Such as she bred when fresh and young,
When heavenly flame did animate her clay,
By future poets shall be sung. 20
Westward the course of empire take its way;
The four first acts already past,
A fifth shall close the drama with the day;
Time’s noblest offspring is the last.
George Berkeley.
CXXXVIII
THE LAWYER’S FAREWELL TO HIS MUSE.
As, by some tyrant’s stem command,