As our high veffels pass their wat❜ry way,
Let all the naval world due homage pay;
With hafty reverence their top-honours lower,
Confeffing the afferted power,
To whom by fate 'twas given, with happy sway
To calm the earth, and vindicate the fea.
Our pray'rs are heard, our master's fleets shall go
As far as winds can bear, or waters flow,
New lands to make, new Indies to explore,
In worlds unknown to plant Britannia's pow'r;
Nations yet wild by precept to reclaim,
And teach 'em arms, and arts, in William's name.
XXXVIII.
With humble joy, and with respectful fear
The lift'ning people shall his ftory hear,
The wounds he bore, the dangers he fustain'd,
How far he conquer'd, and how well he reign'd;'
Shall own his mercy equal to his fame,
And form their children's accents to his name,
Enquiring how, and when from heav'n he came.
Their regal tyrants shall with blushes hide
Their little lufts of arbitrary pride,
Nor bear to see their vaffals ty'd:
When William's virtues raise their opening thought,
His forty years for publick freedom fought,
Europe by his hand sustain'd,
His conqueft by his piety reftrain'd
And o'er himself the last great triumph gain'd.
No longer fhall their wretched zeal adore
Ideas of deftructive power,
Spirits that hurt, and godheads that devour:
New incenfe they fhall bring, new altars raise,
And fill their temples with a ftranger's praise;
When the great father's character they find
Visibly stampt upon the heroe's mind;,
And own a prefent deity confeft,
In valour that preserv'd, and power that bless'd.
XL.
Through the large convex of the azure sky
(For thither nature cafts our common eye)
Fierce meteors fhoot their arbitrary light;
And comets march with lawless horror bright:
Those hear no rule, no righteous order own;
Their influence dreaded, as their ways unknown:
'Thro' threaten'd lands they wild destruction throw,
'Till ardent prayer averts the public woe:
But the bright orb that bleffes all above,
The facred fire, the real fon of Jove,
Rules not his actions by capricious will;
Nor by ungovern'd pow'r declines to ill:
Fix'd by juft laws he goes for ever right:
Man knows his courfe, and thence adores his light.
XLI.
O Janus! would intreated fate confpire
To grant what Britain's wishes could require;
Above, that fun fhould cease his way to go,
Ere William ceafe to rule, and blefs below:
But a relentless destiny
Urges all that e'er was born:
Snatch'd from her arms, Britannia once must mourn
The demi god: the earthly half must die.
Yet if our incenfe can your wrath remove;
If human prayers avail on minds above;
Exert, great god, thy int'reft in the sky;
Gain each kind pow'r, cach guardian deity,
That conquer'd by the publick vow,
They bear the dismal mischief far away:
O! long as utmost nature may allow,
Let them retard the threaten'd day;
Still be our mafter's life thy happy care:
Still let his bleffings with his years increase:
To his laborious youth confum'd in war,
Add lafting age, adorn'd and crown'd with peace:
Let twisted olive bind those laurels fast,
Whofe verdure must for ever last.
Long let this growing Aera blefs his fway:
And let our fons his prefent rule obey:
On his fure virtue long let earth rely;
And late let the imperial eagle fly,
To bear the heroe thro' his father's sky,
To Leda's twins, or he whofe glorious speed,
On foot prevail'd, or he who tam'd the steed;
To Hercules, at length abfolv'd by fate
From earthly toil, and above envy great;
To Virgil's theme, bright Cytherea's son,
Sire of the Latian, and the British throne;
To all the radiant names above,
Rever'd by men, and dear to Jove..
Late, Janus, let the Nassau-star
New-born, in rising majesty appear,
To triumph over vanquish'd night,
And guide the profp'rous mariner, no usas
With everlasting beams of friendly light.
CARMEN SECULARE, Latine redditum
Per THO. DIBBEN, e Trin: Coll: Cant.
Ego dis amicum,
Seculo feftas referente luces,
Reddidi carmen
ANE Bifrons, prifcos a tergo refpice lapfi
Annales aevi, felicesque ordine longo
Evolvas faftos, quos caetera tempora fupra
Confpicuos albo, fec'lis monumenta futuris
Urbis fundatae, et parti posuere triumphi.
Aggredere infignes fpoliis, lauroque decoros. ›
Enumerare duces, quos, nobilis ira gementem
Impulit ulcifci populum; qui facra cruore
Jura patrum fanxere fuo; fceptrifve potiti
Miferunt laetum placidis fub legibus orbem.
Agmine perpetuo series ornata laborum
Procedat; fuus omnis honos, fua debita quemque
Laus infcripta notet: tum noftra ad tempora cafus.
Infignes ducas, famamque et fata parentum
Mirac'lis oppone novis, regique Britanno.
Dumque fide, curaque pari per fingula curris;
Dum varios recolis populos, variofque labores;
Et ftudia, et leges, pugnataque proelia feris
Temporibus mandas; túte ipfe fatebere, Jane,
Omnium in Auriaco cumulari nomine famám:
Et dices orbi attonito; nil fecula tale
Prima tulere hominum, nil majus poftera reddent.
Vertice fublimi furgat, tua maxima cura,
Bello et pace potens Latium: fortiffima corda,
Egregios rerum dominos dabat Italia tellus,
Felix prole virùm; foecundam hanc aspice gentem,
Romanofque tuos; huc vertere, et altius omnem
Nafcentis prima repetens ab origine regni
Expedias famam; pulchro in certamine pubem
Oppone Aufoniam; et cedat fua palma merenti.
Si potuit ferro Latii turbare colonos
Palantes Mavorte fatus, fi ruftica late
Regna domare armis; raptae fine more Sabinae,
Surgenti famae, coeptifque ingentibus obstant.
Sacra Deûm, fan&tasque aras, et templa tueri
Cura Numam fubiit: fed frigida dextera bello,
Non haftam torquere sciens, ensemque rotare
Fulmineum, juvenumque manus armare freinentum.
Confiliis, efto, Fabii Romana vigebant
Arma: at res omnes gelide tardeque miniftrans,
Dilator nimium fapiens ingrata trahebat
Bella. Quid immani patrem pietate cruentum
Ultorem Brutum referam, fortesque fub armis
Emilium, Decium, Curium? tot magna animorum
Nos exempla monent, qua poffit lege libido
Fraenari, et quantum cedat virtutibus aurum:
Hos quoque fed nimium gaudens popularibus auris,
Hos rapit ambitio, tumidoque fuperbia fastu
Oftentans humilefque cafas, parvofque penates.
Sit quanquam illuftris, primos inglorius annos
Scipiades egit: nec mens invicta Catonis
Semper erat, tune faflä metum, vel vifa fateri,
Cum ceffit fato, et lucem indignata refugit.
Julius externos fruftra domat, omnia Romae
Subjiciens, Romamque fibi; furgitque triumphans
Affli&tos cives fuper, oppreffumque fenatum.
Imperium lene Auguftus, patriamque fubactam
Mollia vinc❜la pati juffit; fed vincula paffa eft,
Purpureum cultu infolito venerata tyrannum.
Fas veterum laudes juftis celebrare triumphis:
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