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© Sovereign of a people’s choice, 
Hear, in that people’s general voice, 
The noblest praise that waits a throne; 
Their surest guard thy patriot zeal — 
Thy public care their strength—they feel 
Thy happiness their own. 
iil. 
O royal youth ! a king’s, a parent’s pride, 
A nation’s future hope !—again the tongue, 
That join’d the choir, what time by Isis side 
Her tuneful sons thy birth auspicious sung, 
Now hails, fulfill’d by Hymen’s hallow’d flame : 
The warmest wish Affection’s voice could frame : 
For say, can Fame, can Fortune know 
Such genuine raptures to bestow, 
As from the smiles of wedded love arise, 
When heavenly virtue beams from blushing Beauty’s eyes? 
IV. 
Ne’er may the rapid hours that wing 
O’er Time’s unbounded field their ceaseless flight, 
To grateful Britain’s monarch bring, 
A tribute of less pure delighigg” 
Ne’er may the song of duty soothe his ear 
With strains of weaker joy, or transports less sincere> 
EXTRACT from Mr. Maurtce’s Elegiac Poem on Sir Wm. Jones. 
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O chase the tenfold gloom, my Jones, was thine, 
To cheer the Brahmin, and to burst his chains ; 
To search for latent gems the Sanscreet mine, 
And wake the fervour of her ancient strains. 
For oh! what pen shall paint with half thy fire, 
The power of music on the impassion’d soul, 
When the great masters wak’d the Indian lyre, 
And bade the burning song electric roll ?* 
impressive title of one of the most ancient Sanscreet treatises on musi¢ 
is, “ The Sea of Passions. See our author's animated account of the Indian 
music in the Asiatic Researches, vol. ii, p. 55. 
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