A WAY, let nought to love difpleafing Let nought delay the heav'nly bleffing, What tho' no grants of royal donors III. What tho' from Fortune's lavish bounty And be content without excess. IV. Still fhall each kind returning season For we will live a life of reason, V. Our name, whilft virtue thus we tender, Shall sweetly found where'er 'tis fpoke, And all the great ones much shall wonder, How they admire fuch little folk. VI. Thro' youth and age in love excelling, Sweet fmiling Peace fhall crown our dwelling, How fhould I love the pretty creatures, And when with envy Time transported An ODE, written in 1717, on occafion of the Duke of MARLBOROUGH's Apoplexy. A I. WEFUL here, Marlb'rough, rife: II. Well II. Well furvey this faithful plan, Full of triumphs, full of glory. One by one thy deeds review, Former wonders, loft in new, Greatly fill each pompous year. This is Blenheim's crimson field, Wet with gore, with flaughter ftain'd! Here retiring fquadrons yield, And a bloodless wreath is gain'd! V. .Ponder in thy godlike mind All the wonders thou haft wrought; Tyrants, from their pride declin'd, Be the fubject of thy thought! But 'tis gone. VII. a mortal born! Swift the fading scenes remove----- Let them pass with noble scorn, Thine are worlds, which roll above. VIII. Poets, prophets, heroes, kings, Foremost, in the patriot-band, Shining with distinguish'd day, See thy friend, Godolphin ftand! han X: Yonder feats and fields of light XXX XX TRANSLATIONS from HORACE, By Mr. MARRIOTT, of Trinity-Hall, Cambridge. Book I. Ode XVIII. Invitation to his Mistress, FT Faunus leaves Arcadia's plain, OFT And to the Sabine hill retreats : He guards my flocks from rufhing rain, From piercing winds, and fcorching heats. 3 Where 1 Where lurks the thyme, or fhrubs appear, Safe wand'ring thro' the woodland way. No hoftile wolf the fold invades ; The gods my verse propitious hear, Refponfive to the Teian string, Within the fun-defended vale, Here, foftly warbling you fhall fing Each tender, tuneful, am'rous tale. No rival, here, fhall burst the bands |