98 Hit . the clouds they saw their helpless lord, His wrigging form stili lessening as he soared! i: mortal strike the mingling hosts engage. overng; then wheels aloft to scape the blow: The cwarf in august aims the vengeful wound; But wars in empty air the faichion round. Such was the scene, when midst the loud alarms Sublime the eterna. Thunderer rose in arms; Whet ravens, by mac ambition driven, Braves Paltar hing, and buried it high at heaver. Jove vallet, recounling thunders from on high, Yonians and bolts encountered in the sky; 7.1. one stupendous rum whelmed the crew, The vast ims wahering was in brimstone bluc. But now at length the pygmy legions yield, And winged with terror, by the fatal field. They raise a weak and melancholy wail, All in distraction scattering o'er the vale. Secure, for no alarming cranes molest, And all their woes in long oblivion rest; EPISTLE ΤΟ THE HONOURABLE C. B. PETERHEAD, 1766. WH HEN B*** invites me, and inviting sings, Instant I'd fly, (had heaven vouchsafed me wings) Whence he looks down with pity on the great; I wish for wings and winds to speed my course; Where now the Pegasus of antient time, And Ippogrifo famed in modern rhime? (), where that wooden steed, whose every leg Like lightning flew, obsequious to the peg; The waxen wings by Dædalus designed, And China waggons wafted by the wind ? A Spaniard reached the moon, upborn by geese; He twanged his catgut, and the Dolphin danced. Hard is the task, indeed 'tis wondrous hard, |