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GRAY'S 
 
 ODES AND ELEGY. 
 
 WITH NOTES. 
 
 TORONTO ; 
 W. WARWICK, 8 & 10 WELLINGTON ST. EAST. 
 
 1876. 
 
CONTEiNTS. 
 
 FAGE. 
 ODE 1. — UN THE SPRING 8 
 
 ** II. — ON THE DEATH OF A FAVORITE CAT. 4 
 
 " III. — ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF EATON 
 
 COLLEGE 5 
 
 " IV. — TO ADVERSITY 7 
 
 ** V. — THK PROGRESS OF POESY 9 
 
 ** VI. — THE BARD 12 
 
 *' VII. — THE FATAL SISTERS 15 
 
 " VIII. — THE DESCENT OF ODIN 18 
 
 " IX. — THE TRIUMPHS OF OWEN 20 
 
 " X. — THE DEATH OF HOEL 21 
 
 ** XL — FOR MUSIC 22 
 
 *' XII. — UN THE PLL:ASURE arising FROM VI- 
 CISSITUDE 26 
 
 ELEGY written IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD 28 
 
 NOTES 1 
 
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GRAY'S ODES AND ELEGY. 
 
 ODES. 
 
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 ODE I. 
 
 On the Spring. 
 
 LO ! where the rosy-bosomed Hours, 
 Fair Venus' train, appear; 
 Disclose the lonpf-expectiuR flowers, 
 And \yake the purple year ; 
 The Attic warbler pours her throat, 
 Responsive to the cuckoo's note, 
 The untaiight harmony of Spring; 
 While, whispering pleasure as they fly. 
 Cool zephyrs through the clear blue sky 
 Their gathered fragrance fling. 
 
 Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch 
 
 A broader browner shade, 
 
 Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech 
 
 O'er-canopies the glade. 
 
 Beside some water's rushy brink 
 
 With me the Muse shall sit, and think 
 
 (At ease reclined in rustic state) 
 
 How vain the ardour of the crowd ! 
 
 How low, how little, are the proud ! 
 
 How indigent the great ! 
 
 Still is the toiling hand of Care, 
 The panting herds repose, . 
 
 Yet hark ! how through the peopled air 
 The busy murmur glows ! 
 The insect youth are on the wing, 
 Eager to taste the honied Spring, 
 And float amid the liquid noon ; 
 Some lightly o'er the current skim, 
 
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 guay's odes and elegy. 
 
 Some Hhow their ftaily-giided trim. 
 Quick-glancing to the sun. ' 
 
 To Contoniplation'H Kobor ovo. 
 Hiich iH tho raco of man • 
 
 m/.V.m**'"^ **V''* ^*"*^,«1'' »«''»<i tlioy that fly. 
 H hall ond where they began. ' ' 
 
 i.'w. *^l'^ ^""^y "-"'l t»'o «»y 
 
 H.it flutter through lif(,'H fittle day 
 
 muH. e.l by the hand of rough miMchauro 
 Or chilled by age. their airy dance ' 
 
 1 hoy leave, in dust to rest. 
 
 MothinkH I hear, in accents low. 
 The sportive kind reply • 
 
 AZirr^^i^jV""^"^^"*'^'^"-"^ 
 Thv joys no glittering female moots 
 No hive hast thou of hoarded Hwoots 
 No painted plumage to displayr 
 On hasty wings thy youth is flown 
 Thy sun is set. thy spring is gouo^' 
 We Irohc while 'tis May. ^ 
 
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 ODE II. 
 
 On the Death oe a Favourite Cat. 
 
 Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes. 
 
 'Twas on a lofty vase's side, 
 Where China's gayest art had dyed 
 The azure flowers that blow • 
 Demurest of the tabby kind.' 
 The pensive Selima reclined. 
 Crazed on the lake below. 
 
 Her conscious tail her joy declared : 
 
 l^t iXeTSer^U^s^ ^'^^"^ ^^-<^' 
 
 Ire^o^f^^*^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
 She saw ; and purred applause. 
 
 Two fl nlw^ ^^^^^ ' ^""^ '^i^«* the tide 
 1 wo angel forms were seen to glide 
 The Genii of the stream : ^ ' 
 1 heir scaly armour's Tyrian hue 
 Through richest purple to the view 
 lietrayed a golden gleam, "*" ^'®^ 
 
 
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 ODE III. 
 
 Tlio linploRH nymph with wondor Haw; 
 
 A whiHkor f st and tluni a chiw, 
 
 Willi inan\ .i.n ardent vviHh, 
 
 Sho HtnitciuMi in vain to roach the ])rizo. 
 
 What foMialn htuirt t;an k'(»Ul iloHitino? 
 
 What cut'H jivorso to tlnh ? 
 
 ProHumptnouHmaid! witli lookR intent 
 A^ain Hho Htrotchod, again Rho hont, 
 Nor ]<now tlio f^ulf Ixitwoon. 
 (MaUt,'nant fato aat 1>y, and KUiilod) 
 Tlio Rhppory vorj,'o hbr foot bo{4iiiled, 
 Slio tnnibU)d hoadlonR in. 
 
 Eif,'ht timoR emorf^inft from tho flood 
 S]io niewod to ovory watery f;od, 
 Some R})oody aid to Rend ; 
 No Dolphin came, no Nereid stirred: 
 Nor cruel Tom, nor SuRan hoard. 
 A favourite has no friend! 
 
 From hence, yo beauties undeceived, 
 Know, one false stop is ne'er retrieved, 
 And be witlj caution bold. 
 Not ji.Il tluit tempts your wander! hl; eyes 
 And hoodloss hearts, is lawful pri/o ; 
 Nor all that gliatora gold. 
 
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 ODE III. 
 On a Distant Prospect op Eton Colt-ege. 
 
 Ye distant s)nres, ye antique towers, 
 
 That crown the watery glade. 
 
 Where grateful Science still adores 
 
 Her Henry's holy shade ; 
 
 And ye, that from the stately brow 
 
 Of Windsor's heights the expanse below 
 
 Of grov , of lawn, of mea<l snrvov, 
 
 Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among 
 
 Wanders the hoary Thames along 
 
 His silver-winding way. 
 
 Ah happy hills, ah pleasing shade, 
 Ah fields beloved in vain, 
 Where once my careless childliood strayed, 
 A stranger yet to pain ! 
 I feel tho gales that from ye blow, 
 A momentary bliss bestow, 
 As waving fresh their gladsome wing, 
 
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 My weary soul they seem to soothe. 
 And, redolent of joy and youth, 
 lo breathe a second spring. 
 
 Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen 
 r nil many a sprightly race 
 Disporting on thy margent green 
 The path of pleasure trace, 
 Who foremost now delight to cleave 
 Witli pliant arm thy glassy way ? 
 viJl® ^^^-Ptive linnet which enthral^ 
 What idle i)rogeuy succeed 
 To chase the rolling circle's speed. 
 Or urge the flying ball ? 
 
 While some on earnest business bent 
 Their murmuring labours ply 
 Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint 
 To sweeten liberty : 
 Some bold adventurers disdain 
 The limits of their little reign. 
 And unknown regions dare descry - 
 Still as they run they look behind,' 
 ^ ley hear a voice in every wind 
 And snatch a fearful joy. ' 
 
 Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, 
 JLess pleasing when possest 
 The tear forgot p s soon as shed, 
 The sunshine of the breast : 
 1 neirs buxom health of rosy hue, 
 Wilu wjt, invention ever new 
 Ana lively cheer of vigour born: 
 1 he thoiigiitlees day, the easy night. 
 The spirits pure, the slumbers lii^ht, 
 I nut fly the approach of morn. 
 
 Alas! regardless of their doom, 
 li-io little victims play ! 
 No sense have they of ills to come 
 Nor rare beyond to-day : 
 Yet see how all around 'em wait 
 Ihe ministers of human fate. 
 And bliick Misfortune's baneful traiji» 
 AH, shew ih em where in ambush stand 
 lu self e their prey the murderous band ! 
 AH, tell them they are men ! 
 
 These shall the fury Passions trar. 
 The vukures of the mind, 
 Disflaiaful Anger, pallid Pear, 
 And Shame that skulks behind ; 
 Jh- pining liovo shall waste their vouth, 
 Or Jealousy with rankling iootli, " 
 
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ODE IV. 
 
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 Thflt inly gnaws the secret heart, 
 AthI Envv wnn, and faded Care, 
 Grim-viphfied comfortlesfi Despair, 
 And Sorrow's piercing dart. 
 
 Ambition this shall tempt to rise, 
 Then whirl the wretch from high. 
 To bitter Scorn a sacnflce, 
 And grinning Infamy. 
 The stings of Falsehood those shall try, 
 And hard Unkindness' altered eye, 
 That mocks the tear it forced to flow ; 
 And keen Remorse with blood defiled, 
 And moody Madness laughing wild 
 Amid severest woe. 
 
 Lo, in the vale of years beneath 
 A grislv troop are seen, 
 The painful family of Death, 
 More hideous than their queen : 
 This racks the joints, this fires the veiDS, 
 That every labouring sinew strains, 
 Those in the deeper vitals rage : 
 Lo, Povertv, to fill the band, 
 That numbs the soul with icy hand. 
 And slow conpuming Age. 
 
 To each his sufferings : all are men 
 Condemned alike to groan ; 
 The tender for another's pain, 
 The unfeeling for his own. 
 Yet, ah ! why should they know their fate ? 
 Since sorrow never comes too late. 
 And happiness too swiftly flies. 
 Thought would destroy then pnradise. 
 No more ;— where ignorance is bliss, 
 'Tis foUv to bo wise. 
 
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 ODE IV. 
 
 To Adversity, 
 
 Daughter of Jove, relentless i^ower, 
 
 The 1 tamer of the human biciast, 
 
 Whose iron scourge and torturing hour. 
 
 The bad aifright, afiiict the best ! 
 
 Bound in thy adamantine chain 
 
 The proud are tauglit to taste of pain, 
 
 Andparple tyrants vainly groan ^ 
 
 With pangs uufelt before, unpitied and alone. 
 
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 When first thy sire, to send on earth 
 
 TA^hf i,^v.'^ ^^^^^!?^ ""^^^^ designed 
 To thee he gave the heavenly birth. 
 And bade to form her infant mind 
 
 whS r^^'^^^ '"'^'''^ ' *^y "gi*i lore ■ 
 VVith i)atience many a year she bore- 
 
 What sorrow was, tLoii bad'st her know 
 
 And from her own she learned to iS at others' woe. 
 
 Scared at thy frown terrific, fly 
 
 Jv-f^^T^'^^^^S Folly.s idle broos. 
 
 Wild Laughter, Noise, and Thouffhtless Tnv 
 
 :^pd leave us leisure to be good ^ ^ ^ ' 
 
 I^Jght they disperse, and witli them eo 
 
 The summer friend, the flatteiW fo? 
 
 By vain Prosperity received, ^' ' 
 
 lo her they vow t^eir truth, and are again beheved. 
 
 Wisdom in sable garb arrayed 
 
 wftrw^"^*/' J.^^ general Send. 
 
 An?. T?I^^*'f ^^ *° ^®^«elf severe. 
 
 And Pity, dropping soft the sadly-plea«ing tear. 
 
 J?rp.f,??*i? ?"" * V suppliant's head, 
 
 Not fh w^'"' ^^^}^^ chastening'hand • 
 v.». i- *Vy ^Torgon ten-ors clad, 
 
 J despair, and fell Disease, and ghastVv Poverty. 
 Thy form benign, O goddess, wear 
 T j; i!h •1^^'' "Jfl^e^ce impart, ' ' 
 Tn L??'^'''''^x^^^ *^^"i be there 
 lo soften, not to wound my heart 
 
 wf "®'?"^ spark extinct^rewie 
 ^1 each me to love and to forgive 
 
 What nM^ "'^" '^l^^''^^ *« s«^^n?' 
 
 What othe.. aro^o feel, and know myself a man. 
 
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ODE V. 
 
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 ODE V. 
 
 The Progress of Poesy. 
 
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 PINDARIC. 
 
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 Awake, JEolian lyre, awake, 
 
 And Rive to rapture all tliy tremblinpf strings, 
 
 P'rom Helicon's harmonious springs 
 
 A thousand rills their mazy progress take : 
 
 The laughing flowers, that round them blow. 
 
 Drink life and fragrance as they flow. 
 
 Now the rich stream of music winds along 
 
 Deep, majestic, smooth and strong. 
 
 Through verdant vales, and Ceres' golden reign : 
 
 Now rolling down the steejp amain, 
 
 Headlong, impetuous, see it pour : 
 
 The rocks and nodding groves, rebellow to the roar 
 
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 Oh ! sovereign of the willing soul. 
 Parent of sweet and solemn-breathing airs, 
 Enchanting shell ! the sullen Cares, • 
 
 And frantic Passions hear thy soft control. 
 On Thracia's hills the Lord of War 
 Has curbed the fury of his car. 
 And dropped his thirsty lance at thy command. 
 Perching on the sceptered hand 
 Of .love, thy magic lulls the feathered king 
 With ruffled plumes, and flagging wing: 
 Quenched in dark clouds of slumber lie 
 The terror of his beak, and lightnings of his eye. 
 
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 Thee the voice, the dance, obey. 
 Tempered to thy warbled lay. 
 O'er idalia's velvet-green 
 The rosy-crowned Loves are seen 
 On Cytherea's day 
 
 With" Antic Sport, and bhie-eyed Pleasures, 
 Frisking light in frolic measures ; 
 Now pursumg, now retreating. 
 Now in circling troops they meet : 
 rpr. brisk notes in cadence bea..ting 
 Glance their manv twinkling feot. 
 Slow melting strains their Queen's approach declare 
 Where'er she turns the Graces homage pay, 
 
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 II. 1. 
 
 Man's feeble race what iUs await f 
 Labour and Penury, the rackt ofPnit, 
 ?i'f r Vr^ Sorro^^s wee^^gfrSn ' 
 
 He gives to range the dreary sky • ^ ^' 
 
 Till down the eastern cliflfeafaf * 
 
 Hyperion's ma^ch they spy, and glittering shafts of war. 
 
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 In climes beyond the solar road 
 
 To cheer the shiverinc nativA'a SSi o?^ ^ 
 
 0?C^f^^«^r '^^ii thSrou^ahlde ^^°^^- 
 Of Chih's boundless forests laid 
 
 f C^S^?f;^^'S»y-t^ -peat 
 
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 ThTfiSS^' ^"^,g««erou8 shamer 
 
 The unconquerable Mind, a^d Freedom's holy flame. 
 
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 T W<*o^s, that wave o'er Delphi's atefin 
 Isles, that crown the -2E3gean deen ^' 
 Fields, that cool Hlisus laves, ^' 
 Or where MaBanders amber Waves • 
 g;,^^|«ring labyrinths cree^ 
 M?J^^S your tuneful echoes languish 
 Mute, but to the voice of anguish? ' 
 Where each old poetic mountafu 
 Inspiration breathed around • 
 
 SSfr^Sl?.^^^ *^^"«^«d fountain 
 
 ™^o2*^/xT®.P *.«°^emn sound: 
 
 T ri f^® •^*'2 ^^""^ ^° Greece's evil hour 
 
 w,eS "Sum Ms* f:^j:i.'iSJi«r. *ains: 
 
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 III. 1. 
 
 Far from the sun and summer-gale, 
 In thy green lap was Nature's darling laid, 
 What time, where lucid Avon strayed, 
 To him the mighty mother did unveil 
 Her awful face : The dauntless child 
 Stretched forth his little arms, and smiled, 
 * This pencil take,' she said, ' whose colours clear 
 Richly paint the vernal year: 
 Thine too these golden keys, immortal boy ! 
 This can unlock the gates of Joy ; 
 Of Horror that, and thrilling Pears, 
 Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.' 
 
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 Nor second he, that rode sublime 
 Upon the seraph-wings of Ecstasy, 
 The secrets of the abyss to spy. 
 He passed the flaming bounds of place and time : 
 The living throne, the sapphire blaze, 
 Where angels tremble, wnile they gaze. 
 He saw ; but blasted with excess of light. 
 Closed his eyes in endless night. 
 Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car, 
 Wide o'er the fields of glory bear * 
 
 Two coursers of ethereal race, 105 
 
 With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. 
 
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 Hark, his hands the l3n:e explore 1 
 Bright-eyed Fancy hovering o'er 
 Scatters from her pictured urn 
 Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. 
 
 But fSi I 'tis heard no more 
 
 Oh I lyre divine, what daring spirit 
 
 Wakes thee now ? though he inherit 
 
 Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, 
 
 That thj Theban eagle bear 
 
 Sailing with supreme dominion 
 
 Through the azure deep of air : 
 
 Yet oft before his infant eyes would run 
 
 Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray, 
 
 With orient hues, unborrowed of the sun ; 
 
 Yet shall he mount, aud keep his distant way 
 
 Beyond the limits of 8 vulgar fate, 
 
 Beneath the Good h< \ air— but far above the Great. 
 
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 ODE VI. 
 
 The Bard. 
 
 a pindaric ode. 
 
 Ed^y'l^rih^^n'r ^tot^?j]i^'°r" '"™?* .'» ^^'^^. that 
 
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 'Ruin seize thee, ruthless kin« f 
 Confusion on thy banner wi?t^ ' 
 
 From CamLia's PnSn^^''''''';?*^^*ly fears, 
 Such wer^the so^ir'tfc'^TJ^^^'^ ^^^^s!' 
 Of the first Edward «;«ff^* ^ '''* ^?,^ crested pride 
 As down the at^n nf^^^i**'^®^ ,^^1? dismay, 
 
 F?owns?'erni°^'?.*'^"S^*y ^^ow 
 
 inr^tti^^4±n^^^^^ air); 
 
 §gS't^oZl?o'?re^t?a^^. -^. ''--* --, 
 O'er thee, O IcfnS? f ^ ^^^^^ ""^^^^ beneath ! 
 Revenge oil thGfi^ii.^f''' ^""^^ed aims they wave 
 Vocal no more fiinp« n*"^^; murmurs breathJ^ ' 
 To high-borS HniSf l^^"^*'^'^^''^ fatal day, ' 
 mga Dorn Hoel s harp, or soft Llewellyn's lay. 
 
 I. 3. 
 T»!Spy ^^ Cadwallo's toneue 
 
 BmX^Te'n^^: BtormyrS, : 
 
 1r/*^^° urien sleeps utinn bi« ''-«r — i ^ 
 
 mSh '"'i; y® ^""«^ in vain^^''^"^ ^^^ ' 
 Modied, whoso magic song 
 
 15 
 
 20 
 
 25 
 
 .^n 
 
ODE VI. 
 
 18 
 
 ales, that 
 
 country, 
 
 )e put to 
 
 Made huge Plinlimmon bow his cloud-topped head. 
 On dreary Arvon's shore they lie, 85 
 
 Smeared with gore and ghastly pale : 
 Far, far aloof the affrighted ravens saii ; 
 The famished eagle screams, and passes by. 
 Dear lost companion of my tuneful art, 
 Dear, as the light that visits these sad eyes, 40 
 
 Dear as the rudy drops that warm my heart, 
 Ye died amidst your djdng country's cries- 
 No more I weep. They do not sleep. 
 On yonder cliffs, a grisly band. 
 
 I see them sit, they linger yet, 4S 
 
 Avengers of their native land : 
 With me in dreadful harmony they join. 
 And weave with bloody hands the tissue of thy line.' 
 
 5 
 
 10 
 
 lance. 
 
 15 
 
 20 
 
 25 
 
 n. 1. 
 
 ' Weave the warp, and weave the woof, 
 The winding-sheet of Edward's race. 60 
 
 Give ample-room, and very enough 
 The characters of hell to trace. 
 Mark the year, and mark the night, 
 When Severn shall re-echo with affright 
 The shrieks of death, through Berkley's roofs that ring, 
 Shrieks of an agonising King ! 56 
 
 She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs, 
 That tea'rst the bowels of thy mangled mate. 
 From thee be born, who oe'r thy country hangs 
 The scourge of heaven. What terrors round him wait I 
 Amazement in his van, with flight combined, 61 
 
 And Sorrow's faded form, and Solitude behind. 
 
 II. 2. 
 
 • Mighty Victor, mighty Lord, 
 Low on his funeral couch he lies! 
 
 No pitying heart, no eye afford 65 
 
 A tear to grace his obsequies. 
 Is the sable warrior fled? 
 Thy son is gone. He rests among the dead. 
 The swarm, that in thy noontide beam were born ? 
 Gone to salute the rising morn. 70 
 
 Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, 
 While proudly riding o'er the azure realm 
 In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes ; 
 Youth on tue prow, and Pleasure at the helm ; 
 Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, 7 > 
 
 That, hushed i*. grim repose, expects his evening prey. 
 
 ■».■ 
 
 30 
 
 IL 3. 
 
 • Fill high the sparkling bowl. 
 The rich repast prepare, 
 
14 
 
 gray's odes and elegy. 
 
 Au v^fst and Famine scowl 
 Lance to lance, and horse to hoS?* 
 
 SST^*l®°®»*^ *lie thomf shade 
 
 m. 1. 
 
 BeJctdtag'So1?fe«?,ir pTsS^wdon-s height 
 No more ou?fon«?w'i?fl* °1^? «>»• ! 
 
 80 
 
 ss 
 
 go 
 
 No more o^En^i™^^»°t on my sonl I 
 
 issue, hail. 
 
 100 
 
 105 
 
 110 
 
 m. 2. 
 
 SuWiS^h^'^^/'y * *>aron bold 
 In the midst a form divSe f 
 
 What sSS o??&°KL'T*"« '" «>« «!>•, 
 Hear from the gwje ^t S? v """"> •»»«• PlaV i 
 
 WaveUnt^he-^e^A^erhT^-^CrS 
 
 120 
 
 wings. 
 
ODE vn. 
 
 15 
 
 80 
 
 85 
 
 90 
 
 100 
 
 105 
 
 ni. 3. 
 
 ' The verse adorn again 
 Fierce War, and faithful Love, 
 And Truth severe, by fairy Fiction drest. 
 In buBkined measures move 
 Pale Grief, and pleasing Pain, 
 With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast. 
 A voice as of the cherub-choir, 
 Gales from blooming Eden bear; 
 And distant warblings lesson on my ear, 
 That lost in long futurity expire. 
 Fond impious man, think'st thou yon sanguine cloud 
 Raised by thy breath, has qu-enched the orb of day? 
 To-morrow he repairs the golden flood, 
 And warms the nations with redoubled ray. 
 Enough for me : With joy I see 
 The different doom our Fates assign. 
 Be thine Despair, and sceptered Care. 
 To triumph, and to die, are mine.' 
 He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height 
 Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night. 
 
 125 
 
 130 
 
 135 
 
 140 
 
 ODE VII. 
 
 The Fatal Sisters. 
 
 110 
 
 120 
 
 PROM THE NORSE TONGUE. 
 
 In the eleventh century, Sigurd, Earl of the Orkney Is- 
 lands, went with a fleet of ships and a considerable body of 
 troops into Ireland, to the assistance of Sietryg with the 
 silken heard, who was then making war on his father-in-law, 
 Brian, king of Dublin. The earl and all his forces were cut 
 to pieces, and Sietryg was in danger of a total defeat ; but 
 the enemy had a greater loss by the death of JBWrt??, then- king, 
 who fell in the action. On L hristmas-day (the day of the 
 battle), a native of Caithness in Scotland saw at a distance a 
 number of persons on horseback, riding full speed towards a 
 hill, and seeming to enter into it. Curiosity led him to follow 
 them, till, looking through an opening in the rocks, he saw 
 twelve gigantic figures resembling women : they were all em- 
 ployed about a loom, and as they wove, they sung the f ol- 
 owing dreadful song: which, when they had finished, they 
 tore the web into twelve pices, and, each taking her portion, 
 galloped six to the north, and as many to the south. These 
 were the vaiKynuiT, loiixai-c u-xviiiiuifw, oi^-iTt-iiivn ■>,-«. ?^.i.i.,,- y^. .. 
 Woden) in the Gothic mythology. Their name signifies 
 cJioosers of the slain. They were mounted on swift horses, 
 with drawn swords in their hands: and in the throng of 
 
16 
 
 ORAY*S ODES AND ELEGY. 
 
 orave, where thev nf f«»i!fl«!i *u ^ ^^ Odin, or paradisA of f >w. 
 parted heroes wK^^^^s^oViSl^^^^^^ 
 
 1. 
 
 J^w the storm begins to lower 
 (Haste, the loom of hrUmZZ^^ 
 l'^" fl««t ojawowy sho&e/*'^^' 
 Hurtles m the darkened aS. 
 
 a.. 
 
 Whfir«^f hl^5'°*^i®^ ^® *J>e loom. 
 Wfin v?r,i^l'^"^^y ^a^V we strain 
 Weaving many a soldier's doom 
 Orkney's woe. and Randver's bSie. 
 
 8. 
 
 /??.?.'?f iP^^^y texture grow 
 ffiil' ^^"^^^ entraillmade) 
 And the weights, that play below 
 Each a gaping warrior's head ' 
 
 4. 
 
 Shafts for shuttles, dipt in core 
 
 lw?r*d* th Jf "^^^^« cSJds Sg. 
 Hword, that once a monarch borfi 
 Keep the tissue close StroSg ' 
 
 5. 
 
 Mista black, terrific maid. 
 Sang^da. and HUda see. ' 
 
 Jv/bVi?^ ^^^ard work to aid : 
 Tis the woof of victory. 
 
 6. 
 Ere the ruddy sun be set. 
 Pikes must shiver, javelins sine 
 Blade with clatteriig bucklei lleet 
 Hauberk crash, and Behnet riu?, ' 
 
 7. 
 
 (Weave the crimson web of war) 
 Let us go, and let us flv ^^^ 
 
 wf f *'® our friends the conflict sharfi 
 Where they triumph, whwe the7di4 
 
ODB vn. 
 
 17 
 
 ftnd coil- 
 Ise of tbe 
 d tlio do 
 
 S. 
 
 Ad the paths of fate we tread. 
 Wading through the enBangnined field : 
 Oondula, and Oeira, spread 
 O'er the youthful king your shield. 
 
 9. 
 
 We the reigns of slaughter give, 
 Ours to kill, and ours to spare : 
 Spite of danger he shall live 
 (Weave the crimson web of war). 
 
 10. 
 
 They, whom once the desert-beach 
 Pent within its bleak domain. 
 Soon their ample sway shall stretch 
 O'er the plenty of the plain. 
 
 11. 
 
 Low the dauntless earl Is laid, 
 Oored with many a 0aping wound ; 
 Fate demands a nobler head ; 
 Soon a king shall bite the ground. 
 
 12. 
 
 Long his loss shall Eirin weep, 
 Ne'er again his likeness see ; 
 Long her strains in sorrow steep, 
 Strains of immortality I 
 
 18. 
 
 Rorror covers all the heath, 
 Clouds of carnage blot the sun. 
 Sisters, weave tne web of death ! 
 Sisters, cease 1 the work is done ! 
 
 14. 
 
 Hail the task, and hail the hands ! 
 Songs of joy and triumph sing ! 
 Joy to the victorious bands ; 
 Triumph to the younger king. 
 
 10. 
 
 Mortal, thou that hear*8t the tale, 
 Learn the tenor of our song. 
 Scotland, through each winding vale 
 Far and wide the notes prolong. 
 
m 
 
 ORAY'8 0DR8 AND ELEOT. 
 16. 
 
 ODE vm. 
 
 The Descent of Odin. 
 
 FROM THE NOBSE TpNOoE. 
 
 While lS*fetb« opened wide, 
 
 1 lie portals nine of lieu ariBe 
 Bight against the eastern ««*« 
 
 The thrming verse th„?-^S'^^ 
 
 PBOPHETESS 
 
 The w?o «w r iTT^" ^aenng bones have beat 
 The dr^,:± t?' '■'' *Iie summer's h«a* 
 
 ^et me, let m^ ^^'^1^^^^'"^ ^^^i ; 
 
 10 
 
 15 
 
 20 
 
 < J 
 
 30 
 
ODKS vni. 
 
 Who is he, with voice unblent, 
 That calls me from the bed of reit / 
 
 19 
 
 36 
 
 OBIN. 
 
 A traveller, to thee unknown. 
 Is he that callp a warrior's son. 
 Thou the deedu of light shalt know ; 
 Tell me what is done below, 
 For whom you glittering board is spread, 
 Drest for whom yon golden bed. 
 
 40 
 
 PBOPHBTKSB. 
 
 Mantling in the goblet see 
 The pure beverage of the bee ; 
 O'er it hangs the shield of gold ; 
 •Tis the drink of Balder bold : 
 Balder's head to death is given. 
 Pain can reach the sons of heaven I 
 Unwilling I my lips unclose : 
 Leave me, leave me to repose. 
 
 45 
 
 00 
 
 10 
 
 ODIN. 
 
 Once again my call obey. 
 Prophetess, arise, and say. 
 What dangers Odin's child await, 
 Who the author of his fate. 
 
 15 
 
 PBOPHBTESS. 
 
 In Hoder'd hand the hero's doom 
 His brother sends him co the tomb. 
 Now my weary lips I close ; 
 Leave me, leave to repose. 
 
 S5 
 
 20 
 
 ?5 
 
 m 
 
 ODIN. 
 
 Prophetess, my spell obey, 
 Once again arit^e, and say, 
 Who the avenger of his guilt. 
 By whom shall Hoder's blood be spilt. 
 
 PROPHETESS. 
 
 In the caverns of the west, 
 By Odin's fierce embrace comprest, 
 A wonderouB boy shall Binda bear, 
 Who ne'er shall comb his raven hair, 
 Nor wash his visage in the stream, 
 Nor see the_sun's depar^-ing beam ; 
 riii he on Moders corse shall smile 
 Flaming on the funeral pile. 
 
 eo 
 
 65 
 
 70 
 
20 
 
 \m 
 
 I 
 
 gray's odes and elegy. 
 
 i^eave me, leave me to repose. 
 
 ODIN. 
 
 That their flaSies'Js te^""' '"■"^' 
 Trfl Z^SX ™'"'' that floatT'air 
 
 PBOPHETESS. 
 
 Mio^fVLI ?' ^ ^i^ow thee now 
 Mightiest of a mighty line— ' 
 
 ODIN. 
 
 Art 'Jhn,?'''^ "^^^^ o' skill divine 
 
 PBOPHETESS 
 
 Tm T^tS.'^yJ^^^ sleep agaiT 
 SenS-iia^illlo'Sohain. 
 
 ™;r3";f«»'«'''°«^»tright; 
 
 VO 
 
 80 
 
 85 
 
 90 
 
 Pi 
 
 Ik 
 
 ODE IX. 
 The Triumphs op Owen. 
 
 PROM THE WELSH 
 
 Owfin aW^*r „--^*';l"«'°a8 my soue 
 
ODE X. 
 
 21 
 
 Owyneth's shield, and Britain's gem. 
 H« nor heaps his brooded stores, 
 Nor on all profusely pours ; 
 Lord of every regal art, 
 Liberal hand, and open heart. 
 
 Big with hosts of mighty name, 
 Squadrons three against him came ; 
 This the force of Eirin hiding, 
 Side by side as proudly riding. 
 On her shadow- ^ong and gay, 
 Lochlin ploughs the watery way; 
 There the Norman sails afar, 
 Catch the winds, and join the war ; 
 Black and huge along they sweep, 
 Burthens of the angry deep. 
 
 Dauntless on his native sands 
 The dragon-son of Mona stands ; 
 In glittering arms and glory drest. 
 High he rears his ruby crest. 
 There the thundering strokes begin, 
 There the press, and there the din ; 
 Talymalfra's rocky shore 
 Echoing to the battle's roar. 
 Checked by the torrent-tide of blood 
 Backward Meinai rolls his flood ; 
 While, heaped his master's feet around, 
 Prostrate warriors gnaw the ground. 
 Where his glowing eyeballs turn. 
 Thousand banners round him burn. 
 Where he points his purple spear, 
 Hasty, hasty rout is there, 
 Marking with indignant eye 
 Fear to stop, and shame to fly. 
 There confusion, terror's child. 
 Conflict fierce, and ruin wild. 
 Agony, that pants for breath, 
 Despair and nonourable death. 
 
 10 
 
 15 
 
 20 
 
 25 
 
 80 
 
 35 
 
 40 
 
 ODE X. 
 
 The Death of Hoel. 
 
 PBOM THE WELSH.' 
 
 Had I but the torrent'ts might, 
 
 With headlong rage and wild affright 
 
 " Of Aneurim, styled the monarch of the bards. He flour- 
 ished about the time of Talliessin, 570 a.d. 
 
22 
 
 okay's odes and elegy. 
 
 To ^^«?®"'*^^ squadrons hurled 
 
 ^^nZi^^^tSfve they burn : 
 Save Aeron brave ftn^*P.l''^^^^®*"rn, 
 
 That iiv«®f ^^^'^^^^ °' them aU7 ^^^^' 
 ihat hve to weep, and sing their fall. 
 
 10 
 
 15 
 
 20 
 
 ODE XI. 
 Fob JftTBio.' 
 
 IR»EGtrLA». 
 
 I. 
 
 "Hence, avaunt ('tis holy eround i 
 Comus and his midnight crew ^* 
 An ^ Jg^o^^nce with looks Sund 
 M«] «'®.^i?*^F Sloth of pallid hue ' 
 Mad Sedition^s cry profani ' 
 
 ^or m these consecrated bowerw 
 pare the Muse's wuii, +"*^:"5_.y*^*"' 
 
ODE XI. 
 
 10 
 
 n. 
 
 From yonder realms of empyrean day 
 
 Bursts on my ear the indignant lay : 
 
 There sit the sainted sage, the hard divine, 15 
 
 The few, whom genius gave to Rhine 
 
 Through every unborn age, and undiscovered clime. 
 
 Bapt in celestial transport they : 
 
 Yet hither oft a glance from high 
 
 They send of tender sympathy ao 
 
 To bless the place, where on their opening soul 
 
 First the genuine ardour stole. 
 
 'Twas Milton struck the deep-toned shell, 
 
 And, as the choral warblings round him swell. 
 
 Meek Newton's self bends from his state sublime, 26 
 
 And nods his hoary head, and listens to the rhyme. 
 
 20 
 
 ni. 
 
 ' Ye brown o'er-archiag groves, 
 
 That contemplation loves, 
 
 Where willowy Camus lingers with delight ! 
 
 Oft at the blush of dawn 
 
 I trod your level lawn, 
 
 Oft wooed the gleam of Cynthia silver-bright 
 
 In cloisters dim, far from the haunts of Folly, 
 
 With Freedom by my side, and soft-eyed Melancholy.' 
 
 30 
 
 at Cam- 
 
 ugustus- 
 
 Univer- 
 
 s. 
 
 IV. 
 
 But hark ! the portals sound, and pacing forth 
 
 With solemn steps and slow. 
 
 High potentates, and dames of royal birth. 
 
 And mitred fathers in long order go ; 
 
 Great Edward with the lilies on his brow 
 
 From haughty Gallia torn, 
 
 And sad ChatilloH, on her bridal morn 
 
 That wept her bleeding love, and princely Clare, 
 
 And Anjou's heroine, and the paler rose. 
 
 The rival of her crown, and of her woes. 
 
 And either Henry there, 
 
 The murdered saint and the majestic lord. 
 
 That broke the bonds of Rome. 
 
 (Their tears, their little triumphs o'er. 
 
 Their human nassions now no more. 
 
 Save charity, that glows beyond the tomb.) 
 
 All that on Granta's fruitful plain 
 
 Rich streams of regal bounty poured. 
 
 And bade these awful fanes and turrets rise, 
 
 To hail their Fitzroy's festal morning come 
 
 And thus they speak in soft accord 
 
 The liquid language of the skies : 
 
 35 
 
 40 
 
 45 
 
 GO 
 
 56 
 
^4 
 
 »i;<<l 
 
 6RAY*S ODES AND ELEGY. 
 
 V. 
 
 What fK^ K '• ?P®"°^ Paiii. 
 
 The i,.n f «f^?^^* '«^*^rd we gain ? 
 
 VI. 
 
 Shall raKom earth ?£^'?S*''«?<' ^ 
 To glitter on thedirdem '"**"* 8^" 
 
 Profane thy inbo?n r^LS"*'".^ refined 
 She reveres'^her "elfa'TthL"' """^ ^ 
 
 ?telt?Sh*T^^e'''T ^°"*""> ''•w 
 
 The star o "iC^swfc*,'^!' *'"' ■*°™ ^ 
 And gi,d« the hTroJ^'atS «-?'"" 
 
 60 
 
 65 
 
 70 
 
 75 
 
 80 
 
 85 
 
 90 
 
ODE xn. 
 
 25 
 
 80 
 
 85 
 
 90 
 
 ODE XII, 
 ON THE PLEASURE ARISING FROM VICISSmTDE. 
 
 Tiofl, nil finished by Gray. The additionu by Mason, a poet. 
 ail. I friend of Gray, are distingnished by inverted commas. 
 
 Now the fiolden morn aloft 
 
 Waves her dew-bespangled wing, 
 With vermeil cheek and whisper soft 
 
 She woos tlie tardy spring: 
 Till April starts, and calls around 5 
 
 I lie sleepiii g fragrance from the ground ; 
 And lightly o'er the living scene 
 Scatters his freshest, tenderest green. 
 
 New-born flocks, in rustic dance, 
 Frisking ply their feeble feet ; 
 Forgetful of their wintry trance 
 The birds his presence greet , 
 But chief, the sky-lark warbles high 
 His trembling thrilling ecstasy ; 
 And. lessening from the dazzled sight. 
 Melts into air and liquid light. 
 
 Rise, my soul ! on wings of fire, 
 
 Rise the rapturous choir among; 
 Hark! 'tis nature strikes the lyre. 
 
 And leads the general song : 
 'Warm let the lyric transport flow, 
 Warm as the ray that bids it glow ; 
 And animates the vernal grove 
 With health, with harmony, and love' 
 
 Yesterday the sullen year 
 
 Saw the snowy whirlwind fly ; 
 Mute was the music of the air. 
 The herd stood drooping by : 
 Their raptures iow that wildly flow, 
 No yesterday nor morrow know ; 
 Tia man alone that joy descries 
 With forward, and reverted eyes. 
 
 Smiles on past misfortune's brow 
 Soft reflection's hand can trace ; 
 
 And o'er the cheek of sorrow throw 
 A melancholy grace ; 
 
 While hor»fi nrnlonaa r»nv ha*^r'i'>« hr^'iv 
 
 Or deepest shades^ that dimly lower 
 And blacken round our weary way, 
 Gilds with a gleam of distant day. 
 
 10 
 
 15 
 
 20 
 
 25 
 
 30 
 
 35 
 
 40 
 
28 
 
 III 
 
 ORAY*S ODES AND ELIGY. 
 
 Still, where rosy pleasure leads. 
 T^«if -^ ^^ Ji^dred grief pursue ; 
 itJehmd the steps that misery treads 
 ^^pproaching comfort view ; ' 
 
 Ihe hues of bliss more brightly glow 
 Chastised bv sabler tints of woef ' 
 
 Th^ flivo wl'°"?'v?^^*^ a^f^il strife. 
 1 he strength and harmony of life. 
 
 See the ™tch, that long has tost 
 
 On the thorny bed of ptin, 
 At length repair his vigour lost, 
 
 And breathe and walk again : 
 The meanest floweret of the vale. 
 The simplest note that swells the gale 
 
 tS h?ri?i°'' '''^' *^« ^i'-' *he skies? 
 1 o mm are opening paradise. 
 
 ^^*Mble Quiet builds her cell, 
 
 Wear the source whence pleasure flows- 
 She eyes the clear crystalline weli; ' 
 
 . tt'^u ■? *.^^*®s i* as it goes. 
 ' ■R^?«h\i^i^®^°l?' *^^ 'madding' crowd 
 Where brn?H°?^i°. *\« ^angerous flooj' 
 ' And ' r?iS^? and turbulent it sweeps, 
 And perish in the boundless deeps. 
 
 ^?'Si^S®^®J^^°^®'^<'e and Pride, 
 
 ' Tn f t^'L'^'' -1 fe^y ally round : 
 To these, If Hebe's self should brini? 
 
 Rav ?«j;^'S^^? *'«^ pleasS?e's Sg 
 ml'J.^'' *^®y ^«*e *^e flavour high 
 Of sober, simple, genuine joy? ^ 
 
 'Mark Ambition's march sublime 
 WbL*"" P,'*'^®^'^ meridian heigS^ 
 
 And hie him home, n.t «v«rp>l. ".'v^. 
 To sweet repast, and calm rep'o^er"' 
 
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 ^ 
 
 45 
 
 50 
 
 55 
 
 00 
 
 65 
 
 70 
 
 75 
 
 80 
 
ODE XII. 
 
 27 
 
 45 
 
 50 
 
 ' He, unconscious whence the blifls» 
 
 Feels, and owns in carols rude, 
 That all the circling joys are his. 
 
 Of dear Vicissitude. 
 From toil he wins his spirits light, 
 FPOm busy day the peaceful night : 
 Rich, from the very want of wealtn 
 In heaven's best treasures, peace and health.' 
 
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 95 
 
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 00 
 
 65 
 
 70 
 
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 80 
 
ELEGY 
 
 WIUTTEN IN A 
 
 COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. 
 
 1. 
 
 The ploughman hoinfiw»v™i,i°.t^ ' ?» i""" 
 
 Ana ieuves the world to darknet" Sore,'"'''' 
 
ELEGY. 
 
 39 
 
 a. 
 
 Now faHns the Rlimmerinpf landscape on the sight, 
 And all tho air a solemn stillness holds, 
 Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, 
 And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; 
 
 8. 
 
 Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower. 
 The moping owl does to the moon complain 
 Of such as, wandering near her secret bower. 
 Molest her ancient solitary reign. 
 
 m 
 
 ^ 
 
 ■Reneath those nigged elms, that yew-tree's shade. 
 Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, 
 Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, 
 The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. 
 
 6. 
 
 The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, 
 The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, 
 The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, 
 No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. 
 
 6 
 
 For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. 
 Or busy housewife ply her evening care : 
 No children run to lisp their sire's return. 
 Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. 
 
 7. 
 
 V did the harvest to their sickle yield, 
 
 furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; 
 / jocund did they drive their team afleld ! 
 How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! 
 
 8. 
 
 Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, 
 Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; 
 Vor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, 
 The short and simple annals of the Poor. 
 
 9. 
 
 The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, 
 And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, 
 Await alike the inevitable hour. 
 The patha of glory lead but to the grave. 
 
no 
 
 SHAY'S ODRS AND KLROY. 
 
 10. 
 
 Noi" you v« "P*. 
 
 -«"1."« anther -wf iillff .r^?„",»^.,t«e<l v.ujt 
 
 ^»er i^*iLt"»fi|«*«<' »POt ia laid 
 
 Or waked to ec.ta"s^ tlt'SZl i^Jl!" ""^ ""^ayed, 
 
 
fetECJY. 
 
 18. 
 
 31 
 
 The 8tiuggliii« pangs of coiisciouH truth to hide 
 To quench the WuslieB of in^enuouB shame. ' 
 Or 1 cap the ahrino of luxury and prido 
 With mcenso kindled at the Muse^e flame, 
 
 19. 
 
 Far froni the luadding crowd's ignoble strife 
 Their sober wishes never learned to stray • 
 Along the cool 8e(jue8tored vale of life ' 
 Ihey kept the noiseless tenor of their way . 
 
 20. 
 
 Yet even these bones from insult to protect 
 
 bonie fruil memorial still erected nigh 
 
 With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture dac-k-^rl 
 
 Implores the passing tribute of a sigh! ^ flecked, 
 
 21. 
 
 Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered Muse 
 The place ot fame and elegy supply • •'*''"'*'^«" ^"^e, 
 And many a holy text around she strews, 
 ihat teach the rustic moralist to die. .\ 
 
 22. ^ 
 
 For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey. 
 1 his pleasing anxious being e'er resigned 
 Loft the warm precincts of the cheerful dav 
 JNor cast one longing lingering look behind ? ' 
 
 23. 
 
 On some fond breast the parting soul relies 
 home pious drops the closing eye requires • * 
 J^ven from the tomb the voice of Nature cries 
 Even in our ashes live their wonted fires. 
 
 24. 
 
 For thee, who. mindlul of the unhonoured dead. 
 Dost m these hnos the ir artless talc relate ; 
 If chance, by lonely contemplation led. 
 Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, 
 
 25. 
 
 Haply soino hoary-hoaded swain may say : 
 Oft have wo seen him at the peer) of da wn 
 Brushing with hasty step the dews away 
 To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. 
 
M 
 
 OBAV'8 0DK8 AND eLjioV. 
 
 M. 
 
 ^^ 1-0 "i-' ti.e^^rjcTiSLtStty':''"'''''- 
 
 28. 
 
 Al«n„'SS',«^on the cu.to„.ed Wu, 
 Another came: norv^tVL-^ favourite tree • 
 Nor up the laW„?S'ora*t SratoX"^',, ,. 
 
 Approach and read rfoi^^^^^^ P^*^ we saw him i^ 
 «-eao„theJL^r^„*iL?broraSS^&™ "*• 
 
 W»»„ X ^™ EPITiPH. 
 
 AY^uSt li^lr ar ?o*^« '"P <" Earth. 
 *'air Science frowned n«*° ■^??"® unJkuown • 
 AndMe.a„oho,°y'SS?A?„»'tte^W^?rih, 
 
 fe'Sfi^'^^rj. am, his Bom siaooro. 
 He gave to Miee^^VI" ??^ '"gely send; ' 
 
 Hegamedfromi^eSi'eSrtwaiSul"*'.- , 
 
 "''^""'^''o wished) a friend. 
 
 Or dJ^^'K^^i^f, "'erits to disclose 
 ghere they ^Sfk" "A5^iU^„o;> <»«-e«!i abode 
 The bosom of his I'atC and hisTo5^J«"o). 
 
NOTES. 
 
 NOTES ON ODE I. 
 
 1. Roay-bo9omed, with bosoms f«7i «# « 
 Hours, the KoddeaseH n? ^^i "" ^^ 'o^es. 
 
 ^y goadessea of the seasons, or of the honrs of the 
 
 ^osy-boBomed Boura— 
 
 To weeping i ancy pines '^ 
 
 'Alan^th. ^ . -^^^^"on'a fl^^Hnflr, line 1010. 
 ItevS? Jhf °'*^^P®^ ^^a-^es and bowers 
 
 -Milton's Comu«, 984, 987. 
 
 'And lavish Nature paints the pnrple year/ 
 5. ^«ic, relatingto Athena-, jn,^ r, 
 
 Co.ni,a«,«^L^„^,-/.„':.5o was 0,^^^^^^ ,^J ^an. 
 
 Trffl, ber thlok-wa^Ma n Je^«t4"i^i^*ex Ion, • 
 Powra her throat- ^^^ ^ Paradise Iieguinei,'iv. 245 
 
 •Is it for thee the linnet pours her throat? ' 
 g _j^ -Pope's Essay on Man, iii. 33. 
 
 Fanning their odorifflrmip 1^^^ ^.^°*^® g^-les 
 Native perfumes nn?^?? ^^"^s, dispense 
 Thoaa h«5"«^f ?'.,^^^ Whisper whence thev «fnio 
 
 -Milton's ParadfM Lost, iv. 156^159. 
 
 f 
 
gray's odes and elegies. *a 
 
 23—24. 'Here their delicious task the fervent bees. 
 
 In swarming millions, tend : around, at'awart. 
 Through the solt air the busy nation's fly.' 
 
 —Thomson's Spring, 508— 510. 
 
 23— 3(X 'Waked by his warmer ray, the reptile young 
 Come wmged abroad. ^ j e 
 
 a • J., ^y myriads forth at once 
 
 Swannmg they pour ; of aU the- varied hues 
 
 Their beauty-beaming parents can disclose. 
 
 Ten thousand forms, ten thousand different tribes. 
 
 People the blaze. To sunny waters some 
 
 By fatal mstmct fly, where on the pool 
 
 They sportive wheel.' 
 
 —Thomson's Summer, 241—252- 
 
 HT.^™*«♦l^« XX. * Sporting with quick glance 
 Shew to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold.' 
 
 —Milton's JParadiseLost, vii. 405, 406. 
 
 ♦ Thick in yon stream of light, a thousand ways, 
 
 Upward and downward, thwarting and convolved. 
 
 The quivermg nations sport ; till tempest-winged/ 
 
 Pierce winter sweeps them from the face of day. 
 
 Even so luxurious men, unheeding, pass 
 
 An idle summer-life in Fortune's shine. 
 
 A season's glitter I Thus they flutter on 
 
 From to toy, from vanity to vice ! 
 
 Till blown away by Death, Oblivion comes 
 
 Behind, and strikes them from the book of life.' 
 
 —Thomson's Summer, 342—351 
 
 29, 30. 
 
 31—40. 
 
 I 
 
 NOTES ON ODE II. 
 
 31. Eight times. An aUusion to the supposition that the cat 
 has nine hves. 
 
 34. NoDolphin came. An allusion to the story of Arion a cele- 
 brated lute-player of Lesbos, anislaSinthe G?eciau 
 archipelago While returning from Italy in a CorhS 
 thiaii Bhip laden with gifts which he had won in poeti- 
 cal contests, the sailors determined to kill him and 
 seize his wealth. Arion, having played on his lute 
 . threw himself into the sea. Charged by hismusS a 
 JnS'nf ?^* ^?P^J^^ ^^^ assembled roZitLve set 
 safely^o land."" """^ ""^ *^^'® *^® musician rode 
 
 ^7fl^' At sea-nymph, one of the daughters of the 
 horsis ''^' ^^"^ attended Neptune, Siding on boa! 
 
s 
 
 KOTES. 
 
 42. A provexbial expressioii, and a favourite among the old 
 poets. 
 
 NOTES ON ODE IH. 
 
 4. Henry VI., lotinder of the college, termed holy because he 
 was near being canonized. 
 
 ^1 6* 
 
 * And now to where 
 Maaestic Windsor lifts his princely brow.' 
 
 —Thomas' Summer, 1412, 1413- 
 
 55 Thfi tnrf of whose lawn, the shade of whose grove, the 
 ^' flowersofXsemrd. Compare Shakspeare,Haml.e, 
 
 in. i. 159— 
 •The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue sword, 
 i.e.. The courtier's eye, the soldier's sword, the scholar s 
 tongue. 
 
 23. Margent green. 
 
 «By slow Meander's margent green.* 
 
 —Milton's Oomus, 232. 
 
 €6. 67. * But gnawing Jealousy out of their sight, 
 Sitting aJone his bitter lips did bite. 
 
 —Spencer's Faerie Queene, vi. 23. 
 
 a,_qfl ' Immediately a place 
 
 Before his eyes apppeared, sad, noiseBome, dark ; 
 A lazar-house it seemed ; wherem were laid 
 lumbers of all diseased, all m&U dies 
 Of ghastly spasm or racking torture, quaims 
 Of heart-sick agony, all feverous kinds. 
 Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrns. 
 Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs, 
 Demoniac phrensy, moping melancholy, 
 And moon-struek madness, pming atropny, 
 
 Marasmus, and wide-wasting ?®!*^^!.u?®'« rhpnmfl 
 Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheuma. 
 Dire was the tossing, deep the groans : Despair 
 Tended the sick busiest from cau«h to concn , 
 And over them triumphant Death his aarc 
 Shook, but delayed to strike, though oft invoked 
 With vows, as their chief good and final hope. 
 
 —Milton's Paradise Lost, xi. 477- 
 
 36. Observe the suitability of the words tp the sense- ^ 
 • The verse too labours, and the words move slow- 
 
 -493. 
 
95-100. 
 
 geay's odes and elegies. 4 
 
 T^^®1°®; P^'^*?®^ ^® ^o* over exquisite 
 
 i o cast the fashion of uncertain evils 
 
 *or grant they be so, while they rest unknown 
 
 What need a man forestall his date of grief ' 
 
 And run to meet what he would most avoid?' 
 
 —Milton's Comua, 359— 36a« 
 
 25. 
 
 26—28. 
 
 NOTES ON ODE IV. 
 
 ^' '^^ll^nahZ'^J'^^^''-}'' ^'^^^^^^^ retribution, 
 
 5?o«^^i *®^x^* Jupiter, or to Affliction, described by 
 ^schylus, the father of Greek traeedv as sfint h^ 
 Jupiter for the benefit of mankind.^ ^' ^ 
 
 'O'erlaidwith black, staid Wisdom's hue.' 
 
 Milton's II Penaeroso, 16w 
 
 1^?*,^ ®7®° "^^^P ^^^ musing gait, 
 And looks commercing with the skies. 
 Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes : 
 Ihere, held in holy passion still. 
 Porget thyself to marble, till 
 With a sad leaden downward cast 
 Thou fix them on the earth as fast.' 
 
 Milton's II Pens&roao, 38—44. 
 
 Gorgon. The Gorgons or *grim ones,' from Greek aoraos 
 grim, were monsters represented as girt ^^S se??^ 
 with heads erect, vibrating their tongues Sid Sh! 
 ing their teeth. They are otherwise described a3 
 . winged virgins with brazen claws and enormous teeth 
 having two serpents round their C^efbv way of 
 S"*^^-^ ^^® '"^'"•^ ^°'^o" ^as more especially^gfven 
 to Medusa, a maiden, who, having offended Minerv° 
 had her hair changed into seiTei-tl, which gave hir so 
 fea^ul an appearance that whoever looked upon hi? 
 was turned into stone. ^y^u. uer 
 
 * Medusa with Gorgonian terror guards the ford.' 
 
 Milton's Paradise Loat, ii. 611. 
 
 35. 
 
 ' NOTES ON ODE V. 
 
 Pindaric. After the manner of Pindar, the great lyric poet 
 
 of Greece, who sprung from a noble family of TheC^ i 
 
 1. Pindar styled his own poetry, with its musical noonrr^-n^r.i ' I 
 
 ments, ' ^olian soSg,' iolian striSS? ' She b?oX oi I 
 
 «. 
 
s 
 
 Nom. 
 
 
 
 rthe ^olian flute.'— JR^oiian, relating to ^oliain Asiu 
 Minor, or to its langv.age, a diulect of the Greek ; in 
 this case perhaps to the ^olian rhythm not uulre- 
 quently used by Pindar. 
 
 3. Hel'icon, a mountain range in the S.W. of Bceotia, in 
 Greece, was celebrated by ancient poets as the favour- 
 ite seat of the Muses. Its springs, Aganip'pe and 
 Hip'pocrene, were fabled to bestow inspiration. 
 
 The subject and simile, as usual with Pindar, are 
 Tinited. The various sources of poetry, which gives life 
 ard lustre to all it touches, are here described ; its quiet, 
 majestic progress enriching every subject (otherwise 
 dry and barren) with a pomp of diction and luxuriant 
 harmony of numbers ; and its more rapid and irresis- 
 tible course, when swollen and hurried away by the 
 conflict of tumultuous passions.— (Jray. 
 
 15. * How from that sapphire fount the crisped brooks, 
 
 Boiling on orient pearl and sands of gold, 
 With mazy error under pendent shades 
 Ban nectar, visiting each plant, and fed 
 Flowers worthy of Paradise.' 
 
 Milton's PcuracUse Lost^ iv. 237—241. 
 9. Ce'reSi the goddess of agriculture. 
 
 12. * And rocks the bellowing voice of boiling seas resound.' 
 
 Drj'den's Virgil, Georgics I. 
 
 * Eoclis rebellow to the roar.'- Pope's Iliad. 
 
 13. Power of harmony to «alm the turbulent sallies of the 
 
 soul.— Oral/, 
 
 17. The Eoman Mar^ Greek Ares, the god of war, whose wor- 
 ship is believed to have been imported from Thrace. 
 
 21. Feathered Tcing^, Tb© eagle, the only creature whose eyes 
 were fc>trougenough to look on Jupiter, who oiteu em- 
 ployed Jaim to fetch and carry thunderbolts. 
 
 * Every fowl of tyrant wing. 
 Save the Eagle feathered king.' 
 
 — Shak. Faaaionate Pilgrim, xx. 
 
 25. Power of harmony to produce all the graces of motion in 
 the body, — (Jtray. 
 
 27. Ida'lia, in Cyprus, a favorite retreat of Venus, the god- 
 
 dess of love and beauty 
 
 28. Love^ or Cupids which fluttered about Venus, and fanned 
 
 their light wings over her. 
 
ORAY^S ODES AND ELEGIES. 
 
 6 
 
 29. CyfTif^re'a's Bay, the festival of Venus, who was so called 
 from her having been produced from the U am of tii© 
 sea near the island of Cythera, south of Greece. 
 
 37. Th^ 'J^^^^*' three sister-goddesses, Euphros'yne, Agla'ia, 
 and Tha'lia, in whom beauty and joy were deified. 
 
 ^' To compensate the real and imaginaiy ills nf life, the 
 Muse was given to mankind by the same i»rovidence 
 that sends the day by its cheerful presence to dispel 
 the gloom and terrors of the night.— Gray. 
 
 53. Hyperion, a name given to Apollo, the sun-god, and son 
 of Hyperion. 
 
 64. Extensive influence of poetic genius aver the remotest 
 and most uncivilized nations: its connection with 
 hberty, and the virtues that naturally attend on it.— 
 
 66. Progress of Poetry from Greece to Italy, and from Italy 
 to iiUgland. Chaucer was not unacquainted with the 
 writings of Dante or of Petrarch. The earl of Surrev 
 and Sir Thomas Wyatt had travelled in Italy, and 
 formed their taste there ; Spenser imitated the ItaUan 
 writers ; Milton improved on them : but this school 
 expired soon after the restoration, and a new one arose 
 on the French model, which has subsisted ever since — 
 Gray, 
 
 Delphi in Phocis, the seat of the oracle of Apollo. 
 the god of poetry. I'v^^v/, 
 
 ' With hollow shriek the steep of Delpho's leaving.' 
 —Milton's Hymn to the Nativity, xix- 
 
 67. Mgean, the ^gean Sea or Grecian Archipelago, 
 
 68. Ilissus, one of the rivers of Athens. 
 
 69. Mmnder, a river in Asia Minor remarkable for its wind- 
 
 mgs. "*"v* 
 
 77. Nine, the Muses, goddesses of f ong. 
 
 78. Parnas'sus, a mountain in Greece, sacred to Apollo and 
 
 the Muses. ^ 
 
 Latian plains, Latium, a country of ancient Italy, on the 
 south side of the Tiber. ^ 
 
 84. Naturfs darling, Shakspeare, who wai born at Stratford- 
 on-Avon. 
 
 95. He. Milton. 
 
NOTES. 
 
 i ri 
 
 99. ' For the spirit of the living creature was in the -wheels. 
 And above the firmament that was over their heads 
 was the likeness of a throne, as the a})i)earance of a 
 sapi)hire stone. This was the appearance of the like- 
 ness of the glory of the Lord.'— i'^efc. i. 20, 26, 28.— 
 Qray, 
 
 106. ' Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder ? '—Job. This 
 verse and the foregoing are meant to express the state- 
 ly march and sounding energy of Drydeu's rhymes. — 
 Gray, 
 
 111. We have had in our language no other odes of the sub 
 lime kind than that of Dryden on St. Cecilia's Day. — 
 Oray. 
 
 115. Pindar compares himself to that bird, and his enemies 
 to ravens that croak and clamour in vain below, while 
 it pursues its flight, regardless of their noise.— QF^-ay, 
 
 NOTES ON ODE VL 
 
 4. * Mocking the air with colours idly spread.* 
 
 —Sh&'k.Kirig John, Act V. Sc. l.—Gray 
 
 5. The hauberk was a texture of steel ringlets, or rings in- 
 
 woven, forming a coat of mail, that sat close to the 
 body, and adapted itself to every motion.— Oray. 
 
 8. Cambria, the ancont name of Wales, derived from that 
 
 of Cyuibri, or Cymri, by which the Welsh have always 
 called themselves. 
 
 9. * The crested adder's pride.'— Dry den's Indian Queen,— 
 
 Gray, 
 
 11. Snowdon was a name given by the Saxons to that moun- 
 tainous tract which the Welsh themselves call Craig- 
 ianeryri. It included all the highlands of Caernarvon- 
 shire and Merionethshire, as far east as the river Cou- 
 Vf&y.—Gray, 
 
 13. Gilbert de Clare^ surnamed the Bed, Earl of Gloucester 
 
 and Hertford, son-in-law to King Edward.— Cfraj/. 
 
 14. Edmond de Mortimer, Lord of Wigmore. They both 
 
 were Lords-Marchers, whose lands lay on the borders 
 of Wales, and probably accompanied th© king in this 
 expedition.— Gruj/. 
 
 y 
 
GRAY*S ODES AND ELEGIES. g 
 
 ''• ''Ba&i^ere.e^nt^^^^ Picture of 
 
 of Ezekiel. There are two n%f'^ ^'"'^ ^» ^^^ vision 
 
 —Milton's Paradise Lost, i. 536. 
 
 20. 
 
 ■ • »ind son of a 
 
 J-KL^'-^raLtf ^' ''-«'^' welsh r,em,, 
 29, 31, 33. Cadwal'lo, V'Hen, Mod'red, Welsh bards. 
 34. riinlimmon, one of thn 7r>f +,•««* .„ 
 
 the counties of iS^SranS^SS^,^/'^ ^^^-' ^« 
 
 ''• "^'A^l^ry^^L^a^^^^^^^^ <^PPosite to the Isle of 
 
 ""• ""pld^tSSfrSra^^^^^^^^^^^ annuallyto 
 
 from thence (as some thintii°^^^ **^ Snowdon, which 
 (iraigian.eryt or t^ecv^^^^ ^y ^^^ Welsh 
 
 (I am told) th4 hiffhist rmfnf ^f I ^""^l^^' A* this day 
 e'^gle'snest. Thafbifdi ce^^^^^^^^^ is called t/e 
 
 island, as the Son+a o«^ X.1 "^^^^^^o stranger to this 
 
 Westmorela^^d,^rc^caf tes^tJf?."?? ^^ ^* CufabeHand! 
 nest in the Peak of be^Vsh^e -^aT"" ^"""^^ '*' 
 
 ' Thf+®?^ *? ™® ^^® *he ruddy drops 
 That visit my sad heart.' ^ 
 
 -Shak. j-wiiMs Ccssar, Act II. Sc. l.-Gmy 
 
 4a See the Noi-wegian Ode that follows.-Gmj, 
 
 at ^TiTsSn?s"^«15rh'^^^^^^^^ Castle.-^..,. 
 
 castle.'-Hume's£T4!za^!a Ssf "'^'"^ ^"^^ ^^^^d the 
 £7. Isabel of Prance, Edward II 's nri«u«« 
 
 • She-wolf Of Fra;ice,rt worse than l^r ^T."-^"'^^ 
 
 , i,uo worse tdan wolves oJ France.' 
 
 -Shall. Senry VI. Part III., Act I. Sc. 4. 
 60. Triumphs ol Edward III. in rrance.-Gn<j,. 
 
 "*• ''-bbfd^nSTa«?'L?„trs'K'.^'^^ «""*«"• ""-l-cn 
 mistreB.-G,aj/. "'""""'"s by his courtiers and his 
 
 109. 
 
8 
 
 9 
 
 KOTES. 
 
 67. Edward, the BIrpV T>«i« 
 
 fatW-Omr ^'^'"^' ^^^ «»»>« time before his 
 
 VI. Magniflcence of Kiohnr,! tt . 
 
 oti.er oonte..p?^'^,n^^| «ign.^ See Proissard ana 
 
 "• ^I'vontetelo^Ssi^'tl,^ ^"hWohop Scroop an., 
 
 ^rieo?3^rLt^rii£--cii?^^^^^ 
 
 ^^. Buinous Civil wa„ „f x„rk a.d Lanoaste.-^™, 
 
 ture«vuIga.i.at&te^XiaS^fj£^^ 
 89. Sis consort, Mara&rof of a v, • 
 
 ^w /a«;i^r, Henry V.-G^-ay. 
 90, Henrv VI v«»»x7 i. 
 
 caste.W7o?^t^orXSirt^„,^;>'„^'|^e Of W 
 
 «. -^-,^ea.a.ea^es.aevioes of Xo.. a.a LanoaZ 
 
 "*■ K*'^"°"- ™" all'^ ^',* -«- that 
 
 turn again to reign ovS Britaiu.5ff^^°j,^' ^^ would re! 
 
 ""• ^»htK|'a!fth'e1^-tr^?'> P^Pbesiedthat the Welsh 
 --d tg he ao^^i^S^Tg-tKiroTS? 
 
 117. Sfed-^Mng an audience given by Queen «„.,.... 
 tl^u,^e.lion:ili.erii^-r--^^^^^^^^ 
 
ORAY^S ODES AND ELEGIES. 
 
 10 
 
 11 
 
 no leas with her stately port and majestical deporture, 
 than with the tartnesse of her princelie checkes. — 
 Gray, 
 
 121. Taliessin, chief of the bards, flourished in the sixth cen- 
 tury His works are still preserved, and his memory 
 held in high veneration among his countrymen— Crrai/. 
 
 128. Shakspeare— Grai/. 
 
 * Ennobled hath the buskined stage.' 
 
 —Milton's li Penseroao, 102. 
 
 131. Milton— Cray. 
 
 132. The suecession of poets after Milton's time.— Gray. 
 
 NOTES ON ODE VII. 
 
 I. 3. 'How quick they wheeled, and flying, behind them shot 
 Sharp sleet of arrowy shower.' 
 
 —Milton's Faradise Begained, iii. B2i— Gray. 
 
 I. 4. • The noise of battle hurtled in the air.'— Shak. Julius 
 Coesar, Act II. Sc. 2— Gray. 
 Hurtles, makes a clashing or terrifying sound. 
 
 XII. 1. Eirin. Erin, Ireland. 
 
 NOTES ON ODE VIH. 
 
 4, NifiheUar, the hell of the Gothic nations, consisted of 
 nine worlds, to whicb were devoted all such as died of 
 sickness, old age, or by any other means than in battle ; 
 over it presided Hela. the goddess of death.— Mason. 
 Hela, in the Edda, is described with a dreadful counten- 
 ance, and her body half flesh colour and half blue.— 
 Gray. 
 
 22. iJMnic, composed of Runes, the earliest alphabet in use 
 among the Teutonic and Gothic nations of N. liurope. 
 The word is from Teutonic, run, a mystery, and the 
 characters seem to hav^ been originally used for pur- 
 poses of secrecy and divination. 
 
 40. Odin was anxious about the fate of his son, Balder, who 
 had dreamed he was soon to die. He was killed Dy 
 
10 
 
 11 NOTES. 
 
 « 
 
 (MMn^n other Bon. Hoder, -who was himself slain by 
 ValUlifson of Odhi and Binda. consonant with this 
 prophecy —Aldine Editio.i. 
 
 90. L)fe is the evil being, who con*i°"^8 in chains tiU^^ 
 twiliaht of the gods approaches, when he shall breaK 
 hfs b^nds : the human race, the stars, the sun. shall 
 d Appear'; the earth sink in the seas, and hre consume 
 the skies ; even Odin himself and his kmdred deitwB 
 shall perish.— JkTasoM, 
 
 NOTES ON ODE IX. 
 4. Gwynef 7i, North Wales. 
 14 Lochlin, Denmark. 
 
 20 The red dragon is the device of Cadwallader, which all 
 his descendants bore on their banners.-Maaon. 
 
 Mona, the Roman name of Anglesey. 
 
 NOTES ON ODE X. 
 
 ^ npira The kingdom of Deira included the counties of 
 ^' ^ Yorkshire, Durham, Lancashire. Westmoreland, and 
 
 Cumberland. 
 11 ThelefrendisthattheBritonslostthebattleofCattraeth, 
 "• and f uffered so severely, because they had drunk their 
 mead too profusely. 
 
 NOTES ON ODE XL 
 
 2. 'Meanwhile welcome joy, and feast, 
 Midnight shout and revelry, 
 Tipsy dance, and joUity.'-Milton's Comus, 102. 
 
 OQ rnmus the Cam. on which Cambridge is situate. 
 1" S^Sa the moon. Diana, the goddess of the moon 
 ^ ^Ch so calledlrom Moulfc Cynthus, in the Isle ot Delos, 
 the place of her birth. 
 
 ^1 (TriwArd TTT who added the neur de lis of France to the 
 ^'- ^i7m^ of EnSaSd He founded Trinity CoMeQe.- Gray. 
 
gray's odes and elegies. 
 
 11 
 
 1. Mary de Valentia, Countess ol Pemroke, daughter of Guy 
 de Chatillcn, Comte de St. Paul, in France, of whom 
 tradition says that her husband, Audemar de Valentia, 
 Earl of Pembroke, was slain at a tournament on the 
 day of his nuptuals. She was the foundiess of i'em- 
 broke College or Hall, under the name of Aula, Mariffl 
 de Valentia.— GFraj/. 
 
 48. Elizabeth de Burg, Countess of Clare, was wife of John 
 de Burs, son and heir of the Earl of Ulster, and daugh- 
 ter of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucebter, by Joan of 
 Acres, daughter of Edward I. Hence the poet gives 
 her the epithet of / princely.' She founded Clare HalL 
 —Gray. 
 
 43. Margaret of Anjou, wife oi Henry VL, foundress of 
 Queen's College.— Elizabeth Widville, wife of Edward 
 rv. (hence called the pale rose, as being cf the House 
 of York). She added to the foundation of Margaret of 
 Anjou.— Gfray. 
 
 45. Henry VI. and VIII. The former the founder of King's, 
 the latter the greatest benefactor to Trinity College.— 
 Gray. 
 
 61. Granta, the river Cam, anciently so called. * 
 
 66. Countess of Richmond and Derby, the mother of Henry 
 VI[., foundress of St. John's and Christ's Colleges.— 
 Gray. 
 
 70, The Countess was a Beaufort, and married to a Tudor : 
 hence the application of this line to the Duke of Graf- 
 ton, who claims descent from both these families— 
 Gray. 
 
 84. Lord Treasurer Burleigh was Chancellor of the Univer- 
 sity in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.— Gfray. 
 
 NOTES ON ODE Xn. 
 
 8. Vermeil, vermilion red. 
 
 16. ' And drank the liquid light.'— Milton's Paradise Lost, 
 vii. 362. 
 
 id. Hebe, the goddess of youtn, and cup-bearer to Zeus, the 
 supreme deity of Greece. 
 
 
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