Meantime, in sable cincture, shadows valt, Deep-ting'd and damp, and congregated clouds,ĥ5 And all the vapoury turbulence of heaven, Involve the face of things. Nor is the night unwish’d while vital heat, Light, life, and joy, the dubious day forsake. 45 Faint are his gleams, and ineffectual shoot His struggling rays, in horizontal lines, Through the thick air as, cloath'd in cloudy storm, Weak, wan, and broad, he skirts the fouthern sky And, soon-descending, to the long dark night,ĥ0 Wide-shading all, the proftrate world resigns. Now when the chearless empire of the sky To Capricorn the Centaur Archer yields, And fierce Aquarius ftains th’inverted year Hung o'er the farthest verge of heaven, the sun Scarce spreads through æther the dejected day. Nor art thou skill'd in awful schemes alone, And how to make a mighty people thrive : But equal goodness, found integrity, A firm unshaken uncorrupted soul Amid a sliding age, and burning strong, Not vainly blazing for thy country's weal,ģ5 A steady fpirit regularly free These, each exalting each, the statesman light Into the patriot these, the public hope And eye to thee converting, bid the Muse Record what envy dares not flattery call.
Since has she rounded the revolving year: Skiin'd the gay Spring on eagle-pinions borne, Attempted through the Summer-blaze to rise Then swept o’er Autumn with the shadowy gale And now among the wintery clouds again, Roll'd in the doubling storm, she tries to soar To swell her note with all the rushing winds To suit her founding cadence to the floods As is her theme, her numbers wildly great: Thrice happy! could she fill thy judging ear With bold description, and with manly thought. To thee, the patron of her first essay, The Muse, O Wilmington! renews her song.
Thus pass’d the time, Till through the lucid chambers of the south 15 Look'd out the joyous Spring, look'd out, and simild. Trod the pure virgin-snows, myself as pure Heard the winds roar, and the big torrent burst Or seen the deep fermenting tempest brew'd, In the grim evening sky.
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