"Nor Envy base, nor creeping Gain,

"Dare the Mufe's walk to ftain,

"While bright-eyed Science watches round: "Hence, away, 'tis holy ground!"

II.

From yonder realms of empyrean day

Burfts on my ear th' indignant lay:

There fit the fainted Sage, the Bard divine,
The Few, whom Genius gave to fhine

Through every unborn age and undiscover'd clime.

Rapt in celestial transport they,

Yet hither oft a glance from high

They fend of tender fympathy

To blefs the place, where on their opening foul
First the genuine ardor stole.

'Twas Milton ftruck the deep ton'd shell,
And, as the choral warblings round him fwell,
Meek Newton's felf bends from his state fublime,
And nods his hoary head, and liftens to the rhyme

III.

"Ye brown o'er-arching Groves,

"That Contemplation loves,

"Where willowy Camus lingers with delight! "Oft at the blush of dawn

"I trod your level lawn,

"Oft woo'd the gleam of Cynthia filver-bright "In cloifters dim, far from the haunts of Folly, * With Freedom by my fide, and foft-ey'd Melan

"choly.".

IV. But

IV.

But hark! the portals found, and pacing forth
With folemn fteps and flow,

High Potentates, and Dames of royal birth,
And mitred Fathers in long order go:

*

Great Edward, with the lilies on his brow
From haughty Gallia torn,

And || fad Chatillon, on her bridal morn

That wept her bleeding Love, and princely + Clare, And Anjou's Heroine, and § the paler Rofe,

*Edward the Third; who added the Fleur de lys of France to the arms of England. He founded Trinity College.

Mary de Valentia, Countess of Pembroke, daughter of Guy de Chatillon Comte de St. Paul in France: of whom tradition fays, that her husband Audemar de Valentia, Earl of Pembroke, was flain at a tournament on the day of his nuptials. She was the foundress of Pembroke College or Hall, under the name of Aula Mariæ de Valentia.

Elizabeth de Burg, Countefs of Clare, was wife of John dễ Burg, fon and heir of the Earl of Ulfter, and daughter of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, by Joan of Acres, daughter of Edward the First. Hence the Poet gives her the epithet of Princely. She founded Clare Hall.

Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry the Sixth, foundress of Queen's College. The Poet has celebrated her conjugal fidelity in a former Ode.

Elizabeth Widville, wife of Edward the Fourth (hence called the paler Rose, as being of the House of York). She added to the foundation of Margaret of Anjou.

The

The rival of her crown and of her woes,

The murder'd Saint, and the majestic Lord,

That broke the bonds of Rome.

(Their tears, their little triumphs o'er,
Their human paffions now no more,

Save Charity, that glows beyond the tomb}
All that on Granta's fruitful plain

Rich ftreams of regal bounty pour'd,

And bade these awful fanes and turrets rife,
To hail their Fitzroy's feftal morning come;
And thus they speak in foft accord

The liquid language of the skies.

V.

"What is Grandeur, what is Power? "Heavier toil, fuperior pain.

What the bright reward we gain? "The grateful memory of the Good. "Sweet is the breath of vernal shower, "The bee's collected treasure's sweet, "Sweet mufic's melting fall, but sweeter yet The still small voice of Gratitude.”

VI.

Foremost and leaning from her golden cloud
The † venerable Marg❜ret fee!

*Henry the Sixth and Eighth. The former the founder of King's, the latter the greatest benefactor to Trinity College.

Countess of Richmond and Derby; the mother of Henry the Seventh, foundrefs of St. John's and Christ's Colleges.

Welcome

"Welcome, my noble Son (the cries aloud),
"To this, thy kindred train, and me:
"Pleas'd in thy lineaments we trace
"A* Tudor's fire, a Beaufort's grace.
"Thy liberal heart, thy judging eye,
"The flower unheeded shall descry,
"And bid it round heaven's altars fhed
"The fragrance of its blufhing head:
"Shall raise from earth the latent gem,
"To glitter on the diadem.

VII.

"Lo, Granta waits to lead her blooming band, "Not obvious, not obtrufive, she

"No vulgar praise, no venal incenfe flings; "Nor dares with courtly tongue refin'd

"Profane thy inborn royalty of mind:

"She reveres herself and thee.

"With modeft pride to grace thy youthful brow "The laureat wreath, † that Cecil wore, she brings,

"And to thy juft, thy gentle hand

"Submits the Fafces of her fway,

"While Spirits bleft above and Men below

Join with glad voice the loud fymphonious lay.

The Countess was a Beaufort, and married to a Tudor; hence the application of this line to the Duke of Grafton, who claims defcent from both these families.

+ Lord Treasurer Burleigh was Chancellor of the Univerfity, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

"Through

VIII.

Through the wild waves as they roar
" With watchful eye and dauntless mien
"Thy fteady courfe of honour keep,

Nor fear the rocks, nor feek the shore:
" The Star of Brunswick smiles ferene,
"And gilds the horrors of the deep.“

A

LONG STOR Y *.

IN Britain's ifle, no matter where,

An antient pile of building ftands:
The Huntingdons and Hattons there
Employ'd the power of Fairy hands

*When Mr. Gray had put his last hand to the celebrated Elegy in the Country Church-yard, he communicated it to his friend Mr. Walpole, whose good tafte was too much charmed with it to fuffer him to with-hold the fight of it from his acquaintance; accordingly it was fhewn about for fome time in manuscript, and received with all the applause it so justly merited. Amongst the reft of the fashionable world, for to those only it was at prefent communicated, Lady Cobham, who now lived at the mansion-house at Stoke-Pogis, had read and admired it. She wished to be acquainted with the author; accordingly her relation, Miss Speed, and Lady Schaub, then at her house, undertook to bring this about by making him the firft vifit. He happened to be from home when the Ladies arrived at his Aunt's folitary manfion; and, when he returned, was surprized to find, written on one of his

papers