The light he faw in Albion's happy plains, He flourish'd bold and finewy as his fire; ANTISTROPHE, Accomplish'd thus, he wing'd his way, And zealous roll'd from pole to pole, The rolls of right eternal to difplay, And warm with patriot thoughts th' aspiring foul. Thofe fpires that gild the Adriatic wave, Where Tyranny beheld, amaz'd, Fair Freedom's temple, where he mark'd her To burit th' Iberian's double chain; † grave. *Although Venice was built a considerable time before the æra here assigned for the birth of Independence, the republic had not yet attained to any great degree of power and splendor. The Low Countries were not only oppressed by grievous taxations, but likewise threatened with the establishment of the inquisition, when the seven provinces revolted, and shook off the yoke of Spain. H& And cities rear'd, and planted farms, Won from the skirts of Neptune's wide domais, On Uris rocks, in close divan, * And wing'd that arrow fure as fate Which afcertain'd the facred rights of man. STROPHE, Arabia's fcorching fands he croft, + And many a Tartar hord forlorn, aghaft, ‡ *Alluding to the well-known story of William Tell and his associates, the fathers and founders of the confederacy of the Swiss cantons. The Arabs, rather than resign their Independency, have often abandoned their habitations, and encountered all the horrors of the desert. From the tyranny of Jenghis Khan, Timur-Bec, and other eastern conquerors, whole tribes of Tartars were used to fiy into the remotest wastes of Cathay, where no army would follow them. ? The noble stand made by Paschal Paoli and his associates against the usurpation of the French king, must endear them to all the sons of Liberty and Independence. He, guardian genius, taught my youth My lips, by him chastis'd to truth, Ne'er paid that homage which the heart denies ANTISTROPHE, Thofe fculptur'd halls my feet shall never tread Where varnish'd Vice and Vanity combin'd, To dazzle and feduce, their banners spread, And forge vile fhackles for the free-born mind: Where Infolence his wrinkled front up-rears, And all the flow'rs of fpurious Fancy blow, And Title his ill-woven chaplet wears, Full often wreath'd around the mifcreant's brow; Wherever dimpling Falfhood, pert and vain, Prefents her cup of flate profeffions' froth, And pale Difcafe, with all his bloated train, Torments the fons of Gluttony and Sloth. STROPHE. In Fortune's car behold that minion ride, With either India's glitt'ring spoils oppreft: So moves the fumpter-mule, in harnefs'd pride, That bears the treasure which he cannot tafte. For him let venal bards difgrace the bay, And hireling minstrels wake the tinkling ftring; Her fenfual fnares let faithlefs Pleasure lay, And all her jingling bells fantaflic Folly ring: Disquiet, Doubt, and Dread shall intervene, And Nature ftill to all her feelings juft, In vengeance hang a damp on every scene, Shook from the baleful pinions of Difguft. ANTISTROPHE. Nature I'll court in her fequefter'd haunts, And Friendship pledge me to his fellow fwains; LOWTH. THE GENEALOGY OF CHRIST, As it is represented on the Eaft Window of Winchefier College Chapel. Written at Winchester School. AT To pour in virtue at th' attentive eye, Who views the facred forms, in thought afpires, Thy ftrokes, great Artift, fo fublime appear, In raptures we admire thy hold defign, And as the fubject, own the hand divine. While through thy work the rifing day shall stream, To animate the verfe, and bid it shine In colours eafy, bright, and ftrong as thinel |