A mound restraining its imperious rage, Nor where, without that fence, the swallow'd flate They deem it? What tho', tools of wanton power, What tho they give not a relentless crew 1156 With starving Labour pampering idle Waste! 1160 * By the Bill of Rights, and the At of Succeffion, 1165 Of Virtue high to view; to nourish arts, 1170 1175 And now, behold! exalted as the cope Four gates impartial thrown, unceasing crowds, Nor outward tempeft nor corrofive time, 1190 And lay the toil of ages in the dust. 1 THE PROSPECT. LIBERTY. The Tontents. AUTHOR addresses the Goddess of Liberty, marking the happiness and grandeur HERE interpofing, as the Goddess paus'd,- 5 "Let other lands the potent blessings boast "Untended, yield the vegetable fleece; 10 "On higher life intent, its filken tomb: "Let wondering rocks, in radiant birth, disclose "The various-tinetur'd children of the Sun : " From the prone beam let more delicious fruits 15 " A flavour drink, that in one piercing taste 20 Bids each combine: let Gallic vineyards burst " With floods of joy; with mild balfamic juice "The Tuscan olive: let Arabia breathe " Her spicy gales, her vital gums distil: "Turbid with gold, let southern rivers flow, "And orient floods draw soft o'er pearls their maze: "Let Afric vaunt her treasures: let Peru " Deep in her bowels her own ruin breed, " The yellow traitor that her bliss betray'd,- 25 "Unequall'd bliss!-and to unequall'd rage! " Yet nor the gorgeous East nor golden South, "Nor, in full prime, that new-discover'd world, " Where flames the falling day in wealth and praife, " Shall with Britannia vie, while, Goddess! the 30 Derives her praise from Thee, her matchless charms. "Her hearty fruits the hand of Freedom own; "And, warm with culture, her thick-clust'ringfields "Prolific teem. Eternal verdure crowns " Her meads; her gardens smile eternal spring: 35 She gives the hunter-horse, unquell'd by toil, " Ardent, to rush into the rapid chase: "She, whitening o'er her downs, diffusive, pours "Unnumber'd flocks: she weaves the fleecy robe "That wraps the nations: she to lufty droves "The richest pasture spreads; and her's, deep-wave 40 50 " Autumnal feas of pleasing plenty round. "These her delights; and by no baneful herb, "No darting tiger, no grim lion's glare, "No fierce-descending wolf, no ferpent roll'd 45 " In spires immense progressive o'er the land "Disturb'd. Enlivening these, add cities full "Of wealth, of trade, of cheerful toiling crowds; "Add thriving towns; add villages and farms, "Innumerous sow'd along the lively vale, " Where bold unrival'd peasants happy dwell: "Add ancient feats, with venerable oaks "Embofom'd high, while kindred floods below "Windthro' the mead; and those of modern hand, "More pompous, add, that splendid shine afar. 55 "Need I her limpid lakes, her rivers, name, "Whereswarm the finny race! Thee, chief, OThames! "On whose each tide, glad with returning fails, "Flows in the mingled harvest of mankind? "And thee, thou Severn! whose prodigious swell, 60 "And waves, resounding, imitate the main? "Why need I name her deep capacious ports, "That point around the world? And why her feas? "All ocean is her own, and every land "To whom her ruling thunder ocean bears. 65 "She, too, the mineral feeds: the obedient lead, "The warlike iron, nor the peaceful less, "Forming of life art-civiliz'd the bond; "And that the Tyrian merchant fought of old*, * Tin. |