CAMBRIA. Hail fource of bleffings to our isle! BOTH VOICES. To joy, to triumphs, dedicate the day. CAMBRIA. Rife, goddess of immortal fame, The double festival proclaim. FAME. The goddess of immortal fame Shall, with her trumpet's fwelling found, To all Britannia's realms around, The double festival proclaim. O'er Cambria's diftant hills let the loud notes rebound! Each British foul be rais'd, and every eye be gay! To joy, to triumphs, dedicate the day. E X "T"dent of having Horace for my com HIS little Poem was writ by the acci "panion in a confinement by fickness, and fancying "I had difcovered a new fenfe of one of his odes, for "which I have found your lordship's great indulgence "and partiality to me, the best expofition. Perhaps we never read with that attention, as “when we think we have found fomething applicable "to ourselves. I am now grown fond enough of this <fense to believe it the true one, and have drawn two "or three learned friends (to whom I have mentioned "it) into my opinion. "The Ode, your lordfhip will fee, is that in which "Horace feigns himself turned into a fwan. It paffes " (for aught I know univerfally) for a compliment on " himself, and a mere enthusiastick rant of the poet "in his own praise, like his EXEGI MONUMENTUM, "&c. I confess I had often flightly read it in that "view, and have found every one I have lately asked, "deceived by the fame opinion, which I cannot but "think poils the ode, and finks it to nothing; I had "almost faid, turns the fwan into a goofe. "The Grammarians feem to have fallen into this "mistake, by wholly overlooking the reason of his rapture, viz. its being addreffed to Mæcenas; and "have prefaced it with this, and the like general in"fcriptions-VATICINATUR CARMINUM SUORUM IMMORTALITATEM, &c. which I think is not the "I am very happy in the occafion which fhewed it ❝me in a quite different sense from what I had ever "apprehended, till I had the honour to be known to 66 your lordship; I am fure a much more advantage"ous one to the Poet, as well as more juft to his great 66 patron. If I have exceeded the liberty of an imi“tator, in pursuing the fame hint further, to make "it lefs doubtful, yet his favourers will forgive me, "when I own I have not on this occafion fo much thought of emulating his poetry, as of rivaling his "pride, by the ambition of being known as, MY LORD, YOUR LORDSHIP'S MOST OBLIGED, AND DEVOTED HUMBLE SERVANT, J. HUGHES. ODE IN ALLUSION TO HORACE, LIB. II. ODE XX. I I. 'M rais'd, transported, chang'd all o'er ! Aloft; fee, fee the down arise, And clothe my back, and plume my thighs! II. Shall I, obfcure or difesteem'd, Of vulgar rank henceforth be deem'd ? Or vainly toil my name to fave No-He can never wholly die, Secure of immortality, Whom Britain's Cowper condefcends To own, and numbers with his friends. III. 'Tis III. 'Tis done-I fcorn mean honours now; Let Fame be filent; only tell That generous Cowper loves me well. IV. Through Britain's realms I fhall be known And when the tomb my duft shall hide, WHAT |