But heev'n betook us weil! and keep us weise! Leike thunder, burstan at thy dreed command! Keep, keep thy tongue," a warlock cries, And waves his gowden wand. σε V. Noo, laddies! gi' your baugpipes breeth again; Thus wheil I hail with heart-felt pleasure, The smuith-cheeks Laird of aw the treasure; Na fuilish smiles his broos unbend, Na wall he bleithsome luik on aw the lasses lend. To nobler fleights the muse expands her wing. Breetons! boo down your heed, and hail your King! See! where with Atlantean shoulder, Amazing each beholder, Beneath a tott'ring empire's weight, Full six feet high he stands, and therefore great VI. Come then, aw ye Poo'rs of vairse! And as I chaunt his kingly awks, The list'nan warld fra me sall lairn And weel he gets his Queen wi' bairn. Give me to lead the choral band; Then, in high-sounding words, and grand, Tis GEOURGE, Imperial GEOURCE, who rules BRITANNIA's land! NUMBER XIV. ODE, By DR. JOSEPH WARTON, In humble Imitation of BROTHER THOMAS. O! FOR the breathings of the Doric ote! O! for the Theban eagle's wing of fire! O! for each stop and string that swells th'Aonian quire! Then should this hallow'd day in worthy strain be sung, And with due laurel wreaths thy cradle, Brunswick, hung! But though uncouth my numbers flow -From a rude reed, That drank the dew of Isis' lowly mead, And wild pipe, fashion'd from th' embatted sedge Which on the twilight edge Of my own Cherwell loves to grow: The godlike theme alone. Should bear me on its tow'ring wing; Bear me undaunted to the throne, To view with fix'd and steadfast eye -The delegated majesty Of Heaven's dread Lord, and what I see to sing. Like Heaven's dread Lord, great George his voice can raise, From babes' and sucklings' mouths to hymn his perfect praise, In poesy's trim rhymes and high resounding phrase. Hence, avaunt! ye savage train, That drench the earth, and dye the main, And hear the cannon's roar; Unknown the godlike virtue how to yield To Cressy's or to Blenheim's deathful field; Begone, and sate your Pagan thirst of blood; Edward, fell homicide, awaits you there, And Anna's hero, both unskill'd to spare Whene'er the foe their slaught'ring sword withstood. A The pious George to white-stol'd Peace alone His olive sceptre yields, and palm-encircled throne. Or if his high decree On the perturbed sea Or o'er th' embattled plain He bares his red right hand, In Judah's rebel hour, Let fall the fiery show'r That o'er her parch'd hills desolation spread, And heap'd her vales with mountains of the dead. O'er Schuylkill's cliffs the tempest roars į Or scares the falcon from the fir-capp'd side Matchless victor, mighty lord! Sheath the devouring sword! Ah! spare thy subjects' blood, and let them live; Hangs on thine for life or death. Sweet is the balmy breath of orient morn, But sweeter yet the voice of royal clemency.-- The nations to illumine far and wide, And feud and discord, war and strife, subside. His moral sages, all unknown, t' untie The wily rage of human policy, Their equal compasses expand, And mete the globe with philosophic hand. No partial love of country binds In selfish chains the lib'ral minds, O gentle Lansdown! ting'd with thy philanthropy. A lengthen'd line of conquer'd coast, |