Elysii valles nunc agmine lustrat inani, Et veterum Heroum miscetur grandibus umbris Plebs parva: aut, si quid fidei mereatur anilis Fabula, Pastores per noctis opaca pusillas 155 Sæpe vident umbras, Pygmæos corpore cassos. Dum secura Gruum, et veteres oblita labores, Lætitiæ penitus vacat, indulgetque choreis, Angustosque terit calles, viridesque per orbes Turba levis salit, et lemurum cognomine gaudet. 151.] Set back in 1698 and 1699. 153. Plebs . . . fidei] Parvula Plebs: vel siqua fides, 1698. 1699 adds at end: J. Addison, A. M. è Coll. Magd. Text from Tickell's edn. of Addison's Works (1721), collated with the texts in Examen Poeticum Duplex, 1698, and Musarum Anglicanarum Analecta, vol. ii., 1699. Resurrectio first appeared in Examen Poeticum Duplex, 1698. It was reprinted with many alterations in vol. ii. of Musarum Anglicanarum Analecta, 1699: and this new version was reprinted without material alteration in the reissues of that collection, and in Tickell's edn. of Addison's Works (1721). RESURRECTIO DELINEATA Ad Altare Col. Magd. Oxon. EGREGIOS fuci tractus, calamique labores, Surgentesque hominum formas, ardentiaque ora Judicis, et simulachra modis pallentia miris, Terribilem visu pompam, tu carmine Musa 5 Pande novo, vatique sacros accende furores. Olim planitiem (quam nunc fœcunda colorum Insignit pictura) inhonesto et simplice cultu Vestiit albedo, sed ne rima ulla priorem Agnoscat faciem, mox fundamenta futuræ 10 Substravit pictor tabulæ, humoremque sequacem Per muros traxit; velamine moenia crasso Squallent obducta, et rudioribus illita fucis. Utque (polo nondum stellis fulgentibus apto) Ne spatio moles immensa dehiscat inani, 15 Per cava cœlorum, et convexa patentia late Hinc atque hinc interfusus fluitaverat æther; Mox radiante novum torrebat lumine mundum Titan, et pallens alienos mitius ignes Cynthia vibrabat; crebris nunc consitus astris 20 Scintillare polus, nunc fulgor Lacteus omne Diffluere in cœlum, longoque albescere tractu. 1-5.] Foelices calami tractus, Fucique labores, Historiamque sacram, redivivaque funera pandam. Ut versu poterit simulata Tabella referri, Et calamo pariter descripta niteret utroque. 1698. Sic, operis postquam lusit primordia pictor, Aligeris muri vacat ora suprema ministris, 35 Sic, dum fœcundis Cadmus dat semina sulcis, Terra tumet prægnans, animataque gleba laborat, Luxuriatur ager segete spirante, calescit Omne solum, crescitque virorum prodiga messis. Jam pulvis varias terræ dispersa per oras, 40 Sive inter venas teneri concreta metalli, Sensim diriguit, seu sese immiscuit herbis, Explicita est; molem rursus coalescit in unam Divisum funus, sparsos prior alligat artus Junctura, aptanturque iterum coëuntia membra. 45 Hic nondum specie perfecta resurgit imago, Vultum truncata, atque inhonesto vulnere nares Manca, et adhuc deest informi de corpore multum. Paulatim in rigidum hic vita insinuata cadaver Motu ægro vix dum redivivos erigit artus. 50 Inficit his horror vultus, et imagine tota Fusa per attonitam pallet formido figuram. Detrahe quin oculos spectator, et, ora nitentem Si poterint perferre diem, medium inspice murum, Qua sedet orta Deo proles, Deus ipse, sereno 55 Lumine perfusus, radiisque inspersus acutis. 22.] Sic, ubi prima operis lusit fundamina Pictor, 1698. 24.] Jam cautè calamos exercet, & arte tenacem, 1698. Between 31 and 32.] Æmula Threicia Cythara tuba saxa recludit, 35. fœcundis] viviparis, 1698. |