Why hears not now? What fairer grove * From Harewood lures her devious love? Perhaps to fome lone cave the Rover flies, Where banners wave with blazon'd gold, There will the meek-ey'd nymph delight to call, And with the folemn feer high converse hold. IV. There, goddess, on the fhaggy mound, And o'er his faintly temples bland distill * ATHELWOLD's castle. V. Where'er thou art, enchanting maid, Where all the Loves and Graces lye, With them your hands fhall mutual chaplets twine, And weave immortal wreaths of peace and joy. VIr And, hark, compleating our prophetic strain, Avaunt! ye vain, delufive fears. Hark! Echo tells thro' Harewood's ampleft bounds, That Love, Content, and ATHELWOLD appears. CHORUS III. ON CONSTANC Y.. I. Whence does this fudden luftre rife, That gilds the grove? not like the noon-time beam Which sparkling dances on the trembling stream, Nor the blue lightning's flash swift-shooting thro' the skies. But fuch a folemn steady light, As oe'r the cloudlefs azure fteals, When CYNTHIA riding on the brow of night, II. Whence can it rife but from the fober pow'r Stedfast, as when her high command Their radiant ftations in heav'n's ample plain. * In which ATHELWOLD and ELFRIDA had been just exchanging profeffions of their mutual fidelity. Stedfaft, as when around this nether sphere, Tells what time the fnow-drop cold To caft his filv'ry mantle o'er the woods, III. The foul, which she inspires, has pow'r to climb Of Virtue's tow'ring hill. That hill, at whofe low feet weak-warb'ling ftrays The scanty stream of human praise, A fhallow trickling rill. While on the fummits hov'ring angels shed, Pure, and unmixt on thee the facred drops shall fall. CHORUS IV. ATHELWOLD SUSPECTS THE CONSTANCY OF ELFRIDA. I. Say, will no white-rob'd fon of light, Here deign to take his hallow'd stand; of fate? II. 'Tis filence all. No fon of light Darts fwiftly from his heav'nly height. No train of radiant faints defcend. "Mortals, in vain ye hope to find, "If guilt, if fraud have stain'd your mind, "Or faint to hear, or angel to defend.” P |