For Albion well have conquer'd. Let the ftrains
Of happy fwains,

Which now refound

Where Scarfdale's cliffs the fwelling pastures bound,
Bear witness. there, oft let the farmer hail
The facred orchard which imbowers his gate,
And fhew to strangers paffing down the vale,
Where Candish, Booth, and Osborne fate;
When bursting from their country's chain,
Even in the midst of deadly harms,
Of papal fnares and lawless arms,

They plann'd for freedom this her awful reign.
VI. 1.

This reign, thefe laws, this public care,

Which Naffau gave us all to share,

Had ne'er adorn'd the English name,

Could fear have filenc'd freedom's claim.

But fear in vain attempts to bind

Thofe lofty efforts of the mind

Which focial good inspires;

Where men, for this, affault a throne,

Each adds the common welfare to his own;

And each unconquer'd heart the ftrength of all acquires.

VI. 2.

Say, was it thus, when late we view'd

Our fields in civil blood imbrued?

When fortune crown'd the barbarous hoft,

And half the aftonish'd ifle was loft?

Did one of all that vaunting train,
Who dare affront a peaceful reign,
Durft one in arms appear ?

Durft one in counfels pledge his life?
Stake his luxurious fortunes in the ftrife?

Or lend his boasted name his vagrant friends to chear?
VI. 3-

Yet, HASTINGS, these are they

Who challenge to themselves thy country's love The true; the conftant: who alone can weigh, What glory fhould demand, or liberty approve! But let their works declare them. Thy free powers, The generous powers of thy prevailing mind, Not for the tasks of their confederate hours, Lewd brawls and lurking flander, were defign'd. Be thou thy own approver. Honest praise . Oft nobly fways

Ingenuous youth :

But, fought from cowards and the lying mouth,
Praise is reproach. Eternal GOD alone
For mortals fixeth that fublime award.

He, from the faithful records of his throne,
Bids the hiftorian and the bard

Difpofe of honour and of scorn;

Discern the patriot from the slave ;

And write the good, the wife, the brave,

For leffons to the multitude unborn.

ODE

F

I. 1.

OR toils which patriots have endur'd,
For treafon quell'd and laws fecur'd,

In every nation Time difplays
The palm of honourable praise.
Envy may rail; and faction fierce
May ftrive: but what, alas, can Those

(Though bold, yet blind and fordid foes)
To gratitude and love oppose,

To faithful story and perfuafive verse ?

I. 2. O

I. 2.

O nurfe of freedom, Albion, say,
Thou tamer of defpotic sway,
What man, among thy fons around,
Thus heir to glory haft thou found?
What page, in all thy annals bright,
Haft thou with purer joy furvey'd

Than that where truth, by Hoadly's aid,
Shines through the deep unhallow'd shade
Of kingly fraud and facerdotal night ?
I. 3.

To him the Teacher blefs'd

Who fent religion, from the palmy field

By Jordan, like the morn to cheer the weft, And lifted up the veil which heaven from earth conceal'd, To Hoadly thus He utter'd his behest:

"Go thou, and rescue my dishonour'd law

"From hands rapacious and from tongues impure:
"Let not my peaceful name be made a lure
"The fnares of favage tyranny to aid :

"Let not my words be impious chains to draw "The free-born foul, in more than brutal awe, "To faith without affent, allegiance unrepaid." II. 1.

No cold nor unperforming hand

Was arm'd by heaven with this command.
The world foon felt it: and, on high,

To William's ear with welcome joy

Did Locke among the bleft unfold
The rifing hope of Hoadly's name :
Godolphin then confirm'd the fame ;
And Somers, when from earth he came,
And valiant Stanhope the fair fequel told. *
II. 2.

Then drew the lawgivers around,

(Sires of the Græcian naine renown'd)
And listening ask'd, and wondering knew,
What private force could thus fubdue
The vulgar and the great combin'd;
Could war with facred folly wage;
Could a whole nation difengage

From the dread bonds of

many an age,

And to new habits mould the public mind.

II. 3.

For not a conqueror's fword,

Nor the ftrong powers to civil founders known, Were his but truth by faithful fearch explor'd, And focial fenfe, like feed, in genial plenty fown.

*Mr. Locke died in 1704, when Mr. Hoadly was begin ning to diftinguish himself in the cause of civil and religious liberty: Lord Godolphin in 1712, when the doctrines of the Jacobite faction were chiefly favour'd by those in power : Lord Somers in 1716, amid the practices of the nonjuring clergy against the proteftant establishment; and lord Stanhope in 1721, during the controverfy with the lower boufe of

convocation.

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