"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 They send of tender sympathy, 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! "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 Me But hark! the portals sound, and pacing forth High Potentates, and Dames of royal birth, Great Edward, with the lilies on his brow (r) And sad Chatillon, on her bridal morn (s) (r) Great Edward with the lilies on his brow. Edward the Third, who added the fleur de lys of France to the arms of England. He founded Trinity College. (s) And sad Chatillon, on her bridal morn, &c. 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 Mariæ de Valentia. That wept her bleeding Love, and princely Clare (t), The murder'd Saint, and the majestic Lord [ACCOMPANIED.] All that on Granta's fruitful plain Elizabeth de Burg, Countess of Clare, was wife of John de Burg, son and heir of the Earl 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. (u) And Anjou's Heroine, and the paler Rose. Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry the Sixth, foundress of Queen's College. The Poet has celebrated her conjugal fidelity in The Bard, Epode 2d, line 13th. 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. (x) And either Henry there. Henry the Sixth and Eighth. The former the founder of King's, the latter the greatest benefactor to Trinity College. And bade these awful fanes and turrets rise, QUARTETTO. "What is Grandeur, what is Power? "What the bright reward we gain? "Sweet music's melting fall, but sweeter yet "The still small voice of Gratitude." RECITATIVE. Foremost and leaning from her golden cloud "Welcome, my noble Son, (she cries aloud) (y) The venerable Margret see. Countess of Richmond and Derby: the mother of Henry the Seventh, foundress of St. John's and Chrits's Colleges. "Pleas'd in thy lineaments we trace AIR. "Thy liberal heart, thy judging eye, RECITATIVE. "Lo, Granta waits to lead her blooming band, "Not obvious, not obtrusive, She "No vulgar praise, no venal incense flings; "She reveres herself and thee. "With modest pride to grace thy youthful brow, (z) A Tudor's fire, a Beaufort's grace. 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. |