Quin, uti nos oculis jam nunc juvat ire per arva,
Lucentesque plagas Lunæ, pontumque profundum;
Idem illos etiàm ardor agit, cum se aureus effert
Sub sudum globus, et terrarum ingentior orbis ;
Scilicèt omne æquor tum lustrant, scilicèt omnem 60
Tellurem, gentesque polo sub utroque jacentes;
Et quidam æstivi indefessus ad ætheris ignes
Pervigilat, noctem exercens, cœlumque fatigat;
Jam Galli apparent, jam se Germania latè
Tollit, et albescens pater Appeninus ad auras; 65
Jam tandem in Borean, en! parvulus Anglia nævus
(Quanquam aliis longè fulgentior) extulit oras;
Formosum extemplò lumen, maculamque nitentem
Invisunt crebri Proceres, serùmque tuendo

Hærent, certatimque suo cognomine signant: 70
Forsitan et Lunæ longinquus in orbe Tyrannus
Se dominum vocat, et nostrâ se jactat in aulâ.
Terras possim alias propiori sole calentes
Narrare, atque alias, jubaris queîs parcior usus,
Lunarum chorus, et tenuis penuria Phœbi;
Nî meditans eadem hæc audaci evolvere cantu,
Jam pulset citharam soror, et præludia tentet.
Non tamen has proprias laudes, nec facta silebo

Pervigilat."

75

V. 63. "Et quidam seros, hiberni ad luminis ignes
Virg. Georg. i. 292.
V. 65. " Vertice se attollens pater Apenninus ad auras,
En. xii. 703.

V. 72. "Illà se jactat in aulâ," En. i. 140.

V. 75. So Virgil. Georg. i. 424: "Lunasque sequentes." V. 75. This expression "Penuria Phoebi" is not, I believe, warranted by the authority of any of the Latin poets. There would have been less objection, if the plain term, instead of the figurative, had been used.

Jampridem in fatis, patriæque oracula famæ. Tempus erit, sursùm totos contendere cœtus 80 Quo cernes longo excursu, primosque colonos Migrare in lunam, et notos mutare Penates: Dum stupet obtutu tacito vetus incola, longèque Insolitas explorat aves, classemque volantem.

Ut quondam ignotum marmor, camposque na

tantes

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Tranavit Zephyros visens, nova regna, Columbus; Litora mirantur circùm, mirantur et undæ Inclusas acies ferro, turmasque biformes, Monstraque fœta armis, et non imitabile fulmen. Fœdera mox icta, et gemini commercia mundi, 90 Agminaque assueto glomerata sub æthere cerno. Anglia, quæ pelagi jamdudum torquet habenas, Exercetque frequens ventos, atque imperat undæ; Aëris attollet fasces, veteresque triumphos

Hùc etiam feret, et victis dominabitur auris. 95

V. 79. "Esse quoque in fatis reminiscitur," Ov. Met. i. 256. V. 83. “Obtutu tacito stetit," Æn. xii. 666.

V. 84. "Innumeræ comitantur aves, stipantque volantem," Claud. Phoenix, 76.

V. 85. "Campique natantes," Georg. iii. 198.

V. 89. "Fota armis," Æn. ii. 238.

men,

"En. vi. 590.

"Non imitabile ful

V. 90. "Geminoque facis commercia mundo," Claud. xxxiii. 90.

V. 92. quoreas habenas," Claud. viii. 422.

V. 95. "Servitio premet, ac victis dominabitur Argis," Æn. i. 285.

SAPPHIC ODE: TO MR. WEST.*

[See Mason's Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 42; on a version of Gray's Latin Odes by Green, in English, see H. Walpole's Letters to Cole, p. 116.]

BARBARAS ædes aditure mecum
Quas Eris semper fovet inquieta,
Lis ubi latè sonat, et togatum

Estuat agmen ;

Dulcius quanto, patulis sub ulmi
Hospitæ ramis temerè jacentem

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* Mason considered this as the first original production of Gray's Muse; the two former poems being imposed as exercises by the College.

V. 1. Comp. Hor. Od. ii. vi. 1: "Septimi, Gades aditure mecum," &c. Luke.

V. 3. "Lis nunquam, toga rara," Martial. Ep. x. 47.
V. 4. So Claudian, xi. 24:

"Quot æstuantes ancipiti gradu

Furtiva carpent oscula Naïdes."

V. 5. Platanus patulis est diffusa ramis," Cic. de Oratore, Lib. I. cap. vii. Hospita umbra," Ovid. Trist. III. iii. 64. Hor. Od. ii. iii. 9.

V. 6. There is no authority for the last syllable of “temere ” being made long. See Burmanni. Anth. Lat. vol. ii. 458, and Class. Journal, No. xviii. p. 340. Yet Casimir Sarbievus has erred in the quantity of this word, as well as Gray:

"Te sibilantis lenior halitus

Perflabit Euri; me juvet interim

Collum reclinasse; et virenti

Sic temere jacuisse ripa."

Ad. Testudinem.

"Ducit aquas temere "Defessus temere se.'

And Cowley (Solitudo) "Hic jaciens vestris temere sub um bris."

Lowth Ode ad orn. Puellam.

sequentes." Carmin. Quadrig. ii. 81.

See Woty's Poet. Calendar, Part xii. p. 34. In Horace, Vir

Sic libris horas, tenuique inertes

Fallere Musâ?

Sæpe enim curis vagor expeditâ

Mente; dum, blandam meditans Camænam,

Vix malo rori, meminive seræ

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Cedere nocti ;

Et, pedes quò me rapiunt, in omni
Colle Parnassum videor videre
Fertilem sylvæ, gelidamque in omni
Fonte Aganippen.

Risit et Ver me, facilesque Nymphæ
Nare captantem, nec ineleganti,
Manè quicquid de violis eundo

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gil, and Ovid the final syllable of this word is always elided. A friend observed, that the last syllable of temere is made long in the Gradus' on the authority of Tertullian: "Immemor ille Dei temerē committere tale." It is hardly necessary to observe that the authority of Tertullian on a question of a doubtful quantity would not be esteemed sufficient. The last syllable of temere being always elided by Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, sufficiently shows their opinion to have been, that it was short; and therefore that it could not be used in Hexameter verse, without lengthening its final syllable by elision. See Menagiana, vol. iii. p. 418. (Hor. Od. ii. xi. 13, "Pinu jacentes sic temere." Luke.)

V. 7. "Tenui deducta poemata filo," Hor. Ep. II. i. 225. "Graciles Musas," Propert. Eleg. II. x. 3. Virg. Eclog. i. 2. Hor. S. ii. 6, 61, "Nunc veterum libris, nunc somno et inertibus horis." Luke.

Terminum, curis vagor expeditis.” Hor. Od. I. xxii. 10. Virg. Eclog. viii. 88, " Nec seræ meminit decedere nocti."

Luke.

Me reclinatum teneram per herbam;
Quà leves cursus aqua cunque ducit,
Et moras dulci strepitu lapillo

Nectit in omni.

Hæ novo nostrum ferè pectus anno
Simplices curæ tenuere, cœlum
Quamdiù sudum explicuit Favonî

Purior hora:

Otia et campos nec adhuc relinquo,
Nec magis Phobo Clytie fidelis ;
(Ingruant venti licet, et senescat

Mollior æstas.)

Namque, seu, lætos hominum labores

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V. 13, 14. "I, pedes quo te rapiunt," Hor. Od. iii. xi. 49. "Videre magnos jam videor duces," Od. ii. i. 21.

V. 17. "Sed faciles nymphæ risere," Virg. Eclog. iii. 9. V. 18. Virg. Georg. i. 376, "Patulis captavit naribus

auras.

V. 19. On the Cæsura post alterum pedem, see Fabricius on the Metres of Seneca.

V. 21. Virg. Eclog. viii. 15, "Cum ros in tenera pecori gratissimus herba." Luke.

V. 22. "Levis cursu," Virg. Æn. xii. 489. "Cursus ducebat," En. v. 667.

V. 23. Hor. Od. iv. 37, "Dulcem quæ strepitum, Pieri, temperas.' Luke.

V. 26.

-"Cœli in regione serenâ

Per sudum rutilare vident.” V. 30. See Ov. Metam. iv. 234. 264.

Virg. Æn. viii. 528.

V 31. "Senescit ager," Ovid. Art. Am. iii. 82, ex Pont. I. iv. 14. "Molles anni," Ovid. Ep. iii. 3. Tristia, iv. 43. "Mollior æstas," Virg. Georg. i. 312.

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