A S this Part contains a defcription of the establish ment of LIBERTY in ROME, it begins with a view of the Grecian colonies fettled in the fouthern parts of Italy, which with Sicily constituted the Great Greece of the Ancients. With thefe colonies the Spirit of LIBERTY, and of Republics, Spread over Italy; to Ver. 32. Tranfition to PYTHAGORAS and his philofophy, which he taught thro' thofe free ftates and cities; to Ver. 71. Amidst the many fmall Republics in Italy, ROME the deftined feat of LIBERTY. Her establishment there dated from the expulfion of the Tarquins. How differ ing from that in GREECE; to Ver. 88. Reference to a view of the ROMAN REPUBLIC given in the First Part of this Poem: to mark its Rife and Fall, the peculiar purport of This. During its first ages, the greatest force of LIBERTY, and Virtue, exerted; to Ver. 103. The fource whence derived the Heroic Virtues of the ROMANS. Enumeration of thefe Virtues. Thence their fecurity at home; their glory, fuccefs, and empire, abroad; to Ver. 226. Bounds of the Roman empire geographically defcribed; to Ver. 257. The ftates of GREECE reflored to LIBERTY, by TITUS QUINTUS FLAMINIUS, the higheft inflance of public generofity and beneficence; to Ver. 328. The loss of LIBERTY in ROME. Its caufes, progress, and completion in the death of BRUTUS; to Ver. 485. Rome under the emperors; to Ver. 513. From ROME the GODDESS of LIBERTY goes among the NORTHERN NATIONS; where, by infufing into them her Spirit and general principles, She lays the ground-work of her future establishments ; fends them in vengeance on the Roman empire, now totally enflaved; and then, with Arts and Sciences in her train, quits earth during the dark ages; to Ver. 550. The celeftial regions, to which LIBERTY retired, not proper to be opened to the view of mortals. LIBERTY. PART III. H ERE melting mix'd with air th' ideal forms, That painted ftill whate'er the GODDESS fung. Then 1, impatient." From extinguifh'd GREECE, "To what new region stream'd the Human Day ?" She, foftly fighing, as when Zephir leaves, Refign'd to Boreas, the declining year, Refum'd.-Indignant, these † last scenes I fled And long ere then, Leucadia's cloudy cliff, And the Geraunian hills behind me thrown," All LATIUM ftood arous'd. Ages before, Great mother of republics! GREECE had pour'd, Swarm after fwarm, her ardent youth around. On Afia, Afric, Sicily, they ftoop'd, ; But chief on fair HESPERIA's winding fhore; As its parental policy, and arts, Each had imbib'd. Besides, to each affign'd The last struggles of Liberty in GREECE. VOL. I. 5 15 20 Kept Kept an unclofing eye; try'd to fuftain, Or more fublime, the soul infus'd by Mɛ: Not fo the SAMIAN SAGE; to him belongs 25 3.0 35 And thro' Great Greece his gentle wildom taught; Wisdom that call'd for | liftening years the mind, Nor ever heard amid the ftorm of zeal. His mental eye first launch'd into the deeps 40 Of boundless ether; where unnumber'd orbs, There he the full confenting choir beheld ; There first discern'd the secret band of love, 45 Binds circling earths, and world with world unites. PYTHAGORAS. 50 Samos, over which then reigned the tyrant POLYCRATES. of the Grecian colonies there fettled. His fcholars were enjoined filence for five years. Whom Whom nought can image, and who beft approves That joys in bounteous heaven, and spreads the joy. And bound his reason to the sphere of Man. That civilize mankind, and laws devis'd 55% 60: 65 70 It burn'd in BRUTUS; the proud Tarquins chas'd, 75 Here from the fairer, not the greater, plan The four cardinal virtues. 80 Into |