'Her eye proclaims her of the Briton-Line; Her lyon-port*, her awe-commanding face, Attemper'd sweet to virgin-grace. * Speed relating an audience given by Queen Elizabeth to Paul Dzialinski, Ambaffadour of Poland, fays, • And thus fhe, lion-like rifing, daunted the malapert Orator no less ⚫ with her stately port and majestical deporture, than with the ⚫ tartneffe of her princelie checkes.' • What • What strings symphonious 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 the fings, • Waves in the eye of Heav'n her many-colour'd [wings. + Talieffin, Chief of the Bards, flourished in the VIth Century. His works are ftill preserved, and his memory held in high veneration among his Countrymen. III. 3. The verfe adorn again *Fierce War, and faithful Love, • And Truth fevere, by fairy Fiction drest, 'A ‡ Voice, as of the Cherub-Choir, Fierce wars and faithful loves fhall moralize my fong. Spenfer's Proëme to the Fairy Queen. + Shakespear. Milton. The fucceffion of Poets after Milton's time. • Fond Fond impious Man, think'st thou, yon fanguine [cloud, 'Rais'd by thy breath, has quench'd the Orb of To-morrow he repairs the golden flood, And warms the nations with redoubled "Enough for me: With joy I fee [day? ray. To triumph, and to die, are mine.' |