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The Loddon flow, with verdant alders crown'd;
Cole, whofe dark streams his flow'ry iflands lave;
And chalky Wey, that rolls a milky wave:
The blue, transparent Vandalis appears;
The gulphy Lee his fedgy treffes rears;
And fullen Mole, that hides his diving flood;
And filent Darent, ftain'd with Danifh blood.
High in the midft, upon his urn reclin'd,
(His fea green mantle waving with the wind)
The God appear'd: he turn'd his azure eyes
Where Windfor- domes and pompous turrets rife;
Then bow'd and fpoke; the winds forget to roar,
And the hufh'd waves glide foftly to the shore.

349

Hail, facred Peace! hail long expected days, That Thaines's glory to the stars shall raise! Tho' Tyber's ftreams immortal Rome behold, Tho' foaming Hermus fwells with tides of gold, From heav'n itself tho' fev'n-fold Nilus flows, And harvests on a hundred realms beftows; Thefe now no more fhall be the Mufe's themes Loft in my fame, as in the fea their ftreams. Let Volga's banks with iron fquadrons fhine, Ana groves of lances glitter on the Rhine, Let barb'rous Ganges arm a fervile train; Be mine the bleffings of a peaceful reign. No more my fons fhall die with British blood 365

VARIATIONS.

VER. 261. Originally thus in the MS.

Let Venice boast her Tow'rs amidst the Main,
Where the rough Adrian fwells and roars in vain;
Here not a Town, but fpacious Realm fhall have
A fure foundation on the rolling wave.

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Red Iber's fands, or Ifter's foaming flood:
Safe on my fhore each unmolested swain

Shall tend the flocks, or reap the bearded grain;
The fhady empire fhall retain no trace

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Of war or blood, but in the fylvan chace;
The trumpet fleep, while chearful horns are blown,
And arms employ'd on birds and beafts alone.
Behold! th' afcending Villa's on my fide,

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Project long fhadows o'er the crystal tide.
Behold! Augufta's glitt'ring fpires increase,
And Temples rife, the beauteous works of Peace.
I fee, I fee, where two fair cities bend
Their apple bow, a new Whitehall afcend!
There mighty Nations fhall enquire their doom,
The World's great Oracle in times to come:
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There Kings fhall fue, and fuppliant States be seen
Once more to bend before a BRITISH QUEEN.
Thy trees, fair Windfor! now fhall leave their woods,
And half thy forefts rufh into thy floods,
Bear Britain's thunder, and her Crofs difplay, 385
To the bright regions of the rifing day;
Tempt icy feas, where scarce the waters roll,

VARIATIONS.

VER. 383, etc, were originally thus:

Now fhall our feets the bloody Crofs difplay

To the rich regions of the rifing day,

Or thofe green ifles, where headlong Titan [fteeps
His hiffing axle in th' Atlantic ¡deeps:

Tempt icy feas,

etc.

NOTES.

VER. 376. And Temples rise,) The fifty new Churches.

Where clearer flames glow round the frozen Pole; Or under fouthern fkies exalt their fails,

Led by new ftars, and borne by spicy gales!

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For me the balm fhall bleed, and amber flow,

The coral redden, and the ruby glow,

The pearly fhell its lucid globe infold,

And Phoebus warm, the rip'ning ore to gold,

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The time fhall come, when free as feas or wind
Unbounded Thames fhall flow for all mankind,
Whole nations enter with each fwelling tide,
And feas but join the regions they divide;
Earth's diftant ends our glory fhall behold,
And the new world launch forth to feek the old.
Then fhips of uncouth form shall stem the tide,
And feather'd people croud my wealthy fide,
painted chiefs admire

And naked youths

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Our speech, our colour, and our strange attire! Oh ftretch thy reign, fair Peace! from shore to fhore, 'Till Conqueft ceafe, and Slav'ry be no more; 'Till the freed Indians in their native groves

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VER. 388. where clearer flames glow round the frozen Pole.) The Poet is here recommending the advantages of commerce, and therefore the extremities of heat and cold are not represented in a forbidding manner: as again,

Or under fouthern fkies exalt their fails,

Let by new stars, and borne by spicy gales.

But in the Dunciad, where the michief of Dulnessis described, they are painted in all their inclemencies,

See round the Poles, where keener Spangles fhine,

Where spices smoke beneath the burning line,

VER, 396. Unbounded Thames, etc.). A wish that London may be made a FREE PORT

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Reap their own fruits, and woo their fable loves,
Peru once more a race of Kings behold,
And other Mexico's be roof'd with gold,
Exil'd by thee from earth to deepest hell,
In brazen bonds, fhall barb'rous Difcord dwell:
Gigantic Pride, pale Terror, gloomy Care,
And mad Ambition fhall attend her there:
There purple Vengeance bath'd in gore retires, 415
Her weapons blunted, and extinct her fires:
There hateful Envy her own 'fnakes fhall feel
And Perfecution mourn her broken wheel:
There Faction roar, Rebellion bite her chain,
And gafping Furies thirst for blood in vain.

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420 Here ceafe thy flight, nor with unhallow'd lays Touch the fair fame of Albion's golden days: The thoughts of Gods let GRANVILLE's verfe recite, And bring the fcenes of op'ning fate to light; My humble Mufe, in unambitious trains, Paints the green forests and the flow'ry plains, Where Peace defcending bids her olives spring, And scatters bleffings from her dove-like wing. Ev'n I more fweetly pafs my careless days, Pleas'd in the filent fhade with empty praife; Enough for me, that to the lift'ning fwains First in these fields I fung the fylvan ftrains.

IMITATIONS.

VER. 421. Quo, Mufa, tendis? define pervicax.

Referre fermones Deorum et

Magna modis tenuare parvis.

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