Durgen Or, A Plain Satyr upon a Pompous Satyrist. Amicably Inscrib'd, by the Author, to those Worthy and Ingenious Gentlemen misrepresented in a late invective Poem, call'd, The Dunciad [by Edward Ward] |
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The Grecian Bard whose excellence we trace,
Great Prince and Father of the Epick Race,
The first wise Sage that taught his native Tongue,
The graceful Numbers of heroick Song.
Apollo's Darling, and the only light
That in so dark a Lanthorn shone so bright;
As if the Gods assembled at his birth,
And all consenting to enlarge his worth,
Enrich'd with heav'nly Gifts the new born Earth.
Great Prince and Father of the Epick Race,
The first wise Sage that taught his native Tongue,
The graceful Numbers of heroick Song.
Apollo's Darling, and the only light
That in so dark a Lanthorn shone so bright;
As if the Gods assembled at his birth,
And all consenting to enlarge his worth,
Enrich'd with heav'nly Gifts the new born Earth.
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