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Now under hanging mountains,
Befide the falls of fountains,
Or where Hebrus wanders,
Rolling in Meanders,

All alone,

Unheard, unknown,
He makes his moan;
And calls her ghoft.
For ever, ever, ever loft!
Now with Furies furrounded,
Defpairing, confounded,
He trembles, he glows,

Amidst Rhodope's fnows:

See, wild as the winds, o'er the defert he flies;
Hark! Hemus refounds with the Bacchanals cries

Ah fee, he dies!

Yet ev'n in death Eurydice he fung,

Eurydice ftill trembled on his tongue,

Eurydice the woods,

Eurydice the floods,

Eurydice the rocks, and hollow mountains rung.

VII.

Mufic the fierceft grief can charın,

And fate's feverest rage difarm:

Mufic can foften pain to eafe,

And make defpair and madnefs pleafe:
Our joys below it can improve,

And antedate the blifs above.

This the divine Cecilia found,

And to her Maker's praife confin'd the found.

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When the full organ joins the tuneful quire,
Th' immortal pow'rs incline their ear;
Borne on the fwelling notes our fouls afpire,
While folemn airs improve the facred fire;

And Angels lean from heav'n to hear.
Of Orpheus now no more let Poets tell,
To bright Cecilia greater pow'r is giv'n;
His numbers rais'd a fhade from hell,
Hers lift the foul to heav'n.

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Tragedy of BRUTUS").

CHORUS of ATHENIAN S.

STROPHE I.

YE fhades, where facred truth is fought;

Groves, where immortal Sages taught:
Where heav'nly vifions Plato fir'd,

NOTES.

THESE two Chorus's were compofed to enrich a very poor Play; but they had the ufual effect of ill-adjusted ornaments, only to make its meanhefs the more confpicuous.

a) Altered from Shakespear by the Duke of Buckingham, at whofe defire these two Chorus's were compofed to fupply as many, wanting in his play. They were fet many years after. wards by the famous Bononcini, and performed at Buckinghamhouse. P.

VER. 3. where heav'nly vifions Plato fir'd, And Epicurus, lay infpir'd!) The propriety of thefe lines arifes from hence, that Brutus, one of the Heroes of this Play, was of the old Academy; and Caffius, the other, was an Epicurean; but this had not been enough to justify the Poet's choice, had not Plato's fyftem of Divinity, and Epicurus's fyftem of Morals, been the moft rational amongst the various fects of Greek Philofophy.

And Epicurus lay infpir'd!

In vain your guiltless laurels ftood
Unfpotted long with human blood.

War, horrid war, your thoughtful walks invades,
And steel now glitters in the Mufes fhades.

ANTIS TROPHE

I.

Oh heav'n-born filters! fource of art!

Who charm the fenfe, or mend the heart;

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Who lead fair Virtue's train along,

Moral Truth, and myftic Song!

To what new clime, what diftant sky,
Forfaken, friendlefs, fhall ye Ay?

Say, will ye biefs the bleak Atlantic fhore?
Or bid the furious Gaul be rude no more?

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When Athens finks by fates unjust,
When wild Barbarians fpurn her duft;
Perhaps ev'n Britain's utmoft fhore
Shall ceafe to blush with ftranger's gore,
See Arts her favage fons controul,

And Athens rifing near the pole!

'Till fome new Tyrant lifts his purple hand, And civil madness tears them from the land.

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VER. 12. Moral truth AND mystic fong.) He had expreffed himfelf better had he faid.

,,Moral truth IN myftic fong!

In the Antiftrophe he turns from Philofophy to Mythology, and Mythology is nothing but moral truch in myftic fang.

ANTISTROPHE II.

Ye Gods! what juftice rules the ball!
Freedom and Arts together fall;
Fools grant whate'er Ambition craves,
And men, once ignorant, are flaves.
Oh curs'd effects of civil hate,

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In ev'ry age, in ev'ry state!

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Still, when the luft of tyrant pow'r fucceeds,
Some Athens perifhes, fome Tully bleeds.

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