Like eastern queens, is more admired.

O let me pierce the secret shade

Where dwells the venerable maid!

There humbly mark, with reverend awe, 65

The guardian of Britannia’s law;

Unfold with joy her sacred page,

The united boast of many an age;

Where mixed, yet uniform, appears

The wisdom of a thousand years; 70

In that pure spring the bottom view,