A SONG. I. GO tell Amynta, gentle swain, II. 5 A figh or tear, perhaps, she'll give, But ah! the wretch, that speechless lies, 15 SONG TO A FAIR YOUNG LADY, GOING OUT OF THE TOWN IN THE SPRING. I. ASK not the caufe, why fullen Spring year: Chloris is gone, and fate provides II. Chloris is gone, the cruel fair; She caft not back a pitying eye: To figh, to languish, and to die: 5 10 III. Great god of love, why haft thou made And change the laws of every land? IV. When Chloris to the temple comes, And every life but mine recal. I only am by Love defign'd To be the victim for mankind. 15 20 ALEXANDER'S FEAST; OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC; AN ODE, IN HONOUR OF ST. CECILIA'S DAY. I. "TWAS at the royal feast, for Perfia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful ftate The godlike hero fate On his imperial throne : His valiant peers were plac'd around; Their brows with rofes and with myrtles bound: (So fhould defert in arms be crown'd.) The lovely Thais, by his fide, Sate like a blooming Eastern bride In flower of youth and beauty's pride. 5 10 None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deferves the fair. 15 CHORUS. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deferves the fair. II. Timotheus, plac'd on high Amid the tuneful quire, With flying fingers touch'd the lyre: The trembling notes afcend the sky, 20 And heavenly joys inspire. The fong began from Jove, Who left his blifsful feats above, (Such is the power of mighty love.) A dragon's fiery form bely'd the god : Sublime on radiant fpires he rode, When he to fair Olympia prefs'd: 25 30 And while he fought her fnowy breaft: Then, round her flender waist he curl'd, And ftamp'd an image of himself, a fovereign of the world. Ver. 20. Dr. Burney has given a learned, full, and entertaining account of Timotheus, the musician, in his firft volume of his Hiftory of Mufic, p. 405. Mr. Jackfon, whofe taste and feeling on the fubject of mufic must be allowed to be juft and exquifite, cenfures Dryden for extending the powers of mufic over the paffions, and affirms that pleasure only can be excited. Dr. J. WARTON. |