MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. ΤΟ LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR ROWLAND HILL, K.B. HILL! whose high daring with renew'd success Hung on the mountains; and yon factious crowd Wise, modest, brave, in danger foremost found.- LINES SPOKEN IN THE THEATRE, OXFORD, ON LORD GRENVILLE'S INSTALLATION AS CHANCELLOR. YE viewless guardians of these sacred shades, The page of better times and greater men ; If with pure worship we your steps pursue, And youth, and health, and rest forget for you, (Whom most we serve, to whom our lamp burns bright Explore the circling spheres and map the sky; His long-drawn mole let lordly commerce scan, Such be our toil!-Nor doubt we to explore To climb the chariot of the gods, or scan When, like those brethren stars to seamen known, On in thy glorious course! not yet the wave Has ceased to lash the shore, nor storm forgot to rave. Go on! and oh, while adverse factions raise To thy pure worth involuntary praise; While Gambia's swarthy tribes thy mercies bless, And from thy counsels date their happiness; Say, (for thine Isis yet recals with pride Thy youthful triumphs by her leafy side,) Say, hast thou scorn'd, mid pomp, and wealth, and power, No, statesman, no !-thy patriot fire was fed -By arts like these, amidst a world of foes, |