ON THE FOURTH OF NOVEMBER, The Anniversary of the Revolution, 1688. IN IMITATION OF ALCÆUS. WHAT constitutes the Bard? Not the sweet witchery of Fancy's spell, The captive sense, and bid the charmed soul That, fann'd by Freedom, to sublimest heights And from base earth the spirit disunites: Then in the shouts that 'ring from side to side' The Muse's hail! which at this season wide She, Freedom's best ally, whose voice alone, Prevailing, mocks the thunders of the throne! DR. T. PERCY. ELEGANT EXTRACTS. PART VI. Ballads, Songs, and Sonnets. THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH. A Ballad. ALLUDING TO A STORY RECORDED OF HER WHEN WILL you hear how once repining Each ambitious thought resigning, While the nymphs and swains, delighted, Thus the royal maiden cried : 'Bred on plains, or born in valleys, Who would bid those scenes adieu? Stranger to the arts of Malice, Who would ever courts pursue? VOL. III. CC 'Malice never taught to treasure, 'How can they of humble station Which allows them all to love? 'Love, like air, is widely given; Power nor Chance can these restrain; Truest, noblest gifts of Heaven! Only purest on the plain! 'Peers can no such charms discover, Said to fade when Chloe's near; 'Never yet did courtly maiden Would indulgent Heaven had granted All the empire I had wanted Then had been my shepherd's heart. |