N LIBER Q DE IX. E forte credas interitura, quae IV. Longe fonantem natus ad Aufidum Non ante vulgatas per artes Verba loquor focianda chordis ; Stefichorique graves Camenae : Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Part of the NINTH ODE L Of the FOURTH BOOK. EST you fhould think that verfe fhall die, Tho' daring Milton fits sublime, Nor yet shall Waller yield to time, Nor penfive Cowley's moral lay Sages and Chiefs long fince had birth Ere Cæfar was, or Newton nam'd; These rais'd new Empires o'er the Earth, And Thofe, new Heav'ns and Systems fram'd. Vain was the Chief's, the Sage's pride! In vain they schem'd, in vain they bled! They had no Poet, and are dead. |