Rife crown'd with light, &c.

The thoughts that follow to the end of the Poem, are wonderfully elevated, and much above thofe general exclamations of Virgil which make the loftiest parts of his Pollio.

Magnus ab integro fæclorum nafcitur ordo!
----toto furget gens aurea mundo!
----incipient magni procedere menfes !
Afpice, venturo lætentur ut omnia fæclo! &c.

The reader needs only turn to the paffages of Isaiah, as they are cited in the margins of the preceding Eclogue.

WINDSOR

WINDSOR-FOREST.

To the Right Honourable

GEORGE Lord LANSDOWN.

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

VIRG.

N

WINDSOR-FOREST.

To the Right Honourable

GEORGE Lord LANSDOWN.

T

HY forefts, Windfor! and thy green retreats,

At once the Monarch's and the Mufe's feats,

Invite my lays. Be prefent fylvan Maids!
Unlock your fprings, and open all your fhades.
Granville commands; your aid O Muses bring!
What Mufe for Granville can refuse to fing?

The groves of Eden, vanish'd now fo long,
Live in defcription, and look green in fong:
These, were my breast infpir'd with equal flame,
Like them in beauty, should be like in fame.

Here

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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain,
Here earth and water seem to ftrive again,
Not Chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd,
But as the world, harmoniously confus'd :
Where order in variety we fee,

And where, tho' all things differ, all agree.

Here waving groves a checquer'd fcene difplay,
And part admit, and part exclude the day;
As fome coy nymph her lover's warm address
Not quite indulges, nor can quite repress.
There, interfpers'd in lawns and opening glades,
Thin trees arise that shun each others fhades.

Here in full light the ruffet plains extend;
1e5łu Modli ba
There wrapt in clouds the blueifh hills afcend

& avi ya saival Ev'n the wild heath difplays her purple dyes,

bas

La the defert fruitful f

And arife,

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¿bapramon allioma)) That crown'd with tufted trees and fpringing corn,

rit of later an Alliomib) 1 30M and W

Like verdant ifles the fable wafte adorn.

Buol & von Difinov, mkI to rakI to 20701 Let India boaft her plants, nor envy we

sool ni aoag dool bar, noifgirolab ni svi. [

The weeping amber or the balmy tree,

squll Toupe they bright frond vm bron 3.0) While by our Oaks the precious loads are born,

And realms commanded which thofe trees adorn.