But you are come, and all their hopes are vain
This Giant-Ifle has got her eye again.
Now, he might fpare the ocean; and oppofe
Your conduct to the fierceft of her foes.
Naked, the GRACES guarded you from all
Dangers abroad; and now, your thunder shall.
Princes that faw you diff'rent paffions prove;
For now they dread the object of their love;
Nor without envy can behold his height,
Whose converfation was their late delight.
So SEMELE, Contented with the rape
Of Jove, difguifed in a mortal shape;
When the beheld his hand with lightning fill'd,
And his bright rays, was with amazement kill'd.
And tho' it be our forrow, and our crime,
To have accepted life so long a time
Without you here; yet does this abfence gain
No fmall advantage to your prefent reign.
For, having view'd the perfons, and the things.
The councils, ftate, and ftrength of EUROPE'S Kings,
You know your work; ambition to restrain,
And fet them bounds, as heav'n does to the Main.
We have you now with ruling wisdom fraught,
Not fuch as books, but fuch as practice, taught.
So the loft fun, while leaft by us enjoy'd:
Is the whole night, for our concern, employ'd:
He ripens fpices, fruit, and pretious gums,
Which from remotest regions hither comes.
This feat of yours (from th' other world remov'd) ·
Had ARCHIMEDES known, he might have prov'd
His engin's force, fix'd here: your pow'r, and skill,
Makes the world's motion wait upon your will.
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Much-fuff'ring Monarch! the firft ENGLISH-born
That has the crown of these three nations worn!
How has your patience, with the barb'rous rage
Of your own foil, contended half an age ?
Till (your try'd virtue, and your facred word,
At last preventing your unwilling fword)
Armies, and fleets, which kept out fo long.
Own'd their great Sov'reign, and redrefs'd his wrong.
When ftrait the people, by no force compell'd,
Nor longer from their inclinations held,
Break forth at once, like powder fet on fire ;
And, with a noble rage, their KING require.
So th' injur'd fea, which from her wonted courfe,
To gain fome acres, avarice did force,
If the new banks, neglected once, decay,
No longer will from her old channel stay ;
Raging, the late-got land fhe overflows,
And all that's built upon't to ruin goes.
Offenders now, the chiefeft, do begin
To ftrive for grace, and expiate their fin :
All winds blow fair, that did the world imbroil
Your vipers treacle yield, and scorpions oil.
If then fuch praife the * MACEDONIAN got,
For having rudely cut the GORDIAN knot;
What glory's due to him, that could divide,
Such ravel'd int'réfts? has the knot unty'd,
And without ftroke fo fmooth a passage made,
Where craft, and malice, fuch impeachments laid
But while we praise you, you ascribe it all
To his high hand, which threw the untouch'd wal
Of felf-demolish'd JERICHO fo low:
His Angel 'twas that did before you go:
Tam'd favage hearts, and made affection yield,
Like ears of corn when wind falutes the field.
Thus, patience crown'd, like Jo B's, your trouble
Having your foes to pardon, and your friends: [ends.
For, tho' your courage were fo firm a rock,
What private virtue could indure the shock?
Like your
Great Mafter, you the ftorm withstood,
And pity'd those who love with frailty fhew'd.
Rude INDIANS, tort'ring all the royal race.
Him with the throne, and dear-bought sceptre grace,
That fuffers beft: what region could be found,
Where your heroic head had not been crown'd?
The next experience of your mighty mind,
Is, how you combat Fortune now she's kind :
And this way too you are victorious found;
She flatters with the fame fuccefs the frown'd.
While, to yourself fevere, to others kind,
With pow'r unbounded, and a will confin'd,
Of this vaft empire you poffefs the care,
The fofter parts fall to the people's share.
Safety, and equal government, are things
Which fubjects make as happy as their Kings.
Faith, law, and piety, (that banifl'd train!)
Juftice, and truth, with you return again :
The city's trade, and country's eafy life,
Once more shall flourish, without fraud, or ftrife.
Your reign no lefs affures the ploughman's peace,
Than the warm fun advances his increase;
And does the fhepherds as fecurely keep,
From all their fears, as they preferve their sheep
But above all, the Muse-inspired train
Triumph, and raise their drooping heads again :
Kind heav'n at once has, in your person, sent
Their facred judge, their guard, and argument.
Nec magis expreffi vultus per ahenea figna,
Quam per vatis opus mores, animique, virorum
On St. JAMES'S PARK, as lately improved by his MAJESTY.
F the firft Paradife there's nothing found,
Plants fet by heav'n are vanish'd, and the ground;
Yet the description lafts: who knows the fate
Of lines that fhall this Paradise relate?
Instead of rivers rowling by the fide
Of EDEN's garden, here flows-in the tide :
The fea, which always ferv'd his empire, now
Pays tribute to our Prince's pleafurę too.
Of famous cities we the founders know ;
But rivers old as feas, to which they go.`
Are nature's bounty: 'tis of more renown:
To make a river, than to build a town.
For future fhade, young trees upon
the banks
Of the new ftream appear
in even ranks:
The voice of ORPHEUS, OF AMPHION's hand,
In better order could not make them ftand.
May they increase as fast, and spread their boughs,
As the high fame of their great owner grows!
May he live long enough, to fee them all
Dark fhadows caft, and as his palace tall!
Methinks I fee the love that shall be made,
The lovers walking in that am'rous fhade:
The gallants dancing by the river fide;
They bathe in fummer, and in winter slide.
Methinks I hear the mufic in the boats,
And the loud ECHO which returns the notes:
While over-heard a flock of new-fprung fowl
Hangs in the air, and does the fun controul,
Dark'ning the fky: they hover o'er, and fhrowd
The wanton failors with a feather'd cloud.
Beneath, a fhole of filver fishes glides,
And plays about the gilded barges' fides:
The ladies angling in the chrystal lake,
Feast on the waters with the
prey they take:
At once victorious with their lines, and eyes.
They make the fishes, and the men, their prize.
A thousand CUPIDS on the billows ride,
And Sea-Nymphs enter with the swelling tide :
From THETIS fent as fpies, to make report,
And tells the wonders of her Sov'reign's Court.
All that can, living, feed the greedy eye,
Or dead, the palate, here you may descry:
The choiceft things that furnish'd NOAH's ark,
Or PETER'S fheet, inhabiting this Park:
All with a border of rich fruit-trees crown'd,
Whose loaded branches hide the lofty mound.
Such various ways the fpacious alleys lead,
My doubtful Mufe knows not what path to tread.
Yonder, the harveft of cold months laid up,
Gives a fresh coolness to the royal cup:
There ice, like chrystal firm, and never loft,
Tempers hot July with December's froft!
Winters dark prifon, whence he cannot fly,
Tho' the warm fpring, his enemy, draws nigh.
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