The Poetical Works of the Right Hon. George Granville, Lord Lansdowne/78
TO MRS. GRANVILLE
OF WOTTON IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE,
AFTERWARDS LADY CONWAY.
Love, like a tyrant whom no laws conſtrain,
Now for ſome ages kept the world in pain;
Beauty by vaſt deſtructions got renown,
And lovers only by their rage were known;
But Granville, mote auſpicious to mankind,5
Conqu’ring the heart, as much inſtructs the mind;
Bleſs’d in the fate of her victorious eyes,
Seeing we love, and hearing we grow wiſe:
So Rome, for wiſdom as for conquest fam’d,
Improv’d with arts whom ſhe by arms had tam’d.10
Above the clouds is plac’d this glorious light,
Nothing lies hid from her inquiring ſight;
Athens and Rome for arts reſtor’d rejoice,
Their language takes new muſic from her voice.
Learning and Love in the ſame ſeat we find,15
So bright her eyes, and ſo adorn’d her mind.
Long had Minerva govern’d in the ſkies,
But now deſcends confeſs’d to human eyes:
Behold in Granville that inſpiring queen
Whom learned Athens ſo ador’d unſeen.20