Heav'nly queen of piercing eye, Sisters twin are Youth and Pleasure, With the smiles of wisdom fraught, Such the mind that suits with thee. But now joys of different kind Wing the wish, and fire the mind; Tumbling rills that warbling flow, Yellow meads with gold that glow, Wandering walks, and rural ease, Farewell then, thou willow'd stream, Clio breathes celestial fire, She shall smooth each care awhile Yes, she, fair queen, shall all the mind possess, With gladness fire it, and with rapture bless. ODE X. ON THE BANISHMENT OF CICERO. FIRST PRINTED WHEN ATTERBURY, BISHOP OF ROCHESTER, WAS BANISHED, IN 1724. BY THE DUKE OF WHARTON. As o'er the swelling ocean's tide An exile Tully rode, The bulwark of the Roman state, In act, in thought, a god; The sacred genius of majestic Rome Descends, and thus laments her patriot's doom: Farewell! renown'd in arts, farewell! Thus conquer'd by thy foe, Of honours, and of friends depriv'd, Yet go content; thy look, thy will sedate, Thy wisdom was thy only guilt, With god-like zeal thou did'st espouse Nor sordid hopes could charm thy steady soul, Nor fears, nor guilty numbers could controul. What tho' the noblest patriots stood Firm to thy sacred cause, What tho' thou could'st display the force No eloquence, no reason could repel Thy mighty ruin to effect What plots have been devis'd! What arts! what perjuries been us'd! How many fools and knaves by bribes allur'd, And yet they act their dark deceit, And from a specious shew of right, With arbitary power, the people awe, Let Clodius now in grandeur reign, A short liv'd monster in the land, The monarch of an hour; Let pageant fools adore their wooden god, And act against their senses at his nod. |