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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ... the blazing quire. 305 AN ODE ADDRESSED TO MR. JOHN ROUS, LIBRARIAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, ON A LOST VOLUME OF MY POEMS, WHICH HE DESIRED ME TO REPLACE, THAT HE MIGHT ADD THEM TO MY OTHER WORKS DEPOSITED IN THE LIBRARY. This ode is rendered without rhyme, that it might more adequately represent the original, which, as Milton himself informs us, is of no certain measure. It may possibly for this reason disappoint the reader, though it cost the writer more labour than the translation of any other piece in the whole collection. STBOPHE. Y twofold book! single in show, But double in contents, Neat, but not curiously adorned, Which, in his early youth, A poet gave, no lofty one in truth, 5 Although an earnest wooer of the Muse--Say while in cool Ausonian shades Or British wilds he roamed, Striking by turns his native lyre, By turns the Daunian lute, 10 And stepped almost in air--ANTISTEOPHE. Say, little book, what furtive hand Thee from thy fellow books conveyed, Poems of Milton translated by Cowper, 1808, p. 88. What time, at the repeated suit Of my most learned friend, 15 I sent thee forth, an honoured traveller, From our great city to the source of Thames, Caerulean sire! Where rise the fountains, and the raptures ring, Of the Aonian choir, 20 Durable as yonder spheres, And through the endless lapse of years Secure to be admired? SIBOPHE 11. Now what god, or demigod, For Britain's ancient genius moved, 25 (If our afflicted land Have expiated at length the guilty sloth Of her degenerate sons) Shall terminate our impious feuds, And discipline with hallowed voice recall? 30 Recall the Muses too, Driven from their ancient seats In Albion, and well nigh from Albion's shore, And with keen Phoebean shafts Piercing the unseemly birds, s5 Whose talons menace us...

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