O_D_E* FOR MUS I C. IRREGULAR. "H I. ́ENCE, avaunt, ('tis holy ground), "Comus, and his midnight crew, "And Ignorance with looks profound, "And dreaming Sloth of pallid hue, * This Ode was performed in the Senate-houfe at Cambridge, July 1. 1769, at the installation of his Grace Augustus-Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton, Chancellor of the University. "Mad Sedition's cry profane; "Servitude that hugs her chain: "Nor in these confecrated bow'rs "Let painted Flatt'ry hide her ferpent train in flow'rs. "Nor Envy bafe, nor creeping Gain, "Dare the Mufe's walk to ftain; "While bright-ey'd Science watches round: "Hence away, 'tis holy ground!" IL From yonder realms of empyrean day, 'Bursts on my car th' indignant lay: There fit the fainted fage, the bard divine, The few whom Genius gave to fhine Thro' ev'ry unborn age and undiscover'd clime. Rapt in celeftial tranfport they; |