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PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME & BROWN.

PATERNOSTER Row.

39.84 6.9

10442.11
9 (3)

Harvard ege Library
From the Estate of

PROF. H. W. GURNEY
1 July, 1902

JOHN DRYDEN.

Continued.

ALEXANDER'S FEAST:

OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC.

An Ode in Honour of St. Cecilia's Day.

'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won
By Philip's warlike son :

Aloft in awful state
The godlike hero sate

On his imperial throne :

His valiant peers were plac'd around; Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound:

(So should desert in arms be crown'd)

The lovely Thais, by his side,
Sate, like a blooming eastern bride,
In flower of youth and beauty's pride.

Happy, happy, happy pair!

None but the brave,

None but the brave,

None but the brave deserves the fair.

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