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He sees the forests tremble from within,
And gliding meadows paint the deeps with green;
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Oh sire! Oh country, once with glory crown'd! Oh wretched race of Priam, once renown'd! Oh Jove! see Ilion smoking on the ground!

They now name Ceres for the golden grain,
Bacchus for wine, ne, and Neptune for the main:
Or from the father's name point out the son;
Or for her people introduce a town:

So when alarm'd her natives dread their fates,
Pale Afric shakes, and trembles through her states:
And some e, by Achelous' streams alone,
Comprise the Hoods of all the world in one.

Lo! now they start aside, and change the strain

To fancy'd converse with an absent swain;
To grots and caverns all their cares disclose,
Or tell the solitary rocks their woes;
To scenes inanimate proclaim their love,
Talk with an hill, or whisper to a grove.
On you they call, ye unattentive woods,
And wait an answer from your bordering floods.
Sometimes they speak one thing, but leave
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Another secret meaning in the mind :
A fair expression artfully dispense,
But use a word that clashes with the sense.
Thus pious Helen' stole the faithful sword,
While Troy was flaming, from her sleeping lord.
So glorious Drances tower'd amid the plain,
And pil'd the ground with mountains of the slain;
Immortal trophies rais'd from squadrons killed,
And with vast spoils ennobled all the field.

But now to mention farther I forbear,
With what strong charms they captivate the ear;
When the same terms they happily repeat,
The same repeated seem more soft and sweet.
This, were Arcadia judge to, if Pan withstood,
Pan's judge, Arcadia, would condemn her god.

But though our fond indulgence grants the Muse
A thousand liberties in different views,
Whene'er you choose an image to express
In foreign terms, and scorn the native dress;
Yet be discreet, nor strain the point too far,
Let the transition still unforc'd appear,
Nor e'er discover an excess of care:

For some, we know, with aukward violence
Distort the subject, and disjoint the sense;
Quite change the genuine figure, and deface
The native shape with every living grace;
And force unwilling objects to put on
An alien face, and features not their own.
A low conceit in disproportion'd terms,
Looks like a boy dress'd up in giant's arms;
Blind to the truth, all reason they exceed,
11 Who name a stall the palace of the steed,
Or grass the tresses of great Rhea's head,
"Tis best sometimes an image to express
In its own colours, and its native dress;
The genuine words with happy care to use,
If nicely cull'd, and worthy of the Muse.

Some things alternately compar'd' are shown,
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Might grace the buskin, and become the stage
Their large, their vast variety explore
With piercing eyes, and range the mighty store.
From their deep fund the richest words unfold,
With nicest care be rich expression cull'd,
To deck your numbers in the purest gold no Bo
The vile, the dark degenerate crowd refuse,
And scoru a dress that would disgrace the
Then, to succeed your search, pursue the road,
And beat the track the glorious ancients trod.
To those eternal monuments repair,
There read, and meditate for ever there.
If o'er the rest some mighty genius shines,
Mark the sweet charms and vigour of his lines,
As far as Phœbus and the heavenly powers
Smile on your labours, make his diction yours:
Your style by his authentic standard frame,
Your voice, your habit, and address, the same.
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With him proceed to cull the rest;
A full reward will justify your care.
Examine all, and bring from all away
Their various treasures as a lawful prey.
Nor would I scruple, with a due regard,
To read sometimes a rude unpolish'd bard d; ;
Among whose labours I may find a line,
Which from unsightly rust I may refine,
And, with a better grace, adopt it into mine.
How often may we see a troubled flood
Stain'd with unsettled ooze and rising mud!
Which (if a well the bordering natives sink)
Supplies the thirsty multitude with drink.
The trickling stream by just degrees refines,
Till in its course the limpid current shines;
And taught through secret labyrinths to flow,
Works itself clear among the sands below.
For nothing looks so gloomy, but will shine
Prom proper care, and timely discipline;
If, with due vigilance and conduct, wrought
Deep in the soul, it labours in the thought.
Hence on the ancients we must rest alone,
And make their golden sentences our own.
To cull their best expressions claims our cares,
To form our notions, and our styles on theirs.
See! how we bear away their precious spoils,
And with the glorious dress enrich our styles
Their bright inventions for our use convey,
Bring all the spirit of their words away,
And make their words themselves our lawful prey
Unsham'd in other colours to be shown,

We speak our thoughts in accents not our own.
But your design with modest caution weigh,
Steal with due care, and meditate the prey.
Invert the order of the words with art,
And change their former scite in every part.
Thus win your readers, thus deceive with grace,
And let th' expression wear a different face ;
Yourself at last, the glorious labour done,
Will scarce discern his diction from your own.

Some, to appear of diffidence bereft,
Steal in broad day, and glory in the theft
When with just art, design and confidence,
On the same words they graft a different sense
Preserve th' unvary'd terms and order too, wo
But change their former spirit for
Or, with the sense of emulation bol
With ancient bards a glorious contest hold:
Their richest spoils triumphant they explore,
Which, rang'd with better grace, they varnish o'er,
And give them charms they never knew before.
So trees, that change their soils, more proudly rise,
And lift their spreading honours to the skies;
And, when transplanted, nobler fruits produce,
Exalt their nature, and ferment their juice. A
So Troy's fam'd chief the Asian empire bore,
With better omens, to the Latian shore;
Though from thy realm, O Dido, to the sea
Call'd by the gods reluctantly away
Nor the first nuptial pleasures could control
The fixt, the stubborn purpose of his sone avv
Unhappy queen! thy woes suppress'd thy breath;
Thy cares pursued thee, and surviv'd in death.
Had not the Dardan fleet thy kingdom sought,
Thy life had shone unsully'd with a fault.

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Come strip the ancients, and divide the spoils
Your hands have won-but shun the fault of such,
Who with fond rashness trust themselves too much.
For some we know, who, by their pride betray'd,
With vain contempt reject a foreign aid;
Who scorn those great examples to obey,
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But where you find your native tongue too poor,
Transport the riches of the Grecian store;
Inform the lump, and work it into grace;
And with new life inspire th' anwieldy mass
Till, chang'd by discipline, the word puts on
A foreign nature, and forgets its own.
So Latium's language found a rich increase,
And grew and flourish'd from the wealth of Greece;
Till use, in time, had rified Argos stores,
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How many words from rich Mycenæ come,
Of Greek extraction, in the dress of Rome,
That live with ours, our rights and freedom claim,
Their nature different, but their looks the same?
Through Latium's realms, in Latium's garb they go,
At once her strangers, and her natives too.
Long has her poverty been fled, and long
-With native riches has she grac'd her tongue.
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Well-pleas'd the reader's wonder to engagedia
He brings our grandsires habit on the stage,
And garbs that whilom grac'd an uncouth age
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Two plighted words in one with grace appear,
When they with ease glide smoothly o'er the car.
Two may embrace at once, but seldom more,
Nor verse can bear the mingled shape of four;
No triple monsters dwell on Latium's shore..
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Till the vast pile of mountains prop the skics.

Through every part most diligently pierce,
And weigh the sound and sense of every senes
Unless your strictest caution you display,
Some words may lead the heedless bardavay;
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And skulkvių darkness, indolently losty ignola A
Or, while their proper parts their fellows ply,
Contribute mought but sondhand harmony
Thisto prevent, consule your words; and know
How far thein strength extent and mature go
To all their charges and their labours fit
To all their several province of witsc
Without this carep the poem will abound
With empty noise, and impotence of sound;
Unimeaning terms will crowd in every part,
Play round the ear, but never reach the heart.
Yet would I sometimes venture to disperse
Some words, whose splendour should adorn my

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(Words, that to wit and thought have no pretence,
And rather vehicles of sound than sense;
Till in the gorgeous dress the dines appear,
And court with gentle harmony the ear.
Nor with too fond a care such words pursue,
They meet your sight and rise in every view.
Oft, from its chains the shackled verse unloose,
And give it liberty to walk in prose;
Then be the work renew'd with endless pain,
And join with care the shatter'd parts again;
The lurking faults and errours you may see,
When the words run unmanacled and free.
Attend, young bard, and listen while I sing;
Lo unlock the Muse's sacred spring;
Lo! Phœbus calls thee to his inmost shrine;
Hark! in one common voice, the tuneful Nine
Invite and court thee to the rites divine.

When first toman the privilege was given,
To hold by verse an intercourse with Heaven,
Unwilling that the immortal art should lie
Cheap, and expos'd to every vulgar eye,
Great Jove, to drive away the groveling crowd,
To narrow bounds confind the glorious road,
Which more exalted spirits may pursue,
And left it open to the sacred few...
For many a painful task, in every part,
Claims all the poet's vigilance and art
"Tis not enough his verses to complete,
In measure, numbers, or determin'd feet;

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Names whose unpolish'd sounds offend the ear
We add, or lop some branches which abound, τον
Till the harsh accents are with smoothness crown'd,
That mellows every word, and softens every sound.
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To sink his roughness in sichæushnamentAw o'
Hence would I rather choose those dire alarmson
Of vast Enceladus, and Heaven interms, weir son
And the bold Titan's battles to rebearses eid ill
Harmonious names, that glide into the verse; Sna
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And make the sound a picture of the sense;
The correspondent words exactly frame,
The look, the features, and the mien, the same,
His thoughts the bard must suitably express,
Each in a different face, and different dress;
Lest in unvary'd looks the crowd be shown,
And the whole multitude appear as one.
With rapid feet and wings, without delay,
This swiftly flies, and smoothly skims antay:
That, vast of sizes his limbs huge, broad, and strong,
Moves pond'rous, and scarce drags bis bulk along.
This blooms with youth and beauty in his face:
And Venus breathes on every limb a grace,
That, of rude form, his unponth numbers shows,
Looks horrible, and frowns with his rough brows;
His monstrous tail in many a fold and wind;
Voluminous and vast, curls up behind
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High-towering o'er the waves the mountains ride,
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When on the groves and fields the deluge preys,
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And climbs aspiring round the caldren's sides;
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Thus in smooth lines, smooth subjects we rehearse,
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If gay the subject, gay must be the song,
And the brisk numbers quickly glide alonges
When the fields flourish, or the skies unfold
Swift from the flying hinge their gates of gold.
If sad the theme, then each grave line moves slow,
The mournful numbers languishingly flow,
And drag, and labour, with a weight of woe.
If e'er the boding bird of night, who mourns
O'er ruins, desolation, graves, and unsprod
With piercing screams the darkness should invade,
And break the silence of the dismal shadersen to
When things are small, the terms should stilt be so:
For low words please us, when the theme is low.!
But when some giant, horrible and grimpan
Enormous in his gait, and vast in every limbe
Stalks towering on; the swelling words must rise
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And when the viper issues from the brakesideil
Be quick; with stones, and brands, and fire attack
His rising crest, and drive the serpentobacks

Beats down embattled armies in his course:
The raging youth orn trembling Ilion falls,
Bursts ber strong gates, and shakes her lofty walls;
Provokes his flying courser to his speed,
In full career to charge the warlike steed;
He piles the field with mountains of the slain;
He pours, he storms, he thunders thro' the plain,
In this the poet's justest conduct lies,
When with the various subjects he complies,
To sink with judgment, and with judgment rise.
We see him nowy remissive of his force,
Glide with a low and inoffensive course;
Stript of the gawdy dress of words he goes,
And scarcely lifts the poem up from prose:
And now he brings with loosen'd reins along
All in a full career the boundless song;
In wide array luxuriantly he pours

A crowd of words, and opens all his stores:
The lavish eloquence redundant flows,
Thick as the fleeces of the winter-snows, -
When Jove invests the naked Alps, and sheds
The silent tempest on their hoary heads.
Sometimes the godlike fury he restrains,
Checkschis impetuous speed, and draws the reins;
Balanc'd and pois'd, he neither sinks nor soars,
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He shoots with joy into the port at last.

For what remainssinsung, Inow declare
What claims the poet's last and strictest care.
When, all adventures past, his labours tend
In one epatinued order to their end
When the proud victor on his conquest smiles,
And safe enjoys the triumph of his toils;
Let him by timely diffidence be awld
Nor trust toaisoon thumpolish'd piece abroad.
Ohtomayshisrash ambition neler inflame
His breast, with such a dangerous thirst of fame!
But let the terrour of disgrace control
The warm, the partial fondness of the soul;
And forces the bard to throw his passion by,
Nor view his offspring with a parent's eye,
'Till his affections are by justice crost,
And all the father in the judge is lost....

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He seeks his friends, nor trusts bimself alone,
Butasks their judgment, and resigns his own;
Begs them with ungernt prayers, to be sincere,
Just and exact, and rigidly severe;
Due verdict to pronounce on every thought,
Nor spare the slightest shadow of a fault;
But, bent against himself, and strictly nice;
He thanks each critic that detects a vice;

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