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
Red Iber's fands, or Ifter's foaming flood:

365

Safe on my shore each unmolested swain
Shall tend the flocks, or reap the bearded grain ;
The fhady empire fhall retain no trace

Of war or blood, but in the fylvan chace;

370

The trumpet fleep, while chearful horns are blown,

And arms employ'd on birds and beasts alone.
Behold! th' afcending Villa's on my fide,

Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide,
Behold! Augufta's glitt'ring fpires increase,

375

And Temples rife, the beauteous works of Peace.

I fee, I fee, where two fair cities bend

Their ample bow, a new Whitehall ascend!
There mighty Nations shall enquire their doom,
The World's great Oracle in times to come;
There Kings fhall fue, and fuppliant States be feen
Once more to bend before a BRITISH QUEEN.

380

Thy trees, fair Windfor! now shall leave their woods, And half thy forefts rufh into thy floods,

VARIATIONS.

VER. 383. etc. were originally thus,

Now shall our fleets the bloody Cross display

To the rich regions of the rifing day,

Or those green ifles, where headlong Titan steeps
His hiffing axle in th' Atlantic deeps:

Tempt icy feas, etc. P.

NOTES.

VER. 376. And Temples rife,] The fifty new Churches. P.

Bear Britain's thunder, and her Cross display, 385
To the bright regions of the rifing day;

Tempt icy feas, where fcarce the waters roll,
Where clearer flames glow round the frozen Pole;

Or under fouthern skies exalt their fails,

Led by new stars, and borne by spicy gales!

390

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.

The time shall come, when free as feas or wind 395
Unbounded Thames fhall flow for all mankind,

Whole nations enter with each swelling tide,
And feas but join the regions they divide;
Earth's diftant ends our glory fhall behold,

And the new world launch forth to seek the old. 400
Then ships of uncouth form fhall ftem the tide,
And feather'd people croud my wealthy fide,
And naked youths and painted chiefs admire
Our fpeech, our colour, and our strange attire!

NOTES.

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 reprefented in a forbidden manner: as again, Or under fouthern skies exalt their fails,

Led by new ftars, and borne by spicy gales. But in the Dunciad, where the mischief of Dulness is described, they are painted in all their inclemencies,

See round the Poles, where keener spangles fhine, Where fpices fmoke beneath the burning line. VER. 396. Unbounded Thames, etc.] A wish that London' may be made a FREE PORT. P.

Oh ftretch thy reign, fair Peace! from fhore to fhore, 'Till Conqueft ceafe, and Slav'ry be no more; "Till the freed Indians in their native groves Reap their own fruits, and woo their fable loves, Peru once more a race of Kings behold,

406

410

And other Mexico's be roof'd with gold.
Exil'd by thee from earth to deepest hell,
In brazen bonds, fhall barb'rous Discord 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 hated 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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425

Here cease 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 scenes of op'ning fate to light. My humble Mufe, in unambitious strains, Paints the green forests and the flow'ry plains, Where Peace defcending bids her olive spring, And scatters bleffings from her dove-like wing. Ev'n I more sweetly pafs my careless days, Pleas'd in the filent shade with empty praise; Enough for me, that to the lift'ning (wains First in these fields I fung the fylvan strains.

IMITATIONS.

VER. 421. Quo, Mufa, tendis? define pervicax
Referre fermones Deorum et

Magna modis tenuare parvis.

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