ODES.
87
And vertue dyed without a song.
Support of friendless right, to powerful wrong
A check, behold him in the judgement-seat!
Twice, there, approv'd, in righteousness compleat: 78
In just awards, how gracious! tempering law
With mercy, and reproving with a winning awe.
Support of friendless right, to powerful wrong
A check, behold him in the judgement-seat!
Twice, there, approv'd, in righteousness compleat: 78
In just awards, how gracious! tempering law
With mercy, and reproving with a winning awe.
ANTISTROPHE III.
Hear him speaking, and you hear
Reason tuneful to the ear! 82
Lips with thymy Language sweet,
Distilling on the hearer's mind
The balm of wisdom, speech refin'd,
Celestial gifts!———Oh, when the nobles meet, 86
When next, thou sea-surrounded land,
Thy nobles meet at Brunswick's high command,
In vain they shall the charmer's voice desire!
In vain those lips of eloquence require! 90
That mild conviction, which the soul assails
By soft alarms, and with a gentle force prevails!
Hear him speaking, and you hear
Reason tuneful to the ear! 82
Lips with thymy Language sweet,
Distilling on the hearer's mind
The balm of wisdom, speech refin'd,
Celestial gifts!———Oh, when the nobles meet, 86
When next, thou sea-surrounded land,
Thy nobles meet at Brunswick's high command,
In vain they shall the charmer's voice desire!
In vain those lips of eloquence require! 90
That mild conviction, which the soul assails
By soft alarms, and with a gentle force prevails!
EPODE III.
To such persuasion, willing, yields
The liberal Mind, in freedom train'd, 94
Freedom, which, in crimson'd fields,
By hardy toil our fathers gain'd,
To such persuasion, willing, yields
The liberal Mind, in freedom train'd, 94
Freedom, which, in crimson'd fields,
By hardy toil our fathers gain'd,
Inheritance
