By fpeedy zephyrs borne in thickned air: Now o'er the mountain tops the rifing fun Did not I give ?-Here fudden blushes glow 801 84 88 The drefs, the crefcent; and her doubts give way. 92- Goddefs, I own thee, and thy favours prize : 96 To guard thy bloom, and warn thy tender years. reo TRANS TRANSLATION S. THE FIRST OLYMPIONIQUE OF PINDAR. TO HIERO of SYRACUSE, victorious in the HORSE-RACE. A R G U M Es N T. THE Poet praifes Hiero for his juftice, his wisdom, and his skill in mufic. He likewife celebrates the horse that won the race, and the place where the Olympick Games were performed. From the place (namely Peloponnefus) he takes an occafion of di-.. greffing to the known fable of Tantalus and Pelops; whence, returning to Hiero, he fets forth the felicity of the Olympian Victors. Then he concludes, by praying to the gods to preferve the glory and dignity. of Hicro, admonishing him to moderation of mind, in his high station; and, lastly, glories in his own excellency in compofitions of this kind. STROPHE I. Measures 18.. EACH element to water yields; And gold, like blazing fire by night, Amidst the ftores of wealth that builds The mind aloft, is eminently bright: But But if, my foul, with fond defire To fing of games thou dost aspire, As thou by day canft not defcry, Through all the liquid waste of sky, One burnish'd ftar, that like the fun does glow, So, my fweet foul, no toil divine, In fong, does like th' Olympian shine: A hymn, of every tongue the praise, When far, from every land, they come To vifit Hiero's regal dome, Where peace, where plenty, is for ever found: ANTISTROPHE I. Meafures 18. Lord of Sicilia's fleecy plains, He governs, righteous in his power, And, all excelling while he reigns, From every lovely virtue crops the flower: In mufic, bloffom of delight, Divinely fkill'd, he cheers the night, As we are wont, when friends defign 25 To feaft and wanton o'er their wine: But from the wall the Dorian harp take down, If Pifa, city of renown, And if the fleet victorious fteed, The boaft of his unrival'd breed, 30 When When late, on Alpheus' crouded shore, And swift to victory his master bore. E PODE I. Meafures 16. The lov'd Syracufan, the prince of the course, Throughout the land where Lydian Pelops came Pelops, whom Neptune, ruler of the main, Where fictions, happily combin'd, 35 40 45 In miracles mighty, have power to charm, 50 And we, amaz'd, believe each wonder true. Day, after day, brings truth to light, Unveil'd, and manifeft to fight: But, But, of the blefs'd, thofe lips which name 60 Thee, fon of Tantalus, my faithful song Shall vindicate from every wrong, 65 The glories of thy house restore, Beheld thy lovely form; and now, he glow'd; ANTISTROPHE 70 II. Meafures 18. And now, his foul fubdued by love, Thee in his golden car he bore Swift to the lofty towers of Jove, Whofe name the nations all around adore: Thus Ganymede was caught on high, 75 When thou no longer didft appear, And thofe, who fought a pledge fo dear, The rumour through the country filed, That thou, to heighten the repaft, 80 85 Thy |