[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.

HENRY JAMES PYE.

FARINGDON-HOUSE,
Dec. 18, 1786.

*See Effay upon the Harmony of Language, written. by Mr. Mitford, and published by Robson, in the year 1776.

CON

CONTENTS

O F THE

FIRST VOLUME.

DE on the Divine Omniprefence, a College

Exercise

Ode on the Birth of the Prince of Wales

Ode to Liberty

Ode to Beauty

Ode to Harmony

Sent to Dr. Hayes with the Ode to Harmony

Verfes addreffed to a Lady

Epigram

Written on a Lady's Fan

Song

Song

Song

The Snow-Drop

Written in the Year 1779, when the Combined Fleets

were off Plymouth

Epitaph on Charles D'Auffey, Efq.

Addrefs to Mr. Hayley, on reading his Epiftles on

Epic Poetry

Mr. Hayley's Answer

Elegy I. written in the year 1761

II. written in the year 1762

III. written in the year 1763

IV. written September 1, 1763

V. written June 1764

-- VI. written in the Spring 1766

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Page

Elegy VII. written May 1766, addreffed to a Pine-Tree 72

VIII. written at Minfted, in the New Foreft,

August 24, 1767-

75

IX. Avon; written during the Stratford Jubilee 78

81

84

94

109

- 153

162

169

193

The Myrtle and Bramble, a Fable

Madness, an Epiftle

The Triumph of Fashion, a Vifion

Shooting, a Poem

Aerophorion, a Poem

On the Wreck of the Halfewell, a Fragment

The Parfonage Improved, a Poem

Preface to the Olympic Odes of Pindar

197

The Fourth Olympic Ode.-To Pfaumis of Camarina,

on his Victory in the Chariot Race

The Sixth Olympic Ode.-To Agefias of Syracufe, on

his Victory gained by the Apené, or Chariot drawn

by Mules

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The Eighth Olympic Ode.-To Alcimedon on his Olym-
pic Victory; Timofthenes, on his Nemean Victory;
and Melefius, their Preceptor

235

The Ninth Olympic Ode.-To Epharmoftus of Opus,

on his Olympic and Pythian Victories

The Tenth Olympic Ode.-To Agefidamus, Son of

Archeftratus, an Epizephyrian Locrian, on his Vic-

tory obtained by the Cæftus

The Thirteenth Olympic Ode.-To Xenophon of Co-

rinth, on his Victory in the Stadic Courfe, and Pent-

athlon, at Olympia

Two Fragments of Pindar's Threni, preferved by

Plutarch.-On the Situation of the Bleft

256

270

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On the Immortality of the Soul

A Greek Scolion, or Song, by Calliftratus, on Har-

modius and Ariftogeiton

A Fragment of Simonides

203

221

286

287

289

290

Ꭰ .

ON THE

DIVINE OMNIPRESENCE.

A COLLEGE EXERCISE.

I.

VOL. I.

E

Sacred Mufe! thy aid impart,

To rapture wake the founding lyre!

And kindle in my panting heart

A fpark of more than mortal fire:

With votive hands the lay confign

To awful MAJESTY DIVINE,

On whom all life depends,

Whose glorious form we wondering trace
Through all the varied paths of space,
Far as our bounded fight extends.-

B

The

The fearch our dazzled reafon 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 fky, the lucid wave

In countless myriads throng,

Or through the fylvan regions stray,

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.