EPILOGUE.

Tis past-and o'er her laurels torn
The Queen of Nations bends to mourn,
The Nurse of heroes crouches low,
Slave to a base ignoble foe.

Seas, where triumphant fleets unfurl'd
Their banners that o'eraw'd the world,
Lands peopled by the wise and brave,
Abode of patriots and their grave,
Fields, where the early muse awoke
And tuneful reeds the silence broke,
Mountains (retreat of gods), and vales
That give their fragrance to the gales,
Rivers, from steepy heights that fell,
Where, tenants of each sparry cell,
Beneath your waters fringed with flowers
The nymphs of fountains pass'd their hours,
While on your margin stretch'd along
The poet dream'd, or tuned his song,
At which the Dryads would appear,
And sylvan boys run out to hear;

Dim are your glories, sunk your name,
And all has perish'd but the fame

That never shall thro' time decay

While nations rise and melt away.
Fraught with the treasures of the past,
As years to years succeeding haste,
And tho' in every age we trace
A moral for the coming race,

In vain we backward cast our eyes
On follies, crimes, and miseries,
From war and havoc shrink in vain,
And all is acted o'er again.
Dead are the bards-but living lays
Resound, and tell of early days,

And still the trembling chords prolong
Untouch'd the power of ancient song;
Dear is their minstrelsy, that floats
In solemn, sweet, and liquid notes,
That registers the orphan's sigh,
The plighted lover's perjury,

The pride of riches and of power,
The mirthful, and the mournful hour,
That paints the virgin in her bloom,
The triumph, banquet, and the tomb,
The deeds of mighty chiefs, who broke
The tyrant's chain, and spurn'd his yoke,
And then by beauty's arms subdued
Were led in willing servitude.

Dear are the records, that unfold

The pleasures and the cares of old,
And bid us in the past descry

The visions of futurity.

B.

INDEX,

With the Names of the Authors arranged according to the
Chronological Order of Brunck and Jacobs.

ARCHILOCHUS, (i. Brunck. p. 40,) flourished about A. 724 before

Christ.

i. Patience under public Affliction

ERINNA, (i. 58.) Contemporary with Sappho.

ii. Epitaph of a

Bride
young

iii. Another

On Death

183

ESOP, (i. 76.) The Fabulist, contemporary with Croesus, &c.

SIMONIDES, (i. 120.) About 560 before Christ.

vii. The Complaint of Danae

xi. The Comparison

xxxi. Epitaph of Megistias the Soothsayer
xxxii.

of those who fell at Thermopylæ

360

121

301

302

liii.

of Archidice, the daughter of Hippias 301

Ixiii. The Offering of the Courtezans

426

369

122

xc. On a Statue of Cupid

TIMOCREON of Rhodes, (i. 148.)

i. On Wealth, a Scholion

BACCHYLIDES, (i. 149.) Nephew of Simonides.

iv. On Truth

ix. Peace

xx. The Husbandman's Offering

CALLISTRATUS, (i. 155.)

Scol. vii. Ode to the Athenian Patriots

HYBRIAS of Crete, (i. 159.)

Schol. xxii. The Warrior's Riches