Example dread, and theme of tragic song.
Nor less immortal, than the Chiefs, resound
The Poets’ names, who spread their deeds around.
Homer shall flourish first in rolls of fame;
And still shall leave the Roman Virgil’s name;
With living bays is lofty Pindar crown’d;
In distant ages Horace stands renown’d.
These Bards, and more, fair Greece and Rome may boast,
And some may flourish on this British Coast.
Witness the man, on whom the Muse did smile,