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Inclines her urn upon his fatten❜d lands ;

And fees his numerous herd imprint her fands.

And thou, my fair, my dove, fhalt raise thy thought
To greatness next to empire; fhalt be brought
With folemn pomp to my paternal seat ;
Where peace and plenty on thy word fhall wait.
Mufic and fong shall wake the marriage-day :
And, whilft the priests accufe the bride's delay,
Myrtles and rofes shall obftru&t her way.

Friendship shall still thy evening feasts adorn;
And blooming Peace fhall ever bless thy morn.
Succeeding years their happy race fhall run,
And age unheeded by delight come on ;
While yet fuperior Love fhall mock his power:
And when old Time fhall turn the fated hour,
Which only can our well-tied' knot unfold;
What reits of both, one fepulchre fhall hold.

Hence then for ever from my Emma's breast
(That heaven of softness, and that feat of reft)
Ye doubts and fears, and all that know to move
Tormenting grief, and all that trouble love,
Scatter'd by winds recede, and wild in forefts rove.
EMMA.

O day the fairest fure that ever rose!
Period and end of anxious Emma's woes!
Sire of her joy, and fource of her delight;
O! wing'd with pleasure take thy happy flight,
And give each future morn a tincture of thy white.
Yet tell thy votary, potent Queen of Love,

Henry, my Henry, will he never rove?

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Will

Will he be ever kind, and juft, and good?

And is there yet no mistress in the wood?
None, none there is; the thought was rath and vain
A falfe idea, and a fancy'd pain.

Doubt shall for ever quit my ftrengthen'd heart,
And anxious jealoufy's corroding fmart;
Nor other inmate fhall inhabit there,

But foft Belief, young Joy, and pleafing Care:
Hence let the tides of plenty ebb and flow,
And Fortune's various gale unheeded blow.
If at my feet the fuppliant goddefs ftands,
And fheds her treafure with unweary'd hands
Her prefent favour cautious I'll embrace,
And not unthankful ufe the proffer'd grace:
If the reclaims the temporary boon,
And tries her pinions, fluttering to be gone;
Secure of mind, I'll obviate her intent,
And unconcern'd return the goods she lent.
Nor happiness can I, nor mifery feel,
From any turn of har fantastic wheel:
Friendship's great laws, and Love's fuperior powers,
Muft mark the colour of my future hours.
From the events which thy commands create
I must my bleflings or my forrows date;
And Henry's will muft dictate Emma's fate..
Yet while with clofe delight and inward pride
(Which from the world my careful foul shall hide)
I fee thee, lord and end of my defire,

Exalted high as virtue can require ;

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With power invefted, and with pleafure chear'd;
Sought by the good, by the oppreffor fear'd;

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Loaded

Loaded and bleft with all the affluent ftore,

Which human vows at fmoaking shrines implore;
Grateful and humble grant me to employ

My life fubfervient only to thy joy;

And at my death to blefs thy kindness shown

To her, who of mankind could love but thee alone.

WHILE thus the conftant pair alternate faid,
Joyful above them and around them play'd
Angels and sportive Loves, a numerous crowd;
Smiling they clapt their wings, and low they bow'd:
They tumbled all their little quivers o'er,
To chufe propitious fhafts, a precious ftore;
That, when their God fhould take his future darts,
To ftrike (however rarely) conftant hearts,
His happy kill might proper arms employ,
All tipt with pleafure, and all wing'd with joy
And those, they vow'd, whose lives should imitate
Thefe lovers' conftancy, should share their fate.

The Queen of Beauty ftopt her bridled doves ;
Approv'd the little labour of the Loves;
Was proud and pleas'd the mutual vow to hear;
And to the triumph call'd the God of War:
Soon as the calls, the God is always near.

Now, Mars, fhe faid, let Fame exalt her voice:
Nor let thy conquefts only be her choice:
But, when the fings great Edward from the field
Return'd, the hoftile fpear and captive fhield
In Concord's temple hung, and Gallia taught to yield;,
And when, as prudent Saturn fhall compleat
The years defign'd to perfect Britain's ftate,

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The fwift-wing'd power shall take her trump again,
To fing her favourite Anna's wondrous reign;
To recollect unweary'd Marlborough's toils,
Old Rufus' hall unequal to his fpoils;

The British foldier from his high command
Glorious, and Gaul thrice vanquifh'd by his hand :
Let her at least perform what I defire;
With fecond breath the vocal brass inspire.;
And tell the nations, in no vulgar ftrain,
What wars I manage, and what wreaths I gain.
And, when thy tumults and thy fights are past;
And when thy laurels at my feet are caft;
Faithful may'ft thou, like British Henry, prove:
And, Emma-like, let me return thy love.

Renown'd for truth, let all thy fons appear;
And conftant Beauty shall reward their care.
Mars fmil'd, and bow'd: the Cyprian Deity
Turn'd to the glorious ruler of the sky;
And thou, the fmiling said, great God of days
And verfe, behold my deed, and fing my praise,
As on the British earth, my favourite isle,

Thy gentle rays and kindest influence smile,
Through all her laughing fields and verdant groves,
Proclaim with joy these memorable loves.
From every annual course let one great day
To celebrated sports and floral play

Be fet afide; and, in the fofteft lays

Of thy poetic fons, be folemn praise
And everlasting marks of honour paid,

To the true Lover, and the Nut-brown Maid.

AN

AN O D E,

Humbly infcribed to the QUEEN,

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WHEN I first thought of writing upon this occafion, I found the ideas fo great and numerous; that I judged them more proper for the warmth of ar Ode, than for any other fort of poetry: I therefore fet Horace before me for a pattern, and particularly hi famous ode, the fourth of the fourth book,

"Qualem miniftrum fülminis alitem, &c."

which he wrote in praife of Drufus after his expedition into Germany, and of Auguftus upon his happy choice of that general. And in the following poem, though I have endeavoured to imitate all the great ftrokes of

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