jove's armour-bearing bird, But now to plant, to dlig, to dung, to weed; Fly on thy foes; they, like the parted waves, Tasks humble, but important, ask the Muse.

Which to the brazen beak murmuring give way Come, fair magician, sportive Fancy, come,

Amaz'd and roaring from the fight recede.With wildest imagery ; thou child of thought,

In that sweet month, when to the list ning swains From thy aerial citadel descend,

Fair Philomel sings love, and every cot And (for thou canst) assist me. Bring with With garlands blooms bedigbt, with bandage thee

meet Thy all-creative talisman; with thee

The tendrils bind, and to the tall poll tie, The active spirits ideal, tow'ring flights,

Else soon, too soon their meretricious arms That hover o'er the muse-resounding groves, Round each ignoble clod they'll fold, and leave And all thy colourings, all thy shapes display. Averse the lordly prop. Thus, have I heard Thou too be here, Experience, so shall I Where there's no mutual tic, no strong connecMy rules nor in low prose jejunely say,

tion Nor in smooth numbers musically err ;

Of love-conspiring hearts, oft the young bride But vain is Fancy and Experience vain,

Has prostituted to her slaves her charms, If thou, O Hesiod ! Virgil of our land,

While the infatuated lord admires Or hear'st thou ratherlo, Milton, bard divine, Fresh-butting sprouts'', and issue not his own. Whose greatness who shalt imitate, save thee?

Now turn the glebe: soon with correcting hand, If thou, O Philips", fav'ring dost not hear When smiling June in jocund dance leadson Me, inexpert of verse ; with gentle band

Long days and happy hours, from ev'ry vine Uprear the unpinion'd Muse, high on the top

Dock the redundant branches, and once more of that immeasurable mount, that far

With the sharp spade thy numerous acres till. Exceeds thine own Plinlimmon, where thou tun'st The shovel next must lend its aid, enlarge With Phæbus' self thy lyre. Give me to turn

The little hillocks, and erase the weeds. Th’ unwieldy subject with thy graceful ease,

This in that month its title which derives Extol its baseness with thy art ; but chief Froin great Augustus' ever sacred name! Illumine, and invigorate with thy fire.

Sovereign of science! master of the Muse! When Phoebus looks thro' Aries on the spring, Neglected genius' firm ally! of worth And vernal flow'rs teem with the dulcet fruit, Best juilge, and best rewarder, whose applause Autumnal pride! delay not then thy sets

To bards was fanie and fortune! O! 'twas well, In Tellus facile bosom to depose

Well did you too in this, all glorious heroes! Timely: if thou art wise the bulkiest chuse : Ye Romans !-un Time'swing you've stamp'd his To every root three joints indulge, and forin

praise, The quincunx witio well regulated hills.

And time shall bear it to eternity. Soon from the dung-enriched earth, their heads Now are our labours crown'd with their reward,

Now bloom the florid hops, and in the stream

Shine in their floating silver, while above
Subtilis Veterum judex & callidus audis.

HORAT. !: Miraturque novas frondes, & non sua poma.
Mr. John Philips, author of Cider, a poem.

VIRCH

10 At ipse

THE

BOOK THE SECOND.

To embow'ring branches culminate, and form Joyous; but soon the treacherous gloom betrays
A walk impervious to the Sun; the poles TH’unwary visitor, while on his head
In comely order stand ; and while you cleave Th’enlarging drops in double show'rs descend.
With the small skiff the Medway's lucid wave, And now no longer in disguise the men
In cornely order still their rauks preserve, Of Kent appear; down they all drop their boughs,
And seem to march along th' extensive plain, And shine in brazen panoply divine.
In neat arrangement thus the men of Kent, Enough-great William ( for full well he knew
With native oak at once adoru'd and armid, How vain would be the conquest) to the sons
Intrepid march'd; for weli they knew the crics Of glorious Cantium gave their lives, and laws,
Of dying Freedom, and Astrea's voice,

And liberties secure, and to the prowess
Who as she fled, to echoing woods complain'd Of Çantium's sons, like Cæsar, deign'd to yield:
Of tyranny, and William ; like a god,

Cesar and William' hail immortal wortbies,
Refulgent stood the conqueror, on his troups Illustrious vanquislı’d! Cantium, if to them,
He sent his looks enliv’ning as the Sun's,

Posterity with all her chiefs unborn,
But on his foes frown'd agony, and death.

Aught similar, aught second has to boast.
On his left side in bright
emblazonry

Once more (so prophesies the Muse) thy sons
His falchion burn'd; forth from his sevenfold shield Shall triumph, emulous of their sires--till then
A basilisk shot adamant ; his bow

With olive, and with hop-garlands crown'd,
Wore clouds of fury!--on that with plumage O'er all thy land reign plenty, reign fair peace.

crown'd
Of rarious hue sat a tremendous cone:
Thus sits bigh-canopied above the clouds,
Terrific beauty of nocturnal skies,
Northern Aurora'); she thro' th' azure air

HOP GARDEN.
Shoots, shoots her trenn'lous rays in painted
streaks

A GEORGIC.
Continual, while waving to the wind
Ofer Night's dark veil her lucid tresses flow.
The trav'ler views th’ upseemly day

Omnia quæ multo ante memor provisa repones,
Astound, the proud bend lowly to the earth,

Si te digna manet divini gloria ruris.

Virg. Geor. lib. 1.
The pious matrons tremble for the world.
But what can daunt th' insuperable souls

As length the Musc her destin'd task resumes
Of Cantium's matchless sons ? On they proceed, With joy; agen o'er all her bor-land groves
All innocent of fear; each face express'd

She seeks t'expatjate free of wing. Long while
Contemptuons admiration, while they view'd For a much-loving, much-lov'd youth she wept,
The well fed brigades of embroider'd slaves Sorrowing in silence o'er th' untimely urn.
That drew the sword for gain. First of the van, Hush then, effeminate sobs; and thou, my heart,
With an enormous bough, a shepherd swain Rebel to grief no moreAnd yet a while,
Whistled with rustic notes; but such as show'd A little while, indulge the friendly tears.
A heart magnanimous: the men of Kent O'er the wild world, like Noah's dore, in vain
Follow the tuneful swain, while o'er their heads I seek the olive peace, around me wide
The green leares whisper, and the big bonghs See! see! the watry waste--la vain forlorn
bend.

I call the phenix, fair Sincerity;
'Twas thus the Thracian, whose-all quick’ning lyre Alas !-extinguish'd to the skies she fled,
The fioods inspir’d, and taught the rocks to feel, And left no heir behind her. Where is now
Enchanted dancing Hæmus, to the tune, (wave, The eternal smile of gooulness? Where is now
The lute's soft tune! The fluttering brauches That all-extensive charity of soul,
The rocks enjoy it, and the rivulets hear, So rich in sweetness, that the classic sounds
The hillocks skip, emerge the humble vales, In elegance Augustan cloth'd, the wit
And all the mighty mouutain nods applause. That How'd perennial, hardly were observ'd,
The conqueror

view'd them. and as one that sees Or, if observ'd, set off that brighter gém.
The vast abrupt of Scylla, or as one

How oft, and yet how seldom did it seem !
That from th’ oblivious streams of Lethe's pool Have I enjoy'd his converse ? - When we met,
Has drank eternal apathy, he stood.

The hours how swift they swcetly fled, and till
His host an universal panic seiz'd

Agen I saw him how they loiter'd. On !
Prodigious, inopine ; their arınour shook, Theophilus', thou dear departed soul,
And clatter'd to the trembling of their limbs ; What flattering tales thou told'st me? How
Some to the walking wilderness gan run

thou’dst hail
Confus'd, and in th’inhospitable shade

My Muse, and to sk'st imaginary walks
For shelter sought-Wretches ! they shelter find, All in my hopland groves. Stay yet, oh stay !
Eternal shelter in the arms of death!

Thou dear deluder, thou hast seen but halfm
Thus when Aquarius pours out all lis urn He's gone ! aud aught that's equal to his praise
Down on some lonesome heath, the traveller Fame has not for me, tho' she prove most kind.
That wanders ver the wintry waste, accepts Howe'er tris verse be sacred to thy name,
The invitation of some spreading beech

These lears, the last sad duty of a friend.

Oft l'il indulge the pleasurable pain " Aurora borealis, or lights in the air; a phepomenon which of late years has been frequent " Mr. Theophilus Wheeler, of Christ Church, here, and in all the more porthern countries. Cambridge.

see.

care.

Of recollection; oft on Medsray's banks

That stain the sample, and its worth debase. I'll muse on thee full pensive ; while her streams All things thus settled and prepard, what now Regardful ever of my grief, shall flow

Can stop the planter's purposes ? Unless
In sullen silence silverly along

The Hearens frown dissent, and ominous winds
The weeping shores or else accordant with Howl thro' the concare of the troubled sky.
My loud laments, shall ever and anon

And oft, alas! the long experienc'd wights
Make melancholy music to the shades,

(Oh! could they too prevent them) storms forcThe hopland shades, that on her banks expose Serpentine vines and flowing locks of gold. Por, as the storm rides on the rising clouds,

Ye smiling nymphs, th’inseparable train Fly the feet wild-geese far away3, or else Of saffron Ceres; ye, that gamesome dance, The heiser towards the zenith rears her bead, And sing to jolly Autumn, while he stands And with expanded nostrils snuffs the air: With bis right hand poizing the scales of Heav'n, The swallows too their airy circuits weave, And while his left grasps Amalthea's horn : And screaming skim the brook; and fen bred Young chorus of fair Bacchanals, descend,

frogs And leave awhile the sickle ; yonder bill, Forth from their hoarse throats their old grudge Where stand the loaded hop-poles, claims your

recite :

Or from her earthly coverlets the ant
There mighty Bacchus seated cross the bin, Heaves her huge eggs along the narrow way:
Waits your attendance-There he glad reviews Or berds Thaumantia's 4 variegated bow
His paunch, approaching to immensity

Athwart the cope of Hear'n: or sable crows
S:ill nearer, and with pride of heart surveys Obstreperous of wing, in clouds combine:
Obedient mortals, and the world his own. Besides, unnurnber'd troops of birds marine,
See! from the great metropolis they rush, And Asia's feather'd flocks, that in the muds
Th’industrious vulgar. They, like prudent bees, of low'ry edg's Cayster wont to prey,
In Kent's wide garden roam, expert to crop Now in the shallows duck their speckled heads,
The flow'ry hop, and provident to work,

And lust to lare in vain, their unctuous plumes Ere winter numb their sunburnt hands, and winds Repulsive base their efforts: hearken next Engoal them, murmuring in their gloomy cells. How the curs'd raren, with her harmful voice, From these, such as appear the rest t' excel Invokes the rain, and croaking to herself, In strength and young agility, select.

Struts on some spacious solitary shore. These shall support with vigour and address

Nor want thy servants and thy wife at home The bin-man's weighty office ; now extract Signs to presage the show'r; for in the hall From the sequacious earth the pole, and now Sheds Niobe her prescient tears, and warns Unmarry from the closely clioging vine.

Beneath thy leaden tubes to fix the vase, O'er twice three pickers, and no more, extend And catch the falling dew drops, which supply The bin-man's sway; unless thy ears can bear Soft water and salubrious, far the best The.crack of poles continual, and thine eyes To soak thy hops, and brew thy generous beer. Behold unmoved the hurrying peasant tear But tho' bright Phæbus smile, and in the skies Thy wealth, and throw it on the thankless The purple-rob'd serenity appear; ground.

Tho' every cloud be fled, yet if the rage But first the careful planter will consult

Of Boreas, or the blasting east prevail,
His quantity of acres and his crop,

The planter has enough to check his hopes,
How many and how large his kilns; and then And in die bounds confine his joys; for see
Proportion'd to his wants the hands provide. The ruffian winds in their abrupt career,
But yet of greater consequence and cost, Leave not a hop behind, or at the best
One thing remains unsung, a inan of faith Mangle the circling vine, and intercept
And jong experience, in whose thund'ring voice
Lives hoarse authority, potent to quell

3 Nunquam imprudentibus imber The frequent frays of the tumultuous crew.

Obsuit. Aut illum surgentem vallibus imis

Aëriæ fugere grues! aut bucula coelum
He shall preside o'er all thy hop-land store,
Severe dictator! His unerriug hand,

Suspiciens, patulis captavit naribus auras:
And eye inquisitive, in heedtul guise,

Aut arguta lacus circumvolitavit hirundo:

Et veterem in limo ranæ cecinere querelam.
Shall to the brink the measure fill, and fair
On the twin registers the work record.

Sæpius & tectis penetralibus extulit ova
And yet I've known them own a female reign,

Angustum formica terens iter, & bibit ingens And gentle Mariane's: soft Orphean voice

Arcus, & e pastu decedens agmine magno. Has hymn'd sweet lessons of humanity

Corvorum increpuit densis exercitus alis. To the wild brutal crew. Oft her command

jam varias pelagi volucres, & quæ Asia circum Has sav'd the pillars of the hop-land state,

Dulcibus in stagnis rimantur pratra Caystri,

Certatim largos humeris infundere rores;
The lofiy poles from ruin, and sustain'd,
Like Anna, or Eliza, her domain,

Nunc caput objectare fretis, nunc currere in un. With more than manly dignity. Oft I've seen,

das, Ev'n at her frown the boist'rous uproar cease,

Et studio incassum videas gestire lavandi. And the mad pickers, tam'd to diligence,

Tum cornix plena ploviam vocat improba voce, Cull from the bin the sprawling sprigs, and Et sola in sicca secum spatiatur arena, leares

Nec nocturna quidem carpentes pensa puellae
Nescivere byemem.

Virg. Georg. 1. * The author's youngest sister.

4 Iris.