Then palaces fhall rife; the joyful * Son 65 70 See lillies fpring, and sudden verdure rise; To leaflefs fhrubs the flow'ring palms fucceed, 75 lambs with wolves fhall graze the verdant mead, And boys in flow'ry bands the tyger lead; IMITATIONS. The VER.67. The fwain in barren defarts] Virg. E. iv. v. 28. Et dure quercus fudabunt rofcia mella. The fields fhall grow yellow with ripen'd ears, and the red grape fhall hang upon the wild brambles, and the hard oak fhall diftill honey like dea. ISAIAH, Ch. xxxv. v. 7. The parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: In the habitations where dragons lay, fall be grafs, and reeds, and rushes. Ch. lv. v. 13. Instead of the thorn fhall come up the fir-tree, and inflead of the briar shall come up the myrtle tree. P. VER. 77. The lambs with wolves, etc.] Virg. E. iv. v. 21. Ubera, * Ch. lxv. v. 21, 22. + Ch. xxxv. V. 1, 7. Ch. xli. v. 19. andCh. lv. v. 13. Ch. xi. v. 6, 7, 8. The fteer and lion at one crib fhall meet, And harmless* ferpents lick the pilgrim's feet. 80 See, a long race thy fpacious courts adorn; In IMITATIONS. Ubera, nec magnos metuent armenta leones Occidet. The goats fhall bear to the fold their udders diftended with milk: nor fhall the herds be afraid of the greatest lions. The ferpent fhall die, and the kerb that conceals poison fhall die. ISAIAH, Ch. xi. v. 16, etc. The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard fall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together: and a little child fhall lead them. And the lion fhall eat fraw like the ox. And the fucking child shall play on the hole of the afp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the den of the cockatrice. P. VER. 85. Rife, crown'd with light, imperial Salem, rife!] The thoughts of Ifaiah, which compofe the latter part of the poem, are wonderfully elevated, and much above thofe general exclamations of Virgil, which make the loftieft parts of his Pollio. Magnus ab integro fæclorum nafcitur ordo! Afpice, venturo lætentur ut omnia fæclo! etc. The reader needs only to turn to the paffages of Ifaiah, here cited. P. * Ch. lxv. v. 25. † Ch. Ix. v. 1. ‡ Ch. lx. v. 41 In crouding ranks on ev'ry fide arife, And feeds of gold in Ophyr's mountains glow. 90 95 100 O'erflows thy courts: the Light himself fhall fhine The feas fhall waste, the skies in smoke decay, 105 Ch. lx. v. 3. + Ch Ix. v. 6. Ch. Ix. v. 19, 20Ch. li. v. 6. and Ch liv. v. 10. |