And carrying with you all the world can boaft, O let my Muse her flender reed infpire, Soon as the flocks fhook off the nightly dews, Two Swains, whom Love kept wakeful, and the Mufe, Pour'd o'er the whitening vale their fleecy care, 20 DA VER. 12. in your native shades] Sir W. Trumbal was born in Windfor-foreft, to which he retreated, after he had refigned the post of Secretary of State to King William III. P. VER. 17, etc. The Scene of this Paftoral a Valley, the time the Morning. It flood originally thus, Daphnis and Strephon to the Shades retir'd, A Shepherd's Boy (he feeks no better name). A Shepherd's Boy (no better do him call) Αδύ τι τὸ ψιθύρισμα και α πίτες, αἱπόλε, τήνα. Ρ. DAPHNI S. Hear how the birds, on ev'ry bloomy spray, With joyous mufic wake the dawning day! Why fit we mute when early linnets fing, When warbling Philomel falutes the spring? Why fit we fad when Phosphor fhines fo clear, And lavish Nature paints the purple year? STREP HON. Sing then, and Damon fhall attend the strain, DAPHNI S. 25 And I this bowl, where wanton ivy twines, 35 And fwelling clusters bend the curling vines: Four VER 28. purple year?] Purple here used in the Latin fenfe of the brightest molt vivid colouring in general, not of that peculiar tint so called. VER. 34. The first reading was, And his own image from the bank furveys. VARIATIONS. VER: 36. And clufters lurk beneath the curling vines. P, VER. 35, 36. IMITATIONS. Lenta quibus torno facili fuperaddita vitis, Diffufos edera vefit pallente corymbos. Virg. P Four figures rifing from the work appear, DAMON. Then fing by turns, by turns the Mufes fing, Now hawthorns bloffom, now the daifies spring, Now leaves the trees, and flow'rs adorn the ground, Begin, the vales fhall ev'ry note rebound. STREPHON. 45 Infpire me, Phoebus, in my Delia's praife, With Waller's ftrains, or Granville's moving lays! A milk-white bull fhall at your altars ftand, That threats a fight, and fpurns the rifing fand. DA VER. 46. Granville-] George Granville, afterwards Lord Lanfdown, known for his Poems, most of which he compos'd very young, and propos'd Waller as his model. P. MITATIONS. VER. 41. Then fing by turns.] Literally from Virgil, Alternis dicetis, amant alterna Camœnæ : Et nunc omnis ager, nunc omnis parturit arbos, Nunc frondent fylvæ, nunc formofiffimus annus. P. VER. 38. The various feafons] The Subject of thefe Paftorals engraven on the bowl is not without its propriety. The Shepherd's hesitation at the name of the Zodiac, imitates that in Virgil, Et quis fuit alter, Defcripfit radio totum qui gentibus orbem ? P. VER. 47. A milk-white Bull.] Virg.-Pafcite taurum, Qui cornu petat, et pedibus jam fpargat arenam. P. DAPHNI S. O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, ل : STREPHON. Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain, Then hid in fhades, eludes her eager fwain; But feigns a laugh, to fee me fearch around, And by that laugh the willing fair is found. DAPHNI S. The fprightly Sylvia trips along the green, She runs, but hopes fhe does not run unfeen; While a kind glance at her purfuer flies, ea How much at variance are her feet and eyes! STREPH ON. O'er golden fands let rich Pactolus flow, er on the banks of Po ̈; And trees weep amber on 50 55 60 Bleft ARIATIONS. ER. 49. Originally thus in the MS. Pap, let my numbers equal Strephon's lays, Thy Parian statue shall be chang'd to Gold, VER. 61. Its flood thus at first,” Let rich Iberia golden fleeces boaft, C VER. 61. Originally thus in the MS. Go, How'ry wreath, and let my Sylvia know, Then Bleft Thames's fhores the brightest beauties yield, DAPHNI S. Celestial Venus haunts Idalia's groves;; If Windfor-fhades delight the matchlefs maid, STREP HON. 65. All nature mourns, the fkies relent in fhow'rs, Hush'd are the birds, and clos'd the drooping flow'rs; If Delia fmile, the flow'rs begin to fpring, The skies to brighten, and the birds to fing. DA VARIATIONS. Then die; and dying teach the lovely Maid Go, tuneful bird, that pleas'd the woods fo long, To Heav'n arifing then her notes convey, VER. 69. etc. These verses were thus at first : IMITATIONS.ð ́ VER. 58. She runs, but hopes.] Imitation of Virgil, Et fugit ad falices, fed fe cupit ante videri. VER. 69. All nature mourns,] P. Virg. Aret ager, vitio moriens fitit aëris herba, etc. Phyllidis adventu noftræ nemus dmne virèbit. :P. |