Bright Rapture calls, and, soaring as she sings, Waves in the eye of Heav'n her many-colour'd wings. III. 3. The verse adorn again Fierce War, and faithful Love,* And Truth severe, by fairy Fiction dress'd. In buskin'd measures movet Pale Grief, and pleasing Pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast. Gales from blooming Eden bear: And distant warblings lessen on my ear,§ Fond impious Man, think'st thou yon sanguine cloud, Rais'd by thy breath, has quench'd the orb of day? To-morrow he repairs the golden flood, And warms the nations with redoubled ray. Enough for me: with joy I see The different doom our fates assign. Be thine Despair, and sceptred Care, To triumph, and to die, are mine.' He spoke; and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night. Fierce wars and faithful loves shall moralize my song. + Shakspeare. + Milton. Spenser's Proem to the Fairy Queen. The succession of Poets after Milton's time. FOR MUSIC. AIN. HENCE, avaunt, ('tis holy ground) Comus, and his midnight-crew, And Ignorance with looks profound, And dreaming Sloth of pallid hue Mad Sedition's cry profane, Servitude that hugs her chain, Nor in these consecrated bowers [flowers. Let painted Flattery hide her serpent train in CHORUS. Nor Envy base, nor creeping Gain, Dare the Muse's walk to stain, While bright-eyed Science watches round: Hence, away, 'tis holy ground!' RECITATIVE. From yonder realms of empyrean day Yet hither oft a glance from high This Ode was performed in the Senate-House at Cambridge, July 1, 1769, at the Installation of his Grace Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton, Chancellor of the University. It is here printed with the divisions adopted by the composer, Dr. Mandall, then professor of music at Cambridge. To bless the place where on their opening soul 'Twas Milton struck the deep-ton'd shell, AIR. 'Ye brown o'er-arching groves, Where willowy Camus lingers with delight! I trod your level lawn, Off woo'd the gleam of Cynthia silver-bright? RECITATIVE. But hark! the portals sound, and pacing forth High potentates, and dames of royal birth, And sad Chatillon, on her bridal morn† Edward the Third, who added the fleur de lys of France to the arms of England. He founded Trinity College. Mary de Valentia, Countess of Pembroke, daughter of Guy de Chatillon, Comte de St. Paul in France; of whom tradition says, that her husband, Audemar de Valentia, Earl of Pembroke, was slain at a tournament on the day of his nuptials. She was the foundress of Pembroke College or Hall, under the name of Aula Mane de Valentia, That wept her bleeding love, and princely Clare, The rival of her crown and of her woes, The murder'd Saint, and the majestic Lord RECITATIVE ACCOMPANIED. All that on Granta's fruitful plain Rich streams of regal bounty pour'd, And bade these awful fanes and turrets rise, QUARTETTO, What is Grandeur, what is Power! • Elizabeth de Burg, Countess of Clare, was wife of John de Burg, son and heir of the carl of Ulster, and daughter of Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester, by Joan of Acres, daughter of Edward the First. Hence the poet gives her the epithet of princely. She founded Clare Hall, + Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry the Sixth, foundress of Queen's College. Elizabeth Widville, wife of Edward the Fourth, hence called the paler rose, as being of the house of York. She added to the foundation of Margaret of Anjou. Henry the Sixth and Eighth. The former the founder of King's, the latter the greatest benefactor to Trinity College. Sweet is the breath of vernal shower RECITATIVE. Foremost and leaning from her golden cloud 'Welcome, my noble son, (she cries aloud) AIR. Thy liberal heart, thy judging eye, The flower unheeded shall descry, And bid it round Heav'n's altar shed The fragrance of its blushing head: Shall raise from earth the latent gem To glitter on the diadem. RECITATIVE. 'Lo, Granta waits to lead her blooming band, No vulgar praise, no venal incense flings; *Countess of Richmond and Derby: the mother of Henry the Seventh, foundress of St. John's and Christ's Colleges. + The countess was a Beaufort, and married to a Tudor; hence the application of this line to the Duke of Grafton, who Claims descent from both these families. |