Show you sweet Cæsar's wounds,-poor, poor, dumb mouths, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony -Shakespeare. Now like smiths at their forges And the "villainous saltpeter" As the swift Storm-drift, With hot sweeping anger, Came the horse-guards' clangor Then higher, higher, higher, Then the old-fashioned colonel And his broad sword was swinging, Then the blue And the trooper jackets redden And rounder, rounder, rounder, CLV.-ODE ON THE PASSIONS. WHEN Music, heavenly maid, was young, Disturbed, delighted, raised, refined: First, Fear his hand, its skill to try, Next, Anger rushed, his eyes on fire, In lightnings owned his secret stings: With woeful measures wan Despair- But thou, O Hope! with eyes so fair, She called on Echo still through all her song; A soft responsive voice was heard at every close; And Hope, enchanted, smiled and waved her golden hair. And longer had she sung-but, with a frown, He threw his blood-stained sword in thunder down: The war-denouncing trumpet took, And blew a blast, so loud and dread, The doubling drum with furious heat. Her soul-subduing voice applied, Yet still he kept his wild unaltered mien, While each strained ball of sight seemed bursting from his head. Thy numbers, Jealousy, to naught were fixed; Sad proof of thy distressful state! Of differing themes the veering song was mixed: With eyes upraised, as one inspired, And, from her wild, sequestered seat, Bubbling runnels joined the sound; Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole: Love of peace and lonely musing In hollow murmurs died away. But, oh! how altered was its sprightly tone, Her buskins gemmed with morning dew Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung The oak-crowned sisters, and their chaste-eyed queen, Brown Exercise rejoiced to hear; And Sport leaped up, and seized his beechen spear. Last came Joy's ecstatic trial: He, with viny crown, advancing, First to the lively, pipe his hand addressed; But soon he saw the brisk awakening viol, Whose sweet entrancing voice he loved the best. They would have thought, who heard the strain, They saw, in Tempé's vale, her native maids, Amid the festal-sounding shades, To some unwearied minstrel dancing; While, as his flying fingers kissed the strings, As if he would the charming air repay, -William Collins. CLVI.-POLONIOUS TO LAERTES. My blessing with thee! And these few precepts in thy memory: See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar: Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy: For the apparel oft proclaims the man; And they in France, of the best rank and station, Are of a most select and generous chief in that. Neither a borrower nor a lender be: |