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GRAY'S POEMS.
Thro' verdant vales, and Ceres' golden reign:[N 1]
Now rolling down the steep amain,[N 2] 10
Headlong, impetuous, see it pour;[V 1]
The rocks and nodding groves rebellow to the roar.[N 3]

I. 2.
Oh! Sov'reign of the willing soul,[N 4]
Parent of sweet and solemn-breathing airs,[N 5]
Enchanting shell! the sullen Cares 15[N 6]
And frantic Passions hear thy soft controul.
On Thracia's hills the Lord of War[N 7]

Variants

  1. ↑ Var. V. 11. With torrent rapture, see it pour." MS.

Notes

  1. ↑ V. 9. Shenstone. Inscr. "Verdant vales and fountains bright." Luke.
  2. ↑ V. 10 "Immensusque ruit profundo Pindarus ore."
    V. 10 "Immensusque ruit profundHor. Od. iv. 2. 8.
  3. ↑ V. 12. And rocks the bellowing voice of boiling seas resound," Dryden. Virg. Georg, i. "Rocks rebellow to the roar," Pope. Iliad.
  4. ↑ V. 13. Power of harmony to calm the turbulent sallies of the soul. The thoughts are borrowed from the first Pythian of Pindar. Gray.
  5. ↑ V. 14. Milton. Comus, 555, "A soft and solemn-breathing sound." See Todd's note.
  6. ↑ V. 15. While sullen Cares and wither'd Age retreat," Eusden. Court of Venus, p. 101. "Revengeful Cares and sullen Sorrows dwell," Dryden. Virgil, Æn. vi. 247. "Care shuns thy soft approach, and sullen flies away," Dryden. Ceyx, vol. iv. p. 33, the same expression occurs in many other poets.
  7. ↑ V. 17. The God of War Was drawn triumphant on his iron ear." Dryden, vol. iii. 60. ed. Warton.
    And Collins in his Ode to Peace, ver. 4:
    "When War by vultures drawn afar, To Britain bent his iron car."

    "Mavortia Thrace," Statii Ach. 1. 201, Theb. vii. 34, and "Mars Thracen occupat," Ovid. Ar. Am. ii. ver. 588. Virg. Æn, iii. 35. "Gradivumque patrem Geticis qui præsidet arvis." v. Bentl. on Hor. Od i. xxv. 19.

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