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The heatt while melted is enlarg’d, released 
Prom grov’ling bondage, fill’d with daring might ; 
© virtue! when the tainted breast nor feels t 
Thy grandeur, nor thy lovelinefs; but seeks 
Ti frivolous, the dazzling, and the vain ; 
Adieu the manly thought, th’ intrepid mind ; 
An@ thou, fair Liberty, adieu !—Awake, 
Ye sons of song, wake from th unfeeling trance, 
And hurl the lightning ot bold verse! Defend 
The fane of holy freedom! for I deem 
Whate’er of pleasing or sublime adorns 
Or elevates the tuneful lay, depends 
On that protecting power. Whenservile fear 
Hangs on the drooping spirit, when restraint 
Bars from the loveliest, sublimest theme ;-— 
Bars from the praise of virtue; and when pride, 
Exalted, insolent and vain, requires 
Th’ applauding strain ; enervated and mean 
Creep the cold numbers. Sweep the mighty lyre 
Undaunted, and the sons of other times 
our song fhall venerate, and write your name 
High in the zecord of immortal fame. 
JULIANA. 
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Verses TO A Lapy, 
Wiru tHe GenTLE SHEPHERD. 
Fair lady this affecting lay peruse, ‘i 
The genuine offspring of the Doric muse: .. 
The muse erewhile on aledonia’s plains 
That charm*d the forests with mellifluent strains. 
Copious and clear where Leven glides along: 
Where Tweda listens to the fhepherd’s song : 
Where Spey impetuous pours his rapid tide ; 
Or in the valley of Commercial Clyde: 
By winding Forth, or by the silver Tay, 
Warbling the welcomed the return of May. 
Cold now the hands, extinct the heavenly fire 
That waked to extacy the living lyre. 
No more the energy of song prevades 
Our silent valleys and forsaken glades ; 
No more the green hill and the deepening grove 
Resound the longing, langtid voice of love. 
For Hamilton the loves and graces mourn ; 
And tuneful muses weep at Ramsay’s urn. 
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