With equal fway will Virtue's laws maintain,
And, good as great, in awful peace shall reign;
For his example still the rule shall give,
And those it taught to conquer teach to live.

Proceeding on, the Father still unfolds
Succeeding leaves, and brighter still beholds;
The latest feen the fairest seems to shine,
Yet fudden does to one more fair resign.
Th' Eternal paus'd

Nor would Britannia's fate beyond explore;
Enough he saw befides the coming ftore:
Enough the hero had already done,
And round the wide extent of glory run,
Nor further now the fhining path pursues,
But like the fun the fame bright race renews.

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And fhall remorfelcfs Fates on him have pow'r?

Or Time unequally fuch worth devour?
Then wherefore shall the brave for fame contest?
Why is this man distinguish'd from the rest,
Whofe foaring genius now fublime aspires,
And deathless fame, the due reward, requires?
Approving Heav'n th' exalted virtue views,
Nor can the claim which it approves refuse.
The great Creator foon the grant refolves,
And in his mighty mind the means revolves.

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He thought, nor doubted once again to chufe,
But fpake the word, and made th' immortal Muse.

Ne'er did his pow'r produce so bright a child,
On whofe creation infant Nature fmil'd:
Perfect at first, a finifh'd form she wears,
And youth perpetual in her face appears.
Th' affembled gods, who long expecting staid,
With new delight gaze on the lovely maid,
And think the wish'd-for world was well delay'd.
Nor did the Sire himself his joy disguise,
But ftedfaft view'd, and fix'd, and fed his eyes:
Intent a space, at length he filence broke,

And thus the God the heav'nly fair befpoke.

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To thee, immortal Maid! from this blefs'd hour, "O'er time and fame I give unbounded pow'r. 250 "Thou from oblivion fhalt the hero fave;

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"Shalt raife, revive, immortalize, the brave. "To thee the Dardan prince fhall owe his fame; "To thee the Cæfars their eternal name. "Eliza, fung by thee, with Fate shall strive, "And long as time in facred verse survive. "And yet, O Mufe! remains the nobleft theme; "The first of men, mature for endless fame, "Thy future fongs fhall grace, and all thy lays, "Thenceforth, alone shall wait on William's praife: "On his heroick deeds thy verfe shall rife; "Thou fhalt diffufe the fires that he supplies: "Thro' him thy fongs fhall more fublime aspire, "And he thro' them fhall deathlefs fame acquire:

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"Nor Time nor Fate his glory fhall oppofe,

"Or blaft the monuments the Mufe beftows."

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This faid, no more remain'd. Th' ethereal hoft Again impatient crowd the crystal coast.

The father now within his fpacious hands
Encompass'd all the mingled mafs of feas and lands,
And having heav'd aloft the pond'rous!
s sphere,

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He lanch'd the world to float in ambient air.

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RECITATIVE.

But Celia now repenting

Her breach of affignation,
Arriv'd with eyes confenting,
And sparkling inclination.
Like Citherea fmiling,

She blush'd, and laid his paffion;
The fhepherd ceas'd reviling,
And fung this recantation.

PALINODE.

"How engaging, how endearing,
"Is a lover's pain and care!

"And what joy the nymph's appearing
"After abfence or despair!
"Women wife increase defiring,

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By contriving kind delays,

"And advancing or retiring,

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All they mean is more to please."

THE PETITION.

GRANT me, gentle Love! said I,
One dear blefling ere I die;
Long I've borne excefs of pain,
Let me now fome blifs obtain."

Thus to almighty Love I cry'd,
When angry, thus the god reply'd:

Blefings greater none can have,

Art thou not mynta's flave?
Ceafe, fond Mortal! to implore,

For Love, Love himfelf's no more.

ΤΟ

ABSENCE.

AH! what pains, what racking thoughts, he proves,
Who lives remov'd from her he dearest loves!
In cruel Abfence doom'd paft joys to mourn,
And think on hours that will no more return.
Oh! let me ne'er the pangs of Ablence try;
Save me from Abfence, Love! or let me die.

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AMORET.

I.

FAIR

AIR Amoret is gone aftray,
Purfue and feek her ev'ry lover;

I'll tell the figns by which you may
The wand'ring fhepherdefs difcover.

II.

Coquette and coy at once her air,
Both ftudy'd, tho' both feem neglected;
Carclefs fhe is, with artful care

Affecting to feem unaffected.

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