What ftrings fymphonious tremble in the air, • What strains of vocal transport round her play! Hear from the grave, great Talieffin', hear; They breathe a foul to animate thy clay, Bright Rapture calls, and foaring, as fhe fings, Waves in the eye of Heav'n her many-colour'd wings. 1 Talieffin, Chief of the Bards, flourished in the VIth Century. His works are ftill preferved, and his memory held in high veneration among his Countrymen. III. 3. The verse adorn again <m Fierce War, and faithful Love, 'And Truth fevere, by fairy Fiction drest. • In buikin'd measures move Pale Grief, and pleafing Pain, • With Horrour, Tyrant of the throbbing breaft. 'A' Voice, as of the Cherub-Choir, • Gales from blooming Eden bear; • And diftant warblings leffen on my ear, That loft in long futurity expire. m Fierce wars and faithful loves fhall moralize my fong. n Shakespear. o Milton. Spenfer's Proëme to the Fairy Queen. P The fucceffion of Poets after Milton's time. • Fond Fond impious Man, think'ft thou, yon fanguine cloud, Rais'd by thy breath, has quench'd the Orb of day? To-morrow he repairs the golden flood, And warms the nations with redoubled ray. 6 Enough for me: With joy I fee The different doom our Fates affign. 'Be thine Despair, and scept'red Care, To triumph, and to die, are mine.' He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night, |