Ode Performed in the Senate-House, Cambridge, on the Seventh of July 1835, M.DCCC.XXXV At the First Commencement after the Installation, and in the Presence, of the Most Noble John Jeffreys, Chancellor of the University [by Christopher Wordsworth] |
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Wherefore flashes yonder gleamOf Warriors arm'd that pour along
Through Alban vales an argent stream?
Usher'd by the swelling Song,
And rich with pictur'd trophies torn
From Indus, and the rifled Morn,
See the Latian Conqueror come!
Him, Father of his Country, mighty Rome
Salutes, and welcomes with that issuing throng.
Him the champing Coursers bear
Along the Sacred Slope, o'erspann'd
By Arcs triumphal, on whose marble head
Monarchs and bearded Captives stand;
Cities and Kingdoms are before him led,
And Provinces that weep with trailing hair.
And thus his ponderous wheels, slowly revolving, roll
Up to his Heav'n on Earth, the golden Capitol.
| Ode Performed in the Senate-House, Cambridge, on the Seventh of July 1835, M.DCCC.XXXV | |