The Poetical Works Author:Thomas Campbell, Samuel Taylor Coleridge Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SPEECH OF THE CHORUS THE SAME TRAGEDY. To dissuade Medea from her purpose of putting her children to death, and flying for protection to Jit he Hi. O ha... more »ggard queen! to Athens dost thou guide Thy glowing chariot, steeped in kindred gore ; Or seek to hide thy damned parricide Where Peace and Mercy dwell for ever more ? The land where Truth, pure, precious, and sublime, Woos the deep silence of sequestered bowers, And warriors, matchless since the first of Time, Rear their bright banners o'er unconquered towers J Where joyous Youth, to Music's mellow strain, Twines in the dance with Nymphs for ever fair, While Spring eternal, on the Filled plain, Waves amber radiance through the fields of air! The tuneful Nine (so sacred legends tell) First waked their neavenly lyre these scenes among; Still in your greenwood bowers they love to dwell; Still in your vales they swell the choral song! For there the tuneful, chaste, Pierian fair, Th guardian nymphs of green Parnassus now, Sprung from Harmonia, while her graceful hair Waved in bright auburn o'er her polished brow ! ANTISTROPHE I. Where silent vales, and glades of green array, The murm'ring wreaths of cool Cephisus lave, There as the Muse hath sung, at noon of day, The Queen of Beauty bowed to taste the wave ; And blest the stream, and breathed across the land, The soft sweet gale that fans yon summer bowers And there the sister Loves, a smiling band, Crowned with the fragrant wreaths of rosy flowers I " And go, she cries, in yonder valleys rove With Beauty's torch the solemn scenes illume ; Wake in each eye the radiant light of Love, Breathe on each cheek young Passion's tender bloom! Entwine with myrtle chains, your soft control, To sway the hearts ...« less