Miscellaneous Poems. ioj

Thee, they who drink the Sein, with thoseWho plow Iberian Fields, implore,

To give the Iab’ring Wood repose,

And universal Peace restore,

Thee, Gallta, mournful to survive the FateOf her fall’n Grandeur, and departed State '

By sad Experience taught to own,

That Virtue is a safer Way to rise,

A shorter Passage to the Skies,

Than Pelion, upon OJ[a thrown :

For they, who by deny’d Attempts presumeTo reach the Starry Thrones, becomeSure Food for Thunder, and condemn’d to howl'

In § Ætna, or in -J- Arima to roll,

By an inevitable Doom,

Gain but an higher Fall, a Mountain for their Tomb;

§ f Two Mountains where Jupiter lodged the Giants.

An Ess a y. on POETR Y.

By the the Duke of Buckinghamshire.

O F Things in which Mankind does most excel,

1 Nature’s chief Master-piece is Writing well > ■And of all Sorts of Writing, none there areThat can the least with Poetry compare :

No Kind of Work requires so nice a Touch ; .

And if well stnisti’d, nothing shines so much.

But Heav’n forbid we should be so prophane,

To grace the Vulgar with that sacred Name,