376 But cover'd half with ivy-walls;- Compar'd with thee, how dimly shows Men saw, alas! and knew not thee, Thou hadst no charms for paynim-eyes; Till, guided by the lamp of heav'n, To chaste Urania power was giv’n Το see, to' admire, and moralize. All-beauteous flower, whose centre glows A rich expanse of varying hue, Enfring'd with an impurpled blue, And streak'd with young Pomona's green. The Baron de Bottoni. This alludes to a well known fact in the duchy of Carniola : where the present ode was written. + Moly. Homer's Odyssey, L. XI. 305. § After Atticus, or (purple Italian) Star wort. Georg. IV. 271. Alluding to that particular species of green called by the French pomme-verte, or apple- green. High o'er the pointal, deck'd with gold, Grant me, kind Heaven, in prosperous hour Like Tobit (when the hand, approv'd Passions and frauds surround us all, Shun their blandishments and wiles; In highest stations snares misguide; *Tobit iii. 17. +All vices wax old by age: Covetousness and ambition alone grow young.' E. Vet. Ascet. Breeding vanity in knowledge; Midst wines a fraud, midst mirth a cheat, The toils are fix'd, the sportsmen keen: Thy doubts, petitions, gifts, and prayers ;- Deceiving none, by none ensnar'd, ПAPAKAHТOX: The Comforter; the Holy Spirit. John xiv. 16-26. Dryden first introd ced the word Paraclete into the Englsh [languge, in his translation of the hymn Veni Creator Spiritus: as also in his Brittania Rediviva. † Rom. viii. 39. MACARIUS: OR, THE CONFESSOR. Da vocem magno, Pater, ingeniumque dolori. STAT. Epiced. Patris. AN EPISTLE TO THE REV DR. ROBERT HORT, CANON OF WINDSOR. ALL sober poets with thy bard* agree, Who sung, That truth was truest poetry.'- He check❜d the' impatient wanderings of our youth, Days seem'd but hours, and time improv'd on time: Cowley. See his Davideis. The Rev. Walter Harte, Prebend of Bristol, Canon of Wells, and father to the poet. Mindless of cares, and how they pass'd or came; Our sports, our labours, and our rest, the same.* See'st thou yon yews, by pensive nature made For tears, and grief, and melancholy shade; Wide o'er the church they spread an awful light, Than day more serious, half-compos'd as night; There, where the winding Kennet gently laves Britannia's Lombardy† with silver waves: There sleeps Macarius, foe to pomp and pride; Who liv'd contented, and contented died. Say, shall the lamp where Tullia was entomb'd Burn twice seven ages, and be unconsum'd? And not one verse be sacred to a name Endear'd by virtuous deeds and silent fame ? True fame demands not panegyric aid; The funeral torch burns brightest in the shade; Thus blossoms fall, before their tree can bear. His younger days were not in trifling spent, These eight lines are imitated from a famous passage in Persius, Sat. V. It begins→→→→→→→→ †Berkshire. 'Geminos horoscope,' &c. It is reported, that the Chinese beat and mix thoroughly together the composition that makes porcelain, and then bury it in a deep bed of clay for an hundred years See Dr. Donne's Letters. Mr. John Hall, master of Pembroke College, Oxford, in 1667, and rector of St. Aldate's in the same university. Created D. D. in 1669; elected Margaret Professor in 1676; and con. secrated Bishop of Bristol the 12th of June, 1691. |