Part 202 (1/2)
Can our | eyes Reach thy | size?
May my | lays Sith | praise, Worthy | thee, Worthy | me!
Muse, in | -spire All thy | fire!
Bards of | old Of him | told, When they | said Atlas' | head Propp'd the | skies: See! and | _believe_ | _your eyes!_
II
”See him | stride Valleys | wide: Over | woods, Over | floods, When he | treads, Mountains' | heads Groan and | shake: Armies | quake, Lest his | spurn Over | -turn Man and | steed: Troops, take | heed!
Left and | right Speed your | flight!
Lest an | host _Beneath_ | _his foot_ | _be lost_
III
”Turn'd a | -side From his | hide, Safe from | wound, Darts re | -bound
From his | nose, Clouds he | blows; When he | speaks, Thunder | breaks!
When he | eats, Famine | threats!
When he | drinks, Neptune | shrinks!
Nigh thy | ear, In mid | air, On thy | hand, Let me | stand
So shall | I (Lofty | poet!) touch the sky”
JOHN GAY: _Johnson's British Poets_, Vol vii, p 376
_Exa, | pleasing | anguish, When we | love, and | e | languish!+
Wishes | rising!
Thoughts sur | -prising!
Pleasure | courting!
Char!
Oh, the | pleasing, | pleasing | anguish!+”
ADDISON'S _Rosamond_, Act i, Scene 6
_Exaer Metres_
1 WITH TROCHAICS
”Or we | soreen | , That de | -fends us | fro | earth our | pillow; Where we | may Think and | pray, B=e'fore | death Stops our | breath: Other | joys, Are but | toys, And to | be la | -mented” [515]
2 WITH IAMBICS
”What sounds | were heard, What scenes | appear'd, O'er all | the drear | -y coasts!
Dreadful | glealow, Shrieks of | wo, Sullen | hosts!”
POPE: _Johnson's Brit Poets_, Vol vi, p 315