The steer and lion at one crib shall meet, And harmless serpents lick the pilgrim's feet. The crested basilisk and speckled snake, green And with their forky tongue shall innocently play. Rise, crown'd with light, imperial 1 Salem rise! Exalt thy tow'ry head, and lift thy eyes! S See, a long race thy spacious courts adorn ; 80 85 : 90 See thy bright altars throng'd with prostrate kings, And seeds of gold in Ophir's mountains glow. 95 No Isaiah, ch. xi. ver. 16, &c. "The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together: and a little child shall lead them. -And the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put bis hand on the den of the cockatrice." POPE. VER. 85. Rise, crown'd with light, imperial Salem, rise!] The thoughts of Isaiah, which compose the latter part of the poem, are wonderfully elevated, and much above those general exclamations of Virgil, which make the loftiest parts of his Pollio. 9 Isaiah, ch. lxv. ver. 25. Ch. k. ver.4. "Ch. lx. ver. 6. Ch. Ix. ver. I. Ch. Ix. ver. 3. W No more the rising sun shall gild the morn, One tide of glory, one unclouded blaze O'erflow thy courts: the Light himself shall shine Reveal'd, and God's eternal day be thine! X The seas shall waste, the skies in smoke decay, 100 106 But fix'd his word, his saving pow'r remains :: w Isaiah, ch. lx. ver. 19, 20. * Ch. li ver. 6. and Ch. liv. ver. 10 WINDSOR-FOREST. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE GEORGE LORD LANSDOWN. Non injussa cano: Te nostræ, Vare, myricæ, Quam sibi quæ Vari præscripsit pagina nomen. VIRG. |