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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T131163 K104099.002 Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. II. London printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley 1763 [1st ed. 1758] pp. 217-218. 6v.: music; 8⁰.

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An ODE . By the Same . I. ON Stow , the Muse's happy theme , Let fancy's eye enamour'd gaze ; Where thro' one nobly simple scheme , Ten thousand varying beauties please . There patriot-virtue rears her shrine , Nor love ! art thou depriv'd of thine . II . Mark where from POPE'S exhaustless vein , Pure flows the stream of copious thought , While nature pours the genial strain , With fairest springs of learning fraught ; The treasures of each clime and age , Grace and enrich his sacred page . III . So while thro' Britain's fields her Thames Prolifick rolls his silver tide ; The tribute of a thousand streams Swells the majestick river's pride ; And where his gen'rous current strays , The wealth of either world conveys . IV . Far other , is that wretch's song , Whose scanty rill devoid of force , With idle tinklings creeps along , A narrow , crooked , dubious course ; Or foul with congregated floods , Spreads a wide waste o'er plains , and woods . V. In action thus the mind express'd High soars in Pope the true sublime ; A Stow unfolds a Cobham's breast , A Bavius crawls in doggrel rhyme . Thro' all their various works we trace The greatly virtuous , and the base .