Twangs through the twisted horn the struggling note.

These truths confess'd—Oh! yet, ye travell'd few,

Germania's plays with eyes unjaundiced view!

View and approve!—though in each passage fine

The faint translation[207] mock the genuine line;

Though the nice ear the erring sight belie,

For U twice dotted is pronounced like I; [Applause.

Yet oft the scene shall Nature's fire impart,

Warm from the breast, and glowing to the heart!

Ye travell'd few, attend! On you our bard