r of the _Laws_;
_Easie_ to all but to himself, he shares
His Monarch's _Favours_, and his Monarch's _Cares_:
His flowing _Language_ cloaths his _massie Sense_, }
Nor makes with _pompous Words_ a vain pretence, }
_Sound_ without _Soul_, to _Wit_ and _Eloquence_. }
Tho _Great_, he's still the same he was before:
--I _sue for nothing_, and I'll say no more.
_Montague_ left the _Muses_ peaceful _Seat_,
And bore the _Cares_ and _Honours_ of the _Great_: 620
The _Pollio_ he of our _Augustan_ days,
Who _Wit_ rewards with more than _hungry Praise_;
_True Worth_ his _Patronage_ can never miss,
He has his _Prince's Smiles_ and _that_ has _his_.
Nor should he pass unprais'd whom all admire,
Who, mixt with _Seraphs_, rules the _Western_ Quire;
_Flowing_ and _pure_ his unexhausted _Vein_,
As Silver _Thames_, which, rolling down the _Plain_,
Salutes his _Sacred Dome_.----
But those _profane_ who meanly thus _commend_, 630
Th' _Immortal Cowley's_ and the _Muses_ Friend.
Of _matchless_ DRYDEN only _Dryden's_ Skill
Could justly say enough,--of _Good_ or _Ill_.
_Envy_ must own he has our _Tongue refin'd_,
And manly _Sense_ with tend'rest _Softness_ join'd:
His _Verse_ would _Stones_ and _Trees_ with _Soul_ inspire,
As did the _Theban_ and the _Thracian_ Lyre:
His youthful _Fire_ within, like _Etna, glows_,
Tho _Venerable Age_ around his Temples _snows_:
If from the _modern_ or the _antient_ Store 640
He _borrows_ ought, he always _pays_ 'em more:
So much _improv'd_, each _Thought_, so _fine_ appears,
WALLER or OVID scarce durst own 'em _theirs_.
The Learned _Goth_ has scowr'd all _Europe_'s Plains, }
_France, Spain_, and fruitful _Italy_ he _drains_, }
From every Realm and every Language _gains_: }
His _Gains_ a _Conquest_ are, and not a _Theft_;
He wishes still new _Worlds_ of _Wit_ were left:
Thus _haughty Rome_, when, all the _Fi
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John Addington Symonds (October 5, 1840 - April 19, 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. He was an early advocate of the validity of male love which included for him pederastic as well as egalitarian relationships, and which he would refer to as lamour de limpossible.