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HYMN TO ADVERSITY.
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To thee he gave the heav'nly birth,And bade to form her infant mind.Stern rugged nurse! thy rigid lore[N 1]With patience many a year she bore:What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, 15And from her own she learn'd to melt at others' woe.[N 2]
Scar'd at thy frown terrific, flySelf-pleasing Folly's idle brood,Wild Laughter, Noise, and thoughtless Joy,And leave us leisure to be good.[N 3] 20Light they disperse, and with them goThe summer friend, the flatt'ring foe;[N 4]

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Notes

  1. ↑ V. 13. An expression similar to this occurs in Sidney. Arcadia, vol. iii. p. 100: "Ill fortune, my awful governess."
  2. ↑ V. 16. "Non ignara mali, miseris succurrere disco." Luke.
  3. ↑ V. 20. "If we for happiness could leisure find," Hurd's Cowley, vol. i. p. 136 and the note of the editor. "And know I have not yet the leisure to be good," Oldham, Ode, st. v. vol. i, p. 83.
  4. ↑ V. 22.
    "———For men, like butterflies,Shew not their mealy wings, but to the summer."Troil. and Cress. A iii. sc. 3
  5. ↑ V. 5. Αδαμαντίνων δεσμῶν ἐν ἀῤῥήκτοις πέδαις Æsch. Prom. vi. W., from whom Milton. Par. L. i, 48: "In adamantine chains, and penal fire." And the expression occurs also in the Works of Spenser, Drummond, Fletcher, and Drayton. See Todd's note on Milton. In adamantine chains shall Death be bound," Pope. Messiah, ver. 47; and lastly, Manil. Astron. lib. i. 921. And Boisson, on Philost. Heroic, p. 405.
  6. ↑ V. 7. Till some new tyrant lifts his purple hand," Pope. Two Choruses, ver. 25. Wakefield cites Horace, lib. i. od, xxxv, 18: "Purpurei metuunt tyranni." Add Tasso. Gier. Lib. c. vii. Luke.
  7. ↑ V. 8. Strange horror seize thee, and pangs unfelt before. Par. L. ii. 703.
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