The lambs with wolves fhall graze the verdant mead,
And boys in flow'ry banks the tiger lead!

The fteer and lion at one crib fhall meet,
And harmless ferpents lick the pilgrim's feet.
The smiling infant in his hand shall take
The crefted bafilifk and speckled snake,
Pleas'd the green luftre of the fcales furvey,

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And with their forky tongue shall innocently play. Rife, crown'd with light, imperial Salem rife! 85 Exalt thy tow'ry head, and lift thy eyes!

IMITATIONS.

VER. 77. The lambs with wolves, etc.] Virg. E. iv. ver. 21.
Ipfæ lacte domum referent diftenta capella
Übera, nec magnos metuent armenta leones-
Occidet et ferpens, et fallax herba veneni

Occidet.

"The goats fhall bear to the fold their udders diftended "with milk: nor fhall the herds be afraid of the greatest "lions. The ferpent shall die, and the herb that conceals poifon fhall die."

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ISAIAH, Ch. xi. ver. 16, etc.] "The wolf fhall dwell "with the lamb, and the leopard fhall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together and a little child fhall lead them ---And the "lion fhall eat ftraw like the ox. And the fucking child "fhall play on the hole of the afp, and the weaned child "fhall put his hand on the den of the cockatrice." P.

VER. 85. Rife, crown'd with light, imperial Salem, rife!] The thoughts of Ifaiah, which compofe the latter part of the poem, are wonderfully elevated, and much above thofe general exclamations of Virgil, which make the loftieft parts of his Pollio.

Magnus ab integro fæclorum nafcitur ordo!
---toto furget gens aurea mundo!

P Ch. xi. ver. 6, 7, 8. 1x. ver. 1.

9 Ch. Ivi. ver. 25.

- Ch.

See, a long race thy spacious courts adorn;
See future fons, and daughters yet unborn,
In crouding ranks on ev'ry fide arife,
Demanding life, impatient for the skies!
See barb'rous nations at thy gates attend,
Walk in thy light, and in thy temple bend;
See thy bright altars throng'd with prostrate kings,
And heap'd with products of Sabæan springs!
For thee Idume's fpicy forests blow,
And feeds of gold in Ophir's mountains glow.
See heav'n its sparkling portals wide display,

And break upon thee in a flood of day.

W

No more the rifing Sun fhall gild the morn,

Nor ev'ning Cynthia fill her filver horn;

But loft, diffolv'd in thy fuperior rays,

One tide of glory, one unclouded blaze

O'erflow thy courts: the Light himself fhall fhine
Reveal'd, and God's eternal day be thine!

The feas fhall wafte, the fkies in fmoke decay, 105
Rocks fall to duft, and mountains melt away;

But fix'd his word, his faving pow'r remains:
Thy realm for ever lasts, thy own MESSIAH reigns!

IMITATION S.

-incipient magni procedere menfes !

Afpice, venturo lætentur ut omnia fæclo! etc.

The reader needs only to turn to the passages of Isaiah, here cited. P.

f Ch. 1x. ver. 4.

t Ch. Ix. ver. 3.

▾ Ch. lx. ver. 6.

w Ch. lx. ver. 19, 20. * Ch. li. ver 6. and Ch. liv.

ver. 10.

WINDSOR-FOREST.

To the RIGHT HONOURABLE

GEORGE Lord LANSDOWN.

Non injuffa cano: Te noftræ, Vare, myricæ,
Te Nemus omne canet; nec Phoebo gratior ulla eft,
Quam fibi quæ Vari præfcripfit pagina nomen.

VIRG.

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