Page:Poetical works (IA poeticalworks00grayrich).pdf/145

There was a problem when proofreading this page.
HYMN TO ADVERSITY.
21
Not circled with the vengeful band(As by the impious thou art seen)With thund'ring voice, and threat'ning mien,With screaming Horror's fun'ral cry,Despair, and fell Disease, and ghastly Poverty: 40
Thy form benign, oh goddess, wear,Thy milder influence impart,Thy philosophic train be thereTo soften, not to wound, my heart.The gen'rous spark extinct revive 45Teach me to love, and to forgive,Exact my own defects to scan,What others are to feel, and know myself a Man.

[N 1]

[N 2]

[N 3]

Notes

    Lost, act iv. sc. 3. In Beaumont. Passionate Madman. act iii. sc. 1:

    "A look that's fasten'd to the ground,A tongue chain'd up without a sound."

  1. ↑ V. 31. "To Servants kind, to Friendship clear, To nothing but herself severe." Carew. Poems, p. 87. And "Judge of thyself alone, for none there were Could be so just, or could be so severe." Oldham. Ode on Ben Jonson, p. 71, vol. ii. "Forgiving others, to himself severe," Dryden, Misc. vi 322. "The Muses' friend unto himself severe," Waller. Poems, p. 149. "Candid to all, but to himself severe," E. Smith. El. on J. Philips, v. Lintot. Misc. p. 161.
  2. ↑ V. 32. "Ours be the lenient, not unpleasing tear," Thomson. Mr. Rogers quotes Dryden, Virg. Æn, x, "a sadly-pleasing thought."
  3. ↑ V. 35. "Gorgoneum turpes crinem mutavit in hydros, Nunc quoque, ut attonitos formidine terreat hostes." Ovid. Met. iv. 801. "———Horrentem colubris, vultuque tremendam Gorgoneo."——— Val. Flac. vi. 175. Milt. Par. L. ii. 611. "Medusa with Gorgonian terrors."
This article is issued from Wikisource. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.