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S this Part contains a defcription of the establishment of LIBERTY in ROME, it begins with a view of the Grecian colonies fettled in the fouthern parts of Italy, which with Sicily conftituted the Great Greece of the Ancients. With thefe colonies the Spirit of LIBERTY, and of Republics, fpreads over Italy; to Ver. 32. Tranfition to PYTHAGORAS and his philofophy, which he taught through thofe free fiates and cities; to Ver. 71. Amidst the many fmall Republics in Italy, ROME the deftined feat of LiHer eftablishment there dated from the expulfion of the Tarquins. How differing from that in GREECE; to Ver. 88. Reference to a view of the ROMAN REPUBLIC given in the First Part of this Poem: to mark its Rife and Fall the peculiar purport of This. During its firft ages, the greatest force of LIBERTY, and Virtue, exerted; to Ver. 103. The fource whence derived the Heroic Virtues of the ROMANS. Enumeration of these Virtues. Thence their fecurity at home; their glory, fuccefs, and empire, abroad; to Ver. 226. Bounds of the Roman empire geographically defcribed; to Ver. 257The ftates of GREECE restored to LIBERTY, by TITUS QUINTUS FLAMINIUS, the higheft inftance of public generofity and beneficence; to Ver. 328. The lofs of LIBERTY in ROME. Its caufes, progrefs, and completion in the death of BRUTUS; to Ver. 485. ROME under the emperors; to Ver. 513. From ROME the GODDESS of LiBERTY goes among the NORTHERN NATIONS; where by infufing into them her Spirit and general principles, SHE lays the ground-work of her future establishments; fends them in vengeance on the Roman empire, now totally enfaved; and then, with Arts and Sciences in her train, quits earth during the dark ages; to Ver. 550. The ceieftial regions, to which LIBERTY retired, not proper to be opened to the view of mortals.

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LIBERTY.

PART III.

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"ERE melting mix'd with air th' ideal forms,
That painted ftill whate'er the GODDESS fung.
Then I, impatient." From extinguish'd GREECE,
"To what new region stream'd the Human Day ""
She foftly fighing, as when Zephyr leaves,
Refign'd to Boreas, the declining year,
Refum'd.Indignant, thefet laft fcenes I fled;
And long ere then, Leucadia's cloudy cliff,
And the Ceraunian hills behind me thrown,
All LATIUM ftood arous'd. Ages before,

Great mother of republics! GREECE had pour'd,
Swarm after fwarm, her ardent youth around.
On Afia, Afric, Sicily, they stoop'd,
But thief on fair HESPERIA's winding fhore;
Where, from Lacinium to Etrurian vales,

The last struggles of Liberty in GREECE. § A promontory in Calabria.

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They roll'd increafing colonies along,

And lent materials for my ROMAN REIGN.

With them my Spirit fpread; and num'rous states,
And cities rofe, on Grecian models form'd;
As its parental policy, and arts,

Each had imbib'd. Befides, to each affign'd
A Guardian Genius, o'er the public weal,
Kept an unclofing eye; try'd to fuftain,
Or more fublime, the foul infus'd by Mɛ :
And strong the battle rofe, with various wave,
Against the Tyrant Demons of the land.
Thus they their little wars and triumphs knew ;
Their flows of fortune, and receding times,
But almost all below the proud regard
Of story vow'd to ROME, on deeds intent
That Truth beyond the flight of Fable bore.
Not fo the †SAMIAN SAGE; to him belongs
The brightest witness of recording Fame.
For thefe free ftates his native

ifle forfook,

And a vain tyrant's tranfitory finile,

He fought Crotona's pure falubrious air,

And thro' Great Greece his gentle wifdom taught;

Wisdom that calm'd for * lift'ning years the mind,

Nor ever heard amid the storm of zeal.

His mental

eye first launch'd into the deeps

PYTHAGORAS.

Samos, over which then reigned the tyrant POLICRATES.

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The fouthern parts of Italy and Sicily, fo called because of the Grecian colonies there fettled.

His fcholars were enjoin'd filence for five years.

Of boundless ether: where unnumber'd orbs,
Myriads on myriads, thro' the pathless sky
Unerring roll, and wind their steady way.
There he the full confenting choir beheld;

There firft difcern'd the fecret band of love

The kind attraction, that to central funs

Binds circling earths, and world with world unites.
Instructed thence, he great ideas form'd
Of the whole-moving, all-informing GOD,
The Sun of beings! beaming unconfin'd
Light, life, and love, and ever-active pow'r :
Whom nought can image, and who best approves
The filent worship of the moral heart,

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That joys in bounteous heav'n, and spreads the joy.
Nor fcorn'd the foaring fage to ftoop to life,

And bound his reafon to the sphere of Man.
He gave the four yet § reigning virtues name
Infpir'd the study of the finer arts,

That civilize mankind, and laws devis'd
Where with enlighten'd juftice mercy mix'd.
He even, into his tender fyftem, took
Whatever shares the brotherhood of life:
He taught that life's indiffoluble flame,.

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From brute to man, and man to brutė again,
For ever fhifting, runs th' eternal round;
Thence try'd against the blood-polluted meal,
And limbs yet quiv'ring with fome kindred foul,.
To turn the human heart. Delightful truth!

The four cardinal virtues.

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