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.

A voice, as of the Cherub-Choir,
Gales from blooming Eden bear :
And distant warblings lessen on my ear, S

That lost in long futurity expire.
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 clifferent 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.

Spenser's Proem to the Fairy Queen. + Shakspeare.

Milton.
T'he succession of Poets after Milton's time.

*TIENCE, avaunt, ('tis holy ground)

Comus, and his midnight-crew, And Ignorance with looks profound,

And dreaming Sloth of pallid hue Mad Scdition's cry profane, Servitude that hugs her chain, Nor in these consecrated bowers [Mowers. 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

Bursts on my ear the indignant lay : There sit the sainted Sage, the bard divine,

The few, whom Genius gave to shine
Through every unborn age, and undiscover'd clime.

Rapt in celestial transport they :
Yet hither oft a glance from high
They send of tender sympathy,

• This Ode was performed in the Senate-House at Cambridge, July 1, 1700, 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, tben professor of music at Cambridge.

To bless the place where on their opening soul

First the genuine ardour stole : 'Twas Milton struck the deep-ton'd shell, And, as the choral warblings round bim swell, Meek Newton's self bends from his state sublime, And nodsh is hoary hi ad, and listens to the rhyme.

AIR.

"Ye brown o'er-arching groves,

That Contemplation loves,
Where willowy Camus lingers with delight!

Oft at the blush of dawn

I trod your level lawn, Oft woo’d the gleam of Cynthia silver-bright: In cloisters dim, far from the haunts of Folly, With Freedom by my side, and soft-ey'd Melan

choly.'

RECITATIVE.

But hark! the portals sound, and pacing forth

With solemn steps and slow,
High potentates, and dames of royal birth,
And mitred fathers in long order go:
Great Edward, with the lilies on his brow*

From haughty Gallia torn,
And sad Chatillon, on her bridal mornt

* 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 Pembrieke, wa slain at a tournament on the day of his nuptials. She was the folies of Peinbroke College or Hall, under the name of Aula Mana de Valentia,

That wept her bleeding love, and princely Clare,
And Anjou's Heroine, and the paler Rose,t
The rival of her crown and of her wocs,

And either Henry there ; #
The murder'd Saint, and the majestic Lord

That broke the bonds of Rome.
('Their tears, their little triumphs o'er,

Their human passions now no more,
Save Charity, that glows beyond the tomb.)

RECITATIVE ACCOMPANIED.
All that on Granta's fruitful plain
Rich streams of regal bounty pour'd,
And bade these awful fanes and turrets rise,
To hail their Fitzroy's festal morning come i

And thus they speak in soft accord
The liquid language of the skies :

QUAUTETTO.
* What is Grandeur, what is Power!
Heavier toil, superior pain.
What the bright reward we gain!
The grateful memory of the good.

• 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 Ed. ward 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'. College.

Elizabeth Widville, wife of Edward the Fourth, hener called the paler rore, 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 showem.
The bee's collected treasures sweet,
Sweet Music's melting fall, but sweeter yet
The still small voice of Gratitude.'

ILECITATIVE.

Foremost and leaning from her golden cloud

The venerable Margaret see !*
• Welcome, my noble son, (she cries aloud)

To this, thy kindred train, and me :
Pleas'd in thy lineaments we trace
A Tudor's fire, a Beaufort's grace.f

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,

Not obvious, not obtrusive, she
No vulgar praise, no venal incense Alings;

Nor dares with courtly tongue refin'd
Profane thy inborn royalty of mind :

She reveres herself and thee.

• Countess of Richmond and Derby : the mother of llenry 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 claima descent from both thesc families.