Yan'a feeble race what ilia aw&it!
Labour, and Penury
1the 1 aeb of Pain,
Dieeue, and Sorrow a weeping train,
And Death, &lld refuge from the storma of FatAl!
The food oomplaint, my eong, diaproTe
And justify the laws of Jove.
Sa.y, baa he given in vain the heavenly Muse f
Njgbt and all her sickly dews,
Her ape.ctree wan, and birds of boding cry
He gives to range the dreary sky:
Till down the eutern cliflil afa.r
Hyperion's march they apy, and glittering ahA& of wat.In climes beyond the solar road
Where ahaggy forms o'er ice-built mountains roam,
The Muse baa bro~ the twilight gloom
To cheer the shivering native's dull abode.
And oft:. beneath the odorous shade
Of Chill's boundless forests laid,
She deigns to hear the Bllv&ge youth repeat
In loose numbers wildly aweet
Their fenther-einetured chiefs, and dtu~ky loves.
Her track, where'er the Goddeaa rovee,
Glory purane, .and generous Shame,
Th' unconquerable Mind, and Freedom's holy tlame.Woods, that wave o'er Delphi's steep,
Ialea, that crown th' lEgean deep,
Fields that cool Ilissua laves
Or where ~nder'e amber waves
In lingering lab'rinths creep,
R.ow do your tuneful echoes languish,
Mute, but to the voice of anguish!
Where each old poetic mountain
Inspiration breathed around;
Every shade and hallow'd fountain
Murmul''d deep a solemn sound:
Till the aad Nine, in Greece's evil hour
Left their Parnailllus for the Latlan phune.
Alike they acorn the pomp of tyn.ut Power,
.And coward Vice, t.bat revels in her ehaioa.
When .Latium had her lofty spirit loat.,
They sought, 0 Albion I Dext, thy aea-encireled OOAIL