[iv] To crown the Chiefs of GRECIA's happier days, Yet how to harmonize the tuneful ftrain Your voice has fhewn AONIA's liftening throng; Nor will you, though your nicer ear retain What founds to pureft Melody belong, This tribute from a ruder Bard disdain, Proud to record your friendship in his fong. FARINGDON-HOUSE, HENRY JAMES PYE. See Effay upon the Harmony of Language, written by Mr. Mitford, and published by Robson, in the year 1776. CON Page Elegy VII. written May 1766, addreffed to a Pine-Tree 72 The Fourth Olympic Ode.-To Pfaumis of Camarina, on his Victory in the Chariot Race The Sixth Olympic Ode.-To Agefias of Syracuse, on - The Eighth Olympic Ode.-To Alcimedon on his Olym- The Ninth Olympic Ode.-To Epharmoftus of Opus, on his Olympic and Pythian Victories The Tenth Olympic Ode.-To Agefidamus, Son of The Thirteenth Olympic Ode.-To Xenophon of Co- A Greek Scolion, or Song, by Calliftratus, on Har- modius and Ariftogeiton On whom all life depends, Whose glorious form we wondering trace Far as our bounded fight extends. VOL. I. B The The search our dazzled reason leaves behind, Exceeds all depth of thought, and mocks the human mind. II. Whate'er on earth, in feas, or air, Strikes with delight the roving eye, Proclaims aloud the ETERNAL's care, And speaks a prefent DEITY; Those who with active pinions cleave The yielding sky, the lucid wave In countless myriads throng, Or through the fylvan regions ftray,- The infect offspring of a day, The echoing foreft's vernal fong, More ftrongly than an angel's voice declare, Where-e'er we turn our eyes, the GoD of Life is there. |